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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jennie Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser was on Mike Birbiglia’s podcast, Nicky’s Agents Getting It Done. Bir Bigley was the IT comic this week. Sure, so she made an appearance there.

What a coincidence? Nicki told Mike she learned that Lona del Rey was not a fan of Nikki Glaser’s jokes. According to Nicki, a friend of hers was at a party and met whom they described as a gorgeous woman. They started to share details about their lives, the friend writes for Nikki Glaser. The gorgeous woman walked away.

Another partygoer approached Nikki Glaser’s friend and said, what were you talking to Lonna Delray about? Apparently the friend heard from Hanna del Rey or a friend of Lonna del Rey’s. I like Nikki, but I wish she wasn’t so dirty, Glazier said. I was sad because I love Lonna del Rey. I thought she would have been into that stuff, and now I’m like, oh my god, it was helpful advice.

At first, I was like, how dare she?

And then I was like, I’ve got some notes too for her.

She’s one of the best brilliant artists ever, and yet I’m entitled not like things of hers. There are songs that I’m like, eh, So she’s a lot to be eh about me. I took the note and I’m working on it. Nicky says she took the criticism seriously, not just to appeal to her, but to appeal to people who like her, people that I could be sharing my message with, but are turned off because I hear she’s too dirty, and I just don’t want to hear that. Some people are deeply uncomfortable by it.

It’s not even like they’re prude. It’s like, ew, it’s grosse. Are we going to see some sort of major comedic pivot by Nikki Glaser? Seems to be a week four angry articles. I enjoyed this one from Savingcountry Music dot Com.

Apparently they didn’t find the totally not Garth Brooks segments of Tom Sigora’s bad Thoughts as hilarious as I did. I had commented I could watch Sigura do totally not Garth Brooks all day, every day. If Sigura wants to turn that into a one hour week series, I’ll watch it saving country music com long story short toms Agora loves to poke fun of Brooks and what many perceive as Gortz over the top persona. It’s been a favorite topic of Sigora going back to twenty eighteen. At this point, the whole where are the Body’s Garth thing has been used for so long it’s grown pretty stale.

Oh no, it hasn’t, not at all. No, no, no no, But Tom s Agora decided to take the joke to its ultimate conclusion by portraying a very Goarth like character in the short run Netflix comedy series called Bad Thoughts that debuted on May thirteenth. I feel like the short run is trying to be a dig there. It was just a six episode series. You know, it’s not crazy that something on Netflix is only six episodes.

Is not nineteen eighty four anymore. Throughout the six episodes, toms Agora portrays multiple dark characters in unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such character as a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans and forces them to live with little food in an old Western like town to help inspire him to write and hit songs. You can hear me cracking up. I’m just thinking back to the sketch I love.

Though the character’s name is Rex Henley, it’s clearly a goof on Garth Brooks saving country music dot com. Right. So, as a country fan, a comedy fan, and maybe even as a Garth Brooks fan, you were hoping this could result in some fun last But unfortunately Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts doesn’t deliver. And forget the time into the country music universe and Garth Brooks. The series of six to twenty minute or so episodes really just isn’t that funny at all, except for infleeting moments.

Oh I disagree, it is hilarious. I can’t get enough of Bad Thoughts. It’s only the first few episodes were the Rex Henley characters seen, and despite the insane premise, it might be some of the most tame moments of the series. That is true. I want to tell my adult son to watch it, and I don’t have the courage to tell my adult son to watch it because it’s naughty.

Perhaps if you’re a Tom Sigora fan and get his comedy, it helps, But if you’re a country fan who loves to poke fund at Garth Brooks yourself. Just don’t bother Garth Brooks offers more comedy inadvertent, okay. Kevin Hart spoke to You Fortunate about his rejections over the years and said, I can’t narrow it down to one not getting into comedy clubs early on in my career, and not getting chosen for comedy festivals, not getting movie roles that I thought were perfect roles for me, not getting SNL and I thought SNL was the biggest and best thing for me. There are so many things that if they would have happened, my career wouldn’t have shaped up into what it was today. You later discover those moments were some of the best for you, that made you work harder.

Kevin Horret’s mindset is rejection can be an asset. Without it, you don’t have anything to learn from or anything to adjust too. If things were easy, it’d be stupid. It’s supposed to be hard. You’re supposed to understand the reason for hard work and putting one hundred percent to a craft is because of what you want to get out from it.

The Hollywood Reporter had a comedian round table. The question at hand, what’s an unpopular opinion you hold about comedy. Roy Wood Junior said, it’s hard for me to go, well, I don’t like this or that. It’s probably because I can’t do it, Like I’m not good at crowd work. So yeah, I hate on it, but it’s what the streets have chosen.

Hasan Minhaj said the art form is bigger than ever, so when people critique it, I’m like, there are more com means doing feeders and arenas that ever is. So take the good with the bad. My former co worker Jamie Fox said, and it’s two worlds. There’s the two hundred and eighty one comics, so we think is the whole world, and then there’s Joe Coy selling out arenas. Roy Wood Junior said, it’s Shane Gillis.

Chelsea Handler said it’s a medium that’s been pretty unscathed by cancel culture. You get to say whatever you want, however you want to say it, and it’s up to your audience whether they’re coming for it. Next question, how good are you all at predicting how your comedy will land? Sarah Silverman said, I’m always surprised what specials the last two I did. The first night we shot.

You’re just excited you got it. The second night feels magical because you’re not in your head anymore, so you go, we’ll just use the whole second night, and then the editors like, now, I like the first night. Seth Meyer said, same thing happened to me. I think it’s the precision of being in your head. The butterflies actually help you focus.

Fox. I learned that when I took some enhancements to go on stage. I thought, since Richard Pryor did in enhancements. Chelsea Handler asked, what are enhancements? Silverman like cocaine?

Fox? Some people call it cocaine, some people call it enhancements. Roy Wood Junior, No one calls it enhancements. Fuck is pr instinct kicked in and I’ve been in the room with him when I’ve seen this happen to him when he’s having some fun and then realizes that he’s Jamie Fox and people are going to quote the things he says. Jamie says, I want to go on the record to say I hate cocaine.

I just like how it smells, and then laughs. The Saint Pete catalyst asked Howie Mandel. Howie Mandel does America indeed have talent. They should have said got talent, no whatever, how he said, yes, yes it does. I’m trying to sell tickets to my show.

So if America didn’t have talent, why would you buy a ticket to see me? I think there’s talent everywhere, it’s just that it’s not everybody’s taste. But yes, America’s got talent. That’s why you should come see me. Although the people who are fans of America’s got talent shouldn’t bring their children in my live show because America doesn’t always have editing.

My show is very improvisational and in the moment, anything can happen, and it’s not like what I do on AGT. Has Howie seen it all in his fifteen years on that show. Every time I think I’ve seen it all, I realize I ain’t seen nothing yet. When people will ask me what I look for, I look to be surprised. It’s anything and everything and things I haven’t even thought of.

I like the opportunity. In my own mind go WTF, Like what are you doing? What is that? How’d you even come up with that? Brett Goldstein spoke to Interview magazine about the most challenging parts of stand up and said a pitying silence is the worst.

It feels like dying on stage because you came to connect with people. When it doesn’t work, it’s like, oh my god, am I even here? Do I exist? What’s happening? And what’s so weird about stand up is that it’s so objective.

If someone were to go you’re not funny and no one’s laughing, it’s like, yeah, I can’t argue. I can’t say that last night they laugh loads, because right now I’m a ghost that isn’t funny. Molly mcinnerney is the head writer and executive producer of Jimmy Kim Alive, also his wife. She spoke to Late NIGHTERR about whether or not Jimmy will stick around. She said, I do think we need him.

I’d love for him to stay, but I also want him to be able to relax and fly fish and not listen to Trump every day. So I want whatever’s best for him. But yeah, I selfishly want him to fight the good fight as long as he can. When you wake up in the morning and it’s like Donald Trump wants to put people on appuature as you’re like, oh, I don’t think we should do the funny bit on the bull of today. We want to deliver these funny bits, and these things can take people out of the news.

But when you’re so overwhelmed by the news, you’re like, wait, we got to call him out on a thing he just said today. Jimmy Kimmel’s contract runs through next fall, the twenty five to twenty six seasons, so we got another year of him at least. Might take. Just negotiate now, dude, you already got the summer off, stretch out the Christmas break, do the permanent guest host thing on Monday and tell them you’ll host Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and let the Friday be a rerun er. I don’t even know what’s on Friday.

And that’s it. Learn from Shohnny Carson. Let someone else hose Mondays stick around. It’s a good gig. It pays well, it keeps you in the public eye.

I understand we’re all getting older. You want to work a little less. Been there, done that, doing it, So yeah, just negotiate. ABC will say yes, take a pay cut if you have to. It’s okay, you got the money.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, JIMG with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gervase gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. It is the twenty and thirteenth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame sixteen twenty eight Vine Street. If you want to go, if you’re in LA, won’t you head on over.

It’s today at eleven to thirty Pacific. If you’re not in LA, or maybe you’re in LA, just don’t feel like leaving the house. I understand it’ll be stream live on Walk of Fame dot Com. The La Times caught up with Ricky gervas. He also is playing the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday.

Cool place to see Ricky. His last appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in twenty twenty three earned him the Guinness World Record for highest grossing single stand up performance. The La Times asked Ricky, Hey, you’ve spent your career pushing comedy boundaries as there have been a moment where we thought, oh, I’m gonna have to defend this one. Ricky said, no, it all comes and goes. It’s cyclic.

People get nervous and that’s just always been there from day one. People get worried, and I say, well, this is why it’s okay. Sometimes it’s an executive producer or a broadcaster just want some ammunition to defend it. But sometimes they don’t know whether it’s okay or not. They just don’t want to get complaints.

If I can go okay, listen, this is why it’s okay, then they often trust me because I can defend it. It’s not me sitting in the room going what’s the most offensive thing I could say to get the BBC burned down? There’s always a point to it. Offence comes from people mistaking the subject of a joke with the actual target, and they’re not usually the same real smart by Ricky there. We’re human, so we react to buzzwords and we’re cautious of taboo subjects.

That’s why they’re still taboo, because we’re cautious of them. I do that on purpose as well, particularly with my stand up where we talk about contentious issues and taboo subjects, because I do want to take the audience to place they haven’t been before. I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it, think about it, and then I’ve got to misdirect them. It’s like I take them by the hand through a scary forest. But it’s okay because they always laugh.

If we’re going out there and saying things that were really offensive and no one was laughing, well that would be odd. That’s what politicians do. Politicians say awful things and they mean it and no one laughs. Comedians say things they don’t mean. Everyone laughs, and they get the same treatment.

I don’t go out there to try and ruin the audience’s evening. I go out there and I make a joke and it’s crafted. We’re human, though, and we take things personally. But you shouldn’t because I think comedy is at best in intellectual pursuit. You should go well, that’s a bad subject and I don’t agree with the punchline, But does it work comedically?

It’s a magic trick, it’s formula. You can’t argue with chemistry. No one goes well, I know, I laugh, but I don’t agree with it. Well, it did what it does. That’s the joke, and I’m not going to change the joke or the meeting.

I think the only form of censorship as an audience is your right not to listen. You just don’t have to watch. You could leave, not buy my stuff, not buy my tickets, and that’s absolutely fine. You can turn your TV off, but what you can’t do is make other people turn their TV off. That’s the difference.

And then people complain about something you’re doing in the privacy of your own home, even though if they had to go up to their attic and stand out a step ladder and look through binoculars to see it, they’ll find it. People sometimes seek out the offense, and that’s actually where people can get addicted to being offended. They like it, it makes them feel live. The news even picks it up. They say, oh, fans weren’t happy.

Three fans weren’t happy. Good stuff. Maybe a little more from that. Tomorrow. Nick Kroll was on Armchair Expert with Jack Sheppard.

Kroll explained the process of trying to organize John Mulaney’s intervention. Kroll said it was so scary and brutal to go through because he was in New York. I was in la who was at the height of the pandemic, So it was incredibly stressful to be in the midst of the pandemic trying to literally coordinate and produce an intervention, bringing a bunch of different people together friends from college. Kroll’s wife was about to give birth, and I was shooting don’t worry Darling, which there was no stress there. That was a very controversial filming that I don’t have time to get into.

You can google it. Krol said. Then John was running around New York City like a true madman. I was so deeply scared that he was going to die, and I was trying to orchestrate all this, combining all the elements, the going of these things, like the intervention person, where he was going to go, who was going to be at it. You’re all of a sudden going back to being like, oh, that’s why I’ve been an inconsistent friend for the last X amount of time.

This explains that, And so it gives you both empathy for them an also tremendous amount of anger because they’ve been lying to you. Kroll talked about being on the film with Malaney and said, both of us crying, me just being like, I’m so scared you’re going to die. And so I felt him feeling the same way, but also just like yay New York Streets blogs, Doug Gordon is mad at John Mulaney. He was commenting on the Millennie episode from ten days ago, and said if that one was the only episode you’d ever seen, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the show was shot live at a community board meeting in New York City. After all, the conversation, which featured some of the most accomplished people in entertainment, quickly to send it into a competition to see who could most gratuitously equate Big Apple bonafides with complaints about all the ways in which bicycles have ruined New York.

I’m gonna jump in before I get more into this. Okay, I’m from New York City. I’m also very, very very pro bike lane. Understand that I’m very pro bike lane. If you want to see bike lanes work, go to Chicago, where bike lanes work.

If you want to see where bike lanes work, go to Montreal where bike lanes work. If you want to see how bike lanes work, go to Vancouver, which even has side streets that are biicles only. It is fantastic. Love a good bike lane. New York City bike lanes it don’t work at all, especially in Manhattan.

Too much chaos doesn’t work. They’re not really They’re more often than not not protected bike lanes, and when they are protected bike lanes, it pushes out the on street parking so that if you’re driving a car, you have to like creep out through the bike lane and then passed where the cars are parked and you can’t even see the oncoming traffic.

And then add in Manhattan pedestrians like me who jaywalkt will it’s complete…

Bike lanes Manhattan do not work. The Gordon writes. The stated theme of the program was is uber good? Setting aside that The Evening’s question has been known for more than a decade, it’s a resounding no, at least for people who care about congestion, carbon emissions and public transit ridership. Only an he barely bothered engage with the Walker.

The editor of torched a new site focused on the infrastructure changes and policy choices being pursued by Los Angeles as it preps for the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. Yeah, I don’t know if you know this, Sir Mlanie’s talk show is just chaos and he can’t focus on it doesn’t work. Respectfully disagree with the friend of the show and the Great New York Times writer Jason Zinnemann Millenie show does not work. I’m sorry, does not work. The topics do work.

I don’t know why we are the least bit surprised. John Mulani could not hold a meaningful conversation about Uber, so Gordon Wright’s after Walker offered one reason why Uber is not good because of the congestion and the undermining of public transit. Mullenie asked Walker how she got to the studio. When she answered that she took the bus on the train, Mullaney seemed positively shocked. This is a dystopian nightmare, he explained.

Walker never got a chance to defend the La Metro. I went downhill from there. From the perspective of public transit, Amy Sidis and Sigourney Weaver offered pure windshield perspectives, so Daris By mentioning that she takes ubers to visit her godchildren in New Jersey transit accessible Maplewood, New Jersey, and Sigourney Weaver emphasizing that she prefers yellow cabs fine enough. Natasha Leone joined the panel. Mulaney asked her about Uber, but Leon turned to the conversation of where it was perhaps always destined to go plastering her classic New York accent so thick that she should be forced to go before the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission.

Leon stated, but I don’t like his bicycles in New York. I think we need to shut down the bike lanes that allows Sigourney Weaver to knock cyclists who don’t use the bike lanes anyway. Richard Kind chimed in and said, and get rid of the electric bicycles. They’re the worst. They’re killers.

Fact check from Doug Gordon, they are not killers. Comedy show guys. Comedy show Walker suggested the bus should have a lane, the bike should have its own very wide lane, and there should be a wider sidewalk. Natasha Leone said, that’s insane. It’s Manhattan.

We don’t have the space. Doug Gordon writ’s classic windshield perspective. Leon clearly was not able to see. It’s all the uber black Axls and Cadillac escalades, faring celebrities and other wealthy New Yorkers that are taking up all the space. Walker gets it until Doug Gordon it’s a comedy show.

I’m not even sure this is truly what these people believe and again if you want to hit rewind Johnny Max said he’s very pro bike lane. They work great in Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, other places they don’t work him in Httan. You want my real solution, I have suggested this. Let’s take Park Avenue away from the cars and make Park Avenue. And if you’ve never been to New York Park Avenue, it has a park down the mill.

Very nice. Let’s make that bike lanes and more. John Mulaney, he was at an event hosted by PAP. He was asked if he would like to replace Lorne Michaels once Lorne Michael steps away from SNL. The question if someday Laurna is hit by a bus and they say, you know, John Mlaney, you have to take over the show, no excuses.

What’s the first thing you change mulane? He deflected and said he’s lived in New York for fifty years. You don’t think he knows that to dodge a bus. Hng Wing talk to twenty seven East and said, there’s a future of stand up that you might not have an other forms of creative expression. There’s an audience there in the moment giving you an immediate or direct response.

If you’re a painter or a photographer, you might have a gallery show, but unless you’re there with whoever’s looking at it, you don’t really know how they’re responding to it. Would stand up. They’s sort of an advantage that levels the playing field, and it’s based on some sort of meritocracy. It’s a very binary thing. Do they laugh or not.

It’s an everyday thing. You look at your notes, you try to sit down and write some new ideas. You tinker. It’s kraft and you hone it habitually. Then you got open mics and test things out.

It’s like you’re working the lab, making things better. He says growing up, he didn’t want to be a comedian. He was doing things like hanging outside playing basketball friends or hanging out of the bayou catching tadpoles. No one was ever like he’s the funniest guy in class. I was never seeking attention in group settings.

I was more of a one on one friendships kind of guy. He says. The most joyful thing is writing a new joke. And from the Hartford Current. Bob gil wrote the screenplay for the original Back to the Future films and was a producer of Back to the Future the animated series in the nineties, plotted the stories for the Back to the Future comic book series, and now works on the Back to the Future musical, which I saw and loved, and it’s coming to Hartford and you should go see it.

All right, How did it come about? Gail said, we start the process by saying, there are certain things we can do with this material in the theater, and there’s certain things we can’t do, like we can’t have the terrorist chase, But what else could we do? The problem we’re solving there is that doc dyeing motivates Marty to go back in time. It could be something else, so we made it spoiler radiation poisoning. I didn’t just ruin the musical for you, trust me.

The musical does not contain the film skateboard Chase. Having seen the musical, I didn’t even notice. Gail said, it’s just too dangerous. Marty already has to sing, dance and be funny. We’re gonna make him do skateboard stunts too, and staid we’ve got to chase through the school lunch room, which accomplishes the same thing.

Gale things, changing it up a little makes it more fun. I don’t want people to say I should have stayed home watched the movie. Some of the show’s completely nuts. He insisted on keeping four songs Johnny Be Good, Earth, Angel, Powerful Love, and Back in Time. You can’t go see Back to the Future Without those four songs.

People would tear up the seats. Back to the Future the musical at the Bushnell one sixty six Capitol Avenue, Hartford performances June fourth through va. If you should go, It’s a lot of fun.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I want to talk about this whole Shane Gillis quote unquote controversial thing in a second. But Hi, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. But real quick, I put on Mike Berbiglia’s special the other night. Civilians are gonna like it.

It’s fine. I admit I’m a comedy snob. It’s par Bigulally doing bar Bigley things perfectly fine. People are gonna enjoy It’s all good. I actually like Geord Carmichael’s special on Max a little bit more.

The first twenty minutes or so, I was really into it. He’s a good storyteller.

And then I kind of flamed out on it and went back to watching Netflix or what…

But they’re both fine, and they’ll make my middle tier end of the year list. For Bigli is fine, Gerard Carmichael is more fine. And that opinion is more about me being a comedy snob than anything the artists are doing there. All right, Shane Gillis, I think there’s some sort of like federal law that if you write an article about Shane Gillis, you have to call him a controversial comedian. Shane Gillis, and I don’t know what the controversy is.

I remember, I know the SNL controversy because he did a character on a podcast a billion years ago before anybody knew who he was, and he got on SNL and then they got unput on SNL and that’s the big controversy. I don’t understand what it is about Shane Gillis that makes people go insane. But there were a couple articles this week. I’ll do one here and I’ll save another one for Monday. That’s really just a good slow burn.

But Cracked is reacting to Shane’s appearance on the SmartLess podcast this week. Will praised Shane Gillis for his jokes on SNL about ken Burn Civil War docu series, but Gillis pointed out the jokes didn’t go over too well. I did a bunch of kin Burn’s material on my SNL monologue, and everybody was kind of like, what the F is he talking about? Every time my monologue doesn’t go great on SNL, I’m oh for two of those things.

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Now here’s where the rage is coming from, because, according to Killis, the m…

Tate McCrae was the musical guest, so the audience was like, twenty year old chicks in the front. Dude, the audience this has always twenty year old chicks in the front. Have you not heard the SNL cast joke about this. They put the hot, young, good looking people in the front, and if I get in at all, I’m in the back row. So the Shane Gillis bud Light crowd, they’re not putting those guys in row two.

Shane said, I know, I’m up there talking about Shelby Foot and ken Burns in the Civil War. They had no idea, just some ogre walked out on stage and started talking about shelby Foot but cracked rights. But Killus’s assessment of the routine amid some important detales for one thing, he had already lost. The crowd even commented on that fact several times prior to the ken Burns jokes, most notably when he compared Liberals to the evil Scyth from Star Wars. And while a number of people didn’t laughtering the Civil War bit, that likely had less to do with the fact that Tate mccraye fans are incapable of understanding the concept of historical documentary, and more to do with the fact that one of the punchlines literally involved date rape.

I had to drop out of character there. Gillis joke that Burns work could be used to knock women unconscious if they yap a little ladding that it’s a little cosmey tip for you who needs roofies when we have Ken Burns presents the History of the Buffalo on PBS. It should also be said that these conspicuously tasteless jokes came around halfway through a monologue that lasted for nearly eight minutes, making it the sixth longest in the show’s history. And that’s more than two minutes longer than Adrian Brodie’s seemingly endless Oscar speech. I bet of the sixth longest in the show’s history.

Four of them have happened in the last six years. Dave Chappelle’s probably two of them. Carlin Opening Night in seventy five is probably one of them. Anyway, that’s Shane Gillis. He’s so controversial.

I have another one of those articles. On Monday, probably Jim Gaffigan was on The Today Show and joked about his recent fifty pound weight loss. He says he cannot take pride in it because he used medication to suppress his appetite. Jim joked that he was brave enough to stick a needle in my stomach. Jim Wade two seventy before his weight loss journey and said, it’s great because my knees don’t hurt standing up.

I’m less exhausted. It’s always good, you know, like the health benefits, like I’ll live longer. But I love it because I feel better. It’s great, it’s beneficial. Gaffagan had previously told people he wasn’t I’m sure the medication would work, explaining I had very low expectations because I did know someone that had tried it and they were like, oh no, I was just nauseous for a week.

I thought my true joy of eating would overpower anything. That’s some of why I wanted to talk about it, because I almost thought it was kind of odd that people were resistant to talking about it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. There’s people walking around that obviously do not have blonde hair, yet they do. I don’t think that’s weird either.

It’s just whatever gets you through. Russell Peters told The Hollywood Reporter he does not fear being deported back to Canada. You know, should he say something about a politician and get thrown out, He’s not worried about it. Russell said of the US and all fairness, the amount of taxes I pay in that country, they’d be damn foolish to get rid of me. Now that’s a bad business move, since the country’s being run like a business.

That would be dumb. What are they going to do? Send me back to Canada? Whoop to do? What a loss for them?

Not me? I get to go back home. That’s how I look at it. That sounds like a challenge. Send your letters to Russell Peters.

David Cross has released a brand new limit edition throbble head that apparently is a brand of Bobbleheads. This one comes with signed trading cards. The description of the bobblehead his Cross is heavily bearded with a microphone in hand as he performs his signature brand of sad but Funny stand up comedy. Measuring seven inches tall, this throbblehead features a removable baseball hat and real hair beard and includes an autograph limited edition trading card. Mike ber Bigley had told Vanity Fair I opened for Dave Chappelle at the DC Improv.

He was twenty four. I was nineteen. I think after that, I asked hif I could open for other people, and they said, you can work the door and be a best boy. That was comedy college. I did that for four years, watching nationally touring, headlining comedians in the office on the weekends.

I could see how much people were paid. When I moved to New York. That was the financial model I had in mind. If I could be an opening act making three point fifty a week, what’s called a middle actor feature act making five hundred, six hundred and seven hundred dollars a week, I thought I could completely live on that. Roy Wood Junior was part of the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Roundtable.

He said, politics gets me in trouble. Sometimes it’s not so much a political joke as it’s the early inclinations of the joke, where you haven’t figured out all the live wires. I remember being in San Francisco. This is week two of Russia versus Ukraine, and the premise of what I was trying to say was essentially that we spend money to sport other wars, but not wars in black neighborhoods. But it came across as anti Ukraine, judging from the email I got from the Ukrainian table that walked out, and you do finally get the joke together later.

In hindsight, it’s probably one of those that I should have done. On New York on a Tuesday night, Keenan Thompson making headlines for teasing quote a lot of change at SNL next season. Keenan called the season finale bittersweet, especially this year when it feels like there’s maybe possibly a lot of change next year. You want everyone to stay forever, knowing that people may be making decisions this summer. It’s always like you want your kids to stay young.

Will Thompson be back? He shared he hadn’t signed a contract for the upcoming season. He said, you never know what the future holds. I don’t want to be in the way of someone else, and I don’t want to be the stale old man riding the same thing. Doesn’t really happen that much at SNL, but there’s no guarantees.

I guess speculation is some of the folks who could leave include Michael j Commin Joes, mikey Day, Heidi Gardner in ego Nawotam. I’ll add to that list. Bo Yang seems like he’s out of there to me. River Butcher spoke to neuvou dot Net about Midwest comedy. River says he can sniff out a Midwestern comedian because I’m from the Midwest.

I can just tell you get to sense it in the way that they’re talking and thinking about things. LA comedy definitely has a style to it, but it’s not a very definitive style because so many people go there to do what they want to do, so it doesn’t necessarily produce its own style, whereas New York does. Because you have to come and do so much stand up, you’re gonna become a New York ater a certain extent. We Midwesterners also just have a profound understanding of each other. Even the most rough and double comedians still of compassion in a way I relate to.

I don’t want to compare it to other groups and act as if other groups don’t have compassion, But that’s one that resonates with me, I guess I should say. And from The New York Post, a gen Z comedian was called out for rude behavior at a restaurant.

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All right, here’s the controversy.

Australian comedian Will Gibb said he walked into a food joint wearing headphones before taking them out to place in order at the counter. After exchanging greetings and ordering his food, the comedians took to the side put his headphones back in. Will says, I’ve got my earphones in and I’m watching this person make my food. I could tell he was bagging it, so I went on my phone one last look. Then I’m looking around thinking maybe it wasn’t my food.

So I look over and the guys standing at the counter looking at me. I made eye contact with him and took my earphones out, and he said, yeah, I’m not going to bother calling your name if you’ve got earphones in. I was completely dumbfounded. All right, who’s right or wrong? Here?

Is the comedian wrong or is the server wrong? I’m on team comedian. What’s the big deal? I ordered, I was polite, I put my headphones in, I got podcasts to listen to. Put the food in the bag, dude.

Some social media viewers wait in, one said fully on the side of the server what a legend. Another said I’m with the server. I find it rude to constantly have earphones in. Another said people on the side of the server need to chill out. Another said I’ve worked in hospitality for years and I’d rather call it out and leave it to get cold bother teaching someone some kind of lesson.

Perhaps the most reasonable person said this is ridiculous. Just check a wave or thumb up when it’s pretty. Let me know what you think in the comments in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Again, I’m team Comedian here and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Calorogus Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney was on Ted Danton’s podcast. He told Ted that he was able to resist the temptation of grabbing his wife Olivia’s cancer related painkillers and other medication. John says, the obsession of it was gone.

I brought her a tray with apple juice, something that she wanted to eat that her mom had made in the kitchen, and then it had oxyconton and some sort of nerve medication and a Xenax which they also gave for just rest and recovery. It never crossed my mind that I was holding these medications in my hand. The obsession of it was gone. I thought, Oh, I’m so far beyond that, and I can be a good butler with the best client. That’s great, great to hear about John.

He says, people stay the same in so many ways, and I’m still the same person I was when I was like five in so many ways. But I’ll admit it’s a huge change, just a huge way of looking at everything. I’m shocked I did it. I’m shocked I was able to do it. Dancing was like become sober, you mean, John said, to actually stick to it in every way, do not have well I still do this, or well I’m trying like nothing wrong or shameful about relapse.

I mean, I’m just shocked always that it landed dance and asked mulaney if he can see triggers quote two miles out. M’laney said, oh, yeah, I’m very lucky that life’s been so great that it’s always thirty miles out. But I’ll be doing something. I go, huh, you really want to be this exhausted, stretched, thin, a little aggrieved. Luckily those things are miles and miles off.

That’s part of it. It’s just always knowing, so addicted to the self control of it in so many ways, and so happy that I’m always present when I’m with my kids and Olivia and friends and everything. I was in a bad neighborhood in my brain for a while. You always ever expect for it that it’s still there. You go, I see you and know you’re there.

That’s not my daily life. Good job, John Mulaney, that’s awesome. Mike pro Bagley, it’s all Vanity Fair. They’re writing this show. The one out on Monday, forced me to try to understand my dad, because if you don’t see the humanity and the characters, it’s not interesting.

It’s extraordinarily challenging when someone’s had a cute stroke but it’s calmed him down. My early specials, my dad would shout. He wouldn’t even understand why. I’d be like, I’m eating Bretzels. I’d be like, is he angry?

Is he hungry? What’s the emotion being expressed in this special? I forced myself to unpack the emotion being expressed. He oddly doesn’t have the edge or the weight of the world on him. He’s sort of a protagonist.

He’s not evil, He’s just a human being. I think that’s my personal journey with him as well. Ronnie Ching recently became an American citizen. Congratulations. He joked about it, saying, anyone can apply for a citizenship during Obama that’s easy, Golden age great, so applin.

Now if you really want it, do it now. And that’s what I did. It’s kind of thirty years in the making in the sense I’ve been trying to come back to America since I left in ninety three when I was seven years old. I’ve been trying to come back to do stand up comedy, and I finally came back in twenty fifteen, ten years ago, and then citizenship nine years later. And it’s a weird time to do it because the things that attracted me to America were back to the future.

It was Seinfeld, it was Michael Jordan, it wasn’t the Iraq War. So it’s weird to join. It’s like you’re joining this evil empire, but that’s not why you join it. It just so happened to the evil empire. Some really nice TV shows and they do stand up comedy and The Death Star that’s really funny.

Send your letters to Ronny Chieng. I turned down offers to tour overseas all the time. I’ve got no interest in it because I came from there. I’ve been trying to come here, So it makes sense for me to get citizenship because if I do leave the country, I know he can come back to the stuff I’ve been building here. I came to The Daily Show at the end of twenty fifteen, so this Trump thing is all I’ve known.

This isn’t that new, to be honest. Since I came to America, the shadow has been looming or in charge. He’s been talking crap for a long time now. We’re used to him talking crap. He’s been throwing chaos in the mix for a long time now, So in that sense, doesn’t feel like anything new.

In terms of coverage, obviously his efficacy is stronger now, undoubtedly, But in terms of the daily show, it’s almost like being in an emergency room. You kind of get done to it because there’s always a car wreck every day. It’s something new coming in, it’s something you have to comment on. It seems outlandish, but at the same time, it’s been outlandish for nine years, so is it outlandish? That’s the feeling.

Joe Coy who once hosted the Guild and Globes and told a joke about Taylor Swift, but we’re not gonna talk about that today. He delivered the keynote speech at cal State LA’s commencement ceremony. Koi told the students it’s not easy. Getting to where you want to go takes a lot of hard work, takes a lot of sacrifice, takes a lot of falling flat on your face, and that’s when you find out who you really are. That’s when you build the grit the heart and the strength to keep pushing.

Joe Koi was conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts. Words of wisdom from Joe Koi in no matter how many times you bomb, it doesn’t matter. Just don’t give up, keep showing up, keep believing in yourself. You don’t need everyone to believe in you, just you believe in you. And if there’s a Lionel Richie impersonator, it likes you too, that’s also good.

Rommy Yusef gave the commencement speech at Ruckers. Rommy accepted an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. His parents were there and Rommy said to his parents, I just want you to know part of why I dropped out was because how expensive it was.

And now I am here with a PhD that I got for free, and I believe it’s the grea…

The Hollywood Reporter did a big round table with many many comedians. I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. By the way, boy, the porn bots are really trying to get in Lona spam lately. Luckily you’ve got to answer three questions and the pornbots don’t answer any of the three questions. Plus the admins helped me keep the pornbots out.

Thank you admins. Anyway, I’ll pick at this roundtable for the next few days. Seth Meyers talked about the hardest he ever bombed was at Madison Square Garden. It was that concert for Hurricane Sandy. They asked me and Bill Hater to do us to fawn thing and Bill said, I’m not going to do it, and then they said, what about Bobby Moynihana’s drunk uncle.

So we’d written this thing. Chris Rock saw us backstage costume and he goes, you’re going to follow the Who with sketches. All of the confidence strained out of our faces, and sure enough we went out and they were so angry. Stephen Colbert is going to be on a variant cover of DC comics upcoming Batman Superman World’s Finest Issue number forty. On the cover, super Man is guesting on The Late Show at Stephen Colbert as Batman stands against the City Skyline.

Backdrop, Superman is seen holding a cover of his book I Am Superman and So Can You. That is a joke referring to Colbert’s Colbert Rapport era book I Am America and So Can You. Another cover for the issue reportedly depicts Batman and Superman in the clutches of late night TV on the fictional late night show Gotham Tonight. Wonder who host Gotham Tonight? I could probably look that up.

I should look that up. Hmm. Gotham Tonight was a six episode docu series mini series Creating directed by Christopher Nolan, which was included in these special features. For the Dark Night, Anthony and Michael Hall played Mike Ingel some fun facts. Over the years, Marvel Comics has given the cover treatment to stars like Letterman, Kimmel, and the original SNL cast.

I’ve got a I think it’s a what if. I’ve got a Letterman cover somewhere in the boxes, in the back of the closet, in the back of the bay. But I have that one. A nineteen sixty three issue of There was a comic book for real called Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane. In a flashback, depicts Lois Lane appearing on The Steve Allen Show Steve Allen on the Mount Rushmore of Late Night.

In case you miss Sunday’s episode, go back and listen to it. I know it was a holiday weekend. I really liked that episode. Go back and listen to Sunday The Mount Rushmore of Late Night Comedy includes Steve Allen Batman’s Superman World’s Finest Number forty out June eighteenth. Let’s stop off on gossip Corner.

Fortune dot Com was keeping an eye on Amy Schumer’s real estate purchases, and they tell us when Amy wants to get away from New York, she flies to New Orleans, where she and her husband have invested in a second home in the French Quarter. Fortune tells us, though primarily based in Manhattan, where she moved recently. After listing her Brooklyn Town home for fourteen million dollars, Schumer told Reelder dot com that her New Orleans Highway was her dream come true. Forbes estimates Amy Schumer’s net worth today be thirty seven and a half million dollars. That sounds high.

I believe it, but wow, Forbes tells us. After finding wealth and fame, Amy said about investing in real estate, the first of which was the family form she lived on as a child, but was forced to leave when her parents filed for bankruptcy. Another of her purchases is a two hundred thousand dollars treehouse, which the listing site speculates is on the grounds of her home in Martha’s Vineyard. Must be nice, all right. The BBC Director of Comedy, John Petrie, unveiled a bunch of new shows at the BBC Comedy Festival in Belfast.

Some good stuff here and some names you will know even if you don’t follow British comedy carefully. John Petrie said the BBC continues to be the biggest single investor in original comedy content in the UK and for the second year running, eight of the top ten scripted comedies were on the BBC.

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All right, let’s take a look at the shows.

Anne Droid like Ann New Word Droid. Anne Droid stars Diane Morgan, who I Love You may know her from the various Kunk series. Diane Morgan stars as a social humanoid robot created to keep outwardly people company and monitor to their health. It’s twenty twenty nine. Sue’s husband David passed away eighteen months ago and her only son, Michael’s moving out again to try to fix his marriage.

But the good news is he got Sue surprise to help her live independently, a care provider with the difference the latest D five hundred social humanoid elder care robot. What Develops is a buddy comedy between an older woman and her robot. Okay, that’s fun. Bill’s Included a typical sitcom punny name. Bill’s Included is about Bill.

Bill is a middle aged divorcee who staves off financial ruin by renting a spare room to students. Warm Hearted and eager, but neurotic and slightly overbearing, Bill is thrilled by the youthful energy his lodgers bring, but baffled by their difference to his laminated house rules and color coded cutlery. He’s torn between wanting to be part of the gang, sharing banner, keeping up with trends, and clinging to his role as the responsible adult. Next up is Small Profits, a six port comedy created, written, and directed by Mackenzie Crook. Synopsis A comic tale of eccentric Michael Sleep, who, since his darling Clia disappeared seven years ago, has lived a very ordinary life.

One day, his dad, Brian shares an old recipe involving rain, water, horse manure, and a little alchemy with recipie in hand, Michael sets about to create a magical prophesying spirit that can predict the future and hope the spirit has the answer to his burning question, will I ever see Clea again? Boy? That’s complicated but fun. Michael Palin of Monty Python fame is part of that one in Stuffed after he receives an unexpected eight thousand pound Christmas bonus at work, Arcelon Ferrooki and his multi faith family set off on the trip of a lifetime when they swap Coventry for the Magic of Lapland his wife Hannah, his two daughters, and brother in law Jamie are all set for the ultimate festive adventure. However, you knew there was, however coming right when office worker Arsland discovers the bonus was a mistake and must be repaid immediately, Christmas chaos ensues.

In The Reluctant Vampire, set in a timeless English village where everything is picturesque, everything except for the vampires living in the Castle on the Hill come out at night for a little drink of the locals. Val has been raised in a very typical vampire family, but has always felt a bit different and hopelessly inept at rising to meet Dad’s high standards. Following a surprise encounter with his reflection, he realizes he’s not undead, not in the least bit. Now the big secret to hide, Val must navigate finding out who he truly is by mingling with the locals to learn the intricacies of their behavior and what it means to be human. Well that’s fun.

Ashlan b has been hosting Who Do You Think You Are, which airs on BBC one. Her trip followed the well established form You Love, a genealogy series renowned for producing celebrities to tears as they find out about their ancestors. B finds out in Limerick that her mother’s family were relative well to do landowners with forty acres to their name in the late nineteenth century, which brought the unwelcome attention of the dispossessed and less fortunate. In Carrie, she learns her father’s family grew up in different circumstances. Her great grandfather was a member of the Volunteers and was set to participate in the nineteen sixteen Rising until it was called off when a German blockade running vessel failed to deliver the promised armstash more British stuff.

A distinctive license plate belonging to late comedian Jethrow sold for thirty five hundred pounds at an auction. It was a personalized license plate J three five t or have you figured it out? J three five teer? It’s like Jester but different J three five t or. Harvey Pyle from Stags to Auctioneers, was expecting it to go for twelve grand.

He said, it’s a very unique piece of comedic history. He was also seen on his Toyota land Cruiser on his final journey. He was carried to his coffin for his funeral. From pokernews dot com, you’re home for Poker News. Lodge cart Club co owner Doug Pok is set to appear on Kill Tony.

This may have already aired. Tony Hinchcliffe shared a story about meeting Poke for the first time. Tony said I’m good at poker and said to Poke, I’ll play your heads up. The bet was that if Poke won, he’d earn a minute to perform on Kill Tony, but if Tony won, Poke would owe him twenty grand. Tony tells the story there we were at Mitzi’s Comedy Club after an episode playing heads up poker me versus the best in the world.

Twenty minutes later, guess who won twenty thousand dollars. Since it’d only been twenty minutes, I said, I’ll tell you what, even though I won, let’s double or nothing, forty grand versus a minute of stand up comedy in any day now, he’s going to be popping up on the show. And that is your comedy news for today. Pretty robust week here coming off from Momworld to him. Enjoy the story’s been a little different.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien, who is indeed on the Mount Rushmore of Late Night Comedy. Hopefully you listen to Sunday’s episode where I revealed the four names. Go check it out if you haven’t.

I really enjoyed putting that episode together. That was Sunday’s episode. In this feed, Conan O’Brien was on the Messy podcast, which is hosted by Christina Applegate and Jamie Lynn Sigler. Conan’s been all over the place lately. Conan said, I’ve had multiple times in my career where things kind of blew up or went sideways.

I had no regrets about giving the Tonight show a shot, and when, for all these complicated reasons, it blew up, I was deeply upset. I thought I’m in real trouble. This could be end of my career at forty six. But lo and behold, this thing called the Internet rose up and I got this huge groundswell of love and appreciation that I didn’t expect. Because you’re doing a show like Late Night, day and day out for sixteen years, it’s submarine duty.

You don’t get a chance to you understand fully that there’s a generation of people out there that have been watching. They’re younger than me, and they all knew how to use the internet, so they all got on social media and it was a big thing. The one thing that saved me is I’m very restless, and I’m willing to change it up. The idea of doing one thing for thirty five years in television and getting a gold watch and leaving just said it awful to me. It still does, although a gold watch would be great.

Speaking of watches, I didn’t even plan this. I just put a Conan story back to back with John Mulaney. But John Mulaney spoke to GQ magazine about watches. I wish I had done that on purpose. I’m not that good.

It’s a Tuesday off, a holiday weekend. I just put some stories with big names at the top. Anyway, we accidentally have a theme. Look at that. GQ recounts the story of Mullany having to sell his Rolex when he had some drug problems.

In twenty twenty one, Olivia Munn gave John Mulaney a Rolex air King to celebrate the birth of their son. The watches from nineteen eighty two, which is the year John Mulaney was born, and that makes me feel ancient and has Malcolm’s dad engraved on the case back. M’LINI told GQ that the Air King was coming right off that whole Rolex debacle. It’s linked to a lot of stuff. Melini said he didn’t need another watch after getting the air King, but you still end up getting them.

John’s collection includes a white gold Rolex, sub Mariners and elegant Grand Sacos to the high flying show Pards and the new Brightling Top Time. How many of those words that I pronounced wrong? I’m gonna guess two. Skipping a ed, GQ says, I saw on TV the other day you wore the special edition show Pard for the Year of the Rabbit with a scene of two cute little rabbits on it. John said, two cute rabbits on it and a great watch with everyone loved.

But it’s very hard to tell the time on two gold hands moving over two slightly gold rabbits. But it’s funny. I always go it’s seven to one pm, and that’s the one where I had to go it is, and then look at the studio clock. John talked about having to pick the right watch for performing. He said, of one watch, it’s nice for most occasions, not distracting when you’re doing stand up.

There are watches you might wear where the audience might lose any empathy for you. You don’t want to wear a sub mariner and be complaining about traffic. Colour Wise, I don’t wear a rose gold, no pink gold. I like to say it’s for a better reason, but I’m that shade of pale where it doesn’t look good anyway. GQ long piece with John Mullenian watch as I barely skim that one.

The La Times caught up with Dmitri Martin. They talked about how Dmitri incorporates drawings in his stand up. Martin said, the cool thing about drawing is I could share something personal and I can use a graphic to illustrate it. More specifically, Martin’s now wondering I brought visual art into my stand up comedy. Can I bring comedy into the visual art world.

Acute Angles is Martin’s solo exhibit running through May thirty. First Acute Angles, he says the title reference is the shape of his nose. It features large grayscale paintings with a unifying color palette of bright red, sky blue, and medium gray. The paintings depict implausible scenarios. What if the Grim Reaper slipped on a banana on his way to kill you?

What if Superman ripped his underpants on his quest to save you. Martin has a month long lease of an abandoned yoga studio tucked behind a California in Pete’s kitchen in Brentwood. The Devil’s always in the details. Love that whole sentence you can relate to this. This show also represents Martin’s re emergence from his own midlife existential crisis.

At fifty one, he is older than his dad was when his dad died. I just went through that milestone. That’s the one you really think about. Dimitri’s mom was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. So Dimitri wonders, so now is this like bonus time for me?

Started asking himself that in his late forties, he’s now fifty one. Sarah Silverman was asked about Dmitri. Sarah said, he’s not without cynicism once you know him, But where comics often lead with cynicism, he is this wide eyed openness, and I think that’s the threat that pulls through all his work. Taylor Tomlinson will be recording a Netflix special, she posted on social media. She’ll tape the special December thirteenth in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

She’s taping at the Fountain Street Church. Kaylee Clements is the director of audio and visual technology at the church. Kaylee says she was looking for a venue with a nice look. As far as I understand, it wasn’t expressed to me why she picked Grand rap But I’m going to say it’s because the Fountain Street Church is amazing. Kaylee told him live Taylor was very kind and sweet.

We were taking a virtual tour of the space to see if it met her approval. Because it’s a really large production. There were a lot of moving pieces. We may have a reputation as a conservative town, and this shows again that we allowed diverse voices and we’re open to all kinds of perspectives. The Saint Pete catalyst asked Howie Mandel, why do you always come back to stand up?

How He says, I never left stand up. People always go I loved it when you did stand up. Stand Up’s my thing. I was a stand up from day one, I did a young Comedian special, and then because that’s what people did, I went to meet with a sitcom company and they gave me a sitcom called to See Elsewhere. I didn’t set out to be a dramatic actor.

While I was doing that, I was doing stand up.

And then I got a Saturday Morning cartoon, Bobby’s World.

I didn’t set out to do that. They knew my voice from stand up, and I continue to do stand up. I don’t want to be a game show host, but I did Dealer No Deal, and I kept being a stand up. Now I’m a judge on a talent show and I’m still a stand up and I do a podcast with my daughter, But really, I do stand up. Vanity Fair asked Martin Short how he feels about being up against Steve Martin in the same Emmy category.

Martin said, it’s a little weird and we do kind of divide the vote. I think someone approaching me at the very beginning about would you consider being submitted as a supporting actor when I go into that category, and I said, that’s completely dishonestome Now it was just a pondering question. I think it was from the Emmys. They were acknowledging that we would always split the vote. He told a funny story about working on the show Damages.

It was the first day and one of the executive producers, after a couple takes, came up and said, Marty, can you not smile? And I said why is that when you smile you become Martin Short? And I said, well, I’m kind of stuck because I am Martin Short. The producer later apologized and said that was a stupid note. Martin said, I think Lauren Michael said this to me.

I attributed to him that when you go to the zoo, you go to the monkey cage, and the monkeys have a right to be reflective or sleeping or not swinging by their tails. But when they don’t, you wander why, and you come back when you hear them swinging by their tails. Lauren said something to the effect of, let’s face it, Marty, you’re a monkey. I can sing. I did fifty shows on Letterman where I did a big number every time, but I never did it like I’m going to be sincere this time.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you miss Sunday’s episode, I did the Mount Rushmore of Late Night. I’m very happy with that episode. I’d appreciate it if you put some mirrors on that if you haven’t already.

Mike Brobiglia’s specials out on Netflix today. Normally they come out on Tuesdays, but I guess they wanted to take advantage of us all being home in a rainy weekend in the Northeast. You know, normally Memorial Day you’ll find me on the beach all weekend, But sixty degrees in rainy then ain’t a good combination. The special is called The Good Life. Verbiglia talks about parents and pancakes played the trailer the other day.

In it, Forbiglia says, when I was a kid, I always viewed my dad as larger than life. He was a doctor and in his free time he got a law degree. That’s how much he didn’t want to be a dad. It’s another one of those Berbiglio one man shows. I liked his earlier career better, when he was just more pure stand up.

I’m not it’s funny. I really like the British one man shows. For some reason, the Birbigley ones don’t connect with me. I understand other people like them. That’s part of what comedy is.

It’s all subjective, but I never like love these. This One Man Show sees Burbigg’s open up about his dad’s recent stroke and how it made Mike reevaluate his own parenting approach. Verbiglia began touring the Good Life in October and performed at six times in New York City at the Beacon Theater. Verbigley says The Good Life is his most personal because it’s not in my past, it’s my life right now. At certain points during the tour, I literally thought on stage, whoe am I really going to tell this story?

But that’s sort of the idea behind these shows. I try to probe into what’s most painful in order to figure out what’s most funny. Mike Birbigli on Netflix Today Conan O’Brien, who might be on the mount rushmore of Late Night. Did you listen to Sunday’s episode? Please do If you haven’t, I don’t want to spoil it.

If you heard it, you know the answer when Conan signed off The Tonight Show on January twenty second, twenty ten point fifteen years already well well, he said, Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.

But if you work really hard in your kind, amazing things will happen. Conan told The Today Show about ten days ago, I believe that’s still yeah. I think man, who was that guy? That guy was smart? Has Conan actually watched the clip?

Nope, never have. Can’t do it. I’m proud of it, but I can’t. It was just a lot. It was a lot in that moment, and that was a moment where I really did think, I don’t know, maybe it’s over for me.

I really did, you know. Conan talked about the Mark twenty Awards and said, I’m so grateful all those amazingly talented people came, and it meant a lot to me that David Letterman was there. It meant the world to me. As for his career, I wouldn’t change a thing, honestly. I know people say that, but I wouldn’t change a thing.

I’ve been insanely blessed. I’ve had all my dreams come true seventy five thousand times over, and even in the dark moments, I’ve had gifts in them. I like to make people laugh. I get a lot of joy out of making people laugh. And if when we wrap this up and go get coffee next door, I can make the person at the counter laugh, I’m happy.

Recently, Ryan Reynolds was on Conan’s podcast and they reignited some j Leno conspiracy theories. Is Jay Leno on Late Night Mount Rushmore? Well, if you listen to Yesteroys episode, you know the answer. If not, I encourage you to download it. I’d like this episode a lot, Please listen to it.

So they were running along and Conan told Ryan Reynolds, we have to wrap this up because we’ve kept you for far too long and you’re a man in demand. Sometimes I’m talking to absolute criminals in jail and I say, you’re one of my favorite people, and I believe you’re in a sad of those nineteen murders which you’ve confessed to. Ryan said, j leto fell. I didn’t push him. We’re all looking for the Hampton in.

Who doesn’t look for a Hampton in when they’re a millionaire. Conan was curious you pushed him down that hill. They moved off that topic. Reynolds said of Conan, you’re kind, you have integrity, and that doesn’t mean it costs you subversive comedy or any of those things. And that edge just there, and it’s that high bar you set.

And that’s why I did the Jay Leno thing. I just you know, I effing snapped. As for Jay Leno, he recently spoke to WCVB. Jay was explaining that you can truly call yourself a stand up comedian when you’re able to support yourself and your family doing it, But he also cautions Boston comedians should not remain content headlining in Boston. There are a few guys that never got out of that city.

Jay explained, I always tell comedians when you start to make it in Boston, get out of there, because you wind up having a Boston based act. You know, you got jokes about Ken Moore Square and the Sit Go sign, and you leave New England, nobody knows what you’re talking about. Comics, including myself, are inherently lazy. You got something that works, you just stay there. Well, no, you gotta leave because you gotta have something that works everywhere.

And that’s really the trick to get as broad based as you can. Howie Mandel spoke to Baltimore positive about getting Deal or No Deal. He said, I didn’t want to do it because I didn’t want to be a game show host, and I didn’t see the game in it. I mean, there’s no trivia, there’s no skill, it’s just opening up cases. My wife made me take the deal.

I did the game, and it’s probably the most successful thing I’ve done to date. So I think Steve Harvey it was me a thank you because until I did Deal or No Deal, no comedians were doing what we’re doing game shows, and I think every games show show now is hosted by a comedian. I think the game has got to be good too. I think there has to be a good game and then somebody, you know, who understands what the game is. You know, I didn’t even understand what the game is.

I just wanted what worked for me on Dealer No Deal. It’s my empathy. I wanted anybody that was playing the game or leave in a better place than they had entered. I wanted them all to do well. A couple of weeks ago.

It’s been nice and busy, so I’ve bounced this a few times. New York Times had some Asian American comedians talk about who influenced them. Hasan Minhaj says Russell Peters two thousand and four. Comedy Now Special is one of the most seminal pieces of work for Asian American comedy and the modern stand up comedy landscape. I’m aware, Russell Peters from Canada.

Let’s not bucked down on that, Aassan says. The thing gets uploaded online during the birth of YouTube, and for the first time, the true brown perspective was broadcast to the world beyond the walled gardens of CBC, Comedy Central or HBO. I’m a freshman in college. I’m back home over the holidays and I’m watching this YouTube clip my entire families in the living room, watching this bit with my parents and their all and crying, laughing. Every voice he’s doing is so spot on, so specific.

People know you grew up around these people. You know exactly what you’re talking about. Did you watch matel Lane Special? I liked it a lot. It’s on Hulu Matteo tell a story about meeting Katy Perry in Las Vegas.

She’s very nice, she was very pretty, and she looked at me and her manager said, oh, this is Mittel Lane and he’s a comic and he’s performing at the Wind and she goes, oh a comedian and I go hey, and she goes gay comedian. I was like, work, I have videos of us meeting each other. It’s pretty funny. Variety has Mattel Lane about Katy Perry going to space. He says, she seems pretty out of TUSHA think at this point.

I saw some interview where she was like, my mom calls me Tortoise and the ship is called Tortoise, and things are meant to be. I’m like, you could also take all that away and just be like, hey, guys, I had a cool opportunity to go to space. I’m rich, I paid a lot of money and it’s gonna be great. Just be kind of honest with what it is. I think it’s over zealous and talk about how it’s like we are women and we and all this stuff, and Gail King walking around being like have you been to space?

It all just felt not relatable. His next paragraph is very funny. Variety Rights Matteo didn’t mind that Gail King used a gay slow while interviewing him for CBS Morning. She made headlines when she quoted the F word from one of his jokes in the special. Lane says, I couldn’t give a hoot.

Gail King can say it, Oprah can’t. Every article was openly gay queer comedian. I’m like, well, first off, who’s saying closeted gay comic? What is this? We’re so obsessed with the idea of being like this is an openly gay comic.

People are trying to find drama. Who gives a hoot? Gail King said the F word, O Tree, She’s wearing a wig for God’s sake. Who cares she could say it? Buttsale’s working on his next hour.

He’ll debut it in Australia after the summer, and says I’ll probably tour for another year and a half than film a X special. It’s fun to be wearing on new jokes. Feels like a get out of jail free card. I’m so excited to try things out and test things out and see what other comics think. I’ll be at the comedy Celler every night and just working.

It feels so nice. I’m free and I can write whatever the f I want. From book Club Chicago, your home for comedy news, Al Scorch has been reviewing public toilets. He shot a video inside a bathroom in Sherman Park and wrote Palaces of the People just civic Jim for everybody in the city to enjoy. He critiques the functionality of the bathrooms and the unique aesthetic details, fun tiles, intricate window design, locally made hand dryers.

Apparently the Sherman Park Fieldhouse bathroom is Scorch’s favorite, but he’s enjoyed all his bathroom visits. He has no plans to stop the bathroom review series anytime soon, and he says I just like doing it, but it’s also like how far can you take the bit And From Cycling Weekly dot Com, Your alternate source for comedy news, Comedian Sebastian Fowler covered three three hundred and thirty three miles across eleven States in eighty days, pedaling a twenty inch BMX bike loaded with twenty seven kilograms of gear. Fowler says he might laugh at this when I thought about riding across America. I figured it was about three thousand miles. I rode my bike downtown from my house in Ocean Beach to downtown San Diego.

That was about ten miles, and I thought, if I do that three hundred times, that’s the whole trip. That’s the mentality I went with. He had it out in February on a Sunday Odyssey BMX bike wearing vans slip on Damn Daniel sk h pro and began pedaling east along Interstate eight. Oh yeah, you gotta find roads that are safe to do this on. Spinning with a twenty five x nine gearing on a twenty inch BMX bike loaded with twenty seven kilograms of gear slow going.

Fowler says, no one’s ever done the strip on a BMX bike. No one’s ever gone on coast to coast on a BMX, and it’s good reason for that, because it’s a terrible idea and it’s really hard. And that is your comedy news for today. I hope you had a nice long weekend. Back in the morning with another episode.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny meg And for today’s Daily Comedy News, We’re going to take a look at the Mount Rushmore of Late Night. I’ve been thinking about this one a lot, so I will share with you the history of Late Night off the top of my head, then a look at why the actual presidents are on the actual Mount Rushmore. And I even used AI to help me focus my thoughts here and it was really really helpful, So I will share all that. Let’s do the history of Late Night off the top of my head, no notes.

So they were cavemen. They had no late night shows until Steve Allen came along and hosted the first four or five years of the Tonight Show. We’ll talk about Steven a bit. He did a lot of things that you saw throughout the ages, including a lot of influence on Letterman. So then he gets too busy to keep the show and passes it off to Jack Parr, who does a quote unquote smarter version of the show and introduces a lot of things that became late night staples.

Next up, Johnny Carson, and I think for purposes of this episode, if you listen to this podcast, I don’t have to explain Johnny to anybody. So let’s just accept right now, Johnny Carson’s on them Mount Rushmore, right, we know that’s going to happen. Johnny hangs around for thirty years. At some point they expand to twelve thirty and Tom Snyder hosts a show. Tom Snyder gives way to David Letterman’s twelve thirty show.

Letterman hopes that he’ll get the Tonight’s Show, but nope, they give it to permanent guest host Jay Leno, who hosts the Tonight Show for a while. Letterman goes to CBS, and for the first time, we really have two competitive late night shows. I know there was Dick Cavin and Joey Bishop and some other things we’ll talk about our senio, but it’s really the first time that the Tonight Show isn’t just the only game in town. Letterman rides out his time on CBS. Jay Leno passes the Tonight Show off to Conan O’Brien for five minutes.

Jay takes it back, and eventually we wind up in the air of fallon Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. And that’s the brief history of late Night. Okay, Hey, we’ll use that as a focal lens as for the actual Mount Rushmore, because if we’re doing the Mount Rushmore of Late Night, I thought that would be an interesting lens in which to look at this. George Washington represents the birth and founding of the nation as the first president. Think about that.

Thomas Jefferson symbolizes expansion, particularly the Louisiana purchase and his role in writing the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln represents the preservation of the Union, and Theodore Roosevelt embodies the nation’s development. Is known for his conservation efforts the Panama Canal and his role in the industrial boom, and a bit of a maverick. And I think we can find some inspiration there, all right. Who has hosted the most years in Late Night?

David Letterman at thirty three years, Wow, Johnny Carson did thirty Conan twenty eight, Bill Maher, who hasn’t come up in these discussions at all, twenty two years in Late Night. So I think that’s the equivalent of a guy in baseball who’s just accumulating stats and nobody ever went there’s the best player in the game, and sometimes those guys make the Hall of Fame. Bill’s not getting a spot on Mount Rushmore. Jay Leno also twenty two years in Late Night. Jimmy Kimmel already at twenty years, How is that possible?

So? Is Kimmel gonna pass Leno and again quietly accumulating stats might make some sort of Late Night Hall of Fame because of it? But is there a legacy of Jimmy Kimmel? I don’t think so. Stephen Colbert in his two forms at nineteen, John Stewart at seventeen in counting, Jimmy Fallon sixteen in counting, Andy Cohen, who hasn’t come up at all in these discussions sixteen years in counting.

So we talk about legacy and longevity. On the legacy front, Arsenio Hall absolutely has a legacy. He does not have longevity. The Arsenio Show ran from January third, nineteen eighty nine, until May twenty seventh, nineteen ninety four. Not very long, right, five years.

There was a reboot in twenty thirteen. Do you remember that? I don’t either. The reboot ran from September ninth, twenty thirteen to May twenty first, twenty fourteen. It’s one season.

Also Arsenio had taken over for Joan Rivers on The Late Show in nineteen eighty seven when Joan was fired. He hosted it for thirteen weeks and was unexpectedly popular. So that’s legacy. He definitely has a legacy. We’ll talk more about him.

Longevity is Jay Leno, but I’m not sure Jay has legacy. Some folks worth mentioning that aren’t really part of this conversation. Dickkevit, Joey Bishop, Pat Sayjack Magic, Johnson, Chevy Chase, Jerry Lewis had a show for a week, like literally one week. Jon Stewart had a show. Did David Bernner have a show on ABC for a while, I think he did.

Joan Rivers comes up a lot. She hosted from October ninth, nineteen eighty six to May fifteenth, nineteen eighty seven. That is not a long time to put somebody on Mount Rushmore. We can put Joan in the Late night Hall of Fame for sure, but not on Mount Rushmore.

All right, Let’s look at the case for some of these folks.

Steve Allen widely credited with popularizing the man on the Street interview segment, a staple of late night TV. He often featured recurring characters comedic sketches, sometimes involving audience participation. He was known for his quick wit and improv skills. Steve Allen hosted The Tonight Show from nineteen fifty four to nineteen fifty seven. He blended stand up comedy, interviews, musical performances, and quirky segments, known for making prank phone calls on the show.

If I had to compare him to Mount Rushmore, he’s the George Washington, representing the birth and the founding of the nation as the first president. Strong case for Steve Allen, he passes off to Jack Parr. Jack hosted Tonight from July twenty ninth, nineteen fifty seven to March thirtieth, nineteen sixty two. Let me read to you from his oh bit in The New York Times in two thousand and four. Jack Parr, the prickly, often emotional and always unpredictable humorist who turned late night TV into a national institution when he was the host of The Tonight Show, passed away at a eighty five.

John O’Connor wrote in The Times in nineteen ninety seven. Before Jack Parr, there were various variety shows. Doing the midnight watch, he simplified the format into a talk show, complete with the sofa and desk set that remains a fixture of his secret interesting guests, far more so than the celebrity hordes working on product plugs today, and an uncanny ability to listen carefully and actually engage in clever and often witty conversation William Grimes observed in the Times. Long before David Letterman, mister Parr had an anarchic streak that inspired him to pair guests like Liberaci and Cassius Clay, or Jane Mansfield and Joshauh Gabor to get in the ring with a professional wrestler, or to shuffle the que cards in the middle of a Robert Gulay Judy Gorylan duet that almost sounds like Malaniy’s show. When network sensors excised at joke about a water closet for young ings that’s a code for toilet.

From the show’s broadcast in February nineteen sixty, Parr walked off the show the next night in protest, leaving announcer Hugh Downs to finish the show. Parr didn’t return until three weeks later on March seventh, He strolled on a stage, struck a pose and said, as I was saying, so, I asked the AI, what’s the case for Jack Parr? Y A, I wrote, Steve Allen created the format. Jack Parr gave it a soul. Right, that’s pretty good.

AI. Before Parr Late Night was mostly stunts, bits and variety acts. Part turned the Tonight show in a place for smart, engaging and awful emotional conversations. He brought humanity to a format that could have easily stayed shallow and silly. He made the interview the heart of the show, not just as a publicity stop, but as a space for real talk.

He can draw a straight line from Parr to Dick Cavett, to Letterman to John Stewart. If Allan is the architect, Parr is the guy who walked into the house and made it feel alive. Strong case for Jack Parr. There next up Johnny Carson. Again, if you’re listening to this show, I don’t explain Johnny Carson to you.

He’s on. I forgot to ask it to make a case for Tom Snyder. Let me do that. I’m tipping my hand there that Tom Snyder didn’t make it. But the AI writes, before let him in, before Conan, before Stewart, there was Snyder.

The Tomorrow Show debuted in seventy three, airing after Carson. Snyder eventually invented the post midnight talk show format. He was on the stand up. He wasn’t goofy. He was just Tom intense, curious, and weirdly mesmerizing.

David Letterman idolized Tom Snyder. When Letterman moved to CBS in ninety three, he handpicked Snyder to host the Late Late Show. I forgot that even happened. Yeah, because he wanted someone who wasn’t doing a comedy show, just compelling conversation. That’s legacy power.

Onto David Letterman, the AI writes, If there’s not a place for him on the mountain, then blow the whole thing up and start over. Dave rebuilt Late Night as something weirder, sharper, and more ironic. When Late Night with David Letterman premiere in eighty two. He didn’t try to out Carson Carson. He created a punk rock version of the talk show, remote segments in diners, elevator races, stupid petricks, and top ten lists that made no sense.

He mocked the genre as he mastered it without Dave. There’s no Conan, no Kimmel, no Colbert, no Felon, no Seth, just a bunch of guys trying to be mini Carson’s all right, let me flip over another card. Carson Letterman, Letterman is on the Mount Rushmore. Is there a case for Jay Leno? I went back and forth with this.

The AI says, Yeah, there’s a case for Jay Leno on the late night Mount Rushmore. But it’s not the case you’d make for Letterman, Conan or Carson. Leno doesn’t make them out on cool points or creative innovation. He makes it on a different kind of strength dominance. Leno may not have been the critics darling, but the guy crushed the ratings.

For the better part of two decades, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was the most watched late night show in America. He beat Letterman, He beat everyone. If late night was a sport, Jay was the guy stacking up wins while the others are getting profile pieces in The New Yorker. Viewers liked him, Middle America liked him. NBC liked his ad revenue.

That kind of commercial dominance counts in any Hall of fame. The guy wrote his own jokes, stayed up reading the wires, and was known for outworking everybody he spoke to a different America. Letterman was New York cool, Conan was Harvard weird. Stuart and Colbert were political. But Jay talked to your uncle who watches Wheel of Fortune thinks oj jokes are still hilarious.

That matters. He connected with a vast part of the country that didn’t want edge or irony. Just a guy in Denham telling safe jokes about politicians and celebrities. It kept the Tonight Show accessible and mainstream at a time when the rest of Late Night was getting sharper, snarky, ear and narrower. Even Letterman called him the best stand up in the country back in the day.

Strong case for Jay Leno, I mean he did beat David Letterman. He kept the Tonight Show going for two more decades. Should we put him up on the mountain? Nah? Yeah, let’s circle back.

Let’s see Carson Letterman two more. The case for John Stewart. He turned Late Night into a weapon. Before John Stewart took over the Daily Show in ninety nine, Late Night was mostly entertainment, monologues, movie plugs, the occasional political jab Stuart flipped that he made comedy delivery system for truth. Satshire became sharp punch lines carried purpose.

If you like Last Week Tonight, Thanks Stuart, Colbert report full frontal at Stan b Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act, even the later years of Weekend Update, that’s Stuart’s legacy. Yes, he was funny, but when it came time to drop the joke, Stuart could cut through the noise like nobody else alive. His monologue after nine to eleven, his brutal eviseration of cross Fire, his takedown of Congress over the nine to eleven First Responders, Bill Stewart captured the politically aware millennial who distrusted mainstream media but still want to know what the hell was going on. He didn’t try to reach everyone. He asked his audience clearly and honestly, and they trusted him more than the news anchors.

Multiple studies found Stewart was one of the most trusted news sources for young Americans in the two thousands. Clearly a case for the Late Night Hall of Fame, which is a different discussion. I think everybody I’m mentioning on the show is in the Late night Hall of Fame. But mount Roushmore, Carson, Letterman, you get two more. I’m not putting John up.

The case for Arsenio Hall again, legacy with a capital L longevity. No, he had the it factor, the barking crowd, the fingerspin entrance, the appointed questions delivered with charm. Arcinio had a charisma that connected. He wasn’t trying to be Carson, he was being himself, and America shot up for it. In his prime, he beat Johnny Carson in the ratings with younger viewers that was unthinkable.

He made being on his couch just as valuable as Carson’s. He changed politics on Late Night, before the Daily Show, before Colbert, before Fellon and slow jam the news. There was our Senio playing the sacks with Bill Clinton wasn’t a gimmick. That moment is widely credited with helping Clinton win over younger viewers and reshaping how politicians approached pop culture. He made it cool to mix politics and entertainment.

He built a lane that didn’t exist before and made sure others could follow. Hall of Fame. Yes, Mountain top I can’t. I’ve only got two spots left, Carson Letterman and two more.

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Let’s talk about Conan O’Brien.

I started thinking about Conan, and I’m like, are we just gon a love fest with Conan right now? Are we possibly overrating Conan right now just because we’re into what he’s been up to when we root for him and the whole thing, and he was the fifty million dollar underdog, right and so everybody likes the guy. A Devil’s argument is he Van Hagar. We liked the Iconoclass Show, and he followed and did his own version and it was differently great. My case against Conan is when he put Conan up against Letterman, that’s putting Sammy are up against David the Roth and Dave One.

I’ll counter argument that, as I’ve talked about on this show many times, hosting the Tonight Show is a certain skill. Jay Leno hosted The Tonight Show. The Jay Leno of Tonight was different than the edgyj that used to guest on Late Night with David Letterman Jimmy Fallon. You’ve heard me talk about him. I think he’s much more talented than the role he plays as host of the Tonight Show, Conan, same kind of box.

Conan inherited the Letterman slot with almost no on camera experience. Early reviews were brutal, but instead of chasing traditional expectations, Conan doubled down on the weird dancing Bears masturbating Bear in the year two thousand triumph. It wasn’t Johnny Carson’s Late Night. He helped make absurdity and self deprecation the default tone for a generation of comedy writers. Okay, let’s get some commercials in.

We’ve got Carson and Letterman and two more. Take the break, we’ll come back and I’ll tell you what I think. Oh boy, this is fun, all right, Carson Letterman spot number three, and I have changed my opinion about this, But as the more I thought about it, I gotta give it to Steve Allen, because George Washington represents the birth and the founding of the nation as the first president. Without Steve Allen, there’s no late night period. He created the Tonight Show in nineteen fifty four.

He built the blueprint. Everybody else follows. Monologue bits, desk segments, sketches, musical guests, interviews from Carson to Conan. It’s remixing Steve Allen’s formula. Steve Allen makes the Late Night mount rushmore all right, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Who am I giving the fourth spot to Conan O’Brien and I wish I were this good?

This is the AI wrote this. In twenty ten, NBC handed the Tonight Show to Conin, only to Yan get back for Jay Leno. Within the year. Rather than meltdown, Conan delivered some of the most savagely funny, cathartic, and bitter yet classic comedy and TV history. His final episodes were a mic drop moment and his farewell speech, which was if you work with hard in your kind, amazing things will happen.

Turned him into a folk hero. He went from Late Night to The Tonight Show, to Conan on TBS, to Conan O’Brien needs a Friend, and somehow kept evolving. He took a show on the road, did specials in Armenia and Cuba. He made podcast Theys feel like a legitimate format for a former network host. Few late night stars have redefined themselves as many times as Conan without becoming irrelevant.

I have a big smile on my face as I read that Conan O’Brien makes the late night mount Rushmore alongside Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, and David Letterman. Those are four. If I had a fifth, I would give it to Jay Leno. But again there’s no legacy, and any legacy is tied back to the Conan fiasco. A good caretaker, but didn’t advance the format, which is no sin and it is exactly what the gig is.

Jay hosted the Tonight show and kept the ship steady. But does that get you on the mountain? It does not. And that’s today’s episode of Daily Comedy News. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Very busy for Saturday, never mind a Saturday on a holiday weekend. I have remembered a Saturday this robust. It’s been a while. Hi.

I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Two big specials of this holiday weekend DRAWD Carmichael on HBO Max Tonight, Mike Birbiglia on Netflix on Monday. Carmichael doesn’t seem to have done any press. I’m recording this around noon on Friday. I see nothing, and I can’t imagine that the PR department is putting out stuff on a Friday afternoon into a holiday weekend or a Saturday of a holiday weekend.

So I’m not sure what that’s about. Burbiggs did tons of press. We’ll be talking about him for the next week or so. Let’s start with this appearance on the Vanity Fair podcast. Mike told Vanity Fair a lot of times, I’ll work out these jokes on his own podcast with people.

I had Josh Johnson on the podcast recently. We were riffing on the premise I had. My wife was like, let’s go in the basement and fix the piping for the water and the building. I put my shoes on my coat, and I go, let’s go, And she goes, I’m afraid of the basement, and I go, I think you knew when you said let’s go, you meant me honestly, it’s just jotting down observations like that that are really simple. Then a lot of times two things will happen simultaneously.

As the series of jokes and story sculpts into a narrative form that has causality and propulsion to it, does some of these jokes fall away? Which ones fall away? And which ones stay?

And then which ones honestly become boring and which ones are still funny.

Jirod Carmichael special tonight at HBO ten pm. You know they don’t do the immediate streaming like the other services do, so you gotta stay up late. It’s his fourth special for HBO, this one called Don’t Be Gay. Variety reviewed it. Minor vibe spoilers here, no specifics.

It won’t ruin the special for you. It was filmed this February in New York City. Don’t Be Gay opens with Carmichael standing on stage, as simple velvet beage curtain acting as the backdrop behind him. He immediately begins chatting about his reality series and his struggles with internalized homophobia and rampant infidelity. Despite his professional and felt financial success, Carmichael admits rather sheepishly that he still seeks the approval of black people, which likely has to do with his upbringing.

The backlash to his white lover, or specifically the moment he sucked the toes of a hookup on screen pushed him to finally see a mental health professional. Carmichael appears more self assured than ever. He talks about his waffle obsession, using grinder when he was hiding his sexuality, his hyper religious mother, and how challenging it is to return to his childhood home in North Carolina. Friend of the show Jason Zennemann in The New York Times asked, can drawd Carmichael go back to basics? That’s what he seems to be trying to do in this new effort, a return to cynical, punchy jokes that introduced themselves with a dash of shock before he came out of the closet and a moody sit down performance in Nathaniel then made his own navel gazing reality show.

Carmichael was a Gifted Club comic. His new hour has more laughs permitted than his recent work, and his attention getting premises, among them A children’s funerals aren’t as sad as you might think. All right, that’s promising. That sounds good, and we trust Jason. We’ll get a special for Netflix.

Her first for Netflix filth Queen, June twenty fourth. Filmed in Boston, the hour is produced by Bill Burr. Bill Burr told Deadline the first time I saw Steph Tillev was a promotional video she made for New York City show. I mean he fell in love with her in her comedy, one of the most inhibited original voices out there today. I love everything at boat her otsgo At Cotska, one of my favorites.

Will have a special for Hulu. Hi, Hulu publicists, How you guys doing ots go At Cootska father on Hulu June thirteenth. There’s even a trailer. Let’s listen. So I asked my husband the other day how to turn on the washing machine, and that’s how he realized that he had been doing the laundry.

All these years. I was shocked to. Oh my god, it has been you this whole time. You know, when you’ve seen someone do something so you think, oh, that was me too, only to walk up to the washing machine and realize, huh, I’ve never touched these buttons before. Father is Otsko’s first special for Hulu, her second overall, The Intruder on HBO.

It was a really fantastic one. Apple TV Plus announced the first original Peanuts musical in thirty five years. Snoopy Presents a summer musical. Ben Folds will write original music for the July eighteenth release. A summer musical is forty minutes long.

In it, Charlie Brown is determined to make his final Yeared Camp special, but Sally is nervous about the new and unfamiliar place she’s new to the camp.

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One morning, the Peanuts gang learns that their beloved camp is shutting down because there are fewer campers joining each summer. This saddens Charlie Brown, who feels hopeless about losing a place that has meant so much to him and his friends. The Scrubs reboot took a step towards reality. Zach Braff has signed on. He will come back as doctor John Dorian in the Scrubs reboot.

This is pretty cool. On the other hand, what else is Zach Braff doing a podcast talking about Scrubs. Of course he’s going to come back for their reboot. Next thing you’re going to tell me is Donald Faison is coming back. He’s got nothing going on either, No offense guys.

Of course you’re going to do the Scrubs reboot. Bill Lawrence back in twenty twenty two said if you ever have an excuse to work with people you want to spend time with anyway, or run to it. We’ll also see who signs up. It is expected Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk will join up, and that Judy Rayis and John c McGinley will do limited appearances. That’s what I have been seeing.

Pete Davidson returned to Stand up after one year year. The New York Post reported Pete showed up at the stand last week on Monday and Wednesday nights, did fifteen minutes each night. A source told Page six. Pete open the set talking about how aidn’t been on stage for a year, with his last set being a co headlining show. With Dave Chappelle in Ohio.

No details on the set, though Bo and Yang was on the red carpet for the grand opening of Universal’s Epic Universe. They asked him, hey, you coming back to SNL, because you looked like you weren’t coming back. Yang acknowledged he was emotional on the Good Nights and said, I think you get to a point in SNL where you understand that you’re on the downswing of things. I think I was just processing that being one of the last nights that I would have, and that’s a huge thing. Every finale of Good Nights, something leaves my body because I’m just relieved from all that happened that season, and this was a big one.

We went through a lot, so many fun memories. I think that was probably registering. I was just like, Oh, I need to savor these moments because I don’t have them anymore. He was asked, is that last comment mean you’re not coming back? Yang deflected the question, laughing and saying, no, we’re not doing that.

Just admit you’re not coming back. I would have told you about this one, but I didn’t see it until five minutes before it happened. But I think it’s a lot of fun. If you’ve been following John Oliver’s show, he’s been trying to get minor league teams to rebrand. He’s been making fun of minor league baseball.

Well, the Saint Paul Saints went the other way. They had Plain Night. You see on the May fifth Oliver Show, John said that minor league baseball clubs should get more creative with their marketing and team names. John Oliver specifically called out the Saint Paul Saints has a disappointing example. So for Plain Knight, any Saints fan who had an ID with either the name John or Oliver quote two of the top one hundred and fifty generic men’s names in the world got a free ticket.

I could have gotten in for free. That’s awesome. The first thousand fans of the game also received a plain piece of white paper. They also were blowing off the kiss cam or any other fun things on the Jobbotron. They were only going to show people in khaki pans and tuck did shirts.

The only concession served at the game vanilla ice cream. Okay, I but trying to get to this one all week. The Inside Late Night podcast, Mark Malkoff spoke with Bill Carter. Jay Leno was the topic I had brought up on this program a few weeks ago, my question of like, is Jay Leno a nice guy or not? He seems like a nice guy, but everybody bat mounts him.

So they got into it a little bit. The cleaner audio is Mark. The audio that sounds like it’s a little uh not recorded on a proper studio microphone. That’s Bill Carter. In this first clip they discussed Jay and Conan.

Obviously I wrote a whole book about it, so it was interesting that they did want to avoid the Letterman Leno thing that happened before. So what did they do? They did give Conan the show with a five year wait. Five years, so Conin was hot as a pistol at the time, really really hot. And he could have said, I’m not waiting five years, I’m going to five right now right.

Fox could have cleared the show and he would have been on Fox. He could have said that, but he, like the other guys, wanted the Tonight show. So he’s he agreed to park his career for five year, park it WHI while he waited for Jay figuring and they all figured well in five years, Jay will want to leave, or maybe his raateers will be down. Well, they didn’t know Jay if they thought he’d want to leave, but that they set that up, they set that in motion and for Jay and they come to him, they say, we love you. We’re can standing here for another five years.

And he didn’t like the idea that there was a termination date. But at that point he was like, how can I say not to this and then Conan leaves and then I have another guy competing with me? Right, this is all in his head and he has nobody really advising him. He doesn’t have a killer agent. If he has a killer agent, in these circumstances, he has way more leverage than he showed.

He had a more leverage than he Just think. Jay rich Ratzk regrets and I think if he had to maybe go back, he would have given up the show and Laconan do his thing. I really really think that. I don’t think he would say that publicly maybe, but I mean it’s just he wouldn’t have. Done the ten o’clock shows.

What you’re saying, I. Don’t think he would did the ten o’clock show, or he would have at least like been like, okay, this didn’t work, and this was a failure, and I’m gonna leave and do something else for NBC. And the question that I’ve been asking, does Jay Leno have any legacy? He’s got the longevity, but what is his legacy? And I think his legacy might be tied to Codin O’Brien, which is a good time for me to remember to promote tomorrow’s podcast.

I have definitively declared there’s no arguing the four names that are going up on Late Night Mount Rushmore. So don’t like jump on a Facebook group or in the comments thinking you’re gonna argue with me. No, I don’t want that at all. You think I want to goose the algorithm starting a discussion. No, no, no, you just accept the four names that I declare tomorrow Late Night’s Mount Rushmore.

Anyway, anyway, here’s Bill and Mark discussing Jay Leno’s legacy. If you ask people what is his legacy? What did he bring? That is a big problem. He doesn’t have the same ongoing resonance as certainly Letterman and now Conan is on fire right, he doesn’t have that, and he would say it doesn’t bother him because he was more interested in doing whatever, but he didn’t advance the show in some significant way.

You really thought that being number one was going to be enough. And if people look at Honeymooner’s Perry Como was number one, and people do not remember Como, they remember the Honeymooners. It’s one of those things. I mean, when I worked with you for CNN, You’re a Webby Award winning host and I was one of the producers. We did this thing for CNN, a podcast, and before that, you did the History of Late Night, which I was featured in.

That was nice enough to be in. But Jay was supposed to talk about his legacy and talk about the Tonight show. And a half hour before he’s supposed to film with him and the crew and everything’s lit, he calls you. What does he say? He says, he’s not doing it because because Dave wouldn’t do it.

A half hour before he tells you this, he could have not just in. From the airport. I had landed that morning. I was driving in from the airport and he called me and said, he’s not I’m not doing it and he and he said, because you know I Dave won’t do it, and then I’ll look bad, and I said, you won’t look bad. Who cares what Dave’s doing.

You’re you have a You’re a giant in late night on your own. You don’t What does it matter what Letterman does or doesn’t do. No, No, I’ll just get slammed for I’ll get slammed for I said, you won’t get slammed for it if you do it. I mean, if he did it and you didn’t do it, you might get slammed for it. And for the show.

Jason’s Inniman makes the podcast for the second time. Today, Hi, Jason, have a good Memorial Day weekend. Jason floated the premise that Mulaney has figured it out. Now, I’m not going to ever disagree with Jason’s in him and he’s smarter than I am. And I’ve kind of given up on even sampling Mullane’s show.

I’ve tried to show like five six times, and like I just I’m not feeling it. This upcoming week is the one where Mulaney supposedly will fight three fourteen year old boys. Jason writes, is this whole thing a trick to get your attention? If so, it’s a good one, because I’ve spent a fair amount of time considering ways that the host could possibly avoid taking a beating. It’s not easy to dream up winning strategy for a delicate looking forty two year old comic that doesn’t include weapons or rigging the rules.

Mullaney appears confident about his chances. Of course, he always does. He takes part in all these stupendous, stupid and absurd things, not with an ironic, wink like letterment or sense of childlike silliness like O’Brien, but with an alien sureness, as if he were born to tell jokes blindfolded and get pummeled by teenagers for our entertainment. Until recently, he was this wholesome, very nice young man of stand up comedy. Then divorce and rehab shifted his image and his special about it catapulted him to a new position, the most acclaimed stand up of the moment.

That he’s now spending his cultural capital on this weirder show is something that deserves attention credit and I hope another season we’ll see. So the initial announcement was that it got picked up for two seasons, but the words from Robbie pra the Netflix out of comedy. A couple weeks ago made me think that they’re questioning things. Netflix does like to cancel things after one season, and it hasn’t been showing up in the top ten. A lot of buzz on the show, but not too many people are actually watching.

Apparently, We’ll see if that one gets renewed. All Right, that is your comedy news for today again tomorrow, the definitive List, no arguing the Mount Rushmore of late night comedy, and a normal episode on Monday. All Right meets you back here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media from Knickstown. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. People in this area are really hopped up for the New York Knicks, who last week eliminated the Boston Celtics from the NBA playoffs. Josh Gommoman is a Celtics fan and wrote a funny piece for GQ.

He wrote at nine to twenty six on a Wednesday night, I was at a concert in Queen’s when my friend texted me, you know you’re so loved in this world six exclamation points. The six exclamation points told me that the Boston Celtics had lost Game two of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, falling down zero two in the series to the New York Knicks. Despite having an otherwise wonderful night, I grew despondent as sarcastic wellness checks from my nick friend sent my phone into repeated spasms. My despair continued to increase. I’ve lived in New York City for nearly fourteen years, but I am deeply immutably from Massachusetts.

I regularly have my beloved Celtics trash talk to me by both the New York City natives and other transplants too cowardly to have imported their native allegiances when they arrived here. Last year, in a turn of events that was huge for me personally, the Celtics won the NBA Finals. But now the critics are back in full force. The criticism is stressful for me because I’m not, by nature a confrontational person. I apologize to my dog when I screwed over her so I can climb into bed.

I help strangers cary strollers up subway stairs. When people describe my work, they often refer to me as nice, even though the word funny is sitting right there. When basketball is involved, I’m an irredeemable hater. Should the Celtics lose this series to the next, which they did, I will suit my hometown squad for their effort and accomplishments, and I will warm myself by a blazing trash can of spite. I will take Solas and the fact that Lakers fans convinced themselves they were contenders in Lucas first season without having a legitimate starting center on their roster, the way your most delusional and tone deaf friend thinks they could win American Idol if Paula Abduel was still judging gone him and continues, I’m doing the Knicks.

This is Knicks down. I’m sorry if I’m being honest, though I’m a little jealous of Knicks fans. Let me be clear here, it’s not because of the Knicks themselves. People love to say the league is better when the Knicks are good. That is true, okay, but real quick, when is that?

No? That is also true. The Jalen Brunson era has been a thrill. I tied through gritted fingers. But before that, the team hadn’t been relevant for what a quarter of a century?

I’ll answer since nineteen ninety four. There was like six weeks of insanity once. But other than that, yeah, it’s been a while. They haven’t won a championship since nineteen seventy three. Still, deep down, I am envious of Knicks fans’ ability to feel their feelings when the Knicks lose.

I don’t remind you that historically that happens a lot. They feel bad, as they should, But when the Knicks win, their joy radiates through the streets of New York City. That is absolutely true. This is Nicks Town. Josh leaves us with this thought.

As a Massachusetts native and a hater, I’ll settle for the eighteen rings. Ouch More basketball. Shaquille O’Neal, he’s still doing his podcast. David Spade was the guest. They started talking about roasts.

Shaq said, yeah, I actually did a roast a long time ago. I’m talking to Jeff about doing another one. Fans assumed Jeff means Jeff Ross. Shack said, nothing is off limits with me. Somethinking about calling my roast black and white.

I’m gonna have five black comedians and five white comedians. David Spade floated the idea of Nicky Glazer. Shaq said, yeah, she’d be great. No actual plan there, but you’ll watch. Oh, by the way, on Sunday, don’t miss Sunday’s episode.

It’s a holiday weekend. You can download it, you know, Tuesday when you go back to work. That’s cool. But Sunday’s episode is my official declaration of the Mount Rushmore of late night comedy. I’ve picked the four names that Sunday’s episode, I’ve already recorded it.

I’m very happy without came out. So don’t miss Sunday’s episode again, holiday weekend and totally get it. Why do you think I pre taped it, but you know, make sure you listen to it at some point Sunday, the Mount Rushmore of late night comedy. One person who might be on it you never know is Conan O’Brien, who’s in the news every day now joining the cast of Toy Story five. He will play a new character called Smarty Pants.

I love it already. Toy Story five hits Theater’s June nineteenth, twenty twenty six. No plot details yet, but the movie is said to involve the toys dealing with modern day kids fascination with electronics. Ernie Hudson takes over the voice of Combat Carl, that character previously voiced by the elite Carl Weathers. Conan O’Brien confirmed the news on Instagram, saying these films are amazing.

I can’t believe this. He added that his role is better than that of Buzz. He says it’s the best character of them all. Ah. Ricky Gervais will be honored with the twenty eight hundred and thirteenth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

This will happen one week from today, Friday May thirtieth, Joining journalist mc Angelique Jackson on Vine Street will be Netflix executive Ted Sarandos and this is Spinal Tap star Christopher guest. They will be the guest speakers. Why I don’t know either. Walka Fame producer Anna Martinez says the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is honored to welcome comedian Ricky Gervais the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Finally, a star that will give snarky commentary every time somebody walks by.

I always knew we needed a comedian’s touch on our themed sidewalk. If you want to go sixteen twenty eight Vine Street, May thirtieth, eleven thirty am Pacific time. If you don’t want to go, but you want to see it, they’ll stream it live worldwide for free at walkafame dot com.

Also getting a star Mike Sure Mike the showrunner of shows like Parks and rec…

You may know him as Moe’s from the Office. Variety caught up with him. Sure said, the thought crossed my mind that The Office was so popular they’re even giving one out to the twenty fourth year character on the show. This didn’t seem to be the kind of thing I was eligible for. I’d think of stars and the Walk of Fame as going to George Clooney or Julia Roberts.

I didn’t think of them going as folks with my job, but I like that go to writers. I’m a very pro writer guy, and I think there are plenty of folks who deserve to be honored in this way. He joked it would be more meaningful if they put his star near a chipotlet because of the amount of chipotle that we’ve eaten in writers’ rooms. Sure was a writer for SNL. When he told his friends that he was taking a job at the US remake of the Office, they thought he was nuts, He said, everybody thought it was a terrible idea.

Every one of my friends they was like, oh boy, this is going to be a disaster. We were such fans of the British show. Sure got to know Greg Daniels, who was adapting The Office, and soon became his mentor. Sure says I left a meeting with him and sent my agent and manager an email that said, I don’t know if the show’s going to work, but if he offers me a job, I’m going to take it because he’s going to teach me how to write it’s exactly what happened. Even if that show only lasted six episodes and have been canceled, would have been the right move.

Greg taught me everything I know about half hour TV writing, how to break stories, how to write jokes, how to create interesting characters, and not to just run a show. He taught me a billion things. But the thing that’s most lasting is best idea wins. He didn’t care if the idea came from a staff writer, co EP, or an EP with twenty five years of experience. He didn’t care whether it came from someone in catering, a best boy, a camera operator, or a costumer.

Whatever, the best idea was for the moment that he’s trying to solve, for the problem he’s trying to solve, he took that idea. It’s such a simple thing to say that, but it takes an extremely eagless person to actually enact it. I really enjoyed Sarah Silverman’s new special. It is not the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. So there’s basically a short chunk and a long chunk.

The short chunk at the beginning seems to be joke Sarah had worked on that had been sitting around and that part was very, very funny, and then eighty five percent of it is Sarah talking about her parents. It’s one man show ish or one woman show ish. I did notice she plants herself in front of that stand up microphone and never moves, not working the stage at all, just standing behind the microphone, telling stories about her parents. As I’ve been saying about specials lately. Really nice company.

I’m not sure it was the funniest thing I’ve ever watched, but I really really enjoyed it as it was playing. Here’s my list of the best of twenty twenty five so far. The top tier Number one by a mile is the Mark Twain Prize Conan O’Brien thing. Number two Tom Sigora’s Bad Thought is hilarious. Neither of those are stand with Specials, so Getting to Stand Up top Stand Up Special, slash three overall.

Bert Kreischer is lucky on Netflix. It’s just funny. Bret Goldstein’s HBO special from April, or really like that. I have Sarah at five Mattel Lane al Dente that just came out last week as well. Same no to Sarah.

Maybe it’s not hilarious, but it’s a real nice company. I got him at six and Tim Dillon’s I’m Your Mother at seven. That’s the top tier. In the middle tier, these are, you know, good, but not a level like the others. Roy Wood Juniors Act your age, you’ll find that on Hulu.

Marsha Fear’s America’s Sweetheart on Netflix is okay, and Gabe Iglesias The Legend of Fluffy was really funny, It’s just way too long. And Jessica Curson Special from Hulu. That’s the middle tier. If you’re in Boston, w Camal Bells at the wilbur tonight he tild the Boston Globe. I still think that professionally, everything I’m doing is built on the operating system of being a stand up comedian, even if I’m directing or hosting.

I’m a stand up who also knows how to director, write a produce. So I know how to handle this difficult situation because I’ve done stand up comedy forever. I mentioned this the other day. He chose to honor his date at the Kennedy Center despite some politics happening in the world. Bell was boarding a plane when he learned the news.

Rather than canceled it. He decided to go through with it. Bell told the Globe Trump said I had to take it over because it had gotten too woke. Belle’s reaction, he thought it was woki before. Well, I’m gonna have a woke fest.

He joked that the W in his name stands for wokie. It’s actually Walter. I didn’t know that. To me, it was an opportunity. I’m going to show up and look this right in the face.

Is the National Guard going to be there? Is Trump going to be there? Belle’s opener, Dwayne Kennedy took the stage and said, this is the last time you’re going to see two black guys in the Kennedy Center. John Lovettz is at the wind Creek Events Center in Bethlehem tonight. He spoke to McCall magazine, which is still a thing.

They were curious how John Lovetz describes his style of comedy. Loved said, it’s about my personal opinions about stuff and trying to understand what’s going on in the world. It’s funny everyone thinks of themselves as being young and hip, and all of a sudden, it’s not. It becomes the opposite of what you grew up to believe in. Some people go along with it, and I just can’t.

The show’s just me talking about different subjects and what’s going on in the world and how I see it. Welcome to old Man Mountain, where I live. John LOVETTZ. I guess it’s more about things that happen that make me do a double take. It’s usually something I find ridiculous, and then I start making fun of it.

The stuff that’s going on now is foreign to me. As a comedian, it’s our job to make fun of everything. That’s what comedians do, point out the absurdity. John Lovett’s favorite comedians include Woody Allen, Who’s why I became a comedian. The guys on SNL were all funny.

Robin Williams and Charles Grodin were hysterical. Charles that’s very dry sense of humor where you could say something really dumb and he would just give you this look and you’d die laughing. Any advice for aspiring comics from John LOVETTZ. The main thing for any performer is to be funny. The way you’re funny.

Use your personality and what’s unique about you, the little stuff and the idiosyncrasies you do alone when you’re with your best friend or family. Put that in your work. If you do that, you’ll be unique, funny and people relate to it. But you gotta really work at it. It’s not gonna be handed to you.

What’s love it’s working on stand up and some shows with Andrew Dice Clay. There’s a bill John Lovett’s and Dice. Is that the same audience at all? Apparently it is. The Veil Comedy Festival is back this weekend.

Andy Haynes is appearing there. He likes Colorado, he says, I usually you said as an excuse to go skiing or find some water to jump in. It was asked what he knows about the Veil Comedy Festival, knowing except it’s in Veil, I presume, and out today a proper comedy album. I’m always a fan of those. It’s from Shanna Christmas, highly intelligent.

It’s out on YouTube and Amazon already now. An audio version via Comedy Dynamics Today. Shot live at an intimate jazz club in the heart of downtown Vegas. The special captures Shanna Christmas doing which he does best, making people laugh so hard they forget they’re in a dark room with strangers, with machine gun punchlines, razor sharp observations, and stories that swing from wild to wicked. Shanna invites audiences into a world that’s as smart as it is, side splitting, highly intelligent on YouTube and Amazon and an audio app wherever your audio albums are streamed or sold.

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