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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It is very busy for Tuesday. The networks did their upfront, so that gave us a lot of TV news. But let’s start with Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts, six episodes out on Netflix today.

Tom till the La Times. I thought it would be fun to stream one episode of something scripted and produced on YMH Studios, just to see if there was an appetite for that. That was the idea. We shot that one episode in April of twenty one, and it was so expensive to do and post took a really long time, so it was almost twenty twenty two when we were like, here it is. Our agents looked at it and they were like, you have to shop this.

We know you can do something with this. I was in the middle of my tour at that point, so it wasn’t until twenty twenty four when I was like, Okay, we have to get on this. Bird has a relationship with Netflix, he has five specials on there, but said I was gonna take it to HBO, Amazon, all the places. I was like, I have a relationship with Netflix, I’ll just show it to them first to see if they’re interested. Netflix did not hesitate and green lit it.

Segora says, it’s six episodes, but we got to use two of the stories that were in the original presentation. Two of the three are in the actual series, and you can tell because I weigh forty pounds more. In the Kirk Fox is part of the series and says, we all have bad thoughts, but Tom has found a way to make them as funny as they are scary, and he directs the way he exists seamless economy of words. He knows what I’d like to see a scene and makes it clear to all Rob Eiler is in this here, like who’s Rob Eiler? Aj soprano, Yeah, he said.

Tom and Christina have always been extremely supportive. So when Tom asked if I do him a favor and it was outside of the Hollywood world, it made me feel like it would just be friends making a fun show. That drew me in. Seeing Tom have the cojones to spend as much money and believe in himself and then trusting me with part of that. It seemed like a bad choice on his end, but I was down for the ride, Sigora said, everyone in the cast was so good.

But do you know Rob Eiler’s last acting gig was this Pranos and then this, and it’s completely by choice. The guy gets called and offered role. Still, when people see him this, they’re gonna be like, oh, yeah, this guy’s an incredible actor. Minor minor spoiler coming up. Okay, at one point you’re going to see Sigora’s but he says it’s his.

It’s not great. I know it’s not, but I just had to deal with it. It’s funny because when my butcht was first exposed, I was very self conscious and covering up. After thirty minutes, I was like, yeah, just look at it. I don’t care anymore.

When you see the later episodes, it’s the other side. You get full frontal. Apparently we get a lot of variety in this. Tom said, I feel like I went to film school and got to make fifteen short films with all these different genres and different characters, and I got to apply what I love a fun twist. I did see a review of it.

I think somebody jumped the gun. There’s probably an embargo. Obviously, screeners are around, but as I record on Monday, nobody else had reviewed this thing, and one site did, so I’m guessing there was an embargo that they jumped. But the reviewer there said he was unfamiliar with Sigora’s work, so I’m going to discount that he didn’t enjoy the series, and we’ll all watch it ourselves today. Bad Thought on Netflix.

Tony Hinchcliff is on Bill Maher’s podcast this week. I didn’t get to listen to it yet, but I did skim the transcript. Mars said, your reputation now, Tony is a right winger because you did the Trump rally and told the Puerto Rico joke, which is a great joke. Tony says, you’d love to know the story because you would really understand it from a comedians perspective, like I’m gonna go there to do this thing and show off free speeches, this and that and make those kind of jokes. But I had a whole thing written and planned to go in the teleprompter, and that Puerto Rico joke was actually a joke.

I had done a bunch in my stand up, and it’s part of a bigger joke with more front end and a longer back end. Bill Maher was like, like, what, I’m curious, Tony, Well, it was, you know, basically the end of the normal joke. I go, you know, I’m talking about the problems of the world. And I go, I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.

And the point of the joke is that people picture, obviously in my mind, obviously the great Pacific garbage patch skipping a hit, Tony said. And I knew this going into it, and I knew it the last second when I was doing it into two thirty in the afternoon, which is another terrible problem. This is one thing I was upset about. Who was supposed to go to the evening. When I got there, I go, when am I going up in this thing?

And they say you’re up first? I went up after the national anthem. Mar was curious, why did you do it? Because you’re a support of Trumper? Is an opportunity and a paycheck?

Was it a paycheck, Tony, No, it wasn’t a paycheck. I did it literally to help get someone, hopefully, if not only ten thousand, maybe not to mention one hundred thousand, maybe two hundred if we’re lucky, actual people to vote for him. Mar Oh, so you did want people to vote for Trump? Tony yep, without a doubt. On TV Today.

The Joan Rivers tribute on NBC taped last November during the New York Comedy Festival at the Apollo Theater. A funny quote attributed to Joan Rivers. Given that I’m dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me. Well, it’s about time. This thing features Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Hattish, Aubrey Plaza, Rita Wilson, Joel McHale’s in this thing.

I saw somewhere. An interesting observation from daughter Melissa Rivers. She was asked by The Daily Mail, who reminds Melissa the most of Joan Rivers said, Nikki Glaser is the closest stylistically in her delivery. Obviously Melissa knows her mom better than I did. I’ve mentioned several times I did work with Joan.

I’ve been in Joan’s apartment. I’m not sure I see any Joan Rivers in Nikki Glaser, but you know I wouldn’t arm wrestle anyone over it? Curious what you guys think? You could share your thoughts in the Facebook group, which is Daily Common News podcast group. A lot of TV news.

NBC had their upfronts. They revealed they will do a one hundredth birthday for NBC. Apparently SNL fifty went well. They trotted out Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Polar said, We’re gonna celebrate this birthday hard with a once in a lifetime television event, NBC one hundred.

It will be a star studded variety special commemorating one hundred years of culture defining content from iconic moments to unforgettable stars. Do you think David Letterman will go? That’s the first thing I think of, Tina Fey says. Hosted by a mix of legendary NBC alumni in Today’s Biggest Stars, Jimmy Fallon, the night will be filled with memorable musical performances, comedy tributes, behind the scenes stories, and surprise reunions. That’s me editorializing about Jimmy Fallon.

They didn’t actually anounce Jimmy Fallon. You’ll be hearing more soon, but I can guarantee this because it’s twice the age of SNL. It’s going to be twice as long as the SNL anniversary special. That’s right, folks, six hours of a fun decade by decade look back, Mamy polar Aded. Get your protein bores and your water bottles ready for that marathon.

We don’t know when it will air, but NBC marks it’s one hundredth anniversary in November of twenty twenty six. Fourth quarter is a good time to sell ads, so you could pretty much write down November. They also shared some more details about the office spin off or retake or whatever we’re calling this thing. The paper Oscar Nunia has told a story in which he told Greg Daniels that post office he imagined Oscar had moved to a more cosmopolitan environment. Nunia said, Greg heard me and moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio, which has three times the population of Scranton.

So it’s nice to be heard. Am I the first one or the last one who put together that? At the office takes place at a paper company, and the word is paper, and the paper takes place at a newspaper which is paper. Did everybody put that together two years ago? Because I only put that together today or are you all going like, oh wow, I don’t know.

Daniels tell the Hollywood Reporter that the paper will employ much of the same crew that worked on the office. It’s all about this struggling mid It’s about this struggling Midwestern newspaper that’s much reduced from its glory. Toda’s A lot of the storylines are about how this guy, Domal Gleeson’s character is trying to restore the paper and he just doesn’t have the budget for hiring reporters, and he has to use all the staff that work there on a volunteer basis, two B reporters. They’re completely untrained and don’t know what they’re doing. The villain here is the Internet, the ability to look at everybody’s news for free, and all the ad revenue going to Google.

Tracy Morgan getting an NBC sitcom executive produced by Tina Fay. Tracy will co star with Daniel Radcliffe in the Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Tracy Morgan plays a disgraced former football player who’s on a mission to rehab his image. Radcoffe plays Arthur Tobin, a filmmaker who moves into Reggie’s mansion to film a documentary about the faded star. Morgan is also due to star in Crutch, a spinoff from the Neighborhood, in which Tracy Morgan plays a Harlem widower whose empty nest plans are put on hold after his millennial son and free spirited daughter moved back home.

On Friday, NBC canceled a bunch of things, including Lopez Versus Lopez and night Court, both those not coming back. Fox announced Fear Factor. The next chapter. The synopsis dropped into a remote location, A group of strangers will live together under one roof and face stunts challenges in a game of social strategy. The original ran on NBC from two thousand and one to two thousand and six.

It came back for a little bit in twenty eleven. In twenty seventeen, MTV also tried to relaunch it, with Ludacrous hosting. That version ran for thirty three episodes. How the point here is they’re not sure if Joe Rogan is coming back. Most people assume no.

Also out now Greg Guttfeld’s What Did I Miss? On that show, they placed five people in complete isolation and Upstate New York with no contact to the outside world, no phones, Internet, TV, social media. They were locked in a room or a house or whatever it is for ninety days January twentieth through April thirteenth. One of the five dropped out early. The four remaining contestants were brought to Guttfeld’s Fox News studio to play a game of true or false about the events of Trump’s first three months back in the White House.

The winner gets twenty five thousand dollars. They were locked away for ninety days for twenty five thousand dollars. I don’t want to be like mister big shot, mister big wallet, but that’s not that much money. And Greg Gutfeld seems to agree. He said, this is the cheapest game show in modern history.

These people are in a house for ninety days for twenty five grand. They could have made that on OnlyFans. A spokesperson for Fox News Media told The Hollywood Reporter the contestants were compensated daily for their time. Guttfeld said, I got them an extra five k. It’ll pay for the uber back home now.

The Hollywood Reporter did some math for okay. They point out ninety days is less than thirteen weeks if you put in forty hours per week at the New York state minimum wage of fifteen to fifteen an hour in in New York City at sixteen to fifteen hour, any full time worker would walk away from the same three month period with eight thousand dollars. And that doesn’t even factor in the other one hundred and twenty eight hours that you’re not working a forty hour week. One of the contestants, in an exit interview says, I feel terrible. I feel I had to spend ninety days of my life for no reason at all.

So much going on today, Let’s just do a bunch of gossip corner from Late Night or James Austin Johnson got injured during Saturday Night Live, Apparently during the sketch the second Amendments, where Johnson was standing behind a table the entire time playing James Madison, he slipped in the heels he had been wearing for the sketch, injuring his foot. During the Good Nights he was on crutches. Does SNL just have crutches backstage? Where did the crutches come from? The Saturday Night Network said Johnson was set to appear a second sketch called bullying assembly, but it was cut for time.

It’s unclear if it was cut for time or cut for crutches. Late Nighter points out Johnson’s injury is the first known instance of a mid show injury since season forty one, when Leslie Jones tore her acl in a sketch. Morgan Wallen was on a podcast and was asked, Hey, did SNL make you mad? Remember he kind of stormed off a little bit. Morgan is telling it none.

I was just ready to go home. I’d been there all week, because you know, you can’t wait an extra ninety seconds and wave at the camera and then leave. Avanka Trump was at the Theo vonn concert. The Irish Times tells us the President’s daughter let her hair down for a fun night out going to see the comedian. She dazzled in a little black dress, says The Irish Times.

Rob Schneider throughout the first pitch at the El Paso Chihuahuas game after being spotted in an El Paso coffee shop along with Drake Bell. Schneider wore a red Chihuahas jersey. It’s been a couple seconds warming up before throwing ball. Apparently made an ok pitch. The chiuaha was posted on social media.

Rob Schneider wasn’t a bench warmer tonight, Waca waca. Rob Schneider started in the two thousand and six film The Benchwarmers. Gabe Iglacias posted a selfie wearing a Taco Polenke hat. In the photo, he’s next to another man wearing the same hat. Who’s that man?

None other than the founder himself, One Francisco Poncho Ochoa Iglesia said in the Insta story, he’s the founder of El Poyo Loco, Taco, Polenke and Polenke Grill and I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and his family tonight in San Antonio. At eighty one years of age, he still continues to create an inspire. He’s also a Daughters fan. And that’s it. My voice is giving out, So we’ll wrap it up here and we’ll see you back tomorrow.

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Callarogas shock media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Louis C.K. Has a book coming out, a dramatic novel described as not particularly funny, and most of the media coverage around it so far talks about the cancelation of Louis C.K. Job is four one one rights.

The once canceled comedian calls Ingram a dramatic story and not particularly funny. It’ll be out November eleventh. Ck is reading the audio version of the book and jokes the price for Ingram will be one million dollars per copy. I know that sounds like a lot, but my thinking is, this way, we only need to sell one book to a great success. He explains, that’s a joke.

The price is a normal book price. Ck posted Ingram is literally fiction. I just learned that it’s a very dramatic story, and it better confess to you that this book is not particularly funny. I’m not saying you will never laugh while reading it. You probably will laugh a few times.

You might even laugh a lot if you’re insane. But essentially Ingram, it’s not a comedy book. It’s a literary novel. Boy, that was hard Ingraham is the story of a boy who lives in a very noworre place with no one to talk to and nothing to do and very little to eat. He’s forced to leave that place and go out into a chaotic, cool, confusing, and fascinating world.

He commences to do the only things left to him his options. He survives, he suffers, he learns, he wonders, cries, laughs, and he grows, just as anything that doesn’t die continues to grow. Over the last few years, I’ve been writing a lot of fiction, mostly short stories. I don’t know if I’ll publish any of them, but I love writing them. So one day I got this voice of a simple but eloquent country boy in my head, and I sat down to write his story.

I had no idea it was going to be a book, and I had no idea what would happened to him. For many months, I sat down almost every day and I’d ask Ingram what happens next, and he would tell me, And just like that, one day, as suddenly as he had shown up, it was over. That’s Ingram. I’m writing another novel now, by the way, it’s completely different from Ingram. Maybe I’ll publish that someday Liddhab jumped in and said, if you need a refresher on ck Meg writes excellent piece from twenty eighteen lays out these sexual harassment accusations, and Yck’s t into comedy was a sad inevitability with bigger stakes than one man’s redemption arc.

Skipping ahead a bit, they go to the description of the book, A suspenseful offer in harrowing yet hopeful Odyssey through rural America follows a young drifter’s coming of age and an indifferent world lit Hubright’s okay, not a bad log line at the jump, a little gest role, but it sounds exciting at least suspenseful, harrowing, hopeful in Odyssey is filing on a lot, but maybe pointing to something action packed and adventurous. When the description of Ingram is so vague, it’s hard to avoid filling in the blanks with real life details and guessed at motivations. Is c k just writing a rote novel about America? Or is the book about a funny and resilient character who rises from the dirt only to find a world set against him in his humble dream of truck ownership. You know who else was canceled was Roseanne.

The canceled comedian will resurface in a new documentary, Roseanne Barr Is America. It’ll be out on DVD on June tenth. The film chronicles Roseanne Barr’s life story, starting with a challenging childhood when she was raised Jewish in Salt Lake City, Utah. H In the doc, Roseanne revealed she started telling jokes to make her father laugh to avoid punishment. She winds up in La at the Comedy Store, then The Tonight Show with Johnny led It, a gig as the opener for singer Julio Iglesias at the sitcom Roseanne.

However, her success eventually crumbled under the weight of several missteps, including an unfortunate performance of the Star Spangled banner at a Padres game. She hosted her own talk show, but it all came crashing down after a late night tweet she made while she claimed she was on ambient. She was kicked off her own show, The Roseanne Revival, and blacklisted by everyone except Fox News and Doctor Oz. In the new doc, Roseanne gives her a side of the story through exclusive interviews. Nate Bergatzi is very thankful about SNL accelerating his career in the last few years.

Nate told people, I’d heard that John Mulaney, Jimmy found Pete Davidson and a bunch of SNL folks had been floating my name to Lorne Michaels for a while, but then with the strike, they needed stand up comedians to fill in, so I got the opportunity. I was already doing pretty okay on the road. People says that’s an understatement. He was selling out stadiums and had three Netflix specials already. But I knew the importance of it and that I’d be getting in front of an audience that might not otherwise be familiar with me.

I’ve been doing comedy for twenty years, but it does feel like it happened overnight to reach the mainstream. It’s just been a whole other level. After that debut, he was dubbed the nicest guy in stand up by The Atlantic. The Atlantic probably has never met Jeff Foxworthy, but I’ve never met Nate, so I don’t know, but I’ll give that title to Foxworthy.

Also, super nice is Larry the Cable Guy, But they would if they had a nice of…

I don’t even know who would win. Nate says, I was fortunate to get tagged with nicest guy in comedy and not something else. It’s nice. I’m sure it could be many other things, but it’s a good one to get tagged with. I mean, yeah, I’m fortunate that it’s that not something else.

Vulture caught up with Walt Disney Television Alternative TV chief Rob Mills. ABC now has the Oscars and the Grammys and some other stuff. So Walter asked Walt Disney Television Alternative TV chief Rob Mills if Conan doing two Oscars in a row means Kimmel has decided he’s done hosting the show. Walt Disney Television Alternative TV chief Rob Mills said, I certainly hope we didn’t see Kimmel’s last Oscars two years ago. He said they needed a little break, and I mean the privilege of having done Oscars with Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien, who were two faces on Late Nights Mount Rushmore is amazing.

When you don’t do the job the date, it’s worth asking would he be interested in doing it again? And we were lucky. I hope Jimmy’s hosting the Oscars or something else down the line. We have a litany of awards shows, Okay, the Late Nights Mount Rushmore. You get four spots, right, so Johnny Carson obviously, and we’ve got three left.

You got to give the second one to David Letterman. The guy was on for thirty years, and you don’t have Conan without Dave. So all right, so we have Carson and Letterman late Night Mount Rushmore. Off the top of my head, possibilities include Steve Allen, Jack Parr, who I think we got to consider here, Jay Leno, kim Old, Colbert Fallon, Seth Myers, James Corden, Greig Ferguson, John Stewart, all right, Carson Letterman hmm. I don’t want to ignore like Steve Allen and Jack Parr.

Younger people are probably right now, like who the heck is Jack Parr? But when Carson was on, you always heard about Jack Parr. Let me ask AI what they think? AI rights the Mount Rushmore of late night TV host should honor the legends who redefined the genre and left the lasting legacy. Here are the four Carven Granite One Johnny Carson, the George Washington of Late Night.

He hosted The Tonight Show for thirty years, launch countless careers. If you’re building a mountain, he’s the foundation. I like it AI too. David Letterman, the iconoclast. He reinvented Late Night with irony, absurdism and a top ten list of cultural influence.

AI is but Conan O’Brien, the writer turn host who turned awkward into art. His Harvard Wit surreal sketches and self deprecation redefined the genre for gen X and millennials. He’s the Teddy Roosevelt, more niche, but a force of nature. Good job, AI. The AI gave it to Colbert.

The AI’s reasoning for his dual achievements. First is the satirical Colbert Report persona, and now is the mainstream network King of the lad Show. I’m not putting Stephen Colbert on Mount Rushmore, No AI right. Honorable mention, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Joan Rivers first female host to break through, and John Stewart. They throw out there, Seth Myers and John Oliver.

We’ve also forgotten Dick Cavit. I’ll tell you what. Let’s take this up on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I’ll leave one spot for you. I’m giving it to Carson, Letterman and Conan.

You got one more? Who do you want to put on a late night Mount Rushmore? Let me know in the comments Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You know what, let’s just get out there. That’s a fun way to leave, right Carson Letterman, Conan, and who’s number four?

I think it might be Jay Leno, but you let me know, see you, tomor

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Mother’s Day. I Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Montreals. Just for last comedy festival is beck Baby. Your headliners Tom Sigora, May Martin, Russell Peters some other big names not included in the headliner line come in on Gianni Fortune, Fiemester, Michelle Butto and Adam Ray.

You may recall the festivals canceled last year. There were some financial issues and JFL has a new ownership now. CEO Sylvaine parent Badard said the team has worked so hard in the last few months to build back and put in place a great festival, a stable festival. This is good news for the community, good news for Montreal, good news for the comedy industry, and something that we’re really proud of. I’m rooting for them.

That was the best festival you could argue. Now the Netflix one is better, but different because the Netflix one has bigger names at this point. But part of that is because they do in Los ange Us and it’s not like a centralized festival the way Montreal is. If you go to Montreal, it’s all within I don’t know, five blocks of each other, and it’s really easy to bounce around. When I go, I can see three four shows a night, whereas La is kind of like, hey, famous person who lives in the greater Los Angeles area, do you mind coming down to the arena.

It’s seven thirty and doing a show and then you can go home. So it’s kind of different. So I really hope Montreal comes back and is as great as it was just for laughs file for bankruptcy in twenty twenty four, citing various financial troubles. There was also that pandemic in there that kind of messed things up. Prent Bogard said one day, we hope to be recognized again as the greatest and biggest comedy festival in the world.

But I know that we’re going to do great this summer, and the most important thing for us is comedians having fun, fans having fun. I’m glad you open the door there, because my initial reaction to the lineup was it wasn’t quite where the lineups have been in the past. But it’s a rebuild, so we all understand that, so I’m not going to sit your this is a terrible The festival runs from July sixteenth through the twenty seventh. Tickets go on sale May twelfth. We’re on the schedule websites, so they’ve got two Gallas listed with no name attached, so there’s potential for two really big names coming there.

In the past, the Galas are very much all stars. At this point, they don’t appear to have the site sorted by date, but some names here, Russell Howard kat Cohen. The Just for Laughs Culture Show is back that at one point I think was called the Ethnic Show, and then was just for the culture right, and now it’s Culture Show. Let’s see this year hosted by Asifa Lee from Deli Boys, Andrea Jin and Frankie Conyunis have been named to that one May Martin, Adam Rays, Doctor Phil Midnight Surprise, Camilnnjianni drop Out, Improv, Rose Battle Canada, Russell Peters, k, Trevor Wilson, Sabrina Jay Lees and ns Esmer, Fortune Fimester and Michelle Butteou, Tom Sagora, Nina Kanti, Nick Muhammad you know him from Ted Lasso, Brad Williams. Oh see, that’s a name that should have been on the first page.

Danny Boy New Faces, So that’s great. Let me check the schedule there see if they’re still doing two nights of New Faces. I’m really glad that’s still happening. No schedule yet, Okay. This year’s New Faces lineup features four distinct showcases, stand ups, three different lineups.

Oh wow, that’s great. So it’ll be thirty and characters. That’s great. Somebody tell missus Mack that her husband’s going to wind up in Canada for a few days. That’s exciting.

Three days a New Faces. I’m excited for that. The Nasty Show is back, and brits Ish is hosted by Ed Gamble. This year, Jimmy Kimmel as a new web series parodying video podcasters that pedal political conspiracies. This one is called The rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel.

ABC describes it as the number one basement conspiracy video podcast the government doesn’t want you to see. It’ll live on the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel. The premiere episode covers the truth about five G. Kimmel connects the dots between five G and Barack Hussein Obama, unveiling a conspiracy that threads the Five Guys Samberger Chein to the band Toto to Tanya Harding to sell Tower provider Crown Castle. Why did they make this?

I guess they had an Internet ad spend. Kimmel says, I’m just asking questions. Future episodes of The rabbit Hole will see Jimmy Kimmel exposing the secret truth so about time travel, boat wakes, windmills, elon musk leprechauns, and waffle houses. Chang Wang spoke to the Dartmouth and says this is the first tour he’s done since the release of Sweet and Juicy, and it’s the biggest tour of his career so far. Shank says, any things will be different after my Netflix premiere, but I wasn’t sure just how much the needle had moved.

It’s been incredible to see how many people resonated with the special and wanted to come out and watch my new live show on this tour, despite the fatigue of travel, I’m feeling absolutely grateful for the opportunities to do these shows for all the fans, old and new. I believe I’m still trying to find my voice to be my freest self. I think when you write your first few original jokes that actually get laughs, you get a sense that it’s possible that you can be great if you keep creating new bits and keep yourself to a hig standard to keep honing, tinkering and editing to find the strongest version of your ideas. Don’t expect them to be political. He says, curt events generally seem pretty grim.

I don’t usually discuss those things what are my feelings about them directly, but it motivates me to try to do my best to make a lasting impression on people who come out to enjoy a comedy show. Sarnagarg spoke to The Today Show about being a mom and a comedian and says you have to be quick on your feet in both jobs. As a parent, something news happened constantly, your mind is like, what am I gonna do? How am I gonna deal with it? Do I say something?

Do I retract?

Meanwhile, I’s a comic.

You could be workshopping the same material like all comics do for years, But that night you don’t know what’s gonna happen. You don’t know who’s gonna be in the audience. You don’t know what crisis you’re gonna deal with. She spoke about mom guilt being on the road. I don’t know if it ever leaves you.

My friends whose moms are ninety something, and those moms are still feeling guilt. It’s hard. Your heart drops every weekend because other moms are at my kids’ sports and they’ll send me videos and be like, Oh, he scored a goal or whatever big thing happened in basketball, And in those moments, I feel like I’ve missed something. Amy Poehler coming back to TV and working with Parks and rec Co creator Mike Sure. They’re collaborating on a comedy for Peacock called Dig.

Dig is based on the novel Excavations, which will see Amy Poehler and some yet to be cast friends doing an Indiana Jones thing. Four women working at an archaeological dig in Greece are a wildly different crossroads in their lives. When their team uncovers a long buried secret with a potential to rewrite history, they find themselves at the center of a high stakes international conspiracy. Yeah, okay, I mean good pedigree there with Mike Sure and Amy Poehler, but that premise seems a little crazy. We’ll see, But what do I know?

Because Fox has renewed Dennis Leary’s Going Dutch. You people watched that really. You may recall that Going Dutch stars Dennis Leary doing Dennis Leary things as the arrogant, loudmouth US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn reassigned to the Netherlands after an epically unfiltered rant. Yes, the wacky Army base has a Michelin star Commissary Mary, a bowling alley, a laundromat, and he’s surrounded by wacky characters, including XO Major Abraham Shaw played by Danny Putty from Community. Apparently people watch this thing, so Going Dutch coming back for season two.

Going Dutch averages eight hundred and forty two thousand viewers.

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Meanwhile, Animal Control with Joel McHale got another season.

I think it’s their third. Michael Thorne is the president of the Fox Television Network. It says Animal Control and Going Dutch are proven winners thanks to signature Fox characters brought to life by Joel and Dennis, two of the funniest comedic voices on TV today, giving us an ideal foundation for building our new comedy block. And that is your comedy news for today. See Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a new pope, and Jimmy Kimmel says, we have an American pope and a Russian president. Isn’t incredible? Dosi Leidik said, but the votes are counted and the Vatican doesn’t have a January sixth, so there’s no going back.

Stephen Colbert said, Holy Father, you had me at jd Vance is wrong Kimmel again, you gotta think about this one. This must have been what it felt like when they opened the first Olive Garden. Some funny stuff on threads. Griggs posted the new Pope is from Chicago, which means I probably taught his Level three improv class. David the Stella writes, American Pope sounds like a nineties comedy movie where due to some random paperwork, era dude named Steve has made the pope.

Mark Stevens Comedy says the new Pope is from Chicago, which means his reign could last anywhere from twenty five or six to four years. Several people had the joke. I’ll credit Josh Barrow, who’s the first one I saw posted Chicago Pope Tuesdays on NBC. There’s also a CBS very into that joke. Sebastian Manascalgo checked in.

All right, here’s the deal. Pope’s from Chicago and I’m getting calls? Do you know the Pope? Why would I know the Pope? He’s sixty nine years old?

All right, where do you think I met the Pope at seminary school? I don’t know the Pope. I’m happy he’s from Chicago. All the blessings to new Pope Leo. By the way, why don’t they use the real name of a guy.

I think his name is Rob. Why isn’t it just Pope Rob? Why do we got to change the name up? I’m sure I could chat sheeap, you tee it or google it, but I thought i’d ask you guys, because you’re so smart. Good luck, Pope.

I found it odd that there was no comment from Jim Gaffigan when I looked at Friday at ten twenty five am, but he had posted about his bourbon twenty one hours earlier. I did some maths, so ten twenty five plus twenty one hours would have been when in eleven twelve one five pm Jim knew about the Pope. I find Jim social media to be pretty disingenuous. Anyway, It’s just about telling you his stuff. Andrew Schultz declared, New Pope went to Villanova Knicks in four Here in New York City, it is Nick’s town.

People are very excited. One person who’s excited is Tracy Morgan. Let’s listen. Subscribe New York City. This subscribes Nicks and everything in it, the Freedom Tawa, all of that.

We New York. We very resilient. We don’t play we scrappy. So this team represents us. This is what New York is about.

This is where King Kong died. The Warby is a film here, son of Sam was born here. You know where they filmed The first ghostbus is here? Do you understand that the marshmallow Man walked through here? I’m gonna holler at you later.

The just for laughs lineup is out. I will do that tomorrow because I want to talk about this historian people. The headline is Amy Schumer, the unnamed celebrity stranger that Hilaria Baldwin calls out in new book. Hilaria talks about a mystery celebrity in her new memoir am Manuel not included, and Hilaria writes, I don’t need to use her name and I don’t want any problems with her. No matter what, I hope I never meet her.

No people think it might be Amy Schumer. Schumer has previously called Baldwin a sociopath. In her comedy Special Emergency Contact, Hilario writes about a famous person, someone I’ve never met, who’ said nasty and untrue things about me and my family and that she even tried to bait me and Alec via Instagram. We didn’t engage with her, and I guess I’m proud of that and made me mad at the system. But here in this book is where I can talk about it.

I don’t need to use her name, and I don’t want any problems with her, and I’d like to be left out of any articles that mention her because she has nothing to do with me, A total stranger. In Amy twenty twenty three Special Emergency Contact, Schumer said, I’m not trying to bullie a sociopath. I have a point. My point is that all evidence points to this woman since she met her husband, has straight up pretended to be from Spain. People tells us in December of twenty twenty, Schumer posted some of Hilario’s family photos on her own Instagram page, later deleting them and apologizing to Hilaria, who spoke out after receiving negative comments.

In twenty twenty one. Schumer told Entertainment Tonight she deleted the posts after Hilaria quote seemed a little bit upset. I was just like, I don’t want to be mean, and she seemed like maybe it hurt her feelings. I took it down. She’s amazing and I wish her and her family the best, and I hope she gets to visit Spain as much as she wants.

Look, she’s a mom. I don’t want them to be going through a bad time. But also, you can’t just pretend you’re from Spain. Now. If you google is Hilaria from Spain, things will come up.

I’ll source here from Vox. They seem pretty reputable. They write the idealized Hilaria was born in New YORKA speaks with an accent. Doesn’t know the English word for cucumbers, jocks are fun, does Flamenco love speedboats, drinks hamp milk, eats lentils in Paea, and does a plethora of workout classes. Then they had Hillary was born in Massachusetts, went to NYU and has a brother named Jeremy Fox.

Source is somebody named Tracy Egan Morrissey, who looked into all this back then in a series of Instagram stories. Morrissey explains that Hilaria’s Spanish origin story again from Hilario, stating in multiple features with Ola that she was born in Spain and Spanish was her native language. Baldwin’s bio on her CAAA speaking engagement site states that she was born in mayerca. Hilaria also had stated in a previous interview she moved to America at nineteen to attend to NYU. Morrissey debunks the claims, pointing out that Hilaria is actually Hillary Hayward Thomas, who graduated high school from the Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, mass And there’s also a video where the mother seems to stumble over her own daughter’s name.

Anyway, that’s a lot of fun. I hope Amy Schumer jumps back in and That’s why I’m gonna cover JFL tomorrow. Bert Krasier explained how he lost fifty pounds Men’s Fitness on the case they covered it. Graysier said he did it by just eating three things. Okay, what are the three things?

Steak, eggs, and spinach. Bert says, I went to carnivore all ever eight eggs, Rebbi saw Tate spinach. Dude, I lost like fifty five pounds. Inflammation went away. I felt so clean, No booze, no nothing.

Nate Bergatzy was on Fallon, I’m a little NATed out this week. Nate is playing Madison Square Garden in September. Nate told Fallon, as everybody who has followed my career knows that tonight show has meant a lot to me because I was just doing stand up to now doing it Madison Square Garden, So I thought it would be very nice would you come over and do the shows with me at MSG. The audience approved. Fallon appeared hesitant, arguing that he hasn’t done stand up regularly in a decade and doesn’t have an act.

Nate pointed out that Fallen opened for him before. That is true. Fallan opened for Nate and Albany and Syracuse last year. Nate said, you know it works in Syracuse and Albany, so now it’s time to take it to the big top. Fallon has accepted, but was curious, what do I do you want me to do?

Impressions. John Oliver wants the Iowa Cubs to change their name. For a little bit. He was making fun of some of the crazy minor league team names and then got into Iowa Cubs and said, they’re pretty disappointing because in not embracing the glorious eccentricity of the magnificent league they belong to, they’re kind of leaving money on the table. That’s where we come in.

We are willing to use all our resources and stupidity to give one minor league baseball team a total rebrand. We’ll give you a new name, a new mascot leaving through you with theme night. If the Iowa Cubs aren’t interested, other teams can reach out at John Oliver at buntstuff dot com. I wonder what happens if you go to bunt stuff dot com. Let’s find out.

Apparently the domain is parked, but they have the email account. I guess these Saint Paul Saints jumped in on social media and said they have already contacted John Oliver’s team and they are prepared to accept the offer. On Gossip Corner, Monique was on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and said, I’m grateful I’m not fifty six and trying. I’m looking right at you. I ain’t backing down.

You better take your old butt and get someone to love you. You don’t need no twenty six year old girl. You don’t need no thirty six year old girl. You’re trying to hang out with these young b words. You can’t do it, Shannon.

Remember HQ Trivia. Remember Scott the guy that used to host it. Remember that guy? Yeah, well he’s got a new gig with Trivia Works, a corporate entertainment and team building vendor specializing in customized trivia events. Scott will lead corporate and private event audiences and hilarious, high energy team trivia competition.

You can get customized questions and entertainment between trivia rounds, and of course Scott’s trademark sharp wit. That is your comedy news for today. Hey, if you’re into this whole Pope thing, I’m working. We got a podcast called White Smoke where we’re covering this. Today’s episode is about the whole Villanova Nix angle.

So Tracy Morgan will dig that and we find out if the Pope is a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. I’m not gonna tell you, I did a lot of work. I want your download, So go download White Smoke wherever you get your shows, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna deliberately do some different names off the top of here today. I feel like all week I’ve just been talking about Nate Brighetsi and Bill Burr. It’s gonna work in some other people, although we’ll get to those guys. John Oliver says a UK version of Saturday Night Live is a terrible idea.

John told Seth Meyers, it just sounds like a bad idea. We’ve had sketch comedy before, and it just feels like Saturday Night Live is such a unique group. It’s a cult. I’m trying not to say the word. It’s a cult, and I don’t know how you can impose that cult on the UK.

Seth Meyers asked John to identify the most cult like thing about SNL. Oliver said, what night is it? You stay up all night? Meyer said Tuesday night. You stay up all night and Tuesday.

Oliver said, that’s ridiculous. I’m saying that’s the kind of a thing a cult leader would make you do. We stay up all night on Tuesdays. By the way, John continued, I think it’s been proven that SNL is the outlier. It does don’t have to be dictated to the day that you must not sleep on that day or the great Leader will be irritated.

I’m looking forward to Snluk gives me more things to talk about. David Cross will be at Bellingham’s Mount Baker Theater tonight. He explained touring and said, it’s what you do. You work up a bunch of material and you take it on the road, you shoot a special and when that airs, you work up new material and then you go out again. This set, though, is not quite as topical or political as it usually is.

That’s surprising, isn’t it. You’d think you’d have something to talk about right now because the first half of the set, with one exception, is just a true embarrassing situation. I found myself in another difference about this tour. Cross stopped in the middle of the tour to go to Broadway as part of All in a Comedy about Love. Remember that show?

It had the rotating cast. Cross said it was a limited ten week run or something like that, and they asked me to be part of it. It was great. It was really a feather in my cap. Cross is doing all sorts of things He’s also on season four of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy.

He played Zi Grossman and said, I don’t think I’ve worked on a show quite like that, especially with the reach that one had, and I’d never seen it before. I got the offer and it was one of those things where it was like, if you could do this, you need to fly out. On Monday. I shot a couple scenes and then I went back and started watching it with my wife and we immediately got hooked. Don’t worry about David quitting a stand up, he says to me.

It’s just what I do, and I’m doing stand up if I’m not working on a project or TV show, movie, whatever the thing is. But I’m always doing stand up. I’ve never stopped doing stand up. How did he get a podcast, he told the Bellingham Harald. I woke up one day and checked the mail and there was a thing saying it was my time to do a podcast.

It was required by the government, and my number came up, so I went down to the studio and just started doing it. Jimmy O Yang is going to do a show in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong press was all excited about this. My comedy trackers were like, oh my goodness, Jimmy O Yang is doing a show in Hong Kong. He will play the Hong Kong Coliseum on June fourteenth. Time Out reminds us Yang can speak Cantonese, Shanghai’s and Mandarin Chinese, so they are guessing some of the material will be in Cantonese at the Hong Kong show.

Now, at first, I freaked out at the ticket prices, which I saw as three hundred and eighty, five hundred and eighty and seven hundred and eighty dollars. Now, love Jimmy Oyang, but seven hundred and eighty dollars is a lot. But then I learned I was not aware there is currency called Hong Kong dollar, so the prices are in Hong Kong dollars. And as I record this, Google tells me seven hundred and eighty Hong Kong dollars is one hundred US dollars. So that’s not too bad.

That’s reasonable to see Jimmy Oyang, and those are the price he seats. I mean, if we want to get the three eighty HK dollars, that’s just fifty bucks. Tickets on sale today at two pm, which time zone that I can help you with for HSBC credit Card Priority bookings only. So if you’re like, I gotta go see Jimmy Oh Yang in Hong Kong, I suggest you start looking right now. There’s also a kluk pre sale on May twelfth at noon.

Klook, what’s that? I don’t know either, but I’m the one hosting this thing, so I guess up to me to figure out what kluk is. Google tells us on Kluk you can find discounted attraction tickets, tours with unique experiences, and more. They seem to purvey in theme park tickets and airport transfers and other things. Kluke Time Out reminds us the Hong Kong Coliseum, which sounds like you would be this huge building, right you think Jumio Yank’s playing the eighty thousand people know the Hong Kong Coliseum only seats twelve five hundred people.

We’ll see if he adds a second show. Isn’t this fun? I haven’t mentioned Naperghetzi or Bill Burry yet. Howie Mandel was on with Nestor from Baltimore Positive. Nestor was curious if everyone should try stand up comedy at one point in their life, Howie said, I think if everybody got up Benet’s stand up, it’d be a huge crowd on stage and one or two people in the audience.

That’s funny. I love an audience. I think you should be an audience member. I think people should sit comfortably in the theater and just watch one person on the stage try to regalue with humor. I look at it like a giant party, and I’m just trying to be the center of attention.

As for working Clean, Working Blue, how He says, obviously, after all these years in the business, I have many hours of prepared material, but I love to be reared off, whether it be because of something that’s happening in the moment, technical problems, something else or whatever. I don’t have an edit button. I’m just a human. Hannah Berner got one of those big profiles by the Hollywood Proforter. I’ll zero in on the stand up comedy part of it, and they were curious if Hannah finds it odd to find herself on TV doing stand up instead of reality TV.

Hannah said, these stand up specials my therapy. Reality TV was one of the ways I was put on. So I’m grateful for it, but I can’t watch reality TV anymore. I do think reality TV, as I saw, is that everyone was put into characters, and you’re pretty much putting a box. The rampant misogyny.

It gave me this chip on my shoulder to be like, I want to be seen as me. When I say me, I mean all the sides of me. I want to put out the vulnerability, the mistakes I’ve made, the confidence I have, the anxiety have. If I’m going to be judged, I want to be judged based off at least a human rather than an archetype. I do think I always emphasize just how women are so multifaceted, and I try to in my comedy say things that maybe women were afraid of or insecure about, so they can say, Hannah just said it, so it can’t be that bad.

Alright, I’m editing on the fly here in my a block. Here, I’ve got leftover Burr and Nate. I’m a little NATed out. Want to take a Nate break. Let’s do Burr.

This piece in The New Yorker a really good profile with Burr where he got political. It is behind a paywall. But if you’re good at the internet, like really good at the Internet, you gotta have like internet skills, you can get to this one, or of course, pay for a subscription to The New Yorker like I did. Bill said, why is there Fox News? Because there were CNN.

No president has allowed to be president since the first Bush. So what he’s saying there, because I’ve read ahead, is that the news networks give every president a hard time. Here are some examples, Bill Burr. Once they went after Bill Clinton for lying about you know, the thing with the intern. Let’s not go there.

Everybody else. George W. Bush, he stole the election. Obama, he’s not from here. Trump everything that he did.

Joe Biden, let’s get something on him. We can’t get something. Oh, his kid does cocaine. As it helps if a certain percentage of the president’s stays deal with the other side trying to take him out and peach him, which is never gonna happen. Burr, who was there to promote Glengary Kelen Ross, said to the interviewer, are we gonna talk about the player?

Am I just gonna come across as the political guy? We’ve gone out three times do you want to go out? I’m recording a podcast, but I’m recording the podcast. But I just let you out. Okay, I guess I gotta take a break.

Boy, where were we? The dog does not understand that Johnny Man’s got a lot to do today. She just snuck back in. I had closed the door for a reason. All right, she left.

We’ll see how far I get here. There was a good discussion on Threads. I’d asked the question just like it did on the podcast. Is Jay Leno a good guy or bad guy? Yeah, there’s the Conan thing, but he seems like a good guy.

That’s when I was reading the stuff about Mavis and yet nobody ever seems say good things about him. I got some good responses here. Megan responded on Threads, as I’m at Daily Comedy News, Howard Stern has nothing good to say about him. After reading the War on Late Night book, it sounds like he’s a backstabber who also wants everyone to like him and no hard feelings after he betrays them. Someone named Deva V.

Wrote when I lived in LA in the late nineties, one of my roommates worked on The Tonight Show as a page and then eventually as a writer. From what I heard, Leno’s a great guy to work for, and I was able to see his real comic self, which is much more cerpic and funny than what he was like on the show for obvious reasons. Yeah, I’ve talked about this. If you watch the old Late Night with David Letterman Jaylenel appearances, you got the edgy Jay Leno, you know, not that he was you know Tim Dillon or Andrew Schultz or someone like that, but he was a lot edgier than the Tonight Show persona. And like I’ve talked about with Fallon, when you host the Tonight Show, that is a particular shade of yourself that you have to do because that’s what the Tonight Show is.

John Roy, comic who writes for Vulture, said, when I did his show, he was very cool and hung out in the green room telling comedy stories. He also knew my act, which is rare for the host. No other host I worked for did either of those things.

And then Ford probably had the best take.

He wrote, Jay is a guy like all other people. There’s some good and some bad in all of us. And I did not react well to this. Somebody came at me and wrote, how would you pair off? All your readers were asked the same question about you.

Also, why are you holding him up for a public referendum? You can let us know your record, so I did. Here’s what I wrote. Seriously, Okay, I ran SERIOSXM comedy for ten years out of a thirty year radio career. My reputation is that I’m a nice guy.

I’m sure someone out there doesn’t like me, because we’re all humans and all comments on that. My reputation in the industry is that I’m a nice guy. Like I wrote to the person back, I’m sure someone thinks I’m a jerk fase and I can be a jerk fase, and I’m sure people who are reading my substack are like, this guy’s a jerk phase. But I admit I’m writing the substack a little jerky for attention to promote the podcasts. So I’m sure people that don’t actually know me and only read that are like that guy is a d and I would get it and I would totally understand.

But people have actually worked with me. My reputation is that I’m pretty cool.

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And then, because I was highly offended, I wrote and then I explained the spi…

Anyway, I thought that was an interesting discussion. A real quick let’s hit gossip corner. Graham Norton is selling his New York City crash pad. Must be nice to have a New York City crash pad. Listen to this crash pad.

He’s selling it for five point six million dollars. The murray Hill carriage House on Sniff and Court, which is a private gates muse Now I grew up in New York City. I’m like, where is Sniff and Court? And apparently it’s this little street that is gated in Manhattan’s murray Hill neighborhood. Sniff and Court has just ten residences.

The homes were built in eighteen sixty three and eighteen sixty four. It’s horse stables. At the turn of the twentieth century they were converted into single family townhouses. I looked at the pictures, which you’ll find on the rob Report. Pretty nice looking place.

The great room has fifteen foot ceilings, a fireplace, there’s a dining room. The second floor guest bedroom has a marble bathroom. The third floor has the primary suite. There’s even a rooftop. Not bad.

Five point six million dollars if you got the cash. I don’t. I wish I did, because the place looks pretty dorn, snazzy, and for a place in New York. It’s just that it’s even on the market. If you’ve got five point six, grab this thing.

I’m not a real estate agent. Make your own decisions, all right, And thats your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re finding me on YouTube again, I’m old.

I don’t know. I’m not a YouTuber. I’m a podcaster who’s on YouTube because that’s what you’re supposed to do. So smash the bell and like and all that stuff. Whatever the kids tell you to do, do that.

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Calarogashock Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Sarah Silverman’s next special Netflix, May twentieth. It is called post Morte Men. She put out the trailer.

Let’s listen. My dad and my step mom Janie both died last May, nine days apart. And oh that one needs work. And my dad was my best friend, and they both gave me so much, and most recently about an hour of new material. So let’s do this.

And this seems like a good time to mention. I do have merch this tour, but I just really feel like my parents would want me to monetize this.

Meanwhile, out today, Season two of Conan O’Brien must go on, Max.

Now you may recall they did some like funky things where they shortened the season, and I bet they regret that now that there’s been the Conaissance, I mean, there’s like a continual conaissance. But I don’t know why they had cut back the order. Anyway, We’ll see Conan in New Zealand with Taike awaititd. Javier Bordem joins Conan in Spain. Conan will also visit Austria in this season.

Max had tweaked the schedule after Conan was tapped to host the Oscars. They shortened season two to three episodes, but they gave the series a renewal for a six episode season three. So maybe I have it all wrong and they just wanted to get something out there quickly. Anyway, it is on Max today while we’re talking Conan. I had seen this thing as I was prepping the Palace Intrigue podcast because my Prince Harry news tracker caught that Harry was going to be at this thing in Vegas today.

But Conan is there as well. You’ll find Conan at the Venetian in haul A Level two from ten to eleven Pacific. Join Conan O’Brien and Jessica Williams as they the role of improvisation and comedy in leadership. Together, they’ll discuss how humor and embracing spontaneity builds trust, leads to innovative thinking, and sharpens adaptability. Sounds like a nice paycheck for Conan.

Now. This thing is called Knowledge twenty twenty five. It has been a convention of shorts all week. Individual pricing started at twenty one to ninety five twenty one hundred and ninety five dollars gets you a full conference pass for all the learning, inspiration and networking. You could even see Conan O’Brien if you wanted to.

A one day pass if you want to head out there today is only nine hundred and ninety five dollars if you want to see Codin O’Brien, who’s also on TV tonight. Nice money if you can get it. Late Night are reporting. The final date, Four After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson will be Thursday, June twelfth. All week, I’ve been talking about Nate Prighetzi.

They are coming for Nate. The Industry Trades pulled a particular quote and I share this screenshot in the Facebook group, even though the article has been out for several days. What’s coming up if you google Daytzy is Nate Pergatzy on Disney and Variety, Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Rap all pulling up with Nate Bergatzy says Disney head doesn’t care about the audience. The poll quode from Nate. Now, Disney is run by a guy that’s just a businessman.

Well, that guy doesn’t care about the audience. Now that this has come up, as I was doing the Nate stuff this week. I was coming away a little bit like he seems less likable off this interview. I’m not sure this Esquire interview helped him at all.

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And now I’m feeling more strongly about that.

I’ve always liked Nate, He’s been on my radar for at least a decade. But this Esquire article, I don’t know a little funky. Esquire asked Nate about his influences. He listed four people, Jerry Seinfeld, Judd Apatow, Walt Disney, and Adam Sandler. And this is where the Disney stuff came into Esquire writes, recording in to Berghatzy.

Walt Disney, the man, not the brand, loved everything he made and cared about his customers. The quote, Now, now Disney is run by a guy that’s just a businessman. Well, that guy doesn’t care about the audience. Burghetsy cares deeply about his audience. He sees himself as their servant.

None of this happens without them, he says of his career, I think one thing that came out in this interview is some frustration by Nate that his career took longer than maybe he thought, Now, there are a lot of eighteen year overnight sensations in this industry. Just about everybody you’ve heard of other than the TikTok comedians have been doing this for a while, So I don’t know. It seems a little at a pace with his peers. Here, Esquire writes, while he was still grinding it out, lost in relative obscurity, he’d see his peers or mark on a controversial issue, often something political. Quoting Nate, they would skip a bunch of steps.

Now they’re mentioned everywhere because they said something crazy. Now Netflix called them and they got a special burgets. He was tempted. He considered going that route, but he resisted the urge otherwise he might lose his audience’s trust the more I dive into this. This is just a carefully created, a friendly harbor piece.

In Esquire, Nate says, the hardest thing to do is stay that past because it’s not as flashy. You just got to sit in it. You just got to keep going.

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And then he get to the point where I’m at Now, I’m frustrated by an entire sy…

He talked about nate Land, which would be built on the site of the former opry Land theme park, and Nate says, I’ll be honest with you, I bet we’re closer than people think, but it’s still a little ways off. Apparently he’s in the market analytics phase of the project. Another weird take here, and before I even saw the rest of the media put up, I have in my notes here I wrote the other day when I split up this article. Weird take. Nate says, I don’t think anybody’s even trying to make stuff everybody.

Esquire writes to illustrate his point, BRIGETSI brings up Succession. You know HBO Succession. Nate says, I did not watch Succession. I know it’s the greatest show to ever exists. I’m not a mora on.

Everybody understands is the greatest show in the world. I want to watch it. There’s nothing to do with the show, but no one watched it in the grand scheme of things, so yes and no like. It clearly had buzz. But Forbes here is pointing out the Succession finale hit a series high two point nine million viewers, which Nate is correct, that is not a lot.

If you want to go back forty years, the Mash finale had one hundred and six million people watch it. Okay, that was a different time, if you want to go back, still a long time ago, but the Seinfeld finale had seventy six point three million viewers, again at different time. The pit on Max apparently averaged ten million plus viewers, and according to website USTVDB, the ratings as of Thursday May first Tracker on CBS at seven point six million. So if we want to find something on par with succession, if we went down to two point three million, basically as popular as Let’s make a Deal on CBS, which did two million, three hundred and five according to this website. So Nate’s not wrong there about succession.

Nate says, everybody has lives, everybody has kids, everybody has stuff to go do. They don’t want to sit and worship your art. There’s got to be a balance of appreciating succession and appreciating king of queens. Those worlds have to exist together. Now you have too many successions.

There’s nothing that’s a palide cleaner. Maybe the successions are a little bit easier to make because you’re making it for such a specific audience. You get the runway to make it for five six years because it’s cool. What if no one watches it doesn’t matter. I think there’s no one trying to do it.

People still go to concerts. I do shows in front of fifteen thousand people who are laughing and paying attention for an hour. I see it in every single city. People want to go do something. You’re not just giving them something to go do.

Very interesting article. We’ll see if there’s more blowback during the week. I also wanted to pick a little more at this Bill Burr piece in The New Yorker. Burr said, my thing is, I wish we could go back to if you work forty hours a week, one hundred and sixty hours a month, you can live comfortably. You can pay your rent.

I don’t think anybody should be able to argue with the fact that if somebody works one hundred and sixty hours a month for you and they can still pay their rent, you’re not paying them enough. And this thing, when they have to go out and get a second job, spend time away from their children, that’s going to hurt this country and It’s also an incredibly callous and cold thing to do, somebody knowing that because you want a bigger pool, they’re going to miss out on the greatest thing ever, which is watching their kid grow up. You’re stealing those moments away from them. Had a friend of mine, he told me the story. Right out of college.

He got this job with a big corporation who’s living in New York. He gets the job, he crushes it, and then they place him in San Francisco. So he got to know somebody in HR and they’re having a beer one night and he goes, you know, I don’t understand. They have offices everywhere, live in New York. Why they place me all across the country.

And the other guy goes, ah, they do that on purpose. They want to move you away from all your family and friends, so you’re less likely to quit because you have no options. And I always just want to be in that meeting because you know, they talk around it. Did you ever see what was that movie a few years ago, Zone of Interest? The way they were talking about putting people in ovens.

They were talking about it like it was cargo, and they were dressed nice, and they were clean, they were having their little coffee, and they’re talking about the most evil thing ever, like the person who came up with that got rewarded for that, breaking up families and moving someone away from and that goes back to slavery. It’s terrible. They’re constantly demonizing people with no power, like the food industry. When they saw the heroin addicts, they were jealous of heroin. They go, I wish people were in our food like that.

So what they call it is we want our food to have a certain amount of creveability. It’s beyond evil. But because it’s legal, and because politicians are so underpaid and they’re taking the money from that, they don’t do anything. A lot more there. I’ll pick up on that either tomorrow or Saturday.

Adam Sandler has got a movie he will co star with George Clooney. It is called Ja Kelly. Will hit theater is November fourteenth, before it streams three weeks later on December fifth. So maybe we’re getting the dramatic Adam Sandler here. And I’m a big fan of Adam Sandler dramatic actor.

I think he’s one of the best dramatic actors comedian. He’s terrible, but dramatic actor. I dig Adam Sandler. We don’t know anything about the movie other than George Clooney plays Jay Kelly. Adam Sandler plays somebody named Adam Doherty.

If you’re up near Jamestown, New York and you want to meet Gabe Iglesias, he’ll be at the National Comedy Center. He’s there to open the newest exhibit featuring his iconic nineteen fifty nine Volkswagen Bus from his record breaking stadium Fluffy Special. Gabe will be there to officially unveil the display. The vintage VW bus from Gabe’s personal collection is a fan favorite centerpiece of his historic Dodger Stadium show. Admission to the Comedy Center is free all day.

I wish I had known about this earlier. I would have I bet they would have hooked me up. I’m friendly with them and and I’ve worked with Gabe in the past. I I only saw this on Wednesday. If I known a little earlier, could have planned my life.

You know, you got to pre record. Sometimes you’re going to disappear for an entire day. Oh well, anyway. Admission is free to the Comedy Center’s museum all day. There’ll be a fan photo op after the ribbon cutting at four thirty.

Attendees can RSVP at Comedycenter dot org, slash Fluffy and did you see who’s back? Father Guido Sarducci weighing in on the pope stuff, he was on Colbert. You haven’t seen Sarducci in a long time, Serducci told Colbert, while I predict, I think it’s fixed. Benedict the sixteenth is gonna be the pope again. That’s my prediction.

Colbert reminded Guido that Pope Benedict is dead, and Father Sarducci responded, that’s what you think. It’s a rumor. It’s like Elvis. It’s a conspiracy. Colbert said, but we saw his funeral, and Sarducci said, yeah, but no one has seen him since his funeral.

If you would like to keep up on all the latest things, paople, don’t forget. We’ve got that podcast, White Smoke. I’m working on that one personally, and we are doing daily updates about the conclave and hopefully, well I mean not hopefully, but if they’ve picked a pope between me recording this and you hearing it, well that’s what happened. Big. Netflix plans they’re going to overhaul the homepage design.

The new layout is more clean and modern, featuring visual elements for shows and movies, while also managing to cram in more relevant information. Titles will receive callouts that highlight popularity, awards, or other features. They’re also tweaking the recommendation engine to be more responsive to your moods and interests in the moment. There will also be a TikTok style vertical video feed featuring clips and trailers from its shows and movies. Users can click and be taken to the full episode or movie that’s designed for mobile viewing on the go.

The tiktokization of the world continues.

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Also, Netflix is partnering with the AI people on an AI search tool.

One of the suits that Netflix says you could type in I want something scary but not too scary and also maybe a little bit funny but not like haha funny. Oh so like an Adam Sandler space movie. I get it. There’s a festival today, the Toledano Street Comedy Festival in New Orleans. Founder Andrew Stevens wanted to organize the festival like many music festivals, where attendees get a day or week in pass and I have a bunch of shows to choose from.

That is always a good model. The JFL Toronto had that, and I really like that. This takes place in New Orleans at various venues around Toledano and Magazine Streets today through the eleventh tonight at Sports Drink. Is a rolling show as more than thirty comics rotate through short sets. Andrew Stevens, the organizer, says, it’s like the funniest open mic.

You can have lots of comics. We’ll do a quick set we can film on a nice camera. Everyone does a three minute set and it’ll be a long, continually rolling show. This weekend’s lineup includes New Orleans native Sean Patton, He’s fantastic, Shane Torres, Dulse, Sloan Langston Kerman, and some others. Pretty good, mister Stevens said.

Kyle Kanaane said comedy is best performed in places that violate the fire code. While we don’t violate the fire code. We love pushing up on it. It sounds like a really good time and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, another busy one. There is a big profile of Bill Burr in the New Yorker under the headline bill Bird does not want to talk about politics? Or does he? I’ve shared the link in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

The link his paywall. But if you know your way around the internet you can probably figure that out. Bert told The New Yorker in my business, you can lose your way. You know, people blow smoke up your ass, gets start to believe it, start carrying yourself a different way. One of my favorite things to watch is when even your circle of friends becomes a career move.

You and I are cool, and then I get an inch ahead of you, and then I’m looking for the inch ahead of you. Friends, This business is brutal. When nobody knows who you are, you have this loneliness laying in bed going, oh my god, am I the guy who doesn’t make it? Then you do get somewhere, and then you have to learn how to handle that. And I find the way to handle it is to disengage with it.

Try as much as I could do to just do what I always did, and I find if you act normal, people act normal. It’s a law of attraction. If you show up with three stvs, people want to see who it is. Yeah. I always found that.

On the other side, you know, as somebody running radio stations or being a suit. Anytime I worked with somebody in entertainment, act normal and they act normal back. I mean, there are people in the industry we used to call them star efforts who would be like, oh, Bill, Burt, can I get a selfie? And like they’d make up some crap that it was like, you know, hey, can I get a picture and I’m gonna sell it on eBay and raise money for charity. And it was just about.

It was just about, like I don’t know, collecting a portfolio. I very rarely took pictures with anybody back in the day. It’s like Bill said, just act normal. First said, I consider what I do to be a job, and my idea of what the purse of the job is changed over the year. My thought now I look at it like somebody had a tough week or somebody had a great week, and they had an all right week.

It’s my job. Remember kind of week you had to make either you forget about it or make it a better week because you’re laughing for an hour. My job is just to make fun of things. One of things I’m most proud of is the people on the right thing I’m liptard and my wife writes my jokes, and the people on the left think I’m a trumper. And for that reason, when I go to a red state, I go extra hard making fun of the red guys.

When I go to blue state, I just go off on liberals because selfishly it’s a fun thing to do. But I also say, if I’m in a red state, I’m making fun of red people, and then I hear the Blue people go woo, then I go after them. More from that article tomorrow.

Also big article week this week the New York Times.

Under the headline is this late night TV’s last Gasp. The focus here John Mulaney and by the time we get to the end of this article very interesting. Mulaney describes his weekly Netflix show as a throwback. In some ways, it’s almost like the way you might remember a bunch of shows from the past, but it’s not exactly what they were like. No element is new, but the way they’re being laid out might feel a little bit.

We learned more about the origin of the show. You may recall during the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy festival last May, they asked John to host the show. Mulaney said it was originally envisioned as a show that would be a bit like MTV. The host would serve as a VJA introducing one comic and then the next. Laney decided he could host it himself, and before long the concept started to morph into the current show, Laney explained, and it became like, well, people can come out and I’ll talk to them, and then they’ll sit there.

Then I’m interviewing people and we’re doing bits like we couldn’t have backed into it in a more convoluted way. I was like, what kind of show do I want to watch? And it is not a topical could you believe socio political story of the day show, because that ground is well covered by Greek people, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Daily Show, et cetera.

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Now here’s where it really caught my eye.

Robbie Prat, who is Netflix’s VP of Stand Up in Comedy, said that Netflix had not initially been looking or aspiring to do another talk show, but they were interested in being in the John Mulaney business because John is so singular. We’ll come back to praw on a second. The Times article quotes Jim Bell, former show runner for The Tonight Show, mister Bell said, of all the legacy broadcast day parts, morning shows, evening news, late night, late night might be the first one headed for the wood chippers to make, tough to monetize and no longer appointment viewing. It’s still got cultural juice, but from a business standpoint, it’s the most vulnerable. Some stats from the Times.

As recently as twenty eighteen, the five broadcast network late night shows Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Cordon and Seth drew in around four hundred and thirty nine million dollars in advertising, according to Guideline and advertising data firm. By twenty twenty two, that four point thirty nine had become two hundred and seventy seven million. Guideline said last year it was down to two hundred and twenty so that’s half in five years with Covid in the middle there.

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Now, let’s pay a lot of attention here because this echoes something that I h…

The Times rights It’s not clear how the show is performing. Millenis show, but critical attention has been more muted this season. The first episode appeared in Netflix’s daily ten most watched TV series in the US, but the show has not returned in the subsequent seven weeks. That’s what Johnny Mack has been saying. Now listen to this.

Robbie Prat said that Netflix was not prepared to announce anything yet about a potential third season. Now that caught my eye because I was like, but didn’t they announce that this was a two season pickup? And I went and looked that up and yep. Deadline had reported mulaney received a two season order from Netflix, which greenlit the show last year. So were they now, like, eh, maybe not.

Robbie Prau is quoted as saying, every show we’ve ever done, we want more people to watch. So it sounds like Netflix is a little iffy here, and they do tend to cancel things. And if it went from you know, being in the top ten to not being in the top ten, maybe they sense that there’s no buzz on this thing. I thought it was misproduced. They finally produced it correctly.

The week Letterman was on and let Letterman have Space two himself and brought out the guests one person at a time. But the uncontrolled chaos that John went for, I don’t think it worked, which is a shame because I really liked the LA series last year. All Right. More from that, Napri getsy article in Esquire, a major profile on Nate. His book came out yesterday.

We pick up where Nate hosted SNL for the first time, and Eschoire writes one of the top searches on Google that week was who is Nate Brighezzi. Nate explains, I knew I had to destroy in the monologue. I knew it was a welcoming a hello. Jimmy Fallon apparently is the one who pitched Nate to Lorne Michaels, Fallon telling Michaels, I think he’s the guy. I know he’s kind of an unknown, but I’m telling you he will score.

Nate then talks about doing politics in his actor not doing politics. If I want to give you my opinion on who I voted for, who’s that for? It’s for me, really, because I want you to know that I’m smart. I don’t think it’s really helping an audience. You don’t think they know who to vote for their living life.

Once you run out of celebrity’s opinions on politics, maybe I’ll jump back in. But right now I just want to do the opposite. He talked about his style of comedy. I need you to be able to trust that when your kids are in the car, you can play my album and you’re not having to think. Let me make sure there’s nothing I don’t want to have a conversation about right now.

There’s a trust interesting quote from Mark Maron in the Eschoire article. Maren says Nate’s coming at a time when comedy in some ways is in trouble. You have these very tribalized camps of comedy, the anti woke crew, bravely speaking power to truth, and he sort of transcends that. I don’t know what to make of that comedy is not in trouble right now, unless Maren’s coming at that from an art form and buying into this thought that Man of Sphere Rogan Bros. Have taken over comedy.

I mean, comedy goes in waves, and there are different styles, and I’m looking at who the streamers are putting on. They’re not putting on the man bro sphere stuff. But the man bro sphere stuff is selling tickets. I think there’s plenty of comedy to go around right now, So I’m not sure what Maren’s getting at there. You have these very tribalized camps of comedy, the anti woke crue bravely speaking power to truth, and he sort of transcends that.

Okay, Nate jokes about hosting the Emmys, quoting Nate, why did they pick me to do it? Well, the election probably helped God Hollywood executives asking who doesn’t live in LA and who’s available. Back to Maren, who comments on that and says he bigger than what’s going on socially because of his talents, point of view, and the way he does comedy, which is truly unique. He would have been a big star and no matter where the culture is. I don’t know what to make of any of that.

I have shared the entire article in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. An interesting story out of Late Nighter dot Com. Apparently Paramount has pumped the brakes on a daily show branded civic participation initiative. According to the article, this is out of concern that the partner organizations on the project might prove to be controversial. The project, called Take a Seat had apparently been in the works for months.

The goal to encourage people to run for local office by connecting them with organizations that could provide them with resources to mount a political campaign. Now, as part of this there were apparently a left leaning group called Run for Something and a right leaning group called the Women’s Public Leadership Network. But the report says Paramount delayed the project after it became concerned that partnering with organizations would carry quote too much risk. Airmount is currently trying to go through a merger approval. You may have seen the sixty minute story in the news, so an interesting development there, and Variety did a profile with the new owners of Just for Laughs.

So Van part Badard is the head of Comedy Ha or Kamitah. I still haven figure that out. That’s the company that acquired Just for Laughs last year. Merging the two brands seems like there’s a little back history there. He told Variety, I wanted to launch Just for Laughs in Quebec city, but the former owner told me it was impossible, so I launched my own festival and then continued with all the respect I have for the old owners, you do not manage a creation company with a finance ideology.

When I met the CEO of Just for Laughs in twenty eighteen, I had the phone number of every stand up comedian, their management, their agent. He did not have won but he had the phone number of the bank, He had the phone number of the sponsor. He knew nothing about comedy. We learned a little more about the festival. Just for Laughs as partnering with Rob Mceleenny and more better p actions on an initiative geared to writers.

Will Arnett and the Electric Avenue Banner will work on a shorts and pilots platform, and YouTubers Smash will have a program for social media creators. Spencer Griffin, head of Development, says, we want to be additive. We want to introduce artists to the industry at the festival and then actually help them succeed in the industry. Whereas the old company just said good luck, now, we want to say, here’s how to take the next step together. Friday quotes one comedy manager as saying, a lot of pipelines have disappeared in this industry in terms of building your career.

I mean, is that true? Do we not have social media now? Or are you’re not able to just go on YouTube and create your own thing. I’m not sure I agree with that comedy manager. Having a respected institution like Just for Last backing you and guiding you is actually exciting, all right.

I am looking forward to the festival coming back. I think I’m going to head up there. I haven’t thought that far out yet. Plus, they haven’t announced what the lineup is. Are they doing new faces?

I hope they’re doing new faces. That’s my number one thing to go for. So we will see what happens when jesser Last returns this summer. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The comedy gods must have heard me, because after a week of nothing, there is a lot this week. But let’s start with the funniest thing of the year so far by a mile. If you have not yet watched Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Award on Netflix, absolutely go watch it.

It is hilarious right out of the box. John Mulaney crushes the opening monologue. Other people that I wrote down notes about Nikki Glaser’s set is pretty strong. Bill Burr, you know, he was okay, And I thought that the set ended abruptly, and I started to post in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, hey was there an edit here? And I quickly got my answer because they cut to Kamil Nanjianni, who was already mid set.

But Kamil was also very very funny, sour silverman with a bit that I’m still thinking about day later. I don’t want to spoil it at all, but just trust me. For me, it proved once again, Adam Sandler not funny. Adam Sandler a fantastic dramatic actor. Go see him in Uncut Gems, in the Basketball Movie and the Space Movie.

He’s pretty good at os, but comedian not funny at all. And I know right now you’re like Johnny Mack, but he’s Adam Sailor. Watch the Mark Twain Awards. You tell me Adam Sandler’s funny, he’s not.

And then the King David Letterman at the end.

That was fantastic. Nate Bergatsy has a book out today. It is called Big Dumb Eyes, Stories from a Simpler Mind. And there’s a full court press happening, and I will talk about that at the end, but a big, big shiny profile in Esquire, the theme is basically, Nate has waited for his turn, and now that he’s getting his turn, he’s gonna let you know that he’s a little ticked off. The edit to wait, They opened up with the headline we keep seeing that Nate is going to step aside from stand up comedy.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Nate tells Esquire two more tours. I got this tour I’m about to go out on, and I want to do one more. Nate figures he will wrap up his stand up career in five years. He even knows the closer.

For his final set, he will deliver the joke and then say thank you, good night and leave the stage forever. As for that theme of having to wait for a while, Nate says, I never got to do letterman. I got told I was too mundane. I had to look the word up. I didn’t know what it meant.

Wasn’t good. He talked about Hollywood. They have a system. I like their system. I try to be in their system, and then I keep getting told no.

So I had to go create my own thing. I wanted to be great at stand up. I’m not trying to say him great, but I just knew I needed to figure out how to be great at this one thing and then the rest will come. That’s what’s happening now. You get a lot of stuff.

You either make it at twenty or forty. No one makes it in the middle. The Esquire article quotes Julian McCullough, an old friend and comic who MCEs Nate’s arena shows. Julian says Nate has a gift of camouflage. He’ll be sitting in a room because of the way his face looks and the way he talks, people think he’s not picking up on everything.

No one is more aware or observing people’s behavior more than he is. He’s like one of those stick you can’t believe it’s a bug because he’s watching the whole time. Nate discusses giving up alcohol in twenty nineteen, explaining I did not have a control on it. I’d go too hard with it, but I knew if I want to go to where I want to go, then this is the way. Does he miss it drinking?

Nate says, I think I missed the relief of drinking. But these days golf helps. I tell a lot of comics. If you want to do something, you’ve got to really obsess over it. That’s not always fun.

I mean that means you wake up to go pee in the middle of the night and you’re thinking about comedy. If I’m going to be obsessed over something, then I’ll use it to my advantage. The profile, which again thorough, and it’s going to take me three days to get through it. Here on the podcast, and Nate talks about incorporating his family into his material. His daughter is now twelve.

Nate says, I’ve backed off a lot on my daughter. She’s at the age where kids are going to pick on her or say something that is a good decision by dad there. As for wife Laura, Nate has a strategy for writing marital material. You’ve got to show love. If I want to talk about my family, you have to believe that I love them, or I’m the worst person ever.

The audience needs to know this is a happy couple. That’s a typical fight. So, as I said, I’ll pick it that for the next three days, and there’s going to be a ton of Nate’s articles this week. My sense here is this is a big push by the Hollywood people. We’ve talked about how Nikki Glaser has been being pushed.

Oh I forgot to mention that during the The Conan set, Nicki’s people got that done. How did Nicki get on that show? I mean, the rest of the bill was just at a level above Nikki Glaser. She was probably the least successful comedian up there. And I’m not dragging her at all, but you know, the other people were Adam Sandler, despite my opinion, and David Letterman and Bill Burr, and so Nicki’s people getting it done.

So behind the scenes here, stay with me here. I’m not complaining at all. But a year ago, when I saw the book was announced, I reached out to the publicity people and I was like, Hey, can I get on the listen. They’re like, yeah, check back in like a while. So all right.

So I checked back in a while. And the vibe I got from the publicist because I’ve been around the media for thirty years now and I kind of can read between the lines, I got the vibe from them that the book publicity is not being run through the book publicity department, that someone else has their hands in it. So I think this is coming straight out of Hollywood or wherever Nate’s team is. Yeah, it looks like Nate is with UTA, the United Talent Agency. Curious who Nicky Glazers with?

Nicki’s also with UTA. Okay, I’m onto something here anyway. So I don’t think I’m going to get an interview with Nate. He seems to be doing the Today Show and Esquire and things like that, And that’s fine, I tried. If you want to see how much of a push this thing is, let me read the credits for the Esquire article.

This is a print article that credits photography by Jeffrey Leeman, styled by Alfonso Fernandez Navaz, hair by Eric Miller, grooming by Katie Kendall. Production by Catherine Prado, Tailoring by Jason Jarrett, Visual director James Morris, Executive design director Martin Hoops, Entertainment director Andrea Cutt. This is for a print article. This isn’t Nate jumped on Zoom with Johnny Mack in his basement Anyway. More of that over the next couple days.

As the comedy Dearth is over, Thank you Comedy news gods. Hey is Colin Jost leaving SNL? People are thinking that I’ve talked about that in the season finale, Colin’s wife, Scarlett Johansson is the guest. However, Scarlett Johnson’s also in a Jurassic movie this summer, so it’s not absurd or random that she is the final guest host of the year. I saw some chatter over the weekend that some people thought Michael Longfellow might be next up for the guest Some of the chemistry between Jost and Michael during SNL this weekend and made people think that Michael Jay is now in fifth place for most appearances as an SNL cast member with two hundred and twenty, he is eight episodes behind Colin Jost.

Next up on that list Seth Meyers at two fifty three, Darryl Hammond at two sixty seven, which does not include Darryl as the staff announcer, and Keenan Thompson at a probably uncatchable at this point, four hundred and forty one. SNL makes between eighteen and twenty two episodes a season, let’s call it twenty, So to catch Keenan’s four forty one, first of all, Keenan would have to stop doing it, and then Joe ster Chay at twenty episodes and being around two hundred behind, would have to stick around another ten years. That’s if Keenan stops doing it.

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Speaking of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez got what a coworker of mine used to call a…

He got his car waxed by Rolling Stone. This was a big fluff piece and the interviewer clearly a big Marcelo Hernandez fan. We learned that Marcelo is working on a Netflix special which he’s been writing. During breaks from SNL, Marcelo was at Helium and did three sets back to back to back, playing with the order and adding little bits here and there. Marcelo told Rolling Stone, you’re exploring because those are good crowds.

Jerry Snifellow, he said, good crowds help you explore, and tough crowds help you edit. So this was a very exploratory weekend. Now what do I mean by got his car wax? Let me read you this paragraph of bait him. Part of Hernandez’s lure is precisely that he seems so approachable.

He gives off supreme kid brother vibes, or, as one Vogue writer put it, golden retriever energy, and at the same time channels the class clown every girl had a crush on in high school. When I tell a few girlfriends I’m interviewing him, the news is met with some version of a squeal heard only a dog frequencies. He’s five feet eight and stocky. He was an snl short king ambassador for nothing, with curly hair that seems to get wilder than more energetic. He gets like an ECG for chaos, and although he considers every question seriously, hardly ever breaking eye contact, there’s always a twinkle of anarchy somewhere past his retinas.

When the waiter comes by, it off for drinks. Hernandez grabs my phone and presses pause on my recording, declaring his cocktail order off the record. It’s a secret for now, but people should know he had two of them. Sounds like somebody is a big fan of Marcelo Hernandez. Boy, this is exciting.

I actually bumped three stories after a week of nothing. The comedy gods have brought the news back. It is so nice. I shared a few things in the Facebook group, including the nay thing that I’m picking away at. There’s also a fantastic Bill Burr article in the New Yorker.

I’ll start picking away at that tomorrow. I shared the link. It’s paywalld. If you’re good at the Internet and you know how to get to things, you can read it. There’s also a New York Times article about late nights and specifically Malaney.

I’ll talk about that tomorrow as well. So I’m reacting to last week here. I didn’t want to go, oh my god, there’s so many things and do a twenty seven minute episode today and then wake up tomorrow and be like, oh, there’s nothing to talk about again. So I am squirreling away things because of how slow it was for the last week. It’s great to have news again.

I was also looking at the podcast numbers and the April numbers were down, and I was like, why are the April numbers down? Why doesn’t anyone like me anymore? And I got all sad, and then I looked the numbers in April have been down the last three years. So there’s something about April and comedy. Do people go on spring break?

Do people stop listening because it’s Easter. I don’t know what’s going on, but May usually rebounds from April, so I will calm down. Mike Myers and Colin Mockery are going to do a charity comedy show in Toronto. Mike Myers will do stand up as part of It’s Always Something Open Mike at the Second City in Toronto on May twelfth. The event is being hosted by Gilda’s Toronto, a charity named for Gilda Radner and a headline I saw from Australia ausie comedian left stunned as NBA superstar delivers sixty thousand dollars active generosity to a stranger.

It was Australian comedian Brett Blake he was filming a commercial in the United States with Shaquille O’Neal, the famous basketball player. Blake said it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life, and while on set, he witnessed something he’ll never forget. As Blake tells the story, a lady rocked up to the set and her car broke down along the way. So Shaq bought her a brand new sixty thousand dollars Chrysler and just handed her the keys. Now I’m not sure how that works, so like, hey, excuse me, can you guys help me?

My car broke down? And Shack, I don’t doubt that check bought somebody a car, But like, was there a Chrysler dealer next door? Did he go come with me, We’ll go next door. And he wrote a check or put down his credit card, And like, you can’t just like buy somebody a car on the fly. It takes at least an hour, doesn’t it.

Blake says the worst part I was technically homeless at the time. I was living in a camper by Roastbud Beach. I was like, Shack, buy me a house anyway. Fun story, and that is your comedy news for today. I will meet you back here tomorrow.

I can tell you off the bat we’ve got more Nate and the Bill Burr and the Malaney thing. So we’ll see you then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Jennie mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now I’m recording Sunday and Money back to back. So I just in my life thirty seconds ago did that list of the funniest women comedian? How is Nicky Glazer not on that list?

She’s like the ind comic right now. I feel like she should be on the list. When was that list from? And case you missed it. At the end of yesterday’s podcast, I dove in on an article from Vogue that was called twenty of the Funniest female Comedians of All Time from March of twenty twenty five, So I’m thinking about that more.

I mean, the list was okay, but should Nicky be on it? It’s our silverman. Do we want to go down the SNL rabbit hole? I mean, Kate McKinnon’s pretty funny, Amy Polar, Tina Fey, No, yes, Allen was a pretty good stand up, Sandra Bernhard is a pretty good stand up. Taylor Thompson’s pretty funny.

So I don’t know. It’s an odd tide list anyway. That was at the end of yesterday’s show. It continues to be slow on these parts and you know, I was trying and lead off with a big name comedian in the A block because it allows me to throw a big name comedian into the episode title and then hopefully I get some drive by people sampling the show. That’s how this works being transparent here.

I got pretty far deep into the script today and I was like, I don’t have something for the A block. So I typed Joe and Rogan into Google and found this article from Newsweek which asks is Joe Rogan losing his mojo? I’m gonna answer no, but they say. Spotify charts show that Rogan’s podcast dropped from its usual top position to second place in January, overtaken by The Sean Ryan Show. It fell again to third place in February, behind Fall of Civilizations and The Midas Touched Podcast, before reclaiming second place, this time to Amy Poehler’s news show Good.

Hang, okay, let me explain podcast charts to you. I’ll start with the Apple podcast charts because I’m more familiar with how they work. There’s a recency bias based upon how many people have subscribed recently. So, for example, if you can get two thousand of your friends to suddenly subscribe on this podcast in the next hour, I will have the number one podcast in the country for at least a short while. Now, as you guys accelerate me to number one, what will happen is other people will go what’s this and hit subscribe or follow on Apple Podcasts the nomenclature, and then my podcast will stay high up in the charts for a bit and hopefully a bunch of people stick around, and then suddenly I’ll have a top two hundred podcast.

That’s how that works. So sometimes if you look at the charts at like weird times, like go on at like Sunday morning at like seven am, and you’ll see something random at number one, and people know how the system works and they’ll game it and people will get a flurry of subscribers, and some people known to pay people to hit subscribe. So I think with the charts you kind of have to look long term, and you know, Rogan’s always there at the top. So the recency bias is part of it. There’s total downloads, how much of an episode people consume, all that goes into it, but the big factor is recent downloads.

Anybody in the industry will tell you that Joe Rogan is number one by a lot. It’s not close. I’m not saying if you don’t look at the charts like I’ll look right now as I record this on Friday, So right now, Apple has it Polar, Mel Robbins, Rogan, And I’m not saying Polar is not super popular. I am not saying Mel Robins is super popular. What I am saying is no, Joe Rogan hasn’t lost his mojo.

The Spotify charts, I don’t know exactly how they work. I assume they’re similar. But also understand, despite what you read, most podcasts audio podcasts are consumed on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify is number two, and the Spotify charts can be a little wonky, and Spotify tends to promote their own things. For example, Amy Poehler’s for The Ringer, which is owned by Spotify. Again, not saying Gami Polar’s not good, not saying Amy Polers not number one on the Apple podcast which Spotify does not owner control.

But you know that kind of thing factors into it, so don’t oversteer it to the charts. Joe Rogan had fifty one and a half million downloads in February. Now let me walk you through some numbers in podcasting, a live read, you know, a host read you hear me? Do those sometimes for the gambling website is sold on a CPM model. Let’s do lazy math.

Say you get twenty dollars for CPM. These days, you’ll get more like twenty three twenty four. If somebody wants to be in a premium environment, they’ll get more. But let’s do lazy math. So at twenty dollars CPM means if I want to reach one thousand listeners and ad would cost me twenty dollars.

Okay, So by my account, Rogan had sixteen episodes STROP in February, and we’ll accept the fifty one and a half million downloads number, and we’ll accept my made up twenty dollars CPM. Fifty one and a half million downloads across sixteen episodes means three point two million people downloading each episode. At a twenty dollars CPM, that would mean each live read is sixty four thousand dollars. If he runs three per episode, that would be one hundred and ninety three thousand dollars per episode. And if you do that sixteen times, just in commercials, the show would gross three million dollars.

Now we do that twelve months a year, that’s thirty six million dollars a year. And I’m going to guess the numbers are higher because Joe Rogan was reportedly paid one hundred million, So my CPMs may be low. There may be more than three commercial per hour. I haven’t listened, but just to give you a sense of is Joe Rogan struggling? Now?

Matt Rife is going to be on the Discovery Channel’s Ghost Adventures. Yeah, Wednesday, ten pm Eastern. Yeah, we’ll have to pick between Ghost Adventures or Malany, Which will you pick? The Ghost Adventures crew head to Nevada to investigate the recently shuttered Whiskey Pete’s Hotel and Casino, a sprawling historic property marked by murder, mystery, and unexplained activity, and is believed to be haunted by the notorious bootlegger for which it’s named Whiskey Pete. Joined by special guest investigator, comedian and paranormal officionado Matt Rife, the team is immediately affected by the dark energy and ominous activity within the buildings.

Sounds scary. Shehan Wang was one to get public broadcastings Where We Live podcast. They were curious how important it is to have friends like Ali Wong to go through the journey with the journey of comedy. Shang said, I think it’s tough for immigrant kids to be doing stuff like this. I mean it might be a little different now, but I think pursuing a craft like this can be full of potholes and doubts and bumps on the road, you know.

So when we have friends that do it together with it makes all the difference. You know, little community, it really helps a lot. It’s kind of the whole reason you do it because at the beginning it all seems like what’s the point. You know, you’re just doing open mics at random places, from like empty rooms to launder mats, wherever you can put a microphone on a speaker. The whole way.

There’s always moments where you’re gonna doubt yourself. That Jay Leno interview he gave to Graham Benzger, it continues to pay off if you’re trying to fill your script for your daily coming to News podcast. Jay did not deny which Joe got under his skin. It is the one in Conan’s Final Tonight Show monologue when Conan said much funnier than I will tell it. I just want to say to the kids out there watching, you can do anything you want in life, unless Jay Leto wants to do it too.

That’s a great joke I mentioned yesterday, trying to get a feel for is Jay let know a bad guy good guy? I think he’s a good guy. I explained yesterday ConA thing aside a little more. This is from a different interview where Jay talking about his wife Mavis. Mavis has Alzheimer’s disease.

Jay says, I just try to get home every night. That’s the only difference. The plane weights and I come right back. I used to stay out three or four days. I just stay out one day now two days.

Most. I enjoy it. I like taking care of my wife. I don’t mind it. It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but it’s okay.

It’s not like she’s in any pain, screaming or anything. She smiles and I can see when she’s pleased with something. You know, it is what it is. I’m glad it didn’t happen when we were forty. You have forty good years and you have five.

Kind of tricky ones, that’s okay. Do I wish it never happened? Of course, You’ve got to find a humor in it. It’s like a test. I’m glad I passed.

I’m very comfortable with it. Jay has kept up his tradition of making Mavis dinner and then they watched TV together, although he says Mavis is almost totally bit written and she can’t remember what happened from one episode to the next. Jay says, it’s really the same thing. You just can’t have a discussion or talk about things. Somehow, I’ve become the patriarch of the family.

He pays eleven thousand dollars a month each for a brother in law and an uncle and nursing facilities. Those are real numbers. I had my mom in one, and not by choice. You know, that’s something I would have never thought that I would have ever done. And you know, I like throws your curve and you wind up doing that.

But yeah, it was twelve thousand dollars a month for us. Jay says, there’s a lot of people affected by this. Technically I don’t have to go out on the road, but to keep a sense of normalcy, he does. Leno says a nurse comes in twice a week to check her vitals, and a dentist has regular house calls to clean her teeth. Jay says, I don’t know how people who are school teachers or policemen or nurses who have regular jobs do.

And I’m glad I have the position I’m in so my lifestyle doesn’t change dramatically. I don’t have to get a reverse mortgage or anything like that. As for his recent incidents, you know there’s the motorcycle accident, falling down a hill, whatever that was, Jay says, that’s a great thing about being over forty. Once a man goes over forty, you can’t teach him anything you never learned by your mistakes.

All right, let’s check in on the Sydney Comedy Festival.

Lift pulled three comics once again and Alex Ward’s show is called clip Clop. Don’t stop the description Alex is really good at talking. She has to be because people want to do it with her all the time, strangers, neighbors, her parents, the gall the age says the show is studded with punchlines. Let’s listen, okay, I want to talk about the social media ban on kids in Australia. It’s very divisive.

I’ve spoken to people who are for it, and I’ve spoken to people who are against it. Interestingly, I actually don’t have an opinion on it because I don’t have kids. But what I do have is a mom who I just spent three weeks with. And I’m just throwing it out there. But if we’re going to ban all people under sixteen, yeah, I think maybe we could look at some other age groups as well.

I like her. I think that’s fun enough for a little long to get to it, and I was going to play a little more, but it takes even longer to get to the second joke. But I wrote nice company, which for me, the comedy snob is a high compliment. I like her a lot. So that was Alex Ward.

Next up, Emma Holland. Emma’s show is called Don’t Touch My Trinket. The Age gave it four stars. I think they do four out of four and said Holland is an expert at pulling out the rug from beneath her audiences. I like this clip a lot.

Let me give you the visual here. She rides out onto the empty stage in a scooter like you know, the stand up scooters that the kids have today. And so she’s on the scooter and she’s wearing a helmet. Takes the helmet off, walks over to the microphone and we’ll pick it up from there. Same one.

He like Facebook, marketplace, A couple of fans down the front. What’s the best thing you’ve ever found a marketplace? A pair of earmuffs? Pair of ear muffs, virgin, best thing I’ve ever found a marketplace. Get this for a deal?

Thirty dollars for a treadmill. It’s good, right, it’s a good deal. Long story short. It was a belt sander and now I’m three centimeters shorter. But it lays I’m ripped.

I’m trying to get massive. I’ll fight you count spell Emma without Mma. I love her. I thought that was fantastic. Emma Holland next up.

And I hope my pronunciation is close here. Hey Hwang Hay’s show is called white Man’s Burden. The description are you ready to learn how to be whiter? Don’t worry, this is a safe space. Chinese superstar Hey Huang, We’re turns and character as Christopher Rice in an outrageous satshire on white culture.

The clip I have here is not from that show, but from a traditional stand up show. I found Hey to be very funny. I did have to skip the first ninety seconds because the punchlines for every joke in the first ninety involved F bombs, and if I take the F bomb out, the joke gets castrated. So I found a different chunk. So here is like two or three minutes into the set.

Australia has so many different types of Chinese living here, and I’m a Chinese from a modern China’s family. To be very specific, my family are I’m gonna use the sea word communist, not the ausy Sea word you guys expected. Yeah, if you go to my grandparents’ house, you will literally see a lot of reflags. Like to my grandma, any flag that’s not red is a red flag. I’m the product one child policy.

Have you guys heard about this policy? Yeah, it’s very brutal and heartless policy. But on the other hand, us survivors of one child policy, a lot of us are pretty spoiled. I mean my myth I’m doing this for a living and I don’t have any other backup plans. Eventually, my parents have to support me because they don’t have any other choice.

Very very funny there, and that is your comedy news for today. Hopefully there’ll be some sort of controversy, like, I don’t know, David Letterin get into a fistfight with Jay Leto and cameras could catch it, or Dave Chappelle say something, Somebody do some controversy. I’m tired of the slow news days every day, all right, see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron’ Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It continues to be a very suspiciously slow time of the year, and as I’m looking at it, I think a big part of that is because Netflix seems to be in a gap between doing comedy specials. A lot of times they have one every week, and they seem to be taking a month off here. The last Netflix major release was Tim Dillon on April fifteenth, and we only really had two other specials other than you know, there’s a YouTube special every five minutes.

But Hulu had Curson on the twenty fifth and Brett Goldstein on the twenty sixth, and nobody’s out really doing press looking Ahead on Amazon May sixth, so that’s Tuesday, right, David Spade’s Dandelion is out, Then another ten day gap Matteo Lane on Hulu on the sixteenth. Finally Netflix gets back into the game on the twentieth with Sarah Silverman hbo Is, Jerrod Carmichael on the twenty fourth, and then Mike Birbigley on Netflix on the twenty six So it’s a slow month coming up here. Fortunately, Netflix gave us something to watch Today in the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. Conan O’Brien had accepted the prize on March twenty third, and they filmed it. It’s funny who gets spotlighted and who doesn’t.

On the Netflix page, it says cast Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Will Ferrell, Bill Burr, Camille On Jeohnny, Paul Rudd, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Tracy Morgan, Reggie Watts. I personally would have mentioned David Letterman, but that’s just me anyway, that’s out on Netflix today.

Speaking of Letterman, Jay Leno was talking about Dave recently.

Leno had that big interview on the Graham Benzinger podcast, and Jay told a story about being out on a motorcycle with comic Will Schreiner. They decided to drop by Letterman’s house. Leno recalled, thinking, Hey, let’s stop in Malibu and see Letterman. Let’s just surprise him at his house. Letterman was apparently thrown by the visit.

Leno says it was the most awkward thing. Dave was like, huh, okay, come on in. Leno said, We’re like, oh, this was a mistake. It was just so awkward because you have nothing else in common other than comedy. Really, I’m assuming this took place in the eighties, when Leno was a frequent guest on David’s show, and not in the post Tonight Show era.

Benjader was curious what would it take to see Leno and Letterman reunited. Jay said, I have no idea. Dave’s a quirky guy, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. Believe me. If Dave wanted to do something, I would do it.

But I tend to get my hand bitten when I instigate these kinds of things. Yes, you do, Jay, I can’t get a sense of is Jay a really good guy or is he a bad guy? I know there’s the whole cone of thing. I get it. And when NBC went to Jay and said, hey, you want eleven thirty back, he could have said no, absolutely.

So there’s that. But going back to the eighties, you know, Jay was the Monday guest host for the Tonight Show. Somebody offers you the Tonight Show, you’re gonna say yes. There’s all the stuff with his wife that I think I have a story for that. In tomorrow’s script.

He seems like a good dude, I don’t know, never met him. Comedians don’t seem to like him. The guy was on the Tonight Show for years and at the number one show. Somebody likes the guy, you know. But I do agree with Leno when he says, but I tend to get my handbitten when I instigate these kinds of things.

I don’t mistrust Dave. I like Dave. I think he’s great. He still makes me laugh more than anyone else. The Sag After Foundations shared an Instagram video featuring Caitlin Olsen explaining improv.

When you’re doing improv, just listen, listen, listen, listen. You don’t have to talk much, especially if you’re in a scene with a bunch of people who know what they’re doing. Listen, let them be funny. And when you have something to say, go ahead and go for it, and don’t be afraid to fail because not everything that comes out of your mouth is going to be home run. And that’s okay, it’s not supposed to be.

Shang Wang was on the Where We Live podcast. Shang says, as a comedian, you’re not writing eight hours a day. You just have to sit down once a day. It could be ten minutes could be two hours. But the idea is make it habitual and make it a daily part of your life, just like anything else that you want to pursue.

Seriously, you can’t cram it all in a one day, right, so it’s helpful to come back over and over to your ideas and to give yourself time to think of new things. Josh Jones spoke to The Pink News you’r home for Comedy News. Josh’s new tour is called I Haven’t Won the Lottery, Here’s another tour. But what if he did win the lottery? Josh says, I want new paving.

I’ve been deweeding. It’s getting very boring. He currently lives in the city but would like somewhere with a garden. He doesn’t do current affairs in his act because people are paying for a night out and I just want to entertain them, so I try and keep it light. I just want them to have the best night, not the best night, you know what I mean.

I’m not abba, but I’m pretty good night out. Josh was picked on in school growing up, and he tells the story I remember telling my mom I was getting picked on instead of being like all right, I’ll speak to their mom. My mom taught me how to uppercut properly. She was like, if you uppercut them, they lose their balance, and then while they’ve lost their balance, to start hitting them. So I did that and it worked.

People kind of stop picking on me, because no one wants to get battered by the gay guy. I’m going to take the break here and when we come back, adults situations. If you’re listening with kids, hit stop, hit a checked, be right back, okay. As I mentioned before the break, serious topic here. If children are listening, hit stop please.

Russell Brand appeared in court on Friday. Russell is facing multiple charges of sexual assault, including two counts of rape. He was in court for fourteen minutes. This one month after British prosecutors had charged Brand with one count of rape, one of oral rape, two counts of sexual assaults and another of indecent assaults. Brand stood inside a plexiglass box in the courtroom, wearing a shirt opened to show his chest and holding a pair of gold rimmed sunglasses.

I’m going to just refrain from editorializing there and I will just continue. Mister Brand confirmed his name, date of birth, and British address, then listened without showing any visible emotion. Brand has denied all of the charges. He was granted bail. The judge of the actor was free to go.

Mister Brand said thank you and left the courthouse without speaking to reporters and jumped in a black Mercedes Benz. The judge referred the case to a higher court called a Crown Court. That hearing is scheduled for May thirtieth. Any trial might be like a year from now because of a backlog of cases in Britain’s judicial system. Switching gears.

Anticipating a slow news day, I asked the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you got any topics, guys? Dylan jumped in and floated, what was the last truly great special, meaning one that people still talk about a few years later. There hasn’t been one in the last two years. Dylan floats Shane Gillis live from Austin in twenty twenty one, Tompsigora’s Ballhog, Bo Burnham’s Inside and Dave Chappelle’s eight forty six the last great special. Now, I am an admitted comedy snob.

I gotta think about that. My brain is already going back to like Chris Rock from like twenty years ago. Let me just google here all time comedy specials. I’m doing that and anything that I find comes from twenty twenty three, So that doesn’t answer Dylan’s question. Let me go back.

I actually have my list. Let me see my Best of twenty twenty three. That year I gave number one to Gary Goleman. I don’t think we’re still talking about that one. Tod Barry, we’re not talking about I do have Shane Gillis at three and Sigur at four and Canane at five for Best of twenty twenty four, the Roast of Tom Brady.

We are still talking about that. That might be the answer, Dylan. I know that’s not really a stand up special. I also had a tell triumph Onnie Chang David Cross a Doomian. So yeah, it’s been a minute.

If I have to pick, and I’m not going to pick something from twenty years ago, I think I’d have to go with maybe one of those Chappelles. It’s been a minute, though, you are right now, Erin. I sent a link to Vogues twenty of the Funniest Female Comedians of All Time, and she couldn’t remember if I’ve done this one or not. And I couldn’t remember if I’ve done this or not, but hey, let’s do it. I’m doing this cold now as I scroll down here, I haven’t even seen the list, but there’s a picture of Gilda Radner, and Gilda is a great choice for this list.

And you know, other than the obvious, you wish Gilda were still around. Had she been part of SNL fifty, she would be up there in the pan antheon. But because she has passed, she’s not visible, and I don’t think she gets talked about, and she would have had a very visible year in twenty twenty five with SNL fifty. All right, I’m gonna fly through here now. The first name is Moms Maybley, which wants me to editorialize.

If I don’t have something to say, I’m just going to move along. I’m not really familiar with Moms Maybley’s comedy. I back in the day programmed some of her records a few times, but it’s just from another era, so they didn’t play well on the radio, and then we stopped playing them. So I don’t really have anything to say about Moms Maybley. But sure, why not Gilda.

Joan Rivers. I’ve talked about it many times. I knew Joan worked with Joan, was in Joan’s apartment, one of the greats. Definitely still talked about Wanda Sikes. I guess Margaret Show now.

Johnny Mack admittedly oversteers against Margaret Show. Here’s why. When I first started It’s serious, a person representing Margaret Show called me an idiot for not hiring Margaret. And that’s not a good way to get me to do a deal with you. That’s not how to come at me.

So I did not hire Margaret. And you know I’ve got a little buyas there. Melissa McCarthy, Okay, Sure, Tiffany Hattish. I mean, I don’t know who else is on this list or not. That seems a little high.

Jenny Slats. People really dig Jenny’s slate. Sure, Patty Harrison. I’d like to think I know a lot about comedy. Maybe I don’t.

Vogue wrote, I don’t think there’s a comedian working today who makes me as consistently sick to my stomach as Patti Harrison, whether she’s guest starring on I think you should leave. Getting banned from Twitter for impersonating Nila Wafer’s singing nonsense songs in her stand up back or delivering a perfectly improvised line in theater camp Hey, Netflix, when is her special dropping? Leslie Jones? I think Leslie is more fun than funny, more attitude than material. Tig Nataro, Sure, fantastic.

Who doesn’t like Tig Nataro? Nicole Bayer? I hear Nicole every day as I listen back to this podcast. She voices a commercial and I hear her every day. Michelle buttell Yeah, Michelle’s a lot of fun.

Absolutely. Ali Wong has a couple great specials. Sarah Sherman one of my current favorites. Interesting pick on the list here, Maria Bamford. Sure, I think Maria works better in person than in clips.

If Maria comes to your town, definitely go see Maria Eightye Bryant, Amber Ruffin, Catherine Cohen, let’s go at Cotska one of my favorites as well. She’s just squirky and fun. I like her specials a lot.

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Okay, what do you guys think erin? Who do you think should be on the list? I’d love to hear from you daily Common News Facebook group erin already knows that, and we’ll leave on a downer. We found out on Friday that Ruth Buzzy had passed away at age eighty eight, best known for her time on laugh In playing a matron who wields her purse. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Yikes. Oh yeah, Ruth was on Sesame Street. That’s kind of how I know her from. Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, I remember Ruth. Old people like remember her on Sesame Street.

Yeah, I totally forgot that was the thing, all right. She also appeared in Freaky Friday, the Real One from nineteen seventy six, the famous movie The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again nineteen seventy nine. I’m not making fun of the movie. If you’re of my age, you remember that movie. You know that list I just read Ruth Buzzy should be on it.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.