Month: June 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. He there, Shunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreischer is getting a quote unquote TV show. I don’t know why I put quote unquote. You know what a TV show is.

He’s getting a Netflix show. Probably a better way to phrase it. This one is called Free Bert. In Free Bert, Bert finds himself in uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite Beverly Hills private school. When Bert’s antics turn his family into outcast, he decides to put on a shirt and stifle his true nature to better fit in.

Is it me or is that sounding a little Kevin James? Like I told you that Tom Sigor is doing lt Gray, which feels Tom Sagora and the Machine Movie feels Bert Krescher. This feels a little CBS sitcom Bert. Here’s another log line. Krayser will play a version of himself, a shirtless comedian, party legend and perpetual wildcard.

His daughters are accepted to do an elite private school in Beverly Hills. When his antek’s turn in the family and ow Cassie decides to put a shirt on. Blah blah blah, that’s sounding a little CBS Bert. I don’t know, man, love you, I don’t know. We’ll see.

Jeff Ross explained how he got Tom Brady to do the roast. Jeff told Howard Stern I had seen Brady looking at my Instagram on Super Bowl Sunday a few years ago. I was like, why is Tom Brady on my Instagram? I had some jokes up. Maybe that’s how he on wines before a big game and then he wins.

So I hit him up the next day on Instagram, going, dude, it’s time for roast. You obviously love this stuff, he writes me back. We start talking and it turns out my agent and his agent work together, and we put a deal together to do a roast. Netflix was like sure. I’m like, let’s elevate this whole thing, bring the roast back bigger.

I said to Tom right beforehand, why are you doing this? And he goes, I love this kind of humor. People are too snowflaky right now. It took so long because he agreed that he retired and we were like, now’s our chance. Then he unretired.

Then we had to wait till he was done playing. Then he was going through a divorce, Let’s wait for that. Then Netflix was like, our festival’s next May, let’s wait for that, and let’s do it live. So he was ready on the hook when I brought up the live idea. There’s the moment in the Rose where Brady said, don’t say that stuff again after Jeff Ross made him a massage parlor joke about Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Was Brady actually angry about the joke? Jeff Ross said, I think Tom was checking me the way a lawyer objects on behalf of a client, even though they know it’s kind of bull. I just shrugged it off and kept going. Margaret Chow she’s been doing a lot of press and says she wishes Dave Chappelle would not talk about the trans community and the way that he does. He’s such an authority on comedy, people hold him in such high regard, but then when he talks about the trans community in such an uneducated, negative and destructive way, it’s really painful.

Taylor Thomlinson is doing shows in Ireland. Talked to the Ireland press about doing big arenas and said she’s used to it now, it’s definitely a different muscle and a different cadence at a different speed, but once you figure it out, I think you have a good handle on it. I like performing in all kinds of different rooms. I think my favorite is probably on the smaller end. But you just don’t get to speak to as many people that way, unfortunately, so it’s not the most effective way to tour at this point.

But I do love smaller rooms, especially when I’m writing new material. I love Ireland. I’ve been twice now, you know. Sometimes you go to certain places and you’re like, I can maybe live here, Taylor, I’m with you. I did the exact same thing when I was there.

I was there in March, and I kind of want to go back. And let me take kind of out of the sentence. I do want to go back, Taylor says, I don’t know if I feel that way about anywhere else. When I do these European runs, I’m always sad I don’t have more time in Ireland. What’s she doing now that the TV show’s over?

And obviously touring comedy, I’m working on a movie that would very much like to get made, and I’m writing a book. But beyond that, I think I’ve been very fortunate and I have an incredible career that I’m so lucky to have. Asking for more feels sort of greedy at this point. So it’s all at cherry on top as far as I’m concerned, let’s go at Costca tell the La Times, I think I have like twelve agents or something, and I’m like, is that even a thing comes with leveling up? Right?

And not to quote Spider Man, but yeah, responsibility right. She tells a story about her childhood. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth in nineteen eighty eight. She lived with her father, later moved in with her mother and grandmother. Than when her mother started having mental health struggles, Otsgo’s grandmother moved to everyone to La to be closer to the uncle.

Grandma told eight year old Otsco they were going on a two month vacation, but eight weeks turn into years and Otsco started a wonder if she had been kidnapped. She said she had a lot of questions, like did grandma kidnap me? I also learned your gut is off and right. Some podcasts for you to listen to Mark Maron with Jordan Klepper that’s been out for a week now. That is really fantastic.

I was checking that out before my daughter’s soccer game. You know, you get there, you drop your daughter off, and then like dad has to sit around for an hour before the game. So sitting in the stands, listen to that one really good. Maren pretty forceful at the opening about political stuff. I covered that last week, and I also checked out that Deadline podcast, the comedy Business one with I Guess Nate Berghezzi.

It try to be coined here. It’s not produced well. I can tell that nobody who’s ever produced a podcast is involved with that, or if they are, oh yike’s the levels aren’t right, the eq isn’t right. These are just very basic things that someone like me could fix for you in thirty seconds, not even doing a lot of work. There are AI tools that’ll fix both those things.

But it just sounded like we ought to do a podcast. Everyone has a podcast and they jumped on Zoom and they had published Deadline. You can do a little better there. They’re gonna get good guests because they’re Deadline. The host is also not up to the game as a programmer.

The note talk to me about topic is not a question, that’s just you have a list of punch things you want to get to. And that’s not a conversation. That’s you stop listening to the answer and you look at your piece of paper and said, oh, ask him about the amusement park. Talk to me about the amusement park. Not really conversational.

So from the program director’s chair, the Deadline podcast could be a little bit better content wise. You know. I came away from it thinking, let me put it this way. If you listen to my podcast in ten years and I come on and I go, remember when nateprigets he was going to do an amusement park. That was crazy?

What was he vegging? If I do that ten years from now, that sounds about right right. Just Nate is just talking about like, yeah, I’m gonna build a theme park in Nashville. Like that’s nothing, and everyone’s gonna be like, oh, we got to go to Nateland. I mean, he’s famous, But is he famous famous?

Are we booking a vacation in Nateland? Or is it we happen to be in Nashville? What should we do on Tuesday afternoon? I don’t want to go see Nateland. I don’t know.

Man. He also gets into how he’s just going to walk away from comedy touring and how no one believes him. I’m going to jump over here to the group of people who doesn’t believe him, and I’m gonna stand over there so you can listen to that thing. It’s basically the same themes that I’ve been telling about on this show. It’s the usual Nate press of where he is right now building out nate Land Enterprises.

Now that is a good thing. Someday I’m gonna come on this show and tell you Big Media Company has purchased Nateland Entertainment for four billion dollars. Like he’s really smart with that stuff. But a theme park, I don’t know, man, anyway, check those out, all right. If you’re a comedian, you gotta be hawking a beer or you’re gonna get left behind.

We’ve got Colin Jos hawking Blue Moon, Shane Gillis, of course, but Light Now, Marcelo Hernandez, he’s teamed up with Miller Light Now, Johnny Mack. It can be a beer snob, but sometimes I just like a basic light beer, and Miller Lte is my choice of light beers. I’m not doing an ad here. I just happen to really like a cold Miller Light. You can make fun of me in the school yard and then I’ll be like, all right, let’s order a Maxisin triple stout beers knob sometimes sound like a nice called Miller Light.

Anyway. Marcelo Hernandez is now part of an ad campaign. They’ve released a twenty second commercial styled after a sports draft, announcing Marcelo Hernandez as its first pick and a fictional twenty twenty five lineup. We see Marcello wearing sunglasses, sitting next to his mom. He’s excited when his name is called.

He takes the stage. He lifts up a Miller Lite jersey and a beer bottle. The chiron says he’s from Miami, Florida and height is five eight, and we see that five six has crossed out. Miller Light captioned the clip Welcome to the original Light Beer Team. Marcelo does not speak in the clip, and I imagine if he did, he would just do that one character that he does in everything he does.

Right And from the Moscow Times, your home for comedy news, this is a little scary, they write. Russia’s former space chief dmet You Ragozen threaten to send a group of young comedians to the war in Ukraine after they mocked his PhD dissertation on a TV show. The former Space Chief said he was sent a clip from a recent broadcast of the Cavyn comedy game show, where teams compete for the title of Russia’s Funniest and most inventive club. In the sketch that he’s mad at a member of the team joke that the Space Chief had written in his dissertation that one doesn’t swap the cosmos for a chick. The Space Chief went on his telegram channel and said, we’ll take them to the front line and wish them good luck and battle, and when they return, we’ll laugh together at their unfortunate, unfunny and vulgar joke.

Mister Rigozan has a PhD in engineering and focus on weapons theory. In his post, he claimed to know which military enlistment office the Cave and team members are registered with, and said it was awaiting the name of their joke writer, who he described as a talentless punk will teach them everything, including a sense of humor. The next day, he apparently had calmed down and said that the comedians are of no interest to us due to their intellectual immaturity. They may be good for silly jokes, but not for defending the motherland. That’s your company is for today.

I don’t want any part of that. I’m just telling what’s going on. Do I have to pick sides? Bragozen’s right, one hundred percent right. I’m with that dude.

See to morrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media and there shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. Steph Tolev caught up with the La Times. They said her special kind is like a rock concert. She said, yeah, that’s my big thing. I’ve been like a rocker since I was fourteen or fifteen years old.

My dad listened to grunge music, so I grew up to like Alison chains in Stone Temple Pilots. Steph, are you trying to make me feel really really old? How old is Steph Toolev? She’s forty, so your dad’s got to be at least fifty seven. And you grew up listening to dad’s music, which was nineties grunch music.

That math doesn’t make sense to me anyway, he says. As soon as I was allowed to go to concerts, I went to concerts every single weekend. And my energy on stage is so big that I feel like I want people to feel like they’re at a live rock concert. The venue where we did the recent specials, the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. I didn’t want to do a normal theater.

I don’t want to do any spoilers, but there might be some crowds at the end. I really wanted end my set by crowdsurfing, so what better way to do it than at an actual rock club. I think there’s a saying that every comic wants to be a rock star. I have a mullet. I feel like people need to experience more live stuff, because you’re not going to watch a live show on your phone and go, oh, I don’t need to go see that band live.

But I feel like people see comedians on TikTok and stuff and are like, no, I’m good. I’m like, now, you gotta go. You gotta be in the moment, especially because so many comics do crowd work now and it’s such an organic experience and you’re actually seeing a live show. Back in the eighties, you wouldn’t have seen Van Hamlon on a news conference and been like, I don’t need to see them live. So I think there’s a parallel between comedy and music.

I just think being present, actually getting off your phones and going to see something and experience a moment instead of just sitting on your button scrolling. She talked about working quote unquote dirty, and she says, I want to say all my filthy stories are real, like nothing in my specials is made up. I know comics makeup stories and everything. I don’t think I could have made up half that stuff. It’s bizarre, Like I didn’t want to be choked into basement, I didn’t want to be hung from a sex swing.

There’s all these big things that happen to me that I’m like, I just happen to lead a filthy life. I don’t want to. I don’t want to be like this. I’d like a nice, normal date with a man who takes me home and doesn’t kill his dog at night. I don’t want those things to happen to me, but they simply do.

So. I hope the special makes people see that maybe their life isn’t as horrendous as mine, and makes them feel better and more confident about themselves and being more old. Eliza Selessengers sold Billboard. I have pro tips for comics, male and female. This is an art and there’s an alchemy to it, and that means there don’t have to be any rules.

You don’t have to ask for permission. A lot of times comics ask do you have any tips? And the time you’re using to ask me about this, you could be setting up a show, you could be writing. We don’t ask for a permission to do our art. We do it because we have to do it.

So my tip would be, if you’re struggling, just go and do it. Find that bar and ask, what’s the slowest night you have? Can I run a show here? And you get up with the five minutes you have? You take your punches and keep doing it because you love it so much, and then you have to because you can’t live without it.

Seth Meyer is doing a lot of press lately. Spoke to Variety, who pointed out nearly every comedian has a podcast as that affected late night talk shows. Seth says it hasn’t infringed on the kind of common I’m doing. You want to make sure that everybody can get the kind of comedy they want. We’re always careful not to start doing the kind of comedy we don’t want to be doing.

I get it. I do that podcast with the Lonely Island Eyes, and we listen back to it and find edits and stuff. Even though I was on it, I’m like, Oh, it’s nice listening to people who like one another. It’s a different vibe. I totally get people engaged with podcasts as their comedy.

I got to go back and listen to that podcast. I think I sampled it and I was like, an, I really like Lonely Island. Seth continues. If there’s anything that podcasts have affected, it’s that you realize, when you’re talking to somebody for eight minutes, it’s very unlikely you’re going to get deeper than a podcast does with them over the course of an hour and a half. So it does put a burden on interviews.

You want to move quickly and be funny because it has to be a different thing than a long form podcast interview. Seth says, we’ve kind of weaned ourselves off politicians as guests because we have more fun talking about politics than talking to politicians. I actually think there’s more value in a politician going on a podcast and not feeling the rush to just hit talking points, which sometimes they might have a show like mine. I think it’s good for the politicians and good for the voters for them to go to someplace where there’s more time and less of a race to hit whatever their pr team has come up with. People are wigged about the Simpsons spoilers.

You haven’t watched the Simpsons in twenty years. It’s Okay, you weren’t going to watch this episode, but spoilers. In the season thirty six finale of The Simpsons, Marge Simpson dies. It’s one of those fast forwards that they do. You know, sometimes Lisa is the president after Trump.

Bart’s usually like forty years old and kind of a bum, so it’s one of those. The plot, Marge warns the kid, your father and I won’t be around forever. When you get older, you’ll need to lean on each other. The kids ignore this and grow apart. In a montage, Marsh passes away early, and we see a scene at her funeral, Homer’s crying.

Her tombstone reads beloved wife mother pork chop seasoner. We then see Bart, Lisa, and Homer coming back together as a family thirty five years later. At one point, Lisa finds a video on which Marge tells Bart and Lisa are main friends. People are like, did Marge pass away? Well, no, it’s Simpson’s time travel.

You know, things don’t make sense. At one point, Homer was born in the I don’t know, the fifties or sixties. Now he’s born in the eighties, I think. And there’s an episode in season twenty seven that also goes thirty five years into the future, and March is alive and lives on Mars. The Simpsons has been renewed through season forty.

This show’s gonna run forever. It seems not sure what’s going on here. Hope everything’s okay. Jamie Fox’s show in Stockton was canceled on Thursday, just hours before it was scheduled to take place the venue. On the website said and pay attention to this language.

Due to unforeseen circumstances. Jamie Fox playing Bob Hope Theater on June twenty six has been postponed. Please hold on your tickets as the tour hopes to release a new date in the near future.

And then Jamie postponed his Saturday night show.

Listen to the language due to circumstances beyond the Historic Bakersfield Fox Theater’s control. The Jamie Fox Show schedules for June twenty eighth has been postponed. We were working with the event organizer. Blah blah blah. I hope he’s okay.

When I worked with him, he was reliable. I’m possibly speculating. You know, a gig came along. Hey, do you want to be in uh. I don’t know, some movie or some other project, and the other project was more interesting than two dates that could be rescheduled, but to schedule it that late.

I don’t know if something’s up. Hope everything is okay. Jimmy O Yang spoke to the South China Morning Post about growing up in America. He lived in Hong Kong until he was thirteen. He said, for a long time, I feel like my brain got divided in half.

When I was starting to live in America, I forgot about a lot of Hong Kong memories. When he went back to Hong Kong, he remembered some stuff like visiting relatives’ homes to receive Lucky red packets at Lunar New Year and visiting Hong Kong landmarks such as the Peak as a young child. Jimmy says, all those are really core memories. The first beach I ever went to was in Hong Kong. The first tram I ever took was in Hong Kong, so all my first were in Hong Kong.

I think memories are connected to your senses. When you get out of the airport, you smell the dam umidity in the air. Then you smell, the sweetness and the sound and everything that brings back a lot of memory. I think this place still feels like home, and there’s a comfort to which is very nice. Happy Birthday, mel Brooks ninety nine years young today and FX is developing a comedy titled Very Young Frankenstein, inspired by the nineteen seventy four comedy classic Young Frankenstein.

Brooks is an executive producer on the show. I don’t know about this idea. I’m not crazy about Spaceball’s too, and I’m not crazy about Very Young Frankenstein. It is a weekend in the summer. Johnny Ma’s been known to pad out the shows with some articles, and here’s one that is pretty timely from The Guardian.

Mel Brooks comedy films ranked. Let’s take a look. Number ten History of the World, Part one from nineteen eighty one. I remember as a kid loving that and just think it was the most awesome thing. And because it had part one and the title, I couldn’t wait for part two.

And then we finally got Part two like a year or two ago, and it was so disappointing. Number nine from nineteen seventy the twelve Chairs. I have no idea what this is? Let’s see in the USSR Circle nineteen twenty seven. An ex aristocrat, the conman and a priest search for a missing chair stuff with Jewels.

It’s Melbrook’s second film, I Don’t Know That one number eight Robin Hood Men in Tights. Dave Chappelle makes his film debut on that one. Number seven Life Stinks from nineteen ninety one. Mel Brooks plays the leading role in A Trading Place as Adjacent morality, tale of a billionaire who accepts a bet that he can survive on the Los Angeles streets for a month. This comedy about homelessness bombed, and I don’t remember if it existing.

Number six Silent Movie nineteen seventy six. It is a metacomedy. Mel Brooks plays a Hollywood director trying to make it silent film. And it’s a silent film, all right. I like it.

Number five space Balls from nineteen eighty seven. The Guardian points out this Star Wars spoof arrived ten years too late. Yeah, kind of, I didn’t realize it was that late. After Star Wars Mania. While at number four A High Anxiety from nineteen seventy seven, mel Brooks plays the head of the psycho Neeutic Institute for the Very very Nervous.

He’s framed for murder by pigeons and cornered in the shower. Number three Blazing Saddles. Boy, I haven’t looked at this list yet. If Blazing Saddles is three, what are two and one? I guess The Producers is gonna be one of those, but I might have to put Blazing Saddles at the top.

It is unbelievably funny. Number two is The Producers. Oh wait, oh, I just figured it out, all right, no spoilers. Number two is The Producers. And number one Johnny Mack, you’re an idiot because you just talked about this film three minutes ago and said how great it was.

Number one, say it with me, young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four. What a fantastic film. And some of you are going to watch it now and be like, hey, is that the dad from Everybody Loves Raymond? And that is your comedy news for today. Happy birthday, Mail Brooks.

See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with a very busy Saturday, especially in the summer and double especially after it had been a slow week and a half. There are a lot of stuff today. Let’s start with Conan O’Brien. On his podcast, he got into politic and started talking about ice with guest Diego Luna.

Conan said, I have empathy because if you’re paying attention, you understand that it feels like eighty percent of what’s getting done here to sustain our lives and our culture and our communities coming from south of the border. They’re doing all the work. Everybody I work with, everybody who works with me, everybody who helps me in any way or helps with my family in any way, with everything that needs to be done in every way. Every day I’m working with people who are from Mexico or Central America or South America. They are the community.

In Los Angeles, a social media influencer, The Liver King, was arrested for making terroristic threats. The liver King, real name Brian Johnson, apparently posted some videos. In one of them, he said, Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out out. The liver King has two point nine million Instagram followers apparently posted a series of videos calling Rogan out. The police put out a statement.

The police said detectives reviewed the posts and observed that the Liver King was traveling to Austin while continuing to make threatening statements. Detectives contacted mister Rogan, who stated he had never had any interaction with the Liver King and considered the post to be threatening. Based on this information, detectives obtained an arrest warrant for the Liver King on a charge of terroristic threat. In a June twenty third video, the Liver King said Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out. My name’s liver King.

Man and man, I’m picking a fight with you. I have no training in jiu jitsu. You’re a black belt. You should dismantle me. But I’m picking a fight with you.

Your rules. I’ll cut weight. I’ll come to you whenever you’re ready, whenever you’re ready to go. On June twenty fourth, a video said, we have real tension, Joe Rogan. We don’t have to make videos to pretend anymore.

All of this is happening. We’re coming to you. I’ve challenged you, man and man to a fight honorable. You can hold the hand of somebody that you love, because what happens next to you, you need to remember that feeling. You’re going to need something more than what you did to give you something to fight for.

Because I have my family to fight for and that I’ll die for them. And you’re a black belt, but you’ve never come across something like this. This is really scary. I don’t even want to read the rest of it. It gets even worse.

In my opinion, the man had checked into and the details of everything the Four Seasons hotel in downtown Austin. The Liver King is apparently famous on social media for what he calls a quote ancestral lifestyle that is driven largely by his consumption of raw meat. There’s a Netflix documentary Untold the Liver King that came out in May, and apparently back in twenty twenty two, on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Rogan made fun of the dude’s bulked out physique, and then apparently after that, emails between the Liver King and a doctor were leaked and the Liver King was quote forced to admit that he had regularly spent eleven thousand dollars per month on performance enhancing drugs. Yikes. In other Joe Rogan news, he had Bernie Sanders on this week.

Now, the narrative since the election has been the left needs their own Joe Rogan, but the left has forgotten the Joe Rogan of the left was Joe Rogan. I mean, he was on board until he wasn’t. And he’s had Bernie on in the past. Well, this week Bernie was on the Joe Rogan Experience. So the Joe Rogan of the left apparently is Joe Rogan, and the Joe Rogan of the right is apparently Joe Rogan.

Oh is an okay interview? I checked it out. I’ve not yet had a chance to listen to Jim Norton on the Joe Rogan Experience, but Jim Norton tweeted, I had a great time with Joe Rogan. The episode is up now. Life is about change, but having a twenty year gig end always brings a lot of uncertainty with it.

I assume there Norton is referring to his time at Serious XAM. He was the quote unquote third cheer and the Opien Anthony Show for years and then had his own show after Opien Anthony kind of blew up as the phrase I would use. So there was Jim and Sam for I guess another ten years after that. Wow, Norton had a twenty year radio career and in my head, he’s new at it. Norton Street continues, Joe has been a true friend in what has been an unpredictable time in my career, and it’s very appreciated.

I’ve worked with Jim in the radio industry and podcasting industry a few times. He is a good dude. But the real big news today, and boy, I am so excited. Adam Sandler has announced a thirty city North American fall tour. I’m online right now as you’re listening.

I’m at a whiz in the Bronx trying to get tickets to Adam Sandler. That’s a joke for you old people. You see, younglings, we didn’t always have apps. We used to have to go to a record store and line up overnight and sleep out overnight. Like if you wanted to see Bruce Springsteen in nineteen eighty four, you’re camping out overnight, and what you would do is you would try and go to a neighborhood where you didn’t think there were a lot of fans of the particular band that you’re into.

So, for example, say Bruce Springsteen, I live in New Jersey right now. It would be dumb to stand in front of a record store New Jersey to get Springsteen tickets. But maybe you go, I don’t know Canada, and you could probably get tickets pretty easily. We used to do that sort of thing. I digress.

Adam Sandler sets thirty city North American Fall tour, including a stop at Madison Square Garden. I’m gonna before I tell you the story. And I shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. People you gotta pay attention. I mean, somebody just spit out a line.

They wrote. Critically acclaimed comedian now Adam Sandler, super successful, super rich. People love him, but he is not critically acclaimed. Critics do not go see Adam Sandler movies and be like, you know, that was really good.

And then I saw a different post that said something like, I don’t know movie …

Yeah. Absolutely, he definitely has popular movies. He just doesn’t have good movies, except of course, the ones with Drew Barrymore, uncut gems, the one with the space Alien, and the basketball one. Those are the five good Adam Sadlor movies. And look, if you’ve been listening to this show since I started it, I’m up to five good Adam Sandler movies.

Now there was a time when there were only two, both of which starred Drew Barrymore. I digress again Adam Saylor thirty City Faults or Across America. It kicks off September fifth in Jacksonville, I’m sorry, guys, and then eventually make his way to New York, Toronto, Chicago, Indianapolis, Omaha, and Seattle. The swer is called Adam Sandler. You’re my best friend, and don’t forget.

We’re less than a month away now from Happy Gilmour to streaming on Netflix. That’s out July twenty fifth, So we’re gonna be talking about Adam Sandler a lot. Nothing excites me more than that. Rain Wilson was on the Good Guys podcast hosted by Josh Peck and Ben Soper. Rain was talking about when Steve Carell left the office.

Wilson said, when Steve left then it was a little bit chaotic of trying to figure out the tone of the show and who’s the lead and how are we telling the stories without you know, the comic engine of the show, which is Michael Scott. Well, what they did was they took, in my opinion, some scripts that said Michael, crossed it out and wrote Andy. That’s basically what they did for at least half a season. I liked the Robert California stuff. Not everybody does, but the Andy character went from being a likable third banana to like awful.

To this day, if I see ed Helms in anything, I run away. What they should have done is promoted Jim to boss and flip the dynamic and then kind of made it like, now Jim has to be the grown up and he has to deal with the crazies. That’s where the humor could have come from. But again, I’m not a famous hitcom writer. I’m a dude in a basement hosting a podcast.

Patton Oswalt has joked that his daughter is lethally adventurous after she went swimming with sharks, pat And told Kimmel she’ll always run towards the most dangerous things she can find. Last week, she went swimming with sharks off Hawaii in a cage sent me footage like I’m swimming with sharks, dad, and I’m like, I don’t know if you’re my daughter, because that is so terrifying. If you’re in New Jersey today and you’re not online at the Whiz trying to get Adam Sandler tickets, you might see Kevin Hart. His crew is out and about around Hoboken in Jersey City. They are filming seventy two hours.

Seventy two hours stars Kevin Hart as an older man who tries to rekindle his career by joining a three day bachelor party after he gets accidentally added to a group chat among some much younger friends. I have an idea for a Kevin Hart movie, an older man who tries to rekindle his career by doing a podcast in the basement. That could work anyway. It is believed Kevin will be in Hoboken. People are seeing signs around tenth and Washington Streets that suggest the cast will be there on Saturday.

Movie crews have made use of the Elks Lodge in that area in the past, and somebody even saw a fake subway station. Very interesting. All right, quick time out here A little behind the scenes. So in the first half there I dropped like three or four stories. Now I am thrilled that there’s a busy Saturday, especially this time of year.

But I’m looking ahead and a week from now is July fourth weekend, and having done this podcast for several years now, the week after July fourth, there’s just a dearth of stuff. So as I was recording, and I’m always looking at the clock, because you know, I try and make these shows like twelve fifteen minutes long, unless like Dave Chappelle goes on a rant and now I’ll hit twenty something. So I was editing on the fly because I do want to squirrel away stories in case I need them. Like last week was pretty slow until it wasn’t, and I’m a little afraid that July fourth weekend, but today is strong enough that I can bump stuff. Vulture.

I think it was wrote about some parody songs, one in particular called bomb Iran. Now bomb Iran is based on the Beach Boys song Barbara Ann do It in your Head. It works. I played the song on YouTube. There’s a version of bomb Iran, and boy it’s as catchy as the original.

Vulture share that In April of two thousand and seven, John McCain was on stage at a primary campaign stop, blew his nose and fielded a question about sending an airmail message to the real problem in the Middle East Iran. I’ve been saying Iran like I’m from Queen’s Iran. Plus bomb Iran is more like Barbara Ann. Bomb Iran doesn’t quite work anyway. McCain considered the attendees proposal and then launched into a rendition of quote that old Beach Boys song Bomb Iran, and he’s sang bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran.

He went viral bomb as cited it during two debates. McCain had decl he was joking. But the bomb Iran version goes back to the hostage crisis of nineteen seventy nine. If you’re old, you remember that quite well. If you throw the phrase into YouTube, it will come up.

And I happen to see this one before I even saw the bomb Iran story. But I was like, oh, this is some good pad out a summer Saturday episode kind of stuff. Billboard this week happened to write an article called Billboard’s Top fifteen musical comedians. Right now, let’s see who they are. I haven’t actually read it.

The first name that comes up is Bo Burnham, So I’m not sure you could easily say Bo Burnham’s number one from a popularity standpoint, or this might just be alphabetical, but Bo Burnham, okay? Cool? Next up j R. De Guzman, So we’ve gone B D and I doubt DeGuzman is the second most popular, So I think we’re going alphabetically here, Billboard writes. In another era, de Guzeman, whose sweet face provides cover for edge skirting comic songs about racial stereotypes, one called Asian Guys can Smash or el Sex of Christmas, the lyric at Deck the Halls with Fa La Latio, and ableism, a song apparently called Ampaty Girlfriend.

Anyway, it would be several seasons into a Network sitcom based on his life story. Francesca Duva not familiar trained as a musician. She graduated from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins with a degree in music composition in twenty sixteen. She creates her own backing tracks for pieces that are less songs than many musicals in which she plays all the characters. Bridget Everetts is able to swing from intimate to over the top in a single breath.

Who Are Too Good for This World? HBO dramedy Somebody Somewhere set in Manhattan, Kansas, where she grew up, wrapped last year after three seasons of exploring the joys and sorrows. Kyle Gordon specializes in millennial song parodies. Tim Hidecker reasonably well known in the alt scene, Morgan, Jay, Lean and laid Back All the Way Back. Jay has made a specialty of autotune crowd work that is a pure joyed watch Mike in hand with the digital enhancement set all the Way to Travis Scott and has accompanist vamping, hushed R and B Chords works this way through the audience, poking at the usual topics in an auto tune falsetto.

This is a good list. Matteo Lane Sure we’re talking about Matteo a lot lately. Matteo is a trained opera singer with a six octave range. He says, I used to have whistle tones like Mariah Carey. They popped out of nowhere, but when you’re touring they come few and four between Ricky Lindhome.

You may know Lindholm is one half of Gorfunkel and Oats. Garfunkel and Otes are one of my faves. Oh CT I don’t know oct Billboard tells us this trio specializes in songs that push silliness towards the infinite. Don’t Touch My Clogs as an epic story that spans generations without ever straying from the instructions of the title. Dim Sun Paradise is the tale of a bus trip to Chinatown to find the Shangri Law where your taste buds burst like a distant star.

That sounds fun. Tim Platt, this is a long deep list Billboard. A mild mannered absurdist. I am not familiar with most of these artists. Actually, Platt promises jokes and songs and characters and stuff, all of which you delivered with trimming command from somewhere way out and left field.

His songs are rooted in the natural born surrealism of childhood. I’ll tell you somebody who has programmed a comedy radio for twenty something years now, the musical stuff usually doesn’t do well when you get metrics when I do play it on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live One app which is a free app and the show is free. It’s like this except by talk a lot less and actually play bits, a weekly comedy thing on the Live one app. Check it out in new episodes every Sunday. Anyway, The metrics always show people tuning out during the musical stuff.

I usually put the musical stuff at the end. Mark rebela boy. This is long list known as loop Daddy. He shines and let him cook. Live streams which find him building ready for the floor.

Layers of beats and keyboard runs into the trancy funk, bluesy R and B electro house or spaced out hip hop tracks. I run out of air there It’s a long sentence and then ran rapping or singing on top of the results. Matt rogers, sure we know him from Las Culturistas. Read you that. Sure we know Reggie’s Reggie’s been around for a while.

The Wolves of Glendale not familiar. Keyboardist Tim McGovern describes the Wolves as a rock band trying to write the best songs we can about the dumbest things we can. That’s right up my alley. I will check this out. And the bro country stopper Ricky, a wage slave, tries to lastle some cowboy freedom by buying the horse in the song’s title, but he’s in over his head.

One of the rhymes is Ricky’s looking hungry, but I don’t know what he eats, so I make him ravioli and I pray he goes to sleep. I’m gonna totally check that out. That is the Wolves of Glendale and yep alphabetically. We have reached the end of the list, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. Tomorrow Mel Brooks ninety ninth birthday, I’ll talk about mill in the second half of the podcast. I’ll see you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media either. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. During the pandemic, I was really doing a lot of stuff related to the late night monologues, and I’ve gotten away from that over the last couple of years. But last Friday I did it and I kind of liked how it felt. So maybe on Fridays we’ll just take a look at what some of the jokes from during the week were.

Fallon had most of the good ones, and that’s a combination of Fallon having good jokes and some other shows being off. But Fallon said, it’s crazy to me at the president launch an attack on Iran, his own parade and a cell phone in the same week. Found again. Thankfully, as of now, this ceasfire has held. It’s about as stable as an Ikea cabinet with a screws missing, but so far, so good.

The strike on Iran was called Operation Midnight Hammer. It was named after Trump’s favorite Stormy Daniels movie. Seth Meyers said JD. Vance defended Trump’s decision to launch air strikes against Ironnie and nuclear sites and that we do not want war with Iran. We actually want peace, and I don’t know, man, I think what you might actually want is a dictionary.

And then Colbert got on Trump saying make Iran a great again. Your whole damn thing is America first. You can’t just hand other countries your slogan. That’s like if McDonald’s had an ad campaign that said, I’m loving it it being burger king good stuff there. Yesterday was a little busy, so I bounced this.

Plus there’s a strategy to how I put the show together, and I like to have a headliner in the title of the episode to get a couple drive by downloads, so I siphoned off. Tom Sagora Headlines is working on his first feature film. It’s called LT Gray, an R rated comedy. This announcement is just a week after Netflix ordered season two of Bad Thoughts. Lt Gray follows Jeff played by Tom Sagora, and his friends as they head down to Mexico, only to discover the hard way that Jeff is a dead ringer for the infamous cartel leader LT Gray, who’s gone missing after being captured by rivals and then rescued by Alti Gra’s forces.

Jeff has to pretend to be their ruthless leader till he can find his friends and a way home. So it’s Dave but cartel. I’ll watch, Skory said. From the moment I read this script, I knew I had to play the part. As a fellow business owner, I’ve always found it inspiring how productive and efficient cartel leaders can be.

The whole team is so excited to make a rig comedy, and I’m so thrilled to be part of it. Already sounds hilarious. I mentioned yesterday about the industry just deciding, Hey, we are pushing Nate Bergatzy. Okay, everybody get on board. Nate’s the greatest thing since slice bread.

You all understand that. Well, Deadline had the headline Nate Pergatsy’s next act, ushering in a new era of family friendly comedy through Nateland Entertainment. Now, when I saw that, I was like, we did this article already, Right, we did this like two three weeks ago. Is this the same article? Then?

Why is this being recycled? No, it’s not the same article. It’s a different arraticle with the same narrative they’ve been pushing for a few weeks. Now. Congratulations team Nate Pergatzi.

You guys are getting it done. America is getting the message. We understand Nate’s great, we get it. We get it. In this version of the narrative, we hear from Robbie Pra, who runs Netflix Comedy.

We’re told even back in two thousand and six, when Robbie was programming the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, he saw the makings of a star, the right combination of work, ethic and undeniable talent. But what he also possessed, says Pra, which made him a complete anomaly in comedy is his ability to stand in front of any kind of crowd, in any venue of any size and kill. Really, no one else can do that. You’re telling me Chris Rock can’t kill in any venue, any size. You tell me Chris Rock can’t do that, pro said.

What makes Nate resonate so widely is it’s easy to see yourself in him. Pra says. My wife stares at me during his sets, feeling like he’s a heat seeking missile talking about our life in marriage, and millions of people around the world feel the same way. I like Nate, but this narratives out of control now. Jason Hayman, a partner and film packaging agent, at Uta, who has worked with Nate for around five years.

You’re getting it done. Jason cap Tip to you says, Nate knows his brand an audience inside and out and doesn’t stray from it. When it comes to Nate, shouldn’t expect the heavy political or profane, but rather a single minded focus on putting smiles on people’s faces. Jeff Foxworthy much and working with this team, Hayman explains Burgets. He gives very strict guidelines as to what’s a fit for Nate Land and what isn’t, defining him protecting his brand with a singularity of vision.

Dusty Sligh says, personally, I think there was a time when everything was kind of clean, and then Edgy became more prominent. I think you’re allowed to say anything you want on so many platforms than when somebody actually dials it in, pulls back a little bit, but is also able to be very funny. That’s a unique thing, by the way, Jim Gaffigan, anybody I haven’t even played the Seinfeld card. I mean, come on, Nate’s good, Nate’s at the top, but tap the brakes with this because what happens is you fly like too close to the sun and people get sick of it and they turn on you. Just lay low, dude, Just lay low.

We’ll get another round of this when the Emmys come out in September. Nate is hosting it.

Speaking of Dusty Sleigh, who I really dig, he has a deal with Netflix to deb…

It’ll be out on Netflix July twenty ninth. Filmed in Chattanooga, Dusty Slagh shares personal stories on everything from milking to elevator etiquette. Sleigh says this special is as hottest July in Alabama. I do think it’s my best work yet, and I’m very excited for the people to see it. We’re having a good time, which is his catchphrase, and you know he’s his best work yet.

As if somebody’s gonna say, you know, I’m putting out this special, it’s probably my third best special. You know that other one was really good, but this one’s okay. You should watch it. Come on, you could tell Johnny Max not in the mood for any hogwash today, no nonsense today, all right. Steph Tolov talked to the La Times.

She is a good example of one of those quote unquote overnight successes that’s been around for two plus decades. She says, I’ve been doing this for twenty three years. It’s been a long journey. It’s nice to have these landmarks or events that I can look back on and be like, oh my god, I’m very proud. It’s been slow and steady.

Some people have bypassed and gotten big online and whatever. But I look back and I’m so happy that this is how my career developed, because I’m ready now. If I got this when I was like twenty, i’d be bad. I’m sure if you saw me on the thing Bill Bursaw, you’d be like, who’s this? Because you know the hell I was.

And then you went back and you could see, oh, this has three thousand videos and they have all these albums. It’s not like I came out of nowhere and have nothing to back up what I do. So her current I want to say origin story, but that’s not fair to somebody twenty three years in. Her current fame story is Bill Burr saw a clip of her and reached out. Steph says, at first it didn’t feel real when Burr DMed me, I thought it was a joke.

Account I was like, Okay, some fake Bill Burr count is saying I’m hilarious. Then after beating him, It’s funny when you meet your idols and they’re so down to earth and chill, You’re like, okay, it’s just a normal guy who finds me funny. So I think when you meet someone and realize how chill they are, that makes it way cooler. Not nerve wracking, but it was very refreshing that if someone that you look up to that is that funny, so well respected, and also find you funny. Because you guys don’t see.

They hate a lot of sea online, especially female comedians. All we get is trolled. This morning, I deleted like ten comments saying I’m ugly and of a big nose. I’m like, yeah, I know. People tell me like I don’t know.

I’m like, oh, it’s not small. The wnbas Indiana Fever are having fever Fest. Fever Fest will pack four musical acts and four comedians into a three hour show. I’ll focus on the comedians. They are Cedric the Entertainer, Leslie Jones, former last Comic Standing competitor, Aita Rodriguez Like, what’s frying my brain is?

When did that show air and I’m looking it up. Last Comic Standing aired from twenty three to twenty ten and again in twenty fourteen and fifteen. So at best, that’s like a ten year old reference. Okay, whatever she’s playing and Dion Cole will serve as host of Feverfest. Feverfest is produced in conjunction with Heartbeat, which is Kevin Hart’s company.

Heartbeat was named in February as an official culture curator for Pacers Sports and Entertainment, the parent company of The Pacers and the Fever By the way, Oh, Tyrese Haliburton, Man, I know, I’m like five days later on this. Oh, I felt so bad for him again. You heard the commercials. I was all I was, you know, a Knicks frontrunner. I was on the Knicks bandwagon, you know, rooted against Aliberton for a week, but he earned my respect and then I just felt so bad for that guy.

I hope you feel better soon. Anyway, if you’re not going to fever Fest and you’re like that’s not for me, and you’re looking for the opposite of fever Fest, I think this is as opposite as I can get for you. Borsch belt Fest will be in the Catskills. July twenty sixth and twenty seventh, Josh Gondleman will headline Borsch belt Fest, who will be more than thirty additional performers. Robert Klein will be honored on the Saturday night with a Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Josh Gonelman.

Andrew Jacobs is the board president of the Borsch Belt Museum, which aims to preserve the history of the twentieth century Jewish vacation land that drew top entertainers, political leaders, and civil rights activists. Andrew said, We’re thrilled to welcome Josh Gonoman, Robert Klein, and our entire lineup to Borsch belt Fest twenty twenty five. Colin jo just has another gig. He’s teamed up with Blue Moon. He is Blue Moon’s first ever celebrity partner.

There are two new ads co created by Colin Jost. Hm hmm, hey, Colin, you will into this? Yeh sure? Can we just punch up this line? Yeah?

Okay, great, I’ll do it, sure how much? In one of those commercials co created by Colin Jost, Colin Jost hesitates to eat the beer’s signature orange garnish until he’s gilted into it by a young Orange and a young Orange’s proud father. The father says it’s an honor to be chosen for a blue moon. In the second commercial, co created by Colin Jost, Colin Jost is on set filming a blue Moon commercial, only to realize he’s not the star. The beer is Colin Joe shut up on Staten Island Tuesday night, he appeared at three local bars to serve blue moons.

He posted on Instagram, it’s extremely hot, so I’m buying anyone who’s on Staten Island around of blue Moon tonight come by for one free blue moon. I’m not that rich. Let’s hit gossip corner. Cheech Marin visited the J bar M Barbecue. No good news for Cheach and his group.

This happened on Monday. No normally the jbar M is closed on Monday, but the owner, John Toomey, was there to greet Cheach and the rest of his group. We are told jbar M serve Cheach and friends the sumptuous Cowpuncher barbecue board that’s loaded with more than ten pounds of ribbies, pulled pork, turkey, brisket, pork ribs, chicken sausage and Hlapino sausage, as well as French fries and side dishes. Wow, it’s meant to serve ten to fifteen people and runs four hundred and twenty five bucks. But there are smaller versions.

You can get the Ranch Hand, which serves six to eight and is only two twenty five or the Little Pony that’ll serve two to four people for one hundred and twenty five dollars. And I am hungry now, but I’m not gonna pick out. I got myself an extra salad wrap the other day that’s been in the fridge, and like, I gotta eat it today or throw it out. So no barbecue for me today. Staying on gossip corner, you’re there at the Jelly Roll concert.

You’re having a good time. You’re like, man, this concert’s great. There’s only one thing that would make this concert better. I wish Kevin James would show up. Well, you got your wish.

If you were at the Buckeye County Superfest in Ohio enjoying Jilly Roll, out came Kevin James, who’s sixty years old now. Kevin helped perform the song need a Favor. Kevin was dressed just like jelly Roll, Kevin danced around the stage for the duration of the song, where black pants, a black T shirt with a black vest over it, and a backwards black baseball camp the way you could tell them apart jelly Roll has tattoos and is funny. I should just get out there, see you

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, you take one day off to go to the beach. It was one hundred degrees in Jersey, so I pretage Wednesday show on Monday. It’s like, I go to the beach Tuesday, and it was like all kinds of news. I mean, good problem to have, because I got plenty to talk about today.

But I’m sitting there on the beach watching my inbox and I’m like, really, come on, why today? All right? Mark Maren, he’s kind of at it with the whul Andrew Schultz thing. I told you about Andrew Schultz the other day Maren put out in his newsletter. And I’ll try and do this in a Maren e Ish not impression, but I’ll try and do his cadence.

This is it, people, It’s finally here, American authoritarianism with a fully functioning fascist cultural apparatus. We did it. Took us about two hundred and fifty years, but we did it. I’m not sure which was more horrendoucent damning, the deploying of troops to la or the bombing of Iran, but they were of a kind orders of a leader who cares nothing about the people of this country and is autocratically creating a government that serves only his whims and power. This is the cost of a mindocracy and feeds the fire of inhumanity for his myopic, brutal, and dangerous followers.

We get to live in real fear all the time now, not made up or generated internally, but actual terror of our government and our fellow Americans. Sorry, I don’t want to be grim, but the unconstitutional attack of Iran and La will put in place the machinery to make this a military dictatorship. I hope all those people that voted for this passively and based in emotions are happy and proud of the America we’re becoming, where pain feeds their excitement, and corruption and moral bankruptcy becomes their proud day to day way of moving through the world. I hope all the anti wool comics are happy about pushing this all through. The big question is when will they shut up about trans people intellectually challenge people, immigrants, that disabled, the minorities.

I mean, they won the policies they were supporting, whether they knew it or not, aren’t happening. I hope you can now stop playing the victim and just enjoy the amazing lack of diversity and diminishment of human rights and collective fury of supported. Because it’s here, I assume you’ll just keep at it. It’s one thing to mock the week and another thing to celebrate their pain and deaths. I assume you have nothing else.

Now that what you made is become hack, you can just go back to the standard. Maren made similar comments in the opening to Monday’s podcast with guest Jordan Klepper. It is believed a lot of this obviously the news over the weekend with Iran, but a lot of this is also about the Andrew Schultz piece from the New York Times over the weekend. I talked about that on Tuesday’s podcast. In the Times piece, Andrew Schultz told The Times he feels comfortable saying the R word.

Schultz explained, if a parent ever said that word hurts me and I want you to not say it. I’m never gonna say in front of them. I don’t want to hurt you. That’s not my goal. But if they’re like, I don’t want you to ever say it again in your life, that’s not going to happen.

In other Mark Maren news his new special will stream on HBO Max starting April first. It is entitled Mark Maren Panicked. Maren says, I feel this is the best work I’ve done. Everything came together, the direction, the production designed, the shirt and the bits HBO gets me, and I’m thrilled it’ll be presented by them. Now, this is interesting.

It will air at eight o’clock Eastern, not ten o’clock. Well, that’s cool. The other big news. Normally this would be the lead, but somebody went to the beach. Shane Gillis is hosting the twenty twenty five sp Awards.

That is awesome. Shane told The Hollywood Reporter. I’m excited to be at the SP’s of this year. I like sports, so this should be a good time. He’s like the perfect post for that too, and good content for the podcast.

Craig Lazarus is the executive producer of the SP’s. He said Shane is not only one of the top comedians today but also a huge sports fan, which made him an easy choice to host the SP’s. We’re through all the work with him, blah blah blah. We then recap Shane’s career. You know, LESNL podcast doing just fine.

It’s being a podcast, Deadline has a new one. This is interesting. It is called Comedy Means Business, so it shows just how big the comedy industry has gotten. The lead off guest is Nate Brigetzie. I talked about this in the Facebook group and I’ll talk about it a little bit more tomorrow.

You can just tell that Nate’s people are pushing the heck out of Nate right now. Every now and then, the industry gets together and decides this person’s next. If you listen to the show every day, we see a couple of these, maybe twice three times a year. But right now now everybody’s in on Nate, and we’re pushing Nate, and you’re gonna like Nate. Nate’s a superstar.

And if you don’t like that, too bad, because here’s another article and I like Nate. But it’s like tap the breaks, people tap the breaks. On the podcast, Nate says he’s moving away from the all consuming nature of the most expansive globe trotting touring a comic can do. He’ll do so now because he understands how much obsession you have to have, how much focus you have to have to get to where he’s currently. What he needs to do to achieve the same level of success with the ventures he takes on.

Next Nate’s hosting the Emmys in September, so more push Push, Push, Push Push. The Comedy Means Business podcast every other week on Monday, although for the first month they’re doing a pod every Monday. The Nate one is out. I just discovered this as I put the show together this morning, so I haven’t listened to it yet. Next week’s episode is called long Live the State, a documentary on the iconic sketch group The State that’s stilling.

We’ll have a special called The Landlord July seconds on the streaming platform Veeps. There will also be an audio version. I always like that. On August. The Landlord was filmed in Denver and described as a story heavy caboose about nosy, unhinged landlords.

If you’ve ever had to pay irritating lunatics in exchange for shelter, then this is the special for you. I like that a lot. Delling hopes everyone watching laughs so loudly they make their downstairs neighbor jealous. Hell, let’s clear this out. This has been around all week Margaret Show for some reason, talking about Ellen Joe recently revealed Ellen was really weird not nice to me for most of my career.

I opened for her in the nineteen eighties when she was a headliner in comedy clubs. Later, when I would do her talk show in the two thousands, she would act like we just met, and I’m like, bitch, what that’s weird? We go way back. It’s so creepy and weird. Wow, I can’t believe Ellen isn’t a nice person?

Did we know this? Tina Fey and Amy played Atlantic City over the weekend. They opened with a rapid fire monologue similar to what they do with the Golden Globes. Tina told the crowd Ben Affleck is not here. He’s home going through his contacts looking for more Jennifers to bother.

It’s a wacky Tina. That’s a hack joke. Tina, come on, that’s a hack. Probably played well with the crowd, but that’s a hack joke. Amy Pohlar on Nicole Kidman.

Nicole Kidman is not here tonight. She’s too busy being in every single movie a TV show in her name. Whoa whoa? Amy? Are you making fun of people?

Are you appropriating the Nicole Kidman character whoa whoa, whoa whoa? Los Angeles is gonna disown you. You better fall on your sword like you did last week for whatever it is you feel guilty about doing on SNL. WHOA what a brutal swipe? And Nicole Kidman, who are you?

Joe Coy it’s gonna face turn Leo DiCaprio is not here, I assume because Amy and I have a combined age of one hundred and five.

And then the entire reason I’m bringing this up is because there’s a Megan Ma…

Amy Pohler, though, going full Joe Coy here said Megan Markle’s not here tonight. She’s putting flower sprinkles on cookies and Piers Morgan is furiously raged masturbating about it. Wow, boy, you better apologize to Piers Morgan. What a vicious Amy Pohlar, What has gotten into you? Unbelievable?

We’re gonna have to cancel Amy Poehler, for these vicious jokes. Friend of the show John Marco SIRESI podcast must be doing pretty well. It’s called the Downside and it’s moving to Headgum. John Marco saidam So Jazz to bring our listeners. The one thing they’ve always complained our podcast is missing ad reads.

I feel you, you know, otherwise this is just an expensive hobby. As I like to say, are you watching Love Island? Everyone in my house under the age of me is watching Love Island. This is like the biggest topic in the house. And I’m like, what are you people watching?

What are you talking about it?

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Ian Sterling, comedian and voice behind Love Island USA, is returning to the US with a brand new stand up comedy show, Ian Sterling Live. My kids will be excited. He’ll be in LA on October twenty second and New York City October twenty ninth. Sterling told Deadline, hopefully people that have enjoyed me on Love Island and particularly enjoyed my voice, just seen what I’ve been doing for fifteen years, which is stand up. It’s my chance to show America this is what I do and I’m not just a guy in a dark room behind a microphone.

That is your comedy news for today. I can’t even imagine what Amy Poehler is gonna do next. She’s really out there. I mean, those jokes were just vicious. She should apologize.

Just terrible. All right, I’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Minneapolis Star Tribune poster review of Theo Vaughn’s show on Friday night, so you can hear that, I’m doing a delivery that’s a little more serious than how I usually open up a show. And it’s because I don’t know how I feel about this. I’m gonna read it verbatim that Star Tribune rites.

He quickly labeled his Friday show at Excel Energy Center as a Juneteenth Recovery seminar, then launched into bits about a black girl with Down syndrome and short buses that catered to students with mental disabilities. I’m not racist, he said early in a set, unless you are. I don’t like the way that reads. Maybe in the room it played better, you know, body language, but that does not read great. The article says Theo’s place in pop culture is more complicated than partisan loyalty.

There were a few mega caps, but I spotted more shirts with images of Johnny Cash than images of Donald Trump. Quoting the article, Vaon pointed out several times during the show that the audience of about eight thousand seems to be nearly all white people, but I spotted plenty of people of color in the crowd, including Andres as Zanbrono, who came to Minnesota six years from Columbia. Son Brno told the paper, he’s just naturally very funny. It’s different from what you usually see. Again, directly quoting the article, everyone was a target, so Molly’s gazed, Jews, people from Wisconsin, and an autistic people.

He described George Floyd’s Square as a fent and all dance hall. Juan is at his best when he tells tales about growing up in small town Louisiana, vividly bringing to life people like Allan, a kid’s so tiny he needed two hands to eat a butterscotch, and the grandmother who wouldn’t let him visit her for a decade because she thought he stole some chocolate from her house. Skipping ahead, his one joke about Joe Biden went over a lot better than his one joke about Trump. When he told the audience who was thinking about buying a gun, the place went wild, the paper points out, and I remind you this was from last Friday. They were less enthusiastic about a bit in which he mused over where the next nine to eleven should take place.

Font Humor clearly isn’t for everyone, but it speaks to enough people to make him a voice that can’t be ignored. An email from the Just for Last Montreal Festival titled a very serious open letter from a very funny festival. It reads, Hello, I’m Sylvan parent Badard, the new owner of Just for Laughs. You don’t know me, which is why I’m reaching out to you today. Over the last few months, the JFL team has dealt with some rocky roads with strange days.

But believe me, we’re back. Maybe we’re a little different than we used to be. We still have the same objective as always, to bring loads to your summer. You’re probably expecting a joke right about now, Well not today. This letter is serious and it’s about an understanding, a promise, and an offer.

Let’s get to it. Subheading number one the understanding, the letter says. The understanding is our appreciation of the long standing, extraordinary relationship between Montrealers and Just for Laughs. For years, you gave our festival the type of unwavering support unheard of in show business. You filled our clubs in theaters night after night made big stars out of total unknowns, and through it all brought a heartfelt spirit that was more family than customer.

You are our most dedicated fan base, and we were the year’s biggest party for you. You brought us the attention that made JFL world renowned. We respected, relying on and delivered for each other. Section Two The promise. So here’s the promise.

You’re going to really love what we have in store for you this summer. Then they explain the shows. I’ll talk about the shows separately. Three the offer. So finally, here’s our offer.

We are certain you’ll love everything our team is putting together for you, but especially the Galas, the festival’s crown jewels, our biggest shows. In fact, we’re so certain that you’ll love our galas for some reason. If you don’t, we’re willing to refund your ticket price one hundred percent, pure and simple. Then there’s some details so far. Personally, I don’t know what to make of the festival.

I’m excited that it’s back. I was sad that it was gone. I think personally I need to see a little bit a few more announcements. Now, I’d like to take a minute and go through the shows here, but I’ve clicked on the tabs on their website where it says shows, and all I’m getting is a stager image and no actual shows. So let me click on artists here that seems to be working.

I’m not going to read every name, but let’s see who the bigger names that we might know from just either hosting or listening to the show every day. Adam Ray, Fortune, Fiemester, Michelle Butteau, Roy Wood Junior, Mikey Day, Nish Kumar, Malik, Alasol, John Doer, Puddles, Brad Williams, Kat Cohen, Dave mar Hedge, Emil wakem Ivan Decker, Jamarcos, Soirezi Maye Martin, Nick Muhammad, Ralph Barbosa, Russell Peters, Tammy Pascatelli, at Gamble, Jay Jorden, Tom Sigora, k Trevor Wilson, Russell Howard. So you know, nice and I’m glad it’s back, but it’s definitely fallen to number two. Now. I’m going back here and looking at Netflix twenty twenty four.

Now they only see to be doing a festival every other year, and I am on a Netflix propaganda website on Netflix dot com, but they remind us. Here is what happened. In twenty twenty four. John Mulaney had the show Tom Brady Got Roasted, which basically accelerated Nicki Glazier’s career. Kat Williams happened right, and they took a group picture of everybody in this photo.

Krascher, Jeff Ross, Jimmy Carr, Pauli Short, Chelsea Handler, Tiffany Hattish and I’m not reading everybody Chappelle, Nick Offerman, Han Gatsby, Sheng Wang, Otsko, Mosha Kasher, Natasha, Eliza, Sarah Silverman, Gaffigin, Kevin Hart, Roy Woodkin Jung, Jimmy o’yang, mad Friend, Sebastian Madascalgo, Barbosa Whitney, Dion Cole, Tony Hinchcliffe, Leanne Morgan, Papa Stavro, Sassan, the Mishi, Patel, Felipia Sparza, Sarah Cooper, Brett Goldstein, Nikki Glaser. Pretty good photo. So I don’t know. I was originally planning on going up for Montreal. I don’t know if I’m gonna go now.

I just I don’t know. Daisy Lidak caught up with The Hollywood Reporter. They asked her if there was an episode or segment she’s been most proud of pulling off on the Daily Show. She said, the day after the election was not easy. I was hosting that day.

I remember going in that morning just being vulnerable at the way I was feeling and hearing everybody else try to find humor in it. Coming in as a correspondent always played a character hosting. You’re yourself, that’s your point of view, So that day just felt like Catharsis with the audience as depressing as it was. They asked her about the host search between Trevor Now and John Stewart, which reminds me that John Stewart’s appearance on Trevor Ne’s podcast recently was really good. Go listen to that one.

DESI had you feel about that period? She said, it was disorienting, but it put a lot of faith on our showrunner. She’s the whole reason the place runs away does. I just knew I’d have to write it out. And as anxiety inducing as the whole thing was, there were some fun positives that came out of the guest rotation, working with Sarah Silverman, becoming friends with Chelsea Handler, having Morlon Wayans come in, her dream guest is Carol Burnett because she’s the entire reason I wanted to do comedy.

The South Texas Food Bank is inviting locals to enjoy a night of laughter. It’s called laugh Out Hunger. It’ll feature Steve Trevino. On August fifteenth, one of the board members said, it’s always been a concert. This year it’s comedy to see if there’s a change within the community and how many people we can drive and bring to these events.

We have to stay relevant to what our community’s asking for, so we feel like this change would be something good and different. We’re taking a risk and trying it out. Doctor Demento is retiring. Real name Barry Hanson began hosting the Doctor Demento Show back in California in nineteen seventy. Originally, he just played rock songs.

Over time, he started mixing in some of the oddities from his personal collection, and then the whole Doctor Demental thing took off. Most notably, a young musician named Alfred Yankovic started sending in parodies to Doctor Demento. Young mister Yankovic became pretty famous. However, after fifty five years on the air, Doctor Demento is announced he’ll be retiring in October. He told Radio Online.

I’m now eighty four years old. I’ve been doing the show for nearly fifty five years, about two thirds of my life. It’s been a blast, but I’ve come to the decision that I need to hang up my top hat soon. The show you just heard is the last of my regular shows. It sounds like I’ll come back for one big farewell in October, and I imagine that will be pretty star studded, at least in terms of parody records.

I’m sure mister Yankovic will come by. And it turns out that Ray Romano did not like the title Everybody Loves Raymond. One of the producers was at the Paley Center and said, in real life, raise a modest guy, and he’s like, everybody loves ray What if the show stinks? That is your comedy news for today. Enjoy the heat if you’re in the Northeast.

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Kalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny mack with for Daily Comedy News. You know, sometimes politics and comedy do intertwine. This was pretty interesting on Friday before the big news story over the weekend, THEO Vaughn had Democratic Representative Rocana from California on this past weekend to discussed several topics, including foreign affairs and AI. At one point on this past weekend, Kanna promoted the War Powers Resolution, which is a bipartisan bill that he had introduced with a Republican aimed at prohibiting US armed forces from unauthorized hostilities in Iran.

THEO Vaughn said, Yeah, people say, well, you don’t know a ton about the Middle East, Like that’s fine. I don’t want people I know, my friends getting called up. I don’t want the children and my friends getting called over to die. I don’t even understand how it’s an option. Vaughn went on to tell Kana, it feels like we’re just working for Israel.

I feel like it was supposed to be America first, focusing on like what what are we doing to get things back into America right, like to increase the purpose of being American, refill our hearts with blood and makes us feel something again here and make us be excited about being an American. The New York Times had a big profile of Andrew Schultz over the weekend. There’s also an audio version of it. I think you have to go to Apple Podcasts and look for the conversation. I’m not sure that’s not on Apple, but regardless, I both read it and listened to it.

It’s kind of confrontational, it’s pretty interesting, so it starts pretty basic. The Times ask Shaltz, in the last four or five years, you’ve really blown up. What has shifted to the culture to naby to come to prominence? Andrews said, when I started posting stuff on the internet, specifically stand up, things changed for me. I was trying to get an HBO special or back in the day, Netflix or Comedy Central.

I was trying to get anything, but I couldn’t get any motional with stand up. So out of desperation, I film my own special, pitch it to everybody nobody wanted, and I was like, I’m going to put this online. At that time, there was a sensitivity, especially in corporate America, about edginess and joke. So my gamble was maybe if I put this out on YouTube, there’ll be an audience that likes this kind of comedy. I put it out, A weird thing happened everybody.

They only watched twenty minutes. So I put out a twenty minute version of it in the next week, and I sold out a comedy club the next week, and I sawd out another one. I was like, Wow, there’s something happening over here on the internet that’s interesting, right that people don’t watch full hours. Maybe everybody is me that twenty minute thing that makes a lot of sense to me as a consumer. Times, you obviously have clear ideas about what works with audiences.

Does this create a temptation to pander Schaltz? Oftentimes what happens is yell of an opinion that’s maybe a little different, and you’ll be rebuked for that opinion for years, and then people start to come around. Then the same people that rebuked you will start echoing those sentiments with no accountability. Times you said you asked democrats to be on the podcast. Whom do you ask who said no?

Pete Boota, Judge, Tim Walls, Kamala Harris, and then her team lies blatantly lies times about what Schultz about us reaching out, and it’s wild to blatantly lie when not only did I reach out, Charlemagne, who’s working with them, reached out, Mark Cuban, who’s a surrogate, reached out, and we reached out, and they blatantly lie. Then when people write articles about it, they say, Andrew says he reached out to Kamala, but we reached out to the Kamala people, and they say that never happen, and so what’s the reader supposed to interpret that? As? It’s almost like calling me a liar. Then the interview gets into a bunch of Trump stuff, which is just too political for what we’re doing here at Daily Comedy News.

You can read it, you can listen to Andrew himself. Then they get into Andrew’s use of the R word and another word I don’t want to get involved with at all. So same note, you can listen to that, or you can read it yourself in the New York Times. Then this next point from Andrew, I think is stupid. They’re going back and forth on which words Andrew is comfortable with and which he’s not comfortable with.

So Schultz says, have you heard of fire retardant? How do you feel about that word. Times correctly, retardant in that context means to slow something down. Schultz, and this is just a stupid point, goes, Should we make a different word for that? Come on, dude, come on, just come on jumping ahead, The Times writes.

A few days later, Andrew and I talked again. And Andrew says, I was thinking about a lot of things from the conversation so far. Yeah, you had a good question I thought about all week, which was you don’t say the N word or the K word, but you’ll say other words. I was like, I think that’s true. I didn’t know what to think of it in the moment.

Then he brought up the R word, and how I feel comfortable saying that one? I really thought about it. This is me trying to retrofit my knee jerk feelings on it. I think what makes a slur bad is it’s a descripture plus organized violence as humans were like, that’s bad. But if we don’t remember that organized violence, or aren’t taught about it, or it’s too far in the past, we start to feel like it’s not as heavy.

I think that’s why our reaction is different when it comes to Latino slurs or Asian slurs. Where’s the organized violence? Interesting piece there? The Times also had an article titled what does Shane Gillis want to get away? With?

No interview with Shane there, but they’re mostly talking about tires, and they write Gillis brought a bro comedy fan base and endured a quasi cancelation with his Netflix sitcom Tires. He’s trying to map the leap from edge Lord to the mainstream. His big break turned into an immediate road block, and he went from anonymity to cause cancel Libree overnight. In a way, Gillis’s quick cycle of a sent crash and rebirth allowed him to begin addressing the obstacles that many of the manispheres current New Bro stars now. It’s NU with like an umlock or something, the two dots above the U new Bro And I think this article used Newbro twice.

I didn’t know that was a term, and suddenly we’re using it. But okay, I don’t not even sure what it means, but that many of the man of spheres current Newbro stars are heading towards. Most are still building creative work largely outside the moral spheres of mainstream Hollywood and media, hence YouTube, podcast, comedy clubs and so on. But blessed with both an audience and something of a scarlet letter, Gillis is most interested in finding his way back to Fame’s mainstream, or perhaps to remake it in his mold. They describe Shane’s comedy as an affectionate portrayal of a cockshore simpleton.

Gillis manages this in part because of how he uses his body. Now, this is really smart here. I thought they nailed this here. When he stands now, he’s six foot four and lumberjack stirty. He tends to bend at the neck ever so slightly as to slightly minimize his presence, and Gillis soft steps rather than pounding around, giving him an apologetic mean am I E N.

We’re using the big words today New York Times. Overall, he exudes a kind of soothing sand laeran hangtogness. Somebody got the thesaurus out for this one. Undoubtedly a decade or two from now, and a tour director will find a way to radically remake him in a role of great tragic empathy. Did nobody in The Times editorial deportmagau use some normal words, dude, what is this article for now?

Though it’s masturbation jokes and also gestures with tires, Gilliss appears to be aiming for a post liberal restoration of mainstream comedy values to somewhere in the late eighties with a greater dose of self awareness. Steph Tolev has a special add on Netflix today. It is called Filth Queen. Filmed in Boston. It’s produced by Bill Burr, who told Deadline the first time I saw Steph Tolev was a promotion video she had made for New York City show.

I immediately fell in love with her in her comedy, one of the most uninhibited original voices out there today. I love everything about her.

Speaking of Burr from the Boston Globe, somebody grabbed Burr on the street a…

Bill said he thought everyone was lying. He was told Karen was acquitted, and he’d said, wow. The Netflix release schedule is a little light right now. So we’ve got Steph today, Nate Jackson on July eighth, virdaes we’ll have a special on July eighteenth, this one titled Food Volume. There’s a poster for the special, which shows Virdas holding a lamp in his hand.

The caption reads, Indian comedy is not Silent, It returns with fool volume. Here are your guest hosts for Jimmy Kimmelive this summer. They include Anthony Anderson, Nicole Buyer, Alan Cumming, christ De Stefano, Fortune Fimester, Jelly Roll, Diego, Luna Comeil Nan Jianni this one. I keep making crinkly face at this and I think I brought it up in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Amy Poehler was on her podcast and like just decided to bear her soul and nobody was asking her to bear her soul.

Amy said that every comedian who has appeared on SNLL over the years has quote played people that we should not have played, and quote the part about getting older and being in comedies you have to like figure it out and oh, everything has an expiration date. It was even on SNL fifty when they had that segment which was like, here’s all the ways we got things wrong, and they showed way inappropriate casting for people. We all played people that we shouldn’t have played. I misappropriated, I appropriated. I didn’t know I don’t know what to make of this.

We’ve all done things in the past that were, you know, we wish we could do over, and you know, as somebody like walking around going I can’t believe maybe Polar did that role one time, Like I don’t even know what she’s burying her soul about. And are you gonna give back the money or just what we’re supposed to go? Oh yeah, that thing you did, all right, that’s cool. Like, I don’t know even know why you’re bringing this up. There wasn’t any sort of Amy polar Gate.

And at some point comedy is making fun of things. Otherwise you’re just doing puns and knock knock jokes. It’s almost always like an object of the joke that is being goofed on. She told Will Forte on her podcast. The best thing you can do is make repairs, learn for your mistakes, do better.

It’s all you can do that I agree with. I mean, you know, we make mistakes. We don’t have tom machines move forward, But I don’t I don’t know what this is about. It seems like some sort of virtual signaling to the Hollywood crowd. But Amy’s at a point in her career she doesn’t need to do that, so I don’t get it.

Late Nighter reported that Martin Hurley, you know him from SNL and the police don’t destroy guys, he had started a new Apple back to school campaign. Guys, it’s June twenty fourth. We’re doing back to school already. It only turned ninety degrees where I live two days ago, and we’re doing back to school. Can we just enjoy summer anyway?

The back to school campaign was aimed at college bound teenagers, but the seven minutes short was quietly pulled from Apple’s YouTube channel after one day. In the video, Late Nighter says Hurley, he played a fictionalized version of himself guiding high schoolers through the parent presentation, designed to help students convince their parents to buy them a MacBook. Apple has not explained why they took the video down, but apparently some people on social media called the video cringe, out of touch, and even manipulative. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercial interruption or feed drops, you can go to caliroga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re an Apple podcast, click up the benner that says uninterrupted listening five buff next a month, that stuff goes away.

If you’re on Apple, you get a thirty day free trial, So why wouldn’t you just try it out for thirty days? And like I’ve joked before, and I’m totally joking. You know, if on day thirty one you forget to cancel it and I get five bucks, well, hey, what do you want from mek you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jotty Mash with your barely comedy news. I don’t know what’s a bick of this first one. Paramount Pictures has acquired a pitch inspired by the classic game mash. The mash game starts off with a player writing out the letter’s mash to predict whether you will live in a mansion, apartment, shack, or house.

Categories then picked on what you want in your future a spouse, kids, cars, pets, et cetera. Options are crossed off or circled under each category using a magic number, yielding your final resolution. Anyway. Paramount has acquired a pitch inspired by Mash from Nikki Glaser, who will star, in, produce, and co write the film. In Nikki Glaser’s untitled Mash product, a woman’s childhood mash game magically becomes reality and she discovers that perfect life isn’t the one she imagined.

Okay, boy, Nikki Glaser, your agents are getting it done like Capital G. Capital D keep riding this wave of Nikki Glaser. Brett Goldstein spoke to Variety. He said, editing his specials hard, it really does matter where you cut the shot. It affects the rhythm of the joke, and you’re so long in the edit you get so obsessive, a detailed that by the end you’re like, I don’t even know anymore.

Is this funny? I hope it’s funny, whereas live, you know it’s a yes or no. He taped two shows for the special. Stress point early in the first show, when the crowd didn’t let out a big cheer at the beginning, he said, in a way, it was good because it made me go, you have to nail this because they’re not going to be easy. So the first show, I was really locked in.

In the later show, they were much more up for it. There was much more energy, It was much more loose. I improvised a lot and I played around more. It was sillier. He thought the second show would wind up being the special, but then I went back in and watched the first show, and I was like, the first show’s better for TV because you’re not there.

You the audience at home, are not there. So me, me messing around, being loosey goosey’s less fun because you weren’t there. He shot it in New Jersey, but he wanted to shoot it at Minneapolis, but it was February and I was told if we shot it there that the equipment would freeze was so cold, we might not make it. He’s working on a follow up and says, I’ve got many months to figure it out, but it’s a good one. I think I came up with a thing that I think, structurally is very satisfying.

Talked about this a little bit on Friday. Jeff Ross is coming to Broadway with Take a Banana for the Ride eight weeks August fifth through September twenty ninth. The show is described as a hilarious and cathartic comedic experience about life and human resilience. The show, Take a Banana for the Ride, is named after Jeff’s grandfather’s practical travel advice. Ross explains, and ever since my aunt Best took me to see Jackie Mason on Broadway when I was young, I’ve daydreamed about performing my own classy and uncensored one man show.

I’m honored and excited by the opportunity to share my origin story of how I became the Roastmaster General. This new show is designed to be a cathartic experience shared with others. I encourage you to bring friends that you care about, people that might be going through tough times. I’ll shake them out of it with an evening of uncensored jokes, uplifting stories, songs, and even some live roasting or the Braevest volunteers. Colin Joe spoke to Variety about putting together SNL fifty.

He said, I found it much more stressful because you didn’t want to let people down who are legends. There was so much more lead time, but just like the regular show, I’d say ninety percent of it got written in the week leading up to it, so it was stressful for six months for everybody. He was nervous to write for Eddie Murphy, who’s very cool, and Seth Myers was in the room and added the word taciturn. Joe said, yes, so someone’s not talking. You read all of your worst fears into that person.

So when I first presented him with a sketch, she was like, I think it’s funny I was waiting for, but I’m not going to do it. That is stressful. Seth has been doing all kinds of press and I don’t know why. I don’t know what he’s pushing, but he’s been everywhere lately. He spoke to Variety.

Seth said, unless some major sea change happens, I don’t think there’s going to be a whole new wave of network hosts on the way. There’s always been nobody understands this business in this format better than Jimmy Kimmel, so when he talks about it, I tend to share his opinion. It does bum me out that the other people won’t have exactly this opportunity, But then again, when you think about podcasts, they have just a big as reaches we ever had. If you’re a great lover of the institution of late night talk shows, there’s probably some sadness in your future. But if you love funny people, telling funny jokes and talking to people in interesting ways, that’s always going to be available.

Set’s contract is up in twenty twenty eight, but says the network knows I’d like to do it as long as they’ll have me. Las Vegas Weekly caught up with Tiffany Hattish. They were curious about her hanging out backstage with Tim mcgrawn an Instagram video in which she raved about his cologne. Tiffany said he did smell good and he looks great for his age. I wan’ts Tim McGraw.

Tim mcrow’s going to be younger than me. I’m gonna feel ancient. I shouldn’t do this search. Tim McGraw is fifty eight. Oh yeah, he’s old.

I’m only fifty five. He did smell good. He looks great for his age. But I was like, dang, my brother’s lighter than you. Are you sure you’re not black?

He was telling me about being on the ranch and all that, being a cowboy. He used to ride bulls and new rodeos when he was a teenager. Tiffany said, I am a mechanical bull rider type at a bar, then I give a little extra something to the operator and not tossing me around like a crazy person. I’ve ever seen me in a competition for bull riding. Double check to make sure I did cheat.

She is working on a show for Peacock called Tiffany Hattish goes off and explains, it’s me and my real friends and we’re going to Africa. When I was a kid, I always used to tell them I’m going to take you to Africa. I’m very big on If I say it, that’s what it’s gonna be and it might take me thirty years, but we’re gonna do it. So we did it. It was a spiritual experience for us, a journey that I think every girlfriend group should take.

No, I’m not gonna lie to you. I thought I was gonna be on some hoe stuff. I thought I was gonna be hooking up with some African king. But then I realized I’m not the hoe I thought I was. Do you have some strong moral compass that It really showed me that who I associate with really does affect how I move.

Zarn A Gorg she’s got a good team too, good job agent in pr team, she has been everywhere. She’s going to be on Hulu in July. Her special is called Practical People Win. It’ll premiere Friday, July eighteenth. In Practical People Win, Zarna Gorg will take aim at husband’s kids, in laws, and anyone who dares question in Indian Mom’s wisdom.

How long special filmed in San Francisco. Mike Veckione will get a special on Nate Bergatzy’s YouTube channel, Nateland. This one’s called Low Income White. It’ll be out June twenty seventh. That’s this week in Low income White Mike unloads of Barrage, a fast paced, observational humor that hits on everything from aging and generational divides to the absurdity of modern life.

Got a quick clip for you, Well, let’s listen. I got all kinds of friends now, single, married, divorced. I got one friend he got married, divorced, remarried the same woman. I talked to him a few days ago. He said, I’m depressed.

I’m like, why are you depressed? He said, I’m having marital problems. Like, dude, you’re not having marital problems. You have a learning disability. Chris Porter talked to w RF and said he’s enjoyed touring, but sometimes envy’s people he grew up with who stayed local.

He says, there’s something peaceful about that life, like an episode of Leave It to Beaver. Everything you ever knew right there. But I’m also glad I left saw the world did some crazy stuff. Still, I miss when things felt massive, when being back stage at a concert was a big deal. It’s like when your friend is a Zach Brown fan and you’re like, oh, yeah, I just played guitar with them at Kid Rock’s house.

Chelsea Handler was talking about the origins of her book deal, she says, I got this book deal when I was dating Joe coy You know, you may remember Joe Coyo was at the Golden Globes one time, but I’m not going to get into that story today. And it was a very public relationship. My editor was like, oh my god, Chelsea Handler’s in love and publicly in love. You have to write a book about falling in love. And I was like, no problem.

I didn’t know this. Chelsea and Joe coy were first introduced by John Lovetz I guess, I mean, why not? Chelsea said. The end of that relationship changed the trajectory of writing her book. Or editor asked if she would consider writing a book about breaking up, and Chelsea was like, nah, my vibe is happy and optimistic.

I thought, okay, I’m not going to just do a book. Because I have a book deal. I can give the book deal back. So I reflected and I traveled. I thought, do I have anything to say?

And I did think about how people perceived me and how I feel and where I am in my life and where I want it to be. I think the book, which is called I’ll Have What she’s having about reflection. I don’t think we’ve all given ourselves enough credit for where we’ve come from and what we’ve accomplished. We go so fast through life that you kind of forget. And here’s a conspiracy theory that even I don’t believe in.

People are claiming that the upcoming film tron Ares is copying ideas from Adam Sandler. Stay with me, Why would you copy an idea from Adam Sandler unless the idea was have Drew Barrymore in your film. That would be the only idea for Adam Sandler I would ever copy. Right. So, tron Ares is a sequel to Tron Legacy, which is a sequel to say it with me, Tron.

Now, in this new movie, Tron’s digital world spills over into the real world, right, So it’s like video game stuff coming to the real world. People are saying that is a similar idea to Adam Sandler’s twenty fifteen movie Pixels, which I guess it is, but it’s kind of not at all. Do you really think somebody said, hey, Disney, you know we got this whole Tron franchise, you know we ought to make a third movie. Hey, great idea John, What do you got? What if we ripped off one of Adam Sandler’s worst movies?

What do you mean one of Adam Sandler’s worst movies? They’re all terrible. No, I know, they’re all terrible except on cut Gems and the one about basketball and the Space one. Those ones are okay and the two with Drew Barrymore. But the rest are all garbage.

We know that. But why would we rip off Pixels? I mean, if we were going to rip off an Adam Sandler movie, why that one? You know you’re right, that’s your comedy needs for today. See you tomorrow

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Jefferies started at age seventeen. In nineteen ninety four, he did some open nights in Sydney and said two of them went really badly and one of them went okay, And in fact one that went badly hurt me so much. I thought, this is all I ever do in my life.

I didn’t get back on stage until I was twenty. Now it’s all I could ever do in my life and the only real job I’ve had. I think about it a lot, and I do feel really lucky. We all get older, Jim says, I still push boundaries, but it’s a lot less about shock and more about clarity. Now.

The funny thing about comedy is that it’s more universal than people think. People everywhere relate to having kids, hating their jobs, worrying about money. The accent changes, but the laugh is the same. Mike Birbiglia had sold gold Derby about meeting Pope Francis the previous pope. Meeting Pope Francis was very moving, and I think it was very inspirational.

He was a deeply kind, loving and compassionate person who wanted change for the Catholic and he wanted progressive ideas, bussing gay couples and welcoming divorced couples back into the church and all these things. He would sort of go, well, of course, but actually there’s a faction of people who don’t want that to be the case. And so I say in my special, I go, in case you don’t know this pope, he’s pretty good, but only compared to other popes. If you met him at a party, you’d be like this guy, But compared to popees, he’s amazing. Some of the popes were literally Nazis, by the way, the Kurd Pope Pope Leo.

I’m writing a podcast called White Smoke, and we’ve been putting that out seven days a week since Pope Leo took over. There is like the podcast is barely religious. Like this week alone, we were talking about how Pope Leo met al Pacino and how Pope Leo is related to Madonna and Justin Bieber and he’s a White Sox fan, so there’s all kinds of fun stuff to talk about with Pope Leo. That podcast is called White Smoke. Wherever you get your shows for Bigly I said, I feel like stand up comedy is always best when it’s whatever you’re obsessed with.

In my obsession when I started writing this thing was the Good Life. How do you answer your child’s questions? We don’t necessarily know the answers. I was really knocking out of the park when she was five with the answers, but now that she’s eight, I don’t know all the answers. I don’t know how to explain drugs and the thing that happened with my dad.

Her BIG’s daughter asked if Grandpa was okay at a stroke, and Mike said he didn’t know. That’s some one was like, oh well, let me try to say this on stage and see if I can find the comedy in it. If you look at all my specials, that’s the challenge behind each one. How can you take a light threatening sleepwalking disorder and make that funny? How can you talk about having bladder cancer and make that funny?

And it’s like, if you can, that’s the ultimate comedy handshake with the audience, and if you can’t, then you just have to find another topic. I’ve developed a relationship with my audience where I trust them now to be okay. With it, and they trust me to take some big swings emotionally. I think it’s symbiotic at this point, and I think there’s a degree to which as a comedian, the audience will go there. If what you’re saying is funny, If it’s moving, the audience will go there, and if it’s boring comedically or dramatically, they won’t.

Jimmy O Yang told The South China Morning Post. There’s an expectation, especially if you grow up in a Chinese family, to go to college, and there’s only a few majors that are considered legitimate majors like doctor lawyer, a can finance. At first, I was an engineering major, but then didn’t love it. I try to find something easier that would also make my dad happy, so I chose economics. His dad helped him get an internship with Smith Barney.

Jimmy says it was like a golden ticket. Everybody wants to work for Smith Barney, but Jimmy never enjoyed it. He said, when I was a kid, I’d build little forts with my chopstick wrappers. He took hot jobs, try to make money from his hobbies. He worked as a DJ.

He got into comedy and said I didn’t have any stage for it. Although my jokes weren’t very good in the beginning. I think Hong Kong people have a great sense of humor, so I learned a lot from that growing up. Of course, my dad, he’s a very funny, charismatic Shanghai knees man. Bob Odenkirk, you have any wisdom for us, Bob tells Esquire.

No, I do not have worthy wisdom to give anyone. It’s a strange moment for me. I feel more uncertain than I having a long time about who I am, what I’m trying to do. I’ve been out of my element for about fifteen years now, starting with Better Call Saul. I had to leave this dramatic show and I had to learn on the job, and then I did an action movie called Nobody.

I’m coming to the end of a chapter where I redefine myself, but I’m not sure what that means. One of my qualities on screen is that I’m strangely earnest. My earnestness really doesn’t lend itself as well to comedy, which is what I’ve done for most of my career. It fits better in a drama. One of the weird things about where I am now is I don’t know what to do next.

Where’s the next load of laundry. There’s no laundry to do. I didn’t deserve half of what I had. You know, I can’t pretend like I have to engineer some great career. I’m so far past anything at any right to dream of.

So I guess I have to work on myself, which is that wonderful thing people do when they have enough money and they’re honest about the fact that the universe has been really good to them, and anything that remains that’s a discrepancy or an unsettling feeling is all theirs. He does have advice about fights. In a real fight, I would, upon the advice of every single stunt man I’ve ever worked with, get out of the room as fast as I can. Every one of them will tell you the first thing you do in a fight is get away from the fights. Fights are not fun, and they’re not good, and almost no one wins.

It’s not a movie. A lot of what you do for screen fightings goes against the basic rules of actual fighting. When you swing a punch, you go big and wide as you can which is not a good idea in a real fight, because now you’re way open. Lots of slessengers. Tour dates include Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Slavinia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.

Eliza says, I’m very lucky to have fans all over the world, so I always get to do Europe. I was in Finland, which is an incredible comedy market, and these girls came to my meet and greet. They made me this really cool card. They kind of look like me, and they were like, you should come to Estonia. I never thought about a Estonian and b that there would be cool girls like that.

So I’ve been working on this tour for a few years and I was inspired by meeting those really cool girls. I hope they’re still my fans because I’m coming. You should always be mindful of where you are and what your audience is. Outside of America, certain references will land because of our pop culture, but I think it’s always good to cater to and never pander. A couple of local jokes is great, but the point of view stays the same.

Seth Meyers did a lot of press for some reason. This month. He spoke to the Good One podcast. He said one of the ideas for SNL fifty was I wanted to have all the impressions of democratic presidents come out and just thank the liberal institution of SNL. Then the fake presidents would say, thanks for your help.

We’ve won six out of thirteen elections. Meyer said, as much as people talk about influenia LESNL is, it’s like sub five hundred if you truly believe it’s the liberal media. It’s wildly ineffective. And I like this profile from Star News Online, who tells us Wilmington, Delaware’s most controversial comic. She’s a gay, conservative mom and recovering addict.

She also claims to hate being gay. Ellie Coleman has a lot of good quotes in this article. Her production company is Ellie Degenerate Productions. Ellie Coleman says, mainly, I’m just focused on what pays my bills and gives me a savings account. She sounds very real.

I don’t leave my house for less than three hundred dollars unless I want to, and being able to do that, like coming from being homeless to being able to like pay me three hundred bucks, it’s pretty cool. We are told. Her comedic persona is a heightened version of her chip on the shoulder personality. One might call it lesbian redneck, a millennial bland of white trash hip hop, conservative leading politics, and jokes about everything from gay sex and drug abuse to being married and raising a toddler. Coleman used to wear her hair in a mullet.

She wears baseball caps, padded vests with furry colors, and or Dale Earnhardt t shirts under flannels. She describes her style as one hundred percent insensitive. It’s insensitive, and it’s one half the population is thinking, but they’re too scared to say it. During June, she jokes about the Pride flag. She started making jokes about Biden during the twenty four election because she was sick of hearing so many liberal Trump jokes, and explains a lot of the stuff I say on stages and how I really feel.

But I’m dead serious when I joke about being gay on stage, Like, I think the gay community has taking it way too far. We got dudes marching around inspeedos and stuff around kids. It’s like, okay, maybe tone it back a little bit, you know, go do that in a bar. She sounds like a lot of fun. I enjoy her.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. Eliza Slessengers been doing a lot of press, and Eliza says, feminism, it has become such a divisive word. And it wasn’t even a word I used until I realized women are totally misunderstood. Feminism is about getting your point across without aiming to exclude anyone.

You can stand up for women without bashing men, because feminism, by definition is about uplifting everyone. And so I try to be skillful at getting the point across about the way women are represented and the way women feel, our point of view while including the men in the audience, the men who love us, who date us, who reject us, who brought us there, who are friends with, and who are related to. Because if you don’t get the other half on your side, whatever the debate, you’re gonna lose. Nobody wants to spend money to see your performance and leave feeling bad. I’m a big believer in being fair, taking shots at everyone, and always, even if I hurt your feelings, bringing you back in good question of Eliza here, she was asked how big of a factor is the perception of being quote unquote trying to clean this up kissable, you know what I mean In comedy all I said, I don’t care about the perception and stand up comedy, but it is something that gets put on women anyway.

I show up with my jokes, ready to do the work, and in the common is always about being at an attractive level or being hot. That’s not to say that women don’t want to be attractive, but you’re factoring these variables they have to reckon with whether you want it to or not. And that applies to the way we dress. Is that tight? Are you attractive?

Are they distracted? These are just microhurdles that are not insurmountable, but it takes a lot of practice to be like, well, I’m wearing this and I’m talking about this. Get on board. Bob Odenkirk told Esquire his creative partnership with David Cross is like magic, pure magic that you cannot label or find. It’s not unlike a marriage.

I could sit here and list things that make us great partners, but there’s a dimension of blind trust and love that you can’t put a label to. If you’re not stupid, you have to appreciate that and respect it and be thankful for it. Bob talked about growing up and said, my dad’s indiscretion were so self evident in public. He was just a black hole of presence and of leadership. He was just a zero.

The lessons I got from my mom that were of value to being a decent person or self evident. She worked her ass off. She was mission oriented, which is to say, do the laundry, get the food on the table, get the kids where they’re going. When you’re a little kid and you live in a fairly nice neighborhood, but you drink powdered milk, you don’t quite know do we have money or do we not have money? I think we have no money, But does that mean we’re gonna be living in a corn next week?

Your life’s on steady. You’re very wobbly inside. We watched the Carol Burnett Show. I don’t really know how consciously what I was getting from that, but when I think back in it, you saw adults making each other laugh, and you’re happy to feel that warmth on the TV. It’s a wonderful thing to give to the audience, that warmth that’s genuine.

I saw Monty Python when I was eleven, I was absolutely like the world peeled back then. The veneer of things being legitimate was laid bare by Monty Python. Jimmy O Yang spoke about his comedy and said, I feel like you can really create something out of thin air without any tools. It’s just your brain and then a microphone. That’s all you need in an audience, and I fell in love with it.

In America, not everybody grew up with immigrant parents, not everybody grew up Chinese. But me getting more and more specific about my truth and letting people into seeing a piece of my life, that’s when people started relating to me. That’s when I was able to sell a lot more tickets because now people aren’t just coming to watch me for the jokes. They’re coming to watch me because they feel like they know me. ADDD tuned bag add attuned mag I spoke to Rachel Feinstein about her ADHD.

Rachel said, I’m insanely disorganized. I’m always running late, I shed debit cards, I’m always leaving a shoe in somebody’s car. I lose a passport almost every year. My husband, who is OCD, always says to me, whyt you just put things back in the same place, and I’m like, you’re assuming I know where I put them. My hands take trips throughout the day.

It’s like my hands aren’t connected to my body. I’m a workaholic, but only if somebody’s sitting with me. I always have to have a babysitter for myself. I pay people to sit with me. For example, an editor expressed interest in work with me on my Netflix special, but I knew I was never going to go through it and email them time code.

So I said to the editor, I’m going to come to your house and sit with you and edit every line with you. I don’t think he thought I was really going to do it. Then I was over at his place, just me and him and his wife in a little apartment. I’d leave and bathe and give him time to implement notes. But we were together for two weeks and we got it done.

I think we were common law wed by the end of that process. Seth Meyer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how it’s increasingly hard to find humor and politics, and my barking dogs weren’t impressed by what Seth had to say or that I was recording. They don’t give a hoot. I don’t know if you could hear that or not. The noise reduction might get it, but I hear it.

Guys, I’m trying to record. Why don’t you edit this out, John, because that’s not fun. Seys said, I feel like a lot of people early on election night, when you realize what was happening, It was certainly a real feeling of dread about how do we do this again. I’ll admit to thinking in twenty sixteen like this terrible mistake has been made, but at least I know it won’t happen again, and then it happens again. I just couldn’t emotionally approach it the same way.

Would have felt really empty. I do think we’re in this unique situation whereas comedians opposed to the news, you can totally talk about things however you want to talk about them. So there wasn’t a big meeting or anything of the show, but we did say, all right, we have to still be joyful in the making of the show, and even when we’re talking about how bad things are, it has to be through an expression of joy with people who also want to feel like they’re coming for an hour of joyful performance. The Holly reporter asked Seth about losing the band from Late Night, Says says, those conversations were not fun. We don’t always agree with the people in charge, but we always do believe them, and it’s nice to know they’re coming to you sometimes with bad news from an place, and in this case the news is industry wide.

So we didn’t take it personally and we came up with a solution. And while it’s really hard to lose the band that on a personal level, I missed them all a great deal. We don’t feel as though the show has been massively affected on a quality level. I don’t feel like we hear from anybody. It’s just not the same.

And it’s funny when we talk about innovation. We were never going to innovate by making the show bigger. We weirdly innovate by making it a little smaller. Nice job by w come out Bell. He’s been doing a run of stand up shows and giving the proceeds to thirteen local arts organizations.

Those organizations lost funding when the National Aldowment for the Arts canceled some grants. Bell said it’s about supporting the local arts scene and making up for what our government refuses to do. We’re going to try and make those whole that didn’t receive any reimbursement on their grants and then split the proceeds evenly with the rest. The shows benefit the Berkeley Repertory Theater, the American Conservatory Theater, Theater Works, Silicon Valley Theater, Bay Area, San Francisco Youth Theater, Marie Shakespeare Company, Oakland Theater Project, New Conservatory Theater Center, Magic Theaters, Fan Francisco, Children’s Ferryland in Oakland, Crowded Fire Theater Company, Co Dance Theater, and Dance Mission Theater. Belle said, without theater’s nurturing talent, I don’t have the career I have right now.

Nice job, sir from Stripes dot com, which is Stars and Stripes, you know, the military newspaper. Yeah, they wrote about a comedy bar in Tokyo, and I found it interesting and I like doing this sort of thing on the weekend. It’s called Tokyo Comedy Bar, and you’ll find it near Shibuya Station in Tokyo. We’re told the third floor club includes a cramp bar serving craft beer and snacks. The room has fifty five fold out chairs a small stage in a sound system.

Comedian Tim Toe got up and told some R rated jokes related to his experience as a Chinese Canadian before a local favorite, Yuri Collins explained her dream of landing a sugar daddy who could fund cosmetic surgery. Karon Chew shared a story about getting upgraded to business class and leaving his wife to ride an economy in a recent flight. That’s very relatable. Tokyo Comedy Bar now hosts around seventy five show a month, and both Japanese and English. That’s a lot.

The main draw is the nightly seven thirty PM stand up comedy showcase. A nine o’clock slot usually features open mics, international headliners or Japanese language acts. If you find yourself in Tokyo would have cost you about two thousand and en to get in. That’s around fourteen dollars, and we’re told dress is casual. Tokyocomedy Bar dot com if you’re curious about more, and that is your comedy news for today.

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