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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, summer finally came to where I live. I am so excited, and I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Late night. Had a pretty good week. Let’s do some late night jokes.

Haven’t done this for a while, Jimmy Fallon said. The White House is now claiming that over two hundred and fifty thousand people attended the parade last weekend. Yeah, it was an estimate, give or take two hundred and fifty thousand. John Stewart said it was less a show of overwhelming force and more like a military museum getting at its steps. Did you see Trump is coming out with a phone?

Seth Meyers at the Trump Organization today unveiled plans for a new Trump mobile phone service. Best of all, you won’t have any need for a friends and family plan allan. A lot of words come to mind when you think of Trump, but mobile is not really one of them. It’s the perfect phone to call your friends. It’d be like, yeah, I’m at the parade, there’s no one here.

Switching topic, Seth Meyers said, Trump is reportedly considering joining the war between Israel and Iran, and you might not like it. But he did say over and over again during the campaign America Third, Colbert, the thing is Trump being bunkerbuster curious is a shock to some people because one of the things that America First supposedly meant was keeping American troops out of foreign wars, so we can send more of them to Los Angeles, you know, send them to America first. All right, send your letters to those guys. You’re gonna be mad. You need a Biden joke to keep this thing balanced.

All right. Did you see Biden stumbled onto the set of Reacher. That’s a real thing that happened. They were filming Reacher in Philadelphia and Joe Biden showed up. Long story, Google it, The late Bot said.

Hunter Biden was impressed with the action scenes, but thought they needed more laptops. Late Bot again. New season Pitch, Reacher tracks down a fugitive, only to find out the President already pardoned him invited him with thanksgiving Late Bot again. Insiders say Hunter Biden was impressed with the explosions, but disappointed no one offered him a role as guy who misplaces important evidence. Send your letters to the late Bot.

Now we’ve offended everybody. Let’s move on. Or maybe not. THEO Vaughan is speaking out about the potential US involvement in the conflict, saying, quote, he doesn’t understand why America will get involved in a milie’s fight. On his podcast, and this story is making the rounds as I record this afternoon, he address the possibility that Israel is trying to get the United States into a war with Iran.

I don’t trust the Israeli leader at all, said Vaughan. I don’t believe anything the guy says, and I don’t think our soldiers should have to go and defend stuff that they start. I’m not a soldier, so I’m obviously speaking out of turn. I’m not even brave enough to serve. So there’s that element.

But this is kind of how I feel, I guess. So it’s like, yeah, when do I speak? When do I say that? Because you know, because it feels like they’re trying to push Trump to go do that, and it’s like who makes that choice? Does he make that choice?

And then what do we get? You know, what’s the win for us? We’re just involved in some other thing while we have suffering here at home. In more fun topics in Great News, Tom Sigor is Bad Thoughts has been renewed for a second season. I had a nice moment with my son the other day.

We were sharing a little whiskey and I was telling him about the show, and I said, it’s very funny and it’s very adult, and we will never speak of it it. Sigora shared a video of him breaking the news to his mother. Tom said, I’m so excited. She’s definitely not happy with it. It was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and horrify audiences with our very Bad Thoughts on Netflix.

We’re all excited to push things further with season two. I promise your family will not approve of what we do. Netflix shared the video and they tagged it sorry to Tom Sigora’s mom. Bad Thoughts is coming back for season two. No release date on that.

I discovered is the wrong word. I was watching Netflix and I got to the end of Tires episode six, and I was like, all right, that was pretty good. There’s six more episodes. I thought it was a six episode season because season one was six episodes. It’s twelve episodes, so I basically have a bonus season of Tires to get to Shane Gillis Tires on Netflix.

That and Sigora and the Conan Thing are the three funniest things of the year, all on Netflix. Good job there. Dred Carmichael did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. I found his first answer here really odd. The question from the Hollywood Reporter Ubye Gay is almost disarmingly frank about sex.

What made you want to go there with your first hour since Nathaniel? A right fine question. Now listen to this answer. I don’t know what to make of it, Drod said. I like speaking explicitly about sex.

It’s exciting because it’s the complete opposite of my life. For many, many years it was all suppression. Now, especially being in a relationship, I feel compelled to articulate the experience. I guess I hadn’t heard that a lot in comedy. And that’s funny because in a sense, it’s what you wanted from Louis c.

K. He was going around the edges of truly articulating sexual experiences. But there’s that glaring truth that he didn’t acknowledge. The same thing with Bill Cosby. Cosby is truly a master of the craft.

But now it’s like you hear it and you’re like, man, Wow, you didn’t really acknowledge what you were doing. Those are really scaring things. I don’t know what to make of that, especially on the Cosby front. Now, I do have a Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until mister Cosby passes away, but I will tell you that story someday. It was quite eye opening personal experience on I had with mister Cosby, who I interacted with at least three times.

A story for another day. So draw continued and said, even with a ZS. When we had the Babe dot Net situation, he made a special Spike Jones. It was well done, but it wasn’t quite exactly what you wanted. You wanted him to.

Well, you want anyone to come up and say, here’s what happened. That’s one of the things I admire about Richard Pryor. He’d come out on stage and be like, Hey, here’s what’s going on with me? Anything happening with him in public, he’d address it and work it out through comedy is doing what I wish my father, both my actual father and comedy forefathers would do. It’s a vulnerable thing.

The women in comedy, the best of the best have dealt with really vulnerable things, from Ellen to Tig and made it hilarious. I just feel compelled to do it, and I’m excited to do it a little nervous obviously about saying it and putting it out into the world. I don’t know what to make of all that. Yeah, I just I don’t have any comment. Be curious what you think.

Share your thoughts on the Facebook group Dilly Comedy News podcast group. Really really interesting there. I’m not sure what he wanted to seek, is these of those guys to do or Bill cous what’s Bill Cosby gotta do? Come out and do? Never mind.

Jeff Ross was on with Jimmy Kimmel. Jeff shared a joke his doctor delivered to Jeff Ross when telling Jeff Ross that he had colon cancer. Ross said, my oncologist was like, Jeff, good news and bad news. The bad news is you’re gonna need six months of chemo. The good news is you lost your hair a long time ago.

That’s brutal. Jeff said, I was already in my fifties. I’d never gotten a colin oscopy. I went in, I had no symptoms, and I had a tumor in my colon. You always think it’s never gonna happen to you, and it happened to me.

Now I have a semi colon. All right? What waw? Jeff addresses his cancer diagnosis in his one man show, Jeff Ross, Take a Banana for the Ride. It’ll be on Broadway this summer.

Jeff says, I don’t want the show to be Maudlin, but I think it’s important to address it. Norm MacDonald was very private and hit his sickness. I didn’t think that was fair to the audience and his friends. So I’m putting it out there, but I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. It’s going to be a very empowering and bold statement on how to get through tough times.

All right. If you’re planning on seeing Devin Walk and Michael Longfellow in Philadelphia this weekend, you’re not. They have canceled a pair of stand up dates. They are showing support for striking and terminated staffers at the venue where they were going to perform. Apparently, what has happened here?

Several employees at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live walked out during a performance by Suzanne Vega they have accused the venue’s new management of fostering a hostile work environment and failing to deliver timely accurate pay. Management responded the next day. According to this version, apparently management then let a dozen people go and ban them from the venue. Walker on Instagram said, in light of the labor disputed of the venue, we’ve decided to cancel the Philly show this weekend. We’re working on getting another date in the city later this year.

Brett Goldstein is hard to get secrets out of. He was speaking to Variety. They were curious about the new season of Shrinking. Michael J. Fox is a guest star.

Jeff Daniels and Cannis Bergen also appear. Goldstein said, being on set with Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox doing a scene, you’re like, am my tripping at my back in my bedroom in the eighties. But it wouldn’t give any details about it about Ted Lasso. You’re gonna tell us about Ted Lasso, Brett said, Obviously, I can’t tell you a single thing about it, of course, but we’re working on it and it’s good.

It’s exciting to have everyone back together. I put the spin on the word everyone there. Bill Lawrence talked about the Scrubs reboot and said, I hate the narrative, like, oh, the ninth year sucked, it’s sour grapes whatever. I’m lucky to have done it. I didn’t get to work on that season as much, but the writing staff did a great job.

If it had been a spin off called Scrubs Med or Scrubs Med School, it wouldn’t have been judged as horsehly. But I understand the business of that decision. Yeah, season nine. You know, it’s different that the show had kind of wrapped up and then ABC brought it back, and I know at the time they wanted to call it something like Scrubs Met and the network’s like, no, no, no, Scrubs. Season nine is fine.

It’s just it’s different. It’s like kind of like after Scrubs. Of the reboot, Lawrence says, this one is also called Scrubs and it starts with j D and Turk, although this version will try to capture the same humor and heart as the original run. We catch up with JD fifteen years later and has been beaten down by the system. Bill explains the hardest part is that Zach and Donald have aged people still have that affinity and love for that goofy youthfulness.

That’s why the T mobile commercials work well. But if I saw two guys in their late forties early fifties doing World’s most Giant Doctor and carrying each other around all the time, I’d go, what is going on? To see what that friendship looks like at their age, and take a comedic look at what medicine has become since those kids started out as interns, and see how our people would look at it, deal with it and try to remain optimistic. Is their main objective. I’ll share with you my wife is a physician, and she was an intern when Scrubs came on, and she for decades said Scrubs was actually the most realistic medical show because of you know, take all the broad comedy out of it, but just the background stuff of like how the hospital operated.

She said it was the most realistic that has now been superseded by the Pit where I was fun to watch the pit with her because she would just comment and be like, Oh, yeah, they’re doing this, they’re doing this. It was very realistic, according to doctor Mac. Back to Bill Lawrence, he says, I’ll tell you the people I based the original characters on, like the real JD Doctor Jonathan Doris is still the medical advice on the show, and it’s still a cardiologist and a heart surgeon in LA. But the real Elliott, who was Doris’s wife, doctor Dolly Clock, is no longer in medicine because it got to be too much for her. She wanted to do other things that we’re equally as philanthropic.

She does this education thing for adolescents and kids now. So to look at how the system not only changed, but it’s beaten some of these people down, how they retain their optimism with a wave of new young characters has been really fun. My hope would be that we established where everybody from the original show is, whether they’re still with us at the hospital or not. That would be great. Bill says, I hope Ken Jenkins as doctor Bob Kelso, who’s eighty four now, is able to come play with us a little bit.

He’s a little older, but we love him so much. Don’t expect Scrubs two O to feature the kids. Bill says, I think it’s inevitable that Jad and Elliott’s kid made compearances, but Scrubs is first and foremost a workplace comedy. So I think we’re going to keep it that. I’m looking forward to that.

And that is your comedy news for today. And I’m always honest with you guys about the shows right when I go, Hey, this weekend’s pretty good. This week this weekend, it’s a lot of filler stories. It’s, being honest, a light week. I carved two shows out of it.

I’m never going to tell you not to download the show. But you know, if you took a weekend off, this might be the weekend to take off. But I’ll see you if not tomorrow on Monday. I get it, just being honest, see you

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Callarogas Shock Media. Hello there, I’m Johnny Mack with the Daily Comedy News and Mark Marin was at the Tribeca Film Festival talking about the new documentary he’s part of. Will talk about that in a second, but the question of course, hey, you’re ending your podcast, Mark said, I do put it a lot of it out there, and if I can handle it and I can be gracious about it, and I don’t know what it’s going to be like to not do it twice a week, and I don’t know what part of it is my own neediness or my own need to connect. But I can feel the weight of abandoning these people who have written over the years you saved my life. I got sober because of you.

I didn’t kill myself.

And then there’s part of me that’s like, are they going to be okay?

Should I reach out to them? Personally? It meant the world to me and really evolved my sense of self and my sense of being a person. All of this stuff I do is fueled whatever my particular creativity is, and I’m sure I’m not going to disappear after the podcast, but the goal will now be to figure out where to channel that creativity. One of those things.

He’s got an HBO comedy special that’ll be out in August, so between that and the podcast ending and the documentary, a lot of them are mare. In this summer, Mark spoke about putting the special together and said, my process is moving through these things to maybe no laughter and not quite having a way to make it funny or through line of things. Seeing that part of my process, which is not a standard stand up process, is where I knew going into the documentary that telling the stories was going to be emotionally loaded, and I didn’t have any real control over those emotions, but I knew it being public with the feelings would eventually enable me to settle into that, and if I believed in comedy’s ability to elevate those feelings into something common and funny, if not touching, that it would reveal itself on stage. So we had to do that. For better or worse.

The work I do in general is fairly candid and personal. The real question becomes how do you do this? When do you do it? The choice to do a podcast episode days after Lynn Shelton passed away, my producer was like, we don’t ever have to do a podcast again if you can’t handle it, and I’m like, well, I don’t know. I think it’s kind of important to expose this process in a way because everybody goes through it one way or another.

You can outrun grief, and it’s something that people don’t really talk about. Part of what I was thinking, I owe it to myself and just what I do as an artist performers to have public experience with this. The documentary is called Are We Good. Julie Sebaw is the producer and spoke to The New York Post about the doc. Julie says, I made the master timeline of his life when through all his podcast episodes, arranged the shoots at the venue, spent five years a story editor, plotted out with the different threads of the film we’re going to be and gave my sometimes harsh opinion on what should be included.

The Post was curious does the narrative of the doc change with WTF coming to an end? Julie said, a lot of people are curious about that my phone blew up when that happened, But there’s a plan and the release will be around the same timeframe is when the podcast is ending. This is Maren we’re talking about, though, he’s going to do everything he wants on his own terms. I think we’re all excited to see what the next version of Maren is going to be, but he does seem happy settling into his old man phase. The Post asked what it’s like working with Mark Maren.

Julie said, there’s never a dull moment with Mark Maron. He’s a highly watchable person, but also a bit volatile. When you start seeing how he lives and where everything comes from into his mind, it’s rewarding on a whole other level. He gets super emotional sometimes. After a Seattle set, Lynn’s friends came up to him and said he knew Linn is proud of him.

We instantly see his face crumble as he takes pictures with fans. The Post was curious what landed on the cutting room floor. Julie says there were a lot of scenes or moments of him trash talking comedians that didn’t make the finished product. There’s still a little bit in there, but it wasn’t the crux of the movie. We didn’t need to bring an outside controversy into something that’s already a lot to deal with as a film on its own.

That’s interesting, right, Wonder who it is Julie’s working on that Mitch Hedberg documentary, the one with Jeff Siegel. I’d spoke to Jeff a few months ago. Now looking forward to both those documentaries. Bert Kreischer and Raw Recap explained what went down in the ring on April seventh. Bert Krescher had appeared in a segment during the episode of ww RAW.

Bert wound up hopping the barricade to put a stop to Austin Theory and Grayson Waller’s attack on CM. Punk Kreischer said the moment wasn’t planned. He had proposed doing a spot earlier in the evening Triple H veto at at Triple H has creative control. But once Waller and Theory He’s beat down of CM started taking place, Bert says, they take me over, and I just pull my belt off to defend myself because I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I’m in way over my head.

All of a sudden, Sampunk’s like getting the rings. I get in the ring and he’s like, can you choke slam him? And I was like, I think so. So he just put his throat in my hand. I heard sampunk go one two boom, and brother, I would to say every man deserves to lose his virginity to the woman he loves and to choke slam a person from a different country.

That’s all I’ll say. The Sydney Morning Harold wrote a big profile piece about Joe Rogan and the Joe Rogan Experience. Jordan Baker writes under the headline, Joe Rogan’s message can be rambling and unpolished, yet men idolize him. This might be why, Jordan writes, Joe Rogan likes to hunt and cook his own food. He shoots with a bow, elk with their wild screams or his favorite prey, then barbecues the meat and serves a thinly cut with cheese and jalapinos.

He uses wheaton psychedelics, reads Hunter S. Thompson and dabbles in stand up comedy. He’s a mixed martial arts expert and nurtures his hard, nuggety physique with grueling workouts at Experimental Supplements. Rogan is a man’s man and many Australian men love him. His followers are not just fight fans.

Jim Burrows and fellow vaccine skeptics, highly educated or bane and politically centrist men listen to. One anonymous fan says, who wouldn’t want to be a skilled martial artist with loads of muscles? Would you rather be that guy or be known for being witty or intelligent? Yeah, I’d rather be that guy. The Herold tells us of a Sydney based chief executive who listens regularly and says, if you go to the pub with your mates and shoot the stuff for a few hours, the conversation goes from the footy to taxes to did you hear about the crazy celebrity?

That’s what you get from Rogan? Do people say you’ve got to be careful of Joe Rogan? And the Manisphere? Are people from legacy media who are losing out to him? Jordan Beger continues, It’s a conversation with no specific purpose, reminiscent and freshman lying on the university lawn, gazing at the stars.

His stick is open minded curiosity about everything, even theories that are discredited. He hates talking points and scripts. He expects his guests to say what they think rather than spin answers to avoid stepping on toes, I really like this piece a lot. How they quote Jack, who’s twenty six and works in insurance, and I think Jack understands the show and likes it for the same reasons that I do. Jack says he’s having a bit of fun.

He might be having a few drinks on the podcast. He’s debating things. They talk about, interesting topics, a different point of view. I just think he’s a funny, good bloke. That’s how I feel about the show.

I don’t take it too seriously. I find it easy on the years. It’s a good late night podcast if you’re ever in trouble sleeping. I like it a lot. Netflix announced Nate Jackson will have a special on July eighth.

It is called Super Funny. Nate Jackson tackles everything from racially questionable cookies to other everyday absurdities. Nate is also going to be in that office spinoff reboot whatever it is side project The Paper, so we’ll be hearing a lot about Nate Jackson and Chelsea Handler will be your headliner at the twenty twenty five Rochester Fringe Festival that’s coming up in September. So I shared this in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Remember the Nate Brighetzi Esquire profile that came out in May, So I was actually looking at it again and in it it had a photo shoot, and it came away feeling a little weird.

So here’s Nate, and I understand, you know what Esquire is going for, but they want us to know that Nate Berghetsi is wearing a fifty six hundred dollars jacket, a four hundred and twenty eight dollars shirt, three hundred and twenty eight dollar trousers, a one hundred and twenty eight dollars tie, seven hundred and ninety five dollars shoes, a ten thousand, six hundred dollars watch, a three hundred ninety five dollars ring, and a two hundred and seventy five dollars bilt. And I don’t know, as I posted, I go, is this supposed to make Nate more likable? Seems to disconnect, and then some of the gang was debating that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Again, I’m not like walking around all day going I can’t believe Naper gets he’s wearing a ten thousand dollars watch. But it just seemed a little bit of a disconnect from his everyday image.

Whatever Jimmy Kimmel taking the summer off. David Spade mentioned that he will be one of the fillins this year. Again every time kim Ol starts going, oh, maybe I won’t host Late Night anymore. And I understand public negotiating. It’s like, dude, you get the summer off.

If you could stretch out your winter break, you could cut down the three days four days, and you probably do four days now. You can cut down the three. Abc’ll keep you. You might have to take a little less money, but don’t walk away from the show. Ken Flores, who passed away earlier this year, is one of the comedians in Hulu’s LOL Live.

The La Times wrote a nice piece about Ken. Gabe Iglesias talked about having Ken open for him in twenty twenty three. Gabe says it was a highlight to have him. His family’s mom, dad, and friends were there with him and fifteen thousand people that night. He remembers Flores as kind and respectful.

People did like him, and that’s very tilling. Ralph Barbosa said, the most memorable thing about him is how really was Ken never kissed anybody’s butt. She made me respect him a lot more because that means everything he got was through talent and hard work. Flores was going to tour this year with Renee Vaka and Ralph Barbosa. Renee and Ralph continue to tour.

They adopted the tour name from Ken The Butterfly Effect, and they split the profit three ways to include Flores’s family. Barbosa said none of us would do it unless it was split this even during every show they play an unreleased fifteen minute segment of Flores. Becka says he’s still killing it in the audience. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media boy, ye will not stop raining where I live, He’ll know. I’m Johnny mac Crafton’s Eide once again with your Daily Comedy News The Tennessee and I checked out one of the Nateland shows at Zenie’s in Nashville. They do that on Monday nights. It’s say lineup curated by Nate Brigetzi. Nicole likes attending the shows.

She said there’s always a chance Nate will show up, which is a pretty good possibility. If he’s there on a Monday night, you get to see a short set from him, essentially for free, which is huge. Nate showed up on April twenty eighth and did twenty minutes. Nate told The Tennessee, and I want the next generation to have a chance to come up behind me. I always believed in myself.

I always believed I was going to get to a high level. But I remember going to TV show producers and wanted to pitch shows and you get told no. I felt frustration. Why didn’t you pick me? Before people had to do sitcoms to do arenas, I’ve gone this other way.

Now you can just become a stand up comedian. I want that to be the path for the next group that comes up. Comics coming up and don’t know what they can do, and I can help show them. Aaron Weber is one of the hosts of the Nateland podcasts. He said, Nate put me on his podcast before I really had any right to be there.

He produced and funded my debut comedy special, and as busy as he is these days, he’s always available for advice whenever I need it. Greg Warren, who’s been in comedy for thirty years, said his career took off with Nate’s help. Warren said, honestly, I remember thinking I may be finally getting better at this. I might be too old for anyone to care. Nate produced two of Warren’s specials, help Warren launch his own podcast as part of the network, and tap Warren to be an opening act on the road.

Warren said, I toured Europe with Nate. Yeah, his daughter took advantage of my fear of heights and terrorized me at the top of the Eiffel Tower. But I’m still grateful of everything he’s done for me. I’m enjoying my career more than I ever have, and Nate is a huge part of that. Steve Carell gave the commencement speech at Northwestern University’s graduation over the weekend, and then middle of it, Steve said it is time to follow me.

In the mid commencement address. At dance break, Carrel danced for a bit behind the podium, then jogged off stage to high five and celebrate with graduates. He came back to the mic and said that was as invigorating as it was disturbing. He had to catch his breath and said, wow, I’m out of shape. Got more serious and said, remember the little things like being kind and that you’re not alone.

Take care of one another, remember to laugh when you have the opportunity, and to cry when necessary. Turn new jealousy’s admiration and use it to fuel your ambition in a positive way. Comedian Dave Smith making the news. Smith is a frequent guest on Rogan and as a podcaster to himself. He had endorsed Donald Trump in twenty twenty four, and now in statements that are making the mainstream media, Dave Smith said of the President he should be impeached and removed.

He called his previous endorsement of Trump a bad calculation. Smith added all of his supporters should turn on him. It’s the absolute betrayal of everything he ran a campaign on and everything that he stood for. These comments are in response to Trump’s handling of Israel. Aron send your letters to Dave Smith.

Paton Oswalt will tape his new special, Black Coffee and Ice Water at the Audible Feeder July eleventh and twelfth. They’re going to do three show. It’ll be recorded live and later released as an Audible original, which is kind of interesting. It’s not one of the usual suspects there, and I don’t believe Audible does videos, So we’ll see what happens anyway, We’re told. In Black Coffee and Ice Water, Patton Oswalt wrestles with religion, wolves, parenting a teenager, and musical theater.

The press release says Paton mostly loses just for laughs. Montreal announced the outdoor shows. They include Puddle’s Pity Party, in which the seven foot Sad Clown, whose golden voice is comparable to rock legends like Tom Jones and Freddie Mercury, will appear. Adam Ray is Doctor Phil Live. That is a free outdoor show that’s a lot of fun.

Bonjour High, which is It’s really funny because that’s usually how I’ll walk into Starbucks and go bonjeour high, and then they hear I can’t speak French at all, they switch, which is pretty good, very good title there. It’s a bilingual performance blending French and English humor that sounds like a lot of fun. Not outdoor shows. Re starby the Legend Returns. Tickets on sale now.

Also for christ Stefano in a Varieties. Ten comics to watch We haven’t seen the list yet, but but tickets are on sale that shows at Club Soda thirty two bucks. We’ll get you in. Past comics to watch include Nate Ali Wong, Donald Glover, Kamal Pete Davidson, Nick Kroll, Aubrey Plaza, Trod Carmichael, Pete Holmes, Michael Jay, Amy Schumer, Mattel Lane, Fortune, Fiemester, Moa Mayor, Jenny Slate, Hannah einbender Io Atabury, and so many more. Of course, pretty Ohen Taylor Thompson.

Pretty impressive list, but also how about all the ones that were on the list that we forgot about? You know that too, but it’s usually a pretty good list. Friend of the show, Mark Malkoff as a book coming out called Love Jenny Carson. Mark sent out an email that tells us the biography overwhelmingly contains new details about Johnny and a show never discussed on the Carson podcast. Mark currently hosts the podcast Inside Late Night, which is a good pod for you to check out anyway.

Love Jenny Carson sets the record straight on Johnny’s legacy and shines light on the many sides of his personality, incorporating interviews with over foreigner people in his sphere, including Carson’s staff, crew, guests, guest hosts, and friends, revealing never before told behind the scenes stories are the funniest and most beloved Carson moments of all time. The book is out October twenty first. The book also promises never before detailed reasons why Johnny stopped talking to Joan Rivers, why he banned guests like William Shatner and Orson Wells, the true origins of Cornack the Magnificent, which was not stolen from Steve Allen repoort Johnny played in getting Nixon elected president, the beloved comedian who the Carson writers dreaded, guest hosting interesting, I wonder that is, and many other behind the scenes stories should be a lot of fun. That one Chang Wang spoke to the Pitch Case C and he was talking about how he did not grow up watching late night TV, and Chang says, maybe I have more of a blank slate to a certain extent, I think I’m just a naturally observant, patient and sensitive person. That’s really helpful in this line of work.

Some comedians that say from a very young age wanted to do comedy. People who start too young maybe haven’t had a chance to developing themselves that they grow into a chricature of what they think a comedian is. I started hitting open mics in my early twenties. I think the best commuteans have a good sense of who they are and the unique person they are, and can lean on that and be brave enough to explore that. Pitch k C said they feel like people have been into comedians with specific voices and name checked to Connor O’Malley and Joe Para.

Chang. Do you feel like that’s been the case, he said, yeah, I think so. There’s so many more channels now, like literally, with cable, streaming and social there’s so many more ways to find an audience who can like what you do. It allows people to be themselves weirder. I feel like they have to follow mainstream forms of expression of comedy.

It used to be to make it big, you had to do a five minute set on Johnny Carson and then Mark Malkoff would write about you in his book and you get hundreds of millions of people seeing in one night. Now you can be big if you have one hundred thousand followers on Instagram or TikTok. It’s easier to find people who appreciate what you do. Jimmy O Yang spoke with the South China Morning Post. He was surprised how quickly his Hong Kong shows sold out.

Jimmy said, I really tried everything to get my tickets to my fans. Comedy is supposed to be for the people, and if it’s up to me, I do fifty shows if there’s availability and my schedule allows. Whenever I post something of me speaking Cantonese, I get a lot of love. But man, this is next level fanfare. And how fast the tickets sold, I feel like blackpink right now.

It’s crazy. Just makes me want to come back to Hong Kong more. There’s so many people that really support me. It’s very touching. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney, in that Hollywood Reporter roundtable was asked what would a John Mulaney type be if someone were casting a John Mullini type. M’lanie said, when it has come up, it means like a gentle, lilliss, soulless wooden boy who’s fast on his feet. John adds, I’m much less nerdy than people think.

Whatever that means, I feel a little more weight in my feet when I walk around. Eliza Selessinger had her proverbial car waxed by Billboard. There is just a massive campaign going on trying to get her an Emmy. Billboard said, I was blown away when I learned you don’t write out your jokes except for a few key words. Have you always had that ability, Eliza said, I guess so.

I never questioned it or thought about it. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve been asked about it. I figured everybody had a little list of words. I know, people like Joan Rivers had a whole card catalog, but what I do as ephemeral. I’ll talk about Joe and I worked with her and her radio show in two thousand and one, sit there with two writers.

There was like the young guy who would have the hip references and the older, more established guy. Joan was amazing because these guys would write down jokes on a card, pass them to Joan and she would deliver them in her style, in her voice. And you know, some of the younger references, she might not even have known what the reference meant, but she knew how to tell a joke and would nail it. It was really great she and you know every night there were a ton of index cards which we threw out, and here twenty five years later on the fly, I’m thinking, oh, I probably should have taken those out of the garbage. That would have been pretty valua.

But I have now, twenty five years later, not that I’d sell them. I would just donate them to the Comedy Museum. But anyway, that was the thing that happened back in two thousand and one. Eliza said, I’m only using the material for about a year, and anything that I don’t use gets jotted down as a word or a sentence or two. I don’t have a library, and maybe that’s stupid.

Maybe I forget punch lines that I could have used. I have a famous bit among my friends. It’s about Las Vegas. I did it on the road for a year. I never wrote it down to this day.

My husband’s like, why don’t you do your Vegas bit? And I’m like, I can’t I remember it. So after a lie on random friends and my husband to remind me, what was that I said about curly irons by the pool.

Also, I write so much material.

I believe the good things stick when I’m creating that hour. To me, that’s the litmus test. It’s also a great way to fight off Alzheimer’s. It’s normal to do with joke two thousand times and then on the two thousand and first time, you’re like, wait, what was the punchline? But for me, that’s where the craft and practice come in.

I go up a lot, and I love doing it. And I’m always running and rerunning and fine tuning. Because when I do my special or go out on the road and people spend a lot of money to see me, I want them to see a polished product, not me sifting through a notebook or being drunk on stage. More from the Emmy campaign billboard was like your production value is a polished and sophisticated Eliza said, I appreciate that Homi old school. I like a shiny floor.

I like a high production value. Low fi production for sure has its place, and we’ll live in a world where people are getting famous off at TikTok clip from the Giggle Hut. But there’s something special about getting to create a special I agree there. I like the show business of it all. I want people to feel like they’re watching something of quality, and I believe what I create is of quality.

Well, guys, if you listen to this podcast, I don’t have to tell you who the King of comedy is. You know who the King of comedy is. Obviously, the King of comedy is Jack Black, because he’s going to receive the King of Comedy Award at the twenty twenty five Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards. Jack Black is the second person to receive the award King of Comedy. Now, obviously, who would be the other king of comedy if not Jack Black?

Only one name comes to mind, the Great, hilarious, all his movies, fantastic, his act is, and stupid at all. The King of comedy Adam Sandler. Of course, given the honor back in twenty twenty three. Jack Black will accept the Silver Blimp on stage on June twenty first. I know you’re looking forward to this.

It’ll be on Nickelodeon teen, Nick Nicktoons, Nick Junior, MTV two who apparently still exists, and CMT eight Eastern five Pacific. Put it on your calendar. So Jack Black the King of Comedy. But if you listen to this podcast every day, I don’t have to tell you who the Queen of Comedy is, do I know? Of course not say it with me some more, of course him more the Queen of Comedy.

I got this press release here from the upcoming because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival, and they included this paragraph. Hell does the Queen of Comedy some more? Celebrated for razor sharp wit, trailblazing stand up specials, and unforgettable roles in films such as Friday Afternext and Soul Playing. Anyway, the Queen of Comedy Samoora and Jay Farrow or the headlining acts at the third annual. Because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival.

It is not until October, but they’ve had a pretty nice lineup the previous two years, so looking forward to that one. Leanne Morgan spoke a little more about her upcoming sitcom Leanne. In Leanne. Leanne Morgan plays Leanne, whose life is upended when her husband of thirty three years leaves her for another woman. Starting over when you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but with the help of her family, she will navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity, and jello salad comedy writing rule of three.

But she wants people to understand this is fiction. She explains, The premise is not based on my real life. It’s based on my comedy, but it would be too weird to be about me and real life husband Chuck Morgan and my real children. It was Chucklriie that came up with the premise of my husband wants a divorce and does it over email and has had an affair with a younger woman. Here, I am a grandmother.

Blah blah blah, I just did all that. Tim Daly plays her new love interest in the show, and she had to kiss him, something she asked her real life husband about beforehand. She explained, I had to say to you real life husband, Chuck Morgan. I’m kissing Tim daily in this episode, and I go, does that bother you? Leanne said it doesn’t bother her husband because Chuck Morgan wants me to make money.

Roseanne told Fox News Digital about having an accident with a tractor that left her with quote several injuries recently while working on her hill country ranch. I had this one tree, I guess it was two nights ago. I knocked at it and a big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor. Roseanne said. It took an hour to move the tree branch, which she described as wingh one hundred pounds.

I was like, oh, I’m seventy two years old, but I just said, my mighty prayers always work. I said, come on, God, I’m seventy two years old, and I just want to be able to harness all this strong Russian energy. And I know he’s still having me if you’re with me, And then I flipped it. She told Fox News. The one drawback from the artwork is I don’t clear the trees as good as I should, and I’m always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me on the head.

Okay. Her son told US magazine that Roseanne splits her time between Sexist and Palm Beach, Florida. She’s been busy writing scripts and that she may make a return to TV. The Television Academy has revealed the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty five, many people getting in, including Macpacker, Henry Winkler, and Conan O’Brien. The twenty seventh Hall of Fame class will be inducted in LA on August sixteenth.

Congratulations to those guys and the others. Brett Goldstein caught up with the rap and said he’s been a comedian for like two decades, but I’ve done seventeen years of stand up and there’s no proof I could be lying. I’ve always resisted filming. I never put stuff I did online. It’s about the live experience, and I feel that quite strongly.

There’s a pack to make with the audience, which I love. The exchange happens at a room with an audience, and when you take that out of context and stick it on the internet for people to weigh in on, I sort of think, yeah, this wasn’t for you, It was for the room and where we did it. He had that pretty darn good HBO special recently, and he said it became a challenge of how do you make it work on screen? I know it worked in the room, but how do you edit stand up? How do you frame it?

Where do you cut into a joke? Thank God I work with brilliant people who knew what they were doing, because I was constantly like, how do we make sure this is funny on screen? I don’t know what people were expecting when they came to see me. It amazed me that they bought tickets not knowing me as a stand up. I think it probably worked in my favorite because their expectations must have been pretty low.

Maybe they thought I was going to come out and kick a ball and say f off and leave and that would be enough. But instead I came out and did stand up as myself. In a way, it’s helpful because I’ve promised them nothing and their expectations are low, so when I’m a competent stand up, it seem like I’m really good. Bob oden Kirk is starting to wrap up press for Nobody Too. He spoke with Esquire and said most movies don’t work.

They just don’t. Out of one hundred movies, there’s like two classics in there. There are twelve worth seeing. There’s another fifteen that are fine, and then the rest are a mess. More advice from Bob Odenkirk.

If you don’t want to take risks is don’t be in this business. You know people will make their work too precious and take too long to put it out. I always say, what do you think you’re making? Last week I told you about the Stephen Colbert Book Club. Probably the coolest thing going well.

Keenan Thompson is now putting out a book. What is going on? I guess he saw Jimmy fallon making children’s book money. So Keenan Thompson is releasing his first children’s book, this one called Unfunny Bunny. Unfunny Bunny follows Unfunny Bunny.

As Unfunny Bunny embarks on his first day of school, determined to be the class cut up when his jokes fall flat, Unfunny Bunny learns about unexpected friendship and pursuing your dreams. The story contains thirty unfunny jokes throughout, with illustrations by Tony Neil. Margaret Show went on social media, listing the fillers, injections, and cosmetic proceidures she’s had on her face. She said this is a fifty six year old woman. She revealed that her chin is fake, stating the whole chin is filler, and added she’s indicted sculpture, which sounds like a science fiction villain, like, oh, we got to stop sculpture.

Nope. Sculpture is an injectable that stimulates collagen production. She’s injected the sculpture into much of her face, which sounds like something sculpture would do. Right. Sculpture wants to capture you and inject stuff in your face.

That’s what sculpture would do. Margaret Chose says her lips are natural, although she once had filler there but not recently. She also said she’ll entertain the idea of a face lip, saying I’ll lift whatever. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know who’s a crazy person, Johnny Mack. It’s June sixteenth. I’m already freaking out that summer’s half over.

Part of that is it never stops raining here in the Northeast. Drewski has released the official trailer for The Diggers. The Diggers co stars Theo Vaughn and Shane Gillis. The movie he tells the story of Brandon Digger, a young man who inherits a funeral home upon his grandfather’s death. And see his name is Digger.

I see what you did there. However, Brandon finds himself in a bit of family drama as he learns that his brother in law played by Theo Vaughan, also inherited a stake in the family business and his father’s wealth. They come to terms in their new partnership. Drewski and Vaughn’s characters struggle to keep the family business afloat, and then they run into Shane Gillis’s character, who is the medical examiner. Now this is interesting.

I haven’t tested this out yet, but the trailer caption says, the Digger’s funeral home is open for business. For questions or general inquiries, please call us. And they gave a phone number. Should I give you the phone number? All right, you’re on your own if you call this phone number.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I don’t know if you’re gonna get something fun. I don’t know if you’re gonna get porn. I don’t know if a Hitler is gonna answer the phone. It’s probably a promo for the movie.

But you’re on your own here. If you call six six, two seven, three three zero one zero four, let me know what happens. If people are unsure what’s going on here. THEO Vaughn teased the release back in October on his podcast. At that time, he had said, me and Drewski did a fake movie.

It was like a fake movie that we made. So we’ll see what’s up there. Pretty interesting. Theovon Sheen gillis project that’ll get noticed here on Daily Company News for sure. U Jim Gaffigan caught up with People magazine.

He said, I feel like getting teenagers out of the house or out of bed on a weekend is a game in itself. So the game is like do you blackmail, do you motivate, do you inspire? Or do you just go full crazy? Here’s what you do, Jim. I’ll leave him alone.

Jim admits the task of arrenting teenagers is such a minefield, and for me, there’s the balancing act of you don’t want to lose your mind, but you also have some sense of self respect, you know what I mean. People also asked Jim about his rituals. The last thing he does before he goes on stage, he drinks coffee and says, I’m such a slow talking Midwesterner. The pacing of a show is faster than I speak. The last time he scored.

Husband points he brings his wife Jeanie, coffee every morning, but considering I travel constantly and she does ninety percent of all the things for five kids, it’s very imbalanced. It’s the least I can do. His last to do it yourself project. I’m not that handy. If the TV doesn’t work, I just don’t watch TV.

My wife’s like, why don’t you just unplug it and plug it back in. I’m like that would mean standing up. And Jim’s last obsession, he’s still pushing this bourbon. Jim nobody cares, but he did the hit for people, so people waxed his car, and we’re told Jim’s current precious batch is called middle Child Mystery. And as you’re drinking bourbon, don’t you want to drink something called Middle Child Mystery?

I mean, is there anything cooler than that? I mean maybe the Cold Bear Book Club is slightly cooler than Middle Child Mystery bourbon, but those have to be one and two. Limited quantities are available m HMM home delivery of thirty seven states, and you get in the stores in Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I had this in Friday’s show, and then it got bounced because of the horrible Mulaney story I told you about with the death threats. So that was terrible.

But Malanie was part of a comedian roundtable with the Hollywood Reporter. John said, I’ve learned that before someone can start giving notes, ask them questions about what they think you should do. You know, like, we have an astrologer coming on. Should I bring them on in the first act and have them sit there and we can bring out Gary Coleman and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Where do we bring the astrologer out?

In the third act just start to give them ownership over something that isn’t even in significant And John was asked what he can’t believe he got away with on the show. He said, it’s not so much getting away with it, but I really respect that they’ve had me have so many big music performances on because they have a lot of data about how music does on TV and it doesn’t do as well as you might think. I’m dealing with a very data driven company that’s kind of interesting to learn, just like where the gas and Break is of people tuning in and out, and it doesn’t really color what we do, but it’s interesting information to have. I remember Jim Brewer a million years ago when he had the afternoon show on Sirius Raw Dog and I was the program director of that station. He was like, don’t we have ratings?

And I told him, I’m like, Jim, you don’t want ratings. The last thing you want is me coming to you and being like, you know people are tuning out during this segment. I’m like, enjoy the creative freedom you’re getting paid. You don’t need numbers anyway. Seth Rogan’s part of this round table and was curious if Netflix tells Malaney about the stats and Lannie said, yeah, tune outs completions things like that.

Like, I get it. You know, the stats are a good thing, but you look at them too closely, it can definitely interfere with the orts. I thought this was interesting too. You know, you hear about comedian theft and stay with me here. This is a total parallel thinking.

So if you go on my threads feed maybe two weeks ago, you’ll see I posted this. I was watching and Or the Star Wars thing and there was an actor in it who kind of looked like a young Roy Scheider, So I grabbed a screen grab of him and posted it and joked about my idea for Jaws zero, which is about a cop in the Bronx who’s like had it and is debating should he take a job as a sheriff in a small town up in the Cape cod Right, So that was an original thought I had. Now Mullaney in this Hollywood reporter thing, and I can’t say this loadly enough. John Mulaney did not rip me off. I’m not accusing John and Mullaney of stealing my joke, but I think it does illustrate parallel thinking, John Mulaney said, you know who I’d love to play is Chief Brody from Jaws, but in a prequel about his life in New York as a cop before he got to Amity Island.

But I don’t have the rights of the book, the movie, any piece of it. I’m putting that into the world because I don’t want to do the legwork of running down any of the rights. But it’s out there. I’m not sure mulaney would be right for that role, but I like the idea. It’s a ridiculous idea.

Here’s an idea that I think is terrible. Mel Brooks, who turns ninety nine this month, will appear in Spaceballs Too. That’s not the official title, that’s the working titles. Spaceball’s two will be in theaters in twenty twenty seven. We’re told Brooks will reply as the role of Yogurt in the follow up to the nineteen eighty seven cult classic comedy spoofing Star Wars and other films of the era.

I mean, it’s just not a good idea. No love mil Brooks. But if you want proof of why this isn’t a good idea, remember like two years ago we did History of the World Part two and it was awful. Right, there’s no way Spaceball’s two is going to be good. Here’s a starter.

John Candy’s dead. Yeah, don’t make it. Oh yeah. Joan Rivers was in it as the not quite c three po. Joan Rivers is also dead.

Josh Gadd is scheduled to be in this one. I don’t know. Just don’t make it. Taylor Thomason wrapped up her show. She explained why she chose to step down and said it was just not sustainable for me, so I guess touring pays better than CBS.

It was my dream that I get to finish out the season and hand it off to a new host. I really wanted CBS to replace me because I think there were so many amazing comedians who would have done a great job with the show. I bet if we live long enough, we’ll see a third version of at Midnight. It’s a relatively inexpensive format to make. Jerry Seinfeld has extended his residency at the Beacon Theater ten new shows October twenty four and twenty five, December nineteen and twenty January nine to ten.

Nice gig if you’re Jerry Reeltar dot Com tells us. In nineteen ninety eight, Jerry purchased a duplex apartment just steps from the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park, a nice part of town if you can afford that, and if you’re listening to this podcast, you can’t. But if you were to walk from Jerry’s apartment to the beaconputer, that’s an eleven minute walk according to Google. It’s a seven minute drive according to Google. But if you’re a real New Yorker, there’s no way you’re picking a seven minute drive over an eleven minute walk, because in New York City, a seven minute drive could easily become a thirty five minute drive.

If you can do it on foot, do it on foot. Shout out to Mark, who listens to the show every day and was kind enough to send me a note on the side, a little QC quality control issue. You know, sometimes Johnny blows an edit, sometimes things happen, and Mark was kind enough to hit me on the side, be like, hey, you might always take a listening around a minute thirty five to one of the recent shows, So I appreciate you, Mark, Hope you’re doing well. Let’s hit gossip Corner. The Animal Rescue League of Iowa shared a photo on social media of Matt Rife and puppies.

I bet that got a lot of likes. The post said, these puppies got a fun night out this weekend. They got to meet comedian Matt Rife. We got a request to schedule a cuddle break for VIP ticket holders at Matt’s Des Moines tour stop, and we’re happy to bring these little ones out. The puppies enjoyed lots of cuddles from VIP ticket holders.

They got to go backstage and hang out with Matt. They had a great time getting love and giving kisses. One pop even dozed off in Matt Rife’s arms. Thanks for having us, Matt Rife. Las Vegas Weekly wrote about the Las Vegas version of the comedy seller You’ll find this one in the rio, We’re told when they opened that location in twenty eighteen, they had a challenge, how do you bring the field to the newer club to Vegas without losing its edge and soul.

I agree that is a mighty challenge. Owner known to Warman says in New York, most of our shows are sold out before we even announce the line up because they trust our brand. If somebody’s funny in New York, they’re funny in Vegas. It’s very challenging to run a place the way I like to run a place from twenty five hundred miles away, which has a lot of attention to service and customer satisfaction. I decided it was the wisest thing to really partner with a casino.

They’re in the hospitality business and would take care of the day to day challenges that I would risk if I were not able to check in on out myself. That’s smart. A lot of our crowd comes in knowing what they’re going to get. Sometimes they’ve never even been to a comedy club before. It takes them a couple of minutes to go, oh, we can laugh at that.

If they’ve only seen comedy on social media. They’re pleasantly overwhelmed by the live experience. It’s much more visceral than seeing it on a phone. They do nightly shows at seven and nine thirty, and that is your comedy news for a Monday. Summer’s almost over.

I’m freaking out. It’s got to stop raining. I need beach days. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. June Gaffigan caught up with Las Vegas Weekly, and although it seems like Jim has accomplished everything in the comedy world, he says, there’s stuff I want to do, but I guess I learned a long time ago that it’s the creed of fulfillment I should focus on. It sounds corny, there’s nothing better than coming up with a new joke. I realized this when I finally appeared on Letterman, which was such a huge goal of mine, and after that I was kind of confused.

What do I do now that I achieved this goal? Made me reevaluate what I really love about it. Jim spoke about his kids. They’re ages twelve to twenty one, so when we’re all together it’s usually around the holidays. They consistently have no interest in attending my shows, but when they were little, we threw them on the bus for a month.

They’ve explored the world a little bit. Jim spoke about doing S and L during the election cycle. It was bizarre, is what you would think. But also I was usually done after the cold Open, so it was gearing up for two minutes of work as somebody who does stand up for like an hour. I kind of missed some of that longer process, but it was an opportunity I could never imagine just so amazing, and doing the fiftieth season was so incredible.

If anything, it really surprised me because it was the first time I’ve done something where I felt like most people saw it. Maybe they didn’t see the show, but they saw a clip of it. So it was the first time I was involved in something like that. There are very few people who were like, what’s snl. I laughed at the New York Post.

They said, exclusive interview with Joe List, and I’m like, all right, but it’s not like you got I don’t know Taylor Swift. It’s Joe List, no offense, work with Joe, good guy. But you know, yeah, well from the exclusive interview with Joe List, Joe exclusively, he tells The New York Post. Every time I finish a special, I can’t believe I did it again. You know, you’re doing an hour on stage and you’re like, how am I gonna write material again?

I’m not gonna have this much stuff?

And then you do it.

Feels like a miracle every time. I feel like this special is better than the last one based on audience reactions. Plus, it’s the first one I’ve done that wasn’t filmed in New York at the Village Underground. It’s the first time I’ve cut together two different nights in two different venues, so it’s a lot of first for me. I think it’s very good.

I could be wrong. As for the time, Well, small Ball Joe List exclusively tells the New York Post I was opening for Louis C.K. Nine years ago and we did the LA fourm, which is a huge, sixteen thousand seed venue. I didn’t really know him at the time. Then we all got on a private jet and he was like, what a night.

That was the best show. Joe List playing small Ball at the LA Forum. I’m a big baseball guy, and I just like the metaphor of drawing a walk and bunding a guy over because he sees so many specials out of a crane shot and it’s at a stadium or an arena. The guy comes at the stage and it’s some sort of big act out, which is fine forever’s doing it, but for me, it’s just like I’m standing here. I’m not going to move around a lot, but I’m gonna get the job done.

It’s not gonna be too flashy. I like this part too. Joe List exclusively tells The New York Post the number one comment I get after shows is that audience members didn’t think I was tall. I’m very tall, six like an athlete. But I’ve had crooked teeth and glasses of most of my life and a bad jaw on I’ve been around Joe List, especially when a podcast company I worked at shared the studio with where they would tape Tuesdays with stories Joe and Mark Norman.

I don’t remember thinking that Joe List was tall. I don’t remember thinking anything Joe said. People think that I’m gonna sci fi. I’ve never read a Harry Potter. I’m horrible at math.

I’ve never seen Lord of the Rings. I don’t play chess, and I get laid a good amount. I’ve had no formal education whatsoever. I went to zero college. The other thing is I like foreign films, but I’m also obsessed with hockey, so you know I’m a complex guy.

Brad Williams spoke to the Independent about playing larger venues. Does he changed his style at all? Brad said, the show has always been sort of high energy. I’ve un told many times that the show was meant for theater, and maybe that’s just an over compensation for my size where I’m trying to make it as big as possible. So this show, other than the material, in terms of the energy in the scale, doesn’t changed much.

It’s not like a Garth Brooks Chris Gaines situation where I’m a completely a different person. If you like my show, you’ll like this show. No politics. I don’t fancy myself a political comedian. I don’t want to be a political comedian.

I don’t think I’m smart enough to be a political comedian. So no matter who you voted for, you can have a good time at my show. I want everyone just to have a good night out and no matter who you voted for. So I wanted to forget about the things that are going on in the world. I want you to put down your phones and not doomscroll for two hours about headlines.

I have very strong opinions about certain topics, but even when I bring them up with my show, the last thing I want you to do say hey, you think this way, you’re stupid, or you voted for this guy, you’re dumb. I think it’s really dismissive. We all want the same thing. We all want success. We want safety, security for our friends, for our neighbors, for our family.

Then to be able to advance in our careers and be able to do that. It’s what literally everyone wants. We have different thoughts on how to achieve the goals, but my job is to entertain anyone who buys a ticket. That’s my job. Well, said Brad Williams.

Cameil Non Gianni. He said, when I started doing comedy, the whole thing was in Chicago doing open mics. Was like, I have to talk about stuff no one else is talking about. But now how many guys are talking about the exact same thing. Cancel culture, anti trans stuff, whatever the f it is, it’s exactly the same.

Gianni said. It’s really weird to go up after someone who did a bit about how interracial dating is wrong and did pretty well with the crowd. Is that a thing? Is someone actually doing that as material in twenty twenty five? If I’m not familiar with such a set, but I will listen to Camille Camille said such comedians aren’t even committed to their own philosoph They say two things simultaneously.

We’re like street level philosophers, and it’s just a joke, and depending on what the attack is, that’s a defense. Oh, it’s just joking. But also what we do is important. We’re speaking truth to power. Both those things can’t exist at the same time.

Verbiglia, on a similar note, said the decontextualization of sound and video in the last decade has given anyone who speaks in a microphone a certain new level of self consciousness. It’s like, what does this paragraph sound like? What does this sentence sound like? What does this word sound like? You start to isolate everything, and I’m not free of that.

I do think, Oh, could this be cut out of context? Forbigs defends Tony Hinchcliff the infamous joke there, Burbig said, you can like the joke or not, but it was a joke. The ever so serious Harry Connoboluh said, my stuff has always been heavy. That’s always what I found most interesting. Racism and sexism, or wealth and disparity.

And none of this stuff is new. They’ve been around since the founding of this country. So to me, I’ve always wrestled with the dark stuff. I’ve always found that the most absurd. That’s the kind of stuff my hero has talked about.

If anything, I’ve been trying to get lighter. The stuff that’s heavier has more impact when it’s surrounded by things that are lighter, and also allows the audience they get to know me outside of just somebody who has beliefs. When the audience feels like they like you, like they know you, when you give them the stuff with the weight, it digests better. It’s like the difference between a random person sharing their personal beliefs versus a friend. When it’s a friend, I like this person.

Now he’s telling me this thing, it makes me more likely to listen. I feel like that’s how I’ve been approaching it, having these conversations. It definitely opens you up. Bill Burr spoke to The New Yorker about the cable news networks and said they’re trying to turn my brain a mush and I’m helping them. Every night, Debt’s scrolling on Instagram and need start reading again.

Then every election it just comes down immigration and the other usual five or six talking points. It’s like how we go through another election. No one’s talking about the complete out of control greed. Most amazing thing for me during the pandemic, other than the fact that a virus got politicized, was the fact that if you had a three hundred thousand dollars house and you were trying to sell it, it was difficult. If you had a forty million dollar house, they couldn’t keep them on the market.

I was thinking, where are they getting this money? How about this? How about Democrats haven’t been able to decide who they wanted for their Democratic nomination for three elections. Sanders wanted both times, and they said, nah, so why I have the primary? They didn’t want them because he was gonna go after the stuff that’s paying all the corrupt people.

These are liberals.

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And then you see all the stuff that the right wing people doing right now, pa…

It’s like you guys are doing that four or five years ago. If you look at the news, well they show when they show a Trump are they just show the dumbest person they could find, going Donald Trump’s a genius. That’s what the jay stands for right now. To show a liberal. They show that woman crying when Trump first got elected.

That’s not an accurate patorial of either side. These are crazy people. And meanwhile Democrats Republicans all got on the same page as greedy. They can’t be tried for inside of tradings like what that are we doing here? One of the most divisive things in this country has been Hollywood Awards shows these idiot actors.

They tuck down a red states that never been to the exact same way idiot rednecks talks about California. I ain’t to get the other side of here your opinion. We just insult them and don’t listen to them. It’s like people on the right, what are you a liptart? That’s the Internet?

The Internet? As you start your polling off with a f ed? Who’s listening after f ed? Send your letters to Bill Burr. Happy Father’s Day.

Roy Wood will release his first book, The Man of Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as a memoir. It’ll be out this fall. Crown Publishing says the book will delve into the lessons and values a Roywood junior is distilled from the unexpected figures who shaped his life after his father’s passing. Roy lost his father at the age of sixteen. Those father figures have included a variety of people’s encountered, from teenage friends to Trevor Noah, which is interesting.

Trevor no was forty one. Roywood Junior is forty six. The Man of Many Fathers due out October twenty eighth. It’s Fringe season, so we’re going to get another run of articles about the Fringe is too expensive? Get this every single year.

I’m sure it is expensive, but this is not a new thing. The Guardian got into it. Nish Kumar told The Guardian. I don’t have any family connections in common or television. My like up was that I went to a post university that had this relationship with Edinburgh.

The review go into the Fringe created so many opportunities for me. There’s nothing anywhere in the world like it. For all it’s problems, I still see that it has this ability to change people’s lives and teach people the job of being a comedian. Kumar says performing every day for a month improved his writing. Plus, you get a certain comfort that means you’re not having a full blown physiological panic attack every time you stand one that confidence never leaves you.

Comedian Annie McGrath says Edinburgh has already become widely unaffordable for so many acts and punters and landlords have a lot to answer for. It’s really sad as it could wipe out a generation of new talent. It also means there’s a lack of diversity in what’s being created if only the wealthiest acts and the bigs names are able to go. Kumar says comedy is one of the things we still do well in this country. Not providing funding for it is insane.

I’m sure we’ll hear a lot more about the expenses. Reese Darby spoke to The Guardian and they were curious, what is one of the strangest encounters with a fan you’ve had? Luckily, Rees Dartby at a story ready and it goes back in the day. I said, I was the freestyle dance champion of a small town called Hokun in New Zealand. So someone needed me a woolen jacket that had dance champion on the back.

Also, someone made a small bust of me once. I remember with the flight of the Concorde. Jamaine Clement once received a plaster impression of his lips. I don’t know how they did it, but to present something to you that he’s of you is insane. Luckily, no one’s given me a Folclay model of my nose or anything like that.

He looked back fondly on the Flight of the Concords days and said, we were young, and it was our first time in the States making something with their money and their brilliance. We got caught up in it. We just concentrated on how we could be so funny that we’re cracking each other up. And when after redo the scene we had some control of the show, we could improvise and do seven or eight takes, and that was really the key, because I got funnier every take. I know that for a fact.

I still say that to people when I do shows. I say, give me a couple more because I’ll peek on the sixth take. Some people say, you went from being that guy in the Flight of the Concords to a sex symbol with our flag means death. What was that like? Rees says, I’m a comedy guy, not a sex symbol.

My character wore some very attractive attire, but it’s still a very insecure, bizarre weird little Man was to try to find himself. The character was perfect for me because I liked dressing up being the captain, and I do overcompensate with authority because I really have no idea what I’m doing. There were definitely some similatteries there, but I was not expecting anything. On a sexual note from fans, the audiences are amazing. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. For some reason, the Tribeca Festival locked Jim Gaffigan and Michael ian Black in a room together to talk to the audience about parenting. Okay, Michael was curious how Jim’s perception of being a father has changed over time. Gaffigan said, I would say twenty years ago, I mean, I have a twenty one year old, but I was much more of the view that I’m kind of befuddled by parenting and I’m not equipped for it.

And my viewpoint now is that children are evil. I joke around and say parenting is the most important thing I’ll fell out, and there is something to that. But I think if human beings remembered how difficult and complicated and impossible teenagers are, the species would cease to exist. I think we forget that parenting is similar to the entertainment industry. Wait, by that, does he mean that, like, if you help somebody around their career, you stop calling them back.

Does Jim not call his kids back? Is that what Jim is saying there, that as twenty years goes by, he doesn’t call back people. Sorry, I digress there you could figure it out between the lines. Jim said, I think that we forget that parenting is similar to the entertainment industry, filled with enormous amounts of humiliation and you’re biting your tongue a lot. When kids are younger, there’s a cuteness to it, and when your kids are teenagers, they’re not conscious of it, but there’s a cruelty that you’re exposed to.

The Houston Press wrote about Matt Rice’s crowd work. Rice said, there’s just something kind of unique. It’s either unique or not language snob and special to my show that I just do for fun. On top of the prepared material. I’ve been so lucky it’d be so many people’s introduction a comedy, view the success I’ve out online and the people who have found it.

But it’s easy for people to think that’s all it is. But there’s so much work that goes into the preparation and the crafting of material, and they should in no way expect that from every comedian, honestly, not even myself. I don’t force situations. I can’t guarantee a certain amount of the show will be crowd work, but it is something I personally like to do. The sponsoredaity of it makes it new and re freshing to me.

That does rife find time to write new material, he said, that’s the hardest part, especially over the last year and a half. We’re doing forty to almost fifty shows a month, sometimes NonStop. You have to find some time for your life. When life happens, that’s when material happens. But I don’t really have time to sit at a desk for six hours a day and go, hmm, pin to Pat, how do I read a joke about this?

Let’s write a joke, premise, set up, punchline. That’s not my creative style. Things happen, something will happen in my life that sparks humor in me, makes me laugh. Then I think, now we’re onto something, We’ve got the foundation of something, and now I can take pen and paper to etch this out. My brain has locked on the almost fifty shows a month, all right, So a typical month has say thirty days.

Let’s assume he takes one day off a week, so those are six day weeks, so that would be twenty six days of work. So is he doing two a days Friday Saturday? So I could do the math here, right, So if there’s twenty six days, and then if you did two shows on the Friday, that’d be four more, so it’d be thirty And if you did two shows on Saturday, that’d be thirty four. If you did two shows on the Thursday, thirty eight. I can get to forty.

I can’t get to fifty. I’m sorry, Matt Rife. I’m gonna ask Chatchpt to help me out here. Let me look at Matt Riffe’s actual touring schedule and see what I come up with. Sorry, I am digressing here, but my brain is totally locked on this.

Does Matt Rife not have a website? Matt Rife Official Shows here? We go? Okay, So he’s got a show June twenty first in South Carolina. There’s a wait list.

There are tickets available for June twenty second, there’s one show. Then July fifth in Hawaii there’s one show and tickets still available. Yeah, I don’t know. I’m looking at this. I don’t know how you get to fifty.

Let me ask chat Shept to help me out. I have typed in. Comedian Matt Rife says he plays forty shows a month. What would a schedule like that look like For a typical comedian, Chat says, forty shows a month is an ambitious schedule that would involve a high level of travel and consistent performance. Here’s an example of what it might look like.

If Riife does forty shows month, that averages out to ten shows per week. That would mean two to three shows per day for three to four days a week. Here’s a sample itinerary. Again, this is all made up by the AI, but I’m obsessed here. Monday would be a travel day and then a show at seven and nine thirty.

Tuesday you do shows at seven and nine thirty, then travel to the next city. Wednesday do seven and nine thirty, have some free time, get up. Thursday, travel to the next city, do two shows, then do two shows on Friday and maybe a third show at eleven thirty pm on the Friday.

Also three shows on Saturday and then a show on Sunday and then travel.

So that’s no days off. So I don’t know. That seems a little high. But I’m not a touring comedian. I’m an idiot in the basement with a podcast.

I digress. Let’s get back to it, right, said I. Forget every single day that I have the recognizability I have Now, I’ll wake up and think no one knows me at all, thinking I’m right back where I was five years ago. I can’t go at any restaurant or store without someone giving me a compment or giving thanks to the videos I post online from the laugh at It’s very surreal, man. I’m very lucky in I’m very blessed for people to find what I do funny and find me at whatever time they need to find me in their life.

It’s a very giving job. Brad Williams told Macon dot com he started making jokes as a defense mechanism, realizing he could never be the quarterback, but I could be the funny guy. At age nineteen, and Brad was brought on stage by Carlos Mencia after Carlos made a joke about people with dwarfism. Mencia had noticed that most of the crowd laugh with the people sitting near Brad didn’t laugh, and then he saw Williams. Mencia wanted to ask him questions.

Brad answered questions honestly, not meaning to be funny, but the crowd laughed. He asked me what I did for a living at the time, and Williams said, not a joke. I just said, I work at Disneyland, and I heard some people chuckle and I said, shut up, I’m not one of the seven, and that made them laugh again. That’s when I thought, oh, maybe this comedy thing could be a lot of fun. There’s no greater compliment than someone who comes in is kind of unfamiliar with the work and then enjoys it.

Zanagar got a big profile in The New York Times. In it, she shared that I have a complicated relationship with self care. If you’re a South Asian woman, you’re taught that self care is be ye, it’s selfish. If you want to look good, why you’re already married, It’s about your kids. Now.

As her entertainment career took off, she grew motivated to take better care of her appearance and said it’s not helping anybody for me to stand up on stage and not look put together. It’s just distracting. Kevin Pollack spoke to the Pitch k C. Kevin says he doesn’t get nervous about anything. Yeah, it might be signs of a sociopath, but nothing’s ever made me nervous.

Including sitting on Johnny Carson’s couch the televised one. Ever since I was ten years old and started being a natural born ham in front of an audience, I’ve always felt excited. It’s like Christmas Morning. Kevin’s going to be in Tulsa King. He said, yeah.

Drops in September, I’m a new series regular. The next couple of seasons came out of nowhere, and I was shocked at how much fun it was. Sometimes they make it fiscally irresponsible to stay on the couch and it doesn’t really matter if it’s quote unquote fun. But every now and then it’s incredibly fun, and then this ridiculous bonus. And that’s what Tulsa King has been.

That’s a good show. Jennif Fisher told The Fly on the Wall podcast that it was Molly shann And who changed her life. She said, I’m a huge SNL nerd. The greatest part about being on the Office and being on NBC was that I got to breathe the same air as SNL people. I was a total groupie, Fisher explained.

Before being cast as Pam on the Office, she worked as a typist. She’d attend TV critics Association events. As a transcriber, she heard about an upcoming event dedicated to SNL and said, I wanted it more than my little new heart in La could stand. I started pretending like I didn’t feel good because I was going to make an excuse that I was sick so I could get off work on time, and then sneak into this party. She sneaks in.

I can’t even tell you. It was amazing Norm MacDonald. I’m looking at him in the flesh. I can’t My mind has blown. Then I see Molly Shannon.

I think I’m gonna do it. I’m going to say hi to Molly Shannon. She looked at me, took me by the shoulders, looked me deep in the eyes, and said, don’t give up. Whatever you do, don’t give up. It took me ten years to get on SNL, and my best advice to you is just no, it’ll hop and eventually if you stick with it.

Sticking Office Ish Donald Gleeson is the lead in the paper, which is the office spin off of Sorts. Gleason hopes people will find a reason to love his character. He told people, I don’t think my character is like Michael Scott at all. I think if you’re trying to compete with what Steve did, with what Ricky Gervais did, I think that’d be a massive mistake. We made a whole new character and it’s a whole new sort of setup.

But I hope people will find a reason to love him as well, just in a different way than they did the guys before and long the heads of the Fall the Columbus Comedy Festival, They’ve got a pretty decent lineup. Heear September fourth through the seventh. This year’s festival features Polly Shore, The Second City, Sam Talent, Mo Welch, and some others. The lineup will include a mix of stand up comedy, improv, sketch comedy, live podcast recording, variety, slash, alternative shows, game shows, industry mixers, and more. Several fan favorite shows that were turned including Female af and All Woman stand Up Lineup, Drunk power Point, You Can Figure Out What That Is?

And Chicago Showcase five Chicago Comedians hosted by viral sensation Chad the Bird. I’m not familiar with Chad the Bird. Back to Google. Chaddbird dot Com luckily has a link that says what’s a Chad Bird? Chad The Bird has been Chicago’s laziest journalist and only avian op ed columnists for fifteen years until I got drunk and joined TikTok when viral traveling get up early.

He’s even got a podcast, The Bird Cast. I’ll have to check that out, all right, cool, I’m going to check out the May tenth episode called We’re Not going to Talk about Star Wars. The description is in which I discuss new details that have emerged about the birthplace of Plato and totally not Star Wars. I’m in now in the next episode is about Pinball City. This is right up my alley.

All right, that’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media and Aaron Jay Mac would your Daily Comedy News. I do not like this first story, and I’m not throwing anyone under the bus here. I just don’t like how this shook out at all. Let me set it up for you. Olivia Munn, she’s married to John Mulaney, which is why we’re talking about this.

Stay with me. She was the cover story in the June fourth People magazine. The article was titled, Olivia Munn doesn’t let her kids watch Miss Rachel. Here’s why. If you’re not in the no, Miss Rachel is the host of a popular children’s show.

A few days after the cover story, People apparently pulled out a poll quote which is, I know kids love Miss Rachel, but the thing is, if I can’t watch it, I’m not going to spend the rest of my life going crazy. These kids shows drive me crazy, all right. Seems innocent enough. If your parent you know some of those shows, you know you might, Yeah, stay with me. That’s why I’m pulling my punch.

I don’t want to get I don’t want to get in the middle of this. Early People deleted the article on Thursday quote due to the violent threats that escalated towards the interview subject. In her family, John Mulaney has commented on this. Mulaney said, an innocent comment my wife, Olivia Munn made about what children’s programs we like, has somehow unbelievably been conflated with not caring about the deaths of children in Gaza. John posted this on Instagram and said, because of this, my wife and two kids are now receiving violent and threatening comments and messages in her DMS.

This is absolutely insane and needs to stop. The people doing this are so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any conversation. You took a nothing comment to a dark and dangerous place. This kind of behavior is an activism now. Olivia had also said, Malcolm asked for blues clues and I don’t know who showed them the blues clues, but they’re on my crap list now.

I said, hell no, not in my house. Olivia had to explain in a statement to Miss Rachel and her fans, I hear in respect the passion behind your support. I never anticipated the media would single out on one small thing I said and distort it like they have. My comments were never meant to diminish the joy, comfort, and impact she brings to so many families. Every parent understands the importance of finding meaningful programming that helps us connect with our kids.

I don’t want something taken out of context to be a moment that steals even a minute of joy for anyone. Now, apparently under some new stories about Olivia, Miss Rachel wrote, who cares? I’d rather you cover me advocating for kids in Gaza who are literally starving, largest cohort of child amputees in modern history, thousands and thousands killed, no medical care, no education, no homes. Do better, not against her Olivia at all, and don’t care that she doesn’t want to watch the show. All my love to her and her family.

Disappointed in the outlets. Yikes, just yikes, what’s going on all right?

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Desi Litik said, Yeah, nothing calms down a situati…

Desi again, you know, I’m beginning to wonder if Trump is intentionally trying to escalate the situation because more chaos allows them to portray blue states as centers of crime while positioning himself as the strong man that country needs to rally around. No that’s silly. I’m sure he’s just doing what’s best for everyone. Colbert Trump has sent thousands of troops into downtown LA. To quote what historians will remember as the Battle of that video of a burning waymod car they kept showing on cable news.

Greg Guttfeld said, California Governor Gaven Newsom and Mayor Karen Beast denounced the federal immigration raids, So now they don’t want California to have ice or water. All right, we’ll move out of the comedy part right now.

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Speaking of late night, IndyCar owner David Letterman will be on this week CB…

Hey Mike from the Letterman Pod? Did you know that? Are you learning that from me? Yeah? Well good, you’re gonna want to tape that one.

But appear as they’re talking Indy cars. A Letterman will appear alongside Joseph Newgarten, Pado Award, and Mario Andretti. Knows that the Mariow Andretti from when I was a kid. Maybe he co owns the team. I’m not familiar with the other two.

So now, IndyCar fans, you come after me, I apologize. I don’t know everything I know you listen to the show and you’re like that Johnny macke knows everything, I don’t know everything and apparently have a week spot with IndyCar Staying with Late Night. Looking ahead to the Emmys this year, there will only be three nominations in the Outstanding Talk Series category. Here’s why there were only thirteen submissions, because there’s fewer late night shows now. The TV Academy rules say if there were between eight and nineteen submissions, the number of submissions will be divided by four and rounded to the nearest whole number.

So how do we arrive at three? Well, there were thirteen submissions for the category. Let’s do the math. Thirteen divided by four is three and change and we round to the nearest whole number and we get three. The submissions these are not nominations.

These are who submitted the Daily Show Mulaney, Heart to Heart on Peacock. Apparently that exists. I know that that exists, but has anyone ever mentioned that to you? I mean that might be the bobs Burgers of late night shows, CNN’s Have I Got News for You? Hot Ones, Kimmel, Seth Colbert, Midnight Snack with Julie Chan again, as I just copped to, I don’t know everything.

What is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan? Google paste and search. Okay, so several Google searches come up with the same exact phrasing, which is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan is the first late night talk show hosted by a Chinese American woman, Julie Chan. Now Here, I’m seeing a press release from September of twenty twenty four which tells us the first season of Midnight Snack has seven episodes, which sounds like a really low number. But we’re okay with nominating Malini for twelve, right, Okay, apparently you can watch this on Asian American Movies AAM dot TV.

Again, I’m just learning the show exists, so I’m not gonna say it’s good or bad. Might even win the Emmy.

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Also nominated felon the dropout websites show called Very Important People, …

So those are your thirteen. The nominees come out July fifteenth. The Emmy Awards will air on CBS September fourteenth, out today on Hulu otsgar. So what Kotska has her second stand up special. This one is called Father.

I liked her previous special a lot, so I’m looking forward to watching this one at some point. It’s gonna rain again this weekend. Can I tell you I’m speaking to you. It’s eight twelve pm on Thursday evening. I usually don’t record at night, but yesterday was like the only nice day in a two week radius where I live.

So I took a beach day and it was beautiful. It was eighty four in low humidity. It’s sunny and just awesome. So I’m recording at night. I feel a little thrown off because I usually record midday early afternoon.

This is just weird to me. But it’s gonna rain this weekend, so I have time to watch Osco. She says her fans has just done calling her mother, but she begs to differ. She says, oh, no, I am father. In the trailer, we see that joke where she asked her husband how to turn on the Washington machine and that’s how he realized he’d been doing the laundry all these years.

She also jokes that she wants to grow her hair out, but she can’t because her current haircut is her brand. In The Special Father, she reflects on her relationship with her father, who lives in Japan and has been not really much part of her life since she moved to the States. She says telling her story on stage has helped heal her. What I found out about trauma is when you’re not going through it, you’re not going this is trauma. Now that I’m able to choke about it, I’m realizing I’ve sort of started to heal without even realizing it.

She talked about trying to pray her mom’s illness away when she was younger, and said, I became super Christian on my own. I think I needed something to believe in or something. It was community, all these things, and I was still confused about why we didn’t go back to Japan and my mom’s condition in the garage. That’s good, very seriously, to the point that even signed up for Jesus Camp on my own. I remember at the camp there were these prayer groups, and prayer meetings would break off into and one night it was like me and like thirty people in a prayer group, and I asked them to pray for my mom to get better, to be freed from the voices in her head and all these things, from the suffering from severe depression to the seizures, from feeling so isolated down all the time.

I truly thought it was going to work. I was in middle school, and I remember believing, oh my gosh, this is really different. I’ve prayed for this before. When I go home, she’s going to be healed. When I came home, I was super disappointed that she hadn’t changed, and feeling really down and hopeless because she still hears voices.

That’s on hool tonight. Looking forward to checking that out. Congratulations to doctor Colin Jost. He received the Honorary Doctor if Humane Letters from the College of Staten Island in recognition for his outstanding contributions to comedy, television and community service. What’s a little weird about this is he accepted it over video.

I mean, the whole point of us giving you the honorary degree is so you come and give a speech. Dude. What’s going on? Oh yeah, I love to go. Oh yeah, I’m filming a movie.

I can’t possibly How would I possibly get to New York City? How would I do that? Come on, Colin, what is he filming. Let me look this up from the Facebook page filming in Georgia. It says The Breadwinner is filming in the Atlanta area and Colin jos is in that film.

Colin Dude, bro, bro dude, Colin man, dude, you tell me you can’t get from Atlanta to New York City. You tell me you can’t do that. Come on, you can do that. I’m sure Nate would have understood. You could have been there.

Come on anyway, congratulations Collin Jost. A lot of big names in the show today. This is a lot of fun.

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All right, here’s a big name.

Say a week ago, you were in Cambridge. You’re on the bus, your money, your own business. You know, you’re probably listening to my podcast while surfing the internet. You know, it’s a good combination. And you look up and you’re like, hey, that tall dude with the red orange hair, he looks really familiar.

Is that Conan O’Brien on a bus in Cambridge? Yeah? It was Conan O’briight, sack’s the bus. This apparently is like totally real and not a publicity stunt. Conan gave Craig, the bus driver, shot out, saying the best driver in Cambridge.

Right here, Craig says, I was driving along on Root seventy. All of a sudden I see this gentleman on the right hand walking. I saw the red hair and it kind of looked like Conan’s hair. So I said to myself, is that Conan? And it actually was.

He said, hey, let’s take it right away. I said, I’m not allowed to have a phone on the bus Conan, and he said, oh, that’s terrible. So he was just a great guy. That’s fun, all right. The Great American Comedy Festival is in Norfolk, Nebraska to night.

You’re five feature comedians River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and Chip Chantry. You’re headliner James Austin Johnson. Are you watching basketball? No, me, neither. There’s one person in the world watching this whole basketball series, and his name is Mike Epps, known a Pacers fan.

He’s like the one person who was like, should we put the Knicks in the finals so we get like twenty three million viewers? No, let’s put the Pacers through so we can get seven. Mike Epps spoke to website and Escape and he’s pretty big on Tyrese Halliburton. Now, I gotta say I was pretty impressed by mister Halliburton in the Eastern Conference Finals. The dude brought it.

Mike Epps says, Halliburton is an unpredictable player. That’s what I love about him because you don’t really know what you’re gonna get. That’s how he gives it to you. You can’t really predict what he’s gonna do and how he’s gonna do it, but he gets it done. That’s what I like about him.

Some players he’s just about to pinpoint him out. But this guy here is unpredictable and brilliant when it comes to playing basketball, no question, without a doubt. He reminds me of myself. That’s why can I relate to him because it’s his avant garde approach and it might not be pretty, but it gets the job done, all right, Mike Epps, what’s your earliest recollection of following the Pacers? Mister big time Pacers fan, Mike Kep said, i’d I’ve been a Pacer fan as long as I can remember.

You grew up in the city in Indianapolis as a basketball town, so I was a Pacer fan. Probably I was seven, eight years old. I used to go to a place called Market Square Arena where they used to play, and man, I was a Pacer fan before Reggie Miller was there, going all the way back to the Billy night days. All right, that’s some street cred. When you’re a fan, you’re a die hard fan.

You have a lot of ups and downs. Me I had times where I was like, oh man, why am I a Pacer fan? When you love a franchise and at your hometown, you can’t really find yourself rooting for anyone else. That’s what die hard means. All right.

Who’s your favorite Pacers player of all time? Reggie Miller, clutch player. And when you say Indiana Pacers, that’s how you think of Reggie Miller. He put us on the map. Game four is tonight at eight thirty.

If you’re curious, I’ll be watching Ots Goo And that is your comedy news for today. All right, I got a shower and get the sand off me. You see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily Common You news. Tim Dillon’s from Long Island. I’m from Queens lived on Long Island for seven years. I understand Tim Dillon and he used to listen to conservative talk radio.

I’ve heard him talk about it on his podcast. He probably listened to some things that I produced back in the day. Don’t try and put me in a corner. I’ve worked on both the Bob Grant radio show in New York City and on Pots of America, so you don’t know where I stand. Although if you pay attention, you’ll know when I think certain people are ridiculous.

I’ll leave it at that. Send your letters to Johnny Mack anyway. Tim Dylan was on Hot Ones. He believes Long Island’s greatest contribution to the American culinary scene is the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Two eggs over medium bacon, American cheese, salt, pepper, and ketchup on a roll.

And you eat that in the morning around one thirty PM. Think about it to coach your stomach. It absorbs that anxiety that would either push you to the gym or do a job or in a good relationship or in a jog, an anxiety would push you to become a better person. You can actually absorb all that with the sandwich and then go right back to bed. Yeah.

I used to like my mop up food. Two in the morning. There was a bagel store in Sunnyside, Queens and I’d go get two bagels onion bagels, probably with butter. I would actually get off the subway stop stop before where I lived, so I could get the two bagels and eat the two bagels while walking home and just kind of like the fresh air and the calories and the fat, and you know, in the cold especially, you’d feel a little more awake when you got home. Shake off some of those Bruce Kis.

You know what I’m saying. Yeah, Jim Dilan said, long Ah, there’s a place of comfort like the suburbs. The food is bad, people would riot. There’s nothing else. There’s no culture, there’s no real intelligence, nothing is really interesting.

There’s no sense of history or community or family. There’s no real athletics. I know, we used to have the Islanders. It was great. I used to leave my house and be in an Islanders game in like twelve minutes.

Was amazing. It’s not especially pretty. I’ll disagree with that. There’s no national or local meaning or feeling of purpose. It’s kind of a vacant landscape of nothing, a suburban indianess that closets you until you finally fill yourself in with bagels and nyochi or fentanyl.

The conversation turned to Tim Dillon special This is Your Country that was the Jerry Springer type special, and said, you know who didn’t like it as much? Netflix? Now, I’m kidding. They’re great people there. We love them, but they don’t love talk formats, and I think they were nervous about it.

I think we all need daytime trash TV that’s not hyper political. I think we all need to coalesce around realizing that we’re all garbage people and exploiting that. Nobody was talking about tariffs on Ricky Lake. That’s what I remember was great about the nineties. People just want to do as much damage to each other as they good for entertainment value, and that’s what I was trying to do.

So were we now in the era of establishment? Tim Dillon? Do I no longer have to say I really liked to podcast, But someday when he cancels himself, I’m gonna disavow and say I never told you that. Is he now part of the club. I think he’s part of the club.

He’s getting on cable networks hot ones is a lot more mainstream than you’d think, like a lot more, Tim. I think you’re now establishment, Tim Dillon over there with your friend establishment, theo vant who’s interviewing the vice president. What has happened all you rebel outsiders? You lived long enough and the establishment brought you in and you didn’t even realize it. Tim Dillon also defended whole milk, saying whole milk from America’s heartland, dairy farmers with whatever needs to be in it, whatever hormones are in it, need to be in it.

Hands off rfk. I’ll have my milk the way I like it, genetically engineered. He also shared what he thinks is the most influential fast food item, the mcgriddle, because the mcgriddle married the sweet and savory in a way that now everybody does it, so media pick up on something Mark Maron wrote. He put out a blog post that’s similar to his comments from last week when he said he was ending the podcast The headline now is simplifying it. Maren has Rogan regret basically the blog post.

Mark Maron writes, we weren’t the first, but in terms of making it a viable medium, we were certainly one of the ogs. We changed the world. Literally, we showed the world was now possible to create a specific type of show on one’s own terms. We helped unleash an exciting type of delivery system for pure self expression. Sadly, on some level, we also unleashed a format that’s been used for dubious means, propaganda and pure evil.

But hey, it’s not the atomic bomb. On a recent WTF, Mark said, it’s just interesting to me in the big picture of what’s happening and what the medium is unleashed, that me and Joe Rogan were both in the system, two ends of the spectrum of podcasting coming from the same source, and a now truly apocalyptic landscape. In October of twenty four, Maren said podcasts have become a medium that normalizes fascism. He called out quote comedians with podcasts for having shameless self proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show. All it does is humanize and normalize fascism.

When someone uses their platform for that reason, they’re facilitating anti American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy. Maren didn’t call out anyone by name, but those words came three days after Rogan had released an episode with Donald Trump. By the way, uh Trump with Bono really enjoyed it. I’m a huge G two fan. You can profile me.

I’m fifty five years old from Queens, New York, and my last name is mc dermott. Of course I like you too, and it was very good, Maren wrote last October, and this is timely. I don’t know if you’re paying attention to the news this week. Are you going to the parades Saturday? Yeah?

That looked that up, Maren said. Fascism is good for business, if you tell the line. Popular podcast became tribal and divisive years ago. Now they might be in the position to become part of the media oligarchy under the new anti democratic government. All right, it’s so Senil learns to me, Mark Marion, Joe Rogan and whoever else.

So Tim Dillon to send him a letter. Eliza Selessenger has been doing a lot of press and I don’t know why. Actually I do know why. I have. There seems to be some sort of pr campaign to get her an Emmy nomination.

That seems to be what’s going on. I’ll talk more about that tomorrow because I saw a note in Billboard that pretty much said as much. But Eliza has been doing a lot of press, which is well, I just said what she said. You certainly don’t know when a joke or new hour is done. This was in a sit down chat for deadlines at Prime Experience.

But Eliza says, but you have to tape it at some point, and then the heartbreaking part is the next week when you go on tour, continue touring to find all these things you should have said. It’s almost like you have to tape an hour to know how much better your hour could be. That’s interesting. I truly believe stand up and I hate I’m saying this is like a bottle of wine and I think I’m stealing it from Sideways. But it’s an ever evolving thing.

Her latest hour is titled A Different Animal. She says there’s forty five minutes of material that never made the final cut. I believe an audience deserves a polished product, and people should expect that from Stand Up comedy.

Also, this is corny.

The title isn’t just a nod. Remember, the title is a different animal. The title isn’t just a nod to her creative evolution. It’s also an acknowledgment of the fact that what she delivers with both her material and her delivery is unique. Eliza says, I’m a different animal now than when I started comedy.

Material is different, and I’m a different person than I was when I started writing, a different animal. So I think it really speaks to the idea that what you get when you watch my stand up something completely different than people expect from comedy as a genre, or from me from what you’ve seen before. My former coworker Jamie Fox says he wants to mix comedy with quote funny church stuff and is creating an experience that celebrates both his humor and his spiritual roots. Fox went on Instagram and a video. He said, I got some funny stuff that I want to do.

I’m a church boy, so I want to do some funny church stuff. So when I come to your city, I need you all to pull up on me and play along. He’s searching for gospel choirs in every city to join his upcoming tour, so rather than a house band of sorts, so it would be a local choir. Fox has yet to share official guidelines on how this works yet, but he wants a different gospel choir in each city. Bert Krascher was on the Drop a Pin show and he proclaimed which of the American states is the best?

Are you ready? What’s your guess? Bert Krescher proclaimed that Ohio is the greatest state of America has to offer. Not only does he love the quote big cities, but he thinks that people are very understanding as opposed to other states. But it said, I think Ohio is the greatest state in the Union.

I argue that because I’ve traveled everywhere. Its topography is gorgeous. It’s the perfect political place to be where they get your personality. They welcome everyone, but they’re not lunatics. You get weather, you get on the water.

No state has the big cities that Ohio has. I think it’s the best state in the Union. Yeah, I mean, okay, weather, water, sure, No state has the big cities that Ohio has. No California, Texas, nobody’s big cities like anything else. This got mixed responses on social media and from some losers recording a podcast in their basement.

One social media user said, horrible take. It’s Wisconsin going away. The Great American Comedy Festival is back. The headliner Yakov Smirnoff. Yakov’s been doing some press this week.

He was going to do Fellon. That may have happened by now, but he’s the headliner on Saturday. James Austin Johnson headlines Friday Night. Part of the Great American Comedy Festival is honoring Johnny Carson, who would have turned one hundred this year. Festival executive director Pat Jensen said, Johnny Carson was a comedy legend, and certainly SNL isn’t that same pantheon.

If a member of the current SNL cast during the same year that we recognize Johnny’s one hundredth birthday, just feels so perfect. I heard me drop the g in that sentence. The Queen’s Accent’s coming out today. I heard it. I’m leaving it in Hit your ten second, rewind it happening during the word during.

The festival kicks off tonight with the traditional family comedy Magic Show. The festival opened in two thousand and eight to honor the legacy of Johnny Carson. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is launching its own book club, and I know you’re thinking, wow, that sounds really cool, and I’m with you, Yeah, really cool. Stephen Colbert jumped on the social media and said, we’ll be highlighting wonderful books that are worth your time that you’re not putting into watching this show. The first book in the super Cool Late Show book Club is called Orbital.

That’s a twenty twenty three sci fi novel. Colbert says Orbital is a beautiful novel about six astronauts on the International Space Station going about their daily tasks and pondering the meaning of life. It won the book a Prize, and it won the even more prestigious prize of being my first book club pick that actually sounds like a book I would like after I’ve totally made fun of the book club, but come on, Late Show book Club. Jacob Samuel has an album out today. He spoke to streight dot com.

He said one of the problems he had breaking into comedy is I’m not a good storyteller. I was never a naturally charismatic, schmoozy guy. I always thought, don’t want to do comedy writing. I didn’t really want to perform, but then you realize that to even start down that path, you need to be performing if you want to make inroads in the comedy communities. His style is observations of modern day life and quick hits of twelve to fifteen seconds.

He says, I love that joke structure where he had a little clue and then some people get it, then more people get it, and you’re bringing everyone in slowly. An example which I’m sure he told better than I will. It’s about dating apps. He said. I’d see some women write in the profile, I just love life, and that’s great because that tells me you have zero life experience.

Another I’m a jazz lover, and I don’t mean I love jazz, I mean I make love like jazz, because the way I make love is not very popular. That’s a good joke. His first album, Horsepower forty five minutes, when the twenty twenty one Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year. This new one is called Big Time. He says, sometimes you put in a lot of work and it results in nothing.

He told a story I had to cut a joke on my special that I’ve been doing for five years because the week after I recorded the special, Nate Bergetzi he came up with the same joke on the fly on his podcast. It wasn’t the exact same wording. I think mine was better because I had worked on it, but he figured out the same concepts. I’m like, wow, I can’t put that out there because the hottest community in the world just did it, and who’s gonna believe me? That sucks?

He says. One of my favorite jokes in this specials It’s one of the first jokes I wrote to rebuild my act. I dropped it for a while because the wording was a bit clunky. Then I posted on social media. Did really well.

The joke is about the Honda Odyssey. It’s a weird name for a vehicle because if you know anything about the Odyssey, you know it didn’t go well. That’s funny too. Big Talk is the name of the special, and he is Jacob Samuel. It all sounds pretty good and congratulations to Nina Yankovic on graduating college.

Her dad Al went on Instagram to announce that Nina had graduated from college. Al posted a photo of him and Nina, saying, my daughter Nina graduated from college today. Sorry, this is the most recent picture I could find of her. It was, of course, a picture of them at the graduation. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Max with your Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien returns to Late Nights, not just the concept of the Late Night, but the actual NBC Late Night with Seth Myers. It is his first time as a guest on the Seth Myers incarnation. He made a cameo appearance early in Jimmy Fallon’s run That’s tonight at twelve thirty seven am.

If you want to stay up late, I am sure someone will share social media clips in your favorite podcast. Here, we’ll recap it for you. Got some information for the Just for Laughs in Montreal, Rebirth Festival JFL has announced the programming lineup for off JFL, the festival’s unique edgy sibling that has been a launch pad for the next generation of artists. This year’s off JFL features Russell Howard, Jen Marco Ciresi, a Kay, Trevor Wilson, Emil Wakeem Nish Kumar, Robbie Hoffman, Ivan Decker and some others. This is some real good names there.

I got to drop the website into English. I can sort of quote unquote read French, but not in a way where I can quote unquote read it and explain it to you as I’m doing the podcast here live ish. So this is not the main festival, but let’s see what we got here. July seventeenth, the Sketch Show, Friday the eighteenth, the Montreal Show, a couple of midnight surprises in there. Sunday Night improv.

I’ve been deck around Wednesday the twenty third, that’s in the middle of the festival, proper cave. Treva Wilson that same night, Nish Kumar that same night, and I think that’s the night of New Faces. Boy, that’s a pack night. Maybe I’ll go up there that day. So decided I finally found a contact for the new press people.

I need to reach out to them. Jay Jorden on Thursday the twenty fourth, in front of the show Marco SOIRESI on Saturday at ten o’clock. Good to see the festival back and starting to come together. Now, that’s good. Waiting for the big announcements and the new faces and all that.

Agunwotum is the latest to flirt with the idea of leaving SNL Goldderby dot com, which suddenly is reporting a lot of comedy stuff that’s hitting my google anyway. Ego was at an Emmy’s FYC event and said, I want to create something that feels like it’s mine. I want to showcase some of my other talents now that I’ve done so much on the show. But I love the show, so there’s no telling what happens there or doesn’t bo When Yang said, this is kind of what everyone’s negotiating. It’s a nice sort of collective check in for everybody.

I don’t think any of us is really at the foresight and what life would be like afterwards, and now that we’re on the other side of it, I think we’re all kind of assessing mighty. Gardner said, I think I’m looking for open doors. I found that sometimes the easiest things that come to me are the most fulfilling ones, so that’s what I’m looking for. Interesting. I think we’re going to say massive cast turnover, but time will tell.

My former coworker Jamie Fox, got emotional while accepting the Ultimate Icon Award at the BET Awards on Monday night. Jamie struggled to hold back tears during his speech. He thanked God for giving him a second chance following his health emergency. Jamie said, I don’t want to make this whole speech about that. You can’t go through something like that and not testify.

I cannot even begin to express the love that I feel from everybody out there. I gotta be honest. When I saw the in Memoriam, I was like, man, that could have been me. Kevin Hart was the host of the BET Awards. He had some really strong material here, which obviously he told better than I will recount to you.

But Kevin said, I’m shutting down the idea of after parties. No after parties tonight, none take your asses home after this. That’s why I did this on a Monday. People gotta go to work tomorrow. No after parties.

That’s where stuff gets slippery at those after parties. We’re learning a lot about people, aren’t we. We’re learning a lot. Take your asses home, and people assumed that was a commentary on the dedde Combs trial. One of Kevin Hart’s other rules for the night was he wanted to keep things classy and he would only refer to attendees by their government names, no nicknames, no rap names.

He gave a shout out to Dwayne Michael Carter Junior aka Lowayne Calvin Cortizor brought us Junior, that Snoop Dogg and Gloria Hallelujah Woods. Kevin Hart said a lot of people expected to see a big church in the back selling fish plates. Nope, that’s Glorilla. Kevin also joked that he’d gotten the audience self driving Waymo cars to take the audience home. The event took place in Los Angeles.

Taylor Thomlinson addressed these situation in LA on her soon to be over a late night show and said late night shows aren’t funny anymore. We’re just the news now. I don’t know. I just have a hard time talking about any of the stuff because I don’t think it’s funny. I can’t imagine being somebody whose mom or dad, or brother or sister got abducted by ice and you turn on TV and it’s just some dumb B word and a ponytail saying Trump’s just being silly.

I don’t know how to make it funny. It’s not funny. She then joked, how are the day laborers at home depot possibly hurting Americans? Have you gone a home depot? Literally?

All they do is offer to help. Stephen Colbert said there’s been some pelting of police and ice agents with rocks and garbage. For example, people began throwing objects at law enforcement and protests that started when demonstrators took over the one oh one, although locals were quick to point out they should have taken over the four O five to the five and saved at least ten minutes on the road to fascism. That is a wonderfully, wonderfully crafted joke. Good j job.

Stephen Colbert’s left Stephen Colbert writers seth Meyer said, Also, if you’re against property damage and protesters flying un American flags, you guys would have hated January sixth, Hey, did we know Jim Jeffries has a new show on Fox? I host this thing every day. I feel like I would have mentioned it. Maybe I raced it from my brain, but apparently he had a show on Fox last night called The Snake. The Snake features fifteen contestants leveraging their unique skills and relying on their powers of persuasion.

Throughout the game, a snake is chosen to juggle the fate of their fellow competitors, all trying to compete for the grand prize of one hundred thousand dollars, which is, you know, kind of a lot of money, but not a lot of money. The feds are gonna take their cut. You’re gonna go home with maybe sixty grand. How much is Fox getting for one commercial on this show. Yeah, sounds like a lot until you look at the math.

Jeffrey said, there is no backstabbing you in this game. People are stabbing you in your front. What makes this show different from other shows is once you win the challenge, you get to become the Snake. You get a Snake Medallion, the most coveted character in the game, and then we have a saving ceremony, not an elimination ceremony, where the Snake decides either going to save first, then that person decides to save another person, and that person decides to save another person until we get down to the final two players, and then the Snake decides who gets to live and who goes home. Patton Oswalt is joined the cast of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

He plays a vulcan in season three. That’s terrible casting, like really really terrible. Love Patton Oswalt, but there’s nothing about Patton Oswalt that is vulcan. He doesn’t look like a Vulcan. He doesn’t act like a Vulcan.

Even if he’s a world thespian, He’s still going to look like Patton Oswalt and Hobbit makeup. This is a terrible, terrible idea and I’m a big tricky and it gets worse Star Trek fans. During the brief interaction, Spock tells Patton Oswalt’s character to give him five. Oswalt’s character gives Spock a high five. Then Spock says, now go down low and lowers his hand.

Before Oswalt’s character can make contact with Spock’s hand, Spock pulls his hand away. Uh, I almost dropped a JFC there. I’m a big treky. The current regime at Star Trek is just awful. Patton Hoswald Star Trek character says, why would you do that?

Spock says, because you are too slow? Oh my god, what are you people doing? Just leave Star Trek dye in piece. Some fellow nerds said they hope Patton Oswalt gets more Vulcan episodes. He would have to appear in three episodes to pass Sarah Silverman, who appeared in two episodes of Star Trek and of course, Dignataro was in several seasons of The Horrible, Horrible, Horrible Star Trek Discovery.

You don’t want to start me on that topic. If you ever meet me in person and you say Star Trek to me, you’re gonna regret it. Caleb hearing And is getting an HBO special. It’ll tape in Chicago. Little debut this fault, you know.

Rosenstein, the executive vice president of HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials, said, we’re thrilled to work with Caleb on his first comedy special. He’s wildly funny and has kind of an emotion, a ledge and honesty that it feels totally his own. This special captures everything that makes him such a fresh and fearless voice in comedy. How do you know it hasn’t recorded yet? Hmmm?

Caleb said, thank you to HBO for the opportunity. I look forward to seeing what the platform will be called in the fall. That’s good. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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