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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johny match with your Daily Comedy News. Billboard has put out its mid year touring recap. We’ll take a look at the top touring comedians. In twenty twenty two and twenty three it was Kevin Hart at the Midway, and twenty four it was Nate Bergatzy All right, who do you think are the top five touring comedians of twenty twenty five so far?

Now, don’t forget to be on the list. You’d actually have to be on tour. The dates covered here are from October first, twenty twenty four to March thirty first, twenty twenty five. Midyear charts are based on figures reported to Billboard box Score. At number five, Jeff Dunham has grossed thirteen point four million dollars and sold two hundred and fourteen thousand tickets across forty seven shows.

At number four, Joe Coy grossing fourteen point six million dollars two hundred and four thousand tickets across fifty three shows. Maybe, if you ever host Golden Globes, don’t try and stare him down to ruin his career, because it’s not gonna work. Joe Coy. Number four, he’s doing fine. Taylor.

Number three Gavi Iglacias twenty million dollars two hundred and seventy five thousand tickets fifty shows. Number two Kevin Hart twenty eight point three million dollars two hundred and sixteen thousand tickets, sixty one shows. Kevin likes to work, doesn’t he? And number one I’m not sure I would have guessed this person, but once you say this person’s name, I’m like, yeah, okay, I could see it. Sebastian Manuscalco thirty five and a half million dollars, three hundred and sixty one thousand tickets sold, thirty shows.

Somebody do the math there? How much as a ticket to go see Sebastian Maniscalco seems pricey? But he plays two Mainstream America, So I get it from Golf Digest, your home for comedy new Shane Gillis was over on Andrew Schultz a podcast. He was joined by Steve Gerbin, and they were promoting season two of Tires, which I’ll talk about in a second. The conversation talked to Gerbin and Gillis’s trip down to the Masters in a browl.

Gillis told Andrew Schultz, this is what I do for this guy. I took him on a private jets of the Masters. I don’t give an f about golf. So we’re at the Masters. It was dug crap.

It sucked. It was awesome. It’s like beautiful Augusta National. You know, it’s the fing Master. So you go in, you walk in, You’re like, this is awesome, and then after an hour you go, ah, sephan golf.

You can’t see a thing. There’s no phones, you’re not allowed on a phone, so you just gotta look at the scoreboard that somebody’s like, manually, they’ve got a two on that last one, and you go, oh nice.

Meanwhile, Shane was on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said, I pledged a million dol…

That’s the licensing thing so that the college players can get paid. Now. I haven’t done one single thing. I was at the FFing Championship game watching Ohio State win, and I was going, Notre Dame needs a defensive tackle. I’m gonna give them a million bucks, and they were like, hey, you want to give us that million bucks.

I was like, no, Gillis told Schultz he wanted to play football in college, but never applied to Notre Dame because they were too good for him. So he tried to play for Army because Army would play Notre Dame that year. Gillis explains, I was like, I would play there in their stadium. In fact, my senior year would have been Notre Dame Army and Yankee Stadium. That would have been cool.

Would have gotten killed by Notre Dame and it would have been an honor. No turns out, I sucked. Grandpa and cousin played for them. It was my old family. I went to a Catholic school in Pennsylvania, so everyone that was Catholic like Notre Dame.

If you’re a Protestant, you liked penn State. Tire season two is hilarious. Tire season two, episode two. I was laughing out loud, which I’ve talked about my Emperor rome syndrome that doesn’t happen. That one had me guffawing.

My son. I watched it separately. He came down because I texted him, I’m like, oh my god, season two, episode two, you gotta watch it, and he had already seen it, and he said something that I was thinking but hadn’t verbalized it. He said it reminds him of the Office’s Diversity Day episode, and I don’t think they’re hiding it. I think they’re going for that.

Even if you watch the way the credits for at least season two. I don’t know what these season one credits, I don’t remember what they look like, but the season two credits, the way it’s shot and the music it’s deafly reminds me of the UK Office anyway. Shane Gillis season two of Tires, You should watch it, episode two. Highest recommend Welcome to the Era of Establishment. Theovaugh So the Establishment.

Theovon this past weekend with Theovon podcast had on the Vice President, and while the VP was there, Elon Musk put out that tweet suggesting that the President is in the Epstein files. Vance said, okay, wow, I haven’t even seen this one. He explained he was on a plane when mister Musk and mister Trump were changing Barbes Online. Vance said, first of all, absolutely not. Donald Trump did not do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein.

Whatever the Democrats and the media says about him, that’s totally bs. A clip was posted on Twitter of Van saying he hoped Trump and Musk had become friends again. Musk tweeted, cool, nobody’s watching the NBA Finals because nobody listens to Johnny mack hey refs call some fouls. Put the Knicks in the finals. You’d have three times the amount of people watching, but instead we’re getting some of the lowest rated finals of decades.

And that’s a shame because the NBA is cool. NBA superstar is Steph Curry is taking on his first major acting role in Goat. Goat is a basketball themed animated feature. It’s set in an all animal world and it follows Will, a little goat with big dreams who gets a once in a lifetime shot to join the pros and play roar ball. Currently, roar ball is a high intensity, co ed, full contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.

John, why are you talking about this other than being bitter about the Knicks? Well, Batton, Oswalt and Nick Kroll are some of the voice actors in this thing. Olivia Munn has a big feature piece in People magazine. I’ll stick to the John Maliney parts, and she said, I really had no idea what kind of father he would be, what kind of friend he would be to me? But the day Malcolm was born, John’s whole world just lit up.

Malcolm looks just like John. He’s just changed his whole little life. Not to be two Sacharine. But looking at John, looking at Malcolm, I could see all the healing happening. It occurred to me over the weekend, this whole Netflix Malaney thing.

Here’s how they’re gonna get out right, write this down so when they actually say this and I do my I told you so dance, you can go. Okay. Johnny Mack said this on the June tenth episode of Daily Comedy News. He was right, here’s what they’re gonna do. They’re going to announce that everybody’s live will come back, but not until the Netflix Festival.

All right, that’s my prediction, because during the Netflix Festival, they can knock out six of them in a week and they’ll have a level guests and it’ll crush and everyone will be like, oh my god, it was amazing. Plus it helps hype the festival. That way, both Netflix and Malanie could say, yeah, we always said it was coming back, here it is, and then they don’t have to do the pesky twelve week thing that none apparently not too many people were watching, and uh, you know, I’ve said my piece about it. So that’s my prediction. The next time you see The Malleni Talk Show will be d twenty twenty six at Netflix Comedy Festival.

Write that down. James Austin Johnson said, the cold opens in season fifty of SNL, we’re pretty crazy. I’ve done a few of those before, but the added pressure of the fiftieth and the added pressure of my comedy out being up there with some of us on those sketches. It was just Bowan and I looking at each other, like, look at us with all these stars, and made me want to raise my game and match their level. That’s what the whole season was about for me.

I want to find the path to be as good as these people have looked up to in the end and how they’re sharing the stage. You know, I mentioned a few times I like James, but I feel like his Trump impression really drifted this season. It was better when he first started doing it, and you know, Shane does a better one. James said this season was the first where he took out three new cast members, to give them a rundown. He said, this was the first year I cared about another living soul.

I came to SNL with my wife, who was pregnant at the time, and I was so wrapped up in our internal drama. This season was the first one where I thought I could do this. I know this, and I want to share that data with the new guys. And they’re all geniuses. They’re also ready.

I was blown away by all three of them, Ashley Pada, Emil Wickim and Jeane Wickline. They’re such naturals. That’s pretty cool. That’s good to pay it forward like that. In this next story, I had seen buzzing around, but I was only finding it from South American new sites that I was unfamiliar with, and I couldn’t tell if this was a hoax or a real thing.

But now only Washington Post has written about it, so I believe it’s real. A comedian is facing eight years and three months in prison. So here’s the story. Leo Linz is doing a set in mid twenty twenty two. He warns the audience he’s not going to hold back.

He says, I make jokes about everything and everyone. What show could be more inclusive. I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be able to offend the death mute. That set went viral and has over three million views on YouTube. During the set, he made fun of black and indigenous people, obese people, utterly people, gay people, Jews, Northeastern Brazilians, evangelicals, disabled people, and those with HIV and is now facing eight plus years in prison.

The sal Pallo State Criminal Court last week convicted him of practicing or inciting racism and religious prejudice, as well as discrimination against people with disabilities. They called his comedy bigoted and discriminatory against minority and vulnerable groups. The judge wrote in her decision freedom of expression is not out solute nor unlimited. When there’s a confrontation between the fundamental precept of liberty and expression of the principles of human dignity and judicial equality, the latter should win out. Linz responded on his YouTube page and said this video is not a joke.

This is Leonardo de Lima Borges Linz, not the comedian Leo Lenz, a comedic character created over many years that makes a servit jokes. He said Brazil was going too far with rulings based on emotion, in which no one wants to hear the person next to them, but to convince them of their own truth. In twenty twenty two, a judge had ordered Linz to pay around eight thousand dollars to the mother of an autistic child he had offended. He was involved in another controversy by joking about a child with hydrocephalus that is a disease believed to be associated with ZEKEA virus. The audience laughed at one of his jokes, and he said, I like this crowd.

You’re complicit in a crime. I’m going to use you all at trial. Very very interesting. We’ll keep an eye on that one. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media been air. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle is doing his hometown summer shows again. Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp is a summer tradition. It’s back for its fifth year.

He’ll do three summer weekends at the Weird Pavilion weekend of July second to third and fifth, so no show on the fourth, and then August fourteen, fifteen sixteen, and August twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. The Hollywood Reporter put Chappelle and Moa. Mayer together for a conversation. Dave says, of Mo, we spent all the summer of twenty twenty together doing shows. The best comedians of the world flew in Ohio and we had a blast.

Moe recalls it was so nerve wracking because everything was so unsettling. It was COVID, it was civil unrest, it was my own personal stuff, and every one of my writers was juggling things emotionally. He was really overwhelming, But you, Dave, really saved my life. I’m sure that a lot of people fell that way because we weren’t working. You gave us an outlet so the story here.

Moe was invited to participate in Actors on Actors, and he suggested speaking with Dave Chappelle. Chappelle said, as you know, I notoriously don’t like to do press, but I wouldn’t have missed today because it’s used. So Dave flew from Ohio to LA and said, there’s an elephant in the room. You got a deal at Netflix to produce a show, and then Riser’s starting production on season two October seventh happened, and this is something that you’re going to have to address artistically or not. And I was curious about what’s the process of going through that.

By some weird accident, you found yourself being a solo Palestinian voice at a very critical time in human history. Moe explained. I started writing season two in April of twenty three. Then the writers Guild went on strike. We came back in October six days later.

All hell breaks loose, and particularly my writing room. Since the show centered around a Palestinian family and impacted it significantly, it caused us to have a tremendous amount of debate in the writing room itself. Chappelle was curious where the pressure comes from family, friends, bosses, most said more so from the fans of the public said I’m the only guy that’s Palestinian. It was a show that centered around the Palestinian family. The pressure around that was a minute.

There were so many phone calls and people pressuring me to speak right away. Literally October eighth, I noticed everybody was yelling at each other. No one was actually listening to one another. And I think it’s really important to understand what’s happening before you speak out. It’s really necessary to know what you’re talking about.

I’ve aween my art form as a refuge what it allows me to be myself and express myself. Outside of that, it feels unnatural to me at the moment. I had a long conversation there along those lines while we’re solving a peace in the Middle East here on Daily Comedy News, THEO Vaughn has also addressed Palestine on his podcast. He called it a genocide. There’s a clip going viral.

It’s from the May tenth episode of this past Weekend. In it, THEO says, feels to me like it’s a genocide that’s happening while we’re alive. You see all these photos of people just children, women, people body parts, just putting their kids back together. I just can’t believe we’re watching that and that more isn’t said about it. I didn’t set out today to wait into any of this.

As I put the show together and he could check the back catalog. Whoever the biggest comedian is, that’s who gets the first story. So when I went into the Chappelle thing and saw that THEO, who’s pretty big and would have been in the three spot today, was on the same subject, I put those two back to back. Had THEO spoken about something else, the number two story would have been this whole John Mulaney thing. Now, I had pointed out on this show, I’m getting up on my soapbox and doing the Hey, Johnny Mack told you I’m doing it.

Hey, remember I told you this. Remember a couple of weeks ago, Robbie pro the head of Netflix Comedy, was like, yeah, Mallenie, yeah yeah, but like never said it was actually coming back. Then last week Mulaney was on Mark Marion’s podcast and you know, said we’re working things out. Late Nighter poked at this. Robbie Pra told Late Nighter Robbie again is head of Netflix comedy Every Wednesday for the last twelve weeks has been my favorite Wednesday.

I think John is absolutely brilliant. That’s nice. My ex girlfriend from college has nice hair. That’s it. She’s nice hair.

So Late Nighter didn’t accept that dodge and asked it, you know, are we gonna get any more of this show? Robbie prot says, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time, which is not yeah, we’re working on season two right now, or yeah, twelve more episodes come out October twenty fourth, or yeah, we’re working it out. John’s touring this summer, which is trying to figure out the dates. You could have said any of that, but Prau said quote, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time. Prau also points out mulaney is an extremely, extremely busy man.

It sounds like everybody has figured out that that show didn’t work my opinion, and they’re laying the groundwork to everyone to get out gracefully. I could see a future in which it’s like, you know, working with John was great, but yeah, you know, he’s got this sixteen month tour coming up, but he’s got two young children and he’s in a lot of demand and he might host some awards show how about you know, we love him here at Netflix, and we always have the door open for an upcomings, you know, that kind of spin that’s coming. What’s incredible to me about John is how quickly we saw the evolution of the show. To put on a program that feels different from Show one to Show twelve. In the old world of late night, that would be what two and a half weeks.

I can’t really envision who else could pull that off the way John did. Well, that’s not really a fair comparison. You kick, pare twelve weekday shows to twelve weeks. You have to comp we are twelve weeks to twelve weeks, because if you’re doing a daily show, like all right, we’re done taving at six thirty and we have to get to work, and we have twenty three hours to put out another show, not one hundred and sixty seven hours to put out another show. So that’s not a fair comparison at all.

Robbie Prau, who I’ve worked with back at Just for Laughson, is a good guy. More from pra Vi e Late Night Er, which is a great website. I mean, we’re calling it late night, but it’s on streaming so it’s available all the time. So to me, it really seems like a hybrid. It’s a talk show.

Part of it feels snl E. No it doesn’t. I mean he wrestled fourteen year olds. That feels Andy KAUFMANI yes, he did the hype bit the night Letterman was on. That felt lettermany.

Yes it did. The fact that he was out there doing these ten to twelve minute not topical monologues and that they’re strong as they are is something mokes folks don’t understand the level of difference and specialness. You have to have to achieve that. Sure, but I will tell you this, Give Jay Leno a week to come up with twelve minutes, he’ll do it. But he did a show five days a week.

And let’s not pretend people don’t have writers for us as The idea of producing the show live around the world wasn’t necessarily a strategy to differ the show. To be honest, I don’t think it’s the thing that makes the show great personally. It’s certainly exciting that it’s live in the moment, but it really stands out as a great variety hour either way, That’s how a lot of our members engage with it. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel Live was called Jimmy Kimmel Live because Jimmy Kimmel was Stay It with Me Live. The Holly Reporter caught up with Seth Meyers, who somehow has been hosting Late Night for eleven years now without really having any impact on society.

They were curious, Seth, do you have a sense for what differentiates your show? Seth says, One thing I love hearing as I’ll come backstage for first time guests and they’ll say, everybody tells me this will be really fun, and that’s great. Defeedback, I think is people like doing the show because they feel like it’s a conversation. We don’t ask some of them. It’s just come and talk.

It’s a loose, good vibe. Host isn’t in a suit. We have a nice green room. Well, I mean, if that alone isn’t a reason to watch the show, they have a nice green room, says The one thing I was most wrong about is I thought politicians would be more interesting. I think it’s very interesting to talk about politics.

It’s less interesting to talk to politicians and We’ve built a show where if the conversation’s good, it’s good TV, and it almost doesn’t matter who it’s with. Honestly, I think it’s better to have a good conversation with an author than a bad conversation with an A list star. But that said, is it if more value if you have a good conversation with George Clooney? Of course, But if we realize there’s someone who’s a giant star is maybe better at being a giant star than they are being a talk show guest, that’s great. We don’t need to chase that person.

In Carmel spoke to GQ about his weight loss and said, you know what the big difference for me was, I joined a gym. I can walk to the whole idea of getting in the car and finding parking and in LA often paying for parking. I took away as many hurdles as I could. There’s a gym that’s like a twenty five minute walk for me. Perfect it’s podcast time.

Maybe he listens to this podcast. Hi, And I also drink so much water because the other thing I feel with cravings is you have to try telling them and know in as many ways as you can throw whatever you can at them. I’m probably like a three to four apples a day guy. Doctors will tell you to keep it to two, but listen, it’s that or Lasagnas. I’m doing the apples and I love blueberries.

For me, that’s a top tier berry. I think it’s the most consistently good. I don’t think it’s the best berry at its best, but it’s the best berry on average. Forgot to mention earlier. Seth’s doing a lot of press and why I don’t know why he’s doing so much press.

Conan’s doing a lot of press too. At Eliza Slessengers doing a lot of press. I’ve noticed that aproprobe nothing just thought a chair doing comedy podcast and these things come to mind when I put the show together. At the ATX TV Festival in Austin, Brett Goldstein talked about his early collaboration with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence. That was a project called spaced Out, also in that Donald Faison from Scrubs.

It was basically a space themed workplace sitcom. Wheret Goldstein said, it was my second pilot season in la I’d gone and done a pilot for HBO the year before. There was really good, but didn’t get picked up, and then it came back in an audition for Bill’s new show. I love Bill because of Scrubs and I was excited to had Donald in it. The show was about a working class genius trying to integrate with a team of scientists building a Mars rocket.

Goldstein said it was basically Scrubs set in a rocket factory. We called it space Turk. Laurence said it was not called it was canceled. Brett says, the thing that’s awful about making TVs, we all felt on the set the pilot was really special. This is a thing so much that when Bill’s producing partner, Jeff said goodbye to me, because you do the pilot and then you start shooting the rest of the season in August, he said to me, see you in August.

So I started packing out my house. I sold my place in England, don’t know.

And then a month later it’s not happening.

I was like, where do I live? Yeah, I don’t do that. That was a rookie mistake there, brick Oldstein. Years later, Bill Lawrence calls him about this show called ted Lasso. He called me completely out of the blue, and he said, I’m gona do this football show.

You want to come right on it? And I said no, I’ve got a big stand up show booked. He said it starts next week and I was like, but I’ve got these stand up shows. Brett spoke to comedian Nish Kumar, who told him cancel the show. Cold Scene had another concern.

He had developed a show, Soulmates for AMC. The Soulmates got picked up and I was like, ef Bill Lawrence said he was running Soulmates and we hired him as a writer on Lasso. He didn’t know he was also going to be Roy Kent, but that was all Brett. We were writing. The party filmed an audition on his own.

He sent it to us and he absolutely killed. Yeah, we’ve heard that story before where he just asked, Hey, can I just be Roy Kent and they said yeah. That’s how I started hosting the show on Live One. The weekly comedy thing, by the way, I should plug that new episodes every Monday, kind of like this, except I talk a lot less. But I can also play comedy clips from comedians because of licensing and all that.

So that’s the weekly comedy thing on Live One. So when we were putting that show together, I was inspired by Phil Collins from Genesis. I’ve gone sideways here, let me back you up. So Peter Gabriel, musician Peter Gabriel, you’ve heard of him. He was the original singer for the band Genesis, and then he left and Genesis was looking for singers and they auditioned a bunch of people and then one day Phil Collins, who you’ve heard of, said can I just do it?

And they were like, yeah, sure. So we were auditioning people for the weekly comedy thing and I was writing it, but no one was quite nailing the voice. And I eventually said can I do it? And I totally had Phil Collins stuck in my head for that, and they were like sure. So I started hosting that and then I had all these extra stories left over, and I’m like, I got to do something with these stories.

So I created this podcast and here we are, and like anything else in life, I’ve been talking into a microphone almost every day for don eleven twelve years now, and you get better things. So thank you for listening. I digress. But that was the end of the Brett Goldstein story. Oh, I definitely want to stop off at Gossip Corner before we Go.

Page six reported that Jeff Gorlan was scheduled to headline a comedy dinner at the Calabasas Country Club in SoCal last week. However, he allegedly walked out after discovering he’d be paid by check. Gorlan was reportedly promised listen to this number eight hundred dollars in cash, and was unhappy to learn at the venue intended to compensate him with a check instead. Let’s just stop off there. So say you were on curb your enthusiasm for eleven years, You’re going to headline a comedy dinner.

How much do you think you would get paid? Apparently the number is eight hundred dollars. Wow. An insider told the Post the crowd was ticked, most of them come to see Jeff. Approximately forty people at the show.

According to Calabasa’s country club schedule, they frequently host events such as comedy nights and bingo. The Post says it’s unclear why Garland walked out. A different source in form Page six that he likely didn’t walk out due to financial reasons. They said, Jeff can be a very neurotic guy. You can get hung up on things, so who knows.

I think I have it in my brain somewhere. I feel like when I was at Serious XM, I feel like we were talking with Jeff about maybe perhaps doing something I may have And again, I might just be making up this whole thing. I feel like I was on a call with Jeff and I haven’t filed away in my brain that sometimes you jump on calls with people and you can tell people really want to do something and then we’ll figure out the money later.

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And then sometimes you’re on a call with someone and you feel like, oh, they …

And it’s more about the money than the idea. And I haven’t filed away this conversation with Garland that I might just be imagining, but I think it happened, if I’m remembering correctly. I think I left that call going, oh, this isn’t column B, that this is just like, hey, I heard this is the thing. When podcasting heated up a few years back, oh boy, a lot of people were out. Yeah, I’d like to do a podcast.

All right, what do you want to do? I don’t know, whatever you guys think, And it was like, you just want to be paid anyway. That’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tim Dilan was on with Fox News Digital and goof Dan. One of my favorite comedic targets, and that is Megan Markle. Now, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigued podcast about the royal family, so I write about Megan seven days a week, so I’m very familiar with what everything’s going on.

And Tim said, I think she came to prominence at a time when there was a real cultural cachet of being a victim, and I thought it was a very funny way to be a victim, and she found a way to be a victim while living in a castle, and I always found that very funny. I think she’s a great comedic actress. I think there was a real currency in being a victim when she rose to prominence and she became a victim living in a castle, married to a prince with the royal wedding, and I thought that was really funny. It’s hard to pull it off. She did it to her credit.

You know, most people that were putting out that they were victims during that era were, to their credit, not members of the royal family. Tim then talked about Prince Harry and said, Harry seems like he’s kind of been let around and he kind of doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s probably all all adventure for him, right. I loved him, Dylon and you can follow along and kind of goofon the Royal Family. Listen to Palace Injurgue where you get your shows.

The Hollywood Reporter did a wax job for Seth Meyers’s car. I don’t know why. A lot of Seth Meyer’s press recently. They asked him about writing for SNL’s fiftieth Seth said it was funny because I wrote on the fortieth and I was very fresh from having left, and I felt right back into being a head writer this time. I felt like a guy trying to make a comeback in baseball as a fifty year old, and he’s kind of throwing his backyard and he’s like, oh, yeah, I still kind of got it.

But this current writing staff is really great. In the person I was most impressed with was Colin Jost. Seth says Jost wanted to make sure everybody was taken care of, which often gets overlooked at SNL. I mean, every good writer at SNL is always looking out for the cast, but to some degree you’re always like, well, there’s next week. But with the fiftieth, you don’t want people to get shut out.

I was at the table reading. It was one of those moments in life where you realize this is probably the last time this is going to happen for me. It was very special, and in the back of your head there’s an anxiety of like, am I doing enough of me adding enough value? Seth tells us for the fiftieth there was very little that was pulled at the last minute. Once so you ask Eddie Murphy to do a sketch, You’re not going to cut the sketch, by the way, nor will you ever be in a position where you think you should.

But in general was a really cool thing. Could they top this? Say there was a sixtieth anniversary at wich Lorne Michaels would be ninety. Seth said, yeah, this was a little bittersweet, and it might be the last great showbiz party. Again, we’re all aware we’re living at different times, but I didn’t feel like a single corner had been cut, and the after party was amazing.

I would say the only part and This was the other difference of ten years is at some point we realized the next day was Monday and we had to beat parents again. So my wife and I did great. I mean, we stayed out untill three. But the next day I was literally taking two of my kids to the Blue Experience. I wasn’t even hungover, it was emotional exhaustion.

And then I was at the Bluey Store, and every parent of the Blue Store is hoping there’s someone there that could talk to you about something cooler than Bluey. So the number of parents coming over like I can’t believe you’re out, and I’m like, yeah, me neither. They then go on to talk about late Night. Maybe I’ll go into that tomorrow. The Alice Observer had a wonderful, wonderful review of Rob Schneider’s show.

The headline Rob Schneider is you can do It Tour had us wishing he wouldn’t. The Observer rights the snl Alum show was a sad display of a comedian who now only knows how to pander to your Facebook uncle. Sounds like Lauren Upshaw did not have a good time at the show. She wrote about Rob’s move towards the right and his comedy special on Fox Nation. The Observer put comedy in quotes.

She writes, when we heard he was playing the Granada, we thought, maybe we’re missing something, maybe he’s grown as a person and his interesting insight in the time following the ascendancy of the Orange One, or maybe we just love a little bit of good cringe, And in that vein, we were truly not disappointed. The crowd was diverse in the sense that it was made up of seemingly older, rich white folks who had not seen Deuce Bigelow and the rest of the white people who definitely had seen it. The opening act was a Vegas performer who began the show with standards before pivoting midway through the set to croner versions of classic hip hop. The crowd loved it, and it was admittedly great, and so the last couple songs took a sharp turn, becoming a croon list of people to get ft. The first real applause during the set erupted when the singer said f oprah.

It was clear the crowd was there to see someone stick it to the libs, and early on it seemed that desire would be fulfilled. The second act gave us a revolting anti feminist tirade for about thirty minutes. Her jokes were typical conservative attempts at meme fodder, such as, don’t worry, honey, there’s no chance you’ll need an abortion because you’re so ugly, no one would have sex with you. Then Schneider came out. The theme of the night was free speech the observer rights.

The set was made strange by the fact that it didn’t seem to be based on conviction or even a desire to provoke thought. Instead, it came across like Schneider was just trying to use outlandish, buzzed words to claim victimhood, if not a grift. It was quite lazy writing at the best. I’m sitting on this one. I bounced this several weekends in a row.

Let me just clear this out. Variety did a big, big fluff piece about Rob mcallenny and Kaylin Olsen. We’re told how successful they are with two businesses, Linear TV and a UK foot We hear from Charlie Day you said it would be very impressive if just one of them was going on a run. But the fact is that both of them are stringing together a series of real successes. They’re out of tear.

Kaitln Olsen’s High Potential is a smash hit, one of the biggest shows on TV right now. Yeah, I guess. Let me see how that’s doing. And please understand I love kayln Olsen. From Variety on May thirteenth, they wrote for the network High Potential was its top rated freshman drama in seven years.

Craig Ierwick, president of Disney Television Group, says, I mean High Potential is truly the story of the year. If you look at the multi platform ratings this year, it does I think about double the ratings of Matt Locke. Wow. Impressive. It stands among the giants of shows that are on right now.

I think the momentum of the show will continue. According to this Variety article, High Potential Broadcast plus Streaming eighteen to forty nine gets a two point four to seven rating that is better than other shows like Abbott Elementary at two point twelve, The Rookie at one point seven zero, Shifting Gears, Tracker, Ghosts Survivor, and Bob’s Burgers at number nine, and that show doesn’t even exist. Then Variety gets onto Waxing Rob’s Car about Wrexham and how well they’ve done. We’re told how Caitlyn is on hecks. She is very good on hecks and don’t forget Sonny returns in July for its seventeenth season.

They’re also in business together as investors in the Philly bar Max Tavern. Glenn Howarden says Rob Ten’s to succeed. He’s very smart and humble on a collad of her person. I’m extremely proud of him and Kitlyn. I don’t know how she does it.

I mean, she’s on three different TV shows. What the f is going on? Man? If I want to do those, if I want to do what those two were doing, they’d probably be part of me that was jealous. But it all sounds very exhausting.

I’m too damn lazy to do all that stuff. It’s just too much happening. Boy, they publicist, you deserve one hell of a race for this fluff piece. They even got Danny DeVito to say he’s an oppressive guy. And I was always thought Caitlyn was the funniest one on the show.

She’s not only gorgeous, but as the timing and as a natural comedian. This is like the fluff job of fluff jobs I’ve ever seen. Rob is pondering a name change. He says, as our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob mack kylen Olsen said. The kids are really not happy about it because they have their last name, and so do I legally.

The fluff piece then goes on to the first year of Sonny. Rob said during season one he didn’t quit his job as a waiter. Sonny was paying him seventy five hundred dollars an episode, minus taxes and commission, and there was no guarantee the show would keep going, he says, of that season. That was our chance, and we’re very proud of those episodes. It was certainly unlike anything else on TV.

We knew we were betting on ourselves. John the FX’s boss, was very upfront with us, saying, we’re taking a risk on you. You came in and said you want to be the showrunner. You’re not even the head waiter at a restaurant, but I believe in you. That sounds like some retro storytelling.

Can you imagine you’re sitting in the office, and then the head of FX is like, you’re not even the head waiter. I don’t know, and I’ve run into some jerks, and the guy John Langraf does not have a reputation for being a jerk, so only think that story might be a little massaged. The piece then gets into Rob and Caitlin becoming friends and then more of a relationship. Glenn Howard and said, how did I not see this was happening? She would come over and then get too drunk and sleep there.

In retrospect, she wasn’t really that drunk. She was just using the aas excuse stayed out our apartment, and then Rob would disappear for a couple nights and I’d be like, what’s going on? He tell me he went out with some girl making stuff up. Charlie Day said, I thought, what’s the big deal? I think I remember Glenn was a little more thrown off.

Glenn responds saying I thought he was doing a bit because he knows. The stupidest thing you could possibly do is date your co star. You’re compromising the show on everyone’s job. If that goes south, you’re ft, and the whole show is ft and heft everybody. So I laughed and he was like, no, I’m serious.

Anyway, this thing goes on and on and on. I think there’s some storytelling here, A nice narrative has been created. And if you’re the publicist for Rob Mcalenni and Keaitlyn Olsen, you deserve more money. Screen Rant writes, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy in twenty seven years. See.

I agree with that, except I would phrase it, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy, and I wouldn’t put a time period on it. I agree with screen Rant when they write Sandler has undeniably started in plenty of great movies over the past few years. They’ve mostly been dramas on cut Gems, Hustle, Punch, Drunk Love are the best of the best of the best. Johnny Mack big fan of Adam Sandler, dramatic actor comedy not so much, and I thought this was interesting. They pulled the Rotten Tomato scores for Adam Sandler comedies after the wedding Singer water Boy critics thirty four audience is seventy one.

Big Daddy Critics thirty nine audience is seventy four. I’m just gonna do the splits. I’m not going to keep saying the words critics and audiences, Okay, Little Nikki twenty two to fifty five, Mister Deed’s twenty two, fifty nine, eight, Crazy Knights thirteen and fifty, Anger Management forty two and fifty nine, fifty First eight, forty five and sixty five, Spanglish fifty four and sixty the Longest Yard Critics thirty two audience is sixty two. The original Reynolds Fantastic Film, Click thirty four and sixty six, Chuck and Larry fifteen and of critics sixty nine audiences, Zohan thirty eight and forty five, Bedtime Stories and I Remember that twenty seven and fifty five grown Ups ten percent from critics, sixty two audiences, Just go with It nineteen critics, fifty nine audiences, Zoo Keeper fourteen percent from critics, Jack and Jill, the one that my kids still talk about. They wanted to rent it on pay per view one day, and I said, I’m just going to take the five dollars and light it on fire critics three percent.

Audience is thirty six, That’s My Boy twenty one and fifty one grown Ups two eight percent critics, fifty three audiences, Blended fifteen and sixty four, The Cobbler ten and thirty six, Pickls eighteen and forty six, The Ridiculous six critics gave it zero. Is that possible? Even I don’t give Adam Salor movies zero audience is thirty six, The do Over nine and forty two, Sandy Wexer Boy, This guy has put out a lot of stuff, hasn’t he? Twenty seven and thirty nine, The Week of twenty six, thirty five, Murder Mystery forty three, forty six, Hub Halloween another one I like to hate on fifty two out of critics, thirty eight audiences, Murder Mystery two, forty six and forty five. They right.

If there was ever a movie that seemed tailor made for Adam Sandler’s comedy comeback, it’s Happy Gilmore two. It would be great if Happy Gilmore two finally realize that Adam Sandler isn’t enough to make a film successful on its own. There needs to be a level of craft and writing ability on display that’s been missing for the rest of his filmography. I don’t disagree, and that is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Wirecutter caught up with Conan O’Brien about how he packs when he travels. I just found this fascinating. A conin opened up with a joke, telling Maria Adammant, who writes for Wirecutter, that he does travel with fake beard’s, fake mustaches and a weird don Keyxote costume.

Those are props that gets sent ahead. But more seriously, when Conan travels alone, it’s carry on or bust my kind of guy. Conan pro tips from Conan O’Brien underpack, bring versatile and comfortable, multipurpose clothes, stick to a singer color palette. Pretend you’re Steve Jobs. He suggests two pairs of jeans, one blue, one black, that takes care of ninety five percent of the situations you’d be in.

According to Conan, his favorite brand makes stretchy pants with a dash of krag. Conan says, you could do yog in these, but they look just like regular jeans and they’re incredibly comfortable. That’s a good tip. Conan was even wearing one during the interview. He pairs his jeans with a classic T like his favorite dark blue T shirt from sun Spell.

He explains it’s not a cheap T shirt, but they hold up pretty well over time and they don’t start to look ratty. They actually look kind of nice. Conan also brings a dark blue cashmere Brunello zip up hoodie, which he’s had for years and explains, I’ve noticed you can wear that with anything. It can go to almost any climate. You can just wear it.

You can wear that and be a chill, relaxed dude headed down to the gym, or you can wear it underneath an overcoat. You know, you look like Sting. On his way to the Grammys, Conan says, though you don’t need a luxury version, literally could get something similar at Banana Republic.

Also in the bag a versatile dark blue suit from State and Liberty.

He likes it because it’s made with a light stretching material and says he can attend a funeral, we’re under a jiu jitsu tournament, and neither way you’re set. He always travels with a good pair of black running sneakers. If you’re squinting, it kind of looks like a shoe. That’s my go too as well. I’m actually you hear that.

I’m wearing black sneakers that kind of look like a shoe right now. You know, if you’re wearing dark pants, it’s cone and no one’s really banging attention. You can also walk for like twenty miles. You can go to the gym if you’re crazy enough to go to the gym while traveling.

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Also, you’re Conan O’Brien’s and nobody’s gonna be like, eh, I don’t know it …

You know, It’s not like he’s going for a job at the bank. He wears glycerin GCS twenties from Brooks. I have a pair of those, not in black. My black ones i’m wearing are Nikes, but my current running sneakers are Brooks. Wow, all right, Conan, get it done.

I like this next part about his toilet trees. He says, I always make sure the containers are approved by the Heathrow Airport website, but as even so, the bottles will still be thrown out in front of me by a delighted TSA employee from Manchester. I followed every single rule that he throw has, and they still hold it up in front of me like it’s rat feces and dispose of it. They then get into there’s a lot of Aaron wirecutter, if you want to read it. They get into which razor he brings.

He talks about adapters, has been here, done that. I always like to bring the wrong adapter for the country I’m going to. It’s the correct adapter for the country I previously went to. And that’s true every time, and I’m not even kidding. Don’t cover your passport, Conan said, I used to think it was cool to have a little cover for your passport.

Don’t do it. Everybody in every country treats it with disdain. They make you remove your passport for a little cover. They had the cover back to you like, here’s your affectation. He uses an air tag and his luggage.

It tells you that your luggage is in these zories, but no way helps the situation other than that. The air tag is just a way of laughing at you, mocking you. It’s like a kidnapper who says we have your relative and you’re never getting him back. You’ll find that in the New York Times wire Cutter, that’s pretty good. During a recent episode of the Town with Matthew Beloney, matt asked John Mulaney what cities he thought were best for playing stand up.

Mulaney said Dublin and then switched to Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was just great. I just walked around. My son was probably twelve months old. I was pushing him around the city and a stroller, and Everybody’s like, we’re coming to the show tonight, And then everybody was at the show.

It was that kind of town. Golderby dot com, you’re home for comedy News asked Eliza Selessinger. What’s some great comedy advice should pass on? She said, honestly none. I hear about comics have mentors when they start, but I never had that.

After take years, I thought I knew everything, but then you realize how much you don’t know. The biggest thing is that comedy, and really any career was a marathon, not a sprint. You have to keep working, keep evolving, and be grateful for the chance to create a body of work over time. I want to look back and see my audience growing with me and not be a flash in the pan who in the comedy world inspired you, Eliza Selessener her answer, Adam Sandler was huge for me growing up. I always loved sketch comedy, which shaped my storytelling style.

Wasn’t until much later I realized how much that influenced me. Often on the weekends, I’ll do international stuff, and I’ve got a whole bunch of international for you here. And if none of that interests you, you are dismissed. I understand. I’ll see you tomorrow.

Mark Watson gets a lot of buzz. He was recently enjoying the Prague Fringe and spoke to English radio dot CZ, which normally would get tagged with your home for comedy news, but I already used that joke. He liked Prague. Two of my kids have been to Prague separately. They both loved it too.

Mark Watson said, there’s a kind of owe the architecture in the history and how relatively unspoiled it feels. There’s a real grandeur. Two I’ve been too, slightly similar central European cities like Vienna, and it even reminds you Munich. There’s certainly a joy for a British person with the space, with the big city squares, and also all the colors. It’s lovely to look out the window and feel so far from home.

It’s a very nice city. Mark’s show is called Before It Overtakes Us. What’s it about? He says, I suppose it’s a little bit ominous. The show’s inspired by a conversation I had with what was supposedly a customer service person but proved to be a chatbot in AI.

That was last year. The first time I’d ever been successfully condonent as you’re talking to a non human believing it was human. Made me think a little bit about the changing face of humanity faced by all this technology. I’m forty five. I’ve seen twenty years of relentless technological change.

For most of it I felt slightly behind the pace, but not in a way that’s too much of a problem. Now it does feel as if it’s getting away from me, and I can feel the next generation is starting to do things I don’t understand. Welcome to Old Man Mountain, Mark Watson. Interesting topic here performing in English, where that’s many people’s second language. Mark says, it’s a British person.

You get complacent about that. I’ve performed in the Netherlands and Denmark, and yesterday I had performed a late night’s show after my show and there were people on the bill from India, Russia, Romania, all them performing to each other in English. Were really spoiled. As anglophones, you can pretty much take it anywhere. Of course, in other countries, I can and would try to speak a little bit of German and Germany and French in France.

Now I’ve tried to do snatches in those languages. Here, I’ve had very little time to adapt to the local language, so I’m going to once again rely on any checks there to be fluent or fluent enough.

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Meanwhile, an Australian disability campaigner has hit out at an English come…

Carmen is a Type one diabetic and was appalled when comedian Paul Foot went into a ten minute stretch on diabetes at his show at the Moth Club in East London about ten days ago. In the chunk, Foot quote made fun of people unquote who wear continuous glucose monitors. That’s a device that diabetics used to keep track of their blood glucose levels. He then apparently mimiced a diabetic having in an episode shaking on stage before were suggesting that the person in the sketch died after suffering a heart attack. Carman shared footage on TikTok where she could be heard booing and calling out the comedian.

She yelled out, that was a crap joke. I have Type one diabetes. That was extremely insensitive and misinformative. Foot shot back and said he didn’t think he was being insensitive, continued to set Carman yelled back, I don’t think it’s up to you to decide if it’s insensitive or not. I’ll remind everyone this was happening at a comedy show.

Foot said, due to the failure of you to grasp with that civil intellectual point, then went on to argue that comedy is subjective, and due to the failure of you to grasp that simple intellectual point, the show’s ending in an awkward way. Congratulations to Sean Patrick, who won the Not So New Comedian of the Year award. Kind of like this. This award is aimed at ax who’ve been doing it for a while but of yet to have a big break. Was previously known as the Old Comedian of the Year, but they switched that around Julia Rayside wrote an opinion piece that I found on MSN.

Julia is upset that the BBC’s new comedy lineup is full of white men and says we’ve gone back in time. Julia writes, the latest late of BBC comedy commissions announced recently features almost entirely programs by white men. A great white side of testosterone is set to wash over our screens. I had read to you some of these shows, how about a week ago. Remember Mackenzie Crooks in One and Michael Palin’s in one.

Julia Wrights. Women writers have been almost entirely sidelined. The one exception is Diane Morgan’s Android. They said, come about a humanoid robot design to keep the elderly company. But we’re back to the days of one woman on the bill.

A single female is on one side of the seesaw while the football team of white men weighs down the other end. The Christmas one off Stuffed Dust are the only non white man Guz Cohn, but it’s written by Andy Milligan, another white guy. And Crackt wrote about the biggest gatekeeper in comedy, which is a piece of computer code. Eli Youwdon writes, AI has already taken over comedy, but just from the booker’s office, Eli writes. At the current moment in AI has a massive influence over the world of stand up comedy.

It’s not writing material and it’s obviously not performing it. What it is controlling, and heavily is if you ever see the material. I’m not looking to really togate for the thousand times how Instagram is effected the quality of comedy. For Instagram to exist and for the comics well suited to get famous off it more power too than when I can’t stomach is success or failure on a singular platform being used to gatekeep the entire pursuit. What set me off was a post on Instagram by comedian Charles Gould.

The post was a bit resulting from a meeting with an agent where he was told in plane terms that until he had at least one hundred thousand followers, the door was closed. It irked me, especially because the job of agents and managers and maybe my childish mind is to find talent and then help that talent find an audience. That’s a good point, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please Tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now Kevin Hart, he’s got more side hustles than anybody. He’s not afraid to work, and he’s always got a new business going on. Well.

Now he has partnered with Hulu, and the Hulu pul says may have tried to keep this away from me because you know they definitely don’t get back to May. But I found out anyway about LOL Live, which will feature ten thirty minute sets from a range of comics. It comes from Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat Production Company and premieres today. Comedians include Devin Walker, Chico Bean, Brandy, Denise Chinado, Unaka, Dethnique Springs, Justin Silva, Leah Sampson, Malik b Sidney Washington, and the late Ken Flores. Flores’s performance is the first long form special ever taped by Ken, was filmed shortly before he passed away in January at the age of twenty eight.

Hulu will roll these out two at a time. Floras and Springs kick off the run today, Bean and Unaka on the eleventh, Walker in Washington in August at Denise Milik, be In September and Silva and Simpson on October third. The sets were filmed last summer during Heartbeat Weekend at resorts in Las Vegas. GQ did a lengthy profile of Ian Carmel and Ian’s weight loss. We learned that Ian eats a lot of apples nowadays and he looks a lot different than he did at his peak weight, which was four hundred and twenty pounds.

Interesting discussion here, GQ. With dating, there’s always the feeling of uh oh, this person that I’m attracted to also thinks that I’m attractive. Something’s wrong here. That feeling never goes away. I and said, yeah, I thought you were cool, but you like me, you must be an idiot.

There’s that trap you get stuck in. People say it takes work, It takes therapy, it takes self examination, It takes a lot of being actively aware. It’s a lot like eating in a lot of ways when you find yourself spiraling. A lot of what therapy and self examination can do is it doesn’t stop it from happening, but it does let you recognize it. Maybe it gives you some tools to try and slam the brakes on a little bit.

If you could stop it and call it out doesn’t make it go away. It’s like when you’re standing in front of a fridge sheating your six spiecet pizza without having tasted it. But you have the tools to be like, oh, you’re binge eating, stop, go for a walk, you know what I mean. They got into a story where Ian thought he was having an art attack, but he went down to the street to call nine one one because he didn’t want anyone to carry him out. Ian said, that was my last straw.

It was the entire event. What struck me after looking back on it was I was so effed up in the head and desperate not to be one of those quote unquote fat people. I can never accept myself as who I was. I was like, oh, I don’t smell like other fat people. I have a job address well, not like other fat people.

I want the paramedics to be like, no, I didn’t even notice he was fat. It was another act of apologizing for myself. It turned out to be a panic attack. But panic attacks and heart attacks currently feel very similar at first, which is effed up and not a thing that makes you have less panic attacks, by the way, and the moment where I realized I wasn’t having art attack. I went back upstairs and I scheduled a telehealth appointment.

The Hollow Reporter talked to Andrew Schultz about a TED talk he did in twenty nineteen where he talked about how sensitive and politically correct the culture was. Their premise, the pendulum has swung the other way. Schultz said, yeah, it’s like cancel culture and all these things. It’s over. I mean, people could still get canceled, they still say horrible things about people.

That still happens. So people try. You can make whatever joke you want. The Promoi did with Matt Damon one of the lines that we did, but cut with him going what do you do for your specially? You gotta complain about cancel culture in a sildun arena.

It’s like we can’t cry about it when we’re selling out. Joe Liszt told No Film School that his new special, Small Ball, is not totally unlike his previous specials, and that it’s an hour of him doing stand up at a comedy club. The big difference is this is the first one that hasn’t been shot in New York City, specifically The Village Underground. This one we shot at Chicago and two different comedy clubs and two different nights, one Zanies in downtown Old Town Chicago and the other at the Rosemond Zanies out in the suburbs. Then we cut together two shows and I think I came out really well.

I’m very excited for people to see it. I hope they leave saying, man, that was fun as hell and Joe List is a damn good comedian and I’m glad he finally fixed his teeth. Eliza Selezenger spoke to gold dot com You’re home for Comedy News, and I was thinking about Eliza. She is somehow outside the mainstream. Like I feel like, you know this like this like line of comedians that are all kind of circling around each other, Like Nikki Glaser’s like in the middle of that, and Mlanie’s in the middle of that, and I feel like Eliza should be in that crew.

But she’s off like doing her own thing. You never like see stories of her like interacting with the other comedians, you know what I’m saying, neither good nor bad. I just was like, oh, yeah, she’s just kind of like out there, not in the mainstream for some reason. Eliza said, I started doing stand up at twenty one, and then I became a professional around twenty four. My specials started maybe in my late twenties or early thirties.

Now I’m forty two and a mother of two’s and my jobs to analyze life and call life as I see it. I began as a young woman talking about dating, back when the Internet wasn’t everything, and opinions on society weren’t so constant. Over time, I’ve evolved to have a more concise opinion, from commenting on women to advocating four and validating why we are the way we are, to telling other women they’re not crazy. Now people show up to hear that hot tap, reverent or serious as it may be.

Speaking of serious, the ever so serious.

Horry Condobolu spoke to the Houston Press, but I think he made some really good points here. Harry said, one big thing is the idea of selling out and how that doesn’t really mean anything anymore. For me. It’s the idea of what integrity means when you have a kid, Like, what’s your focus? Is it this idea of artistic integrity, which is this vague notion or is it that the kid needs to eat.

I gotta work, and what would you do for work? At this point, he talked more about selling out and talked about co hosting the Netflix food composition series Snack Versus Chef, which I don’t remember. Apparently was a thing in twenty twenty two. I was hosting this podcast that summer. I don’t remember talking about that at all, but Harry said maybe in my twenties, I wouldn’t have done it.

It’s not who I am now. It’s kind of like, I don’t care. It’s a fun show. And the one thing I’m trying to find a way to talk about is selling out is an ancient concept. Like everyone’s on social media.

I feel like so many people have gotten famous from the Internet, and when you’re doing something on the Internet, you’re immediately doing stuff through corporations, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, these are all big companies. Every single artist has a public presence, and that public presence means working with public companies. So before there was this idea of the indie artist making zines or word of mouth and the album gets passed around. Those days are done. So the notion of selling out, I think this is a generation who doesn’t know what that means, because from the get go they’ve been trying to create content for this corporate entity without even thinking about it.

Selling out is the only path, Like, if I’ve heard of you, you must have sold out. Beetlejuice the musical coming back to Broadway. Yes, I saw this before the recent run closed. It’s fantastic. You should go see it and believe me, I’m keeping track of how many times I’ve said the name of the musical so far only once.

You’re not going to trick me into saying it three times. Anyway, that particular musical, we’ll do a thirteen week engagement October eighth through January third. Beetlejuice That’s two originally ran at the Winter Garden Theater from April twenty nineteen. Initially had low ticket sales, and then there was traction on social media and a successful Tony’s performance. However, theater owners announced plans to force the show out of the theater to make room for The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman.

How did that go? Those plans got delayed by the pandemic, but a show in question had to move. They went to the Marqui Theater where it ran from April twenty two through January twenty three. That’s when I saw it and where I saw it, with a return of most of its cast, including Alex Brightman, who plays the title character who I’m not going to say his name, but he was very good as that character. Casting for the new version of a show that shall not be named not yet announced.

David Cross has taken part in a new climate crisis video. He co stars with environmental scientist Michael Oppenheimer, and Cross says, you got to speak to people in a way they can understand. Humor, as I think it has been shown over centuries is a very effective way to get people to absorb information. In the video, Oppenheier plays the straight man, saying heat records are being broken all over the world. In fact, last year was the hot year since the industrial era began.

David Cross interprets that message for lay people, saying translation, the crap is hitting the fan and the fannas on maximum. The video released by the group Climate Science Breakthrough has made videos with the UK comedians like Nish Kumar and Joe Bran in an attempt to help climate science breakthrough to many more people. And unlock action. Ben Carrey is one of the videos producers and says we’re aiming to reach beyond the converted and depolarize the debate. Mike Burriigley has spoke to Vanity Fair and says the only thing he veers away from currently is politics.

Her bigs told Vanity Fair John Stewart always said everything he did on the Daily Show is disposable, It doesn’t live on. There might be a certain point in my life where I’m going to go all in on politics or culture. But if I’m gonna do it, I’m going to go all in. He was asked who he trusts to critique his jokes, he said Hasan Minhaj is one of his favorite guests on his podcast. Pete Holmes, who’s great, is one of our favorite guests.

Is Pete still doing his podcast? That thing has gotten invisible. I haven’t that used to be one of the big ones, along with like Marin and Nerdis. But I haven’t heard a thing about Pete Holmes. And well, I’m sure he is just opening up the app here.

Yeah, it’s still coming out every week. I’m just seeing Michael Costa a few weeks back. Harland Williams, Deana Gould Sclar Brothers. I guess he just hasn’t had an a lister to get that show. Some impressed anyway, you made it weird with Pete Holmes, a podcast I’ve carently forgotten about, is a good podcast.

I digress. Pete Holmes is one of our favorite guests. He also is his brother’s wife and Ira Glass as people that he trusts in. 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. He there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Season two of Sane Gillis’s Tires out on Netflix today. If you haven’t watched season one, start with season one. The episodes go super fast, super bingeable.

And it’s not like the NBA wants us to watch them tonight, or they would have told the refs, Hey, refs, call some fells against the pacers, will you? But nope, the NBA wants to have pacers. Okay, see, I’m not watching I’ll be watching Tires bitter much. Sure. In season two of Tires, after the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Sheen rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business.

Okay, Netflix announced a whole bunch of things and they shared a trailer for Adam Sandler is Happy Gilmore IWO with Premiere’s July twenty fifth on Netflix. I think we’re about to see a lot of press. Netflix had their Too Dumb presentation on Saturday, which did not go over well on social media. People were saying that it sucked, but appearing at it, Adam Sandler, Christopher MacDonald and Julie Bowen were introduced by sports commentator rich Eisen. The trailer showed Sandler breaking in another new Caddy, this time played by Bad Bunny.

On the stage, the kids who play Sandler’s children in the movie joked, is there anyone actually under sixty in this movie? I heard somebody commenting that they just took the roles played by Carl Weathers and Richard Keel just made the characters the kids of the original because the original actors have passed away and it’s just like whatever, it’s a Sandler movie. Who cares go with the jokes. Other cameos on stage and in the movie include John Lovetts, Wow, how’d they get him?

Also in the movie famous actresses nobody better to cast than Sadie Sandler a…

They must know somebody. Professional golfers John Day, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McElroy are in this one. Us Kelsey’s in it Market Qualley and other Nepple Baby, She’s fantastic, but still an apple baby. They’re all in Happy Gilmore two, Adam Simdler till Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show that Travis Kelcey is a nice guy. You guys would love him in real life.

What a big, handsome guy, funny and cool as hell. He’s a stud and he’s so funny. Happy Gilmore too. July twenty fifth. It’s more details about the new version of Just for Laughs Montreal.

Roy Wood Junior and Mikey Day announced as the gala hosts. Roywood on July twenty fifth, Mikey the next night. So new shows announced Ralph Barbosa on the twenty fifth, Joe Jumbroski in the twenty fourth, The Nasty Shows back two shows July twentieth and twenty fourth. Just for the Laughs Culture Show on the twentieth and twenty third, New Faces of Comedy on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. I might have to get up there for the twenty fifth and catch that one.

I haven’t been able to make friends with the new press people because my former press contact up there is now working with Bruce Hills, who used to run Just for Laughs. She sent me a press release and I’ll read it. Paying attention JFL publicists, paying attention to Hulu publicists.

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All right, let’s see what we got here.

MRG Live and Bruce Hill’s Entertainment announced Rick Mercer’s Stand Up for Canada Comedy Tour with twenty one stops across Canada. Thank you for sending things over. I will include your notes in the show if you actually send them to me. John Mulaney commented on this whole thing about why isn’t Mike Birbiglia more famous. Mulanie’s take, Birbiglia does want to be famous.

I think everyone wants to be famous, but he thinks Birbiglia is already famous. It’s kind of relative the question of fame because he’s had successes that maybe some more household names haven’t. I don’t know anyone with as much respect in the theater, stand up, film, and TV world all at once. He made deliberate choices about having a much more interesting career than pursuing one of the agreed upon mainstream roots. That’s all fair.

I was thinking about that verbig special. I feel like the media really liked it, the Bverbiglia special. I feel like the media really likes Burbiglia. Verbiglia’s PR team definitely got him on a lot of big shows. I don’t know if that had any impact in mainstream American society.

And I’m not sure. In you know, regular folks like go down to the bar and go hey Mike Burbiglia, Like go down to the bar and ask your buddies like, hey, did you watch Mike Burbiglia and see if they actually know who he is. I’m not sure. I’m not here to bash. I’m just I give my take on how I see things, and I’m not sure that special cut through Despite a lot of press last week, Robert Smigel has got a new podcast called Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends.

On Humor Me, Robert Smigel and his guests, who will be a line of professional writers and comedians, will help listeners write all kinds of prepared remarks, from a speech to a toast, to a eulogy, to a presentation or application essay or a thank you note. We’re just slamming someone online. His online announcement suggests things like letter to a Congressman, letter of Santa, letter to a longtime crush, or if you’re Conan O’Brien and Oscar’s monologue, Michael says, we thought it’d be entertaining the showcase funny people writing. So here’s this no word on a release date yet. This will be produced by Big Bunny Players, which is Will Ferrell’s podcast network and a partner of iHeartMedia, so that’ll get pushed pretty big.

Speaking of Conan O’Brien, he said that Hacks triggered PTSD symptoms for him as he watched the fourth season. Conan told Hacks co creator and writer Paul W Downs the show delves into late night this year, which was fascinating for me because there are things you cite in the show that I’ve lived through, and so I’ll get a little bit of PTSD from watching it. But it’s also really funny and apt, you know, like getting notes here, this is what we heard about you, you know, in the early days of my late night show research and what are people saying and what do we need to adjust? Let me chime in there. I was really into HBO’s Entourage and had to stop watching it because it was at a point in my life where I was working closely with the Foxhole Jamie Fox’s comedy channel and doing la things that you know, Jenny Mack from Queen’s normally would be doing and never felt quite comfortable.

So then I’d watch Entourage and they were doing the same kind of things like going to parties on yachts and stuff like that, and I was like, this is too close to where I can’t and I had to just stop watching it. I really liked the show, but it was just giving me kind of the same feeling Conan was getting, Like, I just this is making me excited. Even talk about it now, fifteen years later, I don’t want to go there. Remember being at a super Bowl party one night and the Big Boss was mad at me, so I was there to make sure that the broadcast aspect of Live from Jimmie Fox’s super Bowl party went well. Again, listen to me, Oh poor you.

You were Jimmy Fox’s super Bowl party. Yes, but everybody else was partying and I had to stay in manager mode. And I remember a nice young lady who thought I wasn’t having enough fun and she was encouraging me to have more fun, and I just I felt like such a loser. First of all, you know, I’m married, so I’m not going to do anything with a nice young lady anyway. But I just remember being like, yeah, I got to just stand here and look like a suit.

It sucked. Conan said, it was all stuff that just felt impossible. So I’m kind of reliving it a little bit through your show. But you guys are doing a very good job of hitting a bunch of the nerves, which means you’re getting it right. Conan brought up a scene from the show where late night hosts are arguing over a celebrity guest appearance.

Debora Vance is trying to get Kristen Bell on her show. Jimmy Kimmel confronts her and says, you don’t get Kristen Bell because she always says my show. I sort of got possession of having her after conanbur died. Conan thought it was funny that in that universe that Conan died. And what I loved about it is no one questions it.

It’s just like since Conan died. It’s just like I get her after Conan died. It’s just understood. And I’m laughing because no one questions it. That is funny.

Oh you see, now I should head for a break there, But I didn’t end on a down inflection. Remember I lectured everybody about this yesterday. So I’m going to do one more story in the A block so that I can properly throw things to break like you’re supposed to. In Canada, they’re making a Canadian spin off of the Prices right now, You’re like why, I don’t know either. Are Canadians like yeah?

You know that True Carry version is way too American for us. We have a Canadian hosting America’s got talent. We don’t get upset. Maybe we should do something about that. What is Trump doing about that?

Why is a Canadian hosting America’s got talent? Why doesn’t Drew Carry host America’s got talent? A good at old fashioned American marine. Let’s get that campaign going. Send your letters to me.

I guess I opened that cat of corn there. I’m just shucking a joke. Relax, it’s a joke. How we Mendelican host America’s Got Talent because he’s also hosting the Canadian The Price is Right? This one has a working title of The Price Is Right Tonight.

See it’s totally different. HOWI Mandela, a press release said, I’ve been a fan of the Prices right my entire life, so stepping into this PS iconic role is an absolute thrill. The Price Is Right Tonight will bring a fresh, high energy twist to everything people love about the original Big Games, lots of laughs and fun surprises. I can’t wait to say, come on down to a whole new generation of Canadian fans and remember everybody heading into a break and on a down inflection. All right, well, the stupid NBA wants us to watch PACER’s OKC.

We’re not doing that. Call some fowls, refs, what are you doing? You know the right ping pong ball comes out of the thing every year during the NBA draft. You know that seems to magically work out for wherever the hot rookie should go. Somehow that works out.

Nobody can call some fowls against the Pacers. What are you doing? You left a lot of money on the table. No one’s watching Pacers OKC. Sorry from Celtics Wire, you’re home for comedy news.

Former Celtics Ford Blake Griffin said some NBA players are pretty funny. Jamal Crawford is hilarious. I think one of the funniest guys is Jeff Tigue. He’s hilarious. I could listen to him tell stories all day.

As for Blake’s own comedic influences, he says, when I was younger, jud Apatow comedies were right in my wheelhouse. I was in high school when those were coming out. I love Seth Rogan. I love Dana McBride. I’ll watch Danny McBride planning character.

I think he’s awesome. You have Shane Gillis, his stand up is phenomenal or mind Blake Griffin Tire season two out today. I like how guys are just starting to get funding and shooting shows and selling it because they can make exactly what they want and they don’t have to adhere to a bunch of notes. Those are some of the people who are doing the best in comedy right now. An interesting story, it’s behind him paywall.

I’ve tried every trick to try and read this story. The headline from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and I’ll just tell you all I know is the headline says, a junk fee is no laughing matter. According to a new class action lawsuit against Helium Comedy Club. The lawsuit requests damages for Helium Comedy Club customers in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Missouri over the inclusion of junk fees at checkout. I tried googling to find out more about this lawsuit.

I can’t find anything. I just find the headline interesting. I’ll try and keep an eye on that. Seth Myers told a crowd in Austin that he can’t picture a world in where he would stop doing Late Night. I found from the very beginning of my career in this business, you just have to focus on the day you’re doing the show.

There’s no version of me getting ahead of what twenty twenty eight it’s gonna look like that’s going to be even close to right now, Seth’s ratings should sort of more or less double right once Taylor Thompson shows go away and twelve thirty seven to himself, you know, maybe go up one point five x. That should make the show more profitable for NBC and keep Seth away. You know, I’ve been fascinated by Late Night with Seth Myers. I feel like it has zero impact on the universe. It just exists, Seth said.

It’s an industry that’s constantly facing challenges, But I don’t think anybody on a network thinks I’m going to be the one smart enough to solve the problems of like how to fix TV. Myers has a contract to host Late Night through twenty twenty eight, which is an eternity in current television. Who knows what TV will look like in three years? Here is a terrifying fact. On July nineteenth, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast, put on your seatbelt before I tell you this next sentence.

On July nineteenth of this year, Seth Myers will pass David Letterman for second longest tenure as host of the Late Night franchise. Seth would have to hang out until August twenty twenty nine to break Conan O’Brien’s record for longest tenure of the Late Night franchise, and in fourth place, Jimmy Fallon. Josh Gonoman announced his latest hour of material, Positive Reinforcement, will premiere on the Blonde Medicine YouTube channel on June twenty seventh, and in album for Him on July eleventh. Now what I like here is let me read it back to you. Joshleman has announced that his latest hour of material, somebody has found a way to not use the word special.

I like it. Oh no, but here in the second paragraph in the special in Brooklyn. Oh sorry, rats, I thought somebody had figured it out. I could edit that out, but I’m not going to. Gonoman details his attempts to adapt to changing times despite being born in the previous century.

I Feel You. He covers topics arranging from novelty big goods to proper pronoun usage and creative retirement planning, all while wearing a very nice sweater and a clean pair of sneakers because he knew there would be cameras there. Josh Gonoman Positive Reinforcement Blonde Medicine YouTube channel. June twenty seventh. If you are in Chicago, today is the Kids Above All’s annual Stand Up for Kids comedy Night.

Seventy five dollars. Tickets include beer, wine, and appetizers he can get Raffle tiktets. All Proceeds benefit the children and families in the Kids Above All programs. Comedians include Patty Vasquez, Chris Bourns, Kimberly, KB Marion, and Paul Farivar. Proceeds benefit the young people in families and Kids Above All programs supporting early childhood learning, safe housing, and counseling services for youth who have experienced trauma in the city of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Today eight pm at the Den Theater on Milwaukee Avenue and That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Callarogas shock media boy. There is so much going on with podcasting and comedy high I’m Johnny Mack in a busy Wednesday with your Daily Comedy News. Is all right? The big one? Mark Maren kind of shockingly announced that WTF with Mark Maren, his podcast that’s been around for sixteen years, will end this fall.

On Monday’s episode with John Mulaney and I did pull some clips, Maren said, WTF is coming to an end, and it’s our decision. He made it quite clear that this was a co decision with producer Brendan McDonald. He was very very clear about that. Maren said, we’ll have our final episode sometime in the fall. The podcast turns sixteen years old on September first.

More than sixteen hundred episodes. Probably the most notable one was Barack Obama in the Garage. I actually use that to teach my college students on this is how you do it. I’m going to miss the show a lot. I find Maren very easy on the ears, the conversations always good.

There are a lot of weeks where Maren has the same guest as someone else, for example, John Maliney and the Maren version of it is just better. Maren explained. It wasn’t some kind of difficult decision necessarily, neither me nor Brendan. We’re the only people in charge of this operation at every level. We both realized together that we were done.

All right, let’s listen to Mark Maren explain it. And this started, you know, the old garage, the you know, just no one knew what a podcast was. I was coming out of a horrendous divorce. I was wanting to figure out how to continue living my life. Things were not looking good for me.

Brendan MacDonald my producer who I’d worked with for years on other things radio and streaming related. And when Brandon and I started this saying, all we knew was we were going to do it every Monday and Thursday, and there was no way to make money. There was no way that we knew how to build an audience or anything. And it was crazy. We were doing it in a garage at the beginning that was just a garage.

It was filled with junk, and it slowly evolved into the show that became what you listened to twice a week. Sixteen years we’ve been doing this and we’ve decided that we had a great run and now basically it’s time, folks, it’s time WTF is coming to an end, and it’s our decision. We’ll have our final episode sometime in the fall. Now, I remember listening to the show. Podcasting has had kind of two waves.

The second wave everybody puts around twenty fifteen with Cereal, But there was that earlier wave when we all first got phones and you would actually have to connect to your phone to iTunes and manually download a show. Before we left the house. He had something to listen to, and I was out running, and I remember Maren and Nerdiced were like two long form pods that you would grabs. You would just have stuff on your phone to listen to as your bran. Maren said, we’re tired, we’re burnt out, and we are utterly satisfied with the work we’ve done.

We’ve done great work. Doesn’t mean I’ll never have, you know, talks like I do here or some kind of podcast at some point in time, but for now, we’re just wrapping things up. It’s good that he gets to go out on his own terms. Maren said, it’s okay for things to end. We started the show on our terms.

We grew it on our terms. We’ll end it on our terms. It’s the right decision for me, it’s the right decision for Brendan. It’s okay, it’s okay for things to end. It’s just time, folks.

But again, we’ll have a few more months, so don’t get all bummed out. Let’s just enjoy it. The world is on fire. I have the people I want to talk to. We’ll find a little joy, We’ll find a little connection, We’ll find a little solid in each other’s company.

Also, notably, he never did video, and that’s the big thing in the industry right now was, oh, you gotta have a video, and this has always been an audio podcast. Maren Show actually debuted a month after the Adam Carolla Show and three months ahead of Rogan, and then he got into the interview with John Mulaney, which was separately noteworthy. Now what rang my ears? Listen carefully to John Mulaney commenting here, Maren asks him will there be another season of Everybody’s Live? And I had pointed out on this podcast a few weeks back Robbie Prau, who heads up Netflix Comedy, gave some sort of quote that made me go, huh, this isn’t the slam dunk we were led to believe.

Now, listen to m’laney here, I’m not sure this show’s coming back. Listen Have they said we’re doing more yet we Yes. There was a plan to do more and we’re figuring it out. Yeah, yeah, are you gonna U? I never know what to say to that.

I also like this clip from John Mulaney. He’s almost defiant that if if something works, he’s going to stop doing it. Fair enough, respect the mindset, but it’s why the show doesn’t work. But here’s Mulini. Anytime you say they’re figuring it out not a bad set, a side of me comes out, you know, like they’ve they’ve found their groove.

No, we haven’t. I’ll do it blindfolded.

And also when they say things like they’re figuring out, it’s just a diplomat…

Good, Oh, I think they just say it’s not good when they don’t like yeah, I think we’re no longer living in the decent era of uh, well, they’re figuring out. I think people want the best for you, John, Oh, that’s it. Molini also talked about being offered the oscars he did confirm that it was offered to him. He said, I was very flattered. They came to me.

Must have been last summer, and I knew Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t going to do it, and they offered it, and it was honestly, they had a lot going on, and it’s months and months of work. Both he and Maren praised Conan. Malini said he came out and was not only funny, but he elevated the show to the point I almost convinced myself that I’d seen these movies and I han’t seen one of them. Mary makes some good points that Conan will sometimes self erase when he’s floundering, and in the first few seconds of the Oscars, you could see Conan was almost heading towards a flounder and then found himself. So it’s a really good listen Maren and Malaney.

But I have plenty of more podcasts for you to listen to. Joe Rogan had on Jimmy Carr a very good three hours. I can listen to Jimmy Carr talk about comedy all day every day. Here he talks about Heckler’s and. Then I’m trying, but then I’m trying to I’ve got a good fastball, and then I’m trying to work on the other bits.

But that’s kind of what I love about the industry because. It’s it’s everything. You go, yeah, I can get good at that, and then I can I can do you like twenty minutes of fastballs, and then do I’ve start About a year ago, I started putting. I started working with a videographer and putting stuff out of like Heckel videos and people talking to me, yeah, I’ll and you go. It’s just such a joyful thing because it’s almost like doing the stuff when you go, just hit me whatever you want.

I’ll do anything. It’s like seeing magician do real magic, because you kind of go, right, yeah, I’ve worked this muscle hot enough I can. I’ll write jokes life for you now. Jimmy Carr is also the guest on kil Tony. Haven’t gotten to that one yet.

The podcast The Town had on both Mulaney I’ll maybe talk about that in a few days and had on Mike Burbiglia. The clip I pulled here Mike Burbiglia sounds to me like the Netflix money isn’t what the Netflix money used to be. Here’s for bigs. Are they still paying top dollar though? Are you?

I mean, you don’t have to give me numbers, but like they’re still treating you well because I’ve heard some pullbacks. I think there have been. I don’t look at other people’s papers that much, but. I mean it’s fine. I mean it’s fine.

I’ve never, honestly, I’ve never made a ton of money from comedy specials. A lot of it is just like marketing. Getting well, yeah, and it’s getting like, look, I do a really specific thing, like I consider myself the luckiest person in the world to have found Netflix. I shouldn’t even say this on record because it’ll make my negotiation for the next cringe exactly, but it’s it’s like Netflix is the best thing that ever happened to me, because look. I was like, I Mike Berg would turn this off.

I make shows that are combination of Broadway shows, theater, storytelling, and sinup comedy, like nobody before Netflix. Nobody was like, we got to get that on Comedy Central. And I just now before I started recording, walked the Dog for an hour and listen to Diary of a CEO with Guess Jimmy Fallon. I really enjoyed it. It was nice to hear Jimmy Fallon in real person mode.

But boy, the way he tells the story he was obsessed and convinced he would be on SNL by age twenty five. It almost sounds like hogwash, but you listen to him say it over and over and he believes it. The host even asked him, well, what would happen if you didn’t get SNL by twenty five, and Fallon like, can’t even entertain that as a premise of like, what do you mean? Of course I was going to get it very interesting. There one thing that was a little fun.

It got cleaned up at the end, But in the first half of the podcast, they were making it sound like by phrasing it this way that Fallon replaced Letterman, I mean kinda sorta, But that’s like saying Jay Leno replaced Jack Parr, I mean kinda sorta. Later on, Fallon said that he replaced Conan, which is factually accurate. A note to everybody in the podcast industry, this is my number one pet peeve, but I’m specifically calling you out Diary of a CEO guy. So in the middle of the podcast, Jimmy Fallon is talking about dying, about what it will be like when he dies, and it abruptly cuts to a live read of the Diary of a CEO. Guy trying to sell us an iced coffee.

It’s a train wreck. People. You have to place these commercial breaks. It’s very easy. I do it on this podcast every day.

If you notice what I will do is I will leend a story in a down inflection and I leave a nice little hole there and that’s where the commercial goes. It’s very easy to do, and I don’t know why people can’t do. Whether there’s so many train wrecks. The worst train wrecker of all is Tim Dillon mid sentence train wrecks. Joe Rogan is awful.

Plus the reads come mid sentence. Spotify do better anyway. Diary of a CEO very very good. Listen with Jimmy Fallon. Fallon talks about the highs and lows of his career and auditioning when he was in his twenties.

He says he wasn’t the greatest, and I’m a pretty positive guy in general, but I think it was probably my lowest moment. I remember like trying to see what therapy was or if I could afford a therapist. I wrote a letter of my best friends, like I’m losing it, dude. I think was something on the point of like I’m losing it and I don’t know if I can make it. Jimmy talked about his obsession with SNL.

I became so obsessed in high school that I really couldn’t hang out with anyone. I watched the show. People are like, can’t you tape it? I can’t tape, but I have to watch it live. I said, if I do nothing else in life, that’s all I wanted to do.

And like, even if that, if I could go for one season or one episode, then I could do whatever I want. Really really good conversation. I think Fallon is better than the interviewer Stephen Bortlett. And I’m not sure Steven is the greatest host, but he’s got a pretty successful podcast there and I’m sitting here in the basement, so what do I know. But I think Fallon is really good there.

Also, catching my ears is Jimmy does kind of what I do and swallows the syllables on the first word of SNL. I’ll often say sat Night Live or Saturday Night Live or something like that unless I catch myself and over an unciate. Jimmy a few times says something like Saturnight Live if you pay attention across my ears continuing are very busy Wednesday and busy a block. Ricky Gervais last week on Friday, got his Hollywood Walk of Fame star. He said he was humbled and that his success was a mix of luck, persistence, and a little bit of pushing against the tide.

Ricky said, I’d love to claim that it was due to my unrival genius, but truth be told, it’s a cocktail of luck, persistence and a little bit of pushing against the tide. You know, you’ve got to polarize. I think you need to know if you’re gonna do anything of any worth. As many people hate you as love you. But the ones that hate you shouldn’t affect you.

The ones that love you, they buy your house, so I’d like to thank them. And we’ve had a few weird years of cancel culture, of people telling you what you can or can’t laugh at or talk about. But we push back and we won until the next time. My former co worker Jamie Fox was at the comedy store. He started talking about Diddy and called Diddy a nasty mff or.

Jamie then got into some of the stuff that allegedly happened that I can’t even make a clean version here. There’s no way to clean up what allegedly happened, So I’ll just move on interesting that Jamie’s out doing stand up And if you’d like to follow a Didty trial, we do have a podcast for you. It is called Diddy Did He Do It? Wherever you get your shows?

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As I head for the commercial break, I will end on a down inflection. Late Night had some fun with the notion that Joe Biden had been replaced by a clone and or robot. Have you heard this story? John Stewart said, you’re saying that the Joe Biden, who doesn’t even know where he is, is actually an incredibly advanced cloned robot. How much Kenemine are you on?

Jimmy Kimmel said, And by the way, whoever built that Joe Biden robot is very bad at building robots. I mean, if anybody was replaced by a robot, a clone, it’s Melania, right, Gus Corner, Fortune Fiemester posted on Instagram about the call to end her marriage. She made it clear the split was amicable. In a joint note signed by both her and Jacqueline, they said they’re parting ways with love, looking back fondly, and wishing each other nothing but the best moving forward. Andrew de Simuks got married.

According to a Late Nighter, Andrew has married fellow comedian Ellie Dixon this past weekend. Married somewhere in the Santa Monica Mountains. Dixon captioned a photo saying, no offense, we just got married. Horrible story. King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss murdered.

The voice actor was shot and killed on Sunday. According to police, authorities were dispatched to a shooting in progress around seven. They found Jos lying near the roadway. They tried life saving measures while waiting for ems. Joss was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers quickly detained a suspect who had fled the scene in a vehicle. That person has now been booked for murder. The investigation still ongoing. Joss was best known for his voice role as John Redcorn and King of a Hill. Joss was set to return the newly announced revival of King of a Hill cent premiere in August, had already begun recording.

Just hours before his death, he had posted on Instagram talking about how the reboot is up and moving. Jonathan Joss was fifty nine. Nick Offerman jumped on social media, hitting back at a social media user who had used a doctored clip from Parks and rec to spread a homophobic message. A man had shared a clip depicting nick Offerman’s Parks character Ron Swanson throwing a rainbow flag into a dumpster. This happened on Sunday, the first day of Pride Month.

The person captioned it just wanted to post how I feel about Pride Month. Offerman himself commented and said Ron was the best man at a gay wedding. You dumb f hashtag happy Pride. Seth Meyers gave the commencement speech to choate Rosemary Hall’s class of twenty twenty five in Wallingford, Connecticut. That sounds up, but he doesn’t it.

Yes, it is a private Connecticut boarding school with Seth Myers sounds very very uppity. He joked that the smartly just teenagers holding roses plus the bagpipes made him feel like he was on his way to a human sacrifice. Seth said, I went to a public school. We used fewer fancy words. For example, we didn’t have a head of school.

We had a principle he asked us to call him head of school if someone would have thrown a battery at him. Not only did my school not of trustees, there was barely anyone you could trust. Seth continued. Nothing that is wrong in the world today is the fault of people under twenty. And yet you hear adults all the time saying we’re doomed because they’re getting their news from TikTok.

I’m not saying you should get your news from TikTok. You should get it from late night talk shows. And today it is the Women of Comedy Emmy Showcase. Eliza Slussinger soshirs Amada will join host Whitney Cummings for the Emmy season celebration. Whitney will moderate candid panel conversations with the featured performers.

They’ll talk about the comedian’s creative journeys, influences, and the evolving landscape for women in the comedy industry. Writing rule of three, fancy schmancy, It’s a Decrescent Theater in Beverly Hills. Invite only, excuse me, welcome reception at four two panels. The event is presented in partnership with Comedy Gives back the safety Net for the comedy community, offering financial crisis relief, mental health and substance abuse treatment sponsorship. So I hope the people that are paying for those invite only tickets are donating a heck of a lot of money.

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Also today Loons on the Lake.

The Loons on the Lake Comedy Festival in Minneapolis blends new and upcoming talent with experienced top name comedians. Starts to Toay goes through the seventh headliners Jamie Kennedy, Emo Phillips, some others who you probably aren’t that familiar with unless you’re very much into comedy. There is also a comedy competition with ten thousand dollars up for grabs forty comedians. You get to do an eight minute set top ten events in the next round, then the top five compete for the five thousand dollars grand prize. I wonder what happens to the other five?

Where’s that going? That’s your comedy needs for today? All right, I’ll see tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This first one is so much fun. Last week, Seth Myers was the guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They’re both trying to win the Emmy for Best Late Night Show, and they traded attack ads.

Kim Well started the fun, pointing out that Seth was only in LA to campaign for the Emmy nomination. So Kimmel played an attack ad making fun of Seth Myers not wearing a suit. People love Seth Myers, but do people really know Seth Myers. It’s time for a closer look. Yes, Seth, it is time for a closer look at you.

Real late night hosts wear suits and ties. You know who else never wore a suit or tie? Oh, Sam have been lucking Seth Myers wears nephew clothes. Shout da win an Emmy in what category? Getting drunk on the job.

Tell Seth Myers to go to alcoholics al Qaeda mess Jimmy Kimmel, clean sober American. I’m Jimmy Kimmel and I approved this message. Seth Meyers combatd that with his own ad. He accused Jimmy Kimmel of using unforced foreign labor, specifically Guillermo Let’s listen. Jimmy Kimmel says he’s American.

He claims to be made in the USA, but is his show Jimmy Kimmel uses forced foreign labor. Jimmy Kimmel kidnap me from Mexico and he’s been torturing me ever since. As that was Carrie, I hate snakes, he mos so sometimes I think he’s trying to kill me. Jimmy King human trafficker. Seth Myers for your consideration, I’m Seth Myers and I’m not a murderer.

Kimmel ebernt. They had more clips. Seth meyers brother Josh Regular, appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live as California Governor Gavin Newsom. Then Meyers shot back with an ad with Kimmel’s wife Molly McInerney revealing Jimmy Kimmel’s messy at home habits. Then a fifth ad two of Jimmy Kimmel’s real life children, alongside a group of actors playing Seth Meyers kids railed against their dads, wanting Emmys more than they want us.

The kids said, would you give a Trophy to a dad who doesn’t care about anything else. Say no to deadbeat daddy. So much fun there. The voting period for Emmy nominations begins June twelfth. Nominees announced July fifteenth.

The Emmy Awards will air on CBS Sunday. September fourteenth. Should be another good week for Shane Gillis is the worst I hate that guy articles. I don’t get it, but okay. Season two of Tires is out this week, which is fantastic.

If you haven’t seen season one, it’s really enjoyable. You’ll get through it really quickly. You can just binge the whole thing. There’s six short episodes, a lot of fun. Season two Netflix this week June fifth, Thursday.

However, if you’re in Texas, you can get a sneak peek at the first two episodes on the fourth. It’s part of the Dad Sick Premiere event. Head to tickets dot Austin Theater dot org. The Dad Sick Premiere event will include an introduction from the Tires creators, including Shane Gillis. They’ll screen the first two episodes of season two.

We also learned season two features an exciting lineup of new cast members including Thomas Aiden Church, Vince Vaughn, John Lovetts, Ron White, Steph Tolev So if you’re in Austin, go check that one out. And if Shane Gillis is in Austin, I bet he’ll be on the Joe Rogan Experience if he hasn’t already. Between the time I voiced this sentence and you listen to this podcast on Matt and Sheen’s Secret Podcast, Gillis told the NBA playoffs to chill on the commercials. You no, I’m going to play the clip here, so I don’t get myself canceled. Here’s Shane else?

Need to chill on the commercials. What are they doing? Bro? They they are targeting the African American community with intensity, Like every single commercial is catered to black people. Got you?

But it’s like almost like wingstops taking up a bunch of reps. NBA spread it out and put one on the PGA tour on off a little. It’s crazy that the wingstop commercial isn’t racist because it’s just a black wingstop commercials. The most racist commercial I’ve ever seen is a cool black guy. Just you describe it.

I can’t even describe the wingstop commercials. There’s a new wing stop commercial where it’s a base I think it’s supposed to be an NBA player. Shane continues, I think it’s supposed to be an NBA player. And he’s doing the whole fashion walk through that they do, and he hops in a limo and just crushes chicken, and every white guy on Earth goes, I know what they’re doing. I know what’s going on with those cool limos.

It is believed he’s referring to the Jalen Green Wingstop commercials. Send your letters to Shane Gillis. Hannah Berner said she was booed during a performance in New Hampshire after celebrating the Knicks because the people in the audience were Celtics fans. The Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs by the Knicks. Berner said on the Gigly Squad podcast, the Knicks are playing while I’m on Okay, you know I’m being silly and being goofy on stage.

I go and anyone know the Nick score? Seventeen hundred girls start booing me because New Hampshire. I forget, I’m a dumb New Yorker. She said she lost the crowd for a second and apologized, praise Larry Bird and joked about Bill Belichick’s girlfriend to win back the room. I’m excited about this.

Do you know about The Day the Clown Cried? Jerry Lewis’s never released film, It’s infamous. It was shot in nineteen seventy two. It is believed to exist only an incomplete frat I’ve seen some fragments. A few years back.

There were the fragments plus a recreation of it. Well. Swedish producer and actor Hans Crispin is saying I have the only copy. I stole it from Europea film in nineteen eighty and copied it’s a VHS in the attic where we used to duplicate films at night. I’ve kept the copy in my bank vault.

The Day the Clown Cried has never seen the light of day. There’s allegedly been like some secret screenings in Hollywood over the years. Jerry Lewis one of the thing to never be seen. I should probably tell you what this says. It’s a concentration camp.

Jerry Lewis plays a clown. He makes some kind of deal with the Nazis that he’s going to entertain the children while they’re led off to I don’t even want to go there. You know what happens. In twenty fifteen, Jerry Lewis donated a copy of the film to the Library of Congress on the strict condition it could not be screened publicly for at least ten years. And I do the math.

Twenty fifteen plus ten is twenty twenty five, though speculation is that there could still be copyright complications and the estate complaining about it. Jerry Lewis never was comfortable with the final product. He made it clear over the years he regretted the whole thing. He said it was a mistake and would never be shown. Jerry Lewis said there’s some rough cuts floating around, but the movie was never really completed.

I hope this sees the light of day. I would love to see this. A week ago, Bert Krascher and Tom Sigora were on WWE Raw. This was on Memorial Day, not the one last night. Wrestling fans were upset because Sigora had insulted wrestling fans in the past.

Sigora showed up with Bert Kreischer to promote bad thoughts, which is just amazing. I just I love that series so much. I wish six more would come out right now. I would watch them in a second. So there’s a clip Sigore is backstage with Bert Krascher and the war Raiders, as you will hear hear Bert at one point will walk away and meet up with the war Raiders.

Let’s listen yet, cool. I’ve here comedians Tom Suport and Bert Kreischer. Bert, great to see you back. And Tom, You’ve been a. Little critical of WW in the past.

So what brings you out tonight? Oh? Well, yeah, I’ve said some stupid things in my life. But you know, we had Cody Rose on our podcast and it was an amazing podcast, a real eye opener.

And then my buddy Bert had a blast at the show he went to, so he told me I ha…

So I’m here to just have a good time and watch the show. Yeah, Bert, I know you had a great time. We were actually interrupted last time when you were talking about your special. So I figured give you the chance to plug it now. Yeah, it’s called Lucky.

It’s on Netflix. Watch it. Talk about bad thoughts. I’ll hear it back. The attention span on that one.

So you also have a show on Netflix, Bad thoughts. Tell me about that. I have a new series. It’s on Netflix. It’s a comedy.

It’s a wild show where we have basically a sketch show meets faces of death. It’s outrageous, it’s crazy, it’s it happens every time. Here. Take a look. Take a look.

It’s like no brothers, It’s like looking. In the mirror, right, fire floor. Show. Hey, hey they’re gone, they left. How much does that hurt?

Am? I read a little? Yeah, I feel a lot. Scuarterer seats. Yeah, maybe they have a.

Medic and one of the wrestling fans so upset about In twenty twenty, on his podcast, Tom Sagura made fun of wrestling fans. He called wrestling effing fake and called the fans effing r words.

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Speaking of fighting on a John Mulaney’s talk show last week, he did fight wi…

The Hollywood Reporters headline John Mulaney’s fight with the three fourteen year olds was a bit of a letdown. Am I allowed to say that? To see? That’s really interesting because you’ve heard me talk on the podcast not feeling the Mallini show at all. But it seems like in the establishment media, we’re all supposed to be like, hey, John Mullane’s Reinvigorator late night, Right, Yeah, isn’t it great?

Isn’t the show great? And the show’s not great, so it’s interesting. The Holly Reporter broke ranks. Tony Maglio writes. The rules for the final segment were pretty straight up.

No punching, no kicking, no gouging, no biting. Headlocks were legal as long as the arm is encircled. They got intros from Adam Sandler and Richard Kind. The kids were the fan favorites. M’lini got booed by members of his own audience.

The four fighters took their shoes, socks, watch his rings and ties off. Mulaney went straight for the heaviest kid, who did most of the work, while the other boys assisted here and there. Once they dumped Mulleni face down on the mat, a legal headlock was applied and m’lini tapped out. It was over in fifty seconds, the Holly Reporter writes. With Netflix’s lawyers almost certainly in m’lanie’s head, if not directly in his ear, the payoff to this month log setup could only be a disappointment, and so it was Indy Wire did a quote very serious athletic analysis of John Mullaniy’s teen fight night they broke down the opponents Ben five eight one hundred and forty pounds, Jacob twenty six Adarsh five six one hundred and nine trained in taekwon do.

After consistently going for Malanie’s legs, Ben succeeded. He had a plan and the treo was able to bring down their elder millennial opponent, who’s spent a few seconds trying to crawl out of this predicament before realizing it was impossible. Malini tapped out to roucous applause before a final musical performance by Bone Thugs and Harmony.

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Speaking of Adam Sandler, I’m sorry I missed this story.

They in Portland. They had an Adam Sandler costume party in Cathedral Park. Raizah Antonio was the organizer. She was going to go with a happy Gilmore said, I’ve been feeling, like many people, the weight of everything going on in the world, the heaviness, the instability, and I kept coming back to this feeling and people need connection right now. We need to be reminded that We’re not alone, even in our hardest moments, She says of Sandler, he’s goofy, always has ben and I think that’s part of his charm.

Even now after taking on more serious roles, he still comes across his genuine That kind of authenticity really sticks with people. Adam Sandler did not show up, but a bunch of people did dressed as Adam’s. Eddie Murphy has confirmed that his son and Martin Lawrence’s daughter, are officially married. The Murphy’s and Lawrence’s are now in laws. Murphy told Jennifer Hudson, Actually, they got married like two weeks ago.

They went off. Everybody was making the big wedding plans and they decided they want to do something quiet, just the two of them. Of Martin, he says, yeah, we’re in laws, and he doesn’t have to pay for that big wedding now. Netflix has shared a first look at Leanne, the new sitcom starring Leanne Morgan, created by Chuck Lorie That’s the guy with all the big CBS sitcoms over the years. All sixteen episodes of Leanne will hit Netflix July thirty.

First, did they really expect us to sit home and watch eight hours of Leanne, Spread them out? What are You Doing? In the series, Leanne’s life takes an unexpected turn 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. With the help of her family, she’ll navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity and jello salad.

See comedy rule of three. There see the jello salad. He knew that was coming. Leanne said, I can’t believe her childhood dream has come true. When I started comedy twenty five years ago, my goal is to be part of a sitcom.

It just goes to show you it’s never too late and dreams do come true. I’m a grandmama from Tennessee and now I have a TV show with Chuck Laurie Netflix. What in the world? Chuck Laurie said, If you’ve seen even ten seconds of Leanne Morgan’s stand up, then you know what a unique comedic for she is. The theme of starting overs universal and I can’t think of anyone better to combine heart and comedy than Leanne.

I knew I had to work with her and I’m excited to bring this story to Netflix. Ryan Styles from Whose Line Is It Anyway? And The Drew Carey Show plays Bill the guy that left Leanne for another woman. That’s an interesting casting okay? There?

From Strike Back Studios. Laugh at Forward a new stand up comedy series showcasing the freshest voices in comedy. The first episode hosted by Jimmy O Yang and drops today. New episodes weekly throughout this month. The initial lineup of presenters include Rob Riggle, Jay Farrow, King Bach and Lisa Ann Walter.

The series is available on VOD Video on demand if you want to check that one out. And this kind of sucks, I wish this person well. Australian comedian Magda Sebanski has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. The sixty four year old posted on social media she had begun treatment for stage four mantle cell lymphoma, a quote fast moving form of blood cancer. She said, I won’t sugarcoat it is rough, but I’m hopeful.

I’m being lovely cared for by friends and family, and my medical team is brilliant and I’ve never felt more held by the people around me. Some famous people sent her well wishes. Kylie Minogue replied on Instagram, sending all the love. Jurassic Park star Sam Neil, who himself had a rare type of non hodgkin LYMFOM in twenty twenty two, wrote right there with you, darling xx. She said the cancer is only discovered after she requested blood tests after feeling unwell for quote ages and says the takeaway is get tested and listen to your body.

I hope this guys are right for you. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you guys tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. But we’ve had a little run of what I’m describing as angry comedy articles, and I’ve had fun sharing them. Here’s another one from Pajeeba. Seane Gillis blame gen Z for him bombing his SNL monologue.

Andrew Sandford writes, you don’t tell people you’re performing for that you lost them, nor do you start making excuses if you do. The great and powerful Conan O’Brien talks about that all the time. He’s mentioned that during his years as a talk show host, anytime a guest would turn to the audience says something the effect of this isn’t going well or I lost you guys, it would signal the interview’s death. Even if you think things aren’t going well, you lead with confidence. You don’t start blaming the audience.

That doesn’t strictly apply to being a late night talk show guest either. I was part of the New York City stand up scene for a bit, while that didn’t end up working out. I’ve seen a lot of bad stand up. More often than not, when a comedian starts blaming the crowd for their poor performance makes things a million times worse. I’ve seen comedians whose whole act insists of intermittently telling the audience.

I guess that was too much for you guys, or everyone here is so sensitive tonight it’s bad form. I do agree with that, that is a good point, but we’ll get to the Shane Gillis part. Shane perform a monologue about Trump wanted to buy Greenland and how white guys want to know if their girlfriends have slept with a black guy. Surprised it did not go over well. He then pivoted to a joke about the Civil War, and by that point the crowd was pretty checked out.

Even commits the cardinal sin and jokes about losing the crowd, even when he hasn’t fully lost them yet, it was bad to be even slightly fair. Of course, so likely mostly liberal New York City crowd wasn’t going to go for Gillis’s stick, but he should know that he should pivot. You don’t have to change who you are, just tell more jokes that may work where you are. But Gillis doesn’t take the blame for any of that, as he explained on a recent episode, of SmartLess. It’s the young people’s fault.

He didn’t do well, but it was not Shane Gillis’s fault. You guys so much just of Sheen Killa. I don’t get it. I think he’s funny. It’s got a goofy smile that telegraphs that he’s just, you know, a guy shocking jokes.

Just have a good time taking Toataro. We’ll headline the twenty twenty five Eureka Springs Pride Festival coming up on June fourteenth, that’s next Saturday. Already, ticket price has caught my eye, sixty eight fifty to one, sixty four to fifty. There’s also VIP meet and greet tickets in case the one sixty four to fifty wasn’t enough for you. The BBC, for some reason did a travel guy to la with Osco at Kotska.

Somebody in London’s like, h I want to go to La. I wonder what Oscar has to say. The part that catches my eye is about the comedy clubs. Osco says, the comedy scene in la is pretty diverse. We have everything for you.

She suggests dipping your twos into the scene by visiting theaters, it’s a little more artful than a comedy club. The allegioned theater is her recommendation.

Meanwhile, Largo is her go to for music enthusiasts if you like seeing musici…

Musicians joined the lineup so you can be watching stand up comedy the same night Beck is doing a set. She also recommends places you’ve heard of, like the Comedy Store in Hollywood Improv. As for the Comedy Store, it has a pretty diverse lineup in the audience is true comedy lovers.

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Meanwhile, the Hollywood Improv a list lineups are the norm, she says.

The Comedy Store in Hollywood Improv are two places I perform at a lot. Those are places I really feel at home. I love that the place I’m working at feels like a second home. Rob Wriggle will have a memoir out this fall. It’s called Grit Spit and Never Quit, a Marine’s Guide to Comedy in Life.

I worked with Wriggle a few times, really enjoyed his company. Just like a cool guy, you know what I mean. Wriggle tells People magazine, I hope people will be able to identify some of what I went through and it would be a service to them on their own journey. The book tells stories from his twenty three years in the Marines, plus his time in movies and TV. Rob says, I like to think of it as a motivational memoir.

I hope people will be able to identify with some of what I went through and it would be of service to them on their own journey. Wriggle retired from the military in twenty thirteen as a lieutenant colonel. That’s no joke, he says. They pushed me beyond my perceived limits. So whatever I thought it was capable of, the Marine said, actually you can do a whole lot more when pushed, and they were right, and it opened up my mind a lot too.

If I could do that, maybe I can do this. I started to actually believe myself and say, you know what, I’m going to bet on myself and so that’s when I finally got the courage to gopher it with regard to comedy and acting. So I give them Marine Corps especially a lot of credit for that. Wriggle learned the hard way. You need to embrace the suck and never give up if you want to get anywhere in life.

The description concludes with he’s jumped out of planes and he’s become one of the most recognizable comedians in the country. But at his core, Rob was a regular guy from Kansas with grit, spit and the will to never quit. The Boston Gloto bast Come out Bell, is it harder to ridicule Trump now than it was during his first term? Come out and said you can still make fun of him. I joked that my New Year’s resolution was to be more petty.

Bell says, the president is still surrounded by bumbling fools, but they’re bumbling fools that could turn us into North Korea West. That’s not a joke. The reason to make fun of it is so we don’t give all our power away to them. The more we can look them in the eye gives you the juice to figure out a way to go there and hopefully save the country. Send your letters to w pmal Bell.

Brad Williams spoke to k e Yt. Brad was born with a chondroplasia. The primary feature of that is dwarf Ism. Brad found himself bullied at a young age and says his dad equipped him to handle it. Brad told k e Yt he and I would write comebacks together, would write retorts to common things he thought kids might say.

And it was so great because when it happened, I wasn’t hurt by it. I wasn’t shock with it. I was just trained for this. Most of it isn’t based in cruelty. Most of it’s based in ignorance.

Like a lot of discriminatory practices, a lot of people that don’t like and don’t accept certain types of people just haven’t been exposed to those types of people. The first thing a lot of people notice. Sometimes people come up to me after a show and go, hey, man, thanks for talking about disability and difference. I get it. As for comedy, it’s a positive effect on mental health for me personally because that’s my therapy.

That’s how I get it out. And just to laugh, you’re releasing these joy chemicals in your brain, serotonin, dopamine. You feel good about yourself, and if you have a physical ailment like a sort of Bruce drm, you go laugh a lot. You’ll notice, hey, I’m not hurting right now. Jim Jeffries was talking about the iconic line from Paul Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee, you know that’s not a knife, that’s a knife for that one.

Jim said, that famous and iconic line by Hogan, to me is really what we’re all about. There’s a little bit of that Hogan line in all of us. I feel like when I travel on land at airports filling out the customs form, WHI says occupation I get to write comedian? How cool is that? You get to the desk and the guy behind it says, say you’re a comedian?

Are you? And they want you to tell a joke. But I’m like, if you had just told fourteen year old me that one day I’d be writing comedian on my customs form, what a blessing. Jim said, there were world class comedians who rarely for got to perform outside of Australia because it was too much of a hassle. It takes all those years to conquer Australia, so why would you bother going to another country these in the days before say streaming platforms.

I just consider myself a lucky man who’s got a few opportunities. I had a lot of luck in my career and I took advantage of it. He has a small role in the Jordan Peel sports horror film Him, which will be out in September. Jim says, it’s a couple of scenes. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but when we were making it, I knew it was going to be awesome and the trailer for it was killer.

The film is about American football, so it’ll come out once the NFL season begins. But Stand Up will always remain my first job. It allows me to control my destiny and pick where I get to go. CBS announced what’s taking over the Taylor Tomlinson twelve thirty seven slot, and it is Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen. Comics Unleased had aired in that time slot, filling the four month gap between the end of Cordon’s show and the premiere of After Midnight.

CBS will air two episodes of Comics Unleashed back to back each night. In twenty twenty three, the run on CBS consisted of reruns and never before seen episodes, all of which were shot prior to twenty twenty three. The belief in the trades and on social media is that these will be older episodes as well, So don’t get too excited about comics Unleashed. Hasan Minhaj during that Hollywood Reporter Comics roundtable I’ve been picking away at talked about I remember when we thought he was going to get the Daily Show and then didn’t because people looked at his comedy special. Remember that happened, Hassan Sai.

Yeah, I had to go through a comedy audit by Turbotext, which is its own thing. Make sure you file everybody, bring your receipts. But also there’s a critique aspect to it that’s very new. One of the first jokes that came to me was when I called a buddy and I was like, how bad is it? And he was like, the article’s bad, but the photos are good.

I was like, that’s hilarious. It’s also very funny to fail so bad that you bring back Jon Stewart. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was very excited that Jimmy Carr decided to put out a podcast. All of a sudden, there it is The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr. On that show, Jimmy invites a celebrity guest to pitch an idea for a film based on one of the super niche subgenres on Netflix, from steamy crime movies from the seventies to Australian dysfunctional family comedy starring a strong female lead.

Guests pitch the plot, their dreamcast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between, and it’s up to Jimmy Carr whether it gets made. This is in partnership with actual Netflix. From the press release, where does Nick Muhammad’s mind go when asked to make In Everybody’s Home for the Holidays film? What’s the narrative arc for Ramesh Wagon, Athans BRB Crying Tear Jerker? What on earth would Michelle Wolf’s Coming of age Animal Tale look like?

Find out On The Big Pitch. Phil Wang is the guest on episode one, so I’m doubly in. I love Phil and I’m a big Jimmy Carr fan Car said, by night I’m a stand up comedian, but by day I have a proper job in real show business. I commissioned movies for Netflix, so if you’ve ever seen a movie liked on Netflix, you’re welcome. This podcast gives a glimpse behind the scenes of the rigorous pitching process and also a good excuse to mess around with some very funny friends.

Jimmy might be the British Kevin Hart. Jimmy Carr also not afraid to work. This guy’s always got stuff going on. One of my favorites, maybe actually my favorite comedian right now. Ten episodes every other Wednesday, but the first one is already out.

Jimmy was also recently a guest on Joe Rogan. As I speak the sentence, I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but it is queued up for one of my dogwalks. Let’s stay across the pond for a second, as they say, this one not funny at all. A comedian who joked about the Liverpool parade crash had a show canceled following a social media backlash. This from the BBC in case you missed it at least six twenty five people were injured.

On Monday, a car crashed into the crowd which had gathered for Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade. Comedian Andrew Lawrence on social media boasted he would drive through crowds of people to get out of the city. People did not react to that well. His comedy gig was canceled. Lawrence said he was disappointed the venue had lost their courage after being bombarded with abuse and threats of violence from online trolls.

A spokesperson for the club said we send everyone impacted by the tragic events in Liverpool our support and prayers. Lawrence described the cancelation of his gig as understandable but disappointing. I will reschedule for later in the year at a different venue in South End. Sorry for the inconvenience, Have a great day. The BBC reminds us that in twenty twenty one, one of Lawrence’s stand up gigs in Hampshire was canceled after racist comments he made about England’s black footballers.

Mark Marin is part of a documentary coming out in August called Anxiety Club. Anxiety Club behind the scenes, content and commentary from fellow comedians about how mental health impacts their daily lives and the trailer, and Maren says, most of what reacted to with something your brain is making up. My anxiety stopped me from having children.

Also appearing Tiffany Jenkins, Baron Vaughan upon an Atula, Mark normand Eve…

The opening scene of Anxiety Club shows Mark Normand doing a rooftop gig. He says, I love a roof gig. This goes horribly, I could just jump right off. Joe List is then seen in a comedy club making jokes about how many times his thoughts about his parents dying or him being diagnosed with cancer across his mind every day. The press release says all of the comedians in Anxiety Club have created stand up or sketch material about their mental health that’s not only funny, but uniquely relatable and disarming two audiences.

Anxiety Club arrives on Jolt August fifteenth. Eddie Murphy will start in the pick Up. Pete Davidson also in the Pickup. It will be on Amazon Prime Video August sixth. In the Pickup, a routine cash pickup takes a wild turn when two mismatched armored trucks drivers Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson, are ambushed by ruthless criminals led by a savvy mastermind with plans that go way beyond the cash cargo.

As chaos unfolds, the unlikely duo must navigate high risk danger, clashing personalities, one very bad day that keeps getting worse. Do You Not So Canceled? A z’son Sorry is part of the cast of Good Fortune, stars Keanu Reeves. This is a movie which will be in theater’s October seventeenth. Good Fortune introduces Kano Reeves as Gabriel, a well meaning but rather an ept angel who decides to intervene in the lives of a struggling gig worker played by a zizin Sorry, and a wealthy venture capitalist Seth Rogan.

Do You not so canceled? Azason? Sorry? Told Entertainment Weekly, I’m not buying this. This sounds like Hollywood stuff.

When Reeve’s name came up and casting, I’m sorry, wasn’t so sure? Right? Yeah? No, I don’t want to be in your movie. No, not at all.

Told Entertainment Weekly that guy Reeves just seems like he’s on a different planet, you know what I mean. Doesn’t seem like would be able to interact when they finally met, I’m sorry, was awestruck to the point, and sorry was nervous not only about working alongside a Hollywood giant he grew up watching, but also directing him. I was like, hey, man, we got to hang out a few times, so I’m not freaked out about being around you, you know what I mean. So he was like, I get what you mean. So he hung out, and he came over to my house and I made him Indian food and we hung out for a while and he told me all these stories, and then we went to dinner a couple of times, and I tried to really spend time with him, to get to know him a little bit so I could become comfortable around him.

Mm hmm. Good job, publicist, Good fortune, October seventeenth, in theaters. More from that Hollywood reporter around table with various comedians. My former coworker Jamie Fox said, I had a special deal for a long time, but I had nothing to talk about. What was I going to talk about?

I was rich, I was behind my gates. I remember seeing Eddie Murphy at his house. This was around coming to America, and he says he’s going to go and try and do stand up and I say to him, you can’t. He says why, and I say, this ain’t funny. Your house is too nice.

Whatever that scent is. He had a scent, you know, the stuff that pumps through the house. And I said, what does that smell? And he said it’s pomegranate. And I said, the fact that you know what that is tells me you ain’t funny.

Bro It was too perfect, and that was me. I was living in that, so I didn’t have anything to talk about. Then this stroke happened, and I’m like, oh, this is a platform, but I don’t want to have another stroke, even though we have a deal for another hour. As it’s the beginning of a new month, let me thank the supporters of the show. They’ve gone to buy me a Coffee dot Com and thrown some money in the tip jars.

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If you are on another platform, go to calibrog dot com, slash plus, or check the link in the show notes. But supporters, thank you very very much, appreciate it. The Atlantic had written a piece about Colin shows, saying the Weekend Update host and knows exist exactly what he’s doing. Good take by The Atlantic, They say, when Joe’s first took the job as a weekend Upday co host in twenty fourteen, he came across as a cocky prep school kid, doomed to discover that the rest of the world does not share the high opinion he has of himself. Some armchair critics and social media users sigh that, of course, Lorne Michaels had given the show’s most prestigious job to another bland white guy.

But eventually Joe seemed to find that he could win the public’s goodwill by acknowledging its disdain leading into his unlikability gave Jose a distinctive comedic energy, and funnily enough, made him a lot more likable. Jose found his groove by appearing to accept that many people were eager to tell a guy like him off. He didn’t exactly shed his entitled persona, but he settled into a role as sort of a pressure release valve, a way for others to process their cultural anxieties. For example, Sarah Sherman is his greatest tormentor. Sherman demonstrated a talent for nimbly turning every innocuous thing Joe said against him, at one point insisting that he kissed Michael Chay and accused him of being a homophobe for refusing, and when he finally agrees, accusing him of now mocking the queer community by pretending to be gay.

Hers depict him as representative fairly or not, of an antiquated mindset the Sherman’s open minded peers are perpetually butting up against. But she also paints Jose as someone who can’t win because he’s unable to keep up with the speed of her humor, and the more she piles it on, the funnier. The exchange becomes and in this one just just I’m leaving all that in. You could see it fried my brain. I don’t know what to make of this.

Tiffany Hattish and the CEO of Fanatics, the sports Apparel Guy, they were on CBS this morning’s and for some reason, Tiffany Hattish is involved with Fanatics veest. The Fanatics guy said they had seventy thousand fans show up at last year’s Fanatics Fest, So what could they do to make it next level? Well eight sports them to challenges. First place wins a million dollars, second place a five hundred thousand dollars Ferrari. Don’t forget you have to pay Texas in that Ferrari, and third place gets a two hundred and fifty grand lebron James Rookie trading Card.

Confirmed participants include Tom Brady, Kevin Durant, Kevin Hart, Rob Gronkowski, and quarterback Russell Wilson. Now why Tiffany Hattish was part of this, I don’t know. Is she hosting this? The article didn’t tell me, But Tiffany said, I’m very athletic. I was all city in high school, shot put, I run fast, jump high, and throw hard.

So anyway, Fanatics Fest is coming up, and I guess Tiffany Hattish is going to be there, but I’m not sure. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. We already talked about how to get a commercial free, so I’ll just stop talking and I’ll see tomorrow