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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Incase you missed it. I dropped another Colber Bonus episode yesterday around noon. So much to catch up on.

It has been busy since Shane Gillis hosted the SPS and then Colbert Gate happened. Let’s catch up on THEO Vaughn, who called out Vice President j D. Vance for changing a stance on the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. THEO Vaughn first reposted a clip from his October podcast with Vance, in which Vance told listeners, quote, seriously, we need to release the Epstein list this is an important thing. In a separate post, Levon asked, yeah, what changed?

Mark Maron and talked about his beef with John Stewart, calling John Stewart his nemesis. Maren said, there was a jealousy to it, but it got consuming. But it went on a long time and he knew it. We’ve had confrontations about it and we are not friends. Apparently this goes back to the nineteen nineties when both Maren and John Stuart were trying to be the quote King of Politics, satsire or whatever.

A battle. Maren said, Stuart has won. When I was coming up as a comic, he had always thinks just because he had committed to a haircut and away presenting, but like he was just everywhere. John always represented to me while I was failing. So when I see him and act like he was peraxonentally destroying me.

In a two thousand and nine set, Mark Maron referred to John Stewart as quote Jewish pander monkey. Mark Maron is also Jewish, Maren said on Conan. Because of that, he doesn’t particularly like me. I don’t think it’s a daily thing, but I know it him to the point where that was a reality. Maren told NPR he invited John on WTF a few years ago to apologize on the air.

John Stewart told him, Hey, I don’t know if you remember, you know what a jerk faced d word you were to me back in the day. There’s no love here man. Maren apparently never made a second request. Maren told Rollingstone in twenty twelve he said, look, I always though you’re very creative, and I’m sure whatever you’re doing is nice, and if you want to have coffee, it might be willing to do that Maren said his behavior was resentment insecurity, jealousy, and he laughed that even Jon Stewart is a podcaster now over the act of it, the fact that he, like everybody landing with a podcast. That’s satisfying because I helped create it all right after I recorded like the entire weekend because I just wanted to go to the beach.

In between me doing that and Colbert Gate, Variety on a Thursday afternoon released ten Comics to Watch. Now, what’s weird about that is normally, like I record this podcast, you know, I do this seven days a week. Normally, anything you want that makes the trades comes out by ten am Eastern. So it was really weird that Variety released the ten Comics to Watch at twelve thirty or so Eastern time on Thursday. As I’m recording on late morning on Monday, I’m kind of frustrated that JFL hasn’t released the New Faces list yet because I want to tell you about that.

Anyway, Variety’s ten Comics to Watch. The honorees will be celebrated in Montreal a cocktail reception on the twenty fourth. I’m counting on my fingers, that’s Thursday, and they would do a showcase on Friday. The comics to watch include Mary Beth Baron. Bridy writes, for as long as Beron could remember, comedy’s always been a part of her life.

Quote, being funny was very highly valued in my family. My dad had great taste in comedy. Because my dad was older, he had vinyls of comedy albums. And he also introduced us to Monty Python and Spaceballs and Airplane and all those movies that I used to stay up late at night and watch I Love Lucy on Nick at Night. I was obsessed with I Love Lucy.

She started with a women’s open mic night at the UCB and said the jokes were so vulgar because when you first start, I think the instinct is just to be as blue as possible. Went really well. I was totally hooked. I really blew up my entire life to pursue as a job. Next up to watch Dion Mojo Brooks.

I’m not familiar, Brooks says. My first time in front of the full audience, it was an audience of four people. Two other people were my mom and dad. The other two people were my aunt and uncle. This past year he was on the We Them Ones comedy Tour hosted by Mike Epps.

Midway through my set, they started giving me a standing up. It was in that moment, in front of ten thousand people standing up, clapping and screaming, and it hit me, I’m doing this. Joe Dombrowski, he started in third grade. He said, I stole all my jokes from a magician that my parents hired from my first communion. The jokes were cheesy, but it killed and I was hooked.

He now runs an LA show at the Comedy Store called My Straight Friends and says, I’m talking about my marriage, building a family. Some my onits is now half teachers, half the gaze. I’m living my dream talking about my life. Next up, Robbie Hoffman. You know Robbie from Hacks.

Hoffman says, yeah, lots of people recognizing me now, and for good reason. I’m a silver screen sensation. What can I say? Influences include Howard Stern, Judge, Judy Simon, Campbell, her mother, brothers and sisters, Nate Jackson. I’ve seen a lot of buzz on.

Nate Brody says a master of crowd work, points out while every comic now does it for social media clips. He was doing it before that existed. I was panning for gold. I’m putting a bunch of gunk in a thing and shaking it around and weaving in what I’m thinking. When you do it right, it brings everybody in.

It makes the room smaller. He says. Many comedians use CrowdWork as filler. His crowd work has done methodically. I’m information seeking, and then from that, I’m developing a punchline, act outs and even callbacks to other stories from the night, or I’ll pair it with a story or joke I already have.

So it feels like a moment that aligns, like an epiphany. Morgan Jay on the list. Morgan started in comedy in two thousand and seven. He had studied piano and guitar and had choir experience ahead of studying theater and the classics at NYU. Before throwing himself in a comedy, Morgan said, I knew it was this or nothing Eradicating the safety net is really helpful to push you into those next steps of your evolution as a performer.

Also on the list, friend of the show John marco Ciresi. He’s been performing overseas and says, not everyone understands all the jokes and the laughter is more muted. That can mess up the timing along the way. It’s a good experience As an artist. I’ve learned to shift the musicality, like if you sing a song at a different temple for a remix, makes you more flexible, more nimble to live off the audience.

This fall, he’ll be in Rochester, West Des Moines and Richmond, Virginia. As my comedy’s going well, but going from Paris to Richmond, two equally cool cultural centers of the world as me wondering what of life I want to live and helps me create good art. Jay Ying Summers is on the list. Summers said, I struggled with trying to be likable, but I realized I’m not likable. I just have to be honest and specific about what affects me, and that made me find my voice.

Not to try to please everyone. Whenever someone books me in a club, I exhaust every resource to make sure it’s a sold out show for a good performance. I just want to make whoever books me money. I have so many tips I could give to comedians who want to see how to get their numbers up. On social media, promote a show, and have good relationship at a club, because those are business skills as artists.

Influences Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, Ricky Gervais, Steph tolev on the list, I feel like Steph has now broken through thanks to that recent Netflix special. The Variety Piece rehashes you know a lot of the recent articles the Bill Burr at All and to Kara Williams is a parent with kids ranging from age eleven to twenty four, and incorporates them into her material. One night, Choose booked to do three minutes at a comedy club in Harlem. The host stepped away and left her on stage for over twice as long. Williams said, I just talked about it.

Women break up differently than men break up, and the dynamic of breaking up. And people came up to me after and said, oh my god, girl, me too. I’m going through the same thing. And I realized it was healing and I’ve been doing it for over fifteen years. All right, we are getting along again.

Let’s see what else I could tell you about. Shane Gillish. Remember he hosted the SBS nine news cycles ago. The Ladies of the View didn’t like it. Whoopy Goldberg, who, to be fair, has hosted the Oscars four times so kind of knows what she’s talking about.

But said, you know, hosting an award show is a tough gig. So I’ll ask you you think you read that room correctly. Joy Behar, a comedian, said no, no, no, no. Basically, when you do an award show, they’re there to hear their name called. They’re not there to laugh.

Number One. Beehart said, stand up comedy is one of the hardest things people can do. I did it for thirty years. It’s so hard. It’s like a high wire act.

I always say, it’s like I’m on stage naked and everybody else has clothes. That’s how it feels. Bayhart didn’t like when Shane did that. I didn’t write that joke. Maneuver said, never do that.

Johnny Carson was on the air for I don’t know one hundred years. Never once did he say the writer wrote that bad joke that I just bombed with. That’s bad form. That’s a mistake. You have to know how to work the room.

I don’t know if he knows how to do that. Woop Goldberg wrapped it up with, I guess you have to know how to do the material. You can make a work without being offensive and terrible. But what do I know. I’m used to be yeike cause I just cut six stories.

There’s just so much going on. Gossip Corner. Rosie O’Donnell went up in Ireland and took shots at the president. Rosie was at the International Comedy Club in Dublin. She addressed Trump’s recent post in which Trump suggested he might revoke Rosie’s citizenship.

Rosie said, a really smart guy who works for the Democratic National Campaign texted me and said, are you okay? And I’m like, well, I’m kind of upset that Ireland is losing, but no, she said. The person she was talking to then sent her Trump’s post. Rosie said, so, all I saw is a post that said something absurd like Rosie o Donald’s a threat to humanity. Bye, I’m going to take away her American citizenship, which I know no one’s allowed to do in America.

If you’re born in America and your parents are American citizens, which I was, you have to renounce your citizenship in order to get rid of it. You can’t have it. Taken away from you by the government, but the Supreme Court has given him carte blanche to do whatever he wants. I read it and I kind of laughed, and I said, that’s funny, but it’s not real. Rosie then drafted her response to Trump and it went viral.

My response and people went crazy. And as my brother Eddie I said, when he pulled me up, he said that bastard. Does he know he’s going to make you more famous than you ever were? And when he finds out, he’s going to be upset. But you know, this is kind of the worst guy that I’ve ever met in my life.

I’m sixty three years old. He’s like one hundred and seven or one hundred and twenty years old. I knew about him my whole life, So I just told the truth of what I knew. And he went crazy and threatened to sue me. And it’s been twenty years that he’s been calling me fat, disgusting, gay, pervert, everything that he is.

That’s what happened. Abigail Jackson, spokeswoman for the White House, told Fox News Digital it’s sad to watch TDS, ridd and Rosie crash out like this, but at least she’s not in America while she’s having her big meltdown. God bless the Irish.

Also on Gossip Corner, Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed that Trump inspired her …

The BBC reports English broadcaster Richard Bacon asked Ellen whether reports that Trump played a role in the correct Ellen said yes. Ellen apparently said they got to the UK the day before the election and woke up to a lot of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, he got in and We’re like, we’re staying here. It’s absolutely beautiful. The villages and the towns and the architecture. Everything you see is charming, and it’s just a simpler way of life.

Everything here is just better. The way the animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here Out today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, Trey Kennedy’s Grow Up and Let’s take a look at What’s happening in Montreal Tonight five pm, Ross Battel, Canada, seven o’clock Danny Boy Culture Show at seven brits Ish at seven. That’s usually one of my favorite things to happen when I can make it to that. Jang Summers one of the comedians to watch at seven o’clock, Live Sessions at seven.

Those are the album recordings usually Irene two at seven, Ross Battle Canada again at eight, John Dore at a thirty, Casey Rocket at nine, Nina Kunti whose face is it anyway? At Oh I’ve seen her on social She’s very funny, Okay, Nasty Show at nine thirty, Double Threat Matt O’Brien and Julia Headquitz at ten, Another roast Battle at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine. All right, if we were up there, I would say, boy, I really want to see British but we should probably check out Jayan Summers if she’s on the buzz list. So we do that at seven and Nina Conti at nine thirty. All right, back in the morning unless there’s more Colbert news, you never know.

Checkday. Actually, there probably will be a one now that i’m thinking about it, because I’m probably gonna want to comment about whatever John Stewart said on Monday night, so there probably is going to be a bonus episode either way. Keep checking the feed. Appreciate you listening, See you as soon

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I’m Johnny mag with a Stephen Colbert based bonus episode. There was a normal episode of Daily Comedy News in the feed earlier Monday. This is an episode for Monday Middle of the day. Let’s start with Friend of the Show John Marco SIRESI he was on MSNBC.

What do you make of his cancellation. I mean, give me your big takeaway pictures? Are you buying that it’s financial? Is it sad to see the end of such a kind of iconic brand in franchise? It could be financial, and you know, Epstein could have liked Trump for his drawings.

Anything’s possible. Interesting reporting from Variety, who said, I guess last week. The phrasing is earlier this week, but it’s Monday morning, so I guess. Last week, sky Dane’s chief David Ellison met with FCC chair Brendan Carr and others at the commission to lobby for the deal’s approval, and notably, Ellison promised that CBS’s editorial decision making reflects the varied ideot logical perspectives of American viewers. In a February seventh Fox News interview, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr commented on Trump’s lawsuit against CBS and said the president quote has been right on these media bias issues.

On Tuesday, January fifteenth, Ellison and his lawyer met with Carr. According to a letter posted in the FCC’s docket, Ellison and Brill Brill is Ellison’s lawyer, emphasized the public interest benefits of the sky Dance Paramount transaction end quote. We also urged the Media Bureau to promptly grant approval of the transfer of the CBS licenses to quote new Paramount. According to the filing quote. We made clear that mister Ellison will lead New Paramount with a talented team of executives focused on American storytelling.

A lot to unpack there. In Variety, Rob Schneider wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Rob Schneider writes, respectfully, Stephen Colbert has been doing nothing but wayfer thinly disguised democratic propaganda talking points for the last eight years plus. While I completely support mister Colbert’s freedom of speech, his utter disdain for half of America and every swing state greatly diminished his audience potential. I also respect Colbert’s direct criticism of his employer, CBS Paramount, and his opinion that they cave to President Trump when they settled their lawsuit against the sitting president.

That took guts. I’ll give him that. But Colbert, like ABC Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel, excluded conservatives completely from his show and limited parentheses prevented his audience from hearing opposing viewpoints. Colbert fed liberal slopped to his liberal minded Kamala supporters, and cared less about challenging them intellectually by actually appealing to their higher nature or engaging in thought provoking debate. Nah, just keep crapping on half the country that’s no longer afraid to say women don’t have penises and boys shouldn’t get to beat up girls in girls’ sports.

So, while I support mister Colbert’s First Amendment right for free speech, great point, Rob Schneider. Yeah. As for CBS Paramount, they are a private company and they have to pay the bills or used to, so they can fire anyone they want in Colbert, who under an estimated twenty million dollars salary, was reportedly losing the company forty million dollars per year. Several more paragraphs there than Rob ends with. I wish mister Colbert are much success in whatever he does next.

Show business is a tough business. Rob was on Fox and Friends. Colbert never had me on his show. Neither has Jimmy Kimmel or well, I guess I was on a couple of times early. But look, it’s here’s what happens.

Like Colbert already cut the pie. It’s a pizza. He already cut it in half. His potential audience. He cut it in half with it just by cutting out all conservatives at all, not caring about you know, the forty seven states that may have a different opinion than the Democratic Party of open borders, and women have junk between their legs.

We have to And so he had half the pie already gone, and then then he has to divide that pizza in three slices with Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.

And then so he’s he’s he’s working for a third of a piece of pie, and that’s …

They have two hundred employees, and frankly, you know I have more more people will watch this on Twitter. Then you know, for his advertising group that everybody on TV seems to still think is important that eighteen to thirty five group, and it’s just that audience isn’t there anymore. It’s I mean, the late night show is a relic. But the thing about it which was special when I was a kid, you know, when we were you know, my family were all, you know, climbing mom and Dad’s bed and watching TV. Johnny Carson was he made the show for everybody.

He didn’t alienate anyone, and you never knew who he kind of thought that these guys all leaned left like most of the media, but you never knew one hundred percent. And that’s kind of a beautiful thing. And I hope it goes back to that. Rosie O’Donnell jumped on Instagram on Sunday and wrote, Hey, Tangerine Trump. First you said I should be stripped of my citizenship.

Now you’re publicly celebrating that Stephen Colbert lost his job. You’ve never understood the role of comedy or the role of truth. You think isolent seeing a comedian means you’ve won something you haven’t. Stephen said up to you like so many of us have. Not because it was easy, but because it was necessary.

He told the truth with wit and courage night after night. Well, you used your platform to spread fear, lies and hate. John Oliver was in Eerie, Pennsylvania. He was part of that stunt to rebrand the baseball team the Moon Mammoths. He was asked about Stephen Colbert.

John Oliver said, I love Steven, I love his staff, I love that show. It’s incredibly said. I’m partly excited to see what they’re going to do the next ten months. It’s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy. Late night shows mean a lot to me, not just because I work in them, but because even growing up in England, I would watch Letterman Show, which of course was Stephen’s Show.

I think about what a glamorous world that was so to have got to be on Letterman Show, and Stephen’s Show has always been one of the most fun things. So it’s very very sad news. I look forward to seeing what he’s going to do next, because that man will not stop now. The Wall Street Journal jumped in again. I think many things can be true at once.

My spidy senses tingling with the timing here in the merger deal, but also the numbers and the financials. As you look at all this, it’s not crazy talk to end this show. Perhaps there’s a scenario where you could do some cost cutting or figure something out. But the Journal points out Colbert has two point four million viewers most nights, less than one percent of the country. It’s a tiny fraction of Johnny Carson’s viewership at a time when the nation was smaller.

The late show’s audience has fallen more than thirty percent in the past five years, and even more among the eighteen to forty nine s. Colbert’s operation reportedly costs north of one hundred million dollars annually and hemorrhaged forty million dollars last year, nearly half being the host salary. The Journal rights America depends on a shared sense of Wii boomers and gen X once found some of that on late night TV from millennials and gen Z. A fragmented media ecosystem that’s insufficiently popular to sustain a common culture presents real challenges. Any revolution would not be televised.

It would be streamed from one thousand angles across a million platforms. The New Yorker happens to have a piece by Stephen Colbert this week. It is titled Stephen Colbert and Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson. Apparently there was a good profile of Carson in nineteen seventy eight. Colbert wrote that article is twenty thousand words.

It’s giving ahead. While I host a show in the same time slot and tradition as Carson, I am not Johnny. Neither was quote unquote Johnny, who is described as an eighth of Carson, the rest being hidden behind midwestern and professional recipitudes and protective sodality. A lot of big words here of producers, lawyers, and execs who pronounced Johnny a reformed drinker, loving son and husband, faithful to the point of celibacy. Two or false?

Do we care Johnny or Johnny? He was there every night like the tide, and we loved him. I have the Carson books, I’ve watched the Carson biles. I have a dear friendship with his old writer and pure Dick Cavitt. One disappointment.

Tynan presents no process. How did Johnny arrive at quote between sixteen and twenty two short fire jokes per monologue? What happened behind that rainbow curtain? I know the articles about the man, not the job, but were told the show is Johnny john is the show. You’ll find that in the print edition July twenty eighth, twenty twenty five issue of The New Yorker The Town podcast.

They did this asn’t aside. They were talking about the Colbert of it all. They said, Mullaney on Netflix was getting five hundred thousand viewers, five hundred thousand, five hundred thousand Formulaney. I don’t know if that thing’s coming back. Maybe just with the zeitgeist, they think people will rally behind Malani.

But like I said, when the show was airing season two, I didn’t think the show was working creatively and I didn’t think it was really capturing a buzz. And I may have been right. Friend of the show, Jason Zinneman in The New York Times right, it’s getting canceled may end up being the best thing that’s ever happened to Stephen Colbert. The same cannot be said for its impact on late night television. His quick, improv honed wit and intellectual depth could feel hamstrung by the show’s short segments, and sometimes when he got on a good riff or dug into an area of major interest.

You wondered if it would fit better on a podcast. Zinneman rights, late night television is not finished. In fact, you could say we’re reverting to the era before the early nineties, when NBC dominated and there were occasionally network alternatives. The loss of the late show is not the deathnell, but it is a deathnell. If video killed the radio star, who did in the network late night superstar.

The Internet is the primary suspect, increasing competition, shipping away at ad dollars, and transforming the time at which we watch these shows, making the term late night itself a misnomer all caps. Of course, money matters, but so does the climate which it’s allocated. Late night used to be, among other things, a prestige business. The hosts were some of the key phases of the network. On top of profits, the show’s generated press, attention, in house promotion, and buzz.

Now, media bosses seem more willing to cut a check for millions of dollars to make a political problem go away, rather than spend that money to keep their late night show. Yeah. I talked about this in one of the other bonuses. So at some point you have to ask the question, who are we Fox shows sports and animation. You know, maybe CBS is looking at that and going, all right, why don’t we just do our procedurals from E two eleven.

We’ll show some football during the fall, and why do we have a late night show? Not crazy? The Hollywood Reporter wondered what’s next for Colbert, and they pointed out while he lives in New Jersey, he’s from South Carolina and one of those states Senate seats is open next year. Colbert has joked about the idea of running for office for years. When asked directly about this in two thousand and seven, Larry King asked if Colbert would ever consider running for president, and again, that’s two thousand and seven, a lifetime ago in some ways, Colbert said, obviously, every boy’s thought of it.

And when you look at a field of candidates like this, so that’s the two thousand and eight campaign, you know, and trailed off. I thought about that a lot over the weekend. Stephen Colbert is sixty one, so he’d be sixty three sixty four when the next election rolls around. He’s nice looking, he’s telegenic, he’s good at the art of the media. He’s not eighty years old.

The people who don’t like him, Rob Schneider apparently already don’t like him, so there’s no loss there. If I’m the Democrats, I’m calling Stephen Colbert today. If you’re not alreaddy on the phone with him, you should be. I don’t know if he would want the gig, but if they rolled him out as a candidate, very interesting. The current holder of the office, among other things on his resume, hosted a show called The Apprentice and was really good at media and look at you head to you tonight Late Nighter points out, let’s pay a lot of attention to John Stewart tonight.

Colbert and Stewart are friends. John Stewart is an EP on The Late Show. They share the same manager, James baby Doll Dixon. We’ll see what John has to say. And that is a bonus episode back in the morning with a normal episode.

It was a very busy weekend. Just in case you haven’t caught everything. Going back Friday morning’s episode where I recapped Shane Gillis, I thought was strong, and then it’s just been bonus regular, bonus regular, bonus regular. I’ll be back in the morning. See then, thanks for listening,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And if you’re paying attention on Friday, you heard me drop two good stories on the fly while I’ve moved them here to the top of Monday’s episode. Congratulations to the folks at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. They’ve done a deal with Nate Brighetzy.

They will become the official audio and video distributor for the YouTube specials of Nateland Entertainment. The partnership with the eight hundred Pound Gorilla puts the Nateland Specials second window distribution of comedy specials from Aaron Weber, Nick Fohn, and Greg Warren. The Gorilla has similar deals with Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network and All Things Comedy, which is Bill burn Almetricle’s company. One of the Gorilla suits said, with both of us calling Nashville our home base, teaming up with Nate Brighetze and Nate Land felt like the obvious move. Nate led the global comedy touring numbers last year, and he’s mapping out even bigger plans as Nate Land’s audience grows.

We’re excited to be partners and helping propel that growth. Amen, Nate, don’t give up the comedy, because I’m telling you, in about ten years, i’m gonna be doing a story. We’re gonna sit down, it’s gonna be daily coming news. I’m gonna be like, I can’t believe they made Happy Gilmore seven, and I’m gonna be like, uh yeah, Nate. Remember when Nate Pergetsy was gonna open a theme park.

Whatever happened to that, Remember that that’s coming, that story. You just got to wait a decade, all right. Website The National caught Bill Burr and Abu Dhabi. Now this was a week ago Saturday, and I bumped this a couple of times. I don’t know if you noticed.

Last week the episodes were quite long as it was, and I figured this could wait a minute. Spoilers if you’re planning on seeing Bill Burr overseas anyway. A lot of quotes from Burst set here that i’ll do in my again. It’s a it’s not at all intended to be a Bill ber impression. It’s what I call on the show, a half ass impression.

I’m not really trying to do Burr’s voice, but I’ll try and match his Cadence the best I can Burst said. Every four years, the billionaires in my cuntry figure out how to blame immigrants. You lose your job, you farm, you can’t buy a house, and I’ll tell you it’s because some guy float in on a mattress from Cuba. We always believe it because the white guy telling us. We think, oh, white guy, I’m a white guy, the same skin, same team.

But it’s not the same team, not the same team at all. Racists white people have to say, I don’t have a problem with immigrants as long as they come here the right way. Oh yeah, did we The immigrant should leave and come back in wooden ships and bring some COVID lace blankets. A bird then started talking about Donald Trump. Burr said that Burr does not understand what’s going on with the leadership of my country right now, and then started talking about Elon Musk and that salute of sorts that mister Musk did at one point, Remember that one.

Burr said, there’s a moment in America if you did a Kaitlyn jennichoke, you were taking your career in your hands. Five years later, the sky has Nerd salutes not once, but twice once to the front, once at the back. People try to play it off with something else, and he didn’t get in trouble. What’s happening. Burr then started talking about how the achievements of ancient Egypt are questioned in Western discourse.

Burr said white people could accept that somebody could do something they couldn’t. If the Pyramids had happened in Italy, they wouldn’t be confused. They would say, today, we’re gonna try and figure out who built the Royal Colisseum? Was it mermaids. Burr also discussed Jeff bezol thirty eight million dollar wedding to Lauren Sanchez.

Burr said, this guy’s sewing over his head. He spent thirty eight million dollars to get married. Dude, you could have gone to Vegas and got that for sixty nine bucks. You’re giving a starter lift ship thirty eight million dollars. It’s because he’s a nerd, never had a girlfriend, he didn’t play sports.

It was his an apartment playing on computers. He’s not an idiot. He’s just then experienced. What’s he going to get it for a birthday? He read that a whole city, all of Venice and if she even asked for that.

He probably wanted a Harry Potter theme leisure tag thing. She’s sitting there with her emotions looking out the window, saying I was thinking maybe we could have a destination wedding, and he’s like, what do you mean, like Florida. He’s gonna be hanging out with the truck drivers. He doesn’t pay enough on the Amazon loading dock, saying I can’t make this woman happy. Burr said he would like to go back, but says I’ll come back in the winter.

That’s when my wife will come. She’ll support me on the road, just not in July. That’s pretty good material, even with me half assed channeling it. You can tell that some really good writing that is obviously performed a trillion times better by Bill Burr. I’m just trying to host a podcast here, serious case you knew.

Not a stand up comedian, not claiming to be a stand up comedian. I’ve never tried to be a stand up comedian. I don’t want to be a stand up comedian. I’m not saying I’m funny. I’m a guy in a basement reading you comedy news headlines.

That’s all this is. Adam Sailor Happy Gilmour two out on a Friday. Boy, I might have to leave the country to avoid this whole thing. Adam Sandler spoke to E Online about working alongside famous Hollywood actress Sadie Sandler, who’s nineteen, and Sonny Sandler, who is sixteen. Adam told E News about the Sandler actresses, once they do it, well, nothing feels better.

As a parent. It must be like when you’re the parents of a baseball player and you’re at the game and they get a hit. You just go thank God, just so much relief. Acting is something the two kids love. My one daughter study it in school and my other daughter studies it while doing high school, and they love it.

They talk about it a lot, and he News tells us it’s not just storing in their dad’s movies that excite Sadie and Sonny. In fact, Jude Barrymore recounted a tender moment of walking in on one of her children and one of Adam’s daughters watching their two thousand’s rom com Fifth First Dates, which, as you know as a frequent listener, is one of the few good Adam Saylor movies. Drew said, I was like, why are you guys watching this? Don’t you get enough of me and your dad? The Texas Tribune Festival is coming to austin November thirteenth through the fifteenth.

I’m mentioning this because they announced influential voices who are joining them. One of the influential voices who will be at the Texas Tribune Festival in November John Mulaney, and the presser tells us mullany is a three time Emmy Award, Critics Choice Award, and WGA Award winning writer, comedian and actor. He’s also a constitutional law NERD. So congratulations asterisk to kill Tony. I saw the news media was picking up claiming that kill Tony is now the number one podcast.

Now they are saying this because kill Tony showed up at the top of the YouTube shorts and now this is a whole thing in the podcasting industry. The easiest thing to do is subscribe to the pod News newsletter and subscribe to my substack, and you can hear us going back and forth about this. So for us people who live on Old Man Mountain, a podcast is what I’m doing right now. It’s audio. There are other things, like an example, I’ll use is Andrew Schultz interviewing President Trump sitting on a couch and there’s fake plants and a four camera set up, and it’s lit properly, and all that YouTube thinks that’s a podcast.

And then somewhere between what Schultz does and what I do is the truth. Anyway, the YouTube charts include all kinds of things that US old people might not consider podcasts. Now, do I consider kill Tony podcasts? Yes, But in terms of audio podcasts, what you listen to on say Apple podcasts or listen to on your phone might be a better way to describe it. Please understand, Joe Rogan is light years ahead of everything else.

Sometimes you’ll see something show up at the top of the charts, but the charts have a recency bias based upon it’s a regression of subscriptions and listens within the last seventy two hours. So if you, sir, start a podcast today and get I don’t know, five thousand of your friends to listen to it in the next hour, you’ll shoot up the charts. You won’t stay there, but you’ll shoot up. So every now and then you’ll see something at the top of the charts. And I always tell people, Hey, when you number one, take a screen grab and tell everybody you’re number one.

So nobody questions these things. So tap the breaks on kil Tony having the number one podcast. If you’re seeing that as a headline, tap the breaks. He just might have had a good week on YouTube and it’s a good show. Don’t get me wrong.

This just for last Montreal Comedy Festival website is going to kill me. But things are picking up here. As I look at tonight’s lineup, looks like the French shows have cleared out. I’m seeing a bunch of things in English today. They include Ross Battle Canada at five o’clock, The Culture Show at seven, there is a French show at seven, the JFL Live Sessions, probably an album taping at seven, another Rose Battle Canada at eight, The Sketch Show hosted by Lou Lawrence at eight thirty, The Nasty Show at nine to thirty, Double Threat, Mark Little and Wally Barram at Tien at Ross Battle Canada at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise eleven fifty nine.

Okay, so if we were in Montreal and I may have to leave the country because of this Adam Sandler stuff, so this might be my life very soon. I would say, all right, at five o’clock, let’s do Roast Battle Canada. So that probably takes us to six thirty or so. As we play this mental exercise, we’ve seen the Culture Show ninety five times, so we don’t need to go see that. You know what, We should grab dinner and then hit the sketch show at eight thirty.

So we’ll grab dinner and a brew or two. Can I sidebar slide bar for a second. Almost got alcohol distracted. I’ll come back to that. All right, eight thirty.

Sketch Show, will do that, and then let’s see that’s at the Theater Saint Catherine. And so is the ten o’clock show at the Theater Saint Katherine, Double Threat, Mark Little and Wally Barram. So we’ll see the sketch show and then we’ll walk across the hall to see Double Threat.

And then at that point, I’ve been seeing comedy shows since five o’clock, and…

There you can go to midnight Surprise. I’m going to bed. So, speaking of alcohol, I forgot to share the story the other day. So volleyball on Wednesday, which why I didn’t watch the SP’s live. First of all, so I’m not that good at volleyball.

I play volleyball, but I’m not that good. But I can kind of serve. But one thing I do, and I nail this. I’m so happy with myself. I’m humble bragging here.

So Wednesday night, it’s game three. It’s twenty three twenty three. First team to twenty five wins, but you have to win by two, and my serve comes up. I do this thing where I make it look like I’m a lot better at serving than I am. I’m a good server, but I’m not like a Hall of Fame server.

What I do is I go up to the line and I really slow down the game. My teammates know I do this, and I look over and I just look down the other team, and I make it look like I’m going to place the ball exactly where I want.

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And then I serve it short.

And if I pull that off, even if they return it, that’s fine. But if I pull that off, now it looks like, oh, I did that on purpose.

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And then if I get the second point, I’m in their heads now and I do it again.

So I got the first point. So it’s twenty four to twenty three. And I got the second point. And what happens is because I hit the first one short, they start to move up, expecting me to soft serve because apparently that’s what I do. I took my time at the line and I did a hard serve and I hate it right where the pin is because if you hit it where the pin is, the ball doesn’t spin as much, and then when it does start spinning, it drops immediately.

And I went bam and it dropped right between the four of them. Walk off when felt good about myself. Then we went to the bar and I didn’t know BlackBerry cider is a thing. Why didn’t anyone tell me? BlackBerry sider is a thing.

I know about various siders, Irish American ances Stream. I’ve been drinking ciders for decades. I love a nice cider over ice. And the nice waitress was like, I was like, what kind of sider do you have? She’s like, we have a BlackBerry sider.

I’m like, BlackBerry sider, Okay, boys delicious. I had two of those and I digress a new special outs today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla. Paul Foot’s Dissolve is available for early access.

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Meanwhile, The Edinburgh News had a preview of Seaton Smith, who had been ope…

Seaton is going to the Edinburgh Fringe Fees and a lot of you know that. I host the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live One app. The app is free, the show is free. The Weekly Comedy Thing is like this. I talk less and I play comedy bits in between, much shorter versus of the story.

I was playing some Seaton Smith stuff on this week’s show. Boy He is good. Let’s keep an eye on Seaton Smith. Like good, good Good. His show Trauma Bonding will be at the Pleasant Courtyard Spoilers.

The show opens with a wide lens from plane crashes to presidential politics. Seaton Smith dissects the news with a mix of sharp observation and wide eyed disbelief. But it’s not long before the spotlight turns inward. His chaotic childhood, complicated dating life, and a recent moped crash all tikes center stage. At one point, Spoilers even ends up in a hospital after trying to be Batman.

It’s a wild ride, but Smith knows what he’s doing. He weaves high energy punchlines through stories that take strange, sometimes emotional turns. One minute, he’s reliving a mountain biking accident, the next, he’s unpacking family trauma. Somehow it all holds together. Keep an eye on Seaton Smith.

Okay, that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi. There, I’m Jenny Mack with another bonus episode of Daily Comedy News, Quick house Keeping, going back to Friday, because I’ve dropped a lot of content. Friday Morning recapt Shing Gillis in the SP’s I really liked that episode, but it’s gotten buried in the Colbert of it all. There was a bonus episode about Colbert, initial reactions and some analysis for Friday afternoon in case you missed that.

Saturday there was a normal episode in the feed and a bonus episode about Colbert. And today on Sunday there was a normal episode that it went out earlier. Today this bonus episode that you’re listening to now, and then there’ll be a normal episode on Monday morning and from there we’ll see where the news is. In The Guardian, Jesse Hasinger writes CBS has ripped off a band age of the big three networks have been applying the similar wounds for years. Late night programming simply doesn’t mean as much as it used to.

With smaller network lead ins from primetime lineups and more audience choices for comedy, music or even the dopey celebrity games that Jimmy Fallon throws together. Saturday Night Live has retained some cultural cachet thanks to a combination of lower commitment twenty episodes a year and a night where many people don’t have to work the next day versus eight times as many, all airing on weeknights, legacy branding, and sketch comedy that travels well online these days is routinely one of the highest rated network shows of the week when it airs a new episode, offering an encouraging sign that old timeslot rules about viewership no longer apply. It’s also extremely expensive to produce difficult to replicate, which nonetheless looks more viable than the tired talk show format. I will jump in there. You know, all this conversation has people wondering about Saturday Night Live, post Lorne Michaels.

You know, we’re clearly getting a season fifty one, but that show is reportedly expensive to produce, and you know, maybe you don’t do twenty episodes, maybe do fewer episodes, Maybe the cast is smaller. Who knows what the future for that show is. The Guardian writes this could be a good thing for comic minds, including Colbert or Conan O’Brien. Some comedians seem unable to resist the siren call of late night talk shows, chasing the tonight show dream, even when the actual job are made out of reach. That Colbert can face cancelation anyway, should alongside Conan O’Brien losing his to night show gig years ago, the signals to newcomers that the rarefied era of the national late night talk show host is also getting pretty thin.

May be unbreathable, yet Trump has sucked up some of that oxygen too. Even with the challenges cited by CBS, it’s difficult to believe that vanquishing a long time issue of Trump mockery wasn’t at least considered a side benefit of canceling the Late Show. He’s giving ahead beyond Trump personally smuging up the balance sheets, He’s helping the hasten the demise of late night comedy simply by being himself. Seeming to provide the perfect target, a venal, dim witted perma celebrity with an army of devoted sikophants, but after two non consecutive administrations have flooded the zone with grotesquere ease, performing a lightly zinging monologu or sketches as warm up back for good natured interviews seems unlikely to entice either those craving anti Trump Catharsis or those desperate to believe in his strongman powers. Colbert took a somewhat less cutesy approach than his competitor, Fallon seemed to be all that was necessary to mark him as a troublemaker in the Atlantic David Graham Rights.

For much of the twentieth century, American broadcast television revolved around three networks, NBC, ABC, and CBS. The network was home to Edward R. Murrow, who brought World War II in Europe home to Americans on CBS Radio. After the war, Murrow’s reporting played a pivotal role in bringing down Senator Joseph McCarthy. Walter Cronkite dominated American evenings from his perch at the Evening News, and from the days of Mike Wallace to the more recent era of Leslie Stall and Scott Pelley.

Sixty minutes set the standard for long form television reporting. Yet CBS’s current ownership seems determined to demolish this legacy. The Atlantic, then Rights, Perhaps this is true but the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. CBS’s owners had made a series of decisions capitulating to President Donald Trump, and the surprise choice to allow Colbert, a consistent prominent Trump critic, to walk, seems like part of that pattern. In twenty twenty three, Sherry Redstone began seeking a buyer for the company, eventually striking a deal in twenty twenty four with Skydants.

The merger requires federal approval. The President now seems favorably disposed towards the merger. Last month he spoke highly of Skydant’s head David Ellison. Still, the deal has not yet been approved by the FCC. Journalism, along with Colbert’s program, makes up only a small portion of Paramount’s portfolio, and so business executives might view sacrificing them to preserve a deal as a prudent I cold blooded maneuver.

Daniel Feinberg, I’m a big fan of Daniel, he writes for The Hollywood Reporter. He says, I’m sure the Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s absolutely ending because of a financial decision against the challenging backdrop of Late Night, and it’s not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount. The official reasons for the cancelation or whatever they are, and who am I to question the co CEO of Paramount Global, the president of CBS Entertainment, and the president of CBS Studios. Nobody, that’s who. But official reasons and optics are two different things.

And if the folks in charge of CBS didn’t know what the optics were, they wouldn’t have released a statement saying that what we think we can see with our eyes and infer with our common sense definitely aren’t the truth. The optics here may not have any connection of facts, but man, the optics here suck, and they suck on a slew of levels that are all addressed in the statement as things that we’re not supposed to be thinking about but can’t help but think about. So it’s not related. It’s anything happening in Paramount. Good to know what could possibly be happening at Paramount.

A merger between CBS parent company, Paramount Gold and Skydad’s a massive deal that was seen as a major part of why CBS just settled a lawsuit. It’skid being ahead. Colbert isn’t going anywhere for ten months, and it’s hard to imagine him agreeing to stick around for a swan song in which his content is being restricted. So let’s assume that he’s going to spend a season lampooning Trump, even as a lame duck. It’s giving a head again.

They’re a less political talk show host. Jimmy Fallon plays his various games and goofs around with celebrities. You know what, this room for that, and I want nothing to do with it, but that’s okay too. And when Seth Myers isn’t taking closer looks, sometimes he’s just drinking with stars and making fun of his own errors, And you know what, there’s room for that. And if Netflix would renew Everybody’s Live with Malaney, I’d like to believe this room for doing a talk show episode blindfolded or fighting a trio of fourteen year old boys on live television.

At some point, the CBS might just air whatever procedural reality shows in the ten PM slot, kick it a local news, and then play the national anthem and go black, just like back in the good old days. The Hollor Reporter dusted off the Good One podcast. Seth Myers was on there about a month ago, and let’s revisit what Seth said. He had said, it’s helpful for us to cross pollinate the information we’re hearing from the people in charge of our networks, to make sure it’s all checking out with everybody else, and also to commiserate, because everybody who’s doing this to some degree obviously remembers a time when things are a little more flush. Seth was asked at that time, are we in the end era of late night TV?

Seth said, there’s always a chance that something turns around all of a sudden it’s on the upswing again, But I would certainly bet on there being fewer late night shows in the future now that one. Apparently Colbert’s staff didn’t find out about this much before the rest of us. Some members of the team went on social media. Writer Philippie A. Trus Medina called Stephen Colbert absolute the greatest and said, we got ten more months of this, so you better tune in because you know we’re about to go effing loco.

Producer director Jake Plunkett said was the run of a lifetime. So grateful for this job and the people I’ve met here. One thing I will say, Stephen Colbert is an insanely good man who treated us with a tremendous amount of love.

Also, he’s insanely funny.

I’ll run through a wall for him for the next ten months. You know, let’s stop there. You know Stephen Colbert, love him, good guy. Everybody loves Stephen Colbert. He’s going to be fine.

He’s made a lot of money. He’ll be able to work again if he wants to work again. Nothing else can do a podcast. But what about the two hundred people that work on the show. What’s going to happen to them?

Jake Plunkett said the fall of Late Night is so sad. I grew up loving Conan snl Ferguson Letterman. Writer Carly Moseley on Instagram said, I love the show. I love these people. I love these people in the show forever and ever.

Amen, see y’all till May. Writer Michael cruz Keene said the Late Show gig was the best job I could imagine. Producer and segment director Ballard C. Boyd said some unfortunate news from the home own office and pointed out the part of an av Club headline that said CBS executives bent over backward to deny that this was related to the trump of it all. Now, this is really interesting.

Deadline dusted this off in May of twenty twenty five. Check your calendar, not that long ago. George Cheeks, co CEO Paramount Global and President and chief executive of CBS, told Deadline that he really likes our hand. The day part is challenging from an ad sales perspective. I love our hand.

We have the number one personally for the last nine years, and we still do believe in the day part. But it is a challenge. A Late Night producer told Deadline the news was depressing and weird, and I feel like there’s more to this story. It is believed the Late Show costs slightly less than seventy five million dollars per year to produce before adding in Colbert’s salary. So let’s assume, just to keep this easy, Stephen Colbert’s salary is one dollar.

It’s probably not. Let’s just keep it easy. So if the show costs seventy five million dollars to produce, a Yesterday, I mentioned late shows a taken twenty twenty four was seventy point two million dollars. So you’re already losing five million dollars before you pay Steven Colbert. Again, my spidy sense is tingling about the conspiracy theory, but the financials?

Yeah? Now, is there goodwill to having the Late Show on? Is it a promotional vehicle? All that? Absolutely true?

There’s brand imaging. You know, there’s you know, who are we as CBS? Well we’re the home of sixty minutes and the Late Show, and you know you start picking away that, then you’re just the home of Oh yeah, I put that on sometimes to watch football. Some reports guess Colbert’s salaries between fifteen and twenty million. Let’s use the fifteen number.

So again, seventy five plus fifteen is ninety. You make seventy million in ads? Is it worth twenty million dollars? Is there a way to make that up? Could we do fewer shows?

Could we have less of a staff? Could we do fewer episodes? A place I used to work always love to ask hosts to do additional things. So you’d say, host Daily Comedy News, but also have to do a shift on the jazz station. That kind of stuff went on in a place that once worked.

So I don’t know. I think it’s terrible, But part of me is looking at this going why don’t we just air prices? Right? We run? Times have changed.

I don’t know, very mixed feelings. I am truly sad that this is ending, and it is absolutely stunning. I may have done what four bonus episodes about this single topic. Now, all right, and that is your bonus episode, like I said, and I’m back in the morning with a normal episode and then we’ll take it from there. Appreciate you listening.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Cat William was on the seven pm in Brooklyn podcast and started talking a little basketball. Cat said, in basketball, I’m five to five, so there’s a whole realm of basketball I can’t experience. I don’t have any of the above rim experience.

On the other hand, I’m not Angel Reese. I’m ninety nine percent of in my layups because I can’t afford to miss a layup. My layup is my dunk. Host Cormelo Anthony cracked a smile but knew it was a joke and would not affect his family’s relationship with the star of the Chicago Sky Angel Reese. Stick to sports, okay.

Tom Sigora says FSU’s title winning touchdown was better than fatherhood. Sigora was on the Glory Days DAZ podcast hosted by former quarterback Johnny Manziel. Remember that guy, Sigora said, this is one of those things that’s gonna get me in trouble in a few years. Bert Krascher, who’s an alum, was like, do you want to go to the National Championship Game? And I go, yeah.

We ended up sitting in different sections. He’s like, my ticket’s over here, yours is over there. So I’m just sitting next to some guy. When Kelvin Benjamin caught that pass, I grabbed the guy’s shirt and I started going, Ah, it’s one of those things where you go, that’s what you can’t get at home. In a previous interview, Sigore had told ESPN, I went to the game and the emotions just to go over.

I couldn’t control myself. Winston drives down the field and throws a touchdown. I punched three guys in the face. Punching people in the face is not funny, Johnny Mack, what are you laughing at? Stick to sports, okay.

Roywood Junior talked to GQ about the Cubs and some of his favorite Cubs memories. He said, there was Toughy Roads three homers on opening Day that always stands out. Remember that. I remember that. He’s like the Barry Bonds of Japan.

He’s the man. He doesn’t pay for anything in Japan. Over here, he’s main cabin, middle seat. No one cares. But if I get just watch one baseball home run over and over and over again, it would be the Joe Carter World Series home run.

GQ asked about the steroids era, how do we handle that? Royce said, I don’t know how you can completely discredit it. It’s interesting to see both of those guys post career. The guys in question are Barry Bonds and a Rod. I think what Barry started to figure out that A Rod figured out sooner is how much your attitude plays a role, not necessarily being likable, but just being accessible.

If I a vote, I would vote for Barry Bonds and a Rod Hall of Fame. I absolutely would. Okay, well you cheated, you got caught doing something you weren’t supposed to do. Fine, but how do we wipe everything off the books? That’s the part I think is very difficult to get into the Hall of Fame.

It’s not just solely statistics. There’s intangibles of likability, just being real. You can’t tell me that Barry Bonds and his relationship with the baseball writers over the course of his career will not play a role. The Hall of Fame is like the award shows, where they have a special category basically for the ones we got wrong at the time. I think Barry maybe ends up on that met him briefly.

By briefly, I mean twenty seconds in Birmingham last year at the Willie Mays game they did with the whole Negro League’s tribute. The fact that Barry was even paraphrasing talking with Derek Jeter and Big Poppy, Huge Barry made himself accessible and spoke with people, and I thought it was really cool. I felt like Barry was feeling the love. You can tell he’s still excited about the game. He still loves this game.

He gave it his heart and soul, and he give us a hell of a show for a long time. I think if you put on a show, there’s got to be a space for you somewhere in Cooperstown. Now, if we want to call it the special Wing over here, whatever you got in trouble for steroids a couple of times, put that on the plaque. Stick to Sports. Johnny Mack okay, Li’s a trigger, says her goal every summer is to find a body of water.

But I’m not a snob. I’ll public pool, i’ll hotel, I’ll pay for day pass, I’ll hang with a friend, I’ll bring something, I’ll pay for something. But that’s always my goal. That’s not sports, Johnny Mack, let me finish the story, Lisa said.

Also, I haven’t gone to a baseball game this summer.

That’s a goal as well. See, I know what I’m doing. It’s not my first Daily Comedy News gave Iglesias is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gabe said, I spent my life entertaining on the road, not in Hollywood. I guess someone was watching.

This was never a goal or something I thought was possible. The Hollywood Walk of Fame was established in nineteen sixty and has awarded more than twenty eight hundred stars over the last sixty five years. Leanne Morgan is excited about her sitcom. She says it’s a throwback to the nineteen nineties style comedy things like Roseanne Barr Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Drew Carey Martin, Lawrence Ray Romano. Morgan says that was my goal being my age, coming up and stand up and loving television.

That was my dream Netflix Comedy had. Tracy Pecosta says, on the stand up side, we work with best in class comedians from all over that reach very different audiences, pointing out they’ve had success with Shane Gillis’s Tires and want of Sykes of the Upshaws, and the upcoming Bert Krascher sitcom Free Bert Tracy says, and as we all know from back in the day when these type of shows were more popular and resonated, when you find somebody that is a very specific, authentic voice and makes sense to lean in and leanne is absolutely one of those talents. Weird Al play the Gordon last weekend. I love weird Al, but like MSG is just too big for me to go. Weird Al is closing in on Billy Joel’s record of one hundred and fifty shows at Madison Square Garden.

Al told the crowd just one hundred and forty nine more and I’ll be all t side up with Billy Joel. Al got a little emotional, got serious, told the crowd, Oftentimes the really big moments in your life come and go so quickly you can’t really enjoy them when you’re in them. That is very, very true, Sir Consequence says. The Bigger and Weirder Tour feels like a victory lap. The first third featured only one parody, the opener Taki, along with style parodies.

So yeah, to break down weird al. There’s these straight up parodies, you know, eat it, beat it. There are the style parodies. My favorite is dogg Eat Dog, which is in the style of talking heads.

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And then there are the weird al originals, which are also great.

So let’s say the first third featured one parody, Tacky the opener, and then style parodies the Crosby Stills, Nash and Young style mission statement that’s good, and they might be giants styled everything you know is wrong? Oh yeah, pocas paulk is a fourth category of weirdowse sorry that he did a PoCA. Then Al dressed up as Kurt Cobaine for smells like Nirvana. The band put on yellow hazmat suits and red dome hats for deer to be stupid. A medley included party the cia O to a superhero, eat it and like a surgeon, word crimes and more.

Consequence talks about Al playing fat and writes something you could never write in twenty twenty five. Why not? Can we not make fun of anything? Here are the lyrics. Who’s offended?

Your butt is wide, well mine is too. Just watch your mouth or I’ll sit on you. The word is out better treat me right, because I’m the king of cellulite. Are you offended yet? Ham On, ham On, ham On whole wheat?

All right? My zipper’s bust, my buckles break. I’m too much man for you to take the pavement cracks when I fall down. I’ve got more chins than Chinatown. Is that the lyric we’re going to get offended by?

Well, I’ve never used a phone booth and I’ve never seen my toes. When I’m going to the movies to take up seven rows because I’m fat, Don’t you call me pudgy, portle or stout. Just tell me once again who’s fat? When I walk out to get my mail, it measures on the Richter scale down at the beach. I’m a lucky man.

I’m the only one who gets a ten. If I have one more pie ala mode, I’m gonna need my own zip code. When you’re only having seconds, I’m having twenty thirds. Personally, that’s my favorite weird al line of any weird oul line. When I go to get my shoes, shine, I got to take their word because I’m fat, really really fat.

A lot of lyrics to this, and my shadow weighs forty two pounds. Let me tell you once again, who’s fat? If you see me coming your way, bet it, give me plenty of space. If I tell you that I’m hungry, then won’t you feed my face? Because I’m fat?

When I sit around the house, I really sit around the house, you know, all by myself from a crowd. I’m me tell you once again, I’m fat, and the whole world knows I’m fat, and I’m proud. Just tell me once again, who’s fat? Who’s getting offended? There are people of Chinese ancestry getting offended at the Chinatown line.

Is that why we couldn’t write that? In twenty twenty five, Consequence writes with the lack of anything from UHF felt odd. There was the extra cover of Paul Simons you can call me Al, continuing Al’s recent tradition of sticking un ironic covers in the middle of his sets. Things closed out with eBay, White and Nerdy and Almash Paradise, the encore of We All Have Cell Phones sounds like it was a great show at the Montreal Comedy Festival Today. Three French language shows at three o’clock Wow, five o’clock Sunday night.

Improv also at five, Roast Battle Canada, the Nightly Culture Show at seven, JFL Live Sessions at seven. Usually those are album tapings. There’s a lot of stuff for Sunday. Roast Battle Canada again at eight o’clock, Derek Sageen at eight thirty. Life of leisures the name of that show, The Nightly Nasty Show at nine thirty, Roast Battle Canada again at ten thirty, and Midnight Surprise at midnights.

All right, if we were there, I guess we do improv at five, Derek Sagein at eight thirty, and we go to the late Roast Battle and then you can do the midnight show by yourself. Three shows is enough for me tonight and I will be looking for bid. Cameron Diaz is back into comedy. She’s a starring role in the upcoming action comedy Bad Day. Cameron Diaz will star as a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.

And since it’s a Sunday, I like doing quirky stuff. The LA Daily News looked at the six best things they ate at the Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival last weekend. During that fest, which featured over twenty restaurants showcasing some of the best Asian cuisine around La. This has nothing to do with comedy other than it was the comedy and Food festival. This is just food.

The comedians included Hasan Minhaj command On, Johnny and Marcaret show. The La Daily News liked Debriana Kabab House’s Chicken Tika Masala with rice and samosa. They tell us that chicken was marinated in a bright, creamy tomato sauce that was sweet but a spicy kick. Each bite paired perfectly with the rice. People apparently were buzzing about the Kanamwan Tai Gelato and Dessert Cafes Mango Sticky Rice Sunday.

The Sticky Rice Sunday is sold out within two hours on the first day. The La Daily News says the hype was well earned. They take a traditional mango sticky rice dessert with coconut sticky rice white rice with dork ripe mangoes and elevates it. They also liked the Bopo Mofo Cafes beef Noodle sandwich, which combines elements of beef noodle soup and a French dip. It consists of a homemade Chinese breezed beef shank stacked on a toasted with melted havardi and crispy green onions.

The La Daily News says, let me tell you it was love at first dip.

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Also getting a good review of the Hermanos empanadas, the Halapano cheese and…

One bite in and my eyes turned to cartoon hearts. The cheese was perfectly melted in the holopano added just the right amount of kick. Julian modern cay popcorn chicken had a crispy texture on the outside and didn’t lose its flavor in the deep fry once it into the outer coat. The chicken inside was juicy, reveal of even more flavor and chef to a Vietnamese tierram a sou. The bass layer was made of bisc off cookies combined with a pasteurized egg batter, condensed milk, lady fingers, soaked and slip Vietnamese coffee, and dusted with cocoa powder.

A decadent dessert heaven. That festival sounds really awesome. And that is your comedy and food news on a Sunday. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. This is a bonus episode for Saturday afternoon. Let me just do the housekeeping and then we’ll talk about Stephen Colbert in this bonus episode. All right, So if you go through the feed, Friday Mornings regular episode recapped Shane Gillison the SPS.

I was a big fan of that podcast episode. It’s got a little loss on the weeds with the Colbert bomb dropping. So that was Friday morning, Friday afternoon, kind of late around six pm Eastern, I dropped a bonus episode about Colbert with all the initial reaction and analysis. This morning was a normal episode. Then tomorrow morning in the feed, you’ll get a normal episode and I will drop a third Colbert bonus episode at noon on Sunday.

As I’ve thought about this, now, stay with me, don’t overreact to the first thing that I’m about to say. Don’t overreact. Let me finish the complete thought before you freak out to think about this. Did Taylor Tomlinson accidentally kill off late Night? Now, stay with me, don’t freak out.

I’m not blaming Taylor at all, but something Bill Carter pointed out CBS had renewed the twelve thirty show with Taylor Tomlinson, then it got unrenewed when Taylor was like, you know what, I kind of want a tour and I can’t do all this anymore. So when she decided not to continue, that’s when they revisited twelve thirty. So I’m wondering when they revisited twelve thirty, then did they start revisiting eleven thirty and wonder, hey, could we live without any of this after all? Because, as Carter points out, if you want to reject the conspiracy theory that this is related to the Trump lawsuit, if you just want to say this is pure financials okay, maybe perhaps possibly, So what would have been the plan We’re going to renew twelve thirty Taylor Tomlinson, and then if you’re killing off the Late show at eleven thirty, what were you going to do? Show Big Bang theory reruns until twelve thirty and then run after midnight?

Or was Taylor Tomlinson before midnight? Can he get eleven thirty? Like? What would have been the plan there? In a scenario where you can’t afford the Late show franchise as CBS suspending it so I’m wondering here, So that makes no sense.

So I’m wondering if Taylor walking away made the executives go, huh, do we really need any of this? I don’t know. And again, please, I’m not blaming Taylor Tomlinson, Okay, can I make that clear. I’m just wondering if this is a butterfly effect Late Night I wrote. Before Stephen Colbert began taping Thursday’s episode of The Late Show, he took time out for his usual audience Q and A.

One fan asked Colbert how he deals with carrying the weight of the show on his shoulders. Colbert deflected the question and said he pointed out that he shares the workload with two hundred of his best friends, acknowledging the staff and crew. The audience was not aware at the time how poignant those words from Colbert were on that particular night. It wasn’t until the end of the taping that Colbert did the reveal. Claire Descent was at the taping and said, they announced we’re going to tape an alternate cold open.

Fans were expecting another piece of comedy, right, so the whole show was in the can. Colbert had done a monologue, talked with guest Adam Schiff, he interviewed Anthony Carrigan, and then they taped this alternate cold open, which is the one we saw Late Nighter writes up until that point. The biggest drama to emerge during the taping was the fact that musician Noah Cyrus didn’t appear, despite being in the opening credits and Colbert touting her as a guest. Late Nighter says Cyrus had pre taped her appearance, a regular practice for the Late Show. Colbert did several retakes of the cold open, stumbling as he performed a turn toward the camera for a cheesy faux surprise.

Oh hey, everybody. After those false starts, writes Late Nighter, Colbert finally delivered the full cold open. Colbert recorded it only once. The audience member said it was complete shocked to everybody, even not as a regular watcher. I was getting emotional because it was so sad.

He could tell this. This is probably a huge shock for everybody. After that segment, Colbert got up and walked to his wife, Evie. Colbert hugged and kissed Evie, who was seen wiping away tears, and the audience left. I’m wondering what’s going to happen to the Ed Sullivan Theater.

I mean, it’s pretty nice theater. It’s not pretty nice real estate. What are what’s going to happen there?

All right, let’s look at the numbers.

Latenighter dot Com says Colbert had been winning the time slot with two point four one seven million listeners across forty one first run episodes, and that the Late Show was the only program to increase in the first quarter, with the show up one percent in the eighteen to forty nine demo. Okay, guys, it’s like again, if you heard the end of Friday’s bonus episode. I’m team Colbert and I really like Late Night, even though I don’t actually watch it, so you know, I’m part of the problem. In the eighteen to forty nine demo, Late Nighter says Colbert had two hundred and nineteen thousand viewers, So I’m assuming people under seventeen aren’t watching it. So of the two point four million and change two point two or fifty plus, they’re old people like me and as cool and hip as I am.

That’s not where the business is. Kimmel second place, one point seven to seven two million, however, beat Colbert in the demo with whopping two hundred and twenty thousand viewers. Again, old people watching this. The youths are not watching this stuff. The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon third place, which is just crazy to think about one point one eight eight million, and even in the demo, you know, you think maybe Jimmy plays a little younger Jimmy one hundred and fifty seven thousand people between eighteen and forty nine.

I mean, that’s not I’m laughing because I work in podcasting. It’s not that many people. It’s not that many more than stupid Johnny Mackett. His basement is reaching. Honestly, Greg Guttfeld averages three point two eight nine million viewers and two hundred and thirty eight thousand in the Cool People demo.

Late Nighter says Guttfeld was up thirty one point five percent among total viewers and twenty four percent in the demo. Other numbers seth Myers. Yeah, he has a show at twelve thirty nine hund two thousand total viewers, one hundred and eleven thousand in the demo. Nightline, that’s right, Nightlines on ABC. Somehow totally forgot that existed eight hundred and ten thousand viewers one hundred and eight in the demo, and Taylor Thomason’s show was getting five hundred and ninety one thousand viewers and eighty nine thousand in the demo.

The Daily Show averaged nine hundred and ninety four thousand viewers and one hundred and ninety thousand in the demo. Variety says NBC continues to capture the majority of late night ad dollars third place, Fallon Learning thirty three percent or seventy nine million dollars, Seth Meyers eleven percent or twenty six point two million, according to Guideline, So the NBC sales department getting it done. Jimmy Fallon being advertiser friendly smart business Late Show was seventy point two million more than Kimmel, less than Fallon. Bridy writes there’s a feeling that some of Colbier’s commentary makes Late Show something some advertisers prefer to avoid. So what could the future look like?

Well, Jimmy Kimmel signed a new deal in twenty twenty two, is com instantly threatening to walk away. He’s contracted through the end of the twenty five twenty six broadcast seasons, so that would be May of twenty six, same as Colbert. Now, Jimmy and his agent they have what we call hand because if there is no Late Show on CBS, Kimmel would then have the number one show and the CBS audience, big or small as it is, they’re going to go somewhere. So I think Kimmel’s in a good place and that show will continue, would be my guess. Deadline understands that ABC has no plans to cancel the show, and Rob Mills, who oversees Late Night, has said ABC will back Jimmy Kimmel until he decides to clear out his desk.

Both Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers are signed through twenty twenty eight. On his podcast this week, John Stewart said, I believe the timing of this was after Colbert made his commentary on Monday, but before the news of the Late Show ending. John Stewart had said, Unfortunately, I haven’t heard anything from them. I believe that it’s a reference to Skydanants, the new owners. They haven’t called me and said, like, don’t get too comfortable in that office, Stuart, but let me tell you something.

I’ve been kicked out of crappier establishments than that. We’ll land on our feet. Stuart said he honestly doesn’t know if sky Dance would kill the Daily Show, which has been on the air since nineteen ninety six. He said, I’d like to believe without the Daily Show, I don’t know. Comedy Central is kind of like Muzak at this point.

I think we’re the only sort of life that exists on a current basis other than South Park, but it’s the only thing on there. I’d like to think we bring enough value to the property if they’re looking at it purely as a real estate transaction. I think we bring a lot of value, but that may not be their consideration. They may sell the whole effing place for ports. I don’t know.

We’ll deal with it when we do. John Stewart said good things about the staff, including the showrunner and Jordan klepperd as Alantic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Costa. He said, I’m so happy. I’m proud of everybody that works over there. They want to do that and knock themselves out.

As Jay Leno would say about Dorito’s go ahead crunch all you want, we’ll make more. We’ll figure that out when the time comes. That is your bonus episode again, a Sunday morning normal episode where I won’t talk about Colbert at all because I had already recorded that. Tomorrow, at noon Eastern time, I will drop another bonus episode about Colbert because I’ve got a lot more about this, all right, enjoy your Saturday

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. So I’ve been trying to get back in the habit on Fridays of recapping Late Night. Don’t worry you didn’t download the wrong episode. It’s Saturday Calm Down.

But I didn’t do it yesterday because we had so much Gene Gillis to get through. I really like yesterday’s episode. If you missed it, check that one out. So here are some of the better Late Night jokes from the week. One of the topics the Epstein Files.

Jimmy Fallon said, Trump said, everybody move on. It’s a minor issue. And people said, exactly, it’s a minor issue. Fallon again. A thief in Massachusetts stole more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of rare Pokemon cards.

Trust me, the last thing you want to tell your CELLMATEE is that you’re in prison for jacking a squirrel. That’s pretty edgy for Jimmy Fallon. But then I thought about it more and I could see Johnny Carson back in the day nailing that vaguely dirty punchline and mugging for the camera and getting a good life seth Meyers. A newdist group in Pittsburgh over the weekend held its annual Balls Out Bowling event where clothing is not allowed, much to the horror of Jimmy’s eighth birthday party. I like that twist there at the end, more of a straight up tag by Seth.

By the way, whose idea was this, We need an idea for the next nudist event. How about a sport we bend over in front of everyone. Fallin. They’re burning the mega hats. People in China were like, come on, we work so hard making them.

That’s very good. Is Jimmy Fallon quietly handing in great monologues because Colbert is not Oh, I did the prep and I didn’t pull any Colbert jokes. Fallin Again. The excuses are getting worse and worse. Today Trump was like a dog ate the Epstein files than people in Ohio ate the dog.

That is fantastic, Seth Myers. The dating app Bumble has announced plans to lay off about thirty percent of its staff, and it’s pretty cool how they’re doing it. No, no, yes, no Fallon. A woman in California said her home is being flooded with hundreds of unwanted Amazon packages. By the way, an unwanted Amazon package is how Lauren Sanchez described her honeymoon.

Also great Seth Myers. In honor of National hot Dog Day, the convenience store Circle K offered two roller grill hot dogs for a dollar because that’s what they used to cost back when they were first placed on the roller, but Jordan Klepper for the win. Lauren Bobert had suggested that Trump appoint Matt Gates special counsel for the whole Epstein business. Jordan Klepper slammed it with you want Matt Gates to investigate underage sex trafficking. I guess it makes sense in a game recognized game way, I caunes see Matt Gates pulling up to R.

Kelly’s house saying I’m putting together a team fantastic. Randomly, I saw a note that Jay Leno, according to NBC, hosted more than forty six hundred episodes of The Tonight Show, which was the most of any of the six hosts in the show’s history, and I was like, Leno hosted more than Johnny Carson, so I looked it up. Johnny apparently hosted quote unquote only thirty six hundred and fifty eight episodes. So I thought about it, and I think that’s probably lazy math. Leno hosted for twenty two years.

Let’s say he did forty eight weeks a year. He might have done fifty or more, but let’s call it forty eight. I don’t remember Jay taking a lot of time off. So if for twenty two years you did the show five days a week as opposed to four, you would make up one thousand and fifty six shows on Johnny Carson, who for a long while did four days and towards the end only did three days. Oh and now that I’m thinking about it more, I guess part of that would have been Jay Leno was the Monday guest host for a couple of years, you know, so that’s hosting the Tonight Show.

So okay, that math does make sense. But it was very surprising. GQ is a good interview with Mark Maron, and it was nice. Somebody asked Maren something different for a change. GQ asked Maren.

In the past, you’ve spoken about struggling to pick out a good outfit when you’re on stage filming a special. Do you feel like you dialed it in with this one Mark special’s on HBO August first. Maren said, yeah, I mean, that’s been a lifelong journey for me. I committed that shirt and those pants and those boots, and it was I’m quite a bit. Leading up the special, there was an issue with the shirt being a little snug when I sat down the gas between and the buttons would pop open, but like everything kind of fell into place.

I stretched it out when I got there. The wardrobe person, who was an employee at the theater solved that problem by putting snaps in between the buttons that you couldn’t see. So that was resolved. This part of my brain that seeks to be anxious and cost myself minor problems before I go in, because that’s just the way my brain works. That has to work against me in order for me to have a certain energy, I guess, but it wasn’t there that night, and I just didn’t have the usual habitual anxiety that I usually have heading into something like that.

I knew the stuff, I knew the work, I felt good about the outfit, felt good about the shirt, felt good about my hair. There was no weird, dumb stuff that happened that would spiral me out. I mean, it’s about time that that part of my brain stops trying to f with me. I’ve avoided medication for most of my life, but I’ve been taking something specifically for foundational anxiety and maybe it was working, I don’t know. But also that theater is a big part of the special.

Is whatever I did up there in that theater of the Bam Harvey. It’s not disrespair, but it’s frozen in a state of decay in a way. They didn’t distore it, thought it be what it is, but they maintain it. So it’s got a very interesting personality. To me.

Well looked like a rough go painting. And when I first saw the space, I’m like, there’s no way that wall is going to be as big a part of the special as I am. I can’t explain it exactly why, and the DP was like, yeah, I get it. And when he was first looking at it, he’s like, I’m thinking kinsugi. I’m like, I don’t know what that is, and then he told me and I looked it up.

That’s a Japanese order for storing broken ceramic pieces with gold. So he was able to work the lights around that. In the audience in the room and on the rug. Then it fades up during those last two heavier bits under the wall as sort of a reparative poetic implication. Mark Maren panicked August first on HBO, Taylor Tumlinson told The Times of London the hardest thing about being a woman in comedy he’s traveling alone on the road, and so you get to a certain level just more dangerous.

When I was twenty into these small towns and doing these weird gigs by myself, people would try to break into your hotel rooms because they know you’re a loon in the middle of nowhere. It’s scary. Yikes. The reporter was like, what Taylor said, Yeah, you know, we all have those stories. She says traveling for comedy can be isolating.

She’s hired her younger sibling to travel on the road with her, which has helped her a lot. Dating has fallen down the list of the stuff that she’s able to get to. Taylor says, the idea of oh it’s going to happen for you, I don’t know. We’re all on our phones. You might have to try a little bit.

I’m also on the fence about having kids. I don’t know how to feel about that. First things first, I’d like a partner, and I think if I focus the same level of caret attention on that, and it probably happened a little faster. Now that my career is in a place i’m happy with, I have to finish this tour, film the special, finish my book. Then next year I can focus on finding a partner.

I think she’s on the celebrity dating app Raya. Oh yeah, there’s a whole other world out there that you and I are not part of. She says, it stinks. I mean, my last relationship was from Raya, so it does work sometimes, but I think dating is just bad across the board. It can feel uneven because there’s so much information publicly available about me.

If I meet somebody who I don’t know anything about, it feels like they have the high ground. She talked about having more fame and money now, and she said, I’m very conscious of that. You can’t go out on stage and act like, oh, things are still really hard for me, still having a tough time at work. No, you’re not. You’re doing very well.

And I think you just have to come at it from a place of gratitude. It’s because of everybody who buys tickets. If you’re in Maui, you go see Shang Wang tonight. He’ll beat the Max Castle Theater. He told Maui News.

I’m always trying to pay attention. I’m almost trying to be present and just see what’s happening, then collecting little moments, little observations you notice that could be obviously hilarious, or it could just be something interesting that’s not obviously humorous but shared in a funny way. I love creating something that wasn’t here before, that wasn’t here yesterday. I love the process of craft. I love the idea.

It’s so open, it’s pretty free. It’s you, a microphone and an audience. It’s fine if you bomb, that’s say you get better. It’s always fun to do a good show, but having a good set isn’t that meaningful if you don’t try something new. The most rewarding thing is coming up with something new or making it better, and the process of just basically being okay with bombing.

I like the idea that people can now walk out of this show to their regular lives, see these little things and have a moment just a moment there to think where maybe they’re not an autopilot when they’re brushing their teeth. I like the idea that after this show, if people really enjoyed it, they can come across little points into lives where they’re not kind of glossed over or moving through without thinking. We can consider this moment a little bit to be present. Basically, Chang Wang Maccastle Theater tonight, seven o’clock MAUI all right, from Montclairlocal dot com. We are on gossip corner.

Montclair Local was wondering what was going on at Montclair High School the other day because there was a new sign. The school had apparently been renamed Aldrin High School. Now interesting, Buzz Aldrin is from Montclair, New Jersey, but he already has a school in town named in his honor. Susan is a Montclair resident. She was one of the first to spot the sign at around five forty five in the morning while dropping her son off at soccer practice.

She told Montclair Local, my first thought was, am I seeing things? My second thought was how did I not know about this? Have been living under a rock?

And then I thought we already have a Buzz Aldrin Middle school.

It turns out the sign was for Adam Sandler’s new movie Roommates. The film also stars famous actress Sonny Sandler. I may have to leave the country. I’m not gonna be able to take all the Sandler stuff.

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Speaking of leaving the country, it’s just for laughs.

Montreal taking a look at the English language programming tonight, the Cultural Show at seven, the JFL Live sessions at seven. Again if you heard me ran yesterday. This website is not awesome this year. In the past, the live sessions have been album taping, so I’m going to assume that that’s what that is. Eight thirty a show called and just like that, this is Me now an hour with Trana Wintur, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, and probably a good twenty French shows I didn’t tell you about, Oh ten o’clock, Dino Archie and Chris Robinson at ten, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine.

This will really start to pick up once we get into the week here. This is very typical Week two of the Montreal comedy festivals, always the stronger week. Don’t read anything into any of this. All right in Belleville, Ontario, a comedian today is hoping to set the world record for most garage sales in one day. Kyle Wolven said, I’d like to go to the higher ups in the city, all the well connected city council type people, and explain my idea.

And then it took one person to say that’s not a bad idea. We should try and do something like that. Well, today the community will aim to set a Guinness World Record for greatest number of yard sales. There does not appear to be an official record yet, but there’s an event in the US called the one twenty seven Yard Sale, which claims to be the world’s longest yard sale, crossing six states at six hundred and ninety miles. Well Wolven said, people can’t help but love yard sales.

If they see one, they get the surge to go and stop at it, even though most of the stuff there they don’t want or they have already at home. But when you see a yard sale, you go, oh, yeah, cool, come on, what do they have over there? You can look at their stuff and be like, oh my goodness, you bought like two of those singing bass fish that hang on the wall things. I’ll give you three fifty for those well, good luck with your record, sir, and that it’s your comedy news for today see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. On social media, Donald John Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next has even less talent than Colbert. Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the more on on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mack. This is the Friday afternoon bonus edition of Daily Comedy News. This episode is entirely about Colbert quick housekeeping. The normal episodes will come out at the normal time Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and those are Colbert less, although I can tell you in the Saturday morning episode, I pointed out that Colbert didn’t have any good monologue jokes this week. I recorded that before the news dropped around that I’m going to do these Colbert specific bonus episodes.

There will be another one of these on Saturday. There will be another one of these on Sunday, and we’ll take it from there. For this episode, I’m going to capture all the reactions. Let’s start with the Writer’s Guilds of America. They put out a statement on July second, Paramount agreed to settle a baseless lawsuit brought against sixty minutes in CBS News by President Trump for sixteen million dollars.

On July fifteenth, during a regular show of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert went on air and called the settlements a quote big fat bribe unquote in exchange for a favorable decision on the proposed merger between Paramount and Skydants, a charge currently under investigation in California. Less than forty eight hours later, on July seventeenth, Paramount canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show currently performing first in its time slot, giving vague references to the program’s financial performance as the only explanation. For ten years, the show has been one of the most successful, beloved, and profitable programs on CBS, entertaining an audience of millions on late night television, on streaming services, and across social media. Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writer’s Skill of America has significant concerns that the Late Show’s cancelation as a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump administration as the company looks for merger approval. The statement continues, cancelations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society.

Skipping ahead, the Writers Guild of America calls on New York State Attorney General Letitia James, no stranger to prosecuting Trump for illegal business practices, to join California and launch an investigation into potential wrongdoing at paramount. CBS had a statement. It reads, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May twenty twenty six, at the end of the broadcast season. We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home.

He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television. Now, let me pick that statement apart. Okay, so why are you bringing up if this is about finances, why are you saying we consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable. Stephen Colbert is replaceable. David Letterman was replaceable Johnny Carson was replaceable, Jack Parr was replaceable.

Stephen Colbert is replaceable. But if you’re ending the franchise over money, why you’re bringing up that there is no franchise with which to replace him unless you’re suggesting or your words are ahead of your brain, and there’s it was a scenario where you had the Late Show without Stephen Colbert, perhaps possibly maybe who knows, for political reasons that you wanted Colbert out? Maybe so your deal gets through. Perhaps possibly maybe I don’t know. I don’t work for CBS or Paramount or Skydance.

I don’t know, but we consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and we’ll retire the Late Show franchise at that time. Why are you bringing that up? Very strange. Latenighter dot Com will be a great resource during all this. Bill Carter is the author of The Late Shift, quite possibly the world’s foremost expert in late night television.

Bill Carter rights on Late Night Er under the headline CBS sites costing Colbert cancelation. The timing tells a different story. Bill writes. Trump has a long standing animist toward Colbert. Last September, he called him a complete and total loser, not funny, and all caps very boring.

He literally called for CBS to quote terminate his contract unquote. He also has a history of threatening the licenses of broadcast networks with late night hosts who make fun of him. That didn’t face Colbert, who has shown no signs of tempering his nightly puncturing of Trump. He returned from vacation this past Monday and labeled the CBS to ole to pay Trump off instead of fighting the sixty minute suit a big fat bribe. For all those reasons, it’s hard to accept the stated reasoning behind today’s announcement at face value.

Bill points out that at the start of the twenty four to twenty five season, NBC reacted to economic pressure by dropping one night of The Tonight Show from five to four and eliminating the band on the Seth Meyers Show. Bill Carter writes, but CBS didn’t try any of those cost saving moves, or any cost saving moves at all. It’s simply cut off the franchise of the neck. It seems especially a considering that CBS earlier this year had quietly renewed its twelve thirty five AM show after midnight and only reversed course when Taylor Thomlinson quit the show. All of which is to say, as it’s just a few months ago, every indication was that CBS intended to maintain its two hour late night block into the foreseeable future.

Something happened to change that. Did the cost situation become completely untenable or was it Colbert’s Trump centric comedy that became completely unacceptable. Separately, I’ve seen Bill Carter quoted in the Washington Post as saying, if CBS thinks for people just going to swallow this, they’re really deluded. Some reactions from around the internet. Joe Scarborough said, it’s terrible because you had the settlement with Donald Trump, and then you had Colbert and John Stewart criticizing that decision.

Then a week later they’re saying, oh, unfortunately, we don’t have the money to continue this. You can make that economic argument, but that economic argument should have been made weeks before this, or should have been made a couple months down the road. This just makes it look completely connected with the sixty minute settlement. Senator Elizabeth Warren said CBS canceled Colbert’s show just three days after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its sixteen million dollars settlement with Trump, a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Severance actor Adam Scott posted, love you, Steven. This is absolute BS and I for one, I’m looking forward to the next ten months of shows. Ben Stiller tweeted sorry to hear CBS is canceling one of the best shows they have, wishing all the people who work so hard on that show all the best. Anderson Cooper on CNN said Stephen Colbert is smart, and he’s funny and has actual conversations with people on his program XCM and reporter Jim Acosta commented on the story with the image of Marsha Brady from The Brady Bunch doing the shore. Jan Judd Apatow on Instagram, My admiration and appreciation for you is bottomless excited to see what other brilliants who put into the world.

Katie Couric said, I’m so upset about this. I need more information. Rachel Ziegler said, I am extremely sad. I adore you, Steven. John Patiste, who used to lead Colbert’s band, called him the greatest to ever do it.

On Instagram, author Stephen King said Colbert canceled, Please tell me it’s a joke. Jamie Lee Curtis was on the Red carpet and was asked about it, and she said it’s bad. They’re trying to silence people. John Cusack shared a clip of Stephen Colbert on social media and wrote, he’s not groveling enough to American fascism. Larry Ellison needs his tax cuts, doesn’t need comedians reminding people they’re not cattle.

Bernie Sanders said CBS’s billionaire owners paid Trump sixteen million dollars to set all a Bobus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to sky Dance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent, the most popular late night host, slams the deal. Days later, he’s fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? No?

All caps. Andy Cohen said it’s a sad day for late night television. I think it’s a sad day for CBS. I think Stephen Colbert is a singular talent. He’s going to have an incredible next chapter.

I can’t believe CBS is turning off the lights at eleven thirty after the local news. I’m stunned he’s one of three late night shows deep worthy enough for an Emmy nomination. He produces a brilliant show. Bill Burr posted on thread sad news about Colbert, but I’m sure it’s purely a financial descis It’s not like CBS whatever, cancel a comedy show for political reasons, and he included an image of the Smothers brothers below that. Jimmy Fallon said he was just as shocked as everyone.

I really thought I’d ride this out with him for years to come. Seth Meyers said, for as great as a comedian host he is, Colbert was an even better person and joke that Colbert can no longer use the excuse that he’s too busy to hang out. Jimmy Kimmel went on Instagram and wrote, love you, Stephen, f you and all your Sheldon’s CBS. The New York Times writes executive stressed in the announcement that the cut was purely a financial decision. The Times asked, is that the truth or merely truthy?

They then talk about the settlements and write many legal experts said the deal was an unnecessary concession and a frivolous case. At minimum, it undermined one of TV journalism’s most accomplished independent voices, that being sixty minutes, talk show hosts have bit in the hand that signs the contracts. Before Lutterman needled NBC and it’s then parent, General Electric. But back then the issues didn’t involve conflicts with a press. Is it willing to pull any necessary levers to punish and influence media outlets?

Now? Paramount wants to assure us that the cancelation of one of the president’s most famous critics is totally coincidentally business, and sure it absolutely could be. The Independent wrote that they understand Colbert’s program had become costly to run over the years, and it was potentially a dream on the network’s bottom line, but many people working at CBS don’t fully believe the narrative. One senior staffer at CBS told The Independent that no one at the network is buying that it’s a financial decision, adding that the demise of the flagship left everyone stunned, including famous comedians that the source said they knew. Another staffer told The Independent how that they had been told the show had been on the chopping block for a few years because it was very expensive to produce, but at the same time didn’t think that was the reason for the sudden announcement.

A staffer said, many of us think this was part and parcel of the Trump shakedown settlement. USA today wonders if Colbert can’t survive this this landscape, it’s not clear if anyone can. According to Late Nighter dot Com, Late Show was leading the pack in ratings with an average of two point four to one to seven million viewers for the three months that in June. Kimmel and Fallon were far behind, averaging one point seventy seven and one point nine respectively. Well, tonight, youoent third place, but discuss that at a different time.

Cnn I talked about the financial picture. They quote Guideline and add data firm that estimates that the network at late night shows earned a four hundred and thirty nine million dollars in AD revenue in twenty eighteen and only two hundred and twenty million in twenty twenty four, decline a fifty percent. CBS had been worried about the dynamics for months, even the last few years, according to two people familiar with the situation, While Colbert was officially told Wednesday. Apparently, executives have been talking about the costs for several weeks, now holding off on final judgment to allow Stephen Colbert and the staff to enjoy the July fourth hiatus. Variety says.

One of the sources say executives didn’t want to force a pay cut or call for trims, and couldn’t look away from declines and ad support for the entire format. They point out CBS treated Colbert a lot like his predecessor, Letterman wasn’t always eager to take on product placement projects or produce sitcoms or game shows, and CBS respected the decision because of his standing. They felt the same way about Colbert, and yet rivals were picking up many more of these projects, like a bar sponsored by Anheuser Busch and Heineken that had a prominent place on Cordon. Kimmel has long embraced doing commercials in show. Fallon takes part in an ad deal with Ford Motor Company.

Those extras help the network and make the host more of a full time ambassador, according to one person familiar with the mechanics of late night television. Variety points out people familiar with the matter, say, the Colbert CBS relationship was never a tense one, and no Colbert eagerly took on whatever extra duties the network suggested. He helped launch a comedic sports special built around pickleball, and took a hand in producing After Midnight and promoting Taylor Tomlinson. And this is very interesting. While the decision may look like blowback for Colbert’s commentary, executives weren’t prepared to make a move in May when they could have used it to win extra ad support in the industry’s annual upfront ad sales.

More and they didn’t want to make it without speaking to Colbert directly, something they didn’t want to do while he was on vacation. But they couldn’t wait, say, till the start of next TV season. Late night writers and producers typically signed one year deals August to August. When contracts tied to the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six programming cycle went out to agents, they would only keep people employed through May. CBS executives knew the news of the decision would leak and quickly, so they had to make the move.

My take all right, loudly and clearly. I’m on Team Colbert and all this. This is terrible. It’s a shame that the Late Show franchise is ending after thirty years, really terrible. I like Colbert.

He seems to be a good guy. I’ve only heard great things about him, never met him, But I’ve never seen one bad word about Colbert. Of the timing, Yeah, it does seem suspicious. On the other hand, I’ve been a longtime media executive, and I’ll talk about this more over the weekend. There are some bonus episodes coming about this topic.

If the show’s losing like forty million dollars a year, why wouldn’t you just error prices right rerun? I mean, seriously, it’s a busy this at the end of the day that many fewer people going to watch a you know, they’re on a Seinfeld rerun, they’re on a Big Bang Theory rerun. It probably won’t do all that worse. And the other one, I’d have to ask everyone, when’s the last time you watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Now, maybe for you personally listener last night might be the answer.

I think for me, and I like the guy, and I like the idea. I think, honestly, the last time I watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was his first night. It’s just I don’t watch. As much as I love Late Night, I don’t watch any of it live. I’m not up at eleven thirty, and if I am, I’m not watching live TV.

So you know, times change. This is very painful for all of us. But and again I am suspicious. My spidy sense is screaming like everyone else. But that aside, it’s not the craziest idea to just, like I said, just to air Price’s right reruns.

All right, that is your bonus episode for Friday afternoon. Like I said, normal episode in on Saturday morning. I won’t talk about this at all. Was already recorded before any of this news break Saturday afternoon. At some point there’ll be another bonus episode.

I’ll schedule it for noon Eastern. So at noon Eastern, you’ve got a Saturday bonus episode Sunday morning, a normal Sunday episode already in the can. I won’t talk about Colbert at all. Sunday at noon, another bonus episode about Colbert. All right, appreciate you listening.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Shane Gillis crushed it. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I will do the late night stuff tomorrow instead of the usual Friday, because I really want to cover this Shane stuff.

I thought he was fantastic. There are some mixed reviews on the internet, which we will discuss here, but I think it’s the number two comedy thing of the year. That Mark Twain Conan O’Brien thing is number one, But Shane’s monologue here fantastic. Now understand the crowd. You’ve got a bunch of famous athletes who are you trying to act like their Hollywood And you can see the vibe is should we laugh at that?

Or are we allowed to laugh at that? Yes, laugh at it. It’s funny. Got a bunch of clips for you. Let’s start with the political material.

You’re Shane Gillis discussing the news of the week. Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn. The last time he staged a fight in DC, Mike Pens almost died. You don’t have to do that. Who’s fine.

I didn’t write it. Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here. But. As it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right, probably never existed. Actually, let’s move on as a country and ignore that.

Uh all right, that’s very very funny. Come on, everybody, lighten up here. In this next clip, Shane kind of loses the crowd with a very solid Shadoor Sanders joke that’s not for nothing on point. Then in the second half, Shane it reminds me of Letterman or maybe even Carson on a night where Johnny Carson knew that the monologue wasn’t quite working, but he would win the crowd over by almost switching to the audience’s side, going yeah, I know these jokes are bad, but let’s just roll with it. Can you hear Shane shift gears here?

And I think he nailed it. And there’s two jokes about Kaitlyn Clark in this segment. I’ll play the first joke about Kaitlyn Clark, which is a home run joke. You people need to lighten up. Snorg Sanders had his jersey number retired at Colorado this year, and people are saying it’s because of nepotism, because of his father, and it’s not it’s because he went thirteen to twelve over his career and he almost won the Alamo Bowl.

Definitely not nepotism, right, all right, it’s a big year for the WNBA. I love Kaitlyn Clark. Kate Yeah, hell yeah, same man, Kaitlyn Clark. She and I have a lot in common. We’re both whites from the Midwest who have nailed a bunch of threes.

And here’s the second Caitlyn Clark joke. This one sourced from Better Audio, and this one seems to have people in a little kerfluffle. When Caitlyn Clark retires from the WNBA, she’s going to work at a waffle house so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women. The setup for this next clip, we’re rolling out of a show. Hey Otani joke.

If you’re not into sports, there was a whole betting thing in the Otani universe a few years back. So that’s the setup into this joke. And I won’t spoil where it’s heading, but it’s solid. Picture. Hitter and Bookie.

A bookie is what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. They do. They read the very Horny Caterpillar The Little Engine that Could but needed a pill first, and of course the classic good Night Boobs. That’s my favorite one.

Also, I’m not trashing Bill Belichick.

First off, he’s seventy three years old. He’s dating a hot twenty four year old and people are criticizing him. What happened to this country? He used to be a great country. He won six super Bowls.

Yeah, he’s dating a hot twenty four year old. Maybe if you guys won six super Bowls, you wouldn’t be sitting next to a fat, ugly dog wife. They let me do it, I don’t. This is Disney. They allowed that, and a nice move by Sheen here at the end.

I don’t think the audience had any idea what he was doing here, which is why it went flat. But this is a tribute to Norm MacDonald. I shared that joke the other day Norm McDonald at the sb’s and I think this is word for word what Norm said, but here it is performs by Shane Gillis. There’s one thing I want to say before I get out of here, and this is a dumb joke. You guys aren’t even like it, buddy, it was It’s just a Norm McDonald joke that I loved Dwen Eos to the SBS.

I’m gonna do it now. Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy this year. He’s the first defensive player since Charles Woodson to win the Heisman. Congratulations Travis Hunter winning the Heisman. That’s something they could never take away from you.

How you kill your wife and a waiter, in which case they could take that away from you. Well, see a lot of you don’t like me, and that’s. Okay, okay. If you listen to this podcast, you’re probably some sort of comedy fan. You’ve heard the jokes.

What did you think? Pretty good? Now, well, let’s look at the reviews from People Magazine. Shane Killis struggles for laughs in twenty twenty five SP’s monologue as he mocksim Owned Biles Comma Jordan Hudson. Some crowd members booed as Gillis struggled through his sb’s monologue, telling the crowd at one point to lighten up.

I think I have that clip. We will get to it. The controversial comedian again with that? What is he controversial for? For the SNL thing?

How many years ago? Is that? Now? I got news for everybody. Shane Gillis has arrived.

Shane Gillis is super popular. You can keep writing controversial in your articles because everyone else is writing that. But Shane Gillis has arrived. The controversial comedian thirty seven, who hosted Saturday Night Live in March, took to the state blah blah blah, but largely Gillis’s performance appeared to fall flat. At one point, several crowd members booed from the mezzanine, and another point, the comedian defended a joke that didn’t land by saying, I didn’t write it.

That’s just a comedy move. Relax, Relax, it’s an award show. USA Today headline Kaitlin Clark jokes during Shane Gillis sb’s monologue met with mixed reactions, as Shane said, line up a little, it’s not serious. Awful, announcing reports that the monologue didn’t go over well with former ESPN reporter Sarah Spain. Apparently on social media, Sarah wrote, in a year of crazy growth for women’s sports, choosing an sb’s host who doesn’t even try to make clever jokes about women athletes, he at least attempted for the men he goes with Hackey, no one knows the WNBA bits.

Okay, you want to go there and say it’s hacke to say nobody knows the WNBA. Here’s Shane Gillis, four. Time WNBA All Star, Britney Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany, everybody, I’m uh, I’m joking around. That’s my friend’s wife.

I knew none of you knew WNBA players. That’s crazy. You clap for that, uh boy? Four time All Star, four time All Star. Brittany Hicks got a big ovation there.

Too bad she doesn’t exist. The woman that was shown on camera is the wife of Matt McCusker. As for the quote drawing jeers from the balcony, I believe this is the clip. The first word here in the clip I’m gonna share is his upcut is what we call in the industry. He’s talking about Joe Rogan.

So if you’re like, what was that first word, the first word is Rogan. Brogan actually wanted me to be here to host this award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because Joe thinks he’s an alien, and Donald Trump wanted me to be here to capture Juan Soto for the same reason. It’s an alien joke. You bowed up there, dude. Shut up.

From pajeeba dot com, Shane Gillis bombed as host of the SBS, Dustin Rolls writes, I am not a fan of Shane Gillis for political reasons. His politics are garbage. I don’t like bro humor or racist jokes. And he’s an albeit somewhat still smarter than Joe Rogan. But that’s not why Shane Gillis is a bad comedian.

He’s a bad comedian because he has no idea how to tell a joke. Oh, you’re wrong. He knows how to tell a joke. He knows how to work a room. His body language tells you that we’re all just having a good time.

His body language tells you these are just jokes. Lighten up. Dustin Rolls in Pajeeba, who writes Gillis doesn’t know how to play to a crowd unless they’re already on his side. He folds in front of a neutral audience and flat out crumbles in front of a hostile one. He lacks timing, confidence and basic delivery skills, qualities that separate actual comedians from hacks yelling crappy punchlines into a void.

Dustin, I suggest you go and watch some Johnny Carson monologues. When Johnny is quote unquote bombing, those are his best performances, and I see that in sane. Yes, I just compared Shane Giles to Johnny Carson. Write it down. Dustin Rolls writes, that’s why both of his Saturday Night Live monologues bombed, and like a true hack, he blamed the audience.

I’m sure he’ll do it again after face planning as host of the SP’s because once again he bombed. It wasn’t just the material, though, yes, the material is bad. The guy can’t land a joke. He stutters, he second guesses, he telegraphs the flop before the punchline even arrives. Say what you want about Ricky Gervais and his garbage, transphobic bits.

At least he delivers them with the confidence of a garbage, transphobic white guy. Gillis.

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No, Shane, A room full of professional athletes probably isn’t going to laugh about the President deporting one of them. That’s the one Soto choke, one grown one boo, and his confidence shatters. Michael Jay he thrives off that energy. Gill Us, he flinches. Even his rare decent line he had won about his Epstein joke being deleted was mangled in delivery.

And when a joke actually lands, like as Caitlin Clark bit the one with the punchline Bunch of threes, he scolds the audience for not laughing more. Now, look, I know he idolizes Norm MacDonald, but aping Norm’s material and rushing through it like you’re trying to get off stage doesn’t make you Norm. What are you talking about, dude? Norms deadpan, misfires, classes and comedic subversion. Gillis just bombs, shrugs, and says, well, I see a lot of people here don’t like me, and that’s okay.

I think this is best summed up by The New York Post saw somebody in social media who wrote, if you were offended by Shane Gillis’s sb’s monolog, I can assure you that no one likes to hang around you. Amen. All right, let me get out the machete because I’m already long here. I just get two good stories, all right, But I got to get to Pete Davidson on gossip Corner. TMZ reports Pete Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt are expecting their first baby together.

Back in March, People reported that Elsie and Pete were seen on a date in Palm Beach. They were seen swimming in the ocean and sharing a smooch in the water. In May, a source told People Pete and Nelsie had been living together in New York for the past few months. They’re splitting their time between Pete’s house and Upstate New York and a brownstone they recently started renting in Brooklyn. They’re so happy together and doing great well.

We will get confirmation directly from Pete Davidson. I guess he will be the guest on The Tonight Show. On Tuesday, July twenty second now, Elsie Hewitt posted on Instagram, well now everybody knows we had sex and captioned a collection of photo that included herself, Pete Davidson, and a sonogram. Pete Davidson is not on social media these days. Pete is out promoting his new horror film The Home, which is out on July twenty fifth, So we’ll be hearing a lot from Pete Davidson in upcoming days.

While we’re on Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler and famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler were seen in Cranford, New Jersey. Apparent lay crew from Happy Medicine Productions were set up in a parking lot in Westfield, New Jersey, where on stage theater camp is taking place, and some of the campers were excited that filming was taking place in a house near their own rehearsals. A nice thirteen year old young lady, her mom, and some friends decided to follow the signs from base camp to the set. The young lady said, we were just chilling on the sidewalk with like me and ten other people maybe, and we just kind of waited there until they called for lunch.

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And then outside one of the houses, Adam Sandler like just out and everybody …

Then he came and he took someone’s phone and he took a group picture with all of us. Famous actress Sonny Sandler, who started in you were so not invited to my bot. Mitzvagh also came out and signed the things for her fans, and we are now one week away from Happy Gilmore too. I may have to leave the country. I mean, I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to put up with a week of Adam Sandler press, especially if people are pretending that Adam Sandler comedies are good.

No word yet on Happy Gilmore two, no buzz.

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Meanwhile, the Naked Gun people are putting everybody out there letting you k…

I’ll get into that in a couple of days. But the buzz on Naked Gun is really strong. The buzz on Happy Gilmore two and Adam Sandler comedy I’m not hearing any. So Happy Gilmore Two’s out Friday the twenty fifth. Reports our Netflix is taking Happy Gilmore one off Netflix on July thirty first, So get your Happy Gilmore in while you still can.

We’re another way to look at it is the universe will be slightly better in August that it wasn’t July. I mean, yeah, I Veer does. His new special is out on Netflix today, this one called Fool Volume and on substack. W Kamala Bell has a substack, so do I. There’s a link to mine in the show notes.

Actually I started a second one. I haven’t talked about it on here. I started a second one called Daily Comedy News, and it’s basically the show notes for this show. I think if you listen to me every day, honestly, you don’t need to subscribe to that substack. I’m doing that to try and get more people in by using the substack engine and embedding the show.

But if you listen to me every day, you really don’t need to subscribe to that one. But my one called media Thoughts, you may want to subscribe to that anyway on substack. W kamal Bell this spoke to me. I even commented that it spoke to me, and I got a thumbs up from Comel Back. He wrote in New York City with my fourteen year old, teaching her the difference between a corner store, a convenience store, a drug store, and a badega.

That speaks to me. Boy, we are long again. Remember those two weeks where there was nothing to talk about? And this week is all twenty minute episode. I already recorded Sunday Sunday Strong.

Saturday is going to be strong, and I can tell you as we’re quote unquote live here. I’ve bumped up couple things that are going to go into Monday, so Monday is going to be strong as well. As you’re listening on Friday. Hopefully I’m at the beach. That was the plan because I can’t go to the beach this weekend, and the forecast was nice for today, so hopefully I’m out there somewhere not recording podcast.

No offense. Now I’m trying to tell you what’s at just for laughs tonight. New owners, you got to make it easier to sort the website by date. The only way I seem to be able to do that is to go into pretending I’m buying tickets. Okay.

As I pointed out before, they’re doing plenty of French language shows, which I think is a fantastic but as an English language podcast, I will focus on the English language ones. At seven o’clock, the Nightly Culture Show.

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Also at seven o’clock Best of the Fest, eight thirty the Montreal Show hosted…

Guessing that is local comedians. Again, because I’m on the ticket website and can’t click. You guys had this, the previous owners had this a little better. Not for nothing, I can’t even forget how to search for it. I’ll assume it’s local Montreal comedians, another Montreal show at ten o’clock in, another Nasty show at eleven fifty nine, and midnight Surprise at eleven to fifty nine.

If you were new to the festival or airline industry, you don’t schedule things at twelve zero zero because people get confused as to what that means. AMPM, Is it today? Is it tomorrow? So you either do things at eleven fifty nine or twelve oh one. So that’s why the eleven fifty nine shows, it’s just a lot more clear.

We all understand what Friday means sometimes, so I go, hey, let’s go on Friday night and meet you at midnight. That could get wonky. It’s eleven fifty nine. I have looked ahead. Believe me, this is really going to pick up.

I was prepping for next week because I may leave the country if they’re going to put out an Adam Sandler movie. So I wanted to record some shows before I abandon y’all. So I was looking at the schedule for next week, and it’s it’s strong.

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This is not a commercial, This is a news item. So if you want to check out the Daily Friday podcast, that’s the thing that exists. This weekend, the Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy is inviting fans to a weekend full of laughter and nostalgia. It is the second annual Red Skelton Comedy Convention in Vincenne’s. This year’s theme, Clem Goes to Hooterville, celebrates rural comedy.

Activities include guided bus tours of Red Skelton’s hometown, landmarks, film screenings, guest talks, and the twentieth annual Red Skelton Shrine and Clown Parade through downtown Saturday at eleven. Comedian Bob Nelson will perform Saturday night at seven point thirty, and Pratt, who’s the executive director of the Red Skelton Museum, said, not as many people got to see Bob Nelson last year as I really wish could have, because he’s so funny. A meaning tire place was literally laughing, so our stomach’s hurt. He’s that funny kind of reminds you of Read Skelton. Any Great Comedy Outdoor Festival hits Edmonton this weekend and Kinsman’s Park.

This year’s lineup includes Martin Short, kameiln on Gianni, and Fortune Fiemester No website. Edifhi Edmonton caught up with park ranger Donovan, who was offering a preview of what to expect. Ediphi was curious what does Donovan do as the park ranger. Donovan said, I personally welcome everybody at the gate. Then I go through the park before the event, make sure everybody’s happy and answer questions.

After that, I go on stage, make some jokes and do all the housekeeping before the show starts. Then at the end of the night, I pop out of the gates again and I thank every single person for coming to the show and hope to see them next year. He has a raccoon companion named Rudy. Donovan explains, I’m a really nice guy, but Rudy can say terrible, rude things. I wonder if that’s his name.

Rudy is the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival at Mascot and I’m miss Handler, so we’re like Yogi Bear and the park Ranger. However, Rudy doesn’t come out all the time because sometimes when people get a little drunk they get handsy and I could take it, but Rudy can’t. All right, park Ranger, what was your favorite moment from last year? Uh? Oh, he’s people gonna get mad at this.

His answer was Shane Gill went on stage and was like, oh my god, I don’t have a belt. My pants are gonna fall off. So I whipped out my belt, my shorts fell to the ground, and I gave Sen Gillis my belt so you could perform. At the end of the night, he rolled it up very nicely with a little note that said, thank you so much for saving the day. And that is your comedy news for today.

Lots more tomorrow see then.

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Caloroga Shark Media. All right, bonus episode. The headline Late Show with Stephen Colbert is coming to an end, but let’s just catch our breath and catch up here. So it’s around eight o’clock Thursday night. I’m minding my own business.

I’m watching the season premiere of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, which was really good, by the way, and it’s just been a fascinating day. Let’s do the Colbert story and then I’ll catch you up on everything else that’s been going on. Thanks to Mike, who stuck this in the Facebook group where it probably wouldn’t have seen it until tomorrow morning. The News, in a shocking move, reports CNN CBS is ending the Late Show with Stephen Colbert next year, and probably getting out of Late night altogether. The cancelation takes effect May twenty twenty six, at the end of the normal broadcast TV season.

Industry experts are raising an eyebrow because the Late Show is typically the highest lighted show in late night. CBS, in a statement said quote, this is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night is not related in any way to the show’s performance. Contents or other matters happening at Paramount. Colbert shared the news during Thursday evenings taping, So if you happen to catch this episode Thursday night, I guess watch Colbert tonight at eleven thirty. Stephens said next year will be our last season.

There were audible booze heard in the studio audience. The network will be ending our show in May. It’s the end of the late show on CBS. This is all just going away. Colbert said he found out about the decision Wednesday night and said, I do want to say the folks at CBS have been great partners.

I’m so grateful to the tifty network for giving me this chair in this beautiful theater to call home. And I’m of course grateful to you the audience who have joined us every night in here, out there and around the world. Colbert took over for Letterman in twenty fifteen and said I wish somebody else was getting it after Colbert now of note. On Monday’s show, when Colbert returned from vacation, he condemned the Paramount’s settlements. They had settled a lawsuit with the President.

Colbert likened it to a big fat bribe, I mean, very very interesting. Colbert has been a frequent critic of the current administration. People will also now have their eyes on The Daily Show with John Stewart. There had been speculation that the Daily Show could be canceled or John Stewart acts as part of this whole paramount CBS negotiation thing. A lot of money going around, So we’ll see how this develops.

All right, just to catch you up transparency, It’s the summer and on Friday, I want to go to the beach because I can’t go to the beach this weekend. So I was like, all right, I’ll tape Friday and Saturday. So my normal pattern I usually do this. I don’t do this seven days week. I try and do it forour So on Wednesday, I recorded Thursday show, and I recorded a Sunday show, and then I do Friday Saturday back to back, and sometimes Friday Saturday Monday.

Also industry wise, usually news, the kind of news that makes the trades drops by ten am Eastern, Like if you’re going to put something in the Hollywood Reporter of Variety one of those, it’s by ten am Eastern.

Also a rule of thumb, you don’t release news on a Friday.

You definitely don’t release good news on a Friday, and you don’t do that in the summer because people take beach days. You do sometimes release bad news on a summer Friday. Say you’re canceling your late night franchise. That’s something you might want to put out on a summer Friday. So I did my normal noon ish recording session today and banged out a bunch of episodes, and I was editing them.

Variety frankly annoying the heck out of me. They announced a whole bunch of stuff. I’ll tell you what the stuff is. I’m not going to do it now. I’ll probably do it on Tuesday because against transparently.

Oh, I just open up the Variety to tell you what the articles are, and I see right top story Colbert canceled. Let’s see what Variety’s doing this. I’m doing a very casual episode here, as you can tell. This article says there’s been growing speculation of both Colbert and John Stewart each could be under growing scrutiny from the executives. That’s the Finance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central, and I’ll editorialize the people that have ruined Star Trek.

Although the season premiere was pretty good. It was the first good episode of Star Trek in quite some time. But that’s not why you’re here, So I won’t go on a Star Trek rant anyway. The other stories that dropped today already knocked off the front page of Variety. Wow, that was quick.

So they dropped all this. I know them all over the place. They dropped all this around one forty five. Not working with a script. I’m just free forming.

At one five, Variety released the Comedy Impact Report subheader how Conan O’Brien Sarah Silverman on the Daily Show News team set the tone for What’s funny in twenty twenty five. I will get to that on Tuesday. So here’s why. Like I said, I already taped the whole weekend, and to go in and redo it, there’s a flow like I’m setting up. I’m being very transparent.

I’m setting up some Adam Sandler jokes. There are callbacks I have date specific today at the Montreal Comedy Festival type segments and to just go in and READO all that would just be a ton of works. I figured, let me just do this very casual bonus episode and again I will get to the Comedy Impact Report on Tuesday, although I suspect this Colbert thing is gonna be huge. Oh by the way, and in the morning, listen to the Shane Gillis episode. Shane fantastic, absolutely fantastic.

I thought the material he crushed it. I thought the audience decided from the second he walked out that we’re not gonna laugh at this man. But the material was great. I digress. So if Ridy put out the Comedy Impact Report, they also put out the Variety ten Comics to Watch Now The Why that came out on a Thursday afternoon and not last Monday or maybe even next Monday.

I don’t know why. On the list Friend of the Show, Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi real Quick, also Mary Beth Baron, Mojo Brooks, Joe Dembrowski, Robbie Hoffman, Nate Jackson, Sorry right up in about Nate in the La Times about two weeks ago, Morgan, Jay, John Marco, Joe Yang Summers, Steph tolev Interesting and to Kara Williams. All Right, I’ll get into that on Tuesday as well. For reasons already discussed.

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Also also to annoy Johnny Mack, Variety put out today a big profile of Nikki …

We all thought I was going to die. That will also go into Tuesday show, maybe even Wednesday show, because there is just a lot going on. So the upcoming episodes, they’re all long, they’re all meaty. You’ve heard me talk for several days about how much is going on, even this bonus episode. I’m looking at the clock here.

The raw recording is approaching the ten minute mark as I babble. So it’s not like I did filler all weekend. I was catching up all weekend. So you’ve got tomorrow Shane Gillis, and they’ve got Saturday, Sunday, Monday, And I don’t know if if I have to do bonus episodes about this Colbert stuff, I will do bonus episodes about this Colbert stuff. But just wow, I’m kind of shocking and well not really given the current environment.

I see Mike from the Letterman podcast just posted about this on his Facebook page. Maybe I should catch up with Mike I mean, part of this is I’m planning on heading to the Montreal Comedy Festival, so I do need to work in advance, and don’t know where I’ll find an hour to record with Mike. But let me see, because this is really just really big news. Wow. So Mike, thank you for putting that in the Facebook group, or I might not have seen it till I probably would have been sitting on the beach going, oh geez, why did they do this now?

And I’m not home. All right, that’s a very casual, babbling bonus episode of Daily Comedy News Back in the Morning with Shane Gillison. I’m not going to mention this at all. Oh and just let me say I know for a fact because I did the late night jokes in the Saturday Show and I took a shot a Colbert for not having good monologues. So when you hear me take a shot of Colbert for not having good monologues, and I don’t mention this story at all.

That’s why see you in the morning.