Month: August 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. Last day of August, Joni Mack. Summer has got about eighteen seconds and one time out left on the clock and hello, I am Johnny Mack. I like my Summers. I’m running out of time.

Mark Meron talked to Newsweek. They asked Maren, what is it about progressives and liberals that make them a good source for comedy. Maren said, I guess stated pretty clearly of the problem is there’s no real unified left. There’s centrist Democrats, some lefty Democrats, you know, they want things to be okay, but this idea that the left has an agenda, it’s a very fragmented business and there’s no unifying principle where everybody’s all on the same page in terms of how we do this. People locking into their causes and they get rightious about it, but does do anything in the big picture.

I don’t know. The problem with the left is all the infighting and everybody’s arguing about what should be platforms, what’s more important? And I dealt with that years ago at Air American stuff. I wasn’t gonna build mohrett and accuse them and do it in a lighthearder way, but an anti woke person. They do think there’s some fun poking to be had at people that are overly committed to very small things, and that’s what justifies their political existence.

I thought that was right for comedy. And I think that line, which I came up with like two days before I shot the special, that we annoyed the average American into fascism. I’m so happy I got that line. I think that says it all. And I think the way I ride the line with that stuff is the progressives and liberals can see themselves in what I’m saying and take themselves down a notch website.

Find that pod dot com put out an article called best Episodes of WTF with Mark Marron. Now this is from March, so they had done this anyway. Outside of Mark announcing the podcast was ending. They flag episode sixty seven with Robin Williams the Louis C.K. From twenty ten, both of those stuck behind a paywall Episode six thirteen with President Barack Obama.

I personally consider that the best podcast episode of all time and use it in my college class as an example of how podcasts can be great. Now, what do you mean by that? John? If you listen to the episode. When Obama shows up, he’s the President, allough Mark, good to see you, and he’s all on his talking points.

But somewhere about twenty minutes in from Memory, President Obama becomes Barack and they just start having a normal conversation for a while. Now towards the tail end, the President comes back, gets his talking points in. But if you’ve never listened to Obama, Maren, it is fantastic. The conversation covers college identity, race relations, gun violence, challenging the status quo, letting down supporters, comedy, fatherhood, and facing fear. I always thought Obama should have gone hard on the gun violence in his last term, but he did not.

I bring that up because I first made that opinion when listening to that episode also spotlights Norm MacDonald from twenty eleven episode one ninety Todd Hansen, who’s that I don’t know either, one of the original writers for the Onion. That’s interesting. They also like five sixty eight with Mike Judge, six sixty nine with David Spade, ten thirty with Stephen Colbert, fourteen five ft three with Murphy, eleven forty three with Seth Rogan, twelve thirty nine with Quentin Tarantino, twelve seventy one with Jane Goodall, eight to one with Anne hathawayne Amy Mann, the Gallagher episode, which apparently doesn’t have a number, but that’s from twenty eleven. Their discussion on comedy, language and cultural tolerance eventually led to Gallagher walking out, making that the first and only time that has ever happened on WTF. I might have to go grab that one.

That’s a good tip here. I also like episodes with Josh Brolin, Andrew Garfield, Larry King, John Oliver Mayevis Staples. This is a long list, guys. I know this one thousand episodes, but you got to narrow this down a little. Bradley Whitford, Bill Hayter, Lin, Manuel Miranda, David Herber, Shatner at age ninety two, Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio, Hugh Grant, Sebastian stan This is too many.

Find that pod dot com, Melbrooks, Conan Gaffigan his fifth Visit episode five seven three, Peter Dinklice. And that’s the end of the list. That was too long, guys, but I’ll grab some of those I’ve actually been putting a bunch of Marens on my phone in case they decide to start paywalling everything where the episodes disappear. Zarna Garg’s old Fox News Digital this is a country that looks at a person like me and says we want to hear what you have to say. That must have been interesting for Zorna Garg to say to Fox News that this is a country that looks at a person like her and says we want to hear what you have to say.

Fascinating. Zorta said, my whole life I did in India what is called talking back to your parents were like, oh, you’re a Weisenheimer. So that was my life. I remember my dad when I was very little, before I’d ever stepped foot in America, he used to be like, who do you think you are an American woman? Because all bad ideas back then came from America.

I remember getting off the stage and thinking, is it possible this is my thing? When she got into stand up, I couldn’t believe people found my observations funny. I couldn’t believe that anybody wanted to hear what I had to say about anything. My whole life. People have been trying to shut me up.

So that was a real revelation that up on stage I could be saying all these random, really minute observations that have made my whole life, and that people would be excited to hear what I had to say. Again, she told Fox News, what I’d be doing would be possible back home, as it makes America America. I’m like a middle age Momo three with a weird outfit and an accent, and here I am being asked what I have to say on Fox News. This is a country that looks at a person like me and says we want to hear what you have to say on Fox News. Fascinating.

Adam Sandler spoke to Vulture about writing the song on SNL fifty. Sandler said, I think we were talking about it for a few months. We knew the fiftieth was coming and Lauren said to do something, and we were trying to come up on an idea. We were chipping away at it. We weren’t excited enough.

We’d remind the other writer who was going to be there, and we’re like, oh, we better kick some butt for everybody. The audence is pretty amazing, so we’re like, let’s rethink it for a second. We went into a little office and jammed on it. It was the best. It was fun.

We were both coming up with good stuff. When we were on stage was the most surreal feeling to look out and see who was there and feeling that energy. I had the thing where you sometimes do when you do stand up, where you do a talk show, whatever your mind is kind of talking yourself while you’re performing, your brain saying is your mouth dry? You better get this out. This is a live event, you better cruise through this.

Then it kind of clicked in Vulture talked about Adam Sandler’s SNL song. They seem to like them. They may be insane. Their opinion is they’re funny. They land on the side of being sweet and earnest rather than cynical.

Sandler said, I definitely like when that happens. I can’t guarantee every time we write a song that’s gonna have a sweetness, but we feel good when we come up with something like that, and it is a different style of connection. I don’t sit down and say let’s do one like that. I remember being at the show and going I haven’t done a song in a month and a half or so. Maybe it’s time to write one.

I’d sit and jam with a couple of the writers come up with whatever we came up with. I’ll never forget that I did that red Hooded Sweatshirt tune and Paul and Linna McCartney were part of it. Imagine getting to do that and call home and tell your family just sang with those two. That was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. The Guardian caught up with the guys from Anti Donna, the Australian sketch comedy guys.

They had a thing on Netflix during the pandemic that I liked a lot and I listened to their podcast, which is fun. Broden Kelly is one of the Anti Donna’s and said comedy is like an orchid, it needs the perfect conditions to grow. Therefore, Anti Donna established Grouse House, a YouTube platform to support up and coming comedians. That way the up and comers can leverage Anti Donna’s existing fan base rather than getting stuck in the weeds of promotion and distribution. That’s pretty awesome, Broden Kelly said.

We could feel the writing was on the wall with network comedy in Australia. There are two that do it, Channel ten and ABC two, but it’s the Lord of the Rings style Odyssey stuff to get commissioned. Our experience is that when we were given the green lights, either go make a pilot or proof of concept that needed to be everything to everyone and would receive heavy rounds of notes. In twenty twenty three, the Australian ABC screened the six part series Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe, but the viewing numbers were eclipsed by one sketch shot over a few hours for five hundred dollars, which Anti Donna uploaded to YouTube. Broden Kelly said, you got to forget what fourteen year old you would want for your career, because all we wanted was an ABC two show.

By the time we got one, we put it on a platform that was an EPT and did a bad job of promoting it. So what kind of things might you see on Grouse House? There’s a show called So You Want to Win a Penis Pump. It is described as what happens if you leave Taskmaster and game Changer too close to the and they melt. Guests include Paul F.

Tompkins that actually sounds pretty funny and the Toronto Guardian profiled comedian Owen Farewell. Owen says, I like to be real, direct, not animated, just telling stories. A lot of people say comics are the people who say what everyone is thinking, but that’s not the point. I like to say what no one is thinking. Favorite comedian growing up Patrese O’Neill and Louis c.

K. Who’s your favorite comedian now? Shane gillis pre show ritual. I get a crappy hot dog, truck hot dog, listen to two thousands rap and take the subway man. Those hot dogs are good, though, no matter how crappy.

What’s your favorite bit? My favorite bit is about bedbugs on the subway. I’ve seen some crazy stuff on the subway, but if you have to see a bed, how are these guys getting there? I think we should go easy on them. It’s too be months to learn how to ride the subway.

Let’s lay off the creatures that live in literal beds. This is my favorite bit because it never fails to make me chuckle on stage, and my own humor is my only real way of judging these That’s Owen Farewell, and that is your comedy news for today. August is over, See you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy Deus holiday weekend. Here been sitting on this article from Vulture, Weird Al on the best and most obsessive music of his career. I haven’t actually looked at this song that legitimized Al’s career. Al says, eat It.

Al says, my first album did well enough to merit the record company rolling the dice on album number two. At a couple of minor hits like Ricky I Own That on forty five and I Love Rocky Road. They appeal to I suppose hardcore comedy nerds, but when you add Michael Jackson to the equation, all of a sudden becomes a much bigger fan base. Eat It was an international hit and completely change my life overnight. Now, as we dive in on Weird Al, here and I have other things today, this isn’t a Weird Al episode.

I’ve appreciated the evolution of Al’s musicality over the years, so I’ll just point out right now, when he sings eat It, he does it’s very stylized eat It kind of delivery on the chorus, Whereas if you listen to the more modern stuff he’s using. I assume his natural voice, and Al’s a pretty good singer. Song parody, Al was most nervous to pitch. The saga begins his parody of American Pie about Star Wars. Al, it’s old vulture.

Everybody was telling me there’s no way Don McLean’s gonna prove that he gets approached all the time. He turns everybody down. I’ll figure it. It never hurts to ask weird at song, even for you weird, Al, Al says Jackson Park Express, which is one of my favorites. That’s at one of Al’s favorites, not one of my favorites.

Was the last song on the Mandatory Fun album. It’s about a bus ride, which I thought was a fitting bookend because one of my very first songs was another one rides the bus. Here’s the last song on what was probably my last album, and it’s like the dark side of James Blunts You’re Beautiful. It’s this whole conversation a guy has in his head after sing a woman on the bus gets into some really weird and dark areas. Yeah, I’m sad Al doesn’t make albums anymore.

He puts out the occasional single, but he just kind of stopped and that last album was fantastic. Most surprising response to a parody, Al says, White and Nerdy, which arguably is Al’s masterpiece. I have a weird Al playlist I just made in my phone. Let me pull that up and I kept this tight on purpose. My playlist, weird Al twenty five has Jurassic Park, which is just amazing.

And I’ve been watching the Jurassic Park movie, so it’s been in my head. But that is a great parody of a song called MacArthur Park that I think has gotten largely forgotten. Smells like Nirvana, awesome, great video I lost on Jeopardy on point fat, Amish Paradise, White and Nerdy and Dog Eat Dog. Those are highly puts up.

And now you know, I was also listening to Van Halen.

Got a little clip of run around there from what is that? From Unlawful Carnal Knowledge album. I hate the title of that album. Anyway, back to weird Al, can you tell it’s on holiday weekend? Weird Al said my favorite was Camillionaire, who aided my parody of a song Ride and Dirty.

He came up to me on the Red carpet the Grammys shortly after winning Best Rap Song. He said I was partly responsible for him winning the Grammy because my parody made it undeniable that his was the Rap Song of the Year. Song with the highest stakes, Al says, smells like Nirvana. It was my first comeback, as it were, because my movie UAHF came out in nineteen eighty nine and bombed. I almost did another Michael Jackson parody because I was reaching that point of desperation, and then Nirvana came along.

I was back on MTV and touring again. That was the point when I realized a good, long career has peaks and valleys, and you can’t get too depressed when you’re in a valley or too full of yourself when you’re at the peak. Music video that elevated the medium. Weird Else says Amish Paradise. I’m very proud of the backwards sequence at the end.

I’m certainly not the first person to think of recording something backward for music video, but it was something that took a lot of work and effort to get the logistics figured out. Weird Al’s pitched to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to do the right thing and induct him. I agree, he says. I think if they’re ever going to pick a comedic entry, I’d like to think i’d be considered for that. If they pick another accordion playing parody writer ahead of me, I’d be upset.

Colin Quinn is up in Saratoga, New York. Today. He’ll be doing a benefit for or the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a nonprofit that helps nine to eleven families, first responders, and military veterans with housing.

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Speaking of nine to eleven, I was, so, I’m a New Yorker, and I was in New Yor…

And I was on Fortieth Street. So if you’re a hip to New York City, I don’t want to make it sound like Fortieth Street was across the street from the Twin Towers. And I tried to explain to my kids, you know, you’ll see stuff on the news where like they’ll describe things as like near Times Square, and it might be half a mile from Times Square, which technically is near Times Square, but distances in New York City or Great like if you’re like seven blocks from Times Square, not very far if you’re a bird, But in terms of like New York City ness, that’s a long way away anyway. So I was in New York. I was looking at the towers tell the story for another day.

I was a little not taken aback. But I was just like, oh, okay, watching kill. It’s only the other night when they just dropped some nine to eleven jokes, like it was nothing at Madison Square Garden. But again, there are people who are now. I mean, you know, if you were born in twenty and one, you’re twenty four years old, so you might be thirty and really not have any memory of nine to eleven or a little less than thirty, I guess.

But you know what I’m saying. Just time moves on, Like I don’t cringe when you hear a Pearl Harbor joke or a Kennedy joke. So I get it. But it was just like, oh, all right, it’s twenty twenty five now. Anyway.

Colin Quinn is doing a benefit for the families, he told Saratoga Living. I’ve done tennels of towers, things a lot. It’s a great cause. Everybody from the city knew a few people that died on nine to eleven. That is true.

It’s amazing everybody knew somebody, and also everybody seemed to know someone with a story like, Oh, I was on my way to work, but you know, I stopped at CVS or I normally would have been on that train, but my kid had a back to school thing at eight thirty in the morning. You heard a lot of stories like that. Colin. Do you get in a politic and a set like this? Colin Quinn said, I do.

Everything is politics now. There’s no area that politics doesn’t enter the national conversation because the national conversation is everybody running their mouth online at all times. So whatever you say there is people having an opinion on a lot of my stuff is how we think now because of social media and how insane we all really are. A lot of it is about the space program and AI and stuff like that. Where we’re going as people.

Most people come to see me know I’m not doing a lot of sex jokes or stuff like that. They don’t expect to be in a party atmosphere. I’m not the kind of guy that’s fun for people that are drunk. I’ve never been, and I’m less and less that guy, the older I get. If you want to sit in a very uncomfortable chair with a hardback, laughing intermittently based on your hearing, then I’m one to see.

Do you like Saturday Night Live? We’ll get this one on your radar. For the middle of September, u T Austin’s Harry Ransom Center is hosting live from New York, The Lorne Michaels Connection, a deep dive into fifty years of comedy, satire, and pop culture shaped by Lorne Michaels based on Gary Krueger’s comments the other day, more like forty five years. We’ll see if there’s a Gary Krueger exhibit. This collection is from Lauren Michael’s Stuff and it features annotated scripts, production notes, rare photos, famous props like the cow bell, the Five Timers Club jacket, Sinead O’Connor’s Ripped Pope photo, and costumes from Matt Foley and The Church Lady.

It’s free. It runs through March twentieth of next year. It kicks off with a student faculty preview on September nineteenth. Coffee and snacks included for those guys not for you. You can’t get in till September twentieth.

Well, unless you’re a student you’re listening to me, in which case Hi. Conan O’Brien was on the back to the Best podcast. I’m not familiar with that one. He was asked about the first major celebrity party he attended. Conan said it was the SNL fifteenth anniversary, which happened when Conan was in his twenties.

We are all getting old, he said, that was my first time seeing an insane number of celebrities in one small space. Prince was there and he’d just done the Batman soundtrack. I remember being in a crowded hallway and he was standing right next to me, the most perfect looking person he’d ever seen in your life. Conan also remembered John bon Jovi came to an SNL party when he was the biggest thing in the world. It was like nineteen eighty eight and he came and I remember he’s wearing like a Buckskin cool outfit, just so cool.

Brad Williams is going to be working on a special He wants people to come out and help him try out his new material. As for inspiration for bits, he said, I never know what’s going to strike me. My years are always open, he said. Each show is different. If you saw me a year ago, it’s a different show.

But he won’t talk politics. I don’t like half the audience to hate me based on who I voted for. So I want to make sure everyone, no matter who you voted for it can come out and have a good time and kind of escape that after trying out material. He said, that’s the beautiful part of stand up crowds. You don’t know if it works until you try it out.

Mighty bomb, it definitely happens. I have friends who are like, what if you bomb, You’re going to bomb. I’ve been doing it long enough. I look at as a math problem two plus two to equal fortnite. I don’t get mad.

I just kind of go back to the lab and figure it out. Sabashion Maniscalco is gonna get off of the road, and what’s he gonna do? He said, I’m gonna get back into golf. He told bill Board. I went golfing.

I did it in Las Vegas and I was performing there. I want to do some golfing, and then I’m taking my mother to Italy for her eightieth birthday. She always wanted to go to the Amalfi Coast, so we’re taking you there. Then. I definitely want I start cooking again because it’s very relaxing for me.

I’ve got so many recipes that I’ve saved on Instagram that I want to try out. Everybody likes. When I make steak, people go, well, how hard is it to make steak? You just cook it? But I put it in the oven for write this down everybody, forty five minutes.

At two seventy five, I let it rest for fifteen minutes. I do a see er two minutes on each side, just a good helping of pepper and salt on it. No sauce, no nothing. I just started making mashed potatoes, which turned out fantastic when I had a little garlic, which wasn’t on the recipe. Nothing where it’d be like, oh I do this thing where it takes the eight hours to prepare.

I’ll do a pasta dish with oil and some garlic and a little parsley on top, cheese, maybe a little Bronzino salt, pepper stick in the oven, squeeze little lemon or oil on it. Simple. That’s your comedy news for Today, normal episode tomorrow. You know, the foot’s not all the way on the gas on a holiday weekend, you know what I’m saying, And especially it’s a slow news week type of year. But this was fun.

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Calorokashark Media. Kind of busy into a holiday weekend. I’m kind of stunned, to be honest, I I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Three specials announced on Thursday. First up, my friend Larry the Cable Guy.

He’s gonna have It’s a gift on Amazon Prime Video Friday, September twelfth, and the hour long special filmed in Clearwater, Florida, Cable Guy takes on everything from family life and aging to the everyday absurdities of modern living. I’m excited about this one. There’s a short trailer and it’s pretty strong. Let’s listen my show. By the Ways, Pet thirteen.

Uh, pretty good for thirteen minutes. But if you’re offended at some of the good news is I got a money back guarantee, so I guarantee it. He ain’t gonna get your money back, all right, That’s how it’s gonna be. Larry’s a good dude. I know some people just like to hate on It’s an act.

He’s just having fun with the character. Please can we just laugh at stuff?

Also coming out on that same day on Hulu.

Despite the hilarious publicist trying to hide this from Me My Spy Network has found out Andrew Santino will have a special called White Noise. They did share a trailer. I went to pull the audio and I’m not going to play it for two reasons. One the punchline for the first joke is dirty, and two there’s a joke about guns in there, and coming off the school shooting this week, I just didn’t want to play it. In the forty five second trailer, Santino jokes about taking his dad to a Monday night football game and his dad drinking copious amounts of alcohol.

There’s a punchline that’s a little naughty. I did a version of this with me trying to clean it up, and I just totally ruined the joke. So just wait till the twelfth and watch Andrew Santino yourself rather than butcher his material. White Noise on Ulu also announced Leanne Morgan Unspeakable Things Netflix November fourth. Apparently they like Leanne Morgan just had her sitcom and come out on Netflix in late July.

No details yet on what Unspeakable Things is about. From WRG District Attorney Matthew Barton has shared some details on the shooting death of comedian Reggie Carroll. District Attorney Barton said police were called to the house on Burton Lane around six point thirty last Wednesday. First responders performed life saving measures on Carrol, who was taking in the hospital. The suspect was at the scene.

We learned both the victim and suspect were roommates in the house. Both had worked on tour with Kat Williams. The DA said Kat Williams did not own the house. It is owned by a rental company. The DEA said this was an incident between two roommates that knew each other.

One of them is from California and one of them is from Maryland. This is not an indication that there’s a problem in the community. This is not indicative of a violent crime issue in our city. And he made clear there was no indication Cat Williams was there or had any knowledge or involvement. This next story just caught me seriously.

I had finished recording the episode, and the term in the industry is you bounce the files, so that you take the raw recording and then you bounce it to edit it. I was at the bounce stage and I checked my email and this just in as I speak to you. Michael Longfellow is leaving Saturday Night Live, so I guess he’s not taking over the news desk. Entertainment Weekly has learned Longfellow, who’s been with SNL for three years, will not be back. That’s fascinating because he was rumored to be getting the desk.

Who even knows what’s happening. But I’m glad I caught that before the holiday, because I already have Saturday and Sunday recorded. I haven’t done Monday yet, so I would have gotten this in on Monday. Anyway, if you work at Late Later dot com and you thought you were taking this week off, how did that go for you? I teased this yesterday.

Joe Coy went to see Ozzy Osbourne’s last show. He said, we were backstage, bro. It was incredible. Turns out a lot of people in the Osbourne camp are huge fans of Joe Koy. Coy, his son, his manager, and Missus Koy were given three rooms backstage to just chill out in.

Coy said it was rock and roll heaven with members of Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Alison Chains and others just hanging out. He stayed for the entire event. He showed up at eleven am and stayed until the early hours of the morning. Joe said, I know what it’s like about selling out arenas. I’ve been there before, but this was a different night.

These musicians all have their own egos, but that night they were all there to see their God for them. It was like, this is the reason we do this, this is the reason why we’re here. That was the attitude backstage. Nobody was plause, nobody was being cool. I looked to my right and there’s Metallica right there watching.

I saw Kelly Osbourne being proposed to, which was so crazy. It was an amazing moment, and that’s what my son took home from it. You couldn’t have scripted it better. You couldn’t have scripted this better. That’s the way I think any artist, or anyone in entertainment would love to go out.

But I’ve said it before when someone asks I’m not going to retire, I love to die on stage, man. I love it so much. I don’t see myself ever going. If I can get up, I want to be on stage, mister beast. Catching grief from fans of comedian Caleb Heron, You see Rolling Stone put out a list of the twenty five most influential creators of twenty twenty five.

Mister Beast finished seventh, Caleb Hearn ranked sixth. Mister Beast tweeted, according to this list, guy of a million followers is more influential than me. What did I do to tick off the Rolling Stones? Well, that didn’t go over well on the social media’s one Twitter user at Diabolical Spuds posted to his thirty thousand followers, mister Beast, I cannot respond directly because you blocked me, but I wanted you to know that Caleb is a comedian who makes many laugh at you or some sort of Willy Wonka marionette being puppeted by the algorithm. Mister Beast has now backpedaled.

He tweeted, not gonna lie after this. I watched some of here on stuff and it’s actually good. I deleted the tweet and I don’t want the smoke from the shooters. Spare me, please. Paullie Sure posted on Instagram and revealed he had a tumor removed from his Pancreas Polly explained, about three months ago, I went in for a preventative scan in Los Angeles where they scan your body from head to toe.

They checked for tumors, cancer, aneurysms, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, you name it. Being my fifties, I thought it was the right thing to do. A week later they called me with the results. They noticed something in my abdominal area was a tumor inside my pancreas luckily was noncancerous. It might have been there for fifteen or twenty years.

Doctor said, get it out. PAULI said, mentally, it really messed with me. Knowing there was a tumor inside me could grow, burst, turn into something worse. You just don’t know. I’ve always been on top of my health, going to the gym, using saunas, massages, having my tea check, doing blood work, colonoscopes, chiropractor, et cetera.

But I’ve never done a full body scan. I had no symptoms. This was me just following my instincts. Mac packer Keegan Michael Key has some travel tips in case you’re traveling this holiday weekend. Keegan told people, if you think you’re overpacking, you’re not.

You’re gonna feel so good when you’re in the hotel and go oh, I forgot the h wait a minute, No, I didn’t. It’s in the second bag. Everybody says you only need one bag, but the second bag full of miscellaneous stuff, you always end up needing something from it. He has one simple rule. Always bring extra socks, an extra underwear.

There’s going to be a day where you’re like, oh, I didn’t know where we’re going on that hike. Then you come to the hotel all sweaty and think, I’m so glad I packed that extra underwear. I totally disagree with this. I went to Australia with a carry on pack light. If you know what you’re doing your stuff, you’re underwearing your socks and your shoes.

You roll your t shirts. Hey, you know what, if you’re cold, you buy a sweatshirt when you’re there. That’s all. You’re not gonna go through all your socks. You’ll be okay.

Keegan says, pack the night before. Yeah, no kidding. This is something I’ve changed about myself. I used to try to get more sleep and pack in the morning, but now we do everything at night. Literally, the last thing we do is take out the garbage and zip up the bags.

Variety caught up with Oscar Nuniaz you know him as Oscar Martinez from the Office and now from the spin off, The Paper, which is out in less than a week. We learned that a year ago, Oscar and Nuniez went to lunch with Greg Daniels, the guy that developed the American version of the Office. Daniels told him, I’m working on a new show. How wold you feel about coming back his Oscar Nunia said, I’m game, of course. Eventually, Daniel took Nuniaz to meet the writers.

Nunya’s remembers thinking, oh no, this is really happening. On Thursday, Peacock will drop for some reason. All ten episodes of The Paper, It follows the staff of a struggling local newspaper in Ohio and an eager new editor in chief hoping to breathe life into a medium. I saw a scene last night. I want to like this thing, and I’m sure I’m gonna watch this thing.

I saw a scene they released on Threads and I didn’t make it to the end of the scene. I don’t know if I’m just a cranky pants or whatever. Spoilers for the first episode, Oscar, the character is dismayed to find the same documentary crew that stalked him in Scranton, prowling around his new workplace. In the first episode, he tells a camera man, you can’t use my voice by likeness my face nothing. A title card says, yes we can.

There’s no end date on the release. Oscar signed in two thousand and five. That’s funny comedy stock markets all right. Originally I was gonna suggest that we sell will short sell our stock in the paper, but I’ve changed my mind because as I’m thinking about it, you know what’s gonna happen. They’re gonna drop ten episodes all at once, which means it’s going to do better in the way they compute streaming metrics, because it’ll run up a lot of minutes.

But I think this thing is gonna out. So let’s buy the paper, but plan on selling it pretty quickly. I have no confidence in this show. Let’s make a quick buck on the paper. Let’s sell stock in Kat Williams.

I know Kat Williams had nothing to do with the story from the first half, but his name’s in the news, and not in a good way. He didn’t do anything wrong, but people get emotional about such things. Let’s sell our Cat Williams stock. Let’s buy Larry the Cable Guy. I believe in Cable Guy.

I know the Cable Guy, and I’m hoping we’ll get a Larry renaissance here and people be like, Oh, yeah, cable Guy’s really funny because he is. Let’s also buy some Andrew Santino stock. The casuals will be like, oh, that guy’s good. And I love Andrew Santino’s stand up. I think he’s really good.

I think he’s very charismatic. I think the camera likes him. So let’s load up on some Andrew Santino and one more for you. We bought some Jonathan Kite stock last week. Let’s buy some more Jonathan Kite stock.

Because this impression of Anthony Bourdain in the latest episode, Jonathan kitees Anthony boardin visit. It’s the Cracker Barrel. Let’s listen. Cracker Barrel a house divided not by Johnny rab and Yankee Candle, but rather heritage and home goods, where the front porch is the front line, and the only thing bipartisan is breakfast served all day. And at the heart of the backlash, a Sanitize rebrand with a new logo that looks like it was designed during a free trial of Canva.

The last time America was this upset over cracker barrels was Sidney Sweeney’s American Eagle Jeans campaign. Look how long we are into a holiday weekend? This is amazing? Are you in Philadelphia? It’s the Eoadrian Improv Festival.

Three days of showcases from some of the top local and national comedy talent starts tonight through the thirty first two stages spread across the Adrian Theater. Headlining acts include Smooty, a top independent team in Philadelphia, and also Man Versus Movie in acclaimed one man show featuring Paul Valancourt. Paul will also be leading workshops covering a variety of subjects, including his book on improv comedy. Yo Adrianimprov Festival dot com. If you are curious are you listening to me?

In Asia? Well go hit The thirteenth Busson International Comedy Festival runs for ten days starting tonight through September seventh. The way time zones work, you’re just about to miss tonight shows You ready to get moving? I hope you downloaded the show at three h five am Eastern When I dropped it. Festival organizing Committee chairman and comedian Kim John, who said, Quak Bayum and Chang Ho, those guys used to perform pretty much as unknowns, but after gaining popularity through YouTube as a platform and building a bit of fandom for their team, they started doing live shows and they were incredibly popular, with tickets selling out in about five minutes.

That’s right, people cannot get enough of Quakbaym and Chang Ho. It’s the Busan International Comedy Festival kicking off tonight and from the South China Morning Post, You’re home for comedy news. American comedian Sammy Obeid has accused Singaporean authorities of trying to censor his stand up show after his performance scheduled for Sunday was canceled. Officials say the permit was rejected because the application was too late. Sammy’s material often criticizes Israel’s actions in Gaza.

He claimed in a social media post that Singapore’s infocom Media Development Authority, or the IMDA as most people would refer to it, as asked for multiple edits to a script before approving an arts entertainment license. The agency denied requesting any changes and said the application was submitted too close to the show to be processed. Obiide, who is Lebanese Palestinian American, set on social media that putting on a stand up comedy show in Singapore was quote extremely difficult and that he submit a script for approval was happy to follow the process for his more than one thousand fans in the city state in Singapore says the SCMP an Arts Entertainment License is required for public performances including feeder dance, art exhibitions, literary readings and stand up comedy. O. Biid said he was well aware of script was unlikely to get approval and he was willing to tone down the material.

In his social media post, Sammy said, so I aired on the side of caution and submitted a heavily censored script that only referenced to Palestine a few times and mentioned Israel once during a math joke. I thought this was very generous considering reality, and to be honest, didn’t feel great about it. Why are you bothering? You have one thousand fans in Singapore. Are they all going to the show?

Or ten percent of your fans going? So one hundred people were gonna go to the show. Why do you even bother why are you even trying to do a show in Singapore. That’s your comedy news for today, little opinion there at the end, normal shows all weekend and on Monday as well. I’ve got plenty, which is awesome.

I hope you enjoy the holiday weekend. You know, Johnny Mac likes this summer Labor Day weekend. I start to freak out my local town. They do a thing on Memorial Day, July fourth and Labor Day. And at the Memorial Day one, I’m like, huh so much summer left.

The July fourth one, I start to freak out because I’m just that’s how I am. The Labor Day one, I’m like, oh, Summer’s over see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Norton tweets Cracker Barrel is going to keep their original logo, The old Man is staying on the logo. Holyes, what a victory. Take a moment to give yourselves a round of applause.

No joke there, but it was good to hear from Jim Norton. I just watched Kill Tony on Netflix. I have some notes, but I’ll start with the Jim Norton part. I thought Jim was pretty funny. I thought the material was better than what the audience gave him back.

I did have a visceral reaction. Now, I’ve worked with Jim both at Sirius Exam and then on the UFC podcast, and as I looked at Jim and went out, Jim looks like ten years older, and I realized I probably looked ten years older too. But I haven’t actually seen or been in a room with Jim Norton in quite a few years. At this point, I have come to the conclusion I like to Kill Tony podcast a lot, because when I listened to the Kill Tony podcast, I’m listening at two point three speed and I have thirty second skip at my disposal. As for Kill Tony on Netflix, I don’t think it’s working.

If they’re going to do it as a Netflix special, they can’t just do the normal thing. Even if they’re at Madison Square Garden. It needs a producer. Here’s my note. So I watched the most recent episode on Netflix and it was seven and a half minutes before a comedian took the stage.

That’s an eternity. We don’t need all the intros and all that.

And then the first comedian that they picked out of the hat was terrible, So …

Kill Tony doesn’t need my notes. They’re doing just fine. They were selling out Madison Square Garden. But in terms of a Netflix show, it needs a little help there. That sound you heard last night was me screaming at the TV.

In the new episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Patton Oswalt too normally. I really like Patton Oswalt played a vulcan. The Vulcan’s name is Doug. If you understand Star Trek, you a don’t write for Strange New Worlds, and B understand why I’m annoyed. If you don’t understand Star Trek, just trust me, it’s really really annoying.

Maybe I’ll dive into Star Trek next week on the DCN eight Bonus Episodes. Bradley Cooper has a movie coming out. It is the story of how John Bishop got into comedy. It is called Is This Thing On? I will be curious as it gets closer to see how real life comedians nitpick the movie’s depiction of stand up comedy.

They usually have a problem with that. The film is directed by Bradley Cooper. It is based on John Bishop’s story of getting in a stand up after his marriage broke up. Will Arnett plays Alex, who seeks a new life in the New York comedy scene. Laura Dern plays the wife.

Comedian Chloe Radcliffe, who plays a stand up comedian in the movie, said, I think Will and John sat next to each other at a dinner ten years ago and Will heard a story and was like, that rules I want to do that someday. So anyway, that’s the movie. Cooper’s in the film himself, playing Will Arnett’s character’s best friend.

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Also appearing in the movie Peyton Manning Why I don’t know Green Day or putt…

They’re working on a wild road trip comedy titled New Year’s rev Green Day Promises. The movie is packed with your favorite Green Day songs as well as quote loaded with mischief unquote. Some of the stars of the film include Fred Armisen second mentioned in Two Days, Jenna Fisher from The Office, Angela Kinsey from the Office, comedian Bobby Lee. The film will make its world premiere September twelfth at the Toronto International Film Festival. The description is a garage rock trio gets the opportunity of a lifetime to open up for Green Day and hit the road across America and make the gig.

The only problem is they didn’t realize it was a prank. Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Mark Maron. I know rights he caught up with people. Maren is a beginning to do promotion for the documentary Anxiety Club. Maren said, there’s a lot of things I don’t give a hoot about that I used to do.

There were big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort of Nolan Void and it’s a relief. In the documentary spoiler, Maren reveals that his anxiety stopped him from having children. Maren said, I’m not sad about it. My panic and worry level operates in just such a way that it just seems like a nightmare to me.

He has accepted his anxiety, saying, what do you think we’re gonna do? Like, if you’re incapacitated and your life is unmanageable for whatever reason, yeah, you should fix that. If you’re uncomfortable, but you’re okay, that might just be you. The podcast turns sixteen years old on Monday. Sixteen years It’s a long time.

It’s a long time doing anything, And certainly I’ve said recently while I’m living it and I don’t feel like time is passing by quickly, But all of a sudden you’re old and you realize you’ve been doing something for a long time. Jimmy Fallon has yet another gig, and I think as lame as this idea is, this gets into Fallon does a lot more things for NBC than Colbert did for CBS. I don’t know if Colbert was unwilling, perhaps CBS never asked, but factually Fallon does a lot of these things. A new show on Brand with Jimmy Fallon places Jimmy Fallon at the head of his own advertising agency. He’s joined by Chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John, who I’m supposed to know who that is.

Apparently she’s someone on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hill. On brand, she’ll act as mentor and judge, guiding contestants, so I’m wondering what Jimmy Fallon does on the show. The competitors will pitch to companies, including a famous rum company with a pirate on it, at National Donuts chain that I sometimes go to, and some others. The show’s winner will receive one hundred thousand dollars, which sounds like a lot of money, except I looked up from website Simul Media. They say NBC gets two hundred thousand dollars for a thirty So if we show one ad, we’ve paid off the grand prize.

I know we did this production company costs and write ups, and Jimmy Fallon salary and the nice lady from Real Housewives of whatever I said. They all got to get paid. But two hundred thousand AD is the low rate for NBC if you want to advertise on Sunday Night Football, Simul Media says that will cost eight hundred and eighty two thousand dollars for a thirty Anyway, when you win this show with Jimmy Fallon, you’ll receive one hundred grand minus taxes, a feature and adweek, a VIP trip to the can Line’s International Festival of Creativity, and the title Innovator of the Year. I’ve got a must read for you, Gary Krueger. If you’re of a certain age, remember Gary Krueger from Saturday Night Live.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of you were like, who, well, he’s got a substack, so do I. My link is in the show. No, it’s Gary Krueger and have tipped a late nighter for putting this on my radar. Gary Krueger was reacting to the Devin Walker departure notice, and Krueger said, when I was at SNL from eighty two to eighty five, women struggled unfairly to get material in the show. The show, by nature is competitive and egos are equal parts fragile and inflated.

Every week and feel like your career was just made or just sank to a depth no rescue vehicle can reach that can create a toxic ripe environment. Now I’m going to point out that was during the Dick Ebersol years, not the Lorne Michael’s year. So apparently it’s been a toxic environment at least more than once, according to people on the show. Gary Krueger writes, I have few regrets, but I’d be lying if I say I’m okay with the fact that producer creator Lorn Mikel treats the Dick Eversoll years when I was with the show as if they didn’t exist. I agree with Gary there, they do act like those years mostly didn’t exist, and he makes some great points here coming up.

I believe that Cold Shoulder is rooted in the same toxicity Walker refers to. It’s an imbalance of perception that starts at the top, not because of any public or industry reverence for the Eversol years, but because of a shortcoming in Lorne Michaels, who ignores the fact that others have contributed to a show. I have no relationship with Lorne Michaels, and I’ve never met him. I’ve passed him in the hall at SNL reunions, and then Gary drops the bomb and he goes, No one, not even Michaels, can overlook the fact that Eddie Murphy emerged from a show called Saturday Night Live when Lauren was not at the helm. I’ve never heard that point made before that Gary Krueger is a great bleeping point.

Gary goes on to say who else was on the show? Julia, Louis Dreyfus. Gary writes, Lauren doesn’t even include five years, one hundred shows as part of his SNL package. Very rarely does anything from that aeroshow up in a reunion retrospective, but the stars are asked participate in the live portions. I’m always a little surprised in fact that I get a ticket to the gallery unions every five or ten years, But I do, I think because other people involved with the show and NBC do care.

The staff always treats me another second or are we third? To your cast members? Very well, fans of SNL and podcast revolving around the show regard the eversol years is simply that particular era, but not a different show. They love and this is a good list, and that was the SNL I got into I was a little young for the original cast, and even that Gene de Mounion what is her name? That season, the really awful season, but go I was watching the Gary Krueger years and Gary says, people like me love Joe Piscopo, who I think has just been totally overlooked and deserves better.

Joe Piscopo, Tim Kazerinski, Robin Duke, Mary Gross, Brad Hall, Christine Ebersoll, and even Gary Krueger. And he asks why no respect from Loren Michaels. Just In as I’m recording the show, Emil Jakeim has announced he’s leaving SNL. I don’t even have this in my script. I’m reading it off my phone.

On it Instagram, he posted I won’t be returning to SNL next year. He was a gut punch of a call to get but I’m so grateful for my time there. He did one season one and none for him, and I feel bad for the folks at Late Nighter dot com who thought they were taking this week off. No, you’re not getting a little long here. I wanted to tell you about Joe Coy.

He’s probably really excited about Taylor Swift getting engaged he may recall one time Taylor Swift was too cool for school and couldn’t possibly smile at a Joe Cooy joke. I won’t play it for you right now because we’re getting along. You probably know the story if you’ve listened to this podcast before. But I feel bad for Joe Coy. He’s up in Canada and he said, I’m a coffee guy.

I love it. I can’t function without coffee. I love the adventure of finding like a real coffee shop. But I don’t want to go to a chain. I don’t want to go to Starbucks.

I want local. And he’s got a story about going to see Ozzy Osbourne’s last show, but I will bounce that to tomorrow because I want to tell you what the worst person in the world, Jay Leno, is up to. You know that guy, I mean the nerve of that guy’d have an opinion about late night comedy. What does he know about doing comedy or or hosting a late night show?

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And then he chimes in on the whole subject.

And that’s why everybody he’s mad at Jay Leno, who is the worst person who ever lived. Apparently, Jay, if you’re listening, it’s not how I feel it’s a bit On the most recent episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, which you can find on YouTube, he was at with Jeff Dunham, you know, the Puppets guy. They took a tank for a test drive on southern California streets. Jeff Dunham, who’s sixty three now, jumped in the driver’s seat of the tank to learn how to handle the tank. It’s apparently steered by using two levers and a foot operated transmission.

Jay Leno, who’s seventy five, highlighted some of the features of the tank, including the seventy six millimeter main gun, the smoke grenade launchers, and the periscope used for driving when the hatch is closed. It is a nineteen seventy two Alvis Scorpion, a light duty tank capable of reaching fifty one miles an hour. One social media comment or said about the worst person in the world. I knew Jay just loves about everything with a motor and wheels as much as anyone, But this is a dude is living his best life in retirement. The President of the United States took to social media two in the morning and wrote, there’s a sick rumor going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented late night television hosts out there, Seth Myers.

He has no ratings, talent, or intelligence, and the personality of an insecure child. So why would fake News NBC extend this dope’s contract. I don’t know, but I’ll definitely be finding out. And is what the president is up to these days? Beck Bennett told a story about the President to The Last Laugh podcast.

He was talking about the time the president hosted SNL and said, at the table read, Trump was having a little bit of trouble reading. At one point, Trump apparently interrupted the table read to take a phone call that seemed to be bad news. Trump hung up the phone. Leslie Jones said, how much money did you make on that phone call? Beck Bennett said, everybody laughed, but Trump, who said he just found out his book went to number one on the bestseller list.

Everybody clapsed. But it was like, really, it didn’t sound like you were dealing with the news that your booked went to number one, But okay, Bennett says. Trump didn’t like getting notes or getting corrected. Quoting back Bennett, he’d be like, no, that’s what I said, But he’s just kind of loafing around and was just a lot to have him there. But he wasn’t particularly awful Beyond that, I don’t think as far as having billionaire personalities come on the show, Elon Musk was a lot more offensive.

That was harder to deal with. He had very odd ideas and he was very rude and less predictable to perform with in a way. Trump was a little bit more like, you’d tell me where to go and what to say, and I’ll tell you if I’m okay with it? Are you? In Indianapolis, the Let’s Fest kicks off tonight.

The group Let’s Comedy is producing the fifth annual comedy and music festival. Appearing at Let’s Fest, Ron Funches, Robbie Hoffman, Carmen Christopher, and Joe Para is there. Nouveau caught up with Joe Parra. They asked, Joe, a lot of your work seems to come back to the topic of sleep. How’s your sleeprou teem Joe Parra said, it’s fine.

It wish it was better everybody does. I feel like the older I get, the harder it is, especially as your life gets busier. Touring is an ideal for sleep. But I’ve also learned that when you’re up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, it’s best to not worry about it. Just really go in the kitchen, eat a banana with some peanut butter.

Don’t waste your time trying to fall back asleep, and be okay with being up in the middle of the night. That’s what Johnny Mack does. I listen to a lot of podcasts around two AM until I drift back off. Joe Parraw what comes to your mind when you think about Indianapolis as a city. Joe said, truly, I was shot by how big the pork sandwiches were last time.

That is your comedy news for today See tomorrow.

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Kalaroga Shock Media. Should I even bother? Jahar? Taylor Swift got engaged to Travis Kelsey. I mean, is anybody gonna care about anything else for the next year and a half?

Hi, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Got kind of a big story brewing here. At the end of yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned that comedian Reginald Carol had been shot dead at age fifty two. This seems to be bubbling up now. I saw several stories about it that caught my eye.

The first one from Fox thirteen. They’re reporting that a company that bills itself as the official site for Cat Williams merchandise was evicted following the death of Reginald Carol. As I understand things, Fox thirteen went over to visit Burton Lane. The location they found a letter titled fourteen day notice to quit for criminal activity. The letter states, according to the report, you are being given this notice due to criminal activity that occurred on or about the premises and violation of your lease agreement, specifically on August twentieth, twenty twenty five, the following criminal activity occurred.

It then cites a shooting where an arrest was made by South Haven police officers. The online store for the location sells Cat Williams merch and displays a picture of Cat Williams on its website. The website reads, the Onyx Owl Clothing Line was designed for and by the urban street, celebrities and famous creatives who appreciate fashion that reflects their lifestyle. With a focus on style and quality, The Onyx Clothing Line provides trendy, celebrity approved clothing for men and women of all races. From stylist t shirts to hats and accessories, The Onyx Owl Clothing Line is sure to have something for everyone.

As next piece of the puzzle, I found on a website Delta News, and the Internet tells me Delta News is a broadcasting platform that provides local news coverage and updates for the Greenville, Mississippi area. According to that report, Carol was traveling on Cat Williams Current Heaven on Earth comedy tour. Three independent sources tell Fox thirteen that the man accused of killing Carroll was on the tour as security, and then from Vibe dot Com, comedian Billy Currells has called out Cat Williams and is asking Cat Williams to speak out. Cirell’s apparently said, and I may have to paraphrase a little bit here for language. We’re not gonna act like cat.

You ain’t know who Reggie Carroll was. Kat Williams, you’re the truth teller. You’re the master of being able to tell everybody else this stuff. You got of war, You ready for anything? Right?

You the guy you said, my team versus whoever else. I did try and find the audio for this, and I didn’t find anything that I was convinced is the accurate audio. I’ve seen several reports of this transcript that I’m reading you, apparently, mister Currell’s continued, Well, I know you love Reggie. We all did. Reggie was a solid fella.

He didn’t pick sides. So Cat Williams, tell me why Reggie Carroll died outside your house. Tell us what happened to Richie Carroll. Cat. Again, I tried to find the audio.

Anything. I’m finding as people talking over stills and commenting on it. So let’s keep an eye on that story. It looks like that one’s going to bubble up what I thought would be the lead. Today, Devin Walker has announced he’s no longer with SNL He shared the news on Instagram.

He apparently has mixed feelings. On one slide of the post, a screenshot of a note wrote, me and the show did three years together and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell, but we made the most of what it was. Even amidst all the dysfunction, we made an fed up little family. It is unclear whose choice it was for him to leave the show.

At the top of the computer, a note says weight did he quit or did he get fired? So Walker’s having a little fun with that. Walker also shared a screenshot of him texting someone with the words I’m out, paired with an emoji of a face wearing a party hat and a photo of Joe Biden appearing to trip on a staircase. Walker captured the photos me and Baby broke up. His full statement to me, jobs in the industry feel like a bunch of little marriages.

Some of them last a long time if we’re lucky, but most of them are fleeting, permanent until they’re not. That’s the deal. You know what it is when you sign up. Me and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell.

But made the most of what it was and missed all the dysfunction. We made an fed up little family. More than anything, just really happy I got to do it with Gary and Alex Fellows. Really went from running a bar show to working together at thirty Rock. It’s a beautiful thing.

And I look caked up in that picture, and I feel like it’s important for people to know what I got going on. Anyway, I am about to go to Japan. When I get back, I’m going to try and be in a prestige drama, ideally something with Julianne Moore. Hope y’all staying hydrated and getting some money today. That’s pretty interesting if I had to guess, if you made me guess, sounds like he was disinvited.

Rosebud Baker, who’s been a writer on the program, she is leaving the writing staff after four years Latenighter dot Com. They were trying to take the week off and it’s not working for them. I’m going to guess, between me recording this and you hearing this, that there are going to be a bunch more departm It sounds like the folks or abandoning ship. And my take after SNL fifty that is the time to get out, so Late Nighter, says an insider told them that cast member Michael Longfellow and SNL writer Casey Schernima taped a screen test at the Update desk last May. At that time, Jos and Chay were widely presumed to be leaving SNL.

Many thought they would announce it on the season finale. They did not announce such a thing. Lauren Michaels recently has said that SNL fifty one would be bringing a lot of changes and a reinvention. Casey Schernima has been writing on Weekend Update for three years. Prior to that, she was a new face at Just for Laps In twenty twenty two.

She also wrote for Stephen Colbert’s Tuning Out The news is Colin Jos coming back? Well, he does have a gig this also from Late Nighter. He will be hosting the T Mobile Breakfast at Bethpage, a live pregame show from the first Tea at the Wryter Cup September two, twenty sixth, and through the twenty eighth. It is built as an alternative pregame show. Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions is behind this thing.

It will stream on Peacock More SNL News. Beck Bennett said he was nervous to parody Vladimir Putin on SNL. Beck was on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s podcast. Spade asked him where you’re scared they’d be after you. Bennett said, oh yeah, and he said a clip of his Putin impression was on Russian TV at one point, and I was like, he knows about it.

At the same time, I’m like, it’s silly that I get nervous. It never come for me. That’d be stupid even if he wanted to. There was definitely a couple of months like should I be doing this? Is this weird?

He’s known for poisoning. Beck pointed out that he did a deep voice for the character and that the man’s real voice is higher. Bennett enjoyed doing Putin as a macho characterature and explained that you don’t have to do an exact impression, just capture the essence and have fun with it. Oh yeah, we’re this far end of the show. I didn’t even get some Mark Marrin.

He was on pot Save America. It was really good. I saw a thread someone posted their favorite podcast. Right now is Mark Maron going on everyone Else’s podcast and asked if we could have that in one big feed. I think that’s a great idea.

I talked yesterday about how Maren had called out Bill Maher. Maren also took a shot at Netflix. They’re in business with Dave Chappelle. Maren said, fascism is good for business Netflix. You know, they’ll co opt anybody that could take that algorithm.

I used to do a joke about it. Netflix can become right Flix very quickly. When they had pushed back from the trans community about Chappelle, they realized after several days that community wasn’t going to affect their bottom line at all, and they cut them loose. That’s how fascism works in business. John love It pointed out that Netflix has lots of LGBTQ plus content.

Maren said, but ultimately, who’s getting the big deals which shows stay on the air. You know what do they keep repeating? That’s them saying we got this other stuff. We know this a few of you, but we’re throwing you a bone. So shut up, boy.

We are at peak Maren right now. His special was great. I love outspoken Maren’s He’s landed on the New Continent and he’s burning the bridges and he’s leaving the podcast behind. And he just burned the bridge with Netflix. This is a very, very entertaining.

We got to talk about that guy, Jay Leno, you know, the worst guy that ever lived. That guy. Apparently he’s helping Harrison Ford build a toilet seat. I know that sounds like something I just made up to be funny, but no. Harrison Ford was on NPR and said, jay Leno has three D printers and I had this toilet seed from a toilet that’s not in production anymore, and the toilet set had discolored in a way that’s really unattractive.

There’s an image. I can’t find the toilet seat anywhere. I tried for years, and I’m sitting around one day saying, can I three D print this? Ah? Jay Leno.

Harrison Ford said he first learned about three D printing from Jay Leno showing him around his garage. Harrison Ford says, of the worst person who ever lived, he embraced the project in a way that I never could have imagined. Good news for fans of dramatic actor Adam Sandler, as you know, he’s a fantastic dramatic actor or will he’s got that upcoming movie Jay Kelly, where he co stars with George Clooney. It’s coming out even earlier than expected, Isn’t that exciting? Jay Kelly has been confirmed as the Cunard Gala of this year’s BFI London Film Festival that runs from October eighth through the nineteenth in London and festival venues across the UK.

Jay Kelly will premiere Friday, October tenth. The movie follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly played by George Coooney, and his devoted manager Ron played by dramatic actor Adam Sandler, as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the choices they’ve made, their relationships with their loved ones, the legacies they leave behind. That’s exciting. Deli Boys renewed for season two at Hulu.

That is a fun show. If you haven’t seen that. Fred Ormison joining the cast, I’m not sure I feel about that. Fred Ormison’s character is described as a legendary gambling savant with an uncanny ability to read people like cards. His casino Empire’s global, but his crown jewels in Philly.

He’s uniquely brilliant and deeply unhinged, a deadly combo if you cross him. My struggle with fred Ormison is fred Ormison always comes across as Fred Ormison enroll. Hopefully he can surprise me. Sharon Stone has a dream role. She says she wants to play Phyllis Diller, very very badly.

She and I were close friends. Phyllis made little paintings for all my kids. She cooked me there and a lot of times the woman could cook. I told her I wanted a play her, and she sat down and taught me her laugh. She made me practice her laugh.

I would watch that. And from The Independent, David Mitchell for Mitchell and Webb says the term mansplaining is unfair. He told the Sunday Times, I’ll come back to the Independent to stay with me. But Mitchell told the Sunday Times, I feel like there’s an unfairness to the term man’splaining, which is taken to be men explaining things and a boring way to women because they do it to each other and then they take turns. That’s what men call a conversation.

Then the article in The Independent ends with man’s plaining is a phrase use to describe men explaining something to a woman. Is The Independent being deliberately hilarious there? Or are they completely clueless? That is my question for you, and then us your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Thank you Mark Maren for killing off what is traditionally a slow newsweek. Helloo, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Maron went on Pod Save America and he took some shots at Bill Maher. Maren said, I can’t do it.

I always had a problem with his tone, like I feel with Bill, and there’s this, and it happens with some other boomers. There’s this desperate chasing irrelevance that changes somebody’s mind in terms of how they approach what they do, and it also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate outside of his ideas, primarily I think wokeness. I don’t know, it’s just not for me. Maren said. Moore has good joke writers who know how to write for his tone.

I can’t see past the desperation of what he’s willing to do to stay in the conversation on Real Time on Friday, Bill Mooher was concerned about the militarization of US cities. Bill Maher said of the President, He’s creating an army in the nation’s capital. I just think the presence now of this army in Washington is going to have its toll taken when the next election comes around. Jim Jefferies was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast and as accused the Australian government of a cover up involving the death of Jim’s nephew during a defense training exercise in July of twenty twenty three. Lieutenant Max Nugent and three fellow soldiers died when a helicopter crashed into the water.

Jeffrey said, within a manner of a couple of weeks after the crash, Australia decommissioned the helicopters, took them apart and buried them in the desert. Ukraine said we’ll take them in. The Australians but no, no, no, no, don’t worry about that. There was an inquiry. Jim said.

The test pilots stood up and said the helmets they were wearing were defective and would end in industrial manslaughter. It’s like watching a few good men like talking about the military and the government trying to cover its ass. Other countries didn’t go out on patrol that day. They said the weather was too bad, the soldiers were too tired. One of the soldiers said they were so tired they couldn’t fly the aircraft, and then my nephew stepped in.

Commonwealth prosecutors had said charges wouldn’t be laid against the Defense Department over the deaths. The ruling that the Defense Force couldn’t be prosecuted came just five days before a two year statute of limitations to fill a civil suit was due to expire. Jeffrey said, who was fivefing days to get a lawyer? They dragged it out on purpose. This was a war game.

There were things that weren’t followed. There’s literally helicopters that have been buried. If you want to find an Australian taipan effing helicopter, you need a treasure map. An aviation safety investigation found human error to blame. That investigation said the cause of the crash was spatial disorientation, described as when a pilot is unaware of their actual orientation and relation to the Earth’s surface and the surrounding environment.

Jeffrey said of his nephew, we were proud of him. When Australia goes to war, that’s the first bloke we sent in. We sent in the planes and the helicopters. That’s the first bit of assistance. Jim also said Australia doesn’t get enough credit for being one of the few Allied nations that has stood by the US for many years.

Jeffrey said it’s like Trump slapping tariffs on Australia. I’m a bit like, what the efre you’re doing there? Man, We’re one of you guys. We buy three times more stuff from you than you buy from us. The big example they gave was, you guys buy twenty six billion dollars worth of Australian beef and we buy no from you.

And it’s like, why would we What do you really buy from us? You buy sheepskin, red wine, beef and gold. It’s not like we’re manufacturing happy meal toys in Australian factories and like those jobs could go to Americans. You can hear Jim Jeffries on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Matt Rife has commented on this whole Sydney Sweeney thing.

You may recall Sidney Sweeney appeared in an ad for Jean’s. Rife said, I keeps seeing people mad at Sidney Sweeney for nothing. He dragged out the nothing in his tweet. She’s learning that the internet is full of absolute garbage losers who will twist anything you say into a misinterpretation. People are awful.

You know who’s awful is the worst person who ever lived, That guy Jay Leno. Boy, people hate that guy. He was on Mark Summer’s Unwraps and explained, I got the tonight show because there was another manager that handled everybody that guest hosted. I think it was Bernie Brilstein. I think he had David Brenner and all the guys gar shaling everybody.

And he calls me and he says, we’re gonna go in as a team because each of us was guest hosting. We’re gonna get twenty five thousand dollars a night to host. Jay he opted not to take part in it. Jay recalled the stewart. I said, you know, Bernie, I’m doing it for five hundred twelve dollars a night, which a scale.

I mean, I appreciate it, but I’m happy doing it for five twelve. Leto explained his logic. I knew Johnny on the show, and at the end of the month, he’d say, what did we spend on guest host? Two hundred and eighty grand? And when Leno hosted twenty five hundred.

Why don’t we go with Leno? They’re all getting the same ratings. I mean, it seemed like common sense to me. Jay first guest hosted in nineteen eighty six. A year later was named a permanent guest host, So I guess his gambit worked.

Jay took over for Corson in nineteen ninety two, which feels like yesterday to me. Jay said he enjoyed guest hosting for Carson. I enjoyed doing it. Any job I would do for free. I don’t argue about money.

The sad reality is the worst comedian in America makes more than the best teacher. Don’t worry about it. If you’re any good, you’ll do okay. Boy. That Jay Leno was something.

He was up in Elmira on Friday night and he was playing at the Clemens Center. And listen to the listen to the gall on this guy. This is what he said about the Clement Center. It’s fun. It’s a great old theater.

I love these nineteen twenty five old vaudevilleaus’s. So many of them got torn down, but so many are preserved like this one. It’s really terrific. It’s really fun. It makes it kind of interesting and adds a subtle antiquity to it.

Boy, the nerve of that guy. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, Gossip Conn, probably about Pete. Gossip Conn. Where are the rumors meeting with? Johnny Mackett’s always a tree?

Gossip Connor whisp business tree. Gossip Corn Probably gossip Cone with room with me? Johnny Maczol’s a tree. Yes, Gossip Corner is indeed about Pete. Pete apparently having trouble selling his condo.

According to s I Live, the condo, purchased by Pete Davidson in twenty twenty one, originally for one point two million dollars, was last on the market for one point zero seven million. According to The US Sun, The US Sun or the folks that were starting the Howard Stern rumors recently, the condo fifteen and ninety two square feet. Pete was selling it because he wanted to move to Brooklyn. A source with ties to Pete Davidson tells The Sun he’s blown through a ton of money and it isn’t coming like it used to. Pete has spent a lot of money on this place, renovating it over the years and making it perfect, and it’s been a big dream.

We’re told Pete has the condo he bought his mother, a place he also rents a Brooklyn Brownstone, owns a house in upstate New York.

And then there’s the whole Ferry thing.

A real estate listing tells us the condo has a sleek, modern open concept featuring enormous windows which provide natural lighting from dawn till dusk. Two bedrooms, three bath, a break custom kitchen that opens to a spacious family room optimal for entertaining. It also has panoramic views of near a harbor and the Manhattan skyline. The master bedroom suite has a private bathroom with a custom shower and a highly coveted, glamorous walk in closet. Massive glass doors lead to an exclusive terrace on the seventh floor, which provides those views of the city skyline.

Pete Davidson’s condo is also pet friendly, has twenty four hour security, a clubhouse, a health club, a tennis club, an indoor playroom, and an outdoor playground. If you’re in the market for a place on Staten Island, contact Pete Davidson in the feed. You’ll find a new episode of DCN eight. So what is that? I wanted to do something extra for the paid subscribers, but I also didn’t want to siphon off comedy stories because I didn’t think that would be cool.

So DCN eight is Johnny Mack talks about other stuff, and this week I’m going to tell you how much I like the show All the Lazarus Project on Netflix and how the latest Mission Impossible movie is unwatchable DCN eight So what do you do? If you’re on Apple Podcasts? Click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. You click that, you become a premium subscriber to the feed. You’ll get Daily Comedy News without commercials, and you’ll get access to the other shows of the network, including five Good News Stories, which I host, also without commercials, and that’s just five bucks a month.

All the shows come with the same five bucks, and you’ll get that new episode of DCN eight. Rain Wilson was at Fan Expo in Chicago over the weekend. I thought this was funny, he said. He’s it’s not very much like Dwight, although there’s some mannerisms. Because I played them for over two hundred episodes over nine years.

But one thing that’s great, and maybe notice this, is that Dwight has a little bit of a jerky face, and rain is a little bit of a jerky face. Having played Dwight allows me to be a jerky face to people and people laugh. I can be kind of an a hole and people are like, isn’t that charming? So it’s one of the benefits of playing like Dwight. Rain Will says.

I talk to Jenna Fisher, who plays Pam. She can’t tell any really edgy jokes because people are like, Pam would never say that, So Jenna has to kind of keep her dark, raunchy sits of humor and check because people really recoil from deadline amid monster viewership Gilmore Too, that’s on you people. I did everything I could to stop that, and you guys just blew the stop sign and didn’t care and watched that thing. Happy Gilmore Too had Netflix’s biggest US opening weekend ever. Well now, because if people like you, Adam Sandler’s Happy Medicine Productions are making even more movies.

They’re developing the novel Dad Cam. In the novel Dad Camp, we follow John a devoted father. Hey, I could play that who finds his once cloned spond with his daughter Avery unraveling as she enters her preteen years. I wouldn’t be good at that. Desperate to reconnect before she starts middle school, he signs them up for a week long father daughter retreat at a Rundown summer camp, where he’s forced to confront both his fears of losing her and the evolving nature of their relationship.

Here’s my prediction. Adam Sandler will play John and whichever Sandler daughter is the younger one will play the aged up version of the daughter that’s a preteen in the novel. That’s my prediction there, But that would probably be more dramatics. Maybe we would get good Adam Sandler, who knows. In other development news, also from Deadline, Paramount has acquired The Island, described as an R rated comedy based on an idea from Trevor Noah.

The Island tells the story of two polar opposites, one a successful alpha businesswoman and the other a hopelessly dedicated male high school teacher. They’re the sole survivors of a play crash on a deserted island, and after rely on each other to stay alive. Sources say Trevor Noah was inspired by COVID for this idea. Congratulations to Sam Nicoresti. Sam is the winner of the Edinburgh’s Best Show at the Fringe.

Sam Show Baby Boomer is based around a humiliating experience in a department store changing room out Today to hear Moore’s special Aging Out, It’ll be on album form wherever you listen to comedy things. In this self roasting, brutally honest hour to Hear More takes his audience on a wild ride through topics like the zombie apocalypse, fancy toilets, naps and aging out Today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, Chelsea Lynn’s Trailer Trash Tammys Pontoon Party. That is a wonderful title. And we’ll wrap up today on a very sad note. Comedian Reggie Carrol was shot dead in Mississippi.

Police say they got a call about a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Reggie suffering from gunshot wounds. Police and first responders started performing life saving techniques. Reggie did not survive the injuries. South Haven Police have his suspect and custody, who has been charged with murder in Reggie’s shooting death, one of Reggie’s colleagues, Monique, said she had nothing but good times with Reggie, especially when they were on comedy tours together.

Reggie Carroll was fifty two. Not your comedy news for Today,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Shoonni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You may recall last week Rosie O’Donnell took a shot at the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. You know that guy. Yeah, she took a shot at him for something he did with a guest with one of the biggest losers.

Jay Leno has responded and outrageously said, I don’t dislike Rosie, She’s a funny comedian. Jay added, I don’t know where Rosie’s coming from these days, and said when he hosted The Tonight Show for twenty two years, which makes it outrageous that he would even have opinions about how late night television should go or not. I mean, who are you, Jay Leno, to say what late night is or isn’t. So you beat David Letterman and they had to bring you back to rescue Conan O’Brien’s failing ratings, I mean, what do you know? I like this bit.

Jay said he would meet with guests before filming to discuss what would be happening during their segment. Jay said, I’m pretty sure I asked beforehand if it would be okay. If not, we wouldn’t have done it. It’s why we got stars who wouldn’t do many other shows. In Puck, Matt Bellany caught up with Lorne Michaels, who was asked what was Lauren Michael’s reaction over Colbert Gate.

Lauren said, I was just stunned. I’m on the side of the people who do shows. But there’s two audiences now. There’s the audience that is watching on TikTok and YouTube, and there’s a linear audience. Both Seth and Colbert are heirs to David Letterman.

You know what I mean. Conan O’Brien as well. Yeah, I mean they all have shows that David Letterman used to host. If you’re gonna draw a line from David Letterman to Seth Myers Late Night, it’s gonna be a little crooked in my humble opinion. But what do I know.

I’m recording a podcast in the basement. Lorden Michaels has been on SNL forty six out of fifty one seasons. They like to pretend that those other five years didn’t happen. Lauren hasn’t been with SNL for fifty years. He took a break there.

Look it up Johnny Mack. Now you’re killing Lorden Michaels. No, just pointing it out where were Lauren said, They’re going to be that type of late night show, just as I’m still doing SNL as if everybody’s watching that night. But Jimmy Fallon does a lot of stuff you can watch all day podcast. Do you think that Colbert cancelation was political?

Lauren said, I don’t think any of us are ever going to know that. He talked about the Smothers Brothers thing back in nineteen sixty nine. That happened before I was born, so I mean, you know, I guess it’s t gentally related. Good question here. Have you been assured by comcasts that the Jimmy and Seth shows are safe for the foreseeable future?

They’re both signed through twenty twenty eight. Lord Michael said, yeah, I think the CEO who I’ll be working for for the rest of my life has integrity. But at the same time, everybody has broadcast licenses, everyone has, you know, but I don’t really believe that we affect things. Interesting answer onto SNL, Lauren, do you feel pressure to reinvent it this season? Yeah, for sure, it’ll be announced in a week or so.

This article came out late last week, so it may have even happened this morning. Will James Austin Johnson be Trump? Yes, I personally hope James Austin Johnson goes back and listens to his original Trump depression. It has really started to drift last season. Lauren didn’t want to talk about retirement, but Puck asked, are you going to give anyone in particular on your team some added responsibilities this season?

Good phrasing there, Lauren said, that’s already been happening in the past year or so. More people are involved in the choices and in the decisions. But I’m not worried about AI because AI won’t guess what I’m gonna do between ten and eleven on show nights, because I have no idea. There’s a lot of people in that room with opinions. I make the final decision, obviously, but it’s not as if people don’t let me know how strongly they feel.

I guess I’ll pull up this story. I actually had it in the second half last week, Sky revealed plans about bringing SNL to the UK. Sky’s executive director of Unscripted Originals, Phil Edgar, Jones said it’s exciting a bit scary as well. Edgar Jones spent some time embedded with Lauren in the SNL USA team. He has confirmed that James Longman, the executive producer of The Late Late Show with James Cordon, will become the showrunner of SNL UK.

Edgar Jones hopes the show will be true to the American original, but quote has to be a very British thing if it’s going to resonate with audiences in the UK. The Sky UK SNL will launch in twenty twenty six. There have also been remakes in China, Germany, Italy and South Korea. Out on Netflix today, kill Tony guests include Jim Norton, Mark Norman, Matt Rife. Boy you combined kill Tony, Tony Hinchcliff and Matt Rife.

The Internet’s gonna explode. There’s gonna be a whole set of comedians. We’re not gonna be able to deal with that. Guys. It’s just a show.

Just watch it. It’s fun. Slate had done a big article probably ten days two weeks ago now about kill Tony. Slate writes, some veterans stand ups find themselves wondering if kill Tony is less of a comedy exposition and more of a vindictive freak show. James Adomian said there’s a visible through line here back to shows like Opie and Anthony.

He describes such shows as occasionally funny but mostly just offensive. Kil Tony on Netflix today, Shane Gillis he’s appearing in another bud Light commercial. This one is titled Vender Voices. You see Shane Gillis shouting across Darryl k Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Shane is wearing a Texas Longhorns polo shirt.

He’s attempting to get the attention of a vendor. They go back and forth, Hilarity ensues, then his friend spoilers for the Budlight Commercial’s friend comes back from a successful beer run. This is interesting. The paper that’s the office spin off. Remember I told you they were gonna put like four episodes out and then do like two, two and two and burn the whole thing off in September.

Well, Peacock has changed their mind, but not the way I recommend. They’re now dropping all ten episodes on September fourth, when we’re all watching Cowboys Eagles, and that means you know sits like av Club Involve. Sure they’ll have reviewed the entire thing before you and I even have a chance to watch it. Like I’m a podcaster who works from home. I can’t watch the paper at six thirty in the morning before a review of ten episodes of something drops.

You gotta give me a minute. I think NBC Peacock is making a mistake here. I think they should do a weekly thing and get some buzzing around it and get people talking about it. The ten episode drop makes me think they don’t have confidence in it. I have seen some internet chatter from people who have seen it who said it’s actually pretty good.

But I don’t know. This is just really weird. Why would you drop all ten? On September fourth, Ralph Barbosa spoke to the La Times after his special came out, and he said, now I’ve got about ten minutes worth of jokes to my name. I’m broke comedy wise, I’m broke.

He grinned and said it’s the funniest place to be. The Times asked Barbosa about the perspective he brings as the next generation of Latin comedian. Ralph said, I don’t necessarily think it’s important to get my voice out there. But I do like making jokes about ice in immigration because it’s like the only way I know how to bring attention to it. I’m not a big political dude or anything like that, but yeah, I’ve made jokes about things like immigration stuff, I stuff.

I feel like there’s certain topics, certain subjects you can’t avoid. After a certain point, we should talk about it. We should at least put it in the faces of the people who aren’t going to talk about it. Like, if you’re not going to talk about it, that’s fine too, but you got at least hear about it. Congratulations to Ken Jung.

He is receiving an award from the fifteenth Annual Catilina Film Festival on September twenty seventh. The award the King of Comedy Award the King of Comedy Ken Jung, presented by the Catalia Film Institute. The King of Comedy trophy is given to a performer who has mastered the craft of comedy and uses it to uplift, inspire, and bring joy. Jung’s credits include Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Role Models, Right Along Too, Transformer, Stark of the Moon, Tom and Jerry and of course his roles in the Hangover trilogy and as Senior Chang on Community. The New York Post was catching up with Eddie Peppatone and they pointed out your IMDb list two upcoming projects.

Can you spill any details? Eddie explained, untitled Neil Brennan project was filmed a bunch of years ago and never went anywhere. Neil was working on a pilot for Fox and they passed on it, and I don’t know why it’s up there like that. He’s also working on Dead, an indie film where he plays a rabbi. The story is about a young woman’s dad who becomes a ghost and won’t leave until there’s something settled, and Eddie Peppertone’s character oversees a quote Jewish exorcism.

Tony Rock, comedian, he has a brother named Chris. Tony was doing some crowd work at a recent show. A video clip has gone viral. Rock asked a man in the audience, you want to fight m effor. It was all in good fun, but the man got up and took off his glasses, seemingly prepared to fight, and Tony Rock said, you better sit down.

I ain’t Chris m effor the crowd laughed at the joke. Tony Rock high five to his audience member, Hey, you know what happens when you pull an SNL story up to the first half of the podcast. You get to the second half and you realize, oh, you don’t have any stories left. Hah. What you don’t know is I had bounced this Mark Maron story because I thought the first half was getting long, but nope, now it’s going into today’s show after all.

Newsweek asked Mark Maron, what do you think about the current state of podcasts. Maren said, at the beginning, it was sort of the wild West. It was an open format. You could do whatever you wanted done on like comedy, but with more production, especially what it was all just audio. And I think at the beginning there was sort of a movement.

Was this kind of populous and that everybody thought they could do it, And it’s the same with comedy now. A lot of people do it for a lot of different reasons. Some people are doing it just because their brand will enable them to have another cash flow by capitalizing on who they are, whether they’re good at it or not. But ultimately it’s created a lot of yammering, and once everybody went to video, and once old school mainstream show business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able, through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show business empires. And I think podcasting facilitated that, and that’s good.

I think in another way, podcasting help people get their voices out there and niche markets and really do it interesting stuff, but also lower the bar for entertainment in general. I think you have as much, if not more, unique and interesting content with interesting personalities and talent. But then you have a much larger portion of two to three white guys sitting in front of microphones talking about the last time they crap their pants as adults. So you have this large contingency of like afternoon drive radio that seems to speak to a lot of it, which I think lowers the bar. Then you do the other stuff.

But I think it open doors to people having more control the type of show business they wanted to do. And I think it brought a lot of people that might not have thought they had a profound amount of talent, but at the very least could sit and talk to other people. I can’t tell you whether it’s a good or bad. There’s a lot of both, and probably more bad than good. Mark, what advice do you have when a young comic comes up to you and says they want to start a podcast?

Mark says, well, that timing is great, and you’re gonna be up against a lot. I’m too old to know what it really takes. I’ve never really been a guy who produces content for content’s sake. We live in a sort of post publicity world in terms of the other tried and true ways of getting you and your being and brand out there, and it’s all on you. So if you’re going to do it, seems I wouldn’t want to do it now to what you have to do to sort of serve this is a full time job before you even get to the podcast.

In terms of social media, in terms of creating content that grabs people enough to bring them to you, and I think we lose that, and again it’s lowering the bar what these art forms were, what these broadcast forms were, because of this desperate need to somehow grab people’s attention and hold it for long enough, to keep it for long enough for you to turn a buck out of it. So I’d say go ahead, I guess, do what you can. But it’s not the world I grew up in. It’s not the world where people spend a lot of time trying to create interesting and provocative content or some sort of hyper personalized, well articulated comedic voices. I mean, everyone’s chasing what their freedom of speech may be.

It’s all now kind of boxed in by social media platform expectations. So how free are you? What are you doing there? You know he’s not wrong. At the end of last week, Howard Stern was accused of manufacturing all the recent Howard Stern controversy.

A source till the Daily Mail the rumors actually came from inside Howard’s camp. The source claimed they’re desperately trying to make this thing go viral to boost his numbers for his return. The stunt was designed to make people tune in to see what Howard’s going to say about getting fired from Serious because his numbers are quote pathetic.

Also at the end of last week, there was a rumoring inside radio they were sou…

We’ll see at the time of this recording. They had not announced that, and late in August would be a weird time to announce that. I still think, and maybe I’m wrong by the time you’re hearing this, I still think they’ll announce it in December and milk this thing for all the publicity it’s worth. I would. It’s a lot of fun.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption, go on Apple Podcasts. There’s a banner it says uninterrupted listening. You click on that and you’ve got this show without ads. You’ll also get five good news stories without ads.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It is a summer Sunday, one weekend left after this. I’m getting depressed anyway. Summer Sundays are a good time to catch up on articles that I hadn’t gotten to.

Here’s one from the Hollywood Reporter. It is, of course, the forty four most powerful players in podcasting in twenty twenty five. Let’s just skim down this and see what they say about the comedians. Do we count the SmartLess guys? I don’t think so.

I believe these are in alphabetical order by last name, which brings us to Tony Hinchcliff, The Hother Reporter tells us. A former staffer on the Comedy Central Roast series, Hinchcliff helped usher in America’s post woke era when at a trip rally he told that joke, you remember that one about the floating island of garbage. That one. The next day, on his popular Kill Tony show, he said, I apologize to absolutely no. Tony was asked what his current favorite podcast is.

He said mine, not Johnny Max. He meant Kill Tony. I thought I had missed something here they have on the list Michelle Obama with Craig Robinson. I was like, wait, Craig Robinson is doing a podcast with Michelle Obama. Well, a man named Craig Robinson is.

But it’s not that Craig Robinson, not the guy that quit comedy as part of a stunt, not him, a different guy. That would have been very interesting had I missed that one. I’m going to pay attention to that. Amy Poehler on the list. Joe Rogan listened as talent on The Joe Rogan Experience.

The Holland Reporter says in the past year, the long time self proclaimed centrist waded deeper into partisan politics and demonstrated the influence of the medium over which he reigned Supreme Rogan’s three hours sit down with then candidate Donald Trump last October and his subsequent endorsement were credited with boosting Trump’s re election campaign. Matt Rodgers and Bowen Yang run lists for Las Culturistas. THEO Vaughn listed as talent this past weekend with THEO Vaughan. We are till at Vaughan’s podcast has risen to third on Spotify’s chart. That’s a random pull whych you pull Spotify’ chart on the strength of the host every man blend of humor, vulnerability, and straight talk, which makes disaffected dudes see him as there Mark Twain and powerful men across the ideological spectrum.

Trump, Van Sanders, Zuckerberg want to sit with him. The born and bred Louisiana and a touring stand up comic and sometime actor, recently garnered headlines for his commentary about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which he’s called a genocide. That paragraph was all kinds of loaded. Wow. Conan O’Brien on the list.

A lot of this list is not perform with. It’s a lot of executives and suits and friends of the Hollywood Reporter, et cetera about under Conan were told In May, Conan o’briany’s friend began to release full video episodes. It worked. Team Coco’s views increased seventeen percent from the prior year. Andrew Schultz listed as talent the mustached, fast talking comedian who yaps opposite Charlomage the god on the Brilliant Idiots, hosted Donald Trump on his ascended cultural commentary showcase Flagrant just before the election for a talk that went among Schultz’s key demo of postpartisan young men.

But by July he’d had his Howard Beale on air moment. You do you younger sisters even know what that means? I know what it means, but I’m ancient. Howard Beal is the guy in the movie Network that yells, I’m mad as hell. I’m not going to take it anymore.

Do you even know what that is? He may have seen it as a meme anyway, breaking with the President about a variety of grievances, from policy issues to the Jeffrey Epstein betrayal, mirroring an apparent broader shift in the president’s coalition. They asked Andrew which podcast completely changed how you think about the medium? His answer, Joe Rogan experience that has defined and redefined the genre over and over again. Honestly, I don’t even think it gets enough credit.

That’s it. In terms of comedians on the list, Deadline had done a lengthy article about social media these days, starting with Matt Rife. Matt has often asked what advice he’d give to those looking to make a mark online. Matt Rife says he has no idea. He says, my only advice is you’re so eft, there’s nothing you could do whatsoever.

It’s so one million percent sent out it for your control. Now the algorithm changes so much. You can build a fan base on social media. It’s great, but it’s getting harder and harder and harder to do, and you can’t just rely on it. Rife admits he was super lucky to have been discovered broken through found my audience before doing so became harder.

I’m not sure if this article was a paid piece or a partnership. Why I’m confused is they had a big logo that’said powered by punch Up Live, So I don’t know if it was a paid piece. But in the piece regardless, they quote Danny Frinkel, the CEO of punch Up Live. He says ticket sales by way of Instagram have increased nearly fifteen percent as punch up has expanded to host more and more comics. He said, I think going into this survey they did, you would have expected that YouTube would play a significantly larger role because everybody’s putting all their company specials there, and you would have expected the TikTok would play a larger role because that is or was a bit of the talk of the town, and I think now everyone is unclear on exactly what’s happening with the long term of TikTok and what’s happening in the short terms, and are people still investing in it.

Comedian Paul Elia said, I look at Instagram as the portfolio app where you put the best of your best. Facebook is where old people go, and that’s where you just put all the whatever stuff. TikTok is for kids. You can have a massive TikTok following, but it doesn’t translate to ticket sales because all your fans are thirteen, so no one is going snapchat same thing. Instagram is probably the most tried and true app for sure.

If you’re following on Instagram as strong, people know you, and those people on Instagram have money to buy a ticket Facebook, I’d say the same thing anyway. We’ll find that in the Comedy Means Business newsletter, The Deadline has a very long piece. Hey, thanks to Adam for sending this over. Augie Smith had posted this on Facebook. Hey, comedians, I’ve spent much of the last week watching submissions to the Big Sky Comedy Festival.

I love stand up comedy. So this is one of my favorite parts of the festival producing process. Here are a few tips for submitting to festivals. Okay, comedians, you’re paying attention, Augie Smith says, try to keep your tape between four and six minutes. Remember that festivals are watching a lot of submissions, and sending something that’s over fifteen minutes is completely and totally cuckoo bananas.

Think of it as a late night set and hit as many punch lines as possible. Get to the first joke quickly unless it’s your whole act. Don’t do crowd work. There’s no reason to use notes in a five minute set. I know it’s always an easy thing to do, but the actual quality of the tape is important.

If the sound is so hollow it’s hard to hear you, it makes it difficult to judge your set fairly, let me jump in. I used to give similar recommendations in my radio career to people who wanted to be talk show hosts, and then to comedians who would send things in. So here’s what happens as a media executive. I mean, well, I really want to get to stuff I would have back in the day. Depending on the year, A pile of cassette tapes, then CDs, then a folder with digital submissions.

Anyway, I would intend to someday get to it, and then every now and then on a Friday, I’d be like, oh, it’s the end of the week, all the work’s done. Let me go into the pile. Once I hit play for talk shows, you have two seconds to get my attention, because I would do what’s called distracted listening. So undistracted listening is, as a radio exec, you get in your car and you drive somewhere and you park like in a parking lot, and stare at trees and just focus on the audio, and you have your phone off. Distracted listening is you hit play in the office and then your coworkers coming and distract you and ask what we’re ordering for lunch, and you and the phone rings, and you answer the phone, you get distracted by an email.

That’s distracted listening. I do distracted listening because that is how people consume media. So like, right now, are you sitting in the dark only concentrating on my voice? Maybe are maybe you’re one going to sleep or are you driving a car in like kind of half listening? And that’s fine.

So that’s distracted listening. So when you send a tape in, I’m gonna hit play and you got to be really good, really quickly.

Also, I would tell people I don’t want your best of tape.

I’m glad you had on the President at one point. I want to hear Tuesday Hour two. I want to hear what you are on a normal, boring day. Oggie Smith writes, I know this sounds obvious, but send a set where you did well, even if the jokes are good. If the crowd is digging you, that affects my view of your act.

All right. The fringe is wrapping up. The Guardian said the Edinburgh Fringe has almost four thousand shows. What does it take for a stand up to stand out? Alfie Peckham writes, the fringe is in full swing and I’m looking for my posters, which, given the function of a poster, doesn’t bode well for the marketing of my stand up hour.

Johnny Woolley is co founder of the clown Ensemble Stamptown. Wooly has some opinions on posters and said I’ve always had a pet pee for comedians doing funny faces on their posters. It’s always been a turn off for me. Yes, I hate comedian headshots with the dopey face. Just take a nice picture.

You don’t have to make your wacky face face stop. Woly said. When I started making posters nearly a decade ago, no comedy posters look cool, and I was really influenced by album mart movie posters. There are so many posters of comedians sitting on the toilet. I’m interested in trying to make art for the posters.

It feels like it could be a more long standing representation of that show. Jordan Gray said, I like having a stupid title and a picture that makes you think that I’m very, very serious about this. That lack of self awareness is quite funny. Adele Cliff was at the Fringe Voicemag caught up with a deal. What advice would you have for an artist considering bringing a show to the Fringe.

Her advice, stay out of my way, nerds. I love it. If you had the power to change one thing about the Fringe, what would it be wrong? Finally a different answer, She says, I would make the Edinburgh Fringe artists pass universal so it’s accepted at all venues. To fill empty seats artists get to see the shows and fill up the space.

Two birds, one stone, everybody wins. Look at that, You thought she was going to complain about how much it cost us stay at the thing, and that is sure comedy news as it was on a summer Sunday. Let’s get some beach in this week. Oh my goodness, I’s just the worst day of the year is the Tuesday after Labor Day. That is absolutely my least favorite day of the year.

My favorite day of the year is Friday afternoon. Well that’s not a day, but Friday into Memorial the weekend. You have the whole summer in front of you, wide open skies for so much possibility. Once we get to Tuesday after Labor Day, it’s just like, ah, winter is coming. I have to work more because they teach, can’t go to the beach minside all the time.

How depressing. See you tomorrow.

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John? Because that’s not fun. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I still didn’t find story number one.

Here? Can you tell? It’s the weekend in the summer. Here we go. Jay Leno, you know that guy, that horrible guy.

Some people think he’s the worst person who ever lived. He hosted the Tonight Show for what twenty two years and got ratings and beat out David Letterman, and then Conan O’Brien couldn’t hack it and they had to bring Jay Leno back, and then Jay Letto thinks he knows something about late night television and commented on it. He was a guest on the Mark Summer’s Unwraps podcast, the topic Hulk Hogan. What do you think he was going to talk about? Now?

The wrestling fans is gonna be like, oh hey, Jay Leto, he’s the worst. So I’ve erased this from my brain. Back in nineteen ninety eight, Hulk Hogan and the WCW, remember that was the other Wrestling League Circuit Championship whatever. Hulk Hogan and WCW president Eric Bischoff appeared as guests on the tonight show. The appearance turned into a hostile takeover, as Hogan and Bischoff shoved Jay Leno’s bandleader, ran down jay Leno, and brought out other members of the nWo to hijack the program.

You know what, this probably appeals to a lot of people, the idea of Jay Leno being chased and then jostled by wrestlers. People would probably like that these days, because he had the audacity to comment on late night television as if he would know anything about it. So then there was the WCW Road Wild pay perview in August of nineteen ninety eight. I was getting married that month. That’s why I don’t remember this at all.

I was busy for that event. Jay Leno teamed with Diamond Dallas Page to face the team of Hollywoodhulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff. Jay said to this day, people go, man, look, Jay, I know wrestling is fake, but I could tell man, you were ticked. I go, no, I wasn’t. I could tell.

Now you can’t. Don’t you understand it’s not real? When he threw him down, you were mad, I go, No, wasn’t mad acting While we’re talking about a Hulk Cogan. Mister Summers told a story that Hogan’s deal anytime he did a personal appearance, he had to have a yellow Rolls Royce. One time, they’re going to the airport in the yellow rolls Rooye and Hulk.

Cogan said, I hate being recognized. Slummers said Hogan was also wearing his signature bandana at the time. Roywood Junior was at the Edinburgh TV Festival. He’s excited about what might happen for Stephen Colbert after CBS. Roy said when he’s running rampant on YouTube like Don Lemon, that’ll create a bigger issue for this administration in twenty twenty six if he builds an audience.

If the Trump administration were smart, then leave us alone. Let us tell our jokes. God bless whatever Stephen Colbert does next with no network pressure to give him notes. The Hollywood Reporter asked John Oliver, when was the last time a Last Week Tonight’s segment made you genuinely anxious? Oliver said it there’s always a lotw life anxiety with every story.

I’d argue a healthy level of anxiety, and it’s only about whether people are going to be willing to listen to us talk about something because it’s so superficially dry or contentious that you’re not sure if it’s something people want to hear, and then you’re practicing force feeding. But that’s part of the joy of having this show, the ability to show people things they might not necessarily think on their face they want to see. Just a few weeks ago, we did a long piece on juvenile justice, and that’s the kind of story where we think, I’m not sure people want to hear this, but I think that’s the absolute point of having a show like this. The hollod reporter asked Oliver if they got any corporate interference over the years. This interview was a few weeks ago, so I guess theoretically he could have gotten some interference this morning, But as of a few weeks ago, John Oliver said, we’ve not experienced interference, and I refuse to worry about something that hasn’t happened yet.

My tolerance level would be zero. This would be over real quick. John said, I try to pay as little attention to what’s happening outside of our show as possible. Because it feels like wasted energy. The moment it intrudes on our show, I’ll react very badly to it, but it hasn’t.

So yeah, I try not to angry about things that aren’t happening to us. Lariday asked Jeff Ross does it require a different kind of stamina to perform eight shows a week as New Broadway show compared to touring as a comedian, and Jeff said, I don’t know yet. Billy Crystal told me I’ll be a new kind of tired, but I enjoy waking up in my own bed as opposed to adding the JFK or Newark Airport normally is a comic. It’d be Friday in New York, Saturday in Detroit, Sunday in Cleveland or whatever. So there’s a real charm to the idea that I’m home and I can have dinner and walk my dog by ten thirty.

Good question here, what’s it like to be vulnerable on stage when people will know you for roasts? Jeff Ross said that board’s generally terrifying because as a comedian you want to have some swagger. You don’t want to let them see you sweat. I had to drop that on top of it, I had all these stories about my mom and dad were in rehearsals and the tech people were like, all right, let’s take it back to the beat where your mom dies. And I’m like, that’s just a cue and someone cheat.

But for me, it’s a very vivid memory. I have to go. He didn’t mean it that way. He just wants to get the lighting rate. Another good question.

Are people surprised to find out you have a serious side? Jeff Ross said, I walked through the airport and people go roast me. People treat it like it’s a porty trick. But there’s a person in there. If I does that meat all the time, I doubt any friends and survive.

In show business, spoilers, Okay, I’m gonna spoil something. Everybody leaves the theater with a banana. The other reporter was curious, what’s the banana budget. Jeff Ros said, it’s significant. It’s in the thousands per week.

Bananas aren’t cheap with the tariffs, it’s a whole thing. Someone has to pass them out. Check them for fentanel. Now I’m kidding, but it was a big discussion. I pushed really hard.

Tinnidou Unaka caught up with The La Times about his special on Kevin Hart’s Thing There on Hulu, and I thought the special was really good. Trinitdou said, shout out to Kevin for even putting vehicles like this out there, because he doesn’t have to, and it’s not the first time he’s done something like this before. I worked with him when he was booking comedians for his LA Network to go tape for just for laughs. His people reached out to my people like, we love tinnitdoo do this for us. They paid us, they put us up, they flew us out.

So to work with him again on something similar but on a bigger scale was definitely like a dream come true, especially respect to Kevin as an artist, but then also to his work ethic and how he goes about business.

And now he’s just very forthcoming and helping the younger generation get eye…

Seeing how much attention to detail they took to it versus it being a rush job, it felt dope, just the way it looked. All those Kevin Art specials then on the Hulu series, those all look great, They filled the room. Everything about it felt actually special. So to have an opportunity to be one of the comedians selected was incredible and I’m happy that I was ready for it.

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And then it went well.

We basically had one shot to tape it two. I think I got it right. Bowhen Yang talked about his JD Vance impression. He said, I was pretty resistant at first. After a few more conversations, I acquiesced and then I went about it in the most child of immigrants way, where I hired a dialect coach and I requested a screen test where I tried out different contact lenses because I felt like so much of JD Vance’s sort of visual eeriness was in his eyes and I was like, we have to get that down.

And then we tried facial hair options and I took it as a serious charge, which may or may not have been the right way to go about it, but it’s been an interesting journey. Hasan Minhaj is a spokesperson for Share the Meal, a program founded under the UN World Food Program that aims to make fighting hunger accessible. A video circulating on Instagram shows Hasan Minhaj calling for it increased aid in Sedan. He describes how conflict within the country has resulted in the world’s largest hunger crisis, and then asked for the viewer support through donations to share the meal. Michael Palin revealed that he’s made some end of life arrangements.

He says, I do think about death, and the family are rather wonderful about it. Have you made a will? Can I be in your will? I’ve made my will in all that my family and my children know where to find what they need should I die. He’s even given all his passwords to his three children in case I get run over by a bus.

However a fit you are, anything might happen. But I don’t dwell on mortality. It’s well on life. Eric Idol told the PA news agency that his wife is worried what would happen to Eric Idol’s image once he dies. He told PA, I think it’s a very interesting point.

We ought to have protected ourselves by copyriting our images. I know my wife’s very concerned about that. She’s going to coprate my image. I won’t be there, so I don’t really give a hoot. He talked about AI and said it’s actually not bad at copying work, but it can only copy and not create.

He said, I was with Professor Brian Cox the other night he asked it to write a Python sketch and it was crap, completely unfunny. It mentioned a few things which obviously picked up from Python, but it couldn’t put them together in a new and funny manner. And I think that’s the weakness with AI. I don’t think it makes much difference with a lot of American TV because that’s just churned out. I think it can’t be Robin Williams.

I think it can’t be Billy Connolly. I don’t think it can be Spike Milligan. Cult following uncovered Jim Carrey’s cover of The Beatles. I am the Walrus. I was curious.

I clicked on it. I didn’t think it was that good, but one fan said, Wow, he is good. You can tell he put a lot of work into that and want to do it right. Another said, holy, s he sings rather well. A third Wow, mind blown and apparently insane person said I can’t listen to the Beatles version anymore because I enjoy Jim Carrey’s version much more.

The Stockton Latin Comedy Festival takes place today at the Adventist Health Arena. The Unite includes performances by more than twenty top comedians, including Carlos Mencia, Joey Medina and the event is was scheduled to honor Paul Rodriguez with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Now, Paul’s been in the news lately. It’s unclear to me if the award is still happening or not. And I hope Paul is okay.

The Toronto Guardian was profiling some comedians, one of them Toronto comedian Ben Albert, who got to start in comedy by driving eight hours to perform at Yuck Yucks in Ottawa. All right, Ben Albert, and how do you describe your comedy style and why am I coming at you with such an aggressive tone? Ben said, my comedy style would probably be described as a storytelling type. Being from northern Ontario, it’s crucial you know how to tell a good story. There’s nothing else to do.

AI Ow, who’s your favorite comedian? Growing up? He said? I was always a big fan of Kevin Hart and Jamie Fox. I liked how they would tell a good story while using their whole body as an expressive tool.

Oh yeah, well, who’s your favorite comedian now? Ben Albert said, I’m a big fan of Shane Gillis and Luisi K. What’s your pre show ritual? I text my buddy and call him a loser so I feel more confident. Hey, that is your comedy needs for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. No late night jokes this week. I didn’t forget. Just everybody was off other than Tiffany Hattish sitting in for Kimmel, so we’ll skip that.

Patton Oswalt has once again defended Dave Chappelle, saying that the transphobic jokes that got Chappelle in hot waters do not make Chappelle transphobic. Patton says Chappelle is reacting to some things that happened to him when he was young. Patton is the guest on the We Might Be Drunk podcast with Mark Norman and Sam Murrill. Patten said, I thought the jokes were lazy. I don’t think he’s transphobic.

Chappelle is brilliant. I came up with him. He’s a friend, but we disagree on this one effing thing. I don’t agree with a stance on this one thing. Comedians fight about stuff all the time.

Patton got in trouble with some folks back in twenty twenty two. On New Year’s Eve, he posted a photo with Chappelle on Instagram and capture the image. I ended the year with a real friend and a deep laugh. Can’t ask for much more. People got upset at Patten.

The next day, January first, twenty twenty two, he posted, while Chappelle is a comic is the funniest I’ve ever met. Patton wanted you to know I support trans people’s rights, anyone’s all caps’ rights to live safely in the world as they’re full of selves. For all the things he’s helped me evolve on, I’ll always disagree with where he stands now on transgender issues, but I also don’t believe a secret like him is done evolving learning. You know someone that long see the struggles and changes, it’s impossible to cut them off. Paton added, I’ve said plenty of crap on my early albums that I now know better, explaining that comedy does not age.

We should hold and accept that and kind of roll with it. But at the time, I have a lot of friends, I have family members who are trans, who are transitioning, and I talk to them and they’re terrified right now. And it’s exact same thing back when black people would say the cops beat us up all the time, and it’s like, ah, this is all bs, this is fear mongering.

And then we put cameras on cops and low, behold, there’s footage of cops beed…

Listen to the minority group. If they’re telling you they’re scared, they’re not making stuff up. Patton said, one of the gifts of comedy is to evolve at the times. You can talk about whatever you want, but it’s your job to find a way to make it funny. If you’re a comedian and enough people are saying, hey, I’m coming to you because I’m not a skull, it’s just like, this is really harmful, and this is why just go I’m sure I can find another way to say this.

I’m a comedian. You can’t go no, that’s the way I wrote it, and I can’t change it. Well, then, how the f for you and show business? That’s very interesting. WTF the podcast is ending.

However, you can look forward to WTF the graphic novel. Sure why Not. Mark Maren is working with graphic novel publisher Z two. The graphic novel will span the period between two thousand and four and twenty twenty five. Maren launched WTF in two thousand and nine.

Maren said, this is a fantastic way for friends to relive the entire run of the podcast without needing to listen to thousands of hours of material. The graphic novel is already funded, but a Kickstarter will launch on September fourth to allow listeners to pre order the book and gain access to WTF memorabilia. I love Maren, and Maren’s on a hot streak here. You know what, I may have to update comedy stock market. We’ll see in the second half of the show.

But this is feeling a little Jim Gaffick and Bourbon to me. I could do an entire episode on Mark Maron. There are so many Mark Maren articles, and you know, if you listen to the show every day, I like to mix it up. So that’s enough Maroon for today. But there’s a big Newsweek article that I’ll pick at as the next week.

So we’re now switching from press about the HBO special to press about the documentary, and then we’re gonna get press about the end of the podcast, so there’s gonna be a lot of Mark Maren. I should probably have the AI make a Mark Maren song. Kamil Nanjihanni was on Mike Berbigley as Working It Out podcast, and Kamal said that he got a bad review from Elon Musk. Elon didn’t like Silicon Valley. Apparently Elon didn’t like the series twenty fourteen opening episode, which featured kid Rock performing at a tech party while seven nerdy dudes stood by with no one paying attention.

Kamel said Elon was upset. He was like, well, the parties I go to are much cooler than these parties. Non Giohanni thought, yeah, man, you’re one of the richest people the world. We’re like losers on the show. Of course, your parties are better than my parties.

What are you talking about. Dusty Slagh says he finds a lot of common ground between music and stand up comedy, saying, I think in a way, comedy bits are like our own little songs. They are our own little poems. When I do a full comedy special, I almost think about how someone would put out an album. At least the older albums where an album would be complete, might have some themes from an earlier song to come back in a later song and it ties the whole thing together.

He says, these days we’re in a phase of comedy where everybody wants clips. We all want likes, we all want to go viral. When I think about a special, I like to have a full on, complete special that feels like I’m going in and out of little songs. Chris Hardwick is back. You know, Maren gets a lot of credit for broadcasting.

Chris Hardwick absolutely had a huge podcast for years. He was with Nerdict, then it became ID ten T. It is now a comeback, rebranded as I think you’re overthinking it, but Jeeva says, it’s essentially the same podcast that’s always been. Recently, he had James Gunn who showed up to talk about the upcoming season of Peace Easemaker. So that, yeah, that sounds like an episode that would be perfectly comfortable on nerdicst.

And if you’re in Elmira tonight, watch out. You know who’s in town. The worst person who ever lived, That horrible scoundrel Jay Leno, who dared once make a comment about late night comedy. What a just awful person. And listen to this, Jay says, my point is to get laughs.

I don’t try to inflict my views on people. I don’t try to do politics anymore. He even commented on Late Night a scoundrel. He said. It has to do with the nature of television.

They all have way more commercials than they used to. If I see Jake from State Form again, I’m gonna shoot myself in the head. This guy Jay even said, I love being a live performer. I like a live audience and the idea of connecting with actual people. And he says it’s a lot of fun.

How dare you, sir? Tickets for an evening with Jay Leno are still available seventy eight to one hundred and nineteen dollars with service charges included. Elmira, New York. Comedy stock Market. That’s right, it’s comedy stock Market.

Every Friday, we take a look at the comedy industry and I recommend some buys or sell, sometimes even a hold. And you know what, I think it’s the time we sell some Mark Maren stock, not all of it, but let’s take a profit. I think we’re at peak Maren value. If he’s making graphic novels and getting into Jim Gaffigan bourbon territory, we’re at peak Maren and it’s gonna be downhill from here, I think. So let’s sell half our Maren stock and cash out.

High. So what should we do with our money. Let’s buy some stock in hinnadu unaka. Have you caught his special on Hulu? Really fantastic.

Let’s also buy some Kyle Kanaan. Why. I just have a hunch, Like I said earlier in the week, I think he’s low key, quietly maybe perhaps possibly the best comedian in the game right now. So let’s buy some Kyle Kanan while nobody’s looking. Let’s also buy some Patton Oswalt because he has that Amazon special coming up.

It’s an audio special only, so he’ll be doing a lot of press. People will be like, oh yeah, I like Patton Oswalt. So we’ll buy Pat and by Kyle by chinnadou wanaka sell Maren. Let’s also sell all of our fringe stock. The fringe is over and people are just miserable.

You’ve heard me do that store every day, so well sell our fringe stock.

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And then I’ve got one more buy recommendation for you.

Jonathan Kite has been doing these wonderful, wonderful Anthony Bourdain impressions on Instagram. I’ve pulled some audio here from one. I mean, check this out. This is just amazing. Costco.

We start with the legendary hot dog, the last honest bargain left in America, inflation proof at a dollar fifty. This symphony of salt, fat and don’t ask too many questions is truly a tube of edible chaos. Costco customers consume over two hundred million hot dogs a year, which is almost as many as Joey Chestnut and Bonnie Blue. And we have the pizza available in cheese and pepperoni. Finally, a two slice solution that everyone can agree on.

And finally, gasoline, because at Costco they proudly pump fuel into both you and your vehicle. You haven’t truly lived the suburban American dream until you filled your suv with Kirkland Signature petroleum and your face with twos pick mystery meat and complimentary cubes of cheddar. They say go big or go home, but at Costco you can do both. That’s Jonathan Kite doing Anthony bourdina I Love it Out Today, Fortune Feimster’s audio album for Good Fortune.

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Also on audio today, David Spade’s Dandelion.

Also today, you can save Mark Marin’s Panicked as an audio album and get an exclusive single. John Christ pre save his album, Emotional Support, access an exclusive single and also pre save Mike Vecki Own’s Low Income White and access at exclusive single, All That from the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, whose publicist sends me stuff unlike the Hulu publicist and see I’m happy to talk about the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. Hannah Burner is part of the lineup for the first ever Hall of Fame Celebrity pro Classic presented by the International Tennis Hall of Fame. That event is today coming up to September, it is the return of the Columbus Comedy Festival. This year’s festival includes multiple comedy magic shows featuring homegrown talent including Michael Kenton, Chris hanniwell a lot of showcases and thematic shows to help audience members discover new performances, including an All Asian and Asian American showcases, one show That’s All crowd Work, and a roast battle show.

Some other popular shows returning our Female af and All Women lineup, Drunk power Point described as a hilarious slideshow presentation of topics and Chicago showcase hosted by viral sensation Chad the Bird. Chad the Bird is a puppet act with some NSFW hot takes the Columbus Comedy Festival Thursday, September fourth through Sunday, September Seventh’s It’s Fun Fringe is almost over. I better get these articles cleared out. I’ve been bouncing them every day because the podcast has been long. Voicemag and caught up with Ishmael Loofti.

Ismael’s show is called Heavenly Baba, centered around a period of my life where my father was actively trying to convert everyone in my home state to Islam by painting the most insane Islamic slogans and mantras on his car. He says, my father instilled an extremely black and white worldview in my head, and nothing is more black and white than stand up. You either kill or your bomb. There’s very little nuance in comedy, which made it attractive to me. My show started out seventy percent stand up, thirty percent story.

After working on it for a year, I gradually took out as many stand up jokes as I could and replace them with story beats and accompanying slides. Influences David Cross, John Stewart, Al Franken, best worst or weirdest review you’ve received. He says, nobody reviews comedy in the States, which is maybe why American comedy’s gotten so crappy. So I don’t know how to answer this. This is a good interview.

Is there a question you wish interviewers would ask you but they never do? He said, yes, what’s your favorite empire from history? The answer the Ottomans. They took a ragtag group of nomadic horse orcherds and conquered a fifth of Europe while wearing the biggest turbans in human history. And he invent that some of the best food on earth.

Kind of dropped the ball in the twentieth century, but that’s life. Heavenly Baba is at the Assembly George Square, Studio five at six pm. But the festival’s over this weekend, so get on a plane unless you’re already in Edinburgh, and which case, just walk down the street, maybe rent out your spare room. You probably make some money. And I found this exchange pretty fascinating.

Some UK TV executives were at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The topic David Mitchell’s show The Outsider You know David Mitchell for Mitchell and webb Well. Outsiders has been shelved after three years after David Mitchell said he’s too busy to film it again. In Outsiders, comedians are thrust into a post apocalyptic scenario where they must see if they have the survival skills to live outdoors. It aired between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three.

Mitchell said his role on the show was to be a slightly befuddled, irrascable and indecisive leader. You know the part that caught my eye other than I just like David Mitchell. Executives at the Fringe said, it is not currently returning and we have announced that. What a weird way to freeze it. It’s almost as if like English is hit their first language.

It is not currently returning and we have announced that. That’s like very German. Matter of fact, the executives continued, Would we look at the show again in the future, maybe not currently. He loved doing it, We loved working with him. He is quite a difficult man to get a lunch appointment with.

We never say never. Absolutely. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the program without commercial interruption Apple Podcast, you click a banner it says uninterrupted listening and then you read the instructions, and I get three fifths of five dollars eventually, and then I splait it with my partner Mark, so I get like a bucket a quarter, but you get the show commercial free, so that’s kind of fun, all right, See tomorrow