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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. I don’t know why you people hate on Adam Sandler. The guy just put one hundred and fifty two million dollars into the New Jersey economy.

That’s where I live. Yes, The filming of Happy Gilmore IWO a fine film, you should watch it pumped a record breaking one hundred and fifty two and a half million dollars into the New Jersey state economy over sixty four shooting days. How can you not love Adam Sandler movies. Happy Gilmour two averaged two point three million dollars in daily spend, including six point four million dollars on extras and one point two million dollars on lodging. Some of the places this was shot golf courses in Bedminster, Bloomfield and Montclair, private homes in Irvington and Billville.

Some of the backdrops included Newark Liberty International Airport, where I was just this morning, and Fairleigh Dickinson University where I work. Adams and Tandler and I work at the same place sometimes. Tim Sullivan is the NJE DACO and said New Jersey has become a happy place for filmmakers. He credits the state’s competitive tax credits, local talent, base and location diversity. Can we get some tax benefits for basement podcasters?

Is that a thing? Should I like, stop recording and look this up? Maybe it is. John Crowley is the executive director of the state’s Film Commission and says, from golf courses and universities to airports and beaches, New Jersey has everything a production company desires, and thank you Adam Sandler and Happy Madison Productions. They’re already filming another project here in New Jersey.

It is the teen musical Don’t Say Good Luck? And how could that possibly be terrible? It is filming in Cranford, Livingston and Ridgewood. Newsweek caught up with Mark Marin, who’s the most popular comedian right now? Unofficial survey seems.

They were curious, you don’t hold back in this special on Trump, Progressives, etc. What made you not hold back? Maren said, I don’t know that I ever have. I also know my audience to a degree, though I did make choices around the tone of the stuff. I do comedy three four nights a week, sometimes at the Comedy Store in LA and I see people up there not talking about it, and I’m like, what are we doing?

It used to be like, hey, do you have to talk about politics? As politics? Really that funny. I’ve always talked about it, but I do think it’s beyond politics now. Used to be you’d be lucky if you saw the president on TV like four times a year, and that wasn’t that long ago.

So now it’s like twenty times a day. So if you’re paying attention, you have to reckon with even just that fact. And I think this is an arc to the special, and there has been to my other specials. I feel like over time, especially the last two specials, there’s really almost a three act structure to it. And I thought, look, let’s get this out now.

My people are generally liberal people, but I take them to a task bit too. I really shifted the tone of the opening thing to be kind of what’s happening opposed to the BS, so I could bring people in. Obviously I’m not going to bring people in who are cult like believers, but I was very conscious of the tone to be like what’s going on, you know, as opposed to UFS. So that was all choice. But I think to answer your question.

It was like, well, let’s deal with this now and then we’ll get to the other stuff. News Week asked Mark Maren do you think comics have responsibility to address the current political situation? Maren No, absolutely not, and I don’t think it’s everyone’s cup of tea. Look, comedy’s a beautiful form where you and only you can decide what you want to do and dictate how you want to do it, and have complete control and a lot of room to really decide who you want to be up there. It’s a beautiful thing.

So now only a few people can do political humor. I happen to be a person that is culturally sensitive and relatively sophisticated in terms of politics in terms of being able to talk about it. So it’s always been kind of a component. But I think now things are meshing, and I think some things had to be dealt with in terms of how comics are being used or choosing to use their comedy as platforms for some sort of very unsavory stuff. I don’t pull any punches on that stuff because for me, it’s always been part of the cultural fabric.

If you go into a cultural commentator, which I am only half of what it used to be. Then everybody’s fair game, including comics, politicians or whatever. So no, I don’t think it’s the comics responsibility to do anything but be funny. I kind of wish they had asked Mark Maren, how do you handle a mosquito in your basement studio? But maybe Mark doesn’t have that problem I do right now.

So Mark Marin is the most popular comedian right now. The least popular comedian right now is, of course, the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. People are really upset with Jay Leno. All right, who are you going to pick in this fight? Because Rosie O’Donnell took a shot at Jay leto.

You gotta pick. Are you on team Jay or team Rosie? You have to pick. No, you can’t say no, I’m not picking. No, you have to pick.

You can be on team Rosie or you can be on team j. You pick. Rosie from her home in Ireland, as she has abandoned the United States, went on Instagram. She was watching that new Netflix docuseries Fit for TV, The Reality of the Biggest Loser? Have you seen this yet?

Those Little Letterman moved there? Mike chishmem you paid attention. I just did a little dave there. Yeah, that was for you. In one Instagram post, Rosie O’Donnell, who lives in Ireland, shared her disappointment with jay leto the worst person in the world who hosted The Tonight Show successfully for twenty two years.

She’s not happy with his behavior towards the Biggest Loser contestants. She captured her post, j Leno is a meana dot dot dot dot dot. I’m going to guess it rhymed with a glass moole hashtag Biggest Loser documentary. Apparently in the documentary, which I have not watched, one of the contestants recalled appearing quote on a live taping of The Tonight Show. Interesting phrasing.

There did jay do live for live taping? So just say taping or episode live taping? Get out here on a live taping of the Tonight Show where jay Leno read her death threats aloud. I don’t have any additional details there for you see what else happens if I google jay Leno. Yep, a lot of Rosie Ah.

The Independent tells us. In the clip, jay Leno read the death threats. One message threatened to hit the contestant with a card, to which Jay Leno, comedian hosting the Tonight show, said she wants to kill you, but she won’t use a swear word. The contestant has now said, I didn’t know I was a villain until the show aired. Rosie said Jay Leno is a mean a hole.

Again, I’m not sure people understand what the show is and what the job of the ho Don’t worry Jay Leno. By this time next week, you won’t be the worst comedian in the world. That will go to Tony Hinchcliff. Once kill Tony at Madison Square Garden airs on Netflix on Monday. The guests Jim Norton, Mark normand Matt Riche.

The comedy establishment will get mad the Tony Hinchcliff’s kill Tony even exists. I’m mad because I actually have to teach my college class over at Fairley Dickinson. Maybe Adam Sandler will be there, I hope so. And by the time I get home after teaching the college students and lecturing for two and a half hours, I’m exhausted. On Monday Nights, TMZ has video of a woman getting thrown out of a Theo von Schow THEO is playing the Honda Center, home of the Anaheim Ducks.

Apparently a fan got too disruptive. TMZ reports the woman is in a revealing white top as she goes up the stairs, reveling and the crouch jeers with her arms raised above her head. She seems to fake laugh at one of theo’s jokes on the way out. My witnesses told TMZ the woman appeared to be intoxicated and was repeatedly approached by security, who asked her to get off her phone. Eyewitnesses said she was yelling and arguing with security.

We’re trying to be discreet. Sources say THEO stop performing twice to ask what was going on, then politely request did she leave. Sources say THEO even offered to have his assistant refund her ticket if she just left, but she didn’t leave, so security helped her leave. Friend of the show, Dan boobletch Junior shared on Facebook, Hey did you see this? And I hadn’t?

What hadn’t I seen? Helium Coomedy Records are selling their sound recording copyrights. You can find this information on secure dot songvest dot com. The subheadline twelve hundred sound recordings from comedy label Heliumcomedy Records. You can buy these sound recordings right now as I record.

The prices four hundred and fifty thousand dollars if you would like to get into the comedy recording business. The site says the offering contains over twelve hundred sound recordings from spoken word comedy label Helium Comedy Records, featuring such performers as Mary’s Anta, Dustin Nickerson, and Tyler Fischel. Titles are listed via the link below. Now what caught my eye as I looked at the links below. It’s assorted by performers.

I’m sure you see Mary Santora and Dustin Nickerson. I have to make the font bigger. Can’t read these tiny letters. I see Shane Gillis here, who in twenty twenty apparently got sixty six dollars worth of royalties. That’s interesting.

And see who else is on this list that you might know. Sean Patton Ali said, if you’d like to learn more about royalty, there’s all sorts of breakouts as to who is paying what what is being paid. Even if you want to see the top title, which was Caleb Sinan’s Being Poor, I’m trying a new mix. Today, I dropped my daughter at the airport and I was listening back to yesterday’s show, and I thought the show sounded a little basie. Every time I go on a zoom call, the zoom program resets all the levels on my computer.

So what happens here is I have a session so that what you’re hearing right now is now labeled Session DC August twenty twenty five, replacing a similarly named one with July in the title. And I use the same session over and over, so the show sounds the same. But I noticed whatever was going on, the theme music had gotten a little low. My voice has gotten a little basy. I didn’t tweak anything, but I think the zoom did.

So I went back in today and I boosted the music levels a little bit, added a little more high end to my voice, so hopefully it sounds better. I also, when I make the show, I edit on a program called descript, and sometimes that during thing adds some processing. Then I run the whole thing through a program called Aphonic, so that the levels are all over the place, of the highs and lows are kind of even out. And by the time you do all that and you run it through a phone and cart play and you’re driving on a highway. You never really know what it sounds like until you actually hear it.

That’s why when I go get my coffee in the morning, I listen back to myself just to hear how the show sounds. But hopefully this one sounds good. I won’t actually know until tomorrow. If you missed yesterday’s show, I’m now doing an eighth show for the paid subscribers. It is called DCN eight.

It is in the Apple podcast feed. For premium subscribers five bucks a month. You get Daily Comedy News and almost all the other shows on the network ad free. This couple episodes, you don’t get the Plant Lady. We didn’t have a deal with the Plant Lady.

That’s what the deal is there. But everything else commercial free and now in the Daily Comedy News subscriber free. Not only get Daily Comedy News ad free, you’ll get DCNA to where I talk about other stuff. I’m not bow guarding any comedy. I explained that yesterday, I’ll be You might want to check that out.

Over at the Fringe, they have announced the nominees for this year’s Festival Best Comedy Show The nominees are Dan Tiernan’s All In at Night, You Old Mucker, Ian Smith’s Footspa Half Empty, John Totthill, This must be Heaven, Katie Norris, Go West, Old Maid, Sam Jays, We The People, Sam Nick Rossetti’s Babydoomer and Creepy Boys Slugs. They also shared the best Newcomers Now the combination of people being newcomers at the Fringe and listeners to my podcast. I’m gonna guess that then diagram is pretty small, so I’m not gonna read you fifteen names that you don’t know. If you do listen every day, you understand that the Fringe apparently is the worst place on the earth. The Guardian’s headline today the hell of staying in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival.

Why does anyone go? Victoria Richards wrote, God, how I craved a hotel. But a hotel in Edinburgh in August for two nights was well over one thousand pounds. It wasn’t gonna happen. Student digs might not be so bad, a reasoned, But then I got there and my god, I’d forgotten the smell, that unique odor, the pervasive scent of teenage boy of unwashed socks and unaired rooms, and mold and badly ventilated showers and block toilets with suspiciously wet floors and basement flats without windows.

And I didn’t know you had to actually clean the carpet. This gets even funnier, and I haven’t pre read this. This is great. I just saw a word out of the peripheral vision. Not wishing to spend more than a minute longer inside my damn cell than I had to, I launched myself at the fringe.

The only trouble was Oasis or playing in Edinburgh that weekend. Ohay, sis, you guys ruined the whole comedy festival, You jerks with ther world tour, she writes, which makes the words of one Scottish man even more pertinent. He said locals need to get past too, you know, And look, I get it. I hated English people being in Edinburgh as much as any local, and I was one of the main offenders. Unsightly swarms of summer tourists descending on the city in troves not only drives out the prices for everybody, but it makes walking in the street the simplest of acts, the only one that doesn’t cost a fortune unbearable, if not downright impossible.

Yes, Okay, so listen, lady, don’t come to New York City between October first and February first, because that’s how we feel about the tourist in Times Square. Do you have any idea how much non sidewalk walking I do in New York City that time of year. I’m walking in the street alongside the park cars. I’m a gold medallist jaywalker. Okay, because you guys walk so slow, get off the sidewalk, keep moving.

Why did you stop? Ugh? I Deke rist A Dean McQueen is performing at the Fringe. Voicemag dot co dot UK caught up with Aidan, a stand up comedian from Ireland and a woman who’s been through just enough therapy to monetize her emotional chao. Her one woman show is Waiting for Texto, a play about heartbreak, grief and healing in the age of WhatsApp, yoga and passive aggressive self help memes.

Okay, I’m gonna ask you my daily question, dear listener, are you paying attention? They asked Aidan, if you had the power to change one thing about the Fringe to make it better? What would it be? What do you think? She said, one guess?

You only got one guess correct. She wants subsidize accommodation for artists. It’s the biggest barrier to access and it’s exhausting to make meaningful, radical art. While sharing a damp cupboard with a mime troop, Chortle went to see Jess Robinson show called Your Song. They say the premise cannot be simpler.

A woman of a thousand voices sings the greatest hits of Elton John in the style of various Divaschortle says every track is a banger, but now given a new interpretation. Shakira’s take on sorry seems to be the hardest word as a hit, as is Amy Winehouse’s Tiny Answer and Kate Bush’s Goodbye Yellowrick Road. It’s a little wacky. Yeah, I guess that’s enough for today. That is your comedy news for today.

If you like the program without commercial interruptions, open up Apple Podcasts. Click at the banner. It says uninterrupted listening. You push that and then some stuff will happen and it’ll explain it to you. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Uh oh, it’s August twentieth. You know what that is. That’s the two minute warning on Johnny Mack’s summer. I’m gonna panic and have to go to the beach ninety five times in the next ten days to Labor Day.

And Labor Day is a pesky Monday, September first, So all of a sudden, it’s gonna be like, hey, back to school. Uh. Conan O’Brien, Oh Hi, I’m Johnny Maack with your daily coming. He was. Conan O’Brien says Late Night TV is going to disappear, but quote people like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away.

I put the spin on light there. I think he said it as a compliments, and I’m not taking a dig at Kobert. I just noticed I put some spin on the sentence that I didn’t need to. Conan talked about all this while being honored at the TV Academy Hall of Fame ceremony. He was inducted as one of the six new members into the Hall of Fame, joining Ryan Murphy among others.

Macpacker Henry Winkler.

Speaking of macpack I’ve been oding on Bash Brothers, the Andy Samberg thing …

It came out like five years ago, and I put it on last week. It’s on Netflix. I’ve been watching it about once a day and playing the soundtrack endlessly. Just go check out Bash Brothers. It’s amazing.

Anyway, Mac Packer, Henry Winkler’s in the Hall of Fame. Now Conan’s in the Hall of Fame. Conan said, you know, people say that television is dying, but I want to ask you, if our industry was really in trouble, would we be gathered right now for our greatest night in a downtown Los Angeles Marriott on a weekend in August. No, Conan O’Brien joked, things are changing fast. I don’t claim to know the future of our beloved medium, but I know this, Getting the privileged to play around with an hour of television has been the great joy of my professional career.

We’re having this event now at a time where there’s a lot of fear about the future of television, and rightfully so. The life we’ve all known for almost eighty years is undergoing seismic change. But this might just be my nature. I choose not to mourn what is lost, because I think, in the most essential way, what we have is not changing at all. Streaming changes the pipeline, but the connection, that talent, the ideas that come in our homes.

I think that’s as quotent as ever. We have proof here tonight the elephant in the room CBS ending the Late Show with Colbert Conan said, yes, late night television as we have known it since around nineteen fifty is going to disappear. But those voices aren’t going anywhere. People like Steven Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away. It’s not going to happen.

He’s not going anywhere. Steven is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely. I had an idea that’ll never happen. It was recently the anniversary of the Larry Sanders show What If Colbert, And remember in the past, Colbert played a character called Stephen Colbert. What If Colbert went to HBO and did a new take on the Larry Sanders Show.

So it’s about what happens to quote unquote Stephen Colbert as he gets a quote unquote late night show on streaming. That could be fun, but that’s not what he’s going to do. That was my idea. Jimmy Kimmel is calling a hogwash on this insider report claiming that Colbert’s Late Show was losing paramount forty million dollars a year. Kimmel pointed as ever, said, there’s just not a snowballs chance in hell that’s anywhere near accurate.

All Right, that’s pretty clear he has more. The idea that Steven Colbert’s show is losing forty million dollars a year’s beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly analyze the budgets of the shows. I don’t know who they are, but I do know they don’t know what they’re talking about. I would imagine Jimmy Kimmel has pretty good insight into the finances of a late night show.

Maybe the real estate New York versus LA is different. Maybe Colbert’s show has eighty five times as many staffers who have even better benefits. You know, could be stuff like that. But if Colbert is saying forty million dollars a year is not realistic, he’s gotta be in the ballpark. Right.

Kimmel explained AD revenue is only one way shows make money, and that affiliate fees can also make a show profitable. It’s really surprising how little the media seems to know about how the media works. Yeah, like, if you want to be an ABC affiliate, you got to like sign up and I guess pay some money to the ABC’s I recently saw some TV stations stopped being affiliates. Let me see if I can find that story real quick. Yeah, here’s from the Hollowood Reporter in March.

Disney said the Thursday in March that WPLG, the South Florida TV station owned by Berkshire Hathway for the last eleven years, would be losing its ABC affiliation later this summer. That I think has now happened more from Kimmel. Suddenly he’s losing forty million dollars a year. I’ll tell you, in the first ten years I did the show, they claim we weren’t making any money, and we had five times as many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows what’s true.

I have to say, if Joe Biden had used his muscle to get Sean Hannity kicked off the air. You may be surprised to learn that I would not support that. In fact, I would support Sean Hannity in that situation because I thought one of the founding principles of this country was free speech. But people don’t seem to care about protecting it unless you agree with them. Kim Well declared this.

I don’t know about this, Jimmy said. More if people are watching late night television than ever before, including during Carson’s era, our monologues get between two and five million views, sometimes more. Every night. Seth Meyers gets two million on YouTube alone. We’re not even talking about Instagram or the other platforms.

The show John Stewart on a Monday night, we’ll get five million views. Then you add in the TV ratings. So the idea that late night is dead is simply untrue. Yes, but the idea that an eleven thirty show losing money is dead, that is true. I mean, if you guys want to just sit home and stream monologues, sure you’ll get views.

And what’s the monetization on a YouTube video versus network television. Jimmy, I mean, I’d pro late night here, but I do understand you have to be realistic about the money and to say like, oh, people are watching Seth Meyers on YouTube. Yeah, that’s nice. Kimmel wants you to vote for Colbert instead of Kimmel for the Emmys. He told Variety, it seems like voting for Steven is the least we could do at this point, and I think it’ll be a nice statement if he does win.

Obviously, awards don’t mean much, but every once in a while they do, and in this case that they get will No, it won’t. The headline will be Stephen Colbert wins Emmy, and then there’ll be articles like haha, CBS, your stupid faces, see what you did. And the show is still canceled. It doesn’t matter at all. All that said, sure, let’s give Stephen Colbert an Emmy.

Seems like a good guy. I’ve previously said if I were the Democrats, I’d get on the phone and call him. But the show’s not coming back. It’s done. It is an X show, it is deceased.

It is no more Late Nighter. Reports Kobert will not get a tenth anniversary special on CBS. That makes sense to me. It’s a dead show walking again. If you do a tenth anniversary special, No one’s gonna go, oh, those guys at CBS are cool.

They’re just gonna say, look at those idiots at CBS and now they’re doing a tenth anniversary special. What jerks they are? So yeah, you’re not getting a ten anniversary special. Sorry, all right, Enough with the late night Friend of the Show, Jen Marcos Soireesi. There was a podcasting expert quote unquote expert who wrote a big article about how you’re not supposed to say friend of the show or friend of the pod.

Why not? Why not? John Marco’s been on twice, seems to like me. His publicist definitely likes maybe treat notes all the time, So sure, Friend of the Show. John Marcos Soiressi is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of his first full length comedy special, Fief of Joy, that’ll be on his YouTube channel September nineteenth.

Thief of Joy blenched on Marco’s signature theatrical flare with deeply personal storytelling. Drawing from his life as a theater kid turned to theater major. He weaves together intimate anecdotes about his relationship, career, and parents divorce, all delivered in the animated style the New York Times called silkly feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation. Was that you, Jason Zinneman who wrote that phrase? I’m pretty sure if I google that exact phrase, that’ll come up right.

Let’s see who wrote that? Yes, that was Friend of the Show. Oh, I said Friend of the show again. I’m going to get a note from the podcasting expert Jason Zinneman. December one, twenty twenty three, New York Times.

Yep says here comic who alternates between silkily feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation. Love it. See I’m not good enough for the New York Times. My review would be like, Yeah, he was really funny. That’s why I’m podcasting in the basement.

Friend of the Show third time, Jason Zinneman. He’s writing for the New York Times. People who went to see Shane Gillis says Shane has a new opening video montage. It features clips of the Philadelphia Eagles defeating the Kansas City Chiefs. The montage includes a hit to the face of Patrick Mahomes.

Interestingly enough, the Chiefs and Eagles played each other week two. A lot of Pete Davison stuff lately, all coming from his interview with Charlemagne. What’s making headlines this week is Pete talking about how I canceled buck Guss and I got in trouble for it because I didn’t I love that show. I love doing buck Guss at a blast. Just got to a point where I really got tired of my whole career just being my personal life and living through that is sort of traumatic.

Not to be lame, but it’s traumatic to live in your own crap all the time. Pete said the show’s direction changed when a new collaborator stepped in. Pete says, this new person came in and was like, I think Pete should be banging Martha Stewart this season. I think Pete should have more mental issues. And I was like, oh, but I wouldn’t do that.

And then we’re like, well, Pete the character would, and I was like, I can’t do this. I was like, if I want any shot and being in real movies being seen a certain way, I just can’t play myself all the time and be this sack A at NBC react, they were not pleased. Have you seen me in any NBC Universal projects? Since they were upset, I cost people jobs, and I took care of the writer’s room and anyone who to get paid that needed to. I took care of it, which also hurt.

But it’s funny you work for company over a decade. Pretty sure. I brought in a lot of money, worked hard on the show as a good boy, like promoting it and whatnot. Made me realize. Yes, everything I’m about to tell you that Pete said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, It made me realize about the business.

No one actually cares about you. Studios, networks, they don’t really care about you. They want you to do the thing, which I get. And that’s all good. But there was a time when it wasn’t.

Seems like the New York Comedy Festival took my note. I mean, this was probably the plan already, but the original lineup, I was like, that’s it. Eh. Well, the new headline twenty twenty five New York Comedy Festival ads one hundred plus shows featuring Chris Gethard, Mitel Lane, Hannibal Burrs, Erica Rhodes, John Goblecan and Moore. Now now even that the one hundred plus show sounds cool, even those five names Getherared Matteo Hannibal Erica OWDs, John Goblcan those are not like you know, you know, I’m not reading you.

New York Comedy Festival ads Jim Gaffig and Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Shane Gillis, and whoever else you want to said like they’re nice and they’re leading with Gethard, Who’s nice. Highlights include Right Now with John GOBLECN on November seventh, The Magicians of Magic November ninth and tenth. These are the highlights of the New York Comedy Festival. By the way, I didn’t write the press release they did that show hosted by Chris Gethard November twelfth, New York’s Funniest Stand Ups on the twelfth, Comics to Watch, Jay McBride does a half hour that’s the title of j McBride show, Jays Fantastic Mateo, Nick Smith on the fourteenth, Monsters of Tokyo on the fifteenth, Hannibal Burus and Friends on the sixteenth in Brooklyn, Rika Rhodes Pushing Up Daisies at UCB on the sixteenth, and Ricky Valez on the sixteenth. Previously announced headliners for this year’s festival include Hannah Berner, Michael Blaxon, The Not So Canceled, Louis C.K.

Margaret Show, Alex Edelman, Chris Fleming, Pete Holmes, Morgan Jay Ismo, Ryan Long, Nurse, John Joheyesponder, Paul Denello and Amy Sedaris and Trevor Wallace. So let me just summarize this. So basically, the New York Comedy Festival is Louis C.K. Pete Holmes, and then who were putting third Hannibal burs Oh Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert’s on this one? Okay, so rephrasing this year’s at New York Comedy Festival is what Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K.

Pete Holmes, and Hannibal Burris, A bit of a drop this year in Saint Louis. Now, now here’s a lineup for you. In Saint Louis, they’ve announced the Flyover Comedy Festival. We’ll be back. Flyover is in November thirteen to the sixteen, so that’s probably right after New York in Saint Louis.

It features more than one hundred and fifty comedians across ten stages. Headliners include The Not So Canceled Disease I’m sorry, and somebody who I think might actually low key quietly be sailing along who right now might be the best comedian in the game, John did you just say that about who you didn’t name yet? I did you know who might really, low key if you pay attention, be pound for pound the funniest out there right now. And it’s also one of the headliners of the Flyover Comedy Festival. You know what name I’m going to say to you, and I want you to ponder it over the break.

Kyle Kanaan, Did you ponder mi Kyle Kanaan declaration? Think about it? He’s really good? Wyn’t you comment? The Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

Hey, Johnny Mack actually watched some comedy specials? I know, right? Yeah? Was this? Was it Friday night or Saturday night?

After I went tubing? Was some night I was too tired to do anything. Let’s see what did I put on first? I think I’d put on Devin Walker’s special because the buzz was good and I watched it. I think he’s a writer.

I think the materials there. I don’t think he’s a good stand up comedian performer, says the guy recording a podcast in his basement about the guy on Saturday Night Live. The Chris Rock joke, which we’ve previously talked about, is fantastic, But I don’t know. The special just didn’t feel like it was there when I switched over to Ralph Barbosa on Hilarious And by the way, what happens too Hilarious when it merges with Disney’s It’s still hilarious or is it going to be dislanarious? Not my problem because the pulp says won’t tell me anyway, Barbosa, this is one of those specials that I think civilians are gonna be like, oh, that was good, and comedy snobs like me are like, eh, it was fine.

Like I didn’t dislike it. I think I liked it better than the reviews I had seen about it, you know, because I went in there going O, everybody said this wasn’t good, and I thought it was better than that. But like, it just wasn’t. There wasn’t anything special, and I’m a snaps. I moved on and then I put on Chinnadoo Auka.

He’s part of the Kevin Hard Lol whatever on Hulu. That specials good. He’s really funny. Let’s keep an eye on him, and he might show up on Comedy stock Market this week. Out of the three I just mentioned, I really like that one.

Haven’t watched Jim Jeffries yet because I really like Jim Jeffries and I have high expectations going in and I was just tired, and then I wanted to check out the new Alien show, which brings me to new thing. Okay, give me a minute here and then we’ll get back to the comedy. I started a new thing. It’s called DCN eight. What’s that?

So you hear me from time to time trying to upsell premium subscriptions to Caloroga Shark Media, And you know what, it’s doing pretty well for us. You get this show and a bunch of others, including five Good News Stories, which I host, and Palace Intrigue, which is our big show, and you get those commercial free for five bucks a month. So for like five bucks a month, you get just about everything on the network ad free. There’s like a minor exception. There’s like one thing.

It doesn’t matter. If I was speaking casually, I would use the word all, but technically it’s not all, But like you know, anyway, I digress. Five bucks a month. It’s all commercial free. So I’m like, you know what, I want to just give the people who do that something extra, and I’m trying to figure out what it is.

So I dropped an episode yesterday of DCN eight. What I don’t want to do is I don’t want to be a jerk and be like, hey, I got a cool comedy story, but I’m not doing it unless you give me five bucks. So all the comedy stuff stays exactly how it’s been for seven years now, not changing it. I’m not going to be like, hey, I’m going to tell you my favorite specials of the air, but you got any five bucks. That’s not what this is.

That’s not at all what this is. So I dropped an episode and I talked about my trip to Niagara over the weekend, my tubing trip. Then I went to Niagra Falls, some stuff I did there. Then I talked about Taylor Swift, Alien Earth and Star Trek Strange New Worlds. So, like I’ve said four times, I’m not siphoning off comedy stories.

I don’t want to do that. But it’s just something extra and hopefully another reason to encourage you to be like, all right, I’ll spore the show five bucks. I’m on the commercial free it’s in the feed. I’m not putting rules on it. I don’t know what I’m going to talk about on it yet.

It’ll find its voice, like any new project, give me like a month and I’ll be like, oh, that’s what this should be. But I just was yesterday. I jumped in the pool. It’s got a cool, new snazzy theme song that I like. It’s like an inexcess vibe.

So to get that on Apple Podcast, click the bander that says uninterrupted listening. If you have already done that, you can find the show in your feed. And if you just want to try it out, there’s a thirty day free trial. So if you want to try out this commercial for everything, take the free trial. But I’m telling you today’s August twentieth.

It’s on you to remember, like September eighteenth to nineteenth, to cancel the thing if you don’t want it to renew, because if it renews, Johnny Mack gets five bucks. Actually Johnny make gets three bucks. Apple gets two bucks. But that’s a whole other thing. Okay, So that’s dcnight.

If you’re on Apple Podcast and you’re a premium subscriber. You’ll find it in the feed. Jordan Jensen, we’ll get a Netflix special on September ninth, her first hour specials called Take Me with You. In a statement, Jensen said, being a person is humiliating and grotesque. I’m not sure why we’re all pretending it’s adorable or palatable in any way, but that sounds hilarious.

Out today on the Comedy Exports YouTube channel at nine a m. Central Time, Love the Randomness and a three pm British time. It mentions Kai Humphries Mischief is out. Cherry and Spoon were at the Minnesota Fringe. So this isn’t the horrible Edinburgh one where you’re like, why am I even here?

Hotels are so expensive and nobody comes to my show and Oasis ruined everything. No, it’s not that one. This is the Minnesota one where people are probably Minnesota nice. Terry and Spoon went to see The Gentleman’s Pratfall Club summary. An actor tries to learn how to fall down for his audition to be TV’s new Captain Clumsy.

Love it the description There’s really nothing funnier than watching the comedy suitcase guys throw their bodies around the theater in the service of comedy. This reviewer says, it’s the hardest I’ve laughed in ten days. Why is it? The people falling down are so funny somehow, even more when it’s on purpose. The plot of the show is that Walter is a struggling actor going for one last edition for a show is not even into He just thinks it’s a good way to go on TV.

There were slaps, trips, getting tangled up in chairs. It’s good old fashioned physical comedy. That’s funny in any era, for all ages. That sounds fun It’s the gentleman’s prat fall Club.

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Meanwhile, over in Edinburgh, where Everybody’s miserable fringe voice caught…

Andy’s one man show, Baxter Versus the Bookies, recounts the fluctuating fortunes of a down trodden horse raiding tipster who pits his close up knowledge of horses against the flashy statistics of the online bookies, comedy and pathos. Hopefully Andy’s approach to the fringe. He said, I used to drink at the Penny Black till five am and still do two shows nowadays. My doctors told me to give up smoking and drinking or die. So this will be my first totally sober and nicotine free festival.

It’s going to be crystal clear. The Horror. Top advice for an artist considering the Horrible Fringe where everybody’s miserable, He says, like with betting, only do it if you could afford to lose. Edinburgh Festival is criminally expensive. Now if you listen every day, see if you can answer the question before I tell you the answer.

They asked him, if you could change one thing about the festival, what would it be? Do you know what I’m going to say? Do you know what he said? That’s right? No search pricing on accommodation or travel during the festival.

Why do people go? All? Right? That is your comedy news for today again, if you would like to program with that commercial interruption Apple podcast banner on a interrupted listening and now you get DCN eight with it. So check that out, SAE tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media preach Dusty Sleigh. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News on Twitter or x whatever it is. Dusty Sleigh wrote, I worked for tips on and off for over a decade. I love tipping, but tipping is out of control now. I’ll stop right there.

Yes, I mean yes, you live in America, right, or maybe don’t live in America. But if you live in America, you go anywhere you go get fast food, like, can we have a tip? I buy a smoothie, like can have a tip? No, Dusty Sleigh rights, When I go to a restaurant, I tip because that’s how they make their living. Everywhere else, I tip to show my appreciation for someone’s hard work.

But now tips are expected everywhere and it no longer shows appreciation if it’s just out of obligation. I don’t have the answer here. I’m just at the airport again. I got coffee in the water and it costs me ten bucks. I tip twenty percent and that’s two dollars.

Then I got food and it was twenty dollars, and I tipped five dollars because that guy did a lot of running around for me. The coffee shop worker barely did anything. I don’t mind tipping, but it just seems like every purchase I make a tip is expected. I would love to give tips, but when it’s expected, it’s not even appreciated. On the same Twitter timeline, the very next tweet was from John Clees The Python’s not getting along again.

Clees tweeted Eric Idol’s been complaining again that Python communications to him have been delayed. Fans may be interested to know that this could be because he refuses to accept any communications that are sent to him except through his lawyers. That slows it down a bit. Jeff Ross made his grand opening last night with Take a Banana for the Road. His Broadway show previews had begun on August fifth.

Last night was the proper opening. Take a Banana for the Road was named after his grandfather’s advice for traveling. The one man show follows Jeff Ross’s upbringing in New Jersey before earning the nickname Roastmaster. General Friday says Jeff uses humor and song to reflect on many not so funny topics, like losing his parents at a young age, as well as losing Bob Sackett, Gilbert Gottfried and Norm MacDonald in quick successions. In recent years, he’s accompanied by a giant led screen and a two piece orc.

Jeff said, I always want to do something extra. I’ve seen some Broadway shows that felt like breakfast and lunch, but I didn’t quite get dinner. I wanted this to feel like a full meal. I need a little schmaltz in my life. Before the first preview performance, Jeff said, I couldn’t sleep the night before, which was a good sign, but I wasn’t nervous.

There was a guy on the front row with his feet on the stage and his wife was on her phone. Her phone went off, and I’m like, oh, this is like any other gig. No phone’s gonna throw me off. Des Bishop at Oldhampton’s dot com. I spent most of my career in Ireland, so now that I’m back living in New York full time, it’s been fun to flip the outside of point of view I had in Ireland and throw that glance at the US.

Plus I get to explore the nostalgia of my childhood in a way I couldn’t in Ireland because those references wouldn’t have resonated with them. His influences. He says, when I first became aware of stand up, it was because of the popularity of Eddie Murphy. My friends and I watched Delirious and Raw on repeat and could recite the jokes to anyone who would listen. I think those of us at a certain age could probably do half of Raw off the top of our heads.

Like seriously, Des says, when I started stand up, I was really into Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and Chris Irish. Comics that people over here wouldn’t be as familiar with, like Dylan Moran and Tommy Chounan also inspired me in my early career. Now I just enjoy good bits when I see them. Social meeting is a blessing and a curse in our world, but one of the great things is the broad amount of people you get to see that I would never have been exposed to in the past. Brad Williams spoke to The Daily Gazette and said, people might think I’m gonna go on stage and say I could take a bath in a thimble, and that’s weird.

The audience will laugh, but think he’s not gonna be anything much beyond that. I would say having good sets and showing people that I’m a good name. It’s only taking me twenty one years to become an overnight sensation at the Palace Theater in Alby. There are really smart comedians out there that talk about what’s going on and of really intelligent, insightful jokes about the whole situation. I’m not that one.

My job is to tell jokes and make everyone come together and realize we’re not all that different. You’re sitting there watching my show. Everyone’s laughing. No one cares about race. No one cares you voted for, No one cares what race you are.

We lay down with you right too, no one. No one worries about that. Everyone’s at the same place at the same time. All of us have the same thoughts. Wow, this guy is funny.

Soup Connor whispers in the street gossip Conn, probably about Pete gossip Conn. Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Mac. It’s always a tree gossip. Connor whispers this tree gossip corn, probably Pe gossip Cone. Where the room is meeting with Johnny mags all in the tree and gossip corner is probably about Pete.

Pete Davidson was on with Charlemagne, the God and talked about bringing pop culture to SNL and making it a quote tabloidy trendy thing unintentionally. Pete said, I was embarrassed by it because no one talked about any work I was doing. They were just like, oh, there’s the uh F stick and that hurts so much. Urla Maine was confused and was like, you were banging a lot of hot chicks and had a ten inch you know. Pete says on paper that might sound great, but in reality he wasn’t happy with being sexualized by the public and was uncomfortable and explains he’s not the most handsome celebrity out there.

Quoting Pete, Pete said, it’s embarrassing because you know, it’s Hollywood. Everyone haves. Ever, why are they focusing on me. I don’t want to victimize myself in any way because I’m cool, but the sexualization of me. If that was a girl, people would be like, there’d be a march for it.

Seriously, you’re just talking about my thing all day. He was asked how the big energy started. Pete said, I’d think it was like the New York Times or something when I started dating someone that I guess they considered it out of my league, which I think everyone is out of my league, but you know, they were like this guy must have big energy, and then someone confirmed it, like not to be lame, but it’s traumatic to live in your own cramp all the time.

Also on Gossip Corner, Rob Beckett, you know him from was it l Last One Stand…

What was that? The Amazon show that I liked? You think i’d know the name of it? That one? Rob Beckett revealed he was quote frog marched, had of Mick Jagger’s eighty second birthday party.

Here’s some name dropping. How did Rob Beckett get to Mick Jagger’s eighty second birthday party? He was Jimmy Cars plus one and they had just left the Oasis concert. We’re told Rob Beckett had enjoyed several dreams and found himself partying with Ronnie Wood, you know from the Rolling Stones, at swanky Chelsea night club, the Rex Rooms. He told the Parenting Hell podcast.

It was a tiny little back room and Mick Jagger was there, obviously a lot of his ex wives and children from his ex wives, Sasha Baron Cohen, Ronnie Wood. It was really nice. They were really chatty and hospitable. The music was quite loud. I said hello to Mick Jagger.

I didn’t properly chat to him because there was another separate room that had him in it with Sasha Baron Cohen. Then I was like, I’ve had six pints of lager, two espresso martinis, and I’d say a bottle and a half of rose and just been to the best gig of my wife and I’m there with a Vakan soda. After being on a motorbike chatting to Ronnie Wood and Sally Wood and Jimmy Carr and I’m just talking about absolute to crap, rob decided to leave and was helped on his way by four security guards. He said, I got like frog marched out by four people that were holding on to me. Maybe I got kicked out.

I don’t know. They were walking me out. They’re like extracting me like I’m a rolling stone and there’s ten thousand people trying to grab me. He woke up in the morning to a text from his new friend ron Wood and said, that was one of the most mental nights of my life. All right, that one was fun.

This next one on Gossip Corner kind of serious from NBC four Los Angeles. They reported Paul Rodriguez was arrested at a Burbank restaurant on suspicion of misdemeanor narconics possession. A woman was arrested on suspicion of drug possession, and after searching the car, police arrested Rodriguez on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of narconics. Law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles that police found xanax and suspected fentanyl in the car. Rodriguez denied that the drugs were his, according to police.

NBC reports. Jail records indicated Rodriguez was cited and released on the next morning. Now back in March, Rodriguez had been arrested at a traffic stop near Victory Boulevard in Burbank. He was a passenger in a car in which the Burbank Police said narcotics were discovered. Rodriguez told TMZ the drugs did not belong to him.

In November of last year, a friend of Rodriguez died at his home in a drug rotate fatality. The cause of death was due to the effects of fentanyl. Sounds like a very very serious situation and nothing to joke about. On the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube channel seven pm Central Time. It’s TJ Miller the Philosophy Circus.

I like TJ. TJ’s comedy is a lot of fun. There’s been some colorful things on his personal resume, but his comedy’s fun. And kind of hung out with him in Chicago million years ago one night, I think, especially at a show. I think we hung out.

After my memory gets foggy, but I feel like I was at a show and TJ was up there with the guy who played the janitor on Scrubs. He was in a show. Anyway, I digress this Fringe man, What is going on with the Fringe? From the scotsman? Barry Ferns, who’s been performing at Fringe for twenty five years, why do you keep going if it’s so terrible, wrote in an open letter to the organizers that there needs to be fairness in the awards, pointing to the difference between performers with teams of ten technical staff, producers and marketing budget and solo artists.

Barry, can you write the same letter to the podcast industry? Thank you? The awards, which according to this article are known as the Oscars of Comedy. Not sure I’ve ever heard that phrase before, but what do I know? Have four categories including Best Comedy Show, the Victoria Would Award, the Best Newcomer Award, and the Comedy Hall of Fame.

Nika Burns Is, the director of the awards, wrote a response saying whether an act is unrepresented or represented is not a consideration. Mister Ferns wrote, mister Ferns is just funny because it makes me think of mister Burns. Mister Ferns wrote, one of these two acts a show for to the start line, fresh and focus. The other ask to run to the stadium just to be allowed to compete. And when they finally get there, they discover it’s not the one hundred meter sprint everyone else is running, but the hurdles, and they’re still expected to be just as fast.

They’ve been flying their own path through the city and the rains, Sorting their own press releases, funding the whole thing from savings or debt, without the hope of selling enough tickets to recoup it even if they sell out. Designing their own poster is, finding and managing their own flyers, booking their own venue, often collapsing into bed each night, too tired or we work a joke, let alone pitch to a journalist. Don’t go this sounds horrible. Every single day I’m reading you, folks an article about how the Fringe is a nightmare. Why does anyone do it?

Fern’s show is called My Seven Years is Lionel Richie. It’s about how performing at Fringe over decades left him bankrupt. What are we doing? Chortle wants to go see Dusty Creases Dance your Life Away. They wrote this could be an introvert’s worst nightmare and personally not my first choice for a fun time.

Well, there’s a review. Dusty Creases presents an hour heavy on physical participation, in which you’re asked to jump to your feet every few minutes to join in the moves. The dance teacher character just demonstrated, no, I’m with the reviewer. I just want to sit there. I don’t want to get up.

That show’s at the Pleasant Stome if you want to go. Voice mag has been speaking with some of the performers there. One is Jos Norris. Jozz’s show is called You Wait, Time passes. In it, I will finally unveil my life’s work, my secret project, which I’ve been secretly working on for thirty years.

I’ve done nothing but imagine this moment for three decades. What will it feel like? How will people react? What treasures will they heap upon me when they realize that’s what I’ve been sitting on this whole time. They asked him about his approach to the fringe, same message here.

Why are we going? Jaws says, It’s not possible to treat the fringe lightly anymore. It used to be possible to go up, not spend much money, experiment a bit, and come away having learned a lot. It’s now much more of a place where you invest in your career by showcasing a product. Because of that, I no longer think of it as doing the fringe.

I now think it’s a secondary concern, and the main focus is to make good work you’re passionate about, and to make that in its own time and its own pace.

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That results in taking a show up every two to three years rather than annually. If you had the power to change one thing about the Fringe, what would it be Reduce the rents. We hear this every sale article. What’s the best, worst, or weirdest review you ever received? Just said I made a show years ago which started with me frying a plastic gag.

It ended with me dressing up a sharp and floating out to see. Halfway through it, I urinated skittles into a jar. One review described the show as being unrelatable, and it really made me wonder what they thought I was going for, as though they thought the skittle bit, I was secretly thinking, hope other people have had this experience too. That is really funny, Josh Norris, You wait, time passes at the pleasant Stome And since that’s a good laugh, let’s get out there. That is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, they’re Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Master Brownnie caught up with the ABC, you know, not the American Broadcasting Corporation whatever, the Australian one is called that ABC, and they started talking about Colbert Gate, and Mos said, I love Colbert. I get my news from Colbert. He makes the news fun. I knew that Trump was gonna come after the late night talk show hosts, but I didn’t think it was going to be this way, where their own companies can them.

I thought Trump would maybe send the irs out to audit them or something, just make their lives hard. Because Trump, unfortunately doesn’t have a sense of humor. He doesn’t have to take a joke, which is what dictatorships usually are like. The job of the comedian is to reveal the emperor has no clothes. I think we need to keep doing that.

If we don’t, we’re gonna lose our democracy. I always say, the whole point of America is I can make fun of the president in America. I couldn’t make fun of the president of Iran. That wouldn’t work. We’re slowly seeing, maybe even fastly seeing, the American democracy crumble, and I think now it falls on our shoulders more and more as comedians to make fun of Trump and poke at him.

For my entire life in America, I’ve had to explain Iran. I just try to find funny ways to explain to people what I’m feeling. Like I say, I wish it were Swedish, because you were Swedish, you wouldn’t have to explain anything, right, you just talk about a Kia and Abba. Being Iranian has been a challenge, but it’s also obviously giving me plenty of material because I’ve been able to try and present people from Iran and other people from that part of the world, hopefully in a positive light versus what you see when they show us in the news. I worked with Mas at the Montreal Comedy Festivals.

All my stories now fifteen twenty years old. Yeah, boy, it’s got to be fifteen. Cool guy. I really enjoyed my time with him. Ma says, I grew up in America, so I always say that I’m not in Iran, but Iran is in me.

I feel an affinity towards the country of Iran. I feel an affinity towards the Socrates when they play I feel an affinity towards the people. The Iranian people are some of the most hospitable people. It is a place in my heart. Iran is a cautionary tale of what happens when you mix religion with politics, and currently living in America, we’re moving closer to becoming the Christian Republic of America is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

When I do a show, I have people of all backgrounds, all religions in the room. We’re laughing together and we’re humanizing each other. You get a room, We’re have a Palestinian, you have a Jew, you have a Muslim, people from different backgrounds and we’re laughing together, and then people realize, oh, he’s human. I’m human like Maz a lot. Good guy.

Bob oden Kirk is optimistic about comedy’s future. He tells Din of Geek, I’m not that worried. With the Internet and YouTube and all the streamers. There’s more comedy than there ever was, and there’s more platforms and opportunities than there ever was. They tend to pay less, but then they pay something and there’s more of them, so that’s good.

I think the biggest challenges can make a very good show now and almost nobody sees it because there’s too much to sample. The industry kind of does this journey of expanding and contracting, expanding and contracting. So possibly we’re going to contract a little bit. But I love how many platforms there are and how much variety we can see. As for Late Night, he says, some version of Late Night will continue.

It’s terrible what happened with Colbert, but I also feel I understand it. There’s a lot of late night shows that are very similar to each other, and I can see how much is online now. A lot of my viewing is online, so I understand that it’s going through these changes. I’m okay with it. There’s gonna be a lot of opportunity for us.

John Oliver was on Monica Lewinsky’s podcast last week. John said, with all these stories going on, it brings something out of you, like it’s there that anxiety that I thought i’d moved past the day I got my citizenship. John feels like attention is now being weaponized and that he himself can get sent back to the anxiety he felt for a very long time, very quick. It’s not far from the surface, and it does feel personal. It’s one of the things I get really mad about, and therefore I want to use our show to show Americans who may have heard things like come in the right way, just do things the right way, and not fully understand just how antithetical that is to the process that actually exists.

Weirdly, in the Trump administration’s defense, they said all this out loud. I think it’s very convenient for people not to believe it, because then it feels like you could vote for them and think, yeah, sure, I voted for you, but I didn’t vote for that. For people being chased across fields. Well, no, you did, though, because they again I can’t believe I’m defending them. They did say this, they said all of it.

You just chose not to believe it. The Guardian caught up with Jennif Friedman, Michelle Wolf and Sam Jay. They’re at the fringe. The headline in The Guardian it felt like a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale. US comics on the dangers of political satire.

You now, before we get into the story, whatever you think of the politics of the story, that is the perception of the United States around the world right now. Again, the subheader US comics on the dangers of political satire. In The Guardian, they dusted off a story I told you about earlier in the year from Jennif Friedman. I’ll fly through it quickly. She’s in the Vancouver airport.

She’s heading home to the US. Someone she thought worked for airport security asked about her visit. She said, I was doing comedy. Then he asked, what do you joke about. I lightly flirted with him and was like everything other than airport’s security.

He didn’t react at all. Then I realized he was border control. He asked again, what did you joke about. I froze because I’m a political comedian I know to say. Then he said, do you joke about politicians?

The Guardian rights she made it home, but the incident stuck with her. She tells The Guardian it did feel like a scene out of The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m a blonde, white woman who looks like a Republican’s wife, and I have an American passport. But what if I had said, yes, don’t we want to live in a country where you can joke about politicians, or we can joke about anything. Michelle Wolfe lives in Barcelona.

These days, We’re told she’s yet to encounter border trouble, but with reports of people with green cards and citizens being detained, she says, I’m keeping an eye on it. She says, I feel like I have to address the whole America and Trump thing. People expect me to say something about it. I don’t like making it a large part of my set because it bores me. There’s always something crazy happening, but it’s hard to come up with creative angles other than that.

Can you believe this? Sam Jay says? How did we get here as Americans? Of course, I think race plays a large part in it, and how did these race relations get to the way they are? Not just blaming white people, but exploring the type of white people we’re dealing with and why they might be the way they are their roots in England.

She says, of Trump, he’s the symptom of this, not the cause. This is a result of years and years of us doing it wrong. It’s been building for a long time and a lot of different reasons. Sam Jay says, the mood in America chaos. There’s no way to keep up.

People are also very desensitized. Stuff just keeps happening in more extreme ways that people are losing a metric for it. The Guardian asks what does the future hold for US comedians Jennifer and says it’s too soon to tell, but I think everybody exercising the US First Amendment in a way that’s funny disarming is really important right now. I feel that article is a little alarmist. The BBC asked Josh Johnson or the things about the Internet that were you in terms of yourself as a comedian.

Josh said, I think as lot as I stick to the attitudes I have now and the things are doing now, I don’t have much to worry about. At some point after you realize what is yours and what is not. When you’re becoming known for the first time, you might trick yourself into thinking it’s just because of you, but really it’s a moment. I think that what you do with that moment is very important. If you handle it well and carry yourself well, then you can establish yourself for a long time.

It’s not as if the most popular comedians we reference when we think about stand up comedy were flashing the pan. We think about the people who stayed. I think they stayed because of what was built around them and what they did with it. In Los Angeles Today, the Brody Stevens Festival of Friendship a benefit in honor of the late to Brody Stevens, who passed away in twenty nineteen. The event raises money and awareness for comedy gives back at the Comedy Store tonight at eight o’clock.

Bill Burr, Robbie Hoffman, eleanor Kerrigan, Dean Delray, Dan Levy, and Doug Bentson all confirmed to attend. Paul Reiser is getting a sitcom with Fox untitled. The comedy series follows the dysfunctional fallout after the family has failed to launch twenty something. Sun is forced to work alongside his father, Paul Reiser in the less than glamorous New Jersey damaged goods business that sounds terrible. Just show a football game, guys.

Bob Newhart will be honored in September. North Sheridan Road between Ardmore and Thorndale will be renamed for Bob Newhart. He used to live in a condo over there. Friday September fifth, which would have been Newhart’s ninety sixth birthday. Bob Newhart born in nineteen twenty nine.

In oak Park, attended Saint Ignatio’s College Prep and Loyal University, where theater bears his name. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, Gossip conn probably Bopete, gossip conn awhere the rumors meet with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. Gossip Connor whisp business Tree, Gossip I have gone Probably gossip Cone wethers with me with Johnny Mactoe in the Tree. I really do walk around my house singing that song. It is Jorn Catchy on gossip Corner.

Did Kathy Griffin have plastic surgery? Did she have a face lift? We asked Kathy Griffin why I didn’t, but somebody did. Kathy Griffin said, you guys, I had a face lift. That’s right.

I talk about it now. I know it’s not the most exciting thing. I just think it’s funny that I’m even having one, because it’s not like I’m known for my face. You talked about the doctor who did it and said he just looks at you and he’s like, yeah, you got a lot of problem areas. I can’t fix that.

You have to live at that part. But okay, I can do this. We’re gonna move this around and who did your last one? She says, they get really competitive about who did the last one. By the way, this is my third.

Jimmy Kimmel still off this week, and Colbert’s off for three weeks as well. That’s interesting. Tiffany Hattish will host Kimmel’s show. She replaces come Out on Gianni, who was originally announced a host this week. It is believed he has opted out because of scheduling conflicts for reels.

He’s in broad Way previews for his debut in Oh Mary, a dark comedy. If I were working on cbs L’sbeth, I would get my resume ready because they are taking on the Curse of Andy Richter. In case you don’t pay attention, if Andy Richter appears on your show, it gets canceled. Even Conan O’Brien was unable to survive the Curse of Andy Richter. Andy will appear on Elle’sbeth.

He will play the sidekick of Stephen Colbert’s Scotty Bristol character. Andy Richter will play Mickey Munks, the hilarious but long suffering sidekick on Way Late with Scotty Bristol. That sounds hackier than hack out. Today on The eight hundred Pound Guerrilla available for early access, Moe Welch’s Hollywood Forever, and Johnny Mack. You never talk about Howard Stern, I know in GQ, Vince Mancini, right, So Howard Stern went from shock jock to centrist cat dad.

If his audience couldn’t follow him, that’s not his fault, Vince writes, I’ve been a loyal Sternee since he first became available to those of us on the West Coast in the late nineties. He never struck me as all that shocking. Despite everything that made it infamous, the show was more like comfort food, a way to be part of a conversation even when you were alone. When Stern moved to satellite, he immediately shelled out for a serious subscription that I probably couldn’t afford, And with the show’s replayed throughout the day, I could listen to them almost any time I wanted. It’s easy to recount the hits, but good bits don’t do much to pinpoint the actual appeal of the Howard Stern Show, which would broadcast for almost four hours every day well back in the day, I CARO could be four plus it started six and go to ten something.

The show was a running hang that I can imagine myself being part of, and that sounds much easier to pull off than it actually is. It did. Yeah, I totally it felt like a hang you could imagine yourself being part of. I definitely, back in the day would have dreams that I was just like on the show, as like sixth Guy. These people felt like friends.

I get it, Vince, who writes, I also haven’t listened to Stern for probably fifteen years. I’ve been throwing that fifteen year number around myself. There’s had nothing to do with this famous turnaway from cheap gags and casual sexism, is increasingly therapy influenced introspection, or his gradual slide into normy liberalism and dramatic like that. It just so happened that the explosion of podcasts, which we’re free at first seem to coincide with my not having a car for the first time in my adult life. With so many different versions of a similar thing so widely and more easily available, my need for the Stern Show suddenly it didn’t seem so pressing.

I can’t honestly say that I upgrew him. Had it been a more frictionless transaction. I might have stuck around, but I got out of the habit, and suddenly it seemed less important. Now. Part of getting out of the habit was when Howard cut down to three days.

I still listened to him in the serious years, and like when the show was what did they do on Friday? Best of? Or like shuffling the stuff from early in the week. You know, you stop listening, you take enough vacations, you find something else to do. That’s why I like, for example, I make sure the show always goes out.

Do I pre tape? Absolutely? Did I pre tape today’s show? I did because I took a vacation day today. Did you notice until just now?

Possibly not? Does it matter? Really doesn’t. As Stern as aged and softened, his world seems to have gotten progressively smaller, not because he sold out or gone woke, or any other dramatic reasons his critics sight, but for more understandable reasons, like the fact that he’s a hypochondria near billionaire with OCD who’s seventy one years old and has been getting up at four am for most of his working life. His latter day career is proof that if nothing else.

Evolving with the times looks a lot more dignified than trying to be the exact same person you were in two thousand and two. No, I get it. You know, at seventy one years old having young women in the studio and doing the sort of things he used to do. It’s super creepy, you know, not a good look. But to pretend it never happened, that’s my issue with Howard.

To pretend that stuff never happened. Where are the clips? Why can’t we watch the clips? We all know what happened. I’ve got some cassette tapes of the old Howard Stern show.

We know these things went on. No, you do have to age gracefully. I totally get that. But to pretend the other parts didn’t happen, that’s the part that bugs me this whole. Howard Stern was the great interviewer.

That narrative, that’s nonsense. Howard Stern was the great shock shock and then the last ten years of his career decided to interview people. Just stop with the revisionist history. That’s the part that annoys me. And that is your comedy needs for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Don’t go calling what Mark Maren does an interview show? Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with a robust Sunday edition of Daily Comedy News. More from Maren with the Hollywood Reporter. Maren’s as it’s not an interview show.

I needed to be in that show, and it was instinctial to insert myself into the conversations. It took some people a little time to adjust to that. They were used to interview shows, and I’ve never ever seen it as an interview show. They asked if Maren envies any of the one hundred million dollar plus deals that some other folks have gotten. Maren said, we did all right, definitely, well enough for us to live the rest of our lives.

But those kind of deals come with extreme responsibility. Why would I want to start scrambling now? The Holly Reporter writes he’ll mock the podcast industrial complex, but Maren’s also happy to play the mayor. Between a meeting in July and a phone call two weeks later, Maren guessed that on no fewer than nine podcasts, the conversation changes to you unnamed podcasters. But the Holly Reporter says, there’s little doubt he’s talking about Rogan Schultz and THEO Vaughn.

Maren says, how they became the orbiters of what comedy shood or shouldn’t be as an effing nightmare. This anti woke idea around free speech with comedians is bs. Whether they knew it or not, they were being used by the right to push this anti woke agenda which is now disassembling every progressive policy. They’re responsible. I can’t let them off the hook for that, even if some of them are kind of backpedaling now.

As for the future, maren says, my social life has really been the podcast, mostly in comedy clubs. I’ll probably go back to AA meetings for a bit of support to not spiral out with the isms, as they call it. But I don’t do dinner parties. No one invites me anywhere. I don’t vocation with friends.

I need to nourish more relationships. Does he want to be invited out more? Yeah? I won’t want to do it, but once I’m there, I’ll be good. I think that some people like to have me around.

Maybe this is all the change talking. Maybe I’m just an old man yelling at the burning sky helf. Cosmetics is catching heat for including Matt Rife in their latest campaign. People are bringing up Matt Rife’s domestic violence joke from his twenty twenty three Netflix special I will be honest here. I had forgotten about that joke.

People on social media are mad at ELF Cosmetics for including Matt Rife, who they claim does not respect women. One person wrote, bruh, not matt Rife. I love y’all as a brand, but Matt Rife is not a good person. Nikki Glaser told Variety that society glamorized not eating. Nicki said, the most notable thing you could do was to not eat or follow diet, and I was like, Okay, finally I’m good at something.

But it started killing me. This next part’s pretty serious. In college, she said, I didn’t want to get better. I didn’t have any reason to because I was like, my life sucks. I kind of went off to college to die.

Was my path to suicide pretty much, because I look so freakish. I just turned my personality up real high because I needed to make friends. I was more funny, more outgoing and always telling stories. I was louder than I’ve ever been in my life. She started to get feedback about how funny she was.

There was a poster for a stand up showcase. A friend took the sign and ran into my dorm room, slammed it on my desk and said, you’re doing this. She started doing research, came across Sarah Silverman. Glazer said, she gets to be yourself and you want to be friends with her, and she also seems like a nice person, but then she gets to say these really weird, out of context, terrible things, and he still like her. That fascinated me.

She eventually winds up on Last Comic Standing and says, I thought I had arrived. I thought things were starting to come in, and they didn’t. I had to move back home with my parents. She did smaller rooms, appeared on some podcasts, started participating in roasts and said I didn’t want to do another roast because I was approaching forty and I don’t want to get called an old horse faced horror over and over. It hurt my feelings every time I did a roast previously.

Then she heard about the Tom Brady roast and away we go. She pitched herself as the Tom Brady of roasting and says, I don’t even know what that meant, but I stand by it now because as I researched Tom Brady, I learned how he was kind of underrated. He was good, but like the one hundred and fifth draft pick. But he trained perfectly and optimized every moment of his life to make sure that when he stepped down on the field he could be as good as possible, and he didn’t take any shortcuts. I always thought that talent was something you were born with or not, but I’ve learned you can be great at things if you just work harder than anyone else.

Not sure that’s true. Part of it. You got to have the charisma. I got to have the look. I’m not sure I agree there, Nikki Glaser.

Nicki says Tom Brady changed my life. The next day I started seeing headlines, started being recognized everywhere. Things went back to normal within three days. But it was twenty years to being an overnight success. Yep, you hear that a lot with comedians.

Glazer says, there’s a lot more interest in me from the industry over the past couple of years. Now I’m in a position where people want to develop things around me. One of her dreams is to be on White Lotus. Leanne Morgan tell’s time people want authenticity and they want to learn who somebody really is. I think that’s my advantage.

People accuse her of doing a fake accent because they can’t pinpoint where it’s from. Her first husband had suggested she get diction lessons. She says, I know it’s thick, but I think it’s made me stand out. Nate Pergetzi says her accent is her accent, and that adds the flavor. As recently as twenty eighteen, club owners were turning her way.

She says. Club owner said, we love her. She doesn’t get drunk and fight in the parking a lot, but we’re not having her back. She can’t sell a ticket. She’s happy that she got famous in her fifties, but I’m too tired.

Something awful. Billboard talked to Sebastian Manascalgo about Pete Corielly the Gator. Pete hates that nickname. Jim Brewer had tagged Pete with that nickname when Pete was the co host on Jim Brewer unleashed paraphrasing here, it’s because Pete has big teeth and he would all of a sudden come out of nowhere and bite you with. He was like a sniper on the show.

Jim would tell ten twelve minute stories and Pete would come in and say one line and get the bigger laugh. Pete’s fantastic, Sebastian said, we’ve been doing the Pete and Sebastian Show about twelve years. We started it out of the sheer enjoyment of calling one another on the phone and laughing. I said, you know what, we should record these phone conversations because if we’re cracking up, I’m sure other people would crack up. Pete’s more of a beer and peanuts Neanderthal, and I’m more of a wan and cheese guy who likes the finer things in life.

That’s a great description of Pete Corielly. At first we were just doing audio. He’d be in a car inside of Starbucks, ripping Wi Fi off the Starbucks, and I’d be in a hotel room in Denver. It’s not guest driven. We’ve had maybe twelve or thirteen guests on our show over the course of twelve years.

It was just two guys talking. We’re not making a dime, but it’s always been a passion project for us. Yelly Times talked to Charlie Day about shaving off his beard for a gag in the current season, it’s always sunny. It’s having a renaissance. It’s like they turned back time.

This feels like a vintage season. I don’t know what happened. A lot of people think it’s because they did the podcast and it got them revisiting the earlier seasons. But you know, I wonder what we have to season seventeen, the Ireland season was off but COVID and last year was okay. There were a couple funky seasons, but this season’s On point of shaving, Charlie Day said, it was horrible just to see how old the man is under the beard.

Once you take off the eyebrows, that’s when it really starts to look freaky. We had that idea, and we knew we had to shoot at last, because if I was gonna shave, that’d be the last thing we’re gonna shoot. Right after we wrapped, I went on a little vacation with my wife and son and I rarely got recognized, which is funny. Every now and then people were fans of the movie Pacific Rim because I didn’t have a beard in those movies, they’d be like, Hey, where you been? Were you not working?

The funny thing is I couldn’t unlock my cell phone with that look because I look so different.

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Vulture did a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty five so far. This was last updated on August six. Let’s just fly through it real quick and see what they’re into. Mark Maren Panic. Yep, but I have that at the top my list for this year.

Steph Tolev’s filth Queen didn’t do it for me. Let’s go at Kotska’s father was okay. I liked your previous special better, Mike Berbiglia The Good Life. I just don’t enjoy the Mike Berbiglia specials. I liked it twenty five years ago when he just did stand up.

But I get if people like Burbiglia, Brent Weinebox popular culture is on YouTube, I’ve not seen that one. Vulture writes for every new cohort of clubby Punchline comedians and truth telling trauma explorers, somewhere a weirdo rises. In this case, it’s Wineboch doing a bizarre smattering of impressions. With no coherent design except that they’re all odd mashups and off center angles, regularly designed as setups with little payoffs. That sounds like my kind of special.

I will have to get to that. I also have to watch Borbosa. I also have to watch Jim Jeffries on Dropout, Cameron Esposito’s Four pill I haven’t seen that because it’s on Dropout. I do like Cameron. They have Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Years on Hulu.

I didn’t think that was good at all. Rosebud Baker’s The Mother Load on Netflix. I didn’t enjoy that one because of the back and forth between the two different sets. I get the gimmick, but it didn’t do it for me. Roy Wood Junior Lonely Flowers.

That’s way back in January. That one was pretty good, right all right? So that’s Vulture’s list of the best so far. I might as well open up mine real quick, since we’re talking about it all right ready. Top Tier, Mark Twain, Price Cut On O’Brien, Shing, Gillis, ESPN Monologue, Tom Sigorre Bad Thoughts, Mark Marin, Four Tires five, Justin Willman, Magic Lover, Dusty slay Bert Krascher, Brett Goldstein, Sarah Silverman Voice Mag’s been talking to folks at the fringe.

Susan Harrison said the fringe has definitely gotten bigger and more expensive as the years have gone on. That means my approach has been to wait for six years until I could afford it again financially, but also in terms of energy and time spent preparing and self producing. I keep saying this every time I do these fringe stories, inches sounds like a nightmare. Why does anyone go? It just sounds terrible.

You’re staying in like hovels, spending all your money. I don’t get it. For what I mentioned on the back end of a summer Sunday Daily Comedy News episode, is it worth it? Her show? Is?

Should I still be doing this? At the Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower PIP at seven point forty, Eric Idols spoke to The Guardian. They think in the Python TV shows and movies he seems to be enjoying himself the most. Eric Idle said some things in Python were very enjoyable and some were not. Holy Grail was cold and miserable sometimes that makes it funny.

One of the worst things you could have in comedy is enough money. Python was quite a lot of arguing and fights, and good work is often like that. The best thing about show business is when it’s over. I think if you’re enjoying yourself, then you’re non acting or giving. You’re just having a good time.

Well that’s not funny. What was his favorite project? The Ruddles and spam Alot were both just fabulous times. One of the things I talk about in the show I call mock and roll because we’re all the same generation. The art school kids went into music when we went into comedy.

My theory is that Python is the first group of mock and roll because we ended up in the Hollywood Bowl just like the Beatles. And I think the second group in mock and roll was SNL. On the first show I hosted, John Belushi, impersonated Joe Cocker to his face. They sang together, there’s something magical about that. Eric Idol, are you happy to be captured by AI for posthumous performances and royalties?

Idol said they don’t pay royalties. I always felt we ought to protect our images. After I saw that tacky commercial with Fred Astaire and the vacuum cleaner, feel very bad about that. So I felt that the pythons ought have done something to protect our image in a way that’s appropriate. But I don’t think there’s a way that’s appropriate.

I have had my image done on one of those extraordinary machines where forty cameras captured from every angle, was for a film they wanted to make. But it worries me. I don’t trust AI. I mean, look how many times you have to correct a word it completely misreads you. Chat GPT writing essays really bothers me.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Slate caught my attention with the headline the Cults of Kill Tony. Luke Winky writes under the headline Tony Hinchcliff’s fame skyrocketed after he made a joke that spooked even Donald Trump in Texas. I watch how he became the most powerful comic in America.

Luke writ’s doing well on the program can be genuinely life changing. Kim Patterson, an affable storyteller with a thick Florida accent, was working on a golf course when he first passed through the Mothership in twenty twenty three. He crushed his set two years and five hundred thousand Instagram followers. Later, Deadline reported that Kim is part of the upcoming Kevin Hart comedy seventy two hours.

Meanwhile, Casey Rockett was living in his car when he moved to Austin after …

He’s now admit a nationwide tour. On the other end of the spectrum, bombing on Kill Tony can leave a burgeoning comedy career in tatters. For every Patterson. There are scores more overmatched stand ups who crack under the immense pressure of the moment, punch lines or botched pacings, muffed flop, sweat beads on foreheads, and those sixty seconds begin to feel like an eternity. Hinchcliff smells blood in the water.

The post interview morphs into a brutal heezing. The subject then SLINKs back through the enveloping curtains at the rear of the stage, smarting from an uncoverable psychic wound, broadcast for the whole world to see. Stephanie Robertson is a comedian who on the Dose of Reality podcast said that was the worst moment of my life. We all bomb in comedy, but everybody has access to my bomb. I was like, my life is over.

I’ve humiliated myself. The piece then walks through how kill Tony works in the history of Kill Tony. I imagine if you listen to this podcast, you are familiar with most of that story. Mike Gleeson, a forty five year old comedian from Chicago, till slate. He moved to Austin with the specific intention of getting on Kill Tony.

Gleason said I needed to find my audience, and I feel like this is my audience. Every other aspect of comedy show out edgy voices. It’s more mainstream. Everybody wants to get on TV. I had no interest in getting in the Tonight Show.

I think Kill Tony is better than the Tonight Show. A good episode of Kill Tony is better than the Tonight Show. A bad episode of the Tonight Show is better than a bad episode of Kill Tony. If that makes sense. That’s my opinion there not.

This late piece, Brian Garr talked about the change in the Austin scene. It was night and day after COVID. You could immediately tell who was new. They were all young, they’d all moved here from Io or whatever, and they all had a trans joke, all of them. It was like a signifier for them.

We could tell immediately it was here to get on Kill Tony. It’s a bunch of kids in their twenties trying to impress a bunch of dudes in their forties. Comedy establishment does not like that Kill Tony exists. All right, maybe I’ll pick it that some more tomorrow. Sebastian Maniscalgo, speaking of a billboard magazine to discussed whether or not he’s a foodie.

He apparently hates the word foodie. Sebastian said, I wouldn’t say one of those guys who’s like, ah, there’s a nineteen sixty nine Portel that you gotta have, or this wine has notes of cedar. I just know what I like when I drink. My wife and I got married in Napa, and I was introduced to one about fifteen years ago through my father in law, who’s a big wine guy. When it comes to food, I like to cook.

I’m not doing any castronomy over here. I’d like to make steak. I like to make chicken. We do taco night for a kid, so I’m always trying to perfect the taco meat. My daughter, who’s eight, I made burgers for last night and she said, Danny, I like it, but it’s got too much oil on it.

I had put a little oil on the bun and then put him down on the grid toe him a little bit. I overoiled it, which I knew, and she picked it out. I was like Jesus, eight years old. Eight years old, I didn’t care what I was eating. But apparently my daughter is Bobby Flay Sebastian, have ever gone back to Sicily to see your father’s origin?

Sebastian said, I took my father about twelve years ago. My father and I always wanted to go back to his hometown. He never took us when we were kids, and then later in life, I said, we got to make a trip. Then he goes down with quadruple bypass surgery. He comes out of that and I go, listen, We’re going to Sicily before he died.

It’s got to happen. So shortly after he had the surgery, me and him took a journey to Sicily, to the Amalfi coast and in Rome. I got to see where he grew up. It reignited his passion to go back to his hometown and reconnect with old friends. It’s nice to see that he’s fallen in love with where he came from because he was so worried about work.

My father came to this country and that’s all it was work. Hey, this whole mentality. If you left too long, people are gonna forget him, which I have too a little bit. In comedy nowadays, you feel like you’ve constantly got to be out there touring on on Instagram. Then I talked to Chris Rock and he’s like, you can’t make an entrance if you never leave the room.

That’s great advice, Chris Rock. I took that to heart. I think I’ve established a fan base where if it did take some time off and wasn’t constantly out there, I’d keep them when I came back. So I’m trying to take Chris’s advice. Josh Johnson a lot of buzz on Josh.

He spoke to the BBC about the Johnny Corson era and how things have changed in comedy. Josh shed Now it’s sort of direct to consumers posed before we had the TV networks that worked as sort of the buyer. Back then, it was a sort of one size fits all approach. That’s why so few people could break through and why breaking through to the masses was this instant success. But there’s only a golden era of each thing.

There’s only so long that something gets you something before everyone’s trying to do it, and then it doesn’t do what it used to do. I look at trajectories and how to advance a career in the same way I look at stock tips. By the time I find out it’s too late. By the time someone can give you a template of everything to do to get where you want to go, that thing’s probably outdated. I can’t necessarily speak to what everyone’s career was like in the Johnny carsoner Jay Leno era, but I imagine that audiences stuck with you because of the moment they got swept up in when you were being created.

I think with the Internet that people that find you now are staying with you because of who you are. Josh continued, there is something to be said for old systems continuing to still be good for you. There’s this idea that being on TV sort of isn’t what he used to be, right. I think that’s just because with the Internet, people have more options. But that doesn’t mean that these platforms that are either legacy names or have a very wide reach aren’t incredibly influential to a person’s career.

I think there’s this idea that independent creators and independent media will one day take over everything. I don’t actually think that’ll be what happens. I think independence will gain more market share in the future. But I also think that you cannot understated when people get out of traditional TV, traditional movies, traditional news and everything. As much as we like to think they make bad decisions, I think we still like the idea that there’s a big thing a person could do.

Kevin James told DW he didn’t think Ray romano sitcom was gonna work. He said, I couldn’t believe it. He’s such a low energy guy. Sitcom guys to me were like big, wacky characters. I’m like, this is death.

It’s not gonna happen. The first few years of going with Ray, even when our shows came out, would go to CBS functions and things like that red carpet. Things were so rough because they knew him. But my SHOWO had just come out, so they’re taking a thousand pictures of Ray. I’m just kind of standing there.

Nothing’s clicking. When he would attempt to get closer to Ray Romano, the photographers would ask him, could you move over? He says it was tough. Kevin James said he learned everything from Ray Ramono on how to do a sitcom. One tip was how to underplay a scene.

Romano was so good on his sitcom and the way through things away. I was like, wow, we have to watch him and learn from him because I’m going to be too big on cameras. So even in the King of Queens when I see episodes now, I’m like, throw it away, kid, what are you doing? I’m like, gee whiz. I wish I could go back and redo it.

Steve Martin is heading to Chattanooga. He will be co hosting the International Bluegrass Music Associations Bluegrass Music Awards It’s Complicated September eighteenth that Memorial Auditorium. Steve said, I’m thrilled to be hosting with Alison Brown and connecting with all my bluegrass friends as opposed to my kind of dumb comedy friends and now for something completely different. The Briton Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating Monty Python. Ten stamps celebrating things like Nudge, Nudge, Know what I Mean and the Lumberjack Song.

Other stamps include the Spanish Inquisition, I Didn’t Expect That, the Ministry of Silly Walk’s Dead Parent, and the Nude Organist. Four more stamps honor the fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python on the Holy Grail, including one showing the Black Knight insisting it’s but a scratch. Michael Palin said he was very glad to share a stamp with the nude organist. Boy, that’s a lot of fun. Just for Laugh Sydney is coming back in November thirteenth edition.

Good to see the Just for Lass people are rocking. This year’s confirmed performers include Eddie Zord, John Bishop, Ashley, Gavin, Rob Beckett. You Yanks may have noticed Rob on last one laughing, Reggie Watts, dre le Eth Reagan and a bunch of names that you may not recognize at this point. Now, I know you’re listening every day, going Jenny Mack, stop talking about the Fringe. I’m not going to Scotland.

You keep telling me these shows are playing. How do you really expect me to go to Scotland and CdSe shows? Well, friend, listen to me. I’m here to tell you about fringe at home. Shortlist dot Com put together a list of the comedians which I would be reading to you now, except my browser just froze as I started to scroll down the page.

Now, why don’t you edit this out, John, because that’s not fun. It’s still not responding. Apparently shortlist dot Com does not get along with the Safari browser. Let me open up Chrome if you’re a new listener. We’re a little more casual on the weekends around here.

Ah. Yes, on the Chrome Responsive website. Some shows you could watch. Patrick Spicer’s Pivotal you’ll find that on YouTube. Jeff Innocence Smart Casual also on YouTube.

In his words, he became an overnight viral sensation after doing comedy for twenty seven years. Sarah Milliken’s show Chatterbox is on YouTube as well. Short list tells us she’s a cornerstone of British comedy for a reason. If you want to dissect the world of fashion, exercise, cake and relationships, this one is worth the watch. Vittorio Angeloni Translations.

Okay, he was one of Montreal’s new faces. He was fantastic. Why don’t you watch this? Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feelingcouraged to join the group, Dylan, are you listening? Dylan?

You’re gonna watch Vittorio Angelone’s Translations full stand up special on YouTube? Okay? Because why am I calling out Dylan before I even have breakfast? Dylan has watched three comedy specials every single day. I don’t know if he stays up later, I don’t know if he gets up earlier, but like Jim Jeffries, straps a special on Netflix, Dylan’s watched it by six thirty am.

Anyway, Victoria was really good at New Faces. Shortlist tells us we could watch joe Lycettz. I’m about to lose control. Tom Houghton’s the honorable. You’ll find that on shortlist dot com if you need the list.

And now you don’t have to go to Scotland and complain because they were always complaining about the Fringe. Here’s a guy, Drew Cripps. He wrote on The Scotsman. I truly believe the Fringe used to be like a playground. I remember sitting her in a circle listening to Bob’s Owner of Heroes of the Fringe regale such allegories to me and fellow wide eyed alternative comedies of the future.

We listen to stories of comedians, mishaps and adventures at the fringe, tales so wild I can’t share them here in the print. Just take my word for it. The Fringe used to be more punk rock, more of a playground, more truly fringe. Now things have changed. I understand when a comedian sinks eight grand just for the privilege of standing on stage.

They need to justify that cost by transmuting it into some three and a half star review from a student reviewer, The Fringe today is just about mucking it up with your mates. It’s about awards, recognition and careful social maneuvering. The introduction of awards only made it feel more competitive, but I’m not doing any of that. I’ve set things up so I can actually enjoy it. I’m very lucky I’ve met someone who could provide me with free accommodation.

Last year, all my props got destroyed. I asked the venue if they had a bag for my props. They give me a bin bag and put everything inside it stored in the container. Unfortunately, at the venue thought it was a garbage can with garbage in it, including coconut milk and half eaten sandwiches, which ruined all my gear. So I had to improvise a new show.

People really enjoyed, and I sold out my half run, extending it to the full Fringe due to popular demand. This year, I’m going in with no props. I’m hoping one day the Fringe can return to that legendary playground it once was a place where comics can be lose, have fun, and truly play until then doing my best to keep that spirit alive with a few other idiots. That is your comedy news at for today. If you’d like to program without commercial interruptions, if you’re on Apple Podcast, click that manner.

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And then you know, day thirty two you forget, and then you’re like, ah, he accidentally gave Johnny Mack five bucks. He got me and even told me he was gonna get me with that trick. I know, it’s mean thirty days free trial and then you know five bucks a month. And I did the math here seventeen cents a day. I was texting with the friend of the show, Scott Beckett about I was like, hey, Scott Beckett, seventeen cents a day and he was like, yeah, no, hey Scott Beckett, you like commercials.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with Today’s Daily Comedy News, and I’m here to call out Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, how dare you with this clip? I mean the idea of somebody making fun of Taylor Swift being shown at sports events. You’re gonna make fun of that now here.

Let’s listen. I think we all know that if there’s one thing that male sports fans want to see in their space isn’t on their screens, it’s more of me, Taylor. You might remember Joe Coy made a totally harmless joke and you didn’t laugh at it. You didn’t smile, You just stonefaced him. Let’s listen.

The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Taylor, you made the same joke. Swifties, feel free to call me out. Just make sure you guys download the podcast.

While I’m getting in trouble with the Swifties. I appreciate it. Mark barn was feature piece in The Hollywood Reporter. I shared that in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us.

Conan O’Brien said of Maren, sometimes the complete artist is there, they just need to find the medium. He was very funny on television, but for whatever reason, he needed to be in the wilderness for a while. The podcast was the perfect place for his freak flag to fly at full mast. Maren tells the reporter things are better before everybody had a voice. Now there’s just hundreds of groups of two or three white guys sitting behind Mike’s talking about the last time they crapped their pants as adults.

We live in a world of mediocre afternoon drive time radio. He’s not wrong, I say, as I podcast solo from the basement. Bobby leeas Mark became the light showing you where to go after Hollywood closed the door. Once Matt CV was canceled, things weren’t clicking for me, so I followed his footsteps. He taught me the ropes that it reinvented in my career, Maren says, out of a persistent insecurity or spite, I just compare myself to people that are more successful than I am, or people I’ve decided are more successful.

I don’t always understand why I’m not more secus, so I’m starting to We also learned that after Obama came to the garage, a lot more people asked to be on Maren’s show, one of them Hillary Clinton, who was turned down. Producer Brendan MacDonald recalls telling Maren, you’re the guy to do this. He adamantly disagreed. Maren said, the success rate of getting to a candid place with politicians is very small, and I think this is somebody Clinton who’s divisive and controversial and has a history that’s somewhat sortied, not by any fault of her own, but I just didn’t see where I could go with that. As somewhat of a podcasting expert, I thought this part was interesting.

It says the decision to end WTF came in October, as they entered the final year of their distribution deal with a cast, knowing that taking the podcast further with any partner would involve concessions they weren’t willing to make. Quote more advertising and the pressure for spinoffs or among his reservations, but particularly offensive to Maren is the industry wide expectation to put everything on camera. Maren says, a lot of yammering and makeshift studios. That’s lowering the bar for everything. The Hollywood Reporter brought up dak sh Shepherd a specific episode in twenty nineteen in which Maren suggested podcasting might be becoming a cancer.

Maren said that was before he sort of became me. The Hollow reporters like, what do you mean by that, Maren? I have a model that I established. There are certain people that work within that model, and I think Dax is one of them. I opened up his zone within this medium just before it became really viable.

That’s what I think. I’ll pick more of that on Sunday. This next item is going to be a nightmare for me. Kevin Hartz, who’s never afraid to work, He’s got a new gig. He’s teaming up with Netflix for a new comedy competition series eight episodes.

A quotes, Unfiltered, Uncensored, and unapologetic comedy Rule of three competition that we’ll pull back the curtain on the gritty, hilarious, and off an unpredictable path comedy Rule of three of a stand up career. Contestants from all across the nation will face rigorous tests that mirror the real life journey of a comedian from Brutal Open Mike’s Bomb sets rewrites on the pressure of big stage performances. The competition will give viewers an unvarnished look behind the curtain of comedy’s darkest corners. These are annoying. They’re comparing it to Last Comic Standing, And when I was running serious comedy, Last Comic Standing was a nightmare because I’d walk down the hall and they’d be like, Hey, did you see so and so, And then’d have to explain, if you listen to this podcast, you understand comedy.

And I would have to explain, yeah, so and so killed. But do they have five minutes? They have eight minutes, so they have half an hour. Do they have an hour? No, they have thirty seconds.

And then I would get asked, why didn’t play these people because they have no material? I’d be like, why am I not playing somebody from TikTok because they have no material. Late Nighter wrote about Devin Walker’s special, which is produced by Kevin Hart’s production company Heartbeat. Walker covers family ex’s life at SNL and the phenomenon of people expecting him to be funny on command. That one’s out on Hulu today.

This one is at thirty minute set. Walker says there’s one joke in there specifically that was brand new, which is something I like to do sometimes I want to do tapings. He won’t tell us what the joke is, but says for people watching, maybe you’ll be able to tell what the new one is. He also says there’s a joke in the special that’s risky to do. It might ruffle a couple feathers in the industry.

It may fun of a certain comedy star and alumni of SNL. Hmm. He never says the name, says Late Nighter, but the contact leaves little doubt. Walker says, sometimes you gott have lunch with your hero really kind of feel their whole vibe. At the end of that, you get to be like, man, I see why will Smith hit you?

Gee? I wonder who it could be. Walker says people have asked me if I was hesitant to include it. I feel like we’re at a time where people feel really comfortable saying negative things about groups that already have it hard. There’s so many people punching down on marginalized groups and people who are having an ft up existence right now.

Why can’t we get back to our roots, which is making fun of rich and famous people, the people who are doing fine ultimately. That joke in particular is one that’ll probably have a couple of people looking at me a little weird at certain parties. But to me, stand up is the best when you’re being as close to the truth as possible. Stand up is always gonna have some embellishments, some half truths to accentuate the story. To me, the closer you can get to who you really are and how you really feel, the better the work will be.

So I try to stay as honest as possible. He also riffs, I’m gonna wait for the next white celebrity getting broiled in a racial controversy. They’re going to need to make it seem like they’ve got a black friend, and for the right price, that could be me. This is really funny lol. Live with Devin Walker tonight on Hulu.

That’s Cool Today at ten am. John Oliver’s tour goes on sale ten am local time. I know one of the shows is New Year’s Even Philadelphia. The CBC caught up with Zarna Garg. Zarna said, people like, why are you doing a comedy business at all?

There’s no money in comedy, and I realize there’s no money in comedy the way American people do it. They set it up like an art form. We do it like a business. The Indians, I put my practical hat on. I was like, people want to laugh, I want to trash my mother in law, let’s go.

You have to be serious and build your own life. I’m a very vocal, outspoken supporter of women, in particular using the m word money because somehow women and money together have been considered vulgar or crass, as if we don’t need money to live. I learned very early in life they have to be serious. You have to deliver value to people if you want to build something real, and luckily I learned how to monetize my trauma. Zarn has been added to Just for Laughs Toronto this in September in Toronto.

The World in Canada also adds the lineup Abby Govinden Govinden. I don’t know how Abby pronounces her surname, but she is a stand up comedian and writer based in New York. And we are told a stand up show and solo act in one, How to Embarrass your Immigrant Parents is a biting and irreverent storytelling experience that explores a pertinent universal theme wanting to understand your parents but struggling to see eye to eye. They’ve added Amanda Montel, the New York Times bestselling author and host of the Sounds Like a Cult podcast for the Big Magical Cult Show. Big Jay Ogerson previously announced he’s their September twenty first two shows at six and eight thirty.

The eight thirty show is new, so that’s the news. There also added Chloe Radcalfe, column Tyrrell, Corey b Jacob Balshan, James Adomian at the alternative show That’s Cool, Josh Mosten, Toronto based comedian originally from Scotland. Late Bad a party variety show full of carefully curated comedians and surprise special guests in town for the festival. The stage is covered in balloons filled with prompts for the performers to play off, as well as thirty second dance parties and promptu challenges, games, and so much more. Laugh Sabbath a different show every week featuring a rotating ensemble of radical and exciting comedians.

Matthew Bursardi He’s been a guest on the show he’s very funny. Mojo Brooks, brook z Z, Pat Thornton, Patty Harrison, Sabrina Wu sun thar V, a globally touring comedian who blends sharp storytelling with cultural wit, performing in both Tamil and English, and Zorna Garg Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Howard Stern. I know right. The satellite radio company started airing a promo. The Aller reporter says.

The text of the promo is the tabloids have spoken Howard Stern filed canceled? Is it really by by Booie? Chaos is swirling at the Howard Stern Show. Did staffers talk to the press or writers withholding their best jokes? Nobody knows what’s going on or who to trust.

Howard Stern will speak Tuesday, September second. This is what I’ve been saying, folks. We’re talking about Howard for the first time in fifteen years. This plays to his strength. He’s going to drag this out all the way to December, at which point he will announce he’s staying with serious exam and doing a farewell tour.

Write it down. I have zero doubt. I have listened to Howard for forty years. This is how this plays out.

And now this place to his strength, and he will get his fastball back because…

He’s really good at it. Much ado about nothing. I’ll tell you that Taylor Swift does me so upset. I forgot to do the late night joke segments. President Trump in Alaska meeting with Vladimir Putin.

White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt described it as a listening exercise. Jimmy Foun said, as we know, listening and exercise or Trump’s two favorite things. So this should go well. Jimmy Fallon joked about Taylor’s new album and said, following the announcement, Taylor’s website immediately crashed and then out of habit, so did ticketmasters. That’s really good.

All right, it’s Friday. Let’s hit the comedy stock market. Comedy stock market. We have a bull market today, no sells, no holes. We are gonna buy bye bye.

We’re gonna buy some more. Mark Maron, We’ll buying a little high. But then in about a month We’re gonna sell real high. People are buzzing about Mark Maron. Buy more Mark Maren stock.

We’re gonna buy low on Howard Stern. Everybody thinks Howard’s down and out, he’s canceled, he’s not coming back. But we’re smarter than that. We’re gonna buy low. We’ll sell high sometime this fall by Howard Stern.

Buy Jimmy Fallon stock. The cool kids are bashing Jimmy Fallon because he had gut felt On and that episode did the best ratings in years. Jimmy Fallon plays it safe, he plays it smart. You can hate, but the man makes money. Buy Jimmy Fallon.

We’re gonna buy stock. And Josh Johnson Dylan from the Facebook group put this idea in my head, and he’s right. Josh is just crushing it and I don’t think he’s quite broken through yet, so let’s get on that early. On a similar note, let’s buy Sarah Sherman stock just a hunch. I feel like she’s going to be the breakout this year on SNL.

Still no word on the cast changes yet, but we’ll see what happens there. And one more by recommendation before the Emmys. On September fourteenth, Let’s load up on Nateprighatzy stock. I know you know about Nate. A lot of people watch SNL know about Nate, but I feel like the average American does not.

And once they get a whiff of Natepergatzy, he’s going to be at a peak high. And so we’ll sell right after the Emmys. But let’s buy Nyberghazzy stock. And that’s today’s comedy stock market. Josh Johnson, whose stock we are buying, was asked by the BBC is social media a blessing and a curse for comedy.

They were curious about the algorithm. Josh said, potentially, but I think that only happens if you get obsessed with numbers. I hold two things very top of mind when I think about any form of audience or influence. One, nobody owes me anything. Just because you came to show or watch the video doesn’t mean you have to watch the next one.

I work as hard as I can to make it so you would want to, but you don’t have to. The second thing is that if you’re focused on the actual practice for what you’re doing, you’ll make better things to put online. At the end of the day, and the most important thing is the show that I’m doing that night and the people that are there. Then I put things up online for the people who didn’t make it to the show. But whether a million people watch it or a thousand people watch it, the fact that the people to show at the best time possible, that’s the most powerful and beneficial relationship as far as the audience goes.

In San Francisco today, the Desi Comedy Fest, America’s largest South Asian comedy festival, back for its eleventh season. This year features a lineup of stand up comedians with roots across the subcontinent, offering sharp, honest, and hilarious takes on identity, family, immigration, and modern life in America. Founder Abbe and Ned Carney says Desi Comedy Fest isn’t just about comedy. It’s about building community. It’s about building differences through laughter, breaking stereotypes, and reminding people that humor is universal language.

Could check out the festival tonight at seven thirty the Improv Comedy Club sixty two South Second Avenue in San Jose, and then Sunday at Cobbs Grade Comedy Club Cobbs nine to fifteen Columbus Avenue in San Francisco. That is your comment. Any news on a summer Friday, normal episodes all weekend. I’ve got plenty, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, let me give you a loaded headline. Is Mark Maren ripping off George Carlin? No, of course he’s not. But Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News on Threads.

Somebody surface this clip from nineteen ninety. Here is the great profit of the twenty first century, George Carlin back in nineteen ninety. The comedian he’s discussing here, I assume is Andrew dice Clay, But boy, this could be Maren this morning, here’s George Carlin. I would defend to the death his right to do everything he does. The thing that I find unusual and it’s you know, it’s not a criticism so much, but his targets are underdogs, and comedy traditionally has picked one people in power, people who abuse their power.

Women and gays and immigrants are kind of, to my way of thinking, underdogs. And you know, he ought to be careful because he’s Jewish, and a lot of the people who want to pick on these kind of groups, the Jews are on that list. A little further you women, gays, gypsies, the moment and suddenly you find Jews and yeah, so you know, I mean obviously he should do what he wants, and uh, why does. He get away with it? Do you think then he has never laughed that jokes about.

Well, he’s appealing. I think he’s appealing largely. I think his core audience are young white males who are threatened by these groups. I think a lot of these guys aren’t sure their manhood, because that’s a problem when you’re going in through adolescence. You know, am I really am?

I? Could I be? I hope I’m not one of them? And the women who assert themselves and are competent are a threat to these men, and so are immigrants in terms of jobs and and and so that’s why we as an audience then will laugh you say we I don’t think you’re me, but I think you’re actively. I think that’s what what is at the core of that experience that takes place in these arenas.

There is a certain, uh you know, a sharing of anger and rage at these at these targets. And I’m sure Andrew isn’t that angry at that. I’m sure he’s playing it as a comic. What a great clip boy. I’ve said this before when George put out his last few albums, I at the time incorrectly was like, George just sounds angry and I feel like he’s lost his way.

Those albums, those last few have aged so so well and sound like George recorded them this morning. He is the great profit of our time. The Holly Reporter caught up with John Oliver, who was happy that HBO went back to letting Oliver release full segments of the show on YouTube the day after airing. There was a time when I didn’t have HBO I now get it quote unquote free asterisk through my cell phone provider. But there was a time when I used to watch those segments there.

Although I tend to bail on those segments, I actually liked the first segment, where Oliver is basically doing the daily show. Almost always the narrative segment loses me. About five seven minutes in, Oliver told The Holly Reporter, I think they wanted to see if moving it back on YouTube had an effect on our ratings. I didn’t think it would, which is why I was against moving in the first place, and I was massively grateful of that. Upon looking at it, they realized it wasn’t having a negative enough effect to be worth doing again.

In the difficulty of the media environment that we’re in. I try to be as cognizant as I can that HBO is still a fantastic place to work. The other reporter’s like, and yeah, you make a lot of jokes about a Emmy stop you from getting canceled. Oliver said, I mean two things can be true at the same time. It’s a fantastic place to work while we’re insulated by golden armor.

If that stops, we might be going away. It’s not entirely a joke. I think it’s objectively, very very helpful of one Emmy’s with the show. I think it’s helped us keep our independence and keep the show on the air. So yeah, I think there’s a utility to it and something I know has always been important HBO.

So I’m massively grateful that we’ve won them, and long may that continue. Please, I don’t want my theory tested from OutKick. Comedian Gary Owen has an idea for the NBA All Star Game. Stay with me, I’m giving you Gary Owen’s idea here. His idea is, rather than have captains choose the team, rather than splitting the rosters by East or West, rather than pitting the United States against the world.

Comedian Gary Owen suggests the league have the black stars play the white stars. He told the would trip in podcast that would draw numbers. Podcast co host Richard Jefferson try to just ignore the idea, oh and double down white and black. That would draw more numbers than Europe VERSUS America. Then they started to take the idea somewhat seriously.

What about people of mixed race? Gary Owen joked, Jason kid gets to coach one team. Jefferson proposed the thought that black versus white would separate US. Comedian Gary Owen said, no, black and white would bring everyone together. We get too caught up in people saying we can’t do it.

I say the numbers would do it. In the first half, we play nothing but jelly Roll. In the second half, we play nothing but Kendrick. You’d watch Don’t Knock like you wouldn’t watch, you would watch. Pete Davidson was on Hot Ones and he talked about the time a sketch with him and Jim Carrey bombed Too High Heavens.

Pete recalled, my first real sketch on SNL was for an episode Jim Carrey was hosting. I was so excited because he’s Jim Carrey, one of the legends, and we wrote the sketch where it’s like a zombie apocalypse. I’m his son, I’m clearly a zombie. The sketch which bomb to high Heavens, and it’s a long one. It’s like six minutes on substack.

Matt Ruby writes under the headline why Mark Marin versus the bro podcasters Matters. Good piece by Matt Ruby, who writes the thing about hack is it works. That’s why comedians used to police hackness internally, would call each other out. At Mike’s shows and in green rooms. There was a whisper network about your act.

Andy Kindler would mock the worst offenders at his JFL State of the Industry addresses. The message it wasn’t just about killing, it was how you killed. When social media took over, we lost a lot of that. This reminds me I meant to bring up. I noticed after the fact JFL Montreal resurrected version didn’t do a state of the Industry address.

Kidler had done that for years. I’m not sure. I mean, he would get a lot of industry attention once a year I’m not sure it helped his career at all. Jessica Curson did the last one. If my memory is not faulty, that one did not have any buzz on it.

The Kindler one used to have buzz on it because he came out swinging anyway. Matt Ruby, who you can find on social at Matt Ruby Comedy, he says, of hacks, that’s why it’s nice to see Mark Marin resurfacing that ethos. And he’s one of the few people that can do it, since one he’s respected to stand up vet yes, and two he already has a massive platform. Plenty of other comedians feel the same, but don’t have the audience or keep mum because they hope to guess it up on one of those shows he’s attacking. After all, those shows are doing for a lot of comedians what the Tonight Show did for Stantems back in the eighties.

There probably weren’t many comedians attacking Jenny Carson publicly back then, either, you know, Matt Ruby continues. Industry gatekeepers used to play a role here too. They recognized and filtered out crappy comics. The collapse of quote unquote the industry has been great in a lot of ways. But it’s also put a spotlight on how much those suits served as curators.

They were remote between hacks and the masses. Is this all coming off as elitist? Fine, I’m sick of everyone crapping on the elites. Without elites, we’re just idiocracy. Someone’s got to stick up for taste, well, said Matt Ruby.

Skipping ahead, Matt points out Luis had discussed why ck is okay with tackling hacked topics years ago, quoting Ck, I never thought of hack subjects as bad to talk about. If you think any subject is hacked, go to YouTube and watch j Leno’s appearance on the Old Letterman Show. There are a ton of them and they’re amazing. He was so effing good, and everything he talked about was quote unquote hack. He did airplane Humor and at least five different segments on the same show.

He never let it go, just kept hammering and hammering at it. But with such beautiful precisions, such energy, gorgeously worded bits. To frown on them because of the subject matter is to be a self serving idiot, preach Louis C.K. Johnny Mack, are you on team Louis C.K. I guess I am, because he’s right about Jay Leno, who apparently is the worst person who ever lived, because last month he had an opinion on late night television, what a terrible guy.

But go back, there’s compilations on YouTube. Go back and watch Jay Leno’s appearances on Letterman. He was fantastic. I used to really look forward to him. And as I’ve talked about with Jay and with Jimmy Fallon, please understand what the Tonight Show is.

You’re not guest hosting for Howard Stern. It’s the Tonight Show. Do you think Jimmy Fallon is gonna come out tonight and be like, hey, you know, instead doing the monologue, I want to address Gaza for ten minutes. That’s not what the Tonight Show is. We have other things.

John Oliver does that, John Stewart does that. It’s okay. Jimmy Fallon is just hosting the Tonight Show. Speak of Howard Stern. Larry O’Connor in The Spectator writes, Howard Stern disappeared years ago.

He became the very thing he always raged against. I’m glad more people are saying this because I’ve said this, publicly for probably a year now on the Substack. I’ve said it on the podcast. I’ve definitely said it in real life for a long time, Howard writes, Larry O’Connor became the very thing he always raged against. For many of us, particularly those in jen X who came of age during his prime, the future started a long time ago because of the Howard Stern we grew up on.

The one we admired, feared, laughed with, and sometimes fought with has been gone for you years. I was a teenager in the eighties and a driven, hard working young professional in the nineties. Same here. I didn’t just listen to Stern. I studied him, his timing, his fearlessness, his command of the mic.

He was chaos on order, raw instinct and precise control. Every segment was a masterclass in real, unscripted, unfiltered entertainment for anyone who dreamed of a life behind the microphone. He was the guy. Amen, preach brother. I have said this, Howard Stern’s not a once in a generation talent.

He’s a once in two generation talents. He’s been around for a while. But yes, he became everything he hated. Larry O’Connor, the Spectator writes, he wasn’t trying to change the world. He was just trying to tell the truth in the most outrageous, hilarious, sometimes jaw dropping way possible.

Then he changed what happened. The decline of Howard Stern tells us a lot about the larger cultural shift we’re all living through. It’s a story of rebellion traded for comfort, danger traded for safety, authenticity traded for approval. Boy, this is a good piece, and Larry gets it here. I don’t want to steal his thunder.

Let me tell you what he wrote. What made Stern so electric in the nineties in the early aughts was the tension. He was always pushing a line, towing the edge of what was allowed. Now, when I teach my college class about Howard Stern, I will act like I’m walking up to the edge of a cliff, and i will spin my arms like I’m trying to not fall over. Howard would walk up to the line.

Now, ohpiing Anthony, they would drive past the line off the cliff, and that’s why they got fired several times. But Howard watched that line, walked right up to it, didn’t go over. Continuing with this piece, he was always pushing the line, towing the edge of what was allowed. Working within those boundaries and constantly fighting them gave his show its fire. There were consequences to his words which made them dangerous.

The danger was thrilling, and when he went behind the cerrus XMPA wall, all that was gone. He wasn’t risking anything anymore. The danger was gone, and so was the edge. Once he became the highest paid broadcaster in history, there was no more fight. He had won.

He didn’t have a boss anymore. He was the boss, and with no one to battle, there was no more friction, no more fire. Suddenly, the guy who once ranted about bureaucracy, bad management, and corporate nonsense was no longer punching up. He was the system, and a show, once anarchic and unpredictable, became safe, soft, comfortable. Worse, it became celebrity driven.

The guy who once ridiculed Hollywood phoniness was now sipping wine with Jimmy Kimmel and kissing up talent degenerous. Then Trump broke his brain. The guy who made his name being the most politically incorrect man in media suddenly became a skold, a hall monitor, a voice of sanitized to lead approved opinion. The man who used to mock everyone and everything was now in lockstep with the Manhattan elite he used to detest. The King of media lost his crown, not because someone took it from him.

He gave it away.

All right, let’s check in on Colbert Gates.

No surprise, Steve of Colbert had a good July. Jimmy Kimmel’s show, which was not hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, did not. No shocker here. A Late Nighter reports The Late Show with Stephen Colbert averaged two point nine nine nine million total viewers across eleven first round episodes. Nobody could find like two more people to push that over the three million work, okay, a twenty nine percent gain from June, in the show’s highest monthly audience since February of twenty one.

No shocker, But, as I said on last week’s comedy Stock Market, let’s sell high on Colbert. I don’t think anybody actually cares. Jimmy Kimmel Live quote fell hard in July. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was off, dropping thirty percent to one point two three six million viewers, Jimmy Fallon with the Tonight Show flat at one point one three five and the eighteen to forty nine demo Colbert up forty four percent, Fallon up nine percent, Kimmel down forty seven percent. Yikes, anybody watching?

Seth Myers flats at eight hundred and eighty nine thousand and up eight percent in the demo, So the competition went away and nobody switched over to Seth Myers. Really, uh, If Lauren offers you the chair, Seth, say yes, Okay, are you listening? Seth? If Lauren offers you the chair, you say yes, that’s your next twenty five Gutfeld getting three point two one two million viewers. Some people like to point out that Gutfeld airs in prime time on the West Coast.

Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerilla’s YouTube channel at seven pm Central Time. Jimmy Carr’s Laughing and Joking. The Blue Whale Comedy Festival kicks off today in Tulsa for its tenth year. This year’s lineup includes some pretty good people Hannibal Burst, David Cross, Robbie Hoffman, He’ll Say, Sloan, Brett Weinback, and Tommy Brennan Blue Whale is bringing it. They’re doing a new show called The Next Wave, which is a top comics to watch, a sort of show four day festival at six venues across the Tulsa Arts District.

Over at the Fringe, Troutle went to see a Milia Hamilton’s Forget Me Not, a rap based show about someone calling Hamilton that’ll never be a hit. Amelia Hamilton takes to stage with suitable swagger, boasting of her talent and insisting I don’t need your permission. You’re gonna sit up and listen. She’s got a clear skill for comedy, raps or It’s turtle, but translating such talent into a sixty minute show isn’t always easy, as others have found. Oh She’s decent at it.

Voice Mag caught up with Carolyn mcavoys over at the Fringe. Her show train Man is a stand up storytelling show about growing up with her younger brother who loves trains and getting his own way. She explores themes of sibling rivalry, disability, full time care, and also horoscopes and Disney princesses. Her strategy for surviving the Fringe is I’ve decided I’m not going to drink alcohol for the month. I think staying sober will help me get better sleep and make me less anxious over all.

I’m in my thirties now, and I don’t think I could face trying to perform my show with a hangover. I loved this question best or worst review you’ve ever received, she said, I’ve actually never officially been reviewed. Well, she’s at the Assembly Roxy at one twenty pm every day until August twenty fifth. That is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, and you’re on Apple Podcast, click that matter that says uninterrupted listening, it’ll cost you five bucks a month.

First month’s free. You might as well try it out for free, and then when you forget on day thirty one, I’ll get five bucks. But anyway, you would get the show without commercial interruption, and not just this show, but five good news stories which I also host. You would get paranormal aliens with the Crazy Guy, Palace, intrigue about the Royals, Megan’s back in the news, Prince Andrew stuff. What else do you get?

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, are you excited? We’re getting a new Taylor Swift album, The Life of a show Girl Taylor Mede. The announcement on Instagram at twelve twelve a m. And I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Now, all this reminds me of that time Joe Coy who’s just got a reputation for being so so mean. That’s his reputation, isn’t it. I’m pretty sure it is. Remember at one time he was hosting the Golden Globes. Taylor Swift was at the Golden Globes and Taylor must have gotten stuck in traffic or something and had to make a big dramatic entrance.

Remember she walked across the room and everybody was staring at Taylor Swift, remember those particular Golden Globes.

And then she sat down, and then boy, Joe Cooy just told this horrible, horrib…

I hate to even play it for you, but just for context, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Gloves in the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer Camber shots of Taylor Swift. I swear, I mean, I mean that is vicious to go after Taylor Swift like that, And of course she correctly reacted by just totally stone facing Joe Cooy and then helping to create the narrative that Joe Cooy was not funny hosting the Golden Globes and well deserved, Joe Cooy, you have been picking on Taylor like that awful.

After the show, Joe Coy spoke to Entertainment tonight and the tone deaf Joe Coy said, Oh man, it was cute. It was cute. I was just saying it’s less cutaways, that’s all. Dude, read the room. Johnny Mack’s a bit of an SEO whore today forcing Taylor Swift in such a title.

Hey, I need downloads. Here’s a question making the rounds. Is Jimmy Kimmele preparing to leave the United States? You see, he’s a citizen of Italy now and he might leave the country because of a certain politician. Let me answer now, Jimmy Kimble is not going to leave the United States.

You sound crazy, You sound stupid. Kim Ole was on the podcast of his ex girlfriend Sarah Silverman. Sarah said a lot of people I know are thinking about where they’re going to get citizenship. Dis In reaction to a famous politician, Kimmel said, I did get Italian citizenship. What’s going on with that politician is as bad as you thought it was going to be.

It’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than he would like it to be. Kimmel then discussed Joe Rogan, saying, now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying why is he doing this? Why are you deporting people?

And people go fu. You supported him. I don’t buy into that. The door has to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that’s so hard to do.

If you want to admit you were wrong, that is so hard and so rare to do. You’re welcome to do so. John Oliver spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how the late night hosts get along, and John said, well, the stakes are just lower. Noil, there’s no point in being in a war. You’re not fighting over any meaningful territory.

We’ve been in contact as a group since the strike that’s the famous Strikeforce fod podcast, which was fantastic. So as soon as the news broke about Colbert, we were all checking in with Steven and the chat, and then he came up with the idea and asked us to come, and of course we’re all going to do it. You want to be able to support him and his staff in a horrible, horrible time. The New York Post wrote about all this Howard stern silliness. They say reports of these shows impending in have re energized Howard Stern, who insiders say wants to prove he’s still one of the best interviewers around.

See now, I wish it had said Howard wants to disprove he’s one of the best around, But that Howard wants to prove that he’s still one of the best interviewers around proves the whole point that Howard has lost the narrative. The source tells the Post he’s going to bring it on mindframe. The source tells The Daily Mail if he signs with Serious again or anyone else, it will be his last contract. That makes sense. The man is seventy one and has a ton of money, and as Johnny Mack has loudly said, he’s going to do a farewell tour on Serious Exam by the way, I will add, but the source told The Daily Mail, if Serious doesn’t sign him, he’ll have a backup plan.

He’s not going to allow anyone to be the reason for the end of his career beside himself and what he wants to do. That source speculated Howard might move to HBO Max. Know he won’t. They have no money or Netflix. I guess maybe.

I don’t think Howard was ever that good at television. See the Channel nine show. I guess the E show was all right. I mean, would he just do a fake radio show that’s not on the radio and film it like a radio show and stick that on Netflix? I guess possibly, perhaps that’s possible.

The source said Howard likes what he likes and that we could be bitter on how things are going. It is anything new to him. He also isn’t blaming things on his age. The world has changed, he has changed himself. If he didn’t, he would have been gone a long time ago.

He still wants to figure something out to stay, especially for his team that would be mostly affected. As I said in my commentary, renewed for less work less. That’s the solution everyone, and they will take it. Barrett Media wrote about Howard and is a ligne with the way I think that Howard has changed over the years and forgot what made Howard Howard. But Barrett Media correctly points out Howard, who universally held disdain for the white collar elites in New York City, was making huge money.

He had a reputation as a bit of a recluse who avoided the fancy parties in New York City. Getting the right invite is like winning the lottery, and Howard was never seen at those gatherings. He went through a divorce and eventually remarried a remarkable woman named Beth. He bought a place on the Hampdens and began attending the very parties he once criticized. Barrett Media says, my theory is that the Hampton’s party circuit was important to his new wife.

If you’re dining with the very people he once loathed, your show will change. Howard began to team down his interviews. Howard Stern has become the sycophant he once claimed to hate. His antics became his team as a sleeping puppy. The show lost his edge as Howard kissed up to the powerful and famous.

It is disappointing that Howard will not ask pampas celebrities tough questions anymore. It’s purely because he wants to be their friend, not the friend to his longtime audience. I’ll chime in and point out we’re talking about Howard Stern for the first time in like fifteen years. I’m going to play a clip for you. Could this possibly be real?

Kate Smurthwaite had a show at the Fringe and posted in a video Oasis should be more considerate. Apparently the reason no one showed up at Kate’s show is because Oasis fans are not interested in her show. Now this is the Fringe. Maybe this is some sort of awesome kaufmanesque bit. I played it.

I think she’s serious. Here you listen. So I’m here at the Banstee Labyrinth, still in costume, twenty five minutes after my show should have started. Under this is the Oasis effect. So I did a couple of hours flying as I usually would.

That would usually get me a good crowd, and I could tell it wasn’t working. Big groups of people in Oasis shirts coming past no interest in hearing about my show or anybody else’s show that was out there advertising My children’s show. This morning also counseled due to zero audience members showing up. And I’m also aware of performers losing their accommodation because landlords have suddenly realized that they can make more money by renting the space out to Oasis fans. I think it’s absolutely heartbreaking to be canceling shows.

The first time I’ve done this in ten years at the Edinburgh Fringe, literally pulled a show because no one showed up. I think the Fringe Society should have seen this coming and done more about it. And I think a band like Oasis should be more considerate of their fellow performers when they decide where and when to put their. Shows on Kate, are you serious or is this brilliant sketch duo? The Mayor and his daughter are playing the Fringe and they caught up with a voicemag dot UK.

They say they’ve made it their mission to repair the fractious community of modern Britain using professional sketch comedy. What’s their advice for the Edinburgh Fringe? They say, our producer Rosie recommends that you shower, do laundry and sleep in whatever accommodation you’ve booked. You paid good money for it, why not use it? All?

Right? What’s their show about? They say it all starts with a question, what unforeseen events may occur during a comedy show for which we must immediately rehearse the audience. It naturally follows, for example, that an audience must be prepared if a demon came on stage and started performing comedy. Therefore, we’ve built a show around educating and informing our followers about the nature of demons.

You’ll find them at the Assembly Roxy Snug Bar at four to ten until August twenty fourth. The Times not big fans of Joe Tresini’s show at the Fringe. They called it a lecture with laughs rather than a stand up act three stars out of five yikes. The Times wrote, normally, when fringe comics give themselves a title such as ten Things I Hate about Me, you know they’ve vamped up their anxieties for larity. Joe was here to find a sunny way of describing depression, drug addiction, loneliness, paranoia, compulsive lying, suicidal impulses and a heart attack.

At the age of twenty three. It’s not an easy task. He pulls off the difficult balancing act of firing out awful yet funny stories. An example the time he had his appendix had as a child, rather than admit he had been lying to his mother about the stomach ache, he used to keep himself out of school. Wow.

Yet it’s a comical confession, a lecture with laughs rather than a stand up show. That’s at the underbelly Through the twenty fifth they also did not like Rosie O’Donnell two stars at of five the times rights in common knowledge are commandingly told, yet sentimental Edinburgh fringed abut you, The Irish American actress and talk show host Rosie o’ donald tells us all about fleeing Trump’s America to move to Dublin this year with her twelve year old child. This is storytelling rather than stand up, flecked with wit, but steadier and more presidential than anything her nemesis quote the Orange Menace unquote tends to offer from the White House. O’Donnell is self aware enough to puncture her own pretensions when she gets too earnest, But there’s also something self regarding about this story so much that it’s very much a famous person’s show for their fans, not a way of making new ones. We’ll stay over in the UK today, Catherine Ryan is going to host a podcast in which two comedian guests write erotic stories about each other.

It’s called Write Me Dirty. Each story will be triggered by a ridiculous prompt, and after both tales are aired, Catherine Ryan will crown the weeks Erotica Champion based on sexiness, funniness, and creativity. What might a prompt be? An example? Apocalypse must include a zombie and a can of beans.

Catherine Ryan said. When they asked me if I wanted to host a show about sex erotic in fiction, I’d have to think twice. Said absolutely not. When I realized that I have a front seat is comedians squirmed through the awkwardness of reading aloud the erotic fiction they written about each other for a prize I reconsidered. Chris red is doing a new scripted audio comedy called Headcase.

Described as a satirical take on the hip hop industry, It takes on topics like the Drake Kendrick lamar feud.

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Also appearing in This Thing, Rosebud Baker, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Heidi…

You will find that on audible and it bounced this one a couple times. Let’s do this one. The headline, joking about her abusive husband launched this Chinese comedian to stardom. The authorities aren’t laughing. From CNN, Fan Chuneley looks every bit the middle aged woman from rural China among a crowd of youngster is vying to become the next breakout start.

In one of China’s most popular stand up comedy contests, she stands out. When the fifty year old takes the mic. She beams with life and drips sarcasm, unloading jokes about her abusive ex husband that brings the audience into a mix of laughter and tears. Footage of her routine went viral than officials in the eastern province of Xixiang issued a warning saying such jokes are quote catalysts that provoke gender conflict. They didn’t directly name Fan or the show only alluded to a newcomer dubbed an industry gem, which was the nickname given to her by the show’s judges.

The local government’s Political department wrote on Chinese social media platform we chat, the content of some talk shows is gradually deviating from the nature of humor, simplifying gender issues and repeatedly making a fuss about the opposition between men and women. Any discussion of gender issues should be rational. I’m not sure they understand how comedy works, and that is your comedy news for today. Howard Stern’s not going anywhere, neither of mi I. I’ll be back tomorrow see then.

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey the Aaron Johnny Mack with another commentary episode. I’m not gonna start doing this every day. I just had two things on my mind yesterday afternoon. I dropped one about Howard Stern.

Today is about Mark Maren and I’ve become just fascinated on comedy threads. It’s like people discovered Mark Maron exists. He’s the talk of Threads. You know, he’s been around. He’s had a podcast for sixteen years.

You could have listened. One of the interesting side effects of all this says people are rallying behind Mark Maren. I keep seeing tweets like this one. You like Mark Maron, now good, It’s deserved, but rewatch them. Jen Kirkman, she was basically blackballed for saying the same stuff over the years.

Another one, Mark Maron is great for calling out Edge Lord’s, but Jen Kirkman deserves way more credit. I mean fine. I know personally, I did a Jen Kirkman c K story once and she blocked me. So I don’t know w come out. Bell has a substack.

He wrote, there’s a new comedy sheriff in town. If you’re a comic, Mark Maron needs to know if you’ve been in the vicinity of Donald Trump love it. Bell writes about the bit from Maren’s current special about if Theovonne had hitler On as a guest. I don’t know if you’ve seen the special yet. It is fantastic.

Bell writes, that’s what I thought. This is it the resistance against fascist comedy finally goes mainstream. And it’s true. I’ve seen other like minded comics aka comics with minds celebrate Maren’s bit about THEO. As I type this, Mark Maren is a trending topic on threads.

Yes he is, he has been. Let me just see what’s going on right now. I’m gonna just search Mark Maron and see what people are saying here in top all right, just to bring this all together. And again, no script today, I’m just talking off the top of my head. Somebody named Sean Ryan Shark came at Jen Kirkman and wrote, thrilled you could make one of the most important moments in social media history about yourself, whoever you are.

Jen Kirkman wrote back, yes on my page, what a sin, sir. Please go back to your male lonely epidemic. You do not have the critical thinking skills for my post. Mark is a friend of mine and he would agree with me not you enjoy your weekend, whoever you are. Apparently my post is doing well where I wrote It’s a shame Mark Maron only started podcasting last week.

People seem to like what the guy has to say. If you’re on threads, I’m at Daily Comedy News, Jen Kirkman again. Sorry, I’m all over the place again. No script today? Was I blackballed?

I don’t want to spread false things. Maybe definitely harassed into PTSD better now and I’ve learned how to talk stuff online and make it fun. I honestly think I was mostly just ignored. But I do think Mark makes a bigger impact because he’s more in the clubs with those guys. I always avoided them, so no one wants to hear from the chick who never occupied the same literal space.

Mark Maron has a pretty big podcast and he’s out promoting a product on HBO. That’s why people are paying attention. Sean of Killy Posts. Mark Marin is arguably the inventor of comedian interview podcast and the dude going scorched earth on a lot of the people he influenced, but who’ve used the medium in the worst hackish way on the way out is kind of awesome. Jennifer right, smart man is right.

Comedy used to be observational, introspective, and rooted in real emotion, bringing relatability and catharsis to the masses. Now it’s protein shakes, peacocking and prepubescent punchlines for clicks. Alice Waterland, comedian posted, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Mark is doing his thing with an A, but being vocal about this stuff has probably negatively affected my career and has certainly affected my mental health.

And now everyone is having a much needed conversation we’ve been begging you …

It’s the way it works. I wouldn’t change a thing I ever said or did anyway. W camal Bell posts Maren has specifically chosen comedy podcasts that are friendly with the Trumpedians. He then plays a clip from Bad Friends. I played that same clip on the main show the other day, but since I have it here, I will play it.

He’s talking about somebody in Austin. Some people think it’s Joe Rogan. As he’s running half the planet out of Texas. Yeah, he’s got a tight hold on the enlightened me, said. Dude, Maren’s disdain.

It’s not a it’s reasonable criticism, reasonable criticism. Ye, what do you think the Austin shelf life is going to be? Well, you don’t know, Like I think that it’s so effectively tribalized at this point it really comes down to material I mean, at what point, like, at what point it’s like whatever they represented in terms of policy, and it’s not a stretch. It’s like they won trans people are frightened. They have no ability to get healthcare anymore, and they’re afraid of being alive and have no freedom left.

So that’s done. When do you stop with the jokes unless you’re a hack bell? Right, So, I’m old enough to remember the East Coast Rappers versus West Coast Rappers beef of the nineties. This feels like that, you know, I think he just kind of nailed it. Comedy comes in all forms, and some people like Maren, some people like Rogan.

I like both. I’m also a free thinker. I listen to things and I go, huh interesting, where I go that’s stupid? And I decide for myself personally, I thought Mark Marin Special was really funny. I thought the theo Vaughn Bitt was really good.

As I’ve talked about guys like Andrew Schultz being like, I can’t believe Trump lied. Yeah you think. I mean, I know, I’m supposed to go down in the middle myself and you’re not. At l and A. People want to hear Schultz say that.

I’m just like, really, dude, Bell writes, Maren is the perfect person to take on the Trump Medians and the entire Rogan sphere. No one can question Mark’s comedy bonafides. He started a stand up career in the late eighties and he take no prisoners comedy scene of Boston. If Mark Maron wants to be the sheriff of America’s twenty twenty five comedy scene, then we’re lucky to have him. That’s it, no real conclusion.

I’m just fascinated by everyone just being like, oh, this Mark Myron guy has a lot to say, you think, uh yeah, And you know, Mark’s wonderful. I’m going to miss his podcast. I’d love to get him as a guest someday that I have no chance right now. If he’s doing the top shelves. But maybe you know, in eighteen months after he’s been on a little while and he’s doing something quiet, or maybe get down a movie junket or something.

I would love to talk to him just in general what I would I didn’t want to talk comedy with him. I’ve listened to him. I speak on his own podcast about living in Queens. That’s what I want to talk to him about. I did throw deep one day.

I have an old email from my days. It’s sirious, and I just was like, hey, gonna take a shot here. I did not hear back. All right, that’s a little extra commentary for today. Back in the Morning with a normal episode.