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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It must be nice to be Sebastian Maniscalco. He caught up with Billboard, who points out that in the first six months of the year he grossed thirty five and a half million, sold three hundred and sixty one thousand tickets over thirty shows. None of that includes five nights at Madison Square Garden.

Last September, Sebastian was number twenty five among all genres of live performers, just below Dua Lipa. Sebastian told Billboard that’s nice to hear. It’s a lot of competition out there, so I didn’t think I would have been the number one guy, but I’m not gonna lie. It’s nice to be on top. Why does he think his comedy appeals to such a wide range of people.

Sebastian said, well, the observation material I do hits a lot of different notes for people. I’m not talking about one specific thing. Although I’m Italian American, I think a lot of my comedy resonated with the Italian American community. At first, that was never really my intention. I’ve always done material like hey, I went to Chipotle or ever notice when your doorbell rings.

Those are very broad topics that anybody can enjoy. Then I honed in on my Italian upbringing and my Italian father, which resonated not only with people with Italian immigrant backgrounds, but Spanish, Greek, wherever you come from. You know what, I feel like, there’s more when I look into the audience. I feel like I haven’t tapped into a mainstream vibe. I like to look into the audience and see more Chinese people, more Black people, more any people, because I feel like the comedy speaks to a lot of different people and I haven’t felt like I’ve tapped into it yet.

I just feel like there’s more out there for me. Here’s my thought. And again, the guy is super popular doesn’t need my help. I think the reason there would be because of he does do a stylized delivery that I think if he backed it down a little, it may open it up a little. But again, clearly does not need my help as I record a podcast into the basement.

But yes, the question that would be my one. Cent Leslie Jones was wearing a full length gold lumm a ball gown, said it makes her look skinny. I’m six feet tall. I can’t cut my feet off. I can’t being a scary mf or.

This is who I am. Let me work with who I am. I’m the type of person who if I’m happy, everybody in the room’s going to be happy, and if I’m sad, it’s going to be very quiet and tense. I’m a temperature guider in the room. She discussed current events and said we’re repeating the worst part of history right now, but maybe it’s for the lesson that we didn’t learn the last time.

She talked about a dark period of her comedy in the aughts after her brother died. She said, I was evil, not evil, just angry, performing and angry. My routine was raw. Started getting where I thought, I don’t give an f whethy you all laugh. I was destroying it.

That’s when I started wearing a mohawk. People thought I did it for fashion. Nah, I just didn’t want to comb my hair. I was bare minimum getting out of bed. She was taking drugs and says she doesn’t mean weed, I mean drugs.

Drugs. She got SNL in twenty thirteen, at age forty seven. She was the oldest new Hire the show had ever made. People don’t understand that first year, maybe the first two seasons, I was really in love with Colin Jost. I didn’t know how it was going to happen, whether we just work late together and make out in his office and drink whiskey.

I had all the visions. He was so cute and funny, and he was just so white, such a white nerd for app boy that I was like, I want him. Every time I’d see him in the corridor, I’d shout, I love you, Colin, you beautiful white stud. Leslie will be touring the US from September nineteenth through November. Yeahoo, Canada talks to you.

Friend of the show, John Marco Saraisi. He says social media has made his material accessible to those around the world, saying, I think there was a time when I wouldn’t be able to do what I do internationally until I was like a megastar, until it was big theaters. But it’s definitely at a scale where I can go to a comedy club in Europe and enough people know me from the Internet they’re excited to see me. But in another way, it allows me to feed into my ADHD where if there’s something I really want to talk about right now, or something super topical, it’s going to go way tomorrow. I can make that joke and put it out there in my own capacity in a way that if I were recurring guests on the Daily Show I could have.

That’s when I could have made my jokes about Rock and Elon Musk. But especially these days, the new cycle moves so quickly. So does comedy have to do in building a platform? Lets me get all those thoughts out, and in a business sense, it gives me more product to sell Christ to Stefano talked to Yahoo about making fun of his father, saying, I love poking fun at him because I know he can take it. My whole life, he showed me what love means through comedy.

It always meant make fun of me, but that was basically him and his brother or uncle saying I love you. That’s why I make fun of him so much, because I feel like it’s really me saying to my dad, hey, I love you. His fiancee is cool about the jokes. She says. I think she’s like, go be as funnies you need to be.

We got to pay off this mortgage. He praised Hulu and said Netflix is great. All these places are great, but Hulu they don’t have that many comedy specials. So I had an opportunity to really stand out and not get lost in the shuffle, and to be part of the inaugural Hulu Comedy Specials class with Jim Gaffickin and Bill Burr Comedy Greats. It was really cool.

He discussed the tiktokization of comedy and said, initially I’d get recognized in the street and someone would be like, oh, you’re the comedian from TikTok. I’d almost get offended by it. I’m not TikToker. I have comedy specials.

And then all that went away, where I was like, Hey, whatever medium people se…

It’s not about getting recognized, that’s all ego. It’s about my work and it was memorable enough for them to be like, oh I remember you. Especially with the mindless scrolling wheel do every day, we’re taking in thousands of videos and images every day. If I could stick out to a person, I feel really blessed by that. Cinema Bland talk to Pete Davidson.

He’s going to be separate from the Amazon movie with Eddie Murphy, a horror movie called The Home. Pete will play a broken man who takes a job at a retirement home, only to discover the sinister plot of the film. Pete says, acting is just so embarrassing because I’m a stand up, so you know, it’s very ridiculous. So in order for me to get there and be like, oh, I can only do that two or three times before we start laughing, you know what I mean. SGA Magazine caught up with Monty Python or Michael Paymin.

His wife Helen passed away two years ago, and Michael says, we spend so much time together in this place, just the two of us, that she’s always here. Her pictures are everywhere, the chairs we used to sit in, the book she used to read, that sort of thing. They’ve become reassuring. I’m pleased to be able to say this now, because at one time I thought those traces of her would be a source of continuing grief. It’s much better than that.

I feel we coexist as well. I can see why people say it takes two years or so before we response gradually changes. It becomes less about loss and more about the spirit of that person being around. So that’s nice. I feel less grief now and more than I got to keep doing things, looking after the children we made together.

I’ll talk to her as if she’s still there. I’ll show some spectacular bit of incompetence that I know she would have found funny. Then I’ll hear myself saying something in the way she would have said it and laugh. Even though I’m the only one there, Imagining her being there makes me laugh. You have to adapt.

I didn’t want to be dependent on the family to come around every day. I don’t cook. Unfortunately, there were various areas where I thought I might be vulnerable, but it turns out quite good at being on my own. Michael has a new book, or There and Back Diaries nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and nine. It’s out in paperback.

His Python cast mate Eric Idol spoke to The Guardian. He used to get annoyed when people would try and take pictures this back in the day before Selfie’s, he said, I used to be really unpleasant. Then Robin Williams taught me that that sort of encounter is very important to people, So be nice, not brusque, because they’ll never forget it. But you don’t want to spend twenty minutes with them. So when they come up, I’ll say I’m Eric, what’s your name.

Then they become a person and see you as a person too. There’s a human connection, not some stupid story thing. It becomes more normal and easier to leave. Now that’s interesting. When I met the captain of the Yankees, he walked up to me and I was at his place of business.

I was in his office, so it’s not like I ran into him at the mall. I was there to see him. But he walked in, look me in the eye, stuck out his hand and go, hi, I am Derek. And I’m like thinking, like, yeah, I know, but you know, okay, I got it. Eric Idol talked about how George Harrison agreed to fund the Life of Brian film because George wanted to see it.

Eric said, he changed my life. We were very close. I was there at his deathbed. He wasn’t frightened of death. He thought he’d escape rebirth.

I said, I’d give anything to be reborn. Only thing we ever disagreed on he still laughed when I said it. At George’s funeral, I said I’d like to thank Marlborough, without whom he wouldn’t be here this morning. Got a huge laugh. It’s not really the right thing to say, but also, let’s name the names of people responsible.

With season eight of Rick and Morty wrapping up, Dan Hormon, the creator, spoke to The Holly Reporter and said he’s already written season ten episodes. He gets confused when everything’s airing. I understand that I often record a head on this podcast. Then I’ll be like, wait, did I share that with the audience ent or the future that happens? Arma says, I’m really bad at keeping track these days, because we’re so on schedule that we’re ahead of schedule.

I was told last night at ComicCon will be doing a table read of the two Bets episode, which was season eight to sixth episode. My response was, maybe I should punch that script up, and my producer said it already aired on television. He’s not used to being ahead of schedule. I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat, going how do I destroy everything? How do I slow it down?

The answer is I can’t wyant’t you go work on the community movie? Buddy? Show runner Scott Marterer has already started doing voice work for season nine. The writing team has started working on season ten. Harmon said, there’s episodes of season ten that I’m already so excited about.

That’s the frustrating thing of being on schedule animation. Can we fast forward times so people can get a look at the bad Boy? I don’t know if it’s sad for the listeners to hear they’re like, why are three minutes ahead? That means you’re not going to have an amazing Jeffrey Epstein episode.

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All right, let’s take a look at the fringe from voicemag dot e UK.

They caught up with Thomas Kntor. He gave some naughty answers. I don’t even know if I can clean this up. The question was what are you most excited to share with an audience. Tom Lost said, no spoilers, but maybe when he does something with a cello that I can’t clean up, or when I lap dance in the first row or make out with an inflatable doll.

I think you get the idea. What kind of show this is? To maas says, I think what’s so fab about fringe is that it’s a massive equalizer. No one knows me, but that’s scary but thrilling. I have to win people over every night before my best leave it all on stage.

Make my mark. Who’s asked about his fringe survival kit? What are the three most essential non eyevious items in yours? His answer? Headphones, lubricant, and hutzba.

Who has shaped your artistic influence? The answer, Lady Gaga, She’s my temple. It’s the closest thing I have to religion. Theater meets pop meets camp meets passion meets therapy meets mayhem meets nostalgia meets Italy, he meets poetry meets culture. It’s genius.

She’s genius. She’s the blueprint. Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before. I’mafraid to reference, not reference. Putting a blender, grap on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.

Social media Instagram at Tom cantor Tom Show Sugar with the assembly checkpoint at four twenty pm through August twenty fourth. That sounds like fun. That is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack and it’s a summer Saturday, so let’s have some fun and talk a little Sandler and some food and just kind of relaxed. Today. We’ll start on Gossip Corner. Adam Sandler stopped by a pizza joint in Hoboken.

The Sandman was at Benny Tadino’s, which is in business for over fifty years, says New Jersey one oh one point five dot com. They apparently are known for having the biggest slices of pizza around. They posted on Instagram, the great comic and actor Adam Sandler stop buy for a slice of Benny Todino’s pizza. See they phrased that wrong. They wrote, the great comic and actor Adam Sandler.

That’s wrong, the comic and great actor Adam Sandler because he’s not a great comic, he’s a great actor. Uncut gems Space movie. More of that please, we’ll discussed this week now if you’d like a giant slice of pizza Apparently at Benny Tatino’s, which is at six twenty two Washington Street in Hoboken, is open today from eleven am to one am. I’ll quickly look at the menu because we have a lot to get to today. A fresh garlic bread with cheese is ten bucks.

Ten jumbo buffalo wings eighteen bucks. This place is not cheap. You want a chicken palm dinner twenty four dollars.

Let’s get to the pizza menu.

Johnny Mack, Okay, boy, these slices better be really big. A thirty two inch house pie, which is a really big pie, is forty two bucks. A large pie, eighteen inch pie is twenty one to fifty. Why wouldn’t I just get two eighteen inch pizzas at twenty one to fifty twice? So that’s forty three dollars.

And I would have thirty six inches of pizza as opposed to the house pie of thirty two inches for forty two dollars. So for the extra dollar, I have another four inches. Do I do the math? Right there? A topping on a house pie will r any an additional twelve If you’d like a Sicilian pizza’s forty bucks.

Sure, it’s delicious, little out of my price range. I digress. Actually, I don’t die. That’s what today’s show is because we are talking about Adam Sandler. He has good advice, which is be nice to everybody again.

Adam Sandler good guy, everyone loves working with him. Great dramatic actor. A lot of good things you can say about Adam Sandler. Comedy movies not on that list, but he says, be nice to everybody. Co star Julie Bowen said, be nice to everybody.

Don’t just be nice of the fancy people. Sanlor edit. The crew is all you got. They work their butts off. Maxwell Jacob Friedman.

If you’re a fan of aw wrestling, you know him as MJF. He talked about being in the disaster that is Happy Gilmore too. He said, I felt my character is very much in the genome and genetic sphere and aura of Happy. I’m Happy Son, so I wanted to take on Happy essentially, and I feel like all the brothers did in different ways. I also took little pieces of me, which I do in wrestling too.

You take pieces of yourself and you put it in there, so everything you do feels real because it is real. I’ve watched the original movie so many times I didn’t have to go back and watch it. I can quote the whole thing. It’s actually pretty terrifying. I agree, and Adam and kay Ill had a vision.

They knew what they wanted to do with this thing, and they made it even easier. I swear it was such a chill experience. Was it weird playing Happy Gilmore’s son when Adam Sandler’s real daughter, famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler, was cast as Happy Medisine’s daughter in the same scenes. M Jeff said, Yeah, it made me feel like I was really in the family. And by the way, I’ll tell you, I do feel like I am a famous Hollywood actress, Sonny Sandler’s sister and Adam Sandler’s my dad.

They both rule and I love them both. I don’t have enough nice things to say. They absolutely rule, and I had so much fun wearing with them. And it’s so cool to see how much Adam loves his family and how down to earth he is. He’s just a dude, a normal guy.

I talk with him about sports and TV shows and movies. Yeah, everybody loves Adam Sandler. No one doubts that he is a great guy and a family guy. There’s just that one problem, and let’s get to it. From Rolling Stone, Adam Sandler’s movies ranked worst to best.

I have not looked at this during the pandemic. I’ve done Simil Lewis, but there have been new Adam Sandler movies. Let’s react to this list on this summer Saturday, Number forty six. I love the list. Aready The worst Adam Sandler film of them all is, of course Jack and Jill.

Listeners to this program know that I forbade my children from renting the film and said I would rather light the five dollars on fire rolling Stone Rights. It takes a special kind of crappy movie to sweep the Golden Raspberry Awards by winning all ten categories, a feat no other film has matched to date. It also won Worst Movie of the Year at the Golden Schmos. It was mocked on two separate episodes of South Park. Love this list so far?

All right? Number forty five going overboard from nineteen eighty nine. I don’t even remember this one. Sandler was twenty one on the verge of breaking big on SNL. He made his big screen debut in this no budget indie.

It’s about a waiter on a cruise ship who yearns to be a stand up in between Sandler mugging for the camera and acting like Jerry Lewis’s Braddy nephew. After sugar binge, the movie cuts away to testimonials from beauty patching contestants and shots of models and mikinis. I can’t blame Adam Sandler for that one. He was young and somebody asked him to make a movie. You know, these days he’s going going out of his way to make terrible movies, all right.

Number forty four, The Ridiculous six forty three just go with it from twenty ten. After years of seducing women by wearing a fake wedding ring, a plastic surgeon finally meets his soulmate in Brooklyn Decker. I have no memory of that at all, but I have no doubt it’s Terrible forty two Grown Ups two and Chris Rock, you’re in this movie. When we judge your career, Chris Rock, we’re going to remind you you’re in that film. Number forty one is The Cobbler.

Once upon a Time, a cobbler on the Lower East Side comes into the possession of a magic stitching machine. Yikes. Forty Spaceman. No Spaceman is like the third or fourth best Adam Sandler movie. That’s the one I always refer to as the space movie.

No, no, no, no, Whirlingstone. You’re so wrong there, What are you doing? No? Thirty nine Murder Murstery two, that’s a Netflix cash in Hub Halloween Netflix cash in thirty seven Blended. That’s the movie that proved that even true Barrymore can’t save all out.

I’m Sandler movie. She’s saved two of them, but she couldn’t save three thirty six men, women and children. I don’t remember this existing, and I’ve probably talked about it on this very podcast, Rolling Stone Rights. Sandlor’s actually one of the few bright spots. He’s an unhappy husband looking for human connection via online escorts.

Oh that’s just no. One wants to see that thirty five rain Over Me from two thousand and seven. I’m not doing a bit here. I have clearly erased most of these movies from my brain. Like maybe I went to the total recall place and they were like, do you want to go to Mars?

Do you want to pretend you’re like a secret agent? I went no, just erase Adam Sandler comedies from my brain. And apparently that’s what happened, because I don’t remember this at All Rain Over Me is a Sandler melodrama that finds a psychiatrist noting his character’s incompatibility to function in anything resembling a normal adult manner. Boy. I was about to comment, but Rolling Stone wrote the sentence for me that describes ninety percent of sandler thirty four Bedtime Stories from two thousand and eight.

I don’t remember these things. Sandler is a down on his luck hotel handyman forced to watch his sister’s kids while she’s out of town. His luck turns around when he discovers the bedtime stories he tells the kids every night come true the following day. You know, to be honest, that doesn’t sound like the worst premise A thirty three twenty twelves. That’s my boy.

Another film I don’t remember. Oh No, I do remember this one. Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg did a father’s Son buddy comedy. Boy. That’s tough because Andy Samberg’s in the Macpack and Adam Sandler is Adam Sandler.

Thirty two, Murder Mystery, thirty one, Little Nikky three Bulletproof from nineteen ninety six. He and Damon Wayans play southern California crooks, except Wayans is actually working undercover for the LPD. Twenty nine Anger Management, co starring Jack Nicholson. Jack, when we review your career, we’re going to judge you and remind you you did this. Adam Sandler movie twenty eight Mixed Nuts from nineteen ninety four.

It’s about people working at a suicide prevention hotline on Christmas Eve. The cast includes Steve Martin, Adeline Kahn, Juliet Lewis, Leaf Schreiber, Parker Posey, John Stewart, Rita Wilson, Anthony Alpelia, Robert Klein, and Gary Shanling. But rolling Stone says, with that cast, you’d be surprised how few laughs it delivers number twenty seven pixels from twenty fifteen. Yes, yes, yes, yes, twenty six. I now pronounce you Chuck a Larry.

I think we should remind everyone every single day that Adam Sandler made this movie, in which a widowed firefighter asks his best friend Adam Sandler to enter into a domestic partnership to circumvent the red tape of his pension. Rolling Stone says the movie is both homophobic and begrudgingly open minded and extremely awkward. Twenty five spanglish. Sandler plays a la chef who’s married to a high strung exercise aholic, but falls for his Mexican immigrant housekeeper floor all right, I need a break here. I gotta have some of my iced coffee.

My brain needs a break. We’ll be right back more Adam Sandler, all Right. Continuing Rolling Stone’s list of the Adam Sandler movies ranked worse to best at number twenty four, The completely unnecessary remake of The Longest Yard from two thousand and five, The original and awesome film. I guess on paper this isn’t the worst idea, but on film it is. Twenty three Click you know, Adam Sandler with remote control mac packer.

Henry Winkler’s in it, Christopher Walkins in it, and it’s still a terrible Adam Sandler movie. Twenty two The Do Over? What’s this one? I don’t remember this? Twenty sixteen.

Sandler and his buddy David Spade fake their own deaths, and they have new identities, access to untold riches, and possession of a dream house in Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, they’ve taken on the names of some men wanted buy some very bad people. Doesn’t sound like the Worst Idea twenty one Grown Ups Boy Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock. We are going to judge you by taking part in this film twenty Shakes, the clown from nineteen ninety one director bobcat Goldthwaite, the marketing slogan the citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies. I’ve erased this from my memory.

Also in this film Somehow, Robin Williams nineteen, You are so not invited to my bot mitzvah. This stars famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler, who Rollingstone says nails the portrayal of perfectly charming, hormonal teen.

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Also in the film famous Hollywood actress Jackie Sandler.

Jackie married to Adam Sandler.

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Also in the film, famous Hollywood actress Sadie Sandler.

Also in the movie, as is Sarah Sherman eighteen. Sandy Wexler. This just makes me want to throw up. Sandy Wexler maybe a Hollywood agent whose clients range from ventriloquist to the world’s most accident prone daredevil, but also the type of Tinseltown legend love by everybody from Lauren Michael’s to Vanilla Ice. Tons of cameos in that one.

Number seventeen Airheads from nineteen ninety four, sixteen the Week of from twenty eighteen. What’s this one? Rollingstone calls it what a father of the I’d start Adam Sandlor instead of Steve Martin. That’s all I need to know. Fifteen eight Crazy Nights, Okay, fine, fourteen mister Deeds.

Sandlor plays longfellow Deeds, a small town, a New Hampshire pizza guy who inherits a billion bucks. We own a writer in this thing. Big Daddy from nineteen ninety nine comes in at number thirteen. Listen to this description. This is the thirteenth best Adam Sandler movie.

Okay, so we’re not going best to worse, We’re going worse to best, and we’re at number thirteen. Rolling Stone has to describe Big Daddy as taking a philosophy established in Billy Madison quote if peeing in your pants is cool, considered me Mile Davis unquote, and essentially extrapolates it to an entire movie. Twelve Funny People from two thousand and nine eleven Happy Gilmore two. Happy Gilmore two is the eleventh best Adam Sandler movie. Have you heard the reviews I’ve shared all week?

And this is the eleventh best one? Yikes? All right, your top ten Adam Sandler movies. Hustle, that’s the one I call the Basketball Movie. That’s actually probably the second to best Adam Sandler movie.

Nine You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, eight the Myrowitz Stories. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this. As a fin of Adam Sandler dramagtic actor, I may have to actually watch that one. Seven fifty First Dates. That’s probably third.

I’ll give my ranking at the end. Six The water Boy, five, The Wedding Singer, four Punch Drunk Love Interesting, three Uncut Gems, two Happy Gilmore and one Billy Madison. Now that is obviously wrong my rankings number one Uncut Gems, two Hustle, The Basketball Movie. Three whatever the Space one is that I talked about ten minutes ago. Four I’ll say fifty First Dates, five The Wedding Singer, and all the others are garbage.

And that is a Saturday Summer Sandler fun episode for fun’s sake, normal episode tomorrow. I didn’t even need to do this as filler. I just felt like doing it. See tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I had posted on threads people are just giving Jay Letto so much crap about his comments about Late Night the other day, and I posted Jay should just come out because Jay was a really good comic. He understood what the Tonight Show is and isn’t. Jimmy Fallon understands what the Tonight Show is and isn’t.

You can’t have Dice Clay hosting the Tonight Show. It’s not what the gig is. So I encourage Jay, you know what, come out and just show everybody what you can do. Come out and just go all right, your sons of guns. Do ten minutes about Conan O’Brien, then do ten minutes about Letterman, then do twenty minutes of political and then change gears and just do your whole Hey, you ever noticed did you see this thing?

And just do that and just drop the mic and let everybody know you can do it. What brought that to mind is this first joke from Late Night during the week from Jimmy Fallon wanted to set it up by saying, did you see the thing where Trump was cheating at golf because that’s the setup and the did you see the thing made me think of Jay anyway. Jimmy Fallon joked, it’s just refreshing to see someone cheating without being at a Coldplay concert. Great joke. New topic.

Fell and Russia just started direct flights between Moscow and North Korea. It’s one of those rare trips with a fun part. Really is the journey and not the destination. Seth Meyer is getting political, he said. The Justice Department has reportedly granted limited immunity to Jeffrey Epstein associate Julane Maxwell in exchange for information on one hundred people linked to Epstein, as well as full immunity if he gives them zero information on one person.

Seth Again, an inmate at a New Orleans jail, was mistakenly released after authorities confused him with another prisoner with a similar name. So congratulations to Maxwell’s Jolaine. Colbert had on Las Culturistas, Bowen Yang, and Matt Rogers on his show the other day. Colbert said, I’m gonna need a gig soon, sell me on podcasting Is it fun? Rogers advice to Stephen cop keep it real.

Seth Myers was on a podcast, specifically Armchair Expert, and he was asked by Dax Shephard, do you have the fear that this is going to end tomorrow? Meaning Late Night? Seth said, yeah, I do. I mean only because it’s such a time we’re living in as far as the entertainment industry. I shifted from fearing that it wouldn’t be good enough, and now my fear is weirdly more outside of my control, which is just at some point the ecosystem might not support it.

I guess that’s better than thinking it’s your fault, but it’s weird not to feel any control over it. His strategy is just show up and do the work. That’s the only part they’re paying you to do. It’s the only part you’re good at. All the other problems we have people that are good at that don’t mess around with it.

I sometimes take stock of, oh, this isn’t the best time to be doing what I’m doing, but at least I got in. Myers recalled Late Night being on shaky ground during its early years. Whatever time we’re living in now, I’ve had lower points in the body of the show. Early on in the show, we had some NBC executives actually say to us like, we’re very worried about how the show’s going to go with no real instruction has how to get out of it. Seth just surpassed David Letterman as Late Night’s second longest serving host.

Conan would be number one. That means Fallin is number four, and he’s got a deal through twenty twenty eight. My guess maybe it’ll end then. I mean, I feel like that show has zero cultural impact and I don’t know who’s watching it. Seems nice enough, but I don’t know why that show exists in its current form.

Out today HBO Max Mark Maren’s new special Paniced. Interesting to me that it’s on Friday night, Saturday. Interesting to me that it’s at eight pm Eastern, not ten pm on a Saturday night like they usually do. I am planning on watching a bunch of comedy specials tonight. I know I host a podcast called Daily Comedy News.

Maybe I should actually watch a special because I do this for a living. By the time nighttime rolls around, I don’t want to do comedy. Does that make sense? I was the same way when as it’s serious, I’d come home and watch the Universe and just stare at Neildograsse Tyson telling me about Saturday, you know, things like that. As there’s just some nights, I’m like, I don’t feel like thinking about stand up anymore.

But my plan right now is to watch Maren, Dusty Slave, Veered, Zedi Pepatone. If I’m still rolling, we’ll see. Mark Maren’s Panicked is his second special for HBO, is sixth stand up special overall. Mark says, I feel this is the best work I’ve done. Everything came together, the direction, the production design, the shirt, the bits HBO gets me, and I’m thrilled to be presented by them.

A lot of the Mark Maren news cycle was getting sucked up by Taylor Swift. This week, Maren was on the Good One podcast That was actually a pretty good listen. I’m not that hot on that particular podcast, but that was a good listen. Maren shared that he licensed Taylor’s song Bigger than the Whole Sky, which is a bonus track on the three AM edition of her twenty twenty two album Midnights. The cost a license Bigger than the Whole Sky, Maren said about fifty thousand dollars.

Maren explained, I know Jack Ansid Off enough to text him, and he’s the co writer on that song. I said, I don’t know what’s proper how to do this, but we’re running out of money on this thing. It’s probably gonna come out of my pocket. Is there anything you can do about the song or talk to Taylor? Antonoff told him go through official music licensing channels.

Maren said it was doable, but fifty grand only covered use of one minute. He said, I would have gone over the minute, but it would have been more money. Wow, I thought this was an interesting press release. The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival announced it will present a special screening of Dave Chappelle’s unreleased documentary Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life. That’s a documentary that exists.

Well, it’s unreleased, which might be why I don’t know about it. Why is it unreleased? Dave Chappelle. Well, I’ll go up to Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, August eighth at two point thirty pm. Hit the Performing Arts Center and Martha’s Vineyard.

The exclusive screening serves as a fundraising event. So between that and the travel, and you’ll probably need a place to sleep. This isn’t going to be cheap if you want to see this thing. The documentary captures Dave Chappelle’s Pandemic era comedy series back in summer twenty twenty in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life follows Dave Chappelle as he provides the community he calls home with two things desperately needed in difficult times, economic and comic relief.

Kathleen Madigan is going to be at the Venetie in Las Vegas tomorrow. She was asked about her favorite places to play. She didn’t say the Venetian. She barely lights up talking about New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah, Georgia. This from Las Vegas magazine, and Kathleen said, I must have had a pass life as a swamp person.

She’s grown weary of the homogenization plaguing many cities, explaining every city’s got it. Here’s a strip mall, here’s DJ Max, here’s Applebee’s. But then she did say good things about Vegas. I can leave Vegas alone for six months and come back and something new will be built. You guys move faster than anyone as far as change goes.

Zero respect for history, which I do find kind of funny. If she weren’t a comedian, she would want to own a bar called Madigan’s, combining her love of bartending, social interaction, and sports. Kathleen at the Venetian tomorrow night, thirty nine bucks, you should go ten pm. Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson are out promoting The Pick Up, a heist movie that sees them sparring as a pair of incompatible armored truck drivers. Inspector Acluseau.

Eddie Murphy, who’s sixty four, said it was a bucketless thing for Pete Davidston he was thirty one now. Eddie explained, Pete comes from SNL. He’s a stand up comic. We’re both from the East Coast. I love to get in a scene with somebody else that’s funny, improvised with them and start playing.

I love it. He Davidson said. We do take as written, and then the director was like, everyone just go nuts and would end up just trying to one up each other. We’re just trying to make each other laugh. Keeky Palmer, who stars in the film, said they were improvising constantly.

It was really sweet to see. It’s so cool because you see two different generations from the hub dot Ca, a Canadian website, I used to live in Canada. Last week, and Steven Stalely writes, the Late Show at Stephen Colbert is a perfect distillation of everything that went wrong with mainstream comedy over the past decade. Jokes replaced by talking points, laugh substituted with applause lines, and comedians more eager to affirm than amuse. It wasn’t always this way.

For decades, late night television had an irreverend edge. David Letterman poked holes in celebrity self importance. Jay Leno made Middle America wise cracks that actually landed, but over time the nightclub stage became a pulpit. The night before Colbert delivered the news the show is being canceled, Shane Gillis re might of the world that people still want to laugh. He then discusses Gillis’s performance and how Gillis did the Norm McDonald joke, and Gillis didn’t just deliver the line, he delivered a message comedy is back.

The article then praises Norm MacDonald and then says Gillis is cut from the same cloth he was fired from SNL before his debut, and offensive comments on old podcasts triggered a pile on from the cultural enforcers, and like norm, he was eventually invited back to OS the show, not because he changed, but because the world did. Oh man, it’s August. Now. August depresses me because August is like September, which is like summer’s over, and I can’t enjoy anything. I’m already counting down on the weekend.

So so we got what tomorrow’s aug at second, So got the second, the ninth, sixteenth, the twenty third. I probably have to teach a class a week of the twenty third, so summer’s probably already over than the thirtieth. Oh at least it’s a five weekend August. But on the other hand, Labor Day September first, so all of a sudden, summer’s over and it’s only September second. You’re like, ah, I’ve had a good summer though with that, I mean it’s been hot, Pol’s been working nice, got to the beach a lot.

It’s been good. Anyway. August is fringe time in Edinburgh. Voicemag dot UK has been previewing a lot of the shows they caught up with Alex Stringer. Alex says, my show is about what it’s like getting sober twenty three and realizing that you’re still a d head, basically jerky faces.

How I usually paraphized that Alex is excited about Fringe and says, I’m told the minimum I’ll get is being a better comic, which feels like a really good minimum. I’m just gonna enjoy the milestone of it all. I’m sure I’ll learn lots from it. I look forward to it. Best advice you got about the Fringe go home, as in when you’re staying in Edinburgh and not Liverpool.

But yeah, Rachel Fairburn said, go home and watch television. Networking is great, but you need to rest and recoup. I’m planning on seeing another show a day, maybe no more than that. Initially, I think I’m going to leave watching any other debuts just so I don’t compare, etc. And try to rast do some compilation shows, catch up with friends, as this is my debut.

I initially did just forty five minutes of material with no through line or narrative or arc. Then I looked at my material well, I thought about what I wanted to say in the show I wanted to make. I then focused more on writing material. I didn’t have to tell the story, I wanted to tell artistic influences Joan Rivers. I think her ability to bring lightness when joking about the darkest parts of her life is really inspiring to me.

I also strive to be Rys Nicholson because they’re excellent. Happy hour at the Pleasants Courtyard, Bunker three at six pm for the entire Fringe. Few Times of London caught up with Leo Reich. Leo says the Fringe is incredible. The thing that infuriates me is that it makes so much money, but it makes money at the expense of the people actually doing it.

It’d be appalling if people allowed it to die. But if we split ourselves into a series of individuals looking after our own interests and trying to get on television, then it will dissolve. I will go up to the Fringe in five years and see one hundred people who got famous on TikTok perform the worst comedy you’ve ever seen in your life. He recently posted an ironic quote statement against the cancelation of Jimmy Carr on Instagram, reacting to outrage that Jimmy Carr had attended an event to celebrate Israel’s seventy seventh Independence Day at the British Music The ironic statement said, if this spate of anti Semitic cancelations continues, soon we may find ourselves in a society where well meaning people are penalized simply for being willing supporters of a horrifying ethno state. He said he wanted to say something both as a comedian and as a Jewish person.

I’m satirist fundamentally, and so it makes sense for me to do so. The idea that you should be able to implicitly or explicitly support, or make excuses for, or be indifferent to genocide. I don’t want that person in my community. It’s so spineless not to speak out. What do you think is going to happen?

Oh, I’m not on eight out of ten cats? Does countdown? Thank God? I’d rather chew off my own arm and let’s send on a lighter note. Fun one oh seven was curious what if we could make comedy even better?

A New Orleans comedian is looking to change comedy with a brand new show. Alex Carrow has brought in super fights. Here’s how it works. Six players performed in front of three judges and a crowd. They are given random attributes or superpowers.

Each player is given their superpowers and a random character. For example, one comic had to be Justin Bieber with telekinesis, but his hands were taped to his hips. Caro said, it’s something different. I want to do something that’s fun for both the comics on the audience, a chance for comics to cut loose. It’s a fun hang and you get to be funny in a room full of people.

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