Month: September 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m still bothered by the Emmys, and I’m particularly bothered because they just prepped this podcast and read all the Emmy recaps. It seems like I’m not wrong. A writer, Michael Markowitz on Threads posted for the Emmy writers to keep sending Naperghatzy out there with nothing but a tote board is WGA malpractice Writers Guild.

The sitcom writer slang term for this is a knackamoora. The story is that The Bob Newhart Show had a joke about a Knockamora tape recorder that died, and the writers knew that there were a lot of Knockamora jokes to come and they would surely die too. You don’t go all in like this, It’s unprofessional. I kept thinking about how Nate did arena shows over the weekend. No, normally we hear that whoever’s hosting the Awards shows usually does like a couple of club sets on the down low and works out the material for the week.

But Nate didn’t even do a monologue. The whole thing was weird. Paul Shecher posted why are we so obsessed with cutting off award speeches? Nobody’s at home going. Oh, get back to the presentations and montages.

Less of the humans. I like having a genuine moment, well, said Paul Sheer Variety’s review. The Emmy’s exciting winds were overshadowed by an uninspiring host and countdown clock gimmick. Yeah, I had recommended that we hold our innate berghatzy stock. Now I’m wishing we had sold on Friday.

We’re definitely selling this week. I’ll tell you that, Variety rights. From his opening monologue, Burghetzi said an almost lackadaisical a political tone for the evening. He lacked the enthusiasm and gumption needed to lead a three hour long award program, and often seemed stunned to be in the spotlight. Well that’s kind of his act.

At one point, he even done a dreadful Canadian tuxedo which was like made out of denim and like I didn’t get the joke until somebody pointed out, which may have been a nod to Sidney Sweeney’s controversial genes ads. He was wearing that to introduce Sidney Sweeney. I didn’t even put that together Friday Ads. It would have been nice if this and many of Bargatzie’s other jokes lended more clearly. Then they get into the timer thing that we talked about yesterday.

Winner seemed flustered and rushed, almost racing through their big moment instead of being allowed to bask in something they’ve worked so hard to obtain. Amen. Brother. This misstep became glaringly obvious as presenters droned on and on, eating up the time that could have been given to the winners. There was also the random caveat of Burgatzy enlisting JB.

Smooth and four adorable children to represent the Boys and Girls Clubs, which lets you obviously confuse children coming out each time to help escort presenters and winners off the stage. Yeah, did you catch that? The kids were like, what do we do? It like? It just didn’t work, and in the end, Burghetzie announced the whole thing donation Frenzy had been a bad joke.

Of course, he and CBS were donating three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Boys and Girls Club after all, even though the speech club was very much in the red. If they wanted to look at wasted time. The call was coming from inside the house. Now many things can be true at once. One three hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a very generous donation.

You know, no one made the make so it’s very generous too. How much was an add on the Emmys. I tried looking that up. I couldn’t find anything, so I won’t speculate. The big winner of the night Stephen Colbert.

Early on he got a standing ovation, standing center stage in a tuxedo when he looked all the part of the host.

And then there were the nominees for Outstanding Talk Series.

The winner Stephen Colbert. He gave a great speech, Let’s listen. May you to children, May you children, thank you, thank you, thank you for this honor. I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be part of the late night tradition, which I hope continues long after we’re no longer doing this show. I gotta thank that these people, those people up there, the two hundred incredible professionals.

You are the pros from Dover. And I’m so proud to be one of you. We got to thank the people who’ve supported us for the last twenty years Carrie By, like James baby Doll Dixon personally. Personally, I want to thank my beautiful, brilliant wife, Evvy, who’s the real brains of the outfit, my three children, Matteline, Peter and John. I’m going to dedicate this to my mom and dad, her mom and dad, and a young woman who should be here tonight, Amy Cole’s.

Ten years ago, in September of twenty fifteen, Spike Jones stopped by my office and said, Hey, what do you want this show to be about? And I said, Ah, Spike, I don’t know how you could do it, but I kind of like to do a late night show, you know, a late night comedy show that was about love. And I don’t know if I ever figured that out, but at a certain point, and you can guess what that point was, I realized that in some ways we were doing a late night comedy show about loss, and that’s related to love, because sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. Ten years later, in September of twenty twenty five, my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America, Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor.

Whoa Democrats? You should call him now. If you’re curious, who was Amy Cole that was referenced in the speech. Amy Cole was Colbert’s executive assistant for many years. She passed away in March twenty twenty five.

Her obituary red working with Colbert for sixteen years was more than a job to Amy. He gave her a purpose and provided an opportunity to showcase herself as an incredible teammates everyone involved. She was adored by her entire late show work family, and she will be greatly missed. Her cause of death was not publicly shared. However, one of the producers from the show had posted on Twitter at that time f cancer.

John Oliver during his unnecessarily rushed speech was bleeped out. We have found out what he said. John said, thanks to h especially thanks to Casey and Elena. Thank you to our staff especially. He then said, f you, Nate Brigetzi, this is a lot of money for you.

You can add enough to the swear jar as well. That’s got to be enough. Thank you. Goodbye, and then rushed off the stage unnecessarily website. The playlist did their best and worst.

Under worst, they have the Boys and Girls Club embarrassment. I know I’m beating the dead horse here, but I this annoyed me. In case you can’t tell, they write this is spaghetti stick to play with the donation clock all night long? And why did we waste time with JB. Smooth propping up kids from the club when speeches are being cut?

And who thought having the ticket displayed on screen next to the talent when they went over was a good idea? Listen, giving the charity is a great idea, but this was a passive, aggressive bit that disrespected not only the charity but the winners in their one moment in the spotlight. And it just got worse and worse as the night went on. They also added under their worst Nateprigetzi, a super popular stand up comedian Forgetsie, was always a questionable choice to host. He’s not industry enough to even throw out the casual jokes regular viewers would chuckle at, and he’s never demonstrated consistent acting talent.

Shockingly, his opening monologue was almost entirely setting up the aforementioned bit either, which here the producers thought would get winners to keep their speech a short. As it started to fail, he began to flounder. At one point he even joked had never been doing this again, that is true. Honestly, we had sympathy for Baghetzie until we realized the ind of production had no intention of giving up the penalty clock bit. He almost seemed embarrassed, and not in a comedic way, that it was going so badly.

The l eight Times was more generous. They wrote, If your goal was to avoid insulted celebrities, social media outrage, or petulant notes from the White House, you could have done no better than the higher Baghetti. His appeal is not so much mainstream, which is to say, soft edge, as it is broad, something for everybody. However, the state of the world was addressed presenter Julianne Nicholson. Instead of living in a post apocalyptic bunker in Paradise, great show if you’ve never watched it.

She compared that show to current headlines as positive, feel good TV. Again in the Apocalypse If Hiller, who won Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, thank the writers for writing a show of connection. And love in this time when compassion is seen as a weakness. Last week Tonight writer Daniel O’Brien dedicated the award to all writers of political comedy while that is still a type of show that’s allowed to exist. Gene Smart ended her speech saying, let’s be good to each other.

Let’s just be good to each other, and Hannah ein Bender finished with I just want to say go birds, f ice and free Palestine. Time magazine’s review was naperghets he might be stand Up’s biggest star, but he blew it at the twenty twenty five Emmys. They made the same point most other articles did. My favorite review comes from my favorite reviewer, Daniel Feinberg and The Hollywood Reporter. He writes, given that I live in Los Angeles and work for an entertainment industry trade publication, I’m not supposed to admit this, but most of the country, not most, but probably more than some, has a particular perception about Hollywood writers and directors and producers and movie stars.

You sometimes hear live in a liberal bubble and emerge only for the occasional awards shows. Gallus dedicated to famous people patting themselves on the collective butt, espousing left wing talking points and generally ignoring the possibility of the whole whole industry is having a corrosive effect on society, especially young people. I’ll jump in there, the padding themselves on the back thing. Yeah, no surprise that the studio won a lot of awards. I find that show very overrated.

Daniel wriits very few minds will likely to have been changed by the emmes. He then gets into the forty five second bit. Instead, it was left to CBS, a network perceived as churning over its ideological keys, to Donald Trump to donate one hundred thousand dollars, and Brigetzie, a compulsively wholesome comic from Tennessee, to donate two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So the Boys and Girls Clubs of America ended up big winners on Sunday thanks to a network eager to befriend the administration and to a red state comic, and no thanks to the Hollywood elite. Was that a narrative the producers or CBS or Baghettie not a political comic in any way intended to build a show around or just want to happen hard to tell.

But if you asked me to summarize the plot of Sunday’s Emmys, that’s the plot let. It never be said the Burghetzie and the producers didn’t have a tough job, made even tougher by the precariously polarized nature of our country, perhaps more this week than ever before. They failed completely, But I’m not really sure what success would have looked like. Now I don’t agree with this next sentence. Don’t worry, Joe Coy.

You still hold the distinction of being the worst host in my not insignificant memory. That’s taylor’sw’s fault. Joe Coy was way better than Nate. Come on, way better. I’m not saying better, I’m saying way better, Dander says of the Emmys.

It was an ill conceived mess, punctuated by well deserved winds and emotional and effective speeches, but rarely helped by Burghetzie’s consistently uneasy performance. I figured he was more likely to deliver a low key charm, keep everybody comfortable, and spend very little time in the spotlight. Instead, he decided to make everybody uncomfortable, sometimes as a choice and sometimes just as a matter of course, Burgetzy bungled the names of people and shows, rarely looked at home finding and addressing the correct camera, and somehow was given only one recurring piece of business, that tally of how much money Hollywood stars were trying to steal from kids. Wow. The only thing saving Burghetzy and the show from its natter status is that there was no sense of hostility in the room, which could not be said when Joe Coy was bombing at the Globes and decided to turn on his writers and then basically vanish from the show.

Structurally, brigets He’s hosting was strange. There was no monologue, and Steady repurposed his extremely funny George Washington’s sketches, et cetera, et cetera. It has to be said nobody was played off. So if that’s among your criteria, it was a success. Well.

If there’s anything Hollywood loves more than patting itself on the butt, it’s taking money from children. Outstanding Comedy Series Winner of the Studio, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, seth Rogen the Studio, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Gene Smart Hacks, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Jeff Hiller Somebody Somewhere, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Hannah Einbinder hacks Outstanding Writing for Comedy Series The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beating out The Daily Show and Kimmel. Outstanding Variety Special Live SNL fifty The Anniversary Special beating out Beyonce Bull, The Oscars, the Super Bowl Halftime, and SNL’s Homecoming Concert. Many people think the home comedy concert was actually better than a special.

I kind of agree. Outstanding Scripted Variety Series, John Oliver beats out SNL. Outstanding Writer for a Variety Series, John Oliver’s team beats out The Daily Show in SNL On the Red Carpet, Lauren Michaels talked about the cast changes at SNL and said the show has always brought people in from new different ages and different generations, and it’s how it revives itself. It’s always hard when people leave, but there’s a time for that. Our audience always stayed relatively young, and more so now with TikTok.

Change is good and the people were bringing in. I’m really excited about it. Chloe Fyneman said, when I saw how Young. The new cast was I immediately got a laser. She might get a forever thirty five facelift, she joked.

Bo and Yang told people to show up over the weekend. Lauren Michaels encouraged him to stay. Bowen said, I’ve always gone by the instinct of do I have more to do? And I feel like I do. Even Lauren and I talked about it.

Lauren was like, you have more to do and that means a lot, because even I confessed him, I feel like maybe the audience is getting sick of me, and he was like, that’s not true. There’s more for you to do. I need you. He expressed his gratitude towards Lorne Michael, saying that man has changed my life and I will a lot of my life to that show. So I love working there.

The people are the best. I really love each of them so much. What I’ve always thought, what I think everybody knows, is that SNL is this boot camp, and that implies there’s a next phase for you to train for something else. It’s always a transitional place, and I think it’s a launching pad, even for people who stay on the show like Keenan. He’s used that show to help expand his possibilities.

I think that’s going to be true for all the people who aren’t coming back. I’m so excited to see what they do, and I’m excited for the new cast. A couple of releases out today, Blonde Medicine and Ben Katzner Please to announce the release of his debut comedy special album, both titled Supple Harlot. You’ll find the video version on Ben’s YouTube channel. Ben Katzner uses biting, observational humor and skilled storytelling to discuss everything from his own adoption to reading romance novels and a desperate attempt to connect with and understand the world around him.

Fellow comedian James Stanley summarizes the theme of Supple Harlot in three words, Fat Black Adopted, which, according to Ben, honestly nails it out. Today on the eight hundred pound gerrilla Is YouTube channel, Craig ferguson I’m so happy CBS News who has noticed that major US comedians are set to perform in Saudi Arabia. CBS says they’ve been urged to speak out against the country’s human rights abuses and not to be quote complicit in covering up the abuses of a repressive regime. Saudi Arabia will host the Riodd Comedy Festival, which organizers say will be the world’s largest comedy festival, September twenty six to October ninth. I’ve talked about this in the past, and I think we’re going to be talking about this one a lot as people start to notice many big name comedians appearing.

CBS has focused on Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, and Bill Burr. Human Rights Watch researcher Joey Shay told CBS News the Saudi government has invested billions into high profile and entertainment events like these in a deliberate effort to whitewash the country’s human rights record and deflect from the egregious abuses that continue to happen inside the country. Those investments are part of the broader strategy to have people thinking about a comedy event, for example, rather than the soaring number of executions that are happening inside of the country. Tim Dillon has claimed on his podcast he’s being paid three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars for single show, and that some of his more famous colleagues would receive around one point six million dollars for their appearances right CBS. CBS has contacted the publicists representing Bill attendees, Bill Burr, Mark normand Kevin Hart, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.

K Whitney Cummings, Tom Sigora, Andrew Schultz, and Jim Jeffries, but has received no comment from any of them regarding their expected appearances in Saudi Arabia. W Camal Bell on Substack says he has no compassion for Charlie Kirk’s death. Kirk would be fine with my lack of empathy for him, not that I needed his permission that Substack is titled Charlie Kirk said, I can’t stand empathy. Well, if he insists, Bell wrote, deep breath, everybody, we’re now in deeper crap than we already were as a country. I certainly won’t be gas light into performatively pretending that Charlie Kirk was some sort of saint death when it’s actually just a truly awful person in life.

I know what it’s like to feel you are personally in danger for what you have said or done. I know what it is to be targeted by the people you disagree with. I also know what it’s like when being surrounded by hostility is part of your job. When I see Charlie Kirk getting shot and killed, presumably for his beliefs, I’m reminded that I’ve imagined myself in that same position many times. Charlie Kirk was like a used car salesman.

At the end of the fiscal year. He was literally giving the hatred away. A slogan might as well have been and come through, have got hatred for you. Charlie Kirk was a bad faith actor who spent all this time coming up with new ways to create more bad faith. He did it for money, for clicks, for giggles, for clout, and worst of all, he did it for his dear leader, Donald Trump.

Bell says the best way to honor Kirk is for politicians to enact gun legislation and says, ironically, Charlie Kirk would hate that. You’ll find that piece on w comout Bell’s substack, and that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I just called an audible. It’s nine point thirty and the Emmys are actually making me like angry. It’s just a terrible, terrible telecast, poorly produced for reasons we’ll get into. And I hopes for this episode, and the episode’s good.

I’ve got stuff because I ready recorded the second half earlier in the day. But I was like, all right, Nate will be pretty good. We’ll see what happens with the late night guys. And the show is just dragging and not interesting. And one of the big problems is Nate Berghatzi is not up to the task of being the host.

The thing is misproduced from the start. So they begin with a variant on the George Washington sketch where Nate played the inventor of television. He was joined by Bowen Yang, mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson. I’m sure it played well to Middle America, but you know we’ve done this already, Nate. You got to show us something else.

You can’t just keep doing this bit over and over. So that dragged, and then the next thing that’s misproduced is the very first presenter is Stephen Colbert and I wrote on the Facebook group, I’m like, Colbert is just gonna you know, is Nate gonna be able to escape his shadow? The answer is no. Stephen Colbert comes out, gets a standing ovation chance of Steve and Stephen Stephen, he makes a joke while I have everyone’s attention, is anyone hiring? So now we’re several minutes into the show.

Nate hasn’t done a monolog yet, but Stephen Colbert has stood at center stage, I think in a tuxedo if my memory hasn’t failed me, and kind of looks the part of a host where Nate doesn’t. Then Nate comes out and explains to America the thing I told you about where he was putting one hundred thousand dollars in the pot and gonna dock everybody a thousand dollars for every minute they went over. Boy, that does not work. When somebody is up there thanking their family and they finally had their big moment and they’ve worked their whole career, they’re finally winning this award, and the clock comes on and starts counting down. It actually makes me angry.

I Einbinder’s up there giving a speech and this clock comes on. It’s just ticking down, Tony Gilroy thanking his crew and his family and the clock comes on. It’s just it was really obnoxious because it puts the winners in a bad position. Why would you do that as a producer? And it kinda puts some stink on Nate for being a bad guy.

So I’m just really really annoyed at the Emmys, and I can’t be bothered to stay up till eleven o’clock to find out the rest of the winners, because we’ll just do that. On Tuesday, Vulture wrote this acceptance speech Timer is ghoulish. It’s that thing where a guy puts twenty dollars on the table and makes the server work for it. Servers hate that guy. Joe Reid, I forget if this was Vulture or The Times.

Joe wrote, I want all the winners to go extra long and have the audience chant the money total as it approaches zero. John Oliver gets up there. He raced through his speech to put some money back on the clock, which is kind of funny. But shouldn’t John Oliver get to give a proper speech? I mean, what are we doing.

There’s another segment where Nate came out and started talking about the how many award winners and he finds out from the staff announcer. I found out from the staff announcer. Apparently they gave this out during the week. I had no idea I would have mentioned it. And again maybe I’m terrible at what I do.

I do read every entertainment website and I google a words like comedy and comedian. I didn’t know. But apparently Conan O’Brien won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded for the Mark Twain Prize, which is the right answer, but like, I don’t know, where did that go? So the staff announcer was telling Nate live on the air that Nate didn’t win, as if Nate didn’t know, and that felt flat two. So you can just hear the frustration of my voice.

This thing just annoyed me tonight. Some other stuff I scribbled in. They tapped JB. Smooth to try and explain the money bit. He ate it.

Leanne Morgan did her thing, but I was wondering, as a presenter, does America even know who that is? I don’t know. So the winners in the first ninety minutes anyway, lead Actress in a comedy Gene Smart for Hacks. I like that pick. Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Hannah Einbinder.

During her speech, she said free Palestine and f ice. Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy went to Jeff Hiller for Somebody Somewhere. Seth Rogan has won a couple already because, as I said in my preview, the industry loves celebrating itself. So no surprise there, and that’s the Emmys. I’m just kind of disappointed, and I’m sorry.

I’m in a bad mood, but the show put me in a bad mood, so let’s switch to stuff that makes me laugh. Jim Gaffigan went to the Krueger on Shelbyville Road. He was signing bottles of father Time bourbon for hundreds of fans that line up outside. As William Shanner one said, get a life. Gaffigan said, while comedy is a gift and of passion, so is his love of Kentucky bourbon.

It’s a beautiful thing, the whole bourbon journey. But also I think it’s important for marriages too. You want your husband to be interested in bourbon, then they’re not going to have an affair. So he’s reusing that joke, right, because I told you yesterday that he had told the joke that Jeanie likes he’s doing bourbon because she’s happy he’s not having an affair. Oh, Jim, Hey very busy Monday.

Aside from the Emmy Awards. Adam sand is at Madison Square Garden tonight. I can’t go. I have to teach on Monday nights. Otherwise I’d be at the garden.

I mean, Adam Sandler are doing a comedy show. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? A couple serious topics. Jay Lenno weighed in on the killing of Charlie Kirk. I won’t do the Jay little bit here because this is a serious topic.

Leno called into the Tim Conway Junior Show, and here’s what Jay had to say. It’s not a random shooting. I mean it’s a death of free speech. I think that you are so illiterate and so stupid you can’t answer verbally and you have to shoot somebody with a gun to quote win the argument. Tim Dillon also uncharacteristically serious.

He opened up his podcast I listen to that Walking the Dog Sunday morning, and Tim was very serious. I have made a few edits here for pacing, but let’s listen to Tim Dillon. You know, that was one of the most disturbing things I had ever seen in my life. The man is a husband of father, even if he wasn’t, he’s a human being. He’s sitting there, he’s engaging in converse with people, and he was brutally murdered in front of his wife and children.

I’m not a sanctimonious guy. I dressed up as a dead healthcare ceo on Netflix. I’m not someone who is out there being a purveyor of good taste. But I just don’t understand how after witnessing that murder you could be gleefully celebrating this attack. I think you’re in a very bad place spiritually in your life if you’re celebrating the murder.

If that’s the first reaction you have to that video is to celebrate this, or I mean, you can’t be doing great.

Meanwhile, Jerry Seinfeld’s controversial comments from last week, someone fr…

So I’m not going to say the writer’s name, as that person may not be his experience in the ways of the modern media say I am so. I’m not here to beat up on the person, but I thought the article warranted to mention that person wrote Tuesday’s demonstration continue to prove the outsized poll that Seinfeld has with Duke, which allows him to get free press at the university whenever he feels like it. Seinfeld’s combination of familial ties and fame, it seems it entitles him to walk into Duke as he pleases and be given a mantle which espouse Ludcro’s views as if he represents the university or its student body. His remarks prove the urgency in which we must divorce ourselves from this pattern and him. There are many reasons outside of Tuesday’s comments for this, like the fact he dated a seventeen year old high school girl when he was thirty eight years old, or perhaps the greatest sin of all, which is the fact that he isn’t funny.

His recent comments, though, are what demand attention and then a breakdown of the issues at the core of the Seinfeld comments. Again, we are not going to solve that on the Daily Comedy News podcast. By the way, if you downloaded Sunday’s episode, early in the morning before nine thirty Eastern, I messed up and I had double loaded Saturday show. Sunday’s episode was pretty good, so if you missed it or you were like, I heard this one already, there’s one in there that you might have missed. Now.

I was extra frustrated because almost always, if you’re a long time listening, you know, I get up in the morning and to go get coffee. But for reasons, I chose not to go get coffee and then didn’t listen back to the show until nine thirty when I walked the dog and then I heard the reru and I was like, gosh, darn, because normally I would have caught that at seven am and fixed it. So you might have missed one there. Rain Wilson was in the headlines. Last week.

I had shared the story where Rain had made some comments about the office. Rain went out of his way on Sunday morning to speak about what he actually said, and let’s let Rain take it from here, as he makes himself very very clear. So while promoting this movie, Code three, I had a number of conversations, some podcasts, some interview shows. I did a perfectly nice interview with the gentleman who was asking about whether the Office could be made today, and we had very long, nuanced conversation about how, in some ways the Office could have some you know, unpc tendencies, some racist tendencies, because the buffoon leads of the show, Michael and Andy and Dwight, were pretty clueless, and you know, could you do that today. There’s a great source of humor there, but it’s a it’s a very delicate balance.

The interview is very nuanced, the headlines are not. And this is one of the reasons people hate mainstream media because now it’s not printed on newspapers. It’s all about clickbait. There’s headlines that say, Rain Wilson, the Office was racist, exclamation point, click on me. Look at the banner ads coming up alongside subscribe, pay get behind our paywall.

It’s really gross. And obscene, and the media is adding to this land dscape of hatred, distrust, inflammatory statements, outrage right and left. So I certainly didn’t mean to cause outrage. I don’t think the Office was racist. Folks, listen to the actual interview.

Look at what I actually said. That’s all. It breaks my heart, and that showbiz. That is your comedy news on a pretty busy, robust Monday, I’ve got plenty for tomorrow. I almost wish the Emmys weren’t last night, because there was a lot of good stuff today.

But you know, we got another show tomorrow, so i’ll see then

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Caloroga Shark Media very busy Saturday, and I should start with the real news. But as I sat down a record, I heard from a friend of the show, Scott Beckett, live from American Airlines flight ten twenty one. He is telling me that the airline is in on the Bob’s Burgers host. Now, if you’re a new listener, I have two questions for you. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer is no, no one has. And two, and this is the real good part of the conspiracy. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is also no. I get that the artwork exists, and Scott has sent me American Airlines is posting the artwork for Bob’s Burgers, but as we know, there’s no such show.

It’s just something Kevin Burkhardt promotes on Sundays.

Speaking of football, I had the Vikings Thursday night and mine was a sixteen…

I’m in fifty sixth place, but I’m not letting him catch me. He also said he was listening to Daily Comedy News on the flight, as one does, and apparently my patent Oswalt Star Trek commentary made him chuckle, and his flight neighbor and his seat mate said, you seem to have liked that. Thank you, Scott. All Right, I diggress. Where should we start.

Let’s start with Late Night because I didn’t do it yesterday. As you could tell, today is a much happier show than yesterday. Catching up from during the week. Did you see when the President went out for seafood the other night and the National Guards out in DC? Will Seth Meyers said, President Trump dined with several members of his cabinet at Joe Seafood while RFK just ate something they hit on the drive over.

It’s hilarious. Kimmel said, there are hundreds of troops on the state and somehow they led a thirty four time convicted fellon Walton to or a restaurant. No questions asked at all. Sharp commentary there, Jimmy Kimmel. Michael Costa said, Hey, nothing says I feel safe like driving one block from the White House surrounded by a fleet of armored cars and countless Secret Service agents.

Kim Lill again, kim Old talked about that drawing that Jeffrey Epstein apparently had Kimmell said, I know how you get him meeting the president to admit that he did this. All you have to do is say that drawing is great, and he’ll immediately take credit for it. Colbert said, And you know what they say, if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, that duck shouldn’t be allowed within three hundred yards of a school. Late, I was good this week, Fallon had commented on the White House renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War. Fallon said, when they heard about the big change, the owner of Cracker Bear was like, Eh, maybe take a minute and think about it.

You know what I’ve been thinking about Jerry Seinfeld. The horrible Charlie Kirk story has given mister Seinfeld a lot of cover. I noticed on Friday the mainstream media was starting to notice the Seinfeld’s comments. The weekend may help save mister Seinfeld, but I’m not sure that story is going away. College football today, Notre Dame takes on Texas A and M at seven point thirty.

There are a few articles during the week about Shane Gillis’s love of Notre Dame. It even made the New York Times, they write Notre Dame limits sideline passes for home football games to coach his family members. So Tommy Reese discovered a long lost cousin. That’s how Shane Rees ended up on the sidelines. Coach Rees, who was the quarterback for the Irish from twenty ten to twenty thirteen, said, the students blew their cover they noticed that cousin Shane was a famous comedian.

Coach Rees says, the students were going nuts. Our cover was blown. Now. Last weekend, Shane Gillis opened for Zach Bryan at Zach’s Notre Dame concert. I saw Zach during the summer.

Fantastic, and he sounds way better live than he does on the records, and he sounds really good on the records. Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said, you know, Shane’s an awesome human, right, He’s got a lot of notoriety just because of who he is and the way he really performs his craft. We appreciate him and the sport he gives our program makes us kind of cool. I guess. For the team season opener against Miami, Notre Dame listed Shane Gillis on the injury report as out because of tailgating.

Last year, during the first round of the College Football Playoff, the jumbo screen showed Shane Gillis. Fans went nuts, the camera shifted off Shane, the crowd bowed. The New York Times rights back on Gillis, cheers, back off Gillis booze. Shane said, it makes me slightly uncomfortable because people were like, who the hell is this guy? But I think I represent a good note.

Youre dame fan. I never went to school there. Of everything, I’ve been lucky enough to have happened to me, and this is probably easily the coolest that. It’s definitely the coolest with my family. During the concert last weekend, Shane Gillis exited the stage.

He high five fans and shouted f Michigan. Oh there’s more, Brady Quinn said, every single night in Ireland we hung out. There were some stories. Gillis invited former quarterback Ian Book to a show in Sacramento. The night edited at three am at a blackjack table with Books, high school friends, Shane Gillis and UFC fighter Nate Diaz and his aunt Dearage.

You know, I used to have nights like that when I worked at Sirius and I’m not just trying to be cool like that. We would go to Vegas. One of my high school friends, Matt, lives in Las Vegas, and we would go out and it’d be someone that was, you know, Shane Gillis level famous and their friends and you’d wind up at the blackjack table three am. I could relate to this, believe it or not, as lame as I am doing a podcast in the base. I wasn’t always this old.

Former Gord Chris Watt said, Shane’s almost reserved down to earth. He could probably name all the Notre Dame quarterbacks I played with and actually did know them all. You never know these days how big fans some people are. He truly grew up living the team. What a great profile in the Times, right.

This is good for everybody and so much more fun than yesterday’s podcast. I’m just gonna point out.

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Meanwhile, Bert Kraser spoke about Bert’s viral Florida State pregame speech.

Who’s Florida stak got today? We should know this? They’re off today? Well that lever Ruin is my show? What are you doing?

They play Kent State and on the twentieth. If you can wait, come on, Florida State schedule makers. I had this all lined up. I should have checked before anyway. Bert Kraser opened up about his viral Florida State pregame speech.

Bert told Ridge Eyes and Florida State called me and said, would you give a pump up speech before the game? And I was like, yes, but you gotta give me the parameters. I literally scraped everything they wrote for me. I walked out with no script, and I gave what I would argue is my best. What did he say?

Much funnier than I will read to you? Bert said, my name is Bert Kreischer. I spent six and a half years at this beautiful institution. I’m not even sure if I have a degree. I was baptized in nineteen ninety one in that end zone when there were still wooden bleachers, and when that spear went into the fifty yard line, tears streamed down my eyes.

So those tears were gorn it in Gold Alabama thinks they’re going to come in and roll all over us. They don’t know where they are. I only have two words to say to you, go knowles. Bert said, ninety thousand people pop up. I’m crying, tears are coming down, my shirt comes off.

Tom Sigor is crying. The athletic director was like, that was amazing. Coach Norville is pumping his arms. They go, do you want to see the spear drop? And I go yeah, and they take us.

I’m shirtless to the fifty yard line. I look at Tommy, He’s crying. I’m crying. It’s the best day of our lives. That’s what the Alabama game was for US.

Florida State thirty one, University of Alabama seventeen. More sports dramatic actor Adam Sandler, he stopped by the University of South Carolina. He was at the Carolina Coliseum and he played basketball with the men’s basketball team on Wednesday afternoon before doing a concert at the Colonial Life for Reas Saandler said, shout out to the game Cocks. I got to meet the coach a lot of the players that were nice enough not to swat off all my shots. See, this is so much more fun today.

If you listen to Friday Show, Friday Show is a little serious. The news was a little serious. This is fun. This is what I want to do some SNL news. Another cast member has left.

Who is it, Johnny Mack? It is Eggo Nuotam, who joined the show in twenty eighteen. She said, the hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight. This is on Instagram and she said, I am immensely grateful to Loren for the opportunity, to my castmates, the writers, and the crew for their brilliant support and friendship week after week on that stage taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and it will carry those memories on that laughter with me always. Now invite me to your weddings.

Please. During the week, Jimmy Kimmel talked about retiring. I’ll go first. You’re not retiring. Why would you retire.

It’s a great gig. You have the summers off. As I’ve said in the past, just tell it. If you want to work less, just tell ABC. I want a longer winter break.

I want to not do a show at all. On Fridays. You guys can show Friday Night videos or something. We’ll tape two on Wednesday, we’ll do four week You’re not walking away from the show, Jimmy, It’d be insane. It’s a good gig and you’re like my age what are you going to do record a podcast in the basement.

Kimmel’s answer, I’m not prepared to answer that question. Something I think about a lot. Things have changed over the last few years, the last nine years. Every day is a new adventure and I kind of take them as they come. So much press about the Spinal Taps.

Everything about the Spinal Tap two has been in character in universe. So The Guardian went with the bit and said almost all the Spinal Taps catalog has been unavailable since release. At one point, their then label, Megaphone, took legal action to prevent them from making any music at all. From nineteen sixty seven’s Spinal Tap Sings to nineteen eighty two Smell the Glove, the band made eleven studio albums plus four rumored unreleased records, two live albums, as well as Nigel Toughnell’s solo project Clam Caravan. Yet since nineteen eighty four, all that’s been available has been the soundtrack to the film, featuring a selection of songs from those albums.

Then the band put out nineteen ninety two s Break Like the Wind, a mixture of new tracks and re recordings, and then a similar compilation on two thousand and nine’s Back from the Dead, the Guardian tells us the problem is that, for nearly fifty years, ownership of spinal TAP’s catalog has been scattered. At one point it was owned by shadowy Iranian operatives before Ian Faith faked his own death and distributed the songs around assorted fated celebrities like Mario Andretti and Billy Jean King. Now, even if spinal Tap wanted to re release the catalog, they couldn’t find it to buy it back. And that is a fun Saturday episode of Daily Comedy News. Tomorrow show will be good too.

I got a lot in the script and I bounced like seven things today, so we got plenty to talk about. And I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media very busy Saturday, and I should start with the real news. But as I sat down a record, I heard from a friend of the show, Scott Beckett, live from American Airlines flight ten twenty one. He is telling me that the airline is in on the Bob’s Burgers host. Now, if you’re a new listener, I have two questions for you. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answers no, no one has. And two, and this is the real good part of the conspiracy. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is also no. I get that the artwork exists, and Scott has sent me American Airlines is posting the artwork for Bob’s Burgers, but as we know, there’s no such show.

It’s just something Kevin Burkhardt promotes on Sundays.

Speaking of football, I had the Vikings Thursday night and mine was a sixteen…

I’m in fifty sixth place, but I’m not letting him catch me. He also said he was listening to Daily Comedy News on the flight, as one does, and apparently my patent Oswalt Star Trek commentary made him chuckle, and his flight neighbor and his seat mate said, you seem to have liked that. Thank you, Scott. All Right, I diggress. Where should we start.

Let’s start with Late Night because I didn’t do it yesterday. As you could tell, today is a much happier show than yesterday. Catching up from during the week. Did you see when the President went out for seafood the other night and the National Guards out in DC? Will Seth Meyers said, President Trump dined with several members of his cabinet at Joe Seafood while RFK just ate something they hit on the drive over.

It’s hilarious. Kimmel said, there are hundreds of troops on the state and somehow they led a thirty four time convicted fellon Walton to or a restaurant. No questions asked at all. Sharp commentary there, Jimmy Kimmel. Michael Costa said, Hey, nothing says I feel safe like driving one block from the White House surrounded by a fleet of armored cars and countless Secret Service agents.

Kim Lill again, kim Old talked about that drawing that Jeffrey Epstein apparently had Kimmell said, I know how you get him meeting the president to admit that he did this. All you have to do is say that drawing is great, and he’ll immediately take credit for it. Colbert said, And you know what they say, if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, that duck shouldn’t be allowed within three hundred yards of a school. Late, I was good this week, Fallon had commented on the White House renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War. Fallon said, when they heard about the big change, the owner of Cracker Bear was like, Eh, maybe take a minute and think about it.

You know what I’ve been thinking about Jerry Seinfeld. The horrible Charlie Kirk story has given mister Seinfeld a lot of cover. I noticed on Friday the mainstream media was starting to notice the Seinfeld’s comments. The weekend may help save mister Seinfeld, but I’m not sure that story is going away. College football today, Notre Dame takes on Texas A and M at seven point thirty.

There are a few articles during the week about Shane Gillis’s love of Notre Dame. It even made the New York Times, they write Notre Dame limits sideline passes for home football games to coach his family members. So Tommy Reese discovered a long lost cousin. That’s how Shane Rees ended up on the sidelines. Coach Rees, who was the quarterback for the Irish from twenty ten to twenty thirteen, said, the students blew their cover they noticed that cousin Shane was a famous comedian.

Coach Rees says, the students were going nuts. Our cover was blown. Now. Last weekend, Shane Gillis opened for Zack Bryan at Zach’s Notre Dame concert. I saw Zach during the summer.

Fantastic, and he sounds way better live than he does on the records, and he sounds really good on the records. Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said, you know, Shane’s an awesome human, right, He’s got a lot of notoriety just because of who he is and the way he really performs his craft. We appreciate him and the sport he gives our program makes us kind of cool. I guess. For the team season opener against Miami, Notre Dame listed Shane Gillis on the injury report as out because of tailgating.

Last year, during the first round of the College Football Playoff, the jumbo screen showed Shane Gillis. Fans went nuts, the camera shifted off Shane, the crowd booed. The New York Times rights back on Gillis, cheers back off Gillis booze. Shane said, it makes me slightly uncomfortable because people were like, who the hell is this guy? But I think I represent a good notere dame fan.

I never went to school there. Of everything, I’ve been lucky enough to have happened to me, and this is probably easily the coolest that. It’s definitely the coolest with my family. During the concert last weekend, Shane Gillis exited the stage. He high five fans and shouted f Michigan.

Oh there’s more, Brady Quinn said, every single night in Ireland we hung out. There were some stories. Gillis invited former quarterback Ian Book to a show in Sacramento. The night edited at three am at a blackjack table with Books, high school friends, Shane Gillis and UFC fighter Nate Diaz and his aunt Dearage. You know, I used to have nights like that.

When I worked at Sirius and I’m not just trying to be cool like that. We would go to Vegas. One of my high school friends, Matt, lives in Las Vegas, and we would go out and it’d be someone that was, you know, Shane Gillis level famous and their friends and you’d wind up at the blackjack table three am. I could relate to this, believe it or not, as lame as I am doing a podcast in the base. I wasn’t always this old.

Former Gord Chris Watt said, Chaine’s almost reserved, down to earth. He could probably name all the Notre Dame quarterbacks I played with and actually did know them all. You never know these days how big fans some people are. He truly grew up living the team. What a great profile in the Times, right.

This is good for everybody and so much more fun than yesterday’s podcast. I’m just gonna point out.

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Meanwhile, Bert Kraser spoke about Bert’s viral Florida State pregame speech.

Who’s Florida State got today? We should know this? They’re off today? Well that lever Ruin is my show? What are you doing?

They play Kent State and on the twentieth. If you can wait, come on, Florida State schedule makers. I had this all lined up. I should have checked before anyway. Bert Kraser opened up about his viral Florida State pregame speech.

Bert told Ridge Eyes and Florida State called me and said, would you give a pump up speech before the game? And I was like, yes, but you gotta give me the parameters. I literally scraped everything they wrote for me. I walked out with no script, and I gave what I would argue is my best. What did he say?

Much funnier than I will read to you? Bert said, my name is Bert Kreischer. I spent six and a half years at this beautiful institution. I’m not even sure if I have a degree. I was baptized in nineteen ninety one in that end zone when there were still wooden bleachers, and when that spear went into the fifty yard line, tears streamed down my eyes.

So those tears were gorn it in Gold Alabama thinks they’re going to come in and roll all over us. They don’t know where they are. I only have two words to say to you, go knowles, Bert said, ninety thousand people pop up I’m crying, tears are coming down. My shirt comes off. Tom Sigor is crying.

The athletic director was like, that was amazing. Coach Norville is pumping his arms. They go, do you want to see the spear drop? And I go yeah, and they take it. I’m shirtless to the fifty yard line.

I look at Tommy. He’s crying. I’m crying. It’s the best day of our lives. That’s what the Alabama game was for US Florida State thirty one, University of Alabama seventeen.

More sports dramatic actor Adam Sandler. He stopped by the University of South Carolina. He was at the Carolina Coliseum and he played basketball with the men’s basketball team on Wednesday afternoon before doing a concert at the Colonial Life for Reas Saandler said, shout out to the game Cocks. I got to meet the coach a lot of the players that were nice enough not to swat off all my shots. See, this is so much more fun today.

If you listen to Friday Show, Friday Show is a little serious. The news was a little serious. This is fun. This is what I want to do some SNL news. Another cast member has left who is it, Johnny Mack.

It is Eggo Nuotam, who joined the show in twenty eighteen. She said, the hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight. This is on Instagram and she said, I am immensely grateful to Loren for the opportunity, to my castmates, the writers, and the crew for their brilliant support and friendship week after week on that stage taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and it will carry those memories and that laughter with me always. Now invite me to your weddings. Please.

During the week, Jimmy Kimmel talked about retiring. I’ll go first. You’re not retiring. Why would you retire. It’s a great gig.

You have the summers off. As I’ve said in the past, just tell it. If you want to work less, just tell ABC. I want a longer winter break. I want to not do a show at all on Fridays.

You guys can show Friday night videos or something. We’ll tape two on Wednesday, will do four week. You’re not walking away from the show, Jimmy. It’d be insane. It’s a good gig and you’re like my age, what are you going to do record a podcast in the basement.

Kimmel’s answer, I’m not prepared to answer that question. Something I think about a lot. Things have changed over the last few years, the last nine years. Every day is a new adventure and I kind of take them as they come. So much press about the Spinal Taps.

Everything about the Spinal Tap two has been in character in universe. So The Guardian went with the bit and said almost all the Spinal Taps catalog has been unavailable since release. At one point, their then label, Megaphone, took legal action to prevent them from making any music at all. From nineteen sixty seven’s Spinal Tap Sings to nineteen eighty two Smell the Glove, the band made eleven studio albums plus four rumored unreleased records, two live albums, as well as Nigel Toughnell’s solo project Clam Caravan. Yet since nineteen eighty four, all that’s been available has been the soundtrack to the film, featuring a selection of songs from those albums.

Then the band put out nineteen ninety two s Break Like the Wind, a mixture of new tracks and re recordings, and then a similar compilation on two thousand and nine’s Back from the Dead, The Guardian tells us. The problem is that, for nearly fifty years, ownership of spinal TAP’s catalog has been scattered. At one point it was owned by shadowy Iranian operatives before Ian Faith faked his own death and distributed the songs around assorted fated celebrities like Mario Andretti and Billy Jean King. Now, even if spinal Tap wanted to re release the catalog, they couldn’t find it to buy it back. And that is a fun Saturday episode of Daily Comedy News.

Tomorrow show will be good too. I got a lot in the script and I bounced like seven things today, so we got plenty to talk about. And I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Full Transcript

Callaroga, Shark Media. Hey, and Johnny Mack’s Today’s Daily Comedy News. I struggled putting it together Today’s show. I want the show to be fun, like I like yesterday. You know, we’re just goofing on Jim Gaffigan doing a supermarket signing, like That’s what I want the show to be light and fun.

And you don’t come here for politics. You don’t come here for heavy topics. But there are d’s where we just we got to talk about stuff, and maybe we do have to get a little political. And there are at least well those two major political stories. There are three things that normally would be the lead story on this podcast.

So there’s a lot to get to. Let’s begin with Stephen Colbert, he tagged on a pre taped segment that aired before the opening credits of his program on Wednesday night. And let’s let Steven take it from here. Good evening, everybody. After our scripts for tonight’s show were finished this afternoon, we here at the Late Show learned that Charlie Kirk, a prominent right wing activist, was killed at a speaking engagement in Utah.

Our condolences go out to his family and all of his loved ones. I’m old enough to personally remember the political violence of the nineteen sixties, and I hope it is obvious to everyone in America. The political violence does not solve any of our political differences. Political violence only leads to more political violence. And I pray with all my heart that this is the aberent action of a madman and not a sign of things to come.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the show that we had prepared for you. I find Colbert to be really well spoken. I’ve said on this podcast before. Whatever your politics are, I think that Democrats should take a look at Stephen Colbert because the man can speak, and he’s twenty years younger than who they usually run. I think he’d be an interesting candidate.

Jimmy Kimmel went on Instagram to demand and end it to the angry finger point. Kilmill wrote, can we just for one day agree that it’s horrible and monstrous to shoot another human on behalf of my family? We send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents, innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence. On that same day, there was a high school shooting barely got any media coverage. So I’ll do the late night recaps to more like I just don’t want to go right into like, hey, Jimmy Fallon said, I can’t do that right now.

On the same theme, the South Park episode making fun of Charlie Kirk has been pulled from Comedy Central. At the time of this recording, which is four thirty PM on Thursday, a lot later than I normally record. I believe that Charlie Kirk episode is still available on Paramount Plus. Per News reports, the episode premiered on August sixth That episode shows the character Clyde Donovan launch a podcast that character said some things I don’t want to repeat. He then sets up a table at south Park Elementary to quote destroy woke liberal students, inviting his classmates to step forward with a microphone and prove him wrong, similar to the format of the event that Charlie Kirk was hosting on Wednesday, Cartman gets jealous of character Clyde donovan success.

Later in that episode, Clyde is awarded the Charlie Kirk Award for Young Master Debaters. Charlie Kirk had reacted to that episode back in July, saying, honestly, my first reaction was I kind of laughed. It’s kind of funny, and it goes to show the cultural impact and the residence that our movement has been able to achieve. I took this as a badge of honor. We as conservatives need to be able to take a joke.

We shouldn’t take ourselves so seriously. Anyway, the episode is down. Other thing that could have been the lead today, Jerry Seinfeld made an appearance at Duke University on Tuesday. I’m good to read the quote from Jerry Seinfeld verbatim, and I’m going to read it flat. I don’t want to load it.

These are the words of Jerry Seinfeld. Free Palestine is to me just you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews. By saying free Palestine, you’re not admitting to what you really think. So it’s actually compared to the Ku Klux Klan.

I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here because they can come right out and say we don’t like blacks, we don’t like Jews. Okay, that’s honest. Those are the words of Jerry Seinfeld at Duke University on Tuesday. Again, I’m struggling with today’s show. We are not going to solve gun control.

We’re not going to solve Palestine. I just want to make fun of Jim Gaffigan doing a supermarket signing A spokesperson for Duke University till the Chronicle Duke does not preview the remarks of speakers who were invited to campus, and the invitation of speakers to campus does not imply any endorsement of the remarks. I think there would be a different news cycle without the Charlie Kirk story, where Seinfeld would be quite talked about. I think this got a little bit buried. We’ll see if it bubbles back up onto more fun things.

Andrew Santino has a special out on Hulu today. It is called White Noise. It is his third stand up special, his first for Hulu. I like Andrew a lot. I also have been thinking about him.

He’s a good dramatic actor. I’ll get into next week. I’ve had to just bounce a bunch of stories. But the FX show Dave, on which Santino appeared, that has apparently ended. And I forget what was called the one that took place in the seventies where it was like not quite the Comedy Store like that show.

He was a comedian on that. He was really good on that, but Santino making the headlines, and usually this would be the top story the headline. Disney had Santino change the jokes. First, he talked about the title of the special, White Noise, and said, people are gonna feel a little uncomfortable or confused if they’re supposed to laugh, or if that’s okay to say that to me is the kind of point of comedy. If you string the audience along with love and they know they’re in on the joke with you, they’ll find nothing hateful.

Apparently White Noise has something to do with one of the chunks in the special. I didn’t think twice about the title until he brought it up. The minorist of spoilers for the special. We joined the special mid set. Santino said, I didn’t want to do the traditional kill time up top thing, which I’ve done in the past.

I probably did ten minutes of material before what you see. I just wanted to start the special with something fun and quick and snappy, and the phrase is it racist is a good hook. Anyway. During the special, he makes fun of Disney Adults the specials on Hulu, which is owned by Disney. Variety asked Santino, how soon after you sent in the cut of the special, Dijica a phone call from Disney.

Santino said, immediately. They couldn’t wait to trim the fat on those jokes. Candidly, we went back and forth and they didn’t really enjoy having that stuff in there. We found a happy medium and I was able to keep the jokes in there, but the jokes were manipulated. I’m not going to lie.

They definitely changed the jokes. I was not stoked about that. We got to a little bit of a war. They didn’t want those jokes in there. My argument was, I joke about a lot of other stuff in the special that’s controversial.

I don’t think joking about people who like Disney has grown ups is a controversial take. But they disagreed. Faridy said, you’re saying the joke was harsher before Santino. Yeah, it was funnier. It peeled open a little bit more than what you saw on people going to Disney without kids and adults who wear Disney clothing.

Okay, let’s take a major time out here. Andrew Santino is telling you that for a paycheck he changed his material. I’m not making a judgment. I’m not saying that’s right or wrong. I’m just pointing out to you as you listen, Andrew Santino was telling us because of the paycheck, he changed his material quoting Santino.

But Disney’s a massive corporate conglomerate, and they were like, if you want it on here, this is how we want it. Otherwise we won’t be able to air the special. We have to cut the jokes. So we found a medium. We said we’d find a way to manipulate the jokes in the way that works for everybody.

Disney got kind of what they wanted, and I tried to get the best of what I wanted. This is the compromise in the modern world of media. Andrew Santino, Wow, quoting Santino morephrom variety. Typically we get free rein I see, I tell you, Normally this would be the top story, right. This is the first time I’ve experienced this in making specials, where they were afraid of the narrative I was putting out because it was a reflection on their company.

I reminded them multiple times that it was comedy and I was kidding, and it’s not real, and that’s the point of comedy, you’re not mocking reality. But they weren’t interested in it. So again we found a happy medium. But most of the time, comedians are unfiltered most of the time. That’s why we love the podcast world and why we’ve kind of gotten away from traditional forms of media.

We got sick of being told you were not supposed to say that. Quite frankly, it’s bs because that’s not how people think and talk in the real world. Nobody cares. People speak their mind all the time, and they love when comics are able to say the things people don’t talk about much because they’re afraid to. That’s our job to bring up the uncomfortable and talk about the topics.

We win set. That’s the best part of the business. We get to live in podcast land and live stand up which will never be filtered. So this was a challenge for me, but I made it work. I still love the special and I hope people enjoy it regardless of the tussling.

In my mind, there’s a lot more Santino Press out there. I will get to it. So so many stories coming in today and we’ve got the Emmys and Aperghazzy hosting it, and spinal taps out today. There’s a Letterman interview in Vulture that I just don’t even have time to read. So I’m moving stuff like well into next week, so don’t think the weekend is mailed.

In the weekend episodes are going to be really robust, and then Monday we’ll have the Emmys recap. So it’s just a lot going on right now, including out today Larry the Cable Guys special on Amazon Now. I had sent his manager, who’s my friend on the side, hey, congratulations on this, and she wrote back, Larry should do your show. I’ve been so busy covering comedy news and doing other stuff at the podcast company. I didn’t even have a second follow up on that.

And if you’ve listened to me over the years, you know Larry and I are friends. Anyway, Larry the Cable Guy his special It’s a Gift, is out on Amazon Prime Video today. In the hour long special, filmed in clearwoad Or, Florida, a Cable Guy delivers takes on everything from family life and aging to the everyday absurdities of modern living. I just mentioned Vulture has that interview with David Letterman. Letterman has expanded his content on his fast channel, Letterman TV, which you’ll find on Samsung TV Plus.

They now have the licensing rights to the entire eighteen hundred and nineteen episode run of Late Night with David Letterman The Good Show. Yes, I said it, Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast, what are you Gonna do? Come down from Canada and fight me. You guys should listen to Letterman Podcast. I sent Mike the Vulture interview as soon as I saw it.

I haven’t even read it, and I’m like, you might want to read this, So hopefully on the Letterman Podcast today he’s talking about it, or maybe he’s on his way to come to New Jersey and beat me up of my mean comments about Late Show with David Letterman. But Late Night we know, Mike, you know, Mike, Mike, you know Late Night was where it’s at twelve thirty. Yeah, anyway. Letterman TV launched last year with highlights called from four thousand hours of content from the CBS era whatever. But now eighteen hundred episodes of Late Night with David Letterman just just mainline into my veins that is in my jam.

I’ll probably at some point put that on and then sit there for thirty six hours in between football games, because I gotta watch football. That guy Scott, he got me to the football pool. I was jacking with him earlier. Today I’m like, I got to make sure my picks are good this week. I am not letting you take fifty sixth place in this thing.

He could sit there in fifty ninth and look at my break lights as he tries to catch me. I might not win, but I’m not letting Scott pass me. I digress Letterman said, all the fun of NBC and me forty years ago? Were you kidding? The golden age of television?

And thanks to my old friend’s cough at NBC, joining my new Samsung TV plus friends, very very cool? All right out today, Spinal Tap two. The end continues the new film as cameos from folks like Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney. I saw a funny story where the Spinal Taps were trying to hit up King Charles for a potential knighthood. That made for a nice crossover story with our show Palace Intrigue, where we talk about the Royal family.

Prince Harry wasn’t down this week. Very busy week of palace intrigued. It’s another reason I didn’t get back to Gable Guy. Manager Jimmy Kimmel asked the Spinal Taps, have you been knighted? David Saint Hubbins said no.

Nigel Toughnel added not as and then trailed off with a no. Kimmel asked if they would want to be knighted. Derek Small’s said, from your mouth to King Charles’s ears. The New York Times has seen Spinal Tap two. No spoilers here, but their general vibe in their review is that they dig it.

The Times rowed, it’s almost always pleasant to hang out with old friends, particularly when no one overstays their welcome. The good news about Spinal Tap two is that everyone involved seems to have understood these, which makes for a genial eighty three minutes of soft jokes and gels. There’s nothing here that will make you gasp in convulsive laughter, despite some promising new material. Even so, nostalgia is a powerful drug. Rated R one hour twenty three minutes in theaters.

I like the Spinal Taps, but I can probably wait the X weeks till it shows up on streaming and then I’ll check it out. Then the Spinal Taps did a lot of press in character. USA. Today caught up with them and asked, what is it about groobies at your age? Nigel Toughnell said, they’re out there.

We call them the grands. They want you to put in their hearing aids. David Saint Hubbins said, I’ve noticed when a woman gets older a lot of her tattoos suddenly appear to be in italics. David was asked about getting a visit in the studio by Paul McCartney. McCartney offered some advice on the song and David Saint Hubbins didn’t say pleased.

David said, you could say that listen. I have a lot of respect for Paul McCartney. He struggled to make his way with a very specific talent, a certain amount of chops, as we say, and he’s got a decent voice, and he’s a fine songwriter and despite all he’s managed to be successful. That’s all I’ll say. Comedy stock Market, so same note from the beginning of the show.

I want this podcast to be fun and I’m not feeling the fun today. It’s very angsty with the news stories, but we have to do comedy stock market. Since it’s Friday, I don’t have a lot of picks for you. Maybe here on the fly, should we buy some Andrew Santino, even though he took a check and pulled his punch, but he’s very charismatic and he’s very funny. I haven’t seen this special yet, but let’s buy some Andrew Santino.

A lot of press going around about him. My big recommendation for the week is we’re going to hold our Nate Frigazzi stock because he’s hosting the Emmys and a lot of America’s be like, hey, I really like that guy. But I’m telling you now, one week from today, we are going to sell our Nate stock because we’re here to make money. We’re going to sell high in Nate Pergazzi. But for right now, hold we are going to sell our Jim Gaffigan stock, because despite me preaching about it, Jim is insistent on letting all the coolness suck out of him.

Not that he was like the Fonds to begin with, but dude, supermarket bottle signing, that is just not cool. Not in a like jerky way, but like it’s the opposite of cool. It’s lame, as we say in the streets. So let’s buy Samandrew Santino. We’ll hold her innate Berghatzy, and we’ll sell our Jim Gaffigan.

And that’s your comedy stock market for this week. The Last Laugh podcast caught up with Rain Wilson. You know him, He was dwite on The Office, You know that guy. Yeah, And I don’t know people are being so revisionist about the Office. Last Laugh is like there’s been some conversation over the past couple of years whether The Office could be released in the same way today with the same kinds of jokes.

Johnny mack will say, calm down, everybody, it’s the Office. Really, It’s not Dice Client, It’s the Office. Rain Wilson may not agree with Johnny Mackreen said, listen, you know the Benny a Christmas episode where Michael and Andy draw sharpie on one of the Asian women they brought back to the Christmas party. It’s jaw droppingly kind of horrific. It is, right.

I guess I just canceled myself. And it’s a tricky conversation. You know, they’re clueless, and in their cluelessness, they’re racist and insensitive, and they’re always saying the wrong thing. That’s what the show is, Rain said, And that’s Michael Dwight, Nandy and Kevin for that matter. So it’s a show based around clueless and sensitive, racist, sexist people that kind of mirrors the United States in a lot of ways.

So you want to encourage it because it’s funny as hell. You got to stop there. But it also skewer is a particular American sensibility, but it definitely goes pretty far if you dig deep. So you know, could it happen today? I think would have to be very very different if it were made in this environment, like, for example, the paper, which so far isn’t funny at all.

You want to make that go ahead. Rain talked about after Steve Carell left, did Rain ever consider leaving? And this is a smart answer, Rain Wilson said, Steve and I were in very, very different career situation when he left the office. He was going to star in movies that he was getting paid tens of millions of dollars for, and the movies I had tried had bombed. And I didn’t really have a way four In the film World Time Out, is it this story supposedly that NBC never asked Steve Carell if he was staying.

They just assumed he was leaving, so then they let him leave. That’s the version Steve Carell has been selling the last few years. Is that not accurate? Rain said, so, it was absolutely one hundred percent going to stay in the office as long as I could. Yes, that’s Johnny Max’s number one advice.

If you get a hit show, stay with it. Dennis Franz and YPD Blue smart Guy Kelsey Grammer cheers, Hey, you want to do Fraser, Yeah I do. Twenty years later he want to do more Fraser, Yeah I do. Rain said, there was an opportunity for Dwight to get to do more with Michael Gohann, and I got to do more. I didn’t immediately run the office, but there were different colors you saw from Dwight in those last couple of seasons.

That is true. We made a few episodes that were pretty mediocre. I would say, I don’t know we made any stinkers, but there were also some really damn funny episodes in the last couple of seasons, and then he talked about the backdoor pilot for the Farm, which was a stinker. So you rain you’re wrong there. Raen Wilson said, yeah, we kept talking about Fraser and Cheers, and what could argue that Fraser is a better show than Cheers.

Kelsey Grammer kind of took a minor character on Cheers and made him a really memorable comedic lead. But it was a big relief of like, oh good, I’m not gonna do many more seasons than twite. And especially because NBC at that time had a new regime that came in and they wanted to do big, bright, flashy, splashy shows that were multicams and go back to the friends kind of thing, and they weren’t interested in office spent us at that time. Had they taken the Farm, they probably have another billion dollars in the bank. Even now, all the people that have seen The Office twenty times, they’re going to watch The Farm at least once or twice.

Would have been as good as The Office, No, no way, not even close. Would have been good, would have been solid, would have been a good, solid comedy, Yeah, would have, and I would have done some really cool stuff I think they really really missed out. But the heirstay of the office in NBC is they never really got the show. And that is your comedy news for today again, real episodes tomorrow. I got most of the script written and there’s a lot of good stuff in there.

Sunday we’ve got Emmy stuff to talk about. Monday will be Emmy sodum blow off the weekend shows. You have a good rest of your day wherever you are, and I’ll try and make tomorrow more fun. See it then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you are in Kentucky, you’re excited. It’s bourbon and beyond. Attendees can enjoy bourbon tastings, culinary demonstrations, and interactions with celebrity guests like Jim Gaffigan.

Oh yeah, this is a whole thing in Louisville today through the fourteenth not just Jim Gaffigan, but the lumineers who I’m a big fan of fish, not actual fish, you know, the Jam band, those guys. Terry Bradshaw’s gonna be there talking family cooking with no G. I didn’t drop the G there. That’s not the Queen’s accent. That’s Terry Bradshaw’s family cooking.

Jim Gaffigan told The Courier Journal, I’ve been completely sucked into the bourbon world. There’s something almost mystical about my affinity for bourbon, which goes beyond the taste. It’s also the history and the culture that fascinates me. Jim describes himself as a former beer guide turned bourbon NERD talked about his friend Stu. They were friends in college and since we’re both in the entertainment industry.

We’ve stayed in touch. I’ve been approaching a couple of times about doing a celebrity spirit, but I was worried about the quality, so I called Stu because I knew he was from Louisville. That makes sense, Jim. Besides the taste, I love the history and culture of bourbon. I discovered this whole nerdy bourbon world, and the more exposure I can get, the more I enjoy it.

Jim says, wife Jeanie is happy he’s doing this as a hobby. He jokes, She’s happy that I’m obsessing about bourbon rather than having an affair. My bourbon obsession is a productive use of my time. Well, Jim will be at the festival on Sunday at four to ten on the really cool Fork and Flask stage. Then in October, Jim is recording Jim Gaffigan a Bourbon set, four separate shows that will include content based on his observations of bourbon culture.

They’re going to cut those together and make a special out of it. Apparently, something called the Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program is helping fund all that. Your tax dollars at work. I guess because I googled Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program and they’ve got a dot gov email address. The purpose of the KI program is to encourage the film and entertainment industry to choose locations in the Commonwealth for the filming and production of entertainment productions.

Hey guys, I’ll sell out. I’ll do my podcast from Kentucky. Invite me down. I like money, Gaffigan said. My shows at the Kentucky Center are going to be a love letter to American whiskey.

It’s all a labor of love because learning more about bourbon is something I really enjoy. I hope others will enjoy the shows, but if not, I’ve really enjoy developing the material. Well, if you enjoy it so much and it’s a labor of love, why don’t you turn down the tax dollars. I’m just asking a question. Maybe there’s a reason why you don’t just asking It’s not like your easin.

Sorry, all right, there’s more stuff. Sunday one thirty pm. Jim is doing Listen to this. This is really cool. He’s at the Kruger.

He’s doing a bottle signing and a meet and greet at the Kruger Supermarket. So what can you do at this thing? You can purchase a bottle of father Time Bourbon while supplies last, they point out, and have it signed by Jim Gaffigan, and plus snap a photo together to remember the moment. Boy, that sounds cool. He’s at the Kruger on twelve five oh one Shelbyville Road, you know the one, then at four to ten on the really cool FOURK and Flask stage.

Told you about that already, And he’s got some more events coming up in October. Very exciting, seems. Triple H let the cat out of the bag. He was on the Pat McAfee show. They were curious why Triple H wasn’t at a recent WWE event.

HHH said, to be honest, I wasn’t there. I haven’t had a chance to watch the show yet. I did kill Tony last night. Oh shoot, I’m not supposed to say that. I forgot.

It was a secret that I’m on there until Monday. It was fun, So I guess that means he’s on the Monday kill Tony. We’ll find out. The Hollywood Reporter did one of those big cover stories about Nabrigazzy. Now trust me, on my resume.

I know about how these things get made for my time at Series XM, because this was like the holy grail of publicity in the certain offices in the building. This isn’t somebody waking up out of bed and going, you know, I think I gott write a story about n Abrigazzy. No, no, no, this was like the full on agency involved, PR team involved. Now the timing makes sense because Nate is hosting the Emmys on Sunday, but this was a big deal and I’m not sure this is the best look for Nate, and I think even he is aware of it. I’ll have some thoughts on a comedy stock market tomorrow, but I just I don’t know Nate.

I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, Nate’s gonna have an awesome weekend, but I don’t know. Lacey Rose writes in The Hollywod Reporter. I noticed Nate Bergetzi’s car before I notice him.

The burnt orange Portia has just pulled up to the bustling Nashville restaurant where we’ve agreed to meet, and the valet is signaling for Bagetzi to park out front. Once he’s made his way inside. He’ll tell me that his primo spot is a perk of driving a stick shift. What he won’t say, and what he’d hate having to read here, is that it’s also a perk of being the most successful touring comedian in the world. At this stage, he could afford a whole fleet of them without noticing a dent Inis bank account.

But there’s also a genuine discomfort that comes with the spoils of success. Nate says, I’m grist. I hesitate to even talk about it because I don’t want anyone to think that I’m better than them. Lacey writes on The Hollywood Reporter, and Brigetzi has spent a fair share of his time lately grappling with concerns like this one in therapy, which is another thing that he’s embarrassed about. He’s terrified it’ll come off as some out of touch elitist and not the comfortably relatable Oafish dad that’s earned him legions of fans.

But he’s just come from his therapist office and he ate a good session and maybe a breakthrough, And once he starts talking about it, he can’t seem to stop skipping ahead. In his high school yearbook, students were asked what they thought they’d be doing in ten years. His response performing against Zani’s That’s the Big Club in national there, Nate says, I think it used to feel stupid for me to want to dream this big. I thought this tidbit was interesting. Even after his twenty twenty one Netflix special The Greatest Average American got a Grammy nomination.

Netflix is said to have encouraged Nates to explore other distributors for his next special. He went with Amazon. Netflix came around with a bigger offer, but he took Amazon instead. He was hurt, not surprised. Nate said, it wasn’t that I wasn’t doing well, but everybody started getting a little opinionated and was like, man, they’re getting all this industry love and they’re the coolest thing.

And when I’d get off stage, people would be like, Oh, he’s the funniest, but I wasn’t getting any of that, and it was really frustrating. Patt and Oswald too, I’m a fan of but I’m mad at him because he’s part of the people ruining Star Trek. He recently played Dug the Vulcan. Do you want to hear what it sounds like me throwing something across the room. Have me watch that episode.

And then he goes on Star trek dot com and the question what was your relationship with Star Trek Here I’ll go first, Are you kidding me? I started watching tv WPIX Channel eleven, New York City. They showed it six nights a week at six o’clock Monday to Saturday. Watched it seventy nine episodes, watch them over and over. As a kid, I figured out, oh, season one has these credit, Season two has these credit.

Season three has the blue credits. Season two the Enterprise flish from the side season when the Enterprise comes out of the middle. I watched this thing and I’m memorized. But Patton Oswalt to play Doug the Vulcan said, I was born in sixty nine, so it was always the thing in the background. I never sat down and watched the entire YA series from start to finish.

Some people did, but it wasn’t a big part of my life. What you’re like, the guy doing nerd comedy and you’ve never watched Star Trek tos and you’re playing Dug the Vulcan. Patton says, I remember really really loving the movies and certain episodes of the Next Generation it was the best of both worlds and other episodes that really just had amazing writing and directing. So there’s been that level of awareness, but it wasn’t a realm that I completely was into from the get go. He talked about playing Dug the Vulcan.

He said, everything was in the script. In true Star Trek fashion, They’re going to leave it open an interpretation. What was their background, how did they meet, how did they sustain this relationship. I’m going to leave that up to the viewers. It’s more fun that way, as you’re playing Doug with the vulcan ears and makeup.

He said, it was incredible. I’m in the chair. I’m doing what Leonard Nimoy has done, what Christy Ally did, what all these greats did. I’m not sure how many greats played vulcans. I digress.

It’s almost like it’s part of the Hollywood process, and they really have it down with science. I thought it was going to take hours. They’re actually very, very good at getting vulcan ears on very quickly. It’s not like it was in the sixties and seventies. Patton said, I did want to add lib they wrote my character very precisely.

He’s a vulcan. He’s not going to do ad lib things or have emotional reactions to anything. I love that part of it. This is someone who very boldly states what he thinks and feels, and I was happy to stick to that. I was interested where Spock realizes and comes to terms and accepts the fact that he’s an outsider and no matter where he is, he’s an outsider among all those humans, different species.

Then when his crew turned vulcan, Oh god, this show he’s an outsider among them as well, because he’s half fulcan, half human. When he ends up embracing his uniqueness, The unspoken thing about Doug is Doug loves the fact that Spock’s so unique. You can’t be so unique. You’re either unique or not unique. That’s what you really want, a friend, someone that actually likes the fact that you’re different than anyone else.

Are you guys still here? See I’ve told you on and off over the years. I’m very passionate about Star Trek. You heard the rage come out there, but you know, ostensibly that was a story about comedian Patton Oswalt, So thank you for the indulgence there. Spinal tap is out tomorrow.

They have done amazing amounts of press in character Nigel’s it’s no spoke to Guitar World, we learned. Nigel for the last fifteen years has been living on the border of Scotland. I’ve got a cheese shop there and we work together with his partner Mora. He still plays music, mostly with locals in the nearby pub and says, but it’s not for the public to hear. Well, it could happen, but as it so happens, it’s not.

It’s just for me. He makes cheese. He was asked if the pub sells any of his cheeses. He says pubs aren’t really known for their cheese, now are they. If you know what a pub is, it’s mostly people drinking side or a port or some sort of ale or lagger.

All right, here is a shocking development. I actually watched a comedy special. Yeah. My wife was like, oh, I’ll watch the paper with you. I’ll be down in like twenty minutes, so I had to kill some time.

I watched the entire Apple iPhone presentation, which was forty minutes long. She still wasn’t there, so I’m like, all right, let me see what’s on Netflix, and they stuck Jordan Jensen Special in front of me, and I hit play and I lasted one minute seven seconds. I think the material might have been okay, but Jordan, are you listening? Jordan and your people, are you guys listening? Stop adding fake laughter.

I mean it’s like, hello, Halla. I could not with this special. It actually made me angry, and I posted about it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and then one of the regulars over there, Dylan, made me laugh. I’m still laughing at this line. He wrote, this is the one you watch the day it comes out.

He’s so right, because I never watched them today they come out because I’m always doing something else. But yep, I watched Jordan Jensen minute seven. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but the laugh track is unacceptable. So I did not watch it, and I went out of my way to give it a thumbs down in the Netflix algorithm. That’s how angry Jordan Jensen’s special made me.

Apparently she went on Stoby’s World podcast and people are upset about that. Cracked wrote, and I’m just gonna mostly quote here because I’m not really sure what’s going on? But Cracked wrote these words her erratic behavior on the most recent episode of the Stobby’s World podcast, which dropped up yesterday morning, so that would be Tuesday morning. Barely two minutes into Jensen’s unteenth appearance on the show, made a point to mention that her next stop on the podcast press tour would be on The Joe Rogan Experience. Interesting, they say, the conversation steered towards her hot takes on such rogan Esque topics as the transgender identity LGBTQ issues in general, and how, in her opinion, feminism is dead.

At the same time, however, Jensen argued that the perceived failure of the feminist movement is linked to what she feels is an improper handling on the political debate over the rights of transgender women. They have a quote from Jensen there, and the quote reads, I think if you’re a feminist you also have to have issues with trans stuff. You have to because when a trans person goes now I’m a woman and they get giant fake boobs, you have to go Hey, I haven’t listened to it yet. I’ve added it to Mike Cue. I’ll let you know what I think so.

Anyway, my wife eventually showed up and we watched the paper, and as predicted, she made it to the first commercial break and then said it’s not for me, and she laughed. At least it didn’t take six months for us to watch it together. Boy, the first ten minutes of the paper is rough. Bro. I was sitting there using words like horrific, and the only reason I didn’t hit stop is because they hadn’t yet gotten to the lead guy.

So I’m like, all right, at least let me see what the show’s like when we get to the main character. But I watched two episodes on Goodwill. I want to like the show. It feels like comfort food because it feels like an episode of the Office, except for the parts where you laugh for like the characters. It’s not good.

Maybe it gets better. I am going to stick with it just because of the comfort food good Will brought into it. But it’s not good. At least through two episodes it’s not good, and the first ten minutes are horrific. I don’t know how that even got handed In the La Times caught up with Oscar Nuniez, so the actors Oscar Nuniez, the characters Oscar Martinez, that gets confusing times.

I personally I liked Oscar on the Office. I feel in the paper he’s really really overacting. Every time he comes on, I kind of cringe. The main guy’s very good, and the woman in the Jim Halpert role is pretty good, and everybody else’s vanilla, and then Oscar’s bad. How’s that for review?

And I’m in a good mood today actually, anyway, Oscar spoke to the La Times and said, I like this quote a lot. The best thing about Oscar Martinez is that I go home, I forget about the office and I’m just living. But we do these conventions once in a while, and there are kids, teenagers and young people in their twenties were like, hey man, I’m gay, and your character helped me come out of the closet. I like what Oscar said about Los Angeles. LA is a town where it’s very easy to just go to the beach, hang out with friends, but you’re not really concentrating on your career because everything’s kind of cool.

You’re cruising by. I have often wondered if I moved to the West Coast, would I get anything done? I did more work on Sunday than I did between May and Saturday, because it was a really, really nice summer in New Jersey. Once it heated up, but I got a lot to beach it and sat poolside and shortened some days.

And then you know, now it’s fifty nine degrees in reading and I’m productive …

So yeah, I could say where it would just be easy to go to the beach and hang out. The conversation turned to politics. Oscar said, America is a racist country. You can get pulled over and be shot by a cop. It also happens to be a place where you can come from another country at three years old end up with property and a family and a career.

Both things are true. That’s the schizophrenia of this country. Oscar was born in Cuba. Stay with this next quote. A documented pathological liar who’s afraid of the media and wants to throw critics in jail, who’s anti gay, anti science, anti intellectual.

Every time there’s a problem, he’s the victim. I’m talking, of course about Fidel Castro. That’s why my parents left Cuba and now to be here and going through this, it’s crazy. There are detentionent centers where we’re not allowed to go see what’s happening, and the people in there, that’s crazy, and everybody keeps talking about something else. The Ely Times says that reference was to Latino’s industry who have remained silent.

Oscar says, George Lopez speaks up, but there are many huge stars, millions and millions of followers where Mexican or Latino or quiet. If you’re quiet, you’re not helping your people. You’re helping Maga and you’re helping Ice and that ticks me off. While we’re in the office Verse Rain Wilson was forced to evacuate his home in Sisters, Oregon because of the flat fire. On Monday.

He posted on Instagram, this is his fourth evacuation in the last six years. Wilson got into the science of it all and said, the wet years are really wet, and tons of undergrowth grows. Then there’ll be two or three years that are super bone dry, and all that undergrowth provides excellent kindling. For God’s sake, for the planet’s sake, Let’s do something for our great great grandchildren. Simply limit CO two and other heat trapping gases.

In twenty twenty Rain Wilson hosted a YouTube series called An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change. Liz Meely has a new stand up special out. It’s called Space Camp. You’ll find it on Punch Up Live, recorded at the Billhouse in Brooklyn. Liz Meely hit the stage with her rapid fire story telling style to share tales of her boyfriend’s botch vasectomy, oh No, faking marriage, being a sly Princess, cat mishaps, and more.

If you’re in the New York City area, She’ll be doing a show in Brooklyn on September twenty first, Boston November sixth, and a bunch of other shows in between and Kicking off today is the San Francisco Comedy Competition that, over the year has launched some pretty big names, including Patton Oswalt, who has helped Ruin star Trek, Robin Williams, and Ellen DeGeneres. The San Francisco Comedy Competition is an annual multi week judge stand up comedy contest over thirty comedians out of one hundreds to apply performance shows held in comedy clubs, bars, restaurants, casinos, and theaters in SF and around the Bay. Contestants perform three to seven minute long sets in one of two preliminary weeks. The top five from each of those weeks meets in the semifinals. Then I have to do eight to twelve minute sets for another six shows.

Five from there moved to the finals. Then they do twelve to fifteen minute long sets, and then a winner is crowned. Doors open at six shows at seven to nine. Fifty bucks will get you in at the Center for the Arts three fourteen West Main in Grass Valley. And that is your comedy news for today.

I like today. Today is feisty and interesting and fun. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, O, Adam Sandler had a great birthday. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Adam Sandler kicked off his comedy tour and brought out Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice came out and did Ice Ice Baby.

There’s footage. I shared it in the Facebook group. Please feel encouraged to join us in the group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. The clip is a wonderful mix of fun and train wreck.

Also at the show Kevin James, who makes Adam Sandler look like George Curlin.

Sandler and Vanilla Ice also played some pickup basketball with the USF Bulls. Coach Honson posted on social media shout out to Sandlor and Ice for stopping by the m Uma Center to run some pickup with the Bulls. Big time vibes Only in Tampa Bay’s home for hoopsne Pragazzi hosting the Emmys on Sunday a lot of Nate press out there. He did a long interview with cbsdy Morning. Nate discussed the days back when he would play for free at small clubs and said, I would never trade it, I would never go back.

You just didn’t know better. There’s nothing better than when you don’t know that there’s better. He had moved to New York and then in twenty fourteen he moved back to Nashville, and he said, you know what, I always thought it was the first thing I didn’t do. That was for me. I wanted my daughter to grow up in a normal situation, as normal as it can be, and was like, all right, let’s move back.

I’m gonna move back. I just didn’t tell anybody could fill out from CBS. We worried there was gonna be an impression like, well he moved back to Nashville, he’s given up comedy. Nate said, that’s why I didn’t tell anybody, because they’d think I would quit, and I was so scared of that, so I didn’t say anything. Filming has wrapped on The bread Winner.

Nate says his characters a bumbling dad, not too dissimilar from his real life personality. He explains, we eased into it. I ain’t crying in this movie. I can tell you that in the movie have three daughters, and you know I have one daughter. He started talking about the theme park.

I’ve shared my opinions on that in the past, but Nate said, I’m not gonna be able to go to every city in America for the rest of my life. So I want to build a place where you can come and if you and your wife and kids are eleven and they want to go run off on their own for second, I want that to have. I’m doing this tour, I plan on doing one more tour after that. I need to go do movies and I need to build that world up and learn how to do all that stuff. So I’m going to dive into that aspect of it.

I can see myself being and making movies for like another fifteen years from allowed to I mean, it might all fall apart. Nate likes playing golf. It’s kind of like stand up. You’re kind of out there on your own golf. You’re so much thinking about what you’re doing out there.

I realized I can’t turn my brain off. I just need to direct it to something else. He hosts the Emmy’s on Sunday. Right before that, he’s doing back to back arena shows in Denver and says, I kind of know how to operate in this chaos, and if you pulled me out and gave me a month off. I think I’d be lost.

Right now, Let’s keep going. We’re in a good groove. You kind of don’t want to stop the groove. Yeah, keep touring, keep doing stand up. I’m telling you I’m going to be on in this podcast in like ten years, still from the basement while you have your millions, But I will be in the basement going.

Remember that time naprighets he thought he was gonna open a theme park. I’m one hundred percent eventually going to do that story. Paton Oswald has a sub stack, and I thought this was really interesting. He’s got an upcoming show at the Horseshoe Casino, and he writes, the venue holds twenty six hundred and twelve people, and as this moment, I’ve sold wait for it, two hundred and two tickets, two hundred and two in a room that size. But Paton writes, but now comes my conundrum, I kind of want that to be the size of the audience.

Yeah, he doesn’t want this show to sell more tickets. He explains, two hundred and two people in a room that seats two thousand plus is strangely appealing to me. There’s a real cinematic honesty is zeroing in on two hundred people in a vast, mostly empty venue. If the Horseshoe holds at a low audience count, I know that show will be something unique, unlike the shows I’ll do in Milwaukee and Flint. It’ll become this event that I and those two hundred people will probably think about and missed all life’s other work and entertainment that melts in this huge gray slurry of memory.

That one will pop, good or bad.

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And now I’m obsessed with it.

It hasn’t even happened, and I can’t stop envisioning it in my mind. It’s a bleak, hopeful, early seventies movie about perseverance and grace in the autumn landscape near Leading, Michigan. It’s the kind of Netflix special Terrence Malick would have filmed. If you’re one of the two hundred and two people who are holding tickets of the show, I truly can’t wait to see you. We’re gonna make sad existential magic that night.

That’s awesome. Everybody’s mad at Bill Moore. Nothing new there, he weighed in on the Late Night Stuff. It is Bill Moore’s opinion that Colbert Stewart Oliver and Kimmel very predictably parent whatever MSNB was saying, I’m not knocking them. The audience and of course half the country was like, well, this is just insulting to me.

Leno never did that. Leno just played it down the middle. He was like, I’ll make fun of everybody and in a different sort of way what I’m doing. I just don’t stop criticizing just because you’re on the left part. If you do something stupid, I’m gonna call you out, no matter who you are.

Bill Maher also talked about a famous politician and said, a crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is efed up. It’s just not as effed up as I thought it was. I wonder if Bill Moohr has any thoughts about any recent drawings. Anyway, Moving on, in New York City, there was a Stephen Colbert lookalike contest.

It was sponsored by Political Action Committee move On. It was both in and of ursary celebration. It was the there was weird semantics. Colbert’s camp was calling it the tenth anniversary of the Late Show, which I guess is technically accurate because David Letterman hosted Late Show with David Letterman no tch at the beginning there, and then Colbert renamed the thing, So I guess it was the tenth anniversary of the Late Show, But what you really meant it was the tenth anniversary of Colbert hosting the thing? Does it matter now?

Some of my brain thinks, anyway, you look alike. Contest was both an anniversary celebration and a protest of what they call this suspicious timing of the show’s cancelation. Justin Krebs is the leader of Special Projects and Move On, and he said when Stephen Colbert called out the BS of CBS’s capitulation to Trump, our members around the country were excited, relieved, and inspired because since the beginning of his administration, we’ve been looking for entities that won’t capitulate to Trump, and then days later the show gets canceled. Whatever CBS says, there’s too much of a connection there. Late Nighter tells us a bunch of would be Colbert’s turned up chasing their dream of a free slice of pizza and a two hundred fifty dollars a gift card.

The judges stressed that the contest was less about looks than essence and vibe. The grand prize went to Nancy, who’s pitched that Colbert run for president in twenty twenty eight. Something Johnny Mack has floated on this exact program, went over the judges and secured herd the trophy and the gift card. After the contest, the crowd marched the two blocks of the Ed Sullivan Theater. They started chanting, We’re calling BS on CBS love It, a banner called CBS the capitulation broadcast station.

The day ended with cupcakes and a birthday cake in honor of Colbert’s tenth anniversary as host of The Late Show.

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Speaking of Colbert, he’ll be one of the presenters at the Emmys this week.

That should definitely be interesting television. Johnny Max gonna have to work late Sunday night. I can’t hand in one of those pre tape Mondays where I blow off the Emmys and Nate hosting it and Colbert is showing up and Colbert may be winning an Emmy. So Johnny Max will be watching both the Emmys and Sunday night football on the split screen and then doing some recording probably around ten thirty PM, which does mean anytime I record that late, usually when it’s like Dmmy’s or the Oscars or something like that. So on a normal day, I record kind of midday and schedule the podcast for three am, but when it’s like already eleven PM, and then I just put it out, so you might get an episode very late Sunday night, but it’ll be there in the feed Monday morning regardless.

Anyway, some of the presenters Stephen Colbert, Sidney Sweeney, she’s been in the news. Let’s see who else will we find interesting for this program? Tina Fay, Leanne Morgan, and for some reason, Jeff Probs for Survivor. Okay, dmmy Sunday, eight pm, East five West. Earthquake is going to tape a second special for Netflix.

This will be out September thirtieth. It is titled Joke Telling Business, described as a no holds bar hour of unfiltered comedy that cements him as one of the sharpest and most relatable voices in stand up. We also learn Earthquake is developing a scripted comic that he’s producing with Bill Burr. Very Interesting Do not So canceled Disease and Sorry in the news again. Entertainment Weekly caught up with him.

You may recall back in twenty eighteen, there was a sexual misconduct allegation about Disease and Sorry. That’s not what we’re talking about today. You may also recall he’s about to play the re Odd Comedy Festival, but that’s not what we’re talking about today. Do not so canceled. Disease and Sorry told Entertainment Weekly he’s eager to spend time together with the Parks and rec cast.

As long as he gets a decent enough check, he’d be down for a reboot. He doesn’t even need to see a script, he said. I’d love to spend time with anybody from Parks, even if the show was terrible and we just got a decent enough check. We got to spend time together. You know, I have a certain Dennis Leary song stuck in my head.

Be right back this Sunday. Not just the Emmy is. There is a fundraiser for Saint Jude Children’s Hospital. It’s the Comedian’s Cross Up Cancer Fundraiser. Comedians Sammy Anzer and Mike Hawkburns have partnered with the Basketball Social House to present comedians cross up cancer fundraiser.

They will raise money for Saint Jude’s Sunday, September fourteenth at the Basketball Social House in Centennial, Colorado. Watch stand up comics with no skills hit the court for chaos, laughs and charity. You should see. If Sandler’s in town, you’ll come. Because technically this press release does not say watch stand up comics with no basketball skills.

It says watch stand up comics with no skills. And Adam Sandlor is a comic with no skill. Well, he’s a good dramatic actor, but comedy he’s just terrible. And I think he is actually decent at basketball. I digress.

Watch stand up comics with no basketball skills hit the court for chaos, laughs and charity, complete with live roast, commentary, high jinks, prizes, and a halftime dance. Last year’s event raised one thousand dollars for the Saint Jude Children’s Hospital. There’d be a bunch of comedians there. This sounds really cool. Go to event bright and search for stand up guys and that’ll take you there.

That sounds like a lot of fun. Leanne Morgan is getting a second season of her TV show. She put out a statement. We’re coming back for a second season, and I’m so grateful to all the writers’ producers, Netflix, Warner Brothers, our amazing cast, and especially for all the fans of the show. Y’all did this for us.

We can’t wait to be back. I yelled upstairs to my wife. I’m like, hey, Leanne Morgan’s show, they brought it back. She said it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t good, and I’d rather watch her clips.

Interesting take from missus Daily Comedy News there. But I’ll tell you Missus DCN knows her TV and I say that because of this next story. She will often take the dog to the dog park and she one day said to me, you know this would be a good show. Well, apparently the Australian ABC overheard her conversation. They have started filming in Melbourne for a six part comedy series called wait for it, dog Park.

Yeah. In Dog Park, we meet Roland, who’s grappling with a midlife crisis. He encounters the ever optimistic Samantha and her quirky, life loving circle of dog park regulars. As Roland reluctantly returns to the park, he slowly discovers his need for a community, so it sounds like community. But dog Park, I’ll watch.

Dog Park is a heartwarming tale of love, loyalty, and playful canine antics celebrating kindness for the joy of it. I’m already wondering are Roland and Sam gonna get together? I bet they do. Tim Robinson getting another show for eachbo. It is a comedy called The Cheer Company.

In The Cheer Company, we follow William Roland Trosper, a man who’s embarrassing workplace accident results in him unraveling a massive conspiracy. This will start airing Sunday, October twelfth at ten pm. New episodes every Sunday until November thirtieth, out on Netflix. Jordan Jensen’s new special Take Me with You. Honestly, this one caught me a little bit by surprise.

I even looked at the Netflix New Releases, didn’t see it on there.

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And then I am prepping the show and I see the La Times telling me this thing …

And they caught up with Jordan Jensen, who teld the Times, I can’t see the numbers of the tanks, I won’t know. I like that. She talked about touring as a young comedian and explain, do you do an open mic and someone says you could be on a show, and suddenly you think you’re hot stuff, And every step of the way you think you’re doing really well. So you’re driving around being like I’m on tour and making weird tour posters and you’re not even looking for people who are on a different level. You’re just trying to do the most you could do at your level.

So for me, it was the same as it is now. I’m on tour every weekend, and I’ll come home and hit the open mics and get my material and go off again. Even though I was losing money on the road, I felt like it was a touring comic. Good question here from the LA Times. As a New York comic, what’s your perception of the LA comedy scene right now?

I’m very curious of this answer. Jordan Jensen says, the LA scene has less of a fire under its butt, but it is the same amount of good comics, or roughly the same amount because of the population difference. But the difference between doing comedy in LA and doing comedy in New York is if you don’t write a new joke in New York every week everybody knows, whereas in LA they can chill more, they have a dog, they have a hike, and there’s more to life than comedy. But New York you have ten people living with you and you have to take a train every day, and you’re so comedy focused because you’re trying to climb out of that life and into the comedy place of LA. So they’re just as good.

But New York comedy is way more prolific. But in LA they’re just as funny. Like Josh Johnson, I don’t think that guy’s coming out of LA because we’re trying to get to where the LA people are. They’re comfortable and have a nice house and they’re gonna be okay. But in New York, we’ve committed our lives to being miserable, so we keep producing.

She talked about getting a note from Netflix. Netflix was like, all that stuff that’s effed up about your family, put that way sooner in the special. And I ended up not doing that because the way I would do my regular set is to try and ease them into that, because when you’re sitting there as a watcher listening to all the stuff about my dad, you need to be loose. Netflix was like, just put it up top because it’s your story, and I decided I’m just going to go how I normally do it because I get that it’s my story. But I can imagine turning that stuff off so fast once you hear some of that stuff.

So it’s just like, no, So I’m trying to get you to understand me and then letting it rip the first half hours of my story. But it isn’t just about being raised by lesbian moms and having the dead dad. I just had a gamble and not do the whole closer first thing first and do a ramp up instead. It’s interesting. We’ve heard some pretty big name comedians specifically Burt Kreischer comes to mind, who have realized in the age of Netflix, they have to move their closer all the way to the front because people have TV add as I call it, and I can’t really focus for an hour.

So we’ll see if this works for Jordan Jensen. At some point, I’m going to watch comedy specials again. I still don’t get to Jim Jefferies, and looking at to Friday, we’ve got cable Guy in Santino, so I’ll have one of those nights where I watch stuff. But you know, we’ve got college football Saturday, Sunday Night Football, and EMS Monday Night football, Thursday Night football, and my Netflix cues is backing up here. Did you watch the The Lazarus Project.

You gotta watch The Lazarus Project anyway. That is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Are we really going to do this? Daily Beast? Their headlined the addition of MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliff’s protege is likely to disrupt the show’s SNL’s status quo and already recalls the Shane Gillis debacle.

So we’re calling Camp Patterson MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliff’s protege. Okay, noted, We’ll get to SNL in a bit. Want to talk more about the not so canceled disease. I’m sorry. Azaz out there on the apology tour promoting a new movie, has broken his silence on the controversy surrounding Bill Murray.

You may recall back in twenty twenty two, there was an alleged incident on the set of the Aziz and Surrey movie Being Mortal. A report publisher at the time claimed that Bill Murray straddled a woman on a prop bed and kissed her on the mouth through mass worn on set for COVID safety protocols. In an interview with The New York Times, Bill Murray had said he felt barbecued by the experience, despite saying he had tried to make peace with the affected parties, Murray said, I don’t go too many days or weeks without thinking what happened. I don’t know what prompted me to do it. It’s something I’d done to someone else before, and I thought it was funny, and every time it happened, it was funny.

I was wearing a mask. I gave her a kiss. She was wearing a mask, was I. I touched her and she wasn’t a stranger. Murray added that he ate lunch with the person on various days of the week as he’s and Sorry in promoting his movie, has chimed in saying Bill couldn’t believe it happened.

I think this movie meant a lot to him. You know what, people are starting to notice the Riodd Comedy Festival. I’m hearing some conversations about this and other podcasts, and some people are the media are noticing that some comedians are playing the Reodd Comedy Festival. The confirmed lineup includes write this down. This is a lot of big names.

You’ve heard of These people who are going to play the Reodd Comedy Festival. They include Andrew Santino, Andrew Schultz, The not so canceled as he’son Sorry, Bill Burr, Bobby Lee, Jessica Curson, Jim Jeffries, Jimmy Carr, Joe Coy, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson remember that name for a second, Russell Peters, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sam Sagora, Whitney Cummings, Zarna garg Now. Some critics of these comedians find it interesting that they’re playing Saudi Arabia, for example, say Jessica Kerson, who’s gay, or Pete Davidson, whose father was killed on nine to eleven. Tim Heidecker choked, Bill Cosby and Woody Allen will also make rare public appearances at the Rion Comedy Festival. The festival is September twenty sixth through October ninth.

Humorism dot x y z has an article called Here’s how comedians are rationalizing taking paycheck from Saudi Arabia. Jim Jeffrey spoke to Theovan about it. Jim said, now people have been going, how dare you go after there? After they killed a reporter that was the big one. There’s been a reporter who they killed.

You don’t think our government bleeping bump people. I think Jeffrey Epstein was effing bumped off, you know what I mean. Theovan said, I’m sure that every place we’ve damaged a lot of places. Jeffries, one reporter was killed by the government. Unfortunate, but not a hill that I’m gonna die on.

And I don’t know the end announce of their government. So they got in a live golf right, all the golfers go to Saudi Arabia for king’s ransom amount of money, and everyone’s like, how dare they have to how they treat their people and all this stuff, And then people are like, all right, then we’ve got Christiano Ronaldo, soccer player goes over and plays there, and it is being paid an extra hundred two hundred grand every time he kicks a goal as a bonus fifty grand for an assist. Tim Dillon, who’s gay, said, if my tax dollars in the country that I go to are being sent to another country to starve children, for anyone to then say you should fuse a gig in Saudi Arabia on moral ground is bleeping insane. It’s insane. Christa Stefano, talking to Stavros Halkias, said I didn’t want to do it either.

I was contemplating. I was like, maybe not, and then Jasmine was like, well, we’re getting married. We got in the house. Who knows, we’ll probably sell it again. I was like, I can’t do it, and then she was like, you’re gonna take that bleeping money.

Short ol now reporting on this their headline comics take the Saudi coin. Alma Julliy, who’s playing the festival, tweeted, I’m at the Riad Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia October first. Naturally a little nervous, as the Saudis remove any image with nudity in your possession before coming to the country. Word is Louis C.K.’s at the airport right now having his retin as removed. Tim Dillon again on his podcast, here’s the point, Okay, I’m doing this because they’re paying me a large sum of money.

Do I have issue with some of their politics towards women, towards the gaze, towards the freedom of speech. Well, of course I do. But I believe in my own financial well being and always have, by the way, and I think you better start believing in that. Plenty to talk about here, we’ll continue to talk about it gonna be a lot of aprighezzi this week. He’s hosting the Emmys on Sunday.

I’ve seen at least three major pieces about him. Let’s start with the one on the Telegraph. They write, nobody has a bad word to say about Nate. This is by design. The comedian has become one of the hottest properties in the stand up by studiously avoiding the divisive, rage inducing topics that most other contemporary comedians find themselves drawn toward, like moths to a trans joke, I see what you did their telegraph.

He avoids profanity as carefully as he avoids controversy, carefully expelling even the hint of vulgarity from his family friendly sets. When his first announceing host SNL, the news was greeting with more than a few raised eyebrows. In fact, it’s unlikely he would have even landed the gig if it hadn’t betten for the then ongoing actors strike. When he took the stage, he opened his monologue by saying, look, I’m as shocked as you are that I’m here. At that time, Burghets he was considered a mid tier stand up comedian so boy, he’s really popped.

Huh. He’s planning for the Emmys. He told Stephen Colbert back in June. I guess I’ll just do what I do. I’m very self deprecating.

I’ll try to bring it inward. I know it’s a tough thing when everybody’s up for all these awards, but I want everyone have a good time. I’ll try to make it lively and fun, and I’ll make fun of me. There were some Creative Emmys over the weekend. Congratulations to Brian Kranston, who one Outstanding Guest Star Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in the studio.

Let’s talk a little SNL. There was a kerfluffle his Colin jos leaving is he’s staying? On Friday night, Colin Jost was on the stage, did some Q and a someone asked if he was returning. Joe said, I don’t know. Probably That started some speculation over the weekend.

Then wife Scarlett Johansen said nope, he’s coming back to work.

And now Deadline is reporting that the cast exodus is over.

Deadline reporting the cast will be eighteen people, which is a lot. They are Michael Jay, mikey Day Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Feineman, Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing really well? End of sentence, James Austin Johnson, Colin jost Egnwodem, Sarah Sherman, Keenan Thompson, who knows a good gig when you have one? And Bowen Yang. Feutured players Ashley Padilla, Jane Wickline and Ben Marshall, Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Colhayne, Cam Patterson, who what are we calling him again?

Maga, comedian Tony Hinchcliffs Protege, Camp Patterson and Veronica Slowakowska The rounds out your cast in case you’re worried about the police don’t destroys. The police don’t destroys said Nope, We are still together. A fan video clip making the rounds on social media show the police don’t destroy as making fun over the cast shake up at SNL. Ben Marshall asked anything going on this week? John Higgins said anything in the news.

Higgins said it’s PDD Forever. Baby Deadline believes the Troop will remain together, but focus its efforts on developing other projects and will no longer make videos for Saturday Night Live. Took a shot at Mark Maren because Mark Maren’s been taking a shot at Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience. Joe asked him, Heidecker, have you ever known people that have outdoor kats and they’re very irrational, Mark Maron? That’s not me adding the Marin tag there, That was Joe.

Those people probably have toxo, which is why they’re behaving weird. Did you watch football all weekend like I did? Boy, my picks. I couldn’t have done worse. The only thing actually, I could have done worse.

Friend of the show, Scott invited me to the football pool. I’m in fifty sixth place out of fifty nine. You want to know who’s in fifty ninth, Yeah, Scott. So I was gonna say I couldn’t have done worse, but apparently I could have done slightly worse. At least I’m ahead of him.

Boy, if he finished like third and I was in fifty six, that would have been embarrassing. The only thing I got right was hating on the Jets. Kevin Hart went to see at Tennessee Football. He was shown on the scoreboard as the volunteers warned a pregame. Why you’re wondering, Well, hendricks Heart is a senior in high school.

He’s a short sprinter. His event is the two hundred meter dash, and he’s being recruited by Tennessee. One more football story then we’ll take the break. The first story after the break is horrible, horrible, horrible. If you were listening with children of this podcast for some reason, please hit stop on the podcast.

Okay, because you don’t want to go there, Hit stop anyway. One more fun story. Did you watch the Chargers and the Chiefs. You know Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Travis there, He got slapped in the face by one of the defenders on the Chargers seeing the Chiefs scored a touchdown. Part of that play was Travis making a block on a Chargers tier tart.

The Chargers tackle seemed to take exception with how hard Travis was pushing him. He stared at Kelsey before striking him across the helmet with an open palm. The Swifties were not happy with this. One of them said you should have got a checked and suspended. Another said, you’ve officially made children who previously looked up to you hate you.

How pathetic that you can’t control your anger. How did mister chart respond to this? He went on social media and posted a Dave skit in which Chappelle is dressed as Rick James and slaps Charlie Murphy. In the sketch, Chappelle’s Rick James asked Charlie Murphy what did the five fingers say to the face, and then he smacks him. Okay again, warning hit stop if you’re with kids.

This is terrible. Many news reports saying comedian John Reap was arrested and charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. Reap apparently was indicted on ten counts of sexual exploitation. The Hickory, North Carolina Police Department had opened an investigation into Reap in April. After reviewing the hbd’s case, a grand jury indicted Reap on Tuesday.

Howard Stern returned to the satellite airwaves on Monday and Boy Howard nineteen eighty five Howard Would Hate You. The show started with Andy Cohen behind the microphone and said the channel going forward would be known as Andy one under. Andy Cohen said, I know we’re expecting a big announcement from Howard and this is not how things are meant to go supposed to be a cleaner hand off. I’m kind of winging it. He said.

It was a surreal morning here and I can’t possibly fill his void, and he was confident Howard Stern would land on another platform soon. Well, what do you know, that was a prank? Howard Stern showed up and thanked Andy Cohen for agreeing to do the stunt. Howard, that’s so lame, like unbelievably lame, Hugh Well. Howard then addressed all the rumors and said he’d been thinking of retiring, but said he couldn’t walk away now given reports that the show was canceled.

One of the positive things about the fake news, according to Stern, is that he heard from other companies were interested in picking up the show. Stern said, I’m very happy it’s serious. Here’s the truth. Serious XM and my team have been talking about how we go forward in the future. They’ve approached me, They’ve sat down with me like they normally do, and they’re fantastic.

Johnny Mack continues to tell you this is going to get dragged out until the Thursday before Christmas vacation, at which point they will announce Howard Stern is coming back for a two year Victory Lap farewell tour. Write It Down. Greg daniel talked about the Paper with the La Times. I haven’t seen it yet.

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Now here’s the issue.

My wife has decided that’s a show. We’re going to work together. You know what that means. That means for like months and months, I’m like, HETI wanted to watch the paper and she’s not gonna be free, And on the nights where she is free, I’m gonna be watching football. Many months from now, we’ll watch the Paper and she’s gonna watch it for about seven minutes and be like, yeah, I like this.

You can watch by yourself. Why I can’t just watch by myself tonight? I don’t know? Are you married? I am?

Anyway. Greg Daniels said, I’ve always felt like the show was cut to be the introduction to the show itself, and then he explains that the jokes are being set up for later seasons. He said, at first, I thought the payceout model would be good for that, because that’s how The Office was on NBC. But NBC pointed out to me that the majority of Office fans watched on streaming where they could binge the whole thing, and that’s why they’re binging it. Okay, I haven’t seen it yet.

Greg Daniels, Why Toledo. Greg said that was really about the alliteration of the Toledo truth Tailler. There’s something about the Cleveland Plain Dealer that I think is a super interesting title. The name of it. I always thought it’s been very intriguing.

It kind of reminds you of the independence of these big Midwestern newspapers, which is different from now. Toledo also has a certain officey Scranton thing to it. There was a time when we were looking at where the other locations Donder Mifflin as offices, and the list is very funny. It’s like Yunkers and Nashua, New Hampshire. It’s all these words that are just kind of fun to roll off your tongue.

And the Washington Post profile the Russian comedy scene, one unnamed comedian said, now you can choke about the family, the subway, and I don’t know what else, but no hint of politics. People are more tense when they hear jokes about politics because there’s a feeling while I get in trouble if I react to it. Huh. I wonder what that’s like that would never happen in the United States. Another comedian said, I wouldn’t want to go to jail for a joke.

At the same point, you start thinking, why the hell should I go to jail for a joke? Then you start to wonder what’s going on in general? Why can’t I go out and say what I personally don’t like, which I think is strange, stupid, and so on. Now you should think twenty times about how your joke would be perceived and where this joke is worth the effort. Again, I’m speaking of Russia here and not another country in which you might live.

So far, that’s your Daily Comedy News, with some commentary there at the end. And before we go, A happy birthday to the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Born on this day in nineteen sixty six. Adam Sandler fifty nine years old. You have a good birthday, buddy, See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed Sunday’s episode, it was pretty robust and lengthy for a weekend episode, a lot of news in there. Go back and listen. I’m excited about today because I like strife.

I like when everybody’s fighting with everybody, and we’ve got a bunch of stories today. Let’s start with Dana Corvey, who’s pretty sure it wasn’t Heidi Gardner’s decision to leave Saturday Night Live. Oh that’s a headline. Dana was on his Fly on the Wall podcast with David Spade and said, from what I know as of this recording, it was not her idea to leave. He gave himself a wiggle room and said he could be wrong.

Spade said that would be a little shocking because she’s really one of the core ones you know from that show and she does a great job. Carvey, you never know, and it’s a hard thing. But I was really really surprised. Carvey then recalled speaking to Devin Walker about his three years Quoting Carvey, Devin had told me that when you don’t get on the show a lot, then when you get out there and you have a moment, you’re not relaxed because it’s like, if you don’t score here, you go back in line. So it can be emotionally violent depending on where you are in the show, or it could be a magic ride.

Carvey said what got his attention the most was the breaking up of the you Please don’t destroy guys, especially given the John Higgins, whose son of longtime SNL producer Steve Higgins. That John Higgins is leaving the show altogether. Carvey said, So that really surprised me, and on a human level, I was surprised that they kept some of them. Spade said, so the one guy has to say I’m gonna take this, I’m gonna be a cast member. It’s effing awkward for sure.

Devin Walker has clarified some of his comments. Remember he said it was a toxic atmosphere. He has spoken some more and said, I understand it’s show business and it’s cutthroat, but people of lives and people deserve to know the status of their job at a reasonable juncture. There’s a measure of humanity that the show could benefit from. What ends up had happening over the summer is Oftentimes people left hanging with big life decisions, people trying to start families or buy homes, and there’s no word from the show about whether they have the job.

The show won’t tell them all summer, and then we’ll ultimately end up firing them when there’s been months of them trying to work their situation out. He then clarified that was a nice situation, but I’ve known of situations to where that’s happened. If there’s one thing I hope for the future of the show, it’s that a sprinkle of humanity could be added into it. Most people are told they’re coming back to work in a week. He says his decision was a mutual decision and recognizes that devoting yourself to the time commitment of the show’s just part of it.

You’re expected to get in line. But again, on the measure of transparracy and clarity around people’s employment, we’re human beings. We’ve got to put food on the table. Some of us support other people in our lives. We’re not making millions of dollars on the show.

It’s not like we’re good And definitely, once we leave, did you sell your SNL stock? Did you hear comedy stock Market on Friday, sell your SNL stock all right? D not so canceled asase I’m Sorry has spoken out. You may recall back in twenty eighteen, an anonymous accuser recounted a date with a Z’s and Sorry that left her feeling violated. After an initial statement detailing his surprise and concern at the allegations, Aziz addressed the incident in twenty nineteen while touring the country with stand up material eventually filmed for a Netflix special.

Then there was more backlash as az’sin Sorry was criticized for acknowledging the claims without offering a public apology. He has addressed it again. Why now, Because he’s promoting a movie. That’s why. Let’s all be honest.

He’s bringing this up to get you to talk about his new film. He has told The Hollywood Reporter there was an apology, but it wasn’t for public consumption. The poll quote, I mean, I apologize to the person personally right when it happened. Aziz denied pulling back from the spotlight after the accusation. He said it wasn’t really a break per se.

I did that tour and I wanted to address it in the special because people were curious about how I felt about the whole experience, so I felt like I had to talk about it in the special. As he said, I took her words to heart and respond privately after taking time to process what she had said. I continue to support the movement that is happening in our culture. It is necessary and long overdue. There’s times I felt scared, There’s times I felt humiliated, There’s times I felt embarrassed, and ultimately I just felt terrible that this person felt this way.

And after a year or so, I just hope it was a step forward. It moved things forward from me and made me think about that a lot. I hope I’ve become a better person. I always think about a conversation I had with one of my friends where I was like, you know what, man, that whole thing made me think about every date I’ve ever been on, and I thought, wow, well that’s pretty incredible. It made not just me, but other people more thoughtful, and that’s a good thing.

Now, if you’re not hip to all this, by the way, if kids are listening, stop listening, stop the podcast. Okay, everybody else, just adult to now. Babe, dot net and it’s still up on the internet. I’m looking at it right now. This is a piece by Katie Way in twenty eighteen.

The headline I went on a date with AZ’s I’m sorry it turned into the worst night of my life.

And then if you want to read this piece, it gets into the details of their da…

But check out the piece from Babe dot net and then reconcile that with some of the poll quotes I just read from Disease. I’m Sorry. Good Fortune arrives in theaters October seventeenth. Caleb Hearon is getting an HBO special. Interesting to me.

It’ll debut on Friday, September nineteenth at nine easterns so it’s not one of those Saturday ten PM deals. For some reason, Caleb Hearon gets Friday September nineteenth at nine o’clock. He did put out a trailer, It’s too naughty for this show. Filmed in Chicago. Caleb Hearn, model comedian, showcases here on his ability to unpack life’s most absurd contradictions with his signature charm and razor sharp wit.

That’s a generic description of almost every comedy special. Guys, can you work a little harder at that sentence? Anyway? The trailer is funny. I liked it.

It’s just a little too naughty and let’s see I’ve got a long gut field of let’s do that tomorrow. Let me tell you about the worst in the world, Jay Leno. This guy Michael Boublay told a story about Jay Leno. He said, I used to open up for Jay when I was a kid, before I ever got signed, because he’s like the hardest working man, And I would say to him, can you give me some advice? Now, what do you think?

Jay Leno said? Jay Leno said, Yeah, take the time to travel, go to people’s backyards and play for them. You’ll belong to them. You’ll be tangible to them. They’ll see that when you tell them you appreciate them, you really do, because you took the time to show up.

Boy, that Jay Leno, he’s just the worst. David Byrne, you know, the guy that was the singer in Talking Heads. He was out promoting his new album and went up telling Jimmy Fallon that he tried stand up comedy. Fred Armison had come by to see David Broadway show American Utopia and saw that David Byrne could get a laugh and encourage David Byrne to try stand up. Burne said, really, it’s the scariest thing in the world.

I don’t have to tell you, Jimmy Fallon, but I have to tell these people. You don’t have a band. It’s just you. And if it goes badly, it goes badly. You can’t turn around and say, hey, my bass player.

Fed up, David Byrne said. Fred Armison asked him to make an unannounced appearance in LA and said, sure, Can I do it as a slide show? Fred said, yeah, sure, we’ll set that up. Brince said, all I had to do was show the picture and kind of say what it was. I have no idea if it went well or not.

And are you in the market for a lake house? You might want to buy Daniel Tosh’s Lake Tahoe waterfront compound. It’s for sale. It’ll run you eleven point nine million dollars, but maybe you can negotiate that down a little. Who knows it has ninety three feet of Lake Tahoe shoreline, a boke shed turned cabin.

It’s surrounded by pine trees. The description tells us when you drive through the gate and into the estate, instantly feel like you stepped away from all the chaos, but you’re so close to everything. Restaurants, hiking, trails, cycling. There are multiple homes. The property’s newer ford bedroom upper home, fancy that takes in lake views and they’re nice pictures I saw the listing.

Steam showers are part of every bathroom, and there’s also a dry sauna downstairs. A large family room, pooled table, large TV, sona surrounds it, shuffle board, a bar, and of course an industrial ice cream maker. Did I tell you I met Daniel Toosh once? Back? It’s serious A million years ago, you know how, Like a lot of times, Ibody be like, Oh, Larry the cable guy, that guy’s awesome, Keeg and Michael Key, that dude’s awesome.

Have you ever heard me tell you a story about Daniel Tosh along those lines? I haven’t right. You figure the rest out. Not a warm and fuzzy man, the realtor says, when not cozying up inside the residence. The family’s on the lake, wakesurfing using the banana tube.

We’re taking the boat to Tahoe City and other restaurants on the lake. Yeah. I mean, if you’re gonna buy a twelve million dollar lakehouse, you probably should get a boat. And that is your comedy news today. Maybe tomorrow I’ll tell you a story about Daniel Tosh being warm and fuzzy.

But you know, I might forget. You know, sometimes I forget to put a story in. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. NFL Sunday Going Niners looking forward to the Jets getting destroyed as expected. People are just wigged that Cam Patterson, the guy from kill Tony and among other things, but best known for Kill Tony, is joining Saturday Night Live. Syracuse dot Com went digging and they found new SNL cast member has strong feelings about Upstate New York and the poll quote that place is terrible.

Upstate New York is actually very, very beautiful. Anyway, back in January, Cam Patterson was on Kill Tony. The Syracuse folks pulled a clip in the cliff Patterson says, I’m gonna look into the camera when I say this f Rochester, New York. Tony Hinchcliff, who’s from Youngstown, Ohio, said, I fully endorse cam statements about anywhere in Upstate New York. It’s incredible for anyone to stay there after being born, and he’s there.

Patterson chimed in and said, yeah, that place is terrible. Tony Hinchcliff said, people in Upstate New York settled down with the first person they said, like you, they get pregnant and then become stuck there forever in eternal hell, while literally the rest of America laughs at you. Patterson cut in again and said, f Rochester a garbage place. F all two hundred something thousand now. During a stand up show last December, apparently Patterson made some comments about the food in Rochester.

He showed a photo of the garbage plate. We’ve talked about that in the past. The garbage plate typically includes a base of home fries or macaroni salad, top with meat like hamburgers or hot dogs, and finished with a spicy meat and fused hot sauce, mustard, and onions. Patterson called the meal pig slop. I’m saying, if you want to come over today and watch football, I have rid zone.

If you bring home fries, top with meat type with spicy sauce, mustard and onions, I’ll bring the beer. While I’m already home. I already have the beer. You bring a garbage plate. There is a lot of strife going on over at SNL.

I’ve got you stories I’m saving from Monday. Why John, Because Monday shows are slightly more listened to than Sunday shows. So I’ll make those the lead on tomorrows. Over in the UK, they’re getting their own version of Saturday Night Live, and they’re going to be able to say some swear words. The Sky Television network explains that in the UK, swearing after nine pm is allowed.

My recommendation, don’t swear. I mean the occasional swear word for effect works. But you know, don’t turn this into Saturday afing Night Live. You know who doesn’t swears that. Nate forgets it and he’s doing Okay, did you buy stock in Nate?

Because he’s hosting the Emmy. He’s a week from today. I hope you bought up. He also announced a tour. See we’re already making money on our bet.

The Big Dumb Eyes Tour in twenty twenty six, sixty two Arena stops stretching through next August. The tour begins January fifteenth in Eugene, Oregon, where most tours begin. I’m not going to read you sixty five dates. He’s probably close enough to you. Like for me, I could wait until set Saturday August eighth and go to Newark and see him there.

That’s the third last show. Who wraps up August fifteenth in Toronto little Howard Stern news at the end of last week. The boss is there over at Sirius XM must see the scuttle butt and probably just knowing how people think over there, they probably were a little nervous about the stock and need it to protect it. The CEO over there, nice woman named Jennifer, said it certainly has to make sense, meaning a Stern deal, But we feel pretty good that we’ve done this before and we’ll see where it goes. I think he’s been quarter o a platform for over twenty years.

Some confident we’ll get to the right place. A different boss over there was asked how serious XM determines whether or not they should do with deal. He said they look at hours, listen to add revenue, social media and publicity. As I have been saying, Howard will renew. I think they’ll drag this out and capitalize on all the free publicity they’re getting.

This boss even said publicity is basically in kind free marketing. So they’ll drag out the story and in December it’ll be like, what do you know, Howard’s staying? What a shock? Good piece and slate under the headline. Mark Marin thinks he’s Comedy’s Jay Robert Oppenheimer, is he right?

Luke Winkie writes, you can find the formula Maren established all those years ago pretty much everywhere in the industry. The Joe Rogan Experience, which debuted mere months after w TF, shares the exact same DNA long form, meandering, sometimes surprisingly personal chats with miscellaneous stand ups and gadflies. This also goes for this past weekend with theo Vaughn ponent O’Brien. You can even hear its influence on the Ezra Klein Show, Luke continues. For a few years there, the world of comedy was remade in Maren’s image.

Comedians spield their guts both in his studio and on stage, and comedy clubs increasingly began to resemble group therapy clinics. As the WTF brand grew, Maren moved away from the Rinky Dinks stand up anks that originally attracted me to the show. He remained a sharp interviewer, but the star power of the guests slowly grew brighter and more distant from his own world. Over time, WTF lost its status as this sacred place for embittered stand ups to try to deduce the meeting of their careers. I think this piece is on point.

Instead, it just became an other big ticket interview podcast, competing with a wide array of imitators. Luke writes, tuning into the podcast every week didn’t feel quite as crucial as it once did. I belonged to a demographic of people that is capable of caring massively about the life and times of alt comedy lifer Brian Posain. The show, in its original conception was exclusively concerned with those nerdy fixations. But how can you find time for him between Jeremy Allen White, Alexander Scoresgarden and Risque Hargatea, all of who appeared on WTF this summer.

And I’ll add personally, I didn’t download those episodes. I’m with the writer here. I’ve got a bunch of Marens in my phone. Let me call it Maren. I’ll tell you how I’m doing this.

So not downloaded Spike Lee, Regina King, Ben Stiller, downloaded Tim Heidecker, Bow and Yang. I’ve listened to those already, Sarah Sherman, I listened to quest Leven Aquafina, didn’t listen to I’m with Luke I would be much more excited if the next guest was Brian Posain talking about comedy for an hour. So the conclusion to this thing piece is and I agree, maybe Maren has timed his exit from WTF perfectly. I did put years on that Kyle Mooney Beck Bennett podcast and the guest was Mark Maren. As a professional podcasting expert, despite me broadcasting in the basement, I do have some thoughts for the guys.

Beck and Kyle. You gotta pen write this down. Your audio is terrible now as a podcasting expert, I’m going to guess the reason your audio is terrible is because you’re really making a YouTube video and putting it out as a podcast. The audio is so bad that, despite me being on a very much Marin kick right now, I couldn’t even stick around for Maren. I just like, this is unlistenable.

It sounds like it’s underwater. They got to get their act together over there. Let’s see how it’s doing on the charts. It’s actually Thursday as I record this. I’m pretty honest, I record the weekends in advance.

What is this thing called again? What’s our podcast? The name of this thing is even terrible is that what it’s called? Yeah, what’s our podcast with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney. The name’s Terrible.

It’s up to number one sixteen overall, up eleven spots and now number fourteen in the comedy subcategory. So it’s possible. Johnny Mack has no idea what he’s talking about, but personally I couldn’t listen at all. Who are their dream guests? They were asked.

Beck Bennett said, not necessarily my dream guest, but I think it would be really fun to have Lorne Michaels on. You think, especially right now, you think here, here’s my dream guest list, Taylor Swift, Lauren Michaels. I guess this week I would take President Trump and RFK Junior. Beck Bennett was asked, do you think would go along with it? I don’t know.

I think it’s below his standards. Kyle Money thinks Paul McCartney would be interesting. You think one of the biggest stars of all time, like not even musicians, just stars period. Do you think a guy who is in the Beatles would be interesting? Good guess?

Ambitions for the podcast be Bennett, I’d like to get it to a point where Rible’s tour and do some live shows, whether that’s a guest or doing mini versions where we take suggestions from the audience to try to do a couple. It would be fun to use this as a platform to perform live and get in front of an audience. So I don’t do stand up, but he miss getting in of an audience. This, my friends, is a cash grab podcast if I’ve ever seen one, And they’re doing okay so far. Kyle Mooney said, I love the idea of doing live shows and letting audience members potentially pitch podcast ideas for us, that would be a terrible live show.

Tell you, guys, it’s fun for us that it’s ever changing and we don’t know what the rules are yet. We’re sort of making them up as we go along. Good luck. Paul Rodriguez has been charged in connection with his arrest last month at a Burbank restaurant. This from the Burbank City Attorney’s Office.

Rodriguez faces misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and possession of a controlled substance. Paul’s been in the news quite a few times this year, none of them good Fred Armison talked to the Observer about playing Uncle Fester in Wednesday. He was asked if it’s intimidating to take on such a well established character. Fred said, it’s nothing but awesome. I enjoy looking at pictures of the nineties film or sixties TV show going that’s us, We’re the Festers.

It’s like putting on a uniform. You have to honor previous iterations while also making the character your own. Who does he past his version on Jackie Coogan in the original Adams Family series. The things he did with his face, sort of smiling even though there was no reason a smile. It reminded me of Danny DeVito and one flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

He’s in this mental institution, but he’s smiling the whole time. I thought that was kind of cool. All right, how do you look like Uncle Fester? Armison said, I shaved my head for a start. It’s a better way to go than bald caps.

I shave my face thoroughly too than put prosthetic covers over my eyebrows. Looking totally hairless makes my forehead kind of hulking. They paint Dirk circles under my eyes and give me a gray corpse like pallor what I always forget is my hands. They shaved them too, then put dirt under my fingernails as a little finishing to tail. Wow, that’s fun.

Seth Myers was happy he finally got on Trump’s radar. Kamil Nanjianni was the guest non Johnny read some of Trump’s rants out loud and said, what I love is that he called Colbert untalented, he called Kimmel even less talented than Colbert, and he called Fellon insecure. And for you, Seth Myers, he can buy it all three Bill Angvall, so all the stars Rebut and to think about golf is he’s playing with his wife, and it’s fun when you both suck, but when one of you starts getting better than the other, it’s not so much fun. So I’m trying to catch up with missus Angvall. Now that I’m going back on the road, I’ll have to cut back a little on golfing.

And did you watch the paper? I haven’t gotten to it yet. We’re in the middle of five days of football if you’re also into college football, so I don’t know when I’ll get to the paper. Maybe I’ll pick in an episode here and there. I am curious about it, but I have low expectations.

Now the reviews are interesting. Now stay with me here. Pay a little attention from the Seattle Times, which is a newspaper. Their headline Office spinoff and insult to comedy and journalism. You’re paying attention here, right, yes, okay, they wrote The Paper is the sort of show where the moments it pauses for when you’re meant to laugh just become agonizing pieces where you awkwardly wait for the next bit.

In the ten episodes of the first season, there are few memorable lines to speak of, and even fewer actual scenarios that even elicit a chuckle yikes. Where The Office was largely sharply written and earned its more absurd moments, the Paper never has some of that spark. All the force modern jokes about everything from catfishing to clickbait fall completely flat, and there’s no Jim Helper to cut away to the New York Times, which is also a newspaper. Right, They said, I have good news and I have bad news. The team from the Office has a new comedy of decline, but it still needs to figure out what the story is.

They say it starts funny and competent, but the template is a problem. The show feels too much like a Madlib’s version of the characters and dynamics from the Office and similar shows without a firm identity of its own. Rolling Stone, which is not a newspaper, that’s a magazine, but they say the paper is a methodonneed version of The Office. Alan Seppenwall says, the new boss on this show Ned and Ned’s worst moments are probably a bit closer to Andy Bernard in the post Michael Office seasons, when Andy himself became a watered down Michael. That’s not good at all.

I hated when Andy was in charge because it was like they had old scripts that just crossed off where it said Michael and scribbled in Andy. And that was when Andy was good. Then when they started writing Andy Andy scripts, it got even worse. Sepenwall says, what’s odd is the morning before the show came out, Peacock ordered a second season, the kind of deal that was surely worked out long in advance, and announced the day before the mirror. To goose the hype cycle, he proposes that shows Daniels and the other creators knew they had a long runway.

That said, Peacock has struggled mightily to launch successful comedies, even from the producers of Office Serah sitcoms. Some examples of fel the Peacock sitcoms include Girls Five Eva and Brother Ford Falls. Daniel Feinberg, who used to do a podcast with the aforementioned Alan Sepenwall. I think he got to the crux of the reviews. He said by treating the paper business as antiquated and doomed, the office probably offended some people in that industry.

Then I’m going to conjecture that’s what’s happening here with people in newspapers. They don’t like a show about newspapers dying, and they probably have the same kind of problems I would have if I watched a show about podcasts or where I’d be like, that’s not how it works in real life. Anyway, that’s your company news on a Sunday, Go niners, see you to morrow.