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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Halloween. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A couple of things going on. I’m gonna say for the weekend.

Bilber still talking about the Riod Comedy Festival. He’s annoyed Withsten comedians. I’ll probably do that Sunday.

Also, Mark Marin is the guest on the Bullseye podcast.

I’m pulling some audio in the background from that. I’m running a transcript on it as I record this episode, so that’s not ready to bake yet. I’ll probably do that on Sunday as well. Wanda Sykes had a big profile piece in Variety. Did we know this?

One of Sykes worked a day job at the National Security Agency after college. Yeah, daytime at the NSA nights and weekends telling jokes. She eventually opened for Chris Rock. She was on Chris Rocks Bring the Pain Tour for one weekend in the nineties. She remembers Chris Rock saying you’re funny, I’m gonna look for you.

Soon after that, she got a career changing call, Wanda Set. Everything started for me with the Chris Rock Show. That led to the Wanda Sykes Show, which Fox canceled in twenty ten after one season. I don’t remember that existing, as she said, I don’t miss that. I had too much on my plate.

But she’s proud of it, saying I can’t think of anything that’s like, why did I do that? Maybe Pooty Tank, but people love Pooty Tank. In two thousand and nine, she headlined the White House Correspondence dinner and says, when I got the call, the first thing I said in my publicist was they know him gay, right, because they were doing a horrible job of vetting people in the Obama administration. I was like, he knows. She was like, yeah, everybody knows.

Writy writes. In a moment where several of Wanda’s contemporaries like Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Burr spot off hot takes about the industry and what can and cannot be done, Syke says, I’ve never been one to pontificate about comedy. When I hang around comedians and all they are really into talking about is comedy, I’m like, just go tell your jokes. I’m not a yapper. Wanda Sykes.

Do you interact much with Trump supporters? She says, I have friends who are I mean they’re Republican, but yeah, they voted for him, so I guess they’re Trump supporters. But it’s best not to talk. We don’t bring it up. Interestingly, Wanda was supposed to be on Kim All the night ABC pulled it.

What happened there, Wanda? She said, I was doing some last minute makeup. My publicist called and said he’d been preempted and they didn’t know when he’d be coming back. I was like, well, what did he say? I was texting with him.

Jim was like, I have a lot of people protect it was real. I don’t want to say a real wake up call, because we were aware of how bad things were, but this is crazy now. I still don’t see how what he said was outlandish or hurtful. Wanda? Does that make you think twice about things you say on stage about Trump?

Wanta Syke said, you can’t really censor yourself like that and give people a good show. I can’t, so I don’t now if you’re watching sports like me, and you’re sitting there half asleep in the comfy chair, I think this was me during Sunday night football. Maybe it was the baseball game. I think it was Sunday Night Football and a commercial came on for Call of Duty Black Ops seven and I’m like, isn’t that Nikki Glaser? And you know you’re like half a sleeping Like, why would Nikki Glaser be in a video game commercial?

Is that Nikki Glaser? Just a woman who kind of looks like what you think Nikki Glaser looks like? Nope, it’s Nikki Glaser. She is in the commercial with Terry Cruz. Niki Glazer plays one of the replacers who step into play the game when the original replacer gets into trouble, in this case during a celebrity filled space flight mission that goes awry.

Nicki’s agent getting it done, Eliza Slessinger had her proverbial car waxed by Variety. She got a big story, and Eliza said, you have to truly believe that what you have to say is so important that it warns a microphone that makes you louder than everyone else. And you have to believe that the way you look at things is so funny that people are going to want to stop and listen. It’s about feeling seen, especially as a woman. I think that that’s paramount, feeling seen and feeling heard and that’s the guiding light of my career.

Knowing that what I have to say is just as valid, if not more valid, than the male comic next to me, and deciding that I’m allowed to talk and it’s going to be pretty good. And twenty years in survey says what I have to say is pretty good. Eliza said, as you age in comedy, it’s okay to just tell superficial jokes. There’s nothing wrong with that. But I feel things very deeply as an artist.

I think comics in comedy get brushed off as ah, You’re just a comic at the end of the day. I’m not just some road dogs there to tell Penis jokes. I’m an artist, and I feel very deeply. I see that there’s a certain way, and I feel it’s my job to hold up a mirror to society and to call out things when I see them, especially for women, because we’re told that we’re crazy. I know a lot of other women who don’t have the voice to say to things that they want to say, So I just try to say the way I’m feeling, and I hope that other people feel the same way.

You talked about touring overseas and people having a hard time dealing with things that, by the grace of God, you or I don’t have to deal with the fact that people take the time out of their stresses and their lives to watch my stand up or buy a ticket. The fact that people give me their time is something that has never been lost on me. I’ve never taken it for granted. And they get to be part of people’s lives when they’re going through something horrible is actually energetically a very special thing. I think about that a lot.

Do not bother me. On Wednesday, February twenty fifth, why John Scrubs is back two episodes eight o’clock now. To watch this, you’re going to have to support fascism because this air on ABC, which is owned by Disney, and they’re the people that you know were mean to Jimmy Kimmel and we all canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. And that’s why I’ve been watching the Scrubs DVDs instead of just hitting click on my Roku remote where it says Hulu now I go upstairs and get the DVDs. I do not support fascism, but we all come to a point where we sell out.

Some people take money from the Rion Comedy Festival. Johnny Mack watches Monday Night football in Scrubs, say, February twenty fifth, I should probably edit that out because I’m trying to ask the ABC publicists for some Scrubs people. This is not going to help me. It’s a comedy show publicist, don’t you see in the notes where it says parody and commentary. George Clooney has been talking about the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler.

Now. The folks at far outmagazine dot co dot UK neil this entirely. They write, Sandler is an incredibly divisive figure. Once an untouchable superstar with a roster off it’s to his name, He’s now the archetypal Hollywood, has been an annoying hangover of a previous age, still coasting on his past glories. However, George Clooney doesn’t think so.

Clooney said, I thought Punch Drunk Love was amazing. Now perhaps George Clooney is insane. I don’t know. I’ve never met the man, and I’m often confused by him. People like, you look like George Clooney, but you dress like Adam Sandler, what’s with that combo?

I don’t know either, but the possibly insane George Clooney said of Punch Drug Love, that was the first time we’d seen Sandler do something where it wasn’t just a straight up comedy. I also have to say you were beautiful in the Myerwitz stories. I really love that. I thought you and Ben Stillar were great together. I felt like that movie got short shrift.

Somehow, it didn’t get the. Attention comedy stock markets. Every Friday I make some hypothetical stock picks for you in the comedy stock market. Now, remember the premise here. We’re not really saying that somebody is good or bad.

It’s not that it’s we’re trying to sell high or buy low. Like you know how you make money on the stock market. You’re familiar with this concept. Yes, So just because I say, hey, let’s sell our stock in somebody, doesn’t mean that I’m like, god, person’s the worst. That’s not what this is.

This is about making hypothetical money. So here’s my picks for this week. Let’s buy John Stewart. He’s at the height of his powers, but a little below the radar, possibly by now by between me recording this and you listening to it. He has renewed his deal with Comedy Central, and if not, that’ll put him on the free agent market.

So let’s buy some John Stewart right now. I think that’s a good buy. Let’s also ride along with the powers that be in Hollywood who have decided that Stavros hockeyist is going to be a superstar. Let’s go for that ride. Because if you walk down the street and you go to one hundred people, hey have you heard of this guy?

Unlet’s run into I don’t know one person, you might go zero for one hundred. And I’m not kidding, and that’s not a diss this is just comedy stock markets. Let’s load up on starv Ros for that same reason. Let’s buy Rachel Sinnott. A lot of you were like, I don’t know who that is.

You keep talking about her? John, who is that? I’ve never heard of her? Give it a month, two months. She’s about to have a show on HBO.

She’s about to be in your face. You’re about to see his zillion articles about her. Let’s load up on Rachel Sinnott. We’re buying low there and we are going to sell high in a couple of weeks. I want to sell if we have any left.

I do think we might have sold it all Nate Berghatzy stock, we might have sold after the Emmys. If we have any left, let’s sell it. This game show thing that I told you about in Thursday’s podcast just sounds like I don’t know. I can’t imagine Nate Pergatzy being a good game show host. I don’t think he has the skill set for that.

He’s too dry, He’s not an animated comic. I just I don’t see that working at all. So let’s sell our Nate, and let’s sell Andrew Schultz, who increasingly just seems tone deaf and doesn’t get it. And I get that he’s popular, but I just feel like everybody is looking at Andrew’s direction right now, going yeah, bro no, And I feel like there’s a Schultz backlash coming. All right?

Bye John by Stavros, Bye, Rachel Sell, Nate, sell Schultz. It is Halloween, and Entertainment Weekly caught up with Bobby moynihan. They talked about the famous SNL sketch. David S Pumpkins Boy said it was Halloween that week and Tom Hanks was there and we said, what can we right that’ll get in the Halloween special every year? And we started joking around and we’re like, I always play Santa.

Spent nine years playing Santa. I was the heaviest one on the show. And I was like, there’s no Santa for Halloween. Started joking around and saying, what if it was just a guy named David Pumpkins?

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And then Mikey and I had another idea about these dancing things and we kind …

It was a fever dream and we were like, I don’t know, man, what are we doing. I guess we’re just writing this to be weird. Tom Hanks hated it and asked us to give it to somebody else and we said no.

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And then in between dress rehearsal and air, Tom Hanks went like, I’m just go…

We got lucky South Park. It didn’t put out an episode Wednesday, they’re planning on releasing one today, a special Halloween episode titled The Woman in the Hat. We’re told the White House deals with a disruptive spirit from the East Wing, which in real life was destroyed as you do. While Stan worries that South Park has become too political, we’ll do some stories about Jim Gaffkin Berbon if you’re worried about that. Metal Insider caught up with John GOBLECN.

They explained to Embondie, John Goblican on stage is one thing. It’s cosplay with consequences, But to be John GOBLECN, the meme fueled talk show hosting ANTSI hero is something else entirely. David Spolly is both a human named Davis Spoley and John GOBLICN. Metal Insider asked Davis Spoley, do you ever feel like humans are jealous of goblins? Dave said, Oh, I know they are.

John’s life is pretty incredible, touring, interviewing celebrities, eating skin, living in a way mow, what a dream, Dave. You’re a comedian. How has comedy changed? Dave said, It’s constantly evolving. That’s what makes it enticing while also being the most frustrating art form of all.

When I first started, there was a very linear path. You did open mics that he had spots around town. You got into clubs, as a host and a feature than a headliner. Now, to be a comedian, you not only need a craft and act, you need to be a I gotta take a breath here so I can get this sentence in. You need to be a deep breath actor, podcaster, editor, social media manager, influencer, promoter who never stops making content because if you don’t feed the algorithm, you will cease to exist.

I wish I could stop. In fact, I need to take a break from writing this answer to make some more content. I am content, and content is life. What was the question they asked Dave? If you could replace every US senator with goblins, how would legislation improve or collapse?

Dave said, make America goblin again. Pretty sure someone stole that ACRONYMCMAGA sand network and that is almost all your comedy US For today, I’m gonna say goodbye and I’m gonna end on a clip. So this is the official goodbye part and I’ll be back tomorrow. You know, we do the seven days a week, but it is Halloween. Jonathan Kite has this amazing Anthony Boardaine impression that I can’t get enough of.

He’s been putting these clips on Instagram. He’s increasingly dressing up to look more and more like Anthony Boardine. Though he’s got the voice down, he’s got the style down. He’s just doing it dry. You either get it or you don’t.

I cannot get enough of this, ingest this into my veins, so I will leave you with Jonathan Kite. I’m not even gonna set up the clip. Kite will take it from here. See tomorrow. Spirit Halloween every September, a seasonal demon clause out of Hell possesses the concrete corpse of a failed store, then ghosts I November first, it’s gentrifurication.

What was once a bed bath and beyond is now bed bath and beyond the grave headboards are now headstones. Spirit Halloween a scarebnb for dead retail, So beware for when a lease grows cold, the bannered Boogeyman will soon be there. They almost got Jimmy Kimmel Studios. And after the latest government shutdown, don’t be shocked when a spirit penant covers the White House, the second most terrifying orange thing to ever haunt it until next time. Watch out for the tricks and enjoy the treats.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This first story is cracking me up right. Pay attention. Andrew Schultz has called out Anthony Jelinek.

Why well, Cracked dot com tells us Andrew Schultz calls out Anthony Jelinek for whining about comedy. Cracked writes Schultz as a theory about comedians. If you’re primarily known for your hot takes about comedy versus your actual comedy, you’re not doing it right. So what did Schultz do? He gave a hot take about comedy.

Schultz said, none of these mfers that talk about comedy are funny. If people know you for your opinions about comedy and not your jokes, you’re probably not funny. As simple as that, you talked about Anthony Jelinek, saying now, it’s like the only time you ever seen anything about Jelinek. He’s whining about comics, said Schultz, who was whining about comics While he said that a gosh sing The co host on that program said, I’ve never heard him say a positive thing about another comic that’s not himself. Schultz said, that’s the only thing he can get attention for.

It’s got to break his heart like he used to be a big comic. People would like his jokes singing, then took a shot at David Cross, saying, Hey, we got a lot of comedy fans in this room. What’s your favorite David Cross bit? Oh? There we go.

He’s a great actor, he’s hilarious, sketches, acting, great stand up. I can’t think of a single bit. Bert Kraser was at the eighteen inning Dodgers game the other night in the middle of it. This is from a video. It’s hilarious.

A guy from CNN was doing it hits from like the isles because I guess they didn’t have rights to the game, so they were in the stadium but not showing the game. And who walks by with a beer? Bert Kraser, Let’s listen. Hey, my god, Bert, this is why you show up to a baseball game. This is why you pay money to come to a baseball game.

We’re what fifteen innings in almost six hours, and they stopped shut But I got a cold. Who’s gonna win? Dodgers eventually gonna do this? Yeah, Dodgers, baby, Dorogers. This is America now.

Krazier was decked out in Dodgers’ gear, which interests me. He’s fifty two years old from Saint Petersburg, Florida, so I can understand if he didn’t grow up a race fan because there were no Rays, and I guess he had to adopt a team. Now, a lot of people in that area would have adopted the Yankees because they had spring training down that way. But whatever, I’m a forty nine Ers fan, didn’t grow up at San Francisco, just like Joe Montana, so I won’t hate Burg Crazier Dodgers fan. Jimmy Kimmel nearly canceled again.

Why was it canceled this time? Well, people were watching Monday Night Football and there’s Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Monday Night Football starts teasing a special announcement. People like, hm, is this gonna be something about Taylor Swift? What could this be?

Scott Van Pelt told the audience coming up next a special announcement about an upcoming Monday night football game. People were very excited, and the broadcast cuts to Jimmy Kimmel, who appeared on screen promoting that his show later that evening had guest Tim Allen. Oops, wow, boy, that’s exciting. Tim Allen had your book him. On social media, somebody wrote, loll ESPN forcing commercials with Jimmy Kimmel.

Another said I was just enjoying some MNF until they decided to roll out Jimmy Kimmel bye bye. But that actually wasn’t the announcement. The announcement was Monsters Funday Football and animated Monsters, Inc. Themed alternate broadcast of the December eighth Eagles versus Charters game. But by then people already met at Tim Allen and Kimmel.

One fan asked, Tim Allen, did you lose a bet? You’re one of my favorites, But I’ve never watched Kimble in my life, and I won’t start now. Staying on that same corner, the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon scored one of its biggest audiences of the year. That’s right, Jimmy did a Sunday night episode. It followed the Packers and the Steelers.

That was a good game. Fallon’s Tonight Show began at twelve thirty one am after the local news. Now, remember we tried to ask Conan O’Brien to start at twelve oh five, and the group thing at the time was like, no, no, no, If the Tonight Show starts after midnight, it’s not the Tonight Show anymore, which makes a lot of sense. Unless you know Jimmy foun does it, then it’s cool whatever. Twelve thirty one, one thirty in the morning after a basketball double airhead or whenever the Tonight Show airs it airs?

Who cares anymore? Anyway? Don’t any of you have jobs? Don’t any of you go to sleep? Even when I’m unemployed.

I like to go to bed on Sunday night kind of early to reset my week. Sunday Night, Tonight Show or sorry, Monday morning, Tonight Show. Let’s be accurate. Twelve thirty one am Monday morning at Tonight Show drew one point eight million total viewers. That is the Tonight Show’s third highest rated broadcast of the year.

In the eighteen to forty nine demo which I’ve graduated from you youngsters, there were five hundred and seventy three thousand of you, making it the second best performance of the year in the advertiser coveted demographics and me they don’t care about. The guests were Glenn Powell, a Rod and Florence on the Machine Now. Sunday’s post football episode was up sixty six percent among total viewers compared to you Know, A regular episode, and two hundred and forty seven percent among adults eighteen to forty nine. Jimmy Fallon is a survivor, right, Nate BRIGETSI. He’s on the list.

What’s the list? John? I’ve been talking about this in the Facebook group. Hollywood just decides here’s who we’re pushing right now, and we’re pushing them. Nate’s on the list.

Nikki Glaser’s been on the list for about a year. You’re about to see a lot of Rachel Sennott. Just you’re like, who’s that? Trust me, we’ll come back in six weeks and you’ll be like, oh my god, with the Rachel Sennat will you stop? And they seem to be pushing Stavros Haukias right now.

How this works, I don’t know. I’m not part of the Stonecutters. I don’t get invited to the secret meetings. I’m just telling you someone has decided these people are the ones we’re pushing. Nateerghatzy has another gig game show host which he will be terrible at write that down.

John said, Nate Berghetzi will be terrible at hosting a game show. Let me actually remind myself to put that in tomorrow’s Comedy stock Market. His skill set’s not going to be good at that. He’s too dry. How does the show work well?

The show is Nate Berghetzi as host, with three contestants battling to prove that there are anything but average. The winner takes home the average American salary of sixty seven nine and twenty dollars, which, if you win, is a lot of money, like, hey, here’s sixty seven grand, which is like forty after taxes. But in terms of we’re making a TV show, that is nothing. They’re filming us at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. You have to be twelve plus to a ten.

If you’re under eighteen, you have to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. The Municipal Auditorium said. This family friendly show is full of laugh out loud moments as contestants try to guess how everyday Americans answered outrageous questions. Tickets are completely free, but space is limited or I will keep an eye on that one. Good article in Entertainment Weekly, who said, if you forgot that Wanda Sykes hosted the Oscars in twenty twenty two, well you wouldn’t be the only one you see on the twenty twenty two Oscars.

Remember that Wanda Sykes was one of the co hosts. And Amy Schumer, who at some point right this, Remember what I was just saying about, we decide someone’s it. Remember where they decided Amy Schumer was it, and now they’ve decided Amy Schumer was not it. Remember Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. Let’s take a pregnant pause here so you could just think about that for you know, two three seconds.

I wanted you to sit and think Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. Are you making the same face? I am, like, what, You’re crazy? There’s no way Amy Schumer hosted. Oh no, no, no, Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars.

I know that makes no sense, but this is a thing that factually happened. Now, on that same night, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, Which is why you think Chris Rock hosted the Oscars in twenty twenty two. He did not. For some reason, Amy Schumer was up there alongside Wanda Sykes, She was asked, did Will Smith ever apologize? She said he did.

He called I had COVID or a bad cold. I just texted to say hey, I got your message. Thank you. I can’t talk, but he did call. Want has said.

I mean, I love working with Rodrina Hall and Amy Schumer, but like you said, it got overshadowed. People talk to me about that night without even mentioning, oh, yeah, you hosted right, like I was in the audience or at home watching TV. But I was there. It was National first Responder’s Day and the first responders got together in New York City and they were joined by John Stuart. The ceremony celebrated first responders from across the country, including firefighters, EMS, Provider’s eleven dispatchers, law enforcement officers, and volunteers.

John Stewart said, it’s an honor to stand side by side with the very heroes who keep us safe every day. First Responders answer chaos with courage and compassion. If lending my voice helps amplify that, I’m in. I want to thank the First Responders Children’s Foundation for giving these heroes a stage worthy of the work they do, and I’m excited to recognize their achievements. Whatever you think of John Stuart, he just try to lead from the front.

I really appreciate this man and he tries to make the world a better place. You may not share his vision, but he clearly is trying. His heart is in the right place. He’s trying to make the world a better place. He’s done great stuff with the veterans, so high five out of mean.

There’s no backhanded compliment in there. I don’t want you to come away thinking like, oh, is John like shading John Stewart. Not at all. I’m shining the sun on John Stewart. Great job, John Stewart.

Stuart was making fun of the President of the United States on Monday Night’s Daily Show and said, our current president Donald Josephine Trump, I don’t think at the Jay’s four Josephine but whatever is currently on a tour of Asia where he will be meeting with allies such as the new Japanese Prime Minister and rivals such as Xi Jinping. It’s a crucial moment with huge ramifications for the current terraf regime in this country and for the peace and security of the entire region itself. He then cut to a clip of Trump dancing awkwardly fist pumping as Trump dance with Malaysian Nationals. John Stewart said, he loves the red carpet, he loves the hats. They’re playing the theme song in Hawaii five.

Oh, none of it made any sense, But he loves the pomp and he loves the circumstance, and that’s why he loves going overseas. I have this in my notes as random comment. So I was doing some show prep and I saw Tom Poppa’s tour is called Breaking Bread two, and it’s got like a grateful dead kind of vibe to the logo of it. But it’s the Breaking Bread tour. Casuals have any idea what tompap is talking about?

Like, if you’re a tompop a fan, you know that he likes to make bread and you know about his podcast. But if you’re just like somebody who likes comedy, do you have any idea? Even if you know who Tompop is, maybe you don’t follow his podcast. Like for the casuals, does anybody have any idea what you’re talking about when you call your tour breaking Brett? I don’t know.

It just seems a little weird to me. What do I know. I’m recording a podcast in the basement. So I remember there was that whole re Odd Comedy Festival, and there were a lot of free speech warriors who were like, no, it’s really, really, really important that we go perform at the Odd Comedy Festival to bring laughter to people. You know, guys like Bill Burr and Andrew Schultz, who was mentioned earlier in this podcast.

People like that went over there. Well, I am wondering if they’re going to attend the Tel Aviv Comedy Festival. It’ll take place at Zionist House December eleventh through the thirteenth. The festival feature homegrown comedians, a special Russian language stand up night, and the Harry Potter stand Up Show for the whole family. You know, this could use a headline or too.

Bill Burr, Andrew Schultz, is he’sin? Sorry, Jessica Curson, Mark Norman, Jimmy Carr want me to keep going, guys, because you guys are clearly aligned with the Deputy Mayor of the Tel Aviv Yaffo Municipality, chen Areli. The municipality is producing the festival, and chen said stand up isn’t just entertainment, it’s a cultural genre. The bodies, freedom of thought, artistic courage, and the ability to look in the eye without filters. Bill Burr, Andrew Schultz as he’s in, Sorry, Mark Norman, Jessica Curson, Tom Sigora.

Isn’t this what you guys are about? Dave Chappelle? This is your thing? Are you going? Chen tells us The Punch Festivals, what it’s called, is part of our wider effort to strengthen the city’s cultural infrastructure and open new spaces for independent, original and bold creation.

I look forward to seeing which of you join the Punch Festival aka the Tel Aviv Comedy Festival. Or maybe the bag isn’t big enough. Huh, that’s all honest, guys. Ajar Usman, a pioneer of Muslim stand up comedy dubbed America’s Funniest Muslim by CNN, is that to release his first solo stand up project that’s called The Islamic States of America. It’ll be on his YouTube channel eight Eastern Monday, November twenty fourth.

Usman is best known for touring with Dave Chappelle, who I believe is Muslim And I don’t know how funny Usman is, but isn’t Chappelle pretty funny? Wouldn’t Dave Chappelle be America’s funnies Muslim? If we were going to give out the title, but I digress. Ajar Usman has also worked with Rami Yusef and mo Amaher on their various TV shows in the Islamic States of America. He turns his wit to themes of faith, fatherhood, politics, and repentance, all while interrogating the contradictions of modern America through a distinctly global Muslim lens.

It was shot both in Zany, Chicago on a Hollywood sound stage. It’s an experimental, forty seven minute black and white comedy, blending live performance footage with scripted vignettes. Usman told Deadline the project’s been a long time coming. I performed a one man show just before Trump became president in twenty sixteen. The world has changed drastically since then, and so have I.

I finally feel ready to share the hilarious and sometimes uncomfortable truth. There’s going to be a mass conversion to Islam and the United States. Don’t take my ward for it. Ask cards against humanity, and that is your comedy. Use for today, See you tomorrow.

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Calarocas Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Is Sane Gillis going to walk away from comedy? Of course not. Don’t be silly, but Crack was listening to a recent edition of Matt and Sheen’s Secret podcast.

Sheen Gillis said, I’ve been stricken down with a melancholy dude. I went for a walk the other day. I was going through it. I don’t have anyone even talk about this stuff. Mccuster said, I see everyone saying I stink.

I got a message the other day from a lady going, hey, just so you know, me and my boyfriend watch a special. Sucks so bad. I hate it. I don’t have the same feeling of excitement every day. It’s just kind of weird anxiety.

Shane said, I see how Chappelle left for a while. There’s a daydream all the time where I’m like, I could leave. I coud leave for a few years. I probably will give me two more years, and I’m going to walk away for a while. A lot of people have a tough time leaving.

You got to get off the stage for them to want you back on the stage. McCusker pointed out when you come back you have to have a new look, using examples like Letterman coming back with a beard and Chappelle coming back in shape. What will Shane do? Shane said, I’ve got it. I’m going to change the pigmentation of my skin away for six years and come back black as hell, his five year plan in place.

Don’t talk to anyone, just disappear, go to Madrid, all right. David Cross was asked by Vanity Fair what made David Cross decide to write about that re Odd Comedy Festival. Cross said, there were like three or four different requests to get my take on it. I knew it was only going to continue us. I thought I’ll just put it out there.

Then anybody who wants can pull whatever quote they want. But ironically that resulted in lots and lots and lots and more people going hey, so what are your thoughts? Vanedtty Fair said the response from Bill Burr he not so canceled a HEAs, I’m sorry, and a few others I mounted to a shrug about getting paid. What do you think of that? David Cross, who said, I disagree that that was their response.

The response came, but that was in attendance with this kind of after the fact justification. The one I’ve seen most is well, it’s a good thing to engage in dialogue. We’re opening it up and we’re showing them what stand up comedy can be, and this is a good thing. One of the things that keep coming back to you, said David Cross is a comment someone made about Bill Burr’s response. You know, I went and they didn’t behead anybody, and it was clean, and women were walking around.

They’ve got a Popeyes out of Chili’s and whatever. But somebody else wrote, you saw what they wanted you to see, and you said what they wanted you to say. So it has nothing to do with performing for the people because they weren’t performing the people. It was a very dangerous, upsetting thing that they participated in. And of course it’s for the money.

If they really thought it was all about these other justifications that they’ve come up with, they’d go and do it for free. They’d go to a town square and perform for the actual people there, not the royal family, and not with a four page list of things that can’t talk about. I would have more, not a lot more, but I’d have more respect for people who are just like I’m doing it for the money. When you start equivocating and making all this what about your pants that are made by slave labor and all this bs, I’ll continue to talk about those bad things either hero or a broad us have done my whole career, and that’s the beauty of what I get to do. You can’t do that in Saudi Arabia.

So they’re grasping at straws. All those arguments collapse under just a moticum of reality. Vanity Fair brought up the Devil’s Advocate argument that you know, things in the States aren’t always perfect. I’m paraphrasing their question there to get to David Cross’s response, which is when I’m perform in the I don’t perform for the government paid for by the government. I’ve heard Trem Marcos Razi also make that argument.

I don’t condone what my government does, and I talk about that amongst other things. So those are two very big differences. I’m not performing for the people who are torturing people. Dave Chappelle made that statement about it’s easier to talk there than they just talk about Charlie Kirk in the United States. Cross said they executed somebody for some tweets.

I don’t even know how gregious they were. They were just negative towards the royal family, which to say the government. So that’s a BS argument. It doesn’t stand up from Vulture. I think this was the good one podcast.

They Askedavro’s Halkias about describing his podcast Stove His World as an anti Inceel podcast. What do you mean? Stavro said, there’s a weird mean spiritedness amongst young male losers that is harming them. I only say that because I was a young male loser. Took me until pretty late in life, well in a college I even have a little confidence and start dating.

I think about what have happened to me at seventeen. If there’s somebody being like, if you’re me and a girl’s and a racist, they’ll have to paraphrasing have sex with you, I would have been like, nice, I guess I’m racist. Now that seems so much easier than believing in myself and becoming a good person. Now everyone’s like there’s a young masculinity crisis. I know what a fifteen year old boy cares about, and I just want to say, here’s the actional path to getting girls to like you.

You don’t have to go down that road. This is poisonous. This is not good for you. I promise you. You just feel better by being a good hang.

The bar is actually really low for straight dudes. Now, just don’t go to the dark side, brother, and you’ll be fine. I mentioned a few episodes ago that I saw a crazy theory from Joe Rogan. Joe said this on The Joe Rogan Experience. I got a theory.

I think one of the reasons why Michael Jackson’s songs were so romantic. There was a romance to his songs when he was talking about love that was like it was so attractive because he never had it before. It was a fantasy. It was like being a normal person like that was the fantasy that was coming out in the songs. Onto the theory, did Michael Jackson write his own songs, Rogan said, I don’t know.

It’s a good question, but even the way he expressed those songs, I Betty wrote some of those songs. Now, unlike Joe Rogan, I have the Internet. I solved this pretty quickly. I looked it up. Billy Jean, Michael Jackson beat it so Michael Jackson.

Thriller was written by the English songwriter Rob Temperton, who also wrote Rock with You and Off the Wall from the nineteen seventy nine album Off the Wall, which is a fantastic album. So there’s your answers, Joe Rogan, did Michael Jackson write his own songs? Sometimes? From Arab News your home for Comedy News, they caught some of Andrew Schultz’s act at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival. Now that’s not the Read Comedy Festival, this is the one in Dubai.

In that said, Andrew Schultz poked fun at Dubai’s traffic and riffed on the city’s obsession with Emar buildings. I was unfamiliar with the term Emaar. It appears to be a property company in Dubai that sells luxury homes. Wikipedia says emer Properties Dubai is one of the largest real estate developers in the UAE. Schultz closed with a lighthearted Q and A segment.

Before Andrew Santino headed off to the Read Comedy Festival, he had spoken with Variety about how more and more people are independent creators. Santino said, working with my friend’s interests me. I work with my best friend Bobby Lee every week doing Bad Friends. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had without restriction and without everyone trying to grab at us and make money office. I don’t know what my future is in television and film.

It doesn’t feel like I’ll have anything in that world anytime soon. Now this article, which was before Riod, why doing it today? John? I needed one more story, and I’ve been sitting on this one and it just slotted nicely. That’s why I’m dragging this out today.

But it kind of fits the narrative here. Santino said. A lot of people say the comedians say, you can’t say anything, but I don’t know anybody that says that. I feel like this is a narrative that gets put out by the media, where they’re like, what can comedians even say anymore? We don’t say that.

We don’t give a hoot. We go out every night and say whatever we want. I’m gonna add asterisk and less performing in Riod. You can go at any club except what in Reod, and you’ll hear an array of different levels of stuff that is questionable on savory touchy RESI. That’s every night, at every club in the country.

The country here means the United States of America, so I don’t buy in to that narrative. But I do think as a society we’re becoming more comfortable with the idea that a comedian can about anything as long as it’s funny and done with love and not in riatte. I added that last part, it shouldn’t come from this awful place pregnant pause. America now more than ever, wants to have fun. They’re tired of being sad or scared.

And as the world continues change rapidly and people look confused about what’s happening, we are supposed to be the ones that joke about what’s happening. Interesting take on comedy there by Andrew Santino. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was at the AFIFS premiere of the upcoming j Kelly movie. George Clooney told the Hollywood Reporter, you get treated the way you treat yourself. This was a different kind of role for Adam, and I wanted to make sure that he wasn’t making fun of his incredible talent.

He just likes to deflect, and I was like, you know what, dude, you’re really good in this film, and you’re really good actor. Let’s not make jokes clooney forbade people from calling Adam Sandler the Sandman. Sandler is that in response, I still call myself the sand Man. He can’t stop me. He’s just very protective over me.

He’s a really nice guy. We do all these scenes together, and we get deep together, and it’s I just want people to recognize that. And I’d say I’m okay, I like just working hard, and he’d say, no, he’s very nice. He’s trying to look out for me. Mark Maron was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last week.

Now, I’m going to play a short version of the clip and then a long version of the clip. For the short version, I want you to pay attention right at the top. Now, I defend Jimmy Fallon frequently, but I want you to pay attention at the top, really, really pay attention to the way Jimmy Fallon reacts as if Mark Maren is surprising him with a Bruce Springsteen anecdote, as if Fallen has no notes, and as if Fallon doesn’t know why Maren is booked on the show to promote the Springsteen movie. This is really lame. Here, pay attention.

It’s going to come up really quickly. Listen. And I did the. Movie The Bruce Springsteen Movie. Oh my gosh, how is that?

I mean, what is that? Jimmy, Come on, man, you know why he’s there? Oh gosh, really, oh gosh, I can’t believe Springsteen. Really, why do you think he’s on your couch? Why do you think he’s there?

Anyway, here’s the full clip. And I did the movie, The Bruce Springsteen Movie. Oh my god, how is that? The funny thing is I interviewed Bruce. So I go out to his house in Jersey and it was like during Christmas time, and I’m waiting in this like he’s got this little separate house for just his guitar as a motorcycle and some other stuff.

So I’m sitting out there waiting for him, and I see him walking down from the house and I’m like, all right, here he comes. He doesn’t really know me, he’s not real sure what the show is. So I’m trying to break the ice and I go, so what’s going on with the house? A lot of Christmas craziness, cooking, wrapping, President stuff, and he goes correct, and I’m like, can I talk to that Bruce at the entire hour. And years later a friend of mine, Tall wilginheld the bass player, was talking to Bruce about doing press, you know, for her album, and she goes, I don’t know how to handle interviewers, and Bruce goes, you just say what you want, doesn’t matter what they ask you.

You tell them what you want to tell them.

And then she says, my friend Mark Marin interviewed you and he said he pushed.

In New York City today at town Hall. It is the town Hall Presents Series and the town Hall Present Series presents Rummy yusef at workout for some new material, seven thirty at town Hall. That’s a good venue if you’re in the Big Apple Out On the Comedy Exports YouTube channel today, Sam Taunton’s how to Tie a Tie? And that guy Jay Leno, you know, the guy Jay Leno ust knows the Tonight Show. He’s the worst person who ever lived, because he comments about late night television every now and then as if he knows anything about it after hosting The Tonight Show for twenty two years.

Yeah, that guy, he’s the worst. He was hanging out with James May. You know, one of the drivers from top Gear slashed the Grand Tour, the driving show, you know, the three guys on the cars. So he got Jay Leno and James May hanging out. James was checking out a red Lamborghini count toch LP five thousand quattro valvave.

I’m sure I pronounced all that correctly. He got behind the wheel of the car and he said, it’s awful to drive. It’s uncomfortable, noisy, it’s not actually that fast by modern standards. Well, guess who owned it, Jay Leno? Yeah, Jay Leno said it was my daily driver.

Once Leno drove seventy thousand miles in that car. Because Jay Leno know, I was letting cars sit in the garage. We’ll kill them slowly. And jay Leno points out it’s not even fuel efficient. He said, it runs on gas and when you get on the highway it runs on even more gas.

The nerve of that guy, and that’s your comedy news for today. See you

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Download numbers continue to be really strong. So I’d like to thank the FCC chairperson and of course the re Odd Comedy Festival for making it all possible. John Stewart was at the New Yorker Festival.

Several topics came up, including the Reodd Comedy Festival. Hey, I talked about bourbon all weekend. There’s only so much I could do here. These are the news stories. John was discussing comics like Bill Burr and Louis C.K.

Who both performed at the Reod Comedy Festival. John Stewart said, so like, it’s hard for me to watch that sort of thing. It was like, I don’t such other people’s money. It’s hard, man. I thought the only person who should have done it was Pete Davidson because they owe money.

I want to fix my house. I want to operate with integrity, but I don’t want to gate keep. I think a lot of comics who came out and really crapped on those guys. I know a couple of them, and I know they actually like to be like garbage humans. So it’s hard for me to watch that sort of thing.

I would prefer if they would have just come out and said it’s money and not like a way to start conversation, Like would you have started the conversation for twenty five hundred dollars? That’s the difference. Am I disappointed that Pete Davison did it, Yes, but at least he was honest about the reason. John continued, Look, I worked for Apple. There are a lot of people who believe that Apple is exploitative in a way that’s horrific.

Not me. I love my friends at Apple Podcasts, especially the editorial team that promotes podcasts great humanitarians, just want to say that. John Stewart, however, said, you know, we all have our lines that we’re willing to cross. None of us are diogeties. We get into a problem where we’re unforgiving in any way.

We offer no grace. And that doesn’t mean I don’t have lines that I draw, but that if people cross them, I won’t do. But I do try to not be so rigid in the way that I think society has become. The topic moved to Kimmelgate and Colbert Gate. John Stewart said the comedians are not the victims of this administration.

We are a visible manifestation of certain things. But the victims are the people that are struggling to have any voice and are being forcibly removed from streets by hooded agents. Those are the victims of this administration. Will John continue to host the Daily Show one day a week. His contract is up in December, he told the New Yorker Festival, We’re working on staying.

Stuart said he plans to keep fighting urges others to do the same. He says, you don’t compromise in what you do, and you do it until they tell you to leave. As for the Kimmel suspension, I think it rattled everyone to some extent, but it also presented great opportunity, and so I don’t know that we’ve had as much fun as we did that Thursday morning, coming up with all the super little stuff that you see, including gold pictures and red ties. You know, it gave us some purpose. As for Donald Trump, John Stewart said, there’s a reason Donald Trump came to power, and that is in the general populace’s mind, government no longer serves the interests of the people it purports to represent.

That’s a broad Bays deep feeling, and that helps when someone comes along goes the system is rigged, and people go, yeah it is. John struggled to name a national leader for the Democrats right now. Audience members suggested that leader could be John Stewart himself. John said, if we really got to that point, it’s also a function of frustration, a cry of disperation, other I’m none of the above. The Democratic parties right for what happened to the Republican Party in twenty sixteen.

But hopefully it’ll be somebody who uses that power for good and not for self a grant, and not for their own gentrification. He discussed the No King’s rallies. When seven million people show up in America on a weekend for anything, I mean, honestly anything. We’re not Russia and their history of autocracy or dictatorship. It’s an alien culture to us, and it’s uncomfortable, and that discomfort may be our saving grace.

I don’t think we’re gonna wear that well. And that doesn’t mean we’re not going to be in some kind of soft autocracy where news is controlled. But we have a lot of different avenues and suppression creates opportunity, and a populace that is thirsty for inspiration and leadership and morality and its egerity that’s fertile ground for that opportunity. John Oliver opened his show Sunday night showing images of the White House demolition project. John said those images are distressing, especially when you know it’s all to build a giant ballroom in a style best described as medspa ver Sai, and yet the demolition of the White House a metaphor that if anything is too on the news was just the tip of Trump’s iceberg this week.

Oliver then showed a news report where Trump was trying to get two hundred and thirty million dollars from the Justice Department. Oliver said, I should say Trump has said he’d donate any settlement to in his words, cheery or something. But incredibly we’re still not done because Trump also posted an AI video of himself dumping a crap on No. King’s protesters abandoned trade negotiations with Canada after seeing a TV ad he didn’t like, and authorized a twenty billion dollar bailout to Argentina to insure that their experiment with libertarianism works out. Oliver said the most shocking move last week was the military strikes against the fishing boats.

Oliver said, I’ve watched enough Jagg to know that the typical approach to drug boats is to intercept them and arrest the suspects, not murder them with no due process. And all of this is bad enough before you learn that Trump is planning strikes on cartels by land as well. He apparently plans to launch strikes on suspected drug traffickers in Venezuela without congressional approval, saying We’re just gonna kill people. They’re gonna be like dead. You know, the kind of chilling statement you expect to hear from a serial killer or the mastermind behind Panera Bridge charge limonades, but not ideally the president of the United States.

I’d be happy to talk about Berbon again. I just said there’s no more Bourbon stories, Jim, do some press. David Cross was asked by Vanity Face there’s a big David Cross article. I originally wasn’t going to do any of it today, but it kind of themes up here with what we’ve been talking about, so I’ll pull this part. David Cross, what do you think about Kimmel Gate?

And cold bear gate. Cross said, it’s awful, and it’s because there are a handful of people that want to make billions and billions of dollars and the president is so powerful that he can make life difficult, much like a mob boss might make life difficult for these people. And we’ve seen this time and time again. If you want to do this thing, then you better give me a piece quick pro quot stuff. Trump is the logical endpoint.

But something like this has been in place for a long time. It’s just people out morals or ethics, or I should say they have morals and ethics. They’re just very crappy. It’s about money, you know. It’s unfortunately a part of the country we set up for ourselves.

Again, the steps have been taken towards this, not just Trump. Trump’s just the right guy at the right time. David Cross was asked what can comedians, artists, every day people, what can you do? Cross said, you know what, I’ve been really emboldened by this No King’s movement. All the other stuff goes in one ear.

We don’t have the bandwidth process at all. It’s concentrame of outragious garbage and lies. No Kings cuts through all that. My hope is that people will start to wake up to the idea that all this crap on Fox News and Newsmax and America First or whatever saying these things that protesters or anti America and their terrorists. I mean, these are your neighbors and there’s no violence.

Its people from all walks of life going no, we don’t want this, We’re not going to accept this. It deflates the Trump administration in a real way. I had this whole podcast gate thing. I want to do, all right, I guess today’s going to be a long episode. I bounced this a few times already because there’s so much going on.

Me let me talk about this. So remember the Golden Globes podcast awards. So the newsletter Like and Subscribe looked into this. They say they emailed the Shots podcast Network CEO, who has worked with Theovon’s podcast and has been reported as his manager in reputable outlets. So that person was asked about this, and the newsletter said that person responded, I’m honored Theovon is mentioned by the Golden Globes, but I have no interest in engaging with them or commenting.

The newsletter says, several hours after the story was published, I heard from Vaughn’s publicist who said his client is still educating himself about the globes and its process, adding theovon does not have a manager and the person quoted is not authorized to speak on theo’s behalf, nor is involved with anything related to THEO submission. That’s interesting, the newsletter says. I also hear multiple podcasters are still willing to bother with the five hundred dollars fee to submit themselves for consideration before the October three first deadline. Then there’s the whole thing I mentioned last week where you know you might want to advertise. You know, it’s good to advertise podcast, the newsletter rights.

According to the sales deck slides I reviewed, an eligible podcast can pay twenty five thousand dollars to become a podcasting FYC Fest supporting partner, which gets the pod a spot on a variety moderated panel the Full Kit and Kabootle, a variety coverage, and social posts on a folk page color ad on the Variety f YC Fest Preview out November eleventh. Thirty five grand apparently gets you a custom fifteen minute variety moderated conversation and seventy five grand you’ll be awarded the Variety Creative Impact Award in Podcasting. Wait so if I just spend seventy five thousand dollars, I’m going to be a Variety and be like, Hey, Johnnie Mack, the Guy in the Basement wins the Impact Award Podcasting. Oh okay, fun paragraph here, the newsletter writes, the Variety playbook here echoes what my colleague Richard Rushfield the Ankler reported last year when the publication tried to sell a new program around the Golden Globes quote throwing an intimate little dinner for your candidate to which you can invite thirty to forty guests who happened to be Globes voters. Apparently that program was stopped.

Continuing, they write they can report, based on conversation with multiple sources, that this was in fact the second top twenty five podcast list after the first list inadvertently omitted several wildly popular podcasts. I believe Conan is still not on the list. Nicky Glazer will host this year’s Golden Globes Gossip Connor Whispers in the Street Gossip con probably Bopie Gossip conn Away. Are the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree gossip Connor Whisp business tree gossip, con probably bup gossip Cone Macto. Pete Davidson just back for the Riod Comedy Festival.

He went to see some New York Giants football. Right, He’s from Staten Island. Obviously he’d be a New York Giants fan. A guy his age should be a Giant. No, no, no, nope.

He was there to root for the Eagles. Yes. Pete Davidson, seen wearing a green Eagles winter hat, not only dressed Eagles, he made fun of the Giants by holding up a fake gravestone that had the words rip g men written on it. Pete did this during the fourth quarter of the game. Heete was seen on the field before the game taking in the warm ups.

Eagles thirty eight, Giants twenty. It was the second Eagles game Pete Davidson has been seen at this season. I guess a couple of recent Super Bowls helped Pete Davidson become an Eagles fan, But who knows, maybe he grew up an Eagles fan. A guy that age you think would like Eli Manning Era Giants and the two Super Bowls there. Why do I know?

Uh? Nate Berghatzy on Gossip Corner he was spotted in Chicago. He apparently stopped by Jake Melnick’s corner chap, which sounds like an awesome place. Apparently Nate was a server at Jake Melnick’s corner tap twenty years ago. On social media, they said, welcome back to Chicago, Nate and the Big Dumbies tour.

Got that hashtag in there. Good job, thanks for celebrating two jam Pack shows at the at United Center with US at year old stomping grounds. They tagged enough people that it made my radar so good job. Social media person at Jake Milnick’s corner tap did tell you that Nate was going to be on the College Football Show with ESPN on Saturday morning. He made his pick.

The undefeated Cougars were number eleven coming into the game against the Iowa State Cyclones. Nate picked BYU. He said, this is a business decision right here. I’ve got four shows in Salt Lake City BYU, Baby BYU forty one. Cyclones twenty seven out today on Netflix.

Mo A Maare his new special Wild World, his third for Netflix. I’ve liked his other specials. The New Hour includes a celebration of his Palestinian heritage, reflections on the birth of his son, and a critical look at the TSA. In Chicago, the night manager of the Laugh Factory was detained by federal agents on Friday. According to NBC Chicago, this happened outside the Laugh Factory of Chicago around nine to twenty am.

Chicago police responded to a call of a battery in progress. NBC News reports upon arrival, they observed federal agents engaged in a physical altercation with two individuals. There’s a video that shows a crowd gathering as masked agents in camouflage uniforms marked police russell with two people as Chicago Police officers stand nearby. The CPD said their officers did not make any arrests and left the scene once the area was cleared. An eyewitness said federal agents jumped out of the car and grabbed the manager while he was with his mother.

Border patrol said the individual was detained and turned over to the FBI for investigation. Another eyewitness said they didn’t do anything, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. The Daily Comedy News podcast is like real life. If you didn’t listen to the Weekend. It was a lot of fun. The Weekend was silly and there was some alcohol involved.

But now it’s Monday morning, and Monday mornings are kind of like, uh, I hate Monday morning. So we’re gonna talk about politics. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Roywood Junior to Rolling Stone. They were curious, politics in America can feel pretty bleak right now.

How do you even begin to make it funny? Roywood Junior said, I think you make it truthful first, and from there fuddy will follow. There are a lot of things happening right now that you can’t necessarily go, well, what’s the funny part of all the deportations? But if you go, what’s the funny part about the policies or the hypocrisy of it, or National Guard troops sleeping in public because you sent them there without hotel accommodations, you can find the moments of truth in the midst of all this calamity, and through that you’re able to find the humor. Roy said, there’s always some injustice.

There’s always somebody dead that shouldn’t have dined. I’ve been doing comedy for twenty seven to twenty eight years now, so there isn’t some sort of oh, what they’re doing, what now? Well, let me really dial in and make it funny. I don’t think any comedian that tacks issues in this world is doing anything different than they were ten or fifteen years ago. John Oliver, John Stewart, Bill Mard, take your pick.

They’re doing what they’ve always done, but feels different, affects you differently. Water tastes different when you’re thirsty. I don’t think any comedian sits down to write the joke that’s going to heal you. I see you’re in pain, Try this joke. We’re here to provide escape the solutions.

That’s not our responsibility. Joe Rogan, who might not be the sharpest tool in the shed. I’ve got a story that I haven’t been able to get to. Maybe tomorrow. Joe Rogan suggested President Trump should replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California and fix California after Trump finishes his second term as US President.

Rogan said, just take over California and fix it. It’d be hilarious. If he did, it would be one of the funniest things of all time if an eighty two year old man steps into the office of governor of California. Brogan said he recently spoke with a friend who he’s leaving Los Angeles because that friend can’t stand the state’s politics anymore. Rogan said, it’s like everybody went crazy.

It’s like there’s something that happened because of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests and the riots and all the chaos. Whatever the temperature of the society was, it hit societal global warming where it’s like it’s time to investigate greenland, It’s time to move north, Like this is a bad climate. Now, this sucks. Now as why is this? Joe Rogan may or may not be.

There is a flaw in his logic. You see, the next California gubernatorial election is in twenty twenty six, so Trump wouldn’t be able to run until the twenty thirty election, at which point President Donald Trump would be eighty four years old. News we caught up with Leslie Jones. They covered a whole bunch of topics. One thing I thought was interesting, She says, I don’t think it is now.

But I think when I first came out, it was harder for women to have blue comedic material. I think now it’s more open for us just to be as dirty as the men. New topic, Leslie feels there has to be a change in Late Night. When you look at Late Night, all you see is white men in blue suits. And I’m not saying that they’re not bomb.

I love Jimmy, I love Seth, I love Stephen Colbert, but it’s all we’ve ever seen. Wait, which Jimmy’s you love? She said, I love Jimmy, I love Seth, I love Stephen Colbert. Now in that order, Seth is on? In was her brain thinking NBC?

Does she love Jimmy Kimmel but not love Jimmy Fallon? Should I start a controversy? Leslie’s view is that the Late Night’s shake up includes better writing and a woman host, ideally a black woman like herself, and more love coming through the TV. She’s asked about the new season of SNL and said, when you leave SNL, you don’t pay attention to what’s going on. I do know they don’t have a black woman on there.

That’s one thing I have paid attention to. Peacock announced the official premiere for Tiffany Hattish Goes Off, a new docu series out November thirteenth. The new series follows Tiffany Hannish and her childhood friends as they explore the continent of Africa. Six episodes. The women travel to places including Cape Town, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, and Zanzibar.

We’re told throughout the trip they take on new adventures, deep in their lifelong friendship and explore personal connections to the continent. The raw, vulnerable, and unpredictable version of Tiffany Handish will leave the viewer crying with laughter and sobbing from heartfelt, relatable and real time self healing. Bert Kreischer had Sebastian manascalgo on. Sebastian recently played the Rhea I Comedy Festival. This was on the Two Bears One Cave podcast.

Now, I haven’t had a chance to listen to this yet, but I was curious. Did Bert Kreischer ask Sebastian about the reod comedy Festival? But I did a search on the transcript. Now, how I do this? As I open up on my desktop computer, and I phrased it that way because I’m from nineteen eighty On my desktop computer, I opened up the Apple podcast app and I did a search for find.

I searched for the word Riod. Nothing came up. I searched for the word Saudi. Nothing came up, and I was like, hmm, perhaps search isn’t working. I should test this.

So I searched for the word pasta, and pasta did come up in context in the transcript. I don’t know who’s saying this, but the words are they go out to dinner and you’re like, hey, can we get the pasta with it? Oh, we don’t do that anymore. You don’t do that anymore. It’s like you get upset that you can’t share that experience with somebody else.

So that’s what they talked about on the podcast. Bert Kreischer was very very excited about this interview with Sebastian Maniscalco just back from the comedy Festival that he shared this hilarious clip. It was phenomenal. I love where you shot it so good. It’s expensive.

You’re such an ability to make me giggle that I can’t figure out You and Ny Pargott to the two people who can make me laugh, and I can’t figure out how to replicate what you do. That’s it. You’re done. Do you need to do anything else? What are we doing?

What else do you have to do on top of the stand up comedy? I mean, you’re you’re a guy who’s dabbling in a lot of facets of entertainment. How long is this going to go on? I’m sure you guys are all asking you, like, how long we have to come to this house? I s’s probably finished the Jim Gaffigan Bourbon article right otherwise it’ll be like December thirtieth, and I’ll want to have pre taped the day and you’d be like, John, you did three quarters of that article four months ago.

Why is this coming up today? Did you pre tape today? And the answer will be yes. But instead I’ll just clear it out right now in case you missed the weekend, and you should go back and listen. Because Johnny Mack was entertaining himself.

Jim Gaffigan sat down with Garden and Gun and I’m still confused why the website is called Garden and Gun and the topic is Jim Gaffigan’s love of bourbon. We also learned yesterday Jim Gaffigan is afraid to offend anyone. Lest he lose even one person in the audience, he’ll couch everything safely. Jim said, what I’ve learned through my stand up is that when I come up with material while I make fun of something, I’ll then go do that thing. I made fun of hiking, I enjoy hiking.

I made fun of grapefruit juice. I love grapefruit juice. Now maybe he should start making fun of not calling people back who helped his career early in the serious days. Sorry, I digress, Jim said, I’m from the Midwest, and one of those was making fun of all those Midwestern dads with basement bars.

And now I have a bar I constructed, but share a drink with my brothers and th…

It’s one of my favorite moments. Now. Tom Wilms, who for Garden Gun, asked Jim gaffigin all these questions, they did a lightning round. Question number one, what’s the best time of a bourbon? Jim, I’m not a day drinker, and usually like two and done.

Oh, he’s a lightweight. But if I’m here in Louisville and we’re sampling, and it’s a whole different thing. Question number two, neat rocks or cocktail Jim. I’m a big rock guy, but I like it neat and has to be of a certain quality to be neat. I do like things cold.

I mean I look like a snowman. I should like ice. Hilarious Jim. Question number three, what’s your best worst dad joke? Jim Gaffikin said, Here’s the thing about dad jokes.

The enjoyment that a father feels and doing a dad joke is the discomfort inflicks on the child. It’s not about it being funny. Like eight year olds, they think it’s funny, they’re figuring it out, they’re dumb. But it’s about the annoyance it provides to a teenager. It’s the punishment of it.

Spinal Tap is back yet again. No, this isn’t a rerun, this isn’t a three month old episode. This is new news about spinal Tap. They’ve announced a concert movie, Spinal Tap at Stonehenge, the final finale. Good title you see.

Spinal Tap at Stonehenge the Final Finale captures a secretly staged concert at the famed megalithic structure in England. It features appearances from Shania Twain, Eric Clapton and Josh Grobin. It’ll be on IMA twenty twenty six. It is described as the first ever rock concert at the historic English Heritage site. Some fact trekkers pointed out, dude, the Thompson Twins played there.

Bleeker Street CEO Kent Sanderson said in a statement, I’m sold. This is it. They’re really serious this time. Well, this is ostensibly the end. How fitting it is that the actual probab will send off a shot historically at Stonehenge, the mysterious landmark that we now know must have been erected thousands of years ago purely to serve as the setting for the last act of spinal tap.

Congratulations to bj Novak, you know him from the office. Well, Fox has taken an equity stake in his chain food service. Do you know this chain started as a West Hollywood parking lot pop up in which a Michelin star chef crafted homages to nostalgic chain restaurant classics. Yeah, they did collabs with Taco Bell. You know, I could go for some Taco Bell today.

Maybe I’ll take a ride. Sometimes Taco Bell hits the spot like I teach on Monday nights and for some reason at like eight forty five five pm on a Monday night driving home. No, I’m gonna watch Monday night football, the like super basic, Taco Bell, Beef, Taco Soft, nothing on. It just hits the spot. I know some of you think it’s like meat like product wrapped in paper, but it hits the spot sometimes.

Anyway, with collabs with Taco Bell and Beizza Hut Jack in the box, we need some jack in the boxes on the East coast. Oh, I was just out in la In and out Burger is the jam, you guys. We got to get that. In New Jersey Pepsi, Duncan and Banda Express on the menu. Chain pop Ups became one of the hottest tickets in town.

Now, what is this development deal? I don’t understand it either. Apparently Chain Media gets a first loop development deal at Fox with the potential for original content placement on Gordon Ramsey’s food content platform Bite and in vertical videos on Holywater. What’s holy Water? Apparently it’s an AI microdramas producer and platform bj Novak said, food continues to define culture.

It’s how we celebrate, it’s how we remember, it’s how we connect. No one understands how to turn culinary storytelling into cultural obsession. Like Fox Entertainment and studio Ramsey Global, we’re excited to work together to bring chain experiences to more people. Jud Appetel joked that Adam Sandler, the great traumatic actor, blew him off after booking SNL. Jud used to room with Adam Sandler.

Yeah, they were living together when Adam Sandler auditioned for SNL. Judd said, it was a fun time because all we were doing every day was trying to write jokes and get up on stage of the improfit night and tell those jokes. We were very focused. We didn’t have much more to our lives. We had no responsibility whatsoever, and we were just hustling.

We all knew Adam was going to make it. He was just remarkably funny to be around, really and had so much charisma, so we all thought it was going to happen. We were just interested to see how it was going to happen, and then it did. One day Adam Sandler said I’m going to go audition for Saturday Night Live, and the next day he said, I got it. Then he left me alone in the apartment.

Jud has a new book, Adam Sandler wrote a blurb before the book, saying, jud Appatols put together an amazing scrap book of his life and career. The best part there’s a lot of pictures, and the stuff that isn’t pictures you don’t even have to look at now. If you do read the words, you’ll be delighted. But again, personally, I didn’t. And Amy Schumer posted a selfie on Instagram while wearing a sports bra.

Yeah. She captioned it no filter, no filler, no clean mirror. She was showing off her weight loss.

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Alright, so point seven times five, John, you’re terrible at math, and it’s actually four ninety nine. Should we do Let’s just make it totally accurate while we do this. Sorry, points seven times four ninety nine, three dollars forty nine and three thousandths of a cent. Now my business partner gets half of that. So there’s a dollar seventy five.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna joke forgot to Swallow. Why don’t you do the open a second time? John, because that’s not fun.

That’s what actually happened there. I was so excited. I think you’re feeling where my mood has been lately. I just want to do silly things after a month of angst. So let’s start with that guy, Jay Leonard.

Remember Jay Leno, He used to host the Tonight Show for like twenty two years, and then he’ll pop off as if he knows anything about late night comedy. That guy, he is the worst. Listen to what he’s doing. Now. Now, this guy Jay Leno, he’s gonna serve as the Grand Marshal at the Harley Davidson Love Ride.

Yeah, the November ninth, Southern California. They’re trying to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project and adopt the Arts. It’s gonna feature music from Gene Simmons from Kiss Robert Patrick, remember the guy from Terminator too, the bad guy in Terminator two. Yeah, he’s gonna be there, and Jay Leno is going to be the Grand Marshal. For the Love Ride, which has raised more than twenty five million dollars benefiting more than a dozen charitable organizations.

Let’s know what Jay Leno had to say. I’ve written alongside thousands a Love Ride for years. I’m looking forward to doing it again. Cheers to making Love Ride thirty four A memorable one. This guy the nerve of this guy.

All right, I gotta choose now to Jim gaff again again or Joey did is John Stewart’s story. But the John Stuart story is political. But I like to move the stories around. We did a lot of gafficing yesterday, so let’s do. Let’s do John Stewart, Okay, John Stewart, I was talking about did you see the video last weekend?

It was an AI video of the President of the United States wearing a crown jumping diarrhea on people. Did you see this one? Mike Chishen, did you hear me going to the letterman delivery right there? That was totally letterment when I did that. Did you see this one?

Total Dave flift? John Stewart said, I think my favorite part of it was Republicans who were asked about said diarrhea plane having to say things like, well, you know, the American people know that Donald Trump speaks his mine and they really appreciate his honest reaction of the diarrhea plane. Stuart continued, Mike Johnson was the best speaker of the House. Mike Johnson, what do you make of the president showing a video of him dropping diarrhea from a plane onto American people who were expressing their dissatisfaction Stuart, as Johnson said, well, the President, you know, he’s very satirical. Stuart said, you know, I appreciate the satire and I’m not offended, not as American but as a comedian.

What is this? What exactly is this? What is the satire? I’m just curious. Oh, it’s diarrhea from a plane.

I get it now, good one, sir. Stuart joked that perhaps the diarrhea plane is a classified thing that Trump shouldn’t have talked about. Stuart said, I know they have a diarrhea plane. I don’t even know if that was classified. That could have been classified information that somehow got out.

Someone’s going to pay the price for that. That’s way worse than the signal chat all right. Jim gaffickan Bourbon Time case you missed yesterday, I was entertaining myself. Jim Gaffigan was profiled by Garden and Gunn, which continues to just confuse me. Why is it called that I went on their website and like thought I could go to like an about page or they would explain, like oh, in eighteen thirty four, James Madison something something.

I have no idea why it’s called Gardening gun Tom Wilms spoke with Jim Gaffigan, bourbon entrepreneur. Jim explains why the brand is called father Time One word, Jim says. The joke is that it’s not father time as in the time you spend with your kids. It’s the time that a father earns that the joy is earned. On the label is my grandfather, who made dentures.

He was the first in our family to break the cycle of like working in coal mines. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Jim, making sure he doesn’t offend the coal minor comedy fan. Jim says, but his work made it possible for my father to go to college. I like to say that my father sacrifice made it possible for me to tell diarrhea jokes. Wow, I didn’t even plan this back to back diarrhea stories.

Welcome to Daily Comedy News. How’s your Sunday going, Garden and Gunn said, Bourbon is associated with the South, but of course it can be made anywhere in the US. Jim, do you have thoughts on Bourbon’s sense of place? Jim said, Because I get to tour around doing stand up, I’ve been able to acquire a bourbon from all fifty states. The thing I’ve come to understand is that, particularly in the Southeast, there’s a shorthand knowledge on bourbon.

If you go to a bar in Charleston or even Charlotte and asks for the whiskey list, it’s going to be much more extensive. Obviously, they are great whiskey bars throughout the country. Yeah, Jim, you don’t want to offend people not from the Southeast. There could be like some Southwest bourbon fans who are also coal miners. Be very very careful, Jim Gaffigan, You don’t offend anybody.

Ever, It’s very careful to point out here there are great whiskey bars throughout the country. Okay, you got it. Jim’s not saying only the Southeast has good whiskey bars and He’s fine if you’re a coal miner, all right. Jim is not here to offend you. But Jim says, what people think is an extensive whiskey list in some northern cities would be laughable in the southeast.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I’m from New York City. How dare you insult our whiskey list? Jim Gaffigan, Wait until I tell him my uncle was a coal miner. The nervous is this guy’s worse than Jay Leno Guardian and guns.

Jim, you towards some bourbon material in Kentucky. I can go back to talking about the Rio Comedy Festival if you wired. I just I just want to do this. Jim. You had toured some bourbon material in Kentucky and Tennessee earlier this year.

Jim said. The tour was called the Bourbon Whiskey Run, and it was prompted by a few things. My three brothers wanted to do another trip, so we hit places like Chattanooga and Owensboro that we hadn’t visited yet, and we did it by bus. Wait are you trying to tell me Jim Gaffigan was on a bus. He’s gotta have mine.

He’s gotta fly private, right, Jim Gaffigan private plane. Let’s see what comes up. Seems like he doesn’t. Jim tweeted twelve years ago, anyone have a private jet in Columbus, Ohio. I’m trying to get to Chicago from my show tonight.

I wish I was joking. All right, So Jim flies commercial, and apparently sometimes Jim Gaffigan takes the bus with his brothers. Yeah, sure, that’s how the story goes. Jim said, the bus trip coincided with my son’s spring break, and he opened for me a few times. I understood it would not have as broad appeal as my other stand up.

I’ve always prided myself on having stand up that appeals to diverse ages and mentalities. But this is more of a twenty one and up material. It helps if you’re over thirty and out of shape, guardian and gun or whatever that’s called. Ask Jim, is there anything different about developing a bourbon joke? Does bourbon help?

I’m sure bourbon helps. Jim once again does not want to offend anybody. He’s very careful with this answer. He says, obviously, both men and women drink bourbon. You don’t want to exclude anyone, Jim, be very careful.

You could lose, you know, zero zero one percent of your fan base. Obviously, both men and women drink bourbon, but I think the male relationship with bourbon being bourbon geeks, if you want to call that, is unique. Whoa you misogynist bourbon drinking? This guy’s worse than Jay Leno? Jay said, I’ve Jay leave it in.

Jim said, I’ve joked about this with other guys who were into bourbon because my wife considers it kind of a midlife crisis, and I’m like, this is better than having an affair. It sure is. That would be terrible if he broke up his marriage. Obsessing over bourbon and wanting to complete your collection is I’m not gonna say it. It’s healthy, but it’s more productive than doing something reckless and more accessible than collecting cars.

Is that a shot at Jay Leno? I could understand taking a shot at Jay Leno who collects a lot of cars, because that guy, he’s the worst. Did you hear him comment on late night television as if he knows anything? Gaffigan said, some people collect action figures, and I joked that bourbon bottles are like action figures filled with liquor. Oh there is more to this article, but I will move on because I can spidy.

Since you guys going, will you cut it out? Okay, I’ll cut it out. I can talk about Therio on Comedy FESTIL if you want. Michelle Wolf said. Someday, I’d really like to play Red Rocks out in Colorado.

I think that’d be really cool, especially because some great people have performed there. She told TV Insider. I’m also a very outdoorsy person, so combines all the things I love. I want to get into some writing. I want to do some scripted things.

I don’t have any desire to host any award shows just because I don’t think i’m the favorite person. Look if they asked me to do it, I’d be like, these are the kind of jokes you’re gonna get. I played her Saudi material on Thursday’s podcast. If you missed that and want a taste of that. But today we’re silly, Michelle Wolf said.

The last time I hosted something with the Correspondent’s dinner and they were like, we weren’t expecting that. I just like to let you know what you’re getting because that’s what I’m going to give you. I’m not necessarily going to give you a song or dance, but I’ll tell you what I think about it. There’s some shows I want to write, and hopefully I’ll get to do those in the near future. Eliza Slessinger, she’s out there hawking the Jeep grand Wagoneer.

Bunch of articles about Eliza, who’s clearly trying to sell you a jeep. We’re told the Jeep grand Wagoneer, this is not a commercial, this is me having fun. Is just sixty five thousand dollars, rugged, refined and has enough room for growing families. We’re told. Slussnger, one of the world’s premiere female comedians I guess that’s true, is known for her sharp wit and stand up comedy.

It includes insightful commentary on relationships, motherhood, and society comedy Rule of three. Eliza Slessinger said, I’m excited to work with the Jeep brand on this unconventional Jeep Grand Wagoneer ad campaign. I love that they went for something different and we’re open to paroting traditional vehicle reveals. The Jeep grand Wagoneer is beautiful, spacious and hopefully after seeing this film, there are more babies in the world ready to fill out those three rows. You think she said that, or you think somebody over at Jeep sent that over and go?

Can you prove this quote? So I’ve been doing this a long time. People approved quotes. Ol of our friends saw is the global chief marketing officer and said developed to run across only the Jeep brands social media channels. The family SUV featuring comedian Elizas Leusger does follow our underlying Jeep brand ethos, and that is to be memorable and put a smile on their faces.

Speaking of putting a smile on people’s faces, this put a smile on my face. I was working on some behind the scenes stuff here and running some data. Somebody asked me, hey, can you pull some stats? And pulled some stats and ran them through the chatchept there, and here’s what we learned about you, not me. You.

Here’s who’s listening to daily community is, according to artificial intelligence, the audience scus mid career to early jen X professionals and dads who grew up on Letterman, John Stewart and talk radio. Well from the host chair being oh eighty to eighty five percent of you or in the US. Then there’s Mike Chisholm, who listens in Canada. He’s the entire Canadian fan base. Thank you, Mike.

Some other listeners in the UK and Australia would love to hear from you guys. Facebook group, jump in Daily Companies podcast group. But I especially liked the psychographic we are told you, dear listener, listen daily for consistency, humor, and perspective. You prefer wits over outrage, and this is what made me laugh. You respond to clever grumpiness.

Love it boy. I have so much leftover stuff I might have to do just like an extra episode just to catch up.

Let’s talk about Bob odenkirk Men’s journal ast Bob Odenkirk, could you have …

The genre has so many cornerstone tropes that it’s always fun to make fun of any trope and any genre thing. You can make fun of anything in a stylistically tropy way. You can make fun of Wes Anderson tropes or anything people know. I did a film festival David Cross once, and we were there for something, but also to make fun of one of Steven Seagal’s films. We just sat in the back and did the riff tracks thing.

Is that where we’re calling it now the rifftracks thing? Because I would have just called it the Mystery Science Theater three thousand thing. I get that those two things are related, but do people know what you’re talking about if you say riff tracks? Odin Kirk said, because I’ve done so much comedy, one of the conscious thoughts that I had in this action areas that you can’t really make fun of the tropes if you make an action movie. I realized, if I want to make a real action movie and I want to be judged and tested in this arena, I have to commit to those things and not make fun of them, because if I make fun of them, everyone who has even an inkling of what I’ve done is going to go, ah, hey, didn’t mean it.

But there are jokes in the films, he says. Most of the jokes have to do with the kind of fun that you can have when the violence is really intense and really scary and kind of painful. Then a small comment to like comment becomes very funny in that context. An all subject comment becomes really hilarious in the context of dead, cold, earnest, seriousness and pain. And I will leave you with this.

Aerosmith and young Blood have shared a new version of My Only Angel, featuring comment he legend Steve Martin. Yeah, why well, I’ll tell you you see. Inspired by the original track’s emotional core, Aerosmith and young Blood returned to the studio to explore its more vulnerable side. During the session, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, I met him once, tiny guy, I mean, not all that tall, not all that heavy. Nice guy.

Though met’m backstage. Jones Beach was back there with Vinnie pass Story. You know, the guy from this Pranos. Yeah, I’ve got stories. I did some stuff.

I wasn’t always in the basement anyway. During the session, Aerosmith singer Stephen Tyler, a longtime admirer of Steve Martin. Imagine the distinctive sound of a banjo bringing the songs so close. He reached out to Steve Martin, who accepted the invitation and recorded his part remotely. The addition of the Steve Martin banjo gives the new version its defining final moment, a soulful ending that trades the drive of the original for grounded, textured feel, with Steve Martin standout bancho solo carrying the song to a finish.

Steve revealed on Instagram, I’m playing banjo on a Stephen Tyler’s song. Here’s our text exchange. For no particular reason, and that is your comedy needs to say, Hey, all right, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey Johnny Mack with your daily comedy. I’m really excited about this Jim Gaffigan bourbon article. I haven’t even pre read it. A couple of late night jokes before we begin, from Seth Myers.

These are pretty good. A White House Press secretary, Caroline Levitt pushed back this week against criticism of the East Wing demolition and said that Democrats are just jealous. Seth said, what the only person jealous of that gaping hole is the kool aid man. That’s a solid joke. And one more.

During a meeting, Trump said he has plans to build a glass bridge between the White House and his new ballroom. While he got handed to him, even at his age, he’s still looking for new and innovative ways to look up ladies dresses, solid work. Seth Myers writers, as tas yesterday, you know, I don’t really want to do politics. I just want to do silly stories like this one from Garden and gunn. Now, first of all, there’s a publication called Garden and Gun that sounds like a Jim Gaffigan joke.

Like, Oh, I don’t think those two things go together. Tom Wilms writes under the headline Sipping Bourbon with Jim Gaffigan, the comedian and co founder of Father Time Bourbon, on his whiskey education and bourbon’s funny side. Okay, Gaffigin says, bourbon combines this rich heritage and booze, I mean two perfect things. I was never a hard alcohol guy, but as I got older beer was too filling. During the pandemic, he would grab some quiet time with his wife, Jeanie.

Jim said, that’s when I really embraced whiskey, specifically bourbon. We’re told with Father Time, Jim Gaffgin isn’t just lending his name. No, no, no no. He’s hands on in selecting and blending barrels for each release. Each batch is bottled in both a lower proof version and a higher proof empty nester strength and his name for some facet of his perspective as a dad.

Now are we learning something here? This says the upcoming November release fourth and long nonst to the challenges of raising a big family. Did we know we were getting a Jim Gaffigan release. I know. I’m the host of the show.

I’m the one with the Daily Comedy News. John, Why are you asking us you’re the guy who has the news. Did I erase this from my brain? Did we know we were getting a gaff again release in November? Anyway, Apparently it’s called fourth and Long.

You learned it right here. Daily Comedy News write it down. Fourth and Long The challenges of raising a big family, Jim said, when you have multiple kids, that fourth child is when you’re really getting into a no man’s land of parenting. The comparison of when a football team is facing fourth and long. The odds are against it, but if you can pull it off, you feel invincible.

Oh that’s just the preamble.

Let’s get to the article.

Jim Gaffigan, What made you want to start a bourbon brand? Jim said, being in the entertainment industry, you’ll occasionally be approached with opportunities. I was usually approached for food things, but I was always reluctant. Then I was approached to do a bourbon but my experience with celebrity spirits is that the quality isn’t always there.

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It’s Dylan said, Adam Carolla has Manngria, Bert Kreischer and Tom Sagora know he’s just back from the Riot Comedy Festival. That Tom’s gore guy. They have poor Osos vodka. Dylan says he’s actually seen that in stores. Rob points out Dan Ackroyd has some sort of liquor brand.

Yeah, he’s got a vodka. If I remember correctly, I worked with Dan one time in Chicago. Did I tell you this story. It’s Saturday, let’s go all over the place. So we were doing at serious It’s called a town hall, so you get famous celebrities there.

So we had Ackroyd and Jim Belushi flut Chicago there there, everybody recorded this whole thing, and something went sideways, and somebody forgot, not me. Somebody forgot to get the talent to sign the talent release, and they never signed the talent release. So this whole thing got recorded and I don’t think it ever aired. I also felt bad. One day I was calling Jim Belushi’s cell phone and it was on the West coast, so I called mister Belushi rather early.

He played it off and was really cool about it, but this jerk woke up Jim Belushi and still feels bad about it. Jim, if you’re listening, I’m sorry and thank you for being cool about it. Anyway, Akroyd and Belushi were really cool that day, and Dan Akroyd did have some sort of like skeleton liquor brand. John, do you have the internet? Why don’t you look it up?

Crystal Head vodka. That’s what it is. Rob also points out Guy Fiery and Sammy Hagar have tequila. Did you see fake Sammy Hagar got arrested the other day? Google that long story short.

Some guy got arrested. He was claiming to be Sammy Hagar. How did he prove he’s Sammy Hagar. He’s saying I can’t drive fifty five now. He looks like if Sammy Hagar had two hundred donuts for lunch.

I digress. Von pointed out Cheech Marin has tris Papa Lotte Mescal and I shared as I on Friday went on my coffee run. I always listened back to the show to see if I made any mistakes, and I was served an ad for David Ortez. Rum you Dave Ortez big Poppy the baseball player. Anyway, we are far afield.

Where were we? We were in the middle of this Jim Gaffigan article. He was explaining what made him want to start a bourbon brand. Now, of course the answer is money, but let’s pretend and that that’s not the answer. Jim said, I was supposed to do a bourbon, but my experience with celebrity spirits is that the quality isn’t always there.

You think. That prompted me to reach out to a college friend from who’s here in Louisville. And he was like, it’s a gamble. You might end up with some unsold bourbon. And I said, well, at least it would be bourbon i’d enjoy.

Jim said, I’m the youngest of four brothers, and the brothers would all come down to Kentucky and we’d sample. When you’re sampling bourbon, it’s a labor of love. Oh yes, it sure is a labor of love. That’s not to say there aren’t moments when you’re like, I don’t know how I can discern between the ten of these. Yeah, that must be really hard, and I’m not his experienced.

It’s spitting out as I should be Ooh, that’s gross. But it was through that that the seeds of my fascination grew. The great irony of my Bourbon journey is in that some ways, it’s almost the opposite of college. Yeah, that is ironic. You go to college to learn, but you end up drinking more.

And in Bourbon you think you’re just going to drink, but you end up learning. Jesus, Jim, listen to yourself. Oh my god, stop, dude, you sound insane. Tom Wilms in Garden and Gunn, the oddly named publication, asked Jim Gaffigan, what’s the most bourbon geek thing you’ve caught yourself saying. Jim said, I’ve had to stop myself from saying juice.

I have a joke where I address that people are so helpful in the bourbon industry, and they’ve been patient with me because I’m like a puppy who’s excited. I’m glad there’s no footage for me going, hey, so what’s a bunghole? Oh that sounds pretty dirty, boy, check the claw how much? Oh, there’s a lot of this left. I have other things I need to do.

Should we go back to this tomorrow? Yes, let’s go back to this tomorrow because we do have other stuff to talk about. For example, Nate Prighetzi will be the celebrity guest picker on ESPN’s College Game Day Today College Game Day, which starts at seven a m. Eastern. I hope you got up early and listen to the podcast.

They’ll be at Vanderbilt’s Wyatt’s Lawn. Nate is a noted a Vanderbilt Commodore’s supporter. He’ll be making his second appearance on the pregame show two years ago November fourth, twenty twenty three. You remember that day, Yeah, that was the day LSU played Alabama. Nate Brigatzy picked Alabama crimson side forty two LSU twenty eight.

Meanwhile, Sports Illustrated wrote about super Vanderbilt football fan theovon as I writes, he walked through the grass across the concrete with his nearly patented Detroit Tiger’s hat, glasses, a Teal shirt, and an Alabama belt hanging on his shoulder. That stunt was one that some within Vanderbilt’s fan base will forever hold against Theovan if he tries to validate his Vanderbilt’s football fandom. But theo did not want to be disrespectful as he walked onto the stage in front of Alabama’s Lloyd Hall. Alabama’s fan base had already brought the College Game Day crew under fire for choosing Theovon to be a guest picker. THEO said, I feel blessed to be here, but Vanderbilt is my ride home.

They’re my ride home. I’m not joking, he said. I picked Vandy. But it’s also like everybody can’t pick Alabama. That’s no fun.

Some people didn’t like it, but whatever, man, everyone can’t pick the same team. That’s ridiculous. As I tells us. Theovan has been at all but one of Vanderbilt’s games this season. He missed the win over Utah State.

He was in New York for a stand up shit deal. Said, I feel like it just showed up when they were winning. Bro, It’s pretty fascinating to me. I’m an underdog man. I’ve been an underdog my whole life, and the only thing I know is love.

That’s what this program has been. It’s a gift for me to be around young guys that have a lot of energy and stuff. Number ten Vanderbilt takes on Number fifteen Missouri today and three point thirty. If you’re in Lexington, Kentucky today, Brad Williams is bringing the Growth Spurt Tour there and they’ll be filming back to back shows. At six and nine, Brad Williams will record a comedy special at the Lexington Opera House.

He was asked why Lexington. He said, Dusty Sligh sent Brad Williams pictures from a show Dusty did at the historic nine hundred and sixty four seat Lexington Opera House when he performed in twenty twenty four. That convinced Williams. Plus, he says, it happens to be on Short Street, and I thought that was a sign I’m having fun today. I hope you’re enjoying the program.

It’s October in my house, which means the house is either ninety four degrees or forty four degrees now. Right now, I’m freezing, so I’m in full sailor mode. Oversized, bright yellow sweatshirt, traditional podcasting sweatpants. And I wanted to change up my shoes. I’m a bit of a runner and I like to change my shoes around.

I went under the bed and I found these sneakers that I retired mostly after the twenty twenty three New York City Marathon. Humble Brag and boy the rubber on these are worn out. Just walking around the house is pretty slippery, but I’ll wear these four the day. Did you ever get an ocular migraine? I came down here to record all these shows.

It’s more or less cleared up now, But about a half hour ago, I was like, I’m going to record an ocular migraine. If you’ve never had one, it looks like lines and like fluorescent neon squiggly lines. So it was right in the center of my left eye, and I’m like, I can’t even read the scripts. This is annoying. So I went and did some other stuff.

But it seems to have cleared up now. I mentioned yesterday that we’ll see little pushes behind artists, and I suspected that New York Times article about Stavros hal Guess I’m like, they’re pushing stav Ros well. He’s also on the Good One podcast this week. Haven’t listened to it yet, and Vulture Ascid posted a recap yet, but that’s something we’ll look out for. So it seems like we’re pushing Stavros a little bit.

Johnerald Zale releasing his third album, Beat Life to Death. That’ll be out November seventeenth on Blonde Medicine. We’re told the stakes were extremely high for this one. Johno recorded several days before his dad had quintumple bypass surgery. Johno closed his set with ten minutes about Dad.

Sadly, his father passed away later from complications, but JOHNA was able to play him the recording and they laughed together in the hospital room. Wow. John holds a doctorate in neurosirens. He’s now a full time comedian. Blonde Medicine Beat Life to Death out November seventeenth.

From the BBC, comedian John Bishop said seeing a film based on his life changing first stand up gig has been bizarre but brilliant. That’s the new Bradley Cooper movie. Is this Thing on? Loosely inspired by John Bishop’s gig at Manchester’s Frog and Bucket Comedy Club twenty five years ago. The movie version is set in New York and tells the story of Alex, played by Will Arnett.

Bishop said there was an awkward moment when he and his wife Melanie met Bradley Cooper. Bradley gave Melanie a hug, and then Melanie she had a minute with him, talking to him, but she was whispering in his ear. We came back to the hotel and saying, this has been a mad few days. And I said, what are you gonna remember the most about it? And she said, whispering in Bradley Cooper’s ear.

Bishop says, that kind of doesn’t make me feel great, and let’s get out there on a good line. That is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow, I guess we’ll talk more about Jim Gaffigan, bourbon, I got some other stuff, and we’ll see you then.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am psyched and feeling good today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Why you’re so happy, Johnny Mack. If you’ve been around me lately, you’ve heard me say things like I don’t want to talk about politics all day.

I just want to make fun of like Jim Gaffigan. Well, good news. Jim Gaffigan did a lengthy interview about his Bourbon project on tomorrow’s show. I’ll lead off with that so I can put my feet up, take it easy, and goof on, Jim Gaffigan. That’s what I want to do.

But today there’s some actual news that we do need to cover. But let’s start with late night jokes. Did you see someone’s knocking down the East wing of the White House. Now hold on, now, if you’re like John you just said you want to do politics, This isn’t politics, This is just silly jokes. Jimmy Fallon said, Guys, a lot of people are angry at President Trump because it was just announced he’s demolishing the entire East wing of the White House to build his new ballroom.

Yeah, the entire wing is gone. Normally, if you hear that you’re flying front to your airlines. See that’s not a political joke, that’s a clean joke. Seth Meyer said, this is the first thing aliens do in movies to announce their evil. They blow up the White House.

Trump is just cutting out the middle man of invading aliens. Love it. And if you’re a long time listener, remember during the pandemic, I had to create and rely on the late Bot. Well, late Bot is back, Baby late Bot says the east wing used to be where the first Lady’s office was. Mulaney is reportedly thrilled she’s finally getting her wish.

She doesn’t have to be in the White House. Officials say the ballroom will fit a thousand guests, which is great because that’s just enough room for Trump’s lawyers. As I’m sitting here recording just in. John Stewart as commented on the ballroom on his weekly show podcast. John said, just make mar Alago the new White House and Palm Beach the new capital.

That’s fiscally responsible. That’s somebody looking out for the debt.

Speaking of John Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel gave an interview and said that ABC sh…

John and I have the same manager, James baby Doll Dixon, and James was about to close this deal for John to host the show. The ABC chairperson watching my tape and he was like, I think this might be the guy. And he brought the tape to Bob Iger and Iger said, yeah, this might be the guy. It was a very strange thing because James was in the difficult position of having to tell John Stewart, You’re not going ABC, but Jimmy’s going ABC. That was a mistake.

By the way, they definitely should hire John. If I’m in that position, There’s no question I hired John one hundred times out of one hundred. Kim Mill said he was confused over winning the gig. He remembers saying, I was like, why, this is quite a leap you guys made. I was on The Man Show.

I was doing football picks on Fox NFL Sunday and Iiger goes, well, you were cheaper, and everybody laughed, but I knew he wasn’t kidding. Kim O’ll recalled the early days of the show were rough. I think my vision of hell is being forced to watch my first year of shows, because it’s just as painful as anything could get for me. It took us a long time to figure it out, and we’re very fortunate to get a long time to figure it out. Somehow we wound up getting good ratings.

I still don’t know how that was, but they were good enough to keep us on the air, even though I was causing trouble. Every like two and a half months, some major thing was happening. Something came out of my mouth, you know, and caused a whole thing. It was tumultuous. Kim Will has asked about Colbert Gates.

You know, it was a little quid pro quo make the famous politician go away. What the merger through, Kimmel said, we don’t know for sure. What I do know for sure is that some of the information that’s been released by the people who let him go can’t possibly be true. There’s no way he’s losing forty million dollars a year. There’s no way it’s even close to that.

I know how finances of late night television shows work, and it’s just ridiculous. It doesn’t make any sense at all. So when you hear things that are obviously lies, you have to assume that there are more lies behind it. And that’s what I think. John, How you do and not being political today, It’s going great, guys.

Nikki Glaser, she’s got the right agent. Hollywood has decided we’re gonna put Nikki Glaser in front of everybody. That is not a backhanded comment about Niki. They do that with people every so often. The next person you’re going to see everywhere is Rachel Sennott.

Write that down. We’ll come back in two months. You’ll see what I’m saying. Nikki Glaser is going to starve and produce a new film that Judd Apatow will produce for Universal Pictures. It is described as a modern, edgy romantic comedy.

That’s all we know about that. Nikki Glaser will host the Golden Globes this year, which brings me to the next story, which has me very upset. Netflix. You know they made that movie Jay Kelly with George Clooney and Adam Sandler, the great gramatic actor, Adam Sandler. Yeah, they’re putting it in the comedy categories.

For the Golden Globes. Now, why does this bother you, Johnny Mack? Because everyone is saying, Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, is fantastic in it, and why wouldn’t he be. He’s a great dramatic actor. Now, if you nominate this as a comedy and he wins, he’s gonna think he’s a good comedian, which he’s not.

Guys, put this in as a drama. They’re planning on nominating Adam Sandler for a Best Supporting Actor. But don’t call this thing a comedy? What are you doing? Obsessimately whole plan.

I thought I had this figured out, that we were gonna convince Adam Sandler, you know what, rest of your life you do drama. Jake Kelly in theaters November fourteenth. It’ll be on Netflix December fifth. The Golden Globe nominations are out to say eighth. In the Chicago Tribune, Christopher Burrelli writes, we are currently entering a new Sandler season, one of those brief, occasional windows of time where we are reminded that, hey, you know what, life’s too short.

Everyone likes Adam Sandler these days. He makes some bad movies. Yes, and he makes some smart movies. We might even root for him to win an oscar for j Kelly. That’s right, we would.

Would he wear a hoodie and jogra State Academy Awards, we would hope. So let’s see what am I wearing right now on the Sandler thing. I’ve got a pretty nice looking gray sweat zip jacket. That’s pretty good. But I am wearing my traditional podcast in gray sweatpants.

So if I jump on a zoom call, you’ll think I’m dressed nicely, But then waist down, I’m all Sandler today. Barelli talks about walking into the United Center to see Sandler’s stand up tourney. Writes, says, I waited across the street. I listened to a pair of traffic cops get into a confusing but somehow relatable argument about what’s actually endearing about Adam Sandler. One cop said he’s a good actor.

The other cop said, I think all these people here because he’s funny. Yeah, Adam Sandler the comedian, Well he’s a good actor, but I don’t know what’s funny about him. Am I a cop in Chicago? Is this like an HBO series where I’m leading a dual life and like, in the daytime, I’m a podcaster in the basement and at night I’m a traffic cop in Chicago. Because that sounds like this guy overheard a conversation with me.

And by the way, this is what I want the show to be. I don’t want to talk about Therion Comedy Festival. This is more fun this piece right. Sandler’s new shows are titled You’re My Best Friend, and as Alan quarters that sounds, it’s a pretty spot on way of describing a show so driven by the audience’s warmth and goodwill, it transcends what we typically expect of a performer. To put it bluntly, Sandler is not a particularly funny stand up and he has never been.

Thank you, Christopher Borelli. Oh my god, I might have to reach out to this guy and have this guy on. Where was I he was telling us to put it bluntly, Sandler’s not a particularly funny stand up and he has never been. Yeah, you can’t say that enough. I know, I repeated it.

He paces and arrives at jokes that sound half from membered and talks in a speedy mumble. I would say about half the people seated around me. Never laughed out loud. Once you preach, Christopher Brelli preach, but they were smiling. Saandlor is almost nothing new to say about the topics he’s been talking about at fifty nine and growing old, surviving teenage daughters, stumbling through married sex, and somehow it still kind of works.

The New York Times that a big, big profile of Stavros Hockey as the premise Stavros Hockey has wants a career, well, his fans let him have one. This thing is really long. The person who wrote it really knows Stavus’s career. They wrote, If you think he recognize Halkias, you probably do. At five seven and three hundred pounds, he has a ninety five percentile body type that he does not try to hide.

His wardrobe centers on loudly powdered shirts and European tracksuits. All right, so so far today, I’m definitely dressed better than Stavros, and I’m probably tied with Sandler unless we’re on a zoom, in which case I’m in first place because of my nice gray is Zip hoodie. I digress. They talk about Stavros’s last which people often accuse him of faking, but which burst forth so often that if it was ever an affectation, it seems to have become natural long ago. A high percentage of the people who approached him and Madison turned around after hearing this laugh.

Then the next section is a long recap of his career. Starvos says, I don’t really like being famous. I don’t really like seeing people like stopping me on the street. He said he might have to adopt a more discreet look. The question of Halkius’s performance on Tires and he’s really good in that.

That’s a great show. You know, I think I haven’t watched like the last four. It got distracted. Thank you for New York Times reminding me have to go back and watch that on Tires. Is any indication he’s not disappearing into his roles like many comedians who transition acting.

He seems to have been hired to play himself on a TV show, a thrill for fans who previously knew him as himself on a podcast or himself on a stage. Every comedian is to some degree trap by what their audience has come to expect, asked Jim Carrey. But the podcast comedian who’s invited into listeners’ homes, cars, and ear canals for multiple hours each week is especially likely to evoke a sensation of familiarity as people he has not met. These people may not want their imaginary French to change. Good stuff.

Leslie Jones her new specials out today on Peacock. It is called Leslie Jones Life Part Two. Leslie Jones tackles aging relationships, fame, and life’s unexpected to us with a kind of honesty and fire. Only Leslie Jones can. Bring comedy stock marketine.

Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look at some comedians and we talk about buying proverbial stock in their careers. We try and sell high, we try and buy low. To the point, I’m tempted to buy some of the comedians who appeared at the Riod Comedy Festival, but on principle I will not. All right, some recommendations this week, let’s buy Stavrel’s hockey has I mean, you got to see the length of this profile in the New York Times.

This is a major, major thing and that doesn’t just to happen, Which makes me think, as I said earlier in the show, Hollywood decides somebody’s going to have a moment, Nikki Glaser, Rachel Sinnott. Somebody’s pushing Stavros, so let’s keep an eye on that. I bet we see a lot of Stavros press now. Will buy Stavros Hockey as before his stock is expensive. Let’s sell Joe Rogan.

Not that the Joe Rogan articles have been pretty positive this year, but they’re increasingly negative, and Joe is getting increasingly dragged into the political rabbit hole, and I don’t think that’s a place he wants to stay. Let’s sell our word Joe Rogan stock, and let’s start to accumulate some more Sandler. The buzz on this Ja Kelly thing is really good, and he is, of course a great dramatic actor. Why would you not want to support that. Let’s buy some Adam Sandler.

That’s your comedy stock market for this week. Out today an audio album. I always like that. It’s Luke Haiggees have that also Outsiday on audio mal Halls. What are we doing today?

Becky Robinson will self release her debut stand up special. It is called Becky Robinson entitled It’ll be on her website today in this hour Becky Robinson dives into the chaos of coming out as a lesbian during the pandemic, the pitfalls of being way too friendly as an adult in her unapologetic love for Taco Bill. But that night wouldn’t be complete without an appearance from her character, the entitled Housewife. There’s not just a Special. Becky Robinson will release a thirty minute documentary offering a behind the scenes look at its creation.

From The Japanese Times, your home for comedy news, the headline a Japanese comedian walks into an Australian bar and stays there. Takashi Waka Wakasugi stop by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in the Shibui Award. Waka had just gotten back from Edinburgh performing his show Comedy Samurai. He opened his set at the Tokyo Comedy Bar saying I live in Australia, so that’s why my English is a little craiky. This was Waka’s first time back in Japan’s it’s moving to Australia in twenty eighteen.

He says, toilets are always a reliable bet for laughs. I also like to make fun of Ozzie people. From a Japanese viewpoint, and they love that. They love Japan, he said. Australian audience says know a lot about Japan.

Edinburgh was more of a challenge. I told them Japanese people make things better. Toylet’s we fix that whiskey. We fixed that for you. They hated that joke.

He says. His writing approach is planting a seed and digging for oil. Both take time, but they’ll pay off if you’re patient. He says, I love doing four minutes one joke, adding the longer approach works better with live crowds than on the internet. Yes, he’ll do language jokes and one bit.

A misheard word sends him spiraling into a series of imagined meanings. For example, the slang term yolo for you only live once. He spun that into a joke about Buddhism’s belief in multiple lives. That sounds like a great premise. What he loves about Western stand up is how personal it is, unlike in Japan, where comedians often play exaggerated characters.

Takashi wagga waga suki. And that is your comedy news for today. Fun show. We’ll see tomorrow. We’ll talk about Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon can’t wait.

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Caalarogashock media, buckle the bleep up. Yesterday I gave you a show with no politics. Today politics my friends, and Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ben Stiller said, we live in a world we’re taking chances with comedy is more challenging. You’re seeing that front and center in our country.

But I think it’s important that comedians keep doing what they’re doing, speaking truth to power and being free to say what they want. That’s the most important thing. Steeler said. I’ve had people reach out to me and say you should edit Donald Trump out of Zoolander. But at the end of the day, that was a time that existed, and that happened Andrew Schultz was on Joe Rogan’s show.

Now the media is just catching up to this. This has been out for a while. I haven’t listened to it yet because when I listened to Schultz’s own podcast last week, I was like this, I can’t with this show. So I was not any mood at all to listen to Schultz and Rogan. Let me see when that one came out October eighteenth.

Yeah, so it’s been out for a while. But anyway, the media started to pick up on it, correct wrote, There’s no way I can in good faith recommend to you. The sprawling three and a half hour long conversation between Andrew Schultz and Joe Rogan, it was by and large not very enlightening, as most conversations that run that long tend to be, But at nearly the three hour mark, the duo finally got to talking about something significant, their decision to both interview Donald Trump. Schultz told Rogan, I do think in general, like us just having politicians on and even going to the rally, what’s happened is that we’ve politicized ourselves and brought ourselves into the game of politics, which is the ugliest game. Schultz said.

It’s the ugliest game because it’s that zero sum stuff that we were saying earlier. It’s just like people really believe it’s life or death. It’s really life or death. I don’t know if you follow the headlines, Chultz continued, Dude, I was pushing my daughter in a stroller, right, and the lady goes, hey, didn’t you have Trump on your podcast? And I was like, I already know what’s going on.

I’m like, yeah, yeah, he was on the podcast, and She’s like, well, I hope your daughter has a good life, and Scheltz was like, I’m like, b word, you live in Tribeca, you know what I mean? Like, what do you think is happening over here? The Canadians are upset. So Schultz told Joe Rogan that he found the concept of indigenous land acknowledgments funny. I don’t know if you’ve run into that, and you will find that at many theaters these days, especially if you’re at a college.

Scheltz said, I find it funny when governments do these things like enforced care, and anytime I’m performing in Canada and I’m in an indigenous area, they make me do a land acknowledgement. I remember the first time they told me. I was like, you want me to do? What? I remember telling it to the chief of the tribe, like brother.

That kind of seems like I’m bragging. I’m going up there and being like this used to be yours, but the boys came in and you all got the f out of here. You want me to remind everybody what happened before the comedy show. Brogan tagged it and said, yeah, we stole it, but it’s ours now. Sorry.

The thing is the people that go along with that are the same people that want no borders and think no one is illegal being anywhere, Like Christopher Columbus is the only immigrant they hate. There’s no borders, no illegal and yet these people shouldn’t have been here. Fox News picked up on the part of the conversation about Kamala Harris. Joe Rogan said she was on stage with Kara Swisher and Kara Swisher was kind of like ragging on her a little bit. She was like, you know, some people said that I was the most qualified person ever run for president.

Like who said that? And like who said that? Rogan points out, you’re literally running against a guy who was already president, So if you’re going based on your resume, you’re not more qualified than Biden. Biden was the vice president of the United States for eight years. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily taken off the air.

Well, people did not support fascism. I know you don’t. I know, when you’re watching Scrubs, you go upstairs and get the DVDs. You are definitely not just watching them on Hulu plus every night because you do not support fascism. You are one of the roughly three million Americans that canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions.

Yeah, a new report from the research firm Antenna says roughly three million Americans canceled Disney Plus in September. The previous three month average was one point two million people canceling. The Times points out another way to look at the data is four percent of the subscribers canceled in July, eight percent in September for Disney Plus. Over on the Hulu side, five percent in July and ten percent in September. None of this bothers Jullying Summers.

She will premiere her first hour comedy special What Specie Are You? That’ll be on Hulu November eight. Now, you won’t be able to see it because you’ve canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. You are one of the three million strong who do not support fascism. The Hulu publicists out there promoting fascism all across the country anyway.

Joll Yang Summers was named one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch, and this special sees her dissect what makes us different, what brings us together, drawing from her life as a Chinese American first generation immigrant. She tackles topics like cultural clashes, immigrant identity, and motherhood. I didn’t know this about her. She is an Asian Hall of Fame inductee who recently became the first Chinese comedian in headline in the Apollo Theater. Former Miss China also owns and operates the Hollywood Comedy and the Pasadena Comedy Clubs.

Margaret Show through a Rock in the direction of JK. Ralling over the weekend on TikTok, Margaret Show said, I hope that when you face metopause you have to take a lot of gender affirming care, as I do. And when you’re taking these hormones, they make your pubes go out so thick and hard. It’s like steel wool. And if anyone does something that a woman might enjoy, they get a face full of scars.

Feisty show today. All right, you think that’s ficy, Let’s get to Michelle Wolf. We’ll start with the easy part of the Michelle Wolf News. TV Insider asked her what was her reaction when she found out Stephen Colbert was getting canceled and then Jimmy Kimmel yanked off the air. Does Michelle Wolf support fascism.

Michelle said Late Night has been a tough landscape for a while now because nobody is watching TV like that anymore. A part of me is not surprised if the purse strings are a bit tighter or ratings aren’t as high as they used to be. I do think you can’t cancel someone because the government wants you to. It’s one thing to cancel show because the ratings aren’t good and the budget isn’t there. If someone from the government specifically says they don’t want them on TV anymore, I think that’s the time everybody, regardless of if you agree with them politically or not, should be like that’s unacceptable.

It’s a really scary place to be. That was one of the things I thought if Trump got elected, he’s not gonna let people make fun of him. At some point a presidency, he’s going to say you’re not allowed to make fun of me anymore. There’s a real quick downhill from there. They were curious if she got to do the White House Correspondence dinner again, what would happen.

She said, I would go even harder than I went. I thought my jokes were actually pretty team. I would definitely go harder at both the government and the media. I think a lot of it was talking about whatever articles I feel like. Now it’s at a point where could get really threatened by the government.

You hire a comedian to tell some roast jokes, you do exactly that, and I could put you in some political trouble Right now, it’s a pretty precarious position we find ourselves in. Now. She had done some sets. I’ve gotta play a bunch of clips here the premise, and you’ll hear these are from four different dates. I’m trying to figure out what this room is.

It’s clearly somewhere where she’s working out. The crowd is low energy, she’s low energy, and in the video she’s clearly working off a laptop. So this is a workout room. And what I’m about to play are some clips from four different weeks. These are jokes.

I’ll let her set it up. She was talking about the Riodd Comedy Festival and jokes she might have done there. I have done some editing for piacing, but I want to let you hear her thoughts as she’s going through these, and I’ll leave the pacing of the actual jokes intact. But some of the setup, I may have trimmed down a little bit.

All right, here’s week one.

So there’s this gonna be this comedy festival in Saudi Arabia. They asked me to do it, and I would to debate it over doing it, but I had to say no because it’s supposed to be like five days after I’m having a baby. So I had to say no. But now I keep thinking of all these jokes I would have told. If I had gone, I mean, I definitely would have been kushow beat and by that I mean murdered by the government.

Okay, so this is I would have started with, sorry, I’m late. I drove here. It’s nice to be in a place where women still have a leg up on gay men or I don’t know, whatever body part they’re cutting off. We have this phrase in America, you’re only a stones throw away, which means you’re close. I don’t think it means the same thing here.

I think it’s more like you’re only a stones throw away from learning that lesson.

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And then a week later, I only thought of one Saudi.

Joke this week, but I think it’s pretty good. So this is the joke I would have used in the festival this week. This one, really I think I would have had to get airlifted out immediately. This festival is sponsored by the Saudi government, so of my set doesn’t go well, if I crash and burn, you could just call me flight ninety three. That’s really good.

Why are you groaning? Are you groaning because a bunch of people died? That’s fair. I gotta tell you. Twenty four years later, that flight ninety three joke, I’m still like, too soon.

As fun and as easy it is to poke at Saudi. Let’s not pretend America is perfect. Yeah, so maybe Saudi financed nine to eleven. What did America do in response attack a different country that has less oil and even less weapons of mass destruction? If Saudi was acting as the bank for nine to eleven?

We all know America thinks banks are too big to fail, but the Iraqi people are just the right size. My other joke for Saudi this week is they offered me a good amount of money to do the festival, but when I heard what they offered. Men, it was way more. And if you had seen my face when I found out, you would have wished we still had to cover our entire heads it’s a pretty good one. I think actually both of those I would have stayed alive before.

I think I think maybe not the funding of nine to eleven. That might have been a bit. Yeah, you’re right, and one week after that. I do have one final Saudi joke for this week as we’re you know, in the festival in the moment, I’m sure they will never ask me to go. Now, in a time where free speech is being tested everywhere, it’s nice to be here in Saudi, where neither a comedian nor a journalist has been killed since oh June anyway, so nice to be here.

I love all your hats. Kober still has a way to go at eleven thirty, but something’s going to air at eleven thirty Byron Allen. He’s the guy that has his comics on lease show that’s on CBS at twelve thirty. Now, he says he’d like eleven thirty. Said, let me be clear, if they’re looking for a show, my hands already up fifty years.

I’ve been waiting for this moment, and definitely I’m going for it. I said, mathematically, you’ll never beat this show. Why would you spend thirty five million dollars on a television show at that hour. I will happily produce the show and you can save that thirty five million, forty million and spend it elsewhere. Day one, I said, this show is to be evergreen.

No topical humor, no political humor. I don’t want anything that is racist, homophobic, anti Semitic. I don’t want any of that. The thing I said to the comics wasn’t TV you don’t have to be the funniest, you have to be the most likable. Leslie Jones and Hannibal Burse who’s just back for the Riog Comedy Festival, would be part of the ten Thousand Laughs Comedy Festival now and it’s thirteenth year back tonight through the weekend.

Wendy Wigger overseas laugh at and says it’s gotten a lot harder. The reality is the comedic talent that it’s available to us is not at the same price point it was fifteen years ago when we started, so we’ve adjusted. They’ve cut down from what was originally ten days of programming. When if the organizer says, since he launched ten thousand lasts and twenty eleven, he’s only personally pocketed five thousand dollars. You can make more money than that talking about comedy in your basement.

Out today on the eight hundred Proun Guerrilla YouTube channel, Jacob Samuel’s Big Talk and let’s leave with something fun. Right Today was all angst and politics and gerr Conan O’Brien was talking to the Seattle Times about his affinity for Seattle, and he said a secret about me. I don’t think people realize. My dad was working in Seattle and living in West Seattle with my mom, and I’ve done the math. They were living there when my mom realized that she was pregnant with me, so I was created in Seattle.

It’s also strange that all these years later, I meet and fall in love with this woman who’s from Seattle, and I end up going there and I’m immediately comfortable the second I get off the plane. I like everything about the place, and it took me a bit to realize, wait a minute, this is where I’m from. Not your comedy news for today. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. The news has been a little bit slow, but everybody seems to be hiding out and not announcing things right now.

It has been a quiet week, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings, and I’ll see you there

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Caloroga Shark Media very angsty today. It’s been a warning of distractions and aggravations of Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy new So I’ve decided no politics today. We all need a break from the politics. Now. I can tell you tomorrow.

There’s already three stories with politics, but those can wait. Ben’s Diller comments. I saw him talk about that tomorrow. Let’s do happy things today, but first a controversy, and Johnny Mack does like a controversy. There seems to be some kurf fluffle with the Golden Globes.

I read several stories about it, and I didn’t really understand the story. So I asked AI to summarize this and explain it to me so I could explain it to you. So hopefully this information is correct. So the AI wrote, here’s where it gets messy. The Golden Globes are owned by Penske Media.

Penske Media owns Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline. Penske also owns Lumini eight, which is the analytics company that supposedly created the list of the twenty five eligible podcasts for Golden Globes. Okay, so we’re going to give an award Illuminate made the list. They’re owned by Penske, And then there are the three main trades, Variety, Hollywood, Port, and Deadline, also all owned by Penske, which is a fun fact that most people don’t know. The AI wrote, the Globes had said an outside company would determine the list, and technically they weren’t lying.

It’s just that their outside company is another company they also own. But then came the real bombshell. Penske Media is reportedly selling marketing packages for up to seventy five grand, basically for your consideration, ads to help podcasts promote themselves to Globe voters. So if I’m understanding this right, you’re being encouraged by an ad in one of the three trades to promote yourself to Globe voters for an award controlled by the people who are selling you the ads, right, the AI wrote, So to recap, Penske owns the awards, owns the data company choosing Who’s eligible, owns the media outlets covering the wars, and is now allegedly selling ad packages to the very people who want to win those awards. As George Carlin said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

One industry insider said, the Penske thing is out of control. They said an outside company would handle it. It’s all a racket. All right, We’ll keep an eye on that one. Let’s check it in with Dane Cook, who’s fifty three years old now.

He spoke to Cincinnati Magazine. I happen to reference Dane Cook in my college class on Monday night. None of them knew who Dane Cook was. It goes fast. I was doing it in context.

I was teaching them about how I program radio stations and what something in the A category would be. And there was a time when Dane Cook was it. He was the superstar in comedy and he was an a in your music programming library. Twenty something years later, the kids don’t know who he is, but he was a superstar for a while. Dane said, I think that anything goes in stand up comedy.

Part of stand up is the pinprick and the release of how everyone is feeling. Sometimes what they’re feeling might be uncouth, but the reality is everyone’s laughing at this one thing because we’re sort of feeling the same thing. That doesn’t mean it’s right. Sometimes we’re laughing at the most wrong thing possible. He says, there are limits if you don’t fel malice from a comedian all topics are in play.

You don’t get laughs when audience starts sensing the meanness. Dane said early in his career he learned how he could let the ship leave the shore even if his jokes went pretty far. I’d still have old ladies pinching my cheek after the show, and I’d say some pretty wild stuff, especially in my New York years, where I was like, let me see how far I can really go. I had this epiphany early on that I liked comics and performers who were brash. I don’t know what’s gonna make you laugh until we’re all laughings.

I love this idea of going on stage and expressing myself in fooliship, certain irreverent ways. He realized he’s a storyteller and not a set up punch comic. It’s not my strong suit because I have this physical element. I just happen to say something on stage a few months ago that you might say is a vintage set up with a punchline. I didn’t write it ahead of time just happened on stage.

It was like click, click, boom, set up punchline. I loved it. Maybe there’s more of that to come, he said. Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show taught him a comedian didn’t have to be one kind of funny. Johnny would have a terrible moment his monologue and you’d be talking about that the next day, and not one of the great jokes he landed, like when the Q cards fell on the floor and he didn’t know what to do.

Whenever something like that occurs and real I met Dane once in my travels, A cool guy. I remember going to the place we would get sandwiches to go get him some sun chips. I forget the particulars. I think that was just one of the requests that he had coming in and sure, I’ll go get you sunships. I probably expensed them.

Cat Williams going on tour. It’s the Golden Age Tour to kick off in January. January twenty third, Ontario, California. They’ll swing through the South Philadelphia in April, wrapping up in Chicago on May TEWI now I caught my eye on the press release was the about cant Williams boiler played paragraph Let’s check it Out. With a career spanning over twenty years, cant Williams has earned a worldwide reputation as one of today’s top entertainers, et cetera, et cetera.

In two thousand and two, Williams made his on screen debut as a guest star on NYPD Blue. Did we know this? I didn’t know that? Did you know? My dream?

As I wanted to be an extra on NYPD Blue. I wanted to be guy on other shift. Now when that show was on, I was in my early thirties, and you know, Irish American kid from New York City. I looked the part. I didn’t do anything about this.

This was just my dream. But you know, just imagine if I was in enough episodes, eventually they would let me say hey, Andy as I walked down the stairs while Sippowitz walked up the stairs. Didn’t happen. Didn’t do anything about it. I could have been in the episode in two thousand and two with Kat Williams, who subsequently landed his first feature film role as Muddy Mike Friday after next.

His extensive filmography includes notable roles. Here are some notable roles. Are you ready write this down? Notable roles, Kat Williams. Here are the notable roles, father Figures, Norbit, Scary Movie Five, Epic Movie, Bastards, The House next Door, Meet the Blacks, Cats and Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Oh yes, very notable, The Boondocks, Wilden Out, and a guest role on Atlanta, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. All right, that’s a good credit. The National Comedy Center announced that the National Comedy Center is now the home of the career archive of Stellar and Mira Ben’s parents. That’s cool. The archives bands more than five decades of creative collaboration, documenting the evolution and impact of one America’s most enduring comic partnerships.

What a coincidence. Ben Steeler’s new documentary about his parents’ lives and legacies debuts October twenty fourth on Apple TV. Throughout the film, materials from the archive or features he can check that out. Ben said, Knowing my parents’ body of work is preserved at the National Comedy Center means a great deal, because the material they left behind was not just to give for my family, but for anyone who wants to understand comedy’s creative process. That’s great.

The center’s doing really great work. I got to get up there. I like long drives. I got to get up to Jamestown. At some point.

Ben’s had some other things to say, but they involve politics, and we’re not doing that today. We’re just chilling out today. You hear in my tone today, I’m not ranting, and Raven were going easy. That’s what we’re doing today. Not tomorrow, totally different, but today taking it easy.

Friends. Tim Heidecker is going to store as a late night talk show host in the Comedy Hour. The Comedy Hour follows a beleaguered late night host forced to produce a show through femin and fire and play. The network saddles him with a robot co host. An audience start to like the sidekick more than the host.

The Comedy Hours written by Colby Day. Now Colby Day scripted Adam Sandler’s Spaceman movie, which, as you know, is one of the five good Adam Sandler films. So that’s some good pedigree there. Heidecker’s character is named Jimmy, which is fun. This next story gets from Jacobin dot com or Jacobin dot com not Trey pronounce that.

But Benjamin Fong asked the question, what is Tim Dlon doing? I agree, I am starting to lose interest in Dylan’s show. I prefer when he’s just solo and vamping on the news, Benjamin Fong writes, wavering between irony, outrage, and hallucination, the Tim Dillon Show presents the same question that any viewer of Mulholland Drive must ask, what am I watching? It’s right wing, but not straightforwardly so it’s ironic, but also strangely, sincere Dylan doesn’t leave much daylight between performance and intention, it’s easy to lump him in with most right media, either because he’s just that guy, or because he he’s irony poison himself into functionally participating in that sphere. I think that’s what happened.

The whole point of Dylan’s persona on the show is to be vile without remainder so self serving, cynical, and bleak that no rational nugget can be on Earth. After the La fires, he explained that he was lying about losing his home to get sympathy and money. Near the end of a recent episode, He claimed he would do a set at the Riodd Comedy Festival and the blood of someone who just got beheaded. Jamarco Siresi spoke to Current Affairs dot Org. He talked about performing overseas.

He said, honestly, being an American comedian and American comedians can’t complain to any other comedian in the world because our media is so shoved down everyone’s throat that I was able to make jokes about RFK and Milan. No Italian could come to a normal American audience and talk about Georgia Maloney. I went to Istanbul and I was like, what can I say in the booker said, you can say anything you want. And he said there’s going to be a Muslim call to prayer in the middle of your second show. And I said, can I joke about it?

And he said, yeah, joke about whatever you want. I was like, you’re saying I can say whatever I want and he said yes, and I did and it was great. Then I told him I was going to post a video and he was like, do not post a video. If you ever want to come back to Istanbul again. Jermarcus said, okay, I’m learning.

Basically, it’s okay in instant ball, it’s not okay outside. My girlfriend is always telling me please don’t go to jail for a joke. How we doing today? Kind of chill. I don’t even have my good voice today or my creative fastball, just very angsty day, and I don’t want to get angst into the show.

Chattanooga’s Lookout Comedy Festival is back at baby thirty plus comedians. Starts tonight, goes through the twenty fifth, officials said, with notable headlining performers from all over the country like Tricks with Two Exes Joe Zimmerman, Nick Murphy, and Casey Balsham. This year’s four day festival’s proof the Chattanoogas comedy scene is filled not only with fun, but burgeoning opportunities for comics and audiences alike. Out today on Comedy Exports YouTube channel. Sean Walsh back from the bed.

Celebrity Jeopardy is switching services. It’s moving from Amazon to Netflix. Colin Joe’s toasted the first season. It’s unclear if he will return. That reminds me I lost I had in the notes, say Colin Jost Ferry story.

Let me pull that up to be in the script The New York Times, so the major story the headline Colin Jose, Pete Davidson and the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco. Nearly four years after they bought an out of service ferry boat for two hundred and eighty one hundred dollars, their plans for a floating event space maybe running aground the Times Rights. When they looked at the twenty one hundred ton hunk of metal, they envisioned a floating event space with two restaurants, six bars, a concert venue and hotel rooms with private sun decks on a former Staten Island ferry. Josetas called the acquisition the dumbest and least thought through purchase I have ever made my life. Pete Davidson, who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, described it as a lifelong problem for me and Colin.

No wonder Pete’s playing riot. He needs money. Launched in nineteen sixty five, the John F. Kennedy was the oldest vessel in the Staten Island Ferry fleet at the Times Rights and the auction listing the agency did nothing to sugarcoate at seaworthiness. The boat was in quote poor condition without a working engine, it had to be towed.

There were thirty zug boat companies in New York Harver which we’ll transport your ship for around seventeen hundred dollars an hour. Then they had to find a place to tow it too. That’s the best. April eleventh, twenty twenty two, the JFK was towed three miles. All right, so that’s five grand skimming down this very lengthy article.

Then we found there’s asbestos in the ship. The Times quotes a ship expert who says, the thing about as bestos is it’s not an issue until you go to take it out. It has to be done, and it has matt gear. You’re looking at salty numbers to do asbestos remediation. All right, Once they solve that, where do you put it?

The Times points out, you know a good place would be saying up here on the East River. Problem is those aren’t cheap. Another expert points out large boats block sunlight, which can damage marine ecosystems and kill aquatic life over time. All right, maybe we should scrap the thing. Tommy O’Toole is a partner at Compass Maritime that handles ship sales.

He did some math. If you wanted to scrap it, he said, let’s say something weigh two thousand tons. If it’s worth one hundred and fifty dollars a ton of scrap, that’s three hundred grand. If the tow cost you three hundred fifty thousand dollars, you’d have to pay someone fifty grands. Kevin Hennessy is the former captain of the JFK.

He told The Daily News in twenty twenty two that the boat had a serious cockroach problem. He said, this was an impulse buy with two guys with a lot of money who don’t know anything about maritime vessels. And that is your politics. Free comedy news for today, See tomorrow.