Month: October 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. So I really am trying not to turn this into a political podcast at all. The reality is all the news continues to be political. I actually deep dove today to try and find some other things.

Didn’t find much, but I did find this one from the National Enquirer, remember them. They spoke with an insider from the Seinfeld camp. The insider says Jerry turned his annoyances into a gold mine with his comedy performances and TV show, but the complaining used to be a secret weapon, and now it just gets on people’s nerves. This is one of the most successful people in the history of show business financially and artistically, but he’s almost allergic to counting his blessings. It’s not a good look for a man at retirement age with more money than he could spend in ten lifetimes.

I mentioned in the Facebook group recently Daily Comedy News podcast group. I teach a college class. None of my students had any idea who Hary Seinfeld is and weren’t familiar with the sitcom Seinfeld. Then I teached you college is that? At the other class, I told them about the first class and the second class was like, that’s insane.

They all knew Jerry was, so who knows. The insider says he’s very upset about the Israel situation and his twenty twenty four Netflix movie Unfrosted was a struggle to get made and then terribly received. I thought it was pretty good. The thing that could snap Jerry out of his rut would be a fun new project or challenge that he could really sink his teeth into, like the way his old friend Larry David is launching a new TV show with Baraka Michelle Obama’s production company. The problem is, Jerry’s not really on the hunt for anything like that right now.

As far as he’s concerned, He’s done at all, and people still don’t appreciate him enough. Interesting. Theovaughn went to see the Vanderbilt Commodorees take on the LSU Tigers. While he was there, he ran into the folks from OutKick the Show and they asked him about baseball. Theovaughn had this to say, Shia Tani, like, will we ever see another?

We’re not going to get as many shows anymore because of the tariffs to take down the tariffs and get us more slight edits there for language, all right, I tried as long as I could. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that he disagrees with President Trump’s approach to talking about his adversaries. Rogan commented when at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, the President said I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them, Rogan said, I don’t agree with any of that. He’s a nuts.

Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom is trying really really hard to get Joe Rogan to book…

He keeps poking at Rogan on social media. Rogan said if he interviewed Newsom, he would cook himself. In response to that, Gavin Newsoen tweeted a chicken emoji alongside the words buck buck at Joe Rogan. Last week, Newsom’s press office went on social media in the President Trump all caps style and wrote, Joe Rogan is a snack sized podcaster who can’t stop talking about me. Obsessed crush, no thank you, but he’s too scared to have me on.

Brian Callen was at Camp Pendleton on Saturday. It was the celebration of the US Marine Corps. There is a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Brian Callen warmed up for Vice President J. D.

Vance. Callen praised President Trump for bringing peace to the Mideast for the first time since Moses had a parting of the ways with Pharaoh. Unfortunately, there was some news on Sunday that the peace might not be lasting. Johnny Mack is pro peace. Kat Williams got an honorary doctorate from Miles College.

President Bobby Knight said, it’s not every day that people get an honorary doctorate. It’s because of you and what you’ve done, and we just want to show you how much we appreciate you and recognize you for all the work you’ve done. Kat accepted his doctorate in Human Letters and said, in a very short period of time, no one could deserve this more than me. It was going to take a mighty fine institution to recognize that I serve a god that insists that my cup runneth over and those smiles that I sell for a living, those have Miles right in the middle of it. So you get it.

It was Miles College. Yeah, I had to go back and check. I had forgotten already too. Kat Williams is building a studio in the local area. He recently told GQ, it’s not just fair to put all that pressure on Tyler Perry.

He can only do so much. Did you watch Saturday Night Live? People on the internet were not happy about it. The episode generated several topics. Let’s start with this one, since everything is political now.

During the news, Colin Jost told a joke. The setup involved the US sending more than forty billion dollars to Argentina to help bail out their economy. Joe said, if history’s any guide, a lot of Trump officials will end up fleeing to Argentina. People in the audience didn’t seem to get the joke. In case you are not familiar, many Nazi war criminals fled to Argentina after World War Two.

The joke got barely any laughter. Joe said, hey, one clap. People on social media were not amused. One person tweeted Colin Jose needs to be fired effective immediately for his sickening comments last night. Another said Colin Jost is a sellout hack and doesn’t deserve to be married to Scarlet Johanson.

Wow, we’re not only canceling him, We’re going to get him divorced. Bowen Yang was not on the live show, although he appeared I believe in some recorded things. He was in Los Angeles to receive the Vantage Award. The show opened with a Domingo sketch. A lot of people were surprised they didn’t do something political.

Others were surprised at how unfunny the sketch was. Johnny Mack will continue to say, Marcelo Hernandez does one thing well, and he does one thing repeatedly. Then during the news Marcello showed up again and did a totally different character, the movie guy who’s not like Domingo at all. It’s a totally different character, just awful. One person on Threads, who user named three x one minus one wrote, convinced that Lauren is in the Epstein Files, and Marcelo knows, and Lorn knows he knows.

It’s the only thing that explains the weekly recurring Domingo nightmare. Sierra Cascadia wrote, if SNL were an NFL team right now, it’d be the Jets shows off for a couple weeks. Miles Taylor will host on November one. Musical guest Brandy Carlysle November eighth, Nicky Glazer is the host. Her agent’s getting it done.

She will have a Hulu special in twenty twenty six because she supports fascism. Did she not break up with them after the Jimmy Kimmel thing. You’re not supposed to do business with Hulu or Disney? Remember musical guest Somber November fifteenth, Clint Powell is your host. Olivia Dean musical guest.

I also saw some comments about James Austin Johnson’s Trump continuing to not hit the mark. I’ve been commenting that since last year it is drifting. People are pointing out that James is still doing the twenty sixteen Trump and not the current slightly older Trump that you might want to do. But what do I know. I don’t do impressions.

I do half assed impressions, and as a listener, you know how good those are. Jamarcos Arazi talked to Current Affairs dot org about crowd work and said, you never know a lot of times it goes sideways. The person’s trying to be funny and it messes up, or they lie or someone interrupts, So you’re only seeing the times that it works. Sometimes people write he never misses and I’m like, well, well, I don’t caption the misses. I don’t send those to my editor and say let’s get these up on YouTube asap.

It’s always a risk, there was some days I’m feeling riskier than others. In other days I’m like, whether the audience is too far away or it’s too dark ago, it’s not going to work. And the other times the story just falls in your lap. And even though I’ve never served, I equated to what that must feel like. You’re on a flow, you’re on a balance beam, and you’re like, I can’t believe I’m still up here.

I’m still walking, and you decide when do I need to jump off. Every once in a while, when you’re up there, you’re like, oh my god, I’ve been up here for twelve minutes. It’s cool, it’s exciting. It makes me feel alive. Some people are curious about South Park, so all of a sudden last week South Park was like, yeah, season twenty seven’s over.

This is season twenty eight, and people are like huh. Some wondered is this some way to fulfill some sort of contractual obligation? That was my guess. Others thought maybe the talent of season twenty seven was going to do more with the Charlie Kirk stuff that appeared earlier in the season, and then they were like, eh, we shouldn’t do that. But a representative for the show said season twenty seven was never meant to be ten episodes.

The showrunners planned all along for seasons twenty seven and twenty eight to be five episodes each. Comedy Central told The Hollywood Reporter. No announcement was made regarding how many episodes would be in season twenty seven. Anyway, season twenty seven is five episodes long. Then they took a three week break, and now the season twenty eight premiere.

Meanwhile, some people are upset with the Simpsons. They’ve sort of reset the timeline again, and now Homer and Marge are millennials. The season thirty two episode Do Pizza Bot stream of Electric Guitars featured a flashback of Homer as a nineteen nineties routine. The season thirty seven premiere had Lisa cashing in on nineties nostalgia by wearing the old clothes of Marche, who was a nineties kid. Show Runner Matt Sillman told Entertainment Weekly, the options are we don’t do flashback shows ever, and we don’t mention the past ever, which creatively handcuffs us.

Or we’re playful and silly, which is the DNA of the show, and we have fun with whatever generation the show’s airing in. If the show only took place in the present with a kind of vague nineteen seventies high school homer and backstory, it seems increasingly impossible. That would be much worse for telling good stories. Simpson’s scholar The Real Gyms, pointed out that the show had already been subtly changing the characters’ birth years throughout the classic era. Then in the middle run and there’s a million seasons here, so I don’t know, throw a dart and say, like season seventeen or so, the show avoided flashback episodes.

Then in two thousand and eight an episode called That Nineties Show, which had a whole new backstory for Homewer and Marge. Selman argues, part of telling stories is people are remembering things from their youth, their childhood. Everyone’s childhood is directly responsible for how they behave as an adult. You can’t ignore childhood if you’re going to be a storyteller. So We’re not ignoring childhood.

It would have been interesting as an experiment to just lock into the seventies and have them be like, well, Lisa, when I was a kid the seventies and just have it all be about the seventies, even though we live in the post apocalyptic future now. Someone says, I would also like to point out that no way we’re saying that the beloved other flashbacks didn’t happen. We’re not saying that it’s just a silly little show. Everything happened with the same level of historical veracity. I’m not worried about messi with the timeline.

I feel like story and characters should come first, and the cinematic universe rules of a show that has none should come in a distant second. Sound like it’d be a good show Inner for modern Star Trek. Gossip Connor Whispers in the Street. Gossip conn probably about Pete Gossip conn Away, the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. I’ll be singing that all day and today.

Gossip Corner is about Pete Davidson, who recently performed at the Odd Comedy Festival, and Pete Davidson’s father was killed on nine to eleven. Pete surprise is pregnant girlfriend Elsie Hewitt with a private jet date to go see Paul McCartney in concert. On Friday. Elsie posts that on Instagram, Pete is taking me on a surprise date. Pete Davidson sat across from her on the private plane.

So if you’re like, hey, why would you play the Reo Odd Comedy Festival, because then you have money to take a private plane to go see Paul McCartney. They took the plane to Minnesota to attend Paul McCartney’s show at us Bank Stadium. Now it’d be fair to Pete Davidson. McCartney does not have any current tour daate scheduled anywhere near Staten Island. I know this because I would go see Paul McCartney and I just checked on the website.

He would said that was like a really special little bucket list moment for me. Paul is pretty much the one person I’ve always wanted to meet. Do I have the sweetest, most thoughtful boyfriend or what?

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Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian was on a podcast and talked about her romance with …

She recalled how her ex husband Kanye West taunted Pete during a music video in twenty twenty two. Kim said, that made me feel really sad. That really wasn’t fair for him. The NBA is back tonight. Now.

I had noticed this and I can’t forgetting to mention it, and I finally remember to put it in the notes. NBC is going to air basketball games at eleven PM. Now, why that’s interesting is because, well, you can’t play basketball in thirty five minutes, which means the Tonight show either gets preempted or delayed. And I checked the schedule this week. The Tonight Show is scheduled for one am, so they’re going to produce new episodes, which guests on the West coast will still air at eleven thirty, but on the East Coast, the Tonight Show is going to be airing at one am on Tuesdays.

I haven’t seen this reported anywhere, but that’s interesting, isn’t it? And that probably won’t be good for Jimmy’s ratings. Jimmy was in Scotland and some Scottish soldiers hosted him for a special dinner. Jimmy had been touring the grounds of Balmoral Castle. I know about that place from writing the Palace Intrigue podcast, which cross promotion.

I don’t know if you heard the whole Prince Andrew thing. It’s actually let me get the littles out of us. It’s really, really horrible. Earlier today I sent Mark Francis, who’s the host of Pallace intric I wrote the scripts and I sent it to him and I was like, dude, this is nothing but horrible and my stomach is going to turn. I don’t even want to talk about it on this show.

Just horrible, horrible, horrible. Anyway, Pallace Intrigue, where you get your shows. Jimmy Fallon was at Balmoral. One of the soldiers recognized him and invited him to the barracks. He was greeted with kilts and bagpipes by soldiers from fifth Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Jimmy signed the visitors Book. I had Victoria Barracks in the village. He then saw a small ceremonial guard of soldiers rehearsing for the King’s departure. Major Thomas Blair said what started as a chance meeting near Bellmoral turned into a brilliant evening It’s not every day you get to meet a Hollywood A lister, and we were delighted to welcome him to Scotland in true Scott’s style. That made me ponder for a second.

Is Jimmy Fallon an a lister? I guess he is. He does host the Tonight Show, but is like Seth Myers an A lister? I don’t know if Seth Myers is an A lister. Mel Hall will premiere his debut special what Are We Doing Today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel.

Filmed in San Diego, Mel Hall delivers his take on the chaos of millennial parenthood and the wild ride of raising kids in a world where gen Z is judging your every move, from choosing the right words to parent with to surviving Costco on a Saturday. He finds humor in the everyday madness. Yeah. I’ve got a college age child and I regularly get canceled just for speaking the way someone my age does. I come in peace.

I get canceled all the time here in my house, No Hall said, this special represents not just where I am today, but the fifteen plus years of shows that got me here. The great outdoors Comedy Festival announced to some of the lineup for next year. Matt Rife will headline six weekends at Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calorie, Spokane and Vancouver. Nikki Glaser will headline in Halifax.

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Also on that show, Fortune Fimes, Stern, Steph Tolev more lineup reveals to c…

And that is your comedy news on a Tuesday. Hope you have an awesome day and I’ll see you here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media Haby Monday. I am Johnny Mack with your nearly comedy news. So as I put the show together, if you notice, then there’s like two thousand episodes you can check my work. I put the big name comedians up to the front, and then as we get further along, it gets a little more esoteric. And I’m aware of the tone of the show lately, and I’m trying to be conscious of it.

Believe me. I would like to sit here right now and do two minutes making fun of Jim Gaffigan, Hawking Bourbon. I would like to make fun of Adam Sandler, but that’s just not what the news is. And as I pull the cards out of the deck, I only have political options for you. That is where comedy is right now.

Joe Rogan last week on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, shared some frustration about some of the President’s recent moves. He was discussing some of the actions by Ice. Rogan said, I didn’t never anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular basis, ripping parents out of their communities. I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals. Rogan’s segment was that voters had felt there was a crazy thing happening where the border was wide open.

But does that mean you support everything that they’re doing now where they’re kicking people out. No, they’re storming into the home depot and arresting people. Rogan added the militaries in the street. I think that’s a dangerous precedent. You know, in some ways, beginning to lose Joe Rogan is comparable to LBJ losing Crunk Kite in a modern way.

When it comes to the media. John Marco Serraisi tild Curt Affairs dot Org. I think edgie comedy sometimes gets conflated with having hateful views. I think people have passed off hateful views as edgie comedy for a while, And in my mind, edge comedy is just talking about things that make you uncomfortable.

And then within that, I want to make a joke.

I think that joke comes from my own point of view. If it comes from my point of view, which is generally a leftist one, the joke will reflect that without even being preachy. Someone will go, oh, you did a trans joke, and it’s like, no, I didn’t do a trans joke. I did either a joke about a specific transperson I know, or I did joke about how I deal with, for example, something people have made a million jokes about pronouns. For me, I would like my pronouns joke to be when I put he him.

It feels limiting to who I am sometimes and I wish I could add a little asterisk to it, and then I lay out what that asterisk is. So it is a pronoun joke, but it’s different from the hacky normal one because I’m talking about something very specific to my own feelings about me using it as opposed to some grand statement. There’s a new documentary Anxiety Club. Mark Marin says his relationship with anxiety has changed throughout the years, but has never gone away. Maren said, there’s a lot of things I don’t give a hoot about that I used to.

There were big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort of null and void, and its relief. Then you start getting into deeper issues like why am I still not enjoying myself? Why am I still feeling less than or uncomfortable in certain situations? What is this about?

Also appearing in Anxiety Club, are Tiphony Jenkins, a partner, Inchurla, Mark Norman who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, Jill List, Eva Victor, and Baron Vaughan. The synopsis of Anxiety Club is what a mix of stand up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life experiences, they candidly share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition. Chris Rock was talking to The New York Times about Ben Stiller. Chris Rock, Who’s sixty Now, you know I do that, and then I remember how old I am. Now, Oh boy, the numbers just get scary so quickly.

Chris Rock, sixty years old. He’s not like nineteen. Chris Rock, sixty years old, called Ben Stiller one of the greatest comic actors to ever live. I’m trying to get wherever he’s at. It’s so farhad, I can’t even see it.

He also committed Ben Stiller and his wife for managing to reconcile after their separation. Chris Rock’s had a marriage. Getting back together is harder to do than a six hundred million dollar movie. Sebastian Maniscalco, He’s back from the ridd Comedy Festival. Johnny Max a hypocrite and will tell you a story about Sebastian that was in Southern Living, where Sebastian Maniscalco shared what marrying a Southerner taught him.

Sebastian said, the hospitality and how nice people are is extremely foreign to me, just because I don’t necessarily see that in Los Angeles. You know, when I’m stunned about in the South, there’s a lack of urgency to do anything. You get a bagel in New York, they’ll rip through thirteen people in no problem. In the South, it’s like, you know, they’re talking to you with a register and they’re really getting to know you. But it takes an hour and fifteen minutes to get a cream cheese bagel.

See. It’s funny because I grew up in New York. When I go to LA, I feel like there’s nowhere to see out there. In New York, if you’re not going one hundred miles an hour by seven thirty one am, you’ve blown the day. In LA, it’s like, oh, let’s have a meeting, all right.

You want to meet at the Coffee Bean at eleven You can send me letters from La. I like it out there, believe me. I think you guys have it right New York. We’re crazy, Sebastian says of his wife. She’s turned me on a barbecue, which I never really used to eat prior to meeting Lana.

So anytime I go to the South, whether it be Tennessee or Austin, I got to get good Southern barbecue. I definitely try to get a rib or a brisket or what have you. You can see how the Rion Comedy Festival has effected Sebastian’s career. Doing fluff interviews like this one. Sebastian has toyed with the idea of going to culinary school told Southern Living, I just want to know the basics the sauces had to cut or how to chop all that stuff.

So I don’t know, maybe a future in the culinary arts moving forward if this stand up thing doesn’t work out. And there are some comedians who there’s just always angst around them. There are some comedians who every time their name comes up, it’s never ever ever, Like comedian X had a nice day and it was sunny out, there were flowers, and the comedian Petted a puppy and Sunshine and Rainbows. One of those comedians that every story is just angst is Kathy Griffin, who was recently escorted out of a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. So, first of all, let’s talk about relatable Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton.

I’m in my basement recording my podcast, dressed like Adam Sandler. I don’t know what it would take to get me to a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. I think if I got an invite later today, Hey, do you want to come to Paris Hilton’s house, I’d probably be like, no, right, why would I go? Kathy tells a story Chris Jenner. See this is already insane.

Chris Jenner had gone in a room behind some curtains, and I went on the other side of the curtains and started tapping on the glass. Think it would be funny to act like it was a zombie. Then security physically removed me. Kathy talked to People magazine and how her recent life has affected her set. In the past eight years, she had a pill addiction, a suicide attempt, a lung cancer diagnosis, and a divorce from her husband.

Kathy said, I talk about some heavy stuff, but I got so much feedback from my audience as saying I’m glad you went there. I have had a bit of difficulty since the Trump photo, but one thing after another taught me, Okay, you may not see the comedy when you’re living in it, but at some point it would be funny. There’s comedy in everything. Shout Studios has signed a pact for Conan O’Brien’s fifteen hundred episode TBS run, which they had the NBC run. But okay, Conan did fifteen hundred TBS shows over eleven years.

You know, I have the controversial stance. Talked about this with Malcoff recently. I know everybody loves Sat Conan. I get it, I get it, I get it, but nobody cares about that TBS run. I’m sorry, Saint Conan is based on the NBC run.

Nobody cares about the TBS. I’m sorry. Hope Shout Studios isn’t mad at me. Jeff Pische, SVP of Programming and New Business Development at Radio, said, Conan O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original and enduring figures in American comedy. His influence as shaped modern comedy, and his work continues to resonate with audiences across generations.

We’re excited to continue his extraordinary late night legacy by allowing fans to watch his decade long series on streaming platforms. I kind of want to push back on that. Is Conan one of the most original figures in American comedy? Where is Conan walking in the steps paved by David Letterman? You can send me a letter.

I like Conan. The lawyers can get in go. Most originals say yes, he’s one of the most seven million original people. And I’m not here to dump on Conan O’Brien. I just think mister Pische may have overstated a little bit the quote.

Again. Conon O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original len enduring figures in American comedy. His influence has shaped modern comedy. Is that true if we take Smigel out of the Conan years? Is that true?

Or has Smigel shaped modern comedy? And believe me, love, Conan didn’t wake up today going what are you besh? Conan? It’s not why I’m here. I’m just reacting in the moment to this quote.

Anyway, if you want to watch the TBS run, you’re gonna be able to watch it. Conan O’Brien briefly hosted The Tonight Show, which was hosted for a few years by Johnny Carson. Johnny used to walk out from this iconic rainbow curtain. A section of said curtain is up for auction via Heritage Auctions. This particular curtain was on Carson’s finale May twenty second, nineteen ninety two.

The listening says the auction lot includes two pairs of curtains that made up the backdrop, the shimmery polyester rainbow curtains with bands of blue, orange, gold, lavender, and peach, as well as the set’s blue and gray curtains with crosshatched diamond patterns with alternating panels of inset bejeweled adornments and horizontal silver stripes. The listening knows that the curtain show signs of production use, handling, an age, including stains, toning, thread, and other expected indications of stage use. So if you’re hoping to hang these in your living room thinking hey, these will be nice curtains, I don’t think you understand why you would be buying these. There’s a similar set of curtains at the National Comedy Center’s Johnny the Immersive Experience Exhibit in Jamestown, New York. Last check, the curtain bidding was at fifty five hundred dollars.

The auction closes Friday, October twenty fourth. This week would have been Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday and ten at TV and Doc Severnthson the adjoining forces to honor the King of Late Night to mark Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday. On October twenty third, TV will present Johnny Carson’s one hundred Birthday Party, a week long celebration airing tonight through the twenty fifth at eleven East eight West. Each evening will include fresh reflections from Doc Seventhson, and Doc is up there at this point, hold this, Doc, I’m gonna just wildly guess I have no idea. I’m gonna guess as I google this that he’s eighty eight.

Ooh. Doc Severnson is ninety eight anyway, And there’ll be recollections from Doc who said that Johnny was a master creator, the basis of his personality and His style was class. He was class personified. The week long tribute will feature some memorable moments. Guests include Burt Reynolds, who is the voice of Comedy stock Market, or at least as AI is, Robin Williams, Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and Olivia Newton John.

Now normally a sentence, now I will throw Robin out. But normally when you’re going like Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and you’re not expecting, like Olivia Newton John in that sentence, are you? I don’t expect something I don’t know. Sammy Davis Junior maybe would have completed that sentence all right. Tonight’s episode Burt Reynolds, Richard Lewis from February nineteen eighty two, then Tuesday, Michael Landon, Carowayne, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Freddy Prinz from nineteen seventy four, Wednesday, Jackie Gleason and Jim Stafford from October eighty five.

I’ve have Thursday, Buddy Hackett, Burt Reynolds again, Don Rickles again, Dean Martin, Carol Wayne. That’s from nineteen seventy three, and that’s a ninety minute episode Friday, Robin Williams and Gene Marsh from nineteen eighty one, Saturday, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Olivia Newton, John David Jansen from nineteen seventy six a ninety minute episode, and Jimmy Fallon, who currently hosts The Tonight Show, said Mike Trico told him to stop talking during the twenty twenty four Olympics coverage. Guest Jason Bateman on The Tonight Show said to Fellon, talk show hosts are the greatest guests ever, because you know what you need. You need people to talk. Fallon said, the opposite is I got to be a commentator at the Olympics last year in Paris.

Mike Tarico got me on there and said I talked way too much and sounded like an idiot. Fallon explained he was trying to fill the airtime. I was like, uh, Mike, they’re in the swimming pool and they’re swimming in the pool and he’s looking at me, going stop. He actually grabbed my hand at one point He’s like, stop talking, chill out. Dude.

Said sorry, Mike Rico. He’s a good dude. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, you’re only hearing my calm on air Persoda, You’re not hearing all the F bombs un dropping as my equipment is giving me problems today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack. With their Daily Comedy News. Mark Merron opened up to Esquire about the whole John Stewart thing.

Maren said, when I was coming up, he was a smart, cute, Jewish guy. He said, Stuart fit into a category of people who have foresight and are disciplined careers, and they know how to understand their talent, harness it, and then figure out how to capitalize on it with their skill set on their terms. Maren said he himself never had any control over my talent as a younger person in the industry. That led him to resent John Stewart’s success. John Stewart hosted the Comedy Central show Short Attention Span Theater.

When Stuart left that gig, Mark Maron took it over. That show was canceled shortly thereafter. Maren said, I was just all in and like demanding a place in this world. Of so throughout my early career, John he was roughly my age. She was just everywhere.

It never stopped. You know, I remember when he did the MTV show and then he had the talk show and he had me on. But my envy of him was always I would just crap on him to his face, be like, who do you think you are? Now that’s interesting, right, because I played on Friday’s show. Both Mark Maren and Andrew Schultz said that about Mark Maren.

So that’s interesting now Mark Maron is saying that about Mark Maren. Maren continued, it was just consuming because I couldn’t get through out a week without him being on the cover of magazine. And for some reason I saw it as like, if I could only have my crap together, I could be more like that guy. Maren says, back then he was constantly comparing himself to John Stewart. I think I was definitely gunning for something else.

I don’t think I got in a comedy to be an entertainer, of have a job as a talk show host or anything. He was asked, all right, why did you get into it? Then Maren said, told my space and speak my mind. But I loved comedy and I thought I could do that in comedy. I saw it as a sort of noble undertaking the only rules of comedy.

The only text is you should be funny. But outside of that, you can do whatever you really want on the stage and you get the range. I was annoying him. Eventually he was like, I don’t need to take this from you and Screwmaron, but I get it. Ahead of the No Kings rallies, Joe Rogan claimed that protesters across the country were either losers, actors paid by liberal billionaire George Soros, or undercover federal agents.

Joe Rogan said this on Wednesdays, Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan said, all those people that are protesting on the streets, ninety nine percent of them are losers. The other ones work for the Fed. It’s FBI agents and losers. That’s all it is.

So if you were out yesterday, you’re a loser or an FBI agent or being paid by George Soros. Brogan continued, this is a guy with a van who’s paid by George Soros, and he’s got stacks of signs that were made of Kinkos. They’re not homemade at all. You can just pass those bad boys out In San Francisco, Camille on Gianni and Alana Glazer roptly withdrew from their scheduled performances at Dreamforce. Dream Force is the annual tech conference held by Salesforce.

Salesforce announced on Thursday that, due to unforeseen circumstances, Kamil Nanchi and Alana Glazer are no longer able to perform. They did not elaborate. They had been scheduled to headline the closing day festivities of the three day event, which drew forty five thousand attendees to the Moscone Center in San fran A source close to Salesforce told the San Francisco Chronicle that Nancianni became ill and couldn’t perform, prompting Glazer his scheduled opener to cancel as well. Interesting why didn’t she just perform? Well, some people think it’s because hours earlier, venture capitalist Ron Conway had resigned from the sales Force Foundation board.

Why did he resign? He said that the values of the CEO were no longer aligned. The CEO had expressed support for a notable politician who wanted the National Guard to be deployed to San Francisco. You know that guy. I’m trying not to be political here.

They keep making me do it so the board guys upset with the CEO guy, and Kamal Gianni happened to get sick, and Ali Glazer happened to decide she wouldn’t perform because the headliner wasn’t coming. Neither non Jihanni nor Glazer has addressed the reasons for their cancelations. Salesforce replaced both of them with David Spade the San Francisco Standard. While neither performer has publicly criticized the CEO or Salesforce, they’ve both been outspoken about unfair labor practices in the entertainment industry, anti immigration rhetoric, and the Israel Palestine conflict. The Standard ads that Origin Public Relations, which represents both non Jihanni and Glazier, did not respond to requests for comments.

Metallica did perform on Wednesday, and you may recall last year at this same conference, John Mulaney was your headliner. Here’s a story that I’ve bounced about thirty times in these last three weeks. I don’t know if you heard. There was Kimmelgate and then the Rion Comedy Festival. I never got to talk to you about David Letterman reacting to Cobert Gate Vulture Ascid Letterman how he felt about CBS essentially flushing away something you created, and Dave said, well, before we discuss something we started and created.

I’m not sure that’s accurate in my case. Remember Jack Rollins, who was my manager forever, one day saying to me, David, it’s like a paper cup. You have a drink of water, then you crumple it up and throw it away. And everything Jack provided for me in my life, that’s the silly thing that’s stuck with me. Try to hang on to that.

Everything changes, There’s a time and place for everything. So it didn’t even dawn on me when Steven announced that he was being taken off the air, that the whole franchise was gone. The more I thought of it, clearly was mishandled. It clearly was not always bleeding money. There are ways to make money, there are ways to hide money.

I mean, I spent most of my life hiding my money in Panama. You know, we all know that CBS could have figured that out and to unload him after they made a deal with the administration for sixty minutes it smelled bad. Let’s just take them at their word. It now, it didn’t smell bad. We’re losing money, okay, but find a way to make it not smell bad.

It just looked ridiculous, but it’s no surprise. I remember Jay Leno used to say to me when we were going ahead to add Nah, this plenty of room, this room for both of us, and I kept thinking, well, no, there’s not room for both of us. Then suddenly there were three shows and maybe more. But as we’re seeing now, there really isn’t much room left for anybody. The format will always exist, just for not a network TV any longer because it’s dirt cheap to produce compared to Brian Time programmings and half hour comedies and such.

Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel, It’s the best of Hit in America with Jodah Ray. Adam Sandler was seen at the University of Kentucky. He stopped by basketball practice, as he tends to do. Both the men’s and women’s team posted pictures of Adam Sandler talking to the players and coaches for both teams. Sandler was given a jersey by the men’s team.

He must have a ton of jerseys at this point. Sandler hooked up both teams with tickets to his show, So that means there must have been how many people on our basketball team fifteen twenty, Let’s say fifteen. Some coaches say there’s three coaches, so there must have been like forty unsold tickets to Adam Sandler’s show. The La Times both to comedian CP, who said, your jokes are like your wardrobe. Won’t you buy a shirt that’s your shirt?

You own that shirt until you basically get rid of it. Sometimes you might be a little big for that shirt. It doesn’t fit right. You need to work out. That’s how jokes are.

He was referring to a joke he first started to write twelve years ago. He works with Kevin Hart and said, when you first meet Kevi and he knows you’re already familiar with your work and understands your potential because he’s been there as someone with potential before it was realized. It’s actually easier to talk to someone like that and relate to them than most people would think. He doesn’t need to hate on anybody. It’s really like a proud of people like you in your position.

Here’s what I can do to help. CEP says, I want to be the comedian who takes it to the next level when Kevin Hart is ready to pass the torch too. Ma. Any comedians are free to say that or let that be the goal. We have to be honest about what we’re trying to do.

If you just want to be a comedian to get a couple dollars and get some attention, that’s one thing. But I see it as a thing where the sky is the limit. Style Wise, he says, I do the same show whether it’s two people or two thousand people. I need the reps. I need to know that I can do this no matter what.

Similar to someone who’s freestyle wrapping. If you don’t use that muscle, you’re gonna lose it. And today is Sunday, which means theoretically Bob’s Burgers is on TV. If you’re a longtime listener, you know where this is going to go. But a lot of new listeners have started listening.

Now, new listeners, I’m gonna ask you two questions. You’re gonna think these questions are crazy, but I want you to think them. Okay. Question number one, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t, No one has.

And here’s the really weird one question number two, have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? You have it now? Isn’t that weird? Because the show apparently has three hundred episodes now, and yet you’ve never seen it. You’ve never met anyone whos seen it.

Let me ask you a question. What time is it on? I know we all think it’s on Fox, but what time is it on? See? Here’s the thing.

The show does not exist. I’m a longtime comedy watcher. I’ve never seen it. I’ve never met anyone who’s seen it. Now, you’re like John, there’s clearly artwork, we’ve seen it.

Oh, there’s artwork, there’s merch, there’s a whole industry around the hoax. I get it, But there’s no such show as Bob’s Burgers. Does Fox promote it? Sure, they say it’s coming on after the Simpsons, but they know we’ve all stopped watching the Simpsons twenty five years ago. Now at this point, they probably make like four minutes of a new Simpsons episode, knowing we’re all switching over to NBC to watch football.

No one is watching Fox on Sunday night, So they just promote stuff, and then who even knows what’s on. If you remember tonight, switch over to Fox and let me know if Bob’s Burgers is there. It’s not, I dareia. Anyway, the Bob’s Burgers folks were celebrating three hundred episodes. Really three hundred Bob’s Burgers supposedly premiered in twenty eleven.

Now some of you, I got it. You’re like John, you sound crazy? Okay? Why don’t you google Eugene Merman hoax? Eugene Mermann supposedly a voice on Bob’s Burgers.

Eugene Merman hoax. The first thing that comes up the Eugene Merman Fake Comedy Festival. Then I get an AI overview saying the Eugene Merman hoax likely refers to a series of social media posts where Eugene Merman playfully discusses various hoaxes or conspiracies. So he’s a prankster. Why don’t you google Kristin Shall, who I got to know a little bit during my serious XM days.

You know how I first met Kristin Shall. She won the Andy Kaufman Award. And what is Andy Kaufman known for? Hoaxes? Put ons things that seem real that aren’t say, for example, perhaps possibly maybe Bob’s Burgers.

You see where I’m going here again? Have you ever seen the show? Have you ever met anyone who’s seen the show? Anyway, congratulations to Bob’s Burgers on three hundred episodes. M M.

This was actually episode one million of this podcast, so thank you for listening and I will see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media Jess. When I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. No, this is a different episode. This isn’t Friday again. Hello, it’s Saturday and I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

So here’s what happened in real life. I recorded Friday’s episode and then you have to do what’s called the bounce where it takes all the individual tracks and it shrinks it down, and then later I edited. So during the bounce it takes like a minute. I pulled out my phone and I had a message from Well it was a DM you know who you are. Somebody from the Facebook group sent me a video by an artist called crack Amco.

The title is re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr. I had no intention five minutes ago of putting this in the script, but here in the video, I’m going to play clips now. Most of these words said in this video I want no part of. But as part of this ongoing topic of where are we with all these people, crack Amiko went after these folks hard. There’s a lot of photo shopping here.

I’m staring at an image of Bill Burr wearing something that I’m not sure Bill actually wears. It’s a sort of garb you might wear in a desert climate. The lyrics in crack Amiko’s video very very edgy, at times inappropriate. So I’m going to do many many a machete edits here Esse you can get a feel of what’s going on in the comedy community. You’ll find this on YouTube if you want to watch it.

Crack Amco’s re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr heavily edited by John Yo. It’s Billy Burke. Yeah, we get read money, baby? Whoa christ Stephano, Chris. I had to let you know this festival might rest your Sola Conan and the Eskimos.

To have the soldier drop must not be making no sense. Just the roastmaster general demoted to lieutenant. I’m the lord of this landa. I’m evicting these chot tenants who didn’t expect Tommy Buns to take the Saudi funds. Probably fall Rolex.

He don’t give the kids a Mommy nun Assez needs this. I’m ruined for him in the yen because how could you get canceled for being a horny Indian. I can’t believe what I’m seeing is Pete David c made a lot of money, but I guess he ain’t for saving none. Never forget well, I guess he forgot now he performing for the animals that took out his pot. Helen Lewis in The Atlanta wrote about going to actually see a show at the Riodd Comedy Festival.

Helen writes the Louis c. K gig was held in Riond’s Entertainment district. The Boulevard, a glorified parking lot that’s also home to a WWE Experience in e sports arena, a numerous stores selling comic book figurines. Last year, the district hosted a pop up Harry Potter World, allowing Saudi Arabians to imagine they were playing qudditture drinking non alcoholic butter beer. It’s giving ahead to promote the comedy festival.

The entire place was decked out with an expansive pho neon, signs of ungrammatical menace, you weren’t laugh from this way and ha ha ha, and statues of the festival’s mascot, a giant smiling microphone with arms and legs I walked past made for Instagram, street furniture and a professional photographer taking a picture of a smiling family dad, two kids, and a mom in a full face veil, skipping ahead. I had worried about attracting attention by taking notes during the show, and so instead of a reporter’s pad, I had brought a pastel pink gratitude journal, which I’ll expense. The crowd was mostly male, just like it is at American comedy nights, and the much shorter female security line was staffed by brisk women’s covered and I believe the pronunciation is nie cobbs. I was unfamiliar with the term. I’m looking it up here a face veil covering the lower part of the face up to the eyes.

She talked about the lineup. The opener Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell. Maxwell, followed by Ibraheim al keh Ralla, a Saudi comedian who this article in The Atlantic tells us is big on Arabic language YouTube. Then Jimmy Carr bounded on stage. Helen Lewis writes about three quarters of cars usual materials based on the premise that he’s a sex offender, this event was no exception.

He made a joke about how his rape fantasy is someone goes to jail for rape. He riffed about euthanasia, saying we wouldn’t let a dog live like this, and yet people are allowed to go on living. In what can only be described as pause for timing, Yemen were told the audience gasped. Jimmy carry asked any lesbians here tonight. We’re told they were silence.

Jimmy paused for effect and then said, of course not. It’s a comedy show headliner, and Louis C.K. Came out, got a lot of cheers. But interestingly, I don’t have any information about what CK’s set was about, so I’d love to tell you I don’t know. Tig Nataro in the News, she was on Breaking Bread with Tom Poppa and said Cheryl Hines was one of my favorite friends to be ridiculous with, and we made each other laugh so hard, and I love documentaries, and it was fun to watch a documentary every week.

They used to do a podcast together, Tig and Cheryl True Story. So Tig said, it was fun to watch a documentary every week, but we also took the pressure off because we’d talk about other things, like who are attracted to in this documentary? But Cheryl’s married to Bobby Kennedy Junior. When he was announcing his run, I felt like I needed to step away because there were beliefs that were like a nant on the arm years ago that were getting further into the spotlight. Kathy Griffin catching some attention she made a claim that Donald Trump did not win a free and fair election last year.

She said this on her own YouTube show. I’m going to point out that Donald Trump did win a free and fair election. I’m also going to point out that four years earlier, Joe Biden won a free and fair election, despite what some other people might think, and four years before that, Donald Trump won a free and fair election. Texas Representative Troy Nils was one of the one hundred and twenty seven GOP lawmakers who objected to Arizona’s electors during the Electoral College certification process in twenty twenty one. That was the election that Joe Biden fairly won.

He was critical of Kathy Griffin’s election denialism. He wrote on Twitter that Kathy Griffin is the face of Trump de arrangement syndrome. Right wing account of TikTok posted Kathy Griffin is now denying the results of the twenty twenty four election. I was told that denying election results is a threat to our democracy. Literally shaking right now.

And that’s just where we are in comedy right now. I know I’ve been super out of character political lately, but you know, hey, that’s where we are. Current Affairs dot Org are going to talk to John Marco, Sirraisi, commenting on Tim Dillon, Dylan is starting to lose me as well. His episodes lately I find are less and less compelling. John Marco said, I think Tim Dillon, who half the time I get ticked off by what he does.

There are other times he’s the one who’s willing to say something so critical allbeit and aroundabout way, that it gets him disinvited. I think there’s a real honor in a comedian getting disinvited from the political thing, and to go to the political thing and be so subversive or so critical that they do what Michelle Wolf did at the White House Correspondence dinner, where they canceled it the next year. I say, put her in the legends of comedy, because that’s what you do. Now, maybe I’ll be mistaken. Maybe one of these comedians will go to the Reotcom festival.

It’d be so punchy that they put him in jail and it becomes the whole thing. And you know what, if that happens, I’ll go okay to Shay No, that did not happen. Furthermore, if they are subversive, if they do even one koshogi joker, one nine to eleven joke, ultimately they’re being used to present the government there as kind of chilling fun and engage with us, and there’s nothing weird going on here. It’s one thing to perform in a country, and it’s another thing to be hired by the government as part of an explicit propaganda project. John Marco points out comedians were never meant to have this much money to begin with.

The Court Jester was never supposed to have a cheer next to the king. That’s kind of where we’re at. Listen, I want money. I live in a capitalist world. I want comforts.

There’s something beautiful about the way I make the majority of my money. There are a number of people who want to see me. There’s a middle man, of course, but they’re kind of paying directly to see me. There’s an exchange of goods for money in this particular realm. The government is using money so they can use your face for their own purposes.

The show doesn’t matter to them. You can bomb You still aren’t making a statement. They’re using your face and they’ve been using it for the past month to be like, hey, we’re cool, don’t worry about those things we did. And speaking of money, here’s how Johnny Mack makes a living. Broadway’s funniest writers, actors and composers are coming together to share how they keep audiences laughing.

It is punchline and power ballads. Broadways Funniest Artists the first ever Broadway panel to be part of the programming at this year’s New York Comedy Festival that’s just like three weeks away now, the country’s biggest and longest running annual comedy festival. Wow, yeah, I guess that is true. It hasn’t been going on that long. Rachel Dratch, We’ll chat with a lineup of writers and actors from Tony Olivier and Emmy Award winning and nominated hit comedies Broadway Comedy Club Sunday, November sixteenth, six thirty pm.

Adam Gilbert was asked the best comedy advice and the worst comedy advice he ever got, he said, best advice probably the time Tim Northern said let a joke take you places. I’ve thought about that phrase so much over the past decade. It’s a great piece of advice. You aren’t forcing a joke somewhere, You’re trying to find it and use the audience as a metronome. Worst advice, dude, you gotta go on kill Tony.

Oh that’s harsh. Ah. The Monty Pythons are fighting again. John Cleese said, very upset to see that Rick Idol is once again attacking Holly Gilliam. I want to make it clear that Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, and I are totally satisfied with Holly’s work.

Holly, I guess has been managing the company. Eric Idol commented, I don’t think the company has been as well looked after as it might have been. I always want an older manager, someone who’s wise and not related to Terry Gilliam. Wow idle set of John Clees. We don’t disagree about comedy.

This is only about money. I mean, a fool and his money are easily parted six of us much more quickly. Clees has endorsed Holly’s management, calling her very efficient, clear minded, hard working and pleasant to have dealings with. And that is your comedy news on a Saturday. All right, meet you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Jess. When I thought I was out, hey, pull me backing. Hello. Oh I’m Johnny Mack and I know that’s a hackey clip to play, but that’s how I feel.

Oh and welcome to today’s Daily Comedy News. You know, Thursday had a nice, normal show. Got to talk about some other stuff. But nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, We’ve got to talk about the Rion Comedy Festival and all the spill back and all of it. Let’s start with Joe Rogan.

His guest is Brian Callon. The discussion goes to Mark Maren because you remember Maren called some people out, and as we’re going to learn today, some comedians seem to have problems with Mark Maren. Alrighty, this first clip I have made edits for language and for pacing. I have left some s words in or the clip just won’t work. It’s just the way Joe Rogan speaks.

So if you’re offended by the S word, go do something else. But you’re probably a okay with it. Here’s Joe Rogan, Mark Marron, don’t say it. I mean, I don’t get it. You know, I’m like I don’t know.

I get it. He’s sad. He’s sad. He wants other people to hurt. That’s what it is.

It’s just not well. It’s also he’s patho logically jealous, like he’s been path he’s like literally mentally ill. Like do you understand Mark when he first started, when he was just first coming up, was friends with Mitch Hepburg, and then Mitch Hedberg hit and he couldn’t be friends with him anymore. Really, yep, stop being his friend. Same thing with Louis C.K.

Louis C.K. And him were tight. Louis blew up, Mark didn’t. He he had to hate him, and he turned on him, talked shit about him, talked about him openly, and then he became successful. And the years where Mark was successful were the best years of Mark because Mark was fun.

Like I’ve had ups and downs with Mark. I’ve gone through this with him, like three or four different times where we he gets upset at me and then we talk and then are we good. We’re good. Like he likes to do that. He likes to talk shit about you and then you confront him and he says, you’re right.

Joe, and then talked about when his own podcast began to take off. And with me, Mike, my relationship with him was really complicated because when I was an open micer, I was twenty one years old and I was just starting out. Mark gave me a compliment once that really helped me. He came up to me in gainsay, Man, you’re really funny. He just keep doing what you’re doing.

Don’t listen to anybody else, just keep doing what you’re doing. I was like, Wow, thank you. That’s his best side. That’s a good side, and. He’s not all bad.

And he was a young guy back then, right, so he was just being cool.

And then over time, obviously I became more famous than him and more successf…

He hates that. And the only time we were cool was Mark was number one. So Mark the podcast took off, and you got to realize it took off when he was deep into his forties, right, and it was the number one podcast in the country, and he was on Rolling Stone magazine, and you know, he had his own show on IFC, The Marin Show. And he was great. He was cool to hang with.

He was fun because he didn’t have to compare himself to anybody anymore because he was a success, like he could look at his own success. He was doing a television show, he had his podcast. Everything was great and we were cool, like we’re friends. And and Rogan got into the trump of it all. I started getting more successful, and then my podcast passed his.

Then my podcast became number one, and then the Spotify deal, and that’s when he started talking about me. So he started talking about me long before all this Trump stuff. This Trump stuff is just the most recent iteration of this bizarre thing that he does with people. And the first thing was he had decided that I was an asshole, like just because the podcast took off, but it was not a big deal. It was like I’d heard people say that he was saying things.

But then after the Spotify deal, the Spotify deal was a real problem, and that’s when he started coming after me. And it was about vaccines, Like so he was talking about me on stage about vaccines. Shout out to Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us. He let me know that.

Andrew Schultz talked about the Red Comedy Festival on The Flagrant podcast for about forty minutes. Now, I went to pull clips and boy, Dylan, I don’t know how you do it. I get that this show is popular, but I find these guys really really annoying to listen to.

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And also, uh, Andrew and co host guy, could you please get through one senten…

You’re adults, learn how to speak. They discussed Bill Berg catching grief for playing the Reod Comedy Festival. Lots of edits here, all caps, lots of edits. So if Schultz and Frantz think this is an edited clip and I’m throwing them under the bus, I’m not throwing you under the bus. But yes, I made many edits to this clip because you guys can’t get through a sentence without an F bomb.

Well, that’s the reason why we don’t have any pushbag, barely any pushbag, is because we’ve never been the virtue signaling type. We’ve never been the ones out here like there are people that are getting pushed back and like based on some shit that they had said in the past. I kind of get it, Like I’ll be honest, you know, like Berger’s getting all his pushback and he’s like the first time I’ve seen his career, him not like aware of why it’s happening, like as I’m on Cone and again it’s a clip, so I don’t want to take clips out of contest. But he’s like, all these people are like sanctimonies. Bro, you did say that Beyonce sold out for blood money for going to like an oil state.

Yeah, and then you went to an old state. So like, now the criticism for that comes from other things. They’re just using this as as a as a tool of leverage against him because they’re upset at him for other things. But they’re not wrong. That is hypocritical to call Beyonce one thing and then you go do the same thing.

So at the end of that clip, though, he goes, but if I got the offer, maybe I’d do the same thing exactly. So that’s if they cut it out, Like oh really, yeah, I’m almost positive that’s the clip I heard. At the very end, he’s like, yeah, but who knows. If they gave me that, we’ll see. Then they too talked about Mark Marin.

Apparently they are not fans. Mark maren come on this pod, let me chop you up. You asked, you asked him, wud come on? But he would never come on, no. I asked him nicely.

Now come on, I’ll chop you up like you Jamalka. Come on, come to the embassy. Yeah. Yeah, if you’re intimidated by don’t worry. I got you.

That is. I know you’re probably not used to talking to people of color at your shows, but. Just come talk to one.

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And then we’ll handle Mark Marin acting like he didn’t also have a president …

Oh but I’m sure he asked him about the y I’m sure he asked him about drawn strikes. All the con do fact check this. But I’ve heard Mark Maren hasn’t had a single trans person on this podcast. Oh my god, those people. He cares so deep.

But you’ve been doing this pod. Maren don’t care about nobody but himself, and anybody inside comedy knows this. It’s the people outside of comedy. They are like unaware of it. Yeah, but like the whole ship with John Stewart, oh yeah, they had.

Now let’s have fun, so it looks fun while we’re talking shit, because he’s been going on every pod talking shit. John Stuart to Mark Maron in New York decades ago were like comedy purists hated all kinds of shit, like they were like, we love stand up, we love this. Johnsward gets a job with MTV hosting a show. Mark Maron is like, fuck you like to his face, makes John feel so bad about it affects their relationship. John ends up leaving the show for whatever reason.

I don’t remember if it was a moral thing or he had not. You get the opportunity to do like I got a better opportunity to guess who takes over that show. No, Mark Maren not Mark the principles Oh, Mark the principled guy.

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And then he tried to act like nothing happened with John.

John was like no, no, no, you don’t get to be my friend after that. Then decades later, they try to chop it up, or they try to patch it up, and John is like Marcus like, hey, I would love for you to come on the podcast and talk about this. John is like, look, if you want to mend the friendship, I’m moving to it, but I’m not doing it to give you podcast stuff like let’s just talk person and we’ll have it out. Mark Maron never contacts him again. Exactly, but it’s like, and I understand why outsiders wouldn’t know this about him, but like anybody on inside.

Knows, Amy Pohlar catching some grief, she had a z’s I’m sorry on her podcast. She apparently did not ask disease anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival. As I mentioned the other day, I have not listened to the episode. I have no plans to listen to it. But I searched the transcript for the word Riod, the word Saudi, and the word festival.

Only the word festival came up, but in context of a film festival. But that makes me think that my search was fair, and that Apple podcast transcript search was working, and that Amy did not ask Asease, I’m sorry about the Odd Comedy Festival. Amy shares her podcast on YouTube. One comment I wrote, man, you think a comedian would know a thing of two about signing. Many people said they would be skipping the unsorry episode.

If you google the words polar and a z’s as a combination, you’ll find all kinds of things. The Daily Mail called it Amy’s tone deaf. One comment I wrote, I’m going to assume this was recorded months ago for neither of you to have mentioned Saudi Arabia, but you should have at least done a quick insert at the start of the pod stating how you feel about it because you all should have known every one of the comments we’re going to be speaking about it. I understand that he’s your friend, but friends should be held accountable for their fops. Another wrote, love you, Amy, but having guests willing to take money from that saudy butcher is incredibly tone deaf.

Not watching this garbage. Cracked dot Com asks the question does Amy Poehler deserve blaam for not grilling Aseasin’m sorry? Subheader good hang will never be the place for tough questions? The not so canceled ase’s and sorry now he’s not so canceled twice now, just so we’re keeping track. And some people think he’s a douchebag.

You’ve heard me mention that on the podcast. Some people think of he’sin’ sorry’s a complete douchebag. He was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast again. I used Apple Podcasts transcript search. I searched for the words riod, Saudi, and festival.

Those turned up nothing. I searched for the word comedian to make sure search was working. That did show up. I did not listen to THEO yet and kind of burnt out on THEO. As I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, this is Hollywood doing what they do.

It’s a big club. Like George Carlin said, it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. The celebrities, they all take care of each other, go along to get along. If you take shots, you’re Mark Maron and you’re out there on Mark Maron Island, and he seems fine on Mark Maron Island, but you go along to get along. But these were all Hollywood people with the right agents.

Theovant slightly an outsider, but he’s in the club now. I did listen to Bill Burr’s appearance on Conan O’Brien once it went out from Beyond the pay Wall. Well discussed go back and listen to some previous episodes. But Bill Burr does sound very defensive and not very likable in the episode. I also have some production notes for Team Coco there one.

The audio was terrible for the first twenty minutes, I mean just unacceptable, Conan sounding hollow. There are ways to fix the audio. Send me a note if you need tips on that. I can tell you how to fix the audio. I don’t know how you guys put that out and to some producer needs to tell ConA next time you do a live event, you can’t have Sona on Mike.

She cackles during the entire bill segment. And it’s too much. It’s too much Sona and the other guy you know, in small doses during a live read. Sure, ConA needs to talk to somebody at the beginning of the end of an episode. Sure, but when you’ve got Bilburr there for half an hour and she says, cackling, that was misproduced.

Coming to Broadway All Out Comedy about Ambition by Simon Rich. It’ll be at the Neederlander Theater in New York City starting December twelfth. Much like they did last year, this will have rotating groups of comedians and others in groups of four over a twelve week limited run. The groups will read Simon Rich’s laugh out Loud stories, this time tackling ambition, ego, envy, greed, and, as the official press release jokes, basically just New York is in general.

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All right, here’s who’s going to be doing this, Get out of pen.

You’re gonna know these names. First group Eric Andre, Abby Jacobson, John Stewart and Jim Gaffigan. They all start December twelfth. They exit at various times, so there’ll be some overlaps in different groups, but that’s the initial group Stewart, Abby Jacobson, Gaffigan and Eric Andre. Then some of the people that will sub in Ben Schwartz on December twenty second, Wayne Brady and Cecily Strong.

On the twenty ninth, boy Cecily and Wayne on stage together. That’s a great combo for Bigley on the thirteenth, Then on the twentieth, it looks like we got a full swap Heidi Gardner, Jason Manzukas, Craig Robinson, and Sarah Silverman. I kind of lost respect for Craig Robinson after that, I’m quitting comedy stunt.

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And then February seventeenth, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park and Ray Romano wil…

And it looks like this wraps up on March eighth, Comedy stock markens. Does it ever reveal to you who that voice is? Okay, I will tell you now. It is a fit licensed Ai Burt Reynolds. Yes, yes, so one of the services I use made Burt Reynolds available, I’m like, okay, I’ll use Burt Renolds.

That’s fun. On the comedy stock market. If you’re a new listener, what we do is we try and make some hypothetical money by selling high on comedians at their peak and buying low on comedians on their way up. And you know, we get some seals and some buys in the mix. Here this week, pay attention, we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.

Have you watched The Chair Company on HBO? Why don’t you hit pause right now on this podcast and go watch The Chair Company and then come back. I have a feeling that is going to be a very buzzy show. The first episode is fantastic. So we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.

We’re also going to make a long term buy here. We’re gonna start scooping up stock in the Sprubs reboot. I have been watching Scrubs, of course on DVDs. I don’t support fascism. I do not watch Disney Plus or Hulu.

I support Jimmy Kimmel. I’m against fascism. I go upstairs and I get the DVD and I put them in the PlayStation, and that’s how I consume my Scrubs anyway, they’re working on the reboot. It’s definitely happening. I’ve seen pictures of the cast at a table read, and I’ll tell you, for a comedy snob like me who has the Emperor of Rome syndrome where I don’t laugh, I’ve been laughing out loud at Scrubs.

It has aged fantastically. I cannot get enough of John c McGinley as Doctor Cox. Let’s buy some scrub stock, only one cell this week. We’re going to sell Whitney Cummings for her just tasteless, terrible. How dare you comment saying that some comedians would be happy if a Fox journalist were murdered?

Just how dare you, Whitney. I’m I’m truly I’m not doing a bit. I’m truly truly offended by her comment. Let’s sell all our Whitney Cummings stock and that is your comedy stock market for this week. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was in Columbus.

He stopped by the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Why to shoot some hoops, It’s what he does. He was there visiting Ohio State. He spent some time with the Buckeyes and their home Arena, took some photos with coach Diebler. He did a brief inter you with the local paper after his show, and he said, tell everybody I love them.

I love Columbus. Eric Idol has dropped one of Monty Python’s most controversial songs from his upcoming farewell tour. Idol said, sometimes I’ll ask my daughter or a goddaughter. I’ll say can I say these things? And they’ll say, yeah, that’s okay or not.

But I don’t worry about being canceled. I’m not saying terribly controversial things. I’m just trying to make them laugh. They don’t laugh, and that’s a failure. Eric Idol says, you can’t sing some of my songs now.

He points out particularly you can’t sing I Like Chinese. You can’t do that anymore. So there’s one or two songs. But I write new ones, which is quite a nice challenge. Now what do I do here?

Do I tell you what the offensive lyric is and get myself canceled? Or can I do this under the guise of news. I Like Chinese is from nineteen eighty and it contains a lyric pair I Like Chinese. They only come up to your knees. Eric Idol is no longer performing that song out today.

Audio version of Craig Ferguson’s I’m So Happy out today. Audio version of Luke Hegge’s Have That also out today. Audio version of Ki Humphrey’s Mischief also also out today. The hour long special, Downey wrote that on Peacock, Downey wrote that dives into the sketches, contributions, and enduring influence of one of the most impactful comedy writers in the history of Saturday Night Live, Jim Downey, described as the show’s behind the scenes comedic architect for over three decades. He was actually in the cast in nineteen eighty.

That’s the season Nobody talks about. Some folks in this special include Fred Ormison, Dana Carvey, Daryl Hammond, David Letterman, Lovett’s Seth Myers, Garrett Morris, John m’laney, Loraine Newman, Conan Odin, Kirk, Laurence O’Donnell. For some reason, Maya Rudolph Molly, Shannon Martin, Short, Smigel Spade, Ben Stiller, Keenan Thompson, and Lauren Michaels. He didn’t think this thing was happening without Lauren Michaels plussing, did you are you in Cincinnati? Why don’t you go hit?

Fun Filled the twenty four Hour Comedy Revival. It starts tonight at nine o’clock. It goes until tomorrow night at nine o’clock at the Hofner Pub. Fun Filled will showcase nearly two dozen local improv and entertainment acts like comedy, sports, smoke and queers, burlesque, and the members of Holy Canoli. They are hosting this and they were also the twenty twenty four winners of the Cincinnati Improv Competition.

So in last year’s competition, the group’s final surprise challenge was to perform until five thousand dollars was raised for charity, or for twenty four hours straight. Craig said, when we first did it, we had no time to plan with something. We were told like, last minute, this is what you’re doing. And we’ve been planning at this point, planning for like two months and we still have it months ago. So we were like, all right, what if we could do the twenty four hour challenge again, but at three months to actually really really make it something special.

Proceeds for the event will go to the Esperanza Latino Center. Sounds like a fun event. Tiffany Hatish announced a show at the Orpheum Theater in La Saturday, December sixth. We’re told it is the first program of its kind fusing live entertainment and impact. Echo Entertainment is proud to stand at the intersection of culture and climate action.

See that’s that’s interesting. I’m a big climatista, and that is your comedy news on a feisty Friday. Tomorrow is going to be a little political, some political stories and put them all together back to back to back. And I don’t know what Sunday is yet, but let’s meet back here in about twenty four hours after you listen to me, right now, come back around then and there’ll be an episode. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreiser compared Fiji to Arizona. He said Fiji was drier than he expected. I guess I wouldn’t expect Fiji to be dry.

Bert told the Drop a Pin podcast that although he enjoyed being on a boat, scuba diving, surfing and catching fish, it felt dry. It didn’t live up to expectations. He said, when you hear Fiji, you think of jungles, forests and a more lush place. No, I actually think of being on a boat, scuba diving, surfing and catching fish.

Speaking of being dry, Variety tells us if you see John Malani having a beer,…

They were talking about his new partnership with Years. That’s the alcohol free beer I told you about a week ago, maybe two weeks ago. At this point, there’s a commercial we see John m’laney lounging pool side while recalling a time when his wife, Livia Munn thought he may have been drinking again when she spotted him downing several cans of non alcoholic years. However, ma’laney said that never actually happened. She’s well aware of my enjoyment of years non alcoholic beer.

But I have best friends who’ve been like I didn’t want to say anything, but Ma’lanie tells us it’s sold a Wrigley Field. It’s that exact Midwestern pilsner that I like. Other people make a light non alcoholic, but most of them taste like a drink trying to taste like one versus just being a pilsner or a pale ale that just isn’t fermented. Now he’s joking. He wants to take on Tom Holland to see who is the king of non alcoholic beers.

You see the Spider Man star has his own non alcoholic beer brand. Biro Molaney says, it’s a cage fight, like a physical fight like UFC, because you know, I fought three fourteen year olds on Everybody’s Live? Will he fight Tom Holland? I’d fight three fourteen year old friends of his. What does John Mulaney love most about being sober?

He says, when I go to the doctor and I have problems, we don’t have to kind of tiptoe around the minefield. It’s like I say, I’m urinating a lot at night. I have some numbness in my left hand. We then don’t have to discuss whether it’s all the cocaine, adderall opioids or alcohol. They’ll take you much more seriously at the doctor.

Blainey says he would like to see Anthony Hopkins in a commercial. I know Anthony Hopkins is something like sixty five years of sobriety. I think it’d be a natural. He could play an acting student mine. He goes, you’re such a good actor.

You were on the Bear, not many other things. And I go, that’s true.

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And then I say to him, you’re getting better, sir, and then I hand him one fr…

Ricky Turvay’s shared on social media. I’m working out every day now, tennis waits running, et cetera. My resting heart rate is really good, and I train at quite a high rate too. So my question is why am I still effing fat and exhausted? All the sea word time, Well, I’ve never heard the sea word used in that way.

He used it the way someone like me might use a e fing time. He said, seaword time. Interesting. Well, luckily, The Indian Times caught up with doctor Syriac Abby Phillips, who, as you know, is popularly known as the Liver Doc. The Liver Doc said, it’s the alcohol, Ricky, It’s the alcohol, not the food.

Like people blaming the responses, enjoy your food. Good advice from the liver Doc. The New York Times asked Mark Maron about white guy comics with podcasts becoming influential, name checking Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and Andrew Schultz, who was just at the re Odd Comedy Festival. Maren said, these guys have proven that their fan bases can be tribalized in something that I think is fundamentally dangerous. Still in their parameters free speech, you can do whatever you want.

And if you want to be used by the dominating propaganda arm of a fascistic momentum against democracy, well, I hope you’re happy with your show. Some Times asked Maren if he thought his success came too late in life. He started his podcast in his late forties. Been there done that? Maren said, Now, if you’re honest with yourself, I think a lot of time success didn’t come because you weren’t ready for it.

When I auditioned for a Saturday Night Live. I wasn’t ready for that. By the time the podcast started, I’d let go of the other dreams. When they started it happen, I felt like, Okay, I’m ready for it. Now I could show up and do the work in a way that I wouldn’t have been able to do previously.

I’m not mad that my success came when it did. I’m just glad that it came, because it would have been a much sadder life if it hadn’t. Current Affairs dot Org guest John Marcos arasi, what’s it like out there in America now? John Marco said it could be really tough, because my shows have a joy that I don’t think is in America right now. Especially when I’m in the South.

I find that’s one of the audiences. How would I say it even more visibly queerer than in the city. I just did a show in Hattiesburg, and I think in Hanniesburg I was probably the gay hang of the night. Sometimes people say they come alone of the show, and I hope they come alone and leave with someone. It’s meet and greet.

When I go to my shows, I always tell them, if only the people in this room voted Jill Stein would have had a shot. That’s a great joke. There’s a joy there. America itself just feel as bleak as f and I’m starting to accept and understand my role. That’s even if I talk about current affairs.

There’s a degree of escapism. I’m saying, hey, let’s go in here for an hour and a half and just laugh at how fed up it is. It is so nice to see people discovering him. He’s having a moment right now. He’s kind of the it comic right now, which is really great.

Jamarco, how do you take the political temperature of your audience? He said, Honestly, one of the benefits, and I think one of the detriments of modern day comedies. Our fan bases are so curated via social media, so in a way, I probably feel a safety at my own shows that will someday bite me in the ass when I forget I’m at someone else’s show or just a comedy club, and I’ll have to be ready. I just feel like the harder shows were the early years. That’s when i’d be in Florida and I’d look at the men in the audience and esthetically they had copied Trump.

They had orange faked tans. They looked like they were on the waitlist for Mara a Lago. That was more nervous racking than it is now. But that’ll be the challenge. I think as you get comfortable in your own space, you expand, you push yourself to be sharper and follow your views to even more biting punchlines.

And then do you have the hood spot to do it when it’s on a TV show? Or I guess if you’re gonna do the re On Comedy Festival which I wasn’t invited to. Phoebe Robinson was on The Last Laugh podcast and took a shot at Rogan Theo and others who she says helped humanize a monster for millions of young male listeners. Phoebe said, the same guys who build platforms on mocking women and minorities are suddenly shocked Trump is doing what he always said he would. You have to live with what you did.

You know who you voted for, own it. Third Coast Review asked Gary Golman, ay, you have so many bits that you spice up with strategically placed antiquated freezes like ne’er do well? Where do you pull those from? Gary said, it’s from reading so much. I read more than just about every other comedian.

I think I’ve read sixty books already this year, and I’ll probably finish close to one hundred. And that’s been every year that I haven’t been sick. I also listened to a lot of books. I had a friend who sadly passed away, but he was very literate. He was an English teacher and a comedian, a high school English teacher, which is really hard.

He was so well read. He said something to put words to what I knew. Intuitively, people love to hear words that they forgot they knew. That’s when I realized I had been doing and I try to continue to do it. But there’s a sweet spot.

It comes from trial and error. Try this word, to try that word. Sometimes you get to the stage you’re about to say a word and you think, oh, they’re going to groan because this because it’s way too written. See dial it back, smart smart smart. But if you spend as much time as any writing out the sentences and switching the words so many times, you remember which word was the second least obnoxious, you go to that it’s a trial and error, but after thirty years he build up instincts as to what will land and what won’t, what will sound too written.

I don’t want to be the comedian who the audience is silent for. That’s painful, but I don’t mind if every once in a while a word doesn’t land with the audience, because when I do it on TV, it finds people who think I got to see this live because he gets me. I forget who said it. I think it was a British comedian who said, if you could find a thousand people who go to every show when you’re near them and buy every album you put out, you can have a nice career. So if you were one of the newer listeners who jumped on board during Kimmel Gate and Riod Gate, again, thank you welcome on board.

I think today is pretty representative of like a normal episode. You know, there’s not always a major controversy, and believe me, I love a major controversy. I welcome the next one. But you know, this is kind of like, this is how the show goes on a normal day. So hopefully you’re enjoying today.

You must be if you’re still here ten plus minutes. But this is a normal episode. Doctor Demento has wrapped up his radio career. Real name Barrett Hanson. See, I didn’t know that would be good Trivia.

The Trivia guys listening now, no one will get that one. You’d have to phrase it like Barrett Hanson, known for his wacky radio show parody songs, is better known by this name. You’d have to go at it that way. I’m telling the Trivia guys how to do their show. Hi, Trivia guys.

Johnny Mack hasn’t been at Trivia a very very busy October, hoping to get there soon. Anyway, I digress. Doctor Demento wrapped up fifty five years on the air. Eighty four years old. He started on KPPC Pasadena in nineteen seventy.

The Doctor Demento Show was nationally syndicated from seventy four to twenty ten. I have a vague memory of stumbling across that, probably around the same time Weird Al caught on. Couldn’t tell you what radio station, couldn’t tell you when it was actually on, or how you’d find it, but I feel like I heard it every now and then. Doctor Demento’s final show aired for three and a half hours was a countdown of the most requested show during the fifty five year run. Countdown included longtime favorites like fish Heads, the famous They’re coming to take Me away haha.

Shaving Cream a nineteen forty six recording credited to Benny Bill with Paul Wynn on vocals. I’m familiar with Uncle Floyd used to do that one. That’s a fun song. If you don’t know that one, let me put the lyrics of that one. It’s a wonderful example of a naughty song that’s not naughty at all.

I won’t say for you. I know you’re disappointed, but I’ll read it in Cadence lyrics to Shaving Cream, I have a sad story to tell you. It may hurt your feelings a bit. Last night, when I walked into my bathroom, I stepped on a big pile of shaving cream. Be nice and clean, shave every day.

You’ll always look keen. You see. You get how it gets. So you basically you set up the rhyme of a word that ends an it, and you get to the shaving cream and you go into the coorse. It’s a fun, naughty song.

Comedians Joe Wilkinson and David Earl are reuniting for a new show called Joe and David’s Magical Sitcom Tour. The aforementioned Ricky Gervais has been confirmed as a guest star. It’s a three part series airing on You and Gold, blending travelog, buddy comedy and retrospective elements. Each excursion is themed around a beloved British sitcom. Expect episodes dedicated to shows like The Office, Porridge and Faulty Towers.

Ricky Gervais will reflect on the Office. The personal treasures of comedy icon Richard Lewis being auctioned today the Abball Auction Company. They will present from the personal collection of Richard Lewis. Some of the things you can bid on include a twenty eleven photograph of Richard Lewis taken on the set of the Snickers Super Bowl logging commercial. We’re told that’s a rare treasure.

The VP over there at the Apple Auction Company said, Richard Lewis not only changed the face of comedy, but also curated a deeply personal collection that reflected his passions and influences. Bidding starts at ten am Pacific time, Live online bidding if you want to jump on there. Adam Sandler, a great dramatic actor, does he have any advice to the star of Happy Gilmore to Travis Kelcey. Travis Kelcey recently got engaged to a famous singer. Sandler said, he’s all good.

He loves her more than anything, just like I love my wife more than anything. That’s where they’re at, and that’s where me and my girl are at. Adam recently told Travis Kelcey that anytime Taylor Swift is laughing with you, my whole family is high fiving different Adam Adam Durretz from Counting Crows is going to receive the Bob Saggett Legacy Award at this year’s Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine Benefit and Wednesday, Novem twelfth in New York City. Jeff Ross He’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. He’s gonna host the event, which will also feature Reod Comedy Festival performer Hannibal Burris and some comedians who were not in Riodd, including Kelsey Cook, Jim Gaffigan He’ll probably try and sell you a bourbon, and Nikki Glaser also appearing.

Broadcaster Katie Couric, I don’t know why either, And David Letterman talked about that guy, Jay Leno. You know, Jay Leno is always popping off about late night comedy like he knows anything about it. Vulture asked David Letterman, do you speak to Jay Leno? In all these days? A lot of time has passed into competing against each others for the ratings.

Dave said, the last time I spoke to Jay, or maybe we just texted, he said his face had caught fire or something, and it sounded hideous. I mean, of all things that might catch fire, perhaps the last thing he’d want to be is your face. So it was alarming. I think we’ve changed sentiments about good luck and be careful something like that, but I haven’t spoken to him in a long time. We rubbed each other the wrong way.

I don’t know. I don’t know any regrets about our relationship, and I don’t think he has any regrets about me either. But God, just really, even at this point in his career, probably still the best. Just tremendous, just hilarious, just NonStop, as funny as you ever gonna get. So that’s a good thing about Jay.

We rubbed each other the wrong way. I don’t know. I don’t have any regrets about our relationship, and I don’t think he has any regrets about me either, But God, he just really, even at this point in his career, probably still the best. Dave also commented on how the current late night guys get along. How did that happen?

Because when it was me and Jay was the Late Night Wars, there was bloodshed, we hated each other. But now every day they have lunch together. I don’t get it. Love David Letterman, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Things starting to settle back into normal. Hey, do you support fascism? Or did you cancel Disney Plus and Hulu like you were supposed to when they took Jimmy Kimmel off the air?

You canceled, right, you don’t have Hulu, Well, then you’re not going to be able to see Sebastian Maniscalco’s upcoming special. Now. Sebastian’s career apparently has not been too damaged by his choice to play the Riod Comedy Festival, because Hulu has announced that Sebastian Maniscalco’s it Ain’t Right Boy he works hard on those titles. His new special is going to premiere Friday, November twenty first on Hulu. The special takes its name from Maniscalco’s recent tour spanning twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.

He played places like Chicago and Riod, but this hour was filmed at the United Center Arena in Chicago, and we’re told the commite goes all in on family chaos, aging, killing journalists, and the little things that drive us all nuts. Oh sorry, mister that family, chaos, aging, and the little things that drive us all nuts. I should edit that, shouldn’t I? Yeah, the humble brag here tells us a Sebastian Menascalco ranked among the top twenty five global tours overall, was named one of Billboard’s top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty twenty four, and was the only comedian to appear in Pollstar’s top twenty global concert tours of twenty twenty five. So you can see his career terribly damaged by appearing at the Riod Comedy Festival.

Another comedian who appeared at the Reod Comedy Festival is Bill Burr. I just now saw that he did put out a Monday podcast late on Monday. I just skimmed the transcript. I don’t think he talked about Riod at all. He talked mostly about football, going to see the USC game, and a little bit about New York City.

But I didn’t see anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival, so I think he’s moved on from that. I’m sure his career was terribly hurt. I did see, as as recording that Amy Poehler’s podcast The Guest Is azi’son’ Sorry, which I think last week a lot more people realized azi’son Sorry he’s a douchebag. I mean, I’ve been hinting at that since I started this podcast, but I think last week everybody went, oh, that guy’s a douchebag. Well, Amy Polar apparently doesn’t feel that way.

They were co stars on Parks and rec of course, and she had him on the podcast. I just did a search on Apple podcast transcripts. I searched for the word re Odd. It does not appear in the transcript. I search for the word Saudi.

It does not appear in the transcript. But I did search for the word festival to make sure the search function was working. And there is a mention of a Z’s at a film festival during the podcast, so it appears Apple podcast transcript search is working, and they did not discuss Razi’s going to the Riodd Comedy Festival. But I haven’t actually listened to Aidmy Poehler’s episode, and the chances of me listening to an hour of Amy Polar with A Z’s I’m sorry or zero, they’re actually zero, so you’ll have to tell me. On Netflix announced that there Eddie Murphy documentary called Being Eddie Well airon Netflix Wednesday, November twelfth.

The log line tells us it goes without saying, that there is only one Eddie Murphy. No other teen comedian shared a stage with Jerry Seinfeld at seventeen and joined the cast of Saturday Night Live right out of high school. No actor has ever played a cop, a doctor, and a donkey. Oh right. I was like, Eh, somebody must have played a cop and a doctor, but a donkey.

You might have me there and dominated every facet of Hollywood. He’s touched fewer. Still have been an a less celebrity for over four decades and never succumbed to its darker side. I don’t know about that latter part. You could google Eddie Murphy and all sorts of things will come up.

Maybe just because I’ve been entertainment adjacent for three decades that I know stuff. For example, I typed in a phrase I will tell you what I typed in, but surfaced a story from Yahoo from twenty seventeen when Eddie Murphy was stopped by police with dot dot dot, And you can do your own Google search for that phrase and see what comes up. So let’s not make it sound like Eddie’s been at church for forty years anyway. Being Eddie explores the unusual combination of explosive chrisma, folks to ambition, raw talent, and deep set circumscision that put Murphy in a league of his own. Appearing in the documentary or Senni O Hall, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, who was just at the Reod Comedy Festival, Jamie Fox, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Michael J.

Pete Davidson, whose father was killed a nine to eleven. Pete was recently at the Riod Comedy Festival, and Tracy Morgan and a bunch of others. John m’laney is going to direct Robbie Hoffman’s debut Netflix special. They first met when Robbie Hoffman guessed that on Everybody’s Live this will be filmed next week at the Masonic Lodge. I was just in front of that building.

Why didn’t you film that while I was there? I could have gone. It will mark Hoffman’s first comedy special in nearly seven years and her debut for Netflix. Mlanie announced this on stage during his tour he was in San Diego. Brought Robbie Hoffman on stage and said she’s one of my absolute favorite comedians and friends alive.

The next day on Instagram, Malini confirmed it, writing I’m very excited to announce I’ll be directing Robbie Hoffman’s new Netflix special. Malini told a story about Hoffman’s outdoor set on Sunday night, was interrupted by her own car alarm. Gary Goleman until the Third Coast Review was hard to build material for the first twenty years. The main reason was how difficult it was to get on stage from more than five or ten minutes. Whenever I did, I didn’t want to try something brand new, so I’d add something that had already worked.

Sometimes the story’s true parts had been explained, and then you had to start hitting it from different angles to make the joke longer. He explains how his Trader Joe’s joke is about a woman cutting me in line, but then it becomes about imagining her life outside Trader Joe’s. The story itself was basic. There were some older women around me, and I made an ass of myself. But it’s interesting how your compass can be.

This story is different than other comedians. I don’t hear anyone else talking about abbreviating the states. It’s fun to tell that should be the compass. No one else is doing it, and it’s fun, then you won’t give up on it. It’s like when you think of a sentence and it’s already on a website or in a play.

Thinking of something original that you can’t find online that no one else is doing. That’s a really good aim. It provides pride. You see dozens of comedians doing versions of Patrise O’Neil or David Tell or prior or Carlin. I forget who said it, but imitation is like suicide.

You’re killing yourself in a sense. But it comes back to not getting a lot of stage time and needing to use it efficiently. That’s where my low self esteem being attached to how the joke went actually helped. I was afraid a new joke would bomb, so I didn’t want to take the chance deal. Hughlee spoke to The Daily News online about crowd work and said, I used to be really famous for that.

I love CrowdWork, but after a while you want to show people you’re tapped in what’s going on. I don’t do it as much as I used to the older you get, the more you’ve been around, he rely on other things. He explained why they never did a sequel to the original Kings of Comedy. Some of the reasons include Bernie Mack passing away in two thousand and eight and Steve Harvey a hosting family feud and retiring from stand up. Deale said, we didn’t do a sequel.

We let it rest. Nothing approximates your first kiss. Nothing is quite as dynamic as that one. Thinking of the chores, like flipping through your wedding album. It’s a fond memory, but not something top of mind.

I’m still very proud of what we did. Then cool article on Vulture It is the twenty twenty five TikTok survival guide for comics who want to get paid. They shared some stats. The average video length on Matt Rife’s one hundred and ninety three tiktoks posted in twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. The average video length of rice one hundred ninety three tiktoks was two minutes twenty seconds, which is over double the supposed industry best practice of quick hitting clips.

That’s interesting, right. The average length of his ten most viewed TikTok’s three nineteen, his ten most liked three point thirty six, his ten most shared four forty two. Emily Watson posted her entire special fixed on TikTok, where it received three times as many views as it did on YouTube. Viewers save the full video returned to it, and she still carved out a dozen additional videos to clip up and monetize separately. That guy, Jay Leno, he’s the worst.

He was talking about why he got a watch nerve of that guy. Yeah, he was at Los Angeles’ premier watch collectors gathering, the Neighborhood Watch Club. Haha, very plenty title there Watch Officionados, and Jay Leno was there. He was wearing a Buruguette Classique sobscription twenty twenty five And I probably didn’t even pronounce that right, jay Leno snob. We’re told that watch reduces the timetelling process to a single blued steel hand set against a white enamel background with bruge numerals.

Wow, fancy schmancy. It’s a stunning tribute to both the company founder and as well as the brand’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries. So if you want to walk around while you’re popping off thinking you know anything about hosting a late night television show and you want to look sharp. Yeah, you get one of these watches. That guy.

Jay Leno said, It’s amazing that something designed two undred fifty years ago still looks the same. It’s basically the same watch. It sounds like something he would say, right, especially because it’s a direct quote. Does sound like something he was You’re losing the bitch on Bridge was more of an artist as well as a mechanical genius, said j Leno. Luckily they asked him what draws you to a watch?

Jay said, I know when I see it, something stands out. I like classical design using modern techniques. There’s a lot of science and a lot of technology, but it still looks classical. I know I have to go home and wind my watch. I enjoy that.

It’s the same with cars. They require a certain amount of me and it’s it’s an emotional connection. You either get it or you don’t. Geleb Beard spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about narrowing down what stories made it into his special Caleb said, there’s a lot of things that got left on the cutting room floor. Every part of it calls for a different thing, Like when you’re moving from something political, sometimes want to get a little more political right after that, and sometimes you want to veer into something that’s a palate cleanser.

You’re thinking of it in fifteen to thirty and sixty minute chunks. You want to think of the holistic piece, but also the experience from five minutes to five minutes. That’s really smart and really it’s not just looking the whole body at the first hour. It’s like, Okay, every joke I’ve ever told is technically on the table for this, except maybe what I’ve done on Comedy Central, And you go, okay, what fits? What makes a full compelling picture here?

What feels like a piece and not just some guy rambling, although I think parts of it is just some guy rambling, which I’m okay with. But part of making those selections is just going, what is the piece asking for? What does it need right here? See? This is really smart, really well thought out.

And I saw this one. I thought the spin on this one was a little ridiculous. Press release, I guess for Data Vault, they announced the development of its joke token technology, designed to safeguard comedic content and establish copyright protection for comedians. Okay, They showcased this at a live event over the weekend. The system uses blockchain and AI to me unique digital tokens for original jokes, while recording audience laughter metrics as proof of authenticity.

So I guess you’re up on stage and you’re doing your set and Robin Williams is there, but luckily you recorded your set and the technology goes, oh, no, john just did an original joke. Robin Williams can’t steal it, and we’ll add blockchain and digital voodoo to it so that when Robin Williams does my joke at the laugh Factory, we can be like, hey, that’s Johnny Max joke. Something like that. The technology addresses copyright infringement issues common in the comedy industry by creating immutable records of jokes and enabling monetization through smart contracts. So they got professional comedian Karen Fihn who were told Isa Beard on Netflix in Comedy Central.

Karen Fihann said, the technology gives me an automated means by which I can make an immutable record of the jokes I create. I love that she parodied back the legalies of I could make an immutable record of the jokes I create and the copyright protection to which I’m entitled. Is that a real quote professional could You didn’t care and fee and sounds like somebody had a decent words and said, hey, do you mind saying you said this? But what do I know? I wasn’t there, And that if your Caddy Comedy News on a Wednesday, AH see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily Come News. Can I tell you President Trump is right? Stephen Colbert should be taking off television and never allowed on television again. Now what is making you say this, Johnny Mack?

Is this some sort of political stance? No, Stephen Colbert has signed up with the new Star Trek series Starfleet Academy. Have you seen this trailer? Complete garbage? Why do comedians insist on destroying Star Trek?

I’m looking at you, Tig Nataro, I’m looking at you. Patton Oswalt has dug the Vulcan and now Stephen Colbert has sold out to Alex Kurtzman and this horrible, horrible, horrible crap that they call Star Trek. I love my Star Trek. You’ve heard me rant about this, Steven, What are you doing to me? Why did you do this?

Stephen Colbert will voice Starfleet Academy’s digital Dean of students. According to the press release, He’ll begin having daily announcements to the students and alerting them of anything that needs their immediate attention. President Trump, get this guy off TV now, thank you for your attention. Let me just before I tell you this next story. Let me do a quick google of Bill Burr.

We got to talk about Bill Burr again. Okay, it is twelve fifty on Monday. I’ve been looking for updates on this story. But before I took the weekend off there I saw fans had said that Bill Burr had canceled a plan to tape an episode of the Monday Morning Podcast that would have been taped in front of a live audience on Saturday. Burr was supposed to tape a live episode of Monday Morning Podcast at the Gordina Cinema in Los Angeles.

I was in Los Angeles this week and I could have gone. So the venue had posted the cancelation for about forty five minutes. Then, as I understand things, they took it down. The speculation is that they caught some negative comments about mister Burr, so they were just like, ah, let’s have it. But fans and the Bill Burr subreddit noticed it.

One fin asked why postpone the show? Bill? Another said, but I thought Billy blood Money said it was bots. How can they come to a show if they’re bots? Now, I just looked when I said, let me google Bill Burr at twelve fifty on Monday, there was no episode of the Monday Podcast.

So first of all, I hope Bill is okay and everything’s okay with his family and he’s healthy. We can disagree on ideas. We don’t wish anything negative on anyone except Stephen Colbert, who should be taken off television immediately for signing up with the Star Trek people. So hopefully all is okay with the Burrs, but just interesting that he canceled the taping and there’s no episode on Monday. Omid Jee Lily wrote a piece for The Guardian.

Omid writes, after fifteen years of turning down offers to perform stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia do to the country’s human rights record, this time it took the gig. Why there’s a push for change in Saudi and signs are discernible, yet many from the outside world would rather comedians in the West state away skipping ahead. I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was canceled after nine to eleven simply for being Middle Eastern, as Arab terrorists were behind the attack on the Twin Towers. This is despite the fact that I am not Arab nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist.

In certain circles there have been caused to boycott my UK tword Manamastay, a show in which I try to explore their nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. After explaining the restrictions on performing in Saudi were exactly the same as in Dubai, basically no jokes about the royal family, no disrespecting Islam and no humiliation of the government, a concern friend texted me, I think you’re at risk of invalidting You’re right to make jokes about anything important. My show in Riod had a lot of material about the Saudis themselves. The perception that we as comedians were all being paid to be silent was as laughable as the idea that Dave Chappelle, a hugely successful comic with an estimated worth of seventy million dollars, was doing his show and Riod for the money skimming ahead julily writes the comedy guide Shortal erroneously reported that the pay was between three seventy five and one point six million for those doing solo shows. One thing East and West can agree on is you don’t talk about your fee publicly because it is likely to cause consternation among the other performers, most of whom rereceived a significantly smaller amount than the American podcaster was purportedly set to receive.

I assume that means Tim Dillon, which is where the three seventy five number comes from. Again, skipping ahead here, Julily writes, if I had an inkling that changes similar to those emerging in Saudi Arabia right now where are happening inside Iran? And a comedy festival were taking place in Tehran and pigs were flying. He adds, I can assure you I would be on the first pig over long piece here in the Guardian. Let me just wrap up here where he rates.

And the gigs were great, packed houses, young crowds, popcorn, standing, ovations, even heckling. About eighty percent of the audiences were locals, many of whom had never seen a live comedy gig. Whitney Cummings on her podcast said, by the way, any comic that has ever worked with live nation, which is all of them, has taken Saudi money. But keep up with your little rants when you get a second Google Saudi Arabia Live Nations, so you can be informed on the fact that anyone who has worked with Live Nation, every stand up comic has taken Saudi money or bought a ticket through Live Nation, went to a Live Nation event. All the actors who were represented by William Morris Agency, which is all of them if you want to send them notes too.

All right, let’s google Saudi Arabia Live Nation. I had this. I’m doing this real in real time. I haven’t done this before. The first thing that comes up is from Music Business Worldwide, which as Saudi Wealth Fund exits Live Nation steak.

The second story, also from twenty twenty four, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund sells Live Nation steak, and scrolling down from April twenty twenty, Forbes reported Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund buys five hundred million dollars steak. Her point may be valid between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, but it doesn’t seem to be presently valid or a valid prior to it. And I’ll remind you there was a pandemic in twenty twenty, so I don’t know how many comedy tickets you bought in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You may not be as guilty as Whitney Cummings says. She said, though I’m trying to help you sound less racist.

She then discussed napple babies. People whose dads have points on huge television shows are like, I have a backup plan, a huge trust fund. You’re a sellout for making money, And then I have a major, major problem with this next thing. She said. The same people who were like, if they found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.

That is not cool, Whitney, that is not true that you’re a jerk hole for saying that. I really don’t think any comedian would be like, oh cool, a Fox journalist was murdered. That’s just terrible.

Also, the same people who are like, if they found out a Fox journalist was mu…

How dare you? John Marcos Serresi spoke to Current Affairs dot org and said, the numbers that I’ve heard floid at the top were like one point six million, and I would imagine easily that if not more. I don’t think George Carlin would have ever performed at the REDD Comedy Festival, but he was also never asked. These comedians used to not enter the sphere of influence, and now because of podcasting, the fact that comedians were kind of on the front end of that and social media has allowed our voices to expand their new questions. What are we?

What is our role in America, let alone globally. It’s complicated. I performed in places whose governments I did in align with. However, I do think you can make distinctions, and the distinction should be made at the gouvern is funding this a government that you know has this history of human rights abuses. It’s easy for me to stand hi because I wasn’t invited to Riod Trump didn’t ask to go on my podcast, neither did Kamalaw.

But I think we need to re establish what our expectation is. If a comedian like Theo Vaughn is going to go on his podcast and cried tears over Palestinian suffering and then two weeks later have JD vance on and joke about how he’s going to go hang out at his poolhouse. I hope that we cultivate an audience that goes, Hey, THEO, what the F that’s bs, I don’t buy this. I hope that the stinkedestri Odd Comedy Festival is great enough that some comedians are forced to confront where they stand and what the responsibility is to themselves and to their audiences. Hopefully we can move on from this subject.

I didn’t want to talk about it today, but there were all those stories I just told you about what should have been the lead is. Mark Maron wrapped up his podcast his final guest on Monday, former President Obama. Maren was asked why Obama for the final guest. Mark Maren said, the first time was an important turning point, certainly for me personally. For sitting president to come to my little garage at my house was a big deal, and I think it was a big game changing episode for podcasting in general in terms of the attention it brought to the medium.

I was happy to see him again and talk about the current administration and the world we’re living in now, but also, you know, to honor my show. The Times was curious any conditions for the interview. No, neither time. There were no conditions, no vetting of questions, and no request for a pre edit. Mark anythink it went last time?

There was a morticaid, a secret service in many staff involved, and he was still disarming and grounded and present. This time it was more casual, just me and him in his office, so I know it would be even better, and that turned out to be true. He was very aware that he was our last guest and the last episode meant something to me, and culturally, I guess at some point in September and October, this podcast or reached a point where I just can’t avoid the politics of it all. So jump in the pool here. Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that’s a consequence.

Let me start right there. Please vote whoever you vote for. Whoever you vote for, that’s up to you. But please vote. Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that’s a consequence.

If you’re a Hispanic man and you’re frustrated inflation, and so he decided, you know what, all that rhetoric about Trump doesn’t matter. I’m just mad about inflation.

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And now your sons are being stopped in LA because they look at Latino and may…

Well, that’s a test. It’d be great if we weren’t tested. This way, but you know what, we probably need to be shaken out of our complacency. Maren used the line he used in a special We’ve annoyed the average American into fascism. Obama responded, you just can’t be a scold all the time.

You can’t constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you’ve got some blind spots too. And life’s messy. I listened to about a third of it this morning. I was founded very compelling. I just had to get to work and didn’t have time and to listen to more of it.

But that’s it. That’s a rap. And at the end of the program, he thanked a few people and said that his Thursday show was actually the goodbye episode. But that’s a wrap on Mark Maren for now. Anyway.

I have not yet seen Saturday Night Live, but the Department of Homeland Security did any cold open. Amy Poehler reunited with Tina Fay to play Attorney General Pam Bom and Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Noam. Tina Faye’s character said, I’m here to tell you this Democrat government shutdown needs to end now. By the way, you know what, I don’t care I’m telling you this because this blew my mind. So I was out in California on the weekend and there was a National forest and I wanted to check it out, and I wanted to know, like, do I have to pay it and get in the forest.

This is for real. You can look at this right now. This is on the US Forest Service web page. This is the phrasing. Again, what if your politics your politics, But here’s the phrasing on a government website, the radical left Democrats shut down the government.

This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse from mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed fuel and clothed the American people. I mean, just at a government website has the phrase the radical left Democrats.

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And now maybe you think the Democrats are the radical left.

Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. It’s not why we’re here. My point is, I can’t believe we’re using language like that. I digress. In a statement shared with Edgyentertainment Weekly, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, SNL’s absolutely right, the Democrats shutdown does need to end gossip.

Conna Spoons in the Street, Gossip Connor, Bobby Bobby Gossip Conna, where the meeting with Johnny mag It’s only the Trees. On Gossip Corner. Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skeens and girlfriend Libby Dunn were at LSU attending the football game. They were seen hanging out with famous comedian Theo Vaughn Levy. Dunn posted a picture of the three of them on her Instagram story.

Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel, It’s Jessica Curson’s No Material crowd Work special. Jessica has been in the news lately. I don’t know if you heard about this. She was recently at the ri Odd Comedy Festival. Jessica said, I hope that this festival could help LGBTQ plus people in Saudi Arabia feel seen and valued.

I’m grateful that I was able to do precisely that, to my knowledge, on the first openly gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia. Received messages from attendees sharing how much event to them. To participate in the gayffirming event. At the same time, I deeply regret participating under the auspices of the Saudi government. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with two sources that the Human Rights Coalition has received the entirety of Jessica’s fee.

Anyway, if you enjoy Jessica’s comedy, the No Material CrowdWork Special is out on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. Today, Jimmy Kimmel won the September ratings, the first time he’s actually won the time slot. Apparently, according to Late Night or if I read the story correctly, Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel is teaming up with Jimmy Fallon. It’s that TV show on Brand with Jimmy Fallon. It apparently is some sort of football season marketing challenge involving Captain Morgan.

On on Brand, we see Fallon and Kimmel introducing contestants to the episode’s task, developing an ad campaign built around bringing crews together on and off the field. Are you familiar with the British teen comedies sitcom The in Betweeners? A fantastic show that, oh, it’s probably fifteen twenty years ago. I found this thing on cable whatever. It’s fantastic.

There was an American remake that was okay, but the British version is fantastic. The show’s creators have a deal to bring it back. Is unclear how it will come back or where are you going to be able to watch it? Is it a reboot? Is it a retake?

It is believed it revolves around the original characters, who’ve got to be at least in their forties now, I would guess. The in Betweeners originally was broadcast on E four in the UK between twenty eight and twenty nineteen. It followed the misadventures of suburban teenager Will McKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland and Jay Cartwright as they navigated school life, friendship, mail bonding, lad culture and failed sexual encounters. Two hit movies followed in twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. I Welcome That Back, I Will Watch That and The Jone Rivers Estate has auctioned off over three hundred pieces of memorabilia once owned by Joan Rivers.

They included some of her wigs, X rays of her dogs, Spikes, Thorax, and some royal family related keepsakes. Melissa Rivers, Jones’s daughter said the timing felt right. I’m finally emotionally ready to let go Joan passed away. In twenty fourteen, two X rays of Spikes Thorax went for five hundred and seventy six dollars. They came with a manila envelope from Spike’s VET.

A copy of the May twenty six, nineteen eighty six issue of People with John Rivers and Spike on the cover sold for nineteen hundred and twenty dollars. Two of the wigs sold for fifty seven sixty and twenty eight eighty two Voodoo dollars went for for forty eight And that is your comedy use for today, right listen? It was fun at the end. I know I got a little feisty in the middle. And Stephen Colbert must be removed from television immediately.

President Trump, what are you doing? If you can create piece in the Middle East? Certainly you could save Star Trek? Can you do that? Can we make Star Trek right again?

You want to impress me? Do that? See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. He was back in nineteen ninety seven, Rolling Stone called Bert Krescher, a sixty year undergraduate, the top partier at the number one party school in the country, which was Florida State University. Now Bert Kraser, three decades later, tells USA Today he’s still partying hard. Bert says, I’d argue it’s probably even worse.

My game hasn’t changed much, but I take bigger stints of sobriety now and I’m healthier now. I work out every day, I get hydrating ivs probably twice a week, I drink water, and I’m more cognizant of my sleep and my recovery. Now. What makes the Bert Krescher tour bus, He says, A ton of vodka, which is his own brand, because all comedians have to have some sort of sidehouso these days for some reason, water, snacks, and a full gym which is stowed in the bus bay. During his twenty twenty three tour, Bert Krescher packed three semi trucks with even more workout equipment.

Boy, you’ve got some budget, dude. Bert said, we had five electric bikes, a cold plunge of sauna, a full gymnasium with rowers and assault bikes, compression boots with recliners. How much money is this dude making? He lost forty five pounds on the tour and said, I’m so much healthier when I’m on the road, without a doubt. Dusty Sleigh has been sober for over a decade.

He told Fox. I like to party. I like to get into it, and so every night comedy became a party, and it’s not sustainable. I just wasn’t feeling good. I wouldn’t remember my jokes.

Getting sober changed my whole life. More than just comedy, but changed my life. He wondered, will I still be funny without the booze? When I quit drinking? I thought I might quit comedy because all my jokes are about drinking.

I’m much better at comedy now now I have all these ideas. My brain’s not constantly clogging flooded with poison. You know, Dusty said, I don’t care if people drink, but for me, it changed my life and made everything better for me. I’d be a total wreck. I wouldn’t be sitting here, and if I was, I’d be sweating, even though it’s heavily air conditioned.

I’d sweat and you’d think, have you been drinking? And I probably would have been I’ve had a beer before I’d go. You guys got any beers around here, and you guys would be like, this is a news station buddy who tells us George Clooney has achieved the impossible. He got Adam Sandlor to dress better. Nice job, George Clooney, although I kind of liked knowing that Adam Sandler is the one person in the world who dresses worse than I do.

If you think I’m wearing some sort of ratty sweatshirt and some sweatpants and a baseball cap right now, you’re right. But even that is probably better than the baggy basketball shorts look Sandler normally goes for. But now he’s all George Clooney fancy pants. Colooney told people, I’ve actually been making Adam wear suits. Don’t you think he looks nicer instead of those big, baggy shorts, Pony said, Adam Sandler, a great dramatic actor, is the sweetest man in the world.

I love him. He’s a dear friend. And the fact I got to work with him again is great. Sandler says he doesn’t really think about his traditional baggy look. He says, it’s as funny as hell.

Whatever one of my kids or their friends talk to me about it. My wife’s like, what are we talking about right now? How did that happen? Even when we were younger, others would say, would you put on something better than that? Your wife’s dressed so beautifully.

My wife would say, he’s comfortable like that. Let him do that. Leave him alone. Yeah, She’s like, dude’s making five hundred million dollars a year. Leave him alone.

He can wear Peggy Shortz. Shut up. Jay Kelly opens in Select theater is November fourteenth, will stream on Netflix December fifth, People saying it’s an Oscar worthy performance by the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, So I’m looking forward to that one. Hopefully it’s in the pantheon of Sandler movies, the great movies like uncut Gems, Space Movie, Basketball one and the two with Drew Barrymore, everything else complete garbage, but hopefully this one is up in that top tier. I saw this as part of my Adam Sandler googling.

Far Out Magazine writes even though an alarming percentage of his filmography is made up of awful, awful comedies. Adam Sandler seems like a nice guy. I agree with everything in that sentence. It is made up of awful, awful comedies, and he does seem like a nice guy. And most of the people who know are of work with him think the same thing too.

The most annoying thing about Sandler, apart from some of the characters he played, is that he knows he’s been coasting for years, if not decades. Every now and then he’ll show up in something like Punch Love, Uncut Gems or Hustled or Mine everyone he’s actually a great actor. Then it’s back to mugging for the camera and happy goomore sequels. Did I write this? Maybe I wrote this and I forgot I wrote this.

Anyway, the point of this article is to spotlight Andy Kindler, who has added himself to the list of people who believe that Sandler squandered his potential by becoming inordinately wealthy. Kindler, it’s old last I’ve been making fun of him for years just for the fact that his movies are never reviewed. He doesn’t even put them out to be reviewed, and just consider the Pixels movie. It doesn’t sound like you listen to the whole pitch. Kindler then talked about The Ridiculous Six, saying, basically, I said that Native Americans who walked off the set of the movie said they’d prefer another genocide.

They’d prefer once again to be slaughtered by the white man in the stay on this movie. I don’t know if it’s that bad. It’s close. What bugs Andy Kindler is? He used to be a huge Adam Sandler fan until Adam became a movie star, which left him feeling that Adam Sandler could be doing better, but for some reason decided to go with the money.

I wonder why he decided to go with the money. Is it? Let me think? Is it the money? Look?

He puts out terrible comedies, But was Adam Sandler the re Odd Comedy Festival? He was not. At least he’s like putting in the work to make happy gilmore too, So I’ll give him that. He hooks up his friends. His daughters are some of the best actresses in Hollywood, so he’s lucky enough that he knows them that he can cast them in the film.

Is it terrible? Of course, it’s terrible, but it’s not the reodd comedy Festival. Am I becoming an Adam Sandler fan? Hmmm. Valcher spoke with David Letterman.

Hey, Dave, any specific memories of the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman. Dave said, well, we had several first shows, the first show on the daytime show, the first show on the NBC show, on the first show on the CBS show, and it’s always like you’re getting ready for the Rose Parade. You have the Rose Parade, and then it’s so, geez, what are we doing tomorrow? I think that was typical of the daytime show, the late night show, and then the late show. After all of the effort, all the energy goes on that first show, now what do we do.

It’s not until about a month and a half to establish a rhythm and production that will hold you, that’ll prop you up for the rest of the run. But until you’re comfortable with that, and it’s going to be a struggle. Vulture asked about Johnny Carson’s involvements, and Johnny was a producer of a Late Night with David Letterman at the beginning there, so that made the man you idolized your boss, or at least your partner. Was he a silent partner or did he chime in? Dave said, to my memory, Johnny couldn’t have cared less except whatever the cut of the budget he got.

We’re of no threat to him. He was still the king of the heap. To him, we were just all right, call me when they’re canceled. He was always very nice. He’d have me on from time to time we would promote the show.

I think he found it amusing, and who knows. I never really asked him what he thought of the show, but always felt like, if you’re not as good as Johnny, really, is there any point in leaving Indiana. But if you look at Johnny’s work, now, my god, it was just solid. Pick one night of the week the first year of the eighth year, of the twentieth year. He’s just rock solid.

He’s like the very best home healthcare person you could afford. He’s constant, doesn’t miss a beat, doesn’t get you worried. I mean that, let me jump in there. Dave’s so right about Carson. Doesn’t get you worried again.

It’s another mark of a great host of just steady in the chair driving the train, not going to go off the rails, not going to get the network canceled. Dave said, I always felt like I felt short of that. I feel like everybody else feels short of doing it. The only person I think didn’t fall short of that was Regis Philbin. Regis was, you know, get on him when we hit your stop, because I’m gonna keep going.

He was fantastic, and Johnny the best since Regis came up. I’ll tell a quick readis story. I’ve told it before. So I worked with Regis a few years. He would come into Serious and host bing Crosby Christmas Radio.

He’s a big fan of being Crosby and we wanted to have a cool celebrity host it. So Regis would come in and one year somebody on the serious end forgot to order a car for mister Philbin, and he was standing in front of the building waiting for a car that didn’t come. He eventually got a car himself. He comes in and he’s all Regis Philbin and he’s churning it on. He’s doing ninety percent the act ten percent letting me know that he’s annoyed, and he’s right, we’re we’re totally in the wrong here.

We didn’t order m car. He’s out in the cold. We’re wrong, we’re wrong, wrong, wrong, We’re wrong. Johnny Max’s wrong. Staff is wrong.

We’re wrong. But so it’s like ninety percent the fun ten percent give me the business. And he’s like yeah, and you know, and I had to pay for my own car to get here. Now I don’t know what made me do this, but I took out one hundred dollar bill for some reason. I had one hundred dollars bill and I put it on the counter and I looked him the eye and I smiled, Ago, we good, and he laughed and he goes, okay, he didn’t take my money, of course, but he’s just just like all right.

I think we had an irish thing going on. Anyway. I loved working with Regis Philbin, a pros pro. One of the things I love working with people who are professional and understand, hey, we’re here to do a job. Let’s knock this out professionally.

People that can hit their marks, people that can read a script, people that can do things in one or two takes. I love it. Now, Jay Leno, you know this guy, he’s the kind of guy that like, weighs in on late night television as if he has any expertise on the subject, and you know, when he’s not out doing charity work, he’s just the worst. I saw this story here from Late Night Er. I guess.

According to Bill Carter’s book The War for Late Night, jay Leno could spend five hours straight choosing material for each evening’s program, pouring over jokes until someone dragged him to a rehearsal. Jay Leno hated vacations and really went to parties. Listen to this guy working on the show. Between seasons, he spent his time off working the comedy club circuit, Bill Carter wrote, some might call him a robot with no apparent inner life, for all didn’t care in or did it even seem to disagree all that much. Guy seems like the worst OT’s called Costco, who did not play the Rioda Comedy Festival.

In fact, went out of her way to make sure we knew she didn’t. She’s figured out another way to make money. She’s teamed up with PF Changs. She’s using her social media to introduce items from PF Chang’s revamped menus, such as the return of the chain’s popular grolic noodles. She’s promoting their new eight to ninety nine cocktail options like the Laichi Martini, which she says gives elegance and mystery sounds like me not me not Johnny Mack sounds like Otsgo Go tells us the Jade Margarita is rich with flavor and vacation vibes, and aunces that the grolic noodles have flavor boulder than my wardrobe and my personality.

Again, nothing bold about my walterrobe or my personality. She’s speaking about herself. The new menu include sushi roles like Spicy Tuna, Kung Pow Dragon roll, and chimped Ti, and entres like Kung Poun chicken. Customers can now either select medium or traditional entrees sizes. The eight ninety nine cocktail collection also includes seasonal specials like the Blood Orange Margarita and the par Teeny And On The Guardian, George Francis Lee wants The Simpsons to end.

Lee wrights the Simpsons hasn’t been good since nineteen ninety seven, which means the show has been in decline for as long as I’ve been alive. Now we’re beset with season after season of awful awful episodes. Ironically, the show is already lampooting the growing difficulty in keeping itself fresh all the way back in ninety five. As Troy McClure said in The Simpsons one hundred and thirty eighth episode Spectacular, who knows what adventures they’ll hat between now in the time the show becomes unprofitable. Boy that was a good episode, and boy that episode was thirty years ago.

The yikes that went fast. Lee writes, it’s impossible to explain succinctly why modern Simpsons doesn’t work. It’s not funny, sure, but Springfield the ends are now oversimplified characteratures of themselves, something so in ned Flanders transition from a well meeting and church attending neighbor to a relentless Christian fundamentalist that it’s spawned the term flanderization. Recently, the Simpsons has suffered more by the loss of some of its iconic voice talent. The voice of Miss Croboppol passed away in twenty thirteen, the voice of Martin the Bully passed away, and the voice of Millhouse retired last year.

Then there’s the declining voice quality of actor Julie Kavner, whose voice for Marge now sounds as pleasant of polyp surgery. That’s harsh, and Harry Shearer when he voices characters like mister Burns and Ned Flanders, he comes off like he’s doing a bad impression. How long until Ai is used to skirt the limitations of actor mortality. Hank Azaria, the voice behind Bartender Moe and the ax Up, who has already written an op ed predicting that very outcome. Now they’re making another Simpsons movie, I’m paraphrasing here.

Not only that, but Fox has commissioned four more seasons, meaning that when it hit season forty and twenty twenty eight, the Simpsons will be the same age as Homer is in the show. When the doughnuts start to go stale, you don’t keep them around for another twenty seven years. You chuck them out. That is your comedy news on a Monday. Have a great day.

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Kalaroka, Shock Media, Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Company News. Mark Norman talked about cancel culture with al dot com and said, obviously, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby and Jeffrey Epstein and or Kelly and list goes on, these are people that should have been taken down years ago, and these are criminals. He should be in jail. So I get all that, But some people, no one ever brings us up. Some people were using cancel culture like get their way.

It wasn’t about justice or doing what was right. Was about, oh, I can use this and call this person a racist, then they’ll get fired and I could take their job or whatever. People started using it for their own benefit and it wasn’t about doing what was morally. Just was about, hey, let me spind this, I get what I want. That’s really when it got ugly.

And I know a lot of examples of that, But to me, I think we’re kind of pasted it, we’re kind of over it, and you just ignored. Tends to kind of be okay, But yeah, that was a dark time. I mean then we did that weird thing we were like, look at Shane Gillis, he got canceled. Now he’s huge. I’m like, yeah, but he’s also talented.

Let’s not act like him getting canceled was the best thing that ever happened to him. That’s like saying, hey, your mom got stabs and now you’re all over the news. So yeah, I don’t worry about it. I think just as long as you tell jokes, you’re fine. If you’re going up there to saying the N word and yeah, maybe that’s a problem, but maybe you don’t have an act.

You’re just trying to be edgy. Yeah, but I talk about everything. I have dicey topics and quote unquote edgy stuff, you know, but it’s all jokes, and it’s all in jest. Mark Norman’s best to come back to a heckler. Mark said, one of my best counterpunches was a big fat lady who for some reason hated me, and she just yelled out boo, and I said, are you saying boo or moo?

And the place went nuts and she hated me more than she left, So that was a real wind. Shang Wang with Cleveland Scene. They were curious about his hair. What made you grow out your hair? Shang said, it wasn’t really a choice.

I canceled my haircut appointment on More to thirteenth, twenty twenty. Was the pandemic. At one point my currey I tried to grow it out. When it was between short and long, I cut it and never gave it a chance. People started complimenting me on my hair.

I thought it might not make sense of cut it now it matches the vibe of the comedy and writing. For now it really works. It’s all an accident. Remember that, did you cut your own hair? Or the pandemic?

At one point I had to take out the I let this hop grow out, but the sides just my hair gets really wide. I had to take out the razor and just be like, all right, let’s hope for the best. Here. It was okay, you know, it was like pandemic. Okay.

I wasn’t leaving the house anyway. Shane jokes the best part of an office job is being able to print for free. Did he ever actually have an office job? Oh yeah, I still have to have different jobs. I had some temp jobs and was always so blown away by how much printing and trash comes out, going from printing at home to printing out an office.

I remember the warmth of fresh printed paper that’s stuck with me. It’s based on real life office experience as a comedian. You going to an office with fresh eyes, and everything feels so alienating and interesting next to I have asked Brian Reagan about performing clean. That seems to be like, if you ever meet Brian Reagan, you have to be like, hello, you’re Brian Reagan. Yes I am.

You were clean? I mean it’s every interview, but okay, it’s the weekend. Brian said, Well, I was always mostly clean even when I started, just because that’s how my brain works, at least comedically. When I’m with my friends hanging out, I could be as filthy as anyone else on stage. Hey, just the kind of stuff I like to do is conceptual and doesn’t normally go in that four letter word direction.

But it wasn’t completely clean when I first started. Maybe about five percent was dirty. When I first went out on the road, AD a handful of jokes that were attention getters. When you’re playing a rough room like a bar that does a comedy, it’s aequila night out of jokes that would hopefully get their attention, and I try to slide to stuff that I like, but then I got to the point where it’s more about being meticulous than wholesome. You know, people got the wrong idea of why I like to work clean.

I like to work clean just because I like the idea of seeing if I could be one hundred percent of something. I see this a personal challenge. How well can I do how hard can I get people laughing without hitting certain buzzwords or topics that can disproportionately work in front of audiences. I started going one hundred percent clean just for the challenge of it, and along the way I found there’s a following for that. I didn’t do it for that reason.

I did it for my own reasons. IPM Newsroom asked Bob Odenkirk about the role of the Midwest in his comedy. Bob said, the Second City is the name for a theater, and it’s a name that was borrowed from a name for Chicago. The Second City. It’s like you’re the underdog, and as a result, you have a suspicious chip on your shoulder towards all that whatever’s happening, whatever’s hype and happening.

That’s good for comedy because that’s what comedy does. Comedy undermines. Growing up here lends itself to that perspective on the world that wants to poke with the world and doesn’t take things seriously. As long as there are irritating things in the world, there’s comedy, So please keep irritating us. You know, nobody quits show business.

Stavros Halki has spoke with GQ about his current views on wellness and said, early on in my career was like, oh, this is fun. Let me get as messed up as possible. Let me get good at something so I get attention from women, and let me get drunk and have sex with any girl that will let me, and eat like garbage to reward myself. Clean that up a little. There’s also a little bit of nihilism, like living like nothing matters around the path to a coward suicide, where it’s like, I don’t want to take care of myself.

Who cares? I’m not going to be around forever.

And then my life’s gone pretty good.

I got a nephew, My best friends have been kids, and I’m like, oh, I’ve gotten successful. There’s people that care about I guess I want to live. So I’ve been trying over these last five years to lose a little weight. I did really well during the pandemic, and then I started working got fat as f again. I just do whatever takes the stick around with the ultimate goal of being I never want to get skinny, but I want to be strong.

On the road, especially on tour, I just start walking. I like to call myself the twenty thousand step bastard. Every day on the road, i’d walk like eight miles. I’d walk into my feet hurt, and then over time my feet stopped hurting. I could walk.

The thing that’s helped me is to be completely honest with yourself and slowly build from there. The theme of this interview is masculinity. I think this is an interesting answer. I definitely see myself in a lineage of those fat guys that are really up to even as a kid. We’re talking Farley, John Candy, Jack Black.

I don’t think anybody would look at me and say that guy’s feminine. I don’t think I’m getting that, but I guess I’m just trying to say for people who feel like they’re not masculine, there’s a version of them that is. You could be a mix of masculine and feminine. If you want to be masculine, you don’t feel it, there’s a path for you to project that. I think for me it was when I unlocked, Oh, women don’t actually care that much if they like you as a person, if you can show what’s good about you.

A lot of my body in security kind of stem from just general insecurity about relationships and getting attention from girls. But I think for me it was when I unlocked Ouh, women actually don’t care that much if they like you as a person, if you could show what’s good about you. When I was confident myself in all these other ways, when I felt like I’m doing what I need to do. I have a nice life plan, I feel confident in my abilities. That inner confidence sort of projected.

I’ve been enjoying these He’s really in touch with himself. This is good stuff. What does he look for in a relationship, he said, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I think it’s cool to be a provider or whatever. But I’m also very attracted to ambition.

I like somebody who’s doing their own thing. I like talking to somebody about their long term goals. I have to think strategically about my career. I like having those long discussions with somebody. As much as I love stand up, essentially I’m running my own business.

I’ve been overdoing it because once you get a shot in entertainment, you kind of have to take it. I remember thinking, oh, I’m so tired to be cool. If I got home and the place was clean and maybe there was food, I don’t want to order food. I was like, what if I was dating somebody would just be here. It’d be cool if she lived here and then took care of stuff.

I’m doing so well, she wouldn’t even need a job. I backwards invented the concept of a traditional housewife. A little more from that Gutfeld thing I told you about yesterday, he talked about the whole King of Late Night thing and explained, I think I’m trying to think where the King came from, and I think after credit Dave Rubin. I think Rubin was on dur in the first week of the show and said something like, you’re gonna be the King of Late Night. You’re gonna be number one.

I don’t like saying stuff like that because then it’ll just be thrown back in your face, but he was right. Then, of course I had to put it on my book cover. I don’t even have that I happened, but putting it on the cover of my book was like this audacious and ridiculous thing. He was asked what late night even means anymore? Like whatever you watch, you’re choosing a side.

Greg Guttfeld said, yeah, it kind of became defined as maybe a person who wanted to go to bed angry with somebody who wanted to go to bed happy. One thing I always want to do is not send people to bed and reached. Sure, maybe you’re sad that Biden lost, but we’re gonna have so much fun. This is gonna be great.

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And then Trump wins, this is gonna be so much fun.

It’s gonna be great. So we’re gonna have fun and things are gonna be great no matter who wins or loses. I’m not gonna let that impact the time that we have. I think doing a late night show that makes everyone feel bad is a disservice. I don’t understand that.

That’s when you have people switching the channel to come to us. They didn’t even know he existed until then again, we’re comparing red apples and yellow apples. Gutfeld is on at ten Eastern, but he’s on at seven Pacific and eleven thirty five pm Pacific, or not at all the same thing. Greg said, there was literally free money on the table, and so I took it, and I showed mainstream media that they don’t own the culture. I think it’s not just about late night, it’s about all of culture.

It’s about the ability to tell people you aren’t the cool kids at the table anymore. You’d took people for granted, you insulted everybody else. We’re the ones now we’re having fun for your OZ told Variety. I don’t think comedians speak truth to power, you know. I think journalists speak to power ideally, but I think comedians speak to a tiny voice in the back of your head, and perhaps over time we’ve forgotten how powerful that voice is.

I also don’t think you can predict whatever is going to get you into trouble. It’s the thing you really thought of, this thing. You never imagine that it’s going to be the complaint that gets filed, and it’s a thing you thought that, oh, this is going to hurt people. It never hurts people at all. So your best bet is just to say it and deal with it.

When the time comes, and that is your company news for today, see tomorrow.