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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, and boy, things are not going my way way? Do you hear the leadoff story on Monday’s episode? It involves David Letterman and boy who this one hurt today? I’m swimming upstream against this whole Jim Gaffigan bourbon thing.

The last time I checked his bourbon set on YouTube had over one point five million views. It’s probably a two or three million by the time you’re hearing this, And uh, boy, I lasted five and a half minutes, and I’m like, I think Jim Gaffigan is just getting by in reputation. But people are clicking on this thing. It’s got, you know, a million and a half plus views, so it’s obviously successful. And the legend of Jim Gaffick and continues.

And okay, everybody, he was on the Today Show and spoke about his bourbon obsession father time. It’s very important. I’m out there support fathers the liquid that every father needs because I believe fathers are underappreciated. I do. What is it about bourbon?

Bourbon is It’s probably the most important invention of Jesus’s and it is. There’s something I love about bourbon, all the elements. I love the bourbon community. I love how it be a community. There’s you know, Alan I we’ve bonded over this.

It allows men to get together, and men need that. Men are kind of socially inept and they need. Some bourbon that brings men together. I mean, I think some of it is it’s alcohol. I’ll tell you well, you should watch is Kevin Hort special on Netflix that is the second best special of the year, behind only Mark Marin Special and to end just funny.

You should watch it. I did have it in my nose for the holiday weekend, and there has been a lot of news. I did want to talk about the Eddie Murphy documentary a little bit, just about the idea of the return of Eddie Murphy to end up. And I can’t see a scenario where it goes well because younger people will be like, what’s the big deal about this guy? Us?

Old people like me. His delirious in particular delirious and raw, but Delirious in particular is built up so much in our minds. And I could probably do half of Delirious off the top of my head right now. If I had to that, my brain would be looking for, like so much of an endorphin hit that as soon as I saw Eddie Murphy doing stand up, I don’t think he could possibly live up to what my mind would need it to be. If he does his old style act, you know the taglines to the setup, mister Murphy, you have aids.

If he does that, he gets canceled. If he doesn’t do that, well, Eddie Murphy’s woke and he’s gone soft. I don’t think he can win. There’s such a thin line there. I don’t think he should return to his stand up comedy at this point.

It’s been way too long. Eddie Murphy will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award, America’s highest honor for a career in film. This announced by the American Film Institute’s Board of Trustees. Murphy will be honored at a gala on April eighteenth. That should make for some good content two weeks after turning sixty five, which seems impossible.

Kathleen Kennedy, you know her from Star Wars, She said. Eddie Murphy is an American iconic, a trailblazing force in the arts of film, television, and stand up comedy. His versatility knows no bounds cross five decades, is enduring impact on our culture as inspired artists and audience is alike, and AFI is brought to honor him with the fifty first AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Previous winners I won’t read all fifty, but some big names here, john Ford, Jimmy Cagney, Orson Wells, Betty Davis, Henry Fonda, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire, Frank Capra. In more modern times and by modern n I mean nineteen ninety four, Jack Nicholson, Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Scorsese, Robert Wise, who, of course directed Star Trek, the motion picture, which December seventh is the anniversary.

Are you going to watch the film on December seventh like you do every year? Like I do? Yes, of course you are. You’re not crazy. Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, to Nero, Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Connery, Paccino, Clooney, Denzel and last year Francis Ford Coppla A nice company for Eddie Murphy The New York Times, and Christina Sikova wrote, Adam Sandler is the light we need yes, Adam Sandler.

Uh, oh, what’s this gonna be? Christina says, when I bought tickets for my dad and I to see Adam Sandler live at the United Senate of Chicago, I worried it was a gamble. My dad’s a saidlor guy, but not a live events guy. You may think of mister Sandler most readily as that goof who sang the Honkkah song, or the one who played in during Manchild characters like Happy Gilmore Billy Madison even in middle age. After a successful forty year career, Sandler inexplicably got the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

How’s that possible? That’s the thing that happened. I’ve got a bulletin board up here in the studio where it says Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars once. I’m gonna write below that Adam Sandler won the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. Both those facts seem impossible to me.

I’m just gonna stare at them as I record the podcast. Christina writes. The Sandman appears now kind of a schlob icon, known for wearing Bloomer sweats, basketball sneakers and a scruffy beard he once described as black and gray cornflakes stuck to his face. Christina writes, at his best, he’s slantedly, chrimming and delightfully fabulous. Yes, he leans into elude pose occasionally, but dirty jokes had never been a whole story with him, and that’s why I believe he’s such a salve at his core.

It’s so clear that he has heart. Christina writs, before we found our seats, my dad asked if there was much profanity in mister Sandler’s stand up. Yeah, I’d said, but not much sex. After mister Sandler reeled off one of his cruder jokes near the beginning of the show, I cringed. Then in my peripheral vision, I saw my dad belly laughing.

As I scanned the enormous crowd, No one among us seemed uncomfortable. In fact, what I saw was relief. Maybe they were relieved that the show was almost over. Who knows. I’d have to check.

By the way, big announcement on this podcast tomorrow. If you’ve been in the Facebook group, you know what it is. But big, big, big, huge, tremendous announcement tomorrow. Colin jo Justin Michael Chay were on the Manning Cast on Monday Night Football as the San Francisco forty nine ers crushed the Carolina Panthers as they always do. Peyton Manning asked each of them to name their dream pick for a future SNL host.

Michael Jay said Denzel Washington. I think Denzel, of all the great movies he’s done, we so rarely got to see him just be funny and silly. I would love to see Denzel hosted fun fact, when I graduated Fordham University, our celebrity speaker was some random actor that nobody cared about, this guy Denzel Washington, and we all like, we didn’t play on our phones. We didn’t have phones yet, but we all kind of zoned out. Oops.

Colin Jost went with Tiger Woods Huge. I would love it. That’s a terrible pick, Colin Jost. Jost added, I’d also love if Michael Jordan ever came back now that he’s doing some broadcast stuff for the NBA, and that would be such a cool one For his third pick. Joe said Steph Curry.

I think Steph’s never done it. Maybe it’s the right timing for him to do it. It’s the hardest with the NBA because I always have to be the first show of the year. They can’t do it. You can’t say President Trump isn’t getting things done.

Now. He and I don’t agree on all the issues, and we’ll talk about one of those issues tomorrow on which we do agree, But you can’t say the man doesn’t get things done. I told you the other day he wanted them to make Rush Hour four. Well, Paramount Pictures has agreed they’re gonna work on Rush Hour four. Both Deadline and Variety reporting Paramount Pictures will distribute the Brett Radner directed sequel on behalf of Warner Brothers.

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker expected to return for Rush Hour four. By the way, pay no attention that Paramount is trying to buy Warner Brothers and they need the government to approve it. Pay no attention to any of that. The President just wants to see Rush Hour four, and the guys at Paramount are like, that’s a great idea, sir. If the President wants to impress me, let’s do something about Star Trek and Paton Oswald helping to ruin it.

Okay, and of course make twelve thirty great again. We’ll get into that tomorrow. Jay Leno says ticket sales for his stand up shows went up almost thirty percent when he made this one change, says the clickbait headline. Jay was on The Today Show and said, I’d take politics out of it. I noticed ticket sales are up twenty thirty per cent, just because nobody wants to be lectured.

When you’re on a TV and you can play directly in your audience and there’s a laugh track. When you go to Indiana or Kentucky or any of the place the country, you’re always gonna have a third of the people don’t agree with you politically, So why even go there. I don’t know, Jay, Maybe you believe in something. I don’t know. I’m not a stand up comedian.

I’m a guy in a basement doing a podcast. Hoda asked Jay Leno if the current political landscape made comedy more of a challenge. Jay Leno said, I don’t think it’s sending tricker. We always said tough times. Stuff that used to be the lost now against the law, and that’s great.

Ultimately, it’s a bit like a donkey. Sometimes you got him in the head with a two by four to get its attention, but eventually it’ll listen. The folks at Billboard recommended some comedy specials for you too, stream if you’ve got some time left on this weekend. A lot of football again today, I mean so much football this weekend. In in olden times, Thanksgiving weekend would be like when I would catch up on movies, or my family would binge like The Fast and the Furious movies.

Now there’s just like constant football. There’s no time to watch anything but football. They really liked Michelle Wolfe’s The Well and add While Frankie Kenyunias, Damn That’s Crazy isn’t exactly his debut special, it might as well be, since twenty twenty one’s HBO half hour Super Homies had its flow broken up by sketches. They liked. Adam Palace is an intimate evening with Adam Palley the idea behind the scenes for an evening of cover songs strung together with stories and jokes, Except most of the songs don’t clear licensing, and the stories may or may not be true.

You’ll find that on HBO. Frankie Conunius on Hulu again. You you have to decide is Frankie Conunius Worth supporting fascism. Maybe he’ll eventually release a special on DVD and you can watch it that way. Leslie Jones Life Part Two is on Peacock.

Michelle Wolf’s The Well is on Netflix. The New York Times profiled Verer DAEs. They caught him boxing. Ver Das said, this is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done. He clarified, working out in front of The New York Times.

Mister Dawes explained, it’s nice to be out of breath at a little bruised. It’s good prep for adversity. The Time says each line follows more or less the same format and example. I come from in India that has the largest working population under thirty on the planet, but still listens to seventy five year old leaders with one hundred and fifty year old ideas. Another example, I come from in India, where we take pride in being vegetarians and yet run over the farmers who grow vegetables.

They then quoted the joke that got him in some trouble. I’m not going to quote it here because it’s just not what I do. But they point out that Vieri didn’t think much of posting the joke at the time. He posted the video on YouTube and then headed to New York with his wife to attend the International Emmy Awards. By the time he got back to Mumbai, there was a chance he could be arrested.

Vier explains, my v’s like, yeah, we’ll see what happens. So she’s on standby, and then I have the conversation with my wife, you know, like if I get arrested, this is where all the money is. Just have this much leftover for legal fees. Here’s all my cards, use everything, all the logins. Yikes, He says.

India has embraced me. I have a massive audience. They just don’t own news channels. You know what I mean. That is your comedy news for today on a holiday Sunday, enjoy the football games and December tomorrow.

Wow, see you then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Damn Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed a couple episodes because the holidays, I get it. I had real episodes both Thanksgiving and yesterday, and yesterday was particularly fun. I was a little loosey yesterday.

Go back and check that out. The SF Gate went to see John Mulaney. They’re right. Comedian John m’alini returned to San Francisco, which he once dubbed a city that isn’t nice. Mlini opened the show by reminiscing on his history with San Francisco and talked about one of his recent sets in the city.

I came here briefly to do a concerted dream Force, and then he told the tech bros that they’re imminently replaceable. Malleini added, I got paid before the show. You can’t do that. He did some local humor the seal of San Francisco should be a guy going back to get a jacket. Melini then admitted, I’ve been doing that joke here since two thousand and seven.

That’s hilarious. I guess he won’t have an Amazon special anytime soon. He did some material about Jeff Bezos saying, no matter how much money you have, there’s no fixing a late. He also commented on Missus Bezos Laurence Sanchez. Yeah, definitely no Amazon special coming.

John Mulaney said, it’s beautiful. How beautiful he thinks she is. M’laney not a fan of AI, saying not complicated, all bad. Don’t let the robots take over? How many times did we practice?

He did some jokes about Robert F. Kennedy, saying his wife was in Curb your enthusiasm and he cheats on her like a dog. That joke got booed. Mulaney said, that’s the line for you. He poisons children, but his infidelity is too far.

The Gate says John may dip his toes into dangerous topics, but mulaney is skilled enough to make even the most vanilla content hilarious. And apparently the closer is very strong. No spoilers here. Now. The President of the United States and I we don’t agree on all the issues.

Some of the issues we do agree upon, For example, make twelve thirty greed again this next issue. Not sure I’m aligned with the president. You see the president, he’s trying to revive the rush hour franchise. That’s right. The President of the United States would like there to be rush Our.

President Trump has been speaking with Larry Ellison, that’s the guy who owns Paramount about bringing back Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Now, interestingly enough, Chris Tucker was recently seen at a Kamala Harris campaign rally. At the time of this recording, there are no plans for a new Rush Hour film, but you never know. My question is why is the President not doing anything about Star Trek. Make Star Trek agreed again?

Stop with the rush Hour, focus on people like Patton Oswalt who speak out against you, mister President, and then play character’s name Doug the Vulcan on Star Trek. I don’t think the President is attacking Patton Oswalt on this issue, this Star Trek, this Dug the Vulcan issue. Quite enough. Patton Oswalt was on Stephen Colbert’s soon to end show, and if Stephen Colbert is going to promote garbage like this, perhaps it is time for the show to come to an end. Let’s listen.

Star Trek Strange, New World’s guest star Patton Oswalt breaks down playing a sexy vulcan Yes, let’s get the sex and that’s going here on. Yeah, hid, Wow, that is what’s uh? What’s what’s his name? His name is Doug. His name is Doug.

It’s his name is Doug is dark. His parents were fascinated with earth culture, so they gave him an earthling name, Doug. Doug. He is a he is an uh, he’s an artist, and he studies vulcan contras and and he is a sensualist. Wow.

Yeah. What is most you know sexy about being a vulcan is the ears or the emotional inavailability. The emotional inavailability. There’s a whole come here, go away vibe coming off of Doug and also that you he is. It is a come here, go away, here go away, come here, go away attack by retreating.

Now, among the issues that the President and I don’t agree on is this whole Jimmy Kimmel thing. Bill Maher called out Jimmy Kimmel’s wife, this is going to go well. I’m sure Kimmel will be like, oh yeah, I’m totally cool with that and not fire back at all. You may recall Missus Kimmel was on a podcast. She revealed that before the election, she reached out to some of her conservative family members to convince them not to vote for President Trump.

She told the podcaster she’s lost some relationships with some family members over their support for the current president. Bill maher addressed the comments. Now these comments were like a month ago. Did Bill Maher pre tape? No shame there.

Sometimes you gotta tape ahead. I understand, Bill Maher, Mar said Jimmy Kimmel’s wife and head writer when public on this topic recently, so I feel it’s fair to comment respectfully in public. She says she’s lost relationships with relatives because she wrote them an email before the election with ten reasons why they shouldn’t vote for Trump. Now, that would have been a great Letterman top ten list. I’m gonna hit pause here.

I’m tempted. I’m gonna ask chat shept to write a harmless top ten list in the Letterman style. Be right back, Okay, I’m back, and this is pretty good. All right, I come in peace. I’ll tell you what I typed in.

Here are the instructions make a harmless nineteen eighty five style slash era Letterman top ten list of the reasons not to vote for Donald Trump. Keep it silly, and then I asked it to get in one particular joke, which you’ll see, Chatchpt playing it safe, chat Chept to hold me. I could do a purely silly, fictional nineteen eighty five Letterman era comedy bit as entertainment only in italics, not real political advice, not actual reasons to vote or not vote. Okay, relax, Chatchapt, it’s a bit. Think of this kind of as the absurdist list.

Dave would read, with Paul chuckling in the background. Yes, that is what we’re doing. Deliverate jokes that have nothing to do with real policies, a real voting guidance. Thanks Ai from the Home Office in Washington, DC. The top ten completely fictional, totally ridiculous, clearly non political reasons not to vote for Donald Trump.

Number ten claims his official presidential votor cade will be upgraded to twelve stretch limos connected like a giant human centipede of catillacts. Number nine wants the national bird replaced, will the really hand pigeon? Number eight keeps calling the nuclear football the nuclear fanny pack. Number seven says he won’t take the oath unless there’s a fog machine at at least one ball the eagle on a skateboard. Number six his proposed cabinet me a mirror, a second mirror, and a guy named Rick who sells stakes out of a van.

Number five wants to rename Mount Rushmore Mount Brushmore and place all the faces with different versions of his hair. Number four says he will accept no briefing materials unless they come in the form of Garfield Comics. Number three thinks NATO is that thing with the singing sharks on Sunday Mornings. Number two keep says, says thing he’s going to make twelve thirty great again, and frankly the network is getting nervous in the number one reason not to vote for Donald Trump his official campaign theme song, You’re the Inspiration, performed entirely on kazoo. I think we might have a new bit coming up.

Yeah, the bit is called completely Revolve Table Levan. I don’t know if that’s a bit seon. Oh I enjoyed doing that anyway, I digress. Where were we? Oh?

Yeah, Bill Maher taking a shot at missus Kimmel, who had her own list of ten reasons not to vote for Trump. That’s how we got into that, Okay, Bill Moore said ten reasons. I could think of one hundred, but I would never present it to someone as an ultimatum. Ultimatums don’t make people rethink their politics. They make them rethink.

You right a top ten list to yourself. We had to try and imagine ten reasons why seventy seven million Americans didn’t want to trust you with taking power. And I say that as someone who votes Democratic, and as I liked to remind my very pure friends, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she lost. Jim Gaffigan got a wax job from Variety.

They asked Jim, Hey, Jim, that’s your sense if humor change over time. Jim said, oh, yeah, it’s definitely evolved. That’s what’s really interesting about having children. The value of a reverence, whether you’re nineteen or twenty one, the excitement around reverence is so much more appealing than nuance. You appreciate nuance later on, when I was in college, I worked as a doorman at a comedy club, and I remember thinking, Oh, these boring comedians.

I like the edgy guy. I would have disliked my own comedy back then. They asked Jim about working relatively clean. Was he always clean? Jim said, Now, I tried on a lot of different hats.

I tried being edgy. There’s footage of me smoking on stage. Whoa, WHOA relaxed there Jim Dice Gaffigan smoking on stage. Who unbelievable? So edgy?

A lot of it’s just trial and error. Eventually you end up being the person who actually are on stage. That’s kind of unavoidable and stand up if you want to embrace authenticity. Some of it is the ten thousand hours and transferring what makes you funny with your friends onto the stage. But the trial and error is being educated on how the audience perceives you.

It’s similar to being a character actor, which I also am, which is code for ugly. You need self awareness. When I’d go on stage at PIPS in nineteen ninety three, the crowded just seeing Andrew Dice Clay and that see me and think I’m John Tesh. I wanted to not be John Tesh, but I eventually had to face the reality that this is what I look like. It’s unfortunate, Jim added.

Comedians get a lot of credit or criticism for the comedy they do, but the reality is they do exactly what they’re kind of allowed to do. I’m a big, lumbering white guy. If I was angry, I don’t think that would be appealing. Lewis Black can be angry, even Bill Burr can be angry. But if I’m angry, it just makes the audience uncomfortable.

If I’m silly and self effacing, that’s palatable to the audience. Ah, We’ll be right back. The Lil Roady Comedy Festival announced their lineup. Pretty good lineup. It shows are in March more, twenty sixth to the twenty ninth, Providence, Rhode Island.

John Mulaney, Chelsea Handler, Jay Farrow, Mark Maren, Andrew Schultz, Bob the Drag Queen and others. That’s a pretty pretty impressive list. Timothy Shalomy said Adam Sandler should have won an Oscar for his performance in the two thousand and two film Punch Drunk Love. I think I tell the story already at my class. Yeah, I did ten days ago.

In my class I mentioned how for repetition and for humor, I always say the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, and one of my students went him like a seven minute speech. About Adam Sandler. It was like he was doing my bit, except he was like super serious. I mean, I’m serious about it. I do think Adam sandler comedies are terrible, and he’s a pretty good dramatic actor.

But you know, I lean into it for the bit. But this student went on for like seven minutes, and this student was all about punch drunk love. So my student agrees with Timathy s Shella May, who says it’s one of the most important performances. It’s impactful, deeply moving. As a young actor, knowing you for your comedic work Adam Sandler, seeing that thrown against the context of your other work, I’m like, Wow, this is an incredible actor.

I hope I can give a performance like this. I know it’s not about awards, but you should have a golden man in your hand. Man. You’re one of the best actors of all time, exactly, one of the best actors of all time, one of the worst comedians. Actually, possibly the worst comedian.

Now that’s probably somebody worse than him. I’m sure if I sat here and thought about it for a minute, no one immediately comes to mind. But in terms of comedy movies, probably the worst of all time. Hopefully the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler will heed the words of Timothy Shllamey, who knows something about acting and has a very successful career without doing moronic attempts at comedy. And that is your comedy news for today.

I once again bounced a lot of stories. I got plenty for tomorrow and Monday. And you know, usually this is a dead time of year, but I’ve got a lot heading out of Thanksgiving. This is like the easiest it’s been since I started doing the show Plenty to talk about. I’m having a good time.

Appreciate you listening. Seems like you’re having a good time, especially if you’re still here this deep in. Have an awesome day.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. If your Daily Comedy News, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. And if you skipped yesterday’s episode, I get it. But it was a real episode and this weekend and today are all real episodes, no holiday filler.

So if you want to go back and catch that one, friends, I think John Mulaney’s at the cash in stage. The headline Kraft Mac and Cheese proves it’s the best thing ever in bold new creative platform that’s right, voiced by John Mulaney, Best Thing Ever, reinforces that the brand’s deliciousness, ease, and affordability make it the greatest thing on earth. The press release, which tags two cities, Pittsburgh and Chicago. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a two city press release, but from Pittsburgh and Chicago the news Kraft Mac and Cheese has unveiled a new creative platform, best thing Ever, proving that nothing compares to a bowl of Kraft Mac and Cheese selling one million blue boxes each, proving that Americans eat healthy. If you’re looking at all of us, including the guy recording a podcast’s basement, going why are you people?

Overweight gee, I don’t know. Selling one million blue boxes each day, Kraft Mac and Cheese has uniquely shaped American history and waste sizes present through every healthy stage of life, from an afternoon school snack to an empowering rite of passage on the path through adulthood. The brand’s fan base transcends generations, Anchored by one of the brand’s most significant media investments and voiced by comedian and actor John Mulaney. Tap the brakes, Why because he’s in The Bear? Actor John Mulaney, Hold on, I’m going to IMDb, known for documentary Now as a writer, Spider Man into the Spider Verse voice actor as Spider Ham Chippendale Rescue Rangers.

Previous roles by actor John m’lane include The Bear, Big Mouth, Poker Face, Bupkiss, the voice of Jack Horner in Puss and Boots, Last Wish. He played Henry David Thurreau in two episodes of Dickinson, appeared in two episodes of Crashing where I think he played John Mulaney but I digress, and he appeared as John Mulaney on The Jim Gaffigan Show. Okay Fine. Comedian and actor John Mulaney Now this press release didn’t give us a quote from the comedian and actor John Mulaney, but we are told Kraft Mac and Cheese is turning Black Friday into wait for it, Mac Friday. That’s right.

You can go to Walmart dot com and for just nineteen dollars and thirty seven cents. This is not a commercial. This is me making fun of something. Go to Walmart dot com and you get the mac Friday Box. It’s a flat screen TV sized box filled with sixty five boxes of Kraftmac and Cheese.

So here’s what I think you do. I think you buy one of these and you wrap it and you have it shipped to like one of your friends. You’re like, hey, Scott Beckett, Merry Christmas. Your pal Johnny Mack. It sits there under his tree for a month.

He’s like, wow, Johnny Mack, he used the football pool money and he bought me a big screen TV. He’s really awesome.

And then on Christmas, Scott Peckett gets up early and he waits and he saves …

Merry Christmas. Scott. He’s not just selling alcohol free beer, He’s selling mac and cheese. You know who else likes to sell your product is the really cool guy Jim Gaffigan. He shared his bourbon set on YouTube and shared a minute of it on social media.

Let’s listen. I love the esthetic inside of a liquor store. It’s almost if some interior designer was like. What if the whole store looked like the back room. We want people to feel like they’re in an episode of Hoarders.

There’s a silence you only find in liquor stores. You ever notice that people walk around all serious, like they’re in an art gallery. Interesting, Maybe this will make the pain go away. Liquor stores have their own vibe, right, There’s a tidly divorce dad energy. A stack of boxes suddenly becomes a shelf.

It’s not dirty, but it’s certainly not clean. Things are handwritten, crossed out. You feel like you’ve stumbled upon a garage sale and a bus station. Now. I didn’t comment in advance because I didn’t want to poison your braid.

But here’s what I want you to do. I want you to listen to what I have to say and then hit thirty second, not skip, but whatever, back thirty second, back twice, maybe three times. At this point, I want you to listen to again. Here’s my question too, is Jim Gaffigan just getting by on goodwill? He is?

Listen to it again. It’s not that funny, says the guy recording a podcast in his basement. But at least I would call you back if you helped my career jump. On YouTube, you can watch live from Old Forrester the Bourbon Set. Jim shot the special at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky.

Curious how many of your tax dollars went to this? With oak barrels lining the stage? Now, I timed ins at Google the phrase the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Ky. Funding. The AI overview, which could be incorrect, says the Kentucky Performing Arts Center is funded by a mix of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Kentucky, private foundations, corporate partnerships, and individual donors.

Meg of that what you will, but that is where Jim Gaffigan shot the bourbon themed Bourbon set, which you can find on YouTube and just listen to The Bourbon Set was inspired by Jim’s deep dive into the bourbon world the launch of his own small batch bourbon called father Time, which is now being promoted by a comedy set, which was recorded at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, which AI says is funded by a mix of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Jim said, with line from Old Forrester or the Bourbon Set, I let my love of bourbon lead the way at this point. I’m not sure if bourbon is a passion or a midlife crisis, but I love it. I can answer for you if you want. Since this was such a niche endeavor, I didn’t even go to a big streamer.

I just wanted to get this material out there for the other bourbon geeks. Wow. I just checked the clock. We’re pretty deep in. I’m still on story number two, all right.

I watched some specials. I know Johnny Mack, who hosts a podcast called Daily Compedy. Doos actually watch comedy specials? Gee? Thanks, host, I know I’m the worst.

You know how much sports there’s been Monday night football. There is a night football Saturday Night college football, Sunday Football, Sunday Night football. I try to go to Trivia Night on Wednesday. That leaves Tuesday and Friday to watch stuff. So last Friday I watched stuff.

I put on Sebastian Maniscalco’s Hularius Special. At one minute and fifty four, I muttered to myself, it wasn’t doing a bit. It was just me home alone, and I’m watching it and it gets to the one minute fifty four mark and I catch myself saying out loud, Holy f word. It was that bad. I made it until five minutes and twelve seconds in.

And here’s my question. This is not a bit, this is a real question. Is Sebastian Maniscalco at this point just doing a character that he internally calls old man Clay. Watch it again and tell me he’s not just doing old man Dice because he’s doing old Man Dice. I don’t know if he realizes he’s doing old Man Dice, but he’s doing old man Dice.

Pass on that one. Here’s the one you should watch, mo Ammer Netflix. It’s called Wild World. I like when a comedian has something to say. MO has something to say, won’t spoil it.

Very funny, very on point, even that a poor man’s Carlan heading towards the closer there, which I thought was really interesting. And I assume he knows he was doing poor Man’s Carlan. If I ever get to interview him, I will ask him about that. But I recommend on Mo Ammer’s Wild World on Netflix. Another one that I liked as I was just pilencing around the streamers, Matt McCusker’s Netflix special, A humble offering.

I went into it with low expectations. I don’t know why, and I was like, oh, this is pretty funny. Now. The sound is a little homebrew. I think we need to up the production values a little bit, but humor wise, pretty good.

Gonna make my end of the year list. He’s a bit of a poor man’s Shane Gillis, which makes sense because of the podcast. But like that one a lot. I checked out Kathleen Madigan Special on Amazon. It’s fine.

It’s Kathleen Madigan doing Kathleen Madigan things. Same note on Leanne Morgan Special, which is on Netflix. It’s fine. It’s not for me, but it’s fine. I remember I told you last week.

On Amazon, there was one that I was like, this is terrible. I don’t believe a word that the comedian is saying. I remember what it was because Amazon put it in front of me again. It was Joe List small ball. I just didn’t believe a word out of his mouth is true.

And I understand what stand up comedy is. I get it. But I loved Most Special because he has something to say and it’s based in truth, and I just felt like Joe was shocking jokes. Again, I get what comedy is not for me. I did not yet get to Kevin Hart’s acting My Age, which came out on Netflix on a week where Hey, guys, football football Friday, NFL Today, college football, more football Wednesday night, was one of the big go out nights of the year.

What do you think I’m watching these things? I mean, I guess they think people are off of four days. Maybe they have time. Anyway, Johnny Mack didn’t get to it yet. The folks at Steady Cut watched it.

They said, Kevin Hart delivers vintage material, toning down theatrics and settling back into his comfort zone with the benefit of maturity. That sounds refreshing because if you watch the football games. Every I was gonna say, every other commercial. I’m pretty sure it’s every commercial. Is Kevin Hart trying to get you to bet on sports, to have the brakes?

Okay, we got it. Kevin heard you the first seven underd times. Ready steady cut, Johnny Mack is feisty today, Ready steady cut said. Any comedian who was a sufficiently lengthy career and a certain amount of success is going to go through ups and downs. Here’s how you know you’re on a down.

Your specials on Hulu. That’s how you know. Just just everybody write that down. Kevin Hart has had them in real time. You can generally chart each stage in his career through his specials.

Has he had a Hula special? He has not yet. Any comedian it was a sufficially a lengthy career and a certain amount of success, et cetera, et cetera. You can generally chart each stage in Kevin’s career through his specials. The Hollywood theatrically of his arena shows the ill fitting Chappelle light diet tribe of his COVID special.

Heart has always had a well defined comedy persona full of exaggerated physical details, expressions, and voices, but he’s been susceptible to chasing the moment a little instead of defining it himself. Wow, good criticism there ready. Steady Cuts says, this is not true of acting my age, which is about you guessed it, getting older and becoming more comfortable than ever with his reality. They say it’s not a complete reinvention for heart, but it’s a returned to vintage form. All right, I’m looking forward to that one.

Boy. We are long here and I’m enough to cut things. I’m telling you, I got a plenty for the weekend. Let me get this one in. Donald Glover, do you see this?

He said he had a stroke. He was experiencing symptoms before his New Orleans show in September twenty twenty four. Donald Glover said, I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and he did the show anyway. I couldn’t see someone. He went to Houston.

I went to the hospital. The doctor was like, you had a stroke. Donald Glover said. The first thought upon hearing that was, oh, here, I am still copying Jamie. Fox comedy stock Markets.

Thank you, Bert Reynolds. In the comedy stock market, much like the real stock market, is a half day today. All right, my recommendations, Let’s buy some Robbie Hoffman. Why Johnny Mack, Because when I saw Malany was producing her special, I dusted off my knowledge of for Robbie Hoffman. I was like, Oh, Robbie Hoffman’s really good.

So let’s buy low on Robbie and we are gonna make out like Bannetts. The opposite here, I think is let’s sell some Sarah Sherman. No, Johnny Mack loves Sarah Sherman, but the premise of comedy stock market is not who’s good who’s bad, It’s where is the value? And I think regular America who knows Sarah from SNL is going to watch this Sarah Sherman Sarah Squirm special on HBO next weekend. We’re two weeks from now, and be like, what is even happening?

So let’s sell Sarah. Let’s sell all our patent. Oswald, he’s out destroying Star Trek, he’s getting very political. Let’s go to upset people. You know you can’t do that, Patton Oswalt.

I appreciate it, but you’re gonna lose wils. We’ll sell patent on a value standpoint. We’re also gonna sell Eddie Murphy at Peak. I think that documentary. Initially people like, oh this is great, And now I’m starting to see the reviews of like, hey, yeah, kind of glossed over some stuff there, Eddie.

So let’s sell Eddie Murphy at peak. Let’s buy Moe Emmer. America is not paying enough attention to this guy. Let’s buy some Shane Gillis. Here’s why I feel like he’s right there.

I don’t know what the thing is going to be, but he’s right there. He’s next to Last week we were talking about who’s the top comedian? Right now, Shane is right there. There’s gonna be something. He’s gonna drop, a special or something.

Let’s just start accumulating some Shane Gillis, And you know, we want to get out high before the values crash. Let’s sell John Mulaney. He’s cashing in, I’m cashing out. Good line and Jim Gaffigan, same thing every time Jim speaks. Now, I just feel the coolness rushing out of the room, as if like you opened a door on an airplane and everything’s going wow out.

It’s just it’s all leaving, all right. So pretty busy for a half day on the comedy stock Market by Robbie Hoffman, by Shane and Gillis. Buy, Moe Ammer, sell, Sarah Sherman sell, Patton Oswalt sell, Eddie Murphy sell, John Malaney sell Jim Gaffigan. That’s your comedy stock Market on a Black Friday. I’ve bounced like ten stories, so come back tomorrow.

I’ve got plenty. I’ll leave you with this one. Adam Sandler says he feels guilty doing stand up comedy in front of his daughters. Yeah, dude, why would anyone have their children watch Adam Sandler comedy. I’ve made it a point.

You’ve heard me tell the stories. I forbid my family from watching Adam Sandler comedy. It’s that bad. I can’t believe Adam Sandler would do that to his own daughters. He seems like he loves his daughters.

Why would you make these poor teenage girls watch Adam Sandler comedy? Adam Adam told Jimmy Kimmel, I’m very filthy. You know. I curse a lot be doing that my whole life. I feel guilty because I shouldn’t have done it, but I do, and I continue to do it.

The Great dramatic actor said, it was my daughter’s birthday. They came to Vegas to see me right away. I said, see, I’m even gonna clean it up. Gosh during it. They’re in Vegas, can we bring our friends it will celebrate at one of your shows.

And he thought, I can’t be myself a curse in front of them. Sandler says he has previously noticed the shame in their eyes after they witnessed him cursing on stage. Are you sure? I mean, I’m sure they like the millionaire lifestyle, but maybe they’re like, oh, that’s how dad makes money. I wonder if they’ve seen your movie.

Well, they’ve seen your movies because they’re in your movies, so they’ve seen them. So they’re guilty too. I no longer feel bad for the daughters. You’re part of the problem. Daughters.

Sandler said, that’s a fake guy. That’s a stand up comedian guy. You get the real daddy at home. Sandlor told Kimmel, I’m on stage knowing my daughters and their friends are in the crowd. I’m changing everything up.

It’s Vegas. Everyone’s expecting filth, and I’m not giving them filth. For like an hour and forty five minutes he gets off stage. Sandlor says his wife told him, Oh, they left five minutes into it. They wanted the fun with their friends.

I think they went and had desert or something. That’s comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media heavy Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jonathan Kite has been doing these impressions of Anthony Bourdaine. He posted them on threads at Jonathan Kite. He goes to actual locations, he dresses up like Boardane.

He does a great Boordaine impression. He’s got the body type to pull it off too. I was watching this one that I’m about to play for you, and I was like, even if I did a great Boardine, I don’t have the right body type at all. I could never pull off toll and Lean. But Jonathan Kite has this thing down.

I’m gonna go a little longer with this one than I normally do because it is Thanksgiving themed, and you know Kite’s putting He’s up on social media, so I don’t think he’s really trying to monetize them. I come in peace, really like your work. But here’s Jonathan Kite as Anthony Bourdain. Welcome to America’s Endless Harvest and the Feast of all you can eat Golden Corral, where Pilgrim’s progress meets the Age of consumption. Because here Thanksgiving isn’t a holiday.

It’s a lifestyle, a face style. So buckle up, throw on your stretchy pants. This is manifest destiny. It’s the United Plates of America, and at sixteen ninety nine ahead you get liberal portions at conservative prices. As is tradition, we begin with the bird, our annual sacrifice.

The golden butter soap turkey glistens under heat lamps that could tan a corpse, and like Travis Kelcey’s dating history, you can enjoy both white and dark meat. The first Thanksgiving was a fragile truce between worlds to survive the Hunger Games of sixteen twenty one. Today we gather with loved ones just trying to survive each other. Left wing, right wing. It’s all the same bird.

Absolutely fantastic. Jonathan Kite is his name, Give him a follow. Sebastian Manuscalco, he spoke with us weekly. He had a cooking show, remember that it was called Well Done with Sebastian manusuks Alco on Food Network.

And now in hindsight, I’m realizing I didn’t make nearly as much fun of that …

I should almost go back. If we ever have another pandemic and I need a bit like George Lopez Tacos. Maybe I’ll just critique well done with Sebastian Manascalco on Food Network. But hopefully we won’t have another pandemic and I won’t have to do that. But as you know, it’s this is a food story and it’s Thanksgiving.

I do put these shows together. A Sebastian said, I became passionate about cooking around the time I met my wife. I like cooking because it’s similar to comedy and that you’re doing it alone and making stupid faces for no reason. If it sucks, it’s your fault. If it’s great, it’s your fault.

Same thing with stand up. It’s very therapeutic for me to go into the kitchen and get lost in the sauce. I do a beautiful French toast. The next thing I want to master is pizza. Switching to comedy.

You have to live in everyday life to extract humor, and that’s why I’m an active parent. I drop my kids off at school, I go to the soccer games. I’m taking my kid to gymnastics. You find a lot of humor in those things. You do have to be cautious about talking about some of the fancy things you do.

I went to the Oscars, but my Oscar story is not one of fame and fortune. It’s me sitting up at the third balcony while everybody from Greenbrook is accepting the Oscar. When I was announced on the red carpet, it was a bathroom break for the photographers. They were cleaning their lenses. Ryan Seacrest was there with his camera guy in lights on a pedestal, and they take me all the way down to the guy who’s a one man shop with his iPhone and is from the Ecuador Times.

So four dot com spoke to Fortune Femmester about taking care of Biscuits. That’s the name of her tour. She said it came to me as something that lets people know they’re in for a good, silly time. She said, Now, at all the cities I go to, people are dropping biscuits off, and I’m grateful, but I’m like, oh, I’m gonna have to name my next tour taking care of Salads, because it’s a lot of biscuits right now. One Instagram video showed Fortune in her green room.

The room was filled with biscuits from heart Ease Biscuit shaped pillows custom merch. She said that was all a surprise. My writer is so boring. I literally asked for water, ice and a cup. I used to have big, extravagant green rooms, but then I was never hungry, and I felt like I was being super wasteful because normally I either eat before or after.

The show asked for her biscuit preferences. Her favorites are a loaded, savory, yummy biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese, and a little honey, or just the opposite, just a jelly biscuit. I’m trash, so I love grape jelly. If Fortune Feamster could only eat one thing twenty four seven three sixty five, it would be pad thaie. She says, I went to Thailand and ate pad tie for a week and a half straight and did not get tired of it.

I love it so much, I think I could do it. I could just eating it forever. I usually get it with chicken, but if I were gonna eat it every day, I’d try to switch it up, try some shrimp or tofu or bounce back and forth. All right, Fortune was the first thing you learned how to cook grilled cheese. But I learned by doing it wrong.

I was babysitting and the kid won a grilled cheese to turn the oven on. And he was like, why are you turning the oven on? And I said, I don’t know baking it. He told me just throw in a pan or the toaster oven. It was too much for me.

You don’t need to go throw that for a grilled cheese. But he was right. I was pretty old to learn that. Like sixteen more food stories from Fortune. It’s Thanksgiving, you know, she said.

Grilling is brand new for me. I never had a grill until I got this house, and it came with a grill, and I was determined to learn how to use it. Getting beef to the right temperature is the trickiest part. You don’t want it to be too rare or red or too cooked and dry. I’m learning the happy medium there.

And there’s an editor’s note pun intended. Fortune told Savor I’m a dessert gal. I have such a sweet tooth. I’m near a cheesecake factory. I will hit up that Adam’s peanut buttercup fudge rippled cheesecake.

That’s a real treat. Any foods from your childhood that you liked Grandma’s chicken and dumplings, so comforting and classic. Biggest flex to impress guests. Fortune said, I love some good scented candles. They’re inviting warm then all you eat is good food.

I don’t have a signature scent yet, but I love holiday candles all the time, so we’re getting closed to the holidays. I’m pumped because the ones that I love smell like Christmas trees. Jim Gaffigan spoke to The Today Show. They were curious how Jim’s wife and kids feel about being in his comedy. Jim joked, I don’t care.

Then he got a little more serious and said, the good news is that my children all the things I say, I don’t have to feel guilty because they have no interest in my comedy. I’m more concerned about accidentally posting a photo where they appear in it on Instagram than me saying something in my stand up. Obviously, I try to be respectful, and I think anyone who’s apparent is aware. We’ve all made mistakes. But parenting is you try your best and then as a parent, become their septacle for all the blame.

Kathleen Madigan spoke to the La Times about her family and the stuff they bring over. She’s proud of the chicken salad or stuff they bring over like tunicast roles, and they’re very into hardy grandma type food, meaning fattening, which I’m all in on. She talked about a Midwestern sensibility and said everybody’s got their little things, like I would have a big fight about their corn being better than anyone else’s stupid stuff. But to us, it’s what’s happening. It’s what we’re talking about sports.

Everybody’s got their thing with the packers and that kind of stuff, but it’s not anything we were given, like the ocean, the mounts of Colorado. Don’t know, we don’t have that either. That’s why when people say, oh, do you like where you’re from, or always like, yeah, it’s fine. We know it’s not great, but it’s not horrible. It’s fine.

I love when people say Saint Louis is that kind of by Chicago, well kind of four and a half hours down the road to find kind of pie. That’s what I say about my coastal friends. It’s what they’ve been given. I mean, someone made it all the way out there, so I give those people credit, but the Midwest is like, you’re gonna get bored driving around Kansas, Nebraska. At least in Missouri.

When you get south of Saint Louis, we start to get big ills. We called them out, and it’s a hill. We have good lakes. Coastal people don’t like lakes because so like, yeah, that water is a little still. I’m like, yeah, and there’s snakes in it too.

She is hilarious, all right. No amount of food stories. Uh. Stephen Colbiert had spoken to GQ. This one is a bit of a leftover in the spirit of Thanksgiving.

They were curious, does he think the late night format makes sense anymore? Do you think the times for these shows has passed? Have you ever felt that while doing your show, Stephen Colbert, He said, no, not doing the show. I do the show with gratitude. We have a really great time.

We love doing the show with each other. We love all pulling on the same rope. I love being there with those four hundred fifty people and the Ed Sullivan Theater, in a Broadway theater. We’ve done our best to deliver something that the network can monetize in some way. I thought we were successful at that, so all things must pass.

I think if there’s a business reason for this. I know there’s been a change in ad rates since the strike, and I know that’s really never recovered for that, so all that makes sense to me. And I also know that these late night shows are kind of like symphony orchestras. They need a certain amount of personnel to do them. You can’t relate to a show and the Ed Sullivan Theatre eleven thirty five on CBS with a band and sketches and field shooths and stuff like that for the cost of a podcast.

And if you look and say, oh, well look, this is what a podcast makes, and this is what these shows make, then you’re keeping these shows on because you’ll love the form. Why would shows like mine continue and exist or Kimmel or Jimmy or whatever. Well, we’re like your friend who at the end of the day paid attention to what happened today more than you did, and we curate that back to you at the end of the day. But it’s really more about how we feel about or I as the person who’s the vehicle for that, how we felt about it today. Boy, that speaks to me as someone who does this show, Like, presumably at some level you just kind of enjoy my voice and vibe, right, Like, I don’t think you’re like this is the only place I can get comedy news.

But you know, we have this relationship, you and I. You listener, me host, and yeah, I feel what’s Stephen selling here? He says. I share those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they don’t laugh, and there’s a sense of community there. Quick time out, it’s a holiday, We’ve got time.

I was teaching my class one week ago today, and I was teaching the college class about the concept of tribes and building community around shows. And I started to explain to the class how I almost always refer to one comedian as dramatic actor Adam Sandler. You’re in on the bit, I’m in on the bit, and always saying dramatic actor Adam Sandler reinforces the thought there with me as the leader lowercase L of this tribe of comedy fans who have gathered around this podcast and in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, please join us anyway. One of the students starts agreeing with me and goes on for like seven minutes about Adam Sandler is good in punch, drunk Glove and in uncut gems. And I just stood there mugging for the camera, making eye contact with students, and just gesturing over at the student who just kept going on and on proving my point of the power of the tribe and of the community.

And I high five the student. I was like, you just proved my point. So I get what Colbert is selling here. He says, there’s a sense of community and there are fewer, fewer. I don’t know who coined this term, but there are fewer and few of what you would call third spaces in our life.

Have you heard this term three spaces? This is John talking. My daughter taught me about the sea off home, work, and then somewhere else you go. For me, it’s the brewery on trivia night, where I see my friends every now and then. I’m tired.

A couple weeks ago, the night we want Actually, I was kind of tired and I said to my wife, I go, I have to show up or I won’t have friends anymore. I need to be with the guys. So that’s my third space. Colbert says, we need third spaces in our life, not your home, not your work, but some other place we get together, and these late night shows are for millions of Americans a third space to come together and think about the day. Switching to politics, Colbert said, people perceive me as the sort of lefty figure.

I think I’m more conservative than people think. I just happened to be talking about a government and extremists. What I’m giving to you is my reaction video to the day, and my reaction video is like the scream. So that makes me perceived as more left necessarily than I am, because I’m not sure what other reaction would be a an honest one. I was having a side text with a friend of the show who appreciated that he’s not entirely sure which side of the aisle I’m on.

Again, this is not a political show. I’m not sure what you think. I’m not even sure what I’m telegraphing might actually be accurate. Again, and I’m not playing a role. But like I like to say, the President and I don’t agree on all the issues we agree on twelve thirty, we don’t agree on other things.

With previous presidents. I agreed on some things, didn’t agree on other things with the next president. I’ll agree on some things, I won’t agree on some things. I think that’s how most people are, right, Colbert said, we broadcast to a general audience. There’s no entrance fee, there’s no subscription.

You don’t have to look for us except on Channel five or wherever you are. And we have a variety of different guests. It’s a variety show. It is Thanksgiving, and I hope you’re all having a nice Thanksgiving. I do want to give a shout out to one particular member of the audience.

That’s Mike Chisholm. He hosts The Letterman Podcast, and I don’t know if you know this. He’s Canadian. So hey, Mike, hope you enjoyed October twelfth, or whenever Canadian Thanksgiving was. I assume you have to work today.

Sucks to be you. The rest of us Turkey and football enjoy my friend. Love you. A new episode of The Letterman Podcast tomorrow, probably, I don’t know. I don’t know if Mike’s skipping week.

He usually puts out an episode on Friday. If not, you haven’t listened to them all. Listen to on an old one. He’s got this guy Johnny that goes on there every now and then anyway, Mike good Joy work today, I’ll be getting even fatter. Lauren Michaels has donated his five hundred box archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

The exhibit is called Live from New York, The Lurne Michael’s Collection. It is stuff going all the way back to nineteen seventy five, boasters, newspaper clippings, photos, Lauren’s work with Lily Tomlin, Phyllis Diller and Rowan, and Martin’s laugh in his other stuff Three Amigos, Mean Girls, thirty Rock Portlandia, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Late Night with Seth Myers. You can walk past that exhibit and be like, Kah, this isn’t interesting at all, and just keep going. There are posters, annotated scripts, Make twelve thirty Great Again, costumes, production materials, and newspaper clippings from these projects. Guest curator Steve Wilson’s exhibit labels provide excellent in depth guides the entire exhibit.

Various network memos on display reveal the inevitable behind the scenes battles of musical tastes. Network execs like the classic rock. The youngsters like some different kinds of music.

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Before email, the show regularly got mail, fan letters, complaints, sketching job pitches, scribbling on everything from scratchbats to toilet papers. There’s a nineteen seventy eight letter from one of the writers describing the frustration of having to respond to the relentless barrage of unsolicited comedy materials. She wrote, no matter how funny you think it is, we cannot read, evaluate, or use any of your stuff. We never use outside material, and we’re not looking for any new writers at this time. Really cross my heart and hope to die, which I may do soon if I have to write any more letters like this one.

And that is your Thanksgiving comedy news for the day, normal episodes all weekend. I got plenty even from this show. I bumped four stories. It’s not one of those weeks where I’m like, oh, what am I going to talk about? I got plenty.

Enjoy your Turkey, Mike, enjoy work. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Normal episodes through the holiday, including tomorrow. I have got a great piece from Jonathan Kite for you tomorrow. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Maga comedian Shane Gillis.

I don’t know why the headlines call him maga comedian, but Mega comedian Shane Gillis thinks President Donald Trump is approaching quote Biden brain territory. There was a conversation on Matt and Shane’s Secret podcast. Matt asked, Shane, you think he’s getting dementia. Shane responded, I mean, I don’t know. He just seems a little slower than usual.

McCusker said their speculation that tea dog might be rocking Biden brains. Gillis said he’s definitely not at Biden brains yet, but he’s circling the dream. Shane also felt the quiet Piggy line was effing crazy. It’s pretty wild. I just can’t think of how embarrassed that lady must have been.

Friend of the show, Jason Zeniman, he writes for The New York Times, he went to see Louis c. K under the headline a meditative Louis c. K take the stage. Don’t call it a comeback. Louis C.K.

Plays concerts all over the world, from the Riod Comedy Festival to the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. We’re told c K said you can live a great life, but you’re still alive after that part. Apparently a big chunk of this set is about aging getting older. Jason writes, what’s faded in the memory is that Louis was once treated like a secular saint. The word genius was frequently thrown around.

Critics bent over backward to interpret his sick jokes as the work of a progressive philosopher King This was always a stretch. Louis C.K. Has always been far more committed to exploring discomforting thoughts and forbidden territory than in advocating any position he still is. The anxiety and fluster that powered so much of his work has been replaced by a disarming equanimity when he evokes the darkest subjects. The biggest twist might be that he rarely approaches any with anger.

Jason adds what has most diminished as Louis ci K’s social commenter, his new hour is almost aggressively anti topical what has replaced it is a bit surprising. C K is now fixated on faith, mentioning religion in every special post cancelation, even breaking out a Bible in one bit. It might seem like an odd shift since he remains a committed non believer. Jason end’s with here Louis C.K. Showed us the upside of living a long time.

It meant that he could not only develop his craft, but also the confidence of taking a risk and pulling it off. Lengthy piece in the New York Times, and you should always read Jason’s inman pieces. Sebastian Maniscalco told Good Morning America that SNL asked him to be part of the Marcelo Hernandez sketch. Sebastian explained, I couldn’t because I was doing a show in Palm Springs. I’d love to host SNL.

If people out there are listening, I’d like to do SNL. If Lauren’s watching, I could see him hosting SNL. That seems pretty close to a no brainer. Maybe you have Marsello bust that impression out one more time.

And then he asked Sebastian a host in the spring sometime.

That’s not crazy talk. Maniscalco likes the impression. Listen, it’s very flattering that he did that. I thought he did a great job. Obviously, you know it was really over the top.

Was it. I’m not sure you’ve seen your own trailer. Obviously, you know was really over the top, which made it funnier. Cam Batterson, who’s going to wind up doing one year of SNL SIS Johnny Mack has wisely scheduled a comedy to our forty four dates around the country January through June, during weeks off from SNL, and then after June he’ll probably have lots and lots of weeks off from SNL, just saying do you watch the show? I do?

What? Has? He had? Four lines? Cam Patterson will visit sixteen cities, offering three night stints in most cities.

Kevin Hart dropped a special on Netflix. He also went on the Diary of a CEO podcast, a lengthy interview. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I did read the transcript. Kevin Hart said, I’m a very driven individual, and I’m driven off ideation. I like the fact that they can have thoughts and if you’re in love with the thoughts that you’re having, you can be energized to bring those thoughts into a bigger reality.

That’s the real fuel to the brain for me. I mean, there’s no success without failure. They go hand in hand, and with the failure comes amazing lessons, adjustments, and he gets sharper because of the stuff you’ve done wrong or you didn’t know it to approach a certain way that now you know how to approach. So I embrace the concept of failure just as much as I embrace the win of success. I feel like I’m doing a service of good.

If I can make people feel better, if I can brighten up your day, it’s a service of good. It means I’m like a shepherd of some sort. I’m responsible for making people feel better. Robbie Hoffman has a premier date for her Netflix special. It’s called Wake Up.

It is notably directed by John Mulaney. Mail a lot of attention to Robbie Hoffman when this got announced and I was putting together the show I host on Live One, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s like this except a lot less me. But I can also play stand up clips. So if I were telling you the story, I would play a clip by Robbie Hoffman here on this show.

I really can’t do that, but I dusted off my own knowledge of Robbie Hoffman. I was like, oh yeah, all right, okay, so that’s a hint for this week’s comedy stock Market, get on the Robbie Hoffman trade, I’m telling you. John Mulaney apparently agrees. He’s directing Wake Up, which will be on Netflix December fourteenth. Now a sidebar here.

Everybody’s putting out the specials too late. I’m working with a publicist who’s gonna share my list of the top specials, and my homework’s due December thirteenth, So there’s like this one. It’s a Gora Gervais. They’re all coming out too late. Come on, people, Johnny Maxx Top twenty five of the first eleven and a half months.

Robbie Hoffman taped the special at the Masonic Lodge back in October. In a statement, John mlaney said, Robie Hoffman makes me laugh until I’m delirious. No one has owned a stage like her since James Brown. I’m extremely proud to be part of her Netflix debut, but moreover, extremely lucky that I got to spend so much time with this brilliant lunatic. Patton Oswalds had some opinions on the intersection of politics and comedy, and you know that notable politician dude, I’ll let bat and explain it.

Johnny mackbot here, john forgot to credit CNN. I think that’s I mean, you know, not to get too inflated, but comedy is clearly crucial because there’s so much attention being put on it. It clearly means something to people, and it clearly can help. I don’t think comedy can topple a dictator, but it can definitely kind of make things safer for the people that are trying to topple the dictator and kind of help focus public opinions. So yeah, it is.

I mean, it really says something. When the when the Nazis annexed Vienna, the first people they went after were the cabaret performers, you know, the all of the all the all the cafe, the simplicitous performers. They wanted those guys quiet first, because they don’t. Want them They they don’t like being made fun of. Because also when you when you embrace authoritarians, authoritarianism, part of that is I’m I reject the chaos and the uncertainty of the world, which a comedian can actually embrace and go, Yeah, things are nuts and I can help us do it.

And they want no. I don’t want any surprises. I don’t want to wrong. I want everything to be fine. So when they that’s the first thing they got to get rid of, you know, because it is very to quote the show and or an authoritarian authoritarian regime is very, very fragile.

Daryl Hammond spoke to e W about his portrayal of the Lads. Dick Cheney. Arrel said, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Vice President’s mansion a couple of times to meet the family. I think I had six occasions that I spent a few minutes with him. On one occasion, I went to the Greenbrier Hotel in the basement.

You know, that’s the place they were going to ride out World War three, that bunker. You ever watched those documentaries, Look up Greenbrier. It’s pretty interesting. He had all his Republican colleagues there and I dressed up as Bill Clinton and insulted them all. That was his idea.

So there’s Darryl Hammond who’s dressed up as Bill Clinton, and he says, I’m attempting to shake Cheney’s hand and he’s shrinking in revulsion. Like I said, the guy had a sense of humor. And while we’re being somewhat political, Tignazarro has opened up about the end of her friendship with Cheryl Hines over the politics of Cheryl’s husband, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. On tig Nataro’s Handsome podcast, she told her co hosts, I didn’t sever the friendship, but I did notice that once he was running for president.

Once I stepped away from her old podcast, I never heard from her again. Out on the eight hundred Bound Gorilla Today or Styla’s Green.

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Meanwhile, on The Great British Bake Off, the cast of Peep Show will reunite …

I wasn’t prepping the comedy show. I was prepping The Palace Intrigue, which I’m the writer for, where we talk about the royal family palace in wherever you get your podcasts, Yeah, Sophie Winkelman, or to you, Lady Frederick windsor or to me big Sus from peep Show. I’m not a British subject. I don’t care anyway. All of those folks will take part in this year’s festive episode of The Great British Bakeoff.

It’s their first on screen appearance since the sitcom ended in twenty fifteen, notably absent Robert Webb, who co starred the series with David Mitchell. No air day yet. Peep Show, if you’ve never watched it. My daughter actually stumbled across it and hit me up on the side, was like, have you ever seen peep Show? And I was like, are you kidding me?

I think it’s on Hulu right now, she said, And let me get out my just watch tea now about just watch? Just watch app is great? Hold on? Oh wait, I almost accidentally supported fascism. I mean, yes, it’s on Hulu, but you know, don’t do that.

Buy some DVDs and watch it that way. Don’t just push that green Hulu button on your Rokuo remote and be like it’s Thanksgiving weekend, Johnny Max s d this show’s good. I’m gonna watch Peep Show on Hulu. No no, no, no no, you get yourself some DVDs. Hey, look I just clicked on something.

Amazon will sell you episode in standard death for ninety nine cents. That’s how you prove you’re not a fascist. You spend a dollar for one episode of standard definition instead of just pushing that green button on your Roku remote. And I’m gonna leave you with this. I can’t even do the bit today about jay Leno because look, he’s so genuine with this.

I know you all hate him because he has an opinion about late night television. What does he know? I really can’t do the bit today. He was on the Today Show. He was talking about Mavis, his wife hes dementia.

Jaye talked about making Mavis laugh and he told a joke. Obviously jay Leno would tell a joke better than I would, but the joke reads last night. I said to her. A guy goes to the doctor. The doctor says, what’s the matter?

Guy says, when I press here, it hurts. When I press on my shoulder, it hurts. When I press my knee cap, it hurts. When I press my ripcage, it hurts. The doc goes, you’ve got a broken finger.

That got a laugh out of Mavis, and Jay said, if I was a doctor, I’d say the patient’s doing well. Put it that way. Jay says he always brings up old and fond memories to Mavis. He says, when I’m carrying her to the bathroom, I call her Jay and Mavis to the prom in high school rocker back and forth, and she thinks that’s funny. Hod of the host was curious how Mavis shows Jay that she loves him.

Jay said, well, by saying it, I could see it in the smile. I could tell when she’s happy. So that’s really it. And as someone who is doing show business, I go home and I get an audience reaction every night. I please the person I’m entertaining when she looks at me and smiles and says she loves me, I melt.

Jay shared that Mavis used to love traveling and he figured out a way to explore with her. Jay said, you reach this point in your life where she loves to travel, and I’m so sad she can’t do those things. But there’s so much stuff on YouTube, the travel stuff, and we watch those things and the animal shows real big with the flash cards. Not flash cards, but see this picture. See this picture.

She says, who’s that? That’s President Obama And she says, no, I never met him. Yeah, honey, you did. We had dinner with him at his house, the White House, and then we laugh. Jay said, is he takes his vows seriously?

Clearly does quoting Jay. Now she really needs me and I like that, and I could tell she appreciates it. The idea that you get married, you take these vows. Nobody ever thinks you’d be called upon them to act on them. That part for better or worse, but even the worst isn’t bad.

Enjoy her company. If I’m working on a car, she’d sit over there with a book and read. It was just very well, still is very comfortable. Before she had this, I’d go home after the tonight’s show, cooked dinner and watch TV. The only difference is now you can’t really talk about a lot of those things.

That guy’s the worst. Right, normal episode tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving. I’ll see there

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Caloroga Shark Media. The reminder normal episodes all the way through and including Thanksgiving. I’ve got plenty Hey, awesome news, Sarah Sherman. We’ve got a date for her upcoming special. It will be on HBO.

It is called Sarah Squirm Live Plus in the Flesh. It will be on HBO Friday, December twelfth at nine East and West. Now, that’s interesting to me that it’s a Friday one. In the past, the big specials went on Saturday and other specials went on Friday. Not sure why she doesn’t get the Saturday spot.

Doesn’t really matter. In Live Plus in the Flesh, Sarah Sherman rips off the straight jacket after four seasons counting on snl unleashing a festering and hilarious hour of bodily fluids, open wound confessionals and jokes that will leave scares on your soul. There is a trailer, but I just can’t play it. It’s either a lot of music, a lot of faces, or a lot of naughtiness. Ol Hammond reacted to the President of the United States praising Darryl Hammond on social media.

Darryl Hammond told e W that was tough. No, no, no, he wasn’t upset that the President liked his impression. He was saying it was tough. When Alec Baldwin took over as Donald Trump on SNL, Daryl said he didn’t like the transition at the time. I know Lauren Michaels is a tough guy, but he’s not cruel.

Darryl told the EW that at the time he accepted Lauren’s creative business decision to end Daryl’s run as Trump on the show. Hammond explains, I don’t think he would have done that unless he felt like he had to. At the time, social media was emerging, YouTube was happening. There was a need to go viral every week. He made that creative decision.

Had it paid off? No, I didn’t like it, but it’s the NFL man Saturday Night Live. For all this frivolity and hilarity. It’s not the March of Dimes. It’s a business.

But every effort was made to explain things to me that it wasn’t done haphazardly or cruelly. Darryl exited the show in twenty nineteen. He took over as the announcer in twenty fourteen. There were times in the past when you thought you were listening to Don Pardo and it was actually Daryl Hammond doing an impression of Pardo. I think Fallon did it a couple of times too, as Don Parter.

As Don Parter got older and sometimes missed a show. I’m not sure if they’ve publicly admitted to that, but that’s the thing. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Show were one of you late night guys. Let me know if I have my fax right on that, John, why don’t you google it? Because that’s not fun?

Michael texts me, Hi, Mike anyway. E w asked Daryl Hammond about a twenty eighteen social media message from Trump in which the president called for Hammond to be reinstated as the Trump Guy because he’s funnier and far greater talent than Alec Baldwin. Daryl said, I think if a president tweets about you and suddenly Vladimir Putin knows your name, you’ve stepped in history somewhere. My mouth was on the floor. I couldn’t believe that.

The first thing I thought was now the Kremlin’s going, who’s this guy looking me up? That’s a long way from the Little League fields I grew up on. I graduated college with a two to one, and there were five presidents calling me by my first name when I was on SNL. Feel like it did pretty good. Apparently Dick Cheney liked Daryl Hammond’s impersonation so much that he once invited Daryl Hammond to perform at a Republican retreat as Bill Clinton.

Hammond says Cheney had a sense of humor. I still remember his pounding on the table when I said this joke as Bill Clinton. I hadn’t done Clinton in a while, but the joke was. Boy, that Dick Cheney, with his hard condition and that electronic pacemaker. Every time he sneezes the garage door opens.

I remember him pounding on the table and I thought, wow, he’s generous with his time. Kathleen Madigan quietly dropped a special last week Amazon Prime keeping these things quiet. If you go on Prime Video, you’ll find a special. It’s called The Family Thread, and it stars Kathleen Madigan. We’re told she’s laid back, smart, unfiltered, and brutally funny.

That’s a very good description of Kathleen. I know her in real life, hung out, with her several times. Definitely laid back, definitely smart, definitely unfiltered, definitely brutally funny as she takes on everything from chaotic family text in Midwest quirks to aging parents, savage cats, and the fine art of having zero pride. The La Times, which has a great comedy section, caught up with Kathleen. They thought the family threat is so great because it really makes you think of yourself and our own families, all while you’re pretty much roasting yours.

Madigan said, thank you. I’m conscious of the fact that trying to include everyone, but I could do hours on my parents and just never stopped. It’s endless, and anybody forty and up is gonna end up dealing with some version of just crazy old people. Once my sister goes, I don’t remember our great aunts and uncle’s being as crazy as mom and dad can be. And I was like, because they died of whatever.

The first thing was Dad should have been dead two heart attacks ago.

And then we’re in stroke land.

My mom had lung cancer and she’s fine. It’s good, we’re buying them time, but how much time are we buying and is their quality left? It’s like this will all my friends at this age too, to mention here and there, stroked out over there. Even for my younger siblings were forty nine because my parents had them late. Of course, back then thirty seven was late to have a kid, And now people are really pushing it la times.

Well, now if you’re thirty five and over, they call it a geriatric pregnancy. Mattigan said, that’s hilarious. I know a bunch of friends of mine who got pregnant and they don’t have to do that special testing because they were over thirty eight. They didn’t care about that. With my mom, nobody cared what she was smoking or drinking either.

So there’s that. My old family’s always been the type where everything’s kind of a joke. At the end of the day. Grandpa used to say, one hundred years from now, will anyone know the difference? Not a bad way, but in a light spirited way, like this life is kind of nonsense, so have fun, live it up.

Chelsea Handler will host the Critics Choice Awards. The awards will be announced Friday, December fifth, the award show Sunday, January fourth. By the way, the Critics Choice Awards has added four new categories this Year Best Variety Series, Stunt Design, Casting, Ensemble and Sound. Chelsea Handler said, kicking off the year with the Critics’ Choice Awards feels right. Nothing says new beginnings like a room full of critics ready to tell you how you did last year.

We’ll we’ve been to watch these things live on television on E and USA from seven to ten pm on Sunday, January fourth. You know she used to date Joe Coy. Joe Coy, I don’t know if you remember he hosted the Golden Globes once until this horrible, horrible, mean joke about Salor Swift. Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

I love that bit. It never gets old. Joe Coy, why are you mentioning of John other than the fourth to bit? Well, no, no, there’s actual news. I’m not that horrible.

Joe Coy is taping a new special. He’s recording at Friday, January sixteenth, and the next day, which is did you figure it out? That’s right, Saturday, January seventeenth. He’s taping at Stockton’s Adventist Health Arena. Organizers say it will be a Netflix special.

Get an early jump on my twenty twenty sixth list. Patton Oswalt was on the Last Laugh podcast. They asked, Patten, do you think satsire like South Park or the late night shows is effective in changing people’s perceptions of the Trump administration or people in power? Patton, who’s getting as serious as Harry Conobolo lately, he said, that’s hard to say, only because the only effective satsire right now is satire that’s as insane as the time we’re living in. We are living such hallucinatory times.

In order to capture it, you need to create something that feels less hallucinatory, and thus it doesn’t quite land on you the way it should, because it’s so crazy you can almost discount it a little bit. Send your letters to Patton Oswalt, who said, you also have to remember when people say that Trump followers and Maggot people are lost, they’re not lost. This is the only time in their lives they’ve ever felt found and seen and understood, and people will hang on to that until the bitter end. They will never ever let go of that, even if you show them on a chart, how this guy’s robbing you. They’re like, he was nice to me, and no one has ever been nice to me, no one’s ever accepted my horribleness.

I’ve found people that are like me and I’ve never had this and I’m never letting this go. They’ll die with him if they have to. That’s why the Democrats drive me up at wall with this whole reaching across the aisle thing. Yes, he should try to reach across and work with them, but you also need technowledge. There are some people on both sides, and I think way more on their side that are just permanently unreachable.

And by the way, that’s another thing that makes this country great, that you can have a chunk of people that are unreachable and the country still functions. Sendor letters to Paton Oswald pattn New Word Oswalt. Now, if you’ve been listening to the show, you know that the President and I are not aligned on all the issues. Some issues we are aligned on. For example, make twelve thirty great Again?

Is the late night franchise in the best hands it’s ever been in? Absolutely not, And I think the President is right to be addressing this that we should make twelve thirty great again. Josh Johnson.

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Meanwhile, I do differ with the President of the United States on this whole …

Again. I don’t support fascism. I don’t want the fascists taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air. I don’t just say that green Hulu button that’s bottom right on my Roku remote, and I know where it’s there because I look at it every day, and I go, I’m not pressing you. I’m gonna walk up three flights of stairs and get the Scrubs DVDs.

I’m not watching fascist support of television Disney ABC taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Anyway. The President was very upset with this Jimmy Kimmel person and posted on Truth’s Social Why does ABC fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with no talent and very poor television ratings, on the air. Why do the TV syndicates put up with it?

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Also totally biased coverage?

Get the bomb off the air? Three exclamation points. Well, mister President, appreciate you listening to Daily Comedy News. Your initial question, why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel on the air is the gist of your question. It’s not the news department that’s keeping Jimmy Kimmel on the air.

He’s actually part of the entertainment group. So the correct question would be why does the ABC Entertainment Group keep Jimmy Kimmel on the air. The answer is that the show does pretty well, presumably make some money, and Jimmy’s the face of the network. The second part of the President’s question, why do the TV syndic kates put up with it? Well, you see, mister President, to be part of the network, you do have to carry almost all of their programming.

So if you wanted, say Monday Night Football or Dancing with the Stars or whatever else is on the ABC network. Again, I don’t watch the thing. I’m not going to support people that took Ji Mkimmel off the air. So whatever it is they’re showing, these stations have to air these things or they’ll be removed from the network. So that is the answer to your question, mister President.

Appreciate you listening. As you know, there are five good Adam Sandler movies, two of them co star Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore has been pushing an idea where she would co star with the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler in a remake of the nineteen ninety two comedy Death Becomes Her Now. If you don’t recall that film, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn are both in love with Bruce Willis, so much so that they ingest a magic elixir that promises eternal youth with disastrous effects. One would assume Adam Sandler would play the Bruce Willis role, with Drew Barrymore playing one of the women.

This, of course, is a terrible idea because it would force Adam Sandler to try and be funny again. Sandler’s gonna go in a stick Sandlor, and we don’t want to push him there. We want to keep him as the great, serious dramatic actor that he is, So that is a terrible idea. Drew Barrymore. Sorry.

Another idea is a reimagining of the classic ABC sitcom Three’s Company. You may recall. In Three’s Company, John Ritter plays a man who pretends to be gay so he can share an apartment with two single women. In this idea, Adam Sandler who would play the Jack Tripper role as for the female roommates. They would be played by Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Aniston.

Okay, putting aside that this would be Adam Sandler doing shticky comedy. All three actors name there are too old. We can’t remake Three’s Company with everybody in their sixties. What are we doing? That’s the terrible idea.

Who I think would have been a great Jack Tripper ten to fifteen years ago is Pete Holmes. I think he would have been perfect. He looks the part, He’s got the sensibility for the part. I thought he would have been great. But I think Three’s Company and the original Man about the House are things of their time, and I’m not sure how we would bring that back today.

So let’s just not. Amazon’s MGM Studios has landed Compulsive Liar, which would star Emily Gordon and Kamale Nanjianni. Details are being kept under wraps, however, Deadline has figured out the project is based on the Canadian comedy Mentur. In Mentur, we follow Simon, who’s a big liar. His family and colleagues organized an intervention which turns into a confrontation, and Simon denies everything.

The next day he wakes up in a world where all his lives have come true. I guess Adam Sandler was not available for that one. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel, Big Jay Okerson’s Them They And that’s your comedy news for today. And I kicked five stories so again, real episodes on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, all weekend. I got plenty, not doing any of those top ten sitcoms of All time kind of stuff.

I got plenty for you and tomorrow a normal episode. See you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Just looking ahead all week including Thanksgiving on the holiday weekend, normal episodes. There’s just so much news going on. I didn’t have to do like Holidy Filler, Adam Sandler’s fifteen Worst Movies and anything like that, all normal regular media episodes.

Among the things I haven’t been able to tell you about Ricky Gervays. His next stand up special will be on Netflix December thirtieth. Now, Johnny Mack’s not happy with that release date because I like to do the top twenty five specials of the yearless and if you wait till December thirtieth, it’s not gonna be on it. I got a hand in the homework to the I gotta make the shows. I gotta hand the stuff in for my substack and for the publicist.

I can’t wait till December thirtieth. Anyway. It’s called Mortality. It’s the hour. Ricky Gervase has been touring since twenty twenty four.

Filmed earlier this year at the London Palladium. It’s his fourth stand up special. The Lazy Netflix copywriter promises no topic is off limits on as Ricky closes out the year with his best show yet. The official log line is a little bitter written. It says Gervaise takes on his own mortality in a brutally honest and darkly funny stand up special about his life, death, and the state of the world.

Ricky said, I think Mortality is my most honest and confessional show so far, and also my favorite tour. I still can’t believe what a privilege it is to fly around the world making people laugh. Now that news made me realize. At some point, I had this Tom Sagora story in my little notebook here that I work with for the show, and it got dropped and I don’t know what happened to it, because I don’t think I’ve told you that Tom Sigora Teacher will be out on Netflix December twenty fourth. Yeah, Tom Sagora has got a new special and it’s called Teacher, and as I told you, it’ll be out December twenty fourth.

Also not good for year endlists or publicists or homework or substacks. Deadline says no word yet on what Sigora covers in the hour. It’s his fifth special for Netflix. Nate BRIGATSI. I still think he’s out of his mind.

He was at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Industry conference, the IAAPAXPO. Nate showed up at this thing and announced that his company is partnering with Storyland Studios, a SoCal based themed entertainment, architecture and design firm. Together, they will explore the concept and feasibility of a Napurghetsy theme park in Nashville. I’m telling you, if I’m still doing this podcast in ten years, I’m going to one day for holiday filler. Be like remember the time Naperghetzi was going to open a theme park.

Whatever happened to that. I mean, just do a bourbon or something. This is crazy. The feasibility study is set to be completed in the first quarter of twenty twenty six. Fall goes well, they’ll have a shovel on the ground in five to six years.

Hmmm. I don’t know anything about musement parks, but the word boondoggle just went into my brain. I don’t know what to do with the word boon doggle. I don’t know what kind of sentence to use the word boondoggle in. Maybe It has nothing to do with this story at all, but the word boondoggle did pop into my brain.

Here’s the plan. They want build a one hundred plus acre amusement park. Now I’m from New York City. I have no idea how big an acre is. Sounds pretty big, and one hundred of them sound huge, but I don’t know.

I’m a city boy. The amusement park will include amenities like retail, dining, and even a hotel. At Nateland. The project is being handled by the Experiences Division, which is also responsible for such things as a Nateland themed cruise setting sale via Norwegian Cruise Line early next year. Hey, you want to go on the themed cruise?

Dusty Slave’s going to be there. I don’t know for a fact Dusty’s going to be there. I’m doing a bit. I don’t even know that Nate’s going to be there. I’m finding this out as you do.

You think i’d pre read these stories? Are you crazy? Anyway? You want to go on the Nateland cruise? That sounds fun.

Other divisions at Nateland are focused on stand up movies, TV, merch, and an incubation lab for new talent. I look forward to the opening of Nateland many years from now, John Mulaney was in Texas. While in town, mullaney did a one on one with Austin based filmmaker Noah Hawley. You may know him from such things as Fargo, Legion and Alien in Earth. Mullaney said, the satisfaction of being on stage in Austin The audience can see me, but I’m not blown up on the screen, and I’m getting a laugh with the slightest shrug.

That’s a really powerful feeling. The festival mainly focuses on politics. One attendee ask John Mulaney, why are you here? Now? I’m picturing the attendee as KHN and the attendee going now, tell me why are you here?

Did you watch Star Trek two? Great film? Malleni said, went in a city. I like to see as many sides of it and take part and as much of it as I can. I was very lucky that this was happening at the same time the half assed Millennie’s coming along.

I’m working on it again. The key to it is you have to do the French Schneider. It’s as big as a whale, and that’s how you get into your half assed Millennium’m slightly zoning in on it, so you got the SCHNEIDERSM and then I realized mulleny over enunciates working on it again. Not an impression, it’s a half ass impression. The discussion went to Mulanie’s recent appearance at the Supreme Court hearing zone Revember fifth.

Mulleny recalled that Justice Alito seemed to get poor of his own hypotheticals and Justice Thomas looks like he struggles to stay awake. M’laney said they seem to get along with each other in a way you might not think there was a lot of collegiality. If you and nine co workers had to sit out a panel, you’d eventually lean over and do jokes to each other. Talked about the Austin comedy scene, saying a lot of comedians were moving to Austin, Texas and made it seem like this big move. I was like, Austin’s a huge city.

Go to Gavelston. I like my houses, like I like my chimpanzees on stilts. Then mulanie was asked, well, AI ever be funnier than a comedian? Millenney said, AI will never shrug and the shrug is the highest form of intelligence. Mlaney also spoke with The Texas Standard.

They were curious, what’s your takeaway of Texas. Milleniy said, I think of Texas as his father with like a bunch of different sons that are his cities. And you know, Dallas is trying to do everything right and run the family business and is responsible with money. In Houston does a good job, but it’s just boring as hell. Austin is more like the more emo kid at the end of the table.

It’s like, what did you do today, Austin. He’s like, I colored a sort of artistic libertarian son at the end of the table that does whatever he wants. As for Sayatonio, I love san Antonio. San Antonio is like the kid that just always fine but doesn’t visit a lot. On your TV tonights.

It is the thirtieth anniversary celebration of Everybody Loves Raymond. Are you feeling old yet? Yeah? CBS eight o’clock. Now you might be like, CBS, aren’t those the guys that eliminate the Late Show?

If I watch this thing, am I supporting fascism? That’s a great question. I’m gonna say no, because as you know, Colbert was canceled over budget reasons. It had nothing to do with fascism or anti fascism or pseudo fascism. It was all about budget.

So I’m gonna tell you you’re okay if you want to watch this thing tonight. Okay, just if you’re watching Scrubs, go get the DVDs. Don’t push that Hulu button on the rokop. You gotta stand strong support Jimmy Kimmel. But Colbert, that was all budget.

You can watch the Raymond special. It will feature appearances from Ray Romano, I would hope, so you know, you don’t want to do this thing without Ray, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, and the others. It will include a tribute to late cast members Dors, Robert It’s and Peter Boyle, who played the Parents. Series creator Phil Rosenthal and Ray Romano sat down with tv Line. Phil said, I’ve been trying to get this done for ten years.

Ray said, he told me about it, and I said, I’m game. Then he took it to CBS and Phil says, I’d see other show’s doing reunions that think we have funny stories and we have nice remembrance. We want to do it. Ray said, people were asking about reboots. We agreed we would never do a reboot, so we’ll do a reunion.

We like reunions, but ten years ago CBS wasn’t into it. Five years ago they weren’t into it. This year knew people are there and they were into it, So here we go. TV Line points out, Hey, this is being built as the thirtieth anniversary. The show premiered in nineteen ninety six.

Technically this is your twenty ninth anniversary. What’s the story there? Phil was like, it’s technically the thirtieth anniversary since the show got going. We filmed the pilot in the spring of ninety six. We were on the air and fall in ninety six.

But Ray and I met in ninety five right for the special. They recreated the living room set hottson Field. Being on that set again, Ray said, first of all, the work they did to rebuild it was amazing. The only thing that was original was the couch, which I took home with me in two thousand and five and gave it back to them for the special. I love that Ray Romano had the couch for twenty years.

That’s amazing. You couldn’t tell the difference. If you told me this was the exact set, I’d believe it. It was emotional. I’ll say that.

Ray recently rewatched all nine seasons. He told TV Line. Which struck me the most was the acting. I mean, I knew it was good back then, but now I wasn’t as critical. I’m not saying I didn’t remember every show I did, but I remember what was going to happen next, and I saw little things that I appreciated more, the nuances of each actor, how good they were.

I think I just appreciated them, the cast, and the writing more. Back then, it was hard for me not to be critical of myself. What’s funny is I’d see myself without a shirt on in an episode then and be like, what the hell am I doing? What am I doing showing this to the world. When I watch it now, I was like, no, I was in shape back then.

Good question from TV lines, sitcoms, Off and Juggle, AB and C storylines, Raymond was always focused on one. Was that a rule? Phil said yes. I thought if a story’s worth telling, it’s worth telling for the twenty one minutes we have. Ray said yeah, But we didn’t perfectly say we can’t do that, because that’s a bet story.

It wasn’t the dynamic of the world we were in. Pat Oswalt was on the last last podcast. They start talking about Kimmelgate and the video Patten had sheared from the airport. I had played that in one of the bonus episodes. You know what was the deal with that?

Batton Oswald, who said, well, it was one of those moments when what was being done was so blatant and so petty, and it was just such an absolute misuse of power, and I wanted to get something out there. Not that I have any kind of massive platform or swam culture, but I could already fast forward to the way the pro Trump people were going to start to try and rationalize this. There’s now a scary legion of people out there whose job is to make the abnormal seem normal and reasonable. This from the guy who played Dug the Vulcan. All right, Patton, you want to talk about making something abnormal seem normal?

You played Dug the Vulcan as a trekkie. I’m still furious about this. You can hear the rage coming out during this podcast. Patton said, all of you people to keep saying Trump is bringing America back. Whatever he’s bringing back, it’s not America.

He’s bringing back twelve thirty. Patton Oswalt. The President and I are aligned. Make twelve thirty great again. Let’s get back to the golden age of Letterman and Conan and even Craig Ferguson.

We need better twelve th shows, Patton Oswalt said. But I think from the beginning of time there’s this overall mediocrity that wants a foothold in life. And it hates excellence. Oh, you’re teeing yourself up here, Paton. And it hates people that actually craft their job and care about their job.

They just want loud, sloppy spectacle. For example, the musical episode of Strange New Worlds, the Star Trek series on which you played Dug the Vulcan. Like that kind of nonsense, not going for greatness. Yeah, that Patton said, And it’ll even flow, and it’ll flare up and it’ll die down. Right now, we’re looking at a massive flare up.

We’ve got to be better about calling that stuff out when it’s happening. Yes, say somebody plays a crappy character on Star Trek Strange New Worlds, call that actor out and tell him, no, you are destroying Star Trek. Patton said, it’s very tempting to think there’s this big, loud, frightening guy. If you’re just nice to him and do what he says, I’ll make your life comfortable. Now, Luckily for us in this case, Trump doesn’t even know how to make his worshippers lives comfortable.

This does feel like a bad virus, bad flu, some kind of bacterial infection that we just have to write out. Then I used some language that I think doesn’t translate. Well, I’m not going to read it. I don’t want to a visit from men in sunglasses. I’m a line with the president.

Make twelve thirty great again. Okay, you calm down, Dug. The Vulcan Daniel Tosh was on his podcast announcing Tour d Eights for next year. He got to Toledo and said Toledo is a gem and then compared it to Tacoma, Washington by saying, why do you guys live here when there’s other great cities nearby? That’s how I feel about Toledo.

The other great cities are just slightly less crappy. Tosh continued, Toledo’s bad. You know it’s bad Toledo. And I’m not gonna sit here and act like it’s a great city and I want you to come out and support me. Okay, but the city’s bad.

Tosh clarified, the people could be fine. I’m talking about the city itself bad. Jim Gaffigan told people that he has lost fifty pounds now with the help of Munjaro, a drug used to treat type two diabetes. Jim told people, I feel good. I’m just grateful because it’s a better life.

Gaffigan said he had gotten up to two hundred and seventy pounds. Jim said, I had very low expectations because I didn’t know someone that had tried it and they were like, oh, I was nauseous for a week, and I thought my true joy of eating would overpower anything. That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caalarogas shock media. Hi there, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. We try not to get political on this program, especially because the President and I don’t agree on all the issues, but on one issue that we are aligned on, it’s this whole make twelve thirty great again issue. I’m very passionate about this.

We need to get twelve thirty back to the great days of Letterman and Conan. Are changing networks, Craig Ferguson and now we have Seth Meyers. The President said Seth’s show is a ratings disaster aside from everything else, Myers says no talent and NBC should fire him immediately. Seth Myers responded to this on his twelve thirty program, which is closer in consumption to this program than it is to Joe Rogan’s program. Those are facts.

They’re amazing facts, but they’re facts. Seth said, you guys, they said my name on TV. It’s not often you hear the name Seth Myers on TV before midnight. Seth then got somewhat serious and said, as I’ve said before, I prefer to handle these situation is the way you handle an angry driver. Who hawks and flips you off on the highway.

You just ignore them, you know, unless you’re in New Jersey then technically that’s a marriage proposal. Conan O’Brien, who helped make twelve thirty Greats, was in India. On social media, he was sharing some of the fun he was having. He’s shooting season three of his travel series Conan O’Brien Must Go. One photo shows Conan with a cricket bat and says, my first day playing street cricket and I scored eleven hundred points question mark, I have no idea what happened.

In another post, Conan is seen posing with background dancers. Conan was dressed in a traditional outfit. Decaption. Just filmed a Bollywood extravaganza with these gifted dancers and incredible crew. I can’t wait for you to watch it on your phone.

One more, he was interacting with the public. They captured lots of laughs in Mumbai with my new friend Rusty and this woman was thrilled to meet Ryan Seacrest. Search hashtag Conan O’Brien must go on your social media’s if you want to see those. Bill Maher was on his podcast. The guest was Patton Oswaltz.

Bill Maher explains to Patton oswalt While Bill Moore no longer tours doing up comedy, he said, I felt like it was a great choice because I don’t want to be out there in this country, in this political atmosphere. I could get shot by the left or right. I mean, it’s just not a good time to be out there. Marris pointed out that he released his thirteenth HBO special earlier this year, was called Bill Maher as anyone else seeing this, and he said, I feel like that’s a good body of work. I felt like they basically got better as they went along, and I feel like the last one was the best one, which is a good way to get off.

Some other factors that Bill said contributed to his decision was getting tired of the travel, obviously, and getting tired of being twice as funny as people who were selling twice as many tickets as me. He said, part of that is because I’m on TV every week, not that I didn’t sell a lot of tickets. You know, do great theaters, but I didn’t sell arenas and some people did, and frankly they aren’t that great. But you know, when the audience is thirty five to forty five. They don’t want to see somebody seventy.

Pat Oswalt released an audio special last week on Audible, this one called Black Coffee and Ice Water. It opens up with Patten reading a fake disclaimer about how he’s gone full Mega in an attempt to avoid the hand of Donald Trump. The Last Lafe Vulture says it’s a funny bit that also underscores Patton Oswalt’s fears about being outspokenly anti fascist in twenty twenty five America. It’s very simple, Patton, just don’t watch Hulu. Go upstairs and get the scrubs DVDs.

Very simple. You didn’t need to watch the bashion of Manascalco’s special. You didn’t think it was going to be funny, did you? No? Come on?

Patten told The Last Laugh about doing an audio special. I love the idea of getting to go old school again. Then I loved it even more when I was ten minutes in recording the set and realized, oh, I’m not on camera right now. This is just me talking and the audience responding. It’s very real, and it’s immediate, and it was so immediately freeing.

I felt fantastic. As for the new cycles, Patton said, whatever horrible thing happens usually will happened for a week, and then they’ll move on to whatever the next horrible thing is that they want to do. Our only advantage is hopefully we can outcreate them and outpivot them, because they seem to have no object permanence. Weird Al announced that his tour, Bigger and Weirder will continue into twenty twenty six and additional ninety stops through North America, including cities such as Chicago, Boston, Vegas, Austin, KC, Milwaukee, and more. Jim Brewer announced his tour, It’s the Fine, the Funny Tour.

The tour launches February nineteenth at the Sunrise Theater at Fort Pierce, Sick Jim’s current resume. According to this piece, a Long Island native. Strong Island, Brewer honed his craft on New York’s comedy circuit before breaking out as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. See I said all the syllables that time? Did I mention?

I think I mentioned this in the Facebook group. One of my favorite things about the Eddie Murphy documentary was hearing Eddie Murphy say the first word of SNL the same way I do and the same way that Jim Brewer does. It must be a Queen’s Long Island thing, because if you pay attention to Eddie saying Sad Night Live the way I do, Saatenite Live or sometimes Saturday Night Live, definitely not Saturday Night Live, Saturday Live. I loved it. After SNL, Jim Brewer went out to star in the Colt Stoner comedy Half Baked, which also features Dave Schapelle and appears in films including Zookeeper, Beer League, titan Ae, among others.

Brewer most recently released the YouTube special country Boy Will Survive as Other specials include Hardcore, Let’s Clear the Air, and Laughter for All I’m Behind on my Jim Brewer YouTube specials. Apparently, bill Board asked comedian Josh Johnson if he’s ever been confused with NFL player Josh Johnson. Have you guys ever met or talked? Comedian Josh Johnson said no, We’ve never run into each other. Then they asked Josh Johnson, have you ever had a politician supporter coming you for something you said on your show or in your act?

Comedian Josh Johnson said no, I try to be fair in my assessments of people. Even if there are people I don’t really like, I can still acknowledge when they did a thing for the collective good or made a smart political play, even when it’s something that I considered to be terrible propaganda. I do my best to give kudos when they’re deserved. You have a better political understanding if you can be as close to objective as your political leanings will allow. I’d talk about everything, and if I see something that doesn’t hold water, I’ll say so even if I like that person.

Josh got a little philosophical and said, if you stay in the big arc of history and how politics works, you can see that there’s precedent. We already had a guilded age. So there’s already a playbook on how people combatd the robber baron era. But there’s also a playbook for the robber barons to get and consolidate power. So many of these things are bigger than any one political figure, and the last much longer than any one person’s political career.

Josh Johnson, comedian, Are you optimistic about where a country’s headed? Comedian Josh Johnson said, I always leaned toward optimism because that’s the best way for me to live. But I’m not ever going to poop poo the idea that things get worse than you can imagine. I do think with optimism and hard work, they’ll turn out better than someone could have projected. Pure Wow asked Nikki Glaser about her upcoming Golden Globes monologue.

They were curious, when you’re writing such a thing, are you rewriting right up until showtime? Nickki said yes, I rewrite until the very last minute. For my monologue last year, I decided to do my closing joke in the moment on live TV. It wasn’t even in the teleprompter. The closer I had in the teleprompter didn’t get the pop I wanted, so I just winged it and reached for a joke that I had previously memorized as a possible closer.

Thank god, I had rehearsed it enough that I hadn’t memorized. It was a wordy joke too. Kevin Nelan was on Ted Danson’s podcast. Neilan talked about the preparation it took to get a fake chin applied for his imitation of the worst person who Ever lived Jay Leno, you know that guy with the charity work in the opinions about L Night TV. Yeah, the worst.

According to Neilan, the makeup artist had to cover him in thick plaster that left him unable to breathe through anything other than two straws that was stuck into his nostrils. He called it a life mask or a death mask. Nelon said, I never thought it’d be a problem. Then it starts to get warm and it’s hardening, and you’re thinking, oh my god, all that’s open is my nostrils. If those close up, I’ll suffocate.

Can you imagine the headline SNL comedian dies of suffocation impersonating Jay Leno. Nelan said he started to get panicky and I remember being about to pass out. Next thing he knew he was being administered smelling salts. Tracy Morgan spoke to people about his new Paramount plus titcom Crutch. Tracy plays Francois Frank Kretchfield.

Tracy said, it’s one hundred percent of me because I’m just mimicking my dad. My older brother moved back in with my father, and that was sort of a battle, but a teachable moment. Maagine Simba moving back in with Mufassa. Who’s the lion king. My father had to go about it in a graceful way.

He let my brother know that he was the lion king, and I’m just mimicking that and from Business Insider. Before I do the story, I’ll remind you George Carlin once said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it. Business Insider was at Baron Capitol’s thirty second annual Investor Conference, an event known for blending of financial presentations with high profile entertainment. Attendance is exclusive. Shareholders must have at least forty thousand dollars invested with the firm to get a seat.

Past conferences of featured people like the great traumatic actor Adam Sandler well this year. Doors open at six thirty, panels started at nine. Attendees were told to go to one of three lunch venues, each hosting a different midday performance. Those assigned to one particular theater received box lunches offering salads or ham turkey or roast beef sandwiches. Who comes out Sebastian Maniscalco, who opened by asking you ever performed with the smell of ham sandwiches?

Sebastian Maniscalco is hilarious or should I say hilarious. That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny mat with your Bailey Comedy News. The Wall Street Journal asked Louis C.K. About when he started selling stand up specials and tickets to fans directly, which came in handy when the entertainment world cut ties with Ck. They were curious.

Was that the business equivalent of being a doomsday prepper? Louis C. K said, It’s not the way I looked at it. I got to be a top guy all of a sudden. If I put a show on sale, it sold out, didn’t matter where.

That’s an incredible thing to experience, and I’m really curious about the way things work. So I thought, I’m gonna perch here. How could I benefit the fans and get with them more directly? With the special I released, which was live at the Beacon Theuter back in twenty eleven, Ck said, I just wanted them to be able to click and watch with a tiny bump of commerce five bucks, and it was like a million dollars in a week. I never had a million dollars before.

It was just crazy.

And then all of a sudden, I also had that email list.

These are the premium leads. The entertainment industry has gotten really confusing and bye. There’s a lot of fear based prohibition now and weird rules. But I don’t have to live by any of those. I’m in a little bit of a close circuit.

There’s a lot of people that don’t know I’m working. I sold out Madison Square Garden and about one hundred thousand people bought the live stream. Was a huge night, but it was like a secret something kind of amazing about being a secret superstar. The Journal asked if he wishes the TV show Louis were easier for people to rewatch or discover. Ck said, it’s on my website and people buy it steadily.

Would I like it to be on a platform or something, sure, but that ain’t up to me. Is Ck anywhere close to his twenty seventeen earning level. Louis said no, no, no. I was making stupid money and the things people were saying about me were bigger than reality, and I didn’t know how to handle it. Nobody does.

Then that evaporated, and now I’m just more connected to just getting paid for what I do. If I can keep writing novels, I don’t think I’ll tour at this level. I really love my life now I didn’t used to, and going on the road takes me away from that life. So I think I’ll take a long break after this tour, and if I come back to it, I’ll come back to it in a smaller way. GQ asked Stephen Colbert prior to The Late Show.

You played a character for a long time. How has it been spending the last ten years as yourself? Colbert explained, Yeah, it’s pretty close. I mean, it’s performance persona. There are times when it’s very close to me, especially if there’s something that cannot receive a joke.

There are things that will not receive the matrix of our desire to do comedy. And I choose not to talk about tragedy on my show because I think that’s sacred. But there are things that are unavoidable that are happening in our country, and because I talk about what’s happening in America today. I don’t generally say or do things I don’t mean on the show unless I’m in character, like in a sketch. Whereas that the Colbert arepoort was almost nothing.

Basically it was Catholic and Lord of the Rings were the only two things that we had in common. I get that I was talking with one of the trivia guys recently about this, and also I talk about this with my college class a lot. The Johnny Mick persona that you’re listening to right now, for one, has a certain delivery. I don’t speak like this and normal I’m not like at trivia night, like hey, Glenn, should we get a beer? Like this isn’t the way of talking.

It’d be like you want another? One would be how I would normally speak. Professor McDermott is also a bit of her performance. I have to try and keep college students entertained for two plus hours. So I got what Colbert is there.

It’s, you know, an exaggerated version of your real self. He was asked how he looks back on the Stephen Colbert character from The Colbert Report. He said, finally, I mean, it was enjoyable to do. A lot of people thought you couldn’t sustain it, and I always thought I could because a mask is such a gift for me, at least as a performer, because really all my training in my entire career until I did that show was as an actor. And we had a bible for the character.

We kept a running bible. What does he believe? What does he not believe, what’s his back history, what’s the relationship with other people. We were writing it as this ongoing narrative where nothing we did should be contradicted by other things we did for that character. I’m gonna jump in there too.

So when I ran the Raw Dog comedy channel at Sirius, the station voice was Satan. It was my production guy, Saldo Leo, using a voice processor, so it dropped his voice down and it was like serious, what O four? He had used the Satan character at a promo and I liked it, and I’m like, let’s make that the station voice. But here we also had a writer’s guide or a bible about it. The way I wrote the character was there was nothing satanic about it.

As we wrote the character, Satan was a guy with a deep voice who sure he’s the devil, but the only reason he’s working with us on rowd dogg is because we pay well. And he thought everything we did was stupid. So sometimes the bosses would make us promote things. I remember one time we had to promote Oprah Winfrey Radio, which I didn’t think there was much of a crossover with the raw Dog audience. Like if rowd Dog was a person, raw Dog would have been classic Bill Burr, not the current version, the young angry version that would have been rawd dogg It had come to life, so the satan character, for example, promoting Oprah Winfrey Radio would get about two thirds of the way down to the mandated copy and just be like oh and throw out a piece of paper, and sal would record the piece of paper hitting the waste basket and then just leave dead air.

And that was the way we handled things. GQ said, I had forgotten so recently. There was a moment when people thought you, Stephen Colbier and John Stewart were going to save the republic somehow, Colbert said, I promise you we did not share that feeling, especially when reflecting back on the Rally to Restore Sanity slash March to Keep Fear Alive. He was doing the rally to restore sanity. I was doing the March to keep Fear alive, and I liked to remind him that I won.

We kept fear alive. Switching topics, what comedians is Colbert into? I celebrate all of them because I love comedy. I’m a huge fan of Dave Chappelle. I love Kat Williams.

I guess I should have started a podcast now. The other day I told you Stephen Colbert said he would not do a podcast. In this interview, Who’s asked would he consider doing another podcast? He said, I would, and I’d love to do one with my daughters. I’ve got funny kids.

My baby’s twenty years old. She doesn’t want to be in stand up but if she comes out on stage, people throw their purse in the air. She’s got something and people beg to see her in videos and all that. She likes money, so she might do a podcast with me if it meant money. So yesterday, was it yesterday or the day before where I told you write this down?

Steven Colbert will to another podcast. You wrote it down right, Thank you, You’re welcome. Friday waxed Jim Gaffigan’s car. Jim, you’ve done eleven stand up specials. How has the press too evolved over time?

Jim said, there’s still the power of the late night shows. Some of that is prestige, but a lot of is that the clips that come out out in those appearances, whether you’re on the Tonight Show or Kimmel. Notice he’s not doing NBC twelve thirty. Make NBC twelve thirty great again. But obviously the power of podcasts is significant, and you end up getting very strategic about how you place these things.

Even the outlet for comedy specials always moving. I had two specials on Comedy Central, then I did one on my website. Then I did a couple on Netflix, a couple on Amazon, and one on Hulu, which, as listeners to the show know, is where you go when you’re on your way down. Sorry, Jim, sorry to break it to you. It’s always moving.

Is Apple going to get into the business, Is Ellison going to buy Hbo?

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And then they’re going to compete with Netflix.

It’s constantly changing, so you have to guess ahead. But in some ways the powerhouse now might be YouTube. That doesn’t take anything away from how important Netflix is or their paychecks, but comedians have become so successful by posting their specials on YouTube that it can actually allow them to go to Netflix. Jim was asked, besides eyeballs and money, what are the metrics you weigh when choosing which distributed partner? With time out?

Here’s who he chooses money. I guarantee you money, Jim says, I see a special as harvesting crops. Money. You always want to be expanding your audience money. If I’m going to Baltimore, Denver every two years, I don’t expect that the people who enjoy my stand up are coming every two years.

That’s not realistic. Some of them are busy, some don’t have disposable income. You always want to be expanding the audience that enjoice your comedy. So when I first went to Amazon Money, I knew they had to reach that at that time. Netflix didn’t.

With Hulu Money. I knew there were viewers who consumed a ton of stuff there, So why not spread the wealth money. It’s easier for me to do that than someone like Dave Chapelle, who’s getting a huge check he doesn’t have to factor in. Maybe I can get more people. Stop, Jim, stop stop stop stop stop stop.

You mean to tell me that if I don no Amazon Prime goes Hey, Jim New Special twenty bucks and Netflix goes thirty bucks, You’re picking Amazon Prime get lost. Jim. What excite you about the future, he said, It’s an exciting time for creative people. I know things are scary, but I think that translates to a certain independence. Creative.

People who are self starters are gonna be fine. Most incredibly, Jude didn’t promote his bourbon in any of that. I remember that Jeff Dye guy, he was on Joe Rogan’s show. Jeff Dye said, I’m sympathetic to the things female comics have to go through through. Then Dian Rogan started talking about de Ei style mandates when in the field.

Joe Rogan said, they’ve literally said we have too many white male comics. Jeff Didye said, I’ve heard it my whole career. Yeah, I mean, I don’t book comedy shows. What are people really saying? No, no, no, we have too many white male comics.

Because I don’t know. I pay attention to the comedy scene, and there seemed to be a lot of white male comics. No. Jeff Dye said, someone comes out and goes, listen, if you’re a straight white guy, you better be real different. It’s Boston, we’re all straight white guys.

That kind of hurt my feelings a little bit. What does that imply about my circumstances. Apparently an agent told Jeff Die The agent was praising one of the agent’s other clients. Apparently, the agent told Jeff die he has all these great things that make him interesting in the industry. I think you’re gonna have to reinvent yourself.

Rogan said, that’s just Hollywood. We don’t do that in Texas. In the Mothership, it’s a meritocracy. And because it’s a meritocracy, it’s very diverse. You got a lot of women in the lineup.

You got all kinds of people. Rogan said. The vast majority of comics at my club are left wing. They are artists. I’ll tell you who’s got a great agent or pr team.

Leanne Morgan, her whole team gets it done now. She was on the Today Show the topic how her show Leanne was renewed for second season. Leanne said, Jerry Seinfeld called me the day came out. He said, you have a sitcom with your name on it, which is unheard of. You were in there with Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball.

All right, tap the breaks, I mean, yes, congratulations, very successful. What eight episode season one? Can we tap the breaks before we start comparing you to Lucille Ball. I mean, for example, Richard Lewis had a show called Anything but Love that got more than a year. We don’t talk about that one much.

So before we put you on the Pantheon with New Heart, Mary Tyler Moore and Lucille Ball Tap the Breaks, Jerry rude As told Forbes, I would never call myself veggie. I think any comedian that refers to themselves as edgy or uncancellable putting these things on themselves you see a lot in America. I think they’re in trouble as an artist anyway, And those guys are usually the first to fold. In my experience, comics just keep writing jokes, and you call us what you feel the freedom to call us. We’re just thinking about the next show.

So no, I wouldn’t call myself any of those things. It’s not my privilege, it’s yours. I don’t think controversy is adding any currency in art. I don’t. I think it’s a trap.

Then you’re constantly going to be chasing that. But I also don’t think you can predict what’ll get you into controversy. It’s the thing you never thought of. Fred Armison will be honored with the Ernie Kovacs Award at Dallas Video Fest today at the Texas Theater in Dallas. The Ernie Kovacs Awards, introduced in nineteen ninety seven, honors television’s greatest visionaries.

Past recipients include Joel Hodgson, Al Franken, and Terry Gilliam. Fred Armison said, I’m absolutely honored to be part of Ernie Kovac’s world in any way, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News out today on Hilarious. Now, don’t forget the Hilarious Comedy brand is where you go when you’re on your way down. We’ve got a lot of proof here. Sebastian maniscalgoes, it ain’t right.

This is the trailer that radicalized me against Sebastian maniscalgo. Please stop making stupid faces. You can’t see the faces on an audio podcast, but you can almost hear them. Let’s listen some edits here. I have a mild case of sleep appning.

This is where I’m at. I’m gonna dum tap my mouth shut so I don’t pass away in my sleep. If someone came to rob my house, they would look at me and go, someone was already here. Let’s go. I went to a drug store today.

I took out cash, by the way you take out cash nowadays, like kryptonite. This kid was in his early twenties. He’s like, what is that. I said, it’s money. It’s used for goods and services.

Some people do venmo. Maybe you went out to dinner, somebody paid and then the rest of the group said no, Well, Venmo you later, No, you paid me, no deadline, ass Abashian Maniscalco. Are you able to enjoy your success? He said, And I’m not, mister positivity. It’s very fashionable nowadays on Instagram to be like, oh, I get up and I do my affirmations and I have a vision board.

It’s not really my style. My fear is failing. When I succeed, I feel like it’s gonna go away. It’s hard to sustain success. There’s an expectation like you’re putting out a Hulu special.

This better be equal or better than the last one. It’s a lot of pressure. Now. What we’ve learned from the Hulu specials is it’s not going to be better than the last one. Name one Hulu special that was better than the artist’s previous special.

I’ll wait, Actually I can’t wait, because then they’ll be dead air. You can email me on the side, or you can hit the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ll push all my chips into the middle of the table here. In June of this year, BuzzFeed made a list of the hilarious specials Jim gaff against the Skinny No Way that’s his best, Bill Burrs dropped dead years as his worst and now Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian were born funny or is it something you learned, he told Deadline.

This is an innate ability. I don’t think you can learn to be funny. I was funny around my family and friends, and I was funny when I had to give a book report in front of the class. I was an extremely shy kid. People think comedians are going to be the center of attention, or they think, oh, you must be great at parties and really not.

I’m miching to get out because I don’t want to do the chit chat. I was at a kid’s museum over the weekend. I find myself uncomfortable talking to the parents there because I’m just not a chitchat guy. Sebastian, do you regret making any past jokes? He said, I don’t listen.

You’re gonna offend people. You can’t control it. I do a joke about my father putting andy freeze on bolognay and killing raccoons in the garden. The people labeled him as some guy who’s killing animals. He never did that.

I actually heard the story from somebody else. I find it strange people take the stuff so seriously. About eighty five percent of it is stories that have happened in my life. But there are stories that I’ve heard and taken bits and pieces from, or I’ve over exaggerated things that might not have happened but are rooted in truth. What was I watching?

I was watching some comedy special the other night and I felt like none of it was real and I just couldn’t last with it. I can’t remember what it was, but yeah, I need my jokes grounded in something. Yeah. I understand that the stories are comedy. I understand they’re exaggerated for effect, but you gotta have some semblance of reality in there.

This is gonna bother me. Now. Who was I watching? I actually had paused. I went in my Netflix app.

It wasn’t Netflix, so I think it was something on Amazon Prime. I think I switched while watching The Knicks recently and switched over there. So whatever they put in front of you on Amazon anyway, it wasn’t good. Sebastian doing the full Court Press this week. He got an US Weekly cover story where he’s making a stupid face.

Why why do you have to make a stupid face? You’re nice looking man. Just smile. You don’t have to make a stupid face. Sebastian says, at the end of the day, I just want to make people laugh.

He stays away from current events and politics because I’ve always thought whatever my father’s doing is a hell of a lot funnier than what the president is doing. You’re getting in over the head with bad news and politics. When people go out for a night of entertainment, they want to escape. I’d rather talk about my experiences than what’s happening with the current administration. Just doesn’t sound fun.

Hey, look, man, President Trump is just trying to make NBC twelve thirty grade again. Is that not what we want? We had Letterman and Conan and I don’t know what Jimmy did there for five minutes, But this seth myers. This is not the Letterman show we grew up with. What are you doing?

Let’s make NBC twelve thirty grade again? I think the President’s doing a great job on this issue. Sebastian tells us I just wanted to do stand up for a living. That was the goal. I never expected to be doing these big shows.

I concentrated on being the best comedian I could possibly be. And everything after that was kind of gravy interesting premise from Cracked dot com. They floated out there that there’s no number one comedian right now. I think it’s interesting. Is Dave Chappelle not the number one comedian right now?

Let me know what you think. Daily Comedy News podcast group. By the way, some of you are getting the questions wrong. Are There are a couple questions there to make sure that you’re not a pornbot. Most people get the one right about what do you seek, but you’re getting the other ones wrong.

I’ll give you a hint. Ever seen Bob Spurgers. No one has. It’s a hoax, okay. Crack points out there are touring comics like Matt Rife and Nate Pergetzi of a tight grip bond ticket sales and TikTok followers, but haven’t yet crossed over into TV and film.

There are the folks like stavros Helkis and Caleb Heron who balanced comedy podcasts with continued pushes into Hollywood. Plenty of comedians right now or finding success without being the number one anything. Crack says that’s not a bad thing, as we’ve seen. Once a comedian becomes ultra wealthy, they tend to make some pretty disappointing choices. Yeah, like a lot of them went to the Riod Comedy Festival and played there.

Fortunately, YouTube videos can subvert the need to perform at the Riod Comedy Festival. The Wall Street Journal asked Louis C.K. About performing at the Riod Comedy Festival. Their question, though, did you do the same material that the reporter had recently saw? C K said, same set.

I didn’t really change anything. I had a really profound experience there. The night before in my show, I went to a local comedy club called the Comedy Pod. This guy who runs it said there was no stand up four years ago. Now they do like twelve shows a week and it’s never not packed.

They went from zero comedians to like three hundred dedicating their lives to it. The journal was curious what the material is. C K said. Most of the comics were in Arabic and a few in English. They were doing jokes about being married and how life is hard, like any other comedians, but without the swagger.

There’s a raspiness to American comedy. It’s kind of defensive and f everybody I’ve traded in that, but they didn’t have that. They were with their audience and the crowds were excited. It felt like comedy in the eighties. Here.

I saw a guy at the club who reminded me of a young Richard Pryor doing pantomime and stuff that was really funny. When I did the Big eight thousand Seed arena, I asked if he could do five minutes in Arabic so the audience could see their own comedians. But word came back from the powers above the festival, absolutely not. He could work in English, but not in Arabic. Apparently the interview just glossed over that, because the rest of the quote is then I asked for some Arabic pop as my walk on song, and they said absolutely not.

They picked back in Black by ACDC instead, and apparently we glossed over that too. The journal’s next printed question is people will assume a big paycheck was the real reason he went there. C K said, I can make the same money anywhere I made over there, just might take two nights instead of one and go into the Saudi Arabian desert for one gig. Is it pain? In the next way, to make money.

I had to be in Montreal the next night. I literally went from the stage to a plane to Montreal to the stage. I’m not going through that for a paycheck. Variety waxed Jim Gaffigan’s car pretty well, we’ll pick it at this show over the next few days. The top here politics, Jim.

Generally you’re not a political comedian, but last year you played Tim Walls on SNL, etcetera, etcetera. Jim said, I’ve always liked the fact that at my shows a lesbian couple could sit down to a Mormon family and enjoy the stand up I’m doing. But I do find politics fascinating. We live in an age where you can’t really articulate anything without being misconstrued. My best friend from childhood was furious I did the Al Smith dinner.

He said, I can’t believe you didn’t destroy Trump, and I’m like, I know it’s not going to change anything. And the task was to attack both sides in a setting where you’re surrounded by billionaires. The Tim Walls thing I was within the environment of SNL, and there’s a cultural interpretation of every sketch. I intellectually know this. No one’s going to listen to me.

At the same time, I want to be able to look my children in the eyes and say I didn’t allow some horrible thing to happen. I also feel comfortable that people know my views, but I don’t know if me being an advocate helps. Like with the Mamdani thing that ended up being very divisive. I remember seeing Stave and all those guys supporting Mundanami, and I’m like, I don’t know if that’s helping him. Maybe I’m being naive.

Varieady said, you have guys like Andrew Schultz and Theo Vaughan interviewing politicians on their podcast. You say, no one’s listening to you, but maybe people are. Jim said, people are coming to a show off a break from some of this drama. That’s not to say there aren’t great comedians to talk about social commentary. The spirit of George Carlin is very important.

I remember when Trump was first elected. My opening act had some political jokes. During twenty sixteen and seventeen, the audience would kind of look at the ceiling. The jokes were well constructed and they weren’t on one side or the other, but it was just too much. People are looking at a break from that.

They’re not ignoring the serious issues, but they’re going at least I can go see Jim Gaffigan and hear him complain about being a parent. That’s not to say he doesn’t care about someone being tackled on the streets. It just means maybe people want to break from that.

And now what’s interesting is Jim said all that without promoting a burbon.

So that’s something. Josh Johnson was on Trevor Noah’s podcast. Trevor said, when I look at you, this is the perfect example, Like if you tell me if I’m wrong, but I feel like this version of Josh Johnson, like the person we know you as today, it wouldn’t exist the same if the Internet wasn’t what it was now. Josh said, I know exactly what you mean. And I think about that a lot because I had found some mainstream and like legacy media success, but not enough to live the way that I’m living or make the choices that I make.

The pair talked about how the benchmarks in the industry have changed. Josh said, the ways in an industry could elevate a person along the way, add a lot of that stuff, and then there was a gap in between does he have his own shows, you’re writing a show, is he’s selling shows? Is he a touring headline comedian? And so there was a gap there. The Internet closed that gap.

The people close that gap. Comedy stock Markets, Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Now, I feel like Comedy stock Market can get kind of negative, and that’s not the spirit of the show. I’m here to be positive. So you know, I’m not going to tell you to sell your Sebastian Maniscalco because he makes stupid faces.

Don’t do that. Let positive. This week, Let’s buy just Johnson. We just talked about him. A lot of good buzz on him, a bright career ahead.

Let’s load up on him. Let’s buy Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor. There’s still nothing but good buzz on this Jake Kelly movie. Let’s get in front of it and buy a little more Sandler. And last week I told you to buy Keenan Thompson, right, that was just a good vibes and then he announced that sports thing with Kevin Hard I told you about earlier in the week.

So if you have bought some Thompson, you made a couple hypothetical bucks on the comedy stock market. Why don’t we buy some more Keenan Thompson, and let’s buy some comedy stock in President Trump, he’s had a bit of a rough period with some of the things in the news, but when it comes to comedy, he’s trying to make NBC twelve thirty great again. And I think we need to support the president as we try and get back to the good old days of Letterman and Conan style comedy at twelve thirty and not what’s going on now. So those are the recommendations by Sandler, by Josh, buy Keenan, by Trump. That’s your comedy stock market for this week.

Stewart did a panel at the ninety two y. He was talking about management at Paramount Global and said, I don’t know that you can feel the other humans in the room. Former Viacom chief executive Tom Freston agreed with John. Stewart said we’re droughting in data. You put up a show, and executives of all this data saying you shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that.

Stuart said to Fresden, you seem to have a connection to the artist and artistry. The Silicon Valley ethos is more steeped inefficiency. They walk in and go how many people work here? Eight thousand? Good make it too.

It’s not really tied to the value. Freston said. They didn’t come to their jobs with a desire to do storytelling. Freston said, it looks like Warner Brothers is going to disappear and get gobbled up by paramount. Stewart cut in and said, which is a fantastic company.

I can’t speak more highly of them. I think they should gobble up all them and hand them directly to the president. Stuart choked him. I being fired talk show host is a very tenuous business right now. I don’t know if there was a tweet that went out from the FCC right now.

Freston said, data brings in a cast of different kinds of characters to run the show, and the soulfulness that we felt and enjoyed has melted away a little bit. Last weekend during FU I was emailing back and forth with Paul the listener, Hello, Paul, thank you for listening. Paul was giving me the business a little going basically paraphrasing here, Hey, bout the time you talk about skank Fest, And I was very defensive, and I was like, look, man, I’ve talked about skank Fest every year.

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And then I took a screenshot of my phone where I have Lewis J.

Gomez’s phone number. I’m like, I know this guy a little bit. Not saying we’re tight, but I know him. But apparently I dropped a Louis Gomez at some point last week and he reminded me it’s Lewis j. Okay, we got that straightened up.

Michael Ian Black has a substack. Michael wrote under the headline the a Hole who Said Yes. Mister Black apparently really enjoyed skank Fest. He wrote, I find myself being skanky. I’d never heard of the festival before being invited to participate, and I was initially a little concerned about affiliating myself with skankingess, but fit I know how to get gross.

I think my response to the initial email was something like I’d be an a hole to say no, and so here I am the a hole who said yes. Michae Lean Black writes from a comedian’s one of the lovely things about comedy festivals is that many comics, such as myself don’t get much of an opportunity to hang out with other comedians. So when these things pop up, I like to go for no other reason to see folks haven’t hung out with in a while. Last night, for example, I got to catch up with fellow Kid in the Hall Scott Thompson. Michael writes, Yes, I’m joking when I say fellow kid in the Hall.

I make the joke because of some of you know the project for which I most often recognize as for being a member of the Kids in the Hall, a show I was never on. I also got to catch up with a great Doug Stanhope, so I had a load of Rich Voss and Bonnie MacFarlane. I met Shane Gillis, who’s much taller than that I would have thought. I always thought he had some strong five nine energies, so I was surprised to see him clocking in around six to three. Black Rights with a name like skang Fest, the vibe is unsurprisingly somewhere between a comedy club midnight show and an insane clown posse concert.

It’s giving you ahead, Michael Ian Black Rights. There are so few shows he get off the stage and feel like you did what you envisioned in your head years ago. I remember Chris Rock was talking about this. He said that a comic might have two shows a year which they felt like they nailed it two. Chris is a much better comic than Olliver be so for me that number is more like one, maybe one half.

Sounds like it was a good time at the skang Fest. Paul. Thank you for listening normal episodes all weekend. Meet you back here in the morning.