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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnnie Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is a sense that you might say if you were retraining the Spotify transcription algorithm. But we don’t have time for that because Bert Kreischer is hosting New Year’s Eve on CBS tonight. Social media star Haley Bailey will handle the East Coast celebrations. Then it’s off to Nashville and Bert Krascher, who would do midnight Central Time.

I will be asleep by then, but I’m sure it’ll be wonderful. Dusty Slay is also part of tonight’s telecast. Some other things you could watch tonight On CNN, It’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. Your guests include Stephen Colbert, Sarah Sherman, Leanne Morgan, and bj Novak. Over on NBC, It’s The Exciting Toast To twenty twenty five.

Guest appearances include Jim Gaffigan, Tom Poppa, Rob Riggle, and Wanda Sykes. If you’re in Los Angeles, Pretty Good Show at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for New Year’s Eve. Now, I saw an event Bright pushing tickets on Tuesday as I recorded this, so apparently this is under sold. It’s New Year’s Eve with Nicky Glazer, Eliza Selessinger and Patton Oswalt. Actually it’s called New Year’s Eve with Nicky Glazer, Eliza and Patton Oswalt.

I assumed it’s Eliza’s Lessinger, but it doesn’t actually say that. It says Nicky Glazer, Eliza, Patton Oswalt, Todd Glass and Moore eighteen and up a two item minimum. Doors open at five. Parking is just three dollars with validation, and the listing says line up always confirmed, but subject to change. I wonder why we’re keeping Eliza’s last name a secret.

Has she rebranded and I missed it? Patton Oswalt, Nicky Glazer and Eliza last name can’t sell out on New Ye’s Eve? That’s odd. Ricky Gervais, he’s got a new special ad on Netflix. He says he would no longer make jokes at the expense of disadvantage people and would do things differently on the office.

If you could go back in time. Ricky was on Radio four and said people understand most power struggles. They understand why racism, homophobian misogyny are wrong, but they’re very disparaging about the working classes. It’s the one thing that it seems to be fine to take the mickey out of with no blowback at all. As for the office, he would change things.

He has no regrets. He says, you’re a product through your toime. You do make things for people of your time. I’d put trigger warnings on things, but I wouldn’t go back and change anything. Do I regret anything?

No? What I do things differently now? Probably Ricky Special has always create controversy. He told the one show most offense comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target. So it starts and they go, what’s he going to say?

And I tell the joke and they laugh. It’s like a parachute joke. It’s scary, but then you land and it’s all okay. And I think that’s what comedy’s for getting us over at taboo subjects. They’re not scary anymore.

So I deal with everything. Did you watch Ricky’s Special on Netflix? Yet? I did not. I had to watch USC football last night.

Saving Ricky for New Year’s Eve, filmed at the London Palladium. Spoilers, Ricky Gervais says, it’s great to hear the sort of laughter again because you probably don’t notice it as much as comedians. But we had a really weird ten years where we’re really second guessing jokes. People find anything offensive, but we push back and we won so f them until the next time. They haven’t gone away, they’re just looking their wounds.

They’ll be back with something matter, But remember who it is next time. Right. It’s always these sort of educated, middle class, privileged elitest sort of people telling ordinary working class people what they can and can’t do and say and laugh, not realizing how important comedy is to ordinary people. Ricky Gervais, who’s just a regular working class blow key, as an estimated net worth of one hundred and seventy million dollars. You may recall he co created the show The Office, which has had numerous international adaptations, including one on NBC in the United States.

Ricky one time played the Hollywood Bowl and made one point seventy five million dollars for that one performance. So he’s just a regular old working class guy. Ricky says, there have been numerous attempts to get him canceled over the past fifteen years, including from fellow comedians who criticize him for punching down. Ricky says, they’ve always failed. I’m too old now not to say what I want.

I want to say and do what I want all the time. I want to do my favorite thing all the time. He explains the rise of cancel CLD were saying there’s still two ways you can raise your status in society. One be competent in something like, oh he’s a good hunter, go with him, He’s good for the tribe. The other way, you can raise your status to have virtue, like, oh he’s not a great hunter, but he’s wiser kind of whatever.

And then with the advent of social media, people suddenly discovered they could just say they were virtuous, no evidence, no proof, just loads of flags in their bio. Ricky says he is not going to attend the Golden Globes. He says it’s too far to go and I prefer to stay at home with his girlfriend Jean and their cat. Ricky, of course a notable former host of the Golden Globe’s. Other famous former hosts include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and of course that one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and told this awful, mean, horrible joke about Taylor Swift.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to here? Sorry about that who unbelievably harsh, No wonder she gave him the stare down.

I mean, how could you even Joe like that? After she walked through the room, arriving late somehow and then distracting everybody as she walked from the far side of the room to her table, and then Joe Koy drew attention to her. Ugh um, cool dude on Rob Shooter’s substack, which tends to be a little gossipy, not incorrect, but tends to be gossipy. I’m just familiar with it because I write for the Palace Intrigue podcast about the royal family and Shooter comments on them a lot. It tends to be gossipy.

He’s saying, Jimmy Kimmel’s renewal is for one year and then Jimmy’s done it, said Jimmy signed the one year extension on purpose. It wasn’t advertised that way, but everybody at ABC knows exactly what it means. This is his last lap. Full stop Shooter says network executives want to give Kimmel a graceful, celebratory exit after more than two decades of late night dominance. Another sore says the audience has shifted to streaming, ratings have changed.

Jimmy knows its time. Internally, they’re calling it is good bye year. Everybody expect him to finish big. That would leave the Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon as the last show standing. Everything old is new again.

Now I’m I’m not sure I believe this next port. You know who Jimmy supposedly wants as his final guest. A source said he thinks ending with Trump would be the ultimate finale, one last laugh, one last headline. According to ABC insiders, May twenty twenty seven will be the end of Jimmy Kimmel’s show. We’ll see Sarah Sherman told people that Bow and Yang liked her special and said this is so you, Sherman said, you know what I mean, that’s all you could ever hope for is you’ve created a project with all these amazing people who are also talented.

As for ESNL, it’s a really intimate job. You get to know people really, really well, but you’re creating work that fits a certain type of specific show, so sometimes you don’t get to see everybody’s true artistic selves. You know people inter personally pretty well, you know people’s comedic voices really well, but I don’t know the extent sometimes of people’s full artistic visions. And so much of the specials like I’m a living cartoon, and maybe that’s a little bit of what the Sarah Squirm character is. It’s like a living cartoon, but she’s very much alive and made of flush bones and skin and guts.

And yeah, that’s another thing, the relatability of the special I’m talking about things that everyone can relate to. I don’t have some gross disease that one center of the population has. I have the gross disease of having too much body hair. Tiffany had to stop midset and turned on the lights at her recent comedy show. Tiffany shared a clip on Instagram.

She heard a woman in the crowd call out to her, asking if her remember her. The woman yeeled out, I don’t know if you remember. My name is Colletta Lewis. Tiffany went to the edge of the stage and said, turn the lights on. Tiffany said, you saved my life.

I’m where I’m at right now because of you. Tiffany said Lewis encouraged her and was among the first to believe in her comedy career. Hattish said Lewis gave her two choices for the summer after she was getting in trouble at school. Those choices psychiatric therapy or the Laugh Factory comedy camp. Tiffany said, Colletta, I am forever grateful God made you and you never gave up on me.

Thank you. Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis were speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience the discussion of the President of the United States comments about Rob Reiner. Rogan said, the Rob Reiner things not funny. Look, there’s no justification for what Trump did that makes any sense in a compassionate society. It’s no different than people that were celebrating when Charlie Kirk got shot.

It just shows you how crazy it is the way Trump thinks and talks. It’s just like the guy got sliced up by his kid. You know, anybody doesn’t see that and go f man Cameil and on Jehanny. I’m noticing on threads that he’s getting frusted by people. I don’t think Kamil is all that popular with the comedy community anyway.

Kamail was on Caleb Hearn’s podcast and discussed the rumor, which I’ve never heard before. But what do I know? My guy in a basement recording a podcast. Apparently there was a rumor that Kamail and a Jihanny was having an affair with Michelle Obama. Is this a rumor that everybody knows except me?

Okay, fine, I accept your premise. Anyway, Camel, who was promoting a comedy special, one out of his way to address this rumor that he was having an affair with Michelle Obama and said he’s never met Michelle Obama. As for the rumor, I was so excited. My friend, our mutual friend, pulled Emily aside and was like, hey, I heard the Kamail and Michelle Obama are like doing it. And she was like, not even upset, but multiple people brought it up to me.

So, as the story goes, a mutual friend went up to a couple and was like, Hey, I hear your husband is shagging Michelle Obama? Like do you do that to your friends? Is that a thing people do? Like you go up to married couple and go, hey, I heard your husband is shagging Jill Biden? Like is that something that people do?

Anyway? Come on, A Gianni confirms he has never met Michelle Obama, which implies that they’re not having an affair. I don’t know if you could have an affair if you’ve never actually met. Not an expert in such things. I’m not having an affair.

I’ve never had an affair. I’ve also never met Michelle Obama. I’ve been on a phone call at Jill Biden, who I’m not having an affair with. I just want to be clear. And I really was on a phone call at Jill Biden.

I was producing an episode of a podcast called pod is a Woman. You can find it somewhere. I digress. Kanye West made an appearance at Dion Cole’s comedy show at the Hollywood Improv At that show, Kanye West revealed he’s working on a new album. Dean Cole shared the moment on Instagram, captioning it about last night, what a great time, laughter in love wins again Hollywood improv.

In the video, Dion Cole invites Kanye West of the stage asked the crowd to give it up to a good friend. Cole asked, you got anything we could look out for? New music? No shirts, sweaters, some boots. Kanie West said, new album, which drew applause from the audience.

And that is your comedy news light as it was for today. I will see you tomorrow. Oh, Happy New Year, have a great night. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Calaroga, Shark Media. Busy one. Today We’ve got Chappelle, Sgora Krasier, Sheen, a lot of the big names out there today with your Daily Comedy News. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians, on the comedy industry. A sentence you would say if you were trying to goose these Spotify algorithm, But we don’t have time for that today.

David Dreamin, you may know him. He is the front person for Disturbed. He has publicly reached out to Dave Chappelle. David took to Instagram and posted, Dear Dave Chappelle, I say this with the utmost sincerity and humility. Myself and many other fans of you who happen to be Jews are having a hard time right now Israel, aside, which I’m more than happy to discuss with you at length.

You mentioned your words are indeed powerful and have massive reach. Jews all over the world are being attacked in mass. Would your final joke be quite as funny slash edgy if it led to the slaughter of more innocent Jews? The insinuations made by you could lead to such evil, God forbid, give us hope. Dialogue is always the key.

World is violence enough. Let’s try to diffuse things instead of lighting another match. The invitation is open and without condition. The joke in which Dreaman refers to is Dave Chappelle’s closer. I’m going to paraphrase here a little bit for language.

In the special, Chappelle says, my voice has become more powerful than I intended it to be, and I can’t let these people do me like Charlie Kirk or even worse than that. What if these people trip me up somehow, quat me and then make me say the things that they want me to say, Well, we can’t have that. So just in case we need a code, it’s got to be something that I can’t say that if I say it, you know that these people got me and don’t listen to nothing I say after those words, But don’t tell anybody what is. But it’s got to be something that you know what I mean that I would never say, Oh, I know what the code is. The code is I stand with Israel.

Dave then thanks the crowd and says good night. One person on social media wrote, Dave crapped on a guy who was killed for public speaking, referring to the Charlie Kirk segment of Chappelle Special. Then defended Dinny for half an hour and never thought he’d lose me, but he did. Hey listener sent me this from the Chappelle Reddit. People were criticizing some accuracy in Dave Chappelle’s special.

One of the complaints is about Dave Chappelle voting against Martin Luther King Day becoming a holiday. The complaint seems to be about Chappelle referring to Senator McCain. John McCain was actually a congressman when that vote took place. He did vote against it at the time, later regretted it.

Also of interest, a big part of Chappelle’s Closer is about the boxer Jack Jo…

As was pointed out by the listener and in the reddit, Jack Johnson was pardoned posthumously by President Trump. In Britain, every year the monarch makes a Christmas Day message and over on Channel four they do the alternative message. The alternative message this year was by Jimmy Kimmel. Here’s a clip. I can tell you that from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year tyranny is booming over here.

You may have read in your colorful newspapers. My country’s president would like to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored. The American government made a threat against me and the company I worked for, and all of a sudden, we’re off the air. But then, you know what happened. A Christmas miracle happened.

It was September. It was a September miracle. But the holiday does seem to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it. Millions and millions of people stood up and said, no, this is not acceptable. People who never watched my show, people who were on record saying they hate my show, spoke out.

They marched. He did this all to support the right to a free expression of speech. And because so many people spoke out, we came back. Our show came back stronger than ever. We won.

The president lost, and now I’m back on the air every night, given the most powerful politician on Earth a right and richly deserved bollocking. That’s a word, right, I used it properly. Kim Oll went on to say, you know it’s funny we Americans are very proud of not having a king. It’s kind of why we left. Earlier this year, tens of millions of US marched protests called no Kings.

And just for the record, we have nothing against your king. I mean, I don’t know if you know this, but his son lives here in the States. We just well, some of us just have a problem with the guy who thinks he’s our king. Kim Oll closed with no one knows better than you that were always just a little bit late to the game, but we do come through in the end. Maybe give us about three years.

Please, thank you for your patience, but thank you for Spider Man. Merry Christmas and happy Holidays. Right before Christmas, the President of the United States was on truth social and wrote that Stephen Colbert has actually gotten worse since being terminated by CBS. Stephen is running on hatred and fumes a dead man walking. CBS should put him to sleep now.

Some people on social media, most notably Keith Olberman, had problem with the put him to sleep language. The President hosted the forty eighth Kennedy Center Honors. The program averaged around two point sixty five million view That was a thirty five percent decline year to year. In twenty twenty four, when the President of the United States did not host the Kennedy Center Honors, that broadcast drew in four point one million viewers. Joe Rogan has had some pretty good guests.

In back to back episodes, he had Shane Gillison Tom Sagora. On the Tom Sagora episode, Rogan said, there’s nothing nuttier than the plaques underneath the President’s Have you seen these things in the White House they put up like the U It’s kind of like the Baseball Hall of Fame except for presidents, and some of the captions are just not presidential. I don’t want to bog down on that today, but it’s like, dude, what are you doing? You’re just just whoever the next president is is just going to have to come in and take this stuff down, Like what are you doing? You’re just wasting money, and it’s just it’s so immature.

Even Rogan has said the White House should be more like a museum and feature neutral, factual information about the presidents. Rogan said, you can’t just let someone effing fully swim in it like that. He needs a right hand man. Tom Segura suggested that the antics were evidence that the president was mentally quote unquote losing it. Rogan replied, I think everybody does when you get to a certain age.

Tom Sigor was on Netflix during their NFL broadcast on Christmas Day. Sigor did a segment with Michael Irvin and man, is this tryhard? I have a new special out. It’s called Teacher. It covers a lot of stuff.

Okay, we talk about family relationships, race, not like Steve Bannon jokes, but like fun stuff. You know, crazy nights, the stuff that’ll make Charles Haley blush weird crazy nights, you know, nights when I black out and wake up next to somebody who looks like Coach Belichick. Things like that. Tom Sigor is special. Teacher is Out.

I watched it, and I kept noticing the clapter. I’m very, very sensitive to clapter. I think there were six clapter reactions in the first twelve minutes. I wrote clapter three times in the first twelve minutes, and then I posted a second time. Six in the first twenty It’s not a good thing for comedy show.

Yeah, so if you’re new to all this, when you’re comedian, you’re trying to get laughs and sometimes you get applause, which is not hey, that was really funny. That’s oh, yes, you made a good point. We agree with you there. It’s not a good thing for comedy show. I like Sigora a lot, just the special just didn’t click.

He was a good company, nice to listen to, but funny, I’m not sure it was funny. Now I’m recording this the day after Christmas, and I’m in a really good mood. I mean, it was Christmas, we had a fantastic Christmas. I’m not cranky at all today. And I’m just sharing that because I don’t want you to think, like, oh man, he’s in a mood.

He’s just negative today. But you know, I wasn’t feeling the Sigora thing.

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And then Bert Kreischer was also part of the NFL broadcast, and I just watche…

This is a good version of what this is supposed to be. He’s very natural in an unnatural way, like he’s good at TV. But none of this feels genuine, if that makes any sense, Like he’s just a natural performer. But like the whole packaging of this just doesn’t feel genuine and I watched this and going, oh, I see Bert, You’re I don’t want to use the phrase selling out, but your following the money. Here’s Burd Krasier on Netflix NFL.

I am so excited to be here. I am about to eat and. Drink my way through this entire parking lot. That’s my goal today, and my goal is to find the two best tailgate foods I can find, then take those two people march time in front of the stadium where me and Anthony Anderson will judge them competition style to find our winner. But I got to tell you the real reason I’m here today is to let you know my new series, Freebird is streaming January twenty second on Netflix.

We just pump the trailer on all socials. It is a hard art family comedy. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, set a reminder January twenty second, Free Burk. I’m taking my shower off.

Let’s go, Let’s go left go. So, since the trailer is released, I went to pull it and share it with you. It is very rated R and I watched it and I’m like, so, do you just want to be like dirty? Kevin James is that what we’re trying to do here. I don’t know this show.

I mean, it seems somewhat watchable from the trailer, but I don’t know. I don’t know who it’s for this series, because it’s going to be too corny for the dude brose who want to party, and it’s going to be too naughty for the sitcom people. So I don’t know if this will have an audience. We’ll see. In the trailer, Bert Kreischer is asked the whole shirtless thing, where does it come from?

And then there’s like the uptight principal type character whoever the character is, is like, you know, you should you ought to wear a shirt. Free Birch stars Bird Krascher as Bert Kraser, who sees himself in uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite Beverly Hills private school. Then there’s a scene with the daughters going to the school and people making some comments that I find age interpropriate, and I was like, I don’t know about this. Arden Myren plays Bird Kreischer’s wife Leanne in this one, and the mother of the two daughters. Ava Ryan plays daughter Georgia, who’s the target of Cyberbilly Free Bird is out to January twenty second.

We’ll see how that goes out. Today on Netflix, Ricky Gervais the final major comedy special of the year. We’re looking forward to this one. Ricky has on veil all day statue paying tribute to the dog from the Netflix series Afterlife, Vislaura and Tilly, who was the dog that played Brandy. A statue of Antille was erected in Hemel Hempstead, where the comedy drama was filmed.

Ricky explained in a video, I’m here to unveil this beautiful statue of Antille the Wonderhound, or Antie to her friends, or Brandy as she was portrayed in Afterlife, and she’s going into the square next to the Afterlife bench. So yeah, this is too Anti from Afterlife, my favorite co star. She was a very good girl. I told her about twenty times a day, even when she wasn’t a good girl. Sometimes she forgot the lines and she didn’t have many, but she was still a good girl.

So you can all come along and such her nose for luck. She really is beautiful and come and say hello, good girl. Still a good girl. Untill He passed away in January at age thirteen. Bill Maher has shared that he and Larry David are no longer friends.

Bill Maher had called out Larry David for critiquing Bill Maher’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the year mar was being interviewed by The Free Press. The host asked Bill Moore if he’s ever said anything that has publicly cost him, invites friends, or anything of that nature. Mar said, f yeah, I mean Larry David certainly is not really my friend anymore. The sports business journal Will shared a report on viewership of the FedEx Cup playoffs. That’s golf, and they are giving credit to Adam Sadler for Happy Gilmore two for increasing the ratings.

The FedEx Cup playoffs took place just after Happy Gilmore two came out. The championship got seven hundred thousand views compared to five hundred thousand last year. Obviously, the only person you could credit for that is, of course, Adam Sandler. Alonzo Bowden was speaking to K and PR about Las Vegas drivers, except these drivers, they’re kind of fascinating how bad some people drive. One day, I saw a truck pull out of a driveway and it was a right turn only, so he just drove over the media and made it left and I was like, oh, we’re just making our own rules.

Alonzo actually had some thoughts on politics. He wondered Donald Trump’s ear grew back. We’re still trying to figure out how how did the year grow? Evander Holyfield deserves to know how you grow back in ear. As for the other side, he said, the Democrats completely disappearing is funny.

There’s nobody who can surrender a fight quicker than the Democratic Party. It’s amazing. You pick a fight and they’ll lay down. Send your letters to Alonzo Boden and that is your comedy news for today. You have a great day.

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Caloroga Shark Media either Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. This is a sequel to yesterday’s episode. It is the rest of the list from Billboard dot com. They have listed the top twenty five stand up comedians of the twenty first century. In yesterday’s episode, I covered twenty five through sixteen.

We were up to Ricky Gervais. As usual, when I do these list episodes, I don’t like to look at them in advance because I want to just react and I’m really really curious and fearful what we’re about to find out here, all right? Scrolling down number fifteen is Mitch Hedberg. Good, good pick. I have to remember to add him to my list, which I’ll probably do as tomorrow’s episode Mitch Hedburgh one of my favorites.

I’m glad that they included him here, as Mitch passed away at age thirty seven and two thousand and five, so didn’t have all that longer career in the twenty first century. Billboard writes, Hedberg’s time among comedy’s top ranksted less than ten years, ushered in by a breakthrough in nineteen ninety six on David Letterman’s show Edberg left behind just one comedy special, two albums, plus the posthumous third album, and an indelible legacy. Time magazine suggested in nineteen ninety eight that Heedburg could become the next Seinfeld. Number fourteen Dave Attell great pick and if you listened to yesterday’s episode, I explained who has put together this list for Billboard, and I really respect the hell out of them. Billboard writes, if you never experienced in New York in the nineties, check out a tell.

The gritty, economically strapped, crack and crime infested city at that time runs through his DNA. The scruffy beard, dark worn jacket over gray hoodie eccessorized with a similarly colorless beanie or baseball cap, screams nineteen ninety two Afternoon Bar regular, But make no mistake, utel Mey look old scale, but he’s just as hilarious in this century as he was the last one. A great pick. Number thirteen. Oh my god, I’m not even doing a bit here.

I just scrolled down and I’m like, are you effing serious? Adam Sandler seriously absolutely not, no, no, no. They talk about his movies, but this is a stand up list. Billboard writes he’s not to be underestimated as a stand up comedian. The Brooklyn born New Hampshire Race Sandler finished number nine among Billboard’s box score Top grossing comics of twenty three and twenty four The Sandman as a master storyteller with an acrobatic voice.

Sandler also does musical comedy. Well, I will absolutely disagree on that. Boy, that is just a terrible pick. If you listen to the show, you know my opinions on Adam Sandler comedy and no, absolutely one of the top twenty five. Absolutely not a right Number twelve Nateprighatsy.

I think this is way overrated. I mean, he’s nice, but I don’t know. When I finish my list, I’ll see if he makes it. But twelve is absurdly high. You’re gonna tell me Nate is better than Hedberg.

You’re gonna tell me Nate is better than Dave Attel. You’re gonna tell me Nate is better than Jim Gaffigan. No, No, and no, absolutely not. Crazy talk. Number eleven even more crazy talk?

Are you serious with this list? Billboard? Sebastian Maniscal. My current opinion is Sebastian is just doing a version that I call old man Dice Clay. Like if Dice turned sixty and decided I should curse a little bit less, you’d wind up with whatever Sebastian’s doing right now.

That’s a horrible pick, all right. Number ten Robin Williams. Interesting. I wouldn’t have thought about Robin, but let’s say what Billboard has to say. Robin williams last stand up tour took place in two thousand and eight, and the HBO special that resulted, Weapons of Self Destruction came in two thousand and nine.

Williams passed away in twenty fourteen. See, I would think of him more as a twentieth century stand up I don’t think this pick is ridiculous. Robin Williams was really good on stage. I don’t think I’ll include him on my list. Number nine Maria Bamford.

Now this is really interesting. The people that like Maria Bamford, love Maria Bamford, and the rest of us are like, yeah, she’s fine, not gonna make my list again. The people who love her right now are throwing their sneaker at the wall, going, Johnny Mack, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve seen her live and it was fine. Okay, next up, Number eight, really interesting pick here.

My initial reaction to it is negative and thinking this is kind of crazy. I know people love this guy, but number eight. Norm MacDonald eight above Jim Gaffigan. Billboard rights, the comedian, who died in twenty twenty one at the age of sixty one, is revered as a comedy warrior whose deadpan comedy style and storytelling, like his extended joke about a troubled moth, were as fearless as they were unique. See I think of him more as great on the desk doing appearances on Conan.

He’s got a wonderful comedy album that I love, but it’s more sketches with There’s the Gambling Sportscaster and the Fantastic Four sketch and a Superman sketch all on that one album. I’m not sure the body of work is there. Billboard all right. Number seven Kevin Hart hard to argue. We can argue a replacement, but not crazy nine specials, thirty movies, more TV shows than that, and multiple streaming partnerships.

Johnny mcoay says the man likes to work. Billboard writes, so when heart reconnects to his power base, as he did in his recent Netflix special Acting My Age, which I had high up on my list this year. It’s a bracing reminder of what’s driving all that activity. Relentless jokes and stories that seem like conversational observations but are in fact owned by years of restless roadwork. Not crazy all right.

Number six Jerry Seinfeld. Now in the twenty first century. I saw Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock on back to back nights at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, and Chris Rock was way better than everybody else until the next night when Jerry Seinfeld went up and was way better than Chris Rock. I do associate Seinfeld with the nineties. But let’s see what Billboard has to say.

Where this list compiled at the end of the twentieth century, Seinfeld would almost certainly have topped it. Because it’s twenty five years into the twenty first century, Seinfeld will have to settle for being the wealthiest comedian. And make no mistake, Seinfeld is still Hella funny and his comedy has grown. No Moss has been on AI, which includes a refund why Frankenstein wore a sport coat in the original Universal Monster Movies is a beautiful thing. So we’re up to the top five, which seems like a good time to take a break, and boy, I’m scared continuing bill Board’s Best Comedians of the twenty first century.

Number five Bill Burr not absurd, although I think his last special is a bit of a fall off. Hey, that happens to everyone, including all the great home run hitters. And I guess Bill Burr is doing just fine. After playing the Reod Comedy Festival earlier this year, he apparently is the fifth best stand up of the twenty first century. Really solid.

Who doesn’t like Bill Burr’s comedy? Can’t nitpick that one? You know, with all of these we can pick placement, but not absurd.

Also not absurd at all, And a really strong pick is John Mullenie at number f…

All right, So if mullanie is at four, I’m just thinking off the top of my head. So c K’s left, Chappelle is left? Who else is left that I’m not thinking about? This is going to be interesting, Okay? They right?

Malani has made the combination of the extraordinary, unusual and extraordinarily funny sort of his thing, whether he’s wrestling with a bunch of fourteen year old boys on the Netflix show or plotting the death of a non essential grandparent to get the attention to Craves in elementary school in Baby j Perhaps most fascinating is the four plus minute been on Donald Trump’s first administration from the twenty eighteen special Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, which never once mentions Trump’s name. All right, number three, Louis C.K. All right, so Chappelle’s gonna be up there? Who’s the other one that I’m forgetting? I know you’re screaming at your phone right now, going, how are you forgetting so and so?

But all right, Louis C.K. Just back from Riodd Millboard writes, you may have arguments about CK’s behavior and its consequences, but no one ever accused him of not being funny. His behavior derailed a career of women comics, and eventually his own career was derailed in turn canceled. Not so much. Do you learn anything from it all?

Insert shrug emoji here, very very fair, All right, I’m just curious here because Chapelle’s gonna be one of the last two. Who am I forgetting here? Let me scroll down two. Chris Rock. Oh, of course, I’m so stupid.

Have you been screaming at the wall for the last ten minutes? I was afraid they were gonna like throw out like Amy Schumer or something like incredibly absurd? Of course, Chris Rock. I even name checked Chris Rock five minutes ago as the second best side felt Okay, yeah, of course Chris Rock. Yeah, duh, I’m sorry.

I’m really sorry. If you’ve been throwing things for the last five minutes, I’m stupid. Sometimes. In two thousand and four, Chris Rock titled his fourth special Never Scared. In his most recent special, twenty twenty three, Selective Outrage, he looks around and finds he’s the only unafraid person left standing.

Rock and lay claimed in the mantles of both Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. His work is personally and politically charged the way priors was. But he’s also a mainstream star on screens both big and small. Most of all, he’s a no hold barred stand up in comedy. No one and nothing is safe.

All right, great, pick I feel so stupid or I’m gonna scroll down here. It has to be Chappelle, right, I’m not gonna scroll down or they’re gonna be like Tony Hitchcliff is the best comedian and I’m gonna like lose my mind. Right, this has to be Dave Chappelle. I’m scared. Number one is Dave Chappelle, who I was scary there for a second.

Billboard writes, like the Marvel superhero Daredevil, Chappelle is the man with no fear. His critics might say that also, like the Marvel superhero, he’s blind, so that her anger he to the trans community. Looking strictly through the lens of comedy, however, Chappelle is the greatest comic of the century so far. Some say he’s the goat, and that may prove true, but that’s for another list. Good pick let me fly through the whole list for you again twenty five, John Stewart No.

Twenty four, Billy Connolly No. Twenty three, Trevor Noah twenty two, Jim gaffikin Way Too Low twenty one, and Gabe Iglesias twenty, Sarah Silverman nineteen, Ali Wong No. Eighteen. Patrese O’Neal didn’t like him, but he was good seventeen. Wanda Sykes No.

Sixteen, Ricky Gervais fifteen, Hebberg fourteen to Tel thirteen, Sailor is insanity, twelve Naite Berghatzy is kind of crazy. Eleven Sebastian is even more crazy. Ten Robin Williams nine, Bamford eight, Norm seven, Kevin Hart six Seinfeld and then Burr Mulaney, c K, Rock, Chappelle. That top five is super solid. I’ve been scrolling down some names here.

I haven’t ranked this at all, just names that I’ve thrown in my word document. I’ve written the words Chappelle, Burmulaney, c K, Trevor Gaffigan, Sarah Goleman, Gary Goldman, Hello, Kyle Kanaan, Jimmy Carr, Matt Rife with a question mark. Think about it. He’s the body works better than you think. Dane Cook, Hello everybody, twenty first century, Dane Cook.

I kind of want to acknowledge the blue collar guys and maybe Foxworthy, because that tour was huge and started a whole thing from which Nate Brighetsi’s even benefiting these days. How about George Lopez, We forgot about him, Hebburg, Hotel, Kevin and Rock. But I’ll see what I wound up putting together, and you know, I still need to think about this a little bit more. All Right, nice job, Billboard. That could have been a lot more screen Ricky.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m on Billboard dot com. They put out a list the twenty five best stand up comedians of the twenty first century so far numbers twenty five to sixteen. I have not looked at this yet.

When I do these lists, I like to react to them cold. This one was published in early December. I’m scrolling down now and the first picture I’m seeing is of Sarah Silverman. Is she number twenty five this list? There’s no way I’m going to look at this list and be like, oh, that was a good list.

Right, Well, let’s say they right. As the first quarter of the twenty first century comes to an end, Billboard set out to determine the best of the A list the top twenty five stand up comics of the last twenty five years. To come up with these rankings, we pulled experts, all right? Who were the experts? The panel consists of William Burdette Coots, who heads the Assembly venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Okay, seems reasonable. Michael Cox, who books a stand up for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon that seems reasonable. Adam Eget a booker at the Comedy Mothership in Austin, Texas, all right, that seems reasonable too. That means we’re not going to ignore the bro dudes because you could get really up aty on this. Bruce Hill’s a friend of mine.

He for thirty six years ran Montreal’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. That’s good. Caroline Hirsch, founder of Caroline’s Comedy Club, and she runs in New York Comedy Festival. The Mazilly Brothers, I know Chris Massilly. They own the Gotham in Manhattan.

These are good people, all right. So before I even look at this list, these are people that know what they’re talking about. Like I always say, you know, I know more about comedy than say, ninety eight ninety nine percent of the general population, just because of what I have done for a living in these past twenty five years. But everyone I just named knows more about it than I do. So I am not at all claiming to be like the expert.

The way I phrase it is, if we’re in a bar, I’m probably the expert. But if Chris Massili’s there, Caroline Hirsch is there. A booker from the Tonight Show. Bruce Hills. Oh yeah, they blow me away, absolute one hundred percent.

This is great. Let’s see who else. Patrick Milligan, who is the booker for the Stand in New York City, Susan Provin, the director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and Samantha Schlez, director of the south By Southwest Festival. Okay, I really like who they asked here. So before I even look at this list, and I haven’t looked at at all, I respect these people, so hopefully this is a fantastic list.

Billboard explains the process began with the panel helping put together a ballot of more than one hundred and fifty nominees. The talent pool was limited to comedians with active stand up careers over the last twenty five years, as opposed to sketch, sitcom, film or improp performers such as the cast of SNL or Second City or UCB Overseas. Comedians with the presidents in the US were also considered. From there, judges ranked their top twenty five. Voting was anonymous.

There was a weighted system to determine the top twenty five. Today we will take a look at numbers twenty five through sixteen, they have at number twenty five John Stewart. Okay, interesting, he’s not. He’s just not. Is he one of the top four comedic TV personalities of the century.

Absolutely, if we start some sort of hall of fame, should John Stewart be inn in Absolutely first ballot? But stand up? That seems insane. Bill Board explains Stuart began as a stand up Yeah. Sure.

His muscular sets, like his anchor job, often deal with the political and cultural state of the country, and they still kill. This year, he toured with Pete Davidson and John Mulaney. See which is again? And I host this thing every day. I forgot that that’s even a thing.

Maybe John Stewart is out there quietly killing again. I respect the hell out of this panel. I’m not here to dump on this list. But John Stewart at twenty five, Yeah, okay, twenty four Billy Connolly. Now some of you are gonna be like, what is this list whatever?

But I appreciate that this list has a worldview. I personally really don’t connect with Billy’s material, but you know, I wouldn’t throw you off the bus for saying that. One number twenty three Trevor Noah. Okay, so John’s gonna struggle here because Trevor Noah also best known for hosting The Daily Show. But I was into Trevor Noah before he hosted The Daily Show because he was a really good stand up.

I personally like Trevor a lot. He’s got a lot to say. So yeah, all right, really interesting lists so far? Okay, twenty two Jim Gaffigan. That seems low to me, Like who else is going to be on this list?

That Gaffigan is only coming in at twenty two. You know, I give him a lot of guff on the show for the bourbon stuff, and you know, maybe he didn’t call people back who helped him early in their career, But twenty two seems really low for Jim Gaffigan. Twenty one Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias. Now so here, let me scroll back up to the top. So this is the twenty five best stand up comedians.

Now, Gabe really nice guy. I’ve worked with him. He will call you back, sells out stadiums huge. But is he a better stand up than Jim gaff Again, I don’t know, No, no, you know, let’s say the bad guys are gonna you know hurt you and you got to pick a stand up comedian to save your life, and they got to make them laugh. You’re gonna go with Gabe or Jim.

Actually maybe with the bad guys. Maybe Gabe’s style of humber would work better with the bad guys. I guess it depends on who the bad guys are, but that just seems seems out of sync to me. Now I’m thinking ahead when we get to the top, who’s gonna be at the time. It’s gotta be Chappelle and despite his travail, c K that’s gonna be the one too, And Burr’s gonna ring pretty high.

I bet those three. And I’m getting ahead of myself on number twenty Sarah Silverman very underrated Sarah Silverman. I don’t know it’s because of her style or her other appearances, but I’ll tell you every time I put a Sarah Silverman special on the television there it goes way out my list. So, yeah, a lot of respect for twenty Sarah Silverman. Nineteen Alle Wong, Yeah, really again, respect the panel, but yeah, let’s just I mean, I don’t even know if Folly Wong should be on the list, But ahead of Sarah just No eighteen.

Patrise O’Neil. I’m biased here. I never enjoyed this man’s company. I found him to be kind of a just a jerk. He would just come at people for no reason, just like he was one of those guys that would mess with people just to see how people would react.

Never, never enjoyed being around Patrise O’Neil. He has been forgotten, but I will tell you when he was around. All the comedians love Patrise O’Neil. His material is pretty good. So I’m really biased here, and I just don’t like the guy.

Billboard rides. O’Neil’s candor extended to his own mortality. He carried some three hundred pounds on his six’ four frame and suffered from type two. Diabetes he, Joked i’m the leader of the fat. People I’m MALCOLM, Xxl and then he joked on A Comedy central, SPECIAL i got to lose some weight now to stay, alive and that’s not enough motivation for.

Me In october of twenty, eleven his diabetes brought on a. STROKE a month, later he had passed away at age forty. One Bill Burr produces an annual comedy benefit in memory Of. Patrese some of the people At patrese’s, Funeral Chris, Rock Kevin, hart Want Of, sykes And Jim. Norton Colin quinn at the wake said IF i somehow could be looking at him in heaven right now and watched him Meet, GOD i Know i’d be thinking the same thing everybody else will be, Thinking, uh, Oh, god shouldn’t have said.

That now he’s going to get hammered By. Patrese that is How patrise was and WHY i didn’t really enjoy. HIM a, RIGHT i gotta get a break in, here and we’ll come back and we’ll look at more of the. List this is Bill board’s twenty five best stand Up comedians of the twenty first century so, far number twenty five through. Sixteen at number, Seventeen Wanda.

Sykes that’s. Interesting do you think Of Wanda sykes as a great stand Up but, Again i’ll say for the ninety fifth time this episode The Respect House, Panel But Wanda sikes. Really Wanda sykes was one of the co hosts on The oscars the night that you think That Chris rock was, Hosting Remember Will, Smith Chris. Rock Wanda sykes is one of the hosts that night along With Amy. Schumer Is Amy Schumer gonna be on this list ahead of some of the people we’ve mentioned she, is isn’t?

She that’s gonna be insane when we get. THERE i don’t. Know i’m struggling with, this Like i’m just thinking of random, people like Is Craig ferguson going to be on this? List BECAUSE i Take Craig ferguson over one Of sykes any day of the, week and twice On sunday as they, say, SO i don’t. Know Sixteen Ricky.

Gervais that seems low to. Me his specials are actually really. Funny billboard. Writes jervase has released eight comedy specials and created The office, franchise but the best example of his comedic brilliance is his opening monologue at the twenty Twenty Golden GLOBES Yep Legendary hall Of. Fame so what do you?

Think come in The facebook Group Daily Comedy News podcast, group and as they post the rest of the, LIST i will do a sequel episode to this. One i’m really. Curious i’m just trying to think off the top of my. Head let me just type the word comedian Into. Google it’s twenty first.

Century google is putting in front of. Me chappelle’s gotta be. Up Burr, Ck they’ll all make the. List, Mulaney, Jessel nick A. Tell hopefully it tells on this, list especially with the people who were.

Quoted It tell’s going to be a sleeper. Pick hopefully it tells a really HIGH A tell is. Great Nate, PERGATZI i, mean Is nate? Great Amy, Batton, Oswalt Jimmy. CARR i would Put jimmy way up in the.

List hannibal Burr is kind of had a moment, There Sam, Morrel Will sam make? It sibashian man Of? Scalco would they do? That Jim jeffries could be an interesting. Pick all, Right so those are just some names to think about and we’ll see who they put.

Up but just to fly through this again so you can. React twenty, Five John, Stewart, yeah okay twenty, Four Billy connolly twenty, Three Trevor Noah twenty, Two Jim Gaffigan two low in my opinion twenty, One Gabe iglesias, Twenty Sarah Silverman, Nineteen Ally wong, Eighteen patrese, O’Neal which is a good pick despite me not liking him, Seventeen want Of sykes Sixteen Ricky. Gervais all, right that is your comedy news for. Today see you. Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News today honestly weekend filler. Look, man, it was Christmas and I’ve had a couple of lists that I’ve just been holding on to for you. Now, this first list has been completely blocked by an ad for Brad Pitt’s f One the movie. Now I could just edit this out, but that’s not fun.

Hey guys, I’m trying to read the list here. How do you clear this ad? Oh? There it goes from Deadline Comics who Won twenty twenty five? The ad is back again.

I could edit this out, but wouldn’t you rather just hear me slowly lose my mind as I tried to do this? Where was I? Comics who won twenty twenty five? A look at fourteen? Who leveled up with explosive professional Growth?

Why fourteen? What a weird number? This is by Matt Grobar in Deadline, as I like to do with most of these lists. I haven’t looked at it yet, but I am going to hit command plus plus to make the font bigger. Somebody’s scatt and old.

You can’t see anymore Deadline rights. We’ve honed in on fourteen comedic performers who achieved explosive professional growth in twenty twenty five, whether by substantially boosting their ticket sales or social media following, landing a coveted roll or development opportunity, or elevating to a new tier of venue as a headliner. It should be noticed this list isn’t all encompassing. You won’t find Jim Gaffigan listed here, even if he did the unthinkable by putting together nearly forty five great minutes just on the topic of bourbon. I’ll push back on the word great.

There, I’m gonna use both hands to push back on the word great. You won’t find Nikki Glaser, who’s elevated to the A list with an array of starring vehicles lined up Nord Tom Sagora, who landed his first Emmy nominee for Bad Thoughts, and I’ll point out play at the reON Comedy Festival. Deadline says, we generally try to avoid arena tier comedians, though a couple’s not through. Let’s look number one, Max Amini. Now I’m already fascinated by this list.

Max Amini. You know how many times I’ve mentioned Maxsimini. This year prior to today’s episode, none, and I can see I suck at this. I’m the worst. I don’t know anything about comedy, and I’m terrible at hosting a podcast.

But I can tell you almost every day I google the word comedy, and I also google the word comedian, and I also read several entertainment websites, including Deadline and I’m sitting here right now going Maximini, who Deadline tells us this year he has performed one hundred and fifty sold out shows in nineteen countries, selling over two hundred thousand tickets. In March, Amani released his latest special, Randomly Selected, seeing it pull out a whopping sixteen million views on YouTube Deadline rights. Remarkably, this special is not only the top performing special of the year across all platforms per Nielsen numbers, it’s also the ninth and most viewed on YouTube of all time. Now again, I’m terrible with this. I suck, But I did read other people’s lists.

No one mentioned this. The La Times didn’t mention this. Vulture didn’t mention this. The YouTube algorithm hasn’t put this in in front of me. What is going on here?

Did I move to like a parallel universe where this guy’s the top comedian, described by Jerry Seinfeld as one of the hottest comedians to watch in the next generation of comedy. As of this month, he’s Instagram’s number two creator period, behind only mister beast a Meani, generating two point seven seven billion views on the platform this year and has now surpassed six billion all time. I know somebody out there is screaming, okay boomer at me right now. I get it. I totally get it.

I see these numbers and I’m like wow. And I’m not saying anything negative about him. I’m just saying, wow, how is all this happening without hitting the mainstream media at all? Like zero? I listen to podcasts about comedy.

Haven’t heard the name. I read Deadline, I read Vulture, I read Variety, I read the Hollywood Reporter. I haven’t seen the name. Am I insane? Am I losing my mind?

All right? I guess we got to pay attention to Max Amini. Respect and fine, I’m an old man. Call me whatever you want. I’m just I’m stunned right now, which is why I don’t read these articles in advance.

I’m just done, Okay, Number two Leanne Morgan, Leanne, I’ve heard of She’s in the news all the time. Number three Josh Johnson again makes sense. Is Josh in the mainstream press every day? No? But is he in the comedy press a lot?

Yes? Do the people I interact with regularly mentioned Josh Johnson, Yes, Maximini not so much. Again, I’m just confused, London writes. This year, Josh Johnson elevated into the rotating host schedule on The Daily Show. His tours kicked off in January and continues through February with three hundred shows and one hundred and eleven markets.

Is all more impressive that he’s done it with zero promoter marketing money. He’s gonna play four sold out shows at the Palladium in London at the end of January, and we’ll play five shows of the Beacon in New York City, then five sold out shows at the Chicago Theater on Valentine’s Day weekend. Yep. Massive. He’s known for taking the YouTube with his new long form topical stand up set on a weekly basis.

Forty nine of his last fifty videos have reached over a million views. Absolutely breakout Yearnumber four Ali Sidik again, a name that has come up a lot per Nielsen numbers reviewed by Deadline. My Two Sons was the third most viewed special on any platform in the last year. Sadiq is also on the twenty stand ups to keep an eye on in twenty twenty six. I’m saving that list for January first.

Haven’t looked at it yet, but now I just got spoiled by one of the names. Number five Jimmy O Yang. Johnny Mac loves Jimmy O Yang. Deadline deep dives here into Jimmy O Yang’s international success. Good call there.

Number six Nurse John. Now, Nurse John is someone who’s been on my radar, but not someone who I talk about on the show. A nurse turned viral creator and comedian who blew up online with relatable portrayals of life working in healthcare. Number seven Morgan Jay again, a name that has come up a couple times, which is why I’m just totally just bewildered by Maximini And again, maybe you’re all listening to the podcast hitting delete, going what is wrong with this Johnny Mack guy? But I’m just bewildered because the name did not come up this year.

Morgan Jay now has a full live band a company him at some of his larger shows. This year, Jay boosted his profile and film and TV with appearances on Apple TV’s Stick Opposite Owen Wilson and Mark Marin, and on NBC’s Saint Dennis Medical eight Osco at Cotska. You’ve heard me talk about her for the past few years. Good call there. Number nine Moe Ammer.

I’m a big fan. I’ve liked all of his specials and as I always say, he’s got something to say. I like him a lot. Ten three time guests. John Marco Soiresi still comes on the show, hasn’t.

Jim Gaffigan me cool guy. I’ve been a follower since I saw him at New Faces and he’s hilarious, and you watched his YouTube special, and I think we all love John Marco Siresi. Number eleven on Deadlines list. Robbie Hoffman, yep, like I said, once I saw Mulaney was producing her special, I was like, all right, I got a beef up on Robbie Hoffman and I became a big time believer, and I think a lot of you became big time believers when you watch that special. Robbie Hoffman is fantastic.

I mean the trivia guys have conversations with me about Robbie Hoffman at the Brewery. Umber twelve Caleb Hearn not my cup of tea, but sure. His top episode of his podcast reached over five million viewers on YouTube. That’s not how podcasts work, don’t get Johnny Max started on podcasts versus YouTube shows. You listen to a podcast, read my substack if you want to hear me rand about that.

On number thirteen, jeff Ercurrie.

All right, let’s see what they say here.

The other comic who won twenty twenty five, who was part of our twenty twenty four Comics to Watch the list is jeff Er Currie, who recently completed a nine sold out show residency at the Wilburn Boston with nine thousand tickets sold. Curry rescheduled a good chunk of this year’s tour to be by his wife’s side during her treatment, and pledged to donate one dollar for every ticket sold on the tour to breast cancer research. Recently, he taped a Netflix special during five shows at the Celebrity Theater. Number fourteen. Zakir Khan, India’s Zakir Khan leveled up from theaters to arenas, going from playing the theater at MSG to Madison Square Garden itself.

He did CON this year, became the first comedian performing in Hindi to play Madison Square Garden, New York, as well as Scotiabank Arena Toronto twice and the Coca Cola Arena in Dubai. He’s also the first Asian comedian in a headline and sold out Royal Albert Hall in London. Really really fantastic list by Deadline here, great job, and I think it’s just illustrative of just how much comedy is out there. I meane, a couple of those names, I imagine we’re off your radar, clearly, some of them off my radar. Really, really great job by Deadline.

All right, let’s take the break and then I’ve got a different list for you. I’ve been sitting on this one, and this list came out well well before the murder of Rob Reiner. This from the Boston Globe. They were ranking the top ten network sitcoms of all time, and their headline was All the Family Seinfeld ranking the top ten networks it comes of all time. So I’m just pointing out the timeline there to show it.

Whatever is to come here was not influenced by the Reiner Murders’s see what the Boston Globe says. Here are the criteria rules. Network only thirty minutes strictly comedy. I love Freaks and Geeks, but it was one show. I also love kerb but it was part of HBO, which, as the old catchphrase told us, wasn’t even TV.

All right. The Globe says they’ve tried to avoid recently bias, and here is their list. Number ten Good Time CBS nineteen seventy four to seventy nine. It’s easy and not unfair to dismiss Jimmy Walker’s dyno mites antics as a modern da appendage to minstrelsy. But consider how radical it was to put on a show about life in the Chicago projects, created by two black men on a primetime network in nineteen seventy four, and that gospel funk theme song.

Hard to front any of that, all right. Number nine The Office NBC twenty five to twenty thirteen. I imagine if you listen to this podcast every day, you are familiar with the Office, so I won’t bog down on that. But it’s crazy to have the office behind Abbot Elementary ABC, twenty twenty one to the present. The Globe Rights, but Abbot moves towards the top of the class, largely through the easeful, good humored way.

It addresses the perils facing public education. So were you saying the office walk so Abbot could run? On? Number seven The Honeymoons, CBS nineteen fifty five to fifty six, So they’re including the classic Honeymooners. There there’s a if you deep dive on the Honeymooners.

There’s a lot of later episodes and like TV movies and weird stuff. Number six Cheers, NBC, nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety three. The Globe Rights. Yes, I’d get run out of Boston if I didn’t include Sam Alone and his beloved bar. Number five The Simpsons.

Is The Simpsons a sitcom? Interesting? I guess we could argue that I don’t feel like The Simpsons is a sitcom. I feel like it’s a cartoon. I feel like that’s its own thing.

Number four All in the Family, CBS from nineteen seventy one to seventy nine. Debates raged over where the series was lampooning a bigot or celebrating him all in the family matter and known a way that few, if any other sitcoms have. Number three The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Now, if you ever go back and watch that, that has aged really well. They point out that Ted Knights Ted Baxter was Ron Burgundy before Ron Burgundy really really well said, I’m gonna steal that line next time.

I’m about my love of Will Ferrell movies. Boy, that that is a great, great, great, great great point about Will Ferrell. Wow, Yes, okay, love it. Number two Seinfeld NBC from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety eight. And I was going to sit here and wonder and speculate what they would have at number one, and then my eyes went down and I accidentally spoiled myself.

So I know the answer. But how about you? What do you think? What haven’t we mentioned yet? I’m just trying to rack my brain here, Happy Days mash.

What else do people like? People like Parks and rec people like thirty Rock Raymond, people like that one. Nope, they have as number one. I Love Lucy from CBS from nineteen fifty one to nineteen fifty seven. Again can’t argue with the pick.

But on the other hand, we’ve been doing TV now for another seventy years and no one’s been able to do better than I Love Lucy. That in itself says something they write. It’s the fountain head of the sho genre. Not the first sitcom, but the one that showed how it’s done. It still helps that it’s still very, very funny.

Okay. I won’t lose my mind about that list. That list is not awful. I’m sure if I sat here and thought about it and made a list out of a different list, but not crazy. Okay, And as weekend filler goes, I enjoyed today’s episode.

I hope you did too. Tomorrow a look at the top twenty five stand up comedians of the twenty first century so far. I’ve got some thoughts. Meet you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media should Stephen Colbert run for president. I’ve suggested that before High I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy, and he was a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry, which is a phrase you would say, and it might take your Spotify numbers from eleven percent to fourteen percent. But I don’t have time for that right now. Stephen Colbert was at slat’s political gamb Fest. He was asked if he would run for president in twenty twenty eight.

Colbert replied absolutely. I should not run for president, and I understand why you want me to. I have to discuss with my faith leader and my family to see if once in my service on the Late Show ens in May, I could be of some greater service to this nation that I love so much. But it sounds like he’s not gonna run, which is a shame. I think he would be a good candidate.

Here’s why. He speaks well, he can debate well, and he looks nice. Those are three important things. And he seems calm. We could use a little calm right now.

On crack dot Com, Keegan Kelley writes Dave Chappelle and the Saudi Royal Family deserve each other. In response to some of mister Chappelle’s jokes keating, Kelly writes, in Saudi Arabia, trans people can be beaten in prison, tortured, and murdered for their identities. Homosexuality is illegal in the country, as his gender reassignment surgery addressing in ways that don’t reflect one’s assigned sex at birth. Critics of the Riad Comedy Festival know that in order to secure his no doubt exorbitant appearance fee at the Read Comedy Festival, Chappelle had assign a censorship contract guaranteeing that he would not joke about Saudi Arabian culture, religion, or politics, and he would not utter a single word about the Saudi Royal family. But ultimately Chappelle doesn’t care about any of that because none of it prohibits him from performing comedy his way.

Plus, as an obscenely wealthy and decorated artist who considers criticism of his comedy to be a civil rights issue, Chappelle clearly empathizes with the Saudi Royal family’s draconian treatment of dissent. Kelly suggests Dave Chappelle should switch to a Saudi Arabian streaming service for his next nine figure distribution deal. Johnny mcdin’ realize his voice is a little thin today until he got behind the microphone. Shane Gillis is set to make his BKFC debut in twenty twenty six. Now you’re like Johnny Mack, what’s BKFC.

Is that like a Chicken place in Brooklyn? No, BKFC is bear knuckle Boxing. Shane Gillis is attending Knucklemania six and we’ll walk out heavyweight Patrick Brady at the event on February seventh in Philadelphia. Shane Gillis gave in after Brady posted a series of comedic videos requesting Shane Gillis join his corner to convince Shane Gillis to walk him out. Brady posted multiple videos of himself taking body shots from other professional fighters until Shane gave in.

Gillis commented, I’m in after watching one of the videos of Brady getting punched in the stomach. Amy Schumer in the news again. Various reports, including one of the Daily Mail, quoting all sorts of insiders. One insider alleges that Amy Schumer realized she couldn’t have it all at once. It was challenging juggling her marriage with the pressures of show business.

Her career slowed down after becoming a mom, and she didn’t prioritize her professional goals with the same zeal she once did. The Insider says that Amy’s confidence skyrocketed with her weight loss, and she ultimately chose to focus on her career. The Blast said Schumer not only obtained a toned physique, but gained a more chiseled face. The Blast spoke to some beauty experts. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Doctor Kahn offered his professional opinion.

According to doctor Kahn, he agrees that Amy is using filters to achieve her flawless appearance. He believes she either got botox or is editing her instagrams. Ricky Gervais was on the jack Mates Happy Hour podcast and doesn’t think he’ll do another TV show. Dervease said, I don’t know. I’m really loving stand up at the moment when I first started, I thought on myself as a writer, director and actor, and stuff had written and directed, and you do the odd film project.

And then I tried stand up and I did stand up tours between series. In the last few years, maybe the last six seven, eight years, it switched around. I feel that stand up is my job. I feel that I’ve always got to be doing stand up. And I finished a project, I think of doing something else that it’ll take three years.

Ali Katz will be I think three or four years after Afterlife ended. But I’ve just finished the tour and I’ve put a new material Nights in January. So once I finished that, I put that on Netflix and I’m starting again. I feel now that I’m a touring Netflix stand up and I wonder what I’ll do in the daytime. Ricky talked about getting older, saying, if I do three gigs in a row now at my age, I wake up and I think, was I run over last night?

I got to do another gig tonight. It gets sort of harder. And I don’t know if there’s an adrenaline dump that I don’t notice at the time, or it might just be that I’m sixty four. When I was a kid, the thought of being sixty four was do you live that long? I know it’s different now.

I mean, I should be retiring anyway soon, and I don’t think about retiring, but I just think it takes a little bit more.

Also, it’s for the ten thousand pounds for the chickens.

I think I don’t need to do it. I don’t need to have ten thousand dollars to have a chicken. So something’s got to be amazing for me to do it. Ricky has donated two and a half million pounds to animal charities from the proceeds of the Mortality World Tour. Ricky announced on Twitter to celebrate my Mortality Tour, my Netflix special, my Golden Globes nomination, and the Spirit of Christmas, donating two point four to three million two animals.

These are the lovely charities have chosen Merry Christmas critters. The list includes the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, the International Animal Rescue, the Celia Hemmond Animal Trust, and Animals Asia. They’ll all receive one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Now Zad, which provides animal welfare services in Afghanistan and Ukraine, will be given one hundred and thirty two thousand pounds, and there were seventeen other charities which will all receive one hundred thousand pounds Rickysrvased Mortality is on Netflix December thirtieth Tomorrow. On this program, we’ve got a couple list articles for you.

Then on Sunday and Monday, I will take a look at remember that list of the top comedians of the twenty first century. I have some thoughts. Those will be Sunday and Monday’s episodes, and then on Tuesday we’ll jump back in with a normal episode. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News so it shows up in your feet every morning. I hear that’s the kind of thing that’ll jump your Spotify numbers from eleven to fourteen percent in a hurry.

Oh, we don’t have time for that right now, because it is time before the comedy stock market hit it. Burt Reynolds Comedy stock Market. Yes, it is the final comedy stock market of twenty twenty five. And a reminder, this is not saying somebody’s good or bad. It is finding the value so we can make some money on our comedy stocks.

My cell recommendation, let’s sell Bowen Yang. I know everybody’s fawning over Bowen Yang and bon Voyage and he’s great and all that, and that’s when you sell, you get out now. As I said earlier in the week, I’m not sure what Bowen Yang’s future is. My comparison is Kate McKinnon. Yeah, he’s great on SNL, but are you going to see a bone Yang movie?

Do you want a Boon Yang sitcom? I’m not sure you do. Let’s sell. Kamil nan Gianni was this special funny sure, but he’s not gonna stick with this. He wants to be an actor.

Everything about him tells he wants to be an actor. So, yeah, he popped into the comedy stage for a day and he’s he’s gone again. So he’s overvalued. Let’s sell. And remember this is all about value.

Also overvalued right now is Jimmy Kimmel. Sure, everybody loves Jimmy Kimmel right now, but remember this is about value. Let’s get out on Jimmy Kimmel. Let’s buy some Stephen Colbert because he said he wasn’t gonna run for president, but he didn’t totally say no way I would run for president. And maybe he was just floating as an idea.

So let’s scoop up a little Colbert because he had never know what happens and let’s sell some Dave Chappelle. I’ve never seen a special flame out like that. That went from like, oh my god, Dave spell is a special to two days later nobody was even talking about it. Was it good? Sure?

But Chappelle might be overvalued these days. So we’re gonna sell Bow and Yang. We’re gonna sell come out on Geohnny. We’re gonna sell some Kimmel, but I can see us buying back in. We’re gonna buy Colbert, and we’re gonna sell Dave Chappelle.

I feel bad that that’s kind of a negative comedy stock market, but we’re here to make money off these things, and that’s where the value is. James Cameron not too happy with Amy Poehler. Back in twenty three ten, Amy Poehler was hosting the Golden Globeskathern Bigelow was the Best Director nominee thanks to Zero Dark thirty. Amy Poehler joked, when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron. Cameron is not happy with that, he told The New York Times.

Amy Poehler’s remark was an ignorant dig at an event that’s supposed to be a celebration of cinema and filmmakers. I’m bretty, thick skinned and happy to be the butt of a good natured joke. But that went too far. The fact that people found it funny shows exactly what they think of me, even though they have no idea who I am or how I work. Now, look note Tinniggy Glazer, who’s hosting the Golden Globes this year.

You have to be very, very careful because you know, some people say they’re willing to be the butt of a good natured joke, and then some people will just stoneface you and practically wreck your career, like, for example, one time Joe Coy told it is a horrible, just awful joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen, a big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. Vin Spacey is back, baby. You may recall Kevin Spacey was the star of House of Cards.

Now if you put on Netflix, they act like Kevin Spacey’s not even in any of the episodes. There’s always somebody else on the title card Kevin Spacey never heard of them Well. Kevin Spacey is now staring in the Italian comedy series Mini Market for Italy’s state broadcaster RAI. We’re told it’s a low budget show at which the two time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey plays Kevin Spacey, the imaginary mentor of a young man who works at a Rome convenience store and dreams of becoming a TV star like Kevin Spacey. In a promo, Kevin Spacey sings Randy Newman’s You’ve Got a Friend in Me and Frank Sinatras I’ve Got you under my Skin.

I know you want to watch this. What’s Mini Market about? Well? Kevin Spacey plays Manilo’s artistic conscience and unpredictable mentor. Their relationship is grounded in bickering, misunderstandings and mutual teasing.

The show captures both the experience of a man who’s been on the world’s most important movie in TV sets and recklessness of someone who does not realize that they have an Oscar winner by their side. Mini Market is ten episodes. It’s out today on the RII Play streaming service, and bad news for the paper you know the office sort of spin off. Well, they’ve been airing it on NBC and apparently isn’t doing too well because NBC originally was going to run it through January twenty six and now they’re like, yeah, we’re just gonna run three episodes on January third, which is a Saturday, which screams they want out of the paper business. I believe it was renewed for Peacock, but apparently not doing well on over the air television.

And that is your comedy news for today. Again. Tomorrow, I’ve got some lists for you, and then Monday and Tuesday I’ll take a look at the top comedians of the twenty first century so far. See you there,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnnie Mack, and today is part two of my look at Variety’s top one hundred best comedy movies of all Time. I guess they didn’t say top, they said the the one hundred best comedy movies of all time. Yesterday I did one hundred through fifty, and I guess I probably should have stopped at fifty one. Right, So today we’re taking a look at the final forty nine.

I guess I messed that up. Oh well, number forty nine Shampoo from nineteen seventy five. I remember there being such a movie. I was a young lad then. I couldn’t tell you a thing about it.

Roddy tells us. It’s one of the great demonstrations of how a seventies movie could tackle so many things, including the sexual revolution, the entertainment industry, and Nixon, and still emerge as a perfect spitting in the air diversion. George is a Beverly Hills hairdresser who’s such a born seducer that he always makes it look like the women are coming after him. George played by Warren Batty Okay number forty eight, bringing up Baby from nineteen thirty eight carry Grant and Catherine Hepburn right there. You know it’s gonna be good because of the cast.

Forty seven from twenty fourteen. The Grand Budapest Hotel number forty six Coming to America from nineteen eighty eight. People really like that film, even though I’m from Queen’s I never really loved it. Forty five Kind Hearts and Coronets from nineteen forty nine, One of the most scathing black comedies ever made, says Variety, tells the story of Lewis, whose mother was disowned by her aristocratic clan after she eloped. Lewis, born poor, is eighth in line to inherit the family royal title on the fortune that goes with it, the situation he decides to rectify by murdering each of the seven relatives who stand in his way.

Each one of those seven relatives is played by Alec Guinness, who knew Kine. Hearts and Coronets number forty four, Missus Doubtfire from nineteen ninety Okay again, nice fun movie. Who doesn’t like Robin Williams? Is it funnier than Airplane? You’re Insane?

Forty three Team America World Police forty two four Weddings and a Funeral from nineteen ninety four. Forty one, The Beatles in a Hard Day’s Night. Yeah, okay, forty I’m gonna throw my laptop across the room. Zoolander from two thousand and one. Just no, just no, I’d actually watch Adam Sandler movies before I’d watch Zoolander.

Ben Stiller’s zeny send up of the fashion industry, Just No. Thirty nine, Clueless from nineteen ninety five, Fine thirty eight, Jerry Lewis and The Nutty Professor from nineteen sixty three, Fine thirty seven, The Princess Bride from nineteen eighty seven, Okay, Cool thirty six, nineteen ninety four’s ed Wood, All right, we’re on a little roll here. School of Rock from two thousand and three. At thirty five again, Airplane was like sixty something. Riddy writes, Jack Black is great at what he does, but he’s not commonly thought of as a great actor.

I guess you can pick up the kind of comedy I don’t like. Number thirty four with Nail and I from nineteen eighty seven. Variety writes no one had heard of Richard Grant when he played with Nail A failed counterculture actor with a lust for adventure, best expressed by his willingness to drink anything in a bottle, including furniture polish. Apparently it’s very footy. Thirty three nineteen eighty Five’s Lost in America.

I don’t even know what to do with this list anymore. Sullivan’s Travels from nineteen forty one. Popular director John L. Sullivan played by Joel McCrae, is hit with an existential crisis, which he believes he can fix by making a star commentary on the problems that confront the average man. The trouble is he’s known mostly for disposable studio comedies.

Is this like an Adam Sandler prequel? I might have to check that out. Number thirty one from nineteen seventy two, Pink Flamingos celebrating John Waters thirty Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Okay, my kind of movie, but heads ahead against Airplane No. No Oh twenty nine When Harry met Sally.

I saw that in theaters back in nineteen eighty nine and liked it a lot. Nice little film. Sure. Number twenty eight Richard Pryor Live in Concert Now that was out in theaters because we were a little early for an HBO comedy special, and we definitely had Netflix yet, So in modern times we would consider this a quote unquote comedy special, but it was a movie. Briddy writes, there’s no debating that Richard Pryor is the greatest stand up comedian who ever lived.

Time out. You can debate it. I mean, if I went up to you and I said, no, I disagree. I think Richard Pryor is the second greatest and George Carlin is the greatest. I mean, that’s a debate.

You can disagree. You might even win the argument, but you wouldn’t be like, that’s crazy, Johnny Mack. How dare you suggest George Carlin is the greatest comedian of all time? I mean, it’s debatable, Guys. Brody writes, Richard Pryor’s best performance became a landmark concert film in which Prior turned everything he touched into a scaldingly funny theater of truth.

The Philadelphia Story from nineteen forty. This is not the one with the aircraft carrier that goes back in time during World War two, And just when the movie gets interesting, they’re like, oh yeah, then the time warp is back and we’re back into the present. No, that’s the Philadelphia experiment. This is Katherine Hepburn and Carry Grant, totally different movie twenty six Borat And they even use the full title here Borat Cultural Leanings of America for make benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. You know, that’s a great pick.

That’s one of those films that I don’t think I laughed more and I’m a comedy snob watching it. Wow, this probably is ranked criminally low at twenty six. Good pick with that, We’ll take the break here and come back in the top. Twenty five is probably all the Adam Sandler filmography, right, continuing our look at Variety’s best at comedy movies of all time now stunning ley and we’ve gone through seventy five of them and only mentioned one Adam Sandler movie, which means one of two things, either a variety or really tasteful people or b is insane. And I’m about to list like fifteen to the next twenty five being Adam sailor movies, in which case this may be the last episode of Daily Comedy News.

We’re about to find out number twenty five one of my favorite films of All Time from nineteen seventy Mash fantastic film. If you’ve only seen the TV show, it may throw you a little bit. This version of Hawkeye and Trapper are a little darker than the Alan Alda Wayne Rodgers version. Great great film. Nice pick there.

Twenty four Bridesmaids from twenty eleven twenty three from nineteen thirty two Trouble in Paradise. Bridey explains to the extent that any romantic relationship is based on trust, the two party’s fear of betrayals compounded when both are thieves twenty two. Caddy Shack from nineteen eighty I’d probably have that way up there with like, I’m hoping I get to say words to you like stripes and Animal House. I hope these are words that are going to be said soon, Caddy Shack. And I’m looking at a picture of Bill Murray and the Gopher and I’m smiling.

Absolutely fantastic. But now I’m worried, because Variety writes. In the late seventies movie comedy that changed Hollywood and change the culture, not necessarily for the better, was National Lampoon’s Animal House. But even as that showy retro Fratthouse Bash became a classic, it was never as funny as the casually delirious Snobs Versus Slob’s Golf comedy that arrived two years later. Does that mean Animal House is not on this list?

Because that’s gonna make Johnny Mack very sad? Twenty one, The Bank Dick from nineteen forty W. C. Fields all Right, fair enough? Super Bad from two thousand and seven.

Nice movie, a lot of fun? Is it? Forty something? Movies? Better than Airplane?

Of course not nineteen It Happened One Night from nineteen thirty four. Rody says it’s the movie that invented the form of the screwball romantic comedies. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert eighteen This is Spinal Tap again, really love This is spinal Tap, but eighteen that seems insane to me? I mean, and I really like it seventeen nineteen seventy two is The Heartbreak Kid. Charles Groden plays Lenny, a nice Jewish boy who gets married on impulse and then, while still on his honeymoon, ditches his bread for a more attractive candidate played by Sybil Shephard.

Not familiar with that one from nineteen forty his girl Friday carry Grant again, apparently Cary Grant the greatest comedic actor of the last one hundred and twenty five years. From nineteen sixty seven, It’s playtime, and you’re like, Johnny Mack, what’s playtime? And that is a good question. Here we file Mosieur Hulou, a gauky, mute, pipe smoking overcoat wearing middle aged French geek update of Charlie Chaplin in this movie, Hulo travels through Paris. Okay, are we getting any Pink Panther movies on this list?

Are we getting any Peter Sellers Number fourteen from two thousand and four Sideways. I’m now convinced variety or just film snobs. I mean sideways. I would put Adam Sailor movies. We’ve had one Adam Sailor movie.

Even Johnny Mack, known Adam Sailor comedy hater, is like, really sideways? Stars Paul Giamatti, Fine, okay, thirteen, all right, good pick here? Thank you? Did you hear? They must have heard me yelling into the sky?

Why know Peters Ellers movies? Because number thirteen is Doctor Strangelove. They use the full title Doctor strange love or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb? Yes, thank you who I was worried there for a second? Twelve Tutsi from nineteen eighty two.

One of those movies that if you had HBO in the eighties, if you saw fifty thousand times, haven’t seen it in the twenty first century. I have fond memories of it. I guess it’s good. Stustin Hoffman, How bad could it be? Number eleven from nineteen twenty four Sherlock Junior, Buster Keaton.

I didn’t know this existed. I’m glad we’ve got Buster Keaton on the list. Number ten from nineteen ninety three Groundhog Day. Nice movie? Are there funnier movies?

Sure? But okay? Number nine Young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four, good pick. I still think Blazing Saddle should have been a lot higher, but get to get more Millbrooks on here. Number eight from nineteen ninety six, Fargo film snobs love the Coen Brothers.

Is Fargo fifty plus better than Airplane? Of course? Not? Seven Duck Soup from nineteen thirty three. Can’t argue with the Marx Brothers.

Sure six Monty Python on the Holy Grail. Now we’re talking. That’s my kind of movie, Variety writes, instead of feeling like disjointed sketches, the jokes assumed epic form. The closer Arthur’s Knights get to the Grail, the more absurd their obstacles become. There’s the Black Knight, the insufferable French, and the bloodthirsty rabbit that awaits them.

Yes, Number five, Waiting for Guffman from nineteen sixty six. The movie snobs at Variety are making optimal use of his mockumentary format that he’d help pioneer on. This is spinal Tap. Christopher Guest makes the top ten for the second time, assembled a dream team of improv comedy talent to poke fun at small town theatrical production. Waiting for Guffman.

Number five on Variety’s list. Okay, Number four The Great Dictator from nineteen forty good film in which to honor Charlie Chaplin, Great Fantastic Three Annie Hall from nineteen seventy seven. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the nineteen seventy eight Academy Awards. It beat out The Turning Point, Julia, The Goodbye Girl, and Star Wars Annie Hall. Best Picture.

By the way, we used to have movies back in the day. As I was pulling that up, I pulled up the wrong year. But let me just tell you the nominations for Best Picture in nineteen seventy seven were listen to this set, This is great, Bound for Glory whatever, Okay, All the President’s Men, Rocky Network, and Taxi Driver. The award went to Rocky Network is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is prophetic.

You should watch it. It’s basically somebody invented the Turn of the century. Fox Networks in nineteen seventy seven is basically what it is. And of course All the President’s Men is great, and Taxi Drivers great, and Bound for Glory I’m not really familiar with. But that’s not what we’re talking about.

We’re talking about how Annie Hall is Variety’s number three comedy of all time. Have I still only said the word Sam once or twice? Once? Right? Once?

Number two Some Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine, which means Adam Sandler’s Jack Jill is going to be number one, okay, but number two Some Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine. Tony Curtis Jack Lemon. Sure that makes me want to put Operation Petticoat on this list somewhere. How about mister Roberts, Is that a comedy? It’s kind of a comedy.

Why isn’t that on this list? And according to Variety, the number one comedy of all time The Naked Gun from the files of Police Squad. How are you putting that up there? And you have Airplane sixty later, let’s hear a Variety out. They say, there’s a god given right that anyone making a big screen comedy should have, and that is the right to make fun of In The Naked Gun, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abraham’s and Jerry Zucker took that right to a pitch of high hilarity that remains unequaled.

The glory of The Naked Gun is that it’s shamelessly unhimited, a comedy that will make fun of anything. Global Autocrats, Stagy, Film Noir, Dialogue, Safe Sex, a professional baseball game, food left in the refrigerator too long? Somehow they have that at number one an airplanes somewhere in the sixties. They also have put OJ Simpson at number one. O J.

Simpson one of the great comedic actors of all time in clearly the greatest comedy of all time. So we have in the top three there both Woody Allen and OJ Simpson. So that’s Variety’s list. I guess the good thing is that they barely mentioned Adam Sandler. For that, I think it’s a great list.

I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack, and today we’re taking a look at the one hundred best comedy movies of all time, according to Variety, I was saving this one for the holidays. I really haven’t looked at it. I kind of spoiled at what number one is, and but I’ve half erased from my brain. I think I know what number one is.

But if you’re new to the program, anytime I do one of these list episodes, I like to do it cold, without previously having formed opinions, so you can hear me react to the moment when I’m like, oh, good, pick word. That’s crazy. Variety says, in compiling our list of the all time greatest screen comedies, we thought long and hard about what makes a classic, but mostly we heeded the call of our funny bones. We hope these movies tickle yours as much as they do ours. One hundred Bridget Jones Diary, ninety nine Wayne’s World.

That seems absurdly low. What else are there really ninety eight fun films than Wayne’s World? Okay they’re rite ah. The Saturday Night Live spin off movie was a form that regularly popped up in multiplexes he had almost inevitably was not very good. It took characters like Stuart Smalley and the Coneheads and the Roxbury Guys and plopped them into feature length comedies that just wound up making you realize how perfectly suited they were to late night sketches.

All that’s fair, But Wayne’s world is different. Yes, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey created characters that exerted a residence far beyond how funny they were. In some weird way, they were just like us. Good Pick feels Low ninety eight, Pretty Woman ninety seven born yesterday from nineteen fifty. You may not be familiar with this one.

I’m not either. Belligerent small time criminal Harry Brock played by Broder Crawford, brings his galp Billy Dawn played by Judy Holliday to Washington, d C. But worries she’ll embarrass him, so he hires a reporter played by William Holden to two to her. Only the more education Billy gets, the less she appreciates being ordered around by a thug. Ninety six I’m Gonna get You, Sucker Brazil.

So far, I kind of hate this list. Ninety four, Clerks ninety three, Hairspray ninety two, The Jerk, If you weren’t around, the Jerk was like huge, and Steve Martin as a comedian was huge that year. I haven’t heard anybody mention the Jerk in a zillion years, I don’t think. Actually, I’m positive I’ve not seen it in the twenty first century. Ninety one, She’d Done Him Wrong from nineteen thirty three, starring May West, ninety Bob and Carolyn, Ted and Alice from nineteen sixty nine.

Eighty nine Fast Times at Ridgemond High. Okay, this is the gen xer in me. I know what you’re thinking of right now, me too. Two words, Phoebe Kates. We don’t even care if the movie is funny.

Have you seen that scene? Is that not etched in your brain? Fellow gen xer? It is, let’s all be honest. But even beside that, get that out of your brain for a second.

Jeff’spacoli, right. I feel like this should be way up there. Eighty eight Anchorman, The Legend of ron Burgundy. The more I see Will Ferrell movies, the less I like them. I know everybody loves this one.

Okay, fie. I won’t fight you on it. I mean, it’s definitely a funny movie. Eighty eight sure seems well ranked. Why not?

Eighty seven Everything Everywhere, All at once? Famous comedy? Eighty six Idiocracy is Idiocrasy a comedy? Or is it actually a documentary about America in twenty twenty six? I think it’s a movie from the future that was sent back to warn us, and we are ignoring all the warnings.

If you haven’t seen Idiocracy, watch it and you’ll be like, yeah, it’s okay. But twenty years ago it was like this is ridiculous, and now it’s just like a Tuesday Fiety rights. If you think what’s going on in America right now happened from the top down, check yourself. The truth is it just happened just as much from the bottom up. And Mike Judge foresaw that when he made his cracksatsire of the dumbing down of America eighty five to be or Not to Be?

From nineteen forty two.

All right, here’s a deep throw.

And I don’t know anything about movies. By the way, if you come to trivia night and they ask movie questions, I never ever know the answer. I know the random stuff, But movies is like this weird weak spot for me that I know nothing, and we all look at John Van. We’re like, John Van, do you know the answer to this one? But sometimes Fan doesn’t come and everybody looks at me, and I’m like, I don’t know.

Nothing worse at trivia than leaving it blank except in the fifth round if you write incorrect answer in the fifth round, they take off two points. But in the other rounds, a blank is just a blank, So you might as well guess I digress to be or not to be. From nineteen forty two, Brady tells us Adolf Hitler was at his heights and World War II was well underway when German expatriot and master satirist Ernst Lubitch took direct aim at the Third Reich. Using signature aspects of his comedic style. The Berlin born Helmer skewer the Gestapo and use comedy to support the Allies, cause plot twists and mistaken identity spoilers.

You had fifty seventy, now you had seventy years. No, you had eighty years. You had eighty years. Okay, don’t get mad at me. I’m spoiling a movie from nineteen forty two, You had time, plot twists and mistaken identities build on one another in the del lightfully concluded story of a theatrical troop who used their acting skills to fool the Nazis.

Never heard of that film. I also never heard of this film Number eighty four from nineteen eighty eight, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown pedro Outmodovar’s first films were looser and funnier than the serious oscar latted work that followed. This melodrama unspoils almost entirely in one place, the apartment of Pepa, a heartbroken woman who plans to enter her life with a batch of spice Caspacho, only to watch guests pass out as they consume it instead. I guess that could be funny. Eighty three Wet Hot American Summer eighty two.

Nineteen thirty seven’s The Awful Truth, director Leo Mcarrey encouraged his actors Carrie Grant and Irene Dunn to improvise as they played a married couple who were both convinced the others being unfaithful. Eighty one The Devil Wears Prada eighty Bamboozled from two thousand seventy nine, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. All Right, that’s a fun pick. I like that one seventy eight Night at the Opera, seventy seven Blazing Saddles from nineteen seventy four seems absurdly low. No, what’s going to be the top twenty five like all the Adam Sandler movies.

Seventy six something called Me and You and Everyone We Know from two thousand and five. The movie is about his search for connection in the early aughts, when chat rooms let people feel a virtual sense of intimacy with total strangers. And number seventy five A movie I love. Sean of the Dead. Have you ever seen Sean of the Dead?

You should watch Sean of the Dead. Simon Pegg plays a sad sack London salesman named Sean. He of the dead, but he’s not dead. He and his best friend Ed takes shelter from the zombie apocalypse in a pub very very funny movie. And seventy five seems a nice round number on which to take the break.

Continuing varieties. One hundred Best Comedies, Number seventy four Private Benjamin from nineteen eighty That’s another one of those films that, like the Jerk, that was around and around and around and has disappeared, and I haven’t heard of it in a million years. Did they even make a TV show out of this? Did? I imagine that Goldie Hawn is a spoiled rich girl whose husband died on their wedding night and she’s accidentally enlisted into the US Army.

I have not seen that in this century, but I remember that being funny. A Napoleon Dynamite from two thousand and four is number seventy three, seventy two, The Big Lebowski from nineteen ninety eight. I know people really love that film. Seventy one is Miracle at Morgan’s Creek from nineteen forty four. For Preston Sturgis, nothing was sacred, at least of all the institution of marriage.

A screwball screenwriting genius and the first to direct his own material, Sturgis takes aim at the way many American gals gave enlisted men the warmest of sendoffs, only to be saddled with souvenirs of their hospitality some nine months later. I see what you did there? Okay? Seventy legally Blonde from two thousand and one. Sixty nine ace Ventura Pet Detective Jim Carrey making a movie that is worthy of Adam Sandler.

Variety writes there’s a certain kind of infantile hypomania comedian and the site examples Jerry Lewis and Adam Sandler, who wants his cherish but who critics inevitably dismiss as silly, mind numbing, lowest common denominator. In other words, name your synonym for dumb. I want to give that sentence standing Ovation sixty eight from two thousand and nine In the Loop, a whiplash version of how Western democracy operates. Never heard of it, not saying it’s a dumb pick. I’ll just telling you I’ve never heard of it.

I’ve also never heard of Hell’s a Poppin from nineteen forty one. One word hell’ za with a Z poppin with an apostrophe at the end. Hell’s a Poppin. That’s not me having the queen’s accent. It’s Hell’s a Poppin.

While less remembered than Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, the comedy duo of Olsen and Johnson had a huge stage hit with Helsa poppin The Sticky Show that was never the same experience twice as the pair injected topical jokes and fresh improv every night for three years. The Broadway hit was blisteringly fast paced and self aware, with the two stars frequently breaking the fourth wall. All right, that sounds fun. Sixty six Eddie Murphy raw, Isn’t that just a comedy special? Is that a comedy movie?

We’re counting that now? We just opened up a whole can of worms with this pic. I mean, yes, I love it. And Variety kind of sort of aligns with me here, who says that Eddie Murphy, as great as he is and was was just doing a Richard Pryor cover act. They point out his delirious Prior Esque fantasy of marrying an African princess.

Murphy, like Prior, rarely found a Hollywood vehicle that could channel his comic inspiration the way a stand up stage could. From twenty twenty three, there was a movie called Poor Things that comes in at number sixty five. Variety says, from Mabbitt and Costello meet Frankenstein to weird science, Mary Shelley’s classic Monster often works better as comedy than horror. Emma Stone is a reanimated corpse with the brain of a baby. Apparently that’s a movie that happened.

It’s quite funny. A fish called Wanda from nineteen eighty eight. People like me were like, I wish we had more Monty Python things, and they were like, how about people from Monty Python plus Jamie Lee Curtis, And I was like, all right, I generally am of the opinion that Jamie Lee Curtis makes things better. Michael Palin also in this one, and Kevin Klein was quite good in it. Sixty three from nineteen seventy four, Going Places a French film.

Okay, sixty two an outrage? Right now? How is this possibly sixty two? You’re going to tell me there are sixty one better comedy movies than Airplane? Are you insane?

There’s no way. How is the Airplane only number sixty two? It probably should be one outrage at least I’ve yet to say an Adam Sandlor film. But on the other hand, maybe the entire top twenty is the Adam Sandler filmography. I’m worried now on number sixty one.

The Bird Cage from nineteen ninety six, sixty, Tom Hanks in Big from nineteen eighty eight, fifty nine Pillow Talk from nineteen fifty nine, Rock Hudson and Doris Day filmmakers being a little fifties era Naughty Riddy says a good example is the split screen scene in which the two stars appear in separate tubs, arranged side by side, as if to suggest they’re bathing together. Number fifty eight, nineteen nineties House Party starring Kid and Play ranked higher than Airplane number fifty seven. My Best Friend’s Wedding from nineteen ninety seven is ranked higher than Airplane number fifty six. The Odd Couple, the Walter Matthew Jack Lemmon version from nineteen sixty eight, or I’d see there. I won’t throw my laptop across the room.

Great Film fifty five from nineteen twenty three, Safety Last. You have seen at least clips of this Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock high above the city scape. You’ve seen this this back when they used to do really cool special effects, before special effects went digital. You’ve seen this clip number fifty four. I may throw my laptop across the room.

Will Ferrell and Elf higher than Airplane number fifty three Broadcast News on your list of top comedy movies. Fifty two The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe from nineteen seventy two. What right he tells us? A French spy comedy. It’s funnier than all the Pink Panther movies put together.

This one, too, involves a fair amount of clueless bumbling. You see, Francois, a frizzy haired concert violinist, is chosen at random by a member of the counter espionage department. They pretend that Francois as a master spy. That sounds like it could be funny. Fifty one being John Malcovich from nineteen ninety nine and number fifty ah A, what a perfect time to wrap up today’s episode.

Our first Adam Sandler movie, The water Boy from nineteen ninety eight. Variety smoked some crack and wrote The water Boy is the most uproarious and indelible of Sadler’s early funny films. That’s because he basically took those two warring aspects of a persona the harmless arrested child side the one that was like Jerry Lewis on goofball steroids, they write, and then the violent walking in side. By the time Sandler released this unhinged grid Iron comedy, he had already begun his journey towards becoming a supple actor the wedding singer, His key transition film, came out nine months before. Right Will come back tomorrow with the rest of the list.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News it daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Which is the sort of sentence you might say if you were finding success goosing the Spotify transcription algorithm. But we don’t have time for that right now. Hey, uh is the Chappelle buzzle already gone?

Remember? Like this weekend was like, oh my god, Chappelle dropped a specially we gotta watch specially we gottach special Botus episode. Hey, everybody Botus episode look at Me?

And now like, uh, I feel like nobody cares already that one quick.

There is a shocking amount of real news for this close to the Christmas holiday. Jimmy Kimmel will deliver a Christmas message to the United Kingdom on Christmas. Now, if you listen to the Palace Intrigue podcast, which I write every single day, you know that King Charles delivers a Christmas message every day to the people on Christmas. Well over on the other channel, Channel four, they always have a counter message, being a little rascally. They don’t want to hear from the King.

They want to hear from someone else, and this year that someone else’s Jimmy Kimmel. Who will say, and this isn’t me doing a joke. Apparently this is from the script, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Kimmel is also expected to warn that press freedoms can be snuffed out quickly, and to urge UK viewers to resist attacks on free speech. Kimme is expected to pay tribute to those who criticized his suspension from ABC.

A Channel four insider said Kimmel says the reason he’s back on airs because people spoke out and people protested. Kimmel’s alternative Christmas message will be broadcast on Christmas Day at five forty five pm Local time, less than two hours after the King’s message. The New York Post spoke to a source about Bowen Yang leaving SNL. The source said, it’s his choice. People have no idea what’s really going on.

This has come out of the blue, but it’s no surprise. Back in September, a source told the Post Bowen was telling friends that it was his time. He wanted to move on, and was even planning to spend time in Japan. People on the show told him to take the summer to think it over, but it looked like he was leaving and everybody was just waiting for the announcement. He talked to Laurne and then NBC threw a ton of money at him.

Interesting Also from The York Post, a big profile of Amy Schumer under the headline Amy Schumer proudly lights Hanukkah candles, noting she learned who her real friends were after October seventh. Amy shared a video online on Sunday. In it, Amy says, I stood up and spoke my mind after October seventh. I didn’t know I would be such a minority. There were like three of us who opened our mouths.

The copywriting in the Post article is very strange. I quote of verbatim. The funny Lady said she was grateful that the Hamas Israel war sparked by the October seventh, twenty twenty three mascer launched against Israel by the Palestinian terror group, provided her clarity as she found out who my real friends are now. I’m in no way disparaging the back end of that sentence, but just saying the funny Lady, like, did we write this in nineteen fifty six. What is this?

The funny Lady? I digress? Amy said it provided her clarity. She found out who my real friends are. Knowing the few people who feel that everyone should be equal.

It shouldn’t be except Jews. It felt like everybody is fighting for everybody’s rights except for Jewish people. So every time we gather, we take a moment with our family, every time we light the candle, I feel like we’ve won. Enjoying and being proud of being Jews. I think my ancestors would be proud.

Amy showed off pictures of her grandparents catching a show for some laughs and the Catskills when it was known as the Jewish Porsch Belt of comedy. Again that the catching a show for some laughs and the funny Lady. It’s very nineteen fifty six this copy. And I don’t want to take away from Amy being serious here. She said, that’s how we survive.

That’s not unique to me. That’s Jewish character. Nice job by gab Iglesias. He’s announced a benefit show on Christmas Night. Gabe will be at the Heb Performance Hall at the Tobin Center Christmas Night, a one night only holiday comedy show featuring surprise acts.

Donate ten can foods per person to receive a wristband for general admission. Donations will be accepted at the San Antonio Food Bank between noon and three on Christmas Day. Guests can line up at the Tobin Center once they received their wristband, seating his first Come, First Serve doors open six thirty show at seven to thirty. Patreon teamed up with Stavros Halkias. Stavros plays a mob boss style Santa who resents Patreon’s subscription model, disrupting traditional gift giving.

The campaign is called Santa Hates Patreon. We see Stavros as Santa, as an unhinged mob boss, frustrated the consumers are choosing creator memberships over physical gifts. One of the chief marketers over there said, when you’re giving the gift of Patreon, it’s saying I know you have a deep fandom for this creator, and I’m going to give you the gift of the opportunity to get to know them deeper by becoming part of their Patreon community. Media watchdog NewsBusters says that jokes targeting conservatives rose ten percent in twenty twenty five from the year before. I wonder what changed hmmm, I feel like maybe in late January something changed.

Do you think ninety two percent of jokes from late night target the right. Liberal guests outnumber conservative guests almost one hundred to one. Jimmy Kimmel was the quote mo most radical late night host, railing against the right three thousand and forty six times last year, representing ninety seven percent of his jokes. The New York Post tells us some of his jokes were crude, like referring to members of Trump’s cabinet as AI generated human vomits. Kimmel made fun of Trump one thousand, six hundred and sixty eight times over the course of his one hundred and fifty five episodes, or eleven jokes a show kim Ill only does one hundred and fifty.

Oh yeah, he’s off all summer. That’s why it’s one fifty five. Yeah. Okay, good work if you can get it. Trump was overwhelmingly the butt of jokes across Late Night, with host targeting Trump at a staggering seven thousand, forty five times.

Last year, the number was fifty nine eighty. Media Research Center President David Bozell says the numbers don’t lie. So called late night comedians are part of the entire elitist media complex that has fueled hatred of conservatives for years.

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Meanwhile, you may have heard they renamed the Kennedy Center, so maybe you’d…

You know, something like that. Comedian Toby Morton said, as soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center boarder earlier this year, I thought, yep, that name’s going on the building. So what did Toby Morton do? He got the domains? He said.

He has not heard from anyone in the Trump administration yet, but he has received inquiries from a quote few random lawyers, confidently explaining that satsire is illegal. Now, if you’re ever try to goose the algorithm, you could say a sentence like, if you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, will shows up in your feet every morning. I hear that’s useful. It is Festivus in time for the airing of the comedy grievances. Now, despite my normally cranky persona, I don’t have all that much for you.

But the big one would be the comedians that played the Rio Comedy Festival. Let’s list them, write these down, don’t forget these names. Kevin Hart, Sebastian Manascalgo, Bill Burr, gab Iglesias, Joe Coy, Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson whose father was killed on nine to eleven as he’sin’ sorry, Tom Sagora, Whitney Cummings, Andrew Schultz, Russell Peters, Jessica Kerson, Zorna, Greg Chris Tucker. Don’t want to hear that they have an Applebee’s. Don’t want want to hear that you gave the money back, don’t want to hear that they paid.

Well, oh this is interesting. So I googled what comedians played the riodd Comedy Festival, and those were the key comedians. Now you know whose name is not there, Dave Chappelle. Now why is AI eliminating Dave Chappelle? Did somebody do something to manipulate the AI?

Or am I just looking for conspiracy? Now? Now what’s not fair here is the AI interview has some images of comedians, including two who definitely didn’t play there. I don’t even want to say their names so that I don’t goof up the AI. But one rhymes with Bark barn and the other rhymes with Bain Billis.

Why are their pictures of Baine Billis and Bark Barron there? They didn’t play the Riodd Comedy Festival like Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hard, Sebastian Manascauco, Bill Burr, gave Glacias, Joe Cooyd, Jimmy Carpete, Davidson Is he’sin sorry, Tom Sigora, Whitney, Commlexander Schultz, Russell Peters, Jessica Kursten, zornegarg Or, Chris Tucker. Don’t care if there’s an Applebee’s don’t care if you gave the money back. Welcome to Comedy Festivus. So more people on the list.

Dave Chappelle for the second time for ruining my weekend and making me put out a bonus episode on Sunday. Stop releasing specials on Christmas weekend? What are you doing? Same note to Tom Sagora for releasing a special Tomorrow night and Christmas Eve podcasters want to take a night off man, Stop with this. More agreements is Sebastian Manuscalco for the stupid comedy faces that triggered me.

I like Sebastian Manuscalco until that trailer came out, and now I’ve been totally radicalized, and now I’m like, you’re just doing old man Dice Clay with a stupid face. Stop stop, stop, stop stop as we continue comedy festivus. Jay Leno, this guy’s the worst. How dare he have opinions about late night comedy? What do you know?

Jay Leno? You hosted the Tonight Show for what twenty two years? Big deal? You act like you’ve hosted more episodes of the Tonight Show than anybody ever did, including Johnny Corson. As if you know anything about doing comedy at eleven thirty and have the just the gall to even comment about it, That guy’s the worst.

My final grievance of the year goes to the Hulu publicist. Hey, Hulu publicist, right back to me, go, your show sucks and no one listens to it. We’re never ever going to credential you. That’s fine, then I’ll stop trying, but get back to me on LinkedIn or email or the website where I filled out the form. It’s not that absurd that you would hook up this show with a screener.

Come on now, you might be like Johnny Mack, how come Adam Sailor’s not on the list. Here, here’s the deal. I respect Adam Sandler’s game. Right now, I’m wearing a bright orange sweatshirt and sweatpants right there, I get Sandler. Sandler’s family guy.

I’m a family guy too. Sandlor made a fantastic movie Jay Kelly, and despite making horrible comedies. I understand why he makes the horrible comedies because you people watch Happy Gilmore too, and that encourages Netflix to give Adam Sandlor fifty million dollars. Why wouldn’t he make horrible comedies. You don’t reward the good stuff he does, you reward the crap.

So Adam Saylor is not getting a grievance from me. I support the man rapper turncomedian. TI dropped a trailer. He’s got a special hitting the internets tomorrow. It’s called Cheaper Than Therapy.

We’re told that we can expect one story at a time, centered on the chaos of fame to the healing power of laughter. There is a trailer. I went to pull it and it was very amateurish. It just not well made and had no jokes in it. So I decided that would not be worth your time, so I’m not sharing it with you.

For New York Theater dot Me, Jonathan Mandel reviewed All Out, which Jonathan says, much like last year’s All In as generated accusations of cynical cash grab, All Outs on Broadway is a comedy about ambition by Simon Rich. Jonathan Mandel says some people are outraged by ticket prices as high as three hundred and twenty dollars for a quote lazy, eighty minute show during which four celebrities read some dozen short stories by Simon Rich, interspersed with songs by the band. Mendel writes, richest humorous stories, which are clever even when they’re not laugh out loud funny, have been ablished in seven collections over the past eighteen years, several of which are in audiobook editions. So why are we paying attention to this? Well?

Some of the people performing the initial cast, which Jonathan saws, Eric andre Iike Barnholtz, Abby Jacobson, and John Stewart. Jim Gaffigan took over this thing last night. He’ll be there till January eleventh.

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Also appearing as we go along here, Wayne Brady starts on the twenty ninth Ce…

Craig Robinson on the twentieth. Oh wait, can I do forgot? I forgot a major grievance. We gotta go back, gotta go back. Craig Robinson.

Remember when he quit comedy and we were all like, oh wow, Craig Robinson quit comedy and he was just promoting something. He gets the Festivus grievance too. Yeah, Craig Robinson, you are here by grievanced? Is that a word? Sarah Suverman January twentieth, and then in February, Ray Romano and Jenny Slate joined the cast three hundred twenty dollars.

You know, Kevin Hardy’s afraid to work. He’ll go to Riod. If you’ve got a comedy festival, he’ll take your money. Well, Poker Go has announced the return of High Stakes Poker, which they say is the most iconic show in poker. Kevin hard back for the Redd Comedy Festivalill headline.

A stacked Season fifteen cast, viewers can expect more of the eye watering pots, an insane action that has made high Stakes Poker so universally beloved. Season fifteen out today, all right, looking ahead tomorrow and on Christmas Day. I pre taped. Those are what we call low rent days. HAVE got an episode for you.

But if you’re gonna skip, I get it. It’s chrispas Eve Christmas Day, no problem. Those episodes will still be there on Friday or over the weekend if you want to catch up, but there won’t be news. I’m covering varieties. Top one hundred comedy movies of all time will do the bottom fifty on Christmas, even the top fifty on Christmas Day.

Along the way, I lose my mind as I don’t like the list all that much. Out tomorrow, Tom Sagora, he’s back for the Redd Comedy Festival. He gets a Netflix special, Were a Teacher, Filmed at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. It’s Tom Sagore’s fifth stand up special for Netflix. Tom discusses parenting, fails, blackout bar stories, and career regrets.

Hmm, I wonder if he regrets playing Rio. Probably not. Doesn’t seem to have affected anyone at all. Tom’s explores the darkly funny side of life’s most unpredictable lessons, and ebar dot com answers the question what are Jews supposed to do for Christmas? Well, once again they’re doing Kung Pow Kosher Comedy, offering up a menu of Chinese food and Jewish comedy for the Christmas season.

That sounds wonderful. Actually, I could go for Chinese food. I asked my wife if we could do the Japanese thing. Apparently in Japan they get into Kentucky Fried Chicken. I’m like, can we just get KFC?

That got shut down hard, But if you told me Chinese food, I’d be in. This year’s Kung Poo Kosher Comedy takes place December twenty fourth through the twenty six at the Imperial Palace Restaurant on Washington Street in Chinatown, San Francisco. Two shows a day at dinner show at five and a cocktail show at age thirty. All shows will also be live streamed. So Kosher comedy kind of came about nineteen ninety three.

Lisa Gettldig is the host of this thing, and she had traveled in Massachusetts to perform at a woman’s comedy night at a venue called Pee King Gordon Club. She assumed it was a comedy club, what is actually a Chinese restaurant. That gave her the idea of doing a Jewish comedy show at Christmas in a Chinese restaurant, which is a great idea. When she returned to San Francisco, she couldn’t get the idea out of her mind, so she hired some comedians, reserved a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, and set out press releases. The press thought it was fun.

The next year she got a New York Times Future article, and the rest is history. Lisa explains the secret is providing quality humor, amazing comedians, and always a household name headliner. This year’s headliner, Elaine Boosler, who has been dubbed the first Lady of stand up by Rolling Stone Magazine, really did not know that. Boozler said, America’s going through a hard time. You say I hadn’t noticed.

I don’t pay much attention to anything bad or negative. I live my life. I turned on the TV to where PBS used to be. I go to the market once a week, it’d spend my four hundred dollars on eggs and lettuce. I revel in my memories, like when there was a Department of Education or healthcare or housing for veterans.

When I see someone wearing a swastika T shirt, to squint my eyes and while ah, it’s a flower, and I don’t say while out loud, because you know, America first, America is nothing but humor. Right now, I’m desperately trying to find someone in government to take this situation seriously, she added frankly, I’d rather have good government and talk about my weight. And that’s your comedy news for today. Enjoy the Chinese food. Enjoy Christmas if you’re celebrating, enjoy two pre recorded episodes about the funniest movies of all time.

Say we’ll hear my voice tomorrow if you choose, and then Friday, the December twenty sixth will be a normal episode, So we could either meet back tomorrow or meet back then. Up to you. My voice will be here either way,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians of the comedy industry. The kind of phrase that someone like Jay Leno would say if they were trying to goose these Spotify transcription algorithm to goose their podcast and the Spotify rankings. But of course jay Leno doesn’t have a podcast, so he would never say a phrase like that. Bill Board has released the Top ten comedy tours of twenty twenty five.

By the way, this is a real episode today. This is not a filler episode. This just happens to be the new story. Top ten comedy Tours of twenty twenty five. Only two names made their debut in the top ten.

Half of them or on twenty twenty fours. Round up those two names, weird Al and Nikki Glaser. Glazer also made the top one hundred acts of all genres. Only two comedy acts played one hundred shows or more this year are Gabriel Iglesias and Nikki Glaser. Billboard says Glazer is the only woman in comedy’s top ten.

It’s not necessarily a breakthrough for representation, but it improves on last year’s all male list. It’s been nine years since a woman led the comedy list. That year, Amy Schumer grossed nineteen point five million dollars from thirty six shows, and twenty sixteen, let’s take a look at the list. Number ten Jim Gaffigan The Barely Alive Tour fifteen point seven million dollars, seventy four shows, one hundred ninety two thousand tickets. Number nine Nikki Glaser at you compare with Amy Well?

Nicki grossed nineteen point five million, compared to Amy making eighteen million ten years ago, and Nicky did one hundred and twenty shows, two hundred and ninety four thousand tickets. Number eight Joe Cooy. He one time hosted the Golden Globes, but I don’t have time for that today. He did eighty three shows and grossed twenty point nine million dollars. So who’s laughing now, Well, actually, Taylor Swift is still laughing.

Taylor can sell three hundred three thousand tickets at about four seconds. Number seven you won’t guess this name. Jeff Dunham. He’s still out there with the puppets. Yeah, ninety shows, four hundred three thousand tickets twenty six point one million dollars.

Number six, You love to hate him? No, he’s not Jay Leno. He’s Matt Rife. Sorry, he’s funny. Get over it.

Forty six shows, twenty seven point nine million dollars, three hundred and thirty thousand tickets. Somebody likes him, and I’m one of those people. But I like this next person a lot more than I like Matt Riife. He’s weird. Al Yankovic.

Number five The Bigger and Weirder Tour seventy two shows, four hundred, twenty two thousand tickets, twenty eight point six million dollars grossed. Weird, hel you go. Number four Gabe Iglesias. He’s quietly going about his business. One hundred shows, gross thirty five point three million and sold four hundred ninety five thousand tickets.

Dude, do one more show gets a half a million? Number three? Oh my god. Even the image they’re using on billboard, he’s making a stupid face. I can’t take it.

Sebastian Maniscalco’s what if Dice Clay was an old Man Tour? Oh no, that’s not the name of it. It’s it’s the eight a right tour, same thing, forty one shows, four hundred and twenty five thousand tickets, forty two point nine million dollars grossed. Ough, guys, come on, Kevin Hart never a free to work. He did eighty two concerts aside from his eighty two jobs, three hundred and thirty four thousand tickets and gross to forty three point one million dollars, and the top touring comedian of the year.

Although I’m wondering if this is gonna hold? Have we reached peak of this name? Is this movie going to help? Is the theme park ever gonna happen? But so far things are good for Nate Berghetzi six hundred and seventy seven thousand tickets, seventy six shows, fifty six point seven million dollars for the Big Dumb Eyes World Tour.

Now I have another list, but then you guys are gonna think this is fillers, so it’s not. So I’m gonna skip the list and tomorrow I’ll do this Deadline Comics who won twenty twenty five list.

Also tomorrow Comedy Festivus.

So jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Try and get there before noon, which is when I usually record will air some comedy grievances on tomorrow show. Mark Maren was profiled by Esquire, and I loved this first thing, Mark Maren said, because it really I can connect with this. Maren said. I used to say that I never really felt like life was going by quickly.

When you’re in it, you’re like it’s plotting by. Here’s the part that resonates. Then all of a sudden, it’s like, oh my god, how am I the oldest guy in the room. I didn’t really have a sense of age of those younger comics like John Mulaney or Nateperghatzy. I always saw them as my peers.

Then you hit sixty and you’re like, you guys are forty? What when did that happen? It’s so true, Like I think of this podcast and I’m like, you know, even if this thing blew up tomorrow, what is it got fifteen years left? Then I handed off to someone who knows. We’ll worry about that some other time.

But Mark Maron, I feel you some ratitats hat from Maren. What if I learned from being divorced twice? Just give them the money, Mark, what happens to us after we die? Not much. But is that so bad?

Don’t we all need a nap? For a while, Maren said, I thought comedy was a noble undertaking. The only rule of comedy is you should be funny outside of that, and you could do whatever you want on stage. If you can make it funny, you could be who you are. There was this idea on the anti war, don’t censor yourself at all, and it’s like, no, that’s how civilization works.

That’s the way democracy works. You learn tolerance and you behave properly in certain situations. Now that’s gone. I don’t know how democracy works without tolerance and compassion. Maren says.

If you can change one of two people to either think differently or help them out, that’s not nothing. I don’t know what else I can do. I’m not going to run for office. As I was putting the show together, I threw some comedian names into Google. One of the names Bert Krescher, and what came up was a headline Bert Krescher parking, and my mind just ran with that note.

It was just about what one would do with their car while attending Bert Kreischer’s concert over the weekend. But I was like Bert Kreischer parking. Imagine if he got into that, like, imagine if that was Bert’s version of Jim Gaffick and Bourbon and Burt got like super serious about parking. Can we make that happen to be amazing. Robbie Hoffman and John m’laney were talking about when they first met, apparently with somebody to do with a WGA Writers Guild meeting.

Hoffman said, it was my worst night. We had a union meeting that we were forced to go to or there’d be some kind of fee or a doctor merit points. I don’t even know how it works yet. I wasn’t even on the healthcare. John Mulaney said, we are members of a great union, the Writer’s Guild of America, with whom we have some complaints, as does every member.

M’lini continued, So there are meetings of the WGA that did kick off various actions, normally strikes. We mainly strike. We don’t do that much else. And there are these meetings at the Writer’s Guild of America West or East, and I think there are a little bit less meetings and more like pep rallies. And Robbie went to what was more of a PEP rally.

They were taking questions and an event like this, they’re more taking comments about how it’s great that were striking. Robbie raised her hand and asked why the guild owned so many buildings of the goals to get money to the writers, and you had a list of properties they owned. That’s hilarious offits that I did. Here’s the thing. I’d be remissed as a former accountant.

Before I did this job. I thought my ticket out was I was going to go to school and get a good job. What a novelty, I get a good job. Shout out to KPMG to the day I die, just like I would say, shout out to John Mulaney until the day I die. A good job.

Nothing like it. I remember it forever. I love it. Skipping a hit, she says. Then they tell us were striking.

First of all, we just had COVID. We have to strike because the studios are about to do what studios do and be a hole, surprise and prize. So they say there’s a mandatory Q and A. It’s a day before the strike, and I realized my timing was off. My timing couldn’t be worse, but any event I go, and I decided, well, I got to be informed.

I just joined this union. I’ve never been in this type of union. Side, I decided to go to the website and look through their financial statements, which is what I would do with anything, just to have a nice read. They’re not for profit, supposedly, and I just looked at it. I hadn’t been got in for years.

This is hilarious. I barely even know how to look at this stuff. But there’s certain things I could look at a balance sheet, I could look at an income statement. I could look at it, you know, just cash flow and these three basic statements. I don’t need everything else.

But a couple of line items jumped out at me, particularly the real estate. And it’s like we work from home in our apartments with roommates. Who’s at the building. So I said, why do we have to strike this yet and hold our wages? And when we have assets to offload, why don’t we sell all the buildings and divide it up among the members?

Give checks out. V Magazine caught up with Chloe Fineman. Chloe Fineman makes Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon business look casual. V Magazine tells us the ultra hilarious algorithm shattering SNL comedian teamed up with the beloved Moxie Hotels to write and record a series of exclusive holiday bedtime stories. All these Holiday Bedtime Stories are accessible from in room rotary phones at every Moxie across the US and Canada.

Fineman delivers impression packed tales from the Guilt Trip, Mary Peach Miss and more. Copywriting Rule of three, Chloe explains, I pulled a lot for personal experience, which helped keep the stories grounded even as we leaned into the comedy. The holidays can feel chaotic and overwhelming, so it was fun to contrast that energy with the soothing shift that happens when you escape to a hotel and slip into a different persona.

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And then here’s the part that I think even Jim Gaffigan would throw up at, be…

But Chloe Fineman said this supposedly with a straight face, as if she actually believes this. Sometimes you’re just taking a check and it’s okay to admit it. Like that’s the one thing about Pete Davidson, who played the reON Comedy Festival. Pete’s father was killed on nine to eleven. He was a New York City firefighter.

But Pete just said they paid well. At least you can kind of respect the honesty. Chloe Feyneman said, living in New York has really shaped the kinds of partnerships I gravitate toward, because I always want to collaborate with brands that feel genuinely authentic to my life. Moxie has had a strong presence in my New York experience, whether it’s going to events there or having friends stay at the hotels when they’re in town because they’re so convenient. This partnership felt like a naturally great fit.

I gotta go throw up, be right back. They don’t forget if you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, so it shows up in your feet every morning. That’s the kind of thing Jay Leno would do to try and like beat out the other podcast. That Guy’s the worst. Remember that Raymond Reunion on CBS like a month ago.

It rated well, so they made another one with the leftovers. So I don’t know how good Tonight’s special is gonna be, But on CBS Tonight, it’s the Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth Anniversary Reunion Part two, ray Romano said, some of the compilations we had to cut down. The gag reel had to be cut down. My wife Anna did a half hour interview and they showed her for three seconds. Yeah, I know everybody wants to tune in and be like, I wonder what Ana Romano has to say about this.

My father and Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal’s father did guest spots together a few times, and they weren’t actors, but they were always hysterical. We showed that during the live taping. We got to cut that down.

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Also, you don’t want to go too long.

We could have used another ten minutes, and since Rady needed another ten minutes tonight, they gave him an hour. I hope you really enjoy anam Romano. I’m sure she’s lovely. Tonight’s one hour special will include more clips and outtakes from the series and unaired interviews with writers, producers, and guest stars. I’ll be watching the forty nine ers on Monday Night football.

Jimmy Carr he will never retire from comedy. He hopes to quote die with his boots on Jimmy was on the Chris Moyles radio show and Chris said, we were talking yesterday and Dominic said, do you think Jimmy Carr will get to a certain point, like a certain age, and I’ll just go I’m done now? And I went absolutely not. I think he’ll be forever. I think you’ll be one of the living legends of comedy.

Jimmy Carr said. I aspired her that, Yeah, dying with your boots on sounds pretty good. My problem is work is more fun than fun. I’m very aware of how grateful I am to do a job at jam the Love, But then you get a night off and sit around and go, oh, I get to watch something now. I do two shows a night most nights.

Not at the moment I’m doing the big rooms the arenas, but normally I do two shows, one at seven to one at nine thirty. And comedian Connor Wood has shared his travel must haves with USA Today. When connor Wood’s out there on a comedy tour, he always finds in his backpack chomps and liquid IV, but he doesn’t know who puts them there. His mom an elf. He says, I never want to check because it ruins the magic.

As for Liquid IV, his favorite flavor is standard lemonade. He carries a book. He says, I’ve carried around Moby Dick for years. I’m on page eight. Sounds like me and the audio books in my phone.

He’s also developed a love for knickknacks. He explains, I walk past the window of a miscellaneous item shop like I don’t need maraccas in Phoenix, but they’re there. I’ll always remember my trip to Phoenix because of the moraccas. I don’t even need to remember the trip because it wasn’t important. The trip is temporary, but the moroccas or forever.

And that is your Comedy News for today. Normal episodes row including the story I Bumped and Comedy Fest of Us. So you’ve got a couple hours left to jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Looking Ahead On the twenty fourth and twenty fifth, I have already recorded my take on the top one hundred comedy films of all time, and in the middle of it, I get pretty upset. That’s for Christmas, even Christmas Day, or you can catch up next weekend. I totally understand.

That’s why I schedule them for those days I get it, so Tomorrow be normal, and Friday I anticipate doing a normal episode just to cover whatever comedy news happens during the twenty third, fourth, and fifth. Regardless, you left something in your feed every single day, and I’ll see you here tomorrow