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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Air, I’m back. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Which is a sentence you would say if you were trying to train the Spotify transcription algorithm. But we don’t have time for that right now, because Dave Chappelle has released a surprise special.

Yeah. The other night, it’s a Mill of the Night. I wake up with the Mill of the night, go to the bathroom like us old guys do. Then I gotta settle myself. I pull out my phone and I’m like, Dave Chappelle released a special.

Yeah, there was this boxing thing on Netflix, and then in the middle of that, they’re like, oh yeah, after the show stick around, there’s a Dave Chappelle special. What stop doing that. We’ll talk about that in a minute. Some people are saying this is the greatest Dave Chappelle special of all time. I don’t agree.

Now. I put this thing on and I was psyched for it because Chappelle’s always great and this is a very good special, but it’s not number one. But i’d seen some early reviews of it and people were raving about it. I’m like, oh, okay for this thing, and I hit play on it, and it just looks great. It looks like a big time comedy special should look like, like if you compare it to the hilarious Kamil Nanjiohanni, it’s a guy on a stage that that just kind of shot.

This looks specials, This looks big time. This looks like one of the old HBO comedy specials. And Dave comes out and he’s throwing heat, and to me, it felt like one of those nights when you’re watching a baseball game and the starting pitchers out there and you’re like, this guy’s gonna throw a no hitter tonight. No one’s gonna touch him. He’s gonna strike out fifteen guys.

This is one of those nights. This guy’s untouchable. And that’s how I felt about Chappelle for probably the first half of this special, and then by the end, I feel like it’s one of those nights where that same picture eventually gives up a hit and why is it throwing seven innings and giving up two runs, which is a really good start, but not what you had in mind an hour ago. Does that make sense. I feel like the special just didn’t land at the end, but the front half pretty strong.

I don’t understand the timing of the release. Don’t understand the strategy at all to announce something in the middle of a fight that hey, this thing’s coming out in a couple hours, So you wind up getting press on the Saturday before Christmas, which I think if you tried to time it, you couldn’t do worse. How they even shot this thing without word getting out is kind of surprising. Maybe they shoot every Chappelle show, and the cameras did seem like they were a little far away and zoomed in and not the usual handhelds in the middle of someone’s face, and maybe they were able to hide it that way. But I just don’t understand even the Netflix strategy of hey, here’s a surprise drop, like why not tease it the Saturday before Christmas is weird.

Like even if you host a comedy podcast, it’s like, dude, it’s the Saturday before Christmas. I have to spend time with my family. I’ll try and watch this thing tonight, which is what I did. I found time around five o’clock on Saturday to watch it so none of that makes sense to me. So yeah, in the middle of the night, Dave Chappelle jumps on Instagram posts.

I wanted to shout out to my hometown Washington, DC and think everybody that came out in October to support me at the show. Just want you to know the show will be streaming on Netflix tonight. After the fight, my new special drops and I hope you love it. Thank you very much. Okay.

The special is one hour fifteen minutes. The description Facing a World Gone Sideway is comedy Icon. Dave Chappelle delivers bold truths and potent punchlines and this no holds barred special it is Dave’s eighth special with Netflix. I’ll give you a couple vibe spoilers here, then I’m going to get into specific spoilers. So if you haven’t watched the special yet, I’ll warn you one more time before I do it, but you might want to bail.

In the second half of today’s episode, i’ll talk about bon Yang. Did Dave joke about transgender people? He did in one segment, and I think it’s the best joke of the night. I don’t want to spoil it, but he didn’t ignore it, nor did he dwell on it. Dave puts some facts into evidence along the way that I’m not sure I agree with his premises.

I do appreciate that Dave always has something to say. Now I’ll get into specific spoilers. So again, if you haven’t seen the special and you would like to watch the special without Johnny Max spoiling it, why don’t you hit stop on the podcast right now. I don’t want to ruin it for you, but I am about to spoil it. In three two and one spoilers ahead.

Dave Chappelle did discuss his appearance at the ri Odd Comedy Festival. That’s set up some pretty strong materials, some of the strongest material of the night. But here’s Dave Chappelle himself talking about it. I did edit an effer at the very top of this clip. The rest is intact.

These mothers act like because I did a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, I somehow betrayed my principles. Well, no, no, I know, I didn’t. I know, no, no, no, no, no. Let me come on, everybody, let me do this, and I’m sure i know I’m all right. Now, everybody calmed down, now, I’m sure I’m right.

First of all, what did they say they sent they said, well, they said well, they said, well, Saudi Arabia killed a journalist and rest in peace, Jamal Kashogi. I’m sorry that he got murdered in such a heinous fashion, but and that, but like you know, period.

Also, I mean, look, bro, Israel’s killed two hundred and forty journalists in…

Dave continues to joke about Riod and says, you know what my new job is, I sit by the phone and wait for the Arabs to call me a great joke. At one point, Chappelle calls out Bill Maher and says, you know Bill Maher, the famous comedian unknown Bill since I was like eighteen nineteen years old, and I never said this publicly, but f that guy, so effing tired of his little smug cracker ass commentary. Chappelle was upset with Bill Maher commenting on Dave playing Riod. Now, Dave makes some points. He says, two years ago, I almost got canceled right here in the United States for transgender jokes.

But I got to tell you something transgender jokes went over very well in Saudi Arabia. Chappelle also does a chunk about Charlie Kirk being compared to doctor Martin Luther King Junior. Some good laughs out of there. Chappelle breaks into an MLK impression, saying, and I won’t do it, but smash that like button and subscribe follow me for more content like this. I believe all black people should be free change my mind.

Very good segment there. Chappelle then moves on to Jimmy Kimmel’s cancelation free speech, government control Puffy Combs, and then Dave kind of stops down and says he’s going to do the longest closer in the history of his career. He asked the audience to stay quiet and focused and says he’ll do two closers, one for the d C crowd and another that he had performed in Saudi Arabia. GQ explains no spoilers, but what follows as a wild odyssey spanning nineteen ten to twenty twenty four that manages to fold in American history, legendary zeitgeist moments, and his own lore well described watch a special let Chappelle tell it Chappelle closes the show by telling the crowd, no matter how much of this government or anyone else puts pressure on you, keep your wits about you. I’m here just to remind you that we’re a community and we will stay sane together.

We’ll take care of each other, and we will wait. Now. As for the title of the special, you’ll see it slugged in the Netflix key art as the Unstoppable. You’ll see it referred to as the Unstoppable. Johnny Max is going to refer to it as the Unstoppable.

The full name of the special is actually the unstoppable N word act. I think this special is evidence of Dave Chappelle being the best comedian in the game right now. Again, I don’t think it’s the best special of the year. I have it at fifth. My current list is Mark Maren, Kevin Hart, Robbie Hoffman, Matt Rife, and Dave Chappelle at five.

Those are the top tier, and then a drop down at Jin Jefferies and the rest of my previously discussed list. Again, very strong, Chappelle has something to say. Chappelle as the top of the class. But I just felt like the second half of the special my thumb started grabbing my phone, and that’s always one of my tails. Whereas Kevin Hart Special, I think is end to end laughs.

Kevin Hart’s not going for art, Dave Chappelle’s going for art, and I think Mark Maren Special nailed the combination of laughs and having something to say. Bowen Yang has finished up his tenure on Saturday Night Live. Prior to the episode, he released a statement in which he said, I loved working at SNL, and most of all, I love the people. Was there at a time when things in this world started to seem futile, but working at thirty Rock taught me the value and showing up anyway when people make it worthwhile. I’m grateful for every minute of my time there.

I learned about myself bad with wigs. I learned about others generous, vulnerable, hot. I learned that human error could be nothing but correct. I learned that comedy is mostly logistics, and that it will usually fail until it doesn’t, which is the best. With Fors’s, thank you to every single person who shut up their friends and co workers and audiences and hosts.

Thank you to Lorne for the job, for the standard, and for bringing everyone at work together. They all care deeply about the people in the room, any room, enjoying themselves. I can’t believe I was ever included in that the show doesn’t go on because it’s ready, But shoot, I hope I am. During the final sketch on Saturday, Bowen Yang got teary eyed. In the sketch, various cast members came up to him posing as holiday travelers, and it soon became clear that the skit was a vehicle to send bowen Yang off.

He told fellow cast members, this is my last shift. It’s sad. I’m going to miss everything about this place. At one point, Bowyang broke down while expressing gratitude, saying, it just feel so lucky that I ever got to work here, and I just wanted to enjoy it for a little bit longer, especially the people I’ve loved. Every single person who works here.

Snl off for the holidays. We’ll return on January seventeenth. Other than that, bowen was lightly in the episode. It was also the holiday joke swap between the Jay and chose to maybe we’ll get into that on Tuesday. Monday’s episodes already in the can.

I normally don’t record Sunday, same day for Sunday. But you know, someone woke up in the middle of the night and dropped a comedy special on me. So here’s my question for Bowen Yang. Is this the Kate McKinnon trap? Like Bowen Yang is great, but bow and Yang without SNL is the anchor.

Let me ask you some difficult questions. Are you going to go see the bow and Yang movie? Is that something that excites you, especially in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, where even going to the theaters isn’t a thing anymore? Like is a Bowen Yang movie exciting? Is a bow and Yang sitcom exciting?

Or are you kind of making the critical face that I am. Now We’re like, oh, Bowen Yang’s doing a sitcom? So then what some sort of Netflix show, a variety show, some sort of James Cordon esque type show. Yes, I know he has lost Culturistas. Yes, I know this is the last Culturalista’s Awards.

Am I a fan? Yes? Does he tells? Yes? But like in twenty like, what do you do now?

Like, what’s Kate McKinnon doing? She was fantastic? I’ll make her the comp here? What’s Kate McKinnon even doing so. I don’t know.

I wish Bowen well while we’re here recording an extra episode, let me get the lilt out of my voice, because this is all kinds of horrible. The media is reporting that Conan O’Brien stopped a friend from calling nine to one one during the fight between Rob and Nick Reiner at Conan O’Brien’s holiday party last week. You may recall multiple attendees I’ve reported witnessing Rob and Nick having an argument. One source tells The Daily Mail that the fight was so intense that at least one guest suggested calling the cops to intervene. The insider says they gotten an argument the father and son.

I got so bad and loud. Someone want to call the police report it, but Conan stepped in and said, it’s my house, my party, I’m not calling the police, and talk them out of calling the police. That’s all kinds of horrible. A source close to the LAPD said there were no nine to one to one calls from Brian’s house on last Saturday night, and added only the murderer is responsible. But it must be gunt wrenching for Conan to learn that this is how things turned out.

I’m sure that night is replaying for him over and over. It’s just so awful and sad. I mean, what do you even say? They’re all kinds of horrible, and I feel like this is going to be a big story that continues. And while we’re here, I did watch Kamil Nanjiohanni’s special.

It’s pretty funny. I’ve always liked his stand up. It’s good to see him back on stage. I right now have it at number eleven, with Dusty Slay’s special being better and Bert Kreischer’s special being slightly worse. So right now I have Maren Hart, Robie Hoffman, Rife Chappelle, Jim Jefferies, Justin Willman’s Magic Lover, John Marco, Moe Ammer, Dusty Slay, and Kamil Nanjiohanny.

So I like the special lot, but it just had me saying that these people that had that at number one, like, oh my god, this is the most incredible special of the year in a year where we had Maren never mind Chappelle, because that just came out, But the people who had that at number one, I really was wondering, is Hulu paying people to review specials? Because there’s just no way, Like, there’s no way that’s number one. It’s a perfectly fine, funny hour, but like, just compared to Maren Special, how could you possibly have Camail at number one? It just boggles the mind. And I saw several sits just raving about this special.

Is it funny, yes, is it good? Yes? But is it, like, you know, the greatest thing of the year. Not a chance, So I don’t know there anyway, pretty busy for an extra episode on a Sunday or earlier today. I thought today it was gonna be a holiday weekend thriller kind of day, so I dropped Daily Comedy.

Who’s unwrapped? These stories I talked about the most during the year, And if you go back and you listen, you’ll even hear me say, hey, we didn’t really talk about Dave Chappelle this year, and I feel like we’ll talk about Chappelle a lot for the remainder of the year. In a normal episode in the morning that I had recorded on Friday, I don’t even remember what I talked about. Okay, I’m gonna go enjoy my weekend, Appreciate you, thank you for listening. Go watch Chappelle’s special.

Watch Camil too. It’s really good. It’s just it’s not number one. Hularius. Relax see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Which is a free someone would say if they were trying to train these Spotify transcription algorithm to rank their show higher, and don’t forget follow the show on Spotify. Welcome to Daily Comedy News twenty twenty five, unwrapped, Johnny Mack. Did you need an extra episode?

Is the news a little light heading into Christmas holidays? No? What are you kidding? I worked for hours on this. You’re acting like I exported an XML file and threw it in a chat EPT and it spit out a script.

You’re crazy because if it spit out a script, I would be saying words like what’s up? Comedy fans, Welcome to a very special episode of Daily Comedy News. I’m Johnny Mack, and today we’re doing something different. See now, that’s that’s what would happen if I did such a thing. I worked for days, maybe months on this.

All right, here’s what happened. I went through three hundred and eighty eight episodes between January first and the December eighteenth, episodes and pulled the data to see what I talked about the most. I’m not sure I agree with all this data, but it makes for a good conversation starter, and you, the listener, can weigh in or not. Here are the comedians that were mentioned the most in twenty twenty five. Now, if you put an iced coffee on my head and we’re like, I’m gonna pour this on you if you don’t answer quickly, I don’t know.

I would have guessed Sandler somebody like that. But according to the AI, the most mentioned comedian of the year was Bill Burr with one hundred and thirty five mentions, Malaney with one hundred and twenty one, Shane Gillis with one twelve, Sandler only ninety nine times seems low, Nikki Glaser at ninety six, Conan at ninety five, Marin at ninety two, Kimmel at ninety one, Jim Kaffigan it only eighty two seems low, and the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno with eighty one mentions. So let’s analyze of the list Bill Burr. I guess Riodd came up a lot, and Bill did have a special that I didn’t think was good and then Bill did a couple late night appearances that weren’t that great, and I mentioned I think Bill had the worst year in comedy, so maybe that does make sense. Mulaney, I’m sure I mentioned Malanie a lost, especially in the first half of the year when he had the Netflix show.

Shane Gillis third. That seems absurdly high, doesn’t it. I don’t feel like I mentioned Shane that much, but maybe I do because he tests well for Seo Sadlor. I feel like I mentioned Saylor five times an episode, so that seems low. Nikki Glaser, that feels right.

Conan, that feels right. Marin, Yeah, because I probably didn’t talk about Marin a lot except around the time when he was hanging it up, and then he probably came up a lot. But on the two sides of that, not so much. Jimmy Kimmel at ninety one mentions, well, for like two weeks, I was doing a bonus Jimmy Kimel episode every day, so yeah, that makes sense. Jim Gaffigan at only eighty two, I feel like I’m making fun of his bourbon twice a show.

And the worst person who ever lived. Jay Leno at eighty one mentions. I’m sorry. I apologize to the audience that I would mentioned such a person. I mean this guy, he’s got opinions on late night comedy as if he knows anything about hosting a late night talk show.

Plus he helps his wife with their dementia. What a horrible person, Jay leto Yeah, I can’t even believe I mentioned him. Some more people mentioned a lot. Pete Davidson, Okay, I mentioned Pete yesterday. Seventy nine mentions seems low.

Dave Chappelle with seventy two, and it wasn’t a big Chappelle year. That’s probably right. Joe Rogan with seventy two. One of the tricks of the show is every now and then I need another story and I google the words Joe and Rogan so I can throw Joe Rogan experience in the episode title. So that tracks.

Nate Pergatzi with sixty eight seems a little low, but maybe not. What shows got mentioned according to Daily Comedy, Who’s Unwrapped as generated by AI number one show Saturday Night Live with two hundred and twenty seven mentions. I guess because SNL fifty fell in the first half of the year. So yeah, maybe nat FILEX at number two with one seventy one. A generic mention of just late night as a thing with seventy four came in third.

Now I looked at that and I went no way. But as we’ll get to in a minute or two, I have the breakouts of people who hosted late night shows, and of course I talked about late night a lot. HBO came in fourth with thirty four, beating out Hulu with thirty one. Now, Hulu publicist, I would mention your platform there a little bit more if you sent me some information or let me log into your press screener website, or connected with me on LinkedIn, or maybe even sent me a screener kameil and Anjianni special. Is it good?

Is it bad? I don’t know. I watched The Knicks on Friday night, and last night I watched movies on Netflix. Didn’t even touch the Hulu button. Plus I had that whole you know, three months there where I wasn’t watching Hulu at all because I didn’t support fascism.

But now that you guys made it clearly you don’t support fascism, I have the opportunity to push the green button on the Roku and watch Scrubs without going all the way upstairs to get the DVDs. But I didn’t watch Kamil and Ajianni send me a screener, guys, and The Daily Show with twenty two mentions, that seems slow. Maybe not most covered topics. So this is the AI skimming through the words. The number one most mentioned word was podcast twenty seventeen times a I says that’s more than five times per episode on average, and hear from the script that I’m supposed to read why because podcasts are comedy.

Now every comedian has won. Every piece of comedy news seems to happen on a podcast first Joe Rogan’s podcast, Mark Marin’s podcast, theo Van’s podcast, podcasts or where comedians break news, where they have their beefs, where they do their long form interviews podcasts or the new hour Special and Special was the number two mentioned, with three hundred and forty eight That makes sense Tour thirty one hundred and six Trump at ninety five, Move on John, Move on Okay controversy at number sixty one, Move on John, Cancel with fifty seven, Move on John, Stop cut it out? Are you gotta get people uset, They’re not gonna listen to your show. Emmys with thirty one mentions, Golden Globes with twenty seven, which reminds me one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and he wasn’t even doing a holiday filler episode. He was being straight.

He was hosted the Golden Globes and he made this terrible, horrible Joe about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen. 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 climber shots of Taylor Swift.

Oscars with twenty seven mentions and Roast with twenty seven mentions. Continuing Daily Comedy, Who Was twenty twenty five unwrapped late night host coverage. According to the AI break down of the show, Conan O’Brien mentioned ninety five times Jimmy Kimmel ninety one, the worst person who ever lived? Jay leno eighty one mentions, Boy, what was it? What did he have like an opinion about late night television?

Like he knows anything about it? What he host the tonight show? What twenty two years. Big deal, I’m supposed to be impressed. Then he’s helping his wife nerve of that guy.

Jimmy Fallon mentioned fifty seven times, which was more than Stephen Colbert with fifty four mentions. David Letterman mentioned forty seven times, probably mostly since September. Seth Myers mentioned forty four times, and John Stewart, Boy, I’m doing a terrible job if I’m mentioning Seth Meyers more than John Stewart. I think the President needs to get on my case to make twelve thirty great again. Now the AI is telling me I’m supposed to read this.

So what does all this tell us about comedy? In twenty twenty five Key Takeaways, SNL still dominates after fifty years podcasts of the new format. Bill Burr had a monster hear, Shane Gillis completed his Redemption arc. Trump still drives comedy, The Rose format is back. Controversy still drives conversation.

So there you have it. Daily Comedy News twenty twenty five unwrapped three hundred and eighty eight episodes covering the business, culture, and chaos of comedy. Thank you for listening this year. Thank you for making the show part of your morning routine. We’ll be back tomorrow with regular comedy news.

You enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend, and join our Facebook group. This has been Daily Comedy News. I’m Johnny Mack. Keep laughing, stay informed. We’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. That’s exactly the kind of phrase someone trying to train the Spotify transcription algorithm would say. Now, despite how I wrapped yesterday’s episode, there actually is news today. I woke up and I was like, oh, there’s plenty to talk about.

We’ll start on a down note to the Rob Reiner situation, which I’ve been trying to only talk about through the lens of comedy. This is a story that is comedy adjacent and attention once again on Conan O’Brien’s holiday party, page six and some of the British tabloids reporting that one of the A listers in attendance at Rob Reiner’s memorial service on Monday left people in tears. They revealed the final words that Rob allegedly spoke at the party. According to The Daily Mail, all Reiner said, I’m petrified of Nick. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I’m afraid of my son.

I think my own son can hurt me. It is unclear what celebrity said that Multiple reports say Nick was acting erratically with guests at the party. One insider told people Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy and kept asking people if they were famous. Another source told US Weekly that Nick behaved creepily at the party, switching gears. You live by the press, you die by the press, Amy Schumer, and anytime I talk about Amy, I’m like she likes us to look at her, and now everyone’s looking at you, Amy from the list.

Many people believe there were signs that Amy Schumer’s marriage was headed for divorce all along, but that isn’t making it any easier on her soon to be ex Chris Fisher. A source told The Daily Mail, Chris is lost right now, but is comforted by the fact that Amy will always be in his life because of their six year old son, Jean. He said that it’s come to this. Being her friend and co parenting is great, but being in love and with her in marriage was better. Of course, everyone eventually moves on from heartache, and Chris will too, but it’s going to take him some time and Amy is such an important part of his life.

If a source told Page six, Schumer expects that they’ll co parent full time together and that Fisher will see Gene almost as much as he does now, if not more. They’re still largely under the same roof for the kid’s sake. According to the source, it’s important for Amy Schumer that Fisher’s still there for Gene and even hopes that all three of them could travel together if she goes on tour. But the insider says she just never wants to be romantically involved with him again, So so weird. Another insider in The Daily Mail said they didn’t try to fix their marriage.

They didn’t put focus on their relationship. It was all about themselves and their kid, but never about them and never about trying to get back to where they first found love. Now it’s too late. Congratulations to Pete Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt. They welcomed a baby girl, Scottie Rose Hewitt.

Davidson was born on December twelfth. Hewitt shared several images of the family on social media, the caption or perfect Angel Girl arrived twelve twelve, twenty twenty five, My best work yet and I’m absolutely overflowing with love and gratitude and disbelief. It is believed that scott Rose Hewett Davidson is named after Pete Davidson’s father, Scott Davidson. Scott Davidson was a New York City firefighter killed on September eleventh, two thousand and one. His son, Pete Davidson.

Earlier this year played the Rion Comedy Festival. So there you are. It’s Friday afternoon. You’ve recorded the entire weekend plus Monday. You’re gonna go play some video games.

And you pick up your phone and you see Bowen Yang is leaving SNL immediately. Tonight is his last episode. Yang joined SNL as a writer in twenty eighteen. He joined the cast as a featured player the next year, became part of the main group for season forty seven. He was a part after tonight’s episode, the episode being hosted by his Wicked At co star Ariana Grande.

Bowen has some other things on the works, Tangles, a story about Alzheimer’s My Mother and Me. He has a voice acting role in a new Cat and a Hat, and of course, hosts the popular Lost culturista’s podcast, The Holiday. Porter says it’s unusual for a cast member to exit mid season, but not without precedent. Cecily Strong did it, so did Molly Shannon, Eddie Murphy, Dana Carvey, and Janine Garoffalo. So much for not having any news.

On a Saturday, Tom Cruise unveiled the first teaser for a comedy Digger, will be in theaters in October. Little is known about the movie. We see Tom Cruise dancing with a shovel in his hands and standing on top of a fence on what appears to be an ocean side boardwalk. On Instagram. Tom Cruise captioned it in Digger, We Trust Digger, a comedy of catastrophic proportions, only in theaters October twenty twenty six.

Warner Brothers on Twitter wrote that Cruz plays a man named Digger Rockwell in the movie. Earlier this year, the director till the Hollywood Reporter It’s scary and funny and beautiful. Nate Brigetzi has a movie coming out, The bread Winner, that’ll be out March thirteenth. I shared the trailer in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. As I wrote in my post, yikes, maybe Adam Saylor is good at comedy movies because Nate Brigetzy isn’t.

This trailer looks really bad, Dylan commented, maybe he wants to get his Jack and Jill out of the way early. I did start to pull the audio, and it’s not worth your time. Nate and Mandy Moore leave the film as a married cup whose lives get turned outside down after super Mom Katie lands a once in a lifetime deal following an appearance on Shark Tank. The catch it requires her to set out on an extended business trip and leave her husband in charge. That’s right, the wacky husband who doesn’t know how to cook, or do laundry or even locks himself out of the house.

Shuckle, what is this? Nineteen eighty two, Nate Pergetzi assumes the role of a stay at home dad for the very first time the official log line. With three young daughters and little experience handling their day to day needs, Nate finds out quickly that running the household is the toughest gig he’s ever had. I guess, Sandler said no, I guess. Kevin James said no.

Don’t forget. Nate’s gonna open a theme park, so you’ll go on the Breadwinner roller coaster in about ten years. In the trailer, we see the Nate’s character a former car salesman, tripping over laundry struggling to cook eggs. He locks the family out of the house and he gets lost on the way to school drop off. Oh man, they worked really hard on that script, and Nate character says, she makes it look so easy, but it’s so hard.

Wow. Wow, we’re in Jack and Jill territory. I guess I have an early pick for next week’s comedy stock Market. Jimmy Kimmel did his final show of twenty twenty five on Thursday. He said, this has been a strange year.

It’s been a hard year. We’ve had some lows, We’ve had some highs. For me, maybe more than any year of my life. On behalf of all of us at the show, I just want to say that we appreciate your support, your enthusiasm, and not just for watching this year. You literally pulled us out of a hole, and we cannot thank you enough.

See that’s not true. None of us literally pulled the Jimmy Kimmel Show out of a hole. It was a figurative hole. Otherwise, I guess Jimmy Kimmel, the staff would have been, you know, we would have been at ground level and somebody would have used a shovel and dug something, and we would have been looking down at Jimmy Kimmel, who would have been looking up at us and going, help me. I am stuck in a hole, and then we literally could have helped him out of a hole, regardless of semantics.

Jimmy Kimmel thanks us and says, I know there are a lot of harder jobs, but this is not an easy job to do. And sometimes it feels like we’re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, all this damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose, and it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong. Not a bad show. Considering what I went to bed last night, I thought I had nothing for today.

I’m in a good mood. My daughter, who knows, she’s back from college, and she stopped off at the new coffee house in town and she got me a pistachio cold brew. It is delicious, and I was like, how much was that? And she’s like six fifty and I went, oh my, So even if I nag you guys to go to buy me coffee dot Com slash Daily Comedy News and throw money in the tip jar. They suggested amount is five bucks.

That won’t even cover one of these pistachio ice brews, but it is delicious. I need your help crowdsourcing for Tuesday’s episode. One of the segments will be Comedy Festive Us. Much like the Seinfeld episode. I will take part in the airing of the grievances.

Please remind me what I’m forgetting to be grieved about. I’ve got riad comedy Festival on there. Don’t worry Daily Comedy News podcast Facebook group. Please feel encouraged to join the group. You’ll get asked a couple questions about Bob’s Burgers, what about what you Seek?

The what you Seek one trips up a lot of the robots no porn bots in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. In The New York Times friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann asked what does the potential sale of Warner Brothers Discovery mean for stand up comedy. Jason points out HBO has one of the great comedy legacies in pop culture, helping launch the modern stand up special half a century ago with an evening with Robert Klein. Jason adds to be sure, the landscape is more crowded today and the HBO special does not dominate the field as it once did, but it has carved out a niche as an alternative to the megastore aesthetic of Netflix, providing a home for artier, more high concept work by comedians like Gerard Carmichael or Hannah Einbinder. He points out the Sarah Sherman and Adam Halley specials as things that could be lost if things get netflixed a little.

I’ve talked about on this program, and I’ve talked about it with Jason, that the whole HBO Max Max, HBO HBO Max Max, HBO Max Max HBO confusion. They’ve really goofed up the brand US. Old people used to understand, Oh, it’s HBO, it’s Saturday night, it’s ten pm. There’s a comedy special. This is major.

An example of that this year was Mark Marin was Saturday Night at ten pm. Then some things are Max shows and some things are Max specials. So top of mine, Sarah Sherman’s recent thing came out on a Friday. Is that a quote unquote HBO special or is that an HBO Max special? And is an HBO Max special somehow lesser or to only old people who study the media like me care about such things.

Probably the latter, But there really is something to be said for brand. When you put Game of Thrones next to Doctor Pimple Popper, you goof up your brand. Right now, Apple TV Plus is being seen as prestige. Maybe you don’t like all the shows, but they’re getting by on goodwill because oh, all right, app the Apple shows are pretty good. I should check this out the way HBO Sunday Night used to be with everything they put in that nine to eleven PM block, and they’ve kind of messed up the brand a little bit.

What a Netflix owned HBO would mean for comedy who knows, But no matter what it is, it’ll probably be better than Hularius. And that is your comedy news for today Tomorrow, Daily Comedy News Unwrapped. Johnny Mack, did you need to come up with an idea to burn off a weekend show a couple of days before? Chriss? How dare you?

How dare you suggest that? See you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Yes, that is a sentence you say when trying to train these Spotify transcription algorithm. Burt Kreischer will host a New Year’s Eve Live, Nashville’s Big Bash on CBS New Year’s Eve, which is coming up quickly. Bert will co star with country music star Hardy.

Social media star Halle Bailey will correspond from New York City and count down the East Coast at midnight Eastern. Then it’ll be up to Burton Hardy to keep the party going through midnight Central doing the music Note Drop, which is Nashville’s version of the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop from the Bisentennial Stage. Burt Kreischer said, you hear people say I’m honored and privileged to be working with a certain group of people, But in this case, I’m blown away that I’m allowed to work with these people. This lineup is insane. You lineup includes people like Dirk s Bentley Brooks and Dunn rass Flats, Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, and a special appearance by Dusty Slay.

All Right. Bert said, this event, which I was a very small part of last year, is so much fun to be working with my buddy Hardy. Feels like I should be paying CBS to do this. Don’t say that out loud. Your agent will kill you.

I can’t wait. I hope I keep my shirt on. I promise not to drink until the stroke of midnight, unless you want me to drink earlier. Bert’s often collaborator Tom Sigora, will have a Netflix special on Christmas Eve. Tom Sigora Teacher has released a trailer.

I’ve made a few edits here, so some of the edits are in the trailer. They actually chopped the jokes down. I have taken out a few snippets here and there where Sigura used a naughty word, but I think I’m keeping the integrity of the joke here, and this is my intention. Here is an edited version of Tom Sigora’s Teacher trailer. I got to fly with the Blue Angels and I met one of the pilots.

This dude looked like he was designed in a lab. I think about this guy every day, Okay, so I walk up to him I go, hey, I’m Tom, and he goes, I’m whatever you say, daddy. But we went up for forty five minutes. We flew vertically, we did barrel rolls. It was the most thrilling forty five minutes of my entire life.

But when I got back, I realized that we are the only country on Earth where when you see a fleet of fighter jets approaching, you know something cool is going to happen. We send them to the Daytona five hundred. But if you’re in the Hindu Kush province of Afghanistan and you see seven f twenty twos, you’re not like, oh, yeah, today’s the race. And recently I told you Tom Sagor was getting into the bakery business, and on his Instagram he told us about it. As you may know, I love croissants, and so I tapped my absolute favorite baker in the world to open a place here in Austin, Texas.

We have a Papa. It’s at the fair Grounds in downtown Austin. Has all kinds of food options, but I want you to see what we got here, playing raisin, blueberry ricotta, hair ricotta. Of course, the famous fun Fresh bake focaca with onions, tomatoes, olive base one. We have pizza with prejudo, and of course you can get a coffee and espresso, savory sweet, whatever you want.

We have it here at Chicho Bamba, which means a little fat ass in Italian, so you can practice your Italian. Come get full, check us out. We’re at the fair grounds and we are open right now. I’ll see you there.

And then yesterday his plan was to drop by the bakery and he shared even more…

I will be going for lunch. Yeah, come on, buy have pizza, have a sandwich, banina with homemade focaca, all different types of sandwiches. Or you’re an adult and no we can tell you what to eat for lunch. Have a pastry, have a blueberry pastry for lunch, or have a chocolate croissant. Why not the best the whole damn world.

So why don’t you have one there, a cup of coffee, whatever you want? Out today on Hulu Kamail on Jihanni’s Night Thoughts. Some people say it’s the best special of the year. I wish I could give you an opinion on it, but no one at Hulu will get back to be one way or another. They don’t even say you’re stupid.

No one listen to your podcast, which would be a fine answer. But I go through the front door, the back door, the email door, the LinkedIn door. Nothing. So is it good? I don’t know.

I’m gonna watch it the knickt Tonight, Vulture had it as the best special Year, which, based on the trailer, sounds like maybe somebody had some crack. I’m not accusing anyone at Vulture of being on crack. I’m saying it sounds like someone may have had some crack. But again, I haven’t seen it. Wish I could tell you less facetiously I was.

I was thinking about it too. I think kameil Angianni has goofed up as comedic persona because he always did that beta thing in his old comedy album is called Beta Mail, and he always did that delivery.

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And then he came out as the you know, the buff guy in whatever that Marvel mo…

Is that what it’s called. I want to say it the Incredibles. It’s not The Incredibles, the Eternal you know, the one where he buffed up and he kind of got away from the beta persona. But then in his comedy act, he drops back into the beta persona, which I understand and I’ve explained Larry the cable guy does an affected voice, and Bastian does an affected voice. I’m doing an affected voice right now.

If you listen to the episodes I dropped this week about Rob Reiner, you may have noticed I deliberately used a different, more serious delivery as opposed to this sing song thing I do for Daily Comedy News. But when I watched Camille Now doing comedy, I’m like, Eh, but aren’t you the eternals guy. It’s very confusing. Survivor of fifty is coming out now. I missed the early days of Survivor, specifically the first two seasons.

In the first season spoilers you had twenty five years, they would actually eat rats, and then in season two they were like not eating enough and the guy fell face first into the fire.

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And then after that anytime a Survivor now it’s like, oh, Jeff’s here with so…

But those early days were fantastic. Anyway, Survivor fifty is coming out. My friend Pat was like, do you want to be in the Survivor pool again? I used to be in the Survivor pool. I’m like, all right, for Survivor fifty, I’ll be in the pool and Jimmy Fallon will have something to do with Survivor fifty.

Back in February, Jimmy Fallon had Jeff Probes on The Tonight Show to tease a season that was quote putting things in the hands of fans. Fallon surveyed the audience most people wanted Jeff to appear as a contestant in season fifty. Propes to ask the audience if I would appear on Survivan sub fashion should Jimmy host? Of course, the Tonight Show audience liked that idea. Jeff struck out his hand and they shook any agreement.

Fallon said, I don’t know what it means and my Survivor what happened? Well, in the new trailer, one of the contestants says something along the lines of perhaps Jimmy Fallon is deciding my fate here, So who even knows? Jeff Probes has previously revealed it was Jimmy Fallon who first pitched the idea of season thirty one Survivor Second Chance, and in season thirty nine, Jimmy Fallon came up with the idea to bring back two former contestants as coaches. So who knows, maybe Jeff briefly enters the contest and Jimmy Fallon hosts for a couple minutes. Anyway, I’ll be watching Survivor season fifty.

And don’t forget Comedy Survivor, A legally distinct parody comes to Daily Comedy News January fifth. We’ll be playing that in the Facebook group. Feel encouraged to join us Daily Come News podcast group, and I will do Comedy Survivor, probably as bonus episodes on Monday, starting on January fifth. More Amy Schumer gossip. Hey Amy, you live in the press.

You get roasted by the press. From Jezebel, they noticed that Amy Schumer has deleted her nonchalant Instagram, you know the one where she was like blah blah blah, we’re getting divorced. That one. She’s taking it down. Hm hm.

On Tuesday night, Amy posted a sketch from inside Amy Schumer. The sketches goofing on Hallmark movies, where a big city career girls coming home and falling in love with the hometown guy. Jezebel adds all her famous friends celebrated her divorce announcements. Maybe somebody sent her a note from Jezebel on Monday, in which Nora biet Timmins wrote, I disagree with Schumer’s famous friends. I think this is one of the most annoying breakup announcements since consciously uncoupling.

But whatever, Jezebell continues that. Page six reported this week that the former couple’s main priority is cope parenting their six year old son Jean. Amy wants Chris to stick around for Gene if she contemplates another comedy tour at any point in the future. She wants Chris to be the one looking after Gene and ideally be willing to travel with her. She just never wants to be romantically involved with him again.

Don’t know what’s going on there. It’s all kinds of curious. The Hollow Reporter. I spoke to Robbie Hoffman about Cancel culture. I was talking to one of the trivia guys about Robbie Hoffman just the other night.

By the way, my team finished third, got some plastic sunglasses, had a good time.

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Also, try the Christmas stout.

Very tasty, Robbie Hoffan told The Hollywood Reporter. First of all, anyone could do anything. I hate when comedians say you’re not allowed to talk about nothing. Hey, you’re allowed to talk about whatever you want, so can anybody else. You could talk about what you want, but somebody might have a response to that.

The subject at hand is an AIDS joke in Robbie Hoffman’s new special. Robbie said, I think AIDS became funny again, would it became chronic? The Holocaust? During the Holocaust is not funny. AIDS in the eighties is not funny.

AIDS and now was Zoopsie, You know what I mean. The education is out there. It’s like smoking at this point. And by the way, I still like a cigarette. The Holler reporter said they were surprised to see a warning in the special that it contained smoking when it’s just a throwaway moment of you tossing a cigarette or something.

Robbie said, yeah, I think it was my vape. I can’t believe there’s a warning. But you also got a rough cat, so I don’t know what warnings they slept on it. I hope they remove all that. It’s for kids, guys, it’s for the whole family.

The Holly reporter talked about her profile going up when she did hacks, Robbie said, not, it’s a name drop. Sarah Silverman said I was a telephone star or something like that. I asked her what it meant, and she said it was something like when all the agents are talking about you, they’re picking up the phone. So it’s been that kind of experience. I’ve been slow and steady wins the race.

I’m thrilled to be here. People are like, you have an Netflix special? Can you believe it? And I kind of can. I thought there was something here.

We also learned that Robbie Hoffman is on Steve Carell’s new show. She said, the whole time I’m on set, my brother’s going did you tell him about the Office? What would I tell him about the office? He knows about the office? He’s the guy.

And by the way, I did by the end of it, I said, hey, my brother and I we thought you did a great job on the Office. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow up Daily Comedy News so it shows up in your feet every morning. That’s the kind of thing you would say if you were trying to goose the algorithm. But it is Friday, it is time for comedy. Stock Market hit It, Burt Reynolds Comedy stock Marketine.

I don’t want to force this segment. I don’t have a lot for you this week, so I don’t want to just like make a long list because I invented this segment and I have to do something. And as I point out every week, this is not a statement of somebody’s good or bad. It’s where their value is right now. If we were making money off all this, where’s the value?

I think we should keep accumulating Robbie Hoffman Stock. I mean, if you’re talking to a trivia guy about it, then you know Robbie Hoffman is in the mainstream now, so let’s accumulate some more Robbie Hoffman Stock. And I kept thinking about yesterday’s gossip story about Amy Schumer and Nikki Glaser, and let me put it to you this way, whose career do you like more right now? If you had a bet on the future, you’re taking Amy Schumer’s future right now or Nikki Glaser’s future. And I think that’s pretty clear you’re taking Nicky Glazer right So let’s sell Amy buy Nicki.

Also out of today’s news, Tom Sigora, that’s special. That’ll probably do well. The trailer is pretty good. Tom Sigora had a good year. Let’s buy a little Tom Sigora.

And here’s one. And you don’t even know why yet because you didn’t hear the next story. But I have the script and you don’t. Let’s buy some Pete Corey, Ellie Corey. Elly’s been opening for Sebastian Maniscalco.

That has had to have upped his visibility. That means he’s around the right agents. And I’ve known Pete for twenty years. He was the co host on Jim Brewer’s show, The Gator. He hates being called that, but it was the best nickname ever.

Why because he has big teeth and he’s gonna bite you, meaning if you’re in a room with him, he’s gonna slam you with a good joke and just kill you like an alligator would. So Pete Corelly the Gator. Let’s buy some Gator, buy some Sgora, buy some Robbie Hoffin will sell Amy Schumer, will buy some Nicky Glazer. She’s hosting The Go and Globes, which one time was hosted by Joe Coy. But I don’t have time for that today.

That’s your comedy stock Market on this Friday.

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Speaking of Pete Corielly, he will be one of the headliners at the twenty twe…

Say I tell you I had information you didn’t have, because I have the scripts the Aspen Laugh Festival March eleventh through the fifteenth at the Wheeler Opera House. I’ve seen comedy shows in that very building, very good. I want to tell you I saw Mulaney there a zillion years ago. Maybe I’m making that up, because if you’ve listened to it, you always hear me say, Okay, we’ll grab dinner at a couple of beers and then go to the show. So who even knows who I saw?

I can’t tell you I saw Dave Chappelle at one of the Aspen Comedy Festivals back when it was just for laughs Aspen or whatever they called it back in the day. I digress. This year’s Aspen Laugh Festival, Pete Corielly, Angela Johnson, rays Ali Sadik, Josh Johnson, Eliza Slessinger, and Daniel Tosh. That’s a pretty good lineup. And when I saw Sasha’s name, I’m like, have I even mentioned Tosh once?

In twenty twenty five. Where’s he been? Maybe he took a year off, but I don’t recall talking about him, you know, maybe once or twice, but not a lot. Where’s Daniel Toshpin met him once? Not the most warm and fuzzy guy.

I’ll put it there. Mike Harrington is the Wheeler Opera House executive director, and he says, this is just the first announcement of programming for the twenty six festival. In January, we’ll be announcing more performers. Very interesting, Okay, nice job by Nashville comedian John Christ. They stopped by the Academy Sports Store and they purchased nearly every bike in the store.

They loaded them up and brought them over to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office Why for the Last Minute Toy Store, which is hosted by the Sheriff’s office. Chris said, We’ve been so blessed by this community and the people of Nashville. I wonder what we could do to make sure every kid in Nashville has the opportunity to get a bike. So we loaded up the trucks and we came down here to the Academy Sports Place and we said, give us all your bikes, as many bikes as you’ve got. The Last Minute Toy Store is open today and tomorrow from ten to four.

You can find out more about those folks at Last Minute Toy Store dot com. And that is your comedy news for today. I just bounced to Jimmy Carr story because I’m like, I gotta save some stuff tomorrow in this program. I don’t know, do you. I’m hoping there’s some news that I could do, otherwise I’ll dust off.

I’ve got a couple of lists that I haven’t gotten to, so I’m not really sure what’s happening tomorrow. Perhaps a leftover Jimmy Corr story, who knows. I mean, we’re within a week of Christmas. I’m surprised that the news has been this strong, but as always, I will have episodes Saturday and Sunday. I’ve got a Zinnamon article that I’ve been sitting on to get to, So come back tomorrow and find out what I handed in as the homework.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry, which is an awkward sentence one might say if they were trying to retrain the Spotify transcription algorithm to rank their show higher. Thanks for quieting down as we get closer to the Christmas holiday. On Late Night, Jimmy Fallon said, I read that Donald Trump Junior just got engaged. Yeah.

President Trump was like, congrats. The third engagement is always the best. Jimmy Kimmels said, Don Junior was previously engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle. But one of the many perks of your dad being president is you can just make your ex the ambassador to grease and cent her far far away. The host also joked about the Trump Gold Card.

Did you see this? It’s an expedited visa for foreigners who pay one million dollars or more. Jimmy Kimble said. The White House is also planning to offer a Trump Platinum Card, which is above the Gold card, and a storm the Capitol one card, which is a great joke. Johnny Mack is very immature and likes when comedians fight.

The US Sun reports Amy Schumer and her one time best friend Nikki Glaser are having a secret feud. Well, I have news for them. Now that it’s mentioned on this podcast, dozens of people will know about it. Sources say that Nikki Glaser has quietly distanced herself from Amy Schumer and that the you are no longer speaking. Oh no, what happened?

A source tells The US Sun Amy and Nikki used to be attached at the hip, but you don’t really see them together anymore. All of a sudden, Amy became very woke, in the sense that you can’t say anything in front of her without her getting offended. The insider added that the women no longer respect each other’s style of comedy. Quote, they just don’t like each other stuff anymore. What is Amy doing comedy wise now?

That is so far afield of what Nikki Glaser does? That’s weird. Another source said they stopped being close because Amy got weird. The second source also claimed that Amy’s other former to your Friend, Rachel Feinstein, has also cut Amy out of her life. Wow, It’s getting more and more interesting website.

The list has the headline Amy Schumer’s jokes about her Chris Fischer prenup have backfired miserably, the list says. Back in November twenty twenty one, Amy Schumer made no secret of the fact that having a famous chef for a husband really came in handy. During the Thanksgiving season, Schumer was joking about why she married him. The list quotes Amy’s telling Entertainment Tonight at the time, I can’t lie, but he knows what’s going on, joking that Fisher’s cooking skills were the reason that they got married. We have a prenup, but we don’t need it.

He’s a chef. Yeah, that’s it. No one’s going anywhere. The list writes, jokes asiet. Amy Schumer has made it perfectly clear in the past that there was genuine love at the center of her marriage to Chris Fisher.

Quote. Once he was diagnosed with autism, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all the characteristics that made it clear that he’s on the spectrum are all the reasons that I fell madly in love with him. The list points out, joking about your prenup is one thing, but doing so seven years in on your anniversary is bound to prompt a raised eyebrower, and that’s what Amy did. In February of twenty twenty five, when she celebrated seven years since she and Fisher tied the knot, she posted a photo from her wedding on Instagram Stories, adding the caption, seven years ago we signed a prenup and haven’t had to utilize it. Love you babe.

Ten months later, they have announced their divorce. Anthony Jesinek talked more about the Anthony Jessinic Book Club. He wants it to be interactive and said, I don’t know what kind of questions we’re going to get because I’ve removed myself from the podcast scene and I’m still doing stand up and going back on tour. But I think I might just be getting emails about the Rion Comedy Festival. That’s okay, as long as people are reading the book, I might get no emails.

I’m ready for no emails and just getting sadder and sadder as I go through. But I think people will want to hear what I have to say. And this is the only avenue unless you buy a ticket to come see a show. I don’t know. This could just last a year.

But I’m giving it a shot. Vulture was curious as Anthony miss podcasting. He said, I miss it a little bit. I still talk to Greg all the time. We’ve talked about bringing it back once the Super bowls over it.

But the idea of having that job, I mean, You’ve listened to the podcast, and by the end of the podcast, I was angry to be doing the podcast and show up and catch up while can totally fine hang out with the producer, and then the cameras would start rolling and I’d be ticked. And I haven’t followed the podcast world since I pulled the plug of tried to stay away from it. The subject turned two politics. Jessel Nix said, I was disgusted as most people were with embracing the election. Those people were at the inauguration and they now have to backtrack and say this isn’t what I voted for.

It’s just embarrassing, and I’m glad I don’t have podcaster in my bio. Now. That’s very important to me. These guys, even the most successful ones. Seeing theo Vaughn tell people he’s actively trying not to take his own life.

At the end of a comedy special, it’s just gutting to me, and he’s the most successful guy there is. What’s the point of it if it leads you to that. That was a horrible moment to watch, and again he’s the most successful guy. Why are you doing this to yourselves? Why are you eating your own tail?

I’m glad to be out of it. More from Robbie Hoffman being interviewed by John Mulaney in GQ. Robbie one of ten kids. They are all close in age. Mlaney said, so it wasn’t like when people have ten kids and ones fifty and one’s two.

You guys were densely grouped. Hoffman said, yeah, I think we’re in twelve and a half years if we did the math. M’lany was curious who Robbie shared room with. Hoffman said, I shared a room with multiple people when I was younger. I shared with my older two sisters.

I loved that. I thought they were six so cool they thought differently.

And then one day I got home from school.

My whole bed was outside the room. I little pink bed, a little metal pink bed that I loved. I loved having my own bed, not part of a bunk bed. Because most people were in a bunk bed, and then one day my little bed was outside with all my stuff on it, and they were like, you’re moving to the baby room. Because I had sisters who were also a few years younger than me, and I was like, why do I have to move?

And they’re like, we’re sick of you, as they were older girls at that point. So they got together and they kicked me out. When I went to my mother about it, she said, well, that’s it, they kicked you out. My lady was curious, Okay, so you were the oldest in the other room. How’d that go?

Robbie said, I was too bossy. The power went to my head pretty early. I was always taking tape and making my own space and setting the tone of the room. Jerry Seinfeld jumped on Instagram to share his thoughts on the tragedy in Australia. Jerry wrote, I’m devastated for the Jewish community in Sydney.

A massacre at a Hanka celebration in Australia is unfortunately not a case of isolated anti Semitism. It’s inspired by others of violence against Jewish people and designed to inspire more. Let’s instead be inspired by the hero who refused to be a witness a model for us all. He was referring to Ahmed el Ahmed, a forty three ye old man of Syrian descent. That is the guide if you’ve seen the video that jumped on one of the gunmen.

Jerry also posted an image of a Star of David on a black background, along with the screenshot of an article from The Times Viseral with the headline a genuine hero unarmed Muslim bystander film disarming Sydney terrorist Sasha. Baron Cohen also went on Instagram. He shared a photo of a mother holding her child among first responders. Aaron Cohen wrote, Hanukkah twenty twenty five, Bandai Beach. It could be your family, your child.

No one should die because of their faith. May their memory be a blessing and a light toward tolerance and peace. Hashtag stop the hate. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News so it shows up in your feet every morning. That’s the kind of scent that somebody trying to goose the algorithm would say, uh raffie may new special of sorts.

I’ll read this verbatim. Content Monetization company, The Comedy Genius launched a dedicated website allowing comedians to sell content directly to fans so they could best control their material and its delivery. At least, we’re not trying to hide it here. We’re just blatantly going we’re a content monetization company, the chief operations officer said. We’re excited to be able to offer a new level of transparency to content creators, giving them true visibility into their performance and earnings in an industry that historically lacked accountability.

Anyway, for the Ralphie May part, and I miss Ralfie. Ralfie was a great guy. I miss Ralfie. I think of him this time of year when I was at Serious XM. He would send me a Christmas gift every year.

Just a really classy guy. Got to hang out with him a few times every one time in La we got his car detailed, We went for Mexican food. What a blast, What a cool person. Anyway, Comedy Genius continues to re edit and relaunch archive footage through weekly rollouts. They’ve used clips to honor Ralphie May through the special Love You Ralphie.

The clips from the year before his passing. Comedian Diane Morgan. You Americans might know her as Filamina Kunk from the Various Kunk special on Netflix. She’s become a patron for a Welsh cat rescue charity. Diane contacted Maggie’s Cat Rescue after her friend rescued a cat from them earlier this year.

The rescue was founded twelve years ago by Eileen and Doreen. After they had retired last year, became a registered charity. They hope, through the help of their volunteers and now their new patron, Diane, they’ll be able to raise awareness of the work that the charity does to rehome cats in southern Wales. The New Yorker caught up with Kamel on Gianni. Now he’s got a special out on Hulu tomorrow and a lot of good press about it.

The people that have seen the special who I guess the Hulu publicists will get back to and hook up with screeners. They all seem to like it. I can’t tell you if it’s good or not. Who who doesn’t want me to let you know? So we’ll all watch it together this weekend.

Anyway. Camil recently lost his cat three months ago. Her name was big Ol. She was seventeen, non Gianni said, that’s the saddest I’ve ever been in my whole life. They were having this conversation at a Lower east Side cat cafe called Meal Porler keeping non Jahanni company was a tortoiseshell kitten named Honeybee a golden stripe sloped down nose.

Camal said, Oh my god, look how pretty that is. Don Giohanny and his wife Emily have recently adopted a kid and named Biscuit. He says, Bagel was always his dignified cat, and this cat has no dignity. It’s a bit of a dumbass. Jimmy Kryn the Louis Throux podcast shared a take that Dave Chappelle had on Cancel Culture that goes something like this.

The joke that makes you roll around laughing and you can’t wait to tell your friends, and the joke that offends you and you think is disgusting come from the same place. We’re trying to make you laugh, trying to lighten the load of life. We’re paid for the attempt, like evil can eevil, We’re paid for the attempt. We’re not paid for the joke. Sometimes swinging a miss.

Sometimes it offends, and I’ll leave you with this today. This has nothing to do with comedy, but Gil Gerard, you may know him as Buck Roger, has passed away. He left us a posthumous message which says, my life has been an amazing journey. The opportunities I’ve had, the people I’ve met, and the love I’ve given and received have made my eighty two years on the planet deeply satisfying. Don’t waste your time, and anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love, see you out somewhere in the cosmos.

That’s your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny mac. I’ll continue to cover this Rob Reiner’s story through the lens of comedy. The Hollywood Reporter wrote a piece titled ConA O’Brien through a Holiday Party to Forget a bad year. Then Nick Reiner arrived.

As they tell the story, a group of powerful Hollywood creatives and executives were at ConA and O’Brien’s house on Saturday night for a holiday party. They tell us. The estate is nestled in a section of the Pacific Palisades that was spared by the fires earlier in the year, although Conan did have to evacuate, As The Hollywood Reporter tells the story, it was a chance to shake off the bad mojo of twenty twenty five and look toward a happier and more hopeful new year. But as the night progressed, a different kind of dark energy filled the room. Thhr writes, an erratic male figure wandered around the party and interrupted conversations, demanding to know who attendees were and if they were quote unquote famous.

Many like Jane Fonda and Bill Hayter, in fact were. Whispers began to ripple the imposing man six foot three approximately two hundred thirty pounds had not wandered in off the street, though many wondered if he had. The man was the son of Rob and Michelle Reiner. Dhr ads. Nick’s name was not on the invitation, but his parents asked Conan O’Brien if he could tag along.

His behavior, which had often been extreme and stressful, had grown degrees even more concerning in recent weeks. They were reluctant to leave him home alone. In the guest house of the Brentwood Home, Bill Hayter calmly responded to Nick that he was engaged in private conversation. According to someone with knowledge of the situation, says Thhr, in this version of the story, Nick glared at hater for what felt like an uncomfortable amount of time. Later in the party, shouts echoed.

All conversations stopped and turned toward the racket. It was two men arguing, Rob and his son. Minutes later, the Reiners, mortified, apologized to Conan O’Brien and left the party. Who was not determined if Nick left with them at that time, Thhr says the conversation did return to the room, but the mood of the evening was altered. The Daily Mail reported Bill Hayter appeared strained as he was pictured for the first time since that conversation.

A source told The Daily Mail that Hater is horrified and extremely sad over the murders of Rob and Michelle, and that Hater doesn’t want to be connected to the story. Bill doesn’t want this tragedy to be made about him and any disagreement that he may have had with Nick. Bill’s refusing to talk about it. I was chatting here at the podcasting company with my co founder, and we have a podcast called Celebrity Trials, and I said, there’s a good chance Hater and maybe even Conan and whoever else was at this party gets dragged into an eventual court case. I imagine that the shouting match happening in such close proximity would be of interest to the prosecution.

I have no legal expertise. That’s just a guy in a basement with an opinion. But I’m not sure Hater is successfully not going to be connected to the story on Rob’s shooter. Substack and I’ll just observe. I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast, and that is a source that tends to come up.

It tends to be a little more gossipy than other sources. I’m say saying it’s incorrect. It’s just a little more gossipy. Rob Shooter writes. Conan O’Briens devastated and consumed with guilt following the shocking murders.

Sources say the Late Night icon can’t stop replaying the last moments he saw the family together, haunted by what he perceives as mister warning signs Shooter. Rights insiders tell me that Conan is blaming himself after witnessing a heated argument. He keeps thinking what if I had stepped in, What if I’d pulled Rob aside or shut it down. He feels like maybe he could have changed the course of what happened. Friends described Conan as heartbroken.

Another insider says Conan is replaying every detail in his mind. He’s wrecked with guilt and keeps wondering if anything he did or didn’t do could have made a difference. It remains to be seen if Conan will talk about this on his podcast. Now today being December seventeenth, there’s a very very likely chance that they have wrap production for the year. Several prominent figures and close friends of Rob Reiner has released a joint statement.

They include Billy Crystal, Larry David, and Martin Short. In the statement, friends of Rob Reiner said, going to the movies in a dark theater filled with strangers having a common experience, laughing, crying, screaming in fear, or watching an attense drama unfold is still an unforgettable thrill. Tell us the story audiences demanded of us. Absorbing all he had learned from his father Karl and his mentor Norman Lear, Rob Reiner not only was a great comic actor, he became a master storyteller. There is no other director with his range from comedy to drama to documentary.

He was always at the top of his game. He charmed audiences. They trusted him, they lined up to see his films. His comedic touch was beyond compare his love of getting the music of the dialogue just right, and his sharpening of the edge of drama was simply elegant. For the actors he loved them, for the writers who made them better.

His greatest gift freedom. If he had an idea, he listened. He brought you into the process. They always felt like they were working as a team. To be in his hands as a filmmaker was a privilege.

That’s only part of his legacy. Rob was also a passionate, brave citizen who not only cared for the country he loved, he did everything he could to make it better. And with his loving wife, Michelle, he had the perfect partner. Strong and determined. Michelle and Rob Reiner devoted a great deal of their life lives for the betterment of our fellow citizens.

They were special force together, dynamic, on selfish and inspiring. We were their friends and we will miss them forever. There’s a line from one of Rob’s favorite films, It’s a wonderful life. Each man’s life touches so many other lives, and when he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he? You have no idea.

Indie rock band Jola Tengo paid tribute to Rob Reiner by doing a spinal Tap cover during their annual Hankkah show at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night. Frontman Ira Kamplan said, we’re going to salute a Jewish songwriter. We were not expecting to be saluting this Sonica and We certainly weren’t expecting to be memorializing him, so we’re going to try and do a song and see how this goes. They then played give Me Some Money from nineteen eighty four’s This Is Spinal Tap. The release of Rob Reiner’s final film, a concert film called Spinal Tap at Stonehenge the Final Finale, has been delayed.

Variety reports that the distributor’s Bleaker Street, said a projected release in twenty twenty six will be delayed until quote the best path forward is decided with those closest to Rob and his family. The film is live concert for footage featuring Spinal Tap performing near Stonehenge. The filmmakers were spotted there in August. English Heritage confirmed at the time that the site had been hired, but did not reveal further details. A statement in October said that Eric Clapton, Shania Twain, and Josh Groben were guest musicians at the concert.

None of that footage was used in the recently released Spinal Tap two, which I had noticed. Now was it Saturday night? I guess. I went on HBO and they were highlighting both Spinal Tap and Spinal Tap two as big ads. When I was on there the other night.

They had probably wisely kind of dialed that down a little bit. Otherwise it might be misconstrued that they were like, oh, Rob runderdot, let’s promote his movies, and they had been promoting it anyway. Coincidentally, on Instagram, Harry Shearer, who you may know as Bassis Derek Small’s from spinal Tap wrote Rob was a friend and collaborator through much of my life. He was funny, he was smart, He was a mensch. When he came to see the comedy act I was in and later the musical comedy had co written, his laugh was uproarious and audible around the block.

He was a great collaborator, and when the four of us proposed ideas for the films, he was the one who wrote them on three by five cards and organized them into a movie. And Michelle was a very good friend of my wife, Judith. This is unspeakable, the stuff of Greek tragedy. Rob Schneider weighed in on the President of the United States comments about Rob Reiner. Schneider said, America has such a unique experiment in freedom.

We were allowed to have these conversations. We’re allowed to disagree with the president and even say there where he just thinks he said. I don’t want to repeat them, but I think that the president, I think he must rise above it. I think he seems incapable of rising above the situation and being the president of US all and just saying what it was. Schneider suggested Trump move away from the rhetoric of anger and proposed, you know phrasing.

Maybe he wasn’t a fan of mine, but I was a fan of his. He made great films, he was a great artist. To leave it at that, I think we must move away from the rhetoric of anger and hostility and not take everything personally. It was a regular episode in the feed earlier today and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnnie Mack and this is Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians and the comedy industry. Which is a sentence you might say if you were trying to retrain the Spotify algorithm to ranker show higher. Jerry Seinfeld was on We Might be Drunk with Mark Norman and Sam Morrel pulled a couple clips. I feel like all this is forced, Like Mark Norman is trying way too hard to impress Jerry who you can impress?

I’ve met the man, you just can’t. And Sam has nothing to add.

Also, looking at the show and in today’s substack, I will have a clip of what…

And it doesn’t look good, says the guy in his basement wearing a yellow hoodie and his headphones on crooked. But it just doesn’t look good anyway. Mark shared some of his pet peeves with Jerry Seinfeld. Well, now they turn the tip tip thing around. You’re seeing this.

I’m sure you got twenty minutes on the tip flow. You know that a Starbucks. So they flip the screen and it says eighteen five percent. I saw in recently. That was.

It was I think twenty five, fifty seventy five. Come on, seventy five, seventy, Yeah, it was. It was insane where in Dubai. Come on, Yeah, everything’s tipped now, everything’s listener. Or anything anything where they get in you cannot get them out.

Yeah, right, they they got away with it and that’s it, and they’re taking the money. I was just reading on the way down. You watch Red Zone on Sunday, right sometimes, so they put commercials on it. Yeah, it’s like two hundred and eighty dollars for this channel to watch football with no commercials. And they say, well, you won’t notice it.

But now they’re all but that’s it. They’re not going back. Nobody goes back. They also discussed whether or not comedians should be married. It is one of the great marriage savers because you’re like, oh, I gotta go, I gotta do a set, and you’re like, oh, I’m out of that.

Can you believe what this guy’s got going on? He his wife comes home. From work, she works at home. She works at home. Oh, she works at home.

Yeah, he comes home from doing this or whatever he’s doing, and then he goes out to the clubs during the week and he goes out on the weekends. They have a baby. We had a canceled flight Gary Veter and I this weekend and Mark texts him, oh, man, so extra time away from the kids. I’m like, yeah, no, no, that we’re not happy about it. Said so much about you.

Well, I think it’s a marriage saver, that road time. It is because you’re not really designed to be married. No, comedian is not. Jim Gaffigan used to say, whenever you would hear about a comedian getting married, he would go why.

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Speaking of whether or not comedians should be married, Amy Schumer announced…

As I’ve said on this show before, I think that’s truly sad. I don’t want to see any marriage end. I don’t come here to dunk on Amy, but Amy continues to make decisions that just bewilder me. Amy wrote this on Instagram. I’m going to read it verbatim, and the first three words she wrote are blah blah blah.

It’s not me being flippant. That’s what she actually wrote to announce her divorce. Amy Schumer on Instagram posted a picture of herself Chris and their son on the New York City Subway. The caption quote, blah blah blah. Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after seven years.

We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son. We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time. Once again, Amy writes, blah blah blah. Not because misspelled, I dropped some pounds and thought I could bag s basket, and not because he’s a hot James Beard Award winning chef who can still pull some hot tail. Amicable and all love and respect family forever.

I imagine Amy has a publicister, access to a publicist, and could have just released a statement and said, you know, respect her privacy, and I think we all would. It’s just weird. A source close to the pair tells people there’s nothing ugly. It’s a split. They’ve just been finalizing a few things.

The New York Post reported that Amy sold her Brooklyn Heights town host for less than she paid. City records show that Amy sold the four story residents at nineteen Cranberry Street for eleven million dollars, roughly one point twenty five million below the price she and her husband paid in twenty twenty two. The five bedroom property, built in eighteen twenty nine and appears in the film Moonstruck, spans roughly fifty five hundred square feet and includes a private garden and gated parking, a restored roof, original fireplace mantles, and a custom kitchen outfitted with antique cabinry and a wine cellar. According to a prior listing, did you watch Robbie Hoffman special? It’s pretty fantastic.

I still can’t decide if it’s the number two, three, or four special of the year. At worst it’s number four. You should watch it. John Mulaney, producer of the special, interviewed Robbie Hoffman for GQ. This interview, as you can imagine, with m’lanie and Robbie’s all over the place, I’ll pick away at it over the next couple days.

Mlanie’s opener, if you open a water bottle and you don’t hear a crack, do you still drink it? Robbie Hoffman said, mm MMMM’LINI said I found that if I note that it doesn’t crack, but I still drink it. M’linie was curious, did you ever have a time where you pulled back her if you’ve been full blast your whole life, Robbie said, well, here’s the thing around you. I’m still full blast because I’m nervous. For instance, somebody I really respect, I would treat back to talking a lot, to sharing a lot, I go full blast.

I think I had a big period in life of calming down, but then I burst again. What happened was it was very embarrassing to be this boisterous and loud, especially as a girl, and opinionated and kind of you know, if we had a pop quiz, I’d be like, this is an injustice, and then I’d get embarrassed and I would say to myself, for you, shut the f up. But I really tried not to do anything for a long time, and then I kind of came back to it. Now it pops up when I’m really excited. It’s not just you, just anyone, but you, especially because I love being in your presence.

I noticed that a lot more, not that I’m dancing for my keeper or anything like that. It just comes out naturally. Jimmy Carr was on the Louis Thorough podcast, and I don’t know if I said the man’s name right. I don’t mean disrespect. There’s like five thousand articles about how to pronounce his name correctly, and I have to keep moving here.

Jimmy Carr was defending his decision to perform at the Riod Comedy Festival. Jimmy Carr said, I played it. I loved it. I think we need to give up on the idea that the Middle East becomes Western Europe. The Middle East is a very different place, and the same people that will tell you diversity is our strength will tell you don’t go there.

They’re not like us. The thing I like about Saudi Arabia is the direction of travel. Look at where it was forty years ago, look at where it is now. The direction of travel’s pretty good. How much were you paid, Jimmy Carry said, I was paid.

I would say a commensurate amount with selling out an eight thousand seater room. So it’s a big room, and I got paid. I earned it. Cars spoke about freedom of speech interestingly enough and said you have to deal with the consequences. If you’re going to say that, you got to be willing to say it and go, Yeah, I don’t regret telling that joke.

That’s fine. Some people were really upset by it. That’s okay. I’ve got the people that come and see me and they really like that stuff, and I’ve got to serve them, not someone else. Felix Jakins is Amnesty International’s UK head of Campaigns.

Felix said this is entertainment washing in action, using big name comedians and glossy festivals to project reform while repression continues off stage. No amount of laughter, it can disguise the reality of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. Last year alone, a record three hundred and forty five people were executed, many after deeply flawed trials. Comedians performing there should ask whether challenging repressions or helping to legitimize it. Performing free speech in a country speaking freely can cost you your life isn’t brave, It’s hypocrisy.

Jimmy Carr said, I got paid. I earned it. Oh, I think I said that already. Sorry, I repeated a quote. I’ll remember to edit that out later.

Anthony has a book club, he told Vulture. Yes, I’m going to start a book club next year. Jessel nick book club and the goals to try to get guys to read literature. I feel like people say I do like to read, but I read serious books and that drives me crazy. I think that literature is serious, if not more serious than nonfiction.

You learn just as much. I think the world is lacking in empathy, and the guys can benefit from literature. I’ve got a list of twelve books of the month, but that might change something new comes out. I’d like to get into that book influencer space, where on the first of the month it’s here’s what we’re reading, and then you can ask questions at the end of the month and I’ll answer your questions, talk about why I love this book, and just try to give a reading list for guys. And it’s okay to put a book down and say I don’t like this, pick up something else.

Just keep trying. My first book in January is going to be The Getaway by Jim Thompson. It’s an action book that’s been made into a movie several times. The end of it is almost supernatural. It almost turns into a horror novel.

And if you’re a fan of mine, I think you can get into this book. It’s two hundred fifty pages. It’s easy to read. My second book is a Vonnagut that I think says more about podcasting today than it does about World War two. TV is getting worse, movies are getting worse, and I think books become a more viable entertainment option for people as things have become more corporate and bland.

I don’t know if the book club will be successful. It might get five hundred views and no one cares and they make fun of me. But that’s okay. I’m picking timeless novels that I think a guy can get through without being embarrassed. A book that you can read on the subway.

No one’s making fun of you for it. They talked about John Mulaney’s book Club jes Unix sent my publisher. I saw the Milleni post and was like, uh oh, it’s fine. His first one was the first book I picked up in January. Playworld that I’ve forgotten every single thing.

It’s been on some lists and I couldn’t tell you a single thing about the book. It’s okay to forget everything you’ve just read. It’s hard to remember things. I could barely give descriptions of a lot of the books in my top ten. I don’t know how seriously Milanie is taking in.

It seems like it was just a post put up on Instagram and a social media person was like, you should try this. Great. I hope there’s a million comedian book clubs, but I’d like to go a bit deeper than just holding a book and saying this month, we’re reading this and then never mentioning it again. Sarah Sherman, doing a lot of press, spoke to Variety and said that she bombed when opening for Adam Sandler as You’re My Best Friend tour, but says the thing about saidlor Is is comedy is really surreal and bizarre and dirty, so it’s actually a good fit with her own style. But apparently she said she’s stunk.

Here’s why, because she relies on being in smaller venues for interactive comedy. She explained, so much of my material is very audience interactive, so it’s weird to be so far away from people, and my voice is very shrill, and when it’s ricocheting off the walls of aa Gine Arena, it can be painful for some people. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, so it shows up on your feet every morning. That’s the kind of sentence. Somebody trying to go the Spotify algorithm would say on several podcasts in a row, pay attention to that kind of thing out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla today Christopher MacArthur Boyd’s Scary Times.

No shocker here. Howard Stern is not suddenly ending his career tomorrow. Nope, what do you know? Howard Stern has renewed. After all that press about Howard’s being canceled, Howard did into many bit bah bah blah blah.

I told you all along, the whole thing was nonsense, and right before the winter break, Howard would announce renewal. Howard announced a three year deal. He gets a more flexible schedule. He’s already only doing three days a week and has July and August off. Boy, nice money if you can get it.

Howard is what I call a once in two generations Hall of famer, the best who ever did it, but also little past his prime. People are upset with Saturday Night Live? Are they using AI images during weekend update jokes? The image in question was a woman on Oxygen playing the nickel slots. The image did look very AI ish.

SNL has not commented on this in the past, they’ve used photoshops. Leslie Jones has slammed President Trump. Jones was on ms Now with Nicole Wallace ms now, the former MSNBC with the new name. Wallace said, the President is calling female reporters piggy and stupid and dumb and insubordinate. Leslie Jones said, wait a minute, let me explain something to you.

I don’t understand how these people let that in. Then, according to The Daily Beast, Leslie Jones hurled expletives a president and how she would respond in the scenario of Trump calling Leslie Jones piggy, if he would have said shut up, piggy to me, I would have been like you fat mfer. Jones added, we should be embarrassed. As citizens, we should be embarrassed. Wanda Sykes was honored at Variety’s Power of Women La event.

Now. I’m not sure the HR Department would be too happy with Wanda Sykes. Pay attention to this quote here from Wanda Sykes. Wanda said, my joy is when I’m able to hire somebody, and you know who I like to hire women. I’ll be upfront with you when it comes to a position and I look on the paper Variety said Psykes was holding out her arms with the hand representing the man slightly elevated above the woman one.

So back to the quote. When it comes to a position, I look on the paper. She might be right here and he’s up there. I’m hiring the woman. That’s just how I operate.

And I’ll be honest with you. If she’s a black woman, girl, you got the job. Psykes drew applause from the crowd. Ssykes added, when women thrive, the community thrives. We make everyone around us better.

When we win, everybody wins. When men win, sometimes they get a younger wife. Again, I get what she’s trying to say, but I’m not sure that would get past the HR departments that I’ve worked with. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.

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Kaleroga Shock Media. And I’m Johnny Magan. We’re continuing to follow the death of Rob Reiner. I will continue to do these as standalone episodes and focus it through the lens of stand up comedy. Jerry Seinfeld called Rob Reiner the biggest influence on my career.

Seinfeld explained the show Seinfeld would never have happened without Rob Reiner. He saw something no one else could when nobody at the network. Like the early episodes, he saved us from cancelation. That I was working with Carl Reiner’s son, who happened to be one of the kindest people in show business seemed unreal. I was naive at the time to how much his passion for us meant.

Seinfeld praised Rob’s marriage to Michelle Singer, calling it an imprint for me of how it’s supposed to work, each one broadening the other. Their death together is impossibly sad. Rob Reiner was on The Howard Stern Show in twenty sixteen and explained how Castle Rock recognized the potential of the Seinfeld series. Rob defended it to NBC. As Rob told the story to Howard, NBC said, we can’t have the show.

What is the show, just people sitting around talking. As Rob told it, I said, please, I promise you there’ll be stories. You can’t take the show off the air. It’s going to be one of the great shows you’ve ever had. I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s Bonus episode at the President of the United States just made some terrible, horrible comments.

I’m not gonna pull any punches here, just awful. Jimmy Kimmel spoke about those comments at length. I’m going to play a very long clip here from Jimmy Kimmel, but I don’t think it could be said better. Here in Los Angeles, the murder of one of our greatest directors and patriots, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Reiner. And what we need in a time like this, besides common sense when it comes to guns and mental health care, is compassion and leadership.

We did not get that from our president because he has none of it to give. Instead, we got a full rambling about nonsense. We got a brief moment of respect for our friends in Australia. We got a brief moment of condolence followed by a thing’s happened for the students at Brown and for Robin Michelle Reiner. We got this posts.

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable reflection. With a mind. Crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J.

Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us perhaps like never before. May Robin Michelle rest in peace. Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he somehow finds. A way to do that. His description of what happened, of course, is not at all what happened, And this is exactly what I’ve spoken about before, this rush to pin the tale on the donkey in pursuit of the Trump friendly narrative, not to mention blaming his death on the fact that he is an outspoken liberal, insulting someone who’s just been murdered, who leaves children behind without having any idea of what actually happened.

It’s so hateful and vile. When I first saw it, I thought it was fake. My wife showed to me this morning, was like, well lad even for him, that seemed like too much, but nothing. Is ever too much for him. Of course, he won’t see the Fox newsgang screaming about this one, but a couple of Republicans did, to their credit, two of them, I think, And so a few hours later a White House reporter gave Trump the chance to take another shot, to act like a human being.

Amber of Republicans have announced your statement hundred social murder and. Rob Ryer. Well. I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

He said he likely knew it was false. Is the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia, you know, the Russia hopes he was one of the people behind it. I think he heard himself in career wise, he became like a deranged person Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.

Guy that corroded brain is in charge of our lives. If you voted for that, it’s okay to reconsider. It’s perfectly fine. And I’m to say I know ver my personal interacts with Rob Reiner, that he would want us to keep pointing out the loathso atrocities that continue to ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man’s mouths. And so we’re going to do that over and over again until the rest of us wake up.

On that episode, guest Michelle Obama, this is really interesting. Listen to this. Michelle said, We’ve known them for years, many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them that night. Wow. I don’t want to speculate.

I don’t know where the meeting would have taken place, but boy, very easy to let your mind run wild with that one. Stephen Colbert did a cold open. Hi, everybody. Normally we start the show with a short cold open about a major news story of the day, but after the terrible news this past weekend, the horrifying Honokah massacre at Bondi Beach, the tragic shootings at Brown University, and the heartbreaking deaths of Rob and Michelle Reiner. All the major stories are.

Too dark for that. Other people’s tragedy is sacred ground, and we try very hard not to walk there. But we are going to do a comedy show tonight in light of and in spite of the darkness. Seth Meyer has got very serious. He did seven minutes about the Reiners, but I’ll play just a chunk here for you.

We all got the news that Rob and Michelle Reiner had been murdered in their homes. I did not know Rob Michelle very well, but I’d been lucky enough to spend time with them, and they were delightful people to be in a room with. I had Rob here on this show for the first time a couple months ago, and I could have talked to him for hours about his work, about his career. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to get invited to a hundredth birthday party for Norman Lear. Norman Lear was an incredible creator of television.

He was the mind and the heart behind some of the greatest shows ever made. One of them was All in the Family. Rob had been in that show. Rob was also at that one hundredth birthday party, and Norman was one hundred years old and he was still very with it. I was sitting next to him, and he could hold a conversation.

He was incredible to behold. At the end of the night, remember about forty or fifty people there, the host of the party said, does anybody here have anything? Thatsk Norman? And somebody said, Norman, how did your career start? How did you know you wanted to do what you did?

And you know, he was a sharp one. Hundred year old man, but he was still one hundred year old man. He was sort of struggling to come up with a way to answer that question. And we were all patiently waiting, and then Rob just yelled out from the back of the room. He said, Norman, tell them the story about how you once hit in a birthday present.

And then Norman launched into the story that he clearly told a hundred times, if not more, and it was just the most wonderful story and everyone was delighted in it. And as soon as one story ended, Rob, who’d know Norman for so long, would just yell out another greatest hit story, and Norman would tell another incredible tale and I know this sounds like a story about Norman, but it’s also a really great story about Rob. Because Rob was known. Rob had this reputation for getting the best out of people, and if you watch his films, you know that is something he had the skill with. But to see him in person and know that’s what it was like in his real life as well, it was just so truly special to see.

Late Nighter reported that Jimmy Fallon did regular monologue jokes about Trump, but stayed away from the Reiner story. In time, Late Night Ers says that Jimmy addressed it in a straightforward post monologue expression of sadness without any mention of Trump’s accompanying comments. Johnny Mack will add the opinion that is a poor decision by Jimmy Fallon. Jim Norton tweeted, just a heads up, it’s okay to be sad about Rob Reiner’s death without letting everyone know that you didn’t agree with the politics. No one gives a whot.

Continuing to focus this story through a stand up comedy lens and not getting into the gory details of it, but Conan O’Brien’s name, making the story Rob Reiner and son, Nick Reiner, were involved in a heated argument on Saturday night at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party. Sources told people Nick was quote freaking everyone out, acting crazy, kept asking people if they were famous. TMZ reported that after the arguments, Robin Michelle left the party. It is unclear if Nick left the party at that time. At the National Comedy Center in j Jamestown, New York, executive director Journey Gunderson says Rob Reiner visited in twenty twenty with his family to cut the ribbon on the Karl Reiner Keep Laughing exhibit.

Journey said it was incredible because it wasn’t a moment about him, even though his career certainly stands on its own, both within comedy and outside of it. It was about honoring his father’s legacy, and he had reverenced in humility, in this kind of steadfast intellect about anything comedic or when it came to the humanity of the art that his father had created, she recalls. In twenty twenty one, Rob Reiner appeared on The Today Show to announce the Comedy Center’s acquisition of Karl Reiner’s archive. Journey said, my first meeting with Rob was to brief him on what he would then later find in Jamestown and our work at the National Comedy Center, and he really went to bat for us as a cultural institution because he believed in the mission and he believed in the cause. Gunderson said, not a day goes by at the Center where someone isn’t laughing about Rob’s own contributions, including This is Spinal Tap.

She says it was a film that was largely improvised and collaborative, which is kind of rare. So many things are really scripted to a t. So in nineteen eighty four he comes out with his directorial debut of This Spinal Tap. Over the more than ten years since we started building the National Comedy Center, people come up to me all the time with their favorites, so their quote of all time, and it’s many times that people tell me the original Spinal Tap is their favorite comedy. Gunnerson says, it feels like they’ve lost a leader of the entertainment community.

Someone online said it best. They said, we’ve lost one of the few good men, and I thought that was well said. There was a regular episode in the feed earlier today. Back in the morning with a normal episode

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Hey, John, this is what we call a new top, where you take something and you put a new opening on it. I had already recorded today’s episode to accommodate my teaching schedule yesterday, but just there’s a few things out there that I didn’t want to let go another day. Krackt wrote a really nice piece about Rob Reiner and his influence on comedy. Excerpting from the Cracked piece, they wrote, it couldn’t have been easy to be the son of Carl Reiner, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, comedy partner to Mel Brooks, and frequent director of the early movies of Steve Martin. But somehow Rob Reiner not only met his father’s legacy, but arguably surpassed it.

It started with young Reiner being cast as Hollywood’s resident hippie in several nineteen sixty sitcoms like The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman, and The Long Haired Peace Lover Who Turns Gomer Pyle onto the Counterculture. Those roles led to Reiner beating out Richard Dreyfus and Harrison Ford for the part of Archie Bunker’s meadhead son in law Mike Stivick on all in the family. I didn’t realize those guys were up for it. Wow. Rob won two Emmy Awards for delivering liberal counterpunches to Archie’s bigoted diet tribes.

I’m shocked that that hasn’t come back in modern times. It just seems kind of perfect to have an Archie Bunker like character and somebody in the mike’stivic role. Maybe it’s too much of a shadow to cast, but we’ve brought everything else back. I was really surprised before the Biden administration, I’ll put it that way, that it didn’t come back, and I’m kind of surprised it’s not back now crack rights. For comedy fans, Reiner’s lasting contribution will be This Is Spinal Tap, the mockumentary that cut so close to the satirical bone that many early audiences thought the band was the genuine article.

The director’s underrated, deadpan performance as Marty Devergie made him the perfect straight man Foyle. Reiner’s movie wasn’t the first mock documentary, but was the most influential, inspiring the Christopher Guest films as well as a generation of street to camera sitcoms like The Office. On his website. Ricky Gervay says it was a big thing for me. When I first saw this as spinal Tap in about nineteen eighty three, I immediately watched it again.

I can’t remember a film I’ve done that with before or since. To get so deep into the genre that they were spoofing the details of human behavior, and then to do it all and someone else’s native accent just blew me away. There’s just a few things that go to comedy Heaven. While I’ve got you a few other things in the news. Amy Schumer did announce her divorce over the weekend.

Really weird statement. I’ll dive into that tomorrow. I’ve got some thoughts about it. Watch two comedy specials and Boy if you like the comedy stock Market segment on Friday, it was on point. I had warned you all that I didn’t think America was ready for Sarah Sherman’s Sarah Squirm persona and Boy.

According to the conversation in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, people were not feeling Sarah’s Squirm. I put it on and I was like, this is pretty good. What’s the problem with everybody? And twenty minutes in it just fatigued me. It’s just a lot.

It’s not bad, it’s not horrific like George Lopez’s Amazon special. It’s just a lot, like a lot coming at you and your brain has to work really hard to watch it.

And then she went into a routine that just dragged for me and I have comedy a…

The new season’s pretty good. Then on Sunday night it was footballed out and I watched Robbie Hoffman Special on Netflix. Okay, that one is fantastic. I’m not sure it ranks, but it’s in the conversation in that top tier. So my top tier if you listen to Saturday’s episode was Maren and then Kevin Hart and Matt Rife.

Robbie Special is in the conversation with Kevin Hart and Matt Rife. Now those two are probably pound funnier, but Robbie, same thing I said about Kevin Hart Versarah Silverman. Robbie is doing higher art. It might be the second best special year. At worst, it’s fourth.

If you haven’t watched Robbie Hoffman on Netflix, do it all right, So those are new thoughts, and now let’s join the originally recorded Tuesday episode Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Anthony Jill spoke with Vulture about his book club that he’s starting. Now we’ll get into that tomorrow because I like when comedians mix it up. The question here for jessel Nick was what do you think about Bill Burr’s year?

Now, that’s interesting, phrazing, because I said on Sunday’s podcast, right, I think Bill Burr had the worst year in comedy. So it’s interesting that that’s out there beyond just me saying it. Vulture said, I think he’s taking the biggest hit out of the Rion Comedy Festival thing. Jessl Nick said, Oh, I’ve been really surprised by how much he kept talking about it. I was shocked to see his name on it.

I got offered this thing way in the beginning, and I just saw the name of the rules and was like, Nope, absolutely not. I was not thinking this would be a real thing. I was thinking, this isn’t gonna happen. Why would you say yes to this?

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And then I saw the announcement realized everyone said yes to this.

Everyone seems embarrassed. But Burr is doubling and tripling down, whereas Pete Davidson was just like I said, I’d go and I saw the money and then people leave him alone. But with Burr, it’s insane to me that he would be so dumb. It’s just shocking that he didn’t know what would come for him, and then to be fighting with everyone screaming at Mark Marrin publicly, it’s just wild to me. I haven’t talked with him at all, but I just been stunned.

He’s the one name that stuns me. No one’s like, oh, Kevin Hart Wow. And it wasn’t just defensive. He came out and was like, they’re just like us. They’ve got the chimberlaind and the Applebee’s.

He was doing as much pr for them after the fact as he possibly could, which was like, what did you think the money was for? It wasn’t just for the event. Esa Neck revealed how much he was offered to do it, and it seems like this is a real number because it’s the same number Tim Dillon gave Justin Nick said it was a lot of money. I want to say it was around three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and listen, I bought a house. I could have used it.

But it doesn’t matter. If it was three hundred and fifty million dollars, I couldn’t have done it. Comedy is so capitalistic, and I think the people that have podcast just didn’t want to miss out on that money on the table, and then they didn’t realize how big a thing it was going to be. And it’s a lot of money, but not that much money, you know, not enough that you couldn’t make it up in two shows. For Burr, it seems like he’s trying to set up going back like an annuale once a year.

I performed there part of his tour. That’s repulsive, jess On, I continued. I thought that two weeks later no one would care, but when I mentioned the Rion Comedy Festival on stage, people go nuts. They love it as a punchline. They want your opinion.

I don’t I think that’s going away anytime soon. People who have no idea about the journalist killed just want to hear about this stupid cash grab. I wonder how long it lasts, and I’ll be surprised if Burr’s Neck Special isn’t addressing most of it awesome. I hope Burr Fire’s back. Johnny Mack likes when the comedians mix it up.

Sketch Fast coming up January fifteenth through February first. They’ve announced some new editions. Bob Odenkirk, We’ll join the cast of Kids in the Hall for the Brain Candy thirtieth Anniversary Live Read, a special stage performance featuring live music that celebrates the cult classic and the humor fans of love for decades. Norah Dunn and Melanie Hutzel will join Ellen Cleghorn, Rachel Dratch, Robin Duke and a guest Iyar, Lorraine Newman, Cherry O Terry and Julius Sweeney in the Women of SNL Tribute, a special program honoring the groundbreaking performers who shape the show’s comedy legacy. Some of the folks previously announced include Joel Kim Booster, Jennine Ruffalo, The Groundlings, John Hodgman, Eugene Merman, Adam Pally, Chelsea Peretti, Kristin Shawl, Jenny Slate, Robert Smigel, Paul F.

Tompkins, the UCB, and many others. Michelle Wolf was on The Good One podcast. She talked about putting clips on Instagram and said, yeah, I used to get paid thousands of dollars to do these shows. Now more people watch them and I get zero. But I understand I do it in the hopes that I gained people who are like I like her comedy.

If you like this joke, then hopefully you buy a tickety, watch a special whatever else I might be doing next. And I’d be quite honest how at this point, I’m just trying to a massive following, and sometimes I put up jokes and people like, ugh, unfollow and I’m like, good, get out, it’s not for you. I want my audience to be people that like my comedy. They don’t have to love every joke I do, but I don’t want to have to edit myself for my followers. She talked about the time she hosted the White House Correspondence Dinner and said, I think if I could do it all over again, I would have been meaner.

I would have gone harder. The jokes I said about Sarah Sanders weren’t actually mean. Everyone said I made fun of her appearance. I definitely did not. I complimented her makeup and said she told lies, which she does.

I knew the points I was making, and I was very happy to make those points. But I also feel like I was fairly restrained. Had I known what the reaction was going to be and how strongly people would have reacted, I would have gone harder. If you’re gonna get mad at me for joke, then let them actually be mean jokes. As far as roast goes, what I said about Sarah Sanders was very team well.

If continued in a normal correspondence dinner, the community makes fun of the president, and the president gets up and makes fun of everybody, including the comedian. But that didn’t happen, which is me up there making fun of Sarah Sanders, who was there in place of the president. I’d much rather tell jokes to someone’s face than behind their back. John Oliver poked fun at President Trump’s three hundred million dollar ballroom. Oliver was an event that highlights the twelve million children in the United States that grew up in poverty each year.

Oliver said at the Comic Relief Live event in New York City, it’s wild to get a news alert saying that President Donald Trump just demolished the East wing of the White House thirty years ago. Every element of that sentence would have sounded completely insane. Nobody gives a hoot about ballrooms, apart from people who like ballrooms, who were all chirke holes. He some alternate language there, Sarah Sherman. Boy, she’s out there promoting things like she’s almost like a Kevin Hart levels of like, Okay, tap the brakes, your special come out to talk to everybody.

Relax. She spoke to grub Street and said, I wake up at ten am and I forced my boyfriend to make coffee at gunpoint, and then she wrote, yeah boyfriend. Sorry, ladies, I have two cups before realizing I haven’t had any water, so I fill up a Stanley cup and drink the entire thing in one sitting. I don’t love Stanley cups, but bow and Yang gave me a wicked one he got for being in the movie. And if Bowen gives me something, it becomes one of my most prized possessions.

On this particular day, she was off from Snell and not touring, which made her happy. She explains, at work, I eat approximately eighty five pounds of chips, and die coke every five seconds. By noon, I drink approximately one hundred more cups of coffee and only realize I’ve had too much once I start feeling a crazy panic attack coming on. Not a capital P capital a panic attack, just a small, low gray Jewish one. I usually have about three to four small Jewish panic attacks a day.

I’m starving, so I eat some weird overnight oats thing. I found out a fancy supermarket called Mush that ran only has fifteen grams of protein in it. Why are all the girl he’s addicted to protein all of a sudden? Did everyone become a bodybuilder overnight? What am I missing here?

Her? Jimmy Carr revealed that his mother’s death left him with an unhealthy relationship with food and how the fear of dying young drives his obsession with dieting and weight. Jimmy Carr, who is fifty three, was very close to his mother, Nora. She passed away at age fifty seven after a battle with pancreatitis. Jimmy explained, my mother didn’t look after herself, was maybe a little bit overweight.

She was unhealthy, and then she got sick and then she died and That’s not lost on me in terms of I’m very particular about trying to keep myself trim. I don’t think I have an eating disorder, but I certainly have a strange relationship with food. Jimmy says he does not exercise as much as I could. I’d like to do more, but it’s finding the time. Jimmy’s playing an arena show in Manchester tonight.

He says he’s looking forward to spending Christmas with his family. He explains, I’ve got little kids and stuff, so it’s kind of joyful. It’s a great time of year. I’m worry that people are a bit isolated, but Christmas brings those little interactions. You go to the carol service, you go to the midnight Mass.

Doesn’t matter whether you believe or not, just nice to sing a song. A partner on Trilla till the Cut, I’m someone who wants to fix my life in five easy steps. But I also have a very loud existential voice that says there are no five steps. None of us knows what we’re doing. We’re all floundering.

Those are two opposing forces for me. A partner who’s fantastic has a new special ad on dropout. It is called Hopeful Potato. Hannibal burs he’s just back from the Riad Comedy Festival, and the city of Miami apparently has agreed to settle a lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged that one of the Miami police officers falsely arrested Hannibal Burst in twenty seventeen on a bogus disorderly intoxication charge.

Reports are the Hannibal and the city’s attorneys decided to settle the case. Back in twenty seventeen, Hannibal was walking to his hotel from a bar after a night of drinking with some friends. As the story goes, Hannibal asked the police officer if he could give the officer twenty dollars to call him an uber ride to his hotel because his phone battery was dead. The officer declined. Then something happens and the police officer orders Hannibal off the street.

Hannibal went into a bar looking for a charger. The officer followed in told him to leave for being quote too drunk, as the story goes, outside, the police officer activated his body camera, capturing the encounter that led to Hannibal’s arrest. Hannibal apparently said to the body worn camera, Hey, what’s up. It’s me, Hannibal Burris. This cop is stupid as f The police officer cautioned Buris to leave.

Camera. Footage released by the police department as Hannibal saying into the camera, hey, what’s up. YouTube the police officer says, all right, put your hands behind your back. Hannibal arrested for misdemeanor disorderly intoxication. That charge was later dropped.

Three years later, Hannibal filed a federal lawsuit against the city, the police department, and two police officers, alleging wrongful arrest. Some appeals and stuff, and now it seems that they have settled it. That’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, it’s Johnny Mack. As you’ve probably heard by now, Rob and Michelle Reiner were found dead inside their home in Brentwood, California, on Sunday afternoon around three forty pm, and had reportedly been stabbed to death. I just want to jump on the mic and talk about this. It’s a little before two pm on Monday.

I had to teach this morning, so I couldn’t put this out any earlier. But I think, like all of us except one guy that we’ll get to at the end of the podcast today, you know, everybody just stunned and really sad about the passing of Rob and Michelle Reiner. I don’t want to get too much into the details, as it is an evolving story and none of us really know what happened on Sunday. The LAPD said the deaths were being investigated as a homicide. A family spokesperson at a statement set is with profound sorrow that we announced the tragic passing of Michelle and Rob Reiner.

We are heartbroken by the sudden loss, and we asked for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time. At this hour, there are reports that Nick Reiner, the thirty two year old son of Robin Michelle Reiner, is being held on suspicion of murdering his parents. The La County Sheriff’s Department online records say Nick Reiner was arrested Sunday night at nine fifteen pm and booked on a felony charge at Monday at five four am. At a press conference on Monday, LAPD Chief Jim McDonell confirmed Nick Reiner had been booked for murder, bailt at four million dollars. McDonald added a very very tragic incident.

Charges have yet to be filed at this time. Reiner, the son of Carl Reiner, was known for his role in All of the Family, which is where people my age first knew him as Mike Stivick on that classic sitcom. Rob Reiner then went on to become one of the great directors of our time. His films include Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men. Rob Reiner’s father, Carl Reiner, created The Dick Van Dyke Show, and they moved the family out to Los Angeles in the nineteen fifties.

Rob Reiner worked in small theater and started his own improv group before landing the role on All On the Family. He was on that series for eight seasons from nineteen seventy one to nineteen seventy eight. In nineteen eighty four, he made his directorial debut with This Is Spinal Tap. From there, he directed The Sure Thing at Romantic Comedy, starring John Cusack. Then he adapted a fantasy adventure novel that he had loved, The Princess Bride.

Reiner told The New York Times in nineteen eighty seven, people take a look at Princess Bride and exclaimed, God, this is such an odd conglomeration. How could he balance all those things? But it didn’t seem strange to me because those are all parts of my personality. I’ve definitely got the satirical side to me, and there’s romantic side and this more realistic way of looking at things. In nineteen seventy one, Reiner married Penny Marshall, you may know her as Laverne from Laverne and Shirley.

After the divorce, Reiner re entered the dating world and had the idea for romantic comedy about whether men and women could Truly be Friends without sex getting in the way that eventually morphed into When Harry Met Sally, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. While making that movie, Rob Reiner was introduced to the movie’s director of photography, Michelle Singer. They were married seven months later in nineteen eighty nine. Rob Reiner said the romance led to him changing the ending of When Harry Met Sally. An earlier version ended with Harry and Sally walking away from each other.

In the nineties, Reiner directed Misery, A Few Good Men, and the American President. Rob Reiner was also politically active, a longtime activist and outspoken supporter of candidates and political causes in California. He led a nineteen ninety eight ballot initiative that increased taxes on tobacco to pay four early childhood programs and worked with unions on labor issues. He backed a legal campaign aimed at persuading the Supreme Court to establish a constitutional right of same sex marriage. In more recent years, he was a vocal critic of the Trump administration.

Reiner did continue to lightly act. He appeared in the Wolf of Wall Street, episodes of New Girl and made a cameo in the fourth season of The Bear and even more recently in Spinal tamp iiO. During the lead up to Spinal Tap two, he spoke to The New York Times about some of the things that were most important to him. The first things he mentioned were my wife and kids. That’s the most important to me.

There’s the joke. Nobody on their deathbed ever said I should have spent more time on the office. Nobody says that we’ll take a break here and we’ll come back with some celebrity reactions in no particular order. This is just how I cut and pasted them. Ben Stiller wrote on Twitter, what a huge loss.

Rob Reiner was one of my favorite directors. He made some of the most formative movies for my generation. He came out from behind a comedic shadow of the great Carl Reiner and being a TV actor to being a great director who made an incredible run of movies. Spinal Tap is one of the best comedies ever made, and the list goes on. He was a kind, caring person who was really really funny.

I don’t know him well, but was always a fan, and I feel real sadness for those who did and his family Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest put out a joint statements of variety. It’s phrased from the perspective of Jamie Lee, Christopher and I are numb and sad and shocked about the violent, tragic debts of our dear friends Robin Michelle Singer Reiner, and our only focus and care right now is for their children and immediately families, and we will offer all support possible to help them. There’ll be plenty of time later to discuss the creative lives we shared in the great political and social impact they both had on the entertainment industry, early childhood development, the fight for gay marriage, and their global care for a world in crisis. We have lost great friends. Please give us time to grieve.

Stephen King on social media, I’m horrified and saddened by the death of Robert Michell, wonderful friend, political and brilliant filmmaker, including two of mine. Rest in peace, Rob. You always stood by me. Jerry O’Connell on social media, Love you, Rob, sincerely. Jerry shared a photo of himself and Rob on the set of Stand By Me.

Norman Lear created All in the Family. A statement from the Norman Lear family says the Lear family is devastated by the deaths of Robin Michelle Reiner. Norman often referred to Rob as a son, and their close relationship was extraordinary to us in the world. Norman would have wanted to remind us that Robin Michell spent every breath trying to make this country a better place, and they pursued that through their art, their activism, their philanthropy, and their love for family and friends. Lynn Lear had remained very close with them and said the world is unmistakably darker tonight, and we are left.

Barack Obama said, Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner and his beloved wife Michelle. Rob’s achievements in film and television gave us some of our most cherished stories on screen, but beneath all the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action. Together, he and his wife live lives defined by purpose. They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired. We send our deepest condolences to all who love them.

Ron Howard said he proved to be a superlative filmmaker, a supportive colleague, and at all times a dedicated citizen. Rob will be missed on so many levels. My heart goes out to his family and his many close friends. Eric Idol on social media said he had just spoken to Rob the night before. For over an hour he was telling me about filming at Stone Edge and his thoughts for the future.

This is so awful. I shall miss him. A clever, talented, and very thoughtful man. Rob Schneider said, I am deeply saddened. Every life is sacred and given by God, our creator.

One of the most accomplished American directors who ever lived. His movies have been adored by generations. But I will remember him most for making me laugh my guts out with my dad watching the greatest American TV show of all time, All in the family. I’ll be praying for his friends and family that they may find solace in peace. Josh Gad said he was one of the greatest directors of our time.

He was a friend, He was simply a beautiful person. Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were two of the most kind and caring souls you could ever imagine he cares so much for those who had no voices. This loss is devastating. I cannot express to you how much this hurts. Love you, Robin, Michelle, thank you for all you gave us.

Roseanne Barr tweeted, I’m absolutely shocked and horrified to hear about Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. This is a travesty. Praying for swift justice, sympathies to their family and children. I’m going to loss for words, and President Trump completely unwilling to be sympathetic or show any class posted on truth social and I’m going to deliberately read this flat and not put any emphasis on any of the words. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mine crippling disease known as Trump Derangement syndrome.

Those three words in all caps sometimes referred to as TDS. That is, the President of the United States responding to two people who had their throats slashed. Michelle Reiner was sixty eight. Rob Reiner was seventy eight