Month: January 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack, and today I gotta talk about some other stuff as I’ve been talking about for the weekends of January. I just wanna just do some other things, experiment with the format a little bit. I was running the stats from twenty twenty five to see what was resonating or not. I’m always trying to grow the show and get more listeners in.

I ran this through AI, and the AI tells me based on episode performance. Conflict driven stories outperform announcements. Comedy intersecting with politics, money or elite institutions drives engagement. Comedy intersecting with politics goes to both Colbert and Kimmel. Intersecting with money is the Rio Comedy Festival, and elite institutions is things around the White House or perhaps the Kennedy Center.

The secondary episodes are comedians responding to comedians. So if I can find a story where you know, comedian calls out comedian, why those do really well and actually outperform the original event, that’s interesting and what underperforms is neutral coverage. So you guys like me like a good fight, which brings me to today’s topic of comedy neighborhoods. I use this website called refonic r E P h O N. I see.

It’s a podcast analytics platform that aggregates and models listener behavior. They pull it from the Apple podcast data. But what they try to do is visualize relationships between shows. They create this like really cool graphic where you’ll see, like if I type in daily Coming News, they’ll be lines connecting to other shows. So they kind of map it out the way they map out a star chart on your favorite science fiction show.

So here in the middle, I see Daily Comedy News, and then there are lines to different shows, so I see like a direct line. One of the closest things is the Last Laugh podcast that makes sense. Lewis Black’s Rant cast to the Netflix is a joke podcast. Then some longer line things like Conan O’Brien and Club Random and the Weekly Show even to Late Night with Seth Myers. There’s an overlap between people who like the Seth Meyers podcast and me.

Now that’s funny. If we zoom out, we go deeper into the universe. Out past the Seth Myers orbit is the Cobert orbit. If you go out far enough, you’ll go to pot Save America. That’s interesting.

But then even within these if you zoom in here, now here is what they call a neighborhood. And I have tenuous connections to some of these shows, but all living in what they call the same comedy neighborhood are Two Bears, One Cave and Bad Friends and Whiskey Ginger, Bill Burr, Tosh Are You Garbage? So like you could see all those shows kind of sharing an audience, and I only somewhat share an audience with them. So as we break this down, and again, I was looking at this because I’m always trying to grow the show, and I wanted to figure out, all right, people who like this show also like what show? Maybe I should talk about that stuff a little bit more.

And you can go to this thing. It’s rafonic dot com. Just look up comedy neighborhoods and it explains that each line represents shared subscribers. Distance matters. Shows that appear close together share a higher percentage of the same listeners.

Clusters form when many shows share overlapping audiences. So that list I just gave you of like Whiskey, Junior and Bill, They’re all sharing an audience together. And I’m a little further away from them. So what did Johnny Mack learn AI and tells me? The first clear observation is that Daily Comedy News does not cluster with stand up comedy feeds, Joe compilations, improv podcasts, or TikTok driven comedy properties.

Instead, it sits inside a dense cluster of talk based, personality led legacy comedian podcasts. The closest and most consistently linked shows include Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. The show emphasizes extended conversation, recurring co hosts, and minimal topical urgency. WTF with Mark Maren, known for introspective interviews, long run times, and a focus on creative process SmartLess I should probably talk about those guys a little bit more. While lighter in tone, it is structural, similar long conversations, familiar hosts and minimal emphasis on topical comedy.

And Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade, which interesting enough talk about rhads not taken. I was with Cadence thirteen when they did that deal. I still don’t know why they didn’t ask me to produce that. It’s fine, I’m not upset, and my mom was pretty sick at that time, so that might have been the choice that maybe my head wasn’t totally in the game. That could be the reason.

And I don’t mean that as a dick. My boss was very very very very very I can’t say very enough times, very very very kind. It gave me a lot of rope and a lot of space to just do what I needed to do at that time. So it could have been that that they didn’t want to burden me with having to produce another show. Because I do play hard, so if you give me work, I will do it so as I do out loud therapy here.

That might have been an act of kindness. But on paper, I’m the person you know, age wise or resume wise, I’m the person you probably would ask to produce such a show regardless. We share an audience to Daily Comedy News and Fly on the Wall, a nostalgia driven interview show. Now it’s interesting here is Maren’s older than me, Carvey’s older than me. How old Spade he’s older than me?

Right? Yeah, Spade’s sixty one. I’m fifty six. In case you’re curious, I think Jason Bateman is my age. Bateman is fifty six might be fifty seven by the time you hear this, depending on what I deployed it.

January fourteenth, nineteen sixty nine is his birthday. Happy Birthday, Jason Bateman. So yeah, all right, So it makes sense that people who like dudes in their fifties and sixties like other dudes in their fifties. Does that all makes sense to me? Like, I don’t expect the TikTok comedian fans to dig what I’m doing here.

As I was talking with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast recently, I was like, you know, we’re sitting here talking about a show that came out forty years ago. AI tells me, also appearing within the cluster or shows like Rob Low, Good Hang, and other personality led conversation podcast that prioritize familiarity and low conflict listening. The data indicates that listeners who subscribe to DCN are the same listeners who’s subscribe to those shows. That implies a set of preferences to this is you guys. You guys subscribe to hosts, not formats.

Thank you. I take that as high compliment. They value continuity over novelty. They tolerate long run times in conversational pacing. They’re comfortable with analysis, reflection, and repetition, which reminds me one time, Joe Quoitnaw, I’m not going to do that today.

Oh this is interesting. This cluster skews heavily towards comedian and entertainers whose primary career breakthroughs occurred before the rise of social media comedy discovery. These are not emerging voices. These are established figures using podcasts retain and monetize existing audiences. Very interesting.

I’ve got more analysis after this break. Continuing our look at the Daily Comedy News comedy neighborhood where I find myself, AYI tells me. The map shows adjacency to a second, smaller cluster focused on comedy as process rather than performance. Shows like Block That’s Neil Brennan’s Pod and Good One appear as secondary neighbors. These podcasts explicitly analyze how jokes are written, how bits evolve, and how comedians think about craft.

They’re not built for casual listening. Their presence in the Daily Comedy News neighborhood suggests that a meaningful portion of the audience is interested in how comedy works, not just consuming it. That makes sense to me. I would imagine that is one of the reasons you pick this particular program. A third nearby grouping consists of comfort oriented conversational podcasts.

Again, I will take that as a compliment. I’m just trying to keep you company here. I’m not a comedian. I’ve never performed comedy. I don’t claim to be a comedian.

I don’t claim to be funny. Hopefully I’m amusing at times. There seem to be some recurring bits that people like, but I’m obviously not here shucking jokes. The AI says these are low stake shows designed for passive listening. Their connection to DCN reinforces the idea that this audience values predictability and routine.

Finally, at the outer edges of the cluster, remnants of legacy late night television ecosystems appear. Podcasts tied to the daily show, late night hosts, and political comedy are connected, but with weaker overlap. Equally important is what does not appear near Daily Comedy News. This is interesting. There’s little to no proximity to stand up album feeds, short form comedy podcasts, or personality driven, shock or argument based shows.

Those live in separate neighborhoods with different listener behavior. The data suggests that Daily Comedy News serves an audience that uses comedy podcasts as contextual media, not entertainment first content. These listeners are tracking an industry, not chasing laughs. Some good analysis here by the AI. This data indicates that podcast subscriptions, unlike social media follows, are conservative.

Listeners are reluctant to commit time to unfamiliar voices unless trust has already been established elsewhere. In effect, discovery has moved out of podcasts. Short form video platforms now handle discovery, podcasts handle retention. That division explains why comedians who break on TikTok or Instagram often struggle to translate that audience into podcast subscriptions, while legacy comedian maintain strong audio audiences even as their television relevance declines. Another conclusion from the cluster structure is tone tolerance.

Listeners in this neighborhood tolerate introspection, repetition, and even periods of low energy Hi I’m Johnny Mac. What they do not tolerate is chaos. Podcasts built on confrontation, outrage, or aggressive performance styles are structurally absent from this cluster that makes sense. I’m not a yeller and screamer. The dominant cluster around Daily Comedy News reflects listeners who likely aged out of appointment television and high energy stand up consumption.

These listeners still on comedy, but in a format that integrates into daily life rather than demanding attention. Interesting stuff there, and that’s today’s episode of Daily Comedy News. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media are there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Frank Calando, there’s a name you don’t hear as much as you did, say twenty years ago. He was red hot for a while there when I was back at Sirious. He’s in Naples, Florida’s to Night doing a couple shows if you want to go see him.

Kalando said he heard that John Madden never liked Frank Callando’s John Madden impression. John Madden might be the only person who didn’t like it. Calando said, I finally met him at a Super Bowl in Dallas. They were at a four Seasons hotel, and Kalando said it made Madden’s grandchildren laugh, but Madden got it somewhat. Kaliando says it helps to have a deep voice to do impressions, adding that some voices take years to perfect.

Some voices are similar, like Leonardo DiCaprio and John Malkovich, or Kermit the Frog and Fozzy Bear. Calando explains, it’s just kind of manipulation of those muscles or whatever it is. In your throat and having the muscle memory to go back to it. He also studies the eyes of celebrities because the eyes tell you the way the person thinks. For example, Jeff Goldbloom has eyes to dart back and forth like a painting in a haunted house.

Callando promises clean comedy and impressions of famous people from Madden to al Pacino to Morgan Freeman. Says, I’m PG at the dirt Calliando says, I’m PG at dirtiest. There’s no f words. I’m real team. If you’re in Naples, Florides at the Off the Hook Comedy Club tonight and tomorrow speaking with impressionists, I just moved the story up.

I originally didn’t have these two period, and I’m like, oh, these go together. Hanka’saria says he is contracted to voice characters on the Simpsons for three more years. He told USA Today about the Simpsons, I’m not announcing the end of it. We might go beyond that. That’ll make season forty.

Every year, I think a new crop of tweens discover the show, and that keeps us relevant. Back in February of twenty five, Frank Azaria till the New York Times. I imagine that soon enough artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than one hundred voices I created for the characters on The Simpsons over almost four decades. It makes me sad to think about it. Oh hey, I no doubt could do that.

The conversation turned to impressionist Matt Friend, who does Howard Stern, Stanley Tucci, and Michael Boublay. Matt Friend first did an impression for Hank Azaria when Matt was fifteen. Turns out Hank Azaria was college roommates with Matt Friend’s father, Bill. That’s wild. As for that first meeting, Azaria said, I had never heard anyone at any age be more brilliant vocally than this kid.

And he asked me for advice, and I give him a lot of advice. He really did take it. And I think Matthew’s so talented he would have made it no matter what. But I think I probably said to him a lot of time in telling him what to do and what not to do. You need to have plastic vocal cords, you know how some people like cilantro and for some people taste like soap It’s kind of like that, you can either do it or you can.

With Matthew, some he got right away and some he’s developed over the years. Same for me. The Simpsons is coming up on its eight hundredth episode next weekend. They’ve announced the guest stars for that episode. They include Quinta Brunson, Kevin Bacon, and Questla, also stars of The pitt Noah Wiley, Catherine Lanassa, and Taylor Dearden will play medical personnel in the episode music by Boys Two Men, Sure Why Not?

In Irrational Treasure, the Simpsons travel to Pennsylvania, hence all the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh icons lending their voices to the episode. Boys to Men will sing a new version of the Simpsons opening theme. They’ll also provide a new version of the end to title music. Here’s the plot. Marge’s crusade to get the family dog in better shape leads to her entering Santa’s Little Helper in canine agility competitions and a trip to the National Dog Show in Philadelphia.

There, Homer suddenly find themselves and the dog mixed up in a historical conspiracy adventure worthy of a National Treasure movie. Episode eight hundred Sunday, February fifteenth. Now that’s also the day of the Daytona five hundred, which is also on Fox, and the daytone of five hundred has a tendency to get it either rain delayed or otherwise delayed. So set your DVRs carefully. I gotta scroll back up here.

I did the stories out of order that I originally planned. Hey, you know that guy, Jay Leno, Yeah, he’s the worst. I know, dostn’t know what he’s doing. Now he’s taking part in an all star comedy lineup for the In the Spirit of the Game charity Awards dinner and auction that takes place tomorrow at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. It will benefit youth baseball players.

The event is co hosted by Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis and MLB Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman. Now you’re like, Jay Leno, that guy’s the worst. Well, you know who else is doing this event? Quote unquote breakout superstar Nikki Glaser. Oh yeah, now it’s cool right now Nikki Glaser is doing it.

Now you’re like, oh, that sounds like a really important thing. It was dumb five minutes ago. In the Spirit of the Game, Awards, dinner, and auction benefits the Perfect Game Believe In Baseball Foundation, which provides financial assistance to deserving young players, helping them with costs associated with travel baseball, which could include coaching, training, or educational opportunities. There’s cocktails on a silent auction at five thirty, dinner awards, and comedy performances at seven. It’s at the Laugh Factory tomorrow.

So just another example of Jay Leno being the worst person who ever lived. Hey, Ted Lasso coming back for season four. The Gang’s all back. They convinced Jason Sadagas to do it. Hannah Waddingham is back, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift.

They’re all back. In season four, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet, coaching a second division women’s football team. The log line is throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learned to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would. Roywood Junior will host these seventy eighth Annual Writers Guild Awards at Manhattan’s Edison Ballroom on March eighth. Royce Done all right, for himself, betting on himself leaving the Daily Show, Royce said, it’s an honor to again be trusted with leading a night of celebration, as we honor one of the most important components in creating the content that gives us either an opportunity to escape or to learn more about the world we all share.

Seth Meyers asked Stephen Colbert about running for public office. In the past, I would have supported a Stephen Colbert candidacy, but now that he’s gone out of his way to ruin Star Trek as the voice of the announcements at Starfleet Academy, I do not support anyone who destroys Star Trek, Colbert said. I mean, that’s something I have discussed with my faith leader and my family. Colbert is Catholic, right, I find it atypical I’m Catholic that he keeps saying faith leader. I went to Catholic grammar school.

I went to a Jesuit high school. I never really heard the term faith leader. I just find that interesting either here nor there. I’ll ask Deacon Mike about it. Let me text him.

Hold on, all right, I have texted Deacon Mike. We’ll see if he gets back to me before we’re done recording. Today, Catherine Ryan did a one off show in Los Angeles. While she was out there, I hooked up with the La Times. They asked her about this whole Beckham thing.

You saw this The Beckham family is all fighting. We talked about this the other day. Catherine Ryan said, it’s a wonderful reprieve from fascism. Ice in Greenland. Finally just some light family draw that everyone can kick back and enjoy.

I feel like Victoria Beckham is such a treasure in the UK, and I’m quite good friends with several Spice girls. I went to Mailb’s wedding earlier last year. I’m not close with Victoria Spice, but obviously I’m a woman of that generation where I learned to shake my booty to the Spice Girls in nineteen ninety six, so I have undying loyalties to her. There’s this very interesting NEPO conversation to be had, and her son, Brooklyn, was one of the original ones. He was born at a time when in the UK we were obsessed with celebrity.

I was a posed to now when we really hadn’t figured out yet how damaging it might be. To take an infant and follow his entire life and commodify it as though he was our own. But I’m definitely enjoying all the memes and jokes. A lot of fans, myself included, have been downloading Victoria’s single on iTunes. We decided it was a national travesty that she never had a number one hit because all the other Spice girls have independently had number one singles, and just yesterday victoria single Innocent Girl got to number one on iTunes.

The Eliot Simes said. So as the controversy made Posh Spice feel more relatable, Catherine Ryan said, I think it actually has been an incredible vehicle for her. This is the most relatable she’s ever been. Vicky b drunk on the veno, being inappropriate at the wedding. We love it.

I think that the Beckhams have been almost like royalty and quite untouchable. This has made her really relatable. Having her son lash out at her like this so publicly. I know in LA you really validate everyone’s mental health. I hope this is the end of mental health.

I don’t want to talk about it anymore. And this very privileged little boy claims to have mental health problems and anxiety over his mom dancing with him at a wedding. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look at the comedy stock market where I make some recommendations about which comedian stock we should buy, which comedian stock we should sell. No sells this week, but I’ve got to buy recommendations for you.

The first one, Buy some Ron Funches. I think that Trader’s appearance did really well for him, and he picked up a lot of new fans. He’s fantastic and I see nothing but praise for him on social media. So buy some Ron Funches stock. And let’s buy some Trevor Noah stock.

Ahead of the Grammys. You know, there’s been some things in the news this week, and Trevor, I think is the right guy to say it. He commented last year about deportations, and I don’t think Trevor will pull his punch now. It’s a tough spot because it’s the Grammys and it’s not why anyone’s there. But I think Trevor is savvy enough to nail the middle there.

So let’s buy some Trevor Noah and let’s buy some Ron funches and we might have to sell stock in Deacon Mike, who has yet to text me back yet. I mean, if we were watching football, he would have gotten back to me seven times already. TV Insider asked Bert Kraser, what does the Kraser family think of how their characters are portrayed on Free Bert where it said, listen, it’s weird when someone uses your name and uses your likeness and misrepresents you to the point where it never really happened. Then you’re like, wait, I’m sure that has to be a sensitive area. At the same time, these are fictitious takes on nonfiction parts of my life.

I’m hoping everyone’s going to be on the same page and see the art for what it is. At the same time, it’s their names, likeness. If they’re not happy, I’ll deal with it. Then he discussed the opening scene minor spoiler where Rob Low appears. It’s a little set up for the show.

Rob Low asks him to just take a shirt off again. Bert addressed it’s saying, I think we wanted to show that some people only see me as the guy who takes off his shirt. We tried desperately to make sure there was a fair representation of how people see me outside looking in, and that’s why I feel the way I do on the series. That was drawn specifically from a period in time in my life where I did a corporate gig for Hedge Fund. They said, yo, put the shirt back on, take it off, and tell the machine, and I was like, Wow, this is what I am to people.

Then I think the question Rob posts is the internal question for me, which is would they show up if you didn’t take your shirt off. Once you get to that question, then what’s my worth? Was it easy to get Rob Low to do it? Oh? It was awesome.

Rob is so easy. I sent him a text and he asked if we could shoot in Santa Barbara and I was like, yep, he was in and he gave us so much extra time. He didn’t need to give us. He was just the man. TV Insider asked Bird Krascher, how was it doing scripted as opposed to what you do on stage?

But it said it’d helped that I kind of wrote the script, so I’d put it the way I’d say it anyway. There were certain scenes where it was hard. I’m obviously not an actor, but at one of the podcast companies, I work. Sometimes they would ask me to do some lights voice acting would be very generous, but they had some script and he needed somebody to voice a cop and I like struggled trying to stick to the actual printed words because I was like, I don’t speak this way, and I would always ask if I could do an alter to take and phrase things the way I phrase them. I don’t know what they actually wound up using, so respect for Bert here who said there were certain scenes where it was hard.

There was a scene where I was apologizing to the Vanderthal family. I’d just say the same sentence four different ways. That was a tough one because you can’t repeat an improv because you’re saying the same thing but differently. That was a tough one. Then some of the more emotional scenes were tough for me.

I think it was good as long as we’re moving fast. The listening was tough. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, Deacon Mike did not get back to me, So maybe sometime next week I’ll backsell this story. He’ll eventually text, come on, Deacon Mike, what are you doing all right tomorrow?

On this program? I had recorded some January weekend fillers, So if you’re a new listener, especially this time of year, the news is little lights, so sometimes I do weekend filler that is tomorrow. What I did was there’s a website where you can take a look at a particular podcast and see the audience share between that podcast and other podcasts. I ran Daily Comedy News through it, and it shows what you guys are also listening to, and I just thought it was interesting. So that’s tomorrow’s episode.

Tomorrow’s a little light.

And then on Sunday, Trevor Noah hosts a Grammys, so I’ll do a Grammys episode…

But Monday will be a normal episode with Grammy stuff up top.

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And then Monday at noon, Easter and the results of Comedy Survivor Week four.

Hopefully the sun will come out at some point it’ll be warm again. But then eat the forecast right now. Stay warm, folks, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence that the transcription algorithms love. I saw a savage social media post from guy Brain on this on threads. I don’t know what you call it is.

It’s just called a thread. I like what you just called things a tweet, but whatever it is, it’s threads, and Guy Brainer posted the only thing sincere about Whitney Cummings is at her envy of Nikki Glaser’s career. Ouch.

Speaking of Nikki Glaser, Hulu has announced a date for Nikki Glaser’s upcomi…

It is titled Nikki Glaser Good Girl. It’s Nikki Glaser’s first hour long, hilarious special shot in front of a sold out crowd at the fabulous Fox Theater in Glazer’s hometown of Saint Louis. Now the hesitation you hear in my voice. I’ve pointed this out in the past. I don’t think anyone’s Peak special has been there Hulu special yet.

I think Hulu might be where you go when you’ve just crossed the top of the mountain and now you see the downside, has Nikki Glaser peaked, Will the hilarious special be the first step on the downside of the career? I hope to be wrong, Nikki Glaser said, I couldn’t be prouder of my fifth hour special, Good Girl. I put everything I had into this hour of material. Luckily for me, so did everyone who worked on it with me. I truly saved the best four to fifth.

Nicki explains, Good Girl was developed at home for two years on the road at over two hundred and fifty shows, and it was one of the best nights of my life to get to perform this show for the very last time in my hometown of Saint Louis in front of family, friends and fans. I already missed these jokes, so I can’t wait for them to have a second life again. In April, for some reason, we had to hear from one of the suits, David Jimmy. He’s from dun and Dusted, the production company behind the special, and he made sure he was in the press release because he gave a statement said we’re thrilled to be teaming up with the incomparable Nikki Glaser again. Nicki is the funniest, kindest, warmest, smartest comedian in the business, and we’ve put together an incredible team to create the platform she deserves to allow her genius to shine.

Every frame is gorgeous, every minute is hilarious. Now, David Jammy, I’ve done and dusted. I’m sure Nikki is wonderful, but I would be shocked if she is the kindest, warmest comedian in the business, because to do that, she’d have to pass Cable Guy, and then once she passes Cable Guy, she would have to pass Jeff Foxworthy. That’s no shade at Nicky Glazer. I would just be really shocked if we hung out with Nikki Glaser and we were like, Wow, she’s even nicer than Foxworthy.

Just saying Aperghatzy has something he would like to tell us. Hi, I’m nigh Burgatsy tonight. I’m on the road, but soon I’ll be in your living rooms with my new game show. Greatest Average American premieres February twenty fifth. Watch it on ABC, stream it on Hulu.

I can’t wait. ABC’s press release calls it a hilarious new game show that celebrates the pa of being perfectly average. Each round is packed with laugh out loud challenges and trivia as contestants try to guess how everyday Americans think and live. In the end, one lucky player will be crowned the Greatest average American and get the chance to win the ultimate grand prize, the average American salary of sixty seven twenty dollars. Several comments there are the prize of just short of sixty eight thousand dollars.

ABC is gonna make money hand over fist because they’re not paying the winners anything and it’s the chance to win sixty eight gram This is just print money and have commercials. My other thought here is, you know, I love Nate’s comedy and all, but is he going to be a good game show host? Like did you just listen to that piece of audio play and you’d be like, oh wow, that sounds really compelling. Nate clearly wants to stretch his wings. I’m not sure which show wards he hosted the Emmys?

Was it the Emmys? I’m not sure he was great at that. I don’t know. I don’t know about this one. Rooting for you, buddy.

Somebody I have total confidence in is Trevor Noah. He hosts the Grammys this Sunday. I’ll do a Grammys episode on Sunday. But looking ahead, Trevor Noah is here to answer the question, what if you could not only watch the twenty twenty six World Cup this summer, but also watch other people watch the World Cup. Trevor Noah will be hosting a YouTube show.

It’s a live World Cup watch Party during some twenty five matches in the tournament. Does that mean he’s doing twenty five of these? Trevor Noah will share a couch with friends, elite footballers, and top digital creators. I love the first two, and then the top digital creators makes me go oh no, no, no, no, not for Jotti back while watching and providing commentary and conversation on the games. I guess we have to multi screen there.

But what about the delay? Who knows? We’ll find out. Trevor Noah said. The only thing that’s more exciting than watching every World Cup match is watching it with my best friends and new friends.

Spidey says, tingling on even my enemies who choose to support the wrong teams, no suits, no stiff analysis, just full on fans watching the greatest show on Earth. Ola. Hmmm, So this sounds like you’re gonna sit down and be like, Okay, Trevor Noah and a famous soccer player and then there’s gonna be like a quote unquote YouTuber or a quote unquote influence and uh yeah, I’ll just live here on Old Man Mountain. Maybe skip that. And I love Trevor Noah.

Speaking of the EMMS, which I think Nate Brigassi hosted, I don’t even remember which oney host there is the EMMS, right, They are merging two categories starting this year the TV Academy Board of Governors. Boy, they sound important. They have merged the Outstanding Talk Series category with the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category due to quote a reduced number of submissions unquote. Now, these two categories previously were one big category until twenty fifteen, when Outstanding Variety Series was turned into Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Talk Series. Now this sounds very complicated.

Nominees are judged individually on their own merits. Instead of Emmy voters selecting one nominee to win. Voters must answer for each nominee. Does this nominee merit an Emmy? Yes?

No? That’s like passing a note in fifth grade? Do you like me? Yes? No.

Any nominee who reaches a ninety percent yes receives an emmying the opportunity for multiple winners in the category. If no nominee reaches the ninety percent threshold, the nominee with the highest yes percentage receives an Emmy. That’s dumb. That’s really dumb. What are you doing?

That’s stupid. We don’t want multiple winners. That’s not how this works. I hate this. So, for example, hypothetically, the nominations are Last Week Tonight, which always wins, SNL, The Daily Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

Are You’re not just going to give a yes to all of those so they’re all gonna win? What are we even doing? This is dumb? Hate it? Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it.

Star trek Ruiner. Stephen Colbert was on with Seth Myers There’s a Combination. Colbert talked about his feelings about the upcoming end of The Late Show. He told Seth Meyers seven viewers it feels real now. It did not feel I mean, I know it was real, but now there’s four months left.

What I really love is the people I do it with, and we’ve been putting together. I mean, these are people I’ve been working with. My shoemaker Tom Purcell, I’ve known since nineteen eighty eight and so we’ve all been together forever. Cobert said, sols and you could do comedy a lot of different places. There’s no place like the Edzulivan Theater.

No offense, but it’s really the people and that’s really what I’m going to miss more than anything. And we’ll do something else together. But it feels real now. I’m not thrilled with it. People who can really answer Ron Funches.

He was on the new season of The Traders, which I had a bail on. I couldn’t deal with Michael Rappaport at all. But people seem to discover Ron Funches and really liked him. I’ve seen a lot of good things on social media about Ron Funches. People were curious about his hair.

Ron Funch is posted he learned the lesson of not going on a big show during the shedding phase of a hair transplant, Otherwise you’ll get DMS calling attention to it. We are told the hair transplant shedding phase, also known as shock loss, is a normal and temporary part of the healing procedure. When transplanted, hairs fall out as a follicle’s reset for new growth. But in the next post, showing himself with a full head of hair, he wrote, but the comeback is strong. He added the soundtrack to Willis Smith’s Whip My Hair to that post.

He also shared an overhead back view of his current head of hair, which he captioned in case you thought I was hiding the back word about sixty percent of the time frame. But then he posted a throwback shot of himself and said, but found out bald me is beautiful, So who knows? Let me bounce on over to the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group and see how the voting is going. You have until the end of the day today to vote somebody off. Seeing some new names here.

There’s some ron white votes, there’s a blany vote, seth Meyers vote. That’s a good choice. Oh wait, I’m not supposed to steer anything. Sorry, take that back edit that out. Somebody John does the editing.

Taking the Taro could be in trouble. So what do you do? You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group You’re write down a name. Sometime on Friday, I will tally up the votes, and then on Monday, I will reveal who was voted out. I’ve been thinking of you guys every morning.

Longtime listeners know that I go to the National Donut Chain and I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. It has been so cold that I’ve been doubling up every day and getting a second coffee. I’ve been getting a hot coffee, and I’m normally not a hot coffee drinker unless I’m being all fancy and I’m in Italy sitting on the square somewhere after dinner. But normally when I hit the chain, it’s iced, but it’s been so cold I can’t take the cold anymore. Anyway.

That reminded me to thank the folks who have gone to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash DAILI Comedy News and bought me a coffee. That includes deb and Andrea and Gary and Shannon and Mike and Kenny Travis and everybody who’s gone to buy me a coffee dot Com slashed Ali Comedy News and throwing some money in the tip char because lately it’s been double coffee for Johnny Mack. Another way to support the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. Open up the app.

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And apparently there are some folks who are popular on the interwebs called the Callogeris Sisters. I was unfamiliar with them, so I did at Google. They say we’re a sibling trio making fun challenge videos, adventure vlogs, pranks and social experiments. Okay, well, apparently they attended an open mic at the Hollywood Comedy Club. They were intending to perform stand up sets and film content for their YouTube channel.

The sisters are apparently openly displeased with the event. They chastised the audience for not laughing at their jokes. They argued with other comedians mid set, and criticized the organizers of the show in a video that has since amassed more than two million views. Now since then, things have gotten nasty. That wasn’t the nasty part.

It’s gotten nastier. The Hollywood Comedy Club posted an official statement on their website. The club reiterated its claims that the sisters misrepresented their experience with the club, filmed comedians without their consent, and demanded special treatment during the show, all while behaving disruptively and ruining the experience for other participants. Club owner Jang Summers, who’s a comedian, called out the behavior of the Callo Garris Sisters fans, claiming quote. Their followers responded by negative review bombing our small Asian women owned comedy club, resulting in near thousands of racist and sexist one star reviews and credible death threats.

After the event, they posted a YouTube video making false claims that they were forced to wait three hours that one male open my comedian who called their behavior out was our host, and that they were sexually harassed by our male comics. All untrue, right Summers. The comedian of color they misidentified has since been subjected to racial slurs and death threats, including being called the in word and told to slit his throat. This is all horrible, Summers said. This is not a place for entitled influencers to read cringing material off their phones.

Film comedians without consent, disrespect the art of stand up then falsely claimed sexual harassment for clout and greed because no one laughed. The situation has caused real fear for our staff and their families. We’re deeply grateful to the comedy community and patrons who understand how open MIC’s work and why respect and consent matter. Out on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla today. Josh Edelman’s The Jew Rogain Experience also out today on streaming platform Nebula.

It’s Chandler Dean’s season two of the comedy debate series Abolish Everything That’s also out today. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Callaroga Shock Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. I’ll do the political stuff in the second half Today many things can be true at once. That stuff is both super important, but I also understand what this podcast is and isn’t, and it’s not a political podcast. I always trying to do the politics through the lens of comedy.

So let’s do the fun stuff. In the first half, Shane Gillis was out snowboarding over the weekend. Like a lot of the country, we had that winter storm at Central Park in New York City got eleven inches of snow. Which I grew up in New York. I went from kindergarten through college and had one snow day my entire career in New York City.

There was one snow day. There was a blizzard I think in like nineteen eighty one or so, and I had one two hour delay in high school and that was it. So eleven inches of snow New York City is a lot. So Shane Gillis hit Central Park and was joined by snowboarding icon Shawn White, now luckily a bunch of people with cameras just happened to be there. I mean, it is New York City, but oh, total tangent.

But to the point, I’m a Youtubo fan. Do you remember at one point Bono was supposedly in a bike accident in Central Park and then he missed some shows And there was even like an Apple event that Bruce Springsteen had a fill in as the singer for you too. This is all things that happened. You could look it up, but I want to digress too long. You mean to tell me Bono had a bike accident in New York City and nobody filmed it.

Nobody saw the ambulances coming, Nobody was like, hey, that’s Bono. Zero chance that that story’s true. I don’t believe it, because even if you’re Shane Gillis and you’re snowboarding with Sewn White, people film it. As the story goes, at one point in the day, Shawn White decided to perform a daredevil stunt and involves Shane Gillis and tires co star Chris O’Connor. Shane and Chris sat in front of a freshly constructed jump Shawn White caught some are and jumped over their heads.

Now Yahoo has to calm down with this headline Olympic legend fine Shawn White jumps over too Famous comedians in Central Park, one of which was Shane Gillis, who’s kind of famous. Chris O’Connor, I don’t know about that famous. John Mulaney was on Mike Berbiglia’s podcast and got some headlines sharing that he is supporting a lot of Olivia Munn’s family members. Oliney told b Biggs she’s Vietnamese and she has a large Vietnamese family in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, of which I am one of the significant financial contributors. For the first thirty nine years of my life, I supported zero Vietnamese people, probably none, and now I have ten on the books.

With parents of some success, you don’t really do anything for them, and it brings me great joy to help out, to help and do fun things for Olivia’s family. Joked, are you thinking when you’re having a nice relationship with them that in the back of their mind they’re thinking, I wonder if he’ll send me a thousand dollars. That’s hilarious. Olney said, there’s no wonder in the back of the mind. You mean, the front of the voice, the front of the voice.

The words coming out of their mouth for bigs was like Olivia’s family says, how much money do you have? I actually like that. M’laney said, yeah, I tell them. They love it. They couldn’t like it more.

Bert Kreischer revealed that he’s taking a break from drinking, and it sounds like it’s a little serious here. He is on we might be drunk with Mark Norman and Sam Morrel. We need a drink, let’s have it, can’t I can’t drink. We’ll drink medication. Yeah, blood clots?

What Oh my legs? Yeah, all right, so we won’t drink it. No, no, no, drink you know I never cared about that. Yeah, bad, you are right? And my lungs?

Yeah yeah, blood clots guys, guys, I’m saving it for Rogan. So is that from drinking or no, it’s from passing out. On a plane. Seems people really liked Free Bert. Flicks patrols that it was the sixth most watched TV show on Netflix worldwide.

Free Bert is trending in thirty nine countries. It’s not the most watched show in any of the countries, but it ranked as high as number two in Australia, In Canada, South Africa, and the United States, it ranked number three. TV Insider asked Bert, now the show’s out, has it feel? Bert said, nerve wracking. It gets sex from higher ups at Netflix and they’re so excited.

They said it was such a great show and they’re excited for people to see it. I just wrote back, it’s very different from a stand up special. You know, with a stand up special, little form well, because you’ve done the material, you know the material works and you’ll be proud of the material forever. With a TV show, you get a four wing swing at it and then you’re in the edit bay and you hope people like it. I’m just hoping new fans find it and identify with it.

I’ve gotten a really good response from the show so far that I didn’t really expect. Gil King loved it, which I did not see coming. Drew Barrymore loved it, which I did not see coming. Do you hear Bert Kreischer going mainstream doing Drew and Gil King? It is cash in time because the edge is off.

Bert says, that’s the type of fans of trying to reach out to all right, We’re a line there Bert fans who are unfamiliar with my fans, maybe you know me as the guy who takes a shirt off. Then they say this and they can see themselves in me. Chris Spencer is getting a special on Hulu. It’s called Goat Adjacent. It’ll be on Hulu February fourth.

Tape that the Cicada in Downtown La Chris Spencer touches on everything from marriage and family to aging, race and his Jamaican roots. Jim Brewer is one of the panelists on Kill Tony this week. I saw a lot of people saying it was a pretty good episode and they were impressed by Brewer rolling with it, So I’ll be curious to check that one out. Pete Davidson is apparently filmed an ad for Sonic. It is assumed that will appear during the Super Bowl, but there are pictures of Pete clearly in front of a Sonic holding a Sonic burger or something.

Jimmy Carr has blasted Brooklyn Beckham. Have you seen this? The Beckham family is all fighting. Jimmy Carr called Brooklyn Beckham an entitled Neppo baby in case you missed it, on January nineteenth, Brooklyn Beckham posted a lengthy statement on Instagram where he announced he has no wish to reconcile with his family, including David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, and he’s standing up for himself for the first time in his life. Jimmy Carr said, he claims he’s not just a nepo baby, He’s a chef.

I think he’s so entitled. He’s mixed up being a chef with making his own dinner. He probably brushes his teeth and thinks I’m actually an e fing brilliant dentist. And guess who’s back in the news. That guy Jay Leno.

He’s the worst. Remember last year he waited on late night comedy and the guy’s always taken care of his ill wife. This guy, I can’t believe this guy. He spoke to the Springfield News son and he said, Nikki Glaser’s great because here’s the thing. Your stage act is so fil healthy, but it’s funny in comedy.

The one exception is that everything’s okay as long as it’s funny. When you see her do the Golden Globe, she really works on her set. She’ll go to five night clubs a night just to try the five minutes and keep taking words out to make it tighter and tighter. She’s a real pro, and I really admire her. She’s a professional comedian and she gages from materials to the audience.

And that’s what I try to do. Yeah, I bet you do. Jay the worst person who ever lived, went on to say, I mean, your job as a comedians tell a joke. It’s nice to be socially aware and be conscious and do all that kind of stuff. I tried to do that in my private life, but to bring it to an audience, it’s not what they’re there for.

You went to Roddy Daves Sheffield because he had jokes. He just made you laugh, just stupid, silly, you know. And that’s what we try to do here. Jay says he tries to have a joke every six to nine seconds because the audience must be engaged. And that’s the old Bob Hope rule.

If you tell six jokes a minute, one of them might land. Jay said, I don’t use obscenities in my act now because I’m offended by it. I’m just bored by it. I find it really lazy, you know.

And then when I say that, I’m the old guy complaining about the new comic.

Plus, for the comedy to really work, there’s to be a certain structure. I thought this was interesting. Jay said he rarely writes any of his jokes down because he’s dyslexic. He tries to keep all of jokes in his head, but he says he’s got to notch in his brain for things that are funny, and he tends to forget things that aren’t funny. Really interesting here, Jay Leno said, it makes a footnote in your brain and you just remember to try and say it again somewhere.

It doesn’t always work, but for the most part it does. When bad things happen to me, I seem to forget him. I know my parents passed away. I love my parents very much, but I still can’t tell you what day they did because I don’t want to remember that. With other things that get to laugh of stories that get a reaction, I remember them like they happened yesterday.

Did you vote yet for Comedy Survivor Week four? I was checking out the Facebook group. Everybody was super active, lot of votes going on. There’s some early momentum against Tignataro, but then some people are hanging back to see which way the wind is blowing and how they want to weigh in on that. I thought that was interesting to hang back until later in the week’s strategy.

Very interesting. And there’s also some people like Ron White, and I think there was a Jim Gaffigan vote. Some people who hadn’t gotten votes before are now getting votes. So Comedy Survivor is heating up. So what do you do?

You go to the face book group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. You write down the name of the person you want off. Voting ends end of day on Thursday. A couple quick notes on Late Night Colbert during his taping with Seth Myers, revealed that the series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air Thursday, May twenty. First, I know somebody who wants to travel that week.

That’s going to be a little annoying. We’ll figure it out. The rest of today’s program will be quite serious, and I personally believe if you do have a forum, even if it’s this one, you should use it as expected. Late Night did comment on the killing of Alex Pretty Jimmy Kimmel, I find very powerful here in this clip. I’m about to play.

It’s a long clip, but I think Jimmy Kimmel did a great job here. Now. I spent the weekend, like probably a lot of you did, looking at my phone and just feeling shocked and sick about what is happening in Minneapolis. These one video after another, screaming people being torn from their families, Americans, people who were born in the United States being pulled out of their cars for the crime of having an accent or whatever. Children, small children, babies being tear gassed, taken into custody, separated from their parents, just one atrocity after another being committed by this gang of poorly trained, shamefully led, mask wearing goons.

And that is what they are. They’re goons committing vile, heartless and even criminal acts. And it’s sickening to watch, and it’s frustrating to watch. It’s like we’re all being forced to play a game that has no rules. They just make up the rules as they go along.

We see these videos in which we clearly see one of our fellow Americans executed by ice, and they won’t even admit that it was a mistake. They I mean, they say that the Honda SUV Renee Good was driving, was weaponized. They say the gun Alex Pretty had a license to carry in an open carry state or right. Many of these same people screamed very loudly about when it was Kyle Rittenhouse carrying the gun, a gun that Alex Pretty did not even draw, did not touch, a gun that was taken from him by one of the agents before was shot dead by the other ones. They fired ten times on an ICU nurse.

They’re telling us, well, I was justified. You know, is that the law and order that you voted for, if you voted for this. Every day is a nightmare now. My wife and I have family in Minneapolis are afraid to take their kids to school, They’re afraid to go to work, and I can only imagine how people aren’t white feel about this. How does this end?

What’s the plan? Here? Is the plan to just keep doing this in every city that didn’t vote for Donald Trump? Does anyone on any. Side believe this is good leadership?

We keep saying we need to find subjects that we can agree on. Can we agree that peaceful protesters, including moms driving SUVs on their way back after dropping their six year old off at school, and a nurse who stepped in to protect a woman from harm don’t deserve to be shot dead in the street by the people we are paying to protect us. Can we agree on that? A really great job by Jimmy Kimmel. I was touched emotionally watching it, but Jimmy was nowhere near done.

Can we agree that. When we see a person murdered in cold blood that there should at least be an investigation of that, and that head of ironically titled Head of Homeland Security has the responsibility to get facts before telling us that what we saw we did not see. I mean, if we can’t agree on that, forget it. Then this one seems pretty open and shut to me. I think we can agree on this one.

It’s on video. Look at it, do your own research, and. Then once you do, once you form your own opinion without being told what you saw, say something. Where are the reasonable voices on the right. I mean, we don’t have to agree on everything, but come on.

I also have a long clip from Stephen Colbert, also strong. I like Kimmel’s a little better, but here’s Stephen Colbert. Only seventeen days after Renee Good was shot and killed by an Ice agent, another American citizen was shot and killed by Customs and Border Protection agents, and again Trump administration officials immediately blamed the victim, calling him a domestic terrorist, but videos appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. That analysis was from the New York Times, and they weren’t alone. They were joined by NBC News, PBS News, Reuter’s, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as your own Eyes and Ears magazine and I know that’s p on my leg weekly.

The man who was shot. And killed by CPP was named Alex Pretty, and the administration is making a big deal out of the fact that Preddi was legally carrying a handgun, but as you can see in all the videos, he never pulled out or brandished that gun. Now, I’m not going to play you that video. You’ve all seen it, and if you haven’t seen it, it’s because you didn’t want to own I don’t blame you. But here’s what the video shows.

At first, mister Pretty appears to be filming the scene with his phone and directing traffic. An agent begins shoving the demonstrators and squirts pepper spray at their faces. Preddy moves to help one of the protesters who was sprayed, as other agents approach and pull him from behind. Several agents tussled mister Pretty before bringing him to his knees. He appears to resist as the agents grab his legs, pushed down on his back, and strike him repeatedly.

An agent crouches down, reaches toward Preddy, and lifts a gun from Preddy’s back near his waistband. Another agent unholsters his gun at virtually the same moment and points it at Pretty’s back at close range. Two other agents open fire, shooting him in the back as he lays on the ground. At least ten. Shots were fired, killing him.

Masks government agents disarmed an American citizen and then executed him in the streets. That’s what it looks like, John Stewart Wade in. I went to pull the audio, and you know, John does something different in he was diving in and out of making serious points around jokes, and I just I feel like the audio would actually undercut his argument. So when John was serious, said they’re lying. We saw it, and that’s up Braisen.

They lie when they know we’ve seen the truth. Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them, and that, more than anything, explains why Alex Pretty was really a threat, because he was brandishing a weapon, a handt held aluminum ten ADP sixty fps weapon of mass illumination. Because there’s nothing more dangerous to regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth.

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And then there’s Jimmy Fallon.

Jimmy I often defend Jimmy Fallon on this show, but this, Jimmy, come on, man, all right, So I’m gonna play you a clip from Jimmy. When you start to hear the crazy applause, that’s when New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani made a walk on. I trimmed the audience reaction. It was quite lengthy. And again I try to defend Jimmy Fallon, but sometimes, dude, you gotta read the room.

I get what the Tonight show is, but this just is like, what are we doing. Here’s Jimmy Fallon’s show. Yeah, it’s freezing out there. It’s so called JD. Van shrunk to the size of Mark Rubio.

It’s it is so cold. I watched the. Millennia movie just to warm my heart. You know, it’s so cold. President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine.

I just hey, Jimmy, let me try at it’s it’s so cold in New York City. The rent froze itself. Good Night everybody, mommy, everyone, but seriously, stay inside, stay warmed, stay safe. Thanks Now, despite my commentary on what Jimmy chose to do, let me play that last piece again, because it’s a little lettermany the way they wrapped it up after the good night everybody, and the music staying just here. Listen to this little part again.

The rent froze itself. Good Night, everybody, mommy. Everyone reminds me a little of twelve thirty David Letterman. Maybe it’s just me and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.

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Caalaroga Shock Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Well, here you see, Bolts said, We’ve got a bit of a rough one. I’m coming up. I want to talk about the killing of Alex Pretty in Minnesota, and as with all news stories, I’ll apply it through a comedy lens.

I’m recording this slightly before noon on Monday. Not really seeing a lot of comedian reactions yet. I’m sure we’ll see some in late night on Monday night, but we did see Saturday Night Lives pretty much lack of reaction. The cold open was James Austin Johnson’s increasingly drifting President Trump. They need to just stop with it.

It’s not working. I’m seeing a lot of backlash on social that people are just like, can you stop with the James Austin Johnson Trump. It was the Trump Awards, and during the monologue, James Austin Johnson as Trump slightly dressed this situation with ice and no pay really close attention to this clip. This is unedited, obviously, other than the heads and tails that I clipped, but listen to the absolute silence this joke gets like, this was noticeably silent. Listen to this carefully, I thought, I.

Need more awards, and after where all my little freaks and psychos and Ice have been doing, I need more distractions. Look, everything’s gold and shiny, and what a crown we have tonight? I mean, wow, not even a laugh The reaction, and I agree, is that SNL missed the mark. On Saturday Night, Michael Jay got in one joke obviously told better by Chay, But that joke. I get that ICE agents or people allegedly, and I have a job to do, But at some point, when you’re Pepper spraying old ladies and shooting at a nurse, do you ever stop and ask yourself?

Are we dis which okay, but again kind of missed the top story. I did do a sweet to see if any comedians were really tweeting about it. I did see something from Patton Oswalt and something from Bo Johnson. Let me just jump in here. If today’s the first day you’re hearing this program, it’s usually not this serious.

Patton Oswalt on threads discussing the killing of Alex Pretty. Patton had posted he was protecting a woman they shoved to the ground. They pepper sprayed him, beat him, removed his legally permitted gun all caps from its holster, and then a nervous ice goon fumble fired a shot into his back, and the rest of them panicked and also started shooting. Then they all scurried away, one of them clapping and bouncing up and down, all on video multiple angles. Bo Johnson posted generally input politics into my jokes on here threads, but there isn’t much I feel like joking about tie.

The evil being committed by ice. Tearing families apart is evil. Murdering two innocent people is evil. If you like my comedy and your reality is dissorted, there is time for deep introspection. Well more likely if you’re just finding out a hate government sanctioned murder and don’t like that.

I hope the venue doesn’t give you a refund of my show, and you know I’ll be paying my bills with your money. The podcasters had not weighed in yet as of Monday, but as I was putting together the show, I did find a few things, and I want to be fair that And I can’t believe I’m saying this sentence out loud. These are comments after the first Ice shooting, that the shooting of Renee Nicole Good. Earlier this month, Andrew Schultz addressed that shooting on the Flagrant podcast. The article I’m cribbing from is from the twenty third.

Alex Pretty was killed on the twenty fourth, So again, I just want to put the timeline here, and again, this is a comedy show, Schultz said. I think because we don’t see it in New York like we’re somewhat detached from it. New Yorkers will not be going with this stuff at all. One of the co hosts said, oh it did it happened on Canal. Schultz said, I assume this is a joke.

No, no, no, on canal because on Canal we got to clean some stuff up as part of my research for today’s episode. An article from June twenty third, twenty twenty five from the New York Times. The New York Times actually posted an article titled Andrew Schultz podcast bro might be America’s foremost political journalist. Boy that aged well. That article, just to be clear, not by friend of the show, Jason Zennemann, New York Times.

Yikes. Dudes, Tim Dillon on episode four seventy eight, which came out two weeks ago, addressed Ice. Tim on that episode, and again everything Tim says is half sarcastic. But Tim said, these are not well trained law enforcement people in Ice right now. We’re talking people that did backyard wrestling.

The people that are in Ice right now. I mean, this is like your cousin who was in backyard wrestling. This is not the cream of the crop. You know, the guys that kidnapped Maduro, the Delta Force Navy Seals. This is not them.

This is not the Delta Force Navy Seal people. This is people on their third grade report card the teacher wrote has violent tendencies. It just is what it is. Tim did release an episode over the weekend. I listened to it Sunday morning.

I don’t believe he addressed the shooting at all, and I believe I have no facts of this, but I believe he had recorded it before any of this went down. Just as someone who listens to Tim every week, I can’t imagine that he didn’t lead off with it. Episode four p eighty was titled Jared Kushner Trump’s Obsession and Healing through Hate. The description on an Apple podcast, as Tim discusses the recent Beckham family drama and the no contact phenomenon, trump Sport of Peace, Jared Kushner’s creepy PowerPoint presentation on the New Gaza, how the world heals through hate, and a food delivery robot that was run over by train in Florida. So again I have to assume team tape that maybe Friday Night from Media Height, Media eight took a look at Joe Rogan’s podcast, which came out on Thursday, again before the killing of Alex Pride in Minnesota.

Trying to be fair here with the timeline to these comedians. Rogan’s guest comedian Asan Ahmad. Rogan was discussing the shooting and killing of Renee Good. Rogan said, imagine one of these people, like do they’re asking me to come like this awesome? Now I’m in America, I’m gonna get a good job, I’m going to be able to support my family, and then all of a sudden, you have these effing dudes in bulletproof vests looking for you on the streets.

Like I thought you said it was okay. I thought the Red Cross gave me a map. I was like, you gave me the fing cell phone and now you’re hunting me. But now imagine the ICE agent’s okay. Rogan said it was like a recent clip of mine that got highlighted when his criticizing Ice.

One of the things you don’t think about when you’re into this is just like regular police interactions. The one that you see online are the horrible ones. You think all cops are horrible. What you miss is the millions of interactions of people with cops like you doing today. Sir, can I see paperwork?

Sure? Here it is? You in a hurry, I’m late for work. You know, all right? Man to slow down.

Rogan said that happens too. Like there’s nice interactions with cops. There are people that save people from bad guys. It happens all the time. There’s people that are thankful that they call the police and they stopped the burglar who was breaking into their fings mom’s house or whatever it is.

There’s so many more of those. But you’re not seeing those videos with the Ice thing. What you’re only seeing and what you’re hearing about American citizens that have been arrested, the lady that got shot. You’re seeing all these negatives. What you’re not hearing about is a number of violent criminals that they’ve caught, and it’s a lot.

It’s in the thousands. On a previous episode with Rand Paul, Joe Rogan said, you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching up people, many of which turn out to be US citizens that just don’t have their papers on them. We’re really going to be the Gestapo. Where’s your papers? Is that what we’ve come to.

Whitney Cummings was hitting my social media feed a lot over the weekend. People are upset with Whitney, who made some comments about Miss Rachel. Miss Rachel, who creates educational videos for toddlers and infants, had apologized for liking an anti Semitic Instagram comment last week. Screenshots had circulated online showing Miss Rachel’s Instagram account liking a comment that read free America from the Jews. The comment appeared under a now deleted post that read free Palestine, Free Sidan, free Congo, free Iran.

Miss Rachel posted a screenshot of a follower alerting her that yo he had liked an anti Semitic comment. Miss Rachel replied, deleted, how horrible oh wait, let me check I did delete one like that. Yeah, I believe I deleted that earlier when I saw it. I hate anti Semitism. She said she had meant to delete the comment, but instead tap the light button and explain people are allowed to make mistakes.

I’m super sorry for any confusing it caused. I delete anti semitism anytime I see it. I’m against all forms of hate, including anti Semitism against the Jewish people. Back to Whitney Cummings, Whitney had posted miss Rachel was always off base, dude, Why does she talk to kids like their deaf morons? And if you need to dress like a toddler to trick them into liking you, that’s information to give a mental health professional.

I believe Whitney eventually deleted that comment as she got dragged in the comments reading directly from Whitney cummings threads account. I did not know Miss Rachel was specifically for neuro divergent children. Some people say it’s actually not slash. People are even fighting about that. The show overwhelms my child maybe when he’s older.

A lot of adults talk super intensely to kids and it stresses them out. I thought it was just that intense baby talk thing. I know how important a kid’s hero is to a parent, and I’m a new mom and should have been more careful. Whitney, in a separate thread at Post wrote, I’m new to being a mom and a comedian. I’ll probably make more mistakes.

I’m not surprised when Reddit bros attack me anymore. But the mom’s face is a curveball. I’ll be more careful and get thicker skin because i know how exhausted moms are and how precious your kid’s heroes are. If someone made fun of Thomas the Train, I’m sure i’d be protective. Maybe when he’s older, Miss Rachel will be our thing, but right now it’s overwhelming thanks to those who aren’t looking to intentionally understand.

Someone gave Whitney a hard time about deleting her comment. Whitney wrote, not sure why it’s dirty to delete it again. If this is your first time listening, the show’s not normally this series, regular listeners will notice I’m not even using my regular delivery today. Stephen Colbert is scheduled to You’re on seth Myers tonight. I’m sure they’ll find something to talk about During Thursday Nights Jimmy Kimmel monologue, someone yelled out Jimmy for President.

Jimmy Kimmel crossed himself and said, let’s pray we can do better than that. Netflix has released the first images from the Fifth Wheel. This is a female Deriven comedy directed by Eva Longoria. It stars Kim Kardashian and Nikki Glaser. I’m wondering if this is going to be Nikki Glaser’s flew too close to the Sun moment, like if I just tell you off the bat.

It stars Kim Kardashian and Nikki Glaser. Do you think that’s gonna be good? Are you thinking, like, oh, Netflix, Yeah, no, right, I know you got a floor while it’s hot, but I’m not sure this is the right move for Nikki Glaser. The Fifth Wheel follows a group of high school best friends as they attempt to reconnect during a weekend haunt to Las Vegas. But when a hot outsider, the Fifth Wheel played by Kim Kardashian, crashes their weekend, they’re forced to face their messy lives, bad decisions, and unraveling friendships.

I know about that. Are you excited for the Super Bowl I’m really not. I really like football, but just this matchup, I’m like, you know, Okay, I mean it’s a super Bowl. I’ll make some wings and I’ll watch it, but I’m not like, yeah, I can’t wait for the super Bowl. One of the events a Super Bowl Weekend Dave Chappelle headlining and already sold out show at the Chase Center.

Circling back to SNL, Colin Jost will return to host the second season of Pop Culture Jeopardy. The show has moved from Amazon to Netflix, Colin Jost staying on board. Interesting note from Late Night about SNL. The other night, Marcelo Hernandez appeared on Weekend Update. He had some commentary about the evolution of Generation Z slang in the aired version.

Marcelo explained, basically, black people start saying something, young people think it’s cool, so they start saying it. Then white people say it. Then once Elon Musk says it, it’s over. According to people in dress rehearsal, the tag was not Elon Musk. The tag was once Jimmy Fallon says it it’s over.

That got laughs on the room. It’s unclear why that was changed before air. Voting is now open for Comedy Survivor Week four. What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You will find a cartoon of me extinguishing the torch of Joe Coy In there host a name of who you want voted off this week Comedy Survivor Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

A couple of people hit me on the side saying the mel Brooks documentary is really good. I started to watch it Friday night, and part of it I was like four hours. Sometimes I just don’t like homework. You know what I did most of the weekend when I wasn’t watching football. James Bond movies on Netflix, and again I have most of them on either DVD or digital, but I’d have to go all the way upstairs to where the Scrubs DVDs live that get us through fascism.

So next to the Scrubs DVDs are the James Bond DVDs, but again you have to go up and get them. There’s just something really nice about hitting play and they’re right there on Netflix, and they’ve been on very streaming services. There’s just something about them being on Netflix, and I’m like, oh, I’m gonna watch these. So I’m all the way through Goldfinger now, so that’s the first three. But anyway, the mel Brooks documentary people are saying it’s really really good, but I didn’t want to commit to four hours of homework.

And when they were showing the talking heads that were gonna appear, they showed Amy Schumer and it was like Amy Schumer and it just didn’t interest me. I say, I don’t want to hear Amy Schumer talking about Molbrooks at all. But maybe I’ll circle back to that when I get some time. I got like twenty three more James Bond movies to watch. You know what I do with the Bond movies.

I treat them like TV shows. I hit play because I’ve seen them all and I can probably recite half of them. I hit play, and when I don’t feel like watching it anymore, I just hit stop, so I don’t go like, Okay, I’m watching two hours and ten minutes of James Bond nowt I just watched James Bond till I’ve had my Phillip James Bond.

And then I hit stop and I go back in and if the movie ends, I just start the …

Add if you would like this program without commercial interruption, what you do is you go to Apple Podcast. There is a banner there it says uninterrupted listening. You click that and then your destination will eventually be for five bucks a month, you’ll get this show without commercial interruption. You got other stuff on the channel without commercial interruption, including five good News Stories which I also host, Palace Intrigue about the Royals, whole bunch of stuff, the five daily trivia questions. You get them all without commercial interruption.

And it comes with the thirty day free trials if you just want to test drive that, or you’re just like, all right, no commercials for thirty days that I’m not giving John five bucks, so that’s cool. I understand I’m cheap, but why not do the thirty day free triut Now, if you were to do that and get all the other shows, and you were like, oh, I’ll check out this palace intrigue about the Royal family. You know, what do they talk about there? You would get stories like this. A viral TikTok rumor claiming that Megan Markle reacted awkwardly to an introduction by Jimmy Kimmel is drawing attention online.

However, there’s no evidence that it even happened. Oh, I love a good Megan Markle story. Somebody posted on TikTok alleging that Megan was on Kimmel and bristled at what she felt was an underwhelming introduction by Jimmy Kimmel. The moment is described as tense, with nervous laughter from the audience. However, there’s no video from the broadcast, no transcript, no recording to support the claim.

There’s no public ren if Megan Markle ever appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live. I’ve been writing the Royals podcast for several years, including before they moved to California, and believe me, if she were on Kimmel, I would have covered it. Episode listings, promotional schedules, archived interviews do not show a segment with Jimmy Kimmel on Megan Markle, so it seems like it might be a hoax. On Netflix Today, Mike Apps his new special Delusional. It’s his fifth foreign Netflix.

In it, he discusses how a little delusion and a lot of hustle has made him a star. And that is your comedy news for Today again if you’re a new listener, I promise tomorrow would be more. Actually I don’t know because Late night’s going to weigh on on this Minnesota thing, so maybe not. But welcome aboard, see all tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media, outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor and I’m Johnny Mack. Welcome to the Week three Comedy Survivor Elimination Show. Every week you go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, You write down one name of one comedian and they are eliminated from the game. As we entered Week three, still in the game, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, OT’s go At, Katska, Sebastian Manascalco, Tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Krascher.

I’ll now tally the votes. Cheryl votes for Joe Coy and votes for Leslie Jones. Nicole votes for Joe Cooy. That’s two votes for Joe Cooy. Heather votes for Joe Cooy, three votes for Joe Cooy, Mary votes for Leslie Jones.

That’s three votes Joe Cooy, two votes Leslie Jones. Mike votes for Tignataro, Rob votes for Jay Leno, Lee votes for Tignataro three votes, Joe Coy two votes Tignataro two votes, Leslie Jones. Dylan votes for Tignataro three votes Tignataro three votes, Joe Cooy two votes Leslie Jones, Dan votes for Joe Coy. That’s four votes for Joe Cooy. Marty votes for Joe Koy.

That’s five votes for Joe Cooy. Gary votes for Joe Cooy. That’s six votes for Joe Koy. Andrea votes for Tignataro, Von votes for Otsco and Katska, and Aaron has voted for Joe Coy. The audience has made it clear.

The Swifties have spoken. Joe Coy has been eliminated. We’ll take the break and we’ll come back and talk about this not so shocking results. Well, obviously, the audience finds Joe Cooy as funny as Taylor Swift does. Now, you may remember one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift, and you know I’m gonna play it.

I’m even gonna play the long version. 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 camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to Sorry about that.

This was not close. Joe Coy runaway first blowout of the game. Seems like we had some block voters too, The AI points out Leslie Jones quietly endangered two votes again, Jay Leno hanging around getting deep into the game. The AI says the game has now clearly moved into coalition voting. Voters have learned you don’t need everyone, you just need enough people with the same reason and momentum beats fairness.

Next week will not be about legacy or talent. It will be about who feels easiest to agree on AI analysis who’s in trouble next week. They think tig Nataro three votes is real momentum. Once someone becomes the backup target, they often become the main one. Leslie Jones in trouble, lurking threat Jay Leno.

The AI says he’s being safe for a big vote, but big votes eventually happened, and the dark horse AT’s go at Conska still looking safe to the AI. Jim Gaffigan, John Malaney, Nikki Glaser, Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, Ron White, and Sebastian Maniscalco no votes and no discussion about any of them. So what you’re going to do to vote this week? As we had in a week four? You go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

There’ll be a cartoon image of me extinguishing Joe Torch, and you will vote for one of the players still in the game. They are Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Osco, At Kotzka, Sebastian Manascalco, Tig Nataro Saras Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Krascher. I think this is going to get fun in a couple weeks. There’s a couple people that I think will go soon. But then when they’re all gone, it’s gonna be the oh, which of these people that have no votes so far in the game, which one of those people go?

So remember simple rules, Write down one name, Please be clear, like even make it easy on me, and go like, my vote is Joe Schmo. I do have the AI check my work. Remember you’re voting someone off, So saying I’m a big fan of Joe Schmo that’s not a vote off, one vote per person. Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. Go vote back in the morning with an normal episode.

This is fun.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence Spotify seems to like a lot. Ah, is it cold enough for you? I hope you and your family are safe, as depending where you live, you got between two and two hundred million inches of snow, So I hope you guys are okay.

Let me start off with Matt Baloney on threads Now. If you don’t know Matt, he’s an entertainment reporter. He’s got a podcast and he writes for Puck. He posted Pete Davidson’s New Quote Unquote Video podcast. So this is one of my pet peeves.

If you follow my substack and it’s free and there’s a link in the show notes, and if you follow me on LinkedIn, you know that I can’t stand things being called podcasts that are not podcasts. And there’s no definition at all in which Pete Davidson’s TV show is a podcast. It’s just not. It’s a Netflix show. Matt Boloney writes on social media.

Pete Davidson’s New Quote Unquote Video podcast will air only on Netflix. Isn’t that just a non union talk show? SAG After and Netflix continue to have discussions regarding the Pete Davidson project. A union rep tells me, very interesting. Yeah, I’ve seen people in the industry talk about that at some point something’s not a podcast, and the tweet speaks for itself.

I’m not getting into a labor dispute, but very very interesting. So we’ll see what happens with this Pete Davidson thing. Did you watch Free Bert? I made it nine minutes in. I’m an admitted comedy snob.

It was tolerable.

And then they did the scene with the fake podcast, which was just too cartoon…

It might be fine, it’s not for me. Bert got a wax drop from The Hollywood Reporter last week. They talked about his gimmick of taking off his shirt and that it was fun when he was the only guy doing it. The Holly Reporter said, then along came Jason Kelcey and entire stadiums full of college kids. Bert says, with a whiff of frustration in his voice.

Now it’s like everyone shirtless, Plus, Krayscher found he could barely decipher his own past specials, as they all featured him in a uniform of jeens and nothing else. Bert says, so I thought, what if I wore a full suit in the next special? Wife lee Anne pushed him a reconsider and said, only do it if you want to. But Krasher didn’t really want to. So he’s going to continue just as he has with no shirt.

Good question by the Hollow Reporter. They said, when we spoke in twenty twenty three, you thought Hollywood didn’t know what to do with you. How about now? Burt says, you know what’s so funny is that I feel like they knew what to do with me more then than they do now. Hollywood’s in a weird place.

Back then, did green light a thirty five million dollar movie for a guy like me? Now that’ll never happen. Now they’re trying to figure out what they’re doing with movies lately. The Brice point is three million to seven million, which is something affordable to go to streamers. But I remember having a conversation with one of the head people at Netflix when my movie was coming out.

That movie in the machine. We were in a suite at a Lakers game and I was like, I just hope my movie does well in theaters. And this person who remain nameless, said, I hope it doesn’t burtsus. Why unnamed person says, because if it doesn’t do well in theaters, it’s gonna murder on Netflix. That’s what happened.

I was like, GD, they know the effing algorithm. But people in Hollywood are scrambling to try to figure out what’s happening next. I mean, I’ve had so many meetings about so many different avenues of revenue in this business. People bring things to me that are like start your own website, get on a streaming platform, sign an overall deal. I mean, if I had someone offered me one hundred million dollars to make ten movies like Adam Sandler meets ab and Costello.

Hey, I stumbled into that last week. I hadn’t even pre read this. I think that was Thursday’s episode. Go back and listen to that one, back to creature. If someone offered me a hundred million dollars like Adam Sandler meets Abin Costello, but it’s always a bird adventure, So no, I don’t think Hollywood knows to do with me, and what sucks is they have to figure it out before they do.

Holly was out at the screening of mel Brooks The ninety nine year Old Man, the new Jed Appatow documentary. Mel Brooks was there himself. He said, I’m very happy about anything that has to do with me that’s positive. The ninety nine year Old Man chronicles mel Brooks’s romance with his second wife, Anne Bancroft, and his bromance with Carl Reiner, who passed away in twenty twenty. It also features interviews with comedians including Jerry Seinfeld, Ben Stiller, Dave Chappelle, and the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler.

Star Trek Ruiner. Patton on Oswalt was there and said he wasn’t afraid to show his influences, which is really gutsy. Clean that up a little. Jud’s busy, not only the mel Brooks dock. He’s making a documentary about Maria Bamford, Paralyzed by Hope, The Maria Bamford Story, premiering its Sun Dance Apatel’s premise.

He’s perplexed and fascinated by Bamford, who exists in a strange category. She’s won awards and gained quite a bit of mainstream visibility and success, but her brand of humor is something of an acquired taste, built as it is, on confessional discomfort. I’ve talked about this in the past. There are people who love Maria Bamford and there are people that are like, yeah, she’s fine. I’m in the latter camp.

In the Bamford film, Conan O’Brien says, ninety nine percent of comedians will tell you they have anxieties, and you understand it’s a stick. Marie is like a lop whose shell has been removed. Jimmy Fallon got quite the puff piece in the Hollywood Reporter. They spoke with Chris Miller, the showrunner of The Tonight Show, and the premise here was how cool the Tonight Show is with the kids today and how they’re staying relevant. Chris Miller said, Jimmy will text all day long he saw this on TikTok, or this was fun on Instagram, or what if we did that.

He’s in it immensely. Head of Digital Nick Dyer added, it’s very much like a back and forth conversation we’re having when we have these guests on the show to make sure that we’re putting together something that doesn’t just feel like we’re hopping on a trend. Got news for you. Head of Digital Nick Dyer Miller says, the Tonight Show is going to be on for seventy five years, a couple of years from now. The Tonight Show debuted in nineteen fifty four.

We’ll add seventy fives. That gets us twenty twenty nine if I did the math right, Miller said, I always think how many things have happened in the industry over there seventy five years where people are like, what are we going to do now? This is a moment. Let’s not overcorrect. Let’s not overreact to anything all of a sudden.

You’ve got cable television, You’ve got DVR, then the Internet. I always sort of thinking it’s core. Wherever you’re consuming the Tonight Show, it’s going to be the familiar Tonight Show. It shouldn’t ever feel that different or be that different. We want a fun monologue, we want comedy.

We’ll maybe do some act to comedy with a guest, maybe with audience members. We want great interviews where we get the talent to do something they haven’t seen before music that you’re hearing about at a digital Nick Dyer says, I think from a traditional long form, lean back viewing standpoint, YouTube is still that platform where you can consume the full extended interviews that we have because Jimmy will talk to guests for much longer than what we can fit into our linear broadcast. Dyer says, so that’s a great thing for people to check out after the show from more back and forth with Jimmy and guests. How you try to look at something like TikTok and Instagram and that’s where you tendesseee the Lions share those clips that grow viral, which’s these short moments that are clipped out to go out on different social platforms. USA Today profiled task Master.

Task Master Greg Davies told USA Today, we have no idea, Rather we have a developing idea of how popular the show is. They’re doing live shows in the US. Last year, when we came and did a show in New York, we were blown away by people stopping us in the streets. We had no idea what to expect, and the same is true of this to or. We sort of had an idea of that the show was popular on YouTube, but we’ve been amazed by the enthusiasm.

Jason Minzukas was on season nineteen. Comel Nanjianni will be on season twenty one. Some of the wish list of other American comedians includes Sarah Silverman, Mike Birbiglia, Ali Wong, and Conan O’Bryant, but Davey says they’re down to have anybody who understands the show. I think the show would be really fun with someone like Conan, who’s used to being the funniest person in the room and the person who’s pulling all the levers and making the things happen. It’d be fun to see him exist in our controlled world.

On Taskmaster, Davies acts as a dictator, judging comedians for their performances in five episode takes. An episode like eat as much watermelon as you can in one minute.

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Meanwhile, while you’re watching TVD, he watched Jeopardy.

It was the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions Wkamal Bell was one of the champions in the semifinals. Spoilers, I don’t know, did you tape last week’s Jeopardy and you’re waiting five days to watch it spoilers anyway. W cameal Bell played against Alex from Brooklyn and Ashley from Texas. Alex took the early lead. He found the daily double wagreed forty six hundred.

The clue this Ontario city with a stormy name uses the slogan superior by nature. Alex answered, what is Toronto? Ken Jennings said, sorry, no thunder Bay on Lake Superior. That dropped Alex down to zero dollars. He was tied with W.

Kmal Bell by the first commercial break anyway. Then they played the second round. W camal Bell in third place with twenty six hundred dollars. The category for Final Jeopardy eighteenth century arts. The clue a word book from the London premiere of this work, began with the quote majora cannabis let us sing of greater things.

Bell’s question was what is three people who have nev He wagered zero dollars. He finished with twenty six hundred dollars. He did not win the game. Coming up at noon Eastern today, the results of Comedy Survivor Week three. Now, I haven’t actually produced that yet.

I mean, by the time you’re hearing this, I will have produced it, but as I record on Friday, I haven’t done it yet because I was going to do it Friday morning and then Uncle Floyd passed away, and I did the tribute episode and didn’t get to Comedy Survivor yet as I speak this sentence. But it’ll be out today at noon Eastern. If you’re enjoying Daily Comedy News, you will love the ed free version, no commercials. What I got to do, John, That sounds great. Well, you open up Apple Podcasts.

There’s a banner there it says uninterrupted listening. You click that, you do whatever it tells you to do, and you get a thirty day free trial of Plus and with Plus no commercials. Then after thirty days it’s four ninety nine a month. That’s a great way to support the show. Appreciate that.

Kyle Gass has confirmed to Rolling Stone that Tenacious D will return. He says, we’re going to come back. It’s going to be bigger than Oasis. Now. You may remember back in July of twenty twenty four, Gas was on stage and he made a joke that the next would be assassin of a very famous person.

Would not miss Gas said it was terrible judgment. Obviously, I felt terrible ever since, because it’s such a responsibility not to screw up like that, wound up getting canceled. Jack Black distanced himself. Gas said, we had to take a break, and I get it. Jack has this magnificent career.

I can’t even count the franchises now, so as hard as it was, I just had to take the long ride home. All right? When will the reunion happen? Gas says, we will serve no d wine before it’s d time.

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Meanwhile, the Kyle Gas Band has released their new album Live in Palmdale on…

The KGB’s album is twelve tracks recorded their live shows out on vinyl and digital. Two Serious Stories to bring Us Home from the New York Post sourcing TMZ, I believe newly surfaced video allegedly captured comedian Corey Holcomb punching a female comic in the face outside of Hollywood Club. Reports say that several bystanders rushed to Corey Holcomb and tackled him to the ground. The woman filed a battery report with the LAPD. Authorities never arrested Corey Holcomb.

According to TMZ, law enforcement sources say the confrontation stemmed from a month long dist between the two comedians.

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Meanwhile, Russell Brand not sure he’s taking this too seriously.

After being hit with two additional counts of rape and sexual assault on top of five similar charges he previously pleaded not guilty to, Russell Brand said, never mind anything else. This court sketch is an injustice. Apparently he doesn’t like the way he was drawn. That’s your comedy news for today. Back at noon Eastern with comedy Survivors.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny back with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. You know today you’re getting somewhere between two and four thousand inches of snow. Hope everybody’s doing okay out there. I’ve got some industry stuff I want to do in the second half.

But let me catch up a little more with Jerry Seinfeld’s conversation with Nate Bergetzy and Pollstar. Jerry was curious, and I’ll use Jerry’s phrasing here, what are you playing with lately? It’s new and fun? Nate said, I have this ai chunk that I’m playing with. I got one thing I want to try.

My wife always puts the blow dryer in the sink. It’s like if I grabbed a toaster and said in an empty bathtub. It’s just waiting to happen. It was only that idea and I never had a place to put it. And I have this marriage counseling chunk.

Now. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m excited about it because I think I can put that in the show. And that’s an idea had maybe twelve years ago. When comics say, like, when do you stop trying a joke? I’m of the belief I never give up on a joke.

I’ll give up on it if it doesn’t work. But if I know something’s there, I always think I’m not a good enough comic to figure it out now, But it sits in your head and you can have something in like twelve years Jerry said, someone was asking me about this, and I said, I have this joke about Frankenstein’s sports jacket. Where did he think he was going that he would wear a sports jacket? It’s from thirty years ago, from nineteen ninety five. Somebody said, how do you remember it?

I go, we’re hoarders. We don’t throw things away. Why would I throw out anything that might have some value? Who knows? When Nate said, with younger comics, I wish they knew not to just put anything out on social media and weren’t like, oh yeah, that could be a funny tweet, and you’re like, you know, what would be better is just let it sit for twenty or thirty years and then find a place for it later that elevates it into some big memorable thing.

Can’t you do both, Like if we had Twitter thirty years ago, you think people would be like, I don’t know. Jerry Seinfeld did that Frankenstein thing is a tweet a two forty two Wood Thursday, October thirteenth, I don’t know. Not a comedian, Nate said, your act is everything. My act is the only reason I can do anything I want to do, and I try to protect it. Good follow up by Jerry.

What do you think about comedians feeling like they’re ready to do a special? This is the thing I’ve been talking to somebody about Netflix about. It seems to be a little bit of an issue of undercook specials that could have used a little more time. Wow. Imagine being the guy at Netflix who’s probably Robbie Prau and Jerry Seinfeld is pointing out your specials are undercooked.

That’s really interesting, Jerry says, But of course the platform was the content. The comedian wants to check. What’s your thinking? Nate said, they’re going too early. That’s where social media can work.

Well. We had coming up with Comedy Central, which is very important. You went through Premium Blend Live at Gotham, where you did eight minute sets a couple years later you got a Comedy Central half hour and then an hour. Hopefully by then you could start touring. The Netflix came and all this stuff before I tape this special of done one hundred and fifty shows.

That’s not even including the clubs I went to before heading out, So one hundred and fifty to two hundred hours before I tape it, I get to poll every audience in America. I might be opening with something at the beginning I end up putting towards the end that fits better. You need to take your time to have it flow. I don’t want to feel like I’m cramming something in. It’s really good stuff for Nate, then I’ll move on.

Nate said, comedy clubs are like, well, how many followers do you have? And they’re like, I got to get follows if I want to get on stage at a comedy club. It’s not a bad route. You’re trying to create so much content, But I don’t think people will realize how hard it is to create an hour’s worth of material. Every time you’re done, you think I’ll never do that again.

You feel like you just got done with a special and you’re like, I don’t know what to do nothing’s funny. I’m terrible, and you’re making comics build online audience or they do crowd work. If you want to be a Matt Rife kin of phenom, you’re not. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t work, but it doesn’t mean the likelihood of you getting to be Eddie Murphy doing two specials out of the gate. That’s one and a million.

It’s already one in a million to make it as a stand up comedian. Good stuff. You’ll find this in Pollstar HBO’s documentary mel Brooks The ninety nine year Old Man Is Out. Dave Chappelle recalls spending time with mel Brooks, who directed Chappelle and Robin Hood men in tights. Chapelle tells a story sometimes take me to lunch and his old friend Carl Reiner was directing a movie on the next sound stage, and then at some point the two of them started doing the two thousand year old Man, the greatest comedy routine but two of the greatest comics, and me is the audience.

I’ll never forget it. Then I met his wife. She comes and says, o’mel says so many wonderful things about you, Dave says, She goes on and on and gush. It’s about how much he likes me. Chappelle’s says, I go, oh, you’re not trying to seduce me, are you, Missus Robinson silence.

Chapelle says he hadn’t thought that. She’s heard that joke a million times. Nothing. Silence. Chapelle says, all you could hear was Dom Deluize’s labored breath.

It was really terrible and hilarious. That’s great. Dusty Slay talk to the Chronicle about his look. Dusty talked about the trifecta of an old school trucker hat sitting on top of straightened long hair and the glasses. Dusty Slay told the Chronicle that’s exactly what I want.

I found the glasses at a thrift shop in Toronto and had real enses put in them. So yeah, after I found those glasses, I thought, these are ridiculous enough but also cool enough that I’m gonna rock these. As for the hats, in Nashville, there are a lot of guys that wear trucker hats with long hair, but it’s not the right kind. People give me hats all the time and appreciate it, but I’m like this hat’s too cool for what I’m going for. You gotta find legitimately old hats for the eighties or nineties and try to step away from the foam.

It’s the high ride trucker hat. That’s what I’m into. That’s where it’s just a ridiculous look. Jerry Seinfeld once described to Kathleen Madigan as small, practical, and fun. She makes a lot of sense, but not too much sense, just enough to be hilarious.

Psychology Today caught up with Kathleen. She told her origin story before stand up. She worked in restaurants through college, and her friend Mike and her got off. They went to the nearby comedy club. It was open mic night.

Kathleen said, we said something funnier yesterday. Let’s try it. We were goofing off. Then a well known local TV and radio guy came over and said, you could be really good at this, and I thought I could do it for extra money. I still hadn’t found a real job after graduating.

I was writing freelance stories for seventy five bucks apiece in Saint Louis. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t enjoy the amount of work it took to get that seventy five bucks. I could do stand up for extra money. Psychology Today was curious if Kathleen’s parents mind her stories about them. She said, Amazon was concerned about my parents for a recent show.

Apparently, if I didn’t get along with them, my parents could sue Amazon. Amazon said, we get them to DocuSign release forms. And I said, I’m going to give you their phone number. You can call them. You let me know if they pick up.

Usually they don’t. And if you want to call their cell phones, they’re usually in the glove compartment of the car, not charged. Do you get a hold of them and then send them the DOCU sign. Then you get a call back about how their printer doesn’t work.

And then I won’t have anything to do with what you’re talking about, but they…

Finally, Amazon dropped it. My dad said, oh, I never thought we could sue you. That’s a good idea, And Kathleen says, I guess you could. I could pay you. Then maybe we could figure out a text loophole.

Tomorrow’s a Monday normal episode of three oh five am Eastern, and then if Vidiot Johnny Mack loads everything properly. This week on like last Monday, at noon Eastern, you’ll get the results of week three of Comedy Survivor and we’ll head onto week four. So normal at three am and Survivor at noon Eastern on Monday. A couple industry things I wanted to talk about from the Hollywood Reporter. They caught up with UTA London’s global comedy touring guru, Bjorn Wentland.

So this is one of those industry pieces that the Hollywood Reporter likes to do, but I thought it was pretty interesting. Wentland said. When I joined UTA, the business was pronominantly focusing on servicing North American clients in the international circuit, but that element and the international talent touring element have now flipped. He remembers talking to you an artist like Chris Rock who said I could never tour the UK because they don’t owe me as the stand up The only thing of me as an actor. When Wentland moved from the US to the UK was in part to start exporting British comics around the world.

He explains the economics were tough. The local offices of the big promoters and agencies loved the idea, but neither could produce the offer, so I really started noticing there was an opportunity neither the agency side or the buyer side had figured out, especially when he left the UK and hit Australia. Everything between was a bit of the wild West. One of the first clients he signed at UTA was Russell Peters, who’s internationally huge, not so big on the States. Said Russell Peters is the OG of international touring.

He was touring internationally and trying to figure it out long before anybody else in the industry really did, and became the story of we could do this right and up and comer of sorts they’re talking about is Victorio Angeloni. I’ve talked about him on this podcast, seen him with mine own eyes. He’s very funny. Wentland says, Victoria is one of the most exciting voices. He’s an Italian Irish comedian who grew up in Belfast.

Traditional agent set up here and said it’s not what I need, so he went for this bespoke model of representation where he came to us for live. They also talked about Max Amini. Now remember late in twenty five Max’s name came up and I was like, who is that, and none of you called me on it, So I don’t think you’re all behind my back watching Maximini. But apparently Max is like quietly super huge. Max was the first Iranian American artist to headline Madison Square Garden and sell out the Kia Forum in La Wentland.

Said we did three shows in Sydney last time. Do we do five next time? Or do we go to an arena. That’s those kind of questions, and he now not only does a show in English, but in some markets will go in and also do a show in forsee. Any other industry piece I want to talk about was behind the scenes at the Golden Globes Awards.

This from Deadline the topic the comedy category deadline Rights. Two years in to that category, optimism among comics has curdled into something closer to resignation. Deadline Rights and conversations with comedy insight, including managers, agents, executives and stand ups themselves, a consistent critique emerges. The Globes Comedy category simply has a little to do with the best of the art form. That’s how I felt about the podcasting category.

That’s not a shot at Amy Poehler. Amy’s wonderful who her podcast is wonderful, but that award did not represent podcasting in all its forms. One manager told Deadline, people who really know and love comedy think the category is a joke. I know. It has little or nothing to do with who’s actually making great comedy right now.

Comedy is in this weird place right now where everybody thinks it’s important what comedians have to say really impact society, and yet there seems to be very little emphasis on quality or artistic merit, and a lot of just heat and attention and buzz and controversy and gossip. Deadline says sources largely agree that the eighteen comedians nominated so far represent a narrow view of stand up shape more by celebrity and familiarity than by the breath of the form. Voters seem to have opted to nominate those familiar to them from film and television. Same note on the Podcasting award, everyone from Trevor Noah and Sarah sulliverman Alley Wong, and Brea Goldstein. One comedian compared it to the nineteen eighty nine Grammy’s when Jethro Tull beat out Metallica for the Best Hard Rock Metal Performance Award.

One insider said, I think comedy people are looking at it like, well, they’re picking the names of the people they want at the ceremony, and that’s what it is, so they can have cocktails with them at the party and take selfies. Same note on the Podcasting award. Sources argue the globes are failing stand up on two fronts. First, they’re disconnected from what audiences actually watch. These examples as arena filling comics like Naperghetzi and Gave Iglesias.

Second, the awards exclude YouTube specials entirely. One source point to two Maximini, who comes up for the second time today. His special Randomly Selected has sixteen million views on YouTube. One manager said, YouTube is world the best specials of the year ending up just not the ones with the most for your consideration money behind them. Yeah, that’s the thing too.

And then is your comedy news for today? All right? I hope the weather’s okay wherever you are, a lot of football on today. What time do the Niners play? Oh, they don’t play at all?

There, he said, I don’t like this Final four. Usually I love the AC and NFC championship games. I am not excited about either one of these games, Like, none of these teams interest me as an Ininers fan. I mean, you’re making me a pick between the Rams and Seahawks. Can I root for the game to be just infinitely postponed and the AFC team just wins the championship And then on that side, I don’t know, Broncos backup quarterback versus the Patriots, I guess you’re root for the underdog story.

Go Broncos, I guess I don’t know. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack. My guest today is Mike Chisholm. He’s the host of the Letterman podcast Now If You Arnists recently discussed the top ten late night hosts. I mentioned at the end of that episode that I clipped it and split off a piece of that conversation to be its own thing.

That is this piece that you’re hearing today. Mike asked me about my list of the top comedy specials of twenty twenty five, and let’s jump in. I want to talk to you about your Billboard list. I don’t know if we do that here, if we do that somewhere else or not, but I appreciated the fact I totally disagree with you, but you had a little bit of indignation when Norm McDonald appeared on the list and I was like, wait a second, of course he needs to be on the list. Norm is like to me, But that brings it back to what is the purpose of the list and how do you get on the list?

Is it because if it’s tickets sold, like a guy like Adam Sandler probably deserves to be on that list, but like, like, what’s the criteria? Right, if it’s tickets sold, nor McDonald probably doesn’t deserve to be on that list, right, So like, where where do you draw the lines at what categories? You know? Do you emerge them all together and they become something? All right?

Boboard’s top twenty five comedians of the twenty first century so far? So you asked the right question of so first of all, with any of these lists, and I say this all the time. Yes, my list, here, list, somebody else’s list. They’re all valid. Right.

So if you said to me, come back next week and give me your top ten late night hosts of all time, I’m probably gonna flip your top two. And you know, does it really matter that I have Carson one and Letterman two? Like? Is that really right? We’re fighting over we’re spiritually saying the same thing.

When I look at the Billboard list, there were some names on there that I was like, yeah, okay, of course that makes a lot of sense, And then some people I struggled with. One of the names I called out was John Stewart, who earlier in this conversation I put in some sort of hall of fame and said nothing but great things about him. Do I think of him as one of the great stand ups. I don’t he’s He’s currently out on tour with Pete Davidson and I haven’t seen him live recently, so maybe he’s awesome, but I just don’t think of him that way. And Norm MacDonald, Now please understand, Norm MacDonald has a comedy album with I don’t know what the titles of the tracks are called, but there’s a bit about the Fantastic Four, and one about Superman and one about the the Let’s break this apart?

Okay, you got time? Got time? Yes, so the Fantastic for a bit, I’ll do the poor man’s version of it until loose spoil for it, spoiler for everybody. And again I’m not telling it right. But the setup is Norm is read Richard’s and he’s giving everyone their nicknames, and he’s like, well, Sue, you know you’re uh, you’re invisible, so you’ll be the invisible woman.

Okay, great, great great? And Johnny you’re uh, you know you light on fire. You’ll be the uh, we’ll call you the human torch. Okay, yeah, I like that. And me, I’m a I’m a mister fantastic And they’re like, well you shouldn’t you be like mister stretchy Man or something.

No, No, I’m mister Fantastic And it’s a great bit.

And then the album goes on to the Disease Gambler sportscaster.

Right, so I don’t know if you know this bit, but they’re calling the Jets game and and I don’t know if it’s Dan Patrick. It’s like somebody legit is calling the games, like, you know, the Jets will line up here for you know, a third and five. They don’t make this, you know, they’ll have to punt, and Norm’s characters going, well, actually, you know, if they’re gonna win by six and a half, they should go for it like that kind of humor because he’s clearly got money on the game, and that’s hilarious.

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And then there’s a Superman bit where where nobody believes that Clark Kent i…

They think somebody else is Superman. But because he wants to hook up with Lois Lane, he’s trying to convince everyone that he is Superman. And it’s just it’s a wonderful album, but it’s all sketches. It’s one of my favorite comedy albums. It’s fantastic, yep, but it’s not stand up.

Norms stand up, especially the posthumous special, is really good. But I don’t think of him as as a stand up. I picture him doing OJ jokes behind the desk. Now, I’m not throwing tomatoes at the idea of Norm McDonald, but just I just wouldn’t think of him as a as a stand up. Well, it’s funny because I put him on the list for the same reason that you celebrated putting a tel on the list.

He’s a stand up stand up you know at tel is is I don’t you know, you get guys along the way, you know, prior Kinnison to some hicks, you know, some of these people that do become like they’re the they’re the revered ones by the comedians themselves. I think Norm is certainly that guy to a certain group, and I think atl is as well. So that I put Norman for that reason. I give him the intangible reason because he probably doesn’t have the box office that some of the some of these other people do. But at the same time, so many people revere him like like there’s a part in The New Letterman with Adam where where Adam Adam Sadler’s talking about being on tour the last tour all we do that with Norm, and you just see Dave go all like he like he has a thrill emotional reaction just to hearing the first name of Norm MacDonald and and it’s there’s so many people out there who feel that way about Norm and and so I think that that’s why I think Mitch Heedberg sort of has a similar uh almost almost an infa It’s not infamy, but it’s it’s it’s a reverence.

And I think he’s got a similar one as well. I put I put those guys in the same category.

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All right, let’s talk about Mitch and then I’ll come back to a tell for me.

Sure, I think one of the truths of Mitch’s career. Is that it’s short. And I’ve had Hedberg related guests on the show, and I do wonder twenty years into that style would he have had to evolve. Around the time of his death, he was starting to work more quickly because the crowd wouldn’t let him stay in the slower pace. You’ve got the two albums on the posthumous album, and that’s the body of work, and a couple of Letterman appearances and a few random things, and it’s all great.

But what happens if you tag twenty more years onto that see our earlier discussion about Dane Cook, who nobody talks about now. So is Mitch a shooting star? And that helps our memory of Mitch probably As for David’s till Johnny MANX show me the body of work, I can’t. But I’ve been in rooms where Dave Tel shows up and does it’s not even crowd work. I’ll call it crowd surfing.

You know, hey, what’s going on here? Everybody? And he’s just kind of riffing and you’re having a good time. And back to my three am nuclear test of I got to wake up comedian out of bed and go, hey, I got a room of eighty people in the other room and I need somebody to do twenty minutes. Can you do it?

Hell be a pretty safe bet. There, absolutely, yeah, Like see, there you go. You articulated the point that I was trying to get across, like show me the body of work. Well, but at the same time you talk to he like I was listening to Roga the other day and somebody somebody said, oh yeah, and then. A Tel showed up and Joe went, oh, like like it’s the same kind of thing.

Like it. They just have reverence for a Tel like a Tel is just that he’s that guy. But again, you know, when you’re comparing him to a Nate Barghassi, you know who’s selling out stadiums all over the place, and they’re talking about a theme park. They’re talking about. Theme parker, That’s that’s not real, right, there’s nothing that I think is real.

He’s thinking that. No, he’s serious about it, So Nate, So again, guy and guy recording a podcast in his basement. Shut up? What do you know you’re you’re talking to sure people? Shut up?

I get it. Well, Nate’s you know, playing the hockey arena. I get it. But back to the three am test. If I got to wake somebody out of bed and go hey, Nate, I get eighty people in the other room and need you to just uh, you know, crush twenty minutes, and he’s going to go into a room cold and do his act.

I’ll take a tell in that scenario. Okay, So now that we’re talking, yeah, I would too. I would too. Now we’re talking about Nate and we’re talking about mitch Heedburg and and at the end of the day, both of these guys are characters. They’re both you know, Steve Stephen Wright.

I mean, okay, so mitch Heedberg, he might be like a Stephen Wright right now, uh where where where he’s still to be been around and stayed on on, you know, in that style. When Nate hosted what did he was it? The wasn’t the Emmys Crownies, No, the Emmys. It was EMMI. It was the Emmies.

Yeah, yeah, yah, where he did the timer thing and all that. By the way, we don’t even know is the point, but go ahead, we sure don’t know. We’d he’s the same guy. He’s the character. Like I love the character.

I love the dumb you know, slightly slightly dim, you know, like like like like I love the character that he is when he’s on stage. It’s fantastic. But to me, it’s a little one dimensional. If you put it and present it in the wrong place, I think it’s gonna fall f I don’t understand how it would go for a theme like I don’t. I don’t understand how a theme park would work, like I don’t.

Know Nate Land the Family, Yeah, Lee Nashville base You know, you go on the I don’t know Nate Coaster and I don’t know. I I don’t. I don’t get it. I think he’s insane. I think it’s hey, Wan of Eat is to where hockey read is and and and be the highest grossing comedian.

I don’t know why he would want to get into to the theme park business. I don’t understand. It’s interesting. It’s interesting to say the least. But did you see the trailer for the movie?

I haven’t yet. I still haven’t. It’s on my list of things to Yeah, I know I’ve heard, I’ve heard things. I now Kevin James was sick that day, I’ll put it that way. But it’s so funny how how like Like when you talk about how you know comedy is, it’s it’s it’s one of those things where you know it’s contextualized through the eye of the beholder and what their opinion is.

Like Like I did not watch Happy Gilmour two for a month based on hearing people’s reaction to it, and the the reason that was the case is because I have a special place in my heart for the original Happy Gilmore. I was in that perfect you know, late teen, early twenty kind of kind of place. And my friends and I went on and saw Happy Gilmore on opening night, and we thought it was funny as all get out, like we were the demographic for that movie. And when I when this movie, when when the sequel came out, I was excited to watch it, but then I heard the reactions for it. I watched the movie.

I really liked it. I thought it was I thought it was funny. I enjoy I you know, so it’s always in the eye of the beholder. But yeah, like that being said a theme park, I don’t know. I just I don’t.

I don’t. I don’t get it. Well, I mean, for Happy Gilmore, we know that all your opinions are stupid. You don’t even have Johnny Carson number one, so you don’t know what you’re talking about. But talking about good Adam Sandler movies, they just see j Kelly, great dramatic at gra Adam Sandlor.

He’s so goodness, so good. I watched it, do that. Watch yep, yep, yep, yep. They’re talking about Oscar buzz already like and then. Helpe he wins.

I hope he wins too. We need to because they didn’t reward him for uncut gems. They need to reward him this time and be like, Adam, you’re free. You’re free. Now go do this.

You’re free. You’re free. If every couple of years you need to like buy another mansion and you want to do a sixteen city arena tour and then some dumb songs, Okay, it’s fine, but you don’t need to make happy Gilmore three. You don’t need it. Just just do this.

What sing your dumb songs? His songs make me cry, like like like that’s that’s that’s the thing I will watch if I’m in the if I’m in the exact right mood, where all of you know, my hormones and and and and pheromones and all the things are mixed in the exact right way, and I had the right the right day at the office or the wrong day at the office perhaps, and you put on Adam Sandler singing his David Letterman song four days before Dave left. I cry like a baby, like that guy can make me cry. I listened to I listen to his song about Chris Farley. I cry like a baby.

Oh my gosh, does that guy. I know how to manipulate emotions, like like all of them. You know, certain people he can make laugh. I know, not you, but certain people he can make laugh. But like as an actor.

I mean, and this is where I think you’ll really enjoy watching the Letterman thing, because he talks about going to NYU to study to be an actor. It had nothing really to do. Yes, he did do stand up and things like that, but he actually studied to be an actor. And boy does it show. J Kelly was phenomenal.

It was so good. I loved it. It was just it was a movie movie in an error where everything is shorthand the Avengers with fast cuts and special effects and explosions, and I live on Old Man Mountain and admit it fun. But this was a movie movie with characters and a plot. And I don’t need three sequels.

I don’t need J. Kelly too to find out what happened to him. Like, it’s good, you tell the story. We’re out. And it was great.

And Sandler, the great dramatic actor, Adam Sandler is really good in it. I hope he wins an Academy Award hosted by Codin O’Brien. Oh wouldn’t that be fun? Oh? God, I didn’t even think about that, like like like let him even talk to Sandler about about the Mark Twain Awards and and how cool it was.

And I liked Sandler on the on the twenty Awards. I thought it was a clever bit that he did. But the idea that they were on that stage, you know, a few months ago, and in a couple of months, they could be on the stage together and and Sandler could win an oscar. That’s that’s captured. That’s captured the whimsy.

I love that. I love that idea. That’s a great style. I’m starting to really respect a part of Saandlor because I also liked to dress comfortable. So I like the way he dresses and I understand it.

And he’s a family guy and I’m a family guy, so I understand that. And if Netflix offers you fifty million dollars to do Happy Gilmore three, I kind of understand holding your nose and doing it. I get it. But you know, hey, traumatic chops, make some more of that in between the dumb stuff? Yeah?

Please do. I mean they even showed it. They showed a clip of uncut gems in the in the the My next guest, I looked at it and. She went ool. Adam Saylor is indeed a great dramatic actor.

We’ll take the break here, come right back. We’ll talk a little more about Dave Chappelle with Mike Chisholm. Mike Chisholm is the host of The Letterman podcast, and he wanted to talk Dave Chappelle. We need to talk about Chappelle. I’ve watched this thing three times and uh, oh, well, it just it was so masterful, like like I wanted to hear him talk about Riod more than once.

Like, actually, that’s what I when I watched it the second time. It’s okay, I want to okay, because the closing bit was phenomenal. I don’t know how. Many threads he took and then tied them all together in a beautiful bow at the end, maybe five or six of them. That closer was amazing.

But then I wanted to go back and listen to him talk about Riod again. And so here’s my question for you when you hear because you have a different perspective when it comes to comics, like the blurring of the line of a stand up act of making up ridiculous things because it’s funny and and and clearly these things are not true versus this is autobiographical. I’m gonna go through some of this stuff and then I’m gonna make jokes around it. Right to me, Dave has done maybe the best job of everybody of bloring those lines where you don’t know if he’s being serious. You don’t know if he’s being ridiculous.

You don’t know if it’s satire or if it’s just complete horseshit. You know, you just don’t know. I was very curious as to what your reaction was when he talked about Riod. Sure, so let me back it up a level. If when I was really involved being around comedy all day my years, it’s serious, especially when I was listening to stand up eight ten hours a day, all the time, just listening to everybody’s best material in the version they chose to release, I really was able to see and hear the matrix.

For those of us who are ancient and in grade school, how to graph sentences, Remember that underline the noun and all the circle the verb and all that. Yep, So I was able to start to really see, Okay, here’s how how it goes. Here’s a premise. Now I’m going to here’s a premise based in truth. Now I’m going to slightly exaggerate it.

Now I’m going to add the third thing that didn’t happen at all, but it’s funny.

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And now I’m going to circle back to the original premise.

And if you break apart of a lot of stand up, it does follow that set up. So there are a lot of times I can see a punchline coming. I remember when I went to see Craig Ferguson, he dropped a random name like twenty four minutes into the set, and I’m like, one percent, that’s a callback, And I just sat there for the rest of the show waiting for him to throw back to the random celebrity. I won’t spoil it because the special is out, but I’m like, this is just going. To come back.

So, you know, I I believe Dave when he says what he says, and I’m sure he exaggerated some of the jokes. Should we go spoilers here? People had? I know, I think, so, okay, we’re going to talk about Chabelle special. We’re gonna break it down.

Wailers, everybody, uh the you know, the Falcon joke and the falcon callback is the funniest thing in the whole thing. And he uses the falcon joke and is defiant about the blowback on some of his transgender material, and it’s hilarious. And here’s a guy doing his craft and he’s telling us I heard you and I don’t give a hoot and getting laughs out of it. So, you know, I I think it’s reality exaggerated for comedic effect. You know, I don’t think.

I don’t think he’s going home at night going on. I shouldn’t have done that, but right I gotta come up with ten minutes of material. I think it’s all based in truth. Yep, there you go. I love.

I love.

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Also, we’ll go back to your show for a second here whenever Riodd comes up.

You know you’ve got a bit kind of on that as well. Are you open to talking about like like when Zoe was on here a few weeks ago, I talked to her about about real like like, do you actually have an opinion about comedians going over there and and being part of that or is it all you know, I’m just going to talk about people blowing up about it, and I’m going to make a little bit of fun of that. I’ll take you on my journey. Had you come to me earlier in the year and said, Hey, there’s a real comedy festival. I hear you do the show.

It’s called Daily Comedy News. Do you want to come and cover it? I say yes, I would. I will. Oh wow.

I get to go to Riot and they’re paying for it, and I’m staying at this cool hotel and I to get Chappelle backstage, and I get time with Bill Burrn. I’m getting all this great content. Yep, sign me up, no problem. So I don’t want to be a hypocrite with that. As we got closer to it and it became more of an issue and I thought more about it, it just seemed a little weird.

I kind of have landed on. I respect Pete Davidson going they paid well. I don’t know at all relate to Pete Davidson and the nine to eleven can ation to this whole story and Pete Pete just being like they paid well whatever. You know, Like, I think my father passed away of cancer. So I think if Lucky Strike Cigarettes wanted to sponsor Daily Comedy News, I just wouldn’t do it.

It would just feel weird to me, right, so so I just wouldn’t take their money. But again, hey, John, it’s one hundred billion dollars. That’s generational wealth. You sure you don’t want to say Daily Comedy is brought to you by Lucky Strike for twelve months and it’s a fucking podcast and who cares? You know, Sorry, Chris, but maybe, but maybe I maybe I get there, So I don’t want to be too holier than now.

So the Pete Davidson part of it of just hey paid really well, okay, Kevin Hart took another paycheck. He you know, clearly Kevin Hart likes paychecks, and we’ll take a paycheck for everything. He has the second best special of the year, by the way, he’s hilarious. Very good. It’s very good.

But okay, but then when you get into Burr and Bill Burr, you know they’re just like, I guess they got a Chipotle, Like what what are you talking about? Like it was like he needed to like retrofit his defense of why he went there or as if if if classic Bill Burger just went you know what, they maaybe three out of fifty grand f you yeah, okay, okay, okay, so I think I’ve landed on that. So and there’s been zero, zero blowback on anyone’s career. No one, anyone who played there is doing just as well. So they all got there, they all got their paycheck.

Is there? Maybe there’s a point too, We have to start these conversations somewhere, So Jessica Kerson doing her thing maybe opens up some sort of small door. Only time will tell if that is true or not. If there’s a ri Odd Comedy Festival twenty twenty six and the twelve names come out of it, I don’t think it’ll be such a big thing. You know, we we we you talk about the bit, I do so so much like everything we’ve talked about, it’s based in reality.

Now. I do play things up on the show. There were recurring jokes. If the Golden Globes comes up, I go into you know, and one time Joe coy tild this horrible meme joke about Taylor Swift and I play that it’s just a bit, and the audience I think knows where I’m heading for the bit, and then sometimes I go but we don’t have time for that right now, and I don’t turn a bit, which is differently funny, I hope. You know.

So if somebody were playing Riod in twenty six, yeah, you know I do. Oh and you know Joe schmol is playing the Odd Comedy Festal, I’d probably continue to do my little side dig. But now, as I’m talking, as I think, if Riod reaches out to me in twenty six and says, hey, you know you want to come and stay at the hotel and we’ll we’ll get your backstage and get tim it’s with you know whatever comedians are playing it, boy, that that’s you know, Mike, that’s a really interesting question. Do I go for all the content now? Honestly because of being really now I’m really talking, because of the stuff I’ve said in the podcast, I probably i’d probably be actually afraid to go.

Yeah that’s so you know what, I’m going to just tide out here in the basement and not go get ten minutes with Dave Chappelle. So so these are all these are all difficult conversations to have, But I don’t think anybody’s done damage to their career. I don’t think they have either. And in fact, I think some of the controversy I think is even manufactured a little bit and amplified in ways that you know, isn’t isn’t isn’t real. I think that’s one of the things that I love about Dave Chappelle.

You know, this wasn’t an a special but but after he was quote unquote canceled, you know, he went to a full areada and looked around and said, am I canceled? Like the idea of perception and reality and and and how far away from each other they can be. Sometimes I thought back to, like I remember in ninety one when Metallica played Moscow, and I remember the feeling of you know, obviously, in ninety one, the communication, you know, was was drastically different than it is now. All we got was what we saw in the newspapers or saw in the news or saw on CNN. The internet was in its infancy and and and and and so communication was a lot slower.

But I think back to when Metallica played there, and and the feeling of Okay, so now we have connection. We have connection with this thing that I grew up fearing. I grew up fearing Russia and everything about in the Cold War and all that, and then suddenly you have, you know, the most badass rock and roll band on our side, going and playing in front of I forget how many people, hundred thousd people, hudred, twenty thousand people, whatever it was. And I remember that feeling and it was like, Oh, that’s cool because it’s connection, and it’s it’s it’s patriotism too. You know, they’re embracing our ways.

This is what we want, rah rah. But it was also this feeling of connection. It was it was it was a cool feeling. And I look back and look at now this generation who’s in the you know, in the eighteen to twenty five demo or eighteen to thirty five demo, and how they react to something that could be viewed as similar. You know, you’ve got Americana.

I mean, America’s what I would consider probably premiere homegrown art form, and it’s going to the other side of the world to talk to places that are slower into discovering some of the truths that we have discovered. To me, that’s an instacol unless like when you come back and you start saying, oh, but I’m gonna take it and donate it to this and I’m gonna do that, and I’m gonna and now I’m dancing on the hot seat because of this. To me, it’s like, no, go there, do your art and and and and shine your light because it’ll help make the world a little bit less dark to me is the argument for. So I don’t know. I don’t.

But that’s also because I got Metallica in my head from all those years ago, and perhaps that’s where that perspective comes from. And you have to separate the audience from whatever might bother you about a particular government. I mean, I can tell you in the last ten years, I travel and I tell people the country I’m from, and I don’t get the reaction I used to get, and you know, I wind up saying things that we’re not all like that, and you know, the days of it, I’m from America and people in other countries going, oh cool, that’s not a right right now. But please don’t boycat my podcast because you know I openly don’t support fascism. Right I go get the scrubs DVDs.

I walk up, So for your audience. When when when they took Kimmel off the air, I went into a bit about don’t think I’m in the basement just pushing that green button. On my Roku and watching Scrubs on Hulu. I go upstairs and I get the DVDs out of the closet. I’m a man of integrity, and I walk three flights of stairs and load the DVDs to the PlayStation five.

I don’t just push that green button. I do not support fascism, because you gotta have the courage of your convictions. Mike, he’s my Chisholm. He hosts The Letterman Podcast. Check it out wherever you get your shows.

If you want to see how boring it is to watch me talking to microphone. There’s a video version of the Letterman Podcast. I’m the guest on a few episodes, including one recently where we talked about the all time a late night host. So you can check out the Letterman Podcast wherever you get your shows. Meets you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac. This is a bonus episode. This episode’s going to be a very very loose Uncle Floyd. Floyd Vivino has passed away to age seventy four, So to a large portion of view you’re like, who’s that.

But if you’re from the Tri state New York area, you’re going to feel this one. I’ll share my experiences later in the episode because I don’t want to at all make this about me, but I worked with Floyd and new Floyd. Floyd’s numbers in my phone, but to. Catch everybody else up a late night er, I think may have done the best obituary of them all. They explain.

Floyd Vivino debuted the Uncle Floyd Show on local cable TV in New Jersey in nineteen seventy four, launching the program at his own expense. So I’ll jump in there. Just picture a bear bones TV show, A guy sitting at a desk wearing a colorful jacket and a mismat colorful hat, and he’s got a puppet. The puppet is Ugie, and Floyd would stick his hand through the puppet shirt, so the puppet’s right hand was really Floyd’s right hand, but it totally worked. It just looked like he was kind of snuggling with the puppet, and the puppet would speak in a falsetto that also had a thick New Jersey accent.

Ridiculous. So I thought about pulling clips, but any clip I pull, You’re gonna be like, what the heck was that? That was crazy? But the charm of the show was how low budget it was. It wasn’t trying too hard.

And these are just guys from New Jersey banging this stuff out every day and kids like me are watching it. Hi, boys and girls, I’m Uncle Floyd. Then this is my partner, Ugie. Now before we start the show, I should apologize to everyone. Ugi is gonna be very upset today.

You could tell by his face. Look at that face, look like, don’t start telling everybody. I’m fed up. But I’m tired. I’m gone again.

Get paid around here. I want to get paid for my contribution to the show. I want my money putting the bank for me. I want it putting a trust fund. Why a trust fund?

Because I don’t trust you? Love So The Uncle Floyd Show debuted in nineteen seventy four, late Night, it writes. The variety show, which was formatted as a children’s show but often appealed to an adult audience with its absurdist humor, featured vivino and sketches, musical numbers, puppetry skits, and viewer interaction segments, and then the show also featured musical guests. Now, some of the musical guests who came on included the Ramones, Blondie and Elvis Costello. So where did you find the show?

I grew up in Queens, New York City. We didn’t get cable until I think it was nineteen eighty seven. We definitely didn’t have cable in nineteen eighty six when the Mets won the World Series, which as a kid who could see Shay Stadium, Home of the Mets out my bedroom window, was incredibly frustrating. Here they are the Met’s playing a mile away, and I can’t watch seventy five of the games. But I digress.

So as a kid, I would sit there and play with the UACHF button. You know, in the seventies you had in New York City two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, and then whatever you found on UACHF. So you know, One night i’m dialing around, I put on channel thirteen. I discovered Monty Python. One night I’m playing with the other dial and I think it was channel twenty one, the PBS station from Long Island.

I find Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

And then on channel sixty eight there was the Uncle Floyd Show.

Now I don’t remember being honest here Chicken or the egg for Channel sixty eight total side by here. In the days before cable in Queens, you could get HBO the HBO man. I’m not still sure how this would work. The HBO man would come and they would hook some kind of antenna up on the apartment building where I lived, and on channel six you could subscribe to HBO. But if you slipped the cable guy or the HBO guy a couple bucks, you would have HBO forever.

So my dad may have done that. So we had HBO, but other people had something called WHT with mech go Home Theater. But the thing about WHT is they would show nazy films after midnight. Okay, but how did WHT work? I’m going somewhere.

Channel sixty eight during the daytime was a normal channel. Then at some point they would scramble the signal, so you had to have a box and the box would de scramble the signal so that you could watch movies on WHT and they had real movies. It was like an HBO equivalent, except on WHT you had the naughty stuff at midnight, but it was still over the air, just scrambled. So if you were up around midnight and you put on U sixty eight, it was scrambled. But if you were a young man, occasionally you might see, you know, a little scrambled nudity, which was very exciting.

So I can’t remember if I came to channel sixty eight for Floyd or if I came to channel sixty eight for the you know, the scramble. And I’m not the only one. You all know the deal anyway, Uncle Floyd was on at six o’clock after s speed Racer. I hated speed Racer. Speed Racer sucks, but speed Racer was the thing I would stare at killing Thomas six o’clock and then Uncle Floyd come on Channel sixty eight for half an hour back to late nighter, reaching viewers in the New Jersey and New York areas.

The Uncle Floyd Show became an underground favorite throughout the seventies and eighties. In nineteen eighty two, and I’ve mentioned this too much, Chisholm from The Letterman Show, this is the thing that happened. In nineteen eighty two, the show expanded its reach around the country with a seventeen city syndication deal. In New York, it became part of WNBC’s late night programming following Saturday Night Live. That deal only lasted a year.

The Uncle Floyd Show kept going in the Tri State area on various cable UHF and VHF channels. I don’t remember any VHF channels, but I won’t argue with Late Nighter. The Uncle Floyd Show continued into the nineties, the final new episodes in nineteen ninety eight. Floyd’s brother Jerry posted on Instagram early Friday with a heavy heart, I’m sad to announce the passing of my brother and everybody’s favorite Uncle Floyd Vivino. After two and a half year battle with ongoing health issues.

His curtain peacefully closed at six oh five pm on Thursday in January twenty second. Floyd was born in Patterson grew up in multiple towns in New Jersey, including Glen Rock, where he went to high school. One of his fans, David Bowie, said, back in the late seventies, everyone that I knew woul rush home at a certain point in the afternoon to catch the Uncle Floyd show. He was on UHF Channel sixty eight. The show looked like it was done out of his living room in New Jersey.

All his pals were involved in. It was a hoot. It had that soupy sales kind of appeal and that ostensibly aimed to kids. I knew so many people my age who just wouldn’t miss it. Would be on the floor.

It was so funny. I loved that show. David Bowie said it may have been John Lennon who introduced David Bowie to the show. Bowie has a song, slip Away, released in two thousand and two. Some of the lyrics to slip Away include Oogie waits for just Another Day, Oogie is the puppet that I referred to earlier, the chorus sailing over Coney Island, twinkled twinkle, Uncle Floyd, We were dumb, but you were fun boy.

How I wonder, How I wonder where you are? Oogie Waite for just enough day, Dred Speones. To see the Yay kids play. Now, I’ve been doing this. My daughter got me into this song of the day thing.

You just add a song every day to your playlist. That’s going on my playlist today. All right. Cripping from Wikipedia here they talk about some of the cast. Now, as a kid, we always liked the cast members.

There was Scott Gordon, but then the other guys had names like Muggsy and Netto and Loony Skip Rooney, so it was all characters. Floyd would come out, he would do the opening bit with oogie, and he would sometimes sing these like old timey songs, and some of them were naughty. I pulled one and this is a song called shaving Cream. And let’s let uncle Floyd take the first verse. I have a sad story to tell you.

It may hurt your ears just a bit. Last night, as I walked in my bathroom, I. Stepped in a big pile of shaving cream. Be nice and clean, shave every day and you’ll always be. In later days.

From nineteen eighty seven to twenty thirteen, Floyd Vivino broadcast on WVIPFM from Newrochelle, New York, where he played a wide range of Italian music on a Sunday afternoon program, The Italian American Serenade, and that will become relevant to my own career in a bit. Floyd claimed to have the largest collection of Italian records in the world. In twenty thirteen, Uncle Floyd’s Garage Sale Music began on WVOX fourteen sixty. That show featured an eclectic variety of records from Floyd’s large personal collection, most of which he found in thrift shops, yard sales, and curbside garage piles. In twenty thirteen, Floyd began the internet based radio program The Uncle Floyd Radio Show, which I did not know existed and was streamed twice a week.

I just found five episodes of what I Think is that on Spotify, so you can look that up. Let me get the break in. What’s talk a little more about Uncle Floyd. So I knew Uncle Floyd a little bit. I’ve told you a lot of his career and I had a few years where we cross paths.

So I’m it’s serious. And I get tagged to work with Stephen van Zandt on something called The Wise Guy Show. This was right in the middle of Sopranos Mania, and Steven van zandt as you know, was on The Sopranos. So Steven had the idea, all right, what if we created a radio show that just sounded like the Fellas hanging out at the botta, being that was the premise of the show. So I worked with Stephen Vinnie Pastor, who was Big Pussy on The Sopranos.

He was the star of the Wise Guys show h New York City DJ Joe Causey, who’s a great guy. He was brought in to be, you know, keep the trains on time, try and make this an actual radio show, because it was Joe the radio professional, and a bunch of people who were not radio professionals. So Joe would keep the trains on time, you hat, Vinnie and then a bunch of other character actors, including a guy that went by the name Cha Cha who appears in the later episodes of The Sopranos, Vinnie Vella Giorgano. A lot of the like secondary characters on this Pranos would come up and do guest spots. So I spent a little bit of time just immersed in that world.

In all ways, I could tell you some stories some other day. But at one point I suggested to Steven that we bring in uncle Floyd. Now I loved working with Steven van Zanda. I’m a big Springsteen fan, but when you work with me, I’m also a professional. And I was just saying to my wife last night, I don’t know why, for some reason, Steven’s name came up, and I said, I think it was five years before I said anything like Bruce or Springsteen.

It’s not why we were there, you know. Our relationship was he was Steven, and it was his show and his vision, and I was the guy producing it, and we just had that relationship. Good guy to work with. And I went to him and I go, why don’t we bring it Floyd? And he was like Floyd, And I explained him that Floyd was doing the Italian American show and that Floyd could play piano and could bring it in a little more entertainment to the show and bring in some more laughs because the show was airing on one of the comedy channels, and just make the show just a touch bit lighter without totally telling the original BOTA being premise in.

So we brought in Floyd and he fit like a glove, because the guys would still sit at the table and do their thing, and Floyd would sit at the piano, and then Vinnie Pastor could throw it to Floyd, who just knew how to play all these songs off the top of his head, and he could do these really wonderful short bursts. And you know, Floyd being a pro, new one to get in and new one to get out, and knew his role. On any radio show, you want to know your role, so he knew what he was there to do, would do it and execute flawlessley and then throw the ball back to Joe Causey and Vinnie Pasteur. And he was able to hang with those guys, and when they were getting a little rough and tumble, some of them were character actors who may have been more characters than actors, if you know what I mean, Floyd could hang with them, and then Floyd could sit at the piano. A late night er, UH dusted off an interview they did with Chris Gethard, also a Jersey guy, who said, Uncle Floyd is probably, in my mind, the most underappreciated entertainer of recent memory.

He was huge for me. He’s kind of cut from a different cloth. He’s very versatile. He’s absolutely a genius. There’s a number of people in comedy, especially if they grew up in the Northeast, who really obsess over Uncle Floyd.

A lot of people who think differently point to Floyd to someone who was doing stuff that was really original, really hilarious, and really pure, like really cracked open from his own brain and it didn’t always make sense, but boy, it was effing awesome. So if you’re from the New York City ish New Jersey area, you get it. And if you’re not from around here, this is the first time you’re hearing of this guy. I hope I was able to bring a little bit of how awesome Floyd was to you. There are clips on YouTube, but it’s one of those things that you had to be there, and if you were there, it was awesome.

Uncle Floyd’s gonna take us out here. Rest in peace, Floyd Vivino. Uncle Floyd and the crazy hissing you hear is, of course an inflatable dinosaur. Boys and Girls. This is my last show here on New Jersey Network, and that’s.

All there is. There is no more. My contract has not been renewed here at New Jersey Network. I thank everybody for so many nice times. But we’ll meet again, as we always say whenever we’re going, will meet again.

Don’t know where, don’t know when, but. I know will meet again some nonny days. Keep smiling through, just like you always do, till the blue skies chase the dark clouds so far away. So won’t you please say hello to the folks that I know. Tell them I won’t be long.

They’ll be happy to know that. As you saw me go, I was singing this song. Will need again, Don’t know where, don’t know when. That I know will need again. So see you day M hm