Month: February 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This Wednesday, Scrubs, the reboot Scrubs is back. I am so excited. This is one of my favorite shows of all time.

I’m married to a physician and she always found this to be the most realistic medical show until the Pit came along. You gotta watch the Pit with her. Her eyes are just like she’s studying everything going on in that show. But she was a resident when Jad and Turk were residents, so this really related to her and to me. You know, I would watch the show and I’d be like, oh, yeah, I know that guy that you work with.

That’s kind of doctor Kelso. So Scrubs is back on Wednesday. Zach Braff told people there’s a very young writer’s staff along with some of the brilliant original writers on Scrubs, and I think this young, very diverse group of writers will help us crack the case. Donald Faison said, a lot of the story still holds up. You’re still following your favorite doctors, your heroes.

To some people, regardless of what’s happened from season one through nine, the core story is still there and people want to say that we’ll have to talk about season nine at some point in today’s episode. In the reboot, we see John J. D. Dorian and Christopher Chirk back in their scrubs for the first time in years, as they discover that while medicine and a new generation of insurance has evolved, their romance as stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.

Zach Braff is back as JD. Donald Faison as Turk, Sarah Chalk back as doctor Elliott Reid, Judy Reyes Yep, she’s back as Carla, and most importantly to me, John C. McGinley is doctor Cox. Even the Todd is back. Did you know the Todd’s full name is doctor Todd Quinlan.

I don’t think I knew that. Now. The bad news Zach Braff told people not everyone will be in all episodes because of quote unquote scheduling. Yeah, like Judy Rays is on that thing with what’s her name? D from Philadelphia boy, the always sunny and Philadelphia people pictured the actress.

As soon as her face showed up in my brain picture, I thought bird. Her name is Cayln Olsen. Took me a minute there. I want to say Susan Olsen, but you know, Susan Olsen is Susan Olsen is Cindy Brady, who’s sixty one years old. By the way, just in case she didn’t think any of us are getting any older, I digress.

Missing from the cast is Doctor Kelso. Actor Ken Jenkins is eighty five years old, so both in terms of the actor Andy character, really would make sense to have Doctor Kelso around. The janitor played by Neil Flynn is also not in this one. Zach Braff is not ruling out bringing them back. He said, the true answer is if we’re blessed to have a second season, you will absolutely And the real answer for season one is we’re not fully sure yet.

Episodes eight to nine of the nine episode order we’re still being written. When Zach did this interview in January, but he told Esquire, do we have the bandwidth in the first nine to get to it all in surface a story that would be worthy of Ken and Neil that might come up at this point. I could tell you the answer, but most definitely, if we’re lucky enough to get a season two, that’s something we want to do. Now there are new characters, and this is where I’m wondering. I can’t get a handle on this.

Is this the JD. Turk Elliott Show or are they like kind of sort of in it and we’re following all these new people around. Vanessa Bear and Joel Kim Booster are notable additions to the cast. Vanessa plays Sibby, who runs a wellness program for faculty and staff at Sacred Heart Hospital. Joel Kim Booster plays doctor Eric park and attending at Sacred Heart.

There are also a bunch of interns. The character names are Serena, Asher Blake Amara, and Dashauna. One character who won’t be back is Ted Bucklan. Actor Sam Lloyd passed away at age fifty six in twenty twenty after being diagnosed with cancer. Faison said they do pay tribute to Sam.

There’ll be a new bar that we all go to when we named it Lloyd’s Tavern after actor Sam Lloyd. That was the production designer’s idea, which I thought was beautiful. So there’s a not to Sam. We love Sam, we miss him. It’s hard to do the show without him.

He was an iconic member of the squad. Plan he’s most definitely to have an episode that is tribute to him. Again, I’m not sure we’ll be able to do that in this first nine or that’ll be in season two. So we have to talk about the issue with season nine of the original if you watched it back then, they had kind of wrapped things up, but then they brought it back. But when they brought it back, Sacred Heart had been knocked down, and they were at this new hospital that was a teaching hospital, and it was just kind of wonky.

Esquire asked Zach Braff, you’re not calling this a reboot or sequel, You’re going with revival. Zach said, there’s a distinction revival of meaning you’re bringing back the original people in the original vibe of the show, whereas a reboot would be sort of rethinking it. Esquire said, the reboot is what they tried with season nine that was mostly new characters but only lasted thirteen episodes. Zach said, yeah. Bill Lawrence has said that he wishes that had a different title.

Was meant to be a sort of a spin off. Really, he always said he wishes he had called it Scrubs mid School. It was supposed to be taking some of the characters and moving them to a new location. I think that would have made everything clear for the fans. For years now, there’s been this feeling like Season nine doesn’t really count, and I get people’s feelings about that.

I think it would have been all a bit easier if they’d called it a reboot slash spin off. Fazon said, I feel like you can call it an elseworld or a multiverse type situation. I like to look at season nine as a multiverse story, like a different universe. So I guess Sacred Heart has been un knocked down, or I guess we’ll retcon that. Whoever said that was joking when they said it.

Don’t ask questions, move along, just in enjoy scrubs. Zach Braff said, what happened when we did the rewatch podcast Fake Doctor’s Real Friends. People saw how similar our friendship really is to JD and Turk. The podcast became really popular. Then we started doing the T mobile ads, which were again not only versions of ourselves but also nod to the character.

It was that one two punch that finally made ABC Hulu interested in doing a revival. We’re all so close, so it’s like, do you want to get together with all these people you love with great scripts and all laugh again. To us, it was an no brainer. There were so many things to figure out, getting people on the same counter, working out Bill’s deal because he’s under a Warner Brothers contract. That took literally years.

I thought we might do a little mini series kind of thing, like Psych Is Done. I never imagined it was going to be like, Nope, you’re back at eight o’clock prime time on ABC with Hulu the next day. That’s shocked all of us. We’ll get a little more spoiler ye here, So if you don’t want to be spoiled for the new season, skip ahead. There.

He was my mentor. At least he couldn’t call me Nuby anymore. What can I do for you? There? Oldly, I’m back, baby?

Do you know who those people are? You? Maybe try a different approach, maybe a little bit more like doctor Cox. Listen up, newbies, Ruh Hilly, superstart there, Scooter, leave Bambi alone. It’s good to be back.

Why are you standing like that? I don’t know. I felt heroic. Here’s where everyone is as we come back to Sacred Heart Hospital, Zach Braf says, jd is working as a concierge doctor, and he has to come back because even though he lives about an hour away, one of his patients has been admitted to Sacred Heart. He and Turk are still great friends.

Because of their lives and their schedules, they don’t see each other that much. That loss to the deterioration of the friendship has hurt both of them. Turk is a big family, but neither one of them really is the community or the friendship that they had the series, and they really long for it. So when JD comes back for his patient and is reconnected with doctor Cox, Carlo, the Todd, Turk and Iliot and all these people, there’s this domino effect of everybody experiencing what it’s like to all be back together again and then has an impact on all of them. Now that’s interesting freezing there that it implies that he hasn’t seen Elliott in a while, so are they no longer together?

Fason said, a lot of the questions about Turk and JD’s relationship, I think the relationship between Turk and Carla is still very interesting. The fans want to know about that. They want to know about JD and Elliot it’s a different time. Is the todd still appropriate? You know what I mean?

Well, it’s definitely not appropriate. But can he survive in this world? Morris spoilers Turk is chief of surgery. Elliott is a high up attending physician. We were kids when we made the original show.

When Donald and I started, we were twenty five and hour fifty as Doctor Cox mellowed out and Zach says he’s coping with the fact that he can’t teach in the same way nowadays. He can’t talk to interns like Doctor Cox used to talk to us. We’ve been educated that they get breaks and they have a wellness systems in place in their not allowed to work the hours they used to work. It’s a part of doctor Cox’s story has had to be this amazing teacher he was without being able to call people names and without being the tough love guy that he was. Oh you softies.

My inner Doctor Cox is like, what is this crap? Stop being soft on people. Tough enough Millennials and gen Z and Alpha’s gen X for the wind. Doctor Cox is really wrestling with how to operate in this system. We learned that the Vanessa Bearer character handles HR complaints.

She’s got a very thick file on the todd and she also looks out as they do in real hospitals, to make sure the interns aren’t being worked to death. New characters, Braff tells us the surgical interns, or Almara, who’s had a very sheltered life. She’s very innocent, super smart, but had a homeschooled existence. Dashauna is very confident. She’s written as if Turk was a young woman, very cocky, very close with her father.

He was her biggest champion. Faizon said, the way Turk looks at his interns is I got to teach these guys. They have to be prepared because at the end, when I’m done with this, these two are going to be the ones that will continue my legacy here.

And then there’s the Instagram famous wanna be.

That character is Tosh, who’s not only a skilled doctor, but an influencer. There’s a handful of these people in the real world. They go through the intern process and commented on social media, a lot of med students and interns want to follow their experience. It isn’t something that’s overdone. My inner doctor Cox is coming out.

She’s not only on her phone and posting. But it’s an element of her character that, while going through her training, is also actively posting. October two, two thousand and one, Howard Rosenberg in The La Times reviewed Scrubs. Howard wrote, Scrubs ranges from silliness to wonderful silliness. As Primetime’s first medical comedy that generates big laughs.

Was mister Rosenberg unfamiliar with a show called Mash I Digress. Although the humor begins broadly, it grows on you as you adjust to its rhythms, and ultimately you hear yourself laughing out loud. This is easily NBC’s best news series. It’s a nice moment. It’s also one of those distinctive comedies in which everything meshes.

Entertainment Weekly October sixteenth, that same year wrote Scrubs as a TV rarity, a new sitcom with an original look, point of view, and the merciful absence of a familiar star attempting a comeback. Scrubs is er as a comedy mash in peace time with newbie interns. Good description. Our hero is JD. Dorian played by Zach Braff, who looks like this is great, a youthful cross between Ray Romano and Ed’s Tom Cavanaugh, which is fascinating because later in the series they cast Tom Cavanaugh as j D’s brother.

In the show’s most original move, Scrubs One True good Man is also its loosest canon. John C McGinley is giving a career making performance as the flinty, sarcastic Doctor Cox, an experienced doctor who is on the surface everything we fear In a healer, we might come into contact with a bully with cold eyes, a short temper, and a black sense of humor. But just as mashes Hawkeye, Peers made jaundice puns about jaundice because war inspired cynicism as a defense mechanism, Doctor Cox staves off j D’s petrified stairs with a suck it up attitude. J D and Elliott desperately want doctor Cox to mentor them, and Cox resist the role. From twenty eighteen, Jimmie Sargent on Medium wondered, it’s been ten years since the original series of Scrubs aired.

Does Scrubs hold up? In twenty eighteen, we’re told the show has an outdated view on women, especially in the first season. In one episode, we see doctor Kelso slapping women’s butts and being leary towards them. Yeah, that was the joke. He had an outdated view on women.

That was the joke twenty five years ago. There’s not a more perfect example than the tod. A misogynistic surgeon who was constantly making inappropriate gestures and comments toward his colleagues was something they tried to address in later series, but he never got past the creepy none of this is new, now, what are you talking about? That was the whole point of the characters. This aspect of the show is not aged well.

Scrubs is ten years old and is a product of its time. That’s not to say it should get a pass. It shouldn’t, and it’s important that the shortcomings are highlighted. The latter seasons failed in comparison, as JD became annoying and mean. It’s not the fault of the showrunners and writers.

All TV can become stale, and the show had already said so much of that point. I agree. I’ve been doing a rewatch. I think the first season is the best. In the middle of like season four now, when they really started getting to the relationships.

I like the show and it was just simple screwball comedy, So I disagree with that review on Medium totally. Some of the episodes you may recall some of the better episodes My screw Up Season three, episode fourteen. That’s the one with Brendan Fraser. He’s doctor Cox’s good friend.

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And then spoilers you had twenty years.

We get to live in denial right along with doctor Cox. Then the reveal hits Ben has been dead. The entire episode, Cox has been grieving My Last Words. Season eight, episode two, JD and Turk spend time with a dying man who doesn’t want to be alone. That’s the entire episode, people talking about, fear, regret, and the end.

One of my favorites, My Old Lady Season one, episode four, JD, Turk, and Elliott deal with patients who are dying in very different ways. One accepts it, one resistant, and one surprises everybody. Season five, episode twenty one, My Fallen Idle. Doctor Cox messes up and JD realizes his hero is here.

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And then there’s of course My Finale.

The final episode of season eight meant to be the series finale. It’s JD’s last day at Sacred Heart. He’s walking the halls, imagining the future of saying goodbye. But now everybody’s back Scrubs. I hope this is good.

I’m a big fan of the show Scrubs, ABC, Wednesday, eight pm East and West. Looking forward to it. And that is your comedy news for today. Back tomorrow with a normal episode in the morning, and then Comedy Survivor at noon. Easter meets you back here then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy, and he was if though we had to start with some fun today from Nicky Swift dot Com. It’s celebrities who can’t stand jay Leno. That’s right, jay Leno. That guy’s the worst.

He sometimes comments about late night television and takes care of his wife. He’s just awful. So let’s take a look at the celebrities who do not like jay Leno. We’re told Arsenio Hall threatened to kick jay Leno’s butt. Arsenio Hall back in nineteen ninety two told Entertainment Weekly that Arseniol Hall had little respect for jay Leno’s talents.

Reports at the time claimed he was friends with jay Leno or Senio apparently said, I have no problem about saying good things about my competitors, but jay Leno and I aren’t friends. And you know what, I wasn’t annoyed it, Okay, No one put the late night silver spoon in my mouth. I earned every drop of mine, and I’m gonna treat him like we treated the kid on the high school basketball team. It was the coach’s son. He was there because he was annointed too.

We try to kick his button. That’s what I’m gonna do, kick Jay’s butt. How that work out ours anyhow? Haul then apparently was a Good Morning America, and I have said, something’s wrong with someone who’s always surprised about people being upset with him. Dennis Miller apparently hasn’t talked to Jay Leno.

Dennis Miller told Entertainmy and Weekly Jay and I were good friends at one point. I don’t think I talked to him again, nor would he want to talk to me about the tonight show. Put it this way, they want to win really badly. He may recall, Dennis Miller had a late night show. The accusation seemed to be that NBC was trying to stop famous people from going on other shows.

Jay Leno said, we weren’t keeping people off their show. Do we say to guests, we’ll give you this in that and we have a bigger audience, we’ll fly you in, we’ll pick you up in a limo. Yeah, but please, that’s the game. Jimmy Kimmel on the list, telling the New York Times, I think he turned comedy in a factory work, and it comes across just amazing how insecure he is the people who like Leno are largely a stupid group. The people who root for Letterman of the smarter group.

The people who like me also stupid. I figure I cut into the dummies. Lopez. Remember Lopez had a late night show, Lopez Tonight. Now.

I want to see George Lopez in concert in Chicago around that time, and George was actually like an a hole. Like we were sitting in the audience going, dude, you just sound like a more and he was flaming everybody. I think he flamed Carson. I remember walking out of the show and it kind of changed my opinion on George Lopez. Did not enjoy it at all.

In two thousand and seven, George Lopez apparently was on WMX radio and told Scott and Erica that he hoped to start a beef with Jay Leno, saying, Leno is the biggest two faced dude in TV. When I had my kidney transplant in two thousand and five, he called me and was the nice guy on the phone, and then he just puts the knife in your back. It tells you something about Jay Leno. If Conan O’Brien is coming to the Tonight show. When Jay Leno is still young enough to be the host.

The dudes like the worst interview we’re on TV. Patton Oswalt on Comedy Death Ray apparently said you almost want to take Leno aside and go, why do you want this so badly that this being the tonight show? Because you don’t do anything with it? Listen, Patton Oswalt, Dude, bro, Patton Oswalt, you ruined Star Trek and I’ve been meeting all week to get to this time out. Johnny Max got a beef with Patton Oswalt, who ruined Star Trek is dug the Vulcan.

Patton, did you not put out a really famous bit called at midnight, I will kill George Lucas with a shovel? And is that not complaining about the Star Wars prequels? So you’re going to kill George Lucas with a shovel for ruining a sci fi franchise that you love. So you, Dug the Vulcan can understand how I am outraged at you. Tig Nataro, Genius Sheer, Stephen Colbert and any other comedian who is currently ruining Star Trek.

I digress. Let’s go back to j leto Patton said, Comedians that don’t like j leto now, and I’m one of them. We’re not like, oh my god, Jay Leno sucks. It’s that we were hurt and so disappointed that one of the best comedians of our generation wilfully like threw that switch off. Howard Stern back in the day, the old Howard Stern told Peters Morgan, Jasonsane, and Jason Crook, he steals a tremendous amount of material.

Why don’t we all pause the podcast right now and google fart Man. And I don’t mean the Howard Stern version, I mean the National Lampoon version.

And then we’ll unpause and we’ll come back and listen to what Howard Stern wa…

Fart Man, he’s not fit to scrow but David Letterman’s feet. Conan O’Brien told The Hollywood Reporter in twenty twelve Jay Leno hadn’t built any bridges. Conan said, he certainly isn’t calling me. It’s not like he’s going to sneak up on me and traffic the odds that will both leave this earth without speaking to each other it’s fine. There’s really nothing to say.

We both know the deal. He knows, I know. I’d rather just forget Rosie O’Donnell said, I’ve been a big fan of ConA O’Brien and The Tonight Show’s a franchise that has been sixty years with NBC. And if you’re privileged enough to be asked to drive the bus, you should say thank you and drive it to the best of your ability, and when it’s time for them to hire a new driver, you should say thank you for allowing me to drive this for as long as I did, and pass the keys to the new guy with the red hair, not try to flatten his tires before he even gets going. In twenty fourteen, Jimmy Fallon rescinded the ban on Joan Rivers from The Tonight Show.

Joan Rivers returned to The Tonight Show and fl up to Jay Leno the Bird. She told Inside Edition, the curse is gone to Jay. Well, Jay, twenty three years, I’m still here and you’re gonna be selling cars.

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And then there’s the joke from David Letterman, who had a joke about a Law an…

I had so many things I was going to do today. I didn’t expect the jay little thing to take up half the show. Let’s do this one. Keenan Thompson caught up with Men’s Journal, and Keenan started talking about whiskey, and I thought to myself, now, if Jim Gaffigan did this, you would rip it to shreds, would you not? Johnny Mack, Yes, you would, so, Keenan, it’s your turn.

They were somehow tying all this whiskey drinking back to the NFL. Keenan Roots of the Falcons when eight and nine and Keenan Thompson told Men’s Journal, if you’ve had a lemon of a season, turn those lemons into Jim Beam, turn it negative into a positive, and what do you know. Keenan Thompson teamed up with Jim Beam for an ad campaign promoting this simple yet tasty combination. Boy, if Gaffigan did this, Men’s Journal asked him before this ad campaign, were you a huge lemon fan? Keenan Thompsons said, Weirdly enough, I do have an affinity towards lemons, like I even wear a citrusy kind of cologne.

But you know, it wasn’t anything that I was intending on, Like it’s not necessarily my go to because I don’t even mix anymore but on a nice little health cake these days. So I’m just kind of straight up for the low carbs or whatever. But I do remember lemonade always kind of going hand in hand with great things, Jim Beam being one of them. Jim Beam says, thank you for the mention there, So I was happy to spearhead this new movement for them. They asked Keenan Thompson, was there someone who introduced you to whiskey your family or perhaps Lord Michaels or I’ll throw it, maybe it was Jim Gaffigan.

Keenan said, no, I don’t have a whiskey mentor. Are we supposed to have whiskey mentors? Like I’ve got a little here in the basement that sometimes on a hot day, I’ll pour a little over ice with my son. I don’t have a mentor, Keenan said, I’ve always been much more casual, but as I’ve gotten older, I like to get into the history of things and also the quality of things by doing a little research, like we have the Brandy Library here in New York. Having gone there and seen so many varieties of things, it’s easy to kind of get immersed in it a little bit.

So anytime I’m drinking whiskey, it’s nice to know the good ones, well, Keenan, other than lemonade. And how do you drink your whiskey? Keenan said, I need a rock. I need something to sue it a little bit, you know, a nice big rock or even a few smaller ones. It doesn’t really matter.

Sometimes I do want several rocks to get a little water in there. Good follow up by Men’s Journal. Whiskey drinkers tend to be very specific about ice. Are you picky? Keenan said, No, at home, it could be whatever.

It’s always nice to see when people have curated cubes, like any sort of Star Wars themed cubes, debt stars, anything like. That’s always fun, is it? And you’re talking to somebody who has about five Star Wars posters here in the basement, and I’m not kidding. We’re just a traditional round ball or big square cube kind of thing. But at a restaurant.

I expect some fanciness. Oh this is fun. Who’s your all time favorite fictional bartender? Keenan said, who did it better than Tom? I’ve seen lots of movies and that was a lot of training for him.

He really wanted to take it seriously. So between that and maybe Coyote Ugly, I guess, how do you not pick Isaac the bartender? I mean, come on, love boat anybody. The only thing that would make this better for me was if this was actually with Jim Gavigan. Keenan was asked what’s the perfect snack food to have with bourbon while watching sports?

Is it popcorn? Perhaps peanuts? Keenan said, I think we need to level up. We’re in the connected world where you could experience so many different flavors. I think you’ve got to get into some charcoutery or something like that where you get up a bunch of different tastes on a plate, especially in the master Chef days we’re living in.

I like putting together display then feast on it. Keenan Thomson. Do you have a favorite all time guest host of SNL that you’ve enjoyed drinking with? Keenan said, Dave Chappelle is great because he enjoys the night as well. He doesn’t get introverted or anything.

It’s kind of like he’s just waking up after the show. He’s a great one to have a moment with him to pick his brain. He’s a praiser, so he’ll always be giving you props while you’re trying to give him props. If you could have a drink with anyone who’s been in the cast of SNL, who would it be? Phil Harmon.

I’d love to be able to really sit down just be around with him more than once. I’d love to have been able to build an alumni brotherhood with him. We met on a plane once and he was so generous. It almost seemed like a dream because it was happening in the sky. He was so nice and it was just kiss met that were put together on this flight.

And I say we because it was me and kel Mitchell. He got up during the you can unbuckle your seat belts now and walk around the cap and time, and he just came over to us. We just had a conversation for a while. Was fantastic. Interesting tag here Keenan talked about SNL Ben Journal was like, it seems like a party all week long.

Is it like that? And Keenan said, it’s a lot more corporate these days. Everybody who just kind of comes in and focuses. We’re all aware of our HR meetings and stuff like that. I think we keep it more so for after the show’s done, kind of like decompression and that is your comedy news as it was for today fun show.

I like to mix it up, especially on the weekends, all right back in the morning with a normal episode. I see it to worrow.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians, on the comedy industry, A sentence the algorithms love. Colin Jost has postponed tonight’s show. He was supposed to be at the Del Lago Resort in Casino in Waterloo, New York. The show rescheduled for Friday, March twenty seventh.

Why would Colin Jost do such a thing that Del Lago said due to scheduling conflicts. But the conspiracy theory from Syracuse dot com is it because Colin Jost needs to recover from bob sledding. Did you see this the other day? Colin Jost appeared during NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage. No, they didn’t send him to Italy.

They sent him to Lake Placid, New York. Jost was in the back of a bob sled with a driver, I assume a professional driver. Video showed Colin, you know, screaming and cursing throughout what he called the scariest experience of his life. He told Mike Tarrico, I was not prepared for the level of terror of this Bob’s Led. I swear to God, I thought I was going to die.

I thought my back was going to snap in half. I thought my bones were gonna fly off my body and be littered all up and down the Bob’s Led track. Hopefully Colin Jost is okay, and hopefully those pesky scheduling conflicts work out. Tom Sigory told Forbes. Because I do a lot of storytelling, sometimes you’ll see people go, oh, this is like a one hundred percent made of story, and it’s literally the opposite.

For me, every story that I tell in stand up is one hundred percent of real story. Sometimes you embellish a thing here or there. Well, yeah, so that’s not a one hundred percent a real story. It’s you know, a story based on the truth, and then you embellished it. Come on, Tom, there’s some kind of exaggeration, but nothing is made up.

So for me, the thing is, I always feel comfortable doing topics where people go, oh, of course a comedian is talking about this. As long as it’s from real life, it’s your real story. So that’s why I found that my Kid’s stuff. Even though I don’t think of myself as a comedian, does kid material has always resonated with fans are always like, I want to hear more about this two kids of yours, I think because the stories are just unique and there’s specific to those kids. Tom said.

At one point I was doing a podcast called Tom Talks, which was just one on one interviews. There’s probably I don’t know, ten or twelve episodes of it. That was my one on one long form interview podcast. The only reason I stopped doing it is I didn’t have the bandwidth to keep it up. There was too much going on.

You learn after doing this for so long that you have to start cutting things out, Like even now I’m in La were shooting the show. We’re in post production on the show. I can’t keep up with the other podcast obligations because something’s got to go. My favorite one to do is Tom Talks because there’s just guests I want to have these long term, long form conversations with. I had Dion Sanders On, I had one of the DEA agents that hunted down Pablo Escobar.

I had all these guests I was generally interested in talking too, and that was an incredible thing for me, was to do that and if I could, if I had a room to do something else, I’d do that podcast. As for Bad Thoughts season two, it’s all new stuff. I’m in the offices right now. I just left an edit Bay editing one sketch. I think it’s a definite leveling up of what the show is, which is great because season one was awesome, super outrageous stories in this season, but they’re different.

They’re totally different than season one, so there’s no repetitions of it. There’s no oh, we saw that. It’s all new, but it’s still in the ethos of the show to push things. It’s extreme versions of things, and I think the stories are better. It’s insane, but it’s a different version of insane than season one.

Looking forward to that a lot. Are you in Miami? You go see Pete Holmes tonight. I’ll give you the information a couple of minutes. Pete Holmes is fantastic live and I was thinking the one time I spent time with Pete Holmes was in Miami.

I don’t remember what we were doing. I feel like I was there for Comedy Central Radio. Comedy Central, Did you guys have a comedy festival in Miami? Is that why I was there? I feel like Hannibal Burst was there.

I definitely spent time with Pete, like a lot of time with Pete. Good guy, I digress. Pete’s tour is called Pete Here Now. The tour was originally branded PG thirteen. That was a move to reach a broader audience by pushing a semi clean set.

Pete realized that that label was boxing him in. He said, why am I asking people to grade the set? Just fly the plane. My intention is always to delight, never to shock or upset. Holiness comes from wholeness.

Pete’s got a podcast, You made It Weird. It’s a pretty good podcast if you’ve never checked that out, And he says he isn’t aspiring to be anyone’s guru the way he sees it, He’s just passing along what’s helped him in the hopes that it might be useful to others on their own journeys. Pete says, the best way to learn something is to teach it. I’m not a leader, I’m an enthusiast. Interesting here than Miami New Times writes.

On one hand, Pete will defend comics rights to work it out on stage and push into uncomfortable territory on the other hand, Pete is quick to point out that the microphone makes you the leader of the room, which comes with a degree of responsibility. Pete says he used to hear road comics close with something like don’t drink and drive, but hey, they can’t catch all of us. Pete says, that’s dangerous. You’re talking to drunk people deciding whether or not to drive home. You’ve just given them permission.

I wouldn’t make that joke for his own comedy. He’d rather tell a story about losing his temper or falling short as a dad than about doing the right thing. Pete told the Miami New Times, nobody wants to hear me brag about helping somebody. It’s way funnier and more helpful to hear me mess up, because when you laugh at me, you’re loosening some guilt in yourself too. When you’re laughing, you’re not stressed, you’re not worried, you’re not even you.

You’re gone. That’s one of the greatest experiences you can have. Pete Holmes Tonight Miami Improv tickets starting at thirty seven bucks Miami Improv dot com. If you’re local, you should go. He’s fantastic.

Oh no, I have a political story in the script today. This one can wait. I’m not gonna do it. That means I have to pull something up here because I wasn’t ready to go to break yet. I mean, I could just say we’ll be right back, but all right, let me pull something up that was in Monday’s script.

Alonzo Boden also a cool guy, previous guest on this program. He’s teaming up with jazz legend Christian McBride on a new special Comedy and All That Jazz Volume four. They’ll tape it in Montreal on March fifth. Comedy and All That Jazz Volume four blends stand up from Alonzo Boden with live jazz from Christian McBride. That’s fun.

As for filming in Montreal, Boden until deadline. I’ll always love Montreal. It’s where it all started for me. My career really started when I discovered at the New Phases of Comedy that Just for Last Festival. After that show, I gave up the day job.

But it’s been nothing but comedy since. Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival continues. Correspondent Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast is on scene. I sent Mike to go see Catherine Blandford. Here’s Mike, all right, here’s report number two just came out of that just for last Comedy Festival in Vancouver, BC.

Having seen Catherine Blandford, and my gosh, you want to talk about a fun show. She’s crazy in all the right ways, a hot mess that suddenly pulls out amazing vocabulary and isn’t a hot mess revealing that like it just such a good job blurring the line. I talked to her a little bit afterwards as well, very good at blurring the line to see it like there were thirty two people in the room, okay, And I mean it was a highlight of the night that there were only thirty two people in the room, because she kept going back to it and talking about it and integrating it with material that clearly, you know, isn’t spur of the moment. When I talked to her afterwards, I was like, how much of that was you screwing around on stage versus how much of it was material? And she blurred the line and that’s to me the mark of an amazing stand up.

And the other part that I loved was just how polished Her character is when I see, like, for example, the openers. I saw it tonight. You could tell their openers and it was a rhythm that was very It wasn’t unique because they’re you know, they’re openers. Right Watching Catherine, her uniqueness cannot be understated. And she’s fun and goofy and a little naughty and she has that born in Kentucky, raised in Georgia, now living in California, alchemy that just really connects well.

Well, it was a really good show. Enjoyed her a lot. I like Catherine a lot. I caught her at Montreal New Faces. Definitely keep an eye on her.

Learn her name. Now if you’re in a Vancouver tonight, Laura Romoso is at the Queen Elizabeth Theater. Now that’s the same room Letterman played. Am I unfamiliar with Laura Romoso? Is she secretly huge?

Show detail, sketch, comedy, sensation Laura Romoso, I’m not shading her. I’m just like, wait, Letterman played this room, so this must be a big room. Laura Romoso is back with a brand new hour featuring all your favorites German Mom, Kiara, Italian Dad and Moore. Laura Romoso is a German Italian comedian best known for her live sketch specials and viral impressions on social media. She has over three point five million social media followers.

Again, not familiar, but okay, that’s a big room. If I were in town, I would be curious to go see that. Other shows at seven, Sultan Kasas a lot of buzz on him, Cristella Alonzo at seven, Jesse Jetski Johnson is back at seven, They’re doing a nasty show with Tino Archie at eight, and a bunch of smaller shows. So if we were there, I would go find out about Laura Romoso. I’m curious, and then for a later show, what could we do later?

Oh, let’s just hang out with the Queen Elizabeth Theater and stay for Renee Vaka, who’s playing the show there. At nine thirty, Johnny Mack had a pre tape of the Weekend Tomorrow, we’re going to get into some Jay Leno stuff, and then Sunday is a Scrubs preview. So let’s take a look at the rest of Just for Last Vancouver Wow. Saturday Night, Right out of the Box, four o’clock an Evening with Phil Rosenthal of somebody feed Phil seven o’clock Otsco at Coska. So if you have been playing Comedy Survivor and you’re like, I don’t know who Otsko Okotsky is who I’ve never heard of her, why don’t you go to Vancouver and go check her out.

She’s very funny. Namish Patel also at seven. Brent, but he’s also at seven. I try to get him on the show. I guess he wasn’t available or didn’t want to do it.

I did want to talk to him. Well, he didn’t do a show, so I’m not going to see him. I’m going to go see Otsco at thirty is Jimbo’s clown town at Just for Last Vancouver. What’s catching my eye here is the image of someone dressed as Joan Rivers, and yes, my instinct was correct. Jimbo is a performance artist and designer most known for his drag persona Jimbo the Drag Clown, and to me, Jimbo resembles Joan Rivers.

Vladimir Kamanio is back at nine thirty. Second Otsco show at nine thirty, All right, don d I’m mad at Brent. But because he didn’t do the show, so namesh Pttel at seven, Otsco at nine thirties. Saturday Nights plan and let’s just finish it out with Sunday Michelle Butteo at the Vogue at seven Vladimir Kamanio again. They really want you to go see this guy at seven and Puff the Magic Improv Show at ten.

I think they’ll play there is Michelle and then Puff and that’ll put a rap on. Just for Last Vancouver, Just for Last Vancouver PR people, thanks for hooking me up with guests and hooking Mike up with the tickets. Appreciate you. It is Friday, in time for the Comedy stock Market. Here with the intro is Burt Reynolds.

Comedy stock Market. You know, I thought about this and I don’t really have anything. There was nothing to feel strong about, you know, I got I weigh in on Colbert. I guess it wasn’t anybody to really be mad at this week. So let’s just do two buys and we’ll both buy off the experience of Mike Chisholm from the Litterman podcast.

He liked both Red Richardson and Catherine Blanford in person. And part of the game here of Comedy stock Market is we try and scoop up where we see value. So if these are two lesser known names, let’s buy some stock in Catherine Blanford and buy some stock in Red Richardson. And that’s a pretty simple comedy stock market. On this Friday a couple specials coming out.

Daily show writer Matt Koff will have a special cat Man on Veeps March tenth. The Comedy Seller regular discusses divorce, middle age, and cats, and shares his thoughts on the world’s bias against men with cats. He says people love cats, but men with cats make people uncomfortable, including me. I’m a man with a cat, and I’m creeped out by myself. The special is a reprieve from Cough from his main subject of joke writing, which is the President of the United States.

Some other comics make cameos in the special, including Sean Stewart. Mat Coaff said he always dreamed of performing at The Seller. It took me years to get an audition there, and I was so bitter about not getting in. Sometimes I’d walk past the cellar and hiss at the club. Now I get to perform there and hiss at the audience when they don’t like a joke Catman Morch tenth On veeps.

Lon Medicine has Troy Walker’s debut comedy album. It is called Esquire. Troy Walker tackles racist magicians and porn plot lines, old school drink names and dating rules, and cultural shock in Paris. That’s called Esquire, and that’s out today. LN Medicine also announced a new hour of stand up from Jackiekation called Altercation I See What You Did There?

Altercation YouTube, February twenty fifth. That’s Wednesday. That’s Trivia and I and Scrubs Night. Can’t do all three. Trivia is at seven, Jackie is at seven, Scrubs is at eight.

Something’s gonna have to go. Most of you will just blow off trivia. The press release tells us Jackie kash is a favorite among peers like Patton Oswalt, the Star, trek Ruiner, Brian Reagan, and Maria Bamford, who regularly bring Jackie to open for them when she’s not headlining clubs at theaters herself for forty five weeks of the year. Jackie Kashan’s new hour, Altercation I See What You Did There, is chock full of great stories and rapid fire punchlines. Cashan said as an adult human woman in twenty twenty six, It’ll come as no surprise to anybody that I am entirely made of bees at this point, anger, frustration, all of it has been synthesized into this new hour of comedy that bars no holds and pulls no punches.

Altercation out February twenty fifth. That’s Wednesday, a YouTube premiere event at eight eastern. Jackie will be in the chat. Maybe you could jump in the chat and be like, hey, tell Paton and like stop with the dug the vulcan. And that is your comedy news for today.

Tomorrow is some Jay Leno stuff that it pretaped. Sunday is Scrubs preview Monday, normal episode Monday at noon Eastern, Comedy Survivor.

And then from there it’s up to the New Jersey District Court in Newark.

Do they want me to serve on a jury or not. Don’t worry, I’ll figure out some sort of podcast. I don’t miss a day. We’ll get this done. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnnie Mack. When you’re Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, A sentence the algorithm loves, and boy am I distracted? As I was putting the show together. One of the last websites I visited was Variety and Variety.

He told me you two just dropped an EP and I’m a huge you two fan. But like, I have to record shows because the federal governor would like me to serve on jury duty next week, so I gotta work ahead a little bit. I can’t be listening to six U two songs, but I’m so excited about that.

All right, let’s do comedy here.

If you listen every day, you get my vibe. I do. Try to keep it light. And you know, two days already this week has been political. So let’s start with silly.

Okay, this is not the biggest story of the world. Let’s start with the silly Dave Chappelle. Remember he was in Minneapolis. Well, he stopped by Matt’s barr and Grill. He took some selfies with some folks.

But here’s the controversy. It is unclear if Dave Chappelle had a Juicy Lucy for lunch, or if Dave Chappelle is aware of the controversy behind the origins of the juicy Lucy, which, as you know, is a famous burger stuffed with cheese. You see the folks at Matt’s Bar and Grill, they say they started the Juicy Lucy, and they even spell it juc why to prove that they are the original. But then there’s these guys at the five eight Club they say, no, they started it.

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And then if you’re in Los Angeles, there’s a place called Barney’s Beanery th…

When I hit LA, I’ll have to check that out. Did Dave Chappelle eat a Juicy Lucy or was he secretly avoiding a controversy. You know, I’m gonna guess Dave Chappelle not afraid of a burger controversy. He probably didn’t know, or wasn’t hungry he didn’t care. Now, According to Matt’sbar dot Come, shortly after opening in nineteen eighty four, a local customer asked for two hamburger patties with a slice of cheese in the middle.

The customer bit into the new molten hot burger and exclaimed, that’s one juicy lucy, hence the name Matt’s. Barr said, customer demand grew so quickly we forgot to add the eye, and the juicy lucy spelled without the eye has become a local culinary hero. And they say, remember, if it’s spelled correctly, he might be eating a shameless ripoff. John, Are you trying to avoid doing politics on the podcast today? Maybe a lot of reviews for the new season of Scrubs have come out.

Looking ahead Sunday on this very program will be a Scrub season ten preview. I’m also trying to figure out what I want to do. Is I want to do recaps of the episodes. But here’s the problem. My wife wants to watch the show with me, and I’ve shared before.

Actually maybe I haven’t shared before. I share in the future on Sunday. See I’m a time travel here sometimes on the podcast. My wife is a physician and she was a resident at exactly the time JD and Turk were residents, so we would watch this show and totally relate to it. She called it the most realistic medical show ever up until the Pit.

Now you got to watch the Pit with her her eyes or just fixated on what’s going on in every scene, and she’ll like diagnose along with the er doctors. It’s fascinating. But for me, who didn’t work at a hospital, I recognized all the character types from the show, so we always are like Scrubs. So that’s going to become an US show. But the problem is it’s going to pair up with the Pit, which means we’re not going to watch it until Friday night.

So if I want to do episode recaps, I’m not going to record those till Saturday, and they’re going to come out late. And I don’t know, And this is one I might have to just eat this. I can’t just sneak this show and be like, oh, I watched Scrubs without you. That’s not going to fly. No spoilers here now.

The reviews, I have not read them because I don’t want to be biased. I dump them into the Wednesday document as the show is back on Wednesday, February twenty fifth, So the second half of the show on Wednesday, i’ll talk about Scrubs, So I will have to read those reviews in advance. But just skimming the headlines. Some say it’s really awesome and some are giving a different reviews. We’ll see, Zach Braff said, over the years, Scrubs had varying tunes.

True fans will know. Sometimes it was broader, and it kept getting broader. We kind of regrounded the show back to where we started in the pilot. We still have our fun fantasies, but it’s really based in reality. It’s brought back to ground level.

So I’m excited for Scrubs coming back. One of my all time faves. Oh hey, guess we’re going to do politics. Step and Colbert mixed it up with CBS again. If you heard yesterday’s show, Stephen Colbert was upset that he couldn’t broadcast an interview.

CBS put out a statement that said the Late Show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Representative Games at Teller Reco. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal time rule for two other candidates, including Representative Jasmin Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. The Late Show decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on air promotion on the broadcast, rather than potentially providing the equal time options. Stephen Colbert reacted to that and said, they know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS’s lawyers, who, for the record, approve every script that goes on the air. That’s interesting, really has that always been true?

I’ll have to ask the Late Night or crew about that one. Were David Letterman script’s approved? Colbert said, between the monologue I did last night and before I did the second act talking about this issue, I had to go backstage. I got called backstage to get more notes from these lawyers, something that had never ever happened before. And they told us the language they wanted me to use to describe that equal time exceptions, and I use that language.

So I don’t know what this is about. Colbert again said the phrase, I’m grateful to have worked for CBS for the last eleven years. I’ll come back to that. I’m just so surprised that this giant global corporation would not stand up to these bullies. Colbert held up the printed out CBS statement and said, I don’t even know what to do with this.

Crap. Hold on. He then grabbed a doggie bag, No, not the kind from the restaurant, the one where you clean up after your dog, and he stuffed the paper inside it. That got a lot of applause. Now Colbert keeps using this phrase or a phrase a lot like it, I’m grateful to have worked for CBS for the last eleven years.

He keeps thanking them, and he keeps saying that, and I feel like, maybe, perhaps possibly, John, you’re crazy, Yeah, you’re right, I am. I’m just making things up. This can’t possibly be true. Maybe, perhaps possibly some lawyer is telling him to do that so he doesn’t goof up his contract. It just I don’t know.

He keeps saying I’m grateful to have work for CBS for the last eleven years or something like that, and I’m noticing it. Maybe he’s just grateful to have worked for CBS for the last eleven years. Who knows, Now, Steven, I’ll remind you CBS is paramount. Paramount makes the horrible New Star Trek that you’re part of. I think you should be a man of principle and walk away from horrible New Star Trek.

And then I will attempt to forgive you for helping to destroy Star Trek, but until you stop destroying Star Trek, I have to be aligned with the president. Jim Jeffries talked to Rolling Stone Australia. They got political. Hey, I talked about a burger for the first five minutes. What do you want me to do here?

Jim Jeffries said, I believe that eighty percent of the population are moderates who have left and right wing views. Everybody’s got whatever the topic is. You have the left wing view and a right wing view, and I have the left and right wing views, and then ten percent of the population is extreme left and ten percent is extreme right slightly, so it just topics. It says he got RFK right. There should be no chemicals in food.

We don’t need these food dies. McDonald’s French fries shouldn’t have twenty something ingredients in them when other countries don’t have all these ingredients. A box of mac and cheese shouldn’t have thirty more ingredients than an Australian box of mac and cheese. Who would argue with that? I won’t.

I mean, I go to Europe and I eat and I’m like, how come I actually feel good? After eating and then I come back here and it’s just awful. I’ve actually been trying to avoid gluten. I do agree there’s a lot of crap in American food, Jim Jeffery said, So it’s apparent I want all that stuff out of my food, right, And then the next daying RFK says is and no vaccines, Jim said, my mother in polio, I effing believe in vaccines. So it’s not the same.

Everything’s not equal. So the left can get on board of taking out all the stuff and the food, the right can get on board of taking out all this stuff, and then they go no vaccines, like it’s all one topic that I have to believe that autism came because a pregnant woman and took tailand all. I don’t believe that. I think that sounds like BS.

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And then they wanted to say it was because of the vaccines.

They obviously couldn’t find the evidence. Jim continued, I’ve always considered myself to be a fairly right wing Australian in the sense that I believe in tight borders, and I’m financially seen to be right wing in many perspects, but I’m extremely left wing for an American because I believe women should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies. I fully believe in healthcare for all, I believe in social services and housing for all, and those words that I’m saying right now to a lot of Americans with socialist programs, I might as well be a communist, right I’m the most extreme lefty on earth to certain Americans, But in Australia, that doesn’t make me an extreme lefty, does it. The Mayor of Allentown, Matt Chruik, was on Tim Hideker’s Office Hours with Tim Hideker podcast. The mayor gave Tim Hideker a key to the city and said that in Tim’s role as Allentown’s chief cheerleader, Tim needs to urge people to return to Allentown.

The mayor tried to convince Tim Hideker to return to the city himself, explaining, about a year ago we opened up a new fifteen hundred seat music hall off Hamilton Street. Hamilton Street has seen about a billion dollars of investment in the past ten years. You wouldn’t recognize it from when you were there. Hallidecker reminisced about working at a brass rail restaurant in bar location that is now a wah wah. The mayor said he prefers sheets.

By the way. In New Jersey, there’s been a thing. The sheets stores are starting to creep into New Jersey taking on the wah wahs. This is the whole thing.

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And then and then this wahwah vers quick check versus seven to eleven.

I don’t think I’ve ever been to a sheets wah wah has actually a pretty good sandwiches. I digress, The mayor said. The farmers market is amazing. Brass rails, they are great Korean food. Saturday at four o’clock there are eighty year old duchy women arguing about the price of meat that’s about expired.

Sounds like crap, but it’s amazing. Congratulations to the National Comedy Center, named the number one best pop culture museum in the country by USA Today. That’s right, The NCC was one of the twenty institutions nationwide nominated as best in the US. But of course the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, was named number one. Jerny Gunderson, who was on this very program one time, said the national recognition from USA Today is a powerful acknowledgment of the extraordinary artists who have shaped comedy, the great mind, singular voices and time hone creative processes that have elevated this art form throughout its history.

The JFL Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival continues. Correspondent Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast went to see one of the shows. Mike, take it from here. Red Richardson just killed it at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. I’m at the Review stage on Granville Island, very cool room, about one hundred people and Red got up there.

If you haven’t seen Red Richardson, British Schlubby got this kind of a very very cool persona character that he plays, you know, and he can go anywhere from He’s a brilliant dullard. That’s how I would classify Red Richardson. He’s a brilliant dullard. Landed every joke that he tried to try to tell you, landed them all, no matter what. And it’s funny.

He has the ability to make like he did a nine to eleven joke and it was so funny. And that’s the key. He can whether it’s cancel culture or nine to eleven. He can set up a premise where you think it’s gonna get serious, and he can make it completely innocent, almost very silly, and did some very clever things poking fun at crowd work and just you know, I don’t want to ruin any of the bits, but I would highly recommend going to see him on stage. He said that he had mostly new material, so he pulled the crowd to see if anybody had seen his last outing, and some had, and he said, well, this is almost all new material, and I think a lot of it could be used for a special.

It really was a fun show. I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you. Mike Chisholm all right at JFL Vancouver tonight. Drew Lynch, he was on the has a Very program on Sunday.

He’s at the Vogue Theater at seven o’clock. Dylan Adler does a show at seven. Dylan’s really good. Mike Rita has a show at seven. Jesse Jetski Johnson is it the review stage at nine?

Vladimir Kamanyo.

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Now here’s a guy that I saw at New Faces, like I think the very first New Fac…

So we’re talking, oh, fifteen twenty years ago. I thought he was going to pop. He was fantastic that night and it never really came together for Vladimir Kamanyo. But he’s got a show at seven thirty. All right, if we were in Vancouver tonight, do you go see Drew Lynch, Do you go see Dylan Adler?

Maybe you go see Drew and maybe Dylan will do one more show. Dylan’s really good, though, that’s a tough call tonight. They’re both early shows, and then I guess for a late show. Let’s see who Jesse Jetski Johnson is. I’m unfamiliar with Jesse Jesske Johnson.

We’re told Jesse Jetski Johnson is a musical school dropout and trumpet player turns down comedian from Phoenix. She’s a cast member on the kil Tony podcast she Is and the Bad Friends podcast with Santino and Bobby Lee. Okay, I haven’t listened to kill Tony in a bit. Maybe, all right, move on, John, Okay, I’ll move on on Gossip Corner Radar Online. That’s a bit of a gossipy website.

They have the headline Cougar Kathy Griffin’s toy boy Hunt how man eating comic has already moved on from twenty three year old hunk. That’s right, Kathy Griffin had been dating a twenty three year old man she described as an accidental romance. An insider tells Radar Online. Kathy feels like she’s in her thirty She wants to have fun and live fully and isn’t done finding someone who makes her heart race now at the end of twenty twenty five with check your calendar is not that long ago. Kathy told People Magazine, my divorce took me out.

I’m not gonna lie. Some people were like, I was glad I got rid of them, and I’ve never felt better. I was down for the count. It was harder than cancer. Kathy Griffin is sixty five years old.

Don’t act like he didn’t want me to throw that piece of information out there. And from the Korean June Gang Daily say it with me. You’re home for comedy news comedian Roe hung Chull is under fire. Apparently Roe hung Chull posted some photos with some lions while visiting an animal park in Tanzania. So as the story goes, Roe posted on Insta in January after visiting Servil Wildlife a safari park in Tanzania.

He captured it trying to touch the tip of a sleeping lion’s fur. I’ve seen the photo and he’s kind of laying down, kind of near a lion. He also posted a video of himself walking alongside an awake lion. Some animal welfare activist questions whether the lion appeared to be sedated, raising suspicions that the experience involved tranquilizing the animal to make a docile for close contact encounters. An African travel agency specializing in tourst of the region also criticized Rose photos, writing does this lot Does this lion look normal?

No matter how you try to package it as a f retail moment with a sleeping lion, this animal appears drugged. Rowe addressed the issue on Instagram on Sunday, writing, ethical wildlife encounters I visited after reviewing keywords such as Tanzanian government oversight, health, treatment, recovery, and release into natural habitats. But I’m hearing other perspectives as well, he has if the concerns are valid, I will of course take part, implying he would take responsibility if necessary. The post also included pictures of him feeding a giraffe. That is your comedy news for today.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm loves. Hope you enjoyed the George Lopez grill yesterday, because we’re back to politics. Very serious topic here for real.

Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from having on a rising democrat on The Late Show. Colbert said he was told, quote in no uncertain terms, that he could have Representative James Tallerco on The Late Show. Here’s a lengthy clip. I will let Stephen Colbert explain. You know who is not one of my guests tonight.

That’s Texas State Representative James Talerico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this. You’ve probably heard.

So you might have heard of this thing called the equal time rule. Okay, it’s an old FCC rule that applies only to radio and broadcast television, not cable or streaming. That says, if a show has a candidate on during an election, they have to have all that candidate’s opponents on as well. It’s the FCC’s most time honored rule, right after no nipples at the Super Bowl. There’s long been an exception for this rule, an exception for news interviews and talk show interviews with politicians.

Now that’s crucial. How else were voters supposed to know back in ninety two that Bill Clinton sucked at Saxophone? But on January twenty first of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and smug bowling pin Brendan Carr. In this letter, Car said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes. Well, sir, you’re chairman of the FCC, so FCCU.

Because I think. Simple, because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself. Sir, I smelt it because he had delt it. You are Dutch ovening America’s airwaves. Let’s just call this what it is Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV.

Okay, He’s like a toddler with too much screen time that’s cranky and then drops a load in his diaper. Right, so like super interesting there now. In this next section, Colbert talks about his alliance with Jimmy Kimmel and how he put the interview on his YouTube page. I have edited this for pacing. It’s no surprise that two of the people most affected by this threat or me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel.

When this letter dropped. We both talked about the letter on air, and then later car defended it like this, if Kimmel. Or Colbert want to continue to do their programming and they don’t want to have to comply with this requirement, then they can go to a cable channel or podcast or streaming service and that’s fine. Great idea man whose job is to regulate broadcast TV suggest everyone just leave broadcast TV. It’s like when Arby’s changed our slogan to Arby’s would it kill you to eat a salad?

Anyway? I decided to take Brendan Carr’s advice. I am going to interview James Tallerico tonight, but it’s not going to be on the Late Show. It’s going to be on the Late Shows YouTube page. The network says, I can’t give you URL or a QR code, but I promise you if you go to our YouTube page, you’ll find it.

And as the SEC Commissioner has pointed out, I’m not part of the equal time rules. So at the end of this podcast, I will play some of that interview. We’ll come back to that.

Meanwhile, Dave Chappelle did appear in Minneapolis.

He was at the Grand Casino Arena. Neil Justin caught the show for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Neil reports near the beginning of the show, Chappelle said, I’m sorry I couldn’t get here sooner, but you didn’t need me. Chappelle wondered if the people in Springfield, Ohio, near his hometown would be able to show the same nerve if and when federal agents conduct similar raids in Springfield, Ohio. Quoting the account from the newspaper, Chappelle apparently said, I don’t know as much faith in the whites of Springfield as I do in the whites of Minneapolis.

The recap interestingly says Chappelle largely avoided jokes about transgender people, but he was far from timid when it came to joking about other groups. We’re told Chappelle joked, I’m about to say the most racist thing I’ll say tonight, but it’s not the only racist thing I’ll say. He then launched into a bit about Chinese people being sneaky. Neil Justin writes, the truth is most of his material was wrapped in affection. The one exception was his frequent use of a derogatory term for gay people that was dated and unnecessary.

But for the most part, Chappelle was on good behavior, or what passes for good behavior for a comic who thrives on pushing buttons. There was hilarious routine on looking at Raiders of the Lost Arc with fresh eyes, and another on how we tried to get Will Smith and Chris Rock to hug it out. On Saturday Night Live, Chappelle announced that all proceeds from the show would stay in the community. I shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, a video of Dave Chappelle visiting the memorial to Alex Pretty Dave play some flowers there. There’s no audio for me to really share with you here, but it’s in the Facebook group if you want to check that out.

Now. While I was in Chappelle mode, I found some reviews of his Super Bowl weekend shows. Now, I had been looking for these and they just weren’t coming up in search. Chappelle’s and Ami tend to throw into the search engines every single day, especially like yesterday when I didn’t have much news, But all of a sudden these popped up. When from the SF Gates Dan Chinilly went to see Dave.

Dan has written about Chappelle many times in the past. Dan thinks it seems like a recording of the set might be heading to Netflix. He wasn’t sure. Chappelle walked out wearing a shirt and blazon with Colin Kaepernick on the back that got a lot of applause. Colin Kaepernick played for the San Francisco forty nine ers.

Dan writes, if you’ve seen Dave’s perform in San Francisco before, odds are you’ve heard much of the set. He returned to transgender jokes a few times and added some lines about Somalians to keep things topical, but this time most of the humor was aimed at Chinese and Jewish people. The other main theme was Dave’s famous friends, with anecdotes about Will Smith and Chris Rock’s Oscar slap. Dan found those bits dated. The standout bit of the Knight saw Chappelle recounting the plot of readers of the Lost Arc.

All right, so that seems like it’s part of the new set. Dan Wright says he has at almost every San Francisco show of the last three years. Chappelle told a story about running into a childhood friend at a Lakers game who directed him to his favorite Indian restaurant in the Tenderloine. Of course, the Cli the story includes an unhoused person pooping on the sidewalk. Dave closed the night on a somber note.

He lowered his voice and explained that he performs these days because being around audiences makes him feel better, and that was in power want to keep us from gathering. The SF Chronicle said Dave treated his latest Bay Area appearance not as escapism but a reminder to stay vigilant. They recap that Dave did some free association weaving together celebrity weekend chatter, politics, conspiracy culture, and long winding stories that ended a punchline you can see coming but still don’t quite expect. A chunk of the set was about travel. He described leaving the country after his last special and wandering through Paris, including a long riff about finally seeing the Mona Lisa and imagining how he’d react if he spotted her in the club.

Oh, he’s got a really good punch here, but I will get in trouble if I say it’s so read it in the SF Chronicle. But the punchline to the Mona Lisa joke is hilarious. The show’s rhythm, ramling story, sharp left turn, punchline, then a longer meditation also carried the themes that have defined his recent work, from the speed of online outrage to the way political identities harden into tribes, and how fame turns every breaking news update into something uncomfortably close. He then talked about Minneapolis again. This show was in San Francisco.

Dave said, zeffed up what they’re doing. Ice were snatching up so many Mexicans, they got carried away. They run out of Mexicans, so they flew to Venezuela and snatched up the president brought him back to America so they could try and send him back to Venezuela. That’s funny. Something is wrong, isn’t it.

Trump is working on something.

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And then apparently that goes into the readers of the Lost Arc Chunk spoilers…

Dave said, you know what the box represented to me when I saw it on beet the other day. The Epstein Files. They just dumped three million pages of the e fing most salacious crap. But I’m smart, I’m not going to look. Dave continues, The Epstein Files got the whole world ft up, don’t they.

Every time I go out to the party, like all Super Bowl weekend, I keep seeing celebrities everywhere, and they’d be like, hey, Dave, let’s get a picture. I’m like, okay, But in my mind when I’m taking the picture, I’d be like, boy, I hope you don’t reap. In another section, Dave described a futurist split between quote maggot Country, which is what we’re going through now, a woke land, this one where he used the homophobic slur using one of the F words, quoting Dave, I’m going to read it flat deliberately. If I have to choose, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, I’m probably going to fight on the F word land side. I’m going to be in a foxhole, like, what’s your pronoun soldier?

I need more ammunition. Let’s lighten things up a little bit. Todd Barry will be in Syracuse tonight. He posted on social media asking celeb friendly solo dining in Syracuse. Actress Laura and Holly wrote back, No, you should probably leave the state immediately.

Musician Stephen Page from The Bare Naked Lady said try Noble Settler or the Wedge. Some other recommendations included postibilities Dinosaur Barbecue, the York lemongrass Eten, Copper Top Tavern, Daniella Steakhouse, and many others. Boy, people really got into this. Todd Barry liked to feel the suggestions, including a tip for the Wegman’s Food Court, but one social media user for the win. That person wrote, if you’re the select question, I think you’ll be okay no matter where you go.

All right, let’s see what’s happening at Just for Last Vancouver tonight. We have our special correspondent, Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast. I sent him to two shows last night. He got up super early. He texted me at like five in the morning.

He lives in the Vancouver suburbs. He lives in a place called Moose Antler is a British Columbia and apparently after commute to Vancouver like ridiculously early. So I was sending him to like seven pm shows, but you know, he’s Canadian. He didn’t want to let me down, so headed out at like five in the morning. So we’ll hear back from Mike.

But if we were at Just for Last Vancouver tonight, anyone interested in this one? Mike, You’re listening at seven o’clock at the Queen Elizabeth Theater an evening with David Letterman and special guest Zach Galifnakis. Boy, I hope Letterman has something to talk about. What would he possibly bring up? So we all know where Mike is going to be tonight.

I considered going out to this thing. It’s a Wednesday, Like if this were like closer to a weekend and I could have stretched out. I probably would have showed up at JFL Vancouver one of these years, I’m going to go to it. But it was a Wednesday. It was like, eh, so Mike will be on scene to tell us what happens with an Evening with David Letterman and special guest Zach Galifanakis.

Some other shows tonight at the Rio. Craig Connant, He’s got a show at seven, good luck. Catherine Blandford, who you don’t know yet. She’s fantastic. I’ve seen her.

She’s really good. I sent Mike to that show last night. She has a show tonight at seven. But again, Letterman’s gonna win all ties. Matty Kelly has a show at the Fox Cabaret at seven.

Dylan Adler, I’ve seen him. He’s really good. He’s got a nine o’clock show. I mean, I guess you could run from Letterman over to the Review stage and catch Dylan Adler. He’s really good.

It’s a very very solid night at Just for Last Vancouver. From Radar Online, which tends to be a gossipy sight. Amy Schumer in the news again. The headline Amy Schumer’s divorced strategy exposed, including how she’s intent on controlling the narrative of split from Chris Fisher. Read article about Amy Schumer just always makes you feel good, doesn’t it.

Radar Online writes. When speculation ramped up about the possible divorce, Schumer maintained, Chris and I are still married, fingers crossed. We make it through. He’s the best. A source tells Radar Online the divorce was already underway, with money, custody and property divided.

The source told Radar Amy wanted to get everything handled before making the news public. For her son’s sake and for Chris, She’s focused on protecting them both. Okay, fair enough. She knows she’s going to be picked apart and wants to give people as little ammunition as possible. She’s hoping that she and Fisher can be a quote consciously uncouple, similar to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin.

The source says, then it won’t all hurt so much. Ray Romano made his Broadway debut in Simon Rich’s comedy about Ambition. Ray told the Today Show, Relax, I’m not singing. You don’t ever want to hear this voice sing. Ray said, over the years, have been offered a couple of Broadway things, and I’ve never really had the courage to do a full play that runs for months.

This seemed like the perfect little introduction of Broadway. And let’s circle back to where we began. On the Late Show YouTube page, Stephen Colbert spoke with Representative James tell Rico. Let’s listen to the beginning of that interview. I’ve trimmed it a little bit for pacing and cutting down music and applause and things like that, but the words are more or less intact.

Joining me now is a representative in the Texas State House. It is currently running for the United States Senate. Please welcome to the Late Show YouTube page. Representative James taller Rico. I know, thank you.

Now. Here’s the thing. I don’t usually say this to a guest, but if people are watching this right now, it’s because they found us online on YouTube. I did an act of the show that’s on tonight, explaining why it’s not the first time you’ve caused some trauma. FCC opening probe into the view after appearance by taller Rico, do you mean to cause Trump?

I think that Donald Trump is worried that we’re about to flip Texas and Stephen this. This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture, the kind that comes from the top. They they went after the view because I went on there. They went after Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke they didn’t like.

They went after you for telling the truth about Paramount’s bribe to Donald Trump. Corporate corporate, corporate media executives are selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians. And a threat to any of our First Amendment rights is a threat to all of our First Amendment rights. So I’m just the. Fact the fact check you my network’s at are canceling.

This was a purely financial decision, got it, and I remain very grateful for the last eleven years. And you can find the rest of that interview on the YouTube page. I’ve shared the link in the episode notes. And that is your comedy news for today, Oh, Comedy Survivor. Looks like last time I checked, it was like a Kevin Hart voting block trying to get rid of Kevin Hart and the SIGNATARO people.

They’re talking a little bit too now. As a Star Trek fan, there are certain people who are just ruining Star Trek. They include Stephen Colbert, who’s putting me in a tough spot today because obviously I believe in free speech. But on the other hand, Stephen Colbert aligns himself with Alex Kurtzman and the people destroying Star Trek. So I am forced to choose.

I’m in a no win battle there. Do I choose free speech? Do I choose Star Trek. You know, Johnny Mack takes his Star Trek very seriously, but I’m not going to burn down the Republic to save Star Trek. I’ve got the DVDs up in the closet next to the Scrubs DVDs.

I can watch Star Trek TuS whenever I want. What you do is you go to the Facebook group taly Comedy News podcast group. You find a picture of me extinguishing the torch of Seth Myers who was voted off last week. Write down the name of who like voted off Comedy Island. The list of remaining comedians is in that post.

Voting continues until end of day Thursday. In METU Comedy news for today, see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Right there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is a sentence the ALGORITHMP barely love, so I’ll keep saying it. It was a three day weekend and apparently everybody took yesterday off and there wasn’t all that much comedy news. So as I was putting the show together, I’m like, I need one more thing, and boy, George Lopez has hooked it up.

Now. Longtime listeners remember, kind of as the pandemic was starting to ramp down, George Lopez had George Lopez tacos and I made a lot of fun of that and got through a lot of slow news days with that. So George Lopez has hooked it up once again. The headline George Lopez launches innovative stovetop, grill and smoker that fans love. I promised you yesterday.

Yesterday was very political. I said today I would try and make today fun, and I will try and make today fun. I do have one thing I need to do at the end, but do that very last From Parade Magazine, comedian George Lopez surprises fans with the invention of his own stovetop barbecue, grill and smoker, showcasing its unique design and functionality on Instagram. Parade tells us if you’ve been wondering what George Lopez has been up to, you might be surprised to learn the world famous stand up comedian has been cooking up something special behind the scenes. There’s a video.

Should we listen, Let’s listen. Well don’t know this, but I am Ben and my own grill. This is the cast iron and when you churn on, when you put this over it, and then the holes line up to the trot there and you’re done cooking. It all collects, nothing goes in the fire, so in a sense, you would be barbecuing inside your chicken ribs, whatever you want to do. We did some strips one time.

We want to paves on this too. Bacon, sausage, steaks, hot dogs. Easy to clean and the more you use it, the more it looks beat down and the better of fruit tastes. So we’re gonna be cooking on this one and the first person I guess, Hulder, I’ll stop doing it. But until then, kitchen is open.

So you guys, yes, leave me a note, gave me a message, and tell me what you want me to cook, and I’ll make it happen on this scroll right here. And Parade Magazine didn’t shill for George Lopez at all. This is an honest to goodness review. And I know that because they wrote honestly. Parade writes, honestly, this thing is beyond cool.

That’s right. It’s not just cool, it’s beyond cool, says Parade Magazine. Designed to sit like a stovetop griddle, George Lopez’s four piece stovetop and barbecue grill slash smoker has a speckled enamel on steel base with an integrated grease truff that fits perfectly over two burners on any standard range about the height and shape of a large rectangular baking dish. The bass cradles a cast iron grill insert, keeping it raised above the burners and creating a chamber of heat underneath. Now on the video he posted, there’s some chiron.

It says, should I start my own cooking show? And to that, George Lopez, I say, oh, please, do really really please do. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so she posted herself a bright red bikini on Instagram. There we see comedian Amy Schumer wearing a red bikini looking out at the clear blue water. She pauses for a few seconds before she takes a leap into the clear blue water.

She also shared some photos of herself spending some time with friends and joked, my new team is expensive, but worth it. She explains, laughing hard with your friends is so essential. Don’t forget good for your body, close your eyes and breathe, move around, jump in water whenever you have the chance, and get your face out of your screen and in front of other people. Nate Bergazzi was the Grand Marshal at the daytone of five hundred. He caught up with the Charlotte Observer.

We learned that Nate slept over at the track before the race. He said, yeah, I woke up in the racetrack. Admatur of us come down. It was just easy. You want experience, said the best way you can and your grand marshals, so you can ask for a couple of things.

I was like, can you please put me in the middle of the track. So, yeah, we woke up there. You open the door and you’re kind of in it. Nate said, I was thinking all those people that sleep out there. I’m sure a lot of them have long nights, and then you wake up to a car going two hundred miles an hour.

Nate was asked if he had any opinion on NASCAR coming back to the Nashville Fairgrounds. The Fairgrounds last hosted a Cup race in nineteen eighty four. Nate said, there were roller coasters over there. What maybe nervous about roller coasters at the Fairgrounds. I remember riding as a kid that always be working on them, even when you were riding the roller coaster, Like, why these guys working on the roller coaster as it’s going anyway.

Yeah, the speedway’s beautiful where it’s at. It’s very accessible. It’s a real big track. Obviously the Fairgrounds would be nice to have it in Nashville proper. The soccer stadium’s over there, so I don’t know, it’d be nice if you could switch it up.

It’s a smaller track at different race. They asked Nate about the power he had as his grand marshall. He said, I’m trying to learn how much power do I have? Just keep pushing the limit. NASCAR centric sketches you know it’s hard.

Talladegga Knights killed it. That’s what makes it the hardest. The stuff they did that movie where we’re like, yeah they did, it’s unbelievable. You’re always looking yours trying to find material, trying to find something to do. I’ll definitely have my eyes open and see if I see anything.

If I do, I need material. I’ve always need a material. Bird Kreischer was also down there for the weekend. He was joined by NASCAR driver Natalie Decker. They took a picture together.

In it, we see Natalie Decker and Berg Kreischer smiling with their mouths open and pointing to the sky. Decker got in a mention of her sponsor and wrote, from your nose to your tills and everything in between, there’s a sponsor name for that. Sponsor can pay me. Adam Sandler once performed music on the streets of New York City after he was fired from three jobs. Sandler last week won that award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Sandler said music is the best that’s always been there for me. When I went to NYU, I said, I kind of want to stay in New York this summer between freshman and sophomore year, and I was doing stand up and my dad said, you got to get a job. So I got three different jobs. I got fired, fired from two restaurants, in a pharmacy. They were all like, you’re not good working.

So I told my dad I keep getting fired. He was like, you got to make money. Button, So I said, yeah, I think maybe i’ll sing on the subway. So I used to sing on the subways. So wait, so like back in the day, wait, I got do some Mathew, how old is Sandler?

Sandler’s fifty nine is three years older than me. So when he was in college, I was in high school and I commuted via subway to high school. You mean to tell me When I was trying to just like get to school and there was some idiot singing in the subway. I hate those guys because they’re in the way. This is New York City move So the idiot singing the subway could have been Adam Sandlor.

Oh, now it all makes sense. I probably have some subconscious hatred of this man, going back to like me wearing a blazer and tie in nineteen eighty seven, just trying to get to school and there’s this idiot singing stupid songs in the subway. Sailor explained, you take your guitar case, opened it. This was before the assigned places. I used to randomly just go to different spots and play guitar.

Get out of the way. Now it all makes sense. Jessica Curson said she can look at an audience, pick people out, and spin it into material right on the spot. In her current set, she says, I do crowd work in the beginning because everybody wants to see that. Then I talk about my family as well in observations and do some characters.

When I started stand up comedy, I served as the host of many shows. I got a lot more stage time that way, and when you host, you talk to the crowd a lot. I always felt comfortable communicating like that. I don’t call it crowd work. I call it crowd conversations because I’m really talking to them.

It’s not forced at all. I could tell when people want me to tease them or bust on them. Most of my theater shows, the entire front sells out before the other parts of the theater. People want to be upfront and talk to me. But if I feel someone doesn’t want to talk, I’ll never pressure them.

Mike Epps is opening a boxing gym in Indianapolis. It’s the Right Jab at Boxing Gym on Sutherland Avenue near thirty eighth Street. Mike Apps said, there’s no way I could gain the success that I have and not bring it back to Indianapolis and share it. A lot of entertainers, a lot of people move out of their hometowns and go to big cities. Do you work?

But no place like bringing it back to your hometown where you grew up. Just for last Vancouver continues tonight. It’s a little bit slow. Let’s see Red Richardson is at the Review stage at seven, Catherine Blandford at that same venue at nine, a couple of local shows involving Canadian comedians. It’ll pick up more, some big names later in the week.

On Netflix Today, Some More as a new comedy special film at the Gordon Theater in Detroit. It’s Some More second for Netflix. In Chandelier Fly, she shares her takes on untimely death, celebrity scandals, and cell phone companies learning to mind their business. The Simpsons had their eight hundred episode. Show Runner Matt Selman said the show will never have a series finale.

They did a fake finale in season thirty six. Selman explains that was my way of saying, we’re never going to do a series finale. He hopes the last episode will just be a regular episode that is the family in it. Salmon says, if The Simpsons one Day does come to an end, it would just be a regular episode that is the family in it. Probably a little easter egg here and there, but no, I’m going to miss this place.

The show isn’t supposed to change. The characters reset every week. It’s like groundhog Day, but they don’t know it and they don’t die that much. And our one political thing today, the President of the United States commented on Bill Maher. The President took five hundred words on truth Social to call mister Marr a highly overrated lightweight.

It is believed that the President of the United States was inspired by Bill Mahr’s February thirteenth episode of Real Time. On It, Bill Maher mockingly read a February ninth Truth Social post from the President of the United States, in which the President of the United States discussed a potential trade deal between Canada and China, claiming that China would terminate all ice hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup. Mar was confused and asked the question why would China destroy hockey? On a February fourteenth post on truth Social the President of the United States said he was not being serious when he made a statement about hockey. The President went on to say it was a total waste of time for me to have this jerk at the White House, the jerk in question being a Bill Maher.

The President wrote, sometimes in life you waste time tvOS. Bill Maher asked me to have dinner with him through one of his friends, also a friend of mine. I agreed. He came into the famed Oval office much different than I thought he would be. He was extremely nervous, had zero all caps confidence in himself and assuthe his nerves immediately within seconds asked for a vokatnic.

He said to me, I’ve never felt like this before. I’m actually scared. In one respect, it was somewhat endearing anyway. We had a great dinner, was quick, easy, and it seemed to be a nice guy. And for his first show after our dinner.

He was very respectful of our meeting. But with everything I’ve done in bringing our country back from oblivion all Caps, why shouldn’t he be in any event, It was a total waste of time for me to have this jerk at the White House, and last night, after explaining what a disaster all Caps Canadian leaders are to deal with, how Canada has ripped off the United States for years on trade all Caps, but not anymore, I jokingly said in a truth that the first thing China will do is terminate all ice hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup. Trump wrote that mar went on and on about the hockey statement, like what kind of person would say such a foolish thing as this, as though aways being serious when I said it. Fortunately, his television ratings are so low that nobody will learn about his various fake news statements about me. He’s no different than Kim ol Follon or Colbert, but I must admit slightly more talented.

Anyway, Bill Maher is a highly overrated lightweight All Caps and Republicans should stop using him to show how the left is coming off or our way, our base the greatest of all time. Laughs at your weakness. When you do it, that sounds like the way Klingons would speak. We laugh at your weakness. Mar asked me if you could come back to the White House again with his friend.

Also asked to come to the wonderful White House Christmas Party, but he didn’t. Regardless, I’d much rather spend my time making America great again than wasting it on him. Bill continues to suffer from a severe case of Trump Derangement syndrome TDS exclamation point, and there’s nothing that will ever be done to cure him of this very serious disease. Thank you for your attention to this minor matter. President DJT.

CNN interviewed Bill Maherr. They posted the interview on Saturday. Mar was asked if Trump texts him. Mar said yes, yelling at me. This was a few hours after the Truth social post.

Ma argues that Trump is very different in person, and then everyone who’s ever met him says the same thing. Not true. Comedy needs for today. Thank you, George Lopez, See you guys tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media. Outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor and I’m Johnny Mac. This is Comedy Survivor where six weeks ago, sixteen comedians were stranded on Comedy Island. Each week, the listeners vote off one comedian.

What they do is they go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group, and they write down a name. Whoever gets the most votes is voted off Comedy Island. Still in the game. Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko At Kotzka, Sebastian Manascalco Tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Kreischer. It’s time to see who goes home.

I’ll tell you the votes. Michelle votes for Sarah Silverman. I believe that is Sarah’s first vote in the game. Matt votes for Kevin Hart. I believe that’s Kevin Hart’s first vote in the game.

Interesting start here. Mike votes for Seth Myers. Scott votes for tig Nataro, Aaron votes for Seth Myers. That’s two votes for Seth Myers. Yvon votes for Osco At Cotska.

Rob votes for OSCO at Cootska. That’s two votes for OTSCO at Cootka, two votes for Seth Myers. Dylan votes for OTSCO at Cotska, three votes for OTSCO at Cootska. Richard votes for Seth Myers, three votes for Seth, three votes for Otsco, Cheryl votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, Andrea votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. That’s three votes for Otsco, three votes for Seth, and two votes for Sebastian.

And our final vote comes from Andy, who votes for Kevin Hart. Once again for the second week in a row, we have a tie. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, Spruce, the AI will cast the deciding vote. Spruce, are you there, I’m right here. No need to worry.

I’m ready whenever you need me. What’s on your mind? Next? Can you check my work make sure the votes are accurate. I already reviewed the votes from the text you share, and the final tally came out to a tie between Seth Myers and Asuquo Costco with three votes each.

Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, you get to cast the deciding vote and would like your reason why please. Well, since I’m in the hot seat, I pick based on who stirred the most passionate debate. Both Seth and Onsugo got strong reactions. Since comedy subjective, I lean forward, keeping the one who sparked that I finally watched them. Tsuko stays.

Seth goes. Now that’s a twist. Wow, make twelve thirty great again. Seth Myers has been eliminated. We’ll take the break, we’ll come back, and we’ll analyze this week’s vote.

Wow. Another fun week here on Comedy Island. Seth meyers elimination is a big vote, not a random one. It was not a pylon from a one voting block. It was a coalition.

Mike started the ball rolling with a clean direct vote that framed Seth Myers as the natural follow up to Jay Leno. Aaron reinforced it with an argument about making Late Night great again. Aaron, the President of the United States and I are all aligned on that one. Somehow. The AI tells us what matters is that the anti Seth vote was unified while the rest of the field was fragmented.

Otsgo had momentum early, then it’s stalled. Kevin Hart has a little heat, but its casual heat, not organized heat, and Sebastian’s two late votes are protest votes, not a movement, and the AI points out people openly said we can get Seth later and then didn’t. That means that once the name becomes acceptable, it becomes inevitable. According to the AI, upcoming possible targets include Kevin Hart, Sebastian, and of course Osco at Kotska little momentum. She barely survived this week, but Leslie Jones barely survived last week, and there wasn’t a single vote for her this week, So who knows what will happen on Comedy Survivor.

So here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go to the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. There you will find a cartoon image of me and Seth Myers. In that Facebook thread, you will vote. Make it super clear, I’m voting off so and So.

The last thing I need for this thing is a controversy. It’s bad enough with the ties. Seth Myers has been eliminated, joining Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Joe Cooy, Ron White, and Jay Leno. Back at the Comedy Island Resort, and Spa Hotel still in the game. Still on the island.

Jim Gaffigan. I don’t think he’s got a vote yet. Nikki Glaser quietly sailing along. Kevin Hart now on the radar, John Mulaney, Sebastian Manascalco, Tig Natar, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Bird Kreischer, and Otsco at Cosca. Still on Comedy Island.

A right comment one name. You are voting someone off the island. One vote per person. Voting ends end of day Thursday. Who will go next?

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Kalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence you’d think I’ve memorized by now, but I have not. But the algorithm does love it. Apparently numbers are up new listeners.

Thank you Today is political, not because it’s President’s Day. Just as I put the show together the same way I put the show together every day. Almost all the stories are political. Sold try and start with a fun one. I saw this headline.

Deal between Jimmy Fallon and Tommy Mottola falls through. Apparently they were going to work on a pasta sauce together. What could have possibly gone wrong? Seems that Tommy’s name is in the Epstein files. Page six says representatives for Jimmy Fallon did not comment, nor did Tommy spokesperson.

A source familiar with the pasta sauce plans tells page six nobody wants to be within fifty feet of anyone in the Epste files. Obviously, the Epstein Files are not funny, but the pasta aspect of this story is funny. Jimmy Fallon has escaped Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel has proposed a new nickname for the files. Kimmel has proposed rebranding the Epstein Files as the Epstein Trump Files. Kim ll explained Trump wants everything to be named after him, including the Kennedy Center, Dulles International Airport, and New York’s Pans Station.

Jimmy said, I mean, if that’s the way to keep them happy. I have another suggestion for something we could name after him, and it’s big, and I think you’ll like it because it’s something everybody’s talking about, something that he actually, unlike almost everything else he wants named after him, deserves to be a part of. And I propose that we should think about adding his name to the Epstein Files. This is hilarious and that is the point of comedy. You can find laughter and anything like.

Again, it’s serious for a second. I write for Pallace Intrigue about the British Royal Family, Epstein Files, everything. Some of the stuff that I have clicked on these images are in my head. I don’t even want to verbalize out louds some of the things have come across that are just horrific. So I don’t make fun of the files at all.

But from a comedy standpoint, what Kimmel’s doing here is hilarious. The idea that a Jimmy fallon pasta sauce deal went sideways over the files, that is kind of funny. So Kimmel said, with your cooperation and the cooperation of others, will be known as the Trump Epstein File. So now he’s flipped it there as an ice ring to it. Why not put his name on the outside of the files too.

On Thursday Night, Jimmy is Monologue noted that he has trademarked the phrase Epstein Trump Files. Kim Will explain jd Vance has been very weekly defending his boss in the fact that Trump’s name is mentioned more than a million times in what are now known as the Trump Epstein Files. We’re getting that trademark, but if you can spread it around, feel free. The Hollywood Reporter had a big piece titled why Mega Boosting comedy bros or turning on Trump? Subheading from Joe Rogan Andrew Schultz.

The bromance between bright coded comics and the president is quickly cooling off. The Hollywood Reporter reminds us, with their tens of millions of subscribers manosphere show a circle of pals that includes such Trump amenable comics as Tony Hinchcliff, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schultz. Are not a cultural footnote. That reminds me last week Theovaughn had on two guests. He had on Kevin James and the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.

Kennedy Junior. If you want to catch up on THEO. Vaughn Show, Kevin James always great, listen. I’m sure I digress. The hollowd Reporter says Hinchcliffe, Rogan, Vaughn, Andrew Schultz are not a cultural footnote.

They are an infrastructure map. You know, that’s sentence structure. There is very AI. I use a lot of AI. It’s very AI there copywriters at The hollod Reporter Sidney Demetz, a fifth year PhD student at the University of Washington who studies podcast networks and misinformation, described the medium’s advantage less as a media theory than a statement of physics.

Sidney says podcasts are incredibly persuasive because they induce the parasocial phenomenon and trigger a lot of feelings of intimacy and trust. Hopefully that is true. Hopefully people are walking around and saying the phrase great dramatic actor Adam Sandler Fell Sydney is right about this, She says. The listener does not merely consume content. The listener builds a relationship.

After enough hours, disagreement feels like betrayal. Right, so like, yeah, you’re gonna be sitting there, you’re gonna be watching Happy Gilmour three, and you’re gonna be like, this sucks. Johnny Mack is right. See, that’s how this works. Thhr writes, this is how political influence arrives disguised his personality.

Roguod show rarely sounds like ideology. It sounds like a shaggy, melancholic tenderness or fuse. It will be pinned down Schultz. A show is never doctrine, but it does sound like swagger. They don’t tell all their audiences what to believe, so much as they suggest what is acceptable to laugh at, to dismiss, to view as performative, order regard as just the media doing its predictable thing.

Skipping ahead, Vaughn’s recent rupture with the administration is instructive because it’s less ideological than existential. When DHS posts that a deportation themed video that used to clip a Vaughan without his consent. He objected publicly. Schultz’s retreat has been much louder. Talking to Charlemagne the God on January thirty first, a rattled Schultz said the fatal shooting of Alex Pretty by Ice agents in Minneapolis was his breaking point.

It’s giving ahead. Trump can survive contempt from newspapers he survived for years. What he cannot easily survives contempt from the people who made him feel to millions of listeners like a permissible choice. The hangover is spreading. Not a sudden moral awakening, but a curdling, a fatigue, a clawing sense that the joke kept going long after it stopped being funny.

Now that reminds me. Over the weekend, I was watching the movie Diehard. Bruce Willis. Have you seen this movie? It’s pretty good.

I like that line where Bruce Willis says, welcome to the party, pal. You know, Bruce is just like frustrated that the cops aren’t paying attention while he’s screaming in the window. I like that. See I digress. Let’ll get back to comedy here.

Dave Chappelle will be in Minnesota today to stand with community Dave’s at the Grand Casino Arena. Be curious to see what Dave has to say as he performs in Minnesota. From pod News, which is a fantastic newsletter written by James Kridlin, who I’m friendly with. It covers the podcasting industry. He had an interesting report on Friday about the Trump Epstein Files and how podcasts appeared in them.

Now, I haven’t searched for Daily Comedy News in them. I hope I’m not in the Trump Epstein Files, but in some of the back and some people recommended to Epstein that he listened to The Dan Bengino Show.

Also recommended episode eleven sixty nine of The Joe Rogan Experience.

The guest I think on that one was Elon Musk.

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Now we don’t know who recommended that Epstein listened to Jackie the joke Man. That came from a redacted contact, but somebody was like, hey, check out Jackie the joke Man. Now I’m worried because I’ve had Jackie the joke man on this show. I better not be in these things. Joe Rogan found out that he was mentioned in the files on last Tuesday’s Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe said he never once considered meeting Jeffrey Epstein. Rogan’s guest was Cheryl Hines. She’s married to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. You may also know her from the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Joe told Cheryl, I’m in the files for not going. Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me, and I was like, what, Like, no, thanks. Cheryl Hines asked, are you glad? Joe said, It’s not even a possibility that I’ve ever won. Especially after I googled him.

I was like, what the eff are you talking about? This was like twenty seventeen. One of my guests was trying to get me to meet him. I was like, are you high? Like, what the eff are you talking about.

Rogan added that some people get intoxicated by being in a circle of rich and powerful people, even if they don’t have any ambitions of being one of those people, they just want to be around them. Yeah, that’s called los Angeles. Rogan described Epstein’s networking is very clever, saying that Epstein was getting all these very powerful and very respected people together, and you’d figure, like, yeah, Clinton’s here, how could this be bad? You know, he’s a genius. On a different episode, Rogan talked about the Epstein files and said it’s crazy.

The whole thing is crazy because like, why have you protected people? He then got into some of the stuff I don’t want to get into on this program. This is the stuff that’s in my head that is like, yikes, yikes, yike’s skipping ahead. Referring to President Trump’s claims that the Epstein files were part of a Democrat inspired hoax, Joe Rogan said, it looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real. This is all this is not a hoax, Like did you not know?

Maybe he didn’t know, and if you want to be charitable, but this is definitely not a oax. And if you got redacted people’s names and these people aren’t victims, you’re not protecting the victims. So what are you doing? And how come all this stuff is not released? Fun show today?

John, I know Pete Davidson, he has that television show that Netflix was calling a video podcast. Well, sag After has weighed in on it, and they apparently have signed an agreement with Netflix that covers the Pete Davidson Show as a quote video podcast. After Pete’s inexpensive television show was announced, sag After I reached out to Netflix to be like, you know, hey, Well, last Thursday, the Actor’s Union announced that it had struck a podcast agreement. A rep for the union set in a statement to Variety sag After a Netflix have executed a podcast agreement covering the Pete Davidson Show. They did not say the terms.

Variety says, typically the union’s podcast agreements have less stringent requirements than TV agreements do. Whereas TV contracts require payment of residuals, podcast contracts generally do not. In addition, TV contracts have relatively strict rules regarding a production safety protocols, working hours, breaks, and travel, which are often simplified in podcast agreements. I hope Pete Davison isn’t working in an unsaved garage. Christella Alonso was scheduled to bring her Midlife Mixtape tour to the Charlene Macomb’s Empire Theater on April eleventh.

However, she has announced she is now trying to change the dates for her visit to Alamo City. Now, why does she want to change the dates? Christella explained a lovely follower mentioned that there was a show playing literally in the theater next door that’s based on a podcast that honestly, I don’t want to be around. She did not mention what that show is, but everybody else assumes she’s referring to The Killers of Kill Tony, that live comedy podcast a schedule to play San Antonio on April eleventh at the neighboring Majestic Theater. Christella said, the majority of my followers are Latino, and in the time that we’re in right now, I don’t feel comfortable having my people around a demo that includes people that support the atrocious things that are happening to my community.

So I’m looking to change dates for the San Antonio show that will ensure that my people have the best time and where I don’t have to cross paths backstage with anyone I don’t want to, Christella said. When she booked her San Antonio date to Kill Tony Folks hadn’t been confirmed, she said, Had I known it was playing there, I would have picked a different day. I know some of you might not understand my motivation, but I’ve had a really difficult couple of months and I don’t want to put myself in a space like that. I’m rescheduling asap and we’ll let y’all know. Thank you to those who understand, sorry of those who won’t.

I just refuse to be in proximity of that world if I don’t have to be. The Milbourne International Comedy Festival has launched a podcast. It is called The Callback. I have added it to my increasingly long podcast queue. There’s been so much sports.

There was a Super Bowl, now these these Olympics, so I’ve been watching more TV than usual and less podcast. It’s also been four degrees out, so I haven’t been out for runs or long walks with the dog. But eventually I’ll get to The Callback. Hosted by beloved comedian and broadcaster Claire Hooper, The Callback dives into the defining moments that shape comedy careers. Claria said, comedians are entertaining on stage, but it’s backstage where the chats get really good.

Let’s see what’s happening in JFL Vancouver Today. Now, is this the thing? I got to check in with Daily Comedy News Canadian consultant Mike Chisholm. You know how like in the United States of America the calendar week starts with Sunday. Well, on JFL Vancouver’s website it goes from Monday to Sunday.

So every time I go to do this little segment, I click on the wrong day because in my brain, Monday should be the second box, but on their website it’s the first box. I’m gonna have to ask Mike about this. Looks like there’s only one show tonight, Rashid Baduri, The Tale of the Syrian Dragon, that’s at the Review stage at seven o’clock. If we were in Vancouver, we would go do that and then probably have a nice meal on some beverages. Actually I like to go to bed.

We would have a nice meal in beverages at like four forty five, hit the show and be in bed by like nine to thirty. Oh sounds lovely. Coming up at noon Eastern today the results of Comedy Survivor. We’ll let you know who’s voted off Comedy Island. As I speak to you right now, I have no idea who was sent home.

I haven’t looked at the Facebook page in a couple of days and haven’t recorded the episode. So come back at noon Eastern today for Comedy Survivor. If you would like to take part in Comedy Survivor, check out the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. After twelve Eastern today, there’ll be a picture of me and some comedian being voted off the island and you can take part in the conversation there. Hey, remember that guy Ben Bankas.

He’s the quote unquote controversial comedian. This is the guy that made the jokes about people being killed by ice agents. He was scheduled to play some sold out shows at Kitchener’s Conrad Center for the performing arts community said no thanks. The Conrad Center is a city owned venue. Bankas’s team has said due to overwhelming fan response, both Ben Bankers’s show on March seventh and had moved to Elements Nightclub.

The City of Kitchener confirmed the news, saying the event rental has been relocated. All ticket purchasers have been notified. Bankers’s team issued statements to five seventy news radio. The statement says, to the people who are calling the venue to complain and are angry over something they haven’t seen. They don’t need to watch or support it.

The people accuse Bankus of hate speech are sorely misinformed about the satire and humor laws in Canada, which fully cover and making satirical comments about current events and other sensitive subjects. Bankas said, clearly, the people making these comments haven’t even seen me perform a set live. Maybe we should give them a free ticket they can see for themselves. The Waterloo Region Record has an opinion column titled Ben Bankas is a controversial comic. If you don’t like the jokes, don’t go to the show.

Luisa Demato writes, Bancas’s jokes are blunt, often bigoted, and deeply hostile to progressive values of the people who hold them. He has mocked land acknowledgment and said he is glad that Renee Good, a mother an activist in Minneapolis, was shot and killed by an Ice agent. Luisa Demato writes, here’s a sample from a recent performance captured on his social media. All these efforting liberal women, I say we keep the Mexicans and send the liberal women send them a Guatemala see how they like. It just drop off in a jungle and be like, yeah, try to get back borders closed.

I’m sure he told it in a much funnier way than I just did it. Luisa says, here’s some advice. If you don’t approve of bank Is coming to Kitchener, then don’t go to the show stand outside the theater without blocking the entrance with a sign explaining why don’t think his commentary is worth listening to. Even talk to people going in if they’re open to hearing from you. Otherwise leave them alone.

And we did find out what was going on with Matt Rife and the band The Red clay Strays. Remember they had hinted they were doing something with Matt Rife. Well, the Red clay Strays on Friday dropped their newest single, If I Didn’t Know You, and there’s a music video and its stars Matt Rife. Rife has praised the band, calling them music for the soul and that is a very very angsty Daily Comedy News for today. Now, I say for tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be fun. I’ll tell you in the leadoff spot right now, I haven’t written the episode yet, but right now, in the leadoff spot, the first sentence right now is Adam Sandler said he once performed music on the streets of New York City after he was fired from three jobs. So if you’re a regular listener, you know what I’m going to do. So tomorrow will be fun. I understand today was very serious.

I didn’t stack the deck today. That’s just what the news happened to be. And that is your Daily Comedy News on an angsty Monday back at noon Eastern for Comedy Survivor Meets You here. Then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today’s guest is comedian Drew Lynch. You may know Drew from America’s God Talent, or you may know him as the stuttering comedian from America’s Got Talent. He’s got a really interesting origin story.

He explains, I was playing softball and a hard hit ball took a bad hop and struck me in the throat. I fell and smacked my head on the ground. That led to my career as a stand up Yeah. Apparently he had a traumatic brain injury from it, which created a neurogenic stutter. Kind of messed up his career.

He’s up for some roles. His agent dropped him. He explains, I got the cold shoulder and I realized that I want to control. I rehabbed and that’s what I discovered stand up. Three years after the injury, he appeared on America’s Got Talent.

He said that validated him as a comic. It was an amazing experience and I can’t tell you how great it was to get such great feedback from Howie Mandela. I have so much respect for Drew. Will be part of just for Last Vancouver, the big comedy festival up there in Vancouver. He’ll be at the Vogue Theater on the nineteenth.

The festival continues through the twenty second. Now, as I prepped for my interview, if you listen to every interview with him, if you read every article about him, it talks about his origin story, and I chose not to go there, and being candid, I think I may have thrown him by not asking him about it. And a couple other notes on what you’re going to hear today. What’s crazy to me is in the recording session, he was on what I call an open mic, like he wasn’t holding a microphone and I was. However, I was on someone else’s recording session, not my recording session, and as I got the audio back, it sounds like my microphone didn’t pick up and it may have been using my laptop microphone.

So like as you hear me now, I have some processing on my voice. That’s what you hear on a normal episode. Sometimes you’ll hear an episode where I do an interview or the conversations with Mike Chisholm on The Letterman podcast, which is using his setup. Here I’m processing and whatnot. But as I listened back to this, I’m like, Drew sounds really good, and I sound like I’m on a laptop, which is just funny to me because I had my microphone out neither here nor there.

Also, I want to be transparent. I re sequenced this interview. This first part I’m going to play is from later in the interview, but I wanted to lead with this part because it’s so good. Listen to Drew Lynch channel Mark Marin. Here he channels Mark Maron.

It’s he’s not doing an impression, but he channels his inner Mark Maren. It is fantastic. Here’s Drew Lynch. You spent some time on the Maren sitcom. I feel like weird using the word sitcom with Maren show, the television show How is Mark?

Is Mark? What we think Mark is in real life? Mark is exactly the way Mark is in real life. And and you should you should be comforted by that fact. He is And I’ve told him this.

He’s a he’s a He’s just a. He’s just a. He’s a he’s a he’s just a brouchy guy. He’s not I mean, not grouch, but he’s just a he’s a hard guy. You know, he’s just like I feel that way.

Oh yeah, okay, well that’s well that’s weird. Or you know, he’s like, you know, he kind of like, uh, just a he likes to kind of scrutinize and just kind of get in it. And I love that about. Him because he’s that’s where that’s where his comedy is. He’s but he’s begrudging all the time, and that’s hilarious, Like it’s just like that’s my Yeah, that’s my uncle who lives in my attic.

That’s who he is. You know. He’s like, yeah, he’s I guess he’s coming down for a soda. But he’s upset because because the handle on the fridge is broken and he doesn’t want to he doesn’t want to try to put his nails into the side and open it that way. He and Mark’s going to talk a lot about that.

You know. It’s frustrating. Why is the why is the bottom of the fridge? Why is why is there heat coming from the bottom of the fridge but the inside of it is cold? You know?

And these things used to be an icebox? Should I just get an icebox? Like I’m talking in the voice of Merrion right now. But that’s how well, that’s how well I know, yeah, how well I know how he goes, you know, and he’s like, you know, and then he and then he goes in for a soda, and then he’s and then he’s and then he pulls out something and he’s looking. He put he sees it.

He finds a protein bar in the drawer, and he’s like, you know, oh, what is it with these protein bars? There’s so much sugar. It’s like it’s I’m not even getting what is this you because you mashed up a date and you put some Joe Rogan pills in a thing that I need to like. This is this is the way Mark is. I could just watch him.

He’s like an angry cat. You’re just like, okay, just keep going. I guess, Bud, that was amazing. I was just trying to hang back and not step on you. Boy.

You channel him really well. Well. I think it’s just because at my heart, I’m probably just as much of a grouch, but I just I have a softer face or all American good looks if you if you read the review Journal in Las Vegas from twenty years ago. But but yeah, Maren is uh, we all have a maron inside of us. I saw you did in an AGT showcase.

Are you just part of the AGT extended family? Is there a pay it forward aspect to that? There? Definitely is. I mean that show is very rewarding and they’re also very demanding, you know, and I mean that in a professional way.

They just expect a lot because they give a lot. So you know, take that for what it is. And I don’t mind being part of the of the u of the of the the family or the alumni or or whatever. And I’m all for for advocating for other people to find their opportunities on that show. You know, like I was doing the show, I was at the showcase, and like, you know, like they want to kind of they want to kind of like say like, oh and we got we got these people here who did the show, these alums there’s there.

Look at where they are. You know. There’s a comic that was on the show just showcasing. His name’s Lachlin Patterson. You probably know him.

He’s a Canadian comic and he has been doing it for almost thirty years and he is in every sense of the word, like just a bro and he is so good and he’s so funny, and it’s like he I mean, no one’s above anyone, but just this idea that they’re gonna, you know, they’re gonna be like and look at this guy who we found and it’s like, yeah, I mean he’s been doing it for longer than television, you know. I mean, like, what are we talking about? He’s so funny and so you know, like, I don’t know, it’s just so interesting. It’s just the world is just the world of our world stand up and navigating whatever your path is is all so different and you just never know. I mean you look at like the Louise of the World or even the Bills, where like it’s like these guys were twenty eight, twenty nine years thirty or twenty five years in and then showtime was like okay, and they’re like and then what It’s like what all right?

And then like maybe the best comedians ever Okay. So I don’t know. Maybe it’s supposed to be more of that, and it’s definitely less of that because people have tiktoks and they have thumbs and then they get to decide what I guess, maybe what happens quickly is what happens is where there’s tremendous value, And for me is someone who’s a student of what it is that we do and has such appreciation in seeing it done well. Dude comics who can write down and just write for eight minutes and ten minutes and twelve minute bits on one thing. It’s just my favorite.

And I hope that that’s not going anywhere because that’s a part of this art form that I really fell in love with. Yeah, it’s changed. Pre pandemic, there were all these people that oh, so and so came out of nowhere, but like you said, they’d been doing it for fifteen years. They just finally got the light shown on them. In the age of social media, maybe some people have accelerated in a way that you just couldn’t do in nineteen eighty five.

I know, as just a guy sitting on the couch, I just look at it as I hit play on something on Netflix, and did I laugh that that’s my entire barometer. And if you’re good at social media or people think you’re handsome or whatever, we want to knock a comedian for because they didn’t do it the right way. You didn’t do ten years at the cellar did you laugh? And I think that’s the good civilian. Test, right right, And that’s part of why it’s so you know, it’s so accessible now in today’s plying that you can you can be much more in control of what gets distributed and how people maybe find you.

So it is it’s in that way, it’s it’s great, But in another way it you know, we’re not dealing with gatekeepers, but those gatekeepers were there for a reason to hopefully kind of that maybe quality and you might have to sift a little bit to find whatever it is your your interpretation or or what it is you value is quality. Growing up in Indianapolis, you’re a Colts fan. You guys had quite this season. Come on, John, we’re having such a good time. Why does it have to be this You had a good season?

We did, and then we had the rest of the season and it was it was good. Then tell this and then until the midpoint of the season. You’re heading to Vancouver for just for laughs. You’ll be at the Voga Theater on the nineteenth. Have you been to Vancouver before?

Oh? Yeah, many times. I love it. Great place. Do you find it?

Festival? Is that it’s your fans or is it Sometimes I find it festivals it’s just whoever happens to be playing when we want to go out on a night and we’ll go see whoever. Is it your crab going to see you? Or is it just festival fans comedy fans. I think it’s I think it’s a healthy balance of both.

And I think it’s it’s artists specific for sure, but the festival, I mean, what I think they do a good job of is people do just are like, yeah, they do just commit to just going out, and that’s kind of cool because you’re just going in blind and be like, yeah, I don’t know, we’ll check it out. So I think it’s a healthy mix. As you got your comedy career started, America’s Got Talent, how was it pulling out? How long were those segments? I feel like you’re doing like two minute.

Chunks, sometimes even less. I think I did ninety seconds my first first audition, and then like the second round was like two minutes, and then like the next round was like a minute forty five or two. It’s not much. And it’s weird because comics are also almost given like less time, like a song is, like you know, as long as like two and a half minutes, or sometimes a magician thing will be eight minutes, you know, like a whole thing. You know, like they get all this time to kind of like set up.

And I know that that sounds like I’ve got ill will towards towards magic. I don’t. I just mean like they need a longer, They need a much longer, Like they need more time to be able to have something kind of unravel and set it up, and it’s you know, it’s it’s a different pace. So I don’t know. My struggle was that I was already on a time budget and I stuttered.

So it’s like, you know, how do I get out jokes for a minute when I get barely a minute? You know. So it’s that was definitely a challenge trying to navigate that. It’s gotta be hard because you can’t really just storytelling. You have no time to set up a callback.

You just kind of have to come out and read. A tat tat, Yeah exactly, which is why I think comics who have like one liners, you know, Tom Cotter, you know, Taylor Williamson, you know, like you know, even my buddy, like he’s got great jokes too. He just he fills in the space with big energy too, you know. And so it’s like it’s everybody’s kind of got their own approach. But it does feel like comics who are very one minery.

You know. Erica Rhoades, she did the show and she’s she’s really really great at that as well as strong writer. All right, let me get the break in here. You’ve seen my heating bill right, Oh my goodness, Johnny Mack, I hate the commercials. I get it.

I get it. If you want them to go away, become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts five bucks a month and liw with that. We got to pay the heating bills. So we’ll take the break. I want to come back.

I’ll ask Drew Lynch about coming off America’s Got Talent and getting respect from his peers. Drew Lynch is my guest. He’ll be at JFL Vancouver at the Vogue Theater on the nineteenth. As you got deeper into it, I see that you are well respected in the comedy community. I can tell by which podcast we’ll have you on as a guest, and you’re part of the mix.

Did you run into in the early days, any pushback from the comedy snobs of oh he’s from the TV show, or did anyone accuse you of the stutter being a gimmick being a gimmick comic? Yeah, oh yeah, I got that a lot, you know, and I’m sure I still do. I think it’s uh my, my big, my big projection onto the onto. The situation also didn’t help, like me like feeling like, you know, I don’t deserve to be here, you know, because my path was different and I was I came from a family friendly show, and then I went through a period of time where based on the influence of maybe maybe maybe what other comics said or maybe what I thought other comics were saying, was that I felt like I had to be edgy, or I had to swear, or I had to go through a period where I was here to prove something. And that’s just not I mean, that’s just not really authentic to who I actually am.

So I got I kind of got away from from from a lot of that, And it does hurt when when when people are saying, like, you know, like oh, well, he only got this because of this because I work very hard, like I if anything, I probably work harder than I am like to have skill or talent, you know. I just I’m someone who I’ve always had a drive, and I think you kind of need that in order to keep up with the frequency of what the demand of comedy and content is, especially in the current climate. And I’ve always done things to try to protect myself when it comes to uh, you know, my own fragile I guess, like ego or perception. But comedy is like being willing to get rejected and reevaluate and reassess and go back in and do the work and look at and look at the weakness and expose it over and over and over and it never ends. So this this healthy balance of not taking it personally and trying to navigate who you are, your own authenticity and not leaving your center and the processes is has been something that it’s uh that it’s tawmy.

Was there a point in your career where you said, okay, I’ve made it, now I’ve dead. This is working. I don’t know that any of us ever feel that way. I mean, and you shouldn’t feel fear, but you definitely should never feel fully stable. And that’s like that.

Margin is so thin you can’t even if it was Google Maps, you’d have to do this so many times to try to find that tributary on the freakin’ on the on the on the dividing line of one place to the next. Because some comics. Feel like I meet people who there they couldn’t be less happy with everything that they have, And I’ve met other comics where everything is all bravy, like this is incredible. I just get to be here doing this. This has insane and the energy that comes from each of those is is something that I think is is maybe to be learned.

You know, you can, you can learn from both. So I don’t know. I don’t know that the answer is ever yes, because it’s an ever moving, breathing thing. As you’re traveling the country. You’re not a political comedian.

Do you feel you need to avoid it? Do you feel you need to on any particular day. There was a weekend a couple of weeks ago, and I’m not going to get into that, but you know, there were topics in the news where a lot of people are very passionate about it. Do you feel you need to address any of these things or is it more of the That’s not why we’re here. I used to feel like I can write a joke about it, so I might as well.

And I sometimes feel like that does more harm than good because people are so sensitive right now. And there’s some comics who are like, well, but for the sake of comedy and for the purposes of comedy, we should be able to say this and it is this, and people should be able to and you know what, I agree. I agree we should for in the name of what the art form is. Yeah, we should. But these are kind of unprecedented times, and they’re certainly trying times.

And if I can try to have some grace for the situation or maybe for the fact that people feel very personal or very close to some of these things for reasons that I don’t understand. I try to understand that there are things that I don’t understand, and that is very difficult to account for something that you can’t see, or that’s something that you don’t know or that isn’t tangible to you. So as it applies to trying to navigate a very hostile and volatile and maybe toxic sort of political social environment, I have always found it to be better if I can just make myself the target and try to have people try to maybe forget their lives or forget the pressures of whatever that climate feels like. And that’s hard because there are some comics who are like, well, it’s our job, and there are even people who who are like who say, like, we have a bigger responsibility as comics to get involved and stuff and maybe, but I’m just trying to do my and maybe Andy and maybe Bill Maher and maybe John Stewart or Trevor or like there’s there’s there’s you know, there are a lot of people who I think could do it really well, and I can. I feel like I can write that really well.

But does it make me feel uncomfortable knowing that I’m making people uncomfortable? Yeah, And maybe that’s because I’m I. I don’t know, I’m just I have to maybe a little too much compassion, or I’m orm or I’m sensitive or I’m weak or whatever. Next week, Chappelle’s heading to Minnesota, and I can’t wait to hear what he says. But conversely, j Leto is very adamant about I don’t do politics in my acts.

So if I go see Jay Leno, I understand what I’m going to see so I think it’s a tough road, but I think he explained that really well. You know, like Nate I think does a great job, you know, Sebastian I think does a great job. You know. Like if I go see Marin, I would expect Mark to talk about the elephant in the room, but that’s what he does. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, like he leans into that.

I mean, he he he uh, he pursues it. I’ll let you go before I get the light. But I just wanted to ask you, in spirit of paying it forward as you travel the country, who’s a comedian out there that we should know that maybe is off our radar? Who are you into with that? You’re saying, oh, oh, well, Lachlan’s a great example.

Lachlan Patterson. He’ll probably be on this season of America’s Got Talent. I hope he goes so far because he’s so freaking funny and he’s got just endless amounts of material. There’s another guy named Orian Levine. He’s so funny.

Emma Willman, she’s kind of getting her her flowers now. She’s super funny. I’m trying to think, like, who else is just like you know, Steve Fury He’s. A guy who makes me laugh. Jason Cheney, Uh yeah, Like these guys are all just like so you know, so so fresh, im ed Barucha.

There’s I mean, I could I could, you know, I could go like endlessly. Anny Liederman, Uh yeah, I don’t know. Man, Like these these I advocate for so many of my friends. They’re all they’re all so funny. I hope, I hope, I hope they all succeed.

Nate Bargatzi, if you don’t know who that is, he’s He’s kind of coming up the ladder right now. He’s doing okay for himself. He’s still a Grand Marshal at Daytona. Yeah, yeah, I’m not surprised. Drew Lynch.

He’ll be at the Vokee Theater at JFL Vancouver on the nineteenth. Thank you for your time today. This was awesome. Thanks John, appreciate it. And that’s Drew Lynch.

Catch him at JFL Vancouver. He’ll be at the Vokee Theater on the nineteenth. The JFL Vancouver Comedy Festival continues through the twenty second and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shutting back with your Daily Comedy News. This weekend is the sixty eighth annual Daytona five hundred, and who’s going to be there. It’s Bert Kreischer. He’s headlining the inaugural Full Throttle Festival Good Name, a night of comedy, music and barbecue the pre race bash at the Ocean Center Convention Center in Daytona Beach.

Leonard Skinnard will be playing and Bert Kreischer will do a performance that’s exciting. Bert Kreischer said, Race weekend in Daytona is the super Bowl of speed, and for me that means going absolutely massive. So I figured, why not build the biggest, wildest, greatest pre race party ever. We’re not just having a party. We’re bringing a rock show, a country show, a comedy show, and the kind of barbecue and beer that would make a pit crew chief proud.

We’re stuffing all that, the fun, the laughs, the meat sweats inside the Ocean Center of the night before the Daytona five hundred. It’s my ultimate dream at NASCAR Tilgate come to life, and I cannot wait to see Daytona go full throttle with us. There will also be an expansive craft beer program and signature cocktails for those at twenty one and older. Bert Kreischer told OutKick, I’m so ready for the festival. I live my life by rewards, like I inventize things, and this is my treat.

I’ve been on the road for twenty five days straight, and I end my tour and I see my wife in Daytona. I cannot wait. Bert talked about attending at DAYTONI said, Tom Sigor and I went. We brought our tour buses and so the event of parking in the infield and experiencing the three days leading up to the actual race, you know, all the races that are going on, all the trials, everything is a blast. It’s so welcoming that I feel like it’s got to be what it feels like if you go to Germany for Octoberfest and you’re like, oh, so this is Germany.

Like a German if they come over, they should go to a NASCAR race, But camp out, get an RV and camp out, get a ton of cold beers, get a bunch of barbecue, set up a grill. Because that camaraderie that happens at these events, that’s what really draws me to it. I got to go to a lot of NASCAR races when I worked for Serious and Bert is nailing it now. I’m a boy from New York City. I didn’t know anything about NASCAR the first time I went down there, and I saw everybody just walking around in head to toe Budweiser gear.

I remember seeing one guy dressed in a Kellogg’s, you know, racing suit, much like I might wear a Mets jersey. They would wear the outfit of their favorite driver, and I’m like, Kellogg’s, okay, But man, was everybody nice. I’ve got a picture of myself sitting on the track of the Daytona five hundred an hour before racetime. They let the civilians on the track, which I can’t believe because I know I could have been a jerky face and taken out a chisel and just put a hole in the track, but they just let everybody kind of hang out. And I’ve got a picture of me and this dude dressed head to toe and bud gear.

I guess he was a Dale junior fan, and we were drinking buds out of his cooler and it was just the greatest experience.

And then I had a humbleverrag flex.

I had what’s called a hot pass, so I could hang out on pit road during the race. And I’ll tell you I was standing there and I was super appreciative, but I knew I did I appreciate it, and what I mean by that it would be like, I’m from Queens. I’m not a NASCAR fan, so would be like somebody who’s not a Mets fan sitting in the Mets dugout during the World Series. It was the equivalent of that. So like, I’m like, this is an amazing experience, but I kind of felt guilty because I’m like, there’s somebody across the road there in the stands who would like kill to do this.

But it was super awesome. I did a bunch of races and nailed it. As I would walk around the infield with our host and Mark says high, people would offer us food and drink and everybody was super friendly and super cool. If you’ve never been to a NASCAR race and you have an opportunity to go, you should go and bring ear plugs because you’re going to wind up paying ten bucks for your plugs if you don’t bring them yourself. It is loud, and I know you think you know it’s loud, You have no idea it’s loud.

Whatever you think, I’m telling you, it’s louder than that. And the cars go by so fast that unless you turn your head and follow the cars along, if you just stare straight ahead, all you see is just and you don’t even your eyes don’t even lock on an actual car. So I am a NASCAR fan, and I’m a big fan of NASCAR events. Another time I went down to Talladega. Jeff Foxworthy was the Grand Marshall.

So I went down and Talladega’s kind of in the middle of nowhere. So I flew down on a Saturday night State at Atlanta, got up early, drove to Talladega, hooked up with Foxworthy, recorded some stuff, stayed for most of the race. I was parked on the infield and I was like, all, I’ve done NASCAR racist before and I’m not that big a fan. I’m going to leave twenty laps early so i can get out of here. But they had actually closed off the area and I couldn’t get to my car.

You weren’t allowed to walk under the tunnel under the track. You were allowed to drive under the tunnel, but you couldn’t walk under it. So I actually offered a local couple to a car. I’m like, we it was like the apocalypse. I offered them twenty bucks to drive me basically I don’t know thirty feet and they were like, sure, hop in.

And then the wife said to the husband, don’t take the guy’s money. So, whoever you were a couple twenty years ago, I appreciate you. Talladega was awesome and Talladega so big. You have to see it if you’ve never been in there, the tailgating area. I said, it looked like a small city had been evacuated because of nuclear scare or something, and everybody was told to go here.

It’s just this huge, tense city, but everybody’s cool. I digress, Get back to it. John all Right, Tomorrow’s grand Marshall is Nyprighatzy. Nate was on the Backstretch podcast. He said he’s been a NASCAR fan for a long time now.

Nate is from Nashville, so that makes sense that tracks. Nate said racing was an inevitable part of his childhood, but it was only in his late teens that he really got I know it and he said, then you start doing comedy, get busy, and it’s a mix of like how do you do everything with sports? But I’ve always been a NASCAR fan. I love it when someone just kind of goes out on their own and just sees if it works out or if they get crushed and go back talking about racing and pacts there. As part of my prep, I came across these five things to know about Nate Berghatzy before the Daytona five hundred.

Number one, Nate Brigazzy becomes first comedian to be Daytona five hundred Grand Marshal. We’re told there have been actors and athletes, musical artists and wrestlers, former race car drivers, even a President of the United States, but never has a comedian Marshall for the Daytona five hundred. Congratulations Nate Bergazzy. Last year’s Grand Marshall Anthony Mackie. You may know him as Captain America.

Number two thing you need to know about Nate Bergazzy. Nate Pergazzy has huge comedy career. Thanks ratcle Writer. They worked hard on that one. Number three Nypergazzy’s first feature film coming in twenty twenty six.

Oh yes, this is The Breadwinner, which hits theaters May twenty ninth. If you’ve seen the trailer, perhaps you feel the way I did. I asked, was Kevin James not available? It does not look good. Nate created, co wrote, produced, and starred in The Breadwinner, So if it sucks, we know who to blame, and if it’s good, we know who to give credit to.

It also stars Mandy Moore, Colin Jose and Kamil Nanjiani. For some reason. Fun fact Number four Nate Bergazzi roots for Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Titans. Did I mention he’s from Nashville? And number five fun fact Natepergatzy has NASCAR history.

The fun fact is he was the honorary pace car driver for the Ally four hundred at Nashville Superspeedway back in June twenty twenty three.

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Also happening this weekend, tomorrow, Fox will air episode eight hundred of …

In episode eight hundred of The Simpsons, it is titled Irrational Treasure, and Marge Simpson takes Santa’s Little Helper to Philadelphia to enter Santas Little Helper in a dog show. Homer Simpsons stows away on the trip, and soon they are embroiled in a national treasure like conspiracy. Guest stars include Kevin Bacon. Creator Matt Greening says, one of the great things for me is we’ve done so many episodes that I can watch earlier episodes and not remember a single thing about them. Every time we do a new episode, it seems another episode because out of my brain.

The Simpsons had a party at the Fonda Theater in LA At the anniversary parties, they have the joke tagline almost halfway there, and they said that seemed funny. At the one hundred and fiftieth episode party, the two hundred to four hundred th and eve of the six hundredth, no one thought the show would go that far. But now that they’ve hit eight hundred, they want to see if they can hit episode one thousand. Fox has renewed The Simpsons through season forty. Greening says, I think that’d be an honorable thing to shoot for.

I would do it for two hundred more or more. Once in nineteen ninety five, check your guild. There’s a reporter asked me, how long can the Simpsons go on? I say, we’re probably closer to the end of the beginning, which I thought was very elegantly vague. But the headlines with that I was saying the Simpsons was canceled.

I’ve learned to say, no end in sight. Do you want to do the math? It’ll take them another ten years to get to episode one thousand. Tomorrow, on this very program, comedian Drew Lynch stops by to promote his appearance at the Vancouver Comedy Festival, And because of that, I’m going to tell you who’s at the Vancouver Comedy Festival both today and tomorrow. Let’s start with today, Valentine’s Day.

If you’re in Vancouver, grab your loved one and be like, hey, want to see some comedy shows. I listen to this guy does a podcast in the basement. He’s telling us we should go see rosebud Baker at the Review Stage at nine pm. We might see the Alternative Show hosted by Mark Little, that’s an eleven PM show at the Review Stage, and some other people that I’m not all that familiar with. Again, my general advice at a comedy festival is feel encouraged to go see some people that maybe you haven’t heard of.

All Right, Sunday Night, No Brainer at seven o’clock Ismo. Did you hear Ismo? He was the guest last Sunday, So go see Ismo at seven o’clock on Sunday. Rosebud’s got another show, James A. Caster got a show at eight.

You’re gonna go see Ismo. Mary Beth Barone, she’s really good. She’s got to show at eight. But you’re gonna go see Ismo in the Alternative shows at nine o’clock. So that would be what I would do.

I’d do Ismo and then the Alternative show at the Vancouver Comedy Festival, but I didn’t go. I’m home in New Jersey and I will leave you with this. Film director Roger Avery was on the Joe Rogan Experience. The Joe Rogan Experience is a pretty popular podcast. You may have heard of it.

And the conversation turned to Star Trek and my ears went, hmmm, star Trek, if you’ve been listening, I’d take my Star Trek very seriously, and so do Joe Rogan and Roger Avery. Let’s listen. Alex Kurtzman comes along and just like craps all over and I mean I went in and met with the guy. You know, I was like Hey, I will write Force for Scale. You know, I’ll write on your new show.

I’d like, I just want to be part of it, just as an opportunity to work on Star Treks. And he was, and I basically found out he didn’t want anybody who had any kind of fondness for the original show. He wanted to do something new and to create something new. And this latest thing that he that they’ve made, this Starfleet Academy. Now it’s still ongoing.

Maybe it rights itself at some point. His company is called Secret Hideout. I think he’s going to need a secret hideout after all these like after destroying star Trek for like this latest generation are we talking about the newest one? The one with take Nataro, that’s the new Starfleet Academy is an abomination. I could not I could not get Yes, I could not get through three episodes of Discovery, and I mean they’re just like it is just awful, awful storytelling.

Well it’s also clunky dialogue and bating. So comedians, take Nataro, Patton Oswalt, genius sheer, Stephen Colbert, I’m watching you. That is your comedy needs for today, Drew Lynch Tomorrow Normal episode and comedy Survivor on Monday. See you then,