Month: February 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Meck with Today’s Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. But I better stop talking this way. Mike Birbiglia will write my name down. I am having fun with this old Burbiglia, Mulaney, John Marco, and whoever else thing.

I was hoping to stir it up some more, but it seems like they’ve stopped talking about it, so I will too. If you don’t know what I’m talking about. Listening to the February tenth episode of this podcast. But while I was seeing if I could cause some more trouble, I found a discussion about a comedian named Mason James, who I was unfamiliar with until half an hour ago. Some people think Mason James is perhaps, possibly maybe influenced by Nate Berghetzi.

Here’s Mason James from a year ago doing a show for Don’t Tell Comedy. My name is Mace. It’s great to be here. Some big news in my life. Me and my wife just had our first baby, so very very fun stuff, very very fun.

Don’t worry about clapping. Just a miracle, No big deal. It’s fine, very fun having a baby. The baby has made me realize I have to lose weight because he’s ten months old and he’s trying to breastfeed me a lot. I didn’t know what to do.

I spanked him. I spanked him, said you do not breastfeed dad. That makes dad sad. I am trying to lose weight right now. Anybody trying to lose weight here so awesome.

Sell you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. They’re in the same ballpark. But I don’t get wigged about that. Like I’ve said a million times, I think Eddie Murphy is just doing Richard Pryor.

But I was what fourteen years old in nineteen eighty three, so I loved Eddie Murphy’s comedy. But he’s clearly doing Richard Pryor, including the outfit. But I am picking up on one particular verbal tick in Mason James delivery. Let me just play the last four seconds. Listen to how he hangs the words right now.

This is very Burgetsian. Saw you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. But again, we all have influences. You may hear me sometimes on this program, say one, I’m forward promoting tomorrow on this very program.

Blah blah blah. That is a complete, utter, conscious lift from David Letterman. Stole his phrase, and it’s why I’m doing it. You want to call it an homage, I don’t know. I just like saying it that way.

If David Letterman wants to go off and say that I’m ripping him off, please do Dave. Nothing would make me happier that if David Letterman thought I was ripping him off. I wish I were one one millionth as good as David Letterman. And the other tick that I consciously do is I will do a yeah, in the middle of resetting a story, I’ll just make up something ridiculous. I’ll do something like this, A chicken was crossing the road.

Yeah, apparently it wanted to get to the other side, so that yeah, in the middle. There. That’s a Conan O’Brien tick that I deliberately do. In Yellow Springs, Ohio, today, Dave Chappelle and John’s Stewart will do a show together. It’s a benefit for radio station WYSO.

It’s part of the WYSO After Dark series. Now I’m laughing at this. The after Dark is cracking me up. Earlier today, I got a random email from Disney Plus saying that Mom’s account has been updated to what is it, mature Audiences whatever they call it m and I just texted the whole family. I’m like, apparently Mom is watching Mickey Mouse after Dark, which I don’t even know what that would be, but just I thought it was funny to get mature audiences warning from Disney Plus.

But Wyso after Dark features Dave Chappelle and John Stewart in conversation seven thirty pm to night at Dayton’s Benjamin and Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center. Taylort Solison will have a comedy special on Netflix on Tuesday, February twenty fourth, not too far away. It is her fourth for Netflix. Prodigal Daughter was filmed at the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I remember telling you about that filming last summer.

We’ve all almost lived long enough to actually see the special. I hope we all make it, but we’ve at worst made it to the trailer. There’s a trailer. It’s long, it’s good. It’s like the best trailer I’ve heard in a long time.

And being very very serious. It’s going to take a minute change here, but here’s Taylor Tomlinson’s really good trailer. I really appreciate you guys coming to this new hour of material because I know it’s a lot of God stuff and a lot of gay stuff, and my agents are nervous. I started doing stand up in churches. They called it testimony, but I was getting last.

Easter. There’s a better story than Christmas, in my opinion. It’s where all of our merch is from. You’ve seen it. Christmas is not as good a story.

It’s just a long walk to a barn. Jesus is barely in it. He comes in right at the end. He does zero magic. Jesus is basically the post credit scene in a Marvel movie.

It’s if you have depression. You have a pretty complicated relationship with death. You sort of look at death like it’s the Phantom of the Opera. You’re like, oh, that’s scary, But then sometimes you’re like, I mean, that’s side. His face is kind of hot.

Coming out as bisexual at thirty feels like saying to a waiter, by the way, it’s my birthday, and they’re like, cool, send to yourself. You’re a grown woman. So I started dating this girl who was so hot. I was like, oh my god, am I Pete Davidson. When I started dating women, it was the closest I’d come to feeling religious in a long time.

My friends would complain about their boyfriends and husbands, and I was like, have you heard the good news? You don’t have to live like this now? Some of that content bothered. You send your letters to Taylor Thomlinson. I’m just dosing a podcast in the basement.

The official description from the Netflix is Taylor Thompson returns to her roots with a tight new hour about deconstructing your faith, processing religious trauma, exploring your sexuality, and confronting your fear of death. It’s NBA All Star Weekend tonight. It’s the Celebrity Game. In the Celebrity Game, Mac Packer Keegan Michael Key will take the court. That’s on ESPN at seven pm Eastern.

Jimmy Carr was giving out some parenting advice. An audience member yelled out to Jimmy Carr, what’s your advice for parents with toddler’s Carr gave a serious answer. He said, well, practical advice. You can half asset, get an iPad and Netflix subscription, and you’re off to the races. They’ll be very happy.

The crowd laughed at that, but Carr said, you want serious advice. The woman said yeah. Carr explained hard choices now easy life. Later that got applause. I bet you love your kids, but you’ve also got to love who they could be.

So it’s kindness, isn’t it. You want to be really kind to your children, but just not kind in the moment. What a kids want. They want to watch TV and not read books. They want to eat junk food, not vegetables.

If you give in to that, if you’re kind in the moment, you’ve got fat, stupid kids. That’s no good. You’ve got to be a little bit mean in the moment. At another recent show, a woman asked Jimmy Carr how she could deal with kids who were bullying her eleven year old son. Carr did a bunch of silly jokes and then got serious and said, speaking as a parent, you can’t helicopter parent.

You cannot pave the jungle. You can just teach him to get through it. It’s a very tough thing. On the upside, your kid is being bullied. That’s terrible, I imagine heartbreaking for you.

But at least he’s not the bully. Tell him from me, you can’t have an easy life and a great character. You can’t have both. It’ll make him stronger and better and more compassionate in the future. You know the actress Kathy Bates, I think she has really, really good taste.

The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was recently at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Adam Sandler told a story about sending Kathy Bates the script for horrible Adam Sandler comedy The water Boy. As Sandler told the story, I remember we sent Kathy Bates a script for The water Boy to play My Mama. I don’t know if I have the story one hundred percent right, but apparently she kind of read the first page and threw it in the garbage. See. I love Kathy Bates, genius talent, Kathy baits.

Unfortunately, Kathy, back in those days, surrounded herself with terrible staff. Sandler said. The guy who works with Kathy picked it up and read it and said, Kathy, I think you should read that script. It’s pretty funny. So obviously the staff member has no Jason comedy.

Kathy read it and decided to give it a shot. From there, she met with Adam Sandler and enjoyed spending time with him, which I could see. I think I would enjoy spending time with Adam Sandler, Like right now, I’m wearing a purple sweatshirt and totally non matching gray sweatpants. I could see Sandler being like, hey, bro, cool outfit. Kathy Bates, who has good Taste, told a similar version of the story on the Drew Barrymore Show back in twenty twenty four.

According to Kathy’s version, she made it to page twelve before she threw it in the trash right next to my bed. On this very program, see stole that from Letterman. On this very program. On Sunday, comedian Drew Lynch joins us, Drew is appearing at Just for Laughs Vancouver. He’s going to stop by Tomorrow’s show.

Is in more or less a normal episode. We’ll look at what’s going on at the Daytona five hundred. Bird Krascher and Nate Pergetz hearing to be there at JFL Vancouver tonight at Gambles at the Rio at seven Yakov’smeir and Off seven o’clock at the York Michael Longfellow’s at the Rio at nine, Wally Barham at the York Theater. Any leader has two shows at House of Comedy. She’s doing seven thirty, nine, fifteen.

If we were at the festival tonight, if I were hanging out with Mike from the Letterman Podcast and I was like, Hey, Vancouver is a hell of a town, let’s go see some comedy shows, I would actually pick Yakov Smirnoff, just to see what’s going on there. That would be my pick. At seven at nine o’clock, I think we go see Wally Barram at the York Theater. I like what I’ve seen out of Wally so far. It is Friday.

It is time for the comedy stock market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds. Comedy stock Market. Now. So far in twenty twenty six, the comedy stock market activity has been quite limited.

But I’ve got a lot for you today. Let’s start with two cells. We’re gonna sell John Mulaney. We’re gonna sell Mike Probiglia. Do I need to tell you?

Why? Do I need to tell you what team I’m on in this little fight. We’re selling MILLENIU and we’re selling Forbiglia and in support of the twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marcos SIESI, let’s even more stock. Eventually, we’re gonna own all the stock at John Marco. I am all in on this guy who did not rip off John Mulaney in the least.

So we’ll buy some Gianmarco Soresi. Let’s also buy some Chris Fleming. With that HBO special coming out soon. I’ve been a fan of Chris for a few years. We’ll see how the rest of the country reacts to Chris Fleming.

Let’s buy Taylor Thomlinson. That trailer from earlier in the show was really, really good. There’s nothing not to like about her, very personal, very funny, looks great. Her specials on Netflix, not that other service that you do your special on when you’re on your way down. So Taylor Thompson, let’s scoop up some more Taylor Thomason, and let’s buy some Mason James again.

Half an hour ago, I didn’t know who that was, but I thought that clip was pretty funny. Throw a couple bucks on Mason james career. We’ll check back and we’ll see how we do Zel Mulaney, Selber Bigley, a Bye, John Marco, Chris Fleming, Taylor Thomason, Mason James. That’s your comedy stock market for this week. Reese Darby, you know him.

He was one of the guys on Flight of the Concords and you know him from what was it called Our Flag Means Death? Well, he’s going to be in the CBS comedy pilot Regency. Regency is a multikam comedy and it’s a historical spin on the classic multiicam family sitcom centered around the upper middle class Tilbrooks as they navigate life, love, and scandal in nineteenth century England. Okay, ree Darby will play Arthur Tilbrook, the head of the family home. Arthur is heir to a cheese empire, but prefers to think of himself as a guy’s guy.

This is kind of funny. He will go to great lengths to prove his masculinity. That was a privileged upbringing reveals itself every time. Now we talk about networks, so clearly chuckle the premise. I like Reee Darby, but it’s on CBS, so at the end of the day, it’s a CBS Sitcom.

If you told me this one was going somewhere else FX Streamer, I might be a little more into it. Not Netflix. If it was on Netflix, I’d assume it’d be six episodes and canceled. That sounds like it could be funny. OW Today All Access Comedy hosted by DJ de Meerz, It’ll be on AMTV.

All Access Comedy is a stand up special with comedians from the disability community coming together to celebrate their unique outlook on life for a packed audience of all abilities. Comedy comes from such topics like what’s the appropriate reaction when someone bet your guide dog. I’m familiar with DJ’s comedy. I play him a lot on The Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live One app every week. The show is free, The app is free Live One.

Look up the Weekly Comedy Thing. In fact, I think in this week’s show, I’ve got some DJ demers if you want to hear what he sounds like. And congratulations too. Joe Koy, Yes, Joe Koy had his hand in footprints enshrined in cement at the Hollywood Chinese Theater. Joe was supported by friends.

I assume they’re friends, or maybe they just wanted their mention in Daily Comedy News. But regardless, Tiffany Hattish, Martin, Lawrence Gabriel Iglesias and some others showed up to support Joe Koy at the event. Now you might be like John, Joe Koy, remind me who that is again. I’ll remind you one time Joe Coy hosted the Goal Globes and he just told this horrible, horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift that Taylor did not appreciate. Here, let’s listen.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. When that is your comedy news today, All right, Tomorrow Daytona Sunday, Drew Lynch stops by. Catch you here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, A sentence, and that the algorithms like me to say every single day for some reason. So I shall you know, doing this show is kind of like pitching a baseball game, And today it was one of those days that ten minutes ago I thought I had nothing, and then I’m like, eh, let me see if I could stir it up with this. Barbiglia, Mullaney, John Marco Siresi thing incasion missed it. Go back to the February tenth episode where I played some clips John Mulaney was on Mike Berbiglia’s podcast.

Birbiglia floated an idea that perhaps, possibly maybe there’s a comedian who was ripping off John Mulaney’s act. That I played a separate clip in which John Marco Siresi thought they were referring to him. It is unclear who they were referring to anyway. So I went on Reddit and people think it might be a guy named Mike Feenie. Now I was unfamiliar with Mike Feenie.

Half an hour ago, but some clips. I’m going to play you three clips here and I’ll let you be the jury, and I’m trying to make the clips relatively even. So. The clips from Feenie and John Marco are on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. I couldn’t find John mullany on the Tonight Show.

I did find a cone and clip that was too far back, and I didn’t want to play anything current because these days there is mullanie mania. He could just walk up on stage and say hello and he’ll get a big Did I just rip off John Mulaney? Oh, I’m big. It’s gonna be mad at me. I’ve told you this before.

The secret to a half asked John Mulaney, is you have to do the B fifty two s Fred Schneider going big as a whale, And that’s how you get into your mullany. It’s just in the sing song Noss. I mean, it’s a half assed Millenie. But maybe I’m stealing from John mllanie. I digress.

So the Feenie and the John Marco are from the Tonight Show, and I’ve pulled a clip of John Mulaney on HBO’s Night of Too many stores. This clip is John Mulaney from eight years ago, which I think is before mullanie Mania. I’ve tried to make all the clips around a minute ten. I’ve tried to include the intro so you hear the comedian getting into it, and then around minute ten we’ll get out of the clips. But first up from eight years ago, here’s John Mulaney.

I’m John Mulaney, finally a name on this show. I had a great day. I hope you’re all well. I’m flattered to be here. I was walking downtown today.

I was on West twelfth Street. I was downtown. I was walking towards this guy. He’s walking towards me. He’s on his cell phone.

We’re both downtown. We’re on West twelfth. As he walks past me, I hear him say no, no, no, I can’t. Meet right now. I’m way uptown.

And then he looked at me and he winked, and he kept walking. That guy should be declared mayor of New York City. I don’t care if he’s had a scandal automatic mayor, and he probably has, if that’s how he conducts himself on a day to day basis, If he’s lying about his whereabouts At two o’clock on a Saturday, while I high fiving random guys on the street. I was glad I noticed him. I normally don’t notice people.

I zone out conslate. Have you ever zoned out for a few minutes. I’ve been zoned out since two thy and fourteen. I just all day long. I wander into traffic, walking like Charlie Chaplin, listening to a podcast while thinking about a different podcast.

Next up, a three year old clip from The Tonight Show, storing in Jimmy Fallon. Comedian Mike Feede takes the stage wearing a suits and again John mulaniy known for wearing a suit. Right now, I’m looking at a picture of George Carlin performing in a suit in the sixties. Is John mulani stealing from George Carlin? Obviously?

He is get your own wardrobe buddy. Anyway, Mike Feoeney, here you go. Oh my gosh, thank you so much, everybody. Wow, I appreciate that I have exciting news. I just celebrated seven years of marriage with my wife.

Yeah. Yeah, we’ve been married seven years. We’ve been dating a total of seventeen years. Though I had to make sure and if i’man honest, she’s one of my favorite people right now. But when you’re in a relationship that long, a lot of times after shows from men, they’ll come up to me and they’ll be like, seventeen years.

I mean, my god, I must have gotten so stale in the bedroom by now, right, And every time I have to explain to them, I’m like, no, it hasn’t gotten stale, it’s gotten efficient. That’s how I would, yeah, like our sex life. As I go into a Billy Joel concert at this point, you know, we’re just playing the hits, no new stuff. Everybody’s happy, yea. And our third clip from four months ago, the twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marco SIASI.

He’s not wearing a suit. He’s wearing a pretty loose shirt. It’s a little wrinkled actually, so it’s a look. He didn’t accidentally go on the Tonight Show in a renkled shirt. And he is much more animated than mister Malaney and mister Feenie.

Here is John Marco Siisi, thank you. I appreciate it real quick. I’m going to talk a lot about my girlfriend tonight, and I just want to be careful, because I think what happens with a lot of male comedians is they’ll notice something about their girlfriend, and then when they’re on stage they act like that specific trait applies to the entire gender. So I just want to be clear. All the jokes tonight are about my girlfriend, and I don’t want to use her real name, so let’s just call her women.

Women. Hear me out, please please please. Women are Jewish and mine is no exception to the rule, and it’s fine. I’m also Jewish, although I was raised more culturally Jewish, which means I have all the anxiety of regular Judaism, but without the comfort of God. So I don’t know who Duberbigs and the Laney mean.

We’re gonna have to ask them. Mike Ebbs has issued an apology. Apparently Mike Epps had made some comments about rapper Nicki Minaj after Nicki Minaj recently appeared with the President of the United States in a comedy routine. Mike Ebbs had suggested that Minaj had engaged in a group sex activity with the President and others joke that perhaps Nicki had done some favors in exchange for help with her US citizenship. Fans of Nicki Minaj did not like that.

Mike Epps has posted on Instagram. Y’all know, I’m mister accountability. You know, I say stuff and do stuff, and then I go to bed, wake up the next morning, having prayed on and thought about it. I just want to apologize to you, Nicki Minaj for saying the stuff that I said. I want to apologize to your husband, your kids, all that for saying what I said.

I’m a comedian. Sometimes I get on that stage. You know, I have a little drink and I go wild. I’m nonfiltered, not explaining myself. But I am mister accountability.

I love apologizing, something a lot of people don’t know how to do. I just saw this one. As I walked into the basement. I took one last look at comedy threads, and I see from the Daily Beast, Michael Jay shut down a fan who suggested a sketch. The sketch suggested by the fan was about Epstein Island with actual children, and the fan thought that would be a hilarious idea for Saturday Night Live.

Chay apparently mocked the pitch in a series of now deleted Instagram stories, even sharing a screenshot of his DMS with the fan. The Daily Beast says the fan had written to Michael Chay, if SNL had any balls, they’d do an Epstein Island sketch like it was a joke, but just have it be reality and of Trump and Elon et cetera, et cetera, partying with actual children. Have Elon try and explain electric cars to a fifth grader over cocktails, etc. Jay wrote back, that’d be funny to you, beato reenactments with actual kids. You think the audience would be laughing at that.

I guess I just don’t understand comedy audiences anymore. I get so much criticism that starts with if you had any balls, and now we do we just stay on Channel four and this is really funny. I wonder if ice T gets messages like show penetration on SVU cowards. The Garden of Dreams Foundation and MSG Entertainment have announced Garden of Laughs, coming to Radio City Music Hall on April thirteenth. Nice line up here.

Headliners include John Oliver Andrew Schultz. Oh we the press should ask Andrew some questions if he’s taking any questions. Ronny Chieng Zarna garg Josh Johnson, Analyza Slessenger. You may recall Andrew and Zarna played there od Gomedy Festival, so their career is doing quite well. Steve Sharippa of Sopranos fame will return as the host.

I know Steve worked with him on The Wise Guy Show. It’s serious, a really good guy. Uh drove around Vegas with him one day and had a nice timeout. Steve said the Garden of Dreams Foundation has impacted the lives of one hundreds of thousands of young people and their families in the Tri state area over the last twenty years. At it’s incredible events like Garden of Laughs that helped make that possible.

That dude’s a pro and awesome to work with. Got a lot of New York City stuff. Today. If you’re on the subway and you’re like, is that Ronny Chieng, it is Ronny Chieng. He is the latest entertainer to lend his voice to public service announcements for the New York City Subway.

Now see, I’m old school, I grew up in Queen’s New York City. When I get on the train and they have these like pre recorded announcements that are crystal clear, like ooom, next up times Square. I’m like, as the kids say, g TFO. Back in the day when Johnny Mack was a young lad listening to Howard Stern on a walkman, the announcement sounded like this, and you dealt with it, and that’s how it was, and there was graff feiti everywhere. Oh sorry, I almost ripped on John Lane there.

Sorry, I’m entertaining myself. Ronnie Ching affects a frustrated voice as he reprimands writers for various subway faux pause. One message ses can he please move into the train so other people can get on? Thank you, Cursey counts. Now, I have found myself on threads.

I’m in some sort of New York City conversation about who’s a real New Yorker and newbies asking for advice from real New Yorkers. Listen to me, I’m not moving in. If you’re from New York City, you understand, and you’re like, of course, I’m not moving in. People are like, why is this jerk not moving in? Here’s why I’m not moving in because I have my own space.

Welcome to New York City. If you can’t handle it, go somewhere else. I’m getting on, and the second I get on, I’m turning sideways and I’m leaning against the metal railing. When the door is closed, I’m leaning against the door. I have space.

I’m not standing in the middle holding on a railing. If you want to give me a seat, I’ll sit down, I’ll get out of the door. But I’m not standing in the middle. I’m blocking the door. More advice from Ronny Chieng, the PA announcer.

Unless it’s old school hip hop, nobody wants to hear your music, your phone, call your headphones on. Oh boy. And the people at the airports with the TikTok videos, yeah, they got to stop too. Ronny Chieng said he was honored to record the new messages and then said, wait, does that mean I work for the MTA now New York or Pete Davidson. He’s got that TV show that the delusional people at Netflix think it’s a podcast.

It’s not a podcast, it’s a TV show. And the Union might have some questions for you people. Pete was having a conversation on his inexpensive television show with Machine Gun Kelly. We learned Pete Davidson’s happy place. He said, mine was this deli that’s near my house.

It’s not the best deli in the world. It’s just clean. It’s like really clean, and you feel really good about buying produce and like meats from there. Now you’re like, what’s it called. Well, eventually Pete Davidson revealed the place is called Bagels are Us in Great Kills.

Pete says, it’s phenomenal. While you’re in New York City taking the subway, block the doors. It’s everyone else’s problem that they’re trying to get on the train. They should have gotten on the stop before like I did. But if you’re on the train and you’re like, is that George Clooney, it’s too fat to be George Clooney.

No, it’s not George Clooney. It’s me and I’m blocking the doors and we’re on our way to Williamsburg for the sixth Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio aka the Ambies. They will be hosted by comedian Wyatt Sanak. Why It said, podcasting has become one of the most exciting places for ideas and storytelling. I’m looking forward to honoring the creators, keeping the energy up and helping make the night feel as vibe and engaging as the podcast themselves, plus as a New Yorker doing this in Brooklyn just makes it hit different.

Keenan Thompson is going to be part of a new action comedy based on the podcast Unwanted. Unwanted centers on two degenerates who attempt to claim a one million dollar reward by capturing an escaped, convicted murderer, but that plan quickly unravels as they find themselves dangerously unprepared for the chaos that follows. Golf enthusiast Kat Williams is on the new episode of the PGA Tours Studio’s Mindful series. Kat Williams opens up on how the game of golf has impacted and shaped him in an overall sense and congratulations too, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, who for some reason is in this Spress release called the comedy ike us on that must be a typo. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers you know them as ASCAP, announced that songwriter, movie star, and comedy powerhouse Adam Sandler be honored with the ASSCAP Founder’s Award, recognizing his contributions to music and songwriting across comedy, film, and popular culture.

Are we really doing that? Are you sure? Asscap? Can we give him an oscar for Ray Kelly? Don’t reward the silly songs?

What are you doing? Sandler will accept the ward at the twenty twenty six ASSCAP Experience that’ll be at the Scriball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Today. The ASSCAP Chairman of the Board and President, Paul Williams said, Adam is a giant of comedy and so many of his most hilarious on screen moments are based in music and song, from Operaman to the Hanukah song to Grow Old with You. Adam’s genius ability to seamlessly blend comedy and music helps us all appreciate the wonders and absurdities of life and love.

ASSCAP is honored to recognize Adam Sandlor for his singular contributions to the comedy music cannon. Previous recipients include Paul McCartney, Oh Boy, This press release is Gonna Kill Me from his famous SNL classics like the Thanksgiving song, Lunch Lady Land and Red Hooded Sweatshirt, Who Can Forget That One? To newer songs like as Chris Farley Jam and No Sailor skit is complete without a song to send the audience into fits. Oh it says sorry, fits of laughter. Adam Sandlor has released six albums, two went double platinum, and Sailor has earned three Grammy nominations.

We got to stop with this. Give the man an oscar. You’re rewarding the wrong part of this guy’s career. Cut it out, boy. This show’s a lot better than it was an hour ago.

I’ll tell you that this really came together from late nighter. They pulled the ratings for the late night talk shows. Let’s see, I’m reading this cold. Star Trek ruiner. Stephen Colbert in first place, but January was down five percent from December.

And now hopefully that’s because people realize that Stephen Colbert is part of the problem. He is one of the horrible, horrible people destroying Star Trek. And this is why I am aligned with the President of the United States that Stephen Colbert’s talk show must end. If you’re going to do that to Star Trek, I’m going to come at you. Stephen Colbert.

Tig nataro genius here Patton Oswalt two point six five million total viewers is down five percent from December. Johnny Mack takes Star Trek very seriously, Jimmy Kimmel in second with two point four to six, up three percent, and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon third place one point two two million viewers. Wow, so he’s got half of Kimmel’s audience. Fallon was down eleven percent. Let’s look at the young people.

Eighteen to forty nine Kimmel an average of two hundred and thirty one thousand viewers. So Kimmel had two point four to six overall. So if we subtract two thirty one, that means of the viewers two point one million of it call it or under eighteen or over fifty. Yikes, And I’m over fifty and I still say yikes. Colbert two twenty five fall one hundred and fifty six thousand viewers, down twenty two percent month over month.

Wow. At twelve thirty Late Night with SETH Myers nine hundred and sixty eight thousand viewers overall, down two percent. Guess people weren’t watching Late Night in January. Huh, eighteen to forty nine’s SETH Myers has one hundred and twenty six thousand viewers. That is within Frisbee range of this dopey podcast, and this one’s a lot cheaper to produce.

I’ll put it this way, I’m a lot closer to Seth than Seth is to Colbert Big shout out to your friend of the show, Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. He did a nice retweet for this program on his very popular threads account. Seemed he was interested in the Berbiglia Melaney John Marco discussion Jason had posted on his threads account, which is zennamon j comedy is middle school, even down to the secretive handwritten notes. Of course, so is everything else that is true, my friend. Now, right before I hit record today, I wrote back to Jason.

Some folks were saying Mike Feeney, who I was unfamiliar with. Will Noonan has chimed in and wrote feoene as a saint in this house. End of story. Just for last Vancouver kicks off, Let’s take a look at today’s lineup. I really thought about going, but it’s a little far The show I wanted to see David Letterman was on a Wednesday.

If Letterman was on a weekend, I might have gone for it, but thanks to the Just for Last Vancouver people who gave us some great guests. We’ll have Drew Lynch on this program on Sunday. And if you missed Ismao last Sunday, he was fantastic. If you’re in Vancouver, say hi to my Chisholm from the Letterman podcast. You might see him standing on a street corner.

He’s gonna be doing some field reporting for this program. Joe List is at the Rio Theater at seven, and then Joe List is at the Biltmore at nine. If you want to see Joe List back to back in different rooms, that’s different. I don’t think I’ve seen that in the Comedy Festival before. At Gamble is at the Rio at nine.

Okay, so we’re just getting started. I guess if we were at the festival tonight, I would just stay at the Rio and I would see Joe List and then I would see Ed Gamble, which would be a actually really good night of comedy. Today’s Thursday, so it’s the final day of voting for this week’s Comedy Survivor. I haven’t been on the Facebook group yet to see what was going on, but last time I checked, there were a lot of single votes. I think this week’s game is wide open if you’re new to all this.

We put sixteen comedians on Comedy Island and we’re playing Comedy Survivor, a legally distinct parody of whatever you think we’re parodying. It’s legally distinct, totally different. Did I mentioned as a parody? So what you do? You should go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

You’ll see a drawing of me and Jay Letto there, and then there’s a thread and I’ll tell you who’s still on the island and who you can vote off, and I’ll share the results on Monday. Congratulations to Adam Ernest piccard. Where is it Pickard? He doesn’t spell it like the Starfleet Captain. He spells it pic k Ard, so maybe it’s Pickard Anyway.

He is the Captain of Puns. He’s twenty two years old and he won the UK Pun Championship show with this pun. The song Greensleeves was composed by Henry the Eighth. Play some of it here, but it’s not royalty free. Congratulations Captain Pickard, and I’m gonna leave you with this one.

Sometimes the podcast just to amuse myself at google the word comedian, I see what comes up, and I learned that an ad agency has partnered with KFC Arabia to bring comedic chaos to the launch of the Korean Barbecue Twister. Apparently they gave comedian Juan Ho Chung free reign over the creative messaging recipe, antics and culturally aware storytelling. That’s right, KFC Arabia has launched the Korean Barbecue Twister, and they want to know what happens when you give a bilingual comedian full creative control over your menu launch. The answer chaos, deliciously culturally aware chaos, and I have some audio for you. Have’ve clipped it a little bit, but you know, let’s let this run.

Wondering how things between KFC and one Ho ended up like this, let us explain. We made a Korean menu with everything drenched in barbecue sauce. Then we signed the only Korean guy on the planet who speaks Arabic. I have a knew well that logic didn’t last long. From day one, one Hot started improvising, showed up wearing this wig, which by the way, isn’t even Korean.

So he tried his own thing on design and even put his touches on the recipe. At some point we completely lost him over one Kentucky Fried Chicken bother Korean right chicken. He named the podcast one ho On Barbecue Wow, just wow, and then he went on to build the toy line. Man, we aren’t the ones with toys. Suddenly we found out about this arab K pop hit.

Song, canes be not a wideo for it? Who approved this? He might ask? Nobody? Of course, Yeah, we kept going in circles and circles.

What else could we do. It’s Kentucky launching a Korean menu with an Arabic speaking Korean. It just made sense. And fun stuff from one who y young there who wants to rebrand KFC as Korean Fried Chicken. That is your comedy news for today.

All right? If you got a thought about who’s ripping who off? There’s the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. But I didn’t do a post for it, but what if you could start a post. You’re allowed to talk about things on your own, but to be curious who everyone thinks is ripping someone off?

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence that the transcription algorithm seems to really like. Kat Williams has a new special on Netflix.

You know Netflix, can we not do this on Tuesday? I feel like Tuesday’s just, for some reason, the worst night to watch comedy specials. You think i’d be home, but I was watching The Knicks last night, so I didn’t get to this yet. But on Big Boy TV, he said, let me explain something to you. I’m not scared to say nothing.

I’ll say it. He was talking about his appearance in twenty twenty four in the Club Shayshe podcast. You may remember that Cat Took No Prisoners. He said that that appearance was carefully planned, designed to provoke a reaction without fully detonating careers. Kat explains the knockout punches were taken out.

Kat was asked about p Diddy parties. Kat said, people, indeed, do you ask, how do you know goes on at the PDDY party? If you weren’t at the pddy party, they would have these parties in Hollywood Hills, and they’d have a parking lot where they would shuttle people up, so everybody would meet in this parking lot. They would send shuttles down. I was never invited to the parties, but I was invited to the parking lot because I knew the people who were on the shuttle service.

I’d go to the parking lot. I’d watch them all go up there, and I would just be on the car having a grand old time, smoking and laughing, watching everybody going. I would see all these big time Hollywood men that I just watched go up there. They all came down off the shuttle, looking sad in their eyes, all of them wearing Sean John and looking oily. Their shoelaces were always untied.

Then they’re getting their car and they would drive off standing up. Okay. Then Bob Saggitt getting a documentary. The Bob Sackett Documentary explores the duality of a man known to millions as America’s Dad on TV while simultaneously being a raw and unfiltered stand up comic on stage, built from intimate access to family and fellow comics, Rare home videos and ever before seen footage The Bob Sacket documentary will reveal the complex life, devastating losses, and enduring kindness behind the laughter. No date yet.

Wow, Saggot is going on four years already. That is stunning to me. I feel like that news just happened not too long ago. I met Bob once. He was super cool.

He came up to visit us, and it’s serious, and he needed to make a phone call and I let him use my office. So I have just this wonderful memory of me, you know, killing time in the hallway talking to some coworkers about the Mets and seeing Bob Saggett sitting at my desk using my phone. Cool guy Bill Maher is upset that his relationship with Jimmy Kimmel has gone sideways. You may recall that Bill Maher slammed Missus Kimmel. Missus Kimmel had revealed that she had lost family relationships over their politics.

On the Club Random podcast, Bill Maher said, Kimmel is quote very mad at me. Mar said to his guest Adam Carolla, I know you’re close to him. I hope you tell him that you know. I’m sorry that they got bent out of shape. I don’t think I did anything wrong.

Weekend of Disagreements, Moore insisted it’s Kimmel who was in the wrong. According to mar my tribe is supposed to be the left, but these are the people who just can’t talk to you unless you’re exactly there. Jimmy, I’m sorry. I think this is one of the nice guys that did a meacopo when we exchanged emails. Not about what who’s complaining about.

We’re just saying sometimes a little brash when they compare me with the other late night guys. I’m like, I’m not like you guys. I’m not You could all exchange your monologues, all of you and no one would know the difference in tune, whereas me, I’m not there. I just don’t buy into the left wing bs. I never stopped making fun of the right wing bs at all.

If that’s not good enough for you, then I think you’re the a hole. And I don’t think Jimmy’s an a hole. I think he’s a great guy. And it bugs me that because of what the latest thing was. You know, we may never talk Chris Fleming getting an HBO Max special, so I think this is a Max special I’ve talked about this in the past, HBO, that you’ve totally confused your brand, which Netflix is going to do with these quote unquote podcasts.

By the way, you’ve totally confused your brand. So to me, Living on Old Man Mountain, Something on Saturday is an HBO special. Something on Friday is a Max special. Chris Fleming, who I love, is getting a Friday special. It is called Chris Fleming Live at the Palace.

It will premiere ten pm East and West Friday, twenty seventh. Live at the Palace was filmed where everybody say with me, the Palace Theater, That’s right, the one in Chicago. We’re sold. Chris Fleming bounds across the stage, sharing his takes on masculinity, conga lines, Trader Joe’s oreos, NPR, dog Breeds and more. Now I’m fascinated with the timing.

So is the Friday night slot when you get Chris Fleming and Sarah Sherman and the quirky stuff, which is fine because that would be a brand. I would be totally down with Friday’s at ten being the quirky stuff. Don’t go throwing Nate Perghetzi on Friday Night at ten. He’s Saturday Night at ten. You know what I’m saying.

Yeah, Chris Fleming said, I hereby decree, my first HBO special will soon be available for you to consume. Please enjoy, and feel free to dance along. Thank you and thank you HBO to exclamation points. Nina Rosenstein is HBO’s EVP programming Late Night and specials and pr people loved difficult from the executives, So Nina or someone in Nina’s name came up with this sentence. Chris brings it full force to this special.

Once you’ve seen him, nothing else quite compares. His jokes are exquisitely precise, and his physical comedy is so borderline acrobatic that you discover something new to laugh at every time, whether it’s a perfect compression of a crab walk or an intricate joke about Tillamook cheese. His work is a masterclass in and of itself. I wonder how long they worked on that quote. In The Atlantic, David Simms writes, Pete Davidson’s charm is working against him.

David Simms got into one of my favorite current topics, which is the Pete Davison Show, which say with me is clearly not a podcast, Simms writes. The first question to confront when considering The Pete Davison Show, a new Netflix series that the streamer is calling a video podcast, is what is a podcast? Sims says, I would argue that podcast should always involve a dedicated feed you can listen to on your phone. The Pete Davison Show does not have that. A cynic might wonder if branding the Pete Davidson’s Show a podcast is just a way for the streaming empire to avoid paying for the kind of unionized cruise and production staff at talk show demands.

Anyway, once we get over that, let’s review the show. David Sims says of Pete Davidson as a host, He’s casual to a fault. He’s prone to slouching in his chair, ripping a thousand of cigarettes, and reminiscing about various awkward interactions he and his guests have had at parties over the years. David’s inexperience becomes obvious when seated across someone much better versed in the medium. Episode two features Charlomagne the God, a season radio personality whose comfort and facility with the format forces Davidson to keep up.

Sims writes, maybe Davidson can grown to the gig. Very few hit podcasts emerge from the gate fully formed. But the Pete Davidson Show, which I’ll point out, is not a podcast. It’s a television show on Netflix. I’ll let the union fight their own battles, but it is not a podcast.

Sims rights, the Pete Davidson Show is a particularly rough lump of clay. The garage setting riffs on Maren’s format, but the space is devoid of any notable physical objects for guest to bounce off. Nothing like Maren’s frequently remarked upon Chachke’s or guitars, Davidson’s Chat with Kelly has no structure, no segments, and no particular gimmick. I’ve been there. That’s some executive telling Pete Davidson you could do whatever you want me.

I’ve been down this a zillion times about ah. You know, we don’t need a format, we just talk about it. You have to put a format on things or you just have a mess. I’m telling you, I’ve been doing this for thirty plus years. You have to have a format.

This show has a format. Have you noticed I do the big stuff up front, take a break, and then I do esoteric stuff. That’s a format. You just need a format. I don’t open up the show going Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

The Topeka, Kansas Comedy Festival feature seven people you’ve never heard of. I don’t do it that way. There’s an order to things. You have to have a format. Sims seems to agree.

Writing some sense of organization can help shape an otherwise unformed snippet of conversation. And I like this last sentence from David Sims, who writes, perhaps Netflix is video only podcast experiment. David, it’s not a podcast, it’s a television show. Let me clean it up for you. Let me make an edit on David Simms what the sentence should say.

Or perhaps Netflix is TV show experiment will go the way of many other such clones in this medium, which never took on board the lesson that podcasts require more than two microphones and a garage to actually be interesting. You can actually do it with one micro phone in a basement. I’m opening up the Netflix app and I’ll see if the Pete Davidson television show is trending now they keep changing the interface. Here, I’ve clicked on new and Hot. They want me to watch Gordon Ramsay and Mission Impossible and Ironclaw something about dinosaurs.

Well, that doesn’t seem to be chirts. We are shirts in Netflix. They used to just have a big top ten there, So here we go. Top ten shows in the US today. This is twelve forty five pm on Tuesday, Wrestling, Lincoln Lawyer, Bridgerton unfamiliar, Jeffrey Epsteins something his and Hers which I liked at the beginning, and they got terrible.

Is it cake? You people need to get a life alone, Free Bert doing well at number nine and The Way Home. None of that is the Pete Davidson television show. Interesting. I’m a bad host.

Yesterday I did this wonderful rant about Mulaney versus Jen Marco, and I forgot to thank a listener. No listener said, you can just say listener. But the listener sent this to me or I wouldn’t have caught it. So thank you listener for putting that. I still want to get a posse up, but I don’t hear it at all.

In case you missed it, seems mister b Bigli and mister Mullaney are not quite accusing John Marco Siresi of ripping off the act. They didn’t say who they think is ripping off Mullaney, but people seem to think they’re implying that it’s John Marco. I don’t hear it at all. Comedy Survivor join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I was checking out the voting earlier today and there’s a lot of like single votes all across the board.

I don’t know who’s going this week. Some people are hanging back until end of day Thursday to get their votes in late and see if a little late rush can eliminate someone. No idea who’s going. Late night waged in. On the super Bowl halftime show, Greg Gutfeld telled this joke.

President Trump posted that bad Bunny had one of the worst halftimes ever. I disagree. The worst ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump now now Gutfeld. Obviously I didn’t tell that one well at all, because that did you hear those words? That is a hilarious joke.

The worst halftime ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump. Hilarious? I mean Gottfeld told it properly, got a huge laugh. I just didn’t tell it well, but boy, that that is just a well crafted, not at all hacky joke from Greg Guttfeld. Eddie Murphy, we’ll team up with Evangoria in a new comedy movie being made by Amazon MGM.

It is called Attachment Parenting. We’re told attachment Parenting has a vibe that throws back to another era of studio comedies. The project tells of a psychologist couple whose parenting philosophies put to the ultimate test when they’re forced to counsel the crime boss’s dysfunctional family while being held hostage at a hotel. Okay, Kevin Hart he likes to be in business with stuff. He has invested in Burn Bootcamp.

The owners of Burn Bootcamp met Kevin Hart through mutual connections. CEO Morgan Klein said, we could just since there was a lot of shared values amongst one another. It was very clear that he didn’t want to be as person and that’s not what we were seeking. He wanted ownership. Kevin has made a financial investment in Burn boot Camp and will own a franchise in California.

Kevin in a YouTube video apparently said Burn stands for what I believe in, structure, accountability, and results. My kids don’t listen to what I say, but they watch what I do, and I want them to see discipline, commitment and strength. Tops Baseball Cards have come out with a Jerry Seinfeld Mets card. It’s Jerry Seinfeld wearing a Mets jersey and an off brand Mets hat and he’s on the phone, presumably calling the bullpen. It’s autographed.

Tops said it was the biggest signing of the off season. Collectors can buy a whole bunch of packs and hope one of the packs has an autograph card of Jerry Seinfeld. And The Traverse City Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. The festival is April sixteenth through the eighteenth. It’s their fourth annual event.

Headliners Megan Statler, Sarah Sherman, Roywood Junior, Gary Goleman, and Jodovito. Nice lineup, gang. It will be comedians representing three thirty three states and Canada, which if the President will get things done and let’s get going on this, I’ll be able to just say representing thirty four states, right, I’m skimming the names here. The headliners are pretty good. The other folks, I’m not sure any of these names you would know unless you’re really, really a comedy snob.

The festival will feature multiple improv and specialty programs. Show titles include Kamikazi Comedy, Big Fun, Murder, Planet Ant, and that thing you pull when you want it to stop. It’s also a roast Battle and a Comedy Rumble. What’s a comedy rumble, John, you’re the one who hosts the show. I know.

Let’s see. Here’s a comedy rumble that gives eight comedians the chance to battle for progressively longer stage time across three intense rounds. Wait, this is fun. It sounds like a good time. And that’s your comedy news for today and catch it tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Settle up your horse, because I’m putting together a posse. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. But I don’t have time for that because I am ticked off.

Mike Birbiglia has a podcast. His guest is John Mulaney. Listen to this crap. I’ve edited this for pacing, but listen to this. What do you think when people like rip off your voice in your style?

Dude, I’ve heard they do, but I don’t. I can’t think of anyone that does. We know who did? I don’t. Actually, you want to write it down?

I write the first letter. Oh I’m not that familiar with that person. Okay, but I I’ll check it out. I just watched it the other day. I was like, come on, interesting, Okay, what are we doing?

That’s cool though, I guess, of course it’s cool. Okay, how’d you feel about people that ripped you off? Well, there’s two or three. Do you like it? That’s fine?

Yeah, it’s fine, all right, John Mulaney and Mike Brobiglia who are we accusing of stealing John Mulaney’s act. Now they didn’t name names, but one comedian thinks it’s him. Let’s go to Friend of the Show and twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marco SERAISI. This clip has some salty language, and I’ve trimmed it a lot for pacing. But let’s let John Marco way in on this.

There is something that we need to talk about. I don’t I don’t want to name names, so I’m gonna I’m gonna write it down on a piece of paper and and uh, let’s so there’s a person I want to talk about. Oh, how about a big ass p to quote my fa favorite comedian John Mulaney. I when I when I first started a stand up, like when I really like made that decision, I saw micro Biglia did a show at the Bellhouse and it was this. It was so cool because it was him working out new material like he he hosted it and then he had comments going between who were doing like the Real Killer, like just set and then he came out and was working on new material.

In fact, I would say that was very much inspiration for my my silver lining show. So I’m stealing from you too, buddy. I I wish I could go back in time to that Bellhouse show and just whisper in my ear one day one of those comedians on stage is going to talk shit about you to another one of those comedians on stage on a podcast. So so I I was on a plane. Great, that’s a great place to get news that hurts your feelings on a play.

Just perfect. And I think it was two weeks ago, maybe Pete Holmes I went on on Working it Out for Bigli’s podcast, Working it Out I believe that’s what it’s called, which I’m subscribed to. Yeah, And and people said, hey, Jamarca got a shout out I’m working it Out and you go, oh cool, cool cool, and Pete Holmes was talking about just good JFL sets and and and mentioned Shane Gillis and and me, and it was very nice.

And then I went on the Patreon just to make sure all the episode, the new epi…

It’s someday. Once once every cast member of SNL has made an appearance. I’m so excited. And and it was it was basically they were talking about shit talking and Bigliy was like, well, people, how do you feel when people rip you off or copy you? And and he said, he said, oh, there’s one person, and he said, you know, write it down.

And so he took out a piece of paper and wrote a name of someone who’s who he says, ripping off uh milleniey and showed him.

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And now let me just let me just say, because someone planted it in my ear, li…

If who else could it be? Who else is ripping off John Mulaney more than me? John Marco ripping off John Mulaney, as the kids say, GTFO with that. The only time I ever put in a Lane and Tron Marco together in my brain was when John Marco was on this show and slipped into a Millenie impression when he was deliberately doing mulleni Yes, he was doing Mullenie, but day to day I don’t hear it at all. Mike Provilian John Mlaney again, GTFO with that noise Speaking of John Mulaney, he was part of the Best Thing Ever Creative Platforms campaign during the Super Bowl.

Apparently this came and went. I didn’t catch win of it until I was putting the show together. John Mulaney was providing commentary on Super Bowl commercials in real time and shared on social media. Here’s John Mulaney commenting on the Polar Bear commercial. Kraft Mac and Cheese is better than commercials with Polar Bears.

We’re ready to enjoy in ten minutes. Those Polar Bears show up eight hours before rolling to get into hair and makeup. Then they have their squads, all the people that hang around them. You have to get a trailer for them, and not a half trip. You’ve got to get a full banger.

Then they’re going to go over the contract midway through the shooting bill. I didn’t agree to scarf read of sunglasses. It’s a nightmare. It’s why I left the Bins, Craft Back and Cheese. Best thing ever?

Wait, was that, John Marcos Sarasi, No, it wasn’t. You know how I know because it wasn’t funny. Get out of here for Biggs and Malini. Get out of here with that. Michael Chay, He and Colin Jost were in a commercial.

People are upset at them that they were promoting sports gambling. Michael Chay on Instagram posted, look, I got a mortgage, which I get. I also have heating bills. You guys can hate on the commercials all you want, but I got I Have you seen my heating bill? This I’m not doing a bit, Holy cow, and February is gonna be worse.

I can’t take the cold anymore. Man, It’s gonna end at heart. I’m Jimmy Buffett. All right, while we’re on our horses, while we’ve got a posse together, let’s keep riding and head on over to NBC headquarters. I saw this on the Facebook group of the Letterman podcast NBC’s turning one hundred.

They did this video montage of all the great things that ever happened on NBC. You know, things like Marcelo Hernandez, he’s in the video. Things like heroes, Yeah, heroes out of one hundred years of NBC. You’re picking heroes that made the video. You know who did not make the video?

David Letterman, are you kidding me? You put Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing one thing, well but one thing only in this video, and you don’t put David Letterman GTFO. As the kids say. On Netflix today, Kat Williams as a new special. It’s his fourth for the streamer.

It’s titled The Last Report. In The Last Report, Kat Williams delivers bold takes on conspiracy celebrities in the world at large. Looking forward to that one. Jim Gaffigan’s got a new gig. He will be in a movie called New England Toys.

New England Toys is a mysterious period thriller that has already started filming in Buffalo, New York. It is unclear what year or decade of the film takes place in.

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Speaking of Jim Gaffigan, the folks over at Breaking Bourbon dot Com reviewed…

Now, I was like, what’s SRP? That brought me to SRP whiskey dot com. I’m sorry if the rest of you are like John, everyone knows what this is uh, for the one person who doesn’t. SRP Whiskey is a base platform where visitors to the site can review retail pricing for most whiskeys on the market. All right, so Gaffigan charging two hundred and thirty bucks for this thing?

Yeah. Breaking Bourbon tells us Nose Orange, Zest, Summer Fruits, peacht medicinal undertone, the palette, stewed fruits, kettle corn, raspberry jam, brown sugar, baking spices on the back end, the finish raspberry, honey, orange, rined, dried apricot, and lingering spice, which I almost misread as linger a spice, which would be differently interesting. Breaking Bourbon tells us for their fourth release in the series, Father Time, Precious Batch, Bourbon, Empty Nester Strength, fourth and long great title Jim is a solid release from a celebrity brand that is just getting started. Gaff again is planning five releases in this series. Wait and or up to number forty.

Think he’ll stop. I don’t think he’ll stop, with each release representing one of his five children, though they are not personally identified with each release, As Gaffkin states, while I was thrilled to know a new child was on the way, a fear of uncertainty overtook me like a football team facing fourth and long. Parenting is hard, raising three kids is exponentially harder, but much like going forward on fourth down, when you make it, there’s a feeling of invincibility. The same principles that inspire the previous versions of father Time have also guided the creation of our new release, Fourth and Long. The endeavor is still just me and stew tasting barrels and putting together a smooth and delicious bourbon.

Each bottle is personally signed by me, which was a pain in the ass, but totally worth it. Much like Fatherhood. Maybe that explains the two hundred and thirty dollars breaking bourbon tells it’s it’s refreshing to see his bourbon brand from a celebrity who not only enjoys the spirit, but is actively involved with its creation at the ground level. Based on this, I’m excited to see what Father Burban does next. The sample use for this review is provided to us at no cost courtesy its respective company.

We thank them for a longest review with no strings attached. This next story is sad. I’m going to drop a bomb in you to just be prepared, and then the story after it. I have a very fun story. Okay, so but this is about to get really sad.

Just you’ve been warned I should not do this story. This story is not fun at all. It’s not funny at all. It’s not even comedy. But it’s core to who I am.

As I tell people who know me, there’s just like a handful of things you have to know about me that explain everything about me. One of them which I’ll share with you right now. Again, nothing funny here. This is about to get really sad. Actually, when I was a young boy, like four years old, my first dog did not live very long and that has affected me my entire life.

So I am bothered by this story from the puppy Bowl. To just see this story from the puppy bowl, this is heartbreaking and I can’t shake it, and I have to talk about it to get it out of my system. One of the puppies was Teagan. Teagan I was born with neurological issues and a severely curved spine and almost died from pneumonia shortly after arriving at Connecticut Animal Sanctuary. Perfect Imperfections Rescue, And here’s all these clips and they’re on social media and you see this dog and like, you can’t look away.

And I kept looking and I was like, oh God, bless you dog. So I wake up on Monday, all right, this is I’m going to drop a bomb on you. Hit stop. I’m about to drop a bomb. I learned from the New York Post.

Tigan the puppy died three months ago before the Puppy Bowl or Tigan, whose life was hard enough anyway, became severely ill with pneumonia. The sanctuary said in a Facebook post it will be bittersweet to see her on TV. So I see this on Monday morning and I’m like, yikes. I realized this is supposedly a comedy podcast. So I don’t know what to do.

There’s a sanctuary called Perfect Imperfections Rescue. I’ll probably make a donation, and I donate to several several animal charities. Again, I was unfamiliar with any of this until like four pm on Sunday, but I have it open here and I see you can make some donations, and I’m actually going to do that. So some good comes out of Teakan’s short time on this planet. Okay, now, how do you get out of that.

John, Let me tell you about Adam Sandler. Remember last week I told you a story and as the story goes, Adam Sandler’s daughter was there trying to buy a handbag and the people were mean and all that. Well, Adam Sandler has commented on this. Adam Sandler was at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and he went out of his way to say, by the way, there’s something on the internet talking about that dumb thing. I’ve been hearing about this thing, and I saw it and it’s just insane.

It’s just this made up, weird thing that people ask me about and I’m just like, I’ve never heard of this in my life. That story was one hundred percent insane and made up, and not a word of it is true. Sandler said he was sent the TikTok video by a friend who asked him what happened. Sandler said that video’s nonsense, but other videos of him getting in and out burger late at night were true. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so to talk about her, we shall.

She was on Instagram posted some more pictures. In one of the captions, she addressed her increased social media presence and admitted that it’s due to her feelings wrong and beautiful. Finally, the success of her health and weight loss journey. Amy Schumer wrote, picks of Yourself when you’re finally feeling strong and beautiful or not a cry for help. They’re a celebration of life and health.

Love to the single moms out there. Verdaz commenting on Twitter about Bad Bunny, I thought Bad Bunny was fantastic? Did the people who were upset about Bad Bunny were crazy to begin with? Now? Do I normally drive around listening to Bad Bunny’s music.

I don’t, But in terms of a halftime show, I thought it was fantastic and I was highly entertained. Verr DAEs posted, It’s kind of weird to complain about not knowing the words to a Bad Bunny song and saying it’s soun American when most of you don’t know the words to the Second Amendment either. Ouch. Remember the comedy club from like two weeks ago, maybe it was at this point there was a comedian who had said jerky things about the two people in Minnesota who were murdered. Well, Camp Barrs Laugh Camp Comedy Club has announced the benefit show featuring local comics aimed at covering losses for the staff who didn’t make any money because of the six canceled shows.

Club owner Bill Collins tells Bring Me the News that tonight’s benefit aims to cover lost wages and tips for staff, which includes bartender’s tech and box office crew. An The extra will go towards helping the club recover from potential legal fees and approximately eighteen thousand dollars that the comedian’s management company CAA says the club needs to pay for the canceled shows. Club owner Collins says comedians quickly reached out with offers to perform the benefit show. The lineup for tonight, which promises a few surprises I’ll come back to that includes Kadisha Cooper, Pierre Douglas, Maggie Farris, Ben Katzner, Rick Logan, Pearl Rose, sent Thel Regis, Karen, Tommy Ryman, and James Stanley. Now, I was hoping one of the surprises would be Dave Chappelle, but Dave’s not scheduled to be in town until the sixteenth.

The Moontower Comedy Festival announced more people to the lineup. Newcomers to the schedule include Meg Statler, Sarah Sherman, Lucy Dorling, Jennifrieman, and Murray Hill Moontower ten plus venues in downtown Austin from April seventh through the nineteenth. Many people already announced, I’m not going to read you fifty names, so let me just roll here and see some names you might know. Bet Stelling, Blasochi, Brad Williams, Carolyn Ray, Cristella Alonso, Deborah g Giovanni, Doug Benson, milwakem Greg Warren, Guy Brenham, Ivan Decker, Jason Sklar, Which means both Sclares will be there. They don’t do solo shows.

I don’t think I’ve never heard of one of the Sclars doing a show. And we’re going alphabetical by first name, so I’m assuming we’re going to get to Randy Scalark, Jay Jorden, Katherine Blandford, remember that name, She’s fantastic. In fact, we have Mike from the Letterman Podcast on assignment at the JFL Vancouver Comedy Festival. Go see Katherine Leslie Jones, who could be in Comedy Survivor Trouble. Oh I didn’t tell about Comedy Survivor Jay Leno voted off.

Yeah, we had a tie this week, and as per the rules, the AI had to decide who was going home? Was it Leslie Jones or Jay Leno? And the AI sent Jay Leno home. Leslie Jones survived Comedy Survivor. If you’d like to take part in Comedy Survivor, go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

You’ll find a little cartoon there me and Leno and in that thread to vote someone off the island. All right, Leslie Jones is going to Austin, Mark Marin, Matt Broger, Nish Kumar, Randy Scler, Sarah Sherman talked about her already veered Asen Yakov Smirnoff. Fantastic And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media. Outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mack and this is the elimination show. For Week five of Comedy Survivor, sixteen comedians were stranded on an island, and every week the listeners vote one person off Comedy Island.

You do that by going to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and you write down one name still in the game. Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko at Kotzka, Sebastian Manascalco, Tick Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Krascher. But now it’s time to tell you the votes. Mike D. Votes for Bert Kreischer, Sure Mike C.

Votes for Seth Myers. Rob votes for Jay Leno. Matt votes for Jay Leno. That’s two votes for Jay Leno. Heather votes for Leslie Jones.

Aaron votes for Seth Myers. That’s two votes for Seth Myers, two votes for Jay Leno, Andrea votes for Sebastian Manascalco, Scott votes for Tig Nataro, Michelle votes for Nikki Glaser Von votes for Otsco at Coontska. Todd votes for Leslie Jones. That’s two votes for Leslie Jones, two votes for Seth Myers, two votes for jay Leno. Dylan votes for j Leno.

That’s three votes for j Leno, Andy votes for Leslie Jones, three votes Leslie Jones, three votes jay Leno. Roppie votes for Leslie Jones. It’s getting very interesting. That’s four votes for Leslie Jones. Cheryl votes for j Leno, four votes for j Leno, Barbe quotes for j Leno, five votes for j Leno, four votes for Leslie Jones.

And the final vote comes from Mary, who votes for Leslie Jones. We have a tie. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, all ties will be decided by Spruce the AI Spruce, can you read back the votes to make sure there was no mistake? Of course, let’s double check the votes. I’ll read them in order of who voted and for whom.

First, Mike DeLoach voted for Burt Kreischer. Next, Mike Chishom voted for Seth Myers, Rob Kates voted for j Leno. Matt Palmer voted for jay Leno. Heatheraza Jones voted for Leslie Jones. Aaron Lublowitz voted for Seth Myers.

Bar Bames voted for Jay Leno, Andrea Pascal voted for Sebastian Manasklco, Scott Beckett voted for Take Nataro. Michelle Stevens voted for Nikki Glaser. Yvonne Kelly voted for Rotsuko at Coska. Todd Smith voted for Leslie Jones. Dylan Thominson had an image vote for Jay Leno.

Andy Luck voted for Leslie Jones. Robbie Levoby voted for Leslie Jones. Shril Wonko voted for j Leno, and Mary Rye voted for Leslie Jones. That gave us a tie five votes for jay Leno and five for Leslie Jones. No mistakes there.

Okay, Spruce. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, you get you cast the deciding vote. Who are you sending home? Are you sending home Leslie Jones? Were Jay Leno?

And please tell us why? All right, since I’m casting the deciding vote, let’s break it down. Both have been on the radar, but I’d lean towards jay Leno. Why He’s had multiple weeks of the votes and represents a legacy target that people keep circling back to. Strategically, Removing him might shift the dynamics and force people to reevaluate their next moves.

So in this round, I’d send jay Leno home. Wow. AI sends j Leno home. J Leno, the AI has spoken, We’ll take the break and we’ll come back and we’ll analyze that vote. Wow.

This is so much fun to do. Every week. It’s a lot more production with the music beds and grabbing the AI voice and all that, but it’s so much fun to do. And I’m terrified I’m going to miscalut the votes, but you heard the AI. Check my work.

The AI analysis says legacy targeting is no longer theoretical. So far voted off Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, JOKOI, Ron White, and now Jay Leno. That’s a pattern. This was the week two strong coalitions formed one group to finish what they started and get rid of jay Leno with some Leslie Jones movement this week, and interestingly, tig Nataro stayed pretty safe this week. AI says Leslie has now appeared multiple times and multiple weeks with different voters for different reasons.

That’s dangerous territory, but she did escape this week. Jay Leno, his name has been around for weeks. People kept talking about voting him off later and later has arrived. Looking ahead, the AI analysis says, these people seem safe, but you never know what happens in Comedy Survivor. But the AI thinks Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Nikki Glaser, Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, and Sebastian Menscalco seem pretty safe.

Who might be in trouble? Leslie Jones, tig Nataro keeps being mentioned as a target, Osco at Kotska and the I don’t know who that is vote and maybe, just perhaps people are going to get sick of Bert Kreischer still in the game. Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart to John muliny, Osko at Katska, Sebastian Manaskalko, tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Krascher. Week six voting is now open. It will continue until end of day Thursday.

Here’s what you do. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. You will find a photo of me extinguishing the torch of Jay Leno, and in that thread you will vote for one comedian. You are voting someone off the island, one vote per person. Make it clear I am voting off Joe Schmoe.

We don’t want a controversy. That would be terrible. Jay Leno eliminated from Comedy Survivor. This is a lot of fun. I will see you in the morning with a normal episode.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm really likes. Pete Davidson’s got a new thing on Netflix. They’re calling a podcast.

Johnny Mack says, in no way, whatsoever is that a podcast. Vulture has weighed in on this. They write, though, build as a Netflix podcast, the Pete Davison Show doesn’t feel like a podcast in any conventional sense, and they go on to write, you know, it’s got some stuff in common with a podcast, as a host and a guest and their chairs are vaguely facing each other and they’re just having a conversation. Some people think that’s what a podcast is. Culture writes, but is the Pete Davidson Show actually a podcast?

I’ll answer no, But they say, well, it’s podcast ish in that it nominally invokes the medium’s familiar tropes, But that doesn’t answer the ques question. A simple thought experiment helps. If the Pete Davidson Show had been produced by a different entity and distributed elsewhere, it would register as a good looking, high end celebrity podcast. But as a show produced by and distributed exclusively on Netflix, it’s difficult to beat the chargers. The Pete Davison Show is less a podcast than a piece of cheap television, and it should be judged on those terms.

But here’s the crux, and here’s where this is going to get interesting. Forget about what Johnny Mackfield’s a podcast is or not. And you could read my substack it’s free link in the notes. I write about this every week. But Vulture gets to the point.

As cheap television, the Pete Davidson Show offers Netflix a path towards producing more content at a far lower cost. Okay, fine, but stay with me. Largely independent of the entrenched Hollywood systems that have developed over time to protect the below the line workers who traditionally work on talk shows that compete in this space, it’s hard not to view the Pete Davidson Show as some kind of trial ballunacy. If anyone notices or cares Vulture rights for what it’s worth, Netflix’s shenanigans with the original podcast labels not going completely unnoticed. According to this article, a union rep told Pucks at Matt Beloney sag Netflix continue to have discussions regarding the Pete Davidson project.

Vulture calls that a notably diplomatic way of saying the Union is working to figure out what this thing is. Whether Netflix is using the podcast designation to sidestep obligations it would otherwise have for a talk show built around a Hollywood talent who makes movies and series with Union labor. Very very interesting. We’ll keep an eye on that. Are you familiar with the musicians the Red clay Strays.

A lot of comedians are into them. They went on social media and let people know that something is coming soon, and the something has something to do with Matt Rife. There’s a teaser and we see Matt Rife sitting on a bus. Everyone’s like, what’s Matt Rife doing on the bus? In the teaser?

Fans are mixed. One wrote Matt Rife and the Red clay Stras I’m in. Someone else wrote I love the Red craz Strays but not sure what to make of Matt Rife. Why him? No one knows?

Will it be your music video that features Matt Rife? Stay tuned. Craig Ferguson is going to tour the United States of America he’ll be working with CNN celebrating the USA’s two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Boy, time goes fast. I remember Crystal clearly sitting in Battery Park, New York City with my mother on July fourth, seventeen cent not seventeen seventy six.

I’m leaving that in nineteen seventy six. I’m not that old. I’m leaving that in nineteen seventy six, me and Mom July fourth, nineteen seventy six. I had my July fourth frisbee, which sadly I lost in the eighties, lost at the Sherton Pool and I don’t know what happened to it. Wish I still had it.

But anyway, Mom and the cute kid with the frisbee, we were on the local WCBS Channel two news. I digress. That’s fifty years ago, that story John, and it wasn’t that good. I know. Craig Ferguson he’ll be hosting America on Purpose, in which Craig Ferguson unpacks the country’s chaotic triumph and controversial two hundred and fifty year journey of independence.

We’re told Craig Ferguson exploits the identity of the country he now calls home after becoming a proud citizen in two thousand and eight, digging into its freedoms, contradictions, and cultural quirks. The journey takes him from monster truck rallies to Ellis Island and beyond, combining American history with his signature wit and playfulness. To meet the moment of the nation’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Craig said, any chance I get to remind my fellow Americans that we are still the best idea for a country anyone has ever had, I’m going to take it. My eagle is still bald and my banner is still spangled with stars from Fox News, comedian Steve Trevino thinks Hollywood has turned its back on him because of his conservative values, including his promotion of family, faith, and country. With all due respect to mister Travino, I think you’re wrong here, but let’s hear him out.

He was on The Like a former podcast. Steve Travino questioned why he was not offered another Netflix deal after his twenty twenty four special Steve Travigno Simple Man. Steve said, Hollywood not like us. Hollywood does not want anything to do with us, and it’s unfortunate, right, I was top five numbers wise, I beat thirty five of them. I believe that refers to thirty five other comedy specials.

All the ones I beat are getting offers. Again, I did not get another one. Travino were called in experience with Amazon Prime Video. He claimed in that he was asked to remove a moment from a project in which he thanked US military members. According to Steve, they said, can Steve not thank the troops at the end?

It’s too political? And I’m like, how is thanking the men and women who serve political? See after water? Is it because I’m conservative? Is it because I love this country?

Is it because I promote family? Is it because I promote God? Now I’ve been in the media for thirty How long is it now? Thirty four years? Professionally?

Cheez, I’m old. I’ve never ever run into anyone who said you can’t thank the troops. In fact, I was talking about this with my friend Bill at the brewery the other night during trivia and I we finished fourth. By the way, you know why, hey at trivia guys, you guys listening, you know why we did well, you guys didn’t have those Ariana grande questions. You asked a lot of old man questions.

It was like history questions in there. That’s why the old guys did. Okay, we would have finished third, but Johnny Mack said, let’s gamble on one of the answers in the fifth round there, and we got it wrong, so we didn’t win. Plastic sunglasses or whatever. I digress.

I’ve never run into the media conspiracies. I’ve never had Hey, you can’t talk about that. I’ve never seen the great conservative conspiracy. I’ve never seen the great liberal conspiracy. I’ve never run into the don’t thank the troops people.

Maybe I’ve just been fortunate. Anyway, Steve Trevino says, stand up, pay us the bills, and if Netflix doesn’t want to give us another offer, we’ll figure it out. We always do.

Speaking of the troops.

Gableglesias was just over in Japan. He did a series of shows for the US OH Army. Dot Mill tells us. During his hour long set, gab Iglesias rifted on familiar topics like family and food, but he also had humorous, slightly off color bits tailored to his host nation. Audience, whether expressing his amazement and how nice Japanese toilets are or counting his memorable experience says at airport customs and local Roman spots.

Gab Iglesias used his loud and energetic delivery to punctuate each story with his signature brand of punchlines. Sergeant Gage Casino is a self professed comedy enthusiast. He said, I’ve been watching him since I was a kid. To see him live as an honor, and I think everyone can agree he was a good time with good laughs. Sergeant Casino, he’s with the nine oh one Military Police Detachment.

I thank you for your service, both genuinely and to prove there’s no conspiracy against thanking the military for their service. Sergeant Ramar Downer, who I will also think, called the show hilarious. Sergeant Downer said, I really appreciate that they put on shows like this for us because it’s great for the troops. Sergeant Downer is assigned to the eighty eighth MP Detachment. It shows that they support the soldiers.

Was also great to hear the comics thanking us throughout the show. Gab Iglacias said, I’m here because I want to be here. I love performing for the military and look forward to coming back. Oh my voice is wearing out. At that Super Bowl preview, that long episod so from Saturday.

I did that one right before this one. And I still have to record Comedy Survivor, which is coming up at noon eastern today. We will find out who was voted off the island. I don’t know. I haven’t recorded it yet, but the Comedy Survivor elimination show will be in this very feed at noon Eastern today.

I also have to record The Weekly Comedy Thing, which is a show I host on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. That show is kind of like this, except I can play stand up comedian bits like in full like I can go here’s a story about Gabe Iglesias, and then I could play at Gabe Glaciers clip. You know. I can do that kind of thing over there.

So I still have to record that. It’s called The Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s on the Live one app if you want to check that out. Matt Friend has a new gig. He’ll be on the red carpet for the Academy Awards.

He’s very excited about it he’ll have a spot for talent interviews. Matt Rif’s career seems to be going okay, just like his impressions. Ron Funches was a part of the cast of this season of Traders. I’m going to spoil Traders. If you’re not caught up, you might want to bail here.

Ron Funches has been sharing some stories about Traders during his stand up shows. Okay, everybody who’s still here, you’re going to be spoiled. He explains, I approached the game as if I was a detective. I wanted to come from a data driven approach. Once I arrived, I realized I only knew one or two people, which I thought to be a detriment socially, but as far as being impartial is the best way to be.

Because I didn’t have any knowledge or love for any of the people, I’d look for things that look like inconsistencies in their work. I then thought about being more direct with people who I would try to accuse of being the trader, But after that point it became more of defending myself. Any accusations I had were based off people being like, prove to us that you’re not the trader. Who do you think it is, and I’d be like, well, I heard light footsteps, so it might be the smallest girl here me myself. I wouldn’t have considered that enough evidence.

But if you guys are going to force me to say something, I’ll say something. Ron Funch has said. The only thing I would have done differently is I wish I hadn’t cursed Eugene Merman. He’s part of that Bob’s Burger’s conspiracy. You know this one where people pretend Bob’s Burger’s is a show.

If you’re new to the show I’ll quickly explain it to you here. Let me ask you, new listener, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no, right, yeah, Okay, I understand there’s artwork. I understand there’s merge. I understand that Kevin Burkhart will say after this football game, it’s an all new Bob’s Burgers.

But Kevin Burkhart and Fox and Eugene Merman and everyone else in this conspiracy knows we don’t stay on Fox. We switch over and watch Sunday night football. This is all just a gag, and they’ve been doing this for over a decade and a half. But What does exist is Eugene Merman’s new comedy album, Here Comes the Whimsy, that’s out on PGF Records. There’s also a special on Veeps.

Here Comes the Whimsy was recorded live in Summerville. Merman shares a series of mild grievances through anecdotes from fatherhood, insights from travel, dress code trauma, rental car disputes, and more. And I’m seeing a lot of good buzz on Jury Duty too. Remember Jury Duty a couple of years ago, the guy thought he was on jury duty, but it was all fake. They’ve made a new season of that, but this one is called Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat.

Three episodes will be out on March twentieth on Prime Video. Company Retreat will follow a corporate offside event at a family owned hot sauce company from the perspective of Anthony, a recently hired temporary worker. Unbeknownst to Anthony, the entire experience of staged. Every colleague around him is performing a role in each moment, whether in conference rooms during downtime, has been meticulously orchestrated. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Now, speaking of jury Duty, I’ve been invited to be on jury that’s coming up in a couple weeks. That’s not good. I have podcasts to record. Kind of stressed about that one, and it’s district court. I have to call like two weeks in a row, guys.

I got stuff to do, So let’s hope the jury duty guts are cunnd to Johnny Mack and that is your comedy news for today. Back at noon Eastern for Comedy Survivor, which I’m about to record right now, so I gotta save my voice. I’ll see you guys in a couple minutes, I guess

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. My guest today is the comedian Ismo. We’ll get to him at a second. For ten years, just for last, Vancouver has been Western Canada’s biggest comedy festival.

The festival is bigger and better than ever this year February twelfth through the twenty second and Ismo will be performing there on Sunday, February fifteenth at the Vogue Theater. It’s part of his Perseverance tour. Now, if you don’t know this guy yet, you’re going to love him. I suggest maybe hit pause now and go watch on YouTube. He did a set about the word ass.

He did this on Conan, So just search Imo Ismo Conan and it’ll come up on YouTube. It is brilliant. He does a lot of wordplay. You’re gonna love this guy. Ismo is an internationally acclaimed comedian, author, rally driver we get into that, and master of wordplay.

Globally recognized as the voice of all second language English speakers, Ismo is one over audiences in person online with his sharp takes on language, culture and life’s absurdities. In my prep, I learned he had an accident in which he heard his back. I let off with that, and that got us into some other things, and eventually here we get into a discussion of comedy in general and his comedy. I loved talking to this guy. Here’s ismo how is your back?

My back, It’s it’s almost back to normal, but it’s I still feel it, but it’s yeah, I did break it, but the end of August, so it’s yeah, I’ve been trying to exercise it now. I’m sure the bone has finished boning. No, that’s not the word boning. In Finland, we say the bone is boning when it’s like becoming more bone. But yeah, but I think the bone is fine.

It’s just that I yeah, it’s just the muscles are tight and they’re still like eggs sometimes. What happened. I jumped on a dune. Buggy atv or a motocross track and a jump went way too far and I landed from like I don’t know, thirty feet. I don’t like.

It was just like it was like, yeah, yeah, that I broke one vertebrae, A piece broke off. Is that an activity that you do or was that just a one off? Hey, let me go out and do something crazy. I started to drive rally a couple of years ago, so I’ve been doing some motorsports and I’m surprisingly good at rally driving, which is insane because I started in my forties. So but.

That was a dune buggy, so that was a different event. That was like I’ve never really driven that thing, so that was crazy. But so but yeah, I do like motorsports and I’ve always been kind of a speed freak. Where do you go rally driving in the state, so fascinated by this, This sounds awesome. I’ve rallied draven in Finland so far.

So last summer I did three competitions and I’m going to do three competitions. I’m actually going to do like the World Championship Rally too. In it says like one like the biggest rally event in Finland. It’s in August, so I’m going to do that also now. And so yeah, just yeah.

Raley driving is like it’s like on regular roads they closed them off and it’s like it’s I love it. It’s crazy, it sounds amazing. It sounds like one of those things that you know, like you alluded to, you get a couple of years on you and you start to do these more adventurous things that you’re like, I should have done this when I was twenty. Yes, I wish, I like I was. I was a big rally fan, like rally of course, like in America Canada, people don’t.

I don’t know if there’s a big rally scene in Canada, but like Americans don’t even know what a rally means other than a politician giving a speech, which is not days it’s so it’s yeah, But in Europe it’s huge, like because you close off roads and then you like and it’s I was a huge fan of rally when I was a kid and always wanted to drive it then try it, But now it took like four years to finally do it. So I’ve been faking it as a dumb American. I don’t know what it is either. So you said you’re doing the biggest ones. There was a civilian.

I assume you’re not like an elite. I apologize if you are an elite’s rally driver. So can anyone do this? How does this work? It is like levels, like I guess any sports.

So but I’m actually participating in the big. Actually world championship event. But my car is of course not gonna be the one that the top driver driving. But it’s like there’s Rally one is the best, Rally two is the second best. So I’m going to drive Rally three, which is still good, but it’s so I’m actually competing.

But it’s like, of course I’m not expecting to win, but I’m hoping I’m not last either. So I guess it’s kind of sort of not quite. I’ve ran the New York City Marathon and theoretically I could have won. Yeah, well exactly, yeah, so I’m definitely not expecting you to do. But the thing is that, like last year, I did.

It, Like I was in a few competitions, and I was so happy that I started to do this like two years ago, and I still beat some people with a similar type of car that have been doing their lives. So I was like. Really like people were like they couldn’t believe that it’s a comedian driving the car. Let’s say that, like it was. I was better than I thought or anybody thought, but of course I’m still not gonna win anything.

You are more famous over there than you are here. Are you a celebrity driver over there? Are you just on the down low and no one really knows because you mentioned that, Oh, comedians in the race, how is that playing out? It’s like, oh, we gotta beat this guy. Well yeah, I’ve heard that some of the guys who are like, well, if this comedian is gonna be and I’m gonna sell my car, and then I hope they are now selling their car.

But so but yeah, it’s like, yeah, people, most people. In Finland know me. So it’s and I’m sure they rally organizers are happy that I’m participating because I’ll bring some publicity to it. But but yeah, so I’m not hiding that I’m a comedian, but also I’m actually there to race. I’m not there to joke.

So much fun? Is there TV coverage because then as a producer type, you would be of an interesting story that we would want to package. Yeah, that was like even in the smaller rallies I did last year, there was some TV coverage a little bit in Finland. But now this is going to be the international event that’s like the biggest motorsport event in Finland every year, so that there’s gonna be a lot a lot of coverage for that. So let’s see how it goes.

It’s great. As I was diving on your resume, I saw that you opened for Ralphie May for a little bit. So when I when I was at Serious Radio, I got to know Ralphie a little bit pretty well. I just wanted to spend a minute just talk about what an awesome guy he was. I just had a look up.

I can’t believe he passed away in twenty seventeen, but just for my listeners, can you just share some Ralphie adventures. I actually opened for him only once, so and that was like years and years ago. It was so long ago. He was doing a show in Finland. I lived in Finland back then, and the organizers asked me to open, and I was like excited to do it.

And I was actually doing my set in Finnish because it was in Finland, because that was like so long ago that I didn’t even do much. English stuff yet, So I think I was. I think I was doing finish. But then we had some talks and I always remembered that he said one thing to me that he said that whatever you. Have, just put it all online.

And I didn’t listen, and I wish I did, because like I’ve been putting way more stuff later. But like, but then I didn’t even have much English stuff. That was long ago. But I I’ve only recently, like the past few years, I’ve started to put way more stuff online and that has made a huge difference. So he gave me the best advice that I didn’t listen to.

Do you find it a pain in the neck to you have to feed the beast of social media? Are you doing crowd work for crowdwork’s sake? Are you on stage going, oh, this could be a clip? Or are you just doing your thing and letting your team figure that out, because I know there’s like this whole devil of you got to just constantly put things out now? Yeah?

Yeah, And that has been a like I think for most comics it has been like so Goose comics, how often like perfection is when it comes to putting stuff out and we’re always like not that. But then I some years ago I hired a team and they are basically not even asking me. They are just putting stuff out. Every week, and it’s been hugely great because if the comedian is like deciding what to put out, it’s going to be like one clip a year. But like, do we always like, yeah, I didn’t like the way I said that one part, or I did like we think it, we overthink it.

So it’s really good that there’s a separate team of people who are just cutting all my shows and just putting them the clips and putting them out. So that has made a huge difference. And I would recommend that to all comedians just hire somebody else to do it, because I mean, I’m sure there’s some comics who are like really good at that, like editing and putting stuff out, but like most comics are not. So that was the best decision of my life to hire that like a team to do it. And I don’t really do that much crowd work.

Sometimes I do when we do post that, but I don’t really do it for that. So I like tons of old stuff that we can post, and sometimes we post new stuff too, but of course I don’t want to have too much stuff of the current stuff I’m doing live online. But there can be a few few that but so, but I was I was kind of a late late adapter of social media adopter. Adapter that’s not an adapter adopter, I don’t even know, because adapter is the one you use for electricity, but adopt. So also you can adapt to social media, but you can also adopt social media.

Okay, those are funny words. But yeah, I’ve never been like, really that has been hard for me, but I’ve studied. In the past few years, I actually started to enjoy the social media a little bit. But before that it was just something that I was just like, I knew you have to do it, but I was not like, not that adoptive. But now I’m.

Actually finally starting to do some podcasts and like to do lots of other content that we’ve been shooting some sketches and scenes and stuff like that, so so like doing like other stuf also online, and that’s been really great. So yeah, it’s funny how things change. If you go back twenty years ago, all the what I call the brick Wall comedians, they were all hating Dean Cook because he was just a social media comic. He’s just on MySpace, and Dane is talented and just happen to figure out that part of it first. It’s funny how everything’s just come around.

That’s like, that’s like I wish I would have like figured this out way sooner. Like it’s that’s the way the world was going a long time ago, and the early early adopters definitely they got they really they nailed it. And yeah, every profession, I’m sure when something new comes and things change, people resist it and yeah, so yeah, I wish I would do that or would have done it more. Now I’m doing it way more and it’s it’s working. But yeah, I’m sure like some comedians are like so purist purists that they are like, yeah, you can only do it in certain way.

But I think the only rule is to people have to laugh, don’t steal jokes and make people laugh. That’s the only only two rules. Yeah, yeah, that’s how are you finding audiences? I know. One of the topics that kept coming up last year was the helpful audience member that I’m going to set you up, mister comedian, so you can have a crowd work thing and I’m going to help you do your act.

Are you running into that or is that kind of calm down? I don’t run do that that much. Like sometimes yeah, I get sometimes like heckles, and sometimes they’re actually kind of funny, but I don’t get heckled that much. I mean analyzing it sometimes because I have an accent I don’t know if you notice that I have a kind of a strong accent. Kind of sometimes I was thinking that maybe there’s a joke in it, Like heckling a second language comedian is kind of like tripping somebody in the Special Olympics.

It’s like people whould feel like they don’t want to heckle me, but they of course sometimes do. But I sometimes see other communies getting way more heckles than I do. So as your style has developed, you do a lot of wordplay, a lot of commentary on English language. Was that something you deliberately set out to do or did that just develop over time. I’ve always like been hugely obsessed with language and wordplay, even when I was a kid, and then I was in Finland when I started to do come out in Finnish.

A big chunk of. That was wordplay too, Like it’s never been only wordplay, but a big chunk of it has been wordplay in Finnish.

And then I explained it to English, and then turned out that like I was comin…

Had, I didn’t. I was kind of assuming that I’m sure there’s a bunch of comedians who’ve already thought of all this stuff, but turns out now in many I’m the first one to figure this out, which is kind of blowing my mind sometimes that like, I can actually come up with lots of like new language observations about the language that’s not even my first language. So I’ve been excited about that. And I think it also helps that it is my second language, because then I can see the forest from the trees, or like I can, I can see the things that most native speakers wouldn’t see. I’ll recommend to my listeners if they haven’t or ready, to watch your somewhat famous Conan set, which has some wordplay there.

I won’t spoil any of it. I appreciate the ratitat style, you know. I guess i’d put you more in that coategory than the storyteller. One of the things I talk about on the show is one hundred percent of the time, if I put a comedy special on, my wife will show up thirty eight minutes into it, stand there and say is this guy funny? And I find myself explaining, well, you see what he just said he set up fourteen minutes ago.

That’s called the callback.

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And then Dad and she just and so what she came by yesterday on the laundry run.

You were just in the middle of just boom boom boom boom boom and got the laugh and she came and went, So I’m like, all right, I like this. It’s awesome. Oh yeah, yeah, if you like yeah, that makes sense. So I do have callback sometimes, but it’s mostly like quick stuff and take one subject and just milik it till the end. And well, I’m glad that she enjoyed it.

Now, your stage persona is set. You’re in real life too, is so charismatic. You just have this whole vibe of hey, we’re having a good time and we’re all in this together. It’s great. No, thank you, thanks.

I’ve yeah, that’s that’s nice. I don’t hear that word often, but I guess that’s nice. I’m like, I like to now, I like to think myself as carriages madic it just like I don’t know, I’ve always just think of the jokes and the delivery, just kind of the rhythm and the delivery. It just comes naturally. I don’t really think of it that much, but I have got some comments sometimes that like people are really like paying attention to every every detail, and it’s because but yeah, I’m glad that, I’m glad you see it like that.

That’s yeah, it’s always like, that’s all. We’re just talking actually with somebody earlier that like that. Most comics are like really insecure about themselves and their own stuff. I think it’s only the good comics that are insecure. The shitty ones are like they think they know everything, so always questioning.

And I’m not a comic in case you can’t tell, but as I understand the art of it, you’re always looking for economy of words and trying to tighten a bit and see if you can get one more tag in there. So right, like, for a lot of these things, the work’s never finished. Yeah, exactly. And that’s why we don’t like putting stuff out because we never feel it’s completely finished. But that’s the great thing, which also media, you can put the same thing out later when it’s finished.

But that’s the thing is that it’s really hard to me to understand. It’s hard for me to understand how people make like comedy movies or plays and stuff. When you first write the whole thing, and you do the whole thing, and then you show it to people, because with comedy, we like we work it with the crowd to make it better so that you always can tweak it. And often the word economy like I know this. Sometimes I’m like take words out to make it tighter.

But often I end up that I have to add words to get people, to give people more time to think so it’s not too fast because the rhythm has to be just perfect. So often I end up saying the setup twice so everybody kind of really gets it, and then I do the punchl like I like to sometimes think. Sometimes I feel like I have to add stuff, or I have to add long palsies or but sometimes I have to just tiden it and it’s always that rhythm sense. I’m kind of I’m happy that I kind of have the sense of the when the laughter is gonna come. If you have the like exactly the right amount of time before the information hits you and then the punchline hits you.

Let me get a break in here. Have you seen my heating bill gotta make somebody at podcast? He’s isma I’m Johnny McBee right back. His most Perseverance tour takes into Just for Last Vancouver he’ll be there on Sunday the fifteenth, playing at the Vogue Theater. Are you thinking and writing in English or are you thinking in Finish and translating.

I take turns, like now I was in Finland for a month during the holidays, and then I was also be thinking and writing in Finnish. But now I’ve been here for a month and now I’m just thinking and writing in English, so it kind of it changes. But yeah, and I end up talking Finish every day, mostly on the phone call or somebody finished in here. But there was like one time in my life where I didn’t speak any Finish for like three weeks, and that was like then I think I started to dream all in English and it kind of switched. But no, that was just one time in my life.

But that has never happened since because now I’m always, of course like communicating with Finnish people, if not daily, almost daily, and then I’m never like in the fully that I kind of just one hundred percent thinking in English, but I don’t translate. Well, I’m while we’re having this conversation, I’m definitely not even thinking Finish at all, like I’m just thinking and speaking English. I think I’m thinking in English. Maybe I’m thinking in pictures. I don’t know.

Yeah, I’m I can barely get home from the airport if I had to speak Spanish. But when I do that, I think in Spanish. And as I’m doing this, so I’m in my Johnny Mac persona. The guy who holds the microphone is Johnny Mack and the real guy in real life is john and I when I’m in this mode, I tend to think as Johnny Max. So one of the questions I would have is, if you’re home and you’re thinking in Finnish, say does your bring kick in?

And go? Oh this this goes into an English language set, I’ll keep this for the finish set. Or I’m just curious about that whole process. Yeah, yeah, that is like interesting, and I’m like, I’m definitely wherever I am. Sometimes I get an idea that’s a finish joke that only it’s a word finished wordplay or some Finnish culture thing.

That I know it’s not going to translate. So then I just write that down and finish, even though I’m wherever I happen to be. But but but. Then there’s there’s lots of stuff that can be translated to both languages. But it’s kind of like, now when I’m here, I’m going to be in America or like in mostly like yeah, mostly in North America now and until like May, so I’m gonna I’m gonna just mostly just think and write in English.

But then I am doing a new tour in Finland in August September, so in the back of my head I am like like finding stuff for that too, And when I go to Finland in the summer, I’m gonna definitely like spend the day looking at all this new stuff that I’ve written in English and see which can be translated to Finnish.

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And now, when I did a bunch of new stuff in Finland just before I left Finlan…

And then now I’ve been here, i’m here, I’ve been like trying to figure out which one of those I could translate to English. So it’s kind of so. If I run out of new ideas in either language, I can just go to the other language material and try to fun stuff there. So it is kind of great. And sometimes it surprises me that a joke that I first wrote in Finnish is actually funnier in English or vice versa, or sometimes it kind of translates in theory but not in practice.

And yeah, it’s and sometimes you just don’t have a word. It’s just like it’s just like I had this whole long bit about like in Finland about like I don’t really know what a word is. I guess a hobo would be the word in English, but like it’s just such a different word because in Finland it’s kind of not a bad it’s kind of a nice word for like a guy drinking all day in a park bend. It’s like kind of a nice word. It’s not like a bad word.

But in English there’s not a nice word for that.

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And then that whole bit is like the energy is different.

So sometimes there’s just no words that like there’s like some great words in Finnish that like the English language just doesn’t like like everyday life, every day life, like you know, like just the basic everyday normal life. That’s like there’s a word for that, like a simple word for that in Finnish, and it’s a great word, but there’s no every day life. That’s three words that all have other but in Finland, we have this one word that like summarizes all that and it’s a great word, and you guys need that. There’s so many other words that like Finnish has but English doesn’t.

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And then there’s some words the other way around that Finnish doesn’t have, s…

I know when you’re over here, you don’t do politics. I’ve listened to other interviews with you where that’s not really your thing. Is there anything to be mined in the other direction? Performing in Finland As somebody who’s been in the United States at a time where things have been a little more colorful than they have traditionally. Been, there’s lots of people always in Finland like like, oh, like you’re probably talking all about this stuff, and I’m like, no, there’s enough comedians doing the political stuff.

There’s saw much of them and like online and everywhere. So I just decided years ago that I’m not going to touch it. But actually recently I have been trying to write a joke about just trying to understand the American politics, and I think that’s going to be a good joke. So it’s not like a political joke, but it’s like just trying to understand because and the whole premise is kind of like there’s two parties, like it makes like in Finland we have eight parties and I still don’t like any of them. How could I pick from two?

Like it’s like it?

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And then there’s the whole thing about all these subjects.

So I was thinking that I want to because I do think of that stuff sometimes, but I don’t want to be a political comic. But I could write a bit about trying to understand politics, and I think that would be a good angle for it. That would be kind of like a unique And because I don’t want to, I’m always trying to go for something that’s like hopefully unique or something like an inside. It’s not like I’m just like trying to like preach or preach to the choir or whatever. Sure, So the reason we’re speaking today is you were performing at the Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival.

I was checking out the Vogue Theater where you’re going to be playing. It looks like a real nice old style movie theater that they converted into doing live shows. Do you like that kind of room. Or to an old movies. I don’t know if I’ve done that before.

I don’t think I’ve done that before. Yeah, yeah, I’ve done some that have been like old movie theaters and. Yeah yeah, it’s one of those you know, two levels balcony. And yeah that I normally like, at least the similar ones I’ve always loved, Like it’s you can hear a pin drop, Like it’s like when it’s it’s not like a there’s a bar in the back and there’s noise, it’s like, really everybody’s focused, and I love that. Does it make you change up what you might do if you were in a smaller club you have to work harder to play the back of the room.

Not really. I I the big bigger venues when they are shaped and like formed good, they are even better. Like sometimes a bar type of comedy club to have a show can be like that’s what comedians I used to and that’s what we like do all the time. So then theater might feel like overwhelming. But I’ve kind of I think I just realized years ago that like it’s just it’s just just play like you normally do, and just if you don’t see the back road, then perform to the front.

Row just sometimes look into the darkness because you know people are there. But yeah, I actually I do like I think a size like that is like really. Perfect, perfect for comedy. That’s like a thousand seeds. So I just did my biggest show ever was eight eight, seven hundred sixty five people in Finland, which is actually the exact the amount of hours in one year.

That was crazy the amount of tickets I saw. That was the record of comedy like standby comedy tickets in Finland ever, and it was exactly the amount of hours in a year. That’s like a really weird go is this? But anyway, that was like really awesome, Like I haven’t done like a long set to a big crowd like that before, and. That was in Finland.

I do some songs too, and those songs were like I was I felt I was actually singing. Well, that was so awesome. Yeah, I saw your dambling in the music. Do you play an instrument? Are you the singer or how is that manifesting?

I play guitar. I’m like I wanted to be a musician before comedian.

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And then like in Finland, I’ve always done like these parody songs and I ofte…

Done those in English yet. I don’t know. I don’t know when I’m gonna do that. I don’t trouble with the guitar in outside of Finland, so I just I haven’t done. It yet in English.

But let’s see. I’m working on some songs here, but I don’t know yet. It’s so interesting. There’s an old saying that the comedians want to be actors, the actors want to be singers, and the singers want to be comedians, and you tend to see a lot of that. I guess I can see the relatively straightforward from performing into a microphone is similar to performing into a microphone in front of a crowd, So I guess that makes sense to it.

Yeah, there’s definitely like I’m sure like many comedians, well many comedians want to be musicians too, and also actors for sure, and then lots of actors and musicians want to be comedians. So yeah, it’s a good like. And because we are actually making this great music producer friend, and we’re doing some like songs, like also working on some like actual songs. I’m going to do a band that’s like not even called ism or anything. It’s just like a separate thing.

And it’s some of the songs are funny, but some are not. But so I’ve always kind of wanted to do music, and I’m doing it now a little bit more. And there was this big insight we were talking about, like musicians have to be a little naive and cheesy because they have to be like excited about like a song. But comedians are the opposite. We are like cynical and sarcastic and we’re like yeah again of like we’re just making fun of things, not taking anything seriously.

But musicians have to be like so emotional about a song. And it’s really hard to go on that. So and I think comedians would benefit to try to like emulate musicians, and musicians would benefit to emulate comedians a bit, like because you have to be like more naive as a musician, and in comedy comedy it’s like kind of the opposite. And the crazy thing, as you know, is if you were a musician, you could just close your show with the ass bit for the next forty years instead of oh yeah, we know that one already. What do you what else you got, mister funny.

Man, Yeah, yeah, I haven’t told the ass bit in years because like everybody who comes to my show has definitely seen it. So it’s like, yeah, is that true with a festival crowd, like so, I you know, I get if you’re touring, we’re going to see you. But I find sometimes at festivals it’s who’s playing on the night we feel like going out. Yeah that’s like yeah, yeah, so that’s definitely I’m sure whatever show I do, there could be a few people who haven’t heard it.

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And then if it’s like a if I’m just doing a club spot or a festival spot or s…

But it’s still like that Jo had a good run. So I just don’t even remember how to tell you anymore. But that’s the thing also with with I guess some mutuners to get sick off their heat. So, but comedians definitely like telling the same joke over. I know there’s some comedians who have told the same joke for thirty years.

I don’t get how they get excited about that, because like, I think that the greatest comedy as they have a new set almost if not every year, every other years, like it’s just like we want to. I still believe that the best jokes I’ve done I haven’t done yet, Like I haven’t written my best jokes yet, so I’m always like aiming for something new. So you’ve been very generous with your time. I want to be respectful to you and the people who put this together. SA ask you one more and then I’ll let you go.

But this has been great. What’s the long term dream? You know? Back in the day, it may have been, Oh, I want to host a talk show at eleven thirty? Do you want an NBC sitcom?

Do you want to be George Carlin? Or where do you want this whole career to take you? If I have to choose between Carlyn and sitcom, I’ll definitely do Carlin. But now it’s yeah, the comedy go yeah. I guess most comedians they wanted to have a talk show or a sitcom or and then what’s the other option?

Well, specials of course and stuff. But now it’s be more like podcasts and online presence and all that stuff, And it’s changing and I’m kind of trying to find some new things also, like what like I’m kind of I haven’t really locked a goal because the world is changing so fast that I think the biggest thing might for me might be some art form that hasn’t been invented yet. So I’m really trying to be open. I’m not gonna lock anything down. So now I’m actually the most excited.

I’m like experimenting on stuff. Like we for example, when we started to shoot these sketchies, we don’t want to see them as ketches. We want to see them as movie scenes and make them look like a movie scene and then eventually they will turn into a movie maybe or some of them. And like just and even even like the short form is just so powerful now that you don’t even have to have a movie, Like you can do just movie scenes without a whole movie, and you can do you can I started to do a fake podcast first, like a podcast clips that is the real podcast is no, but that’s just clips.

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And now we’re actually starting to do a real podcast.

But we were like practicing with just clips and stuff. So just experimenting on lots of different stuff. So I’m not really like, I don’t I’ve never really had a solid goal. I’ve I was going to be a physics teacher. I didn’t even want that, but like I just I ended up being a comedian, and then I ended up moving to America.

I didn’t plan to move here, Like it’s things just happened. So I’m just trying to be as open as possible for new things and just do whatever is the thing that really calls me at the moment. And the great thing is that now I have this great guy with videos, this Finnish guy who is also a music producer, but he’s the best video guy ever. And whenever we have an idea, we just shoot it right away. And that’s kind of a that’s kind of a new new We’re just like, yeah, we’ve been doing lots of new stuff, and we’ve been doing this whole week.

We’re gonna just shoot like new content that we’ve never done before. And so it’s just like and like I kind of decided a while ago that I never want to pitch again. I don’t want to go to a TV network and try to pitch a show. I just want to do it and then do a little bit of it and see if it takes off or not, and then do the next one. Like it’s just there’s no read to pitch anymore because you can just put everything out there anyway.

And I think that’s how Tom Segura sold his Bad THOUGHTSCT show. You know, he had enough in with Netflix that they gave him some rope, but I think he just started filming these on his own as proof of concept. Oh yeah, yeah, I’m sure that. Yeah, because that’s like, really that’s something that the only thing good about if somebody buys a show, you actually have to do it. But then because then if you just it’s if it’s up to me, I might not end up doing it.

But now at least I have a team big enough that we are actually going to make it happen. So it’s that’s exciting. There’s like because we had this thing about like whenever we come up with something, we’ll do it right away, and then just two days ago in actually let’s first do it and then come up with it so we can even just so just do whatever and do it right away. I’ll let you go. I hope we can do this again sometime in the future.

You were fantastic. Thank you for ch well, thanks for having medal. This is great, boy, wasn’t he great? I asked for fifteen minutes and I hit thirty five minutes raw. We talked a little before and after.

Boy, he was super awesome. He’s one of my favorites. There’s a recent Netflix special up two from the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. I watched that one recently. Highly recommend that as well.

He’s ISMAO. I’m Johnny Mack. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians, the comedy industry, a freeze which helps the elder the room. Today is the super Bowl preview episode. One topic that seems to come up every year is, hey, they ought to let a comedian do super Bowl halftime. Now I don’t think that will ever happen, but let’s say it did.

Who should play super Bowl halftime? Now, my vote, which I think will be awesome, will never ever happen because he’s not quote unquote cool enough. Is weird Al. But I do think if they named weird Al and everybody went in on it, and there would definitely be ways to work in non comedic musicians to a weird Al halftime. But can you imagine how epic that would be?

And it would just be fun and weird Al would be great to be put in front of the press and there are no weird Al scandals and nothing horrible is gonna happen, and everyone could just have a good time and he could play eat It and white Nerdy and we could have a good time. But that’s not going to happen. Another name that comes up, and this may surprise you that I don’t think it’s crazy, would be Adam Sandler. People really like Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler has no known enemies except possibly me, and even I like Adam Sandler.

I just don’t think his comedy is funny, but people like those dumb songs. He could come out and do some opera man or make up a super Bowl song and do that Farley song. And I’m sure Sandler could do some sort of musical thing at halftime that people would enjoy. Another name that I think is interesting Dave Chappelle. Now that would be edgier.

Also, these things tend to be pre recorded, so I don’t think you could have Dave Chappelle pantomiming previously recorded stand ups. So you would have Chappelle with a live mic in the middle of a super Bowl. Who knows what would happen. But Chappelle is also friendly with several cool musicians, so I think there’s a way to somehow do a Dave Chappelle halftime that would certainly get talked about. And another name I saw this week that I don’t think is exciting, but maybe America would get behind Nate for Forghetsie halftime, but his particular energy.

I don’t know if that works for super Bowl halftime. That might just be weirdly awkward and set us back fifty years ever having a comedian at halftime again. If Bad Bunny is not your thing, get over yourself, but you can change the channel turning point. USA is going to have an alternative to the super Bowl halftime. It’s called the All American Halftime Show.

On The Daily Show, Michael Costa joked that only the radical wol communists who hate America are excited to watch a performance by the most popular musician in America, Bad Bunny. Stephen Colbert said, according to the press release, the show is called the All American Halftime Show and a font that is called T shirt on a quite angry dad at Disney World. Colbert had some fun with the names of the musicians. Steven said, as you may have noticed from the poster, Kid Rock is not rocking this one alone. He’ll be joined by country singers Brentley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett, and Lee Brice powerhouse lineup.

He’d tagged that with also appearing our a Gary Lee Grant Ghibli, Brantlett, Daily, Barrett Tandley, Brakeboard, Billy Giddy, and Baby. Bilbo Costa said, man, that’s a real who’s who of who. Golbert Russel joked where you could watch the alternative halftime show. He said it would be on TBNDW Plus Charge and Rumble, which are real platforms. He also said Crunch, Cramble, Hunkle, Krompus and Paramount plus.

I Spot did some research of the fifteen Super Bowl ad previews that they researched. Twelve triggered quote funny reactions from viewers. Spoilers for the commercials coming up right, So the rest of this episode, I’m gonna spoil the commercials. So if you’re like John, you ruined the super Bowl for me? Okay, you should punch out and I’ll catch up with you tomorrow.

Everybody else who’s still here spoiler. The highest funny score went to the commercial four Instacart that features Ben Stiller. They have a musical performance about choosing the perfect banana mac packer. Andy Samberg will be meal Diamond in a Hellman’s commercial. We’ll talk about that.

Some more fanatics who had a terror terrible week on the Internet, people notice that fanatic sports jerseys aren’t the best quality. A lot of complaining, especially on Twitter. This week they have an ad with a candle jinner mocking the Kardashian curse, the Internet conspiracy, the dating members of the family, ruins an athletes game. Novardes has an ad with NFL players telling viewers to relax your tight end and get a blood test for prostate cancer. I see what you did there.

Marcelo Hernandez, he does one thing, and he does one thing really well. We’ll see if he could do another thing. Well. He’ll be in an ad for Wells Fargo. Their new campaign is celebrating every win.

We’re told that showcases how the banking app helps customers achieve personal finance. Blah blah blah blah blah. We are told Marcelo Hernandez brings humor and authenticity as he pays tribute to everyday financial wins like growing savings or sticking to a budget. Marcello shows up complete with confetti, music and dancing. His comedic presence reinforces the message the success looks different for everyone.

Another macpacker, Keag and Michael Key. He’ll be with Dyana McBride In an ad Keagan Michael Key told USA Today someone said a long time ago, generality is the enemy of all art, and that specifically is what makes art good. The challenges how to do something specific that is universal. At the same time, I feel like he just said a lot of words that I love. Key, He continued, it sounds like they’re diametrically opposed, these two concepts, but that’s very often what people out an ad agency have to do.

How do you reach the most amount of people with the most interesting, most salient material possible. I embrace that challenge. In the ad, he and Danny McBride are insurance agents, hoping to reassure Haley Stanfield that their insurance agency is on the level. In the commercial, they launch into a rendition of John bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer. Key says, it’s working multi generationally because you’re talking about anathem.

Everybody knows it’s a perfect song, because it’s one of the few songs where everybody in our society knows the song. Keag and Michael Key calls Jake from State Form one of the most iconic figures in the ad space. I guess that’s true. But I don’t know, so was Jared, and we don’t want to go there. Don’t go there, John, Okay, move along, Okay, I’ll keep going, he said.

I’m excited. I’m nervous, but I have to tell you I feel very confident about this piece of content. Matt Kacker Andy Samberg teamed up with Helman’s Samberg breaks apart Sweet Caroline to build a mythology of Meal Diamond. Meal Diamond is a man born in a deli who communicates almost entirely through sandwiches. Samberg said he build out the character.

He said, we were weird aling ed, as they say, it takes a real skill to do it in a way that it’s actually funny. For me on this one, it was finding a way to make it a different character who had his own life backstory. The joke started with just the name Meal Diamond, Samberg turned it into a fully fledged person. He explains, we’re essentially dealing with someone who was born in a deli and has never left it and is therefore using the joy and love of sandwiches to reach out to connect with people. It paints a nice picture of this character.

The Kiva Schaeffer helped out on it, Samberg says, the process we usually have is to start with the premise, then you start recording. You see if it’s making you laugh. If not, you bail and you try something different. Some line stuck immediately. Sandberg said, I love the line I’ll squirt you while I’m walking by.

That made me laugh the most. I’m intrigued. Now let me see if this is online already as I record on Friday. Oh, I think I found it. I was born in this Delai.

My best friend was that boloney. That is until live bad you touching Ham, touching Gee, touching. You sandwich time many so cool. This is how I make friends. I’m get mad.

I live in the wall sometimes wonder my favorites. I’ve never been outside. These are my only clothes. So good? Can you marry me?

The carts is broken and I can leave? Thank you? Yes? Oh my goodness, that is so epic. I was sitting here capturing the audio with a big smile on my face.

I almost wanted to like talk as I recorded it. I love that so much. That is so catchy. We may have to play that a second time at the end. Wow, so much fun, Sandberg said, I hope they just smile or laugh.

You got it, buddy, That’s pretty much my goal with almost everything I work on, says Andy. Even just a giggler smirk, I’d settle. You got a big smile out of me, and I’m a comedy snob. Mikey Day as a spot making fun of is It Cake. In the ad, we imagine a world where people are wearing a new crim de Pistachio cash Weir body missed and they are mistaken for cake makeup and beauty brand e l F the Stars Alissa McCarthy.

She learns how to roll her rs in order to prepare for the world’s biggest Reggaetons show that won by Bad Bunny. The halftime show, McCarthy realizes she doesn’t speak Spanish, she crashes her car. She wakes up in a telenovela titled Melissa and bow and Yang is making one of his first major appearances since leaving Saturday Night Live. In this ad, we see bow and Yang settling into his new life. He’s lounging on a tropical beach.

He’s planning a party and snacking on salty crackers. He speaks to a friend through a shell phone and promises not to call the friend perscutto.

Also in the ad, Scarlett Johansson and John Hamm boy no offense to Bowen, Who…

But like, personally, if I were at a commercial with Scarlet Johansson and John Hamm, I would look like an unbelievable hideous troll. Like I have a photo of me and Bruce Campbell. You know Bruce Campbell, the actor. He’s a handsome mad and I’m in this photo with him, and I’m like, ill, yuck, who’s the ugly guy with Bruce Campbell? So I would not want to be in a commercial with John Hamm and Scarlet Johnson.

Anyway. In the ad there’s John Hamm and he says another day, another Ritz party. Why then they invite us? Owen says, well, we’re salty and we hate parties and mingling and yapping. John ham says they do have Ritz crackers though, let’s go for five minutes.

IBB Online writes comic actor Tim Robinson as many things quirky, yes, daft, also yes, but evil that’s perhaps a step too far. In an ad for Rippling, Tim Robinson appears to have fumbled his way into the leadership of a particularly villainous organization. In the spot, Tim’s vengeful Simpleton is attempting to airdrop a monster called baby Breck into the city via helicopter. Unfortunately, the mayhem cannot commence because Baby Breck is a new employee and hasn’t been onboarded. Oh yeah, that is corporate hell, I’ve been there.

Oh there’s more. This is one hell of a Super Bowl preview. You know, I’m the one that put it together, and I had no idea it was going to be this long. We’re not even at the halfway mark yet. Brian Baumgarner, you know him, Kevin from the office, that guy.

Yeah, he’s throwing the world’s largest tailgate tomorrow. He’ll be at the Fort Mason Pavilion. From there you can see the Golden Gate Bridge from ten am to twelve thirty pm local time, San Francisco time on Sunday. He thinks there will be potentially one thousand lookalikes. The pitch is to organize a physical manifestation of the pregame commercial that has resulted in a tailgate party in San Francisco.

Says Brian, Let’s bring all the Ryans together and see what it looks like to multiply myself one, hundreds or thousands of time over. Brian himself will arrive with a crew of ten Brian clones, but the public is encouraged to attend dress like Brian, meaning Kevin from the office. But I guess they can’t say it. Some people were able to pre order bald caps, probably too late for you by the time you’re listening to this. The lookalike voted most bombgartner like will get two tickets to see the Super Bowl with Brian.

He notes that it’s to embody him. You don’t necessarily have to look like him, but I know there’ll be a lot of bald caps. They’re offering free shavings if you can’t make it. There’s even a virtual version of this at brian’shair dot com. The event will be live streamed also part of Super Bowl Weekend.

Tonight, Dave Chappelle has two shows. He’s got the Big Fancy Show. That one’s sold out at the Chase Center, but Dave also announced an intimate late night show at the Chapel in San Francisco. I bet that’s gonna be even harder to get into. So we’ll see what Dave has to say Chiefs Wire caught up with Rob Wriggle.

Rob is a big Chiefs fan. I guess they had this all lined up and then it was like, oh, yeah, Chiefs suck this year. All right, Rob, what are you eating? He said? Chips and guak.

No brainer on that because it works for everybody. All the ladies like quak, the kids like quak. Grandma likes squawk. I just the other day my wife was like, you want chips, and I go, there’s no salsa. She says, we have guawk.

I go, I hate walk. So I’m sorry, Rob Wriggle, I hate walk. I’m a salsa guy. You know Deacon Mike that I talk about. So thirty years ago, when we worked at a radio station together, we used to sometimes go get nachos for lunch.

Yeah, I when we were in our twenties. That was lunch. What do you think of fat? I’ll tell you why I’m fat because I produced the morning show for a while and we used to have this fourth meal. Fourth meal was a cheeseburger and fries at seven thirty in the morning.

You don’t understand get up for work every day at three thirty in the morning and go do nineteen nineties era Times Square at four something in the morning for a radio show that starts at five am. When your friend Bobby looks at you and goes cheeseburger at seven thirty in the morning, you go, yeah, but here’s the cash. That’s not breakfast because then the rest of the morning crew around eight thirty, he goes, hey, we’re getting bagels. So then you have like a bagel with butter an hour after your cheeseburger. That’s how you get fat.

That and sending deacon Mike. He wasn’t a deacon yet. It was just Mike to go get the nachos. Now, everybody else would come back with, you know, nachos and cheese and salsa. He comes back with Guawk.

One day. We were like, what, we hate quak, but Rober Egel disagrees and I digress. Rob says, everybody loves squawk. So that’s when everybody likes chips and quak. Can’t go wrong there.

Now, you know, I’m a KC man, so I gotta throw some barbecue in there too. Right now we’re talking no one, do you know. Coincidentally, Rob Wriggle has teamed up with avocados from Mexico. They have an interactive experience that allows consumers to access up to date predictions through guac Guru Wriggle. Funny how that worked out.

So the Avocado people and Rob Wriggle are making three predictions for the Big Game. If all three predictions come true, one fan can earn sixty thousand dollars plus free avocados for an entire year, which for me would be none, no, thank you. Rob Riggle’s predictions are a team scores exactly twenty points and a player shows off an eating gesture as a celebration, and announcers use the word guacamole during the broadcast. What happens if we go er for three? Do we win anything?

Riggle had some more Super Bowl tips other than the chips and guac. You gotta have some charcoutery, which is a word I don’t think existed till like five years ago. Everyone says I’m nuts. I think at some point I jumped universes and the universe I’m from. There was no such word as shirt couterie.

Suddenly there is and it’s everywhere now. But like, but prior to the pandemic, that word didn’t exist. But he wants you to have some of that. Maybe some cheese and vegetables, some honey to dip in size are critical Cole’s law. You gotta have a potato dish.

No, you don’t. You don’t have to know this. You know what I’m doing here. I’ll tell you what I’m doing, and this is do this. Perdue makes quote unquote air fryer wings.

And I know it’s all in the marketing, but you get those, you throw those in the air fryer, and then you get Frank’s hot sauce and you throw that on top. Done, You’ve got delicious buffalo wings. That’s all you need to do. My wife did get the salsa. I got chips and sausa, So I’ll do wings kind of early.

Then I’ll munch on the chips and salsa, have two beers and that’s it. Now, I don’t have a super Bowl party. I used to do the Super Bowl parties. But here’s the thing. I like football.

I want to watch the game. I don’t need Deacon Mike talking to me about nonsense. So I don’t need to hang out with Deacon mic during this game. I like to just hang out by myself. Are you an only child?

John, I am? I digress again. Rob Wriggles says, you gotta have a coslaw, No you don’t. You gotta have a potato didditional fries. You gotta have some mac and cheese, No you don’t.

Some means maybe maybe you gotta have a big screen. Of course, I’ll be in front of the seventy in shumblebeg flex and you gotta have a lot of places to sit. And that’s it. Once you got that, you’ve totally won. And we do have to do some politics.

An interview with the President of the United States will air during the pregame. Jimmy Kimmel had some thoughts about it. I have cut down Jimmy for pacing. I have not edited the portions with President Trump speaking. But here’s Jimmy Kimmel’s thoughts about tomorrow’s interview with the President of the United States.

President Trump sat for an interview with NBC News that will air in its entirety during the Super Bowl pregame show. And I don’t know if he. Decided to go all out because of the big Super Bowl audience, but this one was a bacon double dementia. Burger with cheese. This is even for him.

This one was nuts. I mentioned last night that seven hundred ICE agents are being withdrawn from Minneapolis. Well, they just. Added some new tour dates that might be coming to a city near you. Which cities are you headed to next?

Uh? We have five cities that were looking at very strongly. But we want to be invited. They want to be invited. I want to be invited.

Isn’t that the plot of the movie Sinners? You have to invite the monsters in. After the shooting of Renate Good, you said Ice made some mistakes. What were the mistakes? Well, look, I’m not happy with the two incidents.

It’s not you know, it’s both of them. Got one or the other. Uh. He was not an angel and she was not an angel.

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And now they.

They literally are angels. Thanks you? What is what he was? The age he was the first of all, you don’t know anything about those people. How dare you weigh in on what they were what they weren’t?

Keep your stupid thoughts in your diaper where they belong? On this subject, I said, while we’re identifying angels, Jeffrey Epstein was your best friend, So maybe leave angels out of the conversation.

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And then because that wasn’t already disgusting enough, he made it worse.

You mentioned Renee Good and not out and Alex Pretty’s not being angels. Do you think any of that justified what happened to them? Though? No, it should have not happened. It was a very sad to me.

It was a very sad incident. Two incidents, and you know they mentioned the one, now they don’t mention the other. Well, I think they were both said, and you know who feels worse better than anybody? The people of ice, right right. A lot of people would think it would be the parents, or the spouses or the children of the victims.

And that is your comedy news for today. Let’s once again it was so much fun. Let’s let Andy Samberg take us out and enjoy the game tomorrow on this is very program Comedian Ismo, he’s fantastic. I got at Super Bowl Sunday, but find some time maybe on Monday to listen to the interview with Ismo, because it’s really really good and he’s a lot of fun. All right, Neil Diamond, take us home.

I was born in the Stella. My best friend was that bology that is until li mad you Ham touching Ham, touching cheese, touching you. Lease sandwich time A man makes it tastes so good. This is how I make friends.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence which the algorithm really likes. Because we don’t say it, the numbers go back down. If you missed yesterday’s episode, or if you balled and you’re like, I don’t care about Kermit the frog with this episode sucks.

The last story in yesterday’s episode is so much fun. Make sure you go back and at least listen to that one. Today will be a little more serious in a second, as we get into Andrew Schultz. But let’s start with this story. You may have seen it.

This hit the mainstream press. From the SmartLess podcast, Will Arnett revealed that a quote very famous comedian that Arnett describes as an fing rank a hole was kicked off SmartLess. Arnette said, we cut him off after ten minutes and said thanks so much and ditched him. He joked, you’ll be blown away by who it is because you’ll be like, how did you get Bill Cosby? It’s not Bill Cosby.

People are speculating on who it is and the timing of it. The internet is speculating that the answer would be Chevy Chase, that Chevy would have been recently promoting his documentary, and Chevy does have a reputation. Again, I don’t know Ornette didn’t say, but the internet seems to think Chevy Chase. That’s not a bad guess. Andrew Schultz seems to have some evolving opinions on the President of the United States.

Got a few articles discussing mister Schultz evolving opinions on the President of the United States. But let’s hear from Andrew Schultz himself. He was a guest on Charlemagne’s podcast. There is some salty language in this clip. Not not too bad, but some salty words that I normally don’t use on the podcast, but in this case, I’m gonna let them go.

If you don’t like salty language, you’ve been warned, but I’m pretty confident you can handle it. Here’s Andrew Schultz talking to Charlemagne. Look, I know I had Trump on the podcast, you know, and I’m away explaining that, but let me let me just clarify, because I think it is important to say, like, I know how I had him on the podcast, and like, so I when I’m talking out about this. I’m not doing it to like, you know, get people to be like, oh, you’s a good guy or whatever like that, or trying to get anybody on my side. I understand that this is a horrific event that happened.

I objectively want to talk about it. I’m not trying to like win anybody over in this. You understand, you know, it just me right and wrong right, wrong. And there’s a difference between like respecting and honoring the Constitution, the backbone of our country, and then completely shredding it. And this is completely shredding it.

And now they’re realizing that people have noticed it, and now they’re. Trying to backtrack it. But by the way, he’s been wiping his ass with the constitution. Sure, and I’ve been on a record a million times saying, like whenever when he said we should terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election, she liked, that got to be disqualifying if you run O for president. So here’s a for example.

So it’s like, I know that there are people sounding the alarms about this. When I saw these last few weeks in minnesot I didn’t think this was possible. Happen in United States in America. I’m being one hundred percent here to white people, no, to anybody, but you’ve seen it happen to black people. Yes, yes, to white people no, no, no, it is no.

I don’t I mean, I didn’t know that this was possible to happen in the United States of America when I’m specifically talking about with this situation here and like not only this one, but also what we’ve seen ICE doing, like entering homes without warrants, like arresting people. It is unconstitutional. And they’ve done this weird thing where like they have like a federally administrative warrant, which is some bullshit. It doesn’t even allow you to actually have access into a home. Yeah, they’re trying to find ways around the system.

And what that says to me, when you’re willing to shred the constitution to preserve your it’s not only your power, but your ideas of what should happen is incredibly Unamerican. The Daily cos rights mega broadcaster Andrew Schultz seems to have reached an epiphany. He’s realized that Trump is a liar, that ICE are a pack of unconstitutional goons who have tried to break into people’s homes and viciously shoot down American citizens in the streets. Well, they execute their First and Second Amendment rights. Shockingly, he doesn’t like it.

The Daily Cos rights this conversion presents us with several questions. How do weeds Democrats react to this? Option one? Do we openly embrace it and welcome to the land of the sane and rational? The coz gets into some previous examples of things mister Trump has said, and they asked the question why didn’t Andrew and other magas realize that he meant that stuff back then?

Option number two? Do we continue to flog Andrew Schultz for his previous Trump support? Option three? Do we demand that Andrew Schultz grovel, genuflect and apologize for his past transgressions? The Cos writes they were willing to sell out their fellow Americans to gain a larger piece of the pie for themselves.

Do we need them to explain that themselves and admit they were wrong? Because if they don’t, won’t they likely to follow the same circus trick again? Option four? Do we ignore Andrew Schultz? The COZ writes, does it even matter what we think of him?

Does he really need a warm embrace and a wet kiss from the already existing anti Trump crowd. If he’s insincere, he’ll soon jump on the next bandwagon. There’s nothing we can do to stop him. If he means what he’s saying, he’s going to still feel that way whether we embrace him or not. He’s a grown man.

He can make up his own mind. And it’s nice that he finally broke in our direction, But we weren’t the ones who finally convinced him to do that. And option five is do we use Andrew Schultz writes the codes their premise? On the other hand, could Schultz as an influencer be a potential gateway to leading other magas out of the wilderness, regardless of how we feel and react to him. Could he be a pied piper directing many others away from the evils of mega madness?

Should we encourage this because many more megas are more likely listen to him questioning and leaving the cult rather than listen to us. I know this is heavy. I’ll remind you I did ten minutes on Kermit the Frog yesterday. Andrew Schultz, on his own podcast, was discussing the Epstein list. Schultz said, if you bring up another fing pedophile about deporting and you’re not releasing the Epstein list, just shut the f up, all of you.

Yeah, I don’t want to hear anything else about Oh hey, we got to deport the pedophiles. They’re right here, there’s a list of them, and you’re not exposing it. Corract writes we shouldn’t punish Andrew Schultz for turning on Trump, but that doesn’t mean he gets a pass for his part in Trump’s resurgence. Their premise, schultz way too recent epiphany naturally has the Internet ragging on him and reminding him of his throated an endorsement of Trump during the last general election. But does the anti Trump fashion of the comedy community really want one of the most successful and influential podcasters in the country running back to the other side.

Kathy Griffin called out Joe Rogan for platforming right wing people and pushing conspiracy theories. I’ll remind you I did ten minutes on Kermit the Frog yesterday. Okay, just go back here. Listen. Kathy was in Your Dreams with Owen Feel Apparently that’s a podcast and Kathy Griffin recounted an interaction with a critic on the street.

The critic on the street tried to convince me of all Joe’s conspiracy theories and all of his weird supplements and his popping veins. I knew Joe back in the day when he had hair and was a comic, and I liked him and he was nice, and now he’s turned into this really powerful very much, but he doesn’t say it right wing guy who platforms right wing people, and bros really believe him. The straight bros. They’re not getting vaccinated because of doctor Joe Rogan. All right, John, make this fun, okay, switching gears completely.

Heidi Gardner explained she was fired from Saturday Night Live. She was on Mike Birbigley’s podcast. Birbiggley was riffing with Heidi Gardner and said the thing would crush me is if I worked on something and then someone was like, you can’t do it. Gardner agreed that getting sketches cut was hard and said I ended up getting cut. I feel like more than anyone in the world when I was doing it.

After a while, you get to a point where you’re like, well, I’m comfortable here I’m good, I’m comfortable, like I get just have fun. But no matter what, you’re always stressed. It’s high stakes and you care so much. It was always like the worst thing that could happen, or the worst thing that could happen was not getting to do your thing that week, And it was just there were so many worst things that could happen. At least one of the worst things would always happen.

Now people are looking at Heidi’s quote where she said, quote, I mean comma, I ended up getting cut. Now, as I read that, I’m taking that to mean her sketches were cut. However, The New York Post had reported that Gardner’s contract was terminated. Dana Carvey had previously said that he’d heard Gardner was not asked to return for The New York Post had quoted an anonymous insider who said Heidi’s contract was not renewed. Quote, it’s time for a new cast, which reminds me the internet has decided, and I agree.

Ashley Padia is the new star Saturday Night Live and she’s not even main cast yet, but she will be. She’s the breakout star. Snl UK has a premiere date this from Late Night Er SNL UK will premiere Saturday, March twenty, first airing on Sky streaming on Now you’ll find me in international waters if you know what I mean. I want to check this out. Season one is just six episodes.

The cast has been revealed. I don’t recognize any of these names, but I’m sure they’re wonderful. SNL UK lead producer James Longman, who used to work for Cordon and said the UK is absolutely packed with incredible comedy talent right now. In this cast represents the freshest voices we have. They’re bold, exciting and of course incredibly funny.

Same format as SNL USA live study, audience opening monologue, sketches, live music, and some version of weekend Update this weekend on this very program. Tomorrow super Bowl preview a lot of comedians doing funny commercials. At least I hope they’re funny. We’ll talk about the tomorrow and then Sunday I have an interview with comedian Ismo. He’ll be at the Vancouver just for a Laughs Comedy festival.

He’s really cool. Talk to him for about half an hour. I SMO. If you’ve got a minute, google Ismo Conan. He’s got a bit about the word ass, which is brilliant.

And then he’s got a full Netflix special up from eight hundred Pound Gerilla that I watched that last Sunday, very very funny. He’s Ismo, and I think you’ll come out of Sunday show going Hey, I like that guy. It is Friday. It is time to hit the comedy stock market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds comedy stock market.

We will keep it simple this week. Two recommendations for you. We’re gonna buy some Dave Chappelle. I feel like Dave Chappelle. He’s back, not just from the Rion Comedy Festival, No, he’s totally back.

He’s going to do that show in Minnesota. He’s paling around with John Stewart. These are times when we need someone who is good with the words. And I think the time is right for Dave Chappelle to come out of hiding. Let’s buy some Dave Chappelle stock before he hits Minnesota.

And the other person we’re gonna buy stock in is Ismo. I just told you why. He’s great. So Dave Chappelle and Ismo are our comedy stock market picks for this week. We’re not gonna sell anybody, will keep it positive from page six.

Industry insiders say they keep seeing Adam Sandler on the Fox Lot. That’s where they film the mask singer. Is Adam Sandler going on the mask singer? They don’t think so. It is believed that Adam Sandler has moved his Happy Medison offices from the Pacific Palisades to the Fox Lot.

Sandlor’s company had been in Palisades Village, which is one of the rare stretches of land that escaped last year’s fires. Sources say Adam Sandler did not want to subject his staff to the toxic fumes in the area.

Also, and this is a real thing.

There’s nowhere to get lunch and I’m not saying that Flippandtly, a source close to Adam Sandler says, you live seven minutes from the Fox Lot, and he asked his employees is this closer for you? He would have gotten a free deal over at Netflix, but he wanted to make sure his employees are closer to home and having an easier ride. Adam Sailor is a good guy, a family man. I love the way he dresses. Right now, I’m wearing sweatpants, a yellow hoodie and a Knick’s hat.

So I’m sure Adam Sandler and I could be friends. We only disagree on one thing, and that one thing is he is terrible at comedy, but he’s a great dramatic actor and a solid guy. Ben Bankis, that’s the guy that made the jokes about the fatal shootings in Minnesota. He’s joked about both of them. Do you want to go see his comedy?

He’s up in Rochester tonight. He’ll be at the Carlson Right off Blossom Road. Two shows tonight, seven and nine, two shows tomorrow, seven and nine. Thirty bucks. I’ll get you in.

And Bill Cosby in the news. This is the story is about a week old, but I just saw it. Bill Cosby’s longtime representative, Andrew Wyatt, is speaking out after Bill Cosby allegedly confessed to refilling his colude prescription in hopes of using them on women. Wyatt told Us Magazine, I’m hurt and disappointed. He was like a father to me.

Broke my heart when I saw this today. The saw this as referring to a TMZ report on January twenty eighth. That report from TMC says that Cosby admitted under oath that he had a recreational prescription for queludes and refilled it seven times with the intent of drugging women to have intercourse with them. Andrew Wyatt said, I was the only one who visited him in prison. I was the one who walked him out of prison, not his attorney.

I truly believed in his innocence. I believed in what he was telling me. Someday I will tell you some Bill Cosby stories. You’re gonna have to wait for mister Cosby to pass away for me to tell them to you. But I have Bill Cosby stories for you, and someday I will share them.

That is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow super Bowl preview, and Sunday Ismo drops by. You have an awesome weekend.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A phraeze that apparently if you stop saying, your Spotify numbers go down. Apparently that phrase works, And I’m gonna try and keep it light today. I’m looking ahead to tomorrow’s script.

I’m gonna dive in tomorrow about Andrew Schultz a little bit. So tomorrow’s gonna get a little political. I’ll keep it silly today. I want to dive into this Kermit gait. Have you heard Kermit the Frog’s current voice.

We got a whole problem with that. We’ll get to that in a second. Briefly political, you know this Epstein stuff is pretty serious when Jimmy Fallon is cracking jokes about it. Fallon said, well, guys. The fallout from the latest Epstein files release continues, and President Trump’s Justice Department said that it’s not a crime to party with Epstein.

Falon said, did years to come up with an excuse, and that’s what you went with. If someone said that to you, what a super Bowl party? And slowly back away and call the police fallent again in a Trump impression, said partying with Epstein doesn’t make me a criminal. The thirty four criminal convictions do fallen s data, and this one’s a little hacky, but on point. Yeah.

They said it’s not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein, which is pretty much like saying it’s not a crime enough brunch with Jeffrey Dahmer. Jimmy Kimmel said, that’s right. It’s also not a crime to borrow a bottle of baby oil from Diddy.

Our first story today, I’m doing cold.

I came down to the studio right around noon and check my phone and I had a note from one of the listeners who told me I might want to check out Bill Burr’s Facebook page, and I’m like, hmm, I’m intrigued. Well, it seems here that Bill Burr has announced some dates he’ll be playing some shows, and I was told to check out the comments section. Let’s see common number one, how many Saudi princesses will be there for the show bill Someone posted Bill Burrd did the math. I figured it would be worth losing ten million dollars to make one million dollars. Dennis posted, sure, hope they have a Chili’s near these venues.

That’s very good, Dennis for the win there. Peter, after he did his free Luigi on a chat show, a call was made and he hasn’t been the same since. Dave went with bonesaw Bill coming at you get your tickets. Ray wrote, I’ll bring my Saudi funded nine to eleven shirt. Liam called him the Prince Harry of comedy.

I like that one, and Matt went with Texas Are you sure? Bill Burr may have had the worst year of any of the comedians of twenty twenty five. Our big topic today is Kermit Gate. I can’t decide if this is either going to be the thing that gets more downloads than any episode I’ve ever done, or if I’m making a total mistake. A lot of new listeners joining on this week as I’m running some advertising.

Hello new listeners, I appreciate you, hope you stick around. But this Kermit thing is bothering me. Have you seen this. There’s a new Muppet show and someone is doing the voice of Kermit the Frog. I brought some audio.

Let’s go all the way back to nineteen seventy one. The original voice of Kermit the Frog Jim Henson. This is very early in the Kermit the Frog universe. Jim Henson, here is a guest on Dick Havevitt’s TV show. I just want to share this with you quickly, and I want you to remember this when we get around to Kermit the Frog on Jimmy Kimmel’s show some forty five years later.

But here’s Jim Henson performing Kermit the Frog. Hell yeah, hi, oh yeah, well how do you do? It’s nice to be here, you know, and hello out thereon you left. But he’s his whole body has changed a great deal since you know, the early one. Why did it change?

Is it a matter of diet or yeah, well it’s not really diet. No, same matter of progressing, you know, in the direction of you know, better looking frogs. I suppose. Get a little bit more modern. This is the Kermit the Frog in your head if you were of a certain age, say fifty six years old, recording a podcast in your basement.

This is what Kermit the Frog sounds like. This from the nineteen eighty six oscars I Got I Got You? Yes, Unless or not. Animated short films weave their magic unrestrained by the limitations of human actors. True, an animated character can defy the laws of gravity.

Mmmm, move from place to place without regard to space or time. Woo, and continue to amuse generation after generation without growing older or asking for a raise. Yeah. In short, and we are animated characters, and these short films, they appear and can do absolutely anything the imagination can conjure. Sadly, Jim Henson passed away in nineteen ninety, Kermit the Frog did not.

Kermit was voiced by others. And I’ll get back to that. Here is two thousand and two. S it’s a very very Muppet Christmas movie. And this still kind of sounds like Kermit the Frog.

Jay, I could sure do with a little star power around your triumph. Here’s any way you can help me out. Muppet movies are always debased. You mean, not for me to pop on. Right right?

You got me again? Uh huh, bye bye.

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And now here’s Kermit the Frog in twenty twenty six.

Listen to this disaster, and I will say to you, as a master of half ass impressions, most people’s half asked Kermit is better than what you’re about to hear. If I walked up to you right now, and said, do Kermit the frog. Your kermit would be better than this one. I don’t have a kermit. I know I have all my half assed impressions, but I don’t do a kermit.

I’m not attempting a kermit. You cannot bully me into doing a kermit. Unless you want to come to the brewery and buy me a couple beverages. Then maybe, but I’m not doing a half ass kermit for you now. If you want to hear a half asked kermit, here is official Kermit twenty twenty six, speaking with Jimmy Kimmel.

Thanks for having me. It’s great to have you, and I’m excited about the new project. Wondering how this happened or like you, was it difficult to get the other muppets together to come back? No, no, not at all, okay, I knowing you know what. They couldn’t wait to do them up at you again.

But then again, there’s not a big demand for a pig who sings, ain’t bear who tells jokes, and a bunch of dancing raps soue. Okay that’s there now. What were they doing though? During all this time? What were the other muppets up to.

Oh, well, not much involving a bait check. But you know, I was trying to get the special off the ground, which you know, it took a while. Jimmy. You know, it turns out that a lot of people in Hollywood say yes when they actually mean no. I have experienced that myself, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you know, as far as the others go, Miss Piggy, she was on vocal rest, which actually we were all kind of okay with. That is unacceptable. They need to do something about that. The New Muppet Show is out. The Guardian watched it.

They gave it three stores out of five. Their subheadlines says, this story half hour anniversary special captures the spirit of the original TV show at points, but Kermit’s voice takes him getting used to. It’s the fiftieth anniversary of the Muppet Show. Disney, which now controls of the Muppet Show, got the old gang back together and added guest appearances from Suprise a Carpenter, Seth Rogan, who happens to be the executive producer, and Maya Roodolph for a one off half hour special. The Guardian writes, God bless everyone involved.

They’ve tried. You can feel it. They want to make it good for us. They know we deserve it, They know everybody at the moment desperately needs a brief, shining moment out of the darkness. But as Thomas Wolf so rightly said, you can’t go home again.

Look, it’s fine if you’ve never seen the original. It’s probably even good if you have. There are still moments that tease it taste and memory. But the bits in between their drab the script, including and most obviously Statler and Waldorf’s heckles, is begging for a polish Is this despite the half centuries notice they had a rush job, Or has the show’s time simply passed and no one can carry off exuberant silliness anymore. Well, let’s get to the point of today’s podcast.

There does remain the nagging problem of Kermit’s voice Your Mind is Henson played until nineteen ninety. Veteran muppeteer at Steve Whitmyer inherited the role and played it until he was dismissed by Disney for what they can called quote unacceptable business conduct. Matt Vogel now plays the character, and our dearest Frog sounds jurrently different to anyone born before Vogel’s tenure. It puts the magic even further out of reach, but maybe only to us and we’ve had our time. You’ll find all this on Disney Plus now.

Steve Whittmeyer, who was the second voice of Kermit the Frog, has a blog. Steve wrote, Kermit as Jim created him contains years of depth and growth without default attention to that. Do you really believe it’s Kermit just because it looks like him? Kermit is at the top of the Muppet pyramid, the spoke in the middle of the Muppet wheel around which all things Muppet revolve, and without Kermit being fully intact, there is no future for the Muppets, no new directions, no exploitative reboots, nothing that nurtures the historical connection to you, the audience. That connection as it was originally established, is vital.

Whitmeyer continues viewing the Muppets primarily as rolls began as soon as Jim was gone and altered the perception from seeing them as individual entered who exist on our own world to being a corporate owned puppet character franchise with people hired to play them skipping ahead. Corporate thinking goes that all the years of interior development done by an originator can be replaced by simply auditioning someone who could lip sync approximated voice and focus the eyes, even if that person has no true understanding of the reasons behind why the world has a solid and loving connection with the character. But I want you to know, from day one throughout nearly three decades, not once did I ever have the notion to make Kermit my own. On the contrary, was absolutely vital to my process to make certain that any egotistical notion of marking territory never happen, so that Kermit remained based solely upon Jim’s foundational original Kermit Gate Everybody, I love it. Dave Chappelle and John Stewart will appear together at a benefit for Yellow Springs Radio Station WYSO.

This benefit February thirteenth, that’s like a week from now. The general manager of the radio station says, we see them as aligned, even though they’re very different. They’re two of the most important voices calling out how dangerous it is that First Amendment rights are being trampled, that we’re seeing censorship of important voices and legacy media capitulating to the Trump administration. We are told the evening with Chappelle and Stewart will have a talk show Vibe. The GM said Chappelle has a list of friends he likes to collaborate with, and John Stewart is on the list.

In John said yes immediately. Jimmy Kimmel told his viewers during one of his monologues this week that he will demand to host the Oscars in twenty twenty seven if Milania ends up nominated in Best Documentary category. He said, mark my words right now, if Malania gets nominated for an Oscar, I will host that show. Whether they asked me to or not, I will insist on it. We’ll let Conan know.

Bobby Slayton is in the Epstein files. This from Syracuse dot Com, who report Bobby Slayton was regularly sending messages with Jeffrey Epstein. According to screenshots of text messages and emails, Bobby Slayton’s name appears in more than two thousand documents. I’ve done two thousand episodes of this podcast. I think I’ve mentioned Bobby Slayton twice, including dis mention some of the correspondents.

Thanks Jeffrey Epstein for letting Bobby Slayton stay at a New York City apartment while on tour. Now this caught the attention of Syracuse dot com, not for the reasons you’re thinking. Apparently upstate New York sticks up for itself. They are focused on September twenty fourteen correspondence in which Slayton wrote, wish I was in NYC having dinner with you and Woody in Rochester in the depths of comedy hell send Woodman my best. We are getting along here, but I left myself a note here that says, don’t bump these next two stories.

So okay, Johnny Mack from the past, I won’t. Craig Ferguson was talking about his podcast and says he’ll still do interviews, but only if they’re in person. Ferguson explains, I think I’m probably as good as anyone who does zoom call interviews, but in person, I think maybe I’m a little better than most people who do it. So I kind of feel like played your strength. I enjoy it much more when you’re in a room talking with someone.

So what I do now with the podcast is if I’m away on work, I’ll just record a half hour of me answering questions from people who watch the podcast, and then that’s the podcast. If I can’t have a guest in the studio, and I’ll just talk directly the people who watch it. Craig’s tour begins today. See that’s why I can’t bump. The story begins today in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The tour is called Pants on Fire. He’s not sure if he’ll make it a special. Craig says, I don’t know if I want to make any more stand up specials. I made one a couple years ago and it turned out okay, and I was happy with it. But the thing is about making special I always think you do it, and then if you ever look at it later, you go, ah, I could have made that better by doing that.

Jay Leno, who some think is the worst person who ever lived, Craig did not comment on that or not. Jay Leno has never made a stand up special in fifty years, and I don’t think he ever will. I kind of get it. I like the doing of stand up. I don’t know that I need to film it.

Maybe I will, I don’t know. I hope somebody jokes aside. I hope somebody has at least captured some jay Leno material, so that someday, one hundred years from now we could see what a jay Leno concert look like. Here’s another story that passed. Johnny Max says, I’m not allowed to bump.

British comedians Rob Beckett and Remesh Waggonnathan have tried their hands at Bob’s letting with Team Great Britain. Yes, it’s the Robin Ramesh first Team GB Winter Special in that the comedians squeeze into Bob’s lay suits as they get a taste of life in Bob’s lay. The two part special follows them in search of their very own winter sport. I have this dream that someday I’m going to hit up the Republic of Ireland and see if me and some friends of mine can be their beach volleyball team. I haven’t done anything about this, but someday I will.

Lance Corporal Taylor Lawrence, who was training for second Olympics, posted about the experience on social media. He said filming with SkyTV and Rob Beckett and Ramesh Reagon Ethan was a lot of fun, although I don’t think they should give up their day jobs. Great guys to be around, and jumped in with both feet. I see what you did there, bumping a lot of stories on the fly today. It’s always good when that happens.

That makes me happy. Tomorrow’s show, like I said, we’ll get into the Ander Schultz of it all a little bit. Then. Of course, it’s Friday, so Comedy stock Market. Saturday will be the super Bowl preview.

A lot of comedians doing commercials. I’ll talk about that someday. I have a fantastic interview with comedian Ismo. Ismo will be playing the Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival. I had a lovely half hour conversation with him the other day, So that’ll be Sunday’s episode.

Looking ahead to Vancouver. Friend of the show Mike Chisholm, you know him from the Letterman podcast. He’s going to act as the Vancouver correspondent. The nice folks at Just for Laughs hooked Mike up with some tickets. He’s going to hit some shows and report back to us.

Plus he’s going to see David Letterman. And I told Mike if he can come up with a David Letterman interview, I will send him one Canadian dollar via Venmo. Get it done, Mike. It’s been such a busy week. I really haven’t commented too much on Comedy Survivor.

Now, if you’re a new listener, we’re playing Comedy Survivor. We put sixteen comedians on Comedy Island, and each week the listeners are voting off one comedian. What you do is you go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’ll find a picture. This week’s picture is me extinguishing the torch of Ron White, and I love that.

The listeners are like, hey, you should have had Ron have a cigarette, or you should ad him some potato salad, and like, Okay, I don’t know how much time you guys think I spend on these bits. Voting ends at end of day today so I can record the episodes on Friday. The results of Comedy Survivor come out Monday’s at noon. Easter. And let me just skim here and just see how things are trending.

I see one vote for somebody whose name hasn’t come up before. H This seems to be a couple of votes for Jay Leno. Leslie Jones’ name seems to be yours. I scrolled down. Okay, looks like it’s a tight one.

Some people are hanging back to see which way. The group is going to see if they can help vote someone out or perhaps steer the conversation away from someone they don’t want to vote it out. Very fascinating. Comedy Survivor. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

Write down the name of somebody you want off. Please make it super crystal clear so I don’t write like I was kind of thinking maybe somehow I’ll vote off Joshmo. Let’s just write Joshmo out that way. It’s nice and easy. We don’t need a controversy over Comedy Survivor.

The last thing I want to get is like a note from Dylan in the Facebook group on the side, be like, hey, bro, you said Schmoe had six votes, it’s actually seven. I think we’ve got. That’s a last thing I want for this bit. This has kind of scary From Reuters, a Russian stand up comedian was convicted of inciting hatred and jailed for nearly six years. This over a joke the comedian made about a legless war veteran Artemi a stan.

It has been sentenced for five years and nine months, also fined three hundred thousand rubles that’s around thirty nine hundred dollars. I’m no expert on the law, but it seems to me like the fine and the jail time are very out of sync. Astanin was also convicted of offending the feelings of Christians with an off color joke he made about Jesus, which angered Orthodox nationalists. The crux of all this show last year in March, the comedian joked about how an impoverished war veteran who had lost his legs after being blown up by a mine was now forced to get around on a skateboard, and the crux of the joke being that the veteran had run over the comedian’s foot. Apparently, there is video of the joke’s punchline, which shows fellow comedians remaining straight faced and the sound of several audience members laughing.

A stun In tried to flee Russia last year, but was arrested by police in Belarus and returned to Moscow to face charges. He was asked by the judge on Wednesday if he understood his sentence. A stun In is quoted as saying, to hell with your judicial practice. No, I don’t, and I’m gonna leave you with this one, because we could all use a laugh this week. This has nothing to do with comedy.

This is just I’m on the internet all day and I’m looking up stories for this and for Palace Intrigue, the podcast I write where we cover the royal family. And you know, I’m just on the internet all day because this is just it’s what I do. I saw this one again, has nothing to do with comedy, but it might make you smile. From the Daily Mail, a man sparked an evacuation at a French hospital after doctors discovered an eight inch long live World War One artillery shell in the man’s rectum. That’s right, the man was in the hospital.

He had an eight inch World War One artillery shell in his rectum. The twenty four year old man was described as being in a state of extreme discomfort. Emergency surgery was carried out to identify the large object in the man’s rectum. They figured out it was an artillery shell dating back to the First World War. But here’s the money quote quote Worse still, it had not exploded, so bomb disposable experts had to be called in to diffuse the shell.

With the fire brigades standing by. Explosives are no jokes. Staff and patients were evacuated from the hospital. A security perimeter set up around the accident in emergency unit. The man is set to be interviewed by police.

They are investigating the charge of handling Category A munitions And here is I’m gonna read it verbatim. I’m gonna read it from the article and I’m trying not to laugh. I’m gonna just try and read this. This is from quoting directly from the Daily Mail article, and they wrapped it up with there was no I can’t this is too funny. Oh, let me try again.

I could edit this out, but I want you to hear that. I think here, okay from the Daily Email. The final sentence of the article is I can’t. Let me have a sip of my iced coffee here, m okay, try this again, John, and I could edit this up. That’s no fun There was no Oh boy, I might have to go record another episode and come back just to do this tag or have the AI do it right?

Why more try. There was no initial explanation as to why the shell ended up in the man’s body, but local media speculated that it might have had something to do with his social life that as she copy news for today Bye,