Month: February 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Very busy one today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Daytona Beach. The new Grand Marshal of the sixty eighth running of the Daytona five hundred on Sunday, February fifteenth will be Nate Brighetzi. Nate’s publicist stayed on top of Daytona with this fancy press release.

The Grammy Award winning number one touring comedian in the world in two times Saturday Night Live host is now making the jump to the silver screen this spring with his first feature film. He created, Corote, produced and stars in the family friendly comedy The bread Winner for Tri Star Pictures, schedule to be released theatrically on May twenty nine, twenty twenty six. None of that mentions date Zona. The press release also gets in Widely known as the Nicest Man in stand up, Burghetti has become one of America’s most beloved comedic voices. Blah blah blah.

Is he widely known as the nicest man in stand up? I mean he seems nice. I’m sure he’s lovely, but see widely known as that. It is through the phrase into Google. The Atlantic in twenty twenty one had the headline Nate Pergetzi’s the nicest man in stand up.

Now. I’ve never met Nate, but again, I think that Jeff Foxworthy is very, very nice. It seems everything’s going back to that article and they are running with it. Anyway. We are told that his clever and wildly relatable storytelling has made him a favorite among fans of all ages, qualities that align perfectly with the excitement, tradition, and national spotlight of the Daytona five hundred.

Frank Kelleher is president of the Daytona International Speedway and he said Nate Pergetzi’s nationwide popularity, family friendly, humor, and authenticity and body the same spirit with a style that resonates with all. He’ll bring a memorable spark to the command, amplifying the emotion and excitement of one of the biggest moments in motor sports. All the public’s got it done. They want us to know. His most recent Netflix Specially Your Friend Nate Pergetzi is currently the most watched dan up special on Netflix in the past fifty two weeks.

His Big Dumb Eyes World Tours set a record for biggest one year gross by a comedy perform in history and has broken over forty total arena attendance records. In addition to giving the command to fire up the engines, Nate will also participate in a fanned Q and a session in the fan zone that morning. I did Daytona a few times. I had a hot pass from serious xam. I’ll wait till Daytona day to tell those stories because we have a lot to get to.

Nate did win the Grammy and as part of the story they’re selling us this week. During the pre show premiere ceremony, Nate was lounging on the couch under a blanket when he heard that he won his first Grammy. A video happened to be rolling as this announcement happened. Nate is covering his hands in disbelief. He seems so shocked that he doesn’t even say anything during the video.

After the ceremony, Nate posted the video that shows him reacting. Good thing somebody was rolling at camera. Nate said, I am honestly blown away and as surprised as the video shows. Thank you to all that I’ve ever been to a show or watch A special thank you to every comedian that’s been part of my life. I love stand up comedy so much and so excited to see how stand up is exploding.

Thank you to my family who’s been so supportive of me, especially my beautiful wife Laura and our wonderful daughter Harper. God has truly blessed me with so much love and support around me. Now, I don’t want you guys to think that I don’t like Naperghazzi. I just overreact to press release e press releases, and boy, the publicists to earn their money on that one. What a yarn they are selling there.

I’ll give you an early hint for this week’s comedy stock Market Dave Chappelle. Dave’s going to return to Minnesota to quote, stand with a community. He’ll be doing a performance at the Grand Casino Arena on February sixteenth. The announcement describes Dave’s decision as an act of solidarity with a community. Quote at the center of events that you denied all Americans in defense of civil rights, human dignity, and the principles we claim the hold sacred, Amen, Dave.

The press release says Dave’s appearance reflects a quote decades long commitment to showing up for communities and crisis and using comedy as a force for connection and solidarity. I like this move a lot now. Interestingly, in July of twenty twenty two, Dave was scheduled to perform at First Avenue in Minneapolis. That’s the place Bruce Springsteen showed up at last week. That show was moved to the Varsity Theater in an apparent reaction to Dave’s transfer material.

You may also recall that in twenty twenties, that long ago, Netflix released a special titled eight forty six, which featured Dave Chappelle talking about race in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Eight forty six refers to the length of time George Floyd was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer. Daves announced a couple other shows to tell you about those later in the week, one with John Stewart and a second one in San Francisco this weekend. But we’ll get to that. Bill Maher shot back at Dave Chappelle on Friday’s Real Time.

Bill Maher asserted that he was right to mock Dave Chappelle for suggesting Saudi Arabia has freer speech of the United States. Mar said Dave Chappelle lashed out at me last month because I called him out for saying there was more free speech in Saudi Arabia than here. Well, I was right. What he said was stupid. Maer argued that the United States is a far different place than Saudi Arabia regarding free speech, quoting Bill Maher.

If you don’t believe me, try opening a lesbian art gallery there, or wearing a T shirt that says Jesus is the one True God. Ricky’s right meeting Ricky Gervais. Celebrities don’t know about the real world. I feel terrible. I’m a terrible, terrible host.

I forgot to tell you guys for two days. I meant to tell you this when I recorded the Sunday Grammy segment. Anyway, John Marcos Areisi released a short fourteen minute set. It is on YouTube. It is called Shelf Life Volume two.

I feel awful the publicists sent that over. I knew in advance and I just forgot to actually voice the story. Sorry, publicist. You know I love you. You know I love John Marco.

John Marco has been named a Deadline comic set to break out into twenty twenty five. I think that happened, and he’s been named by me twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year. I wrote that back to the publicist and she was like, wait, who said that. I’m like, oh, I did. She encouraged me to keep doing it.

All right, let’s hook that up with some views Shelf Life volume two. Jackie Fabulous has a new special on Hulu Today. In the special, titled You Can Leave, Jackie Fabulous tackles topics ranging from ex husband and diet pills, to menta pause and what people do. The Drive You Nuts.

Also out on Hulu Today, Chris Spencer’s new special, Goat Adjacent, presented…

Spencer touches on everything from marriage and family, aging, race, and his Jamaican roots. Some More has announced a Netflix special that one called Chandelier Fly that’ll be out February seventeenth. So it looks like Netflix is starting to roll specials out again because Kat Williams is out on the tenth Tuesday specials are back. Baby. Some More is a special Chandelier Fly, filmed at the Gordon Theater in Detroit.

She shares her takes on untimely death, celebrity scandals, and cell phone companies learning to mind their business. David Letterman will executive produce a Paul Schaeffer documentary. It is titled appropriately Say Hello to Our good Friend, Paul Schaeffer. David Letterman, in a statement, said, Paul Shaffer is a show business friend who became a real friend. A comedic partner who’s quickness in timing saved me night after night.

A composer, arranger and performer with endless range. His vast knowledge and list of collaborators in music make him a living rock and roll Hall of Fame. There’s no one more worthy of an examination of his life and work. You may recall, Paul Schaeffer was the sidekick on Late Night with David Letterman, which launched in nineteen eighty two. We just missed the anniversary.

I forgot to mention it. Paul was the leader of the World’s Most Dangerous Band. Then in nineteen ninety three, after those meetings at NBC gave the Tonight Show to the Worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno, Dave headed over to CBS to host the Late Show. Paul went with him, and Paul was the leader of the CBS Orchestra. Paul Schaeffer said, any contribution I’ve been lucky enough to make to the world of music and comedy has only been possible thanks to my working alongside David Letterman.

That’s why worldwide pans joining to help tell my story as a dream I cannot wait to share with all of you. Conan O’Brien returns to host the Oscars on Sunday, March fifteenth, seven East four West. It’ll be live on ABC and Hulu. Last year’s Oscars were very well received and the reason for today’s new story is the producers want us to know one hundred percent of the writers and producers are back. Full writing team is back, and plus they added former Conan writer Todd Levin.

Pandora has settled with comedians in a legal dispute over spoken word content licensing. Nine comedians and their heirs, including George Lopez, Lewis Black, and the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin, had been fighting since twenty twenty two to increase the royalties paid when their comedy is streamed on Pandora. There has been a confidential settlement. The comedian’s lawyer said we settled amicably. Mystery Science Theater three thousand being revived again.

I stumbled across this on my own as a civilian. I wasn’t even doing show prep. I was just watching YouTube and I saw the announcement for the kickstarter. They want to produce four new episodes. The kickstarter in the first twenty four hours generated one point one to seven million dollars.

The original goal of the kickstarter was to raise twenty grand. In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of riff Tracks, Shout Studios now owns the rights to MST three K. Shout has teamed up with Rifftracks to produce new episodes of the show that will see Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett return, both in front end behind the screen. The four movies that will be featured will be revealed over the course of the campaign.

Nelson, Corbett and Murphy have been performing under the riff Tracks banner since two thousand and six. They often do Rifftracks live screenings, so it’s nice to see that they’re back involved in the MST three K verse. There was that weird Netflix season out there. Forget that ever, happened. Let’s get back to the main continuity.

MST three K launched on a Minneapolis the UHF station in nineteen eighty eight. Joel Hodgson previously revived the show via Kickstarter campaign in twenty fifteen. Was it that long ago season’s eleven and twelve yeared on Netflix? It’s ten years since the Netflix version? No way, I would have guessed like three wow, and then it was a thirteenth season on the online streaming platform.

The gizmo Plex totally missed that Eddie Murphy’s son and Martin Lawrence’s daughter are having a baby. Eric Murphy and Jasmine Lawrence announced the news. They posted thank you Jesus for the greatest gift. One person commented having Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as your godparents is life. Another comment said that maybe gonna be talented and funny as hell?

All right? An item on Gossip Corner. I’m not playing the song because I do want to be serious here. I’m seeing this on a lot of social media. There is an alleged Jelayne Maxwell email asking famous sitcom star and comedian.

So think of a famous comedian who had a sitcom? So, whoever you’re imagining now. Well, apparently Julne invited famous sitcom star and comedian to the island. The email was shared as a screenshot in a Reddit community and has gone viral. In this post email, Jelayne Maxwell writes to Jeffrey Epstein, also, famous sitcom star and wife are going to be sailing around Saint t twenty six slash twenty seven.

Can I organize for them to come to the island for lemonade? Jeffrey Epstein writes back, Yes, there is no proof that the famous comedian accepted the lemonade invitation or dinner, or had ever been to the island. That’s just out there. John Stewart’s name does appear in the Epstein files. On Monday’s Daily Show, John said, of course, to get out of the story.

I’m also in the files. We all searched our names, right, you. Guys in search your name? All right? Well, I yeah, no, I know whatever I am in the files.

All right, this is actually true. I take you to the scene. It is midnight, August twenty ninth, twenty fifteen. Jeffrey Epstein lies wide awake, his mind turning with ideas. He juts a quick note to a producer named Barry Josephson, saying, I suggested to Woody.

Y’all know which Woody. Right see Epstein Files. It ain’t Harrelson, all right or the Cowboy Toy story, you know Rich Moonty returning quote, I suggested to Woody that he do an exclusive new stand up routine for either Apple TV or Amazon. Oh, Jeffrey Epstein always had his finger on the pulse of what America was clamoring for in twenty fifteen. But Barry Josephson, thinking like the out of the box television professional that he was, pitched this idea, this is true quote, make a true biographical experience with his stand up being the kapper.

Somebody like John Stewart could host, slash narrate the biographical part. Excuse me, I am offended. Somebody like John Stewart, Poor John Stewart. My point is, do I have the offer or is this an audition. With the big document dumb?

All the late night hosts have weigh in. John Stewart said, there have been consequences for none of these dudes. They’ve been on the plane, they’ve been on the island, they’ve been to his house, they’ve given creepy cards with pubic care. They’ve been accused by a multitude of women of multitude of wrongdoings and nothing has happened to any of them. I gotta be honest, I’m just not sure anyone’s going to be held accountable for any of this.

Oh except Prince Andrew. Oh, Prince Andrew stripped of the title Prince. W Ooh, such a penalty. I guess here I’ll plug. Uh.

Yeah, We’ve been talking about that a lot on Palace Intrigue. Palace Intrigue and the writer for that, and we talk about the royal family every day, and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and keeping me quite busy. Back to comedy, Stewart said, Look, man, we always knew that the people at DJ releasing these documents weren’t on a fact finding mission. They were running interference. And the guy that the running interference for seems very satisfied with these results.

Jimmy Kimmel, I think we’ve done like eight or nine hundred Monday shows. I don’t know that we’ve ever had more madness to go through. There’s so much. I’ll start with what we know on Friday morning, the ironically titled Department of Justice release about half of the Epstein files. They’re supposed to release all of them on December nineteenth of last year.

That obviously didn’t happen. They claimed they needed time to redact the names of the victims, but whether intentionally or as a result of incompetence, or a combination of both, they released thousands of files that did not have the names or photos of many of the victims redacted. But they did do a pretty decent job of redacting the names of the victimizers. There are many disturbing accounts of questionable activity and emails, notes, text messages, et cetera, and about a lot of famous people, including Bill Gates, Steve Bennon, Richard Branson, and of course Donald Trump. It would seem that some other famous people, including Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, may not have been telling the whole truth about their actions with Jeffrey Epstein.

It is clear that Prince Andrew is royally, which is you know, it’s a term you hear a lot, but rarely when it is literally true. And most of all, it is so. Bananas that the guy who’s in charge of releasing all these files and redacting all this evidence is Donald Trump’s own personal defense attorney. You know, when Trump was convicted of thirty four felony council fraud, Todd Blanche was his lawyer. Now Todd Blanche is the gatekeeper to the Epstein files and the woman who could give us clarity on who did what.

Julane Maxwell is now doing yoga in a country club detention center because Todd Blanche moved her to one for reasons that he still hasn’t explained to anyone.

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And then there’s all this other stuff going on, busting into the election hea…

My head is spinning. I guess that’s the point, But my gud, remember when Trump was threatening to invade Greenland. That was not even two weeks ago. We’re living in dog ears now and it’s only going to get nuttier.

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And now that this new batch of Epstein files is out, the Distracto Mattock is…

Up Stein Vilbert did a lengthy monologue. Here are excerpts from it. I have made some edits to this four pacing. Because on Friday morning, the Justice Department released its largest batch of Epstein documents, which totals over three million pages. Three million.

Is a lot of pages, and it’s three million pages of just terrible stuff. Folks out there are still slogging through all the files, but they implicate a who’s who of powerful men, including everyone from tech titans to Wall Street power brokers. Yes, there’s one prominent guy who is in there, prominently because President Donald Trump is mentioned more than one thousand times, and the New York Times found fifty three hundred files with references to Trump and more than thirty eight thousand references to Trump, his wife and Mara a Lago thirty eight thousand references. That seems low, Frank, Obviously, this is the biggest story imaginable. But for some reason it isn’t what is detailed in those three million pages or allegations of some of the cruelest, most depraved crimes against women and kids involving some of the most powerful men on planet Earth.

Seth Myers said, we’re living in magas warped world where everything is upside down and nothing matters except who has power and who does not. They hail violent January sixth rioters as heroes and call peaceful protesters domestic terrorists. The government rounds up children and families and citizens and claims they’re going after the worst of the worst, while at the same time they cover up for wealthy and powerful elites named in the emails of a guy who was actually the worst of the worst. Late Nighter points out that even Saturday Night Live was mentioned in the Epstein files some quick hits there in twenty sixteen, the day after SNL aired a cold open in which Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump was visited by John Goodman’s Rex Tillerson and Beck Bennett’s Vladimir Putin. Epstein appears to have emailed a Variety article about the sketch to billionaire Tom Pritzker.

Twenty eighteen, Fred Armison portrayed Michael Wolf. Epstein filed off an email to the real Wolf with his review SNL was great. Late Nighter recaped several other SNL mentions in the files and from the Washington Post. Donald Trump told some jokes the Washington Post tells us Trump was addressing the Afalfa Club. Some members of the club are known to be in opposition to the president.

The president’s jokes included and of course he told them better than I will. So many people in the room I hate most of you. I like, who in the hell thought this was going to happen. The President joked he might have to cut the speech short because he needed to watch the invasion of Greenland, joking, We’re not gonna invade Greenland, We’re gonna buy it. It’s never been my intention to make Greenland the fifty first state.

I want to make Canada the fifty first state. Greenland will be the fifty second state. Venezuela can be the fifty third. Currently, the President pointed to Kevin Worsh, nominee to be the next FED chairman. The president joked, if he does a lower interest rates, I’m suing his ass off.

Trump took a beat for timing and jagged it with I’m kidding. Later in the day, the President was asked by reporters about the comments. The President explained, it’s a roast, it’s a comedy night. Apparently, the president joked that he thought Conda Leeza Rice would be the first female president, and his joke never in a million years when I’ve thought Joe Biden would beat her to it. The President also told reporters I had the nastiest, most vicious joke about John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

If you think I’m going to tell that joke, you can forget it. I’m going to kiss his ass for a long time. That’s your comedy, is for it today? Oh boy? All right, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hy There, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The President of the United States has threatened to sue quote unquote talentless Grammy Awards host Trevor Noah for quote unquote plenty dollar signs. Apparently the President of the United States did not like one of the jokes. The President took time out of his very very busy schedule running the country to post on Truth’s social the Grammy Awards are the worst, virtually unwatchable.

CBS is lucky not to have this garbage litter their airwaves any longer. Next year, the Grammys will air on ABC. The President reacted after this joke from Trevor Noah. That is a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense. I mean, because Epstein’s Island is gone.

He needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton. So, oh, I told you it’s my last year. What are you gonna do about it? Oh? The President had more to say.

The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he may be, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low Ratings Academy Awards. Noah said incorrectly about me that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. Wrong. I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false, intfamatory statement, have never been accused of being there, not even by the fake news media. I don’t even know what to say to that one.

Never been accused of being there, The President continued, Noah a total loser. Better get his fact straight and get them straight fast. It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless dope of an MC and sue him for a plenty dollars sign Ask Little George Slapadopolis and others how that all worked out.

Also ask CBS get ready, Noah, I’m gonna have some fun with you.

Someone else who did not enjoy Trevor Noah is Nicki Minaj. You may recall this joke. We got John Letgend in. The house, Oh man, Every single person John Legend, Finnis Phineas Nicki. Minaj is not here.

She is not here, Um. She is. She is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues. Actually Nikki, I have the biggest ass. I haven’t.

Everybody’s saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it’s me. Wop wop wop. Look at it. Look at it, baby.

Nicki minaj on X posted Trevor refuses to come out of the closet when everyone in the industry knows his boyfriend dot dot dot allegedly. In another post, she wrote, as they do their ritual tonight, God Almighty will reveal themselves to them. The ritual will backfire on them. God will not be mocked. Blessed is the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Every tongue that rises up against me in judgment shall be condemned and put to shame. Watch You may know Nicki Minaje from such songs as Super Freaky Girl. In the Hollywood reporter Daniel Feinberg, who’s one of my favorites, wrote, Nobody’s going to come away from the Grammy’s telecap remembering any of Noah’s monologue speech because there was no monologue speech. There were barely any jokes. It was really just Trevor Noah running around the floor gushing about the talent.

In a very small portion of the audience. Really, Noah got to like three tables, enough time to shake a few famous people’s hands and say are you kidding me? Seemingly a few dozen times. It was an enthusiastic chummy thoroughly vapid. But if the point was for absolutely nobody in the audience to feel even slightly offended or amused, he achieved that goal.

Yeah, you gotta be careful because one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Yeah, I mean, so, Trevor’s smart to play it safe. You don’t want to make a Taylor Swift level joke and have the Ice Queen make a face and basically wreck your career.

You don’t want that to happen, Daniel Finberg writes. And the truth, of course, is that for many viewers, Trevor delivered exactly what they craved, a hollow, cheery escape from everything happening on the news, an insulated celebration of super officiality that was then punctured by the awards and the recipients. Finberg writes, sure, I want things to be political if you don’t bully for you, But in lieu of political, I would have settled for funny or purposeful or not bothering waste ten minutes just starting the show. This was none of these. It was just enthusiastic.

Daniel then goes on to speak about how the artists were not as blanned as trivor specifically Bad Bunny. I’ll call out because Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl halftime show this upcoming weekend, and I suspect he will be in the news. Bad Bunny, during his speech, said ice out. We’re not savages, We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.

Got some more politics for you later, or we’ll do that in the second half. I do try to keep it light. Ricky Gervais waited in during the awards, as he has done in the past. Ricky shared an excerpt from his infamous twenty twenty Golden Globes monologue in which he told the actors of the room not to turn their acceptance speeches into political calls to action. This time, Jervas used a crying emoji and wrote, they’re still not listening.

You may recall in twenty twenty. He said, if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Nate Berghatzy went on Bill Mahers show.

Bill Maher said, you and I we could not be more different. You met your wife at an Applebee’s. Nate Pergatzy was curious and asked Bill Moore, when was the last time you were at an Applebee’s. Morris said never. I don’t think it existed when I was poor and now I’m effing rich.

Pete Davidson debuted is not at all a podcast? The Pete Davidson Show on Netflix. Did you watch it? I don’t think too many people did. I was checking all weekend to see if it made the top ten.

It did not. Bert Kreischer’s Thing is in the top ten, but Pete did not. I lasted about two seconds with it. It was not for me. Pete Davidson sat down with MGK.

They discussed the importance of bidazz. Yes, I don’t know what you were watching all weekend. Maybe the Grammys, but you could have been watching Pete Davidson and MGK discussing bidezs. Pete Davidson refuses to use the bidet he has on the Japanese toilet in his home because quote, I’m afraid I’ll love it, and I don’t be able to, you know, go anywhere else because I can’t shoot water up my place. Let you shoot water up.

They got a little more serious. Pete said, I think we both thought we were going to die pretty young. I’m equally impressed by both of us and been able to keep it going, which it’s now past that point where it’s like, yeah, we’ve had troubles while sober, and you’re like, yeah, it’s fine. MGK said their bipolar has synced up. Every time I’m having a manic episode, you’re good.

Every time you’re having one, I’m good. It goes back and forth. Pete said, thank god, because we’d be dead for sure. Then they shared some stories about various drugs and I’m just not interested in any of that. Cant Williams will have a special on Netflix.

It’s his fourth. It will premiere February tenth, one week from today. It is called The Last Report. In it, Kat Williams delivers his take on conspiracies, celebrities, and the world at large. I went to pull the trailer for you, but he’s Kat Williams and I like to keep this podcast clean, so it didn’t work.

But I’ll tell you he joked about buying a farm and he bought all the animals that were delicious, like cows, pigs, and chickens, and that he hasn’t killed a single animal yet. I’ll save the joke part for a week from today when Kat Williams new specials out on Netflix. Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. Ron White voted out week four. A pretty shocking result there.

We’ll see who goes out this week. So what do you do? You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You’ll find a cartoon image of me and Ron White in that thread. Vote someone off the island.

Just make a crystal clear vote. I’m voting off. So and so. It’s been a lot of fun and the group is having fun. Alliances are starting to form.

I think that’s good. If you’re at the comedy store in La tonight, really good. Lineup. They had a Jim Norton to a lineup that was already David Spade, Andrews Santino, Whitney Cummings plus more. That’s pretty good.

Gossip Connor spoons in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, Gossip Conna were with Johnny magg It’s as. A tree and welcome to Gossip Corner. Now, this first one is completely unconfirmed, but I’ve seen a lot of chatter about this as the story goes, assuming when this even happened. Sadie Sandler, the daughter of Adam Sandler, was in a Chanelle store in Beverly Hills. As the story goes, one of the workers supposedly, perhaps maybe judged Sadie Sandler for her casual outfit while Sadie Sandler was perhaps possibly maybe looking at a classic flat bag, which goes for twenty eight six hundred dollars.

There is a widely shared TikTok video in which Sadie Sandler supposedly enters the Chanelle boutique. She stressed in an oversized hoodie, basketball shorts and trainers boy. She is her father’s daughter. As the story goes, a sales associate dismissed her interest and suggested the item was intended only for serious buyers. If the story is true, in this version, Adam Sandler himself shows up question the staff about judging customers by appearance, and then buys something himself.

It’s unclear what Adam Sandler has bought. If this story is true, The story is being reposted across multiple social plotfs. There are no photographs, surveillance footage, or eyewitness accounts from inside the store so far. The TikTok video also does not specify an exact date or time of the encounter. Did it even happen?

Who knows? Fun story sure.

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Also on gossip Corner, Radar Online says Amy Schumer is being bothered by onl…

If even this gets mocked, it shows you can’t win no matter what she does. Bill Board put out the top touring comedians for December. John Mulaney leads the pack six point one million dollars fifty one thousand tickets sold over fifteen shows. Must be nice your top five. Number five.

Dave Chappelle grows two and a half million, sold eighteen thousand, three hundred tickets. Fourth, Jimmy Carr grows two point six million and sold forty one thousand tickets In third place, Matt Rife grows four to four and so old fifty nine thousand, six hundred tickets. Nate Brigetzi, who’s off in number one he was number two, grows to four point nine million, sold one hundred and seventeen thousand, and again John Mulaney fifteen shows, six point one million dollars fifty one one hundred tickets. Page six says that Tim Dillon hopes to film his next special on skid Row. A source says that’s what he wants to do.

I think he just thinks it’s a funny thing to do. On his podcast, he joked, LA should think of skid Row as an asset. Let’s be proud of it. Let’s say we are the top homeless destination in the world. I take friends now when they visit to skid Row, and I’m proud of it.

I’m like, there’s ten thousand people here right now. Jokes aside. I listened to the newest episode of Tim Dillon’s podcast. He was pretty serious for the entire episode. I think I can tell when he’s joking and not joking, and I think he was serious this week.

I did pull a clip. Here’s Tim Dillon. They’re censoring your post on TikTok. Anyone who’s not criticizing this, anyone who’s not calling this out, I cannot trust that. I don’t know why they’re not calling it out.

I don’t know if there’s a fine ancial benefit to them not calling it out, or if they feel that one side’s already one and they want to be on that side. I don’t know if they are fearful of something or other. But if you’re not calling this out, if you don’t think this is wrong, if you make a living speaking, if you’re a comedian, podcaster, journalist, whatever you are, doesn’t really matter. If you are a YouTuber, if you’re a social media personality, if you make a living using your fat mouth, and you don’t think this is a problem, You don’t think getting a group of billionaires that are ideologically aligned to go buy an app and then start censoring the content on the app. It was a problem when it was being done during COVID, and it’s a problem when it’s being done now.

And if you don’t care about that, and if you think that’s not going to affect you for whatever reason, I can’t trust you, and I can’t listen to what you say. You don’t have any credibility. And we started with politics, will end with politics. I wonder if we’re losing the country. The FCC chairman says fake news won’t qualify for the equal time rule exemption.

In case you missed it, two weeks ago, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued new guidance on the Equal Time rule, which requires that broadcasters who feature qualified political candidates on the airwaves provide time to rivals if requested. News had been exempted from the rule, and in recent decades it was assumed the rule also applied to daytime and late night talk shows like Say Jimmy, Kimme Alive, or Colbert. However, new FCC guidance has signaled to those talk shows that they should no longer believe they would be exempt. At the FCC meeting a Commissioner. Carr said that a determination on whether a show is exempt would come down to a number of factors, including whether there was a partisan motivation in featuring a political candidate as a guest.

He said that congressional lawmakers were worried that TV programmers would brought take advantage of trying to claim they were bona fide news when they weren’t. But if you’re fake news, you’re not going to qualify for the bonafide news exemption. Back in two thousand and six, the FCC determined that the Tonight Show with Jay Leno was exempt from the equal time rule. Carr said that assumption in light of the ruling was that every single late night, every single daytime show must be bonafide news, and he says that assumption is not right. So we’ll see how that affects bookings as we head into the midterm elections.

You know, sometimes the late night talk show is just a late night talk show, and that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Kalaroga, Shark Media outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mack and this is the Week four elimination show for Comedy Survivor. We placed sixteen comedians on an island. Every week, the Facebook group at Daily Comedy News podcast group votes one comedian off comedy Island.

So far, Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, and Joe Koy have been eliminated. Still in the game, Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko At Kotzka, Sebastian Maniscalco, tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Kreischer. The listeners have gone to the Facebook group and they’ve voted. I’m now tally the votes. Mike votes for Ron White.

That is Ron White’s first vote of the season. A Vaughn votes for Ron White. That’s two votes for Ron White. Scott votes for tig Nataro, Mike votes for Seth Myers, Dylan votes for Tignataro. That’s two votes Tignataro, two votes Ron White.

Barb votes for Ron White. That’s three votes for Ron White. Michelle votes for John Mulaney. That’s John Mulaney’s first vote of the season. Matt votes for Jay Leno, Andrea the votes for Tignataro.

That’s three votes tag Nataro, three votes for Ron White. Marty votes for Jim Gaffigan. That’s Jim Gaffigan’s first vote of the season. Andy votes for Leslie Jones with the hashtag save tig Raffy votes for Leslie Jones. That’s three votes for Ron White, three votes for Tignataro, two votes for Leslie Jones.

Richard votes for Ron White. That’s four votes for Ron White. Lindsay he votes for Otsko Atkotska, Lee votes for Tignataro. That’s four votes for Tignataro, four votes for Ron White. Aaron votes for Ron White, and Cheryl votes for Ron White.

In a shocking out of nowhere vote, the Facebook group has a line to vote off Ron White. Ron White went from zero votes to being voted off Comedy Island. No one is safe. We’ll take the break and we’ll come back and look at the analysis. Wow, what a stunning result.

The votes are in. Ron White eliminated. He had no votes coming into this week, and then you guys are like, he’s out of here. I’m also fascinated by the save Tignaitaro contingent. Well, they’ve become a voting block and a lot with whoever the trendy pick is to save.

Very fascinating. I’ve seen some people hanging back until later in the week to use their vote strategically. So much fun. Ron White six votes four, Leslie Jones two, A bunch of others got one. The AI says Tignataro is now officially the recurring alternative and that the backup target often becomes the main target the following week.

However, will people sacrifice Leslie Jones to save tig Nataro? Very very fascinating. Legacy comics are vulnerable so far. Who’s gone out? Or Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Ron White and Joe Coy one time, most of the Golden globes, So I don’t have time for that, The AI says, once the name of pears, it keeps appearing.

So that’s interesting because we had a few first time votes today. Organized blocks win. You don’t need the room, you need your people, According to the AI, who looks safe right now Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Manaskalco. But I’m looking back to last week’s AI analysis and the AI said Ron White was safe and thought the front runner for being in trouble this week was Tignataro. Not too far off the mark.

The AI’s guessed at who is in trouble this upcoming week Tignataro, Leslie Jones, Jay Leno. If the group finally decides it’s time to pull the trigger on Jay and we keep seeing Strevos for Osco at Conska, here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go to the Facebook group. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’re going to find a cartoon image of me extinguishing the torch of Ron White in that thread.

Vote someone off. Please make it super clear that you’re voting someone off. All the side commentary is fine, but a nice clear sentence, like my vote is makes it super easy for me and the AI to check my work. The last thing I want to do is have a voting controversy off a silly once a week bit where we’re just having fun on Facebook. So let’s try and avoid that.

Do Crystal clear votes Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. This is so much fun to do. I love putting it together. I don’t like look at it and kind of trend it. You know, I likely look at it during the week just to be like, oh, look a couple of Ron White votes.

But I’m not keeping an unofficial tally until I actually record the show in real time as you hear it. If you’re new to all this, I’ll give you the names real quick so you can play along at home. Out Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Jokoy, Ron White. Still in the game, you will vote someone off from the pool of I’m gonna read it in the opposite order today, Bert Kreischer, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, Tig Nataro Zebastian Maniscalco, otsko At Kotzka, John Mulaney, Kevin Hart, Seth Myers, Nikki Glaser, Jim Gaffigan, or Jay Leno. That is your comedy Survivor for week five.

Back in the morning with a normal episode. Stay warm,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, I psych. Hi, I’m Johnny Mag with your daily coming news. Why you psych, Johnny Mag? Because Trevor Noah got it done.

I was texting with my son. I’m like, I hope Trevnoa does a tight monologue and it’s done and I can record the show during halftime. And Trevor wrapped it up with twelve seconds in the first half as the Knicks played the Lakers. So high from halftime, as I’m recording, Trevor Noah just took the stage at the Grammys. I love Trevor.

I just think he’s a really good host, very comfortable. You can trust him with a show. Nothing amazing out of his monologue, but it was fun and upbeat, and you know he’s setting the stage for a party. He did go a long way for this first joke. Uppatah is actually inspired by a Korean drinking game right where you stack your hands on top of each other.

Someone shouts a number, you count up, and then if your hand hits that number, you drink. Yeah. That’s way more complicated than the drinking game we have in America. In America, every time you turn on the news, you drink ah pta ah pata. See you may be wondering, all right, is Trevor going to get pointed at all?

A little bit of here with this one? Oh and the one and only Miss Lauren Hill will be performing on that stage tonight, which is insane when you think about it, because the last time Lauren Hill performed at the Grammys was in nineteen ninety nine. I understand that you understand how long ago that was. Back in nineteen ninety nine, the president had had a sex scandal, people thought computers were about to destroy the world, and Diddy was arrested. Boy, how times have changed.

And then, really the closest thing to a political joke in the monologue was this one. We got John Legend in the house. Oh man, every single personally here, John Legend, Philly Alis, Phineas, Nicki Minaj is not here. She is not here, she is she is still at the White House. With Donald Trump discussing very important issues.

Actually, Nikki, I have the biggest ass. I haven’t. Everybody’s saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it’s me. Wop wop wop.

Look at it. Look at it baby. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Nateperghetzi for your Friend Nateperghetzy. I didn’t think that was Nate’s best special at all, but okay, fine. He beat out Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Year, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, Ali Wong’s Single Lady, and Jamie fox Is.

What had happened was Jamie, who, as longtime listeners know, I used to work with. He’s sitting pretty close upstage wearing a very big hat, like a hat that’s saying hey, look at me, and sunglasses, and I wonder if that particular look is perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow related to the stroke. I just found it an odd fashioned decision. Anyway. I hope he’s doing well.

Now. For today’s show, I’m flipping the order a little bit because I recorded the second half earlier. So usually I do the Newsy News in the first half and some of the more esoteric stuff in the second half. So that’s kind of flipped today just to accommodate the production. Remember I told you I think it was in yesterday’s show by the comedian Ben Bankers, the guy who had made jerky jokes about Renee Good.

Bankers addressed the cancel shows in a video he’s shared on his Instagram on the twenty ninth, and the clip he tells an audience, I just found out my shows were canceled in Minnesota FM. He said he was working on a new venue and dates for the fine people of Minnesota. The owner of the club who had canceled the shows told The Tribune that CAA, who represents Ben Bankers, is insisting that the club fully compensate Bankers for the canceled shows due to the fact that he was willing to perform fair enough. The owner also says that CIA will not allow any of its other clients to perform at the club until the matter is fully resolved. That would surprise me if CAA is ice club, And I did want to talk about the passing of Catherine O’Hara, who died Friday in Los Angeles at age seventy one.

The Toronto native began at the Second City as an understudy to Gilda Radner from Second City, the famous Canadian sketch show SCTV, where she did fantastic work and if you’re of a certain age like me, that’s where she got on your radar. Later playing the mom in the Home Alone Movies, McAuley Culkin posted, Mama, I thought we had time. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you, but I had so much more to say. I love you.

I’ll see you later. In the Home Alone films, the family rushes through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. The Airport posted thank you Catherine O’Hara, Forever our legendary missus McAllister. More recently, O’Hara was on Apple TV’s The Studio. Seth Rogan wrote on Instagram, We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her.

She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous. She made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. Pedro Pascal, who shared the screen with her in the Last of Us, wrote, the is less light in my world. This lucky world that had you will keep you always. Brooke Shields wrote what an honor it was to be spoofed by Catherine O’Hara on the old SETV series.

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, wrote, Canada has lost a legend. Over five decades of work, Catherine earned her place in the Canada of Canadian comedy. From SETV to Shit’s creek. She was an ambassador for Canada and the truest sense, brilliant, fearless, deeply original. It’s so full of humanity.

She made the world laugh, but she also made people feel seen. Mike Myers wrote, it was a very sad day for comedy and for Canada. She was one of the greatest comedy artists in history and inspiration for millions and above all, very elegant lady. Setting much love and condolences to her family. Michael Keaton wrote, we go back before the first beadle jew.

She’s been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis, and my real life true friend. This one hurts, man. I’m going to miss her thinking about bo as well. Jernny Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center, in a statement, wrote, Katherine O’Hara was one of the rare performers who could disappear completely into character and somehow make that character unforgettable shape what comedy acting could be, blending precision, humanity, and originality in a way that felt effortless. Her work will continue to inspire generations of performers and audiences.

So, like I said, to flipping the order around a little bit today, we’ll take the break here and we’ll come back and do more of a normal second half. Coming up at noon Eastern today the results of Comedy Survivor Week four. Looking forward to seeing who was voted off Comedy Island. Remember back on I think it was Friday show, maybe it was Thursday’s show. I had reached out to Deacon Mike.

I was curious about Stephen Colbert’s use of Faith leader. Stephen Colbert is a Catholic. I’m a Catholic and growing up Catholic, I never really heard that term. Deacon Mike said, his guest is, that’s a personal term from Colbert that would be all encompassing to be more inclusive to all people of faith. And you know, getting a vibe for how Stephen Colbert rolls when he’s not ruining Star Trek.

That makes sense. So appreciate Deacon Mike for getting back to me. He did to get back to me. I know in your world it’s like four days later. He got back to me about ten minutes after I finished recording the episode.

But thank you. Deacon Mike. Got some items from Gossip Corner. I’m not gonna play the song because the spirit of the show is not quote unquote dancing on people’s graves. I don’t want people to be miserable.

But in the news, Rob Schneider and his wife have announced that their marriage is coming to an end. Thirty seven year old Patricia has filed for divorce from her sixty two year old husband, Robert Schneider. The divorce summary is requesting the court to keep the documents confidential. The couple has two daughters, age thirteen and ten. They first met in two thousand and seven on a TV project.

Rob Schneider was forty four, Patricia was nineteen. They got married four years later. Staying on gossip corner, Raider Online has the headline Amy Schumer goes goopy over divorce love Lauren comic, using Gwyneth Paltrow as an inspiration for her conscious uncoupling. A source told Rader Online Amy is obsessed with controlling the narrative, really with controlling everything. She seems convinced that if she and Chris can have this perfect divorce, I don’t want her so much.

That’s why she wanted to get everything totally handled before making the news public. All the houses are getting sold, the money’s divided up and they’ve agreed on custody. There won’t be any fights or drama, which is very important to Amy for her son’s sake and for Chris. She’s very focused on protecting them both. These source ads no doubt Amy’s image is part of this too.

She knows it’s going to be picked apart, and she wants to give people as little ammunition as possible. As much as she claims not to care what people think, she actually does care a lot. Amy’s telling people she wants to stay friends with Chris, and they were even going to get each other’s advice on who to date, which strikes a lot of people as bizarre. I’m glad the source said that, because I was about to editorialize there, like and just say that’s weird. The source continued.

She’s also adamant that this has nothing to do with her suddenly getting skinny, but the timing of her weight loss does have a lot of people questioning if she’s being fully transparent about that. Now, while I was prepping the show, actually let me check this again. Hold on, okay, I was going to tell you there was a dead link for a day. There was a dead link under the headline Amy Schumer thought she’d be flooded with interest to mid divorce news, but it hasn’t happened. This on the National Inquirer dot com as a recording this on Friday.

The link it seems to have come back to life. An insider says Amy really thought she’d be flooded with interest, more dates, more tension, but it hasn’t happened. Another source says she’s not chasing anything. If a date happens, great, If not, she’s totally fine being on her own. Maybe she could date Rob Schneider.

I thought this was weird, a weird decision by The Daily Show. They used Whitney Cummings as a correspondent last week and Whitney Cummings in the Daily Show just don’t go together in my mind. If you spent a lot of time, especially on comedy threads, Whitney is not all that popular on social media, and without doing any research, I would guess Whitney Cummings is not that popular with many fans of the Daily Show. I just thought it was weird Whitney Cummings took over the shows in my opinion desk for commentary aimed at liberal voters and their tendency to demand perfection from Democratic presidential candidates. Whitney said, I’m here to talk to you as a liberal and acknowledge sometimes her politics have been misread.

Some people think got right wing just because I look and sound exactly like Kimberly Gilfoyle. But I’m a liberal. She went on for seven minutes, and the point of her thesis is if you keep holding out for mister Wright, we’re gonna end up with mister alt right. Pete Davidson was on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. He talked about being a dad.

He said, the reality has set in. We had a moment last week we were like, oh, she’s here, She’s like staying. Now it’s real. He also said about babies, they crap so much. They crap while they’re crapping.

The best advice I got and I hate it’s so name dropping, but Eddie Murphy gave you great advice. The best advice is no advice. You can’t tell another man how to raise his child. Jason Kelsey and ESPN will not pursue a second city of they call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey. Remember Jason Kelsey had a Late Night show that really nobody watched.

When I saw the phrasing, Jason Kelsey will not pursue a second season if they call it late night. My line on Threads was, I’ve decided not to continue pursuing dating Sydney Sweeney. I have the same chance. Here’s the spin. The decision came from Kelsey, who wanted to explore there are other opportunities during the off season rather than commit to another run of the show.

Dude, they did five episodes last year. Five. ESPN is supportive of continuing the program. Uh huh. Last year, Jason Kelsey hosted five episodes.

The show aired on late Friday nights. The debut episode got two hundred and ninety thousand viewers. Even Seth Myers is like, really, dude, more people watch my show. At the time, the ESPN president told The New York Times that the network wasn’t focused on ratings for the five episode experiment and said that the decision about the show’s future would be a little bit more art than science. But again, we’re being told that Jason Kelcey wants to explore other opportunities.

Isn’t that usually what you say when you get fired from a job. They like so and so has left the job to pursue other opportunities. Is and that we usually say, I’m calling hogwash there, Jason Kelce, and that is your comedy news for today, right at noon Eastern Comedy Survivor and Normal Episode in the morning. I’ll see you then

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am so cold. I’ve had it. Hi, I am Johnny Mack with your daily coming your news. I’ve got the space here on in the studio.

Today we’ll test out the noise reduction. I thought I was gonna do a Grammy’s preview today. Surprisingly surever Noah, I don’t see that he did any press for this. Very very interesting because I’ve got a normal episode for you today and there’s plenty to talk about. Let’s start with late night, they were making fun of the Milania movie.

Jimmy Kimmel made fun of the red carpet and who was there. It included former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who did not have the best of deportres, doctor Oz Todd, and Julie chris Lee rfcage Kimbil said it was either a movie premiere or season thirty five of Dancing with the Stars. Colbert said the premiere was attended by members of the administration like Peek egg Seth Christy, Noah, Marfkay Junior, and Cash Mattel, as well as several former NFL players and UFC fighters, which means a bunch of people with brain damage sat next to NFL players and UFC fighters. I like that a lot, But the best jokes actually came from Fallon. He was excited.

It was a big weekend for the movies. Yeah, you got the Milania documentary and you have the new Rachel McAdams film Send Help, which fun fact, was actually the original title of the Millennia movie Fallin Again. Right now, Trump is encouraging everyone to see it in imax so his hands look regular size. But critics are saying the film isn’t great. I’m not saying it’s bad, but after the movie, Trump took his name off the Kennedy Center.

That’s fantastic. Andrew Schultz is quote continuing to distance himself from President Donald Trump. On The Flagrant podcast, Andrew Schultz said, let’s talk about what happened in Minneapolis. Ice murdered an American citizen in cold blood, and then the Trump administration called him a domestic terrorist. That’s it, like plan and simple.

I see the administration trying to spin it, and it’s effing disgusting. The editorial points out Schultz made a mistake confusing the Customs and Border Protection agents who killed pretty with immigration and customs with Ice. Schultz continued, they didn’t even have a moment where the like, we’re reviewing the footage, we’re trying to see what’s really happening. All of them, Trump and all the cronies put out collective statements that immediately blamed an American citizen that was exercising his First and Second Amendment rights right. He has the right to protest, he’s the right to carry a firearm.

There’s no question about this whatsoever. And the administration immediately comes out and they try to gaslight the public, which you can’t do when we have fifteen different videos of what happened. Andrew Schultz, you may recall two things are true. One, before Biden was the president, you know, it was president of the United States. This is a fun fact.

President Donald Trump was president for four years.

And then last year during the election cycle, Andrew Schultz had former Presi…

Mister Schultz seems surprised and how this administration has turned out. Schultz said, there’s no question about this whatsoever. And the administration immediately comes out there and they try to gas light the public, which you can’t do when we have fifteen different videos of what happened. Schaltz acknowledged that he had Trump on the podcast, adding I don’t think any of us are having this conversation to like curry any goodwill or get people to like us or something like that. This is something that is undeniably abhorrent and should be called out, simple as that.

It’s disgusting, as Detective John McLean said, and die Hard Welcome to the party. Pal Joe Rogan, he’s not wigged that he didn’t win a Golden Globe. He explained, I didn’t submit. They asked me to submit to be nominated for the Golden Globes, and he had to pay five hundred dollars, and the five hundred dollars just for paperwork or whatever, and I said no, like, I don’t care. I already won.

You can’t tell me I didn’t win. I’ve been number one for six years in a row. All of a sudden, you’re gonna have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedos, and you’re gonna say, now, I’m not number one, f off. I don’t care that I’m number one, but I am, in fact number one. So all of a sudden you have a contest to decide who’s really number one amongst us?

Like that’s amongst you. You’re allowed of your opinion. You like Amy Pohler better than me, that’s great. Rogan said he’s never seen Amy Poehler’s podcast. He gave it to a famous person.

Would you know in that world, that’s what they do. You give it a Amy Poehler amongst their circles, it’s not gonna have any criticism. I don’t know if amongst her group, if I listen to all of them, I would decide that hers is number one. But I just know I didn’t submit. I don’t want to be part of that.

I don’t care. You just a group of people that just decide all of a sudden’re gonna give in a war out. You gotta you get a trophy. F off.

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Speaking of award shows, the Grammys are on tonight on CBS eight pm Eastern T…

Again, Johnny Mack fought Trevor Noah would do some press and would be talking about that today, but he really didn’t do too much press. This is the third year in a row that Trevor Noah is both the host of the telecast and a nominee. Trevor Noah is nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording four Into the Uncut Grass. In twenty twenty four, he was nominated for Best Comedy Album four I Wish You Would, and in twenty twenty five for Where Was I. Six years ago, his album Son of Patricia was a finalist for Best Comedy Album.

Trevor Noah lost to Dave Chappelle all three times he was nominated for Best Comedy Album. This year’s nominees for Best Comedy Album are Dropped Dead Years by Bill Burr, post Mortem by Sarah Silverman, Single Lady by Ali Wong, What Had Happened Was by Jamie Fox, and your Friend Napergatsy by Nateprig to me, you got to give it to Sarah Silverman there, but we’ll see what they do. Recording Academy President Harvey Mason said he had a hard time convincing Trevor to come back. Mason said, it was the longest I’ve ever waited for text to come back in my life. But Trevor’s been so instrumental in the success or the recent growth of our show.

He set the tone for us who we are and what we do on this night. So smart so thoughtful, so funny, and he’s just a music guy. Trevor not expected to return next year when the telecast moves to ABC, Executive producer Ben Winston told reporters last week. After last year’s show, Trevor said, look, I’ve done a great five years. It’s time to hand the microphone off to somebody else and move on.

It got to December and we hadn’t found anybody that we absolutely loved. You guys should have asked Joe coy. Winston said, I sent Trevor a video and I was literally I was on my knees in the video and I said, please look at this incredible lineup that we’ve got on the show, and the only thing missing is you come back and do one final year. It’s the last year on CBS. Let’s make it your last year too.

Trevor texted back, Sure, let’s do it. See you there, can’t wait. Mason added, He’s been a big part of the evolution of our show, of our organization, to be honest, because he presents so well the gravitas, the sensibility, the emotional intelligence that he has and his interactions with the artist really has changed the tone and the tenor of our show, so we’re extremely thankful for his five now going on six shows. I’m looking forward to seeing what Trevor does tonight. In terms of commentary, last year, Trevor commented about Donald Trump returning to the presidency.

He made the joke there’s been a few changes in Washington. So I’m going to enjoy tonight because it might be my last time I got to host anything in this country. It’s a tough spot tonight, but you really can’t ignore the elephant in the room, unless, of course, you’re Saturday Night Live or Jimmy Fall and then you can. But to be fair, it’s also not why people are at the Grammys, So like you got to address it, but you can’t dwell on it. Tough spot.

I think Trevor’s up to the task. Bert Kreischer was on the Club Shay Shay podcast. He said he did receive an offer to perform at the Riodd and Comedy Festival for a lot of money. Bert’s explanation, they wouldn’t let me perform shirtless, so I passed. He was asked if he would ever return to Russia after his famous experience as the Machine.

Kreischer said never, here’s the deal. After the whole Rion Comedy Festival debacle. If Putin hits me up and he wants me to do a private show, I think pr wise it’s not a bad look. I’d be terrified, but it’s another story. But come on in.

It’s a special right shirtless on a horse with Putin, I’d watch that. From the Guardian, they want to see Louis C.K. Quotes a comic who leaves a sour taste. It was the first of Louis’s three nights in the Apollo Theater, they write. He’s named the show ridiculous.

But with all this talk of friends dying or growing apart, or moving his eighty nine year old dad to a care home where the peripheral role his two adult daughters playing his life mortality might have suited it better. Seam Ricky Gervais got there first. The Guardian writes. He remains such a master craftsman that every complaint is always a clear component of a joke. He starts his hour on stage with a flourish, a mock confession about an AIDS test that flirts with the obvious, then pulls the rug out from under you.

He does the same as he applies philosophical routines about the fruitlessness of hope and the way God never ran is our prayers laughing Yet actually a lot of this goes down really well well a sold out crowd three stars out of five. One way you could support this program is you go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There are a couple bucks in the tip jar. I’ll tell you this morning at the National Donus chain, it was really warm and I was like, I wish I had brought my laptop.

I would have just worked out of here, Like it was really really warm. I’ve been so cold. I can’t take this gold anymore. Another thing you can do a different way to support the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. You click that banner it says uninterrupted listening, and then for five bucks a month you get this show and a bunch of others on the channel without commercial interruption.

There is a thirty day free try with that if you want to see what that’s like behind the scenes. I can auto publish the normal episode at three five am Eastern, which is what I usually do. I can’t auto publish the commercial free version, which drives me nuts, and I can’t do it until the regular version is up. So in reality, the commercial free version goes up usually around seven fifteen am in the morning. Believe me, I wish I could go up four hours earlier.

Drives me nuts. A comedian is facing a backlash and had some shows canceled after making a series of jokes about Renee Good during a set in Poughkeepsie. You may recall Renee Good was fatally shot in Minneapolis by Ice. Ben Bankis made some comments at the Laughing Up Comedy club inside Mahoney’s Irish Pub on the Poughkeepsie Waterfront. He did this on January tenth, just three days after Renee Good was fatally shot by Ice.

The quote from bankas, I’m going to read it without inflection. Her last name was Good. That’s what I said after they shot her in the face. He then went on to say he believed she should have been shot earlier and made a derogatory reference to her sexual orientation.

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And then from the recap, I’m seeing used a word that’s considered a slur agai…

A venue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, canceled six sold out performances by the comic after the comments. Bill Collins is the comedy club owner that said the cancelation were about ensuring the safety of the performer and the audience. He told the Saint Paul Pioneer Press that people threatened to boycott his venue and pick it outside the show. He told the newspaper, I’ve never had anything that happened like this before. It’s not the first time Bankus has had shows canceled over a controversial material.

This is the guy you may recall this story that had performances canceled in Canada after he joked about indigenous people and residential schools. Not my cup of tea, sir.

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Meanwhile, in Greenland, the capital of NUK has condemned as stunt by a Germa…

The German comedian attempted to raise an American flag in the capital city of Greenland. The mayor said Greenland is currently under intense international attention during a time of genuine anxiety and uncertainty for our population. In this situation, your choices, your jokes, and your methods are not harmless. They have consequences, real consequences for real people. The comedian Maxie Schaffroth had been filming in Nuok for his satirical program on a German public broadcaster.

He attempted to raise the US flag outside a cultural center, but was stopped by an employee. A spokesperson for nd R told Politico the editorial team is already apologized to several of those affected, as well as to local media, and has also sought to make contact with the mayor. Mister Shaffroth apologized to staff at the cultural center as well as to local media. Stephen Colbert was on Seth Myers. He told Seth’s seven viewers who would like the final guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to be the Pope?

The American Pope. And on Gossip Corner, Keenan Thompson’s former landlord says that Keenan Thompson may have broken the lease on an LA property. Keenan is being sued by the landlord for more than thirty four thousand dollars after allegedly terminating a year long lease on a rental property in LA. The Daily Mail says the documents suggests Thompson would still be responsible for rent until a tenant filled the vacancy. The lawsuit says that clause is consistent with California law.

The landlord claims he refused Thompson’s request to end the lease early, meaning Thompson would stuff to pay the rent. Monthly rent was ten h thousand, two hundred fifty dollars. A replacement tenant was found to reside at the place for the remaining nine months at eighty five hundred dollars a month, and some back and forth on money, including a late fee, a broke fee without legal fees. That is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow normal episode of three five am Eastern, and then at noon Eastern the results of Comedy Survivor, which, in my world I’m about to record.

I haven’t looked at it yet, don’t know who was voted off. I’m looking forward to finding out. So catch up with you guys tomorrow. Stay warm,