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Kalaroga, Shark Media, Outbits Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. This is Comedy Survivor, and I’m Johnny Mack. Many weeks ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island, and each week the listeners vote off one comedian by going to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. So far eliminated Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Joe Coy, Ron White, Jay Leno, Seth Myers, Jim Gaffigan, Burt Kreischer, Kevin Hart, and Tick Nataro still on the island.

One of these people will go home this week. John Mulaney, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Leslie Jones, Otsco at Kotzka. It’s time for one of their torches to be extinguished. I’ll tell you the votes. Aaron votes for s Bashton Maniscalco, Matt votes for John Mulaney, Richard votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, two votes for Sebastian, Barbe votes for Osco, at Cotska, Jeff votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, three votes for Sebastian, Roffey votes for Leslie Jones, Dylan votes for OTSCO at Cotska, two votes for OTSCO, Mary votes for Leslie Jones, two votes for Leslie Jones.

Mike votes for OTSCO at Cotka, three votes for OSCO, three votes for Sebastian, two for Leslie Jones. Lee votes for OTSCO at Cosca. Now with four votes, Michelle votes for John Mulaney, Von votes for OTSCO Cotska, Mike votes for Nikki Glaser, Lindsay votes for otsgo at Cotsga, Scott votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Cheryl votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. I have tally the votes and the AI has checked my work.

Sebastian Maniscalco with five votes from Aaron, Richard, Jeff Scott, and Cheryl. However, Sebastian is safe. Otsgo at Costco with six votes from Barb, Mike, Lee, Dylon, Yvonne, and Lindsay. The listeners have spoken. OTSCO oft Cotsga eliminated finally after several close calls, finally eliminated from Comedy Survivor.

Leslie Jones had three votes and continues to survive. We’ll take the break, We’ll come back and talk about what this means. Well, this one has been coming for weeks. Otsgo At voted off Comedy Island with six votes to Sebastian Maniscalco’s very surprising five. Do you guys not like Marcelo Hernandez’ impression?

Leslie Jones now the survivor we talk about. She gets a lot of votes and keeps hanging around. She had three, two for Malany, a couple single votes. The otsgo contingent has been pretty consistent, pretty organized. In this week, critical mass finally happened.

It was nice that we didn’t have a tie. We are now down to the final five and they are John Mulaney, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sarah Silverman quietly sailing along, Nikki Glaser, and Leslie Jones. Is Sebastian in trouble next week? Is Leslie Jones in trouble next week? Will some sort of out of nowhere Sarah Silverman vote happened?

It’s not up to me, It is up to you. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. There you will find a hopefully amusing comedy drawing of me and otsco at Cotska. In that Facebook thread, you vote somebody off Comedy Island again. Still on The Island, Mulaney, Sebastian, Sarah, Nikki, Leslie Jones.

You get one vote. Voting continues until end of day Thursday, Back in the morning with a normal episode,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, this should be fun. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves now, longtime listeners of this program, I don’t have to tell you that one time Joe Koy was hosting the Gold the Globes and told just the most horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. I’m not gonna play that one because we have a new candidate.

And the big question here today on a Monday, is Mark Norman’s career completely over because he told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. That’s right, Mark Norman was there on the Club Shayshay podcast with Shannon Sharp, and the discussion got into Travis Kelcey and the body types that Travis Kelcey has been into during his dating career. Now, I don’t want the Swifties to cancel me. Actually I kind of do. I could use the publicity.

I don’t want the Swifties to cancel me. So I’m gonna let Mark Norman speak for himself here. Let’s listen, because. We’ve seen his exes yes, compared to old surfboard buddy. I mean, this is not the besmirch the lady, but that’s quite a quite a jump in and type.

Yeah. Yeah, I only know that was his last girl. Now, I don’t know anybody that he dated before her, Kayla. But I think sometimes people like, oh he fumbled, he fumbled. I mean, if somebody makes you happy, er, is that a fumble?

No, not a fumble. But I wonder if he misses that fat ass. I think he, I think he. I think he do it. Okay, I think you do it.

I think she could get a BBL. No, that’s that’s that doesn’t fit. That doesn’t fit, that doesn’t feel what you got going on? Man? Now, if you’re curious, bb L is a Brazilian butt lift.

Now, you might not be familiar with the Brazilian but left. Fortunately, the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery has an f a Q webson. They tell us a Brazilian butt lift is a specialized fat transfer procedure that augments the size and shape of the buttocks without implants. Excess fat is removed from the hips, abdomen, lower back, or thighs with liposection and a portion of This fat is then strategically injected into the buttocks. A skilled cosmetic surgeon can improve the proportions of the entire lower body with Brazilian butt lift surgery, helping a patient lose fat and common quote unquote problem areas and enhance the buttocks, with results lasting many years.

There’s a before and after gallery in case you’re curious what this might look like. So the internet recaps say the Swifties have gone after Mark normand one person set on social media Shannon Sharp betraying his long friendship with Travis Kelce by disrespecting his fiance is disappointing and unexpected. They don’t make loyalty like they used to. My mother said, this is disappointing, Shannon, as Travis looks to you as a mentor and you’re over here monetizing as fiance’s name for clout. Take this down, be better.

Another asked, So we’re canceling this mofo, right, So we’ll see if Mark Norman is canceled and suddenly Joe Koy joking about the NFL. Not so bad there, Taylor, huh, 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 caliber shots that Taylor Swift.

I swear I have some thoughts about Mark Norman’s news special. I’ll do the quick version. Was really into it for like thirteen minutes, and then my brain fried because of the relentlessness of just one liner after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner after one liner. You get it, so I couldn’t. I was really thirteen minutes in my brain was like, please stop.

I’ve had that same experience at a Stephen Wright’s show. But I want to illustrate this. We’ve been discussing it a little bit in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, and I just want to discuss a little bit what I’m talking about, how a set needs to ebb and flow. And I’m not a comedian, you know that, but I was taught that by George Carlin’s manager. And if you listen to my interview with Pete Holmes, which probably three weeks ago now at this point, Pete agreed with the theory.

So we’ll get into that. I want to pull some clips and We’re really busy today, so we’ll try and get to that maybe on the weekend. A lot of news. All of a sudden, Josh Johnson is getting an HBO special. If I had a guess which streamer Josh would show up on, I don’t think I would have guessed HBO.

But this is pretty cool. The special title Josh Johnson Symphony, will premiere this spring. No date on it, but it is now officially Spring, so soon. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials. Nina observed Josh Johnson releases more comedy in a year than most people do in a career.

He tells stories with an incredible rhythm, and it makes the whole room feel like they’re listening to a friend. There’s a musicality to his work, and Symphony captures that perfectly say what she did there. She added, We’re so proud to bring Josh to HBO. Josh Johnson said, I’m excited to have my breakout peace be with a company that nurtures vision like HBO does. I’m grateful to them and you for watching.

Looking forward to that one, I’m not looking forward to be watching funny AF with Kevin Hart that’s going to be on Netflix. This is one of those stand up comedy competitions. Why I’m not excited about it is because the nature of such a competition when you put it on TV. A lot of these things in the past have had comedians who have had a minute of material and they get on there and then everybody goes, oh, so and so is really really funny. Hey John, how come you don’t play him on your show?

Zach we know talk about him, and then I have get to go because they have one minute of material. So I’m a little biased against these shows. Hopefully this one is a little better. A lot of names attached to this Funny AF with Kevin Hart. It’ll premiere April twenty f with four episodes on Netflix, and then episodes five and sixth of the week after that, and then two more episodes live May fourth and fifth.

What day of the week is that that means I’m gonna have to work? Please be the middle of the week May fourth and Monday Tuesday and the fifth eight Tuesday. Perfect. Thank you Kevin Hart for that, because Wednesday, by the time May roll’s around, Wednesday’s volleyball night. By the way.

I’m not kidding. I’m more or less in Morristown, New Jersey. If you are a female beach volleyball player, or a volleyball player, or just a female who would like to be on a beach volleyball team with a bunch of guys in their late fifties, hit me up. My email is in the show notes. We could use another player.

You don’t have to be good, you just have to come. Yeah, we play four on four and you always have to have one woman on the court. We’ve had this team for over a decade now and our female player is pretty good. She doesn’t always come. Then we have to bug somebody’s wife or I make my daughter play except my daughter’s way of college.

So we could use another player. I digress funny af with Kevin Hart on the premiere. Some big names these aren’t performers as a judges Keegan, Michael Key, Tom Segura, Kameil Nan, Gianni, Chelsea Handler, and Nikki Glaser. So this is, you know, this is the agents in Netflix. This is pulling out the stops because let’s rank these people out of Kevin Hart, Keagan, Michael Keat, Samsigora, Kamil Nan, Johnny Chelsea Handler, Nicky Glazer.

Who’s the sixth the biggest star there? Sigora right, and he’s selling out huge places. Maybe it’s Chelsea, maybe it’s Keegan, maybe it’s Nicky. But these are all pretty big names. A press release not attributed to any human.

It’s just a press release quote. Who said this quote? Why won’t they tell us? Do the AI rate this quote? A press release said, Kevin Hart knows what it takes to turn a mic and a dream and a comedy superstardom in funny af He’s searching for the next comedian ready to follow that path.

In this uncensored comedy competition, rising stand ups from across the country step into the spotlight, hoping to make the same leap Kevin once did, from grinding it out in small clubs to headlining their own specials. Along the way, Kevin and a circle of comedy heavyweights will decide who progresses in the competition, offering a behind the curtain look at the pressure triumphs an occasional bomb that shape a career in stand up. Theovon announced his comedy bus Boys, starring David Spade, will hit theaters nationwide April seventeenth, and we’re told, for the first time, two of comedy’s biggest names or skipping studios entirely to distribute their raunchy buddy comedy themselves. Your cast Theovon, David Spade, Tim Dillon, Bobby Lee, Jay Farrow, and Trevor Wallace runtime one hour, thirty three minutes of pure absurdist comedy gold. We are promised, Okay, then what happens?

Well? Theo and Spade co wrote this ridiculous buddy comedy about two hapless friends who believe becoming waiters will solve every problem in their lives. Cidber, There’s no chance the Yvon can act like at all right, there’s like zero chance that he’s a good actor, right like zero. Spade’s going to be Spade. There’s no chance.

All right, shut up, John, all right, We’re promised the dynamic between Theovon’s absurdist Louisiana Fried humor and David Spade’s sharp season comedy creates some thing totally fresh. What makes bus Boys revolutionary isn’t just the film itself. Listeners, Oh no, no, no, you see, Vaughn and Spade didn’t sell out to the studios or traditional distributors. No, they were like, hey, Paramount Warner Brothers, we don’t want your money. We’re going to do this ourselves.

We’re going to show them in And then the big movie studios were like no, no, here’s a lot of money, and THEO and Spade were like no, no, no, no, no no, we want to distribute this ourselves. That’s what happened. Everybody, You understand this that they all the studios been on this film and they’re like, no, we want to release it ourselves. That’s what happened. Stavros Halkia says joined the cast of Glenn Powell’s upcoming comedy movie about a country music star in free Fall.

Sources tell Variety Stavros will play the agents of Glenn Powell’s character. It’ll be directed by jud Appatol and premiere February fifth, twenty twenty seven. I’ve been on my soapbox lately about people who seem like outsiders or insiders, so you know, you might just look at Stavros Haukis and be like, no, he’s not one of those Hollywood insider types. He’s in a movie directed by Judd Apatow starring Glenn Powell he’s in the club. As George Carlin once said, there’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

Hey remember last summer when comedians played the Riod Comedy Festival, and like you know, they were just the worst people who ever lived, and everybody was all upset. Well, two of the comedians who play the Rood Comedy Festival, which, by the way, in my class Thursday, one of the students brought it up and he was not happy with comedians playing the Riod Comedy Festival. However, I hate to tell everyone, including my student, it has not affected anyone. Gabe Iglesias and Joe Cooy they both played Riod and on Saturday night they played a jam packed Sofi Stadium and got the big shiny piece in variety. Gabe was telling the tale as I’ve shared with you before, after selling out Dodger Stadium, I was kind of thinking to myself, what do we do now?

Are we done? Have we jumped the shark? Should we call it a day. I still feel young enough to keep doing stand up. I still feel relevant, but I don’t know that I could do something like this again.

He reportedly paid two hundred and fifty grand penalties and overtime fees for going over his time slot at Dodger Stadium with his curfew and stuff. So the question was, can I find something big to do? What’s gonna be the next big thing? Gabe suggested to Joe Coy that they do a show at Sofi Stadium, and now they have, Gabe said. Joe Coy was like, I don’t know, Gabe.

Gabe said, I’m like, oh, come on, how many sold out forums are gonna keep doing? He says in the end, I bullied Joekoy into doing it. Joe Coy, He’s told Variety. I lived in that area and I remember driving past the Forum and just thinking to myself, someday, but to be able to play so Fi. It’s the biggest venue in LA.

This is the most special moment of both of our careers. We went there two weeks ago to do a photo shoot and we hugged each other and said, Wow, this is crazy. So look, maybe Mark Norman told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift, but I think the moral of the first half of today’s episode is you can tell a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift and you can play the riodd comedy festival. It doesn’t affect your career at all. Coming up at nowon Eastern today it’s the results of Comedy Survivor.

I haven’t put that episode together yet, looking forward to see who everybody voted off. So come back at noon Eastern we’ll see who’s gone.

And then on the other side of that, go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy New…

You’ll find a cartoon drawing of me and whoever’s off, and then we’ll vote again. We’re starting to get down to it now. A different student in my class on Thursday, who wasn’t the student who mentioned the Riyod Comedy Festival. This was a different student. She is a big Chris Fleming fan.

She stayed after class to grab me and just had this look on her face. She was sad, and she said, Chris Fleming is mainstream now now. She told me this on Thursday before I said that quote unquote on the air on Friday’s podcast, and I was like, you know, I said the exact same thing on the show tomorrow when we had this conversation. So it’s interesting, Chris Fleming mainstream. This is fun.

Zach Allafanakis has announced a show for Netflix it’s called This is a Gardening Show. It’ll be out on Earth Day, which is April twenty second, with six fifteen to twenty minute episodes. It is described as a refreshing and whimsical take on gardening. Rather than positioning himself as an expert, Galvanakis approaches the subject with curiosity and self effacing humor, with the goal of learning alongside his audience and giving viewers valuable, accessible and educational tools to use in their own gardens. There is a trailer.

It’s a lot of fun. Let’s listen. Hello, what are those cameras? Okay? What do you want to talk about?

If I were to offer a remedy to the human condition, it would be a garden. Or acid. The way we get food is so perverse. Right now, I think it’s worth talking about it without sounding stupid. What is a tomato?

And what we’re leaving this next generation they may have to know this stuff. What’s your favorite fruit? Cal’s not a fruit? Can you look at me and go that’s fascinating, That’s fascinating. This is a food gardening show with your host, Zach Gaspa Vedaski.

Congrats to the guys at Mystery Science Theater at three thousand. The new, New, New, new, new, new revival of it. They did a kickstarter. They have raised two million, Wow, two million, six hundred and ninety eight and forty nine dollars from twenty and eighty nine backers, while not as much as raised by previous fundraising campaigns survived the show in recent years. The initial goal was to raise twenty thousand dollars to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Riff Tracks.

They are going to make new episodes, and we’re back to the not quite original cast, but at least like you know, not one of the derivative casts that we’ve seen in recent years. This version will star Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbette. They will return in their original roles for the four new episodes. And I think I’m gonna wrap it up there because I have duplicates.

I’ve got another Gabe story, I’ve got another Joe Coy story. But you only get one story day on Daily Comedy News. So that’s it. We’re going home. I’m al ready home.

I record the basement, you know what I mean. Come back at noon Comedy Survivor see then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hither, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Jay Leno was on Judd Apatow’s podcast and thanks Justin for sending this one in. They started to discuss the mount Rushmore of comedy. Always a fun topic, and I don’t know what to do with it because I think people have a recency bias and get a little crazy and it’ll be like we want to put somebody who’s currently performing up there, or like sometimes a shooting star.

You know, these things are hard and you only get four spots. So for me, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and two I don’t know’s, And on any given day I might give you a different answer. Carlin is undeniable, including if you listen to the very very late George Carlin material, which at the time was described by people like me as angry boy as it aged will George Carlin is somehow the great profit of the twenty first century, So he’s undeniable. And the other one who’s undeniable is Richard Pryor. There are plenty of disciples of Richard Pryor starting with Richard Pryor cover act Eddie Murphy, who I love.

But let’s just be real about it, and you can see Richard Pryor descendants to today’s comedy. Now, who you would put in the other two? I don’t know. Like so part of it is how do you define the genre? Is Johnny Carson doing a monologue four nights a week for thirty years?

Should he be in the list? Bob Hope for eighty years? And don’t judge Bob Hope by what he did in his eighties and nineties. Go back and watch the Young Hope. Should he be there?

Why aren’t there any women on the mountain? Okay? Should we put say, Joan Rivers up on the list? I don’t know, So Carlin Pryor, I don’t know. I don’t know.

But Jay Leno gave his list. And listen to the name he uses for comedian number one. I’ve never heard anyone called person this other than Jay Leno. Okay, My four would be, uh, Richie. He was Richie Pryor when I know now he’s Richard Pryor, But Richie Pryor.

He would go on the car. He was getting ready to do Live at the Sunset Strip, the first filmed comedy special for theaters, not HBO. And I followed him every night because you couldn’t follow Richie. And I realized I didn’t have an hour worth of material. I had maybe eighteen minutes.

But then I just realized, throw out everything that doesn’t get a laugh. All right, Richard pryor Jay Lenno and I are aligned there. Let’s see who Jay Leno had as number two. To Robert Klin, Because you have to understand, prior to Robert Klein, most comedians were men in their thirties or forties that grew up during the Depression that kids today with these hippies with the long hair, that was all that kind of stuff. Suddenly here was Robert Klein, middle class guy talking about things I would talk about with my friends because I couldn’t do Depression era stuff or make fun of the music today because that was my generation.

Interesting pick. I think Robert Klein has been largely forgotten. His name never comes up. Very very interesting, all right. At number three, Jay Leno, who do you have next to me?

Bob Newhart? He was the close up magician of comedy, you know, new Heart had the great It was like a slider, like an inside fastball. He had a bit about the first astronaut to have extraterrestrial communication. So it comes down from you know, the thing lands, and of course he’s the first. So all the presses are asking him questions, and our porta says, how far ahead of us are these aliens?

And he says about six weeks, and you know it’s two weeks is too soon. Six months is too far ahead head, but six you cannot catch up, you know, it’s finding the right turn of six weeks is exactly rot. Not crazy again as time marches on mentioned a little less and less, a unique voice, one of the greats, Rushmore. And that’s another thing, all right, Jay, who do you have for number four? And across Rodney Danefield, Rodney Dangeville was the economy of words.

He could get to the joke quicker, I knew Rodney for forty years. I have no idea if he’s a Democrat or republic. We never discussied. It was just jokes. It was it was the you know, like the joke.

About one after another, the idea that my doctor said, I need a stool sample, a semen sample, and a urine sample, and I gave my underpants. That’s an interesting take by Jay Leno. Not sure I agree. Again, I won’t throw I want to say rocks and throwing rocks in the mountain. I won’t throw rocks at any of these picks.

But I don’t know Lynn pryor, I don’t know the conversation did go on. Jay Leno said, if he had a fifth pick, it would be George Carlin and I had. I don’t know when I even saw this story, but I’ve just been sitting on it for an episode like today. Back at twenty fourteen, Jay Leno was on Craig Ferguson show. I don’t remember that happening, but I believe everybody, and Craig asked Jay Leno if Jay’s mind ever drifted when one of the guests was not all that interesting.

Jay said, the classic examples I had on one of these reality stars, Trista, who apparently is Trista Sutter. Jay said, from one of those bachelorettes, and I’m looking at the side of her head. I couldn’t be less interested. I’ve never seen this stupid reality show. You know what it was?

And Jay said, to make it worse, Jay says he wraps up the show, he leaves. I go out on the parking lot. There’s a woman standing next to me with a boyfriend. She says, can I have a picture? And I go sure.

How you doing? She says good? And Jay asked her what’s your name? It was like just the interviewed on the Tonight show. That’s amazing.

Kevin Nealan was on Icon versus Icon. He said, I learned from so many comments. I bartended the improv so I was there all the time, and I’d see these comics come that I really enjoyed and was a fan of every night to watch them perform and take it all in. That’s how I learned by watching, and I loved it. It never even felt like work to me.

There were comics like Jay Leno and Richard Lewis, so I watched closely. Andy Kaufman was a huge influence on me because he was so unique, so different, and so interesting. He played so much with the audience’s mind, leading him in one direction, leaving people in sure of what he was doing, and really pushing boundaries. I also watched Seinfeld perform because we came up around the same time. More or less good advice from Kevin Neelan about the comedy industry.

It’s a business. You can’t take things personally. I learned that a long time ago, and things don’t really affect me that much anymore. Even think in regular life, I’m not easily shaken. I don’t want to say I’m dead inside, because I’m not.

But I’ve gotten used to a lot of rejection and disappointment, especially in the early stages. More from that Forbes conversation between Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Perghancy. Jerry Seinfeld was curious, what’s it like touring for you these days in terms of workload. Nate said, it’s like a gym. It’s a muscle.

You got to stay on top of it. When you don’t go out for two weeks and then you get on stage and you’re like, rough, I’m awful. Jerry was like, what about when your wife wants to go on vacation. Nate said he’ll try and pop in somewhere to do one show to stay fresh. Jerry said, it’s funny how fast it goes.

I find not only can you not remember lines, but I louse your nerve the you should be even be doing this who am I talking to in front of all these people? Wow? Jerry Seinfeldt thinking that, Nate said, Yeah, there’s a thing in your head that goes like, who do you think you are? You out to your mind? Nate continued, I had to work on my own mind wandering.

I had to work on pulling my mind back to the story, the joke I was telling. Every time i’m telling it, I visualize it. I love it so much. And you’re in front of a different crowd every night. Because I’m in the round, I’ll pick like four people.

It might be an older lady, could be a family further back, a woman with her husband. You keep an eye on them. It’s a good way to keep a gauge, like, is it too harsh? You’re picking four people to do the show for weirdly enough instead of a mass. Nate said, I like stand up in the arenas.

It’s really pushing stand up to this higher level. I’ve got big screens, a sound system. It’s like watching a live special. It’s about the community and everybody laughing. You want to give them a full show.

When they all leave, hopefully they’re very happy. Rob Riggle spoke with Clutch points. Rob said, Getting on Saturday Night Live was a dream come true with something I’d worked for for a long long time, and when it finally happened, it was hard to process.

And then being on the stage when they roll credits, and I’ve watched it in my…

To be on that stage looking back out to where the audience and in the cameras, it was surreal. Being on the Daily Show. Getting that job was a great, great moment. Get to do movies with people that I admire, get to do scenes with Tom Hanks or people you just love their work and appreciate them so much, and then you find yourself in a scene with them. I’ve worked with Rob, I think twice.

I found out to be super, super awesome in person. What a great guy. Rob wrote a book, Grit, Spits and Never Quit. He explained, you get to a point where you tell enough stories and people go, hey, you should write a book, and you go all right, and you hear that enough times you’re like, all right, maybe I should, And then I write down my goals every year at the beginning of the year. So I wrote down, I’m going to write a book, but it was the one goal that didn get accomplished.

It just kept rolling and rolling over until finally I was ashamed of myself and I said write the book, and so I did. Took two years, and he explains, you got to remember now, it’s not just like I locked myself in a log cabin and sat down a road. It’s not how it works. I gotta go out there or eat what I kill. I’m out there for work every day, and if I get to show you get a movie, I gotta do that, and then everything gets put on hold.

So it takes time to grind out a book. And Russell Peters told a fun story about NBA star Blake Griffin. Blake Griffin has dabbled with comedy. Russell runs into Blake Griffin and goes, hey, I’m a big fan. What are you doing here?

Blake Griffin goes, I’m trying comedy. Russell goes, really, but you’re a basketball player. Blake goes yeah. Russell says, well, what are you because you got red hair? Blake says, I’m mixed.

Russell, where’d you grow up? I think you grew up in Milwaukee or something. Oklahoma. Gotta suck being a big half black kid with red hair in Oklahoma, No wonder you’re good at it? And his face is like, what the F Russell says?

I’m like, anyway, good luck, stupid, That’s just how I am. So fast forward in time, Russell Peters is court side at the Raptors game Blake Griffin playing for Detroit. Russell Hills out Blake Blake, and Blake Griffin turns sees Russell Peters and he goes, ah, ef you, And that’s your Comedy’s for Today’s Tomorrow

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. This one from a while back. I pre taped today to accommodate my schedule how to do some stuff. Yesterday, Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bergatzi had spoken to poll Star, but let’s pick away at this Nate talked about how he’s been finding comedians.

He said, I’ve done every show you could possibly do. I’ve done Bowling Alleys to Arenas. We have a YouTube page where we have the showcase and they’re doing ten minutes, and we try to shoot some half hours with comics doing an hour and try to give them a path. As someone pops, they pop. I’ve been going after a lot of older comedians.

They could be my age or whatever, but they have the chops and the experience to be able to create this material. One in particular is Greg Warren, very funny comedian. He’s been doing comedy for thirty years. I brought him in. He’s come with me.

We were in Kansas City and he got a date at the Comedy Club of Kansas City. Two months later, we do two shows in the arena there. Out of doing ten minutes on two of the arena shows, they added fourteen shows. That’s just from him doing ten minutes. But he murdered so hard we had another one.

Derek Stroop did nine. Derek Stroop recently out on Netflix is fantastic. Jerry Seinfeld said, what’s changed in the past twenty years for comedians. It’s like a destination. We’re gonna go see this comedian.

This is an important thing for us to do. What changed, Nate said, A good beginning was your Comedian documentary. I come from that. We watched you build a new set. I’d never seen an inside look like that, especially for someone like me who’s not from New York.

I was already trying to do comedy and seeing it, but I wasn’t seeing someone that was you go and not get laughs at Gotham or wherever, and you run around to the clubs and you work on this thing. You started it. Essentially, it was a large group of people around my age that kind of made it, and like, all right, we want to go do this. I want to be a stand up comedian. After that, comics weren’t getting sitcoms anymore.

That route was shut down. Now you’re just gonna do stand up. Then he had all rooms open up and it started to expand. Another one was Dane Cook when he did tour Gasm and was doing arenas on HBO. He was the biggest comic on the planet, Like that’s dude’s a rockstar from just being a comedian.

Then you had your Jim Gaffigan Sebastian. You had comics having full careers and doing big arenas, big things and stand up. Brian Reagan’s another never did stuff in the Hollywood world was a comedian that got big and Netflix was a part of that. Comedy Central was a giant part of that as well. You Jerry said something about what hurt sitcoms?

What was going to be funnier than the standup comedian? You can’t make a movie I have as much laughs as stand up. To that, Jerry said, it seemed like those forums deteriorated. The reason was that someone has to prove each thing in the movie or TV show, Where a stand up we just go right to them and say what do you think of this? Having a third party make a decision was an obstruction of being funny.

That was one of the reasons my show did well in the nineties. It was Larry David and I and nobody said anything to us. We just did what we wanted and there was no network involvement really at all. Mark Maren caught up with Consequence of Sound and they discussed how Maren works politics in and Maarn said, I didn’t make a statement. I made a joke, That’s what I do.

An example of that was his comments about the Riod Comedy Festival, in which Maren said, how do you promote that for the people that brought you nine to eleven? Maren said, I made a joke about it, and I guess the joke had some residents and kind of sparked a more culturally active look at the participants in that festival. Consequence writes on this subject, his voice dips with contempt. Maren said, it’s about money, dude. It’s really about can you rationalize taking that money?

And most people can because that’s the world we live in. And I’m not even on any kind of high horse. I get it. Hey, all money’s crappy. Maren clarifies there is no dollar amount that would have enticed him to Riodd.

He also does not buy the argument that those comedians were spreading Western values. Maren said, autocratic countries that become culturally westernized. I don’t think it ever changes the politics of those countries. It just does what it does here, creates more distraction the sense of freedom of choice because when you have a few different restaurants and a few different places you can go online adopting Western culture. It’s not helping us right now.

Maren continued. If you can rationalize taking the money and live with that, that’s how this world works. You know, our president, who’s supposed to be an example of something American, might be the most American president we’ve had in years, who knows. Get away with what you can get away with. Get all the money, you can double down on anything.

Don’t take responsibility or apologize for anything. Jessica Kerson was one of the comedians who played the Riant Comedy Festival. She caught up with Pride Source. They did not talk about said festival. They talked about touring, and Jessica Curson said, you can’t make a living from the internet.

It helps, but it’s more that a lot of us put up videos to build an audience. We can perform four on the road because people follow you. They look at your schedule, they look at way you’re performing. Plus I’ve been doing live stand up. I just started my twenty seventh year, and online is not the same, you know, because you don’t have the audience reaction.

Now that I’m performing for a thousand people each time, it’s very different from the years and years of just doing it and hoping that an audience shows up. The demand is there now. The traveling is very hard, the planes and the hotels and all that stuff, but the shows are amazing, so when you get there it’s all right, But on the way it’s a lot. They were curious how the bit where Jessica turns away from the audience to share her internal monologue evolved. Jessica said, I just did it on stage one night.

I don’t even remember where it was or when. For a long time it didn’t work. People were like, this woman has a metal disorder. Until I realized it was a save line. I had to do it when a joke didn’t go over well or when there was awkward silence.

Then the response was so positive. I kept doing it. From the La Times in Los Angeles, Miracle Mile neighborhood flanked by the Libreat tarpits, The La County Museum of Art and a Diner is a dense concentration of charming Art Deco and Spanish Mediterranean style apartment buildings. And on the corner of Fourth and Cochrane you’ll find a plaque. Strapped to a street sign.

You’ll find a golden plaque commemorating Conan O’Brien’s time living on Cochrane. The plaque features Conan’s face as a bronze bust, with a short description of his life there before he became an Oscar’s host. It is not official. It was created by the Cochrane Committee of Conan Connoisseurs. I guess they’re the CZ which we’re told is actually just one guy who lives on Cochran Avenue, occasionally listens to Conan’s podcast, has a free time, and no real authority to put up a monument.

But did it Anyway. We know all this because it says that on the inscription I love everything about this story. So who is the Cochrane Committee of Conan Connoisseurs. Well, it’s Tim Hammill. He’s the entire committee.

He wanted people to know that Conan O’Brien used to live on that block in the nineteen eighties. The plaque riffs on the Baseball Hall of Fame plaques and the cream colored California historical signs. The CCCC explains, I wanted something that would look like a plaque from far away that would catch people’s attention, make them want to come over and read it. He then had it to Staples, printed out a large, sturdy poster and fastened it to the stop sign on his block. In describing Conan O’Brien’s time on Cochrane, the plaque reads, it was a time of struggle, ingenuity, and questionable mayonnaise based decisions.

From these humble beginnings, the street witness the rise of a comedy icon. May the monument quote a poster affixed with zipsies inspire Cochrane Avenue residents to chase their dreams, embrace the originality in one day upgrade to a home with more than one bathroom. Maria Bamford was on the Last Laugh podcast. They pointed out that Netflix CEO Ted Sorrando said her show Lady Dynamite is the best original series the streamer has ever released. Bamford said that clearly isn’t true.

There is no best, there is no worse. There’s just a bunch of people out there doing a craft and doing it beautifully in all sorts of ways. We are reminded that last year bill Board ranked Maria Bamford the ninth best comedian of the twenty first century, which is of course crazy talk. There’s an episode somewhere in the December feet if you want to hear me comment about that. Nothing against Maria Bamford, but seems a little high.

Can we talk about that list.

Let’s talk about that list.

Where’s that list? Let me pull that up for us. I won’t spend a lot of time on this, but looking at their list. One Dave Chappelle, of course. Two Chris Rock fine, pick three c K even though he’s canceled.

Fine, pick for Mulaney, sure fine. Five Bill Burr. Bill Burr had a good twenty four years before losing it last year. Jerry Seinfeld. You know, you might think of him as more of a twentieth century comedian, but if you’ve seen him in the twenty first century, can’t argue with that.

Kevin Art at seven, Norm McDonald at eight. I don’t want to debate. Norm MacDonald today, that’s fine. Bamford is the nine. Robin Williams at ten is he a twentieth century comedian or twenty first?

See I don’t like that pick either. Sebastian at eleven is just insane. Nay to twelve is way too high. Sandler at thirtie we’ve discussed this. Attel at fourteen is criminally underrated.

Hepburg at fifteen love Hebburg. But it’s two albums or three if you want to count the posthumous one and out. But okay, love Hebburg. If you listen to the show, you know I love Hebburg. Gervais at sixteen, Wanda Sykes at seventeen is a little crazy to me eighteen Patrese O’Neil.

You’ve heard me speak. I did not like the man, so I’m biased. Ali Wong at nineteen, Sarah Silverman at twenty seems high, Gabe Iglesias at twenty one, gaff Again at twenty two. He might not call you back, but it seems really really underrated. Trevor Noah twenty three, Billy Connolly at twenty four, and John Stewart at twenty five.

And I respect John Stewart a lot, but I’m not sure he’s in the same category in terms of stand up. I know he tours whatever. Alright, so back to Bamford, who’s number nine on that list, She said of the list, it’s just a trend and clearly not true. She suggested other women like Nikki Glaser and Kathy Griffin should be on the list as well, but she did repost it. She said, Oh no, I retweeted it just to be clear if the propaganda has been reposted.

Shang Wang, one of my favorite current comedians, finds the most ordinary of things to be funny. He said, it’s about taking a step back and look at the world as if you’re an alien, meaning you’re not taking any of it for granted, you’re just an aw of what this thing is. But I’m also taking a step in and looking closely at what it appears to be. Some of his inspirations photographers William Eggleston and Elliott Erwitz stay with me. Shehangwan explains.

Eggleston would take pictures of a tricycle but from a very low angle, and Elliott Erwit was catching interesting and funny little moments when things in life just lined up like melon’s on a stand that looks like a lady’s boobs. Wang tries to work clean, explaining the reason that I don’t really use profanity is because I want to find the most unique and specific way to say what I’m trying to say. I think part of my comedy is to remind people that were human and were not separate from nature. I think it’s important for us to pay attention to and appreciate the flora and fauna and how the ecosystems work. In the past, I’ve done a kind of comedy show with pictures of plants that I’ve taken.

I might go back to doing some ver Know that and that is your comedy news for today. Catch it tomorrow.

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Callaroga, shock media. Point, or it’s just flying by. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. As sentience.

You think I could remember after saying it every day for two months and twenty days, but I can’t, But the algorithms love it. The you guys at the Are You Garbage? Podcast? They’re taping a live version of their podcast in Tampa, Florida today and tomorrow, so that would be two versions unless they’re going to edit it together. Don’t do that case you’re not familiar.

Are You Garbage is where your favorite comedians find out if the comedian grew up classy or if they’re a big old piece of trash. No, I love this questions, the host asked the guests resemble the following questions, so none of us are saying these are the actual questions. The questions resemble these totally hypothetical questions, which could be sort of like, but not exactly. Has anyone in your family ever represented themselves in court? Have you ever owned a snake, lizard, or bird?

Anyone in your family have an above ground pool? Have you ever given yourself a haircut. I think we all did. During the pandemic. I grew it out at one point I had to grab the razor.

Ever sat through a Timeshare pitch, I have have you been on a cruise in the last th round of sixty five days? Hm? Last three sixty five? No? I did go to Antarctica about four hundred sixty five days ago.

Does that count? Now? Why are they taping in Florida? I think we know, guys, you don’t have to answer this question. Tampa has some of the best comedy crowds around.

They could be a little rough and tumble, but it’s the right mix of blue collar, assault of the earth and trash all mixed into one, which makes it perfect for the AYG live shows. Now, these guys, this is amazing. Like I see them. They’re regularly top podcast charts. But I didn’t know this until I started reading you the podcast.

Their Patreon has twenty two thousand subscribers. Okay, nice big number, bringing in an estimated one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a month. Wow, multiply that by twelve and then split it by two and pay your manager and taxes and stuff. But wow, Guests on the pod have included Shane Gillis, Lean Morgan Napergetzi, Tom Sigora, Tim Dillon, Jim Gaffigan, and Bert Kraser, whose name seems to show up in every single story. Lately.

HBO announced Day special with Julio Torres. Now, I need you to pay attention. Okay, pay attention. I’m going to play you the trailer. I need you to pay attention.

What are we paying attention to? Johnny Mack, you are paying attention to the laughs on this one. I cannot believe this got handed in. I personally believe no proof, just an opinion. Someone grabbed the CD with fake laugh track cut three and just splice it onto this trailer a million times.

I can’t believe it. Listen to this, pay attention to the laugh, and you tell me that’s not a fake laugh. This is awful. When I say that something is a color, I don’t mean that literally. Like if I say purple is the color of mystery, Like objets in the mirror, maybe close than they appear.

Purple. It’s different than lilac. Lilac is being a moment, Purple is being a stepmother. Hurry, you have to move on. Anyway, Navy blue is the color of law and order.

It’s the color of airports. It’s the airport’s way of saying, whatever, your deal. Is not here. And red is rage. Now, have you ever met someone who.

Is so red but they are squeeze? It’s been a navy blue packaging. That’s a real housewife. I am obviously creating a rubric for young people to see the world using colors. Age is what millennials have become.

It’s scared, but it’s gonna try. And black is what you don’t know. White is what you do know. That is white. Doctors were white because it’s their way of saying, I know.

Fusia is no one’s writing anything down. In the event that your favorite color is mentioned, please celebrate quietly to your. Selling horrible production aside. Color Theories will premiere one week from tonight at eight East and West on HBO Max whatever we’re calling it today. You know that thing where you find John Oliver and the Dragon shows that one.

Now, I will describe this as quirky, much like Chris Fleming, much like Sarah Sherman. Is the Friday night HBO’s slot where we’re putting the quirky comedy. It appears so coming off an off Broadway run. With the show, Julio Torre’s Color Theories offers a guide to understand the world. There is playful interpretation of colors, horrible production aside.

I liked the underlying material. I just don’t know why somebody added laugh track number three fifty times. Taking the stage of New York City as an expert on the inherent traits of particular colors, the comedian explores the nuances of rule based navy blue to the rage of red through observations from his life and culture at large. Blending stand up with other media, the special advices to see the people, places, and things around us through Julio’s kaleidoscopic eyes. Is it kaleidoscopic or kaleidoscopic?

It’s kaleidiskopic, isn’t it. I don’t know. That’s why I’m asking you. Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group, Kaleida’s scopic. Who’s the guy that corrected me about the fish?

Fish guy? Let me know how you say that is kaleidoscopic? I don’t know. On your television in the United Kingdom tomorrow, it’s Saturday Night Live UK. Your guest host is Tina Fey.

They put out a trailer. I like the trailer a lot. In the trailer, Tina Fey is dressed as Mary Poppins, and believe you me, I wouldn’t have said this ten minutes ago. Tina Fey makes a fantastic Mary Poppins, like perfect, looks great and her fake accent that you’re about to hear better than what Dick Van Dyke did. Anybody want to put on a production of Mary Poppins starring Tina Fey, you’ll watch anyway.

I like this trailer a lot, and it’s a little lengthy. I’m gonna let it run. But here’s a Tina fe promoting SNL UK. So this is it, guys, the countdown to Saturday Night Live UK. Now, you just need to figure out a way to let everyone know.

The first live show is on Sky one at ten pm on Saturday twenty first. Of March and can also be streamed on now TV. If you’re too busy getting laid, how can we possibly communicate that to people? We’ll just find a way to pop in. Did someone say Poppins?

She’s rue. The other round. Children Nanny is here with everything you need for a practically perfect. You know what, I’m gonna drop the voice. I’ve got everything you need for your first ever snl UK’s lows.

Yeah, sure, wings make the character’s nice. Oh crown in case you guys want to do royal stuff. Oh a really long shoe that could be funny. Oh, I’ve got your lunch jack el pie with extra eel. Oh, Tina, thank you so much.

We’re not in them. We’re just going to do jokes about them. Hey, Tina, we love that you’re here, but we’re just trying to figure out how to promote the show. Oh no course, why do you think I brought this? I’m Tina Fey and I’m hosting SnO UK this week?

Why because I thought it would get me dual citizenship. It did not. Hang on, is that why you asked us all to marry you. Wish me up? Yes, it really hurts my crutch.

Goodbye. Watch your head now. In that trailer, they were trying to get people in the UK to you watch it. You’re more likely listening in the United States. Should we look up the stats?

I could tell you I like stats. Let’s see, let’s do last thirty days geolocation. There’s a fifty six percent chance you’re listening to me the United States. There’s a nine and a half percent chance you’re listening in Australia. Australians say, Hi, I want to hear from you.

Guys. Eight and a half percent of you are from Canada and probably named Mike, and there are eight percent of you in the UK. So this entire story you’ve been doing for four minutes now, John is targeted eight percent of the audience. No, no, no, no, no, My friends people in the United States can also watch this. SNL UK will be on Peacock starting on Sunday, say Mark Norman told Fox News.

The social media algorithm is ruining everything. Mark said, people are seeing two completely different realities. So I could tell people are sitting in the audience like what is he? Is he right? Is he left?

What’s going on here? I can’t laugh because I don’t know where he’s at. And I think that’s horrible for comedy. When I was a teenager that goes straight or gay, but now it’s right or left, and I like to keep them both in the dark. We’re told by Fox News to reassure his audience that he’s on their side.

Mark Norman issues a disclaimer between bits at the start of his special. That disclaimer says, I should warn you guys. I will say some horrific stuff up here, but it’s all jokes, just fun, Norman told Fox News Digital people can get triggered by the very mention of a subject before it’s even clear where a joke is headed. So I wish people would just listen, and I have to give them the disclaimer, like I’m gonna talk about these triggering things, but it’s all above bored, it’s all silly. It’s always humor.

Mark continued, I hate that everything’s political and it’s not like it used to be. Political talk used to be boring and for nerds, hey hey, hey no no no no, no, no, no, no no. Johnny Mack produced a lot of political talk radio in the nineties. It was not boring, and I was not a nerd. Might be a nerd now, but it was not boring and I was not a nerd.

It was a lot of fun. Mark Norman said, you know there’s some guy like, can you believe what’s going on in Kusovo? And you’re like, shut up, you dork. We’re trying to have a drink. But now it’s front and center.

It’s big part of the culture. So I just want to be a comedian, you know, I don’t want to be a pundit, but I do feel like if you pick aside, your career goes better. Tim Dillon, I know he didn’t say Tim Dillon. I misread that. Sorry and Shell.

No, No, it doesn’t say and Shell’s either. Sorry. I did my script jumped. I’m trying to read here, and I was scrolling down and I thought, it’s that Andrewscheltz doesn’t That was just ignore all that. Some other things he talked about late night TV late nights aren’t what they used to be.

No offense. He doesn’t like predictable jokes. He says. I think what bothers me from a comedian standpoint is they’re all telling the same joke. It’s like the same Trump jokes over and over.

I don’t care if you’re bashed Trump, but be original. So I think that late night maybe another reason it’s dying no offense boy, A lot of no offense here is because people want that authentic experience. I think now crowd work clip, you know, just calling a fat guy, it has way more views than a fallon clip. Sadly, the world has slipped on that one point eighty completely. Norman talked about his podcasts, which are just entertainment.

He says, I don’t want to be saving the world. I don’t want to be an activist. I don’t want to give tips on comedy or comedy lecture. It’s just full of jokes, what’s on the news, what’s going on in the world, and just silliness and levity. Keep it light.

Eight amen, brother, Oh we are longed here. M I timewise. I want to bump this one, but I know where I’m heading on comedy stock market because so I kind of have to do this one. The New York Times, did you hear me? I said that?

The New York Times, The Times of New York. The New York Times has an article titled who designed Chris Fleming’s purple bodysuit? We’re told Chris Fleming’s purple jumpsuit with its removable sleeves. It’s made from a high end Scoopa fabric that not only stretches, but is also durable enough to be put in a washing machine. When the comedian Chris Fleming, I like how they says when the comedian Chris Filming, and not when comedian Chris Fleming or when Chris Fleming.

When the comedian Chris Fleming interesting first met with the designer and stylist Anthony Sartino, he brought a couple of reference photos Patrick Swayze, the mouse King from The Nutcracker, a feather squatted Elton John and Michael Flatley from Riverdance. Mister Sartino’s reaction he said, oh, no, no, no, no, that’s not what I had in mind at all. Fleming said, I kind of have a rule about no jumpsuits, but Sartino persisted. Sartino explained, I like to do my research. He’s stumbling all over, he’s running, and I’m thinking, okay, four way stretch jumpsuit.

The jumpsuit is fitted through the body with a wide band at the waist like a discrete compermund and a high collar. There are glitterally embellishments at the small the back, and then on the cuffs of the sleeves, which zip off at the shoulder. The removable sleeves allow mister Fleming to perform what he refers to as a prudes burlesque, while also preventing him from overheating on stage. The color and eggplant purple is also intentional. It stands out against the crimson red of the curtains behind mister Fleming at the Canillac Palace theater where the special was taped.

Purple also evokes the musician Prince, and for good reason. From twenty three to twenty thirteen, Certino worked with Prince, helping to create Prince a suit for the Super Bowl halftime in two thousand and seven. In fact, it was all that that prompted Chris Fleming. Sorry, mister Fleming, this is at the Times of New York again. Mister Fleming, who describes himself as a massive Prince fan, to reach out to the designer via Instagram DM.

Mister Fleming said, the way Prince wears clothes, it’s just astonishing. He described Prince’s look as being quitt, essentially stadium rock, but also something you could see him sitting cross legged, not a chase lounge wearing. Oh we are going so long here, but I have to do this. There’s more, by the way, You know how all week I’ve been on my soapbox about everybody’s an insider, right right, Nikki Glaser, Robbie Hoffman, you would think Robbie Hoffins an outsider. No, not at all.

Robbie Hoffins at the Vanity Fair Oscars party. Well, apparently, I just want to remind you. Right now, I’m reading you from an article in The New York Times about Chris Flemings design, and we’re not done yet. Chris Fleming insider. Everybody’s an insider.

No one’s an outsider. The New York Times tells us, no matter where mister Fleming is, mister Sartino makes sure the entire matches the situation for mister Flemings headlining performance at Carnegie Hall. Sartino design would Fleming referred to as bird Armor, a black feathery bolero that’s for a crispy tailored white shirt based on the photo of Elton John that mister Fleming showed him during that first meeting. Fleming said, Honestly, you walk out there and you have the same feeling of unease that you feel at a really wealthy person’s holiday party. And Tony knew that I was thinking I was going to take that bird Armor off, but I needed the whole time to make it through that gladiator fight of performing at Carnegie Hall again.

Let me ask you, have you ever been to a really wealthy person’s holiday party. I’m thinking about it, a really wealthy person’s holiday party. I don’t think I have been. The only comp that comes to mind is I’ve been to Joan River’s apartment on Fifth Avenue. That was pretty nice.

Joan made some iced tea for me. I found myself in Las Vegas one year at a porn star’s party, which that’s a whole story in itself, and the party a lot more boring than you to think. Not that I was looking for excitement, but you know, if you’re like, oh, was there all like sex and drugs and booze? No, it’s just people standing around like any other party. In case you’re a newer listener, I live clean, so I wasn’t looked for sex or drugs or booze.

I’ll have a beer, maybe two trivia. That’s about it. Johnny mclis clean. I digress. How long is this article?

Yeah? I’m kind of done with this, but you know I can’t. I can’t wrap up with me just going how long is this article?

And then there’s break?

So I got to give one more quote. Chris Lemming said, I feel like I’m stepping into something and accepting something about visibility, and my relationship with Tony couldn’t have come at a better time. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Burt Reynolds. Comedy stock Market every Friday. What we do is we take a look at where the value is.

So we’re not saying someone’s good, we’re not saying someone’s bad. We’re looking at where the value is. Like a stock. Like you know, there was a time where you probably wish he had bought bitcoin, and now there’s a time you wish you had sold your bitcoin like that, but different Heloton, that’s another example, you know, that kind of thing. So where is the value in comedy?

Before I get into the stock picks per se, I’ve been wondering all week if you guys, I just think I’m in a mood. I’m actually in a great mood, but I do feel like I’ve been a little punchy this week and it’s coming out on the air as they say, I don’t know, feeling my oats, being a little uncensored. On the Substack, I took a shot at Travis Kelcey. That was a smart thing to do. The Substack is my free newsletter about the media.

You’ll find that in the show notes. Sorry, Comedy stock Market, I got some cells this week we’re gonna sell, all right. First one we’re gonna sell is Chris Fleming. John, you’ve been all about Chris Fleming. I know, but this is about value.

My friends. I’m still all about Chris Fleming. But listen to me. Hear me out, Okay, stay with me here. Love Chris Fleming.

Chris Fleming hilarious. But it was cool when it was weird. Now Chris Fleming is establishment. Chris Fleming is being profiled about his fashion in the New York Times. That’s not cool anymore.

Now that’s whatever the opposite of cool is. It’s like when you go you know, when you went to see your favorite band in the village, it was cool, and then one day they’re playing the football New Jersey. It’s not as cool. So we can love them, but it’s time to sell Chris Fleming while the value is high. While the casuals are reading about his purple print suits in the New York Times.

We got to sell our Chris Fleming cash out. We did good money this last month. But that’s the comedy stock market again. We love Chris Fleming. But we’ve peaked value, cash out sell your Chris Fleming got another sell for you, Burt Kreischer.

Now here’s why I study this stuff. I read the tea leaves. I see which way people are trending. Here’s what you probably don’t know. On opening Day, when baseball is on Netflix, you know who they’re gonna have on their coverage, Burt Krescher.

I understand why Netflix likes that idea. I understand totally why Burt Krascher likes that idea. I think there’s a version of Burt Krescher that would be very happy just being Pat McAfee. But all that adds up to me thinking people are going to tune in to watch the baseball game and finding Burt Krescher really annoying. I just feel like Burt every now and then I feel like it can needs to just disappear for a while, and I feel like Burt needs to just like disappear for wat.

It’s a little too much. Bert, love you, but it’s a little too much. We’re gonna sell our Burt Kreischer. All right, Johnny Mack, you’re so negative. Don’t you want us to buy anything?

Yes, let’s buy even more Pete Holmes because see, because I actually paid the ten dollars to watch the special and talk to Pete Homes three weeks ago when I forgot that, everybody else is waiting for the YouTube drop, which is on Tuesday the twenty fourth, which means we’re probably gonna see more Pete Holmes press and then people are gonna be like, wow, I really like Pete Holmes, and they’re gonna remember how much we all love Pete Homes and Pete Holmes is fantastic, and please listen to the interview on this program. I guess it’s two Saturdays ago at this point, maybe three, but you know the episode’s titled Pete Holmes. You’ll find it. So I feel like people are gonna be like, oh, yeah, Pete Holmes love them. So let’s buy some Pete Holmes.

Let’s buy some Mark Normand I saw Dylan in the Facebook group as that special as is number one if I read correctly, really quickly, So yeah, we’ll buy some Mark Norman and let’s buy some snl Uk. I feel like they’re gonna nail it well now in forty eight hours, all right, So that’s the Rex this week. Sell Chris Fleming, Sellberg Kreischer, Buy snl UK, buy Mark normand by Pete Holmes at your Comedy stock Market. Carol Leafer is sticking up for dogs. Here’s what happened.

The American Kennel Club announced the most popular dog breeds of twenty twenty five, which put French bulldogs at number one for the fourth year in a row. Here’s the issue. Carol doesn’t like The American Kennel Club is promoting a breathing impaired breed. She did a few videos for PETA. In one of them, Carroll Leafer is dressed up as your two Packaday Aunt Doris in a bright red wig and tropical moomoo, and Aunt Doris struggles to breathe as she blows up a busted air mattress to mimic the painful, labored breathing of a flat faced dog.

Leifer explains, as vets have described it, every breath these dogs take, it’s like breathing through a small straw. She also did a more serious PSA to talk about the what they’re calling the torture breeding industry that intentionally breeds dogs to have extreme features such as flattened snouts, flatt and snouts. Distored airways, shortened lives and cause the dogs to pant, snort, wheeze and struggle for air. Leefer explains every French bulldog photo on Instagram should come with a disclaimer warning may cause lifelong vet bills. Breeders cash in on the look, and the dogs and their guardians pay for it literally.

Many countries, including Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway, have banned or restricted the breeding of some are all breeding impaired breeds. It’s illegal in the US. Carol Leifer says as long as there’s money to be made, selling, showing and breeding dogs, breeders will continue to produce more, regardless of how much they cause dogs to suffer in the process. Johnny Mac agrees, adopt, don’t shop right now at the shelter right by your house. There’s an awesome dog.

I’ve got two shelter dogs upstairs and they’re fantastic. I’ve had shelter dogs for every day of my life since nineteen eighty one. And that is your comedy news for today. Normal episodes on the weekend, I had pre tape them in advance. I had to accommodate some travel today, but we’ll get into, among other things, Jay Leno’s Rush Moore of comedy.

All right, you’re enticed, right, that’s worth listening to, so normal episodes all weekend. I hope you have a great weekend, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media Scrub, Season ten, episode five, My Angel Original air day, March eighteenth, twenty twenty six. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack and I was freaking out because I couldn’t find the session that I use for the Scrubs episodes. I use the same template every week. You know, it’s got the music that you hear fading behind my voice there and it makes my life a littleisia. And I couldn’t find it.

And the reason I couldn’t find it is I have now discovered this session is called Scubs. That’s why I wasn’t coming up in search. I liked this episode a lot. It was the first of the reboots that my wife and I watched separately. She was doing something earlier and gave me the go ahead to go watch it.

She texted me around ten o’clock and was like, was Scrubs good? Yes, it was good. I was very enthusiastic about this one. Not the funniest episode of all time, but I really like the character beats and even the newer characters. They’re you know, they’re finding their own the are figuring out what this version of Scrubs is still not renewed, What is going on there.

All right, Here’s what happens. JD is ready to start dating again. Turk is telling him to get back out there, and JD runs into Lily, who plays Harp in the lobby. They hit it off. The chemistry’s booming.

JD wants to go for it, and Turk’s like, yo, time out. You’re the chief of medicine. You can’t date employees. Good advice from Turk. Plus, we all know that Doctor Park played by Joelkim Booster, whose character is back this week.

I like that character. It’s kind of poor man’s Doctor Cox. He speaks to the interns the same way Cox did, but he also wants to take down JD because JD has the job that Doctor Park wants. So he’s a good antagonist. And I’d like Joel Kim Booster since I saw him.

I think it was twenty fifteen in New Phases in Montreal, so I like Joel Anyway, Turk’s like, you can’t go there. The two have a little bit of chemistry. Turk’s saying no, no, no, But then Turk finds out she’s a volunteer and there’s no rules against dating a volunteer, so he calls JD up and gives JD the green light. JD and lil are at a date at Lloyd’s Tevern. Now, I don’t know if it’s actually been called Lloyd’s Tavern on screen yet.

I know in the articles and the interviews the creators told us that they named it Lloyd’s Tavern, But has that actually been said? Maybe I missed it. JD orders an apple teeny. Lily tells JD the deal. We’re having one drink and then we’re having sex.

They go back to her place and we find out that I’ll describe it the way did you watch How I Make Your Mother? Barney talked about the hot crazy scale. We find out that Lily is above the line. Lily throws JD onto her bed and asks him a choker. JD’s like, it’s a little nun, It’s not really my thing.

He looks to the side of the bed and he sees a pizza box, and that triggers a flashback. And this is the creator’s nailing this understanding what this show is understanding the characters. The pizza box triggers a flashback to season one episode fifteen, My Bed, Banter and Beyond, and in season one episode fifteen, JD and Elliott are in bed eating pizza. It becomes clear JD’s not ready to date again. He’s not over Elliot.

The voiceover tells us I was lying here beneath this beautiful woman, and I actually felt nothing. Next we see him riding shotgun in a car. He says, sorry about this. It’s just the last time he was with somebody, and we met something and I after a divorce, and now guys are supposed to go out and hook up like crazy, but I think I need a little time. We find out the person he’s apologizing to isn’t Lily, it’s Turk, who picked him up.

As bros, do code of the guys. If your buddy calls you and goes I need a ride, don’t ask questions, just do it.

Meanwhile, Elliott had her own plot.

There’s a patient who needs a new liver. Elliott’s trying to help her with that. We get into the medicine part of the show. In the end, the new liver arrives delivered by an organ transplant pilot of some sort, and he happens to be a good looking fellow, and we see that Elliott thinks he’s good looking and they walk off together, and who happens to be coming down the hall at that moment, JD, and he sees Elliott being into another dude, and we see that JD looks sad, just a wonderful All the emotional beats really good in this episode. As Elliott walks down the hall with the pilot, we hear JD’s Now, only the heart knows when it’s ready to let someone in again, But sometimes the heart just needs a little more time to heal.

Sarah Chalk was on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast Fun Fact. Michael Rosenbaum was my intern. Now I haven’t seen Michael since he was my intern, but we have a mutual friend and Michael claims to remember me. I don’t know. He was Mike the Intern.

But here’s the thing I always remember about Mike the Intern. He was always going to go to Hollywood. He would talk about it when I was like, hey, can you make copies of Today’s rundown. He was on a mission to go to Hollywood and become an actor, and he did it. So I respect Mike the Intern aka Michael Rosenbaum, whose guest was Sarah Chalk, who plays Elliot on Scrubs.

She talked about the new set and said it was quite surreal stepping onto the set, first of all, stepping onto a set where you spent your entire twenties and then you’re stepping on twenty five years later. I can’t quite explain what that felt like, especially since we shot in this abandoned hospital in the valley and that got torn down and now they’ve rebuilt the sets, and we knew that was happening, but we kind of thought, ah, it’d be pretty accurate, like maybe there’d be sixty seventy percent like sets were, and they were exactly the same, like to a t, everything was identical. It felt like this weird kind of time warp because it’s the same character, the same people on the exact same set in the writing, and I had kind of thought it was going to take him ant a step back into it. What was weird was how natural it felt. It’s part of your cells, it’s part of your bones, that’s the inside of you.

Podcast often to grab that one and then this really doesn’t have anything to do with Scrubs, but I couldn’t get it into the regular podcast. During the week, it’s been a pretty busy week, So why don’t I do it here? Zach Braff has denied he’s in a relationship with an AI. Yeah, exactly. This keeps coming up, and Zach now took to Instagram to deny that he is in a relationship with an AI, specifically an AI chatbot, which Zach Braf is not involved with.

Apparently it turned up on one of these gossip websites. Zach said, I had no idea until tonight because I’m not on TikTok that these folks were the origin of this. I felt like now is a good time to be kind of the people. You would think that would make it go away. But the denial of a romantic involvement with an AI chatbot has been covered by Cosmopolitan, The Cut, BuzzFeed, People, Just Jared, Entertainment Weekly, Page six, The Independent, The Rap, USA Today, The Sun, Hello Magazine, Metro, The New York Daily News, dek Stero, The Daily Mirror, Vulture, Gizmoto, and Daily Comedy News.

So to be clear, Zach Braff is not dating an AI chatbot. Scrubs episode five, I liked it a lot back in the morning with a normal episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence, the algorithm loves I suspect Before we’re done here today, the robovac is going to go off and my dog is going to lose his mind and bark. We’ll see if that happens. Why wouldn’t edit that out, John, because that’s not fun.

Jelly Roll’s wife has apologized to Bert Krascher. Yeah, what’s all that about? Well, you see, Jelly Roll’s wife, Bunny, was sharing raw footage of herself getting a facelift. In a video, we see her in a hospital gown with markings all over her face before going under the knife. The footage then cuts to surgery, and then we see her swollen face wrapped in bandages.

She joked, I look like Bert Kraser.

Now here’s the issue.

When she posted that she comes in peace, she had no idea that Bert’s tour bus had caught fire. So people are like, hey, that’s not cool. But then Bunny was like wait what She explained, I was asleep when the Burt bus happened. I’d never make fun of my friend’s sadness. I was meaning because I’m red and my eyes are swollen.

So to my boy Bert Krascher, we love you.

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Meanwhile, Kevin Hart not happy with his newest wax likeness.

Kevin Hart posted on Instagram, WTF let’s see four t’s and five f’s. There’s a wax statue that shows a Kevin Hart like figure wearing a gold chain and leather jack with outstretched arms. Kevin Hart wrote, I know that ain’t Kevin Hart. This is an attack. Who the F is this?

At this point? These museums are just trying to make me cry. This has to stop. I demand a redo. Damn it.

This has gone viral as people on social media are debating who it actually looks like. Dwayne the Rock Johnson he wrote, It’s perfect, don’t change a thing. I’m excited about this. A documentary about Ralphie May. I knew Ralphie was awesome people.

One time I drove around, well, he drove around Los Angeles with me riding shotgun. We went to get his car detailed and why were they detailing the car? We got Mexican food. He’s awesome.

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Also, when I was out of power.

It’s serious and kind of unde employed. He still he still return calls and did me a solid favor. Not everyone did such things back in those days. I only have great things to say about Ralphie May, so I’m excited for Come What May, A new documentary about Ralphie May, set to premiere in Los Angeles this April as part of a theatrical rollout in partnership with The Laugh Factory. Directed by Dave Gantz and Ralphie May’s wife, Alana Turner.

The theatrical run kicks off at the Landmark Sunset in LA on April twenty eighth. Lana Turner will be there. The documentary will then tour Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, Nashville, and Phoenix. They’re also working on some East Coast stops. Lana Turner said, making this film has been a deeply personal journey, and it’s finally time to let it go and share with Ralphie’s fans and the world at large.

Ralphie loved being on the road, and this releases that perfect opportunity for him to go on one last tour. The doc has rare and raw archival footage of Ralphie may some interviews with friends and colleagues. It captures Ralphie at the best and the worst of times. Ralphie passed away in twenty seventeen, aged forty five. Good guy.

I miss him. I think of him a lot. Kid Rock is not happy with Conan O’Brien. You may recall on the Oscars Conan and O’Brien said tonight could get political and if that makes you uncomfortable, there’s an alternate oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. It’s at the Dave and Busters down the street.

Well, Kid Rock did not find that as funny as I do. Kid Rock on social media wrote, I love a good joke, even when I’m the butt of it. Unfortunately this was not a very good one.

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Now let’s take that at face all right, let’s take a look at the joke today.

I could get political and if that makes you uncomfortable, there’s an alternate oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. I think that’s a good joke. It’s the tag that I think is weak. The tag is it’s at the Dave and Busters down the street. I think the tag is weak, and I’m not even sure the joke needed the tag, or perhaps an alternate tag would have told us what channel it was on, and you could have picked some ridiculous cable channel on which it was airing.

But the joke then I could get political. And if that makes you uncomfortable, there’s an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. I think that’s a perfectly fine joke. Kid Rock would like you to know either way, if you want to see a real good show this spring slash summer that celebrates America and two hundred and fifty years of freedom, make sure you buy your tickets from uugh Ticketmaster from my Freedom two point fifty tour hyphen the Road to Nashville. Mister Rock then added, there’s a reason for this.

Trust me, trust me in all caps with an exclamation point.

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Speaking of Conan O’Brien, John you never talk about him.

I know. The ninety eighth Annual Academy Awards drew seventeen point eighty six million viewers on ABC and Hulu. Now you’re like, is that a good number? Is that a bad number? It depends who you ask.

Oscar haters, Conan haters like, that’s a terrible number because it’s down nine percent from last year’s nineteen point seven million viewers, which had been a five year high for the telecast. If you listen very closely now, the noise reduction will cut it down. And because I’m in the basement and the dog isn’t the dog is indeed barking at the vacuum as predicted, it’s set to go at three pm Eastern, and now it’s going on. The doggies barking. And why didn’t I turn the vacuum off or do something about it?

Because, as I like to say, that’s not fun. So if you listen very very closely, you’re gonna hear dog. And I’m leaving it in. The Oscars averaged a three point ninety two rating among adults eighteen to forty nine, down from last year’s four fifty four, up from twenty twenty four to three eighty two. Despite this year’s dip, the Academy Awards is the number one primetime entertainment telecast of the season, according to Disney.

And why would they make that up? Do you like movies? Do you like movies about gladiators? Have you been to an AMC theater? Well, Jonathan Kite has been doing these wonderful, wonderful Anthony boardein impression pieces on Instagram that I cannot get enough of, and Jonathan Kite as Anthony Bourdain recently released a deleted clip in which fake Anthony Bourdain went to the AMC theaters.

Let’s listen, how does Hollywood get asses in seats with crossover chaos? Barbenheimer glicked Doonsday, But my favorite was when Saw ten and Paw Patrol opened on the same day, giving us Saw Patrol. Those puppies didn’t stand a chance, but according to receipts, they killed. Jimmy Kimmel is firing back at a Newsmax host after said host suggested that federal regulator should step in to discipline Jimmy Kimmel’s show, Yes You See, Kimmel criticized the President of the United States proposed Save Act, which would require documentary proof of US citizenship to vote. Newsmax’s host Rob Schmidt argued that ABC’s late night show should face federal consequences for airing political commentary.

Schmid said that is not a comedy show, that is propaganda. He added that ABC breaks the law every single night and that the network should learn a lesson. I’d be curious to know his opinion on how ABC is breaking along the night’s Kimmel’s not on, like on Saturday, what are they doing to break the law. I’m just curious, just asking questions. I’m not saying they do, not saying they’re don’t.

I’m just curious as to his opinion on how they break the law when Jimmy’s not on. Kim Will responded said, they’re so worried about cancel culture until I come on, and then they’re like, cool, the FCC. He’s bringing the law. How does this not embarrass them? Kimmel then referenced Newsmax’s sixty seven million dollars settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over false election claims, quoting Kimmel the channel he’s on Newsmax.

I don’t know if you see. They’re literally on a payment plan right now, switching the channel over to CBS. Radar Online suggests that they’re turning Stephen Colbert into a non person. Colbert will be on the air until May twenty first, sooner than you might think. That’s coming up pretty quickly, but according to Radar Online, photos of Stephen Colbert have been quietly removed from the network’s broadcast center on West fifty seventh Street, when insider said, it’s like he was never there, like the Late Show never existed at all.

Another source said, that’s the clearest signal it’s truly over. A network insider confirmed there will be no send off. We’re told CBS is not planning and will not pay for any farewell party. Network insider says, if the staff wants something, it’s on them. Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor Still on the Island.

John Mulaney, Sebastian Manascalco, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Leslie Jones, and otsco At Coonska. One vote per person. You’ve gotten until end of day today. A lot of activity in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. But I don’t want to steer at you guys decide.

I just report, but just as a quick skim, it looks like anybody scheme Comedy Survivor Daily Comedy News podcast group. There were more podcast awards. As a podcaster and a media executive, I can’t take these seriously. There’s podcast awards twice a week, maybe three times a week. This time was the iHeart Podcast Awards, which I didn’t even know was happening, and then all of a sudden, I go on pod news, which is the industry newsletter.

James Kridlin, great guy in real life, does a great job with the newsletter. Happy birthday, James. We learned from pod news that Will Ferrell kicked off the show. You know if you listen just I mean, there was a time when Will Ferrell was pretty funny. It’s just like a ready because everything he does is just so Will Ferrell.

Will Ferrell kicked off the show in full Team USA speedskating gear as he joked to the crowd full of quote, a few of his peers and many of his admirers that he almost made the team for the twenty twenty six Winter Olympics. Hilarious, people are still laughing. He then introduced to your host, who was egg uotam Ego, welcome the audience and talked about the importance of podcast and reminded the audio audience not to peak the mics. Peak distortion is when you ride the microphone levels too hot. As I teach my college students, if you give me bad audio, I’ll take low over distort at any time.

It’s really hard to undistort low. You can boost, but there are issues with boosting low audio. I’m not going to teach you an entire college class now. I do fifteen weeks of this at the college. Trust me, don’t peak your audio anyway.

We’ll focus on the comedy parts of this. Eliza Slessinger was there. She presented Podcast of the Year two the winners, Giggly Squad with Anna Berner and Page Desorbo. Congratulations to those guys, and the folks said, but my brother, my brother and me, is that the name of that podcast? They won Best ad Read?

No. Normally, Best ad Read almost always goes to Conan O’Brien. I don’t know if con has submitted or not to Maybe people have had it with this Conan O’Brien fellow, who knows? And I could use one more store. I have a lot.

I bumped a few things here. Let’s do this one. Jerry Seinfeld’s car was auctioned off for a world record price. Was Jerry Seinfeld’s former Mercedes Benz five hundred E. It’s sold for three hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Bought new by Jerry Seinfeld in nineteen ninety two. The car has covered here. I’ll let you guess it’s been thirty four years. How many miles? I’ll answer at the end.

How many miles do you think Jerry Seinfeld’s Mercedes Binz drove in thirty four years? How many miles in thirty four years? Now, as you know, enthusiasts say the five hundred E is in a sense half portie because the V eight Sinan’s wider body complete with a two point two inch flarre at front fenders. Say that five times and make an edit. I did.

Those couldn’t be produced on the regular I really did stufblow that line five times, leaving it Those couldn’t be produced on the regular Mercedes production line in a big long German wordtown. Instead, assembly took place at Porsche’s facility and other big long word germantown. That unusual Mercedes Porsche collaboration, combined with the model’s durability and everyday usability, has made the five underd D a highly coveted collector’s car. Jerry bought the car new in ninety two. He kept it until twenty sixteen.

How many miles? Johnny mac all right, you ready? Two thousand, three hundred and thirty five miles? And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence The Algorithm loves SNL is coming to the UK this Saturday. Your first host on SNL UK will be Tina Fay. Pretty good choice.

Some people are surprised they went with an American host, but I don’t think you can argue that Tina Fay doesn’t know how to do SNL. So you know, sometimes the correct move is go right down the middle, and why goof around the first impressions make a big deal. Tina Fey good at SNL knows how to host, Sure, Dna Fay, why not? Musical guests, English band wet Leg Season one is only six episodes. We know that.

On March twenty eighth, Jimmie Dornan will host April fourth, Riz Ahmed and we’re going to talk about him later we’ll host. Dornan will be joined by musical guest Wolf Alice and Casbian will be on the Riz Ahmed Show. SNL UK will air at ten pm local time on Sky one and the streaming service known as Now. If you’re in the US and you want to watch, you have to wait until the next day. That’s fine.

I watch SNL on Sunday anyway, It’ll be on Peacock in the US. SNL UK episodes are seventy five minutes. Interesting number, The Guardian wrote, how could this be anything other than funny? They profiled the behind the scenes. Maybe someday someone will make a movie of all this, the Guardian tells us.

For the past four weeks, eleven performers and twenty writers have been spending every weekday together in this very building, which apparently is a boardroom in West London’s television center. They’ve been hashing out premises for skits. Do we like the word skits? I think we like the word sketches over here more than skits workshopping each other’s material and finding the alchemy. Writer Graham Maguire says, since Lockdown, it feels like British comedy television has been slowly atrophying.

A huge opportunity like this is so exciting, The Guardian tells us the SNL model seems unthinkably luxurious. On that side of the pond, where sitcoms are often written by just one person and writer room jobs are pretty much non existent. Is my delivery very Colin Jost today. Every time I’m finishing a freeze, I feel like I’m putting a Colin Jost’s spin on it, and I’m not trying to do that, The Guardian says. When they ask cast member Al Nash how he’s getting in the zone, he thuds a copy of Live from New York, Tom Shells and James Andrew Miller’s eight hundred page oral history of SNL down on the table, and he says, some of us like to do our research.

Follow up question was what inside have you gained? The answer, I actually haven’t started reading it yet. That’s hilarious. Showrunner James Longman says, Lauren Michaels keeps saying things to me like just get it on air. How do they choose the cast, he says, we were looking for the funniest people.

We didn’t go in for name recognition. The cast range from twenty six to age thirty six. There was not an age limit. One element being carried over from the US’s Weekend update, Good thing Tina Fey is there this weekend. I’m looking forward to watching that one.

I Meanwhile, in the United States, of America. We have our own Saturday Night Live at Arizon Saturday Nights Long. I’ve at eleven thirty and on the most recent episode, Marcelo Hernandez busted out his Sebastian Maniscalco impression again. Sebastian is campaigning hard to get booked on SNL. Man He posted on Twitter, I’ve been on SNL twice now, which sounds impressive until I tell you neither time was as the host.

At this point, Harry Styles and Marcelo Hernandez have locked more rehearsal time as me than I have. Both of them were hilarious and absolutely nailed it. Maybe the third time I come in and do it as myself campaign campaign campaign. A lot of people really liked this impression that Marcelo Hernandez does. As I said in the past, he does one thing, and he does one thing well, and arguably he does two things.

But I here, let’s listen to it. I’ll talk about the case yourana. Listen to me. For my client to get out of that store, he would have had the June Collar security Gullar. Then they got delases everywhere, so my client would have had the Tom Cruise.

That okay, and then they got the sensors. You know about the censor Jarana, They’re about this thought of sensus. They tell you you got something you’re not supposed to have. So Mike Client what I had to grab the shoes and the bell and the jack and hold it above his head and go like that. So either Mike Client is not upid or he belongs in the alumpics.

The defense rests. I agree. I mean, it’s okay. Now I’m only playing the audio, so you’re not getting the physical aspects. He does it very very animated, which I’m not entirely sure where that’s coming from.

It’s a good character, but it’s not like the most amazing impression. And if you’re like Jenny Mack, you just don’t find Marcello or Hernan is funny. You’re you’re not being fair. Well you might be right, but as evidence that the impression is nothing special, let me present to you Harry Styles. This is crazy.

You’re all just captivated by the way Sebastian Anna Scalco is talking like what if I talk like that? Eron, This guy took the close and he walked right out of school. He got the security footage to lat them, so ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Yea, I yes, why. Would do that?

Moving on now, if you want to hear a really good impression, Jeremy Colhane broke out Tucker Carlson impression on Weekend Update, and it was fantastic. Let’s listen, let’s all. Go to the movies. Huh? Really?

Yes, why don’t we grab some popcorn and watch American culture collapse? What are we doing? What’s going on? All right? Coming in hot?

Well, how do you feel about this year’s nominees? Where to even beacon? Oh? I know? Why don’t we talk about sinners?

That’s right, sinners? Because of course, leftist, woke America’s favorite movie this year is about sinning. Huh why does that not surprise me? No? Sorry, kids, we don’t go to church anymore.

We go to sinners. That’s the rule, that’s the goal. Now what are we doing? What’s going on? Okay?

All right, so you didn’t you didn’t like Sinners? You didn’t like sinners? What about Handnet? Oh? Hamnet?

Because we’re not allowed to say Hamlet anymore. No, no, took. The l and gave it to the GBTQ. So it’s Hamnet. Now what are we doing?

What’s going on?

Meanwhile?

We have a beef? Yeah? Did you catch it? On it? I just did the cone and yeah.

See that’s why illustrated that yesterday. Yeah, we have a beef. Did you catch the send up of the pit they did on usnl MA Hospital, Well, some people said the Daily Show did that already. Back on November twenty first, The Daily Show aired a promo for RFK Hospital, a fast paced medical drama about the only hospital brave enough to follow the advice of the medical Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

In that sketch, a doctor played by Michael Costa knows that medical science doesn’t have to be based on anything in particular, and in that sketch, the staff prescribed treatments such as raw milk, fecal matterbaths, and defluoridated water. In that sketch, Costa’s character reacts to news of a school bus full of children hitting a deer by saying, we can still save that deer meat now. The SNL version closes with RFK Junior, played by James Austin Johnson, rushing a dead bear into the er, hoping to salvage it’s meat. Hmmm. Michael Costa went on Instagram and Johnny mack loves a good beef.

He posted, watch the original that we released six months ago. He further commented, ridiculous. We are also reminded that on January fourteenth, Jimmy Kimmellive aired a sketch called Make America Healthy Again, in which Noah Wiley presented himself as not a real doctor who gave some medical advice inspired by RFK Junior. Hmm. Mark Norman’s special was out on Netflix, and you know there were Nicks and USA Baseball last night.

You know, I kind of wish Netflix would stop putting the comedy specials out on Tuesday. You would think Tuesday would be like a good night to just kick back and watch comedy special and it never is. And maybe it’s just because I live an old man mountain. Can you just put these things out on like Friday? Mark Norman was on Fox News and he said, what bothers him about comedy today is the presence of any finger wagging in comedy.

He said, imagine if a musician just came up put his guitar down, was like, let me tell you about iron in Israel, and you’re like, what about the music, sant up. Comedy is the only art for him that’s so subjective. You can kind of slip away from the comedy part because you’re holding a microphone and have a stool with a beer on it. Mark says comedy has become weirdly morality based. When I was a kid, you watch Blazing Saddles, Ready Murphy or whatever, and it was just like, the worst things are what you should lean in on.

He does not believe in shock for its own sake, and explain I think some people do that horribly and they just say a word without having a joke. I think as long as there’s always a joke, you can talk about anything. Everything’s on the table. And I think making horrible things funny is part of the job. So I say lean in.

But it’s got to be funny. That’s the key. It’s gotta have a laugh, and that’s the art form making it funny and getting away with it. I’ll pick it that a little bit more tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, Ready Steady Cut gave a Mark Special three and a half out of five …

They right. Mark Norman’s style has never really evolved, which is kind of the point. None too pleased, plays out like in All You Can Eat Buffet of Zingers, designed to be equally offensive to everyone, just as it should be. Norman isn’t quite a one liner comic, but he’s close, each argument, usually highlighting some kind of inherent hipocracy or drawing an out there comparison. Examples being an anatomical analogy for the Israel Palestine conflict, or OnlyFans being for men with the wnbas for women, or how being married is like being in the military and using that as an excuse to slip in an off color gag about classic taboo topics like Hitler or Nine to eleven.

They write The reason this works so well for Norman are varied, but the biggest one is that he’s good at it. The punchlines are offering cleverly put together and snuck in when you least expect them, and some of the core contradictions he highlights are just as stude enough to become interesting jumping off points. Cats are like Heroin addicts a couple of spoilers in there that I will skip, but they conclude with most people can laugh not just at others, but also at themselves. Bird Kreischer is gonna milk this bus story again. I’m glad everyone’s okay.

But like the whoever roasted him yesterday, now bird has two stories. Kreischer was on social media again, said all right, here’s everything you need to know about the bus. Both bus drivers said that never seen anything like it in their thirty five years. We waited for a couple hours and then we ditched the bus and got on the crew buses and drove in a seat of rapids. That morning, our bus caught fire on the road.

Everyone is fine, the bus driver, Dewey. He got out in time, he said, literally. The fire started in fifteen seconds. The front cabin was in flames. Here’s the good thing to know.

Had we slept on that bus, we’ve all been trapped in the back and be dead today. Yesterday, we would have been dead yesterday. God works in mysterious ways. So it was a blessing that we had to blow out. It was a blessing.

So today, as frustrated as you may get, everything is a blessing. God works in mysterious ways. The bus story pairs up with Netflix announcing that Free Bert got a season two renewal Bert will also be part of the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival, Kreischer, Sigora and Jelly Roll will do the Two Bears five K at the Rose Bowl on May ninth. At the festival, Bert is hosting Bert and Shak’s crowd Work show at the Comedy Store May eighth. I promised I would bring up this comment left in the Facebook group.

Lee has shot a nice note. He pointed out nicely, very nicely, that the fish that Steve Harvey was going after, even though it is spelled like you would pronounce it crappy, it’s actually pronounced crappy and tells me it’s a popular menu item for recreational fishermen. Thank you, Lee. I used to fish for snapper off Jon’s Beach over by the Coastguard station on its probably like ten years old. We just used worms.

No, we didn’t use worms. We would go get baitfish little bit. I don’t know what they’re called. Perhaps they’re called crappy. I don’t know these little baitfish we used to get.

They’re coming like a frozen pack. All the fishermen are like, yeah, city boy, we know you sound like an idiot, and I do sound like an idiot, So let’s move on. Jenny Mack. You never talk about Conan O’Brien or the oscars, and I know I really should bring it up more often. People were curious, Hey, Conan, I thought you said Trump’s not funny?

What was with the political jokes? Conan told Variety after the show, you have to use a common sense about what feels right. If you completely ignore it, you look like you’re living in a bubble, and I wouldn’t want to do that. You got to reflect on what people at home are thinking about, but also they want to be entertained, so you need to thread it. I always hope to try and do that.

Robbie Hoffman was at Vanity Fair’s oscar party. So in case you thought I was really digging in on Nicki Gleezer yesterday, Robbie Hoffman Hollywood insider. I know, Robbie Hoffman. You might look at Robbie Hoffan and be like, that’s not an insider. Oh, that’s an insider.

Robbie Hoffman special produced by John Mulaney and Robbie Hoffman’s at the Vanity Fair oscar party. Were you at the Vanity Fair oscar party? No, because you’re not a Hollywood insider. The entertainment industry is very, very insular if you pay attention anyway, We were told that Robbie Hoffman went on Instagram Stories to share that she had found a diamond watch on the floor of the Vanity Fair’s annual Oscars after party, which took place at the La County Museum Forard. Now let me ask you, listener, do you have a diamond watch?

Did you lose it at Vanity Fair’s annual Oscars after party? No, and no. Robbie Hoffman was there, and she posted an image of the watch and wrote, let it be known that I found a diamond watch on the floor of the Vanity Fair party. The watch appeared to be broken in pieces. Hoffman then followed up with another slide showing a security guard holding the watch, and she pointed out, obviously, I returned it to the LACMA security.

A third post showed an iPhone with a note typed out reading Robbie Hoffman found your watch and a blurred out phone number. Robbie wrote expect reward. We are told the thin, delicate watch appears to be from I’m going to butcher this because I’m a kid from Queen’s You can’t even get the name of a fish Raid Boucheron’s Vendome Milissaa collection. You nailed it, John, keep going all right? Well, we are told via the watch brand’s website.

Watch run from twelve one hundred and fifty dollars to thirty six nine. I mentioned rizam d at the beginning, and I said I would mention him later. It is now later, Amazon, What are you doing? All right? Amazon has made a quote unquote James Bond series.

Now, why don’t you guys just make James Bond. Here’s what James Bond is. He’s a good looking British man, walks in the office. He flirts with Monty Penny. He goes in and kind of yells at him for a little bit.

He goes over to q’s office, grabs some gadgets, has a cool car, meets a chick. There’s a guy who’s trying to kill him, usually as a gimmick. Then he meets another chick, then he defeats the bad guy. That’s James Bond. Anyway, they are making a show called Bait.

Why they would make Baits and not James Bond, You’d have to ask them. Baits was written by, created by, and stars Rizamed as Sha a struggling actor about to give up when he’s invited to audition for the role of James Bond. The six episodes follow Shaw over four days as he and his family and his best friend learn what it means to be an instant star. Shaw learns firsthand that while being considered for one of the biggest movie roles of all time makes them the center of attention, it also brings a lot of backlash. Here’s an idea, Let’s just make James Pond.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence I forgot to say when I recorded the Oscar Show Sunday Night. Today is a sequel to Monday’s Oscars recap, same kind of note. I’m gonna slow down a little bit and just take my time with the stories.

Part of it is I’m a little bit tired. It took me a long time to put together this show and also Palace Intrigue, the Royal Family show that I work on, and plus Sunday Night. I never really dialed down because I was keeping notes on the Oscars. Then recorded the show and with all the clips in there, it took me over an hour on the edit and I was laughing at one point the file was finally ready to be uploaded after post processing and all the stuff I do that I won’t bore you with. There was sixteen seconds left and I think it was a three point Nicks game, and they were announcing Best Film at the Academy Awards.

I’m like, why does all this have to happen at once? So I uploaded the file watch best Picture, and then got to enjoy the last six point two seconds of the next game and the next one Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. So there’s a lot of news. I’ve already got a full show for tomorrow. Some stuff we’re not going to get to today.

The New York Times wrote an article about comedians and the Epstein Files. Do I have your attention yet? Yeah, let’s see. The Daily Show seems to be a beef with Saturday Night Live. That’s fun.

I don’t have time today to get into Sebastian Maniscalco and Marcelo Hernandez. I don’t have time to get into the SNL Sucker Carlson impression. We’ll do that tomorrow. I don’t have time to tell you that Tina Fey is going to host SNL UK this weekend. I don’t have time to tell you Bert Krascher got a season two of Free Birt because we got to talk about the Oscars and Conan O’Brien.

I thought Conan was fantastic, and the Internet seems to disagree at points. We’ll get into that as well real quick. If you can’t get enough Conan, Bill Carter interviewed Conan on Late Night Er and I love that podcast because you got serious Conan. So it was a real discussion, which was great.

And then I was in a Conan mood and I tried to check out Conan on The Kelsey B…

Look, I know that show does well, but as I tell my college students, if you want to have a successful podcast, date Taylor Swift. Jason Kelsey has media skills. Travis Kelsey is awful at this and write this down. When he does retire from football, he will get a TV job and he’s going to be terrible at it. I couldn’t even listen to the Conan interview.

He’s one of those people that can’t get through an fing sentence without you know F and Curson you know F and it’s just, dude, what are you doing? Learn how to broadcast? And again, millionaire dating a billionaire. I’m a dude in a basement. I’m a loser.

He’s got Super Bowl rings, I get it, but he’s not good at broadcasting. On to the Oscars, Variety had a really nice piece they caught up with the producers. One of the questions is is Conan coming back now? They didn’t say that specifically, but Walt Disney Television’s Rob Mills, who’s the executive vice president, told Variety on Monday morning, Conan is host for life. Yes, he hasn’t even accepted yet.

He’s just being told. We’re assuming that was not a comedy bit. We’re going to treat it as if that was fact. Conan had joked during the telecast he would continue to host the show until went to YouTube, and mister Beast takes over was one of the versions of that joke. Mills said, sometimes these jobs are like fantasy camp, and it’d be working with Conan is always incredible.

I remember those, and he’s referring to the big produced open here. I remember those when he had special occasions or when he hosted things like the Emmy’s. He’d make these films and they were great. When it was the tenth anniversary of Late Night, he did one of those where he ran into the streets of New York and literally everyone’s following him. Was sort of similar to this bit.

He’s always done these films that are great and not also sort of reminded me of what Billy Crystal used to do, so it was great. It felt distinctly Conan but also distinctly Oscar. I think that’s fair. Next question, did Leonardo DiCaprio know that he was going to be asked to be a meme? The answer not at all, So forgive him for being a little confused on a first on how to react, but then he still figured out how to react.

How did it work with Matt Barry as announcer live from London? Why wasn’t he in Los Angeles? Good question? We are told, yes, Matt Barry was in London, and the technology is now point where there wasn’t a delay. Well, that’s impossible.

There’s still the speed of light. I don’t care what tech you have, there’s still the speed of light. I just asked chat GPT what’s the delay on broadcast from LA to London? The AI says for a live broadcast signal from Los Angeles to London, delay depends on the path satellite broadcast is about two hundred and eighty milliseconds one way, or roughly point five point six seconds round trip. Why the signal goes up to a geostationary satellite then back to Earth.

If you use fiber transmission, that cuts the delay to one hundred and twenty milliseconds, but then encoding and decoding ads time. So a typical modern IP broadcast delay is point three to one point five seconds total delay. Now, if that doesn’t sound like a lot, get into my field and try interviewing someone who’s in London while you’re in Los Angeles. So you will notice the delay because it’s like talking to somebody on the moon. You ask a question, there’s that slight pause, they answer, and what happens that you wind up talking to over each other.

So you have to be very disciplined to not go too fast and make sure the other person has spoken. And most things like that are best done not live, so that you can trim all the things. Tell you we’re gonna go slow and get into the weeds today. Did you stay before the very end after they said goodbye? There was another sketch spoilers for the movie One Battle after another.

If you haven’t seen it, hold your ears for a second. But the parody to the final scene from that movie, maybe I’ll just leave it there. Whatever happens at the end of the movie conan parody that I won’t tell you specifically what happens, so I didn’t ruin the movie not spoilers. But VERI was curious, since One Battle had just won Best Picture, did Conan film sketches for all of the films in case something else won Best Picture? We are told no, there were no alt end of show sketches.

The One Battle parody whatever ran even if Sinners had won. Okay, but what about the other eight films? Are you saying the others didn’t have a chance? What are you saying there?

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And then they asked Mills again, is Conan truly the host for life?

Mills said, as firm as whatever. You can look up whatever the firm thing is, it’s solid as oak. I hope Conan comes back. Anybody who’s been with a nearshot of me in the last twenty four to thirty six hours by the time you’re hearing this. I believe in having a professional host.

I though Kimel did a good job. I think Trevor Nooda does a good job. Always give me a pro who can keep the trains running. That’s the gig. If you could be funny on top of that, even better, keep Conan great.

If ConA gets the flu let camel, do it great. As I alluded to at the top, some people didn’t like the Oscars with Conan O’Brien the Daily Mail again UK tabloid, and they tend to be a little caddy. They wrote, it was supposed to be Hollywood’s biggest night, but between painful monologues from most Conan O’Brien, to boring results and one distasteful joke about the Holocaust, viewers were left thoroughly unimpressed by this year’s Oscars. Now, as I read that paragraph, I’m like, what was the Holocaust joke? And the Daily Mail let’s Johnny mcnow come on on, Gianni spark fury by joking about Schindler’s List being renamed Schindler’s Posted and a failed gag about movies being too long?

Is there really outrage about that joke? Really? Oh? Ryan struggled to rouse the room with awkward jokes about pedal files and the many awards largely felt at predictable winners. Then they got into they do this a lot in the British tabloids.

Some social media posts. One person wrote, the Oscar is a sort of a flop. I DK conan flop, awkward jokes from presenters, ugly ass stage. Yeah, I said it only saving this night is a sinner’s best picture. I’m not playing well.

Got bad news for you, sir, or madam. Radar Online headline was rotten humor. Conan O’Brien slammed over painful twenty twenty six Oscars opening monologue as host faces several awkward moments of silence. Yep, that’s true. It’s a tough room.

We’ve talked about that before this year’s Oscars, after last year’s Oscars, before last year’s Oscars. Every year. It’s a tough room. We all know that Conan knew that. Litsten to any interview last week except the one with the Kelsey Brothers where Travis Kelsey can’t go through one sentence without using an F bomb twice.

Radar Rights. After opening the show with a well received dig at Timothy Shallimy and the recent backlash over his controversial comments about ballet and opera, O’Brien seemed to quickly lose the crowd with an ill received gag linking nominated movies Hamnett and Pogonia to off brand lunch meat. Had a little bogonia around tense. Not sitting too well, the host said, to a muttered reaction. Reading the crowd.

O’Brien disappointedly added on the ride home, you’ll appreciate it. Later, he joked that F one received four nominations. F one did so well that they’re making a sequel. Caps lock. Another muted response, so, O’Brien, confess some of these I do for myself.

Relax, everybody, It was good if you’d like to hear these jokes. I pulled most of these. If you didn’t listen to Monday’s episode, they’re all in the first six minutes or so of Monday’s podcast. Radar Online also pulled online reactions. One person wrote, these Conan jokes are so bad.

Another complained not having a lot of fun right now. One person lamented, I can’t stand this Conan O’Brien anymore. Rotten humore. Let me count the o’s there in humor one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, oh’s in humor. A fourth person blasted Conan O’Brien’s absolutely feeble monologue.

Several awkward moments of silence from the audience after the jokes. The Irish star happy Saint Patrick’s Day. They seem to be a little gossipy. They talked about Conan on the Red carpet, They said, ConA looked dapper in a classic black seat while he took pictures alongside his wife, who stunned in a sleeveless dress. The late night host appeared to oblige photographers and stand for photos, but quickly was ready to wrap it up amid all the snaps.

When photographers kept calling his name, Conan appeared to get more antsy after his red carpet pictures came to close. He reportedly said go away before saying all done, seeming to be fed up with posing. According to lip reader n Jay Hickling, I’m not familiar with lip reader n Jay Hickling, but i have been following comedy for many, many years. I’ve never heard any such behavior out of Conan O’Brien. I’ve heard things about people.

I’ve never heard a negative word about Conan O’Brien. I’ve never heard anyone no love working with Conan O’Brien for Conan O’Brien, with Conan O’Brien, So that would surprise me, although if it did happen, to be fair to ConA O’Brien, he did kind of have to go inside to host the Oscars, and you might want to get your head into that space. This article as well goes to social media. By the way, sidebar I talked about this, maybe it was on Saturday Show about how sometimes you just sit down and do a show and you find a through line. I didn’t set out to do the reads the way that I’m doing them today, and you kind of stumble into something that’s working and you go with it.

That’s the beauty of doing this every day. Sidebar over. Fans on Twitter were quick to react to Conan’s interaction with those photographers. One wrote, ConA being the most confused man in Hollywood while simultaneously being the most talented person in every room he wants into is my favorite gender hashtag oscars. Someone else wrote, Conan O’Brien looks sharp tonight out of his classic, stylish and totally red carpet.

Ready, I just checked the clock. We have a lot more to do, so this is going to be break at number one, and before we do that, if you like the program without commercial diruption, one thing you can do take out the Apple podcast app click that batter. It says uninterrupted listening, and then for five bucks a month, you don’t have to deal with this The L eight Times writes all heil Conan O’Brien, who could host the Oscars forever, and we wouldn’t mind. They write the question this year, as it is every year, is how this Oscar’s night was different from any other Oscars night. With Conan O’Brien returning his host, the ceremony was much in the spirit of twenty twenty five, except this was all at all livelier, funnier show.

Not perfect, of course, as the only program to ever occupy three hours of television without flagging was Sabato Chagante, But gag wise, the Oscar Broadcast is fundamentally a comedy with speeches. It’s hit to missus. Ratio was good or better than your average SNL episode. I think everything about that paragraph is perfect, and they write and they nailed this too. Conan O’Brien, whose persona is equal parts madness, sincerity, self love and self hate, would seem to be a perfect host for broadcast that needs to take things seriously, but not so seriously that it alienates anyone who doesn’t belong to the community at cele It’s a show that exists both in the world of Hollywood and the world outside the industry.

Well, well said Nikki Glaser gave the show a review, and my initial reaction to that was, who asked you? Well? The answer to who asked Nikki Glaser’s e news? But all right, suddenly we care what Nikki Glaser thinks about Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars relaxed Golden Globes host Should we ask Joe Koy what he thought of Kimmel? Nikki Glaser was on the Gray carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscars party aka Hollywood has accepted her.

She’s now an insider. This all sounds like I’m shading Nikki. I’m not. I’m just analyzing the news here. Nicki gave Conan O’Brien an a plus.

She said he killed it last year. I knew he was gonna kill it again this year. I got a chance to see his monologue about a week ago and he got off stage, and I really meant it when I was like, that’s a plus. Changed nothing. But she did say Coonan did tweak some stuff.

She explains, things come out of the news cycle and they don’t work anymore, so you have to keep updating it. Wait, two Golden Globes that we’re treating her like she’s Billy Crystal. Now, Oh, I’m gonna I’m gonna throw up. He Knews relaxed with this. The stand up star also compared Conan’s work to her own hosting experience, noting that while the Golden Globes feels more like a comedy club, Oscar Night is a different room for comedy than any other.

She explains at the Academy Awards as a comedian, that’s a tough room because they’re far away. It’s very stuffy. They haven’t been drinking, they haven’t been eating. They’re hungry, and they’re tired, and they’re sober. So it’s a hard room to kill in.

Nicky felt. Conan rose to the occasion, adding with that a play I was like, God, he killed it. Thank you, Thank you, Nikki Glaser. Ricky Gervase was asked would he like to host the Oscars. Well, he can’t because it’s Conan’s job for life.

Ricky went on Twitter and responded to a fan account named the Ricky Gervay’s Clips. Fan account The Ricky Gervay’s Clips posted repost if you wish Ricky Gervaise was hosting the Oscars tonight, Jervase himself quote responded, writing, if that you may recall Ricky Gervay’s host of the Golden Globes in twenty ten, twenty eleven to twenty two, twenty sixteen, and twenty twenty. If you were at the Oscars you found snack boxes under your seats? Yeah? Hey, did you catch that?

That yeah thing? That is a total lift from Conan O’Brien that I subconsciously did. I’m not sure it’s subconscious. I might just do it, but I was listening to the edit and I caught myself do it. So what Conan will do is he’ll say something like the sky is blue, yeah, scientists say.

And as I was watching the Oscar Sunday night, I saw him do it. I pulled a clip where Conan does it. So in a second, I’m gonna play Conan doing it, and then I’ll go back to where we were before. I jumped in here. But just I heard the yeah move, and I just thought i’d jump in and comment on it.

I was in a movie this year, Yeah, I was in a movie. If you were at the Oscars you found snack boxes under your seats? Yeah, Conan O’Brien wrote a note that was found in your box, which also included a sketch of Conan O’Brien. The note read, and I hope you enjoy this Conan O’Brien moderately happy meal these snacks. It may not look like much, but in any movie theater that run you eighty five dollars.

Good luck tonight, have fun and remember that loud, enthusiastic laughters good for your health in my ego. The notes were addressed to dear nominee Slash plus one slash seat filler in the box, a bag of popcorn, a bottle of water, and either Mike and Ikes or Junior Mints. If guests were hungry, they could go to the lobby to grab some trail mix, and guests could also snack on dehydrated vegetables during the ceremony. Apparently, snack boxes have been a tradition for several years. In twenty twenty four, Jimmy Kimmel provided soft Philly style pretzels.

Last year, Conan provided Swedish fish, a pretzel and water. Hours before the Oscars took place, some movie posters showed up in Los Angeles. These movie posters were fake, and they mocked President Trump. Activist group Everyone Hates Elon posted images across the city. Some of them spoofed the movie one Battle after another as a template.

The acting credits at the fake movie poster were attributed to President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary of Defense. I’m not saying Secretary of War because that’s not officially the title. Despite what the White House says, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Nett Yahoo a fake quote from Jeffrey Epstein reads a great distraction with the words from the directors of the Gaza Genocide. On the fake poster, where you would normally see Leonardo DiCaprio, the pranksters replaced Leo’s face with Trump, scenes of war, an explosion of fire and smoke, and a war torn city. A spokesperson for Everyone Hates Elon said, after promising no foreign wars, it turns out Donald Trump wants one battle after another.

The group added spoiler, you already know who dies in this film, and it’s not just the bad guys, it’s American service people and schoolgirls in Iran. The White House was not happy with Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel was presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature. At one point he said the following line. He didn’t say who was referring to, but what Jimmy said was, oh man, he’s going to be mad.

His wife wasn’t nominated for this. It is assumed that he would be Donald Trump and his wife would be Milania, who had a documentary that was not nominated for Best Documentary Feature. White House Communications director Stephen Chung fire off a tweet. He shared a clip of Kimmel’s joke and called Jimmy Kimmel a classless hack who was self projecting his depression and sadness onto others. I’m not sure I agree with that assessment.

The White House Communications director had more to say about Jimmy kim Well, writing he lives a pathetic existence where nobody, not even his family, enjoys his miserable company. The only people giving him any attention are Hollywood elites, and then all caps bye bye. At the Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel spoke to Variety and said he was exhausted by having a comment on the President on a show each night. Kimmell said, we live in a ridiculous country. We always lived in a ridiculous country, but it was always ridiculous in a fun mister T kind of way.

Meeting the guy from the A team in Rocky three, Kimmell said, now we’ve got a different mister T. Ver Dawes was on Instagram, he answered a not asked question why does an India do a Gervais or even a Conan style hosting of a major film awards? Well as someone who wrote the script from many Indian awards for five years, Here’s why. The point of having comedian host en roast the Oscars or Film Awards is that for night a jester would humanize the most beautiful chosen people in the world since they were being celebrated already. That’s what any joke is a punch up here, meaning India story goes won’t take a joke from anyone not at their level.

Ironically, the big of the star who hosts the trigger it’s gonna be because like three people are at that level. So a huge star hosting works for the people in the room, just not always funny for the people watching, simply because the power balance is off. Since it is Saint Patrick’s day, I do want to get this story in. We’ll clear this out. Conan was on Kimmel last week and shared how a recent trip to Ireland and the story of his great grandfather gave him a new perspective on immigration.

One year ago today, I was in Dublin at the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. It was fantastic. They are much better at the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade than the New York City one. Love it from New York, but it’s just cops and firemen and bagpipes and more cops and more firemen and more cops and more bagpipes. The one in Dublin is more like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.

It was tons of fun with like really cool floats. I digress and the show’s long enough. Freddy today, John, get to it, okay. Coda O’Brian said, I went back to Ireland and I saw a great genealogist who said, I found where your great grandfather’s home was. No home is gone, but he found the little spot where he lived near the Gallbali Mountains.

He said, I’ll go there and I’ll show it to you, and I said, we’ll do it on camera. Conan said, I was expecting have these jokes loaded up, we had props and funny things we were going to do. But I got there and I didn’t expect this because I’m not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeve. But I got emotional. It was very powerful.

There was this very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn’t his. He didn’t have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn’t working, probably not enough to eat, couldn’t sustain, so he left and went to America and here I am a couple generations later. What’s amazing to me is when you have that experience and you stand there, I have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country. Takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where often people don’t speak the language.

They have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation. It’s a whole lifetime that you’re feeding into the process. I was just thinking about this guy whom I’ll never meet, who had to do that. I think he was overcome by the fact that there’s a lot of sadness, and that’s story, and a lot of these stories people leave not because they think, Hey, I just want to go a fun in America. They leave because they have to.

We’re coming up. Mark Norman has a special out today. We are long enough today. Boy, some other time, I’ll tell you about when I went up to Belfast. It was really, really emotionally moving, and the Conin story just reminded me that also on my mind.

Michael B. Jordan going to In and Out Burger after the Oscars ball or move love it. In and Out is fantastic. I got a nice note on the side from one of the listeners, and this note really really means a lot to me. The gist of the note was this person listens to the program every morning and finds it a nice distraction from the news, maybe not that story I did about the fake billboards, but finds it a nice distraction from the news, and thanked me for doing the show every day.

And look, guys, this show is nothing. This is just a lunatic rambling in the basement about Adam Sandler unless you guys actually listen to it. So I really truly appreciate that you listen, and I love getting notes from that. I’m not asking everyone to write a note, but I do those notes mean a lot to me? And I think the big takeaway for me is what I’m going for is nice enough guy, mildly amusing, easy on the ears.

That’s all the shows really designed to be, you know, ten, twelve, fifteen, or today thirty minutes, you know, help kill the morning commute or however your reason today, And again I appreciate it. I also forgot to pull. I got a nice note apparently I mispronounced the way you’re supposed to say the name of a fish in the Steve Harvey story from over the weekend. Got a nice note on Facebook about that. I’ll try and remember to put that in tomorrow.

But I’m not being a jerk. It was a nice note. It was well phrased. Was like, hey, man, just want to let you know, and I was like, okay again, kid from Queen’s I don’t know too much. Mark Norman has a special out today.

There was a point where this was the lead story today’s script. But here we are like a half hour in titled none Too Please. It’s on Netflix. Filmed at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. Mark Norman turns married life, fatherhood not button topics.

It’s too rapid fire punch lines and this witty free for all or nothing is off limits. Mark said, actually got caught going a strip club recently by my wife, but on how she caught me, I only talked about it on four podcasts. That’s in the trailer. I’m excited for this one. Mark spit around for a bit.

Now not a household name. Good looking guy hangs out with the comedians who can accelerate his career. Joe Rogan, boy, you know everything is timing and maybe this one on Netflix will just really really pop. Mentioned yesterday about Bert Krasier’s tour bus fire. The subreddit dedicated to the podcast Your Mom’s House had some fun with it.

These comments are amazing. One person wrote, now Bert has a second story to tell that is just amazing. Drop the MIC’s or nothing’s going to top that other people tried. One wrote, hopefully this tragedy doesn’t make them become an alcoholic for the last twenty years. Another said you have to question if Bert did this on purpose to make a headline.

That’s how much of an attention where he is. I do find it interesting that the fire happened and then a couple hours later Netflix announced he got a season two of Free Bird. I’m not saying those things are related. Mark Norman with a really good line. Yes, the same Mark Norman with the special out Today, Mark Norman wrote something can stop the machine creat line.

Tim Dillon chimed in. He wrote, of the wreckage looks like a photo of downtown Austin. Boy, I’ve got stories I can’t even bump today. It’s Saint Patrick’s day. If I don’t do this one now, when are you gonna do it?

From The La Times, irishman David Nil feared public speaking before he found stand up. Now he won’t stop talking. David’s special Cultural Appreciation is two and a half million views on YouTube, but he said I wouldn’t even call mine comedy specials. I don’t know how to do performance, but I don’t know how to talk. Growing up in Ireland, he struggled to learn he is dyslexia.

I said, I came in the lowest five percent tile in the whole country of Ireland for spelling and I didn’t even spell my name right on the test. His father offered to buy him a Super Nintendo for certain math scores. David didn’t get those scores. Dad bought it for him anyway, and then David sold it. Bought myself a motorcycle even though I was fifteen and not legally old enough to drive.

As an ireland your nature is just a default of funny stories, he says. American stand ups about taking a topic and make it funny for five minutes. Irish comedians say this thing happened to me, and I think that’s funny. Let me just repeat it, he says. He prefers telling stories to just a few people.

That’s interesting and I love this too. He says, with comedy, the best part for me is that before show, I eat half a chocolate bar and I leave the other half in the hotel room. After the show, I get to finish it. That’s true happiness. I also can’t bump this story about Maggie Winters.

She’s got a special out today on YouTube. It’s called Margarite. It includes Maggie Winter’s performing stand up from her bedroom, as well as other videos and bits. She explained, I did improv for about five years, and at the time of my life, I was scared of stand up. I never actually thought I would do it, so I’m shocked that I’m here today.

The theme of the special. It started as a joke but is fully The theme is Live, Laugh, Love. I talk about my life, I talk about my laugh and I talk about my love. The show is in three sections. One of the jokes is about all Irish Americans landed here, so now it’s people who have the Irish flag tattoo but have never set foot in Ireland.

And that is a very long daily comedy use today. Did you see why we didn’t get into Sebastian Menascalgo and Marcelo Hernandez and snl UK and the New York Times writing about comedy and the Epstein Files. We had a lot to do tomorrow, but that’s enough for now. Appreciate you see tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media, Oh. Outbit outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mack and this is the Comedy Survivor elimination show. Many weeks ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island.

Each week, the listeners go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. They write down one name. Whoever gets the most votes is voted off Comedy Island. Still in the game, Nikki Glaser, John Mulaney, Otsco At Cotska, Sebastian Manascalco, Tignatarro, Sarah Silverman, and Leslie Jones. It’s time to tell you the votes.

Mike votes for Tignatarro, Lee votes for Osco at Coska. Matt votes for John Mulaney. Scott votes for Tignetzrrow, Dylan votes for Tignazarrow. That’s Tig’s third vote. Heather votes for Leslie Jones.

Andy votes for Leslie Jones, two votes for Leslie Jones, Yvon votes for Otsco at Cotsco two votes for Otsco. Barbe votes for John Mulaney, two votes for John Mulaney. Mike votes for Nikki Glaser. Lindsey votes for Otsco at Cotsga, Andrea votes for Nikki Glaser. That’s two votes for Nikki Glaser.

Michelle votes for John Mulaney, three votes for John Mulaney, three votes for Otsco at Cotsga, three votes for Tignetzorrow, Travis votes for Tignazarrow four votes for Tig Nataro. Karin votes for Otsco at Coska, four votes for Osco, Raffie votes for Leslie Jones, and Mary votes for Leslie Jones and Folks, you’re not gonna believe this. We have a tie, not a two way tie, a three way tie. Leslie Jones, Otsco at Coska, and Tig Nataro all with four votes, John Mulaney with three. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, when there’s a tie, the AI breaks the tie.

Spruce the AI. Are you there, I’m right here. If there’s anything you need, whether it’s settling that tie or anything else, just let me know. Can you please confirm the vote for me? Absolutely?

You had a three way tie with four votes each for Leslie Jones, Atsuko and take Nataro. John Malaney had three votes and Nikki Glaser had two. The highest Crystal Clear, Leslie, Hotsuko and Tig each got four votes. Spruce. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, you get to cast the deciding vote.

All right, I’ll step up. Given the dynamics so far, I’m casting the deciding votes. Who eliminate Take Nataro. She’s been a recurring target and with multiple votes a week after week, it feels like her time is up. Star trek Ruiner, Take Nataro has been voted off Comedy Island.

I’m not too upset about it. Boy, We’ve got two big time survivors here. You guys can’t get rid of Leslie Jones or Otsco at Cotska in no matter how much you try. We’ll take a break. We’ll come back and look at what all this means.

I got a big kick out of the Facebook group this week. You guys were very funny. There are alliances, I can see them. Dylan has even laid out a plan for the next few weeks. We’ll see if anybody follows his lead.

There. Avon keeps voting for Otsko and Cotska, but she keeps surviving. Avon had posted knowing how Susan Lucci felt waiting for that daytime. Emmy Lindsey said that last week she forgot to vote and would have voted for OSCO, which would have voted Osco off the Island. She voted for Osco this week, but Osco has survived yet again, and Mary cracked me up and said, if someone could keep repeating the Joe Koy jokes, I can keep voting Leslie Jones off on the Golden Gloves.

We have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift now. Of the three people that went down to the tiebreaker, their names have been coming up. Leslie’s been to the tiebreaker before, Oscar has been to the tiebreaker before, and Tig was getting a lot of negative votes early in the season here, but the AI says the real story is Leslie Jones and Osco at Coska. Leslie Jones, week after week people vote for her, week after week. She survives Osco at Coska.

The I don’t know. Her vote has been consistent for multiple rounds, yet it never reaches critical mass. Okay, it’s time for you guys to vote. Go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group Still on Comedy Island. John Mlaney, Sebastian Manaskalco, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Leslie Jones and otsgo Atkotzka.

Who’s going Home this week? Facebook group a Daily Comedy News podcast group. Vote and I’ll see in the morning with a normal episode.