Month: March 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Take a minute here. We’ll walk through the Oscars kind of slowly, kind of lower energy than my normal delivery. It’s about nine to thirty on Sunday night.

My body feels like it’s later because I’ve been watching this thing for two and a half hours and taking a break here while the Knicks are in halftime. I also have the baseball game on. I have three things going on TV, so let’s talk about the Oscars. And I really want to break down Conan’s monologue from a comedy standpoint. My headline here at nine point thirty.

Unless something goes sideways, you never know somebody might slap someone. What a well produced Oscars. I’m really really impressed by this broadcast. I’m a production snob among a comedy snob and a star trek snob and all the other things I snob. But this is really well produced.

All right. We start with a fun cold open Conan O’Brien dressed as Aunt Glass from Weapons. I’ll stop there. I kept notes as the show went along, and I was wondering, have Normy’s seen these movies and I’m not shading any of the movies. I just don’t know if any of these cut through.

I personally didn’t know the Aunt Gladys reference. Maybe everyone else does. My wife came by. She didn’t want to watch the Oscars because she didn’t know any of the movies. My daughter, who’s a theater kid and who performed off off Broadway earlier in the day, she wasn’t watching because she didn’t know the movies.

So I thought that was interesting. Anyway, Coda comes out dresses Aunt Gladys from Weapons. He runs through various Oscar nominated scenes, and again, I wonder if your average American knew what they were referencing. There doesn’t mean it’s bad. It was still high energy and a lot of fun.

Conan was dressed in an orange wig and halface makeup, just like the villain from Weapons. He goes on to invade a ping pong scene from Marty Supreme. I think that cut through to the mainstream interrupts the play from Hamnet. I think a lot of people don’t even know what Hamnet is because of the weird name. Rode Shutgun with Benisio del Toreo on one battle after another.

That’s one of the few films I did see because it was streamed on Netflix question Mark. I became animated for a K pop demon Hunter is a bit okay fine, and then asked to be lett inside the Duke joint from Sinners. All Right, that one I think landed as well. A lot, a lot of fun. Okay, Let’s break down the monologue here Conan, as I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you want a professional hosting these things, and I think Conan nailed it.

Now Here he jokes that he’s going to be the last human host. I am Conan O’Brien, and I’m honored to be the last human host of the Academy Award. Yeah. Yeah, next year it’s going to be a way mow in a tous so check that out. And I was surprised Conan got somewhat political.

Maybe not by name, but he got the points in several times. Here’s sort of a political joke. No, it’s great to be back hosting the Oscars. Last year when I hosted Los Angeles was on fire, but this year everything’s going great. Here at a minute five and was monolog he had a good Challa made joke.

Security is extremely tight tonight. I just got to mention that, Yeah, I’m told there’s concerns about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities. They’re just magg you left out jazz. I should warn you tonight could get political, okay, and if that makes you uncomfortable, there’s an alternate oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. Yeah, it’s at the Dave and Busters down the street.

At that point I wrote down that Conan immediately had his fastball. Now last year it took him a minute to find it, but he came out throwing heat this week, and then he did get it political a few more times. This joke really didn’t get much of a reaction. In Hamnett, William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes gives birth by herself in the woods. Whereas we call that here in America affordable healthcare.

Now you’re real for you, huh? All Right? As we dive deeper into the art of a monologue, pay attention to the tag on this joke about F one F one. I loved F one a popcorn movie. It was great.

F one is terrific. Yeah. F one is up for Best Picture. It’s the story of a race car driver who finally wins after deciding to go faster. Yeah.

Yeah. F one received four nominations. F one did so well, they’re making a sequel, caps lock. Some of these I do for myself. This next one here, involving Rose Byrne, is what we call a joke.

Joke. I was in a movie this year. Yeah, I was in a movie with the lovely Roseburn. My co star Rose byrn is nominated for Best Actress. And if I had legs, i’d kick you.

Yeah. Yeah, it’s hard to act in a scene with someone you’ve always had a massive crush on. But Rose, you did a fantastic job. I don’t want to spoil this next one, but I actually wrote down wow about this one. It’s the first time since twenty twelve, first time since twenty twelve that there are no British actors nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress.

Yeah, British spokesperson said, yeah, well at least we arrest our pedophiles. So you got that going. So Conan was following the basic and so and so was here, Like I don’t know if it was me and Mike Chisholm from the Letterman podcast was there, I’d be like you know, Mike for the Letterman podcast is here, and then I’d say something about him being Canadian or something basic. And that was what Conan was doing as he was checking and driving. Leonardo DiCaprio was here, sir, good to see you.

I about you. He’s the star of so many movies and the king of memes. He’s the king of memes. This guy. Let’s make a new meme with Leo right now.

That feeling when you didn’t agree to this, they’ll pull that up in editing. Live. Here is a good example of the comedy rule of three. This is not the most hilarious joke. It’s pretty basic, but it’s the one two three rule of comedy.

Tonight’s oscars are being watched by more than a billion people around the world. Yeah, let’s let’s say hi to some of them. If you’re watching from Spain, Oh. That’s so, I corner Brians. If you’re seeing us in Argentina, Ola, so I called Rabrian.

Yes, from and to our friends in Los Angeles, Ola, so. I called Lebrian.

And then Conan did get pretty serious for about a minute.

Let’s let this rule. If I can be serious for just a moment, everyone watching right now around the world is all too aware that these are very chaotic, frightening times. Okay, it’s at moments like these that I believe that the Oscars are particularly resonant. Check it out. Thirty one countries across six continents are represented this evening, and every film, every film, yeah, every film we salute, is the product of thousands of people speaking different languages, working hard to make something of beauty.

We pay tribute tonight, not just a film, but to the ideals of global artistry, collaboration, patience, resilience, and that rarest of qualities today, optimism. So let us please celebrate. Let us celebrate. Let us celebrate not because we think all as well, but because we work and hope for better in the days ahead. You’re announcer Matt Berry.

They said he was doing it from London. I shot a note to a friend who’s a broadcaster and I’m like, remember, we used to have to like order specific phone lines three weeks in advance, and now we’re like just cowboying. The Oscars. Announcer sitting at a booth in London, and the Oscars are in la So that’s eight time zones. So no matter how good your tick.

The speed of light is still a thing. If you do a broadcast from LA to London, there is a delay. There’s nothing you can do about that. I don’t care how good your tech is. So I’m impressed they did that.

So Matt Berry just I don’t know. He was like, sure, I’ll do it, but I’m not going to LA for that. I mean kind of fascinating, but anyway, let’s listen to Matt Berry with his wonderful pronunciations. The set up here as Conan is fantasizing about winning an Academy Award. The nominees for Best Achievement ah Antonio Bendadras.

Then he’s done with the Benzel Washington, Clenn Close. And Conan O’Brian handel. Winner is Conan O’Brian. We come back from the first break. Conan had a couple more jokes.

Welcome back, We’re coming to you live from that has a small penis theater. Let’s see him put his name in front of that. I was really happy watching the non stars win, like the animators of the costume people like I just let them have their moment. I hate when they play people off. Look, what are we racing to get to the eleven o’clock news, who gears Just let it roll, you know, within reason.

If somebody goes ridiculously long, okay, play them off, but let people have their moment. Conan then starts to disappear. That’s not a dig at him. You see that on almost every award show that you get a lot of the host upfront and then they kind of disappear and occasionally just show in to move the show along. And if you listen to Saturday’s podcast, Conan had talked about how that is the role onto the Rob Reiner tribute.

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Wow, I’m getting choked up right now thinking about it. Billy Crystal nailed that. Now I wanted to pull the audio. I have a program called audio Hijack, which we’ll record all the out on in your computer.

I was watching on the Big TV and then I had YouTube TV playing on the laptop. But I was just hijacking the audio, as they say, and I went to pull the Billy Crystal and I saw that, oh, too many of my children logged into dad’s YouTube TV account and mine got kicked off for the too many screens. So I don’t have the christ the audio, but it’s fantastic. Around nine pm, Conan did a bit about reaching the younger audience. I thought it was okay.

My daughter, unprompted, texted me and said that she really really liked that bit, so it worked touchdown for Conan. There, Jimmy Kimmel shows up around nine to fifteen. Let’s listen to Jimmy. I did edit this clip for pacing Jimmy. Kimmel and Welcome to the ninety eighth Annual Academy Awards.

Oh wait, am I not hosting the show? Well, this is embarrassing. Actually, Conan went outside to get some mayor inadvertently exposed his face to the sun and was incinerated. So I will be finishing out the rest of the program. I am here to present the Oscars for Documentary Films.

We hear a lot about courage at shows like this, but telling a story that could get you killed for telling it is real courage. As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say wit, let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS. Fortunately, so whatever happens in the second half of the Oscars we’ll talk about that on Tuesday’s podcast. Now, while we’re here, I was online all night, you know, I’m in the Facebook group, I’m on Twitter.

I’m just saying what’s happening in the news. I just saw this one come in. I’m reading this cold. Bert Kreischer said his tour bus went up in flames on I ninety four between tour stops on Sunday. Bert shared a photo of the burnt bus.

He said after the fire, we’re all counting our blessings today. In an Instagram Stories post, he said, we would have all been on at asleep, we would have been dead. Bert told people his team avoided being on the bus at the time of the fire because around midnight after a show in North Dakota, the tour buses front right tire blew out on nine ninety four. Bert said, it was a fluke accident. We hit nothing and it was a no fault of the driver.

We waited outside for a couple hours. They decided to leave the bus on the highway and split into the other two crew buses. The bus that caught fire waited fixing around eleven am on Sunday. The bus driver who stayed behind heard a pop come from the roof. Within a matter of seconds, the bus was filled with smoke.

The driver exited the bus. The driver’s okay. The bus went up in flames. That’s all really weird. I’m glad everyone’s okay.

Bert said he and his team lost many belongings in the fire, including their clothing and other things they had left behind. In another insta post, Bert posed outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods where they went to buy new clothes, and he captioned it my current and only outfit. He told people, me, the other comedians, my assistant, my trainer are all very lucky. The Lord works in mysterious ways. As annoyed as we were to blow out a tire on a highway and a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, we’re all counting our blessings today that we weren’t on the bus when the fire broke out.

I’m sure I litte more about that on Tuesday’s pod SNL was really good. We’ll talk about more on Tuesday was the best episode of the season. Marcelo Hernandez did his Sebastian manascalco. I’ll break that apart. On Tuesday’s episode, I’ll so new cast member Jeremy Colhayne did an awesome sucker Carlson.

We’ll talk about that. And I continue to feel that Keenan Thompson continues to be the glue on that show. And I was really impressed by Harry Styles. I sent to a couple friends. Some people are just stars.

Harry was a great host, very comfortable hosting, obviously a great musical performer. Looks great. That guy’s just a star. Okay, we’ll take the break here. There is a second half of the podcast.

I recorded it Friday afternoon for this very scenario of let me do the oscar’s up top and then some other stuff after the break. I don’t even remember what I was talking about. So come back after the break and there’s something there. I’m just a little tired, and I gotta put the show together. Now, coming up at newon Eastern today, the results of Comedy Survivor.

Can’t Wait. Check back on the feed. Then Stephen Colbert Tonight on his program will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Book of Mormon’s Broadway debut. It’s been more than fifteen years. I saw that in previews.

Is that number right? Yeah? Wikipedia said the Eugene O’Neill Theater on March twenty fourth, twenty eleven. Well, I saw it in previews and it was great. I’ve seen it a few times.

Wonderful show if you’ve never seen it. Tonight, on Colbert’s program, you’ll welcome guests Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez, the trio responsible for the music, lyrics and book. That’s interesting that Trey and Matt are doing stuff they usually don’t want to. Way back when the Book of Mormon was launching, we had Trey and Matt up to celebrate the musical at Sirius. I forget exactly what we did, but I do remember that Trey and Matt did not want to engage with anyone.

I would not describe them as friendly.

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Also on Colbert Tonight, Andrew Reynolds and Josh Gadd, the original leads in…

Those are the guys that I saw way back when. Apparently in twenty eleven, the Lighted Show will also host a performance by the current Broadway cast of the Book of Mormon. It is currently the tenth longest running show on Broadway and the longest running show in the one hundred year history of the Eugene O’Neil Theater, nine time Tony Award winner. The Book of Mormon follows a mismatched pair of Mormon sent on a mission to a place that’s about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get. Uganda Wece caught up with Pete Holmes.

I feel like there’s been a Pete Holmes renaissance. I definitely have gotten a lot of nice words about and thank you Pete Holmes for coming on this program two weeks ago, and I am reminded Pete’s special hasn’t even hit YouTube yet. I spent the ten bucks to watch it, so I think we’re going to continue to see a Pete Holmes renaissance. Vice asked Pete Holmes have comedy crowds changed since Pete Holmes first started? Now, I not a performer, would have said yes, but Pete Holmes says not one bit.

Johnny Mack finds that surprising. Pete says, I think audiences have gotten more sophisticated and never broader understanding of comedy, which of course helps immensely. The one change I’ve noticed is people think the comedian wants to talk to the crowd. So yeah, Pete, they have changed. That’s what I would have said.

That’s because of Instagram. Everybody posts their crowd work clips because they don’t want to post material. I get it, but it’s making people shout out more. That’s fine, But I always think my act is better than me just asking one guy what he does for a living. Weiss was curious about would there be a Crashing movie m HBO bring Crashing back to wrap things up.

Pete said, no. I love the way Crashing ended. If Pete the character went on to find success, which is where it probably would have gone, it wouldn’t be crashing, it would be flourishing. And I think the struggle of years are the funniest and most interesting. No one wants to see Pete get a bid dat in an espresso machine.

We want to see him. Good question here for Pete Holmes. Between the TBS show, on the podcast, You’ve interviewed a lot of different people. Does anyone stand out? His answer, Interviewing Conan O’Brien on both was the dream come true.

Conan was and is such a kind and good hearted champion of younger comics, and interviewing him instead of the other way around was a delight and slightly terrifying. Comedy Gives Back is the nonprofit working to provide a safety net for the comedy community. They have set the lineup for Alt Comedy All Stars twenty twenty six that has a benefit show to be the mantabamb Theater in Los Angeles on April twenty second. Your lineup Bob Odenkirk, Star trek Ruiner, Patton Oswalt, Mary Lynn, Rice Cup you remember her from twenty four and more. In the press release, Star trek Ruiner Patton Oswalt called stand Up this weird, wonderful path where each generation learns from the ones who came before.

You grind it out in the clubs, you bomb, you get better, and somewhere along the way, community forms events like All Comedy All Stars. A minus that we’re all part of the same ecosystem and supporting Comedy Gives Back means helping that ecosystem survive. Bob Bonenkirk said it, as a proud member of the comedy community, I want to support comedians in need. Mary Lynn gave a quote two Comedy Gives Back does incredible work supporting comedians when they need it most time. Proud to lend my Voice, et cetera, et cetera.

South By Southwest Comedy hung a Monday. That’s rare for a festival to go through the weekend and hang the extra day Creak in the Cave. Six o’clock south By Southwest Comedy presents unsponsored apparently Dylan Carlino, Freddie Chanell, Tone Bell, Vanessa Gonzales and Jake Cornell eight fifteen Creaking the Cave. The Dropout Improv does a pretty flower interesting title. I’ll click, We’re told Kurt Maloney, Jacob Osaki, Vick Michaels, Oscar Montoya and Scott Pasarella from Dropout TV take on long form improv in this special live show.

And there’s a warning. Folks, Please note that the programming descriptions are generation by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of south By Southwest. All right, relax, let me know what everybody found offensive in that show description. Geeze eight o’clock at Estra’s Folly’s It’s Chaos with Chelsea Pretti, Natasha Lazio and Sabrina Jaelly’s drop Out as another show at nine, this one called crowd Control at the Creek in the Cave. In this one, the audience is the main material, okay.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithms love the oscars are tonight. That was well covered yesterday.

Meanwhile, Wanda Sykes was on Stephen Colbert’s program and encouraged him to…

You always bring the fire every night, but this last show has to be destruction. Colbert said, I want to get Pope Leo on here. He’s ghosting me. He’s holy ghosting me. Jimmy O Yang has a new special bullet Where’s it going to be airing nowhere?

It’s a theatrical release. I couldn’t believe it when I read this. It is Jimmy O Yang’s third comedy special, this one called Finally Home. He taped it during a sold out arena run in Hong Kong. The special screen exclusively in Hong Kong at Emperor Cinema, is beginning March twentieth if you can’t make your way to Hong Kong, wait a week and we’ll open in theaters across the USA and Canada March twenty seventh.

Jimmy O Yang, self proclaimed as the Taylor Swift of Hong Kong, Love It. In the special, he talks about his family fighting for the bill and his experience as an immigrant returning to his hometown for the first time in twenty five years, weaving together his English set with a touch of subtitled Cantonese. There is a trailer. I play a little bit of it. I found it to be a little noisy, and I like Jimmy O Yang a lot, so I am excited about this one.

But I didn’t love the trailer. Let’s listen. You know why Asian people love gambling. It’s our only extreme sport. Oh we got.

The only thing that gets maya adrenaline going is the possibility of losing money to a stranger. Of these Chinese karaoke systems. After every song, the machine gives you a school is it ai put is some old assum in the back judging you through the kitchen seventy two? No, they’re asking the seal of TikTok He’s like, are you Chinese, I’m Singaporean, Sir. He’s Singapore and China.

No, it’s in Singapore, Sir. Tom Sigora was speaking with Forbes about his amazing staff at why m H Studios. Sigora, on his podcasting front, said they handle everything. They take care of everything from the booking to the prepping of the show to the technical aspect. There’s a post studio there, social media team.

They do everything, and the idea is we just show up. We get to be ourselves and hang out and do the show, which I think is the best version of the show for us. It’s just beyond there but yourself, have fun, talk crap, and that’s kind of how we try to do it. Incredible staff at y MH. Tom said he had no idea the podcast would really launch him.

He said, of course not. I had zero desire to do it. I didn’t want to start a podcast. I got talked into it and reluctantly was doing it. That’s one of those things where I realized I was having fun doing it.

I didn’t even realize there’s an audience listening. You couldn’t tell it first, but I just realized you can put up the show you want to put on. It’s the same as stand up and stand up. You get to say what you want to say. And so when I had been a guest on a podcast, I was like, I don’t do this.

But I realized I didn’t want to do their podcast. I want to do my podcast, and figuring that was a really exciting thing. On Friday, I told you THEO Vaughan was going to be at the Baton Rouge Parade. As I record this. Later on Friday, I’m told that THEO Vaughn dropped out of the parade, no reason given.

At this time, some people observed that THEO Vaughn had a Friday night show and two Saturday night shows in Florida, neither of which are in Louisiana, where Baton Rouge is Now you can’t travel back and forth, and THEO can probably afford the plane. But maybe, perhaps possibly he didn’t want to be in Florida Friday, Louisiana Saturday and then do two shows last night. Who knows. Hope everything’s okay there. George Lopez spoke to NJ dot Com about doing politics.

He said, I tried not to cross the line, but in comedy, no one else was talking about the inner workings of the family or what we mean to America. I was never particularly political, but over the past fifteen years I felt there needed to be a voice. It didn’t matter to me whether people agreed or disagreed. I wasn’t doing it for approval. It’s a small part of what my act is, but of course it’s there.

I always try to make people laugh. I’m not preaching, and there are ways I can still get the message across without dividing the room. Ron Funches had nice things to say about Donna Kelcey and about meeting Travis Kelcey. This happened when Ron Funches was on Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Funch Is called Kelsey an amazing game show host.

Never met this man in my life and honestly was like, all right, football guy to come in here and knows the show, the thing I want to do. I want to host the show. Let me see what you got. And I’m like, damn, this man is charming as hell. I get this is why you’re marrying a billionaire.

He’s so charming and so sweet and so kind. Angela Kinsey, you know her as Angela from the Office, revealed she would love to reprise her character for the Peacock spin off series, The Paper. I don’t think i’ve actually finished The Paper. I was kind of sort of into it and got distracted. I don’t know.

I should probably watch the last two episodes whatever I have left. But shockingly, Angela would take more work no way, she told she’ll developer Greg Daniels, Greg, if you need Angela Martin to come, you know, if Oscar is having an accounting problem and Angela needs to come, I’d be more than happy to. We’ll see if that happens. Mackenzie Crook played Gareth on The UK Office, the Real One, no offense. It’s not like I don’t love the American Office, but I don’t know.

I had to say the UK Office because the UK Office is the Office. This one with Steve Karel is the American version anyway, I digress. Krook told The Guardian after The Office, I wanted to write something that wasn’t cruel humor, that didn’t have a cringe factor, and in doing so I stumbled upon my genre, gentle comedy. Not wild about the term. It sounds both unfunny and as if you’re trying not to offend anyone.

He said, you recently rewatched The Real Office and said, in series two, a fire alarm goes off and everyone’s evacuated. Watching it, I had this real Pavlovian reaction where my heart just sank because they knew something awful was coming up. I’ve forgotten all about it. What happens is, David and Gareth, you had twenty years start trying to get a disabled employee down the stairs, then give up halfway through, saying if it was a real fire, that definitely come back for her. It’s excruciating.

Steve Harvey caught up with Hookendbarrel dot com You’re home for comedy news. He talked about his fishing days. He said, I traveled with a rod real tackle box, skillet, some charcoal, cornmeal and grease. When I caught bass crappier brim, I’d clean them on the bank, stop at a rest area, and cook them on those cast iron grills. That’s how I pretty much survived.

Fishing wasn’t fun for me. He was about staying alive. Now. One day he stopped at a lake caught some fish. The owner of the property showed up and said, hey, this ain’t your lake.

Why fishing over here? Steve Harvey said, I apologize and pulled my line out of the water, and then he said, those ain’t your fish. Throw them fish back. Harvey threw all six fish back in the lake. He says, that was my dinner.

I got in the car a little teary eyed, and I told God, one day I’m gonna buy me a piece of land with a pond on it, and nobody can throw me off, and I’m going to fish wherever I want to. Six years later, Steve Harvey was on television. Tomorrow will be the OSCARS recap in a normal episode, then at noon Eastern the results of Comedy Survivor. I’ve not yet looked at the results as I record this, looking forward to see what happened. It was a lot of fun in the Facebook group this week, a lot of chatter at south By Southwest today at four o’clock the ucb Ascat Show that is a regular show at festivals.

That’s at Ester’s Folly’s At six point fifteen, The Creek in the Cave hosts Comic Relief and the Moth Present Funny Story. The website has things out of time order here because fifteen minutes before that at six o’clock and why didn’t you? I don’t know. Gotham Comedy Club presents Jared Freed, Tone Bell, Gavin Matt’s, Casey Balsham and Sophie Buttle. That’s a pretty decent show.

At seven o’clock at the Creek in the Cave at south By Southwest So Everything as a sponsor, It’s Facebook presents Robert Schultz, Amber Wallin, Chloe Radcliffe, Jazz Sainey and Paris Sachet. Eight o’clock at Ester’s Follies Britannic nine o’clock Creek in the Cave has Dropout presents Dirty Laundry. At ten o’clock back at esther is the Anything but Basic Cabaret.

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Also at eleven at the Creek in the Cave Bombing with Eric andre And from Beli…

I use that joke? Ready, didn’t I leave it in? Jeff Foxworthy was speaking at the Conversation on Biblical Manhood put on by the Church of eleven twenty two in Jacksonville. Other speakers included Tim Tebow, you know, the football player, and pastor Matt Chandler of Texas. Jeff Foxworthy open up about his struggles in becoming a biblical father and man, noting how the failings of his own father put him behind the mark.

I didn’t know this about Jeff. Jeff’s father was married six times, drank, smoked, custed, told dirty jokes. Jeff said, I didn’t know how to be a good husband. I know how to be a good dad. But I could see guys that were good husbands, and I could see guys that were good dads, and I knew enough to pick their brain.

Pastor Martin warned about the dude phase of manhood. Foxworthy called that phase the freedoms of adulthood with the responsibilities of childhood. We’ve got a bunch of guys locked in right there with that, and it’s not a good combination. And that is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm love, so I keep saying it. The Oscars are tomorrow night. They will be hosted by Conan O’Brien for the second year in a row.

Conan said, it’s not just about being funny moments a moment, it’s also about acknowledging what there is in a larger sense. As the host, I’m sort of the human avatar or whatever. I’m the entryway for the person watching at home, the person the audience member can relate to. I’ve been working for a really long time on material for the show with my writers, and it’s still evolving. Because we live in a very fast paced world.

Jokes we thought of two months ago are relevant now. There might be things that happened this week that will find their way into the show. He recalled last year there were a lot of challenges. The LA wildfires had him working well displaced. Conan said, so this year, I get to wake up in the morning in my own room, which sounds like a small thing, but it’s a huge thing.

So this year, all the movies are so different, they’re also vibrant. There’s so many different voices, so much artistry went into them. I think it’s one of the best film years that we’ve had in memory. As for a hosting, he doesn’t see the job being punchlines all the time. He explains, it’s not necessarily about being one hundred percent funny all the time.

Sometimes there are moments where it’s my job to move us along to the next moment. He and the team talk a lot about prep and design and getting everything just a certain way and practice practice, practice, But when this show happens, it’s an organic thing that’s unfolding in real time. The show will be a living organism, for better or worse. Conin did several interviews during the week. When with The La Times, they talked about the elephant in the room, which is the ongoing war in Iran, Conan said, my job is to always try and hit this very very thin line between entertaining people and also acknowledging some of the realities.

It’s a dance that goes on up until the show begins. Between us, and he referenced his executive producers. We’ll find the right tone. Conan recalled when Johnny Carson hosted the Oscars during the Iran hostage crisis. When I was a boy, Johnny Carson parodied ABC’s Nightline with the joke It’s Day four hundred and forty four of the Oscars.

Conan said, it was such a funny, topical joke that touched on something everybody was thinking about and at the same time got a big laugh and was unifying, and that was meaningful to me. Now, what about the rumored safety threats. One of the showrunners said, every year we monitor what’s going on in the world. They have the support of the FBI and the LAPD. The show runner said, this show has to run like clockwork.

Everyone is coming on the show that is witnessing the show, even a fan of the show. They’re standing on the barricades. Who want everybody to feel safe and protected and welcome. On Late Night or Bill Carter spoke with Conan. You can listen to that entire interview on the Late Night or Podcast Feed Wednesday’s episode the Bill Carter Interview.

Conan O’Brien, I just added that to my cue. Let’s see how absurd my cue is. Right now, this is a real number. If you follow me on LinkedIn and or the substack. I’ve been mentioning, this is a real number.

Okay, Right now I have two hundred and sixty nine episodes of podcasts downloaded to my phone. That would take two hundred ninety hours and twenty eight minutes to listen to all of them. However, it’s getting warmer out. Johnny Mack will either walk the dog or sit out in the yard, or fall asleep in the art, or sit on a beach, or sit up at the new summer place that I bought. So don’t worry that number is going to get lower.

I’ll eventually listen to Bill Carter and Cone and I digress. Carter asked, is it true that the Motion Picture Academy asked Conan to come back before he even left the stage last year? Conan said, not quite, but it was pretty quick. He talked about being a complete unknown back when he took over for David Letterman. He said, now we live in an arrow where there’s no such thing as a complete unknown.

Anyone like me starting out today would have six hundred hours of YouTube clips. Conan described his resume back then. He said, a writer, but he’s got an interesting vibe. Will there be a cold open on the Oscar? Conan said, you can expect some things.

We have more than one thing. We have some pieces I really like. We have some live things I’m really excited about. Very vague, Conan said, what I love most is the process. I love hanging around the writer’s room in my post late night life.

The two things I’ve missed most are having a writer’s room and having a band. When first asked to host the Oscars last year, Conan said, I was intrigued right away. I had done award shows in the past. I like the format. I like being out in front of people.

I like the feeling of ceremony because you can kind of play against it. So when they asked, yeah, I have to try this, I’m curious about it. I know it’s a lot of work and I’m gonna put myself through some misery, but let’s do it. And as for the second ask, yeah, I like to try that again. I had such a good time the first time.

I’m glad I did it. They talked about it being a tough room. ConA explained, the people in the room, you’re literally the last thing they’re thinking about say his barometer. If I’m having a good time and feeling the flow of it all and I’m making myself laugh ninety nine percent of the time, it means it went well. I call that the hallway ratings.

I used to talk about this. It’s serious a lot. If I was walking down the hall and feeling good about a show and people stopped me in the hallway to talk about what they had just heard on the radio, That’s how I knew we had a good show. And like this show here. You know, you do it every day.

Some episodes are better than others. Be realistic. You know. Some days I find a muse and the episode is a little more fun. Sometimes I’m just going through the headline.

Some days there’s nothing to work with. Some days I’ve find inspiration on the fly, so I know what Conan is saying. Conan says it’s even better if something unexpected comes up during the show. It’s a little like Olympic diving. You get grated on the difficulty if something just happened, people are looking for the host to guide them through that.

If you could do it in a funny way, the potential payoff is much greater than anything you thought of three months ago. Does Conan miss standing in front of an audience daily? Hmm, he says, no, I do not. You get one life. I spent a long chunk of my life doing that.

I really enjoyed it. It was thrilling, and now I like trying out all these other things. I thought I would miss it, but I do not. As for a late night, he said, my assumption has been that it’s gonna morph as everything does. Now.

People are watching their favorite comedian who no one else in the room has heard of. Had he worked Linden Late Night in the fifties or sixties, I would have left after the tonight show and you wouldn’t have heard from me. Again. Would Conan consider hosting SNL asked Bill Carter, And again you can hear that whole interview on Late Nighter. Conan said, good question.

I never want to be that guy comes back and says, hey, this is my old high school. I used to go here. Hey kids, I’m groovy. But never say never. If it came up, it could be exciting to try.

I’m not banking on it, certainly not asking for it. Conan got a big cover piece in the Hollywood Reporter under the headline, Conan O’Brien just can’t help himself. Conan said, we work in an industry where everyone’s constantly hyper analyzing where they are on a certain scale. All I can say is I get to do the thing that, for better or worse, I was put here to do. The article quotes John Mulaney, who said, I don’t watch a lot of these things, but I just remember thinking, is this the greatest Oscars ever?

Conan is a true artist and an incredible broadcaster. He’s also got one thing you cannot fake and can’t only earn, which is stature. Jeff Ross is quoted he had told Conan when the first offer came in. I told him you don’t need to do this. You’ve got nothing to prove.

When we quit late night, the goal will only do things that are fun, things we want to do well. This is what Conan wants to do. This is interesting. Mike Sweeney was Conan’s head writer and says, if anybody knows O’Brien’s tail when an idea tanks, it’s him. Sweeney explains his tell his tail is that he mocks at mercilesly for at least five minutes.

He’s most delighted in rehearsal. When things go wrong or they’re just bad. It’s like delivering fresh meat to lines gauge. If it’s your bit that’s getting eviscerated, you’re laughing as hard as anyone. You may be curious, how much do you get paid to host the OSCAR?

Is not all that much in the scheme of things. A twenty thirteen article in The Hollowod Reporter suggested a number between fifteen and twenty five thousand dollars. Seven years ago, Jimmy Kimmel said I got paid fifteen thousand dollars to host the OSCAR. Wanda Psyke said hosting the twenty twenty two ceremony actually left her out of pocket. I find that hard to believe.

But okay, by the way, remember twenty twenty two. Now, that was the year with the famous slap. Every time I see this sentence, it’s just my brain fries your host that year Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. Let’s just all ponder that for a second.

I just wanted to just stop and think for a second. Now, if I said to you, hey, you know who’s hosting the Oscars tomorrow, Amy Schumer, you’d be like what, wouldn’t you wouldn’t you be like what? Well? Twenty twenty two, Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. That’s the thing that happened.

The New Yorker asked Conan O’Brien, it’s a high risk, maybe even the low reward gig, isn’t it? And Conah said, I choose not to see it this way. It was really fun. I grew up watching Bob Hope do it, Johnny Carson do it, so it’s a very cool thing to be connected to. And as you know, I’m very interested in history, and this thing has been around for one hundred years, almost a hundred years, solet’s have fun with it.

That’s my attitude. What I’ve learned myself over time is I can’t fake enjoyment. I need to find ways to make sure that I’m having a lot of fun. I need to prepare. I mean, I’m a big preparation person.

I work with this brilliant team of writers who are just downstairs from where I’m doing this podcast. I go down there, they’re all around a long table and they’re like, these premises are no good. Yeah, these premises are no good. We got to get the Glengarry premises, and I yell at them, I’m the Alec Bald when it comes in and gives that great speech upfront. I’m talking about the movie now.

I think we all know that, not the play. They asked Conut about the slap and he said, well, you know, I don’t want anyone to slap me. I’d like a streaker, you know what. I’d really like a streaker to slap me. That would just satisfy so many of my dormant Catholic hang ups.

But it’s a weird duality here. It’s a weird thing. I like to plan and I like to prepare, and then I love when something goes off the rails. If accidentally a light falls, you can make a whole show about that, you know what I mean. And I don’t know what it is about human beings, but they instinctively know when something is real enough the moment, and then they say, you react in real time like a human being and make something funny out of it, and that has ten times the value of anything you could have written.

So you have to be open for things to slightly go wrong, and it’s fun and electrifying. My whole life has been prepared, but then, like any good quarterback, be ready for the whole play to fall apart and then wing it. The New Yorker asked Conan about the performance of it all being a heightened you. Now, I’m just a dude in the podcast. But this is how I teach this.

I teach, you know, I’ve been a media executive for thirty something years, and I teach the college class and I always tell everybody, you have to be real, but you ramp u up to one hundred and five percent. And you know, I’ve talked about this candidly. John doesn’t like Adam Sandlor movies. I don’t find them funny, and I just go on with my life. But Johnny Mack, who records this podcast in the basement, as you know, Johnny Mack hates Adam Sailor movies and loses his mind and they even exist.

You can even hear how it just changed my speaking delivery. You know, I’m getting more animated, so that that’s the performance part of all this. Conan said, I’m always this guy. There’s a heightened me, but it’s really not that much different. I routinely would just t to people on the street, complete strangers, and then that will lead to me doing a bit and trying to get them into it, trying to do improv with random people on the street.

And I’ve been maced. That’s funny. Well it’s not funny. But you know, wait, John, you’re hanging yourself here, is it. Do you think it’s funny that Conan O’Brien got mased?

No, not at all, that’s not funny. I was just laughing at the way I imagined Conan telling the story. But of course it would be horrible if someone maceed Conan O’Brien. Did I dig enough of a holy yet? Coda said, Yeah, there’s a height in me, and there’s a depressed me that just wants to crawl in a corner and read a book.

But I have access to this guy a frightening amount of the time. My father, who was a very smart man and very analytical and a scientist, was looking at me once and he watched every late night show and he said, oh, I see you’re making a living off something that should have been treated. And he wasn’t choking. He said, I see your synapses. Is the rhythm of your circulatory system, and then you found a way to be compensated, and I thought, thanks Dad, it’s probably a good time to remind you.

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It’s a great way to support the show. South By Southwest Comedy tonight at seven o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. It is the Don’t Tell Comedy all Stars in partnership with a sponsor name. Everything has to have a sponsor at south By Southwest. It’s very corporate.

I think the people that go there think it’s really cool and like in a fun sense. It’s not cool. It’s very corporate. It’s all about money. None of this is about art, none of it.

None of it. None of it, none of it, none of it. Anyway, You Don’t Tell Comedy all stars include Sophie Buttle, Paris Cichet, Chloe Radcliffe, Antonio Kareem, and Gavin Mattz. That’s seven o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. At eight o’clock Esther’s Folly’s hosts Funny or Die Approved.

Now who has Funnier Die approved? Funnier Die has approved. Pete Lee, Paris Cichet again, She’s gonna all over town, Tone Bell, Alex English and Jared Freed. Then at ten o’clock at Esther’s Folly’s, The Stand presents Pete Lee, Devin Walker, Gavin Mattz and Jamore Neighbors. Then you can catch Devin Walker and Alex English at the Dead Show at eleven at the Creek in the Cave.

That’s your south By Southwest Comedy tonight. One thing I’m noticing in the past there have been like pretty shiny comedians at this thing. I don’t see them this time unless they’re all doing like podcasts, so they’re not showing up on the comedy tab as I check on that. How about that south By Southwest again? Oscars tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be a normal episode in Oscar’s recap obviously on Monday morning, and then Monday at noon Eastern the results of comedy Survivor meets you back here in the morning.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I really do enjoy doing this every day. Thank you for supporting the program. And hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry, which, let’s face it is, apparently is that as the algorithms love. Happy Friday to thirteenth to those of you who celebrate.

Now. Hopefully between me recording. This and you hearing it, there wasn’t a horrible drone strike on the West coast. Jimmy Kimmel said, we can’t handle a drone strike. We barely survived the writers strike here.

And by the way, behind the scenes, there are days where I can sit down with the mic and just turn out script after script. I can tell you today less than a minute in I can’t speak today. It took me five tries to do that Kimmel joke. Jimmy Fallon said, I read the Trump administration as started a panic about the rising price of oil. Yeah, apparently Trump is so worried he can barely sleep through his meetings.

Great, great joke. I’ll do my Oscar preview tomorrow. But I am so excited because you know who’s going to be the announcer this year. This is the greatest idea ever whoever came up with this? Oh, we gotta say about this Stephen Colbert article on a second, because this is not really a lead story.

This is just Johnny max is excited about this thing. But you know who’s going to be the voice announcer for the Oscars. Matthew Berry. Now, if you’re like, who’s that, he’s the guy from Toast of London. He’s one of the vampires on what we do in the Shadows.

He has that wonderful, boisterous voice. Oh, I can’t wait. And Victoria Clark in Vulture, she’s a big fan. I remember doing Matthew Berry’s stuff to kill time during the pandemic. She used to write about him all the time.

She explains, very singular talent for pronunciation has made him something of a walking meme. His talents have already reinvented the way people think about words like New York City and yes, okay, yes. Hey Steven, that was really good. Feeling is here that you can be a bit more positive? More positive?

Yeah? Really go for it? You want me to go for it? All right? Yes, very very good.

Let’s just try without the scripts, by just loosening you up a little bit. Yeah, I mean it’s what is it? One word you do need? I probably don’t need the scripts. It’s just a word.

Yeah, Okay, let’s do it again. Yes? Is that right? Yes? Right, she writes.

His inclusion in this weekend’s Conan O’Brien hosted ceremony suggests that this year’s Oscars will fully embrace some much needed levity, and he’s trying times still. This news has sparked more questions than answers. Will Berry announce the category names, will you appear on camera? And most importantly, will he be given artistic license to pronounce words as he sees fit? Oh?

I can’t wait? All right? Uh? In Variety, Daniel de Dario throwing the gauntlet down the headlined Stephen Colbert’s long late show good oh I has gone from resistance to ego trip and Johnny Mack does not disagree. Here there was a time when I would have supported Stephen Colbert’s candidacy for office, but he has decided to become a star trek Ruiner, and we don’t like star trek Ruiners around here.

To Dario writes, Earlier this week, John Lithgow appeared on the show Blah Blah blah, and did something the guests on the show been doing a lot lately. He paid extensive tribute to the host. To Dario writes, Colbert’s removal from the air when it was announced last July was legitimately seismic news for the industry and for an audience who saw him as a crucial voice for the anti Trump resistance since the twenty sixteen election. What has ended up making it to air has been an increasingly puffy tribute to the show’s own host, the endless bouquets being tuss Colbert’s way had started to make the studio smell a bit cloying. With everything else going on in the world, we have to go through a month’s long celebration of life for comedian news job is coming to an end.

This tone necessarily comes from the top, rights to Dario, guests generally don’t just show up on talk shows and spontaneously do it whatever they want. Their appearances are choreographed in concert with the show’s production team watching the show, though one doesn’t get the sense Colbert really minds. Finally, there is the sheer pragmatic angle. Colbert will have an xt act the same future point. When that day comes, well, don’t feel like an anti climax after we’ve already spent the better part of a year celebrating him.

Fellow late night er Jimmy Kimmel will be one of the presenters at this weekend’s OSCARS. That’s pretty interesting. Your host is Conan O’Brien. We’ll do oscar stuff tomorrow, but Conan O’Brien is on the Kelsey Brothers podcast New Heights. Johnny Mack will work that into this episode title always good for SEO.

Hello new people, Hope you like the show. Push the follow button. At one point during the conversation, Conan interrupts to note that he hears kids in the background. He seems confused. Jason Kelsey explains that the kids are playing downstairs.

Conan said, if you want, Jason, I will totally scream at them for you. Jason asked Kylie Kelsey, who which one’s making noise. Conan wants to scream at them real quick. Jason said, I’m getting a no from my wife. Conan O’Brien said, okay, I respect her for that.

Note. You know what it’s for the best, because your children would be scarred for life. That say, why do that orange haired woman yell at us? And that lady was so mean. I was watching Scrubs with my wife Wednesday night and they put on a promo for the Oscars, and my wife reacted to Conan O’Brian’s appearance, saying he got old, and I’m like, he’s sixty something.

Now, Oh, it is ConA in sixty three. Let me look that up, sixty two. It’ll be sixty three on April eighteenth. I was feeling old earlier. Today.

I went for just routine blood work, you know, annual physical kind of thing. And boy, when I was giving my age, so my birth year is sixty nine, which just sounds like doesn’t that just sound like a zillion years ago at this point? Like even you know, I’m sure a lot of you listen are probably I’m just profiling you born in the seventies. Even if I said, like nineteen seventy, I would feel so much younger. But that’s six yikes.

All right, here’s some fun, and I like fun. Bill Burr, remember him. Bill Burr and or his social media team thought it’d be a great idea to go on Facebook and post Rhode Island pre sales now live with Code Burr and the comments did not disappoint. You may recall last summer, Bill Burr was one of the comedians who played THERIODD Comedy Festival. You may recall Johnny Mack has said on the record that Bill probably had the worst year of any big time comedian last year.

Just Bill did not help himself. Some of the comments. One asked, did you ask your wife it was okay to leave the house for this? Another said, man, I can’t wait to hear the latest wife approved jokes. One person said, I bet it’s a shame you can’t perform in Iran now, huh Bill.

A couple of people refer to him as Billy Burka, Billy Bonesaw. Some more straightforward comments, I remember when Bill used to be funny. No, it’s just a clown dance. Clown dance another road. I’ve lost out a lot of respect for Bill.

I’m not listening to him like I used to. More nicknames dollar Bill, Billy, Blood, money Bag, Dad, Billy and oh Billy can’t admit he’s wrong Burr. Bill Burr’s Facebook In case you’re bored from The New York Times. The headline Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel betrayed by Iran war. No Way, No.

Rogan, who The New York Times reminds us, endorsed Donald Trump in twenty twenty four and said that he still texts with the President on occasion. Rogan said, it just seems so insane. He ran on no more wars and these stupid senseless wars, and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it. So it sounds like Joe Rogan is surprised that the candidate he endorsed isn’t doing what he said he was going to do. No Way, No Way.

Joe Rogan went on to talk about the capturing of the Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. Joe Rogan said, neither thing made any sense. They go in, kidnap him, get him out. This one’s nuts. You may recall the President went on THEO Vaughan’s podcast at one time.

Well, if you want to see if THEOVONN head on out tomorrow, it’s the Baton Rouge Saint Patrick’s Day parade. THEOVONN will be joined by LSU head Football coach Lane Kiffen, the forty first wearin of the Green Baton Rouge. Saint Patrick’s Day Parade kicks off at eleven am. Comedy stock Market. Burt Reynolds is the voice of the Comedy stock Market.

Thank you Burt Reynolds. Now that’s actually Burt Reynolds. There’s an AI service that for some reason made Burt Reynolds voice available, and I’m like. Oh, use that on Comedy stock Market. Here’s what we do.

We try and find value in comedians, like you know, like when you buy stocks, you buy low and you sell high. So this isn’t necessarily who’s good or bad, it’s just where the value is. And I think we should buy a little Will Ferrell. Now I know that sounds crazy because he’s a comedy superstar, but he’s been quiet for a bit and he’s gonna have this Netflix show. And I think the combination of Will Ferrell, Netflix and the Netflix audience, the kind of people who like Adam Sandler movies, I think that is just going to be a winner.

So let’s buy some Will Ferrell before everybody else figures that out. Let’s buy some Derek Stroop. Did you watch his special during the week that was fantastic. Let’s skew oop some stroop. Let’s buy up some Bobby Lee.

Now, if you listen to this show, you’re like, yeah, we all know Bobby Lee, but nobody else knows Bobby Lee. Like he’s comedy famous, but he’s not famous. And if he’s going out on tour, he’ll be doing a lot of press and then all of a sudden people will be like, who’s this Bobby Lee guy? So your friends are going to figure out who Bobby Lee is. So I think Bobby Lee is a really good comedy stock market value for this week, and I think we should buy even more Chris Fleming.

I know we’ve been buying Chris Fleming every week, but you saw two weeks ago, was it two weeks ago? That was a really good purchase. So let’s buy even more Chris Fleming. Everybody seems into him. He’s peaking.

There’s gonna be a moment where it’s time to sell all our Chris Fleming. But right now, let’s scoop up a little bit more. He had a really good Jimmy Kimmel appearance that late night are described Chris Fleming is looking like a deranged hybrid of Big Bird and a gender fluid Howard Stern and Boy That does nail It. Chris is also on the wild Card podcast, one of the two hundred and ninety plus hours of podcasts that I’m going to listen to someday. But I actually listen to things this week because it was warm in the and I were out for an hour long walk, which is when I catch up on things, So I’ll get to all those.

And Conan O’Brien should be on this list. Definitely not a cell, but I feel like everybody else knows about this Conan O’Brien fellow, so I think we’re just gonna hold on Conan. I don’t think there’s much upside to him hosting the Oscars this year than people going, yeah, Conan’s great. There’s definitely some downside, but nothing makes me think that the Oscars will go poorly for Conan. So let’s hold.

So. The comedy stock Market this week is by Will Ferrell, by Derek Stroop, by Bobby Lee, by Chris Flemings. Hold Conan O’Brien, no seals this week. Thought about throwing Gabe in there, but I didn’t. South By Southwest Comedy is kicking off.

I think this was just added because I had looked at this yesterday and I don’t think I saw these here. Bill Burr mentioned it earlier. He’s recording the Monday Morning podcast. He’ll be live at Esther’s at two o’clock, so probably a good opportunity to get some guests there and then at eight fifteen and also at Esther’s and here you can hear all the cool just being drained out of the room. Here’s the title Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring the Dress Up Gang and Friends, hosted by Bill Burr.

Do you hear Bill burg going corporate? Do you hear it? I mean who he had the worst twenty five? I’m not sure he’s having a good twenty six At ten pm, which is very late, I’d be in better at it. You can add over to Esther’s Follies and go see my favorite lyrics live with Devin Walker.

Talk more about south By tomorrow as there’s a lot in there. And that is your comedy news for today, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Scrubs, Season seven, Episode four, My Poker Phase. Original air date March eleventh, twenty twenty six. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack and can we cut to the chase. Of the four episodes we’ve seen so far, I think this one was the fourth best.

Not too many laughs. I think I went through act one without snickering at all. It’s good to hang out with the old friends again. But I didn’t see much comedy there until we got to a scene where we learned JD’s new roommate is Chewbacca. That might have been a fantasy sequence, but that got a bonafide laugh out of me and the wife, as did a couple flashbacks to Turk doing the Macarena with retro hair.

Those were funny, but most of the episode not too many laughs there. The plot, JD organizes a poker night with Turk to recapture old times.

Meanwhile, medical and surgical entrance compete and Elliott deals with a pat…

That patient played by Matt Rife. Did you notice that that was Matt Rife? It bothered some people on the Internet. Now, hopefully the AI isn’t hallucinating here. I asked it to generate a scene by scene summary and I’ll see if my memory still works.

So we open up with JD narrating about how doctors often hide but they’re really thinking that goes with the theme of poker Face, and we learned some things about some of our fellow cast members during the episode. Okay, JD suggests that they bring back Poker Night to recreate the bond they had earlier in their careers. Turk is all excited because Carlo is going to be out and the daughters are at softball, and Turk Scott four hours to himself, so he’s like, yeah, I’m in.

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Meanwhile, the medical interns and the surgical interns are competing against…

At some point, JD and Turk get involved with that, but they kind of team up and teach the young ends how those two groups can get along. Elliott is treating a patient obsessed with social media. This is a guy that likes to work out a lot and post things online played by Matt Rife. Judy Reyes doesn’t appear in the episode. We do hear the voice of Carla.

She calls Turk and lets Turk know that she doesn’t have to work after all, and she’d love to hang out with him, and she flashes him, is what is implied. So Turk picks boobs over poker. That makes JD sad. Eventually, JD and Turk kind of have it out at that. JD is a little jealous that Turk’s got this family and he’s home alone, and Turk is like, man, I would kill for some alone time.

We got some new characters. There’s a new janitor who’s super friendly and really likes JD, and JD even jokes that he should learn the man’s name at some point, but he does not. I continue to like Turk’s apprentice. I don’t know her name, but every time she’s on the screen, I say to my wife, I really like her and I like her character. I should probably learn her name.

The social media in turn is named Tosh that has somehow stuck in my brain because of comedian Daniel Tosh. Some notes. I wrote down one thing bothering me the set. What’s with the blurry backgrounds? Like You’ll watch one scene and it looks like a JD and Elliot are standing in front of a green screen of fake hospital, and then the very next scene.

There’s clearly a practical desk set and half a hallway anyway, so I don’t know what’s going on there. I saw a couple of people in the Scrubs reddit mentioned the blurry backgrounds are a little annoying. Some people on the reddit or saying, so far in the new season, we’re not really connecting with the patients. In the original series, we would spend more time with the patients. I’m not sure that’s true.

It may have been true this week, or maybe Matt Riife just doesn’t have the gravitas to pull that off, but I think it’s a fair note. The hospital does seem a little underpopulated. Already mentioned no Judy rayis other than a voice cameo, and no John c McGinley. Now he will come back for two episodes. I’ve seen some spoilers and I won’t ruin it for you, but we will see doctor Cox again.

I was wondering about the Todd. Where’s the Todd? Wouldn’t the Tod be at poker night? That seems like exactly the kind of thing he would be all in on, right, And I’m also little worried where it’d be a little strong as a sitcom, but the Elliot character because j D and Turk have each other to play off of, but Elliott really only has JD to playoff. She doesn’t really have a relationship with Turk.

So Elliot right now is kind of on her own show. I know there are the three main leads, but it’s clearly the Zach Braff show. The universe revolves around JD. It always did. He’s the head narrator that we hear.

But I don’t think they figured out yet what to do with Elliott. In this episode, Elliott teams up with doctor Sam Tosh see I thought her first name was Tosh. Elliott quickly diagnoses the patient as having scurvy. Elliott is a little mean to Tosh, almost in a doctor Cox’s way, and starts calling Tosh doctor Selfie. However, it turns out the scurvy was brought on by a lesser known eating disorder called orthorexia.

Apparently, people with orthorexia become obsessed with eating what they determined to be the healthiest diet possible, and that’s what’s happening to Matt Rife there. If Tosh had listened to Elliott stopped using her phone all the time, they would have missed this diagnosis, so Elliott is forced to reevaluate her hard stance on how toash approaches her job. Elliott is also realizing, like we all do, getting a little older, and you know, you know what happens one day you don’t know how to program the microwave. We learned a little more about JD’s children. There is at least a son named Ollie.

Now during the original Scrubs, JD and Kim had a son, Sam in season seven, episode two that aired November one, two thousand and seven, So Sam would be almost twenty years old at this point, so Sam presumably in college. Somewhere in the premiere of season ten, we hear JD refer to kids, and in the now de canon I season nine, JD and Elliott had a child together. So some people have been wondering do they still have a kid together? Well, they do. There is a son named Ali.

JD mentions that he is Ali next weekend and that he has recently built his son a bunk bed. Let’s do some more math. Season nine of Scrubs a debut December one, two thousand and nine, so let’s place it in they had a child together so that child would be kind of fifteen sixteen, and I’m being generous with the math. So Ali’s got to be the youngest if he’s in a bunk bed. So is there another child, Well, the showrunner says no.

The current canon is JD has two sons, Sam with Kim and Ollie with Elliott. So perhaps the timeline of when the child of JD and Elliott, perhaps the timeline has shifted. I will quote Mystery Science Theater three thousand, who once wisely said, just repeat to yourself, it’s just a show. I should really just relax, don’t worry about it. Scrabs Jess.

It’s in episode four. Not bad, glad it was around. Not my favorite episode of all time, not hilarious, Not sure it’s one I’ll think about it other than Matt Rife appeared in it. But glad the show’s around, and looking forward to the return of Doctor Kok

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. Before we begin, two quick recommendations for you. I loved Derek Stroop’s new special on Netflix.

It’s called Nostalgic, if I recall correctly, really really fun, just as weird as Chris Fleming special is. This is straight down the middle, good jokes. Just throwing fastballs is right in the middle of the strike zone. Good hour. Check out Derek Stroop.

I also got around to Rooster on HBO. That’s the Bill Lawrence Show with Steve Carell, John McGinley, and even Jamie Tart from Ted Lasso shows up in this thing. I thought it was a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to watching more Roosters, so check those two out. Nikki Glaser will return as host of the Golden Globes.

The Golden Globes will be Sunday, January tenth, twenty twenty seven. That means Johnny Mack will have to work late on a Sunday, as I will have to do this weekend because Conan O’Brien is hosting the Oscars, and the Hollywood Reporter Conan had that big cover story and they got into the murders of the Reiners. You may recall Conan O’Brien hosted a holiday party in December that Robin Michelle Reiner attended the night before they were found stabbed. Conan told the Hollywood Reporter very simply, we had a party, we invited our really good friends, and then the next day this terrible thing happened. Whatever difficulties my wife and I have experienced having our name attached to her or nothing compared to the scale of the tragedy for the family and the loss of Robin Michelle.

If you’re a known person, your name’s going to getdragged into things sometimes. But it’s not a hardship. There’s only one sadness that they’re gone. Conan told the Hollywood Reporter he has not talked about the Rhiners on his own podcast because he felt that would be disrespectful. Conan has spoken about the Rhiners in a New Yorker profile in which Conan said, I knew Robin Michelle and then increasingly got closer and closer to them.

My wife and I were seeing them a lot. They were just such lovely people. And have that experience of saying good night to somebody and having them leave, and then to find out the next day that they’re gone. I think was in shock for quite a while afterward. It’s just so awful.

And I think how Rob felt things about that are happening in the country, how involved he was, how much you put himself out there and have that voice go quite in an instant. It’s still hard for me to comprehend switching gears. A new poll from NBC News showed who the People Trust. One thousand registered voters were asked their opinions of a whole bunch of people. Stephen Colbert finished second on the list.

First was Pope Leo, the fourteenth. In net favorability, Stephen Colbert earned thirty five percent positive ratings and twenty five percent negative ratings, giving him a plus ten net favorability score. Now, if he weren’t helping to ruin Star Trek, he’d probably do even better. But now he’s chosen evil, he’s ruining Star Treks. There was a time when I would have supported his candidacy, but now if he runs for office, I can’t have somebody who ruined Star Trek in office.

I’m sorry, sir, you blew it. Pope Leo had a plus thirty four net rating. In case you’re curre, some people not doing as well Marco Rubio minus seven, jd Vance minus eleven, AOC minus eleven, and the President of the United States at minus twelve. Rob Schneider has a theory. Schneider was on Bill O’Reilly’s podcast and floated a theory that people like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are being controlled by women.

That’s right, these women are making Jimmy and Steven thrash the president seemingly on a nightly basis. Bill O’Reilly asked Rob Schneider why Jimmy Kimmel and others seem to vilify the president. Rob Schneider equated it to liberal women who have lost their minds that are controlling these men. One of the possible contributing factors is that Jimmy Kimmel’s wife is the co head writer on his show. Rob believes, I think that’s completely ruined him.

He has that thanks to missus Kimmel, Kimmel has no testicles. Ricky Gervaise has denied telling a joke linked to the suspension of a nurse. Yeah, this gets all kinds of weird really quickly. James the nurse is accused of saying a sexualized remark to a colleague that I’m not going to repeat. James the nurse said he was just repeating a joke from Ricky Gervas.

Ricky Gervais has said on his Twitter account that Ricky has never said anything like this in a sketch, screenplay, stand up or privately. A panel has determined that the language I don’t want to repeat has no place in a professional healthcare setting. They said it was capable of causing shock and distress to colleagues, risk reputational damage to the profession, and was inconsistent with the standards expected of registered nurse. Deadline caught up with Ali Sidik. Sadiq noted that when people make lists of top comics, he’s never really brought up, and he asks, but who has a better body of work?

He put out three specials last year which have accumulated over twenty four point two million views. He is frustrated that the industry disregards work that is self distributed. He said, what difference does it make where specials at if people enjoyed it and it’s good work. Back in twenty eighteen, he released the special It’s Bigger Than These bas Ours with Comedy Central. Said he went to promote it on Instagram and was flagged for copyright infringement on his own work.

He said, I didn’t like that feelings. I decided I just want to put out my own stuff these days, it would take a significant amount of money and a significant amount of negotiation about ownership to entertain a deal from a streamer. He says, Realistically, I don’t foresee it, and I’m just floating on my own cloud. Gossip Conna, Spoons in the Street, Gossip Conna, Robby Bobby, Gossip Conna, Where the Rooms me with Johnny mag It’s always a cheese. We haven’t been on Gossip Corner a while, but saiday, I have three items for you.

Item number one. If you’re wondering, hey, is Russell Brand dead? Russell Brand is not dead. Apparently, this rumor goes back to a tweet from Dan Bungino. He posted, there won’t be another one of the saddest days of my life.

He was just different, and everyone who knew him knew it may God rush soul. That was accompanied by a picture of Dan Bongino, Russell Brand, and Charlie Kirk. But because it’s Russell Brand in the center of the picture, a lot of people thought it was about Russell Brand. It is not. It was about Charlie Kirk.

Our second item on Gossip Corny Chelsea Handler is back from a romantic getaway with her new mysterious boyfriend. Apparently they met at the blackjack table at the Cosmopolitan. As Chelsea Handler told the story to the Las Vegas Review Journal, I had to ask this guy sitting at a blackjack table who was wearing a cowboy hat. He had had a lot of chips, like thousands of dollars. I was like, hey, buddy, can I borrow a thousand dollars?

I’m gonna start winning right away? And he was like, yeah, absolutely, So he gave me a thousand dollars. Well, she did start winning, she explains, I paid him back another thousand just for interest, which I ended up taking back at the end of the night because I said I don’t think he deserved that. She has nicknamed him Cowboy. That’s all we know about him so far, and some gossip sites are reporting that Tracy Morgan was irritated as Tracy Morgan was film struggling to get out of his Ferrari and he had a new woman by his side.

As the story goes, Tracy Morgan needed assistance exiting his low sitting sports car in New York City. There’s a fifty one second video posted on Twitter by at Kill a Crew, Kill a Crew with a K where he’d normally put the c’s and two w’s. At the end, we see Tracy Morgan grip the doorframe for support. A man at a dark suit approaches and extends his hand to assist Tracy Morgan. The man pulls on Tracy Morgan’s arm to help him emerge from the vehicle.

The woman gets out on her own stands nearby. After a few seconds, Tracy Morgan is able to stand, but remains bent at the waist, steadying himself on the car before fully straightening up. This is all believed to be related to the injuries from his Horrible, Horrible twenty fourteen accident. You may recall Tracy Morgan was involved in a multi vehicle collision on the New Jersey Turnpike when a tractor trailer re ended the limousine bus Tracy Morgan was riding in. Tracy had significant injuries at that time.

Hope he’s doing well. Bobby Lee has announced a tour artist pre sale today at ten a m. General pre sale tomorrow. It is called Bobby Lee The Finally. Tour kicks off in Detroit April twenty fourth.

It’ll hit a bunch of places including Chicago, Toronto, Houston, Washington, DC, Atlanta, and more. The trailer for the formerly untitled Will Ferrell golf series has been released by the Netflix. Is that serie is no longer untitled. It is now called The Hawk, which refers to Will Ferrell’s character, Lonnie the Hawk Hawkins, a fictional golf legend. In The Hawk, Lonnie Hawkins two thousand and fours, number one golfer struggles on the back nine of his career to recapture his magic.

Hmm is that a metaphor? His body says retire, but his heart says he’s not done yet. His ex wife and his son, Lance, Golf’s new Golden Boy, no, he’s through, but with one more major to win to complete Golf’s Grand Slam, Lonnie refuses to believe he’s anything other than one stroke away from the greatest comeback in golf history. I’m gonna predict I’m gonna really hate this and everybody else’s going to really love it. Molly Shannon stars as Lonnie’s foul mouthed ex wife Stacy.

Some other people who appear in This Thing or Fortune Feamster, Luke Wilson, Chris Parnnil, and David Hornsby. You may know David from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Will Ferrell was sidelined for a bit in November. He suffered a minor injury off set. We don’t know what it is, but it did keep him from filming a few scenes.

We’re seeing producers to rearrange the schedule. According to TMZ, Amazon has announced a new special from Country Wayne. It is called Nostalgia, which I think is what Derek Stroop special is called. Isn’t it Well? The Country Wayne Nostalgia video will be on Prime on March twenty third.

Nostalgia is full of funny and hilarious moments mixed with the truth, gives that nineties feel. Isn’t that Derek Stroop special? No, because this one is in the deaf jam style. Of comedy. Did I imagine that?

I reported like last year Country Wayne was quitting comedy. Did I imagine that? Why would I imagine that? Yeah? July thirty, first, twenty twenty five, Country Wayne makes major in life announcement when it comes to stand up comedy.

My last show will be October fourth at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta. From my Amazon special Fascinating Met Your Comedy News for to Day? What’s Today? Today’s Thursday, It’s your last chance to vote for this week’s comedy survivor. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

There’s a list of comedians there. Vote one of them off and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence. The algorithm loves Gabe A. Glacias needs more money.

He has entered the celebrity tequila game, and I thank him for that. Gabe, with some of this money that you’re making, you should pay your PR team, because they got it done. They got Men’s Journal to write the following. Comedian Gabriel Iglesias just entered the celebrity tequila game, and it’s no joke. All right, that’s cheesy enough, but then the messaging.

After years of rejecting celebrity liquor deals, the fluffy comedian built a tequila from scratch, one designed to be affordable, social, and easy to find. We are told Gabriel Iglesias, one of the most successful touring comedians in the country, didn’t expect to get humbled by a blind taste test of his favorite spirit tequila. That’s right, the team behind his new tequila brand, Pocho Fino, shut up with more than three dozen bottles, including his usual poor patron and some early Pocho Fino Prototypes and ran Gabriel Iglacias through a Pepsi Challenge style lineup. Gabe said, I was so impressed. The alcohol that I thought I was drinking wasn’t what I was drinking.

It was actually Pocho Fino. Funny how that worked out. They all made fun of me. Huh, you thought you were good. My new favorite is Pocho Fino now again, Gabe, please take care of your PR team because they somehow got this printed.

For Galacias. Tequila isn’t a celebrity access rate now, it’s a social glue in a way of connecting with the people who show up for him night after night. Gabe says, I drink every weekend. I’m a social drinker. I don’t drink alone.

If I’m drinking, everybody’s drinking. That accessibility, emotional, cultural, and price point eighteen dollars for three hundred and seventy five milli liters is the heart of his new brand, Pocho Fino, and notice they keep getting the name in there. Good job. PR team explains, I definitely do not ever drink before the show, but toward the end, I’ll ask the audience, would you mind if I drink with you. That’s part of the show too.

I’m sure when he says that, heading forward, hey do you mind if I joke with you? I’m sure he’ll get some product placement in. Even Jim Gaffigan is like, Yo, come on, I don’t care. Yeah, I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say. We are told Gabe’s been approached for T Sequila collaborations for years, but he always turned them down.

He explains, it didn’t make sense to sell something I wasn’t invested in. I’m doing very well for myself. There was no need to make it a money thing. But what changed was a pitch that let Gabriel Iglacias build a tequila brand from scratch. He sketched the label art on a napkin.

He came up with the name and insisted on being looped into every email. He tells us the dogs on the label are my dogs. It’s an homage to them. This is a serious passion thing. The name itself, Pocho, flips a slur used for Mexican Americans.

I’ll take a time out here. I’ve never heard that word before in my life, So if I have accidentally offended somebody in the three minutes or so. I really really, really really really don’t mean anything. I’m just reading an article and I’m clearly trying to have fun with it. I am educating myself.

I have googled the term, and I’m told it’s a pejorative slang term in Mexican Spanish that refers to Americans of Mexican descent. I’ve never heard that term. Having grown up in New York City, Gabe explains, I wasn’t born in Mexico. I was born in the US. This is a Mexican American tequila, not as straight at Mexican brand.

It’s a hybrid at connection. It’s my story. Anyway, I come in peace. But back to making fun of all this. The Blanco anchors the new line, Bonnallie wants fans to actually drink, not admire on a shelf.

Gabe says, I don’t want to be the masters of the food world. I want to be the McDonald’s. Taste good, you can afford it, you get a nice buzz. That’s what I’m about. Oh, there are more flavors.

There’s grilled pineapple. There’s also Mexican candy, which is watermelon line and Jalapanio flavored. Gabe said he needed a little nudge with the Mexican candy name since there are many types of Mexican candy, but the pineapple concept was an easy yes. He said, I’m a big fan of grilled pineapple period. It’s good.

Not something I could do every weekend, but it’s unique. As for the brand, You’re definitely gonna see me backing it. No way, no way. I’m gonna be putting this tequila everywhere. No way, no way.

Conan O’Brien did that big cover story with The Hollywood Reporter, mostly about the Oscars, and Saturday’s episode will be An Oscar’s preview where I’ll pick away that. But in that interview he talked about the future of late night and an eye opener for Conan O’Brien is when he went on Hot Ones with Sean Evans. The Conan episode got fifteen million views, and Conan said, that was the moment when the scales fell from my eyes. If a guy could do world series numbers with overhead that looked to me to be about six hundred dollars, and you have every big star lining up to do his show or Chicken Shop date. That’s when I profoundly understood that late night shows are in trouble.

I’m of the mind that, yes, these shows are going away and will become something else. But I don’t like when other malign forces intervene because they’re trying to curry favor. That ticks me off.

Meanwhile, the late night shows continue.

Seth Myers as one for some reason, he had some comments about the President of the United States. Seth Myers said, you can lie about many things in American life, but one thing you can’t lie about is gas prices. You know why, because they’re on giant signs on the side of the road. Everyone sees it, and honestly, we should do giant signs for the rest of our politics. There should be huge signs across the country that say felony accounts or number of times the president has fallen asleep on live TV.

Send your letters to Seth Myers. Fox News caught my attention. They had a headline comedian Andrew Schultz says Americans are furious about potential ground war in Iran amid affordability crisis. Now, if you’re like John, who’s Andrew Schultz again? I’ll remind you he’s the bro podcaster that had Trump on his podcast when Trump was running for reelection.

Remember that Trump was there. They had nice set couches, fake plants, whole thing. Everybody got all excited about video podcasting.

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And then Johnny Max screams into the windo, Okay, if you can book Trump and h…

Otherwise you’re better off just talking to microphone in the basement. The economics work a little better, remember that, Yeah, that guy. Anyway, Fox pulled this clip from the Flagrant podcast, and as you can hear, Andrew has really really thought about his political positions. He clearly spends a lot of time thinking about this stuff. He’s a deep thinker, and as you’ll hear here, he’s really thought about it roun.

I mean, he makes his point so clear here. A Fox made some edits for language, but here’s Andrew Schultz. Between this rock and hard places where they cannot give us any reason why it benefits us without off China or making that declaration.

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Yeah, right, And then naturally Americans are furious about it, right, because we’re like, how the benefit me? I can’t afford to pay for college, I can’t buy a home, I can’t pay for health insurance, and we’re gonna spend billions of dollars in a war in a country. I can’t even point out at a map? How is this beneficial to me? Yeah, that’s how they feel already.

Yeah, as they should. Here’s a fun fact that I can’t believe is true, and you can google this for yourself. On June twenty first, twenty twenty five, The New York Times had an article. The headline of that article from June twenty first, twenty twenty five in The New York Times Andrew Schultz podcast, bro might be America’s foremost political journalist. I’m gonna say that premise is wrong.

Star trek Ruiner Patton Oswalt, you know him as Doug la Vulcan. He was at the seventy third Motion Picture Sound Editor’s Golden Reel Awards. He was commenting about Timothy Schale May’s controversial remarks about ballet and opera. You may have seen that mister Challo May had suggested that no one cares about ballet nor opera star trek Ruiner Patton Oswalt said, thank god we’re here to celebrate achievement in sound editing and not watching ballet or the opera. Thank god, we’re actually watching something that deserves to be alive.

Unlike modern star Trek Oswalt said, it’s great to be here at the woolshare Ebel Theatre or any theater that Trump hasn’t stuck his name on. Fellow star trek Ruiner, Tignatoro talked about the fallout with her former friend Cheryl Hines. Cheryl Hines is married to Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Tig and Cheryl used to do a podcast together, and Tig Nataro, star trek Ruiner and a current contestant on Comedy Survivor, said I think I needed to stop doing the podcast because it was so ridiculous.

It was so stupid. It was hard to be doing that when he was gaining momentum and speaking. People will interrupt my stand up shows and yell, Bobby is crazy. And I was telling Cheryl, I know it’s a small percentage that pushes back on Lonnio’s out of shows, but I was like, man, this is not my world. I don’t want to be part of this, and she was like, I understand.

Cheryl Hines continued the podcast with comedian Rachel Harris. Star Trek runer Tignataro said, but what was most upsetting to me was that we were in such opposing places. But I continue to reach out to her and sent her love and support because I didn’t know what was going on behind closed doors because things shifted very severely, and she would respond very pleasantly, thanks lady, Oh this means so much, and I love you and miss you and all that. But then I realized one day she doesn’t ever reach out to me anymore. Maybe Cheryl Hines is a Star Trek fan.

Does that ever occurred to you? Star Trek Runer Tignatario added, she responds to me, but she doesn’t reach out to me, and I had to kind of shake myself out of denial that she’s gone, and Okay, need to let this go. I need to let it go, which is how I have come to feel about Star Trek. You guys have made Star Trek so terrible. I don’t even hate watch.

I’ve gone from watching to hate watching to you know, I can’t even be bothered tig Nataro, Paton Oswald, Stephen Colbert, don’t think I forgot you. He’s the voice of the computer at Starfleet Academy. He deserves to lose his late night show over that alone. The President and Hi are aligned. Startrek grew in her.

Tig Natara said, there’s been some interviews claiming that I just dumped her and I just left her in the dust because of Bobby. But I was trying to be a friend to her, even though I didn’t feel like I continue with the podcast, but it’s been very strange, and I think I’ve moved past the confusion and sadness.

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Kennedy Junior and wife Cheryl Hines for allegedly selling her a quote disaster. Chelsea Handler was on her podcast deor Chelsea. She claims she was unaware that the Brentwood, California home she was buying was owned by Kennedy and Hines, explaining the deal was carried out via two trusts of theirs and hers. Chelsea Handler alleges that the Kennedy is left behind a home that was in an unlivable condition, claiming it quote didn’t even have a proper foundation. When Chelsea took it over, Chelsea said, I still have not lived in this house.

That’s how fed up this house was the idea that this guy is in charge of the health of our country when he didn’t even have a proper foundation at his house. Chelsea says a home inspector told her that the property had quote the most toxic environment. When they opened up the house, they were like, this house is the most toxic environment. You cannot live here for at least two years. Chelsea said she did have the property inspected before purchasing it, but there were several issues that went undiscovered, like the illegal storage unit that was built on the grounds of the dwelling.

Chelsea said, so now we have to remove his illegal bs from my property. And I’m like, did they not find this upon the first inspection?

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And then she says she found a note from Cheryl Hines.

Chelsea Handler explains they had the audacity to leave me a note. Cheryl Hines left me note saying let us know if there’s anything we do for you. Chelsea, I’m like, yeah, how about an effing foundation. That’s something you can do for me, Chelsea says. Anyway, I’m not angry about it or anything.

I’m totally over it, clearly. Boy, Johnny Mack enjoyed hosting that first half. I thought it was a little light today. Sometimes when I put together the show, it is a little light.

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It is a good day putting together the show.

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Speaking of Tignazarro, she’s somebody who could potentially vote off Comedy …

Well, how would I do that, John, Well, here’s what you do. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. In that group, you will find a cartoon image of me and Bert Krascher. In that thread, we’re playing Comedy Survivor. Every week we vote one comedian off the island.

And boy, last time I checked, the Facebook group was very very active, lots of voting, lots of discussion. Still in the game. Nikki Glaser, John mulaniy Osco at CONSCA Sebastian A. Scalco, Tignaturo Silverman, and Leslie Jones. I don’t want to steer this thing.

Go to the Facebook Daily Comedy News podcast group and vote for whoever you want to. Maximini told Fox News he’s working on a new television style podcast featuring a live audience. That’s not a podcast, that’s a TV show. My friend, this is a podcast anyway, Max mean, he said, I want to become extremely more consistent on my podcast. I’m creating a TV show style podcast with a live audience, and so that’s my next immediate project.

When I get back to LA, I’m starting the production. I’m also working on a comedy series. I’m really excited because I’m creating some characters that have been on my mind, I want to say, for maybe fifteen years, but the opportunity is now becoming possible for me to do it. Good news if you like Saturday Night Live, because snl UK will air in the United States. Snl UK kicks off March twenty.

First episodes will be available on Peacock the following day, because yeah, I wouldn’t watch it on Saturday anyway. Season one is only six episodes, so don’t get too attached to it, and Joe Rogan has made some people sad. You see on Saturday night it was UFC three twenty six and the main event was capped off by what’s being described as an underwhelming one sided decision victory by Charles Oliviera, who defeated champion Max Holloway in five rounds. Apparently UFC officionados did not enjoy Oliviera’s a fighting style. Joe Rogan was on the broadcast, said, listen to these casuals booing, how do you not appreciate this complete domination by a master.

Some social media fans did not like mister Rogan’s commentary. One wrote to Rogan calling fans casuals for booing that snooze fest is peak gatekeeping. BMF title fights should be absolute wars with finishes, not fifteen minutes of Oliviera laying on Holloway. We want violence and entertainment, not a grappling clinic. Crowd knows better than the booths sometimes, Joe.

At one point, with thirty seconds to go in the fun round, Joe Rogan said, this is the clearest cut, unanimous decision we’ve ever seen in a sport UFC three twenty six and that is your comedy news for today. Strangely fun, I had a good time hosting it. Go vote in Comedy Survivor Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh boy, on a day where my script program says, no, I can’t make the font any larger. I’m Chawi mag with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Assuming I can even see my script, I’m not kidding. I went to make the text larger, and there is no larger.

Oh bye. Code And O’Brien was on Michelle Obama’s podcast. As one does. Conan’s not some sort of insider who has fancy celebrities at his holiday party. You know, he’s this rascally outsider guy.

Conan telled Michelle Obama. I always say I’m a fifty one to fifty two percent optimist. I do say the world has always been filled with horribleness. There’s always been trouble. When young people preach to me it’s all over, say it’s the end of the world, I say, you have to understand this is the way it’s always been and this is how it feels.

Conan referenced the movie The African Queen. Spoilers for the nineteen fifty one film starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogard Good film, you should see it. Conan calls the African Queen a great metaphor for life. In the movie spoilers, you had some time there, Hepburn and Boguard are lost in the thick woods. They’re exhausted from trying to drag their boat forward.

Convinced they’ll never get out, they give up, unaware that they’re just feet from the river. Conan said, I always think about that. I think I’ve been there probably thirty five times in my life when I thought I was on the boat and I’m dead on the boat. Then I make it past that. He said.

Nearly every stage of his career has come with one of those moments. You may recall critics did not think he would last on the Late Night Show and said, then I make it past that. Later on I got the Tonight’s show and I think I’m in good shape. Nope, that blows up, and now I thought it’s really over. No, it’s not.

Keeps happening over and over again. There’s this learning to roll with it. Okay, what’s my next opportunity? Reset, recommit, look for the next opportunity. That is something I try to import to my kids.

Good advice there Conan. Conan ads I’m a poster child for incredible luck. I’ve been very, very lucky, and I give it up for that. I also know that I work really hard, and I prepare and I try to treat people the right way, but I get very angry when people don’t give it up for luck. I’m also aware that what was my path as a white male coming up in the nineteen eighties nineties a lot easier than a lot of other people in comedy and probably in any profession.

We’ll have a lot of Conan this week. He is hosting the Oscars on Sunday. The Hollywood Reporter did one of those fancy cover stories with him on Monday. I’m saving that for Saturday’s Oscars preview episode.

Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert was at the Writer’s Guild of America Awards on Sun…

Colbert was given the Walter Bernstein Award, which is for a member who has demonstrated with creativity, grace and bravery a willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity. Colbert said he doesn’t deserve any parallels to the namesake Walter Bernstein, who was blacklisted during mccortheism in the nineteen fifties for being a member of the Communist Party. Colbert said, this is not the nineteen fifties. This is not the Red Scare. And as far as I can tell, no one in Late Night is fermenting a revolution.

As we know, the revolution will not be televised. It’s going to be televised. But then Paramount bought it. Great joke, great, great joke, he continued. Evidently the revolution was losing like forty million dollars a year.

It had to go. I hear the revolution is thinking about starting a substack good stuff there. Hey, where did the next story go? Oh? Here it is.

It’s supposed to be third, it’s moved itself to fifth. I don’t know how that happened. David Cross has a new comedy special. It’s already out. It’s called The End of the Beginning of the End.

It is the ninth of his career. It’s available on his website already. They announced this on Monday and they were like, it’s already out, but it will be on YouTube. April seven. Filmed in David Cross’s home state of Georgia at the historic forty Watt in Athens, David Cross tackles the chaos of modern America head on, skewering authoritarian politics like what what are you talking about?

Really? Reproductive rights rollbacks, religious extremism, late stage capitalism, and uniquely American obsession with hoarding sneakers. Cross jokes the whole thing was written by some of the cheapest AI available. Cameron Esposito has announced a new album. It is called Person of No Consequence.

It’ll be out Friday, March twentieth on a special Thing Records. Cameron is fantastic. Used to have a podcast where they would have local LA comedians. Was really good. What was that called?

It’s been gone for like ten years already. That was a really good. Anyway, It’ll come to me as soon as I stop recording. Derek Stroup has a Netflix special out today, part of Nateland. You’ll find Nostalgic on a Netflix.

In Nostalgic, Derek Stroop dives into his experience being a nineties kid in rural Alabama and everything that came along with it, from partying with friends to board games and parental relationships. Daily show writer Matt Kauf has a new special out today Catman, It’s on Veeps. In Catman, Matt Kauf discusses divorce, middle age, and cats, sharing his thoughts on the world’s bias against men with cats. He says people love cats, but men with cats make people uncomfortable, including me. I’m a man with a cat and I’m creeped out by myself.

Also also also out today, German American comedian Mario Adrion his special My Struggle, which is a tongue in cheek nod to the title of a famous German leader’s book. You know, the really really really really really really really evil guy that wrote a book Mario specials called My Struggle. That’ll be on YouTube starting at nine a m. Pacific today. This one was filmed across four sold out shows a Dynasty typewriter in La Mario tackles his cultural experience as a German comedian living in America, exploring his German guilt, his German Jewish marriage, and how La is a bit different from a small hometown where he grew up chopping wood in the Black Forest.

Kathleen Madigan, I love this one. This was in the Star Telegram. We learned that Kathleen Madigan back in nineteen seventy eight won the Mid Missouri Hoop Shoot Championship. Kathleen Madigan made fourteen out of fifteen attempts back in nineteen seventy eight, all underhand, and she said, that is true, and then I retired. You have to remember back then, this was not some school sponsored thing.

This was through like the Elks Lodge. There was some random thing my dad signed me up for because he treated the girls like the boys. My dad was a lawyer and he saw sports for girls as a dead end. The next round was in Kansas City, which is why I wanted to do it. We lived in Saint Louis and I wanted to see Kansas City.

There were seven kids in my family. I know such thing as travel sports back then with my parents was like if you can walk to the game, you can play, but we’re not driving you. That reminds me when I was eighteen, I coached baseball. I just wanted to coach baseball, so they handed I don’t know what they were, how old were these kids would have been like six seventh graders to some eighteen year olds. And this was in Queen’s I didn’t have a car.

We would just walk to these fields like neighborhoods away. You think the parents would drive some of us. Now, I would carry this big bag on my back and go coach baseball. I loved it. And there wasn’t travel baseball back then.

This was cyo baseball and Queen’s I was still doing cyo baseball as late as the turn of the century.

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And then you’d hear like the really good kids would be like, I’m playing trav…

You’d be like, what’s that now? I mean, twenty five years later, forget it. Especially soccer, boy, the big money came into soccer in the right around twenty ten, the big money, the Brits all came over and just basically town soccer fell apart, county soccer fell apart. You have if you want to play anything, at least big competitive, you had to pay play in these travel leagues, and those were all like four thousand dollars. So everybody sport the World Baseball Classic.

Because what I want to do is I’m gonna move to London and I’m going to open up Big Apple Baseball. I’m gonna ramp up the accident a little bit and be like, hey, you want to be like Wan Soto let me show you how to do it, and then George British parents four thousand dollars for me to teach them how to play baseball, and they’ll be like, oh, he’s from New York City. Sounds right, like I don’t know if these British guys weren’ty good at soccer, they just looked right. I don’t know. I digress.

Ye. My wife just texted me asking me if I want McDonald’s. The answer is yes, hold on, Wow, Wow, she’s the best. I got to hold on to her. I just ordered a two cheeseburger meal to die coke.

And case you’re curious, where were we and why don’t you edit that out? John? The answer, as always is because that’s not fun. Kathleen Madigan was talking about travel sports and said, look at the commitment, all this money. My sister called me from jim Issareli.

I remember all that She’s hoping and praying her kid would lose in the volleyball match. That’s what I was saying. You’d be in this soccer chortament at like eight in the morning, and if you win, you get to play in the championship game at like four point thirty on a Sunday two and a half hours from your house, and like part of you is like, yeah, I totally hope they win. It would be a shame if we didn’t get to hang out here in these fields, in the middle of nowhere all day. Call.

He said, I stay in Marriad courtyards all the time, and I see the parents of the kids sports team. They’re always just hanging out in the lobby, just drinking all the time.

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Speaking of sports, did you watch the Knicks on Sunday?

You were like, Hey, did Amy Schumer dance? No, it was a road game. Bill Maher was there. He was sitting in the front row. Bill Maher’s got a lot of money.

He was sitting courtside at the Lakers game. So whatever you think of Bill Maher, he’s done a right for himself. Anyway, Lakers guard Marcus Smart crashed into Bill Maher in the middle of the game. I saw this myself on live television, wrote myself a note Bill Maher in the script. Thing that seemed to Bill Maher’s finger got slightly injured.

It was a little bit swollen. Hopefully Bill Maher is doing okay. Marcus Smart re entered the game and defeated the Knicks, which was very disappointing. Now, last night Johnny Mack had to stay up late because the Knicks were playing the Clippers, and you know who used to be on the Clippers, Blake Griffin. Blake Griffin has tried stand up comedy.

See how I tied this all together. You couldn’t plan it any better, thanks NBA schedule. Blake Griffin compared to stand up comedy to the NBA. He said, you finish a good game, you get the text from the people, you talk to people that were there. You feel a certain energy that’s riding above everything else.

It’s the same when you have a good comedy set. I haven’t had many of them. You definitely feel this higher energy. Comedy is the same way as basketball. For me, putting in the time, going about constructing jokes, constructing a set the right way.

It’s important to me. I don’t want to be this hack who only goes for the low hanging fruit.

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Matt Rife took a tennis lesson with Chris Eubanks and discovers that Spanish grunting improves shot quality. I think we all knew that Chris Eubanks, who as you know, is the twenty twenty three Wimbledon quarter finalist, shared on social media. Super Lucky. Matt Rife asked Tennis Channel for the opportunity to get a good tennis coach. So who else to bring besides myself?

Matt Riife said, the wrist is everything. Rife explained. Tennis Channel asked me if I wanted to embarrass myself. They were like, I’ve ever played before. I said, not a day in my life.

So then they brought in the best. They warmed up doing some groundstrokes. Then matt Rife was taught on the art of grunting. Chris you Banks said, maybe let the grunt determine the quality of the shot. Raife took the advice.

You Banks told matt Rife, I feel like your shots are getting better with it and you’re just letting go of atension. When it was all done, Riife said, that was tremendously harder than I thought it was going to be. He went to collect the balls. A young fan yelled out from above the court. Matt Riife yelled back to the mom, he should have no idea who I am that’s terrible parenting.

Mom said, he’s never seen your stuff. Matt Rife gave the young man some advice. Nice to meet you, buddy, Enjoy your future detentions. Well, if you’ve had the TV on, you’ll see that we’re bombing a run for some reason. Stock market down, gas price is up.

Over the weekend, the President of the United States showed up at the Daynified Transfer ceremony in a baseball cap. That’s just your news recap. Fox News caught up with Max Amini. Now. The setup for this was like a lot of the articles lately about how Maximini has gone from Who’s that to We’re all going like, wait, who sold out Madison Square Garden?

And then you answer the question Maximini. But what interests me today is Maximini is of Iranian descent, born in Arizona. In nineteen eighty one, when he was eight years old, the Emini’s left Arizona and moved to Iran. Max lived there until he was seventeen. He explained, I was born into this family who promoted the Iranian culture in a very positive way to us.

So I learned all the best things about my culture, and I was very lucky to be raised in America in an environment that was very patriotic. Max told Fox News he’s not interested in bringing division onto the stage. He explains the beauty of stand up comedies. You sort of take a perspective and you decide this is who I am, and you go on stage and you present that. I never like politics.

I hate politics. I just can’t tell you how much I feel like politics is negative. It’s a power game. It divides people, it makes you lie, it makes you do things just to in for your party. I’m very simple.

I don’t like the feeling of that complexity. Fox News points out that Max’s interview with Fox took place before the recent news events, but Max did say freedom is something that today we understand is the most important thing for any human. If you can imagine how hard it is to be in any country, as someone who lives in this beautiful country, can you imagine that they strip away all your rights. You’re afraid of what you’re saying. You can’t do simple things in life, singing, dancing, you know, basic basic things we take for granted.

Women cannot sing or dance in public, They can’t go out without their significant other freely and people cannot exercise their beliefs certain religions. It’s very unimaginable for people who live in a free country like the US or European countries that have so much respect for human rights. Max described the Iranian people saying they’re fun, they’re hip, they’re fashion forward. When you understand just their taste in music and the way they enjoy their gatherings and how they live, you’ll be surprised what the media shows and what the reality is. So I hope everybody gets a chance to see that soon.

Again, this interview took place before recent news events. Max said, Historically, when a country held in this situation, they’re held hostage, there is a regime that’s absolutely brutal and they’re killing their own people. The intervention is a must, and the rescue mission is the most beautiful act a country can do for these people. They’re screaming out for help. And I think on that note, it is time to wrap up today’s podcast, and that is your Daily Comedy News for today.

Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. When I last checked, the Facebook group was starting to gang up on tig Nataro, which is very interesting. I think we’re down to seven names in Comedy Survivor. Now it’s gonna get down to the nitty gritty.

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Also, i’ve seen John Malaney got his first vote.

I think that’s his first vote of the contest so far. If you’re like, what is all this? John? Here? Do this?

Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. There you’ll find a picture of Bert Kraser and me. We’re both wearing shirts. Boy, I try to make a little cartoon image of Survivor every week. I didn’t even tell you guys.

Last week to get Kevin Hart to render correctly took twenty tries. It kept making Kevin Hart, who will admit not being tall, absurdly absurdly tiny, and I just everything get rendered. I’m like, I’m not handing that in. So I finally got to do something.

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And then this week it just would not depict Burt Krescher with a shirt off.

I think it thought I was asking for something naughty, and I’m like, Burt Krascher is known for not wearing a shirt. Here’s images of Burt Krescher not wearing shirts, and it just wouldn’t do it. So Bert Chrayscher’s wearing a shirt and so am I because you nobody needs to see that. No, no, no, I mean maybe in a shirt off contest. If I was standing next to Bert Krascher, you might be like, Hey, that guy on the right there has got it going on.

But you know, a normal company, you nobody, nobody needs to see that. Okay, tm I Johnny Mack. That’s your comedy news for today. Oh, here’s what you do. Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group.

Find the drawing vote see tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media. Oh. Outbit outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Comedy Survivor is getting more and more interesting as listener alliances form.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mack and welcome to Comedy Survivor. Many weeks ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island. Each week, the listeners go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and they vote one comedian off Comedy Island. Still in the game, Nikki Glaser, John Mulaney, OT’s go at Coonska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tick Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Krascher. And I’ve seen some discussions.

Some of the listeners are really fed up with some of the comedians still on the island, and they have aligned. Have they gotten enough votes to vote that person off? I’ll tell you the votes. Heather votes for Leslie Jones, Mike votes for Bert Kraser, Michelle votes for Bert Kraser. That’s two votes for Bert Kraser, Matt votes for Bert Krazer, three votes for Bert Kraser.

Von votes for Osco at Cotsca, Dylan votes for Otsco at Cotska. Lee votes for Otsco at COTSGA, three votes for Otsco, three votes for Bert Kracher. Aaron votes for Oscar at Cosca, four votes for Otsco at Costco. Scott votes for Tignetzarro, Leslie votes for Otsco at Costca, five votes for Osco, Raffi votes for Leslie Jones, Barbe votes for Bert Kracher. That’s four votes for Bird Kracher, Cheryl votes for Bird Kraser, five votes for Bird Krascher, Andrea votes for Nikki Glaser, and Andy votes for Leslie Jones.

Oh, no, another tie. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, when there’s a tie, the AI settles the tie. I can’t believe we have another tie. You guys are killing me. Spruce the AI are you there.

I’m here and ready to settle this tie. It looks like it’s at Psuko versus Bird. I’ll break it down and make the call. Please check my work. How do you count the votes?

It’s a tie between Atsuko, Akaska and berg Kreischer, each with five votes, So under your rules, the AI would break the tie. Let me know who you’d like to eliminate, or if you’d like me to choose based on any criteria. Oh, absolutely, you choose not me. All right, I’ll break the tie since Berd Kreischer received a surge of votes that suggests moments and was building to remove him. So in the spirit of dramatic gameplay, Bird’s torch is officially snuffed.

Farewell Bird, the island just got a little quieter. Let’s see who’s next. Wow, the AI sense Berd Krazier home. Wow. Now some of you might be like, but those Berd Krasier votes came in earlier the week.

All I do is I go from top to bottom, and I’m letting the AI rule here, which means Otsco at Cotska stays alive yet again, which, honestly, as someone hosting a show, is way more fun. All Right, we’ll take the break and we’ll come back and see what all this means. What a fun result. I love it, the AI says. The tribe is now clearly split into factions.

The Otsco block has been remarkably consistent for weeks. Avon has been campaigning against her like it’s a weekly ritual, says the AI, and that persistence continues to pull voters in. But despite that, Osco keeps surviving. Is comedy survivor still in the game. Otsco five votes this week, still standing, Sebastian Maniscalco being floated openly as the guy sliding through.

No one is voting for Sebastian. He’s just quietly in the game. We’re never talking about him. Leslie Jones got three votes again. She’s been in the danger zone, even went to the tiebreaker one week and still around.

Nikki Glaser had a few votes last week, only one this week. She’s hanging Sarah Silverman off the radar. John Mulaney invisible in the vote total. Is John Mulaney going to take this whole thing astray? Vote this week for tig Nataro.

She was in trouble in the early weeks and that’s kind of calmed down. Eliminated from Comedy Survivor. Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Joe Cooy, Ron White, Jay Leno, Seth Meyers, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, and Bert Kreischer still in the game. The list is getting smaller. Who will be the Comedy Survivor.

As a listener, you’re going to go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. You will find a picture of Bert Krascher and me. I’m the one with his shirt on in that thread clearly vote someone off Comedy Island. Still in the game Nikki Glaser, John Mulaney, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Otsko at Kotska.

Also note the split there five women, two men still in the game.

Write down one name you are voting someone off Comedy Island. One vote per person. Voting ends end of day Thursday. See in the Morning with a regular episode. This is fun.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comnians, and a comedy industry even on a slow news day. Theovon is he on the mass singer? People think theovon might be on the mask singer. There’s somebody performing as High Voltage?

Is it theovon hiding beneath that lightning bolt costume? I have some opinions, but I won’t share them yet. Some clues High Voltage’s first clue package dropped hints about leadership and American influence. High Voltage’s opening statement said, when I first began my career, the idea of blending in was my biggest fear. There have been some visual hints power lines, grease canisters, a map of the United States, a bald eagle.

The audio clip highlighted how High Voltage had become a patriot and revolutionary changing American culture. Growing up references included slurpees, Van Halen, MTV, and backyard Goat cookouts. This week’s clues featured heavily on bands, breakups, and going solo. High Voltage tells us I grew up listening to Ozzie. Now I have a clip from High Voltage.

Let’s listen to High Voltage sing and you tell me if you think this is THEOVON. Big list, old ruses, sweet been taps this way back when these wheels in the sin new hits, new seeds, no hiss, still read, and you just can’t fake this. So let’s change that. Girl. Let’s go put some miles on the back of the Chevy with the engine run.

I’m gonna vote heavy. Not that that is not THEOVON. That doesn’t sound like THEOVON at all.

Also, I’ve seen the body type of High Voltage.

I don’t believe it is THEOVON. Conan O’Brien will deliver the keynote address at Harvard’s three hundred and seventy fifth Commencement ceremony in May. Now let me just take a time out here. We all love Conan, and we’re gonna hear a lot about Conan this week because Conan is hosting the Oscars on Sunday, So a lot of Conan coming up this week. And we all love Conan.

Johnny Mack loves Conan. I’m not being sarcastic here. You can listen to all the hours I’ve done with Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast, both on my show and his show, and you’ve heard me say, I like Conan, we all love Conan, but you knew that bo was coming. Let’s stop acting like he’s some sort of outsider. He’s hosting the Oscars for the second time, he’s doing the commencement speech at Harvard, and I I’ll tell you in a couple of minutes.

He was on Michelle Obama’s podcast. But this is an insider, So let’s stop pretending like he’s some wacky outsider. He’s not. We all love him, I love him, but he’s not some wacky outsider. He will deliver the keynote address at Harvard’s three hundred and seventy fifth commencement ceremony in May.

Meanwhile, Conan was on Michelle Obama’s podcast like regular people do all the time. I’ve been on it four times myself. Conan and Missus Obama discussed the White House Correspondence Association dinner and Conan and explain that is not a normal crowd. They’re thinking a lot about their own world, and you need to be funny, and you can’t act like you know too much, because then they’ll resent you for that or think you don’t belong. ConA and O’Brien told Michelle Obama, I’ve talked to your husband about this.

In case you’re not familiar with Michelle Obama, her husband is Barack Obama, who used to be the President of the United States. Conan told Michelle Obama, they make you follow the leader of the free world. He goes first and kills it. Then it’d finished and like drop the mic crowd going crazy and a voice would go, ladies and gentlemen, Conan O’Brien, and you see people like what who would go now? So you got to way through with that a little bit.

But it’s all calculating for what’s the assignment. He compared the correspondence dinner to the Oscars and said, now I’m gonna speak to a bunch of alist people who don’t really like to give it up for anybody. But that’s all calculation. You got to calculate and then have fun. Michelle Obama asked Conan O’Brien if comedy’s more fraught these days.

Conan O’Brien told Michelle Obama, are you getting how like inside this is? I think they’re all very talented. They’re really good people. They’re in a tough situation because your job is to go out and talk about the news every day. I was never strictly a comedian that lives off the news.

I usually try to find things that were silly and funny outside of the news, but we also had to do the news. Things are so diverse right now. I think it’s got to be a really tough task. And I do have empathy for the people who trying to figure out what’s funny in this because I know it just as a citizen. I get up in the morning and I look at what’s happened in the news.

I like to be funny, but my first instinct when I read the news is nothing here gives me joy or is making me laugh that hard. But if you’re doing one of those shows, how do you not talk about it? How do you not wear your heart on your sleeve? Maybe get mad? So it’s difficult.

Johnny Mack, is it a slow news day now? Why do you ask? Jerry Seinfeld was spotted at a Massachusetts restaurant. That’s right. Jerry was in Wooster last week.

Did a couple shows at the Hanover Theater. The Theater Cafe posted on Facebook that Seinfeld ordered a pre performance dinner. We are told Jerry Seinfeld requested the lemon chicken, which sounds like a joke. I don’t know what’s the joke about it, but it sounds like one. Jerry Seinfeld requested the lemon chicken.

But not just that. Jerry Seinfeld requested the lemon chicken grilled Faroe Island on salmon steam, vegetables, brown rice, and a green salad. And mass Live points out no soup was ordered. Well done. Amy Schumer hit up a Knicks game.

Johnny mag has a slow news day? Now, why do you ask me? I got plenty today? I know what you’re talking about. That’s right.

She went to see when the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs, and we are told Amy Schumer appeared to be ready when the camera panned to her, and she got up and danced. She showed off her dance moves, well decked out in Nick’s gear. Later in the day on Instagram, she wrote, mom, dance cam coming in hard. I thought I’d check in on John Mlanie’s book club and you’re like, John, is it a slow news day? And I don’t know why you keep asking me that stop.

But I hadn’t seen anything about John mulani Reads, which is the hashtag Mullenie reads for the John Mulaney book Club. But if you went on John mullani Facebook, you would see two books this month. One led me to the other. The first book, John Mulaney recommends here Beside the Rising Side Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead and an American Wakening by Jim Newton says in bad times we need reckless troublemakers to pursue absurdity and offer something stupid, fun and free. I’ve read half a dozen books about The Grateful Dead.

Jim Newton’s new contribution is totally different. Then in all caps, m’laney yells at us and says, you did not have to be a deadhead or even fan. I appreciate this chronicle now. It’s interesting. I was on the John Marco Seraisi book Club and he recommends you’re beside the Rising Tide shirt No sorry, cheap shot at Ton Marko love Jen Marko front of the show.

It’s a joke, John Marco. You know that was funny. You know I’m on your team. You me Chris Fleming. We’re going over to by Biglia’s house and we’re gonna I don’t know, I know what we’re gonna do.

We’re gonna give him a thumbs down. We’re not violent people. We come in peace. We’re just gonna stand outside Mike Birbiglia’s house. You me, Chris Fleming, and we’re just gonna stand there with our thumbs down.

If anyone wants to join us, let us know. Tell John Marco on Instagram we’re doing this. Mulania has a second recommendation for us. It is Ken Casey’s sometimes a great notion. John tells this is a propulsal family story of a logging community in Oregon in the nineteen sixties.

I loved this book and really isolated outcast community. The people that populate the book are outcasts from each other. John tells us, I don’t know what it’s like to be driving around the country in a bus on acid for half a decade. While he was doing that, Casey wrote a true great American novel. Okay, Meanwhile, there’s the Anthony Jessnick Book Club, and you’re like, John, You’re sure it’s not a slow news day.

And I’m telling you it is not. My friend jessel Nick has recommended Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. The short novel builds to an unforgettable, haunting and beautiful ending. The book was published in nineteen sixty two. Jessel Nick said, I read it twenty years ago, but it’s one of my favorite Vonagut novels and extremely relevant today.

I might have started a book club over here. I’m a simple man, though, I’m gonna tell you to read a Tom Clancy novel. I’ll work on that. I haven’t figured that out yet, Johnny MacBook club coming soon, but probably not. Ah.

The folks at snl UK put out a trailer. I’ll give you a little taste of it, but I’m gonna clip it because after the guy says, live from London, it’s mostly music, but you’re kind of curious what it sounds like. Here, let’s listen live from London. It’s Saturday night, so the music is go by the Chemical Brothers. Sure to get the YouTube version of this podcast demonetized now.

In their little opening thing there, they didn’t have the voiceover person mention who the people are, which I thought was weird. Okayse, you’re curious they are Hamed, Annamashan, Larry Dean, Celeste Drink, George four Acres, Anya Magliano, Annabel Marlowe, Al Nash, Jack Shepp, Emma Cidy and Patty Young. Congratulations to Matt Rife the Stay Golden World Tour appearance at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, where you could have had jury duty and then walked across the street to see Matt Rife. But luckily jury duty is over. I am a free man.

I have completed my service. The federal government thanked me for calling a phone number every night pretty much for two weeks. But I didn’t have to go to Newark. But had I been in Newark and walk across the street to the Prudential Center to see Matt Rife the Stay Golden World Tour, I would have been one of the eighteen thousand and four and eighty six people who set a new record for most people attending a comedy show in the Prudential Center eighteen for eighty six breaks Sebastian Maniscalco’s record of eighteen four fifty seven. That broke Sebastian Maniscalco’s previous record of eighteen oh three three, which broke Kevin Hart’s record of sixteen nine to fifty six, which broke Dean Cook’s record of fourteen eight forty three.

Coming up at noon Eastern today, the results of Comedy Survivor. It was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun recording it. It’s another wonderful result. No spoiler’s ear come back at noon Eastern.

Comedy Survivor Mike Barenholtz has launched a weekly trivia podcast with celebrity guests. Not like those trivia guys at Morristown. The biggest celebrity in the place might be me. What a ridiculous thing to say, but it might be true. I’m trying to think, trivia guy, who’s the biggest celebrity that’s come to Trivia Night Anthony Glennbrook Brewery in Morristown, New Jersey on Wednesdays to see best man trivia?

Who? As we learned on Sunday, they’ll go to San Diego if you pay them. I’m trying to think, if I’ve been there and like somebody of like any kind of fame has been there, some loser doing a podcast can’t be the biggest celebrity. And I’m all saying this with a big goofy grin on in case you can’t tell, I don’t take myself very seriously. I’m gonna guess it’s not me, You know who I’m gonna guess it is.

I’m gonna guess.

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And now I don’t know for a fact if this person has ever gone or not.

But Anthony vulpi who’s the shortstop of the New York Yankees. He’s a local, and sometimes I’ll hear that he’s out. Now, I’ve never known him to be at trivia, but I’ve known that he’s been out in the neighborhood because the young kids tell me that he’s out in Morristown occasionally off season. Of course, this time here is clearly focused on baseball, so it’s possible Anthony Vulpey showed up a trivia I digress. What are you even talking about?

John? Is it a slow news day? No? I don’t know why you keep asking me that. Ike Barnholtz will launch a new weekly trivia podcast that’s called Funny You Ask.

Each episode blends fast paced trivia with comedic storytelling, bringing together major names from film, TV and comedy for what is described as competitive conversation driven gameplay. You know, I have a question about this podcast. On this podcast, are the winners always going to be from upstairs? Because you know, sometimes you go to trivia and the people upstairs seem to win a lot. It seems to be a lot of like young kids who win trivia every week, and they always seem to be upstairs.

I wonder what that’s about. Maybe there’s good cell phone service. Oh stop, stop, stop, stop, John, the trivia guys will get me many all right, shut up. Now, the trivia guys know I’ve learned four years ago. I used to argue about questions and it was a jack hole, especially after the third beer.

Now half the time I don’t even have one beer because I’m driving. You’ll see me in my corner, my big thing of water, and I don’t argue the questions anymore. Let it go. It’s just trivia night. Have fun.

Love the trivia guys. Ike Barnhold said in a statement, I recently learned about a new medium called podcasting and figured I’d dip my toes into these uncharted waters. Funny you ask, because the show allowed to do two of my favorite things at once, asking and answering trivia questions and hanging out with funny friends of mine who just happened to be famous. Funny you ask will debut March twenty fifth. Margaret Show has let everyone in the world know she needs you to know this.

She went full Amy Schumer. She’s just saying, you know, Donald Trump begged her to be on The Apprentice. I’m sure he did. I have no doubt. I mean, I’m sure Donald Trump repeatedly called Margaret Chow to be on The Apprentice.

I have no doubt that this story is true. Margaret Show said President Donald Trump was a huge fan of hers. However, she had a bad feeling about doing The Apprentice, so she never became a contestant. Margaret said, I was asked several times to be on it season after season, and they kept saying, well, Donald Trump really loves you, please come on. Uh huh.

I had a bad feeling about it because I did go on one of the challenges because my friend Cindy Laupper was competing one year and she did something in a diner. So I went and I helped out and to get myself some credibility. Even Margaret Chow finds it bizarre that the President was fond of her comedy nett Is your comedy news for today, coming up at noon Eastern Comedy Survivor back in the morning with a regular episode. See you then