Month: March 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hooray Daylight savings Time. You people that don’t like daylight savings Time don’t want to hear it longer daylight after work and now it’s starting to get warm, which has nothing to do with the daylight I’m on team Daylight Savings Time. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

I’m in a good mood. I just recorded the results of Mondays at Comedy Survivor. Wow. Another interesting result. So you’re gonna want to come back for Comedy Survivor at noon eastern daylight time on Monday.

Well, let’s do some comedy stuff, John, all right. The late night guys were talking about Christy Noam. You saw she got fired. Greg Gutfeld with a good joke, and I’m sure he told it even better than I will. He said, Trump fired DHS Secretary Christy Nooaman, and no one is more disappointed than her dogs.

Jimmy Fallon said, you never know what Trump. He either thinks she’s bad at her job or he wants her to be the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Fallon again, Yeah, Noam is the first cabinet secretary Trump’s fired since returning into office, he was like, man, I forgot how good this feels. Get Cash Bettell in here, Jimmy Kimmel, The funniest thing would be if they deport her to l Salvador. On HBO, Tonight’s is a new show by Bill Lawrence.

Now, who’s Bill Lawrence. That’s the guy that made Scrubs and the guy that made ted Lasso and some other things. Right, so we like him. He’s good at stuff. This stars Steve Carell.

It also features John C McGinley, who is sometimes Doctor Cox on Scrubs. So we’ve got some really good pedigree here today. Although I have seen mixed reviews possible spoilers here, I haven’t actually read the reviews, just the headlines. Daniel Feinberg is one of my favorite TV reviewers. He’s in The Hollywood Reporter.

His headline Steve Carell college comedy bos. The Stellar Cast can’t figure out what it wants to be. Daniel writes, it’s a show with an excess of undeveloped identities rather than a lack of identity, spackling over its poorly few story elements, with a sense of humor that’s sometimes appealing and frequently desperately hacky that’s not good. Rooster is the story of an introverted pulp fiction author played by Steve Carell, who was nothing like his macho alter ego, but gets the opportunity to change his life when he gets a job as a writer in residence at a small New England college that gives us the gimmick of reuniting him with his daughter, who’s an art history professor dealing with a crumbling marriage. But Finberg got a little funny here, he wrote, or perhaps a poetry teacher at a small New England college is looking forward to a reunion with her best friend newly hired as writer in residence, only to have the school’s president, John C.

McGinley, give the job to a schlocky pot boiler scribe played by Steve Carell, who doesn’t even want the job now, Finberg writes, Okay, Rooster absolutely is in the last show I mentioned, though there’s certainly a subplot, Findberg writes, it’s a truth near universally acknowledged that Bill Laurrence shows generally work best when they dispatch with or at least deemphasize the gimmicks and just becomes stories about damaged people, hanging out, making mistakes, and hugging. It’s completely possible that by the end of the ten episode first season, Rooster will have found its story, resolved its most discordant pieces, and become another of those charming and more Bill Laurrence shows.

Meanwhile, Variety hes headlines Steve Carell’s HBO comedy Rooster is dated a…

Ooh, that’s not good. I thought I had the good review. Second, I guess not. Oh I already ready the good review. Oh no, Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence, John McGinley, uh Oh, Variety wrote, Unfortunately, Rooster is full of predictable characters and circumstances, adding up to a lackluster narrative.

Oh No. Rooster is especially disappointing because there’s much to be said about the relationships between fathers and adult daughters, but that dynamic is barely explored here, despite its star power and creator Lawrence’s previous work on series like Ted Lasso, Shrinking and Cougartown no mention for Scrubs, Dude, do I have to am? I gonna have to get up a Scrubs posse and come and wag our fingers at you in front of your house. What do you mean you didn’t mention scrubs. Rooster is a dull regurgitation of previously explored themes and figures Corell has portrayed before Rooster HBO Tonight.

Meanwhile, the La Times profiled an upcoming concert. It’s going to be at so Fi Stadium in Los Angeles and it features Joe Koy and Gabriel Iglesias. Gabriel Iglesias. Now, if you’re like, who’s Gabriela Glacis, remind me who he is. He’s the guy.

His nickname is Fluffy and he recently played the Riod Comedy Festival. Some people call him a sellout. I don’t care. Yeah, I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say. He said.

The fact that we’ve known each other as long as we’ve had is wild. We’ve known each other since we both had long hair. On March twenty first, Sofi Stadium will be filled with more than seventy thousand people. The one night only show will not be televised or recorded as a special. It’s meant to be a party for comedy fans who have supported gab Iglesias and Joe Koy since their early days and now feel like John.

Who’s Joe Koy again? Can you remind me sure? I’m happy to do that. Before Nikki Glaser hosted the Golden Globes, Joe Koy host of the Golden Globes. Now you might not remember that year.

That was the year he told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

Love that bit, Gabe and Jokoy. We’ll pass the mic back and forth throughout the night. The night will feature special guests, surprise moments, and a copywriting rule of three plenty of other unplanned interruptions. They’re expecting a four hour show. Gab Iglacias said, it’s more sweet because it’s taken so long.

This wasn’t an overnight thing. Now, what as everybody wants everything so fast. Between the two of us, we’ve got about sixty years of comedy experience. Joe Coy said, it’s insane. I can’t explain it.

Every time we come here, and look up. I’m like, there’s gonna be a stage here. The size of the end zone. Wow, I didn’t even set this next thing up. I didn’t read this far ahead in the article before.

Right now, they quoted in the La Times, Jay Leno, Yeah, the worst person whoever lives said. My attitude when I came to this town is if you can’t get in through the front door, go in the back door. And they didn’t do it the traditional way. They got to where they are as comedians, one audience member at a time. The show is already completely sold out seventy thousand tickets.

Gabe sat at a certain point, It’s like, we’ve been doing huge stand up shows for so many years, it becomes normal. What do you do to change things? What do you do to grow? The worst thing that happens is it fails. But at least we know we try, all right, Now we know what our ceiling is.

But now this is at the ceiling the only time tells us. Unlike a typical arena show, which takes several months to coordinate, their big night at so Far required a full year of planning. The production in stage is three times the size of their normal stages and we managed by the same team that produces stadium shows for acts like Bad Bunny. Why the President of the United States isn’t going to like this show?

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Meanwhile, in the Hindustan Times, your home for comedy news, they recapped J…

They quoted John marco Is saying being a New Yorker has prepared me for the phrenetic energy of being on the street, and India was like New York in advance mode. But you never feel alone in India, and I do like that. The food was incredible, although I was heavily monitored to not eat anything that would have disrupted my stage performance. So I fantasize about coming back here with enough time to be a little riskier with spice. John Marco said one of the highlights of his trip was hitting the vegetable market Mumbai at five am.

Going to the spice market, flower market and fish market. John Marco said, I got to see the inner workings of how everything works in the chaos, any incredible nature of how people will fill the streets and then clear them out every single day. I wish I didn’t have to wake up at five am and I’ve had that experience. I’m glad to have done it. Wudson never again, So please feel encouraged to join us in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

And the other day I saw Jeff posted that he was off to go see John Marcos Seresi in New York City, and then I ran into Jeff in real life the other day. You know why. Jeff is one of the infamous trivia guys, and I did some field reporting while at the brewery. Hright, you hear me talk about the trivia guys. I’m here with the trivia guys.

Jeff went to see John Marco. I did at theater adult last night at jose Pum. I was it. It was great. I didn’t initially realize I had bought tickets for the theater adults.

I thought I was just going to see John Marco. Oh okay, but now you thought the whole cabaret. I got the whole thing. So then, as a former theater kid now sort of theater adult myself, it resonated. It was a wonderful Morgas born of comedy.

It started out with the piano companists came out and warmed us up. Had us sing a little bit of be our Guest from Beating the Beast. Then Doug Goodheart came out and master it. He told us how to master five musical theater moves, very important. Then John Marco came out, did about twenty five minutes.

Or so wow. And had people in the audience talk about their experiences doing musical theater, and had a couple of people come up out of the audience, catrolled them to do a song, which was fantastic. Then Ben Platt came out and opened with luck be a Lady in Hebrew from his days at the Jewish performing Arts camp as a kid, and then they had a nice chat and Ben did a Corner of the Sky from Pippin and all the roles in Your Fall from into the Woods, and then they dueted on Your Nothing Without Me from City of Angels, which was fun and it was great. So it was it was good to see John Marco doing a little theater instead of just kind of talking about how he doesn’t do theater anymore right, and that the bits were funny and it was a great night. We look forward to the next one.

And the whole Mullaney rip off thing. I don’t see it at all. And I can’t imagine after he saw the cabaret version. Yeah, yeah, it’s ridiculous. No, I don’t.

I don’t see him as a ripoff of Malina at all. So one of the unanswered questions when I talk about you guys is what is the geographic circle? Like? Will you go to San Diego? Is it just northern New Jersey?

How how far away can I see comedy? No to hire the trivia guys, that’s men trivia. Yeah, No, we pretty much stay Morris County, New Jersey. Ish, we’ll go down to where’s the where’s the other county? We go to you know, Somerset County occasionally, Essex County occasionally, but we’re pretty local.

We’re getting We’ll go to San Diego if somebody right, if someone wants to hire is we’ll figure out a way to make it work. I would pay a little t anda exactly sure is the flyest sound to say? Sick? I can say, Now, that’s like me. I want to cover the Sydney Australia Comedy Festival, but on someone else’s time.

Exactly, all right, I know you got to set up, so let’s do Old man questions tonight eighties music. I know this ari on a grande stuff. You bet I appreciate it. Do Our best friend of the show, Jason Zinneman. In the New York Times, the headline the funniest special of the year, Dylan so far is drunk on words.

I might have added the Dylan part. Dylan is one of the guys in the Facebook group who watches fifty times the comedy specials. I do, but Dylan’s not feeling the Chris Fleming special. That’s okay. I don’t like Adam Sandler.

It’s fine. Comedy comes in many forms. We all like different things. Zinnaman agrees with me that Chris Fleming is the funniest special of the year so far. We are aligned at zennymon Rights.

Chris Fleming is a singular comedian for many reasons. His dynamic physicality, hopping, trotting, even moonwalking through jokes, the absolute finesse with which he delivers an insult so that it barely makes a mark, the unpredictability of his digressions, and the deadly seriousness he applies to subjects like the art of leading a conga line or Paul Dano’s smile see. This is why we need people who know how to write, like Jason Zinnaman from the New York Times, because he asked me and I go, oh yeah, it’s funny. Or I might say like, oh yeah, and he moves around a lot. I’m like a hack.

I can’t go more than like two sentences and I move on. But in front of the show jason’ Zenneman of The New York Times, right, it’s the magic trick of his act is that Chris Fleming marries a wild improvisational sense of constantly flying off the handle with a rightly precision with language. Usually you get one but not the other. Why you don’t hear the term alt comedy much anymore? That’s true, you really don’t.

Hmm. I wonder why it is, because now you hear bro comedy all the time. I guess the alt comedy guy’s one who knows why you don’t hear the term all comedy much anymore. There are plenty of odd ball comedians flourishing outside clubs and confessional solo shows. Sarah Sherman has turned Splatter and Go into a winning aesthetic, and Julio Tauris relies on flamboyant costumes and the abstraction of evoking colors and shapes.

Then there’s the booming clown scene. Yeah, that doesn’t get enough courage. I’m glad Jason pays attention to the clowns. The clowns are good. Pay attention to Natalie Palamedes if she’s not on your radar.

Natalie is fantastic. And Jimmy Fallon was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Late Night reminds us Fallon had appeared on Colbert’s Late Show three times before, including in the premiere, but never as a guest. Colbert, on the other hand, has been a guest on found Tonight Show twice. Colbert has popped up twice remotely, once with Conan in twenty eighteen as part of Fallon’s monologue, and in twenty nineteen to perform a duet of The Never Ending Story along with Fallon.

That’s really good work there by the Late Nighter folks. Anyway, I’m going to leave you with this Jimmy Fallon, who is super talented. You hear me stick up for Jimmy Fallon on this show. Now, sometimes the comedy lacks a little punch, but I do understand that Jimmy Fallon understands what the Tonight Show is and isn’t. But Fallon did a personalized version of Frank Sinatra is my way, and I’ll let that take us out and I’ll be back in the morning with a regular episode.

And then Monday at noon in eastern daylight time is comedy Survivor. All right, Jimmy Fallon, take us home. And now. The end is near, and so you face the final curtain. But Trump, he made it clear he wants you gone of that.

We’re certain you’ve been a gracious host. We’ve loved you since the old report days much more than this. You did it you. Yes, they send you to knock down to just two Jimmy’s. But wait.

Before you go, Can I please have one of your Jimmies go? Now? What will you do? Dance with the stars or move to Norway? In twenty eight you’d have our vote.

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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, so I’ll keep saying it. Boy, Big exciting news from Jim Gaffigan.

You’re never gonna believe who he’s going to play in season four of HBO’s The Gilded Age? Are you excited for Season four? In Season four of HBO’s The Gilded Age, Bertha changed society at a cost. Now her family must reckon with the consequences as Agnes seizes an opportunity to regain her position.

Meanwhile, Marian forges a new path for herself, and Peggy works to be accept…

In this new era, you must be careful what you wish for. And you’ll never guess who Jim Gaffigan’s going to play in season four of HBO’s The Gilded Age. Have you guessed correctly? That’s right? He will play Grover Cleveland, the twenty second President of the United States.

In season four of HBO’s The Guilded Age, Jim Gaffigan’s President Grover Cleveland comes to New York to curry favor with the elite class. Congratulations to Nate Berghatzi. He is back on top. In Billboard’s monthly Comedy box score recap for January. Nate had been on top from August through November, but John Mulaney took the top spot in December.

Well, Nate is back on top. His seven shows grossed five point one million dollars and sold sixty four thy one hundred tickets. The rest of your list in fifth place, Jim Gaffigan grossed a million and a half. He sold seventeen thy nine hundred tickets across ten shows, So Jim is playing two thousand seat theaters. Thought he’d be playing a little bigger room.

Matt Riife grossed a million and a half two shows, seventeen thousand, nine hundred tickets. Bert Kreischer a million, six seven shows, twenty six thousand tickets. Number two, John Mulaney two point nine million, twenty nine one hundred tickets twelve shows, and again Nate six shows, sixty four one hundred, five point one million dollars. Jimmy Kimmel has a great idea that Jimmy Kimmel should host the White House Correspondence Dinner, and his logic makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, Kimmel is not hosting it.

As Kimmell explains, this year, I guess Trump didn’t want to be made fun of by a comedian, So the host is a mentalist. We’ll have a mentalist and a mental case on stage together. Send your letters to Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel explains, the mentalist is a guy named Oz Perlman. He’s an amazing performer, and I’m sure he’ll be able to predict what Trump isn’t thinking.

But this feels like a cop out to me, and I want to address the President directly on this. Mister President, please let me host this dinner. I’ve never asked you for anything before. Can you imagine you, me, the commissioner of the FCC, all at a table together. Think of the ratings.

That’s not a joke. That would be amazing. Kimmell said, I’ll even throw an award. You like awards. I’ll give you a brand new award.

The corresponding the Dundee corresponding, no one will ever get it. Besides you, please give the people what they want for once. This is our destiny together, you and me think about it. Let’s make it the greatest, hottest, most spectacular dinner of any kind ever. Chelsea Handler, who wants data, Joe Cooy, who once hosted The Golden Globes, who once made a joke about Taylor Swift, but I’m not doing that bit today.

She caught up with Cleveland dot Com. They were curious if Chelsea Handler feels more free on stage now is supposed to ten years ago. Chelsea said, freer and more responsible at the same time. As a comedian. Right now, it feels purposeful to give people a reprief from the world we’re living in, which is a very dark chapter in this country’s history.

I take having a good time very seriously, and I take making sure my audience has a good time very seriously. That matters. Cleveland was curious, what do you think comedy is actually for right now? The comfortable or the uncomfortable. Chelsea Handler said, definitely the uncomfortable.

Comfortable people don’t usually have the best personalities. I’m not trying to supply comedy for them. Comedy is for people who are struggling, who are being targeted, who want more humanity, not less, people who care about community, about families staying together. That’s who I’m talking to, all right, Chelsea, anything off limits in your comedy, she said, I don’t make fun of children, especially not ugly children. That’s not funny.

Otherwise, I pull from my stories, my adventures, my magnetic attraction to outrageousness. That’s where everything starts. Chris Fleming was on Caleb Heron’s podcast and the name Mike Birbiglia came up. Now, you may recall recently Mike Birbiglia passed a note to John Mulaney and Berbiggs apparently had written down the name of a comedian that those two think might possibly, perhaps maybe be doing an impression of John Mulaney. Now, in the Great Comedy War of twenty twenty six, I’m on team John Marco SERSI against those mean bullies Berbiglia and m’laney, And I think we could put Chris Fleming on the side of John Marco again.

When the Great Comedy War breaks out, I’m choosing sides and I’m going with team fun. Anyway, here’s Chris Fleming. You say things about people that I’m like, if I did that, I would be in trouble. No, but it only makes them wilder for me when I say it. Yeah, Barbiglia won’t stop ringing me.

Yeah. Have you said things about Mike, Oh, so many things. Yeah, I can’t stop talking about You really get away with these things? I don’t know how. Yeah, I think it’s a kink people have.

We’ll have to say. See if for Biglily a response to that. Maybe he’ll pass a note. I don’t want to get a note. Jim Brewer caught up with The Advocate ahead of some recent shows down in Baton Rouge and they were curious if Jim would be doing any Baton Rouge jokes.

Jim said, Yeah. Before the show, I usually hit a downtown area and I walk around. I hitting coffee shafts, so I haven’t lunch in town, maybe listen to conversations, or I just try to get the feel of the area. And that’s usually my opening couple of minutes, trying to get the local field before I launched into what I’ve loosely planned for the evening. I have told this story before, but I will tell it again.

Absolutely he does that. I’m positive that we were at the Aspen Comedy Festival. I went out to breakfast with Jim and Pete Corielly. We got like pancakes or something. It was snowing outside, and at one point Jim goes, there’s no festival in this festival, and it was just a thought, and we went on and had our breakfast, and then I don’t know, fourteen hours later, at a show that also included Dave Chappelle, Brewer got up and did ten minutes on there’s no festival at this festival, and did a whole routine about snowballfis, etc.

That I can guarantee you did not exist before we sat down for breakfast. So I absolutely believe it when he says he walks around town and looks for inspiration. Been there, done that, seen it? Jim, can we bring kids to your show? He said, I never suggest small kids, and only because they can’t understand half the material.

But I call it PG thirteen. And the only reason I say PG thirteen is more the awareness. I don’t curse, I don’t swear. I’m not going to go into subjects to make you cringe. I’ve been doing that for fifteen years or so, maybe more so.

No worries about bringing younger people. Jim described his comedy style as observational. He said, I say clean Richard Pryor, if that makes sense, because Richard Prior make deserve life and we tell it, and that’s all. I’m a storyteller. I’m too dry today, ice coffee, everybody.

I can’t get my Brewer growl on. I live life and then I turn around and tell it and whatever’s going on in life that everyone relates to. Jim, what did you take away from your time on SNL. I know it sounds crazy, but what I took away from it was I mostly wanted to control my own destiny in my career and being home more after that show and set my own pace in life and in this business. Again I worked with Jim.

It’s probably twenty years ago now, Yep, that’s exactly where he was. Just wanted to be home with his family, taking care of his dad, looking out for the kids, and did not trust the industry at all. Jim, do you still pursue film roles? This is a good interview, Jim said, I never really got to do films I truly want to do. I’m literally at the stage now where I started writing more and honestly, I’m more in a drama than anything I’ve ever done.

Back then, I was chasing harder to be in movies and being the spotlight. Well, that’s the last of my desires these days. To me, I’m more about inspiring, inspiring, healing, helping people through with laughter. I’ve written some I’m writing one now. I don’t even think i’d be in it.

To be honest with you, I think I’m too old to play the part. I got to get down to Australia. I was in Australia at the end of twenty fifteen. I loved Australia like I love it, I’m obsessed with it. I mean, the weather’s awesome, the people are super nice, the country’s pretty, and it just seemed like less complicated, maybe just less developed, Like you know, there was not everything was a parking lot, yet not everything was a TJ Max and a Target and a Starbucks.

Like it just seemed like, in some ways, a simpler version of America. I’m not sure the Australians would appreciate that description, but I mean that with love, and I would love to actually live there, at least for a while. I also love living in America. Let me be clear, I’m not saying I’m not saying America sucks. I’m just saying I also like Australia.

I also really like France. I also really like Ireland. I also really like Italy. So what we’re gonna have to do is run more mid roll commercials so I can fund my international nomad life telling you about comedy festivals like the twenty twenty six Sydney Comedy Festival. It will present over four hundred shows in its biggest program ever.

I’ll be coming up in April. If you’ve listened for a few years, you know that I like to cover that one a lot and play some cliffs on some people that are not normally talked about on this American focused program. Some names you don’t know. But I think it’s just fun to take a look at what else is happening in the world. And it is a great festival.

You know, if you guys want to write me down and cover it Sydney Comedy Festivals to shoot me a note. The festival announced some international and local talent, including Daniel Slass, David Darney, Josh Thomas, Cilia Pacola, Joanne McNally and Reuben Kay. They joined the already announced Tiffany Hattish Any creator of Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd. The Sydney Comedy Festival General manager James Declass who should email me? Invite me?

He said, With almost four hundred shows over five massive weeks of coming, We’re pleased to welcome you to the biggest Sydney Comedy Festival program ever. Get ready to laugh, Sydney. We have many surprises in store for you.

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Meanwhile in Perth, also in April and May.

Hey, Perth, guys, I’ll come. Shoot me a note. They have also announced Daniel Sloss, Joanne McNally, Barcelona based Irish comedian Kyla Cobbler, and Canada’s Colin Mockery Very International Festival in Perth. They are also announcing the return of Malaysian doctor turned comedian doctor Jason Long UK born Australian resident nurse Georgie Carroll, Hong Kong’s Shawn Locke, Tim and an annual visitor to Perth, Ireland’s David o’darty. Some more Irish folk coming Chris Kent Andya Martin, Mike Rice and Alison Spittel from England, elf Lyons, Russian British comedian Oga Koch, Festival stalwart Stephen k Amos, He’s really great and UK drag Queen Myra Dubois.

Vanity Fair had put out an article a couple weeks back. It’s been busy around here. The headline Bowen Yang, Brittany Broski and eight other hosts who are shattering the talk show format. Tap the brakes there, Vanity Fair. They tell us the talk show is alive and well and living online.

It’s Jennifer Lawrence sobbing convulsively as the effects of Hot one Spicy Wings kick in, Tina Fey reading Bowen Yang, the Riot Act on Las Culturistas, and some other examples. Vanity Fair tells us for decades cheeky daddy figures from Jack Paar and Johnny Carson to Jimmy’s Fallon and Kimmel sat atop the Hollywood food chain. You know, I love Late Night at all, but if your premise here is going to be like poking Jack Parr, I mean really, I mean, why don’t we talk about like comedians like Mark Twain used to wear seer sucker suits and now Matt rif’ces on TikTok. I mean, what are you talking about? Did Mark Twain wear a seer sucker suit?

Is that an accurate description? It created a mental picture, It got the job done. They were industry gaatekeepers presigning over es, central press, tour pit stops, and thresholds where an up and comer could become a household name overnight. The newer and more democratized model, where digital influencers wield more clout than many traditional stars, relies on realness. Dude, None of this stuff is real?

Are you kidding me? Between the sets and the filters and the gimmicks like, for example, Hey, celebrity, come over and eat some spicy wings. You think that’s real? Come on. Royal Court creator Brittany Broski said, the whole point of these internet based shows is people crave a real, parasocial connection with their favorite celebrities.

There used to be this barrier between celebrities and the average person, and that is kind of dissolved. Has it is Pete Davidson having you over to his garage Vanity fairs? Brain kickback in and they wrote, talk shows have always been performative, conjuring an illusion of intimacy between strangers surrounded by lights, cameras and a studio audience.

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And then they’re brain short circuit again, They wrote, the new crop up celeb…

Yeah, like you know, feeding somebody spicy wings. Nothing artificial about that. To stop with this, I can’t with this. Go read Invanity Fair. This makes me want to throw my computer across the room.

I’m gonna wrap up for today and go back to my cabin in the woods. Up on Old Men Mountain Metric Company News for Today, Say Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shock Media Scrub, Season seven, Episode three, My rom Com Original air date March fourth, twenty twenty six. Hi, I’m a Johnny Mack and we are already a third of the way through the Scrubs revival as I record this Friday afternoon. The ratings for this episode are not out yet, nor has the show been officially renewed. I will be stunned if this doesn’t get another pickup. Everything screams that this is what passes for a hit in twenty twenty six.

You know, people don’t watch network TV, and this one has buzz, and the people that work on the show seem nice to work with, and you want to be in the Bill Lawrence business. And the premiere did pretty well. I’d be shocked if this doesn’t come back. In my rom Com, we saw j D and Elliott fighting at work again. Elliott believed that JD had it in for her.

They are divorced. Now we see JD in the doctor kel. She wants to keep a patient. JD is like it’s time to discharge her. The patient didn’t want treatment.

There’s no reason to be in the hospital. We got a business here to run. Elliott does not appreciate any of that. It’s just so weird to see JD in the Kelso role, but it makes sense now. One thing to keep an eye on in this episode.

I saw on the Reddit somebody thought that perhaps, possibly maybe that JD and Elliott film their scenes separately, because you would only see one of them in the camera shot as they talk to each other, but I disagreed. I was paying a lot of attention to the episode. I had seen that Reddit post before I put the episode on, and I was looking out for it, and at the beginning I was like, oh, yeah, that does look a little funky. But what I realized was it’s a directorial choice, I think because j D and Elliott are not together, so in camera they are not together. Now, as the episode goes on, the two have a nice conversation.

JD tells Elliott he’d like to find their core friendship and connection again and it was just going to take time. And in the scene JD walks into Elliott’s frame and now they are side by side. They are visually together again, So I think the director made a choice there. It’s subtle. There’s also a b plot involving Churk and the surgical Internsamara, the one that’s not confident, and Dashauna, who I think is fantastic and my favorite of the new bunch.

The actress is doing a great job. The role seems a little more fleshed out. She’s got great chemistry with Turk. We get to spend some time with some of the newer characters. Ellieed goes and hits up the IT guy, who is a bit of a character.

He shuts down the hospital’s electronics systems, which is fascinating because that’s the same plot happening in the pit. So I just find it interesting that the pit and the scrubs are aligned on their plot lines. It guy, we learned plays Dungeon and Dragons on Sunday with Turk. So Turk has this whole life outside JD. Now twenty years later, there’s another another uplot about finding the sick patient’s ex husband and how he looks like the main character from the movie Up.

They have some fun with that. We get some scenes out of new annoying HR Lady Carla does appear in this episode special guest Judy Rayis. I noticed in the credits. I don’t think we saw Joel Kim Booster’s character at all, so that’s interesting. Show Runner Assim Batra explained the deal with JD and Elliott to tv line.

She explains, if you go back and look at the first run of Scrubs, they always had a tricky relationship, and it’s just real statistically in terms of marriages, we don’t know what we’re gonna do with the two of them, and that’s exciting. Again, that suggests a season two. It gives us a lots of right to we get to see dating episodes again, we get to see them have a journey together again. Of okay, if it’s not gonna be this, how do we still keep loving our relationship? Watra notes, if we had JD acting the way he was in his twenties would probably drive a lot of people crazy.

He’s not there. He’s a grown up, and we don’t really want to see a guy controlling what his ex is doing. That’s kind of an old thing. As for making him get along now, Botra says, when you’re in a space of always being contentious, the comedy gets tamped down. We wanted them to be in a good space so they can have those fun light moments.

Do we find out what led to the divorce spoiler not this season. Bocher says, if we have more episodes in a later season, we can unpack that in a way of like, well, what was the origin of this? And I think that will be interesting for me. This episode was another winner. Now, about ten minutes in, I was like, Oh, this one’s not that funny, but I’m glad Scrubs is back, and I like spending time with these characters.

But then there were a couple really JD fantasy moments involving wrestling. You could tell there’s a little more budget for that stuff this time around. The times we saw the wrestling ring were hilarious. There were a couple one liners here and there. They got to chuckle out of me.

So maybe the beginning of the episodes is not that funny, but in the end I was like, oh, I’m glad Scrubs is back. One of the listeners sent this to me. Thank you listener. You know who you are.

And now when I get emails, a lot of people just prefer to stay anonymous, So …

The original show’s production designer Cabot McCullen is not back. The new guy is Roger Fires, and some fans are noticing some of the set looks different. That’s because they couldn’t use the original location. I think that building was torn down. However, they’ve done updated versions of the hallways, operating rooms, and even the gift shop.

I feel like at some point it looks like the background is CGI can’t really tell. Sometimes the back looks a little funky. We’re told when Zach Braff came to see the new set for the first time, he was speechless for three minutes, looking at us like I can’t believe you guys did this. If the audience at home as the same reaction, I think that’s successful. The original pilot for Original Scrubs was shot at the fully operational Women and Children’s Hospital in Valley Village.

Once the series got picked up, they filmed it at North Hollywood Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley, a real hospital that had been shut down. Seasons one through eight took place there. They also had rooms for makeup, wardrobe, editing, swedes, sound studios, and more, and instead of trailers, the cast was given old hospital rooms. That’s fun. For season nine production moved to Culver Studios.

But there is no season nine anymore. What are you talking about? There are eight seasons and then we call this one season ten. Season nine never happened. It’s been d cannoned.

Back in the old days, they had to put up a huge sign that said this is not a working hospital. Don’t come here for emergency care. North Hollywood Medical Center was torn down to twenty eleven. Uh, I was right what I said earlier and is now luxury apartments. So for the revival, a set was built to mimic the original.

The new set is in Vancouver. The only exception is the entrance to the hospital that was not built. It was created using an optical illusion. Fires recreated the entrance using a three D photo of the original entrance that has quote reverse perspective that tricks the eyes. I don’t think in the new series we’ve gone to the bar yet.

Maybe I’m forgetful. In the new series, the bar is called Lloyd’s Junction. It is canonically the same bar that they hung out in olden times. The original bar never had a name, but apparently all along possibly it’s been called Lloyd’s Junction. Anyway, the new name is a tribute to Sam Lloyd, the actor who played Ted Lawyer.

Sam passed away a couple years, so a nice way to honor Sam Lloyd over at Lloyd’s Junction. And that is your Scrubs Season ten, episode three recap. I’m so happy the show was back back in the morning with a normal episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh this one should be fun. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. We got to talk about Game Iglesias, but first, hey, check in with a late night Jimmy Fallon reminds us the big story continues to be Iran as we’re in day four. When he told Joke of what the Pentagon is officially calling Operation Now What Michael Costa said, it’s definitely not expanding into an ever widening regional conflict that puts Americans in immediate danger.

Fallon again. President Trump took questions in public for the first time since he attacked Iran, and he admitted he has no plan for who should take over the country. Apparently he’s very close to listing it on Facebook Marketplace love It. Colbert said, they’re going to have to post the job on Indeed, the boasting supreme leader qualifications, charismatic, proficient in Excel, not deada plus Game Iglesias. Dude, you know I met Gabe once.

He was part of the launch of Comedy Central Radio. He was awesome, But Gabe, Gabe Gabe, Gabe, this is a bad look. Gabe Iglesias was at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He got his star. Congratulations, well earned, and this is just a bad clip.

Here is Gabe Iglesias, my agent, Matt Blake. Matt has a book means around the Planet, and yes, yes he booked, means Saudi Arabia. I don’t care. Yeah, I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say. Fluffy is a sellout, Damn right.

I am a sold out Dodgers Stadium and Sofi Stadium, so say hello to that sellout. So on the one hand, I appreciate the honesty. Like Pete Davidson, who I still can’t believe played that festival. At least he was like it was a lot of money, and Gabe is just saying it’s a lot of money. And I get it, guys, but you know, most of the world, except for one cranky guy in his basement recording a podcast, has kind of moved on from this topic.

And Gabe, you just waved the red flag in front of the bull, and it’s just it was not a good look for you. Don’t do that again. That’s bad. Mark Maron was on Facebook he loved Chris Fleming’s new special. Have you watched it yet?

I’ve been trying to get you to watch it. I know I’m just a lunatic in abasement, but maybe you will trust the opinion of esteemed comedian Mark meron Here’s Mark, I made a couple edits for language. Chris Fleming I think is single handedly saving stand up comedy. Chris Fleming is a marvel to behold, A true artist, a true artist of improvisation, and just totally full of surprises and a bit of an edge. I watched Chris Fleming Special on HBO, and he gives me hope for comedy because for so long now it’s been so locked into the same boring frequency.

Of bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah, just. Like interchangeable comics. So when anybody pops out of that, out of what has become understood is stand up comedy and crowd work and everything else the same pattern. I mean, this guy like a rocket ship. Great, check out that Chris Fleming special.

Something new man finally, something new, real art, real stand up comedy. Just put them all to shame. No, I know you’re like Johnny Mack you never talk about Chris Fleming. Well, Chris Fleming is the guest on Caleb Hearing’s podcast. If you want to check that out.

Thank you Heather for sending that over. How about this for Scrubs, we got some updated numbers. I had telled you other ratings the other day, but then the modern metrics where they look at how it streamed in its first five days. New Scrubs tallied eleven point three six million total cross platform viewers in its first five days. That includes the audience for the original linear premiere.

Linear is network speak for what civilians would just call TV, as well as encores and streaming across Hulu, Disney Plus and digital platforms eleven point three six I imagine if it hasn’t already by the time you hear this, I imagine that show will be picked up for a season two and then we can get more Doctor Cox. By the way, someone in my house we have Hulu and there’s an account clearly labeled Dad’s account, and then the other family members have their own accounts on the master Hulu account. So I sat down last night to watch the Scrubs and I’m watching it and I’m like, wait, this just feels like out of time. And I went back and my rewatch is the middle of season five, someone else in the families rewatch and she did cook a fabulous dinner. If you want to hint as to who I suspect it was, had my account in the middle of season two.

When I hit next episode, it just showed me a season two episode and I watched the whole thing, and then I was like, ah, wait what so I reset its season five flog in as yourself people, And while I’m ranting, can you how do I get my family off my iCloud. So I have two options. I could bail and create a sub account, but then I have to remake all my music playlists and I’m the one paying for the iCloud, or I kick them all off. Now, I have told the children when you turn thirty, and they’ve got some time. When you turn thirty, I’m kicking you off iCloud.

You get your own Netflix. I’m kicking you off everything. It’s not about the money. It’s about I want to log in hit play and Scrubs play season five. Although kicking my children off is not going to solve the Scrubs issue.

Then I mentioned she cooked a delicious dinner. In case you want to hint, who I suspect is logging in his me cut it out. Jim Jefferies was on The Life Without Andy Show and he was asked if comedy had a championship belt, who would hold it? Right now, now there’s a topic for a slow news day, which is not today, but the next time we have a slow news day, that is a great topic. Who holds the comedy championship belt?

To me, it’s pretty obvious, but Jim Jeffries threw out a different name. He said the current title holder would be Shan Gillis. He’s the one selling the most tickets. Well, as you’ll hear tomorrow, he’s not the one selling the most tickets. Nate forgets.

He’s the one selling the most tickets. Shank Gillis is the one that seems that the left and the right love the most.

And also he was canceled and he’s completely fine, you know what I mean.

But he would be the one that would be the biggest for ticket sales. Gabriela Glacias. No one sells more tickets than Gabriellaglacias. Man he sold Dodger Stadium twice, plus he sold out the Rio Comedy Festival, which bottom of a house. Yeah, I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say.

Fluffy to sellout, Jim said, I’m just happy where I’m at, even if I’m at the bottom of the table. I’m happy to be playing in the Premier League, and I could be relegated at any time. I love it. Taylor Tomlinson said, playing cruise ships are really tough because everybody’s coming to see you, essentially for free, just in another activity that’s available on the boat, and you’re not as good as a water slide. That’s hilarious.

Most people were there with their families or on their anniversary, and I was like twenty one talking about dating being weird. I usually did a lot of CrowdWork on cruise ships. The other comic that would be on with me, he’d have an hour about the cruise ship and I was like, oh man, I’m not good at this. I think those were the hardest for me. Churches, if you’re clean, they’re pretty nice.

We have to be squeaky clean. I’m not talking like send your transcript to the tonight’s show and have them reprove it. I’m talking insanely clean, no innuendo, no light swearing, don’t get too dark or too negative. But if you could stay within those parameters, as the audience tends to be supportive back at serious, I always had the hardest time programming the clean comedy channel. First of all, there’s not all that much clean comedy.

You would think that would be the easy one to do. No, the dirty channel is very easy. To do the clean channel. You have to find material, and then people like Bill Cosby, who were the bulk of your library, you know, kind of getting the news, and then you have to pull all the Bill Cosby clips out, and that makes life even harder. But as a rascally young man who grew up in New York City, I had a different feel for what for what is clean or not.

I eventually settled in on like Dolly Parton jokes, if you know what I mean, Like, there’s a way to do a Dolly Parton joke without saying anything. I kind of drew the line there, but boy, I kept having it dial the language back. There’d be words that would be like, really, you were finit that at okay, Folks did not like any sort of coded drug reference. So that had to come out. So I hear you, Taylor Thomason, She said, I could tell you when I was twenty one and it was opening for Big Church Comics.

It was like a thousand dollars a show that was hard to lose. At a certain point, I told my manager I couldn’t do churches anymore. She told the managers, just don’t even tell me if we get offers. The last one she told me about was like three thousand dollars for like thirty minutes. When you’re twenty two, I two TV credits and don’t sell tickets.

That’s pretty crazy. It’s a lot of money, but I couldn’t do it. They asked Taylor Thompson about Late Nights. You know, she walked away from the Late Late show. My personal conspiracy theory.

And again I can’t scream this loudly enough. I’m not blaming Taylor Tomlinson, but I do think Taylor Thompson walking away from After Midnight did open the door to a discussion of do we need any of this? Again, I’m not blaming Taylor Tomlinson. I just think it’s a butterfly effect. Taylor said, I can’t believe they canceled Cold Beer.

It’s interesting how the argument is, like nobody wants to watch people talk. People are watching hours of people talking on podcasts on YouTube and now Netflix. I’m doing all these podcasts and it’s so interesting too, because you’ve got to go to some studios. It’s a TV show. They have a team of eight or nine people, twenty lights, and a beautiful setup.

As for walking away, it was tough. I decided that I couldn’t come back before the show was renewed. It was sort of a muddy timeline because the decision had been made to be renewed, but I didn’t know about that, so it wasn’t as simple as they told us you being renewed and I went, no, thank you. That’s not what happened. From the beginning.

I was always like, if I can do both, I will do both. But reach a point where I was touring, I was doing press for the show, I was doing the show, and I had some hell stuff going on. I just couldn’t do both things anymore. I so badly wanted them to just hire someone else to host it, because I think there were so many comedians who would have been absolutely amazing hosts for that show, and it’s unfortunate that they didn’t go that direction, because in the two seasons we did, we got it to a format that CBS seemed to feel good about. It’s a very different show than one I saw non for and I was really happy with it and proud of where we all got it.

The hardest decision I’ve ever made professionally, by far, was not to come back for a third season. But I couldn’t sustain it. You know. That got me thinking, I wonder if they’ll bring that back, Like, could you just did eleven thirty, do a show called before Midnight and get a new comic in there and run that format because that one’s not that expensive to produce, Or do you just throw on CSI reruns and get the same number? Probably that the Hollerd Report said to Taylor, what was surprising is the format seemed like a workable evolution for late night.

Panel shows are less expensive and do well in other countries, and Taylor at it it was a great opportunity for comics to get in front of a new audience and get a TV credit and make jokes in a way that didn’t burn material on stage. I’m really grateful that I got to be part of it as long as I did. But when Colbert got canceled, it was like, holy cow, Really, how long would we have been on if they were going to cancel Colbert? You know what, Taylor, My guess is a long time. Comedy stock Markets.

Thank you, Burt Reynolds. You know I was on with the sales department the other day. This is a real thing that happened. They’re like, do you have any repeatable segments we get sponsored. I’m like, dude, comedy stock Market, where every Friday we look at the comedians and we try and find value when we buy low and we sell high.

Last week I was very positive. I was just telling you to buy bye bye. Today I have one buy one sell the buye. Let’s get some more Chris Fleming. You listened to me last week and you bought Chris Fleming stock.

Right, Your Chris Fleming stock is way up, and I think there’s a lot more upside there. So let’s buy some more Chris Fleming for my sell. Let’s get out high and gave a galazias. I just I don’t like the look. Again, I get it.

It’s a lot of money. But dude, you have a lot of money, and it’s just it’s not a good look. So simple comedy stock market today, we will buy Chris Fleming and we will sell Gabe A Galacias. Yeah. I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say.

An article in Deadline as Netflix targets podcast comics weigh the risk of leaving YouTube, They point out not too many comedians have jumped to Netflix podcasting. Sure, there’s been a few notable exceptions, Chelsea Handler and The Workaholics, both coming through a deal with iHeartMedia. Netflix first commission in original was The Pete Davidson Show, but Deadline right still. Given Netflix’s outsize role in today’s comedy business, with the Comedy Festival coming up in May, many expected to see more comic driven podcasts bound for the service by now. Some sources have attributed the lack of comedians to the way the streamers structuring its deals.

As a license, Netflix does not have an official podcast boss. The deals are run through the teams of Laurence Smith, VP of Content Licensing and Programming Strategy, and VP of Nonfiction Series in Sports, Brandon Reeg. The Netflix podcasts have been required to strip their feed of new video episodes from YouTube, which stands in contrast to Hulu’s strategy. Hulu is windowing episodes so they premiere on Hulu and then they can go on YouTube the next day. Netflix pointed out there are audio fees for every podcast, so you can listen if you want.

What’s the big deal, a source is the price to engage with comedic podcast talent has been a lot higher than he believes the streamer expected. The quote, I don’t think they realize just how much money some of these talents are making when they are majority participants in AD supported revenue. Alan Abdean is the head of AD revenue and Partnerships at y m H Studios, you know, the company founded by Tom Sagora. His advice, regardless of how many millions of dollars are being offered, he would never advise talent to take a new captive audience at the expense of alienating the Cora audience that got you to where you are now. I’ll translate, you go behind the bay wall and a lot of people don’t follow you, he says.

You’re basically telling your community you’ll watch it where I tell you to watch it versus we’ll meet you where you live. He explained the money. You can have your ad sense those are like Google ads. You can have your host red ads. You can have dynamic and programmatic ads.

Dynamic ads or ads that you could swap in. So there are baked in ads like if I were to read you a commercial for say an iced coffee, if I bake it in, it means it lives in the episode forever. A dynamic ad is what you normally hear on the show where I like, clearly kind of take a break in the middle of the show, and then you get some commercials. Those are dynamic, and those are individually served to you based on your listening primarily your location. So if you’re in New Jersey, you’ll get some New Jersey based ads, and if you’re in suburban Vancouver you’ll get some Canadian stuff, et cetera, et cetera.

You can have dynamic and programmatic ads, you can have product placements, you can have brand deals, you can have clips. You’re condensing all that and known one number for Netflix, which I think probably changes the dynamic one executive wondered, Now, this is very very smart. This is the whole key here for comedians. The executive wondered, if Netflix feels like they can get your audience every week from your podcast for a relatively low price, are they going to then be incentivized to get your special or these bigger projects from you. An agent representing audio stars agreed, saying these concerns are top of mind.

It’s something that we’re discussing internally in a very coordinated way because we’re cognizant of the potential impact that it might have on other pieces of the business. We don’t really want to continue to be in a race to the bottom, right, So if you’re Shane Gillis and you throw your podcast up there, well, Shane’s on Netflix all the time, So what makes us special? It doesn’t. Boy, that’s really really interesting. We’ll see what shakes out.

Until then, I’ll be down here in the basement doing it myself. That’s your comedy news for today. Oh boy, all right, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence that I can’t memorize for the life of me. But also the algorithm loves I’ll keep saying it. Mark Maron once performed a comedy show so terrible that it cost him three weeks of work and forced him to fly on a twenty two hour flight around the globe.

That’s the headline from Entertainment weekly I love It. Maren was on Eric Andre’s podcast and said I was sent home from Australia because I bombed so hard it was the worst. Apparently, Maren was booked to headline three weeks of shows plus one week of previews at a club in Australia in the early nineties, but the problem was Maren only had thirty minutes of decent material when he took the job, so he says, So I flied Australia, I get there, this is billboard of me, like a painted billboard of me, with a fake quote about my act, like this guy’s a star. So right away that’s not true, and I knew I was gonna have to stretch, but I thought I could handle it. I don’t even like being away.

I was springing out on all levels. Didn’t have the confidence, didn’t have the act. Do not like to travel. Maren said he wasn’t used to shows that have intermissions, explaining the first time you deal with it, you’re like, what are you doing? You’re stopping the whole flow.

So I’m just sitting there watching the show going. I’m eft and I go out there the first night and struggled. It’s okay. I stretched at the end, but it’s okay. And I got through a whole week of previews where it’s just getting worse and worse.

I get out there, I’m the headliner and I’m smoking. You could smoke. Then some guy yells, where’d you get that jacket? And it was an America dude? And I was so effed up in my head confidence wise, that just shut me down.

There was a point where all I could hear in a room full of four hundred was the embers of my cigarette burning. It’s not just a silence, it was like a suction to it, and I felt myself leave my body. It was literally like I’m gonna go watch from over there.

And then I got off stage and the owner comes up to me and he’s that look of s…

This is weekend. I’m supposed to do three more weeks. And he goes, I don’t think this is working out, and I’m like, okay. He goes, I think maybe you should just go home. Wow.

Andre asked if Maren got paid. Maren said, I don’t even know. I don’t even think I cared. I knew I had to play along and be like, oh, really, I think it’ll get better. So I said that on my mind, I’m like, thank god, less funny.

I had been sober for about a year, and on that plane ride back got totally s face, totally relapsed. I just drank the whole way home. Dan Soda recalled having his confidence shattered during a twenty fourteen set, and the person who turned his night around was Conan O’Brien. Soda said of Conan, he did one of the coolest things that I’ve seen in the business. The second time I did Conan, I did, like my set didn’t feel like it went well.

He called me to the couch to say good night. He did something cool where at the end of the show he went, all right, that’s all my time. He thanks the guest. He’s like, Dan, Soda, thank you guys, good night. Conan turns to Soda.

How do you think you did? Soda said, I hated that set, And as Soda remembers it, ConA looks at the crowd and goes, day effing sucked. Soda says, it made me feel so much better instantly. Nate Bergatzi explained to you people why he moved back to Tennessee ten years ago. He wanted his daughter, who’s now thirteen, to have a grounded, average upbringing.

Got to keep getting average in there. That’s the whole brand, apparently, got to keep working that word in. Nate said, we live in a great neighborhood. We’re in a cul de sac. No one who’s really an entertainment lives there.

It’s people have regular jobs or friends. So everything that she’s around now she’s not around this, meaning the entertainment business. She knows I do it, and I have her introduced me in my specials. So she sees sights of it, but overall she’s going to school and living a normal life. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Chris Fleming.

I know, did you guys watch the special yet? Did you stick with it? Did you trust me? Did you go through the whole? Hey, this is weird.

Johnny Mack must be on crack. Why is he telling us to watch this thing? And an hour lady, We’re like, oh, yeah, that was really good. Have you done that yet? Rolling Stone profiled Chris Fleming.

Chris Fleming would like to make one thing clear. He’s not weird, he said over zoom. I’m very normal. Maybe I’m insane, because I don’t think I’m insane, but I don’t see my work as weird. I like to keep things surprising, and I like to surprise myself in my writing.

That’s how I would view it as a surprise party. I would describe it as weird, but very very funny. Fleming tells Rolling Stone, my comedy is like hear me out, it’s too frantic to describe. I had a locksmith who I made the mistake of telling I was a comedian, and then he was watching my clips on his phone silently for the entirety of trying to fix my locks. In Live at the Palace, there’s no thematic through line, rolling Stone writes.

In fact, many times in the show it feels like Fleming is just hearing his own material for the first time. Sometimes he pauses in the middle of the act, noting punch lines that the audience doesn’t laugh at, and redoing the joke with a pointed aim. Other Times he abandons a tangent altogether to point out and audience members laugh. The end result is a charming, surprisingly intimate look into fleming stream of consciousness. Fleming’s not worried about the numbers, he said, we’re focusing too much on numbers.

Virality whatever, people can go viral and then they can’t sell out one hundred seed venue. You could have one million followers and not be able to get twenty people to show up to a show. So if you can land in people’s hearts, it’s way more important f awards, f numbers, f viral. If there’s something that I’ve done that you think about a feel later down the road, that’s the key. That’s what art should be.

The Guardian went to see Maria Bamford. They gave Maria four stars out of five and describe Maria Bamford as an unflinching comedian in complete command of every joke and every step. Maria Bamford asks the audience why did Americans decide to elect a dictator for a second time? The answer money. She sounds like she’s teaching my college classes.

I tell them. No matter what question I ask you, guys, ever, the answer is always money. We are till Despite inheriting what she calls generational wealth after the early deaths of both her parents, Bamford still approaches the world with a fundamentally economic mindset. That’s the idea on paper. In practice, Bamford has never been one for clean narrative arcs.

Instead, she draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression. She runs in tiptoed circles before dropping fully outstretched to the floor, all while holding the mic. Bamford is a comedian in complete command of every joke, every step. Is this her most focused work? Probably not, but she remains a gloriously absurd and rapid fire presence.

She tells the audience about being a comedian, this is a job. The New York Post caught up with Charlie Barns, who says there’s enough polarization going on right now to or I don’t have much interest in that. I have interest in finding ways to bring us together, like out to a club or to a theater or whatever. I think when you get people in the same room, and you get people who may not connect on other things, connecting over something just gives more touch points to know. They’d even have someone has an opposite view to you.

They’re not the devil, you know. You gotta have common ground. Barns was raised in Wisconsin and has eleven siblings. He explains, my first special was sort of about the Midwest. The new one, Neighborly, is more about the world from a Midwest guys perspective.

It also goes deeper to my family. I love gambling with my grandma, I love fishing with my family. It’s just kind of a lot of stories about growing up. I’m one of twelve kids, so I’m mass produced. I got that going for me.

In Minnesota, comedians have been responding to the presence of ice up there. Ben Kantzener is one of three Minneapolis comedians who hosted a roast of ice. He had seen some videos of ice agents and Cassner said that could easily be me. There’s no reason it wouldn’t because all the indiscriminate nature of how our government and our police and our agencies all out towards people of color and people in the community. So yeah, it’s fear all the time.

Another Minneapolis comedian, Comrade Tripp, said, when you’re going down swinging, you’re always punching up. It’s the elephant in the room, it’s the donkey on our necks. Jenny’s a Greenow talk to the Minneapolis Post and she said, I would have loved to have been a political comedian in a world where your politics aren’t your sole identity. F ice can I say that? Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor.

What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There you will find a picture of me extinguishing the torch of Kevin Hart. Write down the name of the comedian he would like voted off Comedy Island this week. No Knicks game tonight after two nights. Tracy Morgan is a big Knicks fan.

He explained how he got Daniel Radcliffe, who also become a Knicks fan. They’ve been attending games together, and Tracy gave some tips to Daniel Redcliff and said, Daniel, chill out. He’s yelling clean that glass eye raf as soon as the referees missed a call, clean that glass eye, and I gave him that to yell out. DJ Miller is dropping hints that he could get back into these Deadpool movies, said he had recently spoke to Ryan Reynolds, the guy’s at WRIF Radio. Asked TJ Miller, all right, to you back in or is that chip sailed?

TJ Miller said it has not sailed. And that’s all I’m going to say about that. Okay, Marvel gets so weird about this stuff. They’re just like, don’t talk about it, don’t talk about it. Mike Epps is tired of apologizing.

He was on Dion Cole’s Funny Knowing You podcast. Mike said, look, I’m exhausted. I’m tired of apologizing. I’m a comedian, a crack jokes. Everything I say is not to be analyzed and put on blogs like I’m a bad person at crack jokes.

It’s funny. I’m a comedian. The stuff is exhausting. F off Man, it wasn’t even a real story. It was a joke.

No, I didn’t leave a homeless family on the street. Did I meet a homeless family help them? Hell yeah, I help them. Did I crack a joke and make a joke of it at the end? Yeah, I made it funny.

Damn I’m a comedian. TMZ reported some SNL staffers were scared after a musical guest, Cardi B, had a meltdown over joke during weekend Update. The joke was about Nicki Minaj aligning herself with the President of the United States after hearing the Maga manage joke. Sources at SNL alleged that Gardi B destroyed equipment, punching a screen in the producer’s office until it was broken. They also claimed that the rapper threw her phone at a TV backstage after threatening to leave the show and not perform during the episode Wow.

TMZ says the joke was then taken out of the show. That is your comedy news for today. All right, go vote for Comedy Survivor and meets you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy and Hews, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. On Late Night, they were talking about the war. Did you see the President was running the war out of mart Lago over the weekend?

Because you know, why would you run it out of the White House? Seth Myers said, I had a more secure room when I was trying on jeans at Old Navy. You started a war in the Middle East and you didn’t even go to the office. You’re gonna work from home? It How am I going to get my writers to come into work when the President of the United States treats war like a team’s meeting.

Stephen Colbert said, fun fact epic fury is an anagram for forget Ebstein. An interesting article in Deadline about how these comedy specials are doing in the ratings. They say Kat Williams’s latest special, The Last Report, released on February tenth, has gotten seven point one million views in its first week. That’s up ten percent from Kat’s previous special, twenty twenty four’s Woke Folk It is the eleventh biggest US debut for any Netflix special going back to twenty seventeen. Some other info, Dave Chappelle’s twenty nineteen Stix and Stones has the biggest US viewership of any Netflix special in the last decade, plus thirty five point three six million debuts.

However, that trails Shane Gillis Live in Austin on YouTube and fifty two million plus views. Shane’s Netflix special twenty twenty three’s Beautiful Dogs has twenty eight million views on Netflix. Deadline points out YouTube counts thirty seconds of streaming as a view. Netflix divides the title’s total hours by its runtime to calculate views. Over on Amazon, Jim Gaffigan’s twenty nineteen Quality Time sixteen point four million views.

Nate Berghatzy’s Hello World thirteen and a half that came out four years later than the Gaffigan one, Eliza Slessinger Is a Different Animal came out last year one point three two million views so far. The biggest on Amazon this year is Kathleen Madigan, hence The Family Thread, which came out in November of last year that has one point two eight million views. On Hulu Kamail Nanjianni’s Night Thoughts, which came out late last year, is the Streamers number two special in the fifty two weeks ending February fifteenth, twenty twenty six, Hul’s third biggest specials since twenty twenty four, trailing Jim Gaffigan with The Skinny and Bill Burrs the Drop Dead Years. Nola caught up with Kyle Kinane. Kyle was recently asked if he wanted to perform comedy during Fish’s four day takeover at a Cancun resort.

Kyle was like sure and ended up seeing Fish three times that weekend. He said, I’m like, well, I’ve kind of made my mark on that community and they don’t like me. Anytime I kneed jerk reaction is like this is gonna suck. I kind of have to do it. If it sounds like a bad idea, well why don’t you go find out for yourself instead of just from a distance pointing your finger and judging.

So I said yes to it and woind up having a great time. Kyle told the gambit try to find the micro happiness because the world will not make you happy. The universe is crappy, so try to be a champion of yourself and find the happiness in your own little microcosm. Kyle says, over the last couple of years, I’m realizing that fame and success are different. I’ve accomplished what I want to.

I might not be outwardly successful in terms of what other comedians have, but I’m grateful for what I do have and appreciative of the friends and what I’ve gotten from comedy. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Chris Fleming. I know, right, Vulture did a big profile of him. Have you watched the special yet? It’s really good, Vulture says.

Chris Fleming arrives at the hotel and an absurdly tiny, sea foam green car, a Nissan Figaro, an obscure nineteen fifty style convertible with chrome detailing and tiny around headlights and a right side steering wheel. Fleming is six y two, and when he sits in the driver’s seat, his knees falled up to his chest, so they started driving around. The writer says, this is like Seinfeld doing comedians and cars getting coffee. Fleming says, f that’s a huge problem. If this is what this is giving off, damn it Chris is asked if he cares about cars in general.

Is this a hobby? Oh god, no, this is pure esthetic. I love it. I got to look up now, I’m curious what this car looks like Nissan figure O. Oh yeah, you gotta look this thing up.

This thing looks like it belongs in a retro movie, said in like Europe somewhere. This thing is tiny. What a cool looking car? Though, we learned in the profile, Chris Fleming’s mother realized his talent, and when Chris was sixteen, mom drove him to his first open mic. Flemming remembers mom saying, you want to be like Robin Williams, Right, well, you got to do stand up mf R.

I was like, oh, I don’t want to do stand up. Stand up sucks. I don’t like watching it. I wanted to be in movies and I found stand up tedious. People Magazine profiled Nate Berghansey as part of the game show Yeah it’s Wednesday, It’s Scrubs Night, Trivia night, game show night, Schrodinger’s Dree Duty Night.

And I’m a little worried as I record this on Tuesday. Now, I was expecting they would tell me to call back on Wednesday. They told me to call back on Tuesday nights. I’m a little worried that they’re gonna get me. I might actually record two episodes while I’m sitting here in the studio and actually home.

Nate cleared up some other rumors about him quitting stand up. He said, I’m not quitting stand up right now. I got this current tour. We’re doing another tour, but there’s gonna be a point where it’s gonna get hard to travel on the road. Is We’re creating so much stuff and making these movies, and then I want to go help find the next generation of comedians or actors writers.

At least I wanted to stand there and tell them I’ve done what I’m asking them to do. Last week, Jason Zenniman, friend of the show in The New York Times, he wrote, the most popular comedian You’ve probably never heard of. That person is Maximini, who I had never heard of. Remember, at the end of the year, Deadline kind of was like, Hey, Maximedi’s selling out places, and I was like, who, Well, Maximedi is the most popular comedian you’ve probably never heard of, Correctly pointed out by Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. Jason went to see Maximedia at the Garden.

All this before the current war. I just want to point that out, Jason writes. Arenas like the Garden aren’t built for crowd work. In the upper balcony, you can’t hear, let alone see half the conversation. But this didn’t stop a meeting who made small talk with ticket buyers for twenty straight minutes.

Jason writes, the Maximini phenomenon reflects a transitional moment in an increasingly globalized comedy scene, upbending two common beliefs. The firstes that fans just want great jokes some do. What you see from Amini is an artist less interested in putting together clever punchlines than in creating a sense of an event, a warm vibe, a show that becomes a community. On Sunday, when Dean Cook introduced Amini, he didn’t trumpet the younger comics funniness, but his ability to connect and unify. Dean Cook didn’t expect that name in this story.

At one point, a drunk audience member hijacked the show, and another woman told a long story about seeing a medium that almost no one in the arena, could hear I mean, he got his biggest laughs, mocking the audience members, calling back to them, weaving them into a story. What becomes clear is they’re not just seeing the show, they are the show. Judging from the crowd of the garden, his audience comes from nearly every continent, and a meaning made sure that his material is accessible to them all. As subjects were universal and bland, dating, family music, and he never went deeper specific enough to confuse anyone. His examination of Iranian culture often applies to other immigrant experiences.

Again, this show and the article are from before the war. Jason Zinnemann wrote at that time, A Meanie’s only really challenging material came at the end of the show when he stopped choking and told the crowd that thousands approacheds had been killed in Iran and that what was happening there was quote the biggest revolution in our time unquote. Then he showed a series of short videos of scenes of violence, protesters getting run over and attacked, and as a narrator in towned freedom is not a punchline, don’t forget to vote someone off the island. On Comedy Survivor Regular Survivors on TV tonight too, so we got that and Scrubs Trivia and I got a nixed the nix aer. On tonight they’re playing the champions Big Night Comedy Survivor sixteen comedians one island.

Half of them have already been voted off by the listeners. What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There you’ll see a picture of me extinguishing the torch of Kevin Hart from last week, and this week you’ll vote someone off the island. I took a quick look this morning. I look like Burt Kraser is in trouble.

So if you’re part of the Bert Krascher alliance, you’re happy. And if not, you guys want to form an alliance and vote someone else off to save Bert Kraser. All that’s up to you, guys. I’m just the host. Radar Online says that Stephen Colbert’s ratings are pretty bad and the CBS can’t wait for it to be over.

The phrasing from Raider Online is bosses are counting the days until he’s out while telling him not to let the door whack his behind on the way out. The series finale is May twenty first, that it can’t come too soon for CBS big weeks, who note that the comic is facing his worst January ratings in the twenty five to fifty four age group. Ever, with just two hundred and eighty five thousand viewers, that is not a lot of people. An insider said, the final show can’t come soon enough for most folks at the network. They’re sick to the back teeth of Colbert’s raging ego, his constant attention seeking and petty historyonics.

The feeling’s pretty mutual, to be fair, Steven’s only going through the motions at this point, but that makes for a lousy vibe, and it’s doing nothing to improve the shattered morale of his employees. Most of them will be out of a job soon enough, no thanks to him, The insider said. The fact his ratings are in the pan does justify the decision to cut Ties, but it also means the sharp decline in revenue, and there are some folks at the network who are fled a lot out, accusing Steven of sabotaging the show on his way out the door. Whatever his motive, the next few months can’t pass soon enough. Wow, Jimmy Carr is getting another season of his TV show, Am I the a Hole?

Car said of UKs Comedy Central, We’re bringing back m Ida Hole and I’m hosting again a guest. Comedy Central figure when it comes to a Hole’s game recognizes game. On m Ida Hole, judges judge members of the public on their questionable behavior and morally dubious actions. For example, say you played the ri Odd Comedy Festival, they would say, hey, are you an a hole?

And then the judges would decide whether or not that was something that would…

But hey, at checks at check right. President Trump has announced on social media that he will participate in this year’s White House Correspondence Association dinner. In the past that was hosted by comedians who would roast everyone in the room, including whatever person was the sitting president. This year’s host is celebrity mentalist Oz Perman. I’m not familiar with mister Perlman’s work.

Roman was profiled, apparently by The New York Times back in October. The headline on that article said, it’s not cheating, it’s reading minds. Oz Perlman has revealed Joe Rogan’s ATM code on air and entertained NFL stars. Now the manosphere’s favorite magician wants more. Okay, that’s all I know about this person.

And now he’s hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner, which will be attended by the President of the United States, who posted on social media during the war in honor of our nation’s two hundred and fiftieth birthday, and because these correspondents now admit that I am truly one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country. The goat wait is the President, saying he’s only one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country. I thought he was the greatest according to himself. No, he’s only one of them. I wonder who else is on his list.

Anyway, the President said he will help make the dinner the encaps greatest, hottest, and most spectacular dinner of any kind ever. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levin, taking a break from answering questions about the war that Congress did not approve, posted will be fun. And I’ll leave you with this today. I put this last on purpose. Listen to me, because I’m going to prove it, and you’re you’re going to struggle to make it to the end of today’s show.

But this will prove my point. This is why I put it last. When Jim Gaffigan is not doing polished written material, he is horribly, horribly unfunny. I will prove it to you. Jim Gaffigan went on social media.

He had a message for you. I defy you to make it to the end of this clip. Hey everyone, it’s Jim gaff again. I just want to let you know that my forehead is still large. I do have some kind of exciting news coincidence.

I don’t know, maybe conspiracy theory. Recently I passed a million subscribers on YouTube. Now I’m not saying that had anything with the Supreme Court overturning the tariffs, but it seems a little like, you know what a coincidence, right? You know, It’s like stock market reaches fifty thousand and then it goes down, Big coin goes down. You know, all those ships are moving to you know them, you know, in position in Iran, you know, and then my YouTube subscriber goes up to a million.

I mean, I don’t anyway, Thank you if you have subscribed and watched the Bourbon. Side Jim Gaffigan, Holy cow, that was bad. Not your comedy news for today. I think I’m going to record Thursday while I’m here. I got a bad sense about this Jerry duty call, so so let me make sure you have a show so I can see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Shinny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m freezing es in the morning again. Please stop. This is your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry.

A sentence the algorithm loves for some reason. I’ll keep saying it. Conan O’Brien caught up with Chris Fleming for Interview magazine. Did you watch Chris Fleming on HBO Max? I’m curious what the quote unquote the normies think of this.

This is not you know, Bill Burr in front of a brick wall. This is something else entirely. I sent it to my friend Mark and I’m like, watch Chris Fleming and when you think it’s weird, stick with it. And he wrote back to me, I’m glad you told me to stick with it, because I totally would have bailed it’s weird. I loved it.

I thought it was fantastic. That is currently the number one special of the year. Chris Fleming and Conan O’Brien in Interview Magazine. Fleming said, have you seen this magazine? Usually it’s like Alexander Scoresguard interviewed by Judge Judy or Fiona Apple interviewed by the Tinder Swindler.

But you and I actually make sense together, Gonu said. This makes sense because I have a hard time imagining who I can relate to more than mister Fleming. Here, your ridiculous figure. I’ve been enamored with you for a long time, and I wish I were talking to the late illusionist Doug Henning. Conan said, I can see you took my advice.

I told you long ago, don’t move around so much. O’Brien said, I said, I want you to wear very masculine, working class clothing. Fleming said, you gave me a Men’s Warehouse gift certificate, and you whispered in my ear stillness is king. Now, if you haven’t watched the specially, you have no idea why that is so funny. Gonan, make sure all the references are accessible to all age groups.

That means none of your trader Joe’s marginalia no takes on NPR. And I insisted that you talk at length about the nineteen seventy five Red Sox and bring up fred Lin repeatedly, and you said, got it.

And then to my surprise.

I tune in and you’re up to your old high jinks. You imp. Chris said, I had a manager who said, I don’t know what you’re talking about ninety percent of the time, Conan, you’ve established a rhythm. It’s completely yours. You lull people into the state where suddenly they know what everything about this specific guy who’s serving you a boba t and we’re all just there with you, even though I shouldn’t know what you’re talking about because I’ve never had bobat in my life.

Funny shange here, Conan says, just today, Jon Appatow found a clip at me from nineteen eighty six in the background at some comedy event that he’s doing a documentary about. Chris said, oh, I didn’t know he did documentaries, Conan. It’s a documentary about the time he stopped doing documentaries. Fun stuff there at the interview magazine. We’ll talk more about Chris Fleming in the second half.

Are you following this Jim Carrey thing? Did you see this? Last week? There was an award show and Jim Carrey showed up, or maybe it wasn’t actually Jim Carrey. Did you see this?

People are like, is that Jim Carrey. It kind of looks like Jim Carrey, but yet not at all like Jim Carrey. Is Jim Carrey doing a bit? Did Jim Carrey have botox? Did Jim Carrey have plastic surgery?

Did the Illuminati replace Jim Carrey with a clone that’s not that good? Nobody knows what’s going on. Well, there’s a new wrinkle to this that I love. Makeup artist Alexis Stone claims that it was he who appeared last week week as Jim Carrey. On Instagram, Alexis posted Alexis Stone as Jim Carrey in Paris.

The post included two photos of quote unquote Jim Carrey at the event, and one photo of a masked teeth and a dark wig that resembled Jim Carrey’s new look. Now, the Cesar Awards say that Jim Carrey worked on his speech in French for months and that there is no clone. In a statement, Gregory Collier, the General Delegate of the Caesar Awards, said the rumors are a non issue. Jim Carrey’s visit has been planned since this summer. From the outside, it was extremely touched by the Academy’s invitation eight months of ongoing constructive discussions.

He worked on a speech in French for months, asking me about the exact pronunciation of certain words. He came with his partner, his daughter, his grandson, of twelve, close friends and family members. His longtime publicist accompanied him. His old friend Michael Gondrey, who’s made a film and too serious with him, was there and they were delighted to see each other again. For me, it’s a non issue.

I just remember his generosity, his kindness, has benevolence, his elegance. I think this is hilarious. Stavros Halkias is pairing up with manscaped together. They are auctioning off a hair ball collected from the head of Stavros Halkias. At least I assume it’s the head.

Jimmy Stark is the creative director at Quality Meats, a creative agency with a quirky name. Jamie Stark says, we can neither confirm nor deny the sources of the hairs for making of this hairball. We’re pretty sure there’s one hundred percent genuine human body hair in it, including Stavros’s. We like to think of it as a hot dog styled hairball and that you don’t exactly know all the sources of the hair meats it’s made up of. You’ve already missed out on the auction.

Sorry I didn’t tell you in time. You could have had the hairball for just five hundred ten dollars. Proceeds from the auction went to Manscape’s brand partner, the Testicular Cancer Society, supporting awareness, education and resources for men’s health. Are you in Hollywood? Once you head on over to the Hollywood Walk of Fame around eleven thirty today and you might see Gabriel Iglesias.

I hope you see him because he’s supposed to be there to get his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A bunch of the cast from the Office reunited at Sunday Nights Actor Awards. It was Mindy Kaling, Jenni Fisher, Angela Kinsey, and Ellie Camper, which let me decide by here. When I was driving around with my wife over the weekend, I was just raving about scrubs. Have you caught on that Alex Scrubs?

And how hard it is to even get everyone back together. And I said, for example, if they brought the Office back, you would get Jenna Angela, Kevin Creed, Oscar, they’d all do it in a second, and yet there’s no way Steve Crall would do it, and there’s no way Krasinski would do it.

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And then my wife was like, what about Dwight trut And my take is that Rain Wi…

Jenna Fisher recalled the relentless schedule of the Office. She said it meant Christmas episodes and Valentine’s episodes and super Bowl episodes and sometimes filler episodes that were kind of bad. Ellie Camper said, but it didn’t matter because there was always another one right around the corner. The Actor’s Awards revealed the reunion was all down to Mindy Kayling, executive producer, who told Variety we had reached out to her about being presented, and she came back with the idea of what if I did at reunion with all the women of the Office, and we were like yeah. Within like an hour, she had texted them all.

She basically booked them all for us. Some folks are mad at Saturday Night Live for a sketch that didn’t even air. Apparently, there was a Cut for Time sketch in which SNL sent up the BAFTA racial slur incident. Anyway. In the Cut for Time sketch titled Turet’s, a host of celebrities including JK Rawling, Mel Gibson, Army Hammer, Louis C.K.

And Bill Cosby claim they suffer from Tourette’s, which would explain the problematic stuff they’ve been involved with. Tourette’s Action CEO Emma McNally was not happy with this. She apparently sent an email to Deadline. This is not acceptable, she wrote. Mocking and disabilities never acceptable.

It would not be tolerated for any other condition, and it should not be tolerated by people with tourets. In the sketch, host Connor’s story played Army Hammer saying not many people know this, but one of the most common side effects of Tourett’s cannibalism Ashley Pitty is JK. Ralling said that Tarrett’s isn’t just blurting out offensive word. It could be a year’s long obsession with something like trans writes Keenan Thompson. As Bill Cosby claimed to suffer from drink.

Turett’s Kanye West, played by Cam Patterson, in a rare appearance, declared he has like three different types of Turetts. Even Michael Jay made an appearance saying Tourett’s makes us do horrible things to the white guy we work with. The sketch was sponsored by the National Workforce of Rethinking Disabilities aka n WORD. Late Night reports that they had to scrap the original cold open. In the original version, it would have been The State of the Union, with James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump making jokes about deflecting from the Epstein Files and claiming that New York City Mayor zooron mom Donnie was thirsty for him.

That all got scrapped and we got a pretty bad version of James Austin Johnson as Trump at two in the morning announcing the war. I used to really like James’s impression. It is really drifting now, and I don’t know what SNL’s got to do with Trump. I don’t know if James needs to just like sit home for a week and tweak it, but that impression is just really drifting. Let me just take a second here to just like thank so many of you.

First of all, the feedback I got on the Pete Holmes interview, thank you. I got a lot of lovely notes. It seemed that people really dug it. First of all, thank you to Pete Holmes for doing it and the people at the eight hundter Bound Guerilla who made that happen. But thank you.

You know, the notes on the side means something because otherwise I’m just a guy in the basement, you know, basically talking into the wall, and sometimes the dog stares at me while I do it, So thank you for that.

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Also, people have been sending in things.

I’m sitting on a few things from a production standpoint. Jay Leno had talked about his Mount rushmoref comedy. I’m sitting on that. There’s a great article about how Scrubs was able to recreate the hospital. I’ll probably do that later in the week, but I’m still on Schrodinger’s jury duty.

I had a call again on Monday night. I have to call again Wednesday night, so like, I never know what my next day is going to be. So some of this stuff that I’m holding on to is just because I can’t even judge my own production schedule right now. There is in the back end. There’s an episode it’s probably like four years old and definitely has the old theme music on it.

Of like just me riffing on what at that time was somebody’s list of the top fifteen comedians. That was like my what if I get COVID episode that I was just gonna play someday if I couldn’t talk. I’ve never had to use it, but it’s just sitting there knock on wood anyway, thank you for all the notes, and Richard sometimes sends me notes when I screw up the uploads. Richard appreciate that my email address is in the show. Not It’s always great to hear from people.

Don’t forget Comedy Survivor roles are in oh wait, Actual Survivor. I’m still picking away at episode one of that first of all is up against Scrubs three hours of Survivor of like, Real Survivor is like way too much, guys, Just you can’t hand it in a three hour episode, Like it’s just my numbing. I’m sitting there and I’m like, there’s still an hour left of this. I can’t But Comedy Survivor is a lot of fun. Head to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Vote Someone Off.

It’s starting to get down to it now, and I’ve already started scribbling down. I’ve got this idea for Comedy Survivor, Heroes and Villains. I’ve got an idea for that. But when we get to the end of Comedy Survivor, I’m gonn I let it take a break. I don’t want to, like endlessly do it.

I think I think that kind of thing works best if like, we do it for a while, then we don’t do it for a while, and then we bring it back again. But I’m kind of scribbling down a heroes and villain’s idea for season two of Comedy Survivor. Take a look at the ratings. Scrubs did pretty well. The debut episode pulled in four point four to one million viewers, did a point six six rating in the eighteen to forty nine s.

The second episode average three point five to two million viewers and a point five to five in the eighteen to forty nine So I did see sim people on the Reddit saying they didn’t realize there was a second episode. After the second Scrubs was the premiere of Nate Brighetzi’s The greatest average American that true two point three eight million viewers. So we had Scrubs with four forty one, then Second Scrubs three fifty two, and then Nate two thirty eight, which seems like a bad number. However, it did better than The Golden Bachelor did in the same spot last fall. And you know how much budgets there was on The Golden Bachelor and Nate’s thing, you know, giving away sixty seven grand is probably dirt cheap to produce.

That thing might run for fifteen years just because of the money of it all. Friend of the show, Jason Zinneman in The New York Times wrote an article five great specials to stream this winter. He writes, Taylor Thompson, Kevin Neal and Chris Spencer, Isabelle Hagen and Jackie Kashan deliver very different but very funny hours to get you through the cold. Let me go first, I watched a bunch of specials. Chris Flemings is the best of the year.

It’s hilarious. I totally get if you put this on and you’re like, this is not for me, I get it, Okay, something a little more traditional, Pete Holmes. I think we all have a crush on Pete Holmes right now. All right, So Pete Holmes special was really good. Jackie Caation’s special on YouTube was very, very funny.

Enjoy that a lot. Cant Williams, I liked a lot. I have that probably at two, maybe Pete at three. Right now, it’s early in the year. I’m not sure Kats was pound for pound funny, but he’s an entertainer, and just the hour went by really quickly.

I did not like Taylor Thomason’s special. It just did not grab me. I just was not interested in at all. Jason Zinniman in The New York Times says Tominson makes her most deeply felt points through confessional jokes. Not takes a comic who favors concision.

Sheakespan’s her palate in this special, offering an elaborate theatrical spoof of a Christian comedian, but also digging deep into Bible stories, finding a fresh comic take on the absolute bleakness of Noah’s Ark. Jason like Kevin Nila, and even though he’s been a successful comic for four decades, I did not realize how funny Kevin Neilan was until I heard him on Conan’s pod Neilan is a terrific joke writer, alert to paradox statements of the obvious and the silliness of language. Chris Spencer’s goat adjacent on Hulu and you know my take on Hulu specials Zinneman writes. In the middle of this well made fifty minute special with the feel of a confidently hosted Hollywood dinner party, Chris Spencer interrupts a joke to look down at a man in the front row and offer a note that note, I’m gonna need you to laugh sometime today. That’s pretty funny.

Isabelle Hagen at the bitter end. That’s on veeps. Isabelle tells dirty jokes in between playing the viola. She’s a Juilliard trained artist who uses classical music to set up punchlines. Love it Once, she gets last from Mela Conolly, premises like a persuasive, defensive regret.

Hagen is not the first comic to deliver deadpan one liners with resting sad face. As she puts it. At first, the viola music merely helps match the respectable with the raunchy. What becomes clear is that Hagen is something more ambitious in mind. She wants to introduce Bach to comedy fans, to build a place where she can play her instrument and have that stand by itself independently of jokes.

Love it Jackie Kashan’s altercation Cashen is the kind of comic who turns fury into eloquent goofiness. I thought that one was very good, and I’m going to leave you with this. I haven’t talked about the war. I suspect on tomorrow’s show there will be a lot of stuff about the war because we’ll have cycled through the late night shows at least once, so tomorrow is likely going to be somewhat political. But there was a video that started circulating on Saturday and I have played it, I don’t know fifteen times.

It is a AI generated music video by a Flock of Eagles and a Flock of Eagles hit song Iran. I will play the audio for you here. I encourage you to seek out the video version of this on Twitter, where we see President Trump in a new wave flock of seagulls style hair singing the song Iran. It looks like an old style MTV video. It is just amazing.

I’ve sent it to everybody I know, and I keep playing it. So that is your comedy news for today. And we’ll pick up midstream here with Iran by a flock of eagles. I feel like I’m getting this. This is like a Route Warner Mergin, a rock quarn, no legend, I go go those oil supplies.

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Callaroga, Shark Media, Oh outbit outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mack. We are now halfway through Comedy Survivor Week eight. Still in the game.

Comedians Nicky Glazer, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, ots Good, Kotska, sumbashion Manascalco, Tim Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Krascher. The listeners went to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. They clearly wrote down one name, so we don’t have a controversy. They wrote down one name. They made it super clear everybody paid attention to this week.

They wrote down one name and one comedian. We’ll go home. It’s time to tell you the votes. Matt votes for Kevin Hart. Josette votes for Sarah Silverman.

Heather votes for Nicky Glazer. Lindsey votes for otso at Cotska, Barn votes for Kevin Hart, two votes for Kevin Hart, Dylan votes for Kevin Hart, three votes for Kevin Hart. Michelle votes for Sarah Silverman, two votes for Sarah Silverman. Avon votes for Otsco at Cotska, two votes for Otsco, two votes for Sarah Silverman, three votes for Kevin Hart. Mike votes for Nikki Glaser, Andrea votes for Nikki Glaser, three votes for Nikki Glaser.

Heather votes for Leslie Jones. Mary votes for Leslie Jones, two votes for Leslie Jones. Are we heading for another tiebreaker? Oh no? Aaron votes for Kevin Hart, four votes for Kevin Hart.

Cheryl votes for otsgo At Conska, three votes for Otscoe. Mike votes for OTSCO, four votes for Otsco, four votes for Kevin Hart. Oh No, not another tie breaker. Robie votes for Leslie Jones, Andy votes for Kevin Hart, and Richard votes for Kevin Hart. The listeners have spoken, Kevin Hart has been eliminated from Comedy Survivor.

We won’t need the AI to break the tie this week. To take a break, and we’ll take a look at what all this means. What a fascinating result, because there have been a few comedians who almost went home and did go home. It’s go at Coska is a Comedy Survivor. She’s in danger every week, but she is still here.

The AI analysis says this was not a subtle vote. Kevin Hart didn’t get clipped in a split. He got a full multi line pileon now this is interesting. AI is rating you guys. Are you ready now?

If you want to be part of this, If you want a shout out, go to the Facebook group, Daily Company News podcast group and vote this week. I didn’t tell the AI to do this. I’ll tell you what I do here. I do the votes live. I go to the Facebook group and I hit all comments and I do it live.

Then I asked the AI to check my work. All I wrote was tally the votes, and itally the votes for me, and then I wrote quote, okay, give me the AI analysis, and all on its own, guys, it wrote who drove the vote? The power block right now is if I say your name here, you’re part of the power block. According to artificial intelligence. The power block right now is Dylan an early anchor vote, Aaron momentum and persuasion.

Richard closer vote that legitimizes the outcome. I love this. We are now focused on the listeners. Is there an alliance between Dylan, Aaron and Richard to steer the results of Comedy Survivor How Much Fun? Here’s the updated power rankings safe Tig Nataro and John Mulaney.

I can’t recall have we had a vote for Malani yet. If we had, we’ve had one strong position. Bert Kreischer and Nikki Glaser. I don’t think Bert has had a vote yet. Still in trouble, Otsko at Kotzka and Leslie Jones and Sarah Silverman has moved into the in trouble list.

According to the AI, here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You were going to clearly vote for one person. You will say, I am voting this person off. A couple of people were like super explicit about it.

Both the AI and I appreciate it. Be super clear. We don’t need controversies. I have enough stress in my life. I might even have cherry duty.

Yeah, it was a two week district court thing. I might be sitting in Newark right now while you’re enjoying this wonderful podcast. So you’re going to go to the Facebook group and you’re going to vote someone off Comedy Island Still in the game, Otska at Kotzka, Nikki Glaser, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney, Burt Kreischer, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Tig Nataro. We are down to seven comedy survivors otsgo, Nicki, Leslie, Sarah Mulaney, Krascher, Sebastian and Tig. So much fun and we’ll see if the listener power block is a real thing.

Have fun in the Facebook group guys, See you in the morning.

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Caalorokashock media. Wow, big hot news just came in. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. So I just in in my world.

I recorded Sunday, and then what you do is you recorded. I use a program called Logic on my MacBook and you then you have to bounce the file so it mixes down everything, and then you send it off somewhere and that takes like a minute. So during that I did what I usually do and I checked my email. Now this is not in my script. This just hit my inbox.

I’m doing this as cold as it gets. The headline Netflix is a joke festival. Just added one hundred and seventy plus shows added to Netflix is a joke festival. So you’re getting this as I’m getting it, unless, of course, you read the email on Friday afternoon. Again, I’m not working with a script.

Let me scroll down here. Is there actual No, there’s just a lot of artwork. So I’m gonna have to see if they sent this out to deadline or something. But let’s just do it. This way.

This is fun. This is how the show gets put together. Okay, this is a graphic thing. They have announced comedy for the community, the Altadna Eaton Fire Relief, hosted by Dion Coldion’s Fantastic Timmy No Breaks at the Comedy Store on the fourth of May. Individual shows from rosewud Baker Cheryl Underwood.

This is an interesting title. The end Ari Shaffer’s renamed Storytelling show. I guess others on the rights to the various this is not happening. Tag it with the scar Brothers, Chris O’Connor, Jay Jorden, Ron Funches, Cristella Alonso and friends, Guy Tory and so many more and in the end, so many more, Box Mally, Kearney, Yakoff, Smirnoff in a bunch All right, let’s bunch over our deadline. Let’s see if there’s a story there.

We are producing the show live on tape, my friends. Nothing there, We’ll check variety. This is how the show gets put together. I could edit this out. No, no there either.

Also, Friday afternoon is a weird time to announce anything. No, hasn’t hit the wires yet. Maybe I’ll have more for you tomorrow. My original number one story very similar south By Southwest Unveil’s twenty twenty six comedy line up their lineup Bill Burr, He’s back from Riot as you know, Chelsea Peretti, Devin Walker, Eric Andre, Frankie Conunius, and Natasha Lazeriro among dozens of participants. It is the nineteenth edition of south By Southwest Comedy.

Let me see who else hear? Some names you might know Jared Freed, Pete Lee Nope, I think i’ve I mean, I could read you fifty names, but I think I read you the big ones. During south By there will be an edition of Don’t Tell Comedy All Stars featuring alumni of the Don’t Tell Comedy Secret Sets series. That’ll be the Creak of the Cave on Saturday, March fourteenth. Some of the events include Bombing with Eric Andre, eric Andre Hanks with Friends to Talk About You Say with Me, Bombing, Comic Relief, and The Moth Present Funny Story Two Paarhouses unite for an Unforgettable evening of stories.

The Moth, whose live storytelling events and Bloff podcasts have broad over sixty five thousand true personal stories to audience as worldwide partners with Comic relief. Dropout will host crowd Control, a live stand up show where the audience is the main material. Looks like dropouts all over this thing. They’ll also host Dirty Laundry, which is for guests telling secrets and then you have to guess who the secrets belong to, and you can also have some beverages. Drop Out improv in this show, hosted by Kurt Maloney.

Improv skills will be on show for a night of varied games and freewheeling comedy. Facebook Presents Stand Up Comedy. Now maybe like twenty years ago, that sentence sounds cool. That just sounds really vanilla corporate. It’s titled Facebook Presents stand Up Comedy.

Could you just suck all the cool out of that sentence? Facebook is excited to present an unforgettable evening of stand up comedy where the global stage meets the comedy stage. Exclamation point. With three billion people connecting on Facebook globally every month, comedians are able to showcase their talent and grow their audience around the world. Now we’re bringing this vibrant community to south By Southwest Comedy.

Oh my god, that is so corporate. Please south By has gotten really, I mean, this is just this is like the establishment pretending that they’re all the next up. Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring The Dress Up Gang and Friends. Let me read that again because I deliberately skipped the last four words. Look be the full title this time.

Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring The Dress Up Gang and Friends, hosted by Bill Burr. Bill Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, you had a terrible You had a terrible, terrible twenty twenty five. You had I think the worst year of any of the big comedians. Last year. You just lost the plot, Buddy.

And now Bill Burr’s hosting the Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring the Dress Up Gang and Friends. Bill, just call your nex special. I’m in this for the money. I know we’re all in this for the money. I’m hosting this podcast right now so I can run some commercials during the break.

I’m in this for the money. But let’s just be honest, Bill, the coolness is gone. What are you doing? Bill? Hosted Biami and Grammy nominated comedian actor and director Bill Burr.

The evening embodies the bold, fearless spirit of the Fox Comedy brand. Guys, The Fox Comedy brand is Dennis Leary’s military show. What is that called Going Dutch? That’s the Fox Comedy brand. The Fox Comedy brand is Joel Mchall’s Animal Patrol or whatever that’s called.

That’s the brand if you want to tell me, but the Simpsons. The Simpsons came out in the eighties. Guys, Bill Burr, face of the fearless Fox Comedy brand, Funny or Die Approved, in partnership with the stand Funny or Die is resurrecting their legendary live comedy legacy. Think the spirit of the original epic oddball festivals back and blessed by the comedy gods themselves. This isn’t just another stand up show.

It’s a handpicked, ruthlessly curated night of comedy that’s earned the ultimate stamp Funny or Die Approved, and it’s hosted by peat Lee The Gotham Comedy. For nearly thirty years, Gotham has been one of New York’s top stand up venues. That is true. They’re good guys over there, like them. Used to regularly see them back in the day when I worked at the Old Place.

My favorite lyrics live. Welcome to the first ever live recording of Devin Walker’s podcast, My favorite lyrics, the show where we talk about music lyrics. The Stand is producing a couple shows. Okay, now we’re doing on time. I feel like I’m long already.

Now we got some time still. Okay. You know who’s coming out with a book, Dusty Sligh. Yeah, you know what Dusty Slay called his book. That’s right, he’s calling it We’re having a good time.

I guess that makes sense. What else Wouldusty Slay call his book? That’s his catchphrase in We’re having a good time. Dusty Slay looks back in his early days, including dropping out of college at age eighteen and getting arrested at nineteen, which interrupted his plans to join the army. In his early twenties, Dusty Slay left his Alabama hometown for Charleston, South Carolina, where he worked in a seafood restaurant while building a stand up career.

During evening open mics, Dusty Sleigh recounts his journey from pesticide salesperson to touring comedian, along with stories from his childhood performances and more. The book teases his trademark humor and wit I have it on my calendar this morning to reach out to the publicist and see if I can get Dusty Sleigh on this show, which reminds me I forgot I got distracted by the Netflix email. If you skipped the weekend shows Saturday, Pete Holmes for forty minutes was really good. Make sure you go back and listen to that one. Love Pete, Dusty’s and I wanted to write this book to capture some of the stories that I think are really funny, orterest thing, but have never made it to the stage.

Now this next one, I might have to leave my house, which would just be amazing. And I’m not going to leave my house, but just down the road for me. At the Horseshoe Tavern in Morristown, New Jersey, ron On Hirschberg is performing at Horseshoe. I hang out at the brewery, which is differently. It’s the breweries where the trivia guys go horseshoes for the young kids.

Although sometimes this if you’re from this area, you know who the nerds are. They’re like, this is a local legend cover band. They’re really a lot of fun. They play horseshoes sometimes, but horshes for the young kids. But tonight it’s poor him.

A comedy night at the Horseshoe Tavern Ronnin Hirschberg will be there. Rabbi Moishe Gerwitz as Purim is about joy, resilience, and Jewish pride. Comedy night is a way to celebrate the holiday in a fun, meaningful, and uplifting way. I love this. So if your local head on over to the Horseshoe Tavern, we’re told security we’ll be present to ensure it is safe and welcoming environment for all attendees.

Now, as it turns out, I happen to have a Ronin Hirschberg. Oh my god, I was about to tell you that people keep calling me. Hold on, I have to take this phone call. Hey John, all right, I made an edit there. I’m all discombobulated.

I even get to tell you that my wife called in the middle of the Ronin Hirschberg story. But that was the hot tub guy I’ve mentioned. It was like negative of forty degrees for like six months. I think hot tub sprung a leak. Can have to run some more ads.

Buy me a coffee, you might have to buy me, let me do some math. You might have for buy me four hundred coffees and buy me a coffee. Dot Cops last daily comedy. It is to fix the hot tap. Oh my goodness, first world problems, where worry.

I’m trying to tell you. I could edit all this out, but that’s not fun. I’m trying to tell you this Ronin Hirschberg story. But my wife called and like now, and I scrolled down and I lost it and I’m all discombobulated now and I had this all pulled together? Where did that story even go?

Ronin Hirschberg was found it. Ron Hersberg was profiled by the Telegraph in twenty twenty two. Hirschberg opened for Louis c. K in Germany, and he said they laughed at every joke because they feel so guilty. I said I was Jewish, and they gave me a standing ovation.

He had a little more serious. I think there was a time when Germans couldn’t laugh about that stuff, but now they’re happy to let me make fun of them. Hirschberg says his early tries and stand up. We’re just trying to make rednecks laugh. Then he moved to New York.

He talked about his complicated relationship with the arts and said, I think as a Jew It’s a little easier for me to separate the art from the artist because I’ve had a love so many great artists who are anti Semitic, Shakespeare, Dickens, basically any writer before nineteen fifty. Hirschberg appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and said, I hate Joe Rogan. I think he’s a danger to society. He’s always spreading misinformation. The only way I’d ever go on his podcast is if he asked me.

Rogan did ask, and on twenty twenty four they talked about everything from having children to conspiracy theories. Hirschberg says Rogan was extremely nice to me. A lot of my anger towards him started later. I didn’t make fun of him until hen On Elon Musk defending the defunding of US aid that was such a horrible atrocity, and to see him there with Joe Rogan laughing his stupid jokes and made me furious. I don’t think Joe Rogan has bad intentions, but I do think he’s an agenda to attack the credibility of academia and mainstream journalism, and that’s really dangerous.

Like endorsing Trump using his influence to help him get elected. If you can’t get mad at someone for that, who can you get mad at? I’m exhausted. I don’t know why this particular episode that you’re listening to right now is taking a lot out of me. I don’t know if it’s the phone calls or the distractions, or my computer’s jumping all over the pages.

I’m trying to read a script I don’t know. Coming up at noon today, Comedy Survivor. The results are incredible. I had so much fun recording the results of Comedy Survivors. So you’ll find out who went home.

But there’s also a new fascinating twist in all this. And I didn’t invent the twist. The AI did. The AI pointed something out. Every week I throw the votes into the AI just to check my work, and the AI has identified you know what.

Come back at noon and you’ll find out what the AI identified. If just I’m fascinated by this. It’s so much fun. If you’re new to Comedy Survivor, it’s a distinct legal parody of whatever you think I’m at, distinctly legally parodying. It’s called Comedy Survivor Or.

We put sixteen comedians on an island and every week the Facebook group votes someone off the island. What you do is you go to Daily Comedy News podcast group after noon Eastern today Monday. You’ll see a drawing of me and the latest person voted off the island, and in there you will write down the name of one of the people who remain. Come back at noon. I’ll explain all that then currently still on the island.

Only I know if she’s been voted off or not. Otsgo at Cotska is becoming a celebrity man. She’s working to pair two lucky singles and transport them to an anti approved first date to Singapore thanks to the Singapore Tourism Board. Hey Singapore Tourism Board, you got any extra ad money? I got a hot tupper pair.

Plus I’ve never been to Singapore. I’ll go. I’ll read anything. Otsko says it’s more important than ever to lean on the matriarchal support system of anties, especially in dating. She explained her thought experiment to People magazine and said, imagine them going swimming.

That’d be good because if she was always looking for someone who has her back, and she felt like that never happened, putting herself in a dangerous situation like swimming, can really test chemistry having a common enemy. She talked about her own dating experience. One time, I was at a grocery store and this guy bought a raw squid for me. She was initially flattered and agreed to the date, but he was super immature and he was like, do you like my house three stories? And I’m like, yeah, I do like your house.

And then I started seeing photo of him as a kid everywhere. There were a lot of family photos about, and then I found out it was actually his mom’s place. He’s like, we have to hurry with this date because she’s gonna come home. And I was like, can you even afford that squid that you bought me? That’s really funny.

And from Nola dot com we learned that Catherine Blandford enjoys the Kentucky Derby. Catherine Blandford learned that name that is a comedian to watch. Catherine says, my parents started let me go to the Derby by myself, maybe sophomore year of high school. I understood why they were hesitant. As soon as I walked in, I saw a bunch of men in suits in a circle.

I was like, what’s going on. I pushed through and there were girls in nice pressby dresses diving into a mud pit for one hundred dollar bills for her special Catholic cowgirl. She wanted to film it in Louisville and have a painted horse on stage. The Louisville filming didn’t work out. She decided to do it at the Riot Comedy Club in Houston, but still wanted a horse.

She said, Once I had my heart set on having a horse on stage, it wasn’t going to not happen. I flew down there to look at party rentals and I couldn’t find one. Then I found one on Facebook Marketplace. It was the Renaissance Horse from Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour. I was like, oh, I’m not buying it.

I’m just renting it for a day. And she was like, yeah, just don’t sit on it. Ah, And my voice is shot. I have to edit like five of these things, and hopefully I don’t have jury duty, because if I do, I’m gonna have to call the hot tub guy back and be like, yeah, don’t come Monday. After all, I’ll let you know what happened eventually.

And that is your very messy addition of Daily Comedy News on a Monday, see at noon for Comedy Survivor

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m in a good mood. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence to the algorithm. Just loves why in a good mood, John Well.

Pete Holmes I thought was fantastic. If you missed yesterday’s episode, I just loved talking to Pete Holmes. I’m still thinking about it three days later by the time you hear this. Pete was just so gracious with his time and just what a cool guy to hang out with. I also just recorded Comedy Survivor, which will come out tomorrow at noon Eastern, and the results are incredible and the AI analysis even better.

I can’t wait for you to hear Comedy Survivor. And it was actually fifty degrees out yesterday, not fifty below zero, and actual fifty like you could go outside and leave your house. Can you imagine? The Washington Post profiled Robbie Hoffman. I think a lot of us came away was that December really impressed with Robbie Hoffman’s John Mlaney produced a special.

The Post writes, Robbie Hoffman is not on TikTok, which is surprising for comedian these days until you meet her and realize she might be the oldest thirty six year old on the planet. Robbie says, my friends, go, are you mental? Why don’t you do this clip and post it on TikTok? I said, I have one of the apps I have Instagram. I was born as seventy three year old man her origin story.

She left accounting for a writing gig on the Chris Getherd Ship. For that show, she moved back to New York City despite having been born in the city. She told the Post, I felt like a tourist in many ways. She had only known the four square blocks of her religious enclav up until that point. She said, this was my first time seeing New York too.

During the pandemic, she crossed paths with Paul W. Downs, the co creator and star of the TV show hacks Downs, remembered being struck by how unfiltered Robbie Hoffman could be. Robbie eventually guest starred on hacks Down. Said, the whole show’s about people who are cast aside by the industry. We wanted Robbie to fit into that tapestry of people on the outside looking in.

The post tells us though in real life the industry likes Hoffman, she’ll be back on Hacks. She’s also part of Rooster. Now. Rooster is interesting. It is a Bill Lawrence project.

You know Bill Lawrence, the guy from Scrubbs and Ted Lasso. He knows what he’s doing. Rooster stars Steve Carell, you know, the guy from the Office. And the reason John C McGinley isn’t in many of the Scrubs episodes is because he’s working on Rooster. All right, So it’s HBO, Bill Lawrence, Steve Carell and Robbie Hoffman and John C McGinley.

That’s gotta be good, right on paper, that’s like amazing, right, better be good. I don’t think Bill Lawrence is missed yet, so looking forward to that one. John Mulaney is quoted in this article. He said of Robbie Hoffman has not taken into consideration any rules or accepted wisdom on show business. And to bring it back home, Hoffman said, I’ve never been the overnight success.

I’ve always been the slow and stead he wins the race kind. We may have waited a little longer, we didn’t do the TikTok pop off or whatever, but we did it in a way that felt good.

Meanwhile, Chris Fleming, did you enjoy Chris Flaming Special on HBO on Frida…

Chris Fleming got the fancy schmancy New York Times profile. Mike Birbiglia said, Chris is one of the most exciting comedians to watch right now, and interestingly didn’t accuse Chris Fleming of ripping off John Mulaney. I don’t know why you would do that, but you know it’s something Berbiglia sometimes does. I don’t see it. We learned from the Times that Chris Fleming got his start doing stand up and finding his exaggerated style at a club above a Chinese restaurant in Harvard Square.

He recalls being at a bookstore next door and looking over rockstar photos Mick Jagger, Prince Stevie Nicks, Freddie Mercury, Big pictures of these people rocking out, and I was like, how do I bring that to one hundred person cap room. Since wearing hoodies was out, I gotta wear bird armor. I love it. By the way, you caught on Friday’s Comedy stock Market, we said buy some Chris Fleming. I hope you bought some Chris Fleming, because just minutes later the New York Times did a big profile here.

I’m also sitting on the Chris Fleming press. People earn their money on Friday. I kicked it to in the middle of the week in case I have the jury duty. Have I mentioned that you never know when have to pre tape an episode at midnight so you can spend the day in Newark? I digress.

Conan O’Brien and Chris Flemings did a whole interview. We’ll get to that in time. So if you bought stock and Chris Fleming on Friday, per the Comedy Stock Market recommendation, you’re doing quite well right now. Chris explains he sometimes choreographs his routines by drawing them, but doesn’t watch himself. He finds the humor from the audience.

He explains a lot of what I put out on social media, I’m doing it for the first time. In an improv dance class, he learned, don’t do something unless you feel the impulse to do it. It has to be organic. Good description. Here.

Fleming’s routines are densely layered confections of references, space movies, college life, animal encounters, the economy confetied with digressions, and Bonker’s turns a phrase. One song at dance Routine is about why a young professional had a tasteful made well sweater was the most terrorizing thing at a haunted house at a skyward rechion. People are always laughing. What a great paragraph there in New York Times. Fleming also has a competitive body fearlessness.

We learn from The Times. Fleming said, I love putting as much weight as I can on the stool. I love drop kicking and flanling different ways. To this day, I leave every performance completely bruised. Are you guys listening going?

What’s going on with the show? He’s been in a good mood for like four days? Did Scrubs completely changed my life? Can I get back to being Curmudgeonty? More wonderful writing here in the Times?

Chris is somewhere between six foot one and six foot three, with a long legged hips wivel that can make them appear even taller. When he frog leaps or tumbles over a chair, flieser laps around the stage, there’s an element of controlled danger, a glam firecracker on the loose. Oh yeah. Vulture also profiled Chris Fleming. Let me bounce this as well, because we you know, I like to fix up the topics.

I don’t want to do ten minutes like Chris Fleming. I love Chris Fleming, but this thing’s quite long here. It must have been comedian week in the big newspapers. Back to the Washington Post, they caught up with Hannah Gatsby and we learned that Hannah has broken up with the Netflix is. Hannah explains, Netflix was a launching pad for me, and I’m very thankful for it.

But I’m creatively a risk taker, and I like to take things apart and rearrange them to do things differently. I don’t want to go with the flow right now. The flow seems quite toxic. But Netflix, being an algorithmic first machine, they’ve worked out what comedy is. Now they’ve got the formula, and that doesn’t actually give a lot of space.

The Post said, Well, the formula is to pump out endless specials for which they’ve paid a lot of money. That’s the formula you’re talking about. Hannah said, I don’t want to be there. I don’t want to live there. It’s not to say that I can’t won’t work with them again.

I just wanted to make a decision and take some creative risks, and also a lot of the subjects that I talk about in Wolf and the placement of myself, I wanted to put myself outside of that particular story. Hannah’s out promoting Woof. The audio to woof is free online with a twenty minute video version that features hannagas By speaking through an animated sock puppet. They asked about the sock puppet thing. Hanna said, every decision is almost like what is the algorithm?

Wan, I’ll do the opposite. Now, this is an interesting show. Today. I’ve talked about three comedians, Hannah Gadsby, Chris Fleming, and Robbie Hoffman. And of the three comedians I’ve talked about, Robbie Hoffman is the most mainstream comedian.

I like the alty stuff. The Washington Post was speaking on Zoom with Hannah Gatsby. Hannah was in Tasmania. I love details like that. We learned that Wolf was originally going to be about the death of Hannah’s father.

Hanna explains, Yeah, and the dead Dad’s show is a universal show, particularly for people of a certain age when you start to think about your mortality. But as I realized as I was going through this, I’m the only person on earth who hasn’t adapted to my fame. I was a creature of the Milbourn International Comedy Festival, in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Every year I’d write a show, maybe it gets to tour a little bit, then the next year I’d set it down right another one. I’m pushing forty.

I’m not thinking about cracking in the US market or having high powered agents in LA And then all of a sudden it was more than possible. And I was so ill equipped for that good follow up by the post who asked what was the biggest challenge of all that? And the answer the change in my audience. My audience beforehand were definitely people I was talking to in the room. I was a live performer that had slowly built a solid, sustainable fan base that’d bring a new piece of work to every year, maybe every two years.

I was making a living. Was in the scheme of things modest, but I was successful. Then the net happens and my agents said, are we going to give up? For a stadium tour. I wouldn’t survive that.

I don’t want to be in a crowd of thirty thousand people, and I don’t want to talk to thirty thousand people. Music can work it well in a large crowd, but that’s where comedy goes to die. When you get to those big venues. The last don’t come back. They disappear out the back.

I don’t want to sell tickets to the Apocalypse, and that’s what it feels like. It feels gross. I don’t actually cast judgment, it’s just what they’re doing. They can do it. Power to them.

If you want to be a court jester to the Saudi regime, go for it. Some news news on a Sunday, Jeff Ross is one man show. Take a Banana for the Ride. We’ll be on Netflix. Hanna Gatsby’s not gonna like that.

On March twenty fourth. You can watch you Take a Banana for the Ride. We see Jeff Ross sharing personal stories about his upbringing, family, loss, resilience, and how humor has carried him through tough times. I just made a Hannahatsby joke, But isn’t that pretty much what Hannah Gatsby does? Maybe Hannah and Jeff Ross could be friends.

I don’t know. I was just riffing on the Netflix of it all. Hulu still into the Ralph Barbosa business. They announced a new project titled swamp Meat, a half hour series created by Ralph Barbosa and comedy animation writer Isaac Gonzalez. This will be a cartoon.

Ralph Barbosa voice stars and serves as an executive producer. Swap Meet coming to Hulu. If you’re in La, go check out the Henson Puppets. They are doing improv comedy in puppet Up Uncensored. Puppet Up Uncensored combines the style of puppetry originated by Jim Henson with improv comedy games fueled by audience prompts.

It can get raunchy, he said, don’t bring your kids. You know. There are no official muppets, but we’re told the production includes recreations of several original Jim Henson puppets from early in his career. And it’s Brian Henson that created this thing, so it’s not like this is totally rogue. Brian Henson says of the recreations, they’re really old.

It’s super fun to rebuild those puppets and actually perform those scenes in front of a live audience. That hasn’t happened in forty to fifty years. Probably. We’re told that Henson puppets are tailored for the camera, but in Puppet Up, uncensored audience members see both the stage for screen performance on video projection, and you also get to see the puppeteers work in a way that’s usually hidden from view. Henson said, it’s really fun to let people see how we do it because it’s clever and it’s chaotic.

It also means our audience watches the show in a different kind of way. Hanson was asked about the Muppet Show. I haven’t gotten around to that yet, but people seem to really liked that. That was back Henson’s take. The AI craze has created a backlash of please let me see human craftsmanship, human artistry, where I know this is coming from a human artistic mind.

So I think right now there’s just this enormous appreciation for artistry that’s not computer generated in any way. That’ll benefit all sorts of arts, but it certainly benefits puppetry for sure. That your comedy news on a Sunday catch you back in the morning,