Month: May 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, there another busy one. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. David Letterman did a big piece in The New York Times with friend of the show Jason Zenneman. Nice get by Jay Z the Subhetterer.

David Letterman no longer feels a sense of ownership, but the program’s former host has harsh words for the network. The topic Steven Colbert’s show coming to an end. By the way, Colbert did a ton of press. Now I’m holding on to all that for Colbert Week because we’ve got the Netflix Festival to talk about this week. But you know me and Dave, if Dave drops something, I’m going to jump in on it.

Jason asked Dave, Hey, what were your first thoughts when you found out late show was ending? David Letterman said, disbelief. Then it seemed like a botched hold up. When we got the facts about the Ellison family, it’s a great delight in referring to the principle as the Ellison twins. I was later corrected and told it’s just one guy.

I didn’t care and I still don’t hurt him as twins. There’s also the old Man, Larry, is it in fact? Larry Jason said, yes, Letterman, as best I understand it, he invented the slinky and the Ellison Twins are really hill. He’s spending the old Man’s money. So that was what ran through my head that I wondered, what the hell have they done to Stephen Colbert?

And I would say, farther down the list is your point, Wait a minute, this used to be my show. It’s like driving by your old neighborhood and realizing that where he used to live, they’re putting up an adult bookstore. They’ve said, time has separated me from the genealogy of the show. On the other hand, if there’s outrage to be directed at management, either reel or imagined, I’m all in, let’s go. Does Dave believe they cancel the Late Show over financial reasons?

Dave said, they don’t share the books with me. All of television seems to have been nick by digital communication and streaming platforms, and on and on TV may not be the money machine it once was. On the other hand, what about the humanity for Steven and the humanity of people who love him and the humanity for people who still enjoyed that eleven thirty respite. He was jumped because the people who’s selling the network to sky Dan said, oh no, there’s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We’re going to take care of the show.

We’re just gonna throw it into the deal. When well, the ink on the check dry. I’m just going to go on record as saying they’re lying. This is David Letterman speaking. Let me just add one other thing, Jason, they’re lying.

Weasels. I love that, the article said. As to comment, a spokesperson for CBS said unequivocally a financial decision that he apparently did not respond to the weasel comment or The Times chose not to overprint their response to the weasel comment. The topic switched to Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed David Letterman til The Times. I was recently driving around on an interestate and all I would see with these rental blazes where we could store your stuff, And I just thought these didn’t used to exist.

You used to have to be responsible for your own stuff. But now everywhere you look there’s warehouses and rental facilities, and I think that’s not a bad parallel for what’s happening in network television. We now have this, but we’re just going to lease it to Byron Allen and you’ll make penny us on every dollar or whatever he’s making. But you know, everything changes in life as people of a certain age understand both good and bad. He’s been more wildly successful than any hundred of us.

I periodically talk to him, and neither he nor I understand how he became a billionaire. God bless him. Tell let’s seeb to hell with skydancewer to help with the Winslow Twins or whoever the hell these guys are. But Byron he’ll still be providing comedy in that time period. I think that’s a valuable bit of resolution.

Here, hold on to a little bit more of that for next week. Normally this would be your top story. Louis C.K. Gets standing ovation at raunchy comeback show during Netflix Comedy Festival. This from the Hollywood Reporter.

He not so canceled. Louis C.K. Took the stage in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. By the way, if you keep noticing, I keep saying Los Angeles that’s a lettermanism than I am absolutely appropriating. The Hollywood Reporter says the Hollywood Bowl was seventy five percent full, mostly of male fans in their twenties and thirties who came to life when Louis Cik started.

After four opening acts, Louis apparently never addressed the misconduct allegations. Are they allegations? Quoting the hollyd Reporter, the women alleged that he masturbated in front of them or on the phone with him. C K later admitted to the behavior unquote, So that’s not an allegation if he admitted to it, right, not really to the point maybe, but they’re not allegations. If you said I did it, John, we’re leging that you.

Hosted Daily Comedy News Today, TK open up about his dating life, revealing he has a girlfriend and believes in dating women his own age. He quote from CK is, if you date young women, there’s pressure sexually. But the women in my age, I’m like, do you wanna, you know, do stuff? She’s like nah, And I’m like, yeah, good, And if you do, there’s no condoms. He later mused, I think it’s crazy that it’s legal for me to date eighteen year old.

That’s fed up. That’s forty years difference. You shouldn’t have sex with somebody if the years between you would be the age of a woman who can’t get pregnant naturally. BK got a standing ovation at the end of the set. He said, that was my last show, last time telling those jokes, and I’m really happy I got to tell them to you.

Thank you very much for coming. Thank you to Netflix. I really appreciate the gig I did see on Threads. One of the comedian whose name gets dragged into the K news cycle said, please stop asking her about it. So I’m not going to say her name, nor am I going to ask her about it.

But I did feel bad for her. She said, the press keeps reaching out to her. He has me blocked on Twitter for some reason. I think I must have used her name in a headline, not blocked by her on Threads. Whatever beside hers headline, what Louis K’s Netflix is a joke comeback says about the sad state of our culture.

In twenty twenty six, Sean McCarthy writes Louis C.K. Didn’t received consent from many of the women he exposed themselves to over the years, and yet Netflix eagerly consented not only to showcase the comedian at the Hollywood Bull but also to prevent his forthcoming a ridiculous special on the streaming platform. Is anyone actually surprised but this turn of events in twenty twenty six. Before you come at me, please know that my disappointment at this point is no longer so much at Louis c. K as it is with the system.

It’s the system that continues to fail us, even more now than a comedy hero may have failed you or me in the recent past. It’s giving down. The media has also failed us, whether by negligence or laziness. In reports of his new Netflix deal in Hollywood Ball, Performance, Variety claims he quotes mostly disappeared from the public eye for a few years before returning unquote, while the Holly Reporter said his new Netflix deal quote here’s to mark a churning point for the comedian who’d been exiled from many mainstream comedy spaces unquote. The side of writes for Netflix says, with so many others in our capitalist society, there’s no moral code, only a look at the financial bottom line, and only then in terms of how decisions impact the c suite and the shareholders, not the subscribers, although the press releases will tout how subscribers vote with their views.

And if Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais could generate such high ratings while trolling us by tracking in transphobia, then why should they leave the potential profits of a new Louis C.K. Special off the platform? But again, it’s not just about c K. Christalia remains disgraced fallowing revelations of his improprieties with underage fans, writes to Cider, and yet several of his specials are back on Netflix now. Pucker Carlson started a book in print and probably gave a deal to Russell Brands giving ahead.

C K couldn’t apologize last year, but he could promote his novel with Bill marn Bank riches from the Saudi royal family by performing at the Rion Comedy Festival, and he could write this new hour of material that his ending his tour with in Hollywood and filming for Netflix. Might the real amends come then or thereafter giving a head Again, What matters now and still is whether or not he can make an honest amends to the people he’s directly harmed. Whether or not they accept his efforts is beside the point. For us and for him, all the noise around it is just ridiculous. Dave Chappelle brought Kanye West on stage.

A source tells TMZ. This happened at the Comedy Store. Kanye did not perform, but made a quick appearance at the end of the night. Dave had already done a full set. He brought Kanye out until the crowd Kanye West has lost more money than I’ve ever made, DMZ says.

The crowd cheer did Kanye loudly. He got a full standing ovation and as he joined Dave. The lineup that night was Shane Gillis, Chris Rock, and Louis C.K. That’s not a bad show there, Dave Chappelle at a club. The roast of Kevin Hart is Sunday night.

Now. I was on the Netflix site on Wood’s Day Thursday, Wednesday morning. Even the Netflix site had no information about who’s on. And I don’t mean like there was an absence of information. They even had the phrase like stay tuned, We’ll let you know here.

I should check that hold on. Okay, it is ten twenty on Wednesday, and this page was update on May fifth, sixteen hours ago. Says the time stamp, and there’s some FAQs. I’m on Netflix dot com, Slash to them, Slash Features, Slash the Hyphen, Roast, Hyphen of Kevin Hart, Love and Netflix the FAQs. What time is the Roast of Kevin Hart?

The Rest of Kevin Hart streams live globally on Netflix on Sunday May tenth at five West eighth East. What’s the lineup for the Roast of Kevin Hart? Now? This is Netflix’s site. So far, the only confirmed stars to appear are Heart and Gillis, but be sure to check back on TODAM for updates as the event gets closer.

That’s a little weird, right that we don’t know who’s performing. I was catching up on Funny AF. I didn’t watch any of the live events yet because I’m kind of a week behind, and I’m actually enjoying it as a comedy competition. It’s the good version of it, so I didn’t want to skip ahead. I did see some people saying during the semi finals on Monday night that Chris Rock appeared not into it at all.

Speaking of Kevin Hart. TMZ acquired video of the Rock being stopped by the police for having a tinted window on his car. Paparazzi caught Kevin Hart walking by Miami’s car Bone Beach Club. Kevin Hart was asked if he was responsible for calling the cops on the Rock. Kevin Hart said, was I either one that called the cops on the Rock?

No, but I would. I often would because he’s a piece of crap. That’s why we’ll circle back to Netflexi in a bit. Some other stuff in the news. Zach alifan Akis has criticized comedian podcasters who have interviewed Donald Trump without challenging Donald Trump.

We reminded that Donald Trump has appeared on podcasts including The Joe Er of a Experience Andrew Schultz. The O. Vaughn Zach told Conan O’Brien, all the podcasters that have had the President on now, they don’t do the court jester. They don’t do it. They suck up to him.

That’s not the job of a comedian. You are to challenge, you are to make uncomfortable. You’re not to sit there and fake laugh. That is not the job of the court jester period.

Meanwhile, Andrew Schultz and Charlemagne the God not Seeing I too.

I This happened on the Brilliant Idiots podcast. Darlamagine said the brutality of Trump’s legal immigration crackdown could be a motivating factor for someone wanting to do See I don’t need to visit from men in sunglasses to do something really bad to a famous person who used to host a game show on NBC. Schultz said, are you saying was justified because of that? Charlemagne said no, no. Charla Maaine said, we have to deal with the reality that some of Trump’s policies have hurt people so much that some folks are willing to risk at all.

Schultz said, well, now you’re justifying it, Charlotmagne, I’m not justifying. It’s just a reality you have to deal with. I think it would be remiss not to take a step back and not just of conversations about violent rhetoric. Let’s just talk about violent policies that people have been watching over the last year and a half. I know a lot of people have been hurt by those policies, and some of those people are willing to risk at all because to your point earlier, they have nothing to lose Andrew Schultz, who on June twenty third, twenty twenty five, got a headline from The New York Times where they wrote, Andrew Schultz podcast bro might be America’s foremost political journalist.

I have to keep looking back at this to make sure that this is not the onion. This is a real thing that the New York Times printed somehow Anyway, the man who might be America’s foremost political journalists said, sure, sure, but I guess what I’m saying is it’s wrong to do that. Treler made said, I’m not saying it’s right. We have to deal with the reality. The possible America’s foremost political journalist said, but you and I both know from knowing people that are crazy that it actually doesn’t take that much to get actual crazy people to do things.

As you can hear, it is a busy day. I was surprised. Right before I sat down, just for laugh sent out an email blast and you know, and I love the JFL guys, but they announced a whole bunch of new shows and I was like, why would you do that this week? Wait till next week, because the Netflix is going to dominate you. I mean you’re up against all these things, plus the whole Colbert media tour.

I thought it was an oddly timed email. I don’t have time for today. We’ll get to it on Monday. Some things for you to listen to. Jimmy Carr is the guest on Josh Zepp’s podcast SZEPS.

That’s a great podcast that I like listening to, and it’s linked to in my substack. That’s a free substack I write once a week link in the show notes, but it’s mcdee pod on substack.

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Also, Robert Smigel is on the Late Nighter podcast.

They also did a really good roundtable episode about the end of Cold where but Smigel’s really good. There was a comment in the Facebook group. I know who wrote the comment, but I want to get the person in trouble with Smigel. But the thought was that Smigel seemed a little, uh, not really into the conversation early on and then warmed up. And I kind of caught the same thing.

It just seemed like Smigel didn’t want to talk about some things, but then got into it. It’s a very good listen. Dave Chappelle performs the first of his three shows at the Hollywood Palladium tonight as part of the Netflix Festival. Deadline is excited to see Moe a mayor. He’s at the Orphium at seven pm.

Moe is now a contributor on the Daily Show. LA Times asked Will Smith, not that guy, the one from the La Dodgers. A dozen slab people. They asked that Will Smith about Dodgers Comedy Knight. Who is the funniest player on the Dodgers.

The clubhouse consensus is Keky Hernandez. Dodgers Comedy Knight is a fundraiser for the Catching Hope Foundation, launched by Will Smith, not that one, the other one and his wife, not that one, the other one to equipped to aversk youth with skills and leadership and self sufficiency. Boy, if anybody had a sense, if you humor, Chris Rock should show up and Will Smith should slap him. Will Smith, not that one. The other one said.

I was definitely a little anxious because you have to get up there and give a little speech, which I enjoy. Now, this is not the first Dodger’s coming. Tonight kind of took me back to my high school days. We have to give a speech in front of the whole school. It was a little worrisome.

It was fine, It was fun once I got up there, Will Smith, not that one. The other one says, I’m not saying too many jokes, maybe one. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts compared Will Smith, not that one, the other one to John Lovettz, who said John Lovitz’s comedian, and he has that dry humor. So there you go. Will has that dry humor.

Time out. Is excited to go see the legend of Crystal Shell. Crystal Shell is Kristin Shall. Kristin is that Dynasty typewriter tonight eight o’clock. You may know her is the voice of Louise on Bob’s Burgers.

You know my thoughts on that hoax? Like times, is excited to see Nate Jackson at the Laugh Factory at ten pm. They write, though plenty of comics of you. Crowd work is another part of the job. Nate Jackson has made it the springboard to a career.

If you feel like being made into a human smore, go ahead and make sure you’re somewhere in his line of vision when he gets on stage at a Laugh Factory. They’re also excited to go see the are you garbage guys. They’re at the Belasco at seven o’clock and Jay Yang Summers is at Pacific Electric at seven. They say dark humor means something different to a woman who narrowly escaping thrown in the Dumbstars of Baby, A survivor of China’s one child policy in the nineties before coming to America, Joying Summers specializes in jokes too brutal for the average American psyche, delivered with sweetness that makes the punchlines even more shocking. Oh Yeah, Big One Tonight, Night of Too Many Stars, Smigel and Friends, Hollywood Bowl seven point thirty.

Guests include Bill Burdback from the Red Comedy Festival, Nikki Glaser She Hates Press, Conan O’Brian, Steve Carell, Ron Funches, Tiffany Hattish, Jimmy Kimmel, Leanne Morgan, John Mulaney, Kevin Neil and Bob Odenkirk, Matt Riife, dramatic actor Adam Sandler, Comedy Survivor winner, Sarah Silverman, Ali Wang, Noah Wiley famous comedian, and many more. If that doesn’t float your boat, Big Night Tonight, Killed Tony at the Intuit Dooms seven o’clock and that’s just what other people spotlighted. Let me click on the schedule proper here and see what else is going on. Still man about the flight of the concords adding three shows. I didn’t throw them into Google today.

Let me see if there’s any line of the concords. This is how the show gets put together. I type as I speak to you. No, nothing yet, not even to mention that they added all the shows. Okay, Thursday, May seventh, Let’s see what I haven’t mentioned.

Wanda Sykes is at the Dolby at seven nine, Saving Los Angeles with Tim Dillon and the cast of Selling Sunset and Selling the OC that’s at the Wildered like Tim Dillon. That feels like a little much. At the United Theater on Broadway at nine forty five, Sammurill, Jordan Jensen, Joe listen, Rachel Feinstein. That’s pretty good show if you’re just in like comedy comedy. I don’t need a like super all star show.

At the montabonn David Letterman with Martin Short seven o’clock, low ticket warning on that one. A lot of these not sold out. One that is sold out theater at all with John Marcos Serresi He’s at the Regent at seven. Again, it’s easier to sell out a small theater than the Hollywood Bowl. Matt Rice at the Comedy Store Main Room at seven.

That one is sold out, just added at the Laugh Factory Lavelle Crawford Rhys Derby’s The Legend Returns is sold out at the Allegion at seven o’clock. I wonder if the Concords will stop by that one. They seem to have a night off. Haitlyn Palufo at west Side at eight o’clock. Probably some heat on her coming off the Kevin Hart thing, and a whole bunch of others that I didn’t tell you about.

It’s a pretty busy Thursday at the Netflix, is a joke at Comedy Festival, and oh my goodness, I’m just looking at the raw time here before I make all the edits and clean up the stumbles. I’m at twenty six minutes, which is very long for a raw file here, So I’m going to stop talking and see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Another busy and weird one today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A center is the Algorithm loves toms Agora returning to Minneapolis. Now, I thought this was interesting.

He’s playing in the ACME Comedy Club three nights August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth. I wonder why Tom Sikora is doing club shows. I don’t have a theory. I just find it interesting. Maybe he’s work shopping, maybe he’s going to record something.

But if you’re in Minneapolis, a nice small room to see Segora. Industry insider establishment comedian Nikki Glaser was on Karras Swisher’s podcast, There’s a Sentence, regular role comedian just like you. Nikki Glaser says, I don’t live like I see a lot of people living.

Also for fear of like if you crash in a private plane, no one feels sorry for…

That’s my biggest fear. Now wherever I’m in one, she joked, if I’m on Southwest, people would be like, oh my god, what a woman. Of the people. What a hero. She died so young.

Nicky said, people hate people flying on private this elitist b word. She deserved it. I do feel like it’s a huge waste of money. I don’t mind flying. I’m not famous enough that it’s really a hindrance to me.

I’m sure Kara Swisher, totally related to Flying Coach Kevin Hart went on Alex Cooper’s podcast. He got in a little trouble. He was describing Timothy Schallomey, and he described Timothy Shallamey as having the body of a German woman. That did not go over well with the Timothy Shallomey fans. It was a little kerfluffel over the weekend.

He also made fun of Elon Musk and Nick Cannon. They discussed Bruno Mars. Kevin said Bruno was born in the wrong time. He probably yells at his parents. Why didn’t you have me even in the sixties and seventies.

I should have been back there with those guys. He then made fun of machine Gun Kelly, saying the product of a wrong tattoo choice. There’s nothing you can do now, there’s nothing you can do about it, can’t cover it up. He can’t do what anything. It is what it is.

He has a full flooded shirt tattooed on him, dark green shirt. Nobody could say anything. Everybody’s got accepted. The roast of Kevin Hart airs on Netflix Mother’s Day Night. Who scheduled that at least the Knixt Games at three point thirty, which also gets the comment who scheduled that at least for me?

I can watch both? The roast of Kevin Hart Sunday, May tenth, eight East five West. Kevin said, have at it, say what you want, because I’m gonna say what I want. Kevin discussed his career, saying, I’ve been doing this for so long that the brand of Kevin Hart sorry to go third person has become pretty big, so because the brand aspect attached to me in business opportunity. I got commercial in places where I had to because that’s the direction I was going, and rightfully so very happy with the decisions I made.

Is excited to return her roasting, saying this is what I do. This is where I started. Ground zero was snapping and jonesing and hitting people below the belt. That’s the good stuff. And I think doing that and giving the world an opportunity to see that and laugh at it.

I don’t give an f say what you want laugh. More from that Variety interview with the Netflix is a joke at Comedy Festival, Folks, Variety was excited about the more Solo Hernandez show. Yeah, their premise, The Marcelo Hernando Shows a huge showcase for Spanish language comedy. What does the global marketplace for comedy look like right now? Good question.

Robbie pro who runs Netflix Comedy, says, what we’re seeing is not necessarily emerging markets, but more stand ups who are successful in the US can now sell everywhere in the world. If you look at people’s tour schedules, it’s a wide array of where they’re able to sell because there’s a pocket of mega fans everywhere. Comedy has become a real export around the world, mostly through Netflix. Marcelo may be talking about his mom, but he’s talking about my mom too, and someone’s mom in Japan. Some of those themes are super universal.

I just threw up in my mouth. Bob Odenkirk predicts the end of Manisphere comedy. He told The New York Times it is low hanging fruit. It’s like literally on the ground. It’s fruit that’s on the ground rotting.

See I disagree. Comedy is not actually a fruit, thus it cannot be literally low hanging fruit. Odenkirk said Manisphere comedy was the reactionary comedy movement of the last five years. I don’t think it has a lot of depth to it. It’s a movement that I’m happy to see transforming int his something else and disappearing or dissipating.

Odenkirk made a good point. He argues that audiences often mistake performance for sincerity. Bob said, if you want to say something honest, then you should get off a comedy stage. Everything you say is of construct everything. Let us use the stage to be as crude as we can be, and as clumsy and oafish as we can be.

You’re not you. You’re pretending to be a person named you. Really smart there, that’s insightful. Some reason Dave Chappelle has popped into my head. Rob Schneider was on the Doctor Phil podcast.

You gotta say one thing about Rob Schneider. He’s interesting. Right. You may not agree with Rob Schneider, but anytime I mention him, it’s always interesting. Schneider told Doctor Phil when you stop the conversation.

That’s when violence starts. Doctor Phil said, well, comedy isn’t just punch lines at social math. In one sentence, a comic can expose what we’re afraid to say, what we secretly believe, and what the culture’s trip wires are. Schneider said, it’s liberating. I mean, if people come to see comedy for any reason, it’s to feel liberated standing up for what’s right in free speech.

It’s not going to come without a cost. May cost you friends, may cost you a job, a potential job, may cost you money, and it certainly costs me money. A social media clip from Jim Brewer is making the rounds. I played it, I was like, what the hell is Jim talking about it?

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And then I looked it up, so I let you seequence the same way.

Here’s Jim Brewer talking about something you forget. A couple of years ago, we were putting stickers on gas pumps and said, I did that? Have you checked the gas prices lately? Where are the stickers? Where are the stickers?

It works for one person and not the other, but it is amazing how much we will go to defend a same scenario because you believe that’s your profit and you believe this one’s taking the promised lab It’s mind boggling. So I did some research, and here’s what I think Jim is talking about. People are putting stickers with the face of the President of the United States saying I did it. People are putting them or were putting them on gas pumps. So it seems that that’s what Jim is talking about.

Jim Brewer appears to be upset with the price of gas. I think not sure. Fiera Eisenberg has announced her new special I Used to Be Nicer, produced by Lewis Black’s company, will be on Veeps five pm Pacific Friday May fifteenth. In I Used to Be Nicer, o, Fira Eisenberg gives a Canadian middle finger to toxic positivity, parenting, marriage maintenance, aging therapy, and the cost of eggs. She says, I’ve been told my whole life that I’m so nice?

Is this the Canadian in me? The accommodating woman in me. Well, thanks to parenthood, getting a little older and being told to just be positive one too many times, I can finally say I used to be nicer. Now I’m honest and it’s better for comedy. Yesterday we talked about Hulu Comedy and if you listen to the show, I just the Hulu Comedy brand.

They’ve gotten some big names, but it’s everybody like a little past their prime.

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And now I’ve gotta play a trailer for you.

This is from Lisa Ann Walter, who is releasing her first stand up comedy special. It’s called It Was an Accident. We’re told Lisa An Walter is sixty two years old and it’s been doing stand up comedy for years. And I’m gonna play a trailer for you. Now.

I’ve clipped the beginning because the beginning of the trailer she’s yelling and it’s so annoying. So I’m gonna lop off the top and get you straight to a joke. Here’s Lisa and Walter. I’m thrilled to be here, honestly because I have twenty teenage boys at home, so I’m just happy to be in front of people who like me. All right, where’s my LGBTQ?

Where are you? Thank you very much, thanks for coming out and also coming to the show. Hey shut up. I mean I know what mindfulness is because my kids told me. But I’ve seen the way I eat, and I’m pretty sure I don’t practice it.

I don’t know why I can’t find a fella. I’m pissed off so often lately, guys. I swear because I’m a grown ass woman in America and I’m paying attention to by known, we were headed towards the Handmaid’s tail, and I was gonna be wearing that big red cake. I wouldn’t have cut out carps. I had a young boyfriend for a while after the divorce.

I didn’t want to, but uh, I was divorced in LA and that’s the law. Now. Was that not awful? That was awful? Right?

Like? None of those jokes are good anyway. Lisa Ann Walter was an accident part of Hilarious Celebrity Traders or Celebrity Traders UK. Is there a Celebrity Traders USA? I don’t know if there is.

Anyway, British Traders is a zillion times better than US Traders because US Traders is people playing reality TV. Oh, I gotta come back to that in a second. But British Traders is like regular people and it’s just way more entertaining. But this time it’s celebrity Traders, and there are five comedians on it, James Acaster, Joan McNally, joe Lycett, Rob Beckett, who if you watched Last One Laughing, you will love and Romesha Wagon Nathan who was also on Last One Laughing to reality TV. My other daughter was over at the house and we were looking for something to watch.

I’m like, I kind of want to watch Survivor season one. We watched three episodes of Survivor season one. Oh my goodness, saw the scene with Richard hash that he played last week. That was one of the episodes. Saw the folks eat rats.

They were just mounting down on the rats. The challenges were much better. Jeff showed up and made them eat live grubs. Oh and Jeff. Now, we had nothing to compare it to at the time, but watching Jeff Probes twenty five years later, he’s so much better at it now.

In those first episodes, he’s not good even a tribal council. You can tell he’s just speaking words that he memorized and it’s not natural at all. Now season one, I think it streams, but they’ve pulled a couple of the episodes for reasons. You’d have to ask them I bought the DVD. I found it’s out of prints, but I found a brand new Season one DVD of Survivor.

Anyway, let you know when I get back to that. If you’re at the Sydney Comedy Festival today, it’s Ikea Wars. Kieran Bullock takes his cult comedy festival favorite across the globe. In ike Awards, Bullock turns host, referee and chaos maker, pitting two contestants against each other in a battle royale. Two people have to build Ikea furniture.

Have you ever done that? Oh? I would lose my mind. It’s always a piece missing. Maybe it’s just me.

I’m sure akia Furniture is wonderful and this should sponsor the podcast. Let’s be honest. But if you think it’s going to be a straight race, think again. There will be added challenges forfeits and hurdles of plenty, but at the end of each night, one contestant will reign supreme as the Champion of Sweden asterisk. We are told the title is not officially recognized by the Swedish government.

Kieran Bullock started the Ikea Show in twenty nineteen at the Melbourne fringe turning through an assortment of Sweden’s flat packed finest while chatting casually with the audience. On the last night, he decided to try a race format, as suggested by a friend, and away we go. If you are in Australia and I know we have Australian listeners, hello Erin Thursday May seventh and Friday May eighth, at the iconic Bondai Pavilion, I spent Was it a New Year’s Day? Was it a Christmas Day? No?

Christmas Day? I was up at the reef. I spent in New Year’s Day, Not Year’s Eve, but New Year’s New Year’s Eve day, That’s what December thirty, first daytime at Bondai Beach. I loved it. I gotta get back there at some point.

That sounds like a fun show. You should go. And let’s check in at the Netflix is a Joe comedy festival. On this Wednesday, We’ve got Nicks basketball tonight and volleyball. So I have to play volleyball and then come back and watch Nick’s playoff basketball on tape.

What does that have to do with the Netflix? John? Why did you just randomly bring that up? I don’t know I’m leaving it in. I don’t know why I suddenly needed to tell you what I’m doing tonight.

Well, let’s see who’s doing shows. Michelle Buteau, Chelsea Handler or Biglia Rod Carmichael, Craig Robinson, I thought you quit comedy Craig Robinson, Matt Rice at the Comedy Store at seven, Mark Norman at the Comedy Store at ten. Both are sold out. Oh A just added this is new. This is like new new Flight of the Concords.

I’m learning this. I’ll see now. Guys. Now, if you have told me Flight of the Concords had a show on Wednesday night, I would have gone out and done the Diane Morgan Monday Flight of the Concords Wednesday. Ah, I’m learning this as I look at it.

Just added Flight of the Concords. Oh wait, they added they added Monday night, Tuesday night and Wednesday. Oh I could have guys, you’re killing me told you Fly the Cord. I’m so upset at this because then I would have gone out so annoying. Come on, I’m not doing a bit.

I’m genuinely annoyed because I would have gone out for if I could have gone out and done Diane Monday and Concords Tuesday or Wednesday, and some other stuff I was out there. I would all right, shut up John to host the show, Okay, Taviny Atish, Sam, Jay Vittorio Angeloni at Dynasty Typewriter at nine thirty. He’s fantastic. Go see him if you can. Drew Lynch, he was a guest on this program at the ice House at seven thirty, and a bunch of other things.

But you know, last night there were a lot of bigger names, but tonight the big show, Flight of the Concords. Now, when I recorded, they must have just just added this, because I’ll tell you behind the scenes, I’m recording this on Monday, and I recorded Tuesday and Wednesday back to back to accommodate my schedule, and they must have just just added this because it wasn’t on the it’s still not on the Tuesday schedule. I know that’s in your past, it’s in my future. So they must have added this like five minutes ago. Anyway, I have volleyball tonight at seven thirty and then at the Knicks playoff game.

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

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Caloroga Shark Media. Very busy one. Today, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. I’m excited.

Robert Smigel has launched a podcast in which he and his comedian friends try to hush up the hilarity of everything from a eulogy to a Tinder profile. Now, who are Robert Smigel’s celebrity friends? No, no Cone enlisted yet, but he does have David Letterman, Bob Odenkirk, Ellie Kemper, and Jim Gaffigan. As you may know, Robert Smigel best known for his TV funhouse segments on SNL. I would say he’s best known for Triumph Maybe not anyway, He is the host of Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends, a weekly podcast.

It premieres May eighth, so that’s later this week. I know the trailers already out because I’ve subscribed to it. On Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends, Smigel and a rotating panel of his friends assist people seeking help been making something in their real life funnier, Smigel told Variety. We’ve had several rabbis wanting help with sermons. There was a woman who wanted to break up with her mom group in a diplomatic way that was still funny, he told Variety.

The original idea was to do like a writer’s room of sorts. He said, the only dream I had was how much fun I have in writers’ rooms, because almost the fun part and being in comedy is just generating ideas. Then you actually have to execute them, and that’s where the pain comes in. There is a trailer. I’ll run some of it.

I wish the trailer were a little better. Being honest, Hello, I’m Robert Smigel. I did lots of things, cartoons, ONSNL, Conan stuff, Triumph, The Insult, comic dogs, some movies, but now I’m past my peak. So I’m hosting a podcast Humor Meet with Robert Smigel and friends. Each week, me and my favorite comedians, writers and whatnots help regular people just like you, presuming your regular who have some project or task that they’d like us to help make funnier.

You’ll see guests like Bob Odenkirk, Jim Gaffigan, David Tel, Mikey Day, Ellie Kemper, Pete Holmes, Alex Adelman, Bruce McCollough, David Letterman, David Letterman, and many great writers dedicated to helping the less humorous. Netflix has announced the date for season two of Tom Sagora’s Bad Thoughts and It’s Pretty soon, May twenty fourth, will get six episodes. As you may recall, the series follows Tom Sagoras. He navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies within a cinematic world. Tom Sigori said, it was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain in horrify audiences with our very bad Thoughts on Netflix.

We’re all so excited to push things further.

Speaking of Netflix, Robbie Prau and Tracy Podeska they are behind the Netfli…

They asked, Robbie, what do you think is the wackiest or most ambitious idea you’ll pull off this year. Robbie Prost said, I’m excited to see the celebration of Peewee Herman as a Seinfeld dork. I’m excited to see Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. That was last night. The roast speaks for itself.

As for the wackiest things, I’m personally running a five K for the first time. I assume that’s the Tom Sagora Berd Krasher five K, but you never know. Here’s an interesting one. Netflix has invested quite a bit in the podcast space. How’s that going, pra said, we can’t speak to the whole strategy.

The podcast that our group has been working on is The Pete Davison Show, and we’re really happy with that that’s going. He’s doing two shows that are going to sell out, one with Nikki Glaser, one with John Mulaney. He was asked, is John Malini going to do another season of Everybody’s Live? What did Johnny Mack tell you? Well, Robbie Prau admitted it, No, we don’t think so.

No, John is on a big tour. There’s no talk of him doing that right now. Told you so. Any interest in Stephen Colbert, Tracy Pocosta said, we haven’t talked to Steven. We talk about how much we love him.

We’re big fans of Stephen Colbert in his show, but nothing specific. All right, What about the roast of Kevin Hart. Robbie Pross said, it’s going to be a real night of surprises. You have Shane Gillis hosting and Kevin Hart is the roasty. Two of the biggest comedy superstars of all time.

Might be a little early to put Shane Gillis on the list of biggest comedy superstars of all time. I think we need a little more work there. You know, if you were a baseball player, he’s in like season four, Like, relax a little with that. He’s great, but relax, you know what I’m saying. Don Maddingly didn’t make the Hall of Fame.

Keith Hernandez not in the Hall of Fame. Robbie Prost says, there has never been a comedian at Kevin’s level that has been in that hot seat. He’s going to be ruthless at the end of this roast, and I’m excited to see it. Now, I’m going to fact check that my gut is telling me. I’m doing this live.

My gut tells me that is not true. Let’s see celebrity roasts of comedians, because he got the Dean Martin ones.

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All right, let’s start with the Comedy Central roasts, Drew Carry, Jerry Stil…

You could argue Kevin Hart is bigger than all of those guys. There was a TV show called The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Governor Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad Kirk, Douglas, Betty Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson. You want to put Johnny Carson up against Kevin Hart in a battle, It’s at least a discussion, right. The roasters on that were Jack, Benny, Joey, Bishop Foster, Brooks, George Byrns, Ruth, Buzzy, Truman, Capoti, Dom Deluiz, Red Fox, Rich, Little Bob Newhart. For nineteen seventy three.

You know, I don’t know man heads ahead that lineup in nineteen seventy three with Johnny Carson versus whatever they’re gonna throw up Sunday Night. It’s at least the discussion. Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carol O’Connor, Munty Hall, Plugman and Randall, Jaja, Leobta Roscher, Truman, Capodi, Don Rickles. It could be Ralph Nader, Jack Benny red Fox, Bobby Riggs, George Washington is portrayed by Jan Layton. That’s different.

Rowan and Martin Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope. Okay, please understand, Bob Hope is on the mount Rushmore of comedy like an eight decade career. I know a lot of people judge him by the work he did after turning eighty, but watch the young Bob Hope. He is solid on that. Neil Armstrong, who’s the first next man on the Moon?

Johnny Bench, Jack, Benny Milton, Burrow, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Phillis Dillars, Jajah Rich, Little, Ronald Reagan and a governor at that point in seventy four. I would assume Don Rickles and others. Telly Savalis, Lucille Ball, want you want to go head to heead against Kevin Hornt Lucy Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Junior, Michael Landon, Evil Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali not a comedian, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Red Fox, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gave Kaplan, Tad Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty Sinatra not a comedian, Clugman, Betty White, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Suzanne Summer’s, Joe Namath, Joan Collins, Mister t In nineteen eighty four, and the last one on December seventh, nineteen eighty four, Michael Landon, I have quite digressed. The premise was Robbie Prost saying, there has never been a comedian at Kevin’s level that has been in that hot seat. I propose to you, Johnny Carson, we have digressed.

They asked Robbie prow about Louis C.K. You remember Louis was canceled at one point, but now everybody loves Louis. Come out to the Hollywood Bowl, come see him. Pros said, when it comes to Louis, part of the job of my team is we listen to the type of stand ups people want to see. We also spend a lot of time looking at who’s selling tickets around the world.

Louis is at a really impressive run for the last two years, and it’s a great special right now, so we’re excited to see it on Netflix this summer, Variety did follow up, you must have anticipated backlash given his twenty seventeen sexual misconduct scandal. How much does that factor in? Pros said, When our members sit up and open up Netflix, they have a decision to make of what they want to watch. Oh, that’s not a good answer. This is about giving them an option to see a really popular comedian that they may want to watch, who’s still putting out great stuff.

Sure, that opens the door to and I’m not gonna go there put up anything. I’ll let you use your imagination as to what anything is. You don’t have to watch it, Like if there’s the hate speech show, you don’t have to watch it. That’s not a good answer. I’m sprised the pr people let that make it.

Ato Variety, that is not a good answer. Oh here’s a fun one. They asked, what do you make of Hulu push into comedy? Now, if you listen to this show and I’ve got some stuff I slept for tomorrow’s episode. I don’t like Hulu’s nail on this at all.

Right, he’s phrasing, what do you make of Hulu’s pushing to comedy. They’ve been able to secure big names for specials, some of which i’d imagine you also fought for. Do you view Hulu as a threat? That’s hilarious? Bekostas said, I don’t know about that part.

But look, competition is always good because it’s good for the comedy community. It means people are working, getting exposure and getting to tell their stories. See that’s a good answer. I don’t know if it’s working or out for them. I know we continue to be in the business with a lot of the people that were on Netflix that have gone to do specials at Hulu.

Because we offer an extension on the stand up brand for these comedians, We’re able to work simultaneously with them, whether that be on the scripted side, on the future side, or what have you. Me Save some more of this for tomorrow, as we are already getting along. Because John read you a list of everybody who’s ever been roasted.

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Speaking of Louis C.K.

He was on Jim Norton’s podcast. C K was talking about visiting India as part of his tour, which is called Ridiculous. In a free Wheeling check Ye with Jim Norton, Louis C.K. Opened up about what he saw in India, comparing it to how he sees poverty, specifically in New York City. Let’s let Louis C.K.

Tell you here’s a clip. Feeling in India is like the and I am ignorant. So I just saw what I saw. Nobody’s on the street looking like shit, right, nobody’s on drugs, and nobody’s living homeless, do you know what I mean? Like the way in the streets here in New York.

Yeah, I see guys with a little bubble sting like they’re really they really like street syringe. I see guys shooting up broad daylight all the time now.

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And then you see guys you.

Know that bent over it the way. Yeah this thing. I didn’t see a single person like that. And any of the places we went to in India. From the hotel, we could see this area that was like corrugated steel uh cubes, yeah, with tarps over them, but like a whole city block.

So there’s there’s a functioning poverty there and and there’s many levels of housing that are way way cheaper, whereas here we have like a standard. But if you fall below it, if you’re if you can’t afford a home in New York City, you’re on the street and you freeze to death, and you’re and uh and nobody looks at you, and there’s no job for you. Like, you can’t you can’t get a job if you don’t have a credit rating in this country. You can’t. If you don’t have like a credit card and a real like identity, you can’t just like hustle and see what you can get done.

If you do, you probably live on the street. You probably live under a tarp somewhere in a in a really uh not in a group. You know. I mean, obviously there are people who build shanty towns and uh, but the cops come and dismantle them all the time once I call them. The Alex Jones is not happy with this Tim Highdecker stuff.

By the way, Tim Hidecker and for worce people tap the brakes. I’m kind of sick of it now. It’s a lot of fun for a couple of days, but it’s too much now. Alex Jones weight in he captured the post appointed Onion news director and a vowed Satanist. Tim Hideker melts down over the court ruling blocking a transfer of Info Wars to the Onion.

I am not familiar with Tim Highdecker’s choice of worship at all. I don’t recall seeing anything where he was an avowed Satanist. I guess I get asked the internet, is Tim high Decker a Satanist? Well, here is a video from YouTube one week ago titled Tim Highdecker admits he loves Satan. I guess we should listen.

I am going to make a big announcement right now, and that might affect our relationship. And I am pledging myself to Satan and to the Prince of Darkness. Oh. I read about this last night on a WEBSDAYE. I read about a fores dot com.

Yeah, it’s been out there, and now I’m here to confirm that I am a soldier for him. I am a soldier for the Prince of Darkness, and I hail him in a lot and respect the hell out of the devil. Okay, there you have it, the words of Tim Heidecker. So I guess what Alex Jones said in that case is accurate. A judge has scheduled another hearing from May twenty eighth, so we’ll keep an eye on that.

Boy. I told you there was a lot going on. I even bumped like four things, which I love to do. It makes the whole week. It goes so much easier when I have too much to talk about.

I was actually strategizing with our publicist earlier in the day, and I told her save some stuff for a week of Memorial Day, because that’s when it gets a little quiet. I’m going to see if we get some press for this little podcast here. A Radar Online reported there was an effort behind King charles hilarious jokes. A source said there was a conscious effort to sharpen the tone of Charles’s words and to make sure the jokes traveled across cultures. It was less about improvisation and more about precision writing, similar to how late night shows workshopped their material.

Another source said the King has natural wit, but this was refined. Lines were tested, adjusted and structured to ensure they resonated in a highly str extu environment without causing offense. It created the impression of effortless charm. Behind the scenes. It was highly curated.

Every beat was deliberate. The Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival continues in Los Angeles. The La Times is excited about Seinfeld Is at the Greek Theater at eight o’clock tonight. They describe Jerry Seinfeld as the king of the comedic rant. Jerry is joined by Tennessee funny woman Leanne Morgan.

They’re also excited about the Comedy Swap seven o’clock at the Nest at the Crow, Created and hosted by Brooklyn Jones. The Comedy Swap mixes fantastic stand up comics with a cool twist on a clothing exchange. Bring old clothes, shoes, at accessories to donate. During the incredible comedy show, a pop up shop will be created for you to take an item with you when you leave for free. That’s fun.

Anything left over goes to local charities. I like it. Let’s check the schedule. We’ll click the Tuesday May fifth button seven thirty at the Hollywood Bowl. Louis c.

K not So canceled at seven thirty at the Intuit Dome Cat Williams. Those are two big shiny shows. The Greek Theater. Seinfeld at eight three shiny shows, so just to be fair to Netflix. Jim Gaffigan at the Dolby Theater at seven.

Fourth biggest comedian I’ve named it so far, maybe the third. Maybe you think Gaffagan is bigger than Kat and I’m not sure he is. Alana Glazer and romy Yuseffer at the Orpheum at seven, Jesselnick at the Sabin at seven, theovonn at the Wildron at seven thirty. Tom Pop is out there at the Woolshare. He’s at seven seven o’clock the Maltabon Theater.

David Letterman with special guest John Mulaney. So just there right like, and I just stayed home. If you even go out to La of the like six seven shows I already mentioned, which do you even go see? I guess I’d go see Letterman. So you’re blowing off Seinfeld and c K however you feel about him and Caton Gaffigan.

I mean, this is just huge, nine forty five hanging with doctor Z that is the I assume legally distinct planet of the Apes of Parody. Friend of the show, John Marcos Serresi at seven o’clock at the Blasco. That is the only thing that I’ve se scene with the words sold and out on it. As I look at this Steph Toleves at the Troup Door at nine thirty and they just added at six thirty a the Laugh Factory the Best of Chicago hosted by Jeremy Piven. That’s different.

Oh wow, the Tuesdays with Stories. Guys, they were sold out at the Hollywood Improv at seven thirty. Cameron espositos in ten. I mean, this is what a huge, huge, and it’s Tuesday. Now.

If you’re not in Los Angeles, fear at home like me, you can go on YouTube at eight o’clock Eastern and watch Eugene Mermons Here Comes the Whimsy. If you want to own it on vinyl, you gotta wait till Saturday, May thirtieth. But you can watch the special now. You can get a digital download on PGF Records. Now.

It’s Eugene Mermons first special in ten years. Is that true? Because maybe it is true because the last one had like eight trillion cuts. Maybe that was just an album album. Here Comes the Whimsy was recorded live in Summerville, Massachusetts, and features Eugene Merman’s trademark Playful Spirit as he shares anecdotes on fatherhood, travel insights, rental car disputes, and more.

You can also participate in a live chat with Eugene during the YouTube premiere tonight eight Eastern, five West. You can also see him at Largo on the twelfth in Los Angeles. And that it’s your comedy news for today. I told you was busy. Tomorrow is going to be busy too, and I’ll meet you back here then

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Caloroga Shark Media Hire. There, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. The Netflix is a joke comedy festival kicks off in Los Angeles. The LA Times has a lot of coverage of it, and in the La Times, Nate Jackson writes, the LA comedy scene has never been just one thing.

Sure, we’re home to some of the best comedy clubs and comedians of the world, legendary improv troops. We’ve got them, podcasts at Center, We’re drowning in them. When it comes to variety shows, drag brunches and clowns, Our Town is top tier. Yet still at some point even the most omnivorous comedy fan can hit a wall when it comes to looking for new things in this city to laugh about. Thankfully, every other year for the last six years, the Netflix is a Joke Festival and Jack’s LA with a large doseph discovery.

Tracy Pacosta is Netflix is head of comedy until the La Times being able to put groups of people together or talent that’s doing this for so long, I think that’s what makes the festival great. The change this year is the festival is one week, not two weeks. It’ll go through Sunday. Eliza Schlessinger said, we have so many opportunities for comics to showcase themselves, and we have such unique voices here in LA and there’s such diversity. It’s a chance to see all your favorite comics in one place and then about five hundred other comics.

It might not be great for your brick pads or your traffic time, but there’s a lot going on. Sheng Wang till the La Times. There’s a lot of smaller shows around town that are also listed as part of the festival. I like doing those rooms to just practice and get reps. But it’s cool that they’re partnering with the festival so they can kind of build a profile for themselves.

Let’s go at Cotska called the festival comedy Coachellaunge said, for me, it was the alt rooms that helped me grow because you know, everyone has different energies and backgrounds and backstories. I’m not someone that could start at a comedy club. My personality doesn’t allow for it. The seven day festival has three hundred and fifty shows. Tracy Pocosta from Netflix said, I think it sort of goes back to wanting to be in business with incredibly talented people, and a lot of comics were talking about Louis C.K.

And what he was putting out recently. In order to make sure that we have the best and most variety on service, having him perform at the festival and then ultimately launching a special on Netflix, it gives members the opportunity to see if they want to. When we’re getting the talent we’re working with that, we have a lot of respect for how great he is and how he’s doing this. Again, it’s like, Okay, we want to be able to give people the choice to see it. I’m not going to editorialize here, but I suspect some people will have some commentary on Tracy’s comment.

Case you, I don’t know what I’m talking about. Google, Louis C.K. Canceled. We learn here that otsgo at Kontska plans to shoot her next special in LA later this year. I saw that show a month ago already, that show’s ready to go.

It’s very strong. Eliza Slessinger said. Comedy wanees and it waxes and right now. It’s just everywhere. People you’ve never heard of are micro famous.

They’ve got a billion followers, they make a jillion dollars. You’ve never heard of them. And the festival is great because it keeps growing, so there’s more opportunities for that audience to find you. Some of the shows the La Times is excited about. They have a whole list.

I’ll pick at it day by day, but they’re excited. Tonight at seven pm, Ralph Barbosa, who they remind us, garnered viral fame by being distant, then apologized to by George Lopez, who didn’t know who he was at the time. We are told Barbosa heads to the Orpheum with a newfound spark of energy and attitude on stage, adding some spice to his naturally laid back style. The Al Times also suggests you had to Dynasty Typewriter at nine thirty tonight. Mike Ward might not be a household name in La yet, but he is widely respected in the comedy world for pushing boundaries.

Known for dork, irreverent and unfiltered stand up. His joke related legal case reached the Supreme Court in Canada, which ruled in his favor in twenty twenty one. I remember that The Only Times also suggests that the Comedy Store at eight o’clock in the belly room, it’s Timmy no breaks. You may know Timmy from kil Tony. If not, think confident, unpredictable and hilarious improv at its finest.

We are told his signature line boom Roasted, turns a typical one minute set on Kiltny into a full night of NonStop energy. I think that’s also my son’s cat. I wonder if they’re the same person. Godfrey is at the Ice House at nine forty five. Let’s take a look at the Johnny Mack version of the list.

Have got the schedule up here, and they have things in chronological order, which is my favorite type of schedule to have people post. Other comedy festivals please take note of this. Let’s see what we’ve got going on tonight. Shane Gillison Friends at the Hollywood Bowl eight o’clock. That seems like a big deal.

Tell you though, as I recorded this sentence around twelve forty five pm on Friday afternoon, plenty of tickets available for Shane Gillis and Friends at the Hollywood Bowl. You could get in for fifty nine to thirty plus fees, kind of surprising six o’clock at the Saban Theater. It’s Rushmore with special guests Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. One of the shows I wanted to go see and one of the few shows on the website that actually says sold out is Kunk in Conversation with Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker. That would have been one of the shows that would have gotten me to go out there.

And as I mentioned earlier on the podcast and not earlier today in a different episode, the issue there was some of the stuff I wanted to see was like tonight and then fly to the Concords a Sunday, and just everything about going to LA for like a full week during finals week so my daughter can’t even hang out with me, six seven, eight days of hotels car. I was just like, I’m not doing it, doubly so without credentials. These Netflix people, I know, I suck. I’m a loser in the basement. I reached out to Robbie Praul on LinkedIn, didn’t hear back.

That’s fine. Tried going through the front door to the publicists. You get nothing back. Tried going through the back door to the publicists, you get nothing back. I had my publicist reach out.

This was impenetrable, so you know, eight days. I’m not looking for freebies, but you know, just having the proper information about this stuff makes this all easier. So thumbs down to the Netflix folks. Thumbs up to the Just for Laughs folks who were awesome, super easy to work with, Get right back to you, book guests for you, hook you up. It’s all great.

I digress punkin conversation with Dian Morgan seven o’clock at the Egyptian. Donnane Rawlings at the Blasco nine five, Dusty Sleigh at the Troubadour at seven. Joel Kim Booster has a low ticket warning. He’s at the Trouba Door at ten. Ron Funches at the Hollywood Improv Main Room at seven thirty.

Friend of the Show Ismo is at the Ice House at seven thirty. Natalie Palamedes, who is awesome and one of the few sold out some I’m seeing here. She’s at the Allegion at seven and many many other shows. That’s pretty busy for a Monday night. Dion Cole is doing a benefit show out there tonight.

He’s all the La Times. He’ll do crowd work if he has to, but he’d much rather tell you the jokes he wrote. He says, the audience feels like, hey, we came to improv, we came to have fun. It’s like, no, you know how long it took me to write these jokes. I don’t need to come in here screaming at me, and then I spend five minutes talking about you and your mom and your kids.

Then I forgot what I was doing, and now the tone of the show is messed up. Love it. He is proud of his career. He says, there’s a lot of people look in the mirror every morning, go out in the world and becomes something else when the thing that’s gonna make them rich and successfuls in the mirror. I think, whoever that person is in the mirror, you need to take that person with you and apply that person to every that you do, and that’s gonna make the difference in your life.

The Times was curious how his prep has changed over the years. He says, I’m more confident. You know, back in the day, it might be a thirty sixty chance that a joke will work thirty, meaning it will work sixty that it won’t. Now in a point when I can think of something and there’s an eighty five percent chance at work fifteen that it won’t. So my preparation is for us thinking of something on going to execute it.

Being able to execute it is another difference. Back in the day, I’d have to ask for stage time. Now I can think of something, go to a club and go right up. I can hear something now and go that’s funny, and then go do it and it becomes funny. So just having confidence to do that and I question myself as much.

Also out today, it is Kevin Hart’s Funny AF Live Semifinal on Netflix at nine o’clock. There is a clip. Now interesting as you watch the visual of this clip, and you can’t because this is an audio podcast. The visual says tonight features guest Chris Rock, But unless I missed it, Kevin Hart didn’t actually say that, so they must have recorded this earlier and then booked Chris Rock later. But the text says Chris Rock is on tonight.

Anyway, let’s listen. I just crossed the country to find the freshest and the funniest new voices in common. Recently, I just had my first threes attempt. You’ve heard from legendary comedians. Some people have that thing.

Marshan, why are you here? Did you think Kevin was a football? Now? Le JITs are in a vaulte your favorite stand up comedian, I’m down with dinner for what you watch the live semi finals on May fourth and the grand finale on May fifth. White mom chores are like Hunter take Out the Try.

Immigrant mom chores are like Hey, get up and get me up passport when one will rise above the rest and take the mic and wins it, all people are going for me. It turns out CTE just stands for casting talentless idiots. This person is going to be common one of us. This is now a death patch. I will see who stands up in the pressure and who doesn’t.

So I need to know, well, who will you vote for? And from last their headlines Sorry New York City. In Chicago v’s funny AF comics say LA has the stand up scene to beat. LA based comedians Felicia Folks, Steve Fury, and Ray Lao said that for them, LA is the place to be. The three were among the group of forty four comics like to celebrate in funny af Steve Fury told Las there’s a real camaraderie among comics in LA and the other cities can’t match.

He says, there’s a couple of people that everyone hates, you know, but overall you’re competing with people, but in the end you see someone win. I don’t really get mad about it, and I don’t think a lot of people in LA do. Steve Fury said. A lot of people since the pandemic have kind of crapped on LA, especially some people that decided to move to other places. Do you mean Joe rogan I digress?

Steve said, this is a great comedy scene. The best guy in that small town moves here. The best person in New York a lot of times at some point still gonna end up here. Sure, there was an exodus of a bunch of podcast comedians during the pandemic do you mean Joe rogan I Digress? But it allowed the scene to grow in a way that it hasn’t seen a long time.

You know, there’s a lot of people like Ray Laud coming up and showing that this is a fantastic scene and it can hang with any other scene. This is a great place to come for finishing. It’s almost like your searing steak. It’s almost done, you put it in the oven for the last hour. That last hour.

The heat that this place has is la and that’s how you become great. It cuts all the fat off, the bs off your act, and it makes a great good stuff there.

Speaking of Ray Lau, Heat’s old last it’s totally a grind.

But at the same point, to be honest, I prefer it because I’m not really sure I would have cracked through in the old world where bookers and gig keepers could decide whether or not you could move through the ranks. And in this way, at least, all of it is technically up to you. I mean, it’s extremely exhausting and stressful and difficult and nearly impossible, but it’s up to you. LA gets a lot of crap talked about it, and in New York there’s a lot of good comics and there’s a lot of stage time there, and that’s good. I just like where I’m at, you know, sometimes the grass isn’t greener.

I like my life here, I like working on my stand up. I like my friends here. I’ve gotten to know the bookers and other comics, and it’s just nice. Felicia Folks said, I love comedy and LA has a great history. I can get on stages here.

I know people complain a lot about not being able to get stage time, but I think that’s a skill issue. I’ve never had problem getting up in my city. I don’t know what to tell these people. Will be talking a lot about Los Angeles this week, as the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival has begun. King Charles has returned back home.

Josh Johnson on The Daily Show apparently agrees with me that Charles was pretty good at jokes. Josh said, what’s annoying about this? As a comedian, he’s actually killing He called the King the world’s oldest NEPO baby. A couple jokes from Late Night about the King. Josh Johnson, you know, I’ve always wondered what white deaf jam would be like.

Josh again, Wow, he really commands the stage. I’m sorry, he really colonizes the stage. Seth Myers with a bomb. King Charles gifted President Trump a gold bell from an old submarine called the HMS Trump And what better gift for a guy who’s way underwater. That’s lame Kimmel.

Unfortunately, only Belle Trump likes is the Tago one. Greg Guttfeld, you know the guy from Fox. See know all you people that were like, how could we never talk about the other side because they recaps never included Guttfeld And now they do, and you will now see how lame Guttfeld’s jokes are. I mean, tell them way, way, way way better than I do, but they’re not good. Gottfield, King Charles and Queen Camilla paid visits in New York City to make them feel at home.

None of us f lost. I mean, you can hear the audience groaning, right, do that joke in your head? You can hear Gottfeld. Yeah. The White House held a steak dinner for the King and Queen of England and I actually attended, though they stuck me at the kids table.

Yeah, it took Prince Andrew’s seat. Wow, okay, Jimmy fallon today, King Charles and Queen Camilla were in New York City and on Earth visit time Square Elmos, which from Jack Daniels to Crown Royal. See that’s cleverly crafted. Rob Schneider wants ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Remember the whole kerf fluffle last week with Jimmy Kimmel and the joke and Milania and all that.

Yeah. Rob Schneider has posted a letter to Walt Disney Company CEO Josh Tomorrow. In the open letter, Rob Schneider called for Kimmel to be fired for quotes a pattern of reckless, dehumanizing rhetoric that disrespects human life and contributes to the tucks climate of hatred and violence threatening our nation. Schneider also claimed keeping mister Kimmel on your network is a serious and dangerous mistake that reflects poorly on Disney’s values and leadership. When a major network platform repeatedly portrays the president and his family and his supporters as legitimate targets for contempt or worse, violence, it does not entertain, it incites.

I don’t recall Jimmy Kimmel inciting violence at any point. Mister Schneider is welcome to refresh my memory if I’m forgetting something, but I don’t think that is a fair comment at all. Again, if I’m forgetful, let me know in the Facebook group or Rob you could reach out directly. Be happy to have you as a guest if you’d like to come on. Rob Schneider said the Disney Company’s platforming of an individual who has shown such blatant contempt for basic human decency allows that legacy to be stained.

The eyes of the nation and history are watching. Wow and good news. Scrubs was renewed. Yeay hey. Season two slash eleven of Scrubs will happen.

How many episodes, Johnny Mack, Nobody knows. They didn’t announce that part. It is suspected it will once again be a limited number of episodes. Scrub Season one slash ten was nine episodes and very good. That is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Acent is the algorithm loves. Cultured magazine put out their Cultured one hundred. One of the Cultured one hundred is Marcelo Hernandez, who, in my opinion, does one thing, and does one thing well but culture It said.

In his four seasons of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez has played, in no particular order, an emo teen, a soul patch wearing wife stealer named Domingo. Yeah he’s done that, one, a frozen embryo, and himself patron saint of short Kings for the culture. At one hundred, he was interviewed by my former coworker Jimmie Fox. Fox said, you’re good looking, he got the swag. Now that the specials in your review mirror.

How are you feeling, Marcelo Hernandez said, looking back, I can say to myself, I gave it every single piece of me. When we called you, I was sitting there going crazy, and after a conversation, I was like, yo, Jamie Fox is the regulator. You put it in perspective, like it’s already shot. It’s too late to be freaking out. I wasn’t enjoying it.

I was suffering it. Fox said, Okay, let me give you this Michael Jackson Billy Jean Motown twenty five iconic. But he went backstage after and cried because he thought it was the worst performance of his life. You can’t always see what we see, so I told you get in the Ferrari pull out and have a great time. That special had like forty six and a half million views.

I just want to see how that feels. What’s it like to be on top of the mountain? Man? Did it at forty six and a half? What was that even on other Remember it was on Netflix.

I will have to take Jamie Fox’s word for the forty six and a half million views. Marcelo said, I’ll tell you what, Jamie. When I first started doing comedy, I wrote down on my little yellow pad the two people I wanted to be like. I wrote, I want to be physical like Eddie Murphy. I want to be meticulous like Jerry Seinfeld.

And that As I got older and I started to see more, when we started thinking about how we want to shoot the special I thought, I want to shoot it like prior. I want to be sweaty, I want to flowy shirt. You know. Richard Pryor filmed in Miami, and so did I. I wanted to tef Greens look old school, look vintage.

Yeah, so when you said you wanted to be like Eddie Murphy, that was the point. Eddie Murphy’s just doing. Richard Pryor watched the specials back to back. Now, this is interesting aut of Stephen Colbert. In that New York Times profile, Colbert said CBS tried to renew him for as long as five years.

During negotiations in twenty twenty three, Colbert went for a three year extension. Oops, one might say, Colbert told the Times less than two years before they called to say it’s over. They were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So something changed. As for what’s next, the show takes like ninety five percent of my brain.

He won’t seriously consider new opportunities until he has a little more time to breathe. Now, Colbert reportedly makes fifteen million dollars a year. And here’s some advice from Johnny Mack. If somebody ever offers you fifteen million dollars a year, Just say yes. That’s generational changing money.

And if they’re like, hey, we’ll give you fifteen million dollars a year for five years, and now if you do some math, that’s seventy five million dollars, you say yes. Especially on the talent side. You know what was gonna happen. NBC is going to go, hey, we’ll give you sixteen million dollars a year. That wasn’t going to happen.

Just say yes, What are you doing, dude. Conan O’Brien, who settled with NBC for reported forty five million dollars. When The Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno, took the Tonight Show back, Conan was seen in the Netherlands. He was taping a new episode of Conan O’Brien Must Go. Conan was spotted celebrating King’s Day in Amsterdam, then went on Dutch talk show Eva.

Conan said, we showed up, my wife and I got here at six in the morning and I went out on King’s Day, absolute madness day, drinking, which I’m used to. That’s my sport. They seem to be making an episode involving fashion. Conan explained one of my fans. It’s a high fashion model here in Amsterdam, and she said she could teach me how to be a male model.

I showed up, I met with her, and she told me at the end, this isn’t gonna work. She was very disappointed in me. Conan says his show is less interested in educating viewers about a country than putting Conan in absurd situations. We’ve all watched travel shows. They tried to teach you about the country.

I want you at the end of my program to know nothing about the country. I want you to maybe even be dumber than you were at the start of the show. Conan is impressed by the Netherlands, particularly that people are tall and have bikes. He said, so many tall people. I’ve met, so many women that make me feel short.

And everyone’s on a bicycle, which I love. In the United States, when you get on a bicycle, people dress up in these crazy outfits. Here you just see people riding their bikes in normal clothes. Nikki Glaser admits she wasn’t necessarily prepared for the reaction to her, saying that she’s open to her man fulling around. You remember that old story, Yeah, Hollywood Establishment insider Nikki Glaser was on Karras Swishers podcast, So it’s over.

That’s it. If we’re gonna line up the comedians and say who’s an insider, who’s an outsider? Nikki Glaser’s paling around with Kara Swisher, that’s it. She’s done. Don’t expect her to be a roast comedian or doing any of that.

The agents have successfully completed the mission. Hollywood insider Nikki Glaser told Kara Swisher I wasn’t even thinking about censoring myself in any way that this podcast makes headlines, meaning call her daddy. But Nicky said she woke up to headlines saying that she likes for her boyfriend asleep with other women. Nikki explained, it was like five different headlines showing up in my feed, and I don’t even follow myself. I don’t look for news about myself.

I avoided at all costs. It was just really embarrassing. Yes it was. Esquire wrote a piece the headline, this new comedy special completely shocked me with joy, they write. Michael Cruz Caine’s son Fisher, died from sepsis in two thousand and nine, just thirty four days after he was born, Fisher’s twin brother lived, and Caine and his wife Carrie also have a daughter.

The family’s world was destroyed. It needed to be rebuilt. Ten years later, Caine stand up comics started writing on Twitter about his grief. The comment started coming in by the thousands. The tweets turned into a one man show that Caine titled Sorry for Your Loss, which is the kind of phrase that shows up on cards.

Caine told Esquire, Yeah, the show’s about grief, specifically about how I felt, starting from the moment my son died, which was in two thousand and nine, untill now, because the grief continues. It’s an honest reflection on those feelings, and a lot a lot of that is comedy, because I’m a funny person. Even in the worst possible situation, there are still things that, if you’re a human, will make you laugh. I didn’t want to hide from those things and pretend not to see them. I just wanted to feel free and be myself as opposed to trying to be a quote unquote grieving person.

People have an expectation of what someone who’s grieving will be like, but all that stuff made me feel alienated from people. What made me feel good was talking to people who talk to me like I was a person. I know you, you’re my friend. Can we just talk how we normally talk? As for the special, he says, once you release it into the world, you lose a lot of control over how people receive it.

It’s funny. The New York Times did a piece about like how grief in comedy a few years ago that I was in. I read all the comments. A large percentage of them were like, what kind of sicko experiences some kind of tragedy then tries to turn it into jokes. I guess they hadn’t seen it, so that’s what they think.

It is that one is called sorry for your loss. He is Michael Cruz, Keane Kay and E Interview magazine caught up with Ronica Slowakowska. They did a little free association short form. She said, easier in ways, harder in ways. SNL’s a form of It’s not exactly live.

It’s edited on the spot about attention, spans, short and screwed up. But I don’t think all is lost. I can totally binge Sister Wives Delivery. I’m a corporate slot person. Rice Bowls protein a vegetable, something that’s sustaining my energy and making me think good.

I’m obsessed with this place that is Brussels sprouts. Whatever we order it. Everyone’s offices smell like farts actors. She says, I feel like I was right in the middle of comedian and actor. But since getting on SNL, I’ve chosen a side as being a comedian cooler.

I don’t know. Maybe about sleep. SNL gives us time to sleep, but will you sleep is the question. I’m just damped up. I’m excited tonight’s writing nights.

Am I going to go home at midnight? Or am I going to go home at four am? It’s kind of up to me. A few weeks ago, Ay Lorne Michael’s documentary came out. The Oler reporter said, Lorne Michaels has been enigmatic and evasive for long enough that he doesn’t seem more or less uncomfortable having a camera in his vicinity, knowing dorn Well that he isn’t going to let anything slip by by accident.

This same principle lets director Neville linger in Michael’s office, and even in the film’s closest to revelatory moments at Michael’s lakeside get away in Maine. Nothing Michael says is all that revealing or candid, but Nevill’s eyes are still loud to wander, inviting viewers to latch onto Michael’s life ephemera and read meaning into it. It’s his love of Gordoney and extension of his devotion to cultivating talent. He won’t say so, but maybe is his office filled with fish that he refuses to name as a mirror of the constant rotation of cast members of his best known show, Don’t Know, not surprisingly that people with the loosest lips are people who no longer rely on Michael’s for a paycheck. With many of the highlights coming from John Mulaney, Fred Ormison, Bill Hayter, and Adam Sandler swapping stories, Mulaney, like Tina fay Conan O’Brien and a few of the veteran writers, gives the strongest impressions of knowing where the bodies are and buried when it comes to revealing details about Michaels, but each other people who appear to know him best has and I can never repay Lorne story that makes it clear that they aren’t saying anything Lorn wouldn’t once said if Michaels were to retire after the season, Neville’s documentary could be shown at his retirement party without anybody feeling awkward.

The av Club said that Lauren the documentary fights a losing battle against all the other Sketch Show history lessons. They write, SNL has been so celebrated, chronicled, and mythologized that it seems impossible to imagine anything new to say about the Sketch Show, but documentarian Morgan Neville gives it a shot. Narrated by Chris Parnell, Lauren establishes early on that Michaels isn’t particularly interested in the movie being made about him. Michaels presents himself as we often see him, dressed up, gray hair, button down, a tad aloof The result does a likable film that auto appeal to SNL fans and hardcore comedy nerds. As an SNL history lesson, Lauren will feel rudimentary to those already be sotted up by the show.

As a portrait of Michael’s early years and comedy beginnings. The documentary passes by key biographical details too quickly for them to fully register. And the program’s memorable sketches have been played to death by this point. If somehow you’re just now getting an SNL and having a ready ingested, endless lore about the most aduring of sketch shows, Lorne might be a meaningful primer for everybody else. You’ve heard this joke before.

All Right, the Netflix is a joke of festival is about to kick off. They are highlighting the short list, a showcase spotlighting nationally touring comment These are not newcomers, but rising voices on the cusp of their next chapter. We are told, so kind of new faces, but different. Here’s your list. Comedian CP aka Chris Powell, writer and performer who’s comedy special Sunday After Six debuted in twenty twenty five.

Ethan Simon’s Patterson a stand up comedian who’s been featured on Comedy Central and is a regular at The Seller. Gabby Bryan is a New York based stand up comedian, actress, podcaster, and Emmy winning producer. Lucas Zilnik a stand up comedian, born, raised and based in New York City, featured on Comedy Central. Matty Wiener stand up comedian who made her fallon debut last year and his filmed to stand up sets for Comedy Central and Don’t Tell Comedy Opie Alakbaju, La based stand up comic who’s been recognized by Vulture as one of the comics you should and will know. Peter Ravello, stand up comedian, actor, and writer based in New York.

He debuted on Fallon and has appeared on Comics Unleashed, Yeah Chappelle. Lacey La based stand up comedian who performed at the Comedy Store and hosts a YouTube series called Cooked in the Comments. Sophie Buttle, She’s kind Of No No. Sophie was the head monologue writer for CBS’s After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and has appeared on Fallon Cordon and CBC’s This Hour Is Twenty two Minutes. And Zach ned Towers, LA based comedian, actor and writer who appeared on Netflix’s Dear White People.

Those are the short list. The showcase takes place tomorrow, two shows starting at six o’clock. And that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, their Happy Derby Day. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Catherine Blandford is an amy she’d keep an eye on. She’s been to the Derby.

She said. I was in college and took my roommate to the Derby with me. She’d never been to Kentucky. I was like, porta potty racist tradition. I forgot to tell her it’s illegal.

She gets to the end and she’s dancing and celebrating and people are cheering and the cops are waiting for her to get down. I was hiding, and she was like, I’m a team mom, It’s my first night out. She went to the drunk tank for the rest of the Derby. Ha Lanford started performing comedy at the University of South Carolina. She says, I’ve done a competition for a fraternity when I was in college.

It was like a pageant. You had to do a talent portion. I wrote a sketch like I was Chelsea Handler. That’s when her show Chelsea Lately was big. I roasted a bunch of frat guys and then did an interview with the pledge from their fraternities, Charlie Sheen.

Obviously we won and I kinda had the bug. She hit it big in twenty twenty two when a clip of her joking about her parents being cousins went viral. David Spade saw the clip and they connected. Blandford started opening for Spade. That lasted two years.

She started headlining on her own, moved to La She’s a regular at the Improv and the Laugh Factory. She plans to record two specials this year. Interesting Maximini was asked by the Hollywood reporter do you think the rulers of Iran will ever loosen their grip? Max says, I think so, and it has I think of it as water and oil. The ideology hasn’t been able to penetrate a culture that people there have had in their DNA for centuries, go back to the attacks of the Mongols, to the Arabs, to the Greeks and so on.

These different ideologies and invasions have affected the country and the people in the culture, but the foundation cannot be destroyed. The minute young Iranians get an opportunity to show themselves. I think the world will see a very friendly, kind and enthusiastic nation who likes to smile. Look, despite forty seven years of this Islamic republic mentality, every household still has their parties and gatherings. They have art shows and man, the music they listen to.

They’re so open minded. You have social media and the younger generation of moderates. Over time, I think it’s going to de escalate. When I was in Iran, you weren’t allowed to have a cassette tape and you’d get arrested for listening to music. Today, the same regime allows concerts, obviously with a lot of guidelines, but the progression has happened.

It’s inevitable. Max says, I never really thought of the opportunity to do comedy in Iran. But when I came back to America, that true sense of freedom that I can do all these things I could have never done in Iran was the spark. When I started college, I decided to become a theater major and pursue acting in comedy. I was very funny when I did my improv with my classmates.

I discovered stand up comedy through that. In the last four or five years, a lot of young stand up comedians have popped in Iran. They’re doing open mics, and they have their little comedy cafes that didn’t previously exist in Iran. I feel like me hanging in there and doing stand up and four Sea is going to pave the way for Irunian comedians down the line to be able to tour and build from there. Right Max, what do you think he got popular?

He said, For many years, I was disappointed that the industry was not recognizing my talent. No casting director, producer director, no projects, no comedy festivals. But I’m one of the lucky people, and that social media gave me the opportunity to let the people decide who they like. The Cavalier Daily went to go see Hannibal Burris. Charlottesville comedian Chris Allen was the opener we saw.

At the end of his sets, Chris Allen offered a heartwarming introduction for Hannibal Burris, calling him a personal inspiration who proved that off kilter black comedians could succeed in the industry. Hannibal grabbed the mic and jokingly took offense to being called weird by his opener. Hannibal started with some political comedy Send your letters to Hannibal Burris, who lamented that America would be in much better shape if only Donald Trump’s television show The Apprentice had been renewed for another season before his first presidential campaign. Hannibal did some more topical jokes about the economy and the war in Iran and did an hour and a half Wow. This is different to keep things fresh throughout the set, different for Hannibal.

I’ve seen other comedians do this. Hannibal used to screen to the back of the stage to show funny text messages he received from his friends, and brief video clips that amplify the impact of certain jokes with meme like outbursts were told. The audio visual elements were you sparingly until the finale. After stepping off stage for a moment, Burris returned to an act a scenario in which a rap song he wrote called the Tallest Person at This Mexican Party became his most popular contribution to society. Seems like it was a good show.

Jeff Dunham talked about his new television show on Discovery, The Cars that Drove Us. This from the folks that made the toys that made us. In the movies that made us. Jeff Dunham and developed his love of cars from growing up on hot wheels. Remember hot wheels, fellow oldies, we were hot wheels.

Person are a matchbox guy. I was a matchbox guy. I never really liked the hot wheels matchbox bleeding cool as Jeff. If you guys get another season, do you know what cars? Jeff said, not a clue.

What I loved about this one was it with seven great cars.

And then in the eighth episode we did a call It’s called the factory.

It was some of the goofy things that car designers put in the vehicles. So we have an idea they’re not be there’s still a cars. And if you pointed a gun at me right now and said tell me which ones they are, I couldn’t do it because I can’t remember since we’ve gone through so many ideas. But I like the idea and a season of having one episode that’s an outlier, kind of a weird one. Switching to comedy, Jeff Dunham, do you have to temper your act?

You know, times are changing, tastes or changing, Jeff said, timings everything. I wouldn’t want to be a new comic coming up right now, trying to do stand up comedy because it’s been a long time since I did a show to a comedy club. But as I understand it now, especially out here in Hollywood, the audiences can be brutal if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or two right, and you will get nailed, nailed, nailed by the audience. I laugh when I talk to my daughter who’s in college in California, and she cancels me about three times a day. Now, if you listen to me every day, there’s two thousand episodes, you kind of get what my vibe is.

Right, Like I was explaining to her about Season one of Survivor. I bought this is all true. I bought the DVDs of season one of Survivor. Fellow oldies, did you watch Season one of Survivor? Remember Root the old Guy.

There’s a clip you can go on YouTube because I sent this to my daughter where one of the contestants, Rich is gay. But twenty five years ago, people are like quizzing him, like, so is it okay to say that you’re homosexual? And Rich is like, yeah, I’m homosexual. Let me pull up the clips. So you don’t cancel me.

Here’s Richard Hatch explaining, it’s okay, guys. You’re not just homosexual. I know gay guys don’t like to be called that because you’re not homosexual. You’re gay. You know you’re I’m homosexual.

Do we not like to be called? No? Because it just makes no If you classify that, it’s own classifying people’s sexual lifestyle. Right, and well, there is a lifestyle associated with being gay, but it’s not something you can’t say I decided to be gay. But it’s been interesting in this new environment to kind of decide when to say what about yourselves?

I think there’s only one person you got worried about. Oh, I’m not worry about it at all. As people get to know me, they learn who I am, and then eventually over time find out I’m gay. I’ve never once in my life encountered prejudice based on my being homosexual anyway. So I want to watch a Survivor one with my daughter just to watch her freak out and cancel me for liking a show.

Twenty five years ago, I Digress. Jeff Denham said audiences can be brutal, and if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or to right, you will get nailed by the audience. They don’t like it. When all this business started rumling a few years ago, as at a point in my career where there are two different ways you can go to comedy club. You’re either paying money just to go to the club and you know who’s going to be there, you don’t care, just want a night off, or you’re paying a little bit more to specifically see a particular person.

That’s a little bit easier because the audience who pay to see you, most of them know what to expect. When I was doing theaters and arenas, it was eighty five to ninety percent already my crowd. They already loved Acamed the Dead terrorist Jose Halapino. Want a stick. If I came about those characters right now, there’s no way they would work.

As a comic. You must, as you say, temper things, or at least I’m not gonna use the word temper. I’m going to show you how I present the comedy. And because I do it as a ventrill quist, I have a little bit of a huge advantage over the other comics because I can point and counterpoint the dummy can make a joke and I can argue with him, and I can say, ah, that’s not okay. So it’s a conversation, a debate.

I like this a lot. The true ingredients of comedy are conflict and tension. I can create that on stage myself, and by the time I’m finished with whatever I’m talking about, whatever the subject is, the audience walks away going, I really don’t know what he thinks or what he believes. Friend of the Show, Ismo, remember he was on. He was a guest.

He has teamed up with a Finland based production house they’re pushing into the live comedy space. Ismo said, it’s exciting to take the next steps with ic S Nordick. We share the same ambition to build comedy of the Travels internationally while staying true to its roots. Not entirely sure what they’re up to, but I’m behind it because he’s a cool guy. Hey are friends.

At the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. They’re starting a new premium ad free service called Gorilla Comedy Plus, launching May fifth. Gorilla Comedy Plus will feature exclusive news specials, plus the full eight hundred Pound Gorilla catalog that includes more than two hundred and fifty titles. At launch, you’ll have access to things like Star Trek Ruiner, Patton Oswalt’sle Hour’s Heat in Scotch, and specials from the likes of Pete Holmes Gorilla Comedy Plus, priced at nine to ninety nine per month. The folks from CNNs have I Got news for you.

They are Roywood Junior, Amber Ruffin, and Michael ian Black. They will be hosting the upcoming Sports News and Documentary Emmy ceremonies, but individually on different nights. On May twenty sixth, Roywood Junior will host the forty seventh Annuel Sports Emmy Awards. Michael ian Black will host the Documentary categories of the News and Documentary Emmys on Thursday, May twenty eighth. Amber Ruffin will host the news categories on Wednesday, the twenty seventh, Michael ian Black the documentary categories on the twenty eighth.

All these events take place at the Jazz at Lincoln Centers, Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. Paralyzed by Hope that Maria Bamford story recently played the Milwaukee Film Festival, filmmaker Neil Berkeley said, so many comedians these days have put her on the Mount Rushmore of the Greatest of all Time with Richard Pryor and Rodney Dangerfield. She’s that revered in this industry. I’m so tempted to bog down on a Mount Rushimore of comedy that has Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield and Maria Bamford.

That’s not too bashed Maria Bamford. But you only get four on Mount Rushmore’s. And he also gave a spot to Rodney I Digress Paralyzed by Hope. The Maria Bamford Story explores Bamford’s comedy journey and the mental health struggles that have influenced her material. Neil says, I want people to experience Maria.

I want people to know there’s this person who gets up at eight in the morning and is comedy for ten people in a bookstore, and then that weekend goes to a thousand seed theater. She has this ability to turn all of her life’s experiences into these incredibly funny but also useful stories. And this isn’t always the goal of stand up comedy. But you can go to her shows and everyone in that audience can hear something or learn about one of her experiences. That they can empathize with.

The film looks at Maria’s creative process, switching between interviews, stand up tapings, and other archival footage to show how Maria’s mental health struggles and trauma have informed her comedy. And that is your comedy news for today. I will see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Howdy. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. We’re gonna find out how good my noise reduction and plug in is because I have the fan on.

There’s just no fresh oxygen here in my little studio. I just need to circulate the air. But that’s not why you’re here. You’re here to learn more about Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s Ferry Well good news. Colin Jost was on the SmartLess podcast and says it’s very misreported that the Fairry is some sort of crazy money pit.

Colin said, I joke about it a lot, but we’ve done some events on it where we’ve already made back the money we’ve invested in, the money we’ve spent on stuff to dock it and all that. Colin says that the John F. Kennedy is the same ferry he often took when commuting to high school. He said, it was usually the seven am ferry that I took because I went up to this high school called Recha’s High School that’s up on the Upper east Side. I didn’t know, Colin jo just went to regis interesting and it’s free if you get in.

It’s a really great school. All right. What are you gonna do with the ferry now? Colin Joe said, they want to use it either as an event space or an entertainment venue. But it’s been a long process to try and find a place to dock it.

Colin says, I was thinking in a real estate way, if you put it somewhere, it’s seventy thousand square feet. So I was like, if you put that on a dock in Manhattan, you’ve suddenly got basically a building on the waterfront. There also may be an altruistic version of this. Colin said, growing up in Staten Island, I went to this place called the Great Hill Swim Club. It was a swim club where people would just go and the kids could all hang out, the adults could hang out.

I could imagine creating a place like that that’s not a weird, fancy members club, but is actually more middle class in Manhattan. That’s never gonna happen. Let me know when that happens. Colin. He imagined a swimming board on the deck and a seasonal transfer to Miami to take advantage of Florida’s sunny winters.

There’s no way a ferry is going all the way down to Florida. None of that is going to happen. Ever. Tim Hideker caught up with The Hollywood Reporter the topic taking over info wars Highecker’s and said, it’s been a wild ride. I’ve been involved behind the scenes for several months.

I love playing with these people, and I’ve been following Alex Jones and the QAnon stuff for so long. I offered my help and heard nothing, because at that point it was kind of a stalemate. But it came back again last fall. There was a new energy behind it and they reached out to me. My initial thought was, Yeah, if you get this thing, it’ll be fun for a little while.

But then what where do you take it? How do you continue to jab at him? But maybe not in a direct satirical way. The idea from Tim what the world needs right now is a home for the people who used to make shows on Adult Swim in Comedy Central and are now scattered around social media making great stuff that isn’t curated and certainly not funded. Could the ultimate joke be that this turns into a place for thriving creativity and humor and goodwill.

Not Hackey stand up Specials, Not Rambling, four hour conspiratorial podcast by people who do sets at the comedy store Good Stuff. Robbie Hoffman was on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast and said, I’m the boy in my relationship. I pay a lot when somebody else is paying. It’s unusual for me. Robbie said, when she travels solo for work, she likes to keep things low key.

But when her wife, Gabby comes along, that’s when I splurge. We’re pressing play on the movie at the same time as a whole different experience, Robbie said, Gabby is a first class woman. People don’t want to see gabbin me necessarily an economy. They want a dream. We’ve been at it, They’ve seen us, and they’re like, hard work does not pay off at all, Like the American dream is that dead.

King Charles visited the United States this week. That leads to all sorts of stories that we’re going to talk about. Let’s start with some jokes from Jimmy Kimmel. The King of England is in the United States, King Charles and Queen Camilla are here to visit President beef on Wellington.

And also they have quite an itinerary.

They’re going to New York. They’re making a stop at the Wisconsin Dells. They’re going to a screening of the Delaware’s product to at the Burbank amc and I guess they’re wrapping it up with a fish concert in Vegas at the Sphere. Trump has a particular affinity for the royal family, and so in Washington they pulled out all the stops to welcome the King and Queen. The Department of Transportation lined the streets with what they thought was the Union jack.

The British flag turned out to be the Australian flag. Well, they had to take them all down and swap them out. Somehow, they they managed to screw everything up. It was a literal false flag operation going on there. Yesterday, the Royals joined the Trump’s for afternoon tea, and boy, would I love to be a fly on the cucumber sandwiches for that conversation.

No way, Trump was drinking tea, right. I bet they boiled some diet coke and put it in a cup for him. King Charles delivered a speech today before a joint session of Congress. His goal in this trip is to try to calm transatlantic tensions. Trump heard this ease and the Atlantic is transit out too now.

In this next section, the President was talking about his own parents and how they were together for sixty three years. Trump looks over at Milania and says, we’re not going to make it that long. Kimmel had some thoughts about that. Let’s listen. Trump was very excited about hosting the King, and a lot of it is because Trump’s mom was a great fan of the royal family.

My wonderful mother, Mary McLeod. She came to America at nineteen met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him, We loved her, We loved him Fred and they were married for sixty three years. And excuse me, if you don’t mind, that’s a record we won’t be able to match, Darling.

I’m sorry, just not going to work out that way. Wait a minute, did he just make a joke about his death? We should be fired for that. Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age.

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And then a daily go out and make a joke about his own all day.

Adam Carolla has come to Jimmy Kimmel’s defense about that whole backlash from the expectant widow joke. Corolla and I agree with this said, that’s a pretty typical roast joke. It’s also a trope any younger, beautiful woman who’s married to an older guy, especially if the guy’s rumored to be sort of douchey. You’d make that joke at any roast. Send your letters to Adam Carolla.

Ted Cruz, sticking up for Jimmy Kimmel sort of, I had mentioned that the FCC was possibly, perhaps maybe looking at the Disney TV licenses. Ted Cruz said, it is not government’s job to censor speech, and I do not believe the FCC should operate as the speech police. Stephen Colbert was profiled by The New York Times. I’m holding on to most of it for the week of Colbert’s last show, but one thing that came up is that after the first few months on the Late Show, his producer encouraged him to lean back into politics. Colbert said, at first the plan was to back away from politics after leaving the Colbert rapport.

Stephen told The Times it was my instinct to be less topical because I didn’t want to have to engage with what I saw was an increasingly contentious public discourse, and I thought, aren’t there other ways to have fun with the audience. But after the twenty sixteen National Party conventions gave Colbert an opportunity to do politics, Steven said he felt like Clint east Wood in Unforgiven. He buried his guns, and I’m like, you know, I buried those guns. I was talking to Paul Zanello, he’s one of my oldest friends and one of my producers here, and he’s like, you’re having fun. People love to see that.

And I said, but that means I gotta go dig up the guns. And he says, buddy, that’s the part the audience wants to see. Josh Johnson had some jokes about the ballroom. He told these on The Daily Show and told them much better than I will. But Josh said, I can’t believe they dissolved dose right before Trump demanded a four hundred million dollar ballroom.

It’s like how the Michael Jackson movie ended, right before he starts some molesting. You just went ahead and skipped all the important stuff. Huh. Honestly, as soon as I heard about the ballroom, I knew we had end up paying for it, Like Trump is the type of dude to win and dine you and then forget his wallet. One more, Josh said.

Don’t get me wrong, with so many seniors getting scammed in America, I’m glad one of them is turning the tables. I just don’t want it to be on us. Comedy stock Market. Thank you, Burt Reynolds Voice of the Comedy stock Market. That really is Burt Reynolds AI voice properly licensed.

Don’t worry about that. Talk to his estate. I don’t know. I just saw it available. I went, yeah, all right, I’ll use Burt Reynolds.

That’s fun, all right. This week’s Comedy stock Market is looking ahead to next week. It’s the Netflix is a Joe Comedy Festival, and I’ve got some buy recommendations. Let’s buy even some more Osco at Cotska because I’ve seen her latest hour and when she does it in LA in front of all the fancy press people, people are gonna notice because this hour is really good. She’s part of the festival.

So let’s buy some more Otsco. Let’s buy some Dave Chappelle. I know it’s obvious. It’s like me telling you to buy I don’t know apple stock, but yeah, let’s buy Dave Chappelle. He announced three shows at the festival.

They’re gonna be great. Everyone’s gonna be like Dave’s awesome. Some people are gonna get mad at some things, he says. You listen to the show, you know how this all goes. So yeah, let’s buy some Dave Chappelle.

Let’s buy some more Flight of the Concords. I just got a feeling. Yeah, okay, maybe the tickets aren’t quite six hundred and ten dollars anymore, but market correction. To me, that was always absurd. But I think people are gonna be really happy that those guys are back.

And I’ve got one more on the comedy stock market. I didn’t realize how funny this next person is. But here’s who we’re gonna buy, King Charles. I’ll play in a clip in a second, But those are your recommendations this week by Osco at Coonska by Dave Chappelle. Buy Flight of the Concords by King Charles, No sells Johnny Macker you had a good mood for once.

I know, right, Nope, no seals this week, all buys, All right, King Charles is actually really funny. He gave some great speeches. You can hear them all on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I’m the writer on that one. I was quoted in USA Today, and man other aggregators aggregated the USA Today article.

I’m in like all these publications all of a sudden because I am, of course a expert, which makes me smile. But I’ve also been writing the podcast for seven years. At this point, I really do know more about the British royal family than your average American. Now, your average brit not at all. But for a kid from Queen’s I’m pretty good anyway.

King Charles is hilarious. Let’s listen this said. French friends can feel equally at home with a glass at a map. Indeed, you recently commented, mister President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French.

Now. I don’t know how King Charles would feel about a recent show. Jenny Zigrino did. She dressed up as King George the Third. Yeah, that guy, the one we broke up with.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, Jenny was hosting a historical late night talk show called History Tonight. She was joined by Rob Crean, whose day job is a tour guide on the Freedom Trail. Rob Bla George’s sidekick former Prime Minister George Grenville. All the comics on the bill dressed as historical figures. Jenny explained, when I first moved to Boston for college, for Halloween, I dressed up as Amedeus and everybody thought I was Thomas Jefferson, which I was pretty mad about.

Jenny is a history buff. She hosted a show called Badass Bitches of History on Comedy Central’s digital channel in twenty eighteen, chronicling the contributions of mostly unheritled women. She says she wants to get back to some of her historical roots. She said, I’m just gonna embrace it. I’ve always loved history, so why not just do it now.

Even though she might have an Revolution era powdered wig on it doesn’t mean she can’t comment on current events. She said. It might even offer a better perspective. To talk about things like the no King’s protests, she said, and send her letters to her. You guys don’t want a king, but you have a mad king in office because you’re a character.

If you’re more leeway in what you could say. Having King George the Third, especially in drag because I’m a drag king talking about this, it’s more impactful than it was just me on stage doing it. Love it cultured magas and put out there Cultured one hundred. One of the Cultured one hundred is Caleb Heroon. They asked Caleb what keeps you up at night, and Caleb said, the size of the oceans in outer space.

I have to lie on myself when it comes up. I think about black holes and I get scared and then I go, that’s a myth, buddy, go to sleep and that helps, all right, Caleb, what are you looking forward to this year? Eating a grilled hot dog by a lake with just a tiny little sunburn this summer. Name and influence of yours that might surprise people, Caleb told the Culture Monique. Growing up, my dad showed me a lot of stand up by straight guys, and I liked it.

When I saw Monique’s Queens of Comedy set. She was outrageous and quick and fat and sexy and confident. I just couldn’t look away.

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And then she does precious legend in every sense of the word.

And if you’re in New Zealand, the New Zealand Comedy Festival has kicked off, taking place all month long now. The folks at stuff dot co dot Nz your home for New Zealand. Comedy News asked some of the comedians performing who they would go see. Courtney Dawson says, to go see the Coro Conicles by Hated Dawson, who happens to be her dad. Apparently her dad was always the cool dad growing up all right.

Abby Howell says, go see nos Feratu looking for Love. It’s funny, weird, I’ve seen it multiple times. Rhanna McCall dresses up as no s Faratu night after night with bald cap, white paint and full turtleneck under theater lights. She’s a madman. That’s fun.

Jerome Chandra Hazen says, go see Zach and Liza bought a gun. He says, I’ve never heard anyone else extole the virtues of Bucky’s gas stations for ten minutes and have the entire room enthralled. Joe Damon said, I’d like to recommend Sean Collier, who I believe his hands down one of the best comedians of the country. He juggles being a full time lawyer and recently moved to Australia for better prospects. It is absolutely killing it.

He’s still young and will be in his twenties when he hits a decade in comedy. Felicity Ward also says Rihanna and McCall on that no s Faratu show, so I will have to keep an eye on that.

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And also Tom Sainsbury, an irresistible charmbag that manages to somehow unlo…

The New Zealand International Comedy Festival today through the twenty fourth in Auckland and Wellington. One of these years I’m gonna do is like some massive international comedy festival tour. But this year I’m not even going to Los Angeles. I wanted to go, but my daughter who’s out there, is home from college in two weeks and you heard me tell the story already. Okay, I’ll see you tomorrow.