Month: May 2026

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Byron Allen, Josh Johnson, Jimmy Kimmel, Mark Maron, David Letterman, Weird Al Yankovic, Henry Yann

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s next project: writing a Lord of the Rings film with Philippa Boyens
• CBS airing Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen in The Late Show time slot
• Josh Johnson’s HBO comedy special ‘Symphony’ premiering Memorial Day weekend
• The future of late night TV and what could replace The Late Show
• Stephen Colbert’s Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor getting a new look
• Comedy Stock Market picks: buying Weird Al Yankovic and Henry Yann, selling Stephen Colbert
• Comedian Otsco partnering with Home State restaurant chain on the Otsco Bowl

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. How about that Colbert finale? Huh, let me deal you straight here, I’m in London. Yeah, not really the best time to play on a trip with a major comedy story.

So uh, deally straight. I have pre taped the weekend. I will catch up on Colbert. I did bring my microphone with me. I’ll either do a bonus episode or it will wait till next week.

Now, on tomorrow’s show, I’ve got this piece, this hit piece on Jimmy Fallon that you gotta hear. I already recorded that one. So make sure you don’t skip tomorrow show. Now tonight on CBS, if you put on CBS at eleven thirty five, it’s Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen. Yeah, really exciting.

Huh. Now, I just tried to look to tell you which comedians are on Comics Unleach tonight, but the information was not available to me. Stephen Colbert had been asked by the Hollow reporter what he thought about all this. Colbert said, God bless him. I know Byron.

We got to know each other last year. Actually, he’s fascinating Colbert’s next gig is writing a film set in the universe of the Lord of the Rings. He was asked why fans of The Lord of the Rings should trust Stephen Colbert with the keys to the car. Colbert said, I mean, there’s no reason to. There’s no value in me addressing that, because all you can do is, I’ll use a load of term here.

An artist is follow your heart in the craft that you’ve learned to try to turn this into something that is not fandom but drama. Colbert added, Luckily, I don’t have to do this alone. He’s working with Lord of the Rings writer Philippa Boyans, who co wrote all the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films, and those are beloved. Colbert said, I will just say that every moment has been a joy so far. With the death of The Late Show, there’s also been a major shift in the ice cream universe.

Stephen Colbert has revealed that his nineteen year old signature flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, called the American Dream, is getting a patriotic makeover. In the old packaging, Stephen Colbert wore a talk show host typical suit, but now he’s casual with a button down and no tie. USA Today wondered what could go in the time slot if Comics Unleash doesn’t last. I could see some kind of podcasty thing going there, right, Like that’s the current trend. By the way, which one of us wants to tell Mark Maron he gave up six months too early, like Mark gave up last October, and if he had hung around another three months, he probably gets Netflix money.

Mark, you blew that. Mark, you could come back, you know. I’m not sure that put Mark Maron on at eleven thirty five, but I could see some sort of podcast going on in that slot. USA Today says things are not as simple as ratings, TikTok views and dollars and cents. Whether we tune in live every weeknight or not, late night TV is still one of the biggest places we go to process major cultural moments, from the shooting death of Charlie Kirk to the release of a new Taylor Swift album.

This article brings up the David Letterman quote to The New York Times. I’d be surprised if it lasts more than a year or so, meaning late night well maybe specific shows. I don’t think it’ll ever go away. Jimmy Kimmel said, it would be very surprising to me if it ever went away entirely. Maybe it won’t be as big, Maybe there won’t be a big band welcoming the host of the stage.

Maybe they won’t be fifteen writers. But I think there’ll be some version of the late night talk show we will see out today, the HBO comedy special Josh Johnson Symphony that’ll be on HBO Max tonight at eight o’clock. I’m not sure dropping that on a holiday weekend is the best idea. I don’t know me. Maybe it’s me like I love to be outside and boy, the greatest feeling in the world back when I had like an office job, was five oh one pm the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.

You have the whole summer in front of you. The weekend is just limitless. You have the whole summer. Everything is possible at five oh one pm. Today, I of course booked a trip to the United Kingdom, and I’m missing one of my favorite weekends.

There’s a town parade on Saturday of Memorially weekend, and it just I just realized the other day, like, oh, I’m gonna miss the parade. I love the parade, So I don’t know. Maybe the rest of you like to watch TV on Memorialday weekend. Not me. I would be outside the whole time anyway, HBO tells us.

Josh Johnson Symphony highlights the comedian’s unique point of view and his signature creativity as he refer on strange child experiences, the perils of being labeled nice, challenging family dynamics, and navigating life’s most awkward moments, leading the audience to laughter the way a conductor guides musicians relax. Josh johnson civity showcases the comedian’s humor, warmth, and relatability to offer a truly original and unforgettable experience. There’s a trailer. Shall we listen. Let’s listen, y’all.

Ever wonder if the first chiropractor was just bad at murder? I hurt my back. I went to the chiropractice. I even really know what chiropractors do. I just know that they’re supposed to fix facts and stuff.

And this man put one hand here and one hand here, and I was like, I’m a god. I can’t take my uncle anywhere if you take him out to eat, and he has some good food. He has too audibly loudly cat call his food. He ordered the lobster bisk This man goes. Oh sick.

Otsco at Costco one of my faiths. In her current hours fantastic. Go see her. She has teamed up with Home States. Home State has a Texas inspired menu.

The Otsco Bowl marks the restaurant’s first multi ingredient bowl and its initial use of rice as a primary component. I’m not familiar with the Home State chain. Is there one anywhere near me? Let me look Home State? Well, their website says Home State is a Texas kitchen in southern California, sharing breakfast, tacos, queso, brisket, house made flour tortillas, margarita’s, and genuine hospitality.

Now it looks like there’s one in Princeton, New Jersey. I could go there. Okay, I don’t have to go all the way out to Los Angeles to get this. Oh no, I was faked out. That’s Homestead Cafe that has nothing to do with this.

Home State has locations in La Culver City, El Segundo, Pasadena, Santa Monica, and Sherman Oaks. Sor right, I’ll have to do this. When I’m on the West Coast, I’m not going to be to get an Osco Bowl, which was developed as part of Home State’s Band Taco program. The dish blends to hano and Japanese influences, featuring California grown Kuho calros rice season with lime juice that actually sounds awesome. The bowl is layered with marinated chicken, black beans, roasted mushrooms, cabbage slaw, and pickled jalapenos, finished with a miso Chipotle sauce.

I would actually get this. This sounds amazing. One dollar from every bowl sold through June fourteenth will benefit the Immigrant Defender’s Law Center, and nonprofit providing legal aid for those impacted by the immigration system. If you’re in California, get one of these. Let me know how it is.

Comedy stock Marketngine, thank you Bert Reynolds. Every Friday on the Comedy stock Market, we take a look at where the value is in various comedians. We’re not saying they’re good to bad. We’re just saying some people are a little over hyped at the moment and some are a little under hyped. Let’s buy some weird al I mean, we always love weird Al, but a weird Al Broadway musical.

Yes, and check that into my veans. We’ll buy some weird Al. And let’s buy some Henry Yen. Now you’re like, who’s Henry Yen? You listen to Tuesday’s show.

That was the guy at the New Zealand Comedy Festival. I tell you a clip of him. It was pretty funny that guy. Let’s buy some Henry Yen. Nobody else is buying Henry Yen.

That’s like buying a penny stock in comedians. No offense, mister Yann. I’m saying, you’re really funny and you got a lot of upsides, So we’ll buy some Henry Anne. We’ll buy some weird Al. And I’ve got one cell for you, and my cell is Stephen Colbert.

I mean right, we gotta be past peak here. What’s he gonna do like One Man Show podcast, Broadway musical. I mean that’s it. We try and sell at peak value. Peak value was last night, Get out on Stephen Colbert.

Buy weird Al, buy Henry Anne, sell Stephen Colbert, and that is your comedy stock market for today. We’ll do some international stuff into the holiday week. And I always like this Stuff. Award winning Greek Australian comedian Eloise fd Dos says she’s never been in love. Her latest show is called Aphrodite.

At the beginning, she says, I don’t know if it’s real. Oh there’s a part of me that wants to believe it’s real, but I don’t know if it’s possible for me. She says her show is not making fun of women. I’m making fun of how you see women. You guys can go on stage and say you’re hot.

F Dos’ first show in twenty twenty four was called Australia’s first Attractive Comedian that got a mixed reaction. She said, I’m not making fun of women. I’m making fun of how you see women. You guys can go on stage and say you’re hot. I never said female comedian.

It’s a marketing thing. It’s funny and it grabs people’s attention. Elwy says I don’t watch women who self deprecate on stage and feel and power. And I watched so many women talk down about themselves when I saw men go on stage and talk crap about women. So everybody talks crap about women.

It’s a silly joke, but it’s almost me being like, if I tell myself I’m hot, and I’m smart and I’m funny, I’ll believe it. America’s first attractive comedian made Efdos the first Australian woman to land a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe. She said, I cried right away. The Fringe was the most physically and mentally exhausting thing I’ve done in my life, but it was amazing. It changed my life.

She says. The New Hour is both Greek comedy and tragedy. She’s the hero who’s supposed to fall because of my hubris and my pride. I want to teach myself that it’s not embarrassing to be vulnerable. Maybe when I first started, my character was a little bit more like the girl who bullied you in high school.

Now I feel like it’s more like me. I’m more silly and playful. But I find it really funny that I went from being bullied to personifying this powerful woman who says it like it is. If you’re in Brisbane, Australia, can go see Aphrodite at the Brisbane Comedy Festival.

Meanwhile, at the New Zealand to Comedy Festival, the spectator tells us Susi…

Susie Cato walked out on stage wearing denim overalls on a giant dangly heart earrings and sang and this was a comedy show for kids, but it was also a show for adults who are frankly sick of being adults. Want an antidote to laugh at bum jokes, to hear knock knock from the stage, and watches a theater of excited children yell back, who’s there? But wait, there was more? What a revelation to discover performance so talented that you, the parent don’t have to put on laughter for your children’s sake, but instead needs to cross your legs so you don’t risk accidentally weeing a bit. Wow, who knew we needed to see a puppet do one handed press ups and imitated duck.

Let me tell you, oh we effing did. The spectator also liked Stephen k Amos. The show went over a well traversed territory, the COVID pandemic, his parents, and that comedy subjective COVID jokes. It’s been six years, five years anyway. Some of the lines had first trotted out more than a decade ago.

If the crowd had been looking for fresher edgy, they would have been out of luck. They called the show an oldie but a goodie.

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Meanwhile, Amanda Knox yes that.

Amanda Knox is going to perform a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe. Her show is called Cartwheel, a reference to the exercises that Knox was said to have performed in custody after her arrest in the suspicion of murdering her twenty one year old a British flatmate in Italy. Remember that case, Knox says, despite being exonerated, people still debate whether she’s guilty or innocent, and suggests that makes her the human equivalent of the white slash gold, blue slash black dress controversy that played out on the internet. She said I was patient zero of social media cancelation. At a gig in the US earlier this year, she told three thousand people, here’s how I look at it.

If I bomb God forbid on a comedy set, what’s worse he can do to me. I’ve bombed in a courtroom and they sent me to prison. I’m just saying I’d rather be heckled than shackled. Last year, Knox open for Nikki Glaser. After Nikki Glaser spotted footage of Knox performing on Instagram, Knox said, I think finding the ability to laugh at the bad things that have happened to you and find the absurdity and the human condition is important.

I really love how comedy allows me to feel connected to other people. My past is the context. I can’t pretend that it isn’t there, but ultimately it’s a show about bringing female life into the world that is very prone to judging and violently harming women. Cartwheel by Amanda Knox will be the Gilded Balloon August seventh through the seventeenth as part of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. And that is your comedy news for today again tomorrow.

You gotta hear this fallin thing, all right, I’ll see you then.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Taylor Tomlinson, George Cheeks, David Ellison, James Dixon, Byron Allen, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• Final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airing tonight
• CBS and Paramount’s decision to cancel the number one late night show
• Paramount’s $16 million Trump lawsuit settlement and its connection to Colbert’s cancellation
• Stephen Colbert’s Hollywood Reporter interview revealing how he learned about the cancellation
• Johnny Mac’s Taylor Tomlinson conspiracy theory about the 11:30 late night slot
• George Cheeks delivering cancellation news through Colbert’s manager rather than directly
• Stephen Colbert’s plans after The Late Show ends

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Calarugashock Media. Well, we are at the end. It is the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight. It was last July when Steven Colbert looked straight into the camera and announced that this season of The Late Show would be the last. Tonight the final episode.

You may recall CBS, whose parent company, Paramount, was in the midst of closing a multi billion dollar merger with David Ellison’s Sky Dance Company that required the Trump administration to approve it. CBS insisted it was purely a financial decision. The choice to cancel the number one show in late night raised more than a few eyebrows. The Colbert decision came just two weeks after Paramount had agreed to pay Trump sixteen million dollars to settle a lawsuit over a sixty minutes interview. In the time between, it has been suggested that The Colbert Show loses forty million dollars a year.

As I’ve said on this program before, I find it curious that they went straight to cancelation and not any sort of budget adjustments. Do you need the Ed Sullivan Theater? Do you need a live band? Can we tape two on Monday. Do you need ex writers?

Can you do it with fewer writers? Could you take the summers off? Can we do guest hosts on Monday? There’s all kinds of things they could have looked at, and they chose to go straight to cancelation. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Stephen Colbert back in April, and I have held on to that for today.

They asked Stephen, what will tomorrow look like. Stephen Colbert said, my brother’s getting married, so my whole family’s going to be here tonight and then we’re all going to get on the train and go to DC for the wedding. So immediately after the show’s over, there’s something much more important going on. He told the story of getting the news. His manager, James Dixon never visits in person, and people were like, James wants to talk to you, and Colbert said, I’m like, he’s here in person.

What’s going on? James says, this is going to be the last season? So I sat up and said, really, huh, well this comes as a surprise, and he goes, I can imagine. So they said it’s not making any money. I’m like, okay, I mean it’s their business.

I’m a company man. I understand that people here to make the green stuff. We’re not here to do free form polyrhythmic jazz poetry. We’re here to sell some breathewright strips. And I have no qualms about that, and they’ve been great partners.

But I went, I don’t understand. It hasn’t been two years since I signed my last contract, and they were feverish to lock me down. It was the best negotiation we’d ever had. I only do one hundred and sixty shows now, only all that kind of stuff, Dixon said. They said they could show me the numbers if we want, But I’m not going to ask them to open the books.

I’m not here to talk anybody to me. The Hollywood Reporter asked Colbert, does the forty million dollar figure sound accurate? Steven said, came as a surprise. Look, there’s no denying that the broadcast models in a huge trouble. But our model Late Night, within that overall model has been very profitable for like seventy years, starting with Steve Allen.

But maybe we were the first show to be a detriment. Maybe we were the first one to flip in the other direction. I don’t wish to litigate it. It’s their shop and they could do whatever they want. I’m grateful for the time I’ve spent here.

As I’ve said to Dixon eighteen months ago, they could not nail me to this building hard enough. But maybe everything changed after the strike. And if that’s the case, I accept that entirely. There are many people who believe there was another reason. And as I said in the most measured tones I could muster, there’s a reason why people believe that the network clearly had already done it once by cutting that sixteen million dollar check.

I like this one. He said. Causality is not the same thing as correlation. And I understand that not just because I learned from the RJ. Reynolds Tobacco company, which reminded us that, yes, you smoked and you got cancer.

But you know, correlation is not causality. So maybe my cancelation was just a naturally occurring tumor that just had to be cut out of the corporation. I mean, that’s entirely possible. I would also say, and this is what feels most true to me, that two things can be true. It can be that the broadcast models collapsing.

And while we’re at it, as long as we’re collapsing here, what if we shove this one out a window first. I mean this, Lamb’s got a very cutable throat. Let me chime in there. I’ve talked about this several times on the show, but I think today’s a good day to repeat myself. This is my Tailor Tomlinson conspiracy theory, and anytime I go into this, I cannot scream loudly enough.

I’m not blaming Taylor Tomlinson for anything, but let me just remind everybody of a timeline and my theory. Taylor Tomlinson’s twelve thirty show had been picked up, it had been renewed, and then Taylor decided she didn’t want to continue hosting it, and then CBS went, eh, maybe we shouldn’t even have a twelve thirty show, and they sold the time to Byron Allen. Now I’m wondering, did that start a conversation where somebody in a room somewhere went, you know, if we don’t have twelve thirty, what if we didn’t have eleven thirty? And I imagine the first time somebody said that out loud, that was crazy talk, but maybe perhaps possibly As they started a look at that, they went, yeah, what if we didn’t have eleven thirty? And again, so let me ask you this question.

Had Taylor Tomlinson said yes and signed some sort of contract, would they have a twelve thirty show and no eleven thirty show or would we be looking at starting next week Taylor Tomlinson hosting the eleven thirty slot, which would have been differently interesting if, among other things, a woman hosting the eleven thirty show on a major broadcast network would have been news in itself. So maybe you’d have Taylor at eleven thirty and Byron Allen at twelve thirty. That would probably discussed people a little less than what’s going on right now. The Holland reporter said to Stephen Colbert, your boss paramounts George Cheeks delivered the news not to you but to your manager, which didn’t sit well with you. Did you ultimately have a conversation on your own?

No. Here’s Colbert’s very short answer. He called me eventually. The Hollywood reporter followed up, what did that call look like, Stephen? I don’t think George would mind if I characterized our conversation.

It was later in the summer and he called to express that he wished it had gone down a different way, and I said me too. I’m not over here grinding a knife, but we’re going to make jokes about how this one down and about the forty million dollars and about CBS the parent check cutting spree. To the president, that’s the show I want to do for ten more months because I like working for CBS and I’m not going to change that relationship between now and the end if you’ll allow that to happen. And he said, I promise you that’s what will happen. So that was it.

What’s the use of being mad? All I want to do is go have fun for an audience that appreciates it. And that’s what my goal has been for ten months. When this is all over, I’ll probably have a different or rather fuller perspective on all this. But I really don’t have time to be mad about anything right now.

THHR has the Brandanny outreach from David Ellison since the Paramounts Guidince merger closed in August twenty twenty five. Steven’s answer no again. This interview was in April. I don’t know if they’ve spoken in the meantime. Thchh R.

You’ve said a few times you’ve been about to re enter show business. Have you been approached with scripts? Steven, Yes, immediately and listen, people have been patient because I’ve had to say, like, I’m sorry. When I no longer have to think about this show all the time, I’ll have a better idea of what I want to do. But it’s been very nice.

He was asked if he’s talked with people like Conan or John Stewart about what life after Late Night looks like. Stephen apparently started laughing. THHR was curious why. Steven said, because I’ve been having those conversations with them for a long time. John Stewart’s like, you like ice skating, but you know how great it feels when you take the ice skates off.

It kind of feels like that. And for years, Conan’s like, I’m been telling you there’s so much other fun to have, to the point where I’ve been like, do you not like my show? THCHR. Conan has built his own empire podcast, travel show, some acting. John went back to the Daily Show.

Those are two very different paths. Steven, Yeah, and I don’t think I’ll do either one of those. So he seems to like podcasts, but has said a couple of times he doesn’t want to host a podcasts. I’ve said on this program, I am highly confident, knowing how serious ExM works, that they’ve either reached out to him previously. We’ll reach out tonight in the wee hours at twelve thirty seven AM, when Steven’s a free agent, or however his contract works.

All right, Stephen Colbert, if you had gone out on your own terms, what would have looked like? Stephen said, I mean a lot like this, just be a little older, and it would have been my choice, and I probably would have known what the final show was going to be a little earlier. I’m a Colbert rapport. I picked that Dad. I didn’t tell anybody, but I knew two years ahead of time.

Well, we didn’t pick this day, but maybe they gave me a gift because I had a lot of jokes I could make about the end of the show, and if I decided in the show, then I’m the bad guy. Hard to make jokes about that. Dhr Lenell left late night and added more dates to the road. Trevor Noah did the same. Does that hold any appeal, Steven, I didn’t come up as a stand up.

Improv is collaborative in its nature, and all the shows I’ve done have been collaborative. It doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t do a live show at some point, but it’s not like I’m going to go out somewhere night and do a tight tened zenies. Is it better or worse being replaced by Byron Allen than another traditional late night comedy show? Stephen said, none of my business. Stephen.

How are worried to you about the future of late night? Stephen said, I don’t know what’s going to be and I don’t know what I can do to help other than what he did last eleven years. But one night I’ll turn on the TV and probably no one will be there. Stephen Colbert recently discussed with President Obama the idea of Colbert running for president, which I don’t think is the craziest idea. He’s well spoken, he doesn’t seem like the sort of person who pops off emotionally, not the worst looking guy, looks good into suits.

I mean, there’s a lot there to consider. What does Stephen Colbert run for president. I’m looking for a new gig soon, and a lot of people tell me I should run for president or you certainly have the look, thank you, you have the hook. Well, for the. Record, I think it’s a stupid idea.

How dumb. How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? Well, you know, the bar has changed, that is true at times subterraneous, So I don’t have to limbo so low this way. I think that you could perform significantly better than some folks that we’ve seen. All right, Yeah, I have great confidence in that, Thank you very much.

Yeah. Is that an endorsement? It was not. If Colbert is not your thing, Well, Jimmy Kimmel will air a rerun tonight. Kimmel is doing so out of deference to Colbert’s send off.

Kimmel did the same thing in May of twenty fifteen for David Letterman’s final show. Jimmy Fallon also will air a rerun in a sign of late night solidarity. The Washington Post wrote, this isn’t how things were supposed to turn out when Colbert was hired to take over for Letterman. You could tell from the last episode of The Colbert Report, which aired December eighteenth, twenty fourteen, that Colbert wanted to unite, not divide. In the final segment, he began to sing We’ll Meet Again as a comically absurd number of celebrities from every corner of entertainment and politics joined him on stage, from Kareem Abdul Jabbar to Mike huckabat a cookie Monster.

To watch that segment today is to be beamed into a different universe. Can you imagine a world where Michael Stipe is singing and dancing alongside Henry Kissinger and four star General Raymond Odierno, David Remnick with Mike Tabe, George Saunders with Toby Keith. That’s the world Colbert wanted to live in. It is his misfortune, then, that the one he found himself in was the world of Trump, where everything, and especially late night television, would become instantly polarized. When a joke about the president went from being satirical to immediately personal and globalized.

Colbert recognized the change quickly. It’s why his show got more political after struggling in the ratings his first year. But to use his own jacket metaphor, never quite fit him right. The skating improv comic and the smiling talk show host didn’t mesh. The Late Show was a perfectly fine talk show, but it was never transcendent in the way the Colbert Report was.

It was just another show in which an older white guy told safe jokes from behind a desk. Wash Pro writes the thing about late night TV today, it really aren’t any big tens anymore. Everyone’s in the culture war, whether they like it or not. It makes me grateful that David Letterman retired when he did. His late night career came before Trump’s political one, before the entire world was required to engage in political discourse.

Letterman had his political beliefs, but he didn’t have to be ruled by them the way everybody in the culture arena now seems to be a de illustrate Washington Post point here. And when Dave does speak, he’s very political. Now when he goes on things like the Barber Gain Show, I don’t know about very political, but somewhat political. I think Dave’s made it clear he’s not a fan of the current administration. Back to wash Poe, Dave was just able to do a show he wanted to do the big tent show that somehow never felt either compromised or defanged.

Letterman himself seems to recognize this. He once joked that if he were still hosting The Late Show, he’d talk about trumpettil people have to come and take me off the stage. Colbert wanted a Late Show in the era of Trump that could no longer exist. The show he replaced it with was a rating success, but it never approached the creative heights of the Colbert rapport. And that’s it single topic today.

Stephen Colbert of The Late Show, congratulations sir, and best of luck to whatever happens next. And boy, what a shame that that franchise dies tonight. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Nikki Glaser, Chelsea Handler, Marcello Hernandez, Keenan Thompson, Stavros Halkias, Jason Zinoman

What’s in This Episode

• CBS cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and what the institution’s end means
• Letterman legacy and the Late Show’s history as counterprogramming to NBC
• Nikki Glaser announced as headliner for University of Florida’s Gator Growl
• Chelsea Handler on modern dating struggles and her preference for non-commitment
• GQ profile on Marcello Hernandez dubbed ‘Boy Prince of Comedy’
• SNL cast odds on who may leave or return next season
• Byron Allen reportedly taking over CBS late night slot after Colbert

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. I don’t know if you heard Steven Golbert Show is coming to an end. Soun hello. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Friend of the show, Jason Ziddiman writes for The New York Times.

Jason asks the question, what do we lose when the Late Show goes away? Jason writes, Ever since Bette Miller made Johnny Carson sniffle with a farewell song, I have that on VHS. It’s upstairs somewhere the VHS’s label Johnny’s Last Jam, which is what TV Guide called it on their cover that week. Ever since Bett Miller made Johnny Carson sniffle with a farewell song, the long emotional goodbye has become its own late night tradition, clowing to some moving to others. It’s enough of a recognizable trope to be a reminder that with CBS’s cancelation of The Late Show, we’re losing not just Stephen Colbert, but also an institution.

You know, now that this thing is right in front of us, it really is weird that this show’s just going away. I mean, Dave up on it the other day, gave it a little bit of legacy, Like, like, I never really felt like the Late Show had the weight of the Tonight Show. But when I saw the two hosts together, and then you imagine a future where Colbert hosts another five, ten, fifteen, twenty years, and then someone else takes it over. I mean it was thirty years. It’s weird that that’s gonna be on, and that that just putting on Byron Allen, which somehow just feels worse than if they like completely punted and were like, Eh, we’re just gonna run NCIS reruns.

I digress. Zenman points out, believe it or not, the Late Show will been on the air longer than the coarsin version of the Tonight Show. It’s giving ahead Zenmun rights. When Conan O’Brien quit The Tonight Show on twenty ten, Jerry Seinfeld poked fun at the idea of late night tradition. Jerry told Bill Carter, how do you not get that this whole thing is phony?

There’s no institution to offend Zinneman rights. I’ve long been sympathetic to Seinfeld’s position, Comically exaggerated as it may have been. A healthy art form requires dynamism and new blood. No institution ever made me laugh, And yet as the Late Show approaches its end, I find myself as sentimental as the guest singing melancholy melodies. What exactly are we losing with the end of the Late Show?

Jason takes us back to the origin of the Late Show. If you listen to me every day, you’re probably familiar with the story of Letterman and Leno. Jason wrights fairly. With the diminished state of late night in today’s fragmented culture, it might be hard to understand the passion behind this competition between men in suits joking at desks. But make no mistake, it was the Kendrick Lamar Drake drum of its day.

Late night host to find sensibilities inspired toxic fandoms. Take me Jason for example, Back then, on the cusp of college, I assumed anyone who preferred leto was not worth knowing. Yeah, I mean I was heavy team Letterman and Boy. When Day was on at eleven thirty that first year, I watched it, and then I don’t know if I watched any of the remainder I’ve spoke about this before. It just became establishment Letterman and I like the counterculture Letterman at twelve thirty.

Be careful what you wish for. I always wish the show had been on earlier. Oh, as you know, I don’t read these things ahead. I like to react. Jason wrote, the Late Show meant an earlier to times, a lot for Letterman, but it signaled something broader than that, a test, a public taste, a chance for justice to be served, a cause to get behind.

Jason talked about going to see Letterman back in the NBC days. The line outside had the feel of a tailor Swift concert. The crowd responded to every joke. At Fever Pitch, I was surrounded by fellow true believers. Steven Colbert is a very different performer from Letterman, but when he got the job as Letterman’s successor at The Late Show, it represented a kind of continuity.

Since it was built in opposition to its NBC rival, The Late Show was both an institution and anti institutional. Colbert kept that dual spirit alive. The most obvious way Late Show remained counterprogramming involved current events, while the Tonight Show, led by Jimmy Fallon since twenty fourteen, has aimed for light a political fair. Colbert has responded to our moment by becoming forceful in his comic attacks on President Trump. Talk show hosts like Letterman have always made fun of presidents, network executives’ bosses, something Colbert became too portisan and predictable to be funny, But even if true, this was an attempt to not just engage with our politicized era, but also to fill the role of topical hosts.

In a recent GQ interview, Obert said he was more conservative than people think. Jason says, I believe him all all very sad time does more Sean though. Nikki Glaser will be the headliner at this year’s Gator Growl. This announced by the University of Florida. Gator Growl is the school’s annual student run event.

So in the span of a week here we’ve gone from Nikki Glaser’s soft campaigning to host the Oscars to hosting the Gator Growl. The event is Friday, Actober ninth. Students can get early access to tickets beginning today. Chelsea Handler is not holding back when it comes to modern romance. She was on Howie Mandel’s podcast.

She said it’s very hard in today’s world to meet straight guys that have their stuff together. Something’s wrong. I don’t know what’s wrong. I think with dating apps and social media, there’s just so much abundance and so much choice that nobody really feels like they have to lock it in. They could swipe through fifty women a day, so they’re not making the effort that people used to make to date.

Meanwhile, Handler herself said, I wouldn’t say I’m in a relationship. I would say I’m dabbling in different areas of my life. I don’t like to be tethered to one person. You may recall ten seconds ago I told you Chelsea was commenting on men’s swapping through fifty pictures in one day. Chelsea said, I love the idea that I don’t have to check in with anybody about anything I do.

I don’t have to consider or consult with anyone if I want to get on a plane and go to Paris, which I’ll do at a moment’s notice. Marcelo hernane has got a big fluff piece in GQ titled How Marcello Hernanez Became the Boy Prince of Comedy. Guys, is Marcelo Hernandez the boy Prince of comedy? Clearly, the answer is no, What are we basing that on that he does Domingo. Come on, stop.

Keenan Thompson describes Marcelo Hernandez and says he’s just a very bright soul, loves to laugh and loves to find what’s funny about each laugh. He likes not only laughing, but finding a formula to what’s making us all laugh. I’d say, oh, this guy serious about comedy. Well, the formula is he does Domingo and characters very similar to Domingo. They point out he is speaking voices far less theatrical, his Latino accent much more faint than the way he often talks in his comedy.

He says he’s in a circles keeping him humble. My friends are not like every Sunday being like, dude, you killed it last night. Once in a while you get that. But that’s nicer than anything, but it motivates the work a little bit too. Wow.

I didn’t realize he’s been on the show for four seasons now and the boy Prince of comedy has done what again in four seasons. Ashley Pitty and Jane Wickline are more memorable. Come on, guys. He gets asked for a lot of selfies and says, the only thing worse than taking pictures is when no one wants one. Now, GQ says, being around Hernandez a clearest day extrovert feels like hanging out with the Tasmanian Devil if Taz had more polished comedic chops Stavarro’s Hawkius just so happens to walk by, s ays GQ, and Hernanez frantically waves him down.

When Halkius recognizes this isn’t some crazy fan of his podcast, but rather fellow comedian Stavarro stops Spideriff for a little bit. He’s asked about being a heart throb, and he says, how do I feel about being a heart throb? Grateful Late Nighter had some odds on who may leave and who may return for SNL season fifty two. They say, most likely to depart, Cam Patterson odds of returning minus four hundred. Most likely to return, Ashley Padilla.

I think everybody agrees she was season one’s MVP. And this reminds me because someone else pointed this out. You know who was on this season, bow and Yang? Remember bow Anden Yang walked around a Christmas time to go do something else? How’s that going?

John McGinley has a pitch for Scrubs Season eleven slash two. By the way, we’ve learned that there will be ten episodes in the upcoming season. McGinley said, I think it’d be awesome in the revival of Scrubs. It’ll never happen because we’re up in Vancouver. But if Hugh Jackman came and was sick and he had to come to the hospital and Doctor Cox would be like, what the f That would be genius.

That’d be so great, you know, would be really good. Doctor Cox has become sick and season ten, Cox gets a kidney problem, so he’s going to be a patient for a while. Now, what would be genius is if Hugh Jackman was in a bed next to him in the hospital and they were just chirping away. McGinley explained why doctor Cox hates Hugh Jackman. It all comes from the writer of the show, Bill Lawrence, is jealous because Hugh Jackman is a great actor.

He’s a great singer, he’s a great dancer. He does Broadway musicals, he does Marvel, he does everything, and Bill Lawrence is jealous of him. So we made doctor Cox jealous of that. That’s where it comes from. I’ve never met Hugh Jackman.

By all accounts, he’s the nice guy on the planet. He’s very handsome, but I’m not jealous of you. That’s all Bill Lawrence and Bill Lawrence had fun with that. Cox wonders about the new dynamic between his character and j D. McGinley said, as we see in the eighth episode of the new season, the last thing on earth that doctor Cox wants is to expose JD to what I think Doctor Cox perceives as a fatal malady.

And he doesn’t want to drag JD down with him until he realizes he’s so scared and us to tell JD for the first time in ten years, I need you and to me, it’s the best episode we ever did, next to one. Brendan Frascher came on. We were all crying on the set and the camera picked it all up. It’s very moving and I didn’t see that one coming. He explained how his return happened.

They called me because I was doing the Steve Carell Show and currently with what those guys were in Vancouver shooting and I was in Burbank and Zach called and I said, I have a great story idea, and I’m like, what because in the first episode, I give Zack the hospital, I make him the new chief of medicine. So I didn’t know I were going to reintegrate doctor Cox from the show. Rooster stopped and I could go back up to Vancouver. McGinley says his idea for Cox’s return was very different. I thought, what if we make Cox the worst patient in the history of patience, you know, somebody who just wants to micromanage everything.

But Zach said, even better, let’s make them really sick and scared. That was great. I think my job with Zach in that episode, and I’ll say to him a couple of times, is to protect him from what’s going on with me. I want to protect you from this. This isn’t your journey, this is my descent to this malady.

That’s really rich to say to somebody. I mean, we mostly only say that to who our best friends or people in our families. We could try, but it’s a big thing to try and protect someone. And so for Cox repeatedly in that episode saying I’m trying to protect you from this, that’s as good as it gets. And that is your comedy news for today, We’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Stephen Colbert, Will Ferrell, Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Mike Epps, Trevor Noah, Mo Amer

What’s in This Episode

• Grown Ups 3 in development at Netflix with original cast returning
• Will Ferrell’s golf comedy series The Hawk trailer released
• Nick Kroll’s new Netflix comedy series Eight Hundred Percent announced
• Wanda Sykes Netflix special Legacy now streaming
• Mike Epps gets two-special Netflix deal after Delusional success
• Trevor Noah’s World Tour travel series coming to YouTube
• Mo Amer to host 86th Annual Peabody Awards
• Stephen Colbert responds to questions from fellow late night hosts about show ending

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Caloroga Shark Media. Yes, we’re gonna talk about Stephen Colbert, of course we will, but we got some other stuff to do up top. I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler is making a comedy new Yeah. I don’t know about this one.

Boy, you can tell how I’m excited. I am all right? What is he making this time? John? Grown Ups three?

Jesus, Come on, man, you were so good at JA Kelly. You’re so good at the dramatic stuff. We stop. Grown Ups three is in development at Netflix. Netflix announced this at their upfronts last week.

The script for Grown Ups three is by Adam Sandler and Tim Hurley. Producers include Adam Sandler and famous producer Jackie Sandler. In case you haven’t seen the Grownups films, the franchise revolves around a set of childhood friends who were brought back together as adults over the course of a summer vacation. The friends include David Spade, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, and Chris Rock, all sets a return for the three quel. Really, Chris Rock, I’m impressed if they get Chris Rock for this, Chris Why would you do this film?

Paycheck? Okay, I get it. It’s been thirteen years since Grown Ups two. This time it is believed the Friend group travels to Europe along with their families to spread their deceased friends’ ashes. Is this like a different friend or is Chris rock at this thing for two minutes?

That would all make sense. We’ll see, we’ll see. I can see that now, Johnny Mac. You can hate all you want, but Grownups and the sequel, Grown Ups two have grossed over five hundred million dollars at the box office. Grown Ups has a ten percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Grown Ups two was even more poorly received. But that’s not gonna stop Netflix. And if you like that kind of humor, boy, you’re gonna love The Hawk. That’s Will Ferrell’s upcoming golf comedy series. If Will but comes unavailable, you can drop Adam Sandler right in the middle of this one.

There is a trailer. I went to pull the audio, but it’s too visual because it’s got yuck yuck jokes like people being hill with a golf ball hilarious. In The Hawk, Will Ferrell plays Lonnie Hawkins two thousand and four’s and number one golfer again. This is so saidlor Hawkins struggles on the back nine of his career, trying to recapture his magic. His body says retire, but his heart says he’s not done yet.

His ex wife and his son, Lance, who happens to be golf’s new Golden Boy, know that Lonnie is through, but with one more major to win to complete Golf’s Grand Slam, Lonnie refuses to believe he’s anything other than one stroke away from the greatest comeback in golf history. Molly Shannon plays Lonnie’s foul mouth ex wife Stacy, Also appearing This Thing, Fortune Fimester, Luke Wilson, Chris Parnell, David Hornsby, who’s usually great in things, and some others can’t wait. Nick Krole has a new comedy series, this one called eight hundred Percent. It stars Nick Kroll, Sam Richardson, Jason Mitzukis, and vi Us a Bear. Hopefully that’ll keep her away from the Scrubs reboot.

The cast portrays a group of friends working inside the thought leader industrial complex. Their books, podcasts, and morning routines might help us live our lives more perfectly, but away from the screens and mics. These characters are most definitely far from perfect. You know, I do think this fits into Jason and Krohl’s wheelhouse. This could be good, Krol said, I’m thrilled to make this show with Gabe in this insane cast.

I can’t wait to explore this high functioning group of friends who endeavor to live their weird lives. That could actually be good. Want of Sikes as a special ad on Netflix today. It is called Legacy. I want to pull the trailer.

She swears a lot, so I passed. Netflix tells us with the trademark wit and fearless insight that have earned her multiple Emmy wins and nominations. Want of Sikes delivers an hour of bold, smart, and laugh out loud comedy that cements her legacy as a comedy icon. That is the most generic description I’ve ever seen anyway. That’s on Netflix today, and by the time you’re hearing my voice at three h five am.

Friend of the show and Facebook group regular Dylan, He’s probably watched it, maybe twice. Dylan and I keep very different hours. I think. Apparently Mike EPP’s Netflix special Delusional did really well. It was his fifth for Netflix, and they’ve given him a deal for two more.

Netflix is playing the long game. They plan to release specials by Mike Apps in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty. The press release tell us that Mike Epp specials have racked up twelve and a half million views. That doesn’t even include Delusional, which ranked as the number five English language TV title globally on Netflix and its debut and roasted number three on the US Top ten list. YouTube had upfronts of sorts.

Trevor Noah was your host. He said, some of you may recognize me from stand up comedy, some of you may recognize me from my podcast, some of you might recognize me from The Daily Show, some of you might recognize me from the Grammys. But there’s one place where you definitely see me. That’s on YouTube. These days, everything is on YouTube.

Everything, sports, entertainment, interviews, podcasts, you name it. Well. Coming to YouTube is Trevor Noah’s World Tour. Premiere Day TBA. On Trevor Noah’s World Tour, Trevor ne invites viewers along for the ultimate global hangout in this prestige travel series on YouTube.

You know I like travel and I like Trevor. I’m gonna wind up watching Trevor Noah’s World Tour, where comedy, culture, and spontaneity collide as Trevor Noah journeys from city to city on his World Tour with friends, collaborators, and surprise guests joining the fun. Each episode blends Trevor Noah’s signature humor with authentic, on the ground experiences that spotlight local people, food, and culture. So it’s Anthony Bourdain minus Anthony Bournine plus Trevor Noah. Is that what I’m getting here?

Not the worst idea? Along the way, Trevor turns his discoveries into sharp, hilarious observations that weave into his live performance, creating a fresh window into his comedic process and into the places that inspire him. That actually sounds pretty good. Mo Amer will host the eighty sixth Annual Peabody Awards May thirty first, at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Peabody Executive director Jeffrey P.

Jones said, Moe Ammer is the comedic voice we need now. His comedy is bold and refreshing because he minds his own personal, heartfelt experiences a refugee and blends them with cultural Commentsary that is powerful, moving and very funny. Johnny Mac, you said you were gonna talk about Stephen Colbert. All right, I mean give me nine minutes. I’ll get to it.

Stephen Colbert answered some questions from the other late night hosts. I’ve clipped this down a little bit for pacing, but let’s listen. You got a question from Jay Leno. I’ll tell you when I got this gig. Jay Leno called me right away, and Jay goes, yayt the you got the Pope job, you got the John c you dead.

You’re wrong on that one. Jay, all right? From Jay Leno. As a road comic, I’ve always enjoyed live audiences. Have you ever thought about a road version of your best jokes for a live audience still waiting for the best jokes?

Jay, I think that’s a great idea. Jay. Please send me a list of what my best jokes have been, and let’s hit the road together. You drive from James Cordon, how are things at CBS? Should I come back?

One hundred percent? James, one hundred percent? Hold on, hob, I see what Cordon actually asked? What have you been doing to mentally and emotionally prepare for your daily life after the show. Trevor and I can send a zoom link if you need a good question.

I don’t know about you, guys, but there’s no I don’t think there’s any prepping for it. Look, I try not to make eye contact with the people in the building too much. I’ve always discouraged it, but now I’m really being a heart ass about it. Don’t look me in the eye because I’m a weeper and I like the show a lot, but I love the people I work with and that’s going to be hard, and they’re so physically attractive. From Trevor Noah, is there anything you were never able to do because you had a late night show?

And do you see yourself doing it now? Exercising? That’s what I would like to do. I think my wife was waited long enough. It’s time for abs.

Okay, honey. From Knor and O’Brien, just who the hell do you think you are? Sometimes I wish I was Connin O’Brien because I’ve never been able to dunk. From Jimmy Kimmel, is it true that hospitals are sometimes forced to send patients who are two obese for their MRICT machines to be scanned at the zoo. Okay, sometime at once.

It happened once, but then after that I got the shot and I don’t have to go to the zoo for my CT scan anymore. From Jimmy Fallon, you’ve had the best seats in the house for over ten years. What’s the one musical performance on your show that you and the crew still talk about. I mean, we just recently had a Hosier and Lake Street dive do Joe Cocker’s Woodstock version of with a little help from my friends, that’s pretty fantastic. The Times they asked even about why the show was canceled, saying that some are skeptical there was for financial reasons.

Colbert said, I do not dispute their rationale. I do make jokes about it, but I also completely understand why people would say, hey, that doesn’t make sense to me, and be this seems fishy to me because the network did it to themselves by bending the need of the Trump administration over a twenty billion settled for sixteen million, completely frivolous lawsuit. It’s possible that two things can be true broadcast can be in trouble. They can’t monetize because of things like YouTube, because of the competition of streaming. They’ve got the books.

I don’t have any desire to debate them over what they say their business model is and how it doesn’t work for them anymore. But less than two years before they called me to say it’s over, they were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So something changed. By the way, oops, who knows what they offered him. It is believed Colbert’s current annual salary is around fifteen million dollars, and I think I have it somewhere in my head.

They wanted him for five years. As Johnny Mac likes to say, if somebody ever offers you seventy five million dollars, just say yes. Steven said, I’ve really like work with CBS. They’ve been great partners, and I’d like to end it that way. Eleven years is a long time to work here, and almost ten years before that, almost twenty one years together in Late Night.

I feel so much better to be grateful for than to be mad about. The discussion move to taking over for David Letterman in twenty fifteen, Boy time flies. I feel like I just watched that, remember watching that on the upstairs TV. Stephen said it was my instinct to be less topical because I didn’t want to have to engage with what I saw is an increasingly contentious public discourse. And I thought, aren’t there other ways to have fun with the audience.

But in twenty sixteen, Colbert went all in on News The Time said that change worked right. Colbert said, I was like Clint Eastwood and Unforgiven or said some other movie. He buried his guns, and I’m like, you know, I buried those guns. I was talking to Paul Denello, he’s one of my oldest friends and one of my producers here, and he’s like, you’re having fun and people like to see that. And I said, but that means I got to go dig up the guns.

And he says, Buddy, that’s the part the audience wants to see. They asked Stephen Colbert why he thinks the FCC and the Trump administrations are so focused on him. Stephen told The New York Times authoritarians don’t like anybody who doesn’t give them undue dignity. Comedians are anti authoritarian by nature and authoritarians are never going to like anybody to laugh at them. The number of newspeople have said to me or John Stewart or any of the guys who do this, God, I wish I could say what you say on air, and we can.

I think that upsets them. I think it might be upsetting and we really don’t live in their world of principalities and powers. Continuing about Trump, and send your letters to Stephen Colbert, he said, I don’t have any problem with Trump being a Republican. I have a problem with Trump being a complete north who’s only working for his own interest and doesn’t appear to care if the entire world burns. That’s not a partisan position.

I have eyeballs and ears, and I think calling Late Night partisan is just roughing the ref And we don’t even want to be refs, but they perceive us as refs. I reject the partisan description. Partisan means you’re never ever going to make a joke about a Democrat, and that’s just not true. There’s just no comparison of how fertile the fields are. What’s next for Colbert.

He’s working on a script for a Warner Brothers Lord of the Rings movie. He loves podcasts and spends more time with podcasts than any form of entertainment. That could be a clue there now in the past, I think I have in my brain that he didn’t want to do a podcast. But doesn’t that seem like a no brainer? I’m sure just knowing the internal workings of serious I’m sure they’ve either been on the phone with him, or on the phone with him right now, or will be on the phone with him at twelve thirty eight am Friday morning.

Stephen says he wants to do comedy, but he’s not sure what’s next because the show takes ninety five percent of his brain. I don’t think I can give you a good answer until I can really think about it. It Will it be your relief to not have to think about Trump in the same way Steven said, Oh yeah, Now, I could be as interested as I want to be on a daily basis, as opposed to interested as I need to be, to do a show about what our national conversation was about. I can opt out of the national conversation for day two. I mean, I’m American, I still care about my country.

I’m still going to care, But I could do that recreationally. You know we’re privately out on the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube page today. Now you gotta pay attention because they’re going back and forth between Gorilla Plus and the YouTube page. This is on the YouTube page. Shane Moss trips Parentheses Second Dose.

The Ish Edinburgh Comedy Awards will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in twenty twenty six. James Cordon is backing it. He said, I am honored to support the brilliant Mish Edinburgh Comedy Awards again. Now in their fourth year, the awards continued to direct all sponsorship and come straight to performers through prize money. Last year’s prizes included four thousand pounds each for Best Show and Best Newcomer, three thousand for the Panel Prize, one thousand for Better Tech, and a five hundred four Best Joke.

The winners are decided by a volunteer panel who attend every eligible comedy show with the Fringe, giving performers an equal chance regardless of venue background, industry backing or audience size. The twenty twenty six Awards are expected to retain the same five categories website. The spinoff is covering the new Zealand Comedy Festival. They say Henry Yen is the best bad date at the NZ International Comedy Festival. They tell us Wellington’s Cavern Club is a bit of a dank hole in the wall, but it’s a cozy place to catch some comedy.

During a set focused on the highs and lows of life as a perpetually single thirty year old, you really start to feel like you’re on one of those bad first dates. He’ll never stop telling your friends about the spectator says. They write this in the most complimentary way possible. The strength of Yen’s comedy is in his awkwardness, The way he says haha crazy after every other line, The way he takes a joke bombing and turns it into another opportunity to make another joke appealing to the audience is pity. You know what?

Who has inspired me to find a clip? Let’s listen. My parents are here. I love you. Hey, your turn?

Yeah, I left my computer for this. Yeah, so it’s gonna be so fun. I’ll just tell you, guys, if someone walks in here like aggressive, I’m telling you that I’m not gonna protect you. Yeah, because recently someone asked me to protect them, and I was like, from what like nowhere. It’s crazy because what happens on the street right in the city.

These two guys were fighting and the girls standing next to me. She turns me, she’s like, aren’t you gonna stop the fight? I was like, oh, thank you for believing in me. Yeah, but I don’t look I’m not a fighter. I’m a snitch.

Wow, he’s pretty funny. Like that a lot, The spectator tells us. Henry Anne’s audience work was also impactful. He seemed to make a genuine connection with a fellow spreadsheet obsessive in the crowd. Good stuff, Henry Ann, And that is your comedy news for today.

See tomorrow.

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Featured: Will Ferrell, Paul McCartney, Theo Von, Joe Rogan, Pete Davidson, Elise Hewitt, Jim Gaffigan, Weird Al Yankovic, Shane Gillis, Drake

What’s in This Episode

• SNL Season Finale with Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney
• Lorne Michaels potential retirement from SNL
• Joe Rogan expresses concerns about Theo Von’s mental health
• Pete Davidson and Elise Hewitt split, property sales amid custody arrangement
• Jim Gaffigan releases digital version of Bourbon comedy set
• Weird Al Yankovic Broadway musical ‘Dare to Be Stupid’ in development
• Potential Shane Gillis appearance in Drake music video

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, busy Monday, on a busy week. I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It was Saturday Night Live. Your host Will Ferrell, musical guest Paul McCartney.

Wasn’t Lorne Michael’s last episode. We will find out. In the cold open, President Trump was visited by a ghost played by Will Ferrell. Do O, don’t worry, Donald, it’s me your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey, but I thought you were dead.

I am, remember I killed myself. Now. Interestingly enough, they posted that at eleven forty eight on the official SNL account. I mean, it just shows you how things have changed. You don’t even need to watch the show.

I watch, I quote unquote watch SNL mainly through the clips on Sunday mornings. All right, so, ladies and gentlemen, Will Ferrell, But at center stage, it’s not Will Ferrell. It’s Chat Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers pretending to be Will Ferrell. It really feels like coming home. Hey, hey, shoot me, what the hell do you think you’re doing.

I think I’m hosting the show. You’re not the host, I am, You’re Chat Smith of the Red hot Chili peppers. No, shut up, shut up? Everyone shut up? What the hell is wrong with you?

He pushed me down backstage, and I tell Hord Waurn had to give me mouth to mouth. Jo Justin Chay did the annual joke swap, and I’ll tell you what I mean. It’s always funny. I went to pull the clips, and then anything I pulled, I’m like, you know, comedy, there’s context, and if I just start playing like, oh, I thought this call of Joe’s joke was funny. Out of context, it’s just not gonna be good for me.

So I’ll just refer you to the internet if you want to find those. This’s just in isolation. It just doesn’t work. Your musical guest, Paul McCartney Ringo Star did not show up, so Paul did not collect the three thousand dollars from fifty years ago. Here’s a little clip of Band on the Run We’re pay Money Quack the songs one set to the second.

Paul is almost eighty four years old, his voice not quite what it once was, but I did notice a different trummor on Band on the Run. I’ve seen Paul live many times over the years, and his this drummer has been doubling his voice for decades, but this was a different drummer, so I don’t know if that affects things or not. On the end credits, Paul played coming Up Now. There were some comments on the end credits that maybe Paul was overshadowing the cast saying goodbyes, like was it Cam Patterson’s final episode of SNL. I think we know the answer, but I believe coming Up was the first song Paul played on SNL and perhaps the last song Paul plays on SNL.

Eagle eyed watchers noticed that the credits hung for a really long time, saying executive producer Lauren Michaels as Paul McCartney sang us out, Does that mean anything? Time will tell.

In other news, THEO Vaughn is shutting down concerns raised by Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan is worried about THEO Vaughan’s mental health. On a recent Joe Rogan Experience, Joe shared concerns about Vaughan’s recent behavior, including comments tied to suicide and Theo’s use of selective serotonin reputake inhibitors common known as SSR eyes. The ovonne has responded and said, this is mostly cap sad to see this kind of stuff. I’m doing great and I’m a human being, which is a rocky ride. But I’m doing fine.

Thanks. Hopefully THEO is doing okay. Jim Gaffigan announced that the digital version of his Bourbon set. Remember that he did a special bourbon themed comedy set late last year. I think that was well.

That is now available on audio wherever you listen to your digital comedy Sad news. I don’t like this one. I’m not gonna gossip corner this one because this is just terrible and there’s a baby involved. Pete Davidson and Elise Hewitt have split. Initial reports said there have been points where they’ve split and gotten back together.

The latest I saw was that they’re not going to get back together. Davidson and he would have a daughter, Scottie Rose born December twelfth, twenty twenty five. Scotty, named after Pete’s father, Scott Matthew Davidson. That’s just all around, said, I don’t even know what to say. Pete Davidson sold his Staten Island apartment at a four hundred thousand dollars loss one day before the rumors emerged that he had split from Elise.

The New York Post reported that a deal closed on May thirteenth, final sale price eight hundred thousand. Pete had paid reportedly one point two million in December twenty twenty.

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Meanwhile, Pete’s trying to sell that house in North Salem, New York.

First less that at two and a half million, then dropped to two point twenty seven million, dropped again in April to two point one point five million asking price. This brings us back to the rumored split. An insider told The Sun. They’re focusing one hundred percent on Scotty working out the best co parenting situation as the top priority. An insider told The Sun Pete is selling his properties, including his upstate home in his Staten Island apartment, to open up funds as they move forward and figure out the next steps.

Pete has been traveling so much for work, but at least was craving more support from him at home after the daughter was born. It is very hard for him because obviously he has to work to make money. Something more fun than those last few stories. Triumph the insult comic dog shut up on Stove’s World. Everyone calls you stave baby, Am I correct?

That’s right, Triumph, I understand that’s because you look like someone rolled an infant around the. Barbershop for. Right. That’s actually not right. I’m keyding Iikey thikey.

You’re so likable. That’s why you’re a hit. You know, you have this magnetic personality in you, and not just because your body has its own gravitational pull. Drake’s got a new album out. It’s called Iceman.

Why are you bringing that up? Johnny Mac Well, Joe Listen. Mark Norman on their show Tuesdays with Stories said that when Drake was up shooting a video in Toronto, so was Shane Gillis. Is Shane Gillis and a Drake video Stay tuned. Hey, everybody, just take my money.

They’re making a weird Al Broadway musical. I’m there, just just take my money. It’s called Dare to Be Stupid, The Weird Al Musical. The musical shockingly features the songs of weird Al. One of the folks attached to this is Anthony King, who worked on a Beetlejuice which was fantastic.

We are told the musical feature songs including white and Nerdy, Amish Paradise eat it smells like Nirvana and like a surgeon. What no fat? When you’re only having seconds, I’m having twenty thirds. We’re not gonna have that line in musical. Mister Yankovic, in a statement said, ever since I was at middle aged man, I’ve always wanted to be part of the New York theater community.

Plus, the one thing people always say about Broadway is that it’s severely lacking and weird al based entertainment, and I think this musical should fix that problem immediately. Producer Greg Noble said, Beneath the Absurdity and the Joy is a show about creativity, individuality, and the freedom to be unapologetically yours. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with Al and Gang to bring weird Al’s singular word to the stage. Can’t wait. Most of this week we’ll talk about Stephen Colbert, except Friday.

Friday, we’re just going to talk about Byron Allen. I guess last week when the Strike Force five of Folks showed Ouk cut by the way, did you listen to the Strikeforce five podcast? It sounded like garbage. I was so offended by this that I had to I wrote about it on my substack. Just guys record these things properly.

What are you doing? It sounded horrible last week on the Light Show. These strike Force five guys showed up late night. Reports that preliminary Nielsen Live plus same day data said the episode drew two point eight one to nine millions total viewers and a whopping two hundred and thirty one thousand people between eighteen and forty nine.

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Now let’s break that apart.

Let’s do lazy Matthea. So we have two point eight million people and we subtract two hundred and thirty one thousand, So that’s like two and a half million people that watch the show are over forty nine. It’s old people like me or presumably seven year olds. I mean, no events. That’s why this thing isn’t going on.

Everybody’s ancient like me. I’m seven years out of that demo already. Boy, that happened fast. I remember being sad that day. I graduated the eighteen to forty nine’s and again the twenty five to fifty fours.

Yikes. Anyway, two point eight one to nine million total viewers was the Late show’s largest live plus same day total viewer audience since January twenty sixth, which was a Sunday night episode that aired after the AFC Championship game. For normal episode, you’d have to go back to October twenty twenty four. Vice President Kamala Harris was the guest Late Nighter, says the last time they looked and extended YouTube upload of theirppearance racked up three point two million views. After the show, Jimmy Kimmel was asked if they will do more Strike Force five podcasts.

Jimmy said, I can’t imagine not keeping doing it. The appearance on the air with Stephen went so well and was so much fun, it made me think we should do them in front of a live audience. Now, what’s interesting is if you listen to the dynamic and everybody’s saying the same thing, there’s clearly a gang of four, plus Jimmy Fallon like Falin’s like doing his own thing. He doesn’t fit the vibe the other guys. You know, like in every group, there’s like the friend that everyone’s picking on.

I feel like that’s Fallin. So while it wouldn’t shock me if there are some live shows, and Seth and Oliver already do things together regularly, I don’t see Fallon being part of it. Maybe I’m wrong. As for the end of the Late Show, Kimmel said, people are going to be losing jobs. Where do you go if you write jokes for a living.

During the appearance, Jimmy Kimmel joke you could host my show. That started a rumor that that would actually happen. But Late Night of reports, to my personal disappointment, that Jimmy Kimmel is taking the summer off. I personally think that that is a strategic mistake. That Kimmel should stay in the chair this summer.

Again, as I said before, I don’t want to work the summer either, but boy capture that audience. But the guestsos are actually starting pretty soon as soon as the Knicks win the NBA Championship, where maybe someone else does. As soon as the Knicks win the NBA Championship and the NBA Finals are wrapped up, kim will be taking the summer off, and Late Nighter says most of the guest hosts are already lined up. Strategic mistake, guys. Friend of the show, Jason Zenniman, writes for The New York Times.

He asked David Letterman if David Letterman has a favorite memory from the Late Show. Dave said, the band had barely quit playing and they dismantled the set and there were dumpsters on fifty third Street. I remember that happened. That was ugly, and I walked out of the building. I saw the detritus and the debris of my life at CBS being tossed into the dumpster.

Now that’s not a pleasant memory. I don’t know. Talk to somebody else. Yikes. Jason asked Dave about Late Night and said, we still have Jimmy presumably kim Ol, we still have seth.

It’s not completely dead on arrival, but I’d be surprised if it lasts more than a year or so. But it’s such an easy, soothing format that it’s got to stay on. Jason apparently reacted the same way I did. You’d be surprised if Late Night survives another year, Letterman, Well, maybe specific shows. I don’t think it’ll ever go away because it’s just the best.

It’s humans talking to humans. Interesting tidbit here. Zinnemann asked Letterman, could you imagine having Jay Leno as a guest on Dave’s Netflix show. Dave said, we think about it from time to time. This is not a bad idea and answer your question.

Of course, I would love to. I’m sorry, did I say love? Of course, I can imagine heavy Jay. I mean when I was a kid, he was the funniest man in comedy. So just based on that alone, why wouldn’t you boy?

Can we make that happen? That would be amazing. Chicago Magazine caught up with Brian Stack, who has been with The Late Show since twenty fifteen. Prior to that, he wrote with Conan. Stack said the program’s cancelation lester I was a shock, but the mood has been very positive overall, despite everyone’s sadness about it coming to an end.

While I’m proud of certain jokes and bits I’ve tossed in over the years, I think the most fulfilling thing for me has been when I’m aster performing character or do voice of that help bring other writers’ ideas to life. I’ve always loved riffing around with other writers and bouncing ideas back and forth in an improvisational way. A lot of us came from an improv background, including Steven, and we all love coming with ideas collectively that we might never have come up with it on our own. I’m proud that we did our best for the last eleven years to find humor in the events of the day, even when those events were far from humorous. They asked about the challenge of writing so much Trump material, Stack said, he was just everywhere, all the time for the last ten years.

That was something that none of us saw coming when the show started. I think the main challenge for all the writers, Steven included has been trying to lighten the emotional loads so many people carry around with them with Trump in the news twenty four to seven, year after year. Druss me, We’ve always welcomed the chance to write about literally anything else, especially fun silly stuff. On Conan Shows, if we dealt with politics, it was usually in a very silly, cartoony way. I don’t mean cartoony in a pejorative sense.

I just mean that if Robert Smigel was doing his Clinton character, he played it more like a crazy, good old boy. Chicago Magazine asked Stack, is a writer’s day at the Late Show so much different than the Conan Shows? Interesting answer? Stack said, it is. Actually with Conan would start a little later in the morning, maybe around ten thirty or eleven, but would often be there until after midnight.

I’d be on the one am train home of the suburbs. At the late show, we tend to get in earlier and get a jump on the day’s headlines and leave earlier. And we tend to work in pairs on monologue stories and things like that, because Steven’s show is much more monologue centric and there are big chunks of material about each story. We all work on the monologues as well as the other bits. I’d never been a monologu writer till I worked with Stephen’s show.

Uh oh, who’s the better boss, Steven or Conan? More important? Who’s funnier? How are you going to answer that? Stack laughed and said, what are the funny differences between Stephen and Conan?

Is a lot of times you see Stephen in the hall or something, and he’ll talk to you as Steven about something that’s really going on. With Conan. In all my eighteen years there, I rarely had more than one or two genuine conversations with him. He was doing some bit in the hallway, or he’d come in with his guitar or a silly cap on his head and start doing a bit for us. He was always so playfully abusive, and he only does it to people he likes or loves.

If you don’t know Conan, sometimes people think it’s somehow coming from a real place, and it’s not. I remember what I was leaving and asking for his blessing to go to Steven’s show. He was so nice about it and generous and understanding. I was thinking, why does this feel so weird? Oh, this might be the first sincere conversation I had with him in eighteen years.

Stephen could be hilarious too when he’s kidding around with us, but it’s different. He and Conan both come from big family, so I think they’re used to giving crap. Another thing I love about both of them is they love it when other people give them crap. I don’t want to overgeneralize, but in comedians there’s often a lot of self doubt. When people give it back and nail you feels like you’re in a warm bath.

A lot more here. Maybe I’ll save that for like a July fourth pre record. You’ll find the full piece in Chicago Magazine out today on Gorilla Comedy plus Emmy Blotneck’s What’s Her Secret? John Stewart still mad at Apple TV. On The Weekly Show, Stuart compared his time with the Apple folks to an abusive relationship.

John said, Apple made it untenable for us to continue doing our show, and then Apple fired me. Well, they didn’t really fire me. They just told me to work there, I’d have to disown everything that I’d ever held dear and so I left. That show went from September thirtieth, twenty twenty one to October twenty twenty three. I think I watched half of one episode once and just wasn’t John at his best.

Stewart said of his time at Apple, you know what it was self care. I was walking out of what was becoming an abusive relationship. And if you’ve ever been in an abusive relationship with a multinational conglomerate, the hard part about breaking up with Apple is that all the breakup songs are on their technology. It’s almost impossible to avoid very difficult. BBC Comedy boss John Petree says his genre competing with big budget dramas at the BBC is like being the Prince Harry of the TV Royal Family.

He says comedy has to fight harder than it should for attention, for status and sometimes for survival. Hey, John Petrie, check out our sister podcast, Pallace Intrigue. We talk about Harry all the time. You might like it. Petrie says he intends to camp outside new BBC Director General Matt Britton’s office to make sure he understands just how vital it is that the BBC keeps back in comedy because the BBC does not back comedy to make money, we back it for laughs.

Well a sequel to that story. John Petrie was at the BBC Comedy Festival and Live and announce ten new and returning shows. Returning shows include Amandoland, Black Ops, Am, I Being Unreasonable, Things you should have done, such Brave Girls and Mammoth. Sitcom Two Doors Down comes back for an eighth series, and you can watch comedy on BBC I Player. I got three letters for you, VP and N.

Also, you might want to google the phrase London postal code if you know you know. That’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jelly Roll, Andrew Schultz, Akash Singh, Kevin Hart, Hannah Berner

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser discusses imposter syndrome at Netflix’s Night of Too Many Stars
• Jimmy Fallon’s ‘On Brand’ game show canceled due to poor ratings
• NBC orders Wordle game show with Savannah Guthrie as host and Fallon as executive producer
• Jimmy Kimmel to host Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire season five
• Jelly Roll makes stand-up comedy debut at Netflix as a Joke Festival
• Akash Singh leaves Flagrant podcast to focus on stand-up comedy
• Kevin Hart comedy film ’72 Hours’ with Miami bachelor party plot
• Hannah Berner releases special ‘Hannah Berner None of My Business’ on Hulu June 5th

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. And apparently Nikki Glaser has imposter syndrome. She says, I think, who did I trick? How lucky am I have gotten to this place?

She said this at Netflix’s Night of Too Many Stars. Nicky was on a bill that included Steve Crell, Tiffany Hattis, Jimmy Kimmel, John Mulaney, Ally Wong, dramatic actor Adam Sandler, and Comedy Survivor winner Sarah Silverman. Nicky said to feel like I’m on the same lineup as them. It’s just too much to take in. I don’t think about it too much.

I just think, who did I trick? How lucky am I ever gotten to this place? Tonight? She called the Night of Too Many Stars a moment you always dreamed about if you ever made it to this level of the people you get to hang out with. I’m just gonna be kind of a wallflower and observing more than inserting myself into anything.

Bad news for Jimmy Fallon. One of his shows was canceled. No now that one. The other one he was doing, a show called on Brand, which followed Jimmy Fallon as he started a marketing agency and filled it with the most creative, clever, and competitive go getters he could find. The series did not perform well in the ratings.

The time slot was all over the place and the fall It was Tuesdays at ten, sometimes it was Friday at eight. Sometimes there was an NBA game in both those timeslots. In each episode of On Brand, contestants worked with a major brand in need of a big idea for a massive, high priority campaign. The sales deportmat liked the idea. Jimmy Fallon had told a panel, it’s so beyond product placement.

We’re giving you forty minutes as opposed to a thirty second spot. I’m talking about your brand for a whole hour. Well that didn’t work, but better news for Jimmy Fallon. NBC announced a series order for Wordle, a game show based on the popular New York Times game puzzle. Jimmy Fallon will be the executive producer.

Today’s Show host Savannah Guthrie will host the show. Jimmy said, I feel very honored to be working with Savannah Guthrie on the show. Savanna has that rare combination of intelligence, charm and warmth that makes everybody feel instantly welcome, and she obviously knows how to host a show. In a really hacky statement, when I emphasize words there in camps here, it was a nod to wordle having five letter words. Jimmy said, I am super proud and happy, and I think we developed a solid gamer for prime time.

Yikes. Jimmy Kimmel will host Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It will return for a fifth season Wednesday, July twenty second, at eight o’clock. I’ll be at volleyball. It’s Celebrity a Millionaire.

I hate the celebrity versions. I get it, but like I hate the celebrity versions. We’ll see if Jimmy winds up taking the summer off, or if he takes my advice and stays hosting. Jimmy Kimmel live himself to capture some of the soon to be displaced Colbert audience. So we’re going to talk about that this week.

Yahoo wants to see jelly Roll at the Netflix as a Joke Comedy festival. Jelly Roll asked the crowd to put the phones down. Why he wanted to tell some dirty jokes without videos. Ending up online the next day, or worse, getting him canceled. The person from Yahoo was there said, when I put my own phone down and looked around, I didn’t see a single one in the air.

I personally haven’t seen any jelly Roll clips, not that I looked, we are told. While making his stand up debut, jelly Roll seemed a little unsure, a little wired, his hands visibly trembling as he gripped his notes. He joked, I think the last time I was this nervous, I was in front of the parole board. He joked about his weight loss journey and how that has changed his approach to intimacy, saying for a long time he really only had one move, which was Ley in prey. This joke’s pretty good.

You know how hard it is to write a country song and rhyme the word ozempic. I’m from a competitive family. My mother was fat, my father was fat, and my brother was fat, and I made it a point to be the fattest. Yeah, who says it wasn’t perfectly polished, and that was part of the appeal. Jelly Roll never pretended to be anything other than exactly what it was In that moment, The first timer figuring out on the fly.

He told the audience, I wanted an opportunity to show people that I don’t take myself as serious as the music would assume. If we take anything from tonight, it’s don’t take anything too serious. The headliner was Andrew Schultz, who were told brought his signature rapid fire energy. Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff were also there, perhaps rehearsing for the roost.

Also on this show, very edgy show, Big Jay Okerson, Adam Ray, and Josh Adam M…

Jelly Roll returned to the stage to sing Friends in Low Places.

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Speaking of Andrew Schultz, he had made this announcement.

Akash Singh has left the Flagrant two podcast. I’ll let Andrew tell you about that. We got to address the elephant in the room. No pun intended, as I’m sure you guys where a boy are cash? She really went through it earlier this year, showed amazing resilience.

He’s made the decision to focus all of his energy on stand up. He is going to be stepping away from the pod. Johnny, you never mentioned Kevin Hart. Well, there’s a trailer for the new movie seventy two Hours, which stars Kevin Hart and Marcello Hernandez, who does one thing well.

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Also in this Thing, Cam Patterson, who perhaps made his last SML appearance l…

Seventy two Hours centers on Kevin Hart as a forty year old executive. How old is Kevin Harr playing forty Kevin Hardy’s forty six? Okay, see, I would have guess Kevin Horant was in his fifties already, so I’m not sure I buy him as a forty year old executive who wants to give his career boost. He hopes to accomplish that by joining a group of twenty somethings at a wild bachelor party weekend in Miami, and of course, one of the co stars it’s more solo her Nanez. I think we know how this is gonna go.

There’s a trailer. I want to pull it for you. It just doesn’t work for the podcast, Ben Marshall told The Hollywood Reporter was my first time being an actor for hire, But I’m also interested in doing something a bit more grounded. A rom com would be cool. Hannah Berner will have a special.

It’s on Hulu. Sorry, Hannah. Hannah Burner is none of my Business June fifth, She says, I’m so proud of the special. I can’t wait for people to see it. It feels like you’ve been painting something for a long time.

I don’t know why I’m using paint as an example, but the masterpiece is finally dotted and I’m ready to show it to the world. In Hannah Burner None of My Business, Hannah Burner gets more vulnerable than ever, delving into her unorthodox career path, uncertainty around her future, dating secrets, and more. She told VERI what’s crazy about stand up is after my first special, which I love so much, you then start from scratch. It feels like you won the Super Bowl and then you have to learn how to play football again. When the tour was done, I booked a ton of clubs where I just went on stage with a notebook and basically read off my premises, so everyone knew I was working on material, and I literally was like, is this funny?

For my sophomore special. I’m so proud of it. Because you’re better at writing, you’re better performing and it was a slow process of just trying out new jokes, and once I felt like I had the hour, I was like, we’re ready for theaters. I did sixty five shows before I shot this special, so the material is tried and true and practice and refined. This took about two and a half years to get it to where it is, so it’s been a long run.

And as you get nervous before shows, Anna Burner said, my friends make fun of me because it could be the biggest venue of the smallest venue. I’m always the same. You have to be funny, and if you take yourself too seriously, it’s so hard to just turn that on once you’re on stage. My green room is very relaxed. Me and my openers are just laughing, joking.

I’m online shopping, I’m scrolling through TikTok, I’m on the phone with my husband. It’s very chill. And that’s a lot of me being tired and then knowing when I got on stage the audience is can inject my veins with energy and awake again. It’s a lot of plain sleep perform. When it comes to filming, I do get nervous because on stage is this live beautiful experience.

We’re just in the moment. With filming, it’s there forever. There’s so many logistics and so many moving pieces. I had the pleasure of working with Carol Burnett one time. I have this little list I’ve been making as I remember these random things of celebrities that I’ve met, I have to add Carol’s name to it.

Carol’s old people. She taught herself slapstick comedy. Carrol, who is ninety three, said, I taught myself. I just learned that you don’t stiffen up when you’re gonna fall down. I remember when I first got on the Gary Moore Show.

We did a sketch that’s from nineteen fifty nine to nineteen sixty two. Wow, we did a sketch where I had to jump out of a window. I said sure, because I wanted the job. I landed on a mattress and stupidly said thanks. I just thought I was gonna go splat.

She remembered Jerry Lewis asking her, are you sure you know what you’re doing? Because Lewis did the same kind of pratfalls. She said she was able to embrace physical comedy because of the way she grew up, I used to fly kites and roller skate up the sidewalks. We would climb the Hollywood Sign with the neighborhood kids. The boards were rickety and you’d get splinters, but at the top you could lean over and just look in Hollywood.

I feel like I’ve lived a charm life with so many coincidences that have happened. I am thrilled as just as I reflect. I’m lucky that I got to work with Carol Burnett for an hour one time. The Toronto Guardian does this wonderful series where they talk to local comedians. They spoke with Toronto comedian Tyler Morrison, best known for his sharp tongued, darkly funny, and unapologetically blue collar style.

He says his style is a mix of dark and blue collar comedy, so maybe he has invented dark blue collar comedy. Run with that, buddy. His influences include Eddie Murphy, Andrew Dice, Clay Rodney, Daserfield, Tom Green, Adam Sandler, Norm MacDonald and David Letterman. None of that’s blue collar comedy? Where’s the Foxworthy?

Who’s your favorite comedian growing up? Chris Rock, who’s your favorite comedian now? Doug Stanhope. I’m not sure this is blue collar comedy in the fox Worthy sense of things. Maybe we should use like working man comedy or something.

Tyler Morrison says, Doug Stanhope has a large volume of consistently funny Top Tier for two is one of the best to ever do at Stanhope is fantastic. Louis c. K, David tel and Mike Wilmot are pretty hard to top. And I always enjoy stand up from comics in my own generation, like America’s foremost political journalist Andrew Schultz, Shane Gillis, and Adrian Appalucchi. What is your pre show ritual, Tyler Morrison?

He said, workout during the day, have a mid afternoon meal, and try not to drink more than four beers before the show. He needs to take Johnny Max’s advice, which is two beers not eight always. And that is your comedy news for today. We’ve got a big week coming up. It’s the end of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, or the end of the late show period.

I assume we’ll see more Stephen Colbert. You know what I meant? All right, see tomorrow

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Featured: Will Ferrell, Paul McCartney, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ringo Starr, Lorne Michaels, John Lennon, Jeff Ross, Kevin Hart, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• SNL with Will Ferrell hosting and Paul McCartney as musical guest
• Chris Rock’s Tupac Shakur dating history revealed on Fly on the Wall podcast
• Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr duet ‘Home to Us’ on new album
• Potential Ringo Starr appearance on SNL during Paul McCartney’s episode
• Rolling Stones new album ‘Foreign Tongues’ with Paul McCartney guest appearance
• Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Real People, Fake Arms’ bit featuring Mick Jagger
• Kevin Hart and Michelob Ultra World Cup 2026 Final fan opportunity contest

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Kalaroga. Shok Media got a pretty big Saturday Night Live tonight. We’ll see if Louren Michaels is saying goodbye. I don’t think so. And I’m still buzzing about Letterman on Colbert.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now people are wondering is there more to the Will Smith Chris Rock thing. Yeah, that’s back. I didn’t expect that to be back. Today, Chris Rock was on the Fly on the Wall podcast with Spade and Carvey.

Rock was asked to name his five favorite rappers. During that Chris Rock said that he had beef with Tupac Shakur because they often dated the same woman and Tupac usually won out. Now, why is this interesting? Tupac Shakur’s most famous girlfriend was Jada Jata aka Jada Smith, Will Smith’s wife. Over the years, Jada has denied dating Tupac Shakor, saying they were platonic soulmates.

In twenty twenty three, Jada revealed that Chris Rock had asked her out on a eight years ago. She claimed that Chris Rock called her saying I’d love to take you out. According to this version of the story Chris Rock was taking a shot because he thought she was getting divorced from Will Smith, who knows very interesting. Tonight Saturday Night Live, is it Lauren Michael’s final episode? Some people are speculating that it’s a good time to get out.

I think we would have heard something. I don’t think Lauren’s just gonna suddenly walk away on a random Saturday in May. Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell’s your host. Paul McCartney is your musical guest. Oh my god.

Well, we’re so excited to have you here with Yeah, we’re big fans. Gosh, you guys. Thanks, I’m really excited to be back. Hey, Andrew, need you do me a favor and get off the stage? Okay, thanks God.

This place looks exactly the same. Yeah. I don’t think they’ve changed it much. Yeah, they even kept this. It’s very funny.

I was delighted by that joke. Get off the damn stage. So do you guys have any sketch ideas? Uh? Tell him about SpongeBob is a Circle now?

Oh, I can’t wait to see that. Okay, I see your showing off for Chlory and Sarah. I’m gonna give you a little show off my own. I’m gonna give you the beating of a lifetime in front of the’s gorgeous town and ladies. How’s that’s the stage?

How’s the stage? Yikes? That wasn’t Andrew? Who was it Paul McCartney? Oh sorry, Paul, you can stay on the stage.

You guys are gonna have to find a new host. Just start bowing, Just start bowing, okay? Late night or among those of us wondering, could Paul McCartney finally bring a Beatles runion to Saturday Night Live? Obviously John and George can’t be there. Paul’s already there.

Could Ringo come by? Paul’s promoting his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. On that album is a song called Home to Us. Build is the first true duet between McCartney and Ringo and the first song since the Beatles broke up to feature two members alternating lead vocals. I like the song.

It’s a little cheesy, it’s a little catchy, which kind of is what McCartney does, kind of what Ringo does too, So I like it. Their guys in their eighties relax. Maybe the vocals artists good as they used to be. You be of the Beatles now. Ringo himself just had an album called Long Long Road.

He is not on tour until May twenty eighth. Ringo has only appeared on SNL once, hosting an episode nineteen eighty four, and that was when Lorne Michaels wasn’t there. I think that’s just a coincidence. You may recall the story in nineteen seventy six, Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles cash to reunite on SNL. Lorne Michael said, all you have to do is sing three Beatles songs, and he offered them three thousand dollars.

Now, what’s great about the story is John Lennon revealed that he and McCartney happen to be hanging out that night at John Lennon’s apartment at the Dakota, and they considered going down to show up and collect the three thousand dollars. That would have been amazing if you’re not familiar with New York City, just between the Dakota and Thirty Rock, not a lot at all. They could have jumped in a cab. By the way, mentioned Lennon and McCartney jumping in a cab, but it’s in New York City that stuff used to go on, so we will see if they show up. Now.

We learned from Jeff Ross that the roast of Kevin Hart maybe perhaps could have been the roast of Paul McCartney. Jeff told Variety, we did ask Paul McCartney at one point. To me, that would be a fantasy roast. Paul McCartney doesn’t eat anything, but a Paul McCartney roast would be good for the world. Would be so funny to me because he’s so loved.

That’s a good segue to some stories that I didn’t get to all week. I’ve been holding on of these. But we’ll go from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones. The Stones have a new album coming out. Their last album, Ackney Diamond’s in twenty twenty three, was pretty good.

The first two songs from the new album are decent. The new album, Foreign Tongues, includes guest spots from people like Paul McCartney, not like actually Paul McCartney, Robert Smith of The Cure, and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Rolling Stones joined Conan O’Brien in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ronnie Wood told Conan that Paul McCartney was checking items off his bucket list and wanted to appear on the album. Said now I could say I’ve played with the Rolling Stones. Conan described hosting the conversation as the gig of a lifetime.

Conan said that the vocals on the new album didn’t sound a lot different from the vocals from nineteen sixty eight. Mick Jaggers said, well, I was taking a lot of drugs in sixty eight. Conan joked he was actually there to stage an intervention. The new record will be out July tenth. The Rolling Stones were also hanging out with Jimmy Fallon.

Fallon brought back a bit called real people, Fake Arms and did this with Mick Jagger. The bit originated with Will Ferrell, who’s on SNL tonight. This All’s coming together, John Well done Total Accident. Back in twenty ten, Jimmy Fallon and a celebrity guest act out a scene from the fictional nineties Canadian soap opera Jacob’s Patience. The running gag, one of the actors insists on using manneqin arms instead of their own, no matter how observe the situation while the other tries and fails to carry on as if everything is normal.

In the Jagger Peace, they were in a jewelry store called Hackney Diamonds again the name of the Rolling Stones twenty twenty three out, which is pretty good. Mick Jagger greets Jimmy Fallon and says, please to meet you. Hope you guess my name. Ron Wood was on Wednesday’s Fallon. Keith Richards was on Thursday’s fallon.

John You never mentioned Kevin Hart. I know Kevin Hart has teamed up with michelob Ultra. They are going to pay one soccer fan ninety thousand dollars for ninety minutes of work at the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final. My question of the winner is how are you gonna get there? You’re gonna pay one hundred and fifty dollars train, you can’t park at the stadium and there’s no ride shares.

How are we supposed to get to this game? The selected fan will be the Superior Player of the Match Chief Trophy Officer. That fan will be responsible for delivering the Superior Player of the Match trophy on the field during the World Cup Final. In addition, to the ninety thousand compensation package. The recipient will receive two tickets and access to the championship match at the Stadium here in New Jersey on July nineteenth.

Again, O doun’t on how they’re going to get there. Kevin Hart, you never from him said this really might be the best job in the world. I mean, it’s so good. I even tried applying for it. To go from being a fan at home and end up at the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final matches, something most people can only wish for.

Remember, like ten major stories ago, there was Kevin Hart funny af and the winner was Ron Taylor. Ron Taylor won a comedy special on Netflix. Does he have a time limit on that? Ron Taylor told AV Club about a week ago. I haven’t got any of details about that, at least not yet.

I’m still kind of wiping crust out of my eyes. But the way I’ve been thinking about it is that’s next month. So every month I’m gonna say I have to shoot this hour next month. That way I can be working on it diligently and intently to where it’ll be ready whenever it needs to be ready. A right Ron Taylor, How are you gonna use your new found visibility?

Ron Taylor said, it’s interesting. Kevin Hart has given a good blueprint of what I think most comedians would like to do when they think about life outside comedy before. A good blueprint could have been like Steve Harvey doing different shows and stuff like that. But I think Kevin has done everything. He’s got his own shoe.

He’s a comedian that’s not very tall, and he’s got his own athletic shoe. He’s got movies, books, he’s even got a music deal. He’s got a rap alter ego Chocolate Droppa he does. I didn’t know that. Is that a thing?

I’m googling? What do you know? There’s a tiny desk concert on YouTube. Oh, we will get to this some other day, like July fourth week, when I’m like, how am I going to fill the time? We’ll get into that.

I’ll just add that to the notes for a slow news day. We got too much of this week, Ron Taylor said, I want to use this momentum to work as much as I can. When you’re coming up and you’re trying to make things happen, you can’t just go to a comedy club and say, hey, can I have a weekend here? They’re like, can you put butts in seats? If not, get out of here.

President Obama teased his upcoming HBO Max show that one feature is comedian Larry David. You know that guy. It is titled Life Larry in the Pursuit of Unhappiness. Obama set up sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled with some of the globe’s most intractable problems. Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David.

I’m just a producer on the show, so I don’t have to deal with them day to day, but still it’s a lot. Larry David then walks into the video goes hey forty four. Obama says yeah. Larry asks can I put you down as my emergency contact? Obama says, why would you do that?

Larry says, well, if they see your name, they’ll be more inclined to help Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, HBO. June twenty sixth NBC picked up the paper for season two on Peacock That’s the Office spinoff. I was kind of enjoying it. And I think I got I don’t know, maybe seven of the ten in I’m not sure I finished the season. Maybe I did, can’t remember.

It’s fine. NBC is also renewed Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe, for a second season. The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a former football star whose career ended in a gambling scandal. Apparently someone’s watching that. Prime Video signed up Brett Goldstein for an eight episode, half hour single camera romantic comedy in es Courted a divorce dad, presumably Brett Goldstein accidentally becomes a male escort and I’m pretty sure it’s Brett Goldstein in this romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.

Goldstein said, I’m so excited to bring a wholesome show about condoms, co parting and cosplay. Amazon the place where I actually buy my condoms, like a real circle moment. Last weekend, like you know, like eight days ago, maybe fifteen days ago. I bumped a lot of stuff this week. John Stewart was down in Philadelphia playing drums for his band Church and State.

This was at the Singer’s Home festival. John Stewart learned how to play drums during COVID. He said, it’s been such an incredible gift to sit around guitarist Andy Bova’s basement like a group of proper fourteen year olds and write songs. Who’s up for some indie old man emo? Not a Jeanreyette, but it’s coming.

The band is led by singer songwriter Rick Berry, who’s an Asbury Park musician. If you’re not hip to Asbury Park, New Jersey, there’s a thriving music scene down there, always a great place to catch a show. Boba’s father, Jim, plays bass. Church and State’s YouTube page has forty eight subscribers. We had to get them some more forty eight and they’ve posted three videos from past shows.

John Stewart said, the feeling you get when desparate limbs locking and moving away they never have before. You can feel new neural pathways opening up, lighting up. It feels like the opposite of death. And John was playing drums for The Very White Stripes. That is the band that appeared the other day with Codin O’Brien on guzar.

Jimmy Kimmel on I don’t know, some sort of woodwind I don’t remember. I’m doing this story from memory and some lovely young lady on vocals and they just shared another clip which I just grabbed. So we’ll let that take us out and I will see you tomorrow. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, go on Apple Podcasts. Click on the show.

There’s a banner it says uninterrupted listening. You click that. Then for thirty days no commercials asterisk, and then after that it’s five bucks a month. Great way to support the show. Now, what’s the asterisk?

John? I have to do this manually. Take it up with my hosting company. They will not add away from me to automate this. Every other hosting company has this, but the one I use just won’t do it, no matter how much I nag them or shame them publicly like I’m doing now.

So what happens is John gets up in the morning and has to grab the show and upload it a second time, which is not, you know, torture. But I’m also not doing that at three oh five in the morning, So you get the commercial free episode at like seven something, only by seven fifteen. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: David Letterman, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• David Letterman returns to Ed Sullivan Theater for Late Show appearance
• Letterman and Colbert banter about theater history and CBS ownership
• Letterman discusses emotional connection to Late Show through his mother
• Throwing CBS property off Ed Sullivan Theater roof

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. My, oh my, we are having some fun now. Oh my god, I’m so emotional. I just watched the eclipse of David Letterman on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Now, my original plan was for this to be the top of Saturday’s episode.

Actually recorded everything on Saturday but the Letterman part. But no, we are doing a bonus episode. This is a bonus episode for Friday. If you missed it, there was a very robust twenty minute episode for the regular Friday episode. Please go listen to that.

But we got to talk about Dave. Dave returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater on top of his game. I’m gonna play a lot of clippage here. I am so excited about this. This was just so nice to see Dave come home.

And it wasn’t what I’ve referred to in the past as establishment David Letterman. This was my Dave came back. You will see extremely nice banter between the two. I have made some edits for pacing, but here’s David Letterman with Stephen Colbert. So, Dave, how.

About ball in the band? Later? I’m a little and come a long way. Why is it so cold in here. Why do you keep this theater so.

Cold so your beard won’t make you sweat? Dave, thank you very much. I don’t know. I came very close to being teary about that, So thank you everybody. Oh, thank you boy.

You know what happened backstage? I’m standing backstage. A guy comes over and he says he’s from CBS, and then he fired me. I’m sorry, cat astray. What is going right over there?

I will say, And I have every right to be pissed off, so I’ll just I’ll be pissed off here a little bit. Because this theater. You folks wouldn’t be in this theater if it weren’t for me, and Stephen wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for me, and we we rebuilt this theater, and then Stephen came in and look at this. It’s like the Belagio. But listen as well as we are.

What is wrong them? Nothing’s wrong Dave. As we as we all understand, you can take a man’s show, you can’t take a man’s voice. So that’s the good news of me. Thank you, sir.

There you go. Oh that’s very kind of you. You know what, I’m really worried about. What What I’m really worried about is what will become of the Jimmy’s. I don’t know.

Are they going to be all right? We’re We’ve got a plan to put them in a captive breeding program. Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard that phrase. That pretty good, Yes, sir. Really great banter between the two.

So Steven invited Dave back. I won’t spoil it. Listen, is this the last show? By the way, I was told it was the last show. It is the last show of this week?

Next week is the last show? Oh, so I’ll come back. Of course, You’re welcome anytime. Why don’t you stop by Friday? That’s mean?

What you’re so mean? But now is the will the Pope be here? The Pope? I’m still angling for the Pope? I still I listen.

I’m a devout Catholic. I’ve talked about it on TV. I think that’s got to earn me some points, right, Vatican works. Anytime you talk about something on TV, you got to be right in there. Buddy.

You had you would have your own office in Vatican City. You’re talking about it on TV. I’m be good, But you never had the Pope, did you six seven times? Oh? Wow, JP two.

We always I get a kick out of you. Bring in the big hat now, but seriously, but all of this is fantastic. This is not hotel stuff. This is beautiful, all custom made, all custom made, dave really expensive. It looks like from Is this from Wayne and Schuster?

Is that where this comeshm? Yes, it’s from Socco and Vanzetti’s. Pw off a van Who owns this stuff? And what do you have? It’s all this is an Eames like a very expensive probably fifteen hundred Pronouncedames.

I don’t know, man, I don’t know. You’re fancier than I am. But that’s certainly not true. Okay, but all this was. Custom made by when we when we renovated, owns it is what I’m doing, owns everything.

Oh this is CBS prop All belongs to the paramount CBS Corporation. Now wait a minute, are they affiliated with sky Dance? Yes? I believe we are all sky Dancers now yeah. Yeah, this is nice to be ashamed of.

Something happened to it. It would be it would be the same day they were BA. Where I’m talking about Gene see the Jane Crest yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, guys pointing, all right, welcome back. So I was, what’s happening here, Dave?

You know, you know, we know what to do? You know what we got to Ohio. So at that point some guys came out and took away the two guest chairs and Steven’s chair. We will get back to what was happening there. So now the guys have nowhere to go, and they go sit in the audience for a little bit.

The memories are infinite coming back here, more so this time than I was on. You were nice enough to invite me on a couple of years ago. That was a big emotion packed moment as well. The memories now because this thing has come to a screeching halt by other hands. And I guess the connection to my mother through the Late Show.

She and I had a well you know what mothers are like, right. Uh. And I think my mother and I only really finally became close when she was part of the Late Show production and we sent her to Norway. That’s right. And people to this day, like that fellow, that misguided man back there, always tell me they loved my mother more than they did me on the show, and That still pisses me off.

And I think the reason. We were not so close earlier in our lives is because she was named American Miss American Taciturn ninety years in a row. Here’s a conversation that I used to have with my mother, David, that’s not funny. We sent her to Norway and when she got back, I said, Mom, did you see any of the Fjords? Yes?

They were beautiful. Yes.

And then I said, well, what about Chevy’s?

Did you see any Chevys?

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Now here’s a memorable, all telling conversation.

And I don’t want you to read into this all negativity, because I’m sure. It was good fun I get a call at the house. My wife and I are. It’s a Saturday, and we’re making Saturday evening dinner. The phone ringers, It’s hello, David.

It’s mom. Oh, hi, Mom? What can I do for it? Well, we’ve finished our estate planning and you’re not in the will. And friends.

Let me take the break here, but let me tell you, sometimes, if you live long enough, you get everything you ever wanted. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will continue with Dave Letterman right after this. All right, we are back at the Ed Sullivan Theater. We are on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater. One might call it a five story tower.

Up on the roof are the moving guys from before, the two guest chairs and Steven Cole Bear’s chair, And here we are at the top of a tower. What might possibly happen? Let’s listen, Dave, Could you. Mind telling the folks out there watching TV where we are right now? This is like being back home for me.

We are on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater building and I couldn’t be happier. It’s a beautiful view from up here. Would you share with the people why we are on the roof of the Ed Salton right now? I thought maybe tonight’s occasion would be a little sad, being the end of your run here, but this brings true joy to my heart. We are up here for the wanton destruction of CBS property.

Now I know for many years I enjoyed this as a viewer. You can throw things off the Ed solved Right building. This is a true story. When I first got this gig, one of the. First things they told me before we even moved into the offices is that I would not be allowed to throw anything off of the roof of the ed Solivant building because.

Evidently there was a problem with a previous tenant. Yes, I’m so excited about this, so am I? All right? So I was never allowed to do this, but we get. It in all the time.

I never did it. But we’re at the end here, so all bets are off.

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Let’s get to it.

Let’s go all right, this is These are the guys did the heavy workfuls cripple Jean. Yehi, guys, guy, thanks. For helping you. Guys will verify that this is actually CBS property, right, Okay, anytime you’re ready. Stephen all right, Oh my guys, before we do this, Dave, I think we should have a target, don’t you.

Right down there? My friends, I think circular like there, Yeah. I got the target. Here is the CBS ie logo. I have shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

But this is just amazing. Let’s go back to Dave and Steven. It’s all fun until somebody puts out an eye. That’ll do. Then we go get ready.

Oh my god, yes we missed the target, but still. That don’t worry Dave. We brought a spare. This is OK. Let’s think about what happened last time.

Yeah, you got to a guest of the road. Yeah you just don’t drop. I would, I wouldn’t. Yeah, I would just go straight down. Let’s show ye’d be ashamed of Wait this man on the island.

What’s your advice, I’d say, just look out for the wind and keep it closer to the bill. Watch the wind. Yeah, here we go. Yeah, it’s unwell, Melisabeth Levan, can we see that again? At swim?

Will conclude. Out we have what dave do you want? Do you want to do this? One? Me is a little lighter, and now this is yours.

This is my desk chair. All right, we’ll say it by my friend. All right, how many hours of you and your ass spin in that chair? Oh uh? One thousand, eight hundred and ten shows.

Here we go, Here we go.

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All right, let’s give it a go.

One a little my way. There you go, one, two, three? Oh you know, I’m sorry, we’re up here. Bring on the melon and now we’re getting somewhere. All right, stee, if you go.

First, it’s not the fourth of July, so you drop melons. Thank you, same to you. I think it’s better if we miss I don’t break my heart. Pam here. Yeah, let’s let’s ignore the target.

Ready, yeah go yeah, oh my grin. It is like the fourth of July. It’s a thing of man we’re doing all right, I get it. I’m gonna go high. You’re gonna go high out?

You mean, yeah, far out? All right, I’ll join. I’m gonna go for the manhole cover. Okay, God hopes there’s not a maze there. Two three?

Yeah, Oh, I mean it’s like fireworks, isn’t it. Galileo would be proud. All right, the network I sent over. One last thing. Oh, this is both of us, thoughtful of them.

Yeah. The Late Show nineteen ninety three to twenty twenty six. So how many years is that? No way of knowing? All yours, my friend?

Yeah. The aerodynamics of wedding cake not to be believed. WHOA what a day for a walk? Well, Dave, yes, sir, Hey, thanks so much for creating the Late thirty three years ago. It’s been a pleasure having you back to the prom stuff.

The pleasure is all mine. I enjoyed destroying stuff. It’s great, great fun. Thank you for everything you’ve done for our country. Oh feelings, Mittell, Dave, thank you, anything you’d like to save the audience before we go, Well, not necessly.

SAI late for the audience, making the folks CBS and the words of the great Ed Murrow. Good night and good luck mother, Dave. Lederman, everybody, We’ll be right back with the strokes. And boy, what emotional farewell from David Letterman. You can hear it my voice.

This is all the feelings, absolutely fantastic, and that is your bonus episode on a Friday. As I mentioned earlier, there’s a normal episode for Friday earlier the feet. It’s about twenty minutes long, and I will catch you back in the morning.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, Kevin Hart, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Michael Che

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien to host 2027 Oscars for third consecutive year
• Stephen Colbert’s final Late Show episodes and emotional reflection
• Colbert’s kissing guests tradition during final week
• CNN documentary ‘The Last Laugh: Stephen Colbert’ announcement
• Michael Che pulled from Kevin Hart roast due to SNL scheduling
• Kevin Hart roast lineup shuffling and last-minute changes

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Johnny Mac, you never talk about the roost of Kevin Hard. I know, right, We’ll get to that in a second, but I gotta tell you Conan O’Brien will return to host the Oscars for a third year in a row. Now.

Surprisingly to me, the reaction on social media was kind of man, people are like, oh, Conn’s back. They did not seem excited about it. I think Conan did a fine job and just roll it back. The Oscars are heading to YouTube, so you know, when it goes to YouTube, they’re gonna have like somebody like mister Beast hosts the things. So while it’s still on ABC, let’s just do a proper show with a nice, solid host.

Conan O’Brien will host the ninety ninth Oscars March fourteenth to twenty twenty seven. I’ll have to stay up late that night. Craig Erwitch, president of Disney Television Group, said Conan has created remarkable energy around the Oscars. His singular comedic voice makes Hollywood’s biggest night one of the most entertaining celebrations of the year. We’re proud to welcome him back and look forward to what he and the producing team deliver next.

Interestingly, I’m not seeing a statement from Conan O’Brien. I also thought the timing of that was weird. I guess it was tied to the ABC upfronts. Maybe that’s what the timing was. Yeah, that would make sense now to that I’m talking as I think, but just with all the Stephen Colbert noise, just seemed an odd time to announce it.

The Strike Force five guys did put out another podcast. The Strike Force Five are Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon. A lot of people think that the first four are pretty tight, and Jimmy Fallon is an add on. Colbert talked about how he’s feeling with just a few late show episodes left. He said, it’s super real.

I’ve sunk it into it. Actually, what I’ve said is the rising tide of emotion has reached my chin, and now the only thing to do is take a deep breath and swim like l of H twenty. First, he said he feels a little like a college senior, but he isn’t too sure about his future plans. He says, the show takes all of my mind, like ninety five percent of my mind every day to do the show until it’s over, I don’t really know. I’ve had some really nice meetings with people like we want to be in the Stephen Colbert business, and I’m like, that’s wonderful.

What is that? Can you tell me please? Colbert said that the staff has to almost immediately leave the show’s offices as soon as the finale airs. Looking ahead next Friday, they’re not even airing one last rerun. They’re going straight to Byron Allen’s thing on Friday night.

Colbert said, no one’s got a job after that night. I think the next day everyone’s fired. I think maybe the crew has some time to clear out the studio, but the staff has to be all gone. I think they’re going to start tearing things out immediately. I know my staff is not paid the next day, like they’re out.

I’ve already packed my office. Colbert said he will miss working with young people who are good at their jobs and who you met when they were first out of college. John Oliver asked Steven how many times he’s had a guest and then vowed to never have them back on the show. Colbert said the number is probably not double figures. But without naming names, Colbert said he interviewed a former Bush administration official on The Colbert Report who only spoke negatively about George w when the cameras were off.

Colbert said, I said, why didn’t you say that on camera? That’s why you’re here, and he goes, well, I got to get a job in this town. That’s the first person I ever said. That person can never come back. Kim All asked Colbert if there are any guests he found distractingly attractive.

Colbert said he didn’t know what to do with my eyeballs when Michelle Williams was on. He also seemed to like Rachel Wise, Rebecca Ferguson, and Andrew Garfield. Seth Meyers joked, by the way, we’re going to keep doing this podcast without you, and it won’t be the same. Colbert has been kissing people all week. On Monday night, when the Strikeforce five games were on, the group was asked, have you guys ever made out with a guest on camera?

Colbert looked at Jimmy Fallon, who asked, why would you look at me like this? Colbert said, because I think you’ve made out with guests on camera. Fallon said, no, I think you just want to make out with me. Colbert then pulled Jimmy Fallon in for a kiss. Colbert shared that he has kissed Sally Field, Helen Mirren, Alison, Jenny, Jeff Daniels, and Andrew Garfield at one point or another throughout his CBS program.

Then, on Tuesday night, Julia Louis Dreyfus was on the show. She said she wanted to join the list of guests that he has kissed. Julia said, no, one’s watching, it’s just between us. Colbert said, what harm is that, Julia Nunn? What could possibly go wrong?

Then they kissed. That got cheers. Colbert said, well, the interview’s going great so far. Why don’t we do another take. Then later in the same episode, Pedro Pascal came by and they kissed.

Pascal said, I got jealous. If you can’t get enough Stephen Colbert, CNN is cashing in this weekend with a CNN flash doc called The Last Laugh Stephen Colbert, It’ll be on the CNN app today at Lair Sunday at eight pm Eastern. We’re told, for more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has sat at the center of Late Night, where comedy, politics, and culture collide. As he prepares to take the desk for the final time, the Last Laugh turns its lens on both the show and the man, etc. Etc.

Sounds like a pretty generic doc Radar online shading Stephen Colbert. They randomly dusted off this story. Apparently when Steven’s appendix ruptured in late twenty twenty three, he feared guest hosts might overshadow him. Now, even David Letterman last week told I think he told Bill Simmons that Letterman didn’t like the idea of having guest hosts because he never wanted to get up the desks. So let’s not throw Colbert under the bus here.

Who’s the last person that’s sat in for Jimmy Fallon? Huh, Jimmy Kimmel seems a little more secure. Oh, I keep forgetting to mention. Let me get this point out here. Maybe I said this is I keep thinking of This is Jimmy Kimmel insane if he takes this summer off because the Colbert people are going to want to go somewhere, and I think the most likely landing place is Kimmel’s show, and then Kimmel usually takes July and August off, and you’d have guest hosts.

I think he should probably work this summer. Now. I know that’s a big ask. Johnny Mac doesn’t like working in the summer. I get it, but boy, to capture that audience, maybe don’t take two months off and do fresh shows and try and get the former Colbert people to like you.

You could be the king of Late Night, make a lot of money. I know they keep talking about Jimmy might walk away, and I don’t see it. He’s roughly my age. I think he should work. We’ll see what happens.

Anyway, back to Colbert and guest hosts, an insiders told Rater Online, Colbert’s decision to stick with reruns highlights a deep level insecurity. Steven is not a exactly I passed the Baton type of person. There’s no chance of him handing over the reins to someone who might want to push him. Handle the way too, and at this point it’s a moot point. Michael Chay has weighed in on the roast of Kevin Hart.

Two sources involved in the production tell Variety that Michael Chay was supposed to be on the roast but had to pull out because of SNL scheduling difficulties. Ardy says Chay was not alone. Sources say the roast lineup had undergone quite a bit of shuffling, with several last minute editions and dropouts. That’s interesting. Michael Chay went on Instagram and commented on the roast, I’m gonna swamp out the N word and I’ll use the word fellas just to keep the rhythm of what he wrote.

White guys and black people joke different. Black guy’s a roast like look at this fellow’s shoes. White roast are like slavery, MAT’s lane teen sex crime, slurs, family secrets. White guys don’t give an f about the shoes. Chay, in a separate post, wrote, let’s do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last ten years.

I love that. Who should we get to write it? On the next slide, he included a photo of the five joke writers hired by Shane Gillis, all of whom are white. Variety pointed out the telecap had seventeen credit writers, quote, several of whom are black unquote. Many of the comedians hired their own team of writers, including Tony Hinchcliff and Chelsea Handler.

Pete Davidson’s writing partner Dave Cyrus, listed several jokes he said were cut from the roast. I’ll do my best here. In one of the jokes, Kevin Hart was called the Michael Jordan of Baseball of comedy. Kevin’s in superhero shape. He could start in Wakanda four to eleven because next one’s pretty good.

This about Kevin Hart’s car accident. Kevin got drunk and hit that tree so hard he had to stop making cookies at it. New topic, Draymond Green. Draymon is probably four to five years from being in the Hall of Fame and forty five minutes from being in Chelsea Handler. That’s a good joke, All jokes aside.

Chelsea Handler is a killer, especially if you believe life starts a conception. Chelsea f fifty cents. So long ago, the magic stick was what they called a musket. Yes, Chelsea aborded a feed us and easier tonight Jeff Ross, take a bow. Oh man, I’m going to hell for that one.

Chelsea. Anything else you want me to say to your kids while I’m there? More jokes? You may know Tony Hinchcliff from walking through his mouth Tanter Amusement Parks. That’s really good if you get it.

That’s very, very clever. It might be too deep. I first met Big Jay when I was sixteen years old. Jay, it must be finally nice to hear those words outside of court room. Uh.

Tiffany Hattish, who was in attendance at the roast, told TMZ she didn’t hear the George Floyd joke said by Tony Hinchcliff. She told TMZ the roast was so much fun. I think it should have been shorter. The show was too long. I didn’t hear the George Floyd joke because I had a piece so bad.

I was a glorified seat filler and I was tired. Sometimes political correctness does not fit in comedy. Freedom of speech is alive and well, and It’s alive on Netflix. Riday had asked Jeff Ross why was Tiffany Hattish on the dais but not even referenced in the roast Jeff said, I invited Tiffany. She’s a good friend of mine.

She’s co starred with Kevin a couple times. We just wanted to populate the Dais with his friends and make him feel comfortable. I wanted him to feel like Frank Sinatra surrounded by the rat pack. Lorell Howery weighed in on all this. He posted a three minute video on social media.

Howary said, what I’m annoyed by and I’m just keeping at one hundred, y’all, I don’t understand. It’s one thing to roast people that’s there. It’s one thing to roast the people who may be the audience, roasting someone number one that’s dead, number two that’s not there, number three that the implications of why you shouldn’t joke about that Tony hinchcliff joke about George Floyd didn’t make effing sense to me. It was no reason to bring George Floyd into this. It was just disgusting.

The audience was okay booing Draymond Green every time his name was mentioned. Y’all could boo, but you don’t boot Tony Hinchcliffe. Right after that, I get it, man, I’m okay not being part of this click bs that’s going on in comedy. I one hundred percent would have booed that mfor and probably walked out. That’s all I’m saying.

How he concluded, Why can’t we just agree that bringing up George Floyd the way he did was fed up and not funny and not needed. It wasn’t even needed. I ain’t like that. Comedy stock mark as thank you. Bert Reynolds’s voice of the comedy stock market.

Every week we take a look at what comedian stock we should buy and what comedian stock we should sell. We’re not saying these people are good or bad. We’re just looking to see who’s overvalued or undervalued. Why don’t we buy some Tony Hinchcliff. Now, I know some people are like, whoa Tony Hinchcliff, But you know what Hinchcliff is reliable.

You put him up there, he does deliver. Yeah, some controversy comes with it, but that’s okay. He stays in the mix. Kill Tony’s sailing along. We’ll buy some Tony Hinchcliff.

Let’s also throw deep here. Let’s buy some Ian Carmel. Why, John, remember I told you the other day he’s gonna be co hosting that FIFA show, the World Cup show, so he’ll get in front of people and maybe that’ll up his profile. So let’s buy really low on Ian Carmel. Maybe they will cash in on that.

I was looking at Kevin Hart at one point I had it as a cell and then I upgraded it to hold because I’m looking at the cast of the movie that’s coming to Netflix in a month, and it’s him and the Police Don’t Destroy Guy and Marcelo Hernandez, and I just feel like people are gonna like that movie, at least in a Netflix low bar universe. So let’s hold Kevin Hart and I’ve got two cells for you. Let’s sell Cam Patterson. I assume this will be his last appearance on Saturday Night Live. I don’t see him coming back.

I’ve said that all year long. I think he’s one and done. He’s also in the Kevin Hart movie, by the way. But despite that, let’s sell Cam Patterson and let’s sell Nikki Glaser. What is Nikki Glaser right now?

Career wise? So Conan’s coming back to host the Oscars. So despite the soft campaign, she’s not getting the Oscars. She didn’t show up at the roast so she’s no longer like the killer roast comedian. So Nicki is what a solid guest on Kelly Rippa and the View.

Okay, sell, Let’s sell Nikki Glaser, sell Cam Patterson, Buy in Carmel by Tony Hinchcliffe. Hold Kevin Hart. That’s your comedy stock market for this week, and we are long. I’m gonna leave you with this. I’ve been bouncing this all week.

The Flight of the Concords did do their reunion. You may recall their famous song the Robots Are Dead. Jermaine Clement has updated the lyrics in the voice of a frustrated robot. The lyrics are now. Humans invented artificial intelligence, and they had us doing really stupid stuff with it.

Brett Mackenzie added, They gave us all the knowledge deep learning, gave us the power to solve complex scientific mathematical equations. Then they just asked us questions like how do you cook an egg? The Guardian gave the show five stars. They said Mackenzie and Clement were clearly enjoying themselves and their musicianship was on full display as they harmonized and played an array of instruments, including guitar, bass, keyboard, flute, and various digital devices. Clement’s voice was particularly rich on stage.

The records haven’t always done it justice. There were a few mistakes along the way. One song suffered from extensive lyrical confusion, but the band embraced those moments to cheers. They played most of their hits, including business Time, The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room, Bowie, and Space Carol Brown, in which Clement lists all the rhyming ways as exes have left him, a sort of fifty ways to leave your lover in reverse. Mackenzie said, we’re not really playing new songs, but they’re new to us because we can’t remember them.

That’s great. Other highlights include eight appearances by Rhys Darby, who played the band manager of Murray on the show. Kristin Shall played obsessive fan Mail. There. Arch Berker, who played the band’s friend Dave, was there.

Arch opened up the night with a stand up set This Sounds Fantastic. Jerby appeared on stage to conduct a raffle for an on stage VIP experience with the band who won Mel played by Kristin Shawl. She was offered the opportunity to touch both men for thirty seconds. Oh so much fun. The duo.

We’re backed on some songs by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, which was a single cellist named Nigel Collins. And I’m going to end with a clip. I’m not sure this is the best audio and it’s kind of long, but I’m gonna play it for you. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, you go to the Apple podcast app.

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Featured: Jeff Ross, Kevin Hart, Cat Williams, Tom Brady, Cheryl Underwood, Pete Davidson, Tony Hinchcliff, Chelsea Handler, The Rock, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• Jeff Ross discusses real tension behind Kevin Hart roast
• Cat Williams surprise appearance at Hart roast
• Tom Brady’s edgy opening spot criticized for sequencing
• Cheryl Underwood wins the roast with standout performance
• Production secrets of Comedy Central roast including fake dressing room names
• Potential future roasts including Drake and Stevie Wonder

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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In a bit uh from Variety, Jeff Ross talked about the real tension behind the roast of Kevin Hart. The rose continues to be the big topic and that’ll get us through this week and the next week is Colbert Week. Lot going on in comedy. Jeff Ross was asked if anything hurts his feelings, like when somebody says you look like the inside of a clam. The Roastmaster General said, if the joke is funny and well crafted, it doesn’t hurt my feelings.

It makes me proud. If the joke flops, then I’m insulted. Like write a better joke for me. I’m the roast master. If you watch the entire roast.

At one point, Kevin was making fun of Jeff, but Jeff was in the bathroom. Jeff said, I was panicking because the bathroom next to my dressing room was locked. I thought I had a time where I could make it back for that part of his speech. Imagine literally peeing while I’m hearing the audience laughing jokes about me. It was one of the most surreal roast moments of my career.

I really did him dirty, and I did apologize after the party. I should have been in my seat, But by the time he and the rock plug the tequila brands for the second time, I whispered to Pete Davidson and said, all right, I gotta go pee. Ross talked about the after party. I think everybody was there. The vibe was over the moon.

Kevin seemed like he was on cloud nine. Was there any real tension behind the roast? That’s the million dollar question, Jeff said. The only real tension I felt was when Cat Williams appeared out of nowhere and started going in on Kevin. Kevin definitely looked a little tense, like these guys may not have seen each other for a long time.

But Kevin asked for the hatchet to be buried, and immediately the tension turned into celebration. Whose idea was it to bring Cat? Jeff Ross says, Kevin’s a great comic, but he’s also a really smart producer. He loves to follow the discomfort. If something’s making him uncomfortable, it’s going to be great TV.

I would say it was a group brainstorm of who would be a funny person to bring into this thing, and Kat Williams was game. He came out with a cape like a villain, and he left like a friend. I don’t believe they actually talked until he came out on TV. Jeff shared a joke of his that did make it into the roast. He would have told it better, but it goes like this, Kevin, your dad sold crack, and you literally sell everything except crack.

From his comedy to s tequila to his chain of vegan fast food restaurants, Kevin is always looking for new ways to make people throw up. Ha ha. Friddy says, at least inside the room, Cheryl Underwood crushed. Jeff said, I remember at some point flopping on the floor when she was on. That’s how hard I was, falling out of my chair.

She had one of the best sets of the night. She’s a pro. She used to walk on stage with her person in her hand. We worked such dumps together. She didn’t trust the staff or the other comics with her purse in the back, She’s the real deal.

Good question here by variety. Where is this roast rank in terms of crossing the line? Jeff Ross said there were definitely some lines crossed. The jokes were super edgy. When Tom Brady came out and started talking about Kevin’s personal life, right out of the gate, I thought, this truly is a revenge roast.

That’s how I actually approached Tom about it. We were at a party in Las Vegas and I said, Tom, I got another one percolating. He said, I’m never coming back. Why would I come? And I said revenge?

He goes? Who you got? I whispered Kevin Hart and his next question was when he needed a reason to come back. Those jokes were super reggie, and I could feel the tension in the room. Even though it was funny, there was a realness to it.

I will weigh in here. I think having Tom Brady in the laid off spot was a mistake. I wrote about this on my substack, and I think I talked about earlier in the week. I think the move might have been open. With the shaker of Kat Williams and having confidence in Cat to be funny.

I think that would have prepped the room a little bit. Tom just not being a comedian, I don’t think warmed up the room well enough, which affected a lot of the first half of the show. When I finally watched the whole thing, I think the second half was a little stronger, mainly because of Tony Hingecliff and Kat Williams. So I’m not sure they sequenced this thing right. Roddy was curious what was actually off limits.

Jeff Ross said, people always asked that. Kevin never once said to me, please don’t do this, Please don’t do that for me. There’s a sportsmanship to it. I want to scratch the skin, but I don’t want to break it. Nothing was off limits.

I don’t think there was a single topic from Kevin’s life that didn’t get brought up. It’s really just a question of how avert you want to be. Do you want to be subtle or do you want to smash them over the head with a dollhouse. I don’t know anybody could look at the roast and call it water down. Roddy did a good job with this.

They asked, you know, the show’s very tightly produced. There are writers in rehearsals. How do you balance that with the element of surprise. Jeff said, I gave a lot of the credits to my partner, Casey Patterson. Joe put fake names on dressing room signs.

The scripts don’t circulate to the entire staff. The crew doesn’t read the comics material. I don’t know what Chelsea’s speech is going to be. She doesn’t know mine. Kevin doesn’t know what’s coming from anybody that keeps it real, you are genuinely messing with somebody live on television.

There’s a lot that goes into that side of it, and I’m only surprised. Another good follow up, There were a lot of times when people would skip a joke they had on the teleprompter. What goes into the decision to edit yourself in real time? Jeff Ross said, I’m careful not to let that happen because I hate going skip it. It looks so written.

But sometimes in a live show, it’s inevitable that people want improvise, or maybe the joke was too similar to the joke that was made earlier in the night and doesn’t seem funny anymore. Is sometimes the non comics get cold feet on a certain joke. Honestly, the most important job in that entire show is probably the teleprompter operators. That’s a high wire act. You get all sorts of deliveries.

Some people are mumbling somemmer rushing, and those operators stay right with us the whole time. It’s remarkable. Two more. Will you be able to get another goat in a couple of years, Jeff said, I think so, Kevin do. It opens it up to almost anybody whos at the top of their game wants to show the world they’re a good sport.

All right, Who do you want to roast next? Jeff’s aid a pop star or a rock star would be great. A rapper would be great. I could see Drake getting roasted in being a great one. One of my all time favorite ideas is Stevie Wonder.

I always say the roast of Stevie Wonder. You got to hear it to believe it. Vulture had the headline how Cheryl Underwood won the roast of Kevin Hart. Despite being one of the least recognizable faces on a dais that included celebrities like Chelsea Hanler and Pete Davidson, Underwood had consistently been the target of some of the Knight’s sharpest barbes, adding to the weight of the moment. Underwood followed Tony Hinchcliff, but when Underwood got on the podium, the room’s atmosphere reset.

Her set was a triumph, in part because her energetic delivery injected life in the proceedings after the show had slipped into a monotonous rhythm halfway through its bloated, nearly three hour runtime. There were only so many times one could see Handler called a horror or heart marked for his height before it grows tedious. And an event that featured surprise appearances from Venus and Serena Williams, Heart Enemy Cat Williams and The Rock, no one got ovation like Underwood following her set. Boy, I just looked at the we are going to be long again. I got like seven stories of been kicking since Monday.

Remind me I said that when it’s July fourth week and I’m googling George Lopez Tacos to fill some space all right. Radar Online is a gossip website. Their headline Jimmy Kimmel pushing himself out the door at ABC. How cost A Comics shot himself at the foot with dead Trump gags. I don’t believe the story at all, no offense.

Radar Online. One of the reasons I say that is because ABC had Jimmy Kimmel host the Upfronts. But anyway, Radar Online says ABC executives are allegedly reconsidering Jimmy Kimmel’s future after backlash over his Millennia Trump joke. They remind us the Kimmel repeated the joke on a show and said critics overreacted, and network insider said the original joke was already viewed internally as reckless, doubling down turned it into something potentially costly to the network. They can’t be too concerned because they had Jimmy host the Upfronts.

Jimmy Kimmel’s all the Upfronts audience. I didn’t think i’d see you guys again either. Yeah, the bad boy of Data and Measurement Solutions is back. I’ve been through so much BS this year it actually made me appreciate this BS. You know, usually in order for ABC to pull you off the air, you have to throw a cher at your Mormon boyfriend.

Yes, the President tried to get me canceled over the last six months. That’s one way to look at it. Another way is you could say I’ve generated unparalleled engagement across a variety of platforms. Luckily, thanks to our partners in Washington, we’re up twenty five percent among viewers. It’s a big deal to have your numbers go up nowadays.

But that said, if Johnny Carson woke up one day with my ratings, he’d have gone straight under the sink and chugged all the DRAINO Oh, Kimmel had more. He said, I cost our company a lot of money this year, billions. It’s very possible that no employee in the history of any company has caused their employee more than hiring me twenty four years ago. Just from a purely mathematical standpoint, it was the worst personnel decision that Disney Corporation has ever made. Not even the captain of the Exxon Valdiz did more damage.

Jimmy said, this will be the first Super Bowl on ABC in twenty years, and we’re gonna milk the but Jesus out of it. We’re gonna spend the whole year promoting what’s already the most popular thing on earth. And as if the country isn’t divided enough, we put the game on Valentine’s Day just to be dicks. Let me tell you what the Havetime Show was going to be this year. The whitest stuff you’ve ever seen.

Goodbye, bad Buddy, Welcome back, Oh Town. Jimmy talked about his appearance on Colbert the other night. As you know, CBS is turning eleven thirty five PM into the least time slot, least likely to fend the president, with a rerun of Byron Allen’s comics on Leash from two thousand and seven, featuring Paula Poundstone and Andy Dick. Poor Steven. It’s bad enough to lose your job, imagine getting replaced by the owner of the Weather Channel.

So I look. Jimmy was on fire. He said, you know, in the past, I’ve come here to mock the other network shows. Was all very competitive, but now we’re like a bunch of dirty, starving little chihuahuas under the table waiting for a chicken leg to drop. For the first time of think ever, I’m rooting for CBS.

They’ve got a lot of great returning shows, and they’ve got some great news shows. Ncis New York answers the question what if LLL coolj partnered up with another white guy in a different city. They’re also doing the Prices Right at Night now. Oh we tagged this with a dirty pun. The price is right at Night on the nighttime version instead of a flat screen TV, the winner gets something men like in an alley behind the studio, Naughty Jimmy.

For the first time in eighteen year, CBS was not number one in total viewers. NBC is number one, and they’re saying they’re number one. Are you allowed to brag about being number one when you had the Olympics in the Super Bowl? Only if you have them again next year and you don’t.

Meanwhile, poor Fox was in last place again and their big plan to turn that a…

This is a reboot for those who watched the first eleven seasons of Baywatch and thought, but that can’t be the whole story. As for us at ABC, except for all the domestic violence, we’re really doing great. Dancing with the Stars is hotter than your grandma’s underpants at a Michael Boublaz show. The Rookie was among the most streams shows among viewers under eighteen. Young people love The Rookie and do you know why I’m actually asking?

Does anyone know why this is happening?

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Meanwhile, over at NBC, Seth Meyers hosted their upfronts.

Seth Meyers said, we have taken down CBS, referring to for the first time in two decades, NBC will take the broadcast crown for total viewers in the TV season. He tagged his premise with, well, the Ellisons did, but I’d like to think we helped. Seriously, what’s going on over there? They’re so in the pocket for Trump that I heard next year Survivors in the strait of her moves. Not bad?

Seth Again, CBS didn’t not holding upfront presentation this year because CBS Upfront just describes how they paid Trump to drop the lawsuit. Seth Myers made fun of Paramount’s winning bid to buy Warner Brothers, joking Comcast actually made a bid too, but no one thought we were actually going to get it. It was kind of like that one friend who always pretends to reach for his wallet after the check comes. No, no, no, Comcast, you get it next time. So, speaking of the merger that would join Paramount Plus on HBO, Max, Seth Meyers said, so now you get all your favorites in one place.

Speaking of streamers, Comcast sat on its most recent earnings call that Peacock is approaching profitability in the same way Kevin Hard is approaching seven feet tall. But it’s an exciting time for Peacocks. He’s an eight of Love Island USA cent Mirror in June, So please get the HPV vaccine. More Seth. NBC Universal poached Yellowstone creator Taylor shared in last year from Paramount and a deal worth a reported one billion dollars, which means I’m finally going to get a call from my dad asking what channel’s NBC on.

NBC has the Emmys this year? Well, they’re airing here. HBO is the one that’s actually going to have them. Some more random jokes, I’m seth Myers, or as the FCC calls me. Next.

Netflix is hosting It’s Upfront on a pier on the Hudson River, because once a Netflix show hits two seasons, that’s where dumps its body. NBC is turning one hundred years old, which means right now it’s watching CBS. James Cordon is returning the Late night I know, are you so excited? He was at the Fox Upfronts with Michael Strahan. They announced FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six after Hours on Fox with James Cordon, whereas we’re going to refer to it Cordon.

James Cordon, the host of FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six After Hours on Fox with James Cordon, said it’s gonna be me former England soccer captain Rio Ferdinand and one of my favorite comedians on Planet Earth, Ian Carmel. Every night after the games, we’re gonna be trying to have a lighthearted look at the World Cup, talking about the games, talking about anything that may have happened that day. The World Cup takes place at June eleventh two July nineteenth in the United States of America, Canada and Mexico. If you live in New Jersey and you want to take the train to the game, because they’re not allowing this is real. This is a big thing in New Jersey.

So you can’t park at the stadium, Okay, you can’t take a ride share to the stadium. There’s a train. For a while that they were charging one hundred and fifty dollars for the train. Yeah, and now they’ve cut that to like I think like one hundred and ten dollars a summer. It’s still over one hundred dollars to go basically a mile and a half, but there’s no other way to get to the stadium.

I’m so annoyed the World Cup finally comes to basically in my backyard and there’s no way to get there. I might get down a Philadelphia for a game. I digress. James Cordon, the host of FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six. After Hours on Fox with James Corden, said soccer is a massive part of my life.

It really feels like now is an incredible time for North America to be hosting this tournament, and we’re really going to try and have some fun. Michael Strahan asked Cordon why he wanted to work for Fox. Cordon said, because they got the rights of the games. I can’t stress this enough. If they didn’t have the rights of the games, I’d do the show on the network that did.

Boy, the amount of stuff I’m bumping from this program lately. Let’s check in with a friend of the show, Jason Zinneman. He writes for The New York Times. He was out in la and caught John Mulaney and wrote John Mulaney’s New Hour range from kids’ birthday parties to sweeping takes on our political mood. I played do that RFK impression the other day.

Zinniman rights, there’s a sarcastic register in John Mulaney’s toolkit that is deepened with age. In his New Hour, he’s often lingered in this rye voice, building arguments with it, adding absurdity upon absurdity, and so the ironic distance seems to shrink, and his tone became less smirky than coherent and righteous. It’s one of the many small miracles of form that explain why John Mulaney is setting the pace and stand up right now. As a precocious performer, he could seem older than he was getting laughs of that incongruity. Now he is a distinctive age appropriate voice as a persicone, cranky and aloof Dad.

Milani is in a topical of personal comic, but he dabbles in both getting laughs out of hot takee premises like why old people shouldn’t vote, quoting m’lini, why would you order for the table if you were about to leave the restaurant? But his greatest strength here is as a sharp, hilarious cultural critic. Zinneman also wrote about rising stars at the festival, pointing out they tend to be hungrier, harder working, and funnier. Friend of the show Jason Zinneman was impressed by Megan Gailly, who opened for Anthony Jesslinik. Gailly made a case for Charles Barkley as the Democrat’s best hope for president, and had a funny joke about men who won’t shut up about their colonoscopies, which makes me laugh because I, uh, earlier today was atty whatever the colon oskwey doctor is called, and my friend called and I texted her back and I’m like, can’t talk.

And then on the way home we were talking colonoscopies, So yeah, I feel you. Megan Zenneman also liked Sophie Buttle at the Hollywood Improv. Jason tells us Sophie waited into a joke that mentioned transgender people, then pause to wonder if it would be amusing if she became as obsessed with the subject as Chappelle is her quote, I’m not famous enough to have opinions that crazy, but if I get famous, I’m gonna start an even bigger fight with an even smaller group of people. Oh and we are getting so long today, let’s wrap this up, John, Okay. Heather Shaw has announced her debut special, all Right Sea, We’ll come out on YouTube today.

In all Right Sea, Heather Shaw tackles everything from gay bars and Caitlyn Jenner to pop culture and more. That’s Heather Shaw’s all Right Sea Out Today on YouTube. Friend of the show, Dylan from the Facebook group has probably watched it twice by the time I even get out of bed. If you like this program without commercial interruption, open up the Apple podcast app. Click the banner.

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So on day thirty one, when you’ve got to cancel, I make five bucks. Actually I don’t because Apple takes thirty percent. So that’s what three point fifty left, and then my business partner markets have so I can make like a dollar seventy five. But it’s still a great way to support the show. See tomorrow