Month: August 2026

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Featured: Zarna Garg, Nate Bargatze, Lawrence Gray, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Ritchson, Reggie Watts

What’s in This Episode

• Zarna Garg trapped in Hermès bathroom in Berlin for 90 minutes
• Nate Bargatze launches No Pictures production company for edgier content
• Lawrence Gray hired to oversee edgier Nateland projects
• Nateville adult animated series in development for Netflix
• Rolling Stone report on Reggie Watts and ex-girlfriend Katherine McCullough
• Comedy Bang Bang removes Reggie Watts theme song

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh my, Zorna Garg got stuck in the bathroom. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. That’s not even really why I’m laughing. I’ll do this story that I’ll tell you why I’m really laughing.

Okay, So there’s Zarna Garg and she went to an air Mas store in Berlin and ended up spending time in the bathroom. She was there at air Mez trying to secure one of the luxury brand’s famously elusive handbags. Zarna Garg said she was trapped inside the bathroom for about an hour and twenty minutes after its sliding door refused to open. Her team and her children documented the episode while they waited on the other side, which was later posted as an Instagram reel, which now has my hogwash detector going, why was your social media team with you shopping? Ya happened?

He gets stuck in the bathroom. I don’t know about this one. We are told that why locked in the bathrooms? Aren’t a Garg, who happened to have her social media team with her did what a stand up comedian might do. She turned the predicament into content.

Good thing the social media team happened to be there, She joked from inside the bathroom, played with paper towels and even fashioned the paper towels into origami. She wrote on Instagram. We started recording, thinking we’ll make a funny video about what you can do when locked in a bathroom. I made an origami village of paper towels and played games like guess how many towels I’m holding. It’s so funny that a place that is so persnickety about perfection, this is happening there.

According to zarn’t A, Garg, her team asked store managers to call the fire department when attempts to open the door failed, but the staff resisted because they wanted to protect the door, which I can understand. Garg said. She was eventually asked to push the door from inside as those outside the door worked on it with a crowbar. Firefighters ultimately did help free her. When the door opened, she appeared visibly shaken and said, thank God, there was no fire.

However, had there been a fire, there were firefighters there No. Yes, So here’s why I was laughing, because I know you’re like, hey, Johnny Mac, how did you know how to pronounce air mez. A guy like you probably would have said Hermes. Well, friends, I decided to check it and I found this wonderful video by this guy. Hi, I’m Simon Dunan.

Today I am preaching and teaching about pronunciation. Ready, air mez is pronounced air mez, sort of like I think you’re gonna say air mattress. Oh. You know who’s back in the news. Controversial mega comedian Naprighetzi, And now he’s moving away from the clean stuff and he’s getting edgy.

See what happens when you go to UFC fights You get all these crazy ideas. Nyperghetzi has launched No Pictures and he’s hired some guy named Lawrence Gray to oversee quote unquote edgier production alongside the family friendly Nateland Entertainment. Do you think he’ll open like an edgegear theme park? That would be fun. No Pictures will produce film and TVs shows that will delve into edgier genres and stories more suited for older audiences.

Why is it called No Pictures? Nate said he took inspiration from a family favorite quote from his daughter Harper, who when she was little would tell him no Pictures Please Nate Tull Deadline. Lawrence has developed some of the biggest movies in the world, so having him choose to come build Nateland and No Pictures with us is incredible. He’s operated at the highest level of this business, knows what it takes to turn a great idea into something that can reach millions. Bringing that kind of creative firepower into both Nateland and No Pictures changes what’s possible for us.

We’re already have some big things in motion, and I think everybody’s going to be surprised with what’s coming next. So let’s see what this guy has worked on. He began his career at Scott Root and Productions before moving to Fox Searchlight, where he shepherded acclaimed films like Thank You for Smoking, The Hills Have Eyes, and Sideways. Following his time at Fox, he went to Universal, where he shepherded the Sam Raimi horror fic Drag Me to Hell, before launching Gray Matter, where he produced a slate including Life Out, the launchromat Yes Day, Pain, Hustlers, and Family Switch Out. Of all those things I just mentioned to you, I think I know what two of them are.

More recently, Great produced the Man with the Bag. This is coming out on Prime Video December second. In The Man with the Bag, it stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Richon. I’ll be curious to see if Alan Richan can act at all. I’ve been watching Reacher and I love the new season of Reacher.

But my dude has no range whatsoever. But I guess if you put him in a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, suddenly he’s Olivier. John, did you just drop a Laurence Olivier reference? And you’re wondering why younger people don’t listen to your show. Lawrence Olivier passed away on July eleventh, nineteen eighty nine.

Sean, maybe you get a little fresher with the reference. Is who am I supposed to say? He’s no? What? Leo com Hanks?

Who do you want me to reference? When it comes to Nateland, Gray now oversees a slate including the comedy Fantasy Camp, which also sold Amazon in a heated multi studio bidding war. That film follows a group of friends that at a make or break moment in their live I’ve had to Dwayne Wade’s Fantasy Camp in Miami to relive their basketball dreams. Did Kevin Hart and Marcello Hernanez pass on this film? What is that?

Oh? Wait? Listen to this? Currently, Nateland is in pre production on Nateville, an adult animated series for Netflix that sources have equated to being Naperghetzy’s King of the Hill. You think I’m making this up?

It’s there in deadline. Does anybody want that? We already have King of the Hill and already don’t watch it. I guess somebody watches it. I don’t know is it even on.

I’d put that in the bobs Burgers category of Fox claims it on. I’ve never checked. I don’t know if you’ve seen this story around Reggie Watts. I had been avoiding it. It seemed a little too gossipy and not at all fun, but it is now really touched into comedy.

Comedy. Bang Bang has removed the Reggie Watts created theme song, as upcoming music festivals have also removed Reggie Watts’s name from their lineups following a report in Rolling Stone on the comedian musician’s quote reckless behavior and the wake of his ex girlfriend’s death. We’ll talk about this song in a minute. The removals follow a lengthy report published by Rolling Stone on Thursday of last week, were loved ones of Reggie Watts’s late ex girlfriend, Katherine McCullough came forward to claim that Reggie Watts encourage mccullaugh to take a heavy array of drugs, particularly ketamine. Throughout the relationships.

Friends say they witnessed abusive aspects of the couple’s relationship, including financial dependence and Reggie Watts allegedly withholding emotional support from McCullough. One friend is quoted as saying Watts cultivated a dynamic and a relationship where she felt like she could only truly access intimacy, closeness and empathy from him if they were both using drugs together. Watts entered the relationship in October. McCullough died by suicide in March, so you can see why I haven’t been doing that one. I like fun Locked in the Bathroom Stories.

This is a comedy show. But now where this has crossed over into comedy is because of Comedy Bang Bang, which I will remind you of all the comedy shows I ever went to, especially in the series XM years, Comedy Bang Bang the only show I walked out of because it was bad. I remember looking at my host Mark and we both looked at each other and our Facebook said we’re wasting our time here and we left. It was the only show we ever left, That’s how bad it was. So I’m not a fan of that show.

I know a lot of people are. Comedy Bang Bang has removed the Reggie Wats theme. Fans who hit play on the podcast were greeted by a generic British woman’s voice stating the episode number on Monday, instead of the usual Reggie Wats improvisational beatboxing riff that has served as the show’s interest since twenty eleven. The show did not acknowledge the replacement. They also have not commented on the accusations against Watts.

We are told a representative for Comedy Bang Bang and host Scott Ackerman did not immediately reply to Rolling Stone’s request for comment. Watts was also scheduled at the Shambala and green Belt festivals in England. His name was removed from the website, so a representative for green Belt said Watts would no longer be appearing. Shambala did not respond to a request for clarification. Rolling Stone says and a screenshot reviewed by Rolling Stone.

A festival representative acknowledged that Watts was no longer part of the event. Over the weekend, a set of shows with frequent collaborator Capiac was canceled in Bristol, with no acknowledgment from the venue or any of the parties. Rolling Stone spoke with five women who previously dated Reggie Watts. Three claimed they also experienced Watts encouraging them to take drugs, including ketamine with him. To exes allege Watts blue past their boundaries to satisfy his own needs.

It’s unclear to me what that means. One woman claimed Watts recorded an explicit video of her that she had not consented to, and another claimed Watts initiated sex without her wearing a condom, despite an implicit agreement that they would always use production Due to Watts disclosing they had an STD Rolling Stone says through an attorney, Watts said any suggestion that he was an abusive boyfriend was false, but did not comment on the women’s accusations directly. Let’s not going to break on that. Let’s do something a little more fun. The White House had some thoughts about Rosie O’Donnell hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live last week.

They gave a statement to Entertainment Weekly. A White House spokesperson said, Rosie o’donald’s a nasty woman at a total slot whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump derangement syndrome. Send your letters to I don’t know Rosio Domine or the White House up to you. This is interesting. Andy Wheel, who was Netflix’s VP of Comedy and the second longest serving program and executive, is leaving Netflix to join Amazon MGM Studios as head of Comedy.

His first day will be September fourteenth. We are told he is a well regarded comedy executive and had been at Netflix for more than eleven years. At Universal, he shepherded Boy Deadline, Likes the Word shepherded, He shepherded at Brooklyn ninety nine, and also worked on The MINDI Project and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. So we’ll see we’re getting more comedy out of Amazon, like I feel they’re in a lane now that’s like shows like Jack Ryan and Reacher. But we’ll see if they do more comedies or maybe we’ll get more and better stand up comedy on Amazon anyway, good luck, sir.

Apparently, one of Eddie Murphy’s kids did a set at the West Side Comedy Club in New York City on Saturday night. Miles Murphy got up. Club manager Gina Savage said he’s only been performing for less than a year. An insider says during the day, he’s a screenwriter performing comedy with something he’s always wanted to do, and he’s performed in several of the clubs in LA. We’re told that he was pretty good.

Would you like to hear the worst trailer of all time? I’m going to play for you the worst trailer of all time The News Stories. Comedian Jack Asidorian Junior, who goes by Jack Junior, has announced that his debut special Mexican Armenian, will premiere on YouTube on Thursday, September seventeenth at noon Pacific. In the special, Jack Junior explores the unexpected similarities between his Mexican and Armenian cultures. All right, it sounds like a good premise, but let’s listen to the entire trailer.

Okay, stay with me. This is the entire trailer. Haven’t touched it at all? What’s that down? My dad never hugged me.

The only time my dad hugged me was when you try to hate me, and he missed. I’m the Arminian. I’m not Mexican, I’m r mex I’m both money lies, Jack Junior, guys, thank you so much so one hack joke and you’re letting us know your Mexican Armenian. That’s the entire trailer. I mean, a hack joke and just a premise.

That is why it is the worst trailer of all time. Now, yesterday on the show we did cheesy jokes. Today I have for you the sixteen best one liners, crowned the best in Edinburgh. As always, they were told better by the comedians than some loser with a podcast in his basement. But I will try my best.

Andrew Maxwell said, I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship, but I bottled it. Some of the other jokes, I’m not naming the comedian because I’m here on MSN dot com and they have pictures of the comedians who I don’t recognize, but not their names. But some of the other jokes. I started dating a zoo keeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah next, I try to steal spaghetti from the show up, but the female guards saw me and I couldn’t get pasta. I’m assuming he said pasta and not pasta, otherwise the joke wouldn’t work.

And this was in Scotland. I like this next one. I thought the word cesarean began with the letter S. When I looked in the dictionary, it was in the C section. Pretty good, we’re gonna get the job.

Center has to be a tench job, knowing that if you get fired you still have to come in the next day. That’s pretty good. That took me a minute. That’s very Hedbergian. I’m not a fan of the new pound coin.

But then again, I hate all change hedgehogs. Why can’t they just share the hedge? I like that one. I’ve just been on a once in a lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.

I needed a password eight characters long, so I picked snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I heard a rumor that Cadbaret is bringing out an Oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese wispa. I’ve decided to sell my hoover. Well, it’s just collecting dust.

I just deleted all the German aims off my phone. It’s hands free again. I think if I do it in my native accent, I would have said it’s hans free and doesn’t work as well. And one more, my dad has suggested that a register for a donor card. He’s a man after my own heart.

That your company news for today back in the afternoon with one of those short episodes that people will I don’t know, let me know. Tell me the Facebook grip. You like them, you hate them? They color the feed, they’re kind of fun. I don’t know.

I’m just trying stuff. See tomorrow, No, no, see in a couple hours.

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Featured: Dane Cook, Daryl McCauley Cook, Seth Meyers, Chris Fleming, Jay Leno, Weird Al Yankovic, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s brother Daryl McCauley’s name confusion
• Seth Meyers taking seven weeks off and launching video podcast
• Jay Leno’s Vanguard Award and scheduling a comedy gig during the ceremony dinner
• Weird Al Yankovic’s NPR Tiny Desk concert performance

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Full Transcript

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This, friends, is why we do the show cool Side when we can, because sometimes it rains. I’m in a silly mood today. So I was putting together the regular audio show. I was doing the Dane Cook story and I noticed, like, his brother’s name is Daryl McCauley, and I was wondering, Hm, why is Dane Cook’s brother’s name McCaulay. I’m like, Dane Cook.

That sounds like a stage name, like Johnny Mac. Like maybe Dane is using a fake name. It show business. That works, So I asked Ai, Now this is where it gets fun. So AI says, yes, Dane Cook is his real name.

His full name is Dame Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth, nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okay, fair enough, So I said, why is his brother McCauley And AI said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name. Huh, his name’s Daryl McCauley. So I asked, hey, hey, hi, and it said no, his full name is Daryl McCauley Cook. He went professionally by Daryl McCaulay, using his middle name as his surname.

And I went yeah, because that doesn’t make sense. Damee Cook’s name is Dane Cook, but Darryl Cook is going by Daryl McCauley. Why so I question that, I asked the AI. Is that right? Yeah?

I said, no, you Coby. This is a verbatim from the AI. No, you Coby. My previous answer was wrong. I checked it.

Why did you tell me that Deane Cook is Dan Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Darryl McCauley, oh icee, And then the I explained they have different fathers, oh Ice. They shared a mother, Donna Jean Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. Now, regular listeners to the audio podcast know that I want to make twelve thirty great again. The President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one issue we agree on is that twelve thirty could be better.

And in the great tradition of David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, I want twelve thirty on NBCD be hosted by Chris Fleming and not Seth Myers. Seth Myers is currently taking seven weeks off from his show, which isn’t insanely a long amount of time, and apparently Seth agrees because he has started a podcast. It’s a video podcast of the A Closer Look segment and you’ll find that on YouTube. I hope it takes off and Seth Myers becomes a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming. Funny Jay Leno story.

The guy likes to work, so he was given the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six at Burbank International Film Festival thingy. The plan was, okay, we’ll have a dinner for Jay Leno, and as one does it, at dinner, you eat dinner, and then we’ll do an hour presentation of Jay Leno’s career.

And then Jay said, hey, guys, I got a gig at seven thirty.

Could we do the presentation first, then the dinner. So Jay got his award and then they had salad and dinner afterwards. And this is true because Jay was doing a seven thirty show at Flappers, which just that Jay had a show at Flappers sounds like a Jay Lettle joke, but that’s an actual club in Burbank, I think, so, I hope you enjoyed your salad, and I gotta check this out. Weird that was on the NPR Tiny Desk podcast. When I saw it, I thought this was old news because he had been on in Let me check my notes here.

Oh the rain is really coming down.

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Now, let’s see what’s going on.

Did you hear that in Acorn? Just hit my umbrella? Here Weird Owls on NPR, and there’s Augusted Wind. This is fun weird als on. I love this.

I’m so distracted right now. Let me shut the laptop before this stupid bit costs me two thousand dollars at a new MacBook. Weird Owls on the Tiny Desk concert in twenty ten, and from memory, let me tell you what he did. He did whatever his parody of the Backstreet Boys song is, and he did the saga begins, which is the Star Wars song from American Pie. So that’s it.

From under the Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, this is why we do the show pool Side on the nice days. But I guess we can also do the show pool Side in the Pouring Rain back in the morning with a regular episode. And let’s take a look at the rain as we check out here

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Featured: Dane Cook, Darryl McCauley, Chloe Fineman, Seth Meyers, Kathy Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s ‘Funny Money’ movie about brother’s $12 million theft
• SNL Season 52 casting showcases and emerging talent
• Lack of Black female representation on SNL post-Ego Nwodim
• Seth Meyers launching podcast during summer hiatus
• Darryl McCauley’s embezzlement case and prison sentence

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deane Cook movie coming out the headline all over the place. Dane Cook’s brother Darryl stole millions from him, hid cash in spaghetti sauce, and disappeared.

This was an exclusive from People, which is everywhere. Now there’s a trailer for the Dane Cook movie. Maybe we’ll just play that. It’s a little long, but I find it really compelling. It’s your owner.

I could hurt important SPI canvolved with something. What happened? What have you died? A person that spent so much time pretending to be something he wasn’t. From the moment he left that bank, my brother disappeared.

He was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. I was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. These people are fearless. I want to be fearless. Darryl was a major factor.

He became a corrections officer, enjoying your time here on the beach. There very much that time. It’s almost times money. Once he started going platinum, everything changed. He was like a rock star.

Daryl and I looked at each other and said, we’re in for a hell of a ride. He would handle every aspect of every penny that came in. Initially withdrolls for twenty thousand dollars, hecame withdrolls of fifty thousand dollars, wires of one hundred thousand dollars. I was starting to feel something that I couldn’t really identify with was he hiding it in different places? Stockpiling this money?

Darryl was traveling across the country. My pursuit would be to put his brother in jail. Done swung the door open, and piles upon piles of cash. I’m like, this is not normal. The last time I had seen it, there wasn’t nearly as much money in there.

The police officers, they believe that you were communicating with Daryl with coded messages. There were bricks of hundreds in all the spaghetti sauce and. The pasta sauce. Of course, where else would you put the money? This is blowing my mind.

Dude, Darrel’s a go getting was the point to just bury me alive? He seemed to disassociate himself from the whole thing. There was a good part of him somewhere that I grew up with. I do believe that there’s money out there. I believe there’s people that know more.

Where is he? What has he done? How does this end? Funny money? The Dane Cook Story will be available on streaming September twenty ninth.

People, writes. McCauley, who was Cook’s business manager from the nineties through two thousand and eight, handled every penny of Cook’s wealth, but paper trails showed he was withdrawing huge amounts, up to one hundred grand at a time, from his brother’s account. Dane said he began to feel something I couldn’t identify. By the way, are we learning here that Dane Cook’s name isn’t Dane Cook and it’s Dane McCauley. John, you have Google?

Why don’t you tell us you host the show? Okay? I will okay? I googled is Dane Cook his real name? And the Internet said yes.

And then I was like, huh, so why is his brother McCauley. So I asked chat GPT. Now this is a lot of fun. I typed in, is Dane Cook his real name? The AI said yes, Dane Cook is his real name.

His full name is Dane Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So, unlike a lot of comedians, Dane Cook isn’t a stage name. So I asked, so, then, why is his brother McCauley And the CHAT said no, No, pay attention. The CHAT said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name, to which I went, huh. Dane’s brother is Daryl McCauley, full name Daryl McCauley Cook.

He generally went professionally by name as Daryl McCauley, using his middle name as his surname. And that read my hogwash detector. The AI is that right? And the AI said, no, you caught me. It actually says, no, you caught me.

My previous answer was wrong. I checked it. Well, well, why didn’t you just give me the right answer the first time? AI? So the AI is now sourcing Boston Magazine.

Take this with a grain of salt. I don’t doubt Boston Magazine, but I do doubt this AI. Dean Cook is Dean Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Daryl McCauley. Reliable contemporary coverage says the AI consistently identifies him as Darryl McCauley, not Daryl McCauley Cook.

You see, they’re half brothers. They shared a mother, Donna Jane Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. But we digress because we have to talk about the movie Funny Money The Deane Cook Story, People tells us. McCauley, a former corrections officer, was ultimately arrested in two thousand and eight and charged with stealing twelve million dollars from Cook while acting as his business manager. Just curious and I’m trying to stay out of prison.

I wonder how that went for a former corrections officer. I don’t think I I want to know. McCauley pleaded guilty to larceny, embezzlement, and forgery and twenty ten says People, and was sentenced to five to six years in prison. He was also ordered to repay the twelve million dollars to Cook. His wife, Erica, was sentenced to two and a half years in connection to McCauley’s crimes.

Funny Money The Dane Cook Story On VOD September twenty ninth, Deadline apparently had some spies that the possible casting for Saturday Night Live season fifty two. SNL season fifty two had showcases across three cities. Deadline says those names are beginning to come in. Trenton, Mason, Inside Out, Bella, Osage, Hope, I got your name right. Deadline heard they generated buzz at their showcases.

They’re said to be on the list. Other names Deadline has heard include Claire Riffle, Grace Ryder, Devin Bachrath, Olivia Puckett, Ismael Lufti, Rachel Coster, Russelli Daniels, and Anna Fabrega. Reps from SNL did not return request for comment to Deadline. All we know about season fifty two at the time of this recording is that Chloe Feineman will not be back. I will still be stunned if Cam Patterson is part of the cast, Deadline tells us.

As his customary staffers hit three big markets, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. There was the character’s showcase in LA on August sixth. Chicago’s showcases were at the Annoyance Theater in the Io Theater on August tenth and eleventh, and on August seventeenth and eighteenth. There were showcases at New York’s UCB more standouts. Names that emerge from LA included Trenton Mason, Cabba, Hughes, Chase Rosenberg, and April Rock.

In Chicago, Peyton Reddy, who was one of the twenty twenty six Just for Laughs New Phases quote dominated in Chicago, Deadline says everyone in New York was raving quote unquote about Joey Welsh. Other New York talents that did well Alicia Edwards, Amber Singletary, and saida Bello Osagi. Deadline points out that Hughes, Rock, Edwards, Singletary, and Belo Osagi are all female performers of color. You may recall the people have been observing a lack of black female representation since Ego Nuotum departed after the twenty twenty five season. Deadline and says next up in the casting process are screen tests.

Keep your posting on that. Seth Myers, he’s off for seven weeks and for some reason, has launched a podcast. Yeah. Seth and Salgentille, who writes the popular A Closer Look segment, have teamed up during the hiatus to launch a video podcast called A Closer Lookout of Office to tackle the stories they’ve missed while they’ve been off. So my Caddy comments about Late Night with Seth Meyers aside, that’s pretty interesting, right that they are trying to get this stuff out there.

That suggests Seth didn’t want a seven week vacation. That makes me think even more that this is a bit of a budget thing. So this whole summer thing is interesting. Seth was off from June eighteenth to July thirteenth, did two weeks and then another seven week break. So that’s what nine ten eleven.

That’s like off eleven out of thirteen weeks. That sounds like a budget cut. Seth Myers joked, we had to cancel a family vacation. We were going to take the kids to the Straight Offore Moves and then the travel agent finally said, I just wouldn’t risk it. Obviously, you want to bring the kids when it’s open, you know.

Fo Seth enjoys YouTube and it’s super successful because then we can move him off twelve thirty. He can just be a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming and make twelve thirty grade again. Jay Leno used to have a late night show was called The Tonight show with Jay Leno. He recently was presented with the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six Burbank International Film Festivals Gallas ceremony. The original plan called for dinner followed by an hour long career retrospective with Jay Leno, but they moved everything around.

They put the stuff about Jay Leno at the beginning of the night. Here’s why. Jay asked for them to change it so he could leave so we could do a seven thirty set at Flappers. That sounds like a bit but no. Jay Leto had a seven thirty pm set at Flapper’s Comedy Club in downtown Burbank, so he asked the awards people, Hey, could you move it around?

So before the salad was served at the Marriott, jay Leno recorded the podcast, accepted his award and thank the crowd, and headed to Flappers. Oh my god, that’s fun. More Jay Leno news. Jay was granted a conservator ship for the estate of his seventy nine year old wife, Mavis. Jay, who had been granted a conservator ship over the estate of wife Mavis in twenty twenty four, is seeking to register said conservatorship in New Hampshire, so he can sell community property real estate there.

As you may know, Mavis has advanced Alzheimer’s disease that sometimes leaves her unaware of her birth date or who she’s even married to. Court papers fought on August fifth do not state what kind of real estate the couple own in New Hampshire or what part of the state. Jay was born in Massachusetts. He also owns real estate in Rhode Island. Anyway, for all the bits about Jay Leno being the worst guy who ever lived, seems like a pretty good guy to me.

Kathy Griffin. If you’re a longtime a listener to this program, you know anytime Kathy Griffin gets mentioned, it’s always something happy and good, like Kathy Griffin was petting a Golden Retriever puppy, or Kathy Griffin was smelling some flowers and said, what a beautiful day. It’s great to be alive. So it surprises me that she’s involved in a beef. Right.

Kathy said she’s really hurt that she wasn’t invited to appear on Rosie O’Donnell’s week guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show. Kathy, Kathy, listen to me even you self described as a Dalist celebrity. You had a show with d list in the title. Let’s see who Rosie even had on this from Interbridge dot com. Here’s the lineup for last week when Rosi o’donald guest hosted.

Monday, Hannah Wadding, m Ted Lasso, Sure and a guest ire The Linda Linda’s Bella Brown Tuesday, Gen Smart, Richard Gad Bella Brown again. Wednesday, Charlie Day, Yeah, it’s always Sunday it was out Janelle James, Ashley McBride, Thursday, Nick Offerman and Megan Malaly. Friday was a repeat. I mean, who do you want us to bump? Kathy Griffin on her podcast which is called Talk Your Head Off, Kathy Griffin said, I’m gonna be honest today.

I might cry. I’m asking for your pity. I love a good pity cry. I’m gonna be open and honest and hope you understand. And I’m trying to talk about something bigger than TV talk shows.

But you know, I talk a lot about Hollywood and I give you the inside scoop, et cetera. But this one’s really personal. I’m just gonna come out and say it are you ready. It’s embarrassing to say, but I have to tell you, guys, because we’re friends. My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited to go on Rosie’s Week with the Jimmy Kimmels Show.

Good pals. We’re like sisters, and everyone knows sisters fight. Sisters and brothers fight, best friends fight, relatives, coworkers fight, and we’re not even fighting. I don’t think I’ve ever had a fight with my best friend. I can’t recall one.

If we had one, it’s been a minute. I’m sure he’d have me on his show. Cathy said, I’m just being honest that when I found out that Rosie was gonna take over for the full week from my beloved Jimmy Kimmel, I love that, he said to the camera, and I’m doing it as a special treat to Donald Trump, and I thought, oh, fantastic. He’s leaning into it and his viewers are honestly leaning more to the left. Kathy then brought up her infamous photo from twenty seventeen.

I don’t need a visit from guys with sunglasses. Just google Kathy Griffin photo. It’ll come up. Kathy said, instead, in my own community of Hollywood of stand up comedy were you’re supposed to be edgy, You’re supposed to make political statements as well as be funny. My opinion, that’s what the greats do, That’s who the greats I admired did.

Did not go that way for me. Initially, Griffin said o’donald had made comments that were not supportive of said photo. On a recent podcast, The Upset Kathy Griffin, Kathy said, I mean, think about it. You’ve got these two women who shared this very unique thing in common, and well, what happened to me was much more extreme than what happened to Rosie. It’s pretty unusual that you’ve got these two women that have been so outspoken about Well, he wasn’t the president when she talked about him on the view, but he was the president when I talked about him.

And as I have spoken about before, most of Hollywood turned on me. Overnight. Rosie O’Donnell jumped on Kathy Griffin’s Instagram, posted the video and wrote, Kathy should have called me, honey, I didn’t choose the guests right out. Today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla Gorilla Comedy Plus channel Beloved English actress and comedian Carry Goldman brings her critically acclaimed stand up comedy special Bandwidth to a wider audience with Gorilla Comedy Plus. Known for her regular appearances on TV shows like Mack of the Week and task Master, He’s also on Allie Kats with Ricky Gervais.

Carry Goldman is noted as one of the most celebrated performers in the UK. Carrie said, I had a total blast filming the special and I’m excited to share my stand up with the wider audience. I do hope you love it, or at least they’re sufficiently amused by it, but love would be preferable. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it was the Cheese It Cheesiest Joke Award, award celebrates cheesy jokes. I love it.

Following more than one hundred and thirty entries, English stand up Phil Milton, Phil spells his first name fil Phil Milton emerged victorious and won the prize of one thousand British pounds with the following gag told much better by Phil Milton then I’ll tell it here, But the line is my brother convinced me to go on halves on a used funeral car. I can’t believe I was so easily coherst. That is terrible. It’s cheesy. Phil Milton said of winning, it’s a massive treat as a relatively new comedian doing my first show with the Fringe, having this award really helps get the word out about me and my show.

It’s really important to highlight individual jokes too. Sometimes a little one liner can get overlood or dismissed as a dad joke. They take a lot of effort and I’m really pleased Cheesse it have done it. He won from a public vote. There was a shortlist of five cheesy jokes.

Other finalists included this one from Martin Byrne told better by mister Burne. Give him man of Fish, He’ll lead for a day, teach a man OFFICI and will probably start a pod asked about fishing. We also had one from Carlin. No, not George Carlin, Brucken, Tiazac Carlin. This Carlin said, I’m looking for a new job.

I walked past a mirror shop the other day and thought, oh, I could see myself working there. I like that one. I would have voted for that one. Ruy frios Uk senior marketing manager Cheese had said, We’ve always celebrated not taking life too seriously and the inner cheesiness of everyone, so creating an award dedicated to the cheesiest jokes at the fringe felt like the perfect fit. The Trick comedy news for today right back at three o’clock with a casual short video in a normal episode in the morning See Then

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Featured: Rosie O’Donnell, Weird Al Yankovic, Ricky Gervais, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Olivia Colman, Martin Freeman, Robin Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Rosie O’Donnell guest hosts Jimmy Kimmel, draws 1.87 million viewers
• Weird Al releases new NPR Tiny Desk Concert with parodies and original songs
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season premiere and show history
• Ricky Gervais plans to marry partner of 44 years for tax reasons
• Ricky Gervais discusses cancel culture, work ethic, and assisted dying
• Olivia Colman and Martin Freeman join Only Murders in the Building Season 6
• Robin Williams children announce plans to maintain his Instagram account

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Hither. I am Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one thing we probably agree on is neither of us is interested in watching Rosie O’Donnell host Jimmy Kimmel live. But we might be in the minority. She drew one point eighty seven million total viewers on her first night out last Monday.

That was the biggest audience for any of Jimmy Kimmel’s guest hosts so far this summer. I’ve seen nothing but great buzz about Rosie. Again, not my cup of tea, but people seem to really like the job that she did. Last week, she beat out the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Rosie also won adults eighteen of forty nine, drawing two hundred and eighteen thousand viewers compared to Jimmy’s one hundred and fifty six thousand.

Late Night er tells us all this and they point out online Rosie’s monologue drew two point four million views on YouTube, probably more by the time you’re hearing this, and that was more than twice as many as the most watching monologue from any of Kimmel’s guest hosts this summer. That said, Kimmel’s own monologues routinely top three million views on YouTube, and his live plus same day audiences regularly surpassed two million viewers. Again, Rosie did one point eighty seven, not bad. In the middle of the summer, weird Al did an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Now, I was on the Internet and I saw somebody surface this and I’m like, Yeah, that’s been around forever.

Why is this a big deal? No, it’s a new one. NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert started in two thousand and eight. Al had an episode in twenty ten. Back then, the show was had a little more indie cred, so Al didn’t do parodies.

He did some original songs, but now as he returned, he did some old parodies. The new set, which is on NPR’s Various Socials, features There’s eBay, which is a parody of the Backstreet Boys I Want It that Way, and the Saga Begins, which is weird Al’s Star Wars song set to American Pie. It is observed that it is possible this is the first time that weird Al has performed the saga Begain in regular clothes, not a Jedi robe. Weird All also performed Emmy Losing closing credits blues rock Gym from his biopic Weird, the Al Yankovic Story, and his Weezer pastiche skipper Dan. I think over the years, I’ve come to like the pastiches better than his actual straight up parodies.

The New Yorker it took a look at It’s Always Sonny in Philadelphia. I watched the first two episodes of the new season. Thought they were pretty good. Episode one’s better than two, but I did like where they were. His table setting in episode two, and I think it’s going to go somewhere.

They looked back to the early days when they used Glenn Howarden and Charlie Day’s cheap digital cam quarders they were making their home demo then called It’s Always Sonny on tv Fax. Loved the show’s humor, but were worried at the show took place in LA because there were so many shows in LA at that time, so they decided to move into Philadelphia, where Rob Mcalenny now Rob Mack, had grown up. The characters would change from actors to nightlife industry colleagues aka bartenders, and that’s I never knew this. That’s why the show’s called It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. It’s a joke since the show’s always shot in la except for the occasional episode and some b roll.

But you notice it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. I love it. I never knew that. That’s a great little tidbit. The New Yorker reminded us.

An early episode featured a jab that Mac Direxit, Dennis and Charlie, which was a commentary about Hollywood’s inability to get Sonny. Max says in the episode, our problem is that we don’t stick to the basic format that gets us in a trouble. Dennis asked, so, what you’re saying is that by breaking that format, we’re actually limiting our ability to be a successful That’s hilarious. Another episode. I like this one a lot.

They were trying to win the award for Best Bar that was making fun of the show. Never winning an Emmy, it has only received three nominations, all for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Comedy Program, and it didn’t win that. A few years back, Charlie Day was one of the presenters at the MBS and said, wait, hang on, have you guys been doing this every single year without us? Good show? I’m glad it’s still going all the so much like me, everybody just looks older now, so you put on an episode and it’s just during Unlike me, I haven’t had plastic surgery.

I’m not saying anyone on that show has had plastic surgery. I’m not saying that. I’m just saying when you look at the show, it looks like they had plastic surgery. Well done, John, well done. Ricky Gervais has vowed he will finally marry his partner of forty four years.

Ricky is now sixty five. He’s been in a relationship with Gene Fallon since nineteen eighty two. He had previously said there was no reason to marry before the eyes of God, as there is no God. Send your letters to Ricky Gervais. With that opinion, why would he get married now to reduce his inheritance tax Bill Ricky spoke to Saga magazine and said, that will be the reason I marry.

But if it wasn’t for that, why it’s mad? The inheritance tax is horrible, isn’t it. I got to get around to marrying before I die, He said of his own relationship, How more married can you be? We share all our money. We’ve been living together for forty years.

Some marriages don’t last a year. The conversation made its way to the notion of Ricky Gervas being on Celebrity Traders. Ricky said, no, it’s not that it’s beneath me. I’d love to play Traders, but I don’t want to be filmed playing What good could come of that? I like watching MMA, mix mortial arts.

Hey, he might want to hang out with a controversial mega comedian in Aperghanzy, who also likes mixed martial arts. There’s a controversial lineup. Ricky Gerva’s a Nate Berghansy watching fights, possibly on a white house lawn. I digress. Ricky said, I like watching MMA.

I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to be doing something I’m not in control of. I don’t want to be away from home playing a game with strangers. Will he wind down? No, He’s said.

My dad worked on a building site until he was seventy. That’s hard work. I just stand there talking. He did say that performing catches up with him. Comparing it to driving really fast for an hour and heavy traffic.

I feel you, Ricky. Sometimes I’ll drive up from the beaches down the Jersey Shore, which is like a two hour ride, and I get home and I’m just like toast. Jervis said, I know I should be pottering around my garden shed, but I don’t think I could sit around doing nothing. You work, say, have a reason to sit on the couch and watch Tilly every night. It was an interview with Ricky Gervais, so you had to talk about cancel culture, right, he said.

Everyone got stressed about cancel culture, including me, although I try to beat it head on, but it’s peaked. It’s sick like. Cancel culture was never really about the comedians that could sell millions of tickets. It was about teachers and nurses who were losing their jobs because of an ideology. They discussed the concept of assisted dying.

Ricky described himself as pro choice in that area, but for himself, he said, it would take quite a lot to get me there. I’d want every last breath. It’s only if every breath hurts. Olivia Coleman, who appears in an episode of the Office. By the Way, She’s been announced as the latest star joining the sixth season of Only Runners in the Building Martin Freeman, who’s also in the UK Office.

He’s in the season as well. Robin williams three children, Zach, Zelda and Cody Williams. Did he run out of Z’s I don’t know, just yeah whatever. They went on Instagram to share how they planned to maintain Robin Williams’s Instagram account as a way to keep his unique talent and humor alive. In a joint statement, the Williams children said, as we recognize what would be our dad’s seventy fifth year, we’re grateful to see new generations discovering his work, while longtime fans continue to celebrate the joy brought in other lives.

As technology evolves, we want this to be a safe, trusted place where the stories, photos, videos and memories shared reflect his legacy with authenticity, warmth, and care. He continues to inspire us and delight people all over the world. Robin Williams died by suicide on August eleventh, twenty fourteen, in San Francisco. He was sixty three. Hey look at me actually putting in the notes on a Sunday to remind you, I also host a show called The Weekly Comedy Thing.

You’ll find that on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. What’s the Weekly Comedy Thing? It’s kind of like this, except the way the royalties work. I can actually play the bits, So if I tell you a story about a comedian, I can play the bid from the comedian and they get paid.

See, so it works for everybody. So it’s kind of like this with less me more comedians. Sounds pretty awesome, doesn’t it. Yes, it’s the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. And I also host a show called Five Good News Stories that comes out four days a week.

One of the four days is Sunday. It’s five stories. They’re all good news. So check out five Good News Stories wherever you found this show. If you’re relatively new and by the way, a lot of new people jumped on board this week, welcome.

Thank you. Often on the weekend, specifically on Sunday, I tend to do some international stuff. I do it in the second half of the show. I know not everyone’s into the international stuff, but I am. But if British comedy does not interest you, you can check out for the day and I’ll catch you tomorrow.

The New York Times wrote a piece about the use of AI at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Has it always been Edinburgh Festival Fringe? I always knew it as the Fringe Festival, but I don’t know. The words seemed to have flipped this year. I don’t know Mendela effect.

Maybe I’m from a parallel universe. Who knows? The Times tells us Garrett Millerck created a digital replica of himself by talking at an AI for four months so he could take on his character and comic sensibility. His show We Tried It Your Way runs at Pleasant Courtyard through the thirtieth The avatar appears on screen as a shifty looking three D avatar. The Times caused it unervingly dead eyed, a computer version of the man himself, and proceeds to tell jokes.

Millerrick has named the bot g Dog two point zero, he imagines sending in on comedy podcasts instead of himself. He has generated a clip of the avatar performing at the Hammersmith Apollo. Millrek himself has not played there, but he points out a plausible looking Instagram reels worth almost as much as the real thing. Love it. Millerrek asks his avatar to generate a monologue on a theme chosen by the audience, and it falls flat.

Audience members connected to a computer via QR code can register the reactions in real time. One of the jokes got a big laugh, and Millrich said he felt jealous. A couple quick reviews from website entertainment dash now dot com, John Conahan has been hitting some shows. One of the shows he hit was Zoe Woolfield’s Dog Funeral. John writes, I needed ten minutes to calm down after feeling uncomfortably exhausted by the show.

I enjoyed it, believe it or not. He says. Zoe is completely unhinged in this performance, inviting the audience to her dog’s funeral while arriving in a Victorian morning gown paired with the ego of an entitled, psychotic three year old girl. The show starts with a slideshow of different activities she would do with her dog before it died, and she would later quizz you on it by aiming in your face a water gun. I’m leaving that laugh and stumble in because that was natural.

As I read this sentence. Zoe relies on the energy and heckling from the audience to keep the narrative flowing. Ian an audience member had to comfort her as she wept on the floor crying that her dog has died. She makes the audience members moan and weep for her dog, Otherwise she’ll throw a tantrum and leave the show, only returning when everyone shouts for her to come back. How is this fun?

Doesn’t sound fun? He gave it three stars, three stars out of how many, John, I don’t know either four or five. I can’t tell. There’s just three stars and no grading measurement thing. There’s probably a term for what I’m looking for, but grading measurement thing.

But it’s at least four because the same guy, John Conahan gave four stars to Lou Wall. Lou Wall’s Show is where all the tall Grandma’s John writes, The show is exactly what it said. From the first moment, you were fully captivated by the confidence and madness of Lou Wall, and furthermore stunned by her amazing impressive height of six’. FIVE i didn’t Know Lou wall was six.’ five lou takes us on a detailed journey to find the one and. Only truth where are all The?

Tall grandmas that is an. Interesting point she has carried out, investigative journalism interviewing, the public emailing, health organizations and Even Contacted joe. Rogan spoiler she then breaks in, a song rapping to a beat almost as Fast, as eminem explaining how and what she has done to find. The answer that sounds like a. Good time that was a Pretty strong.

Sunday, episode again a lot of. NEW listeners i often pretape of the, weekend episodes including, this One which i’m Recording on thursday because it’s pouring Out and, i’m like let me get a jump on. The weekend but this was pretty strong For, a sunday, All right and that is your comedy news On. A sunday. See tomorrow

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Featured: Robert Schimmel, Rodney Dangerfield, Howard Stern, Ralphie May, Brie Larson, Vicki Davis

What’s in This Episode

• Robert Schimmel’s confessional stand-up comedy style and personal life
• Schimmel’s son’s death from leukemia and cancer diagnosis
• Fox sitcom ‘Shimmel’ cancellation due to Schimmel’s stage three non-Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosis
• Schimmel’s 1986 HBO Young Comedian special appearance with Rodney Dangerfield endorsement
• Schimmel’s regular appearances on Howard Stern Show building loyal fanbase
• Schimmel’s death in 2010 car accident in Scottsdale, Arizona while awaiting liver transplant
• Deep dive series on early 2000s comedians who died young before YouTube and podcasting era

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac, and we picked up a lot of new listeners this week. So what I’ve been doing on Saturday’s or deep dives on specific tomics, specific comedians. Last week I did Ralphie May. And my point here is I’m trying to highlight comedians from earlier this century who came along a little too early for modern YouTube or social media and podcasts, and these guys died young and would have been awesome.

One of them I would consider a friend Robert Shimmel, who I got to spend a decent amount of time with at serious exam early in my run there. So that’s what we’re doing today. A normal episode in the feed tomorrow. But today let’s talk about Robert Shimmel, who was fantastic and his life, his life story. If you made it up, you wouldn’t believe it.

There’s a thing that happens sometimes in stand up comedy where comedians life is so strange and so specifically pain that the material rights itself and the only question is where the comedian has the nerve and the craft to stand in front of a room and say it out loud. Most comedians who have access to that kind of material, find ways to soften it, keep something of a private, let the audience know it’s there without fully handing it over. Robert Schimmel was not most comedians. His son died of leukemia at eleven years old. Robert talked about it on stage.

Robert himself was diagnosed with stage three non Hodgkins lymphoma, and on the day the oncologist told him, in a room with his parents and his wife, he found the joke and the doctor’s explanation before it even left the office. I’m in my doctor’s office with my mom and dad. Mycologist comes in tells me that I have non Hodgkins lymphomi. He said, there’s Hopkins disease and non Hoskins and then he says, if you’re open minded, you might consider marijuana because it helps with the nausea and the appetite. And my parents are sitting there devastated with my diagnosis, and I’m thinking this is a dream come true.

I got a guy at Mayo clinic telling my parents I got smoke pot. Where were you? Twenty five years ago? Shimill married and divorce the same woman three times. During chemotherapy, he fell in love with his daughter’s best friend.

She came to visit him in the hospital and became his second wife. Robert was sixty years old and waiting for a liver transplant when his daughter was driving him through Scottsdale, Arizona. She swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle flipped. His son and daughter survived. Robert Schimmel died from the injuries ten days later, on September third, twenty ten.

It’s kind of like Sam Kinnison. If you had guessed how these people would go, you wouldn’t have guessed car accident. Chimmell had all kinds of cancer, and that it was a car is just crazy to me. I didn’t realize he was sixty. I thought he was younger.

Robert Schimmell turned every single piece of his life into colmy that made people laugh and feel and occasionally have to put their hand over their mouth because the laugh on the horror were arriving simultaneously. The actual skill was taking the most brutal and specific facts of one particular life and making them not just funny but generous, making an audience feel, by laughing at his pain, that their pain was survivable and laughable. Too. Robert shim Well, born in the Bronx, New York City in nineteen fifty, grew up there. His sister pushed him to do an open mic night.

How many times have we heard a version of that story Shimill did. It worked well enough that a club owner in LA offered him a regular spot. So he moved to LA and found that the club had burned down before he got there. That kind of bad luck where the universe appears to be personally invested in thwarting. You followed Robert Shimmell around for his entire life.

His big break came in nineteen eighty six when Rodney Dangerfield invited him to perform on the HBO Young Comedian special. There’s a guy. I don’t know where he’s from, and I don’t care. He really makes me laugh. All right, give it up for Robert Shimman.

Okay, Robert. Floyd, he gave a comedian. I used to work for the Drug Hotline. That’s a lot of fun. People call Real Stone to get to play with their heads.

Drug Hotline. I’m freaking out on LSD. Gee, I’m sorry the guy. Do you want to talk to? What was that?

Listen? You haven’t real scary hallucinations. Yeah, seeing like pigs eating your face. Now that you mention it, yes, you don’t worry. The spiders will kill them.

If you ever want to have fun with somebody that’s really stoned, all you gotta say is it me? Or is it getting hard to breathe? In? Here they go. Rodney Dangerfield’s taste was impeccable and his endorsement met something specific back in those days.

Appearing on that special put you in front of an industry that was paying close attention to who Rodney thought was worth watching. Shimmell made the most of it. He got some specials on Showtime Hardcore, in the Big Apple, Guilty is Charged, and became known what the industry calls a comics comic. That is high praise. That is the designation for someone who’s peers think is funnier than their public profiles.

Yes they should be, Shimill wrote for a Living Color he was on Howard Stern regularly, and then after two thousand and six, I think is the math there when Howard was up as serious that would bring Shimmel into the building, which is where I got to know him. Talking about that in a bit Shimmell was named stand Up of the Year at the American Comedy Awards. I remember those then. Fox Green lad a sitcom based on his life titled Shimmel whoa. Now you may feel a little pressure.

Yeah, on the roof of my mouth. Get it out. Let’s relax. Oh that’s beautiful. So who are you liking the playoffs?

What do you get the game on that thing? Doctor Rothman needs a consultation online. One that’s not what you think. Yeah, that’s what everybody says. Hey Phil, Oh yeah I can talk.

No he can’t. Ye, he’s very busy. Fell addrestment opportunity. I’m listening. Hmm, hold on a sick if you could buy boats online, would you ro just stick the phone up my ass and we can confidence.

His daughters were played by Vicki Davis and a young actress named Brie Larson. The pilot was shot, sets were built, marketing was being planned, and during the insurance physical for the production, doctors found stage three non Hodgkins lymphoma. Fox put the show on hiatus. The chemotherapy made production impossible. Fox eventually canceled the show.

So what did shim Will do? He put the cancer into the act. He talked about losing his hair, about the specific indignities of chemotherapy, about falling in love with his daughter’s best friend in a hospital because she visited and he was lying there with nothing to dow but noticed she was kind and funny and beautiful. When he married her, she was four years older than his daughter Jessica. Talked about all that on stage, including how weird it was and how much explain it all required.

The Howard Stern part is super important. Howard was a dominant force back in the early two thousands. Shimill worked on the show because he wasn’t trying to be transgressive. Stern show rewarded the thing Robert Shimmill was doing, which was telling the complete truth about his own life without editing on Stern. The more specific and the more honest and the more uncomfortable, the better.

And Robert Shimmell had a specific, honest, uncomfortable set of material than almost anyone Howard Stern ever put on the air. Because Robert’s actual life kept generating it faster than he could use it, their audiences overlapped in the years of regular Howard Stern appearances built Robert Shimmel a following that was unusually loyal, unusually mail, and unusually invested in his specific brand of confessional comedy. So I got too serious to run the comedy channels two thousand and four or so. And in those early days, Robert would come up frequently and come over and do the Raw Dog Channel. And I remember one particular story with Robert.

So at serious, a lot of stars would come through and, like any place, sometimes a lobby, because you know, I’m not gonna stand in the lobby waiting for Robert Shimmel to show up, So you know, you take the elevator up and you tell the receptionists you’re here to see John mcdermotter, whoever you’re here to see. So one day in the lobby, Robert Schimmel meets David Brenner. Younger listeners may not know. David Brenner, a great comedian who had his peak fame in the seventies and eighties and also a regular Howard Stern guest. Was also one of the primary guest hosts for The Tonight Show in the Johnny Carson era before Joan Rivers kind of took that gig anyway, So I’m there and my coworker Phil is there and Shimmel and David Brenner start swapping stories and we go, hold on, can we do this on the air?

And they both agree to come back the next day and swap stories. So we put them in the fish Bowl Studio, which is the big studio in the lobby which has all glass and that’s where you would do show off shows. And we set up two like old timey stand mics like what Bob Hope would use in the forties, and two stools, and Shimmel and David Brenner did an hour of radio just swapping stories. Now, when I left over a decade ago, the tape still existed. I hope whoever took over my office didn’t lose that tape because it was fantastic.

Let me see if that’s online. I don’t think it is, because that was pre like YouTube, Ron Dog Shimmel Brinner. No, there’s no video. I don’t even see the press release, but you can see this happened. I’m on Howard Stern dot com and on June seventeenth, two thousand and five, they posted Robert Shimmel stop by tosing in for the news, et cetera, et cetera.

Shimill said he was there to do a show with David Brinner. So it did happen in two thousand and five. You know what, I came up here? I forgot I did this apparently on February twenty sixth, twenty twenty two, I did an episode called Robert Shimmel’s Story. So when you’re done here, go back and listen to that one.

See what version of the story I told Maybe I’ll just tag that onto the Why don’t you just do that, John, I will tag that onto the end of this episode and save everybody some work since I obviously have the audio. Oh that’s funny. Did we learn doing this show? Where were we? Oh?

Yeah? So yeah. So Shimmel and Berner came up and swapped stories for an hour and it was fan fantastic. Shimmell’s a really good guy, always like super nice to work with, Like I like working with a pro who has like no attitude and it’s just there to do the work and like just no airs about him. And Robert Shimmel was a great guy.

His specials Unprotected in nineteen ninety nine. Life since then in two thousand and eight, Shimmel since he’d been gone in two thousand and nine. Are all documentaries of his actual life. He wrote a memoir called Cancer on five Dollars a Day and in parentheses chemo not included. That got him onto NPR’s Fresh Air.

Comedy Central named him one of the one hundred greatest stand up comedians of all time. We’ll have to revisit that list every now and then, but sure, why not? That puts Robert in a group of names that most people can recite from memory, and in a group of names that should come up more often than they do. The reason he comes up less often is the same reason and they were off he May conversation goes the same way. There is a specific kind of legacy that the comedy industry is better preserving than others.

The comedian who had the hit sitcom gets remembered through the sitcom. The comedian who with the viral special gets remembered through the algorithm. The comedian whose career was built on live rooms Robert Shimmel, Ralphie May and radio appearances and a confessional act. That comedian’s legacy depends on people actively arguing for it. There’s a clip of Shimmel and Conan from the nineties that gets passed around occasionally, and then people who find it for the first time say some version the same thing, which is why didn’t I know about this guy?

My next yes HBO special Unprotected, premieres this Saturday at ten o’clock PM. Please welcome a very funny guy, one of our favorites, Robert Shimmel. Thank you, thank you very much. My wife and I just had a brand new baby, and oh thanks, thank you. I’m very excited because for the whole pregnancy she didn’t want to have sex.

I mean every time I wanted to try it, and we’re in bed, you know, She’s like, well, I don’t feel attractive. I said, believe it or not, my penis has real poor vision. Actually he’s legally blind. Only women think. Like that, not guys.

I mean really, I mean I got with her and I go, come on, honey, you think tonight, And she goes, I’m too fat. What guy would be like that if your wife said, hey, tonight, you think you want to do it? Nah, I’m too fat to do it, honey. So I’m laying in bed with her, you know, I’m on the road a lot performing and she said she said, you know, can I ask you something? She said, you know, you’ve been on the road for like three weeks.

She said, have you been taking care of yourself? I said, yeah, I’m masturbated a couple of times. She said masturbate. I’m talking about eating right and exercising. Why is any more famous?

What happened? What happened is Robert Shimill never got the sitcom. Robert Shimmell. I would call him a friend. Again.

We weren’t best friends, but like good guy to work with. And here let me dust off that other episode from how many years ago? Now, I can’t do math four years ago? And let’s see what Johnny Mac said back in twenty twenty two. Here’s past me and I’ll see you tomorrow.

With a normal episode, Today’s episode is going to be a lot naughtier than usual. I won’t use any particularly sweary words, but the topics are going to be quite adult. So if you listen to the podcast on a daily business would say children or a nun or your mom, Why don’t you bail? On today’s episode, I’m going to talk about Robert George Shimmel, one of my favorite comedians and someone I knew personally. There’s a fantastic interview and a website called mister Media that I’m going to pick at.

I’ll do a lot from that on the back end, but a quick story up top here. Robert told mister Media. I went to go see Rodney Dangerfield in Vegas and my mom and dad were there, and I want him to my parents to meet Rodney because I thought, you know what, They’re gonna meet Rodney and they think he’s really funny. They’ve seen him on Ed Sullivan, on Tonight’s Show and on Mike Douglas, and they’re gonna really believe that I’m in show business for real. So we go to see a show.

My dad’s a real early bird. He goes to bed at like nine at night. So I go up to the dressing room with just my mom and I knock on the door and Rodney and where I’m not making this up. Rodney opens the door. He’s wearing a silk robe that has playing cards on it, with his stuff hanging out, no underwear just out of the crack of his robe.

He had a joint in one hand and a Miller light in the other, and he said, hey, you got to be Bob’s mom. I’m like, you gotta be kidding me. That’s not what I wanted my mom to see. And he started hitting on my mom. He said, where’s your husband?

She said, oh, he went to bed. Rodney goes, what are you doing later? Baby? From The Observer in nineteen ninety nine, Robert Schimmel was remembering the day that Barry Diller had resigned from twentieth Century Fox back in nineteen ninety two. A lot of set up there, But this will make sense to you, Robert said.

On that night, I did a big industry showcase in La, where you go in front of everybody, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney, Sony, Warner, Fox, and my opening line was, I have such bad timing in this business. I blew Barry Diller last night. My agent came over to me and said, are you out of your effing mind? Shimo says, why. The agent says, because the guy can make a phone call and I won’t even be in show business anymore.

Blow someone else. If Dielor finds out, he’s gonna go nuts. Shimmel said, why would he go nuts? I’m blowing him at that sign. Back in ninety ninety then a forty nine year old Robert Shimmel was described as the guy where people go, hey, come here, you gotta hear this, and with the book said yeah, but where’s he going with that kind of material.

Shimmel, a man with a shaved head, cool suit and eyes that look like they’re channeling the collective disbelief of his native Bronx, told jokes that often work like defibllerator battles. When his wife wonders if Robert Shimmel is suffering from premature ejaculation, he replies, does it look like I’m suffering? Those aren’t tears on your belly? After getting nitrous oxide from his deaentist, mister Shimmel hears him say Robert, you’re gonna feel a little prick in your mouth, and Shimal says, I’m not that messed up yet. From that observer piece, Shimmel has a lot of heavyweight fans in the comedy business.

He’s been on Conan six times in two years. Steve Martin wrote the liner notes to Shimmel CD. If you buy the CD, I can get this car. Howard Stern, the comedian, on a number of times when Shimmell was on Stern around this time, he talked about the allergic reaction he had to a spermicide that his wife was using. He described it as like having intercourse with a calzone.

The observer continues. If actor Jason Alexander was not a fan before the October first Friars Club roost of Jerry Stiller, he must be one now. Alexander dies spit take. During Shimmel’s set, Shimmell had started off by saying mister Stiller had played Angela Lansbury’s sea word in murder, she wrote. Shimal then stopped and quickly corrected himself by saying he meant to say cousin.

Shimill said, Jason Alexander’s lawyer called me and told me that Jason had called him after the roast and said I had made him use his asthma spray. Yet, even though Shimmel killed, some even felt he should have closed the roast. His entire performance was cut out of the hour long version of the roast that aired on Comedy Central a few weeks later. Shimmell said he didn’t find this out until he had both of his parents over to watch the show. It’s a bizarre thing to be treated like that, he was cut because of the time restraints that.

Shimmel said, that’s the worst thing that happens to me. Then I’m in pretty good shape. Shimmell then went somewhere else in the interview. He says, the next time you go to a drug store, you gotta look at this on the box of the fleet enema. This shows you how stupid they think we really are.

It says caution in big broad letters, remove the orange tip off the bottle before inserting into the rectum, which means that somebody actually stuck that up their button, squeezed the bottle and shot the cap up into their spleen and had to go to the emergency room. Then Shimmell fired off a series of discussions he swore he’d had with celebrities. Shimmel said, I went up to Jane Fonda. I met her at some party with Ted Turner. I walked over her and said, Ms Fonda, I don’t want to bother you, but I just want to say that my wife’s favorite movie is Fried Green Tomatoes.

She said, I wasn’t in that. I said, I know, but that’s our favorite movie. She looked at me like, what is your problem. I love doing stuff like that because celebrities, when you mess with them like that, you’re always expecting to suck up, and when you don’t do it, they don’t know how to react. He talked about a time he was sitting at a table with Milton Burrell, Caesar Romero, and another actor who had play I Had a Doctor on a nineteen sixty sitcom.

The actor who played the doctor was with a young man who he introduced as his ward. Shimmel said, Ward, what are you, Bruce Wayne? Your ward? You mean the kid you’re having sex with? Anyone else here?

Have award? Tonight? At the awards dinner, they were sitting with Joseph Cotton, who won an award for Citizen Kane, pretty famous movie. Cotton comes by and Shimal says, mister Cotton, I know tonight’s your night, but I just want to tell you I’ve seen Citizen Kane like thirty five times and I don’t get it. The whole thing was about a sled man.

You’re lucky you made that movie then, because I’ll tell you today that crap wouldn’t fly. There’s no special effects, and it turns out to be a sled At the end, nobody’s getting laid I got to know Robert a little bit. He would come up too serious a lot in the early days of my run and there running Serious XM comedy. Really really nice guy. When he wasn’t performing, he was pretty low key, but you’d have a conversation with him, and in his natural delivery, he would just say things that were jokes and would take a second to react to, like, wait, did you just say the most absurd thing.

In two thousand and eight, he spoke to Terry Gross on NBR. He describes how he viewed the cancer. He said, it’s like Robert Schimmel, the person whoever’s in my head that part doesn’t have cancer, and it’s like I’m trapped in a body that’s betraying me. And I don’t feel sick in my head. You know, you don’t feel like you’re dying.

You don’t even look bad when you have cancer. It’s the treatment that makes you look bad. And I feel like my body’s the Titanic and it’s going down and I’m the captain of the ship and it’s gonna take me down with it. You can’t switch to another body. So back to that fantastic interview, Robert Shimmel did with mister Media.

Still on the topic of cancer, Robert said, there’s no way it could not be funny when you go to the doctor and he says you have open source in your mouth and down your throat, because that’s what happens with chemotherapy. That’s to avoid any kind of oral anal contact. And I’m thinking, first you tell me I have cancer, and now I can’t kiss anybody’s ass. When’s the punishment gonna stop? What did he think I was gonna be doing.

I could barely eat jello. You’re not supposed to have sex when you’re in chemotherapy because the chemotherapy in you comes out in all your bodily fluids. So actually it’s all that if I had a bathroom that I could use that my wife and daughters didn’t use, that would be the way to do it, because sometimes guys be on the seat and the girl sits on it, and if any of that gets in them, it could be dangerous.

And then he said you could take care of yourself.

Robert ads, well, it’s really hard to lay in bed and pray to God and say please let me get through this, and then be taking care of yourself in the same bed. Looking up the same ceiling. It’s impossible, just really is. And I prayed and I had a really hard time doing it. I’ll tell you why.

I think I’m more spiritual than religious. I’m laying in bed asking God to get me through this, and it felt like I had a friend. I hadn’t talked to him ten years. Now the blue, I’m calling him and ask him to lend me a thousand dollars. I don’t pray all the time, and here I am asking for the biggest thing you could ask for, which is not to die.

But I prayed to everybody. I pray to Buddha, pray to Jesus. If there’d been a Gi Joe in the room, I would have prayed to him anything and everything to get me through it. There’s a chaplain in the hospital. They do their rounds every day.

When the guy came in for the first time, he said, Hi, I’m the chaplain to you Christian. I said, no, I’m Jewish. He said, well, I’m sorry that I bothered you. And I said, where are you going? I don’t want you to leave.

He said, do you want to pray with me? I said yeah, let’s go. He said okay, but I’m going to be praying to Jesus, and I said, I’m going to be right there with you. I don’t want to die and get up there and have Jesus at the gate going you where do you think you’re going? I watched George Carlin talk completely in the opposite direction about religion, and it floors me.

He makes me laugh so much when he came out with the book When will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops or whatever it’s called. I bought it. I was laughing out loud reading it on an airplane, and the next radio show I did, I talked about how funny the book was. I get home, Carlin calls me and he goes, are you plugging my book on the radio? Yeah?

He said why? I said, it’s ef hysterical. He said, Shimmel, why would you buy my book? All you have to do is ask me and I’d give it to you. I said, I’m not going to ask you to give me your book.

I was on the road and I wanted to get it. Then like two hours later, a messenger knocked on my door and handed me a package. I opened it up. It was the same book from Carlin he had sent it over inside it says, Hey, Shimmel, go f yourself George Carlin, and I’ll finish up with a great story, as told by Robert Shimmel. I’m walking down Broadway.

Jackie Mason comes out of the State Deli. He’s with two friends. They’re walking up Broadway and the two friends stop and they’re talking to somebody else, and Jackie sees me, I’m completely bald. I have a little bit of hair under my lip, no eyebrows, no eyelashes, I’m wearing a baseball hat. Jackie Mason comes over and goes, oh my god, what happened to you?

He said, I just finished chemo therapy. And he said, cheme with therapy? He had cancer? What kind of you have? His two friends walk over and Jackie Mason says, I want you to meet a real funny guy, Howie Mandel.

He thought I was Howie Mandel. And his friend says, he doesn’t look like Howie Mandel. Jackie Mason says, of course, he doesn’t look like Howie Mandel. He just finished chemo therapy. He lost a lot of weight.

And Jackie says to me, what are you doing in town? Well, I’m doing Conan O’Brien tomorrow. Are you busy tonight? No, how’d you like to have dinner with me? At two intelligent comics have a nice dinner and a conversation together.

Shimill said, all right, where are you staying at the Parker Meridian. Mason asked under what name? I said, Robert Shimmel. He said, Robert Shimmel. How do you come up with that?

I said, that’s my real name. Jackie Mason said, Howie Mandel’s your stage name, and he felt so bad for Howie. I did done have the balls to tell him that I wasn’t him. He did go through with the dinner, and Jackie Mason starts telling people that Howie Mandel went through chemotherapy. Like a month later, I’m up in Montreal for the comedy Festival.

I’m checking into the Delta Hotel. That’s where everybody stays. I’ve stayed there, that is true. And the first person I run into the lobby is Howie Mandel and he comes over to me and says, so, how am I doing? Robert Shimmel one of the greats.

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Featured: Mark Maron, Conan O’Brien, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman, Guillermo Rodriguez, Robert Schimmel

What’s in This Episode

• New York Comedy Festival announces 100 additional shows
• Conan O’Brien Must Go season 3 returns on HBO Max
• Guillermo Rodriguez launches salsa brand
• Forgotten comedians of early 2000s losing cultural relevance
• Pool robot fails to clean leaves effectively

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If you’re watching this on YouTube, these are the quick updates I do in the afternoon. This is really an audio podcast about twelve minute episodes come out seven days a week. If you’re listening to the RSS feed. What everybody else is staring at right now is my pool vacuum. This is a solar powered robot that is supposed to be skimming the top of the pool, and we’re looking at some leaves.

And I don’t really know what makes this thing decide to go into attack mode or not. It is solar powered and it does need to recharge, but I’m waiting patiently here. It’s pointed right at the leaves, and if we get lucky, it’ll go into attack mode and clean up the pool right here on exciting video. And this is this is what I’m talking about when I talk about the show about give Chris Fleming twelve thirty or the Letterman weirdness or the Conan weirdness. I understand that this is just dumb and we’re staring at a pool vack waiting for it to clean up some leaves.

But this is the kind of stupid stuff that I find funny. The Near Comedy Festival announced another one hundred shows. I’m still not blown away by this lineup. I mean, tell me who the headliner here is that? Mark Maren.

I mean love Mark, but if he’s the ace in past festivals, he would have been like the eighth best comic on the bill. Loved the New York Comedy Festival, but it’s just not drawing what it used to, especially when you compare to like what Netflix has been handing in the last few years. The new Editions joined previously announced headliners including Mark Maren, Alana Laser, Jordan Jensen, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman, and Patty Harrison. That’s one show, Daniel Sloss, ze Way, Benbankis, Mojo Brooks, and a bunch of others. I mean, yeah, okay, are you gonna move to some salsa?

Guillermo from The Kimble Show is in the salsa business now. This makes me laugh. If you’re a long time listener to the audio podcast during the pandemic, I got a lot of time killing material when George Lopez opened George Lopez Taco is a business that I think was not as successful as George Lopez hoped.

And then there was of course Jim Gaffig and Bourbon, which I made a lot of fu…

So I don’t know what I’m talking about, so I’m not betting against Guillermo. Here, he told Food Businessnews dot net, your home for comedy news, I always wanted to have my own salsa, and I’m very happy. The sauce is so good. It’s fresh and authentic. Now, as you dive into this article, we find a guy, mister Kirby, who mister Kirby is the president of the company, and he said, quote, I made the salsa and sent it to Germo, and Garamo said, yep, this is good.

I’d put my name on this. So I don’t know. Are we just having Kirby salsa? And it’s with Ghermo’s name? Not the most important thing.

It’s a summer Friday before I forget tomorrow. On the audio podcast, the Deep Dive is about Robert Schimmel, who I got to work with a few times, more than a few times, when I was back at Sirius. What a great guy, A great comedian, Like a lot of the comedians from the beginning of this century, is starting to be forgotten. Richard Jenny is one of those. Ralphie May, John Pinnette, like a lot of really good comedians, and you don’t hear about them anymore.

I think they came along just a little before the whole podcasting boom or modern day YouTube or social media clips, and they’re getting lost in the shuffle. Dane obviously still around. He’s got the movie coming around. But you know, like Dane was a monster, and you don’t hear much about Dane these days. Conan O’Brien Must Go is out on HBO Max Today season three.

He caught up with Conde Nast and said, I was never a stand up comedian. I got started doing improvisational comedy and that’s where my comfort is. I love trying to make something happen. He talked about the fun of the show is when things go wrong or things are unexpected, and uh, you know, let’s check back in with poolbots. See what’s happening.

Hey, look, it woke up, but it’s going the wrong way. What are you doing? All right? I missed that one. No, I just brushed the pool.

So we’re going to see a cloud of green. That’s what we’re running into. But oh, okay, can you get this leaf let’s zoom in? Can you get this guy. Yeah, that is you.

Your comedy news for Poolside back in the morning on the audio feed with a deep dive onto the career of who are you doing tomorrow? Is Robert Schimmel, That’s who it is. So you want to see if we get this one more leave there’s a big one here again. We’re in the green zone here, I understand. I tell you about the vandals who got the algae in my pool.

I’m going for that little one got ’em. What happens when we crashed on the another one? Are you not entertained? See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Chris Fleming, Marc Marin, Byron Allen, Seth Meyers, Eric Andre

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien Must Go Season 3 announced with India, Netherlands, Morocco, and Philippines episodes
• Conan discusses improvisational comedy approach and finding humor in travel mishaps
• Chris Fleming profiled in Harper’s Bazaar with Late Night hosting pitch
• Chris Fleming’s philosophy on stage performance and avoiding personality-driven comedy
• Byron Allen’s 2025 late-night success at 12:30 slot beating Seth Meyers
• Eric Andre airport settlement mentioned in episode title

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Caloroga Shark Media from Poolside, where it’s eighty two degrees, portly cloudy and a UV index of eight times. Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News out today on HBO Max. Isn’t what we’re calling it This week, Conan O’Brien Must Go Season three, four new episodes. Conan O’Brien Must Go to India, the Netherlands, Morocco, and the Philippines. Conde Nas said, Hey, Conan, you seem like you were having a blast making the show.

Conan said, it was a little bit of both. Let’s say we had a terrific fan was from Cleveland, Ohio. I wouldn’t go visit that fan because that isn’t kind of the travel I want to be doing. No knock on Cleveland. Good thing he cleared that up.

Cleveland’s gonna get mad. Deacon Mike lives in Cleveland. He’ll be throwing stuff across the room. You’re like, hey, that deacon. He seems pretty friendly.

Oh no, no, no, I’ve seen him throw. We used to work at a radio station together. I’ve seen him throw a reel to reel. I’ve seen it. Hi, Deacon Mike, I digress Conan’s not coming to see you, Deacon Mike Conan says, So sometimes I’ll find a great fan and realize, oh, there from Norway.

Wouldn’t I love to go to Norway? First, it looks great, but it’s also a great cultural contrast. I’m very techtile I insert myself into people’s personal space. The Norwegians don’t like that. So then to think, well, this could be a funny dynamic, and that makes us want to meet that fan even more.

Conan explains, you want a country to be visually interesting, you also want it to be a placed where maybe it’s customs and culture are going to provide a great setting for a Fish out of Water story. A lot of thought goes into each episode, but so much of what ends up happening is very Gorilla style. They were curious how much improv comedy happens in the show. Conan explained, I was never a stand up comedian. I got started doing improvisational comedy, and that’s really my comfort zone.

I love trying to make something happen. If I just met you on the street and we started talking, I’d probably try to make something fun happen in the moment, and those moments often yield good results. That’s part of my inspiration for doing the show Pool’s Eye, aside from its eighty two with a UV index of eight, and I don’t want to be inside do I hear the landscapers? Conan said, the people I met were so funny and had a real sense of irony. They were really good comedic partners.

I’ve never shtrung up to shoot comedy at strangers. I’m there to try and get a spark between us and see what happens. What I learned from doing comedy in front of an audience every night is you may go in with an idea of what you’re going to talk about, but the greatest thing in the world is an accident. If David Bowie’s on the show and something goes wrong, perhaps his coffee mug breaks accidentally because it was cracked. That’s not a disaster.

I’ll jump in here. That sounds like a very specific, made up scenario. I’m guessing that actually happened. Gonan says, when you travel, things don’t always go to plan. They just don’t.

And if you’re ready to find the humor in it and improvise and figure out another way, you’re gonna have a great trip. Making the show as a combination of preparing for something and then preparing for things to go another way completely. I’m at my happiest when things are a little off kilter. I don’t know why, but on all the years that I was doing my late night show, I was at my commas when things got chaotic. That’ll bring us in a few minutes to my Chris Fleming premise, make twelve thirty great again.

We’ll get there. Stay with me. We’re still in the Conin article Goen it said, I always remember there’s another audience, which is the camera, so that when I fail, I can turn to them and look slightly deflated, and they might understand, even in joy seeing things not necessarily going my way, if to remind myself that it’s not just me and this person who perhaps doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Harper’s bizarre profiled Chris Fleming. Now hear me out here.

I know some of you like Seth Myers a little more than I do, but the President and I are aligned on this issue. We need to make twelve thirty great again. I mean, Seth Myers is in the middle of a seven week vacation as anyone crying out going, Oh, I really miss Seth Myers. No, it is time to make twelve thirty weird again. In the great tradition of Late Night with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, I propose to you it is time for Late Night with Chris Fleming.

Let’s give him the slot. What are we going to do with Seth Myers Dunn? Oh, he can go on Peacock, don’t know, make twelve thirty great again? Harper’s bizarre rites. It’s not loud enough for Chris Fleming.

It’s a Tuesday night in June near West Hollywood, Nearly three ind fans that packed the Largo for Chris Fleming and Friends, a recurring variety show hosted by Chris Fleming. He opens the evening, performs between sets, and brings out a rotating lineup of surprise guests. He takes the stage a few minutes after eight, dressed in a vintage electric teal two piece, a sleeveless collar top and built bottom pants. That’s a little David Bowie with a hint of evil. Can evil exactly?

This is what we need? At twelve thirty on NBC, The crowd is howling, multiple people are in tears, and yet the laughter is not quite where Chris Fleming wants it to be. He thinks he’s losing people. After the show, Chris told the reporter, I don’t have a thing that a lot of comics have where there’s an unfillable void in me until it comes to the volume of laughter. It’s almost like you’re conducting.

I’m completely in their experience as well as my own, and I’m so in my own world. It’s brutal. I can’t not say what’s on my mind about how they’re not reacting. Mark Marin said Fleming really has an amazing freedom of mind on stage. A lot of the connections he’s making in terms of how he moves around the stage and the mannic seemingly stream of consciousness and method he’s chosen.

It’s a rare thing to be improvisationally that flexible. Fleming says, I’m just delivering the news. You never want yourself to be the thing people are obsessed with. You want your ideas to be the thing people are obsessed with. No one gives a hoot about me.

They want the product I’m working on. If you’re the personality You’re cooked. That last special on HBO was me firing at the height of my powers. He decided to become a comedian. He said, my mom was like, how do you think you’re going to get cash?

You need to write your own material. Old Chris Fleming began studying performers he considered singular that list. Let’s know this list, Richard Simmons, Robin Williams, Ricky Martin, Eddie Zord, Steve Martin, Michael Jackson, Maria Bamford, and Michael Flatley of Lord of the Dance. You know what do you throw all that in a blunder? I get it.

We are told. What united them was not a style as much as a totality, a commitment to physicality, spectacle, and a persona and tyler their own. We’ll keep it with Late Night for a while. There was a resurfaced interview from Byron Allen back in May when Colbert was rinding down. Apparently Byron Allen had a heated conversation with NPR journalist Alyssa Cheng, who kept asking Byron Allen if he was asked by CBS and Paramount not to do politics.

Sounds like she didn’t do her research it is well known. Maybe it’s just because I host a comedy podcast. I think it’s well known that Byron Allen has told people as he says it. I said twenty years ago, don’t do anything political, don’t do anything racist, sexist, any of that. Twenty years ago because the stuff ages and gets dated.

Now, this was when Byron’s show was still on at twelve thirty and said we won this since September. We’re beating Seth Myers, who’s been on way longer than eighteen months. I’d have to fact check that. But first of all, let me say loud and clear, never bet against Byron all The guy’s a billionaire for a reason. He is super smart.

If you’ve listened to interviews with him, that comes across, and he’s very, very likable when you listen to him. But if he was beating Seth Myers and we An, NBC should have Chris Fleming on. On Monday, Byron Allan said, now what’s happening. You have to look at this because we go by the numbers. Remember it’s a business show, not show business.

The repeats on political humor, when you do a show, the repeats are negative, negative fifty two percent the shows that are doing political humor, the repeats negative fifty two percent, the repeats on comics unleashed negative fourteen percent. Why because I’m not talking about something that happened eight weeks ago or twelve weeks ago. Alan said for a while he wanted to create comics on leash for his comedian buddies because he didn’t feel at that time twenty years ago, and there was a good form for diverse voices, and he wanted to be super clear. CBS does not give notes quotes. I want to be clear.

I have absolutely not had any conversations with anybody at CBS or parents about what to say or not to say. Politics are no boundaries. CBS has not given any notes, any feedback about don’t be political again, don’t bet against that man. The writers from Stephen Colbert’s show have a little bit of work. Risco hargatea who is this year’s Emmy host, has revealed that she’s working with the writers from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

She told Deadline, we’re at the beginning stages, so we’re throwing out a lot of different ideas. I’m working with an incredible team of writers. The writers from Colbert. We’ve been meeting a lot and discussing a lot and pitching a lot of ideas. We’re pitching so many ideas.

She sounds like Trump. There the greatest ideas. These are the best ideas from food business dot Net. You’re home for comedy news. Guillermo from Jimmy Kimmel.

His salsa brand, Guillermo’s, is going nationwide. Now, John, you probably want to make fun of this because you made a lot of fun of Jim Gaffigan bourbon and I know I’ve learned my lesson Jim Gaffigan Award winning bourbon maker. I could still make fun of George Lopez tacos, but I’m not going to bet against Guillermo. Here. Giermo said, I’ve always wanted to have my own salsa, and I’m very happy.

The salsa is so good. It’s fresh and authentic. The president of the company is a guy named Chris Kirby, who said Guillermo’s is not just a celebrity brand. That’s obviously what gets us a lot of attention, you think, but we really think the product is the star. Guillermo might get consumers to try the product once, but taste is what gets them to buy it again.

Now, despite what mister Kirby said, here’s this next quote. I made the salsa and sent it to Geirmo, and Girmo said, yep, this is good, and I would put my name on this. That’s all we needed. So it’s really Kirby Salsa with Giirmo’s face on it, dude. Girmo s also comes in mild, medium, and hot varieties, ingredients from micro Dice for consistent texture and taste.

Mister Kirby says, you’ll find that taste in every single bite. Sebastian Maniscalco was on the tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon. He talked about the Sebastian impression that Marcelo Hernandez does and told Fallon, I’m wondering how I get on the show. My dad’s upset. He’s like, what’s going on?

They’re imitating you and making all this money off and you’re not even there. But Sebastian said, it’s good, very flattering. I don’t even know if Harry Styles knew who I was. I think they probably had to show him a video and go, could you do this? You never know who knows and doesn’t.

Another reminder I do another show. It’s called five Good News Stories every day, five things that went right in the world. No politics, no outrage, just good news. It’s like five minutes long, comes out four days a week. Those days are Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

So if you listened to yesterday, you gotta wait till tomorrow. But anyway, follow the show where if you find this one and it is Friday, it is time for the Comedy stock Market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds, Comedy stock Market. I don’t want to force this as a segment. I don’t really have a lot of ideas.

A lot of the news this week was around people like Sheen Gillis, and we bought some Sheen Gillis stock last week, so if you want to buy more Shane Gillis, sure, buy more Sheen Gillis. I do think we should buy some stock in a landscaping company. With the amount of landscapers just surrounding my house, there’s apparently a lot of business in northern New Jersey. Maybe we open a landscaping company and forget about this podcasting nonsense. Let’s also buy some stock in Dean Cook.

If you called yesterday’s DCN Live. I talked a little bit about the new Deane Cook movie that is coming out in September. I will do a deeper peace about that on Monday’s audio podcast. But let’s buy some stock in Dane Cook and a landscaping company and maybe Sheen gillis no sells this week not feeling negative and that’s a pretty boring comedy stock market. On this Friday, we have a bunch of legal stories to go over.

Comedians Eric Andre and Clayton English have reached a settlement in a lawsuit that they had filed challenging a police program at the Atlanta Airport that they said used racial profiling and coercive searches just as airline passengers, particularly black passengers, were about to board their flights. The lawsuit, originally filed in twenty twenty two, alleged to the two men were racially profiled and illegally stopped at the airport in Atlanta. The men said officers at the airport had singled them out because they were black and grilled them about drugs while other passengers watched. In the lawsuit, eric Andre called the experience dehumanizing and demoralizing. Eric Andre said in a press release.

It’s a major victory that Clayton County has confirmed that it has ended this program and is now taking steps to prevent this type of abuse from happening in the future. English said in the release, what happened to me was wrong, and I wasn’t willing to let it happen to other people. The county Board of Commissioners authorized a payment of thirty thousand dollars, half goes to each comedian. The county also agreed to require police officers as sign of the airports who use body worn cameras and to undergo training on constitutional limits. Police records sided in the lawsuit showed that between August thirtieth, twenty twenty two April thirtieth, twenty twenty one, there were four hundred and two jet bridge stops.

Of the four hundred two, race was listed in three hundred and seventy eight of those stops. Of those three hundred and seventy eight passengers, two hundred and eleven, fifty six percent were black and people of color accounted for two hundred and fifty eight total stops, or sixty eight percent. The four hundred two stops also resulted in three reported drug seizures. The board here says that yielded more than one million dollars in cash on money orders from a total of twenty five passengers over at the Fringe Festival. A venue has accepted that it discriminated against a Jewish comedian when it canceled his show at last year’s Fringe.

Philip Simon was due to perform his show last year, but the venue scrapped at its short notice after it carried out quote routine unquote checks on a social media currently. Reports last year say that the venue told short all that Philip Simon’s views aligned with quote groups associated with humanitarian violations. Philip Simon suggested he had been canceled quote just for being Jewish. And in China, a stand up comedian considered one of China’s most influential cultural figures, has been placed under investigation and had some performances canceled. Wow Djang is China’s best known comic.

He was accused of violating public morals after he improvised his own lyrics to a famous Chinese revolutionary song. He was reported to the city’s Culture and Tourism Bureau by a complainant who said that the comedian had none not only distorted and vulgarized a classic revolutionary work, but also violated public morals and accepted standards of conduct. The song in question, playing My Beloved Pipa I Believe It’s pronounced, is said to capture the resilient spirit of communist gerilla forces fighting the Japanese during the Sino Japanese War. The original lyrics are quote the sun is about to set in the west, all is quiet on the Waishan Lake. The comedian switched the lyric to all is quiet in the Forbidden City.

The Wuhan Culture and Tourism Buro said the adapted portion performed by the comedian was not included in the material submitted for prior approval and is suspected of violating the Regulations on the Administration of Commercial Performances. Dave Chappelle, remember that story next time you’re claiming you’re canceled. And that is your comedy news for today tomorrow. The Deep Dive is about Robert Shimmel. I got to work with him a lot.

It’s like twenty years ago now. He was a good guy and a Greek comedian, and like a lot of comedians from the beginning of this century. Dean Cook on that list as well. Kind of been forgotten and oak shadowed by the bro podcaster YouTube era, but there were some great comics. I’m going to talk about John Pinnette in an upcoming week.

People seem to like the Ralphie May one from last Saturday, so tomorrow we’ll do Robert Shimmel. I think I may have said in the Facebook group that I was doing Pinnett, but Pinette is probably two weeks out, maybe three weeks out, because I do want to do some Jerry Lewis stuff for Labor Day weekend. I get to do the math on that. How that falls. No, that Labor Day is the seventh, so probably Shimmel and then John Pinnette.

Anyway, follow the show wherever you get your podcasts and download it tomorrow and you’ll see who I wound up talking about. Bye,

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Featured: Dane Cook, Joe Koy, Diane Morgan, Sean Haggerty

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s brother theft scandal and ‘Funny Money’ documentary film
• Joe Koy’s sixth Netflix special ‘Blue in the Face’ September 15th release
• Stand-up comedians pivoting to text-based social media instead of video clips
• Harassment incident involving man in AI glasses confronting Diane Morgan on set
• Sean Haggerty’s Nostalgia Room retro museum opening in Ireland with Ghostbusters appearance

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From Pool’s side on Johnny maclay Your afternoon Daily Comedy News Update. We’ll talk about the Landscapers in a minute. Believe me, I’m excited about Dane Cook’s trailer. He’s got a movie coming out. I just watched the trailer for this thing.

It was awesome. The headline for people Deane Cook’s brother Daryl stole millions from him. Can you hear me over the Landscapers. That’s one of the things I have to check because I’m not using my proper microphone set up here. Deane Cook’s brother Darrel stole millions from him, hid cash and spaghetti sauce, and disappeared.

It is called Funny Money, The Deane Cook Story. It’ll be out video on demand September twenty ninth. I’m looking forward to this. This looks pretty good. People tells us that Dane’s brother, a former corrections officer, was ultimately arrested Spoilers in two thousand and eight and charged with stealing twelve million dollars from Dane Cook while acting as his business manager.

He pleaded guilty to larcene investment in forterye and twenty ten and was sentenced to five to six years in prison. He was also ordered. To repay the twelve million dollars to Dane Cook funny Money The Dane Cook Story. Now, what I think will be great about this is it’ll like we reignite people’s interest in Dane. I think people have forgotten, it’s been twenty years now how huge Dane Cook was.

Dane was selling out the Garden when that wasn’t that ball common. The guy was a rock star as a comedian. Went a nice looking guy. I know my female co workers really enjoyed him, but he was huge for you know, a good decade there. He was the top comedian and you don’t hear about him much at all.

So looking forward to the Dane Cook Story video and demand September twenty ninth. I’m also really excited. If you listen to the audio podcast, you know I love this bit. I’m excited Joe Coy has announced a new special Why John you see? And this is what the bit is.

Joe Coy remember he oose of the Golden Globes and he told a joke about Taylor Swift and she kind of made a stoneface about the joke. All the landscaper stopped good And I love doing the bit about one time Joe Coy he told his horrible meat joke about Taylor Shift and that I played on the audio podcast. So that’s a lot of fun. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL on the Goldie Gloves.

Yeah, fewer cariber shots of Taylor swept anyway. Joe Koy it’s his sixth Netflix special, Blue in the Face, Netflix, September fifteenth. And there’s an interesting article in the New York Times under the headline, some stand up comics are pivoting away from video. I finally start making video and now we’re pivoting away. Great, so is what the comedians are doing.

Instead of posting jokes, they’re doing kind of slide shows with texts. So it’ll be like a one two three, almost like a comic strip where it’s one two three set up punch. A comedian Eric Walsh explains, some people just don’t want to watch clips at work and stuff like that, and so the fact they can just scroll through the pictures it makes it way easier to consume and distribute. Another comedian said, text jokes. Work because you don’t have to have applause if you have a dead room that makes sense.

I also want to lightly touch upon this one, and I don’t want to make fun of anything other than on the audio podcast. I have said several times some podcasters have a crush on Diane Morgan, but don’t do this. The headline man wearing Perfect Glasses films himself harassing famous female comedian Diane More. Just want to be clear, not me. I don’t harass people.

Just talk about my crush on a podcast anyway, Diane’s out on a TV shoot. Some dude named Mark posted a video rising uncunk counk as the character that she plays. Mark asked Ian Morgan, excuse me? Can I get your phone number? Some of the crew come over and they’re like, hey, dude, dumb where we’re shooting here?

Can we get some space? Apparently Mark says, don’t ever touch me. We’re gonna have a problem. Okay. Another crew member said, we’re working, We’re in the middle of shoot.

This is what we do for a living now. Apparently this man was wearing what’s been known as the. Perfect glasses, the AI glasses that record people anyway, don’t harass people, and one more. I thought this was cool. A comedian, Sean Haggerty in Ireland has created the Nostalgia Room.

So my question to you will be, what would you like a nostalgia room. His retro room has stuff from his childhood in the eighties and nineties. It opens up on Saturday with a special appearance by Ghostbusters Northern Ireland famous Ghostbusters trooped. But I assume he says, in my retro everything has been carefully selected, collected over years, a lot of stuff I’ve had since childhood. It’s like a beautiful interactive museum you can touch, use and play.

Guests can expect old crttvs, a VCRs, a DVD player with DVDs, old comics and magazines, toys, posters and cassette tapes, retro consoles and much more. That’s what I would want. I would want an a Toury twenty six hundred, and believe me, I have one. I have a vintagitory and I also have one of those you know, modern fake kataris that’s just easier to hook up to the TV. I have both of those, and I would want Star Wars figures.

What would you like? Tell me in the comments, You guys think I’m doing a bit with the landscape is on the main show, right, Well, here’s the pool, so we are pool side. Yes, I know, it’s little green. We talk about the. Mantles and here is just can you see back there?

The relentless landscaping. It never ever ends. I mean, I need them to call over here and pick up my bird thing and actually cut my grass, and don’t. Worry, I’ll get to it one of these videos. We’re going to follow this guy around easier to clean up the leaves.

There’s one of the leaves you to get. To yet, And here’s the leaves, and yes, I know the pool great believe I’ve been being with it back in the morning with an audio episode. Again, if you’re listening to this on the audio feed, I’ve been doing quick three or four minute videos on YouTube in the afternoons. That’s what you’re listening to. And if you’re staring at me right now, I know.

And if you’re staring at me right now, this is really an audio podcast that comes out in the morning and those episodes are more like twelve minutes long, and catch it then

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matthew McConaughey, Nate Bargatze, Jo Koy, Steve Gerbin, W. Kamau Bell

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis beer brand controversy at Austin FC game
• Shane Gillis’ Netflix series ‘Tires’ season three success
• Nate Bargatze called ‘controversial’ by Parade magazine over Trump UFC event
• Jo Koy announces new Netflix special ‘Blue in the Face’
• Shane Gillis SNL firing and career comeback

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Caloroga Shark Media friends, this show will not be stopped. Every landscaper in the Tri State area is in my neighborhood right now. There’s a guy blowing leaves behind me. There’s a guy mowing the lawn to the left of me. But it is seventy nine degrees sunny and dry out.

So we are doing a poolside edition. Come hell or high water. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We will test out my noise reduction capabilities on the MacBook. Shane gillis a little kerf Fluffle’ll been talking about this on the Quick Afternoon episodes, So just real quick, if you’re catching the three minute things I’ve been posting in the afternoon, I’m doing those for YouTube, So if you’re finding the show on YouTube, those are the videos.

And if you’re a regular audio listener that we’ve been doing this for eight years, nothing changes here, but that’s what’s going on with the afternoon episodes. I talked about this lightly, but there’s a Shane gillis kurf fluffel. Shane was at the Austin FC soccer game against Dallas on Sunday. Interesting choice. He was there with Matthew McConaughey, and on screen you saw McConaughey, and you saw Shane and on Shane’s right hand, and the cup holder was a dos Eki so which you know, a perfectly fine beer.

Everyone enjoys a good dos Equis unless you’re Shane Gillis and you’re a spokesperson for bud Light. Now, all of a sudden, you see somebody hand Shane a bud Light and he said, what what? Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And what’s making this even funnier now is TMZ is trying to clean this up, And TMZ reports a source close to Shane says the comedian wasn’t committing brand betrayal. You see the dose Eki sitting in the cup holder in Shane’s chair wasn’t his right.

It belonged to the girl sitting next to him, who wasn’t in her seat, just as the cameras shot Shane Gillis and Matthew McConaughey, Because why would you want to see the pretty blonde girl drinking a dose Egi’s Now, TMZ is really trying to clean us up, they say. In a different video, you could see McConaughey’s on Shane’s left and a blonde is on his right. In that clip, Shane’s can is in a woozy and she’s empty handed, but you could see a bit of a butt light peeking out from Shane’s grip.

Meanwhile, on the Wall Street Journal, Shane got a nice tire rotation from th…

They wrote about the new tires show a very favorable article towards Shane Gillis. They reminded us of how he was fired from Saturday Night Live in twenty nineteen. Oops. Shane said, I was doing stand up that night, like while I was getting canceled, I thought it’s the one thing I can do as for tires. The character of Shane, played by Shane Gillis is learning the big funny guy bit isn’t working so well anymore.

He is a vision of his own mortality. While eating chicken wings, he pictures an instant family with a freshly divorced woman he once had a thing within high school. My character’s a lot like me in real life. It’s kind of time to grow up. I’m almost forty, so I don’t know how much long I can do this whole frack guy thing.

Not that that’s what I’m ever going for, But you know that’s the perception. At least Shane is self aware of the perception. I was texting with my son the other night. Did you see the thing with what do they calling this kid out at Penn State? Pablo pledged Scobar.

Did you see this thing with the college students in the cocaine? Look it up anyway? I texted tom My son, what is the frat doing? Why don’t you guys just drink bud light and pretend to be Shane Gillis while you’re trying to be cocaine dealers? I digress.

So apparently Shane and Crewe were pitching Tires to Quibi, remember Quibi, which was short vertical videos, which in retrospect was the right idea. They just tried it seven or eight years too early. If they try that idea again in twenty twenty seven, it’ll probably work, The journal tells us. After Shane’s SNL firing, Quibi didn’t want him involved in Tires, but his friends refused to make the show without him. Shane made some money in twenty twenty three off the Netflix special Beautiful Dogs, and he decided, hey, let’s just make it ourselves.

Nobody was gonna buy our show without a proof of concept, so they made it themselves. Tires premiered on Netflix in twenty twenty four and went to number one. They ordered more, and now we’re into season three. I’ve been watching several episodes a night. I had to catch up in season two.

Not that I didn’t love season two. I just got distracted. You know, sometimes there’s just too much on TV. Like right now, haven’t watched Reacher at all. How to make time for It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia, which was great.

How do you hear the leafblour? How much leaves are there? It’s August stop. This is why I do the show pool Side. I like the distractions and the randomness.

Steve Gerbin, who co stars on Sire’s, had been working as a paralegal. Wow. He said, for Shane to have the success he had and then come back for all of us is something I wish I could say that I would do if I were in but I don’t know if I would. The other thing cracking me up I talked about this is on the short YouTube live shows, this whole thing with Nate Brighetzy, And you know, I’ve been doing the bit. You know me, I love a recurring bit.

So I’ve been leaning into the mega comedian in Aperghetzy, which is how the Daily Beast keeps referring to Nate. Well, apparently it’s getting sticky Parade magazine, you know, Parade magazine like your grandmother reads that. Remember that that’s still around. It’s pretty mainstream. They are now calling Nate Brigetzi controversial their headline and I shared it on the video yesterday.

Controversial comedian Nate Brighetzy. What is controversial about this guy? I mean, okay, he went to a UFC fight once. We’re going to cancel him because he went to a sporting event at the White House. Stop don’t be And I’ve talked about this, as you know, the President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues.

But if he wants to come on here, he can get sit poolside. The Secret Service can clean the pool. While I’m interviewing the President, I’ll ask him about Saturday Night Live and comedy and what comedians he’s into. I’ll start talking about Seth Myers and how we have to make twelve thirty greet again. By the way, we’ll get into that tomorrow with there’s a good Chris Fleming article.

But I would have the president on, you know, and if the President advites me to UFC fight, I’ll go anyway. Nay, Brighetzy controversial comedian. It is just so ridiculous. So here’s what Parade wrote. Although Burgetzy has become the highest grossing stand up comedian, making an astounding seventy seven and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five, his career hasn’t come without controversy.

After a photos surface of Burghetzie attending President Donald Trump’s You Have Ce Freedom two fifty fight blah blah blah. W caamau Bell criticized Burgetzy, saying, don’t be in a photo with fascists. Send your letters to w kamau Bell or n A. Berghatzy. I don’t care what side you’re on.

Oh, the landscapers are getting closer. Thanks guys. Here’s what I’m really really excited about. Joe Coy. Joe Cooy has announced a new Netflix special.

It’s called Blue in the Face. It’ll be out September fifteenth, which means we’re gonna have a lot of Joe Coy press, which means I’m going to be able to do my favorite bit. What’s your favorite bit? John? Hey, remember that one time Joe Coy told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh, I am so happy that that bit is back film before a sold out crowd at Stockton Arena.

Joe Coy’s new hour seems him relive a wild dental disaster, recount getting fired from McDonald’s, and celebrating his veteran stepdad. Oh, there’s a trailer. I forgot to pull the trailer. By the time you hear this, I will have pulled the trailer. Here it is.

I assume dogs live on a different energy. They’re on another frequency. Ever you ever, you ever bring someone to your house for the first time and your dog’s ever met that person, and right when they walk in, your dog’s like, who is this? Who are you? Who are you?

Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Whoso who are you?

Who are you. Who are you? Who are you? Stop it? Stop it?

Who are you? Dude? Here? You due? Wore you dude?

Who are you to get over there? Get on? Looked at? Who is this car? Who is this car?

Who is this car? Who is gonna sit out? Oh? I didn’t make an edit there the landscapers stopped. Do you hear how quiet is?

I don’t know what you can hear it out with the noistroduction, but oh my god, as I say that, so it’s the guys on the left. Stop. The guys behind me just started up again. Please stop. This has been going.

I’ve been It’s one twenty one as I’m recording, I’ve been out in the yards since ten am. It’s been three and a half hours of landscapers. Because I do have to write the shows before I record the shows, you know, I have to look this stuff up by digress. Once again, you’re a little loose today, John, Yes, that’s why we’re poolside. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so we’ll talk about her new project, which I just look at this and I just wonder about the decisions some people make.

Maybe it’s just because I’m a reserved person, but Amy Schumer’s new movie is called Best Divorce Ever. Feels a little soon to me, but what do I know? Best Divorce Ever follows Amy Schumer’s character Clarissa and Franklin, who, after twenty years together, decide they’re done with marriage, but not with each other, determined to pull off the world’s most amical divorce. This sounds familiar, Amy Schumer amical divorce, trying to get along. I feel like I read that in the news several times.

I wonder if Clarissa takes bikini shots on a boat and post them on Instagram. I digress once again. Determine to pull off the world’s most amical divorce, they throw an untying the non party and eagerly embrace their newly single lives. But when disastrous dates, suspicious children, and spectacularly misguided attempts at conscious un coupling throw their perfect glen in a chaos, Clarissa and Franklin discover that getting divorced is the easy part. Figuring out how to stay a happy family is where things get complicated.

There is a lot of news today. Robbie Hoffman is putting out an album of Robbie Hoffman Special Weak Up produced by John Mulaney. This is the special that aired on Netflix last December. Now it is an album from legendary indie label Secretly Canadian. I was unfamiliar with them until I saw this new story, but I’m sure they air Legendary.

The album will be available in a digital format as well as a limited run of signed vinyl. Robbie Hoffman said, I come out very rockstar like. It’s almost like this old Andrew Dice Clay way of doing comedy. On tour, I’m in a lot of historic music venues and we’re bringing the house down with comedy instead of music. Our fandoms have really collided.

She’s excited to sign albums, she said, you always see those pictures of artists signing stuff. They want me to do that now, so I’m going to do that. I’ll take a picture and then press release. Robbie Hoffman jokes that putting out a physical album is the only way her mother will finally hear the special. When Robbie got started in comedy a decade ago, her mother started sending her comedy records.

Now, Robbie hits record stores in towns. So far, she’s got about fifty records she said, his mom’s been sending me Carlin and Joan Rivers. There’s a lot of Carlin. She says, she also has some Bill Cosby. Seems like her mother doesn’t know the latest news with Bill Cosby, and then mom is going to be quite surprised when I finally tell my Bill Cosby story after the death of mister Cosby at some indeterminate point in the future.

Can’t tell that one yet, folks. She says her mother doesn’t pay attention to pop culture to know anything about what’s going on. She just knows the work. It’s actually a great way to live. When I got into comedy, she’d be like, Oh, you should listen to Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason, and I used to think those people were hacks.

Right then I went back and I’m like, those guys are awesome. She’s totally right. So much news that this is like the eighth story. Today, the New York Comedy Festival has added more than one hundred shows to the lineup, which is good because I wasn’t impressed with the lineup so far. The ten day celebration of Comedy takes place in New York City November sixth through the fifteenth.

The new editions joined previously announced headliners including Mark Maren, Alana Glazer, Jordan Jensen, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman and Patty Harrison. That’s One Show, Daniel Sloss, ze Way, Ben Bankis, Mojo Brooks, and a bunch of others. Caroline Hirsch said, we’re through to continue building out this year’s near A Comedy Festival lineup with an incredible range of shows, et cetera, et cetera. I still don’t see, like, like, who’s the A lister there, Marin. I mean, it just feels like a drop off from the past.

All right, real quick. I gotta be better about promoting my other show. I also a show called Five Good News Stories. Here’s how it works. It’s me and I tell you five stories and they’re good news, right.

So it’s like cute stories or smile stories or world records or dogs coming home after seven years being lost like that kind of stuff. No politics, no outrage, Just search for five good News Stories wherever you found this show. It comes out four times a week. One of the four days is Thursday, so you’ll find a new episode in your feed right now, and if you like it, there’s like four hundred you can go back and listen to. Brett Goldstein is touring.

It is the Sex, Death and Small Talk Tour. I thought his last comedy special was actually really strong. I might actually go see him. John, You’re gonna leave the house, I know right. It kicks off October twenty third in Madison, Wisconsin.

Let’s see where he’s near me. I could drive down to Philly and see him at the met Philip Day Elia on December third, which actually from where I live is easier than going to Venue TBA in Brooklyn, New York. On December fifth, the tour wraps up in Boston and November sixth. He’s got a website. You can check this out.

This one I’ve wanted to get to all week. I’ve mentioned in the past. Some podcasters are known to have a crush on Diane Morgan, and this headline caught my attention. Man wearing Perver glasses films himself harassing famous female comedian. That famous female comedian is Diane Morgan, which some podcasters have a crush on, but do not harass people nor wear Perver glasses.

So some social media user named Mark filmed himself annoying British comedian Diane Morgan. In the video, we see Mark asking a taken aback Diane Morgan, excuse me? Can I get your phone number? This was uploaded to social media. I don’t want to promote the video, but the title is rizzing on Kunk.

If you’re not hip to it, Dian Morgan plays filhmina Kunk on some very funny videos. Mark said, I saw the cameras on you thought you wereked gorgeous. A crew member said, hey, can we get some space. Mark apparently says, don’t effing touch me. We’re gonna have a problem.

Okay. Another crew member said, we’re working. We’re in the middle of a shoot. This is what we all do for a living. One social media user said, I don’t know how you filmed that video.

Watch it back and decide. This is how I want to present myself to a globally connected population. Leave Diane Morgan alone. If you have a Crushunner host a podcast on Gossip Corner. Pete Davison has taken his upstate New York home off the market, two months after he slashed the asking price.

Pete initially purchased the four bedroom three bathroom house for one point nine five million dollars in twenty twenty three. In February decided to sell it. Listed the home for two and a half million. A few weeks later he dropped the price to two point twenty seven and then in April dropped it to two point one five million. It is now back off the market.

Perhaps Pete likes living there and I’m not the only person who likes to be pool side. Apparently Kevin Hart was pool side. This came out of an African newspaper. They were very excited. Kevin went viral after a clip surfaced of Kevin Hart and moving to the I’m Gonna butcher all the words here ampiano track Whozizwa Kanjohn was shared on social media by the Hype channel.

They captured it Kevin Hart vibing to Uzizwa Conchon song. In the clip, we see Kevin Hart dressed in an open white linen shirt, shorts, sunglasses and sneakers in front of what appears to be a breezy beach front. Backdrop me I’m dressed like Adam Sandler and that is your comedy news for today from poolside. All right, it’ll be back in the afternoon with the quick video version of this, and then back in the morning with the full audio version of Daily Comedy News. See you then

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, W. Kamau Bell, Joe Rogan, Matthew McConaughey, Ricky Gervais, Jane Fallon

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze ‘MAGA Comedian’ label controversy
• Nate Bargatze UFC White House event attendance
• Shane Gillis beer brand controversy clarification
• Ricky Gervais marriage and tax strategy announcement

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We’re at the lake today. I keep thinking about this Aperghazzy thing. The idea that he’s controversial, obviously is absurd. The guy works clean, he hosted the Emmys. There’s not a scandal about him except he went to a UFC fight at the White House.

And the Daily Beast, if you’re not him to this, here’s what’s going on. The Daily Beast for some reason started referring to him one hundred percent of the time as Maga comedian in Aperghazzi, which is hilarious, right, So I’ve been using that in the podcast, but now I’m seeing in print everywhere, specifically Parade Magazine, which again is hilarious. But Parade Magazine is pretty darn mainstream and like your grandmother probably reads it. So now they’re gonna be like, who’s this Nay Burghecy guy? Is he controversial?

And out of worrying if Nate’s gonna have to somehow do damage controllers, people are going to have to get this out there because this is becoming a thing. I find it quite quite hilarious. So let me read you the Parade piece because it is funny. Although Burghezzi’s become the highest grossing stand up comedian, making it a stounding seventy seven and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five. His career hasn’t come without controversy.

After photos surfaced of Burghatzy attending President Donald Trump’s UFC Freedom two fifty fight, the comedian became the subject of conversation between fans and celebrities alike. In a substack essay, comedian W. Camel Bell criticized bergainst he saying, don’t be in a photo with fascists again. Send your letters to w comeout Bell or Nateperghatzy, whatever side you’re on, leave me out of it. I’m just having fun with the non controversy controversy.

One fan wrote on threads, Nate Berghetzy was by far the most shocking a disappointing attendee for me. One of my favorite comedians had a genuinely decent guy. Dude should have known how bad it would look. Shane Gillis was at this thing. He seems fine, Rogan seems fine.

I don’t know. Someone else wrote, Napergazzy can support Trump, Nate Berghazzy can attend Trump’s White House UFC party, and Aperghazzy can pose for photos with political figures.

Speaking of Shane, I got to clean something up from yesterday.

Shane’s people apparently went to TMS. There are some people who accused Shane Gillis of drinking a dosakie. No no, no, no, no no no, he was drinking a bud Light. Yes, A source close to Shane tells TMZ the comedian was not committing a brand betrayal. Love the copywriting there, the source tells TMZ the dose EQI sitting at the cup holder next to him.

It belonged to the girl sitting next to Shane Gillis, who wasn’t in her sy. Just as somebody shot a video that happened to go viral with the Dosakis in it, which totally was not Shane’s, of course, because Shane one hundred percent of the time drinks bud Light as well. Know the folks, let TMZ know that. You can see in a different video that Matthew McConaughey is on Shane’s left and a blonde is on his rate. In the clip, his can is in a koozy and she’s empty handed, but you can see a bit of bud light blue peeking out from Shane’s coozy I love this.

This is so silly. TMZ has reached out to Shane Gillis’s rep at this time no word back. I will keep you updated on this. This is important. Ricky Gerveys is saying he will get married eventually.

He’s been with Jane Fallon for forty four years. Why would Ricky Gervas do such a thing to reduce his tax pill? I did a big interview with Saga magazine. I’ve got it scheduled in the audio podcast for Sunday, so we’ll cover this on Sunday at length, but real quick. Ricky Gervas said that taxes are a good reason to marry, and said, and that will be the reason I marry because if it wasn’t for that, why how more married can you be?

We share all our money. We’ve been together for forty years. Some marriages don’t last a year. He makes a good point, all right. If you’re catching these on the audio feed, I’m doing these short videos for YouTube just to try and promote the show a little bit more.

Nothing’s changing on the audio feed. On the other side, if you’re catching these on video, there’s an audio podcast that comes out at three oh five am every morning, and come back tomorrow at three oh five am Eastern. There’ll be an audio podcast to see you

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