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Caloroga Shark Media her Bullside. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The bull’s very green today. Do you think it might have been vandals. I’ll have to look into that.

Matt Rife in trouble. I don’t know what to do with this one, okay. Matt and his collaborator Elton, were on Instagram promoting an event at Haunted Warren Museum. That’s a paranormal spot that the pair had purchased last year. It is best known for housing the demon doll.

Anna Belle, a parent normal investigator, responded to the post by commenting on the Salem witch trials, which, for reasons unknown, told Matt Rife to rip into the quote lifeless douchebag by saying, please remove yourself from this earth. The paranormal investigator responded on Facebook saying, now I’m going to move forward with all this nonsense, garbage what Matt said, and Elton control your mittor Matt or get Matt therapy. I don’t ever want to see Matt bully a person with all autism again, Do I make myself clear? Not okay to say with a person with autism, I have autism. A source close to matt Riife told TMZ that matt Rife is quote relentlessly bullied in the comment section of his post with vile remarks.

TMZ understands that matt Rife responds to the trolls and then the troll deletes the original comment. The source says there’s context missing from matt Rife’s exchange with the Paranormal Investigator since the original comments are deleted. TMZ wants us to know that Matt and Elton charged people up to one hundred and sixty six dollars for admission to the Haunted Warren Museum and that has ticked off a lot of people in the paranormal community. Bill Maher also in trouble for a comment about Ariana Grande’s wait on Friday’s HBO Bill Maher Show. During his opening monologue, Bill Moore said, I hope the aliens are here.

I do. I hope they’re here, and they’re watching us, and they’re going to save us. And by the way, the Trump administration this week, just a few days ago, maybe yesterday, unleashed a new trove of UFO files. Interesting things in there, triangular craft, weird lights over an army base, a stick like figure with large eyes. Oh, that was just an Ariana Grande video.

The audience apparently laughed at that joke. More tagged it with please we kid, Maybe that joke will make it or eat something that one didn’t go over as well, And now people are met at Bill Maher. Don’t forget to watch Days of Our Lives Today. John Oliver in character arrives at the office of Salem may Or Paulina Price, suggesting that whatever brings him to town, it runs straight through city hall. John Oliver will be on today, tomorrow, and the fourteenth.

This is different than his three episode stint on General Hospital last month. I should probably hop in the car and drive about five miles down to Madison, New Jersey to see if I can run into Adam Sandler. He’s been spotted in Madison filming Grown Ups Three Grown Ups Three will start. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Christy You Need Money, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Maya Rudolph and others also joining famous actress Jackie Sandler, Shaquille O’Neal, Colin Quinn, Tim Meadows, Cherio, Terry Ellen Cleighorn, and Nick Swartzen.

Also include Julie Bowen does she need Bunny?

Shea sitcom for ten years? Dion Cole, famous actress, Sadie Sandler, different famous actress Sonny Sandler, and about Tan More names a lot of people in this movie. The official log line tells us, now that their kids are all grown up, the gang is finally free to go on the Ultimate Adventure. Apparently they were filming this at the Madison Hotel, A very nice place, been there. The hotel’s front desk declined to confirm anything when reached by North Jersey dot Com, but both Rod’s Restaurants and the Red Dog Tavern were closed for a few days.

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From The La Times. Anthony Jessinik, who’s only forty seven, imagines that his comedy career is winding down. He said, I’d love to take a crackety the short stories of writing a novel. J Justinick says, you see a guy like Jim Carrey, the last thing he wants to do is make anyone laugh anymore. He wants to be taken seriously.

He believes his stage persona has spared him from that. Jesslinick says, people are afraid of me. Fans who approach me are careful because my stage persona is borderline psychopath. I don’t feel that needs to take it seriously. I think I am taken seriously.

The Only Times tells us Justinick’s comic sensibility explores cruelty, shock, transgressions, and anti heroes, and it’s what continues to draw Anthony to literature. Jessinick said, I love bank robbers. I love the idea of the villain winning. That is revolutionary to me. You’re raised on TV and things have to be wrapped up in half an hour and the morall has to hold.

I love that books don’t have to play by those rules. The folks at the Santa Barbara Independent went to see Trevor Noah. We’re Till Trevor Noah had a nice mix of semi local specific topics like driving from LA to Santa Barbara, the joke they are told better by Trevor, all these random churns. It’s just me and a thousand other ways friends trying to shave a minute off our time. Trevor doesn’t like the beach.

She said, you rinse the sand off your feet in the water, and then you walk back on the beach in the sand. We learned from Trevor Noah why men love sports so much. It’s the one place where we feel things without being judged by ourselves. We get to cry, we get to be sad, we get to be disappointed, and we get to blame it on the team. We bring everything we’ve experienced that week, and we put it all on the team.

All those Knicks fans, they weren’t burning the streets because of the Knicks. That was everything they’ve experienced in their life for the last fifty years. Finally they had an excuse to express it. Apparently, Trevor did some impressions of Obama, George Bush, presumably w and Donald Trump. The reporter said Trevor’s bit about what it would be like if Trump trained AI was so funny that they had tears.

The punchline there as recapped by a reporter and told better by Trevor Noah than Johnny Mac. Who better to treat a system that constantly spews bs than an AI? You think they give you problems? Now at least your AI will apologize to you. You give it one week with Trump training, and you’ll be like, what is the capital of Nicaragua And it’ll be like Paris, and you’re like that’s wrong, and the AI will be like, no, it’s not.

A lot of people are saying that. A lot of people are saying it. A lot of people are saying that Paris is at Nicaragua. That is funny. He also told the joke about something that will get me in trouble with people who wear sunglasses.

So I’ll refer you to the Santa Barbara Independent to read that. One watched a couple of things on the TV ted Lasso season four episode one Boy. That was rough, and, as I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast, I need some reality in my sitcom and like the idea that Ted Lasso’s not a super successful Premier League coach. He finished second with like a you know, not really good team he’d be working, he’d at least be on TV. Just I don’t want to spoil it, but like the whole setup for season four, I’m just not buying it.

I asked put on Ricky Gervay’s Alley Cats, and then I texted my friend and dared them to get to three minutes in. Oh my goodness, that is terrible. John Clees, who knows more about comedy than I do, disagrees with Johnny Mac. He posted on Twitter the Ricky Gervay’s Cats animation is quite wonderful. Gerve’s responded said, thanks so much, John Clease.

That means quite a lot from the creator of the greatest British suitcom of all time. Lad Who am I to argue with the great John Clees. Tammy Pascatelli has a special out today Comedy Dynamics, filmed at the Triad Theater. Tammy Pascatetlli takes on family, marriage, aging, pop culture, and the absurdities of everyday life. Tammy says the specials will throwback to the kind of comedy I grew up watching, in the kind I still love today.

I’m so proud of how it turned out, happy to be working with Comedy Dynamics. Blah blah blah. Comedian and culinary content creator Corey b will tape his debut comedy special at the Piper Repertory Theater in Mesa, Arizona, on October seventeenth as part of the Out of the Kitchen tour, Corey said, this is a chance for my fans who haven’t been to a show yet to see a whole new side of me. Out of the kitchen and onto the stage. Amanda Knox is performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The New York Times says before the show, she was pacing the stage for about fifteen minutes. She’d been trying out her jokes prior to her one hour fringe debut as a stand up comic. In her act, Knox roam the stage where toys and clothes were scattered, telling stories and occasionally dialoguing with the recorded voice of her daughter, who’s five years old. Knox was trying to find the humor in her own story. You may recall, Amanda Knox was wrongly held in prison in Italy for years for the two thousand and seven murder of her roommate.

We covered that yesterday. The Times tells us, then Amanda told her joke about her daughter’s favorite game, It’s called Mama Goes to Italy. In the game, her daughter grabs the bars of a jungle gym at their local playground screams, let me out, Let me out. An online petition against the performance got forty thousand signatures. It went on anyway.

The Daily Mail published an article on its website with the headline is there anything Foxy Noxy won’t do for attention or money? Median Jennif Friedman quoted in This Times article who said her level of bravery doing this is just beyond comprehension. Knox said, there’s a defined streak in me that’s like, you know what, I didn’t hurt anybody. I’m not at fault for what happened. The show is being marketed as a woman quote approaching forty, juggling motherhood and finally getting around to being furious about the whole wrongful imprisonment thing, especially when half the world is telling her to get over it, while the other half still thinks she’s guilty.

Tony Lancaster is the director of the Fringe Society. He told BBC Radio Scotland. We’re not afraid of controversy. The decision as to whether or not the show goes ahead lies with herself and it lies with the venue. As sympathetic as we already the individual cases the crop up and absolutely is apparent I could relate to the pain that they describe, but that can’t be a criteria, can’t be one of the lenses we look through the show’s venue, the Gilded Balloon, Teviot said in a statement the Edinburgh Festal Fringe as an open access festival.

As a Fringe venue, we provide a platform for a whole range of voices, in line with the Fringe’s long standing commitment to freedom of expression within the confines of the law. And I’m sure our audiences can make informed choices and maybe Johnny Max not wrong about everything. Jimmy Fallon won the week with his big as audience since twenty twenty four thanks to latenighter dot com who has this wonderful information now. To be fair, Jimmy Kimmel Live minus Jimmy Kimmel was with Jimmy Kimmel. I think in repeats anyway.

So new episodes of Jimmy Fallon moved into first place in both total viewers and adults eighteen to forty nine. Fallin averaged one point five to four to one million total viewers week of July twenty sixth, up nine percent from the previous week. Fallon also won the eighteen to forty nine one hundred and eighty four thousand viewers. Jimmy Kimmel Live, which aired five guest host repeats. Okay, there’s the answer there, fell to one point zero six four million in the demo, just one hundred and forty one thousand.

The Late Show Stephen Colbert had zero viewers because that’s no longer on CBS’s Comics Unleashed, that’s airing repeats itself. Wow, that got seven hundred and ninety two thousand total viewers. Still finished third at twelve thirty CBS is funny, you should ask four hundred and forty nine thousand total viewers, fifty two thousand adults, eighteen of forty nine, fifty two thousand. That’s like podcast bad. I mean, like that’s bad for a podcast.

Over at NBC Late Night with Seth Myers, it was their last week of original episodes before a seven week HI it is Make twelve thirty great again. Myers averaged nine hundred and forty three thousand viewers, up two percent and in the eighteen of forty nine is one hundred and twenty thousand adults. And that is your comedy news Pool Side Green, very green Pool. We’re gonna have to investigate how this got green. Some people are saying there were vandals.

Other people saying it rained a lot last week and you didn’t put in enough chlorine. We’ll get to the truth and we’ll see you tomorrow

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He not pop on pool side. I just got a couple of random things I want to talk about Ted Lasso. Did you watch that season premiere? It is not good. Now, can we get to the soccer please?

But my big problem with it was, and I might be a crazy person, I need some reality in my comedy. I get that it’s a sitcom, I get it. But the idea of spoilers, spoiler spoilers, the idea that ted Lasso is working at a supermarket. And again, fine, he wants to be near his kid, whatever, But this guy, I looked it up right. Season one, Ted takes over Richmond in the Premier League.

They struggle and they’re relegated. Then he wins the championship in season two, and then in the season three they finished second in the Premier League and he walks away. Okay, so this guy who was a college football coach was successful in the Premier League, and you’re gonna tell me he’s working at a supermarket part time. He’s not on NBC’s Premier League coverage. He’s not the coach of the Kansas City MLS team.

He’s not coaching a women’s team in Kansas City. He’s just sitting around doing nothing. He’s not on TV, he doesn’t have a podcast, he just works at the store. And I just couldn’t buy into it. So the thought that he’s going to move back to the UK, Yes, we love Rebecca and all the people at Richmond, but he’s going to move back to the UK to coach a second division women’s team as opposed to making a couple million dollars coaching Premier League team.

I’ll remind you he finished second, so he’s apparently good at this. That just doesn’t work for me. Did you watch Alley Cats? It was so so bad and I love Ricky Gervais, but I got a couple of minutes into this thing and I was like, it’s nothing but cursing, and just I wasn’t feeling it. A texted a friend, I’m like, I don’t know if you can make it three minutes into this thing because I can’t.

And the other thing. Maybe we’ll get to this on the audio show over the weekend ranker has the best Sitcoms of all time. It got one point three million votes from over one hundred and one thousand different people. Best sitcom of all time according to these crazy people Friends, Now stop Stop that’s madness. That that that’s insane.

There’s Friends. Friends wasn’t even the best sitcom on the night it was on things. You can tell me. Let’s just make this simple. You can tell me Friends was better than Seinfelp.

Come on, stop, you sound crazy. You know I could go into all the classic sitcoms we can argue about. I Love Lucy and the Honeymooners and all that. But like I was thinking, the Brady Bunch has more cultural impact than Friends. I mean, especially if you’re old with the gray hair like me.

You know, Brady Bunch a couple of movies? What Friends? Are you insane? I’ll also advocate for everybody who loves Reemond is really underrated. I don’t have a definitive list for you.

You can jump in the comments and let me know who you think. It might be a good sitcom of all time, But Friends, get out of here.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am digging the mix of stories today a little different today. I’m Mondayaloh, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I take no joy in this first story. Christina Pozitski and Tom Sigora are divorcing after nearly twenty years of marriage.

On the podcast Your Mom’s House, Christina Pe told guest host Duncan Trussell she wanted to be transparent with fans. Christina said, I just wanted to let you know, on the other staff members here, that the rumors are true. Your daddy and I are divorcing, but it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault, guys in the booth. We still love each other very much.

We’re just going to live in separate homes, but we’re still your mommies. She then got emotional and teared up and said, yes, Tom and I are divorcing, and it is extremely sad. Sorry, I didn’t want to cry this soon. It is very sad. That being said, we tried to work it out for several years for the sake of our children and our family.

We gave it all we could, but we just couldn’t work things out. We are no longer a couple. Look, we had twenty amazing years together, and that’s really good run, I think in a marriage. She continued. From what I understand, some people are taking sides team Christinea or team Tom.

Please don’t do that. There’s no need because Tom and I do not hate each other. We have a family. Tom and I are amicable. Just so everyone knows, this is not an ugly divorce.

We’re cool, dude. We’ll survive. We’ll get through this stuff like we’ve gotten through everything else in life. This is just an unfortunate thing. We’re going to be okay.

For those of you who have listened to us from the very beginning, you’ve been with Tom and me through getting married, Living in silver Lake is two bro comics, berts and death, tragic accidents, cancer, COVID, all of it. And you know what, some effing cancer couldn’t kill me. You think a dude’s gonna f and take me out. No. She confirmed that she continues to co host the main show with Tom.

Sigora said, We’re still gonna have a good effing time because we ain’t dead yet. That’s gonna be hard having all that play out in public. The Times of London went to go see Dave Chappelle in London. Here’s an opening paragraph. Dave Chappelle takes care to avoid anyone recording a stand up shows, insisting that audiences lock away their phones in the secure pouches.

He on the evidence of this slap dash London appearance, though he takes less care with the shows themselves. Wow, The Times continues, he did warn us. He began by saying, I haven’t done this for a while. Towards the end, he admitted, I gotta think of a closer, and I don’t have one. Can I hang out for a minute?

The Times rights he hung out by drifting from one idea to another, or he responded to a heck or two, including one about appearing at last year’s Rio Comedy Festival. Apparently to that, Dave said, are you getting me for doing it? Like all the other whites? More from The Times. His skill, when his storytelling found its focus, only made the digressions that dominated more frustrating.

Much of the show was motored by his fame and infamy baseball cap on head cigarette on the go, he said he wouldn’t talk about transgender issues. He then touched on a joke suggesting Caitlyn Jenner’s change of gender had been more easily accepted in America than Muhammad Ali’s change of name. I think that was in the last special. Maybe I’m imagining that, and explained why he meant it as a joke about racism rather than gender. Dave said, I thought I was punching up.

They thought I was punching down. Okay, yeah, so that’s yep, okay, yep. I didn’t imagine was in the previous special. Times is I’m not happy. They said this was thin stuff for big prices.

My seat in Rosy cost one hundred and twenty pounds plus. We had to wait one hundred minutes for him to start, following good support sets by Cipha Sounds and Michelle Wolfe, an interval, then a call in response musical mash up from his on stage DJ that got us up on our feet for what felt would be brief but carried on for a punishing fifteen minutes. Two stars out of five yikes. Andrew Schultz, called by The New York Times America’s foremost political journalist. They’re never going to live that down, As commented on Indiana Fever, basketball star Caitlyn Clark.

On The Flagrant podcast, Schultz weigh in about how Clark has been villainized by conservatives for not supporting their side. Scheltz said, it was so unfair what they did to Kaitlyn Clark. She literally did the thing that every conservative punnit was asking all the black athletes to do around Black Lives matter. Remember, they were like, just shut up and dribble. She literally shuts up in dribbles, and then all the punnets are like, you coward, how dare you not say anything?

Scheltz asked you one athletes to just play ball? Do you want them involved in politics? See, that’s why he’s America’s foremost political journalist. Starvros Halkist is in the Anthony Bourdain movie. He plays Sioux chef Dmitri.

Starvros called the character blue collar and a locker room guy. He’s there to haze Tony but then throw his arm around him at the end. I wanted to recreate the vibe of that guy who’s not quite mental level, but you do look up to him in certain ways. There’s so much about Burdain would be kind of insulting to try and get everything like word perfect, exactly right imitation. Our movie is about the vibe of that specific summer in that period of his life and everybody’s life who’s nineteen and trying to figure it out.

So that’s how I approached my guy. I wanted the vibe of that guy who’s gonna bust your chops at your job. But ultimately, if we get in a fight at a rival restaurant, you know, I got Tony’s back. Can Stavros cook? He said, I mean I can make a very complex snack.

The plating is very sloppy. It’s more about the taste than anything else. From The La Times, Anthony jesse Nick gets a feature about his book club. The Times tells us Anthony Justina couldn’t sleep was making him crazy. Hoping to find relief, Justlinnick sought help from a therapist he assume would guide him back to a healthy sleep schedule.

Instead, he encountered an apathy that stunned him. Jesselnick recalled the therapist saying, so what if you don’t sleep, if you wake up, read a book. Find ways to be productive in your loneliness, And I guess Anthony Jeslinick started reading. He has started a popular online book club Jesselnick book Club, which reminds me whatever happened to John m’laney book club, John, you have Google? Why don’t you tell us you’re hosting the show?

Seems like it’s still going Just last week. John mlaney on Twitter wrote, any and all m’lani reads Ers North Sun or The Voyage of the Walship Esther is my July must must read. This book is so bat crazy, funny, bizarre, violent, reckless, and very moving. John says, I haven’t read Moby Dick because whatever. But Ethan Rutherford’s description of catching a whale or failing to catch a well is one of the most visceral things I’ve ever absorbed.

John then added he was very coarsic on his way to Saratoga. There’s a video of John. He seems to be on the beach. He’s wearing a hoodie and shorts. Looks pretty breezy on the beach there.

I guess I could have pulled the audio, but I didn’t because we’re in the middle of it and Anthony Jesslinick story. This wasn’t a John Mulaney story at all. Jesson X got his own book club and it is titled The jessnic Book Club. Easy to Remember. Jesinick says, my goal was to curate and give people their best shot at enjoying reading.

People will say, oh, I don’t like reading books, You’re choosing the wrong books. In twenty twenty two, best selling writer Isaac Fitzgerald released American Rambler, Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed. Fitzgerald said a friend texted me that Anthony Jessinic, a comedian whom I love but had never met nor interacted with, shouted out his love of my memoir dirt Bag Massachusetts. I was thrilled. At my events, both in Chicago and throughout the rest of the year, more and more people in my signing lines told me they’d heard of the book from Jessinic’s podcast.

I was also boyed by how many of the people in the signing lines were young men. Now Fitzgerald and Justinic are friends. Fitzgerald said, the man is a real lover of books, with excellent taste and unsurprisingly confidence in his convictions. Earlier this year, Jessliniic hosted a book launch event for the American Rambler book. Fitzgerald said, I think Jessinnic i may have single handedly invented a new way to do literary events.

I don’t know what to call it. A literary roost. Everyone laugh for an hour straight. That is fun. Now, this is interesting.

Jesselnick talked about his own career. He said, I was trying to be the devil on stage and somehow ended up as likable anyway. Edgar Allan Poe wrote these books about psychopaths and killers. Authors do not equate their persona. I’m trying to make reading cool again.

Reading is a solitary act in the way that stand up comedy is a solitary art form. There are so few books for guys that are literary. There’s a lot of John Grisham and Jack Reacher, but that’s not something literary that a guy can sink his teeth into. If it’s well written and the writer’s great, then I’ll go on any kind of journey they take me on. I don’t always understand everything that I read either, but reading a great writer it’s like listening to classical music.

A little bit more about this about Jesslinnick talking about the end of his comedy career, I will save that for tomorrow. Jenny Yang is out on a national summer comedy tour. She turns grocery stores into comedy clubs for night. This is fun. She says, I go to buy a bunch of small snacks and shrimp chips and throw it into the audience every time I feel like it joked in Land.

I mean, this is my dream. It’s the Good Egg Immigrant grocery store stand up comedy Tour. Love It. The tour will wrap September twenty six back in la with Yang filming a performance for a proposed comedy special. She touches on topics ranging from infertility to awareness of immigrant experiences in the US.

Yang said, people come into this art forum as a stand up comedian for different reasons. I’m of the mind that my stand up comedy is just an extension of my values, and I believe in punching up, not down. At a supermarket in Minneapolis, the store manager said they reconfigured shelves near the checkout lanes to fit one hundred and fifty cheers. He says everybody got in line to buy some snacks and some drinks. A few people even did a bit of grocery shopping.

Yang said, just rending a spotlight mikes a show. How fun is it that I’m literally doing stand up comedy in next to an aisle that sells fungus and five pounds of rice. That sounds like a good time. Vogue asked Mary Beth Baron, Hey, a lot of your comedy is about love and relationships. Were are you with dating now?

Mary Beth Baron said, I’m single, I’m thirty five. My choices are staring me in the face. Sometimes. I think maybe being a comedian and talking about my life on stage and having this podcast where we’re pretty transparent, is scaring away potential romantic partners who could be good for me. But this is who I am, and if my job doesn’t fit in with that person’s idea of what they wanted a partner, and they’re probably not the right partner for me.

She adds, I do feel like we’re a really weird moment in dating culture, where there seems to be an endless amount of amazing women and the number of male counterparts she seems to continue to dwindle. I’m a romantic, but I think my hope is starting to waver a little bit. You just have to keep the hope alive. They also asked her about crowd work. Mary Beth Barone said, people really do tell me stuff.

They want me to know their secrets. That’s even in business meetings. I’ll meet an executive and we’ll get into it about a good date they had last night, and I’m invested too. There’s a lot of bad press for parasocial relationships, but I’ve just got the benefits of it. A much less fun story involves Amanda Knox.

You may recall the famous case Amanda Knox was arrested after her roommate’s death. Knox was convicted of murder and sexual assault in two thousand and nine alongside her then boyfriend, but after years of legal battles, they were cleared of all the charges in twenty fifteen. Knox is now a comedian performing at the Edinburgh Fringe. The sister of the murdered student, Meredith Kircher, has accused Amanda Knox of normalizing and trivializing violence against women. She was asking for the Edinburgh Fringe show to be withdrawn.

At an interview with the Telegraph, Amanda Knox said she believed miss Kirscher would appreciate the show because it grapples with what it means to be a young woman and it’s honest. Stephanie Kirscher said, it’s left a massive void in our lives, and Amanda’s naturally free to continue with her life as she wishes. But I think the problem with this particular project is that it’s comedy, and while I appreciate comedy is there to push the boundaries and very much normalizes and trivializes violence against women and Meredith in particular. And I think in this case, where it’s not a generic topic, it’s targeting an individual traumatic case and an individual person and family, and I feel very strongly that Meredith wouldn’t agree with that. Meredith absolutely wouldn’t find these topics of any comedy value.

Kercher added if someone else was doing the show specifically against Meredith, I would still feel the same. It’s obviously an added wound that it’s coming from her at the same time, but I do feel very strongly that it should be something that’s not given a platform. A different person was convicted of Kirtcher’s murder in two thousand and eight. That person was released from prison in twenty twenty one after serving thirteen years of a sixteen year term, and that shock Comedy news for to day, see to morrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Only Times had an interesting piece about some comedians who sold out Madison Square Garden what they thought about it. I won’t do all of them, but some names you might know include mega comedian Napurghetz. He said, I believed I could make a career out of stand up comedy when I was in my twenties, Even when it sounded like a crazy thing to do, I was just hoping somebody would come to the show.

He spent so many years doing clubs, it’s hard to picture anything bigger than that until it happens. Selling out MSG, let alone, selling it out three times wasn’t something I ever expected, but it was a result of believing in stand up and believing people still want to get out of the house and laugh together. He did three sellouts September twenty sixth and two September twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. Dean Cook sawd the place out three times when it was less common. Two shows on November twelfth, two thousand and six.

One on November ninth, two thousand and nine. Dean said, when I take of history and legendary artists selling out. It’s the greatest honor in my career to get to that experience, even once, It’s an achievement that forever changes how your career is viewed. Jim Gaffigan sold out December twelfth, twenty fifteen. He said, I never thought selling out MSG was a possibility when I started stand up.

It was an unrealistic goal for any comedian. Having lived in New York City for three decades, MSG has exceeded its legendary status. For me. MSG’s where I brought my kids to see the Nixon Rangers plays, where I saw Bruce Springsteen pulling off a sellout. Seemed like a gamble, but worth it.

Matt Rife has sold the place out twice, July eighteenth and nineteenth. He says MSG is top of the mountain and symbolizes the pinnacle of ticket selling success as a comedian. Boy boy boy, that is just the wrong answer, like everybody else is like talking about the building and how amazing it is, And Matt Riif’s first thought is I sold a lot of tickets. If you could sell out the world’s most famous arena and the toughest city in America, you’ve made it to not only sell it out twice, but to be the youngest comedian ever sell it out. It’s still hard to comprehend.

I’m not sure that was a great quote there, Matt Rife and Andrew Schultz to the York Time, I’ve said, maybe what did they say? Again, I always forget the phrasing on it. Maybe America’s foremost political journalist, something like that. I forget with exactly what they said. Andrews sold out the Garden twice May third, and fourth, and twenty twenty four.

Andrews said, I’m born and raised in NYC. My dad had so much respect for MSG. You would make me wear a collared shirt whenever we stepped in that building. The place had holy significance to me. Before I knew I wanted to be a comic.

Once I decided to make comedy in my life, I had one goal was to sell out MSG wearing a collared shirt. Of course, Josh John said explained his comedy band camp. He said, the whole reason behind is when I was a kid, we’d have money for a fancy sleep away camp. But everything I’m doing in this show is what I’ve had in my imagination, is what it would be like since I was a kid. So this’s a personality test that people can take when they show up to the show that tells them what troop they’re in.

That’s a good way to meet people. You can meet other people in your troop that you already know you have a lot in common with because you answered some of the same answers. So I’m here on comedy bandcamptroops dot com and I’m going to take the quiz. There are fifteen questions We’re going to easily fill the summer Sunday here. Thank you Josh Johnson.

All right, what’s your favorite camp activity? Swimming, sing alongs, hiking, stargazing, campfire stories. I’ll say swimming. Question number two, what’s your favorite camp snack? S’mores?

Ants on a log? What’s that? Apparently it’s celery sticks top with peanut butter and raisins, peanut butter and jelly skewers, puppy chow, which is a sweet snack mix covered in chocolate, peanut butter and powdered sugar or popcorn. I will say s’mores. Question number three, what insect is the coolest?

Yellow jackets, crickets, bees, butterflies. I love butterflies. Four. Who would be the worst partner in a three legged race? Obviously the answer is more cellars.

But the choices are a mummy, a zombie, a ghost, or your most annoying coworker. Let’s say I think about that. I don’t have any annoying coworkers at the moment. Ghost would be great because they don’t touch the ground, so I could just run. A zombie would try to eat me, and a mummy is just dead weight.

So the question is who would be the worst partner? Obviously is zombie. Question number five, On a hike, you pick up a magic kazoo that makes your voice sound like an instrument. Does it make your voice sound like an instrument that’s giving out? Because you recorded four podcasts already today?

What do you sound like? A trumpet? Drums, a sacks of violin? Wait? What is this again?

The kazoo makes my voice sound like an instrument? I guess a sax. I don’t know. I didn’t like that question. Question number six, aid camp, you’re granted the power to talk to animals?

Who do you gossip with? A first? Five choices? Fox, bear, squirrel, deer, rabbit? Alright, I’m gossiping with one of them.

HM, who’s the most interesting? Probably? Uh. I kind of want to say bear, but I feel like a squirrel sees a lot going on. Seven.

You’re looking up at the stars. What consolation jumps out at you? The Little Dipper, Ryan, Hercules, Perseus, none of them? You make your own. I make my own.

Other campers would say you’re most likely to A go rogue, B start the conversation, CE, bring snacks, D go with the flow, E start a chant. Hmm. I should ask you, guys, what you would think. Well, you might think I would start the conversation because I’m hosting of the show. I’d probably go with the flow until people annoyed me.

Question number nine, what do you most look forward to at camp? A Making new friends, B learning a new skill see petting the animals, D trying new desserts. I like meeting new people. A. Question number ten what would you stash in the camp time capsule?

This is all to go to Josh Johnson comedy show. By the way, A Poison IVY be your favorite book? See the craft you made the summer d gum in case the future doesn’t have any I kind of want to pay it forward with my favorite book, but then I wouldn’t have my favorite book anymore. So, and the craft I made I would want to keep, but I don’t want to punish people with poison. Ivy gum, I guess I love that one.

Question number eleven, how would you handle a camp emergency? A freak out? B find a camp counselor C, spring into action, D take a nap. I’m a springing to action kind of guy. Thirteen What is your dream for the last day of camp?

A you find a secret key to room no one knows about. B you discover a message in a bottle from a camper in the past. I’m already picking that one. See not being coount out of the bus and getting it extra night alone with your friends and the camp all yourselves. D You sneak into the kitchen after the last meal and need all the leftover cookies.

B message in a bottle. Question number thirteen, We’re almost done. Guys. You’re on a hike and come across an old vinyl album. What music is it?

A? Blues, B hip hop, C, salsa, D country E rock. Now you’re asking me. You’re not asking me what I like. You’re asking me what we randomly found on the hike.

It’s gonna be rock as there were some teenagers from nineteen seventy four who got drunk in the woods and left their vinyl out there, probably Fleetwood Mac album Question number fourteen, what would make the best instrument AA hollowed out long be a seashell, CEE a pine cone, D A rattlesnake obviously a seashell? And our final question, what is your favorite survival tip? A, keep calm and carry, bear, spray, B stop, drop and roll down hills. See everything is better with more smores. D.

Don’t pet the skunks. I’m picking the s’mores And now we’ll find out what true I’m in. I’m in the Fusha flames and we have a cool uh, we have a cool logo. It’s the color is fusia and it has a flame. Well, you’re toll.

It takes a lot to start your fire, but once you’re on, you burn bright. No one can stop you. There’s no shade from the shine you bring. Oh that’s funny. I bring a lot of shade.

If you listen to the podcast that it’s important to remind yourself you have what it takes the light the way. You may feel like your contributions go unnoticed, but just a spark of your creativity changes everything. Thirty two percent of campers have landed in the Fusha Flames. We’re the biggest group. The Ivy Leaves have fifteen and to Go Flow eight point seven.

The Feisty Fox is six point six, the Yellow Jackets twenty three percent, the Red Rogues four point eight percent, and the Sapphire Blues nine point five.

And then I guess I go to a Josh Johnson concert.

I don’t know, Josh, what troop are you in? He said, I don’t have a troop because I’m putting on the show and I don’t want people to be like this is the troop to be in or something. I really want everyone to have their own experience and have fun with it. Josh was asked if there’s a difference between just going up there on stage doing stand up versus sitting in the writer’s room and going on camera for the Daily Show. Josh said, I don’t have a preferred process.

I suppose, but they’re different. So I’m at the Daily Show is incredibly collaborative. I’m super thankful that I have the sport of so many people. When you’re doing stand up, you’re just on your own, So you’re just writing for yourself and you’re just doing your own thing. Obviously, I love doing stan up, but I like learning the new aspects of everything that goes into making a show.

The show gets decided on that day after being sort of genuinely assessed for how people feel about the stories and what’s going on. Obviously there’s times when there’s more of a wait and see approach to the day. Then there are some things that get covered a day later are covered in tannem with something else. What the show’s really good at doing is finding the urgency and whatever it is we want to talk about, And I think that would stand up. It’s a little bit easier to just sort of do what you feel, all right, Non fans of Kill Tony, how about a show called Anybody But Tony?

This from kut dot org. We are told people sit on the back patio of Barrett’s Two Too, drinking coffee and Margarita’s, playing board games and folding anti ice packets for local businesses. Near the Commuit stage, two men set up for their stand up comedy show Anybody But Tony? Four comedians have eight to ten minutes each to deliver their material, followed by a drag finale. Co host Everett and Eric as they had the great of the show to preserve a comedy scene that has been saturated with uncensored, anti woke comics.

Everett said, when we talked about what we wanted the show to be, there were a lot of things. But what did we not want the show to be. We didn’t want it to be Tony Inchcliff. We don’t want him. We don’t want the people to think he’s funny.

We let on Anybody but Tony. Andrew did the Anybody but Tony Show, but he was also on Kill Tony six years ago. He said he was surprised when the comedians were treated like cattle in the waiting room to get only a sixty second set. Why were you surprised, dude, that’s clearly what the show is. What are you talking about?

Andrew said. After each performance, the comics were brutally roasted on their material and physical appearance. Dude, did you not know what you’re like? Oh man, I can’t believe I want to kill Tony and they only gave me sixty seconds and then they made fun of me. What what do you talk talking about?

Then this article gets into the Austin scene. Seems like not everyone likes mister Rogan. Dave Buckman is the executive producer of the Cold Fown Theater. We are told it is one of the city’s primary alternative comedy views. Mister Buckman said, the Rogan sphere was the first to come back to the live performance pandemic because those are the kind of people that did not want to wear masks or take any kind of caution.

They were making the most noise first, so they got the most attention first out of the pandemic. That and Joe Rogan has the number one podcast and move from Los Angeles to Austin and then had a lot of big name comedians on. Let’s not gloss over that this article is insane. Buckman said, I’m not worried when I hear people say, oh, kill Tony. Is Austin’s comedy scene.

Huh, Yeah, Austin has this comedy scene. We built that we walk so that you could run. Olfira Eisenberg wrote a memoir called Screw Everyone Sleeping My Way to Monogaby. That memoir is the one that convinced Caitlin Palufo that she could do stand up. She said, every other line in the book is a joke.

This is a stand ups book. It made me want to try stand up and believe I could do it because she was doing it. She made me feel less shameful about my own sexual past. It’s like, oh, that can be used as jokes. It’s not something you have to keep hidden and buried.

Usually you’re like, yeah, maybe I’ll switch it to this because it’s funnier. But no, he says, hot men with no trauma just kind of get it. They’re like, I’m six four, I don’t have to try. It’s a lazy thinking kind of deal. Women, the trauma set is around every corner, so we learn how to laugh at it.

I get what she’s saying about the hot men, but uh, you know Dane Cook back in the day, I remember the female coworkers. It’s serious. Really enjoyed looking at Dane Cook. And people seem to like Matt Rife. I don’t know.

LeAnn Morgan recently made a stop at an Alabama’s farmer’s market. Boy, this is a very summer Sunday show, isn’t it. Yes, it is if you want, I can do ten minutes about Marcello Hernandez, Seth Meyers and Adam Saylor. I think I’ve done that already. Let’s do some different things.

Let’s go shopping with Leanne Morgan and a farmer’s market in Alabama. She said, Tessa and I have bought enough strawberry jelly and pickled okra to last the rest of our lives. She shared a video. We also see that she got pineapple salsa, some Sarah flavored peanuts, dinosaur egg plums, red tomato preserves, bread and butter, pickles, natural dog treats, and some almond vanilla granola. Leanne Morgan shared one of the places we stopped was Sweet Creek Form Market.

Chickens were running, They sell fresh eggs, they have a goat little children could pet, and then fresh Form market stuff. So I want nuts because that’s my favorite thing to do. I don’t have a lick of sense over something canned. I did your comedy use on a summer Sunday, A normal episode. I mean not that this was not a normal episode, but you know sometimes Johnny Mac pre tapes a weekend episodes.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Jay Leno Day. I’m Johnny Mac and the Saturday Deep Dives are back. Today we’ll take a look at Jay Leno. It is Jay Leno Day.

Jay hosted the Tonight Show at NBC Studios in Burbank for more than twenty years. The city’s home to his famous garage, hosting more than one hundred rare cars. He regularly performs at Flapper’s Comedy Club in Burbank, and he is being honored by the city. It is Jay Leno Day now for this deep dive. In particular, I’m going to skip the Tonight show, so we’re not gonna talk Tonight Show and we’re not gonna talk Conan.

The reason is this fall, I’m going to do a series about the late night hosts and we will cover that in detail, so we’re not going to bog down on that. Today we will talk about the man that I jokingly call the worst person who ever lived, because for some reason, people don’t like this guy I do. Jay Leno has said multiple interviews over the years consistently enough that it’s cloing not a bit. He never spent a dollar of the money NBC paid him for the Tonight Show, not one dollar. During that time, he was making somewhere between twenty and thirty million dollars a year, and yet he was living off his income from stand up.

The NBC money went into the bank. Jay Leno toured on the weekends, kept doing clubs in theaters, and kept treating stand up as the actual job rather than the thing he used to do before TV, and he used that income for his operating budget for everything. The Tonight Show money sat there and accumulated. His fortune is now estimated at around four hundred and fifty million dollars. Jay Leno, underneath all the Late night stuff will cover this fall, is fundamentally a stand up comedian with an extraordinary work ethic, a strange and consuming passion for machines with engines, a husband of forty five plus years that is currently one of the more quietly moving stories in show business, and a guy with a financial philosophy that treats television as a bonus rather than his career.

Understanding all that tells you more about Jay Leno than hosting The Tonight Show ever did. Born James Douglas Muir Lean I know April twenty eighth, nineteen fifty in New Rochelle, New York. Raised in Andover, Massachusetts, the son of an insurance salesman father of Italian descent and a Scottish mother who immigrated to the United States alone at eleven years old. His mother’s response to his comedy ambitions was, Jay, we’re not show people. His fifth grade teacher wrote in his report card that if Jay Leno spent as much time studying as he did trying to be a comedian, he would be a pig star.

Jay had dyslexia. The experience of being told repeatedly that you’re not smart, of having to compensate for how your brain processes written language by developing other skills, by talking, by performing, by being funny enough that people paid attention to you all shaped Jay Leno. He went to Emerson College in Boston on a speech therapy degree. That makes more sense than it sounds when you think about somebody who struggled with written language and decided to master spoken language. He started a comedy club on campus.

He was doing stand up in Boston clubs while still a student. After graduating in nineteen seventy three, Jay Leno moved to Los Angeles and spent the early years building an act in whatever rooms would have him. The comedy store, the improv, the small clubs. It was that short time post Richard pryor pre cable TV, jay Leno did three hundred nights a year. Do the math.

That’s roughly five shows a week every week of the calendar year. Fifty two times five gets you to two sixties. He got to double up some nights, and it was at the comedy store in those years where jay Leno met David Letterman. Letterman drove a red pickup from Indiana to la in nineteen seventy five, looking for his shot. Jay Leno had been out there three years and had established himself as one of the more comfortable and confident performers in the room.

Jay Leno has described that encounter saying Letterman had genuinely funny material, really clever wordplay, the kind of writing that was immediately recognizable as something different. But he was awkward performing it, visibly uncomfortable on stage in a way that jay Leno wasn’t. Letterman’s version of that story describes jay Leno’s stage confidence as something Dave genuinely envied and tried to understand, adding get up there and just be comfortable. Leto’s answer, more or less was that stand up had always felt like a natural place to him, the room where he met, which is not a skill you can teach someone who doesn’t have it. I’m originally from the United States, and the United States people hit a night.

That’s great, It’s Freddy mentioned I have a slight call. I have to apologize for that. When I can’t, I have. I’ve had it about two weeks. I went to the hospital over here, one of the large hospitals in California.

I don’t want to say the name. Just shows you what healthcare is in this date. This is absolutely true. I went in, man charged me forty dollars, gave me some pills to take, and on the way out as a doc, my throat is still really sort. Do you think I should have my tonsils out?

And this man is a specialist, and I’m showing the best hospitals in California? Says to me, well, what do you think. It’s? Watching the local news before I came in and I got to kick out a local newsman. You haven’t noticed how all newsmen use the same metaphors.

Another senseless killing early today in mid Manhattan. Senseless as opposed to what sensible? Killing? A man was beaten an oob of twelve cents on the west side? A senseless killing?

Where’s the east side? One thousand dollars killing? Very sensible? All came out of that friendship was something both described as mutually instructive. Jay Leno was a better performer than he was a writer.

Letterman was a better wordsmith than he was a performer. Each one watching the other work understood something about the craft more clearly for having seen the opposite approach done well. Letterman eventually said, I was a broadcaster who worked as a comedian. Jay was a comedian who worked as a broadcaster. By the time Letterman launched Late Night with David Letterman on NBC in nineteen eighty two, the two were kind of the elder statesman of the comedy store generation, not old, but experience enough to be the ones the younger comedians were watching as an example of how to do it.

And then Letterman gave Jay Leno a platform that introduced him to a completely different audience than one had been billion clubs. We have a good show. Jay Leno is a very very funny young man, and he will be out here in just a second as soon as I introduce him. He is my first guest. He is a good friend of President Reagan.

Also a very talented comedian. He will be appearing this weekend at the Carlton Backstage in Minneapolis. Please welcome Jay Leno. There. We have your magazine or do you do You want to take a minute to clarify this good friend of President Reagan.

What happened was the last time I was on the show. President Reagan had seen the show and one of his staff called me to ask me about a joke. Now, if I took time out every time I had a stake, called me, good, heavens I wouldn’t. But you know that he really called. No, he didn’t call me if he doesn’t stay up this late, does.

He not when you’re on, But when I’m a guest, occasionally he does that. He says, I don’t get a chance that often, but when you’re on. Okay, well that’s very nice. I have a copy here of something called Writer Writer Magazine. This is a motorcycle Enthusiasts publication interview.

All right, let’s see ye here it is funny David. Picture of Jay right on the inside. There, nice nice drawing, nice story. I guess I happened to see you in Playbook magazine. You know, it’s so funny.

You know, it’s so funny. While we’re talking about magazine, you know, the people from Playboy called me and they asked me to do an interview for Playboy. And rather than do my interviewing Playboy, I did mine in Women Are Our Equals magazine. Who’s who’s on the cover there. Well, let’s see this Geraldine Ferrero.

Then there’s a story in here in Margaret Meade. Here’s here’s an interview with Gloria Steinhem.

Now let’s see who’s in your magazine.

Muffy, Muffy, Muffy doesn’t like guys who are turn offs. Muffy’s favorite movies are Bambi and The L Shaped Room. I used to love when Jay Leno would show up on Late Night. There was a version of Jay Leno in the early to mid eighties that people who saw him on Letterman remember very specifically. It’s different than the who settled into the Tonight Show.

The early Letterman appearances featured a comedian who was sharper edgier, not a word usually here with Jay Leno. More willing to take the material somewhere uncomfortable. It was closer to the voice he’d been developing in the clubs, where you don’t smooth things out because the room will tell you immediately if you’ve gone too far. Dave and Jay worked off each other in a way that brought something out in both of them. Now is this possible?

When is the last time you were on this television program? I was here about a month and a half ago, and I haven’t been home since that. I haven’t I’ve been on the road the whole time. Isn’t that awful? It’s not awful, Dave, Not for us comedy foot soldiers who are out there in the trenches.

Now. I’m not one of your big time comedy generals with some cushy desk job wringing three four hundred a week, come out there in the trenches doing the club. People who watched those early Letterman appearances and then watch Jay on The Tonight Show in the nineties notice the difference. People in the comedy community said Lenno was a toned down version of the act he used in the clubs in order to reach the broader and more traditional Tonight Show audience. Which is a calculation completely understandable.

I don’t think that’s crazy at all. The version of jay Leno that a certain generation I’ll raise my hand discovered on Letterman younger, less polished, more specifically funny in the way the comedy nerds mean when they say specifically funny. That version is worth acknowledging as a real thing that existed before the TV institution softened some of the edges. The Letterman friendship eventually turned into something more complicated. We will get to that.

If you’ve listened this far, you probably know about Dave and Jay, and then Jay and Conan. We’re not going there today, but that early friendship at the comedy store, the mutual education, the Letterman years, that’s a whole different part of the Jay Leno story that you don’t hear these days. It’s hard to talk about jay Leno without spending time on the cars. The Big Dog Garage and Burbank started as a property jay Leno bought in nineteen ninety one seventeen thousand square feet. It is now one hundred and twenty two thousand square feet, expanded by a factor of seven over thirty years.

I know currently has more than two hundred cars and over one hundred and sixty motorcycles. He has sold exactly one car in thirty years, a Tesla model S he auctioned on bring a trailer, and he invited the new owners to a private garage tour after the sale. That’s how Jay thinks about the cars. They’re not investments, they’re the point. The collection ranges from a nineteen oh oh four curve to dash Oldsmobile to current hypercars.

He doesn’t keep them in climate control rooms. He’s a mechanic who happens to be famous, who bought a property in Burbank and filled it with cars. Jay Leno’s Garage started as a web series for NBC before moving to CNBC as a proper TV show or It ran for seven years before eventually moving to YouTube. The format works because Jay actually knows what he’s talking about. The knowledge is specific and real and comes from thirty years of working on the cars.

One car sent him to the hospital. That’s the nineteen o seven white steam car November twelfth, twenty twenty two. Inside the garage, Jay was working on the car and it caught fire. The fire burned Jay’s face in his hands seriously enough that he was hospitalized and required treatment at a center. Then, in January of twenty twenty three, he fell off a motorcycle and broke several bones.

People were wondering what is going on there, But it seems like it was just back to back accidents, and we need to talk about his wife, Mavis. Jay Leno met MAVs at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy six. He said she laughed at all his jokes at the right time, which for a comedian is meaningful. It’s not just polite laughter, but genuinely timed laughter that tells you someone actually understands what you’re doing. They got married in nineteen eighty.

They never had any children, but for a Hollywood couple to be together forty five years, that is amazing. In January of twenty twenty four, Jay Leno filed for a conservatorship over Mavis’s estate after she was diagnosed with advanced dementia. Jay has been her primary caregiver since he limits his travel. When he does go somewhere for work, he comes home the same day. He doesn’t want to stay away overnight anymore.

He makes MAVs lunch. She’s home every evening. Jay has talked about how hard this would be if for roughly three years, Mavis would wake up and it would be the day her mother died. Should learn it fresh every morning, cry through it fresh each morning because the memory couldn’t hold overnight. Jay says he enjoys taking care of her.

It gives him purpose. When someone asked Jay Leno if he was going to get a girlfriend, he described it as the most Hollywood thing I’d ever been asked. He said, you take a vow when you get married, and people are stunned. They’re so shocked that you would live up to it. He said he would rather be with her than doing something else.

He said, I’m not just with someone because they’re attractive and sexy. At some point in my life, I’m going to be called upon to defend myself. That’s really what defines a marriage. That’s what love is. That doesn’t sound like the worst guy in the world to me.

Jay Leno, Happy, Jay Leno Day back tomorrow with a normal episode.

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Caloroga Shark Media boy. Somebody craked my headphones blew my ears out, and I don’t know who because I’m the only one who uses this laptop. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hey, good news star trek Ruiner. Patton Oswalt is not dead.

Apparently there was a rumor circulating online that he had died. Patton said, yeah, this has been very sudden. I’m trying to adjust, asking for privacy as I ascend. The original post included a black and white photo of Patton Oswalt alongside the caption Seriously f twenty twenty six rest in Peace. Twitter added a note Patton Oswalt pictured is alive.

Good news for Patton that we got good comments. One person wrote rip Patton, you were pretty good on King of Queens and others said, well, there goes my dream of Ratitue two. Christina p has opened up about her divorce from Tom Sigora. She did this on the podcast on the Your Mom’s House podcast. He said the two try to work things out for several years for the sake of the children family, but ultimately couldn’t make the marriage work.

She says there’s no blood between them. As she put it, We’re cool, dude, She told fans, She’s still there for them and they’ll get through this BS, just like everything else they’ve weathered together. Do you like Shane Gillis? Do you like car racing? A big event today, Williams Grove Speedway announced that it has partnered with the Netflix comedy series Tires, which of course stars Shane Gillison.

Johnny Mac should probab watch those final four episodes from last season. I just got distracted. Well. At the Williams Grove Speedway, it’s fan appreciation night as far as I understand. You’ll get free chips and candy courtesy of Martin’s Potato Chips, hose Heads and J and S Classics.

Fans at the event will have access to the backpit area from five point thirty to six fifteen to meet the drivers out on Netflix today, it’s Ricky Gerviz, Allie Katz, Diane Morgan is part of the cast there. Some podcasters have a crush on Diane Allie Kat six episodes, fifteen minutes seat so she can blow through that and uh, can you do that an hour or no? That’d be one two three for an hour and a half. It’ll take you an hour and a half to do that. That was very Letterman what I just did there.

The six part comedy fifteen minutes each follows a band of foul mouth feral cats from across British society as they search for companionship. We’re reflecting on the absurdities of modern life. Diane Morgan, who’s some podcasters have a crush on does one of the voices, Diane said, I know, you see the cats and you think, oh, they’re cute and lovely, and they have these little adventures and then they open their mouths. We learn that the cast recorded together rather than separately, and as Diane says, it’s basically the cast of Afterlife again with a few new editions. He credits Ricky for keeping spirits high on set and says, despite Ricky’s experience, he laughs so much during recording that scenes had to be Redone from Mainwire, Bob Marley is talking about the furries.

Apparently Bob has a new bit that he’s comfortable with the Main Wire talking about. So spoilers if you’re gonna go see Bob Marley tonight. Bob says, kids nowadays think they’re animals, fur burgers. The audience laughs at that, apparently, and Bob says, oh, what are they called? The audience he goes thought furries.

Bob says, look, can be whatever they want to be. I’ve got my own problems, as you can obviously tell. We learned from main Wire that furries made news a year ago in Maine at the Mount Blue Middle School in Farmington, when a student began barking like a dog at another student who regularly crawled around the school on all fours, hissing and other students and openly and nafying as a furry. The barking student was suspended for five days. We’ll keep it up in New England with Seth Myers.

He’s up there tonight at the s NHU Arena in New Hampshire. Seth Meyers show will support two New Hampshire groups, one Court appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire and two the Granite State Children’s Alliance. Seth Meyers said, it’s going to be a night where we’re gonna have a little bit of messaging about how important the organizations are, and mostly it’s going to be a night for people to come and see some stand up comedy. Vogue went with the attention in getting headline Mary Beth Barone is ready to piss off the right people. That’s a good headline that got my attention.

Mary Beth Barone tells Vogue, my stand up is very reflective. Before I’m at currently, I know that I wanted to speak on politics, but finding ways of getting there that you wouldn’t necessarily think, presenting one idea and then relating it back to something political. I also wanted the comedy to feel super specific, and my goal is always to make women and queer people laugh. That’s the same mission they’ve carried on from thought provoking Netflix. Telb you basically have three minutes to show people who you are to make them stick around for the rest of the special.

Spoiler. She mentions that in the special, and as I mentioned previously on this podcast, I took the challenge and went, yeah, I’m not interested, and I bailed on it. I’m sure other people love it. My wife mentioned to me we were in the car and we’re talking. You know, you ever you ever been in a car worth your spouse and you talk.

You know, this is a thing a couple might do. So I don’t know, we were talking about basically everything the podcast comedy. I don’t know what we read on the internet, and she said, Netflix is showing me some comedian, that’s all she said, And I went Mary Beth Baron. My wife said pretty, I’m like, yep, that’s her. She asked will I like it?

And I said, now, it’s probably too dirty for you, and then my wife moved on. But it was interesting that the Netflix algo was pushing Mary Beth Baron at my wife, who went back to watching shows about people being murdered. Mary Beth Barone said, I had a really con consider how I wanted to present myself to a new audience. What’s the material that feels really important to me? What does it feel like I want to say right now?

That was the guiding light. I’ve watched a lot of women’s special but you know there aren’t many, and especially Amy Schumers Live at the Apollo was very influential when I was just starting. I’ve always been inspired by her comedic point of view. As for the final cut of the special, Mary Beth Burn said, I’m proud of myself for doing the jokes that were more of a high wire act confronting Edgy and dark topics. I wasn’t afraid to take risks with the jokes because the discourse is always in the back of my mind.

My desire to say these things just outweighed whatever the potential response might be. Could be a joke about Crystal Leia or a zempet or my Jack Russell Terrier. Bailey, who I grew up with and describe as a domestic terrorist, must have been the Irish in her. Took me a while to find that last beat about being responsible for seventeen flat tires on three car bombs. My mom’s side is Irish.

I think they’ve got good humor about themselves. Maybe it’s being a Gemini, but there’s a weird pushbawl with me. I don’t want to upset people. What if I’m doing my job right, it’s going to just about upsetting the right people. Comedy stock Market.

Every Friday on this program, I announced that we’re going to bomb. I ran and I manipulate the stock market, and then it makes the insider trades, and then Monday morning, I go psych, we didn’t do that at all. We almost have a deal. Oh no, that’s a different that’s a different guy. That’s not me.

What I do. What I do is I look for value in the comedians, and we try and sell low and buy high. No market manipulation here. I’m not that powerful yet. But hey, maybe someday this show will be so big that I’ll be like, hey, you guys ought to be into comedian Smedley Jones, And then I’ll go on like Calshie and buy some stock in or real life to make some money.

That might be an idea. John, you Deigress, who’s on the comedy stock market this week? I don’t have a lot for you. Let’s sell ted Lasso. The reviews are not good.

I’m not excited about it. I haven’t watched it yet. I’ve had time. But my wife and I we were in the car, you know sometimes you’re in the car where with your spouse and you talk. You’d done this, Yes, we covered this in the first half of the podcast.

John, we all agreed that’s the thing a couple might do. Anyway, we were talking about ted Lasso, and we were like, yeah, I mean, I guess we’ll watch it at some point, but like we’ve moved on. It was too long. You wrapped up the show and just we don’t care. So let’s sell Ted Lasso, Let’s sell Mary Beth Baron because they went full court press for a week.

There were a lot of big time shiny articles here. Pr team got it done. But before I logged on today, I went on Netflix to see if that special was still in the top ten, and it was not. That fell off pretty quickly and they targeted my wife, and my wife’s like, eh so, I don’t know. I think Mary Beth Baron gave it a shot, but let’s sell.

Let’s sell a little bit high on Mary Beth Baron and John, you’re very negative this week. Should we buy somebody, Let’s buy some stock in Pete Corielli. He’s got a new special on YouTube. He hangs out with Sebastian Maniscalco, who might shave his head, and the gator is very, very funny, and he’s one of those guys. It’s just a matter of time that Pete’s gonna put together the right material and the right platform and everybody is going to be like, oh my god, Pete Corielly is amazing, and I’m gonna be like, yeah, that’s why he was on Jim Brewers Show It’s Serious twenty five years ago or whenever this happens in this story, all right, So sell ted Lasso, sell Mary Beth burrown by Pete Corielly.

Tomorrow on this program, the Deep Dives are back after a one week break. I got notes people like the Deep Dives, and I’m like, okay, I’ll work a little harder. They do take a minute to put together. That’s fine. And since tomorrow is Jay Leno Day in Burbank, we will take a look at Jay Leno, but not the Tonight show stuff.

So noe, we’re not gonna do Dave and Jay, and we’re not gonna do Conan and Jay. I’m gonna do that in the fall. I have a plan. In the fall. I want to do a whole series on late night talk shows, and the hosts, or at least the ones that I care about, I’m not gonna do them all.

And I’m gonna get in trouble because there’s a few that, like everybody else cares about and I have nothing to say about. So I’m gonna leave them out. We’ll get there. We’ll get there, and I don’t mean Seth Myers. We’ll get there.

But tomorrow’s Jay Leno Day, both in Burbank and on the podcast.

Speaking of Jay Leno, he recently got behind the wheel of an exceptionally pr…

The car has fewer than five hundred miles on it. Wow. Gabe bought the Mustang because it represents the late eighties and early nineties cars he admired growing up. Plus he’s got a lot of money. When the car appeared on Jay Leno’s garage, it had four hundred and sixty eight miles on it.

That’s amazing. Gabe has no intention of keeping the Odomeino there. He replaced the original tires, yeah, thirty year old tires probably, and then Jay and Gabe took it out onto Southern California Roads to find out if it still drives like it did in nineteen ninety three. We were told that under the hoods, it’s Ford’s five point zero leter High Output V eight, also known as the three zero two cubic and small block. It was rated at two hundred and twenty five horsepower when it was new, and it sends powder to the real wheels through a five speed manual transmission.

Do you guys do that Jay has upgraded the sound system in the trunk. We were told the sound system occupies much of the luggage space and has a playful touch without altering the car’s basic mechanical character. Jay Leno was impressed and I thought this was interesting. In The Guardian, they have a comedy critic, Brian Logan, and he did a little Q and A with the audience, and the audience asked to comedy critic Brian Logan, after years of reviewing comedy, do you still get belly laughs. I’ve talked about this in the past.

I call it Emperor of Rome syndrome. I can logically understand something is very funny, and I will say to you that’s hilarious, but I don’t laugh. I get this. Let’s see what Brian Logan says. There’s no point pretending that after years of comedy watching, some of the base level mechanics of comedy have lost their power to surprise.

But the best comedians don’t resort to the base levels, or if they do, they so deply reinvent or conceal or re engineer them that there’s a surprise and delight to seeing that process and action. The comedy I get most excited by is the stuff that makes me laugh or gasp but not know why. I love the sensation of puzzling out why I’ve just found something so startling or funny or unexpected. I love to get to write about it. So yes, I still get non infrequent wows and a huge sense of pleasure and privilege to be seeing and writing about comedy.

I feel you. He was also asked, do you agree that in Edinburgh and elsewhere the almost come lee reliance on a single format, the hour long show that’s supposedly about something but is usually just a string of loosely related bits, perhaps with some matter, crowd work and a bit of padding for regionals, has made stand up a bit boring. The Guardian’s comedy critic Brian Logan answered, I think it could equally be argued that the fringe in this country has made comedy more interesting, liberating it from the simple structures of club comedy, encouraging it to take more creative and theatrical risks. But yes, I acknowledge the straight jacket of the fifty five minute running time in certain discernible formulae in the creation of shows to fit it can make things sometimes feel samy, but a good creative comedian won’t make a show that’s as transparent or cynical as you describe, and the best shows will really be about something rather than just pretending to be. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Late Nighter reports there are fake Jimmy Kimmel monologues on YouTube. Yeah, this is insane to me. Late Nighter reports.

In just the last two weeks, Fake Jimmy Kimmel has weighed in on Donald Trump dozing off at Lindsey Graham’s funeral. Fake Jimmy Kimmel has covered Rand Paul’s Senate confrontation with Anthony Fauci, and Fake Jimmy Kimmel discussed the Justice Department dropping charges related to the vandalizing of the reflecting pool, which of course is not one happened. This is nuts. Late Nighter tells us dozens of AI generated videos have been using Kimmel’s voice face is familiar monologue set up to deliver commentary. The videos have been posted across at least half a dozen YouTube channels, packaged with thumbnails designed to match those used by Kimmel’s show Boy, What a nightmare?

How do you slap that down? Wow? Late Night Or writes The fakery becomes more apparent upon closer inspection. The synthetic Kimmel stands in his usual monolog position, but gestures oddly, often emphasizing the wrong words. After about ten seconds, he disappears altogether, leaving the clone voice to continue over news footage.

The clips contain few actual jokes, no audience reaction, and none of the conversational rhythm of Kimmel’s actual monologues. I wonder who’s behind this. Part of me thinks it’s just aislop to make some money, and others wonder. Huh. I wonder who might be trying to make Jimmy Kimmel look bad.

One video I’m gonna choose not to name it collected eight hundred thousand views over four days before disappearing. Wow, what a nightmare. Huh. Chelsea Handler is not happy that Joe Rogan made the list of highest paid podcasters of twenty twenty six. That list had Joe Rogan at number one, supposedly making eighty two million dollars with his podcast The Joe Rogan Experiences.

So that list came out on Forbes. Chelsea Handler jumped in on the comments and wrote, who is paying Joe Rogan eighty two million dollars? Give that two our vets and our children. On Instagram, Chelsea Handler wrote eighty two million to be completely uninformed and say whoopsie doodle every time he’s wrong, which is frequent frequent in all caps. Here’s the thing.

Let me explain how this works to Chelsea Handler. See what you do is you put out a podcast. A certain number of people downloaded, stream it, consume it, listen to it, etc.

And then you may choose to put advertising in your podcast.

Personally, I have chosen to put advertising in my podcast. The advertisers pay on what’s called a CPM model cost per thousand lazy math. If you want to compute all this, use twenty dollars as your CPM. So, for example, if Daily Comedy News has one thousand listeners and you wanted to reach them at a twenty dollars CPM, you would give me twenty dollars for the advertisement. Details vary.

There are things called programmatic ads that pay less. I’m not going to do a podcasting class here. You may pay more for an endorsement. Like if I say, hi, I’m Johnny Mac and I’m telling you that the best widget in the world is the ACME Widget Company, and I’m using all my credibility to tell you this, you would pay more than the say twenty dollars for that, or there might be a premium environment. Say you have a show about I don’t know painting, and you sell paint for a living, you might want to reach a particular audience and pay even more for that.

Or Joe Rogan is the number one show, so by getting a lot of listeners, Chelsea, he makes a lot of money in advertising, and that is how Joe Rogan makes money. Sebastian Maniscalco is considering going completely bald. On this week’s episode of The Sebastian Maniscalco Show, Sebastian co host Pete Gorieli The Gator consulted on air with a Beverly Hills based hair transplant surgeon. Sebastian said he had undergone a hair transplant eight years ago. The group debated whether or not Sebastian should shave his head in preparation for a possible second hair transplant.

Sebastian asked the doctor, So, if I go completely bald and you do the proizure, when can I be stage ready? The doctor said, I give it seven days. You have enough beautiful pigments that redness shouldn’t be as bad. Sebastian was curious what shaving his head would entail. He asked, when you say shaved head, are you taking down a street level with mock three blade and I’m completely bald?

Are you taking it down to the lowest cut on an electric The answer is Sebastian would be left with one millimeter of hair. The doctor said the transmitted hair is the same size. After one week, you’ll look pretty decent because you’ll look like you have a buzz cut. Sebastian said seeing himself bald could be helpful for the future. I’m doing the shave to see what I look like bald, and if I like what I look like bald, I’m not gonna be too worried about losing hair in the future, right.

Pete Corilia the Gator, said that’s a good way to look at it. Two Birds, One Stone. Mo Gilligan’s Chicken Thing is out on Netflix. Moe learned a lot about chicken, including you know, one of the ingredients. They also put it in condoms for lubrication.

Who knew that went into a burger? So many things go into it that are artificially engineered to give you a better experience and get you to come back for more. He told the Sun, you know again, that’s a newspaper, not the thing that can us warm and gives us light. Most said the idea of being paid to eat fried chicken might have sounded like a dream, but it turned out to be more like a nightmare. Again, Morgan Spurlock did this already, Guys.

Look, I do a job that’s very front facing it in the public eye. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t care about my image, especially if I’m eating fried chicken every day. Eating the food was something that I was a bit self conscious of, but also knowing in the space of a few days, I went from a large in my T shirt to an extra large because of what I’m eating. Dude, I do that once a week. Early in the week, I’m pretty good about my running and my eating, and then by the weekend it’s like Friday pizza.

Dude, this is nothing new. Mogilligan added, as a black British comedian, it was important for me to challenge the stereotypes around black people and fried chicken, unpack where those ideas came from, and reclaim a dish that’s part of a much bigger story than the one we’ve been told. I met some incredible people along the way, from historians and farmers to nutrition experts and industry insiders. Every conversation taught me something. This is probably the most exposing thing I’ve ever done, and I can’t wait for you all to see it.

Bohen Yang is heading to Broadway. He’s going to play Mary’s Tod Lincoln. Heard me correctly. He will play Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh Mary. It’s not the first time he was offered the role.

Last summer, he was offered to do it, but he was planning on returning to Saturday Night Live. Boone Yang said, I was too yoked to that time frame to give myself the proper runway. I was not going to take a Broadway debut without the utmost seriousness and gravitas and respect. Now he’s getting his chance. Starting September fifteenth, Bowen Yang will take over a role that’s been played by people including Jane Krakowski, Maya, Rudolph, Megan Stantler, drag Icon Jinx month Soon.

Casting director Henry Russell Bergstein said, you need a one of a kind performer and someone who knows how to handle doing eight shows a week. Amy Pohler is coming to New York City’s Town Hall on Tuesday. Get your wallet ready if you want to see Amy Pohlar record a podcast. She’s not in the basement. She’s selling tickets.

I mean, if you want to come, I’ll I guess I could charge your ten bucks to stare at me while I record comedy headlines. If that’s something you really want to do, we can talk. But if you want to go see Amy Pohle or the New York Posts as the lowest price they could find for tickets on seat geek was three hundred and forty six dollars including fees. Orchestra seats start at five hundred and thirty three dollars including fees. That, of course, is insane bad news for the Lester Comedy Festival.

Apparently the folks at the Big Difference Company are having some financial problems. They announced with great sadness that they had become insolvent. The directors of the festival, which started in nineteen ninety four, cited increasing costs, a difficult funding environment, and significant pressures within the live comedy sector. We are starting to see some comedy festival struggle. That’s really interesting.

There was a lot of strength in that after the pandemic, and now it seems like not so smooth sailing. Paul Shear’s comedy series Dinks has been green lit by Amazon. Now Dinks should not be confused with the Dink, which is a thing on Apple. I’m glad they pointed that out because I already confused them. I blew the story off once because I saw this and I was like, no, that already exists.

This is old news. But no, the Dink is already out. Dink’s dual income No Kids is an improv comedy series starring Paul Sheer. The improvised multi camera sitcom follows Josh and Surely, a couple who, in the absence of marriage your Kids, decide to literally build a life together by renovating their nightmare of a dream house. A previous version of Dinks, which was called a Lot, was set up at CBS with a presentation as proof of concept.

Apparently CBS was not impressed. Kameil Non Jihanni will make his directorial debut with the upcoming horror comedy Howl. In How kameil on Jihanny, he not only directs, he plays a troubled actor who makes a bombshell announcement on a talk show. He is a werewolf and he’s going to transform in one hour on live TV. That sounds fun.

That’s been acquired by Amazon, MGM’s Ryan Pictures, And that is your comedy news for today. Now, coming up this weekend, the Deep Dives are back. I got some notes people like the deep dives. And because Saturday is Jay Leno Day, we’re going to do a deep dive on jay Leno, but none of the tonight show stuff everything else. So that’ll be Saturday tomorrow, a normal episode and I will see you then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Uh oh, somebody didn’t like the new Ricky Gervais show. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News the Guardian Rights. According to multiverse theory, you know this is off to good start if that’s the first paragraph. According to multiverse theory, there are parallel realities in which news of a new Ricky Gervase project instills a feeling other than dread.

What are you talking about, dude, I’m generally excited about a Ricky Gervase project, not this one though, But it’s I’m with you there the Guardian Rights, but we don’t live in them. Having seen his new series Alley Cats on Netflix Friday, a boorish banter vehicle in which animated cat shoot the breeze like a bunch of pub bars. Have you seen what’s in the top ten on Netflix? I mean I was on their Sunday night, going, who watches this crap? The Guardian Rights.

I’m not sure what there is report other than the fact that I didn’t laugh once. Considering what a fan I once was, I find this remarkable. What happened, woke happened? Is what his diehard fans would say, etcetera, etcetera. Nothing makes me laugh harder than a good transgressive joke.

Humor is often about dissolving dogma, acting as a safety valve for our collective id. The darker beats, close to the bone have the juiciest flavor, but good is as important as transgressive. Ali Katz leans on one at the expense of the other. That’s why it limps. There are jokes about fat people, blind cats, intellectual disabilities.

Gus the cat played by Rick Davay, swears on every line the way some Brits do, with the habitual fondness for the worstwear word, the one that gives Americans conniptions. I’m going to guess it starts with a se. The show is lazy and please with itself. The more it’s determined to shock, the more I check my watch. The episodes are fifteen minutes long, but feel much longer.

Wow, this is brutal. Allie Katz August seventh, The Hollywood Reporter caught up with John Oliver. They reminded John he and his staff have already won thirty two Emmys for Last Week Tonight, and they’re nominated for another three this year. That’s about the point where Oprah stop submitting herself for rewards. Do you think HBO would go for that if you wanted to pull a similar move, John Oliver said, If the bar is Oprah, let’s all agree, I’m a long way under that bar.

The next person who pulls the Oprah move had better be Gail King. Emmy’s have been very important HBO to the extent they’ve built to some level of golden armor over the years. It’d probably be dangerous to say we don’t need this. You always want to be exactly as much trouble as you are worth, So the more you’re worth to them, the more trouble you can cause. John Oliver, have you spoken to Stephen Colbert?

John said, I saw him after his last show, after he managed to get at that entire building through that experience, which was an amazing thing to watch. I haven’t physically seen him, but our group chat is still active. The Hollow Reporter talked about the camaraderie amongst the gang. John said, it’s probably helpful that the stakes of the Late Night Wars have become so low. It’s crazy to act like it’s the Cold War.

Also, we have so much in common in terms of the Peculiarities of the Job. Season three of Conan O’Brien Must Go will be on HBO Max Friday, August twenty, first four episode season. If you want to go see Saturday Night Live, the ticket lottery for season fifty two is open late night or tells Us. Viewers can enter for a chance to score two free tickets to either address rehearsal or a live show. Lottery winners chosen at random, can’t pick a specific date.

What do you do? You send your ticket request to SNL tickets at NBCUNI dot com. SNL tickets at nbcuni dot com. Submissions must include your full name, email address, and an explanation of why you want to be part of the studio audience. The answer is I’m young, in my early twenties and good looking.

That’s the answer. If you write in, hey, I’m almost fifty seven and I do a podcast in my basement, You’re not gonna be picked. Do you watch the show? Do you see guys like me in the audience? No?

I had my time when my time Billy Crystal was on the show. So if you’re young and good looking, SNL tickets at NBCUNI dot com and let’s not kid ourselves otherwise. The lottery runs through eleven to fifty nine pm Eastern Time, August thirty first, twenty twenty six. The worst person who ever lived Jay Leno. He’s going to be honored at the upcoming Burbank International Film Festival with the BIFFS Vanguard Award.

You want to celebrate Jay Leno, head on over to the Marriott Burbank this Saturday. The Mayor of Burbank will issue his special proclamation recognizing Jay Leno’s impact on the city and declaring the Day Jay Leno Day. Jay will then participate in an hour long career retrospective conversation and will be presented with the award. Ted Lasso is back today. Season four minor spoilers ahead, including several characters that are not back.

They include Phil Dunster’s Jamie Tart, Nickolhammet’s coach, Nate Christo Fernandez, Danny Rojas and James Lances, Trent Krim, and several other of the players that all because of the new plot. You may recall. At the end of season three, Ted Lasso left his position to return home to his family in the United States. Well, now he’s back. Ted Lasso begins coaching the Lady Greyhounds, a second division women’s soccer team, in season four.

Tanya Reynolds plays Ted’s new assistant coach, Alice Chilton. Grant Feeley joins the cast as Ted Lasso’s son Henry, taking over for Gus Turner, who played the role in the first three seasons. Back for season four are the characters Rebecca Leslie, Roy Kent, coach Beard, and Keeley Jones. Sidegas explained why women’s soccer. He told he News me getting to be around women’s sports, especially the WNBA, my sisters and I my kids, going to a lot of these games, having season tickets, just getting to watch these kick ass women coming off of three three pointers in a row, and just seeing the humanity and camaraderie amongst them.

And I grew up in a house full of women, so I’ve seen that in a variety of stages of my life, and it’s something I’ve always been a big fan of and appreciated. Tanya Reynolds plays the new coach. She explained the character to the Hollywood reporter. Sidegas told her soccer had been coach Alice’s life, but after suffering from a recurring ACL injury, she segued to coaching, though she’s not a natural coach. Reynolds explains a lot of the series arc for Aliss about her finding her best kind of coach self and learning how to better communicate and be vulnerable with the team.

I was very interested in this idea of the character who’s very brittle and spiky on the outside but inside is actually quite wobbly. She requested a zoom with Sadeikis to make sure he was aware of her lack of athleticism. She said, I got really paranoid because the thought of me playing a coach is quite hilarious to anyone who knows me. I was like, listen, man, you’ve not met me. I’m not this character.

I can give it a go, but I’ve never kicked a ball in my life. And Jason was just very ted lasso about it, like, well, I think you are, she adds. For the returning cast, they know their characters inside out, but for us, we’re still figuring out who we are. I’m nervous on any job, but I was particularly nervous on this because it’s a show that everyone loves so much and you’re stepping into it. As this new character who at the beginning especially is not particularly liable.

I just really felt the pressure of it season four of ted Lasso, and I wish I were more excited about it. Jordan Klepper and Ronnie Ching jumped on YouTube to talk about the thirtieth anniversary of The Daily Show. Where’s John? Where’s Jon Stewart? I get that he’s off, but like the thirtieth anniversary of The Daily Show has been predictable for thirty years?

Worse John, This is just weird to me. I do this for a living. It’s weird. Klepper said, thirty fi years of this? Can you believe it?

Of this kind of banter? Chang said, I feel like this show has outlasted America. We’ve outlasted quite a few things. They got a little more serious. Chang said, We’re also a show that’s like a current affairs show, you know, political satire.

So I feel there’s always a place for a political satire. Klepper agreed, saying satire is part of every cultural moment and movement. Chang added, I always felt that if America couldn’t do a daily political satire show, nobody can do it. You know what, I mean like, if this country that is the most freedom of speech, the most money entertainment, the most comedy infrastructure, nurturing writers and comedians, and we have the craziest politics. If those four things don’t combine to form a daily political satire show, if this isn’t a country that can do it, then no one could do it.

I think a lot of Americans don’t understand that this show is able to exist because of strong freedom of speech protections that most other countries don’t have. Out on Netflix today, it’s Mo Gilligan’s Big Chicken. I’ve told you about this before. If you’re of a certain age, remember Supersize Me. Remember that was really good guy went to McDonald’s every day Guy, Morgan Spurlock.

Anyway, On Netflix today, it’s Big Chicken, a Fast Food Conspiracy. Big Chicken a fast Food Conspiracy follows British comedian Mo Gilligan as he turns his love of fried chicken into a personal investigation. He eats chicken three times a day for twenty eight straight days while examining the industry built around it. So again, it’s like supersize me, but chicken, Netflix, says a self proclaimed lover of the food Mo puts his body to the test in a bold experiment by eating fried chicken three times a day for twenty eight days straight. Over the course of the month, he embarks on an eye opening journey from South London to the United States to reveal the historical origins of fried chicken and the social, economic, and industrial forces driving our mass consumption of it.

I’m going to watch this from fast food chains to large scale farming, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You’ll watch. Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt have worked out how they’re going to co parent. They put out a statement. Page six has the statement david sent and hew had said, we are cooperatively co parenting our daughter, whose well being remains our top priority, and we are fully committed to working together to give her love from both of us.

Davidson and Hewitt began dating in March twenty twenty five. They split up five months after welcoming their daughter, Scotty. Scotty is named after Pete Davidson’s father, Scott Matthew Davidson, the New York City firefighter who died responding to the terrorist attacks on nine to eleven Michael Jay is filming a new stand up special at First Avenue in Minneapolis August twenty eighth and twenty nine. Tapings will be for a quote televised special where it will air, When it will be released. No one knows.

Well, someone knows, but I don’t and you don’t, Judd Apatow said. Nikki Glaser is working on a screenplay right now. Obviously she’s a ridiculously talented and fascinating person. And I think it’s clear to everybody that we would love a Nicky Glazer film. I know, as someone hosting a podcast in the basement, we would love a Nikki Glaser film.

Oh yes, and all the press that comes with it, Please make several of them. Hopefully we’re getting close to a draft and something that can happen next year. It’s years and years of conversations that lead to this type of work. But I’ve known her a long time and this is something we’re very excited about. I mean, how could a Nikki Glaser movie not be good?

Right? Maddy Kelly tells Yahoo Canada. Yes, the comedy space has been male dominated, we all know that, and she says it’s gotten a lot worse. She told the Yahoo Canada. I’ve just seen ebbs and flows for how many women are in the scene, how many women are getting rewarded for being comedians.

And I think people think women get things earlier because there’s such an appetite for girls to do comedy and audiences like it so much and diversity mandates. When you really think about it, if you actually analyze the list, there’s not that many women. I’m the only woman on a huge percentage of the shows I do every week, and a lot of girls don’t want to hang out with eight guys that want to have sex with them. You have to have a really strong sense of what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, and a lot of people don’t have that. When you start an art form, obviously there are big obstacles, and I personally think they get better when we really pay attention to them.

I mean the fact that no one could post something online without literally igniting a war in the comments whether women are funny or not. It’s exhausting. People over in the UK are upset that the BBC has canceled Live at the Apollo. One of the people mad is comedian Mark Watson. Live at the Apollo helped launch the career of several major British comedians, including Michael McIntire, John Bishop, Katherine Ryan and Mo Gilligan.

The Chicken Guy. Live at the Apollo started airing in September of two thousand and four. One of the early comedians on that show was Mark Watson, who appeared on the show in twenty eleven. He said, if money’s the issue, it would be very easy to make a very good low fi stand up show for absolute peanuts. It’s been done before, but people will be pitching that in vain until twenty seventy eight stand up comedian Terry Christian, it’s old, Good Morning Britain.

I think the big tragedy is Live at the Apollo because it’s for young comedians and for them to be introduced to the general public. The good news is there’s one more season in the can, so the show’s not over quite yet. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, sometimes you just gotta hand it to somebody. Hello. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Congratulations to Jim Gaffigan.

His whiskey brand Father Time Bourbon, the one I made fun of, has won best New Bourbon at the twenty twenty six San Francisco World Spirits Competition, with the Caboose Empty Nestor Strength. The cast Strength Kentucky Straight Bourbon also received a double gold medal and an impressive ninety seven point score on the Father Time website. Jim Gaffigan said, I’m obviously not a bourbon expert. Oh, Jim, I disagree. You are an award winning bourbon maker.

I salute you, sir. I fall on my sword. I made fun of you. You are the man. Jim Gaffigan said, I’m obviously not a bourbon expert, but I did do my research and I know what I like.

I handpicked the bourbon and personally signed every bottle of Father Time. And no, this isn’t some big spirit company behind this adventure. It’s just me and a buddy from college. Well, congrats to Jim and the buddy. The Caboose is a Kentucky Strait Bourbon whiskey source from an undisclosed distillery and made from a mash bill of sixty three percent corn, thirty percent rye, and seven percent malted barley.

It’s sold to two proof points. The precious batch clocks in at ninety two point four proof, while the award winning Empty Nester Strength is an uncut one hundred and twenty one. The suggested retail price for Empty Nestor Strength is two hundred dollars. Congratulations again, Jim Gaffigan, CBS will LERR a special two hour presentation of Comics Unleashed. That’s the Byron Allen thing.

It is celebrating that shows twentieth anniversary and you’re like, what, John, That’s only been on since May. Oh no, this has been around in like syndication and Late Late Night for twenty years. Byron Allen’s a billionaire. Don’t make fun of him either. The primetime special air Tuesday, September twenty ninth.

The program will offer clips of Byron Allen’s monologues interview using comedic panels from the past two decades. Guests will be announced at a later date, said CBS. Comics Unleash debuted in first run syndication on local TV stations in two thousand and six. The show produced more than two hundred thirty episodes before taking quote an extended production hiatus in twenty sixteen, during which repeats aired. Then in twenty twenty four, when Taylor Thomlinson walked away from After Midnight, CBS was like, yeah, let’s throw this on, so they started making more and then CBS was like, do we even need Stephen Colbert.

The answer apparently no. The show has been attracting more than eight hundred thousand viewers over the age of two and in the eighteen of forty nine to eighty three thousand. The other Byron Allen show, the one that’s on at twelve thirty now, is called Funny You Should Ask, and that is returning to production on August eleventh. New episodes will start showing up on CBS at twelve thirty five am September twenty First hosted by John Kelly, Funny You Should Ask has produced four hundred and fifty episodes across nine seasons and is going to tape its landmark five hundredth episode this winter. If you haven’t seen the show and I know You Haven’t.

The show pits two contestants against each other as a panel of six comics cracked jokes and offer answers to trivia questions. Contestants must then decide whether those answers are correct or merely funny. Isn’t that just the Hollywood Squares minus Tic tac Toe? Yes. After three rounds, the contestants with the most money advances to an end game for a larger cash prize.

Some of the people that have appeared on this thing Tiffany Hattis, Sean Lovitz, Jamie Kennedy, Cheryl Underwood, Adam Carolla, Howie Mandel, Whitney Cummings, Carolyn Ray, Natasha Lazeiro, Jeff Ross, Tommy Davidson, Jimmy Walker, and Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias. Byron Allen said in a statement, Funny You Should Ask is a comedy game show with a simple premise. For every question, there’s a funny answer. Congratulations to Seth Myers. His day drinking segment will be presented on Peacock as its own series.

Today is Johnny Mac is wrong about everybody and everything day. What happens next? We’re going to give a life time comedy Award, Adam Sandler and Say Marceller R and Eds is funny. This is an awful episode. You’ll find day Drinking with Seth Myers on Peacock Now.

As at the time of this recording, the collection includes all but one of the show’s seventeen installments. The mystery holdout episode is Seth Myers. In twenty twenty two with post Malone, I saw on the Spotify comment somebody got mad at me that I often take shots at Seth Myers make twelve thirty great again? And as I wrote, look, there’s a home for Seth and maybe it’s Peacock, But I want to make twelve thirty great again. And I need somebody willing to throw watermelons off a tower, maybe have a bear masterbait.

And I keep coming back to Chris Fleming. Wouldn’t Chris Fleming be a wonderful host of Late Night with Chris Fleming twelve thirty seven, whatever it is on NBC, Wouldn’t that be great?

And then like Seth Myers could be on like Peacock or something.

I think that would be awesome. Continuing today’s theme of Johnny Mac is wrong about everything, Jimmy Fallon continues to trail Jimmy Kimmel’s summer guest host and even lost some ground. Jimmy Kimmel Live Minus Jimmy Kimmel averaged one poin five seven four million viewers the week Coleman Domingo hosted. That same week, Fallon did one point four to two million In the eighteen to forty nine s Kimmel Minus Kimmel two hundred and three thousand adults. Jimmy Fallon won sixty eight at twelve thirty nine hundred and twenty four thousand people were watching Seth Myers Flat from the previous week eighteen to forty nine to ninety seven thousand people.

Byron Allen Show Keeps Doing Byron Allen Things. The final week of Show after Soccer starring James Corden, properly titled FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon Rolls Off the Tongue drew seven hundred and seventy six thousand total viewers, up fifty three percent, adults eighteen to forty nine one hundred and fifty seven thousand up thirty nine percent. The Daily Show is taking August off. I guess I can’t blame them.

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Meanwhile, over at Comedy Central, they’ve announced a new series of Comedy C…

Interesting that it’s going to YouTube and not actually Comedy Central. Welcome to the future, John. We are told that Comedy Central Stand Up Selects will mix newer and established talent. The newer and established talent include Adam Ray, Daniella, in Nes, Calvo, Fume Abbe, Ian Edwards, Jay Jorden, Jeremiah Watkins, Jesse Jitski Johnson, Joey Sarone, Catherine Blandford, Leslie Low, Mendal, Ryan Goodcase, Sammy Maury, and Skyler Higley. Kevin Hart was hanging out with his golfing pal Lebron James, who is now a Philadelphia seventy six er.

There’s a video of them playing golf together. There were a lot of naughty words, so I can’t play it for you, but Kevin Hart started using a lot of Philly lingo to keep Lebron updated on how his new fans talk. Bron said to Kevin Art, you back on your Philly lingo, young bull. So I am frustrated. If you work with me long enough, I will roll out of bed and have an idea and like I have no patience, I’m like, let’s do it now.

So on Sunday I was hanging out on the deck poolside and I was like, I should do a YouTube live and then I was like, yeah, the family’s around, they’ll just distract me. I’ll do it Monday. So Monday one o’clock I went live on YouTube. And if you caught it, thank you. And if you didn’t catch it, you’re not gonna catch it.

And here’s why I’m frustrated. You know, I’m a newbie. I don’t know what I’m doing. And the audio of the live stream cut off after four minutes. I did like fifteen minutes and a cut off after four.

It was just me talking about stuff, including the death of my friend Vinnie Passtoor. Hold On, my wife wants to know if I want Chinese food. The answer is, of course yes, Do you want to order with me? We could do this. She’s getting Panda Express, hm hot and orange chicken.

Should I get that? There’s like a black in chicken? Oh update required, Come on, Panda express. I just want to order. Let’s say, how good my internet is?

I it loaded super fast. The fiosky came by after the Storm’s boy he hooked it up. My internet is quick. Now I’m going to get a bowl. It’s this black pepper chicken.

That’s what I really like her. I don’t get that. What kind of rice should I get? So? Good?

Fried rice or white rice? I do? Is some fried rice? Why not? That’s not going to be good for the salt anyway.

So I did this fifteen minute show and I only have the four minutes of the audio. I don’t know what happens, so I’m very frustrated. I might try that again on today Tuesday, assuming you’re listening Tuesday. I’ll see if my wife is around and how quiet the house is or not. But I did enjoy doing I want to try it out anyway.

I was talking about Vinnie Passtdoor and a few minutes of the audio did survive. So let me just drop that in here and then I’ll pick it up. But I thought I would start today talking about Vinnie Passdoor because I was friends with Vinnie, worked with him on The Wise Guy Show. At Serious Exam. I just was reading the press release in March of two thousand and four, that show came out.

Wow, So that’s do the math John twenty two years ago already, which is kind of crazy. Vinnie was a good guy. I was happy to see all the press that he got where people were celebrating his career and his life and the fun guy that he was. So when I worked with him, it was the wise Guy Show on Serious ExM raw Dog Channel. This was in the height of Sopranos menia, and the idea for the show as designed by executive producer Steven van Zant, you know Stevie as Silvio on The Sopranos and also from the EA Street Band.

So he started the show to capture the feeling of the back room at the bottom bing. That was the idea there. So Vinnie was the star on the show. He played Big Pussy on The Sopranos, so he was the star of the show. And he was surrounded by some Italian American character actors, and they were quite characters.

They were actors, and some of them might have known somebody and some of them might have been somebody, but they were always great to me. I enjoyed working with them. So we would lock them in a room for three hours. At first it was on Saturday. I’ll come back to that.

And then we did the show on Wednesday nights and Vinnie was the ringleader and we would do segments like What’s your Beef, have some celebrity guests in, and it was just a really fun show to work with. I remember one night we had The Beach Boys on, and I’m a big Beach Boys fan. I was in the control room not quite pre sing more the adult supervision keep the train on the rails, and I was talking to Mike Love, the lead singer of the Beach Boys, and Mike says to me, are they real wise guys? And I just sometimes I just nail things and say things the right way. So I said to Mike, I don’t know, it’s kind of like being a surfer.

And Mike got what I was coming from. You know, the Beach Boys aren’t expert surfers. They’ve been to the beach, you know, so he appreciated that. We started the show it was on Saturdays, and I just as I looked up at the press release and saw that it was in two thousand and four. That reminded me of this house that I’m living in right now.

I was on my way to see it. I was with my wife and we were going to tour this house and I got summoned in by one of the bosses for a Wise Guys show meeting. This was before the show had launched, on a Saturday afternoon. I was like, are you kidding me? And I had I was still new enough it’s serious, and had been out of work before serious for long enough that I wasn’t able to tell said, go host yourself.

I’m not doing that. Later in my career, I one hundred percent would have been like, I’m not doing that. But in this case, it was early enough in the run and I needed the gig, so yeah, I said, okay, I’ll be in. And my wife wound up looking at the house and you know, said it to me, this is the house you want. It’s on a cul de sac and it as a pool.

And I took her word for it and took the leap of faith. And We’ve been on this house that I hadn’t seen and I’ve lived here for twenty something years. The Wise Guys show boy in the middle of Sopranos Mania, we took the show out to Las Vegas at one time, and you know again, I was just a guy along for the ride, literally along for the ride in the limousine with some of the stars of the Wise Guys Show, including Vinnie, including Steve Sharipa, who played Bobby Bakalan Sopranos, and I was one of the humans who got out of the limo. The crowds reacting to these people back in the middle of Sopranos media. It was insane.

And I remember that Las Vegas show, particularly because the guys were being a little ornery, as they would get sometimes, and I remember Shrippa. I kind of snapped at them, and Shrippa backed me up and was like, you tell him, Johnny.

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And then once Sharrippa told everybody to stay in line, they all stayed in li…

So that was nice. And I’m checking my notes here because I can’t remember, you know, I told the full story, and I can’t remember what you heard or not. All right, it looks like you didn’t hear the part about The guests on that particular episode were Robert Goulay if you’re old, you know who that is. If you’re younger’ like who I think mister Gulay may have had a beverage or two or five or eleven, or maybe not at all. And Debbie Gibson, who was beautiful anyway.

Vinny good guy, had a temper. You can google some stuff about Vinnie and it’ll show up in the news, the temper. Sometimes he’d be a little annoying to work with, but a good guy, and I stayed friends with him after The Wise Guy showanded, and after I left Sirious and for Reels last week, I was thinking of reaching out to him because I was talking to a friend about showbiz and how all these actors. When you work, you make money, but when you don’t work, you don’t make any money. And I was thinking about Steve Shriippa and Vinnie, and I almost reached out to Vinnie, and I did not.

Vinnie Passtoor was eighty years old and a good guy, and I’m glad that people on the internet are remembering him fondly. Let’s do one more and get out of here before the wife shows up with the Chinese food. There’s a trailer out for season two of Leanne. In season two, we follow Leanne Morgan’s character Lean as her world is turned upside down, and it takes place after the character’s husband of thirty three years unexpectedly leaves her for another woman. I wonder how her real life husband’s gonna feel about that.

Supported by her family, including her Ride or Die sister Carol, Leanne learns to embrace the chaos and find strength, laughter, and hope in the most unexpected places. Leanne tells people to see how Leanne navigates this new chapter of her life, handling a divorce, caring for each parents, dating at sixty. How old are her parents if she’s sixty and trying to make sense of it all the way we all do. I hope people find it both relatable and hilarious. Oh we learned.

The season opens with my elderly parents, Celia Weston and Blake Clark, moving into my house.

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And now how old are they?

If Leanne is playing a sixty year old character, how old are these parents? Celia Weston is seventy four, so your mom is fourteen years older. Than you, and alright, and Blake Clark held is Blake Clark. He’s eighty all right, so he was twenty when he had Leanne. All right, then that works a little bit.

John, It’s a sitcom on Netflix. Why are you worried about if it makes sense or not? I don’t know. Leanne says she can relate to this feeling. Her own parents are eighty three and eighty five.

She says, they’re still in their home, but they need more assistance with each passing year. There’s real tension that comes with everyone living under one roof. We have to find the humor in it to get through. See. I forget my parents were a little older when they had me.

I probably quote unquote should have been born in like nineteen sixty four, but I was not. I really digre. I mean, the live stream just made me sad. Like I said, maybe we’ll try again today. Maybe not.

That is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Twitter, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. True to his words, Gianmarco Soresi Sarasi posted the State of the Industry speech that he did with Jaye Jorden up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. I did share it in the Facebook group, and no, no, I didn’t share in the Facebook group. I went to share it in the Facebook group and then Dylan, one of the power users in the group, had beat me to the punch by two minutes, and I was like, ah, I mean, it doesn’t really matter.

The idea is for everybody to get to see the clip. Well played, Dylan. Anyway, let’s listen to the section about Tony Hinchcliff, shall we just you know, we. Got a lot of Tony jokes. We have more than he’s ever written.

Actually, I mean, but look, everyone’s seen kill Tony, but nobody has ever seen Tony kill. Tony Hinchecliff impressively had the worst Netflix special I’ve ever seen since the last Tony Hinchcliff special. Did he film the new one? In my treol because it had just four laughs.

Also, also, ladies, if you want to see Tony deliver a punch, of actually land…

Him, allegedly. Allegedly, yes, yes, yes, yeah. I don’t love the guy, but his show’s made a real difference because, unlike the industry, kill Tony provides disabled comedians with some kind of ramp. It’s true, It’s true. Kill Tony is giving a lot of opportunities to physically disabled comedians who want mentally disabled fans.

Get in famous from kill Tony. Sort of a monkey’s Paul gift, and a monkey’s Paul is what Tony Hinchlip calls black people’s hands. Look, you can’t deny it. Kill Tony is crushing. It’s because they do what agents and managers can’t do.

They get people seen. You guys can’t get Brian Reagan another comedy special, while kill Tony turns homeless people into household names. Now, I want to take a minute here to get like kind of this has been bothering me. I’m actually recording this on Thursday because I wanted to take the long weekend in a summer Friday. But I cannot stop staring at the list of comedians booked for September tenth at Madison Square Garden.

This is New York City still rising the nine to eleven benefit John Stewart behind this. No one can possibly question John Stewart when it comes to nine to eleven. And I don’t came here to shade anybody involved here, but I keep staring at this guest list and something about it is jumping out at me. I talked about this a little bit on Friday. I shared a post about it in the Facebook group.

And I’m really struggling with this guest list now. Just about me. I was born in New York City, raised in Queens. On nine to eleven, two thousand and one, I was thirty two years old. I was a WR radio in New York City in Manhattan fortieth Street and Broadway.

Don’t want to make it sound like I was across the street from the World Trade Center. However, we had a big bay window, and back in those days you could see all the way downtown to the Twin Towers. And I watched the things on fire with my own eyes, and I saw the first tower fall with mine own eyes. Looking out the window for the second tower, I was actually giving somebody a break to run the board for a few minutes so they could hit the bathroom because they had been on the board for four hours. So that is my perspective, that is my bias, that is my background.

I’m a New Yorker and I keep staring at this guest list and it just seems mathematically odd. I don’t think anybody’s up to something. It just seems odd. Here’s the guest list again as e’sn Sorry who last year played the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Bill Burr, who last year played the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Dave Chappelle, same note, Ronny Chieng, same note.

Pete Davidson, whose father was Scott was killed on nine to eleven, also played the Redd Comedy Festival. Comedians also announced too didn’t play the festival, Nikki Glaser, Josh Johnson, John Stewart, plus special guests. And I keep looking at the list and I’m like, huh, of all the comedians in the world, the first five played that comedy festival in Saudi Arabia last year. I don’t even know what I’m trying to say. I just keep staring at it and I’m like, it’s weird.

It’s just weird.

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And then I think about what this event might be.

Is Ronny Chieng supposed to go out and do ten minutes about the Saudis. But I guess he wouldn’t now because he got a nice paycheck last year, and maybe they have another festival and he wants to go back. I don’t know. Ask Ronny Chieng asked, Bill Burr, asked Dave Chappelle, Ask cause he’s in Sorry, is Dave Chappelle gonna pull a punch? I’m gonna ask the question now.

Dave can go up and do ten minutes about the Saudis. He did ten minutes about the Saudis in Saudi Arabia. I don’t know. I don’t even know what I’m trying to say here. I’m just saying I keep staring at as He’sn’m sorry, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Ronny Chieng, Pete Davidson.

They just happen to be the first five names by alphabetical order if you sort by their last name. But it’s just odd to me that of all the comedians in the world, it’s those five. I thought of some other people who you know, might be good at such a thing. John Mulaney, Well, I looked. John Mulaney has another gig already booked on September tenth, So that makes it Jim Gaffigan not here to Shaye.

Jim Gaffigan just he’s a comedian that came to mind. He seems to have an open date. He has a date in Notre Dame on September eleventh. Let’s see what Shane Gillis is up to. Not a New Yorker, but you know, a comedian of notes these days.

The only date on Shane’s calendar right now is August eighth. I look at the event they had five years ago, David Tell, David Tell seems like somebody you might want to have it, this thing this time. David Tell has a date in Bangor Main on August twenty second, and his website is showing me he’s free until September eighteenth, when he will be in Des Moines. Maybe David Tel comes, Maybe he will come. Maybe they just didn’t book him yet.

From the event five years ago, it was also Ronny Chieng, Pete Davidson, Jimmy Fallon, Colin Jost Laney, j Farrow, Colin Quinn, Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer likes media attention. Why is it Amy Schumer at this one? Amy Schumer doesn’t seem to have anything booked right now. This seems like an event. Amy Schumer come out again.

Lineup will evolve not saying anybody’s up to anything. All really saying is I’m staring at the names and those first five all played Riyadh and it’s just weird. It’s a weird coincidence. It’s a weird statistical coincidence, and I don’t know what it means, but it’s bothering me. And that’s all.

I just needed to get that out of my system today. You can come at in the Facebook group. We’re on Spotify. Tell me I’m making much ado about nothing. That’s why I started the Facebook thread.

I wanted to see if like, maybe I’m just crazy, but I’m just I’m being honest here. This list is bothering me. I’m not even sure why it’s bothering me, but it’s bothered me. Let’s move on, sort of. Patricia Heaton, you may know her from Everybody Loves Raymond, among other things, she has back to petition organized by families of nine to eleven victims.

The petition has recorded at least forty five thousand signatures as of last Wednesday. Patricia Heaton has joined families of the victims in calling for the Mayor of New York City, Zoroon Mamdani, not to attend the twenty fifth anniversary at Ground Zero. In fact, using the term band she reposted the change dot org petition link on her social media and wrote, keep it going, New Yorkers. If you’re not familiar with the mayor, he is the one hundred and twelfth mayor of New York City since twenty twenty six. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.

That makes him a controversial figure. He is New York City’s first Muslim mayor. He was born in Uganda and moved to New York City at seven years old. Like many political figures, he is quite polarizing. We’ll see how this all shakes out.

I apologize to you. I have to play a clip of Rosie O’Donnell singing. I know you’re like John, Please please don’t do that to us, but I must. It’s the only way to make this next segment of the show work. You have to sit through this.

Here is Rosy O’Donnell singing about the President of the United States. His approval raid is thirty. His diapers always dirty. I think the guy’s insane. Doaa Nanna, he ain’t no stable.

Jeney’s got a teeny tiny but he doesn’t have a brain. The reflecting pool is green. His reasons were ubscene. It’s him we all do blame. Dona Nanna.

He grew a magic ear stole billions in a year cause he doesn’t have a brain. I did clip it there. I couldn’t take any more. Podcaster Ben Shapiro commented on that video and said, Rosie O’Donnell, she was in Ireland, then she came back, which is unfortunate. Well, now she’s decided that we all need to hear her rewritings of the lyrics to the Wizard of Oz.

I had to hear it. That means you also had to hear it, and Johnny Max says the same thing. I needed you to hear it. John is the show gonna be any fun at all today? Yes?

It is. Bruce Hills. Remember that guy from Just for Laughs? He got the Just for Laughs Legacy Award. I think it was.

He used to run programming up there and they parted ways during the financial difficulties with the old regime. If I remember correctly, great guy anyway, the Just for Laughs in a New Regime made a video. Bruce Hill shared it on his LinkedIn page. I will share the first minute or so of it. Here’s Ronnie Ching.

Thank you to Just for Las for giving this fake award to Bruce Hills. Over the last few decades, Bruce Hills has helped discover generations of comedians at Just for Lass. He then uses that leverage to emotionally blackmail us, holding it over our heads, forcing us to perform at Just for Las for below market rate, no matter how inconvenient it is to all personal schedules. And with this thank you video, I consider my blood debt to you finally paid in full. Thank you, Bruce Hills.

Comedy Central announced a three episode podcast called thirty fing Years. The daily show remembers out today. The podcast brings together Jordan Clipper or Desiliitik Ronny Chieng mentioned for the third time on Today’s podcast, Michael Costa, Josh Johnson, Grace cool Andschmidt, and Troy Awana to visit favorite moments from the Late Night franchises first three decades. Did did they not get John to do anything? Did Trevor not want to do anything?

Did Creik kilbourd not want to do anything. I mean, we all love the B team, but there’s some big names missing here. According to Comedy Central, other group, we’ll look back at unforgettable moments, iconic field pieces, and legendary correspondence who helped define the show across its many eras did the thirtieth anniversary sneak up on you guys, because I’m sure if in the last seven years he had asked, say, Steve Carell or Stephen Colbert, Hey, we’re going to do this thing for the thirtieth, can you give me like a minute over zoom, I’m sure they would have said, yes, my guest, having done this for three decades plus, is somebody like last week was like, you know, we ought to do something for the thirtieth. I’bout a podcast. Okay, Now John’s on vacation.

He doesn’t want to do it. Is Trevor around, Well we can’t if Trevor we want have John? Yeah, a good point. So anybody have Carrel’s number, Well, we can’t have Correl if we don’t have John. And are we going to ask John Oliver?

And now we can’t ask John Oliver. He’s over with the HBO.

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All right, let’s just do the B team something like that happened.

We are feisty today, Johnny Mac. I know I’m in a good mood, but I’m telling you, I keep staring at that nine to eleven concert and it’s weird. It’s just weird. Richard Pryce may soon be getting a film now. We’ve heard various versions of a Richard Pryor biopic over the years.

Currently, Latigo Films and Inaugural Entertainment have acquired the rights to Something We Said Colin Richard Pryor a notorious word in Me, a Simon and Schuster memoir from Richard Pryor’s daughter, Elizabeth Struder Prior, we were told Something We Said chronicles Elizabeth’s decades long journey of coming to know her father, navigating the complicated terrain between a man who stood alone with the pinnacle of American comedy and the father he struggled to be. But the producers said, Richard Pryor courageously broke barriers that would forever change the comedy world and took it to new levels. We then saw that translated to the big screen, with one box office hit after another, establishing Prior as the biggest comedy star of the seventies and eighties. Hmm, should we pick that apart gut reaction seventies? Okay, sure, I won’t fight you.

Eighties. I don’t know. I’d have to look at his work. Shall we look at his work? Sure?

I’m on IMDb? Okay? Nineteen eighty Holy Moses, he played Pharaoh nineteen eighty In God We Trust nineteen eighty, Stir Crazy nineteen eighty one, Bust and Loose nineteen eighty two, Some Kind of Hero nineteen eighty two, The Toy Okay, The Toy nineteen eighty three, Superman three, which is awful. Thirteen episodes of The Prior’s Place TV Show in eighty four, Brewsters millions, not a beloved one, Jojo Dancy, Your Life is Calling in eighty six, Critical Condition in eighty seven, Moving in eighty eight, See No Evil Here, No Evil in eighty nine, Harlem Knights in eighty nine, Which might be a quick time to make a case for Eddie Murphy being the comedy star of the eighties. Look at his movies, putting Aside, Saturday Night Live and The Two Great Comedy Specials nineteen eighty two, forty eight Hours, nineteen eighty three, Trading Places eighty four, Best Defense eighty four, Beverly Hills Cop.

All Right, I already played forty eight hours. Trading Place is Beverly Hills Cop against Richard Pryor’s eighties work Golden Child Cop two Coming to America and Harlem Knights. I digress but again, Richard Pryor on any comedian listening, make either number one or number two comedy star of the seventies, sure eighties. I don’t know anyway. If they make a Richard Pryor movie, I will watch it.

What was the thing that starred Andrew Santino? John you host the show you’re supposed to tell us? It was the cable show about the comedians in the seventies. They had somebody play Richard Pryor on that he was really good. What was that called I’m Dying up Here?

Santino played Bill Hobbs. If you haven’t seen that show, find it somewhere. Let me see if I can find a few on just watch. I’m Dying up Here explores the la stand up scenes circa in nineteen seventy three. I thought it was great.

Johnny Mac, You’re all over the place today I know Today on Gorilla Comedy Plus Connor Burns Gallas.

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Also congratulations to Joanne McNally.

She’ll get a Netflix as special in twenty twenty seven her debut hour long special. It is called Pino File. The first time I read that as Pinto file. Who would be someone afraid of a Ford car in the seventies that might explode? That’s not what this is.

This is Pino File, and in it, Joanne McNally delivers stories on modern dating, covering everything from rejection and frenemies to situations and revenge fantasies. They’re going to tape it in town Hall, New York City as part of the New York Comedy Festival on Saturday, November seven. Her new show Penal File, comes following her previous tour, in which she played a record breaking seventy eight show run in Dublin. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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