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Caloroga Shark Media. So I’m prepping the show and I see a headline comedy superstar known for going topless, and I’m like, hey, I better click on this story and check it out. It was about Bert Kraser. Not what I was looking for at all. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
If you miss Sunday, it was a very robust episode. You want to go back and hear the Ovonne stuff if nothing else. Saturday Night Live, I don’t know. Man started okay and then fell off a cliff, no teeth at all, not sure. SNL met the moment open with a decent sketch Colin jo just getting some run.
He got to play Pete. Hegseth and did a nice job in character before getting interrupted by James Austin Johnson’s increasingly drifting Donald Trump impression. The Trump character then got met us saying SNL fifty one off to a rough start, seventeen new cast members and I got the update guy doing the open, which I thought was a good observation. I was thinking the same thing myself that Jost got the open Johnson, as Trump said, I thought Jose would be with his friends at the Rion Comedy Festival, Joe saying he didn’t get an offer. Then onto the credits, and I’m watching the credits, and the credits are high energy, and I’m looking at it and I’m like, this is a pretty strong cast because all the major players returned, and I’m like, Okay, here we go.
And then Bad Bunny came out and his monologue killed it. There’s obviously the language challenge there, but also his timing, so you know that takes the air out of the balloon. First sketch a Jeopardy sketch that just never flew. Other notes, I wrote down Marcelo Hernandez in a sketch about chat cheap pto, so like a a Hispanic version of chat cheapt Marcelo Hernandez. He does one thing.
He does it really well, but it’s the only thing he does, and he did it three different sketches. On Saturday. Come on, man, there was a K Pop what is a Demon Hunter sketch that spotlighted why Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman are special performers. I wrote down Jojah Cat lip syncing, like what are we doing? Just don’t have it?
Just the show’s called Saturday Night Live, not Saturday Night lip Sync. Kind of lame. Cam Patterson was on Update. He’s got tons of charisma, but he can’t perform. He was obviously reading the teleprompter and he’s not good at that, and he’s not good at delivering a material in that form.
What a really, really really unfair early prediction. Cam Patterson won and done. Write that one down. We’ll check back in May. Taylor Swift did not appear on a pretty weak Saturday Night Live.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, she’s the guest on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Tonight Late Night Wars heating back up. Fallon has been catching a lot of grief. He had done an interview recently with Newsweek talking about how he’s not going to make the show political. Jimmy said, our show’s never really been that political.
You know, we hit both sizukhle. We trying to make everybody laugh, and that’s really the way our show works. Our monologues are kind of the same we’ve been doing since Johnny Carson was doing The Tonight Show. So really, I just keep my head down and make sure the jokes are funny. I have great writers, clever smart writers, and we’re just trying to make the best show we possibly can and entertain everybody.
People got very upset at this. I’ll continue to defend Jimmy Fallen that he understands what the Tonight Show is and he executes the mission. I think he’s got more in his tool belt than he does as host of the Tonight Show, but I think he understands what hosting the Tonight Show is. On social media, film Bart said, Look, I’ve enjoyed taking pot shots at Fallon from the cheap seats, but his utter failure to meet this cultural moment comedically is pretty staggering. His public persona is a complete and total void chilling.
I wonder what film Bart thought of SNL Mister b Direct said, Fallon is an empty vessel puppeteered by the industry and mega corpse always has been, but it’s never been more obvious. Hilariously, he will get taken out by the Trump administration as quickly as the rest of Late Night at the ri Odd Comedy Festival tonight, Jimmy Carr and Louis C.K. If you miss Sunday’s episode, I recapped K with Bill Moore. I also listen tok on Theovaugh’s podcast. I couldn’t make it all the way to the end.
They got into conversation about their sexual addictions, and I just punched out on it. Matt Bronger on his Substack Rights. I’ll start by saying I wasn’t invited, and also thank god for that. If I was offered half of what the comics who went were offered, boy, it’d be tough to say no, but I think I would have. I’m not here to jump on my fellow comics, my brothers and sisters who stand alone on the stage and talk about their genitals for laughs.
However, I will say, what the eff are you doing? We can talk about the expanding relationships between our country and theirs, and now their people deserve to be entertained. And the end of the day, you gotta face the fact that A they have slaves three exclamation points. B. The guy who ministered the entertainment has an entire wing of a prison where they torture people have spoken out or tweeted about the Kingdom’s oppressions named after him.
See they allegedly funded slash did nine to eleven D. They killed journalists. Matt observes comics play Russian next and e Hey, Kevin Hart, the Kevin Hart of Saudi Arabia’s wife was taken and disappeared for driving a car. Matt Bronger then got into some other reactions from some other folks, but I’ll skip head to his reaction to Bill Burr’s take. Matt writes, this one’s stung because ye s dude, you’re the guy, maybe the closest big performer we have to a modern George Carlin, the zigger in a field of zaggers.
Remember when Louis C.K. Was the new George Carlan. Nobody says that anymore. That was the thing that was said. Matt wraps up with I’m still a fan of all these guys in most of the comics who played the festival, But to me, the check wasn’t worth the handshake and applies thanks for reading for Pajiba.
Dustin Rolls rights that defense is not gonna fly Bill Burr. Dustin says, here’s the problem with Burr’s defense. The problem was never the Saudi people. The problem with the Iranian regime is not the Iranian people. The problem with the net In Yahoo government is not the Israelis, and The problem with America is not the people who didn’t vote for this authoritarian regime.
The problem is the Saudi government, and it’s the Saudi government the back to truck full of money to Burr’s house. Burn might argue that he was simply bringing comedy to people who deserve to laugh, and on the surface that sounds noble, but that’s not what’s happening here. Bill Burr is giving the Saudi government exactly what it wanted, a positive portrait of Saudi Arabia. Yes, the Saudi people who are know different than the rest of us. They eat at Chilis too, But Saudi journalists are getting killed by their government, which is David Cross noted, has slaves.
The Saudi people are victims of the very government that paid Bird to go home and tell the rest of the world that Saudi Arabia is a great place with great people, and that performing for the Saudi royals was one of the three best experiences of his life. So, no Bert, that’s not gonna fly. And somehow I’ve lost even more respect for him because he apparently doesn’t even realize he’s become a tool for the Saudi royal family. Gabe Iglesias performed on Thursday night at the Riodd Comedy Festival. He shared a video of himself signing a poster showing the stack lineup.
He captured it, thank you to everyone it came out to my event last night in Riod. I will be posting more highlight videos and pictures soon. Unity through laughter. The New York Times wrote, the festival has been held at Boulevard City, a sprawling entertainment complex with a quarter designed to resemble Times Square. Young Saudi has gathered in gender mixed spaces beneath the glare of giant screens, rather than the watchful gaze of the once feared religious police, whose powers were stripped down by the Crown Prince as part of his reform drive.
Still, societal t insformation has its limits. Political humor was warmly received. The sex jokes not so much. Sipha Sounds started a gag about men air dropping photos of their genitals. Uncomfortable laughter rippled through the arena.
Seipha Sounds said, Oh, sex jokes don’t land, and Riod got it in the nation. Ben Schwartz writes the list of massive ironic cell phones, these comics just racked up and riot is impressive. Burr himself once went off on Beyonce as a woman who embraces feminism yet flew to Libyate to perform for Momar O Gaddafi. Shabelle has criticized Israel and Gaza, but just took money from a country that backed to civil war and Yemen that caused the femine debts of at least eighty five thousand children and killed hundreds of thousand more Yemeni civilians. In twenty fourteen, Annibal Burst went after Bill Cosby and said out loud what many knew but were afraid to say about Bill Cosby.
Journalism was limited what it could say about Cosby because that his rules. Law enforcement was limited in what it could do because it is rules comedians don’t and Bursu’s takedown kickstarted Cosby’s ultimate downfall. The Riad Court period won’t mean much to the careers of most of these comics. No one’s going to lose a Hollywood deal for a movie or a show, and with Saudi money in Hollywood, something might come home to new deals. All this is distracting us from the big story of the week, which is Jim Gaffigan bending the knee to the bourbon industry.
Jim Gaffigan has sold out to Big Bourbon. Jim Gaffigan will do a live podcast recording at Pursuit Spirits on Whiskey Row. We’re told it’s a special live podcast experience at the brand new Bourbon Pursuit podcast studio and tasting room, and he’s doing that today at twelve thirty in the afternoon. The Golden Globes, which would be hosted by Nicky Glazer, has announced the twenty five podcast eligible four Golden Globes now quite notably here, stunningly to me here, I can’t explain this at all. Not on the list of twenty five, which I’ll read, not on the list.
Conan O’Brien, how is that possible? James Cridlin, who writes the pod News, pointed out that the twenty five podcasts is pretty close to the top twenty five podcasts on the charts. Nominated are fort eight Hours, Dak Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Candice Owens, Crime Junkie, Dateline, Amy Pohlar, Morbid, Mister Ballin, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Rotten Mango, Sean Ryan Smortless, stuff you should know. Ben Shapiro, Bill Simmons, The Daily, Rogan, Megan Kelly, Mel Robbins, Tucker Carlson, THEO, Vaughn n p R. Now, The Golden Globes is a showbiz show.
I’m stunned that Conan’s not on this list and just going to win, because don’t you want to put on a show like you’re gonna go ladies and gentlemen. Here’s crime junkie. Yay. I mean it’s popular, but that’s not showbiz. Ladies and gentlemen.
The winner. Best podcast goes to stuff you should know again, perfectly fine podcast, but yay, here’s the guys from The Daily yay. I mean they’re not gonna give it a Rogan. If you give it to somebody like Megan Kelly or Tucker Carlson, you’re making a statement. I don’t know who’s gonna get it here.
Do you just give it to I guess you just give it to Amy Pohlar, Right, do you just give it? Amy comes out, she smiles, everybody’s happy, she’s industry, she’s Golden Globes friendly because she’s hosted a thing. So yeah, just give it Amy Poehler and we’re done. If I wrote my notes down correctly. There’s a podcast called The Idiot Box with Alison Lips the topic, Jay Leno and the Late night Stuff, and I’m the guest.
I believe that is out today, So if you want to hear me talk even more, I’m the guest. We recorded that before Kimmelgate, if I recall, so some of it might be not quite timely, but it is a really good conversation for about an hour. John Stewart was asked on The Weekly Show why Trump hasn’t tried to cancel him the way Trump has tried to cancel Colbert, kim ol Seth and Felon. John Stewart said, there’s no question. It’s a function of relevance.
I don’t think we’re on the radar, you know. I think he’s right. It’s a cable show, and I don’t think the president watches that sort of TV other than Fox. He’s a network guy. He’s an old school He’s from the twentieth century, like me.
Makes sense. Beth Stelling spoke to Girl Talk HQ about her special, The Landlord Special, which you’ll find on v Pops. That said, I usually know amana something stand up wise when my mom says she wants to hear more for this special, I was dealing with a very noisy, combustible land lady who seemed hell bount in getting me to move so she could raise the rent. But for years I was more stubborn than I was exasperated. I’d call my mom immediately after many of the interactions.
On those calls, my mom was typically shocked and trying to advise me as best she could from afar, But at times it took a toll on my mental health to feel trapped in a place, especially during the pandemonium, I felt unwelcome and under surveillance. This story Heavy Special was born from severe frustration, but turning that in the stand up comedy for laughs is historically how I process and work through any bad, powerless, painful, or uncomfortable things I’ve experienced. Inspirations that says a renowned New York Times critic once referred to my voice as Bamfordian, a reference to Maria Bamford, who is one of the great stand ups of our time. I think any comic that is sharing themselves in a true and honest way is inspiring to me. I prefer to watch well wooden jokes and stories rooted inauthenticity.
I have an aversion of what I call word math. I also category as comics as not helping when they strive to shock audience members in the pursuit of challenge. I believe they’re hacky and often lack life experience and empathy. And that is your comedy news for today. We’re off to an interesting start this week.
Gaffigan’s got some bourbon stuff coming up. I got a bunch of stories that haven’t been able to get to. These episodes have been quite robust, and we’ll see what kind of strife this week brings. Appreciate you listening. Still a lot of new listeners hanging around discover the show during Kimmel Gate and Riodd so appreciate you back here in the morning see and then