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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, massive Bill Burr story again today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. But I do want to lead off with Mark Maron because this one kind of gut punched me. This from Mark Maren’s blog on Markmeron dot com, and we knew this was coming, but this, like I said, this was a gut punch.
Maren wrote, almost done, folks. I’m excited, but I’m also sorry to leave you people. I’ll save the week, be goodbye for next week, and stay strong this week. Well, actually, this Thursday show is all me talking about how I feel, and then Monday we are the final episode, so I’ll leave it at that. You can listen.
I don’t want to spoil it by writing everything I say, So Today’s show on WTF with Mark Maron is Mark solo, and then Monday is whatever the final episode is. Okay, Bill Bird did Conan O’Brien’s podcast. It’s not publicly available yet, but the private feed for subscribers is out, and both GIBA and The Hollywood Reporter have covered this. Now. If you’re a relatively new listener, I will sometimes do what I call a half ass impression I’m not trying to do an impression of someone, but I’ll sometimes change my normal speech pattern to try and mimic ish the way somebody else speaks.
I’m going to do that with Burr here because I don’t have the audio for you anyway, Conan was taping Conan O’Brien needs a friend, Bill Burr showed up. Pajeeba wrote of those who attended and reported on a Reddit thread, all were disappointed in Bill Burr’s self righteous rant. Based on their accounts, Burr repeated many of the talking points he’s already delivered on his own podcast Freedom, and you can hear those comments on Wednesday’s version of this very podcast. But Pajiba says the real disappointment from those who chimed in was Conan O’Brien himself, who didn’t push back. At least Jimmy Kimmel reminded his ease.
I’m sorry that the Saudi Royals are very bad people. We will get to that after the bur stuff, And at one point, Conan even compared what Burr did in Saudi Arabia to his own travel show. Conan O’Brien must go right, so the Hollywood Reporter pulled something that looks at least transcript esh from the Hard Reporter review, Bill Burr said, and I’ll clean it up that Burr doesn’t give an F what all these phony f and people are saying. I don’t really giving f Conan, and it affects my career. I’ve been lax enough of my life.
I’ll have f it sit home for a little bit. I’ll actually tell you lax is slightly Saturday in Saudi Arabia. I’ve been going through this BS the whole week. My agent never even call me. He’s been under his f and desk hearing me on the podcast saying what I said here that a good time and it was a positive thing.
So he thought that was the mindset that I was in through the week. One of my favorite things is the scumbag club owner texting my tour manager because he heard I was over there. He goes, bring back a burke in a sweatshirt and size oppression. That was his jokes. I wrote back to him, why don’t you concentrate in not ripping off comedians?
You f and piece of s And he never wrote back. Bird tells Conan that events like the Riodd Comedy festival have to happen in order to push progress forward. It was necessary. It felt right afterward a vibe with them and f they were funny, f and people. I don’t know what to tell you.
I had a good time. I love to do with the podcast. Man, I appreciate having me on, especially during all this BF. Your real friend, dude, Pagieba said. What was most disappointing was Conan acting as a yes man the whole time.
After realizing no one on that stage was going to try and have an honest conversation with Bill, we were hoping it would move on, but after a while didn’t seem like Bill want to talk about anything else, so we just left Pageeba says. Another part of the conversation, Bill Burst said that it wouldn’t be very different if he took money from the English or the London government since they have such a bloody past, or our own American government. So the episode’s out now. If you want to be a paid subscriber, it will be available for free on October fifteenth. Before we get to the easeas and sorry thing, I’ve been thinking about this.
Here’s what’s going to happen here, Everyone including me we’re all outraged this week, and you know what, Bill Burr’s going to announce, He’s playing the Garden. He’s going to sell out in two seconds. And Dave Chappelle’s going to sell out the Garden two seconds, and Louis C.K. Is going to sell out the Garden two seconds, and Tom Sigore is going to sell out the Garden in two seconds. These guys may have added one sentence to their obituary, depending on how long that obituary is.
Some comedians like Jessica Curson I think are going to get the forever eye roll. I don’t think Bill Burr is helping himself here, but I think somebody like Tom Sagora, somebody like Sebastian Maniscalco, I think they’re just gonna say, at long, just fine, and no one’s gonna care be not so canceled disease and sorry. You may recall he was canceled a few years ago. Well he’s back and he was on with Jimmy Kimmel who asked him about the Riod Comedy Festival. I watched these clips.
Zesu’s body language is very nervous. He’s looking down in a way a lot. I’m not sure his body believes the words that his mind is saying. I want to ask you about this comedy festival over in Saudi Arabia that you were part of. Was that this weekend of that went on?
It’s going on now and oh it’s still going on, right, I think so. I’m not sure, but this. Is obviously this is something that’s become a big part of the news because people, a lot of comedians especially, are very upset because this is the people who paid the comedians to come to the This are not good people. They are It’s a pretty brutal regime. They’ve done a lot of horrible, horrible things, and so people are questioning why you would go over there and take their money to perform in front of these people.
And I’m just curious because you were there, you made this decision. I’m curious as to why you decided to do that. Yeah. No, I’m glad you asked, because you know, it’s something I put a lot of thought into. And you know, I have an aunt that lived there for a while and I talked to her about this, and she said, you know, there’s people over there that don’t agree with the stuff the government’s doing, and to ascribe like the worst behavior of the government onto those people.
It’s not fair, just like there’s people in America that don’t agree with the things that government right. Yeah, Kima wasn’t buying any of that. And follow it up, the government over there is arresting people for peaceful protes I mean, I know, yeah, we’re doing horrible things over here, but they murdered a journalist. I mean it’s like, you know, it’s these are not good people over there, so are the You did you deal with those people specifically? No, I was just there to do a show for the people.
And you know, I talked to my wife about this, you know, before I went, and she said, you know, whenever there’s repressive societies like this, they try to keep things out, whether it’s rock and roll music or you know, blue jeans, because it makes people curious about outside ideas, outside values. And this is a very young country. Half the countries under the age of twenty five, and things can really change. And to me, like a comedy festival felt like something that’s pushing things to be more open and to push a dialogue. And you kind of have to make a choice of whether you’re going to isolate or engage.
And for me, especially being me and looking the way I do and being from a Muslim background, it felt like something I should be a part of and I hope it pushes things in a posta direction. Kimmeill was a very good follow up here. Did you have these concerns when you performed in India many years ago? Yeah, I mean there’s stuff there that you know, I don’t feel great about, and and I did it, and you know, I’m Indian and it was an important experience for me. And you know, comedy in India is really thriving, and people are are talking about things that are happening there and some of them are even you know, go to jail and things.
But for this re odd thing, you know, it was something I really thought about, and even before I went, I said, you know, I’m going to do this and and I hope it’s positive. And you know, if I’m going to do this, I share the concerns that people have brought up and it’s all valid. And I said to myself and my team, I said, if we do this, part of the fee should go to support causes that support uh, you know, free press and human rights and. Which causes specifically, or you think I think I read about Reporters without Borders, which I think, and and Human Rights Watch as well, and you know it’s a complicated issue, but you know, I felt like it was it was something that’s pushing things in the right I hope.
And then one more clip from the Not So Cancel Disease.
Sorry again, his body language is very defensive in this segment. You felt that it was that in the long term, this will be a positive people seeing comedy and American comedy and Freeze. Yeah. I mean, so many people were there talking about stuff, and I hope people see that and they go, wow, this was really great and I want more of this, not just in comedy but in everything, to push things to be more open and to have the ability to say what we want and to have dissent and all this stuff, and hopefully it’s a step in that direction. Nice job, Jimmy Kimmel.
Tom Sagora posted last night we went to the only comedy club in Riot and had an amazing time. The comics were so warm and welcoming and the crowd was incredible. We did the exact same sets we were doing the States, and they were acted just like a crowd at home would well minus the bit on pickleball. So glad we went, and tonight we’ll do the arena. Lots of love to all the comics we met and to the crowd that came out.
The comments on Segora’s a social media post did not go so well, but again, he’ll sell out the garden to seconds at the Redd Comedy Festival tonight. Andrew Schultz. We’re told Andrew Schultz always comes close to the line with his jokes. He’s quick witted, fearless, and has made a name for himself on social media. Let’s find out how fearless you are, Andrew, go for it.
A Daria go for It. British magician Ben Hort brings sleek showmanship and mind bending allusions to the Reod Comedy Festival. You may know him from Britain’s Got Talent. Hannibal Buris brings his dry wit and deceptively laid back delivery to the Read Comedy Festival, promising a set that blends sharp observational beats with off kilter asides. I love the copy here, like whoever wrote this the choices of words.
I don’t know if this is accidental A subconscious somebody screaming for help. I’ve been getting these from factmagazines, dot com, and I don’t know where they pulled them from. Here’s what I’m zerving in on. In the Hannibal Buris description, we’re told he slides from observed life hacks to pop culture de tours with effortless timing. And I’ve noticed all these description will have words like hacks or sharpened.
I don’t know there’s some subtle commentary there. Sebastian Manascalco, we’re told he’s influenced by greats like George Carlin and Jerry Seinfeld. That’s it. No description of his comedy. I love it all.
This Ria talk is distracting us from what should be the major comedy topic this week, which is, of course, Jim Gaffigan’s Bourbon set. Tonight is the super cool after party. I think tickets are still available if you want to go. You can’t just go to the after party. You must have attended Jim’s bourbon comedy show.
They remind us, don’t forget to show your ticket, and they hope to see you there. Hashtag Louisville, hashtag Bourbon, hashtag Kentucky hashtag father Time hashtag October and there’s big bourbon news. Jim Gaffigan has partnered with Buzzard’s Roost Distillery on a one of a kind, single barrel bourbon selection. That’s right, a special release six year old whiskey featuring a mash bill of seventy five percent corn, twenty one percent rye and four percent malted barley. Buzzards Rus will be pouring samples at the Really Cool after party tonight, which is at the Last Refuge six hunderd East Market Street, you know the place, and bottles will be available exclusively at Buzzard’s Roost Distillery and Tasting Room on six twenty four West Main.
The retail price per bottle, which features a commemorative Jim Gaffigan label, is one hundred and twenty five dollars. Late Nighter says if you’ve seen headlines about Jimmy Kimmel losing half its audience, it hasn’t. Are the numbers down from when he came right back, of course they are, but Late Nighter says if you compare Kimmel’s numbers last week to two weeks earlier, he was actually up forty five percent in total viewers and fifty two percent among younger adults. He won the eleven thirty five slot for the second consecutive week. We’ll see if he wins this week.
Jimmy Fallon had on Taylor Swift. Late Nighter says, yes, Greg Guttfeld still drew more total viewers, but they remind us at airs at ten eastern seven Pacific, and maybe, perhaps possibly you could convince me ten o’clock is a late night show, even though it’s clearly not seven o’clock Pacific definitely is not. But Late Nighter says Kim Will got the most eighteen to forty nine’s, even including Gutfield. All right, Jimmy Fallon, he’s a survivor. He’s working on a game show adaptation of Wordle for NBC.
Savannah Guthrie would host the show. Fallon would get some producer credit for some reason. Who knows. I don’t know how this all works. Somebody’s got a good agent, Taylor Tomlinson, who may have accidentally killed off the Late Show.
I’ve explained this before. I’ll go quick here. So Taylor Thompson had been renewed to twelve thirty and then she decides to walk away, so they decide to get rid of twelve thirty. Then later on they decided to get rid of eleven thirty, saying, oh that was always the plan.
Now here’s my question.
Why did your new twelve thirty were You’re not gonna have an eleven thirty show? Were you going to move Taylor up to eleven thirty? Perhaps? Possibly? Maybe?
My theory is that once Taylor went you know what, nah, that made people go do we even need twelve thirty? And the answer was no?
And then somebody went do we even need eleven thirty?
And apparently the answer was no. I’m not blaming Taylor Thomlinson. I just think she’s accidentally created a bitterfly effect. She told the Cap Times. I’m sure anyone who looks at my schedule right now must be a little concerned for me.
She’s in Madison tonight and tomorrow and says I’ve been on the road every single weekend. That’s what you got to do to get an hour ready. Cap Sadie was curious if she has any rituals on the road. Taylor Tomlinson said, I don’t know if you’d even called a routine. I have stuff I do in every city.
I need to find a good Macha latte somewhere, and then I feel strongly about breakfast. Then I need to go find a bookstore, a victed shop, we’re both preferably, and I need to walk a lot during the day.
And now we’re doing crowd confessions at the end of show, so we’re going thro…
I think that’s also helped get my head in it and get me in a very I’m connected to this audience space. They asked her comedians have been in the news lately, Kimmel’s suspension, Colbert’s show. What do you think is missing from those conversations? Taylors said, I think probably the biggest issue is people tuning out because they’re so overwhelmed with horrific news every day, which I completely understand. I think it’s all pretty clear and blatant at this point.
I get it, but I’m much more scared of checking out, putting my head in the sand, and being overwhelmed. What does she miss about after midnight? She says, I miss the people working with comedians every day and miss watching people be so funny many different ways. The thing I won’t miss is the schedule. I was so disappointed they didn’t replace me as the host because I was like, man, somebody just wanted to stay in LA and not be on the road do local spots.
A comedy could still do that, but if it was your whole job. It was a dream schedule. But I was flying out every Thursday after doing two shows Wednesday, and my voice was always gone. I kept going to an E and C was like, you need to do vocal rest, and I was like, I literally can’t. And that is your comedy news for today.
Hopefully things will calm down with Riod, although my spidey sense is that Conan’s gonna get some blow back now. We will see and we’ll catch up again tomorrow. Thank you for listening. Bye,