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Caalarogashock media, buckle the bleep up. Yesterday I gave you a show with no politics. Today politics my friends, and Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ben Stiller said, we live in a world we’re taking chances with comedy is more challenging. You’re seeing that front and center in our country.
But I think it’s important that comedians keep doing what they’re doing, speaking truth to power and being free to say what they want. That’s the most important thing. Steeler said. I’ve had people reach out to me and say you should edit Donald Trump out of Zoolander. But at the end of the day, that was a time that existed, and that happened Andrew Schultz was on Joe Rogan’s show.
Now the media is just catching up to this. This has been out for a while. I haven’t listened to it yet because when I listened to Schultz’s own podcast last week, I was like this, I can’t with this show. So I was not any mood at all to listen to Schultz and Rogan. Let me see when that one came out October eighteenth.
Yeah, so it’s been out for a while. But anyway, the media started to pick up on it, correct wrote, There’s no way I can in good faith recommend to you. The sprawling three and a half hour long conversation between Andrew Schultz and Joe Rogan, it was by and large not very enlightening, as most conversations that run that long tend to be, But at nearly the three hour mark, the duo finally got to talking about something significant, their decision to both interview Donald Trump. Schultz told Rogan, I do think in general, like us just having politicians on and even going to the rally, what’s happened is that we’ve politicized ourselves and brought ourselves into the game of politics, which is the ugliest game. Schultz said.
It’s the ugliest game because it’s that zero sum stuff that we were saying earlier. It’s just like people really believe it’s life or death. It’s really life or death. I don’t know if you follow the headlines, Chultz continued, Dude, I was pushing my daughter in a stroller, right, and the lady goes, hey, didn’t you have Trump on your podcast? And I was like, I already know what’s going on.
I’m like, yeah, yeah, he was on the podcast, and She’s like, well, I hope your daughter has a good life, and Scheltz was like, I’m like, b word, you live in Tribeca, you know what I mean? Like, what do you think is happening over here? The Canadians are upset. So Schultz told Joe Rogan that he found the concept of indigenous land acknowledgments funny. I don’t know if you’ve run into that, and you will find that at many theaters these days, especially if you’re at a college.
Scheltz said, I find it funny when governments do these things like enforced care, and anytime I’m performing in Canada and I’m in an indigenous area, they make me do a land acknowledgement. I remember the first time they told me. I was like, you want me to do? What? I remember telling it to the chief of the tribe, like brother.
That kind of seems like I’m bragging. I’m going up there and being like this used to be yours, but the boys came in and you all got the f out of here. You want me to remind everybody what happened before the comedy show. Brogan tagged it and said, yeah, we stole it, but it’s ours now. Sorry.
The thing is the people that go along with that are the same people that want no borders and think no one is illegal being anywhere, Like Christopher Columbus is the only immigrant they hate. There’s no borders, no illegal and yet these people shouldn’t have been here. Fox News picked up on the part of the conversation about Kamala Harris. Joe Rogan said she was on stage with Kara Swisher and Kara Swisher was kind of like ragging on her a little bit. She was like, you know, some people said that I was the most qualified person ever run for president.
Like who said that? And like who said that? Rogan points out, you’re literally running against a guy who was already president, So if you’re going based on your resume, you’re not more qualified than Biden. Biden was the vice president of the United States for eight years. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily taken off the air.
Well, people did not support fascism. I know you don’t. I know, when you’re watching Scrubs, you go upstairs and get the DVDs. You are definitely not just watching them on Hulu plus every night because you do not support fascism. You are one of the roughly three million Americans that canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions.
Yeah, a new report from the research firm Antenna says roughly three million Americans canceled Disney Plus in September. The previous three month average was one point two million people canceling. The Times points out another way to look at the data is four percent of the subscribers canceled in July, eight percent in September for Disney Plus. Over on the Hulu side, five percent in July and ten percent in September. None of this bothers Jullying Summers.
She will premiere her first hour comedy special What Specie Are You? That’ll be on Hulu November eight. Now, you won’t be able to see it because you’ve canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. You are one of the three million strong who do not support fascism. The Hulu publicists out there promoting fascism all across the country anyway.
Joll Yang Summers was named one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch, and this special sees her dissect what makes us different, what brings us together, drawing from her life as a Chinese American first generation immigrant. She tackles topics like cultural clashes, immigrant identity, and motherhood. I didn’t know this about her. She is an Asian Hall of Fame inductee who recently became the first Chinese comedian in headline in the Apollo Theater. Former Miss China also owns and operates the Hollywood Comedy and the Pasadena Comedy Clubs.
Margaret Show through a Rock in the direction of JK. Ralling over the weekend on TikTok, Margaret Show said, I hope that when you face metopause you have to take a lot of gender affirming care, as I do. And when you’re taking these hormones, they make your pubes go out so thick and hard. It’s like steel wool. And if anyone does something that a woman might enjoy, they get a face full of scars.
Feisty show today. All right, you think that’s ficy, Let’s get to Michelle Wolf. We’ll start with the easy part of the Michelle Wolf News. TV Insider asked her what was her reaction when she found out Stephen Colbert was getting canceled and then Jimmy Kimmel yanked off the air. Does Michelle Wolf support fascism.
Michelle said Late Night has been a tough landscape for a while now because nobody is watching TV like that anymore. A part of me is not surprised if the purse strings are a bit tighter or ratings aren’t as high as they used to be. I do think you can’t cancel someone because the government wants you to. It’s one thing to cancel show because the ratings aren’t good and the budget isn’t there. If someone from the government specifically says they don’t want them on TV anymore, I think that’s the time everybody, regardless of if you agree with them politically or not, should be like that’s unacceptable.
It’s a really scary place to be. That was one of the things I thought if Trump got elected, he’s not gonna let people make fun of him. At some point a presidency, he’s going to say you’re not allowed to make fun of me anymore. There’s a real quick downhill from there. They were curious if she got to do the White House Correspondence dinner again, what would happen.
She said, I would go even harder than I went. I thought my jokes were actually pretty team. I would definitely go harder at both the government and the media. I think a lot of it was talking about whatever articles I feel like. Now it’s at a point where could get really threatened by the government.
You hire a comedian to tell some roast jokes, you do exactly that, and I could put you in some political trouble Right now, it’s a pretty precarious position we find ourselves in. Now. She had done some sets. I’ve gotta play a bunch of clips here the premise, and you’ll hear these are from four different dates. I’m trying to figure out what this room is.
It’s clearly somewhere where she’s working out. The crowd is low energy, she’s low energy, and in the video she’s clearly working off a laptop. So this is a workout room. And what I’m about to play are some clips from four different weeks. These are jokes.
I’ll let her set it up. She was talking about the Riodd Comedy Festival and jokes she might have done there. I have done some editing for piacing, but I want to let you hear her thoughts as she’s going through these, and I’ll leave the pacing of the actual jokes intact. But some of the setup, I may have trimmed down a little bit.
All right, here’s week one.
So there’s this gonna be this comedy festival in Saudi Arabia. They asked me to do it, and I would to debate it over doing it, but I had to say no because it’s supposed to be like five days after I’m having a baby. So I had to say no. But now I keep thinking of all these jokes I would have told. If I had gone, I mean, I definitely would have been kushow beat and by that I mean murdered by the government.
Okay, so this is I would have started with, sorry, I’m late. I drove here. It’s nice to be in a place where women still have a leg up on gay men or I don’t know, whatever body part they’re cutting off. We have this phrase in America, you’re only a stones throw away, which means you’re close. I don’t think it means the same thing here.
I think it’s more like you’re only a stones throw away from learning that lesson.
And then a week later, I only thought of one Saudi.
Joke this week, but I think it’s pretty good. So this is the joke I would have used in the festival this week. This one, really I think I would have had to get airlifted out immediately. This festival is sponsored by the Saudi government, so of my set doesn’t go well, if I crash and burn, you could just call me flight ninety three. That’s really good.
Why are you groaning? Are you groaning because a bunch of people died? That’s fair. I gotta tell you. Twenty four years later, that flight ninety three joke, I’m still like, too soon.
As fun and as easy it is to poke at Saudi. Let’s not pretend America is perfect. Yeah, so maybe Saudi financed nine to eleven. What did America do in response attack a different country that has less oil and even less weapons of mass destruction? If Saudi was acting as the bank for nine to eleven?
We all know America thinks banks are too big to fail, but the Iraqi people are just the right size. My other joke for Saudi this week is they offered me a good amount of money to do the festival, but when I heard what they offered. Men, it was way more. And if you had seen my face when I found out, you would have wished we still had to cover our entire heads it’s a pretty good one. I think actually both of those I would have stayed alive before.
I think I think maybe not the funding of nine to eleven. That might have been a bit. Yeah, you’re right, and one week after that. I do have one final Saudi joke for this week as we’re you know, in the festival in the moment, I’m sure they will never ask me to go. Now, in a time where free speech is being tested everywhere, it’s nice to be here in Saudi, where neither a comedian nor a journalist has been killed since oh June anyway, so nice to be here.
I love all your hats. Kober still has a way to go at eleven thirty, but something’s going to air at eleven thirty Byron Allen. He’s the guy that has his comics on lease show that’s on CBS at twelve thirty. Now, he says he’d like eleven thirty. Said, let me be clear, if they’re looking for a show, my hands already up fifty years.
I’ve been waiting for this moment, and definitely I’m going for it. I said, mathematically, you’ll never beat this show. Why would you spend thirty five million dollars on a television show at that hour. I will happily produce the show and you can save that thirty five million, forty million and spend it elsewhere. Day one, I said, this show is to be evergreen.
No topical humor, no political humor. I don’t want anything that is racist, homophobic, anti Semitic. I don’t want any of that. The thing I said to the comics wasn’t TV you don’t have to be the funniest, you have to be the most likable. Leslie Jones and Hannibal Burse who’s just back for the Riog Comedy Festival, would be part of the ten Thousand Laughs Comedy Festival now and it’s thirteenth year back tonight through the weekend.
Wendy Wigger overseas laugh at and says it’s gotten a lot harder. The reality is the comedic talent that it’s available to us is not at the same price point it was fifteen years ago when we started, so we’ve adjusted. They’ve cut down from what was originally ten days of programming. When if the organizer says, since he launched ten thousand lasts and twenty eleven, he’s only personally pocketed five thousand dollars. You can make more money than that talking about comedy in your basement.
Out today on the eight hundred Proun Guerrilla YouTube channel, Jacob Samuel’s Big Talk and let’s leave with something fun. Right Today was all angst and politics and gerr Conan O’Brien was talking to the Seattle Times about his affinity for Seattle, and he said a secret about me. I don’t think people realize. My dad was working in Seattle and living in West Seattle with my mom, and I’ve done the math. They were living there when my mom realized that she was pregnant with me, so I was created in Seattle.
It’s also strange that all these years later, I meet and fall in love with this woman who’s from Seattle, and I end up going there and I’m immediately comfortable the second I get off the plane. I like everything about the place, and it took me a bit to realize, wait a minute, this is where I’m from. Not your comedy news for today. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. The news has been a little bit slow, but everybody seems to be hiding out and not announcing things right now.
It has been a quiet week, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings, and I’ll see you there