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Caloroga Shark Media busy one today and there is a pretty large Stephen Colbert interview in GQ. I will cover that tomorrow because it’s election day. And hello, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Please vote today. I don’t care who you vote for.
You gotta vote or I’m gonna yell at you tomorrow if you didn’t vote, So go vote. Hit stop on them. Why are you even listening to me unless you’re on your way to vote? Go vote. As a big New York City mayoral election today, Harry Condobolu told nola dot com he doesn’t think there’s much of a Condobolu bump, but Harry Condobolu has made an endorsement in the New York City mayor’s race.
He is supporting Zoran Mumdanni. You may be familiar with Mumdanni from such things as Rama Yusef playing him on Saturday Night Live. We’ll get into that. He’s a young dude, a progressive, making a lot of noise, and will probably be in New York City’s next mayor. Now, if you don’t like mister Mumdanni, go vote and vote for one of the other candidates see how this works, and then if you don’t vote, you don’t get to be mad about it.
Harry Condobolo said, I’ve known Zoran since he was like eighteen years old. He went to my alma mater vote in college in Maine, and his mom asked me if i’d tell him what the school was like before he went. During his four years, we kept in touch, and we kept in touch after that. I did a fundraiser for him when he was running for assemblymen. I’ve known for a while this kid was special, but I’ll be honest, I didn’t think he’d be mayor now.
Harry’s gotten involved with New York area politics before. He has told a story about AOC reaching out to him. In twenty seventeen, she sent the ever so serious Harry condoboulu who a direct message on Twitter. This was before she was famous. She shared that she was running a grassroots progressive campaign to represent Ports of Queens and the Bronx and would Harry collaborate with her.
He wrote back, I’m pretty busy right now. When he get back to me next year. He also called her Alexis in the message. Oops, she won, and he said on the night she won. He direct messaged her back, you did it.
I knew you’d win. Harry says, when candidates reach out now, I’m likely to say yes when they’re asking me to do it. Did you watch SNL? It was a pretty good episode, by far the best of the season. It opened up with a mock New York City mayoral debate.
Miles Taylor played former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Romy Yusef was Zoe ram Mandani. He joked, happy to be here, and I’m ready to spend the next hour hearing my opponents pronounce my name in ways you couldn’t begin to imagine. I’m probably getting it wrong.
And then, shockingly to me, and people don’t seem to be making a big deal of …
Shane Gillis played Curtis Sliwa. You know, the Guardian Angel guy with the red beret. If you’re from New York City, you’re like, yeah, John, we know. But maybe if you’re in an other part of the country, you don’t know this guy. Back in the eighties, when New York City was basically hell, the Guardian Angels were like guys that would ride the subway wearing red berets and would stick up for you if bad guys were trying to do things.
So Curtis, like to New Yorkers, has been known forever. I met him once when Bob Grant’s time WOR Radio ended, Curtis came by to help Bob Grant move boxes. This is the only time I met Curtis Leiba on that particular day. He was cool, But I digress. Shane Gillis on SNL like it’s nothing.
You may recall he was on the cast and then not on the cast. That’s the thing that happened. So I don’t understand why the world was like, oh yeah, Shane Gillis was on SNL, like that’s a big deal.
Also a big deal.
Now here’s the opening sketch. We’ve got Keenan Thompson as the moderator, and just Keenan proves Saturday Night he is the glue. I know, we all know this, but he’s so good at everything, steady, reliable, keeps the trains on time. So he’s the moderator.
And then we have in the three shiny spots the guest toast okay, that’s fine, …
It’s not like Shane Gillis nailed the Curtis Sliwa impression, So the whole thing is weird to me. Laurene Michaels, do you not trust your cast because you’re not using them? Towards the end of the sketch, j Sames Austin Johnson came out doing his increasingly drifting Donald Trump impression. He actually addressed his Trump impression with The Hollywood Reporter recently and said the Sands shift he used to be not as terrifying when he had moderate people around him who were trying to stop him. Now they’re all gone, and his enemies are powerless and paralyzed to stop any of it, which all comes across as super dark.
How do you find what’s funny within that? James said, I’m just trying to find new things happening with his speech and his brain and definitely the darkness, which is not easy with a guy who’s been dominating every single day for almost ten years. He says, the subtlety is where the secret to his impression lies. He explains Hamlet is not saying I’m gonna kill myself because I suck. He says he’s thinking about rivers and bones and ghosts.
Amid all the soliloquies, you pick up on an undercurrent of really complex moral struggle. I don’t want to call what I’m doing Shakespeare, but I’m trying to find the deeper forms of Trump, Who’s a rich text. People were upset with Colin Jost once again. Colin told a joke about the President and wife Milania walking out to the White House’s Halloween festivities playing the song Thriller. Joe said, my favorite part is when Trump and Millennia made a grand entrance to the song Michael Jackson’s Thriller just the perfect soundtrack to lore kids to a famous mansion.
Some wonder if that’s a joke joke. Others wonder if that’s some sort of Epstein commentary. I didn’t write the joke, ask SNL Like I said. Good episode. Miles Teller was really good.
The Property Brothers sketch was really good, and James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump was really good. In case you missed it, Miles Teller played both Jonathan and Drew Scott. The Property Brothers stars of the HGTV show Property Brothers. In the sketch, they were helping Donald Trump build his new White House ballroom. There was also a very funny NHL sketch based upon that there are three teams in the NHL.
One is the Rangers, one is the Kings, and the other is Predators, and a lot of the humor came from Predators. I don’t want to spoil it too much, but that’s the setup and you should watch the sketch. They’re all online. I set them out to my family on Sunday night when I finally caught up with the episode between Football and More Football, and I thought it was a pretty good episode. ALRP said, up, Michael Jay.
Now this wasn’t on SNL. This was on Instagram and Chay was commenting on snap benefits, which you may know as food stamps. Chay wrote, this, Snap Freeze is really fed up and I keep seeing a lot of racist videos celebrating mostly black families not being able to buy groceries. There’s this weird idea that’s in some people have taken advantage of welfare benefits in the hood. Nobody should receive help at all.
Jay continued this country’s built on greedy mf ors, taking shortcuts and gaming of the system to their benefit. But for some reason, when poor people find a way to turn nickel into a dime, they’re judged more severely, especially blacks. I know the whole hustle is to hate each other here, so we can fight in the comments and upburn engagements, but let’s draw the line to feeding the poor. I grew up on free cheese and powdered milk and waiting for your friends to leave the store so they won’t see me pay with stamps. That’s not as glamorous as it sounds, I promise.
Yes, we are very political today it is election day, and I put all the politics things in today’s show, and then tomorrow no politics. So that’s why I moved the Colbert thing to tomorrow. Now, as you listen to the show, May, I could understand if you were, like, you know, John, sometimes I don’t think you’re down with President Trump. Well, I have newsview. Sometimes President Trump and I are quite aligned.
For example, President Trump posted on social media about Late Night with Seth Myers. Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this? I agree? Why does that show exist. Who’s it for?
Who’s watching it? It has about seven more viewers than I have listeners. I don’t know what this is for. So if you’re like Johnya never backed Trump on anything, I’m backing him up on this. Trump declared that Seth Myers may be the worst to perform live or otherwise.
Again, sometimes the President and I are aligned, sometimes we’re not, the President continued, I watched the show the other night for the first time in years. In it, he talked endlessly about electric catabults on aircraft carriers, which I complained about is not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults on an Anyway, it truly deranged, lunatic. I don’t think Seth Myers is deranged, and I’m not an expert on aircraft carrier catapults, so I’m not able to comment on that. The President continued, Why does NBC waste its time money? And I like this no talent, no ratings, one hundred percent anti Trump, which is probably illegal.
I’m not a lawyer. I’m just a guy in the basement with a podcast. I don’t think it is illegal at all to be anti Trump. Radar online sourcing Rob Shutter, who has a sub stack. They’re suggesting friends of Jimmy Kimmel would like Jimmy Kimmel to run for president.
That would be all sorts of interesting politics aside, just as somebody who hosts a podcast in their basement about comedians please do now. I am familiar with Radar Online because when I’m not doing this, I write for the Palace Intrigue podcast, and I find that Radar Online tends to be more gossipy than some other websites Anyway. Supposedly, insiders say that Hollywood elites see Jimmy Kimmel as a fearless contender for the twenty twenty eight presidency. A source says they’re pitching him as smart, funny, fearless, but it’s a tiny bubble casting this role, not thinking about real voters. Another insider said of Jimmy Kimmel, he’s starting to believe maybe they’re right, But to real Americans, Jimmy Kimmel and the White House sounds more like a late night punchline than a serious plan.
It is election day. Did I mention that why are you still listening to me when you should be voting?
And then you know you could be like, yes, we need more of this or less of thi…
Do not sit home today. I will scold you. Recently, John Stewart did that live conference with David Remnick from The New Yorker. They shared a full transcript. Remnick asked John Stewart, why do you think Trump won?
Stewart said, because of the dissatisfaction of an analog system. In a digital world, the distance between how you feel about the world and the actual world has never been larger. We’re victims of the circadium rhythms of social media, and social media is incentivized to what not to connect us. I’ve seen the Facebook commercial, and yes, it’s true, if you do like a certain kind of cat, there’ll be other people who like that certain kind of cat, and you will connect with one another. But the purpose of social media to keep you on his platform.
That’s it. That’s all these companies care about. They want you on that platform. They want you there as long as they can possibly have you. And the way they’ve rigged our brains to figure out is that outrage and anger and hate and hostility are much stronger drivers of engagement than anything else.
On the flip side of that, won’t answer here. By jud Stewart, we have a political system designed as an analog. What is the Senate? It’s the cooling saucer of democracy. And what’s Twitter?
That’s the thing that makes you want to rip people’s eyes out. You put those together and it’s not a good mix. And so Trump was able to harness the anger and catastrophizing of that as a way of taking over the other things that we have. Remnick asked, and he didn’t find Biden and Harris a good remedy for that. John laughed and said, I thought they were great.
Stuart said, Look what’s going on with Zorain Maundani. You finally got a guy in New York City who’s getting people to vote in the affirmative for his positions, which is inspiring people and giving a certain amount of leadership. And what is the general status call the Democratic Party do with that? That guy’s a communist like the party goes along with the characterture of this man. Look, we’re in a bad situation.
It’s not just the crappiness of Trump. It’s the passivity of the Democratic Party to stick with a status quo that most people felt were not working. It was a Legenday, did you vote yet? We are political today, Yes, we are. Stavros Halkias with Vulture.
They were recapping the episode of Stave’s World with guest Caleb Hearin. That was the one where Stavey said he was shocked and disappointed that Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump. Alkias said, what surprised me about Joe in particular is I do think we align on a lot. I don’t think he’s a far right guy. It was just shocking because he’s an avatar for a regular dude.
A lot of people do swing wildly. He liked Bernie like Trump. There’s a lot more people in America that are like that. To me, it was like, WHOA, what the f How did Democrats allow this kind of thing to happen? Because listen, I get being like, I hate both these candidates.
That was my position. I got not liking Kamala Harris, but I did not, in any way, shape or form understand being a free speech guy and then being like Trump’s my guy. That was really the crux of it, and it was worse than even thought obviously with these he said something quite unfavorable about Ice. Ice people with mass and no due process in America, and that’s your freedom of speech. Guy.
He was suing journalists he didn’t like before this. I just thought it was a simplistic view of freedom of speech. That’s like, essentially, we shouldn’t be able to say any slurs. They’re not worthy of it. Take him back.
I would like du process and bleeping out a couple effing words. Stavro says also endorsed this Zooran Mamdani guy in the Mayor oal race. Vulture was curious why Starvar said, I got not liking either candidate in the twenty four presidential election because I do think the Democratic Party does not offer anything right now. Mamdani represents something that is exciting to a lot of young people. Democratic leadership is like, how do we get people excited after running the most bs consultant driven campaigns possible, Whereas Mamdani is a guy who’s effing thirty three and who has just excited people.
But the Democrats don’t want that because they’re also bought and paid for. Starvo said, I don’t think they needed me. His campaigns really well run. But that’s where I’ll be like, hey, if I can make a difference in any way. Even if this helps this much, I’ll help candidates I believe in, or causes I believe in, or fundraise for things I believe in.
But I’m not going to have the politics hour every week on my podcast. That must be nice. I’m trying not to, and I’m doing it twice a week now at least. To go vote Please out Today On Netflix, Leanne Morgan’s Unspeakable Things. LeAnn Morgan takes on topics including motherhood, trying CBD for the first and last time, navigating fame, and the less glamorous side of family vacations.
Jimmy Fallon has a new Tuesday Night segment as part of the NBA on NBC. This debut last week, but today’s Tuesday, and there’s basketball on NBC tonight. The segment is called the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot. I was thinking about Jimmy over the weekend. He’s a survivor.
You know, that Cobert rating story came out and I was like, you know, Fallon doesn’t have the ratings and he also doesn’t have the respect. You’ve heard me. I stick up for Jimmy more often than not, but he definitely doesn’t have the respect at all. It’s just a weird spot to have the Tonight Show in third place. And it’s not like people are like, yeah, the host of the Tonight Show.
But I guess Jay Leno didn’t have that either, right, but Jay Leno was in first anyway. The Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot combines live game energy with the NBC Late Night Show’s classic audience participation vibe. Each week, as Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave, one audience member will get the chance to make a half court basketball shot for ten thousand dollars. The jackpot rolls over if no one sinks it. Last week, Maggie from Long Beach was the contestant.
She told Jimmy Fallon she does not play basketball. She took a shot, the crowd cheers, she missed. She got a consolation prize, a Tonight Show sweatshirt signed by Jimmy Fallon and Atlanta Hawk star Trey Young, who is there as part of this. Fallon said more money will be added to the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot for next week. Next week is now, so somebody’s gonna take their shot out today.
On the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel, it is Michael Yo’s Snack Daddy, and I never thought it’s a double feature by Michael Yo. The three to one to two Festival has kicked off. Patrick war Button, that’s Puddy. He’s at Zani’s Rosemont tonight at seven a preview of three one two. The Chicago Theater will have some of the bigger shows including Fortune Fiemster there on the eighth, Ralph Barbosa there on the seventh.
Dusty Slay, one of my current favorites, also part of the festival, So we’ll start breaking that out every day and then later in the week. It’s the New York Comedy Festival. Three one two was launched in twenty twenty three. I thought it was around longer than that. I guess I am wrong.
It was launched by Outback Presents and Outback’s president Andrew Farewell said Chicago is a great market for comedy. Yes it is. He said, comedy is hotter than it’s ever been. There are so many great acts, such diversity, and we’re really proud to bring so many types of comedy across all the different sized venues, from larger theaters to smaller clubs and everything in between. There’s a lot of great places to see comedy in Chicago.
One of the performers will be Pete Holmes, which is interesting because he’s also playing in New York. Pete will be at the Riviera Theater at the Chicago Fest on November eighth. Pete said, I’m very excited consider myself to start in Chicago and hope I’m still in the fold of Chicago comedy. It’s always great to come back and perform there and to be in this venue for the first time at a city I love so much. Chicago has always been a great comedy city because it’s just filled with smart people with sensitive of humor.
You can’t ask for better than that. Oh, I’ll ask for better than that. You know what’s better than that? The Chicago Bears Miracle cover. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett got me in this football pool and I had the Bears and the Bears blew it lately and I was like, ah, I’m not getting that one right.
And then the Bears pulled out a miracle victory. And more importantly the cover, did Dallas win last night? Because if they did, I won the week. If they didn’t, I didn’t. And that’s it.
I’m going to tell you about Amy Schumer’s weight loss. Tomorrow has that for a really exciting tease. You’re just gonna sit around for twenty four hours and be like, oh man, I can’t believe it didn’t tell us about Amy Schumer’s weight loss. I’m just gonna sit here by my phone hitting refresh until he drops another episode. No, yes, all right, see Tomorrow.
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