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Caloroga Shark Media Hither. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Stephen Colbert was interviewed by GQ, who really wanted us to know that Colbert was poolside when this took place. The topic the cancelation, Stephen said, Listen, every show’s got ended sometime, and I’ve been on a bunch of shows that have ended, sometimes by our lights and sometimes by the decision of other people. It’s just the nature of show business.
You can’t worry about it. You got to be a big boy about that. But I think we’re the first number one show to ever get canceled. Colbert said he was told by CBS they were getting out of Late Night because it’s no longer profitable. He called it surprising.
I’ll editorialize here I have brought us up in the past. Well, then why did they renew Taylor Tomlinson at twelve thirty That was announced as a renewal and then Taylor said she didn’t want to do it. That was the story we were told. So A, is that story not true? B If it is true that they renewed it, and then Taylor said no, thanks, Well why would you renew twelve thirty.
Were you going to have a twelve thirty show with a no. Eleven thirty show, or were you going to move after midnight to be before midnight? None of that makes sense. Steven Colbert said, I can understand why people would have that reaction because CBS or the parent corporation. I’m not going to say who made that decision, because I don’t know.
No one’s ever going to tell us decided to cut a check for sixteen million dollars to the President of the United States over a lawsuit that their own lawyers, Paramount’s own lawyers said is completely without merit, and it’s self evident that this is damaging to the reputation of the network, the corporation, and the news division. So it’s unclear to me why anyone would do that other than the Curry favor with a single individual. Wow, he is not pulling his punches here, Colbert said, if people have theories that associate me with that, it’s a reasonable thing to think because CBS or the corporation clearly did it once. But my side of the street is clean, and I have no interest in picking up a broom or adding to refuse on the other side of the street, not my problem. Colbert says he has a great relationship with CBS.
It’s one of the reasons why this was so surprising and so shocking that there was no preamble to this, budgets and everything like that. We’ve done cuts and stuff like that, so that’s why it was surprising to me, as I said, But I meant what I said on air the next night after I found out, because I couldn’t sit on it. They’ve been great partners, they really have. They’ve been very supportive. It took us six to nine months to find our legs before people watched the show.
We didn’t quite figure out what we wanted to do. It didn’t come fully assembled out of the box the way the Colbert Report did. And they stood by us and they were very supportive, and they gave us what we needed and we found it and we delivered for them what we wanted. I want to do a good job, he said. There is a sense of relief that he might not have to put the snorkel on and get into the sewer every day.
He doesn’t know how they’re going to land the plane, but he wants to do it gracefully. GQ’s opener, house work super normal, Colbert said, strangely, everything is normal because the show is never normal. I’ve got nine months of shows to do. I can’t be thinking about it ending in May. I’ve got to think about the show on Monday.
So when you say has the show perfectly normal? Well, yeah, it wasn’t that normal. And I had to tell everybody at the show was ending. But the next Monday I had to do a show. Steven, does nine months feel like a long time or a short time?
Colbert said? The end has a discernible shape, but it still seems a long way away. Seems like I got feisty here. As for that discernible shape, GQ, can you describe that shape? Colbert said?
The image I have as a man walking towards me in the dusk, and he’s got something in his hand. I don’t know whether it’s a knife or an ice cream cone, but he is asking me if I’d like a lick. Now, this is a transcript. I don’t know exactly what Colbert’s tone was here, but this is interesting, GQ said, I can’t tell if this is a bit or if this is real. Colbert, what are you talking about?
Why would this be a bit. By the way, it’s hard to tell whether things are real or a bit. Sometimes to me, every day you have to come up with a bit about something that was real. So after a while it’s hard to tell what’s a bit and what’s real because you see other people engaging in performative behavior all the time, and it’s hard to know if they’re sincere about it. And at a certain point it doesn’t matter if they’re sincere about it because their behavior has an effect.
Interesting again, the interview. I know I’m going along here, but the interview continues to seemingly go sideways. GQ. You’ve been attaching your mouth to the exhaust pipe of news for I don’t know.
And then there’s a dash and Colbert’s answer is that sounds vaguely suicidal.
You’ve been running your car in the closed garage of media for twenty years. Or you’re getting a little woozy. Yeah, I’m getting a little woozy. Listen, It’s possible that George Cheeks, who was at the time the co CEO of Paramount, saved my life. I’ll get a little oxygen back into my brain.
I love what we do and I love the grind. You can only do one of these shows, do the jokes every night, year after the year, for twenty years if you give a damn at all about what you’re talking about. And I do, but there’s a sense of relief that I might not have put on the storkel. All right, let me pick up more on that tomorrow. A heck of a lot more there.
Via TMZ. THEO Vaughn once against addressed the Department of Homeland Security using a video of him to promote deportations. THEO told guest Andrew Santino, it was scary seeing how much hate THEO god After the promo video made its rounds. THEO points out the government chair of the clip not long after Charlie Kirk was murdered, and he was therefore paranoid. Sindju Post has a transcript.
They have it as Santino saying, talk about pulling that out of context. They’re so good at that, dude. They just took something that had nothing to do with something else. You’re making a joke and they’re like, he’s our spokesperson. You’re like, what, I didn’t sign up for that, bro.
THEO then talked about being paranoid following the Charlie Kirk murder. THEO, you know, I started getting real paranoid at home. I was paranoid about the show. If there could be somebody in the audience, you know. The conversation then talks to THEO Vaughan’s Netflix special taping, which sources who are there say didn’t go so well.
THEO said, yeah, so that was happening.
And then there were just too many cooks in the kitchen on the set, and then dā¦
In the upcoming day’s full hour interview there and they talked about a whole bunch of things. The New York Post had a feisty story involving Leslie Jones. This took place at the SNL fiftieth anniversary celebration. Apparently there was some director that she doesn’t like, Leslie told Vulture’s Good One podcast. First of all, I don’t like him.
He comes over to me, and you know, I don’t like him, she says. The director said that he wanted a photo with Leslie and that Paul Rudd was going to take the picture. She says, Paul Rudd sees that I don’t like him, so Paul’s like, oh, I’m enjoying this, and the guy goes, I want to take a picture with you. I’m not taking a picture with you. You’re a piece of crap.
I’m not going to take a picture with you. Rud snapped the photo. Jones said, I wanted to kill him. Get your hand off me. Jones revealed that her hatred of the man, who she has described as a narcissistic penis head, that her hatred peaked after he wouldn’t leave her following a long day on set back in February.
On the Tore podcast, Leslie said, the guy who would direct to some SNL pieces was an fing a hole And I don’t give an f If you see this, you still are probably an fing d head, an e fing narcissistic d head. He was just one of the white boys that thought he was doing Shakespeare. No, this is an effing sketch and you’re not funny and you’re not creating anything beautiful. You’re just being an a hole with this tedious fing s. Leslie talked about being on the cast.
He said, there’s going to be good times, there’s going to be bad times, there’s going to be stressful times. It’s any job now. SNL is a big stress Yes, it’s mentally and physically hard. That’s why you gotta be ready when you go in there, because it’s a foundation, it’s a machine, it’s an institution. The thing I had to realize is like, oh, I’m not going to be able to change SNL.
Matt Wright is upset with the airlines. He posted on social media to Air Canada, F you. I hate your guts. So your website crashes and won’t allow me to check in, So upon arrival to the airport, I’m told, yeah, you weren’t checked in on time. We can’t give you a boarding pass because of your website.
Absolutely nothing stopping me from making it onto the plane, Plenty of time to make it to the gate, not even an issue. You just won’t let the person who bought a ticket get their ticket because of your system. Go f yourself, never flying with y’all again, and I hope nobody does. Around three hours later, the airline replied, Hey, Matt, sorry about your experience. The issue you’ve encountered was not caused by our website.
Please dm us and be happy to have a conversation about the issue. Apparently Matt Rife has gotten into it with the airlines before. One report says in twenty twenty three, Matt Rife posted on X how long is too long? A rose flight attendants in my new show now. During Matt’s Netflix comedy special Natural Selection, there was a lengthy segment on flight attendants who insist on enforcing the rules?
Is that a bad thing? You realize we’re in a middle tube five miles high? That segment was not reviewed well. A review in Cracked magazine said the most off putting segment of the specials is less bit a long time tried about a flight attendant who assisted Rife Stowe’s bag under the seat. It’s a long story that starts out defensive and then gets more defensive.
Yeah, dude, Stull, your bag, relax, dude. Rolling Stone said Rife is a garden variety strain of American contempt, cheap, lazy, and sure to fine broad agreement. Vulture called the flight of attendant rants unfunny, saying it notably lacks the kind of humorous reframing or conscious construction that would make any of it into material if it’d given more thought to it. The realization that he comes off as an enormous a hole might have been an exciting opportunity to twist the story in new directions. At the thirty one to two Comedy Festival in Chicago today seven o’clock stand up on the Spot at Downtown and John goblecon he’s at Zani’s Downtown at nine point fifteen.
Prince Harry I talk about him all the time on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I don’t know if you heard about form MILLI. Prince Andrew boy, we’ve been doing bonus episods and everything. That’s been keeping me busy while watching football Sunday. I think I spent about six hours writing Prince Andrew’s scripts while also watching football and absolutely crushing listener Scott Beckett in the football pool.
I warned him when he invited me. I was like, I’m really good at this. You understand what you’re bringing into your little playhouse there, and he was like, no, no, no, you’re not the good I’m like, oh no, I’m very good at football picks.
And now Scott Beckett has seen the light I’m happy to take his money.
I digress. Hassan Minaj has a podcast. Yeah, I totally forgot this was a thing. First of all, I totally forgot that Hasan Minhaj was out there, you know, doing stuff. Apparently he’s got a podcast.
Boy, he would have been the host of the Daily Show. Think about that. I mean, it was no brainer to hire that guy to host the Daily Show. He was next anyway. Now he’s got a podcast, which I have a podcast.
I mean, it’s not that impressive. And I bet you if we add up Hassan’s listeners and my listeners, we have more people paying attention to us than say, Late Night with Seth Myers, which is a thing that exists for some reason. I digress again. Prince Harry was on Hasan Minhaj’s podcast. Hassan asked Prince Harry about a supposed feud between Taylor Swift and Charlie xc X, because when you have Prince Harry there, that’s what you would ask him about, right, people say.
Harry looked visibly confused and said he had no idea what Minhaj was talking about, which would have been my reaction as well. Columnist Roba Shutter said Harry’s team didn’t vet Hasan Minhaj before agreeing to the appearance. A Hollywood publicist told Shutter’s website, Harry walked into this blind. His team didn’t vet the host at all. Prince Harry also attempted an American accent, joking about ordering breadsticks with ranch at Applebee’s, which actually sounds pretty tasty.
Last week, the hockey players on the Seattle Crack End dressed up as Adam Sandler characters. They went to go see Adam Sandler’s stand up comedy tour. One of the Fords and the goalkeeper when as characters from You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. One of the defensemen and two Fords were the iconic white cutoff cable knit sweaters from Billy Madison. Sandler came by the crack and locker room.
They presented him with a sign Jersey. Sandler posted on his Instagram account and called the outfits by the hockey players hilarious. Netflix will have that documentary about Eddie Murphy next week November twelve. The trailer’s out. The whole thing is called Being Eddie.
In Being Eddie, Eddie Murphy himself opens up his home and heart, reflects on a career that captivated multiple generations, and reveals the inner life that has long driven his unique ambition and charisma. I use a lot of AI. I think AI wrote that sentence. Captivate is a word that AI loves to use anyway. Featuring a star studded lineup of fellow comedians and industry peers, including Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, Jerry Seinfeld, and Kevin Hart who also performed at the Riod Comedy Festival.
Not sure if they talk about that in this documentary, Probably not, would be my guess. Being Eddie explores how Eddie Murphy navigated fame, stayed grounded, and remained at the top of his game for over four decades. The documentary is expected to explore Eddie’s deep relationship with his late brother Charlie, who passed away in twenty seventeen. It’s been that long. I remember doing an episode about that.
Wow. The doc also features footage from Murphy’s days on SNL, which were great. I was having a conversation with one of my students the other day, who’s a big fan of SNL. Now the Eddie Murphy years or well before his time. I mean I was a teenager then, So hopefully he’ll watch this and appreciate them.
Now here’s a premise. This thing promoting the Eddie Murphy documentary says there would be no Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, or Adam Sandler without Eddie Murphy. So do we have Eddie Murphy to blame for all these horrible, horrible movies? That’s terrible. I used to like Eddie Murphy being Eddie.
Netflix, November twelve. Pete Davidson and Ella Pernell have signed on to star in That Time We Met. The Time We Met follows a new couple that discovers their unborn child is destined to save the future of humanity. The only problem is they’ve just had their first date and now they hate each other, which sounds like it would actually be I’m not being a jokey here. That would be a good Adam Sandler role.
He’d be really good at that. Pete Davidson in that role, I’ll tell you right now, that’s gonna be terrible. Write that down. That’s gonna be one of the comedy stock Market picks on Friday. Pete’s not going to be good in that role.
Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, he could nail that. And you may recall yesterday I was like, Eh, I’m not gonna say about Amy Schumer’s weight loss, and you’ve been sitting around for twenty four hours now waiting for me to talk about it. Well, I will talk about it now. Amy Schumer posted on Instagram she was wearing a black and white Valentino dress. Amy posted, I’m feeling strong and like myself.
I’m enjoying how I look, But man, it’s all about how you feel. So grateful to be pain free, thanks to my trainer who has helped strengthen me since my back surgery, and some sort of company that she was promoting or thinking for lifting all the endometriosis out of my body. In the photos, Amy Schumer poses around the house in a split black and white neat length dress with a plunging neckline and black pointed to pumps. In one of the photos, she also wears a silky, pale pink dress and posed in a lounge chair. You’ve heard me say this before.
Every now and then, Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so okay, we will. Glad you’re looking great and feeling great, and that’s your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.