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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with his Daily Comedy News. Now. You know who was that Donald Trump’s Supreme Court hearing the other day about the tariff war. You know who was there in the audience, John Mulaney.
All right, Why, well, we’re gonna find out. But what a random John Mulaney’s sighting, The Daily Beast reports. Fans speculated Mullaney was invited by lawyer Neil Cattel, who was arguing on behalf of small businesses affected by the tariffs. Mullaney had been on his podcast court Side, where we learned Mullaney as a constitutional lawn nerd. Neil said, Mullaney texts him all sorts of questions about random Supreme Court cases all the time, And I guess Mullaney is really into this if he was there.
Nikki Glaser was your SNL host last night. I’ll probably review that on Tuesday, just to accommodate my production schedule. They did release this promo leading up to it. Nicky ROAs, Ashley Padilla, James Austin Johnson, and Cam Patterson. A couple of notes here.
I’ve trimmed the bleeps because the the setup is that Nicky is roasting the three of them, and apparently her roasts are quite vulgar, so that the bleeps go on forever. So I trimmed those just for pacing. I understand the pacing upsets the joke, but you don’t want to sit through a beap for ten seconds. There are also two visual jokes. I’m gonna leave them in.
In one, Ashley Padia throws up and the other James Austin Johnson dumps gas on his head. You’ll get it. And I think this clip also proves that camp Patterson not good at Saturday Night Live. I don’t get why Lauren added him to the cast. And again, Louren Michaels is Lorne Michaels and I’m a guy in a basement, what do I know?
But I still think Camp Patterson’s going to be one and done. Anyway, Here was the teaser for Nikki Glaser. So come out. So great to be here, Hey, Nicki, guy, you’re so excited you’re hosting. It is going to be so fun.
So excited? Was there something else you needed or would you roast? No? Please? I just I don’t think that’s a good idea.
You don’t want that. I promise you won’t hurt our feeling. Now I started on care tony some completely numb and side. Okay, me verse me verse, right. Ashley, you look like you actually look like.
Your dog’s period blood. Okay, this is fun. You’re right, James, you nerdy little not there in Tennessee going out there by the outdoor masthtub, get her nune okay and cav nice sweater. Hell yeah, no, that’s why you’re the queen. That’s fine, it’s good.
I like this is fun. Jim Gaffigan was on social media again, and as I’ve pointed out to you, Jim Gaffigan really only comes on social media when he wants to sell you something. He wants to sell you some concert tickets. I have made edits to this clip. It’s Jim gaffer and very exciting that twenty twenty six shows are on sale.
I’m going to New York, I’m going to Saint Louis, I’m going to Denver, I’m going all these places out west. I know I need a haircut, and you know, I think it’s cruel that like bald men or men that are bald and need to get a haircut, like we should get free haircuts right anyway, comment below, like, follow, share, perform surgery, whatever you want to do anyway. Vanity Fair ask David Cross what he thinks about cancel culture. The question was really about Dave Chappelle. Cross said, I know I’m not stating any obvious that hasn’t been stated before, and it’s stating the obvious, but you, Dave Chappelle, have no credibility.
We can’t take anybody seriously who complains about cancel culture while performing in a sold out arena and getting tens of millions of dollars for a special that’s going to air all over the world. It’s batently absurd. So that kind of stuff’s just a waste of time to argue. It’s like two plus two equals five or black is white. It’s not true.
It’s not a thing you have been canceled. Vanity Fair ass Cross, they were all the comedy had gone woke, but then Elon Musk bought Twitter and declared comedy legally again, what do you think of that? David Cross said, I mean, it’s worth the discussion, but my feeling about it is there are words you can use in jokes that offend people and where does the individual stand up feel comfortable with editing themselves. I want to keep saying the R word. There are more directly violent words that I’ve stopped using, So it’s up to the individual.
There are some words I won’t say now just because no, I know, I’ve had enough discussions, or I don’t think it’s hurting my bits to swap out one word for another. But there are other words like the R word, and he is saying the R word in this interview that I’m like, I’m going to keep using it because it’s an easier, better word to use in my stand ups. Again, it’s up to the individual. All right, David Cross, who do you think is funny these days? Cross it, there’s a lot of great comics out there, probably a bunch I’m not even aware of.
As for subject matter that’s funny, Everything is still funny. He did not name a single name. It’s not that hard here. I’ll go h. I find Chain Gills funny.
Thought about that for one second. That was the name that popped to mind. I find him funny. Cross said everything could be certainly funny in the right viewpoint and application. I have a joke about a rape kit.
I know there’ll be some people won’t like it. I’ve already done it, and I know there’s some people that don’t like it. But it’s a really funny, clever joke that I’m gonna keep doing. So look, anything can be funny, it’s just the application. You’re probably wondering what does Stavros halky Has look for in a relationship, Well, he told g Q, A sense of humor.
For me, that’s really what my whole life is based around. You actually want a little more push back from your girlfriend. You want her to be like, shut up, you’re an idiot. You also have to be able to make her laugh, and you have to make her laugh despite her not wanting to. That’s a big one.
My favorite audience member is a reluctant girlfriend at the start of the show becomes a fan by the end of it. All right, Stavros, what do you look for in a guy? Friend? Starvros said, My best friends I’ve known since I was in Kindergarton, my producer on the podcast, and my best friend he’s my tour manager. But every five years I tend to pick up another best friend.
I know they’re a good person, and then I can make these incredibly messed up jokes with them. I don’t want somebody who’s racist or somebody who actually doesn’t think gay people should get married. I thinks it’s a good time to limit the right to choose. We do have to line on the big stuff and may be able to trust you and then do the funniest jokes in the world, which are really messed up things. Third Coast Reviews spoke to Gary Goldman, who said I was fortunate when I did The Great to Pray to have an audience that was patient and trusted me and knew I was professional and thoughtful, so they would see something for me that wasn’t my usual show, which was mainly just observations and some absurdity and some stories.
Grand Delinquent is probably the same amount as personal as The Great Depress, But with a Great Depress I was able to get a lot of the deeper stuff out that wasn’t as funny, and a documentary portion of the show, so essentially I didn’t have to be there when the people weren’t laughing. I think as a performer, you’re most vulnerable just being yourself doesn’t have to be deep, secret or private moment. It’s very vulnerable to get up there and say I think this is funny, and I think you should think this is funny. You don’t know whether they’re gonna laugh. But eventually you figure out whether it’s funny and it gets less vulnerable.
But with every new audience, there’s always that bit of anticipation and a little bit of anxiety over that, and it makes it fun. It’s like when I play basketball. If it made every shot, I think I’d be happy, but in reality and probably get boring. When you get into a video game or some set of skill and it gets to the point where this isn’t very challenging, you lose interest. I think that’s the part of the trick to staying interested in comedy because they’re doing it thirty two years now and it remains challenging.
It can be humbling at times, and I think that’s part of the equation. And I think we all know comedians have been doing the same act for decades. They burn out or get bored or just throwing the tannel or whatever that makes sense to me. I know when I do this pod, I try and mix up the subjects. You know, there were times when all right, we’re gonna talk about Kimmel for a week or whatever.
But I do try and you know, change the tone, bring recurring bits back, rest recurring bits. I try not to talk about the same comedians every day, but when somebody’s out there doing a lot of press, you know, I’ll talk about somebody for five days in a row. But did you try to mix it up? That makes sense to me. Roywood Junior just spoke to Rolling Stone.
He talked about touring the country, performing in the South. Being a road comedian gives you a different perspective on the voters of the country because you don’t see a Republican party. To see a person and they voted Republican. There’s a difference when you’re viewing Republicans through grafts and pie charts and gallopoles versus you being in a comedy club on a Thursday in a red state and telling jokes to voters who would never vote for your interests and there being some degree of synergy and understanding. It puts in a perspective that most people in this country are voting to preserve themselves, and that’s what politicians tap to do.
That’s what Trump did. Trump went into Middle America and looked under the rocks, found a couple of votes over here, found a couple of votes over there, and here we are. So Junior talked about his time at The Daily Show, and he said, one of the main things I learned is that there’s always a third side or another angle to the issue that’s not being considered. I’m grateful my first comedy special didn’t come out until after I started working there. I think also watching Trevor Noah and how he did interviews with adversarial guests.
You seek to understand, don’t necessarily seek to be right. Sometimes you can talk to people into not agreeing with themselves if you’ve got enough time to take a long enough walk. He talked about hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner in twenty twenty three and said it was the most stressed I’ve been as a performer. Next to the Apollo Theater, Amateur Night of the Apollo, that’s the peak of anxiety. Roy said, I’d take one thousand correspondents dinners before amateur Night at the Apollo.
That’s not to be played with with the Correspondent’s dinner. No matter what after, room’s gonna love the joke. You just don’t know when you don’t know which joke the apollo. There’s a chance everyone will hate your guts and unison and there’s no recovery. All right, Jay Leno, do you know who this is?
He hosted The Tonight Show for like twenty two years. Thinks you know stuff about late night comedy. That guy, he’s the worst. You know what he’s doing today? He’s the Grand Marshall at the Harley Davidson Love Yeah Things starts off in Glendale, finishes northwest of la at Castaic Lake.
It’s a charity ride in support of the Wounded Warrior Project and Adopt the Arts. Founded in nineteen eighty four, it’s raised more than twenty five million dollars and Jay Leno is going to be the Grand Marshal today. Jay said, I’ve written her alongside thousand. It’s a love ride for years. I’m looking forward to doing it again.
Cheers to making Love Ride thirty four a memorable one. Now. I wanted to tell you about the New York Comedy Festival, but their website doesn’t want to load, so they’re gonna go second. Today I’ll tell you about the three one to two Comedy Festival seven o’clock today at Zany’s Downtown. Heather Shaw at Zany’s and Rosemont.
I think I’ve been to that one. I think the Rosemont one. I’m pretty sure that was a rainy like Wednesday night and it was Hannibal Burris and Gaff again and Mad again. It was a great show. John Deloni will be there at seven, Kevin Bridges at the Riviera Theater at seven thirty, and Earthquake at the vic Theater, a great venue at eight o’clock.
And that’s a wrap on the very cool three to one to two Comedy Festival. Nice job, guys.
And now let’s see if the other website has loaded yet.
It has not. I might actually have to pause, but that’s not fun. Oh yeah, we’re gonna have to do a different story. It completely broke my browser. Come on near Comedy Festival.
All right, let’s see what happens. Tell you about something else. In the meantime. Sultan Kasas he’s gonna debut his hour long comedy special London Fog on his YouTube channel today. In London Fog causes wrestles with anxiety, explores the many modern pass apparently, and reflects on growing up with a single immigrant mother, all while trying not to let success change him.
He filmed it at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. He says, this is my first special in the theater, which was very scary but exciting at the same time. I’m really happy with how it all came out. Let’s try Chrome. Maybe the New York Comedy Festival website will load.
Oh yeah, much more responsive on Chrome. Interesting not Safari fans at the New York Comedy Festival. I won’t read everything, but some fun shows. I love the title of this one. At three o’clock at Littlefield, y’all gay with Ali Clayton and Ever Maynard.
That’s just a fun title. Ucb’s The Business Casual Show at the UCB at four thirty. Gotta love the early shows on the weekend, right, Josh Sharp’s an hour of crowd working the Round at the Billhouse at four thirty. Dan pool Zello is recording a live album. He’s doing two shows, but they’re both at five o’clock.
You know, New York Comedy Festival. I don’t think you guys really scrubbed this website too well. So if you want to see Dan, you can see him at the five o’clock show or at the instantaneously simultaneous five o’clock show. It also the website doesn’t tell us where that show is. All right, then late afternoon there’s a bunch of people you probably haven’t heard of.
Six o’clock. Todd Glass is at Second City Ismo at town Hall at seven. Seven o’clock. Genius and Poison presents the Magicians of Magic. That sounds fun.
That’s at the hard Rock in Finance is in Brooklyn at seven. But I’m scrolling down here looking for like headliner headliners, and the New York Comedy Festival doesn’t seem to have that this year. Eight o’clock at New York Comedy Club on four Street. Chris red like he’s nice and all, but is that a comedy show headliner? I’m looking for, like a name.
I’m scrolling down here for names you would know. I guess you know Veronica Slowakoska now because she’s on SNL. She’s a grammar sya. At nine thirty, Chris Fleming spoke to the Stranger. Chris said, so much of comedy survival it’s like putting anything in the cannon.
Was it World War One when they had to turn tires and a bolt or something. That’s how I view it. We’re only given so many tools, and whatever gets us through on stage, we got to use and hope for the best. Chris, what’s it like when you perform for people that you know kind of don’t know the act? Chris said, Oh, it could be such a bloodbath.
I mean, you wouldn’t believe the extremes. It can literally be like burn the Witch. I had to recently perform for big crowds that weren’t quite my own, and they wanted to kill me. They absolutely wanted to kill me. It’s being seen by crowds that do see you so much better.
I mean, trust me, you can be held to completely eat it’s up there, but then it clarifies what you want to do. Tourist audiences, whatever can navigate a lot of performances to the middle to survive. I think it’s better to gamble on what you truly want to do and occasionally completely bomb than it’s to self correct to a piece people you would just see at the airport. Follow up question, did it take a long time to develop a thick skin? Answer?
Oh, I don’t have a thick skin, and that’s your how many news for today, see you tomorrow.