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Caloroga Shark Media man. I went to LA for the weekend, and so much happened while I was away. I have so much today that I’m bouncing major stuff tomorrow. The Sebastian maniscatcoal trailer has me out of my mind. But that’s gonna be tomorrow’s leadoff story.
I’ll probably tape Tuesday and Wednesday back to back because I’m so fired up. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. But we got to talk about Nikki Glaser on Saturday Night Live. I don’t want to lead you with my opinion, so I’ll do a story or two and then i’ll tell you what I thought. But I headlined from USA today.
I believe this was comedian Nikki Glaser calls SNL debut a dream a mid monologue backlash. That’s right, there is monologue backlash. Nicki posted on social media posts to come when I fully wake up. But oh my god, I can’t believe how amazing this cast and crew was. As a fan of the show, I just have to tell all the other fans that everyone at SNL is just as talented, elite, cool and kind as you’d hope it’d be literally everyone.
It was a dream, all caps. I’ll never get over it. Now I’ll start to play my cards. I’ll flip one card. So I watched the monologue.
I didn’t have a problem with the monologue’s content. I had the problem with the monologue being by wrote. I was texting on the side with the host of the Letterman podcast, Mike Chisholm, and I said, it just felt like she was doing jokes like, for example, Mike, who you may remain? And I was Canadian. Mike went to the store.
He was so polite, take a beat because he’s Canadian, and it just felt like that type of joke where you tell a story and then you do the beat and then you do the headfake, and I felt like she was just doing that. Her sketches, I thought were fantastic. I’ll come back to that. But as part of this monologue controversy, as I started to read this USA Today article, they were saying the things the monologue was about, and I was like, oh, I don’t think I want to say that, because they’re the type of things that get flagged by content services. So maybe some do have a point here.
Nicki opened up and of course told much better by Nicki. She opened up by saying, here I am in New York City, Epstein’s original island. And I may have actually told that better, because when I watched it on the DVR after the four PM games on Sunday, I think she kind of swallowed the word Epstein, and I missed the joke. I had to go back. So later in the monologue she started talking about people being trafficked and the signs, quoting Nikki Glaser.
Here, they’re in every stall, They’re in every language. I mean, English is really tiny. It’s like you wish men’s restrooms don’t have these signs. I don’t know what signs you have. Do you have signs that are like want to sleeve?
She then did make a joke about violent assault on women that I don’t want to repeat, so you can factor that into your evaluation if you didn’t see it, that it’s a joke John’s not comfortable repeating. She then went on to joke about how she’s certain her boyfriend will murder me someday, and then did some material that was about showering with a younger person, which I probably shouldn’t get into here either. So again, there may be some validity to the controversy. But when I watched the show, I wasn’t like, oh, outratous. So my take, you know, whether or not there’s a controversy about the content.
I just didn’t think it was a monologue. I just didn’t find it funny. But she was great at the sketches. Yahoo recapped the entire episode for me, Thank you. The opener with President Trump in the Oval office as somebody passes out James Louston Johnson boy, I loved him when he first started doing Trump on SNL.
I’m now all the way to the point maybe Lorne Michaels needs to consider someone else doing Trump. I know what a major move that would be. But James’s Trump is just he didn’t have it this week. It’s it’s off Mark and I don’t know if they had a bad crowd or what, but the crowd seemed to be with me that that opening segment didn’t fly all right. Then the monologue already discussed a pre record with NICKI doing a commercial for a medication that makes you sick enough to credibly cancel your appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show.
NICKI was very good in that. Then a sketch about family karaoke, Sarah Sherman crushing as always, NICKI showing she’s got some acting chops in that one. Beauty and Mister Beast. I thought that was pretty funny. American Girl Doll XL was solid.
I’ll circle back to the News for reasons which will become clear in a minute.
And then on the News, Pete Davidson showed up.
Pete Davidson said, in case you’re wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia, we’re losing millions on this ferry. I assume that’s what the article says. I can’t spend five dollars on a pay wall when I got a kid on the way. I’m just excited to be a dad and to give it all the energy enthusiasm I never had for this show. Pete also got off a good line about Lorne Michaels, saying, if Louren Michaels has taught us anything, it’s that you never ever give up, even if everyone says the time has come and Tina Fey is ready to take over.
Pete talked about the new mayor of New York City. If you’re not from the New York City area. You might want to get yourself familiar with this. Mom, Donnie Fellow, I think he’s going to be a national figure for a few months here. Pete said, I have a message for everyone who did not vote for our new mayor, Hey statn Islanders, which is an on point joke.
If you look at the mayoral electoral if you look at the voting results, let me pull it up for you. As you may know, New York City has five boroughs. Manhattan is what most to outsiders would think New York City is in Manhattan zoorun Mum. Donnie got fifty two point seven percent of the vote. Queen’s where I’m from, but I did not vote because I’m now a New Jersey resident.
He got forty seven point three, the Bronx fifty one and a half, Brooklyn fifty six point eight, Staten Island twenty two point seven, losing to Andrew Combo, who ran as an independent and got fifty five point four. So hence Pete Davison’s joke. Pete said, did you promise to move out of New York if Ma’m Donnie one? But if too many warrants in New Jersey and not enough guns for Florida, Welcome to New Staten Island, and showed a picture of the ferry. We can’t call it the Titanic anymore since the people on this ship will actually love running into ice.
Good material there, I don’t think he delivered it that well. I think the writing was better than Pete’s performance. Pete told people I had a great time hosting last time, and anytime you get that call, it’s an honor and a privilege to return to SNL. It’s always relevant, it’s a hot show. People look forward to it, and the cast is great.
He said of Lorne Michaels. I owe that guy in my life. He jump started everything. So I do anything for Lorn and he knows that. So I went to Los Angeles for five minutes.
They decided to announce the Grammy nominees Best Comedy Album Quick Time out Here. If you are a longtime listener, you’ve heard this before. If you are relatively new, you may not have. Johnny Mack gets annoyed that things that Johnny Mack considers to be quote unquote Netflix specials get nominated for Grammys. I personally feel that a comedy album should be, you know, an album, Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA.
That’s an album, It’s not a Netflix special. Some of these things, I’m not sure they’re albums, But the Academy clearly disagrees with me. These nominations are horrible. This is just really bad. Okay.
The nominees for Best Comedy Album, Bill Burr for his worst special drop Dead Years, and you could see that going to re odd really affected Bill Burr’s career. Ali Wong’s single Lady not her best special. Nate Bergetzi’s Your Friend, Nate Berghetzi not his best special. But okay, my former coworker Jamie Fox, what had happened was I felt like Jamie just doing a performance. And I understand that all of these are a performance, but I really felt like Jamie was pulling out his Academy Award winning chops to pull your emotional strings.
It just didn’t feel like a genuine performance to me. I felt like he was acting it out to get the crowd going. So no doubt out of these five to me, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, which I think i’ve pretty high up on my list. Yeah, I right now have Sarah at seven my list. Really quickly, if you want to count it a stand up or not.
The Conan O’Brien, Mark Twain ward. It is far and away the best thing of the year, if you want to throw that out. Mark Marin’s special now that should have been nominated for a Grammy. It’s Mark’s best special. He’s at peak Marin.
I don’t know how that’s not nominated. Going down my list from there, Jim Jeffrey’s, Justin Willman, Dusty Slay Krasier, Brett Goldstein’s HBO special from April is really underrated, Michelle Wolf, Sarah Silverman, matte Ola, and Tim Dillon. I don’t get a vote, but I would vote for Sarah Silverman over It’s a no brainer. While I left down for five minutes, Variety and the New York Comedy Festival announced that Jim Gaffigan will receive Variety’s inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award that was going to be presented on Sunday night. I’ve not seen any post mortem on Jim winning the award.
There is leading into that, a big shiny fluff piece wax job in Variety, but too busy today to get to that. Maybe tomorrow. The inaugural Vanguard Award recognizes Jim Gaffigan’s trailblazing contributions to comedy and his remarkable career milestones. Time out, trailblazing? Is Jim Gaffigan one of the top comedians?
Absolutely? Is he funny more often than not? Trailblazing? Why? Based on what what has Jim done that nobody has done before?
Anyway, The award recognizes Jim Gaffigan’s trailblazing contributions to comedy and his remarkable career milestones. Caroline Hirsch said, Jim Gaffigan has been making us laugh since the very beginning of his career, and I’ve had the pleasure of watching him grow into one of the most expected and beloved voices and comedy today. His originality, consistency, and sheer brilliance on stage make him the perfect recipient of this inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award. You know that John Stewart is at your event, Caroline right, No one is more deserving, and Jim truly represents the spirit of innovation and excellence that this honor celebrates. There was a mystery with Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Show did not air Thursday. Well, a rerun air, but there was supposed to be a new episode. It was unexpectedly pulled just hours before airing, reportedly over quotes a personal matter, So I don’t want to make light of it. I don’t know what the personal matter is. I hope everything’s okay in the Kimmel household and friends and family and all that’s good, But of course a Jimmy Kimmel episode not airing is going to be major news.
These scheduled guests included David Ducovney, Joe Keery from Stranger Things, and singer Madison Beer. It was Madison Beer who broke the news on social media at six thirty three pm Eastern Time on Thursday, as Johnny Mack was on a plane. Madison Beer tweeted, due to unforeseen circumstances, Jimmy Kimmel Alive needed to reschedule my performance that was originally scheduled to air tonight to a later date. There’s also a story going around that Jimmy Kimmel’s wife, Molly, admitted she fired off many emails to Trump supporting family members begging them not to vote for Trump in last year’s election, and has since cut ties with her right wing relatives. This is not hearsay.
She said this on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast. Molly said, I’ve spent many emails to my family, like right before the election, saying I’m begging you, here’s the ten reasons not to vote for this guy, Please don’t and either got ignored by ninety percent of them or got truly insane responses from a few. It hurts me so much because of the personal relationships I now have where my husband is out there fighting this man and me. Them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family, and I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people and my family because of it. Molly said she was angry all the time at certain aunt’s, uncles and cousins for helpings to elect Trump, yet says she feels sympathy for them, calling them deliberately misinformed.
On a related note, Oscar Isaac, you may know him from Star Wars movies. He did an interview with g Q. Would he return to Star Wars because you know, Star Wars is owned by ABC and Disney and the you know, the support is a fascism. You know those guys well, Oscar Isaac said, I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not open to working with Disney, but if they can kind of figure it out, you know, not to succumb to fascism, that would be great. If that happens, then yeah, I’d be open having a conversation about a galaxy far away or any number of other things.
You see. Oscar Isaac is not one of those guys who’d be like, you know, this chair is really comfortable. I’ve got a Roku in my hand. All I have to do is push the Hulu button and I can watch Scrubs. No, Oscar Isaac is not one of those people.
He goes upstairs to the main level and then one more level to the DVD closet, and he pulls out the Scrubs DVDs, walks all the way back downstairs, fires up the PlayStation five, puts in a disc, and then hits play. He doesn’t just watch Hulu. No, he’s not one of those people. Now, Johnny Mack, I have YouTube TV right now. Now we don’t even get Disney channels.
So even if I wanted to support fascism, I can’t watch you their products, nor can I support you my camble By watching, and that’s a whole other thing. We don’t get ESPN, we don’t get ABC. But I’ll tell you one thing, and listener Scott Beckett knows this. I don’t need to watch Monday Night football. You know why my picks were so good this week.
I wrapped up the whole week before Monday night football. Oh.
Speaking of football, the Carolina Panthers they still are not sure about a p…
Yeah, Keag and Michael Key was at a Panthers team meeting on Saturday to give the final determination on whether or not the questionable touchdown celebration should have resulted in a penalty. The Panthers head coach said, let’s get an expert. Can we get Keag and Michael Key to explain this to us? Via video? Keegan Michael Key appeared.
He said, I just want to say that I’m very honored that you would choose a key and Peel sketch for your celebrations. That’s the whole thing here. The reason I’m here is I wanted to share with you guys, jecially with you, Rico, is that I’ve done my recent research and apparently I guess the rules that are made up in a comedy sketch do not necessarily reflect the rules of the NFL. Daddell’s agent said they would appeal the fine, and ESPN reports to find his fourteen four hundred and ninety one dollars. Keag and Michael Key did some math regarding the fine and said, fourteen thousand dollars for two pumps.
That’s seven grand a pump. That means if you do zero pumps then it would cost you zero thousand dollars and a fine. Keek and Michael Key originally responded to the penalty. Last Monday. He had posted a video saying, Rico, you got robbed.
You only did two pumps. I’m sorry, man, I’m gonna have to write a new sketch. We are long today and I didn’t even rant about Sebastian Maniscalco’s new trailer. That’s tomorrow New York Comedy Festival. Have they fixed the website?
Let’s find out. Well, it’s scrolling well today. I mean, I wish I could just click on Tuesday and not have to scroll through shows that are in the past. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that information, but okay, I’ll scroll. Still haven’t seen any like massive headliners.
Later in the week is skang Fest in New Orleans. I’ll talk about that on Friday. Wait, do you see the lineup for skang Fest and you’ll see what I’m talking about. How New York, despite Jim Gaffigan winning the Vanguard Award, doesn’t have the star power this year. Tell you what today, I’m gonna read you everything.
I won’t get into spesticifity, but you’ll see what I’m talking about here right Seven o’clock Kennon Fodder seven o’clock Hilarious, Habibi’s seven o’clock Longtime, No See Comedy, seven o’clock Hour Findings, seven o’clock, Todd Glass Again seven o’clock, Pete Lee seven o’clock The Woke Woke West seven o’clock Donnell Rawlings. So so far, that’s the biggest name today. Vanessa Gonzales at seven, The Infinite Wrench hits the main stage at seven, Tamua headlining at seven, Gag and Squirt seven thirty, Pretty Major, seven thirty Teacher Reverse Teacher with Sam Salem and Aaron Monte at seven thirty. Good Show Visit seven thirty, Hersterical seven thirty, Morgan Jay at eight Is Morgan Jay the biggest name today? Or Donnell see what I’m saying?
Celebrity drop in at eight. Mama’s Boy Comedy at eight, No Not Like Other Girls at eight, Stamptown at eight, Stata Cat Comedy at eight, Cheek As You Should Know at eight, Bianca Cristavo at eight thirty, Wildcard Comedy at eight thirty. M A. Willman at nine. Love in the Time of Fifth Grade at nine, kel Crepe Does Stand Up nine to fifteen, No Ceilings Comedy nine thirty, Science Tonight nine thirty, E TEENA Frimmel nine thirty, Baby at nine thirty, The Yard Sale Girls at nine thirty, Sauna Comedy nine thirty, We Fix You nine thirty, Jackie Fabulous nine forty five.
Live from the Algorithm with Julie Dissisi at ten o’clock, Stata Cat Comedy, ten o’clock Comics to Watch ten o’clock, Shane Smith at ten thirty. So I just trit to, I mean critical mass absolutely, but understand this is New York City. So even though you do forty shows, they can be quite under visible. I’ll call it right. The New York Comedy Festival presents Comics to watch the annual live stand up showcase featuring the very best new comedians from around the country.
One day you’ll say you saw them here. First REP Showcases November eleventh and fourteenth. I’m not familiar with these names, but they are Gray West, Nate Meeker, Tachiana Frank Thash Mose, Rachel Williams, Ellen, Harold Matt Ross, Turner Sparks, David Drake, Jamal Russell, Leah Samson, Josh Ocean Thomas. Good luck to the comics to watch REPPT And let’s get out there, because I’m gonna hit save and immediately record Wednesday’s show because I got to get the Sebastian Man of Scheco thing out of my system here. And how long do you want the show to be?
I mean it’s long. You got a nice, healthy show today. Don’t write me a letter. See you tomorrow.