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Caloroga Shark Media. This is one of those days where I couldn’t wait to get the mic. I’m telling you, I taped this right after I recorded a Tuesday show because I couldn’t wait. So, if you’re like Johnny Mack, Dave Chappelle and Jerry Seinfeld had a street brawl, how can we not talking about it? If that happened, I’ll do it as a bonus episode.
The Sebastian Manuscaco thing has me out of my mind. But there’s even one more thing before that that I want to go first. And I say, Hi, Hi, I’m Johnny mcdaily Comedy News. You figured all that outl ready. Let’s do this a little cornack Red Fox, Rick James and Buckwheat, Red Fox, Rick James and Buckwheat.
You see, there’s this new Eddie Murphy documentary that I don’t even think I mentioned. Yesterday was so packed. That’s out on Netflix. We’re gonna have a ton of Eddie Murphy press this week. He’ll be out making the rounds and I’m sure I’ll do a lot of Eddie stories this the week goes on.
But this headline was too good. Red Fox, Rick James and Buckwheat. Eddie Murphy told USA Today, I paid for a lot of funerals, but I don’t go to funerals Eddie, who’s sixty four now, which is just terrifying because he used to be nineteen back when I was fourteen thirteen. Eddie revealed that he has paid for the funerals of Red Fox Rick James, purchased tombstones for William Buckwheat, Thomas Junior, who you may know from The Little Rascal Slash Our Gang Slash Eddie playing a version of that character on SNL, and Tim Moore, who played Kingfish on Amos and Andy. Eddie shared he’d only attended two funerals in his life.
The first was for his biological father, Charles Edward Murphy, and for his stepfather Vernon Lynch. Eddie said they shouldn’t even have funerals. I’m like, this funeral is morbid. The whole people in attendant sing your loved one out there emotionally. The whole ritual is too much.
So no JUDGMENTI I’m just observing that implies. Eddie did not attend the funeral of his brother, Charlie Murphy. Eddie said he plans to be cremated when his time comes. I’m on that same boat, Eddie says. When I kick out, I’m not having no funeral and being laying up there and people coming and look at me, luring me on the ground, and there’s no funeral and there’s no memorial, none of that stuff.
Just keep it rolling, none of that trauma. It’s way too much a funeral. I agree. Eddie doesn’t care what happens with his ashes. He says, I don’t give an f what they do with them.
Just as long as you don’t have people standing around in my ashes and not trying to be in the urn while everybody’s crying. I don’t want to have that moment, Okay. Sebastian Maniscalco’s trailer Johnny Mack, you’ve been screaming about it for two days. How bad could it be? Well, I’m going to play it for you, but I need you to understand.
Why don’t you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group where I posted this trailer, Because what you’re not going to see here on this audio podcast is just the stupid faces Sebastian is making to sell these jokes. I mean, like hacks are like, oh my God, are you a hack? This is just unbelievable. Now, I’ll play you the material. The material is not great, but when you add on the stupid faces, this is just atrocious.
So this has me wondering. Is hilarious where comedy acts go to? Like Bill Burr went on hilarious and handing in his worst special, Gaffigan Special was not his best? Is hilarious not the place for good comedy. It’s hilarious where you go when you’re on your way down?
Is that what hilarious is? I’m out of my mind at this trailer, So I’ve made a couple of its here because there’s a lot of music and you don’t need to hear the music. I’ll leave the comedy parts alone, but please understand you’re not seeing the horrific faces. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News. Did I say YouTube earlier?
It’s a Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group on Facebook. Daily Comedy News Podcast Group on Facebook. I have posted this trailer. You have to see how bad it is. But let’s listen.
I have a mild case of sleep app ding. This is where I’m at. I’m gonna take my mouth shut so I don’t pass away in my sleep. If someone came to rob my house, they would look at me and go, someone was already here. Let’s go.
I went to a drug store today. It took out can by the way you take out cash nowadays, like kryptonite. This kid was in his early twenties. He’s like, what is that? I said, it’s money.
It’s used for goods and services. Some people do venmo. Maybe you went out to dinner. Somebody paid, and then the rest of the group said, no, well. Venmo you later, no, you pay me.
No you ever look at Jeff Bezos thirty years ago. I was a complete nerd. You take a look at Bezos now ripped the shreds on his super yacht in the Medidaranian and the. Boxes keeping coming. What’s the doctor comes in.
She’s like, we’re gonna need some urine. Gotta tell you people something. My sample for you. I wouldn’t mind next to a guys that look like Scotch. I’m not handing in root beer as a sample.
I mean, she Louise Sebastian, what is going on with that? Not good? Not good?
All right, let’s stop off on gossip corner.
One of the Facebook group members sent me this one on the side. This was on Instagram. Somebody on Instagram goes by the handle McCoy jen Fan. Now, I don’t know if this is true or not, but this is according to McCoy jen Fans, so this may not be true at all. This is not news.
This is gossip Corner. McCoy Jenfans said of Nicky Glazer’s controversial SNL appearance. And I assume this is during Good Nights. I’ll have to go look at this. The musical guest standing next to her, but she had to turn around and approach and impose herself on the cast.
I saw Chloe Feinneman roll her eyes to another cast, remember when she looked at Nicky’s direction. Historically, if the SNL cast ostracizes the host after the episode, that means it bombed and they didn’t like them. Nicky proved history right. All right, now, I have this on the DVR. I’m going to pause my recording and look at this myself.
Be right back well to you. I’ll be back in half a second. Okay, it is a half second later. I have here on my phone the Utube TV app where we don’t get the Disney channels, No ABC, we don’t support fascism on the YouTube app. I’m gonna hit play here, so you’ll kind of here.
It should sound like a guy playing Saturday Night Live on his phone. That is what it should sound to you. This is not the usual audio rips I do. And I’ll do a little play by play here. Let’s see.
Okay, I have it paused. There’s a still card of Nikki Glaser. I’m one hour, thirty two minutes and fifty four seconds into a file that is one thirty five oh five. I’m gonna hit play here. Let’s see what happens.
All right, there’s Nicky in the middle. Michael, this amazing cast, and this was one of the best weeks of my entire life. Thank you so much for all right, and we’re zooming out, and no one is approaching Nicki. All right, she hugged Uh she hugged Somber, I guess and uh yeah, No one wants to talk to Nicky Glazer at all. Oh wow, this is awkward.
Wow. All right, you got to actually see this for yourself, if you’ve a way to see it. No one approaching her at all, and that’s it. Wow. Yeah, wow.
Okay, Now I’m going to go to the previous week and see what happened. Be back in half a second. Okay, I’m back. I tried to look at the Miles Teller episode, which is also one thirty five oh five, but it seems to get cut off before the good night. So here I have queued up here Sabrina Carpenter’s episode from three weeks ago, and we are one thirty two twenty into a file that’s one thirty three forty six.
As a hit play here, she’s center stage with the cast standing in a very similar formation to the Nikky episode. The Sabrina was her own musical guest, so there’s not a musical guest with her, and let me hit play here. Let’s see what happens. I’m sure. Thank you everybody.
Thank you so much to Lauren, Thank you to the amazing past and crew. This has been one of my biggest dreams and I’m so so grateful. Thank you guys for having me, thank you for laughing, and thank you create such an amazing audience. And he very nice. Okay, no one approaching her yet.
Let’s see, she’s just in the middle. She’s walking back now she is being hugged by cast members and it got cut off for an NBA promo. So I’m not sure I have enough evidence there, but the nicky Glazer does seem a little awkward. The San Francisco Gate went with this headline, fired SNL comic jokes about the Warriors and Nancy Pelosi at San Francisco set. You know who the fired SNL comic is?
Shane Gillis? Is that what his resume is? Just forever? Just that he was invited to the cast, disinvited, and he’s now been on the show twice, so it seems like we’re all over it. And it’s not like he played the Riodd Comedy Festival.
We’re really just gonna call Shane Gillis fired SNL comic forever. I guess we are. The SF Gate right says tens of thousands descended on the Chase Center, blowing vape smoke and chugging last minute bud lights. It’s easy to forget what an odd route headliner Shane Gillis is taken to the top of the comedy industry. They are minus.
In twenty nineteen, Gillis was hired and probably fired by SNL. If you listen to me every day, you’re probably familiar with that. I will skip ahead. Early into his hour long set, Shane Gillis said this will all end soon, The Gate tells us. Gillis referenced his friendship with Joe Rogan and made jokes about pedophilia, Black Lives Matter, and people with Down syndrome, but no one at the Chase Center walked out, We’re so much as booed their displeasure.
Gillis apparently was approving of the crowd’s stomach for his more controversial material and said, Okay, you guys can f around a little. The Gates says, for what it’s worth, the only I’ve heard at a Bay Area comedy show where when Dave Chappelle brought out Elon Musk, Gillis told a joke about going to a Pride parade. It did not go over, and he said that one might have been more transphobic than funny, which is a great way to recover. We’re told Gillis was a welcome relief after his two openers, James McCann and Tommy Pope, slogged their way through tire jokes about the WNBA in San Francisco’s gay population. They add, it’s hard to get an exact read on Gillis’s politics.
He freely admits he looks like the kind of person who’d resegregate schools, but he’s taken as many shots at the right as he does the left. Jim Gaffigan got a major watch job by Variety while Johnny Mack was on a plane the other day. By the way, I forgot to mention yesterday show, if you are traveling, be ready, Just be ready. My flight home took off at two twenty am. That was not the plan.
It’s a mess out there. When we landed at Newark, I counted there were two runways. I counted on the closer runway twenty five planes waiting to take off. The other runway had more than twenty five. I would guess forty or so just waiting.
Because you know, you leave your gate, so your flight is technically on time. The departures on time. The arrival that’s the arrival airports problem. But we took off from gate B seventy three. We’re good here.
What a mess, stay home. Watch job for Jim Gaffigan from Variety. They write, if Tom Hanks is known as the ever man of movies, you know the ordinary guy so approachable and unpretentious that just about anybody can relate to him in one way or another. Then Jim Gaffigan is the every man of comedy. Are they saying that Tom Hanks wouldn’t call you back if you helped him early in his career?
Is that what they’re saying about Tom Hanks? That’s not cool, Tom Hanks. If somebody had you on the radio show when you weren’t that well known, and you would come up, and then suddenly you were too good to come up, people would say you were a jerk Tom Hanks. I hope that’s not true. That would be awful if that were true of Tom Hanks.
I can’t believe Tom Hanks would behave that way. Pauseka’s hostess making himself laugh. Jim Gaffigan focuses his humor on everyday observations about universal experiences. Jim said of the current climate, not the actual climate, the political climate. Jim said, I think this will go down in history, and it may be ending as we speak, but this is the best time that stand up comedy has ever had.
When I started Versus, even in the time of Lenny Bruce or George Cartland, comedy was a much more middle class, lower middle class occupation, meaning there wasn’t an expectation of upper middle class existence. Now, if you’re a functional comedian, you can make a great living. So from a monetary standpoint, like having a kind of financial security, it would never exist, but it exists now. Jim talked about not putting politics in the act, but used the pandemic as an example, and he said, there were expectations that you can address it. But people, we’ve gone through the pandemic, we don’t hear too much about it.
Meetians that will have very strong views. You know, I have a formula bringing up this hot button issue. Their audience will stay with them. They’ll have some brilliant insights surrounding it. But I’m kind of the opinion, you know, people they want to live in denial, but they also want to break from it.
I think that might be majorly informed by the one time Jim did get political on Twitter and got a lot of comments in his general direction. The article then gets a lot of run from Caroline Hirst, who seems to be pretty tight with the variety folks. Caroline’s getting a lot of press during this festival anyway, Jim Gaffigan wax job in Variety, and Bill Burr still getting a lot of work despite playing the reodd Comedy Festival doesn’t seem to have messed him up at all. He’s even nominated for a Grammy Award. Well.
Bill Burr is joining the cast of Bender, a coming of age comedy which is going to film in Ireland next spring. It’s described as super bad meets dairy Girls. Doesn’t that sound fantastic? Yeah? Bender is based on the late seventies punk Dublin coming of age experiences of Adrian Cunningham, who wrote the script.
The story unfolds around the frenzy surrounding the impending visit by the Pope. Bill Burr plays a gruff American record store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that they’re best and possibly only chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Is at a massive open air mass for visiting the Pope. Are you just imagine this? Hey?
You want to get laid, you gotta go see the Pope? Okay, like that is that what Bill Burr’s doing? Now? Okay, Johnny Mack, you are feisty today. I told you The Sebastian trailer really wound me up.
I had to record back to back all right. New York Comedy Festival continues. See if the website’s working today, Johnny said, you taped it back to back episodes. You know that the website’s working. You just used it ten minutes ago.
Look go with the bit, will you. I’m not reading fifty things like I did on yesterday’s podcast. Let’s look for big names. You don’t make this easy. No no no no no no no no no no.
That’s ten no no. Todd Glass, no no no, no, no no no. Alex Borstein at seventh thirty at the Bell House. Mike Kaplan at q ed Astoria at seventh thirty. I mean, Mike’s pretty solid and probably the best comic I’ve mentioned in a couple of days.
And he’s doing Queens and I’m from Queen’s. I’m allowed to insult Queen’s. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, boy, this is just it’s just off this year. Matty Smith at nine fifteen. No no no no no.
Chris Gethard at ten o’clock at UCB Comics to watch Unrepped at ten. Leonard Hoods at ten thirty. I mean, he’s really good, but nobody knows how it is and not your Wednesday at the New York Comedy Festival. Well let’s do this one because Wednesday is trivia night. Now, I know the trivia guys listen, and no, I haven’t been there, not that it really matters.
With the trivia guys, They’ve got this whole business going on. The place is so outed. We’re at the point of the Yogi bar line of nobody goes there. It’s two crowded. The trivia guys got it rocky.
I mean, I have to leave my house like an hour and a half before trivia to make sure I get my table in the corner. So trivia guys, I know you listen. I appreciate you listening. I feel bad I have to be there. It’s just been such a busy, crazy months.
My plan is to be there this evening. But I saw this story and I was thinking, maybe we should combine forces from La Magazine, Comedy Club, The Crow, and Santa Monica. I should have hit it when I was out there over the weekend. I had a very busy weekend. They have Trivial comedy, an intense, hilarious news show for stand up lovers, fun fact enthusiasts, and everyone in between.
Right, how does this work? Each show welcomes five comedians each do a ten minute set around a classic pub trivia category like or it’s an entertainment or sports. Between the comedian sets, the host asked the audience trivia questions. Trivia guys, we gotta combine. We’ll talk to other brewery folks, set up shop on a Saturday night.
There’s a thing here. First place wins fifty bucks. Best team name gets a free beer. I don’t know how we’ll decide who has the best team name, and it won’t be me, because I’m just gonna use the team name I use every week. Audience members can play in teams up to four one of the host set.
I’ve seen people who don’t know each other but join teams together just because they want maximum power. As a trivia expert who often finishes in tenth place, here’s what you gotta do. You can’t just have a bunch of guys in their late fifties early sixties. That doesn’t work. You gotta have one of the guys bring their twenty something year old daughter and then she gets like five extra points because the trivia guys they’ll ask what I call the Ariana Grande questions that we just don’t know.
But when daughter comes then you get those points. And those are the weeks that you do okay, and you get a T shirt or a hat. You’re a growler. And I’ll leave you with this. Comedian Catherine Ryan gotten in some trouble.
She was on the original UK version of Have I Got News for You, and she called Sir David Beckham the C word. Yeah, she was hosting the show. The conversation turned to Sir Beckham being knighted by King Charles. I’m sure you listen to the Palace Intrigue podcast that are right four and you know all about that story. If you don’t Palace Intrigue wherever you get your shows.
Apparently in the past, Sir Beckham was upset that he hadn’t been knighted and had called the Honors committee unappreciative sea words and said it was a disgrace they had been snubbed from the New Year’s Honors list. However, now that he’s a knight Comedian Mazie Adam was on the panel and said it would have been nice and maybe poetic if Charles had gotten his own back, nighting him and going a rise, You sea word. Katherin Ryan tagged with, I don’t know if we’re allowed to broadcast the sea word, but you did reference Victoria Beckham earlier, and we’ll allow that ouch. And that’s your comedy news for today by