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Caloroga Shark Media. Are they armed? Johnny mac with your Daily Comedy News John Stewart at the New York Comedy Festival started talking about Mayor elect Zorn Mamdani. John asked the crowd, are you excited about Mamdani? You’re the ones moving out.
Everybody’s nervous. He’s going to turn the city into a crap hole. That’s why I moved here. Didn’t we move here because New York’s of crap hole? We didn’t come here because it’s nice.
If you can’t make it here, you can’t make it anywhere. John said, I’m excited to see what the guy does. People say, are you worried about anti semitism? John’s tag. I’ll be honest with you, I’m not worried about anti semitism.
I mean I think anti semitism will be fine. Taylor Tomison heading back to television. Nope, she’s not getting a late night talk show. Those are over. Apparently, she has filmed a new special at Michigan’s Fountain Street Church, a one year old church in Grand Rapids.
She do two warm up shows on the thirtieth and thirty first taped to perform is on the first She also directed this special, her fourth. Netflix has not yet announced a release date for the new special. Matt Rife will have a special, this one called Matt Rife Unwrapped, a Christmas CrowdWork Special. This one will be out on Netflix on December two. On the marysu dot com, Rachel Leischmann wrote, Matt Rife is now doing a CrowdWork special since his jokes didn’t work.
Rachel apparently not a fan, right. Matt Rife is a quote unquote comedian who often uses his CrowdWork to make people think he’s good at stand up. So when his stand up specials inevitably failed, people realize quickly that he isn’t as funny as his TikTok page. Let people believe now, the quote unquote comedian is releasing a special built entirely around crowd work. Why is that?
Oh, because that’s what Rife was quote unquote good at. Rachel Leishman writes, I don’t like Rife’s style of comedy. It’s not really stand up. He just basically has a conversation with people and says things that people might deem funny. But he’s not going into comedy shows with jokes prepared I’ll comedy snow belong with you here, sure, but I have to understand the casuals sitting on the couch they hit play on Netflix.
Did they laugh? Did they not laugh? Did they have a good time? Did they not have a good time? And they’re going to have a good time watching Matt Rife do crowd work.
Now, if you want to stand in the back at a comedy seller and smoke cigarettes and be a snob about it, I’ll hang out with you. I get it. I do it all the time. On this podcast, Rachel writes, when did he prepare his jokes for his previous stand up specials? They were sexist and not at all funny.
So what does it say about him as a comedian. He can talk to people, but ask him to write something and it’s going to be offensive and rude. Chance with So, if you want to spend your holidays with Matt Rife, I guess your Christmas wish came true. I don’t want to spend my holidays with Matt Rife. I mean, he’s welcome, come over.
I’ll hang out with him. But the specials out December seconds, which you know isn’t really the holidays, is it? Bret Goldstein, who has one of the best comedy specials of the year. He’s going to star as an accidental male escort in a new series for Amazon Prime. It’s called Escorted.
Bret Goldstein will play a divorced father in Manhattan who accidentally becomes a male escort in this romantic comedy about second chances, the mayhem of cope, parenting, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought copyrighting rule of three. You want more things to watch on TV? Okay, how about Mike Tyson’s Return of the Mike Tour. Mike is going to film a comedy special December fourteenth at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood. Mike, who did not appear at the Riod Comedy Festival, has done some worse things in his life.
You could look up his resume, but I guess we’re all cool. Sure comedy special Why Not? Hard Rock and Netflix announced that Mike Tyson’s highly anticipated live show Return of the Mike will be filmed for an upcoming global Netflix special, giving fans worldwide the chance to experience the boxing icon’s most honest and hilarious performance yet. Mary Beth Baron. She’s getting a Netflix special that’s right known on the stand up side for her self aware, darkly postmodern material.
Mary Beth Baron is also a writer and actor. No date yet on that special. Dany Kaaling is working on a new comedy called Not Suitable for Work that’ll be on Hulu. So you’re gonna have to decide do you support fascism in the ABC Disney Company? Where do you walk all the way upstairs and get the scrubs DVDs like those of us who are four freedom are doing up to you whatever you want.
I like this bit. Not Suitable for Work has added twelve new cast members. That’s a lot, mindy twelve. This does not include the one, two, three, four, five already announced leads. There’s twelve additional people.
What are we doing? Victor Garber will play West Dryden, the host of a prestigious investigative journalism ship. Greg German is David Teitelbaum, Josh’s father and the powerful chairman of a major media conglomerate. Judy Gold will play paula longtime producer at the West Dryden show. Eggelnwotam will play Kate Woodson, the assistant head of School, an exclusive all girls private school in Manhattan.
This sounds horrible. Harry Richardson has been cast as movie star internet boyfriend Austin Blanchette. Constance Wu has been cast as Vanessa Sue, an intense and demanding celebrity stylist. Laura Bell Bundy has been cast as AJ’s mom. Amy Stella Everett will play Vivian, who’s Josh’s girlfriend who takes pride in her work as a social worker.
May Hang plays Jocelyn, an associate at the New York Investment Bank Fisher Stassin. What are we doing? Bavesh Patel has been cast as Deleep, a VP at the New York Investment Bank Fisher Stassin. Oh, there’s more, and I’m not going to stop. This is what Mindy Kayling wants you to watch.
Amelia Suarez has been cast as Elena, a smart and capable intern at the West Dryden Show. Michael Benjamin Washington has been cast as a landlord and aspiring dancer Antuan. There’s no premier date yet for Not Suitable for Work. It’ll be on Hulu again. If you want to support fascism, you can get Hulu and remember we as we’ve learned this week.
Hilarious is where your career starts to go on the downside. Hi, mindy, how you doing? You want more TV? I have more TV. Rory scovel has been tapp is the co lead opposite Rachel Bloom in an ABC half hour pilot Do You Want Kids?
Now? ABC? At Disney. Those are those guys that kick Jimmy Kimmel off the air. So you got to decide do you like Rory scapable or is more fascism?
You gotta pick? Here? Did I watch them Monday Night Football this week? I didn’t. I have you two TV where there is no Disney, There’s no conflict there, and I still won the football pool Scott Beckett.
I don’t need to watch the games, not just pick. I even told Scott Beckett what the system is. I’ll tell all of you. If the spreads more than three and a half, take the points, that’s it. That’s the entire system.
Anyway. On the fascist show Do You Want Kids, Rory plays Alex, Rachel Bloom plays Rosie, and the show delves into how their lives are dramatically altered in a sliding doors style exploration of one universe where they have a child and another where they don’t. That is way too complicated for an ABC sitcom. Even in the time of freedom. ABC viewers can’t handle that, guys.
Vanity Fair asked David Kross about all those people that were going to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected. Cross said, back then, I thought it was a little hysterical and hyperbolic and dramatic, and I certainly didn’t engage in that. But the difference is all the things we’ve discussed Ice as a bunch of proud boys, people enjoy beating people up and enjoying the kind of power and are now being given badges and guns and told go get them boys. And if that person points their camera at you and they’re filming, you can go and curb stomp them.
That’s fine. And that old sixty five year old priest is trying to say, please, don’t shove them in the street. They don’t care about anybody but white nationalists. That’s who’s in the streets now. So that’s different.
You know, there’s no law anymore, so yeah, things are a bit different. Cat Williams has defeated a lawsuit over a midtown brawl. This news out of Atlanta. Cat had been accused of assaulting four women outside Inn Atlanta club in twenty sixteen. The reports say, with a legal technicality, Cat Williams says dodged the lawsuit.
The case was thrown out last week by a federal judge who said the women missed their deadline to serve Williams with their complaint despite receiving authority to use the US Marshal Service. That’s all I know about it. I would like to tell you more, but that’s all I half. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, gossip corn, probably about Pete. Gossip con Aware are the rumors meeting with Johnny Mack.
It’s always a tree. We are on gossip corner and it is about Pete from the Sun, which is not only the star at the center of the solar system in which you live, which gives you light and heat. It’s also a UK tabloid and they say Pete Davidson and Colin, Joe Staten Island Ferry Retavoc. I’ve made myself laugh at my dumb jokes. Sorry, Retavoc on the New York City Marathon and caused major delays for runners.
Now, I, as you know, am a two time New York City Marathon finisher. So I am on team Marathon here. What did these horrible faery people do? The faery guys they got some money from Nike. The faerry was painted red with Nike branding and the text NYC won’t carry you, it pushes you run.
The ferry was tugged into the waters near the Verizontal Bridge. A source tells the son again the newspaper not these are at the center of the solar system. Beaton Collins ferry caused a delay for runners taking the ferry to Staaten Island for the start of the marathon. Some people thought it was a joke, but it wasn’t. You see, the runners ferries were leaving about twenty minutes later than they should have, and they were told there were issues with Staten Island helping the guys with the ferry was causing him back up on the river.
Everybody was already anxious, so it was a bit frustrating. Now I can see that being stressful. As you know, I’m a two time year City Marathon finisher and I when I do the race, I take the ferry there because it’s nice. You know, you get to like chill out on the boat a little bit and look out and you see the Statue of Liberty and you get good views of the New York Harbor. But then you have to get on a shuttle boss and then you have to get to the village, and you want to time that because if it’s a little cold, and it was a little cold this year, you don’t want to get to the village too early because then you’re just standing around freezing, And then you have to decide, am I going to run in the sweatshirt that’s keeping me warm?
Or do you throw it away? I did it one year the first The second time I did it was warm. I just ran in what I brought. The first year, they had a system where a lot of people just throw their running gear away and just I don’t know. I’m a bartender son, I just don’t think that way.
So you could pay to have your extra sweatshirt shipped back to you, which is what I did on my first marathon twelve years ago. I digress, So anyway, I could see how that would be stressful if you’re like, hey, I just want to get to Staten Island. Why is Pete Davidson’s ferry in my way from cron dot com. John Mulaney spotted at a museum. Yeah, he was at the Manial Collection in Montrose.
The museum posted John Mulaney dropped by the Manial Collection this morning, following his tour stop in Houston this over the weekend. Thank you for visiting out today. On the eight hundred pound Gorilla, Angela Johnson races, say I won’t the Spanish dubbed release. That’s interesting. The near Ak Comedy Festival continues with almost no buzz.
Told you it’s a big city. The lineup is just not there this year. Love the people, but they’ve had bigger in the past.
All right, let’s check out the schedule.
Oh look, they listened to me. They added a new button. We can start with the date you actually want to look at. Wow, imagine that. Okay, I’m not reading you everything.
I’m just going to tell you if I see any big names. No, no, Morgan Jay at seven. Let’s say no Morgan Jay show at seven listed for a second time. I’ve told you this is not the best website. Let’s say no, no, no, no, no.
Oh boy, they are extra sloppy today. Connor Wood presents Fibbs and Friends listed twice. He’s at the Gramercy Theater at seven o’clock twice. No, No, the ever so serious Harry Condobolo. Yeah, he’s at Union Hall at seven thirty.
Good comedian there, serious man, but very good comedian Anthony DeVito and friends. Is Anthony DeVito? A name? Eight o’clock at grow thirty four. Emil jakem Is he a name?
I guess he was on SNL eight o’clock at the Artlow Williamsburg. Boy, his show’s listed twice too. Come on, New York Comedy Festival, get this together? What are you doing? Natalie Cuomo?
Is Natalie Cuomo a name? At the Bell House at ten o’clock and uh like five more nos. That’s the New York Comedy Festival. Tonight the Flyover Comedy Festival kicks off in Saint Louis. Their headliners in clue as he’sin.
Sorry, he’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. So his tours included Saint Louis and Kyle Kanine, who’s a Greek comic who was not at the real comedy festival. Patti Harrison and Dulce Sloan to receive their website’s any good we should all right, I’m clicking on schedule here. All I want to know is who’s playing? Oh they have grid technology.
Wait, maybe it’s time for me to just end the podcast. I may have completed my life’s mission to have a comedy festival put out a schedule that is actually usable. Good job, flyover comedy festival. See here. It’s really easy for me to tell you Kyle Canad at eight o’clock.
We would absolutely go see Kyle if we were there. This is great. Bookmark this one for tomorrow. Tracy Morgan spoke to CBS about his time on Saturday Night Live. He said, when I first got there, I felt socially pushed away because it is like the whitest show in the world, and I don’t want no one to portray me in a way that wasn’t true.
It was like I had the whole black community on my back. Lauren, let me know, Tracy, we didn’t hire you because you’re black. We hired you because you’re funny. That changed at all. That’s where I let go and I let god.
Jim Brewer was on the cast at that same time, and he was friends with Tracy. Jim, what were your SNL days like Jim said, overall, I have great memories. Had come from a very blue collar family. We never went on vacations. We lived near JFK Airport.
My dad worked in sanitation, sometimes with Barten during the week after work. My mom worked too, for Pan American Airlines. So being this kid from Long Island, I couldn’t believe I was getting to meet all these bands stars came on the show. I really enjoyed that part, but it was really extremely competitive and there were a lot of egos and some backstabbing. That was tough.
I also wrestled with some things I witnessed or learned about certain celebrities. My eyes opened. I couldn’t believe how they could get away with particular things. The mature me today could handle that. However, back then I really struggled emotionally with some of what I saw.
All Right, Jim, did you have a favorite memory from SNL? Jim says, one has to be meeting Joe Peshey. I did in imitation of him, and he went out of his way to do a sketch with me. To sit and have a conversation with him was just incredible. I also enjoyed meeting Jack Nicholson.
At the time, those guys were my idols, but my all time favorite memory he’s making Lorne Michael’s man. I have seen everything and everyone lose himself After the first time I imitated Joe Peshi and did goat Boy to watch him not be able to control his laughter. That’s a moment I will never ever forget and that issue comedy needs for today. I’ll catch you tomorrow.