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Caloroga Shark Media. Man. I love doing this show. Hi. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
Our leadof story today involves a fight, and I enjoy a good fight. This from pract dot com. Apparently a former Saturday Night Live intern caught Michael Chay’s attension. The former intern posted an Instagram reel exposing the shows behind the scenes culture of manipulation. Now, I just want to point out I don’t want to beat up on this person, who I think is younger than I am.
But the person does share a surname with me. So if you look up the story and yourself, I do not know this person. I am not related to this person. I have never met a person who does share a surname with me who has this particular first name. So I have no association with this person.
But I don’t want to say their name because I just want to do the story and not like really beat up on this person, who I disagree with a lot of the opinions here. As you’re about to hear, the former Saturday Night Live intern spilled the tea, repeating damning accusations against the show that made by plenty of others. Okay, well, wonder what happens? What is the tea? She says, Hey, you want to know why SNL has so much turnover?
She blames Lorne Michaels. No way, the showrunner of Saturday Night Live is responsible for cast turnovers. Holy cow wow, she says. Loren Michaels loves power, and he loves creating emotional crises. Sees in the lives of people who are younger than him.
Lauren’s eighty. Everybody’s younger than him. The former intern says, Ooh, it’s creepy when you think about it. She says that it’s nuts that accomplished comedian should sit on the floor of Lorne Michael’s office to pitch ideas, with Lorne deciding which sketches make the cut. Really, what’s crazy about that?
Have you never worked in a bullpen? I’ve worked at radio stations. I ran a comedy radio station. We had a bullpen. We called it the bullpen.
You go in, if there’s a cherry, you grab one. Maybe you’ll lean up against a desk, Maybe you sit on a floor. That’s what you do. You weren’t Saturday Night Live? What did you want him to have?
How are we supposed to pitch sketches. Should we stand? Should we bring folding chairs with us? Like? What is the proper method to pitch sketches?
To the showrunner of the show, this is crazy cracked, quotes the former in turn and saying, guess what he built the process in the seventies. It’s an insane workflow that requires lots of caffeine at least to survive. Your mind and your body are going to break down. People go off on the deep end of the place all the time. You don’t sleep for literally years of your life, which is a torture tactic.
Now, now that’s not true. I’m not a medical expert, but I’m pretty sure I’m confident here. If you did not sleep for literally years, Like if right now you said, Johnny Mackham, calling your bluff, it’s twenty twenty five. I’m not going to sleep for years as plural, so we’ll make that too. I’m not going to sleep until November of twenty twenty seven.
I would say, oh, yeah, you’re going to die. Please don’t do that. I don’t want you to die. Appreciate listening to the podcast. Please at some point in the next two years, literally sleep, The former intern says, you can’t have sustainable friendships outside of that place for years at a time, for the duration of your time there.
It’s kind of like a cult. Crack, says. The former intern says she has a degree in comedy from NYU’s Film School. The intern claims SNL asked her to interview after her senior year, but she turned them down and said you would know my name by now. Cracked editorializes note to former intern, nobody knows the name of SNL’s writers.
All this was noticed by Michael Chay, who jumped in on the comments. Michael Ja posted you learned all that getting coffee? Oh. The intern responded, it’s incredible what people reveal in front of you when they treat you like you’re invisible. Chase shot back, doesn’t sound bitter at all.
The intern, rather than folding, goes back in and says, I’m genuinely not. Chay responded yep, yep, yep, and apparently they kept going back and forth. Fans on Reddit believed that Michael Jay was truly one user. He’s doing it for fun. His entire Instagram persona is being an edge lord.
Another editor said, honestly, you learned all that by getting coffee is such a great line that I don’t see how Jay could resist.
Speaking of Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy, he’s been in the press lately.
Did you see the documentary in it? Eddie Murphy explained it was Lorne Michael’s idea to ask Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Tracy Morgan to join in Eddie Murphy’s monologue. Boy, this Lauren Michael’s person just sounds horrible. Chris Rock said the Eddie Murphy return episode went so well that he told Lauren Michaels it was one of the greatest SNLS ever. And I walked over to Lauren Michaels when it was over and I said, you should quit right now.
It’s not getting any better than this. I think Chris Rock has been right. Has there been a better episode since that episode? Now? There’s been some good ones.
Firstly, I think the time to get out was SNL fifty and eighty years old. I think everybody would have been like, good job. Josh Johnson tells Billboard Every Tuesday I post a new set. Sometimes it’s extremely topical or political, and sometimes it’s more cultural pop. I really love doing it.
We premiere live every Tuesday at nine pm and hop in the chat, meet other people and have good conversation with everybody. Then the sets are available for free and YouTube for the rest of time. Billboard was curious, you’ve been to a writer since twenty seventeen. At what point did you think I want to be on camera? Josh said, it wasn’t something I was gunning for years and years.
It started to set in as I got more comfortable with the show. I was having great time writing for everyone on the show that’s been years past, and I felt, all right, this could be a cool move and I could write material for myself when I’m hosting. Do you feel like you’re performing a public service? Josh said, I can only speak for myself. I very much appreciate that people love and enjoy what I do, but I think the people doing public service are doing real public service.
I don’t want to conflate making TV with making change. At the end of the day, it’s a comedy show. There are plenty of people out there doing their best to change things, whether it’s in their local community, their state, their world. The best I could do is raise awareness of who they are and what they’re doing. The Wall Street Journal asked Louis C.K.
Hey, Louis C.K. When you got in trouble, some people wrote you off for good. That’s exactly how the guy at the Wall Street Journal phrased it when they talked to c K, exactly in the tone I just did it. That was a perfect impression. You should have been in the room for the fans.
It’s stuck around ‘s Some were disappointed that you didn’t dig deeper into the roots of your behavior. Did you consider doing a special devoted to that, Louis C.K. Louis said, well, that’s suches on some really tender stuff for me, and it’s hard to talk about. One of the fundamental aspects of an experience like that is that your life departs other people’s ability to understand it. There’s a gap there, a gap of how much people can understand what I’m going through.
There’s some things that people will probably wish I wouldn’t have done or said, maybe I just wasn’t good enough, maybe I just wasn’t strong enough. Maybe they want to hear more about it, but not everybody does.
Also, maybe it’s none of your effing business why I can’t.
These are the things that go through your head. I don’t want to displease anybody. It’s hard to know that there’s people who feel disappointed, but you know the feeling’s mutual. I could see the strain in someone’s face who wishes for more, and I can understand it. There’s only so much I can do about it and take good care of myself and my family and people who love me.
By the way, for a special I did coming back, had a huge joke about it. C K said, I’m not like a guy who breaks down on stage. I got to do my job up there. When I return to work, it was like, how many people are willing to just watch me a crap ton? That’s more important to me.
There may be a day when I talk about things more. I did an interview with THEO and said a lot more than I expected to, and it felt really good. I listened to that episode. I actually didn’t make it to the end. I just the part of the street they were hanging out on.
I just didn’t want to hang out on. But I’m glad they enjoyed it. SEEK said, but I don’t read what people say anymore. I don’t read the internet. My phone is extremely restricted.
I threw the keys Away out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. It is the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. Premiere of Josh Wolfe’s Four Stories. Kathy Griffin was on The Good Guys podcast and said she had her third facelift. Now it’s really easy to just be like, oh yeah, Kathy had her third face lift.
Let’s just step the break for a second. Kathy Griffin had a third facelift. So she had a facelift, then had another face lift, and then had another facelift. Kathy Griffin told the hosts, I’m no beauty, but he did a good job. I went to Chris Jenner’s Last Guy, but it was not cheap.
They asked her how much facelift number three was. Do you want to guess? I’ll give you second here, you guess how much was facelift number three. Facelift number three was two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Kathy Griffin described getting stitches in my eyelids with a cat eye stitch to lift the corners.
She also had a stitch in her chin. Kathy explained, I actually think when you’re a chick comedian, they just go for your looks. I think that’s probably why Joe Nervis did so much, because she was really pretty. I’m from a generation where agents thought nothing back of the day of saying stuff like, yeah, they loved your audition, but they’re going to go attractive sorry, or with a nose job, you might have a chance. So I went and got a nose job.
Hey, let me in on this one. I’ve wanted to get to this one. I’ve got a little room today. This from AOL dot com Johnny Mack, did you prep the show in nineteen ninety six? No, ap Pearly there’s still AOL dot com.
And this came up in the course of my travels. Fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to two thousands. Okay, let’s count that out. The sixties, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, and the zeros, so fifty years of comedians. And these are the fifteen comedians.
Remember I said the word comedians. Here the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to the two thousands. Ready, here we go. Here’s what AOL dot com says. I’m not sure how these are ordered, but they did have a Number one here, Robin Williams.
I was a boy when Mork and Mindy came out. I don’t remember people having a crush on Robin Williams. But you know, he’s not the worst looking person I’ve ever seen, so okay, fine. Number two Lucille Ball. Now this is the sixties to the two thousands.
Did people have a crush on Lucy especially like in the eighties old Lucy with the cigarette voice. Now the very young Lucille Ball. Nice looking lady, but I love Lucy’s from the fifties and the aol dot com article are the fifteen comedians. Everyone, not just some people. Everyone had a crush on in nineteen sixties to the two thousands.
I’m not slagging on Lucille Ball born in nineteen eleven, so in nineteen sixty which is part of the aol dot com article here, Lucy Ball was post I Love Lucy and forty nine years old at a time when people aged a little older than they do now. If you want proof of that, watch the movie Diamonds Are Forever. I say this quite seriously. If you gave me six months, I would get myself in shape, get myself a suit, and I would look as good as Sean Connery does in Diamonds or Forever. Seawan does not look great in that movie.
He’s only thirty nine years old, and at fifty six, I can get myself in Diamonds for Forever Shape. Can I get myself into Doctor Noe Sean Connery? Shape? Absolutely not. With Sean Connery the sexiest man alive in the eighties, he sure was.
That’s the thing that happened nineteen eighty nine, Sean Connery was fifty nine years old. But I’m not talking about fifty nine year old Shan Connery. I’m talking about thirty nine year old Diamonds Forever Sean Connery. Watch the film or just google it. He looks fifty six years old anyway.
Number two on the AOL list Lucy ol Ball forty nine years old or perhaps older again, nuts slagging on her, just saying this is a This is a list, and we’re not done with the list yet. Continuing the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to the two thousand, so for we have Robin Williams and Lucille Ball, Eddie Murphy I was around in the eighties. Eddie Murphy hilarious. I don’t remember people having a crush on Eddie Murphy, but again, maybe I just misremember. Number four Bill Murray.
I think people did have a crush on Bill Murray. So yeah, Tina Fay, people did have crushes on Tina Fey, so I think that’s fair. Number six Steve Martin, I don’t remember that. I remember Steve being like a really big comedy star for a while there before he picked up the banjo and became an actor. But again, I was young.
I want to argue with you. Number seven Jim Carrey. Okay, you know I’m a straight dude, but I could see it. He was in a nice picture of young Jim Carrey. Sure.
Number eight Goldie Hawn. Absolutely, who didn’t love Goldie Hawn? I’m not sure. I think of her as a comedian, comedic actress, Sure, fantastic. Who doesn’t like Goldie Hawn?
So that’s a little out there to me. Chevy Chase, Now, I know, as Chevy Chase aged, he got a bit of a reputation, But I could see in the seventies people being into Chevy Chase. I don’t think that’s ridiculous. Continuing the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties two to the two thousands. Number ten, Carol Burnett, they say, a heartwarming icon whose kindness and goofiness made everyone feel at home.
She didn’t just make people laugh, she made them feel loved. Carol Burnett, number ten, Number eleven on the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on John Candy. Sure, absolutely, who didn’t have a crush on John Candy? Number twelve, the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler thirteen, Gilda Radner fourteen, Ellen DeGeneres. And we’ve gone a long way for a joke here, but number fifteen Jerry Seinfeld.
I don’t remember anyone having a crush on Jerry Seinfeld, except maybe perhaps a seventeen year old girl. And that’s your comedy news for today by