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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Sketch Fast back for its twenty third year. It is a great festival. I had the occasion two attended, I think twice.
This year they’ll celebrate the Kids in the Hall, thirtieth anniversary, Breen Candy Live read, and also include a tribute to the women of SNL. All star appearances include I won’t read everyone’s name, but some of you might know, Maria Bamford, Joel Kim Booster, Jedin Garoffalo, the Groundlings, John Hodgman, Eugene Merman, Chelsea Peretti, Kristin Shawl, Jenny Slate, Robert Smigel, Paul F. Tompkins, the UCB, David Wayne Mell Williams, and many more. The twenty third annual Sketchhest Festival starts January fifteenth, runs through February. First two hundred shows, five hundred performers.
Let’s break down some of the shows. The Women of SNL brings together Ellen Kleighorn and Rachel Dratch, Robin Juke, wow, Anna Guest Steer, Lorraine Newman, Julius Sweeney and Moore for a night celebrating over a fifty years of groundbreaking sketch comedy. Puppets Up Uncensored returns to Sketch Fest. Created by and featuring Brian Henson and Patrick Bristau and performed by members of the Jim Henson Company, The show turns audience suggestions into hilarious, unpredictable, and sometimes risque moments brought to life by master puppeteers. Milestones and reunions include The Kids in the Hall, Brain Candy thirtieth Anniversary Live Read in the Middle, Aged Dead jam Band celebrating twenty five years of Wet Hot American Summer with songs and scenes from the film with Ken Marino, David Wayne, Janine Graffalo and Moore.
You Want Stand Up Maria Bamford, Jedine Graffalo, Joe Kimbooster, Dulce Sloane, Eugene Mermann, Todd Barry, Andy Daly. I haven’t heard Andy’s name in a while. He’s fantastic, Brent Wineback, Eddie Peppettone, Alice Wetherland, Ed Gamble, Jennie Friedman, and others. Alternative Comedy Chaos featuring Natasha Laziro, Chelsea Peretti and Sabrina Jayley’s other highlights include Smoke Show with Jody Sweeten, Kristen Shaw’s The Legend of Crystal Shell is See What You Did There? Scott Thompson is Buddy Cole Asian af and The George Lucas Talk Show, which is a good bit.
You can also check out Dana Gould’s Hanging with Doctor Zevie, Planet of the Apes themed talk show. I’m sure I legally distinct at this point. I’m intrigued by Tight and Nerdy, which is described as a weird al burlesque that’s a lot of fun. Forty eight Hills was excited about it. They highlighted a couple shows.
They’re intrigued by the women of SNL, Joel Kim Booster’s Bad Dates plus Joel Kim Booster and Friends. I guess they’re big Joel Kim Booster fans. They’re also intrigued by the twenty fifth anniversary of Wet Hot American Summer, and they spotlighted Mark mothers Baw, who apparently is from Devo. The performance centers around Mark’s huge body of work making music and film and television, and Alex Bennett, not only friend of the show friend in real life, previous guest on this very podcast, Alex be who’s now eighty five. He’ll be at Cobbs on January thirty.
First, all right, Alex Bennett, you go, people caught up with John Mulaney. John mlanie’s out there hawking his non alcoholic beer years. Mulaney wearing dark sunglasses. Interesting, must have been sunny out said authenticity. It takes years year’s beer fake beer for recovering alcoholics and regular people.
I trigger a lot of these, and you know you don’t get messed up from it. Malini told people it’s very personal. The look of the can, the sweatshirts, the ads, it’s all designed by a tight knit group who really believe in this boy, John m’laney. If Jim Gaffigan said that sentence, I’d probably do ten minutes on him. We’re once again told the talking point that for jungk it’s less about swapping out alcohol and more about safering familiar moments from backyard hangs to rigally Field summer nights with something that feels authentic.
Now, I’m just gonna point out something that feels authentic, isn’t It just feels authentic? So support John Mulaney’s non alcoholic beer with something that feels authentic but isn’t m’lani said, as someone who used to drink non alcoholic beer, isn’t a substitute. What’s awesome about Years is this familiar Midwestern vibe being in a fishing boat with your grandpa or in someone’s backyard. It almost hits like nostalgia. Maline told people, this is all happening like a twenty five minute walk from the house I grew up in.
So this is a Chicago company coming out of a great brewing company here, and yeah, it feels like the kind of beer I enjoyed as a teenager, now able to enjoy it as a sober adult. People was totally on board with the shilling. Here they tell us whether it’s a pilsner, a pale l where the new Belgian whit beer. Mullaney calls Years beer energy without the beer the perfect fit for gatherings from friendsgiving to the driveway hang. You know, if they did have non alcoholic beer a trivia night, I would have some.
Last week, By the way we won trivia, I was as stunned as anybody. We were doing well and the trivia guys in the announced the winners. They go third, second, first, and they said they had to use the tiebreaker and I was like, ah, we probably finished fourth because we knew we got the tiebreaker wrong. And I’m like, ah, we probably just missed. Oh well.
And then they flashed third and then they flashed second, leaving only one team, which was us, and I was like, we won. We somehow won by four points. I was shocked. My team was shocked. I think the trivia guys were shocked.
They were happy for us because we go every week and never win. As much as I’ll humble break about my football pool skills, trivia, we always finish like tenth. I mean, am I going to say that the guys in the back corner table one, we’re in table two. Am I going to say the people that sit in table one have their phones out? I’m not going to say that trivia guys.
I’m not team that won two weeks in a row recently. I’m not gonna say they had their phones out. Why would somebody cheat at trivia? That would be insane. That would be like Jim Gaffigan not calling back someone who helped his career.
Why wouldn’t anyone behave like that, so I’m not gonna accuse anyone to have their phones out anyway, if they had a non alcoholic beer at the brewery, which would kind of defeat the purpose of having a brewery, I would have one. So I feel you John Mulaney who said it’s not fancy, it’s a grown up drink for people who just want to enjoy themselves and still remember it the next day. Amen, I feel you on that. So I had one beer last week and we won trivia.
Speaking of Jim Gaffigan, he was catching up with The Today Show and said rai…
And then, of course, because he’s Jim Gaffigan, and nothing Jim Gaffigan does is just straight up go. In his social media he only postedly is trying to sell you something, So of course, Jim Gaffigan said, each batch of father Time Bourbon is a tribute to the pains associated with each child. You’re trying too hard, Jim, like, that’s as much as I’ll buster chops. That’s too much to slip that in on the Today Show. It’s actually lame.
Jim said, I have five children that I’ve been able to raise because of stand up, and from what I’ve observed, they’re not gonna make any money. And it makes me realize, I don’t know if there are any other parents out there that my final task of parenting is to leave them with nothing. Maybe it’s a romantic notion, but I want them to pay for my casket. Kevin Hart, never afraid to work, he has teamed up with Keenan Thompson for a new sports talk show on Prime Video. It’s called Good Sports with Kevin Hart and Keenan Thompson.
Twelve episodes, premiering Tuesday, November twenty fifth. No. I told you last week on the Comedy stock Market by Keenan Thompson. I didn’t know this was coming. That was just like good vibes and being like, you know what, Keenan is an MVP.
Did you buy stock in Keenan Thompson, because now your stock is up? See Comedy stock Markets where it’s at each week. Good Sports promises to bring together sports super fans and comedy superstars such as Kevin Hart and Keenan Thompson, who will put a new spin on sports commentsary. Somebody was forced to write a press release, and wasn’t that good at it just handing in basic copies, saying the duo will bring their signature, unfiltered opinions and electrifying energy to the series, including their hilarious takes on everything from the NFL and NBA to neighborhood pickup games and little league drama. Kevin Hart said, Keenan and I are bringing our own playbook for good Sports, and that’s a guaranteed win.
The show gives us a chance to celebrate sports culture in a way that’s fresh, unfielded, and full of laughs. With our partners at Prime Video, We’re bringing the energy and a whole lot of love for the game, Keenan said, doing the Olympics with Kevin while but this, this is next level good Sports. Is just us being ourselves, cracking jokes and probably pulling muscles we didn’t know we had. It’s gonna be a good time. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, gossip con, probably bout Pete gossip conn Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Macott’s always a tree.
Gossip Connor whispers this tree, gossip con probably gossip gone. Where the rooms meet with Johnny Magsola’s a tree. That is one hack of a catchy song made by Ai. By the way, that is just amazing. All right, on gossip Corner, we’re not talking about Pete today, We’re talking about Amy Schumer.
I hope everything is okay here. People magazine reporting Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fisher are working through normal issues in their marriage, according to a source. The source told People they’re probably working through normal issues the couples in long term marriages have. They’re both committed to the relationship. Amy and husband Chris got married in twenty eighteen.
Schumer appeared to respond to speculation about her marriage and an Instagram story on November sixth. She had shared a picture of New York City and praised Hulu’s new series All’s Fair and captured it and Chris and I are still married now. After that, Amy deleted all her Instagram posts. So maybe that’s a clue as to why Amy deleted all the posts. Who knows, again, I do I know this a little on my voice.
I hope everything’s okay. Like I’m a knucklehead, I’m rascally, but I’m not an a hole. I don’t want anyone’s marriage to break up. If Amy starts selling a bourbon or a non alcoholic beer. I will make fun of her, but not for this.
I hope your marriage is okay. YouTube had a big hey look at us performance there. They announced a late night show. We’ll talk about that in a second. Trevor Noah was at this thing.
Trevor sung the praises of YouTube, touting its global reach that it was massive even when I joined The Daily Show. For instance, I put The Daily Show on YouTube, which a lot of people were confused by. They were like, but you’re on a channel, and it was like, yes, but that’s not where the eyeballs are. To my detriment, because people were like, I love your show on YouTube, and I was like, that doesn’t help the ratings, but it helped the show funny enough, and I think that’s something I’ve always loved Over time. I cannot see any other possibility than a creator run economy and a creator run world where the audience, the brands, and the creators themselves operate in beautiful verticals that aren’t like they once were.
It’s not a slam against anyone else. It’s just that things evolve over time. You know, at some point we all used to listen to music that was just on the radio. Now you can stream your song, your album, your music, And I think music has been better for it many ways. It means you get to enjoy what you enjoy and then discover things in and around it, and I’m really excited for all that.
He talked about YouTube’s advantages, saying the person can meet the content when they need to meet the content, the content can meet them when they need to where someone We’ve just seen this in legacy media. Great TV shows have died just because they were put in the wrong time slot. Coincidentally, Trevor Noah announced a new special which will be on the Trevor Noah official YouTube channel. It’ll be out in December. This special, called Trevor Noah the Lost SA Special, filmed in South Africa, will debut December twenty twenty five.
The never before released nine minutes stand up comedies special captures Trevor Noah performing entirely local material on the biggest stage of his career back home. As for that late night talk show, YouTube announced, it’s called Outside Tonight, hosted by Julian Shapiro Bornum, a new live, weekly late night talk show. I’m told Julian Shapiro Bornum is known for his popular online shows Reese’s Therapy and Celebrity Substitute. This is a different kind of late night show, built for the digital age. Set in public parks and on street corners.
The live shows will be packed with star studied interviews, audience driven games, live music, and NonStop comedy. Okay, discill premiere in the spring. Outside Tonight will plant its flag in parks, plazas, and street corners, leading into the spontaneity that define Shapiro Bornum’s online presence. And you’re out in a park, can’t that like really be disrupted? Like I could drive by with a megaphone and just start yelling daily comedy, news or whatever political cause I’m into or not.
Have you guys thought this one through? This is the same note to give them a any people, there’s a reason these shows are done this way. I’m all for breaking them all, I’m all for stretching the boundaries. But if you’re in a park in New York City, I mean, maybe you’ll find it exciting that ten thousand protesters walk by, but maybe some knucklehead kids will throw eggs at you. I don’t know what do I know podcasters basement.
Congrats to Joe Kim Booster mentioned earlier in this podcast. He is getting married Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers will serve as the groomsman. Matt Rodgers said, I’ll tell you what we’re not excited about is that we’re supposed to give a joint toast. That’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow