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Caalarogas shock media. Hi there, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. We try not to get political on this program, especially because the President and I don’t agree on all the issues, but on one issue that we are aligned on, it’s this whole make twelve thirty great again issue. I’m very passionate about this.
We need to get twelve thirty back to the great days of Letterman and Conan. Are changing networks, Craig Ferguson and now we have Seth Meyers. The President said Seth’s show is a ratings disaster aside from everything else, Myers says no talent and NBC should fire him immediately. Seth Myers responded to this on his twelve thirty program, which is closer in consumption to this program than it is to Joe Rogan’s program. Those are facts.
They’re amazing facts, but they’re facts. Seth said, you guys, they said my name on TV. It’s not often you hear the name Seth Myers on TV before midnight. Seth then got somewhat serious and said, as I’ve said before, I prefer to handle these situation is the way you handle an angry driver. Who hawks and flips you off on the highway.
You just ignore them, you know, unless you’re in New Jersey then technically that’s a marriage proposal. Conan O’Brien, who helped make twelve thirty Greats, was in India. On social media, he was sharing some of the fun he was having. He’s shooting season three of his travel series Conan O’Brien Must Go. One photo shows Conan with a cricket bat and says, my first day playing street cricket and I scored eleven hundred points question mark, I have no idea what happened.
In another post, Conan is seen posing with background dancers. Conan was dressed in a traditional outfit. Decaption. Just filmed a Bollywood extravaganza with these gifted dancers and incredible crew. I can’t wait for you to watch it on your phone.
One more, he was interacting with the public. They captured lots of laughs in Mumbai with my new friend Rusty and this woman was thrilled to meet Ryan Seacrest. Search hashtag Conan O’Brien must go on your social media’s if you want to see those. Bill Maher was on his podcast. The guest was Patton Oswaltz.
Bill Maher explains to Patton oswalt While Bill Moore no longer tours doing up comedy, he said, I felt like it was a great choice because I don’t want to be out there in this country, in this political atmosphere. I could get shot by the left or right. I mean, it’s just not a good time to be out there. Marris pointed out that he released his thirteenth HBO special earlier this year, was called Bill Maher as anyone else seeing this, and he said, I feel like that’s a good body of work. I felt like they basically got better as they went along, and I feel like the last one was the best one, which is a good way to get off.
Some other factors that Bill said contributed to his decision was getting tired of the travel, obviously, and getting tired of being twice as funny as people who were selling twice as many tickets as me. He said, part of that is because I’m on TV every week, not that I didn’t sell a lot of tickets. You know, do great theaters, but I didn’t sell arenas and some people did, and frankly they aren’t that great. But you know, when the audience is thirty five to forty five. They don’t want to see somebody seventy.
Pat Oswalt released an audio special last week on Audible, this one called Black Coffee and Ice Water. It opens up with Patten reading a fake disclaimer about how he’s gone full Mega in an attempt to avoid the hand of Donald Trump. The Last Lafe Vulture says it’s a funny bit that also underscores Patton Oswalt’s fears about being outspokenly anti fascist in twenty twenty five America. It’s very simple, Patton, just don’t watch Hulu. Go upstairs and get the scrubs DVDs.
Very simple. You didn’t need to watch the bashion of Manascalco’s special. You didn’t think it was going to be funny, did you? No? Come on?
Patten told The Last Laugh about doing an audio special. I love the idea of getting to go old school again. Then I loved it even more when I was ten minutes in recording the set and realized, oh, I’m not on camera right now. This is just me talking and the audience responding. It’s very real, and it’s immediate, and it was so immediately freeing.
I felt fantastic. As for the new cycles, Patton said, whatever horrible thing happens usually will happened for a week, and then they’ll move on to whatever the next horrible thing is that they want to do. Our only advantage is hopefully we can outcreate them and outpivot them, because they seem to have no object permanence. Weird Al announced that his tour, Bigger and Weirder will continue into twenty twenty six and additional ninety stops through North America, including cities such as Chicago, Boston, Vegas, Austin, KC, Milwaukee, and more. Jim Brewer announced his tour, It’s the Fine, the Funny Tour.
The tour launches February nineteenth at the Sunrise Theater at Fort Pierce, Sick Jim’s current resume. According to this piece, a Long Island native. Strong Island, Brewer honed his craft on New York’s comedy circuit before breaking out as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. See I said all the syllables that time? Did I mention?
I think I mentioned this in the Facebook group. One of my favorite things about the Eddie Murphy documentary was hearing Eddie Murphy say the first word of SNL the same way I do and the same way that Jim Brewer does. It must be a Queen’s Long Island thing, because if you pay attention to Eddie saying Sad Night Live the way I do, Saatenite Live or sometimes Saturday Night Live, definitely not Saturday Night Live, Saturday Live. I loved it. After SNL, Jim Brewer went out to star in the Colt Stoner comedy Half Baked, which also features Dave Schapelle and appears in films including Zookeeper, Beer League, titan Ae, among others.
Brewer most recently released the YouTube special country Boy Will Survive as Other specials include Hardcore, Let’s Clear the Air, and Laughter for All I’m Behind on my Jim Brewer YouTube specials. Apparently, bill Board asked comedian Josh Johnson if he’s ever been confused with NFL player Josh Johnson. Have you guys ever met or talked? Comedian Josh Johnson said no, We’ve never run into each other. Then they asked Josh Johnson, have you ever had a politician supporter coming you for something you said on your show or in your act?
Comedian Josh Johnson said no, I try to be fair in my assessments of people. Even if there are people I don’t really like, I can still acknowledge when they did a thing for the collective good or made a smart political play, even when it’s something that I considered to be terrible propaganda. I do my best to give kudos when they’re deserved. You have a better political understanding if you can be as close to objective as your political leanings will allow. I’d talk about everything, and if I see something that doesn’t hold water, I’ll say so even if I like that person.
Josh got a little philosophical and said, if you stay in the big arc of history and how politics works, you can see that there’s precedent. We already had a guilded age. So there’s already a playbook on how people combatd the robber baron era. But there’s also a playbook for the robber barons to get and consolidate power. So many of these things are bigger than any one political figure, and the last much longer than any one person’s political career.
Josh Johnson, comedian, Are you optimistic about where a country’s headed? Comedian Josh Johnson said, I always leaned toward optimism because that’s the best way for me to live. But I’m not ever going to poop poo the idea that things get worse than you can imagine. I do think with optimism and hard work, they’ll turn out better than someone could have projected. Pure Wow asked Nikki Glaser about her upcoming Golden Globes monologue.
They were curious, when you’re writing such a thing, are you rewriting right up until showtime? Nickki said yes, I rewrite until the very last minute. For my monologue last year, I decided to do my closing joke in the moment on live TV. It wasn’t even in the teleprompter. The closer I had in the teleprompter didn’t get the pop I wanted, so I just winged it and reached for a joke that I had previously memorized as a possible closer.
Thank god, I had rehearsed it enough that I hadn’t memorized. It was a wordy joke too. Kevin Nelan was on Ted Danson’s podcast. Neilan talked about the preparation it took to get a fake chin applied for his imitation of the worst person who Ever lived Jay Leno, you know that guy with the charity work in the opinions about L Night TV. Yeah, the worst.
According to Neilan, the makeup artist had to cover him in thick plaster that left him unable to breathe through anything other than two straws that was stuck into his nostrils. He called it a life mask or a death mask. Nelon said, I never thought it’d be a problem. Then it starts to get warm and it’s hardening, and you’re thinking, oh my god, all that’s open is my nostrils. If those close up, I’ll suffocate.
Can you imagine the headline SNL comedian dies of suffocation impersonating Jay Leno. Nelan said he started to get panicky and I remember being about to pass out. Next thing he knew he was being administered smelling salts. Tracy Morgan spoke to people about his new Paramount plus titcom Crutch. Tracy plays Francois Frank Kretchfield.
Tracy said, it’s one hundred percent of me because I’m just mimicking my dad. My older brother moved back in with my father, and that was sort of a battle, but a teachable moment. Maagine Simba moving back in with Mufassa. Who’s the lion king. My father had to go about it in a graceful way.
He let my brother know that he was the lion king, and I’m just mimicking that and from Business Insider. Before I do the story, I’ll remind you George Carlin once said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it. Business Insider was at Baron Capitol’s thirty second annual Investor Conference, an event known for blending of financial presentations with high profile entertainment. Attendance is exclusive. Shareholders must have at least forty thousand dollars invested with the firm to get a seat.
Past conferences of featured people like the great traumatic actor Adam Sandler well this year. Doors open at six thirty, panels started at nine. Attendees were told to go to one of three lunch venues, each hosting a different midday performance. Those assigned to one particular theater received box lunches offering salads or ham turkey or roast beef sandwiches. Who comes out Sebastian Maniscalco, who opened by asking you ever performed with the smell of ham sandwiches?
Sebastian Maniscalco is hilarious or should I say hilarious. That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.