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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. If your Daily Comedy News, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. And if you skipped yesterday’s episode, I get it. But it was a real episode and this weekend and today are all real episodes, no holiday filler.
So if you want to go back and catch that one, friends, I think John Mulaney’s at the cash in stage. The headline Kraft Mac and Cheese proves it’s the best thing ever in bold new creative platform that’s right, voiced by John Mulaney, Best Thing Ever, reinforces that the brand’s deliciousness, ease, and affordability make it the greatest thing on earth. The press release, which tags two cities, Pittsburgh and Chicago. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a two city press release, but from Pittsburgh and Chicago the news Kraft Mac and Cheese has unveiled a new creative platform, best thing Ever, proving that nothing compares to a bowl of Kraft Mac and Cheese selling one million blue boxes each, proving that Americans eat healthy. If you’re looking at all of us, including the guy recording a podcast’s basement, going why are you people?
Overweight gee, I don’t know. Selling one million blue boxes each day, Kraft Mac and Cheese has uniquely shaped American history and waste sizes present through every healthy stage of life, from an afternoon school snack to an empowering rite of passage on the path through adulthood. The brand’s fan base transcends generations, Anchored by one of the brand’s most significant media investments and voiced by comedian and actor John Mulaney. Tap the brakes, Why because he’s in The Bear? Actor John Mulaney, Hold on, I’m going to IMDb, known for documentary Now as a writer, Spider Man into the Spider Verse voice actor as Spider Ham Chippendale Rescue Rangers.
Previous roles by actor John m’lane include The Bear, Big Mouth, Poker Face, Bupkiss, the voice of Jack Horner in Puss and Boots, Last Wish. He played Henry David Thurreau in two episodes of Dickinson, appeared in two episodes of Crashing where I think he played John Mulaney but I digress, and he appeared as John Mulaney on The Jim Gaffigan Show. Okay Fine. Comedian and actor John Mulaney Now this press release didn’t give us a quote from the comedian and actor John Mulaney, but we are told Kraft Mac and Cheese is turning Black Friday into wait for it, Mac Friday. That’s right.
You can go to Walmart dot com and for just nineteen dollars and thirty seven cents. This is not a commercial. This is me making fun of something. Go to Walmart dot com and you get the mac Friday Box. It’s a flat screen TV sized box filled with sixty five boxes of Kraftmac and Cheese.
So here’s what I think you do. I think you buy one of these and you wrap it and you have it shipped to like one of your friends. You’re like, hey, Scott Beckett, Merry Christmas. Your pal Johnny Mack. It sits there under his tree for a month.
He’s like, wow, Johnny Mack, he used the football pool money and he bought me a big screen TV. He’s really awesome.
And then on Christmas, Scott Peckett gets up early and he waits and he saves …
Merry Christmas. Scott. He’s not just selling alcohol free beer, He’s selling mac and cheese. You know who else likes to sell your product is the really cool guy Jim Gaffigan. He shared his bourbon set on YouTube and shared a minute of it on social media.
Let’s listen. I love the esthetic inside of a liquor store. It’s almost if some interior designer was like. What if the whole store looked like the back room. We want people to feel like they’re in an episode of Hoarders.
There’s a silence you only find in liquor stores. You ever notice that people walk around all serious, like they’re in an art gallery. Interesting, Maybe this will make the pain go away. Liquor stores have their own vibe, right, There’s a tidly divorce dad energy. A stack of boxes suddenly becomes a shelf.
It’s not dirty, but it’s certainly not clean. Things are handwritten, crossed out. You feel like you’ve stumbled upon a garage sale and a bus station. Now. I didn’t comment in advance because I didn’t want to poison your braid.
But here’s what I want you to do. I want you to listen to what I have to say and then hit thirty second, not skip, but whatever, back thirty second, back twice, maybe three times. At this point, I want you to listen to again. Here’s my question too, is Jim Gaffigan just getting by on goodwill? He is?
Listen to it again. It’s not that funny, says the guy recording a podcast in his basement. But at least I would call you back if you helped my career jump. On YouTube, you can watch live from Old Forrester the Bourbon Set. Jim shot the special at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky.
Curious how many of your tax dollars went to this? With oak barrels lining the stage? Now, I timed ins at Google the phrase the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Ky. Funding. The AI overview, which could be incorrect, says the Kentucky Performing Arts Center is funded by a mix of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Kentucky, private foundations, corporate partnerships, and individual donors.
Meg of that what you will, but that is where Jim Gaffigan shot the bourbon themed Bourbon set, which you can find on YouTube and just listen to The Bourbon Set was inspired by Jim’s deep dive into the bourbon world the launch of his own small batch bourbon called father Time, which is now being promoted by a comedy set, which was recorded at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, which AI says is funded by a mix of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Jim said, with line from Old Forrester or the Bourbon Set, I let my love of bourbon lead the way at this point. I’m not sure if bourbon is a passion or a midlife crisis, but I love it. I can answer for you if you want. Since this was such a niche endeavor, I didn’t even go to a big streamer.
I just wanted to get this material out there for the other bourbon geeks. Wow. I just checked the clock. We’re pretty deep in. I’m still on story number two, all right.
I watched some specials. I know Johnny Mack, who hosts a podcast called Daily Compedy. Doos actually watch comedy specials? Gee? Thanks, host, I know I’m the worst.
You know how much sports there’s been Monday night football. There is a night football Saturday Night college football, Sunday Football, Sunday Night football. I try to go to Trivia Night on Wednesday. That leaves Tuesday and Friday to watch stuff. So last Friday I watched stuff.
I put on Sebastian Maniscalco’s Hularius Special. At one minute and fifty four, I muttered to myself, it wasn’t doing a bit. It was just me home alone, and I’m watching it and it gets to the one minute fifty four mark and I catch myself saying out loud, Holy f word. It was that bad. I made it until five minutes and twelve seconds in.
And here’s my question. This is not a bit, this is a real question. Is Sebastian Maniscalco at this point just doing a character that he internally calls old man Clay. Watch it again and tell me he’s not just doing old man Dice because he’s doing old Man Dice. I don’t know if he realizes he’s doing old Man Dice, but he’s doing old man Dice.
Pass on that one. Here’s the one you should watch, mo Ammer Netflix. It’s called Wild World. I like when a comedian has something to say. MO has something to say, won’t spoil it.
Very funny, very on point, even that a poor man’s Carlan heading towards the closer there, which I thought was really interesting. And I assume he knows he was doing poor Man’s Carlan. If I ever get to interview him, I will ask him about that. But I recommend on Mo Ammer’s Wild World on Netflix. Another one that I liked as I was just pilencing around the streamers, Matt McCusker’s Netflix special, A humble offering.
I went into it with low expectations. I don’t know why, and I was like, oh, this is pretty funny. Now. The sound is a little homebrew. I think we need to up the production values a little bit, but humor wise, pretty good.
Gonna make my end of the year list. He’s a bit of a poor man’s Shane Gillis, which makes sense because of the podcast. But like that one a lot. I checked out Kathleen Madigan Special on Amazon. It’s fine.
It’s Kathleen Madigan doing Kathleen Madigan things. Same note on Leanne Morgan Special, which is on Netflix. It’s fine. It’s not for me, but it’s fine. I remember I told you last week.
On Amazon, there was one that I was like, this is terrible. I don’t believe a word that the comedian is saying. I remember what it was because Amazon put it in front of me again. It was Joe List small ball. I just didn’t believe a word out of his mouth is true.
And I understand what stand up comedy is. I get it. But I loved Most Special because he has something to say and it’s based in truth, and I just felt like Joe was shocking jokes. Again, I get what comedy is not for me. I did not yet get to Kevin Hart’s acting My Age, which came out on Netflix on a week where Hey, guys, football football Friday, NFL Today, college football, more football Wednesday night, was one of the big go out nights of the year.
What do you think I’m watching these things? I mean, I guess they think people are off of four days. Maybe they have time. Anyway, Johnny Mack didn’t get to it yet. The folks at Steady Cut watched it.
They said, Kevin Hart delivers vintage material, toning down theatrics and settling back into his comfort zone with the benefit of maturity. That sounds refreshing because if you watch the football games. Every I was gonna say, every other commercial. I’m pretty sure it’s every commercial. Is Kevin Hart trying to get you to bet on sports, to have the brakes?
Okay, we got it. Kevin heard you the first seven underd times. Ready steady cut, Johnny Mack is feisty today, Ready steady cut said. Any comedian who was a sufficiently lengthy career and a certain amount of success is going to go through ups and downs. Here’s how you know you’re on a down.
Your specials on Hulu. That’s how you know. Just just everybody write that down. Kevin Hart has had them in real time. You can generally chart each stage in his career through his specials.
Has he had a Hula special? He has not yet. Any comedian it was a sufficially a lengthy career and a certain amount of success, et cetera, et cetera. You can generally chart each stage in Kevin’s career through his specials. The Hollywood theatrically of his arena shows the ill fitting Chappelle light diet tribe of his COVID special.
Heart has always had a well defined comedy persona full of exaggerated physical details, expressions, and voices, but he’s been susceptible to chasing the moment a little instead of defining it himself. Wow, good criticism there ready. Steady Cuts says, this is not true of acting my age, which is about you guessed it, getting older and becoming more comfortable than ever with his reality. They say it’s not a complete reinvention for heart, but it’s a returned to vintage form. All right, I’m looking forward to that one.
Boy. We are long here and I’m enough to cut things. I’m telling you, I got a plenty for the weekend. Let me get this one in. Donald Glover, do you see this?
He said he had a stroke. He was experiencing symptoms before his New Orleans show in September twenty twenty four. Donald Glover said, I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and he did the show anyway. I couldn’t see someone. He went to Houston.
I went to the hospital. The doctor was like, you had a stroke. Donald Glover said. The first thought upon hearing that was, oh, here, I am still copying Jamie. Fox comedy stock Markets.
Thank you, Bert Reynolds. In the comedy stock market, much like the real stock market, is a half day today. All right, my recommendations, Let’s buy some Robbie Hoffman. Why Johnny Mack, Because when I saw Malany was producing her special, I dusted off my knowledge of for Robbie Hoffman. I was like, Oh, Robbie Hoffman’s really good.
So let’s buy low on Robbie and we are gonna make out like Bannetts. The opposite here, I think is let’s sell some Sarah Sherman. No, Johnny Mack loves Sarah Sherman, but the premise of comedy stock market is not who’s good who’s bad, It’s where is the value? And I think regular America who knows Sarah from SNL is going to watch this Sarah Sherman Sarah Squirm special on HBO next weekend. We’re two weeks from now, and be like, what is even happening?
So let’s sell Sarah. Let’s sell all our patent. Oswald, he’s out destroying Star Trek, he’s getting very political. Let’s go to upset people. You know you can’t do that, Patton Oswalt.
I appreciate it, but you’re gonna lose wils. We’ll sell patent on a value standpoint. We’re also gonna sell Eddie Murphy at Peak. I think that documentary. Initially people like, oh this is great, And now I’m starting to see the reviews of like, hey, yeah, kind of glossed over some stuff there, Eddie.
So let’s sell Eddie Murphy at peak. Let’s buy Moe Emmer. America is not paying enough attention to this guy. Let’s buy some Shane Gillis. Here’s why I feel like he’s right there.
I don’t know what the thing is going to be, but he’s right there. He’s next to Last week we were talking about who’s the top comedian? Right now, Shane is right there. There’s gonna be something. He’s gonna drop, a special or something.
Let’s just start accumulating some Shane Gillis, And you know, we want to get out high before the values crash. Let’s sell John Mulaney. He’s cashing in, I’m cashing out. Good line and Jim Gaffigan, same thing every time Jim speaks. Now, I just feel the coolness rushing out of the room, as if like you opened a door on an airplane and everything’s going wow out.
It’s just it’s all leaving, all right. So pretty busy for a half day on the comedy stock Market by Robbie Hoffman, by Shane and Gillis. Buy, Moe Ammer, sell, Sarah Sherman sell, Patton Oswalt sell, Eddie Murphy sell, John Malaney sell Jim Gaffigan. That’s your comedy stock Market on a Black Friday. I’ve bounced like ten stories, so come back tomorrow.
I’ve got plenty. I’ll leave you with this one. Adam Sandler says he feels guilty doing stand up comedy in front of his daughters. Yeah, dude, why would anyone have their children watch Adam Sandler comedy. I’ve made it a point.
You’ve heard me tell the stories. I forbid my family from watching Adam Sandler comedy. It’s that bad. I can’t believe Adam Sandler would do that to his own daughters. He seems like he loves his daughters.
Why would you make these poor teenage girls watch Adam Sandler comedy? Adam Adam told Jimmy Kimmel, I’m very filthy. You know. I curse a lot be doing that my whole life. I feel guilty because I shouldn’t have done it, but I do, and I continue to do it.
The Great dramatic actor said, it was my daughter’s birthday. They came to Vegas to see me right away. I said, see, I’m even gonna clean it up. Gosh during it. They’re in Vegas, can we bring our friends it will celebrate at one of your shows.
And he thought, I can’t be myself a curse in front of them. Sandler says he has previously noticed the shame in their eyes after they witnessed him cursing on stage. Are you sure? I mean, I’m sure they like the millionaire lifestyle, but maybe they’re like, oh, that’s how dad makes money. I wonder if they’ve seen your movie.
Well, they’ve seen your movies because they’re in your movies, so they’ve seen them. So they’re guilty too. I no longer feel bad for the daughters. You’re part of the problem. Daughters.
Sandler said, that’s a fake guy. That’s a stand up comedian guy. You get the real daddy at home. Sandlor told Kimmel, I’m on stage knowing my daughters and their friends are in the crowd. I’m changing everything up.
It’s Vegas. Everyone’s expecting filth, and I’m not giving them filth. For like an hour and forty five minutes he gets off stage. Sandlor says his wife told him, Oh, they left five minutes into it. They wanted the fun with their friends.
I think they went and had desert or something. That’s comedy news for today, See tomorrow.