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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you skip the holiday weekend, I get it, but I’ll tell you there were real episodes Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. No holiday filler, Plenty of fun news in there, some fun moments. Check that out in today at the halfway mark, I’ll have a major announcement.
But before that, just a really, really shocking development in the make twelve thirty great Again movement. If you’re a regular listener, you know that the President and I are not aligned on all the issues, but one of the issues we are aligned on is the twelve thirty NBC franchise Late Night. We need to make it great again. The President, like me, not impressed by what Seth Myers is handing in. The President on social media posted, why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this?
Which is a good question. We need to get back to the good old days of throwing things off a five story tower, or masturbating bears or whatever Jimmy Fallon did while he hosted the Thing Friends. This is very tough for me. David Letterman has weighed in on the situation. Now you’re probably like John, Yeah, Letterman.
I mean, he’s got to know, like, what is Seth doing? He should be throwing stuff off a tower. He should be having Chris Elliott on doing fun bits. That’s what I would hope David Letterman would say. But friends, no, David Letterman on the wrong side of the make twelve thirty Great Again movement.
Let’s listen, the President of the United States now wants to fire Seth Myers. Hell yeah, and I thought this is just delightful me. How do you think that’s gonna go? So anyway, I’ve never been more proud of Seth Myers. That’s our old show.
As a matter of yees, yeah, we used to do that show and he does a magical job. But just remember Seth. Things happen. I think Dave may have lost it. It could just be he got really old and he just forgot what twelve thirty is supposed to be, Like make twelve thirty great again?
The President doing a great job on this issue. More masturbating bears, more throwing things off a tower, more Chris Eliot. David Letterman continues to cause me personal pain. He’s on Netflix today as a new episode. He has a new episode of his talk show My Next Guest Is or whatever it’s called, Today’s guest Adam Sandler.
Now, hopefully David Letterman is asking Adam Sandler questions about how Adam Sandler is a great dramatic actor and not in any way making Adam Sandler think that Adam Sandler’s funny. Dave, I hope you did not let me down twice in one day. That would pain me terribly. But yes, add on Netflix today David Letterman with the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Things not going Johnny max Way lately, I sold yesterday.
Jim Gaffickin’s Bourbon special doing really well on YouTube. I don’t get it. You’re only going to encourage him to do more. Everybody go watch Kevin Hart special for something actually funny. A variety watched Jim Gaffigin’s car.
They were curious, Jim, when did you find success? You were on Letterman and then quickly given a TV show called Welcome to New York, which was canceled after one season. What was it like to reach that peak and have a ticket away? Jim Gaffikins said, I feel like my career is this balance between creative fulfillment and getting caught up in other people’s expectations. And when you get caught up in other people’s expectations, that’s when you become frustrated.
I know, I would expect somebody who you helped earlier in their career would call you back, and then when they don’t, that’s very frustrating. So I understand what you’re saying, Jim Gaffigan. Jim said, it’s weird because comedians are very much self servers, but they also have to be cooperative and compliant. They go in a club environment and they have to be deferential to the person who books it, the person who oversees it. So they have to be audacious to get there, but they also have to be deferential.
They need some schmoozing skills. But in the entertainment industry, particularly when creating and executing a show, you have to be protective of your ideas. I’m not saying you have to be Rosanne, but you have to be protective. The skills that work in stand up, not just the writing, but the businesses stand up are completely different from the sitcom or TV world. Acting is something I love, but it’s insane.
I used to say auditioning is like stripping, but you don’t get a dollar. There’s an amount of humiliation and rejection every creative person has to embrace. Jim Gaffigan, are their boundaries you would not cross? Good question? Jim said it sounds corny, but being a comedy nerd and having studied stand up, I do think there’s an aftertaste to stand up that people don’t realize.
I don’t want my stand up to leave people with that ichy feeling. I don’t want to punch down. We all have friends who are super bitchy and gossipy, and they’re great to hang out with, but in an hour after that, you’re like, I feel kind of bad. We were making fun of Melissa forever, not saying I’m not guilty of this, but there is a lot of anger and I have a very dark heart. But it’s better to bring insight and make a joke as a commentary on all humans.
Good follow up here. In a recent special, Jim had a joke about pat retiring from Wheel of Fortune, the punchline being long lines. So if you can’t retire from playing hangman, isn’t that punching down Jim said, no, Honestly, that’s a good example, because I wouldn’t want Pats a Jack to be like, why is he picking on me? That’s where it’s imperfect. I tried to set up the joke where he seems like a loving guy, but the point of the joke was he was making seventeen million dollars a year for playing Hangman.
The meat of the joke is more commentary on how our priorities in society are all over the place. Pat Sajack was compensated because people had an affinity for him. He was efficient, he was likable, he was charming. But maybe a teacher should make more than him. Shane Gillis is going to play Lincoln Financial Field, home of the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, over sixty thousand seats.
He sold it out in half an hour. That shows July seventeenth. The Daily Mail was very excited about this one. Canceled comedian Louis C.K. Devours Hollywood legend’s widow on streets of NYC as steamy romance is revealed.
Okay, what’s this? Well, you see Louis C.K. Just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, spotted passionately kissing Philip seymour Hoffman’s longtime partner Mimi O’Donnell. That’s right, Mimi was seen with Louis C.K. Eleven years after Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away.
Now The Daily Mail says that Mimi O’Donnell is now Spotify’s head of scripted fiction. Hmm, mister ck just wrote a book, didn’t he. That’s interesting, We’re told in the PDA Louis C.K. Passionately put his hand on the back of her head. Josh Johnson got some attention for joking about New York City Mayor elect Zora and Mumdani.
Johnson was joking about mum Donnie’s visit to the White House where the Mayor elect and the president got along. Maybe they were talking about twelve thirty. Josh started by defining a communist, saying that it refers to those individuals who want everyone to eat or want some kind of grocery store for themselves.
And then he said, for his part, you know, Zoren only really brought up Trump …
He wasn’t one of those people that was companning on like opposing Trump specifically. You know what I mean, and it’s wild that those two were in the same place. Johnson tagged that with I would have been like, Nah, sounds like a setup. I know a setup when I see one hand’s papers. Dot Com had some questions for tig Nataro Rapid Fire tig Nataro questions.
Favorite book The Five Am Club by Robin Sharma. The last thing to chock your breath away tick Nataro. Five deer lying close together off a wooded trail. Interesting, last thing I made you cry getting tough news about a dear friend. What would be your last meal?
My morning’s smoothie? Something worth fighting for planet Earth? If that goes, we go, something worth giving up expectations. Spend an afternoon with anyone alive or dad. Who would it be, she said, my mother.
I’d love to introduce her to my family. Any interesting objects in your home or studio? Her answer A beautiful crystal on our mantle from singer Edie Burkel. Last film you watched? Friendship?
What’s the movie? Everyone should watch the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light on Apple TV plus this. Fall Sixteen Comedians, One Island And in the end, only one thing matters. Your vote alliances will form, bits will evolve, Johnny Mack will beat recurring jokes to their breaking point. Sixteen comedians, one recurring bit, one Survivor.
This January on Daily Comedy News, Outbit Outlaugh Outlast, this is Comedy Survivor. That’s right, Comedy Survivor will be the new bit. Here’s how this is going to work. This week, in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you’re gonna find a cartoon image for Comedy Survivor. In that thread, I want you to make nominations for who should be part of this contest.
Then we’ll let the holidays go by, and then in January, every week in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you will vote one person off the comedy island and we will see who wins. Now, I want to remind you it doesn’t really matter this. The whole thing is a bit. There’s no actual island, there’s no prize. This is a bit.
So let’s all tee each other up so that we can hopefully make for an entertaining podcast. And with that in mind, I have pre selected four people who would be part of Comedy Survivor. You guys get to pick the other twelve, but the four that I am putting on the island for reasons that you should understand if you listen to this podcast. They are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, and Jim Gaffigan, creator of Bourbon It’s Comedy Survivor. Coming to Daily Comedy News.
Jump in the Facebook group Now make your nominations. Sixteen comedians one comedy Survivor should be fun. Billboard released the Biggest touring Comedians of October twenty twenty five. Your top touring comedian Nate bergatzy fifteen million dollars in October. Wow, some other people making some money.
Louis C.K. If you thinn’t going to Riatt’ll hurt your bottom line? Well no, he grossed to one point seven million dollars. Louis C.K. Did eleven shows domestically twenty seven thousand, six hundred tickets, grossed one point seven million dollars.
Matt Ryf also sold twenty seven thousand tickets. He did two shows, also grossed one point seven million. John Mulaney seven shows, twenty three thy nine hundred tickets two point six million dollars, and Nate of course up top fifteen point eight mil two hundred and sixteen thousand tickets fourteen shows. What’s fifteen point eight million divided by two hundred and sixteen thousand. Serie tells me seventy three point one four so on average, seventy three bucks to go see Nate Pergatzy must be Nice CNN.
On Year’s Day, they’ll have a documentary called I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not. A trailer suggests a deep dive into both the myth and the men, featuring interviews with the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Lorne Michaels, Kevin Kneelan, and Martin short Notice. Nobody from community listed there out to day. On YouTube, Charlie Barns has his second special. It’s called Neighborly.
Charlie brings his particular brand of Midwest nice to his latest hour full of stories about growing up one of twelve children, sneaking a beer in a church, gambling with his grandmother, and Midwest cheap hacks. And that is your comedy news for to day or a I’ll see you to Morrow.