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Caloroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny mack if your Daily Comedy News. David Letterman was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and I gotta tell you him a mixed thoughts here. On the one hand, it felt like the old Dave. But on the other hand, I kept thinking that Dave’s appearance was the kind of guest that used to drive Johnny Carson nuts because Dave sits down and just starts doing shtick and isn’t really having a real conversation anyway.
Let’s listen. I’ve edited this down for pacing. I love man. I love him more than Chinese food. That’s right.
I love him more than Valet Parking. I love him more than that cars for Kids song. I just that’s really good. Yeah. Yeah.
People are aware of the fact that you are the leader of the resistance. I’m gonna suck up to you because I feel like if I kind of tag along with you, I’ll be glorified in retrospect. I know. It’s kind of like you just sit there. If the now this is irrespective of a party or political ideology, irrespective part of your political ideology.
If the leader of the free world is a fool, the leader of the free world, then should expect and examine every bit of ridicule he received. Kim Al asked Letterman if you ever missed hosting Late Night, and Dave said, people used to know who I am and now have to wear a name tag to get anything going. I’m so glad to be out from under this mess because people like you, and people like Stephen Colbert and people like Seth Meyers do such a masterful job of this defending democracy. Thank god for you they got for others SNL and everybody else. I think it’s the way things need to be in a democracy that seemingly this crippled Andy Dick was apparently discovered unresponsive in Hollywood on Tuesday.
Reports suggested it was an apparent overdose. Photos obtained by TMZ show Andy Dick slumped over while sitting on some stairs. The only male reported that. Witnesses at the scenes said Andy Dick’s friends rushed over to him and shouted wake up. Others called nine to one one.
Some others say that Andy cried out for narcan, which is a medication that is used to halt and reverse the effects of opioid use, including in the event of an overdose. Hope Bowl is okay with Andy Dick. Interesting. Taylor Thomson’s story surfaced yesterday. Now apparently she put out a video on November eighteenth.
Check your calendar this so this has been around, but I only first saw any whiff of this yesterday. In the November eighteenth video, Taylor Thompson said, as you guys know, I had to move some shows because I got sick. And if you went to a few of the shows in the weeks before, you know I was sick for a little while, and unfortunately I’m still sick and dealing with that. Luckily, I have a great team and a great doctor, and I’m trying to follow their advice at the moment. As a result, I’m not going to be able to finish out these last cities on the Save Me Tour.
This is not an easy decision to make. It’s not when I want to make. Now this is really interesting, and maybe I’m putting two and two together and getting seventeen. But you may recall that after Midnight had been renewed, and then Taylor said she didn’t want to do it, and then they unrenewed it, and then somebody, possibly perhaps looked at late night in general, and got rid of Colbert. As I’ve said in the past, I’m not blaming Taylor, but she may be the butterfly that flapped their wings anyway.
Taylor Toman said, I haven’t been one hundred percent for a while now. I’m really bad at prioritizing my health, and I think it’s just caught up with me, and I need to prioritize that at the moment and focus on getting healthy, not just like good enough to work, which is what I usually do.
And also like I don’t want to keep rescheduling on you guys, She explained, i…
She’s also worried that if the tour dates were postponed until after her special is released, people will think we could just watch this at home, So she says, I just want to refunder your money. This sucks. Life happens, and this is where we’re at right now. I love you and appreciate you think for understanding. She did not clarify what her illness is, and again it’s unclear to me what she means by for a while now.
If that’s after the twelve thirty renewal, or perhaps even before and again, I might be adding two and two and getting seventeen here. I hope you’re doing okay, Taylor Tomlinson. Sarah Sherman Special is out on HBO on Friday. Oh good news. My son came home to get his new phone and he knows I was a little frost about the HBO thing, so he went down to the phone company store and who’s like, hey, Dad, it’s not happy with this.
And apparently he found a cool customer service rep who’s putting the HBO back. So I’ll be able to watch Sarah Sherman without having to stand out in the cold looking through someone else’s window. Great news. I also get to finish the Cheer Company. I had one episode left, I mean, come on, Nylon asked Sarah Sherman, Hey, you’re on your fifth year at SNL.
Wow is it five years already? How you feeling about this season? Sarah said, I was editing the special kind of right up on a going back to work. So Shifting Gears has been whiplashy and startlaning, but also kind of fun. The show is forced me to be like, hey, you actually have to write a joke.
You can’t just be screaming about poop all the time. And I feel like the show’s made me more grounded. I know it’s funny after watching that to think of anything being grounded that I ever do. But I’m in drag at work. Basically, they put me in a lot of blonde wigs.
I’m a normal woman who’s like, hey, grandma, whatever, All right, Sarah Sherman, how do you want people to feel away walking from this special? She says, I don’t even know how I want them to walk away. I want them to walk towards it. That people wi see the post and be like, oh, this isn’t for me. This is for bisexuals in Brooklyn with gay little haircuts.
But I promise there’s something I did for everyone. There’s jokes, there’s stuff to look at. It’s definitely not boring. I hope people walk away not bored. And she’s reading the room.
They asked her, all right, what about people that only know you from SNL any warnings? She said, do not eat while watching Oh my, I’m looking forward to this one. Michelle Wolfe is on the Good One podcast. She says being on stage is like a tiny vacation and now that she’s a mom. I’ve become a much more efficient joke writer because I have a limited amount of time to write jokes.
Now I feel like I have an actual personal life to talk about. Although you do see reviews from people that are like another comedian at a kid another time about being a parent, and it’s like, yeah, one of the most relatable experiences a human can have. A good one asked her if she could have gotten where she was in her career if she’d become a mom earlier. Michelle said, as a stand up, between touring and working at night and all that stuff, it’s nearly impossible to do it without an extensive support system. In order for me to go on a tour with a baby, it’s a nanny, which means more flights, more hotels.
You’re just spending a lot more money. And earlier in my career, I wasn’t making that much money. I would have been spending at least what I was making just to do the shows. So the kind of grind that you have to have and stand up, I don’t think I would have been able to do it. And even right now, I’ve got my eye on that private jet money.
At the moment, I know everyone can roll their eyes about rich people right now, but I’ll tell you what, if I can travel on a jet with two children, I’ll post my feet on OnlyFans for a little bit. The conversation changed to the Rio Comedy Festival. Michelle was offered it and turned it down, and she said, I didn’t have to make a decision. The decision was made for me. The show they offered me was on October fourth, My due date was September twenty ninth, So whether I wanted to do it or not really wasn’t part of the question.
It would have been literally impossible, and it had it been a different time, I really would have had to weigh the pros and cons of it because they were throwing crazy people and then in your head you’re like, well, maybe this opens up a whole new market for me. But I do think anything paid for by a government, that’s a hard one to do, and a lot of countries like this, everything’s paid for the eye of the government. You can travel to America and do a lot of things that are not sponsored and paid for by the government. If I had decided to do the festival, I would have done jokes like the ones I’ve released are very similar to them. I would have been like, I got to throw at least one or two of those in there.
So I think it’s best for everyone that I didn’t do it. But I think a lot of people like Jessica Kerson, who people got really angry with, but she said, I’ll only do it if I’m allowed to be an open lesbian on stage, and they were like, okay, And I do think that’s important. I think what she did was a big deal. I think was very brave of her. There were probably a ton of people who had never heard of lesbian new comedy, and I feel bad that people got angry about that, because I think she’s breaking a barrier.
Mike Apps got a Netflix special in January, so as we head into late January, the nominees for Best stand up Special of twenty twenty six will be either Mike Epps or Morselo Hernandez. The special is called delusionalan to be out January twenty seventh. It is Mike EPP’s fifth for Netflix. In it, he discusses how a little delusion and a lot of hustle made him a star. There was a Nikki Glaser item in the News I feel like we knew this already, but Deadline reported it like it was real, So maybe I’m just crazy Anyway.
Nikki Glaser, Fortune Fimester, and some others will join Kim Kardashian in the Netflix comedy The Fifth Wheel. The film follows a group of best friends from high school who attempt to reconnect during a weekend jaunt to Vegas. When a hot outsider, Kim Kardashian, crashes the weekend, they’re forced to face their messy lives, bad decisions, and unraveling friendships. Anthony Jelinek wrote a guest piece for Vulture about books. Anthony writes, as I’m writing this piece, I’ve read fifty one novels that were released in twenty twenty five.
I choose what to read either based on the description written by the publisher or because I recognized the author’s name and enjoyed their previous work. For the past five years, I’ve kept the list of everything I’ve read, and then gone back through and created a top ten list of novels I’ve read from that year for social media to admire and or make fun of. This year, I’ve graduated to publishing my lin Vulture behind a paywall. His number one pick of the year is Perfection by Vincenzo Letronico, translated by Sophie Hughes. Jalnik tells us this one is tough to describe without using some version of the word perfect.
It’s about a young couple of digital creatives who can work from anywhere in the world. They choose Berlin at a time when living in Berlin was the coolest thing anyone could possibly do with their youth. It’s not just the only novel I read twice this year, but the only one I read in one sitting, riveted by the vivid description of a life many of us consider, but few choose to pursue. Jim Gaffigan released a clip on social media. Now, I gotta be honest.
I went into this cynically, going okay, he was only on social media to sell us something, But no, he didn’t sell anything in this clip. The material is really strong here. If you can imagine this with a crowd, a lot of these jokes would have landed as it is. It’s just Jim talking into the camera, laying down some I guess extra material he needed to get out of his system. I did cut this down.
The original piece, which we’ll find on Jim social media as a minute forty two, which is kind of long to excerpt. Tier. Let me give you a taste into the break. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Really, is it the most wonderful?
Have you been outside seeing the crowds, the traffic, ever go through security in the airport in December. I’ll tell you one word that doesn’t come to mind, wonderful. Gossip Conna stood in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, gossip Conna with Johnny Mage. It’s always a tree. Pete Davidson spoke to People magazine.
Pete is excited about his new baby. He says he’s just excited to meet this little thing. And as for a name, he explains, for a while, we were like, should we do that weird Hollywood thing where it’s like a color or something, And I think now we’re more into Staten Island normal among the considerations, Mikey, Johnny, Tommy, mar Amy, Bridget, Maggie, something like that. I missed that. Remember when you were growing up, you knew like seven francs.
Although he says we were thinking the middle name could be a little more fun Pete apparently is getting a Honda Odyssey. This from the Autopia in your Home for comedy News. Pete said, I’m about to be dad, so I figured it was time to drive something practical but not boring. I’ve always used eBay to find just about anything, like classic TV Memorabilian sneakers, so of course that’s where I found my van too. I used to have a Hanna Odyssey.
I loved it. Pete Davidson’s custom Honda Odyssey includes a changing table, a power bank for the vacuum cleaner, a bottle warmer, and a refrigerator. They’ve also added a VHS. They found a new one on eBay, unused from nineteen ninety one. Guy named Angelo delivered the custom van to Pete Davidson and asked Pete what videotape he wanted to use to test the vc or The answer he put in the first episode of The Sopranos in the VHS.
We watched the Sopranos, joked around a ton, and we went through all the features of the van. I showed him everything. He’s quite a bit taller than I am. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow