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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. That’s exactly the kind of phrase someone trying to train the Spotify transcription algorithm would say. Now, despite how I wrapped yesterday’s episode, there actually is news today. I woke up and I was like, oh, there’s plenty to talk about.
We’ll start on a down note to the Rob Reiner situation, which I’ve been trying to only talk about through the lens of comedy. This is a story that is comedy adjacent and attention once again on Conan O’Brien’s holiday party, page six and some of the British tabloids reporting that one of the A listers in attendance at Rob Reiner’s memorial service on Monday left people in tears. They revealed the final words that Rob allegedly spoke at the party. According to The Daily Mail, all Reiner said, I’m petrified of Nick. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I’m afraid of my son.
I think my own son can hurt me. It is unclear what celebrity said that Multiple reports say Nick was acting erratically with guests at the party. One insider told people Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy and kept asking people if they were famous. Another source told US Weekly that Nick behaved creepily at the party, switching gears. You live by the press, you die by the press, Amy Schumer, and anytime I talk about Amy, I’m like she likes us to look at her, and now everyone’s looking at you, Amy from the list.
Many people believe there were signs that Amy Schumer’s marriage was headed for divorce all along, but that isn’t making it any easier on her soon to be ex Chris Fisher. A source told The Daily Mail, Chris is lost right now, but is comforted by the fact that Amy will always be in his life because of their six year old son, Jean. He said that it’s come to this. Being her friend and co parenting is great, but being in love and with her in marriage was better. Of course, everyone eventually moves on from heartache, and Chris will too, but it’s going to take him some time and Amy is such an important part of his life.
If a source told Page six, Schumer expects that they’ll co parent full time together and that Fisher will see Gene almost as much as he does now, if not more. They’re still largely under the same roof for the kid’s sake. According to the source, it’s important for Amy Schumer that Fisher’s still there for Gene and even hopes that all three of them could travel together if she goes on tour. But the insider says she just never wants to be romantically involved with him again, So so weird. Another insider in The Daily Mail said they didn’t try to fix their marriage.
They didn’t put focus on their relationship. It was all about themselves and their kid, but never about them and never about trying to get back to where they first found love. Now it’s too late. Congratulations to Pete Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt. They welcomed a baby girl, Scottie Rose Hewitt.
Davidson was born on December twelfth. Hewitt shared several images of the family on social media, the caption or perfect Angel Girl arrived twelve twelve, twenty twenty five, My best work yet and I’m absolutely overflowing with love and gratitude and disbelief. It is believed that scott Rose Hewett Davidson is named after Pete Davidson’s father, Scott Davidson. Scott Davidson was a New York City firefighter killed on September eleventh, two thousand and one. His son, Pete Davidson.
Earlier this year played the Rion Comedy Festival. So there you are. It’s Friday afternoon. You’ve recorded the entire weekend plus Monday. You’re gonna go play some video games.
And you pick up your phone and you see Bowen Yang is leaving SNL immediately. Tonight is his last episode. Yang joined SNL as a writer in twenty eighteen. He joined the cast as a featured player the next year, became part of the main group for season forty seven. He was a part after tonight’s episode, the episode being hosted by his Wicked At co star Ariana Grande.
Bowen has some other things on the works, Tangles, a story about Alzheimer’s My Mother and Me. He has a voice acting role in a new Cat and a Hat, and of course, hosts the popular Lost culturista’s podcast, The Holiday. Porter says it’s unusual for a cast member to exit mid season, but not without precedent. Cecily Strong did it, so did Molly Shannon, Eddie Murphy, Dana Carvey, and Janine Garoffalo. So much for not having any news.
On a Saturday, Tom Cruise unveiled the first teaser for a comedy Digger, will be in theaters in October. Little is known about the movie. We see Tom Cruise dancing with a shovel in his hands and standing on top of a fence on what appears to be an ocean side boardwalk. On Instagram. Tom Cruise captioned it in Digger, We Trust Digger, a comedy of catastrophic proportions, only in theaters October twenty twenty six.
Warner Brothers on Twitter wrote that Cruz plays a man named Digger Rockwell in the movie. Earlier this year, the director till the Hollywood Reporter It’s scary and funny and beautiful. Nate Brigetzi has a movie coming out, The bread Winner, that’ll be out March thirteenth. I shared the trailer in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. As I wrote in my post, yikes, maybe Adam Saylor is good at comedy movies because Nate Brigetzy isn’t.
This trailer looks really bad, Dylan commented, maybe he wants to get his Jack and Jill out of the way early. I did start to pull the audio, and it’s not worth your time. Nate and Mandy Moore leave the film as a married cup whose lives get turned outside down after super Mom Katie lands a once in a lifetime deal following an appearance on Shark Tank. The catch it requires her to set out on an extended business trip and leave her husband in charge. That’s right, the wacky husband who doesn’t know how to cook, or do laundry or even locks himself out of the house.
Shuckle, what is this? Nineteen eighty two, Nate Pergetzi assumes the role of a stay at home dad for the very first time the official log line. With three young daughters and little experience handling their day to day needs, Nate finds out quickly that running the household is the toughest gig he’s ever had. I guess, Sandler said no, I guess. Kevin James said no.
Don’t forget. Nate’s gonna open a theme park, so you’ll go on the Breadwinner roller coaster in about ten years. In the trailer, we see the Nate’s character a former car salesman, tripping over laundry struggling to cook eggs. He locks the family out of the house and he gets lost on the way to school drop off. Oh man, they worked really hard on that script, and Nate character says, she makes it look so easy, but it’s so hard.
Wow. Wow, we’re in Jack and Jill territory. I guess I have an early pick for next week’s comedy stock Market. Jimmy Kimmel did his final show of twenty twenty five on Thursday. He said, this has been a strange year.
It’s been a hard year. We’ve had some lows, We’ve had some highs. For me, maybe more than any year of my life. On behalf of all of us at the show, I just want to say that we appreciate your support, your enthusiasm, and not just for watching this year. You literally pulled us out of a hole, and we cannot thank you enough.
See that’s not true. None of us literally pulled the Jimmy Kimmel Show out of a hole. It was a figurative hole. Otherwise, I guess Jimmy Kimmel, the staff would have been, you know, we would have been at ground level and somebody would have used a shovel and dug something, and we would have been looking down at Jimmy Kimmel, who would have been looking up at us and going, help me. I am stuck in a hole, and then we literally could have helped him out of a hole, regardless of semantics.
Jimmy Kimmel thanks us and says, I know there are a lot of harder jobs, but this is not an easy job to do. And sometimes it feels like we’re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, all this damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose, and it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong. Not a bad show. Considering what I went to bed last night, I thought I had nothing for today.
I’m in a good mood. My daughter, who knows, she’s back from college, and she stopped off at the new coffee house in town and she got me a pistachio cold brew. It is delicious, and I was like, how much was that? And she’s like six fifty and I went, oh my, So even if I nag you guys to go to buy me coffee dot Com slash Daily Comedy News and throw money in the tip jar. They suggested amount is five bucks.
That won’t even cover one of these pistachio ice brews, but it is delicious. I need your help crowdsourcing for Tuesday’s episode. One of the segments will be Comedy Festive Us. Much like the Seinfeld episode. I will take part in the airing of the grievances.
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The what you Seek one trips up a lot of the robots no porn bots in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. In The New York Times friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann asked what does the potential sale of Warner Brothers Discovery mean for stand up comedy. Jason points out HBO has one of the great comedy legacies in pop culture, helping launch the modern stand up special half a century ago with an evening with Robert Klein. Jason adds to be sure, the landscape is more crowded today and the HBO special does not dominate the field as it once did, but it has carved out a niche as an alternative to the megastore aesthetic of Netflix, providing a home for artier, more high concept work by comedians like Gerard Carmichael or Hannah Einbinder. He points out the Sarah Sherman and Adam Halley specials as things that could be lost if things get netflixed a little.
I’ve talked about on this program, and I’ve talked about it with Jason, that the whole HBO Max Max, HBO HBO Max Max, HBO Max Max HBO confusion. They’ve really goofed up the brand US. Old people used to understand, Oh, it’s HBO, it’s Saturday night, it’s ten pm. There’s a comedy special. This is major.
An example of that this year was Mark Marin was Saturday Night at ten pm. Then some things are Max shows and some things are Max specials. So top of mine, Sarah Sherman’s recent thing came out on a Friday. Is that a quote unquote HBO special or is that an HBO Max special? And is an HBO Max special somehow lesser or to only old people who study the media like me care about such things.
Probably the latter, But there really is something to be said for brand. When you put Game of Thrones next to Doctor Pimple Popper, you goof up your brand. Right now, Apple TV Plus is being seen as prestige. Maybe you don’t like all the shows, but they’re getting by on goodwill because oh, all right, app the Apple shows are pretty good. I should check this out the way HBO Sunday Night used to be with everything they put in that nine to eleven PM block, and they’ve kind of messed up the brand a little bit.
What a Netflix owned HBO would mean for comedy who knows, But no matter what it is, it’ll probably be better than Hularius. And that is your comedy news for today Tomorrow, Daily Comedy News Unwrapped. Johnny Mack, did you need to come up with an idea to burn off a weekend show a couple of days before? Chriss? How dare you?
How dare you suggest that? See you tomorrow