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Caloroga Shark Media. Johnny Mack is Grouchie Today and Hello, I am Johnny Mack with your daily Comedy Newsy Daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the company industry, which is a freeze. You might say, if you were retraining the Spotify algorithm, but we don’t have time for that right now. I don’t know if you’re aware. As we head to twenty twenty six, there are new rules for podcasters, and podcasters must broadcast all statements from the President of the United States.
So let’s get that out of the way, ladies, a gentleman, the President of the United States. All amigos, Joe sois sinolo precidento and Senor Donaldo. Jay Trumpell, your Expresidental Signor Maduro is no longer your Presidental. Anyway, we’re gonna make Venezuela grande again, Muca grandell, bigger, yell, better than ever before. Late Night had a lot to say about that, Jimmy Kimmel said, after months of escalation, Trump decided Maduro how to go, And yeah, he’s a criminal and a dictator who’s driven his entry into financial ruin while he and his family of line their own pockets.
But Madorio’s no saint either. Great joke. Colbert said, Oh, Venezuela, evidently when he says in America first, he means alphabetically Jimmy Kimmel again, he can’t even run the country he runs. This is like if J. C.
Penny decided to buy Sears. Kimmel, if you’re wondering how bad the Epstein files are and turns out there invade Venezuela bad. Great joke. Fallon said, Yeah, the news took everybody by surprise. When I heard there was an operation to extract a president.
I just assumed Trump got stuck at his tanning bed. Fallin again, yep. Trump ordered the operation without getting congressional approval, and he watched it from a Mara a Lago situation room, which means there’s a chance Vanilla Ice knew about the mission before Congress did. The President and I don’t agree on all the issues. One of the issues we do agree on is make Late Night great again.
And here’s some more Kimmel versus Trump stuff, But on this one, I’m going to side with the President, and I’ll tell you why. Kimmel was talking about the ratings for Trump hosting the Kennedy Center Honors, Kimmel said, after boasting what a great host he is and how much better he is than I am, and how huge his ratings would be. Trump hosted the lowest rated Kennedy Center Honors telecast of all time. Let me tell you something. I’d hate to be the White House intern who had to tear that headline out of all the papers and eat him.
You know, as I recall, he would step down if this happened. He said, if I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel, then I don’t think I should be president. Well, hey, deal’s a deal. Back to MORLOCKO you go.
Now here’s where I sided with the president.
Jimmy Kimmel has never hosted the Kennedy Center Honors, so, as far as we know, Trump is indeed better at hosting the Kennedy Center Honors than Jimmy Kimmel is. Jimmy, You’re gonna have to host the thing and see if you can beat him. Team Trump on that one. We’ll get out of Late Night in a second. But Late Nighter did report that Jimmy Kimmel Live will only host the musical guests twice a week.
I’m not a regular watcher of that show. Were they doing bands every night? That’s crazy? Why would you do that even twice a week? Seems crazy.
Back in the days of Late Night with David Letterman, I didn’t like what he had bands on. Kimmel backstage at the Critics’ Choice Awards said there will always be late nights shows, but discuss the evolution. There are some shows that are called late night talk shows that aren’t late night talk shows, that still have the same format, and maybe we need a different term for them. But it seems to me it’s one of the cheapest forms of broadcasting. CBS might disagree, and it would be very surprising to me if it went away entirely.
CBS might disagree. Maybe it won’t be as big, Maybe there won’t be a big band welcoming the host of the stage, maybe there won’t be fifteen writers. But I think there’ll be some version of late night talk show, and in a way, maybe it’ll be better because maybe there’ll be more opportunities for more people of various backgrounds and ages and niche programming that I think it’d be a lot of fun to watch. New topic from my San Antonio Dot com They got my attention with this headline. A unicorn, a cow, and an Eric Cartman impersonator walk into a bar or protest outside a comedy club.
It seems people down in Austin, Texas are not enjoying Joe Rogan operating a comedy club, and they’re all wigged about it, and this is how they spent their New Year’s Eve protesting the existence of Joe Rogan’s comedy club. Reddit user apologize to the Bees posted a video of a crowd of peace people gathered outside Joe Rogan’s comedy club, decked out in costumes with anti Rogan signs. The protesters were joined by people wearing a South park At Cartman costume, a Unicorn costume, and also an inflatable cow at Connor Cage twelve wrote funnier than anything inside the building. Another redtour wrote, I hated these a holes from out of state. Rogan moved in and claimed the entirety of the Austin comedy scene.
The dude owns one comedy venue, not all of them. A different user encourages us to suport venues like Cold to Town and Camp City, adding keep Austin funny without Diet Alex Jones out today on Netflix. Marcelo Hernandez American Boy. At this point in the script, I would tell you some stuff about Marcelo Hernandez, but there didn’t seem to be any advance press about it, and I did. Look, we’ll see if Marcelo did anything today.
There was a profile late December in the New York Times that was kind of boring. I’ve looked at it three times and can’t find any interesting to pull out of it. Anyway, Marcelo Hernandez on Netflix today, I’m sure you’re looking for that. This weekend, Nikki Glaser hosts The Golden Globes, her second time hosting the program. Last year, she did not make any terrible horrible jokes about Taylor Swift.
Who’s NICKI finding funny these days? She told Upworthy, as of late Rachel Feinstein, David Spade, Martin short Is, Jimmy Glick, Tim Robinson, and Chris Fleming could pick on Chris Fleming there, I also love Jim Norton’s latest special on YouTube, Unconceivable, Upworthy asked Nikki Glaser, no matter how popular you get, is there one thing about you that will never change? Nicki said, I don’t think people really ever change. I try. I’m always holding out hope that I’ll somehow conquer my imposter syndrome and overall low self esteem.
I know some artists and comedians argue that it serves their work to be depressed or anxious, but I feel like I’ve already mind all my insecurities for material in the first two decades of my career. I like to change it as someone who’s more confident. But don’t we all. I don’t want to ever think that I’m better than anyone else, but I’d like to lose the core belief that I’m worse than others. I think Nicky’s going to have a good weekend with the Golden Globes In this week’s Comedy stock Market.
She has announcedate tour. The Stunning Tour will take Nikki Glaser around North America as well as Paris, London, and Dublin. Kicks off the sixteenth at the Coliseum Theater at Caesar’s Palace, then off to Paris, London, Dublin and Atlantic City. Imagine going through Paris, London, Dublin and then Atlantic City. That’s a bit of a letdown, I’m telling you.
The tour wraps up in December. On the second at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. I’m getting old. I don’t know what we’re doing anymore. There’s too much media out there.
Bert Kreischer was on the Dumb Blonde podcast speaking to Bunny Xo. Chryser’s fifty three, so he’s not that much younger than I am. Bert just started talking about his sex life. He said, Leanne’s gonna kill me, but I told her. I was like, Yeo, porn wasn’t doing it for me.
I think it’s because she’s so authentically her and the things that she has turned me on. I said, hey, I need close up pictures of your body parts for me. So I’ve a hidden folder and they’re just pictures. You can’t see Lean’s face, but they’re pictures of her body parts. You know.
Amy Schumer might disagree, but some things in a marriage are just between the people in the marria. You don’t have to go into podcasts and tell us that. Bert said, I didn’t think I was going to be attracted to someone like Leanne. When I got naked with her for the first time, I’d never experienced that feeling. I don’t know if it makes total sense, but it felt like she was sharing a cecar with me.
I felt like she didn’t get naked with a lot of people. That energy I liked. I think we’re past peak Chriser now. I just have that sense. As we all know, Kevin Hart likes to work, isn’t afraid of finding a way to make money.
Well, listen to this one. Kevin Hart announced a deal with Authentic Brands, giving Authentic Brands the rights to license Kevin Hart’s name. Heart and ABG will co manage the quote Kevin Hart unquote brand, bringing it to new verticals and business areas, including consumer products, digital platforms, and live experiences. Kevin Hart, in a statement, said, this partnership is about acceleration, growth and diversification. I’ve spent years building businesses and creating opportunities, and joining Authentic gives me the platform in global infrastructure to take my brand to the next level.
Becoming a shareholder allows me to co own some of the most recognizable IP of all time while building my own brand legacy. Kevin Kevin, Kevin, listen to yourself. You’re talking about IP and brand legacy. Listen to yourself, dude, all the cool just went out of the room. It’s gone.
You have enough money. This might actually be worse than playing Riodd. At least Riodd. You’re doing a comedy show and you’re getting paid. What are you doing here?
Kevin said, I want the Heart name to live on for generations to come and be something that my grandkids and their grandkids will be able to be proud of. Then there’s some quotes here from the city. I can’t even with this. Ugh. Actually I was gonna bounce this next one, but it fits very nicely here.
This was an opinion piece on Vulture. They wrote, remember the Riodd Comedy Festival back in September, It was all anyone interested in comedy talked about. There was David Cross’s blog post calling out Riodd performers like Dave Chappelle, Luis c K, Bill Burr, and Jim Jeffries Cross asking how can any of us take any of you seriously? Again? Andrew Schultz firing back at David Cross by referencing an instance of David Cross using the N word.
Bill Burr’s rant on Conan o’brine needs a friend, where we refer to people criticizing festival performers as sanctimonious sea words who don’t give a hoot. This piece then gets into other beefs, Mark Maren calling out the Rogan verse while promoting his new special, Andrew Schultz going after Andrew Santino on Rogan for simply saying he didn’t like the Austin comedy scene. A video called Mark Norman’s Problem with Eric Andre has four hundred and thirty thousand views. Schultz labeling Maren an ahole on Rogan by telling a story about Maren being mean to John Stewart in the nineties, a story Maren himself has been sharing freely and openly since twenty thirteen. Vault Writ’s.
One of the most memorial reactions to the re Odd Comedy Festival came from twenty twenty six as Comedian of the Year John Marcos Serresi, who posted a stand upset which he said, I hope the one who gets in trouble is Gabriel Iglesias. He’d be like, you can’t be head me my next two Fluffy. I think Chappelle’s performing there tonight. I think it’d be funny if he got in trouble because he wouldn’t stop talking about trans people.
And then, of course, on December nineteenth, Dave Chappelle released a Netfli…
I was going to bounce this one too, but it fits the theme, Mark Maron, talking to Consequence of Sound, he asked if Joe Rogan still a comic or is he some sort of lifestyle show that deals with information. Maren said, I’m not some radical progressive out in the world ranting about political impropriety. I’m a comedian. So when I said what I said about what was happening in Austin around the sphere of comics in that audience, was to make a point, because they’ve created this audience of what was primarily not comedy fans and created this new breed of, you know, pseudo radicalized comedy fans around anti woke comedy. What’s interesting about comedy and what’s great about it is there’s an expansive bunch of voices, both vulnerable and angry.
And there was this thing that was happening where they were assuming the last word about what comedy was, and it was a fairly unnuanced and very hackneyed repetition of two or three ideas that were primarily right wing talking points. So that’s why I did that. It was for comedy, not for me, not for the left. It was for comedy. Okay, maren Ah, here’s one I bounced a couple times last week, but it fits the theme of where we’ve landed in this particular episode.
So there’s Robert de Niro and he’s sitting near Rob Schneider during the fiftieth anniversary special. Schneider told The Epoch Times that he did see DeNiro two rows of Adam, and he didn’t want to ruin de Niro’s evening because Schneider supports President Trump. However, they did run into each other. Schneider said, I bump into him and he turns around. He has that particular expression that I think everybody knows, and he says, Agony supports that guy.
I’ve cleaned that up a little. Schneider said, you could choose not to have conflict and instead of getting into a political debate, he said to Robert de Niro, I love you. I’m still grouchy, not over yet. On the Facebook group, you can vote for Comedy survivor a lot of people voting. I’ll talk about the voting in a second.
But Mike posted this thing. Mike’s all into this. He posted an analysis. He said he asked Jim and I AI to help build a narrative to help him vote off a comic weekly. It broke them into tribes, which Mike says he can’t argue against.
You will find this all of the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. But here’s what the AI came up with. Tribe number one The Titans Too Big to Fail, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Jim Gaff Again. As for Gaff, again, the AI analyzed everybody likes him. He’s unproblematic, reliable, and has a new Bourbon special.
He will float to the final three. If you aren’t careful that that’s good analysis there. Try two The Roasters, High Risk, High Reward. The Roasters include Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Sarah Silverman, Ron White, and I like this line. Ron White is threatening to retire and quit the game every week, but he never leaves.
Try three The wild Cards. The chaos agents include Bert Kraser, Joe Coy, Leslie Jones, and Amy Schumer. Tribe four the Storytellers, John Mulaney, Otsco, At Kotzka, Tig Nataro, and Jay Leno. As for Otsco, the AI says she’s the sweet player who will stab you in the back of the final tribal council. Very good analysis there, Mike, Thank you for posting that again.
It’s in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. Andrea was wondering why Nate Pergatzy wasn’t on the list when we did the nominations. Nobody nominated Nate. See how the voting is going so far? Sandler Sandler, set Sebastian Sandler, Leslie.
All right, I don’t want to tip the scales. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Scroll down. There’s a cartoon image of Comedy Survivor in there. Vote someone off the Island.
Voting continues until end of day Thursday. I’ll record an episode on Friday, which you won’t hear until Monday. That’s how that’s going to work. Production wise, I want to do these things on Friday. Publication wise, they’ll come out Monday’s at noon as their own separate episodes.
Amy Schumer does like when we talk about her. The New York Post has obtained property records that show that Amy Schumer quietly purchased a corner condominium on Central Park West for six point two five million dollars a year ago, buying the three bedroom, three and a half bath apartment under a trust. The deal closed roughly three months before she listed her Brooklyn Heights townhouse property. The post sess she would ultimately sell out a loss amid her divorce. Last One Laughing UK has announced the cast for season two.
Great, great cast. If you haven’t seen Last One Laughing season one, you should watch it. It’s really funny and it’s a fun game. You could play along at home because you sit there on the couch and you try not to laugh yourself and I couldn’t do it. It’s very funny.
I don’t know all these names, but I know many of them. They are David Mitchell, all right, right there, it’s already great. Diane Morgan, you know, Kunk Awesome, Romesh Ranga, Nathan Amy, Gledhill, Mazy Adam Mel Gidroy Hope. I said your name right, Mel. I haven’t seen Mel’s name in print before.
Alan Carr, Gabema, Sola Ikamello, Sam Campbell, who’s fantastic, and Bob Mortener last One Laughing, in which a brand new set of comedians uses any means necessary to try and break their opponents, but well, they do it all with a straight face. Jimmy Carr returns as your host. Over the course of the season, the comedians will use every answer their comedic talents to try and break their opponents without cracking up. The show is packed with comedy cameos, format twists, and surprises design to elicit laughs from both players and viewers alike. No date yet, but that should be really good.
I keep trying to imagine whether US version of it would be, and maybe my brain is really small. I keep picturing like it would be like the Chrysier Segura type guys like I could see like Andrew Santino and Mark Norman there. I think it would be more of like that kind of scene. But still Jimmy Carr hosting. Hopefully they’ll make it someday.
The twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marco s Areisi, is in Japan. It’s doing a cool tour after Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and India, he told at Japan Time. Social media has destroyed the fabric of society in so many ways, but it’s helped me a lot personally. There was a time when as an American comedian you have to be Chris Rock or at that level to come to Asia. John Marco says he tries not to overload on information and instead gets a feel for a place once he arrives.
I often find there’s a lot of humor in just sincerely learning about something, whether it’s government or a custom or some strange food that you tried. For crowd work to be good, you have to sincerely be curious, and I’ve always found the further away I am from home more curious. I am, so I don’t need to put it on for Japan. It’ll be a lot of fun, he said. He was talking about the trip with Otsko at Kotzka, who will be in Japan while Tremarco is there.
He said, we plan to go to karaoke. That’d be amazing. He asked at Japan Times is there anything I’m not allowed to say in Japan and explained he was advised to curse lesson Singapore and his poster was deemed to be too homo erotic for India. He said, I love being a little edgy. I love having some teeth, but those teeth vary depending on the country.
What I might think is teeth might not even be funny. It could be hacky. That is your comedy news for today. All right, I’m still kind of grutchy. Sorry, it’s Wednesday.
It’s trivia night. I gotta go see the trivia guys. Hopefully he has more questions about comedy this week. There won’t be if they did that last week. This week’s gonna be about Ariana Grande and like the stuff.
I don’t know. My team’s just gonna fish twelve. They’m not even gonna try. I’m gonna have the next game on my phone. All right, See tomorrow.