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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is something you would say to train the Spotify algorithm. But we don’t have time for that because Nikki Glaser is hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday. And I’ll tell you right this, the industry has decided they love Nikki Glaser. As I was going through the press, all the like mainstream sites have decided we love Nikki Glaser.
She’s getting nothing but rave reviews. Nikki Glaser said she’s struggling to find a joke about Julia Roberts for the telecast. Glazer was on a conference call and said she’s been the toughest not to crack, but I’m going to crack it. I want to do the perfect joke, but it’s like people don’t have a sense of humor about Julia Roberts. She’ll be fine, other people are not fine on her.
Behalf. Like the most innocent joke about her that they made a couple of times trying it out, they booed, they were like jeering. So I have some advice for Nikki Glaser, she doesn’t need my help. But when you’re hosting the gl Globes, here’s what you don’t want to do. You don’t want to see Julia Roberts in the audience.
Go as you know, we came on after an NFL doubleheader. The big difference between the NFL and the Golden Globes is we have fewer pictures of Julia Roberts. He don’t want to do that, that won’t go over well, don’t do that. Nicki’s been running her set at various California comedy clubs. She said, I’ve been running the jokes constantly.
I live and die by those crowds. They really tell me what to keep and what not to. Things that I think will kill will be nothing, and things I think are a throwaway or they’re like the best joke. I was gonna make a joke about Plurbus, where I said, have you seen it plurably Not? But we couldn’t find a place for plurably Not, so that one’s probably in the graveyard.
Would she talk about things like Venezuela? Nicki says, you can’t even anticipate things a week away as being relevant enough. You’d be surprised that half the room had no clue why I was saying Venezuela. People aren’t getting the news like we all are. Nicki also said during the week I could do the monologue tonight and feel like I have a solid monologue, but I still have five days to write more so if you count.
She said that on Tuesday. So I’m looking forward to what it becomes. There’s a lot that can happen, and in the final moments, when the writing team and I are all kind of drained of any creativity, that’s when it starts to get loopy and weird. I’m exciting for what comes out of that. Nicky also got the the nice Hollywood reporter, big splashy piece that famous people get from time to time.
She got the good version of that. I’ll save that for Saturday. Looking ahead to the weekend, Saturday will be a Golden Globe’s preview, and Sunday I’ve got some stuff I recorded with Mike Chisholm that’ll be this weekend. Conan O’Brien was interviewed by The Oxford I’m leaving that in why did I say Oxford Oxford Union say it with a normal accent. John Oxford Union.
Anyway. He was interviewed for an hour by the Oxford Union. You’ll find it on YouTube. He was asked about political comedy. Conan O’Brien said, some comics go the route of I’m just gonna say F Trump all the time, or that’s their comedy.
And I think, well, now you’re being co opted because you’re so angry. You’ve been lulled. It’s like a siren leading you into the rocks. You’ve been lolled into just saying F Trump, F Trump, F Trump, Screw this guy. And I think now you’ve put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you’ve exchanged for anger.
And that person or any person like that would say, well, things are too serious now, I don’t need to be funny, and I think, well, if you’re a comedian, you always need to be funny. You just have to find a way. You just have to find a way to channel that anger into a way because good art will always be a great weapon, will always be a perfect weapon against power. But if you’re just screaming and you’re just angry, you’ve lost your best tool in the toolbox. Good advice from Codin O’Brien.
There Conan also talked about tearing down the East wing of the White House to construct a ballroom. Conan said, I’m really going on a limb here saying that’s his greatest crime. I think he’s hurt political comedy by being so outlantish himself. I think the January sixth thing is a blip compared to how much he’s heard comedy. Marcelo Hernandez has a new special on Netflix.
Did you watch it? It’s called American Boy, which reminds me. I prepped this whole show for like over an hour, and not one Marcelo article came up without me googling him. I did find this review I was about to roll into, and that reminded me, Oh yeah, let’s see if there’s any interviews with this guy. No, he did no press.
Isn’t that weird? Very strange?
Also strange that Netflix released a special on a Wednesday.
On a Tuesday, the Daily Beast they watched Marcelo Hernandez is American Boy. Let me lead with their last sentence before I read the review. They say, if you’re one of the many SNL fans who believe that Hernandez lacks comedic range, you know the type his debut next Felix special probably won’t change your mind. Oh that excites me to watch this. If you’re a new listener, I might have mentioned once or twice that Marcelo Hernandez does one thing.
He does one thing well, but he does one thing. That thing is Domingo, and I guess lately we’re giving him credit for a half ass Sebastian man Scalho impression. If you like half ass impressions, you’ve come to the right podcast. I’ll tell you that much. All right, So I’m scrolling down this review here, and all they’re doing is quoting his jokes.
I mean, what would be worse than me secondhand telling Marcelo hernandez jokes. There’s no way that’s going to be interesting. So you watched a special and we’ll let Marcelo Hernandez tell his own jokes. The Daily Beast writ’s most notable in American Boy are the connections to Hernandez’s recurring protective mom sketch, which joked about Latina not sympathizing with her believing their kids’ mental health problems. Ultimately, American Boy makes for a fun introduction to Hernandez’s comedy for those who don’t regularly watch SNL, sounds like it has one thing and does one thing well.
Bowen Yang was on his own podcast, Los Culturistas and explained his decision to leave SNL. Bowen said, the current entertainment ecosystem is so turbulent that people have completely valid reasons for staying longer. In a lot of cases, don’t have the privilege of staying as long as they would have liked to. I have this very beautiful thing where I got to say that I stayed on exactly as long as I wanted to. I was maybe unsure about going back in the summer, and I’m so glad I did now.
Yang had talked about criticisms that he has no range. I’ve never seen such criticism, and I’m like, what are you talking about? Who says Bowen Yang doesn’t have range? Yang said, I feel like I was really bogged down the entire time I was there about the idea that there was no range in anything I did. I knew I was never going to play the dad.
I was never going to play the generic thing. In sketches. It’s a sketch show. Each thing is like four minutes long. It’s short and collapsed by necessity.
So therefore it plays on archetypes. Is really interesting, he explains it. These archetypes are also in a relationship with generic things, and there’s a genericism in whiteness and in being a canvas to build upon. I came in pre stretched, pre died. People had their overdeterminations on which I was.
Oh, that’s the gay Asian guy in SNL, So anytime I woul try and work outside of that, it got completely ignored, or it got collapsed to, oh, he’s being gay and Asian as always. Now he’s Boon Yang. So his feelings about how bone Yang is perceived totally valid. As a guy sitting home, I never felt that way about his characters. I was loved when he was on, and if he had played the data in a sketch, I don’t think I would have thought twice about it.
He was a good jd vance, wasn’t he. I mean, you know, it’s called acting. Chris Red has released a six minute and Instagram video addressing the rumors about his departure from SNL. Late Night I recapped it and Chris Read said he was dealing with pill problems and claims that he sometimes supplied pills to others at Saturday Night Live, but he sure at his former colleagues. I’m not gonna snitch on you all, mf ers.
Chris Red also addresses his relationship with Keenan Thompson’s ex wife. He called that situation an emotional double edged sword. Red says he and Thompson discussed the situation privately and continued working together for more than a year. Red says he’s not trying to settle scores, but he’s trying to be more transparent about mistakes he said he made while spiraling out emotionally in the video. He says, this wasn’t meant for laughs.
I find myself lately getting really annoyed at comedians. Here’s another one of those stories that just made me go really dude, okay. From greenpointers dot com. Greenpointers dot com is reporting that Isola Brooklyn, a Williamsburg comedy club operated by Hannibal Burris, has shut down and according to a city marshall’s notice left on the door, it’s been a long time coming, greenpointers dot Com writes, quote a King’s County Civil Court judge offered a warrant of eviction in September twenty twenty five, legal filings revealed that Isola Sessions, LLC currently owes listen to this number three hundred and twenty one thousand, three hundred and eighty six dollars in eighty seven cents. So just put the number three twenty in your mind for a second.
We’ll come back to it. Green Pointer says. The monthly rent was thirty one thousand dollars. The warrant was stayed upon partial payment, but was executed as of December fifth, twenty twenty five, green Pointer says. In an affid David Hannibal Burris cited the effects of the current climate for small businesses currently.
A quote from Hannibal says, Unfortunately, like so many other small businesses, the current rental climate in New York City nearly destroyed our business, forced extended closures, and caused us to fall behind in rent. We did everything we could to survive and catch up. We made it a priority to always try to work with a petitioner and their agents. Okay, now remember that three twenty number. Let me remind you of this story from December twenty twenty five, one month ago, the Miami New Times reported the City of Miami will pay two hundred thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit legend one of its police officers falsely arrested comedian Hannibal Burst in twenty seventeen on a bogus disorderly intoxication charge.
Okay, so there’s two hundred thousand. Now. You may recall earlier in the year, Hannibal Verus played the reodd To Comedy Festival. Now, I have no idea how much Hannibal was paid to play the Reodd Comedy Festival. Five seconds of research didn’t turn anything up.
A Time magazine in September. Performers have reportedly been paid between three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and one point six million. We’ve also heard that three to fifty number. Out of Tim Dillon’s mouth. Let’s say three fifties the low end.
You got a manager and an agent in the three fifties off by twice. So let’s say one hundred and seventy five. So if you got two hundred from Miami and one seventy five from Riodd, that adds up to three seventy five. Now, if you subtract three hundred and twenty one thousand dollars I don’t know. I don’t have access to real figures.
I’m just a guy in a basement who knows. I’ve never operated a comedy club. I’m not an account to don’ta know how any of this works. Interesting language here. Stephen Merchant has revealed he is leading a separate life from Ricky Gervais.
Makes him sound like Amy Schumer is something. Merchant explained that he and Ricky realized they couldn’t compete with the office, so that they should work a part. Steven Merchant told The Times, We’re not in such a great deal these days, but even at our closest we were living quite separate lives. Ricky used to joke that he was thirteen or fourteen years older than me, and so I was just discovering my favorite nightclub and he was discovering his favorite comfortable chair. I feel you, Ricky.
An update in the Nick Reiner case. I will talk about the case from time to time as we head forward, because it is comedy adjacent and I suspect, as I’ve discussed on the podcast before, that I think Conan will get dragged into this because of the shouting match at Conan’s party. Nick Reiner’s defense attorney Alan Jackson until the court on Wednesday that he’s withdrawing from the double murder case. A public defender, kimber Lee Green, has taken over Reiner’s defense. Reiner only spoke once he was asked if he wanted to postpone his arraignment to February twenty third.
He said, yeah, I agree. Outside of court, the now stepped down defense attorney that he wouldn’t be able to explain his reasons, but attributed it to circumstances beyond our control and more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick’s control. My team and I remain deeply, deeply committed to Nick Reiner and to his best interests. Jackson said, what we’ve learned, and you can take this to the bank, is that pursue it to the laws of this state. Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder.
We wish him the very best moving forward. The LA District Attorney Nathan Hockman spoke to the press outside court and said, we are fully confident that a jury will convict Nick Reiner beyond a reasonable doubt of the brutal murders of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer. Reiner and will do so unanimously. We’ll keep an eye on that one. All right, awkward segue here to the last item before the break.
This has nothing to do with the previous story, but just actually Real Time with Bill Maher has been renewed for two additional seasons. That’ll keep Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO through twenty twenty eight, and depending on how the Landscape goes, that’s kind of around when seth Meyer’s contract expires and Colbert will be gone, And there’s rumors that Kimmel’s done in twenty twenty seven. So is the late night race going to come down to Jimmy Fallon versus Bill Moore go Fallon. Today is the last day to vote for Week one of Comedy Survivor. What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.
You find the cartoon image of a Comedy Survivor in the threads they are the comments. You write down the name if you want voted off. You’re voting people off. You’re not telling us who your favorite is. You’re voting people off.
It’s Comedy Survivor. You know how this works. Today’s the last day to vote on Monday, I’ll do a bonus episode at noon Eastern that’ll be a separate episode from the main episode. Monday morning won’t be Golden Globes recap, and then Monday at noon. Survivor Week one results in some analysis as we head into Week two, Comedy Survivor.
Here’s some letterman ask humor for you. SF Sketch Fest on the Rail, presented by BORT that’s the train people, in partnership with the Citywide Comedy Festival, is bringing the region’s first ever stand up show on a moving train. That’s right, this is January twenty fourth. That’ll run you twenty bucks. SF Sketch Fast on the Rails two to four thirty pm.
Brent Weinbach, Britney Carney, Natasha Vinnick, and Hunaud Shakur are all slated to perform via a setup like a silent disco, with audience members given headphones to listen to each of the fifteen minute sets. The event starts and ends at the twelfth Street Oakland City Center Station. Fifty cent is making fun of TI’s attempts to be a comedian. In a since deleted Instagram post, fifty shared a clip of Ti bombing on stage. Fifty caps the clip, which some suggested was remixed to drown out the crowd’s laughter, but the caption read damn it man, it looks easy, but it’s not easy at all.
Lol. Fifty then posted a second clip of Ti getting booed back in twenty twenty two at Brooklyn’s Parkley Center and from the Hong Kong Standard, You’re home for comedy news. A Hong Kong stand up comedian has sparked an online debate after attempting a zero dollar meal. The comedian goes by the name sixty nine Ranch, started a new social media account. He announced a challenge in which he would spend one Hong Kong dollar at a Japanese sushi chain for every new follower he gained.
As it was a new account, he had no followers, so the challenge meant he would spend no Hong Kong dollars. At his first visit, comedian sixty nine Ranch was seen ordering only complimentary items including pickled ginger, pepper to pour, a dipping sauce, children’s tableware, a straw, and a beer glass, all of which cost zero Hong Kong dollars. He mixed the commiments together calling it a zero Hong Kong dollar called ginger salad, before pouring hot water into the beer glass and drinking it through the straw. After finishing, he asked the staff for the bill. The staff was like, well, no food had been ordered, so there’s no bill.
Some viewers criticized the stunt as embarrassing and warned to could encourage copycat behavior, where leaded restaurants to introduce minimum spending requirements. I think the brewery I hang out with needs to do that. On trivia night, there’s a lot of people just drinking water. You got to support the business, like at some point, this is a business guys. You know they’re bringing you the trivia guys.
So you come in, you drink some beer. That’s how this works. I don’t know if some of you Morristown people understand how this works. You’re sitting there drinking your water, and if you come by Johnny Max’s table, you’ll see I bring a water because I like to stay hydrated. But next to that water, you’ll see a beer.
And please remember tip your boar tenders, not your company us for today. I’ll see tomorrow