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Callaroga Shock Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. I’ll do the political stuff in the second half Today many things can be true at once. That stuff is both super important, but I also understand what this podcast is and isn’t, and it’s not a political podcast. I always trying to do the politics through the lens of comedy.
So let’s do the fun stuff. In the first half, Shane Gillis was out snowboarding over the weekend. Like a lot of the country, we had that winter storm at Central Park in New York City got eleven inches of snow. Which I grew up in New York. I went from kindergarten through college and had one snow day my entire career in New York City.
There was one snow day. There was a blizzard I think in like nineteen eighty one or so, and I had one two hour delay in high school and that was it. So eleven inches of snow New York City is a lot. So Shane Gillis hit Central Park and was joined by snowboarding icon Shawn White, now luckily a bunch of people with cameras just happened to be there. I mean, it is New York City, but oh, total tangent.
But to the point, I’m a Youtubo fan. Do you remember at one point Bono was supposedly in a bike accident in Central Park and then he missed some shows And there was even like an Apple event that Bruce Springsteen had a fill in as the singer for you too. This is all things that happened. You could look it up, but I want to digress too long. You mean to tell me Bono had a bike accident in New York City and nobody filmed it.
Nobody saw the ambulances coming, Nobody was like, hey, that’s Bono. Zero chance that that story’s true. I don’t believe it, because even if you’re Shane Gillis and you’re snowboarding with Sewn White, people film it. As the story goes, at one point in the day, Shawn White decided to perform a daredevil stunt and involves Shane Gillis and tires co star Chris O’Connor. Shane and Chris sat in front of a freshly constructed jump Shawn White caught some are and jumped over their heads.
Now Yahoo has to calm down with this headline Olympic legend fine Shawn White jumps over too Famous comedians in Central Park, one of which was Shane Gillis, who’s kind of famous. Chris O’Connor, I don’t know about that famous. John Mulaney was on Mike Berbiglia’s podcast and got some headlines sharing that he is supporting a lot of Olivia Munn’s family members. Oliney told b Biggs she’s Vietnamese and she has a large Vietnamese family in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, of which I am one of the significant financial contributors. For the first thirty nine years of my life, I supported zero Vietnamese people, probably none, and now I have ten on the books.
With parents of some success, you don’t really do anything for them, and it brings me great joy to help out, to help and do fun things for Olivia’s family. Joked, are you thinking when you’re having a nice relationship with them that in the back of their mind they’re thinking, I wonder if he’ll send me a thousand dollars. That’s hilarious. Olney said, there’s no wonder in the back of the mind. You mean, the front of the voice, the front of the voice.
The words coming out of their mouth for bigs was like Olivia’s family says, how much money do you have? I actually like that. M’laney said, yeah, I tell them. They love it. They couldn’t like it more.
Bert Kreischer revealed that he’s taking a break from drinking, and it sounds like it’s a little serious here. He is on we might be drunk with Mark Norman and Sam Morrel. We need a drink, let’s have it, can’t I can’t drink. We’ll drink medication. Yeah, blood clots?
What Oh my legs? Yeah, all right, so we won’t drink it. No, no, no, drink you know I never cared about that. Yeah, bad, you are right? And my lungs?
Yeah yeah, blood clots guys, guys, I’m saving it for Rogan. So is that from drinking or no, it’s from passing out. On a plane. Seems people really liked Free Bert. Flicks patrols that it was the sixth most watched TV show on Netflix worldwide.
Free Bert is trending in thirty nine countries. It’s not the most watched show in any of the countries, but it ranked as high as number two in Australia, In Canada, South Africa, and the United States, it ranked number three. TV Insider asked Bert, now the show’s out, has it feel? Bert said, nerve wracking. It gets sex from higher ups at Netflix and they’re so excited.
They said it was such a great show and they’re excited for people to see it. I just wrote back, it’s very different from a stand up special. You know, with a stand up special, little form well, because you’ve done the material, you know the material works and you’ll be proud of the material forever. With a TV show, you get a four wing swing at it and then you’re in the edit bay and you hope people like it. I’m just hoping new fans find it and identify with it.
I’ve gotten a really good response from the show so far that I didn’t really expect. Gil King loved it, which I did not see coming. Drew Barrymore loved it, which I did not see coming. Do you hear Bert Kreischer going mainstream doing Drew and Gil King? It is cash in time because the edge is off.
Bert says, that’s the type of fans of trying to reach out to all right, We’re a line there Bert fans who are unfamiliar with my fans, maybe you know me as the guy who takes a shirt off. Then they say this and they can see themselves in me. Chris Spencer is getting a special on Hulu. It’s called Goat Adjacent. It’ll be on Hulu February fourth.
Tape that the Cicada in Downtown La Chris Spencer touches on everything from marriage and family to aging, race and his Jamaican roots. Jim Brewer is one of the panelists on Kill Tony this week. I saw a lot of people saying it was a pretty good episode and they were impressed by Brewer rolling with it, So I’ll be curious to check that one out. Pete Davidson is apparently filmed an ad for Sonic. It is assumed that will appear during the Super Bowl, but there are pictures of Pete clearly in front of a Sonic holding a Sonic burger or something.
Jimmy Carr has blasted Brooklyn Beckham. Have you seen this? The Beckham family is all fighting. Jimmy Carr called Brooklyn Beckham an entitled Neppo baby in case you missed it, on January nineteenth, Brooklyn Beckham posted a lengthy statement on Instagram where he announced he has no wish to reconcile with his family, including David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, and he’s standing up for himself for the first time in his life. Jimmy Carr said, he claims he’s not just a nepo baby, He’s a chef.
I think he’s so entitled. He’s mixed up being a chef with making his own dinner. He probably brushes his teeth and thinks I’m actually an e fing brilliant dentist. And guess who’s back in the news. That guy Jay Leno.
He’s the worst. Remember last year he waited on late night comedy and the guy’s always taken care of his ill wife. This guy, I can’t believe this guy. He spoke to the Springfield News son and he said, Nikki Glaser’s great because here’s the thing. Your stage act is so fil healthy, but it’s funny in comedy.
The one exception is that everything’s okay as long as it’s funny. When you see her do the Golden Globe, she really works on her set. She’ll go to five night clubs a night just to try the five minutes and keep taking words out to make it tighter and tighter. She’s a real pro, and I really admire her. She’s a professional comedian and she gages from materials to the audience.
And that’s what I try to do. Yeah, I bet you do. Jay the worst person who ever lived, went on to say, I mean, your job as a comedians tell a joke. It’s nice to be socially aware and be conscious and do all that kind of stuff. I tried to do that in my private life, but to bring it to an audience, it’s not what they’re there for.
You went to Roddy Daves Sheffield because he had jokes. He just made you laugh, just stupid, silly, you know. And that’s what we try to do here. Jay says he tries to have a joke every six to nine seconds because the audience must be engaged. And that’s the old Bob Hope rule.
If you tell six jokes a minute, one of them might land. Jay said, I don’t use obscenities in my act now because I’m offended by it. I’m just bored by it. I find it really lazy, you know.
And then when I say that, I’m the old guy complaining about the new comic.
Plus, for the comedy to really work, there’s to be a certain structure. I thought this was interesting. Jay said he rarely writes any of his jokes down because he’s dyslexic. He tries to keep all of jokes in his head, but he says he’s got to notch in his brain for things that are funny, and he tends to forget things that aren’t funny. Really interesting here, Jay Leno said, it makes a footnote in your brain and you just remember to try and say it again somewhere.
It doesn’t always work, but for the most part it does. When bad things happen to me, I seem to forget him. I know my parents passed away. I love my parents very much, but I still can’t tell you what day they did because I don’t want to remember that. With other things that get to laugh of stories that get a reaction, I remember them like they happened yesterday.
Did you vote yet for Comedy Survivor Week four? I was checking out the Facebook group. Everybody was super active, lot of votes going on. There’s some early momentum against Tignataro, but then some people are hanging back to see which way the wind is blowing and how they want to weigh in on that. I thought that was interesting to hang back until later in the week’s strategy.
Very interesting. And there’s also some people like Ron White, and I think there was a Jim Gaffigan vote. Some people who hadn’t gotten votes before are now getting votes. So Comedy Survivor is heating up. So what do you do?
You go to the face book group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. You write down the name of the person you want off. Voting ends end of day on Thursday. A couple quick notes on Late Night Colbert during his taping with Seth Myers, revealed that the series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air Thursday, May twenty. First, I know somebody who wants to travel that week.
That’s going to be a little annoying. We’ll figure it out. The rest of today’s program will be quite serious, and I personally believe if you do have a forum, even if it’s this one, you should use it as expected. Late Night did comment on the killing of Alex Pretty Jimmy Kimmel, I find very powerful here in this clip. I’m about to play.
It’s a long clip, but I think Jimmy Kimmel did a great job here. Now. I spent the weekend, like probably a lot of you did, looking at my phone and just feeling shocked and sick about what is happening in Minneapolis. These one video after another, screaming people being torn from their families, Americans, people who were born in the United States being pulled out of their cars for the crime of having an accent or whatever. Children, small children, babies being tear gassed, taken into custody, separated from their parents, just one atrocity after another being committed by this gang of poorly trained, shamefully led, mask wearing goons.
And that is what they are. They’re goons committing vile, heartless and even criminal acts. And it’s sickening to watch, and it’s frustrating to watch. It’s like we’re all being forced to play a game that has no rules. They just make up the rules as they go along.
We see these videos in which we clearly see one of our fellow Americans executed by ice, and they won’t even admit that it was a mistake. They I mean, they say that the Honda SUV Renee Good was driving, was weaponized. They say the gun Alex Pretty had a license to carry in an open carry state or right. Many of these same people screamed very loudly about when it was Kyle Rittenhouse carrying the gun, a gun that Alex Pretty did not even draw, did not touch, a gun that was taken from him by one of the agents before was shot dead by the other ones. They fired ten times on an ICU nurse.
They’re telling us, well, I was justified. You know, is that the law and order that you voted for, if you voted for this. Every day is a nightmare now. My wife and I have family in Minneapolis are afraid to take their kids to school, They’re afraid to go to work, and I can only imagine how people aren’t white feel about this. How does this end?
What’s the plan? Here? Is the plan to just keep doing this in every city that didn’t vote for Donald Trump? Does anyone on any. Side believe this is good leadership?
We keep saying we need to find subjects that we can agree on. Can we agree that peaceful protesters, including moms driving SUVs on their way back after dropping their six year old off at school, and a nurse who stepped in to protect a woman from harm don’t deserve to be shot dead in the street by the people we are paying to protect us. Can we agree on that? A really great job by Jimmy Kimmel. I was touched emotionally watching it, but Jimmy was nowhere near done.
Can we agree that. When we see a person murdered in cold blood that there should at least be an investigation of that, and that head of ironically titled Head of Homeland Security has the responsibility to get facts before telling us that what we saw we did not see. I mean, if we can’t agree on that, forget it. Then this one seems pretty open and shut to me. I think we can agree on this one.
It’s on video. Look at it, do your own research, and. Then once you do, once you form your own opinion without being told what you saw, say something. Where are the reasonable voices on the right. I mean, we don’t have to agree on everything, but come on.
I also have a long clip from Stephen Colbert, also strong. I like Kimmel’s a little better, but here’s Stephen Colbert. Only seventeen days after Renee Good was shot and killed by an Ice agent, another American citizen was shot and killed by Customs and Border Protection agents, and again Trump administration officials immediately blamed the victim, calling him a domestic terrorist, but videos appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. That analysis was from the New York Times, and they weren’t alone. They were joined by NBC News, PBS News, Reuter’s, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as your own Eyes and Ears magazine and I know that’s p on my leg weekly.
The man who was shot. And killed by CPP was named Alex Pretty, and the administration is making a big deal out of the fact that Preddi was legally carrying a handgun, but as you can see in all the videos, he never pulled out or brandished that gun. Now, I’m not going to play you that video. You’ve all seen it, and if you haven’t seen it, it’s because you didn’t want to own I don’t blame you. But here’s what the video shows.
At first, mister Pretty appears to be filming the scene with his phone and directing traffic. An agent begins shoving the demonstrators and squirts pepper spray at their faces. Preddy moves to help one of the protesters who was sprayed, as other agents approach and pull him from behind. Several agents tussled mister Pretty before bringing him to his knees. He appears to resist as the agents grab his legs, pushed down on his back, and strike him repeatedly.
An agent crouches down, reaches toward Preddy, and lifts a gun from Preddy’s back near his waistband. Another agent unholsters his gun at virtually the same moment and points it at Pretty’s back at close range. Two other agents open fire, shooting him in the back as he lays on the ground. At least ten. Shots were fired, killing him.
Masks government agents disarmed an American citizen and then executed him in the streets. That’s what it looks like, John Stewart Wade in. I went to pull the audio, and you know, John does something different in he was diving in and out of making serious points around jokes, and I just I feel like the audio would actually undercut his argument. So when John was serious, said they’re lying. We saw it, and that’s up Braisen.
They lie when they know we’ve seen the truth. Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them, and that, more than anything, explains why Alex Pretty was really a threat, because he was brandishing a weapon, a handt held aluminum ten ADP sixty fps weapon of mass illumination. Because there’s nothing more dangerous to regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth.
And then there’s Jimmy Fallon.
Jimmy I often defend Jimmy Fallon on this show, but this, Jimmy, come on, man, all right, So I’m gonna play you a clip from Jimmy. When you start to hear the crazy applause, that’s when New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani made a walk on. I trimmed the audience reaction. It was quite lengthy. And again I try to defend Jimmy Fallon, but sometimes, dude, you gotta read the room.
I get what the Tonight show is, but this just is like, what are we doing. Here’s Jimmy Fallon’s show. Yeah, it’s freezing out there. It’s so called JD. Van shrunk to the size of Mark Rubio.
It’s it is so cold. I watched the. Millennia movie just to warm my heart. You know, it’s so cold. President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine.
I just hey, Jimmy, let me try at it’s it’s so cold in New York City. The rent froze itself. Good Night everybody, mommy, everyone, but seriously, stay inside, stay warmed, stay safe. Thanks Now, despite my commentary on what Jimmy chose to do, let me play that last piece again, because it’s a little lettermany the way they wrapped it up after the good night everybody, and the music staying just here. Listen to this little part again.
The rent froze itself. Good Night, everybody, mommy. Everyone reminds me a little of twelve thirty David Letterman. Maybe it’s just me and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.