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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, I psych. Hi, I’m Johnny Mag with your daily coming news. Why you psych, Johnny Mag? Because Trevor Noah got it done.
I was texting with my son. I’m like, I hope Trevnoa does a tight monologue and it’s done and I can record the show during halftime. And Trevor wrapped it up with twelve seconds in the first half as the Knicks played the Lakers. So high from halftime, as I’m recording, Trevor Noah just took the stage at the Grammys. I love Trevor.
I just think he’s a really good host, very comfortable. You can trust him with a show. Nothing amazing out of his monologue, but it was fun and upbeat, and you know he’s setting the stage for a party. He did go a long way for this first joke. Uppatah is actually inspired by a Korean drinking game right where you stack your hands on top of each other.
Someone shouts a number, you count up, and then if your hand hits that number, you drink. Yeah. That’s way more complicated than the drinking game we have in America. In America, every time you turn on the news, you drink ah pta ah pata. See you may be wondering, all right, is Trevor going to get pointed at all?
A little bit of here with this one? Oh and the one and only Miss Lauren Hill will be performing on that stage tonight, which is insane when you think about it, because the last time Lauren Hill performed at the Grammys was in nineteen ninety nine. I understand that you understand how long ago that was. Back in nineteen ninety nine, the president had had a sex scandal, people thought computers were about to destroy the world, and Diddy was arrested. Boy, how times have changed.
And then, really the closest thing to a political joke in the monologue was this one. We got John Legend in the house. Oh man, every single personally here, John Legend, Philly Alis, Phineas, Nicki Minaj is not here. She is not here, she is she is still at the White House. With Donald Trump discussing very important issues.
Actually, Nikki, I have the biggest ass. I haven’t. Everybody’s saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it’s me. Wop wop wop.
Look at it. Look at it baby. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Nateperghetzi for your Friend Nateperghetzy. I didn’t think that was Nate’s best special at all, but okay, fine. He beat out Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Year, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, Ali Wong’s Single Lady, and Jamie fox Is.
What had happened was Jamie, who, as longtime listeners know, I used to work with. He’s sitting pretty close upstage wearing a very big hat, like a hat that’s saying hey, look at me, and sunglasses, and I wonder if that particular look is perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow related to the stroke. I just found it an odd fashioned decision. Anyway. I hope he’s doing well.
Now. For today’s show, I’m flipping the order a little bit because I recorded the second half earlier. So usually I do the Newsy News in the first half and some of the more esoteric stuff in the second half. So that’s kind of flipped today just to accommodate the production. Remember I told you I think it was in yesterday’s show by the comedian Ben Bankers, the guy who had made jerky jokes about Renee Good.
Bankers addressed the cancel shows in a video he’s shared on his Instagram on the twenty ninth, and the clip he tells an audience, I just found out my shows were canceled in Minnesota FM. He said he was working on a new venue and dates for the fine people of Minnesota. The owner of the club who had canceled the shows told The Tribune that CAA, who represents Ben Bankers, is insisting that the club fully compensate Bankers for the canceled shows due to the fact that he was willing to perform fair enough. The owner also says that CIA will not allow any of its other clients to perform at the club until the matter is fully resolved. That would surprise me if CAA is ice club, And I did want to talk about the passing of Catherine O’Hara, who died Friday in Los Angeles at age seventy one.
The Toronto native began at the Second City as an understudy to Gilda Radner from Second City, the famous Canadian sketch show SCTV, where she did fantastic work and if you’re of a certain age like me, that’s where she got on your radar. Later playing the mom in the Home Alone Movies, McAuley Culkin posted, Mama, I thought we had time. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you, but I had so much more to say. I love you.
I’ll see you later. In the Home Alone films, the family rushes through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. The Airport posted thank you Catherine O’Hara, Forever our legendary missus McAllister. More recently, O’Hara was on Apple TV’s The Studio. Seth Rogan wrote on Instagram, We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her.
She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous. She made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. Pedro Pascal, who shared the screen with her in the Last of Us, wrote, the is less light in my world. This lucky world that had you will keep you always. Brooke Shields wrote what an honor it was to be spoofed by Catherine O’Hara on the old SETV series.
Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, wrote, Canada has lost a legend. Over five decades of work, Catherine earned her place in the Canada of Canadian comedy. From SETV to Shit’s creek. She was an ambassador for Canada and the truest sense, brilliant, fearless, deeply original. It’s so full of humanity.
She made the world laugh, but she also made people feel seen. Mike Myers wrote, it was a very sad day for comedy and for Canada. She was one of the greatest comedy artists in history and inspiration for millions and above all, very elegant lady. Setting much love and condolences to her family. Michael Keaton wrote, we go back before the first beadle jew.
She’s been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis, and my real life true friend. This one hurts, man. I’m going to miss her thinking about bo as well. Jernny Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center, in a statement, wrote, Katherine O’Hara was one of the rare performers who could disappear completely into character and somehow make that character unforgettable shape what comedy acting could be, blending precision, humanity, and originality in a way that felt effortless. Her work will continue to inspire generations of performers and audiences.
So, like I said, to flipping the order around a little bit today, we’ll take the break here and we’ll come back and do more of a normal second half. Coming up at noon Eastern today the results of Comedy Survivor Week four. Looking forward to seeing who was voted off Comedy Island. Remember back on I think it was Friday show, maybe it was Thursday’s show. I had reached out to Deacon Mike.
I was curious about Stephen Colbert’s use of Faith leader. Stephen Colbert is a Catholic. I’m a Catholic and growing up Catholic, I never really heard that term. Deacon Mike said, his guest is, that’s a personal term from Colbert that would be all encompassing to be more inclusive to all people of faith. And you know, getting a vibe for how Stephen Colbert rolls when he’s not ruining Star Trek.
That makes sense. So appreciate Deacon Mike for getting back to me. He did to get back to me. I know in your world it’s like four days later. He got back to me about ten minutes after I finished recording the episode.
But thank you. Deacon Mike. Got some items from Gossip Corner. I’m not gonna play the song because the spirit of the show is not quote unquote dancing on people’s graves. I don’t want people to be miserable.
But in the news, Rob Schneider and his wife have announced that their marriage is coming to an end. Thirty seven year old Patricia has filed for divorce from her sixty two year old husband, Robert Schneider. The divorce summary is requesting the court to keep the documents confidential. The couple has two daughters, age thirteen and ten. They first met in two thousand and seven on a TV project.
Rob Schneider was forty four, Patricia was nineteen. They got married four years later. Staying on gossip corner, Raider Online has the headline Amy Schumer goes goopy over divorce love Lauren comic, using Gwyneth Paltrow as an inspiration for her conscious uncoupling. A source told Rader Online Amy is obsessed with controlling the narrative, really with controlling everything. She seems convinced that if she and Chris can have this perfect divorce, I don’t want her so much.
That’s why she wanted to get everything totally handled before making the news public. All the houses are getting sold, the money’s divided up and they’ve agreed on custody. There won’t be any fights or drama, which is very important to Amy for her son’s sake and for Chris. She’s very focused on protecting them both. These source ads no doubt Amy’s image is part of this too.
She knows it’s going to be picked apart, and she wants to give people as little ammunition as possible. As much as she claims not to care what people think, she actually does care a lot. Amy’s telling people she wants to stay friends with Chris, and they were even going to get each other’s advice on who to date, which strikes a lot of people as bizarre. I’m glad the source said that, because I was about to editorialize there, like and just say that’s weird. The source continued.
She’s also adamant that this has nothing to do with her suddenly getting skinny, but the timing of her weight loss does have a lot of people questioning if she’s being fully transparent about that. Now, while I was prepping the show, actually let me check this again. Hold on, okay, I was going to tell you there was a dead link for a day. There was a dead link under the headline Amy Schumer thought she’d be flooded with interest to mid divorce news, but it hasn’t happened. This on the National Inquirer dot com as a recording this on Friday.
The link it seems to have come back to life. An insider says Amy really thought she’d be flooded with interest, more dates, more tension, but it hasn’t happened. Another source says she’s not chasing anything. If a date happens, great, If not, she’s totally fine being on her own. Maybe she could date Rob Schneider.
I thought this was weird, a weird decision by The Daily Show. They used Whitney Cummings as a correspondent last week and Whitney Cummings in the Daily Show just don’t go together in my mind. If you spent a lot of time, especially on comedy threads, Whitney is not all that popular on social media, and without doing any research, I would guess Whitney Cummings is not that popular with many fans of the Daily Show. I just thought it was weird Whitney Cummings took over the shows in my opinion desk for commentary aimed at liberal voters and their tendency to demand perfection from Democratic presidential candidates. Whitney said, I’m here to talk to you as a liberal and acknowledge sometimes her politics have been misread.
Some people think got right wing just because I look and sound exactly like Kimberly Gilfoyle. But I’m a liberal. She went on for seven minutes, and the point of her thesis is if you keep holding out for mister Wright, we’re gonna end up with mister alt right. Pete Davidson was on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. He talked about being a dad.
He said, the reality has set in. We had a moment last week we were like, oh, she’s here, She’s like staying. Now it’s real. He also said about babies, they crap so much. They crap while they’re crapping.
The best advice I got and I hate it’s so name dropping, but Eddie Murphy gave you great advice. The best advice is no advice. You can’t tell another man how to raise his child. Jason Kelsey and ESPN will not pursue a second city of they call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey. Remember Jason Kelsey had a Late Night show that really nobody watched.
When I saw the phrasing, Jason Kelsey will not pursue a second season if they call it late night. My line on Threads was, I’ve decided not to continue pursuing dating Sydney Sweeney. I have the same chance. Here’s the spin. The decision came from Kelsey, who wanted to explore there are other opportunities during the off season rather than commit to another run of the show.
Dude, they did five episodes last year. Five. ESPN is supportive of continuing the program. Uh huh. Last year, Jason Kelsey hosted five episodes.
The show aired on late Friday nights. The debut episode got two hundred and ninety thousand viewers. Even Seth Myers is like, really, dude, more people watch my show. At the time, the ESPN president told The New York Times that the network wasn’t focused on ratings for the five episode experiment and said that the decision about the show’s future would be a little bit more art than science. But again, we’re being told that Jason Kelcey wants to explore other opportunities.
Isn’t that usually what you say when you get fired from a job. They like so and so has left the job to pursue other opportunities. Is and that we usually say, I’m calling hogwash there, Jason Kelce, and that is your comedy news for today, right at noon Eastern Comedy Survivor and Normal Episode in the morning. I’ll see you then