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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnnie Mack. When you’re Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, A sentence the algorithm loves, and boy am I distracted? As I was putting the show together. One of the last websites I visited was Variety and Variety.
He told me you two just dropped an EP and I’m a huge you two fan. But like, I have to record shows because the federal governor would like me to serve on jury duty next week, so I gotta work ahead a little bit. I can’t be listening to six U two songs, but I’m so excited about that.
All right, let’s do comedy here.
If you listen every day, you get my vibe. I do. Try to keep it light. And you know, two days already this week has been political. So let’s start with silly.
Okay, this is not the biggest story of the world. Let’s start with the silly Dave Chappelle. Remember he was in Minneapolis. Well, he stopped by Matt’s barr and Grill. He took some selfies with some folks.
But here’s the controversy. It is unclear if Dave Chappelle had a Juicy Lucy for lunch, or if Dave Chappelle is aware of the controversy behind the origins of the juicy Lucy, which, as you know, is a famous burger stuffed with cheese. You see the folks at Matt’s Bar and Grill, they say they started the Juicy Lucy, and they even spell it juc why to prove that they are the original. But then there’s these guys at the five eight Club they say, no, they started it.
And then if you’re in Los Angeles, there’s a place called Barney’s Beanery th…
When I hit LA, I’ll have to check that out. Did Dave Chappelle eat a Juicy Lucy or was he secretly avoiding a controversy. You know, I’m gonna guess Dave Chappelle not afraid of a burger controversy. He probably didn’t know, or wasn’t hungry he didn’t care. Now, According to Matt’sbar dot Come, shortly after opening in nineteen eighty four, a local customer asked for two hamburger patties with a slice of cheese in the middle.
The customer bit into the new molten hot burger and exclaimed, that’s one juicy lucy, hence the name Matt’s. Barr said, customer demand grew so quickly we forgot to add the eye, and the juicy lucy spelled without the eye has become a local culinary hero. And they say, remember, if it’s spelled correctly, he might be eating a shameless ripoff. John, Are you trying to avoid doing politics on the podcast today? Maybe a lot of reviews for the new season of Scrubs have come out.
Looking ahead Sunday on this very program will be a Scrub season ten preview. I’m also trying to figure out what I want to do. Is I want to do recaps of the episodes. But here’s the problem. My wife wants to watch the show with me, and I’ve shared before.
Actually maybe I haven’t shared before. I share in the future on Sunday. See I’m a time travel here sometimes on the podcast. My wife is a physician and she was a resident at exactly the time JD and Turk were residents, so we would watch this show and totally relate to it. She called it the most realistic medical show ever up until the Pit.
Now you got to watch the Pit with her her eyes or just fixated on what’s going on in every scene, and she’ll like diagnose along with the er doctors. It’s fascinating. But for me, who didn’t work at a hospital, I recognized all the character types from the show, so we always are like Scrubs. So that’s going to become an US show. But the problem is it’s going to pair up with the Pit, which means we’re not going to watch it until Friday night.
So if I want to do episode recaps, I’m not going to record those till Saturday, and they’re going to come out late. And I don’t know, And this is one I might have to just eat this. I can’t just sneak this show and be like, oh, I watched Scrubs without you. That’s not going to fly. No spoilers here now.
The reviews, I have not read them because I don’t want to be biased. I dump them into the Wednesday document as the show is back on Wednesday, February twenty fifth, So the second half of the show on Wednesday, i’ll talk about Scrubs, So I will have to read those reviews in advance. But just skimming the headlines. Some say it’s really awesome and some are giving a different reviews. We’ll see, Zach Braff said, over the years, Scrubs had varying tunes.
True fans will know. Sometimes it was broader, and it kept getting broader. We kind of regrounded the show back to where we started in the pilot. We still have our fun fantasies, but it’s really based in reality. It’s brought back to ground level.
So I’m excited for Scrubs coming back. One of my all time faves. Oh hey, guess we’re going to do politics. Step and Colbert mixed it up with CBS again. If you heard yesterday’s show, Stephen Colbert was upset that he couldn’t broadcast an interview.
CBS put out a statement that said the Late Show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Representative Games at Teller Reco. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal time rule for two other candidates, including Representative Jasmin Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. The Late Show decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on air promotion on the broadcast, rather than potentially providing the equal time options. Stephen Colbert reacted to that and said, they know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS’s lawyers, who, for the record, approve every script that goes on the air. That’s interesting, really has that always been true?
I’ll have to ask the Late Night or crew about that one. Were David Letterman script’s approved? Colbert said, between the monologue I did last night and before I did the second act talking about this issue, I had to go backstage. I got called backstage to get more notes from these lawyers, something that had never ever happened before. And they told us the language they wanted me to use to describe that equal time exceptions, and I use that language.
So I don’t know what this is about. Colbert again said the phrase, I’m grateful to have worked for CBS for the last eleven years. I’ll come back to that. I’m just so surprised that this giant global corporation would not stand up to these bullies. Colbert held up the printed out CBS statement and said, I don’t even know what to do with this.
Crap. Hold on. He then grabbed a doggie bag, No, not the kind from the restaurant, the one where you clean up after your dog, and he stuffed the paper inside it. That got a lot of applause. Now Colbert keeps using this phrase or a phrase a lot like it, I’m grateful to have worked for CBS for the last eleven years.
He keeps thanking them, and he keeps saying that, and I feel like, maybe, perhaps possibly, John, you’re crazy, Yeah, you’re right, I am. I’m just making things up. This can’t possibly be true. Maybe, perhaps possibly some lawyer is telling him to do that so he doesn’t goof up his contract. It just I don’t know.
He keeps saying I’m grateful to have work for CBS for the last eleven years or something like that, and I’m noticing it. Maybe he’s just grateful to have worked for CBS for the last eleven years. Who knows, Now, Steven, I’ll remind you CBS is paramount. Paramount makes the horrible New Star Trek that you’re part of. I think you should be a man of principle and walk away from horrible New Star Trek.
And then I will attempt to forgive you for helping to destroy Star Trek, but until you stop destroying Star Trek, I have to be aligned with the president. Jim Jeffries talked to Rolling Stone Australia. They got political. Hey, I talked about a burger for the first five minutes. What do you want me to do here?
Jim Jeffries said, I believe that eighty percent of the population are moderates who have left and right wing views. Everybody’s got whatever the topic is. You have the left wing view and a right wing view, and I have the left and right wing views, and then ten percent of the population is extreme left and ten percent is extreme right slightly, so it just topics. It says he got RFK right. There should be no chemicals in food.
We don’t need these food dies. McDonald’s French fries shouldn’t have twenty something ingredients in them when other countries don’t have all these ingredients. A box of mac and cheese shouldn’t have thirty more ingredients than an Australian box of mac and cheese. Who would argue with that? I won’t.
I mean, I go to Europe and I eat and I’m like, how come I actually feel good? After eating and then I come back here and it’s just awful. I’ve actually been trying to avoid gluten. I do agree there’s a lot of crap in American food, Jim Jeffery said, So it’s apparent I want all that stuff out of my food, right, And then the next daying RFK says is and no vaccines, Jim said, my mother in polio, I effing believe in vaccines. So it’s not the same.
Everything’s not equal. So the left can get on board of taking out all the stuff and the food, the right can get on board of taking out all this stuff, and then they go no vaccines, like it’s all one topic that I have to believe that autism came because a pregnant woman and took tailand all. I don’t believe that. I think that sounds like BS.
And then they wanted to say it was because of the vaccines.
They obviously couldn’t find the evidence. Jim continued, I’ve always considered myself to be a fairly right wing Australian in the sense that I believe in tight borders, and I’m financially seen to be right wing in many perspects, but I’m extremely left wing for an American because I believe women should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies. I fully believe in healthcare for all, I believe in social services and housing for all, and those words that I’m saying right now to a lot of Americans with socialist programs, I might as well be a communist, right I’m the most extreme lefty on earth to certain Americans, But in Australia, that doesn’t make me an extreme lefty, does it. The Mayor of Allentown, Matt Chruik, was on Tim Hideker’s Office Hours with Tim Hideker podcast. The mayor gave Tim Hideker a key to the city and said that in Tim’s role as Allentown’s chief cheerleader, Tim needs to urge people to return to Allentown.
The mayor tried to convince Tim Hideker to return to the city himself, explaining, about a year ago we opened up a new fifteen hundred seat music hall off Hamilton Street. Hamilton Street has seen about a billion dollars of investment in the past ten years. You wouldn’t recognize it from when you were there. Hallidecker reminisced about working at a brass rail restaurant in bar location that is now a wah wah. The mayor said he prefers sheets.
By the way. In New Jersey, there’s been a thing. The sheets stores are starting to creep into New Jersey taking on the wah wahs. This is the whole thing.
And then and then this wahwah vers quick check versus seven to eleven.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a sheets wah wah has actually a pretty good sandwiches. I digress, The mayor said. The farmers market is amazing. Brass rails, they are great Korean food. Saturday at four o’clock there are eighty year old duchy women arguing about the price of meat that’s about expired.
Sounds like crap, but it’s amazing. Congratulations to the National Comedy Center, named the number one best pop culture museum in the country by USA Today. That’s right, The NCC was one of the twenty institutions nationwide nominated as best in the US. But of course the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, was named number one. Jerny Gunderson, who was on this very program one time, said the national recognition from USA Today is a powerful acknowledgment of the extraordinary artists who have shaped comedy, the great mind, singular voices and time hone creative processes that have elevated this art form throughout its history.
The JFL Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival continues. Correspondent Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast went to see one of the shows. Mike, take it from here. Red Richardson just killed it at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. I’m at the Review stage on Granville Island, very cool room, about one hundred people and Red got up there.
If you haven’t seen Red Richardson, British Schlubby got this kind of a very very cool persona character that he plays, you know, and he can go anywhere from He’s a brilliant dullard. That’s how I would classify Red Richardson. He’s a brilliant dullard. Landed every joke that he tried to try to tell you, landed them all, no matter what. And it’s funny.
He has the ability to make like he did a nine to eleven joke and it was so funny. And that’s the key. He can whether it’s cancel culture or nine to eleven. He can set up a premise where you think it’s gonna get serious, and he can make it completely innocent, almost very silly, and did some very clever things poking fun at crowd work and just you know, I don’t want to ruin any of the bits, but I would highly recommend going to see him on stage. He said that he had mostly new material, so he pulled the crowd to see if anybody had seen his last outing, and some had, and he said, well, this is almost all new material, and I think a lot of it could be used for a special.
It really was a fun show. I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you. Mike Chisholm all right at JFL Vancouver tonight. Drew Lynch, he was on the has a Very program on Sunday.
He’s at the Vogue Theater at seven o’clock. Dylan Adler does a show at seven. Dylan’s really good. Mike Rita has a show at seven. Jesse Jetski Johnson is it the review stage at nine?
Vladimir Kamanyo.
Now here’s a guy that I saw at New Faces, like I think the very first New Fac…
So we’re talking, oh, fifteen twenty years ago. I thought he was going to pop. He was fantastic that night and it never really came together for Vladimir Kamanyo. But he’s got a show at seven thirty. All right, if we were in Vancouver tonight, do you go see Drew Lynch, Do you go see Dylan Adler?
Maybe you go see Drew and maybe Dylan will do one more show. Dylan’s really good, though, that’s a tough call tonight. They’re both early shows, and then I guess for a late show. Let’s see who Jesse Jetski Johnson is. I’m unfamiliar with Jesse Jesske Johnson.
We’re told Jesse Jetski Johnson is a musical school dropout and trumpet player turns down comedian from Phoenix. She’s a cast member on the kil Tony podcast she Is and the Bad Friends podcast with Santino and Bobby Lee. Okay, I haven’t listened to kill Tony in a bit. Maybe, all right, move on, John, Okay, I’ll move on on Gossip Corner Radar Online. That’s a bit of a gossipy website.
They have the headline Cougar Kathy Griffin’s toy boy Hunt how man eating comic has already moved on from twenty three year old hunk. That’s right, Kathy Griffin had been dating a twenty three year old man she described as an accidental romance. An insider tells Radar Online. Kathy feels like she’s in her thirty She wants to have fun and live fully and isn’t done finding someone who makes her heart race now at the end of twenty twenty five with check your calendar is not that long ago. Kathy told People Magazine, my divorce took me out.
I’m not gonna lie. Some people were like, I was glad I got rid of them, and I’ve never felt better. I was down for the count. It was harder than cancer. Kathy Griffin is sixty five years old.
Don’t act like he didn’t want me to throw that piece of information out there. And from the Korean June Gang Daily say it with me. You’re home for comedy news comedian Roe hung Chull is under fire. Apparently Roe hung Chull posted some photos with some lions while visiting an animal park in Tanzania. So as the story goes, Roe posted on Insta in January after visiting Servil Wildlife a safari park in Tanzania.
He captured it trying to touch the tip of a sleeping lion’s fur. I’ve seen the photo and he’s kind of laying down, kind of near a lion. He also posted a video of himself walking alongside an awake lion. Some animal welfare activist questions whether the lion appeared to be sedated, raising suspicions that the experience involved tranquilizing the animal to make a docile for close contact encounters. An African travel agency specializing in tourst of the region also criticized Rose photos, writing does this lot Does this lion look normal?
No matter how you try to package it as a f retail moment with a sleeping lion, this animal appears drugged. Rowe addressed the issue on Instagram on Sunday, writing, ethical wildlife encounters I visited after reviewing keywords such as Tanzanian government oversight, health, treatment, recovery, and release into natural habitats. But I’m hearing other perspectives as well, he has if the concerns are valid, I will of course take part, implying he would take responsibility if necessary. The post also included pictures of him feeding a giraffe. That is your comedy news for today.
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