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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy, and he was if though we had to start with some fun today from Nicky Swift dot Com. It’s celebrities who can’t stand jay Leno. That’s right, jay Leno. That guy’s the worst.
He sometimes comments about late night television and takes care of his wife. He’s just awful. So let’s take a look at the celebrities who do not like jay Leno. We’re told Arsenio Hall threatened to kick jay Leno’s butt. Arsenio Hall back in nineteen ninety two told Entertainment Weekly that Arseniol Hall had little respect for jay Leno’s talents.
Reports at the time claimed he was friends with jay Leno or Senio apparently said, I have no problem about saying good things about my competitors, but jay Leno and I aren’t friends. And you know what, I wasn’t annoyed it, Okay, No one put the late night silver spoon in my mouth. I earned every drop of mine, and I’m gonna treat him like we treated the kid on the high school basketball team. It was the coach’s son. He was there because he was annointed too.
We try to kick his button. That’s what I’m gonna do, kick Jay’s butt. How that work out ours anyhow? Haul then apparently was a Good Morning America, and I have said, something’s wrong with someone who’s always surprised about people being upset with him. Dennis Miller apparently hasn’t talked to Jay Leno.
Dennis Miller told Entertainmy and Weekly Jay and I were good friends at one point. I don’t think I talked to him again, nor would he want to talk to me about the tonight show. Put it this way, they want to win really badly. He may recall, Dennis Miller had a late night show. The accusation seemed to be that NBC was trying to stop famous people from going on other shows.
Jay Leno said, we weren’t keeping people off their show. Do we say to guests, we’ll give you this in that and we have a bigger audience, we’ll fly you in, we’ll pick you up in a limo. Yeah, but please, that’s the game. Jimmy Kimmel on the list, telling the New York Times, I think he turned comedy in a factory work, and it comes across just amazing how insecure he is the people who like Leno are largely a stupid group. The people who root for Letterman of the smarter group.
The people who like me also stupid. I figure I cut into the dummies. Lopez. Remember Lopez had a late night show, Lopez Tonight. Now.
I want to see George Lopez in concert in Chicago around that time, and George was actually like an a hole. Like we were sitting in the audience going, dude, you just sound like a more and he was flaming everybody. I think he flamed Carson. I remember walking out of the show and it kind of changed my opinion on George Lopez. Did not enjoy it at all.
In two thousand and seven, George Lopez apparently was on WMX radio and told Scott and Erica that he hoped to start a beef with Jay Leno, saying, Leno is the biggest two faced dude in TV. When I had my kidney transplant in two thousand and five, he called me and was the nice guy on the phone, and then he just puts the knife in your back. It tells you something about Jay Leno. If Conan O’Brien is coming to the Tonight show. When Jay Leno is still young enough to be the host.
The dudes like the worst interview we’re on TV. Patton Oswalt on Comedy Death Ray apparently said you almost want to take Leno aside and go, why do you want this so badly that this being the tonight show? Because you don’t do anything with it? Listen, Patton Oswalt, Dude, bro, Patton Oswalt, you ruined Star Trek and I’ve been meeting all week to get to this time out. Johnny Max got a beef with Patton Oswalt, who ruined Star Trek is dug the Vulcan.
Patton, did you not put out a really famous bit called at midnight, I will kill George Lucas with a shovel? And is that not complaining about the Star Wars prequels? So you’re going to kill George Lucas with a shovel for ruining a sci fi franchise that you love. So you, Dug the Vulcan can understand how I am outraged at you. Tig Nataro, Genius Sheer, Stephen Colbert and any other comedian who is currently ruining Star Trek.
I digress. Let’s go back to j leto Patton said, Comedians that don’t like j leto now, and I’m one of them. We’re not like, oh my god, Jay Leno sucks. It’s that we were hurt and so disappointed that one of the best comedians of our generation wilfully like threw that switch off. Howard Stern back in the day, the old Howard Stern told Peters Morgan, Jasonsane, and Jason Crook, he steals a tremendous amount of material.
Why don’t we all pause the podcast right now and google fart Man. And I don’t mean the Howard Stern version, I mean the National Lampoon version.
And then we’ll unpause and we’ll come back and listen to what Howard Stern wa…
Fart Man, he’s not fit to scrow but David Letterman’s feet. Conan O’Brien told The Hollywood Reporter in twenty twelve Jay Leno hadn’t built any bridges. Conan said, he certainly isn’t calling me. It’s not like he’s going to sneak up on me and traffic the odds that will both leave this earth without speaking to each other it’s fine. There’s really nothing to say.
We both know the deal. He knows, I know. I’d rather just forget Rosie O’Donnell said, I’ve been a big fan of ConA O’Brien and The Tonight Show’s a franchise that has been sixty years with NBC. And if you’re privileged enough to be asked to drive the bus, you should say thank you and drive it to the best of your ability, and when it’s time for them to hire a new driver, you should say thank you for allowing me to drive this for as long as I did, and pass the keys to the new guy with the red hair, not try to flatten his tires before he even gets going. In twenty fourteen, Jimmy Fallon rescinded the ban on Joan Rivers from The Tonight Show.
Joan Rivers returned to The Tonight Show and fl up to Jay Leno the Bird. She told Inside Edition, the curse is gone to Jay. Well, Jay, twenty three years, I’m still here and you’re gonna be selling cars.
And then there’s the joke from David Letterman, who had a joke about a Law an…
I had so many things I was going to do today. I didn’t expect the jay little thing to take up half the show. Let’s do this one. Keenan Thompson caught up with Men’s Journal, and Keenan started talking about whiskey, and I thought to myself, now, if Jim Gaffigan did this, you would rip it to shreds, would you not? Johnny Mack, Yes, you would, so, Keenan, it’s your turn.
They were somehow tying all this whiskey drinking back to the NFL. Keenan Roots of the Falcons when eight and nine and Keenan Thompson told Men’s Journal, if you’ve had a lemon of a season, turn those lemons into Jim Beam, turn it negative into a positive, and what do you know. Keenan Thompson teamed up with Jim Beam for an ad campaign promoting this simple yet tasty combination. Boy, if Gaffigan did this, Men’s Journal asked him before this ad campaign, were you a huge lemon fan? Keenan Thompsons said, Weirdly enough, I do have an affinity towards lemons, like I even wear a citrusy kind of cologne.
But you know, it wasn’t anything that I was intending on, Like it’s not necessarily my go to because I don’t even mix anymore but on a nice little health cake these days. So I’m just kind of straight up for the low carbs or whatever. But I do remember lemonade always kind of going hand in hand with great things, Jim Beam being one of them. Jim Beam says, thank you for the mention there, So I was happy to spearhead this new movement for them. They asked Keenan Thompson, was there someone who introduced you to whiskey your family or perhaps Lord Michaels or I’ll throw it, maybe it was Jim Gaffigan.
Keenan said, no, I don’t have a whiskey mentor. Are we supposed to have whiskey mentors? Like I’ve got a little here in the basement that sometimes on a hot day, I’ll pour a little over ice with my son. I don’t have a mentor, Keenan said, I’ve always been much more casual, but as I’ve gotten older, I like to get into the history of things and also the quality of things by doing a little research, like we have the Brandy Library here in New York. Having gone there and seen so many varieties of things, it’s easy to kind of get immersed in it a little bit.
So anytime I’m drinking whiskey, it’s nice to know the good ones, well, Keenan, other than lemonade. And how do you drink your whiskey? Keenan said, I need a rock. I need something to sue it a little bit, you know, a nice big rock or even a few smaller ones. It doesn’t really matter.
Sometimes I do want several rocks to get a little water in there. Good follow up by Men’s Journal. Whiskey drinkers tend to be very specific about ice. Are you picky? Keenan said, No, at home, it could be whatever.
It’s always nice to see when people have curated cubes, like any sort of Star Wars themed cubes, debt stars, anything like. That’s always fun, is it? And you’re talking to somebody who has about five Star Wars posters here in the basement, and I’m not kidding. We’re just a traditional round ball or big square cube kind of thing. But at a restaurant.
I expect some fanciness. Oh this is fun. Who’s your all time favorite fictional bartender? Keenan said, who did it better than Tom? I’ve seen lots of movies and that was a lot of training for him.
He really wanted to take it seriously. So between that and maybe Coyote Ugly, I guess, how do you not pick Isaac the bartender? I mean, come on, love boat anybody. The only thing that would make this better for me was if this was actually with Jim Gavigan. Keenan was asked what’s the perfect snack food to have with bourbon while watching sports?
Is it popcorn? Perhaps peanuts? Keenan said, I think we need to level up. We’re in the connected world where you could experience so many different flavors. I think you’ve got to get into some charcoutery or something like that where you get up a bunch of different tastes on a plate, especially in the master Chef days we’re living in.
I like putting together display then feast on it. Keenan Thomson. Do you have a favorite all time guest host of SNL that you’ve enjoyed drinking with? Keenan said, Dave Chappelle is great because he enjoys the night as well. He doesn’t get introverted or anything.
It’s kind of like he’s just waking up after the show. He’s a great one to have a moment with him to pick his brain. He’s a praiser, so he’ll always be giving you props while you’re trying to give him props. If you could have a drink with anyone who’s been in the cast of SNL, who would it be? Phil Harmon.
I’d love to be able to really sit down just be around with him more than once. I’d love to have been able to build an alumni brotherhood with him. We met on a plane once and he was so generous. It almost seemed like a dream because it was happening in the sky. He was so nice and it was just kiss met that were put together on this flight.
And I say we because it was me and kel Mitchell. He got up during the you can unbuckle your seat belts now and walk around the cap and time, and he just came over to us. We just had a conversation for a while. Was fantastic. Interesting tag here Keenan talked about SNL Ben Journal was like, it seems like a party all week long.
Is it like that? And Keenan said, it’s a lot more corporate these days. Everybody who just kind of comes in and focuses. We’re all aware of our HR meetings and stuff like that. I think we keep it more so for after the show’s done, kind of like decompression and that is your comedy news as it was for today fun show.
I like to mix it up, especially on the weekends, all right back in the morning with a normal episode. I see it to worrow.