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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy and Hews, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. On Late Night, they were talking about the war. Did you see the President was running the war out of mart Lago over the weekend?
Because you know, why would you run it out of the White House? Seth Myers said, I had a more secure room when I was trying on jeans at Old Navy. You started a war in the Middle East and you didn’t even go to the office. You’re gonna work from home? It How am I going to get my writers to come into work when the President of the United States treats war like a team’s meeting.
Stephen Colbert said, fun fact epic fury is an anagram for forget Ebstein. An interesting article in Deadline about how these comedy specials are doing in the ratings. They say Kat Williams’s latest special, The Last Report, released on February tenth, has gotten seven point one million views in its first week. That’s up ten percent from Kat’s previous special, twenty twenty four’s Woke Folk It is the eleventh biggest US debut for any Netflix special going back to twenty seventeen. Some other info, Dave Chappelle’s twenty nineteen Stix and Stones has the biggest US viewership of any Netflix special in the last decade, plus thirty five point three six million debuts.
However, that trails Shane Gillis Live in Austin on YouTube and fifty two million plus views. Shane’s Netflix special twenty twenty three’s Beautiful Dogs has twenty eight million views on Netflix. Deadline points out YouTube counts thirty seconds of streaming as a view. Netflix divides the title’s total hours by its runtime to calculate views. Over on Amazon, Jim Gaffigan’s twenty nineteen Quality Time sixteen point four million views.
Nate Berghatzy’s Hello World thirteen and a half that came out four years later than the Gaffigan one, Eliza Slessinger Is a Different Animal came out last year one point three two million views so far. The biggest on Amazon this year is Kathleen Madigan, hence The Family Thread, which came out in November of last year that has one point two eight million views. On Hulu Kamail Nanjianni’s Night Thoughts, which came out late last year, is the Streamers number two special in the fifty two weeks ending February fifteenth, twenty twenty six, Hul’s third biggest specials since twenty twenty four, trailing Jim Gaffigan with The Skinny and Bill Burrs the Drop Dead Years. Nola caught up with Kyle Kinane. Kyle was recently asked if he wanted to perform comedy during Fish’s four day takeover at a Cancun resort.
Kyle was like sure and ended up seeing Fish three times that weekend. He said, I’m like, well, I’ve kind of made my mark on that community and they don’t like me. Anytime I kneed jerk reaction is like this is gonna suck. I kind of have to do it. If it sounds like a bad idea, well why don’t you go find out for yourself instead of just from a distance pointing your finger and judging.
So I said yes to it and woind up having a great time. Kyle told the gambit try to find the micro happiness because the world will not make you happy. The universe is crappy, so try to be a champion of yourself and find the happiness in your own little microcosm. Kyle says, over the last couple of years, I’m realizing that fame and success are different. I’ve accomplished what I want to.
I might not be outwardly successful in terms of what other comedians have, but I’m grateful for what I do have and appreciative of the friends and what I’ve gotten from comedy. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Chris Fleming. I know, right, Vulture did a big profile of him. Have you watched the special yet? It’s really good, Vulture says.
Chris Fleming arrives at the hotel and an absurdly tiny, sea foam green car, a Nissan Figaro, an obscure nineteen fifty style convertible with chrome detailing and tiny around headlights and a right side steering wheel. Fleming is six y two, and when he sits in the driver’s seat, his knees falled up to his chest, so they started driving around. The writer says, this is like Seinfeld doing comedians and cars getting coffee. Fleming says, f that’s a huge problem. If this is what this is giving off, damn it Chris is asked if he cares about cars in general.
Is this a hobby? Oh god, no, this is pure esthetic. I love it. I got to look up now, I’m curious what this car looks like Nissan figure O. Oh yeah, you gotta look this thing up.
This thing looks like it belongs in a retro movie, said in like Europe somewhere. This thing is tiny. What a cool looking car? Though, we learned in the profile, Chris Fleming’s mother realized his talent, and when Chris was sixteen, mom drove him to his first open mic. Flemming remembers mom saying, you want to be like Robin Williams, Right, well, you got to do stand up mf R.
I was like, oh, I don’t want to do stand up. Stand up sucks. I don’t like watching it. I wanted to be in movies and I found stand up tedious. People Magazine profiled Nate Berghansey as part of the game show Yeah it’s Wednesday, It’s Scrubs Night, Trivia night, game show night, Schrodinger’s Dree Duty Night.
And I’m a little worried as I record this on Tuesday. Now, I was expecting they would tell me to call back on Wednesday. They told me to call back on Tuesday nights. I’m a little worried that they’re gonna get me. I might actually record two episodes while I’m sitting here in the studio and actually home.
Nate cleared up some other rumors about him quitting stand up. He said, I’m not quitting stand up right now. I got this current tour. We’re doing another tour, but there’s gonna be a point where it’s gonna get hard to travel on the road. Is We’re creating so much stuff and making these movies, and then I want to go help find the next generation of comedians or actors writers.
At least I wanted to stand there and tell them I’ve done what I’m asking them to do. Last week, Jason Zenniman, friend of the show in The New York Times, he wrote, the most popular comedian You’ve probably never heard of. That person is Maximini, who I had never heard of. Remember, at the end of the year, Deadline kind of was like, Hey, Maximedi’s selling out places, and I was like, who, Well, Maximedi is the most popular comedian you’ve probably never heard of, Correctly pointed out by Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. Jason went to see Maximedia at the Garden.
All this before the current war. I just want to point that out, Jason writes. Arenas like the Garden aren’t built for crowd work. In the upper balcony, you can’t hear, let alone see half the conversation. But this didn’t stop a meeting who made small talk with ticket buyers for twenty straight minutes.
Jason writes, the Maximini phenomenon reflects a transitional moment in an increasingly globalized comedy scene, upbending two common beliefs. The firstes that fans just want great jokes some do. What you see from Amini is an artist less interested in putting together clever punchlines than in creating a sense of an event, a warm vibe, a show that becomes a community. On Sunday, when Dean Cook introduced Amini, he didn’t trumpet the younger comics funniness, but his ability to connect and unify. Dean Cook didn’t expect that name in this story.
At one point, a drunk audience member hijacked the show, and another woman told a long story about seeing a medium that almost no one in the arena, could hear I mean, he got his biggest laughs, mocking the audience members, calling back to them, weaving them into a story. What becomes clear is they’re not just seeing the show, they are the show. Judging from the crowd of the garden, his audience comes from nearly every continent, and a meaning made sure that his material is accessible to them all. As subjects were universal and bland, dating, family music, and he never went deeper specific enough to confuse anyone. His examination of Iranian culture often applies to other immigrant experiences.
Again, this show and the article are from before the war. Jason Zinnemann wrote at that time, A Meanie’s only really challenging material came at the end of the show when he stopped choking and told the crowd that thousands approacheds had been killed in Iran and that what was happening there was quote the biggest revolution in our time unquote. Then he showed a series of short videos of scenes of violence, protesters getting run over and attacked, and as a narrator in towned freedom is not a punchline, don’t forget to vote someone off the island. On Comedy Survivor Regular Survivors on TV tonight too, so we got that and Scrubs Trivia and I got a nixed the nix aer. On tonight they’re playing the champions Big Night Comedy Survivor sixteen comedians one island.
Half of them have already been voted off by the listeners. What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There you’ll see a picture of me extinguishing the torch of Kevin Hart from last week, and this week you’ll vote someone off the island. I took a quick look this morning. I look like Burt Kraser is in trouble.
So if you’re part of the Bert Krascher alliance, you’re happy. And if not, you guys want to form an alliance and vote someone else off to save Bert Kraser. All that’s up to you, guys. I’m just the host. Radar Online says that Stephen Colbert’s ratings are pretty bad and the CBS can’t wait for it to be over.
The phrasing from Raider Online is bosses are counting the days until he’s out while telling him not to let the door whack his behind on the way out. The series finale is May twenty first, that it can’t come too soon for CBS big weeks, who note that the comic is facing his worst January ratings in the twenty five to fifty four age group. Ever, with just two hundred and eighty five thousand viewers, that is not a lot of people. An insider said, the final show can’t come soon enough for most folks at the network. They’re sick to the back teeth of Colbert’s raging ego, his constant attention seeking and petty historyonics.
The feeling’s pretty mutual, to be fair, Steven’s only going through the motions at this point, but that makes for a lousy vibe, and it’s doing nothing to improve the shattered morale of his employees. Most of them will be out of a job soon enough, no thanks to him, The insider said. The fact his ratings are in the pan does justify the decision to cut Ties, but it also means the sharp decline in revenue, and there are some folks at the network who are fled a lot out, accusing Steven of sabotaging the show on his way out the door. Whatever his motive, the next few months can’t pass soon enough. Wow, Jimmy Carr is getting another season of his TV show, Am I the a Hole?
Car said of UKs Comedy Central, We’re bringing back m Ida Hole and I’m hosting again a guest. Comedy Central figure when it comes to a Hole’s game recognizes game. On m Ida Hole, judges judge members of the public on their questionable behavior and morally dubious actions. For example, say you played the ri Odd Comedy Festival, they would say, hey, are you an a hole?
And then the judges would decide whether or not that was something that would…
But hey, at checks at check right. President Trump has announced on social media that he will participate in this year’s White House Correspondence Association dinner. In the past that was hosted by comedians who would roast everyone in the room, including whatever person was the sitting president. This year’s host is celebrity mentalist Oz Perman. I’m not familiar with mister Perlman’s work.
Roman was profiled, apparently by The New York Times back in October. The headline on that article said, it’s not cheating, it’s reading minds. Oz Perlman has revealed Joe Rogan’s ATM code on air and entertained NFL stars. Now the manosphere’s favorite magician wants more. Okay, that’s all I know about this person.
And now he’s hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner, which will be attended by the President of the United States, who posted on social media during the war in honor of our nation’s two hundred and fiftieth birthday, and because these correspondents now admit that I am truly one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country. The goat wait is the President, saying he’s only one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country. I thought he was the greatest according to himself. No, he’s only one of them. I wonder who else is on his list.
Anyway, the President said he will help make the dinner the encaps greatest, hottest, and most spectacular dinner of any kind ever. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levin, taking a break from answering questions about the war that Congress did not approve, posted will be fun. And I’ll leave you with this today. I put this last on purpose. Listen to me, because I’m going to prove it, and you’re you’re going to struggle to make it to the end of today’s show.
But this will prove my point. This is why I put it last. When Jim Gaffigan is not doing polished written material, he is horribly, horribly unfunny. I will prove it to you. Jim Gaffigan went on social media.
He had a message for you. I defy you to make it to the end of this clip. Hey everyone, it’s Jim gaff again. I just want to let you know that my forehead is still large. I do have some kind of exciting news coincidence.
I don’t know, maybe conspiracy theory. Recently I passed a million subscribers on YouTube. Now I’m not saying that had anything with the Supreme Court overturning the tariffs, but it seems a little like, you know what a coincidence, right? You know, It’s like stock market reaches fifty thousand and then it goes down, Big coin goes down. You know, all those ships are moving to you know them, you know, in position in Iran, you know, and then my YouTube subscriber goes up to a million.
I mean, I don’t anyway, Thank you if you have subscribed and watched the Bourbon. Side Jim Gaffigan, Holy cow, that was bad. Not your comedy news for today. I think I’m going to record Thursday while I’m here. I got a bad sense about this Jerry duty call, so so let me make sure you have a show so I can see you tomorrow