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Caloroga Shark Media. Hooray Daylight savings Time. You people that don’t like daylight savings Time don’t want to hear it longer daylight after work and now it’s starting to get warm, which has nothing to do with the daylight I’m on team Daylight Savings Time. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
I’m in a good mood. I just recorded the results of Mondays at Comedy Survivor. Wow. Another interesting result. So you’re gonna want to come back for Comedy Survivor at noon eastern daylight time on Monday.
Well, let’s do some comedy stuff, John, all right. The late night guys were talking about Christy Noam. You saw she got fired. Greg Gutfeld with a good joke, and I’m sure he told it even better than I will. He said, Trump fired DHS Secretary Christy Nooaman, and no one is more disappointed than her dogs.
Jimmy Fallon said, you never know what Trump. He either thinks she’s bad at her job or he wants her to be the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Fallon again, Yeah, Noam is the first cabinet secretary Trump’s fired since returning into office, he was like, man, I forgot how good this feels. Get Cash Bettell in here, Jimmy Kimmel, The funniest thing would be if they deport her to l Salvador. On HBO, Tonight’s is a new show by Bill Lawrence.
Now, who’s Bill Lawrence. That’s the guy that made Scrubs and the guy that made ted Lasso and some other things. Right, so we like him. He’s good at stuff. This stars Steve Carell.
It also features John C McGinley, who is sometimes Doctor Cox on Scrubs. So we’ve got some really good pedigree here today. Although I have seen mixed reviews possible spoilers here, I haven’t actually read the reviews, just the headlines. Daniel Feinberg is one of my favorite TV reviewers. He’s in The Hollywood Reporter.
His headline Steve Carell college comedy bos. The Stellar Cast can’t figure out what it wants to be. Daniel writes, it’s a show with an excess of undeveloped identities rather than a lack of identity, spackling over its poorly few story elements, with a sense of humor that’s sometimes appealing and frequently desperately hacky that’s not good. Rooster is the story of an introverted pulp fiction author played by Steve Carell, who was nothing like his macho alter ego, but gets the opportunity to change his life when he gets a job as a writer in residence at a small New England college that gives us the gimmick of reuniting him with his daughter, who’s an art history professor dealing with a crumbling marriage. But Finberg got a little funny here, he wrote, or perhaps a poetry teacher at a small New England college is looking forward to a reunion with her best friend newly hired as writer in residence, only to have the school’s president, John C.
McGinley, give the job to a schlocky pot boiler scribe played by Steve Carell, who doesn’t even want the job now, Finberg writes, Okay, Rooster absolutely is in the last show I mentioned, though there’s certainly a subplot, Findberg writes, it’s a truth near universally acknowledged that Bill Laurrence shows generally work best when they dispatch with or at least deemphasize the gimmicks and just becomes stories about damaged people, hanging out, making mistakes, and hugging. It’s completely possible that by the end of the ten episode first season, Rooster will have found its story, resolved its most discordant pieces, and become another of those charming and more Bill Laurrence shows.
Meanwhile, Variety hes headlines Steve Carell’s HBO comedy Rooster is dated a…
Ooh, that’s not good. I thought I had the good review. Second, I guess not. Oh I already ready the good review. Oh no, Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence, John McGinley, uh Oh, Variety wrote, Unfortunately, Rooster is full of predictable characters and circumstances, adding up to a lackluster narrative.
Oh No. Rooster is especially disappointing because there’s much to be said about the relationships between fathers and adult daughters, but that dynamic is barely explored here, despite its star power and creator Lawrence’s previous work on series like Ted Lasso, Shrinking and Cougartown no mention for Scrubs, Dude, do I have to am? I gonna have to get up a Scrubs posse and come and wag our fingers at you in front of your house. What do you mean you didn’t mention scrubs. Rooster is a dull regurgitation of previously explored themes and figures Corell has portrayed before Rooster HBO Tonight.
Meanwhile, the La Times profiled an upcoming concert. It’s going to be at so Fi Stadium in Los Angeles and it features Joe Koy and Gabriel Iglesias. Gabriel Iglesias. Now, if you’re like, who’s Gabriela Glacis, remind me who he is. He’s the guy.
His nickname is Fluffy and he recently played the Riod Comedy Festival. Some people call him a sellout. I don’t care. Yeah, I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say. He said.
The fact that we’ve known each other as long as we’ve had is wild. We’ve known each other since we both had long hair. On March twenty first, Sofi Stadium will be filled with more than seventy thousand people. The one night only show will not be televised or recorded as a special. It’s meant to be a party for comedy fans who have supported gab Iglesias and Joe Koy since their early days and now feel like John.
Who’s Joe Koy again? Can you remind me sure? I’m happy to do that. Before Nikki Glaser hosted the Golden Globes, Joe Koy host of the Golden Globes. Now you might not remember that year.
That was the year he told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.
Love that bit, Gabe and Jokoy. We’ll pass the mic back and forth throughout the night. The night will feature special guests, surprise moments, and a copywriting rule of three plenty of other unplanned interruptions. They’re expecting a four hour show. Gab Iglacias said, it’s more sweet because it’s taken so long.
This wasn’t an overnight thing. Now, what as everybody wants everything so fast. Between the two of us, we’ve got about sixty years of comedy experience. Joe Coy said, it’s insane. I can’t explain it.
Every time we come here, and look up. I’m like, there’s gonna be a stage here. The size of the end zone. Wow, I didn’t even set this next thing up. I didn’t read this far ahead in the article before.
Right now, they quoted in the La Times, Jay Leno, Yeah, the worst person whoever lives said. My attitude when I came to this town is if you can’t get in through the front door, go in the back door. And they didn’t do it the traditional way. They got to where they are as comedians, one audience member at a time. The show is already completely sold out seventy thousand tickets.
Gabe sat at a certain point, It’s like, we’ve been doing huge stand up shows for so many years, it becomes normal. What do you do to change things? What do you do to grow? The worst thing that happens is it fails. But at least we know we try, all right, Now we know what our ceiling is.
But now this is at the ceiling the only time tells us. Unlike a typical arena show, which takes several months to coordinate, their big night at so Far required a full year of planning. The production in stage is three times the size of their normal stages and we managed by the same team that produces stadium shows for acts like Bad Bunny. Why the President of the United States isn’t going to like this show?
Meanwhile, in the Hindustan Times, your home for comedy news, they recapped J…
They quoted John marco Is saying being a New Yorker has prepared me for the phrenetic energy of being on the street, and India was like New York in advance mode. But you never feel alone in India, and I do like that. The food was incredible, although I was heavily monitored to not eat anything that would have disrupted my stage performance. So I fantasize about coming back here with enough time to be a little riskier with spice. John Marco said one of the highlights of his trip was hitting the vegetable market Mumbai at five am.
Going to the spice market, flower market and fish market. John Marco said, I got to see the inner workings of how everything works in the chaos, any incredible nature of how people will fill the streets and then clear them out every single day. I wish I didn’t have to wake up at five am and I’ve had that experience. I’m glad to have done it. Wudson never again, So please feel encouraged to join us in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.
And the other day I saw Jeff posted that he was off to go see John Marcos Seresi in New York City, and then I ran into Jeff in real life the other day. You know why. Jeff is one of the infamous trivia guys, and I did some field reporting while at the brewery. Hright, you hear me talk about the trivia guys. I’m here with the trivia guys.
Jeff went to see John Marco. I did at theater adult last night at jose Pum. I was it. It was great. I didn’t initially realize I had bought tickets for the theater adults.
I thought I was just going to see John Marco. Oh okay, but now you thought the whole cabaret. I got the whole thing. So then, as a former theater kid now sort of theater adult myself, it resonated. It was a wonderful Morgas born of comedy.
It started out with the piano companists came out and warmed us up. Had us sing a little bit of be our Guest from Beating the Beast. Then Doug Goodheart came out and master it. He told us how to master five musical theater moves, very important. Then John Marco came out, did about twenty five minutes.
Or so wow. And had people in the audience talk about their experiences doing musical theater, and had a couple of people come up out of the audience, catrolled them to do a song, which was fantastic. Then Ben Platt came out and opened with luck be a Lady in Hebrew from his days at the Jewish performing Arts camp as a kid, and then they had a nice chat and Ben did a Corner of the Sky from Pippin and all the roles in Your Fall from into the Woods, and then they dueted on Your Nothing Without Me from City of Angels, which was fun and it was great. So it was it was good to see John Marco doing a little theater instead of just kind of talking about how he doesn’t do theater anymore right, and that the bits were funny and it was a great night. We look forward to the next one.
And the whole Mullaney rip off thing. I don’t see it at all. And I can’t imagine after he saw the cabaret version. Yeah, yeah, it’s ridiculous. No, I don’t.
I don’t see him as a ripoff of Malina at all. So one of the unanswered questions when I talk about you guys is what is the geographic circle? Like? Will you go to San Diego? Is it just northern New Jersey?
How how far away can I see comedy? No to hire the trivia guys, that’s men trivia. Yeah, No, we pretty much stay Morris County, New Jersey. Ish, we’ll go down to where’s the where’s the other county? We go to you know, Somerset County occasionally, Essex County occasionally, but we’re pretty local.
We’re getting We’ll go to San Diego if somebody right, if someone wants to hire is we’ll figure out a way to make it work. I would pay a little t anda exactly sure is the flyest sound to say? Sick? I can say, Now, that’s like me. I want to cover the Sydney Australia Comedy Festival, but on someone else’s time.
Exactly, all right, I know you got to set up, so let’s do Old man questions tonight eighties music. I know this ari on a grande stuff. You bet I appreciate it. Do Our best friend of the show, Jason Zinneman. In the New York Times, the headline the funniest special of the year, Dylan so far is drunk on words.
I might have added the Dylan part. Dylan is one of the guys in the Facebook group who watches fifty times the comedy specials. I do, but Dylan’s not feeling the Chris Fleming special. That’s okay. I don’t like Adam Sandler.
It’s fine. Comedy comes in many forms. We all like different things. Zinnaman agrees with me that Chris Fleming is the funniest special of the year so far. We are aligned at zennymon Rights.
Chris Fleming is a singular comedian for many reasons. His dynamic physicality, hopping, trotting, even moonwalking through jokes, the absolute finesse with which he delivers an insult so that it barely makes a mark, the unpredictability of his digressions, and the deadly seriousness he applies to subjects like the art of leading a conga line or Paul Dano’s smile see. This is why we need people who know how to write, like Jason Zinnaman from the New York Times, because he asked me and I go, oh yeah, it’s funny. Or I might say like, oh yeah, and he moves around a lot. I’m like a hack.
I can’t go more than like two sentences and I move on. But in front of the show jason’ Zenneman of The New York Times, right, it’s the magic trick of his act is that Chris Fleming marries a wild improvisational sense of constantly flying off the handle with a rightly precision with language. Usually you get one but not the other. Why you don’t hear the term alt comedy much anymore? That’s true, you really don’t.
Hmm. I wonder why it is, because now you hear bro comedy all the time. I guess the alt comedy guy’s one who knows why you don’t hear the term all comedy much anymore. There are plenty of odd ball comedians flourishing outside clubs and confessional solo shows. Sarah Sherman has turned Splatter and Go into a winning aesthetic, and Julio Tauris relies on flamboyant costumes and the abstraction of evoking colors and shapes.
Then there’s the booming clown scene. Yeah, that doesn’t get enough courage. I’m glad Jason pays attention to the clowns. The clowns are good. Pay attention to Natalie Palamedes if she’s not on your radar.
Natalie is fantastic. And Jimmy Fallon was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Late Night reminds us Fallon had appeared on Colbert’s Late Show three times before, including in the premiere, but never as a guest. Colbert, on the other hand, has been a guest on found Tonight Show twice. Colbert has popped up twice remotely, once with Conan in twenty eighteen as part of Fallon’s monologue, and in twenty nineteen to perform a duet of The Never Ending Story along with Fallon.
That’s really good work there by the Late Nighter folks. Anyway, I’m going to leave you with this Jimmy Fallon, who is super talented. You hear me stick up for Jimmy Fallon on this show. Now, sometimes the comedy lacks a little punch, but I do understand that Jimmy Fallon understands what the Tonight Show is and isn’t. But Fallon did a personalized version of Frank Sinatra is my way, and I’ll let that take us out and I’ll be back in the morning with a regular episode.
And then Monday at noon in eastern daylight time is comedy Survivor. All right, Jimmy Fallon, take us home. And now. The end is near, and so you face the final curtain. But Trump, he made it clear he wants you gone of that.
We’re certain you’ve been a gracious host. We’ve loved you since the old report days much more than this. You did it you. Yes, they send you to knock down to just two Jimmy’s. But wait.
Before you go, Can I please have one of your Jimmies go? Now? What will you do? Dance with the stars or move to Norway? In twenty eight you’d have our vote.