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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comnians, and a comedy industry even on a slow news day. Theovon is he on the mass singer? People think theovon might be on the mask singer. There’s somebody performing as High Voltage?
Is it theovon hiding beneath that lightning bolt costume? I have some opinions, but I won’t share them yet. Some clues High Voltage’s first clue package dropped hints about leadership and American influence. High Voltage’s opening statement said, when I first began my career, the idea of blending in was my biggest fear. There have been some visual hints power lines, grease canisters, a map of the United States, a bald eagle.
The audio clip highlighted how High Voltage had become a patriot and revolutionary changing American culture. Growing up references included slurpees, Van Halen, MTV, and backyard Goat cookouts. This week’s clues featured heavily on bands, breakups, and going solo. High Voltage tells us I grew up listening to Ozzie. Now I have a clip from High Voltage.
Let’s listen to High Voltage sing and you tell me if you think this is THEOVON. Big list, old ruses, sweet been taps this way back when these wheels in the sin new hits, new seeds, no hiss, still read, and you just can’t fake this. So let’s change that. Girl. Let’s go put some miles on the back of the Chevy with the engine run.
I’m gonna vote heavy. Not that that is not THEOVON. That doesn’t sound like THEOVON at all.
Also, I’ve seen the body type of High Voltage.
I don’t believe it is THEOVON. Conan O’Brien will deliver the keynote address at Harvard’s three hundred and seventy fifth Commencement ceremony in May. Now let me just take a time out here. We all love Conan, and we’re gonna hear a lot about Conan this week because Conan is hosting the Oscars on Sunday, So a lot of Conan coming up this week. And we all love Conan.
Johnny Mack loves Conan. I’m not being sarcastic here. You can listen to all the hours I’ve done with Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast, both on my show and his show, and you’ve heard me say, I like Conan, we all love Conan, but you knew that bo was coming. Let’s stop acting like he’s some sort of outsider. He’s hosting the Oscars for the second time, he’s doing the commencement speech at Harvard, and I I’ll tell you in a couple of minutes.
He was on Michelle Obama’s podcast. But this is an insider, So let’s stop pretending like he’s some wacky outsider. He’s not. We all love him, I love him, but he’s not some wacky outsider. He will deliver the keynote address at Harvard’s three hundred and seventy fifth commencement ceremony in May.
Meanwhile, Conan was on Michelle Obama’s podcast like regular people do all the time. I’ve been on it four times myself. Conan and Missus Obama discussed the White House Correspondence Association dinner and Conan and explain that is not a normal crowd. They’re thinking a lot about their own world, and you need to be funny, and you can’t act like you know too much, because then they’ll resent you for that or think you don’t belong. ConA and O’Brien told Michelle Obama, I’ve talked to your husband about this.
In case you’re not familiar with Michelle Obama, her husband is Barack Obama, who used to be the President of the United States. Conan told Michelle Obama, they make you follow the leader of the free world. He goes first and kills it. Then it’d finished and like drop the mic crowd going crazy and a voice would go, ladies and gentlemen, Conan O’Brien, and you see people like what who would go now? So you got to way through with that a little bit.
But it’s all calculating for what’s the assignment. He compared the correspondence dinner to the Oscars and said, now I’m gonna speak to a bunch of alist people who don’t really like to give it up for anybody. But that’s all calculation. You got to calculate and then have fun. Michelle Obama asked Conan O’Brien if comedy’s more fraught these days.
Conan O’Brien told Michelle Obama, are you getting how like inside this is? I think they’re all very talented. They’re really good people. They’re in a tough situation because your job is to go out and talk about the news every day. I was never strictly a comedian that lives off the news.
I usually try to find things that were silly and funny outside of the news, but we also had to do the news. Things are so diverse right now. I think it’s got to be a really tough task. And I do have empathy for the people who trying to figure out what’s funny in this because I know it just as a citizen. I get up in the morning and I look at what’s happened in the news.
I like to be funny, but my first instinct when I read the news is nothing here gives me joy or is making me laugh that hard. But if you’re doing one of those shows, how do you not talk about it? How do you not wear your heart on your sleeve? Maybe get mad? So it’s difficult.
Johnny Mack, is it a slow news day now? Why do you ask? Jerry Seinfeld was spotted at a Massachusetts restaurant. That’s right. Jerry was in Wooster last week.
Did a couple shows at the Hanover Theater. The Theater Cafe posted on Facebook that Seinfeld ordered a pre performance dinner. We are told Jerry Seinfeld requested the lemon chicken, which sounds like a joke. I don’t know what’s the joke about it, but it sounds like one. Jerry Seinfeld requested the lemon chicken.
But not just that. Jerry Seinfeld requested the lemon chicken grilled Faroe Island on salmon steam, vegetables, brown rice, and a green salad. And mass Live points out no soup was ordered. Well done. Amy Schumer hit up a Knicks game.
Johnny mag has a slow news day? Now, why do you ask me? I got plenty today? I know what you’re talking about. That’s right.
She went to see when the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs, and we are told Amy Schumer appeared to be ready when the camera panned to her, and she got up and danced. She showed off her dance moves, well decked out in Nick’s gear. Later in the day on Instagram, she wrote, mom, dance cam coming in hard. I thought I’d check in on John Mlanie’s book club and you’re like, John, is it a slow news day? And I don’t know why you keep asking me that stop.
But I hadn’t seen anything about John mulani Reads, which is the hashtag Mullenie reads for the John Mulaney book Club. But if you went on John mullani Facebook, you would see two books this month. One led me to the other. The first book, John Mulaney recommends here Beside the Rising Side Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead and an American Wakening by Jim Newton says in bad times we need reckless troublemakers to pursue absurdity and offer something stupid, fun and free. I’ve read half a dozen books about The Grateful Dead.
Jim Newton’s new contribution is totally different. Then in all caps, m’laney yells at us and says, you did not have to be a deadhead or even fan. I appreciate this chronicle now. It’s interesting. I was on the John Marco Seraisi book Club and he recommends you’re beside the Rising Tide shirt No sorry, cheap shot at Ton Marko love Jen Marko front of the show.
It’s a joke, John Marco. You know that was funny. You know I’m on your team. You me Chris Fleming. We’re going over to by Biglia’s house and we’re gonna I don’t know, I know what we’re gonna do.
We’re gonna give him a thumbs down. We’re not violent people. We come in peace. We’re just gonna stand outside Mike Birbiglia’s house. You me, Chris Fleming, and we’re just gonna stand there with our thumbs down.
If anyone wants to join us, let us know. Tell John Marco on Instagram we’re doing this. Mulania has a second recommendation for us. It is Ken Casey’s sometimes a great notion. John tells this is a propulsal family story of a logging community in Oregon in the nineteen sixties.
I loved this book and really isolated outcast community. The people that populate the book are outcasts from each other. John tells us, I don’t know what it’s like to be driving around the country in a bus on acid for half a decade. While he was doing that, Casey wrote a true great American novel. Okay, Meanwhile, there’s the Anthony Jessnick Book Club, and you’re like, John, You’re sure it’s not a slow news day.
And I’m telling you it is not. My friend jessel Nick has recommended Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. The short novel builds to an unforgettable, haunting and beautiful ending. The book was published in nineteen sixty two. Jessel Nick said, I read it twenty years ago, but it’s one of my favorite Vonagut novels and extremely relevant today.
I might have started a book club over here. I’m a simple man, though, I’m gonna tell you to read a Tom Clancy novel. I’ll work on that. I haven’t figured that out yet, Johnny MacBook club coming soon, but probably not. Ah.
The folks at snl UK put out a trailer. I’ll give you a little taste of it, but I’m gonna clip it because after the guy says, live from London, it’s mostly music, but you’re kind of curious what it sounds like. Here, let’s listen live from London. It’s Saturday night, so the music is go by the Chemical Brothers. Sure to get the YouTube version of this podcast demonetized now.
In their little opening thing there, they didn’t have the voiceover person mention who the people are, which I thought was weird. Okayse, you’re curious they are Hamed, Annamashan, Larry Dean, Celeste Drink, George four Acres, Anya Magliano, Annabel Marlowe, Al Nash, Jack Shepp, Emma Cidy and Patty Young. Congratulations to Matt Rife the Stay Golden World Tour appearance at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, where you could have had jury duty and then walked across the street to see Matt Rife. But luckily jury duty is over. I am a free man.
I have completed my service. The federal government thanked me for calling a phone number every night pretty much for two weeks. But I didn’t have to go to Newark. But had I been in Newark and walk across the street to the Prudential Center to see Matt Rife the Stay Golden World Tour, I would have been one of the eighteen thousand and four and eighty six people who set a new record for most people attending a comedy show in the Prudential Center eighteen for eighty six breaks Sebastian Maniscalco’s record of eighteen four fifty seven. That broke Sebastian Maniscalco’s previous record of eighteen oh three three, which broke Kevin Hart’s record of sixteen nine to fifty six, which broke Dean Cook’s record of fourteen eight forty three.
Coming up at noon Eastern today, the results of Comedy Survivor. It was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun recording it. It’s another wonderful result. No spoiler’s ear come back at noon Eastern.
Comedy Survivor Mike Barenholtz has launched a weekly trivia podcast with celebrity guests. Not like those trivia guys at Morristown. The biggest celebrity in the place might be me. What a ridiculous thing to say, but it might be true. I’m trying to think, trivia guy, who’s the biggest celebrity that’s come to Trivia Night Anthony Glennbrook Brewery in Morristown, New Jersey on Wednesdays to see best man trivia?
Who? As we learned on Sunday, they’ll go to San Diego if you pay them. I’m trying to think, if I’ve been there and like somebody of like any kind of fame has been there, some loser doing a podcast can’t be the biggest celebrity. And I’m all saying this with a big goofy grin on in case you can’t tell, I don’t take myself very seriously. I’m gonna guess it’s not me, You know who I’m gonna guess it is.
I’m gonna guess.
And now I don’t know for a fact if this person has ever gone or not.
But Anthony vulpi who’s the shortstop of the New York Yankees. He’s a local, and sometimes I’ll hear that he’s out. Now, I’ve never known him to be at trivia, but I’ve known that he’s been out in the neighborhood because the young kids tell me that he’s out in Morristown occasionally off season. Of course, this time here is clearly focused on baseball, so it’s possible Anthony Vulpey showed up a trivia I digress. What are you even talking about?
John? Is it a slow news day? No? I don’t know why you keep asking me that. Ike Barnholtz will launch a new weekly trivia podcast that’s called Funny You Ask.
Each episode blends fast paced trivia with comedic storytelling, bringing together major names from film, TV and comedy for what is described as competitive conversation driven gameplay. You know, I have a question about this podcast. On this podcast, are the winners always going to be from upstairs? Because you know, sometimes you go to trivia and the people upstairs seem to win a lot. It seems to be a lot of like young kids who win trivia every week, and they always seem to be upstairs.
I wonder what that’s about. Maybe there’s good cell phone service. Oh stop, stop, stop, stop, John, the trivia guys will get me many all right, shut up. Now, the trivia guys know I’ve learned four years ago. I used to argue about questions and it was a jack hole, especially after the third beer.
Now half the time I don’t even have one beer because I’m driving. You’ll see me in my corner, my big thing of water, and I don’t argue the questions anymore. Let it go. It’s just trivia night. Have fun.
Love the trivia guys. Ike Barnhold said in a statement, I recently learned about a new medium called podcasting and figured I’d dip my toes into these uncharted waters. Funny you ask, because the show allowed to do two of my favorite things at once, asking and answering trivia questions and hanging out with funny friends of mine who just happened to be famous. Funny you ask will debut March twenty fifth. Margaret Show has let everyone in the world know she needs you to know this.
She went full Amy Schumer. She’s just saying, you know, Donald Trump begged her to be on The Apprentice. I’m sure he did. I have no doubt. I mean, I’m sure Donald Trump repeatedly called Margaret Chow to be on The Apprentice.
I have no doubt that this story is true. Margaret Show said President Donald Trump was a huge fan of hers. However, she had a bad feeling about doing The Apprentice, so she never became a contestant. Margaret said, I was asked several times to be on it season after season, and they kept saying, well, Donald Trump really loves you, please come on. Uh huh.
I had a bad feeling about it because I did go on one of the challenges because my friend Cindy Laupper was competing one year and she did something in a diner. So I went and I helped out and to get myself some credibility. Even Margaret Chow finds it bizarre that the President was fond of her comedy nett Is your comedy news for today, coming up at noon Eastern Comedy Survivor back in the morning with a regular episode. See you then