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Caloroga Shark Media. I really do enjoy doing this every day. Thank you for supporting the program. And hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry, which, let’s face it is, apparently is that as the algorithms love. Happy Friday to thirteenth to those of you who celebrate.
Now. Hopefully between me recording. This and you hearing it, there wasn’t a horrible drone strike on the West coast. Jimmy Kimmel said, we can’t handle a drone strike. We barely survived the writers strike here.
And by the way, behind the scenes, there are days where I can sit down with the mic and just turn out script after script. I can tell you today less than a minute in I can’t speak today. It took me five tries to do that Kimmel joke. Jimmy Fallon said, I read the Trump administration as started a panic about the rising price of oil. Yeah, apparently Trump is so worried he can barely sleep through his meetings.
Great, great joke. I’ll do my Oscar preview tomorrow. But I am so excited because you know who’s going to be the announcer this year. This is the greatest idea ever whoever came up with this? Oh, we gotta say about this Stephen Colbert article on a second, because this is not really a lead story.
This is just Johnny max is excited about this thing. But you know who’s going to be the voice announcer for the Oscars. Matthew Berry. Now, if you’re like, who’s that, he’s the guy from Toast of London. He’s one of the vampires on what we do in the Shadows.
He has that wonderful, boisterous voice. Oh, I can’t wait. And Victoria Clark in Vulture, she’s a big fan. I remember doing Matthew Berry’s stuff to kill time during the pandemic. She used to write about him all the time.
She explains, very singular talent for pronunciation has made him something of a walking meme. His talents have already reinvented the way people think about words like New York City and yes, okay, yes. Hey Steven, that was really good. Feeling is here that you can be a bit more positive? More positive?
Yeah? Really go for it? You want me to go for it? All right? Yes, very very good.
Let’s just try without the scripts, by just loosening you up a little bit. Yeah, I mean it’s what is it? One word you do need? I probably don’t need the scripts. It’s just a word.
Yeah, Okay, let’s do it again. Yes? Is that right? Yes? Right, she writes.
His inclusion in this weekend’s Conan O’Brien hosted ceremony suggests that this year’s Oscars will fully embrace some much needed levity, and he’s trying times still. This news has sparked more questions than answers. Will Berry announce the category names, will you appear on camera? And most importantly, will he be given artistic license to pronounce words as he sees fit? Oh?
I can’t wait? All right? Uh? In Variety, Daniel de Dario throwing the gauntlet down the headlined Stephen Colbert’s long late show good oh I has gone from resistance to ego trip and Johnny Mack does not disagree. Here there was a time when I would have supported Stephen Colbert’s candidacy for office, but he has decided to become a star trek Ruiner, and we don’t like star trek Ruiners around here.
To Dario writes, Earlier this week, John Lithgow appeared on the show Blah Blah blah, and did something the guests on the show been doing a lot lately. He paid extensive tribute to the host. To Dario writes, Colbert’s removal from the air when it was announced last July was legitimately seismic news for the industry and for an audience who saw him as a crucial voice for the anti Trump resistance since the twenty sixteen election. What has ended up making it to air has been an increasingly puffy tribute to the show’s own host, the endless bouquets being tuss Colbert’s way had started to make the studio smell a bit cloying. With everything else going on in the world, we have to go through a month’s long celebration of life for comedian news job is coming to an end.
This tone necessarily comes from the top, rights to Dario, guests generally don’t just show up on talk shows and spontaneously do it whatever they want. Their appearances are choreographed in concert with the show’s production team watching the show, though one doesn’t get the sense Colbert really minds. Finally, there is the sheer pragmatic angle. Colbert will have an xt act the same future point. When that day comes, well, don’t feel like an anti climax after we’ve already spent the better part of a year celebrating him.
Fellow late night er Jimmy Kimmel will be one of the presenters at this weekend’s OSCARS. That’s pretty interesting. Your host is Conan O’Brien. We’ll do oscar stuff tomorrow, but Conan O’Brien is on the Kelsey Brothers podcast New Heights. Johnny Mack will work that into this episode title always good for SEO.
Hello new people, Hope you like the show. Push the follow button. At one point during the conversation, Conan interrupts to note that he hears kids in the background. He seems confused. Jason Kelsey explains that the kids are playing downstairs.
Conan said, if you want, Jason, I will totally scream at them for you. Jason asked Kylie Kelsey, who which one’s making noise. Conan wants to scream at them real quick. Jason said, I’m getting a no from my wife. Conan O’Brien said, okay, I respect her for that.
Note. You know what it’s for the best, because your children would be scarred for life. That say, why do that orange haired woman yell at us? And that lady was so mean. I was watching Scrubs with my wife Wednesday night and they put on a promo for the Oscars, and my wife reacted to Conan O’Brian’s appearance, saying he got old, and I’m like, he’s sixty something.
Now, Oh, it is ConA in sixty three. Let me look that up, sixty two. It’ll be sixty three on April eighteenth. I was feeling old earlier. Today.
I went for just routine blood work, you know, annual physical kind of thing. And boy, when I was giving my age, so my birth year is sixty nine, which just sounds like doesn’t that just sound like a zillion years ago at this point? Like even you know, I’m sure a lot of you listen are probably I’m just profiling you born in the seventies. Even if I said, like nineteen seventy, I would feel so much younger. But that’s six yikes.
All right, here’s some fun, and I like fun. Bill Burr, remember him. Bill Burr and or his social media team thought it’d be a great idea to go on Facebook and post Rhode Island pre sales now live with Code Burr and the comments did not disappoint. You may recall last summer, Bill Burr was one of the comedians who played THERIODD Comedy Festival. You may recall Johnny Mack has said on the record that Bill probably had the worst year of any big time comedian last year.
Just Bill did not help himself. Some of the comments. One asked, did you ask your wife it was okay to leave the house for this? Another said, man, I can’t wait to hear the latest wife approved jokes. One person said, I bet it’s a shame you can’t perform in Iran now, huh Bill.
A couple of people refer to him as Billy Burka, Billy Bonesaw. Some more straightforward comments, I remember when Bill used to be funny. No, it’s just a clown dance. Clown dance another road. I’ve lost out a lot of respect for Bill.
I’m not listening to him like I used to. More nicknames dollar Bill, Billy, Blood, money Bag, Dad, Billy and oh Billy can’t admit he’s wrong Burr. Bill Burr’s Facebook In case you’re bored from The New York Times. The headline Joe Rogan says Trump supporters feel betrayed by Iran war. No Way, No.
Rogan, who The New York Times reminds us, endorsed Donald Trump in twenty twenty four and said that he still texts with the President on occasion. Rogan said, it just seems so insane. He ran on no more wars and these stupid senseless wars, and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it. So it sounds like Joe Rogan is surprised that the candidate he endorsed isn’t doing what he said he was going to do. No Way, No Way.
Joe Rogan went on to talk about the capturing of the Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. Joe Rogan said, neither thing made any sense. They go in, kidnap him, get him out. This one’s nuts. You may recall the President went on THEO Vaughan’s podcast at one time.
Well, if you want to see if THEOVONN head on out tomorrow, it’s the Baton Rouge Saint Patrick’s Day parade. THEOVONN will be joined by LSU head Football coach Lane Kiffen, the forty first wearin of the Green Baton Rouge. Saint Patrick’s Day Parade kicks off at eleven am. Comedy stock Market. Burt Reynolds is the voice of the Comedy stock Market.
Thank you Burt Reynolds. Now that’s actually Burt Reynolds. There’s an AI service that for some reason made Burt Reynolds voice available, and I’m like. Oh, use that on Comedy stock Market. Here’s what we do.
We try and find value in comedians, like you know, like when you buy stocks, you buy low and you sell high. So this isn’t necessarily who’s good or bad, it’s just where the value is. And I think we should buy a little Will Ferrell. Now I know that sounds crazy because he’s a comedy superstar, but he’s been quiet for a bit and he’s gonna have this Netflix show. And I think the combination of Will Ferrell, Netflix and the Netflix audience, the kind of people who like Adam Sandler movies, I think that is just going to be a winner.
So let’s buy some Will Ferrell before everybody else figures that out. Let’s buy some Derek Stroop. Did you watch his special during the week that was fantastic. Let’s skew oop some stroop. Let’s buy up some Bobby Lee.
Now, if you listen to this show, you’re like, yeah, we all know Bobby Lee, but nobody else knows Bobby Lee. Like he’s comedy famous, but he’s not famous. And if he’s going out on tour, he’ll be doing a lot of press and then all of a sudden people will be like, who’s this Bobby Lee guy? So your friends are going to figure out who Bobby Lee is. So I think Bobby Lee is a really good comedy stock market value for this week, and I think we should buy even more Chris Fleming.
I know we’ve been buying Chris Fleming every week, but you saw two weeks ago, was it two weeks ago? That was a really good purchase. So let’s buy even more Chris Fleming. Everybody seems into him. He’s peaking.
There’s gonna be a moment where it’s time to sell all our Chris Fleming. But right now, let’s scoop up a little bit more. He had a really good Jimmy Kimmel appearance that late night are described Chris Fleming is looking like a deranged hybrid of Big Bird and a gender fluid Howard Stern and Boy That does nail It. Chris is also on the wild Card podcast, one of the two hundred and ninety plus hours of podcasts that I’m going to listen to someday. But I actually listen to things this week because it was warm in the and I were out for an hour long walk, which is when I catch up on things, So I’ll get to all those.
And Conan O’Brien should be on this list. Definitely not a cell, but I feel like everybody else knows about this Conan O’Brien fellow, so I think we’re just gonna hold on Conan. I don’t think there’s much upside to him hosting the Oscars this year than people going, yeah, Conan’s great. There’s definitely some downside, but nothing makes me think that the Oscars will go poorly for Conan. So let’s hold.
So. The comedy stock Market this week is by Will Ferrell, by Derek Stroop, by Bobby Lee, by Chris Flemings. Hold Conan O’Brien, no seals this week. Thought about throwing Gabe in there, but I didn’t. South By Southwest Comedy is kicking off.
I think this was just added because I had looked at this yesterday and I don’t think I saw these here. Bill Burr mentioned it earlier. He’s recording the Monday Morning podcast. He’ll be live at Esther’s at two o’clock, so probably a good opportunity to get some guests there and then at eight fifteen and also at Esther’s and here you can hear all the cool just being drained out of the room. Here’s the title Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring the Dress Up Gang and Friends, hosted by Bill Burr.
Do you hear Bill burg going corporate? Do you hear it? I mean who he had the worst twenty five? I’m not sure he’s having a good twenty six At ten pm, which is very late, I’d be in better at it. You can add over to Esther’s Follies and go see my favorite lyrics live with Devin Walker.
Talk more about south By tomorrow as there’s a lot in there. And that is your comedy news for today, and I’ll see you tomorrow.