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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence I forgot to say when I recorded the Oscar Show Sunday Night. Today is a sequel to Monday’s Oscars recap, same kind of note. I’m gonna slow down a little bit and just take my time with the stories.
Part of it is I’m a little bit tired. It took me a long time to put together this show and also Palace Intrigue, the Royal Family show that I work on, and plus Sunday Night. I never really dialed down because I was keeping notes on the Oscars. Then recorded the show and with all the clips in there, it took me over an hour on the edit and I was laughing at one point the file was finally ready to be uploaded after post processing and all the stuff I do that I won’t bore you with. There was sixteen seconds left and I think it was a three point Nicks game, and they were announcing Best Film at the Academy Awards.
I’m like, why does all this have to happen at once? So I uploaded the file watch best Picture, and then got to enjoy the last six point two seconds of the next game and the next one Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. So there’s a lot of news. I’ve already got a full show for tomorrow. Some stuff we’re not going to get to today.
The New York Times wrote an article about comedians and the Epstein Files. Do I have your attention yet? Yeah, let’s see. The Daily Show seems to be a beef with Saturday Night Live. That’s fun.
I don’t have time today to get into Sebastian Maniscalco and Marcelo Hernandez. I don’t have time to get into the SNL Sucker Carlson impression. We’ll do that tomorrow. I don’t have time to tell you that Tina Fey is going to host SNL UK this weekend. I don’t have time to tell you Bert Krascher got a season two of Free Birt because we got to talk about the Oscars and Conan O’Brien.
I thought Conan was fantastic, and the Internet seems to disagree at points. We’ll get into that as well real quick. If you can’t get enough Conan, Bill Carter interviewed Conan on Late Night Er and I love that podcast because you got serious Conan. So it was a real discussion, which was great.
And then I was in a Conan mood and I tried to check out Conan on The Kelsey B…
Look, I know that show does well, but as I tell my college students, if you want to have a successful podcast, date Taylor Swift. Jason Kelsey has media skills. Travis Kelsey is awful at this and write this down. When he does retire from football, he will get a TV job and he’s going to be terrible at it. I couldn’t even listen to the Conan interview.
He’s one of those people that can’t get through an fing sentence without you know F and Curson you know F and it’s just, dude, what are you doing? Learn how to broadcast? And again, millionaire dating a billionaire. I’m a dude in a basement. I’m a loser.
He’s got Super Bowl rings, I get it, but he’s not good at broadcasting. On to the Oscars, Variety had a really nice piece they caught up with the producers. One of the questions is is Conan coming back now? They didn’t say that specifically, but Walt Disney Television’s Rob Mills, who’s the executive vice president, told Variety on Monday morning, Conan is host for life. Yes, he hasn’t even accepted yet.
He’s just being told. We’re assuming that was not a comedy bit. We’re going to treat it as if that was fact. Conan had joked during the telecast he would continue to host the show until went to YouTube, and mister Beast takes over was one of the versions of that joke. Mills said, sometimes these jobs are like fantasy camp, and it’d be working with Conan is always incredible.
I remember those, and he’s referring to the big produced open here. I remember those when he had special occasions or when he hosted things like the Emmy’s. He’d make these films and they were great. When it was the tenth anniversary of Late Night, he did one of those where he ran into the streets of New York and literally everyone’s following him. Was sort of similar to this bit.
He’s always done these films that are great and not also sort of reminded me of what Billy Crystal used to do, so it was great. It felt distinctly Conan but also distinctly Oscar. I think that’s fair. Next question, did Leonardo DiCaprio know that he was going to be asked to be a meme? The answer not at all, So forgive him for being a little confused on a first on how to react, but then he still figured out how to react.
How did it work with Matt Barry as announcer live from London? Why wasn’t he in Los Angeles? Good question? We are told, yes, Matt Barry was in London, and the technology is now point where there wasn’t a delay. Well, that’s impossible.
There’s still the speed of light. I don’t care what tech you have, there’s still the speed of light. I just asked chat GPT what’s the delay on broadcast from LA to London? The AI says for a live broadcast signal from Los Angeles to London, delay depends on the path satellite broadcast is about two hundred and eighty milliseconds one way, or roughly point five point six seconds round trip. Why the signal goes up to a geostationary satellite then back to Earth.
If you use fiber transmission, that cuts the delay to one hundred and twenty milliseconds, but then encoding and decoding ads time. So a typical modern IP broadcast delay is point three to one point five seconds total delay. Now, if that doesn’t sound like a lot, get into my field and try interviewing someone who’s in London while you’re in Los Angeles. So you will notice the delay because it’s like talking to somebody on the moon. You ask a question, there’s that slight pause, they answer, and what happens that you wind up talking to over each other.
So you have to be very disciplined to not go too fast and make sure the other person has spoken. And most things like that are best done not live, so that you can trim all the things. Tell you we’re gonna go slow and get into the weeds today. Did you stay before the very end after they said goodbye? There was another sketch spoilers for the movie One Battle after another.
If you haven’t seen it, hold your ears for a second. But the parody to the final scene from that movie, maybe I’ll just leave it there. Whatever happens at the end of the movie conan parody that I won’t tell you specifically what happens, so I didn’t ruin the movie not spoilers. But VERI was curious, since One Battle had just won Best Picture, did Conan film sketches for all of the films in case something else won Best Picture? We are told no, there were no alt end of show sketches.
The One Battle parody whatever ran even if Sinners had won. Okay, but what about the other eight films? Are you saying the others didn’t have a chance? What are you saying there?
And then they asked Mills again, is Conan truly the host for life?
Mills said, as firm as whatever. You can look up whatever the firm thing is, it’s solid as oak. I hope Conan comes back. Anybody who’s been with a nearshot of me in the last twenty four to thirty six hours by the time you’re hearing this. I believe in having a professional host.
I though Kimel did a good job. I think Trevor Nooda does a good job. Always give me a pro who can keep the trains running. That’s the gig. If you could be funny on top of that, even better, keep Conan great.
If ConA gets the flu let camel, do it great. As I alluded to at the top, some people didn’t like the Oscars with Conan O’Brien the Daily Mail again UK tabloid, and they tend to be a little caddy. They wrote, it was supposed to be Hollywood’s biggest night, but between painful monologues from most Conan O’Brien, to boring results and one distasteful joke about the Holocaust, viewers were left thoroughly unimpressed by this year’s Oscars. Now, as I read that paragraph, I’m like, what was the Holocaust joke? And the Daily Mail let’s Johnny mcnow come on on, Gianni spark fury by joking about Schindler’s List being renamed Schindler’s Posted and a failed gag about movies being too long?
Is there really outrage about that joke? Really? Oh? Ryan struggled to rouse the room with awkward jokes about pedal files and the many awards largely felt at predictable winners. Then they got into they do this a lot in the British tabloids.
Some social media posts. One person wrote, the Oscar is a sort of a flop. I DK conan flop, awkward jokes from presenters, ugly ass stage. Yeah, I said it only saving this night is a sinner’s best picture. I’m not playing well.
Got bad news for you, sir, or madam. Radar Online headline was rotten humor. Conan O’Brien slammed over painful twenty twenty six Oscars opening monologue as host faces several awkward moments of silence. Yep, that’s true. It’s a tough room.
We’ve talked about that before this year’s Oscars, after last year’s Oscars, before last year’s Oscars. Every year. It’s a tough room. We all know that Conan knew that. Litsten to any interview last week except the one with the Kelsey Brothers where Travis Kelsey can’t go through one sentence without using an F bomb twice.
Radar Rights. After opening the show with a well received dig at Timothy Shallimy and the recent backlash over his controversial comments about ballet and opera, O’Brien seemed to quickly lose the crowd with an ill received gag linking nominated movies Hamnett and Pogonia to off brand lunch meat. Had a little bogonia around tense. Not sitting too well, the host said, to a muttered reaction. Reading the crowd.
O’Brien disappointedly added on the ride home, you’ll appreciate it. Later, he joked that F one received four nominations. F one did so well that they’re making a sequel. Caps lock. Another muted response, so, O’Brien, confess some of these I do for myself.
Relax, everybody, It was good if you’d like to hear these jokes. I pulled most of these. If you didn’t listen to Monday’s episode, they’re all in the first six minutes or so of Monday’s podcast. Radar Online also pulled online reactions. One person wrote, these Conan jokes are so bad.
Another complained not having a lot of fun right now. One person lamented, I can’t stand this Conan O’Brien anymore. Rotten humore. Let me count the o’s there in humor one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, oh’s in humor. A fourth person blasted Conan O’Brien’s absolutely feeble monologue.
Several awkward moments of silence from the audience after the jokes. The Irish star happy Saint Patrick’s Day. They seem to be a little gossipy. They talked about Conan on the Red carpet, They said, ConA looked dapper in a classic black seat while he took pictures alongside his wife, who stunned in a sleeveless dress. The late night host appeared to oblige photographers and stand for photos, but quickly was ready to wrap it up amid all the snaps.
When photographers kept calling his name, Conan appeared to get more antsy after his red carpet pictures came to close. He reportedly said go away before saying all done, seeming to be fed up with posing. According to lip reader n Jay Hickling, I’m not familiar with lip reader n Jay Hickling, but i have been following comedy for many, many years. I’ve never heard any such behavior out of Conan O’Brien. I’ve heard things about people.
I’ve never heard a negative word about Conan O’Brien. I’ve never heard anyone no love working with Conan O’Brien for Conan O’Brien, with Conan O’Brien, So that would surprise me, although if it did happen, to be fair to ConA O’Brien, he did kind of have to go inside to host the Oscars, and you might want to get your head into that space. This article as well goes to social media. By the way, sidebar I talked about this, maybe it was on Saturday Show about how sometimes you just sit down and do a show and you find a through line. I didn’t set out to do the reads the way that I’m doing them today, and you kind of stumble into something that’s working and you go with it.
That’s the beauty of doing this every day. Sidebar over. Fans on Twitter were quick to react to Conan’s interaction with those photographers. One wrote, ConA being the most confused man in Hollywood while simultaneously being the most talented person in every room he wants into is my favorite gender hashtag oscars. Someone else wrote, Conan O’Brien looks sharp tonight out of his classic, stylish and totally red carpet.
Ready, I just checked the clock. We have a lot more to do, so this is going to be break at number one, and before we do that, if you like the program without commercial diruption, one thing you can do take out the Apple podcast app click that batter. It says uninterrupted listening, and then for five bucks a month, you don’t have to deal with this The L eight Times writes all heil Conan O’Brien, who could host the Oscars forever, and we wouldn’t mind. They write the question this year, as it is every year, is how this Oscar’s night was different from any other Oscars night. With Conan O’Brien returning his host, the ceremony was much in the spirit of twenty twenty five, except this was all at all livelier, funnier show.
Not perfect, of course, as the only program to ever occupy three hours of television without flagging was Sabato Chagante, But gag wise, the Oscar Broadcast is fundamentally a comedy with speeches. It’s hit to missus. Ratio was good or better than your average SNL episode. I think everything about that paragraph is perfect, and they write and they nailed this too. Conan O’Brien, whose persona is equal parts madness, sincerity, self love and self hate, would seem to be a perfect host for broadcast that needs to take things seriously, but not so seriously that it alienates anyone who doesn’t belong to the community at cele It’s a show that exists both in the world of Hollywood and the world outside the industry.
Well, well said Nikki Glaser gave the show a review, and my initial reaction to that was, who asked you? Well? The answer to who asked Nikki Glaser’s e news? But all right, suddenly we care what Nikki Glaser thinks about Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars relaxed Golden Globes host Should we ask Joe Koy what he thought of Kimmel? Nikki Glaser was on the Gray carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscars party aka Hollywood has accepted her.
She’s now an insider. This all sounds like I’m shading Nikki. I’m not. I’m just analyzing the news here. Nicki gave Conan O’Brien an a plus.
She said he killed it last year. I knew he was gonna kill it again this year. I got a chance to see his monologue about a week ago and he got off stage, and I really meant it when I was like, that’s a plus. Changed nothing. But she did say Coonan did tweak some stuff.
She explains, things come out of the news cycle and they don’t work anymore, so you have to keep updating it. Wait, two Golden Globes that we’re treating her like she’s Billy Crystal. Now, Oh, I’m gonna I’m gonna throw up. He Knews relaxed with this. The stand up star also compared Conan’s work to her own hosting experience, noting that while the Golden Globes feels more like a comedy club, Oscar Night is a different room for comedy than any other.
She explains at the Academy Awards as a comedian, that’s a tough room because they’re far away. It’s very stuffy. They haven’t been drinking, they haven’t been eating. They’re hungry, and they’re tired, and they’re sober. So it’s a hard room to kill in.
Nicky felt. Conan rose to the occasion, adding with that a play I was like, God, he killed it. Thank you, Thank you, Nikki Glaser. Ricky Gervase was asked would he like to host the Oscars. Well, he can’t because it’s Conan’s job for life.
Ricky went on Twitter and responded to a fan account named the Ricky Gervay’s Clips. Fan account The Ricky Gervay’s Clips posted repost if you wish Ricky Gervaise was hosting the Oscars tonight, Jervase himself quote responded, writing, if that you may recall Ricky Gervay’s host of the Golden Globes in twenty ten, twenty eleven to twenty two, twenty sixteen, and twenty twenty. If you were at the Oscars you found snack boxes under your seats? Yeah? Hey, did you catch that?
That yeah thing? That is a total lift from Conan O’Brien that I subconsciously did. I’m not sure it’s subconscious. I might just do it, but I was listening to the edit and I caught myself do it. So what Conan will do is he’ll say something like the sky is blue, yeah, scientists say.
And as I was watching the Oscar Sunday night, I saw him do it. I pulled a clip where Conan does it. So in a second, I’m gonna play Conan doing it, and then I’ll go back to where we were before. I jumped in here. But just I heard the yeah move, and I just thought i’d jump in and comment on it.
I was in a movie this year, Yeah, I was in a movie. If you were at the Oscars you found snack boxes under your seats? Yeah, Conan O’Brien wrote a note that was found in your box, which also included a sketch of Conan O’Brien. The note read, and I hope you enjoy this Conan O’Brien moderately happy meal these snacks. It may not look like much, but in any movie theater that run you eighty five dollars.
Good luck tonight, have fun and remember that loud, enthusiastic laughters good for your health in my ego. The notes were addressed to dear nominee Slash plus one slash seat filler in the box, a bag of popcorn, a bottle of water, and either Mike and Ikes or Junior Mints. If guests were hungry, they could go to the lobby to grab some trail mix, and guests could also snack on dehydrated vegetables during the ceremony. Apparently, snack boxes have been a tradition for several years. In twenty twenty four, Jimmy Kimmel provided soft Philly style pretzels.
Last year, Conan provided Swedish fish, a pretzel and water. Hours before the Oscars took place, some movie posters showed up in Los Angeles. These movie posters were fake, and they mocked President Trump. Activist group Everyone Hates Elon posted images across the city. Some of them spoofed the movie one Battle after another as a template.
The acting credits at the fake movie poster were attributed to President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary of Defense. I’m not saying Secretary of War because that’s not officially the title. Despite what the White House says, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Nett Yahoo a fake quote from Jeffrey Epstein reads a great distraction with the words from the directors of the Gaza Genocide. On the fake poster, where you would normally see Leonardo DiCaprio, the pranksters replaced Leo’s face with Trump, scenes of war, an explosion of fire and smoke, and a war torn city. A spokesperson for Everyone Hates Elon said, after promising no foreign wars, it turns out Donald Trump wants one battle after another.
The group added spoiler, you already know who dies in this film, and it’s not just the bad guys, it’s American service people and schoolgirls in Iran. The White House was not happy with Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel was presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature. At one point he said the following line. He didn’t say who was referring to, but what Jimmy said was, oh man, he’s going to be mad.
His wife wasn’t nominated for this. It is assumed that he would be Donald Trump and his wife would be Milania, who had a documentary that was not nominated for Best Documentary Feature. White House Communications director Stephen Chung fire off a tweet. He shared a clip of Kimmel’s joke and called Jimmy Kimmel a classless hack who was self projecting his depression and sadness onto others. I’m not sure I agree with that assessment.
The White House Communications director had more to say about Jimmy kim Well, writing he lives a pathetic existence where nobody, not even his family, enjoys his miserable company. The only people giving him any attention are Hollywood elites, and then all caps bye bye. At the Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel spoke to Variety and said he was exhausted by having a comment on the President on a show each night. Kimmell said, we live in a ridiculous country. We always lived in a ridiculous country, but it was always ridiculous in a fun mister T kind of way.
Meeting the guy from the A team in Rocky three, Kimmell said, now we’ve got a different mister T. Ver Dawes was on Instagram, he answered a not asked question why does an India do a Gervais or even a Conan style hosting of a major film awards? Well as someone who wrote the script from many Indian awards for five years, Here’s why. The point of having comedian host en roast the Oscars or Film Awards is that for night a jester would humanize the most beautiful chosen people in the world since they were being celebrated already. That’s what any joke is a punch up here, meaning India story goes won’t take a joke from anyone not at their level.
Ironically, the big of the star who hosts the trigger it’s gonna be because like three people are at that level. So a huge star hosting works for the people in the room, just not always funny for the people watching, simply because the power balance is off. Since it is Saint Patrick’s day, I do want to get this story in. We’ll clear this out. Conan was on Kimmel last week and shared how a recent trip to Ireland and the story of his great grandfather gave him a new perspective on immigration.
One year ago today, I was in Dublin at the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. It was fantastic. They are much better at the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade than the New York City one. Love it from New York, but it’s just cops and firemen and bagpipes and more cops and more firemen and more cops and more bagpipes. The one in Dublin is more like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
It was tons of fun with like really cool floats. I digress and the show’s long enough. Freddy today, John, get to it, okay. Coda O’Brian said, I went back to Ireland and I saw a great genealogist who said, I found where your great grandfather’s home was. No home is gone, but he found the little spot where he lived near the Gallbali Mountains.
He said, I’ll go there and I’ll show it to you, and I said, we’ll do it on camera. Conan said, I was expecting have these jokes loaded up, we had props and funny things we were going to do. But I got there and I didn’t expect this because I’m not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeve. But I got emotional. It was very powerful.
There was this very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn’t his. He didn’t have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn’t working, probably not enough to eat, couldn’t sustain, so he left and went to America and here I am a couple generations later. What’s amazing to me is when you have that experience and you stand there, I have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country. Takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where often people don’t speak the language.
They have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation. It’s a whole lifetime that you’re feeding into the process. I was just thinking about this guy whom I’ll never meet, who had to do that. I think he was overcome by the fact that there’s a lot of sadness, and that’s story, and a lot of these stories people leave not because they think, Hey, I just want to go a fun in America. They leave because they have to.
We’re coming up. Mark Norman has a special out today. We are long enough today. Boy, some other time, I’ll tell you about when I went up to Belfast. It was really, really emotionally moving, and the Conin story just reminded me that also on my mind.
Michael B. Jordan going to In and Out Burger after the Oscars ball or move love it. In and Out is fantastic. I got a nice note on the side from one of the listeners, and this note really really means a lot to me. The gist of the note was this person listens to the program every morning and finds it a nice distraction from the news, maybe not that story I did about the fake billboards, but finds it a nice distraction from the news, and thanked me for doing the show every day.
And look, guys, this show is nothing. This is just a lunatic rambling in the basement about Adam Sandler unless you guys actually listen to it. So I really truly appreciate that you listen, and I love getting notes from that. I’m not asking everyone to write a note, but I do those notes mean a lot to me? And I think the big takeaway for me is what I’m going for is nice enough guy, mildly amusing, easy on the ears.
That’s all the shows really designed to be, you know, ten, twelve, fifteen, or today thirty minutes, you know, help kill the morning commute or however your reason today, And again I appreciate it. I also forgot to pull. I got a nice note apparently I mispronounced the way you’re supposed to say the name of a fish in the Steve Harvey story from over the weekend. Got a nice note on Facebook about that. I’ll try and remember to put that in tomorrow.
But I’m not being a jerk. It was a nice note. It was well phrased. Was like, hey, man, just want to let you know, and I was like, okay again, kid from Queen’s I don’t know too much. Mark Norman has a special out today.
There was a point where this was the lead story today’s script. But here we are like a half hour in titled none Too Please. It’s on Netflix. Filmed at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. Mark Norman turns married life, fatherhood not button topics.
It’s too rapid fire punch lines and this witty free for all or nothing is off limits. Mark said, actually got caught going a strip club recently by my wife, but on how she caught me, I only talked about it on four podcasts. That’s in the trailer. I’m excited for this one. Mark spit around for a bit.
Now not a household name. Good looking guy hangs out with the comedians who can accelerate his career. Joe Rogan, boy, you know everything is timing and maybe this one on Netflix will just really really pop. Mentioned yesterday about Bert Krasier’s tour bus fire. The subreddit dedicated to the podcast Your Mom’s House had some fun with it.
These comments are amazing. One person wrote, now Bert has a second story to tell that is just amazing. Drop the MIC’s or nothing’s going to top that other people tried. One wrote, hopefully this tragedy doesn’t make them become an alcoholic for the last twenty years. Another said you have to question if Bert did this on purpose to make a headline.
That’s how much of an attention where he is. I do find it interesting that the fire happened and then a couple hours later Netflix announced he got a season two of Free Bird. I’m not saying those things are related. Mark Norman with a really good line. Yes, the same Mark Norman with the special out Today, Mark Norman wrote something can stop the machine creat line.
Tim Dillon chimed in. He wrote, of the wreckage looks like a photo of downtown Austin. Boy, I’ve got stories I can’t even bump today. It’s Saint Patrick’s day. If I don’t do this one now, when are you gonna do it?
From The La Times, irishman David Nil feared public speaking before he found stand up. Now he won’t stop talking. David’s special Cultural Appreciation is two and a half million views on YouTube, but he said I wouldn’t even call mine comedy specials. I don’t know how to do performance, but I don’t know how to talk. Growing up in Ireland, he struggled to learn he is dyslexia.
I said, I came in the lowest five percent tile in the whole country of Ireland for spelling and I didn’t even spell my name right on the test. His father offered to buy him a Super Nintendo for certain math scores. David didn’t get those scores. Dad bought it for him anyway, and then David sold it. Bought myself a motorcycle even though I was fifteen and not legally old enough to drive.
As an ireland your nature is just a default of funny stories, he says. American stand ups about taking a topic and make it funny for five minutes. Irish comedians say this thing happened to me, and I think that’s funny. Let me just repeat it, he says. He prefers telling stories to just a few people.
That’s interesting and I love this too. He says, with comedy, the best part for me is that before show, I eat half a chocolate bar and I leave the other half in the hotel room. After the show, I get to finish it. That’s true happiness. I also can’t bump this story about Maggie Winters.
She’s got a special out today on YouTube. It’s called Margarite. It includes Maggie Winter’s performing stand up from her bedroom, as well as other videos and bits. She explained, I did improv for about five years, and at the time of my life, I was scared of stand up. I never actually thought I would do it, so I’m shocked that I’m here today.
The theme of the special. It started as a joke but is fully The theme is Live, Laugh, Love. I talk about my life, I talk about my laugh and I talk about my love. The show is in three sections. One of the jokes is about all Irish Americans landed here, so now it’s people who have the Irish flag tattoo but have never set foot in Ireland.
And that is a very long daily comedy use today. Did you see why we didn’t get into Sebastian Menascalgo and Marcelo Hernandez and snl UK and the New York Times writing about comedy and the Epstein Files. We had a lot to do tomorrow, but that’s enough for now. Appreciate you see tomorrow.