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Callaroga, shock media. Point, or it’s just flying by. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. As sentience.
You think I could remember after saying it every day for two months and twenty days, but I can’t, But the algorithms love it. The you guys at the Are You Garbage? Podcast? They’re taping a live version of their podcast in Tampa, Florida today and tomorrow, so that would be two versions unless they’re going to edit it together. Don’t do that case you’re not familiar.
Are You Garbage is where your favorite comedians find out if the comedian grew up classy or if they’re a big old piece of trash. No, I love this questions, the host asked the guests resemble the following questions, so none of us are saying these are the actual questions. The questions resemble these totally hypothetical questions, which could be sort of like, but not exactly. Has anyone in your family ever represented themselves in court? Have you ever owned a snake, lizard, or bird?
Anyone in your family have an above ground pool? Have you ever given yourself a haircut. I think we all did. During the pandemic. I grew it out at one point I had to grab the razor.
Ever sat through a Timeshare pitch, I have have you been on a cruise in the last th round of sixty five days? Hm? Last three sixty five? No? I did go to Antarctica about four hundred sixty five days ago.
Does that count? Now? Why are they taping in Florida? I think we know, guys, you don’t have to answer this question. Tampa has some of the best comedy crowds around.
They could be a little rough and tumble, but it’s the right mix of blue collar, assault of the earth and trash all mixed into one, which makes it perfect for the AYG live shows. Now, these guys, this is amazing. Like I see them. They’re regularly top podcast charts. But I didn’t know this until I started reading you the podcast.
Their Patreon has twenty two thousand subscribers. Okay, nice big number, bringing in an estimated one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a month. Wow, multiply that by twelve and then split it by two and pay your manager and taxes and stuff. But wow, Guests on the pod have included Shane Gillis, Lean Morgan Napergetzi, Tom Sigora, Tim Dillon, Jim Gaffigan, and Bert Kraser, whose name seems to show up in every single story. Lately.
HBO announced Day special with Julio Torres. Now, I need you to pay attention. Okay, pay attention. I’m going to play you the trailer. I need you to pay attention.
What are we paying attention to? Johnny Mack, you are paying attention to the laughs on this one. I cannot believe this got handed in. I personally believe no proof, just an opinion. Someone grabbed the CD with fake laugh track cut three and just splice it onto this trailer a million times.
I can’t believe it. Listen to this, pay attention to the laugh, and you tell me that’s not a fake laugh. This is awful. When I say that something is a color, I don’t mean that literally. Like if I say purple is the color of mystery, Like objets in the mirror, maybe close than they appear.
Purple. It’s different than lilac. Lilac is being a moment, Purple is being a stepmother. Hurry, you have to move on. Anyway, Navy blue is the color of law and order.
It’s the color of airports. It’s the airport’s way of saying, whatever, your deal. Is not here. And red is rage. Now, have you ever met someone who.
Is so red but they are squeeze? It’s been a navy blue packaging. That’s a real housewife. I am obviously creating a rubric for young people to see the world using colors. Age is what millennials have become.
It’s scared, but it’s gonna try. And black is what you don’t know. White is what you do know. That is white. Doctors were white because it’s their way of saying, I know.
Fusia is no one’s writing anything down. In the event that your favorite color is mentioned, please celebrate quietly to your. Selling horrible production aside. Color Theories will premiere one week from tonight at eight East and West on HBO Max whatever we’re calling it today. You know that thing where you find John Oliver and the Dragon shows that one.
Now, I will describe this as quirky, much like Chris Fleming, much like Sarah Sherman. Is the Friday night HBO’s slot where we’re putting the quirky comedy. It appears so coming off an off Broadway run. With the show, Julio Torre’s Color Theories offers a guide to understand the world. There is playful interpretation of colors, horrible production aside.
I liked the underlying material. I just don’t know why somebody added laugh track number three fifty times. Taking the stage of New York City as an expert on the inherent traits of particular colors, the comedian explores the nuances of rule based navy blue to the rage of red through observations from his life and culture at large. Blending stand up with other media, the special advices to see the people, places, and things around us through Julio’s kaleidoscopic eyes. Is it kaleidoscopic or kaleidoscopic?
It’s kaleidiskopic, isn’t it. I don’t know. That’s why I’m asking you. Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group, Kaleida’s scopic. Who’s the guy that corrected me about the fish?
Fish guy? Let me know how you say that is kaleidoscopic? I don’t know. On your television in the United Kingdom tomorrow, it’s Saturday Night Live UK. Your guest host is Tina Fey.
They put out a trailer. I like the trailer a lot. In the trailer, Tina Fey is dressed as Mary Poppins, and believe you me, I wouldn’t have said this ten minutes ago. Tina Fey makes a fantastic Mary Poppins, like perfect, looks great and her fake accent that you’re about to hear better than what Dick Van Dyke did. Anybody want to put on a production of Mary Poppins starring Tina Fey, you’ll watch anyway.
I like this trailer a lot, and it’s a little lengthy. I’m gonna let it run. But here’s a Tina fe promoting SNL UK. So this is it, guys, the countdown to Saturday Night Live UK. Now, you just need to figure out a way to let everyone know.
The first live show is on Sky one at ten pm on Saturday twenty first. Of March and can also be streamed on now TV. If you’re too busy getting laid, how can we possibly communicate that to people? We’ll just find a way to pop in. Did someone say Poppins?
She’s rue. The other round. Children Nanny is here with everything you need for a practically perfect. You know what, I’m gonna drop the voice. I’ve got everything you need for your first ever snl UK’s lows.
Yeah, sure, wings make the character’s nice. Oh crown in case you guys want to do royal stuff. Oh a really long shoe that could be funny. Oh, I’ve got your lunch jack el pie with extra eel. Oh, Tina, thank you so much.
We’re not in them. We’re just going to do jokes about them. Hey, Tina, we love that you’re here, but we’re just trying to figure out how to promote the show. Oh no course, why do you think I brought this? I’m Tina Fey and I’m hosting SnO UK this week?
Why because I thought it would get me dual citizenship. It did not. Hang on, is that why you asked us all to marry you. Wish me up? Yes, it really hurts my crutch.
Goodbye. Watch your head now. In that trailer, they were trying to get people in the UK to you watch it. You’re more likely listening in the United States. Should we look up the stats?
I could tell you I like stats. Let’s see, let’s do last thirty days geolocation. There’s a fifty six percent chance you’re listening to me the United States. There’s a nine and a half percent chance you’re listening in Australia. Australians say, Hi, I want to hear from you.
Guys. Eight and a half percent of you are from Canada and probably named Mike, and there are eight percent of you in the UK. So this entire story you’ve been doing for four minutes now, John is targeted eight percent of the audience. No, no, no, no, no, My friends people in the United States can also watch this. SNL UK will be on Peacock starting on Sunday, say Mark Norman told Fox News.
The social media algorithm is ruining everything. Mark said, people are seeing two completely different realities. So I could tell people are sitting in the audience like what is he? Is he right? Is he left?
What’s going on here? I can’t laugh because I don’t know where he’s at. And I think that’s horrible for comedy. When I was a teenager that goes straight or gay, but now it’s right or left, and I like to keep them both in the dark. We’re told by Fox News to reassure his audience that he’s on their side.
Mark Norman issues a disclaimer between bits at the start of his special. That disclaimer says, I should warn you guys. I will say some horrific stuff up here, but it’s all jokes, just fun, Norman told Fox News Digital people can get triggered by the very mention of a subject before it’s even clear where a joke is headed. So I wish people would just listen, and I have to give them the disclaimer, like I’m gonna talk about these triggering things, but it’s all above bored, it’s all silly. It’s always humor.
Mark continued, I hate that everything’s political and it’s not like it used to be. Political talk used to be boring and for nerds, hey hey, hey no no no no, no, no, no, no no. Johnny Mack produced a lot of political talk radio in the nineties. It was not boring, and I was not a nerd. Might be a nerd now, but it was not boring and I was not a nerd.
It was a lot of fun. Mark Norman said, you know there’s some guy like, can you believe what’s going on in Kusovo? And you’re like, shut up, you dork. We’re trying to have a drink. But now it’s front and center.
It’s big part of the culture. So I just want to be a comedian, you know, I don’t want to be a pundit, but I do feel like if you pick aside, your career goes better. Tim Dillon, I know he didn’t say Tim Dillon. I misread that. Sorry and Shell.
No, No, it doesn’t say and Shell’s either. Sorry. I did my script jumped. I’m trying to read here, and I was scrolling down and I thought, it’s that Andrewscheltz doesn’t That was just ignore all that. Some other things he talked about late night TV late nights aren’t what they used to be.
No offense. He doesn’t like predictable jokes. He says. I think what bothers me from a comedian standpoint is they’re all telling the same joke. It’s like the same Trump jokes over and over.
I don’t care if you’re bashed Trump, but be original. So I think that late night maybe another reason it’s dying no offense boy, A lot of no offense here is because people want that authentic experience. I think now crowd work clip, you know, just calling a fat guy, it has way more views than a fallon clip. Sadly, the world has slipped on that one point eighty completely. Norman talked about his podcasts, which are just entertainment.
He says, I don’t want to be saving the world. I don’t want to be an activist. I don’t want to give tips on comedy or comedy lecture. It’s just full of jokes, what’s on the news, what’s going on in the world, and just silliness and levity. Keep it light.
Eight amen, brother, Oh we are longed here. M I timewise. I want to bump this one, but I know where I’m heading on comedy stock market because so I kind of have to do this one. The New York Times, did you hear me? I said that?
The New York Times, The Times of New York. The New York Times has an article titled who designed Chris Fleming’s purple bodysuit? We’re told Chris Fleming’s purple jumpsuit with its removable sleeves. It’s made from a high end Scoopa fabric that not only stretches, but is also durable enough to be put in a washing machine. When the comedian Chris Fleming, I like how they says when the comedian Chris Filming, and not when comedian Chris Fleming or when Chris Fleming.
When the comedian Chris Fleming interesting first met with the designer and stylist Anthony Sartino, he brought a couple of reference photos Patrick Swayze, the mouse King from The Nutcracker, a feather squatted Elton John and Michael Flatley from Riverdance. Mister Sartino’s reaction he said, oh, no, no, no, no, that’s not what I had in mind at all. Fleming said, I kind of have a rule about no jumpsuits, but Sartino persisted. Sartino explained, I like to do my research. He’s stumbling all over, he’s running, and I’m thinking, okay, four way stretch jumpsuit.
The jumpsuit is fitted through the body with a wide band at the waist like a discrete compermund and a high collar. There are glitterally embellishments at the small the back, and then on the cuffs of the sleeves, which zip off at the shoulder. The removable sleeves allow mister Fleming to perform what he refers to as a prudes burlesque, while also preventing him from overheating on stage. The color and eggplant purple is also intentional. It stands out against the crimson red of the curtains behind mister Fleming at the Canillac Palace theater where the special was taped.
Purple also evokes the musician Prince, and for good reason. From twenty three to twenty thirteen, Certino worked with Prince, helping to create Prince a suit for the Super Bowl halftime in two thousand and seven. In fact, it was all that that prompted Chris Fleming. Sorry, mister Fleming, this is at the Times of New York again. Mister Fleming, who describes himself as a massive Prince fan, to reach out to the designer via Instagram DM.
Mister Fleming said, the way Prince wears clothes, it’s just astonishing. He described Prince’s look as being quitt, essentially stadium rock, but also something you could see him sitting cross legged, not a chase lounge wearing. Oh we are going so long here, but I have to do this. There’s more, by the way, You know how all week I’ve been on my soapbox about everybody’s an insider, right right, Nikki Glaser, Robbie Hoffman, you would think Robbie Hoffins an outsider. No, not at all.
Robbie Hoffins at the Vanity Fair Oscars party. Well, apparently, I just want to remind you. Right now, I’m reading you from an article in The New York Times about Chris Flemings design, and we’re not done yet. Chris Fleming insider. Everybody’s an insider.
No one’s an outsider. The New York Times tells us, no matter where mister Fleming is, mister Sartino makes sure the entire matches the situation for mister Flemings headlining performance at Carnegie Hall. Sartino design would Fleming referred to as bird Armor, a black feathery bolero that’s for a crispy tailored white shirt based on the photo of Elton John that mister Fleming showed him during that first meeting. Fleming said, Honestly, you walk out there and you have the same feeling of unease that you feel at a really wealthy person’s holiday party. And Tony knew that I was thinking I was going to take that bird Armor off, but I needed the whole time to make it through that gladiator fight of performing at Carnegie Hall again.
Let me ask you, have you ever been to a really wealthy person’s holiday party. I’m thinking about it, a really wealthy person’s holiday party. I don’t think I have been. The only comp that comes to mind is I’ve been to Joan River’s apartment on Fifth Avenue. That was pretty nice.
Joan made some iced tea for me. I found myself in Las Vegas one year at a porn star’s party, which that’s a whole story in itself, and the party a lot more boring than you to think. Not that I was looking for excitement, but you know, if you’re like, oh, was there all like sex and drugs and booze? No, it’s just people standing around like any other party. In case you’re a newer listener, I live clean, so I wasn’t looked for sex or drugs or booze.
I’ll have a beer, maybe two trivia. That’s about it. Johnny mclis clean. I digress. How long is this article?
Yeah? I’m kind of done with this, but you know I can’t. I can’t wrap up with me just going how long is this article?
And then there’s break?
So I got to give one more quote. Chris Lemming said, I feel like I’m stepping into something and accepting something about visibility, and my relationship with Tony couldn’t have come at a better time. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Burt Reynolds. Comedy stock Market every Friday. What we do is we take a look at where the value is.
So we’re not saying someone’s good, we’re not saying someone’s bad. We’re looking at where the value is. Like a stock. Like you know, there was a time where you probably wish he had bought bitcoin, and now there’s a time you wish you had sold your bitcoin like that, but different Heloton, that’s another example, you know, that kind of thing. So where is the value in comedy?
Before I get into the stock picks per se, I’ve been wondering all week if you guys, I just think I’m in a mood. I’m actually in a great mood, but I do feel like I’ve been a little punchy this week and it’s coming out on the air as they say, I don’t know, feeling my oats, being a little uncensored. On the Substack, I took a shot at Travis Kelcey. That was a smart thing to do. The Substack is my free newsletter about the media.
You’ll find that in the show notes. Sorry, Comedy stock Market, I got some cells this week we’re gonna sell, all right. First one we’re gonna sell is Chris Fleming. John, you’ve been all about Chris Fleming. I know, but this is about value.
My friends. I’m still all about Chris Fleming. But listen to me. Hear me out, Okay, stay with me here. Love Chris Fleming.
Chris Fleming hilarious. But it was cool when it was weird. Now Chris Fleming is establishment. Chris Fleming is being profiled about his fashion in the New York Times. That’s not cool anymore.
Now that’s whatever the opposite of cool is. It’s like when you go you know, when you went to see your favorite band in the village, it was cool, and then one day they’re playing the football New Jersey. It’s not as cool. So we can love them, but it’s time to sell Chris Fleming while the value is high. While the casuals are reading about his purple print suits in the New York Times.
We got to sell our Chris Fleming cash out. We did good money this last month. But that’s the comedy stock market again. We love Chris Fleming. But we’ve peaked value, cash out sell your Chris Fleming got another sell for you, Burt Kreischer.
Now here’s why I study this stuff. I read the tea leaves. I see which way people are trending. Here’s what you probably don’t know. On opening Day, when baseball is on Netflix, you know who they’re gonna have on their coverage, Burt Krescher.
I understand why Netflix likes that idea. I understand totally why Burt Krascher likes that idea. I think there’s a version of Burt Krescher that would be very happy just being Pat McAfee. But all that adds up to me thinking people are going to tune in to watch the baseball game and finding Burt Krescher really annoying. I just feel like Burt every now and then I feel like it can needs to just disappear for a while, and I feel like Burt needs to just like disappear for wat.
It’s a little too much. Bert, love you, but it’s a little too much. We’re gonna sell our Burt Kreischer. All right, Johnny Mack, you’re so negative. Don’t you want us to buy anything?
Yes, let’s buy even more Pete Holmes because see, because I actually paid the ten dollars to watch the special and talk to Pete Homes three weeks ago when I forgot that, everybody else is waiting for the YouTube drop, which is on Tuesday the twenty fourth, which means we’re probably gonna see more Pete Holmes press and then people are gonna be like, wow, I really like Pete Holmes, and they’re gonna remember how much we all love Pete Homes and Pete Holmes is fantastic, and please listen to the interview on this program. I guess it’s two Saturdays ago at this point, maybe three, but you know the episode’s titled Pete Holmes. You’ll find it. So I feel like people are gonna be like, oh, yeah, Pete Holmes love them. So let’s buy some Pete Holmes.
Let’s buy some Mark Normand I saw Dylan in the Facebook group as that special as is number one if I read correctly, really quickly, So yeah, we’ll buy some Mark Norman and let’s buy some snl Uk. I feel like they’re gonna nail it well now in forty eight hours, all right, So that’s the Rex this week. Sell Chris Fleming, Sellberg Kreischer, Buy snl UK, buy Mark normand by Pete Holmes at your Comedy stock Market. Carol Leafer is sticking up for dogs. Here’s what happened.
The American Kennel Club announced the most popular dog breeds of twenty twenty five, which put French bulldogs at number one for the fourth year in a row. Here’s the issue. Carol doesn’t like The American Kennel Club is promoting a breathing impaired breed. She did a few videos for PETA. In one of them, Carroll Leafer is dressed up as your two Packaday Aunt Doris in a bright red wig and tropical moomoo, and Aunt Doris struggles to breathe as she blows up a busted air mattress to mimic the painful, labored breathing of a flat faced dog.
Leifer explains, as vets have described it, every breath these dogs take, it’s like breathing through a small straw. She also did a more serious PSA to talk about the what they’re calling the torture breeding industry that intentionally breeds dogs to have extreme features such as flattened snouts, flatt and snouts. Distored airways, shortened lives and cause the dogs to pant, snort, wheeze and struggle for air. Leefer explains every French bulldog photo on Instagram should come with a disclaimer warning may cause lifelong vet bills. Breeders cash in on the look, and the dogs and their guardians pay for it literally.
Many countries, including Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway, have banned or restricted the breeding of some are all breeding impaired breeds. It’s illegal in the US. Carol Leifer says as long as there’s money to be made, selling, showing and breeding dogs, breeders will continue to produce more, regardless of how much they cause dogs to suffer in the process. Johnny Mac agrees, adopt, don’t shop right now at the shelter right by your house. There’s an awesome dog.
I’ve got two shelter dogs upstairs and they’re fantastic. I’ve had shelter dogs for every day of my life since nineteen eighty one. And that is your comedy news for today. Normal episodes on the weekend, I had pre tape them in advance. I had to accommodate some travel today, but we’ll get into, among other things, Jay Leno’s Rush Moore of comedy.
All right, you’re enticed, right, that’s worth listening to, so normal episodes all weekend. I hope you have a great weekend, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow