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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Assent. It’s the Algorithms Love. We’ll talk about snl UK in the second half, because you got a lot to talk about.
There are a bunch of fights, and Johnny Mack likes fights. But before we even get to the fights, we’ll start with some big news. The Roast of Kevin Hart will be part of the Netflix Comedy Festival and the host will be Shane Gillis. Do I have your attention? Yeah?
Live on Netflix eight pm Eastern and Sunday, May tenth. That’s in La, So five La time. Thinking about going out there, But if I go out there, I also want to see Flight of the Concords, which is the exact same time. Plus the airports are a mess, I might just stay home. I Digress, hosted by Shane Gillis.
May tenth is the final night of the Netflix As a Joke Festival. It’ll be the Kia Forum in l and the’s a lot of heavy hitters in town for the festival. Plus it’s La to begin with. I can’t imagine somebody like Nicky Glazer won’t do it or Tony Hinchcliff again, It’ll probably be the same people. And I’ll remind you at the roast of Tom Brady, Kevin Hart was really good.
So when he gets his shot, he’s going to bring it back. I’m really looking forward to that. That’s May tenth.
Meanwhile, and this story’s ridiculous.
Kevin Hart had to break up a fight between Logan Paul and Rob Gronkowski. Now, before we get into the story, just picture the sizes of those three gentlemen. You see. A few weeks back, Logan Paul was getting into it with Tom Brady. Tom Brady had questioned the Logan Paul’s athleticism compared to the top NFL players.
Tom Brady called Logan Paul’s stuff cute, but stated football is real competition. Then a few days after that, Tom Brady escalated things. Brady was talking with Rob Gronkowski and called Logan Paul the B word, which I assume rhymes with which Gronkowski said, if Logan Paul wants a piece of me, I’m down throw it down on the field at the flag footballing. I’ll whoop his bleep logan Paul said, I’m gonna beat your bleep, and then I’m gonna beat all your brothers bleep. Kevin Hart had to step in and urge the two to save it for the field team USA Football forty three, NFL Guys sixteen.
Meanwhile, this story is cracking me up. Have you seen the Lion King? Well, the composer and performer of the iconic chant in the Circle of Life from The Lion King is suing a comedian over a viral podcast comment about the song. You see. Zimbabwe comedian learn More Johnnesy was on the one fifty four Africa podcast and made a joke about the song Let’s listen.
Yeah, I gotta another thing though, the thing about the Lion King. Man, Okay, what would do the Lion King thing? Ready? What up? And you do it propably?
I don’t think he’s doing it right righty? No? Now this was a very wow. Now what does it mean? What is it?
What do they actually say? Is is it me? No? There’s a liad? Oh my god.
Now. Libo m wrote the chant and performed it in both the ninety four original Line King movie and the twenty nineteen remake. In the lawsuit, Libo said the chant is a form of royal parize that relies on metaphors, and the true translation is all hail the King, We all bow in the presence of the King, not look there’s a lion, Oh my God. The legal complaint says, look there’s a lion, Oh my God is not a simplified translation. It is a fabricated, trivializing distortion meant as a sick joke for unlawful self profit and destruction of the imaginative and artistic work of Libo M.
The lawsuit is asking for twenty seven million dollars in damages from that joke. The belief is that the joke could affect Libo M’s longtime relationship with Libo says he now quote fears for his life due to xenophobic comments and claims he’s been confronted in bombardment with comments about the podcast clip. Further reporting says that Libo stated in a video on March fourth on Instagram that he had messaged the comedian about his concerns, but the comedian brushed him off and said he’s been doing the same joke for eight years. It did not plan to stop. In the video.
Libo apparently says, I did try and engage this young man and he was so arrogant.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk and John Stewart treated Barb’s on social media.
John Stewart on The Daily Show apparently said that Elon Musk has pushed this idea that undocumented non citizen voting is rampant. It is sowing the seeds of our destruction and we cannot do it. The irony of it all is because this guy’s platform, this guy’s algorithm, which he’s in charge of, He’s a far more relevant actor and the warping of our democracy through his money and his algorithm than any measure of undocumented non citizen voting will ever be. Stuart continued, what his argument, and I think his people’s argument would be is now that we’re getting uncensored material, now that First Amendment has primacy. People moved to the right because they learn the truth.
But the truth is that algorithm incentivizes the misinformation from the right, and he designs it. Elon Musk responded and wrote, John Stewart is an extremely skilled propagandist disguised as a truth tiller. Stuart fired back, writing that Musk is quote an extremely skilled propagandist. Elon responded to that, writing not as good as you. Stop being so humble.
Pete Holmes special is out today on YouTube. It is called Silly Silly Fun Boy. I have seen it liked it a lot. Pete was a guest on this program about three weeks ago. You should watch it.
It’ll be on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel at eight eastern today. In the special, Pete Holmes delivers fresh takes on parenting, marriage and more. Pete was on the Upworthy podcast and shared three words that have been a game changer in how he views life. Host Dan Harris asked about his mantra yes, yes, thank you, and Pete Holmes corrected him, saying it’s only three words. It’s yes, thank you.
When you were yes there, Pete explained the concept. I’ve heard really good teachers say, if you can really just say yes to what is, that’s all you need, just really short circuits your brain. If you say yes thank you to it, and I mean almost instantly, flight is delayed. Yes, thank you. It’s so weird.
That’s why it works. Everything attraction and a version, right, So a version is just charging it all with this push like a basketball underwater. You’re giving it all the energy. When you just go yeah, it’s as if it’s what you wanted. Then you realize you’re at an airport.
You’ll be in an hour later. Pete had this discussion before this weekend. I’d be curious to see how Pete feels about a six hour TSA line. Pete said, you’ll be in an hour later. It could just be a clean breath and a recognition that you’re alive.
Maybe you see the sun coming through the window, and maybe you’re realize that people used to die and covered wagons on the journey. You’re about to take it four hours, But it can really be way less than that. Really not debating with the bad feeling, just saying yes, thank you to it. That’s been one of the most powerful things in my life. He does have a point there.
When I went to Australia and my kids were like, oh, the flight’s really long. I’m like, it used to take seventy four days to get to Australia. I looked up the number with some number like seventy something, So yes, Pete Holmes is correct. Did you watch Saturday Night Live UK? Now a lot of us were excited about it, and Peacock had been like, yeah, it’s going to be on next day, And by next day they apparently met after nine pm Easter and Sunday night.
A lot of us got up on Sunday. We’re like, I’m going to watch this wasn’t up. In the afternoon, I was like, I’m going to watch this wasn’t up. So I finally went to YouTube. So I saw clips.
I’ve seen the opening sketch, Tina’s monologue, a piece of weekend Update which I’m going to play for you, and a sketch about the Last Supper that I liked a lot that had an awesome impression of Princess Diana that I can’t get enough of. So I haven’t seen the whole thing, and I definitely haven’t seen it in order. Thanks Peacock, You’re gonna make me do bad things on the internet next week. Tina Fey joked in her monologue, why do a UK version of SNL? Well, like so many large scale American operations these days, no one really knows why.
Great joke. The stage has more of a bar aesthetic than the American version. The stage is also positioned away where the audience is ceded to the left and right of the host, not just in front of them. In Weekend Update, they made fun of former Prince Andrew, which was good content for me because I also write for the Palace Intrigue podcast, where we cover the royal family seven days a week, so I pulled this audio let’s listen. Renovations to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s new home, Marsh Farm, had been taking place over the last month, including the installation of SkyTV, So if you’re watching Andrew, Hello, you’re not gonna like this next bit.
Also, I’m older than I look. Andrew’s new residence, Marsh Farm, is of course named after the nearby marsh where his body will be found. It was reported this week that the police investigation into Andrew is set to widen. The big question now is if Andrew is charged, found guilty and put in prison, will he be able to keep his mouth shut? I hope not said his cellmate’s penis.
We’re now three weeks to the Iran War, which started with the death of one Iya Toll Homony and the appointment of another Iya Tolla Hominy Hominy too. But one’s dead now. Friend of the show Jason Zinneman, he writes for The New York Times, and wrote under the headline like stepping into a well run Starbucks abroad, I love that. That is a great description. Jason Ziinnaman, friend of the show, Jay z writes, I found the promising debut of the British spin off you relie familiar.
I agree. I was discussing with Mark, who hosts the Ballast Intrigued podcast. He said that it needs to get more British, and I said, I think they did the right thing. I think you don’t want to screw up episode one. You go right down the middle.
Tina fan knows how to do the show. You do the basics, you do the monologue, two band sets, weekend update, and he just hand in the homework. And I think they delivered at least from the parts I saw. And as time goes on, it can become its own thing. See The Office versus the American Office for the opposite example of that.
Jason writes. You can detect Lorne Michael’s fingerprints in the more obscure conventions, such as celebrities in the audience asking question of the host and Tinas monologo as Michael Sarah and Graham Norton, and saving the most subtle comedy for the pre tape bits and the edgiest for weekend Update. From an American perspective, watching snl UK’s like stepping into a well run Starbucks in a foreign country, comforting and recognizable, with the few departures from the norm magnified. There was none more dramatic in this case than the presence of cursing, which can be a crutchery useful comedic tool. Tina Fat turns out can juice a joke with a hard consonant.
Yeah, some F bombs. I didn’t like the F bombs. I mean, I don’t really care. I’ve been known to use one or two, especially when driving. If you’ve ever seen Dennis Moose to the Suburbs episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I’m Dennis, Come on, he.
Han’t seize the goddamn have. People are so goddamn it efficient, God damnits variety roade. Thankfully, snl UK largely took the basics of what makes the US version successful sketch comedy, rotating guest hosts, and the unpredictability of live television, and left the Brits to it, but they say the weakest part of snl UK was the snl port. Their commentary is that Tinfa was in it so much. He has such a presence and had so many lines that resulted in fewer opportunities for us to get to know the new British players who are the reason we’re supposed to be tuning in in the first place.
They add, I think this gets to the heart of an issue snl UK has, who is this for? The set looks American, the pacing feels American, and the fact that lasted seventy five minutes when British audiences usually love their comedy no longer than sixty because we’re tired feels awfully American. At times, watching this like visiting a branch of five Guys. It’s fine, but it’s not like eating in America. If the show’s just to celebrate a US institution that a large proportion of BRITZ had never tuned into and wallt apart from a few viral clips, after the initial hype dies down, it’ll fall flat in its face.
SNLUK has added two more episodes to the run, so we’ll get eight episodes, not six. Jimmie Dornan hosts this week musical guest. Wolf allis currently the President of the United States. Liked snl UK he posted the opening sketch. In the sketch, the Prime Minister receives a call from Trump and one up, cowering to the US President.
Apparently Trump like that he shared it on Truth Social.
Meanwhile, in Germany they’re making their own version of After Midnight, thi…
Late Nighter tells us Neo Social Club will look instantly familiar, almost eerily so. This version hosted by Laura Larson, a podcaster and digital creator not a stand up comic. Lawson dolls out points not for correct answers, but for originality, rewarding the quickest, funniest reactions over anything resembling accuracy. Neo Social Club is a weekly show and runs at ten point fifteen pm. Out today, A new special by Shelley Belly real name Michelle Ryder.
Shelley Belly Southern comedian. Her debut special Don’t You Judge Me? Is out today. Film last fall in front of a sold up crowd at Pickens Performing Arts Center in Liberty, South Carolina, Shelley Belly dishes out Southern Charm and No Filter Tales of Marriage. It’s distributed by Comedy Dynamics.
It’ll be on places like Prime, Apple, Google Play, Vimeo YouTube. She’ll be part of the Nashville Comedy Festival on April fifteenth. And that is your comedy news for today. Oh, Comedy Survivor, boy I checked Leslie Jones might be in trouble. So if you want Leslie Jones out, you can Pilon And if you don’t want Leslie Jones out, you might want to get an alliance going because the anti Leslie people were quick to get things going.
Comedy Survivor, what you do is you go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group. There’s a drawing of me in Otsco at Costco who was voted off the island last week, And in that thread there you write down the name of one of the five remaining comedians and you see who gets voted off Comedy Island. Voting continues until Thursday, all right, see tomorrow