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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Rogan, Kevin Hart, Chelsea Handler, Steven Colbert, Harland Williams, George Lopez
What’s in This Episode
- Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Future and Contract Negotiations
- Jimmy Kimmel Peabody Award Speech on Presidential Censorship
- Joe Rogan Defends Roast Comedy Against Comedian Critics
- Kevin Hart Roast Controversy and Comedian Backlash
- Late Night TV Format Decline and Disney Strategy
Questions Answered in This Episode
Is Jimmy Kimmel ending his late night show?
Jimmy Kimmel is considering ending the show but wants to do it on his own terms. His current contract with ABC expires in May 2027, and renewal conversations haven’t begun as of late May 2026.
Why does Jimmy Kimmel feel defeated about late night TV?
Kimmel believes late night shows like Steven Colbert’s are being ‘poisoned’ rather than dying naturally, pointing to questionable budget decisions and network strategy rather than genuine audience decline.
What did Joe Rogan say about the Kevin Hart roast controversy?
Rogan argued that roasts are a specific comedy format where harsh jokes are the rules of the game, and accused comedians complaining about the roast of being ‘traitors’ using the moment to boost their own profiles.
Did Jimmy Kimmel win an award recently?
Yes, Jimmy Kimmel won a Peabody Award and used his acceptance speech to discuss censorship of comedy and presidential criticism following FCC action against him.
When is Jimmy Kimmel taking a summer break?
Kimmel’s summer break starts after the NBA Finals on June 19, 2026, though Johnny Mac questioned whether this is a strategic mistake during a potential viewership opportunity.
Full Transcript
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Behind the scenes here this is actually take two. I started to go down a rabbit hole. There is an article in the Daily Mail, the headline Kevin Harten crisis, staff goes scorched earth to expose secrets, Empire crimbles and sex scandal refuses to die.
And as I just started going through it, I’m like, I don’t even know what we’re talking about here. I don’t want to get in a lawsuit. I don’t want to have an opinion. But just as I did the story, I’m like, this doesn’t feel right for the show. But if the exciting headline gets your attention, I’ll let you read it for yourself.
In the Daily Mail, let’s talk about Jimmy Kimmel, who did an interview with Vulture that headline, Jimmy Kimmel would stop if he could. Trump wants him out late night, is dying and he’s tired. What does the end look like? The article walks through Kimmel’s career, including the early struggles of Jimmy Kimmel live some of the stuff that has not aged particularly well. Kimble says he is willing to apologize for things he believes crossed the line the quote, I don’t consider apology to be a defeat.
I think it’s the very basis of Catholicism. But we learned that Kimmel is passed the point where he can be persuaded to apologize or something he doesn’t think is wrong. Quoting Kimmel, one of the things we talked about when I first got suspended was that I can’t do the show if I’m going to be micromanaged. They got into the end of the Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel said, I feel a little bit defeated by it in a lot of ways. I feel like I’m looking at my own future.
If you look at the number of views me and my colleagues get online every day, and add in our linear television ratings, he says it’s silly to call the format less relevant. However, says we’re not just dying of natural causes, We’re being poisoned. He questioned the idea of the Late Show with Steven Colbert losing forty million dollars a year, pointing out that they had offered Colbert a five year contract and then two years later, we’re like, yeah, no, we don’t need this show anymore. Jimmy Kimmel said it mighty believed that over the course of those two years they suddenly started losing forty million dollars a year. Those are just made up numbers.
He adds, it’s not like when Johnny Carson or even Jay Leno were raking in the dot. But he’s been told by ABC that Jimmy Kimmelive is profitable. Last December, Disney extended Kimmel’s contract for one year, more than the typical three year renewal. Jimmy Kimmel said, everything is so tumultuous that seemed to make sense. It’s definitely not how it’s gone in the past.
The current contract expires May twenty twenty seven. Kimmell says it’s important to me to be responsible. I know I could go out in a blaze of glory and get a lot of applause for it, but it would be a very selfish thing to do. Kimmel is thinking about the end of the show. He told Vulture six years ago, I told him I thought I was done when Biden was president, but he wants to end on his own terms.
Kimmel’s producer Aaron Irwin said he’s been talking about leaving for a while. She’d like to see the show continue through the twenty twenty eight election, but I don’t know if Jimmy can do it for that long. He’s tired. Kimmel will take a break this summer. Johnny Mac has said, I think that’s a strategic mistake, and you should grab the Colbert diaspora.
But maybe Kimbill doesn’t care. If he’s thinking about ending the show, I don’t know I would have him on this summer. His break will start after the Knicks win the NBA Championship. Kimill’s break starts after the NBA Final on June nineteenth. Normally, renewal conversations would be underway by now, but as of late May, they haven’t begun.
Kimil said, I don’t know what ABC is going to want to do. It’s an unusual position to be in, but I do still have a year left on my contract and that’s what I agreed to do.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel won a Peabody Award and gave a speech Let’s listen to…
I’ve made some edits here for language and pacing. I’d say I. Felt pretty dumb a lot of times in my life, but I’ve never felt dumber than I do right now, being on stage with this group of people who expose the horrors of ice on prison abuse and protests against the Vietnam War teacher who took on Putin. I called our president fatty shack and blobbed the builder and Leiger Woods and the hungry, hungry hypocrite, our fondling father Malardo Cintandella, and no Stra dumbass, And somehow we. Got a peabody out of that move.
Making jokes about the president in America shouldn’t win you a prize. We have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize and satirize our leaders, as is a right that many of us take for granted. It’s one that I took for granted for the first fifty seven years of my life until September of last year, when the FCC delivered a very unpleasant surprise. But then I experienced something that surprised me even more. I watched as millions of people, even some from across the aisle objected.
They spoke up, they marched, they canceled, their subscriptions to Star Wars because they refused to allow our freedoms to be bulldozed like the East Wing of the White House. They sent a message. You sent a message that we do care, and we will stand up, and that we will not stand by when comedy and journalism and dissent are censored and regulated and criminalized. Jo Rogan was talking with Harland Williams about the roost of Kevin Hart. Joe Rogan thinks some comedians.
I don’t know. I’ll let him explain it. I’m pretty sure he’s talking about Chelsea Handler here, But you tell me. I’ve made edits for both language and pacing. To defend Tony to everybody.
Yeah he’s a great guy. Yeah, he’s a great guy. Yea, yeah, he’s just like in that world. You have to understand the roast world. That is not the real world.
Kids, That is you’re going for blood. You know, like if you’re in a cage fight and you elbow someone in the face, it’s not because you’re a bad person. You have like that is your job. That’s the game we’re playing. These are the rules that we’re under.
And so when you see people complain about it, see I understand the general public that’s not aware of what roasts are because the reality of roasts are especially for like if you’re a twenty two year old kid, the last time they were roasts on television before the Tom Brady Bros. Was literally ten years ago. Yeah, like do you remember the Charlie Sheen Rose, the Donald Trump Rose, the Comedy Central roast. They saw them all the time, all the time. They were a long time ago.
Yeah, it’s a long time in the zeitgeys, right, So those things don’t exist to kids. To kids, comedy is joking about stuff. Comedy is Chris Rock, Comedy is Kevin Hart, Comedy is Luis c K. That’s what they think of comedy as they don’t under they don’t even understand the jokes like that this is roast. Jokes are mean.
They’ve always been mean. They could be cruel to personal, ruthless. Go back and watch all those old Comedy Central roles. They were brutal, they were brutal. Patrecea would just eviscerate the entire stadium those things.
The thing is, like, if you’re a person and you’re not accustomed to roast and you don’t get why those jokes are so mean. I get it. But comedians, comedians that are getting upset about these roast jokes, you know what this is. You know exactly what this. You’re a trader.
You’re just using this moment to try to boost yourself up, to try to like knock down what’s happening in these things. You could disagree with the content, you could say, I think they went too far with this. I don’t think, but this this pretending that these people are actual racists and Nazis just because they’re telling these jokes that are in a roast. I’m gonna be careful with this next one because I don’t want to visit from anybody wearing sunglasses. George Lopez made a joke about a very very famous person like picture, like a really famous person that’s in the news all the time.
And George Lopez made a joke about that person. A few minutes after the joke, he received a phone call telling him expect a visit from guys in sunglasses. You know I’m talking about those guys. Here is George Lopez talking to Shaquille O’Neil. I’ve made some edits because I don’t need to be visited by anybody.
I was with Cedric and his daughter at the chateau for a birthday, drinking some champagne. I leave, I get in the car. I turned my phone on Instagram had said this was probably like maybe four and a half years ago. Allegedly Iran had offered an eighty million dollar bounty, and I put in there, we’ll. Do it for half.
And I wasn’t. I wasn’t even home yet. I wasn’t even home, and my publicist school whenever round, my publicist calls, it’s just like, oh, I said, hello, where are you? I said, up in the car. But but but where were you?
Where have you been? And I told her man and uh, she said, it’s it’s big, like it’s big. And Fox had these people that you know, he should be arrested. Of course, yeah, so I had. I had it on Fox occasionally to see.
And then one day I get up in the morning, I walked by it. I stopped against my attention and said, George Lopez should expect a visit early next week. And uh, five minutes after that, my phone rang and I said, hey, George Lobe, you should expect the visit early next The same thing that was all the thing. They told me, and they came over. Attorney with me and they come to the house.
Ronny Chieng was at Harvard class day and unleashed on AI. He said, can I say fai fi fai? He didn’t say f he said the full word there. Chang said, it’s stupid. It’s so stupid.
If you tried using it, it’s always wrong. AI says that Harvard has a fifty six point nine billion dollar endowment and that the Harvard Graduate Students’ Union is on strike to try and get a liverable wage increase to twenty five dollars an hour. There’s no way that’s true. I mean, that’s ridiculous. How bad are these AI hallucinations?
Getting? The mission of your generation is to destroy AI, kill it. Ronny Chieng explains, the creating is the fun part. The best part in comedy writing is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self regard from having accomplished a different thing. Why would I want AI to take it away from me?
On mattin Sheen’s Secret podcast, The Guys discussed communism. Here’s a clip I’ve made an edit for language. Watch the Little documentary on Mals dung. What’s he up to? He’s dead, but he killed a lot of people in the way out a lot.
It’s important to study communism, yeah, because you know the youngsters these days, they think it’s far out and fly. Yeah, it’s really weird. It’s not usually results in about fifty million people dying. Doesn’t work typically, Yeah, it’s no, it’s pretty I mean that’s you know again, I’ve been making the YouTube debates spear watching that and that’s a big one, Like how you uncomfortable calling yourself a communist if that many people died? And it’s like, well, it’s because it sounds nice, you know.
It’s like, no, we shared. It’s like it starts with the seizure of private property exactly. That’s crazy. Yeah, it is funny where it’s like built on It’s like it’s not really sharing. It built from the government taking everyone’s property.
Well, the government’s terrible. Yeah, I don’t trust them with anything, it’d be horrible. Why do people want to give them more power? New England Patriots fans not happy with Matt Rife. Why quarterback Drake May held a celebrity softball game on Sunday night.
Some of the participants comedian Matt Rife Patriot’s running back Ramandre Stevenson. On one play during the game, Matt Riife got a bad throat a first base after what looked like a routine ground out, so Riife went to second base. He got caught up in a rundown. Rife wound up aggressively sliding into second base and took out the legs of the Patriots running back. Can you imagine if you lost your running back because Matt Rife slid into second base.
Luckily, Stevenson appeared to be okay after the play. John Mulaney has shared the new entry in his book Club. He wrote on social media, it’s on threads. If I recall correctly, Hello from a wahwah somewhere outside Washington, DC. Mlanie reads this month is all about the Left and the Lucky by Willie Vlauton.
M’laney says, I’ve read this in a day, just in love with the characters. Very funny people in some cases, very tragic, very human. Reminded me a lot of one of my favorite movies, Joe by David Gordon Green. I’m really a sucker for any story of an older person taking a lost kid under their wing. This one is electric.
Buy it at your favorite bookstore.
Meanwhile, Tig Nataro has joined the cast of Beach Read.
Character details are under wraps, but in Beach Read, idealistic romance novelist January Andrews and cynical literary fiction writer Augustus Gus Everett played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, have at least one thing in common, a serious case of writer’s block. When they unexpectedly find themselves living next door to each other in a small Lake Michigan beach town for the summer, they strike an unlikely bet to swap genres, and the lines between fiction and romance begin to blur. Exciting. Huh all right, I don’t feel like playing the Gossip Corner song today, but we are on Gossip Corner. This was on Threads.
There is an account called Assistance versus Agents. Their description the next Generation of Entertainment. We can contact a team Warner Bailey at United Talent dot com and we are told there are jobs, news and interviews every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Now on Monday they posted ever wonder what some of the biggest comedians request on their writers? And I was like, I do so I don’t know is this one hundred percent accurate or is this totally made up?
We are on gossip corner here. Use this information at your discretion. But according to this post on threads dot com, Bill Burr’s writer asks for two Kind bars, two Cliff bars, two Quest chocolate brownie protein bars, two Quest chocolate chip protein cookies, two Deer packwater cases, six bottles of unsweetened iced tea can be pure Leaf or Golden Peak. Dave Chappelle’s writer apparently includes American Spirit cigarettes, two Blue too black. Kevin Hart He’s never in the news.
Apparently Kevin Hart needs parentheses, thirty six parentheses, twelve bottles of spring water, and then it says keep twelve bottles at room temperature. So I’m guessing thirty six total, but twelve of them room temperature and the other twenty four presumably cold. The alleged Kevin Hart writer also asks for simply brand fruit punch, half a gallon, simply brand lemonade, half a gallon simply brand watermelon, half a gallon, a Curriig coffee machine, some assorted k cups, two boxes of lit would iv any flavor, but no strawberry, so that’s not any flavor. It’s any flavor. Butt strawberry, a Canada dry ginger, ale x L dudewipes.
So Kevin Hart was very thirsty and now he needs some dude wipes. Are you familiar with dudewipes? If you go to dudewipes dot com, they will tell you we make flushable wipes, billions of them assembled right here in the USA. They’re tagline billions of butts wiped. That’s on Kevin Hart’s writer.
Where what else does he want? Pathwater, Essentia or Icelantic water, twelve bottles of those four diet Doctor Pepper twelve ounce or sixteen ounce. It’s not like Kevin Hart’s Picky Sea. Four smart energy drinks are sorted, and he’s also down with the unsweetened iced tea pure Leaf or Golden Peak. Gabriel Iglesias, his writer asks for cold brew coffee Stumptown preferred.
Joe Coy, he want host of the Golden Globes. It made a horrible, mean joke about Cheryl Swift. Wodn’t have time for that. Joe Coy is asking for six twenty ounce hydration water bottles. Essensia can be a substitute Alisa Dieke would like two Celsius Energy d Inks orange please, and six bottles of Mountain Valley Spring Waters not sparkling.
Hannibal Burrs would like kind bars two of those. And our last writer is from Tom Segura, who, according to assistants versus agents, would like four Liquid Death rest In Peach cans, four Stumptown Cold Brew coffees, glasser nitro can is fine, six Sierra Nevada pel els, six bottles of Harmless Harvest coconut water, four Fever Tree on Cater’s can’s blue label. I don’t even know what that is. Two RX bars Dealer’s choice, ten Go Marco macro bars, berry or lemon flavor preferred, and we’re told you can get those at Whole Foods. There are six sparkling waters, Popochico lime or grapefruit please.
Can you mention? Rob Anderson has his debut special. It’s out on YouTube today. It’s called Are You Afraid of the Nineties. We are told that Rob Anderson is known online as the King of Nostalgia and has built up a cult following through his celebrating and roasting of the most chaotic retro pop culture moments taped during a sold out show in Vancouver.
The special revisits the movies, television and pop culture moments that shaped the generation and Bill Cosby in the news. An LA County Superior Court judge has denied Bill Cosby’s request for a new trial after Drury recently found Bill Cosby was liable for nineteen million dollars in damages for a civil sex assault case. Judge Bradley S. Phillips ruled on Friday that Bill Cosby did not prove there was any irregularity in the court proceedings that would have presented Bill Cosby from getting a fair trial, and the damages awarded to his accuser were not excessive. In March, a woman was awarded nineteen point two five million dollars in damages after she sued Bill Cosby in twenty twenty three, alleging that Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her in nineteen seventy two after escorting her to one of his shows.
Someday on this program, after the death of Bill Cosby, I’m going to tell you a story all this month. It’s June. We’re asking you we Who’s we? John? Who’s WII?
I? Don’t know me. I I Hey, I’m asking you to share the show. That’s what we’re doing this June. So if you like the show, you’re gonna go, Hey, buddy, there’s this podcaster.
I kind of like him. He’s weird, but you’ll dig it. It’s called Daily Comedy News. And I don’t know what you do then, I don’t know. You grab the guy’s phone and you download the show, or or you’re send him a picture.
I don’t know what you do. You figure that part out? Who is my dog barking at? Did Amazon? Come?
I bet Amazon come? Can you hear the dog on the microphone? You might not be able to, but boy, I can hear the dog. Dog. I’m trying to tell the people to share the show, and now they’re all distracted because this is a dog barking and I’m distracted.
All right, just share the show. That’s what we’re doing. Don’t forget to follow the show on Spotify. I’ve actually turned on the comments now, so instead of me telling you, hey, what do you comment and you’re like, hey, idiot, the comments are off, you can actually comment now. Thank you Justin for pointing that out.
At three forty two am in the morning and I think that’s it. Oh Nick, Tonight, Go Nix go. The New York Nicks are in the finals. If you’re looking for me at a thirty pm Eastern time, I will be in the comfy cheer Go Nix. See you tomorrow