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Caloroga Shark Media. I am not sure how I feel about Mark Norman right now. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. When I work with Jim Brewer, Jim hadaphrase important of my French here, but Jim hadaphrase which was don’t be a dick, and then he would explain, you know what a dick is, don’t be a dick. Mark Norman was on Maury Povich’s podcast The Headline.
Comedian Mark Norman admits he just made up a story about Netflix trying to censor him. Let’s listen. But here’s the thing. You and Netflix have had problems. Oh yeah, yeah, what do you mean.
Didn’t they take out a bit? Oh no, I fabricated that you fabricated? Well, they uh muslim bit. Well, they said, hey, could you Uh. I picked a bunch of jokes that I wanted to use to promote.
They said, give us a few jokes you like and we’ll, you know, we’ll put them out on the internet. Right, And they said, let’s not do that one because the internet is crazy and people get worked up. And so I made it up in this whole story, so that that was on me. I lied. They they didn’t do anything wrong?
I did you admit that, yes, you got an exclusive. Would Chappelle ever admit that he did something wrong? And probably not? No. He does what he wants and smokes a cigarette and has a drake and moves on with his life.
Website humorism dot xyz Right. I almost can’t believe what I’m watching. He admits so reasonly that he smeared the people releasing a special for no reason other than to tell an islamophobic joke. Does that count as a joke? Is it comedy to tell a bald lie about yourself manipulating Netflix and is saying Muslims are dangerous?
Is it comedy to say the story you made up is kind of a microcosm of phony progressivism? Gosh, I don’t know if it is so. My initial reaction was outrage, outrage, outrage, But when I listened to the clip, I’m not sure. Here are we in the territory of Netflix? Did kind of sort of ask him to change it up?
And he, being a comedian, took a basically true premise and exaggerated it, whereas the whole thing made up, I’m not sure even after listening to it. So that’s my open I’m not sure how I feel about Mark Normand right now, but as Jim Burwers said, don’t be a dick. Nate Brigetzy returned to social media. You may recall people are upset that Nate went to a UFC fight and took photos with people like Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee.
He also took photos with Cheryl Hines, Joe Rogan. Nate had been silence on social media after people got mad. Eleven days after the quote unquote scandal, Nate Brigetzi returned to social media, promoted three cities, four shows, one great weekend once you go to see him in Houston, Austin and Corpus Christy. However, The Daily Beast suggests it appears that any remark critical of Burgetzie is being deleted. Comments that referenced the Trump administration you shouldn’t reflect the fierce backlash within Burghatzy’s fan base have either been hidden or removed.
One comment had said, condemn the horrid comment about our former first lady and apologize slash explain your wh visit to your progressive slash Mexican American slash feminist fans. You had some many In fact, we liked you. We simply want clarity if you value us or not. You may recall one UFC fighter said something horrible about Michelle Obama that I will not repeat, when user acknowledged that comments are being deleted, writing We’ll see how long this comment stays up. Well, I guess it stayed up long enough for the Daily Beast to see it.
I don’t know. I think we’re blowing this one out of the water a little bit. I’m not going to defend the Michelle Obama joke. But Nate Bergatzy went to a fight and took some photos with some people. I forgot to mention this one.
On yesterday’s show. Friend of the Show, Scott Backet put this in front of me. You may recall w camout Bell wrote a feisty substack suggesting that Nate Bergazzy not being photos with fascist. Steve Byrne wrote, come out Bell called Naperghatzia fascist. That’s like me calling wkmal Bell a comedian.
I love comedian fights. Everybody, Let’s keep fighting with each other. This is fantastic. How about Carlos Smincia, He’s back on stage. Yeah.
The Las Vegas Review Journal said it was just past midnight on Wednesday, but the party was still in full flourish. For Carlos Smidcia, the veteran comic, had taken over the Karaoki show at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club. Wait, can I start a controversy? Does that suggest that Jimmy Kimmel suggests that, possibly, perhaps maybe people should evade paying their taxes? Not saying that Carlos Smithcia did that.
I’m just trying to stir it up. Or is it just that Carlo Smincia has a residency at the club and showed up again. Who knows. We’re told wearing black Adida sweatpants and a Star Wars Stormtrooper T shirt. I might actually be wearing that outfit right now.
No, I’m actually wearing a Jackson Heights pigeon shirt, which if you’re from New York City you get, and my gray summer pants. I’m not my usual full sailor. I digress. Carlos Smincia wearing black Adidas sweatpants and a Star Wars storm Trooper T shirt. And don’t think I don’t own one, because I do.
Men Sea moved around the room mike and hand, singing along to the Backstreet Boys, and I did rip the audio of it. So you guys better start sharing the show. We’re gonna do a marathon of Nikki Glaser singing, Amy Schumer singing, and Carlos Mencia singing. That might be an entire episode if you don’t share the show. The phone’s in your hand right now.
Do it right now before we forget. Carlos Mencia seems to be making up for lost time after doing time, writes to the Las Vegas Review Journal ouch, although to be fair, Carlos had just been released after posting a fifty thousand dollars bond after being arrested. He has been charged with tax evasion, allegedly owing the state of California three hundred thousand dollars in back taxes. Anyway, Carlos Mencia arrived just before the nine point thirty show. Mencia cuts to the Chase about his still fresh incarceration.
He had written twenty minutes of new material the transcrip. The Las Vegas Journal says, I got arrested by the franchise tax board police. I didn’t even know they had police. I swear in my head I expected guys to show up with little calculators and advisor. So now I’m freaking out right like everybody else, going what the F have I ever done to deserve all the crap that I’ve gotten.
I became the poster boy for joke stealing, and now I’m the poster boy for not paying taxes. Now I’m not a professional comedian, but I feel like he should have paralleled that and said I would have tagged that with And now I’m the poster boy for tax stealing, which I think would have just rolled better. But again, I’m just a dope in the basement, and I’m sure he told it better. Mencia said when he was locked up, he noticed a video camera showing him as he used the toilet review Journal Rights navigating his personal hygiene with no toilet paper provided and a pretty grossery telling. The comic said he noticed a small video camera overhead.
He was concerned that footage from inside the jail would reach the public, quoting Vincia, here, dude, if there’s a Joe Rogan fan in there, it’s going to come out. You may recall it was Joe Rogan, who started the whole Carlos men Steel a joke thief thing. Men Se had told the crowd he had lent four million dollars to his family over the years, including his eleven sisters, six brothers, and seventy eight nephews and nieces. Men See has said, but now that they found out that I owe all these taxes, nobody’s asking me for money anymore. How awesome is that?
But See after the show said he’s restricted what he could say publicly about the case because there are attorneys involved.
And then he went to the karaoke party and See I thank the audience saying, I …
I don’t know which one it is, but I will forever be grateful. And for those of you that thought this is going to get to Carlos, it’s not. I’m never going to stop entertaining you, never going to stop being funny for you, never going to stop being the voice ever. So let’s finish the show, go downstairs and have some more fun. Louis C.K.
Remember that guy. He’s back. He’s got a special on Netflix today on the Substack switching codes with Eric Degan’s. Eric writes, some people have suggested that it’s difficult to know how to handle someone like Louis C.K. He was still relatively young and capable of creating a lot more projects.
He’s been away from most mainstream entertainment for years. They might say, is’t not enough for me, he writes, Eric, It’s much less about how long they’ve been gone than what they’ve done earned their way back into mainstream show business, besides proving how much money they could make someone as he fully had amitted how he’s harassed women in the past. Did he apologize directly and publicly to them. Has he helped any of the women who spoke honestly about what he did and saw their careers animized afterwards. Hollywood prefers to avoid the kinds of admissions which can bring lawsuits and morals clauses rights Eric.
Instead, the big business of entertainment would much prefer a situation where star stays underground until the social blowback has passed, emerging with a tale of redemption and renewal just in time to sell tickets, streams, memberships, and more. Already, Louis C.K. Has won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in twenty twenty two, and it’s a sure bed he’ll be a contender when his new Netflix special gets released as an album. Back in October, Pajiba wrote, are we saying okay? Well, it’s been eight years.
He’s paid his debt by going out on sold out tours, successfully releasing comedy specials independently, and by winning a Grammy just three years ago. By being unfair am by being an overly sensitive triggered lib Should I just shut up and let it go. It’s not like Louis C.K. Has spent the last eight years fighting the good fight, speaking truths of power, or becoming a symbol of free speech. The man literally just returned from the reas On Comedy Festival and spoke on Bill Maher show about what a positive experience it was and how using comedy is a great way to get in and start talking.
And Mark called him and all the others who attended the festival brave for being paid obscene amounts of money to give the soundies exactly what they wanted, a lot of positive press. Louis C.K. Out on Netflix today from Late Night or they took a look at the late night ratings week of June fourteenth, Jimmy Kimmel no longer had the lead in from the World Champion New York Knicks and Charlotte Hurricanes. No Carolina Hurricanes, I mean Hartford Whalers, you know what I mean, those guys. Jimmy Kimmelive averaged two point five to five million total viewers with two hundred and seventy four thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.
Number two late night show, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, averaged one point three million total viewers and one hundred and eighty four thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. Those were also slightly down from the week before. However, having on the New York Knicks World Champions on Monday Night produced a thirty one percent lift week over week in total viewers and a seventy three percent jump among younger viewers. And as I mentioned twice last week, it seems like Jimmy Fallon might possibly be perhaps be getting a little more political, and Jimmy Kimmel stupidly taking the summer off, so I’m really curious. I’m rooting.
I’m openly rooting for fallon here to catch Kimmel’s show. I don’t think Kimmell should have taken the summer off. I like summers off, believe me.
Meanwhile, at twelve thirty, you know, the President of the United States and…
One issue we do agree on is that NBC twelve thirty could be better. Seth Myers continues to inexplicably have a show. He averaged a nine hundred and nine thousand viewers while falling ninety percent in the demo to one hundred and one thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. He’s listening to Nightline, which had one hundred and eight thousand adults eighteen to forty nine and one point zero one million total viewers.
And then there’s the Byron Allen thing that got six hundred and ninety five t…
Late Nighter did the math and said that’s less than a third of Kimmel’s total audience and just over half of Falon’s, Which isn’t that bad for not even trying? Why don’t you mention Gutfeld. Here’s why, because it airs at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific A seven pm Pacific A late night show. No, it’s not stop Guttfeld anyway. That average two point nine three million viewers and drew one hundred and sixty six thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.
They’re making a Shrek spinoff. It’s called Dunkey. It’ll be out June thirtieth, twenty twenty eight. If you want to get in line now, Eddie Murphy returns to voice Dunkey. It is an archin story of how a Dunkey became Donkey.
They are going to be shreking it up. Mike Myers and Gang will be in Shrek five, out in summer of twenty twenty seven. Donkey and Eddie Murphy, of course, in Shrek five. The Paper, you know, the office spinoff that’s coming back for season two in September. The cast is back, we’re told.
In season two, after sweeping the Ohio Journalism Awards, Ned searches for a journalistic crusade, coming for a local private club and jeopardizing the paper while he and Mayor try to figure out their attraction. As Morell does struggles to find her place, and the staff gradually mature as reporters. For some reason, they’ll drop the entire thing as a binge on September ninth, ensuring that once again it will have zero buzz. The Columbus Comedy Festival back for year three. This is a good festival.
This year August twenty seven through the thirtieth, more than one hundred comedians across the city of Columbus sixty shows. The Columbus Funnybone will host national headliners Greg Fitzsimmons and Arnez Jay throughout the weekend. Jason Banks will be back for two shows, the comedy dating game Cuffing SNZ. It will be a crowd work show hosted by Henry Allen. Kristin Key will headline an LGBTQ plus comedy showcase at the Palace Theater.
Some other names you might know at this one James Adomian, Connor Ratcliffe, and a bunch of others. Check out Columbuscomedyfest dot com. And are you enjoying the World’s Cup. I’ve been watching so much soccer. It’s incredible and we’ve all been enjoying.
The visitors to where I are a fine country here. One of the visitors Australian comedian Nathan ren Cloud he went to Popeyes. He said, it’s the most incredible chicken you’ve ever seen. It’s spicy and crunchy. You can get spicy chicken or regular.
I got spicy. He described as order two pieces of crunchy fried chicken, a biscuit, chips, and coalslaw. No, by chips, they probably mean what you and I would call fries, right. I don’t think Popeyes has chips. They’re fries, right, I don’t know.
Comedian Nathan wren Cloud said it’s the most beautiful coleslaw I’ve ever had in my life. It’s like coalslaw, but it’s kind of spicy, like it is mustard or something in it. He was surprised that it only cost six US dollars and asked how does this business even worked. He also questioned why Popeye’s chicken is not in Australia and says Popeyes, if you came here, you would own this country. He was also impressed by Popeye’s fountain drink machine and unlimited free refills.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Oh my goodness. Every time I leave the United States of America except Canada, you guys have it together, but everybody else, please please sell me a large drink, and please sell me a cold drink. And if you’ll sell me a large cold drink, that would be amazing. When I was in London recently, I kept dipping into McDonald’s just to get something cold, because I knew they’d sell me a die of coke. But they tap out at medium.
Is there a law over there, britz? Can you not sell a large drink? Because I was going to open a chain of fountain soda places and sell big gulps and become a billionaire. But that McDonald’s would not sell me a large, didn’t offer a large. The biggest soda was a medium.
Makes me think you guys have some kind of crazy laws over there. What are you doing? When I was in Spain, it’s a while ago. I just wound up drinking Sangria every night because Sangria was both big and cold. Please sell me a cold drink, sell me a big drink, Sell me a big cold drink.
And that’s your comedy news for today. It’s still June, right, Yes, it’s still June. So you’re sharing the show and you’re following the show on Spotify, and you’re turning on notifications so you never miss a show and I’ll see you back here tomorrow