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Featured: Kathy Griffin, Jimmy Fallon, Conor McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Leslie David Baker, Cam Patterson, Tony Hinchcliff, Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan
What’s in This Episode
- Kathy Griffin claims she’s banned from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
- Jimmy Fallon’s decision to book Conor McGregor sparks controversy over platform for convicted rapist
- Ricky Gervais criticized for recycled shock comedy material at Leicester Square Theater
- Ricky Gervais absent from The Office UK 25th anniversary BBC documentary
- Ricky Gervais releases limited edition Office 25th anniversary vodka bottle
- Leslie David Baker opens Honey Baked Ham franchise in Sherman Oaks
- Cam Patterson discusses Tony Hinchcliff’s George Floyd joke at Kevin Hart Roast
Questions Answered in This Episode
Is Kathy Griffin actually banned from The Tonight Show?
Kathy Griffin claims she hasn’t appeared on the show since it aired at 12:30 ET/PT and suspects she may be banned, though Johnny Mac notes talk shows typically just don’t find room for guests rather than officially banning them.
Did Conor McGregor lose his rape appeal case?
Yes, according to RTE, Conor McGregor lost his appeal against a High Court jury finding that he raped a woman in a hotel room in December 2018, and the Court of Appeal rejected his appeal entirely.
Why wasn’t Ricky Gervais in The Office 25th anniversary documentary?
Ricky Gervais was reportedly unavailable for the BBC shoot, though Johnny Mac is skeptical given Gervais had time for his own Office documentary on YouTube and a limited edition vodka release for the same anniversary.
How much does the Ricky Gervais Office 25th anniversary vodka bottle cost?
The limited edition bottle featuring David Brent costs $54 USD and contains 40% ABV Dutch Barn Orchard Vodka made from British apples.
What did Leslie David Baker from The Office do?
Leslie David Baker, who played Stanley Hudson on The Office, opened a Honey Baked Ham franchise location in Sherman Oaks, California with a co-owner named Tony.
What did Cam Patterson say about Tony Hinchcliff’s George Floyd joke?
Cam Patterson defended Hinchcliff’s comedy style on the Pivot podcast, saying it was consistent with Tony’s comedic character and approach, though acknowledging that others in the community felt he went too far at the Kevin Hart Roast.
Full Transcript
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Caloroga Shark Media. There. I’m Johnny Mac with the camera with This show is called I believe this is take three. This is Daily Comedy News. I just recorded the weekly Comedy thing.
That’s the show I host on Slacker and I couldn’t remember where I am Daily Comedy News. Hi, how you guys doing? I could do that again, but that’s no fun. Kathy Griffin is claiming she is banned from Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show. Longtime listeners know, anytime Kathy Griffin’s name comes up on the show, it’s usually something super positive, right, Like Kathy Griffin was wishing everyone a nice day, Kathy Griffin was getting along with everyone, Kathy Griffin smelled some nice flowers.
It’s always something great like that. But she is now claiming she is banned from Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show. Now, before we get into all this, I would ask why would the Tonight Show book Kathy Griffin to begin with? Like, I don’t know, it’s not the biggest comedy star. I don’t think she is a special out right now, So I don’t know why am I banned from the Tonight Show.
Why won’t Jimmy Fallon have me on, that’s my question anyway. Kathy Griffin went on social media’s and explained. Now I have not done the Jimmy Fallon Show since it was on at twelve thirty Eastern and Pacific. So I guess I’m banned from the Fallon Show or inappropriate or too controversial. I don’t even know when you’re banned from a show.
And if you guys know me, I’m banned from most of them. You’re welcome America and Indonesia. They don’t usually tell you your band, they just can’t seem to find room for you. So I do like Jimmy Fallon. I’ve met him a few times and what I used to do is later show.
He was always super nice to me. But I do think it was a bad call for him to have convicted rapist Connor McGregor on the What is he a boxer or like a kickboxer UFC United Fighting Champion. I don’t even know what dead stands for because it just makes me thinkive Joe Rogan and then I get pissed it off. For those reasons, I think the Fallen folks made a miss by having Connor McGregor on. I think it sends yet another message to women and marginalized folks everywhere that were not equal and you can do anything to us, and the perpetrators are still going to be out there being glorified.
And it kind of reminds me of when Fallon had Trump on and then he petted his hair or as I called a bird’s nest. I don’t know. That didn’t sit well with me. I didn’t like when Lauren Michaels had him host SNL. You know when Trump was running.
I believe it was during the campaign. I think it’s it’s time we kind of make up our minds about who we’re going to cancel and who were not. Take it from the most canceled celebrity in history. Look it up, you know, as the kids say, do. Better really quickly.
I wanted to refresh my own memory on the Connor McGregor story. This from RTE dot Ie July thirty first, twenty twenty five. I’ll go quickly here because this is not what we do on this program. But they wrote to Connor McGregor has lost his appeal against a High court juries finding that he raped a woman. The jury at the civil trial found that he raped the woman.
In a hotel room in December twenty eighteen and awarded her just under two hundred and fifty thousand euros and damages. The Court of Appeal rejected mister McGregor’s appeal in its entirety. This week we have the Dueling Office specials. Ricky Gervay’s in the news for that and for his Alley Cats show, and Digital Spy rode to the headline He’s being lazy Now? Has Ricky Gervais lost his magic?
They write? His current output isn’t exactly innovative or impressive. It’s old hat. Currently, Ricky recently tested new material at a special gig in London. It was at the Leicester Square Theater, which holds four hundred fans.
The writer says, I was among the lucky ones who managed to bag a ticket, But the gig wasn’t everything I hoped it would be. It was a conveyor belt of gags designed a shock and a pall. Now, before I even read further, if Ricky was playing a four hundred seat theater, that would make me think he was working out material. No, yes, no, yes, Digital Spy says. Topics include Jimmy Seville, you can look up that story.
Don’t want to go there, Adolf Hitler suicide and the N word quotes a lot of it was funny and well written, and the crowd lapped it up as a stand up gig. Was his success unquote all right, digital spy ass. But was it daring or brave or exciting? No? Was the same stick Ricky’s been doing for years, picking the most shocking topics he can think of and making jokes about them.
That’s what Ricky Gervas does. What do you want him to do?
Meanwhile, stars at the Office, the UK version, have filmed a new documentary…
Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crik are part of that. Ricky Gervais is not. Spokespeople had said that Ricky was unavailable to be part of the BBC shoot. Now let me come in here. Here’s the thing about anniversaries.
They don’t sneak up on you. You know when the twenty fifth anniversary is, it’s now? You know how we know this because The Office came out twenty five years ago. Here write this down, Ricky. The thirtieth anniversary will be in twenty thirty one.
Ricky couldn’t have been too busy because he’s got his own Office documentary coming out on YouTube this week. And he also can’t be all that busy because he celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of the Office with a limited edition vodka release through Dutch Barn, which he of course co owns. Even Jim Gaffigan might have been like, really, dude. Ricky revealed the bottle on Instagram, and he captured he wrote different drinks for different needs. The one lead bottle features an illustrated image of David Brent on the front and contains Dutch Barn Orchard Vodka, which is made from British apples.
The brand tells us that the vodka won a gold medal at the Vodka Master’s twenty twenty four competition. In the Instagram announcement, Ricky said, we made a special bottle to commemorate twenty five years of the Office. The anniversary is actually on nine July. So I mean maybe the BBC only last week, asked Ricky. I doubt he was unavailable for months and months and months and months and months, and just knowing a little bit how the BBC operates, I doubt they rolled out of bed last week and like, oh, we all slap together an office special.
The limited edition vodka bottle is priced at fifty four US dollars. It has a forty percent ABV and we are told Dutchburn’s flavored vodkas, particularly black cherry and jitter spiced key growth drivers for the company.
Speaking of the office, Leslie David Baker, you know him as Stanley from the …
What are the brids call it off? The office at American Workplace? Is that what they call it? We could just call it the office? Who cares?
Because Leslie David Baker aka Stanley has opened up a Honey Baked Ham store in Sherman Oaks. No, it is not April Fool’s Day. It is July seventh. Baker owns the place with a guy named Tony Tony. It’s old patch dot com.
Growing up, Honey Baked was always part of our holiday traditions. It’s a brand that brings people together around great food and meaningful moments. If you want to go, it’s at fourteen four tow seven Ventura. The new location will offer the company’s signature collection of Ham’s turkey slide dishes and more. Cam Patterson was on the Pivot podcast, No, not the one with Karas Wisher, a different one, and Cam was asked about Tony Hinchcliff.
I’ve made some edits here for language with Tony. Many people in our community feel like he went too far with the George Floyd joke at the Kevin Hart Rode. What are your thoughts on that? In being a black man. But also somebody who was around him knows him and it’s really a huge part of why your comedy career took off.
Turning changed my life dog, and I knew like him as a person and his character and stuff. I mean, that’s just his former comedy, you know what I’m saying. That’s just what he liked to talk about. I can’t speak for somebody out what they want to talk about, but I know him. I know he’s not a race.
He chained my whole life. So I can’t see him and be like, oh, he’s a I know the guy. He not a He’s not a racist. That just his former comedy. I think everybody’s former comedy is very different, you know what I’m saying.
I try to be an advocate, especially like for us in white spaces, as best I can. You feel what I’m saying, I’m getting older and I’m figuring out to do that out. I’m figuring how to do that that better. But I mean, it’s a situation where I how I feel about the joke don’t matter because I know his his cad and not even know him as a person. From The New York Post, Hannah Berner has revealed that after getting injections for jaw tension, she woke up to an unpleasant surprise.
She could not smile on TikTok. She said, like joy, laughter is my life. That’s all I care about. We’re going to get through this. Pray for me.
I’ve turned to religion. Stay safe out there in these streets. Berner said she got diceport injections to leave tension for TMJ. The New York Post threw in the treatment is also done to slim the jaw line and decreased teeth grinding. New York Post educates Drownie Mack and says dice boort is a neurotox and like botox, that temporarily blocks nerve signals to the massive muscles used for chewing at the side of the face and jaw line.
This reduces muscle contractions, eliminating chronic tightness and grinding. Over time, it causes the muscle to weekend and shrink. This takes six to eight weeks and results last for up to six months. The New York Post wants us to know, though dice, bort and botox are used to treat TMJ tension, this is an off label use aka not FDA approved. I think they’re trying to say something there, but you know to ask them.
From Threads, Matthew Brissard posted last week, I was on the same flight as Seth Meyers, Colin Jost and Dan Soder, and when we hit turbulence, I thought how much should suck to be a guest spot in my own obituary? Which is really funny. He tagged that with I thought about the outrage at the lack of diversity in this obituary. If you’ve ever been on a flight with famous people, you may have had the same thought. I remember flying to Nashville one time and Elvis Costello was on the flight, and all I could think of was the New York Post putting Elvis Costello two hundred and forty others dead.
As you could tell, we made it there safely, If you need something to listen to otsco At Cotske was on Trevor Noah’s podcast back in April, and I finally got around to it this weekend. Very good listen there. If you were wondering what happened to the sign from Stephen Colbert’s late show, It’s got a new home at Weeho, who is a West Hollywood bistro. In April, Stephen Colbert had listed the sign for auction during a late show home shopping bit featuring guest John Stewart. A guy named Jeff owns weh.
He bought the sign for one hundred and two thousand, one hundred dollars. He had it mounted on the roof of the West Hollywood, California restaurant, The Marquis is twelve feet long, eight feet six inches tall and nine inches deep. On social media, Jeff shared a photo and said thank you Stephen Colbert for all the magic. Bill Board published the May box score report. Nate BERGESSI number one for the second month in a row and ninth time overall for tickets sold.
In May, he grossed nine point three million dollars and sold one hundred nineteen thousand tickets across eleven reported shows. The mega comedian who one time attended a UFC show clearly canceled the rest of your top list. Matt Rife grossed one point six million dollars and sold thirteen thy seven hundred tickets across three shows. In fourth place, we Them One’s comedy tour grossed one point six mill fifteen one hundred tickets. Two shows.
Weird Ow you can see for free at the end of July unless you told your daughter you’d go visit her and you can’t go to the weird Ol concert. He grows to one point eight million dollars twenty eight thousand tickets, five shows. Again, go to Montreal and zee them free on a Saturday. I won’t be there. Jimmy Carr three shows, thirty two thousand, eight hundred tickets gross two point one million, and Maga comedian Aperghetzi once attended a UFC show eleven shows, one hundred, nineteen thousand tickets nine point three million to lead the month.
Speaking of Montreal, seven days Vermont took a look ahead at the Montreal Comedy Festival officially just for last Montreal. Some of the shows they’re excited about are the Nasty Show. This year’s lineup includes ian finance Marito Lopez, Rebecca Reid’s Mattie Smith, and host comedian CP. I’m seeing some buzz on Mattie Smith and having seen her myself, she’s pretty good. Not all the way there yet, but definitely keep an eye on her.
Seven Days. Raman also excited about he did Rivalry, the unauthorized musical parody Stage Reading.
Also on their list Jordan Jensen interesting copy here.
The Ithaca, New York born comic often feels like an alien, and, having been raised by lesbian moms, never understood dressing up with makeup and jewelry. Though not get yourself, Jensen has likely fooled many with her construction worker background and utilitarian energy. You can see her Friday, July twenty fourth, unless you’re off visiting your daughter Ron Funches. I’m not bad about it. I just I was like, oh, yeah, okay, obviously I want to visit my daughter Ron Funches.
Thursday July twenty third, Joel Kim Booster. They’re excited about. They’re twisting the knife and pointing out that weird Al Yankovic Saturday July twenty fifth, nine pm at the Place Day Festivals, Free Show, May Martin taping a Netflix special Sunday, July twenty sixth, and I have to figure out what I’m doing. I keep going back and forth. I might go up for new Faces.
Maybe I go up and see if they’ll credential me for Letterman, and I do the Tuesday Wednesday. Maybe I do my usual Wednesday up and back. Maybe I don’t go at all. I don’t know, but that’s your comedy news for today. You can follow a show on Spotify, turn on notifications so you never miss an episode, and I’ll see you tomorrow