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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. I said, it’s the algorithm loves. I am excited for Just for Laughs, Montreal, twenty twenty six. As soon as I got this press release, I was reaching out to them.
They must have thought I was insane. Like ninety seconds later, they’re getting emails from a crazy person going hey, hey, can we be friends? Can I get some guests? I can’t wait for this. Jerry Seinfeld and weird Al Yankovic are your headliners for Just for Laughs, Montreal, twenty twenty six.
The subheater interesting phrasing. YouTuber Gabriel Fluffay Iglesias, I’m not sure I think of him as a YouTuber, but okay. Train Wreck actor Mike Birbiglia, same note. Otsko at Kotska and Jerry d. Will mc gotala showcases.
The presser tells us Seinfeld first performed at JFL in nineteen eighty five. My French not so good, so I will anglicize everything. Jerry will perform at the play State Arts. I’m sure that’s how it’s pronounced. On July twenty third, weird Al, who first played Montreal JFL in nineteen ninety, will do a solo show for the weird Al Yankovic Bigger and Weirder Tour for free.
That’s right, I said, for free at the outdoor Place de Festivals. That’s amazing. I don’t know how they’re gonna handle the crowd there. That’s good. Like it’s a reasonably big space, but I would imagine a free weird Al concert is going to pack the place.
JFL organizers have also announced the first wave of hosts for twice nightly Galas, including again YouTube star Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias, Mike Beriglia, ots Goold Katska and Jerry d star of Animal Control. Some other folks already announced Jordan Jensen, Ron Funches, Sulton, Kasas, Jack Lenovak, more to come. I’m excited for that. The La Times caught up with Ari Shaffir. The season of The End is out, available for purchase through YMH two.
The End has been called several things over the years. You may know what it’s best known name. This is not happening. The lineup on the new season, Tom Sigora, Ali Sadik, Nate Berghetzi, Tony Hinchcliff, Miss Patch, Shane Gillis, Sam Tallant, Steff Tolev, Jim Brewer, who’s a great storyteller, Robert Kelly, christ To Stefano, Big, Jay Ogress and Jordan Jensen, Joe List, Mark, Norman Duncan, Trussell, Roywood Junior, Jess Reid, Dan Soder, and a bunch of others. The only times was impressed by the room or I Shafer said, this room is called the Box, and it’s a burlesque place where maybe you can call it modern biless because it’s not just feathers.
I don’t know, but I feel like burlesque is evolved and that’s what this place is. It’s kind of crazy. It’s definitely a nightclub. Dave Chapelle used to have these comedian balls, which were so cool because they just invite comics, like all the comics. They’d invite everyone out and pretty much without saying it, it was like talk to each other in trade ideas about the industry.
It was just so cool in there, and we scatted a bunch of places, but look at this place. It was just right. I want to test the sound because we put the stage in a different place. It moves around, and I thought it looked better with all the red. But I want to hear what the sound was like.
And they were not on stage two. Arishfear said, They’re like, oh, the MC will have a cordless and they move around. I watched it was great, but I was so effed up on Molly that I was grinding my tit so hard that I cracked a molar. So yeah, that place rules, okay, buddy. The Only Times is curious about being produced by Ymah Studios.
How that happened? Or Shafer said, Tom Sigorey and I have a relationship. We were openers for Rogan together. We kind of broke together, so we just talk about things. He’s so funny and prolific, and I like talking about things with him.
I had a chance to start doing this show over there, and he was like, come talk to us about it because we’re can to help you. Now. They’ve got a great infrastructure there and a streaming service too, so it’s like they have everything already built in. Tom was like, dude, this show meant a lot to me. We should make it again.
It’s not gonna be a huge money maker for Tom. You know, it’s like pro bona work for lawyers, so it’s really cool of them. Another cool thing is the way the staff kicked in too. They’re all super talented and kind of wasting their time on podcasts because they were more talented than that. But it’s cool to work with a family, and I like the way they really took ownership of the work they did.
The Hollywood Reporter profiled Max and Miani the subheader with the Roan and American War Ronnie an American comedy star. Maximini gets serious. By the time you’re hearing this from me recording it. The war may have ended and restarted seven times, so don’t get mad at me if this is dated material. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Max the day after the President made that ultimatum to Iran.
Max said, the immediate feeling is it’s a huge relief the idea that a whole civilization would die wasn’t coming to pass, so that made him happy. I could understand that. Max was born in Tucson, Arizona, son of Persian parents who immigrated to the States after the nineteen seventy nine Iranian Revolution when he was eight. They returned to Iran until Emani was seventeen. Then they moved to Sokal.
Immediate attended high school and college at UCLA. He said, I’m very Iranian and I’m very American, depending on different situations in life. When it comes to family, I’m very Iranian, dating and lifestyle very American, he told THCHR. Regardless of the politics, it would be extremely excruciating to see bombs dropped on a country that I’m emotionally connected to. We heard the news, we were like, thank God, there’s an opportunity for a different, more effective way of change than taking Iran off planet Earth.
So if you’ve been listening, this guy got on my radar at the end of last year when they were like this guy’s huge, and I’m like, who, And boy, the numbers are there now that you actually study it. John he has the ninth most viewed special of all time on YouTube with seventeen point six million in counting Instagram and YouTube View’s top nine billion, slightly more than I get. And he has twenty seven point eight million total social followers, including seven point four million on his Instagram channel Max Persian, where we performed stand up and fource. In February, he sold out Madison Square Garden. That used to be a thing.
I feel like comedians and this is not I’m not shading Max, but it used to be like, oh, a comedian sold out MSG, and like I feel like there’s like seven of those a year now. The comedy industry has just gotten so huge getting political, Max said, the regime’s thing. It’s very sad. God knows how many more years it’ll take to rebuild all these military defense systems. The ideology is the issue.
In Iran. You live with a very dark, very extreme mentality. It’s a very religious mentality. Nothing gets religion, but my personal belief is that it is not a way to governor nation. The young people of Iran need to discover who the artist, cover art, discover humanity, and I have the chance to make mistakes to find what the right path is for them.
When you say freedom here, some Americans reply sarcastically. Freedom what freedom? We should never take it for granted. For example, a gay person could never have remotely a life in the Middle East. I don’t take any day of my life here for granted, not necessarily because of comparisons to Iran.
I travel the world, and I still find America very very special. No matter what a lot of people think, the opportunity to work hard and live with your family in a decent environment is still available and a blessing. Vanity Fair tells us Pete Davidson is over fame, socks or his exit strategy. That’s right, Pete Davidson getting into socks. Pete Davidson tells Vanity Fair, no one gives an f about movies or television or any of that stuff.
People just know I’m famous. They don’t know that they do stand up or I’m an actor. Vanity Fair thinks Pete is quite dissillusioned with show business. Pete said, I’ve done everything I possibly can on my end, which means not having social media, barely going out. I don’t even know what a cool place is because I haven’t been to any of them.
So he got involved with the socks company, Double Soul. I’ll give them a plug, Pete said, I thought, but they were really cool and comfortable. One of the socks people said, we were like, wait a second, are those our socks? We were cheering. We made it as a brand.
We literally bombed him with socks. Then Pete reached out to them. He’s since become an equity partner and creative director at the SoC company. Socks executive says, if you look at the socks base and compared to any other category you think of makeup, clothing, shoes, there’s a brand for everyone in every microdemographic. Socks were like this really weird category where someone was in a fashion and style.
I was buying like under armour socks, which I’m probably wearing right now. Then this article from Vanity Fair turns into like socks propaganda and that’s not why we’re here. Where’s the Pete Davison stuff. Pete says, I don’t want to be doing this show business forever. It’s exhausting to be in the public eye all the time, mentally draining, and it occupies a lot of time and travel.
I’ve done research and most people will make their bank, have a drink or a soccer team. They always other things. I’m trying to find my thing. Socks are a necessity. Congratulations to Sarah Silverman, winner of Combody Survivor.
Sarah Silverman beat runner up Nikki Glaser in a landslide. It was a lot of fun, thanks for playing along. Coming up on Thursday, it is the twenty twenty six comedian draft. What’s that? John Well?
John needed a pretape an episode this week, and Thursday is the day of the NFL drafts. I’m like, all right, let me go with the AI. And I had the AI form five teams with different mindsets like Team Industry and Team Alt team Chaos, and then each team has five comedians on the team. And I had the AI draft and I’m your host and I comment on the lineups, and it came out really well. A lot of production for Johnny Mac, you know, music beds and crowd sound effects.
And I was like, why’d you do this idea? You could have just read some articles they wouldn’t have known. You could have just pretended it was Thursday. But Thursday is the twenty twenty six comedia drafts. That actually came out really fun.
Did you catch this? Last week? The Sesame Street social media accounts posted a thing with romy Yusef and Elmo. Rommy appears on Sesame Street part of Arab American Heritage Month, joining Elmo for short segment celebrating Arabic language and culture. The clip is forty one seconds long and features Rami Yusef introducing a few commonly used Arabic words in a child friendly way to Ilmo.
Santa monicum everyone, I’m Ramy Yusef. Oh it, Elma’s here, mister Ramy. What is salama? Melkam? Well?
Salam means peace and it’s a way to say hello in Arabic. Oh come Solama laka every battle. Elma and I are here to wish all of you a happy Arab American Heritage Month. Happy Arab American Heritage Month. I’m so proud of my Arab heritage and I’m so happy to share this month with my fellow Arabs and Alma, so thanks, hibib I will.
Let you read the comments for yourself.
Meanwhile, Brian Video has announced a Halloween version of Last One Laughing.
Now. Normally these are six episodes. The Halloween special will be one episode. We lock a bunch of comedians in a room. Jimmy Carr’s the host.
If you laugh, you’re out. Well, for the Halloween special, you’re out if you laugh, and you’re out of if you scream. Speculation as the producers have some scares up their sleeves. The teaser Last One Laughing UK returns well the Halloween Special, but with a major twist hmmm from my san Antonio’s. Some fans of the Killers of kil Tony were upset.
You see, the fans of the Killers of kil Tony went to the Majestic Theater to see The Killers of kill Tony on April eleventh, but apparently some of the fans who purchased their tickets through stub Hub were turned away or issued refunds. One Facebook user Eric said, We’re supposed to be there drinking, have a great time, but unfortunately we got screwed by stub Hub along with a bunch of other people. Eric suggested do not buy tickets from stub Hub. Others said they told us to come back from the nine thirty show, but we weren’t doing that. After thirty minutes on the phone, they switched our tickets luckily and upgraded our tickets to the Lower Orchestra for free.
Killers of kill Tony is a stand up comedy tour. The Majestics said. This particular lineup included Ari, Matty Hans Kim, David Lucas, and Martin Phillips. One person on Facebook said Tony Hinchcliff himself showed up as surprise guest. My san Antonio said it’s unclear what caused the ticket mishaps with this particular show.
My san Antonio says they reached out to the Majestic and stub Hub, but did not hear back at the time of their publication, nor by the time of this recording. Apparently, that is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.