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Caloroga Shark Media. Twitter, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. True to his words, Gianmarco Soresi Sarasi posted the State of the Industry speech that he did with Jaye Jorden up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. I did share it in the Facebook group, and no, no, I didn’t share in the Facebook group. I went to share it in the Facebook group and then Dylan, one of the power users in the group, had beat me to the punch by two minutes, and I was like, ah, I mean, it doesn’t really matter.
The idea is for everybody to get to see the clip. Well played, Dylan. Anyway, let’s listen to the section about Tony Hinchcliff, shall we just you know, we. Got a lot of Tony jokes. We have more than he’s ever written.
Actually, I mean, but look, everyone’s seen kill Tony, but nobody has ever seen Tony kill. Tony Hinchecliff impressively had the worst Netflix special I’ve ever seen since the last Tony Hinchcliff special. Did he film the new one? In my treol because it had just four laughs.
Also, also, ladies, if you want to see Tony deliver a punch, of actually land…
Him, allegedly. Allegedly, yes, yes, yes, yeah. I don’t love the guy, but his show’s made a real difference because, unlike the industry, kill Tony provides disabled comedians with some kind of ramp. It’s true, It’s true. Kill Tony is giving a lot of opportunities to physically disabled comedians who want mentally disabled fans.
Get in famous from kill Tony. Sort of a monkey’s Paul gift, and a monkey’s Paul is what Tony Hinchlip calls black people’s hands. Look, you can’t deny it. Kill Tony is crushing. It’s because they do what agents and managers can’t do.
They get people seen. You guys can’t get Brian Reagan another comedy special, while kill Tony turns homeless people into household names. Now, I want to take a minute here to get like kind of this has been bothering me. I’m actually recording this on Thursday because I wanted to take the long weekend in a summer Friday. But I cannot stop staring at the list of comedians booked for September tenth at Madison Square Garden.
This is New York City still rising the nine to eleven benefit John Stewart behind this. No one can possibly question John Stewart when it comes to nine to eleven. And I don’t came here to shade anybody involved here, but I keep staring at this guest list and something about it is jumping out at me. I talked about this a little bit on Friday. I shared a post about it in the Facebook group.
And I’m really struggling with this guest list now. Just about me. I was born in New York City, raised in Queens. On nine to eleven, two thousand and one, I was thirty two years old. I was a WR radio in New York City in Manhattan fortieth Street and Broadway.
Don’t want to make it sound like I was across the street from the World Trade Center. However, we had a big bay window, and back in those days you could see all the way downtown to the Twin Towers. And I watched the things on fire with my own eyes, and I saw the first tower fall with mine own eyes. Looking out the window for the second tower, I was actually giving somebody a break to run the board for a few minutes so they could hit the bathroom because they had been on the board for four hours. So that is my perspective, that is my bias, that is my background.
I’m a New Yorker and I keep staring at this guest list and it just seems mathematically odd. I don’t think anybody’s up to something. It just seems odd. Here’s the guest list again as e’sn Sorry who last year played the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Bill Burr, who last year played the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Dave Chappelle, same note, Ronny Chieng, same note.
Pete Davidson, whose father was Scott was killed on nine to eleven, also played the Redd Comedy Festival. Comedians also announced too didn’t play the festival, Nikki Glaser, Josh Johnson, John Stewart, plus special guests. And I keep looking at the list and I’m like, huh, of all the comedians in the world, the first five played that comedy festival in Saudi Arabia last year. I don’t even know what I’m trying to say. I just keep staring at it and I’m like, it’s weird.
It’s just weird.
And then I think about what this event might be.
Is Ronny Chieng supposed to go out and do ten minutes about the Saudis. But I guess he wouldn’t now because he got a nice paycheck last year, and maybe they have another festival and he wants to go back. I don’t know. Ask Ronny Chieng asked, Bill Burr, asked Dave Chappelle, Ask cause he’s in Sorry, is Dave Chappelle gonna pull a punch? I’m gonna ask the question now.
Dave can go up and do ten minutes about the Saudis. He did ten minutes about the Saudis in Saudi Arabia. I don’t know. I don’t even know what I’m trying to say here. I’m just saying I keep staring at as He’sn’m sorry, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Ronny Chieng, Pete Davidson.
They just happen to be the first five names by alphabetical order if you sort by their last name. But it’s just odd to me that of all the comedians in the world, it’s those five. I thought of some other people who you know, might be good at such a thing. John Mulaney, Well, I looked. John Mulaney has another gig already booked on September tenth, So that makes it Jim Gaffigan not here to Shaye.
Jim Gaffigan just he’s a comedian that came to mind. He seems to have an open date. He has a date in Notre Dame on September eleventh. Let’s see what Shane Gillis is up to. Not a New Yorker, but you know, a comedian of notes these days.
The only date on Shane’s calendar right now is August eighth. I look at the event they had five years ago, David Tell, David Tell seems like somebody you might want to have it, this thing this time. David Tell has a date in Bangor Main on August twenty second, and his website is showing me he’s free until September eighteenth, when he will be in Des Moines. Maybe David Tel comes, Maybe he will come. Maybe they just didn’t book him yet.
From the event five years ago, it was also Ronny Chieng, Pete Davidson, Jimmy Fallon, Colin Jost Laney, j Farrow, Colin Quinn, Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer likes media attention. Why is it Amy Schumer at this one? Amy Schumer doesn’t seem to have anything booked right now. This seems like an event. Amy Schumer come out again.
Lineup will evolve not saying anybody’s up to anything. All really saying is I’m staring at the names and those first five all played Riyadh and it’s just weird. It’s a weird coincidence. It’s a weird statistical coincidence, and I don’t know what it means, but it’s bothering me. And that’s all.
I just needed to get that out of my system today. You can come at in the Facebook group. We’re on Spotify. Tell me I’m making much ado about nothing. That’s why I started the Facebook thread.
I wanted to see if like, maybe I’m just crazy, but I’m just I’m being honest here. This list is bothering me. I’m not even sure why it’s bothering me, but it’s bothered me. Let’s move on, sort of. Patricia Heaton, you may know her from Everybody Loves Raymond, among other things, she has back to petition organized by families of nine to eleven victims.
The petition has recorded at least forty five thousand signatures as of last Wednesday. Patricia Heaton has joined families of the victims in calling for the Mayor of New York City, Zoroon Mamdani, not to attend the twenty fifth anniversary at Ground Zero. In fact, using the term band she reposted the change dot org petition link on her social media and wrote, keep it going, New Yorkers. If you’re not familiar with the mayor, he is the one hundred and twelfth mayor of New York City since twenty twenty six. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
That makes him a controversial figure. He is New York City’s first Muslim mayor. He was born in Uganda and moved to New York City at seven years old. Like many political figures, he is quite polarizing. We’ll see how this all shakes out.
I apologize to you. I have to play a clip of Rosie O’Donnell singing. I know you’re like John, Please please don’t do that to us, but I must. It’s the only way to make this next segment of the show work. You have to sit through this.
Here is Rosy O’Donnell singing about the President of the United States. His approval raid is thirty. His diapers always dirty. I think the guy’s insane. Doaa Nanna, he ain’t no stable.
Jeney’s got a teeny tiny but he doesn’t have a brain. The reflecting pool is green. His reasons were ubscene. It’s him we all do blame. Dona Nanna.
He grew a magic ear stole billions in a year cause he doesn’t have a brain. I did clip it there. I couldn’t take any more. Podcaster Ben Shapiro commented on that video and said, Rosie O’Donnell, she was in Ireland, then she came back, which is unfortunate. Well, now she’s decided that we all need to hear her rewritings of the lyrics to the Wizard of Oz.
I had to hear it. That means you also had to hear it, and Johnny Max says the same thing. I needed you to hear it. John is the show gonna be any fun at all today? Yes?
It is. Bruce Hills. Remember that guy from Just for Laughs? He got the Just for Laughs Legacy Award. I think it was.
He used to run programming up there and they parted ways during the financial difficulties with the old regime. If I remember correctly, great guy anyway, the Just for Laughs in a New Regime made a video. Bruce Hill shared it on his LinkedIn page. I will share the first minute or so of it. Here’s Ronnie Ching.
Thank you to Just for Las for giving this fake award to Bruce Hills. Over the last few decades, Bruce Hills has helped discover generations of comedians at Just for Lass. He then uses that leverage to emotionally blackmail us, holding it over our heads, forcing us to perform at Just for Las for below market rate, no matter how inconvenient it is to all personal schedules. And with this thank you video, I consider my blood debt to you finally paid in full. Thank you, Bruce Hills.
Comedy Central announced a three episode podcast called thirty fing Years. The daily show remembers out today. The podcast brings together Jordan Clipper or Desiliitik Ronny Chieng mentioned for the third time on Today’s podcast, Michael Costa, Josh Johnson, Grace cool Andschmidt, and Troy Awana to visit favorite moments from the Late Night franchises first three decades. Did did they not get John to do anything? Did Trevor not want to do anything?
Did Creik kilbourd not want to do anything. I mean, we all love the B team, but there’s some big names missing here. According to Comedy Central, other group, we’ll look back at unforgettable moments, iconic field pieces, and legendary correspondence who helped define the show across its many eras did the thirtieth anniversary sneak up on you guys, because I’m sure if in the last seven years he had asked, say, Steve Carell or Stephen Colbert, Hey, we’re going to do this thing for the thirtieth, can you give me like a minute over zoom, I’m sure they would have said, yes, my guest, having done this for three decades plus, is somebody like last week was like, you know, we ought to do something for the thirtieth. I’bout a podcast. Okay, Now John’s on vacation.
He doesn’t want to do it. Is Trevor around, Well we can’t if Trevor we want have John? Yeah, a good point. So anybody have Carrel’s number, Well, we can’t have Correl if we don’t have John. And are we going to ask John Oliver?
And now we can’t ask John Oliver. He’s over with the HBO.
All right, let’s just do the B team something like that happened.
We are feisty today, Johnny Mac. I know I’m in a good mood, but I’m telling you, I keep staring at that nine to eleven concert and it’s weird. It’s just weird. Richard Pryce may soon be getting a film now. We’ve heard various versions of a Richard Pryor biopic over the years.
Currently, Latigo Films and Inaugural Entertainment have acquired the rights to Something We Said Colin Richard Pryor a notorious word in Me, a Simon and Schuster memoir from Richard Pryor’s daughter, Elizabeth Struder Prior, we were told Something We Said chronicles Elizabeth’s decades long journey of coming to know her father, navigating the complicated terrain between a man who stood alone with the pinnacle of American comedy and the father he struggled to be. But the producers said, Richard Pryor courageously broke barriers that would forever change the comedy world and took it to new levels. We then saw that translated to the big screen, with one box office hit after another, establishing Prior as the biggest comedy star of the seventies and eighties. Hmm, should we pick that apart gut reaction seventies? Okay, sure, I won’t fight you.
Eighties. I don’t know. I’d have to look at his work. Shall we look at his work? Sure?
I’m on IMDb? Okay? Nineteen eighty Holy Moses, he played Pharaoh nineteen eighty In God We Trust nineteen eighty, Stir Crazy nineteen eighty one, Bust and Loose nineteen eighty two, Some Kind of Hero nineteen eighty two, The Toy Okay, The Toy nineteen eighty three, Superman three, which is awful. Thirteen episodes of The Prior’s Place TV Show in eighty four, Brewsters millions, not a beloved one, Jojo Dancy, Your Life is Calling in eighty six, Critical Condition in eighty seven, Moving in eighty eight, See No Evil Here, No Evil in eighty nine, Harlem Knights in eighty nine, Which might be a quick time to make a case for Eddie Murphy being the comedy star of the eighties. Look at his movies, putting Aside, Saturday Night Live and The Two Great Comedy Specials nineteen eighty two, forty eight Hours, nineteen eighty three, Trading Places eighty four, Best Defense eighty four, Beverly Hills Cop.
All Right, I already played forty eight hours. Trading Place is Beverly Hills Cop against Richard Pryor’s eighties work Golden Child Cop two Coming to America and Harlem Knights. I digress but again, Richard Pryor on any comedian listening, make either number one or number two comedy star of the seventies, sure eighties. I don’t know anyway. If they make a Richard Pryor movie, I will watch it.
What was the thing that starred Andrew Santino? John you host the show you’re supposed to tell us? It was the cable show about the comedians in the seventies. They had somebody play Richard Pryor on that he was really good. What was that called I’m Dying up Here?
Santino played Bill Hobbs. If you haven’t seen that show, find it somewhere. Let me see if I can find a few on just watch. I’m Dying up Here explores the la stand up scenes circa in nineteen seventy three. I thought it was great.
Johnny Mac, You’re all over the place today I know Today on Gorilla Comedy Plus Connor Burns Gallas.
Also congratulations to Joanne McNally.
She’ll get a Netflix as special in twenty twenty seven her debut hour long special. It is called Pino File. The first time I read that as Pinto file. Who would be someone afraid of a Ford car in the seventies that might explode? That’s not what this is.
This is Pino File, and in it, Joanne McNally delivers stories on modern dating, covering everything from rejection and frenemies to situations and revenge fantasies. They’re going to tape it in town Hall, New York City as part of the New York Comedy Festival on Saturday, November seven. Her new show Penal File, comes following her previous tour, in which she played a record breaking seventy eight show run in Dublin. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.