Dane Cook’s ‘Funny Money’ Trailer, SNL Season 52 Casting Buzz & Kathy Griffin-Rosie O’Donnell Drama

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Featured: Dane Cook, Darryl McCauley, Chloe Fineman, Seth Meyers, Kathy Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s ‘Funny Money’ movie about brother’s $12 million theft
• SNL Season 52 casting showcases and emerging talent
• Lack of Black female representation on SNL post-Ego Nwodim
• Seth Meyers launching podcast during summer hiatus
• Darryl McCauley’s embezzlement case and prison sentence

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deane Cook movie coming out the headline all over the place. Dane Cook’s brother Darryl stole millions from him, hid cash in spaghetti sauce, and disappeared.

This was an exclusive from People, which is everywhere. Now there’s a trailer for the Dane Cook movie. Maybe we’ll just play that. It’s a little long, but I find it really compelling. It’s your owner.

I could hurt important SPI canvolved with something. What happened? What have you died? A person that spent so much time pretending to be something he wasn’t. From the moment he left that bank, my brother disappeared.

He was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. I was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. These people are fearless. I want to be fearless. Darryl was a major factor.

He became a corrections officer, enjoying your time here on the beach. There very much that time. It’s almost times money. Once he started going platinum, everything changed. He was like a rock star.

Daryl and I looked at each other and said, we’re in for a hell of a ride. He would handle every aspect of every penny that came in. Initially withdrolls for twenty thousand dollars, hecame withdrolls of fifty thousand dollars, wires of one hundred thousand dollars. I was starting to feel something that I couldn’t really identify with was he hiding it in different places? Stockpiling this money?

Darryl was traveling across the country. My pursuit would be to put his brother in jail. Done swung the door open, and piles upon piles of cash. I’m like, this is not normal. The last time I had seen it, there wasn’t nearly as much money in there.

The police officers, they believe that you were communicating with Daryl with coded messages. There were bricks of hundreds in all the spaghetti sauce and. The pasta sauce. Of course, where else would you put the money? This is blowing my mind.

Dude, Darrel’s a go getting was the point to just bury me alive? He seemed to disassociate himself from the whole thing. There was a good part of him somewhere that I grew up with. I do believe that there’s money out there. I believe there’s people that know more.

Where is he? What has he done? How does this end? Funny money? The Dane Cook Story will be available on streaming September twenty ninth.

People, writes. McCauley, who was Cook’s business manager from the nineties through two thousand and eight, handled every penny of Cook’s wealth, but paper trails showed he was withdrawing huge amounts, up to one hundred grand at a time, from his brother’s account. Dane said he began to feel something I couldn’t identify. By the way, are we learning here that Dane Cook’s name isn’t Dane Cook and it’s Dane McCauley. John, you have Google?

Why don’t you tell us you host the show? Okay? I will okay? I googled is Dane Cook his real name? And the Internet said yes.

And then I was like, huh, so why is his brother McCauley. So I asked chat GPT. Now this is a lot of fun. I typed in, is Dane Cook his real name? The AI said yes, Dane Cook is his real name.

His full name is Dane Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So, unlike a lot of comedians, Dane Cook isn’t a stage name. So I asked, so, then, why is his brother McCauley And the CHAT said no, No, pay attention. The CHAT said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name, to which I went, huh. Dane’s brother is Daryl McCauley, full name Daryl McCauley Cook.

He generally went professionally by name as Daryl McCauley, using his middle name as his surname. And that read my hogwash detector. The AI is that right? And the AI said, no, you caught me. It actually says, no, you caught me.

My previous answer was wrong. I checked it. Well, well, why didn’t you just give me the right answer the first time? AI? So the AI is now sourcing Boston Magazine.

Take this with a grain of salt. I don’t doubt Boston Magazine, but I do doubt this AI. Dean Cook is Dean Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Daryl McCauley. Reliable contemporary coverage says the AI consistently identifies him as Darryl McCauley, not Daryl McCauley Cook.

You see, they’re half brothers. They shared a mother, Donna Jane Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. But we digress because we have to talk about the movie Funny Money The Deane Cook Story, People tells us. McCauley, a former corrections officer, was ultimately arrested in two thousand and eight and charged with stealing twelve million dollars from Cook while acting as his business manager. Just curious and I’m trying to stay out of prison.

I wonder how that went for a former corrections officer. I don’t think I I want to know. McCauley pleaded guilty to larceny, embezzlement, and forgery and twenty ten says People, and was sentenced to five to six years in prison. He was also ordered to repay the twelve million dollars to Cook. His wife, Erica, was sentenced to two and a half years in connection to McCauley’s crimes.

Funny Money The Dane Cook Story On VOD September twenty ninth, Deadline apparently had some spies that the possible casting for Saturday Night Live season fifty two. SNL season fifty two had showcases across three cities. Deadline says those names are beginning to come in. Trenton, Mason, Inside Out, Bella, Osage, Hope, I got your name right. Deadline heard they generated buzz at their showcases.

They’re said to be on the list. Other names Deadline has heard include Claire Riffle, Grace Ryder, Devin Bachrath, Olivia Puckett, Ismael Lufti, Rachel Coster, Russelli Daniels, and Anna Fabrega. Reps from SNL did not return request for comment to Deadline. All we know about season fifty two at the time of this recording is that Chloe Feineman will not be back. I will still be stunned if Cam Patterson is part of the cast, Deadline tells us.

As his customary staffers hit three big markets, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. There was the character’s showcase in LA on August sixth. Chicago’s showcases were at the Annoyance Theater in the Io Theater on August tenth and eleventh, and on August seventeenth and eighteenth. There were showcases at New York’s UCB more standouts. Names that emerge from LA included Trenton Mason, Cabba, Hughes, Chase Rosenberg, and April Rock.

In Chicago, Peyton Reddy, who was one of the twenty twenty six Just for Laughs New Phases quote dominated in Chicago, Deadline says everyone in New York was raving quote unquote about Joey Welsh. Other New York talents that did well Alicia Edwards, Amber Singletary, and saida Bello Osagi. Deadline points out that Hughes, Rock, Edwards, Singletary, and Belo Osagi are all female performers of color. You may recall the people have been observing a lack of black female representation since Ego Nuotum departed after the twenty twenty five season. Deadline and says next up in the casting process are screen tests.

Keep your posting on that. Seth Myers, he’s off for seven weeks and for some reason, has launched a podcast. Yeah. Seth and Salgentille, who writes the popular A Closer Look segment, have teamed up during the hiatus to launch a video podcast called A Closer Lookout of Office to tackle the stories they’ve missed while they’ve been off. So my Caddy comments about Late Night with Seth Meyers aside, that’s pretty interesting, right that they are trying to get this stuff out there.

That suggests Seth didn’t want a seven week vacation. That makes me think even more that this is a bit of a budget thing. So this whole summer thing is interesting. Seth was off from June eighteenth to July thirteenth, did two weeks and then another seven week break. So that’s what nine ten eleven.

That’s like off eleven out of thirteen weeks. That sounds like a budget cut. Seth Myers joked, we had to cancel a family vacation. We were going to take the kids to the Straight Offore Moves and then the travel agent finally said, I just wouldn’t risk it. Obviously, you want to bring the kids when it’s open, you know.

Fo Seth enjoys YouTube and it’s super successful because then we can move him off twelve thirty. He can just be a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming and make twelve thirty grade again. Jay Leno used to have a late night show was called The Tonight show with Jay Leno. He recently was presented with the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six Burbank International Film Festivals Gallas ceremony. The original plan called for dinner followed by an hour long career retrospective with Jay Leno, but they moved everything around.

They put the stuff about Jay Leno at the beginning of the night. Here’s why. Jay asked for them to change it so he could leave so we could do a seven thirty set at Flappers. That sounds like a bit but no. Jay Leto had a seven thirty pm set at Flapper’s Comedy Club in downtown Burbank, so he asked the awards people, Hey, could you move it around?

So before the salad was served at the Marriott, jay Leno recorded the podcast, accepted his award and thank the crowd, and headed to Flappers. Oh my god, that’s fun. More Jay Leno news. Jay was granted a conservator ship for the estate of his seventy nine year old wife, Mavis. Jay, who had been granted a conservator ship over the estate of wife Mavis in twenty twenty four, is seeking to register said conservatorship in New Hampshire, so he can sell community property real estate there.

As you may know, Mavis has advanced Alzheimer’s disease that sometimes leaves her unaware of her birth date or who she’s even married to. Court papers fought on August fifth do not state what kind of real estate the couple own in New Hampshire or what part of the state. Jay was born in Massachusetts. He also owns real estate in Rhode Island. Anyway, for all the bits about Jay Leno being the worst guy who ever lived, seems like a pretty good guy to me.

Kathy Griffin. If you’re a longtime a listener to this program, you know anytime Kathy Griffin gets mentioned, it’s always something happy and good, like Kathy Griffin was petting a Golden Retriever puppy, or Kathy Griffin was smelling some flowers and said, what a beautiful day. It’s great to be alive. So it surprises me that she’s involved in a beef. Right.

Kathy said she’s really hurt that she wasn’t invited to appear on Rosie O’Donnell’s week guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show. Kathy, Kathy, listen to me even you self described as a Dalist celebrity. You had a show with d list in the title. Let’s see who Rosie even had on this from Interbridge dot com. Here’s the lineup for last week when Rosi o’donald guest hosted.

Monday, Hannah Wadding, m Ted Lasso, Sure and a guest ire The Linda Linda’s Bella Brown Tuesday, Gen Smart, Richard Gad Bella Brown again. Wednesday, Charlie Day, Yeah, it’s always Sunday it was out Janelle James, Ashley McBride, Thursday, Nick Offerman and Megan Malaly. Friday was a repeat. I mean, who do you want us to bump? Kathy Griffin on her podcast which is called Talk Your Head Off, Kathy Griffin said, I’m gonna be honest today.

I might cry. I’m asking for your pity. I love a good pity cry. I’m gonna be open and honest and hope you understand. And I’m trying to talk about something bigger than TV talk shows.

But you know, I talk a lot about Hollywood and I give you the inside scoop, et cetera. But this one’s really personal. I’m just gonna come out and say it are you ready. It’s embarrassing to say, but I have to tell you, guys, because we’re friends. My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited to go on Rosie’s Week with the Jimmy Kimmels Show.

Good pals. We’re like sisters, and everyone knows sisters fight. Sisters and brothers fight, best friends fight, relatives, coworkers fight, and we’re not even fighting. I don’t think I’ve ever had a fight with my best friend. I can’t recall one.

If we had one, it’s been a minute. I’m sure he’d have me on his show. Cathy said, I’m just being honest that when I found out that Rosie was gonna take over for the full week from my beloved Jimmy Kimmel, I love that, he said to the camera, and I’m doing it as a special treat to Donald Trump, and I thought, oh, fantastic. He’s leaning into it and his viewers are honestly leaning more to the left. Kathy then brought up her infamous photo from twenty seventeen.

I don’t need a visit from guys with sunglasses. Just google Kathy Griffin photo. It’ll come up. Kathy said, instead, in my own community of Hollywood of stand up comedy were you’re supposed to be edgy, You’re supposed to make political statements as well as be funny. My opinion, that’s what the greats do, That’s who the greats I admired did.

Did not go that way for me. Initially, Griffin said o’donald had made comments that were not supportive of said photo. On a recent podcast, The Upset Kathy Griffin, Kathy said, I mean, think about it. You’ve got these two women who shared this very unique thing in common, and well, what happened to me was much more extreme than what happened to Rosie. It’s pretty unusual that you’ve got these two women that have been so outspoken about Well, he wasn’t the president when she talked about him on the view, but he was the president when I talked about him.

And as I have spoken about before, most of Hollywood turned on me. Overnight. Rosie O’Donnell jumped on Kathy Griffin’s Instagram, posted the video and wrote, Kathy should have called me, honey, I didn’t choose the guests right out. Today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla Gorilla Comedy Plus channel Beloved English actress and comedian Carry Goldman brings her critically acclaimed stand up comedy special Bandwidth to a wider audience with Gorilla Comedy Plus. Known for her regular appearances on TV shows like Mack of the Week and task Master, He’s also on Allie Kats with Ricky Gervais.

Carry Goldman is noted as one of the most celebrated performers in the UK. Carrie said, I had a total blast filming the special and I’m excited to share my stand up with the wider audience. I do hope you love it, or at least they’re sufficiently amused by it, but love would be preferable. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it was the Cheese It Cheesiest Joke Award, award celebrates cheesy jokes. I love it.

Following more than one hundred and thirty entries, English stand up Phil Milton, Phil spells his first name fil Phil Milton emerged victorious and won the prize of one thousand British pounds with the following gag told much better by Phil Milton then I’ll tell it here, But the line is my brother convinced me to go on halves on a used funeral car. I can’t believe I was so easily coherst. That is terrible. It’s cheesy. Phil Milton said of winning, it’s a massive treat as a relatively new comedian doing my first show with the Fringe, having this award really helps get the word out about me and my show.

It’s really important to highlight individual jokes too. Sometimes a little one liner can get overlood or dismissed as a dad joke. They take a lot of effort and I’m really pleased Cheesse it have done it. He won from a public vote. There was a shortlist of five cheesy jokes.

Other finalists included this one from Martin Byrne told better by mister Burne. Give him man of Fish, He’ll lead for a day, teach a man OFFICI and will probably start a pod asked about fishing. We also had one from Carlin. No, not George Carlin, Brucken, Tiazac Carlin. This Carlin said, I’m looking for a new job.

I walked past a mirror shop the other day and thought, oh, I could see myself working there. I like that one. I would have voted for that one. Ruy frios Uk senior marketing manager Cheese had said, We’ve always celebrated not taking life too seriously and the inner cheesiness of everyone, so creating an award dedicated to the cheesiest jokes at the fringe felt like the perfect fit. The Trick comedy news for today right back at three o’clock with a casual short video in a normal episode in the morning See Then

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