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Featured: Dane Cook, Daryl McCauley Cook, Seth Meyers, Chris Fleming, Jay Leno, Weird Al Yankovic, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien
What’s in This Episode
- Dane Cook’s brother Daryl McCauley’s name confusion
- Seth Meyers taking seven weeks off and launching video podcast
- Jay Leno’s Vanguard Award and scheduling a comedy gig during the ceremony dinner
- Weird Al Yankovic’s NPR Tiny Desk concert performance
Questions Answered in This Episode
What is Dane Cook’s brother’s real name?
Dane Cook’s older half-brother’s full name is Daryl McCauley Cook. He goes professionally by Daryl McCauley, using his middle name as his surname. They have different fathers but share the same mother, Donna Jean Ford.
Why is Seth Meyers taking time off from Late Night?
Seth Meyers is taking a seven-week break from his show. During this time, he has launched a video podcast featuring his ‘A Closer Look’ segment on YouTube.
Did Jay Leno skip his award dinner?
Jay Leno received the Vanguard Award at the 2026 Burbank International Film Festival but asked to have the presentation before dinner instead of after, because he had a comedy gig at Flappers comedy club at 7:30 PM that evening.
When did Weird Al perform at NPR Tiny Desk?
Weird Al Yankovic performed at the NPR Tiny Desk concert in 2010, featuring songs including a Backstreet Boys parody and ‘The Saga Begins,’ his Star Wars parody from American Pie.
Does Johnny Mac want Seth Meyers replaced on Late Night?
Johnny Mac has expressed that he wants Chris Fleming to host the 12:30 AM Late Night slot on NBC instead of Seth Meyers, as part of his campaign to ‘Make 12:30 Great Again.’
Full Transcript
This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.
This, friends, is why we do the show cool Side when we can, because sometimes it rains. I’m in a silly mood today. So I was putting together the regular audio show. I was doing the Dane Cook story and I noticed, like, his brother’s name is Daryl McCauley, and I was wondering, Hm, why is Dane Cook’s brother’s name McCaulay. I’m like, Dane Cook.
That sounds like a stage name, like Johnny Mac. Like maybe Dane is using a fake name. It show business. That works, So I asked Ai, Now this is where it gets fun. So AI says, yes, Dane Cook is his real name.
His full name is Dame Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth, nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okay, fair enough, So I said, why is his brother McCauley And AI said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name. Huh, his name’s Daryl McCauley. So I asked, hey, hey, hi, and it said no, his full name is Daryl McCauley Cook. He went professionally by Daryl McCaulay, using his middle name as his surname.
And I went yeah, because that doesn’t make sense. Damee Cook’s name is Dane Cook, but Darryl Cook is going by Daryl McCauley. Why so I question that, I asked the AI. Is that right? Yeah?
I said, no, you Coby. This is a verbatim from the AI. No, you Coby. My previous answer was wrong. I checked it.
Why did you tell me that Deane Cook is Dan Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Darryl McCauley, oh icee, And then the I explained they have different fathers, oh Ice. They shared a mother, Donna Jean Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. Now, regular listeners to the audio podcast know that I want to make twelve thirty great again. The President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one issue we agree on is that twelve thirty could be better.
And in the great tradition of David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, I want twelve thirty on NBCD be hosted by Chris Fleming and not Seth Myers. Seth Myers is currently taking seven weeks off from his show, which isn’t insanely a long amount of time, and apparently Seth agrees because he has started a podcast. It’s a video podcast of the A Closer Look segment and you’ll find that on YouTube. I hope it takes off and Seth Myers becomes a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming. Funny Jay Leno story.
The guy likes to work, so he was given the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six at Burbank International Film Festival thingy. The plan was, okay, we’ll have a dinner for Jay Leno, and as one does it, at dinner, you eat dinner, and then we’ll do an hour presentation of Jay Leno’s career.
And then Jay said, hey, guys, I got a gig at seven thirty.
Could we do the presentation first, then the dinner. So Jay got his award and then they had salad and dinner afterwards. And this is true because Jay was doing a seven thirty show at Flappers, which just that Jay had a show at Flappers sounds like a Jay Lettle joke, but that’s an actual club in Burbank, I think, so, I hope you enjoyed your salad, and I gotta check this out. Weird that was on the NPR Tiny Desk podcast. When I saw it, I thought this was old news because he had been on in Let me check my notes here.
Oh the rain is really coming down.
Now, let’s see what’s going on.
Did you hear that in Acorn? Just hit my umbrella? Here Weird Owls on NPR, and there’s Augusted Wind. This is fun weird als on. I love this.
I’m so distracted right now. Let me shut the laptop before this stupid bit costs me two thousand dollars at a new MacBook. Weird Owls on the Tiny Desk concert in twenty ten, and from memory, let me tell you what he did. He did whatever his parody of the Backstreet Boys song is, and he did the saga begins, which is the Star Wars song from American Pie. So that’s it.
From under the Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, this is why we do the show pool Side on the nice days. But I guess we can also do the show pool Side in the Pouring Rain back in the morning with a regular episode. And let’s take a look at the rain as we check out here