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The Shark Deck feisty one today. No, not me. I’m in a great mood. But what do you hear these stories? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Bill Maher, mixing it up.
He had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast. This has been in my queue. I just didn’t get to it yet, but the New York Post got to it. The subject turned to late Night. Jim Gaffigan said, I love all those guys, I do, but the formula of real time obviously it’s less of a celebrity interview turn and burnt thing.
But it hasn’t felt like any effects of that, Like, I think the strike is going to kill the late night show that we grew up with. More said, why is the strike killing it? I don’t get it, Jim, Well, because it’s off the air. Mar again, no knock on the guys who do it. But I don’t know how this art form is survived up until now.
I mean, I understand why I’m on because I’m on HBO. It’s an hour without commercials, and I mean, sorry, it’s a lot more entertaining, it’s a lot more edgy, it’s a lot more unpredictable and it’s true talk. I get that. What I don’t get is this error of watching what sponsors are sponsoring a show that’s on after most people go to bed. In an arrow where you can do anything at any time.
You know, you can watch anything you get into bed. You can watch Netflix, you can watch HBO, you can watch YouTube, you can watch anything that was ever made or do video games. Even if you wanted to watch this late night stuff, wouldn’t you watch it sometime when you could zip through the commercials and just see the stuff you like. It just seems so anachronistic. I don’t know how it survives until now.
I’ll jump in there. I’m shocked that one of the streamers isn’t airing a quote unquote late night show. It’s say eight o’clock, like Jimmy Kimmel taps at five thirty Pacific, and he used to do a show live. I wonder why he doesn’t choose to say air that on I don’t know ABC doesn’t have a streamer Netflix. Pair up with Netflix and throw that on day eight thirty.
That might do well, Or maybe I’m just from the twentieth century as well. Gaffigans told More that people develop a relationship with the late night hosts, and I want to hear Colbert’s take about the day. I don’t know about that, Jim, I really don’t know about that. I mean, it’s just a couple of jokes. I’ve even done late Bot here, No try agreed, Jim mar said, it’s not a take.
Those guys don’t have takes. I have takes. I have a take on things. What they do is say exactly what a liberal audience wants them to say about that. That’s not a take.
I mean, I’m not saying it’s not Sincere, I guess it is on their part, but even if it wasn’t, that’s what they would do. There’s never a moment where you don’t know exactly. Oh, this is the correct point of view on that. They talked about the writer strike. More said, I feel from my writers.
I love my writers. I’m one of my writers. But there’s a big other side to it. A lot of people are being hurt beside them, a lot of people who don’t make as much money as them. In this bipartisan world we have where you’re just in one camp or the other.
You’re either for the strike like they’re effing Shaguvar out there, or you know, like this is Caesar Chavez’s lettuce picking strike, or you’re with Trump. There’s no difference. There’s only two camps, and it’s much more complicated than that. More continued. They strike at the wrong time, they have no leverage.
Has anyone who’s watching TV really noticed a difference? Has it affected the person down the pipeline? I don’t think so. I have a notice a difference at some point. A guess that’ll happen.
What day is that when Netflix runs out of what they have in the warehouse? Yeah? Pretty interesting. Before the strike, I would do Late Night jokes up at the top, and I had actually cut down on that a little bit because a lot of them weren’t that good, and I had kind of stripped it down as just doing two or three and it left a hole in my script. But here a couple of months in, I don’t even think about it anymore.
I just jump into the story. When Late Night comes back, don’t forget. We’ll have a new host of the Daily Show, possibly Hasan Minhaj. But I agree with mar on the points of you know, are you gonna stay up to eleven thirty, twelve thirty and watch these things. Just watch the clips later.
You know, it’s not like you’re gonna go to work. Oh my god, did you see Jimmy Fallon last night? Like those days are over? But as I said earlier, you know, maybe somebody could do a version of this on a streamer, Netflix probably being the best chance at such a thing working. But you know, do it live at I don’t know EPM Eastern Chelsea.
Handler did have a show that didn’t work. Hassan had a show that didn’t work. Who knows, Maybe it’s just a RELICI of last century.
Speaking of Jimmy Fallon, TMZ was paying attention to the Strike Force five p…
Fallon told a story about the Timothy shallow May puppet. I’ll catch you up. The story did ring my ears when I’m glad TMZ recapped it. Apparently somebody had made a Timothy shallow May puppet. Fallon said Timothy wasn’t a fan of the lookalike doll, and the plan was to have the actor destroy the puppet during a Tonight Show appearance, but then the creator of the puppet chimed in and said he was offended.
According to Fellon, the whole bit was Scrapped Puppet creator Chris Allen tells TMZ he was shocked when he heard Fellon on the podcast because of Gordon. To him, it’s one hundred percent false. He said, no one reached out to him about killing the puppet, and if they had, he wouldn’t care because it’s a night show had bought it from him. Chris says he feels like Jimmy’s podcast Tale is painting him as a villain. M More a controversy from that same podcast, Stephen Colbert told a story.
As the story goes, Colbert’s its second city and he would play an improv game called Freeze Tag. The game requires two performers to begin a scene that a third actor calls freeze he’d probably seen this on whose line tags out one performer and starts a new scene. Colbert says that Jim Belushi would regularly slap people on stage to get a shock reaction from the audience. Colbert said, he has these big old meat hook hands, so it’d picked someone who felt like that guy’s not gonna be back, and he would jack them. Colbert said he one thousand percent got the joke of slapping people on stage, but he recalled a time when things went a little too far.
During the game, Belushi did the slap Colbert called freeze. However, instead of tagging someone out, he told the slap performer hit him back. This is never gonna stop unless you hit him back. Belushi’s victim apparently refused. Colbert says, so I turned to Blushi and I said, like this, and I gave him the swiftest crack I could give him from a short distance.
That didn’t go over well. There was chaos in the house and the two men had to be separated as the house lights turned on to the theater. Colbert said, we were backstage yelling at each other. Was fantastic. He was a little upset.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Jim Belushi a couple of times. I found him to be a cool guy, but I wasn’t playing freeze tag. Bet Stelling was on Instagram and wrote, my Netflix is a joke at Comedy Special. If you didn’t want me, then premier’s on Netflix October three. I was just a little shy, so I got Whitney Cummings and her son to record the promo.
They know how to get views. Coincidentally, Bet Stelling’s tour kicks off tonight and Atlanta at the City Winery. She’s coming to Utah, Colorado, California, Chicago, Minneapolis, Louisville, Austin, Portland, the One in Oregon and wraps up December seven through the ninth, and Burlington, Vermont. Betslling dot com. Michelle Wolf has a special out on Tuesday.
Nashville Scene said, Hey, Michelle Wolf, your team does a good job of uploading videos. Do you think comics uploading videos helps or hurts comedy? Good question. Michelle Wolf said, it’s good to give people a snippet of what you do. What’s hurting is a lot of those CrowdWork videos with almost no jokes in them.
M Yes, people go to a show and expect I’m gonna get called on and get a moment from me, and it takes away the art of writing a joke. Yes, Michelle said, I’m not a fan of social media, but I’m working on a bit about that in my set. We need to respect ourselves more by watching good and interesting things by talented people. Yes, we all doomscroll on Instagram. There are things out there that are more interesting than what you’re seeing on your phone.
Should I do it a fourth time? Yes, we need to value talent and more than who we are well, said Michelle Wolf Amen standing Oh. Eugene Merman spoke to The woostermag Eugene claims to work on something called Bob’s Burgers. Now, if you’re a new listener, let me let you know. On the Conspiracy, long time listeners are like, oh my god, he’s gonna do this again.
Yes, I am new listener. I know you’ve seen artwork for Bob’s Burgers. I get it. There’s clearly merge. There’s T shirts and stuff like.
I get it. I get that. You’ve even heard Joe Buck telling you to watch and all knew Bob’s Burgers after football. Hey, John Buck hasn’t been on Fox and over a year. Kevin Burkhardt does the games.
Now. Yeah, I know inside voice rip off from jimcaffickin, but that’s not the bit. I know you’ve heard Joe Buck promote Bob’s Burgers. But let me ask you two questions. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?
The answer is no, I won’t wait for your answer. Follow up question and I’m not gonna wait for your answer. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers. The answers, No, isn’t that weird? This thing is supposed to being on a Fox for fifteen years and nobody has ever seen it.
Have you ever met anyone? You haven’t, it’s weird. Eugene Merman said, it’s really fun doing Bob’s Burgers and working with friends I’ve known for decades. And it’s also really fun to do stand up and perform live. It’s very immediate and I often get to see friends and travel with friends.
I love the variety of it. I think I’d missed not having a variety of all these different things, which is what often makes up anyone’s career in entertainment. The thing that’s really fun about voice acting is that sometimes you’re recording a loan, but often you’re with your co actors. It’s usually in different cities, but you’re live together. So with voice acting, you could try different stuff.
You can do different jokes, you can have different intonations, you can do all sorts of things. Then they edit into an episode, so you can really take chances and if they work out, great, they’re in the show. If they don’t, they just cut and it’s not a problem, so you can try a lot of different jokes while trying to make each other laugh. Congratulations to Robin Shawl. The Guinness Book of World Records has recognized her as the person who holds the record for making the tallest stack of donuts in one minutes.
Robin Shawl said, in the beginning of twenty twenty three, we made a list of goals for the year. One of the kids suggested breaking a Guinness World’s record title. I love the ideas. I went on the list, which is still on the inside of my closet door. She looked up records involving donuts.
She found the record for stacking donuts stood at twelve in one minute. That doesn’t seem that hard. That seems very breakable. Twelve because like donuts are sticky to begin with, and twelve wouldn’t be that time. I might have to go for this record myself.
I’ve been known to go to the National Donuts Chain. Shall said two weeks before tempting the challenge on live TV, I decided it was time to go in a full blown training. She said. She had to learn how to make donuts because it was difficult to find the ones that were the size required by the Guinness Book. What I kept the donuts in regulation, but some on the smaller end and some on the larger.
Once I mastered that, it was just practicing with the speed. She successfully stacked thirteen donuts. Let’s say it. On over to Gossip Corner, TK Kirkland was talking about some of the rumors about Steve Harvey’s marriage. Kirkland’s hold comedy hype.
But first I was like, Wow, all right, they just made her out to be a hoe. She kicking it with both of them mfers in the camp. Steve Harvey has denied such rumors. He said, I don’t know what y’all doing, but find something else to do because we’re fine. Sometimes you just want to respond, but I don’t have time for rumor and gossip man.
He rehash their love story and a video shared on Twitter. The New Yorker announced their lineup for the New Yorker Festival that’s October sixth through the eighteenth. They used very pretentious language. I will read it to you verbatim. Some of the interviews the actor Julia Louis Dreyfuss in conversation with the New Yorkers David Remnick.
The actor and comedian Eric Idol in conversation with The New Yorkers. Michael Schulman. The comedian Zway and a partner Achurla in conversation with the New Yorkers Emma Allen. All of a sudden, a partner’s back. She had disappeared for like two years, and this is like the third story this week.
I’ve seen her in. I wonder why she’s back. Ah See, there’s always an answer. I’ve been doing this a while. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
She’s got a book coming out September nineteenth, called Unreliable Narrator Me Myself an Imposter Syndrome. We’ll talk about that in an upcoming episode. But all right, that explains that she’s fantastic. I’d rather put out a new album than a book, candidly anyway. The comedian and musician Weird Al Yankovic in conversation with the New Yorkers Andy Borrowitz.
The New York Festival October six through the eighth. If you’re in Dallas, why don’t you hit The Women’s Comedy Festival, which was created in response to the limited and unequal stage time women comedians receive in comparison to their male counterparts. The festival will be at the Stumping Ground Comedy Theater. One of the founders, Anna Barton, said, this year we’re showcasing more different styles than just stand up. We had those last year, but stand up really ended up being the main attraction.
So we’re really excited to incorporate more improv and more alt comedy, and the Stomping Ground community has a good basis for that. Kate great House is helping to produce the thing for tonight show. Great House wants to encourage the weird and the new to try at alternative comedy acts. She recalls being the only woman on a comedy line up more times than she can count, and she says that does not fairly reflect the number of funny women on the scene. The festival continues tomorrow with Goddess, a Celebration of Women, which is a parody of the Goddess party trend.
That portion of the festival will be interactive with improvised music and other experimental elements. We’re told that it’s genuinely uplifting and fun and they get the whole audience involved. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Thanks to Factor and draft Kings for supporting today’s episode.
See you tomorrow,