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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty robust one today, especially for a Friday. Fridays are often a little light. Let me start with one that’s making me laugh.
From stuff dot co dot New Zealand, your home for comedy news. Southern tourism company real Endz is calling foul on a campaign encouraging foreign citizens to meddle in New Zealand’s Bird of the Century vote. Ha ha. John Oliver has posted billboards encouraging support for the Puda Katiki hope. I said that right on the streets of Tokyo, Paris, London, Mumbai, Brazil, and a small town in the US state of Wisconsin, you only need an email to vote on this.
So thousands of people have followed John Oliver’s lead, giving the endangered bird, also known as the Australasian crested greebe a chance of flying away with the wind. I love the copywriting here stuff. However, the real enz crew says the campaign’s not over until the kakaiky karaka sings. This is not an easy article for me to do, you see. Real Enz has spent a year fundraising in support of the kakaiky Karaka, raising one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Unsure which currency that’s in, but it’s still out of money. Right now, it wants New Zealanders to join its campaign Real Enz Chief Revenue Officer Scott McNabb has named his campaign Dear John McNabb said, we simply cannot allow one international check to commandeer our efforts. So we wanted to send a little message to John Oliver. The tiny but mighty amongst us need all the support they can get. We encourage all Kiwi’s, or rather New Zealanders, to get their votes in whichever feather they fancy.
This competition started in two thousand and five. It was run by Forrest and Bird, who decided in twenty twenty three it would seek to find the bird of the Century to celebrate its one hundredth year. That’s silly fun, all right. Lewis Black is going to retire from touring. Are we all getting old?
Ron White did this? Billing vall did this? Now Lewis Black retiring and we’re I don’t know, I guess this is a thing. Now comedians declare they’re retiring. Lewis Black is now seventy five, and he says his dates at the end of next year will be his final touring dates.
Lewis shared this news on his podcast, also posted the clip on Instagram, saying I’ve said this to people and it doesn’t seem to get through to them. What do you mean you’re retiring? Listening to the end of the sentence, I am retiring from touring. Really, I’m not making this up. I’m not gonna come back and tour again.
I’m going through to the end of December next year. Well, I continue to perform, yes, but I will literally perform from time to time. If you want to see me on the road, you better hurry. Final tour date’s coming soon. It’s already been four years since Gary Goleman’s The Great Depression premiered on HBO.
Well Gary Goleman as a new special to debut on Max, this one, called Born on Third Base. In Born on Third Base, Gary Goleman offers up his insights on a range of topics, from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, while chronicling his childhood experiences with free school lunch programs and questionable densal care. The stand up makes an incisive swipe or two at billionairesm Gary Goleman said, I’m thrilled to be working with the Max team again along with Conan, who have admired for thirty years. Exactly, very honored and grateful to have this special is a doozy. Can’t wait for people to say nice things about it.
Conan, one of the producers on this. Dina Hasham as a new special out today on Amazon Prime Video, this one called Derek Little Whispers. Let’s listen to a clip. Huh, my dad left when I was very young. If you see a woman holding a microphone, her dad is gone.
I man have problems too, right in fact, clap if you’re a straight white man right now. Please clap if you’re thank you. Yeah. Did it feel nice to be heard right there? You know, we don’t hear enough about the bigotry against quiet people.
We just need more voices raised about it because we can’t do it ourselves. Dina was asked what draws quiet people to get behind a microphones start doing in comedy. She said, I don’t think quiet people are really quiet. I think it’s usually they have a lot of thoughts going on, but they either have anxiety or didn’t grow up in a place where they felt safe communicating with the people around them, and so they just kept everything bottled up. That’s why something like stand up can be so revelatory.
It was the first time, at least for me, that I was able to find a place to express things that was comfortable to me where I was immediately rewarded for it. With the Internet, you realize it’s impossible to really come to an understanding with people. With comedy, there’s a little treat for them. They get to laugh as well, there’s a reward for listening, and so it breaks through to people in a way that few things do. I hesitate to call it art, but it’s like that.
To really change someone’s mind, you have to do it in an oblique way. She was asked if there are topics that scare her, and her answer, I guess it’s tricky with the religious stuff, because a lot of my jokes about the way I grew up tend to be sort of skewering religion. There’s a risk of the wrong type of audience hearing that and then using it as an excuse to be prejudiced or racist. I guess my fear is being misinterpreted in a way that ends up hurting people. I’d never want someone to hear my jokes about Islam and then be like, see, those people are bad.
So it’s a tricky line. But I also don’t want to censor myself and deny the experience that I had. All these stories I tell are true, there’s obviously nuance to it, and that’s hard to communicate with each joke. You just have to hope that people are listening with good faith. Sebastian Maniscalco has a new show called Bookie.
This will be on Max Thursday, November thirtieth. Max dropped the trailer, Let’s listen, and the guest store in this scene is Charlie Sheen. You are correct here? What if I make this right with some baseball memorabilia? Guys, I’ve got bab Ruth’s autopsy for now.
I’m gonna tell you something I never told a client ever. You shouldn’t been on sports. Bookie Thursday, November thirtieth on Max. Two episodes out that day Bookie stores. Sebastian Maniscalco is Danny, a Los Angeles BOOKI whos struggling to stay a foot as he faces down the impending disruption of his business as California looks to legalize sports gambling.
Seems like that would be a good idea for a show, and it’s correctly cast. Now. I was thinking about Sebastian. Earlier in the year, he was pretty hot and then the movie This year around Easter, Sebastian has cooled off a little bit. But this feels like right person, right show, right TV network.
I know it’s Max streaming, don’t bog down on that, but yeah, I think this one would work. We also got a trailer for Eddie Murphy’s Candy Cane Lane. Quick clip here, everybody, listen, this is important. I’m going to show you, guys something. And when I show you what I’m going to show you, don’t freak out.
In Eddie Murphy’s Candy Cane Lane, which I’ll tell you description a second. This screams Adam Sandler to me. I don’t know why this isn’t an anim Sandler movie. This screams Sandler. Candy Cane Lane follows a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s Christmas decoration contest?
Is that not a sailor movie? When the man inadvertently makes a deal with a mischievous elf who brings the twelve days of Christmas to life, wreaking havoc on the town. Oh no, that one will be on Amazon December one. The presidential debate Wednesday night touched into the comedy world a little bit. Jimmy Kimmel joked Chris Christy, Ronda Santis, Nikki Hally, vivek Ramaswami, and Tim Scott.
It’s a who’s who of who has no chance to beat Donald Trump. Fallon. It was quite a night. There were five candidates on stage, three moderators asking questions, and two people watching at home. Kimmel with an absolutely terrible joke.
Again, I’m sure as a professional joke tailor he told it much better than I’m about to. But this is terrible. Putting the Republican debate on opposite the CMA Awards, it makes no sense. It’s like putting lasagna up against a Swedish meatball. That is terrible.
But he redeems himself with this one. But for these five Republicans, the stakes were higher than the lifts and a pair of Ronda Santis’s boots. Love it nice, simple joke, good premise, not too harmful. Great, No buzz on Sarah Silverman hosting The Daily Show this week. I guess she’s not throwing heat on the Israel Hamas war, but not really seeing anything out of the Daily Show.
I’m surprised by that. The Debate also mentioned it. Joe Rogan. Vivek Ramaswami said, think about who’s moderating this debate. This should be Tucker Carlson.
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk would have ten times the viewership. Politics aside, that notion of a debate with anybody debating being hosted by Rogan, Musk and Tucker Carlson, that probably would do ten times to viewership. So I don’t think that notion is crazy. It is called show business. Would you like to own the Late Show with David Letterman Marquis?
You know the blue and yellow one that was outside the Ed Sullivant Theater. Well enter a sweepstakes benefiting Habitat for Humanity for a donation of ten dollars or more. Anyone can enter the sweepstakes at giveaway Dave dot com until December thirty first. The grand prize also includes a trip to New York City to meet David Letterman and Paul Schaeffer, Johnny Max Goutt, you had another clip for you today. Let’s listen to Dave and Paul.
Hi, everybody, I’m giveaway Dave and this is my friend giveaway Paul. Nice to see it, Nice to see you, Paul. Giveaway, Dave, giveaway Paul. WHOA, what’s going on? Well, we’re giving something away.
That’s what I was hoping you would say. Yeah, what is it? It’s part of the old Marquis that was on the Ed Sullivan Theater building forever and it’s huge, says The Late Show with David Letterman. And not only that, we’ll get it to your home. We’re all getting older.
Man. Dave looks old with the big beard, and I noticed Schaefer is doing a little that esh thing that older people do sometimes with I don’t know if some teethwork had done. Not making fun of Paul, just observing. The Grammy nominations will be out this morning. I’ll discuss that on Monday’s podcast.
And I’m always fascinated by who gets nominated for Best Comedy Album. And if you’ve listened last few years, you know I get my nose in a crinkle about what is an actual comedy album and what is really just a Netflix special. So we’ll see what comes out on the list. Let me look at my list of the top twenty five of the year and see if I can guess here in advance. Chris Rock will get nominated for that live special that was a big deal.
John Mulaney will get nominated for his special because there’s so much press around that. Jim Gaffigan almost always gets nominated.
And then let’s say Marin Santino, Kevin Hart, Nate Bergatzy nice safe choice.
All right, we’ll see what they come out with. I’ll talk about it on Monday. It is the weekend of the Flyover Comedy Festival that’s happening in Saint Louis this weekend. Some of the performers Janelle, James, Sheng Wang, Jeff Ross And what I like about these guys they know how to do a schedule. They must listen to the podcast be like, oh, Johnny Mack will hate us if we just put things in alphabetical order.
Why don’t we put things where he can look by time? They have a wonderful, beautiful grid at Flyover Comedyfest dot com slash schedule. You can even download a PDF version do you know how happy that makes a podcast host. I can look at this in all one spot. We can even play that.
What should we go see? Game? Yes, seven o’clock. There are three shows we’re gonna go see. Zach Zimmerman and I’m Intrigued.
At eleven thirty tonight, the karaoke after party at the Improv Shop Bar. No real big names here today tomorrow Jeff Ross, Janel, James, Shane Torris. We’ll talk about that tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the New York Comedy Festival continues.
They also have a website that goes by date order, although they don’t have a nice grid. I think everybody needs to do a nice grid. Make this easy on. Johnny mack. So, I’m on the New York Comedy Fest a website here, babbling as I scroll down, live as you was listen to me, babbel as I scroll down.
I finally got into the eleven ten part. Let’s see what’s happening tonight Steve O’s bucket List with Live Q and A at the Grammercy Theater at six thirty. Donnel Rawlings at the hard Rock at seven, Brett Goldstein Second Best Night of your Life, Great title at the Beacon at seven, Jessel Nick seven o’clock, Carnegie Hall, Wow, Michelle Wolf, Town Hall seven o’clock. Wow. A really funny titled America’s Next Top Bottoms at Club coming at seven thirty.
Some of the performers they are Mary Beth Barone and Sabrina Wo Bill Burr at the Garden at eight o’clock and I think that’s the Garden Garden. Second City Live nine thirty at Chelsea. Donnell Is a second show at nine forty five. A Tell and Friends at town Hall at nine forty five. Tim Dillon at Carnegie Hall at nine forty five.
Zach Schiffman has a show called Taylor Swift the Eras Tour. That’s at ten o’clock at the Little Field. Joel Kim Booster at the Bellhouse at ten. Boy, what a great night? Huh?
What would even go? See? Cori Elly Pete Corielly, my friend, That’s why I said, Corielly, Pete Corielly at the Grammar Sea at ten thirty. Absolutely great night. I’m gonna go with the Daily Beasts recommendations.
They say go see Tim Dillon and Anthony Jessinic at Carnegie Hall two back to back shows. You don’t have to move great venue. I know you’re passing on Burr and whoever else they just mentioned, but that would be the move tonight Jesslink, then Tim Dillon, depending on the news cycle. Since I’ve recorded this, it looks like the actor’s strike is over. A new deal reportedly comes one hundred and eighteen days after the actor strike began.
Reported deals to go to the National Board for approval. Today, Trevor Noah’s podcast What Now with Trevor Noah is out. The first guest was is the Rock? Trevor said, it’s fascinating to speak to the person who was trying to raise money for the Maui wildfires and then experience the backlash he did in a way that some people completely understood and other people completely didn’t. What’s that like from the inside.
Has the person processed the information? What do they think about it? I haven’t had a chance to listen to that one, but like I said yesterday, I really like Trevor Noah. Joe Coy is taping his special today and tomorrow at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn. Joe Koy is signed to do two more stand up specials with Netflix.
I guess this is one of them, and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, where you get your shows. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too. See tomorrow