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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Chinning Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I gotta stop grabbing a handful of peanut m and ms before I record these things. I went up clearing my throat a million times. Let’s take a look at Late Night, Jimmy Fallon said.
Ahead of Thanksgiving, the TSA has announced they’re predicting the busiest holiday travel season ever. And yeah, a classy move. Southwest cut right to the chase and canceled all their flights. Love it, kim All. More than thirty million Americans are expected to travel by playing over the holiday, and every one of them is in your boarding group, fell And apparently the airport’s going to be so busy that Liguardia might even buy a second great bin.
Hilarious new topic from Leslie Jones hosting the Daily Show and getting no help whatsoever from the writers. This is bad. Santo’s got caught spending campaign money on botox and OnlyFans. And this is on top of him stealing credit cards, wire fraud and identity theft. When he goes to jail the Alaskam, what are you in for?
And He’s gonna be like everything that’s a hack joke. It’s not good Seth Meyer’s new top President Biden, Chinese President g Jinping agreed to re establish military communications. It’s what Biden is calling the greatest US collaboration since Rush Hour. Love It. David Letterman will be the guest on Stephen Colbert on Monday Night.
This announced by Stephen Colbert on Twitter. I’ve already cleared my throat five times. We’re what A minuted in a very very robust Saturday edition of this No filler at all today. There was a lot of news and a lot came out on Friday afternoon, including an amazing lineup for San Francisco’s Sketch Fest. I can’t believe they announced that on a Friday.
I will save that for Monday’s podcast. I also found it curious that they waited till a Friday to announce Trevor Noah as a new Netflix special and it will be out next month, December nineteenth. Where Was I will be Trevor Noah’s fourth comedy special for Netflix. Official description. Trevor Noah shares his hilarious experiences from his recent travels around the world, ranging from foreign national anthems to varying cultural Norms.
The specials filmed at the Fox Theater in Detroit. I told you the other day Bert Krascher went and grabbed the woman who was protesting the I did a rod race at a Las Vegas F one race event. Craziness bird explain what was going on. He spoke to Deadline and he said, when we got done, someone at Netflix came to me and they’re like, hey, you’re going viral. And I was like, for what, and they’re like the protester.
Krayscher said, I literally, honestly didn’t even think about it. I really don’t have a recollection of it other than being in production mode and being like, hey, you can’t get the shot. It was such an interesting thing because they had all these celebrities in the pit lane, which is what they called it, and I was supposed to do interviews with everyone. When those people came running out, this is gonna sound really crazy. I kept thinking to myself when I was sitting there, Man, this is where the Las Vegas shooting was.
This is crazy. If you’re gonna do a shooting, you could kill a ton of celebrities right now. While hoping to protect those participating, Krasier hoped to minimize contact with a protester. He said, I thought it was just like I was moving one of my daughters. I was just like, here we go.
I wasn’t going to touch her body, so I was trying to grab her arms and move her away. And man, that snapshot looks totally different. It looks like I leveled her. All I remember saying was like, were they protesting me? I did a rod?
Then I was like, wow, that’s crazy. Did I really just put my foot in the political ring regarding that I did a rod? Like, I have no feelings about the I did a rod. Ever, all of a sudden, I’m like, f that did arod is a mainstay of North America. Not on my watch, baby.
The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, announced it will be preserving the archival collection from Don rickles estate. Awesome, that’s really cool. The collection spans from the fifties to the two thousands. It includes rare photographs, correspondents, creative papers, and wardrobe. The centerpiece of the collection is more than forty photo and memorabilia albums assembled by Don and his wife Barbara.
The handcrafted books chronicled Don rickles rise to fame, as a young comic, honing his craft and culminating his later years as the comedy community’s beloved elder statesman. Some more items a stage warned tuxedo and a neon characture of the comedian that appeared during his on stage decordering his live performances. There’s an interactive feature that insults museum goers with never before heard audio recorded by Don. Shortly before his passing, National Comedy Center Executive director Jerny Gunderson said, mister warmth, the Merchant of Venom, the Emperor of insults, by any name and by any measure, Don Rickles was an extraordinary artist who brought laughtered to millions over six decades. Rickles comedy was relentlessly funny.
He was a true original, beloved by his audiences and by the comedy community. Gunderson added, to be insulted by John Riggles was a badge of honor. Bob Newhart throw in some quoted Don was my best friend. He was called the Merchant of venom, but the truth was he was just the kindest man. I know that he would have been quite honored and very proud of his career.
Collection preserved and displayed at the National Comedy Center, Jimmy Kimmel in on this set. Not only was Don the funniest man alive, he is the funniest man not alive. Jeff Ross quoted. He was America’s doctor. He helped us laugh at ourselves.
He brought people together, he brought couples together, he brought races together. That’s incredibly healing. Above all was spiritual, not just the comics, but for his fans, meeting Don Rickles was like meeting the Pope, the Pope of Fumor. He’s the grand Master, the bald hat on Mount Roastmore, the black belt in busting chops, the Sultan of insultin and the release as full quote at Comedycenter dot org slash Rickles. How much more did he say?
I’m clicking on it. I clicked the page you were looking is not found. Hmmm. In fact, Comedycenter dot org slash Rickles doesn’t exist. What’s going on?
Conspiracy? I got this release from the Comedy Center. Did something happen they sent it to me? I didn’t make this up? Huh.
I’m intrigued, all right. I have now searched on the Comedy Center website for Don Rickles. And here’s the press release. Here’s the Jeff Ross thing with the same quote. I don’t know.
Sarah Silverman stated, Don Rickles act could have never worked if there wasn’t love behind it. It may have been a sarcastic nickname, but he truly was mister Warmth. And of course a quote from John Stamos, famous Beach Boys drummer Don Rickles was one of my most important, unconventional friends for life. He’s the ultimate equal opportunity insulter. He goes places where very few entertainers dare.
Being a student of comedy, especially stand up, I’ve spent many hours trying to crack the code of his particular kind of subversive genius. So I’ve mentioned the mac Pa. That’s my made up group of celebrity friends that I roll with. It’s me, Michael Chicklist, Tom Cavanaugh, Andy Samberg, Henry Winkler, Keegan, Michael Key, Jeff Goldbloom. That’s who I roll with in my fantasies.
In real life. Is the John Stamos equivalent of the Macpack. Mike Love from the Beach Boys and Don Rickles. What’s going on? There’s a lot more here, which is good because Today’s Saturday, and there’s a holiday week coming up, which means it’s gonna be two weeks of me scrambling for news.
So I could talk more about Don Rickles now, because we are having fun, are we not? And I can siphon off some news stories for next weekend. Awesome. Don Rickles honed his comedic style in Miami before nineteen fifty seven break at La Slate Brothers Club Vaultadham due national acclaim. By nineteen fifty nine, he was booking the record setting Las Vegas residencies that mainstream the art of the roast and made Rickles a fixture of American comedy.
His victims included rat Pack pal Sammy Davis Junior and Frank Sinatra, to fellow comedians Joe Nervis and Milton Burrell. Don Rickles connected with a new generation of fans as the voice of mister potato Head in the toy St franchise. Did you know that? Maybe it did? Yesterday?
I kind of said Matt Rife’s special wasn’t funny. I didn’t kind of say it. I said it owed it, Johnny Mack. Matt Rife special is not funny. Vulture caught my eye with this headline, Matt Rife, natural selection is juvenile and unremarkable.
All right, It’s not just me, they wrote. Now twenty eight years old and recording his first special for a mainstream platform, Rife scenes to have arrived here on a speed run through comedic disquietude toward his own fans. As a result, Natural Selection is half inspiring penis jokes, half screen against the injustice of online haters, and entirely underwhelming. Wow. The penis jokes are the easiest to assess in much the same way that their easiest jokes to make.
Rife has a few different versions. Some are more focused on size, some on what you might do with one when you’re by yourself trying to keep this halfway cleaned. I’m going to struggle here, and some on the challenge of making women very happy. Nudge nudge, wink wink, saying no more, which really just penis jokes where the nerve bundle is a slightly different shape. The longest of them are a section where he imagines being give it a favor by monsters who lurk he under his bed.
Then another story about finding a stepfather’s collection of porn VHS tapes, in a closet. Vulture writes the ideas Rife plays with most clearly being young and figuring out how to deal with sexuality. And at each joke there’s a looming menacing figure. It’s a monster or a stepfather whose threat is neutralized by finishing. If Riife has spent time pondering what that might suggest about the role of sex and his internal conceptions of safety and power, that self reflection doesn’t show up in the writing.
The New York Times art about the Arab American Comedy Festivals taking place tomorrow. It’s the festival’s twentieth anniversary. Because of the war, they considered postponing the festival until next year. Instead, they delayed performances at Gotham in February, but kept tomorrow’s town hall event. Dean Obadallah said, let me be honest, I need to laugh.
We all need to laugh. We need some comedy in our lives, The Times writes. Before nine to eleven, Obadala, who’s half Pallastadian and half Sicilian, wasn’t reagarly political or focused on his identity. But Dean says, on September tenth, I went to sleep a white guy on September eleventh, I woke up an Arab America changed around me. The York Post went to go see Brett Goldstein.
You know him as Roy Ken from Ted Lassa. What happens in his set, Well, Brett jokes about the America versus Great Britain comparisons. We’re told he has a hilarious breakdown of how our public bathrooms are different, and we’re warned to have some questions ready. There’s a question box that he pulls from at the end of the show, and the weirder the question, the more likely it is he’ll answer it, or at least read it out loud. Spam Alot is back.
I have a review that I saw that was pretty strong for it. I’ll save that for Thanksgiving weekend. We’ll talk about that review later. But a bit of news. The pythons are not getting along.
Eric Idle says John’s gone a bit strange, and he doesn’t mean me, means John Clees. Eric Idle says, in the new revival of Spam a Loot, last time we were on Broadway, John Clees played God. Now he’s getting on a bit, He’s getting up there, and John’s gone a bit strange. The new voice of God on Broadway is Steve Martin, and condolences to the f family of Dina Carvey. Dina son Dix died of a drug overdose at his home on Wednesday evening.
On Instagram, Deana Carvey wrote, we suffered a terrible tragedy. Our beloved Sun Dex died of an accidental drug overdose. Dex packed a lot in those thirty two years. He was extremely talented at so many things music, art, filmmaking, comedy, and pursued them all passionately. We’ll miss him forever.
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