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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Quick note, if you didn’t listen over the weekend, you know Thanksgiving stuff, totally get it. Just want to point out the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday episodes were robust with like a lot of actual news. It wasn’t a filler weekend, so you might want to go back and check those out.
SETH Myers was on the Last Culturesa’s podcast with Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers. He revealed they almost did a Stepan movie. Almost might be an exaggeration, but he said there was a moment time where the idea of a Stephan script was being discussed. There wasn’t a scene that was written, but I did have a pitch for myself and Stephan because I knew it was going to be Stephan and James Franco or whoever it was going to be me and Stephan. I said, here’s how I think it should started to start with Stephan at weekend update and when it’s over.
I’m once again disappointed that as the city correspondent, he didn’t bring up whatever Saint Patrick’s day tips that he says to make it up to you just come out of a night with me and you together Stefan’s New York, and I’m like, all right, one night. Then you would do all these super fast cuts off he and I and at the cret clubs. That’d be the opening montage, and then it would end with me in a body bag and Stefan would say he’s dead, and then the splash Stephan the movie. Myers reflected on his perception of his role opposite Bill Hayter. I thought my job was just to be Stefan’s foyle, and then Milleniy wrote this.
It was my romantic comedy. It was Hater’s final SNL sketch in which Stefan goes off to Mary Anderson Cooper, stricken with love. Seth Myers runs after him and interrupts the wedding, punches Anderson Cooper and brings Stefan back to the SNL studio. It was Bill’s last show, and I knew I was leaving next year to host Late Night. Bill and I are holding hands, We’re both starting to cry.
It was so funny because I was getting married a few months later. I was like, if I don’t cry up my wedding, Hater said, I don’t want to do a Stefan movie. It didn’t work as a sketch. That’s why I was on Weekend Update. Kelsey Grammer wants to do one hundred episodes of this new Freezer Variety spoke to Kelsey Grammer and one of the topics was Freezer’s choice to wear sneakers in jeans.
Now, Kelsey said, I think it was a natural progression for him, but also natural for me. People didn’t talk about it much during the old iteration of the show, but my feet were always at issue, and I had a couple of Podiadras years ago notice on the show asking what’s going on with your feet? I have a gate issue just because I have really, really bad ankles. It’s okay, but it’s a little easier to wear those shoes than it is to wear a bunch of custom made brogues and all that. I think we should go on for another one hundred episodes.
At least there’s enough groundwork laid between these human beings. They’re wonderful characters. I want to see where they go, and I want to see what happens to Fraser. I name check Kelsey Grammer all the time. I’ll see somebody.
They’ll get a hit show, and they’ll leave the hit show. And I always talk about a couple of people. One, Dennis Franz wrote nypd Blue never had to work again. Kelsey Grammer, Hey, you want me to be Fraser again for eleven more years. Sure?
You want me to be Fraser again again for one hundred more episodes. Sure? The other guy, Patrick Stewart, who once explained that he wasn’t really excited playing Captain mc card, but they paid him enough money to do Star Trek movies after the show wrapped up, that he could do Shakespeare in the Park for free all summer and the Star Trek paid the bills. That makes sense to me. Don’t leave a hit show.
Kelsey talked a bit about bringing the character back and said, once Cheers ended the first time, I thought, well Fraser done. Now it’s good. We’ll move on to do something else. I had a deal with Paramount to go do a different show. We worked on that for a while and then everybody suggests that maybe the best to continue Frazer in a different world, and it turned out pretty well.
Once the show Fraser ended, there was some talk to continued for a while maybe it’d add another year or two. I talked to then NBC had Jeff Zucker at the time. He told me that Joey was what they’d put their eggs in that basket, and they said that was the next Fraser, and I said, well, all right, good for you, off you go. It turned out fine. I like the idea of ending something, and then it came up a decade or so later when somebody was saying, what would Fraser be up to?
And I thought, yeah, that’s an interesting idea, and started percolating, maybe a decade ago, honestly, about what it could look like.
And then Roseanne came back with her show, and I thought the response to that…
Those two shows were contemporaries, and Tim Allen was still on TV. We’re all sort of the same wavelength back then, and I thought this might actually bear some fruit if we do it the right way. It had to be right though, it had to have contemporary value, and so we started hatching the plan. I really wanted David Hyde Pierce to join us, and I did my best a him come along for the ride, and at one point he finally said, I don’t really want to play the character anymore. That was fine.
Then it came to me in a dream, Let’s go back to Boston. There’s unfinished business there, son lives there. Suddenly I went into this new world, which of course is what Fraser did the first time. Good follow up question, had David agree to come back, would it have been a continuation of the original Fraser? Kelsey said, No, never a continuation.
A couple of other shows have basically sort of picked up where they left off, and I didn’t want to do that because the guy had been away for twenty years. It had to be a maturation. He had to be a wiser guy. It’d take a few things less seriously and take some of the serious things more seriously. And that should be his family.
Will we ever see Niles, he said, I mean, we have Niall’s son on the show. Be nice to have that happen, but we won’t force it. We’ll see what happens. We can certainly write to it. There’s arguably a lot of people in the world that have seen Frasier would really sort of celebrate seeing him again.
Whitney Cummings was on the Last Laugh podcast. She talked about how her politics have changed as quote the left tries to silence comedians, Whitney said, The Left, to me, in a lot of ways when it comes to speech, has become unrecognizable because it used to be the party of free speech, It used to be the party of tolerance, It used to be the party of weak, criticize, or at least suspicious of big pharma. Roseanne said this year ago when I was working with her. The left is just gone so far that a lot of people used to be on the left and now feel like they’re kind of in the middle. When it comes to speech.
The left wants to silence people in a lot of ways. So I think comedians do find themselves criticizing that part of the left. I do think that in their minds they’re doing it to protect people and they make the world safer. But I don’t believe that’s how the world is made safer. I just want to make people laugh.
But I do find that people that probably would consider themselves more conservative these days have a better sense of humor. For sure. People always talk about censorship, but there’s a lot of self censorship that just happens because we’re scared. And I take the stance of if comedians are scared, we’re in trouble. It’s our job to be fearless.
It’s our job to push back and sometimes say things that we don’t mean, or say things that we know are wrong and offensive, just to make sure that we’re not turning into some totalitarian country. This whole thing where I only believe in you having free speech if you agree with me. I think that’s a really scary place to be. And I think sometimes I go too far in the direction of like it’s on us to make sure everybody still has free speech. Sometimes you can just go on stage.
Should be funny. You don’t have to be a free speech warrior all the time. I think sometimes I martyr myself a little too much where I go. Everyone should be able to make fun of everyone. This is America, Gosh durn it.
Gabriel Well Aglacias is in the Santa Clauses. He enjoyed connecting with Eric stone Street behind the scenes from New York Verified. Gabe said, Eric and I would sit there in Christmas gear and just sit and talk about wrestling. We’re both big wrestling fans. We both started playing though who knows more wrestling game.
It’s funny because We’re supposed to be in this Christmas environment and here we are talking about who got slammed. It was crazy. They started talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin. Gabe said, I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with him, and my biggest bragging moment is that I got to use his toilet. That’s right.
I did the podcast at his house and I think he since changed that since having those issues. But yeah, we were hanging out afterwards and I’m like, hey, dude, can I use your you know? And He’s like, yeah, go ahead. Gabe started talking about Christmas movies and said, if people are saying that Diehard was a Christmas movie, then I think you have to say Gremlins was also a Christmas movie because there’s Christmas trees or snow, and you know, the Gremlins destroying Santa Claus statues. This is amazing.
This is the second straight Monday. I remember to cross plug the weekly comedy thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. So what’s this, Johnny Mack. It’s kind of like this podcast, except the stories are shorter and I can play a bit.
So say I tell you a story about Master Brownie. I could play a clip by Master Brownie. All right, intrigued, how do you get this? Grab the app. It’s called Live one.
Grab a free account, look for the Weekly Comedy Thing. There you’ll find me telling you stories about people like this week, Eliza Selessenger, Sebastian Maniscalco, Master Brownie, Lewis Black, Whitney Cummings, Rodnie Dangerfield, Nate Pergatzy. Some comedians who might be off your radar are Andy Hendrickson, John Taylor and DJ Dimmers, Bill Burr. You know that is, Jim Gaffigan and Brian Reagan. The Weekly Comedy Thing.
On the Live one app, Vulture profiled Kathy Griffin. She talked about her new tour and said, this show is going to be more personal because I’ve been going through so much crazy stuff, really in front of anybody who’s paying attention. I actually do have PTSD, and I’m laughing because I thought that was only for combat veterans. But apparently if you’re put under investigation by the Department of Justice and the President wants you to be charged, and you put on the no fly list and your tour is canceled because of bomb threats, and then your phone doesn’t ring for six years, and then you get cancer and lose part of your voice because half your lung is gone. You gotta laugh about it.
I do something called cat cow. Were curious. What’s cat cow? She says, Well, it’s when I get on all fours like a kitty cat, and then I arch my back and I’m instructed by my teacher to say the word meow. I feel like a fool, but I do it.
Then I unarch my back and wait for it, I move like a cow. PTSD is a bitch, and when I get PTSD attacks, I can’t stop vomiting. So if I have to meow like a cat and move like a cow, I’m gonna do it. I’m laughing at her joke, not her situation. When I talked about it in Vegas, I could hear a recognition type of buzz in the audience, and I went, wait a minute, I’m not the only one who does effing cat cow.
Like half the audience collapsed. I had no idea that in times of trouble, other people were walking around their homes meowing like a kitty cat. Her tour is called My Life on the d List, which apparently she bought back the rights to Kathy said, all right, you’re gonna laugh. I’m watching TV one night and I see remember those Carol Burnett ads where she was like by the Carol Burnette Show on DVD like an idiot. Took years in tons of money, but I bought back my life on the d list, the Kathy Talk Show and all of my nineteen specials from Bravo, NBC Universal.
It cost me a fortune and lots of lawyers. Then I own my library right, very proud of myself, and I feel like a kick ass businesswoman. No one wants to buy it, not even Peacocks. I’m just gonna start putting it on YouTube, and I think on YouTube you get like a dollar per million views. God help me.
People profiled some of the best voice actors in the industry. They are, of course, Sadie Sandler and Sonny Sandler, who happened to be related to Adam Sandler and happened to be in his new movie Leo. At the premiere, Adam Sandler spoke to people about the advice he has shared with them about their career so far. Adam Sandler said, I tell them to make sure you feel good about what you do and how hard you worked, and you judge yourself. Don’t let too many people try to get in your head.
If you feel like you gave it, you’re all. That’s all you can ask. It’s always fun to be with my family. Adam Willee Sandler’s work together on any other projects. He said, you never know.
We had a great time at that bot mits of a movie and this one. We started doing this four years ago, and they grew up a little bit while doing this movie, so it’s been really nice and cracked. Asked, can Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills cop axl Fully be the top gun Maverick of comedy? My initial reaction was no, and then I thought about it and went, hmm, maybe. Empire Magazine released a photo of Eddie as axel Fully.
He’s giving off serious eighties vibes in a Detroit Lions lettermange jacket, swaggering around when it appears to be an overturned car. Everyone’s back Eddie Murphy. Judge Reinhold, Paul Reiser, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said, any time Eddie Murphy walks on set, and you never know what you’re gonna get, and it’s always pretty brilliant that’s your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too, And you can follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get your shows.
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