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Caloroga Shark Media. I mentioned yesterday I’m trying to get into a celebrity beef with Taylor Swift, Pat McAfee or Kat Williams, or perhaps all three. I just asked the chat cheetpt to write a joke about all three of them. It’s pretty good, and Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The joke, Taylor Swift, Pat McAfee, and Kat Williams walk into a bar.
Taylor says she’ll sink for their drinks. Bad offers to commentate the performance, and Kat says he’ll add some punchlines. The bartender looks at them and says that’s nice, But who’s paying the tab? And Taylor says, don’t worry. We’ll just shake it off.
You can icce me all you want, Taylor, just make sure you get the podcast name right. Some good jokes from Late Nights the topic former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial. The judge had initially denied Trump’s request to speak during the closing arguments. Stephen Colbert said, but as twenty seven women can tell you, Trump doesn’t take no for an answer. Ouch.
Another one from Fallon, Yeah, the judge let Trump speak on the condition that he sticked to the law in facts, two things that people on trial for fraud are famously great at. The LA Times caught up with Joe Koy. They found him in his office in the Studio City, and they mentioned that his space has a top of the line recording studio and mini stage set with his logo on it. It’s a space designed to help JOKOI prep his material as well as develop new comics. He hopes to make it a space where you can give back to the community.
Joekoi said, I want people that are coming up struggling right now to be able to go to a venue that’s sick. I used to do coffee houses, and I just remember how I would ate going there because it’s like trying to tell the punchline and this mother effort is grinding coffee grounds during my punchline or washing dishes. I don’t know, what are you gonna do. You’re gonna go to Joekoy’s office and work out material. Don’t you need an audience?
I don’t know. I’m not a comedian. Joe Koy was talking about the Golden Globes and said we were still riding it up until they said, we’re live absolute cold reads. Never got a chance to work out anything. And this is not an excuse.
I’m just trying to paint the picture because I don’t think people understand in any situation, how is that geared towards winning. If you were to write that situation down on a piece of paper and go, do you want to do this? I guarantee everyone would be like no. I’m happy I did because I accept that challenge. I’ll host the Golden Globes.
I won’t even prep I’ll just show up and read the cue cards and you guys can make fun of me. Let me know, call me. The La Times asked Joe Cooy what grade would you give your performance? Joe said, I think I did well given the circumstances. I don’t want to give myself a rating because that’s subjective.
You can give me whatever rating you want. I’m going to give myself an A plus. I thought you just said you don’t want to give yourself a rating. I’m going to give myself an A plus, just based on the courage to do it. Courage is a little strong there, my friend.
I’m going to hit it over the head a million times. Whoever you could think in your head that could have done it. I’m telling you right now, they said no, and I didn’t. I looked at it in a different light. The history of the show’s eighty one years.
That’s eighty one hosts, and some repeated I’m the first Asian to ever solo host. It’s twenty twenty four. I’m the first out of eighty one years. Sandra Oh was the first co host, but I was the first solo host. Imagine if someone said yes before me, would still be at the eighty second Golden Globes.
I still no Asian as a solo host. So if I didn’t say yes, there still would have never been. La Times said there was a sense that you threw the writers under the bus. Joe said, I love my writers. I love all three of them, and I shouted them out and I told them there was a moment right there where I’m just grasping I love them and I can’t stop talking about them.
In every interview. They busted their behinds. Man, there’s a lot of greats that make rookie moves. That was a rookie move. Those writers are dope, and that was not my intention at all.
They were amazing they had my back and I need to make sure I fix that, and I will. I always will. It’s so crazy because the day before we’re all sitting right here is the first time we all met in person. Wait, the first time he met the writers was the day before. Nah, one time.
That’s all we had. It was the most insane thing, and all we did was just sit and go over it. And you know, there’s suggestions. I went up on my stage here at my office and just verbally ran through it. But it was running through our group.
Of course we’re gonna laugh at it. Yeah, that’s what I was saying before, about you’re gonna go to Joe Coy’s office and work out your material. How’s that gonna work? It’s honest feedback for us. But I didn’t get to run it on stage anywhere I your office play might be flowed, Joe Cooy, listen to yourself.
I didn’t get anywhere where I could just sneak these things in. That’s what it’s all about. It’s working things out. So given the circumstances, that’s what I had to go through, and that’s fine. Next question, during your monologue, what was the joke you thought would land and it didn’t.
Joe Coy said, I didn’t understand the Taylor Swift tiff, mind you, that one was just getting rewritten fifty million times. Never ran through it all the way till we had to walk out. It’s just weird. Where do you place it? And we kept hairing it and cutting it down.
But the whole intention of that joke was to make fun of the NFL. It’s like, the cool thing about the Golden Globes is we don’t need to do cutaways for ratings. Actually, if you had cut away to the football games, I was watching the football game that night, that might have helped. What hurts the most is me just supporting Tailor. I support her, I love her work.
I got nieces that I bought tickets for. There’s no ill intent in that joke. The joke’s about the NFL and how they keep using cutaways to her. I agree with Jokoy there. You’ve heard me talk about that all week, and it’s an obvious reason why I’m not saying anything that no one’s saying.
And it’s obvious what the joke was. It’s about the NFL. It’s like, out of everything that’s happened, this is the one you choose to go after. I didn’t understand why, because it was fun. When I walked out, Robert Danier was dying and I’m looking at him.
His wife was smacking’s back and smiling and laughing, and he was laughing. And when I did the whole thing about him being eighty, he loved it, and that was fun. I was like, this guy’s so much fun.
And then I did the Taylor Swift joke, and I’m like, what just happened?
Yes, That’s why I titled an episode earlier this week something along the lines of did Taylor Swift just murder Joe Koy’s career? Joe Coy continued, then, just the reaction of the Barbie choke, the things that are being said, It’s like, man, I don’t understand who I am as a person. You know what I mean, because if you’ve ever seen me, you’ll see just how much I praise and shine light on women, from my ex wife to my mom. That is true for every interview I’ve ever seen with the guy. My whole goal is to try and change that type of narrative, just to that look of being part of a divorce family.
I’m telling a joke what happened to society when we can’t even joke with each other anymore? I bought that movie. I supported the movie. Yes, that’s the story that the doll needed. And I’m glad because now there’s people that look like my mom that can support that.
Boy. He sounds damaged. Some other comedians were discussing Joe Coy. Laurie Kilmartin tweeted, this is a terrible job. This audience sucks.
They’re famous, nervous, and humorless. In ten days is generally not enough time to write about five hundred jokes, which is how many you need to find fifteen suitable jokes. Comedian Eliza Skinner told The Rap she’s right, if not lowballing it a little. It’s a wildly specific crowd, huge celebrities that are braced to be roasted on camera. You could see it on their faces.
They’re like, oh what now as soon as they’re on camera. Comedian Lee Cohen went on TikTok and did her version of what the monologue would have been. According to Lee Cohen, she would have went with Taylor Swift is here tonight, which means the property value this building just increased by ten trillion. Dollars. I think we all need to leave within the next five minutes or will legally be declared squatters.
All right, I took up the challenge and had the chat chept write a joke, and I think this one’s pretty good for the Pro Bowl. I heard the NFL is considering implementing a Taylor Swift Challenge, where teams compete to see who can get the most camera time from Taylor during a game. I also like this one. We were gonna invite Tom Brady the Golden Globes just to mess with Taylor, and then I asked it to go a little snirkier. This is probably too mean for the room, but not bad.
I heard track us Kelsey isn’t tuning into the Golden Globes. He’s afraid to see if Taylor Swift would finally win an award for Best Breakup Song inspired by an NFL player, Kevin Hart commented on the awards. He spoke to Sky News He’s not doing it. Told you about this yesterday, but he spoke a little more and said, whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now. Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics.
It’s no shots of the oscars, no shots of the globes or anything else. Those just aren’t comedy friendly environments anymore. I think they got it right one year where it was just like a bunch of personalities acting as the host. And that’s a nice thing. It’s a collaborative thing, different people getting to be responsible for aque, Act two, Act three.
But you know, the days of it being a room for comic, those days are done. Shout out to those who have cracked the code and done it right early on. You know, the Chris Rocks of the world, the Billy Crystal’s of the world, the girls we’ve had like Tina Fey, Amy Polar, Ricky Travas. I didn’t misread that. The girls we’ve had like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ricky Terva’s okay.
There’s a lot of people that understand that if you’re not an industry comic, meaning a comic that has the relationships of all and these rooms are very cold, so me doing it is of course, I had an advantage because I know the room and for me, I’m familiar with so many, But for others it’s not the same. It’s not the gig it was of old it’s too much pressure on the idea of a comic and what jokes and not jokes? So it’s tough. Collider reviewed Lift. That’s Kevin’s new Netflix movie.
I was planning on watching it on Friday night. Their headline’s pretty harsh. Hey, Kevin Hart’s pretty funny, right, wouldn’t it be great if we made a movie where he wasn’t ouch? They wrote. Kevin Hart is funny.
Even if you don’t particularly like him, you have to admit that, at the very least, he is sharp comedic timing, which is of course essential for anyone telling jokes. So why would the new Netflix action comedy movie Lift make him the only serious character and delegate the comic relief role that everyone but him. On the off chance that this was a great or at least unexpected idea, it would need a tremendous amount of work to make sense. This is far from the case here who I watched Pete Davidson special at least about ten minutes of it. It’s not good.
That’s my review. It’s not good. That’s all you need to know. As I watched it, I it sounds to me like somebody added some laughter. I programs comedy radio at Serious XM and had the radio on twelve hours a day, five days a week for a decade.
And I know what the rhythms of a comedy crowd sounded like, and this just sounded like the audience was laughing a heck of a lot. Pete.
Also, it’s in black and white.
Why Happy Days turns fifty on Monday, And there’s something called the Catchy Comedy Network, and they wanted your attention when it worked on me. They’re featuring eighty six back to back episodes. Their marathon starts at eleven am today and continues until six am on Monday. Then you can watch Happy Days every day at two thirty Eastern on whatever catchy comedy network is. Lavernon Shirley airs at two o’clock, so it’s a nice little hour of retro TV there.
Aprigancy’s in Cincinnati tonight. City Beat asked Nate’s what kind of stuff he grew up on with comedy whyse and Nate said, yeah, Saturday Night Live was big, especially in my high school years with Adam Sandler, David Spade and Chris Forourley and then Will Ferrell. So yes, and I’ll definitely stand Up, Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, Sinbad, the ones that were clean I could listen to. I wasn’t able to watch Eddie Murphy special, so I just end up watching the clean things. Would do some Bob Newhart, Andy Griffith, a lot of stuff like that.
They were curious did he have any mentors coming up and stand up, and Nate said, there’s been many. Jimmy Fallons saw me at a comedy club in New York, and so our relationship kind of began there and it’s continued for ten years now with going on a show. I talked to Seinfeld now too, so it’s nice to get to talk to some of those guys that has done this stuff before me and just learn just to hear some stories and learn from it. Nate, do you have any interest in becoming an actor? Nate said, I’d like to.
Trying to figure out a few things now and kind of seeing where it goes. This tour has been a very big tour, so it’s just finding time to be able to do something like that. I definitely do. I definitely want to create some stuff outside of just pure straight stand up. They’ll do stand up forever.
Being able to create this stuff. We’ll kind of live on. That’s the plan. I’d like to try and shoot some stuff in Nashville so I could be home and Nashville’s exploding. They asked if he has any news he wants to drop, and Nate said, yeah, I’m doing Forrest Gump too.
That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash daily company news. I’m going to take your money and now I’m gonna drive right past the donuts chain. They be getting my order wrong.
I’m going to the smoothie Place, still looking for a clever name for the smoothie place, and I’m going to get a peanut butter. What is it? I don’t know what they called it, but it’s peanut butter and chocolate in the end, delicious. See you tomorrow.