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I think my dog saved the days. Here’s what happened. Before I start any show, I always go check, check, check, and I tapped the mic a bunch of times like this to make sure the MIC’s actually plugged in and then I start. So I did about ten minutes, and then as I was doing the Taylor Thompson story that you’ll hear, my dog walked in and was like, hey man, I gotta go out. And I was like, all right, So I hit stop.
And then when I came back to your cord, I always checked the file, and somehow the mic had unplugged. So the first few minutes of this podcast today, the audio is a little walky. I used some tricks to try and bring it up. But after Taylor Thomason, I’m on my usual setup. Thanks Dog, Caloroga Shark Media.
It’s one of those days where all of a sudden there’s a bunch of stories out of nowhere. And I love days like that. And Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy. Knew his quick stop off at late night. Most of the country in a cold wave?
Is that a thing? Cold wave? Jimmy Fallon went two for three. This first one is pretty bad. But then he recovered fell and the entire country’s getting hit with an arctic blast.
It’s so cold in Times Square, the cooks over at Bubba gump Er warming their hands in the gumbo. That one’s lame, but I liked these. Next to today, I tipped to Katy was shoveling outside thirty Rock and he said, thanks, mister Fallon. I said, no, thank you, mister Ramaswami. That’s good Fallon again.
It’s so cold. Ron DeSantis is burning books just for the heat. New topic, and I’m not even sure why this is funny, but I like the punchline from Kimmel. Donald Trump got fifty one percent of the vote in Iowa. And even though it doesn’t mean much, you know, in twenty sixteen said Cruise won the Iowa caucus and now he lives at the bottom of an aquarium.
I don’t know why that makes me laugh, but it does. Jason Sidekas went on Twitter and he started liking tweets calling him a loser during the Emmys. Some of those tweets the bear sweeping at Jason sidegas You’re done. One simply called him loser. Another asked how could Apple TV and Jason Sadekas, screw this up so bad another Remember you’re not getting nothing, Jason Sidakis, I like that.
He liked all those. So it looks like Lauren Michaels is floating his successor saw a couple tweets about it, and Variety picked up on it. Lorn Michaels, who’s got to be upset that SNL didn’t win any Emmys. This kind of reminds me of Oh say it, Bill Belichick that had this awesome career in the last couple of years haven’t gone as well. I’m sure Lauren is gonna really want to make sure the fiftieth season is awesome, the forty ninth season been.
I mean last season was terrible. Anyway, Who will succeed Lauren Michaels when he retires. Lauren said it could easily be Tina Fay, meaning it’s Tina Fay. It could easily be Tina Fey, But you know, there are a lot of people who are out there. You know, Tina’s brilliant and great of everything.
She’s a very important person in my life. My take, she’s the right choice. She clearly understands the show, clearly understands comedy clearly has been successful, and she’s tight with all the stars who’ve been on SNL this century, so she’ll be able to call in the favors. I think Tina fe is a no brainer here. Tina joined the series as a writer in nineteen ninety seven before becoming head writer two years later, so she understands the writing.
After she left SNL, she became the showrunner of thirty Rock, which she also started. Obviously, SNL will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with a special in February twenty twenty five. Lauren says, I will definitely be there for that, and definitely be there until that, and sometime before that we’ll figure out what we’re gonna do. So it sounds like Lauren’s gonna do fifty and out. Tina Fey is the right choice.
Deadline covered the launch of Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnights. They say the decision to keep the after midnight premiere low key was by design. They want to allow the show to find its voice over the next few weeks prior to the Super Bowl. Probably smart, Like any show, including this one, it takes a while to figure out what to do with it. I was coaching the daytime job for podcasts.
Every podcast listen to the first couple. It’s not quite there yet. That’s also true of TV shows, so kind of smart to slow play it a little. Taylor came on and said, I’m Taylor Tolinson and this is After Midnight where three comedians enter, one wins and two will grant participating. We’re taking the Internet and desperately trying to make it fun.
It’s gonna be fun, right, comedians. You’ll be competing for the grand prize of my father’s approval. It’s rare but winnable. The First Comedians where Whitney Cummings a partner on Tula and Kurt Braunaller. Taylor asked the panel did they watch the Emmys.
Everybody was silent, and she said there was no obligation. It was on Fox. We don’t care here at CBS if you watched it. I was just making sure so nobody watched the Emmys. TV’s dead great.
Broun Aller quipped, this will do well on the Internet. Thomason said, I don’t even know what awards our show could possibly win because it’s kind of a talk show where there’s no conversation. It’s a game show, but the points are fake. It’s vanity project, but it somehow makes me look worse. Panelists what award went after Midnight went at the Emmys.
Kurt Brouneller buzzed in and said best female late night host. Sorry, only female late night host. Had a segment called chick Chopped Tomlins Send. The panelists riffed on terrible TikTok cooking videos. A game was called what I Can’t Live Without?
They were shown random products and asked to describe why they need it. Suburban Dictionary featured real slang, like Bussin asking the comedians he’s the word a sentence. Another segment to smash or not to smash? She had to pick between Mario or Luig, Patrick Starr or Sandy Cheeks Garfield or chun Arbuckle gritty or the Quaker oah, it’s mascot obviously gritty. And the elimination game Is this still cool?
They had to explain why or why not? Animal prints are still cool? Bron Aller said yes, but the lesser known animals. Non Turlis said yes because with climate change we could remember what they look like. That’s good.
Whitney Cummings as an aspiring cougar. I need animal print to be in style, and if you don’t agree, you’re not a feminist. Cummings was the first to be eliminated from the show and was asked to apologize for losing. In a segment called for the Wind, bron Aller and non Turli were asked to create new holidays. The audience voted on the winter, and bron Aller said, today is Harbor Day, a celebration of America’s harbor’s the parking lots of the sea.
That’s Harbor Day, not Arbor Day. Everybody knows what a tree is, so what as an arbor Day? Just shut the f up and go with Tree Day, sincerely, Harbor Day up partner Naturli said, Ashley Wednesday, it’s ash Wednesday for girls with bangs, nor Turlie won. I like that one. Deadline says it was a bit of a slow start as they were feeling the room.
Then everyone got more punchy and edgy, letting the bleeps start flying. That’s an interesting note, but I have to assume that did test shows right. They probably recorded a bunch of these and the booking falling off a cliff already Wednesday, Paul F. Tompkins, Sophie Bottle on Carl Tart. I’m unfamiliar with Carl Tart.
Wikipedia tells me he’s an American actor, writer, and comedian, best known for being a featured player on the twenty sixteen Fox Gets show Party over here. That’s show number two. Tonight’s guests Max Greenfield, Ike Brenholtz, and Robbie Hoffman. You know Max Greenfield from Veronica Mars and Ugly Betty. You know Ike from roles like Eastbound and Down and The Middy Project.
And you know Robbie Hoffman quote American Canadian writer, comedian and talk show host. Robbie’s known for her work on The Chris Gethard Show. That’s show three. I feel bad for the Bookers and now I’m on the proper Mike. John Oliver spoke to Deadline about his relationship with fellow late night host Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Myers.
They all hosted Strike Force five together. Oliver said honestly that and I had less to do with the podcast and more to do with the fact that the strike was so stressful. It was nice to be able to actually lean on each other a little bit, not even necessarily anything to do with the podcast, just talking to each other regularly. On Zoom, John talked about back in two thousand and eight when the late night shows returned on the air one by one, it was so fractured because the hosts hated each other, and it was really helpful to be able to just lean on each other during that difficult time. The most useful thing being able before and during the strike to constantly be in contact with each other and make sure that we were all on the same page and we could keep the shows off the air.
For that, it was massively useful. Oliver was asked did his American counterparts use the text chain to congratulate John on his latest Emmy wins? He said, of course. How does he feel about SNL being in their category and beating them? He said, I don’t think of it that way.
It just feels so weird to beat these events anyway, The whole thing just feels very confusing. TMZ found John Oliver and they asked him about Elon Musk’s recent shot at John. Elon had tweeted, because it’s called Twitter, Elon about John Oliver the reason he’s not very funny these days is because he’s too keen to pander to wokeness, which is fundamentally a lie, whereas great humor requires revealed truth. Oliver told TMZ, I cannot possibly pretend to guess what’s in that man’s mind at any time. He seems wounded.
He’s definitely sensitive. That is a biological fact. As for wokeness, Oliver said, I don’t know what that means. I don’t think he could explain what that means, and I think it means nothing. I don’t know literally what he’s talking about.
From Atlanta Blackstar t K. Kirkland has called out Cedric the Entertainer for stealing jokes Love this Stuff. Cedric made headlines earlier this month after Kat Williams claim that Cedric stole one of his jokes. Kirkland was on the Art of Dialogue podcast. He reacted to footage of late comedian Message Taylor and Cedric the Entertainer performing the same joke.
Kirkland was asked, I want you to tell me if he stole the joke or not. Kirkland said, that’s stealing. He saw bit and took it and flipped it, but he was supposed to flip it, but he did it word for word. That’s called laziness. He believes it’s okay to draw inspiration from other comedians as long as you change it up.
He says, you could take a bit and flip it to your I give an example. I can watch a football game. I can watch a basketball game and create a joke just like that. That’s the ability to have when people ask me, TK, when do you know you’re a good comedian? And I know this goes over people’s heads, but it’s like a monk telling another guy who’s teaching karate kung fu, he’s gonna be great one day.
The day you could look at a doorknob and make it hilarious. You know you’re funny. If you’re going to take something, at least change it to make it really you. Does that make said not a great comedian? Nah, it’s one joke.
I shared this one in the Facebook group. Paul F. Tompkins is on the Last Laugh podcast this week, and I’m gonna pick away at this interview the next few days. Paul was asked, do you feel like there’s a divide in this country where politically there are comedians on either side of the line. Paul said, like most things, I think that it’s always been there, but it’s really been set up by a crazy degree by social media.
Because before social media, when I was coming up, there were always dudes who want to tell you what real comedy was, and it was always one dude with a microphone. It’s a club comedy and that’s the way it is, and that’s the real comedy. And what we’re seeing now is that it’s just jacked up to one thousand people saying a comedian’s duty is to offend, and it’s like, what are you effing talking about? That’s not true. The idea comes from speaking truth to power, which has completely fallen by the wayside.
You’re pretending these people are in power, like trans people saying hey, I prefer you call me this, and they’re like, nope, can’t let this happen. It’s just bullying. You’re just being a troll. You’re not speaking truth of power. It’s all doubling down.
Like Ricky Gervais won that Golden Globe and the clip is him talking about his previous special. That’s what people are doing now. The comedy is all about me and my personality. My cult to personality. If you didn’t like me saying this before, now I’m gonna say more of it.
It’s just gonna get cheers from people, because the idea is that offends someone else or it hurts someone else’s feelings, and it’s a drag. It’s not all of comedy, but it’s the comedy that gets the most attention now, which is really unfortunate. I think there’s a thing where you get so wealthy that you don’t like anyone telling you that you’re wrong, and you have a platform, and you’re gonna make it all about telling people that you don’t get to tell me that I’m wrong and you’re worthless. And in the case of Ricky Gervais, it’s such diminishing returns from the office to now. It’s a great interview with Paul.
The Jervas special didn’t bother me. I kind of got what he was doing there. The Chappelle stuff. I just can’t figure out why Dave has now quadrupled down on it and this last thing that it released on New Year’s Eve. I mean, there weren’t even jokes in it.
I don’t know what that was. I’m guessing he owed Netflix a Special and it was New Year’s even time to hand in the homemark. I’m guessing because it was pretty subpar for Dave, but the you know, I’m on the record. I liked Ricky Special. I thought it was pretty good.
I was pretty busy yesterday, back to back bulletins on Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the British royal family. Kate Middleton had surgery and that got announced all of a sudden, and then we’re finding out Prince Charles and me in the hospital next week for prostate stuff. So pretty busy over at Pallace Intrigue, the podcast about the Royal family. Where we get your shows.
The snow Jam Comedy Festival kicks off today and Sioux Falls, South Dakota forecast high today and Sue falls seven degrees with a low of zero yikes. Two shows tonight, one of them the well titled Frostbite Comedy at eight thirty.
Meanwhile at nine o’clock the equally well titled Let It Snow.
Also kicking off today. San Francisco Sketch Fest, which is amazing. I had the pleasure of going out there. Oh it’s over a decade ago now. Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall said, it’s just a very great festival.
They take really good care of you, that is true, and there’s all kinds of comedy, improv, clown shows, stand up. It’s probably the biggest most diverse comedy show I’ve ever been involved in. A sidebar. I remember where we were in some theater Marxis High. The host on Sirius and I were getting ready, maybe with testing equipment, and suddenly from behind me, I hear a voice.
I clearly recognize it’s Jim Rash. You know him as the dean from Community. I really wanted to say hi, just because I’m a fan. I love his work. But when I’m in work mode, you got to be professional, and it’s just not cool to be like, hey, Jim Rash, I really like Community.
You can’t get to Shelfie. There are people who do that, but it’s not cool. Scott Thompson said, comedians are so often on the road if such itinerant lives, We’re all over the place, and these specials are really good when you get to connect with people you haven’t seen in a long time. The Kids in the Hall have two shows this year. One the Kids in the Hall Unplugged on the twenty third that will revisit favorite sketches from over the years.
Another one next day is called Scenes they Wouldn’t Let Us Do. Those are stage readings of sketches rejected by the networks and censors. Scott Thompson himself is doing a solo show on the twenty fifth called King that is in the persona of Gay Lounge Lizard Buddy Cole. Scott says, I always like when the five of us can get together, and I’m extremely excited about doing these sketches that we weren’t allowed to do. I’m really looking forward to performing these sketches and from an audience to see if they work.
I mean, I know the work, I guess. I’m just looking forward to vindication. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article ten mussy events at Sketch Fest.
All right, let’s see what they picked tonight, Eric Idol, But Jeff B.
Davis talk about that one at a second. I’ll circle back to that. They have picked middle aged Dad jam Band with Ken Marino and David Wayne Tryumph, The Insult Comic Dogs, Let’s Make a Poop Scam got Us with Lacy Moseley Paul Giamatt’s Chin Wag. Paul Giaomotti plans to host a live taping of a podcast, We’re Deep and Riching Conversation The Only Goal, Redroom Orchestra tribute to Kyle McLachlan. The Fast and the Furious, a musical parody Love.
Michael Shannon and Jason Rducci play RIM’s Murmur That’s Different, Mosha Kasher’s Subculture, Vulture, and Evening in six scenes Mark Maren’s All in separately. The East Bay Times did their article twelve shows at Sketchfest you don’t want to miss. Well, let’s see. They’ve also picked Eric Idol, They’ve picked David Cross and Friends. The Slate Hits and Misses celebrity autobiography, comedy stars act out some of the funniest bits from celebrity memoirs, and this perennial festival favorite, Tinder Live.
Comedian writer and musician Lane Moore brings her hit show where she browses dating at Timber and audience phosts to whether she swipes left or right. That could be fun. Exorcistic Where Gasmick Go. Theater Companies unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist. Next up, we have Mo Willims and the story Time All Stars, Live Belove.
Children’s author Moe Williams teams up with a passel of comedy stars to act out some of his stories. W Comal Bell and Weird Owl will be on that show. All Right, Good One, an Afternoon with Amber Ruffin, Stupid Songs and Story with Kevin McDonald, some more kids in the Hall spin offs Triumph. The Red Room Orchestra plays the music of Twin Peaks and Puddles Pity Party. Luckily for me, there’s only one show tonight, because otherwise this podcast would be a full half an hour.
The one show is Eric Idle. It’s a show he spent two months working on with Jeff B. Davis. According to Eric Idle, the show will feature his favorite sketches, songs, film clips, sing alongs, and a Python premiere. He then adds, and maybe the last show I ever do.
Please come say farewell Wow. Eric Andre as a special tonight on Adult Swim tape to Terminal five in New York last year. This is Eric Andre’s first comedy special for Adult Swim. He says, we’re spilling ranch covered nightmares across America and now we’re entering your home thanks to adult swim and I let the dog out when I switched Mike, so she’s been out in the cold for ten to twelve minutes. Now I think i’ll go let her in.
So let’s call that your comedy news for today. If you like the show, you know what to do. Tell somebody about it se tomorrow