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Callaroga, Shark, Media County and Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Commuters were on the train, new Yorkers, just trying to get somewhere man, and there’s this annoying thing in the way. I’m just trying to get home. I’m a New Yorker. I have no time for Jimmy Fallon and Green Day performing in the Rockefeller Center subway station.
I know you out of towners think, oh wow, that’s so cool. Green Day’s playing in the Rockefeller Center subway station with Jimmy Fallon. As a New Yorker, I’m telling you get out of my way. No, seriously, As a New Yorker, I’m telling you get out of the way. I don’t care what you want to do.
I’m trying to get somewhere fast, don’t want to make eye contact with anyone, don’t want to talk to anyone. Get out of my way. Anyway. Green Day performed American Idiot and basket Case for the excited crowd. This thing’s gonna air on Jimmy Foun’s Tonight’s show at some point, if it hasn’t already today.
Green Day has a new album out, and the reason I know that is because I did some prep as the writer on the new Trivia show five Daily Trivia Questions, and today’s topic is Green Day. So if you’re some sort of Green Day expert, why don’t you finish listening to me and then switch over to five Daily Trivia Questions and see if you can answer the Green Day questions? Huh? Anyway, get out of the way, stop doing things in the subway. The Daily Show, specifically, Comedy Central put out a mysterious statement which says, we are grateful to the Television Academy for recognizing our incredibly talented team.
I want to take this week to honor them. Next week we’ll be sharing our plans for The Daily Show’s next chapter, Variety says. One person familiar with Comedy Central’s host search says the network remains supportive of the program, but notes that executives were keeping their talent choices close to the vest. There’s been some chatter that calp Pen could remain a candidate, or that producers might opt to go with Roywood Junior. After all, So my reaction to those if next week they go cal Penn to take over.
So so the Daily Show, I’m gonna go all right and never watch it. If Roywood Junior is in that pression, lease, I’m gonna go, oh, good for him. He put in the work and he’s going to be so happy, and I’ll be happy for him, and I’m never gonna watch it. Some of the other people who have filled in, does any of this excite you? Al Franken, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, John Leguizamo, Hassan, who’s not getting the gig now, Marlon Wayans, Wanda Sykes, Chelsea Handler might be interesting, Dale Hugley, Michelle Wolfe.
Actually, Michelle Wolf would be awesome Jesus nice, right, I’m trying to remember he wasn’t good at it, right, And Charlemagne the God would be interesting as well, for whatever it’s worth, Comedy Central gave two chances behind the Desk to Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, Kalpenn and Charlemagne. They also experimented with having the correspondence host. I don’t know. I don’t have a solution for you over there either. I think Michelle Wolf would be a lot of fun.
Let’s go with Michelle Wolf, but they don’t seem to be anyway. Bo Burnham is not dead. Why are you bringing this up, Johnny Mack, why would we think Bo Burnham was dead? Burnham had previously posted on his website that he would die on January seventh, teenth, twenty twenty four, and he recently wiped his social media of any posts. In past interviews, he had said he had planned to die by suicide on January seventeenth, twenty twenty four, because his dog would die honor before that date and he couldn’t bear to live without his dog.
Newsweek has reached out to Burnham’s representatives buy email for comment. No word yet. So I guess it’s possible he’s dead, but I don’t think he is. Bo Burnham had posted an image on his website with text over it that read, I came out of my mother on August twenty first, nineteen ninety and I will die on January seventeenth, twenty twenty four.
Also, I have a dog named Bruce and I love him.
If he goes, I have to go. The interview asked, so you just estimated when your dog’s gonna die, and Bo Burnham agreed. Many fans speculate it is a sign he’ll be releasing new material. Paul F. Tompkins in that interview on the last laugh made it kind of clear he’s not a fan of Bill Maher.
Another of your really early running gigs was on Bill Maher’s show Paul Who Boy Yeah. Tompkins says, I was very hesitant to take that gig because it was not something I’d done before. It was not a political person. I didn’t do current events comedy. But I thought, you know what, Scott Carter, who was the executive producer, believes in me, and being afraid to do it is not a good enough reason not to do it.
So I said, Okay, I’m going to challenge myself. I’m going to throw myself into this, and my memory of it is it didn’t go well. I mean, obviously they didn’t have me back after the first season. I felt like it was something I could do better today, but at the time learned to do it well. The show was airing that it was difficult and not ideals.
I gave him my best shot. It was not a good fit for me, but I really tried. The follow up, would you go back and work with Bill Moore again? Paul said, oh no, I’m sorry, I couldn’t. I could do that type of thing better today.
I would never in a million years go back to working anywhere near Bill Moore. Firstly, I didn’t have any difficulties with him. I just don’t enjoy what he does and it wasn’t fun to be around. He’s not the friendliest guy in the world. And it’s not like he was ever actively rude or unpleasant to me personally.
But yeah, not an energy that I like. The last laugh said that Moore has evolved into being a leading voice against wool culture, etcetera, etc. Paul f said, I don’t think that Bill Moore has really changed at all. I think that his politics and you could say this for most people, to varying degrees, all six really are how does this affect me? Bill maher And so that’s why there’s certain things he doesn’t care about because it doesn’t extend past his bubble of empathy.
So things with kids or whatever, he doesn’t give a wood. He doesn’t have kids, he doesn’t want kids. He doesn’t like the idea of kids. But he likes animals, so animal things are very important to him. But an issue that affects somebody who has a lifestyle that’s different from his, he doesn’t really care unless it’s something that can eventually encroach upon his lifestyle.
Matt Rife starring in a new movie. It’s called The Private Eye. The trailer has dropped. I went to pull the audio for it, and in the context of my podcast, just me playing audio of that trailer just wasn’t going to work. So here’s the synopsis.
Private Investigator Mort Madison a name that somebody would have in real life. I guess Mort Madison, played by Matt Rife, has seen better days. Matt Rife is twenty eight guys. A mysterious woman. Michelle hires him to spy on David, whom he believes to be her lover.
In the detective process, Mort himself falls in love with Michelle decides the only way he could be with her is by eliminating David from the equation. Oh no. Mort hopes this will entice Michelle to run away with him and they live happily ever after.
And then there’s a spoiler.
Why is there a spoiler here? I’m not telling you the spoiler at all, but boy, what a terrible spoiler. Private Eye in theaters February ninth. There you go, and you should go. I was excited for a second.
My eyes caught a name, but I’ll read it to you.
Also starring in the movie Denzel wah Wittaker.
Yeah, for a second there, I was like, Ooh. Bert Kreischer will be the Grand Marshal for the twenty twenty four Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Fest on January twenty seventh. This was announced by Ye Mistic Crew of Gasparilla. The captain of Ye Mistic Crew of Gasparilla is Truett Gardner, and the captain said, there’s no better person who embodies the pirate culture and a love of Tampa than the one and only Bert Kreischer. What a delight of Bert service the twenty twenty fourth Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Fest Grand Marshall, all I have to say is, look out, Tampa Bay.
We look forward to Bert’s energy and hometown pride to lead this year’s festivities for a lively crowd along Bayshore Boulevard. Kraser and this year’s Onirari community hero. Who is World War two US Army’s Buffalo Soldier Roy J. Caldwood. How old is mister Caldwood.
He’s got to be one hundred, right, He’s one hundred and one. That’s awesome, So he’ll be there on a float with Bert Krescher. They’ll lead more than one hundred and fifteen parade floats, marching bands, crew members, and more on the four and a half mile parade route along Base Shore Boulevard, starting at two pm on the twenty seventh. Sticking with Florida News, Miami News caught up with John Marcos Siresi, a Greek comedian you should check out. John Marco majored in musical theater at the University of Miami and said, I certainly did not take advantage of going to the University of Miami.
I was not a party kid. I was not a football kid. I was not a beach kid. I was not a Disney kid. He said his experience was much different than his of his younger sister.
Within a week of her time as a Hurricane, she sent him a video of Snoop Dogg passing her a joint lot of good buzz on after Midnight with Taylor Thomlinson. I was at trivia on Wednesday night and the trivia guys they were raving about the show and asked me if I had seen it. I had not but the trivia guys, they are best men trivia. If you want to check out their various socials they host the trivia then I hit most Wednesday nights. A team finished second this week because we’re idiots.
The question that we blew that we probably could have gotten the first place, actually two questions in the final round, a three pointer that we left blank. The capital of Tennessee has a spicy meal named after it, and we couldn’t remember what the capital of Tennessee was, and I was kind of thinking Nashvilla, Haunt Chicken is a thing, but we left that blank and we lost by one point. The other point we left on the board how many months of they’re in a trimester? We’re dopes and said four. Anyway, the trivia guys liked After Midnight, and they were two of the six hundred and eighty six thousand viewers who watched it.
In the final season, James Gordon’s show averaged eight hundred and six thousand live plus same day. So we’ll see if she picks up some additional viewers in the DVR realm. I don’t know she’s going to pick up one hundred and fifty thousand anyway, good buzz on it. She really liked it. Mark Francis, the host of Palace Intrigue.
He texted me about it and said it was really good. So check out after midnight, Taylor. I’ll talk more about Taylor tomorrow. Paste Magazine reviewed Dusty Slay’s special, currently the number one special of twenty twenty four and also the only thing on the list so far. Pete Davidson did not make the list.
That’s how bad Pete Davidson’s hour is. Following up in the conversation the other day hour special, I’m just going to use the word special because that’s what people call everything. So even if I don’t think it’s a special, I’m going to say special because otherwise I’m gonna have to do this rap every time all year. Jenny Mack is Dusty Slay’s thing a special or an hour? It’s an hour because he doesn’t have the body of work.
Even though I’m a big fan Paste Rights, Dusty Slay becomes an instant classic with his Netflix special. Working Man Dusty tweeted, all right, I always wanted to be a classic hits Paste Rights. Only a handful of comedians feel like an immediately classic stand up when you watch them, there’s just something about them, the way they care themselves, their jokes, the report of the audience that makes these comics enduring no matter where they are at their career. Dusty Slay achieves this enviable status handily on Workingman. Part of what makes Sleigh feel so classic as his style, both his manner of dress and his delivery.
Sleigh cuts a distinctive figure with a signature trucker hat, long hair, and big glasses. I’m glad they write this because I was gonna say, uh, you know, signature you might want to look at you to Freelander, but pays to address that. Yeah, I’m there’s definitely a similarity there. The Alabama Rays comics cadence on stage is so very much his own. He manages to both see him completely at ease yet throwming with nervous energy.
He’ll adjust his glasses, play with his mic cord such as nose, and rock from foot to foot, habits which he references in working Man. And it’s called working Man. I’m not dropping the g because I’m from Queen’s working Man with an apostrophe at the end of the working and yet you’re never in any doubt that Slay’s a natural up there. Yeah, he does rock. I kept staring that rock rock, rock, like he never stops movie.
He’s just left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. During most of Working Man, it feels like you’re watching a special that could have come out at any point in the last forty years. And that’s a compliment. Slay’s comedy is solid and relatable, not a fix to any gimmicks or topical bits that age rapidly. The only moments that take you out of his timelessness are some smartphone references and a very fun bit about weed getting stronger.
On the new podcast The Top Eleven this week The Top eleven Seinfeld episodes, What do you think number one is? Hmmm? I know because I listened to it. Will you debate the list? Do you think the list is stupid?
The Top eleven Where if you get your podcasts? On Gossip Corner, Jim Carrey celebrated his sixty second birthday with David Spade and Adam Sandler. Spade posted on ANSTA a picture of himself standing between Carrie and Sandler. He captured it. Happy birthday to Jim Carrey, who has made me laugh on and off the Field so many times, such a cool dude.
I really bust out the Keike emoji, but I will today. Jeff Ross separately posted at Instagram a group shot of entertainers who apparently also were out for Jim Carrey’s sixty second birthday. Not sure why this was such a huge event, but at the party Jimmy Kimmel, Howie Mandel, Bill Burr, Craig Robinson, Seth Green, and Ben Schwartz. Weird crew there. The Snowjam Comedy Festival continues two shows again tonight seven pm.
The Snowjam Comedy Fest presents the LGBTLL Showcase with Ryan Rodgers at Remedy at six one one or six eleven At that same venue at nine thirty, Snowjam presents The Hiring Crisis one, two, three, four, five, six, seventy eight nine ten comics on that show. I mean, it’s always great when you get see a bunch of comedians like that. The forecast in Sue falls for today a high of two, a low of negative twenty. Oh my goodness, that’s that wind chill. It’s not celsius.
It’s minus twenty, minus twenty. Oh my goodness. It gets worse tomorrow enjoy that. See falls, Dan Bublitz, I’d actually love to experience minus twenty. I’m from New York.
I don’t think I’ve been under anything, maybe like a minus four or some point. I don’t think we’ve ever had anything. We look that up. Well, the record low for New York City is a negative fifteen, but that was a nineteen thirty four. I missed that one.
I found this helpful website that has the yearly low. Let’s so I’ll go back to I was born in sixty nine, eleven, three, four, five, seven, six, fifteen, two ten zero one negative two in nineteen ninety four. Not too bad. I bet Dan Booblitz, who’s running snow Jam and is in Sue False, would kill for negative two right now. It is probably warmer in San Francisco, boy, I hope so otherwise that would definitely hit the news.
Sketch Fest kicks into gear seven o’clock Britannic Different Show, Joe Kimbooster, Different Show, Marie Fausten in Yuck, David Wayne’s World of Wonder that features Dulce Sloan and Kevin Pollack. Interesting Jepper Gay with Spike Einbinder. Jepper Gay is a wonderful title. We go through the whole list before we start picking. Seven to fifteen, A Tale of sketch Fest, Hilarious Habibes sold out eight O’clock’s at music show nine thirty Joel Kim Booster Again, I’m not reading everything here.
Nine forty five David Cross. Okay, so if we were at sketch Fest tonight, it’s seven o’clock, let’s do something different. Let’s go see Jipper Gay because that just sounds fun.
And then we’ll grab a couple beverages and at nine forty five, let’s go see D…
Paul Danky has a new album out today. It’s called Mad River, recorded live at the Savage Henry Comedy Club, a venue he once accidentally set on fire. Oh No. Jokes include a take on the Donner Party, his enjoyment of road Rage, the aforementioned fire, and more. If you’re a collector, there’s also a limited edition seven inch vinyl that has two music tracks on it.
On Sunday, he’ll have an album release show at Permanent Records in LA that’ll be hosted by Eliza Skinner. Paul Dinky’s Mad River and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, don’t forget go check out the top eleven Seinfeld. Do you like the list or not? See you tomorrow