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Oh my god, I’m so upset. Every time I do a zoom call, it resets the audio levels. Like I work to make this thing try and sound good. And I caught it before I recorded today, and I adjusted the levels.
And then as you hear, I’ll get into this big thing about pizza in the second …
So if the first fifteen minutes or so sounds a little wonky, that’s what happened. Then after the pizza story, I caught it. Ah, this is so annoying, but I have my good fastball today and I don’t want to redo the whole show. I hope you understand, all right, let’s hit it. Caloroga Shark Media.
Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily company news. There was obviously some sort of Trevor Noah news embargo. I prepped the show early on Wednesday because I had to do an airport run.
And then I came back and I’m like, let me see if there’s anything new, And th…
At ten a m. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Trevor. He’s hosting any Grammy Awards for the fourth time. He’s hosting it on Sunday. Back in twenty twenty, Trivor was not the host, but he was nominated for Best Comedy Album.
Again. Longtime listeners know this. Trevor Noah doesn’t have a comedy album. He has a comedy special that was released, but the Grammys and I how define albums differently. I wish they were a Trevor Noah comedy album.
I would play it on Live one, but there’s no such thing. Even though he got a nomination for her Best Comedy Album at the twenty twenty Grammys, we lost to Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones, which really isn’t an album either. That one, at least Chappelle put out like nine copies on vinyl, so theoretically it was an album. This year, Trevor Noah is going up against Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage Special not an album, Wanda Sykes I’m an Entertainer Special not an album, Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love special, not an album, Jenny Mack. What’s an album?
An album is something that’s preferably audio for, but at least has an version of it that I can buy, like on a CD or a cassette or vinyl or an MP three and just listen to it. These things don’t even get repurposed these days anyway. Trevor Noah says, I’m nominated alongside my heroes one of Psykes, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I don’t ever take those moments for granted. I think to myself how crazy it is to even be in the same category as these people.
When I was thinking of doing comedy, Dave Chappelle was a ready and accomplished comedian. When I was thinking of starting to maybe tell somebody joke, Chris Rock was already one of the biggest comedians in the world, and I guess he realized, oh, I’d better say something about Wanda, and the same goes for Wanda Sykes. Nice save Trevor. So. I’ve never been somebody who’s in a rush to win or be thought of as the best at anything.
I’m really, really, really not even saying this just to be humble or anything. I’m really happy and grateful to just be in that company. Trevor is nominated for I Wish You Would, which is a special non album, while Dave Chappelle is nominated for What’s in a Name, which is a special not album. Trevor says, I’m glad it’s happening in my fourth year hosting the awards, because I think in my first year that would have been an emotional overload being nominated for a Grammy so ohm amentas that, I don’t know how you could focus on hosting a show at the same time, and hosting the show is so much stress. There’s so much that’s happening live that you don’t want to be distracted by this idea that you may or may not win an award.
This may be the perfect time for it to happen a lot more Trevor Noah over the next few days. Like I mentioned at the top, there’s a zillion articles all of a sudden. Rolling Stone says that they can exclusively reveal that Sebastian Maniscalco will break the record for most consecutive comedy shows at Madison Square Garden. He’s added a fifth night to his New York City stand. He sold out shows September eighteenth through the twenty first.
He has now added a fifth show September twenty second. There was a press release. I’ll get to split the press release here. All these quotes are attached to Sebastian Manuscalco. The first quote attached to Sebastian.
I think he might have said, I am sincerely humbled and filled with gratitude for the unwavering support of my fans granted me the extraordinary opportunity to perform five consecutive historic knights at the world’s most famous arena, New York City, especially MSG has shown me so much love. Maybe he said that I’ve worked on some presh releases in the past. I could see. Maybe a publicist wrote that in as Sebastian, Hey, you’re right with this quote and him going yeah, this next part, yeah. Maybe he said my only goal when I got into this business was to perform for a living, and since it’s taken me for ride, I’ve only dreamed of breaking my own personal record.
Here is not just a milestone, but a testament to Sebastian use the word testament, but a testament to the amazing connection we share and love for comedy. Thank you for the overwhelming support and making this journey unforgettable. All right, maybe he said that, But here I have in my show notes I wrote ridiculous quote. Are you ready for a ridiculous quote? This ridiculous quote is attributed to Sebastian Maniscalco, who supposedly said, quote, brace yourselves for an elevated comedy tour, a unique experience unlike anything I’ve embarked upon in the past.
From roasting today’s absurdities, non existent manners, wallet wincing prices, and the social media circus. We’ll all laugh at the wrongs in this shameless world. Nice that as he was giving a quote, he even used the press release rule of three. There come on, guys, the other thing that all of a sudden has a ton of press. Curb your enthusiasm.
Also back on Sunday, Larry David announced a short tour. He will join a Mystery Moderator in Washington on March twenty ninth and in Boston on April first. Tickets for a Conversation with Larry David and Mystery Moderator now on sale. Larry said, Hi everyone, it’s Larry. I’m really looking forward to seeing you all.
Just so you know, I’ve recently had plastic surgery on my face and the doctor, which everyone raved about, totally watched it, leaving me a devoid of all expressions. So if I seem more sour than usual, that’s the reason. But don’t let it stop you from having fun. Now, that’s a quote that sounds like Larry David actually said that, or at least wrote it. Larry will also headline a Palyfest on April eighteenth with the Curb Gang, including Jeff Garland, Suzy Smnd, Cheryl Hines, JB.
Smooth, Richard Lewis, and Ted Danson. And how about this Friday through Sunday, Max HBO Max HBBO Max Max Max HBO Max will stage a real life version of Latte Larry’s the Spike Store Cafe at the center of Season ten. I’ll give you the address in a second Get Out of Pen if you’re in California. Latze Larry’s will be serving up hot cups of spie and extra dry scones in Culver City twelve four to thirty Washington Avenue and Venice Beach fifty six Winward Friday through Sundays, seven am to four pm. The menu features vegan options, and stores will carry limit edition manates, carby Your Enthusiasm, collaborative t shirts and mugs, plus a special Blends signature roast of latte Larry’s Beans.
There’s a limit of one coffee and scone per customer while supplies last. That’s fun. Bill Simmons as Larry David on the newest edition of his podcast that I didn’t get to listen to it yet. I did pull the transcript, and for Today’s Daily Comedy News, I just pulled a part about the Jets because I’m a known Jets hater, and I’ll go through the transcript and pull some more stuff out tomorrow. I just didn’t have time to go through an hour of transcript that I haven’t actually heard.
When I’ve heard things, I make mental notes like, oh, go to the thirty six minute market, pull this part. But I haven’t listened to Simmons yet. Anyway, The topic is Larry David not watching Jets games live because he golfs on Sunday, and he says, I record the games and after the first of second week, everybody knows. Don’t text me, I’m gonna watch the game later on. So this goes on until I send a text out and go I don’t give a shoot anymore.
Just tell me what’s happening. You can text me during the game. It doesn’t matter. It’s over. So Bill Simmons was like, last year, what was that around Week thirteen?
Simmons says, it seemed like there was a moment last season where the Jets were gonna suck you back in, that they were lingering and maybe Aaron Rodgers would come back. Larry said, I never believe that for a second. That was ridiculous. The Street with the loaded headline bud Light partners with right wing comic fired for racist comments. The subheading the comedian lost his job at Saturday Night Line before he even started you know it is now and he also made homophobic comments and jokes.
Now, Annheuser Busch has leaned further into politics by partnering with right wing comedian Shane Gillis. Gillis and bud Light shared the news on Insta. Shane posted a picture of himself at a brewery saying excited to announce partnership with bud Light. Hashtag bud Light partner. The Street reminds us in a bit of a loaded way, while he’s not a household name.
Gillis became more famous for job he loss than any job he’s head. The comedian was hired in twenty nineteen to join USNL along with Bone Yang and Chloe Feineman. Just hours later, a video went viral on Twitter in which Gillis mocks Chinese people using several racial slurs during an episode of his podcast, and the now deleted YouTube video, Gillis and his co host shared a slew of racist to quote unquote jokes against Chinese Americans, mocking their accents and culture. I’ve never met Shane. I found his special last year pretty funny.
While I’ve listened to his podcast in modern times, I did not listen to it back then, so I’m not familiar with the bit. And it’s interesting that bud Light has now pivoted from Dylan mulvaney to Shane Gillis. I guess they won’t appeal to everyone, so we’ve been having fun all week with Remember, however, it was phrased renowned comic or world famous comic Bobby Lee, and then renowned comic or whatever he was Joey Gatto. So Fox Spokane wrote Tom Sagora, a widely known standup comedian. Tom Sagora, a widely known Stan up comedian, will be headlining seven unforgettable dates Calgary, Halifax, London, Ottawa, spoke Hanne, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.
It’s all part of the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. Fox Spokane tells US is first time the festival will be making an appearance in the States. They’re using Spokane as a test market, joining Tom Sagora, widely known Sandwa comedian are Bobby Lee no qualification there because I guess they assume everybody knows who Bobby Lee is and hilariously relatable comedian Jessica Kerson. All right, I feel bad for Liz m I shot her a note on the side. She had bought me five coffees on buying me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and was looking forward to me saying nothing but good things about Adam Sandler movies.
Originally I said I was going to do this Saturday, but now I have all this Trevor Noah and kurb stuff, and just editorially, it doesn’t make sense for me to hand in a generic this weekend and the next week in at Super Bowl. So maybe on the seventeenth, I will do it. Liz, I hope you understand.
Also, cards up if I put Trevor Noah in an episode title, it helps for SEO bec…
If you’re a new listener, Hi, push that plus button on your Apple app there and follow the show. So, Liz, I hope you understand. And Liz’s kids be nice to mom. Will Yeah, your mom is pretty cool. On Gossip Corner, Joe Coy visits Benny’s Pizza in Beaumont.
Twelve News Now tells us Joe Coy was at the Parkdale Mall. He decided to visit several businesses inside the mall. The founder of Benny’s Pizza is Brandon. He was in for surprise when a celebrity showed up to his store. That celebrity Joe Coy.
Brandon says, I got a phone call from the store saying they needed to get inside of our showcase that a customer wanted to buy something. When I arrived to open up the showcase, it was him and I said, hey, Hey, that’s Joe Coy. Apparently, Brandon owns a place called Vault four O nine. In case you’re wondering why the Pizzeriha has a showcase, they don’t. I left that part out.
Let’s see what Vault four o nine is here him on the park Dale mal website. Vault four O nine is the best in caps fashioning for him in the four oh nine housing brands such as Liberty and Kicks, Supreme, Bape, Yeezy Jordan, and much more. So. It seems that mister Cooy was interested in sneakers or something. While I’m on the website, one of the taps says, eat so Joe Koy, he got pizza.
I’ll get back to the pizza, but let’s see what else he could have gotten. There’s a place called Seafood Corner that could be a segment on this podcast. Let’s hit Seafood Corner and see what’s going on. They don’t have a menu up, they don’t even have a logo. It’s just plain text Seafood Corner.
They’re open from eleven to seven and there were no deals at this time. Please check back later. Other places Joekoy chose not to eat LVA Ho Tony Mexican grill, Auntiani’s Pretzels always good choice are Taco McDonald’s. By the way, if you like McDonald’s, we’re doing a podcast called The Weekly Mac that’s about McDonald’s in fast food. It’s strangely amazing.
The Weekly Mac wa podcasts sense Japanese cuisine, Domino’s at a mall, Las Mocha heades. Another Mexican restaurant, the Mellow Mushroom with pizza in their logo. Let’s see what they got. Mellow Mushroom makes the best pizza in Beaumont. Old ingredient combinations on a homemade crust make Mellow Pies the most delicious around.
Now in the Moon for a pizza, order a calzone, hoky sandwich, burger or Mellow salad. See how care goes in every item on the menu. They’re open at eleven am every day. If you’re curious, No, I want to know why Joe Coid didn’t get his pizza there. Then there’s Benny’s Pizza, which we’re gonna come back to.
La Cantina Mexican Grill. A third Mexican option here at the Haarkdale Mall. Chinese Gourmet Nothing, Bunt Cakes, chat Cha Tea House, Taco Bell in case. The other three Mexican places weren’t doing it for you, Burger King, Buffalo Wild Wings. Benny says, they’re bringing the best pizza to the four oh nine, delivering specialty made pizzas, appetizers, and drinks you’ll not find in your average pizza shops.
Seems like there’s little pizza rivalry. These guys are open ten to eight, except Sundays they close at six. Anyway, when we last left, isn’t my podcast ridiculous? When we last left, owner of Brandon was opening the showcase at Vault four oh nine apparently, and before JOKOI left, Benny told him, you need to try a slice of Southeast Texas at Benny’s Pizza. I wanted to change from what the old pizzai had, add my crazy flavors like brisket, garlic, parmesan, shrimp, just a bunch of different flavors that the city probably hadn’t seen before.
Benny tells us he absolutely loved the pizza. He actually bought some for his whole team. He left well over four boxes of pizza. We sell whole pies, but he ended up buying eighteen slices for him and his team. Why would you buy eighteen slices.
Why wouldn’t you buy two pies and two slices? We’re told Joe Koy went traditional cheese slice, or as we call it in Queen’s Slice. I hate whant to go to a pizzeria. I’m just this isn’t green to me as a New Yorker. I’ll walk in and I’ll go slice.
And they asked me what I want? I said slice. Slice means just a plan cheese pie cut in an eate and give me one eighth of the pie. That’s what a slice is. Just slice, dude, Come on, Benny says, it’s an experience I’ll never forget.
So this is the part where the audio sounds the way it’s supposed to. That took the wind out of my sales. I was having so much fun with that pizza thing. There’s no way I can do that again. I’ll never do it as well.
Who’s its sketch Fest? That was awful. I knew the levels were wonky because of the stupid zoom. Leave my levels alone, will yeah, every time it resets them. Okay.
Sketch Fest Thursday, February first, seven o’clock the Bay Area pun Off sold out. That sounds like a good time. What is that? Some say it’s an affliction. We’re gonna go ahead and call it comedy.
Sketch Fest invites you to celebrate the contagious power of the pun, the lowest form of comedy, the highest form of intellect. Seven fifteen. Eight sketch Fest also sold out. Seven thirty The Bechdel Cast, Matt Bronger, Those Different shows Mortified with Jonason cool Ton, The Fast and the Furious and musical parody I’m making you go to that. There’s nothing that would be better than that South Asian af Boy.
That’s a great show. There’s a lot of comedians on this, so many tough choices. Eight o’clock Michael Shannon and Friends play Ram’s murmur That’s Weird. Eight fifteen. The wonderfully titled Comedians with Disabilities Act nine point thirty.
So say we all Vamp non Fiction showcase blend’s populist accessibility with an intense literary boot camp to produce polished multimedia performances of wild, absurd, poignant, and hilarious true tales. All right, if we were out there, I’d really like to see the puns? Can we do the puns? At seven and we’ll leave early and run across the town. I don’t know where these are.
Sketch Fest is pretty stretched out across San Francisco. It’s not like the Montreal Comedy Festival, where most things are within five blocks. If you hustle, you can get from one or the other. Seven o’clock is Puns. Seven thirty Fast and the Furious and musical parody.
I’m gonna have to blow off puns and make you go to Fast and the Furious. I love the Fast and the Furious. That’s like one of my favorite things in life. So I’ll drag you to that, and then for a late show. See, we’re also gonna miss Comedians with Disabilities act.
Do we do puns in that? I also want to see the South Asian Show though, Nope, We’re doing Fast and the Furious.
And then we’ll do a taste of Sketch Fast featuring a million Shetland Ponies,…
And that is your comedy news for today. I’ve got two stories, but they can wait for tomorrow because I have no idea what kind of levels I’m getting out of my computer now. They look fine, but I’m so annoyed at that fifteen minute stretch there. I apologize. I will do a better job.
Adam Sailor is right, I make terrible podcasts. See you tomorrow.