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Caloroga Shark Media so much to talk about. Gane gillis coming back to SNL, Dave Chappelle wins a Grammy, and did Taylor Swift murder Trevor Noah’s career? The answer is no. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac. Let’s listen.
You can tell that Taylor Swift is here? Yeah? What this she is? Look? Look at this?
Look at this. I say the names and they pop out Taylor Swift everybody. I like, if we should do it like this every year. I’m gonna say the people and they’re gonna walk in. Are you seeing what’s happening right now?
As Taylor Swrift moves through the room, the local economy around those tables improves. Can you see that? Look at this magic right now? Look at this magic? Huh?
Lionel richie now, Lionel wealthy? Look at that? Look at that? By the way, can I just say something before we move on? Can I just say I think it is so unfair how NFL fans have been complaining about the cameras cutting to Taylor Swift right, like she’s controlling the cameras at the games.
Right, Let her live, Let her live in fact to night on Taylor’s be hoffy. You know all what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna give it a break every time every time they mentioned Taylor Swift. I’m gonna get revenge. Every time someone says Taylor Swift.
I’m gonna cut the cameras to someone who played football. That’s what I’ll do. Cut bam, just like that. Oh yeah, you like that? Terry Cruse?
You like that? Terry Kruse. You better fix your face, Terry. Yeah, we’re watching you all night, Terry, no relaxing for you. Do you work for the CIA?
Terry ha ha, I can read lips. Terry, better watch what you say. Trevor’s a really good host. I mean, is it hilarious the job he’s still on the Grammy’s No, but he’s solid. He’s so charismatic.
One of my friends texted me and was like, why is Taylor late? I’m like, that is not late. That is so contrived. Sorry, a big flowing dress. Taylor is in full look at me mode last night.
You can follow all about Taylor Swift on the Taylor Swift Today podcast on This Very Network. It was Trevor’s fourth time hosting the Grammys. He joked at the show is the only concert that starts on time, and that his goal is keep the vibes going. He did a big rap about TikTok and Universal Music Group removing their music from TikTok, but in the course of shaming TikTok for ripping off artists, he joked, that’s Spotify’s job, which is a funny joke but also very interesting because Trevor’s in business was Spotify. That Trevor Noah podcast, that’s a Spotify podcast.
And I’ve been in the industry for a while. I’ve been at similar corporations. My guess is some executive at Spotify is going to have an annoying Monday morning with some boss going, why is our going making photocal initial TV? Dude, Da, it’s a joke. It over it anyway, Nice job, Trevor Noah.
The winner Best Comedy Album Dave Chappelle for What’s in a Name? Uh? That was my last choice in the group. What do I know? If you listen over the weekend, I couldn’t even remember what that was.
This was the forty minute special taken from a speech at his former high school where he defended The Closer. The Closer won Best Comedy Album at the twenty twenty three Grammys, Chappelle beat out Wanda Syke, Sarah Silverman, Trevor who should have won Chris Rock, which would have also been a good choice. Chappelle was not in attendance to accept the award. The award was given out before the televised part presenter Rufus Wainwright accepted it on his behalf. Wainwright goofed up and announced that photographer David La Chappelle had won Best Comedy Album.
Dave Chappelle Oops. As for What’s in a Name? This was the one where Chappelle said, the more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. I’m sure this is going to rekindle the Chappelle controversy. I think it’s a terrible pick.
I won’t pull my punch Best Comedy Album. I don’t know man at the Academy or whoever picks these things. I don’t know what you’re doing. We’ll talk a lot about the Grammys during the week. Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed, passed away.
He was also in the movie Happy Gilmour. Adam Sandler posted on Instagram calling Carl Weathers a true great man, great dad, great actor, great athlete. I spent Sunday I rewatched Rocky Rocky one because I was in a Carl Weather’s mood.
Also on this network, we put out bonus episodes of TV in the Basement discuss…
Those were Carl Weathers related. The other big story circulating, Shane Gillis has been announced as the host of the February twenty fourth episode of Saturday Night Live, Which is weird because you probably know who Shane Gillis is if you listen to me every day, and he’s got a very popular podcast and he’s hit with the college crowd. I know my son loves Shane Gillis, might even name him as his favorite comedian. But I think most people are gonna be like who. But the same thing was true of Napergatsy and he was the best guest host in years.
That was the best episode in years. But what’s weird if you don’t remember Shane Gillis was hired to be part of the cast of Saturday Night Live in twenty Nineteen hours after that announcement, videos resurfaced on social media that featured Shane making what variety calls racist, homophobic, islamophobic, and Masanja de jokes on his own podcast and other media. A week later, NBC Come from the Cast, a spokesperson at that time, set on behalf of Louren Michael’s after tuggle with Shane gillis, we’ve decided that he will not be joining SNL. We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as a comedian and his impressive audition for SNL. We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days.
The language he used as offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier and that our vetting process was not up to our standard. So my question for NBC and Louren is what changed? Are we no longer offended by such language or is he popular enough that you need to help your show in a bad year as we head into the fiftieth Is it that possibly? Yes?
Huh? Because the jokes didn’t change, Shane doesn’t have a time machine and made them go away. So are you offended by the language or not? Pick one back Then, Shane released a statement saying, it feels ridiculous for comedians to be making serious public statements, but here we are. I’m a comedian who is funny enough to get SNL that can’t be taken away.
Of course, I wanted to notportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction or respect the decision they made. I’m honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a man TV guy. Anyway, keep an eye on that one. I’m sure we’ll talk about that a lot in the next two weeks.
As I speak this sentence, it’s eight forty five pm Sunday night. I’m gonna cut here to some stuff I recorded earlier, and if Will Smith gets up and slaps Trevor no or something wacky happens, I guess I’ll do a bonus episode. The Gazette spoke to bobcat Goothwaite under the headline living well is the best revenge. They remind us one of the most memorable moments in the history of the Howard Sterns Show was when Howard and Sam Kinnison called Bobcat to end a feud between the two stand ups. The concept was to bury the hatchet, but Kennison wanted to bury Bobcat.
Goothwaite says, Sam was always talking a lot of crap about me. I looked bad when they did that. I didn’t feel like fighting when I was getting ambushed. It was one of the lower parts of my career. I’m sure if Sam had lived, he would have been in the Oval office with Kid Rock.
I don’t have anything in common with him. I broke on the national scene, but for him, I thought that early persona I came up with it was funny. I’ve changed so much from them. Yeah, he doesn’t do this anymore at all. I try to challenge myself these days.
He’s directing movies as I was thinking a lot about how Tarantino always has these suspenseful moments with not a lot going on, but you’re still on the edge of your seat. Can I do this? I tried. The last screenplay I wrote was a family picture. Can I pull it off?
It all seems quite possible, and he has in the past few years started doing comedy again, four or five years. I think he says, it’s great to have this opportunity again. My dog is here. What do you want? Do we need to go out?
Should I hit pause on this recording? I’m going to hit pause on the recording because I don’t want to clean up pee on the floor. And I’m back, John, why didn’t you just edit that out? I’d like to let you guys into my life. So that’s the border Collie.
She’s sixteen, which in dog years is one hundred and five. She moves him around well, she acts like she’s twelve, you know, a little stiff. When she was a puppy, she would escape and run around the neighborhood and we couldn’t catch her. I would grab my son and jump in the car and we would have to tire her out. And border colleiues like to herd.
So what we would do is we would trick her into following the car. So I’d be driving it like twenty five miles an hour and the dog would just be following us along, and then she’d eventually get tired enough that my son could jump out of the car and catch her. So I can catch her now pretty easily. But she moves around just fine. And if you’re curious, she did have to pee.
Where were we? Roy Wood Junior was on Audie Cornish’s CNN podcast and Roy talked about the changing wave of comedy and he said, there’s more eyeballs on TikTok than any two streaming services you could combine. So is an hour special still the lick might be better off taking your hour jokes and chopping that thing down into ninety second chunks and putting it out on TikTok and riding the algorithm to sell out crowds. There’s comedians I can name who are selling out stadiums, selling out theaters before they even had an hour special. That’s a whole turn on its head.
Twenty years ago. You do good on Letterman, you do good on Leto. The network likes you. They give you thirty minutes. If they give you an hour, then you could sell a theater.
And he talks about how the economics has changed the self producing You might not even need any of these people meeting companies and stuff. There’s a recipe that Joe Rogan set in motion, that Mark Maron set in motion, that a lot of other comedians have started to finally figure out and how to crack that code. You know, the bird Chrysier’s of the world, the Tom Sigores of the world, the eighty five sALS of the world. Audi then asked about Hasan Minhaj, you know the guy that we all think was going to host the Daily Show before that went sideways, And hey, Roy, love you man, You’re not getting the Daily Show. They’re trying to really make it clear to you.
They just like as a friend. Roy said he was accused of not being accurate with a handful of his stories from a stand up act. One was the idea that he was rejected by his prom date’s family due to racism. Another was about FBI informants harassing Muslim communities after nine to eleven. Another was a story about receiving a letter with white powder.
Each of the stories was fundamentally true, but, as he has said, some of the details were fudge in order to make it work. Did you hear that thump? That was the border Collie. She just thumped the door. She came in again.
Roy makes a good point here. He says, if you take Chappelle in this, this is a terrible analogy, says Roy Chappelle, jokes I saw a baby on the corner smoking weed. It’s a joke. He’s just painting the picture of the ghetto. There’s no baby actually smoking weed.
I think if Hassan chose to use, if he chose to change up some of the story to invoke extra motion to get people to pay attention to it, is that the wrong tool. But at the source material is the racism still there? Is the xenophobia still there? Or all the things he’s trying to shine a light on do they actually exist? And to me they do.
What happened tick some people off, especially Daily Show viewers, because for them there’s no difference between desk joke and stage joke. But there is, and so for them if you’re Comedy Central, half these corporations aren’t going to bat for talent anyway. But was he ever not factual at Patriot Act? To me, that’s the question because in my brain, as a comedian, desk Hassan nailed it, did everything he was supposed to do over the Patriot Act, won a couple Emmys. But if you question comedy Hassan, then you’re gonna automatically question the Daily Show Hassan, But at no point did anybody go back and bet anything he said at Patriot Act, or if they did, it all checked out.
This is kind of fun. Faulty Towers, the John Clees hotel sitcom from the seventies, has been adapted for London’s West End. John has written a two hour play based on three of the original episodes. Those are The Hotel Inspector and the Germans from season one and season two’s Communication Problems. If you’re not hip to Faulty Towers, there are only twelve episodes total.
That’s the way the Birds do things. We now do that over here with Netflix. Apparently I missed twenty five episode seasons, don’t you The Germans was in the eye of a storm, says Variety In twenty twenty when UKTV removed it as it contained racial slurs. It was later reinstated after Clees attacked the decision as stupid. If you’ve never seen the show, the whole point of the show is how stupid basil Faulty is.
In twenty twenty three, it was announced that Faulty Towers was coming back for a continuation. I don’t think it’s a reboot, but I haven’t heard anything about that. In a while, we’ll see. Mindy Kahling is working with Netflix on a comedy series set in the world of pro basketball. The untitled Seas received a ten episode order at Netflix in June of twenty twenty one.
Three years I know there was a strike, but come on, let’s go. In untitled basketball show, when a scandal forces her brother resign, Kate Hudson’s character is appointed to president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied professional basketball franchises and her family business, The Waves. That sounds like a WNBA team. Revisit that that’s a terrible name. Ambitious and off as and overlook Kate Hudson’s character will have to prove to her skeptical brothers, the board, and the larger sports community that she was the right choice for the job, especially in the unpredictable, male dominated world of sports.
Brenda Song will star as Ali Lee, the chief of staff of the Waves. That character is said to be born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and knows where the bodies are buried. She understands the complex politics surrounding the Gordon family, having known the new owner since they shared a dorm room in college. She’s funny, tough, and even the biggest guy on the team. If scared of her, this is a train wreck.
I can tell her already this is terrible. Can you hear how terrible this is going to be? I know it’s Mindy Kayling. Everything she does is wonderful. Drew Sarver plays Sandy, one of the brothers and chief financial officer of the Waves.
That character thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and is often right hopelessly unathletic and bad at sports. Sandy felt alienated by his family his entire life. He now works hard to prove that he could return the franchise to greatness, or at least make them profitable. All right, So he’s the stupid male character in a Mindy Kayling comedy. Did you see the Scooby dooe Velma thing?
Watch that and then come back and be mad at me for critiguing this? Okay, you go watch Velma and tell me Vilma is good, and then come back and be mad at me about my opinions. Here. Another character is Ness Gordon, the emotionally sensitive general manager of the La Waves. Ness has an infectious enthusiasm.
Friddie is both good and bad Ness. Is a former player himself who burned out after one season in the pros now He earns for greatness in the front office to make up for his unremarkable career on the court, and to impress his siblings. A right been developing that for three years. It’s Always Punny in Philadelphia. It’s the fifth iteration of Philadelphia’s pun Contest, hosted by Helium Comedy Club February seventeenth.
This year, there are three rounds. Pundits has competing comedians performed pun filled routines. Headlines has competitors read madcap news stories and come up with funny headlines. And Pundemonium gives contestants a prompt from a hat and pits them against each other in a pun off. Winners of Pundits and Pundemonium receive a cash prize and a T shirt.
What happens if you win Headlines, you get nothing. Nathan McIntosh is taping a special at the Comedy Seller in New York City today, the eight uner bround. Gorilla says energetic, loud, and always funny. Nathan McIntosh is becoming one of the names to know in comedy Solar Opposites has a Valentine’s Day special. Solar Opposites was so good until they changed the voice.
I understand why Justin Royland had to go, but the new voice is terrible. In the last season was not good and I didn’t make it all the way through. Sorry, guys, used to love you, but I get it. The new special is called an earth Shatteringly Romantic Solar Valentine’s Day Opposites Special. The teaser shows the aftermath of a war featuring attacking parrots, galactic satellites in the Solar Opposites attempt at saving love.
You’ll find that on Hulu today and at the comedy seller in Rio So not the one in New York City, the one in Vegas. They have a showcase tonight, Greg Riguel, Jenny Zagrino, Tom Rhodes, Matt Richards, and Mark Cohen. Seven o’clock and nine thirty. Steve Martin is the subject of a new two part documentary. It’s called Steve.
It’ll be split into two halves. The first part is chronicling Steve Martin’s upbringing in years and stand up. That’s the interesting part. Part number two takes a look at who Martin is as a person today in his latter career after stand up. That’s the banjo part.
I won’t be watching that part. According to Vanity Fair, the films are so different that Neville had two separate editors working on each part. He treats them as two different films entirely. This will be on Apple TV Plus March twenty ninth. That’s your comedy news for today.
If you’re mad at me at the Mindy Kaling thing, go watch vell MOV. Let me tell you where film was streaming. It is on Max Max, HBO, Max Hbo, Hbo, Max Max. Go watch it. Come back and tell me that was good.
And that’s why I have no hope for this basketball thing. Okay, see you tomorrow.