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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Chunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nick Swartson took to Instagram and took the Denver Gazette to task. This happened last Friday, you may recall. Recently, Swartzen was removed from the stage twenty minutes into his set.
He was incoherent, according to eyewitnesses. Swartzen posted a screenshot of the Denver Gazette report and commented, been a minute to address this, so bleeping dumb that this is news with all that’s going on in the world, Love my fans. I’m sorry edibles, alcohol and altitude will happen.
Also, I’m not the first person to try that combo in Colorado.
All caps good Lord Jose have been great after and will be Love you. Comedians are humans like everyone. Heart emochi. That got some social media reactions. One user said, hey, Nick, I’m a huge fan.
One of the reasons this is such a big story is because he went on Theo’s podcast talking about how you almost died from alcohol. We love you and we want you to be healthy. That’s all. Another wrote, get out, brother, ain’t no shame someone else. The three worst hangovers in my life was at veil and I live in Denver.
Ten thousand feet is no joke, Man, totally understandable. David Letterman was on Inside the NBA last week. He presented a series of ideas on how the NBA could improve the game. Kenny Smith said, is this anything like a top ten list? Letterman said, why would you say that?
Would it be bad if it was. Some of the ideas include five and ten point lines, team mascot’s getting all foul shots on the fourth quarter. I kind of liked that one, and a proposal to redesign the court to include two extra baskets. Even brought a diagram. Ernie Johnson asked if Letterman did that free hand.
Dave said, that’s all computer stuff. Letterman was on for like fifteen minutes. Here’s like a minute or so of that conversation. Not particularly hilarious, but I love a Dave. I didn’t know this was studio Jay.
Yeah, yes, named after Ernie. No, it’s Jobson. No really, Jim Reeves, the late Jim Reeves was a great video guy for us. It’s name for him. That’s lovely.
So a guy who actually put in time in this building. Actually, yeah, it worked tirelessly and make the show look as good as it does on some And the other thing I’m thrilled about is I think I heard one of you invoke the phrase mofo, which you know around the house. I don’t get to use that much. You know, you worked with us on All Star Weekend. You and Reggie Miller.
Is Reggie Miller, What a sweet guy. It was a real thrill for me and the production crew that I worked with or worked with me or vice versa. They did all the work. They were tremendous, and everybody here. When I was at CBS, everybody was It was like a minimum security prison and nobody was guilty, and everybody wanted to go home.
Here everyone is happy and they’re free, and they say they leave the middle of the night. You guys will be here till the sun comes up, and everybody happy and laughing going on. Well. Thirty years ago, Bill Carter wrote The Late Shift book, a fantastic book, and the HBO movie The Late Shift is pretty good. At the time people made fun of, especially the Jay Leno impression.
I think that movie’s fantastic. Bill Carter also has a new website called Late Night Her, which I’ve been checking out a lot very good website anyway, Bill Carter said, when I was finishing the book thirty years ago, I initially concluded that Dave had won because he instantly commanded the biggest audiences, knocking Leno’s Tonight Show from the pinnacle of late night for the first sustained period in the show’s history. But then Jay regained superiority and seemingly vindicated NBC’s decision to coordinate him, except it never fully resolved. Letterman retained his elite position in the late night pantheon while Leno piled up ratings titles. They could never fully escape being linked together.
That is true. Looking this in the rearview mirror now, I feel like Letterman did make the pantheon, and I feel like Leno is one of those guys that made the Hall of Fame because he played a lot of years. But to be fair, hosting the Tonight Show, you’re not supposed to if you see young Jay Leno on Letterman particularly, he was edgy, and when you sit behind the Tonight Show desk, you gotta kind of be more vanilla. And maybe that’s why Jimmy Fallon is good at it and Conan struggled a little bit. Who knows.
Bill Carter has another book about the Second Transition, the one involving Conan O’Brien. Let me tell you what that one’s called. That one I liked a lot. I read it on the plane to Australia one time. That one’s called The War for Late Night when Lena went early and television went crazy.
Also very good. Deadline reports that Stephen Colbert will narrate Pope Francis’s six hour audiobook. That book is called Life My Story Through History that went out this week. The Pope has a new audiobook, Life My Story Throughout History. He guess who’s narrating it wrong, Stephen Colbert.
Maybe he did guess Stephen Colbert.
Speaking of notable Catholics, Jim gaff again has his weekly column on CBS Ne…
This week, Jim wrote, part of me can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I like bourbon. I don’t know if that means that I’m an old man or just an alcoholic enjoying hard liquors. New for me. I’ve always it’s been a beer guy in the past. When a friend would say, let’s get a Scotch and whiskey.
I think, well, I guess we could pretend like we’re in a Tennessee. Williams play James said, I decided to surprise my wife by buying a couple bottles of bourbon. Don’t tell me I’m not romantic. After the cashier wrapped up the last bottle and bubble wrapped like with some precious historical artifact, she casually mentioned, I don’t know if this is a big deal, but this bottle of bourbon cost eleven hundred dollars. Does it matter only if my children expect to go to college.
It should have been an easy answer. Nobody needs an eleven hundred dollars bottle of bourbon. Haven’t gotten to this one? Yeah? It’s Amazon Prime has Ricky Stinicky that follows the misadventures of three loyal, yet irresponsible friends.
They are played by Zac Efron, Jermaine Fowler, and Andrew Santino. They are forced to bring their imaginary scapegoat friend Ricky Stanicky, to life. They do this by hiring rock Hard Rod, who is played by John Cena. Santino and Fowler did a bunch of press. They didn’t take any of it too seriously.
Rephrasing their comedians. They just gave joke answers to everything. Santino said on set, we meaning Faler, are good friends. We’re very different, and I think we have all these friends in real life that we love as people, but our lifestyles are extremely different. The way we’ve grown has been so different.
But at the cores that we love each other, we still love to have fun together. In real life, I would say we’re closer than we are in the film. We’re both comedians and actors and two handsome young black men, so we have a lot of that in common. I think Fowler said it’s true he’s pretty black. Now I’ve learned a lot from this dude, Like his knowledge about Rolex watches is pretty outstanding, no joke.
I’ve heard him talk about cars and watches in golf and I’m like, man, I just like listening you talk about it. The New York Yankees will give away a George Costanza babblehead. That’s on Seinfeld Night July fifth, May Martin is putting out an album, but they told Mark Marin, I’m doing earnest music. I’m putting out an album this year of the most mediocre emotional songs. The music is guitar based.
May said, I’m embarrassed by it, so I don’t know how I’m ever going to promote it. I might just put it out quietly. If a musician listens to it, I think they’ll be like, this is very mediocre. Tyberrell will lead the ABC comedy Forgive and Forget, you know Tie from Modern Family. Forgive and Forget revolves around Hank, the perennial life of the party you, after an unexpected diagnosis, reconnects with his responsible adult son Ben in hopes of making new memories together.
Mary Lynn Rice Cub You know her. She was Chloe on twenty four and she is a comedian. She has joined the Netflix, CBC and APTN comedy North of North. It has begun production in none of it Northern Canada. Part of this is Canadian governments will pay for Canadian content.
Not sure what the plot of that one is. Sean Kaine’s album came out last week. Didn’t get to tell you about it for reasons we discussed on Saturday. America’s Uncle Dad is available everywhere. Streaming audio is enjoyed.
Sean jokes about mass transit, yoga culture psychedelics, growing Up with an adorable lisp, and a takedown of Simon garfocal classic that they promise will forever change how you hear the song. Some of the tracks on Sean Kean’s Uncle Dad are Mom Goes Online, uh oh and Psyched Alexaid Karaoke Caitlyn Belufo. I was going to do an interview with Caitlyn and that got lost in the shuffle for reasons discussed on Saturday. Her new album is out as well, and she shared two clips well us, so let’s play the clips. Honestly, I didn’t think I had a drinking problem until I stopped drinking for one month and immediately lost fifteen pounds.
That’s twins, Yes, that is the weight of healthy twins. I dropped little little Morgan Rita right there. You know. My body was like, girl, we’ll give you abs. Just put down the sangria.
It’s not fruit, okay, all right. I thought the pandemic was going to be a party because I thought it was going to be me and my younger boyfriend getting hammered every night. That’s what I thought. But it turns out he’s not a big drinker. Yeah, I know, and I honestly should have known because I saw him take night quill from the cap, so I was like, we are different people.
I use a straw, who measures their medicine? What a door? Right? Get a personality. Spiked online dot com wrote about the sand demise of the Montreal Comedy Festival.
They said, Montreal is huge. Comedians used to scheduled careers and international holidays around it. It was crucially the North American industry trade fair for decades. It was the springboard between the club circuit and the five minute breakout spot on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or whatever thin Democratic Party propaganda grule the punch drunk American people are currently accepting as their late nights will supposedly, by twenty twenty five, Montreal will re emerge in a scale down format after a financial restructuring, but it surely won’t be the same. I agree, a scale down versus Montreal is not the same.
That was such a good festival. So I was talking about it earlier today that I’m sad about it. I want to go up there. I guess I’ll just go up to Montreal for Montreal’s sake. Now, like Don Lonon writes, you may be asking yourself, why should I care.
I’d like to raise the possibility that it’s symptomatic of something much bigger, much widespread, and then it should indeed worry all of us. My suspicion is that this is one of many events, former behemoths of live entertainment that have returned post lockdown, but in zombie mode. Lazarus like, they walk out in the light, but something is awry. They have no soul, there’s something missing behind the eyes. Yes, live events are back technically speaking, and I’ve been back for a few years now, but something is still just very slightly off.
Something’s not quite right. They then talk about how movie going has changed and wrote, perhaps the comedy festival and the cinema, or just a couple of entertainment options whose time head come. That’s your comedy news for today. I’m going to get serious here, So if you are just came for the comedy, you’re dismissed. For everybody else.
I’m recording this on Sunday, and this section here, I’m on stake four, as I’ve stumbled several times already, Monday was my mom’s wake and Tuesday was the funeral. I got a lot of notes from listeners, and I’ve responded to them individually, so I’m not going to do a shout out or a laundry list of you know things. Thanks to so and so and so and so. Thank you so much for the individual notes. It meant a lot.
And there was just an edit there where I choked up. I really really appreciate the notes. Everybody all right, we should be back to normal tomorrow. Thank you again. We’ll see tomorrow