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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News chat. Prather is a humorist and a podcast host. He went on Facebook to complain about the cost of his lunch at the airport in Houston. Showed a picture of a burger and said, at Houston’s Bush Airport this was sixty two dollars and sixteen cents.
There’s so many directions I could go with this post right now, Unfortunately, have bigger things to worry about. As I sit in seat one E of the United Boeing seven thirty seven awaiting takeoff, people started blaming Biden for inflation. The thread went crazy. The burger’s actually fourteen dollars, folks. I’m gonna start with a little inside baseball here.
This is from Ashley Carmen’s SoundBite newsletter. It’s about podcasting. This is on Bloomberg dot Com. She writes, whenever I’ve spoken to folks about who might have a sense of just how big the Joe Rogan experience it is, I always get the same answer. Huge.
Last month and Spotify quietly began testing a feature that shows just how popular Rogan and other pot casters actually are. The metric we’re looking at here is followers. By the way, if you don’t follow this podcast, please do, Ashley writes, and I think this was from Thursday Rogan Show. As if this morning has fourteen point five million followers, that’s nearly three times more than the next follow up program, Ted Talks Daily. So this is on Spotify.
Anecdotally into the I test, the podcast audience on Spotify tends to be younger than Apple podcasts. Generally speaking, I find Apple podcasts listening about sixty percent of the audience and Spotify about ten to fifteen, depending on the show different shows. I’ll pull up right here, I’ll tell you what this show is doing. So for the last thirty days on Daily Comedy News, fifty six percent of fifty five point nine three. That’s my hesitation there.
I will make the I did fifty five point nine three on Apple Podcasts and twelve point four to eight on Spotify. Overcast at four point seven three, iHeartRadio three point five six, and then a bunch of others. Just see you get a sense of what we’re talking about here in terms of relative popularity. Point being, you know, Rogan fourteen and a half million followers, Ted talks daily five million. I won’t read them all, but let’s see here.
Call her Daddy’s third with three point seven THEO Vaughn with one point one million followers. That’s more than Jason and Travis Kelcey Travis you may know at Dave’s Taylor Swift Ashley Writes, a podcast with Katy Perry as a host, only reached five thousand followers. Wow. Seth Rogan’s story Time got to one hundred and two thousand. Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis’s podcast has eighty five thousand Patreon members, yet they only have three hundred and twelve thousand Spotify followers.
Chopo Traphouse has forty one thousand paid subscribers, earning them one hundred and seventy five thousand, nine hundred dollars per month, slightly more than I’m making here, and they only have one hundred and twenty seven thousand Spotify followers. This show here on Spotify as a record on Friday, has on Spotify thirty four hundred and ninety three followers. Again, Katie Perry five thousand. According to Spotify. For my show, thirty six point six percent of view between forty five and fifty nine, with another twenty six point four to one between thirty five and forty four, and almost twelve percent twenty eight to thirty four.
Now, so we’ll see here, there was a spike on March thirteenth. What happened to March thirteenth? That episode was titled was Cat Williams Right? Was John Cena Humiliation Ritual plus Aamy Schumer head her Uterus Bronze and Jerry Seinfeld loves mad Men? All right?
Apparently people like that one. Looks like we might actually, perhaps possibly maybe get that Office. Reboot’s not the right word here. Showrunner Greg Daniels is looking to create a new series in the world of dunder Mifflin. He’s tapped the co creator of Nathan for You to help lead the project.
It’s not a reboot of the Office, but it’s set in the same universe. So I guess, like, I don’t know, Twight could drop by, but it’s I don’t know, a different paper company, or maybe it’s a guy podcasting in this basement. Who knows. You’ll watch. We’re all gonna watch.
Craig Ferguson might return to Late Night. He told the spokesman. I have meetings next week. Next week is now this week in Los Angeles for a show. I’m considering doing a show, but I just don’t want to do one every day.
I like doing a talk show, but not enough to do it every single day. When he left the Late Late Show, he said, I had enough. I enjoyed it, but it was all consuming. Some people are all about it. I’m very good friends with Jay Leno.
We do gigs together sometimes, and he talks about how much work there was with our talk shows. Jay was much more professional than I was and spent more hours working on things every day. The tough part for me is all the time I spent away from your family. The talk shows just take over your life. I’m grateful for the show, but I had to step away from it.
I’m thinking here. So it’s now twelve twenty nine. I probably started prepping the shows. I often will be prepping several ones. What happens is I do the new sweep and I’ll be like, Okay, this one needs to go tomorrow, this can wait.
Let me throw this one to the weekend. The weekend’s are a little more generic. So I’ve been working on the pod and I’m not complaining. I’m just telling you about my day. About two and a half hours so far, and I’ve done a bunch of prep and I’ve recorded yesterday and today, and I’m going to do one more.
I have a cool idea for Easter Sunday that I’m going to work on next. Oh that’s why it’s so long. I pulled here. I’ll just tell you for Easter Sunday, I want to explore up and coming Australian comedians because it’s festival season down there. So I pulled a lot of clips, so that’ll be more of it’s not a generic episode, like I put a lot more work into that episode than I did in to say, today’s episode, because I pulled I don’t know twenty clips.
So anyway, next Easter Sunday, you’ll hear a bunch of comedians that you probably don’t know unless you’re an expert in the up and coming Ozzy comedian scene. I’d be impressed if you were. Anyway, So I’ve put in two and a half hours. I can only imagine how much work Jay Leno did you have to prep for the guests. You have to actually read their books or watch their movies.
And you can’t wing it and like I can stop here and redoce something, and those shows, for the most part would be live to tape, so you got to actually prepare. The flip side is I don’t have fifteen writers. Ferguson talks about being a stintup. He says that’s the best part of going on the road. It’s all on me.
He was hitting Spokane, he said, even though I’m coming for the first time, I must say Spokane is my favorite city in the United States. He wasn’t sure what he was going to talk about, but I know I won’t be talking politics. I made a rule seven years ago that I wouldn’t talk about politics on stage. It’s a stylistic choice. I talked about this with Jim Gaffigan.
His stylistic choice is never to cuss. Oh cuss occasionally off stage, but he’s more comfortable not cussing while performing. That’s how I am about politics. I’ll just be there to provide levity when I perform. He now splits time between New York City and Scotland.
I left LA in twenty eighteen. It’s a one industry town and I had to get away. He misses interacting with his guests. He says, I had fun with it. I was happy to see Robin Williams, Gary Fisher, Betty White, and Kristen Bell.
Robin Williams was just what you say he was, but a lot of people don’t know how kind he was. He was the sweetest man. You know, Craig, if you miss interacting with people, you do have a podcast where you interview celebrities. You know this right, I’m confused. Robin Williams used to talk about stand up being jazz.
I get it, since it could be improvisational. Leno and I were just talking the other day about the music and comedy connection, and Jay said, you start out with your big number and then you go to a ballad. Comics think like musicians, and that’s not a bad thing. These have been long lately. I think the episodes has been really good, but I’m trying not to do like thirty five minutes a day.
I just bumped five stories again. Jerrod Carmichael was on Jimmy Kimmel during the week. This is one of the stories I got bumped Friday and Saturday, but it’s a good one. He was on with Kimmel and he talked about Taylor Swift. Uh, oh, be careful.
You know what happened at Joe Coy. So one time, Joe Coy was hosting the Golden Globes, right, and he told this horrible media here, let’s listen to this. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. And basically what happened was Taylor Swift and murdered Joe Cooy’s career.
That’s what happened. So Gerrod Carmichael said, Taylor, that’s my best friend. Taylor Swift is my best friend, but I’m not her best friend. She’s my best friend. Can you think of a better friend to have than Taylor Swift?
She’s very smart and interesting anyone else. There’s more shots of her own the NFL than on the Golden Globes. Whoa Seohnnie Mack? WHOA? Why’d you go there?
Anyway? They connected at a Bill’s playoff game the Bills were playing the Chiefs. He said, she knows more about football than I do. Kim Ol said, did you ask questions about football? And Drod said, yeah, I’m the girlfriend in that situation.
Tignazaro has a special out Tuesday on Amazon. It’s called Hello Again. Here’s a clip. My wife, Stephanie is directing tonight. Tonight’s My night though.
Okay, Stephanie hauled nine one one and a gigantic fireman appeared. I thought, I get it now, I could get used to this mommy’s home. I came around the corner and our son said, it’s just her. Does everything have to be a joke with you kinda? Yeah?
Eh? Right, eh. Seems like you’ve become the defecto Hollywood comic. Your social circle includes a lot of big names, so there were jokes about Reese, Witherspoon and an A List party. I don’t want to spoil your last special.
Do you ever worry about that causing conflict? Tick said no, because I’m not ever saying anything that’s mean. I don’t know. If you’re familiar with my Taylor Dane story, see it’s not a Taylor Swift story. It’s a Taylor Dane story.
Sometimes people will misinterpret that to think I’m bashing Gara, but I’m not. It’s more like, yeah, she was rude to me, but I don’t care. It’s amusing I’ve since met Taylor Dane, and I really appreciated that there wasn’t a heaviness to it. She was like, I’ve read been telling stories about me. Sounds about right.
I was probably a couple of cocktails in. I love ribbing people, and I love when people rip me, so I don’t run anything by anyone. Well, take NATARO, I dare you to make a joke about Taylor Swift going to an NFL game. I double dare you. You saw what happened to Joe Cooy, didn’t you?
Not? Tig said my special taping almost didn’t happen because there was a moment where I thought I couldn’t do it. I was touring Europe and the airline lost my luggage. I was just making rounds around Europe for two and a half weeks. When I went to the airport to try and find it, somebody checked me with their giant suitcase and launched me.
I fractured my wrist I don’t know, and ended up on crutches with my leg and embrace. Three days before he taped, I still couldn’t bend my knee. The outfit I was wearing for my special wasn’t what I planned because my suitcase was still on its own tour without me when I fell. It was at the Manchester Airport and I never actually picked up the luggage before the ambulance came and got me and ended up in a storage unit. It was the biggest circus.
And that is your comedy news for today. Let’s get out on the laugh. I just bumped another five stories. We’re gonna have long episodes for a few days here. If you enjoyed the program, tell a friend about it.
They might enjoy it too. See you tomorrow.