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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Shohnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a top new comedy special of the year. I’ll tell you what it is in a second. It is not Rommy Yusef’s new one on HBO Max.
I sat down and watch that Saturday night. I hate the direction on it. The director shot at at weird angles. It opens up with Rommy in profile with the spotlight right in the viewer’s face. It was really annoying.
Then even when you get to a more traditional angle, it’s tight shots. You can’t really see the crowd. It’s Rommy against a black backdrop with light shining. I couldn’t focus on his material at all. I’m not saying it wasn’t good or anything, but after like I don’t know ten minutes, I was like, I don’t even want to look at this.
So maybe the material is funny, but that is not making the end of the year list. One that is Brian Simpson Live from the mother Ship. You’ll find that on Netflix. It’s very funny. How I saw a bunch of listeners in the Daily Comedy News podcast group raving about that one.
It’s really funny. It’s probably fifteen minutes too long. Somewhere over the weekend, I was listening to David Tell I think he was talking with Maren and how, Dave special that’s coming out this week is about thirty seven minutes. I think he said, maybe it’s me. Just because of what I do for a living, I do find a lot of these specials.
I’m kind of done and there’s fifteen minutes left, And that’s what happened with Brian. I was like, all right, this was really enjoyable, but can we move on here? But the uh wow, the best special of the year. I was laughing my hats off. I don’t know if anything’s gonna top this.
Just for laughs, Triumph the insult comic dog You Lucky Bastards on YouTube. I was raving it. I texted everyone in my family, you gotta watch this. I sent it to friends, you gotta watch this. My daughter came home and I made her stare at the last twenty minutes of it.
I was laughing. It is hilarious. So let’s check the updated rankings for best comedy specials of twenty twenty four. Number one, Tryumph, You Lucky Bastards to David Cross, I like that special. Lot three is Dusty Slay.
You’ll find that on Netflix, the Crosses on YouTube, then a bit of a gap. Brian Simpson and Taylor Tomlinson are the other two on my list. Those will wind up by the end of the year. Those will fall down to the high teens as more things come out and get between three and four. But Triumph Cross and Dusty Slayer are my top three right now.
Not on the list romy Yusef beat Davidson. I forgot that even happened. That was terrible. Jackie Novak, Kevin James, Rory Scovel, Don l Rawlings, Jenny Slat not on my list. As you know.
I had a terrible week last week and it’s just getting worse. Listen to this. I don’t know what the fate is doing to me. Adam Sandler, Yeah, he’s making a sequel to Happy Gilmore. I mean, life’s hard enough, Adam, what are you doing?
Christopher McDonald of from the original film said, I saw Adam about two weeks ago and he says to me, McDonald, you’re gonna love this. I said what he says, how about that? And he shows me the first draft of Happy Gilmore. Two sources say the project will be for Netflix. Well, of course it will.
They have a big deal together. Reps for Adam Sandler had no comment. The original grossed over eighty two million dollars worldwide. Stephen Colbert in some trouble with the pseudo royals Rose Hanbury. She’s been rumored to be friends with one of the royals.
I don’t want to get sued here, but lawyers for the former model Lady Rose Hanbury have confirmed that they sent the legal notice to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in response to jokes that Colbert made earlier this month. Colbert joked that Prince William was having an affair with Lady Rose Hanbury, which is not funny at all. He’s clearly not I’m not sure how this is going to work legally. Colbert is clearly a comedian making jokes. Who knows.
The royal stuff’s been amazing. I’m the writer on the podcast Palace Intrigue, and boy the numbers are the numbers are higher than they were when the Queen passed away. I thought that was going to be peak Royals, but Kate Gate has been unbelievable. Entry Griver Gear Show Seth Myers is taping a new special at the VIC Theater in Chicago Great Venue June fifteenth. It is unclear where this special will land.
His previous special was on Netflix. I’ll take a guest here. Peacock Great NBC seth Myers, Lord Michael was maybe involved. That’d be my guest, but what do I know. Tiffany Hattish has revealed that she’s been sober for more than two months.
She was on The Conversation podcast and said I haven’t drinked any alcohol, smoked anywheat or anything in like seventy two days. You may recall she had some adventures that made this podcast. Last year. On Saturday, I sat down in the Sleepy Cheer, was playing the MLB the show Game had some podcasts playing. Kyle Kanaan was on the Last Laugh podcast and Kyle has been super interesting.
Oh, I forgot. He’s also on Blocks with Neil Brennan. I forgot to pull a clip from that. I will do that maybe for tomorrow or the next day. But Kyle Kanane on the Last Laugh podcast.
Here he is talking about Netflix. I assume the comedians he’s mentioning here are the Bearded Bird crazier and does Tom siguor have a beard. Yes he does, of course he does. I just looked him up and I’m like, oh, yeah, that’s what Tom Sgur looks like. I don’t know why I couldn’t remember there tired, nobody’s knocking down my door.
You know, Netflix isn’t like, you know what we need is another guy with a beard. They got, they got their They got their dudes. They got their bearded white dudes over there that aren’t and also aren’t touching on political points, you know, So they got they got their guys. Next clip, but like this one a lot. Kyle Kaneen on the Last Left podcast talking about where comedy is now, and I think he nailed it.
The comedy got away from the comedy part for a little bit, thank you, Hannah Gatsby. But there’s a lot of comedy now, Like I was saying, like where people want somebody in the end of the story they’re winners. There’s a lot of kind of like more let’s say Alpha comedy and like bro comedy and like and that’s it’s wildly popular right now, and that’s great. It’s not the thing that I do. But also there’s there’s good and bad and every iteration of comedy, like my my thing was in the twenty tens, and it was when alt comedy was really ride and high at the end of the first decade and beginning a second dec decade of the century, which is weird to speak like that, but it was like all comedy, and there was some that was the stuff that I loved and appreciate it.
I don’t necessarily, I don’t think I do all comedy, but that’s what I liked, was being very honest about yourself and and that kind abused by so many hack alt comics of like, oh, I can just talk about my mental illness without any punchlines. And his third and final clip that I’ve pulled is about thirty second comedians. You know, people that have one good clip that goes viral on TikTok and suddenly they have Netflix specials. You know that kind of comedian. I’m with you on this, Kyle, the thirty to thirty second clips, like the kind of disposable, consumable fast food of comedy.
Right now, that’s fine, that’s you know, if if your thirty second clip gets you a million followers on social media and you sell tickets and then the people that bought those those tickets saw uce a good hour from you. Fantastic. You did a great job, you used the available marketing, and you are still a great comic. If you got a thirty second clips and then your hour sucks, I don’t know if anybody’s gonna come see you the next time you do an hour, So you’ve you dug your own grave with that one. But well, yeah, Or if you’re a seventy second clip gets you a Netflix special that’s an hour and you can’t deliver on it, But then that’s a that’s a problem too.
Yeah, I mean there is something to knowing. I mean, you have these vultures that exist in showbiz that’s like, oh, you’re just hot right now, so let’s let’s squeeze you till we can’t get any more dollars out of you, and you will be disposed of. You will be run through by a manager or an agent being like, he doesn’t have an hour, he sucks that stand up, but his YouTube characters are great. Book them on the road fifty dollars tickets and once that number starts going down, your phone calls will be returned. I also listened to Davitel on Mark Marin.
They were really in their groove there, so you might want to check that one out. I see a tell Is on Rogan. I haven’t had a chance to check that out. I mean, I can only sit in the sleepy chair and play video games for so long I am an adult at some point. The Moontower Comedy Festival will take place from April tenth through the twenty first is unclear to me.
So moon Tower is just for laughs, Moontower, and we saw the Montreal festival went sideways and I’m not seeing any just for laugh branding on the Moontwer website. Now, this was a successful festival in the past, and then it became jfl Moontower, so I don’t know where that relationship is right now. Regardless, the festival will be coming up. Jane Gillis, you know he was canceled. Now he’s not canceled at all.
He’s headlining the festival. Ronny Chieng and Tim Robinson will also perform. Andrew Schultz will beat the Moody Center, Margaret Chow, Nicole Bayer, Tim Robinson and if I click on here on this little graphic they made to see who they’re spotlighting. All right, Well, You can always tell who they find important by the font. So big font Andrew Schultz, Shane Gillis, Ronny Chieng, Tim Robinson, they get the big font, next biggest font, Amy Sedaris or A Shaffer, Brad Williams, Darcy and Jerr Remember I had them on last year.
They were fun, Desi Banks, Frankie Kenioniis, Jeff Ross, Jo Para, Kathy Griffin. Love It or Leave It? Mark Marin, Margaret chow Er, big Lea, Miss Patt, Nicole Bayer, Rachel Bloom, Roywood Junior, Sarah Sherman and Chloe Feyneman as one show the State first Bueller’s Day Off presented by Alan Ruck. Surprise, Mark Maren’s not in a bigger font there, So then we go down to font size three. I’m not going to read all these names.
Let me skim it here, Andy Kindler, Bruce McCullough, James Adomian, Natalie Palamides. Who’s fantastic If you’re Eisenberg, Rachel Finstein, Rosebud Baker, Todd Barry, see Todd Barry should be in bigger font as well. Then there’s an even smaller font. This is like an eye test, I tell you to even read this, I have to hit control plus plus on my mac. Here is to get to font size four.
Let’s say, who’s buried in funt size four that we’ve heard of? Blair Zochi, Jaye Jorden, Genny Zigrino, and a bunch of others who were in font size four. I think Natzaro as a special out tomorrow that went on Amazon. She was asked who in her peer group makes her laugh the most. She said a Parna Naturla, also her podcast co host Fortune Fimester and May Martin.
Chris Fairbanks is one of the funniest people live. We were almost legally married because our roommate situation went on for ten years. And there’s nobody like Maria Bamford. When I see her, I just think what am I doing? What made me think I could do comedy?
Advice If you want to get into comedy right now, you have to make sure you’re playing every vibe save spaces though you don’t want to put yourself in harm’s way. I’ve done everything. It was a preacher in southern California who booked me on a tour of churches. I was like, I’m not religious and I’m gay. He thought it was hilarious and tell me I could say whatever I want, but I’ve done it open MIC’s at a Taco stan, a laundromat, and still not too proud to do any kind of show.
I did a vegan benefit in someone’s living room two nights ago. The man who was sentenced to jail time for attacking Dave Chappelle will soon be released. The man has been in custody since May twenty twenty two. Remember this was that the Netflix as a Joke festival and the man went up on stage, and I remembering Chris Rock and Jamie Fox were involved somehow, meaning defending Chappelle. I don’t want to make it sound like Jimmie Fox attack Dave Chappelle.
The man will be conditionally released to a recovery center. Tracy Morgan was on the Tonight Show joking about ozempic that’s the weight loss drug, and Tracy said, I out ate ozempic. I’m like Magic Johnson. I gained forty pounds. He said.
The daily injections cut my appetite in half. I only eat half a bag of Dorito’s. There’s a new episode of The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. It’s kind of like this except by talk less, and I can play a lot more clips for you on this week’s show, Ian Carmel, Mike, Vicky and Brad Williams, Arishfier, Andrew Santino, Craig Ferguson, and a bunch of others including Norm McDonald.
So I was listening back to the playback. I listened not because I have a huge I want to make sure there are no mistakes in the show, and I was listening to my half ass Norm McDonald, which is not too bad up against real Norm McDonald, and I realized my vals have to get better. I slip into a bit of Queen’s and I have to get a little more Canadian when I slip in a half assed Norm. I will work on that. There are several ways to support this show.
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You don’t have to do it, sign up for the free version. I just want to people to read my thoughts. That’s all that’s about, all right. The Melbourne Comedy Festival. I’m confused here.
If you go to Melbourne International Comedy Festival, it says it starts March twenty seventh, today’s March twenty fifth, and there are shows tomorrow. So This is why I’m unprepared. I was ready to do this starting March twenty sixth. Actually, because of the way time zones work. In case somebody is listening in Melbourne, I have to stay East Coast at US a day in advance.
Otherwise they’ll be like, wait, you’re telling me about shows that are three hours ago. Did I explain that right? Just look up out time zones or whatever time it is where you are. Now, look up what time it is in Melbourne. It’s tomorrow.
It’s like eighteen hours in front of you. But this is big festival March twenty seventh through April twenty first, and by March twenty seventh the Australians mean March twenty sixth. So let’s see who’s playing on Tuesday in Milburn. Okay, everybody understands what we mean by today. So it’s Tuesday, Tuesday, March twenty sixth in Melbourne.
And boy, this website’s confusing. I pulled down the March twenty six dropped down and now it’s telling me March twenty fifth, but there are no shows March twenty fifth. Come on, get it together. This is a big show. There’s probably twenty different things.
I’m not gonna read all of these every day. See what catches my eye? How about groundhog Day the musical? No gimmick here. You are familiar with the movie groundhog Day, That but a musical.
Yep. Phil Connors is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event. And it’s groundhog Day and you know what happens one hundred and fifty minutes at the Princess Theater at the Butterfly Club, Murder Village and improvised Who’s done It? That’s fun? At nine o’clock, Steph Broadbridge’s best dog joke ever.
At nine to forty five, Elliot McLaren’s Memoirs of a Methhead Chapter one. Usually they have clips that I can share with you, but they don’t seem to have any amp yet. Some things I could bump from last week from the Late Nighter website. That is a really good website talking about the late night shows. John Stewart paying dividends for the Daily Show.
They’ve now passed the eleven million subscriber mark on YouTube. Compare that to Jimmy Fallon with thirty one and a half million subscribers and Kimmel nineteen point three. The Daily Show has seven million subscribers. On TikTok, Fallon has nineteen point nine going back to the week of March eleventh. Apparently the Daily Show without John Stewart not working as well as they hoped.
The March eleventh episode hosted by John Stewart average nearly two million total viewers. The week averaged out to five hundred and forty seven thousand total viewers. So I’m not going to do the math here, but I’m sure if you take that two million out, it’s dragging up that five to forty seven a little bit. Yikes. Hannah Gatsby, she is on the cover of Rolling Stone down Under.
She’ll be on the Australia New Zealand to cover for the March to May issue, and I said, it was never my dream to be on Rolling Stone magazine, certainly not the cover. But why would you bother dreaming about something that’s highly unlikely? And ready is a special Autistic Bikini Queen is out on Netflix that came out over the weekend. Ian Carmel taped on Saturday night. He’ll have a new special coming out.
He also has a memoir called The T Shirt Swim Club. It’s a journey through the lifetime of being fat. He went from four hundred and twenty pounds to something a neighborhood of two thirty, back up to two forty, back down to two twenty three, back up to two fifty, back down to two thirty. His new show’s about confronting getting older and all the fun stuff. I was a pretty wild dude for a long time in terms of drugs, alcohol, partying and living, so I couldn’t conceive of a world where I lived till fifty.
I don’t think it was a conscious thought. But now I’m realizing I’ve treated my body very poorly, and being on the other side of that, I’m looking at life and all the other things about aging, like not being able to party anymore. And from Scotland. Last week, the front cover of the Herald Scotland, the world’s oldest national newspaper, reported the police have been told to target comics under a new hate crime law. Police training seen by the newspaper informed officers the material which can be deemed as threatening and abusive under the Hate crime and Public order can be communicated through public performance of a play.
Comedian Andrew Doyle said the best response to the Scottish national parties, and new hate crime bill is surely it’s a mucket and that intu comedy news for today. Last night, Kevin Hart was at the More Twain thingy, so we’ll talk about that tomorrow. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it. To see it then