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Kalaroga. Shok Media got a pretty big Saturday Night Live tonight. We’ll see if Louren Michaels is saying goodbye. I don’t think so. And I’m still buzzing about Letterman on Colbert.
Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now people are wondering is there more to the Will Smith Chris Rock thing. Yeah, that’s back. I didn’t expect that to be back. Today, Chris Rock was on the Fly on the Wall podcast with Spade and Carvey.
Rock was asked to name his five favorite rappers. During that Chris Rock said that he had beef with Tupac Shakur because they often dated the same woman and Tupac usually won out. Now, why is this interesting? Tupac Shakur’s most famous girlfriend was Jada Jata aka Jada Smith, Will Smith’s wife. Over the years, Jada has denied dating Tupac Shakor, saying they were platonic soulmates.
In twenty twenty three, Jada revealed that Chris Rock had asked her out on a eight years ago. She claimed that Chris Rock called her saying I’d love to take you out. According to this version of the story Chris Rock was taking a shot because he thought she was getting divorced from Will Smith, who knows very interesting. Tonight Saturday Night Live, is it Lauren Michael’s final episode? Some people are speculating that it’s a good time to get out.
I think we would have heard something. I don’t think Lauren’s just gonna suddenly walk away on a random Saturday in May. Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell’s your host. Paul McCartney is your musical guest. Oh my god.
Well, we’re so excited to have you here with Yeah, we’re big fans. Gosh, you guys. Thanks, I’m really excited to be back. Hey, Andrew, need you do me a favor and get off the stage? Okay, thanks God.
This place looks exactly the same. Yeah. I don’t think they’ve changed it much. Yeah, they even kept this. It’s very funny.
I was delighted by that joke. Get off the damn stage. So do you guys have any sketch ideas? Uh? Tell him about SpongeBob is a Circle now?
Oh, I can’t wait to see that. Okay, I see your showing off for Chlory and Sarah. I’m gonna give you a little show off my own. I’m gonna give you the beating of a lifetime in front of the’s gorgeous town and ladies. How’s that’s the stage?
How’s the stage? Yikes? That wasn’t Andrew? Who was it Paul McCartney? Oh sorry, Paul, you can stay on the stage.
You guys are gonna have to find a new host. Just start bowing, Just start bowing, okay? Late night or among those of us wondering, could Paul McCartney finally bring a Beatles runion to Saturday Night Live? Obviously John and George can’t be there. Paul’s already there.
Could Ringo come by? Paul’s promoting his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. On that album is a song called Home to Us. Build is the first true duet between McCartney and Ringo and the first song since the Beatles broke up to feature two members alternating lead vocals. I like the song.
It’s a little cheesy, it’s a little catchy, which kind of is what McCartney does, kind of what Ringo does too, So I like it. Their guys in their eighties relax. Maybe the vocals artists good as they used to be. You be of the Beatles now. Ringo himself just had an album called Long Long Road.
He is not on tour until May twenty eighth. Ringo has only appeared on SNL once, hosting an episode nineteen eighty four, and that was when Lorne Michaels wasn’t there. I think that’s just a coincidence. You may recall the story in nineteen seventy six, Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles cash to reunite on SNL. Lorne Michael said, all you have to do is sing three Beatles songs, and he offered them three thousand dollars.
Now, what’s great about the story is John Lennon revealed that he and McCartney happen to be hanging out that night at John Lennon’s apartment at the Dakota, and they considered going down to show up and collect the three thousand dollars. That would have been amazing if you’re not familiar with New York City, just between the Dakota and Thirty Rock, not a lot at all. They could have jumped in a cab. By the way, mentioned Lennon and McCartney jumping in a cab, but it’s in New York City that stuff used to go on, so we will see if they show up. Now.
We learned from Jeff Ross that the roast of Kevin Hart maybe perhaps could have been the roast of Paul McCartney. Jeff told Variety, we did ask Paul McCartney at one point. To me, that would be a fantasy roast. Paul McCartney doesn’t eat anything, but a Paul McCartney roast would be good for the world. Would be so funny to me because he’s so loved.
That’s a good segue to some stories that I didn’t get to all week. I’ve been holding on of these. But we’ll go from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones. The Stones have a new album coming out. Their last album, Ackney Diamond’s in twenty twenty three, was pretty good.
The first two songs from the new album are decent. The new album, Foreign Tongues, includes guest spots from people like Paul McCartney, not like actually Paul McCartney, Robert Smith of The Cure, and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Rolling Stones joined Conan O’Brien in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ronnie Wood told Conan that Paul McCartney was checking items off his bucket list and wanted to appear on the album. Said now I could say I’ve played with the Rolling Stones. Conan described hosting the conversation as the gig of a lifetime.
Conan said that the vocals on the new album didn’t sound a lot different from the vocals from nineteen sixty eight. Mick Jaggers said, well, I was taking a lot of drugs in sixty eight. Conan joked he was actually there to stage an intervention. The new record will be out July tenth. The Rolling Stones were also hanging out with Jimmy Fallon.
Fallon brought back a bit called real people, Fake Arms and did this with Mick Jagger. The bit originated with Will Ferrell, who’s on SNL tonight. This All’s coming together, John Well done Total Accident. Back in twenty ten, Jimmy Fallon and a celebrity guest act out a scene from the fictional nineties Canadian soap opera Jacob’s Patience. The running gag, one of the actors insists on using manneqin arms instead of their own, no matter how observe the situation while the other tries and fails to carry on as if everything is normal.
In the Jagger Peace, they were in a jewelry store called Hackney Diamonds again the name of the Rolling Stones twenty twenty three out, which is pretty good. Mick Jagger greets Jimmy Fallon and says, please to meet you. Hope you guess my name. Ron Wood was on Wednesday’s Fallon. Keith Richards was on Thursday’s fallon.
John You never mentioned Kevin Hart. I know Kevin Hart has teamed up with michelob Ultra. They are going to pay one soccer fan ninety thousand dollars for ninety minutes of work at the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final. My question of the winner is how are you gonna get there? You’re gonna pay one hundred and fifty dollars train, you can’t park at the stadium and there’s no ride shares.
How are we supposed to get to this game? The selected fan will be the Superior Player of the Match Chief Trophy Officer. That fan will be responsible for delivering the Superior Player of the Match trophy on the field during the World Cup Final. In addition, to the ninety thousand compensation package. The recipient will receive two tickets and access to the championship match at the Stadium here in New Jersey on July nineteenth.
Again, O doun’t on how they’re going to get there. Kevin Hart, you never from him said this really might be the best job in the world. I mean, it’s so good. I even tried applying for it. To go from being a fan at home and end up at the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final matches, something most people can only wish for.
Remember, like ten major stories ago, there was Kevin Hart funny af and the winner was Ron Taylor. Ron Taylor won a comedy special on Netflix. Does he have a time limit on that? Ron Taylor told AV Club about a week ago. I haven’t got any of details about that, at least not yet.
I’m still kind of wiping crust out of my eyes. But the way I’ve been thinking about it is that’s next month. So every month I’m gonna say I have to shoot this hour next month. That way I can be working on it diligently and intently to where it’ll be ready whenever it needs to be ready. A right Ron Taylor, How are you gonna use your new found visibility?
Ron Taylor said, it’s interesting. Kevin Hart has given a good blueprint of what I think most comedians would like to do when they think about life outside comedy before. A good blueprint could have been like Steve Harvey doing different shows and stuff like that. But I think Kevin has done everything. He’s got his own shoe.
He’s a comedian that’s not very tall, and he’s got his own athletic shoe. He’s got movies, books, he’s even got a music deal. He’s got a rap alter ego Chocolate Droppa he does. I didn’t know that. Is that a thing?
I’m googling? What do you know? There’s a tiny desk concert on YouTube. Oh, we will get to this some other day, like July fourth week, when I’m like, how am I going to fill the time? We’ll get into that.
I’ll just add that to the notes for a slow news day. We got too much of this week, Ron Taylor said, I want to use this momentum to work as much as I can. When you’re coming up and you’re trying to make things happen, you can’t just go to a comedy club and say, hey, can I have a weekend here? They’re like, can you put butts in seats? If not, get out of here.
President Obama teased his upcoming HBO Max show that one feature is comedian Larry David. You know that guy. It is titled Life Larry in the Pursuit of Unhappiness. Obama set up sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled with some of the globe’s most intractable problems. Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David.
I’m just a producer on the show, so I don’t have to deal with them day to day, but still it’s a lot. Larry David then walks into the video goes hey forty four. Obama says yeah. Larry asks can I put you down as my emergency contact? Obama says, why would you do that?
Larry says, well, if they see your name, they’ll be more inclined to help Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, HBO. June twenty sixth NBC picked up the paper for season two on Peacock That’s the Office spinoff. I was kind of enjoying it. And I think I got I don’t know, maybe seven of the ten in I’m not sure I finished the season. Maybe I did, can’t remember.
It’s fine. NBC is also renewed Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe, for a second season. The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a former football star whose career ended in a gambling scandal. Apparently someone’s watching that. Prime Video signed up Brett Goldstein for an eight episode, half hour single camera romantic comedy in es Courted a divorce dad, presumably Brett Goldstein accidentally becomes a male escort and I’m pretty sure it’s Brett Goldstein in this romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.
Goldstein said, I’m so excited to bring a wholesome show about condoms, co parting and cosplay. Amazon the place where I actually buy my condoms, like a real circle moment. Last weekend, like you know, like eight days ago, maybe fifteen days ago. I bumped a lot of stuff this week. John Stewart was down in Philadelphia playing drums for his band Church and State.
This was at the Singer’s Home festival. John Stewart learned how to play drums during COVID. He said, it’s been such an incredible gift to sit around guitarist Andy Bova’s basement like a group of proper fourteen year olds and write songs. Who’s up for some indie old man emo? Not a Jeanreyette, but it’s coming.
The band is led by singer songwriter Rick Berry, who’s an Asbury Park musician. If you’re not hip to Asbury Park, New Jersey, there’s a thriving music scene down there, always a great place to catch a show. Boba’s father, Jim, plays bass. Church and State’s YouTube page has forty eight subscribers. We had to get them some more forty eight and they’ve posted three videos from past shows.
John Stewart said, the feeling you get when desparate limbs locking and moving away they never have before. You can feel new neural pathways opening up, lighting up. It feels like the opposite of death. And John was playing drums for The Very White Stripes. That is the band that appeared the other day with Codin O’Brien on guzar.
Jimmy Kimmel on I don’t know, some sort of woodwind I don’t remember. I’m doing this story from memory and some lovely young lady on vocals and they just shared another clip which I just grabbed. So we’ll let that take us out and I will see you tomorrow. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, go on Apple Podcasts. Click on the show.
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So what happens is John gets up in the morning and has to grab the show and upload it a second time, which is not, you know, torture. But I’m also not doing that at three oh five in the morning, So you get the commercial free episode at like seven something, only by seven fifteen. See you tomorrow,