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Caloroga Shark Media. Yes, we’re gonna talk about Stephen Colbert, of course we will, but we got some other stuff to do up top. I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler is making a comedy new Yeah. I don’t know about this one.
Boy, you can tell how I’m excited. I am all right? What is he making this time? John? Grown Ups three?
Jesus, Come on, man, you were so good at JA Kelly. You’re so good at the dramatic stuff. We stop. Grown Ups three is in development at Netflix. Netflix announced this at their upfronts last week.
The script for Grown Ups three is by Adam Sandler and Tim Hurley. Producers include Adam Sandler and famous producer Jackie Sandler. In case you haven’t seen the Grownups films, the franchise revolves around a set of childhood friends who were brought back together as adults over the course of a summer vacation. The friends include David Spade, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, and Chris Rock, all sets a return for the three quel. Really, Chris Rock, I’m impressed if they get Chris Rock for this, Chris Why would you do this film?
Paycheck? Okay, I get it. It’s been thirteen years since Grown Ups two. This time it is believed the Friend group travels to Europe along with their families to spread their deceased friends’ ashes. Is this like a different friend or is Chris rock at this thing for two minutes?
That would all make sense. We’ll see, we’ll see. I can see that now, Johnny Mac. You can hate all you want, but Grownups and the sequel, Grown Ups two have grossed over five hundred million dollars at the box office. Grown Ups has a ten percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Grown Ups two was even more poorly received. But that’s not gonna stop Netflix. And if you like that kind of humor, boy, you’re gonna love The Hawk. That’s Will Ferrell’s upcoming golf comedy series. If Will but comes unavailable, you can drop Adam Sandler right in the middle of this one.
There is a trailer. I went to pull the audio, but it’s too visual because it’s got yuck yuck jokes like people being hill with a golf ball hilarious. In The Hawk, Will Ferrell plays Lonnie Hawkins two thousand and four’s and number one golfer again. This is so saidlor Hawkins struggles on the back nine of his career, trying to recapture his magic. His body says retire, but his heart says he’s not done yet.
His ex wife and his son, Lance, who happens to be golf’s new Golden Boy, know that Lonnie is through, but with one more major to win to complete Golf’s Grand Slam, Lonnie refuses to believe he’s anything other than one stroke away from the greatest comeback in golf history. Molly Shannon plays Lonnie’s foul mouth ex wife Stacy, Also appearing This Thing, Fortune Fimester, Luke Wilson, Chris Parnell, David Hornsby, who’s usually great in things, and some others can’t wait. Nick Krole has a new comedy series, this one called eight hundred Percent. It stars Nick Kroll, Sam Richardson, Jason Mitzukis, and vi Us a Bear. Hopefully that’ll keep her away from the Scrubs reboot.
The cast portrays a group of friends working inside the thought leader industrial complex. Their books, podcasts, and morning routines might help us live our lives more perfectly, but away from the screens and mics. These characters are most definitely far from perfect. You know, I do think this fits into Jason and Krohl’s wheelhouse. This could be good, Krol said, I’m thrilled to make this show with Gabe in this insane cast.
I can’t wait to explore this high functioning group of friends who endeavor to live their weird lives. That could actually be good. Want of Sikes as a special ad on Netflix today. It is called Legacy. I want to pull the trailer.
She swears a lot, so I passed. Netflix tells us with the trademark wit and fearless insight that have earned her multiple Emmy wins and nominations. Want of Sikes delivers an hour of bold, smart, and laugh out loud comedy that cements her legacy as a comedy icon. That is the most generic description I’ve ever seen anyway. That’s on Netflix today, and by the time you’re hearing my voice at three h five am.
Friend of the show and Facebook group regular Dylan, He’s probably watched it, maybe twice. Dylan and I keep very different hours. I think. Apparently Mike EPP’s Netflix special Delusional did really well. It was his fifth for Netflix, and they’ve given him a deal for two more.
Netflix is playing the long game. They plan to release specials by Mike Apps in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty. The press release tell us that Mike Epp specials have racked up twelve and a half million views. That doesn’t even include Delusional, which ranked as the number five English language TV title globally on Netflix and its debut and roasted number three on the US Top ten list. YouTube had upfronts of sorts.
Trevor Noah was your host. He said, some of you may recognize me from stand up comedy, some of you may recognize me from my podcast, some of you might recognize me from The Daily Show, some of you might recognize me from the Grammys. But there’s one place where you definitely see me. That’s on YouTube. These days, everything is on YouTube.
Everything, sports, entertainment, interviews, podcasts, you name it. Well. Coming to YouTube is Trevor Noah’s World Tour. Premiere Day TBA. On Trevor Noah’s World Tour, Trevor ne invites viewers along for the ultimate global hangout in this prestige travel series on YouTube.
You know I like travel and I like Trevor. I’m gonna wind up watching Trevor Noah’s World Tour, where comedy, culture, and spontaneity collide as Trevor Noah journeys from city to city on his World Tour with friends, collaborators, and surprise guests joining the fun. Each episode blends Trevor Noah’s signature humor with authentic, on the ground experiences that spotlight local people, food, and culture. So it’s Anthony Bourdain minus Anthony Bournine plus Trevor Noah. Is that what I’m getting here?
Not the worst idea? Along the way, Trevor turns his discoveries into sharp, hilarious observations that weave into his live performance, creating a fresh window into his comedic process and into the places that inspire him. That actually sounds pretty good. Mo Amer will host the eighty sixth Annual Peabody Awards May thirty first, at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Peabody Executive director Jeffrey P.
Jones said, Moe Ammer is the comedic voice we need now. His comedy is bold and refreshing because he minds his own personal, heartfelt experiences a refugee and blends them with cultural Commentsary that is powerful, moving and very funny. Johnny Mac, you said you were gonna talk about Stephen Colbert. All right, I mean give me nine minutes. I’ll get to it.
Stephen Colbert answered some questions from the other late night hosts. I’ve clipped this down a little bit for pacing, but let’s listen. You got a question from Jay Leno. I’ll tell you when I got this gig. Jay Leno called me right away, and Jay goes, yayt the you got the Pope job, you got the John c you dead.
You’re wrong on that one. Jay, all right? From Jay Leno. As a road comic, I’ve always enjoyed live audiences. Have you ever thought about a road version of your best jokes for a live audience still waiting for the best jokes?
Jay, I think that’s a great idea. Jay. Please send me a list of what my best jokes have been, and let’s hit the road together. You drive from James Cordon, how are things at CBS? Should I come back?
One hundred percent? James, one hundred percent? Hold on, hob, I see what Cordon actually asked? What have you been doing to mentally and emotionally prepare for your daily life after the show. Trevor and I can send a zoom link if you need a good question.
I don’t know about you, guys, but there’s no I don’t think there’s any prepping for it. Look, I try not to make eye contact with the people in the building too much. I’ve always discouraged it, but now I’m really being a heart ass about it. Don’t look me in the eye because I’m a weeper and I like the show a lot, but I love the people I work with and that’s going to be hard, and they’re so physically attractive. From Trevor Noah, is there anything you were never able to do because you had a late night show?
And do you see yourself doing it now? Exercising? That’s what I would like to do. I think my wife was waited long enough. It’s time for abs.
Okay, honey. From Knor and O’Brien, just who the hell do you think you are? Sometimes I wish I was Connin O’Brien because I’ve never been able to dunk. From Jimmy Kimmel, is it true that hospitals are sometimes forced to send patients who are two obese for their MRICT machines to be scanned at the zoo. Okay, sometime at once.
It happened once, but then after that I got the shot and I don’t have to go to the zoo for my CT scan anymore. From Jimmy Fallon, you’ve had the best seats in the house for over ten years. What’s the one musical performance on your show that you and the crew still talk about. I mean, we just recently had a Hosier and Lake Street dive do Joe Cocker’s Woodstock version of with a little help from my friends, that’s pretty fantastic. The Times they asked even about why the show was canceled, saying that some are skeptical there was for financial reasons.
Colbert said, I do not dispute their rationale. I do make jokes about it, but I also completely understand why people would say, hey, that doesn’t make sense to me, and be this seems fishy to me because the network did it to themselves by bending the need of the Trump administration over a twenty billion settled for sixteen million, completely frivolous lawsuit. It’s possible that two things can be true broadcast can be in trouble. They can’t monetize because of things like YouTube, because of the competition of streaming. They’ve got the books.
I don’t have any desire to debate them over what they say their business model is and how it doesn’t work for them anymore. But less than two years before they called me to say it’s over, they were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So something changed. By the way, oops, who knows what they offered him. It is believed Colbert’s current annual salary is around fifteen million dollars, and I think I have it somewhere in my head.
They wanted him for five years. As Johnny Mac likes to say, if somebody ever offers you seventy five million dollars, just say yes. Steven said, I’ve really like work with CBS. They’ve been great partners, and I’d like to end it that way. Eleven years is a long time to work here, and almost ten years before that, almost twenty one years together in Late Night.
I feel so much better to be grateful for than to be mad about. The discussion move to taking over for David Letterman in twenty fifteen, Boy time flies. I feel like I just watched that, remember watching that on the upstairs TV. Stephen said it was my instinct to be less topical because I didn’t want to have to engage with what I saw is an increasingly contentious public discourse. And I thought, aren’t there other ways to have fun with the audience.
But in twenty sixteen, Colbert went all in on News The Time said that change worked right. Colbert said, I was like Clint Eastwood and Unforgiven or said some other movie. He buried his guns, and I’m like, you know, I buried those guns. I was talking to Paul Denello, he’s one of my oldest friends and one of my producers here, and he’s like, you’re having fun and people like to see that. And I said, but that means I got to go dig up the guns.
And he says, Buddy, that’s the part the audience wants to see. They asked Stephen Colbert why he thinks the FCC and the Trump administrations are so focused on him. Stephen told The New York Times authoritarians don’t like anybody who doesn’t give them undue dignity. Comedians are anti authoritarian by nature and authoritarians are never going to like anybody to laugh at them. The number of newspeople have said to me or John Stewart or any of the guys who do this, God, I wish I could say what you say on air, and we can.
I think that upsets them. I think it might be upsetting and we really don’t live in their world of principalities and powers. Continuing about Trump, and send your letters to Stephen Colbert, he said, I don’t have any problem with Trump being a Republican. I have a problem with Trump being a complete north who’s only working for his own interest and doesn’t appear to care if the entire world burns. That’s not a partisan position.
I have eyeballs and ears, and I think calling Late Night partisan is just roughing the ref And we don’t even want to be refs, but they perceive us as refs. I reject the partisan description. Partisan means you’re never ever going to make a joke about a Democrat, and that’s just not true. There’s just no comparison of how fertile the fields are. What’s next for Colbert.
He’s working on a script for a Warner Brothers Lord of the Rings movie. He loves podcasts and spends more time with podcasts than any form of entertainment. That could be a clue there now in the past, I think I have in my brain that he didn’t want to do a podcast. But doesn’t that seem like a no brainer? I’m sure just knowing the internal workings of serious I’m sure they’ve either been on the phone with him, or on the phone with him right now, or will be on the phone with him at twelve thirty eight am Friday morning.
Stephen says he wants to do comedy, but he’s not sure what’s next because the show takes ninety five percent of his brain. I don’t think I can give you a good answer until I can really think about it. It Will it be your relief to not have to think about Trump in the same way Steven said, Oh yeah, Now, I could be as interested as I want to be on a daily basis, as opposed to interested as I need to be, to do a show about what our national conversation was about. I can opt out of the national conversation for day two. I mean, I’m American, I still care about my country.
I’m still going to care, But I could do that recreationally. You know we’re privately out on the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube page today. Now you gotta pay attention because they’re going back and forth between Gorilla Plus and the YouTube page. This is on the YouTube page. Shane Moss trips Parentheses Second Dose.
The Ish Edinburgh Comedy Awards will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in twenty twenty six. James Cordon is backing it. He said, I am honored to support the brilliant Mish Edinburgh Comedy Awards again. Now in their fourth year, the awards continued to direct all sponsorship and come straight to performers through prize money. Last year’s prizes included four thousand pounds each for Best Show and Best Newcomer, three thousand for the Panel Prize, one thousand for Better Tech, and a five hundred four Best Joke.
The winners are decided by a volunteer panel who attend every eligible comedy show with the Fringe, giving performers an equal chance regardless of venue background, industry backing or audience size. The twenty twenty six Awards are expected to retain the same five categories website. The spinoff is covering the new Zealand Comedy Festival. They say Henry Yen is the best bad date at the NZ International Comedy Festival. They tell us Wellington’s Cavern Club is a bit of a dank hole in the wall, but it’s a cozy place to catch some comedy.
During a set focused on the highs and lows of life as a perpetually single thirty year old, you really start to feel like you’re on one of those bad first dates. He’ll never stop telling your friends about the spectator says. They write this in the most complimentary way possible. The strength of Yen’s comedy is in his awkwardness, The way he says haha crazy after every other line, The way he takes a joke bombing and turns it into another opportunity to make another joke appealing to the audience is pity. You know what?
Who has inspired me to find a clip? Let’s listen. My parents are here. I love you. Hey, your turn?
Yeah, I left my computer for this. Yeah, so it’s gonna be so fun. I’ll just tell you, guys, if someone walks in here like aggressive, I’m telling you that I’m not gonna protect you. Yeah, because recently someone asked me to protect them, and I was like, from what like nowhere. It’s crazy because what happens on the street right in the city.
These two guys were fighting and the girls standing next to me. She turns me, she’s like, aren’t you gonna stop the fight? I was like, oh, thank you for believing in me. Yeah, but I don’t look I’m not a fighter. I’m a snitch.
Wow, he’s pretty funny. Like that a lot, The spectator tells us. Henry Anne’s audience work was also impactful. He seemed to make a genuine connection with a fellow spreadsheet obsessive in the crowd. Good stuff, Henry Ann, And that is your comedy news for today.
See tomorrow.