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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ABC Upfronts and said, two years ago I couldn’t be here in person because I had COVID, Last year I couldn’t be here because of the writer strike, and this year I couldn’t think of a third excuse. Tom Brady has regrets about the roast. I don’t think Tom Brady did enough research on how a roast goes.
Brady was on the Pivot podcast and said, I loved when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way it affected my kids. So it’s the hardest part about it, like the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and then all of a sudden you realize, who, I wouldn’t do that again because the way it affected actually the people I care about the most in the world. It makes you, in some ways a better parent going through it, because again, sometimes you naive, you don’t know, or you get a little like oh shoot.
Bourbon entrepreneur Jim Gaffigan is getting into comedy. He will be the first of a new series of specials on Hulu. Who was Laughing Now, a new comic on Hulu’s Laughing Now, will be featured each month. Twelve specials expected throughout a year. You see, there’s one every month, and in a normal year there are twelve months.
So that’s how they arrived at twelve. Jim Gaffigan special The Skinny, which thankfully doesn’t have the word pale in the title for once Well, debut November twenty second. That to me feels like it’s gonna be the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or such. Let me look, No, that’s gonna be Fridays when that’s gonna be okay, So they’re gonna put these things out on Friday night. I’m not sure that’s a good night.
Netflix does theirs on Tuesday, which I find works really well. HBO Saturday Night at ten pm, because they think it’s nineteen seventy eight. Those aren’t working for me at all. Amazon does Amazon do Monday? Is not even sure anyway.
Craig is the president of Disney Television Group, and in a statement, he said, with the launch of Hulu’s Laughing Now, we’re excited to round out Hulu’s world class comedy offering, Yeah with a lineup of some of the funniest voices in stand up comedy. Today. Hulu will also be launching a curated collective of licensed stand up specials from eight hundred Pound Gorilla and Comedy Dynamics. No word on who the other eleven comedians will be in year one. Conan O’Brien will get a second season of Conan O’Brien Must Go.
Season two will come out someday and will be six episodes long. We waited quite a while for season one, and as amazing as Conan O’Brien Must Go, is not sure this is what we were looking for. Conan. Although we’re getting like a variety show where you’re gonna be on HBO Max Max, HBO Max, you know more than like you’re basically on slightly more than I am. Can we get a little more output?
Buddy Bill Burr was on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast. The topic Louis C.K. Bill Maher said, I mean, don’t get me started on that. Isn’t it time everyone just went Okay, it wasn’t a cool thing to do, but it’s been long enough and welcome back enough. I mean, for the lord’s sake, clean that up.
A little. It’s not the end of the world. People have done so much worse things and gotten less. There’s no rhyme or reason to the me too type punishments. I’m sorry, is Louis C.K.
Canceled. He seems to be doing okay. He’s selling specials. He’s selling out Madison Square Garden. I’m on his website now.
Let’s see. I can buy his Madison Square Garden show for five dollars. If you’re playing Madison Square Garden, you’re not all that canceled. I’m sorry. He has a new special that we can apparently download and stream for ten dollars.
Oh yeah, he was nominated for Best Comedy Album by the Grammys. He had that movie last year that we totally forgot about fourth of July or remember that. Let’s not act like he’s on an ice flow in the middle of the Arctic somewhere. Bill Burr said they took fifty million dollars from I think they punished him. I’m I would love to ask Burr about how he arrived at that number.
Am I forgetting something like when you tell me Dave Chappelle walked away from fifty million dollars? I understand that number because he had a deal with Comedy Central, which he walked away from. Who’s the they that took fifty million dollars from c K? Bird talked about cancel culture in general and said, no one cares anymore. It started off with something everyone could agree on, then quickly it spun out of control.
Or remember when cancel culture got to the point where it was like, I don’t like some of the topics your stand up aackt right, That’s when it got weird. Cancel culture, it’s over. No one cares anymore. Bill Maher said there’s these actors who won’t work with him anymore, and some of them made movies with them, and saying I regret doing that. What a bunch of whosies cleaned that up.
First of all, it’s a very improbable crime they’re accusing him of. Plainly the other party had motivation and was vindictive. What On the maryseu dot com, Rachel Leischmann writes, let me explain. C K was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women and admitted to masturbating in front of female comedians without their consent. He went on to continue performing stand up just a few months after the situation.
Sure, he’s not starting it an FX series anymore, but he’s headlining comedy tours. Luis c K back in the day, put out a statement. The statement read, these stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my penis without asking first, which is also true. But I learned later in life too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your penis isn’t a question.
It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is they admired me, and I wielded that power irresponsibly, skipping ahead. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. The allegations against c K went public, and he learned nothing. He went back to doing stand up making fun of the situation, winning a Grammy for his comedy album while selling out Madison Square Garden.
Nothing happened to him. Did he lose out on opportunities because he was a creep was found out. Yes, people like mar just really want the bad man in the world to get a slap on the wrist and be told, okay, don’t do it again. Wink wink. My personal point here, let’s not act like Louis canceled winning Grammys in Play in the Garden.
He’s not canceled. I’m sorry. Bilberr also spoke with Columbus Underground. Totally new topic here at the Columbus Underground asked Burr, have you ever been offered feedback about your work that actually been useful to you? So much of that stuff, like social media, you don’t even know if it’s gonna be bots at this point.
So I listen to that. I do listen to my comedic friends. I listen to my wife when she goes, hey, you know, I don’t know if you should be saying that. You know, I’ll get stubborn and all the finch stuff. But then eventually I’ll just be like, all right, it’s down.
A buddy of mine I saw doing a joke and the punchline was just what the f Don’t ever have a punchline in your act. That’s just what the f. Everyone’s laughing at it because they’re all thinking, what the f. They want you to elaborate in what they’re thinking because they can already think that by themselves. They don’t need a professional what the F guy.
For the most part of his feedback from comics, a lot of it nonverbal. If they’re hanging out to watch your set, so you know you’re doing something right. If they’re not hanging out anymore, maybe you should dig a little deeper. Columbus Underground said, I spoke to Brian Rigg in a month or so ago. You both often get called comedians comedians.
Do you agree with that? What does it mean? Burce said, Well, what a comedian is comedians that not only like what you do, but they really understand you. I’ve been quite prolific this week. Prolific it’s a little strong.
I’ve been writing a lot on the substack. I don’t know if any of it’s prolific, but there’s a lot of it prolific marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity. Hmm, maybe there’s a lot of it. Anyway, I wrote more about Howardstern. I was happy with the way the Howard one came out because I was trying not to Bury modern Howard.
I wanted to show my respect for younger Howard and explain my personal struggle with Howard twenty twenty four versus Howard Say nineteen eighty four, and realized maybe it’s just about me because at Hard I’m fifteen years old. So that’s on the substack link in the notes. It’s free. If it’s up for money, just go no money for Johnny Mack and just subscribe for free. Please thank you.
A new list the top fifty podcasts in the United States. It did not make it, So this is probably the fifty first most popular podcast in the United States as far as I can tell. And I’ll just go with that until somebody goes, no, you’re not. From a comedy standpoint number one, The Joe Rogan Experience SmartLess at number eight, Comedy Adjacent Club Shashay Kat Williams says, you’re welcome. That’s number eleven.
At number twelve, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee’s Bad Friends number fifteen, Mainstream America, not noticing that even exists. Same note on THEO. Vaughn Office. Lady’s Still hanging Around at number twenty two. Conan at twenty five that seems low, doesn’t it?
Yeah, Two Bears one cave Sigorin Krasier thirty one, falling out of the top fifty, Mark Maren Probably it’s incem fifty one. Maren’s probably the fifty second most popular podcast, this one being slightly more popular than Mark Maron until somebody can prove otherwise. At the Sydney Comedy Festival, I couldn’t find any audio to play for you today, So does read A couple real quick? Tim Ling’s a show is called well this is awkward? How do you stop awkward situations for happening?
Ting wishes she knows she’s been a plus one at a funeral fought of Michael Jackson impersonator is constantly roasted by her mum about it. Weekend Notes said Ting is dry like a good martini. One of the hottest up and coming comedians on the circuit, Tom Witcomb’s White Collar Dark Jokes also no. This is a stand up comedy hour packed full of razor sharp jokes and devastating punchlines from a comedian who doesn’t believe in too soon or too far For lovers of Jimmy Carr, Anthony Jesseneck or Frankie Boyle comes see the closest thing Australia has to offer, right, I would be into that. See do Eat gave it four stars.
Confident, articulate and very funny. A comedian on the rise. CNN is going to do a US version of the BBC comedy quiz show Have I Got News for You? British version features two teams of panelists who answer questions about this week’s news, cracking jokes and sparking discussions in the process. The producers of the BBC version will also produce the US edition.
Well that’s good. No announcements on who might be on yet. Tracy Morgan nick fan. He was on the CNC NBA show Draymond Green was filling in for Charles Barkley, who had a night off. Tracy said, let me tell you something, Draymond.
I love you like cooked food. I love you like the fat kid loves cake. But don’t talk crap about my team. This is New York City, kid, this is the home of King Kong. This is where he died.
This is we get down. Don’t talk crap about my team, Draymond, I love you, piece. New York City is not the home of King Kong. I believe mister Kong grew up on Skull Island, did he not? Isn’t it right?
I mean that’s his home. He was kidnapped and brought to New York City and escaped and climbed the Empire State Building and then you guys shot him. I don’t think he considers that his home at all. Netflix has announced a golf comedy starring Will Ferrell, a scripted series comedy about golf. Ten episodes.
It will co star Romi Usef. That’s all weird. It is called Golf All Caps. In Golf, Will Ferrell plays a fictional golf legend. Details of Yusef’s part are being kept under wraps.
This completely different than the one where Owen Wilson plays a golf legend on Apple TV and Mark Maron is his old caddy or something. So we have dueling golf shows. That’s your comedies for today. If you would like this and the other shows on the network, ad free open up the show on the Apple podcast at more. It says subscriptions click it.
I pay the four ninety nine a month, but not the first thirty days. That’s a free trial, so you can test drive this thing, and you can decide, uh, either I’d like it or I don’t. Or Johnny Max sleeps too late. I’m up a four thirty in the morning, and I hate him. He doesn’t upload the commercial free version till sometimes seven am or seven forty five if he has to drop his daughter off at school, and I don’t like that.
I get it. What is it now in my world? It’s one thirty three at two pm Eastern today in my world, yesterday in your world. I have a meeting to try and solve that, So stay tuned. See tomorrow