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Callaroga, Shark Media, Yellow Jenny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Two good ones from Late Night, Jimmy Kimmel talking about Trump demanding Biden take a drug test before the debates. What are they gonna do? Test them for? Sasprilla?
Love it, Colbert, They really wanted to delay the debate, waiting for two old men to pee. John Stewart told a story about when his old talk show was canceled, not the Daily Show. Remember he had one in New York, was on Channel eleven. Nobody watched it. Stuart said, we were all very sad, and when your name is on it and they tell you to get out of the building, it’s very hurtful.
But David Letterman had some advice for the then up and comer. On the final show. Letterman said to me, don’t confuse cancelation with failure. And I thought that was a really interesting and then in the commercial break he said, although this is also a failure. Hey, Dave had a failed daytime talk show.
I wish the clips of that would surface. I think I saw it once back in nineteen eighty two. Must be somewhere somebody showed those. I mad at myself. I had this story yesterday.
I remember a slow news story day when I kind of checked and jive for twelve minutes. I had this one, and I forgot to actually do it. Nikki Glaser has been ripping on Ben Affleck for Ben’s terrible appearance at the Netflix Tom Brady Roast. She told the barstool folks, I haven’t watched it again like how it looks, because I don’t like to watch people bomb. He didn’t prepare.
He’s someone who’s famous enough he probably thinks it’s beneath him to do it, Like I’m just gonna do a favorite. It’s not gonna be that big a deal.
And then you do it and you go, oh, this is way bigger than I thought it was g…
I’m just kind of phoning it in. He probably had a picture the writers probably like maybe I’d do an angle or a man about tweets, because that’s his thing. Affleck said live on stage, I don’t think I’ll ever get this chance again. I’m probably never gonna work again. Actually, after tonight, you guys out there talking crap all night behind your keyboard.
That doesn’t make you a fan, That makes you a B word, Glazer said, there were so many jokes that didn’t get used that could have filled up an entire set of his that would have been amazing. But either they couldn’t get him on the phone enough to work something out where he didn’t practice enough, or he just picked a bad premise and then he had to stick to it the whole time. It didn’t work right, so it’s not gonna work later. If you joke bombs, you’re onto the next one. That’s probably what he should have done.
A couple specials were announced. Netflix is set the premiere for Keith Robinson in Different Strokes Tuesday, June eleventh. One hour special, Robinson will share raw personal stories from the aftermath of two life altering strokes, one in twenty sixteen one in twenty twenty, as well as insight into his recovery and the challenges he’s faced while navigating his new disabilities. In his statement, he said coming up with the title Different Strokes was a stroke of genius, stupidity mixed with perseverance. I love making this special and thanks to all who helped make it happen.
It is his second special for Netflix. Apparently, he had one in twenty fourteen called Kevin Hart Presents Keith Robinson. Sal Volcano will put one out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla channel on YouTube eight Pacific on May thirty first. I think May thirty first is next Friday, eight am. Release on a Friday in summer.
Not sure anyone thought that out. Release it on a Tuesday, dude. We are told it’s unclear what he discusses in the special a mystery, but it is said to offer a fresh perspective on his hysterical real life experiences. Filmed at the VIC Theater in Chicago. Great theater.
It’s executive produced by Ari Shaffir. That’s cool. It’s for the launchtime and the we’re not telling you what it’s about. Not sure this pr strategy has been thought through, but we’ll see. Steve Carell, he’s doing a new show.
I have some thoughts about this. At the back end, the eleven time Emmy Award nominee is set to star in and executive produce a new comedy series ordered by HBO. Bill Lawrence is attached to this. You know Bill Lawrence from Scrubs and some other stuff. Ted Lasso, Yeah that was pretty popular, so great pedigree there.
Bill Lawrence says, HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV. Getting to do a show there with Steve Corell is an immediate career highlight. Nothing can go wrong now. A suit gave a quote the combination of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence promises to be full of great laughs, warmth, and charm. We’re thrilled to be the home for this long overdue collaboration.
I was working on something here at the podcast company and someone drafted a press release and there was a placeholder quote attributed to me, and I’m like, I’m not quote unquote saying that I will get destroyed in the media. So I crossed it out and they gave me a couple of days to come up with it in my own quote, and I couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t sound like me going, you know, the combination of Steve Carell and Bill Horn’s promises to be full of great li Like, I just didn’t want to sound like that, And you can’t give a quip quote in my normal style, like I can’t say. John McDermott said, yeah, sounds cool, Like you can’t put that at press lease. So I just said, how about I’m not in the press release at all. So that’s why we went with Steve Carell, best known for being the lead in the Netflix comedy series Space Force.
He also briefly appeared as Michael Scott in something called The Office. Hey, Steve, let me give you some advice here. You’re looking to star in a sitcom, presumably so that people can laugh and you make a lot of money. Right, that seems to be the idea. Here’s an idea.
It’s called the Office reboot. How about it? Michael Scott moves back from Denver, moves back to Scranton because reasons, paper company reasons. I’m sure that would do well. Why are we messing around?
Little controversy SNL being accused once again of stealing an idea On the most recent episode, Jake Gillenhall and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter starretist Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo. Sarah Sherman and Mikey Day played Velma and Shaggy. In the sketch spoilers, the shadow Phantom is revealed to be a bitter old man played by James Austin Johnson, so Fred rips his mask off. We’ve all seen that bit. Then he rips off a second mask.
But it’s not a second mask, it’s the guy’s actual face. Some Internet sleuths pointed out this is very similar to a twenty sixteen Nerdist comedy short called Scooby Don’t, which found the Scooby Doo gang reducing a villain’s face to a bloody mess. The director of Scooby Don’t, Andrew Bowser, pointed out the similarities on social media, suggest Daden he had directed this sketch seven years ago. Got a really strange note in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I don’t know what to make of it, Ellen wrote, I’ve been listening to DC every day for about a year.
Decided to join the group. What that’s awesome, Ellen, We welcome you. We’re glad you’re here, Thank you for listening. Truly appreciate you listening every day. I decided to join the group solely based on the Bob’s Burgers focus on today’s show.
Oh that’s good, because you know I am very outspoken about the Bob’s Burgers hoax. Again, if you’re a new listener, two questions. Have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? Know? Have you ever met anyone who has seeing Bob’s Burgers.
The answer is also know it’s weird. I don’t know what the hoax is about. It’s probably like a four Chan kind of thing. I don’t get it that Ellen wrote I’ve watched every episode with my family. I know people who watch.
I have attended a table read with the cast. Hmm what. I don’t know what to make of this. I mean, Ellen seems pretty cool. Appreciate Ellen listening every day for about a year and taking the time to write in.
But I mean, I don’t know what to say. I’ve never met or heard of anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers. And Ellen is saying that Ellen has seen Bob’s Burgers. I mean, I’ve seen the video of Bigfoot, pictures of Lockness Monster. It could be that kind of thing.
I’m not sure. Ellen writes give it a shot, Signed a super fan from Fargo. Well, I appreciate you joining the group. Uh you know, if you ask me, this sounds like the work of Kristin Shawl. I know Kristin a little bit.
We did some stuff together back. It’s serious and you know she’s a jokester. I bet Ellen is really Kristen but you know, if anybody out there has seen this Bob’s Burger’s show, which again you haven’t, but if you think you have, join the Facebook group. It’s Steely Comedy News podcast Group. Ellen.
Thank you for listening from Esquire Middle East, your home for comedy news. Tom Sigora getting ready to play Abu Dhabi Comedy Week. Esquire Middle East asked Tom about how he researches a new place that he’s performing. Si Gore says, you never want to go in a place completely ignorant. But when I do international shows, I tried to do the show that I’ve developed.
If you’re doing bits where you have to reference things that are very American, sometimes you gotta go, okay, what’s the equivalent here? But going in thinking I’m going to do a show that hopefully hits all the notes that these people would want to hear in this market, I don’t do that. Tom is working on a six episode series coming to Netflix in twenty twenty five. The question has a TV show been a long time coming for you? It did Netflix catch you at the right time?
Si Gore said, TV and film development, that process is always very taxing. It’s long, it’s arduous, and I’ve been through it. So I had this idea of shooting something I wanted to shoot, and I could have called an agent in seat up a meeting. Instead, I was like, you know what, I want to go shoot this. The original idea is I’d put it out on our same pay per view platform that sixty nine Minutes aired on.
When I was getting ready to air it on that platform, I showed it to my agents and they said, you gotta let more people see this. We showed it to Netflix and then they acquired it. How much freedom does he have from Netflix, se Gore says, so far, it’s been on real it means to be seen, though they haven’t been given scripts yet, so I don’t know what they’re gonna say when they actually read the scripts. But it’s been a good process so far. If you are attending Abu Dhabi Comedy Week, Tom will be at the Eddie Hot Arena on Saturday.
Andrew Santino and some others are set as the leads in Yahoo’s eight episode comedy Sin City Saints. I like Santino as an actor a lot. He’s just he has great presence. Whatever that thing that was called that was not about the comedy store in La and he played like the comic that was kind of making it. I thought he was great in that Sin City Saints follows the Triumphs, Travails and Transgressions literation of Las Vegas’ brand new pro basketball franchise, The Saints.
Santino will play Jake Sullis, the Saints unpredictable and charismatic owner who made his fortune as an Internet disruptor in the field of big data. All right, I could see him in that role. That sounds good, But it’s for Yahoo. Like Yahoo’s making shows again. I remember they did the last season of Community.
Where’s this going to air on Yahoo? I don’t get it. Clara o’caine as a new comedy album out. It is called Everything I Know How to Do. It’s on PGF Records.
She jokes about leaving her job at SNL, open marriage, gender identity, OCD, induced mantras, talking to ghosts and more. And that is your comedy news for today. I’m starting to see the news stripe. I’m starting to see the Hey, here’s all the albums we’re excited about this summer articles that you could have written in February. Starting to see those populate, so we’ll see.
Ellen. Thank you for listening, Thanks for joining us in the group. It’s all in good fun, you know. If you want to become a character, keep sending me bombs Burger’s notes and I’ll have fun with it, especially on slow news days. I’m tempted to play Joe Coy here just to say hi to our friend Scott Beckett, but I won’t, as you know, see tomorrow