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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night had some fun with the daily use of marijuana now surpassing that of alcohol in the US. Wow.
Michael Costa said, of course, the rising popularity of weed is a good reminder of the beer in the state. They got lazy, they thought they could sit back and relax, while Tommy Chung brought up every ad on Twitter. You know, congrats beer companies. You lost to that well known super ambitious type a hard work and go get her Tommy Chung. Colbert with a great point.
Some may be surprised by this, but as a New Yorker, I’m not. I smoke weed every single day, whether I want to or not, on the sidewalk, literally everywhere I go. Yeah, New York City reeks. I mean I hate the smell. Whatever you want to do at home, fine, go to party, fine, But just walking down the streets in New York City now it’s impossible.
You just smell. It’s really really bad. They got to do something about it again, do whatever you want your house, want to walk down the street. Same note on regular cigarettes too, Colbert joke. This news has alcohol makers worry.
They changed their standard discover from drink responsibly to please drink. The Hollywood Reporter and an intelligence firm called Morning Consult asked twenty two hundred adults in the US how much they trusted to various US TV hosts. Your options A lot, some, not much, not at all, don’t know. John Stewart seeing Colbert got about fifty seven percent of the audience saying they either had a lot, were some, trust in both hosts. Seth Meyers forty nine percent, but it’s still higher than folks like Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity.
They all scored lower than Seth Myers. Case you’re curious, the most trusted new z’s in America Lester Holds, David Muir, Al Roker, Robin Roberts, Michael Strahand, and Anderson Cooper. They all landed sixty to sixty five percent. If you want to break it down by age, millennials and baby boomers like John Stewart, Colbert won jen X, Seth Myers led gen Z. Catwilliams spoke about golf.
This is a bit of a longer clip, but I really liked it and kat Williams makes a lot of sense here. This from golf three sixty five dot com. Let’s listen. Golf is this thing where eighteen times they set you up with the challenge and they put obstacles and hazards in the way, and you have to try to navigate your way safely and try to do as much as you can. But you learn that if you do more than you can, you can’t do that, and there will be things that happen.
And so all of the things that I like about life in general are on the golf course. I’m saying, I have to addrink out here, I smoke out here, I whistle out here, I look at nature, all the things that really mean something to me. Golf requires you to experience all those beautiful things, but then every shot requires you to block all of that out and just focus on the task at hand, and you don’t have the opportunity of doing it again. So the Bastian man of Scalco is not concerned with you people that can’t take a joke. He told Fox News Digital.
I don’t add it myself. I’d be lying to you if I said, oh, I don’t know, is it worth doing that? Joke because it might cause a B and C. There’s a little of that, but I don’t know. I’ve been all over the country and I feel like the people are coming to at least my shows, are dying to laugh, whether it be appropriate and inappropriate.
I mean, I hate to use the word inappropriate. Including your own family and yourself. Wasn’t done with the mean spirit. It’s just kind of pointing out behaviors or idiosyncrasies or oddities that were going on in the neighborhood. Nevere gonna laughed at it.
My material tends to be experience based. I’m going to Universal Studios, I’m going to the kiddi part, I’m going to the school drop off. I’m doing all these things that happen to be part of my life, and through those experiences, I tend to have a point of view and what I’m seeing any particular time of day. The only thing you can concentrate on is your own material. So if you see a comedian get a TV show, you see a comedian selling out arenas or whatever, don’t let it bother you.
Don’t let to consume you. The only thing you have control on is writing your own stuff. The best you could do with what you’re doing. Your time will come. Bert Krascher spoke to WSAV about his Fully Loaded Comedy tour, and he said, it really is a family.
You know. Comedy is a tight knit community of people who have struggled and thrived together. It’s the reason I do it. It’s like summer camp for me. I’ve known these people for twenty five years, longer than i’ve known my daughters.
And my daughters come on tour as PA’s, so they’re like their uncles and their aunts, nepo babies. Bert says it’s my favorite tour I’ve ever done. It’s the reason I’m doing Fully Loaded. We created a system that hasn’t been created. I love the sense of community.
Look, I grew up in Florida. I love sunsets, partying and cold beer. So I try to create an environment that I’d love to go to. It does sound like fun. I’ve not seen that tour.
The Lucille Ball Comedy Festival announced to their headliners the festival August first. The headliners include Nicole Byer and Jeff Ross and unnamed third headliner. Third headliner will play at the Northwest Arena on August third and will be announced in mid June, so it’s got to be somebody significant. I have no idea. My spidy sense is telling me it’s Nate Perghatzy.
Why am I saying Nate Pergatzy just because of my spidery sets have no knowledge. There’s nothing in this article telegraphing that. That’s just the face that came into my brain has read the sentence. Jerny Gunderson is the executive director for the National Comedy Center and said Jeff Ross has been a genre defining artists for decades before continuing and revolutionizing the art of insult comedy. Beyond the RUSS, He’s just a fantastic stand up comedian and an incredible writer and a genuine champion of the arts past and present, which I love about him.
Nicole Byer is a fearless performer with a candid, razor sharp take that brings the audience along for a fun ride. In addition to the show’s three headliners, the festival will be incorporating its late night comedy shows, Lucy Legacy Events, and more as part of this year’s programming. I should probably take a ride up there. I’ve made fun of the choice of Jamestown in the past, but it’s not that far from where I live. It is out of the way, like you don’t accidentally drive through Jamestown, New York.
But I mean I could go. Jim Gaffigan needs an intervention. Man. He was on the Bourbon Pursuit podcast. I pulled some clips Jim the bourbon it’s just not cool.
It’s just, you know, like cool. Well apparently Jim doesn’t know cool. The rest of us you know cool. This just isn’t it. It’s just not working.
I see he’s backed off it too. I wonder if he figured out, like, oh yeah, no one’s into Jim Gaffig and bourbon. Jim and discussed with Bourbon Pursuit his wife’s take on the whole project. It’s not really a money making adventure, but it has been fun. I mean, my wife’s like, what are you doing?
But you know, what are you gonna do? Now? This is interesting. Jim admitted he was approached on this previously. In my humble opinion, this was being spun of.
I know, Jim just wanted to make a bourbon, but no, it seems like he was approached. Someone went, you know, if we had a bourbon you know, I’m in my late fifties. I know, like I look like I’m in my mid fifties, but I’m in my late fifties. And I was not always a bourbon or even like a dark liquid kind of guy, you know. But I think during the pandemic, you know, a lot of lockdown.
My wife and I we would do a casual, I’d have an old fashioned. My joke was like I always felt like I was pretending to be a grown up, or that I was pretending I was in a Tennessee Williams play whenever I would have like a mint julip or anything like that. And so but I slowly switched to just bourbon because I like an old fashion, but it’s a little too sweet for me. And so I just started to love it. And my you know, as my wife and I, you know, our kids are teenagers, and so it’s we I describe it as we have our occasional bourbon every night, you know what I mean.
And so it was this parental bonding thing. And so that kind of coincided with being approached by you know, some spear companies that to do a celebrity spirit and I was like, I would I was shying away from it, but I was like, you know, I kind of like Bourbon. And in this third clip, Jim is of course all about the authenticity of Jim Gaffig and Bourbon. It’s about authenticity. And I knew if I was going to do something like this, I would want it to be something special.
And so even when we eventually went down to Kentucky to pick the barrels, I had my brothers come down and do it. And of course, you know it’s I mean, there’s yeah, no, it’s like anyone. I’m sure everyone listening to this is just you know, the Bourbon Trail or visiting Kentucky is like to somebody that loves Bourbon. It’s like Kentucky is like is Disney World, Right, It’s just this kind of it has a charm and the stories and it’s I mean, all the research I did it was so fun because it’s also uniquely American, which I kind of love on a lot of different levels. So I don’t know, and I’m still learning so much.
I still have so much to learn, but I love this journey, and you know, I feel really good that the product is quality. I do think he’s let it go, though, I believe me. I googled Jim Gaffigan and Bourbon the way I used to google George Lopez Taco’s, especially when I’m looking for material to pad these things out a little. I haven’t seen anything lately. The Hollywood Reporter writes how Seth Myers accidentally made Getting Drunk on air and art form.
Seth discussed his early years at late night and said, I remember thinking, oh, this is a slightly worse copy of a thing that came before. He was asked if there was any point in the past decade where it didn’t feel the confidence of the bosses very interesting, Seth said, the first year, there was definitely at least one memorable conversation. There was a Hey, come out to LA for a quick meeting, and when the meeting was over, there were not garlands at our feet. I will say that I understood what they were asking us to do, but it ended up being the opposite direction of where we went. They definitely weren’t saying we think you should lean into long form political things.
It was more try to be a better show for the current era we’re in. This is twenty fifteen. It wasn’t wrong to suggest that we lean into shorter, viral popular things. The word not being said here is Jimmy fallon, which is two words. But we left the meeting knowing that we wouldn’t be able to do that in a way that was gratifying for us, nor would be able to make them happy.
That was the scariest time for the show. Then the circumstances of the world changed and we became a better show for the moment. I’ve said this on this podcast before. I feel like this show has had zero impact. Like I don’t know who’s watching it.
There’s no buzz on it. It just exists because NBC twelve thirty is a thing. I don’t know. Have you watched it? Is this the Bob’s Burgers of late night shows?
Maybe it’s not even on. I haven’t checked. Next time the dog wakes me up at twelve thirty, I’m gonna put the TV on and see if this thing is actually on. Good stuff here, the reporter asked what makes a good and bad guest? Sets that after ten years, you should be good enough that there are no bad guests.
You should have learned how to pull the best out of anyone. If there is a bad kind of guest, it’s one who comes just with a material they’re gonna do no matter what. I hate those guests, you definitely see. It’s usually comics. Right.
He asked them a question and you know, hey, what colors the sky? It’s blue? But I got to tell you the lines at these airports, right? I hate that? So what do you do, Seth Myers?
You become the audience that they’re not getting. The other thing about ten years is you learn who you like and who you don’t. There’s a tier of guests that all of us in Late Night would take any night, no matter what.
And then there’s a middle that we all share from.
And then there’s this sort of guests that are the most interesting ones because they establish how your identity is different from the other shows. For us. It could be a first time author or a fourth lead on the show that’s critically claim but nobody’s ever seen. I think the worst guest is a politician. They’re so boring.
They answer all the questions they wish he asked them, and I’ll answer two times in a row if you don’t stop them. They also have young staffers who are not plugged into the importance of writing towards a person’s specific voice and have given them three jokes that are gonna bomb, and they’re gonna tell them no matter what they asked him about potentially replacing Lorne, michaels He and Tina Fey are the names that come up as most likely said I’m definitely not gonna do it, but I never want any of you to stop saying that. Will SNL continue without Lorne? Or do you just not want to be the one that attempts it? Seth very honest here says I think both things can be true.
Everybody underestimates what Lauren brings to the show week in and week out, even though I then people estimate it quite highly. Lauren has this invisible hand that gets things done in that building for show that is unreasonable to even attempt. And I learned so much from watching Lorne, and yet I’m also acutely aware there are things you just can’t learn. You talked about the Strike Force five podcast from last summer during the writers strike. It’s a credit to Kimmel for putting it together, but also credit to Colbert.
When the winds were blowing towards the strike, Stephen was the one who thought, let’s all talk and stay on the same page. Let’s make sure there’s a cohesion with how we’re approaching the strike and what we’re telling our staffs and what we’re gonna do for them. That’s smart. This one I’ve bumped several times. It just keeps getting bumped.
Let me clear this out today. It’s good. I just kept kicking it. David Cross. In Variety the Sources and interview Cross did with Andrew Santino, Cross talked about Guru Nation, which was a show that Cross and Bob Odenkirk worked up a few years back.
He says there was a low key bidding war between multiple networks. According to Cross, he and Odinkirk wrote about half the eight episodes show about two rival cult leaders attempting to out manipulate each other, and plotted out the rest, took it to their new partners at Paramount Plus, and the whole thing got turned down by the streamer. Cross said it got vetoed by the company’s marketing and analytics department who didn’t want the series or get how to sell it. Cross said, they have all the uffing bower and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
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