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Caloroga Shark Media not show for you today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel riffed a bunch of jokes about heat that I loved. It’ll be so hot in Maine this week the lobsters will be getting in pots just to cool down. It’s so hot in New York this week, the rats are wearing crop tops.
It’s so hot in South Dakota. Christine Olam’s dogs are shooting themselves. It’s so hot at mar A Lago. Donald Trump to ask Malania to be even colder to him. That inspired me to come up with It’s so hot that Joe Cooy made a Taylor Swift joke just to get an icy look from her.
It’s so hot that I bought some Jim gaffig and bourbon just so I had something to pour over ice. Stephen Colbert said scientists Warren heat waves will be longer and more intense and more frequent, So good news for Missus heat waves. New topic from Colbert. The Celtics won the championship. It’s nice for Boston fans to have something to celebrate.
Ever since Tom Brady left town, all I’ve had a root for is Bill Belichick setting the record for youngest girlfriend. Bostonians were out in the streets drunk and yellow, and then they found out they want a championship. The Celtics now have the most championships in NBA history with eighteen. It’s that kind of sustain excellence that lets everyone overlook their pipe smoking, chiley wielding, pot bellied stereotype mascot. Yeah, I’m not a fan of that one, Nor am I a fan of what Notre Dame is doing.
But that’s a topic for another day. Michael ian Black resurfaced his substack from twenty twenty three. I shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group I’ll read at length here. Michael wrote, when a producer first contacted me about the possibility of appearing in the Louis C.K. Documentary, my initial instinct was to say no.
This was for a few reasons. The first was I didn’t want to make it appear as if I was making other people salacious stories about myself. Second, I’d already been burned once before by commenting about Louis. Third, I was kind of scared, not scared of Louis or retribution or anything just scared of sticking my head out of the sand and talking crap about a peer. It just felt kind of bad.
I suspect most of the other comedians they approached felt similarly to me. What’s the upside and dredging up an old scandal featuring one of these still most popular working comedians. Louis didn’t emerge unscathed from his notoriety, but he definitely emerged. He’s still playing massive venues. He won a Grammy a couple of years ago.
Louis C.K. Is doing fine, So I agree to wag a finger at him all over again. What was the point? Michael iam Black continues writing, In my case, the point was that I couldn’t live with my own hypocrisy. A couple of years before, I’d written a book about modern manhood called A Better Man, a mostly serious letter to my son, in which I’ve talked about what I believe it means to be a man.
In that book, I’d made the argument that all people have a responsibility to their own morality. If you believe something is the right thing to do, it’s always better to do that thing. As somebody who’s spoken up about the crappy things men sometimes do. I felt like it was my responsibility to speak up here, even though the man in question was a peer. I’ve known Louis for almost thirty years.
I wouldn’t say we were ever close, but we were friendly enough, and I always look forward to his sets, which were often bizarre and highly sexual. One riff that stands out in my memory was Louis pantomiming having sex with a raw chicken breast. It was gross but funny, and that’s how I thought of Louis, gross but funny. People probably don’t remember the radic nature of Loui’s rise through comedy. He used to make absurd short films.
I made by short. These are like ten seconds. He had a couple short lived TV projects before Louis hit on Fax. My point is it wasn’t at all clear that Louis was going to become the voice of his generation. It wasn’t clear that Louis would even have a career.
But he figured it out, meaning he figured out how to become Lewis c K. To his credit, he didn’t deny the charges against him. He admitted to them, saying I’ve brought pain to my family, my friends, my children, and their mother. I’ve spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.
Michael ian Black wrote, the long time didn’t last very long. After only a few months of exile, Louis dropped by I Think the Comedy Seller and did a surprise guest spot. The appearance drew the attention of the media. I wrote a series of tweets saying that while I didn’t necessarily care about louis fate specifically, I thought it was important that men embroiled in these bad but not illegal scandals figure out a way to work their way back, because if we’re going to make progress on this front, we have to find a way forward through some kind of reconciliation process, or else the larger movement will suffer because men will be unwilling to come forward. The backlash against me was immediate and intense.
I felt horrible about it, but I thought and still think that the essential point was correct. A lot more to this, but I’ll just leave you with this so odd Michael rode there was no upside in talking about it again, no point in rehashing an old scandal, no reason to be a boy scout. On the other hand, as I said, I would have felt like a coward and hypocrite for saying no, so I said yes again. I share the whole thing in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Hannah Berner will have a new special We Ride at Dawn Netflix July ninth.
The hour long special was filmed at the Fillmore in Philadelphia. You do have to slow down and say that I believe man. Hannah is excited to be finally able to air my hour to the world. This show and covers to different phases of my life, my mental health, my love life, pop culture, and even some politics. I like to make people question norms and make fun of everything, especially myself.
For some reason, they’re bringing back Everybody Still Hates Chris. This an animated take on the two thousands live action comedy Everybody Hates Chris. Chris Rock and Terry Crews are both back. It’s got a text from my daughter. She’s listening upstairs.
She just wrote talking about Hanna Burner’s Netflix special on your pod. I’m excited for that one. Yeah, stop listening. In Where Were We? On the show, Chris Rock plays the voice of adult Chris narrating stories inspired by his experience growing up as a skinny herd and a large working class family in bed Sty during the eighties.
Terry Crews reprises his role as Julius Chris’s father, who’s a gentle giant with a relentless work ethic and cheap The Daily Beasts caught up with Keith Robinson. They asked him how he’s feeling. He said, I’m pretty good. Then asked him if he’s sick of people asking how he’s feeling, and he said, not really. When I think of somebody holding a door for me and then having the nerve to say, take your time, what else am I going to do?
He was very excited During his special Different Strokes, he walks on stage with a cane and he gets a standing ovation from the audience, who included at Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, Michael Chay, and Colin Quinn. He says, man I felt like the president of comedy. It felt great. That whole experience was unbelievable, and the fact that my voice held for two shows was like, oh wow, I’m doing this. John Stewart’s in a band.
The rest of the band are Rick Barry, Andy Bova and Jim Shovah. John Stewart is the drummer for Church and State. They played last Saturday as part of the North to Shore Festival in New Jersey. The Daily Show is on a mission to rescue two things it wants at democracy and dogs. They announced the new initiative in Dogcision twenty twenty four, Rescuing Democracy, I Love This.
The campaign kicks off tomorrow in New York City. There, the Daily Show is partnering with voter registration organization Headcount and rescue group Animal Haven. The event will feature pet adoptions, free giveaways, doggy swag, dog photo shoes, voter registration opportunities, special guests, and more. John and his wife Tracy run the Hawkhawckson Farm Foundation in New Jersey, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healthy, sustainable, and kind living. After New York, in Dog Decision will hit Milwaukee and Chicago.
The Milwaukee event will be held on Sunday July fourteenth, Chicago Sunday, August eighteenth. According to the press release, Indogcision will then hit the road with Headcount, bring voter engagement opportunities to several adoption centers and cities across America. I encourage you both adopt from a shelter and vote. Saturday, my guest is Mike Chisholm. He hosts the Letterman podcast We’ll Be Nerdy About David Letterman.
That will be both Saturday and Sunday’s episode. Did you get yourself a National Donuts Chain T shirt? Yet? Link in the show notes. If you would like this podcast add free, go to Caliroga dot com slash plus add in the show notes, and if you would like to subscribe for free to my substack.
That’s where I pontificate about the media. Wednesday, I dropped a new essay about some podcasts that you should check out other than this one. Link in the show notes mckdeepod dot substack dot com. I found this one interesting. The Eagle Mountain Casino has announced that Paul Rodriguez will have a free show on Sunday.
Now, why is that interesting? Johnny Mack? Paul Rodriguez at the Eagle Mountain Casino. Eagle Mountain Casino, that sound familiar to you. That’s right, That’s where George Lopez recently walked off stage.
So I find the booking of Paul Rodriguez curious. We’ll see what happens there. Dave Chappelle’s going to do outdoor shows again in Willow Spring, Rings, July third through the sixth. Pre sale tickets today ten am. General public sales tomorrow noon ticketmaster dot com.
This will be a cell phone free event, meaning you’ll have to do those yonder pouches. Ticketmaster warns you if you need to use your phone during the event, return to the distribution tent at the entrance. Anyone caught using a cell phone during the show will be immediately ejected. Gabe Iglesias did get the Key to the City of Long Beach. Gabe tell the audience it’s not something that you strive for as an entertainer.
It’s like I’d love to have a TV special or I’d love to do a movie. Those are the things that at the back of your head, but acknowledgment that’s not something I expected. Some of my biggest accomplishments, clearly like today, have been here, and some of my biggest heartbreaks I’ve had situations that happened to me over the years that happen here, and you have to take the good with the bad. Gabe dedicated his Key to the City to the memory of Sam Rubin. D KTLA news entertainment anchor Gabe said, he was one of my biggest supporters in comedy and entertainment.
I always covered my specials, he always covered my sitcoms. He was a really great human being and I just want to thank him. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy this program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
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