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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack if your Daily Comedy News. I’m thinking ahead to the weekend and the interview I have with Alex Bennett. Alex is a friend of mine, longtime a radio personality, and he’s up there in years, and we got into a friendly disagreement about old jokes, and as you’ll hear Alex say, he doesn’t appreciate them.
And then when we got into this, this was pre debate that we recorded.
This is I was saying, I like a nice, harmless Joe Biden is so old joke. I just had the late bot running some and like, to me, these are harmless jokes. I like stuff like this. Joe Biden so old his birth certificate is written in Roman numerals. Joe Biden is so old his Social Security number is one.
See that’s funny. Joe Biden is so old he remembers when rainbows were in black and white. Like. So those jokes aren’t really about Joe Biden. They’re just silly jokes using age as a premise.
But Alex really had a problem with it. You’ll hear about that in Saturday’s show. And it’s just top of mind on this side of the debate here on July second. We’re seeing the news slow down already. Don’t worry.
I’ve squirrelled some stuff away. But as you’ll hear today, it’s just a bunch of oh yeah, we announced a couple things right before the holidays, So let’s dive in. Bowen Yang, he’ll have an Olympics podcast. I suspect this will do really well. I personally have bow and fatigue right now.
I really enjoy him on SNL, but I don’t know. It’s starting to be a little much Bowen, But I have no doubt this podcast will do really well. Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers from Los Culturistas say this show will offer a different take on the Olympics, with each episode featuring a dose of the host before diving into the games. Bowen says, we’re going to get around to the Olympics. It’s called two Guys, five Rings, so you’re going to have to get through us before you get to the Olympics part.
It will be fifteen episodes. Yang and Rogers break down the top storylines, discuss the athletes to watch and the results, Obsessed over Paris culture, and find out what really goes on in the op village. They have put out one episode that you do that to seed your feed and you can climb the charts a little bit, but the main thing will run July twenty sixth through August eleventh.
Meanwhile, Colin Jost will serve as an NBC Sports reporter for the Olympics s…
He won’t be in Paris, though surfing is being held in Tahiti. NBC calls Colin Jost an avid surfer. Jost will report live from Tahiti. Olympic Surfing kicks off Saturday, July twenty seventh at twelve fifteen am Eastern. Jost will be on site to interview athletes and report on the conditions.
Pro surfers Joe Turple and Mike Parsons will handle the play by play and analysis. Joe said, I’m honored to get to watch the best surface in the world compete on one of the heaviest waves imaginable and help showcase the rich history of surfing in Tahiti, and my Writer’s Guild Health Insurance is excited to see what the coral reef does to my back. Now, if you’re wondering why Tahiti apparently the Sian River is not the best for surfing there in downtown Paris. But you’ve heard the phrase French Polynesia. It all makes sense.
Yeah, so it’s France, but you know France over there, I guess Joe said, as you could tell from this in no way doctored photo. I can’t wait to get to t he to cover the twenty twenty four Olympics surfing competition and maybe even seriously get injured trying to surf. Jimmy Fallon will co host the closing ceremony. Love this spin after NBC Sports Mike Turico invited him while guesting on the Tonight Show. As if Tarico ad lib this, as if Mike just went on the Tonight Show and was like, you know what, I’m just gonna ask Jimmy Fallon to do this.
What if he says no on live to tape television, Mike Turico, I’m not buying your story. Is Jimmy Fallon gonna be like no, no, no, Mike Urico, I don’t want to do that. Are the bosses at both NBC and the Olympics going, wait, they asked Jimmy Fallon, Oh shoot, don’t try and hogwash this guys How Fake Stop with Your Spin. Keenan Thompson will also co host a highlight show with Kevin Hart on Peacock. Kevin Hart Never Afraid to take a gig Leslie Jones will also be doing some work for NBC slash Peacock.
While would you like some Boneless Wings? One of my favorite comedians, Jimmy O Yang, is working with Popeyes. Jimmy O Yang, apparently known for his skepticism about boneless wings, has teamed up with Popeye, promoting six mouthwatering varieties like Classic Honeylemon Pepper, and Signature Hot Well what are the other three? Now? I have to go to popeyes dot com.
You got your click, but come on, I mean it’s only six. Tell me what they are? All right? It took a lot of clicks. According to popeyes dot com slash menu slash section E four, there are five sauces, not the six mentioned in the press release.
The five on the actual Popeye’s website are Sweet and Spicy Sauce, Honey Barbecue Wing sauce, Roasted Garlic Parmesan wing sauce, Signature Hot Wing Sauce, and Honey Lemon Pepper Sauce. Well what’s the six sauce? Hmm. Mel Brooks still out at about and you can join him at the Peacock Theater Saturday, July twenty seventh for a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Blazing Saddles, we got a trailer for the best Christmin Pageant ever and inspirational comedy starring Judy Greer and Pete Holmes. The Best Christmins Pageant Ever centers on the Herdman kids, who are the absolute worst.
They lie, they steal a bully, and they’ve hijacked the town Christmas pageant. As the rowdy and Rocus siblings force themselves into all of the lead roles, they drive the pageant’s director, Grace played by Judy Greer, and other members of her family, including husband Bob Pete Holmes up the wall. How Adam Sandler’s not in this? I don’t know. I know what an Adam Sandler plot sounds like, and this is one.
But through their misfit mischief I like that writing there, these unlikely messengers might turn out to be the ones to deliver the town sensational and moving portrayal of the true meaning of Christmas. Ronin Hirshberg has yet another special out today, Comedy Dynamics releasing it Could Have Been Better. It’ll be out on album form on July fifth. It Could Have Been Better is Hirshberg’s fourth special overall, his second in the last two months. He released one on June twentieth that I watched over the weekend and told you it’s okay.
I don’t hate it. I don’t love it. It just is. That one’s called Brave. You’ll find that on YouTube.
Comedy Dynamics also announced the acquisition of Tony Rock Rock the World, the debut special from a comedian, Tony Rock. You may have heard of Tony’s brother, Chris, also a comedian. Among Tony Rock’s credits, he has been seen on the series Everybody Hates Chris. Jason Zenneman from The New York Times. We all like him right now, we all know who he is.
He cut up with Keith Robinson and wrote with the changes to his movement and speech, Robinson’s stand up has new gravity and pace. After considerable speech therapy, Robinson can tell jokes but must work harder to be understood. Keith says everything has to be more precise. Now everything counts I can’t depend on movement. After his second stroke, which was far more debilitating than the first, Robinson briefly thought he’d have to quit performing and become a writer.
Chris Rock hired him to help with Rock’s recent special, but Robinson missed being on stage, hang out with comics, and most of all, busting chops. Drew Carrey wants to keep posting the prices right. He says, I do have a goal. I want to keep going until I die. This is my eighteenth season.
I’ve got to get to the thirty five and forty one year mark so I can catch Bob Barker and Pat Sayjack. Drew says, once I hit ten years here, I was like, wow, that’s the longest I’ve ever had a job in my life. It’s just such a great part of my day, my year, my life. I can’t imagine giving it up. I don’t like CBS to know that.
But it’s going to be a few years till my next contract negotiations, so maybe forget I said this. I can quit any time I want. Amber Ruffin came out on social media. She wrote, and what will come as a shock to exactly zero people, I’m using the last day of pride to come out be proud of who you are. Little babies.
I know I am, and I can’t wait to be discriminated against for a new reason. And that is your comedy news for today. See if you can figure out what the sixth the sauce is and let me know. See you tomorrow