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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Tenny Man, I hear if your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon watched Biden’s speech and said it was a very graceful speech, and then Biden surprised everyone by announcing his candidacy for twenty twenty eight. Cope Bears said Trump has had a lot of crazy stuff, but there’s an explanation for that. He’s crazy.
Jimmy Fallon again, I don’t know if you saw. Milania is putting out a tell All book. We’ll see how tell All it’s going to be. He said. At Malani’s request, her book and Trump’s book will be in the same store, but sold in separate sections.
Cracked with the headline comedy has a Netflix problem. Netflix is a joke, but for all the wrong reasons. All right, Matt Solomon, what’s your premise here? He quoted Neil Brennan appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience. I’m competing with everything that’s ever been made.
Is my new special better than The Godfather and every comedy special? Rogan said, yep, all the old stuff, all the new stuff, everything altogether. It’s an insane time. Try to captivate people’s attention. Now, it’s an insane proposition.
There’s just so much available. Krack took this premise. The biggest conundrum Netflix poses for comedy is the same one that Laurene Michaels has at SNL, embracing controversial comics and broiled and public scandal. Shane Gillis tells homophobic, racist, and sexist jokes on podcasts. NBC kicks them off, but Michaels will sponsor his triumphant return, all in the name of social relevancy.
Netflix is even worse. Sure it produces pro LGBTQ plus documentaries, It’s right there in your comedy que next to transphobic specialist from Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais. Where does Netflix stand? Wherever it can to drive cultural conversation, even if that means playing both sides of the culture wars. Robbie Prau, who runs Netflix Comedy, says, some people’s favorite thing to do on a Saturday night maybe to watch a Dave Chappelle special.
But for some people it may be Taylor Tomlinson or Mae Martin, where Sarah Silverman or John Mulaney or Chris Rock And we don’t want to block those choices for our members. Cracked Rights. May be a subscriber hasn’t jumped on the service for a while, but what the heck. They’re probably curious why everyone is soap mad at Matt Rife or Thom Segor or Rob Schneider. It’s a natural desire to see what all the fuss is about, as it’s turning out Netflix as a joke, but for all the wrong reasons.
I don’t agree with the premise of the article. First of all, Netflix is a commercial enterprise. They’re going to put on the most popular stuff. If comedian X is popular, they’ll get a Netflix special. I mean, I guess at some point something would be so extreme that Netflix or a different streamer would be like, we don’t want to sponsor the I don’t know, horrible thing.
You can imagine comedy tour. You know, at some point there’s a line. And maybe I’m just living here on Old Man Mountain or White Dude Mountain. I look at the Netflix offerings and I think it’s pretty broad. And again, you don’t have to watch these things.
Is Netflix putting in front of you? Probably possibly, I don’t know. If I go to your house, I don’t think they surface the same things that you see if you log in as me. I know, sometimes I log in as a different family member and they have like a whole different list of shows. I didn’t even know exist.
Who knows Dean Cook played the Zombie Montreal Comedy Festival last night. I didn’t realize that show he did last night was free, just like the one tonight for Eliza’s Lessenger. She’s there tonight. You can see it for free at the Place Day Festivals, which is how I was pronounced in French. Dane Cook told the Montreal Gazeze there’s no better feeling in the world than sharing a career, especially one in the third decade.
You could be outrageous. He probably got dragged a few times because it was sensational and it was fun for the media to do that. You start flying steady, but lo and behold, I fall in love And not only is it a love story, but it’s one where I truly want to share the rest of my life and the rest of my journey with this woman. And I hope that feeling is mutual. Dane no longer feels like he has something to prove.
He says, I think at some point I turned a corner from all that stuff. I found myself to be a friend, to be in kind of a mentor position, be it at a club or speaking on the seminar circuit about my philosophy, and certainly the things that helped me keep my integrity during every which way. Now I get to be a sounding board for someone who was maybe where I was when I was in my twenties. There are a lot of people who try to take you someplace you don’t want to go. Feels great to give sports others.
That’s what keeps me going these days.
Also, I have a fire still raching creatively inside of me.
I’m tenacious when I wake up in the morning, I have an agenda I want to see through. But the big difference is that now I want to share all of that with my wife. It’s nice to be in this place. I think it’s time for the Danisades. Let’s get a major Dean Cook comeback.
That’d be great. Chad Daniels just had his Netflix special Empty Nester. He now stars in a new peda video with a fellow comedian, Kelsey Cook, who is also his partner. They imagine a world in which humans are treated like outdoor cats and remind viewers of the video that life threatening, dangerous two outdoor cats are no laughing matter. In the video, Chad Daniels is shoot outside by cook.
I love to fend for himself in the not so great outdoors. In character, he says, do you have any idea how many diseases I can get out here? Hookworms, ringworm, reebe’s ticks, toxoplasmosis, and some other words I can’t pronounce. I’m gonna catch something I can’t even pronounce. Oh, that’s funny.
I didn’t read that. Next sent it’s ahead. There were two words here like pasteur relosis. I might have got that in Campbell. How do you pronounce camp Why?
All right? La la la l? Is that even a word? That’s like an lol lol? Anyway, Daniel says in the videos ear mites feline herpes virus.
If I get herpes, because if you, I’m gonna be angry. This is what he says. Peta points out that, in addition to terrorizing, maiming, and killing billions of birds and other small animals, every year, cats allowed to roam out doors or at risk of ingesting poison, contracting fatal diseases and enduring violence and abuse at the hands of cruel people, being attacked by predators, being hit by cars, or falling victim to many other dangers. Chad Daniels in the video and character says, if I live inside my left expectancy is twelve to twenty years. But you leave me out here, I’m not gonna make it to my fifth birthday.
Daniels and Cook join a long list of comedians including Mark Marinkathy Griffin, Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman, and Ricky Gervais, Amanda Seals, and Bill Maher who have teamed up with Peta to promote kindness to animals. Tig Nataro talked about her twenty thirteen album. Tignataro told Vulture of that album, it was a gut punch to get when I was in the depth of my grief losing my mother death was very unexpected to lose your mother and then two days later get a survey asking how your stay in the hospital went. I was so mad. I was deeply, deeply upset.
I really can’t listen to live the name of that album now because people think it was such a hard period of time for me, But it’s more so that it was like a twenty or thirty minute open mic. When I was doing interviews, they would do lead ins with my material and I’d take my headphones off and the interviewers would be like, oh, I’m sorry, it must be hard, and I’m like, no, it’s that it’s not polished at all. I’m glad people enjoy it, but I don’t want to hear this. I remember that night. I was shocked that I was getting laughs because I was so truly down and out.
I didn’t have a lot of faith in my ability to make any of that funny, or faith in anything truly. My pants were falling off, my underwear was falling off. I was malnourished. I was so sick. I was struggling.
I was devastated. John, you just did stories about, you know, taking a sad place and a cat being killed in the street, back to back. This show’s not much fun today. Can you pull it out before the break? I will see what Sam Morrill has for us.
Deadline asked Sam about his podcast he does with Mark Norman, called We Might be Drunk. The question what has pop casting done for your career? Sam said, it’s helped my reaching my audience, but it’s hurt my stand up. I’d really love to never podcast again if I could. I do feel pressure to do them because everyone’s doing them, and I’ve had people tell me I’m crazy to feel this way, but I do feel people will forget me and move on.
And maybe that’s the case, maybe not. But I didn’t get in a comedy beat a radio type guy. That’s funny. I didn’t get in a radio to be a comedy type guy. We’re like opposite Sam.
I want to write screenplay as an act, not be an actor, but acted my stuff, and I want to make movies and TV shows. Stand up is number one, but those are two and three, and I’m gonna do it one way or another. It’s going to happen. It might take another couple of years. I have stuff in the work.
So I wrote a movie with Mark We’re Shopping that I think it’s really funny. It’s kind of a throwback nineties buddy comedy. Two good Friends, It Can’t Catch a Break, Two liquor Salesmen. There was a sitcom I was developing, and I’m working on the pilot for that now. I’ve had this one in the Q all week.
Larry the Cable Guy a friend of mine. I will truly call him a friend, not just somebody I know, and a really cool person. He’s got a Larry TheCable Guy dot shop Official merchant. I haven’t looked at this yet. I’m like, let me click on it.
See what he’s gone. All right, we can get a beer label T shirt that says Larry the Cable Guy, a nice black T shirt thirty bucks, a bowl skull T shirt, also thirty bucks, a Western crest T shirt that says get her Done in kind of a western font that looks good, one that says Larry in almost like a baseball script that looks good. Some Camo based baseball caps that say get her done. And that’s really it. Not much to make fun of there, Larry, you’re not helping the show.
It’s Sunday weekend filler bro r. Kathleen Madigan, who I’m also friends with, also has a store. Let’s click on merch on Kathleen Maadigan dot com. See if there’s stuff we can make fun of your Let’s see, she’s got a Madigan’s pobcast hat for thirty five bucks. A baseball tea.
I always enjoy a nice baseball tea mystery grab bag for six dollars, and then she’s selling her albums. Let’s see what’s in the grab bag. Pick your size and get a surprise shirt from the vault of previous Kathleen Madigan shirts. Six bucks. Boy, there’s nothing to make fun of.
This segment sucks. Why did you leave it in? Why not?
All right, let’s go to Jim Gaffigan dot com.
Does he have merch? He’s got a store. Come on, Jim, hook me up here. Gaffigin parenting quote glasses. So I’ve made fun of this before.
You want a shock glass with a parenting quote from Jumn Gaffigan? You know you do. I mean, what’s cooler that a shotglass that says raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. I mean, how sweet is that? Thank you Jim Gaffigan for a halfway saving the bit from Late Night er.
Jay Leno revealed when he replaced Johnny Carson, he initially planned to call the program The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno, but jay Leno’s mom was like, don’t do that. To be fair to Jay Leno. The previous incarnations of the show were Tonight’s starring Steve Allen, Tonight’s starring Jack Parr, and The Tonight’s Show starring Johnny Carson. Jay quoted his mother saying, oh, starring Jay Leno, listen to you, mister big shot. You’re getting too big for your breeches.
Two weeks later, I changed it to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. That’s why I changed, because of my mother. Bill Carter, in his book The Late Shift, says Jay had steered clear of starring Jay Leno out of concern that he would look too presumptuous claiming a star title. On his first day on the job. Conan O’Brien went with The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Jimmy Fallon.
It calls his The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Sean Davies wrote a lengthy article for short All with suggestions on how to fix the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Every year, this time we hear how the Fringe is broken. Here are some suggestions. Number One, say no to the extra show, Sean says, every year at Fringe a handful of shows excel and sell out.
They’re ron what follows is a scramble to add extra shows and more people can see the show. I completely understand the show’s popular. It’s a chance that makes more money. Most comedians would be thrilled for the show to be so popular. But what they don’t realize is they’re actively taking audiences from other shows.
Their desire to make a bit more cash is taking money directly out of the hands of their colleagues and friends. I mean, good luck with that plan. You’re gonna tell a comedian, don’t make more money so other people will come see a different show. Maybe possibly, perhaps the top level famous comedians might be that cool. But somebody gets a hit show, they’re gonna sell as many tickets as possible.
Suggestion number two, name your sponsor, Sean says, Recognize your privilege and tell people about it. How can you afford to be here doing what you do? Did you win the lottery? Do you have generational wealth? Just be honest about your position, Okay, and fine, no problem there.
Tip number three offset your profits with equity, Sean writes, I recently had an email from an established act who apologized for being middle class. They said they were making some jokes about privilege in the new show and had a realization that it wasn’t enough to joke about they’d been well paid for a recent job, and asked if they can make a donation. Obviously a bit their handoff, any money coming in goes directly towards supporting working class comedians. I’m not asking everyone who makes a profit to donate to Best in Class, but you can if you want. I know some acts who directly support working class acts by paying for their PR revenue.
But I’d like to see production companies, PR companies and venues setting special tariffs for working class acts. It’s not that’s like, Hey, Joe Rogan, I know you’re making a lot of money. You know, would be kind of cool if you could throw some money over to support Daily Comedy News. Come on, Joe, we’re both talking about comedy on our podcast. We’re the same, you’re just more famous.
Come on, hook me out. It doesn’t work that way. Stop. And I’m seeing some buzz on Matt Lyons for poking fun at outdoor stereotypes. His videos are doing well in the algorithms.
Lions roast outdoor enthusiasts like hikers, skiers, and people who can afford to live in Aspen. He has half a million fans on Instagram, another two hundred and fifty thousand on TikTok. Lions says, my videos are about things that I’m guilty of myself. I totally have a tattoo of a mountain on my forearm. It’s so cliche.
I threw hike. I also poke fun at what I’ve observed over the years. I understand sometimes they don’t realize how niche our communities can feel, and how inaccessible we can make them seem to outsiders the way we talk. I want my jokes to make people feel a little more self aware, rather than making them think they’re wrong for the way they act. Which outdoor community gives you the most feedback?
Lyons says, the past winter was crazy with Colorado skiers chiming in. I did an East Coast versus West Coast video and another one about people who live in Aspen. I noticed that ski culture really last Stutther was videos and people started going at each other in the comments section. For every one order comics that are like, oh man, this is totally me. There is one person who seems like they’ve had hurt feelings.
Look, you say enough words into the mic. Somebody’s gonna not like what you said. So Lion says, there’s one person who seems like they’ve had hurt feelings. Oftentimes I’ll click on that person’s profile and they end up being the exact image of the person. I’m not trying to be mean about the way I portray these groups.
Again, I’m the exact person I’m making fun of in my videos. I always try to be family friendly. I don’t curse or make crash jokes that you couldn’t watch with kids. I want people to be able to send it to their family members without it being weird. My whole vibe is to stay lighthearted with my critique.
Amen, brother, And that’s true comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, or if you still enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. If you think I’m a jerky face, tell other people I’m a jerkey face, they say all publicities. Good by Melissay. So Johnny Mac is a jerkeyface dot com.
Hopefully it goes viral. See you tomorrow.