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Caloroga Shark Media. It’s been up and down the last couple of weeks in terms of how much news there is. Today’s pretty robust and Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Oscars are going to need a host. I saw my headline saying that neither Kimmel nor Mlaney were going to host.
I was like, ABC, why are you being dumb? Kim will works great, leave it alone for twenty five years. Well, apparently that decision was made by Jimmy Kimmel. ABC asked Jimmy to host it. He’s already hosted it four times, including the last two years.
In recent years, Jimmy’s talked about wanting more balance in his life. For example, he’s taken summers off on Jimmy Kimmelive. Good gig if you can get it, so okay. The obvious choice then John Mulaney. Everybody’s been talking about John Mulaney and he had hosted the Governor’s Award earlier this year and he crushed it.
So just ask John Mulaney, right, he’d be great. No. Previously, m’laney was asked if he would consider hosting the Oscars and said sure, why not? It would be really fun. It’s hosting the Academy Awards.
Johnny Carson did that, but John Mulaney has declined he would have had to give up other opportunities, possibly a stand up tour, possibly a Netflix late night show of sorts. So they need a host. Why don’t you go all in and call Ricky Travay’s that’d be amazing. Matt Rife is putting out a book. All right, time out.
I’m gonna comment here. I think Matt Rife is smart. Here’s why. I don’t think Matt Rif’s act has a shelf life. I think he’s a shooting star.
So while it’s hot, floor it play a million shows, get every project you can. Put out a book. I know I’m being jerky, but I’ve been doing this a while, and in five years I don’t see Matt Rife at the top of the comedy game. The book is called Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me. It’ll hit shelves this December.
Rife’s memoir details how he rose to comedy fame before the age of thirty. Talks about his upbringing in Ohio, his experience playing some of comedy’s most notable stages and his rap battles with x cons all before finishing high school. He’ll also detail his experience with depression and his brushes with failure before he found success. The book is described as one part memoir, one part comedy special, and one part first date. Conan O’Brien was up at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday.
He did a music gig billed as Conan O’Brien and Real Musicians that said at one point, try if the insult comic Dog took the stage to built out a Woody Guthrie inspired song about Conan O’Brien says Late nighter, there was a thirteen song cover set. Conan was joined on stage by Jack White, who came on at the end of the set to perform twenty Flight Rock and We’re going to Be Friends. White told the crowd We’re going to do a song about a friendship before playing the tune, which is the theme song to the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friends podcast. Have you been watching the Olympics? Are you watching the beach volleyball?
I love the beach volleyball. As you may have heard over the years, I do play beach volleyball usually on Wednesdays. Now, we didn’t make the playoffs. We were in a twelve team league. We finished twelfth, and of all the teams in the twelve team league, we were the only team not to I’ll remind you I’m fifty four years old.
At many of my editors are not fifty four years old, so you know, give it the old college try. We usually lose a game like twenty five eighteen. Occasionally we’ll win one, and each match is best of three, and we didn’t win any so this week we’re not in the playoffs. So I’ll be at the bar playing trivia tonight. Hi trivia, guys, And if you want to buy my friend Glenna beer, go to buy me a coffee.
Dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. Throw five bucks in the tip jar, and I’ll buy Glenn five sevens of a beer. Wow. I am losing my voice already. I woke up this morning and did not feel great, and I’m struggling here.
The row recording is five minutes and forty seconds in and I can barely speak. Oh no, especially because I need to record three episodes of five Good News Stories today. I digress. Anyway, are you watching the Olympics, or you’re watching the beach Volleyball, or you’re watching Team USA. There’s this woman.
Every time I see her, my brain goes, There’s Amy Schumer. She looks like Amy Schumer. Have you seen her? Anyway, I’m enjoying that. I’m not enjoying Colin Jost.
His appearances seem totally forced. He shared a photo of his bloody toes and this might ruin my Wiki feet score, but I just arrived in Tahiti for the Surfing Olympics and the reef was excited to greet me. He then gave an update on his foot, showing three of his toes bandages and wrapped in thick medical gauze. Joe said, you know what’s going great when you’ve been in the Olympic medical tent more than any of the athletes. NBC is using the Olympics to hype up SNL fifty.
It’s the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live. We’re gonna talk a lot about that for the next ten months. Mike Turrico was there with John Mulaney, second Milleniey Story of the Day. Mulaney said opening ceremony was great. Rub Schneider disagrees to get to that a second, very egalitarian in the sense that there were billionaires and there were interns.
In a matter who you were. You were in a clear smock getting rained on a bridge, Elon musk clear poncho, intern, clear poncho. Late Nighter points out mulaney just happened to have a story that involved SNL to tell. That’s convenient. Mullaney told Urico, one of my favorite memories is the reason that I’m here at the Olympics with my friend Simon.
Simon and I were writers from about two thousand and eight to twenty twelve, and Charles Barkley hosted. During the time, you know, you’d meet the hope and you talk about sketches. But this night we said, let’s just ask him for stories. Sparkley comes in our office, he takes up the whole couch and we say, what was the dream Team like in ninety two? And he says, boys, have you ever been to the Olympics?
And we said no, and he goes, if you ever get the chance to go, do it. So this is why when I got a chance to come to the Olympics, I called my friend Simon and said, we gotta do it. That story’s convenient, Rob Schneider, he’s boycotting the Olympics. He did not like the opening ceremonies. You may have seen the thing that some people felt was making fun of the Last Supper.
On Twitter, Rob Schneider wrote, I am sorry to say to all the world’s greatest athletes, I wish you all the best, but I cannot watch an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan. I sincerely hope these Olympics get the same amount of viewers as c SPAN. Luckily, he tagged both at Olympics and at Sea Span in the tweet. In another tweet, Schneider included a photo from the drag performance and wrote, guys with their genitalia hanging out in front of children drag queens. I wasn’t sure if I was watching the at Olympics or if I was watching a school board meeting.
You can almost hear the rim shot there, right, You could almost hear it. Anyway, Rob, You’re missing some great beach volleyball from the eight hundred pound gorilla. This one’s a little weird to me. Rob Mcalenny, you know him, as mac on It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia and Guy then hangs out with Ryan Reynolds. Well.
He has taken over Dynasty Typewriter in LA on Wednesdays for the More Better Comedy showcase. More Better is his production company, The eight hundred Pound Gorilla, says the inaugural show, hosted by Mecky Leaper, would be a hilarious night of stand up comedy featuring the comedians Leaper, Blair Soochi, Vennie Thomas, Moe Welch, Kieran Dale, Alup Noll and a special guest were promised endless laughs and wild card surprises, more entertaining than any Patty’s pub Shenanigan’s, and if you’re not in LA, you can live stream the show from home. Ego Nuotam is starting a podcast. It’s called Thanks Dad, an interview style show. Good to see celebrities interviewing people.
We don’t have enough of those podcasts. You’ll invite guests on to be a boy. I’m caddy today boy for what she’s calling her Ivan Caddy a lot lately, what she’s calling her dad for the day. She’ll have thoughtful and funny conversations about their experiences with fatherhood and solicit advice on practical dad centered matters. She tells the Hollywood Reporter, I didn’t have a relationship with my dad.
It doesn’t bother me the way movies and TV wanted to bother me. But I’m curious about it. FAX has handed a series order to something called Snowflakes and Ensemble comedy about quote a group of codependent housemates trying to be good people despite being neither good nor people. Yet that sounds like it’s also Sonny in Philadelphia, No Yes, Nick Curl. One of the producers of this one, Tim Allen, is coming back to ABC his new sitcom Shifting Gears.
In Shifting Gears, Tim Allen plays the stubborn, widowed owner of a car restoration shop whose daughter Riley You played by Kat Dennings, moves back home with her teenage kids to live with her dad and her brother, Nick Nick. Will be recast after the pilot uh oh sorry. Nick Nick now played by someone else, is described as a game coder who put his life on hold to come home and help his father at the shop. Is the shop that busy? Can you not code games?
From like five pm to three in the morning, isn’t that what game coders do? Now, the game coders are going to write me letters and be mad at me for making fun of them. Sorry, everybody, I saw a note. Pete Davidson has canceled his August ninth to Peak a gig. I don’t know why.
No reason was given. Sometimes that these things are for low ticket sales, and sometimes there because you’re Pete Davidson. We’ll keep an eye on that tomorrow. On this program, Jerney Gunderson is the executive director of the National Comedy Center. She is my guest.
It’s definitely gonna happen. We already recorded it unless I forget to schedule it, but it exists. There’s tape. I’ve heard it, I’ve edited it. We’re going to talk about the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival and learn all about the museum.
I had a really great time talking to her. So that is tomorrow’s episode. Why are you not doing it on Saturday, John, because the festival starts tomorrow. If I read it on Saturday, would have missed half the festival already. So that’s tomorrow’s episode.
And that is your comedy news for today. If you’re a gamer and you can’t stand me. Contacts are in the show notes. Everybody else see you tomorrow.