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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis isn’t a new bud Light commercial. USA Today points out Shane Gillis drinking a bud Light for a college football game isn’t exactly headline news. A quick scroll through his Instagram and you can see Shane and his friends enjoying bud Lights while out at various events.
In January, Shane announced a partnership with bud Light. They have a new campaign rolling out across TV and social media. Ton Allen is bud Light’s senior vice president of Marketing. He said, as a passionate college football fan himself, Shane Gillis was the perfect partner to connect to our college football audience with his distinct style of humor. And it doesn’t hurt that Shane loves a bud Light or two on game day, all right.
In this commercial, which I’m going to play most of for you, it’s called The Dean’s Office. Shane Gillis plays Coach Herb who’s brought into the office for a meeting between the college dean and a football player in trouble. A bucket of bud Lights is offered in exchange for the truth. Let’s take a listen. It takes a minute to get rolling, but once we get to Shane major payoff.
Here you go, Bobby, you’ve been accused of pagiarizing your master’s thesis. If you were found guilty, you will have to forego the football season. But if you confess, I will make it only half the season. I’ll make you a deal. You tell the truth, you can have this ice cold bucket of bud light.
All you have to do is confess, all right. I’ll go first, grease the wheels a little. What no, I confess said? I practice my halftime speeches in the shower before games. Professor Wilkins, do you want to confess anything?
No, all right, I’ll go for you. Professor Wilkins has been taking karate classes ever since that saxophone girl put him in a headlock. Jane Gillis provided an exclusive statement to USA Today in which Shane Gillis says, I’ve spent the past couple of years working with these guys on projects from beautiful dogs to tires. Getting to shoot new shorts with them and bud was a lot of fun, all right. Adam Sandler recaps.
Here’s the deal. I’ve got some stuff going on in my personal life. I had a tape a couple days in advance, so I’m actually recording today because I’m not around today. I had to record this on Tuesday. My plan here as I sit here in the basement is to actually watch Adam Sandlor.
But as I record, I haven’t seen it yet. But a bunch of reviews are out, the first from USA Today, Who Right, there are two Adam Sandlers. One is the in your face, lowest common denominator fort and penis joke guy you know and maybe love, depending on your comedic taste. Johnny Mack personally hates that the other is getting a little bit older, a little bit romantic and very nostalgic. I like the older Adam Sandler.
I’ve talked about this. I openly don’t like most of his movies, and I think some of the more dramatic roles, I think he’s actually pretty good at it, and I’d like to see him do more of that. USA Today Right says for the special these two men meet in an odd dysfunctional marriage and Sandler’s new Netflix special Adam Sandler, Love You. They gave a two and a half stars out a four. The hour long special is a foe off the cuff event directed by one of Sandler’s uncut Gem’s collaborators, Josh Safti.
It makes more odd penis and sex jokes than you would expect, with a bit of melancholy and softness sorry my brain locked on penis jokes and softness, I know, plus some unreality pretending to be real. Altogether, it’s a little joring, sometimes off putting, but also kind of sweet. Love You is nowhere near the heights of his last special, twenty eighteen’s one hundred percent fresh. That outing was full of energy and newness. Spoilers.
Love You opens with Sandler driving a car with a shattered windshield into an alley. He’s instantly overcome by fans and gets a hoodie from a stranger. It’s meant to be raw footage, but in reality it’s clearly scripted to be weird and off putting, complete with a random ventriloquist as Saandlor’s opening act. It stinks of Safty involvement, as films from Safty and his brother Benny, including Gems in Good Time, are known for their stressful, slightly off killed re version of the real world. It doesn’t really work or does a series of technical glitches after Sandler takes the stage that might have been real or but also come off scripted.
This is really interesting. Now I’m looking forward to watching this and considering the special was filmed over four nights, that’s the most logical conclusion. Yeah, that’s too that they had to take four different nights to make an hour here or seventy minutes here. A little weird coffee in hand, which he demands to be sweetened with Stevia and not a different artificial sugar. Sandler begins a row call of middling jokes about life, veering from the mundane to the fantastic.
Old topics include genies, talking balloons, other mythical characters. He’s never been the kind of comedian to invite the audience into his actual personal life, even if some of his experiences as a husband, father, and celebrity sneak into a storytelling. There are many many of his typical, less than tasteful jokes. Kids walking in on their parents having sex, a genie tricking Sandler in a performing something naughty in an airport bathroom, songs about old guys with kids. The list goes on the line between funny and vulgar has crossed more than once, but that’s nothing new for Sandler.
This is USA today. But then there are the simple, folksy kind of jokes that hit without inducing. Rob Schneider appears in an Elvis Presley get up to do a really solid impression of the King as Saandlor sings along. I played on The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on Live One.
I played a Schneider bit where he was doing Yoko and Julian Lennon. Now, the Yoko is every stereotype you can imagine, but the Julian Lennon was pretty good. It was basically doing Lennon as the John Lennon everyone does. But it was really entertaining. Anyway.
That show is called The Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s on the Live One app. The show is free. The app is free if you want to check that out. I do that once a week, new episodes every Sunday.
The Elvis thing is not really a joke so much as a solid musical interlude. The Chicago Sun Times reviewed Adam Sandler’s new special and say we are living in the age of the streaming comedy special when it seems like there’s at least one new stand up show every week. Yes, there are the first five minutes of Love You Play, like a deleted scene from uncut Gems, with Saidler pulling up an allie. I has talked about that one sailor’s inside. It’s clear the venue isn’t exactly the United Center or American Airlines arena.
Sandler wonders aloud, who booked this place? So like, I haven’t seen it yet. That sounds kind of lame, like Adam Sandler’s walking in having no idea where he’s performing. I mean, that’s just not true. So you know, I have two minds here.
One it’s comedy, Just laugh whatever, have a good time. But if the underlying premise is, oh, I can’t believe I’m in this arena? How did this happen? How is my Netflix special being filmed here? That seems a little leame to me.
But again, I haven’t seen it yet, he sometimes wrights. Turns out the grubbiness of the venue was literally built into the production, as Saftie in the production design team built the Nockturn Theater in Glendale, California into a ramshackle disaster that looks like it’s on the brink of being shut down. It’s strange to see one of the biggest comedy stars of his generation in such a down skill setting. But it’s never not interesting. None of this would matter if the material isn’t there and that department Sandler delivers a hilarious yet thought provoking mix of jokes and songs.
Not everything works, mostly though, Sandler comes through where he’s telling a story that sounds like it’s pulled from real life but quickly turns absurd. We’re playing solid guitar while performing these genre hopping songs, and a friend of the podcast, Jason Zinnemann in The New York Times, writes, Adam Sandler, at fifty seve Vin hasn’t lost a step before it became a huge star. Sandler made proudly filthy and beloved comedy albums full of irreverence. Sketches the Chronicle subjects like an extremely long bout of urination. I’m gonna jump in and again.
I respect Jason Zineman, and as I told Jason Zinneman when he was on the pod, Jason knows more about comedy than I do. But I’m going to push back on beloved comedy albums. And here’s why I programmed a serious comedy for ten years, and especially in the area of programming on Live one and Slacker. I can tell you Adam Sandler bits are not loved. Like, for example, on the Live one app, you can thumbs up and thumbs down things, and I get to see all the data.
Anytime I schedule Adam Sandler stuff. It is at the bottom of any playlist, all of them. They are not beloved, at least by the people that use the Live one app. These are not beloved. Jason Zinneman, but love you, Jason writes, the new Special can feel like a throwback to that era.
If anything, age allows new avenues for potty humor. Sandler hasn’t exactly matured that was destroy his comedy so much as allowed sentiment to overtake the humor he had helped from family, his wife and daughters, and now as much of regulars as his work as Chris Rock, David Spade, and his old friends from snl are. Sandler gives his old pal Rob Schneider an unnecessary cameo doing an Elvis impression. The best parts of the special are its long winding, dirty stories told in its characteristic mumble in crooked angles and close ups. Safty shoots Sandler watching his show fall apart a dog runs on stage.
The video doesn’t work. Sandler makes one joke about his own fame and stature, but the visuals undercut any hero worship, even putting silhouettes on the heads of audience members in the foreground. He’s playing a small room and speaking softly about juvenile things. For certain kind of comedy, that’s all you need. Jason also wrote about Langston Kerman’s bad poetry that one I did watch last weekend, and you know it was okay.
I just didn’t do anything for me, so I bailed on it. But Jason writes in his Terrific debut Hour, Langston Kerman displays the kind of effortless, laid back charm that can make you underestimate him. There’s an ease with which he moves between talking about his mother’s romantic life for the student cruelty experience when he was a school teacher that can make his act seemed tossed off. You might also think he benefits from great stories, like an amazing one about a man his mother married who was fired from his job as an NBA mascot. But there’s a precision to his low key stories and attention to detail that puts jokes across.
His setups and punchlines are solid. Even his transitions contain gems, like all our heroes are monsters, and all our monsters have podcasts. The Punchline Comedy Club is opening with Dave Chappelle. It’s their new location at twelve oh four Caroline in Houston, inside the former House of Blues restaurant, space capacity two hundred and fifty. Dave Chappelle will perform September sixth and seventh at the new location.
It’s probably sold out by the time you hear my voice. I tell you. The Traitorers wanted Ricky Gervais to be on their show. Ricky has responded on Twitter saying he loves the show and I’m very flattered, but it won’t happen. I’m too busy and there’s no way they could afford me.
He wrote that alongside an emoji of a face wearing sunglasses. So when I put a show together, I have these little documents and I’ll put the stories and I’ll slot them in a different day. For example, if you announced a comedy special coming out December first, and I got a press release, I would not only mention it today, but in the December first folder, I would put it there to remind me to talk about it three months from now. And the other thing I do is like say, I’m gonna talk about Adam Sandler. I just have one word, all right, Sandler, to let me know as I go into the next story, what I’m about to talk about.
What I’m about to talk about here is Michael Keaton. But for some reason I spelled it k E A R t O w N. I don’t know how that happened. Kereton, Michael Kereton. You know him, he was Batman.
Well, he’s also in Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. I know I’m not falling for it. I’m not saying that word a third time. You know what happens if you say it three times?
Michael Keaton said. The only thing I was worried about was should we have left it alone? You know, should we have just said, don’t touch it, just walk away, go make your other movies. So for me, it was a big roll of the dice at the end of the day. If somebody said you have to pick one thing you’ve done how I make my living, I’d probably pick that character that I’m not saying if it’s all encompassing thing, just for it.
Sorry, you know what I mean. I mean in you know, some pretty good movies, but this sequel is something different. I’m looking forward to this one. Do you know what The Day the Clown Cried is is? It is an unfinished and unreleased nineteen seventy two drama directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.
Okay, have you heard of this? It is one of the most famous loss films in history. It’s so bad, Jerry Lewis declared it should never be seen. Every now and then I hear stories of like a secret screening in a Los Angeles. I’ve seen a recreation of it on YouTube.
So what’s so bad about The Day the Clown Cried? How bad could it be? Where? Here’s the synopsis of a new film called Darkness to Light. Darkness to Lights synopsis reads.
In nineteen seventy two, the King of comedy, Jerry Lewis, was at the peak of his career, driven by the ambition to play a dramatic role for change, he set out to craft a very special movie project for himself, The Day the Clown Cried. It turned out to be an epic fiasco, becoming an elusive ghost of a movie, with Lewis leaving the set and never speaking about what happened. The movie was never completed and has become the ultimate Hollywood myth. Okay, what’s the deal John? How bad could this movie be?
In the Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis plays a German clown in a concentration camp. Now the story I’m cripping off here doesn’t talk about it, but basically spoilers for a fifty year old movie that’s never coming out. The Nazis something something with Jerry Lewis the clown and Jerry Lewis the clown, performs to distract the children, who then get led to the gas chambers. This is a Jerry Lewis film. It never came out, So I’m looking forward to this documentary And if you really scour the Internet you can’t find the film.
It really has been put away. I’m pulling up the Wikipedia right here. Jerry Lewis repeatedly insisted The Day the Clown crid would never be released. Later donated an incomplete copy of the film to the Library of Congress in twenty fifteen. Under the stipulation it was not to be made available before June of twenty twenty four.
According to Lewis’s son, there is no complete negative of the film, and outstanding copyright issues have prevented its release. Wikipedia has the plot as Helmet Dork Doork. Helmet Dork is a washed up German circus clown during the beginning of World War Two in the Holocaust. He was once a famous performer who toured North American Europe with the Ringling Brothers. Dork has now passed his prime receives little respect.
After Dork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Dork. Upon returning home, Dork confines his problems to his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself. He goes back to the circus something Something. Helmet is arrested by the Gestapo for drunkenly mocking Adolf Hitler in a bar. He’s in prison in a Nazi camp for the next three to four years.
He remains there while hoping for a trial and had a chance to plete his case. Subplots about his time in the prison. The other prisoners go dork in a performing for them, but he doesn’t realize that he’s actually not that good. The other prisoners beat him up and leave him in the courtyard to sulk. He sees a group of Jewish children laughing at him from the other side.
Delighted to be appreciated, Helmett performs for them and gains an audience until the new prison commandant orders him to stop. Helmut learns that fraternizing with Jewish prisoners is strictly forbidden. Unable to leave the children in a state of unhappiness, he continues to perform for them more plots, skipping ahead. Seeing a use for the commandant assigns him to help load Jewish children on trains leading out of the internment camp with a promise that his case will be reviewed. By a twist of fate, he ends up accidentally accompanying the children on a box car train to Auschwitz.
He’s eventually used in pied piper fashion to help the Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chamber. On February twenty third, nineteen seventy three, Jerry Lewis appeared as a guest on The Dickcavit Show, where he stated the film would complete editing in six to seven weeks and had been invited premiere at the Cannes Film Festival that May. It would be released in America after that, the film was never officially released and remains unreleasable to the failure to secure the underlying rights. In twenty twelve, French director Xeviergani told a talk show he had managed to track down a seventy five minute copy of the film and had shown it to a number of people, and I don’t see it here, but I feel like there was an only screening of it at one point, like you had to be in the cool kids club. Anyway, I’m looking forward to that documentary.
There’s no way I’m digging out of this hole and making the end of this podcast fun. So let’s just get out and that’s your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.