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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big presidential debates tonight. Stephen Colbert said, to figure out who gets which podium and which one goes first or last, they flipped a coin. Trump won the coin to us, Thank god, otherwise would have to listen to months of coin denial.
Jimmy Fallon said, ABC will later the Trump Harris debate, while Fox News will just reair the one with Biden. We’ll be covering that on the Ballots podcast wherever you get your shows.
Speaking of late night shows, NBC snuck this one in I think late Friday after…
We’ll only do four new nights. The show will be on five nights a week starting this week. Jimmy Fallon will have new shows Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Fridays will be a rerun. At first, I was like, oh my god, they’re cutting back late night, and then I remember growing up, Johnny Carson Monday Night was a guest host often Jay Leno, Gary Shanling.
Tuesday was a Carson rerun and then three new shows a week was only on four days a week. Kim Ol only does four new ones, Colbert only does four new ones. So calm down, Johnny Mack. Now NBC is spinning this. A factor in the move is Fallon’s consuning commitments outside the Tonight Show, which includes Tonight Mayor’s a new Haunted Maze Experience.
No no, no, no no. You just realized there’s no reason to put on a new show Friday night. Nobody’s watching, and your budget cutting stop late night. It reminds us. When Letterman moved to CBS, he expanded to five original episodes to match the Tonight Show that would have been the Jay Leno Tonight Show.
Later in his run, Letterman began taping his Friday shows on Mondays, doing two shows on that night. I feel you, Dave, I know somebody who’s about to record a podcast for this weekend. I understand, but original shows did air every weeknight. The Tonight Show’s gone through periods of adjustment. When Steve Allen originated the show, Who was a ninety minute national broadcast five days a week, and plus he did an additional fifteen minutes for New York’s NBC affiliate.
In nineteen eighty, Carson got it down to sixty minutes, four nights a week excluding Monday. NBC made a new show featuring a guest host. Later, three nights a week, Jay Leno brought it back to five. Conan hosted this night show for five minutes. He kept it at five.
Fallon has done five shows a week except during the summer since he took over in twenty fourteen. Jimmy Kimmel was at the Creative Orts Emmys and told reporters, as a group, we have a little text chain of all the late night talk show hosts. All of us sent our congratulations to Jimmy Fallon for getting Friday off. All right, big news. John Mulaney will star in a Broadway comedy about love and marriage.
This got the New York Times treatment. It is called All In Comedy About Love, a new play by Simon Rich and includes a celebrity cast taking on the roles of pirates, dogs, and other zany characters. Mulaney said his new Broadway play is a weird fantasy camp of things I always wanted to do with my very good friends. All In Comedy About Love is staged at Vignette about relationships, marriage and heartbreak. The production will run for ten weeks performance beginning December eleventh, and official opening nights has not yet been announced.
By the way, if you’re hoping John Mulaney’s to do a late night talk show anytime soon, I guess not. Mulaney, Richard Kine, and Fred Armison are set to be in the show through January twelfth. M’laney said, there’s something so exciting about doing something this funny around the holidays. Altogether, it’s an enormously gratifying thing. Hey, remember Colin Jose and Pete Davidson bought a Staten Island ferry.
Well. Page six says that it might be part of New York Fashion Week, which is almost over as I record this. I don’t think anything’s happened with this thing yet. But page six saw the Staten Island ferry being pulled out by tugboats. The rumors it will host a big time fashion show.
We’ll see. Jay Farrow, caught up with the Winnipeg at Free Press, talked about doing impressions. He said he started when he was six years old, trying to impress a playground crush by imitating Gilbert Godfrey. That’s how you pick up the chicks. You do a Gilbert impression that has never failed for me.
The chicks love that, he says, that’s how it actually happened. If there’s ever a biopic done, that scene will be prominent. I’ll be on top of the jungle gym and we’ll be sitting there talking to each other, and then it cuts to twenty years later and I’m on stage. I would have never thought that kid would have ended up on sn L. Being on SNL, you’re forced to become quick because you have to audition for your job every week, and then you have to have a different show every week.
So you always have to make sure that if your finger on the pulse, and you always have to stay sharp. But you’ll just fade. What does he want to do next? He wants to break into the DC universe. He says, I love the grittiness of the DCU.
It’s my dream job to be John Stewart. No, not that John Stewart, the John Stewart that is the Green Lantern in DC comics. Jay says, I know it’s going to happen, but even if it didn’t, and my life will be lived at a short period of time. I would still be happy about all the accomplishments, so fear in the legacy for another little kid who feels like it’s impossible to get out of his surroundings to accomplish things. The Texas Standard took to Sheng Wang, one of my favorites, and they were like, were U s.
Berkeley getting a business degree? What happened? Shang said, that’s correct. I was a young kid in college. I was definitely not exposed to stand up.
The part of the entertainment culture was not something I knew much about as a kid. We didn’t have cable TV or anything like that. We didn’t watch much. But basically I was in college, I was scared to commit to any kind of creative pursuits because it just didn’t seem like something was possible for a young Asian kid. And I ended up getting a business degree, but just for fun, I dabbled in some extracurriculars that involve some poetry or some photography in comedy, and I love doing all those and comedy somehow became the easier one to follow through On who are your idols?
He says, one of the biggest was Mitch Hedberg. All right, and he was about everyday stuff. But I’m also a big fan of many other comics like Dave Shechabelle and Bill Hicks, Patton Oswalt, and Maria Bamford, who’s just kind of like trying to figure things out at open mics. I mean, everybody starts to do comedy at open mics, but you keep doing it and you find your style in the areas that you feel most comfortable in. It’s all just kind of taking a look around.
You run yourself around your environment and noticing things and trying to capture magic in the every day, in the mundane. So I guess it’s just something I was naturally drawn to, just trying to create, trying to find a joke, and the easiest thing for me to do is just look around my life and look at my own personal experience. If you enjoy what I do here, one thing you can do is you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com a slash Daily Comedy News. You get there are some money in the tip jar.
And then I get up in the morning and I go to the National Donuts chain. I got one of these large iced coffees with caramel and milk. So National donuts chain. I hope you’re paying attention here, because I’m here to promote you. Kristin Wig is pitching herself as the official Duncan spokesperson for the Dunklette.
I will read your press release sure. This fall, Duncan unveils its latest coffee creation, the Dunklet, the Duncan Way to Latte. That’s sweet, creamy, and truly unique. It’s so irresistible that even Kristin Wig wants in on the action. That’s right.
In a new ad campaign, beloved comedian and actress Kristin Wig brings her signature wit. Pitching herself as the official spokesperson for the Dunklet. We goes all out to prove why she should be the face of the dunkelete, portraying a series of colorful characters, from a drink engineer, to janitor to chief beverage officer. The press release tells us each funnier than the last. Her competition coffee Milk Cow.
I want to know more about coffee milk Cow. Jill mcvigor is the chief marketing officer at Duncan, probably the smartest marketing officer in the country. I mean, Jill’s got her Pulse on Everything she Knows which podcast to spend money on? Jill’s No Fool And Jill said, when we first created the Dunklet, we knew we had something special on our hands, but including coffee, milk and unfamiliar concept the most was a challenge. Finally, we thought, a drink this delicious deserved to be named after ourselves.
From that moment, we made it our mission to make everything about the Dunkelet as dunken as possible, fun, approachable, and totally craveworthy. There’s merch. You can go to shop at dunkin dot com to get exclusive items while supplies last. All right, what could we get? A dunkle at beanie just twenty four bucks?
A Dunklet hooded sweatshirt forty eight bucks, matching sweatpants also forty eight bucks, all of those in the creamy, light brown hue of the perfect Dunkelete. Plus if you would like your own coffee milk cow at home, and who doesn’t, you can get a coffee milk cow plush toy for twenty two dollars. And again, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what I’m saying Jill, let’s do this on gossip corner.
The Des Moines Register tells us Lunel a dinner at Bubba’s, a southern restaurant in downtown Des Moines, last Thursday night. She live streamed her meal. Not sure the etiquette of that. I don’t I’m just gonna go. Don’t, don’t do that, but she did, and on the live stream of her meal, she said, this place is fabulous?
Does it get popping? Later, she told her server Parker, that she had just flown into to Moine from Las Vegas. We didn’t even go to the hotel yet. What did she order? Well, gumbo, frog legs, crabcakes, chicken poblano soup, and deviled eggs for appetizers.
That’s a lot of appetizers there, louinell how many people were in this party. They also got some Cadillac margaritas and said you can keep them coming, and so I’d tell you to stop because I have nothing to do today. The table also ordered chicken, fried steak, fried chicken, and mac and cheese. She told her fans on the live stream, and again, don’t live stream. The Bible said gluttony is a sin, but he didn’t have that mac and cheese.
For dessert, the restaurant sent out a hummingbird, a cake. I don’t know what that is. Somebody let me know, pea can’t buy and bourbon bananas. Foster also on Gossip Corner, Atlanta Blackstar giving Tiffany Hattish the business. Apparently, fans are rolling their eyes at Tiffany Hattish after she put herself in a cringe worthy catwalk moment during a New York Fashion Week where you might see Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s ferry who knows.
On Saturday, Tiffany Hattish was spotted front row. She was hanging out with Paris and Nicky Hilton fancy schmancy huh. While the models clear the runway, Kathy Hilton encouraged Tiffany Hattish to take an impromptu runway stroll. The Hilton family and other front row guests laughed as Tiffany Hattish took Kathy’s direction and crashed the runway. One social media user said, if she wants to be a clown?
Letter Comedy dot co dot uk has the best reviewed comedy performers at Fringe this year. The stats come from forty two hundred plus star rated reviews, Matt Ford The End of an Error Tour and Nina Conti, whose Faces in any Way scored multiple five star reviews. They got the joint highest average ratings of The Fringe four point eight out of five. On Netflix today, a here Shaw’s special called Ends that was the winner of the Edinburgh Cromedy Award for Best Show in twenty twenty three. Well now it’s on Netflix.
The special shows off SHA’s motormount tendancy’s and brilliant storytelling skills. Whether he’s talking about accidentally being the monarch of all pimps where goodness gracious me’s impact on his career trajectory, Sha is captivating.
Also out today, Kylie Brickman.
This special is called Linda Hollywood’s Big Night. You’ll find it on Amazon, Apple, Google, wherever you get your streaming stuff. The description ever wanted to see Princess Carolyn from BoJack Horseman do stand up? That’s the energy. The character comedian Kyle Brigman brings to the stage is Linda Hollywood, the tough talking, big time talent agent who’s unafraid to scream into a cell phone.
Meanwhile, Ken Jennings is trying to get better at hosting Jeopardy. He’s being slammed for being awkward and none funny, an insider told Closer, how to be genuinely funny’s one of the things that hinders him. People on the show know it. Ken knows it deep down. He’s an awkward character and can’t make people laugh unlike his contemporaries Steve Harvey and Drew Carrey, and it bothers him.
Miss delivery and timing have got to be improved if he’s gonna win over audiences. He’s only got four days of shooting a month, so he has the downtime he wants to hone his craft and be funny. He needs to focus on his comedic skills. Now, get some lessons and if people come on over to give him help. Now, what’s going to make things worse is Colin Jost is hosting pop culture Jeopardy.
The presidents of game shows at Sony pointed out Colin’s smart and quick like our contestants, and we know he’ll be able to keep up with them while making this new series his own. We couldn’t be happier that he’s joining us for the new journey. You know, Colin, I mean We all love Ken Jennings, but four days a month work when this SNL thing runs out. Jeopardy is not a bad gig. He could do it for twenty five years, just saying.
And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. See tomorrow.