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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Oliver talked about the Emmys playing him off, and he revealed he actually felt a slight relief when the orchestra began playing him off. Oliver said, I’m not well versed in sincerity as a British person and as a comedian, so I didn’t really want to get upset, and thankfully whoever was on the board said you can’t carry this off and walk me straight into a joke. I’m very, very grateful that they gave me the parachute so I could avoid my feelings once more.
Jesse Collins is one of the producers of the Emmys and told the rap I apologize to John and his family for playing the music. We turned it off at his request and turned it back on when he said he wanted to be played off. Colin said, we didn’t know that the dog had passed. Fellow producer Janney Rousson Clay said John always gives us a fun moment. When he was going on about his dog, which was very sweet.
We’re like, hey, you gotta wrap it up, and the music starts playing and he’s like, my dog is dead. And we were like, oh my god, just mortified.
Meanwhile, they asked the producers who came up with the idea of roasting Lor…
Colin said, I believe it was Seth Meyers’s idea. Roussean Klay said yeah. He wrote that the cast out a huge hand in that you might want to volunteer for jury duty. Why that way you could be on a jury with David Letterman. Maybe Letterman was up to be possible juror in a criminal trial.
Judge P. Kevin Castell interviewed Jurer sixteen with questions, just as he did with three dozen other potential jurors to determine who’d be on a panel of twelve jurors and four aldernates. Those jurors, including Dave, had already survived a general round of questioning in which individuals are dismissed for hardship reasons like medical issues or jobs from which they can’t be spared. The trials expected to last less than two weeks. The judge asked Dave, where do you live?
Letterman said Hartford. Then Letterman realized not the time to joke it said no, it’s a joke. The judge said, nice try. You figured you’d forego Queen’s. Dave revealed his true residence area, west Chester County.
We’re told there were then three dozen or so exchanges between the judge and the lawyers. The judge and lawyers learned Dave was born in Indianapolis, obtained a degree from Ball State University in Munsey, Indiana, and has a twenty year old son in college in Massachusetts. Dave was asked what he does for a living. He said he’s currently working for a company called Netflix. The judge asked, spouse or significant other.
Letterman said, I’ve had both currently, I just have the spouse. Dave’s bold there in front of the judge, cracking wise. Dave was asked now he gets his news? He said every morning. I used to pick up the paper off the front porch.
Now I turn on the computer and it’s an aggregation of new sources from all over the United States and around the world. He was asked what he likes to watch besides any Netflix programs. Dave said, I like sports. I’m happy football’s here. I’m happy it’s this time in the baseball season.
I like motorsports. I like pretty much what most Americans watch on TV. The judge asked him if he’s a fan of the Indianapolis Colts. Dave said, big Colts fan, oh and two, but still a fan, Dave. Have you ever been called as a juror?
Ave said, been called many times, just couldn’t make it happen. The judge said, you know, this may be the charm. Dave said, it would be a pleasure. In the end, Leutterman was ejected when a prosecutor exercised what is known as a strike, which allows lawyers on either side to release a certain number of jurors from the panel for any reason at all. It was the third of four strikes used by the prosecutors.
No reason was given. Nick Swarzen is out on the toilet head tour. Great name there the eight hundred pound Gorilla caught up with Nick Swartzon, who said, that’s right, toilet heead brace yourself. A lot of people ask me why the toilet heead name? And I think of it like this.
The country’s so divided, and my comedy brings people together. I don’t get political, I don’t get crazy. It’s really absurd and fun. I just realized to bring people together. We all have toilets, and we all have heads, and I think that will bond people together when they realize, you know what, we’re all in this together.
Toilethead Nick Wartson twenty twenty eight. Nick says, my show’s really loose. I have a set act, but it’s like I have fun up there. I started improvising before stand ups. I can roll with anything.
It was funny. In Austin. I just did Joe Rogan’s which was great, phenomenal. And I remember this guy, older guy like sixty. Hey watch it.
I just turned fifty five. I’m very sensitive about calling people sixty, very old people who were sixty, you’re quite young. And I remember this guy, older guy, like sixty, and he was so hammered. And I think the thing about Heckler’s that people have to realize is I don’t care. I rarely throw people out, but the people around that person.
That’s why you have to think about when you’re screaming and yelling, the person next to you paid money too. So this guy in Austin is so belligerent and this woman started screaming at him. So I had to stop the show and be like, hey, what’s going on here, and she’s like, this effing a hole won’t shut up. He yelled at her, and I was like, dude, you got chill out. Man.
Security came over and said you gotta go, So I started kicking him out, and he said get your hands off me, and they’re like, dude, you gotta go. Man, you’re being insane. So he kind of insulted a security guard and they kind of got him in a headlock. Great description.
And then my favorite part is the guy screamed, Nick, help me, and I’m like, d…
You pre self in that position. And the last thing he said as he was being dragged out, I love you. The New Yorker has a big giant profile of Bo and Yang, which you can read. Most of it not about comedy, more about Bowen’s life growing up. But I like this paragraph.
The New Yorker writes the season of SNL had many thorny moments. In January, Dave Schappelle blah blah blah leaped on stage as the cast was waving good night. Yang lurked on the far and of the set, looking surly. Yang said, I was just uncomfortable on other people’s behalf. It wasn’t a big protest.
The next month, Sheen Gillis showed up as host. Social media dissected Yang’s body language. The New Yorker writes he felt like a character in a culture war pageant. Bowen said, it’s taught me about my place on the show, being kind of strange and unique. I never expected to be a Nora Dunn being furious that Andrew dice Clay is in there.
The backstory there back in nineteen ninety, Nora Dunn, cast member on SNL, left the show after Andrew de diyce Clay hosted the show. Bowen said he’s learned to distinguish between the show and what people say about the show. Hey, nice lineup for comics for Kamala. Donnie Zoldan is a former We weren’t really coworkers where we had the podcast studios. He owned the building and the comedy club on the first floor and our studios were on the second floor, so we were Yeah, I guess we were co workers.
I don’t know. I would more describe him as friend anyway. I know the guy, and he’s been putting together this comics for Kamala thing. Whatever your politics. As we approach this from a comedic standpoint, you gotta admit this is a pretty impressive lineup.
This is Sunday in West Hollywood at California. Your lineup ready, Mark Marin, Kevin Neelan, Lori Kilmartin, Danny Zucker, Mastra Bronni, Dana Gould, Cristella Alonso and Tom Arnold. Showtime seven thirty, Doors open at six thirty. If Trump throws a big comedy event, I’ll be more than happy to tell you about it. Boy, you think I could get a coffee sponsor for this show?
I mentioned coffee enough. By the way, buy me a coffee dot com slash a Daily Comedy News Chloe Feynman is teaming up with a coffee brand. She has partnered with Ninja to promote Ninja Lux Cafe, Espresso, coldbrew and drip coffee maker Ninja what are we doing? Hit me up? Chloe Feinneman will appear in social media content for Ninja that puts a caffeinated twist on popular trends.
She gave a quote between late Chaotic Knights in the Writer’s Room in many different roles, having a three to one espresso, drip coffee and coldbrew machine with a drink for every vibe is a dream. Joe Gaddo’s a special came out last night on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube and channel. It is called Messing with People. Is there going to be a Scrubs reunion? Judy Reyis says, I haven’t heard a thing about except for what you’ve heard.
There’s been lots of talking and lots of excitement. I think Bill Lawrence is incredibly busy, but definitely wide open. Raya says, I’m not as in touch with the cast. I’m very close with one of the writers, Angela Nissel, as well as the hairdresser who actually does my hair. On High Potential, her new series, Rayes said, I feel very fortunate I forged incredible friendships with people that I’ve worked with from Scrubs on down.
I guess putting shows in the workplace setting creates a space where people could be more themselves. Late Night with Seth Myers has spun off a new podcast. This is a Closer Look back Election twenty twenty four kind of lame, though. We’ll revisit old installments of the Closer Look segment from Trump’s time in office and discuss what those events will tell us about another four years with Trump in the White House. It’ll be hosted by Sal Gentilly, the head writer and producer of the A Closer Look segment.
Sounds like somebody somewhere said, hey, we can make some more money on podcast. You guys got another idea, and they handed in the laziest idea. I can possibly think of old clips with a writer doing raps, not even Seth doing the raps. Little am guys. Anyway, if you want to check out A Closer Look back Election twenty twenty four, it’s available wherever you get your podcasts, although I suggest you listen to Ballot much more fun.
Lucy Beaumont’s says she believes gender equality and comedy has regressed. By quote fifteen years she had posted on Twitter and now deleted it, Where’s all your Women? Basically you can search every city for comedy this month, I reckon about ninety percent have either no woman or one woman on the bill. Some have one woman a month back to fifteen years ago. And don’t get me started on TV panel shows, it’s become okay again.
Let’s just call most of them what they really are, male banel shows. That book a woman. In male comedy clubs that tolerate women, the banter changes, the atmosphere becomes competitive, and women don’t grow or shine or get equal employment. She says, comedy is the biggest gossip sever so everybody knows, or if you don’t know the ones I know yet, you will soon. It attracts such interesting, passionate, raw edgy, wounded people, but it also attracts predatory men who are really messed up and sexually have been repressed for years, and they get a bit of fame and displayed his behaviors.
There have been times when I’ve just wanted to go on Twitter and let people know everything we talk about, but we’re not allowed to say. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, a te a friend about it, they might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruptions, there’s a link in the show notes, so that’ll tell you how to do that. You have an awesome day.