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Caloroga Shark Media, Idly Home, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Big VP debate tonight. That’s right, we’ll be covering that on the Ballot Podcast. By the way, both the Daily Show and Colbert will go live after the debate. Now, what’s interesting about the Daily Show is John Stewart’s not working No Tuesday night, Buddy, No, Michael Costa will do the live postgame show. Usually John shows up for those.
I wonder if that is a hint as to what the future of the Daily Show actually is. Hmm. After the Trump Harris debate, Colbert doubled his audience with the eighteen to forty nine’s John Stewart hosted a Tuesday episode of The Daily Show that week and got the show’s highest rating since twenty seventeen. So again, very interesting that Michael Costa is hosting. All right, we got to start paying attention to Kat Williams.
I know, you know some of us. I’ll raise my hand. We’re like, Cat, you’re crazy. Time is starting to prove that perhaps Kat Williams not so crazy. At a recent show, he went after Sean Diddy Combs Cat made fun of Diddy’s attorneys claim that Diddy had bought some baby oil from Costco.
Williams joked, they put the drugs in the baby oil. You think you’re getting a massage, you can’t even get up. He said, that’s the reason God gave me egzema. I can’t even use baby oil. That got a lot of laughs.
Earlier in the year on with Chen and Sharp, You remember that interview, Kat said all lies would be exposed. P Diddy be wanting to party and you got to tell him no.
Meanwhile, Marlon Williams was on Club Shay Shay recently and said, I’ve neve…
So I’m not rushing to take down old tweets or anything. I ain’t got stuff to hide, period. I’ve been to plenty of Diddy parties. I left early. I swear to you I’ve never seen it.
Those aren’t the type of parties I go to. I don’t frequent those type of parties. And even if I go, like I said, I’d never seen any of this, want to hear about it. I’m like, what did that happen? At?
What time did this go down? Because I was there until two three thirty. You mean it too, so they waited for me to leave, like all right, good that Wayns is gone. He talks too much. Wayins did admit that he has seen drugs at these parties, but was unfamiliar with the other reports.
He told Chennon Sharp, I watch how I conduct myself because I’m not doing this for me. I have to answer to God. I have to answer to my brothers. I have to answered to my legacy. I can’t act a certain way.
I have to answer to black people. I have to answer to kids who want to be like me. It’s a lot for me to answer to. I owe it to my fans to walk through this life and be an example as best as I can.
Meanwhile, new topic.
Wayns was on the Shaquill O’Neal podcast joking about Magic Johnson and said, I said he had the good aids. I said, what aids do you want to get where you lived fifty years? I want those aids. He became a billionaire with aids. Give me those aids.
What kind of aids is this? Financial aids? Sam Bee has her new podcast. She talked about Diddy and said she had a chance encounter with Diddy. Ages and Ages ago and was not invited to one of the freak offs be recalled.
She was at the Democratic National Convention, but can’t remember which one. When Diddy walked in, Sam said, I was grabbing whoever I could ask them questions about what was going on. So I went up to him and said, do you mind off ask a couple questions, and Diddy’s voice was very soft. She said, it was in an area where you’d expected to be interviewed, too, so it wasn’t outrageous. After the interview, b said, Diddy immediately, like instantly, turned to his assistant.
He held out his hands helplessly, and his attendants squirted copious amounts of purel into his hands, and then he softly rubbed his hands together to extinguish whatever microbes I’d put on his hands. The way he did it was so rude. I do understand you shake a lot of people’s hands and your hands feel dirty, but you don’t typically need to sanitize while the person is standing before you expressing your disgust. It occurred to me in the light of all these freak offs, it’s always the germophobes who want to go home and recreate Caligula. Every Tuesday afternoon, let me catch up on Saturday Night Live.
Let’s say before I go to my notes, just top of mind. I thought it was really good. It felt big, it felt very show busy. The open was pretty strong. But I gotta wonder, if you’re on the cast and your name’s not Bowen Yang and maybe more solo Hernandez talk about that in a second.
How are you feeling? Because yes, Daya Carvey great, and yes it was great to see Mac Packer, Andy Samberg, and yes, Maya Rudolph is nailing the Kamala voice. But you know, if you’re on the cast, aren’t you like, hey, why has this turned into an alumni show? But I guess for the fiftieth year it’ll be an alumni show, and maybe season fifty one it’ll be a reset. I could see a lot of people departing.
Bowen got like nine sketches. Nine might be an exaggeration, but I felt like the whole night was Bowen Yang and he was great as always. And Marcela Hernandez, I’m wondering, does he do one thing but he does it really well where he does the one thing with an over the top accent that worked really well. In the Pyramid sketch. It worked really well in the I Love Lucy sketch, will try.
I enjoy it a lot, so he’s fun. I just don’t know what else he can do. The Daily Beat spoke to Dana Carvey, who showed up as Joe Biden and did a very good Joe Biden. I mean, he’s Dana Carvey after all. Carvey said, it’s been top secret.
I kept it under wraps for weeks, but I was asked by Lauren to come on SNL to do Biden. He said he began developing his take on Biden while producing his podcast YouTube clips, and said mimicking Biden is trickier, but the rhythm of the impression comes from the President’s high energy moments. The true North stars to try and make it funny and not really get it to be a political message per se. Bowe Yang caught some backlash from fans of Chapel Rowan. Yang grown on Instagram.
Everything she has ever asked for has been reasonable. Bowen was dressed up as Pigmy Hippopotamus of MoU Dang, and in character, he referenced Chapel Rowan’s past comments about maintaining boundaries with intrusive fans. On Instagram, Bowen wrote, everything she has ever asked for has been reasonable. If my personal stance and the piece aren’t absolutely clear in terms of supporting her, then there it is. I guess everything she’s asked for has been reasonable, and even then we can connect it to another story about boundaries or whatever.
In character as Moo Dan, he spoke with Colin jo just about setting some boundaries with Zoo attendees. In character, he said, when I’m in my enclosure, tripping over stuff, biting my trainer’s knee, I’m at work. That’s the project. Do not yell my name or expect a photo just because I’m your parasocial best year, because you appreciate my talent. Last week, Rowan canceled her weekend performances at a festival, saying I feel pressures to prioritize a lot of things right now, and I need a few days to prioritize my mind health.
Bringing this full circle. Separately from all this, Bowen was recently on the Dana Corvey podcast well along with David Spade. He shared some behind the scenes details about when Sidney Sweeney was on last year that was a great episode, Bowen said, I get caught up in the meta narrative. Sometimes I’ll get roped in like a headline or some pickup every now and then I’m like, oh god, this is so unfair, this is so stressful. That’s not what I meant, or this is not what I was doing.
Like when Chappelle was standing on stage with me, Yang said, Lauren knows this is what the show is now. I think Lauren has an awareness of it. I think Lauren knows how that it’s a reality show. He said. Sidney Sweeney was an example of a host who came in and understood how she was being consumed and perceived already.
She came in and was like, please, everyone make jokes about my boobs. John Stewart, who’s not hosting The Daily Show tonight, was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, and he told Conan, we’ve created this incredibly eccentric business where you need an agent and a manager and a lawyer and they’re going to take about sixty percent of what you make. But without them, there’s nothing you can do. And you join the studio and the studio will give you a deal and you’ll sit in your room it’s the most inefficient way Silicon Valley walked into entertainment, and the way that Elon Musk walked into Twitter and went, how many people work here? Ten thousand?
Make it two? They go writers’ room. Wait, you’ve got fourteen writers and they’re with you from start to finish on the production. Well, it’s important for the writers to be invested.
And also we’re showing them how they’re on the page, because it’s different a…
They got to understand how that works and understand how we interact with the props. Amazon and Apple hear those arguments and respond with something like they can have three weeks and it’s got to be on Zoom, and you can have four of them. I can’t function like that. My writers, like what Conan said, I’m friends with so many comedy writers, many comedy writers of my vintage. You’re younger of trouble getting work now.
It’s changing radically. Stewart said. The large tech companies don’t believe in institutional knowledge that allows people to grow and get better and create more. As for Apple, I couldn’t help them in the way that maybe I had been able to help Comedy Central, But I think in their determination, I could hurt them. Themes of comedy names of tech often do not align.
And that’s when I knew we were in trouble. Wow, very interesting. I haven’t listen to that one. I’ll add it to Mike Queue. During the SNL premiere, Amazon announced that Colin Jos Pop Culture Jeopardy will debut December four.
You’ll get three new episodes a week on Wednesdays. Bill Hayter is developing a comedy pilot for HBO. Untitled project stars a woman in a small town who has a big secret revealed and then massive colossal spoilers for The Simpsons. I didn’t even know this happened. I’m gonna spoil the heck out of Sunday’s episode.
I’ll go slow here, all right, So I’m gonna I’m gonna give you a minor spoiler in a second. Then I’ll take a beat, and then I’ll majorly spoiler it. Medium spoiler. Okay, you’ve been warned, right, medium spoiler for The Simpsons. They hand it in the series finale.
But the show’s not over yet, all right. That’s that’s the headlined spoiler. If you want particular details, hang out otherwise, you’re dismissed. See you tomorrow, all right, more spoilers coming up. You’ve been warned.
Bart’s Birthday is the Simpsons take on what a finale might look like. Inspired by the season seven clip show The Simpsons one hundred and thirty eighth episode Spectacular a great episode, Bart’s Birthday is formatted like a hosted special, but instead of showing clips from the past and making up fake ones, Conan O’Brien introduces a brand new, AI written episode designed to be the series finale. The episode within the episode follows Bart as he watches the show’s characters go through cliche over sentimental finale type storylines with increasing consternation. Showrunner Matt Selman explained why a finale and said, when you’re write for The Simpsons, you get asked a lot about what a finale episode might look like. It’s a tricky question.
He’s worked on the show since nineteen ninety eight. He says he can go on forever because it doesn’t have a hard canon or dense continuity. During the twenty twenty three Strikes, it hit him, what if we did a fake finale that makes fun of finales? Wrap itings up? But then rejects it in the simpsonsy way.
They brainstormed what Fox would actually do if there was a Simpson finale and landed on the idea of a grand Starfield celebration that would serve as a meta takedown of showbiz self mythologizing and poke fun at the reverence. Some fans have a certain era of the show. You know, if you heard Sunday’s episode, I pointed out, the show hasn’t aired in years. Bob’s orgiz doesn’t exist at all. The Simpsons, I think stopped in season nine.
When’s the last time you watched Simpsons? Come on? Is it even on? Did this finale even in Bart’s birthday? Conan O’Brien serves as the host of the finale celebration.
Conan, you may know, worked as a writer on The Simpsons for two seasons and wrote what is one of these series all time episodes, the Monorail episode don’t start me. I’ll start singing the song you Never want to be near Me. If the word monoail comes up, ask my children monarel. Since that represents these shows so called golden age, the writers were interested in poking fun at that. They roast Conan Conan delivers jokes like it’s such an honor to be here for the series finale of The Simpsons.
They knew I was right for the job because I’ve hosted the last episode of three of my own shows and counting. Selman says Conan was smart enough and funny enough to know he was one hundred percent the best person to tell the story. All right, what happens to everybody? More spoilers. Principal Skinner announces he’s leaving to become the headmaster of a school in Sacramento as a delightful mid season replacement, adding all no doubt, find a whole new, eclectic cast of characters to interact with, and also groundskeeper Willie will be my roommate.
That’s great. Bittersweet music plays as Skinner says, I’m going to miss this place while’s turnning off the lights. That’s a Nazi. The Mary Tyler Orphinelle comic book Wife’s Guy Comigo gives birth. Mister Burns dies first as a prank, then for real.
His fortune goes to the power plant staff. Bart attempts to stop Krusty from taping a final show. Selman discusses if they’re trolling the audience conan in the show jokes. When the very first episode aired in nineteen eighty nine, viewers agreed on one thing. It wasn’t as funny as it used to be.
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