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Caloroga Shark Media. Here’s the meal. If you like Seth Myers, you’re gonna like today’s podcast. If you don’t like Seth Myers, hit thirty second skip, I don’t know ten twelve times. I got a lot of Seth today.
Hi, I’m Jinny Mack with your daily coming. He was Seth Meyers dad Man Walking out tonight ten pm on HBO. Yeah, they’re still doing that thing where they think I’m gonna sit around till ten o’clock and then watch the thing live. That’s over HBO. What planet are you on?
Just put it up. Seth Meyers dad Man Walking dives in a Myer’s personal life with stories about raising three children, living in New York City, and reflections on his family dynamics. Seth did like a group press conference rather than individual interviews. Walt had a recap of that. He told a story about laughing hard at SNL Table Reads.
He said, Andy Samberg wants that to meet the press sketch where Beetlejuice was filling it for David Gregory as the host. It was such a ball attempt by Andy to do his Beetlejuice impression on SNL. I laughed, very hard, and I think Lorn laughed. Not at all toughest hosting gig to kill at, he said, Weirdly, the Emmys was the toughest. I thought the SPIE’s would be really tough.
But the fun thing about the SPI’s I realized that no one there actually cares if they win ANESP or not. So if you have good jokes about sports, you can crush. Where is it the Emmys? I felt a Titanus there. Dumbest weekend update joke, Seth, I will tell you the dumbest joke that definitely didn’t work.
A man in Washington State was arrested for animal cruelty after he was caught having sex with the family dog. Even worse, it was makeup sex. Seth says, What I love about that’s a good joke. What I love about that joke is every time I tell it, no one groans until the punchline. So even after sex with the family dog, the audience is still like, okay, we’ll hear the man out.
The delayed groan is why I will never tire of telling that very dumb punchline. Best Lorne Michael’s advice, Seth. When I started late night, he said, it’ll take you eighteen months to figure it out. I thought that was too much time, but he was one hundred percent right. I think it was almost eighteen months to the day that I realized I shouldn’t be standing for the monologue.
He maybe has a reputation for being an impatient person, but I think he does appreciate the process and that you sometimes need to learn by doing worst. Lauren Michael’s advice seth my first summer on SNL. He told me that I should take tap dancing lessons because he thought that would give me more confidence as a performer. In fact, it was so important he told someone else to tell me. I never took those tap lessons, but maybe I should now do something special for him.
At the fiftieth Ultimate Andy Samberg writing Hack, have him say a very dumb thing with total confidence. Ultimate Amy Pohla writing Hack. She’s very funny when she’s frustrated and trying to convince people. She’s right. Most effective trick to make a boring talk show guests seem interesting.
If you can project to an audience that you’re listening, they’ll also want to listen. You can’t get caught looking like you’re thinking about your next question. Most important lesson he learned about running a writer’s room. If you’re rewriting anything, don’t pitch lateral moves. If a writer’s put all his time into writing a piece and they have a joke, you can pitch a joke if it’s twice as good, but if it’s as good, they’ll probably want to use their own joke.
Seth was asked if he will aboard his bait in the fiftieth aniverse of SNL. Let me answer for him. Yeah, like he’s not gonna go. What kind of question was that? Seth said, I just officially received my first reach out from Lorne saying would you be available in February should we need a hand.
Seth was on Andy Cohen Show and was asked to rank his top five favorite SNL characters, a list with which I really disagree. He sets list number five Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer for Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat that is a good choice. Three Kate McKinnon’s Colleen Rafferty, two Will Fortes mcgruber, and number one Bill Hayter’s Stefan, a character I never got. Did you listen to Stavro’s hockeyist. On Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, Savro said, I don’t know if you have this, but I definitely had the it’s going to end tomorrow disease of like for the first time I started doing well and started making money, I was like, we’re gonna lose all our subscribers tomorrow.
And then I got a little internet heat, but no one’s gonna watch my special to like, all right, the YouTube special did well, but no one’s gonna watch the Netflix special. I could sell out comedy clubs, but I don’t think my agents are wrong. I’m not going to sell theaters. And it’s like I just finally allowed myself to be like, you’re fine, pretend it’s a different guy’s career that you’re analyzing. It’s not going to fall apart tomorrow.
And so once I kind of did that, I was like, Okay, I don’t have to say yes to everything. I’ll only do stuff that I think is cool from now on, Like, I’ll do my own stuff and I’ll do anything that’s cool. But I’ve turned down a couple, like some acting stuff. I’ve turned down some other opportunities because I’m like, I just don’t want to do it. I just want to hang out.
I recognize that I kind of won a generational lottery of like a guy with my skill set born five years earlier, host born five years later. I’m trying to make man on the street. Tiktoks, you know what I mean. But I was in the sweet spot where we might have been the first comedy podcast on Patreon. Calm down when we started, and it was like I just got in on podcasting.
I thought podcasts were dead. I had the wrong business. I was like, well, marin this American life comedy bang bang, those are the only ones.
And then like god, we were wrong.
Joe Rogan on his podcast set, I remember the first check I got a real check. I got a development deal from Disney, of all people, I guess I was like twenty six, and it was the first time I ever had a good chunk of money, like six figures in the bank. And I felt like the weightlift that off me, like a physical feeling because my whole life I was like, how am I gonna eat? How am I gonna pay my rent? Then all of a sudden, I don’t have to worry about that anymore.
Cristelle Alonso was upset with a comedy venue in her hometown of McCallen, Texas. She shared a story on Facebook. As Cristella tells it, she was backstage at the local theater and then the staff kicked her out at midnight. She was in the middle of a meet and greet. Her family was there.
She said that there was no warning that she needed to leave by midnight. She had to pack up everything and ask her fans to meet her outside the building. That’s awkward, Alonso posted. The disrespect is something I’ll never forget. Then once we were outside taking pictures, they came to apologize and said we could go back inside.
No, thank you. I will not go back inside when you forced us to leave, I will not go back inside that building again. I don’t know when I’ll come back to McCallan, but I’m gonna have to figure out another solution. The fans were great. The venue sucked.
Sounds to me like a junior staffer was enforcing the midnight rule and not knowing how to deal with talent. Didn’t look the other way. That would be my guess. I did see a recap JD. Vans with THEO Vaughn.
They talked about cocaine THEO said, I don’t know if it’d be sober if this stuff weren’t killing people. To be honest with you, I know that’s sad to say, but it keeps me out of the risk of it. JD said, makes it a little scarier. THEO. Yeah, but it’s also sad that somebody.
I mean, this is ridiculous to say, but you know, you can’t even do cocaine in this country anymore. You know that seems like a crazy thing to say, And don’t say that, but I said it. JD left and told THEO he was gonna steal that line. But after the election, I’ve got to win first. As I keep mentioning, it’s going to be hard not to do politics these next ten days or so.
Are you in Texarcana here, it’s a good place to drive a truck in a trans am. Bring some cores back east? Jay Leno’s there tonight. Jay said, it’s just a comedy show. There’s no lecturing, there’s no Here’s what I think, you know.
Rodney Dangerfield and I were friends for forty years. I have no idea if Rodney was a Republican or Democrat. I had no idea. We just used to talk about jokes, and that’s what I’ll be doing, no obscenities or anything like that. While in town, he’s serving as the Grand Marshal for the Four Estates Auto Museum’s annual Fall Auto Show.
Jay said, so I’m one above normal marshals. I’m the Grand Marshal, which, of course I have the right to arrest or detain anyone for any reason at any time. He says he enjoys hanging out with fellow car enthusiasts. You know what, when you’re in California, I meet like one or two guys and each have like one hundred cars. And when you go to Texas, Oklahoma, you meet one guy who’s at a car he’s been working on since he got married, and he put it away when the kids went through school.
And the kids are in college now, so now he’s back working on fifty seven Chevy. So it’s kind of fun. I really enjoy it. If you’re in Texarcana the auto show today from eight to four, Carlos Mencia told Denver’s six thirty khow if you’re easily offended, please leave. It’s because I care.
I care about your time, I care about you. I care enough to know that I’m not for you, that’s who I am. Once you buy into it, it’s such a beautiful, cathartic thing to watch everybody just give into the laughter and see the difference between comedy and anger, between racial and racist. All this stuff becomes comedic fodder. And I think that’s where I’m living right now, and I think people need that.
People need to be told out a bad person because you laugh. It’s a mechanism that we use. The host brought up Dave Chappelle’s War against the Woke, and Sea said, think about the phrase itself, punching down. It assumes presumes that you either place me above those people or I do. And I don’t understand punching down.
I don’t get it when I do my jokes about me or my family. It’s okay. Self deprecating humor can be just as hurtful sometimes as anything else. I can go up there and talk about how I’m overweight, but the midnight I talk about how you’re overweight. That’s where the line gets crossed, and that’s the hypocrisy.
We the truth tellers, are needed. We’re also the valve for people who are angry, who are taking life a little too seriously. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
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