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Caloroga Shark Media. Helloom, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You can hear my voice. Thank you, Johnny Macbot for filling in yesterday. I’ll try and muddle through here, but that’s why I use the AI.
I’ll talk about that later in the show. A lot going on today. Let’s start on gossip corner boy, I sound horrible, huh. Jimmy Fallon fans think Jimmy perhaps was possibly, maybe perhaps hungover at the Thanksgiving Day parade. Why it was very rainy in New York on Thanksgiving morning and Jimmy was wearing sunglasses.
At one point, Jimmy was walking with an umbrella, saying, rain or shine, you gotta get out here. Everybody’s still out here, cheering despite the downpour. It’s the best holiday. Some on social media said he was definitely hungover. Here’s a clip of Fallon with Al Rooker.
You know you don’t have the visual here, but picture a very handsome Jimmy Fallon in like wayfarer type glasses, and let’s see how jovial he seems to you. I think you know who’s that behind those four I got you, I got you, fall Le Jenny. Happy, thank you. This is your eleventh parade? My man?
Is that right? Can you believe that says more. Than Andy Williams. Yeah, I’m hitting right. You’s gonna say that Moon River and couldn’t.
Be fantason here. We’ve been through this together, through rain. Everything. We were here, Oh my gosh, remember that. But here we are now this is the best.
The vibe here is so good, even in the rain. Look at who these pants too. Come on, you are, mister Holidays. This is what I’m talking. Chortle does not like Ricky Gervas’s new show.
Sortle right, so we know the choreography of the stance. Now I’m supposed to call Ricky Gervais after being cruel and offensive, adding to the woke liberal outcry against him, hence burnishing his credentials as a bold free speech warrior. But that’s a simplification. There are some good jokes here, even though the cross the line, provided that you take him at face value, he’s not fermenting hate, given how far from being canceled. The number one stand up comic on Netflix is the culture War.
Might be artificial, but it gives mortality a sense of purpose that the much ignored theme of the title certainly doesn’t. However, the impact is muted by a tendency to over justify his gags and focus on the reactions he expects to get from his naughtiness, rather than just plow on with the jokes. Away from this as observations can be pretty trite. He claims Mortality is the most personal and confessional show that he’s ever done, but quickly adds not in an Edinburgh fringe way. He wants to be a man of the people, separating himself from the pretentious stereotype of the festival, even though hundreds of fringe shows are better than this.
Yet, for his claims about opening up, there’s very little it’s personal here, other than reminding us he was a working class before he became moneyed, and a bit of meditation on aging. Even in a relatively short show about seventy five minutes, he runs out of steam at the end Spoilers, he recounts trying to get a mischievous gag pass the lawyers into his Golden Globes monologues, which is a decent chat show anecdote but seems a stretch for stand up and the closer spoilers is about the football chance. Sir Elton John used to endure during the nineteen eight eighties about his sexuality. But here’s Jervaise forty years later, generating cackles largely his own out of quote backs against the wall unquote type jokes. He may be mocking how silly it is, but the laughs essentially come from the same sentiment.
It’s childish and dated at worst, low level homophobia at worst. Chorto wraps up with Jervase can be better than this, that he chooses not to says a lot. Ricky was on the Stick to Football podcast and said, I don’t go out there and just say the first thing that comes to my head, thinking there are no consequences. I don’t do that, so I have to be able to justify it. Everything I do, I’ve got to be able to go That’s why it’s okay.
A lot of my stuff, because we’re dealing with taboo subjects, seems worse than it actually is. If you analyze it, it’s not that bad. It’s just because you’re dealing with contentious subjects and buzzwords and when people gas. If you look at the jokes, it’s fine, I’d say. Over the weekend, Jim Gaffigan social media was bothering me.
I guess this is part of the Hulu deal. On Thanksgiving it on Black Friday, Jim social media had devolved into either watch my special or sign up for Hulu. I feel like your social media has to be a mix of obviously promotional stuff. I promote my stuff on social media, totally get it, but we have to mix in some personal stuff. And Jim’s account had just evolved into Hey, watch my stand up special and hey, sign up for Hulu.
And I assume that’s part of the big marketing deal with Hulu. I get it. But Jim, you know you could wish us a happy Thanksgiving in between selling us stuff. It’s just it’s not a good look. Bro a lot of articles about Joe Rogan.
On Thanksgiving, Joe dropped a four hour podcast which features Shane Gillis, Mark Norman, and Ari Shaffer. I haven’t had a chance to listen to it at the time of this recording. I started to listen to it Thanksgiving night as I was drifting off to sleep, and it was just going to be too loud, so I held off on it. And you know, four hours there’s a lot of great guests right, Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, Ari, Joe Rogan. That’s great anyway.
On that episode, Newsweek reports that Rogan claims he invited Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to come on the show. Very interesting. I’d listen to the heck out of that. On his podcast, Rogan discusses the possibility of a war with Russia and said, I don’t really think Putin’s that stupid. I think he’s going to realize what’s going on, and I think they’re probably working this out.
Rogan then said Zelenski tried to come on. His guests seems shocked, and he says they tried to get Zelenski on. I was like, what are you talking about? So I’m a little confused there. I’ll have to listen to that myself, you know what, let me see if I can pull the clip.
Hang on, he tried to come on. WHOA. I was like, what are you hugging about? Do you when you get an offer for somebody, they must come at your bookers or whatever? H huh do you go?
Do you like stopping? Like? Hold on, let me think about this, whether I want to be part of the story or not, whether it’ll be interesting or not. Well. I wanted to stay out of the presidential election tow It’s gross because I feel like I had to.
I feel like this is so nuts. This is so nuts. When that Tim Waltz guy, that guy’s it’s so nuts that guy was gonna be the vice president. You’re telling me, you’re telling me this whole thing’s fake. Then you’re telling me you don’t care if someone’s a liar.
You don’t care. If they lied about their military rank, where they served, you don’t care if they lie about being a sit you don’t care. Ifully lie about Tianaman Square. There’s too many things. This is so crazy.
Back on the November twenty second episode, Joe had said, Zelensky says, Putin is terrified f you man. Few people. You people are about to start World War three. A lot of talk about the Democrats needing the liberal Joe Rogan that whole notion to me is so funny. Here Rogan said, I think these call her Daddy podcast shows and all these different shows that Harris went on.
I mean, I’m sure they had an impact, but I think that in the future, I’m sure they’re scrambling to try and create their own version of this show. Some people point out that Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders in twenty twenty. That’s not that long ago, so maybe the liberal Joe Rogan was Joe Rogan.
Meanwhile, in Australia, a big controversy.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation chairman Kim Williams said, I think people like mister Rogan pray on people’s vulnerabilities. They pray on fear, they pray on anxiety, they pray on all the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society. I personally find it repulsive and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at and disbelief. That did not go over well.
Speaking of Shane Gillis, Tires is coming back for a second season.
Thomas Hayden Church has joined the cast in season two of Tires. After the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Shane rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business. Thomas Hayden Church will play Phil, who is Shane’s wealthy but immature father, a grown up version of Shane. Phil enjoys owning various businesses in Florida, where he resides, throwing back Margarita’s and flirting with waitresses. I like the season one of Tires a lot.
I think since it’s been on, Shane has become only even more popular and Stavi has become more popular. So season two of that will probably do really well. No date yet, so you hear my voice, which is why I had the Johnny Macbot host yesterday. Again, I’m not trying to trick you guys. I’m not going to get lazy.
I’m not going to start having the AI host the show. But I think if you’re here to listen to the front end of Sunday and you hear me today, that’s what that was about. So how did I do it? I train the AI on four different scripts of this show and three hours of audio to both teach it how I speak, both sonically but also my cadence and the types of words I use. So I had my normal script that I write, and I put it into the AI, and I made some tweaks here and there and to make it sound more like me, and I thought it came out pretty good.
I mean, if you pay a lot of attention. It’s obviously not actually me, but if you’re half listening, it totally works. So in a pinch, I’m glad I have that. Since I started this podcast five years ago, I was always wondering what happens if I get COVID. I don’t have COVID, took a COVID test.
This is just like this bronchial thing. I wake upvery morning to like I swallowed a knife. And I’ve lived in fear of like what if I can’t do the show, And I’ve always want to feel healthy. I have extra episodes, and I still have those extra episodes that I’ve just you know, they’re like the top fifteen comedians of all time my thoughts on that, and they’re just sitting there for a rainy day. But now that I have this new technology, I’m like, oh, okay, there are options.
So that’s what that’s about. I’m not gonna do it all the time. I’m not going anywhere, but you hear how I sound out On Netflix today, Fortune Femster is a new special, Crushing It. She shares stories from her life, including her romantic honeymoon with her wife and her reflections I’m no longer being her mom’s sorr good husband. I thought the trailer was really strong.
Let’s listen. So something happened when I met Jackson I did not expect. My mom got a little jealous. Yeah. I remember.
If I would buy Jack something like a scarf, my mom would be like, I like scarfs. I’m like, you’re not my girlfriend. Their birthdays are five days apart, which is my nightmare. I get heart palpitations in February. I remember early on in my relationship, it was very popular to go on Facebook and profess your love for whoever you were with.
So Jack’s birthday, I go on Facebook. I’m like, animis how much you are the grand insan Nanzana Homnem. I posed like thirty pictures in a clage that took five hours to put together. Five days later, I call my mom, Hey mom, happy birthday. Thank you?
Are you okay? I’m fine? What are you doing? I’m on Facebook. I was looking at my messages and I don’t see one from you.
And I know your thumbs work because you use them. Five days ago, I sent you an edible arrangement? What is this? She was pissed, so I had to unfriend her. And since I sound like crap.
Let’s wrap this up a little bit early from Late Night or Craig Ferguson had Richard Kind on The Ferguson Podcast, Richard Kine said, once you’re off TV a year later, they don’t know you. Ferguson agreed that used to be true until the Internet created a whole new repeat structure for old shows. I still get people coming to the shows. We’re never old enough to watch me when I was doing the show and they say I watch you on YouTube. I’m like someone who does a YouTube channel.
And then that’s it for my voice, and that’s your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.