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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m shining Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big announcement from Netflix I’ll tell you about in a second, but top of mine, I want to share a story with you about Hilarious. So remember Hilarius, the big comedy platform thing. I’ve been telling you about it for a couple months, and Jim Gaffigan and had a special on it.
So I’ve mentioned to you that I don’t have Hulu. So when Jim Gaffigan special came out, I called up my friend, Captain Hook. The captain lives on a pirate ship. He’s a very eccentric character, but he gets all the comedy specials. So I went over to the Captain’s place on the pirate ship.
There and I watched Jim Gaffigan’s special on the pirate ship. Okay, every time I told you about Hilarious, I was thinking to myself Peacock. I was visually picturing myself in the comfy chair downstairs where I fall asleep with my Roku app, And every time I said the word hilarious, I thought of Peacock. Last night, I was watching some TV and I went over to Hulu to watch The Shield where I regularly watched The Shield, and there was Jim Gaffigan and I was like, Oh, hilarious is on Hulu and I have the service. I didn’t need to go over to Captain Hooks to watch it on the Pirate Ship.
I could have just watched it. Guys, the marketing didn’t work. Aside from I suck and I’m stupid, I host a comedy podcast seven days a week for five years now, Like something broke. Something in the marketing didn’t work. Maybe everybody else was like, oh, yeah, Hulu, we have Hulu.
I talked about this thing every day and never even realized I had the service, So I’m not sure it’s scored. And I went all the way over to Captain Hooks to watch seven minutes of comedy from somebody who has nothing new to say.
Moving on, Netflix announced Torching twenty twenty four, a roast of the year…
Build as a night of savage laughs and surprises looking back on the last twelve months. The roast will tape on December seventeenth. It will feature Mark Norman, Miss Pat Sammurrial, Tim Dillon, Jeff Ross. I just have this suspicion that it’s not gonna be good. Didn’t Netflix do some sort of like year recap shows a year ago or two years ago that was like unwatchable.
I think this is a mistake. Here’s why the Roast of Tom Brady was so good, such a high bar, and they announced this thing on December sixth. I’m gonna tape it eleven days later. And while the lineup is nice, it’s not at the level of the Tom Brady Roast, which had say Tom Brady or Kevin Hard or folks like that. So I think Netflix is making a mistake here and goofing up their brand new roast brand.
I like everyone who’s performing. I just don’t think it’s big enough. I think this is a mistake. A Roast of the Year Netflix, December twenty seventh. I don’t know man.
Spotify announced the top podcast of the year. I’ll focus on the comedy ones. You can probably guess number one. That’s right, The most powerful man in the world, the Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan is the man.
He’s number one. Theo Vaughn a number three. This is on Spotify, so if you look at the Apple charts, she’ll get a different result, although you’ll still get Rogan number one. THEO at three. Other comedians.
Let’s see Dak Sheppard. Is he comedic anyway? He’s at eight? The SmartLess Guys Are they comedians? They’re at fourteen.
The Kelsey Brothers at nineteen. Hey, one of them host a late night show. Now we got to put them in the bag. Trevor Noah at twenty Bad Friends and Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee sitting at twenty one, Matt and Chain’s Secret Podcast at twenty six, kill Tony at twenty eight. Twenty nine is two Bears, One Cave with Tom Si Gorenberg, Krascher Conan at forty seven, Andrew Schultz at forty nine.
And I guess this show is number fifty one. I’m not in the top fifty, but probably fifty one would be my assumption there. Scrubs is coming back, Baby, Well, all we know so far is Bill Lawrence, who came up with the original. He’s rebooting Scrubs. That’s all they’ve announced.
We have no idea who’s on it or not. If they bring this back without j D and Turk, everyone’s insane and Zach Braff and Donald Faison would be insane not to take the money right. Getting anyone else back from the cast would be nice, But I think it’s Zach and Donald and whoever else is bored. You can be part of it or not. My wife and I discussed this already, like, well, what happens if Carla doesn’t come back?
Very simple? Right? So Jad’s at the supermarket, he runs into turk. Hey, dude, how you been? Oh?
I’m great and great. You know, how’s it working at Saint whatever hospital? You know, I’m thinking to start my own practice. Me too. We should go into practice together.
And then they opened a practice together, and then whoever’s on the show’s on the show, and that’ll be fine. John Oliver’s show has withdrawn from the Critics’ Choice Awards as a result of a category change. Oh no, a controversy. The organization changed the rules stating that only shows that involved conversation should be nominated for Best Talk Show, and Oliver rarely talks to anybody else on his show, unlike his late night beers. The nominees are hot Ones, The Daily Show, Graham, Norton, Mulaney, Kelly Clarkson, and Colbert.
Organizers wanted Oliver to go into Best Comedy Series, where it would have competed against Avid Elementary English teacher Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders somebody somewhere, Saint Dennis Medical and what we do in the shadows. I guess the Olivery people were like NAH Critics’ Choice Awards Sunday, January twelfth, talking a little bit about that. Tomorrow, Pete Davidson has divulged. How much you make if you’re in the cast of Saturday Night Live.
New York Magazine asked Pete what was your biggest splurge after your first SNL paycheck? Pete said, do you guys know what they pay us? It’s like three grand an episode. I think I got dinner. Somebody did some math.
That means if you appear in every episode, you earn somewhere between fifty four and sixty six grand. That said, it’s probably good for your career long term. I forgot to put in my notes somewhere. I saw Bill Murray was on somebody’s podcast and says he wants to host SNL this season. I can’t imagine Lauren seeing that Bill wants to do it, and Lauren saying no to Bill, because Bill’s a bit of a recluse, right, So I bet that winds up happening.
Andrew Schultz says officially responded to Kendrick Lamour’s subliminal shot at him. You may remember that Lamar’s recent musical release discussed white comics who disrespect black women. Many people on the interwebs think he meant Andrew Schultz. Schultz, in a facetious way, said nobody’s respected women more through art than rappers. Jaminika Saunders tapes her next special today at three pm and five pm at the comedy sellers Fat Black pussy Cat in New York City.
Jonathan van Ness will get a special on Veeps. Fun and Slutty will be on Veeps January twenty third, that service I definitely don’t have. In Fun and Slutty, Jonathan takes on the persona of Professor Jonathan van Nasty as they set out to educate an unsuspecting audience on the definitions shenanigans and stigmas of slutty behavior. Staped earlier this year in Austin, Texas, there is a trailer. I pulled the audio there was too much cursing for me to air it and I didn’t find it all that funny, so we move on.
Sketch Fest. You know, you gotta love the sketch Fest publicist. Sketch Fest publicist SANSI items and then I talk about them, so it’s good for me and it’s good for sketch Fest. Wish all publicists would be this good. I know, I said it, stop, all right, what did Scotch Test announce?
Now? Napoleon Dynamite celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a live read featuring the film stars. That’s pretty cool. That’s on January nineteenth. The Dear Boys podcast will be there on the twenty fifth.
Do you Like Baseball? John Cruck and Dwayne Kiper will be in conversation that’s on May fifteenth. I’m gonna have to hit the publicist back and be like, wait, sketch Chess is in January and that’s not comedy. Why is that in this? Chris Fleming, Who’s Fantastic, has added a third show by popular demand at the Great American Music Hall on January nineteenth.
Ucb’s ASCAT added a second show that’s on the twenty fifth, and Rhys Darby’s second show on January eighteenth. I’m not sure how the baseball guys feature in this. If it was in January, I’d be like, okay, whatever, But I don’t know. I don’t get it. Sketch Fest is fantastic.
I have to find some reason to get out to San Francisco and let me tell you about the Gallagher documentary. I have a screen of it. I’ve been so backed up since Thanksgiving. I need to watch this thing because I like Gallagher a lot. Got to do a broadcast with him one time, and he was pretty cool.
Indywire caught up with filmmaker Josh Forbes. Gallagher was shot over the course of seven years. Gallagher is a portrait of a prop comedian in the winter of his life. Forbes told any Wire, it’s kind of hacked. Just say, oh, this guy smashes things on an idiot.
If you look at the history of comedyer clowns, making a messes funny, by fights are funny. Slipping on a banana peel is funny. And I think it cause it’s so overly silly. It’s an easy target. And I always like the underdog.
I always like the outsider. I always liked the guy who’s misunderstood. Forbes initially pitched an idea about Gallagher reuniting with his brother. You know, there was that whole Gallagher two Gallagher too thing for a while. I still don’t understand what was going on there.
Main Gallagher was like, now the project evolved into a portrait of a comedian on the road. Forbes said, I had me and my sound guy and my camera guy in one room and we’re staying in the same hotel, and he’s like, well, it’s my room. It’s just one guy. You guys have three guys. One of you guys stay with me.
So I ended up sharing a bedroom with Gallagher, which was crazy because he never wore a shirt. Having met Gallagher, you know, probably not the same as hearing a room with I don’t know. David Beckham just saying at one point I was in the hotel room with him and I was checking my phone and I smelled something. I looked over and he had his wet underwear on a lamp just in our room. He was a total wild man.
Forbes said, anything that closely resembled the truth or his past, especially, he didn’t want to talk about it, and he didn’t see how it was funny. He only wanted to do things that were funny. No matter how hard he tried to be seen as something other than watermelon smashing guy. People were like, you’re the watermelon smashing guy. I’m just as guilty.
When we had him up, we had him smash Jackie the joke man. Jokemaster Junior’s long story Forbes said Gallagher completely resented it. No, not me, the watermelon folks. It’s like having a band having a big radio hit and then kind of hating the audience. But I think he also enjoyed it.
He enjoyed the thrill of making the audience cringe and go wild and get messy and all that, and he loved the aspect of that. But I think the most difficult thing for him was just being a brilliant comedian. But people just wanted him to smash things. Final story of the day, comedian Kabir Singh has passed away at thirty nine years old. Sing died on when day TMZ reported that Singh had been dealing with health concerns and authorities suspect he died of natural causes.
Singh’s friend Jeremy Curry posted on Facebook. He shared a picture of the two smiling together and wrote that the late comedian passed away peacefully in his sleep. Kabir Singh was thirty nine. That’s your comedy needs for today.