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Caloroga Shark Media. This Chris Rock thing is getting weirder and weirder. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A source tales people that the reports that Chris Rock stormed off and off those are untrue. The reason he left is because children were in the audience.
An onlooker tells people he didn’t storm off. He did stop performing, but he wasn’t angry. He simply put the mic down and walked away. But then the story goes on to say that the reason he left was people were filming him, which was the original story. So I don’t know why people is saying anything about children in the audience.
And the reason given for not wanting anyone to film is that he was working out material. And I’ll go back to what I said yesterday. If I’m paying you to come all the way to Australia and I’m a billionaire, I don’t want you to work out with Cereal. I don’t know what’s going on. A lot of the country is fascinated with Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Taylor Thomas on her show admitted that like a lot of people she found the guy physically attractive. She said, one picture can be deceiving. I’ve been on dating apps for a long time. I’m gonna need to see four to six more photos. Okay, anyone can take one sexy, blurry candid right before they commit a murder.
Everyone has one of those. That’s funny, she continues. It turns out he actually got caught because an employee recognized him and phone the police. Do you have any idea how attractive you have to be for a McDonald’s employee to be like, wait, okay, you being in here is suspicious. I’m surprised anyone turned this guy in considering all the thirsting after him online.
I mean, every post about this guy’s just straight up calls him sexy. Maybe this was his undoing. I mean, if everyone on the internet was talking about how hot I am, I’d also be lingering in public spaces. That might be the kedy catching criminals. Let’s pretend we think they’re all super hot, and maybe they’ll just turn themselves in.
Michael Costa said it’s surprising that he comes from such a privileged background. He’s not really the kind of guy you’d expect to become a murderer. I mean, I’d expect him to crash the housing market, but not kill a guy. Stephen Colbert went, silly, you know what they say, snitches get filet o fishes. Joe Rogan commented on this and said, I don’t think the guy was a professional.
I think this guy if I had a guest with some guy who got e ft over, apparently that company’s really bad at the nine claims his guest, a film producer, Roger Avery, said I don’t think anybody is going to be crying too hard over this. Rogan said, maybe his family. That’s about it. It’s a dirty, dirty business. The business of insurance is effing gross.
It’s gross, especially healthcare insurance. It’s effing gross. All right. We not only have to get Nikki Glaser’s publicist to raise we have to get Nikki Glaser’s publicist too raises. There’s clearly a campaign going on right now.
We’ve already seen two news organizations named Nikki Glaser Comedian of the Year. I’ve spoken my peace on that. If you miss that, the short version is it’s not ridiculous, but it’s not the right call either. Tomorrow I’ll tell you about a big wax job of her car in Rolling Stone. Today it’s the Hollywood Reporter.
NICKI was at the Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment gala and said, when I was told I’d been chosen as one of the power one hundred women in Hollywood, I was so incredibly honored.
And then I said, which number am I?
And they said it didn’t work that way. You’re all equal. And I said, okay, if that’s the case, then can I sit it Nicole Kidman’s table? And that’s when the correspondence ended a breakfast gallop for women in Hollywood. We don’t even eat that meal.
That’s funny, but truly, what better ton honor women than at eight am, before the industry is awake and that coveted post Thanksgiving, pre Christmas Hollywood dead zone. We are women in Hollywood. You’re a roar, but not too loudly because the hotel is a quiet policy enforced until nine am.
Also very funny.
I love being in full glam at the crack of dawn. What am I supposed to do the rest of the day looking like this? Usually women who look this done up at seven am aren’t entering the Beverly Hills Hotel. They’re leaving with a lot of cash and a fun story about Charlie Sheen. This is really strong material.
This very speech I’m giving right now might have been twenty percent better had I not had to prepare my body to even stand up before you and give it. It’s hard to write a speech on the same day. You have to get a spray’s hand to a fitting, get your nails done, a bleacher ooh read edge Jhonny a thing you might bleach not going there that she tagged it with. I guess I didn’t need to do that last one. We almost had a train wreck here on Daily Comedy News, so I got to preread these stories.
Next on a Little Hackey, Oh, Colin Farrell so dedicated to his craft that he spends three hours on the makeup chair to transform into the penguin. That’s how long it takes me every day to make sure I don’t look like the penguin. Rob Schneider has plans to launch a show to compete against the view. Rob has a book called You Can Do It, and he was on Fox News and disclosed that his company, no apologies media, We’re gonna do an all ladies talk show, and it won’t be like the View. It’ll be the opposite, because it’ll be entertaining.
It’ll be funny. We’re gonna have funny women on it that’ll tell jokes and have funny stories and health and wellness. Schneider describes the View as interesting as a hunter Biden painting made of his own feces hilarious, and said his show will focus on making people laugh rather than shaming them for their politics. People are sick of it. We’re going to have an entertaining show with people from all over America.
We’re not just trying to bring people who are angry and bitter and reinforcing their political echo chamber. Then he was on Twitter and said, we will be a show that will not be a narrow view or what you’ve had to indoor all these years. A single view that scolds into me means those that have a different view. This will be a show for while caps all of us two exclamation points. Netflix announced two more specials Gabe, but Fluffy Iglesias will get one.
It’s called Legend of Fluffy. Hey, Gabe, love you. You’ve kind of you’re fallen into the Gaffigan zone. Where Gaffigan called, like nine specials in a row pail something, tap the brakes on the Fluffy. Just do something else for a change.
All right, I guess this one’s already anounced. Next one, we’re not gonna put Fluffy in the title. Okay, Gabe, love you worked with you on the Comedy Central, Lost or a Good Guy. Everybody likes you. But enough with the Fluffy.
Legend of Fluffy will premiere January seventh. Lisa Trigger, We’ll have her special night Owl on Netflix January twenty eighth. Lisa Special touches on her friends who are parents, hating other people’s husbands, and lying to herself about how high she really is. I got a lot done the other night. First of all, the Indiana Jones video game is the pinnacle of human civilization.
This is it. We have topped out. There will be no greater art, there will be no greater entertainment. It’s all downhill for humanity from this peak of the Indiana Jones video game. So I played that for two hours, and then after a while my eye’s hurt.
So I’m like, I’ll watch some TV, and I put on Jamie Fox’s special. I almost bailed about seven minutes in. Then he went into an amazing Cat Williams impression. Jamie can do voices really well. The cat stuff kept me around.
Then there was a next part. Now go back and watch it. He goes into a little bit of a preachy, soulful, thoughtful part. But notice that the cameras zoomed in and what caught my ear? And you know, I do this for a living.
The room’s dead. I suspect possibly perhaps maybe that’s an insert that was filmed in an empty theater. I don’t think the audience was there for that part. I feel like that was filmed separately and cut into the main special. Why do you say that, John, the room is too dead?
A lot of times, what you’ll do in recording is you will record what’s called room tone, and then if you have to do any sort of production, you have the natural sound of what a room sounds like, and you can lay it under whatever you’re doing.
Also, you know we’ve all been to shows.
If he went into a big soulful thing like that, somebody would he alled out, go Jamie, or we love you or woo or something. There would have been some noise. It’s too quiet. I also and I feel like a jerk saying this, but I also think there was a performance there when Jamie went into the part of, you know, please Lord, let me get through this. I’ll remind you he’s an Academy Award winning actor.
Then I started skimming through it. I came away thinking I need more comedy in my comedy for what he set out to do. I think it’s a very very good version of what he set out to do in terms of, hey, is this a comedy special I want to spend an hour with It wasn’t, so I moved on. It will not make my end of the year list, but I think it was a good version of what he set out to do. I switched over to Fortune Fimester last than about a half an hour.
It’s fine, you know, if you’re not a comedy snob, it’s perfectly fine hour. Nothing wrong with it, nothing bad to say about It’s funny enough. But just you know, I’d played two hours of video game and already watched Jamie, and I was like, all right on this one, I gotta feel for what this one is.
And then I watched Matthew Brisard’s which was the best of the three.
That one’s on YouTube. Excellent writing there, funny jokes, couple actual laughs out of me. So that’s my favorite of the three. That said, it also won’t make my end of the year list, not that it’s bad, but you know, I can’t put everything on the list, So that’s my favorite of three. Watch Brisard this next story I saw, I just want to tell you in advance.
I didn’t really understand the version I saw. You’ll get this in a second, so I ran it through AI and asked the AI, can you just summarize this and rewrite this for an American audience and convert the currency because I’m getting a little confused here. So hopefully the AI has it accurate. The original sources from the India Times. So it caught my attention.
Comedian Sneil Powell’s alleged kidnapping has taken a controversial turn. A leaked to audio clips suggests that the nine thousand dollars ransom incident may have been staged for publicity, although the comedian denies the accusation. He had filed a police report Mumbai claiming that he was abducted and held for twenty four hours before paying the ransom. In the audio clip, which again the AI is telling me is reportedly edited and manipulated. A voice identified as one of the kidnappers accuses Pal of orchestrating the situation and filing a police complain.
Afterward. Power responds claiming the police contacted his wife, not him, and insists the recording was taken out of context under duress. Police report that two suspects are on the run, with CCTV footage allegedly showing them purchasing gold jewelry with the ransom money. Six individuals have been detained for questioning. Powell claims he was lured to me Roots under the pretense of performing at a comedy show and was abducted by five men who initially demanded twenty four thousand dollars before settling for nine thousand dollars.
He says the kidnappers even gave him two hundred and forty dollars for travel back to Mumbai, promising to repay the ransom once they found work. Just a weird story, all right, Michelle Buttio, She’s got a New Year’s Eve special, But tonight she’s hosting the twenty twenty four Billboard Music Wards eight o’clock on Fox, and Last week’s Saturday Night Live, which was pretty good. I thought. Paul Meskal hosted it. Late Night Er says it drew the show’s lowest number of viewers, in this case three point eight million since November of twenty twenty three.
The November twenty twenty three episode was Timothy Shallomey with musical guest boy Genius. That’s pretty good. In the eighteen to forty nine demo, only seven hundred and thirty nine thousand viewers, also a new low for the show. In the demo, this season has been pretty terrible, and last season was I don’t know it was last season worse. Yeah, this season’s better than last season.
Last season was pretty bad Late Night. It reminds us it’s not unusual for Saturday Night Live to see a seasonal decline in viewership in mid November to early December. Historically, this is where the show bottoms out every season. And that is your comedy news for today. You hear my voice going again?
This is like two and a half weeks now. Whatever the hell I caught? I just yeah, you hear that fuzz? All right? See tomorrow