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Caloroga Shark Media. On Today Show, Conan O’Brien’s gonna win the Mark Twain Prize. Jamie Fox took a shot at somebody, was it? Cant Williams, Bill Burr’s got a big profile and variety and Roywood Junior specials out on Hulu Today. Not that their publicist wants me to know about it.
Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with Today’s Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien will be the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He’ll be honored at the annual gala March twenty third at the John F. Kennedy Senator for the Performing Arts in Washington, d C. Netflix will stream the events sometime later in the year, so expect a lot of Conan press coming up because he’s also hosting the Oscars on March second.
Conan becomes the twenty sixth person to receive the award. Others include Carl Reiner, wi Be Goldberg, Tina fe Eddie Murphy, Jay Leno, David Letterman, and I believe Bill Cosby oops at his fact check that he did. The Kennedy Center rescinded the honor in twenty eighteen. I’ve got some Bill Cosby stories to tell, and I will tell them, but not today. Perhaps after his death I will share them digress.
Conan said, I’m honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize, recognized not for humor but for my work as a riverboat pilot. Deborah Rutterer is the president of the Kennedy Center and said from Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, where he was a writer, including the unbelievably funny monorail episode, Oh that’s a trigger for me. I’m going to be singing monorail all day now. Conan is a master of invention and reinvention, consistently pushing the envelope in search of new comedic heights. I look forward to honoring his immense legacy and enduring impact with an uproarious evening in the Concert Hall on March twenty third.
The Holly Reporter has a nice bio of Conan. He began his career on HBO’s Not Necessarily the News. Remember that show, fellow oldies I used to watch that. He was a writer on SNL and The Simpsons took over for Letterman in ninety three, hosted this Night Show for seven minutes in two thousand and nine, kind of hit out on TBS No offense for eleven years on TBS, No offense, but kind of hit out. I think if we ranked everything Cony did, the TBSC years probably had the least impact.
And then he started a podcast which has done okay, that one called Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. Dave Chappelle hosts Saturday Night Live. This week. They put out an interesting promo. Dave Chappelle appears in it but never speaks.
Towards the end of the promo we see Chappelle on a stool, but I will play the audio for you with this Morgan Freeman esque or perhaps actually Morgan Freeman voiceover. Who knows, but let’s listen. Studio AH, New York City’s Helloed Comedy Ground, a fifty year tradition we left of that Saturday Night Live, all great past of these halls.
Also Stephen Chagall and This Saturday.
So some background there on the Steven Sagal shot. Former SNL writer Al Franken in twenty twenty two called Sigal an effing moron whose big sketch idea involved him. I don’t even want to voice this doing something very very sexually violent to cast member Victoria Jackson again in a sketch Franken recalled, asking him, so he want us to do the ugliest sketch that’s ever been on television. Lauren michael Is the ones called Sagal the biggest jerk who’s ever been on the show. Wow.
Jamie Fox is out with Cameron Diaz. They’re promoting Back in Action. They were on Complex’s Goat Talk. Jamie was asked what is his goat curse word? And I’m really gonna have to let you use your imagination here.
Jamie said, B word made an N word. Okay, I don’t even want to tell you what it rhymes with. You’ll figure it out. You’re smart. Now Here, he took a shot at someone folks on the interwebs suspect he’s talking about Kat Williams.
Fox said, be Made for Me is actually scientific because when I see the guy that I’m talking about, he’s usually small. He’s one hundred and twenty eight pounds. Camer Diez was curious, asking how many men do you know who were one hundred and twenty eight pounds. Jamie said a lot of comedians. I’ll leave it at that.
A lot of little MF comedians be made an n F at here man tiny it’s tiny mfer. So the theory is he could mean Kevin Hart, but I don’t recall Kevin and Jamie and talking about each other ever, or Kat Williams, who definitely has talked about Jamie. Steve Harvey, who is not one hundred and twenty eight pounds, has also previously referred to Kat Williams as a heater. We’ll keep an eye on this little beef. Johnny Mack likes comedy beefs.
That’s good for the show. Bill Burr did a lengthy interview with Variety. I’m seeing a lot of pushback to Burr’s appearance on Kimmel the other night, people suggesting that Burr is tone def or sucking up to Gavin Newsom or something. I don’t know, but going up a level. I’m seeing more and more chatter from longtime Bill Burr fans who feel like Bill has I don’t know what to describe it, gone soft, gone Hollywood, lost his way.
The vibe being they prefer the old Bill Burr, not the current incarnation who seems to be I don’t know, more restrained. I’m not sure I’m feeling that, but I definitely have caught that vibe on several podcasts that I listen to. I’ll pick up this article for the next few days and tomorrow on this program Larry the Cable Guys my guest. So I’ll do a little of this today, a little Sunday, and it might even carry in it a Monday. It’s pretty long.
You’ll find it Variety, and I’ve shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Please feel encouraged to join us there and join in on the conversation Hurtzeld Variety. I’m feeling pretty lucky. Bill had evacuated his house due to the La fires, as covered on Kimmel Kills Me. It’s just a lot of bots.
I think it’s trees in his behavior to politicize everything and keep it working people at each other’s throats. It’s all like it for one group of people. It’s not working people. This is not meant to be any sort of Bill Burr impression. I’m just separating it from my normal reading voice.
I go back to any arc my comic friends tell me how soft La is. I’m like oh you New York has come out here and you leave with the tail between your legs because you can’t hack it. It’s funny in LA is considered the soft place, but then when they see our weather, they start quoting revelations. I’m a New Yorker who has spent time in LA. I’ve never lived in LA.
But I have no idea what Burr is talking about there about New York is going out there and then not being able to hack Los Angeles. No idea whatsoever. But again, I’m not a comedian and I’ve never lived in Los Angeles. Burr’s out promoting his hilarious special Drop Dead Years. It’ll be out March fourteenth.
Now, if you want to make a case for Burr has gone establishment, the Hulu stand up comedy series is pretty mainstream. Jim gaff again, Sembastian I think is part of that lineup, and Roy Wood Junior, Who’s got one out today. Roy’s is called Lonely Flowers. In Lonely Flowers, Roywood Junior riffs on how isolation has sense, society spiraling ins who a culture of guns, protests, root employees, self checkout lanes, and sex parties. Roy told NPR when I It’d be Easy’s Comic View in two thousand and four had gotten turned down three years in a row, and I got so angry with them.
I watched every episode and I cataloged every topic that was breached by comedians for the previous year’s entire season. How many jokes about being ugly, here’s sex jokes, here’s race jokes, president famous people, and cataloged at all And this told myself that entire year, I won’t make a joke about any of those things. So now, at a minimum, i’m original. I like that approach. That’s pretty good.
Roy talked about leaving the Daily Show. It goes back to the Doug Herzog quote that I posted the day that I left for I said, you don’t own these jobs. You rent them, and sooner or later your numbers up. So it doesn’t matter if I stayed at The Daily Show sooner or later and exits inevitable. It’s which uncertainty will you choose stay at this job.
I’m not sure who’s going to get hired as host. With the uncertainty of not having a job and trying to create another job and maybe to be a better job, choose he told a story about his dad being a founding investor in Soul Train. Roy said, my dad was the first black announcer at pretty much most stations. He worked out in the fifties and sixties doing news for the most part. And so we got with some people up in Chicago and decided to create the National Black Network.
And the National bl Black Network was a series of syndicated news stories and articles and programs that would be sent out to black radio stations across the country. My dad gets pulled over by a cop and the cop is a really deep voice. He’s in the middle of getting a ticket. My dad goes, yeah, man, you have a nice voice. You should be on the radio.
You should be out here doing this. And my dad gave the cop his card. That cop Don Cornelius, Officer Don Cornelius of the Chicago PD. He’d only been a cop for a year. He quit.
He started working at a radio station as reporter, got an inch for the media and came up with an idea for a show, Soul Trained. He goes up to my father goes, hey, man, I’m taking up money if you want to be an investor in the show. Roy says, my pops gave Don Cornelius some of the money to shoot the pilot for Soul Trained. My dad gave maybe, like, let’s say it’s a thousand dollars, which is a good jillion billion dollars in nineteen eighty six. And once the show started, my dad goes, hey, don I need that money, man, and Don goes, instead of giving your money back, why don’t keep you on as a producer.
You can be an executive producer for the rest of your life, to which my dad said, nobody wants to watch black people dance. Give me my money. Don paid him back. My father took the money, signed away his rights to any claims of the Soul Train empire. And that was that.
Wow. A lot more here from Roy Wood, But I’ll push that into the weekend as well, because that’s an awesome story. You and always go out on top, all right. Johnny Mac feels bad. You know, I’m on here and I’m like, hey, guys, buy me a coffee.
Come on, buy me a coffee. Will you buy me a coffee?
And then poor Avon goes and buys me not one, but two coffees, And do I thank …
No? You think I thank her on the show. I didn’t. I’m sorry, Ivon. I appreciate you.
Thank you for buying me two coffees by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Now to be fair when you do buy me a coffee. I got a note in my inbox and Avon shot me note. She’s like, hey, you know, did you get the coffee? Is what’s going on?
Like friendly, not like being excuse me, me being trick or anything. She just want to make sure that you know some scammer she does want, like Nigerian scammers getting the coffee she intended for me. So I looked and this had happened while I was in Antarctica, so I missed the email. So Evon thank you and I apologize. But anyway, you can go to buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Common News.
Look at this, I almost have like forty percent of this one left today. I will take your money. I will drive to the National Dome chain where I’ve already pre ordered because I’m not gonna talk to anybody. It’s twenty twenty five. I’ve got apps and reward points and stuff, and I have a ready clicked large iced coffee, caramel milk.
I go in and I get it, and I get back in and then I pat my dog. My dog’s been coming for ride. And I don’t want letters from people to be like you look your dog on the corder. It’s twenty seconds, dude, Relax, dog likes coming in the morning. Bill Hayter spoke to K’SLA about the La fires.
Oh, I better reset here and get the cause. I just laughed a little, But this story’s not funny and all. Bill Hater’s home was destroyed in the fires, he told KTLA. People keep saying unreal. It doesn’t seem real.
I’m sorry. I’m in shock. Just gone everything Alphabet streets, which is to me, kind of the heart of the Palisades. This beautiful, beautiful area is gone. The whole thing is gone.
I got a video showing the fire and rush back, but by the time I got back it was gridlock traffic. I’m glad I got my family out during this city evacuation. Men’s Health was concerned about Jay Leno’s car collection. Jay’s been out and about volunteering. Men’s Health happily reports Jay’s car collection appears to be safe.
Most of his vehicles are stored in an empty aircraft hangar at Hollywood Birdbank Airport. Interesting. How much does that cost a rent? And I didn’t know this. Jay’s got another estate in Newport, Rhode Island that he bought in twenty seventeen for thirteen and a half million dollars.
Jay hanging out in Rhode Island. Interesting? And if Fox News apparently doesn’t get the Tim Dillon podcast, they reported on what Tim Dillon said about the fires on Monday’s episode. I listen to that episode was very funny. If you listen to Tim Dillon, He’s not serious about anything.
He’s just riffing jokes. But Fox posted this as if it was news. Ridiculous. David Spade has offered five thousand dollars to anyone who successfully catches and reports arseness in La Spade. I appreciate it, but five thousand dollars in David Spade money is like buying me a coffee.
Could we up that prize a little, dude? I mean, Daily Comedy News can almost afford a five thousand dollars prize. But anyway, his heart’s in the right place. He says, I’m out in California and people are saying there’s guys lighting fires out there making this stuff worse. So if you can find someone lighting a fire, and you catch somebody and you get the cops to bust them and throw them in jail, I’ll give you five thousand dollars.
So keep your eyes peeled, do what you can do out there. As I went to record the show today, I see Bob Yucker has passed away, age ninety. Let me see if I can do a quick bio on the fly. On Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Brewers announced that Bob had passed away aged ninety, calling it one of the most difficult days in Milwaukee Brewers’ history. Yucker’s family said he had battled small cell lung cancer since early twenty twenty three.
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Bob Yucker was a beloved member of the baseball community. On the comedy side, Uker got his big break opening for Don Rickles in an Atlanta nightclub in nineteen sixty nine. That got him on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He did The Carson Tonight Show more than one hundred times. Carson dubbed Bob Buker mister baseball people.
My age definitely remember Bob Buker from the Miller Lite commercials. Those were fantastic. Bob starred in the ABC sitcom Mister Belvedere that ran six years and one hundred and twenty two episodes. He played the head of the family and a sports writer and a home that brings it a butler. The butler struggles to adapt to an American household.
Bob also played an announcer in the movies Major League and Major League two. He played Harry Doyle and you may remember the famous quote, just a bit outside. Bob Buker was ninety and that is your comedy news for today. Larry the Cable Guy. Tomorrow see then,