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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A very busy Monday with Chappelle, inauguration and the TikTok band. Mark Norman tweeted, who knew the first immigrant to get kicked out would be a Chinese app Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live. I think it was the best episode of the season easily for his monologue, which was excellent, which I’ll break down, and for one sketch in particular Nina.
Here near there, he tells the crowd that Lauren Michaels had asked him to host the first episode after the election, but he said no because things are going good. I finished my Netflix deal, I have all this money and stuff started in October. Lorne Michaels called me and he asked me to do a Saturday Night Live the first episode after the election, and I was like, nah, man, I’m cool. Lauren kept pushing. I’ll let Dave explain here, and then.
The dates started rolling around, and then he started calling me again and again I was like, ah, man, don’t want to do it. And this goes on for like weeks and weeks, and then finally, you know, and I go, you know what, I can just get rid of all these old Trump jokes and started fresh. I say, you know what, I’ll do it. Here are are. The moment I said, yes, La burst into flames.
They’ve got off a good joke about the La wildfires. And I watched these fire videos and I read the comments sections and everyone’s like, yeah, it serves these celebrities, right. I hope the house is burned down and you see that that right there, That’s why I hate poor people. They’ve then turned his attention to the Diddy accusations. My friends asked me, They said, Dave, did you know only thing about those parties.
I’ll be like, no, man, I don’t know anything about the free gooff. And they all look at me like and they well, how all these people you know was at the free golf, but she’s the only one that wasn’t at the free golf. And I thought about it for a minute. I said, oh my gosh, I’m. Ugly nice tag here for that joke.
A tough way to find that out. You imagine if you were me reading the newspaper and found out everyone in Hollywood had a orgy behind your. Back, and at the end Dave got serious and addressed Donald Trump. Presidency is no place for petty people. So Donald Trump, I know you watch the show Man.
Remember whether people voted for you or not, they’re all counted on you. Whether they like you or not, they’re all counting on you. The whole world is canted onian. I mean this when I say this, good luck. Please do better next time.
Please all of us do better next time. Do not forget your humanity, and please have empathy for displaced people, whether they’re in the palisades, all Palestine. Thank you very. Much, good night. Really funny sketch.
It had me laughing out loud. Chappelle plays a dad whose family receives an alert to evacuate because of the impending fires. Spoilers on the sketch. David takes a sledgehammer and starts retrieving five hundred thousand dollars in cash he had hidden in a wall. Things escalate, eventually we find out that something is hidden in the dog.
A very very funny scene which had me laughing out loud. Go seek that sketch out online if you have non seed. It very very funny. Big college football game tonight, Shane Gillis did a commercial for Underarmoor in which Shane is rooting for Notre Dame. Let’s listen, Hey, God be Shane.
I’ve been here in a while, but I have a pretty big prayer for you No Names in the National Championship on Monday. I know you know, because you’ve been with us the whole time. A couple of weeks ago. That field goal. I know you’re a lot going on, so that was pretty chill.
You took time to help us with that. I should also say I have not bet on any of these games. All right, I half bet, but going forward if No Name wins, now will not bet on games for a month, couple weeks. We’ve probably been on something. Come on, God, I know you can help us.
Truck and dude pick sixes everywhere, have a couple of Just please let No Dame win a national championship. Now, what do you pray for? Pray for No Dame? What are you praying for? It?
Say? Notre Dame? Alright, cool s. What did you go to Notre Dame? Yeah?
I went to No Day. I’m sorry that was a lot I got. No I didn’t go to No Day, did you? Oh? Wow, Dame?
Oh that’s awesome. Alright, sh. Shit, that was a lot of fun. Nikki Glaser shows in Milwaukee have been moved to a bigger venue. Nikki is White Hot Right Now.
Originally set to perform at the Riverside Theater, Nicki will now headline the Miller High Life Theater of min May Previously sold to Riverside Theater. Tickets will be exchanged for new tickets in similar locations. Capacity at the Riverside Theater twenty four point fifty according to the interwebs. Capacity at the Miller High Life Theater forty eighty six. I met you could sell even more than that right now.
Bill Maher weighed in on the fires on his show Real Time. Bill said, now is wokeness the main reason for the fires? Of course not, but it’s also not wrong to associate some of the unforced errors our government made with the things norm easy as hallmarks of uber progressive politics, questionable budget priorities, high taxes that get you nothing, making everything about identity politics virtual signaling overseas instead of tending to the nuts and bolts at home. This a reference to Mayor Karen Bass visiting Ghana. More continued, The government’s jobs protect us from crime, violent stuff fire.
I’m not saying Alabama would have done better with fires by fighting them with prayer and school, but look me in the eyes and tell me anyone could have done worse. We just got our ass kicked by a fire. Something Neanderthals fought to a tie. We may not be able to do much about the weather, but we do need a better plan for putting out a burning city than waiting for reen. A lot of Democrats in this one party state this week went right to dum blame politicians.
You can’t do anything about the wind, which is exactly half true the win part. Yes, fire is a tough fight out here, and yes, global warming absolutely makes it worse, but that’s largely out of our control. What are we going to do? Pass a ballot measure to make sure Chinese stop burning coal? The Washington Post caught up on the La comedy scene.
They focused on the Vermont Hollywood, about ten miles east and southwest of two of the fires. The club is aiming to operate normally. Sandy Savas is the venues general manager, and Sandy says they’ve been searching for last minute replacements after performers and sponsors have canceled because of the fires. Savas says they’re allocating about twelve percent of their proceeds to supplies for fire victims. Savas told The Washington Post, it’s a horrible thing to party while you know the rest of the city’s suffering, and we do feel there’s a sense of guilt about it.
But at the same time, we understand we have employees, the show must go on, and people just need this gate. We’re happy to provide that for them. Jam In the Van said that they stopped promoting their events on social media. Jake Coulter is the venues co founder and said all messaging kind of shifted to what you can do to help the fires. We didn’t feel it was right to message about, hey, buy tickets to this.
During the week, he said, he saw other venues promoting events on social media, so they started atizing again, starting with the comedy show last Wednesday, Fewer people came to the show than usual. Jam In the Van is hosting another comedy show where twenty percent of ticket sales will go to Pasadena Humane, a local shelter that has taken in hundreds of animals. Jay Coulter says if the fallout from the fires is that nobody goes out and supports small businesses, restaurants, venues and stuff like that, then the suffering just keeps expanding. Flappers in Burbank organized a free show with Jay Leno on January tenth. Some people criticize them on social media.
One person on social said guests could use their alcohol to put out the fires. Another photoshop the word Flappers over a burning house. Owner Barbara Holiday said she experienced a weird sense of guilt, but the club felt normal for a few hours as one hundred and thirty people visited. I’ve spent some time over the weekend catching up on the comedy specials. My wife came to me and she’s like, hey, you want to watch that Nate guy.
So Nate has broken through all the way to my wife knowing his first name anyway, and she wanting to watch it. I liked it a lot. Let me go back and look my twenty twenty four rankings in just I’m doing this on the fly. Let’s see. So for twenty twenty four, I had Brady Attel, Triumph, Roddie Chang, David cross a domain, Dusty Sleigh.
It’s probably on par with Dusty. So now Kyle Kanaan had that ten minute thing. Maybe not as good as Canaane, better than Rife. So I’ll make the number eight and a half special of twenty twenty four. I don’t want to bog down in that the list is the list, New year, New list.
Okay, right now, I have as the number one comedy special of the year, Roywood Junior’s Lonely Flowers. I like the material way better than the trailer. Whoever put that trailer together, I would fire you. You’re terrible at putting together trailers. Roywood Junior Special is really funny.
As I have started to perform the best of twenty five list, I’m starting with three categories, best, watchable and not on list. I have roy in the middle tier, so I think by the end of the year won’t make my top tier. And I say that it’s funny, but it’s watchable. It’s not next level. It’s not like, oh my goodness, I can’t believe he really brought it.
It’s a nice, solid special, So right now number one. By the end of the year, it’ll probably be like number twenty one, also entertaining Ari Shaffeir’s America’s Sweetheart, Nice solid set. I laughed quite a few times, a little too long. At some point my brain kicks in and goes, all right, have had enough of this? How much left?
And there were still forty five minutes left? I can’t. That’s more about me than the artist. Because I had the same issue with Gabriel Iglesia’s special Legend of Fluffy, As I wrote to myself, perfectly fine enjoying it, at some point I was like, how much left? And there was still an hour left.
If there had been a half hour left, I absolutely would have finished it. But another hour that’s just like homework to me. So again, this is about me, This is this is my issue. I have comedy add I can’t stay with these things all that long. I get a little restless.
All three of those specials, they are good. They will make the end of the year list, but they will make that middle tier. So if you want a ragging right now, roy Ari Gabe, that’s the entire list to four right now ready. Steady Cut reviewed the specials, and they wrote, in many ways, Shafir is the moral and performative opposite of someone like Gabriel Iglesias, whose latest Netflix special brought in this still young year there’s a feeling of whiplash in going from one or the other. All the stuff that Gabe wouldn’t talk about is mentioned one after another by Shaffir, who reels through a litany of risky subjects like he’s trying to fill a quota.
That’s the point, though, despite the subject choices, America’s Sweetheart that’s already’s special isn’t trying to be a specially offensive Reggie. The underlying theme of everything having a silver lining just ends up being an excuse to riff, usually harmlessly, on the topics people tend to avoid out of fear everything is treated the same. This is a bad thing, but it’s a decent way to frame the jokes. There’s an absurdest quality to it, and it’s a good excuse to touch on a lot of different areas in a way that doesn’t feel overly scattershot. Roy Woo Junior explained to The Rap I decided to start off his Hulu comedy special Lonely Flowers with a despairing statement about modern society’s lack of connection.
Roy said, I enjoy the idea of starting with a joke before saying hello, but I also kind of wanted to almost state the thesis of the paper before presenting my work. We ain’t gonna make it. I feel like if we remain in the same state that we were in as a society, we’re not gonna make it. It’s only gonna get worse. So let me start with a comedic declaration of pessimism, just to make this horribly pessimistic declaration and then hopefully bring it back to a conversation about connection and togetherness.
That was kind of the goal. Why the title We’re the lonely flowers. Like a flower by itself is one of the saddest things you can see, but a group of flowers together is one of the most beautiful things you can see. We’re all lonely, but man, if we came together and we got more connected, would be so much better off. While I had him, they asked him about the Daily Show and he said, I’d never closed the door in any opportunity that gives me growth, which is part of why I accept the CNN job.
It’s an opportunity to still have a conversation at the time during an election. I think at the end of the day, I just wanted an opportunity to do something a little different, and I felt like the best opportunity for that was gonna come with leaving, and if the best opportunity with that comes with returning, then it’s fair to consider. But I’m very, very happy at CNN, and the thing I love about what we’re doing at CNN is that it feels like a deviation from what they do the other six nights of the week on that network. I mentioned yesterday that I would talk about Bill Burr a little more today, I’m going to bump that to tomorrow as we’re quite long here. If you like the Freezer revival on Barrymount Plus, it’s over two seasons and done.
Something’s going on with Apple TVs that completely made up Adventures of Dick Turbin. Production has ceased on season two. Various news reports are curious about the behavior of Noel fielding the Daily Mail. Rights concern is rising for Noel after he abruptly pulled out of filming. A spokesperson for the comedian told Male Online, this is a private and confidential manner regarding our client’s health.
We’re saddened by the decision to cease production, but we can’t make any further comment on the matter. A source close to the show told The Times, Noel has said that he can’t film anymore, and so there was no choice but to stop. It’s not a decision that was taken lightly, and they wouldn’t have gone to this extreme if every possible solution hadn’t been exhausted. People have been very concerned about Noel’s well being and given him time to recover, but there are also significant repercussions. Some people are furious.
So we’ll see what happened there and what led Apple to decide to stop production of the show. Definitely interesting big inauguration today. From a comedy standpoint, Bill Mooh had said he’s not going to pre hate anything and he’ll hope for the best. He told CNN, I’m not going to chase every rabbit down the hole like I did the first term. He’s a kookie guy.
He says a lot of kookie things, and I’m just not going to pre hate anything. I’m just going to hope for the best, and then when something serious happens, I’ll comment on that. A new biography Lorne, the man who invented Saturday Night Live, is coming out. Susan Morrison writes after the twenty sixteen election, the SNL cast and writers felt shame and anger. Many of them believe that SNL bore some responsibility for Trump’s win.
When Michaels had booked Trump to host in twenty fifteen, he, like most people, considered the candidacy a big joke, but it was a lucrative joke. Trump was a ratings magnet. People like to watch him, either in spite of or because of his noxiousness. Michaels felt part of the job was to keep SNL balanced, to urge writers and performers to mock candidates of all stripes. Many on the staff felt SNL was too soft on Trump.
Michael sometimes asked writers to tone down the hors or sketches. At one story meeting, according to Morrison, Tim Robinson smacked the table and said, Lauren has lost his mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head. Yikes. Morrison says that Trump was tickled that Alec Baldwin would play him on SNL, but once the season started, Trump soured on the impression. Morrison writes, those who feel the show had gone criminally soft on Trump felt confused and annoyed.
Michaels told them we did our best. Michael’s reminded of the group that half the country had voted for Trump, and we have a job to do. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it they might like it. To join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.
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