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Caalarogashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll talk about Andy Schumer’s movie in the second half. Let’s start with Joe Rogan. There’s been some back and forth on what went down or didn’t go down with Kamala Harris not appearing on Rogan’s podcast.
I had mentioned the other day about a book, and according to Rogan, those books authors never reached out to Rogan for his side of the story. Joe said, they supposedly talked to one hundred and fifty people about this, but they didn’t talk to us. That’s kind of crazy. Joe explained his version of what went down. Here’s a lengthy clip.
I have made some edits to it for pacing. It’s a five minute clip that I’ve cut down for f bombs. I try and avoid those on this program. And the guest stepped on Joe Rogan a few times as Joe spoke. But let’s listen to Joe.
This is how it worked. Trump was really easy to book, like super easy. We offered one day. He said, yes, that was it. There was no what are we going to talk about?
How long is it going to be? Is it going to be edited. There was nothing. What’s the waiver here, give me that waiver? Sign it.
It was so easy. So he was already booked. They never committed to doing the show. So all this talk, there was another thing. They said that the reason why they did the Beyonce thing, the Beyonce event in Houston, was so that they could be in Texas to do my show.
They never agreed to do the show. None of that’s true. This was really important. Even after Trump went on, they offered for me to come to DC and do a show with Kamala. But even then it was the same deal.
It was only like forty five minutes to an hour, and you know, it was not on my set. And I said that, look, he did it here, we should probably do it here, like if it’s possible to do it here. Obviously, when he did it, it had an enormous result. I’m willing to do the same thing for her. I wanted to release both of them on the same day.
This was my goal. I was even trying to figure out if there was a way that I could do it, and I even offered to do it late that night. So the night that Trump came on, I’m like what if we do her like when she’s done in Texas, if she came here, but no one ever committed to doing it. This is really important because they keep pretending that I lied, or I did this or I did that. No one, they never committed to doing it.
We offer it, we went through. I’ve got a whole by the way, we have all the receipts. By the way, of course, I have a whole list of conversations that took place. They never said she was going to do it, But I think it’s someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did it, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect. Nate Burgetzi’s doing a cruise with fans next year.
It’s called Nateland at Sea. It’ll sail from Tampa to Coasta Maya, Mexico, from February fifth through the ninth, so one year away. It will feature quotes a slew of comedians, along with live music and even magic before by Nate’s dead. Resale tickets for the cruise are February ninth and February sixteenth. The public sale begins February nineteenth.
The comedians include John Christ, Dusty Sleigh and Derek Stroop. There will also be a Southern Spelling Bee and a belly flop contest. The cruise starts at twelve eighty two per person based on double occupancy. In case you’re curious, The fair includes on board meals, drinks like regular coffee and non press juices, the comedy shows and more. We’re told to prepare to laugh until your side’s hurt as we cruise our way to sunny Mexico.
Matt Rife and Paul Elia have announced a new Low Key comedy series. It’ll premiere on February sixteenth on Patreon. Low Ki sees Matt and Paul act as hosts of a night of comedy, mainly improving their material along the way. They’ll introduce a number of other stand up comedians who will do the same. This one was recorded during the twenty twenty four and Netflix as a Joke Festival.
Pretty Good lineup Whitney Cummings, Fahim Anwar, Ian Edwards Lunel, Francisco Ramos and t J. Miller. The whole thing was directed by Eric Griffin. Carol Leefer is the guest on the Daily Beasts Good One podcast. Carol’s a name known to us older folks who are around in the eighties.
You younger folks probably don’t know the name. Some say she was the inspiration for the Alain character on the Seinfeld sitcom, and The Daily Beast asked her about that, and she said, well, I know Jerry has said that. Look, we have a unique relationship. We dated early on at the beginning of my stand up career in the beginning of his, and since then we really only went out for a year or so, but we’ve stayed very good friends. And I think in them talking about the genius of the show, to have the woman on the show who’s not only a friend but some of that Jerry once dated makes for an interesting relationship.
So in that regard, if you’re like, yeah, maybe I was the inspiration, Sure sounds like it to me. Amber Ruffin will be this year’s host of the White House Correspondents Dinner. A spokesperson said Amber’s unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate. Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the breast while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the isle. And the journalists who cover them.
It is unclear if President Trump will make this one. During his first term, he did not attend the dinner. There are those that believe that it was a White House correspondents to dinner many moons ago when President Obama made some jokes about Trump, and it was at that moment Trump decided to run for office himself to get back at everybody. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that’s how the story goes. Late Night I wrote about Desi Leiitick hosting The Daily Show, and I think she should actually be the host.
Desi told Late Night her I watched John and all the corresponds on the show all through my twenties, and I thought, this is what I want to do for her character. She says, I like to say I’m overly confident and underinformed. Not that she’s not smart, but she didn’t do her homework. She explains, when you host, you’re a version of yourself. You have to bring a certain amount of authenticity to just throw away the armor of a character that was the part of the unknown for me.
Can I do the job just be funny as myself? It makes no sense at all. That I would feel comfortable doing this, but for some reason I do. My goal every time I set at the desk is just to be present, Just be in the moment. That’s my little mantra before going out there.
So far, I’ve been able to just enjoy every moment of it. Does He explained some advice she got from John Stewart. It’s not about abandoning your humanity and your empathy. Don’t put pressure on yourself to be the resistance, to say the perfect thing to respond every story. Just go out there and try to make the funniest and smart to shows you can, and don’t abandon your humanity.
People ask me how we’re going to cover Trump two point zero. I say, we don’t even know what we’re going to cover tonight. It’s so volatile. Stars and Stripes caught up with Joe Koy. He was touring military bases in Guam and Japan.
Joe said, when I go out there and know how much the show means to these people, this is my way of saying thank you to those who serve I get to be a comic around the world because you guys are making that happen for me. Sometimes people will take things for granted, we don’t take pride in what we got. And that’s the one thing I love about these service members. They’re proud of what they do, They’re proud of their bases, and they’re proud of their people. Each base was like this big giant show and tell, and they went above and beyond.
It was just incredible. You may recall Joe Cooy when sostud the Golden Globes and told the joke about Taylor Swift. Jack Whitehall has joined the list of people who say Prince Harry ghosted them after Megan Markle showed up. The British comedian once considered themselves good friends with Prince Harry when Harry was a bachelor. Jack told an Australian radio show that he wasn’t quite in the inner circle.
We had a few wild nights out with Prince Harry. Jack’s father, Michael, has previously suggested that Jack’s Royal exile might have something to do with a joke he made at the twenty fifteen Royal Variety performance where he called Harry Ginger nuts. As I’ve mentioned from time to time, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the British Royals seven days a week, and yeah, we’re gonna talk about this story. Sure, okay.
Amy Schumer wanted us to talk about her, and so we shall. Let’s start with the reviews. Stay with me for this whole segment because I need you to hear my complete thoughts here before you just decide, Oh, John, just be to go, buddaby Shooter. I will start with the Hollywood Reporter, which is an industry trade and generally positive about everything. Their headline, kind of Pregnant review Amy Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kind of dull.
Most of the headlines did some sort of kind of pun. The hollyod Reporter writes there’s a version of this story that finds complexity in surprise heart and the concept, but kind of Pregnant prefers to stay on the surface. That shaloness puts more pressure on the comedy, which is challenging because Kind of Pregnant is not exceptionally funny either. Most of the lasts come from the sporting characters, and for all its good intentions, the movie is so formulaic that it verges on dull. We know that Laney will eventually be find out, but the narrative struggles to keep us curious, and the direction can’t recoup the lost momentum.
The results is a film that not only seems on sure if its purpose, but loses steam before it ever really gets going. Leisurebite dot com their headline kind of Pregnant review less comedy, more secondhand embarrassment. They write, with a cast as wonderful as this, this film could have done a lot better by utilizing them to the fullest, but all we get is a film that’s simply a waste of time for viewers. There’s no flow in the way things play out, no chemistry between the characters, a messy sex scene, fake characters that only spoil the whole mood, and more. There is more downside to this film than there is any good, which only pushes forth our disappointment.
Kind of Pregnant is the kind of film you’d rather skip than give a watch. Despite the wonderful cast, the overall picture is a mess and something that’s only fit to watch where there’s nothing else to watch. Two stars out of five. Film Feeder gave it a one out of five, saying mind numbingly predictable as it is, you can tell from the moment Schumer’s character begins wearing her fake bump, that the truth will out at some point, as it often does in film centered around a big, fat lie. They write, it isn’t even how desperately unfunny it is, with plenty of physical gags that border on ridiculous, and some set pieces where the biggest jokes are heavily telegraphed, in between scenes that rely on people acting overly weird and simply shouting every other line for comedic effect, as is the Happy Mass in Way.
Rather, it’s the fact that such a badly constructed script has come from Schumer herself, a far cry from her earlier and much funnier works ten or so years ago. The Guardian gave it two out of five. Their headline kind of pregnant review. I am Mey Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kind of disappointing, they write. Let me be clear, I’m always rooting for Amy Schumer, though sometimes she makes it difficult.
When she’s good, she’s great for the most part. That was on inside Amy Schumer kind of pregnant. Please with the hit. Schumer’s known for shameless physical comedy, frank discussion of bodies, brash, refusal to play good girl, but feel stuck in the past, unable to generate new sparks. There’s just not that much funny to be found here.
And you’ll probably see a review in your local newspaper. This is all sourced from the same place with the Associated Press. This one came up a lot in my search in many local newspapers against sourcing the AP. They gave it two and a half stars out of four. They wrote, and this is the best review I saw again, two and a half out of four.
Kind of pregnant is kind of good. Now I thought this was interesting. I hadn’t realized this. Director Tyler Spindel, is Adam Sandler’s nephew. Welcome to the business.
Everybody. Everybody knows somebody. Sandler is a producer on the film that his nephew directs. I will come back to that point. Tyler doesn’t do anything to advance the movie comedy, a languishing proposition in recent years with few screen exceptions, but he crucially gives his performers plenty of space to be themselves.
If Knocked Up captured the comedy of getting unexpectedly pregnant, kind of pregnant bodies, the pain of wishing you were okay. So, John, you obviously hate Amy Schumer and you’re just here to beat up on Amy Schumer. I get it. I get why you think that. Give me a second here.
My problem with Amy this week is how she went about promoting this. I just I don’t know. Maybe’am, maybe it’s just the middle aged dad in me. I didn’t need to know that you were trading favors with a baseball player. Remember that, that’s how we started promoting this.
I don’t need to know what you’re planning with your husband to do. The night before Valentine’s Day, the ozempic, it was just all like, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Well we looked, and the movie’s not good. I shared in the Facebook group. Back in twenty twelve, we were doing a town hall at Serious Exam.
I even found a still you could see me in the background. Lest you think I just make up stories on this podcast. So it was twenty twelve. We were doing a town hall for Carol Burnett and we needed someone to host it. And the idea was, Okay, let’s connect the generations.
Who is today’s Carol Burnett? And in twenty twelve we picked Amy Schumer and it went really well, did well in the press. I believe that’s the only time I worked with Amy. She’s fine, definitely wasn’t looking to be anybody’s friend. I remember her asking if she can have an office to go into the zone so that she could get her head into the right space to do the broadcast.
Not uncommon. Jim Brewery, who I spent a lot of time with over the years, I’ve explained, you know, he would do that before a live show. So not crazy that Amy went off by herself. But I’ve had other comedians who were like just hanging and then you turn the light on and they just go it’s neither here nor there. So I didn’t really spend a lot of time with her.
Definitely didn’t find her one of the most fun people I’ve ever spent time around, again because she was getting her head into the show. But as I was thinking about what I wanted to say today, I remembered we tried to hire her before that. I’ve lost track of the time. My number two at Sirius was this guy Rory who’s fantastic, and he had gotten my ear that we should hire this up and coming New York comedian Amy Schumer. And he convinced me this was a good idea, and I was on board with it, and we had agreed.
If I remember correctly, I’m going to say a dollar amount here. I haven’t said this, but you know it’s over a decade now at this time, Hey, bosses, I want to give Amy Schumer a once a week, one hour show. I need budget for it. Oh really, well, I’m not sure we have budget for it. How much is the dollar amount?
John, two hundred dollars? You see, back at the old place, we had our ears to the ground right, we would do this. People would be out the clubs, we’ll go up to the festivals. We would talk to other comedians. We were always ahead of the curve with who was going to be next, and Amy was on the next list, so we wanted to give her a show.
Now. Would Amy have continued to do a show fifteen years later for two hundred dollars a week? Of course not. But the idea was, let’s ride this for now and then at some point she’ll be like, hey, guys, I can’t do this anymore and we’ll all move on. But at that time that dollar amount made sense to me, to Rory and to whoever Rory was talking about in her camp.
The bosses wouldn’t give me the two hundred dollars. There’s one boss in particular, I remember having a conversation about such things, and he one day asked me to see if Chris Rock could do a comedy special for free, for free? You want him to do it for free? Yeah, you know, we’ll help promote his career. We’re gonna help promote Chris Rock’s career.
He’s gonna just burn an hour of material for free. Now, as the years went by, you probably heard reports of how much Chris Rock was paid by Netflix. Let me see if I can get an actual number. A twenty sixteen report in The Hollywood Reporter said, Chris Rock did a forty million dollar deal with Netflix. But Chris Rock is supposed to do raw Dock comedy of Favor for free.
You know we’re gonna promote his career, help Rock’s career. Oh boy, so I’m forty million dollars short of what I’m gonna need to pay Chris Rock. You think I get two hundred dollars a week. Two hundred dollars times fifty weeks a year, by the way, is ten grand assuming he does. I don’t know forty shows.
We’m talking about eight thousand dollars a here, guys for companies selling thirteen dollars subscriptions. But anyway, that show didn’t happen. So unless you come away this week going Johners hates Amy Schumer, John tried to hire Amy Schumer. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
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