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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack, I am psych for today’s show. We had a couple of big surprise appearances on late night, and I can’t wait to tell you about story number two. Well, let’s start with the Daily Show. A surprise guest walked on, got a big I mean big ovation, and here’s a clip.
I’ve clipped it down for pacing, but you’ll recognize this voice. That young John Oliver. Can you here to offer America your wisdom and council? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, John, I’m here to gloat. Had it’s little fun, didn’t you experimenting with democracy?
You fought so hot to get a wife, was acting up, throwing all that tea into the harbor. You still owe us for that. By the way, you told everybody that you were going to be different, you were gonna turn out. Look, you mean old dad, who’s so horrible to you when you were growing up, So we saw back. Well, let you spend your wild teen years experimenting with your ridiculous ideas of checks and balances, because deep down we knew that once you’ve got that nonsense out of your system, you’d be backed.
In fact, if I may sing from Hamilton. I’d really, I’d appreciate. Not that’s fair. What I’m saying is, let me be the first to welcome America to its monarchy era. Congratulations everyone, you can now take your place in the pantheon of great empires alongside the British, the Roman, the Klingon, Wakanga whatever one.
Babar the Elephants was the ruler of if against. Everyone on to say, don’t fight being a monarchy, embrace it. Kings get stuff done? Is it stuff you want done? Not necessarily, but they do move quick.
They taste cooming at lunch and take over an entire continent by dinner time. That’s how the British rule for everyone else there not like us. I see what you did there, country that doesn’t want to be an empire, You’re doing a pretty effing good impression right now. Invasions, economic exploitations, and now suggesting turning Goss into a beachfront casino. Even King George would have been like, I don’t know, guys, feel like the situation is a little bit more complicated than that, and I’m literally dying of medieval breen disease.
Meanwhile, on The Tonight Show, with Jimmy Fallon. David Letterman showed up and was the David Letterman that I’m a fan of. This was Dave deconstructing loose like classic Dave, even though despite the gray hair and the beard, reminded me of NBC Dave more than CBS Dave. I’ve clipped this down. A lot of it is visual, especially at the end they start throwing stuff at the stage.
You’ll hear. There’s also a bit where Fallin asked Dave if he wants to read any jokes. I’ve clipped out where Dave flipped through a whole bunch of Q cards going no, no, no, no no. But let me give you a taste of this. This is David Letterman on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
David Letterman, what are you? What are you doing here? Is this the twenty third hour of the Today Show? No, no, no, this this is this is the Tonight Show. Jimmy, yeah, my, Paul, what are you doing here?
You know it’s a funny story. How you’ve ever taken too much ambient and you know you wake up somewhere with no clue how the hell you got there? Wow, you’ve been reading my diary. Listen, Paul and I Right, Paul used to do a show. Sure did pretty much exactly like this.
Yes, yeah, wait, we didn’t do the Chuck E cheese crap, but we. Thought there was something. It’s very similar. Since this is your here, would you like to tell some jokes? Oh, I’m good.
Thanks, all right, that’s in see. You, Dave. What are you doing now that you’re retired? Oh? Like, I need to tell you TikTok wite an enormous deal with the Chinese government.
Yeah, how about we make a viral video right now? Oh my god, I’m dreaming. Yes, let’s do this. Can you help us out? Oh?
This would be great, a viral video. Yes, there’s a viral video, exciting vertically. Okay, what good? All right? But what I would really like to do is hit you in the face with a tortilla.
Yeah you know. Now wait a minute, I don’t. I’m not promoting violent No, it’s a TikTok that and typically I travel with tortillas. Uh not tonight. I left him in the corn.
Anybody, do we have anybody here with anybody have a tortilla? Do we have it? Okay, I’ll get one. You want to say that one’s. Thank you very much.
Interesting one from The Campus Times, which is the University of Rochester’s student newspaper. A student went to see a show and wrote, Michael Chase Winterfest set welcomes lackluster comedy and announces his exit from SNL.
Now let’s tap the brakes there.
Chay, pretty much every year announces that he’s leaving SNL. That said, if you’re going to leave SNL, I think this is the year to walk off after this big fiftieth anniversary thing this weekend and the rest of the season, I think from here it’s diminishing returns Louren Michael’s eighty as he’s sticking around, I guess so. But I could see some massive cast departures after this year. I because he Bowen walking away. You know.
On the one hand, if you’re Jostin Shay, its steady, works it there for another ten years. But on the other hand, I could see them going, eh, it’s time to get out anyway. The Campus Times writes chase performance was part of the big Winterfest weekend, which usually features a big ticket performer as a featured performer. For this year, there was an air of uncertainty about chase potential for stand up comedy, since many a t had only seen him on SNL. Still, as it was the big ticket performer, the first floor was nearly filled with people.
Does that suggests there’s a second floor that’s empty and the first floor was nearly filled? Yikes? I feel like the writer here is inexperienced in comedy and means well next paragraph. The event was slated to start around eight, but Chase set foot on stage about ten minutes after the start time. Okay, I mean that’s not crazy.
Have you been to a live show? So he walked on what eight O nine, eight eleven, it’s okay? Jay began by talking about how he wasn’t used to doing stand up performances before starting by making jokes about Rochester. He seemed at first to be well received by the audience. The student right says, I experienced his work live.
I thought the performance was relatively stereotypical in terms of subject matter topics running the local environment, jabs at racism, hammed up personal experiences, cultural references, sex jokes, and more. He seemed to have prepared a few jokes, but around the middle of his set, his jokes seemed to lose direction. Chase seemed to fill the crowd silence with awkward laughs and rambled as a replacement for unwritten ja ooakes. Sounds to me like Chay used this as half a workout in a half empty room. None of this is crazy to me, Campus Times continues.
At the beginning of the night, Chay mentioned that he was sober, but by the end of the night he reminded me of a rambling drunk, mumbling under his breath and laughing to himself. Notably, Chay mentioned that he may be leaving SNL. He had been considering leaving for several seasons, but only publicly and definitively brought it up during the performance, quoting Chay here, and we’ll see if this gets media pick up. This is my last season. I’m not coming back.
Don’t worry. I’m done. It’s over for me. It’s been so much fun. It’s a little emotional.
It’s bittersweet. We learned. The night was supposed to end at nine, but Chay extended his stay for another twenty five minutes, talking to the audience and going off on small tangents. But the Campus Times writes, instead of being captivating, chase performance held the concert hall captive as the whole emptied out. I overheard shatter of how the end felt like Chay was just running out the clock.
While the set wasn’t the worst comedy I’d ever seen, in retrospect, it lacked of uniqueness and dragged at the end unnecessarily. To me, it sounds like Chay just was throwing, you know, three qu order his heat in a not full room. Not crazy to me? Will he actually leave SNL? Who knows?
Amy Schumer was on Bravo and had advice for Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars. Schumer said, my advice to him would be to make sure there’s no beef beforehand with people like Chris Rock and Will Smith. Just maybe check that out. That’s the advice I wish I was given.
And then as I read that, so the first time I saw the headline, my brain trans…
Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars like that’s a thing that happened. If I walked up to you today in twenty twenty five and said, hey, you know who’s hosting the Oscars, Amy Schumer, wouldn’t you look at me like I’m insane? Boy? She has really fallen off a cliff, Like there’s no way in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, Amy Schumer’s hosting the Oscars, No way, It’s totally forgot that that happened. I mean, you think of that night.
You almost picture Chris Rock hosting the night, because you know, that was the big story in twenty twenty two. That was the year Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda Sykes were the hosts of the Oscars. Slash Film reports that Amy Schumer’s new comedy is number one on Netflix. Schumer number one in forty eight countries, including the United States. Slash Film says, in fact, in those forty eight countries, Kind of Pregnant has been number one since its debut in thirty three of them.
As of Monday, kind of Pregnant was charting in ninety two countries, well only Vietnam. Refusing to indulge Schumer’s comedy stylings, well oh, the Vietnamese did watch enough to send it to the number eight spot for a little bit. Kind of Pregnant is currently number two in a further twenty four countries. Congratulations, Amy Schumer’d say, I’ve got a story here about Pete Davidson and tattoos. Will pump that to tomorrow.
There’s a lot of felipe as spar as the stuff too. Let me hold on to that because I want to dive in on this and I think this might take a minute. Peter Kay, UK comedian, seems to be embroiled in a little kerf fluffle, so the Sun newspaper reports Peter’s doing a show. He’s repeatedly interrupted by a heckler screaming out garlic bread, apparently one of Peter Kay’s catchphrases. Peter responds to the heckler, garlic bread, kick him in the effing face?
Will ya? Everyone around you was thinking, jerky face cleaning that up. Peter then demands a light to be put on the heckler, according to the Sun newspaper, and points him out to security guard Keith, declaring, give us a wave. Jerk face cleaning it up again? Look at him?
He doesn’t know where he is, and then leads a chant of your going out. Peter encourages people to film the person and then calls him garlic dead. Peter continues, he’s not laughing now, is he. At that point, a woman from the other side of the arena starts yelling, prompting Peter to say, Christ Almighty, bloody hell, I love. Saturday’s all right, love, we heard you take her out and all, and points her out to the security guard as quote the woman in the black and white top from Debenham’s Blue Cross.
The Sun reports that at that point the audience stopped laughing. I’m not sure what that reference means. I tried googling it can’t figure it out. I’m a dumb American. If you know what that means, my email is in the show notes or hit me up on the Facebook group.
Would love to know what the reference from Debenham’s Blue Cross means. It seems to be some sort of store. Anyway, the audience stops laughing. Peter says, you’re going to Flower now and all. You’ve upset every bugger out there.
Go on on out, you pop. You’ve missed the ending and everything. What a shame, you effing big gob drinking de icer go on Lisa Riley f off. The woman appeared confused. Peter k tells the crowd to cheer if she was effing annoying, before telling the woman no refunds as she was ejected.
So the Lisa Riley reference. Lisa is an English actress, comedian and TV presenter, best known for portraying the role of Mandy Dingle on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Lisa Riley responded to the joke. Riley posted on Instagram a photo of herself that says, keep calm and laugh It’s funny. In a follow up post on Tuesday, she told her followers she was not offended, saying she loves Peter kay To Pieces.
Please draw a line under this now. I’m not offended, never was offended. I love Peter kay to Piece’s laughter is my favorite. Man Edison the Woman the second Heckler, twenty five year old Meyer told the Manchester Evening News, I do feel he was on about my weight. I know Lisa Riley has lost a lot of weight and she looks great, but she used to be a bit bigger.
I didn’t used to be this big, and I’ve put on a bit of weight on. I’ve had a child. I’m self conscious about that, so to go to a show and feel like you’re having the mick taken out of you because of your weight, I was just a bit shocked. I’m annoyed and upset about it. The whole arena was laughing.
I think they thought it was part of the show, but there was a nastiness to his voice. It was like he was trying to get the crowd against me. It just wasn’t nice, to be honest. I did have a cry about it after I got to the hotel room. I was just so upset.
It was just a very rubbish situation. My whole family was disgusted by it. On Tuesday, Peter released a statement to Good Morning Britain. The statement read, she did look remarkably like Lisa Riley. I didn’t realize that was an insult.
There comes a point when dealing with repeated heckler simply isn’t enough. It’s not something you ever want to do, but becomes a point where it’s no longer fair to everyone around. An audience member said the audience was mixed. Some couldn’t believe it, and we’re obviously annoyed. Others were laughing, either thinking it was part of the show or going along with it.
It was out of order and he was clearly annoyed at something. There was no need to escalate the situation of that extreme. Another attendee on Twitter said I lost a lot of respect for Peter Ka after the way he treated the heckler. No manners, a huge waste of money. Another fan said Kay killed the atmosphere in the arena.
Peter Phillips, the first heckler, was evicted alongside his son after shouting garlic bread. Peters told Male Online it was me who shouted out garlic bread. A lot of people just stood up and walked out when they saw how we were dragged out. The first half of the show, I shouted out garlic bread and they zoomed in on the camera on me, and I put my thumbs up and thought everything was okay. I got no warning or anything.
People around us were laughing and joking. Then the second half of the show, I said it again, garlic bread, and that’s when the security guards came over to me and said, you’re gonna have to leave. Peter Kay doesn’t like people shouting out yet, dude, you’re not part of the show. Just watch the show. You’re not part of it.
I said, you’re joking, as I thought they were gonna warn me off, but they stood me up brought me to the stairs, which were dead steep. I have massive bruises in my leg. I haven’t been able to walk properly at work today. My arms are covered in bruises. Apparently some state and police officers spoke to the heckler.
I said to the officers, We’ve just been thrown out brutally, and all I’ve done is shout out garlic bread. If we’d done anything wrong, the police would have arrested us. I just can’t understand it. All I said was garlic bread. That’s my favorite joke of his.
I’ve loved Peter k forever. I’ve watched him on car Share, I watch him on TikTok all the time, and I’ve always wanted to see him live. I loved watching him. People came up to us when we were outside and sat on the steps, saying they left because of that. I’m absolutely disgusted for comedian not even give us a warning or bit of banter back.
I never said anything abruptly and when I did shout it out, I waited until he stopped talking, not in the middle of his joke or anything. There were so many thousands of people in there, we were getting pinned to the floor like rag dolls, throwing us around like pieces of meat. As my friends said today, they’re not a good comedian if they can’t handle a bit of banter or shut someone down with a one liner. Dude, it’s a comedy show. Just go to the show and watch the comedian perform.
You’re not part of the show. Some audience members agree. One told The Mail Online the guy he chucked out absolutely deserved it. He continued to make a nuisance of himself as the show went on. For those of us who sat beside him.
He ruined the gig, as for the lady who a few seats behind, and the people she sat next, who also commented that she’d be in a huge pain and was disrupting the show for others. I’m glad Peter took a stand and removed them, as the show is being spoiled for a lot of people, And if people were so offended at the heckler’s being chucked out, wat did the crowd near them cheer loudly when they were removed another audience member. We all clapped when he got rid of them, and Peter, in his own manner, dealt with it very well. I thought he gave us what he wanted. It’s what we all waited over two years for.
All right.
In other news, Vulture has a long article on Lorden Michael’s I read it.
I don’t have anything to say about it, but I did share it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. On Monday, NBC announced a lineup of former cast members who will be on the special on Sunday Night. Those include Eddie Murphy, Tina fe Seth Myers, Will Ferrell, Andy Samberg, and Adam Sandler.
Also returning Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Geene Curtin, and Loraine Newman.
On Gossip Corner, Bill Belichick’s girlfriend hung out with Nikki Glaser at the Super Bowl. Just some pictures, no news story there. On page six, Shaq wants the next roast to be about him. He says, because I don’t get sensitive and that girl that killed Tom Brady, I want her. What’s her name?
Her name is Nikki Glaser? Nicki, you can say whatever you want about me, my mom and my kids. Let’s do it. Yeah, because I don’t get sensitive. I like to laugh.
I think Tom got a little offended with some of the jokes, but I can take it all. Are you a fan of Green Day? While they’re making a new comedy movie inspired by their early days touring before Dukie became a hit. The film is currently in production in Oklahoma. South By Southwest previews some of their comedy stuff that includes Scott Ackerman’s comedy Bang Bang Live podcast.
I understand if that’s super popular in my comedy career. It’s the only show that I’ve ever walked out of because I was bored. I was there with Mark, my host, and we were in Chicago, and we were staring at each other and we’re like, are we gonna actually leave a show? Because we don’t leave shows. We actually and we were like, there’s just not enough time.
It’s just it was bad. I got people like it, obviously, I’m not a fan. James Adomian, We’ll play Elon Musk in a show quote unquote. Elon kicks off this year’s Comedy Festival, joined by his most trusted advisors to share his plans for the future of douge, social networking, and whatever else you can think of. The south By Southwest Press release goes out of its way to say Elon Musk again, definitely not the real Elon.
There’s also a spotlight on LA Comedy. They’re going to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Hollywood Improv. Interesting choice of comediing here celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of LA’s legendary Hollywood Improv returning to the festival with snl Alum, Melissa via Signor and other club favorites. I’m not sure Melissa’s the first one I think of when I think of as improv, but who knows. The Allsioned Theater, the center of LA’s bursioning clown movement, is bringing their flavor of experimental, outrageous performances to the Comedy Fest, and south By encourages you to donate to the World Central Kitchens relief efforts.
Definitely a good cause there that I’ve talked about a few times on my other podcast, Five Good News Stories, where three times a week Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, I tell you five news stories which are all good news. If you want to check that one out, So I am familiar with what the world Central Kitchen has been up to. All right, that is your comedy news for today. Bounced a couple of stories, but better that than, like you know, earlier in the week. It was a little thin, so nice to have a good, robust episode.
We’ll see you tomorrow.