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Caloroga Shark Media. Wow. Hi, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty busy one for a Sunday. We’ll talk SNL in a minute, but I want to lead off with Bill Burr, who on his podcast suggested that we take the billionaires and put them down like dogs.
Let me just play a few words from Bill Burr and then I’ll tell you what he said. They need to be put down, you know, like rabid dogs. So I wanted to play the longer clip, but Bill really dropped a lot of f bombs in it, So let me just read a transcript of it. The amount of people out there that are struggling, he didn’t really do it in that kind of cadence. He spoke more slowly.
Let me see if I can capture it. The amount of people that are struggling out there because of these effing billionaires. They got us all arguing liberal and conservative. We gotta stop doing that. Like I’m so tired of hearing about people going to bed worried about what’s gonna happen next week.
There’s so much efing money in this country. There’s so much work being done, and if you work a whole fing week at a job. You should be able to pay your fing rent. You shouldn’t have to go out and get another fing job and you still be struggling. It’s bad for the country because the kids don’t see their parents and they’re not getting the upbringing they need.
These effing billionaires they need to be put down, you know, like effing rabbit dogs. They’re rabbit with effing greed, just going out and dividing everybody. The efic epitome of this now is like how devices we are that the Gulf of Mexico’s now the Gulf of American and people get excited, like how to f Does that help your wild It’s an empty gesture. It’s also like a racist gesture, like it’s the white guy saying f Mexicans without saying it, you know, like who has an fing problem with Mexicans? What’s the real problem?
This is just such an ugly effing time. If you want to hear Bill yourself. That was on the Monday Morning podcast, I think the Thursday edition, though the Big SNL fifty is tonight. I did a preview episode on Friday if you missed it, some new information A Red carpetge show Today, Willie Geist and Leslie Jones will lead the network’s coverage, with help from correspondent Matt Rogers. Roger co host Lost cultureisas with Bow and Y if you’re not familiar with his name.
The Red Carpet Show is seven pm Eastern tonight. It will air on digital platforms including YouTube, Facebook, insta x, and TikTok.
Meanwhile, Kevin Hart will be the first ever on court MC of the NBA All Star …
During the game, Heart will provide commentary from the court, The NBA said in a press release. He’ll be leveraging his long standing friendships with the league’s prominent players and his legendary status as an entertainer to add a layer of comedic disruption into the live game. Heart will be charged with hyping up fans in the arena and watching around the world, alongside Ernie Johnson and team general managers Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neill, Candace Parker, and Kenny Smith. The All Star Game is tonight at eight o’clock on T and T, TBS, True, Maax and Max. You know it’s a tough call, but you know there’s that big SNL show tonight Kevin.
Sorry, by the way, looking ahead, I will discuss the SNL fifty show on Tuesday. I just I don’t want to do a late night show tonight and I want to properly put it together, so we’ll talk about that on Tuesday. I’m super excited about this, and you know I’m super excited when British comedy makes the first half of the podcast. Channel four has announced a new sketch show from Mitchell and Webb. If those names don’t ring a bell to you, they’re the guys from the sitcom Peep Show, and they’re the guys from a previous sketch show called the Mitchell and Webb.
Look now, if you’re still like I don’t know who those guys are, you’ve seen a clip. There are two Nazis, and one Nazi asked the other Nazi. Are we the baddies? That’s who Mitchell and webar Mitchell and Webbing. A statement said when Channel four asked us to do another sketch show, we were startled, but mused and available.
It’s a perilous time for the industry and so it’s our hope that relaunching the trickiest genre of comedy is a brilliant piece of counterintuitive commissioning. I think that’s fantastic. Now you might be asking yourself, Johnny Mack, what would it sound like if weird Al sang that song with the chorus eight six seven five three oh nine it’s called Jenny, what would it sound like? Well, let me tell you what would sound like. I got John.
Big It’ll change ex. Seven eight six seven. That’s from a fundraiser the other night. The middle Aged Dad Jam Band, which started out in David Wayne’s garage, has become like a thing. There are a bunch of these, but if you’re on YouTube, you’ll you’ll come across middle Aged Dad jam Band videos.
They got together to support two charities, United Way of Greater Los Angeles Wildfire Response Fund and a Pasadena community Fountain Eaton Fire Relief and Recovery Fund. A lot of people got up and performed with the band, including Nick Thune, Will Forte, Randall Park, Tarren Killum, and weird Al Yankovic. The night also featured stand up from Jeff Ross and Mosha Kasher. The entire things on YouTube if you want to check it out. Ari Shafer spoke to Fox News about pushing the envelope and said it’s like, okay, I mean, and I could do easier bits that wouldn’t make people leave angry, but I really want a hard fought laugh.
Those are my favorite laughs where there’s really a risk of making somebody go FU. My dad died in that area. He said, if no one’s walking out, you haven’t found the line yet. For me, the stuff I like is right on that line where a few people are leaving angry, and I’m like, good riddance. Icon versus Icon had a fantastic interview with Felipe Esparza.
I share that in the Facebook group. Earlier in the week, a Daily Comedy News podcast group, Solippy said there are some comedians out there been doing comedy a long time. They have a killer hour they do on the road, but it’s never been recorded. They’re great comics, but no one has seen their one hour special, so they’re the unsung heroes. They’re on the road killing it bro.
People come to see them and are blown away. I do the same thing they do, but people have seen my jokes already, so I have to go out there but naked, with no material and try to come up with all new jokes. All of a sudden for raging fool. That’s his new Netflix special. I see the jokes that my wife edited out.
I work the material that didn’t go up From there, I write topical jokes like President Trump wants to make Greenland part of the United States, and they want Canada to be the fifty first state. But I live in California. We want to be a province of Canada. We want maple syrup all day. How did that sound the Vancouver Dodgers.
So I do have topical jokes to play along with the way, and when the topic is over, I just replace it with a new topical joke along the way. I’m also building a real set I’ll have in a year and a half. It’s always evolving, really really good stuff by icon versus icon. Here. NBR caught up with Ronnie ching the topic, seeking affirmation through crowd responses.
Ronnie said, we are looking for a good reaction to a joke, specifically laughter. Yeah, clapter kind of sucks, but we comedians don’t believe in our own marketing. Someone told me the best comics think their material is bad, and there’s something to that. I think. I don’t know any great comic who’s like, ah, my material is the best in the world.
You know, you’re always looking at other comics and going, man, that guy’s really funny. I need to write a better bit. You know, you never feel like you have the greatest joke in the world. You’re always impressed by someone else’s joke. That’s how I feel.
Anyway. Ronnie talked about his parents finding out he was a comedian. They found out when he got hired on The Daily Show. They didn’t know what it was, but after I told him I got hired, they googled it and they found out about it, and they were like, oh, you know, this is an important show, this is a famous show. And I’m like, yeah, I know.
Matt Baloney on The Town podcast had a conversation with Bill Simmons and they revealed Ted Sarandos, the CEO of a Netflix, has kind of sort of thought about taking on SNL. Baloney says rumors have been around that Serrandos might launch a Friday or Sunday night sketch comedy show, perhaps even grabbing some SNL talent, but has too much respect for Loren Michael’s to actually do it. But post lorn all bets are off Baloney says NBC will walk right into it because once Lauren leaves, they’ll start cost cutting on that show because it’s hugely expensive for what it is. Lauren has been able to beat them back, but they’ll start to cut costs and Ted will recognize it and he’ll swoop in. Simmons said, if Netflix had done this two years ago on Friday Night, so the GUESSNL would have been in real trouble, they would have gotten the jump on them.
Good insight from Bill. SNL just goes away from mid May to late September, and every four years you have these political conventions. That’s the most fun part to parody. Netflix could have just launched a Friday night SNL show last May and crushed it for four months, and by the time SNL came back, it would have felt like a dinosaur. He’s right, that is smart.
I some more stuff about that Peter k heckling thing. Short version UK comedian Peter k kicked out some hecklers the other night and people are upset about it. Brian Logan in The Guardian writes, this is where the story turns from your regular comic versus heckler phreakas to something uglier, the more so because K’s brand is bloke next Door homeliness, not Jimmy Carr malice. It’s hard not to consider this incident in the context of recent developments in live comedy. The status of heckling of comedians interaction with the crowd is never settled.
Dealing with interruptions used to be a badge of honor. Then as the art form gentrified, heckling fell out of favor. But now, thanks to social media, where comedians seller shows on the strength of their quote unquote crowd work and indeed orchestrate audience participation for just that purpose, the cut and thrust of comic crowd backchat is back in vogue. Yes, TikTok comedians, social media people, you crowd work people have ruined it for everyone. In a world where younger comics that would me editorializing back to The Guardian.
In a world where younger comic study how to do it just right, this crass instance of crowd work on K’s part looks all the more of a misstep. He’ll survive it. We’re not in Michael Richard’s territory here, but Kay’s men other people reputation, the comic would all love to break bread with garlic or otherwise will be tainted, And I thought this was interesting. A study on computational humor argues that AI is already as good as late night jokes. I agree, especially on slow news days, I’ll tap into the late night jokes here just to give the podcast some length, and occasionally I used to have the late bot write some jokes.
The AI was tasked to make some jokes about evergreen news headlines that wouldn’t get stale. Before the testing was finished, both the joke writing AI and the human were given three days to write punchlines and eliminating any speed advantage that the AI has. Actual comedians told the joke in a club environment. The comics were given the jokes in random order, no clues as to their authors. The comics told the audience they were writing some jokes written by a friend.
In each set, the professional comic delivered eight jokes, half by the human, half by the AI. In the first sample, three of the four highest ranking jokes, including the top joke, were by the AI. The main conclusion of the study, AI written jokes performed in front of a live audience elicited laughter within the same range as jokes written by a professional human. So I used one of my AI programs I use for various things here at the podcast company, and I asked it to write three late night jokes. I will share them with you.
Remember that I am not in case you can’t tell a comedian, I am not trained in stand up. I’m also doing these in a basement. I’m not doing them in a comedy club, So you guys aren’t warmed up. There’s no laughter treact to but all that, I don’t think these are pretty bad. These are from the AI.
Let me try and tell them properly. You see, Trump is trying to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Golf America. Yeah, it hit a snag. Apparently renaming bodies of water requires more paperwork than pleading the fifth. Finally, someone is brave enough to stand up to big geography.
You know what Trump’s got to do next? He has to get the Pacific Ocean to show its birth certificate. Trump’s also planning to rename Cubaa, South moor Alago and Venezuela. He just wants to call it that place with the badombres dot com. And that is your comedy news.
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