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Callarogashock Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It is a busy one today. George Lopez has a special out and his press is not going great. Kevin Hart got destroyed for his work at the NBA All Star Game.
Jerry Seinfeld would have made front page news if not for Saturday Night Live. But we will start with SNL fifty and I’ll do the other stories in the second half of the podcast. In case you missed it, Monday mid morning, I dropped a bonus episode that was my initial reaction to SNL fifty, so if you want to check that out, please do.
Also, in case you missed it Saturday around midday as well, I recapped the mu…
Steve Martin did a great job on his monologue, reminding us he was one of the top stand ups before he went into being more of an actor. Steve showed up thirdday night at the Comedy Seller in New York to work out his material. TMZ says Martin short and John mlaney joined Steve on stage and participated in the bit, which makes sense because that’s what happened on stage on SNL, also doing surprise performances. Listen to this listen. They all did about ten to fifteen minutes of material.
David Spade, Chris Rock, Ray Romano, The Not So Canceled Disease. I’m sorry, Colin Quinn, Naperghetzi, Leslie Jones, and Marcelo Hernandez. I’d love to know more about the Marcelo set because I’m not bashing the guy, but he’s only shown me one look like if you were a baseball pitcher, he throws fastballs. I want to see what else you can do, Marcelo. I like you, but you do one thing.
Sidebar, did you notice on SNL fifty that they’re setting up Sarah Sherman to be next? She got a lot of screen time on a night when almost none of the current cast got any daylight. Bowen Yang clearly the star in the current group, but they’re setting Sarah up to be next.
Also in attendance Sasha Baron, Cohen Beck, and Woody Harrelson.
Seller owner Nom Torman tells TMZ we’ve hat legendary nights at the Comedy Seller, but as a child of the seventies, have never been a starstruck as seeing Steve Martin. The term national Treasures overused, but I believe Steve is one. I love how to fold soup and everything he’s ever done. Vogue had somebody at the after party. They were right.
Keenan Thompson is the first cast member to arrive at SNL’s fiftieth anniversary after party, or I should say the current cast member. Plenty of former SNL stars like Alec Baldwin or inside the plaza already, as well as mega celebrities like Bad Bunny, Chris Pine and Lady Gaga is Crispine and mega celebrity like I like Star Trek and all, but yeah, whatever, But Thompson walks through just past midnight, ready to take a victory lap after a marathon weekend. Blah blah blah. The drunken antics that occurrent after party is her legendary. Kristin Wigg admitted to Jimmy Found that she chipped her too at the after party following her final show in twenty twelve.
Adye Bryant confessed she once blocked out and fell asleep in her apartments hallway. Kate McKinnon said her hair once got stuck on a Woody Harrisons sweater button for twenty minutes. At the Sunday Night party, Woody Harrison was wearing a tied eye that someone has inexplicably and indecipherably signed with a shirpie Volks person asked Woody who signed your tie, and wood he said, thanks, Perhaps he was well hydrated. Who knows Adam Sandler was wearing a succeedo Folks says, the person with the most Sandler like outfit is not Sandler at all, but Jason Sedakis, who was wearing a hoodie in a baseball cap. Vogue then tells us what everybody else was wearing doesn’t really interest me, as I sit here in an oversized sweatshirt.
Jj abrams high five’s Keith Richards, Kim Kardashian and listens to Bow and Yang by the bar. Peter Dinklage lounges with Natasha Leon and Chris rock. Lorne Michael sits at a table in the back room with Alec Baldwin, Olivia Munn and John Mulaney hold hands the entire night. Steve Martin and Catherine o’harris sit on a couch right by the first floor entrance even though most people on a third floor. As the band played on and the ballroom at the Plaza became even more packed, it was clear that for many people here he would be an icky blue light night.
Let’s hope Unlikeadye Bryant, they made it home to their apartment doors. Some odds and ends from the SNL special. You may have noticed in the Good Nights that somebody was holding up a picture of Gilda Radner. The people holding up Gildo where Loraene Newman and Jeene Curtin. Some people were curious who wasn’t there, and there was one really really suspicious person not there.
I’ll get to No, it’s not Dan Ackroyd. Late Nighter points out that Akroid’s been laying groundwork for this for months. Late Nighter sourced an interview with Akroyd last August. Dan was asked about SNL fifty and said, for me, it’s going to be a great night of television because I think it starts at eight thirty. I personally would like to be at home watching it because if I was there, I’m going to miss a great night of television.
I’d get a viewing party together wherever I am in the world. And watch it. That’s really what I think I’m going to be doing. Ackroyd had said something similar to the av Club several months later when asked if he would attend, Well, it depends on how and when I’m invited. I guess it depends on how I can serve.
Let me put it that way. How can I serve them best? How can I serve Lauren and the whole enterprise best? That’ll determine whether I go or not. There doesn’t seem to be any bad blood.
Dan tweeted over the weekend, I’m so proud of being associated with my comedy Alma mater and it’s Dean Lorne Michaels. Friday night at the homecoming concert, it was a tribute to the Blues Brothers led by Jimmy Fallon Puck News, Matthew Baloney had mentioned that Bill Hayter was a quote polite decline. Now that notable name who wasn’t there Dana Carvey, Which is weird because Dana Carvey was in a ton of episodes in the first half of the season. It’s not like he wasn’t you know. At thirty Rock Late Nighter points out Dana has not spoken out about the milestone anniversary on any social media platform.
I wonder what’s going on there that’s interesting to me. All this SNL media, I think did a favor to Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry was asked by a social media influencer if he would take a selfie. Let’s listen to what happened, Jerry, Can I get a selfie? Sure?
Free Palestine. I don’t care about foul plot. So you’re seeing a couple headlines about that, but I think there would have been a lot more if not for all the SNL noise. Vulture did an article every single thing that happened at SNL fifty. I started to read it and then I’m like, let me just do this live because I think it’s interesting and I want to react to it.
Because the first thing I saw was from Jesse David Fox, who I guess tweeted if anyone watching tries to read the tea leaves for who’s taking over for Lorne. Almost every sketch was from Seth Meyers’s time as head writer, or was by someone Myers hired, say for Debbie Downer and Domingo. That’s interesting, Jesse again, head writers from the last twenty five years missing from the credits Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, Rob Klein, Ana Drezzen, Adam McKay, Harper Steele. Vulture points out Tom Schulders Don’t Look Back in Anger is the only retro sketch shown in full at SNL fifty. That’s the one with Belushian old age makeup.
Bethy Squire’s points out no inclusion of Trump or Elon in the problematic guest segments. Huh either. It was interesting they didn’t do any politics. I get if you don’t want to get into Trump during the SNL fifty, totally get it. But like Daryl Hammond doing Clinton wouldn’t have been the worst thing.
Ferrell doing George w wouldn’t been the worst thing. I don’t know herschel Pandu wrote, how is it that Lauren doesn’t watch this musical sketch that’s the millenie musical. It’d say this doesn’t play to all fifty states. I don’t think they cared my take watching it, I felt like I was at the Groundlings in la and they were celebrating themselves. Now I say that, having attended the Groundlings thirtieth anniversary show, is that math right, maybe it was the twentieth, twenty fifth.
Anyway, long time ago, I went to one of the anniversary shows and they were just paying tribute to themselves, and I felt like, that’s what SNL did on Sunday night. They were celebrating themselves and we were allowed to watch. I don’t think they tried to hand in the greatest episode of SNL at all time. I think there was some backslapping there. Well, earned no problem with it, but I think that’s what we were watching.
Jesse David Fox points out the American Girls Store cutaway with John Lovetz was pre recorded. Lovetz was actually sitting with Sarah Sherman in the audience before the show. Kevin Elon caught up with Fox News. Kevin said, when I started, comedy was totally different. It was a totally different time in generation, and it was not as much short attention span.
I can look back at some of the sketches on SNL and they’re a lot longer than they are now because of the short attention span. I also the comedy may have gotten a little more snarkier. People want snippets more and more and more as quickly as possible. It’s like a buffet. He got into these kids today.
I think without social media, these comics wouldn’t be known, they wouldn’t be selling out arenas. John Lovett’s echoed those sentiments, telling Fox News Digital he believes stand up comedy is bigger than ever. Steve Martin was the first guy to play like arenas and stadiums, and then years later was Andrew Dice Clay, and then years after that it was Dane Cook. Lovetz then talked to Midnight and said, you know, they’ve become way more political than they used to be. I know those guys, they’re all extremely nice, and they’re all very talented and very funny, but they’re focusing on politics.
There were some technical snaffoos across the country. The show ran long now I saw from late nighter Sunday, I don’t know, around five PM or so. Late nighter had reported that NBC had told the affiliates, we’re gonna run over. So I’m sitting in the basement watching uh Hulu The Shield and giseh’re Currius have been rewatching the Shield. Love the Shield.
Michael Chickliss, founding member of the Macpac We’ve talked about this, so I knew the show was gonna run over. The show got cut off in at least Detroit. In Houston, Bob Ellis is the general manager of WDIV Channel four, Michigan. He put out a statement, Now I need you to pay really, really, really really really close attention to the statement. You’re ready the statement from Bob Ellis of Detroit.
I know the best way to address the error last night with the ending of the Saturday Night Live fiftieth Anniversary special was with you directly pay attention. We sincerely apologize for cutting short the SNL special. This was not an intentional programming decision. It was simply human error, and we understand your disappointment. NBC had communicated to us Friday afternoon that the live show would run long with the scheduled end time of eleven fifteen pm.
We had our technical teams ready for this planned fifteen minute overrun. When the show ran even later, we didn’t make the real time adjustments, and that’s why the final thirteen minutes were missed. Let me translate for you. That means we programmed the automation to cut off at eleven fifteen because that’s what the network told us, and it never occurred to us that it might go over and nobody was on duty. All you had to do is pay a board up.
That’s what happened there. In my humble opinion, Bob Ellis writes, well you didn’t see included a performance by Sir Paul McCartney, who sang a medley of three songs from the Beatles Abbey Road album. We all dismissed the on stage goodbye led by Martin Short that included former cast members holding up a photo of detroiter Gilda Radner. Okay, now let me reread the middle of bob Ellis’s statement. This is Bob Ellis of Detroit.
Ready, pay attention. NBC had communicated to us Friday afternoon that the live show would run long, with the scheduled in time of eleven fifteen pm. We had our technical teams ready for this planned fifteen minute overrun. Blah blah blah. Okay, you got that, Okay, same thing happened in Houston.
KPRC general manager Phil Lane put out a statement. Here’s mister Lane’s statement. Pay attention. NBC had communicated to us Friday afternoon that the live show would run long, with a scheduled in time of ten fifteen pm. We had our technical teams ready for this planned fifteen minute overrun.
When the show ran even later, we didn’t make the real time adjustments, and that’s why the final thirteen minutes were missed. Huh, it’s almost the exact same statement, except for the adjustment for the time zone. That’s weird. Lawyers in other news, Decider with a wonderful headline abysmal Kevin Hart special interrupted by sporadic basketball Decider writes, I thought I was being smart when I turned the NBA All Star Game on thirty minutes late NBA tip off times a notoriously far afield of what is promised by TV listings that I wasn’t eager to spend any more time than was absolutely necessary watching pregame ceremonies were listening to Kevin Hart talk, eight thirty seemed like a good time to tune in, even if it meant I might end up missing the first few minutes of the first game. When the TV flicked on, the game end started yet and Kevin Hart was screaming at me.
We can’t blame everything on Kevin Hard here, but we can definitely get pretty close. He was installed as the in game mc and Heart seemed to be under the impression that because he and Lebron James pretended to like each other in commercials, he is a rapport with every star player in the NBA. The ARENASBA system was turned over to him for portions of each game, which he used to attempt what I guess you would call NBA themed roast comedy as performed by a guy who doesn’t seem to watch the NBA. He kept complaining about how the big men were shooting too many threes and demanding that they get in the box, delivering that uncanny collection of words as if they were a hilarious punchline. The cider continues.
I then watched an hour long episode of a TV show and return to the broadcast to discover I had only missed the second minigame. Then there was more of the second halftime show to come, more commercials, and then more of Kevin Hart vamping at mid court. Eventually, the final game started, and after a few minutes of play, it was paused so that Heart could lead a drawn out ceremony honoring the cast of Inside the NBA, who aren’t dying, but merely moving to another network next season. Now if you need a sense of how bad this was, I pulled a clip. The clip I’m going to play for you is the clip that the NBA spotlighted.
So this isn’t some caddy fan going Kevin Hort sucks. So let me pull a clip. This is the one the NBA thinks is good. Okay, So this is the best one in the opinion of the NBA. The first voice you will hear is Ernie Johnson.
The second deeper voice that you’ll hear is Barkley than Shack. And the other guy in there is Kevin Hart. If you can’t recognize Kevin Hart, you’re currently listening to the wrong podcast. Wow inspiring. I couldn’t hear what ch’alls said over the swellt on his lip.
I couldn’t hear you. Well, if you were taller, you can hear. That’s great, Charles, that’s really good. Come up here, that’s original, Charles. Hey, Kevin, that’s good.
That’s really original, Charles. That’s good. Penny, shake hands please. Or not? A right?
There we go and join the name folks, And why you get your outfit of kids or us? Shut up, man, Focus it’s focus, man, It’s about basketball, Okay. Do be a pair, Hollo, do favors and I. Can see them tight eyed slacks on the tight as turn around so I can see them. Why do you have on nurses?
Use with a suit? Listen. It’s a lot of things that I can say. Hey, let’s stop playing shot for the focus. How did you get your guys ready?
And tell me how they prepare? From you? From the coaching genis that you are well. I just wanted to pick all these legends because at some point three four years from now you probably won’t see these guys because they’ll be retired. So I just wanted to put all these guys together and show the young guys and show the youngsters who runs this league.
It’s actually a beautiful thing. Shaq, thank you, beautiful thing. It’s a team of bad knees is what we should call it. Bad knees and bad backs is what we should call it. Can you tell if people were to get that trending broad tank top?
Shut up? Chat, Poor George Lopez, I think you picked the wrong day to put out a special because there’s plenty else to talk about. Uh, maybe this wasn’t the week to put one out, and so forth. For George, the press not going so well. People seem mostly interested in his appearance, and they’re digging up some old tea about George low Anyway.
On Amazon Today, George Lopez Mui Kotaliko premiere is Across the Hour. George shares his reflections on aging, Latino family dynamics and cultural quirks. As I’ve said every time I’ve read that line, George Lopez doing George Lopez things. He also embraces the challenges of getting older and touches on generational clashes and Latino superstitions. George is retiring from comedy and said it’s the last one I’ve subjected the American people to.
Enough of my crap. Seems like the right time. It’s been the one thing that has never left me my whole life, and it’s a wonderful place to leave it at this particular point now. Last week, George was on The Jennifer Hudson Show. People were surprised George in the past has worn his hair short.
On the Jennifer Hudson Show, he was rocking bushy gray hair, and fans on Twitter were much funnier than the Kevin Hart NBA appearance. One person wrote, he looks like when trees come to life and tell stories. Another made a Harry Potter reference, he looks like he’s about to tell Harry that he’s a wizard. But my favorite, he looks like if Einstein discovered four loco. The Lopez Press has got people talking about that time George Lopez got a kidney from his now ex wife.
George was told by doctors in two thousand and four he needed a kidney transplant. In two thousand and five, the Lopezes made headlines when it was revealed that wife Anne had given George the gift of life by donating one of her kidneys. They got divorced a couple of years later, So back to George Lopez’s current look. One person tweeted, George Lopez took that lady’s kidney and then divorced her. That’s why he looks like that good.
Another rote George Lopez looks awful, but he actually deserves to look even more hideous for dumping his wife after she donated her kidney to him. Both parties say the split was amicable and by mutual agreement, and poor Rosebud Baker, She’s got a special out today on Netflix. Rosebud you are like twenty minutes into Daily Comedy News. Often the special will be the first thing I feel bad for you. Hopefully you get some press later in the week, but it is crowded today anyway.
The Mother from Rosebud Baker is this week’s Netflix special. Taped months apart during two sold out nights at the Comedy Seller, New York. The special intercuts between Baker before and after giving birth. Her set discusses the indignities of childbirth, the pros and cause of losing your identity in motherhood, generational divides of upbringings, along with coming to the difficult decision to retire from doing nice things for your male friend. And I’ll leave it at that.
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