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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jason Zinniman in The New York Times asks what if the Daily Show used guest hosts permanently? Me being me immediately overacted to that and went, what he’re insane? But Jason writes, fillins for Trevor Noah have shown, well, they’re not fill ins for Trevor Noah, they’re fillins for nobody.
There is no host. Jason Ziniman of The New York Times. They’re not filling in for Trevor, He’s gone, Jason writes. Fillins for Trevor Noah have shown how exciting the lack of a permanent replacement could be. It’s an option with an illustrious history in television.
The most impressive accomplishment is how everyone, with the benefit of a typical daily show video and script is at least fine. It’s evidence that this vehicle, more than a quarter century old, has become a smooth, running, user friendly machine, a strength and a weakness. You saw both sides and the Trevor Noah error, which was competent, charming, if a little dull. The current guest host shows are not that they display passion unpredictability and the looming possibility of disaster. Particularly in the interviews.
Jason reminds us that back in the day, Johnny Carson always had guest hosts, and then in the nineties when Letterman went over to CBS and Jay Lenos took over the Tonight Show, the whole guest host thing kind of stopped for the most part until Jimmy Kimmel brought it back. Although when Letterman had it was it a heart attack. He had a couple of guest hosts back in the day, and I forgot this happened, and I have shared the clip on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. In two thousand and three, the Late Show with David Letterman’s guest host was Jimmy Fallon. It was Jimmy Fallon’s first late night hosting gig, and Jason Zinneman writes, watching it now reveals an altogether different Fallon, more sarcastic, wiseacre than chipper enthusiast.
It’s clear he loved and was influenced by Letterman’s early comedy, and one of the fun aspects of guest hosts is seeing comics working out their personas. So I shared that clip and I watched it. I was mesmerized. I like Jimmy Fallon. I’ve got some Jimmy’s faun stories.
They’re good ones in the I’ll say them for a different day. But when you watch young Jimmy Fallon hosting Letterman Show doing the Letterman vibe, he even like walks up into the camera the way Dave Wood, it’s like, oh, you’ve got a different gear here that, for whatever reason, he’s not doing on the NBC Tonight Show. The Facebook group is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. The Daily Show has announced some of the upcoming guest hosts. They include Finally Roy Wood, Junior, Desi, Lydick, Ronny Chieng, Michael Costa, and Dulce Sloan.
Roy Wood gets week of April third, check your calendar, Hey, that’s Monday. Then Jordan Klepper Desi on the twenty fourth, Sloan May first, Costa May eighth pick somebody already Comedy Central. Huh from ctv W five a weird, weird article with Russell Peters. I shared it on Sunday on the Daily Comedy News podcast group page, and the article gets kind of into the booking of Russell Peters and the waiting for Russell Peters, they wrote, W five went back and forth with Peter’s people. They were scheduling conflicts on both sides.
It took weeks of negotiations and finally we were given a day in time for an interview with Peters California home, although it was almost canceled at the last minute because the comic was juggling touring in downtime. That sounds like he really wanted to do it juggling downtime. The W five team arrived at Peter’s sprawling, contemporary, eight thousand square foot home in LA’s San Bernardino Valley. We set up on the main floor in a room and jampack with Peter’s memorabilia, next to an open tread, steel and wooden double staircase that ascends to the upper floor against a wall of glass. Several of his comedy buddies sat outside on the covered patio next to an a zoo colored pool.
Unfortunately, they didn’t mention who his comedy buddies are. I would love to know. Peter’s wife, Ali greeted us warmly. While waiting for her husband to show up. She casually sat on the staircase and chatted about the home’s architecture.
So time out, so Russell’s buddies are hanging pool side and Russell’s not even there all right, W five says. We also talked about the community we’re in. June of ninety four, residents had a front row seat to the famous O. J. Simpson high speed police chase.
A roar of a sports car pulling into the driveway signaled the arrival of the man of the hour, who entered the house and Breeze passed us to chat with friends and family. It was only when he recognized us that Peter’s laser focused humor and charm shifted in a high gear. He was excited to chat with a group of Canadians about all things Canada, excited to make me laugh. The interview was quintessential Peters, engaging, energetic, and unapologetic. He said, we’re free thinkers.
The minute you try to put reins on our brains, you ruin the game. Does he have any regrets, He says not really, but he tells us we made gay jokes freely, and we wouldn’t just say gay. We would say the F word, not that F word, the other F word. And that was perfectly normal back then and perfectly acceptable. But your job’s pushed the envelope.
Then you understand that the envelope keeps him moving away. So I was constantly chasing the envelope. Dave Chappelle will appear on Killer Mike’s upcoming album. During south By Southwest Killer Mike, he held a private listening session for the project inside a cathedral. One guest in attendance was Milwaukee radio host at DJ Kenny Perez, who told fans to run and embrace it when it drops.
He said, there are collabs with Andre three thousand, Lil Wayne, Dave Chappelle, and Moore. Samarell was on the Good One podcast back in October and I missed it, but there’s some really great stories in there with them. Shipping away at one of them, he said, Gary Goldman is great at getting laughs out of places he would never think to get laughs. I remember he had a joke where he just said, karrate, that shouldn’t be that funny, but it is because it’s very honest to his voice. He would just say, I don’t know why you guys are laughing.
That’s the proper pronunciation. You learn to get laughs in between the jokes, and the more you write, you need those because holy cow, storytellers, guys like Thomsigora, Jim Jeffreys, people who write these long stories, they have to find those little laughs. But joke riders need that too. You learn how to bring yourself to a joke so that it’s not just a joke, like a joke book joke. Patton Oswalt will speak at William and Mary’s commencement ceremony on May nineteenth.
I was on the William and Mary website and I loved how serious they took all of this, and they wrote some paragraphs and I’m going to share them with you. Oswalt, who was known for such roles as Spence on the TV show King of Queens and the voice of Remy in the movie Ratatui, will receive an honorary degree at the event scheduled for blah blah blah. When asked about giving the commencement keynote at his alma mater, the comedian quick to show is Williamsburg knowledge, stated I would like a bag of bread ends at a dip from the cheese shop from my services. Thank you. Then they had his official bio.
Patton Oswalt, ninety one. Oswalt started performing in comedy clubs as a student at William and Mary, where he wrote for The Flat Hat and was a member of Phi Capital and the Fencing Club. You didn’t know that? Did you? Did you know?
Patt? And Fedz? She didn’t Know That. After graduating with a degree in English, he embarked on a career in entertainment, earning accolades for his more than two hundred TV and film credits, as well as comedy specials and books. Oswalt has been prolific as an actor, appearing in such films as The Circle, What’s That, The Secret Life of Walter Middy, Zoolander, The Informant, Observe and Report, Magnolia, and Starsky and Hutch.
He received critical acclaim and a Gotham Award nomination for his part in Big Fan, and he was nominated for a Critic’s Choice Award for his role in Young Adults. On TV, he could be seen in leading roles and shows ranging from The Heart, She Holler Huh to the United States of Tara Well Patton. Those are not the strongest of credits. He has also appeared on such series as Parks and Recreation, Veep, Justified, two and a Half Men, and Seinfeld, where he made his acting debut. He recently competed on Celebrity Jeopardy, finishing the tournament in second place and earning two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the nonprofit Alice’s Kids.
His voice can also be heard in many animated films and shows, including The Secret Life of Pets Too, Rick and Morty, and Archer. Are you watching Kunk on Earth? You should be. It’s on Netflix. Kunk on Earth is currently the number one thing on my Top Funny Things of twenty twenty three list.
It’s not stand up, so it’s not the top stand up special. So I have like a list within a list. It’s the top funniest things, and then a subset of that is the top stand ups. But the overall number one funniest thing is Kunk on Earth. I’m now watching it for the second time.
The Wall Street Journal spoke to Diane Morgan, who plays Filamina Kunk, and she says, as Philamina Kunk, I narrate the history of civilization and ask posh experts funny questions with a straight face. They took me seriously at first, but now the cat’s out of the bag and they play along. What’s her favorite? Kunk Line school is far easier in Shakespeare’s day because he didn’t have to study Shakespeare. She says she no longer watches as much comedy except Curb Your Enthusiasm, and adds if Larry David stops making those, I don’t know what I’ll do.
Ellie Eater caught up with Otsko at Kaza. She immigrated to the US at age ten and settled in West la at her uncle’s apartment with her mother and grandmother. She said it took a while to get used to the sprawl of la and the less than dependable public transit. She said, I was on Kolbe Avenue near Barrington. I did think, God, we’re walking a lot just to get to McDonald’s.
And then if we didn’t want to eat at McDonald’s, it was just Marie Calendars right next door. So in my head, it was either McDonald’s or fine dining. At home. Meals were mostly cooked by Grandma, who served simple, stir friyed vegetables, steamed white race and sweet slimy chicken. Osco said, as a kid, I didn’t really dabble in spices.
And things like that. It was very simple. I just went with whatever flavors of the adults are recommended. Japanese curry’s probably the most flavorable thing that I was eating back then. When I’m eating Japanese food now, simple flavors.
If I do get rolls, it’ll just be one fish in it. I won’t do the ones with three or four fishes, flakes of Temporea and drizzles of different things. I usually don’t go for the ones that are named the Obama roll. All right, when you want to celebrate, where do you go? She said, cheesecake factory, go big or go home.
I don’t really eat that typically day to day, so we’re like, where do people go or used to go before they got all cool, the olive gardens, cheesecake factories, red lobsters. I really like the jambal eye there. When it comes to America or Western food, I really get into the creamy, the ranch, the cheese. So that’s a sign for me to get gluttonous. You can barely make it out of there alive.
But I kind of like that, Hey it’s my birthday. It sounds like Paget Brewster is not in the community movie. She tweeted last week, I miss Frankie Dart too. I hope to get a call. I’ll be in the movie, even just one line or no line, standing behind someone.
That surprised me. I thought that the extended cast in there. I mean, if you can have Jonathan Banks in anything, you gotta ask him, right, Professor Hickey, I would have him in. The Milburn Comedy Festival kicks off doing the story today because I understand how time zones work, and it’s probably already Wednesday in Melbourne as you’re listening to this. More than six hundred shows.
Melbourne is an awesome city. Guys, invite me down there next year. I tell my wife, Hey, I gotta go down to Melbourne for a month and record podcasts. She’ll be happy with that. The fun kicks off with the famed opening night Comedy All Stars super Show, this year hosted by Hannah Gatsby Concrete Playground Rights.
Other big ticket highlights to follow include the National Grand Final of Esteem to open My Competition Raw Comedy and the Deadly Funny National Grand Final, set to spotlight the country’s funniest First Nations talent. Some US comedians heading down there, the Lucas Brothers, Patty Harrison, Shalouis Sharp and Shang Wang. Hey, if you’re in Melbourne, don’t miss Shang Whang. I’m looking at the lineup for Wednesday night Boy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven. So well, thirty forty five, I mean, wow, twenty twenty five.
Wow, this is a ton of shows tonight. All right, I’m not going to read them, ALTI let’s see what catches my ass. I scrolled down. Would be stupid to go all the way to Melbourne at six o’clock to see British Invasion when there are five different shows at six o’clock, probably right, same question at six fifteen for the full Irish same question for six fifteen, keep comeds British comedy. Boy, I am scrolling down here.
There’s a good fifty shows tonight. It’s insane. Joe Avante I’ve heard of that’s at eight fifteen. Let’s go see that and then nine to forty five Best of Milbourne Comedy. We’ve come all this way.
That sounds like a good parent, right boy. I’m scrolling down here. I can’t get to the bottom, and I keep checking weight. Am I on to the next day? No here, let me pause the recording and I’ll actually count.
All right, I’ve counted. There’s one hundred and fifteen shows on Wednesday night. That’s insane. One hundred fifteen and I’ve checked the website. I’m not looking at the whole festival.
That’s just Wednesday night. I also saw a show called Lord of the Zings, a Keywie comedy showcase. That could be fun too, and on Tuesday night. Now, if you’re in Milbourne by the time you’re hearing this, you’ve missed all this. But US Americans, if we have a time machine, we can show travel.
I don’t know how that works. But also, like one hundred shows on Tuesday night. What a big festival. So I’ll be keeping an eye on this for the next month or show. But wow, that’s your comedy needs for today.
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