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Caalaroga, Shark Media. Johnny mack Let’s Talk Oscars and Shane Gillis It’s your Daily Comedy News. Recording this at eight thirty six pm. It just changes at the sentence on Sunday night and doing an early release here. If somebody gets up and slaps Conan in the second half of the Oscars, I will do a bonus episode.
But I think we have a pretty good feel for the Oscars as I record this. Conan pretty comfortable out of the box. I think the audience took a second to adjust to him, and I shared a note in the Facebook group. Around seven eighteen or so he started doing banter with Timothy Shallimy, and I thought Conan was really in a groove there. You could tell that he knew he had the audience, and then he got a lot more comfortable and just did his thing.
Let’s walk through it in chronological order. The opening bit with Conan and doing a thing from the dememor movie substance, I didn’t think that worked, and I was like, uh oh, this might be rough.
And then one of the very early jokes not quite hacked, but was definitely tel…
I could tell where this one was going. A complete unknown, a real a real pain, no turn out too. These are just some of the names I was called on the red carpet. But then, as I mentioned, Conan got comfortable and found his groove. He nailed this joke about Carlo Sofia Gascon or.
Yeah, Nora uses the F word four hundred and seventy nine times. That’s three more than the record set by Carlo Sofia Gascon’s publicist, you. Treat it what? And this follow up one, and also about. Carla Carlos Sophia Gascon is here tonight and yeah, yeah yeah.
And Carla, if you are going to tweet. About the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel. I didn’t pull the clip, but there was a pretty good joke in there too about Wicked and how people would get to the end of Wizard of Oz and go like that was a really good movie. But I wonder where the minor characters went to college. That was pretty funny.
Conan’s rhythm reminded me of old style, almost Bob Hope, and definitely like a roast where he would just do a subject and then swing to the next thing and be like, yeah, so the brutalist. Yes, a wicked It’s just it’s a rhythm thing where you just change. I thought he was very comfortable there. I have in my notes here the rape finds joke about we’re going to call you Ralph. That’s a hack joke that shouldn’t have made the show.
But once you started bantering with Timothy Shallamy, he knew he had the room. He felt super comfortable.
And then I want to thank Adam Saylor for proving to America.
And you’ve heard me say this, Adam Sailor is not funny. If you need the proof, he proved it. Let’s listen. What are you wearing? What?
What are you doing right now? I’m asking you what you’re wearing. Nobody even thought about what I was wearing. You brought it up. You’re dressed like a guy playing video poker at two am at him.
You know what, I like the way I look? You know he cuts. I’m a good person. I don’t care about what I wear. What I don’t wear.
Good Bye by Snazzy jim shorts and fluffy sweatshirt offen you. So much that you had to mock me in front of my pier. I’m sorry, Adam I apologize. I’m going I’m good off. I go yeah later, I have to.
It’s not you. No, it’s not you. It’s him. He’s not watered you causes. But I’m sorry.
I’m sorry. You were all. Welcome to join me for a game of five on five basketball. How better at call. Goodnight Midnight tip off?
The guy from no to Roper? Where is he? One more thing? Shut out it? Conan then went into a musical number, and I was all excited because visually it kind of reminded me of the monorail song.
I’m not sure if this worked. I’ll play about a minute or so and then bail. Now I know in the past this show has gone long. Okay, that’s not gonna happen. I’m gonna run a tight ship.
I’ll say this clearly. I’m gonna make it very plain. I am not gonna waste your time tonight, because that would be in shape. TI always time, I always time. There’s twenty three.
Awards to give its all time to protection. To waste time on some idiocy would be a dereliction. Hi wa wait sign.
And then about an hour in your stage, announcer Nick Offerman doing a great j…
Although all I could hear was the president from the movie Civil War. Nick was fantastic and he did this segment with Conan. This is Conan O’Brien’s first time hosting the Oscars. That is true in a culture, it is all about a lot of pressure. Not really, I’ve I’ve hosted a lot of shows, Emmy Awards, Music Awards.
Well nothing this big, Nick, do me a favorite. Please stop interrupting. Okay, okay, guy, just trying to help, all. Right, Fine, the movies we honor tonight explore their challenge. This big coming so late in one’s career, must weigh on a man’s soul.
That’s enough. Just read the script I gave you. He’s one of the great medians of our time. Conan O’Brien, perfect, Thank you, Our Oscar announcer Nick Offerman, Thank you. Nick.
She plays And Matt Maloney, who is a podcaster who covers the industry. He was in the audience and he shared a note that apparently was left with everybody. It is on stationary that says from the desk of Conan O’Brien, and it’s handwritten, although I’m sure he didn’t write. You know, thousands of these. It must have been some sort of copying anyway, It reads dear star slash seed filler.
I hope you enjoy these complimentary snacks. I tried my best included gummy, but Disney said that was a hard pass. Have a great night, Conan, and there is a cartoon sketch of Conan on the piece of paper. I’m going to keep this episode of Daily Cone New simple, So that’s my quick OSCARS recap. The plan for later today is I’m going to get with Mike Chishol from The Letterman podcast on drop a bonus episode, so we’ll do more Conan later today.
Got to take the break here, We’ll come back and we’ll talk Shane Gillis. I’m in the minority here from reading reviews. I’m going to share some reviews. I thought that was the best Saturday Night Live of the season. On the threads app where I’m at Daily Comedy News, people just seem annoyed that Shane even exists.
Like just a lot of hate. I shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Yahoo had a headline that said offensive comedian Shane Gillis, Like wow, way to put your thumb on the scale there. Yahoo I thought it was really funny. The news sketch.
Here, let me play a little clip of it. The suspects are believed to be four white Yes. I’m sorry, what’s going on? Oh? Nothing?
Yeah, just relieve that the police have a quite identified the suspects. Exactly, very quite. Okay, crime is crime, and we’re all released. Oh sure, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Yeah.
Well. It’s shaping up to be quite a busy week for local law enforcement as police deliver on their promise a crackdown on the increasing drug traffic drugs rad early this morning uncovered a major meth ring and a quiet suburban neighborhood. You know, no what they ain’t want to us? Okay, well how do you know that? Math?
Quiet? Come on now, all right, let’s let’s see the picture. Why are you entertaining the stupid game. Because we’re down to nothing, Susanne, you want to lose shove. A picture now.
I feel like I’ve seen that premise before. Maybe SNL did it, Maybe it was Keen Peel, but I’ve definitely seen that premise before. But that was really good, very funny sketch. To be fair, his monologue, the audience was tough. I feel like the material was better than the audience was.
And I did note red haired guitar lady stoneface the whole time. But I mean, she’s behind it. But the audience didn’t really give Shane enough love there. But let’s listen to a little bit of the monologue. This was bumming me out of little.
I just realized, we’ll we’ll never get to see Donald Trump debate ever again. That kind of a bummer, even if you don’t like him. That was fun. We had fun, right, that was fun. Now he’s in office, that’s still funny.
You guys are having fun. He’s already hitting us with like fifth grade level ideas, which is fun. Golf of America, do you ever think about that? I like it? Greenland?
Ooh, now I want Greenland. I never even thought about Greenland. Now it’s all I think about. My favorite thing with Trump wanted Greenland is you know, it’s you know how they call Greenland. The Vikings used to call Greenland greenland and Iceland iceland to like keep people away, when in fact Greenland is ice in Iceland is green.
And I wonder if that trick leif Ericsson’s trick from a thousand years ago. Made it all the Way. Twenty twenty five, where Donald Trump was staring at a map going green. And we love green. I don’t know, miss Biden.
Biden was fun, also hilarious. My favorite thing about Biden was anytime he was giving his speech in between teleprompters, his face would go back to being dead, The. Daily Beast wrote. Shane Gillis figured out early into his monologue that the audience wasn’t quite feeling him. All right, now, I’m gonna lose you even more.
Uh for extra. He did his Biden impression before saying, look, I get it, you guys are pretty liberal here. The Daily Beast writes. Although the level of laughter in both monologue sounded fairly normal to casual viewers, pass sketches demonstrate that the show’s live performance are often hearing a worse audience response than the viewers at home. You know that’s really interesting because I was listening to the monologue and during the second half of the monologue, I was like, some of those laughs sound fake, and you know, would SNL mix in fake crowd live You’d have to be pretty good on a board there.
But I’m not gonna say my Spidey sense wasn’t tingling later on, Shane was kind of floundering and he’s like, all right, I don’t know how to get out of joke. All right, I don’t know how to get out of this joke. I find him very charming. It works av Club when with Shane Gillis gets another shot to show off how bad he’d be on Saturday Night Live. That’s just a bad take.
Bad take Avy Club, bad take their subheader. Can Gillis do a second thing, or at least stop doing this one? I don’t know. I mean, I’m gonna get in Shane’s corner here. They’re right say this for Shane Gillis.
Now they just hosted SNL twice. It’s harder to assume that had he kept his future player spot back in season forty five, he would have become the Jeff Richards of the twenties and I’d brow out in an eclectic ensemble with Gillis. There’s a clear sensibility at work in his sketches, and maybe there just would have been a whole lot more of that stuff, Satisfying Lord Michael’s nagging feeling the show was reaching out to an untapped portion of the audience that ptively wants less out of SNL again the best show of the season. I they had Shade been on the cast, he obviously would have been the breakout start. I know what’s going on at these websites.
You and I are not in sync various entertainment websites. I thought it was really good, but the AV Club Rights. Then again, maybe Gillis staying occupied by doing a bunch of terrible SNL sketches and presumably appearing in the occasional good one would have laid more immediately bare his CBS didcom sensibility rather than gussing it up with Edge Lord, podcast cred and the weird parasocial connections that go along with it. I’m sure Gillis is a good hang if you’re his actual friend. He seems affable enough to let himself be the butt of the joke.
But the thing is that’s never really been born out in many of the SNL sketches he’s done. Dude, that’s the vibe In every sketch he’s letting himself be the butt of the joke, and he seems like he’s a good hang. What are you talking about? AV Club Rights? Look?
I know if you’re reading this and you dig Gillis’s stuff. This will sound enormously personal. I reviewed his simul sitcom Tires, so I know what I’m talking about. Both the trips Gillis playing a few bad notes in Cicely and getting called names by randos for not liking a show on Netflix, a bias the likes of which has never been seen in this entertainment industry. In other words, what what is this piece?
But I’d love an actual explanation of why the Couple of Beers ad is supposed to be funny? Because it’s funny because the name A couple of Beers is funny, and the premise that the guy has two beers and then his kind of chill is funny. What I gotta get you A byline on this? All on this is by Jesse Hassinger overall review of the episode a D plus. Other articles by Jesse on Avy Club include film a Watershed Year for Bloodshed, Horror at the twenty twenty five Oscars.
Back on February seventeen, Jesse wrote SNL plays itself in an overstuffed fiftieth anniversary special, kind of Agree to Disagree. February twelfth, Jesse wrote about Captain America Februar fifth, Jesse wrote, Amy Schumer succumbs to streaming comedy pastiche in the fittingly ambivalent kind of pregnant. All right, we’ll agree there. January twenty sixth, Timothy Chellamy delivers an SNL season highlights, Going back Jenny nineteenth, Dave Chappelle answers SNL is called a flattery. All right, So you just don’t like Sheen Gillis, that’s fine.
I don’t like Adam Sandler. I mean, I like Adam Sandler. He’s a fantastic dramatic actor. I don’t like his comedy anyway. I didn’t come here to get in a whistling match with the av Club, and I intended to do a pretty short episode.
I got caught off guard there. Best episode of the season. Put it in quotes. Make sure you spell Johnny mac j O h n n Y, new word capital M, a lowercase AC, and spell Daily Comedy News correctly. You can use me in all the quotes you want.
Best episode of the season. All right, back later today with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast, and we’ll talk a little Conan and normal episode tomorrow. See yea