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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, if you sign the petition yet, Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Over twenty thousand people have signed a petition to get kill Tony off Netflix. That horrible kill Tony with his amateur comedians doing one minute of comedy and then getting slammed. You know, they put their names in a hat and didn’t get forced to perform this comedy and then kill Tony and his mean cohorts made fun of them.
Sign the petition. It’s at move on dot org. Ted Sarandos, he’s the Netflix boss. He recently did Beyond the Stream a conversation with Ted Serrandos, a big time event, and he said, I knew that the art form itself, comedy always needed a safe place to try things out. Comedians to find the culture in a bunch of ways, and they do that by figuring out where the lines are and what the joke is.
It’s the only art form that you know is working because it’s defined by the audience. If the audience laughed at work, you can’t. That’s not funny if eighteen thousand people are laughing. But what if twenty thousand people have signed an online petition. You could say you disagree with it.
You could say that it offends you, you could say that it hurts you. But you can’t say it’s not funny. If someone wants to stand on the street corner and talk on they want, that’s not a Netflix show. If you’re attracting a large audience and people are laughing at the work and it’s jokes, they’re just jokes. At the end of the day, I think if we lose our ability to laugh at ourselves, we’re in trouble.
You look back at Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. It’s amazing we’re having this debate about sensory comedians today. Sarando’s added that Chappelle is clearly in that class. You might not like all the jokes, but there’s no denying this is one of the greatest comedians of our time. Kill Tony out on Netflix.
Speaking of kill Tony, who you know is just ruining comedy apparently, go on threads. It’s just going threads and type in Tony Hinchcliff and see what you find. Tony Hinchcliffe has another Giggy’s teaming up with those wrestling people I missed this one when I was in Ireland. Tony and the WWE are working together on the roast of WrestleMania featuring Tony Hinchcliff and Friends April twentieth, ten pm West, as part of WrestleMania Week. Often remember to check out the WWE show and see if Tony makes an appearance.
Netflix is using the wrestling to do crossovers, very very smart. Now, this press release is pretty favorable towards Tony writing Hinchcliffe, the internationally renowned comedian, one of the top roasters in the world, and the mastermind behind kill. Tony will bring together top comics and entertainers for an unforgettable night of laughs and huge surprises. Some of the WWE superstars joining are Sammy Zain, the Miz Braun, Strowman, and Paul Hayman. And I probably got at least two of those pronunciations wrong.
Play a good wrestling podcast out there, this is not one of them. Sadly, the event will be non televised. Why they why you to go to this thing? Huh? Can’t you record it and show it to us?
Let’s see how much tickets are here ticket Master. I could get in right now. A very so I’d resale ticket one one hundred and thirty five dollars. That’ll get you in section four zero one. Not awful.
Hopefully they’ll change their mind and televise this thing. Bill Burr. Still in the news, Burr went on Seth Myers, which, Hey, Seth, By the way, if somebody offers you that SNL job, grab it. I’m just telling you. I’m telling you just grab it while it’s there.
Don’t wait too long, Seth asked Bill Burr. If Burt was able to mend fences with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, they were sitting together at SNL fifty, Burst said, I did in good nature. I was like, man, I hated your band. You edit my thing. Burr, like some of us of a certain age, liked the old time rock and roll that went from I don’t know, Chuck Berry all the way up until I think the last album is officially the Guns and Roses album, and then you know, the Pearl Jams came in and did other stuff with the Nirvanas and all that.
You kids today and your music, Burs said. Vetter was cracking up. I go to you know how long it took me to admit how great a band Pearl Jam is because now I love them, But it was twenty years ago and I was like, I’m not listening to these guys. Burr explains, I was watching all hair metal ice bands. I was loving them, and they were on the countdown.
Then Nirvana came in and I was like, what’s this? They would say Nirvana knocked it out. It was Pearl Jam. When Pearl Jam came there was another one of those grunge Seattle bands, and that’s when I was like, oh my god, this isn’t ending. They’re just gonna keep coming.
Then all my band skid Row, all of them were gone. It was just the sad guy singing about being on our bridge not being happy, and I’m like, what happened to? Nothing but a good time and ignoring all your problems with cocaine? Right like that was all over. On his own podcast, Burr recently explained that Vedder told him he was glad that Burr came around.
He was actually asking white metal bands I listened to and we got to talk baseball. What a sweetheart of a guy. Conan O’Brien revealed he considered not going to the Kennedy Center to accept his Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on his own pod, Cone and said there was a question of should I go should I not go? And I felt like it was important to show up. Johnny Max trying really hard not to be political on the podcast.
I don’t know if you guys followed the news. I’ll let you follow the news on your own. It’s really hard not to talk about, you know, the thing and the stuff con had said. First of all, we were brought in under the old regime. The people who brought me in and no longer there, but I thought we honored their decision.
Conan said, I didn’t have the strong urge to die afterwards. It’s like, what are you gonna do now? But then I realized, oh it’s on Netflix. People will see it, they’ll forget. I need to get the next prize.
I’m glad they recorded that evening because if there wasn’t a recording of it, I wouldn’t believe it. My love, and thanks to everybody who came out. I mean really busy. People flew across the country to be there, and I’ll never forget it as long as I live. I think we knew this already but more confirmation that Nate Brigetzi will make his film debut with the family comedy The Breadwinner.
Nate describes The Breadwinner in the vein of Mister Mom and Home Alone. It will be out March thirteenth, twenty twenty six. Get online for tickets now before they sell out. Nate says, it’s going to be hard to make something and then have to wait to see it. I’m used to immediate reactions.
Plus I don’t know the first thing about making a movie. I’m excited to figure it all out, what works, what’s funny when he’s tweaking. It’s gonna be a whole new world, and I can’t wait to learn. Nate talked about the changing landscape of comedy. When I was coming up, comedians out a system.
I was in New York. You do eight minutes on Comedy Central Live at Gotham, then you do a half hour special. Eventually you get an hour. There was a clear path. You were always worse looking towards.
There are rumors from Radar Online that they want to give regular Jeopardy to Colin Jost. A source says the ratings for Jeopardy have been very hit or miss so of course they’re looking to make some changes. The most important thing to understand what the franchise right now is that Colin’s hosting efforts on Pop Culture Jeopardy represent a major creative and business win for the studio, and it’s working out better than anybody anticipated. The show is a word of mouth phenomenon, is it? Are people like, Hey, did you see Colin Jost on Pomp Culture Jeopardy?
I mean losers hosting podcasts in their basement will occasionally mention it, but I haven’t seen any actual civilians talk about that show, have you. The show is a word of mouth phenomenon, and it’s brought a load of young new fans into the Jeopardy universe. If it were possible from a business perspective to just hire Colin as the full time nightly host, the studio would do it in a heartbeat and replace Jennings in the process. But Colin continues to be under contract at SNL and he still wants to live full time in New York City. Well, I got news for you.
The buzz is off SNL. Although if I were Colin, I would say at that news desk, as long as Lauren will have me. That’s a nice steady visible gig Ai is telling me Jeopardy tapes five episodes a day on two days of taping every other week, resulting in approximately two hundred and thirty new episodes. So I can solve this for everybody, Okay, and no offense, Ken Jennings. But hey, how about in the summer, will film like three days a week for like a month, and then when SNL’s on, will film on Monday and Tuesday.
Hear me out in New York. Yeah, we could build a set in New York and film it there. That will solve everyone’s problems. And Colin Jost, if somebody offers you the Jeopardy job, take it. You can do that for thirty years.
You see what Drew Carries doing over there, nice steady work. Seacrest, they were like Wheel of Fortune and great by the way, you know how you know Ryan Seacrest is doing a great job on Wheel of Fortune. Nobody talks about it. That’s exactly what you want. You don’t want anyone having a conversation like Colin jose to take over Wheel of Fortune.
See, you don’t want that conversation going. No one is talking about Seacrest no one is complet anything about Drew Carrey Colin. If they offer you this gig, no offense, Ken Jennings, take it and someone else do the math. Okay, SNL wraps up what may so say. In June, we taped three days a week, and then we did Monday and Tuesday while SNL’s on and Colin can hang out with Scarlet and go on vacation in July and August.
You know, at some point you gotta work, Colin, But you know, two full months off and we could make this work. Phil Wang comedian I really dig. He’s hosting the BAFTA Game Awards. He’s a lifelong gamer. He started with the Sega Saturn in the mid nineties.
Nube I had the old Pong games before the Atari. I mean I had an Atari, a Klico, a Nintendo with the robot and the gun. I don’t want to hear about you people that came later got a Sega Genesis. By the way, I still have always have a Colleco vision. I can go upstairs right now and get a Colleco vision.
If you want to play Donkey Kong. It’s sitting in the closet next to the Atari. Twenty six hundred. I’ve got PlayStation one, two, three, four and five. I only got on the XP this generation because I liked my PlayStations.
Honestly, this generation, I’m spending all my time on the Xbox because of game Pass PlayStation. I think it’s a better machine. But you know, no games or games on the game Pass or quote unquote free as opposed to making me pay seventy dollars. I digress. Phil Wang’s games were Rome, Total War, h Vampires and Theme Park Tycoon that makes Johnny Mack want to bust out sim City.
Phil said, I’m so thrilled to be returning as host of this year’s BAFTA Games Awards. Last year’s show is such an uplifting celebration of this incredible industry. Looking forward to continuing in that spirit and honoring another year of superb games. I played games all my life. Blah blah blah statement statement.
The ceremony today in London. It’ll be streamed live on BAFTA’s YouTube channel and on Twitch if you want to watch.
Speaking of Phil, he is one of those comedians making fun of Megan Markle, th…
And on the recent episode they all made fun of Megan. If you’re not paying attention, Meghan has a new podcast out today, which is great because I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast and we will make fun of Meghan’s podcast, Endless easy Content. I will barely have to work this week because Megan will put out something that people will make fun of and we’ll report on they’re making fun of. If you want to keep up on the royal family, especially Megan, this week Palace Intrigue wherever you get your shows. So there’s the crew on Have I Got News for You?
They showed a mocked up image of Megan wearing a chef’s hat while making jam. Yes, she’s selling designer jam. And by the way, we’ve learned through the reporting on Valace Intrigue, it’s officially not jam. It’s officially fruit spread FDA something something not enough something to qualify as official jam according to government standards. So she’s not even making jam, she’s making fruit spread.
This is how much fun Palace Intrigue is because we get into that kind of nonsense. Team Captain Ian Hislop Boy, Jenny Mexican, and all the names wrong today. Ian said her jam immediately sold out, which I thought was good unless there are only two jars. Phil Wang got in on this. He made fun of Megan’s beekeeping.
Did you see Megan going beekeeping on her Netflix show? There she held each honeycomb like it was covered in crap, and she’s like, I love coming out and getting in touch with nature, but you could see she was about to throw up. Amber Ruffin said she’s glad that she’s not doing the White House Correspondents Dinner. She was on the American version of Have I Got News for You? She told that panel I could talk for the next three hours.
What I choose to say is it’s like I lost the gig because I was out here talking crap. And I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig because I wasn’t going to show up there and act all the way out. It’s not anyone’s fault because when we were hired, I was like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody. Ruffin says she would have had a hard time biting her tongue. Telling CNN’s panel they started disappearing people to prison in El Salvador.
They wrote back civil rights, so I was like, if we make this equal, then I’m also a piece of crap. I cain’t effing do that. Poor Jeff Ross was in the hospital. He had an allergic reaction to eating ice cream. He shared some photos.
He said it was his first allergic reaction ever, and he joked that despite looking like Mickey Rourke at the end of the wrestler, he’d be back on stage soon. Jeff explained on social media. I had a fun opening night performance of his tour. Take a banana for the ride up here in Mill Valley, California. Afterwards, me and the band celebrated with some Barrata ice cream at a restaurant down the street, courtesy of the nice owner.
It was delicious, seriously yummy. Despite the yummy dessert, his lips quickly blew up. Jeff won up in an EERI spent the night. It’s my first allergic reaction ever. I guess that’s pretty remarkable considering I’m constantly shoving whatever food is in front of me into my face.
Thank you to the overnight shift at the Marine Health Medical Center for only roasting me lightly. Oh my goodness, I just checked the clock. Johnny Mack went super long there on the first half. But I am having fun. I like hanging out with you guys.
Hey, you know what it is? Over on five Daily Trivia Questions. This week it’s Villain’s Week. That’s right, it’s a theme week. Monday was Bond Villains.
I don’t know what today is. I only write the thing, but I forget what I scheduled. I think today’s Star Wars Ville. Anyway, I could tell you what they are. It’s Bond Star Wars movie.
Scary guys like Freddy Krueger. Like that’s one of the themes. Anyway, every day there’s five daily Trivia questions and this week’s theme is Villain’s Week. Check out five Daily Trivia Questions wherever you get your shows. Jay Leno said he almost backed out of an upcoming booking in Canada.
Jay I told everyone, I’m trying not to be political. There’s a lot going on, Jay, and people are very upset, and I don’t want to upset anybody. Jay. Why wouldn’t you go to Canada? Jay was on Berrew TV.
I’m sure I pronounced that right with Canadian journalist Bill Berrew. Late Night Reports, Jay said I was almost not gonna do these Canadian dates because I didn’t want to be the ugly American coming in. Jay made fun of his recent fall down a hill, saying it’s been great for ticket sales. Tonight at the Nashville Comedy Festival six o’clock show, Dusty Slighs show is called Dusty Slays six o’clock perfect. Dusty Sleigh at six o’clock perfect.
I could see a comedy show, have two beers head out the door at seven forty and be in bed by eight fifteen. Amazing. I love this comedy festival. Jared Freed’s also at the Lab and Zanies at seven. Over at the Ryman, Nateland presents pretty good line up here, Ryan Hamilton, longtime listeners know I dig Ryan Hamilton, Dustin Nickerson, derk Stroop, Lace Larrabie, Mia Jackson, Paula Kazinski, and special host Aaron Weber.
Boy, you’d make me choose between Dusty and a bigger show at the Ryman. I would go see Dusty and then I could be home early. At Zane’s at eight fifteen That Deprived, hosted by Lewis J. Gomez, Big Jay Ogreson, Robert Kelly and Zach Amiko on that one nine to fifteen story Wars with Big Jay and Gomez. That’s at the Lab and Zanies.
Nikki Glaser is at the Ryman. No, No, that’s tomorrow. I could delat it, but that’s not fun. Nikki Glaser not at the Ryman. If you’re at the Ryman and you’re like, hey, Johnny Max said, Nikki Glaser is here tonight, she’s not.
Sometimes it’s just more fun not to edit things out. And le’s talk about the Melbourne Comedy Festival because there’s so many reviews. It’s such a big festival and if I don’t start doing these, I’m never going to get to them. Josh Glank did a show called Family Man. He’s at the Chinese Museum until April twentieth.
By the way, Dan Booblitz, what’s going on with the Melbourne Florida International Comedy Festival twenty six? Are you on this or not? Text me? You texted me like last week. You’ve got my number.
Don’t act like you don’t have my number. You texted me. The Ah tells us Josh Clang’s a Family Man is a ritous hour of musical comedy, audience interaction, and lanyard appreciation. His preacher man and French pervert characters keep the pace of the show lively and allow for a surprising multimedia callback that has everyone in the room glad they spent their heart earned money on this clown. Clown being a compliment four Stars Gary Stars show is called Classic Penguins.
He’s at the malt House until April twentieth. He can sing, he can dance, he can perform an entire show without pants. That’s one of the lesser known Doctor Seuss books. By the way, the Age tells us Scary Stars. Humor is physical, silly, and uproarious.
The interpretations are mostly literal riffs on titles. Moby Dick, for example, or Around the World in eighty days. Around the World in eighty days was one of the trivia questions last week from the Trivia Guys on Wednesday. I’ll see you guys tomorrow night. Trivia Guys, Best Men Trivia there if you’re like, if you live somewhere near New Jersey, look up and you want trivia guys Hire the Best Men Trivia Guys.
I don’t know how far they travel. Maybe we’ll book them at the Melbourne, Florida International Comedy Festival in twenty six. Get on that booblets, So I just actually pause there. I’m really impressed by my microphone. It is not picking up the barking dog.
Let’s driving me nuts as I’m recording here. She does not care. Then I have a podcast. I think if you boost your volume the ninety nine you might be able to hear her. But say you were in the basement talking about comedy shows in Melbourne, you would be able to hear her.
Believe me, just take my word for it. And I guess she’s not going to stop. So that’s it. You could have had a couple more Melbourne stories, but you’re not getting them now because Johnny Mack needs to go upstairs and be like, what are we barking at? The answer is going to be nothing, but I gotta go do it.
See you tomorrow.