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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack. You’re with your Daily Comedy News if you’re in Minneapolis today. Sam Morrill is at the Pantagious Theater two nights the Minnesota Daily. He was curious, Hey Sam, what’s new about this new set?
And Sam said, well, the jokes are new. I have a lot of good new jokes. You don’t try and add to it every day. That’s kind of how I tour. I have the bass, and then you kind of add to it.
It’s like making a big pot of chili. Dis keep adding one thing.
All right, here’s one thing, there’s another thing, and by the end, hopefully…
They asked Sam about his whiskey company. I think to be a comedian in twenty twenty five, I’m pretty sure you have to own a whiskey company. I don’t know who put that law in to effect, but they all have one, including Sam and then Minnesota Daily. He was curious, Hey Sam, what makes a good whiskey? Sam said, well, you want it to be smooth.
I want a good whiskey that stands on its own, like if you drink it neat. It’s also great for cocktails. So I always like Manhattan’s with as opposed to bourbon. I just thought it was kind of a better match. Yeah, I’m a big fan of whiskey with a second liquor.
I like the old fashioned cocktail like in Manhattan Fro. I’m doing like maybe a martiniz and a groaning. I kind of like the old time he drinks. I think the classic for a reason. New topic, Sam, were you surprised you weren’t in Joker too?
Sam said, you know what, I was just grateful to be in the first one. I think Todd Phillips is a really cool guy, and he was really nice to meet always. And I mean the fact that I kept my name in the first one made no sense. It was just Todd being cool. One more time for Sam Morrell.
I think it’s hilarious that I exist in the DC universe. It is got it cool. Rolling Stone did a lifey and very good interview with Jimmy Kimmel. I shared this in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us.
One thing we learn is that Jimmy Kimmel has a cardboard box full of worn ties that David Letterman sent him when Letterman retired, Kimmell said, I wore one, but they’re so long Rolling Stone. I hate to do this, but let’s start with Trump. Kim ol Donald Trump, who’s that? Yeah, it used to be when you think of me, you think of Guillermo or Matt Damon not getting on the show. Now it’s Trump.
I think most comedians have a strong sense of justice, and he violates that so frequently. I know we should be hard into it by now, but I’m not, and it’s shocking to me. He seems like the kind of character that would flame out after a few years, but the fact that he’s still with us is remarkable. A year ago, I would have said, I’m hoping to show people who aren’t paying attention to the news what’s actually going on and hoping to change things that way. Obviously that didn’t have enough impact before the elections, and now I see myself more as a place to scream Rolling Stone.
From a comedy point of view, there’s some advantages, right Kimmel. You don’t have to set the joke up because everybody knows everything about him, so you go right to the punchline. The problem is he’s somebody that a lot of people don’t like they don’t want to hear his name, but there’s always material. Some days he gives you so much that you’re throwing things away. That would have been the biggest event of the entire Bush presidency.
I try not to get too deep in the weeds after remind myself this is not an expose, it’s a comedy show. They were curious when Kimmel realized that Trump was for real. Kimill said, it was twenty sixteen. I had Hillary Clinton on. I said to Hillary during commercial breako Trump gets a nomination, I think it’d be a slam dunk for you, and she said, be careful what you wish for.
Maybe I’ll pick at this a little bit more tomorrow. I don’t want to get over political on the podcast there, but I did share in the Facebook group if you want to read this all right. Late Nighter had the final Late Night ratings for quarter one twenty twenty five. The Secret Giant Monster is Greg Gutfeld highest ratings ever, up fourteen percent, up nine percent in the eighteen to forty nine demo compared to Q four twenty twenty four. At eleven thirty five, Colbert is number one Kimmel is second in total viewers.
Fallon edged out Kimmel in the demo. All three shows saw decreases of minus seven and minus eight percent among total viewers. Fallin down minus fourteen, Colbert down seventeen, Kimmel down twenty four percent. Wow. Late Nighter says at twelve thirty, Seth, which I’ve never met anyone who watches that show, and I’m not doing the bobs Berger’s bit here.
I’ve really never met anyone who’s seen Seth Meyers show. But apparently it was number one in twelve thirty Nightline and Taylor Thomlins’ is now wrapping up show split second place. Nightline had more total viewers, Taylor had more viewers in the demo. The Daily Show and Q one down one percent. Total numbers shared here by Late Nighter.
Guttfeld does a seven point four to five share, averages three point six million viewers well at eleven thirty, Colbar with almost two point four million, Kimmel one point eight, Fallin one point two at twelve thirty, and it’s actually twelve thirty seven. Now they’ve let that creep that far, while Seth Meyers nine hundred and thirty eight, thousand people and Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight six hundred and forty seven thousand people. We may be getting closer and closer to the end of the late night era. We’ll see what happens when these folks step down the Tonight show in third place. I mean, that’s just stunning, right.
Brad Williams is in San Antonio tonight and he caught up with my san Antonio. Brad’s at the Majestic Theater. If you want to drop by. My san Antonio was curious, Hey, Texas et cetera, c eating Mexican food. Brad said, bro, this is the thing.
I tore a lot, and I’m married, so I’m not out there chasing tail. I’m out there chasing good meals. I’m chasing good food. But when I’m a place in Indiana, somebody would be like, Hey, we got this Mexican joint that’s really great, and I’m like, don’t even bring that to me. What are you talking about.
It’s like, if I’m out in the middle of the country, I’m not gonna get seafood. And I don’t mind tex mex either, put Queso on everything. My san Antonio said, you’re coming here a week too early. Fiesta starts a week later. Brad said, Oh, then I’m coming at the exact right time.
I’m aware of what my status is in life and or i am in terms of the priority to buy tickets. I’m always honored that anyone comes to see me. I’m gonna give you guys an amazing show, but I’m not trying to compete with Fiesta. I’m a dwarf tilling jokes. During Fiesta, You’re gonna have a lot of Mexicans who are not that much taller than me doing cool stuff.
It’d be like having a gig on the same night as the Lakers, whereas Kobe and Shaq playing a playoff game be in the audience. Brad says, I choose to be a political during my show. You could probably figure out my politics, but I want comedy to be that place where everyone can come together and laugh. For me, the sign of a truly great joke is when you tell a joke to somebody who disagrees with it and they still laugh and they still see the absurdity. Good question from myceanatnari here.
So when you say that you can empathize with trans people because you too, are part of a marginalized group. In case you’re unfamiliar with Brad or haven’t caught from the contextclues yet, he is a little person. Are you worried you might lose some of your audience because that subtle opinion can turn certain people away, Brad said, I know. The exact joke you’re talking about was in my last comedy special, Starfish. The joke was about the butt like controversy.
When I told it, I got a laugh from the audience, but I didn’t like where the laugh was coming from. It was like punching down. As a dwarf, you don’t really want to punch down, so I rewrote the joke. That’s the beautiful part of being in comedy. You have friends of every type of gender, sexual orientation, race, and religion who will tell me where the sweet spot is for a joke.
As a dwarf, I’ve been the butt of a lot of jokes, but I’m fine with them as long as they’re funny and as long as they’re creative. MSN caught up on a Vice Instagram clip that is doing well with the Indian American community. In it, Nimesh says, who even asked us to come here. Indians didn’t just show up in the seventies and eighties. Now, We’ve been around for over a century, since the eighteen hundreds.
To be precise, we were looking for Christopher Columbus. We heard he was looking for us. Are you in Miami? Go see Ti. He’s performing some comedy tonight at the Miami Improv Comedy Theater.
Ti says, it’s a freedom. It’s therapeutic in my music. I’m serious because it comes from a very serious part of my life. And that’s probably the scape that I get in comedy because their things are so serious and heavy in the music, and now I can get out until a whole other side of the same experiences. TI is working on a venture called in the Trap, which will feature up and coming acts similar to Comic Viewer def Comedy Jamti says, if you’re not making it to a Netflix special, there’s no really other place for comics to be seen at the Moontai or a comedy festival in Austin.
On the website listing, if I counted correctly, thirty four shows, I won’t reach all thirty four, but let’s just see what’s going on. Industry Showcase at the Creek in the cave at six o’clock. That’s the kind of thing I like to attend because that’ll give you a sense for who’s next. That John goblecon guy is back. He’s got these Sclar Brothers at six o’clock.
Whoh hanging with Doctor Z at the hideout at seven o’clock. You know about this. Dana Gould plays legally distinct Doctor Zais from Planet of the Apes. The official description eccentric nineteen seventies era talk show host Doctor Z played by Dana Gould interviews current celebrity guests as themselves, but set in a golden age of talk shows. Check that out on YouTube.
There’s several of those. That’s just fun. Nice Gimmick seven forty five at Vulcan, Big Jay Okerson, An evening of crowd work eight o’clock at Sunset, strip tag it. The lineup includes Sclar Brothers, not not writing the Sclar Brothers. It’s just Sclar Brothers.
Is that how they actually go? And I’ve worked with these guys and they’re cool, but I always refer to them as the Sclar Brothers. Yeah, their website says the Sclar Brothers.
Also on that show, Bamford, Janine Garoffalo Interesting, Janelle James at th…
That’s speakeasy. Those are always good to go in at Antone’s at eleve o’clock Nightly Party, the Friday night Party at One More Day. And we’ll talk about that tomorrow on Hulu. Now they try to hide it from me, Hulu publicists. You could ignore me all you want, but I’m still gonna uncover your comedy specials Hulu today as Morgan Jay’s special Morgan Jay Live at the Village.
Morgan is having a big day, also doing two headline performances at the Wiltern in La today. Now this isn’t hilarious. This one apparently came to Hulu as part of a licensing deal, and the special has originally aired on YouTube. In twenty twenty three, Keith David talked about the Community movie he played Elroy in the final Underrated Season. Now, while this movie ever come out, I think it will.
And I say that because I lived long enough to see the Second Avenue subway built in New York City that seemed like a thing that was never going to happen. I lived long enough that they actually made more Star Wars movies. So I believe in the Community movie. Now. I might be eighty four years old when it comes out.
But Keith David said that he’s in quoting Keith just to show how rumor spread and lies. I never said anything like that when I asked whether to return a community. Of course, when asked, I will, and I’ve been told, you know, I will be invited to the party. However, it hasn’t fruitioned yet, and of course I would be there. It has not yet come up.
When it has come up, as I understand it, it could be a matter of schedules. There’s a lot of people to juggle around. It’s been a few years since we’ve done it. Seen I We’ll see. But let me dispel any rumor that I would not do it.
Of course I would. And The Daily Mail wrote about Benny Hill. If you are of a certain age, you remember Benny Hill fondly here in New York City. It aired on Channel nine, and those of us of a certain age watched it five days a week back in nineteen seventy one, Benny Hill was getting twenty one one million viewers and it was awarded the ITV Personality of the Year. But times change and now we look at Benny Hill and we’re like, hey, that’s racist and sexist and risque and vulgar, and we could never ever possibly make the Benny Hill Show today, even though I was nine years old and watching it, and I think I came out fine.
Apparently, over in the UK they did a TV special which weighed in on the question is it time to bring Benny Hill out of the comedy cold or should he stay canceled. Some gen Zers were shown a sketch which plays Benny Hill playing a talk show host speaking to a priest whose fly is undone. The talk show host tries to move a table with a vase of flowers to hide the priest wardrobe malfunction. One gen Zer said that was funny, and I think it was trying to cover it up with flower pad that was funny as well, just the awkwardness of it all. However, another clip, which showed a male office worker watching a young female colleague wearing a short skirt suspenders bending down open a drawer, was less popular at the beginning of the sketch, the mail worker is counting letters.
He’s up to number two thy forty four. However, after he’s distracted by his lecherous gazing at the secretary, he realizes he’s lost count has to start again. One of the gen zers said, the fact that that was on TV in prime time is insane. Another gen zer said, if that came up while you were watching TV with the family, it would definitely be weird. No, wouldn’t, really wouldn’t.
Journalist Nina Mascou said of the sketch, so this is purely a male fantasy of what a secretary is. Subservient, bent over when required, just so sleezy, just so sleazy. However, actress Nina Wadia said, it kind of works in that sketch. It works for me because the punchline is funny. Then they got into a character, Benny did.
The character’s name Chow Maine, and Chow Maine is from China. I do not recall this sketch. One of the gen zers said that wouldn’t fly today. I don’t think. Another said that caught me off guard.
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting that. The third said that act and him squinting his eyes, and that was really bad. One of the jokes chow Main makes is he is speaking, says the word election in a stereotypical accent, so the word comes out as erection. One of the gen zers said, so, the humor with the miscommunication I think was actually quite funny. But that the miscommunication was because of Reese is what made it unfunny.
You can’t have that both ways. Is it funny or not? Let me read that back. So the humor with the miscommunication, I think was actually quite funny. Towards the end of the Benny Hill Show run, they toned down the Hill’s angels.
Those were some attractive women who would appear on the show. Some critics thought that Benny Hill Show had lost its spark. By nineteen eighty four, it was canceled. Benny filmed an American show in nineteen ninety one, titled Benny Hill’s American World Tour, but his health was declining. In February nineteen ninety two, Benny Hill suffered a heart attack and was visited in the hospital by Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson apparently was a huge fan of the Benny Hill Show. Benny Hill was found dead in April of nineteen ninety two, sitting on his couch watching TV. He was sixty eight years old. That track comedy News for Today, See You Tomorrow.