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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed yesterday’s podcast, it was a pretty good one. It was not Sunday filler. I had some good meat in there yesterday and including story about Shinge Gillis hitting up the Masters.
If you listened yesterday, you heard me kind of lose my voice a third of the way through the podcast. I don’t know what’s going on. I feel fine, but I am recording Sunday and Monday back to back. So what I’m doing here is I’m dialing it down a little. It reminds me of when I run.
You know, sometimes you get a little tight and you have to slow up a little. So I’m going to keep my energy a little more, even more even keeled than usual. Nate Berghatzy is stebbing up in class. He has been touted touted. Why did I say touted?
I could take that out. Nobody actually says that, right, He’s been touted. CBS has chosen, CBS has hired. CBS has picked Nate Bergetzy to host the seventy seventh ME Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on September fourteenth, Peacock Theater, CBS, That’s going to be awkward. Television Academy chair Chris Abrago sent a statement, Nate with one of the hottest comics in the business, with a remarkable and hilarious brand of comedy that deeply resonates with multi generational audiences around the globe.
We are thrilled to be able to leverage his one of a kind perspective to entertain TV fans watching this year’s Emmy telecast. In a statement, Nate said, it’s a huge honour to be asked to host such an iconic awards show, and I’m beyond excited to work with CBS to create a night that can be enjoyed by families around the world. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July fifteenth. The National Comedy Center announced who’s coming to the Comedy Festival this year in August. I got to get up there.
I’ve been talking about it for a few years, and I need an excuse for a long drive, and that’s a pretty part of the country. I think I might go up this year. John Stewart, Bill Murray, Mikey Day, Streeter Sidell, and Moore set to appear at the National Comedy Center’s Comedy Festival August seventh through the tenth, an evening with John Stewart’s Saturday August ninth on Sunday, a stand up showcase to be followed by a rock and blues concert featuring Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers. It’s an evening of comedy and music, a live blues and classic rock performance along with stand up by some of today’s top talent from around the country. Former guest on this podcast, Journey Gunderson said, John Stewart is one of the most influential comedic voices of our time.
That is true, providing his signature a social commentary at a pace responsive to the news cycle, while deeply thoughtful about our shared humanity. All that is true. That is a good quote. John Stewart said. I’ve said comedy is an iterative business and a grind, and the best amongst us just keep at it.
I’m glad there’s a museum, a national archive that drives on or that, and I look forward to seeing how the National Comedy Center tells the story of this great art form that survives every moment.
Also, the festival mighty day, SNL head writer Streeter Sidell, they will joi…
Their visit also commemorates the Washington’s dream Sketch Q cards being added to the museum. That’s fun. We found out a little bit more about that Office spin off. Oscar Nuniez has confirmed that he will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez on Office spin off. This is called The Paper I Believe, which will follow the same documentary crew that captured dunder Mifflin’s antics as they turned their focus to a Midwestern newspaper.
Ricky Gervasa’s wallet probably says thank you. Nunia says, they’re still editing and stuff. It’s very, very exciting. Oscar was talking with Angela Kinsey, who asked him, isn’t the understanding that you’re following the documentary crew to a new location and you happen to be there. Oscar Nuniaz said, that’s right.
More will be revealed, as my wife likes to say. Kinsey said she visited this set of the new show, and alongside Jenna Fisher, who you know as Pam. Jenna and I stopped by the set. Greg Daniels, the creator had invited us, and we showed up and not only was Oscar there, but our crew somebody in these wonderful peop Because the crew was our extended family. We’re still really close with them.
That was really moving to see. Steve Carell was asked about this show last year by The Holloway Reporter. He said, we’ll be watching, but I will not be showing up. It’s just a new thing and there’s really no reason for my character to show up in something like that. But I’m excited about it.
Sounds like a great conceit. I love the idea. I guess it’s set in a newspaper company. And I’ve worked with Domal Gleeson, who’s the star of this one. I did The Patient with him and he’s an excellent actor and a super nice guy.
So I think it’ll be great. Good quote from Steve Carell. There handled that properly. Season seventeen of its Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on FXX July ninth and on Hulu the next day. The premiere will be the second half of the crossover with Abbott Elementary, there’s a clip teasing the new season.
We see the Gang volunteering at the elementary school, stealing kids brownies and auditioning them for a potential boy band. This is season seventeen, but it celebrates the show’s twentieth anniversary. We’re told season seventeen is dubbed The Gang Embraces the Arp and tells the story of how greed and the New American Dream have consumed Patty’s Pub. They’ll exploit cross network promotion to increase market share. They’ll scape goat one of their own to avoid a pr backlash.
They’ll risk everything for a handshake with the Saudi’s. They’ll bend the laws with side housles to pad their pockets, and they’ll change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience. According to the log line, and sure, like any corporate goon, the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That’s been playing since two thousand and five, But they’re also human beings that crave love, respect, conditional freedom, constant adulation, histrionic amounts of attention, NonStop gratification, and unfiltered slap happy eroticism. There’s a pres lease for you.
I had to pause there and take a sip of my large iced coffee with pistachio. I don’t know what is going on with my voice. Maybe it’s the pollen is coming out. I feel fine. Tim Dillon was on News Nation the subject Robert F.
Kennedy. Now this interview took place before mister Kennedy’s comments on autism. We’re not going to get into that. Yllan had said he was all for Kennedy’s attempts to get Americans to eat healthier. News Nation rights.
In fact, he’d love to see Kennedy close fast food restaurants with armed soldiers. Tim said, I think it should go in too fast food restaurants with the military and shut them down. I think it should take people off the line at Chick fil at gunpoint. If we’re going to go to Taco Bell, but I knew that Rfka’d be there with the military, I might think twice about it. Dylan also talked about the Kevin Spacey thing.
In case you missed it, Kevin Spacey reprised his role as Frank Underwood to promote Dylan’s comedy special. Dylan says people are just tired of banishing people. People are imperfect, they’re flawed, they make mistakes, and he hopes that the pendulum has swung away from cancel culture. Tom Green told Vulture the number one thing people say to me when they find out that I’m Canadian is sorry about what’s going on right now. This isn’t our choice.
Green said, I don’t do a lot of political comedy, but I do have a joke I tell because the situation when right now I live in Canada, the fifty first state, the only state in the Union where nobody in it wants to be American except for Jordan Peterson, Wing Gretzky and the guy from Shirt Tank. Got it confuse laugh. Half the audience actually understands the full depth of the joke, and the other half is realizing for the first time that not everybody from every other country in the world dreams to being an American after being told you the greatest country in the world your entire life. Well, it’s a completely shocking statement. I haven’t told the joke in Kennedy yet, but I guarantee you when I tell it, people will be laughing.
For different reason. Canadians have always been a little more understated. American comedy is much more aggressive and on the nose. But our comedy is a silliness that’s just woven naturally into it, because there’s something of an insecurity, there, a humbleness that is masked in absurdity. We never say we’re the greatest country in the world.
We’re not screaming it from the rafters because it’s impolite. All right, my voice is giving out. I’m going to bounce two stories to tomorrow and take the break, but I will tell you here. The short version is otsco at Costka has got a special on Hulu and Tina Fey dodge some questions about Lord Michael’s job, but we’ll talk about that tomorrow.
All right, Let’s see if I can make to the end here, so you get your money’s w…
The show’s free, you know. On Gossip Corner. Craig Ferguson bought a new place two bedrooms in the East eighties, a block from the Tripolitan Museum of Arn’t in New York City. Ferguson and wife Megan have sold their castle in Scotland and picked up a classic co op for one point seventy nine million dollars. Now, I’ve never lived in a castle in Scotland, and I don’t know a condo in Manhattan.
Even if you’re overlooking Central Park, I don’t know. I think you traded down there. Craig Craig said, we’re very happy to be back in New York. And there’s a new box set with the Richard Pryor albums. This is getting a lot of pickup.
The pr people did a good job here. I’m a little confused because there have been at least two boxet said the Richard Pryor comedy albums. There’s definitely one, And I remember because when I started at Sirius, my boss asked me how come we didn’t play Richard Pryor And the answer was the records at that time sounded like crap and when he played them on an actual radio, you couldn’t really understand what Richard was saying.
And then they remastered them.
There was this red box set. I remember the box set. So I don’t know why we’re making a big deal out of this. Maybe because it’s been twenty years, John, I guess anyway. The new box set is called I Hope I’m funny.
The Warner Albums nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty three, out now via Rhino. The seven LP set features several albums. Now, I have a challenge. I’ll be honest here telling you in the story, mister Pryor titled his albums in a way that totally appropriated for mister Pryor to title his albums, but inappropriate for Johnny Mack to tell you the names of these albums here in twenty twenty five. So I’m gonna sub in the word Fella.
One of the albums, That Fella’s Crazy, was recently placed on Rolling Stone’s list of the seventy four best albums of nineteen seventy four. It was recorded at Don Cornelius’s Soul Trained nightclub in San Francisco. Chris Rock had once told Rolling Stone whenever they have a list of the one hundred greatest albums, Richard is never there. He’s not a musician, but Richard is one of the greatest recording artists ever. I’ll take that Fella’s Crazy over.
Frampton comes alive any day.
Also in the set, Is It Something I Said nineteen seventy six is a bi centenni…
Not just his cadences or the vocal impressions. He does the outfit and I love Eddie Murphy. I’m fifty five years old. Do the math we loved, delirious and raw. But it’s a cover act.
Richard Pryor got there first and wore the same red outfit. We’re close enough. Opening today the Sydney Comedy Festival, I know you got a month of Melbourne and you got zero days in between. The Sydney Comedy Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, featuring over three hundred performers today through Bay eighteenth. Daniel Sloss stars on the debut of the festival’s One Night Stands series, a Sydney exclusive performance April twenty fourth at the Sydney Opera House.
I Like this too. The Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl attendees can explore the y C Cana I’ve been down there. I’m trying to remember what that’s stand for. I guess it doesn’t matter. The yck’s precinct bars in the CBD that Central Business District, each hosting unexpected lineups in various surprise venues.
The festival will also features a pioneering mentorship initiative hosting four up and coming comedians. They are Alan Fang, Frankie rous Thorne to be Barone, and Stella Wu to develop their acts with seasoned industry professionals. Locals include star of RuPaul’s Drag Race down Under Rhys Nicholson. International stars include Brazilian’s Fabio Rabine. He’ll be performing in Portuguese.
Malaysia’s comedy Elites Cavin Jay, Roisel Van Gazel and Poppy Zach. They are the Malaysian Comedy All Stars. The Theater Sports All Stars blend improvisers with new talents, miniature for the arts, jobs and tourism. John Graham said from Humble origins twenty years ago, the Sydney Comedy Festival has become a big highlight in our cities calendar, which is why we’re now backing it with event funding from Destination NSW New South Wales. Our government has been working hard to rebuild our nightlife after a decade of lockouts and lockdowns, which unfortunately were no joke.
I see what we had did their Minister Graham, Hey, minister Graham, why don’t you fly down like a world renowned podcaster. Hope you promote this thing. You know, if you’ve got funds, you should use them. All right, my voice is gone. Tomorrow show will be good.
I can tell you that because it’s already half written. Plus the five stories I didn’t do today. I try see tomorrow