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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A little bit of a weird one today. The stories are more doom and gloom than I usually present to you. Let’s start with Nathan Fielder.
He’s getting into it with Paramount Plus. He is upset that Plus has removed an episode of the Comedy Central series Nathan for You. Nathan complained about this during Sunday’s episode of HBO’s The Rehearsal. In the rehearsal, Fielder explains that one of his proudest achievements is creating the Summit Ice apparel brand, which he launched during season three, episode two of Nathan for You back in twenty fifteen. The point of the brand was to promote Holocaust awareness.
In the episode of the rehearsal, Nate says, in late twenty twenty three, I discovered that the episode of Nathan for You featuring the Summit Ice story mysteriously went missing from the Paramount Plus streaming service. Has this gone by for two years without any of us noticing? I don’t know. In the HBO series, Fielder recreates the moment he learned about the removal. He directs Alexander Lyce, who’s playing fake Nathan in the rehearsal, to retype his email correspondent to Paramount in a voiceover, real Nathan, Fielder says, this is so complicated.
I wrote an email to some contacts I had at Paramount asking them why the episode was removed. The thing that made this tricky was Paramount is currently airing a different series of Mind as scripted drama that hadn’t yet been renewed. How I spoke to them could have career repercussions. I remember wanting to convey how urgent this was for me. My email was extremely cordial, using phrases like forever grateful and happy Holidays.
The network confirmed in the response that it was taken down intentionally and gave me a one word explanation as to why the word was Sensitivities Entertainment Weekly dug on this, and they are reporting that they’ve learned Paramount Plus is not streaming the episode after a standards review, but it’s unclear which of the company’s standards the episode failed to meet. Fielder’s narration says. In late twenty twenty three, a decision was made by Paramount Plus Germany to remove the episode in their region after they became uncomfortable with what they called anything that touches on anti Semitism in the aftermath of the Israel Hamas attacks. Nathan claims the German decision caused other countries to remove the episode, quoting the narration, before long, the ideology of Paramount Plus Germany had spread to the entire globe, eliminating all Jewish content that made them uncomfortable. This is real, by the way.
Fielder then shared some stats about programming currently available in the US on Paramount Plus. According to Fielders narration, on the Paramount app, there are fifty results for Nazi, ten for Hitler, and zero for Judaism. We’ve been erased anyway. You will find the rehearsal on max if you want to check that out for yourself. Joe Cooi has commented on a tragedy at a recent Filipino Canadian street festival in Vancouver, where eleven people were killed dozens more injured a man drove a black suv through a crowd who had gathered for the festival.
On his Facebook page, Joe coy said, I am heartbroken here what took place at the Vancouver Filipino festival. This is supposed to be an event that honors and celebrates our beautiful culture, and now we’re mourning the loss of eleven lives that were taken too soon. My heart goes out to everyone who’s affected by this horrific event. I love you.
Meanwhile, Kevin Hart has canceled his tour of India, which was scheduled to …
The organizers posted a statement on Instagram saying important update. In light of the recent tragic events, we along with Kevin Hart’s team, have decided to cancel the upcoming Delhi show scheduled for April thirtieth. We are working closely with Kevin Hort’s team on a new schedule and we’ll share updates soon. While we were looking forward to gathering with all of you, we believe it’s important to pause and stand in solidarity with all those affected. This terror attack took place on April twenty second and claimed the lives of twenty six people.
Now there is no way to smoothly transition into the rest of the news. Those were three heavy stories to start the show, which is why at the beginning I told you your typical show. So let me just jump at the pool and tell you. Sebastian Maniscalco will start in Apple’s first original scripted podcast. This one is called Easy Money The Charles Ponzi Story eight part series premiering June twenty third.
It traces the rise and fall of the man who gave the Ponzi scheme his name. Ponzi was an Italian immigrant who in nineteen twenty defrauded the modern day equivalent of a quarter of a billion dollars. Now this is a I assume an audio podcast, but they showed mister Ponzi and Sebastian’s side by side. It’s good physical casting. Sebastian looks a lot more like mister Ponzie than say I do.
Man of Scalco said, Charles Ponzie was a larger than life character. He wasn’t just a con artist. He was the con artist. Stepping into his shoes and bringing this unbelievab story to life has been a wild ride. Easy Money The Charles Ponzie Story is a fascinating look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, and Johnny Mack will comment that sentence clearly written by a publicist, There’s no way.
Sebastian just off the top of his head, phrased it easy money. The Charles Ponzie story is a fascinat look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, a masterclass in term deception and the price of believing in something too good to be true. It’s always sunny. Season seventeen comes back, well not season seventeen, but the show comes back July ninth. This is the second half of the crossover with Abbott.
Elementary Charlie Day has indicated that he and Rob and Glenn are already working on season eighteen. That’s great. Charlie was on Andrew Santino’s golf podcast No Bad Lies, and Charlie explains, in this town, when you get the opportunity to do something, you take it. Plus it’s been great for me. I don’t know, it’s kept me in town.
I’m getting on the back half of raising his sun. I’ve been around. He knows who I am. There was a time when there were a lot of big comedy movies happening, and I thought maybe I was gonna be on the road more often, and those just kind of dried up. So I’m glad I didn’t quit my TV day job.
You know, here’s John’s advice. Never quit a hit show. Like say you’re Kelsey Grimmer and somebody says, hey, you want to be Fraser. You get I think he did eight seasons of Cheers, eleven more of Fraser and then two more of the other other Fraser. That’s a good gig.
Hey, Patrick Stewart, you want to be Captain Picard. Sure, I’ll be Captain McCard. And I’ve heard Patrick Stewart explain this. By being Captain McCard it gives him the money to do Shakespeare in the Park for free, which is what he really wants to do. So sure, I’ll do seven seasons of the Next Generation.
I’ll do three seasons of Picard. I’ll make four movies. Why not never quit a hit show. Jay Leno showing up in the news a lot lately. He did a podcast called In Depth with Graham and Bensinger.
I have downloaded it. I didn’t get a chance to listen to it yet. One of the stories Leno told was about when Jimmy Kimmel came on my show and humiliated me on my own show. I let it happen I didn’t edit it. It was my mistake.
I trusted somebody and went, ah, I made a mistake. Okay, I should pay the price. And it’s fine. I mean, we could have edited out of the show. Graham was curious why he didn’t make the edit.
Leno said, because it happened. It’s real, it happened. It’s my mistake. It’s how you learn. It’s not good TV for me because it started a whole thing that continues to this day.
Really, but it’s okay, it’s all right. He’s a comic. Gotta do what you gotta do. I mean, I wouldn’t have done it, but that’s okay, that’s all right. It is what it is.
You may recall back in twenty ten, Kimmel went on The Tonight Show and gave Leno the business for the whole Leno Conan Back to Leno thing. During the interview, Leno asked Kimmel about the best prank he ever pulled. Kimmel said, and this is both vicious and hilarious. I told the guy that five years from now, I’m going to give you my show.
And then when the five years came, I gave it to him.
And then I took it back almost instantly. In twenty seventeen, Jimmy Kimmel told The Hollywood Reporter that the two comedians had made peace. This after Jimmy Sun underwent open heart surgery. Jay told the reporter, Jay and I have made peace. After my son had his operation.
He called me and he was very nice. However, after Conan hosted the Oscars, Kimmel Joe Conan did such a good job. The Oscars announced that next year they’re giving it to Jay Leno, which is just a joke. I don’t think he can get too angry about that one. Bert Kreischer was on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and the Internet is all a buzz because on the show’s Instagram we see that this is shocking.
You’re not gonna believe this. Bert Kreischer took his shirt off. That’s right, yes, so I’ve never heard of that before. Bert Krescher took off his shirt before making his way through Jennifer Hudson’s Spirit Tunnel as crew members saying Nelly’s it’s hot in here. The show even captured the clip on Instagram.
It’s getting hot in here with at Bert Krascher. So in a shocking development. It was Saturday night and I was awake at ten o’clock. That may have had something to do with Johnny Mack passed out in the chair playing MLB the show twenty five from like five point thirty to seven. It might have had something to do with that.
So at ten o’clock I was like, Oh, Brett Goldstein is on Max right now, I will watch it. I enjoyed it. I found it really nice company. Is it the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard? No, but I just enjoyed spending the hour with Brett Goldstein.
The specials called second best Night of your Life, and I have added it to my best of twenty five list, which is very thin. Right now. I have in the top tier Krasier, Goldstein, and Tim Dillon in that order, and none of those will be number one. We’ll obviously bretton Tim won’t because they’re already two and three. But Bert should not be the best special of the year.
If it is, it’s been a pretty poor year. These will be in the top tier, but they should be at the bottom of the top tier if we have a typical twenty twenty five. I also have my middle tier of perfectly fine specials of Roy Wood, Ari Shafir and Gabe Iglesias, and I actually want to add one. I’ll do that right now. I’ve typed in the number four and I will tell you who number four is.
It’s Jessica Curson. Yeah, I put that on now. This is when I get into my It’s not comedy snobbery, but if you listen enough, you can tell I kind of like quirky things and alt things, and I definitely like British comedians. I’m aware of all those biases. I have.
Jessica’s show I think for a casual someone who’s sitting down and saying, hey, I just want to watch comedy special. I don’t know too much about stand up. If they hit play, they’re gonna go wow. That was really funny. I really like her and it is funny.
It reminded me a lot of the Bobby Slaton style of comedy. And it’s not my cup of tea, but it’s a perfectly fine comedy special. Does that makes sense? So not for me, but might be for you. Check out Jessica Curson.
In fact, I think the average person will prefer Jessica over Brett. But I really liked Brett. I just found it easy on the ears and enjoyed hanging out with Britt Goldstein four an hour on Saturday Night. It looks like comedian Benny Elbows did break the world record for the world’s longest stand up comedy set. The video has to be submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for official confirmation.
We’ll see what they wind up saying. In the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group, Aaron shared an article titled some SNL fans are worried about Colin Joe’s future on the show, and they could have a point. All right, So what’s going on here for the season finale? Scarlett Johansson is your host? Scarlett Johansson married to Colin Jost.
Also, somebody has done the math that episode will be Colin Jost’s two hundredth time doing weekend update. That has got the internet a buzz in two ways. One is Colin Jost leaving SNL and or is Colin Jost going to take over for Lorne Michaels. I think if you’re going to leave SNL, this is the year to get out. On fifty I don’t think you want to be part of season fifty one, unless you’re planning on sticking around for a while.
That said, did you listen to Johnny Mack earlier in the show? Don’t leave a hit show. It’s steady work. It’s a steady profile. Having a steady profile gets you other work.
Colin, you could just sit at that desk for another ten years. You probably should. As for Colin taking over for Lorne, I find that interesting. I never met Colin, but his public persona makes me think maybe he doesn’t have the right public persona to fight with the network. That takes a special skill.
I feel like something like Tina Fey might have more what I call hit points than a Colin Jost who just seems like a nice, cheerful guy who would come in and be like gerr NBC executives, I’m angry. Whereas I could see Tina’s pretty up there in the entertainment industry, and I feel like she could throw her weight around a little bit more like if things went sideways, Tina Fey steps down from SNL would be a major headline. Colin Joe steps down from SNL would be a headline, and then the next paragraph would be he will be succeeded by a person who’s taking over the show again. Not at dissent Colin, it’s just his public persona. Maybe he’s a total hard ass mini behind the scenes.
I don’t know, but that’s just my take. And I’m a guy who records a podcast in a basement, So what do I know. That is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.