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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It is very busy for Tuesday. The networks did their upfront, so that gave us a lot of TV news. But let’s start with Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts, six episodes out on Netflix today.
Tom till the La Times. I thought it would be fun to stream one episode of something scripted and produced on YMH Studios, just to see if there was an appetite for that. That was the idea. We shot that one episode in April of twenty one, and it was so expensive to do and post took a really long time, so it was almost twenty twenty two when we were like, here it is. Our agents looked at it and they were like, you have to shop this.
We know you can do something with this. I was in the middle of my tour at that point, so it wasn’t until twenty twenty four when I was like, Okay, we have to get on this. Bird has a relationship with Netflix, he has five specials on there, but said I was gonna take it to HBO, Amazon, all the places. I was like, I have a relationship with Netflix, I’ll just show it to them first to see if they’re interested. Netflix did not hesitate and green lit it.
Segora says, it’s six episodes, but we got to use two of the stories that were in the original presentation. Two of the three are in the actual series, and you can tell because I weigh forty pounds more. In the Kirk Fox is part of the series and says, we all have bad thoughts, but Tom has found a way to make them as funny as they are scary, and he directs the way he exists seamless economy of words. He knows what I’d like to see a scene and makes it clear to all Rob Eiler is in this here, like who’s Rob Eiler? Aj soprano, Yeah, he said.
Tom and Christina have always been extremely supportive. So when Tom asked if I do him a favor and it was outside of the Hollywood world, it made me feel like it would just be friends making a fun show. That drew me in. Seeing Tom have the cojones to spend as much money and believe in himself and then trusting me with part of that. It seemed like a bad choice on his end, but I was down for the ride, Sigora said, everyone in the cast was so good.
But do you know Rob Eiler’s last acting gig was this Pranos and then this, and it’s completely by choice. The guy gets called and offered role. Still, when people see him this, they’re gonna be like, oh, yeah, this guy’s an incredible actor. Minor minor spoiler coming up. Okay, at one point you’re going to see Sigora’s but he says it’s his.
It’s not great. I know it’s not, but I just had to deal with it. It’s funny because when my butcht was first exposed, I was very self conscious and covering up. After thirty minutes, I was like, yeah, just look at it. I don’t care anymore.
When you see the later episodes, it’s the other side. You get full frontal. Apparently we get a lot of variety in this. Tom said, I feel like I went to film school and got to make fifteen short films with all these different genres and different characters, and I got to apply what I love a fun twist. I did see a review of it.
I think somebody jumped the gun. There’s probably an embargo. Obviously, screeners are around, but as I record on Monday, nobody else had reviewed this thing, and one site did, so I’m guessing there was an embargo that they jumped. But the reviewer there said he was unfamiliar with Sigora’s work, so I’m going to discount that he didn’t enjoy the series, and we’ll all watch it ourselves today. Bad Thought on Netflix.
Tony Hinchcliff is on Bill Maher’s podcast this week. I didn’t get to listen to it yet, but I did skim the transcript. Mars said, your reputation now, Tony is a right winger because you did the Trump rally and told the Puerto Rico joke, which is a great joke. Tony says, you’d love to know the story because you would really understand it from a comedians perspective, like I’m gonna go there to do this thing and show off free speeches, this and that and make those kind of jokes. But I had a whole thing written and planned to go in the teleprompter, and that Puerto Rico joke was actually a joke.
I had done a bunch in my stand up, and it’s part of a bigger joke with more front end and a longer back end. Bill Maher was like, like, what, I’m curious, Tony, Well, it was, you know, basically the end of the normal joke. I go, you know, I’m talking about the problems of the world. And I go, I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.
And the point of the joke is that people picture, obviously in my mind, obviously the great Pacific garbage patch skipping a hit, Tony said. And I knew this going into it, and I knew it the last second when I was doing it into two thirty in the afternoon, which is another terrible problem. This is one thing I was upset about. Who was supposed to go to the evening. When I got there, I go, when am I going up in this thing?
And they say you’re up first? I went up after the national anthem. Mar was curious, why did you do it? Because you’re a support of Trumper? Is an opportunity and a paycheck?
Was it a paycheck, Tony, No, it wasn’t a paycheck. I did it literally to help get someone, hopefully, if not only ten thousand, maybe not to mention one hundred thousand, maybe two hundred if we’re lucky, actual people to vote for him. Mar Oh, so you did want people to vote for Trump? Tony yep, without a doubt. On TV Today.
The Joan Rivers tribute on NBC taped last November during the New York Comedy Festival at the Apollo Theater. A funny quote attributed to Joan Rivers. Given that I’m dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me. Well, it’s about time. This thing features Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Hattish, Aubrey Plaza, Rita Wilson, Joel McHale’s in this thing.
I saw somewhere. An interesting observation from daughter Melissa Rivers. She was asked by The Daily Mail, who reminds Melissa the most of Joan Rivers said, Nikki Glaser is the closest stylistically in her delivery. Obviously Melissa knows her mom better than I did. I’ve mentioned several times I did work with Joan.
I’ve been in Joan’s apartment. I’m not sure I see any Joan Rivers in Nikki Glaser, but you know I wouldn’t arm wrestle anyone over it? Curious what you guys think? You could share your thoughts in the Facebook group, which is Daily Common News podcast group. A lot of TV news.
NBC had their upfronts. They revealed they will do a one hundredth birthday for NBC. Apparently SNL fifty went well. They trotted out Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Polar said, We’re gonna celebrate this birthday hard with a once in a lifetime television event, NBC one hundred.
It will be a star studded variety special commemorating one hundred years of culture defining content from iconic moments to unforgettable stars. Do you think David Letterman will go? That’s the first thing I think of, Tina Fey says. Hosted by a mix of legendary NBC alumni in Today’s Biggest Stars, Jimmy Fallon, the night will be filled with memorable musical performances, comedy tributes, behind the scenes stories, and surprise reunions. That’s me editorializing about Jimmy Fallon.
They didn’t actually anounce Jimmy Fallon. You’ll be hearing more soon, but I can guarantee this because it’s twice the age of SNL. It’s going to be twice as long as the SNL anniversary special. That’s right, folks, six hours of a fun decade by decade look back, Mamy polar Aded. Get your protein bores and your water bottles ready for that marathon.
We don’t know when it will air, but NBC marks it’s one hundredth anniversary in November of twenty twenty six. Fourth quarter is a good time to sell ads, so you could pretty much write down November. They also shared some more details about the office spin off or retake or whatever we’re calling this thing. The paper Oscar Nunia has told a story in which he told Greg Daniels that post office he imagined Oscar had moved to a more cosmopolitan environment. Nunia said, Greg heard me and moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio, which has three times the population of Scranton.
So it’s nice to be heard. Am I the first one or the last one who put together that? At the office takes place at a paper company, and the word is paper, and the paper takes place at a newspaper which is paper. Did everybody put that together two years ago? Because I only put that together today or are you all going like, oh wow, I don’t know.
Daniels tell the Hollywood Reporter that the paper will employ much of the same crew that worked on the office. It’s all about this struggling mid It’s about this struggling Midwestern newspaper that’s much reduced from its glory. Toda’s A lot of the storylines are about how this guy, Domal Gleeson’s character is trying to restore the paper and he just doesn’t have the budget for hiring reporters, and he has to use all the staff that work there on a volunteer basis, two B reporters. They’re completely untrained and don’t know what they’re doing. The villain here is the Internet, the ability to look at everybody’s news for free, and all the ad revenue going to Google.
Tracy Morgan getting an NBC sitcom executive produced by Tina Fay. Tracy will co star with Daniel Radcliffe in the Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Tracy Morgan plays a disgraced former football player who’s on a mission to rehab his image. Radcoffe plays Arthur Tobin, a filmmaker who moves into Reggie’s mansion to film a documentary about the faded star. Morgan is also due to star in Crutch, a spinoff from the Neighborhood, in which Tracy Morgan plays a Harlem widower whose empty nest plans are put on hold after his millennial son and free spirited daughter moved back home.
On Friday, NBC canceled a bunch of things, including Lopez Versus Lopez and night Court, both those not coming back. Fox announced Fear Factor. The next chapter. The synopsis dropped into a remote location, A group of strangers will live together under one roof and face stunts challenges in a game of social strategy. The original ran on NBC from two thousand and one to two thousand and six.
It came back for a little bit in twenty eleven. In twenty seventeen, MTV also tried to relaunch it, with Ludacrous hosting. That version ran for thirty three episodes. How the point here is they’re not sure if Joe Rogan is coming back. Most people assume no.
Also out now Greg Guttfeld’s What Did I Miss? On that show, they placed five people in complete isolation and Upstate New York with no contact to the outside world, no phones, Internet, TV, social media. They were locked in a room or a house or whatever it is for ninety days January twentieth through April thirteenth. One of the five dropped out early. The four remaining contestants were brought to Guttfeld’s Fox News studio to play a game of true or false about the events of Trump’s first three months back in the White House.
The winner gets twenty five thousand dollars. They were locked away for ninety days for twenty five thousand dollars. I don’t want to be like mister big shot, mister big wallet, but that’s not that much money. And Greg Gutfeld seems to agree. He said, this is the cheapest game show in modern history.
These people are in a house for ninety days for twenty five grand. They could have made that on OnlyFans. A spokesperson for Fox News Media told The Hollywood Reporter the contestants were compensated daily for their time. Guttfeld said, I got them an extra five k. It’ll pay for the uber back home now.
The Hollywood Reporter did some math for okay. They point out ninety days is less than thirteen weeks if you put in forty hours per week at the New York state minimum wage of fifteen to fifteen an hour in in New York City at sixteen to fifteen hour, any full time worker would walk away from the same three month period with eight thousand dollars. And that doesn’t even factor in the other one hundred and twenty eight hours that you’re not working a forty hour week. One of the contestants, in an exit interview says, I feel terrible. I feel I had to spend ninety days of my life for no reason at all.
So much going on today, Let’s just do a bunch of gossip corner from Late Night or James Austin Johnson got injured during Saturday Night Live, Apparently during the sketch the second Amendments, where Johnson was standing behind a table the entire time playing James Madison, he slipped in the heels he had been wearing for the sketch, injuring his foot. During the Good Nights he was on crutches. Does SNL just have crutches backstage? Where did the crutches come from? The Saturday Night Network said Johnson was set to appear a second sketch called bullying assembly, but it was cut for time.
It’s unclear if it was cut for time or cut for crutches. Late Nighter points out Johnson’s injury is the first known instance of a mid show injury since season forty one, when Leslie Jones tore her acl in a sketch. Morgan Wallen was on a podcast and was asked, Hey, did SNL make you mad? Remember he kind of stormed off a little bit. Morgan is telling it none.
I was just ready to go home. I’d been there all week, because you know, you can’t wait an extra ninety seconds and wave at the camera and then leave. Avanka Trump was at the Theo vonn concert. The Irish Times tells us the President’s daughter let her hair down for a fun night out going to see the comedian. She dazzled in a little black dress, says The Irish Times.
Rob Schneider throughout the first pitch at the El Paso Chihuahuas game after being spotted in an El Paso coffee shop along with Drake Bell. Schneider wore a red Chihuahas jersey. It’s been a couple seconds warming up before throwing ball. Apparently made an ok pitch. The chiuaha was posted on social media.
Rob Schneider wasn’t a bench warmer tonight, Waca waca. Rob Schneider started in the two thousand and six film The Benchwarmers. Gabe Iglacias posted a selfie wearing a Taco Polenke hat. In the photo, he’s next to another man wearing the same hat. Who’s that man?
None other than the founder himself, One Francisco Poncho Ochoa Iglesia said in the Insta story, he’s the founder of El Poyo Loco, Taco, Polenke and Polenke Grill and I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and his family tonight in San Antonio. At eighty one years of age, he still continues to create an inspire. He’s also a Daughters fan. And that’s it. My voice is giving out, So we’ll wrap it up here and we’ll see you back tomorrow.