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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts on Netflix. Wow, just wow? Is that thing funny? And I’ll tell you the Garth Brooks stuff no spoilers.
I could watch him do that Garth Brooks thing for hours and hours. I wish that alone was a series. The show is outrageous with a capital O dirty funny. Uh. The production value is incredible.
It looks like you’re watching a quality film. It is going for it and it is nailing it. This isn’t just some you know, side thing that they threw together. This is great Bad Thoughts Tom Sagora on Netflix. Check that out.
Sagora is also on Rogan. I was listening to it this morning at four twenty am, as I did in an airport run. I am a fan of listening to Rogan in the middle of the night because the volume tends to be very even keeled, no yelling and shouting on Rogan’s podcast. When I’ve insomnia, I turned to that and for the airport run it hit the spots. So Tom Sagora is on Joe Rogan also one hundred percent check out Mark Malkoff’s podcast Inside Late Night.
On the latest episode, he has Bill Carter, you know, the guy that wrote the various books about Late Night, a great discussion. At one point they get into the Jay Leno stuff that I’ve been talking about lately, and uh a short version. They also got into that Jay really doesn’t have a legacy, and if he does have a legacy, it’s tied to Conan. But I’m gonna hold that for Memorial Day weekend because right now it’s been a little busy and you know, remember the comedy dearth Room two weeks ago. So I don’t want to go handing in twenty five minute episodes and then go into Memorial Weekend trying to figure out how it can even fill ten minutes.
I’ll hold off on that, And I’m also holding off on the very good conversation we’re having in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group about Late Night Mount Rushmore. So I’ll do all that on Memorial Day weekend. All right, Jumping in today, John Mulaney would like weird Al to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I heavily agree with weird how there are three distinct types of weird Al songs. There are the straight up parodies, so instead of beat it, you get to eat it.
We all know about that. There are these style parodies or the pastiche parodies. For example, maybe my favorite weird Al track is called Dogg Eat Dog, which is in the style of Talking Heads, but not a talking Heads direct parody. He’s got a lot of those that are underrated.
And then there are the weird originals, which are humorous songs not based on…
Millennie told Rolling Stone, I’m a big proponent of novelty music. I’m a big proponent of weird Al getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Weird Al brought more people to music than’s recognized at all. Part of Malaney’s argument is Chubby Checker got in the hall, and it’s kind of a novelty act with twist and twist. Again, Millenie argues that this is one step closer.
I will, in fact, greatly devalue my coolness by saying, when I was young, it wasn’t until smells like Nirvana, Defang, smells like teen Spirit that I could enjoy. Smells like teen Spirit scaryt first, and after you laugh at it, smells like Nirvana. You go, oh, this is a really good song. Apparently someone has decided Matt Rife is going to be a movie star. I don’t know if Matt Riife is a good actor or not.
I told you yesterday he’s going to be in a movie. Well, here’s a second. This is a totally different story. Emma Roberts and Matt Rife will star in the romantic comedy Marriage Material from BuzzFeed Studios. That might be a clue here what we’re about to get.
Marriage Material follows the founder of a dating app whose deadbeat husband’s alimony payments are bleeding or dry submission, so she must use it to find him a new wife before her company goes public. Sounds great, Matt Rife. Marriage Material can’t wait. Shane Gillis is extending his tour, adding ten additional US cities. The new dates this summer July off of September.
Tulsa, KC. Louisville, Saint Louis, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Houston, Hollywood, Florida, Orlando, Florida. Representatives for Gillis in an announcement said these new shows come in response to a staggering demand for tickets across the USA, Canada, and European dates, adding the Gillis Is set the all time ticket sales record at six arenas, including a one in Toronto and achieving historic sellouts, and eleven more including Phillies Wells Fargo Center, marking each of the venue’s largest comedy shows ever. Go Shane Gillis. I have it in my mind to go see Shane the next time he comes this way.
Jimmy Kimmel was at the ABC Upfronts. He hosts this every year, and did his usual thing. He told the audience of ad buyers. I might not see you again. This could be it.
I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know a lot of you over the last twenty three years, and I know many of you will worry that AI might take your jobs. But I don’t think it will. I don’t believe a computer, even the most powerful computer, will be able to do what you do. And you know why, because no computer wants to do what you do. Your job suck.
Every year, our audiences get smaller, and we tell you it’s bigger and we want more for less. It’s exhausting. I know we’re annoying and unreasonable. You have crappy jobs because of it. But at least you have the crappy jobs.
All those kids we saw graduating this weekend who they might not be able to get their crappy jobs, some of them might have to date Bill Belichick. Kim Will offered the naming rights to his soon to be born grandchild. He took shots at CBS, led by their hit comedy Ghosts, which is also what most of their views will be soon Wow, and NBC talking about their spinoff for cent Nobody even knows how to pronounce it. Versant is a perfect name. It already sounds like something you subscribe to by accident.
Kim All on the state of network TV. He said, usually I come out here to distract you from the fact that we’re dying. But somehow network television like Jesus, has risen again. Of the four major networks NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox, only one of us did not see viewership go year to year. ABC was flat.
I’m not going to tell you which one of us it is because it doesn’t matter. Please don’t ask, Just be happy for us. He commented on NBC’s chairman of Global Advertising, Mark Marshall, who had claimed that NBC has amassed the greatest collection of content that has ever been assembled by one media company. The joke, I guess Mark has never heard of porn hub. He pointed out ABC’s not really making too many news shows.
At least CBS and Fox are making shows. ABC we ordered one new show and it’s a spin off of an old show, which begs the question what are we doing here? We risked our lives flying into Newark Airport for this. I mean, if you went to a restaurant in the waiter set are special tonight is last year’s fish? Would you eat it?
He talked about a recent survey. Deloitte did a survey that show that gen Z and millennial viewers are spending more time on social media than watching TV. Yeah, no, crap, you think we need a survey to know that? F you, Deloitte, And you know what, f those ungrateful gen Z d bags too. Oh you’re too cool for match game?
Well, guess what when you have kids and you need that hit of Mowana to take the little bastards quiet for two hours, you’ll come crawling back to Disney like dogs. He talked about the new ESPN streaming platform, The new service bringing live content to millions of fans around the world. Will go buy the name. Are you ready? ESPN?
And that’s why they call us imagineers. He also got serious and asked the advertising buying public to support CBS’s sixty minutes and said, I know it’s not part of our multiplatform, but sports sixty minutes they deserve it. You have the power because you have the money. Support journalism. It’s important and it doesn’t work without you.
I saw this one on Celebrityaccess dot com. A guy named Bob left Sets apparently really liked Chappelle in concert the other day. Just this was wonderful writing. Let me read it to you, Bob wrote, last week we watched Bill burrs Knew Hulu special. Thinking about it, I felt it was more attitude than jokes.
Bill’s got a persona angry guy removed from everybody else who points out the insanity of life. But Bill puts himself down here and there. Chappelle does not, and Chappelle tells more jokes. But watching him tonight, you realize that the laugh is almost always a throwaway at the end, which made me wonder how much was pure delivery slash timing jokes are one thing, being a comedian is quite another, and a lot of comedians work fast, fearful of dead spot, expressing their anxiety about acceptance. But Chappelle works slowly with complete confidence.
He knows you’re gonna laugh. It’s like an elite sports star saying Steph Curry gives Steph Curry the ball with no one on the court, and he knows he’s gonna sink it. Dave is very real. He hangs with the rich, famous, but he doesn’t evidence airs. You really feel like you’re in his living room listening to him, and it’s not blind listening.
Chappelle makes you think it’s both an amazing and confounding experience because on some levels he’s just telling stories and he’s got his smoking stick for pauses. But then he drops truth proms and you realize this is more than entertainment. I felt like I lived through something. It was a sensation more than laughs. It’s not like I left the building feeling good, rather a bit numb, floating in my own bubble, an elusive feeling that I’d love to experience again.
Kind of like sex. You can’t have it all the time, but you’re always on the lookout for it, and when you can’t get it, it’s often all you can think about. So tonight show is in the ether. There are no recordings. You had to be there, and if you were not, you completely missed out.
Pat Oswald realized he had played in every state except Wyoming and Montana. Well, he is fixing that. Bozman Tonight Casper the next two nights. James Austin Johnson has announced a tour nineteen cities starting May twenty ninth in LA going through late August. It’s the return to Off tour.
One of the shows in Greensboro, North Carolina will be a benefit show. He’ll team up with Andrew ded Smuch’s. They’ll headline a night of stand Up on July seventeenth to raise money for hel It’s a nonprofit that provides direct, no strings attachment money to people in need in the Greensboro area. In the announcement, James said, I’m on tour this summer. There’s nothing you can do about it.
Can’t wait to see you all. The Police don’t destroy Guys or working on a tour documentary slash Special for release this summer. They were the guests on Berbigley A’s Working It Out podcast. The special compiles material from their twenty twenty three summer tour. Ben Marshall told Burbiggs, we filmed a bunch of the shows on the road, we cut them all together.
It’s taken so long. It’s finally going to come out this summer and we’re super pumped about it. They did not announce the distribution on that. People are speculating YouTube, but we will see. Kevin Hart’s always got a business going, here’s a new one.
Ken Griffy Junior, the Baseball Hall of Famer, will co host a new unscripted golf series along with golf caddy turned ESPN analyst Michael Collins. This will be on Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat LOL Network on YouTube. In it, you will see Griffian Collins tee off with celebrity guests. You see what they did there. The celebrity guests include NFL or Ryan Fitzpatrick, some guys from the Mariners, some guys from the Philadelphia Eagles, and others.
And because it’s Kevin Hart, it’s got a title sponsor. But they can pay for their mention. But I’ll throw them a bone. That guy Jeek from the commercials, he’s in it now. Tomorrow, Greg Warren has a new stand up special, The Champ.
This will be on Natepergatzy’s Nateland Entertainment YouTube channel. In The Champ, Greg Warren delivers a deep dive into the perils of poison ivy, the unexpected popularity of high school fishing teams, and his own path to champion status. Filmed at the Funny Bone in Columbus, Ohio, The Champ is the fourth stand up special release this year by Nateland, and the second Warren has done with Brighezzi. There’s a trailer. It’s two minutes long.
I pulled just the first section. Let’s listen. Do you know that state of Illinois has high school fishing fishing coaches? I’m gonna guests are similar to the coaches I had. Will you boys embarrass yourselves out there on that lake today?
Hey s got his whole caught in the tree. Jansen pulled a shoe out of the lake, and Martin, you couldn’t catch a fish in the secret department at. The Cross Restore. If I was a fish, I feel safer out everyone. It’s okay, It’s all right, yeah fine.
Sheng Wang, one of my Faves will return to Netflix one another stand up special in twenty twenty six. They’re not filming it until November eighth at the Warner Theater in Washington, so you know, I could see that on the Netflix calendar in January. And we’ll leave on a down note. Morris, a six hundred and forty pound alligator, has died at the age of eighty. You may recognize Morris from his work in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore.
That’s not the end of his filmography, oh no. He was an alligator Alligator two Interview with the Vampire Doctor Doolittle two Eraser and Blues Brothers two thousand. He even appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Jay Young is the owner of the Colorado Gator Farm. He announced Morris’s passing in a video on Facebook.
He was sitting by the pool of Morse’s enclosure. Young gently stroked the gator’s massive head as he paid tribute to the animal he had cared for for decades. Jay Young said he started acting strange a week ago. He wasn’t looking at us and wasn’t taking food. I know it’s weird to some people that we get so attached to an alligator, but we all love our animals just like cats and dogs.
That’s your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.