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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I am Johnnie Mack and my dog seems to be co hosting. Today. We have two day’s Daily Comedy News. Some housekeeping before I begin.
As I’ve mentioned on the last few episodes, my son graduated from college on Friday. So I’m actually recording this Thursday around lunchtime. And I’m sharing that because I feel like some of the stories may have modified between then and now. Is I just want to get in front of that because I tape this on Thursday. I haven’t seen Saturday Night Live yet.
I’ll talk about that on tomorrow’s episode. And boy, I gotta tell you, I’ve been thinking a lot about the late night stuff and there’s been a bunch of conan articles. I shared those in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. I have some thoughts about late night Mount Rushmore. I’ve been thinking about this a lot.
I can’t wait to record all this stuff. I just don’t have time because of the graduation. So here’s Monday’s episode. And as I record this. On Thursday, TMZ was reporting theo Vaughn caught on camera grabbing the throat of a man at a Nashville bar.
As the story goes. Footage obtained by TMZ last Wednesday shows THEO Vaughn at the twelve thirty Club on May second, arguing with a man holding a bouquet of birthday balloons. The video apparently shows THEO Vaughn thrusting the man away before the video cuts to Theovon shoving the man by the throat. It’s unclear if the two shoves were from different vantage points whether Von shoved the man twice. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed the incident to the New York Daily News and identified the man.
Two days after the altercation, officers were sent to the apartment of the man, whose quote allegation of misdemeanor assault by mister Vaughan was investigated and staffed with the District Attorney’s office, which determined there will be no action taken concerning the complaint. Police did not say what led to the altercation. Sources told TMZ that the man at his group had been repeatedly harassed Vaughan and using threatening language again. And I want to be crystal clear, I’m recording this on Thursday, and I’ll have any updates if any, on tomorrow’s podcast.
Also breaking as I record this.
On Thursday, Media I picked up on a conversation Rogan had with Tom Segura. As they report it, Rogan argued against banning Kanye West’s new song. Now, I have to be careful here because I don’t want to get kicked off the platforms that I’m on. But if you google Kanye West’s new song, the title is a salutation you would say to the greatest of all World War two villains. Okay, so we know who we’re talking about, the guy with a mustache, that guy, and there was a way you would greet him.
That’s the name of the song, Rogan said, first of all, kind of catchy. Segura said, what’s the problem with it? The guy from production has never lost a step? You know what. Let me actually pull the audio here.
Okay, I’ve got the audio here. I’ve made a couple edits for swear words, but I’ve left the integrity of the comment in place. So I think if you hear Sigora and Rogan’s tune, the headline is a little alarmist. But let’s listen to a clip from the Joe Rogan experience. Bro what is what?
Here’s the thing? What? Well, that’s the problem with it, that’s the problem. It’s like the guy from production like he’s never lost a step. He can make a beat, he can like he’s so talented.
He’s a genius. He’s a talented producer. Man. I do think it’s like when, first of all, I think people are kind of done asking him questions because most it puts out is like self released kind of commentary or thoughts because he’s saying just crazy, you know, it’s the craziest thing. But there is a thing where that song is like what what are you doing, dude?
Like, what are you doing for ultimate pushing back? Yeah, I guess, but there is like, like, I I think I have a pretty you know, let things go kind of vibe to me obviously, Joe, Yeah, that shows ridiculous. It’s ridiculous show. And I’ve always been like, yes, say whatever you’re gonna say. But I do think, like making a catchy song about that, I’m like, what are you doing?
Man? So Garo goes on to say, is that cool to do? I guess if you’re like, well, it’s fun totrol the masses. What I’m saying like, at a minimum, you’re going to get less educated people to go, that’s a fun thing to say, and you’re like, is that good. Rogan made clear that he does not support anti semitism or racism, but then argue that banning Kanye’s song may give it more influence.
Rogan argues, there’s a benefit to just letting people talk. Let people say whatever the bleep they want to say, even if it sucks. This is the benefit of Twitter. But it’s also the bad part. It’s like, the Bleeping song has so many millions of hits on Twitter.
It’s been banned on every platform. But is it good to ban things from platform or is it better to let it be out there and let people talk about it. God On O’Brien had a lengthy interview with The Today’s Show. They’ve released the ninety minute version. I did share that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group.
I’ll pick of that over the next few days. One of the things Kina talked about was learning of the death of his parents. Conan said, I was in Austria when my brother Luke called me and said Dad passed and rushed back to Boston and there his mother was not doing well. Conan said, and I could tell that she was going which was surreal, and she passed within three days of my dad passing, and the funeral became a double funeral and the scramble to get that together and all the emotions that come with it. During this time, he was getting ready to host the Oscars.
Conan explains, the minute Christmas was over, I was like, Okay, you just have to get to work on the Oscars because there’s not much time. Then the fire’s hit and we were evacuated and we were living in a hotel. He found solace in his work, explaining it’s healing to be in a room with really funny people that no one care about me, and to be working on something that we’re trying to make that positive and life affirming and silly. Of his parents, he said they were very proud Kathy Griffin, who’s one of those personalities that like, every time her name comes up, there’s always like strife. Oh, it’s never Oh, Kathy Griffin had a nice day and pet some puppies.
There’s always something. She was on a YouTube show, Talk Your Head Off and called Stephen Colbert a D word, the one for genitalia. That one. We try and keep it clean here at Daily Comedy News. This all gets back to Kathy Griffin and the thing with the really famous politician that prompted the Secret Service to investigate Kathy Griffin.
Remember all that, Yeah, So, as Kathy tells it, a segment producer from The Late Show agreed that they wouldn’t talk about the picture. However, according to Kathy, the producer went back on his word when she arrived at the set of Colbert and told her Colbert wants to talk about the picture. Kathy recalls being distraught and nervous. She was just hoping to promote her performance at Carnegie Hall. She says, she told the producer, if you get down the road of talking about the picture and get really dark and the details from the fallout from the picture of dark as well.
Colbert knows that picture was covered, and he knows my investigation was bs and he makes fun of Donald Trump, and we all know Trump is nothing but a clown. So I think we’re like minded on this. He goes in and about the Trump picture, but he goes in hard. He went in with the line of questioning of the what were you thinking and that you must have known it was too far and that sort of thing was a line of questioning. I remember thinking, Wow, he has way more of a buys against me and my right to take that photo that I imagined in my worst case scenario.
Cathy claims that Colbert kept going and going about the topic, and then the tears came. I felt my eyes fill up, and I thought, oh God, no, anything but this. Anything but you’re a grown woman who’s a female comedian trying to prove you can keep up with the boys who cannot cry. I’m glad to say, not one tier escape my tear, duck. So I did not cry.
I did not have a tier that was visible to the audience. I don’t think the audience could tell that my eyes filled up. I do think Stephen could tell. Didn’t stop him. I do not feel he had any empathy, but I did feel he had an understanding of what was happening, and that’s what made it worse.
And I remember thinking, you asked him to be on the show. I’m a guest, this is your show, this is your world. This is fascinating because I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad word about Stephen Colbert. I’m not at all surprised that Colbert would want to bring the topic up if you’re going to book Kathy Griffin, Hey, Kathy, so you’re playing Carnegie Hall. Yeah, I am.
It’s gonna be a great show. Sure, what do you think is going to happen? Cathy said, I have such a low opinion of Stephen Colbert. Now he’s not gonna hear it, but if he does, he’ll probably is shoot one of those statements saying I made the whole thing up and then I’m irrelevant, and then he didn’t know I was crying. No, I recorded this four days ago.
I don’t see Stephen Colbert putting out a statement in saying, oh they go the Griffins lie. I don’t see that happening. I’m so used to guys making statements like that about me. It’s ridiculous. Kathy also accused Colbert of punching down.
He’s just accomplished just about everything he can as a comedian, and he’s wildly talented, and he’s obviously very bright. But man, what a D word? What a D word? And to go for me, of all people, just to me, it was so lace with misogyny, but that undercurrent of misogyny where Wo’d probably be shocked to hear that anyone accused him of having announce of misogyny. But I remember thinking he would not talk down to the guys like this.
He just wouldn’t. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him treat any of the guy comics like this. I walked off, and I remember I was about one step away from the desk and the tears came, but I was still smiling and waving, and I could feel coming down my cheeks. The EP executive producer rushed over to me, so that was crying, and I just said, what was that? What was that?
Kathy said? The producer tried to explain Colbert’s questioning. He just couldn’t get over the picture. He just can’t get over it, quoting Kathy here, and I go, what’s for him to get over? I don’t understand.
It wasn’t a picture of his decapitated head, Kathy says. The EP said, Steven’s really Catholic, and I go, what what does that have to do with anything? I was raised Catholic too, And he said, I think it’s just what it is. And I said, okay, I can’t make any sense of that. Kathy has a plea to Stephen Colbert.
I’m just being honest to the best of my recollection. So Stephen Colbert, please don’t be a d word again and sue me. I just wanted to tell the folks the wiles, behind the scenes story of any talk show I’ve ever done, and now you know why I haven’t been on that show since and never will be again. Boy, that’s just a lot. Oh what else gonna tell you about?
I’ve got this millenia article that I shared in the Facebook group Daily comedyws podcast group. But let’s do that one tomorrow. Jordan Klepper, he’s got a special tonight the compactly titled The Daily Show Presents Colan Jordan Lepper, Fingers the Pulse, Colan Maga, Colan the Next Generation. So if you want to watch The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper, Fingers the Pulse, Maga the Next Generation, they will dive into the pocket of young voters who turned out for Trump during last year’s election. The half hour special on tonight’s on Comedy Central is Klepper’s Sick, a Daily Show branded special eleven thirty on Comedy Central.
So last week was the NFL schedule reveal. The Kansas City Chiefs grabbed Ben Bailey, you know, the cash Cab guy. The Chiefs had a cab made and blazon with a customed Casey taxi logo on the doors. Chiefs Chief marketing officer Lara Krug said, these viral schedule, these videos have taken on a life of their own. This year, we wanted to do something different and found a formula that works really well.
How do we tap into entertainment and the cultural zeitgeist. The team came up with some ideas and the minute a concept surfaced around cash Cab, we saw the potential. It’s such a nostalgic show with huge fans behind it. We thought what if we were able to bring it back and recreate it. I mean nothing against cash Cab, but is there really cash Cab nostalgia?
Were the people in the Chiefs Marty group. Yeah, we gotta get Ben Bailey in a cab, like really and it’s fun at all, but it’s not like the most amazing idea. Krug explained. In order for Chiefs Cab to work, they needed Ben Bailey. She says, there could be no version of this where you didn’t have the original host be part of it.
You think we’re small and mighty in the marketing department. Are you Chiefs been pretty successful last ten years? Don’t You’re in the NFL. You guys have money. Don’t act like you don’t have money.
And I’m just very proud of the team pulling it off. Just’s pressure every year to figure out how to do it and stand out amongst the other thirty one teams. So they get Ben bally three groups compete in a trivia game. The groups featured cornerback Trent McDuffie, former Chiefs quarterback Trent Green, the voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthis, three cheerleaders, and some social media influencers. Krug says, we try to arrange the passengers almost like puzzle pieces reach of the Riots to have a combination of personality as a current and form of player, true fans of the team, and influencers, some of whom have international appeal.
So it adds a sense of authenticity and goes a long way. Yeah, nothing more authentic than having a bunch of social media influencers in a cash cab with a Chiefs logo. That’s very authentic. Ben Bailey tells the Hollywood Reporter, I couldn’t believe it. It’s always fun to do something like this, especially for a big schedule reveal, as if he does schedule reveals all the time.
I’m happy to be here and it’s been really fun. He describes himself as a big football fan. Could Cash Cab come back? Bailey says, the fact that it’s still relevant now and people want to see it and they’re still thinking about it, it could come back. He did once.
You never Know reboots turned into a phenomenon. Everybody to look through the old shows considering what to bring back. Who knows. All right, I have to go shower and put on adult clothes for this whole graduation thing. But let me leave you with this from bgr dot com.
You know the Tom Sagora series on Netflix, Bad Thoughts, the one that’s hilarious. They didn’t like it, They wrote, aware of this Netflix dud that’s climbing the charts, the weirdest limited series I’ve ever seen, Andy Meek writes, Tom Sagora has a lot on his mind, and unfortunately for us, he’s decided to act it all out. Bad Thoughts dot dot is currently number two on Netflix in the US, which proves once again that people will watch literally anything on the streaming Giant. This limited series is part apocalyptic fever dream, part sketch dump, and all kinds of WTF. Yes, that is why it’s fun.
That’s why it’s hilarious, Andy Meek from bgr dot com. So, what’s Bad Thoughts actually about everything and nothing? One minute, it’s an airplane emergency landing. The next hits the singers off the rail comeback. Yes, it’s the kind of show where the joke is just often how long Sigory can hold a smoke face while something absurd happens behind him.
Yes, it’s mostly chaotic and cringey. Yes it’s hilarious. On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has pulled off a rare universally agreed mediocrity, with a sixty percent critic score at a fifty five percent audience score. Bad Thoughts has united everyone in a giant shrug. One user on x summed it up perfectly, this is the weirdest limited series I’ve ever seen.
Another asked who greenlit this. Perhaps the most brutal review came from the Rotten Tomatoes user, who declared that Sigora Here Showcases is true to stain for the audience with juvenile jokes reminiscent of a thirteen year old who drank too much mountain dew. I currently have it as the number two thing of the year. That’s your comedy news for today. Hopefully there’s not too much dust on those stories.
I’ll say for the ninety fifth time. I recorded this on Thursday. Back tomorrow more or less live, see you then,