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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ryan Reynolds was on Conan O’Brien needs a friend. Conan said, we’re in a moment where politically there’s some tension between Canada and the United States over tariffs. What do you guys send us?
What do we send you? And it occurred to me today that we’ve been getting some of the greatest comedians in comic minds and actors of all times from Canada. And I don’t think we’ve sent you a crap. I don’t think we’ve exported much to you in the comedy realm. And I think if somebody would do a reckoning just comedically, and you started to add up the Ryan Reynolds and the Martin Short and the Lorn Michaels and the Mike Myers, it just goes on and on.
There’s too many to even begin naming. Oh, I can read your mind now, and you’re like, Oh, I can think of plenty of funny American comedians. I guess the point is we haven’t exported the American comedians to Canada. Sarah Silverman, in that Rolling Stone interview, talked about how the reactions to October seventh left her stunned. Sarah said the alienation of liberal Jews was a stamp.
Everyone’s afraid to say anything. I couldn’t even imagine doing stand up. I was scared. And it was Chelsea Handler who was like, get your ass up. Your job is to make people laugh.
That’s your job. And I needed that, boy, I needed it.
And then she made me open for her, and honestly was a gift because I realized…
Here’s this John Mulaney story that I mentioned on Monday that I bounced. I didn’t get to it yesterday. The yesterday was pretty packed the Washington Post as the headline something about John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show Isn’t working, to which I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. The meme of Bruce willis from Diehard going Welcome to the Party, pal Johnny Maxman saying this all season. Wash Po writes not even Mullaney can muster much interest in some of the subjects he chose, or in the experts discussing them.
Some like cruises feel phoned in, and his obvious anxiety over whether in exchange will pay off. Sometimes Trump’s his interest in any particular contribution. He frequently truncates conversations that were just getting going. It doesn’t help that there’s so much amiable agreement between Millanie and his guests absence some fiddly on stage dynamic he can provoke in stage manage, Mulanie needs something to do, especially when things are too friendly, he turns all that surplus energy and vitriol onto the poor callers. There’s a sense that where everybody’s in la joyfully invited folks in everybody’s live kicks them out.
The eccentricity that makes Melanie’s stand up so good is precisely what makes it hard for many guests and callers to chime in. His dinosaur bid, for instance, is so genuinely weird that no guests managed to really join him in that headspace. Conan tried hard, so did Tina Fey. When an actual world class expert paleontologist Jack Warner called in and tried to play along m’lanie, who seemed to not know he was hung up on him. Wash Po writes, a servit John could be fun.
It’s instructive to watch Millenie snap judgments in action, as when he hung up on a caller in the Cruises episode because his anecdotes sounded two rehearsed. Malani said, you’ve added little tags. It’s become a yarn. We don’t have time. Krackt asked, did John Mulaney rip off Chris Gethard again?
They write? Ever since the beginning of Everybody’s Life with John Mulleni, fans have accused melleny of ripping off The Chris Gethard Show, a k Bleaxis comedy talk show that was on Fusion and True TV, on which Mullany was a multiple time guest. The latest example was the Blindfold episode last week, in which Mullany navigated the entire show with a bandana tied around his eyes. The Getherard version was dubbed the Blindfold Show. On The Blindfold Show, Chris told jokes and took viewer phone calls, just like Mullaney did.
It was such a popular episode that Gethard recommended it to new fans as an entry point to his show’s weirdness. It also inspired The Blindfold Show, Too correct Right at this point, it’s almost like Mlanie’s trolling fans, daring them to find the YouTube clips that inspired this week’s episode, why not at least invite gether to guest on one of the panels. They’re said, he’s a very brilliant guy. John Mulaney doesn’t need to rip me off in any way. Matteolane had a special ad on Hulu on Friday.
I had forgotten about it because you know the Hulu publicists, Yeah, they don’t get back to you. I’m trying to be your friend, Hulu publicists. I would publicize your stuff, but there I wasn’t Hulu, and I was like, oh, yeah, Mittelolane put out a special I would have mentioned that on my Daily Comedy News podcast, but there was also no press about it. Since then, people caught up with Mittel Lane, who told them, when I’m writing jokes, my brain’s back to being a sponge absorbing everything around me. Like, oh, that might be a funny idea that could work.
Even when I was four, I said I wanted to be a famous comedic actor like Jim Carrey. I knew I had something. It was always the feeling of something else is waiting for me. And once I found stand up, that feeling left me. I thought, this is my goal in life.
I’m doing this forever. Kind of felt like a calling. MATEO started in comedy in two thousand and nine. He said he didn’t truly make it until twenty twenty one. That was when I was posting my own stuff online networks like Netflix and HBO.
The gatekeepers had an idea of what a gay person was supposed to be. They didn’t see the value in gay end just being funny, So I did it on my own intern’s out There was an audience for me. I really enjoyed the challenge because I try to be an optimist and I think we all have more in common than we think. A lot of the older people are telling us that we don’t have something in common. So if someone has a negative idea about a gay person, they see me and they laugh.
Maybe in the future they’ll think of that not curing cancer. But I think little by little we have to find a common ground. I think humor is a great way to do that. What’s next. I’ve done enough.
I’m taking the summer off. I’ll be writing new jokes. But I haven’t taken a proper vacation in so long. I’m going to Thailand and Cambodi with friends to see another part of the world. The Aldente special is on Hulu a Theovann making the podcast third day in a row.
He has opened up about his recent hang with Avanka and Jared Kushner. THEO shared a photo of them, Avanka stunning in a cutout black mini dressed. Jared opted for a more casual look with a black T shirt and white trousers. You can tell him sourcing a British paper here, and Theovan was seen wearing a colorful T shirt and gray trousers. THEO on X posted, y’all’s poster is so good.
Wh are you all in spine club or something? I’m built like a damn raccoon. Thanks for the hospitality. Had a blast I mentioned yeshae. Kevin Hart is working on a film called seventy two Hours, in which he plays a forty something executive who joins a group of twenty somethings on a three day bachelor party.
One of those bachelors, Marcello Hernandez, who does one thing. Well, well, if you’re in New Jersey, Hey, I’m in New Jersey and you own a luxury car, I do not. You may qualify to become an extra Grant. Wilfley Casting has put out an open call for Jersey locals who own luxury cars to appear in seventy two hours as quote pedestrians. Here are the cars they’re looking for.
Are you ready? Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Lotus, Aston, Martin, Bentley, Portia, BMW seven series, Mercedes SSL CLSG and Audi A seven or A eight and a Kia. Hey guys, I have a Kia. I love my Keia. My key has got a big giant s unroof.
It’s great. Anyway, If you have a qualifying car and you’re interested, you can email seventy two hours at GWCNYC dot com. So seven two hours, one word at GWCNYC dot com. Make your subject line luxury cars. They need to know your full name, whether or not you’re a SAG member, your height, weight, clothing and shoe sizes, whether or not you’re local to New Jersey or New York.
Are you eighteen or older? What’s the make, model, year, in color of your car, current clear photos of yourself close up and full body, and a current photo of the car. That’s a lot. Semaphore reporting that Bill Maher shut down his podcast company. I’m sure he’ll keep doing his podcast, but back in twenty twenty four, not too long ago, Bill Maher launched Club Random Studios.
Two people familiar with the situation have said the podcast studio has ceased operations. The website that once hosted the network show no longer works. Matt Friends podcast has not shared a full episode since late last year. Journalist Ricky Schlott, who had announced the show with the network last year, also hasn’t shared an episode in months. Club Random Studios did not return their request to comment.
The idea was to elevate voices from Bill Maher’s extended universe comedians, musicians, and journalists with heterodox views on issues and shared skepticism of what they perceived is the overreach of liberals and the left. At the time, Bill Moore said, I want to help this impressive slate of other voices do the same thing on the Club Random network. Dance like no one’s watching, We talk like no one can cancel us. Very interesting. A little more from that Cracked dot com interview with Nora Dunn, they were curious how she feels about folks like Dave Chappelle and Donald Trump hosting SNL.
Nora said, with Chappelle, I do think he’s very, very smart. When I saw the specially did, I was turned off completely. You can’t endorse that. I was really turned off by that, and I don’t think it should have been hired. It’s too bad, though, because I always thought he was great.
But then he’s getting on the bandwagon and picking on people in this country who are only about two percent of the population. Why are you picking on then one have done to you? Why do you say you hate them? Let me jump in there. I don’t think Dave says that he hates anyone.
He jokes about folks, and we can debate that all day, but I don’t think Dave is saying I hate these people? Am I forgetful? There? Nora says us for Trump? They hired Trump after he came down that escalator.
That’s not okay, And of course that show was terrible. Cracked asked, why do you think controversial figures like Trump and Elon Muskin Shane Gillis are asked to be the hosts? Is Shane really that controversial? Guys? I mean, what are we mad about?
A bit that Shane did on his podcast before anybody heard of him before the whole SNL thing, Like what is controversial about Shane Gillis. He’s just a guy with a very charismatic smile who tells goofy jokes and it’s just having fun. Noorah said, it’s the ratings, it’s the idea of being cutting edge. Jimmy Fallon told Kelly Clarkson he one stepped in as Don Pardo, who used to do the voices on SNL. If you listen to my podcast, you’re probably familiar with Don Pardo.
Fallon, who was on SNL from ninety eight to oh four, said he was sick one night and Lauren said, Jimmy, can you do Don Pardo? And I was like, I think I can. I mean, I’ll try. Not exactly sure why that made news, because it is pretty well known that Daryl Hammond often filled in for Don Parto late in Don’s run. And I’m doing this from memory.
I think Don worked into his nineties. Maybe yeah. Don passed away in twenty fourteen at age ninety six, but Darryl Hammond did it a bunch of times, and that was like a known thing. Anyway. As I have said a lot recently, Fellon is very talented.
He’s just in the Tonight Show box and he understands the gig, and sometimes you have to understand the gig. Kraischer was on Jay Shetty’s pod. I listened to this driving down to the graduation last week. It was okay, I got bordered it at some point. It’s fine.
Kraischer talked about his relationship with his father. My dad’s a great dad, but he’s just like, hey, don’t you cry. One Easter, everyone leaves and it’s me and my dad high as crap, really high.
And then I leaned over to him and I said, why do you like me?
And he goes, I love you. You just make me uncomfortable. He’s like, I love you and I’m afraid you’re going to die. And I said, well, I’m not going to die, and he goes, you don’t know that I lost my dad when I was young, and I’m terrified to lose you. And I don’t understand you.
I don’t understand your lifestyle. Bert let his father set him up with a cardiologist. While the tests came back fine, Bert says, and I want to say, from that day on, our relationship was so much smoother. That’s kind of a cool story. Nice job by Nick Carl Seth Meyer’s, Amy Schumer, John and others.
They hosted a one night only event for a memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center mission of ending cancer. A million years ago my father got treatment at Sloan. They did great work. Comedy Versus Cancer is the official comedy benefit show for blood cancer research at Sloan. They sold out one night only event raised two point three million dollars.
Kroll was your host. He’s the co founder and host of Comedy Versus Cancer and said laughter as a way of cutting through the heavy stuff and is a great unifier raising money to fund research for rare blood cancers can still be joyful, and we dedicate each year of Comedy Versus Cancer. That’s doing just that, creating a night of laughter to rally around a cause that affects so many. What’s interesting to me is I didn’t see a thing about this prior to it, and yet it sold out, and yet it raised a ton of money. I’m just curious, like, how did anyone know about this?
Whereas they’re just a benefactor list that they’re like, hey, I want to go to a concert, donate some money, sure, but I didn’t see anything about that in advance. But anyway, job by them, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes where you can go to calliroga dot com slash plus five bucks a month no commercials, and that’s not just this show.
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