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Caloroga Shark Media. I want to talk about this whole Shane Gillis quote unquote controversial thing in a second. But Hi, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. But real quick, I put on Mike Berbiglia’s special the other night. Civilians are gonna like it.
It’s fine. I admit I’m a comedy snob. It’s par Bigulally doing bar Bigley things perfectly fine. People are gonna enjoy It’s all good. I actually like Geord Carmichael’s special on Max a little bit more.
The first twenty minutes or so, I was really into it. He’s a good storyteller.
And then I kind of flamed out on it and went back to watching Netflix or what…
But they’re both fine, and they’ll make my middle tier end of the year list. For Bigli is fine, Gerard Carmichael is more fine. And that opinion is more about me being a comedy snob than anything the artists are doing there. All right, Shane Gillis, I think there’s some sort of like federal law that if you write an article about Shane Gillis, you have to call him a controversial comedian. Shane Gillis, and I don’t know what the controversy is.
I remember, I know the SNL controversy because he did a character on a podcast a billion years ago before anybody knew who he was, and he got on SNL and then they got unput on SNL and that’s the big controversy. I don’t understand what it is about Shane Gillis that makes people go insane. But there were a couple articles this week. I’ll do one here and I’ll save another one for Monday. That’s really just a good slow burn.
But Cracked is reacting to Shane’s appearance on the SmartLess podcast this week. Will praised Shane Gillis for his jokes on SNL about ken Burn Civil War docu series, but Gillis pointed out the jokes didn’t go over too well. I did a bunch of kin Burn’s material on my SNL monologue, and everybody was kind of like, what the F is he talking about? Every time my monologue doesn’t go great on SNL, I’m oh for two of those things.
Now here’s where the rage is coming from, because, according to Killis, the m…
Tate McCrae was the musical guest, so the audience was like, twenty year old chicks in the front. Dude, the audience this has always twenty year old chicks in the front. Have you not heard the SNL cast joke about this. They put the hot, young, good looking people in the front, and if I get in at all, I’m in the back row. So the Shane Gillis bud Light crowd, they’re not putting those guys in row two.
Shane said, I know, I’m up there talking about Shelby Foot and ken Burns in the Civil War. They had no idea, just some ogre walked out on stage and started talking about shelby Foot but cracked rights. But Killus’s assessment of the routine amid some important detales for one thing, he had already lost. The crowd even commented on that fact several times prior to the ken Burns jokes, most notably when he compared Liberals to the evil Scyth from Star Wars. And while a number of people didn’t laughtering the Civil War bit, that likely had less to do with the fact that Tate mccraye fans are incapable of understanding the concept of historical documentary, and more to do with the fact that one of the punchlines literally involved date rape.
I had to drop out of character there. Gillis joke that Burns work could be used to knock women unconscious if they yap a little ladding that it’s a little cosmey tip for you who needs roofies when we have Ken Burns presents the History of the Buffalo on PBS. It should also be said that these conspicuously tasteless jokes came around halfway through a monologue that lasted for nearly eight minutes, making it the sixth longest in the show’s history. And that’s more than two minutes longer than Adrian Brodie’s seemingly endless Oscar speech. I bet of the sixth longest in the show’s history.
Four of them have happened in the last six years. Dave Chappelle’s probably two of them. Carlin Opening Night in seventy five is probably one of them. Anyway, that’s Shane Gillis. He’s so controversial.
I have another one of those articles. On Monday, probably Jim Gaffigan was on The Today Show and joked about his recent fifty pound weight loss. He says he cannot take pride in it because he used medication to suppress his appetite. Jim joked that he was brave enough to stick a needle in my stomach. Jim Wade two seventy before his weight loss journey and said, it’s great because my knees don’t hurt standing up.
I’m less exhausted. It’s always good, you know, like the health benefits, like I’ll live longer. But I love it because I feel better. It’s great, it’s beneficial. Gaffagan had previously told people he wasn’t I’m sure the medication would work, explaining I had very low expectations because I did know someone that had tried it and they were like, oh no, I was just nauseous for a week.
I thought my true joy of eating would overpower anything. That’s some of why I wanted to talk about it, because I almost thought it was kind of odd that people were resistant to talking about it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. There’s people walking around that obviously do not have blonde hair, yet they do. I don’t think that’s weird either.
It’s just whatever gets you through. Russell Peters told The Hollywood Reporter he does not fear being deported back to Canada. You know, should he say something about a politician and get thrown out, He’s not worried about it. Russell said of the US and all fairness, the amount of taxes I pay in that country, they’d be damn foolish to get rid of me. Now that’s a bad business move, since the country’s being run like a business.
That would be dumb. What are they going to do? Send me back to Canada? Whoop to do? What a loss for them?
Not me? I get to go back home. That’s how I look at it. That sounds like a challenge. Send your letters to Russell Peters.
David Cross has released a brand new limit edition throbble head that apparently is a brand of Bobbleheads. This one comes with signed trading cards. The description of the bobblehead his Cross is heavily bearded with a microphone in hand as he performs his signature brand of sad but Funny stand up comedy. Measuring seven inches tall, this throbblehead features a removable baseball hat and real hair beard and includes an autograph limited edition trading card. Mike ber Bigley had told Vanity Fair I opened for Dave Chappelle at the DC Improv.
He was twenty four. I was nineteen. I think after that, I asked hif I could open for other people, and they said, you can work the door and be a best boy. That was comedy college. I did that for four years, watching nationally touring, headlining comedians in the office on the weekends.
I could see how much people were paid. When I moved to New York. That was the financial model I had in mind. If I could be an opening act making three point fifty a week, what’s called a middle actor feature act making five hundred, six hundred and seven hundred dollars a week, I thought I could completely live on that. Roy Wood Junior was part of the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Roundtable.
He said, politics gets me in trouble. Sometimes it’s not so much a political joke as it’s the early inclinations of the joke, where you haven’t figured out all the live wires. I remember being in San Francisco. This is week two of Russia versus Ukraine, and the premise of what I was trying to say was essentially that we spend money to sport other wars, but not wars in black neighborhoods. But it came across as anti Ukraine, judging from the email I got from the Ukrainian table that walked out, and you do finally get the joke together later.
In hindsight, it’s probably one of those that I should have done. On New York on a Tuesday night, Keenan Thompson making headlines for teasing quote a lot of change at SNL next season. Keenan called the season finale bittersweet, especially this year when it feels like there’s maybe possibly a lot of change next year. You want everyone to stay forever, knowing that people may be making decisions this summer. It’s always like you want your kids to stay young.
Will Thompson be back? He shared he hadn’t signed a contract for the upcoming season. He said, you never know what the future holds. I don’t want to be in the way of someone else, and I don’t want to be the stale old man riding the same thing. Doesn’t really happen that much at SNL, but there’s no guarantees.
I guess speculation is some of the folks who could leave include Michael j Commin Joes, mikey Day, Heidi Gardner in ego Nawotam. I’ll add to that list. Bo Yang seems like he’s out of there to me. River Butcher spoke to neuvou dot Net about Midwest comedy. River says he can sniff out a Midwestern comedian because I’m from the Midwest.
I can just tell you get to sense it in the way that they’re talking and thinking about things. LA comedy definitely has a style to it, but it’s not a very definitive style because so many people go there to do what they want to do, so it doesn’t necessarily produce its own style, whereas New York does. Because you have to come and do so much stand up, you’re gonna become a New York ater a certain extent. We Midwesterners also just have a profound understanding of each other. Even the most rough and double comedians still of compassion in a way I relate to.
I don’t want to compare it to other groups and act as if other groups don’t have compassion, But that’s one that resonates with me, I guess I should say. And from The New York Post, a gen Z comedian was called out for rude behavior at a restaurant.
All right, here’s the controversy.
Australian comedian Will Gibb said he walked into a food joint wearing headphones before taking them out to place in order at the counter. After exchanging greetings and ordering his food, the comedians took to the side put his headphones back in. Will says, I’ve got my earphones in and I’m watching this person make my food. I could tell he was bagging it, so I went on my phone one last look. Then I’m looking around thinking maybe it wasn’t my food.
So I look over and the guys standing at the counter looking at me. I made eye contact with him and took my earphones out, and he said, yeah, I’m not going to bother calling your name if you’ve got earphones in. I was completely dumbfounded. All right, who’s right or wrong? Here?
Is the comedian wrong or is the server wrong? I’m on team comedian. What’s the big deal? I ordered, I was polite, I put my headphones in, I got podcasts to listen to. Put the food in the bag, dude.
Some social media viewers wait in, one said fully on the side of the server what a legend. Another said I’m with the server. I find it rude to constantly have earphones in. Another said people on the side of the server need to chill out. Another said I’ve worked in hospitality for years and I’d rather call it out and leave it to get cold bother teaching someone some kind of lesson.
Perhaps the most reasonable person said this is ridiculous. Just check a wave or thumb up when it’s pretty. Let me know what you think in the comments in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Again, I’m team Comedian here and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.
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