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Caloroga Shark Media an Aram Johnny Mack was your Daily Comedy News. So far, so good for what’s traditionally a slow week. Dave Chappelle was in Abu Dhabi on Friday night and he started talking about Donald Trump’s handling of the Israel Iran conflict. Dave said, Trump, I don’t know about this guy. Can’t tell if he’s gonna do good or not.
What a week you guys must have had over here in the Middle East. Trump wrote that we did a meticulously perfect attack. We’ve disabled a nuclear facility.
And then at the end of the post, he said, and now is the time for peace.
Word. I don’t think that’s how that works. Champ Trump bombed ran in an attack that was carefully planned. On WhatsApp. Everybody in America is scared.
It’s not good. When Bible places are in the news, that means it might be the end of times. And if it is, you know what. I had a good run. This is a great set by Dave.
Naunio’s member yelled out the name of Palestinian American musician DJ Khaled. Dave responded, said, DJ coled, let me tell you something foran This man is awfully quiet right now. And as a Palestinian, how could you be that quiet right now? And why are you so fat? People are starving?
He’s the only fat Palestinian on earth right now, Dave. Again, Now that I’m a big, powerful voice in America, I’ve learned I have to be careful and get in some kind of trouble and they’ll try to extort me and put words in my mouth so that I come out here and lie to you. So if that ever happens, we need a phrase that has to be something that I would never say. So if I say it, you know, not to listen to anything I say. After that you’re ready.
The phrase is I stand with Israel. Wow. Send your letters to Dave Chappelle. It is a comedy season in Abu Dhabi. I will conclude on July twelfth with Bill Burr.
John Mulaney has started a book club. Yeah, I know, really cool right, Yeah, It’s called Malanie Reads. He went on social media and announced I will tell you about some incredible things I’ve read recently and then you can make your own decisions from there. This month, Playworld by Adam Ross the best new novel I’ve read in many years. Playworld follows a high school student child actor named Griffin as he navigates the world of New York in the late seventies and early eighties aka my favorite time period and place ever.
It’s a really beautiful story about the heavy and adultness of being an adolescent. I couldn’t like this book more. It’s available at small booksellers and wherever else books are sold. Stay tuned for next month, when I’ll probably forget to do this. WWE announced WWE Late Night featuring Tony Hinchcliff.
Right, these are three pretty big stories for July fourth week. This is great, all right. WWE Late Night featuring Tony Hinchcliff at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey, Saturday, August second, at eleven pm. Easter And that is late Night. Yes, it’s part of SummerSlam weekend.
It is described as a non televised event. SummerSlam is August second and third at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Boston Bruins were, of course part of the twenty twenty five NHL Draft, and their selection in the first round was announced by Adam Sandler in character is happy Gilmore Yep, We’re going to see a lot of Adam Sandler in the upcoming weeks. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman tees the intro, and then Happy Gilmore walked out on screen, hockey stick in hand, said, my name is Happy Gilmore. How are you proud to be part of the twenty twenty five and draft the Boston Bruins select from Boston College?
James Hagens, So, I do put the show together in shifts, Like you know, every morning, I’ll go and I’ll look for new stories and I kind of slot them and I’ll move stuff around. I’ll be like, all right, this one I’ll hold, like for example, this week, I’m like, you know what, it might be a slow weekend, let me hold this one for Saturday. That kind of stuff. So when I got back to doing the show after the weekend on Monday, I was like, what does tola Vella ties mean? Tollavella ties, And I couldn’t figure out what my note to myself Tolavella ties meant, and then I went, oh, Tolllev La Times and the La Times did talk to you, Steph Tleev Tolavella Times said I want to be in a wrestling ring so badly.
I don’t know how I have, and I look like a wrestler already. I watch a little bit growing up, you know. Editor’s note, I probably should have put this before the Sandler story. Oh well, too late. It’s not actually too late.
I could edit it, but that’s not fun. Johnny Mac messed up over the weekend too, and got the day wrong on mel Brooks birthday. I guess I’ve been a bad week Tellavella Ties said, I love the bad guys. I’d be a bad guy, of course. Steph Tolive said, I look and sound like a wrestler already.
I watch a little bit growing up. I wasn’t a massive wrestling fan, but I watched the intros and stuff. But the wrestling itself, I was like whatever. But I love seeing wrestlers come in the crazy storylines, getting the crowd all on your side or getting them not on your side. I love the bad guys.
I’d be a bad guy, of course. I’d be ripping everybody in half, just getting choke slammed. I’d love it. Is WWE listening to this, please cast me.
Also from the La Times ots Goo at Cotska, she got into comedy when a friend i…
Otsko was like, I was like, this is badass, But nowhere did my brain go. That’s got to be me. I dream pretty small when I was a kid in LA and my dream was to work in an ice cream parlor.
And then at seventeen, I did cold Stone Creamery in West LA.
By the way, it took me three takes to not say Stone Cold Creamery because my brain is in wrestling mode. I said, now what, I’ve already reached my goal. I peaked at seventeen. I have to dream more. In twenty eighteen, she got her signature bowl haircut.
She jokes about being stuck with it because it’s my brand, but also her fans have gone through the trouble of buying customizing lookalike wigs. She said, I mean, in this economy, they gotta be able to wear their wigs again the next time they come to see me. All right, gossip Corner, let’s start with me. I told you over the weekend, Colin Jost is pushing blue Moon Beer, and since I did that story, the advertising is working. I was in the mood for a Blue Moon beer, so Sunday, my son was around him, like, let’s go grab a meal.
So we went to the local bar restaurant and they had a sign outside for blue Moon beer. I was like, great, I’ve been in the mood for one for a couple days. I went in. The waiter was like, we don’t even serve blue Moon, and like it was all I could do to not get into an argument about but you guys have a blue Moon sign outside. So I got a Miller Light, which I also told you over the weekend is a beer that I enjoy.
So Scoreboard, Marcelo Hernandez One, Colin jost Zero. I didn’t want to mention real quick. I see the Rob mcalenny story about him changing his name. The short version there, the headline is he has legally filed to change just named to Rob Mack. I have a lot of thoughts.
I’ll discuss that tomorrow. I did watch them specials over the weekend. Steph toe Lefs not my cup of tea that I don’t want to just like dump on it, but like, I don’t know, I just don’t like the when you’re talking about like crapping over yourself or whatever whatever her opener was. I made it about two thirty in and a minute of that was a produced open. By the way, comedians, comedians are listening, Can you guys stop with the produced opens?
Can you just have somebody go ladies and gentlemen, comedian name and just come out or just come out? These things were like you’re walking on the street and wacky Hyjink’s happened. It’s very eighties and it’s lame, and just stop doing that. So Steph had one of those, and then the special started and it was just I sound like an old man, and I’m the first one to say I love an old man Mountain, but it’s just like just so filthy, and I get that’s what it is. That’s what the title of the special is, right like the specials actually called filth Queen, So she nailed what she was going for.
But just num me, I just hard pass on that one for me on because it’s July fourth, Candidly, I have already put together a list of the top stand up slash comedy specials of twenty twenty five so far that I’ve actually seen. You can read it right now. It’s on my substack, which is mcdeepod dot substack dot com. I’ll put a link in the episode notes. It’s already out in a print version, but that will be Friday’s episode because it’s July fourth, and you know we’re halfway through the year.
All that made sense for a pre tape one that I really really really liked. Justin Wilman Magic Lever. Just trust me. Is it the funniest thing I’ve ever seen? No?
But was it entertaining for solid hour? Yes? Slight spoilers here. If you don’t want to be spoiled, hit skip. I’ll do this real quick.
Spoilers coming up. So it’s a magic show along the way. My brain starts over analyzing how did he do that? I do that? And I’m on the internet and I’m reading along and just oh okay, I get it now, and like it didn’t ruin the fun for me because I was playing along at home.
But really funny special. Just turn your brain off and watch it. Justin Wilman Magic Lever. I’ll tell you on Friday where I have that ranked, but shockingly high, I’ll put it that way.
Also out is a Jim Norton special on YouTube haven’t gotten to yet.
Also out is Josh Gomleman on YouTube that one’s called positive reinforcement. Haven’t gotten to that yet. He talked about being an elder millennial and said, we came of age at the turn of the century. Turn of the century is such a silly sounding thing to say. About nineteen ninety nine, when Limp Biscuit ascended, Josh told Boston dot Com the new special came out of the pandemic and performing live again.
It really jumped out of me. Oh, I’m one of the older guys. Now I feel you, Josh, I feel you. A big part of agent gracefully is the intellectual and philosophical gracefulness of accepting change and embracing new things when they’re good. But to know, I don’t have to say cryptocurrency is new and that’s beautiful.
I was performing in Bloomington, Indiana college town. There was a young woman in the front row. I told a why two K joke. I could see something in her face and I said, when I say why two K, does that have any meaning to you? She said no?
And then I had to explain why two K. We thought all the world’s missiles would launch and all the computers would crash because nobody thought a year wouldever have a zero series z heuro it that it took this herculean effort to make sure it didn’t happen. It sounds ridiculous. Boston dot Com and Josh started talking about technology. Josh Gonoman said, remember the laser disc era, when it was like a music a CDs, A movie is big CDs.
When was the last technology that basically was good with minimal drawbacks? I came up with the GPS unit for your car. That wasn’t your phone. Good stuff. I’m talking behind the scenes with Josh’s people to get him on here, so that special is on YouTube.
Check that out. The National Comedy Center announced a bunch of stuff for this week. Lewis Black is the curator of the Comedy Now week and said comedy is more than just entertainment. It’s a lifeline at times like these. Laughter helps us stay seen and connected even when the world feels upside down.
I’m thrilled to be working with the National Comedy Center and to bring some of the funniest and smartest voices in comedy today. If you’re up there today, it’s behind the scenes at the Daily Show featuring members of the writing team. Tomorrow, Johnny Carson at one hundred with Wayne Fetterman and David Bioncooley. Pretty Cool. Thursday Paula Poundstone, moderated by former guest Jerny Gunderson, who runs the museum and was on this show one time.
Friday, Tony Shaloub and Brooke Adams moderated by friend of the show Kelly Carlin. And there are comedy performances as well. Tomorrow night Lewis Black. Remember he retired, I guess not. He’s still touring.
Lewis Black’s The Rant is due tomorrow night. And Thursday, roy Wood Junior is performing so good stuff with the National Comedy Center, And that is pretty good. Daily Comedy News for the middle of July. Fourth week Tomorrow is good too. I can tell you that because I have a lot of stories already in the folder.
And I’ll meet you back here then