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Callarogas Shock Media. Hello, my name is John McDermott, and let’s pick up where we left off on yesterday’s Daily Comedy News. Rob Mack wants us to call him Rob Mack. Happy to do it, Bro, I still don’t get it. But Rob Mack himself released a video explaining the decision to go by Rob Mack.
I’ll play the whole thing here. There is a couple points where it’s a little bit visual, but when you’re like, what’s going on, he has on the video he’s showing an alternate spelling of his name. Here is Rob Mack. Hai. Okay, I’m going to dedicate exactly one minute to start the car.
Yes, I’m shortening my name to Rob Matt mostly a stage named by I digress is a kind of doucheet. But the amount of time that I have wasted trying to give people to either say or spell my name correctly is literally days of my life, trust me. I added it on. More importantly, it means thousands of you have had minutes of your lives stolen buying me because of my last name, including so it’s a family name, my grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and I all share it, and I love them and I want to stay connected their heritage. Except it’s not even really our tame.
Not only have many generations changed its spelling, the current one was just given to my ancestor by a government official who decided that this was now the spell. Quick example my great great grandmother. Oh that’s different. All good. It was a crazy time, but times have changed, and most people already call me Rob Mac anyway.
My family knows me and loves me, regardless of family syllables I have, and that’s the only thing that I really care about. There are so many things going on in the world and this is a silly one to continue to waste your time for it. Honestly, call me whatever you want, Marion, Jerome, archfall Here, Maurice, Stephanie, Francis, Marvin Gordon, or say, but maybe we just keep it, sup one try I Rob back, Let’s see how it goes. Good news, Shane Gillis Tires renewed for season three. That’s fantastic.
I was worried that Netflix was going to netflix this thing and not bring it back, but it is great. You’ll hear me talk about it in tomorrow’s episode, which is the top of funny things of the year so far that I’ve actually seen, and Tires is way up the list. I think Tires at times is like The Office at its best. I know what I just said out loud, but that’s how I feel. Season three of Tires will come out in twenty twenty six.
Part of the original Tires deal, the one that cradd season two, included Shane getting another stand up special for Netflix. Looking forward to that one. His first Beautiful Dogs in twenty twenty three spent two weeks on the US Top ten list on Netflix. All Right, this next story is a little zorik from Pete Davidson. I read this whole thing and I just came away feeling weird.
So there’s Pete Davidson. He’s at the Prudential Center in Newark last weekend with John Stewart and John Mulaney. They’re doing a show, and according to the Post, Pete started talking about his maternal grandfather, sharing with the crowd that the grandfather got the lung cancer and I’m not close with him. I’ll quote Pete here via The New York Post. I’m close with my dad’s dad.
I don’t like my mom’s dad. He used to beat the s out of me, and I don’t like him very much. He’s old school. He’s very Irish. You know those old Irish Jews that are so Irish, they’re like pink.
Right now, I’m reading this very seriously. For all I know, Pete was, you know, being very joky about this. But all I can react to is the text version, because I wasn’t there, and I just come away going like ooh, continuing to read Pete via The New York Post. His veneers are somehow brown. He’s just an old school dude, and he’s dying.
I want to be there for my mom. She’s sad about it. I don’t want to be rude to my mom. I think I have the best mom in the world. I’m very, very lucky.
So I’ve been trying to remember a good time that me and my grandpa had so I could hold onto it. Pete did recall a few positive experiences with that grandpa, including, according to the Post, an inside joke about an internet personality known as cake fart Girl. Back in April, Pete had told People Magazine, I had a really crappy childhood and the worst thing that ever could have happened to me. Happened to me when I was seven. Referring to his father dying on nine to eleven, Pete explained that has altered his mindset over the years.
I’ve kind of been like, ef it, who the f cares? You know? And like if everyone at the end of the day, it’s like family matters, and you’re two or three friends that you have matter. Everybody else can go f themselves and you don’t have to put all this pressure on yourself. This is sort of newer for me, but it kind of shows if you see me now, it’s a little different because I went through something pretty tough.
I just think who cares what? People you don’t even know? Think like, who the f cares? You don’t know them. Pete had told The Real Ones podcast, my dad said he was going to pick me up from school on nine to eleven.
I got picked up by my mom. She didn’t tell me what was going on for like three days. She kept telling me Dad’s at work, he’s coming home whatever. I had no idea, And one night I turned on the TV and I just saw my dad on the TV. I was like, oh, okay, and they were like, these are all the firemen that are like dead.
It was weird because we didn’t know he was dead for like three weeks. They were finding people, you know, they were pulling people out of stuff, and there was just sort of hope. Like it was just up and down and nobody knew how to deal with it. You know, Dad said he’s coming home to pick you up, but he doesn’t for life. I’m like, I don’t believe anyone.
I’m trying to learn how to believe people. In Hollywood isn’t exactly the greatest place to learn that skill. My mom was like thirty, I’m about to be. I wouldn’t know what they have to do. And that’s why as they get older, I’m like, my mom was awesome.
She really loves me to unpack there. I mean, you get it right. You know, Dad says I’ll pick you up after school, and then you don’t know what’s going on. If you were in New York City or the area around nine to eleven, you just remember that whole time. I remember, as I was reading the story, you would see on the news.
Hospitals had all this staging area waiting for the mass casualties to come in, and none did. I was working at WR Radio at the time, and one of our reporters had gone down to the World Trade Center. We hadn’t heard from her for hours and hours, and I happened to be in the hallway when she returned back to work many hours later, and I gave her a hug, and she looked like I was being inappropriate, wanted to send me to HR, and I was like, I’m sorry, I thought you were dead. Very powerful day and honestly not making for a great comedy podcast here. So let’s switch topics.
Bill Burr is developing a half hour comedy at Fox based on the life of Earthquake, the comedian Earthquake real name Nathaniel Strouman. The half hour comedy at FA based on the life of comedian Earthquake will be called Earthquake, Little Kurf fluffel Over. At south Park, the season twenty seven premiere on Comedy Central was originally slated for July ninth. It’s being moved to July twenty third. The delay comes back to south Park’s streaming rights.
There’s some uncertainty over Skydance’s acquisition of Comedy Central’s parent Paramount Global, which co owns the joint venture between south Park, south Park Digital Studios and Trey and Matt. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, posted on social media, this merger is a stuff show and it’s effing with up South Park. I’m not already grammar there, but we’ll move on. We’re at the studio now working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow. Apparently, the show had an exclusive streaming licensing deal with HBO Max worth five hundred million dollars that expired a week ago and has not been replaced by a new exclusive one where multiple non exclusive ones.
Paramount Global wants to be able to stream the show on Paramount Plus. That makes sense. Daven told investors on their earnings call that starting this July, South Park will becoming a Paramount Plus in the US.
Meanwhile, the South Park streaming rights have been streamed to other platfo…
The Hollywood Reporter has told about a letter in which Parker and Stone threatened legal action over what that document claims, including an attempt to get WBD, Warner Brothers Discovery to agree to a shorter five year term deal and to take new seasons of South Park after They’ve had a twelve month exclusive window on Paramount Plus. Boy, there is a lot going on here. Many fans had expected the show to launch on Paramount Plus on July first. That did not happen. It is the third of July.
And this has nothing to do with comedy. When I was a kid, I would go with my parents to Belmont Racetrack and go see the horses, and there was a horse named third of July, and that name always stuck with me, and I always think of that horse on this day. My father put in like a one dollar bet for me on third of July. It was like my favorite horse ever, and I just felt like mentioning it today. Now the horse would have to be fifty years old, and I don’t think horses live that long.
But third of July the horse, I’m thinking of you. On Netflix, they’re going to screen a bunch of classic comedies already up on Netflix, Anchorman and Anchorman, Two Blades of Glory, Cone Heads. I forgot that was actually a movie, Good Burger, Grown Ups, Happy Gilmore, which makes sense with Happy Gilmore to coming out later this month. Animal House a friend of mine, where we were we the other day. I feel like alcohol is involved.
But we just started quoting Animal House. I forget where we were, but I blurted out, wait till ODIs sees us, he loves us Night The Roxbury Old School, The Other Guys, road Trip, Tommy Boy, Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World two, Zoolander starting July eleventh, Threading in Caddie Shack, Groundhog Day, Mean Girls. There’s something about Mary. They came together trading places starting on the eighteenth City Slickers Clue coming to America. So I married an axe murderer.
Stripes. I haven’t seen stripes in a while. I should rewatch that super bad Tommy Boy, Waiting for Guffman, and one of the few rare good Adam Sandlor movies, The Wedding Singer. As listeners to this program, there are what five good Adam Sandler movies. They are uncut Gems, Basketball one, Space Alien one and two with Drew Barrymore, including The Wedding Singer and fifty First Dates.
Not on the list not good movies blended storing Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and isn’t it romantic? Storing Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Those are not good movies. There are only five good Adam Saanlor movies, and I just told you what they are. That is your comedy news for today.
Yeah, it’s starting to slow up in two July fourth weekends, and tomorrow I will take a look at the best stand up specials of twenty twenty five so far that I have seen. Then I’m holding on to some news for Monday, so I have Monday’s podcast. As for what I’m doing Saturday and Sunday, that’s a great question, my friend. I love the show and you’ll find out when I figure it out. See you tomorrow.