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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now George Clooney. You respect George Clooney, don’t. Yeah, I’m often mistaken for him on the street.
People will be like, hey, you’re that guy, and I’m like, yeah, Daily comedyis and they’re like, no, no, you’re the guy from Er George something, and I’m like, no, no, that’s not me. But we’re often confused for each other. He spoke to Vanity Fair about wonderful dramatic actor Adam Sandler, and I respect the heck out of George Clooney because he speaks the truth here and I’m excited. Clooney is working with Sandler on a film called Jay Kelly, and Clooney says of Sandler’s performance, this film, more than any film Adam has done, shows what a beautiful, heartfelt, soulful actor he is. So we’re getting more dramatic Adam Sandler, which I love.
I think he’s one of the best. He’s terrible at comedy. All his comedy movies are really awful. But dramatic actor Adam Sandler, I’m in. Clooney said it, kept telling the cast don’t call him Sandman.
Don’t talk to him like he’s just some goofy comedian. He’s actually a really beautiful, wonderful actor. And I agree, no sarcasm. You’ve heard me say this before. Now this next paragraph.
I’m reading the text here, and it depends on the spin. Stay with me, Coloney said, because of what his paycheck is, which is doing big goofy comedies, when he does these other beautiful, uncut gems kinds of movies, it reminds people of that. And in the phrase, I don’t know where to put the verbal spin on it. I would read it as he’s not just a good comedian, but I suspect Coloney said it he’s not just a good comedian. But no anyway.
Jake Kelly in Theater is November fourteenth, streaming on Netflix December fifth. From surfer dot com You’re home for comedy news, Tom Sigora apparently was in a surf fight. The source for this Tom Sigora, who says I got into a surf fight, pretty good source. He explains. It was over a wave.
I was going to take a wave and this guy was like, that’s mine. I go, what are you talking about? I go to paddle out to it, and he flipped out. He pulled out a swim blade. He swung at me with it, scraped the side of my face.
I hit him. I don’t think he surfed away. He kind of floated for a minute, and then I left. Wife Christina was wondering if the guy’s dead, so Gore said, I guess I didn’t see anything in the paper. He had a switchblade in his shorts.
Did this story happen exactly like that? I don’t know. Mark Maron was on The Bad Friends podcast with Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. Maren started talking about somebody from Austin, Texas. I don’t know who he could have possibly meant, maybe some sort of podcaster, perhaps a guy that likes Mma.
Who knows who he was even talking about, because Maren did not say who he was referring to, So let’s see if we can parse Maren’s words here on the Bad Friends podcast. Maren on his own feed last week dropped that appearance at the ninety second Street Y with Jim Gaffigan. At the time of this recording, I’m about halfway through it. Listen to it while walking the dog the other night. Maren was great and Jim is fine.
But I’ve brought this up before, especially when he’s hawking the bourbon. Jim on stage performing written material clearly funny. Any other environment, Jim’s not that funny, and he doesn’t even sound that much fun Listen to him with Maren. You can hear Maren. I think you could wake up at three in the morning and Maren’s just funny.
I’m not sure if you woke up Jim at three in the morning, he would nail it. It’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that. It just is. And I’m observing it because I have a podcast. I’m in the basement.
So we’ve got Jim Gaffigan super cool bourbon thing, the John Mulaney book Club, which is even more cool.
And now Jimmy Fallon is bringing back his book club, which is called Fallon b…
They worked on that for hours to come up with that title. Fallon went on social media and posted Fallon book Club is back and I’m looking for your suggestions comment below hashtag Fallon book Club. Now. Fallon started his super cool book club back in twenty twenty one, so John Mulaney’s is a total ripoff. Back then, fans voted on a final pick from a list of six contenders.
In June, Stephen Colbert, whose show was canceled probably because of this, launched the Late Show book Club. I wouldn’t get too attached to the Late Show book Club because I doubt CBS is going to keep that around. Mlanie’s book club is titled Malanie Reads, which is somehow an even worst title. I almost had a breakdown there my computer. All of a sudden, it was like audio in put not working and the mic wasn’t working.
So I restarted the computer and then I brought this file back up that you’re listening to now, and it was blank. And I was like, are you kidding me? Because I just did six minutes and now turn out at Bilt Burr, Come on, computer, you gotta work. Anyway, the file was still there. That’s the six minutes you just heard.
This is session two. Bill Burr was on Vulture probably two weeks ago now, and I’m still picking away of that. Such a good interview. Bert said, one of the funniest things ever is that so many of my bits are online, which is great promotion to sell tickets, but the names of the jokes they name them like, that’s not the name of the joke. That’s not the perspective of the joke.
I’ve seen people teach comedy classes saying, you see what he’s doing here. Bothered me at first. Then I’m just like, you know what, what I care? The songs I listened to for forty years and I thought they were about something. To hear the artists go like, no, wasn’t.
I just saw something. I don’t know if it’s true, but that Buffalo Springfield song that goes, stop children, what’s that sound? Everybody thought it was about Vietnam and the band goes, no, it’s just sort of about this little rock club in LA, And it’s like, oh, I thought your song was about what I cared about the topic turn Two political candidates appearing on podcasts first said, I remember the first time I saw President go on the Tonight Show. I thought it was cheapening the office. They never did that.
They used to run for office that have the debates, and they wouldn’t even go and meet the press. But now I feel like everybody is a camera, so it’s all over the place. I think the landscape of it has changed. All I can say is personally, I’d never do it. I’d never have somebody come on, who’s running for president?
Now? With my intelect I’m not going to sit there and be like, so, what’s your foreign policy. I’d be like, within three minutes, dude, what’s your favorite super Bowl?
And then people watch it go I like that super Bowl too.
I’m going to vote for that guy. It’s just so far behind my wheelhouse. Somebody once said to me, Bill, you’re a really smart guy, and I go, yeah, it is a sports bar. You put me in a sports bar and you want to talk to me about seventies and eighty sports. I’m scoring very high.
He put me in that forum where I have to interview somebody who’s gonna run for president, and then, as the sports bar guy, you’re gonna say, yeah, this guy did go to summer school a lot. Matt Rife, you’re the youngest comedian to sell out two nights at Madison Square Garden. Any thoughts Billboard was curious? Rife said, a lot of times, these kind of accomplishments and accolades are art to process in the moment because everything’s been happening so fast. A lot of the shows at broken records and venues, and I go, oh, that’s really cool, But not until two or three months later to go, wow, that happened.
When you’re first starting out on an open mic, the dream is the Garden. So to get to play twice sold out before the age of thirty, it meant everything to me. I’m so grateful for my fans, my team, my friends, and my family and everybody who’s helped me get to this point. Right now, it feels very surreal, you know. I know it’s trendy to hate on Matt Rife, but his special is funny.
In every interview I read with him, he seems like he’s a cool guy. Sorry if he looks nice, and that makes some people annoyed. He’s got a thing going on. Doesn’t seem like a jerk man. How would you grade your Garden run?
He said, Oh, that’s a tough one. To give them both an A, not a plus, but A. I really had a good time at those shows, and I felt like the audience did as well. That’s not always the case. Sometimes I feel like the crowd had a good time and I didn’t.
For some reason, they’re bringing back t J Hooker, remember that one the other William Shantner show. He was a Policeman ran from nineteen eighty two to nineteen eighty six. Netflix is bringing it back. The thought is it’ll be kind of a goof the way twenty one. Jump Street was not sure why we’re making that, but okay.
Chance the rapper is finally putting out his album star Line, and he said he got advice from Dave Chappelle, who said to approach the project as representing a moment in time. Chance said Dave told them rap albums they’re like yearbook photos. It’s not the full story of who you are. It’s just who you are in the moment. It’s important to take that snapshot and put it out there so you have documentation of what that moment felt like.
The album will be out August twenty second, out today early access on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla. TJ. Miller is the philosophy Circus. TJ. Miller recently spoke to The Spokesman Review and spoke Hanne.
He gave them the business about what they named their restaurants. He said, the city’s like a functioning alcoholic with restaurant names like twenty four Taps Burgers and Brews, or Soulful Soups and spirits. TJ said, do you understand that looks insane? Anybody who doesn’t live here. You don’t seem to.
You’re totally okay with it. He shared a conversation he had with Amy Schumer. Amy asked TJ if he was working on a special. TJ said, I think one’s coming together, but that’s not my directive because I like improvising. He asked Amy if she was working on a special.
She said, no, I’m just trying to love the time that I’m spending with the audience. Miller said, I thought that was wonderful. You’re never going to see me and go, well, I guess I’ll see all this online. Everybody’s gonna even go wow, that was just for us. He says he wants every night of his current Crowd Sorcerer tour to feel like that.
TJ says, my whole focus is trying to keep it light now more than ever, more importantly, I’m trying to have the audience walk away every single show saying, no one’s ever going to see that. That was very, very unique. I understand what you mean there, but things cannot be very unique. They’re either unique or not. Pet peeve of mine.
We are getting long here, all right, So I’m kicking four stories to tomorrow.
Let’s talk about the trailer for the paper, The Office semi spinoff.
People seem to like it. I’ll be honest, I didn’t make it to the end of it. Let me tell you about it. The paper is a mockumentary from Greg Daniels and Michael Korman set in the same universe as the US Office, which I guess is set in the same universe as the UK Office, right because we saw Ricky in the hallway. Anyway, the documentary crew that made the dunder Mifflin documentary now they’re at a newspaper, a Toledo newspaper called The Truth Teller.
I kind of hate that they called it the truth Teller and not like the Toledo Tribune, Toledo Sun, Toledo News Gazette or something. The Truth Teller just seems hacky to me. But okay, so I’m all Gleeson. You remember him. He was the cartoonish villain in the Star Wars sequels, not Kylo Wrenn, the other guy that worked for the Empire.
Well, Gleason’s doing an American accent as Ned Samson, who’s hired as the struggling paper’s new editor in chief. We see a trailer. It looks a lot like the UK office. The way it’s shot and even the font they’re using it feels like the office. The co lead I forget her name.
It’s the woman who worked the desk at the Italian season of White Lotus. A lot of the jokes are coming in, at least in the trailer, coming from her not speaking English as well as maybe somebody else does. That’s not my kind of humor. I don’t hate this thing. I’m sure I will watch it, but I also didn’t make it to the end of the trailer, so I wasn’t like, oh, my goodness, this is great.
I also don’t understand what Peacock is doing with it. I’ve talked about this before. It’ll premiere September fourth, with four episodes on Peacock Up against the Night one of NFL, and it’s not like you can’t watch it later. But I’m pretty sure there’s an NFL game the first Friday as well. I feel like the Chiefs or somebody are in Brazil, and then Sunday, of course, is all NFL.
So I don’t know why they put it there, it might get lost, and then they’re doing two episodes every Thursday through September twenty fifth and then we’re done. So even if this thing is it’s like, oh have you seen the paper, It’s amazing, it’ll be come and went in three weeks. Why would he do that? Why didn’t you just put out one a week for ten weeks and get some water cooler going. Yeah, no, I guess not.
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From the Daily Mail, we found out how much money Jimmy Carr is making. They say accounts File that Companies House have revealed that his firm R and I Futures Limited made four point eight million pounds in the year two September twenty twenty four. I’m not sure the structure of that sentence, what exactly that means. Whatever the timeline four point eight million pounds, The Daily Mail says, Jimmy set the company up two years ago and is earning nearly one hundred thousand pounds per week. Not bad.
Good news too. Last One Laughing, which I loved, is coming back for a second season, Jimmy said him so pleased people had as much fun watching the first season as we had making it. Can’t wait to bask in the reflected glory of the next ten comedy legends taking on the challenge.
Speaking of Jimmy Carr on the fourteenth, Jimmy Carr Laughing and Joking is o…
That’s cool now, as people have been saying, as you know, Jay Leno is the worst person in the world because he had an opinion on late night television. Yeah, what a terrible guy Jay Leno is, which makes it even more shocking that he raised seventy thousand dollars for the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Community Center. The donation came from Jay Leno’s July ninth through the twelfth performances at a brewery. Heather Hoole Strout is the executive director of the MLK Community Center and said, we are thrilled with this donation. Jay Leno, who you know is the worst person in the world, Well, because he had opinion on late night television.
I mean, what does Jay Leno know about late night television? Right? Jay Leno and Newport Craft presented an incredible opportunity for our community to support the MLK and our community shut up in full force. The funds will support the center’s food pantry and mobile food pantry, stock vegetables for the weekly Protos to the People program at the center. The money will also sustain wellness programs, including free yoga, chi and cooking classes.
Director Strout said, Jay who you know, was the worst person in the world because he had opinion on late night TV? And who’s Jay Leno to talk about hosting eleven thirty show? What does he know about it? Jay cave his time and talent for four sold out shows. Jay Leno doesn’t just live in Newport, he shows up for Newport.
This generosity will help in so many ways. We’ll help keep our food in our pantry and mobile food pantry and more stock veggies, et cetera, et cetera. I told you about that already. Nice job, Jay Leno. Friend of the Show, Dan Boobletz Junior and Big Laugh LLC have announced Live in Loveland, now streaming on tub filmed at the two the Five’s taproom and Lounge.
Dan said, it’s a great feeling knowing that a project that was filmed here in Loveland will be seen across the world. Words can’t describe how good it feels to have a hand in highlighting comedy in Colorado and beyond. The comedy special features comedians Luke Gaston, who’s a regular at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Cam Kiernan, Thomas Nichols, who was a finalist at the Seattle International Comedy Competition, and of course for end of the show, Dan Boobletz Junior. Live in Loveland available to stream free on the two. B app Nice job there.
Hey, I’ve got a follow up that Michael Rappaport story I told you the other day. It turns out it was a beautiful day and he went for a walk in the park and petted some Golden Retriever puppies and had a great Oh no, no, it wasn’t that at all. Bruce Errs, who’s the founder of the comedy club Stardome, which canceled Michael Rappaport’s shows, told al dot Com the venue had received a flood of messages and emails urging organizers to cancel said performance. Aerrs says after discussions with Rapp Reports management team and the Hoover Police Department, he decided the best thing to do is to cancel the show. He said, I’m not taking sides.
That’s just trying to book a comedy show. I didn’t want a big protest outside and somebody getting hurt. I’m here to do comedy, make people laugh. There’s nothing political about it anyway. I was just trying to put on a show.
We take us for the show. There’s some people that really wanted to come. It’s just unfortunate the way it came down. And you know what, as I record this on Friday afternoon, it is like seventy nine degrees, the humidity’s like zero, and the sun is out. So I’m gonna wrap it up here because some other day it’ll rain and I can tell you these other stories we didn’t get to today.
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