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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We are out of the summer loll. Things have picked back up. There was a lot of news on Friday.
We’ve got just for laughs this week, Anemy nominations later this month in Adam Sandler movie, and then a Mark Maren special on August first. So’ll there be plenty to talk about. Let’s start with Maren. That special is called Panicked, and it was shot in New York City in May. HBO has released the trailer for it.
Let’s listen. I have made a few edits for language. I know the world we’re living in. It’s difficult and it’s scary. So I said to myself, Mark, why don’t you just be entertaining?
People need entertainment. I’m not sure I got into this to be entertaining. Progressors have really got to figure out how. To deal with this buzzkill problem. You did you realize we annoyed the average American into We had these big fires in Los Angeles.
There were mandatory evacuations. So I’m like, we’re doing this now. I’ve got three cats and one carrier. That’s not a porno movie. It’s my life.
I don’t know if I know the difference between I’m happy and this is good coffee. I don’t know. If my brain rests for even three seconds, some other part of my brain goes, you want me to open the worry folder. I’m intrusive, catastrophic thinking. There’s an argument to be made that if you think the worst is gonna happen, anything shy of that is a victory.
But I don’t know if all I’m doing is mining for gold in a river of panic. I thought there was a strong material in there that was a better trailer than a lot of trailers that come up.
All right, let’s talk about Andrew Schultz.
Boy, I’m trying to pull my punches here so that I don’t lose half the audience. But Andrew, dude, come on, really, Andrew Schultz is surprised that President Trump didn’t do exactly what he promised he was going to do. On his podcast, Andrew Schultz said, there’ll be people that do me like you see what your boys do, and you voted for this, and I’m like, I voted for none of this. He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I’ve voted for. I want him to stop the wars he’s funding them.
I want them to shrink spending, reduce the budget he’s increasing it. I already expect positians to not do most of the stuff they say. I don’t want to be too cynical, but now I’m getting to the point where it’s like, can they do anything? When you feel like the status quo will do nothing and change nothing, you have way more of a longer leash for the outsider’s ideas than you do for the status quo’s ideas. And I think that was the idea with Trump, Who’s like, maybe he’ll stop these wars.
No, maybe we’ll see what’s up with the Epstein stuff. No, they again, vote for who you want. But like Andrew, come on, Scrubs is coming back. It has received a straight to series order from ABC. Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk now on board, joining Zach Braff.
All three get executive producer credits. The official description j D and Turk scrubbing together for the first time in a long time. Medicine has changed in terms of change, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Character is new, and all navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter at Heart and some surprises along the way. Now, I wonder what they’re going to do with Sacred Heart.
You may remember in the original series they switched hospitals for the final season there and they were like new Sacred Heart, which was like a teaching hospital. Or are they going to use that set? I guess, because if I remember correctly, the hospital they used for the original eight seasons was knocked down, so they can’t even use that if they want. I mean, I guess they could build sets that look like the original series and just kind of ignore season nine. Who knows, we’ll find out.
Judy Rayes, who played Carla, is a series regular on ABC’s High Potential. However, there apparently are good conversations between the two shows that they hope Judy rays can pomp into new Scrubs. They’re both on ABC. The Lawrence at a statement said, Scrubs means so very much to me, so excited for the chance to get the band back together. I’ve mentioned in the past, my wife is a physician.
She was an intern at the time at JD and Turkuer Interns, and she found it to be extremely realistic, obviously, not the campy elements or the daydream elements, but just the ins and outs of hospital life. She found out to be the most realistic show until The Pit came along. That is now the number one most realistic show according to doctor mac Laurence and Visions. Scrubs two point zero is a hybrid between a revival and a reboot, bringing back the original concept with new surgical interns. Lawrence had said in October, We’ve been talking about it a lot, and I think the only real reason to do it is as a combo.
People wanted to see what the world of medicine was like for the people they love, which is part of any successful reboot. But b I think the show always worked because we get to see young people dropped on the world of medicine, knowing young people that go there are super idealistic, and doing it because it’s a calling. There’s no cliche rich doctors playing golf. That’s not what it is anymore. So I think that no matter what it is, it’d be a giant mistake not to do it as a combo of those two things.
I think he’s right. The Office spin off, The Paper has a release date, it will debut. This to me seems like they just want to burn it off and make it go away. This is very strange. They’ll drop four episodes on September fourth.
Now, how does that factor in a Labor day weekend? When is Labor Day this year? All right, Labor Day looks like it’s Monday the first, is that right? That’s a bummer, So Thursday the fourth. Johnny Mac doesn’t like September one Labor Day because that means, you know, summer abruptly ends that it’s still only September second.
I like when Labor day’s like the sixth. Anyway, four episodes on Thursday, September fourth, followed by two new episodes every Thursday through September twenty fifth. This all on peacock. Is nobody learning about the binge model? Like, for example, Squid Game.
Remember everybody who was in a Squid Game came and went. Nobody talked about season three. The Bear came and went. Nobody really talked about the bear. A friend of mine texting me, He’s like, did you watch the Beery?
And I’m like no, and we stopped talking about it. I mean, back in the day, I always come back to lost. I remember sitting around the office for a week going What do the numbers mean? What does the polar bear mean? What does this mean?
What does that mean? Now? It’s like watch it, no, don’t talk about it, and we don’t talk about it anymore. So go ahead and drop four episodes of the Office on Thursday September fourth, which is probably up against an NFL game, isn’t it. Oh yeah, the Dallas Cowboys.
You know that little football team. They play the world champion Philadelphia Eels. Yeah, nobody’s going to be watching football on Thursday September fourth. They’re all going to be watching the Paper. What are you doing?
Don’t do this? Push it back a week and drop one episode a week. Why are you rushing through this? Dumb dumb, dum dum dumb. I’m feisty today.
The Paper is set at a Midwestern newsroom trying to revive its status. Larry David is coming back to TV a new six episode sketch comedy about American history, this one produced by the Obamas. The description President and Missus Obama wanted to honor America’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary and celebrate the unique history of our nation on this special occasion. But then Larry David called. In a statement, President Obama said, I’ve sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled with some of our most intractable problems.
Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David. Larry David said, once Curb ended, I celebrated with a three day foam party after a violent allergic reaction to the SuDS. I yearned to return in my simple life as a bee keeper, harvesting organic honey from the wildflowers in my meadow. Alas, one day my bees mysteriously vanished, and so is with a heavy heart that I return to television, hoping to ease the loss of my beloved hive. Six episodes, presumably next year, to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States.
It is said to feature some Curb actors and quote noteworthy guest stars. One of the directors said, the characters Larry is playing didn’t change history. In fact, they were largely ignored by history, and that’s a good thing. The Home Run Derby is Tonight’s GQ asked Roy Wood Junior about the Home Run Derby. He said, what I like about it is how carnival like it is.
Look at these strong guys who found let’s see how far they can hit a baseball. Every other sport has skill competitions. Hockey, they put the targets up on the goal. They got to go top shelf through an eighty bitty hole. But baseball’s like, no, we don’t care about the other skills.
I’m going to my first derby this year. I imagined it to be such a choice and fun thing. You just get to sit there and watch them do all the things we love, Roy, You’re going to love it. When I worked at the old Place, I had credentials for the home run Derby at least twice I think maybe three times, and then I went as a civilian with my son when the home run Derby was at City Field. It’s just fun, especially if you could sit in the outfield and the home runs are coming at you.
That is fun. Roy. Do you have a favorite home run ever? He said, nobody’s ever asked me that. Shoot.
Favorite home run ever is Joe Carter in the nineteen ninety three World Series. Even though I paid for Mitch Williams as a Cubs fan, I’m gonna give my answer. I was at Opening Day when Gary Carter made his Mets debut and he hit a home run. That was an exciting day at Shay Stadium. Roy said, I always understood why good players left because the Cubs as an organization just never got it together in the early nineties.
Greg Maddox left, everybody left. I think Sammy Sosa was the only one that joined the team in the middle of that BS So I have conflictions about the Joe Carter home run because of my love for Mitch Williams. But the joyousness of Joe Carter rounding the bases, it’s exactly the essence of baseball. You know what. I will save more of this for tomorrow or Wednesday.
I’ve got a lot in tomorrow. Script already stick to sports. Okay. Over the weekend there was a celebrity golf tournament. I only found out about it on Friday afternoon, or it would have dropped it into one of the weekend episodes or mentioned it on Friday.
They waited pretty late to promote this one. Anyway. The Times did a big profile. They caught up with Larry the cable guy, who said he used to hate golf. He was on a tour bus and another comic made the mistake of switching all the TV screens to the masters.
Larry, it’s all the times I go. Who watches golf on a Sunday when the braves are playing? Are you nuts? But around twenty ten, a cable guy befriended PGA tour player Bob Weekly and tagged along for eighteen holes. Larry said, all I did was riding the cart with a megaphone and tell jokes for about four and a half hours.
Then they thought, man, I better learn how to play golf rather than riding a golf guard for four hours. I’m running out of material. He grabs some clubs and he was instantly hooked. He’s a lefty, he claims thirteen handicap. It is now a regular charity tournaments.
Ray Romano and other celebrity golfer said, the crowd’s there to have fun. They’re not there to see Ray Romano play golf. They’re not there to enjoy how good I am as a golfer, because we all know we’re all amateurs, but they don’t realize how much we’re grinding inside. We try to make it entertaining, especially the comedians. We got to put on a smile, tell a joke and try to be funny.
But when you hit a bad shot and then you got to try and be the clown, it’s not easy.
Also participating this year in the acc Neaprighetsi, Colin jo Justin rob Rig…
I want the Golf channel at some point to go. Man, you believe this, Larry the Cable guys in eighth place. You have dreams of hearing those things. But yeah, sometimes you can’t wait till the round is over, so you can just get back to your room, say a couple of prayers and pay somebody to come smother you with a pillow. It’s really not hard to let your motions show on golf, but you got hold it in.
I’ll try and to see if I can get a recap of this into Morrow Show. Ray Romano said, well, you want to beat Charles Barkley. Seems like Pajeeba dot Com had the same reaction to Craig Robinson that I did. They wrote, that’s not how you quit comedy, That’s how comedy quits you. As no one learned anything from years of big announcements and fake reunion teasus before the Super Bowl.
The inevitable letdown always irritates the hell out of people. This is what happens when Peacock cancels your surprisingly solid snake hunting showing out today for Breezio Capano from the Future. It is his debut English language special, available for early access at the eight hundred pound Gorilla eight hundred PGM dot com. Now that is your comedy news for today. If you’re still enjoying the program after my Andrew Schultz editorial, I appreciate you.
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