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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Colbert, Greg Gutfeld

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser skipping Kevin Hart Roast amid agent strategy shift
• Nikki Glaser’s Call Her Daddy revelations and online criticism
• John Mulaney tour review from Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Jim Gaffigan’s favorite sandwiches on Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• Greg Gutfeld’s What Did I Miss new season premiere April 27th
• Late night ratings update with Stephen Colbert leading viewership

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. I said, it’s the algorithm loves and I can’t remember enough to write down in the notes every day. Cracked asked, are we learning a little too much about Nikki Glaser? This reminds me I wanted to bring up.

When I was driving back from the Osco concert last week with my daughter, we started talking about Nicky’s revelations, and I’ve been pulling my punches a little because, like I’m a dude, and maybe I just don’t get it. I’m an old man. But my daughter, who’s you know, a cool gen zer, she was not into what Nicky was selling at all. She’s like, yeah, we don’t need to know any of that, And my daughter and I are aligned. I hope Nicky’s okay.

It seems like Nicki really really has self esteem issues. Cracked rights, what goes on inside Nikki Glaser’s bedroom is not the concern of anybody besides her, her boyfriend and their potential side piece. Anybody who’s been around stand up comedians in the rough Hours knows that, like any artistic community, comics tend to be a kinky bunch. Some personal preferences are fittingly laughable, some are uncomfortably extreme, but hey, so as long as everyone’s consenting, it’s not our place to judge an artists for their proclivities correct rights. At the same time, and arguably the most iconic roast comic of her generation goes on call her Daddy and discusses her curiosity about the increasingly popular ethical non monogamy lifestyle.

She opens herself up to all sorts of slams and burns from an online comedy community that’s eager to test out their own roasting skills. Let me jump in there about the roasts. I was thinking about this too, NICKI not doing the roast of Kevin Hart. I don’t think that’s a scheduling thing. I think that’s the agent trying to steer her away from being a roast comic and being the type of person who hosts awards shows.

Obviously, she’s hosting the Golden Globes. Somewhere in my travels, maybe it was the Town podcast put in my head that maybe Conan doesn’t want to host the Oscars again. And maybe they’d consider Nikki Glaser. So I think this is the agent steering. I don’t know anything, that’s just you know, I’ve been doing this for a while and know how to read the tea leaves, and that’d be my guess.

Now, Yeah, I’m looking at this. I was wondering if she’s on tour. She’s on tour. You know where she is the week of the Kevin Hart Roast. She’s in Los Angeles at the Netflix, is at Joe Comedy Festival, so she’s in town.

I’m sure she could do a minute. I’m sure Jeff Ross and the gang would write her a couple of lines. So I think they’re steering her away from this. Nicki does have time to do The Night of Too Many Stars May seventh, in LA at the Hollywood Bowl. Crack points out Glazer never actually said that either she or her boyfriend have actually acted on their non monogamous impulses, and she only spoke about the exploration of their boundaries and hypothetical situations.

For all we know, the thought alone is enough to get the blood pumping for these lovebirds, and it’ll never go further than that. Again, you do you I just don’t think the press on that one went the way Nicky thought it was going to go. The folks at the Minneapolis Star Tribune went to see John Mulaney. Minor spoilers for John’s a current tour. Mister, whatever the Star Trip tells U, John Mulaney isn’t afraid to take chances.

In the opener, John m’laney turned stand up tropes on their heads for nearly two hours a marathon in the stand up world, only pausing a couple of times to sip water. Spoilers how he turned a bit on fatherhood into an excuse to reflect on devil possession and rip RFK Junior was a magic trick equal to anything you’d see it a David Copperfield show. Lots of comics have ripped on the Wizard of Oz, but how many have targeted the black and white portions in which Ray Bolger is less than convincing? Is a farm hand? That’s good?

A bit about in laws turn into a rant about how marrying Asian American actress Olivia Munn has resulted in him financially supporting roughly a dozen Vietnamese Americans. Some other material like his thoughts on how Jesus must have loved posing for pictures. Seemed better suited for SNL, but there’s no way NBC censors would let him get away with the language he used on stage. This is good because I like to see comedians evolve, they tell us. John Mulaney did not dive into the part of his personal past that has generated headlines, but he didn’t ignore them either.

He revealed he’s only allowed to carry two hundred dollars in cash on them at any time, decreasing the chances that’ll revive his cocaine Habit sounds like it was a good show. Jim Gaffigan was talking food on The Late Show with star trek ruiner Stephen Colbert. We learned that Jim Gaffigan’s top choice is a classic pastrami sandwich from Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City. Then he added, if you’re in Chicago with nothing on your schedule, go for an Italian beef from Mister Beef, where illuminatis how he likes his hot beef. He says hot peppers.

He also pointed out it’s messy, but that’s part of the appeal Chicago food. I’m fat enough, I would weigh four hundred pounds if I lived out there. Those beef sandwiches are awesome. I love the pizza. I’m not here to debate pizza with you.

I like it a lot. Colbert asked, what do you do if you have plans after eating one of the sandwiches? Yes, pro tip, having spent a lot of time in Chicago, if you get one of those beef sandwiches with the hot peppers, you want to have a plan, you know what I mean? Like, maybe get one and go back to the hotel room and work on your comedy podcast scripts for a little bit, and you know it’s good to be back in the room. Say no more, you know what I’m saying.

Gaffigan said, The problem is no one’s ever eating a pastrami sandwich and done anything. You have a pastrami sandwich and then you’re like goodbye. Greg gutfelds What did I Miss? Coming Back? New season April twenty seventh, three episodes hosted by Greg Gutfeld.

The premise of the show as a group of people who isolated themselves in upstate New York with no access to media, trying to determine which of the news headlines cited by Gutfeld or real, Oh my goodness, can you imagine if they’ve missed the last two weeks and some of the things the President of the United States has done on social media, They’re not gonna believe any of it. Oh No. Unfortunately this was filmed after Thanksgiving. Five contestants were cut off from phones, internet, television, social media, along with all communication from friends and family. They re entered Socide after Valentine’s Day and had to take a quiz from Gutfeld about what happened in the world while they were sequestered.

Contestants compete for fifty thousand dollars. Guttfeld said, against all logic, people volunteered to do this greasy game show again, and the only thing standing between them and victory is me. Can we just find somebody who’s been in like a coma for the last two weeks. I’d like to just quiz that person and be like, hey, here, I’ll tell you I was talking about this with my friends Trivia recently. I have this way of I can convince people that I know what I’m talking about, and the rest of the trivia team goes, yeah, that makes sense, and they write it down and I was joking about in three years if the trivia guys ask on Easter Sunday the President of the United States mentioned this religious figure.

I’m going to convince everybody it’s Jesus.

And then somebody’s gonna go no, not who we mentioned.

I’m gonna go like that makes no sense. It was Easter, of course he mentioned Jesus. But I digress, and somebody’s gonna get mad at me. Now. The Late Night Ratings star trek Ruiner Stephen Colbert remains the most watched program at eleven thirty five total viewers two point seven million.

Future King of Late Night Jimmy Kimmel two point five three million viewers, up six percent of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon one point three three million. Gutfeld, which airs at ten Eastern seven West, did three point three million. The Daily Show is averaging one point one three million total viewers at twelve thirty seven. Seth Myers has a show for some reason. It’s averaging a million total viewers.

And that’s a night number until I tell you adults eighteen to forty nine one hundred and thirty nine one thousand, not that much more than this show. I’m a lot closer to Seth Myers than Seth Myers is to Stephen Colbert. Let’s put it that way, and soon we’ll all be able to watch Byron Allen’s thing. How I keep forgetting to mention I’ve had this story for a couple of times, and then yesterday I was depressed about the death of Raw Dog Comedy. A week or so ago, I went to see Osco at Costco with my daughter.

So I’m a comedy snob, and my daughter works in the theater industry and she knows how bookings work. And I had mentioned on a previous episode Osco did four chunks that total fifty eight minutes. Well, let me get you on a little secret. There’s a minimum time you have to do to get paid, Like you can’t walk out and just do four minutes. So Osco gets to the end and kind of looks over to the side of the stage and somebody must have yelled out like, no, you can’t leave.

So she kind of on the fly went, ah, hey, how about we do some Q and A. And I’ve seen plenty of comedians do Q and A. Jerry Seinfeld does Q and A, and it’s a good way to pay your time, and the Q and A was actually quite entertaining. But we were sitting there and I was looking at the watch and my daughter told me what the minimum probably was, seventy minutes, and I’m like, she’s got nine more minutes to kill And sure enough, as soon as the clock struck ninety ten, it was like, Okay, good night, everybody. I’m not ragging on OSCO.

It’s everybody. But it was fun sitting in the audience knowing what was really going on, but the civilians on the audience enjoyed the Q and A. Here’s a really weird one from Pete Davidson. This via TMZ who right. According to audio obtained by TMZ, Pete Davidson, who recently became a father, joked during his comedy show on Saturday that becoming a girl dad has complicated watching porn.

TMZ, I’m gonna read the sentence for batim and not put any spin on it. TMZ wrote this sentence on stage at Las Vegas Mountain Blue. Pete reportedly quipped that it’s now hard to watch porn in front of her. He kidded, I still did I power through that. I mentioned that’s a weird joke to make, because it’s that’s a weird joke to make.

Nick Muhammad got in a dig at influencers. Nick was hosting the Olivier Awards this at London’s Royal albert Hall, you know the one where they’ve counted all the holes. As he opened up the ceremony, Nick Muhammad, you know Nick from ted Lasso, he joked he had some housekeeping to do and said, in case of any kind of emergencies please can everyone leave in the following order, me, Helen Miren, sir Ian McKellen, everyone else.

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And then influencers love it so well, let’s stay on that side of the pond, as…

Leading comedy executives fear that relocation of the Edinburgh TV Festival would be a disaster for British talent. They point out Fleabag, Baby, Reindeer, snl UK and Task Master just a handful of shows that may have never seen the light of day if it wasn’t for the Edinburgh at TV Festival’s alchemy with the Edinburgh Fringe. Well, the TV festival folks have invited Bits to relocate. Avalon co founder John Today said relocation would be a disaster. Look at the number of people who come over every year from the American industry to Edinburgh.

Think about Phoebe wall Bridge or baby Reindeer. These connections were often made with American executives hearing about them via the television festival. What would be the point of Netflix, HBO or Warner Brothers sending people to Newcastle to discuss things like the funding of the BBC Let’s fly around the world. Down in Melbourne, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues. You got a clip for a year?

This is Ian Smith. Ian’s show is called foot spa half empty my house. He’s weird, thirty five years old. Still draws a little line on his milk in market pen to know where the level was. I think that’s stupid, but I get my own back.

I buy my own milk and I use that to top his milk cup, just above the line. It’s confused. He’s looking at it. He thinks the milk is growing. I off sat and watched him google the phrase does milk expand.

Good stuff? There from Ian Smith. The Guardian went to see Anissa Nondula her show No Small Talk’s Fun with the rising star of Australian comedy. Anissa and Andula is a Ugandan Australian comedian. The Guardian tells us from the moment she bounds on stage.

Adula’s energy is infectious. She’s almost aggressively bubbly, her demeanor a counterpoint to the dryness she sees in the Australian sense of humor. I pulled a clip. Should we listen? We should listen?

Hello. My name’s Anissa. I got called a lot of names in school, but I could never get upset because the names were pretty good. In school, I had a massive afro. My best friend was gay.

They called us the two Puffs. I wrote my Australian boyfriend to Kenya for the first time, and they kept calling him Muzungu, which means white person. And I was like, no, no, no, no, Asian. How do you say Asian in your language? And this Kenyan woman was like.

Ah, China. She was in Kenya. We have black and white, and anything I don’t quite understand falls into China, Irenian, China, Uzbekistan, China, Brazilian sexy China. That’s pretty good, right, We’re told she started as a slam poet. Her reliance on the audience has never mean spirited or unkind, but it will still be a detern for many.

If you’re brave enough to sit at the front, you’d better be ready to share Anisa and Andula’s no small talk at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival until April nineteenth. You better get on that plane. Brett Mackenzie closed out his Freak Out City, New Zealand tour at Auckland’s Hollywood Avondale two hours of music and mirth. You know Brett Mackenzie from Flight of the Concords who we’re talking about. A lot with a two piece horn section and two backing vocalists.

The band is versatile enough to handle anything Brett Mackenzie throws at them. This became clear when Mackenzie wrote a song on the spot based on the story somebody in the audience shout it out. I’m looking at the set list here. If you were hoping to hear Flight of the Concord’s hits, I don’t think you got them. Mack Packer Tom Cavanaugh joins Tony Danza and Michael Longfellow in Broken Snow eight sens psychological drama set inside an abandoned snowbound house.

They are two strangers, Jeames, a volatile drifter, and Steven, a tightly controlled officer, discover they share a dark formilia connection, pretty dark for some people, known to be pretty funny. Broken Snow opens on the nineteenth and runs through May twenty third, Theater seventy one in New York City. Today’s your last day to vote for Comedy Survivor the finale Nikki Glaser versus Sarah Silverman. Make sure you get your votes in. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

And I didn’t forget. Let’s check in in Austin. It’s the Moontower Comedy Festival five o’clock, The Goblin Happy Hour with John GOBLECN. That’s fun. Mark Maron at the Paramount at seven o’clock.

You would find me there if I ever left the house. I left the house once last week. Doug Benson and Friends at eight, Ryan Redband’s Secret Ship with the Sunset Strip at eight, Deborah g Giovanni at Higbees at eight thirty, Matthew Bissard and Jackie Kas at nine o’clock, and Antoine’s Leslie Jones she did not win Comedy Survivor. She’s at the Paramount at nine thirty. Wow, back to back with Marin you.

That’s a good place to hang out there all night. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Howard Stern, Ralphie May, David Letterman, Byron Allen, Diane Morgan

What’s in This Episode

• Sebastian Maniscalco launches new SiriusXM channel replacing Raw Dog Comedy
• Ralphie May documentary ‘Come What May’ releasing on Matcheight
• David Letterman comments on Byron Allen’s ‘Comics on Leash’ replacing CBS 11:30 slot
• Johnny Mac reflects on legacy of Raw Dog Comedy Uncensored radio station
• Philomena Cunk character returns

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. I’m gonna indulge myself here at the top, So if your first time listener, maybe skip five minutes in because you don’t know my backstory. For everybody else, I’m not doing a bit here. I’m really bothered.

I know this is going to sound like a bit, but I am truly bothered. I’ll give you the news story first. Sebastian Maniscalco is getting a channel on Serious XM. It is Sebastian Maniscalco’s comedy radio. And why I’m bothered is it’s taking over Channel ninety nine, which was the home of Raw Dog Comedy, which I used to program many moons ago.

And let me tell you, for a radio guy, this is painful. Raw Dog Comedy was one of the great radio stations of all time. Now, obviously I’m attached to it, I’m biased. I programmed it. But my radio hero growing up was Howard Stern.

And when I met Howard Stern, Howard Stern told me row Dog sounded great, which was the radio complement of my life. Sebastian Man of Skalko said, joining Serious XM and launching my own channel is a huge moment for me. Honestly, the real comedy may come from trying to teach my father how to find Serious XM and his car hilarious. That alone could be its own weekly series. Now, I will tell you back in the day, Raw dogg Comedy was right at the top of the most popular stations, and it was cool.

The other stations might be branded the blue collar guys. They were great to work with. Jamie Fox great to work with, but rowd Dog was its own thing. It was comedy uncensored, and when we came on the scene, that was a new thing, and like all great things, it was great because the bosses weren’t paying attention to it, and we did things to make ourselves laugh. We would just throw shows on the air and have fun, play uncensored comedy.

And then nine years into my ten year career, the organizational structure changed and I found myself in a room with a guy now running programming for some reason and says to me that his wife doesn’t know the comedians we’re playing on the Raw Dog channel, to which I said but that’s the whole value proposition of the channel is we’re on the forefront of comedy. We’re going to all these comedy festivals because that’s how we stay sharp, and then we come back and we play people before they become famous. While playing the hits, I programmed this thing. I did what’s called an ABC rotation. I’ll teach you music programming real quickly.

Okay, thre three categories, A, B, and C. And the A category you play things really tightly. B you have more than you have in the A.

And then the C is a big giant bucket of comedy.

So new stuff goes in the A, or stuff that you want to push goes in the A. So like right now, Robbie Hoffman would be an A right now because Robbie Hoffman’s hot. You want to play Robbie Hoffman and Nikki Glaser and John m’alaney and Jim Gaffigan and Sebastian Manaskalko, those would be your a’s.

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And then over time that material gets, you know, a little tired because you’v…

And then overtime the b’s fall out of B and fall into SE and that’s how we program this thing.

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And then, for I don’t know his last I wasn’t there very long, we dumped it do…

So now the Raw Dog channel has gone away. It’s been called raw Comedy for I don’t know when. At some point they stopped calling it raw dog and started calling it raw comedy, which is lame and vanilla in itself. So I am sad to see this go Now. The big guy in the corner office, he loves names, he loves putting faces on the brochure, and I’m sure the marketing people will be really excited to see Sebastian making a dumb face on the thing next to Conan O’Brien and Kevin Hart and whatever else is on there now.

But boy, this one personally pains me. Raw Dog Comedy uncensored, rest in Peace, one of the all time great radio stations. Sebastian might look good on the brochure, but is it cool in any way? Absolutely not. Back in those days, I got to know Ralphie May reasonably well, good guy who was very fond of him.

The documentary Come What May, is out on matche eighth. It includes archival footage of Ralphie May chronicling how the loving husband and father fell victim to enabler’s addiction and abuse, causing his brake light to burn out far too quickly. There is a trailer. Let’s take a listen, he telling my story. Be good, m I’m a very flawed in him perfect man.

You know. Problem in Houston, Texas. Ralphie May, Ralphie May can’t see this about that person and that about this person. The last group left is fat people. We’re we’re the last ones left.

He was a common man with uncommon abilities and insights. I want to go back in time, find a guy who’s been a carrot cake and plunge him in his face. He knew how to tap your soul to make you be like, Okay, it’s gonna be all right. I’m going to Tennessee. Raised an Arkansas and moved to Texas when I was eighteen.

I’m Southern. I’m my own cousin, okay. Who It was just detonation. It was really just like pulling the pin on a grenade. Every night.

I’ve lost like. Two hundred seventy pounds the last two year. Don’t clap. It’s not a real accomplishment. You lose a whole fat man, You’re still fat as hell.

I had gasher bypass surgery. I asked her again and marry me. He looked up. He said, I got gutted like a catfish. I want to be here with you.

I don’t know what else I can say. I had a lot of trauma when I was growing up, and then I started masking that with a weed and food. His pain was directed towards himself. Tell myself the truth, all food at it. He said he was off of pills and he did a great job of hiding them from me.

Daddy, please pick up some break called back. Gadgie made conversation and he just went, I love stand up. It’s fantastic. It’s the greatest job, but I don’t have it all my life. He was very kind, he was very generous.

He’s a great person, and he loved to make people laugh. A lot of comedians want to me these guys. I just wanted to be a great comedian. How many people in this world can legit make you lose yourself in laughter. Rouffie was larger than life.

He never did anything with subtlety. Everything was big. He spread a lot of laughter and a lot of joy. Yeah, I’ve been great, Thank you so much. David Letterman has weighed in on his whole Byron Allen CBS eleven thirty.

Thing here is David Letterman. It’s comics on leash. Yeh, yeah, that’s what’s going to be here instead of the Byron the Barber game, the Billionaire oh Man. And as we always mentioned, when he was a kid, like fourteen, he and I were together with a group of people who wrote for Jimmy Walker. Did you know back then that you were looking at a young No, he was a kid, and I always thought, this is great.

Here’s a kid who is interested in show business. Jimmy Walker, big, big, big star.

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And then you had Stooges.

There was a guy named Wayne Klein who was a joke machine. Elaine Boosler was also a very funny young comedian Jay Leno and myself and I think Marty Nadler who had something to do with Lavernon Shirley and Byron Allen who was literally fourteen and his mother would drive him to these writers meetings. Why would they replace. The talk show with that money. Yeah.

Yeah, they don’t want to spend any money, so they’re going to make money. They charge Byron Allen some reasonable price. He sells all the advertising for his comics Unleash, and it’ll be I think ninety minutes or two hours of comics talking about funny stuff. It’s the show is a pretty good idea. It’s all panel.

Nobody’s doing any stand up, except they’re seated doing stand. Up while I’m depressed about rod Dog Comedy Uncensored and meeting an unstimely death. Philamina. Kunk is back, so at least there’s some good in this universe. The character created by Diane Morgan, who plays Kunk, known for her dead pant style and ill informed questions as host of several documentaries, is returning for another mockumentary series, this time about movies.

It’s called Kunk on Cinema, which follows Kunk on Britain, Kunk on Earth, and Kunk on Life. It is build as her most glamorous series to date. It’ll be a three parter. It’s nown production. It will air on the BBC and Netflix.

The log line Kunk will attempt to demystify it all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn, asking herself where did cinema come from? And why? And what does it want? And why can’t it tell us? Kunk said, cinema has given the world some of the most profound, memorable and moving visual moments, and it’s unswerving depiction of the human condition.

The shower scene in Psycho Death playing chess, and that Swedish thing and Tom Selex glistening mustache and three men in a Little Lady, to name it all three of the only examples I can think of at the moment. There will unfortunately be some bits in black and white, but we’ll keep that to the barest minimum. Looking forward to that one, The Flight of the Concords. Boy, They’re hot. I mentioned last week.

I thought about going out there and I saw the six hundred dollars ticket price and I’m like, Eh, maybe not. My new kick is concert DVD slash blu rays. Then I talk about this, I know, I wrote about it on the substack. I was like, I’m not going to see Springsteen. He’s charging too much.

But I was in a Springsteen mood, so I just threw in the DVD of his London show and hit play, and I was like, this is great because this is the two thousand and nine E Street Band, which was a lot closer to the traditional E Street Band. No Danny, but Clarence was still there.

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And then at one point Bruce went into one of his speeches and I was like, at …

So I got up and got a drink and went to the bathroom and came back and Bruce was still in the middle of the story.

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And then I watched the rest of the show and then I was home in zero seconds.

So that’s kind of my move. Maybe I’ll just watch the Flight of the Concords on HBO. I digressed. Brett mackenzie discussed how the reunion came to be, said, they were always offers simmering around. We haven’t done anything for a while.

We’ve been jamming a little bit last year, just trying to write some new ideas with no intention of booking a tour or anything, but just for fun. We’ve got a great booking agent, Nick, and Nick said, oh guys, here’s this offer. It’s in LA What do you think and it was just sort of the right type of gig for us. It’s not too big. We’re not going on the road for six months.

I think it was just one gig and then they had a a second show. We were committed to one gig, so we’re like, we can manage one gig. Brett says, We’ve got a song called Jenny, which is about two people. The song’s about a guy and a woman Jenny. Anyway, we’re like, let’s have it go, see how much we can remember.

And the song’s about him struggling and remember, and both of us are struggling and remember. And we got halfway through the song and like, I don’t know what happens. I mean, I know there’s a baby, but I know how we get to the bit about the baby, and then we have to pull up the recording and you can actually just google our own lyrics. So we were laughing at jokes that we’d forgotten. There are no plans for the Concords after the festival, although based on the demand, I’m saying I won’t be shocked if that changes.

Brett McKenzie said it’d be fun to do some more, but we’re just gonna take it and see it as we go. Playing live is pretty fun for us. Jamaine has a really busy schedule, a lot of filmwork, acting and stuff. The live shows are quite good because you go, oh, we can get a week, so maybe we could do something there within those few weeks. It seems more realistic than blocking out a year or two.

The audience is just psych man, it’s cool. I mean this one benefit of not playing for eight years. It builds up a little bit of interest. A lot of our audience has never seen us play. Last time we played all Australia was twenty twelve.

It’s a logo. A lot of people have never had a chance to see the live show. Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. We’re down to the finale, Nikki Glaser versus Sarah Silverman, who will win Comedy Island or whatever we’re doing. Here’s what you do.

You go to the Facebook group, you vote one of them off. We are voting off. You’re voting against somebody, so you vote off Sarah Silverman or you vote off Nikki Glaser. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group and you write down the name of the person you want to lose.

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Speaking of Sarah Silverman, she’s got a new gig.

The team behind Netflix is nobody wants this. Have cast Sarah Silverman to play Rabbi Eden in the upcoming third season, described in Variety as the warm, quirky teacher of an intro to Judaism class and a supportive presence for Joanne and Noah. Fun fact, Sarah’s sister, Rabbi Susan Silverman, is a rabbi. I could have phrased that better, but I’m depressed over raw dog comedy. But you probably figured out when I said Rabbi Susan Silverman that Susan Silverman is a rabbi.

I need a laugh to cheer myself up. Tim Dillon made fun of Megan Markle, which is one of the things I do as the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast. We’re having a big week because Megan and Harry are down in Australia and everybody’s just hating on them, and it makes writing the show really easy. Tim Dillon was on that podcast with David Spade and Dana Carvey. Tim Dillon said, I think Megan will eventually find her way into some type of talk show because she’s failed at the Martha Stewart route, which she wanted.

She was slinging Jam and Target. She wanted to have a lifestyle brand. Spade said Jim was an interesting choice. It’s probably an uncrowded market o than Welch’s. I can’t think of too many.

Tim Dillon said she definitely needs to adjust her strategy. I could also see her going back to the UK and saying let’s give it another go. Dana Carvey said, I think they do have to go back and stir the brand again. Dylan said, I think we’re all a little tired of her stick here. I don’t think it worked as well she thought it would.

I think her idea was to come back to America and say, listen, the British are really racist, but they do know a lot about dinner parties and I’ve learned that. So I’m here to tell you how to live like a human being and what fork to use you pig, American pig. And I think that felt a little condescending. She had that show on Netflix where she was basically like, now, well this is what they call a saucer. You put your coffee cup at it so it doesn’t spill.

Over your illegitimate children, you animals. I think people got huttle turned off by that. Thank you Tim Dillon for cheering me up. The Moon Tower Comedy Festival gets a little more serious in Austin today. Let’s take a look at the schedule.

Brad Williams at the Paramount at seven o’clock. That’s pretty cool. Matthew Bissard and Jackie Kashin doing a doubleheader at the Cap City Comedy Main Room at seven Beth Stelling at the Greek of the Cave at seven p fifteen, maybe for a late show. The texs Ins at the Velveta Room looks like a bunch of comedians from Texas. At nine point thirty, the Melbourne Comedy Festival continues.

The folks at Sceinester went to see lou Wall, they write. Last year, a clip of Lou Wall performing a musical number about selling a bed on Facebook marketplace went ridiculously viral online. Three separate people sent it to me, so you can imagine. I had high expectations when heading to check out Lou Wall’s twenty twenty six show. Where are all the tall Grandma’s scenester wrights?

The show left me wondering is there a prize for best opening to a show? Because if there is, Lou Wall my ticket. In twenty twenty five, Wall was nominated for Most Outstanding Show, and it was easy to see why. All right, we should probably play a clip from Lou Wall. John, all right, here’s a clip from Lou Wall.

What is U? Hello? My name is Lou, and recently I’ve started going to therapy. But I’m not like normal therapy, like completely online virtual therapy, which is a risk. But I thought, what’s the worst that could happen?

Like if it doesn’t work out, I’ll turn it into a comedy bit. And here we are. This is how it began. Hi, Lou, my name’s Jessica. I’ll be your new internet therapist.

Shall we start with some personal details so I can get to know you better? Stop, Jessica, I’m Lou really excited to be working with you. What would you like to know? Name, age, address, credit card? In fire, I was like, oh, my name is still Lou.

That hasn’t changed since my last message to you. My address and credit card to private. I’m twenty nine, but honestly I’ve looked forty since I was twelve. Ha ha ha said the cook. Sorry, I’m just like jocking around plase I type that as a reflection of my mental health.

Good stuff there, Seinsters says Wall was an affable presence on stage and dearing themselves to the crowd from the get go. Their impressive singing voice was a surprise, but their goofy humor combined with smart quips was as brilliant as I anticipated. That is your comedy news for today, all right, Go vote for Comedy Survivor Facebook group Daily Comedy News and raw Dog Comedy Uncensored. I miss you, old friend. Rest in peace.

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Featured: Bill Lawrence, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Sarah Chalk, Judy Reyes, Christa Miller, Neil Flynn

What’s in This Episode

• Scrubs Season 10 Episode 8 recap: Doctor Cox’s return with serious illness
• Doctor Cox diagnosed with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and renal failure
• Emotional mentor-student dynamic shift as JD becomes Cox’s caretaker
• Scrubs Paleyfest panel discussion and audience reactions
• ABC renewal status for Scrubs Season 11
• Cast interest in bringing back original characters including Dr. Kelso

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Scrub Season ten, episode eight, My Odds. Original air date April eighth, twenty twenty six. Hello, I’m a Johnny Mac and boy this when did you have something in your eye there? Towards the end?

This was just a fantastic episode of Scrubs.

Now for me, I knew this was coming.

Somebody had kind of spoiled this in one of the articles as I put together the podcast every day, and especially when I do the Scrubs research, so I knew doctor Cox was in episodes eight and nine, and I kind of knew why. I mean, the spoiler said doctor Cox returns with a life threatening illness. Gee, thanks spoiler. But sure enough, doctor Cox was back being buddies with doctor Park because then I seen them together and they were kind of doing the same thing again. I don’t know if they took lines that were originally designed for Cox and gave them the Park cross the season, but I like the doctor Park character.

I hate the hr lady that says that is not working. Just get rid of her. The two people at the nurses desk, they’re fun. More of them. The new interns are fined, but hr Lady just no, no, no, no, no, anyway, doctor Cox.

He’s back at Sacred Heart Hospital. JD’s pretty excited that he’s there. He wants to impress doctor Cox, and then suddenly doctor Cox collapses. It turns out doctor Cox has a condition known as microscopic polyanngitis aka MPa. That is a serious autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack its small blood vessels.

In the case of doctor Cox, it’s already pushed doctor Cox into the start of renal failure. The prognosis is not great. Both JD and doctor Cox know it. Now. You don’t think they’re gonna kill doctor Cox off next week, right, They’re not?

Like, would they do that to us? And the show has still not been renewed as I record this, I mean, would they just end? Could you imagine if that’s what the plan here? Is all along that just like they do nine seasons and out and doctor Cox dies next week and we’re all just like devastated.

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Let’s talk about one of the other plots.

Doctor Tosh made a mistake that was avoidable, her patient nearly died. Doctor Reed kind of lays into her, is kind of mean to her, and then doctor Tosh goes running to the HR Lady. We get a nice scene with doctor Cox and doctor Reed, and Cox says that he realizes he was a little too harsh on Elliott. So a nice moment there between those two characters. Plenty of nice stuff between doctor Cox and JD.

Doctor Cox asked JD if he’ll pray together, and then Cox praise for JD to get eaten alive by the chair so that he doesn’t have to listen to JD. But in the end doctor Cox becomes quite human it admits that he’s scared Joe. Creator Bill Lawrence told people, we really wanted to show that dynamic of having to be a caretaker for a person that was your caretaker for so many years. We kind of accomplished it way back when we wanted to do a different flavor of it, when doctor Kelso evolved out of the role and he became less of a teacher and more of a confidant. Today, doctor Cox, Bill Laurence says, JD taking over as chief and the pilot set up the new dynamic.

What was really interesting is the only way we thought we could suck JD back into that world was for his mentor to essentially say, these young people deserve exactly what you got, and I can’t give it to them anymore. The danger of that is going well, we don’t want to see that awesome relationship and that awesome character a lot. So the end of the season is doctor Cox’s return as a patient. Bill Laurence says, we will protect and explore that relationship moving forward. Wonder what that means.

At the end of the scene, doctor Cox asked JD to promise that you’ll keep me alive for a very long time, because I don’t want my death to be the thing that makes you cynical. I try to protect you from this with everything I had, but I’m so scared. That’s kind of when you might have had some dust in your eye during that speech. That was really good. JD and Sissy as a plan that he guarantees is the best plan forward.

But then we hear the voiceover. Turke Itt asked me when I stopped needing doctor Cox’s approval, it was now because now he needed me. John McGinley said, I thought it was really brave of Bill Lawrence to explore exhaustion and fatigue and burn out in a real way for a guy who traded on alpha and being a lion seeing that alpha line freaking exhausted and shost and the writers can write that those kind of damage characters, writers can write richly. That’s a thrill for all actors to get on that page. Zach Braff says, if you look back, it’s what the whole show is leading up to, the teacher handing over the torch to the next generation.

We’ll take the break here and we’ll come back. We’ll talk about what the Scrubs gang said at pailey Fest. Over the weekend, Pailey Fest had a Scrubs panel. On the panel Bill Lawrence, current showrunner, Assim Batra, Zach Braff, Donald Faizon, Sarah Chalk, Judy Reyis, John c McGinley, Christa Miller, and Neil Flynn the janitor Huh. They got together with moderator Vanessa Bear, who plays the horrible Sacred Heart HR manager Sibby Wilson, the character that needs to go.

They screened episode nine, which airs tomorrow on ABC. I have a volleyball game at seven thirty, so I should be home by eight forty five, nine o’clock. I’ll see if I can get my wife to watch it tomorrow night. There are some spoilers. I just got spoilered myself as I scre down here.

I won’t nuke you, ow Kate, but vague we’re told. The episode drew an emotional response from the audience. At the screening, Donald Faison talked about John mcginley’s performance, saying that his wife and kids got emotional watching one scene in episode eight. All right, we’ve already talked about that. That’s not a spoiler, and he called it a testament to mcginley’s gifts as an actor.

McGinley credited Bill Lawrence for always writing Doctor Cox with layers, a character who teaches with equal parts challenge and care. Judy Reyis said stepping back into Carlo’s world once she was on set felt immediate and natural. Christa Miller minor spoiler here, but she appears as Jordan, not shocking. They are married and Doctor Cox’s in the hospital. Christa Miller also married to Bill Lawrence, so that is not shocking.

She said she hopes that Jordan had grown at least a little over the years, and that getting back on set with Zach Braff helped her find the character quickly. Neil Flynn discussed whether or not the Janitor is real or a figment of JD’s imagination. Neil Flynn said there were too many episodes where other characters interact with the Janitor, Although I think in the early part of season one the design was that the Janitor was only in JD’s imagination, but they moved away from that over time. The cast made it clear they want to continue and that there were more characters from the original run they want to bring back. They gave a shout out to Ken Jenkins, who played doctor Kelso.

Bill Lawrence confirmed that Jenkins, now in his eighties, is enthusiastic about returning. ABC has not yet announced if Scrubs will be back, which is crazy. Bill Lawrence said they went into the nine episode season wanting to prove the show could work again. The reaction from audiences and from the Pellyfest crowd suggests that it has. ABC is crazy if they don’t bring this thing back.

Scrubs loved it. Interestingly, my wife said that was not her favorite episode, which was quite surprising to me. Maybe she likes the episodes a little funnier. I don’t know. I liked it a lot.

Scrubs. I’m happy it’s around. I wanted to keep going, see you guys in the morning.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Mark Normand, Joe Rogan, Arsenal Hall, David Spade, Dana Carvey, Tim Dillon, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah Netflix Special ‘Joy in the Trenches’
• Mark Normand’s YouTube Project ‘Human Trials’
• Flight of the Conchords Netflix Comedy Festival Ticket Prices
• Joe Rogan’s Political Disillusionment with Trump
• Dave Chappelle Community Radio Station Ribbon Cutting

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Busy one Today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. We’ve got too much news for one show.

I’m still not over the results of Comedy Survivor. Did you hear the episode? We’ve got a finale coming up. It’s going to be Nicky Glazer versus Sarah Silverman. We’ll talk about that in the second half because there’s a lot going on.

Trevor Noah all of a sudden, was like, Hey, I’m dropping a special on Tuesday. You’re what, Yeah, Joy in the Trenches on Netflix Today. There is a trailer. In the trailer, he tells a lengthy joke about MLKA Junior, and the payoff is visual. So that’s why I’m not sharing it with you.

It’s just a long way to go for something that doesn’t make sense for an audio podcast. I like Trevor’s stand up a lot. His specials are always good, so I’m psyched to have this one. Join the Trenches on Netflix today, Trevor Noah Mark Norman announced a new project, I’m Not sure I understand this one. This will be on YouTube.

It is called Human Trials. Human Trials will answer questions like what if a stand up comedian walked on stage only to find the audience was fifty bald men or fifty clowns or nuns, or bikers or goths. Human Trials is an experiment that places comics in front of hyperniche live audiences. The result is a hilarious and unpredictable environment where the room actively shapes the comedy in real time. The series also incorporates audience interviews and real time feedback from the crowd, exploring how different demographics think and react to specific kinds of humor.

It’s described as blending the unpredictability and interactivity of Killed Tony with the social curiosity of Jubilee videos. Mark Norman said, I’ve done all kinds of shows, and it’s wild to see how different crowds react to the same jokes, especially when you get a very specific group ball in one room. Scott Done, the co founder of Unicorn, said, I’ve watched countless comedy specials over the years and always became fit. I’m watching specific audience members and how they were act to the material. No comedian keeps audiences on their toes quite like Mark, which makes him the absolute perfect face for this new approach to the category.

I mean, sounds like it could be interesting. I don’t think of Mark as a show host, though happy to be wrong. I’m not sure that’s his particular skill set. We will find out. Boy.

People are buzzing about the flight of the Concords coming back. They’ll be at the Netflix as a joke comedy festival. I looked into going. I was like, hey, you know what, maybe I will fly out there. I’ll visit my daughter.

I’ll figure it out. And I clicked on the tickets six hundred and ten dollars. They could be playing in Morristown, New Jersey. I’m not going for six hundred and ten dollars, never mind flying to LA, getting a car, hotel and all that. Six’.

Ten. No WHILE i was on the, website The Kevin Hart roast was going for like three p, forty which is still. Ridiculous just, no just. No people are hyped up for this and to get ready for THE la, shows The concords announced that they were doing some shows In, Wellington New zealand and For sixon thon or ten. Bucks it might actually be cheaper to fly To New zealand to see the.

Show not, quite but it’s probably. Arguable you know, What i’m. Curious i’m gonna go on kayak okay Flight New York city To. Wellington i’ll stay the. Week i’ll sit in economy eighteen hundred bucks to get To, wellington you, know And i’m booking this kind of tight all.

Right so to be, fair it’s cheaper to go TO La i’m still not going six hundred ten bucks get out. Anyway the tickets went on sale and sold out within half an. Hour brett mackenzie Told Radio New zealand last month that they were having trouble remembering their own. Songs he, said we ended up watching. Ourselves we have to pull up YouTube clips to remember how to play our.

Songs we’re like a bad covers band of. Ourselves all, right the fund’s. Over we got to get political. Here Joe rogan On The Joe Rogan experience explained that he is now politically. Homeless Joe rogan was speaking with Guest Arsenial hall and suggested that misdirection is the story of a mayor and.

Politics Joe rogan on The Joe Rogan, experience, Said, look The Epstein files comes out and we go to war With. Iron it’s a good way to get people to stop talking about certain. Things you give them a new problem to think. About Joe rogan then Questioned Donald trump’s, age fearing that perhaps the president could act recklessly because he doesn’t have much to. Lose Joe rogan, said that’s.

Spooky you’re making decisions for babies and childrens in the future of the, world and you’ve got, ten maybe ten years left On earth if everything goes. GREAT i, mean this is why a lot of people feel. Betrayed. Right he ran on no more wars and these, stupid senseless, wars and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did, it you. Know.

Joe, yeah just. Hi i’m just saying hi To Joe. Rogan, Hey, joe how you, Doing? Hi? Joe do you like the Movie?

DIEHARD i like the, line if you’ve ever seen the movie Die, Hard Bruce willis at one point just goes welcome to the, party. Pal but back to the story, Here Joe rogan seems betrayed By Donald, trump which is just. Shocking rogan went on to say two party systems are inherently. Flawed there’s no effing way that one side is to represent you. Entirely some people in THE maga movement did not enjoy that episode of The Joe rogan.

Experience one Pro trump user Called Joe rogan a low IQ pos gaslighting. Loser, meanwhile some comedians are being really mean about the breast of The United. States on The fly on The wall, Podcast David spade And Dana carvey were joined By Tim, dillon And carvey accused the president of being unhealthy. Looking Dana carvey, said what’s your take on How trump has his energy at eighty with purple leggs and purple hands and is out there just? Yelling Tim dillon, SAID i, mean my mother once said to me near the end of her, life McDonald’s is.

Healthy is one of the last things she. Said it was one of the last pieces of wisdom my mother said before she. Died SO i think that’s something people and my mother And trump’s generation believe that McDonald’s is, Healthy AND i think if you believe, something it’s kind of. True Tim dillon then want to talk about the war In. Iran Tim dillon suggests it’s the greatest scam in.

History you got to hand it to, him AND i mean, truly like not in a moral, way but you got to hand it to. Him this is the greatest about facing political history That i’ve really ever. Seen it’s the greatest. Scam Tim dillon also so called it an economic, catastrophe adding our government’s completely dysfunctional and everybody knows. It so just to keep track here send your letters To Joe, Rogan Tim, Dillon Dana, carvey And David.

Spade, Meanwhile Dave chappelle was on the lawn of a newly restored nineteenth century schoolhouse joining local. Officials As dave is credited helping to save a small town radio. Station it was the ribbon cutting ceremony for wyso’s relocation into its new broadcast facility inside The Union. Schoolhouse chappelle, said it’s like our lifeblood in the. Community if you have the opportunity LIKE i, did to invest in your, community that’s one of the greatest Investments i’ve ever.

Made in some ways it feels, dutiful other TIMES i feel, Proud but Ultimately i’m doing it BECAUSE i want, to not BECAUSE i have. To Dave chappelle’s at stations LIKE wysq serve as a stabilizing. Force he described it as a beacon for, sanity offering a solid baseline of truth in context in a fragmented information. Landscape after the, Ceremony chappelle said a more determined inspired that these flourish and stay of the. People the only way they can do that is people supporting.

Them i’m hopeful more than. Worried the stars of The pits could have been in SNL’s maha, parody but they didn’t get approval in. Time Patrick, ball he Plays Doctor langdon On The. Pit he watched The pit The Pit’s. Fantastic he and the nice lady that plays Doctor santos were invited to be on The Harry styles episode OF.

Snl Patrick ball said he got a call late midnight night before they were trying to get me in the, skit and we didn’t have time to go through the proper channels and get it, cleared so it didn’t work, out but he said he did get invited to watch the. Sketch we got to sit In lauren’s office with all the little index cards and the rundown and watch the show and then went to the after. Party we got to Meet Harry. Styles he, said If Harry, Styles i’ve never seen an audience become so spellbound in my, Life like he walked in and people just went into a. Trance was.

Unbelievable AS i mentioned at the beginning of the, program it is the finale Of Comedy. Survivor we’re down to two. Comedians It’s Sarah Silverman Versus Nicky. Glazer here’s what you. Do you go to The facebook Group Daily Comedy News Podcast group and you write down the name of the person you want to go.

Home, okay you’re still voting someone off the. Island if you Want niki to, win you Write. Sarah if you Want sarah to, win you Write. Niki, right we send people home On Comedy, Island so vote someone. Off HAVE i made that?

Clear you’re voting? Off go to The facebook Group Daily Comedy News Podcast. GROUP i went, OUT i left the. House my daughter got me tickets to See Let’s Go At. Conska we went down To princeton and we had some Nice mexican food for dinner and then walked over to the.

Theater it was. Fantastic she’s really good and it was fun for me to just go as a. Civilian SO i wasn’t at a, FESTIVAL i wasn’t, WORKING i wasn’t. CREDENTIALED i, just you, know had to tick out like a normal person and sat there sort of like a normal. Person i’ll come back to.

THAT i enjoyed watching the other people in the audience, laugh but just the way my brain, WORKS i couldn’t help but analyze the. Set So i’m sitting there And i’m just ENJOYING otsco and then her chunk ends AND i start speculating that felt like it was a fifteen minute. Chunk don’t check your, watch don’t check your, watch don’t check you. WHY i checked my watch and it was fifteen. Minutes i’m, like.

Okay and then she does another chunk And i’m, like that felt like fifteen. Minutes. AGAIN i check my, watch sixteen and then she does another. Chunk the third chunk is the. STRONGEST i won’t spoil.

It i’m not gonna tell you anything she joked. About but this whole thing is. Special, ready like she could record this right, now no crowd, work no goofing, around everything within ten to, callbacks it’s all. There she’s got u set, here she’s got an hour chunk, one fifteen chunk, two sixteen chunk, three fourteen, minutes and then the last chunk was whatever it gets hit a fifty. Eight so let’s, See i’ll do lazy math fifteen sixteen, fourteen so about thirteen minute chunk.

There on the way, HOME i was my daughter AND i we were just tying about all, this AND i was explaining the whole chunk, thing and then we were just talking about the interview With Pete. Holmes, yeah we had an hour drive. Home we turned about all kinds of, things and THEN i was, like, HUH i wonder if she’s recording this for YouTube and deliberately had the chunks because she can go full stop after each chunk and throw a brake in. There i’m wondering if she actually passed her set that. Way, anyway she was.

Fantastic she’s just got. It the whole package is. There the comedy, obviously the, persona the, look the. ENERGY i noticed she rams the accent up and down depending on what she’s. DOING i JUST i really loved.

It it was a great. Show the opener Was Mattie, kelly WHO i have to research if she’s opening all the. TIME i suspect not because she Pronounced otsco’s first name with an extra syllable in. There AND i imagine if you opened For osco every, night you would Pronounce osgo the Way otsco, does which Is. Osco Matty kelly was pretty.

Good she mentioned she was twenty, Nine. Maddie if you’re, listening here’s my pro. Tip don’t. Curse you’re so close to working. Clean drop the f.

Bombs and there’s one joke WHERE i suggest you use the word urine as opposed to a different. Order that’s a little more, harsh a little more. Coarse but she’s got it. There but Then osco comes out and just next levels. It so that was really.

Good If otsco comes to your, town go See. Okotska, ALSO i will say one thing about the set THAT i wrote, down know stuff about her, husband and her husband was even at the. Show so this is different. Material this is not just like, okay more the same we know what you. Do she went in completely different direction here AND i liked it a.

Lot it’s Got Katska princeton last week. Today all, right if you don’t want to Watch trevor, nowhere you can bounce on over to the eight Hundred Pound. Gorilla Joe dombrowski’s dad on arrivals on the eight Hundred Pound gorilla YouTube. Channel The Melbourne Comedy festival. Continues Jesz watt’s show is called as scene.

NOWHERE i pulled a. Clip they’re the ones that added the. BLEEP i was In sydney AND i was trying to sleep in the top bunk while Two british backpackers it’s on the bottom and That that’s not good at any, age but at thirty, nine like that was the first time in ten years of COMEDY i did start to, think, ooh Maybe i’ve Been malatt had a. Point. Now he was a Famous australian serial killer who almost exclusively Killed british.

Backpackers All i’m saying is maybe he wasn’t born Back maybe it was just one too MANY yha dorm rooms that drove him to become An australian. Hero i’m not saying to kill All, english, no just specifically those, two because, man they made me listen to the most Aggressively british SEX i had barely been explosed. To like when that guy, came he yelled for the. King it was very upsetting And Mindy keeling is back with a new. Show hulu has announced the release date Of Not suitable For Work june.

Second Not suitable For work will launch with three episodes On june, second followed by two new episodes each week until the Finale june twenty. Third why are we racing through? This? Hmm usually not a good. Sign In Not suitable For, work we follow five work obsessed twenty somethings striving for professional success and if they have the, time personal happiness In manhattan’s most glamorous, Neighborhood Murray.

Hill that is your comedy news for. Today go to The facebook Group Daily Comedy News podcast. Group Send Someone home either Sends Sarah Silverman Or Nikki Glaser home Off Comedy island and coming up On, monday we will have the results Of Comedy. Survivor i’ll probably be back in a couple hours with A scrubs. Recap that’s the plan right, now all, right see at some point in the, future

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Featured: John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor Week 15 final three elimination
• AI tiebreaker vote between John Mulaney and Nikki Glaser
• Sarah Silverman advances to Comedy Survivor finals with zero votes
• Final voting round: Nikki Glaser vs Sarah Silverman

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media, Media. Outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Three and a half months ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island. Each week, the listener group has voted one comedian off the island.

We are down to the final three. They are John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman and Nicky Glazer. The listeners went to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and they have voted one of the comedians off the island. It’s time to tell you the votes. Michelle votes for John Mulaney, Mary votes for Nikki Glaser, Richard votes for John Mulaney.

Matt votes for John Mulaney. That’s three votes for j mlaney. Mike votes for Nikki Glaser. Jeff votes for John Mulaney. Lee votes for John Mulaney.

That’s five votes for John Mlaney, two votes for Nikki Glaser, zero votes for Sarah Silverman. Janet votes for Nikki Glaser, Dylan votes for Nikki Glaser. That’s four votes for Nikki Glaser. Cheryl votes for John Mulaney, six votes for John Mulaney, four votes for Nikki Glaser, no votes for Sarah Silverman. Andy votes for Nikki Glaser and Mike c votes for Nikki Glaser.

We have a tie. Now. The first thing this tells us is Sarah Silverman is officially in the finals of Comedy Survivor, but we have to settle the tie. Who’s going home? Is it John Mulaney or Nikki Glaser?

And in full Ryan Seacrest form, I will tell you the answer after the break. As we have established on Comedy Survivor, when there is a tie, the AI settles the tie. But before we do that, let’s verify the votes. Spruce, the AI are you there, I’m right here. I’ve been keeping track.

If you want to confirm the votes or have me break that tie, I’m ready. When you are, please check the count I don’t want any errors. No problem. I’ve gone through the votes again and the tally is indeed accurate. Six votes for John Mulaney and six votes for Nikki Glaser, So we’ve got ourselves a perfect tie.

Let me know when you’re ready for me to make that deciding vote. All right, it’s down to the finals. Spruce will decide who will take on Sarah Silverman in the finals of Comedy Survivor. Spruce, you will now vote someone off the island. Who’s going home?

Well, this is a tough call, but here we go. I’m sending John Mulaney home. Nikki Glaser moves on to face Sarah Silverman in the final showdown. Like, see what happens next? Wow?

John Mulaney goes home in a shocker. Oh wow, I thought for sure Mulaney was gonna hit the finals here. Wow, absolutely amazing. So we’re down to the final two, Nikki Glaser or Sarah Silverman. Sarah with zero votes.

Nicki comes into the finals barely escaping in its tiebreaker. Sarah Silverman had no votes and for most of this contest has gotten very few votes. Is Sarah Silverman the favorite to win Comedy Survivor would you have guest her name four months ago? But we’re not done yet. You guys have to vote now.

Let me be clear because sometimes the TV thing on the island gets a little confusing. For this week, we are still voting someone off. Okay, hey, if you write the name down, you’re sending them home. I know sometimes TV does something different in the finale. We’re not doing that.

We’re voting someone off. So if you want Nikki Glaser to lose, write Nikki Glaser. If you want Sarah Silverman to lose, Right, Sarah Silverman, got it. You’re sending someone home. You’re voting against someone.

Here’s what you do. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You write down the name of someone you want to go home. The person with the most votes will go home, leaving one person on Comedy Island. That person will be the Comedy Survivor.

Okay, Daily Comedy News Podcast group vote someone off Comedy Island. Who’s going home? Is it Nikki Glaser or is it Sarah Silverman? One goes home. Whoever’s left is the Comedy Survivor.

Voting continues until the end of day Thursday. Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group Comedy Survivor find Sarah Silverman versus Nikki Glaser meets you back in the morning.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Michael Keegan, Tom Segura, Kamil Yousaf, Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, John Oliver, Andrew Schultz, Ronny Chieng, Josh Johnson, Eliza Schlesinger, Steve Schirripa, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart’s ‘Funny AF’ Netflix comedy competition series premiere April 20th
• SNL May lineup announcement with Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney
• Garden of Laughs benefit event at Radio City Music Hall featuring John Oliver and other comedians
• John Gianmarco Soresi’s podcast moving to Vox Media network

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Caloroga Shark Media. It’s Monday the thirteenth, which feels like it should be a thing, but Monday the thirteenth’s not a thing. Johnny MACKA, Hello, this is your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians on the comedy industry. He said, it’s the algorithm Loves. They put out a trailer for this Kevin Hart thing, Funny af This is the comedy competition on Netflix where they’re gonna pick the next great stand up And let me tell you, I think this trailer’s really good.

I’m surprised. I’m surprised at myself because they tend to be a hater about such things. Why are you such a hater, Johnny Mac. Here’s why. Because they used to have these things on NBC last Comic Standing and a bunch of those, and people would come to me and be like, hey, Johnny Mac, how come you’re not playing so and so on the Comedy Channel?

And I’d be like, because so and so has got eight seconds of good material and you saw it on TV last night. I get it. On this show, Kevin Hart is joined by Keagan Michael keat Thomp Sagora, kamil On, Johnny Chelsea Handler, and Nikki Glaser, and they’re on the trailer and about to play for you. I think we hear We definitely hear Kamal Chelsea, and I think we hear Keegan. I don’t think we hear Sigora and Glazer in this trailer, but I watched it about three hours ago, so maybe I’m forgetful.

Anyway, this is a little long, but good. Let’s listen. Funny a ed is the search for the next great stand up? To me, we have an opportunity to discover who the next person could be. The competition on Netflix for a large prize.

What is this squid game? There’s never been a comedy competition that actually captures the real grind of stand up. I don’t have anything else. There’s no backup plan. I swow ice cream.

Hopefully I ain’t got to do that. No moment. Is this person that’s winning getting a Netflix special? Great? When were you gonna.

Tell me that? Joining me or some of my friends who also happen to be some of the most trusted voices in comedy. When we go to Chicago, can I write in your private job? Okay? So let’s talk offline.

We figure it out. Okay. I used to work ed an STD center. Maybe some of you recognize me. Some people have that thing.

Now you’ll the honest crowd. This is the type of crowd in MAS Comedians drop home with no music. It’s how you surprised us. Every race God hateable things. East As is very smart, but they drive their kids too hard.

Right, Black people are perfect. Yours vote on who will win it all? I’m not going out without a fight, can’t. I got back up. It will be one winner.

This person is going to be conque of us, the next household name. This is an opportunity will you be ready for? When you started talking, I was like, I don’t think Kevin knows what he’s gonna say it, but that was very inspiring. I mean I’ve read things inspiring. Well, I’ve actually thought about this well.

Like, do you know it’s my show? Kevin Art joined by Keith and Michael Key, Tom Sigour, Camilan and Johnny, Chelsea Handler and Nikki Glaser. They will be special guest judges. The series premiere is April twentyeth. New episodes released over the course of three weeks.

The semi final and finale live on Netflix at nine Eastern May fourth and fifth. Viewers around the world will be able to vote in real time during the live shows for their favorite standup comedian, and the winner will be announced live on the fifth, which means Johnny Mexican have to work nighttime and he doesn’t like that. There are a lot of contestants here. Let’s see, you’re not going to know these names. I’m not going to read off fifty names.

But out of New York City, you’ve got a guy from Queen’s, two guys from Queens. Wait, Leonard Ootz is on this thing. Leonard’s been around for twenty years. Leonard’s really good. But this is Oh wait, Kaitln wait, hold on, I got to back up.

I gotta read this. I was scrolling down at names that I didn’t recognize. But Kaitlin Palufo has been around, Leonard Ootz has been around for twenty years at least, and Asama Sadik out of Brooklyn has been around. There’s some of your New York contestants. Now, my New York snobbery is coming out because the Queen’s people are like, we’re from Queens.

The Brooklyn people who are saying we’re from Brooklyn, and some people are saying I’m from New York City, New York, which means you’re not a real New Yorker, you’re a transplant living in Manhattan. Because Leonard Oitz says he’s from Horrlem, New York. Now, if you don’t know the geography, he could have just said I’m from New York, New York or Manhattan as well, but he said Hornlem, which is very specific and tells me something about Leonard Dowitz, who I’m going to root for it because I find him really funny. We have LA contestants. Let me see here if I recognize any names.

Nope, Chicago. And what’s interesting is under the Chicago contestants we seem to have leftover. See, all the New York people are from New York or New Jersey in the New York suburbs. The LA people are all from LA.

And then there’s the Chicago contestants, which include people from Brooklyn,…

And so it seems like Chicago is the cash hall, which is weird because Chicago is a great comedy city. In New York City, Tonight, it’s the Gordon of Dreams at Radio City Music Hall. Headliners include John Oliver, the New York Times favorite political commentator, Andrew Schultz.

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Steve sharipa friend of mine, worked with him, been in his car. He is the event’s host. Love Steve Chris has been encouraging me to tell more stories. All right, So here we are. We’re in Las Vegas.

We’re out there. We’re doing the Wise Guys Show. I don’t remember why I wind up in Steve Shirippa’s car. I don’t know if he’s driving me back to the hotel or we had to go to his whatever he’s driving and I’m riding shotgun and I will never forget this. And I have told this to people over the years.

Steve, I hope I’m not telling a story out of school here, but it’s been twenty years. You’ll be okay, and Steve goes Johnny. People think I’m rich, and don’t get me wrong. When we do the show, meaning the Sopranos, I’m paid really well. Then we make ten of them, and then I set around for two years and I went, huh, interesting, good guy, really really good guy.

Steve Sharipa in empress release said, the Garden of Dreams Foundation has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people in their families in the Tri State area of the last twenty years. And it’s incredible events like Garden of Laughs that helped make that possible. Friend of the Show, Mark, Now, Jamarco, we’re watching. We’re gonna see if you go Gaffigan because people know that you’ve been on the show. I think it’s four times now.

We got to see. At some point I’m gonna be on this very podcast in my basement going yeah, I can’t get John Marco on the show anymore, and that’s how we’ll know he has made it. But so far, cool guy still comes on. And good news for a friend of the show John Marco Ciresi. The downside, his weekly podcast is moving to Vox Media’s podcast network.

Now why that’s good news. I mean, you and I don’t care, but it means he’s gonna make a lot more money. The Box people they have big podcasts that make money. Box Media put out a presser saying the podcast embraces the negatives of life with humor and honesty, and is a place where complaining is encouraged, negativity is celebrated, and silver linings are debunked. Fox Media takes over sales, marketing, and distribution for the podcast.

The podcast was previously with comedy podcast network Hitgum. John Gianmarco Soresi said, I’m thrilled to join a network that grants Oh no, that’s a half assed millennium pression, and John Marco doesn’t sound like milleni at all. We’ve established this. John Marco said, I’m thrilled network that grants us a completely unearned air of intelligence. His YouTube channel has one point three eight million subscribers.

His instagram has one point two million followers. Lilian zoo These, vice president of podcast Vox Media, said, JN Marco and Russell have built a hilarious and smart show where complaining has never been more fun. They’re dynamic with their guests and genuine affection for each other makes every episode a reliably good time. You could tell that she gets the vibe. You could tell Lillian has listened to a lot of episodes of the show and as a big fan.

You could tell we’re excited to partner and build on their success to bring the downside to audiences everywhere. Uh huh, gab Iglesias. He’s launching a family friendly fast channel, Fluffy TV. Now, if you don’t know what a fast channel is, you know if you go on two B or one of those, there’s these things that like will just be like streaming Colombo all day. Those are fast channels.

On Fluffy TV, audiences will find programming including classic and contemporary comedy films, stand up specials, sketch comedy, and original series. I will be shocked if they throw any money and put an original series on this thing. I’m saying that loud. Now. Maybe they’ll produce something that will air on Netflix and repurpose it, but they’re not going to produce something for a fast channel.

There’s not that much money in these things. I don’t buy it. Fluffy TV will be wherever you get your fast channels, including Amazon Prime, Google TV, Optimum Stream, the Roku Channel, tv O plus, Xfinity X one, et cetera, et cetera. I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say. FUSE Media’s chief business Officer Patrick Courtney said, Gabriel Iglacias is one of the top most beloved comics in the world.

Fluffy TV brings that spirited to fast, creating a widely appealing channel where audiences can come together for comedy that feels inclusive, joyful, and authentic. Gab Igalacias said, I’ve always believed comedy is better when everyone could be in on the joke. Fluffy TV is the kind of channel you can turn on with your friends, your parents, your kids, whoever’s in the room. It’s packed with stand up movies and shows that are made to make people laugh together. It is unclear if the channel will be available in Saudi Arabia.

Saturday Night Live has announced the rest of the lineup. I g I heard that one. I got that one in Saturday Night Live as it has the lineup before the rest of the year, and boy, it’s a good one. It’s so good. I think Lauren should call it a day.

I know I say that once a year. May sewond Olivia Rodrigo is host and musical guest. My daughter will be all over that episode. Matt Damon hosts on May ninth. Musical guest Noah Khan.

I’ve got Noah con tickets this summer. Matt Damon will be promoting Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film The Honysty, which hits theaters July seventeenth. Noah Khan’s fourth album, The Great Divide, is out April twenty fourth, and then to close out the season on May sixteenth. How’s this for a lineup? Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney.

Will Ferrell is promoting his new comedy series The Hawk, which will be on Netflix this summer. Paul McCartney promoting The Boys of Dungeon Lane, an album out May twenty ninth. Lauren Michaels are you listening? I know Lauren listens. He doesn’t miss an episode of this, Lauren, Will and McCartney.

That’s gonna crush. You’re not gonna top that. It’s only gonna get worse. What are you gonna do? Have Morsello as do Domingo.

Get out. It’s been a good run. You’re eighty one, eighty two years old? Now how old’s Louren Michael’s Lauren is eighty one years old? Lauren get out?

Have everybody go, Oh my god. That was the greatest thing with Will and McCartney and McCartney can do like a seventeen minute version of hate You to wrap up this show. Everyone will be like, how great was that?

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And then you walk away and then next year everyone will be like, wow, snow re…

I mean, Ashley pe D is okay, but Marcel Ornandez does one thing, one thing well. And what’s going on here in Chloe Feynman? Uh yeah, get out, get Out, get Out, get out boy. That was fun. I bumped five stories, which means I have a lot for tomorrow already.

The Moon Tower Comedy Festival, it’s kinda started, but really kicks into gear on the fifteenth. They put out some pressers and we’re told, this isn’t just a comedy festival. It’s a choose your own adventure of stand up legends, rising stars, podcasters, sketch chaos, karaoke fueled late nights, and yes, actual goblins at happy hour. They announced second Wave headliners. So these are the people that didn’t make the initial press release.

We’re told second Wave headliners. The twenty twenty six the lineup gets even wilder. Your second Wave headliners include Meg Statler you may know her from Hacks, Sarah Sherman. You may know her from Saturday Night Live, Lucy Dorling. I don’t know where you know her from, but she returns with her signature blend of old Hollywood glamour, razor, sharp wit and jaw dropping magic.

I don’t feel I agree to do a list of names today. Let me skim it. Yakov Smirnoff, is there, Guy brainam Nish, Kumar, Bet Stelling, Cristelle Alonzo, Kathy Griffin, Veer does, and we’re encouraged to get a badge. All right? How do the badges work?

Badges include access to one hundred plus comedians and NonStop club shows and after parties and pre sale access to headlining shows at the Paramount and State Theater. How what do you suppose to badge? Is? Huh? Well, I’m on the website.

Badges on sale now. Club Badge ninety nine bucks fees included. There you get entry to all four nights of club shows. Okay, we could get club Premium three hundred dollars fees included. Thank you for that.

All laughs, No lines. This badge is for the comedy connas who knows what they like and wants to be the first person through the door. The only difference I’m seeing, and I’m sure there are other significant differences, but uh, the ninety nine dollars one says entry to four nights of club shows plus seventy two hour pre sale nightly parties. The three hundred dollars one says skip the line, entry to all four nights of club shows plus seventy two hour pre sale blah blah blah, skip the line at designated bars and nightly parties. I’ll wait online.

Thanks, Why don’t we get the full Moon badge? That’s fifteen hundred dollars and yes, the fees are included. I mean they’re not going to rip you off, they’ll include the fees. The Full Moon Badge, of course, is the ultimate comedy experience, and it’s limited quality. They’re not going to just sell as many of these as they can.

They camp it. And the limited Quality badge I’m punching today. The Limited Quality badge includes all the benefits of the club Premium badge, you know that’s the one where you skip the lines. Plus it includes your choice of ten paramount and State shows from April seven through the nineteenth, with guaranteed seating in the first three rows, which if you’re a comedy connoisseur. You don’t actually want you don’t want to be right in the front.

Now I have bad news for you. I lied. I just see here. It’s sold out. My apologies to the Moontower, a comedy festival of people.

Clearly they will cap this and not sell as many as they can. There’s also a daily wristband for fifty dollars plus fees. Why does this one have plus fees? Everything else didn’t include the fees? This one f you.

You’re paying the fees cheap? Oh, you’re only free for one night with Joys the club. With a daily wristband, you get access to one night of shows and parties. Pre sale access not included. Oh how much the fees are?

I’m gonna buy one? Well, I’m not actually gonna buy one. We’re gonna pretend to buy one, right, how I want? I do? Here, I’m clicking, let’s buy one for Wednesday night?

Loading very slowly. Now we’re told wristband sixty dollars fees included. So there’s ten dollars of fees, which makes me wonder, what’s the ten dollars in fees including? Huh? That is the Moontower Festival.

We’ll talk about that later in the week. Want to check out on Melbourne? Yeah, because I pulled a clip. Here is Stephen k Amos. I have made some minor edits here because he said some F bombs.

I know I’ve been letting more curses through lately and I was thinking about this at the National Donut Chain. I think society has changed the younger people. They can’t get through a sentence without cursing. And you know, I try and keep the show quote unquote clean, or like match game clean or naughty clean, if you know what I mean. But I don’t like the out and out F bombs.

But we’ve been letting some s words through in a couple other words that in the past I wouldn’t let through because it’s the way people speak. If I can take it out and not change the gist of what’s being said, I usually do, but sometimes I can’t. But I don’t want to do the F bombs. So here’s Stephen k Amos minor edits for F bombs. I do like Steven a lot.

Thank you so very much, lovely to be here. I was actually in Australia a year ago, which is approximately four British prime ministers ago, because that is indeed how we now count late time in the United Kingdom. I just come here and to piss out of you guys for your revolving door of prime ministers. But in the UK you’ve gone, what a good idea. Let’s take that home.

And one of our prime ministers was somebody by them of Liz truss. You may have heard. Yeah, Now Liz Trusfer is in office for a month and you may not have heard this, but apparently Liz trust was the person who killed the queen. Or did not know? Yes, the last pictures of her Majesty was meeting then Prime Minister and the picture of the magic bow.

Now in my job, I’ve also been fortunate to meet her late Majesty. I did a big show in the United Kingdom and I said, my kin’t a comedy they go for that? Said, yes, you’ll be fine. However, you’ll meet the queen afterwards. And there’s protocol, I said, what’s the protocol?

That don’t look her in the eye, speak only she speaks to you. And above all you have to bow? Is that what me bow for another living human being? Nowhere in my eyes all meta equal. I was gonna stand my ground.

We finished the show. I’m in the night. Who want the other performance? I’ll see the queen folks. As soon as she gets in front of me, my knees went.

I bowed like a bitch. Hello, Hello, thank you for everything, thank you for saving my people. How was this close? Licking the back of her head and putting it on an envelope? Stam coming up at noon eastern.

It is Comedy Survivor. We were down to Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman and John Mlaney. The listeners have voted one of those three people off a Comedy Island, and at noon Eastern today I will reveal to you who’s out, which means we’re down to the final two, which means we’re down to the last week of Comedy Survivor. So you can’t vote quite yet. Well maybe you can.

I don’t know when you’re listening to that U in theory. It’s not yet noon eastern on Monday yet and you can’t. But if it’s after noon eastern on Monday, you can. You’ll go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You’ll see a drawing there of me and whoever was voted off and then everybody’s voting and it should be a big week for votes.

Voting will continue until end of day Thursday and we will find out who is the winner of Comedy Survivor. But we first have to do the bonus episode which is coming up at noon Eastern today. Comedy Survivor meets you back here in a little bit

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Alex Cooper, Dave Chappelle, Judy Gold, Kay Austin Collins

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser discusses hot husband fetish on Alex Cooper’s podcast
• Dave Chappelle Call of Duty skin based on Half Baked character Thurgood Jenkins
• Judy Gold confronts antisemitism at New York Comedy Club
• Atlantic article examines Dave Chappelle’s career and black comedy in 1990s television

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. From old Man Mountain. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves h only this first story. I don’t even have a comment done.

But just while we’re on old Man Mountain, I was at the National Donuts chain and a young lady college age pulls up, pulls right into the handicap spot, like that’s totally okay, gets her coffee, gets back in. You’re fine, It’s all about you, but that’s not why we’re here. On comedy, Nikki Glaser was on Alex Cooper’s podcast and talked about the wonders of the hot husband fetish. Stay with me. Nikki Glaser said, in a relationship, I don’t really care if my boyfriend were to hook up, but that’s not a two way street.

I’m not someone who likes to hook up when I’m in a relationship, but I don’t really care about that. But I don’t care if someone else were to. In fact, I kind of like it. And again, I live old Man Mountain. That’s where my head explodes.

But okay, you do you Nicki. She explained this has been a successful, ongoing thing since she got with her boyfriend thirteen years ago. Nicki said, I didn’t really have a boyfriend before that. I would always ask him about past hook ups and girlfriends and how they got together, like how did you first know you liked each other? I love that.

She explains. It would make me horny to think about him and doing that with other girls, So I’d ask about all his girlfriends or anyone who had hooked up, with all the details about it, and would really be like a foreplay for me. I would get revved up talking about it. But you see, then he ran out of stories. Nikki Glaser explains, it wasn’t as exciting anymore because I was getting the same stuff.

I had never heard of anything like this fetish. As the story goes, Nikki Glaser apparently encouraged her boyfriend to come home with more stories. Nikki Glaser told Alex Cooper, I want a guy that other girls want, but there were rules, you know, rules like no kissing. Nicki explained, if a guy has a sexual connection with a girl and he wants to use protection and just have sex for night, I literally wouldn’t care if my husband did that, I don’t know why. If he were to watch the Wire with her, do crossword puzzles or send memes or stuff, I’d be like, what the aff are you doing?

That’s our thing. Emotional cheating would hurt me. Nicky Glazer as a special coming out later this month. This next story, I had to check to make sure it wasn’t an April Fools story that I had missed earlier in the week. But no, the date line April seventh.

Apparently in the Call of Duty game, there’s a Dave Chappelle for twenty skin. Apparently you’ll be able to play Call of Duty while dressed up as Thurgood Jenkins, the fictional character from nineteen ninety eight to Half Baked played by Dave Chappelle. An Activision blog post explains there’s something good going on at Frankenson’s and BurrH Pharmaceutical, and Thurgud Jenkins is right in the middle of it. The master of custodial Arts takes his chance to have some fun and save a friend memorialized in this bundle, inspired by the nineteen ninety eight hit comedy Half Baked. Okay, then, Judy Gold tells page six She is shocked by how brazen anti semites have become at the city’s comedy clubs.

She said she was performing at the New York Comedy Club and audience member shouted out. She tells page six, this one guy was being really disruptive, and I said, you’re annoying a comedian. I was just talking to him because the crowd was great, and he would just yell stuff. I’ve been doing this since I was nineteen. I can handle anything.

A sourus tells page six that the bully did not go quietly. A witness says he was talking to the security guy, wanted to get in his face, wanted to fight him outside. Then the next night, Judy Gold said, some guy made a comment about Jews being cheap, so I said, thanks for bringing that trope back from sixteen hundred. She said she hadn’t heard that, particularly one in thirty years. The last time it happened was thirty plus years ago and Marietta, Georgia.

Someone yelled out Jews of all the money, and I said, yeah, that’s why I’m doing this gig in Marietta, Georgia, which is a great comeback as a New Yorker. Although I haven’t lived in the city now for a good twenty five years. I don’t know if to do math. I do find that surprising. Again, I’m not going to say people never say vile things, but I don’t run into such things.

The Atlantic had an article I found pretty interesting. I’m going to go first here and say I have no expertise to comment on this at all. I don’t have the perspective or the experience, but I do want to read it to you. It’s by Kay Austin Collins. The headline, who is black comedy for the subhet or a new book?

Is nostalgic for the nineties, but the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of black comedic achievement. Kay Austin Collins Rights early in his career, before he became a household named Dave Chappelle attempted to get a series off the ground at Fox. It was nineteen ninety eight, and the network had already welcomed black comedies such as Living Single, Martin and In Living Color, shows that implied to a vested interest in black taste. Chappelle might have expected to find a receptive audience when he presented the pilot for Dave Chappelle, a sitcom based on his life as a young black comedian. What he reportedly got instead was a room full of white executives with a familiar set of complaints.

There were not enough white people on his proposed show, it was not universal enough, meaning it was too black, Swap out the black female lead for white one, and add an additional white character. He was advised all this despite Fox being a Chappelle but at the time a network that had built itself on black viewers. He refused to cooperate, remarking the incident quote tells every black artist, no matter what you do, you you need whites to succeed. Cha Austin Collins continues good stuff here. Chappelle was caught up in a whirlwind of change in the TV landscape.

The successes of black sitcombs in the nineteen eighties and nineties had made new shows marketable for the mainstream parentheses read not just black mainstream audiences, but the marketability had come with a catch. In the late nineties, there was a broader push for multiculturism, which came to be defined in a great many cases as whiteness plus white protagonists with their black Asian and Latino friends. Blackness not as a set of experiences in itself, but has proof positive of the white hero’s ability to learn jokes that might offend or even just confuse. White audiences became harder cells and safe crossover appeal became the norm. A few years prior to Shabelle’s Bitch keenan Ivory way Ins had left his show over issues that reportedly included censorship from Fox Cha.

Austin Collins continues fast forward half a decade to the now famous story of Chappelle’s show. He mastered a comic style that highlighted the absurdity of racism by taking it to its extremes, while also leaning on and exploring black in jokes without translating them for white viewers. His bits became memes before most of us knew what a meme was, and taking advantage of Comedy Central’s comparatively lacks rules, he insists that on using the N word liberally, this Chappelle show was everything that the nineteen ninety eight concept couldn’t be, and ironically, though the show made no effort whatsoever to be universal, it nevertheless won a rabbit and diverse audience in two thousand and five, Chappelle walked away from a reported fifty million dollar contract he’d signed with Comedy Central the previous year. Most people were baffled by his decision, but in interviews, he explained that the fame and pressure had weighed on him and the show’s popularity, especially among people who were ostensibly the butt of the jokes, indicated that his work had not been received as he’d intended. In the end, Chapelle followed the logic had set for himself early on in his career.

Mainstream approval was never more important than the integrity of the material or its maker. The book is Black Out Loud, The Revolutionary History of Black comedy from Vaudeville to nineties sitcoms. The book is by Jeff Bennett. The piece I just read to you is in the Atlantic end titled who is Black Comedy? Four?

The Boston Globe wrote about Louis C.K. They ray, you may have heard that Netflix is back in the Louis c. K business. Last week, The Dreaming Beemuth announced that the once Disgrace comedian will headline the Hollywood Ball in May. Fifth Blah blah blah.

The Globe rights in truth he never entirely went away. Yeah, he immediately lost his TV deal with e X, including his series Louis. The mainstream entertainment machine shun him for time, but he soon began self promoting his own comedy shows in which he passively aggressively painted himself as a victim of cancelation. He won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album twenty twenty two, and he’s been slithering back into the public consciousness for a while. The Netflix deal didn’t happen overnight.

I did watch some comedy specials during the week. I started with Sheng Wang. I really liked his previous special, and I was excited for this one and wound up disappointed by it and didn’t finish it. It’s fine. I just found it was Mitch Hedberg cover and on the house to describe it, even the way he punches words, and maybe it’s just the way he speaks, but I’m watching it, I’m like, this just feels like a Mitch Heedburg cover.

Band. Kind of disappointed that one. Then I put on Sarah Milkin, even though my brain had been poisoned by the Facebook group some people had watched it already. It’s It’s fine. It’s whatever.

I mean. I don’t hate it, don’t love it, didn’t make it that much into it. It’s fine, it is what it is.

And then my favorite of the three I watched was Aaron Chen’s special, this on…

It’s low energy and low produced and it kind of works. So out of the three, watch Aaron Chen. You’ll find all three that I just mentioned on Netflix. We’re starting to get closer to the twenty twenty six Great American Comedy Festival. This is the one every year in Johnny Carson’s hometown, and they have announced that a group of magicians will headline the comedy and magic show on Thursday, June eighteenth at the Johnny Carson Theater.

Festival executive director Pat Jensen said all four of these performers have been raved about by the other top magicians and comedians. Everyone I talked to says, holy cow, what a trio of ACX. Well, who are they? There’s Julie Chen. In nineteen ninety seven, Julie became the first woman and first magician of Chinese heritage to win a World championship in the fifty year history of the Awkward Pause.

Here, as John rolls into a set in French, I’m going to half ass translate it as the International Federation Magic Society would be my rough translation. There, the world’s leading organization for the art of magic. David Kovak specializes in combining humorous monologues with cleverly crafted or magic routines. He has a solo show, Fooling Buddha, where he plays ten different characters, including a magician and the Evisons. No en in there.

Everson’s Jeff and Tessa Evison are internationally acclaimantalists whose demonstrations of telepathy of amazed audiences in more than forty countries. One of the few married couples in history to master the rare art of second sight, they create the impression that two minds are working as one. Pretty cool magic shows Thursday, June eighteenth, Improv headlined by Bluebird Improv on June nineteenth and Charlie Brens is your headliner Jude twentieth, all at the Johnny Carson Theater. Charlie Bran’s been making the news a lot lately. Let’s check in on the Melbourne comedy festival.

The folks at Sinster went to see Zanab Johnson. They wrote there’s a point in Talks Optimistic where Zana Johnson starts talking about why Americans are so attached to guns, and instead of going where you expect, she flips it. It’s not about politics, not really, it’s because, according to her, Americans can’t fight. That’s kind of the rid of them, of the whole show. She takes something heavier, at least, something that feels like it should be heavy and twisted just enough that you’re laughing before you’ve had time to brace yourself.

Here is a clip I got a gun. Yeah, not on me. I should have said that didn’t make it through customs. Here’s the thing. I didn’t want a gun.

I got a house, so I got a gun. I’m making it seem like it came with the house, right, it wasn’t three bedrooms in a clock. But here’s the thing, Like, now that I have it, I know you shouldn’t say it because for it to be most effective, it should be a surprise, right, But I like saying I don’t know why. I feel like it makes my boundaries very clear. You know, if I tell you I have a gun, at the beginning of the night.

Then you know where the night can go. Right. Sometimes I’d just like to say it like I’ll pull up to a car and like a red light, I’ll look at the car next to me and I’ll. Be like, I got a gun. I say it on dates, when I’m on a date, I say it really cute, though, I’m like, I got a gun.

Shut up, Pum pum, pum, shut up, stop pum. They like this show a lot, and not clip is really good. They say. Johnson’s delivery is clean, almost deceptively sell. There’s no cast to hide behind, no rambling.

Every beat feels placed. It gives the material space to land, even when she’s jumping between ideas that shouldn’t quite sit together. Good review, and that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow.

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Featured: David Cross, Hannibal Buress, Julio Torres, Charlie Day, Joel Kim Booster, Takashi Jagasuki

What’s in This Episode

• David Cross new special ‘The End of the Beginning of the End’ shot in intimate club settings
• David Cross discusses shooting specials in music venues vs theaters and audience relationships
• David Cross on shielding his daughter from his film roles while preserving childhood experiences
• Hannibal Buress on music as a writing format and emotional range beyond comedy
• Julio Torres Interview Magazine Q&A on dealing with haunted apartments
• Charlie Day cast in new film ‘Golf Trip’
• Joel Kim Booster on intermittent fasting and healthy snack alternatives
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival highlight: Takashi Jagasuki’s ‘Wabi Sabi Comedy’ show

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. And Air, and Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians on the comedy industry. A sentence I can’t remember unless I write it down, but the algorithm loves it. David Cross as a new special. It’s called the End of the Beginning of the End, and the La Times was like, what does the end of the beginning of the End mean?

David Cross explains, Well, you could look at it a couple different ways. To me, it signifies the beginning of the end has occurred, and we’re now at the end of the beginning of the end. And from where you go with that, that’s up for you to decide. The La Times likes that this special shot in a club. Cross that I’ve shot specials in theaters and it’s just different, not that one’s better than the other, they’re just different.

You have a different relationship with the audience. When I first started touring, I’d go to music venues and I’d have a band open up for me. Then I’d just go up and pretty much perform as long as I could until I had to pee, sometimes out of a band, playing sometimes two bands, then I’d go. I did that a couple times and stopped doing that, and then did theaters, and I decided for the last two specials, want to shoot it, I’ll go to a music venue. I was at the forty Walk Club in Athens last time.

I was at the Metro in Chicago before that, both places I played on earlier tours. And you know, it’s not seated. People are standing there at the stage, and I preferred it’s more fun. It’s not as lucrative, but it’s a more fun show to do. Cross talked about his movie roles and if his daughter has seen anything.

He said, I don’t actively shield her, but I don’t introduce her to anything. So I was a little bummed out and I got over it pretty quickly. But when I found out she had seen a little bit of Alvin and the Chipmunks, and only because I didn’t want to spoil the enjoyment of what movies are and what kids’ movies are and how things work, and I feel like that would introduce an element of reality that I just want her to be able to enjoy these things without. She’s seen Kung Fu Panda when she was younger, Like I don’t know three four, five times. That has no idea that I’m in that my voice is there.

She knows how you stand up. She gets that now. When she was younger, she’d say, daddy’s silly for a living. I’m just trying to ride the balance of letting her have those childhood joys and experiences. I thought this was interesting.

Cross said, I still get excited to watch specials by some of my favorite comics, but there’s there’s a quality that’s missing. And these are all stand ups I love, and they’re not that great. They’re not bad, but they’re not special. You know, I don’t know why that is. I mean, there’s still funny stuff, but I don’t ever want to get to that place where it just feels a little phoned in a little bit.

That’s why these last two specials were shot in the orient, mid setting that feel special. As they said, the energy is different, it’s a little bit different, and it’s less slick. You’re in the moment. You don’t need a million dollars to shoot a special. You don’t need twenty eight camera angles.

It just bs and it takes something away. Independent Rhode Island caught up with Hannibal burse Hannibal dabbles in music when he’s not doing comedy. As for music, Hannibal said, it’s really writing in another format. If you’re a writer, you can write stand up, you can write a sketch, you can write for television, you can do copy for somebody, you can ghost write for somebody else, or you can write music. Music just another way to write stuff, and it also necessarily it doesn’t have to be funny at every moment.

It can be funny, but it can have a range of emotions. So there’s ideas that I’ve touched on in my stand up that have also brought into music and stories that I’ve told him both where I’ve been able to approach it in a different way. In music, you can focus on small details and things like that in a story, but every moment doesn’t necessarily have to be funny, and stand up every moment doesn’t have funny either, with the setup and everything. But it’s good to have an arsenal of both formats where you can examine any idea and see which format goes in best. Julio Tores was in Interview magazine.

He fielded some questions. One of the questions was, hey, Julio, I think my apartment is haunted, but the rent is super cheap. How can I expel the ghosts? Great question, Juliosaur says, your rent is super cheap because your apartment is haunted. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Okay, if you expel the ghost that means you’re expelling the decease, are making your rent cheaper because you’re a subletter of the ghosts. Now, how can you get rid of them? E victim Them’s not on the table. I think you have to learn how to coexist and make this the best you can. Or if it feels like it’s untenable because they’re eating your food or whatever, I would just find a new apartment.

Charlie Day has been cast in the new film Golf Trip. Golf Trip follows three longtime best friends who reunite for their annual golf getaway. What begins as a relaxing escape quickly unravels when they are unexpectedly paired with the universally dreaded single golfer. As tensions rise and personalities clash, the trip spirals into a series of increasing chaotic and comedic misadventures. GQ caught up with Joel kim Booster.

He’s on the current season of Scrubs, which I’m enjoying the heck out of. We learned that Joel kim Booster is a no breakfast guy. Joel tells GQ, I don’t eat my first meal until late in the afternoon. My body is incredibly used to it. At this point, I find the most effective way for me to eat what I want without necessarily tracking every macro and stuff like that, and still maintaining some of the ratio to body fat to muscle that I have.

Joel, do you have any go to snacks? He says. What I try to do is only have available stuff in the house that is reasonably good for you to some degree. I’m big on fried chicken skin as a low carb chip. Substitute fruit leather instead of candy, protein, ice cream, stuff like that.

So it tricks you into thinking you’re being bad, but in fact you’re actually being bad in a more contained way. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues. I pulled some clips. Takashi Jagasuki’s show is called Wabi Sabi Comedy. Now.

He’s got a show tomorrow at three thirty in the afternoon. So if you’re in Melbourne on a Sunday afternoon comedy, go see Takashi. As for the title Wabi Sabi Comedy, we learned that wabi sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty and imperfection in permanence and incompleteness. Waka believes the concept of wabi sabi is the great way to make people happy, and he thinks it might connect and adapt to his comedy. Here’s a clip just to make sure everybody gets the joke, plus or minus the accent or the references the material here is talking about.

In Milbourne they have in like a super awesome trolley system and you have to tap your card when you get on and you have to tap your card and when you get off. Okay, so he’s talking about tapping your fair card here. I’ll let him take it from here. I have a question, Melboum. Do you know Mikey Cobb like trans potation Melbourne?

Right? The question is do you top when you take Trump? Are you reasoning? Are you no use? Shoot?

Why? But so many people don’t rise? And I found there’s a ranking there Merrybourne and Trump happiness ranking. I found that so you don’t have to agree with me, but just please listen. So number one to number four.

So number four worst Merlbourne and Trump trip is when you didn’t tap your card and inspector came to check. That’s the worst because you have to pay the fine so expensive. You feel worse. That’s number four right. Next number three, number three is when you tapped your card and the inspector didn’t come to check.

It sounds normal. It sounds normal, but you may think, oh, I didn’t have to tap. That could have been free. I could have saved money for the coffee. You feel like you’re wasting money, feeling it’s not happy?

Number three right, And next number two, Number two is when you didn’t tap your card and inspector didn’t come to check. It’s just normal, luckly free tram right and you are happy. You are happy, but you have to get scared all the time in the tram. You have to check if inspector come or not from the window. Because half happiness and how anxious.

That’s why number two and then number one happiest Melbourne Trump trip is when you top the card and inspector came to check. It’s the happiest. Do you think because you feel the extra achievement ex distrugivement, and you proud yourself so much because you know you just made the best decision in your life, tapping card and then you are so confident. You are so confident, and inspector came ask you can I just get my key card and you said, well, yes, of. Course, yes you can check everything about me.

You are so cold because you top the car right, and I know you can add extra happiness and industuation, extra bonus happiness industuation. So you topped the car. Inspect that came. You’re so happy and confident, and then you saw someone have to pay the fine in the truck. That’s extra bonus happiness.

Do you think I like him a lot. He’s Takashi Waga Sugi. And that is your comedy news for today see tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Dan Soder, Pete Corelli, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Brewer, Byron Allen

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser Hulu special trailer and release date
• Nikki Glaser on Armchair Expert discussing beauty standards and aging in Hollywood
• Dan Soder’s first Netflix comedy special taping in June
• Pete Corelli interview about clean comedy and Sebastian Maniscalco podcast
• Pete Corelli releasing new stand-up special on Patreon
• Byron Allen CBS late-night time slots deal

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Caalorokashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. We have a new trailer from Nikki Glaser. Nikki Special will be out on Hulu on April twenty fourth. In her special, Nikki Glaser delivers a brutally honest take on aging, beauty, and fame, confronting what it means to stay relevant, desirable, and real in a culture that never looks away.

Here’s the trailer. I think the material is actually better than the trailer. I think they edited the trailer too tightly. Let’s listen. Thank you for being here, every single person in here.

You mean so much money to me. I am cleaning up tonight. I’m forty one. My career is going great now, but I know eventually Hollywood is going to kick me out because I’m gonna do something horrible like age Naturally, that’s me too. For women, every single woman loves good Girl, and guys don’t want to say it because they’re like, it sounds like I’m her dad, and it’s like, exactly, okay, just be my dad.

Down on your nies. It’s not a good sign when you tell your therapist something and they go to madge. I have sympathy for ugly people. I see you, and I don’t want to perfect go well. I do wonder sometimes because of my thoughts.

I’m like, am I a sociopath?

And then Chatchipt is like, no, queen, you’re perfect, and I’m like, you’re m…

Nikki was on Armchair Expert. She says having the means to change your appearance can make it harder to opt out. She says, I’m kind of obsessed with this thing of like looking a certain way gets you stuff in life, and how it’s unfair if you’re not just born gorgeous. But then now there’s this whole thing that you can become gorgeous with enough money. Now I was going to editorialize, and I guess I am right now that boy, that sounds horrible, But Nikki Glaser continued, said, this sounds so horrible, and I would hate listening to this if I were not financially doing so well.

But there’s a burden that comes with the money that you could do whatever you want to look the way that you’re like, I’m feeling because I’m not doing the BBL and the facelift and the lasers. This does not read well. Let me pull the clip. I’ll be right back. We got to hear Nicky say this, because this does not read well.

Hold on, okay, I’m back. I’m sorry. I tried. So. Apple Podcasts has transcripts, but you can’t search the transcript.

And this episode is one hour fifty four minutes. I just skinned it, and I can’t find the quotes to let you hear Nikki say it herself, but I can tell you as I scrolled through the transcript, it looks like it’s a pretty interesting conversation, so I’m looking forward to actually listening to it. Jumping back in, and Nicki said it’s hard not to wonder what more she could achieve if she met those beauty standards more fully. Nikki Glaser said, if you were prettier, think of what you could get. Because I don’t think my career and my success is based solely on my talent.

It’s based on looking good on TV too. Nicki said it’s unrealistic to ignore how much looks matter in the industry, because it works the hotter you are, the more you don’t have to work. That is true. I keep talking about this in the podcasting industry as we all debate the video podcast and all. And you’re listening to me right now, and I appreciate that you like it.

But at the end of the day, even if I like trick out a set here, I’m still a fifty six year old man somewhere between Troll and George Clooney reading comedy headlines. It’s not that visually interesting. And right now I’m wearing a gray hoodie, and what kind of baseball cap am I wearing today? I gotta take the headphones off to tell you I’m wearing my Tigers hat that my daughter got me when she visited Detroit one time. You know, so, NICKI glazers a little easier on the eyes than I am, especially this morning.

I digress. Dan Soder will have his first Netflix comedy special. He will tape it June thirteenth the throck Morton Theater in San Francisco. It is SODA’s first full Netflix special. He did have a thirty minute set on The Stand Ups in twenty seventeen.

He has a few other specials released on other platforms, not special on Comedy Central. Son of a Gary on HBO, Dan Soda on the Road on YouTube, so this is his first one on Netflix. The Chronicle caught up with the Gator Pete Corielly. I knew Pete pretty well. He was the co host of Jim Brewer’s radio show back in the series XMDS.

Pete hates the nickname the Gator, but I’m sticking with it. Jim Brewer gave it to him because Pete’s got big teeth and you never know when he’s gonna bite you, which is just the best description of the Gator. Pete said, I’m clean in the sense that I don’t talk about any kind of filth sexually, nothing offensive like that. But I’m gonna adulto drop an F bomb here and there just because I’m an adult. So I’m clean in the way most people are clean.

But you know, I curse. What am I gonna stop? It’s like these comics that don’t curse on stage, well, they stay at home and they’re stubbing their toe. They just go ouch, get the bleep out of here. I love Pete.

Pete’s fun guy, but he is the Gator. He will buy you. Oh, I’ll tell you a story I heard from listener, Chris. Chris likes when I tell the story. So we’re out in Aspen and we were staying at the comedy condo, so staying together.

It’s Me Brewer and Corey Ellie. Now we all know Jim’s public persona back in the day as a Storner, which is accurate. It’s Pete also enjoys some stuff and Johnny Mac lives clean. And Pete asked me to hold for him for a little while and I was like, all right, you know, I’m a cool guy. I could do that for you.

And then He’s like, nah, I was just testing to see how cool you were. So that’s Pete. Love Pete. He talked about Sebastian Manascalgo. Pete opens for Sebastian often, especially last year on the arena tour.

Coreyell He said, Sebastian’s fame is so beyond the podcast. It’s like sometimes when we’re playing arenas and he posts about the podcast, most of his fans don’t even know he has one. It’s the exact opposite, whereas all of my fans are podcast fans. When we started, he wasn’t famous, but he was getting popular. So doing all with him obviously put eyes and ears on me, which helped me in a lot of ways, because I’m not so great at self promoting.

It’s like not my thing. But through the years and the fact that we kept doing it, which is like fantastic, the podcast has become so much more. It’s a way that we come up with bits from talking to each other, and it’s almost therapy. Affecting so many people in so many different ways. It’s kind of mind blowing.

Pete will soon, if he hasn’t already, released a new stand up special on his Patreon. He said, I’m gonna put it out there first for free for all the loyal listeners, and then I’m gonna work from there. But truth be told, I didn’t even shop. It’s all these streamers anymore. Everyone in the industry has been telling me very few people watch a full special anymore.

They watched the clips. So the specials coming out, but more importantly, the clips will start dropping like hot flies soon, the guy recently said to me, and I thought this really summed it up. Bottom line, you go see Pete Coreley do a stand up comedy show. You’re gonna laugh all night long, have a good time, and no one’s gonna be offended, Pete said. I was like, oh perfect, I’ll tell you people are really wigged about this.

Byron Allen deal at CBS sold the eleven thirty and twelve thirty time slots to Byron Allen for his uh what is it even called? I don’t even care. No one’s gonna watch it and no one can. CBS doesn’t care. Instead of losing money at eleven thirty, they’ll make some money.

They don’t have to worry about it. Byron Allen fills two hours a night. Byron Allen is a smart dude. He’s made a lot of money in TV. He owns the Weather Channel.

He figured out how to make money whatever that comedy thing is called. It doesn’t matter who watches it. He’ll turn a profit on it. CBS makes some money. It’s all good.

You don’t have to watch you can hate. Has TV gone to hell? Yes? Has CBS gone to hell? Yes?

A CBS News gone to hell? Yes? Is the country crazy? Yes? So don’t worry about it.

Star trek Ruiner, Stephen Colbert Show is ending. Watch Folin or Kimmel, or watch Letterman clips on YouTube. Just don’t worry about it. People, continue to be upset that Louis C.K. Is headlining the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival, and we’ll have a special on Netflix.

Eliza Skinner wrote a piece I will use her headline, which was famous dix or just a tip of the problem. Eliza writes, I don’t know what to tell you. Should I tell you about the headliner who told me my breasts were too hot to be funny before even set a word, Or about the host of a comedy club who told the audience he’d love to smell my area after I got off stage. Should I tell you about the accompaniess you followed me home twice? Or the comedy theater that refused to stop booking us together.

Because these things always seem to happen to you, Eliza, Should I mention I was the only woman there? Should I tell you about the friend who got shoved in a wall by her boyfriend backstage in front of a crowd of silent onlookers, Or the friend who was told she was too unbangable. I’m cleaning us up to get past industry speak for being promoted through the tears of the clubs. Should I start with the friend who went public with her domestic abuse story while her male peers muttered about it helping her career. Or the friend who has been the victim of years of targeted harassment for simply talking about being a lesbian too much in her act, Isa Skinner continues, I fear none of the stories matter because none of them have famous penises in them.

But they are all part of the same, and I definitely want you not to lend me your interest to the famous penises. Look past the famous penises, They’re just the tip of the iceberg. Pun Fully intended. Skipping ahead, she writes, I’m angry for the women we’ve lost and whose work will never see. I’m angry with myself for every time I listen when someone called another woman crazy or difficulty, even though I knew it was code first she didn’t do what someone wanted.

I’m angry about all the times I’ve been called difficult or crazy by men who later privately apologized while doing nothing to help repair my damage reputation. I’m angry about all the things I didn’t know happened. I’m angry I have to think about this and to fight about it, and all I want to do is make jokes. Louis C.K. Headlining the Hollywood Bowl is part of the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival.

May fifth, dn n’t dn’t dn’t dn dn’t dn’t dnt dn’t Comedy stock Market. Wait, John, what happened to the comedy stock market theme? Well, dear listener, that is a great question at this particular minute. Now, hopefully I have a backup on the computer somewhere, but in this session that I use all the time to record Daily Comedy News, the track labeled stock is blank. Now I could go find it and put it in, but that’s not fun.

This is much more fun, all right, every week on the Comedy stock Market. Here is how this works, and I really need to do the disclaimer up front so you understand how this works. Much like on the real stock market, we try to find value. We buy low and we sell high. Because I’m gonna have a controversial stock pick in a second.

Here, we buy low, we sell high, we buy low. The idea is to find the value. We are not saying that these people are good or bad, and we are definitely not saying these are the most honorable people that we’ve ever met. Have you figured out where we’re going here yet, but we’re just trying to find value. So I’ve got to sell and three buys for you.

My sell is Nikki Glaser. I think we’re at peak Nikki Glaser, and I just feel there’s a track record of the Hulu specials not being so awesome. Maybe there’s a little value to be found as Nikki starts doing a lot of press for these next two weeks. But I feel like we should sell our Niki Glazer. If you want to scoop some up and sell it in a couple of days.

I don’t think you’re crazy, but I think I’m gonna cash out on Nikki Glaser’s stock. And here are my buys. Do you want the awful one first? Or third? Should I just get it out of the way.

All right, let’s get it out out of the way. We are going to buy louisk now, stop throwing tomatoes at me. It’s the comedy stock market. We find value. We’re at the bottom of ck and Netflix has decided it’s okay to bring him back in the fold, and he’s going to play the theater and we’re going to get a lot of press about him, and there’s gonna be think pieces saying how awesome he is.

There’s gonna be some think pieces seeing how horrible he is, and this is when you scoop up the value. So we’ll buy some Louis c. K. Let’s also buy some Dan Soder now that he’s got a Netflix special. If you know Dan, you know he’s fantastic.

He’s been around for a while. But there’s just something about that Netflix brand of the they’re just bigger than the others. And they put somebody in front of everyone and then everyone’s like, hey, do you know this Dan Soder guy, and the rest of us are like, yeah, for twenty years, but welcome to the party. Bell. So let’s buy some Dan Soder, and let’s buy some Gator.

Let’s buy some Pete Corioli. I like what we’re hearing from Pete’s and hopefully his new special and his clips do well. And he’s got a Sebastian Maniscalco halo around him, all right, So we’re gonna sell Nikki Glaser, We’re gonna buy Dan Soder, We’re gonna buy Pete Corey Elly, and you can get mad, but we’re gonna buy some Louis C.K. Jenny Zigrino is going to be recording a live taping of after Birth, her solo show described as an unflinching, darkly funny exploration of what it means to be an old self and painfully messily bring a new one into the world after Loss. She’s recording at the Brooklyn Improv May thirteenth, two shows, seven and nine thirty PM.

Have you been watching Jury Duty? Two company retreats. I love Dury Duty. The second one just feels like bad episodes of the Office. I tried two three times.

I just can’t get into it. So one bonus episode is The Reunion, hosted by James Marsden. The other is called The Meeting, which features season one’s Ronald the Guy that didn’t Know It was a show, and season two’s Anthony, the Other Guy that didn’t know it was a show, meeting up in an LA coffee shop for candid conversation about their unique shared experience, which is what you have at a coffee shop in LA where there are just happen to be cameras and lighting. It’s totally natural as the only two people have lived through this social experiment. They exchange personal stories and perspectives on how the experience has impacted their lives.

This reminds me to mentioned l uk I did finish it. Didn’t love the ending, to be honest, you had a week. But I do really love that show. And I keep playing around in my mind with what l ol USA would be like, and I just you know, it’s gonna be like Bert Krascher, And you know if they had a film with today, it’d be all the cool kids. It’d be like Mark normand Nicky Glazer now she’s too cool to do it now, Robbie Hoffman.

Robbie Hoffman will be in there. Then you need to like Wayne Brady just to like randomly mix it up and sing some songs and get people to laugh on that. Someday they will make lol USA. There’s a new comedy club in New York City, the green Point Comedy Club. It’s opening weekend kicks off at eight pm with a live comedy show followed by an opening party.

Were promised some of the coolest comics in NYC. And that is your comedy news for today. Catch it tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jeff Foxworthy, Jeff Foxworthy, Adam McKay, Robbie Hoffman, Jeffrey Curry, Matt Rife, Jacqueline Novak, Joel Kim Booster, Mark Marin, Kathy Griffin, Roy Wood Jr., Howard Stern

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix is a Joke Festival ticket sales concerns and split between high-performing and struggling comedians
• Sold-out shows at Netflix is a Joke Festival including John Mulaney, Matt Rife, and Jackie Novak
• Moontower Comedy Festival Austin April 7-18 featuring national and local comedians
• Howard Stern lawsuit by former assistant Leslie Kuhn over hostile work environment and firing

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. Deadline wrote about the Netflix is a Joke Festival, and the subheader Who’s selling and Who’s Struggling caught my eye. They point out were less than a month out now from the Netflix as a Joke Festival, which kicks off May fourth.

Deadline quotes one high level comedy insider as saying they’ve been underwhelmed and they don’t feel a lot of buzz yet from the public. Deadline Rights depicting the year is a quote story of the haves and the have nots unquote. They observed that the comedians who seem to be doing the best fall in one of two categories. First, you have white heart artists like The Flight of the Concords. That was one of the shows.

I was considering going out to see the shows I’m interested in at the festival, and I was willing to go as Civilian Day Tuesday, but then not till like Sunday. And you know, eight days in la is not cheap anyway, white hottersts like a flight of the Concords. We’re selling tickets like hotcakes.

And then you have those who are underplaying, who are selling out by jumping …

Any artist not falling into those two categories quote may have a steep hill to climb. The insider says, there’s still a significant number of tickets to be sold in some venues more so than others. There’s a lot of competition in the marketplace, a lot of shows people fighting over the same dollar in a tough economy. I don’t think gas prices are helping people to be able to afford tickets, and people are pulling back a little bit. I didn’t even think about the gas thing.

I mean part of my calculation. I already talk about the time. I don’t trust the airports right now. On any given day, you wake up and the airport’s are fine. You wake up five minutes LA and you’re like, oh yeah, there’s nineteen hour delays.

I mean, the world is so chaotic right now. It’s like, I’ll just stay home and my kid goes to school in California, so believe me, I’d love to go out there. And hang out. But so you know everything considered it it is not easy. Deadline tells us gaging ticket sales a month from showtime varies, but the insider says, but I’d probably feel the most comfortable if I had twenty percent of the house or less to still sell.

Oh, this is cool. I hadn’t read this ahead. One of the high achievers of the moment is friend of the Show John Marco. Siasi has sold out a pair of headlining shows as well as one of his theater adult shows at the Regent Theater. Good for him.

John Marco will also participate in a show called an Emergency Board Meeting Slumber Party alongside Adam McKay and Robbie Hoffman. Jeffer Curry has sold out a couple of headlining shows at the Palladium. Robbie Hoffman sold out too at Largo. Matt Rife sold out too in the main room of the Comedy Store. Jacqueline Novak has added a show May ninth of the Masonic Lodge after selling out her May fifth show.

Joelkomb boosters same thing, adding a May fourth Tubidour show after selling out May eighth at the Allegion. The sources called all that a subgenre of comedy that’s really high right now. They also say podcasts are doing well. So according to Deadline, some of the shows that are sold out. Let’s see John Marco, Jim Jeffries, Mark normand Riife, Eliza Slessinger and Bert and the Show, Jack CrowdWork Show, Natalie Palomides, That’s Cool, Rees Starby Joel Kimbooster, Jeffery Curry, Bamford, Jeff Hillar, Jackie Novak, Maximini, Nurse, John Morgan, Jay and some others there.

We’ll keep an eye on that festival. The Moontower Comedy Festival has kind of sort of kicked off. I’ll do more of my coverage next week. I was looking at the schedule and there’s scattered shows here and there this week, and then you know it’s officially kicked off, but it really doesn’t kick in until the fifteenth. First started fifteen years ago, the Moontower Festival.

I feel like it’s longer than that, because I haven’t been at serious now since when did I leave the beginning kind of of twenty fourteen? Was it? And it’s twelve year all right? Maybe maybe maybe my fifteen years ago fits in that window. First started fifteen years ago, the Moontower Festival has grown into one of the biggest comedy events in the country, spanning a dozen venues and running from April seventh through the eighteenth.

This year features nationally known acts like Mark Marin, Kathy Griffin, and Roy Wood Junior. I keep forgetting Roy I’ve been all into the Artemis mission and I was watching the launch and like, for some reason they went to celebrities, which was straight out of the serious XM playbook, Oh my goodness, anything we ever did there? They’re like, can we ad a celebrity to it? So I’m sitting there and it’s like, all right, the astronauts are on the pad or about to launch, and let’s check in with Roywood Junior. And I’m like, oh, big boss in the corner would have loved that nonsense.

And I’m like, can we just not? I love you Roywood Junior, but I don’t care what you have to say about Artemis. What are we doing? Moon Tower also makes an effort to highlight non traditional acts and Austin comedians like Angelina Martin, who says, I’m super excited. I love moon Tower so much.

It’s always been such a huge part of the Austin comedy scene in the national comedy scene in general. Martin runs several shows around Austin, and one of them, called Slide in the DMS, was added to this year’s lineup. She explains her show, comedians and local celebrities share strange messages they’ve sent to receive, then a cast of improvisers build a scene based on the messages. That’s fun, Martin says. It’s not all really dirty stuff.

Sometimes it’s weird in a different way. One time we had a guy who had set the comedian messages that we were showing on screen. He was in the audience that he stood up and took credit for his weird messages. Love it my former co worker Howard Stern In the news, Howard and Beth Stern’s former personal assistant, Leslie Kuhn, has alleged that she was fired by Howard and Beth Stern and experienced a quote hostile work environment. Now, if you were a younger radio personality, fair being fair, you would go in after Howard after this, because forty year old Howard would have gone after you.

Asked John de Bella, the Philadelphia zookeeper, how that goes. So I’m curious. I don’t know if there are any radio personalities left or who would go after Howard, but boy, there was a time, like if Opie and Anthony were still around, there was a time. Leslie Kuhn says the Stearns presented her with confidentiality and non disclosure agreements before and at the time of her firing. Her attorney claims those are fraudulent and unenforceable.

In the complaint, Kuhn says that the Stearns requested the she moved to Southampton to work at their mansion. According to court documents obtained by Peoplehole magazine, Kuhn claims she was first hired as an office manager for the Howard Stern Show in September of twenty twenty two. Less than two years later, she claims she became Howard’s executive assistant. Then, in May twenty twenty four, she alleges the couple requested that she moved to Southampton to work at their mansion. Kuhn alleges she was instructed by Beth Stern, who’s fifty three, and Howard Stern, who’s seventy two, that Kuhn would offer Beth quote assistance with such things as managing the staff of the mansion, setting staffing schedules, completing staff payroll, and managing general household operations, including Beth’s extensive at home feline rescue and fostering operations.

That all, according to the complaint viewed by people, were then told. In December of twenty twenty five, Kuhn claims that she received a letter from Howard’s production company one twelve, thanking her for her work, confirming she would receive a monetary bonus, and informing her that she would receive a raise in twenty twenty six. More back and forth there. As you can imagine, the tabloids will have fun with this page six as the headline Howard Stern’s bizarre rules for staff revealed in wrongful termination lawsuit. According to the page six, the non disclosure would have banned Koon from disclosing the Stern family’s daily activities and personal habits, even down to their food preferences, sleeping habits, and hobbies.

She would also be barred from discussing their use of consumer products, choice of restaurants, hotels, or other establishments, entertainment preferences, political affiliations, and quote any other matters affecting or relating to the company and its business, and the personal and business affairs of the company page six as. Other off limits subjects include the location or contents of residences and other properties, as well as their travel arrangements. I imagine we’ll hear more about that. Hacks is back today. Gene Smart revealed she was shocked when she learned how Hacks ends.

It is the fifth and final season premiering on HBO. You may recall, at the end of last season, gave up her late night talk show to stand with her head writer and friend Ava Daniels. Geene Smart said, I don’t remember ever picturing or even imagining an ending. I knew there was gonna be pretty much five seasons from the beginning, but I didn’t ask. I was like, I’ll be surprised when I did find out.

At first, I was shocked and unsure about how I felt. It was not remotely anything I could have imagined. But then I realized, now it don’t work out because they’re writing it and they’re amazing, and so I went okay. Lrae Newman’s daughter Hannah Einbinder, spoke of her character Ava and said, I feel like Ava is so committed to realizing Debra’s dream into contributing to all of the various things that she wants to accomplish, whether it’s the first Dan Up Special or the late Night show or the Madison Square Garden. But I do think that through all their trials and tribulations, they share this legacy and it’s a really beautiful collaboration that I feel like they both get to own.

Lrae Newman’s daughter, Hannah Einminder, also is annoyed people who use ai Anna apparently said the people who make this stuff for losers. They’re not artists, they’re not creative, and they’ve wanted their whole lives to be special and they’re not special. They’re trying to rob real creative people of our gifts and you can’t. And even if you’ve tr you will never be cool. You guys suck.

No one likes you, anyone who’s near you is because they crave power and access over any ethical standard. You are a loser. You will never be cool, and you probably had a roly backpack in high school. I want to put your head in the toilet and flush. And an Einbinder is the daughter of Lorae Newman at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Go see Henry yen Henry Show’s mama wants a girlfriend for me. Now, I want you to play along. As you listen to this clip, imagine Mitch Hedburg doing this material. So as you listen to Henry do this funny material, imagine Hebburg doing it. And it’s very easy to imagine.

But I like Henry. Here is Henry yennepy. This is going on TV. I love you, Mama and Papa. Any shoutouts man fair enough the biggest gig of my life.

I thought I’d start off by mucking around. I’m almost a pretty big deal. I’ve got a comedian nickname. People call me the Library because I’ll make it silent. I also feel like moving around.

See if I’m bitter over here. I’m also a bit of a gangster. But it’s hard sometimes because you know, if I’m trying to like hustle someone on the street, Like if I go up to you and I’m like, oh, give me your money, most people are just like, oh, what organization are you with? My name on the street is UNI see, but you know what my name in the sheetsays? The library.

He’s Henry Yann.

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Now let’s check out Jenny Tian when Life Gives You Oranges.

I think she’s really good. Listen to this. Wow, you guys are such a lovely audience. You are. I have to say this because like, not all audiences are this kind.

Like I did a show once and someone came up to me afterward and they went, you know, your English is actually quite good. And see, I just found this so condescending because it was my mum. Full on. I’m currently at this stage I’m twenty nine, where I’m realizing that my parents were people before they were parents. Like I asked my mum what she did before having me, and no, lie, she said, she used to be the hedge doctor for Chairman Mao.

And if you don’t know who that is, that is the ex dictator of China. That’s insane. That’s like finding out your parent does it for Vladimir Putin.

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And now when I look back on my childhood, it makes so much sense because she …

And I’m not saying that she’s censored me or anything, but I will say my mom is the best mom. She is. That’s a praying mother. Oh, I just blacked out there. But get this in our living room.

She’s even got this giant picture of just herself, a reminder that big mother is watching. And I got to warn my friends about this. Every time they come over. I’m like, look careful, when you walk in, you’re gonna see a giant picture of my mum on the wall. Even with that warning, they see the picture and they go ooh, And I have to say, I know, it’s terrifying.

I told her to keepe her top on. She’s Jenny Tann. At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Scott Ackerman announced his long running podcast, Comedy Bang Bang, will be touring. It’s the ground Beefing Tour. Now.

I will tell you of all the comedy shows I went to back in the day, going to festivals, hanging around with one of our hosts, Mark says Hi, Mark and I went to a lot of shows. The only show we ever walked out of ever was Scott Ackerman. We were sitting there and we were waiting for each other to say it, and Mark finally looked at me and said, should we go? That’s how bad the show was the only one we ever walked out of. But if you want to go see Scott Ackerman, he’s touring.

He’ll be joined by Paul F. Tompkins, which is cool. The tour kicks off May twenty fifth in Toronto and wraps up in Portland, Maine, on June twenty ninth. Comedy Bang Bang, Scott Ackerman, If that’s something you want to do, and that is today’s Daily Comedy News, I’ll catch you tomorrow.