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Featured: Aaron Rodgers, Dave Chappelle, Rashard Mendenhall, Joe Coy, Gary Gulman, Jud Apatow, Ryan Hamilton, Robert Smigel, Dina Carvey, Bob Odenkirk, Howie Mandel, Ricky Gervais

What’s in This Episode

• Aaron Rodgers name-checks Dave Chappelle regarding all-Black vs all-white sports draft idea
• Joe Coy to host Golden Globe Awards on January 7th
• Esquire profile on Gary Gulman’s approach to comedy and his class-focused special
• Gary Gulman’s 19-year journey developing his postal service abbreviation bit
• Robert Smigel discusses Triumph the Insult Comic Dog possibly running for office
• SNL sketch with Dina Carvey and Bob Odenkirk about Charlie Chaplin that never aired
• Howie Mandel casino story about Deal or No Deal prank gone wrong
• Decider’s top 10 stand-up comedy specials of 2023 list

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hope you had a good Christmas. Did you see Aaron Rodgers name check Dave Chappelle. Recently, former NFL running back at Rashard Mendenhall has suggested an all black versus all white bull.

Aaron Rodgers was asked about it when he was on the Pat McAfee show last week, and Aaron said, I think, off the top of my head spitballing. We need to have a draft, and it has to involve Dave Chappelle. We should have a draft because there’s a couple of people we’re not sure which team they’d be on, so we need to have a draft. Mendon Hall had started a little mini Twitter controversy when he tweeted, I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football. Y’all not even good at football.

Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an all black versus all white bull so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football. I’m better than your goat. Joe Coy is going to host the Golden Globe Awards. Those are on January seventh. Joe’s selling out Arenas, but that’ll make him pop in the mainstream a little bit more like Nateprigatsey has this year, So the regular folks will get to know Joe.

That is cool. He gave a statement which is I’ve stepped on to a lot of stages around the world in my career, but this one is going to be extra special. I’m so excited to be hosting the Golden Globes this year. This is the moment where I get to make my Filipino family proud. Esquire did a wonderful profile with Gary Goleman under the headline Gary Goleman can make absolutely anything funny.

They tell the story. It’s November twenty nineteen. Goleman is scrolling through his phone on Twitter, and a tweet from Jason Zenman from The New York Times caught his attention. Zenniman had asked, what stand up have you liked that is about class? However you want to define it.

That intrigued Gary Golmany realized he couldn’t think of a comedian who’d built a whole act around socio economic status. George Carlin had touched on the topic, certainly with riffs about how the ruling class operates to keep themselves on top. Gary says, but I hadn’t seen anybody who made the entire hour about class, and I thought, Oh, that’s it. That’s a great area.

And then I just started the article discussed about how Gary is well respecte…

I’ve met Gary a few times. Great guy. I tried to hire him at the place I used to work, but the boss didn’t get it. The boss wasn’t really that good at looking forty yards downfield. I kind of am good at that.

Oh well, sorry, Gary, I would have liked to have worked with you. We tried. You were there, you know. Jud Appatsol said, I think every comedian would agree that Gary is better than most everybody. There’s certain people you go, oh, they’re on another level.

Their artistry, their ambition, their willingness to try new things, how much they’ll open up. No matter how many comedians there are, only a few were working at the highest level, and Gary is one of them. Ryan Hamilton, who I love, shared an apartment with Gary and a couple other roommates in New York City in the early twenty tens. Ryan said, we’d’s just so special to Gary, and he really has a gift for finding just the right word that can turn a joke. Hamilton says having Gary for a roommate was inspiring because Golman was always writing and working on his craft.

The apartment effectively didn’t have a living or dining room because the living room had been turned over to one of the roommates for a bedroom, but Hamilton and Goldman would stand in the kitchen in the morning and talk comedy while eating seals. Ryan says he was constantly threatening to start a newsletter that was just for our apartment, you know, with all the big news of the day about who left what in the fridge. Seeing our apartment filtered through his comedical lens was really fun. Esquire writes, Goldman has a rare talent for making an esoteric topic funny in a broadly accessible way. But sometimes that means sitting on an idea for years until he figures out how to make it work on stage.

One of his best known bits centers on a made up Netflix documentary about the US Postal Services effort to give every state its own to capital letter abbreviation. When Goldman’s fictional team of abbreviators get stuck, they’re forced to bring in a contractor, a specialist that created contractions. Goldman said he scribbled the original idea in a notebook in nineteen ninety four, but it took him until around twenty thirteen before he figured out how to successfully incorporate it into his act. Wow Variety caught up with Robert Smigel. They gave Robert quite the wax job on Adam Sandler’s LEO, but I was more interested in the part about Triumph and would Triumph have a run for office?

Smigel said, I thought about doing it, believe it or not, not run for president, but some office and just doing the entire campaign is trying. But part of it is campaign finance laws are really strange and strict, because I would want to chronicle it, and there are certain rules about how cameras can’t be following you unless there’s a separate documentary crew, and I don’t only want to do it if I could do it in a humorous way. I love covering the election as trying for Hulu in twenty sixteen, and it was one of the most well received things I ever did in my career. They asked, Smile, was there any sketch that you loved that he couldn’t get on the air at SNL. Smichael said, actually, there was one that Dina Carvey and I released.

Bob Odenkirk had written about it in his autobiography and talked about it on a show as the funniest sketch that never aired. There’s a host talking about early footage of Charlie Chaplin. Dina Carvey plays Chaplain and we see outtakes where he’s basically unrecognizable and not funny at all. Then this waiter character comes out and he’s dressed like Chaplain. Take after take, you see Chaplain slowly steal every part of his persona to the point where the guy ends up serving him in long underwear.

We did it at dress rehearsal and it never made it to air, but we put it online. Depress Enterprise caught up with Howie Mandell. He told a story about being in the casino and said there was a lady playing a slot machine, very focused on machines, so I thought it’d be funny to sneak up behind her just before she pressed the button, I said in her ear Deal or no Deal. She never turned her head. She just elbowed me in the chest, knocked the wind In and said, get away from me.

She didn’t know who I was. Now I like to approach them from the front. Howie says he has a slot machine version of Deal or No Deal in his LA office, but he says he’s not much of a gambler. He added, if he were on Dealer No Deal, he’d take the first offer and go home. All right.

I got a couple more of those end of the year lists for you. This from Decider, the ten best stand up comedy specials of twenty twenty three. I’ll have mine for you later this week. I wanted to watch Ricky Gervais and you know today’s December twenty sixth. No, I didn’t tape this on Christmas Day.

I actually recorded this on Friday, So at this time I haven’t seen Jervais nor Goldman yet, but looking forward to it and hopefully in the real world I’ve watched it both buy now, but we’ll get to that later in the week. You know, these lists are hard, Decider wrote, when the calendar year finally ends, we’ll have seen several hundred new stand up comedy specials in twenty twenty three, at least seven hundred counting hours and a half hours. They have a list of fifty seven that they reviewed. That’s what I’m saying. Like, I know, sometimes I sound crazy here when I’m like, I haven’t watched that one.

I haven’t watched that one. Like I love doing the podcast, but you know, sometimes I don’t want to watch comedy. All right. This is Sean McCarthy who made this list. He knows what he’s talking about.

Let’s see who he liked here. He is number ten, Greg Warrens, the Salesman. I started to watch that one and I felt like they had added artificial laughter to it. You know, I do this for a living, and it just didn’t sound right to me. And that made me go, I’m out.

McCarthy writes, close your eyes. You might just imagine hearing what almost sounds like Mitch Heiberg if only he could do corporate gigs. And I don’t know if I can roll with that one. Number nine Ralph Barbosa’s Cowabunga. I have that on my list pretty low, but okay, eight my name is Monique on Netflix.

That one didn’t grab me. Seven Jim Gaffigan’s Dark Pall. I’ll have a lot of great things to say about Jim later in the week. This particular special did not make my end of the year list. Joe paris slow and steady.

I will comment on that when I do my list. Number five Gary Golmans Born on third Base, tied with Maria Bamford’s Local Act. Why is there a tie for Barbiglia the Old Man on the Pool. As I’ve said, I think you’ll like it, and I’m a comedy snob. Three want of psychs.

I’m an entertainer. I didn’t feel that special at all. Two Beth Stealing. If you didn’t like me, then I didn’t feel that special at all. But I see that at a lot of people’s list up top.

Wow, he has Mark Maren’s from Bleak to Dark at number one. I’ve been on a Maren kick and I don’t even have this on my list. Not my favorite Maren special at all. Wow. All right, we’ll agree to disagree.

Cratt wrote the ten comedy voices that mattered most in twenty twenty three. Ten Sabrina Bryer, Johnny Mac Goes, who may write your annoying roommate is slaying on TikTok, proclaimed The New York Times. That’s Briar, whose TikTok following has nearly doubled since our national newspaper of record wrote about her in the spring. Briar’s secret is her willingness to be hateable and yet relatable. Nine Hasan Minhaj, Right, we know about his little kurf luffel with the New Yorker writing the xpos A news stories not being all that true.

Eight Diane Morgan from Kunk on Earth. Good call to jwatch Kunk on Earth. You had that was probably my favorite thing of the entire year. Seven Pedro Pascal what In addition to killing it on HBOS The Last of Us, Pascal also became the unexpected MVP of Saturday Night Live. I don’t know about that, guys, really really all right?

Move on? Six Fran Dresher, Okay, yep, she was involved with the strikes. Fine. Five John Mulaney crack right. So if you’re getting tired of Mullany, it’s only because the story has been everywhere in the past year.

Baby Jay Drew deserved comparisons to Richard Pryor’s Live on the Sunset Strip for its ability to generate huge laughs whiles telling harrowing stories of drug addiction. You know, I never thought about that at all. I guess that’s not a ridiculous comparison. Four George Santo’s crack You’re trying two hard three Matt rife Well discussed on this podcast. Two Greta Geri cracked rights.

Let’s shower Gerwig with her well deserved flowers. Barbie obliterated Box office records, et cetera, et cetera. And they have number one. Elon Musk. No one wanted to be funny in twenty twenty three more than Musk.

In fact, it’s what he’s always wanted. Paste Magazine the ten Best Comedians of twenty twenty three. They were deciding who were the best comedians of twenty three is admittedly a really difficult task by what metric? What counts as a comedian always a good question. Let’s see who they have.

Nate bergatsy Well discussed Io at Aberri. She had a really good season on The Bear Great show, Okay. Joe Firestone interesting pick. With the release of her debut novel, Murder on Sex Island. The year brought an exciting new venture for Joe Firestone and a clever marketing tactic.

Firestone released each chapter to audiences for free via audio streamers, building intrigue and momentum with listeners in order to boost book sales. H Robbie Hoffman, Paste writes what makes this comedian so special as her candor mixed with her sincere curiosity and compassion. You’ll find her on Netflix’s verified stand up pace, continuing to throw deep. Next up, Micky Leaper, They’re right. Whether you thought Jury Duty was a stroke of genius or an unethical project in the relentless pursuit of laughs, you have to admit it was a phenomenon.

Leaper wrote for Jury Duty and stars as Naive Drew or Noah, Okay cool good pick May Martin, I just don’t get it. A partner in on Churla. Good to see her back. I’ve been a fan of hers for several years. Paste writes for The Nervous among Us, A partner in Trilla sings your tune quietly in the back.

Actually, she wouldn’t be caught singing out loud at all. Instead, you can find the anxiety written expert in deadpan delivery on back shelves everywhere. With the publication of her debut memoir, Unreliable Narrator Me Myself an imposter syndrome. Sarah Sherman. I love Sarah and I’m glad everybody’s getting to know her through Saturday Night Live.

She crushes every time she’s on. Just she’s fantastic. You know, they could build a pretty good cast. They’ve got Sarah Bowen Yang who hopefully sticks around for a couple more years. He crushes every time as well, Jostin Chay.

Just leave them at the desk for another ten years. Yeah, Sarah’s fantastic and I see I scroll down by two. They do have Bowen Yang on the list. Okay, we’re on the same page there. But before bow and Yang they have Jess.

Tom Pace is a big fan of Jess’s show Less Lonely. Less Lonely digs into love at the end of the world, change and a lot of weird sex. That’s your comedy news for today. Now tomorrow, we’re promoting the Top Eleven podcast. That’s a new podcast where every week you’ll get the top eleven things on a single topic.

The topic can be anything, could be album covers, movie moments, quirky hobbies. You’ll find the Top eleven wherever you get your podcasts. So, as part of promoting the top eleven. Tomorrow I will give you my list of the top eleven most powerful comedians of twenty twenty three. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, David Brent, Jamie Oliver, Gabriel Iglesias

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais Armageddon special released on Netflix Christmas Day
• Controversy over Armageddon joke about terminally ill children
• The Office UK Christmas specials turn 20 years old
• David Brent character arc in The Office Christmas specials
• Jamie Oliver’s Christmas turkey microwave hack criticism
• Gabriel Iglesias argues Gremlins is a Christmas movie
• Irish Twelve Pubs of Christmas holiday tradition

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Caloroga Shark Media. Merry Christmas, thank you for choosing to spend a few minutes with me and your years. Today there is comedy news and Hi, I’m Johnny Mac Griggy Gervais. Armageddon new special out on Netflix today. I you’ve got a clip for you.

I have trimmed this a little bit because he says some naughty words and we don’t do that on this podcast. But here’s Ricky. It’s very sad, but we all die. We all know we’re going to die, and we all do die, so it doesn’t really matter if we die one at a time along the way or all at once in one big fine lamageddon. The result is we’re all going to be dead one day, and we’re all going to be dead forever.

And I’ve been to a lot of funerals in my time. You live this long, you know a lot of people, they die, and I don’t mind funerals because it’s the end. I mean, I hate weddings so much, hope you know what I mean.

And then needy and arrogant, Oh do you want to come up watch us for twelve ho…

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And then you go, oh right, yeah, when is it?

And they go two years time. They know you haven’t got an excuse for two years time, so they just have to hope that one of them dies. Ricky had previously said in a statement, for the next two thousand years, people will remember. The twenty fifth day of December is the day Armygedon was released on Netflix. There has been some controversy about this show a joke about terminally illed children.

I talked about that as the first story in Thursday’s podcast if you want to go back when social media user said we can all take a good joke, but this is below the belt for Ricky and that one part of making jokes about ill children is funny vile. Another user said this is the most vile attempted comedy I’ve ever seen. Sick and dying children wish for a video for him and he mocks them like this. Shame one you, Ricky Gervais. This is quite the Christmas episode so far, isn’t it.

As I recapped on Thursday, I’ll do it again quickly here, Ricky told BBC Radio five Live. People don’t analyze the joke. They feel something. That’s what the offense is. It’s feeling.

That’s why I’m offended. It’s quite meaningless. What do you want me to change? Some people were circulating a petition to have Netflix at at the special, and Ricky responded, good luck. I’ll even retweet it.

From Rolling Stone UK, The Office UK’s Christmas specials turned twenty this month, Ricky said, I’m still very proud of it. Despite experiencing fame. Before the Office, Ricky had a short lived pop career and two Channel four TV shows. It was David Brent who helped him break through. Ricky said, The Office is where all those big opportunities really started for me.

It was the thing I tried my hardest at and I got an a growing up. As comedy fans, writes Rolling Stone, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were well aware of the power Christmas specials held on viewers and saw them as something to aspire to when developing their own sitcoms. I guess that’s why Ricky released a special today good Call, because you know, after the morning, it’s kind of like, what are we going to do? Watch football?

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And then you need something to watch.

I’m looking forward to watching this one so I can finally include my top comedy specials of twenty twenty. Three or not included, and maybe it’s not good. I think it’s going to be good. Steven Merchant said, Christmas TV was a big part of my childhood, sitting down as a family and watching a Christmas edition if something felt like in a k That’s why we did Christmas specials for extras in the Office because they felt significant. So the fact that this features on lists of favorite Christmas TV is very pleasing.

Ricky likes that The Office is twelve episodes and done. He said we didn’t want to do a third season because we always thought Faulty two hours was the paradigm. Well, somebody better tell John Clees he’s bringing it back, Merchant said, without the specialis a bonus. Merchant added, we were worried would run out of steam. I mean, how many embarrassing faux pas can we have David Brent make And how long is this simmering romance between Tim and Dawn gonna go on?

I don’t know. Apparently you could have done four seasons and then had them get married and then brought in Ed Helms and had the show go downhill in quality could have done that. Merchants said there was anxiety around quality control dipping and it not being as good. Yeah, I think I could show them a model for that. Originally conceived as one long episode, but later split in two by the BBC, The Office Christmas specials aired on December twenty sixth and twenty seventh, two thousand and three.

Catching up with David, Tim, Dawn, Gareth and the rest of the Warnham Hog Office. A year after we last saw them, battling redundancy and swiftly fizzling fame, we find and David Brent at his lowest eb while Tim is still recovering from his awkward attempt at winning Dawn’s heart in series two’s Bittersweet finale, where Down went to Florida, where her boyfriend Lee Ricky said, we thought the hook could be to the first two seasons had gone out and the characters were now aware of it secretly. It was always about fame in comedy. David Brent thought he was a comedian. It’s all about ego, being loved and please please make me famous.

It was nice to show that things didn’t always turn out well and he had the wrong sort of fame. Merchant says. By two thousand and three, the reality TV format had become quite set. By that point, you’d have shows a bit of downtime, and then they’d revisit the old Ganga sey what they were up to. It seemed like a natural way of doing it.

In that downtime, David Brent had been busy. He spent his nights making guest appearances at dive bars. It’s a nomadic existed, spent either alone in his car, in cheap hotels or haunting backstage. Harry as showing us David Brent at his bleakest but also his most sympathetic. Ricky said, I wanted people to feel it.

It was a fake documentary, but had to be real. When people are crazy comedy characters, you don’t care about them when something goes wrong, whereas if you’ve earned it, it resonates because you suddenly feel responsible. Someone can be an idiot in the office, but they might go home and cry for all we know. So I wanted that discomfort. I want us to feel a bit guilty about what we do to normal people because they want to be famous.

Merchants said, I think perhaps we took it too far. I was in a pub playing pool in the night. The second episode aired and some guys next to me said, did you see The Office last night? And his friend said, yeah, it was all right, but that ending was a bit depressing. I wanted to lean over and go it was a two porter.

Go home and watch the second one, because there’s a happy ending. From The Independent, Ricky Gervais was not impressed by Jamie Oliver’s Christmas turkey hack, which Oliver showed on a recent episode of The Graham Norton Show. The short clip shown on Norton shows Jamie Oliver securing a bay leaf to a clement sign, using a clove to stab the fruit. Jamie Oliver then microwaves at the clement sign until piping hot before placing it inside his raw turvity’s cavity. Jervase jumped in and said, sorry, how is that a recipe?

Stick an orange up a turkey’s butt? How’s that a recipe? We all know that Diehard is a Christmas movie, but Gabriel Iglesias has a point. Gremlins is a Christmas movie. He says, there are Christmas trees, there’s snow, and you know the Gremlins destroying Santa clauses.

All right, I’m not sure how comedy related this one is, but it made me laugh when I was prepping for today. Apparently, in Ireland there’s addition called the Twelve Pubs of Christmas. Love it. Irish Central rites on Christmas Morning all over Ireland they’ll be countless people thanking they’re lucky stars. Not because they’re looking forward to opening presents.

It’s because they know that once Christmas arrives they no longer have to suffer the wrath of the Twelve Pubs of Christmas hangover. Santa Con may be happening in the US now, but as usually, the Irish come out on top in terms of how to properly have the crack. This Christmas time brought up crack recently cr aic. No, we’re not doing rock cocaine. Crack means fun, all right.

How does this work? Over the course of an evening, you, along with your sisters and brothers in indulgence, visit twelve bars an attempt to have a drink in every one of them. Okay, that’s pretty straightforward. You wear Christmas jumpers or sweaters or Santa hats. Okay, we know how to do that.

But Iris Central points out anyone who thinks the hardest thing about the night is to drink twelve points. Should think again because there are rules vary from group of friends, but here are some of the rules that you might follow. No drinking with your right hand in the first pub. No pointing at people in the second pub. No talking to anyone you know in the third pub.

No sitting, resting, or leaning in the fourth pub. I’d fail there, And no using the restroom in the fifth pub. I’m definitely out, and so on and so on. There’s usually a maximum limit of thirty minutes per pub and a designated rule keeper with a whistle to keep the guy on track. What if you break a rule?

Will you face a penalty? You might have to gulp down a large amount of your drink ire centil rites and nearly every twelve pubs this author has ever tended is usually added with a happy consensus to stay put around bar number six or seven, with fellow twelve pubgoers only too happy to enjoy the crack and merriment in the bar. Then braave the cold, rainy December warmth in search of another from Harper’s bizarre fifty Christmas Movies That’ll make you less miserable this season. I’m not going to read all fifty. Let’s skim down this and see what I find.

The Santa Claus Okay, that’s number one. Jingle all the way, Get Santa Home alone. Two, The Grinchtoole Christmas, Ernest saves Christmas forgot that happened. I’m just waiting to see if there’s an Adam Sandlor movie on here. There’s gotta be right el pH at number seventeen, Scrooged at nineteen, Christmas Vacation at twenty trading places.

How’s that a Christmas movie? You can tell me on Facebook. I don’t care. No Sanilor on there. Isn’t that surprising.

There should be some sailor on there. I’m gonna ask chatchpt to write the plot of an Adam Sandler Christmas movie. Okay, it has called it The Christmas Chaos Crusaders. Chat Ept’s plot. Adam Sandler stars as Dave.

I’m reading this. It just printed a lovable but perpetually unlucky guy who has a deep passion for Christmas but always seems to find himself in holiday related disasters. Dave lives in a small, tight knit neighborhood. It takes Christmas decorations and festivities very seriously. One year, Dave’s neighbor, mister Johnson, declares that he will win the annual neighborhood Christmas decorating contest at all costs.

This is the Eddie Murphy plot. Chat EPT. That’s what I’ve been saying, that Eddie Murphy Christmas movie that just came out, that that should have been an Adam Sailor movie. The Internet agrees with me. I’m not even reading the rest of this.

The Christmas Chaos Grusaders come on chat GPT. Not only is that a bad Adam Saylor movie, it’s not even original. That’s your company needs for today. Merry Christmas, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Saser Zamada, John Early, Mike Broviigley, Zanab Johnson, Maria Bamford, Gary Goldman, Sam Jay, Joe Parra, Beth Stelling, Marc Maron, Shane Torres, Dina Hasham, Chris Fleming, Ali Saddiq, John Mulaney, Monique, Mae Martin, Kyle Kinane, Marlon Wayans, Aparna Nancherla

What’s in This Episode

• Vulture’s Best Comedy Specials of 2023 ranked list and reviews
• Johnny Mac’s upcoming end-of-year comedy list and exclusions
• Paste Magazine’s Best Comedy Albums of 2023 alphabetical list
• Marc Maron’s ‘From Bleak to Dark’ ranked number one by Vulture
• Kyle Kinane’s ‘Shocks and Struts’ highlighted as top performer
• Aparna Nancherla’s ‘Hello World’ identified as potential top five special

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Earlier in December, Vulture put out their article the Best Comedy Specials of twenty twenty three, So that doesn’t include Trevor Noah, won’t include Ricky Gervas, and won’t include Chapelle. As for me, I’m planning on putting out my list towards the end of next week. I want to get on the other side of Ricky Gervas.

I won’t include Chappelle because it doesn’t come out to New Year’s Eve, so I wouldn’t be able to do it in twenty twenty three unless Netflix hooks me up with a screener, which they have not as of yet. If you are a new listener. When I do these article episodes, I don’t look in advance because I like to react as I go along. So I’m hitting click here from Vulture, The Best Comedy Specials of twenty twenty three. This was published on December sixth.

They have number ten Saser Zamada’s The First Woman. I haven’t heard any buzz whatsoever on that, and I haven’t seen it, so maybe it is awesome, but no buzz you’ll find it on YouTube. Vulture tells us the specials title comes from a joke at the end of a long and pointed joke about the history of female aviators. That’s part you’re wrong about episode, part feminist screed, and part that thing when you’re a hilarious friend can’t help but tell you about this fascinating Wikipedia rabbit hole that they fell down last night. Number nine is John Early is Now more Than Ever.

That is on my list towards the back half, part sketch, parts stand up, part concert documentary of a fake cover band, John Early is Now more than Ever gleefully puts its tongue in several nested layers of cheek. Yeah, I enjoyed it because it was quite different. I think that’s the thing I like about it. Vulture wrote. The whole thing is absurd.

It’s almost certain there are one or possibly a dozen too many ideas in here, all shoehorned into the concert documentary conceit then undermined by the cynicism of the entire production. You’ll find that on Max. Next one up, Mike bur Bigley as the old man on the pool I’ve mentioned on this podcast. I think you would really like it. The comedy snob in me kicked in and I was watching it.

Mike was telling a story about wrestling, and I didn’t believe the premise of the story. I just didn’t believe the story ever actually happened. I may be incorrect, but I didn’t believe the story, so I punched down on it. I think you guys, not being comedy snobs, will enjoy Mike Broviigley as the old man on the pool. Vulture has it at number eight.

You’ll find that on Netflix. At seven. They have Zanab Johnson’s His Jobs Off. I have seen buzz about this one, haven’t gotten to it yet. Vulture writes.

Johnson’s not interested in waiting or in storing gowing material for some later point in her career. This is her debut special. Now is the time to talk about the hard stuff, to embrace it as part of who she is from the gymp, and to establish the kind of comedian who can do it with grace. That one’s on Amazon Maria Bamford’s local act. Haven’t seen this one, haven’t purchased it.

This one not free streaming anywhere, and by free streaming, you know what I mean, Like you know you give Netflix seventeen dollars a month or whatever it is, and they give you stuff. This year, you’ll have to actually go purchase. There’s been a lot of buzz on Maria in the back half of the year, and apparently this special is pretty good. Next one, Gary Goleman’s Born on Third Base. So we’re doing some time traveling here.

Apparently Vulture saw this early in December. The special came out two days ago on Max. I’m recording this on December fourteenth, so I haven’t seen Gary Goleman yet. I suspect it’ll make my end of the year list because I like Gary A. Lott and his previous work is fantastic.

So with that time traveling in mind, I’m not sure how I can review it, so I’ll tell you. Vulture said, Born on Third Base is a comedy special about income inequality and the fraying social fabric that creates lasting poverty in America, a topic that feels like a dubious framework for an hour of laughs. But Goldman’s so good at negotiating that tension and weaving material about his childhood together with more general ideas about culture and class. That one is on Max number four Sam Jay’s Salute Me or Shoot Me? Wow.

That one’s also on Max. I think I started to watch it and just wasn’t into it. Vulture says, Salute Me or Shoot Me is all about Sam’s ability to move in and out of jokes, that swagger and jokes that approach with delicacy and grease. Every other comedian wants to stand on a stage and say bad words to get people who all up desperately wishes they had what Sam Jay has. Good review there, huh.

Joe Parra is slow and steady. I struggled with this one because the audience was kind of out in front of Joe. I know, Hedberg ran into that late in life, so I think the audience kind of screwed up his special. But Vulture says, the rhythm of Joe para joke can feel like water dripping from a faucet. Yeah, I don’t know if you’re familiar with Joe works very deliberately.

That’s a big way of saying slow. The punchline will come at the same beat as everything else, and yet when you’re waiting for it, the gap between the last line and the next one can feel like time slowing down and just hovering for a moment. Number two Vulture has Beth stellings if you didn’t want me, then I started to watch that one and just wasn’t feeling it and punched out of it. Vultra says her comedic persona, which ticks between cool disaffection and full throated weirdness, is especially effective in this special. It’s full of recollections on her childhood, and Stelling comes at those stories about her youth with both fondness and a sense of absurdity.

And their number one special of the year, Wow, I love this guy. I’ve been on a kick about this guy, and yet I did not like this special and didn’t make it to the end of it. That’s how much I didn’t like it. And I’m really into this guy. I’m a big fan of this guy.

I’m hoping to get to talk to this guy. Number one on Vulture’s list, Mark Maren’s from Bleak to Dark. You’ll find that one on Max. Wow. All right, they have some honorable mentions.

Shane Torris is the blue eyed Mexican Dina Hasham’s Dark Little Whispers. I gotta get to that one. Chris Fleming’s Hell That’s on my list I like that one a lot. You’ll find that one on Peacock, Ali Sadiq’z The Domino Effect. That one is on let me scroll down here YouTube.

Didn’t like that one. John Mulani’s Baby Jay. I know we’re all supposed to fall and over that one. It’s not on my list Netflix. Monique’s My name is Monique.

I check that out, bailed on it. That one’s on Netflix. Mae Martin’s sap is on Netflix. Didn’t like that one. Kyle Kanaan Shocks and Struts.

Love that one. That’s gonna make my top ten, maybe my top five, depending on how things like Jervaise shakeout culture writes. His cruise ship material conjures a nightmarish, heatonistic carnival. His story about a van goes places no one could have predicted, but shocks and stresses a reminder the Canaane is so good you can do it with no words too. There’s an act out about a jam band that is somehow perfectly exasperated while nearly silent.

That one’s on YouTube. Highly recommended by me. Marlon Wayns God Loves Me. Yeah, I wasn’t feeling that one that was on Max Nprighatsy’s Hello World. One of my favorites could be top five.

That one was so good I had pause, grabbed my wife and watched twenty minutes again because I knew she would enjoy it. That one’s strong. That’s on Amazon, way up my list, but I’ll tell you I just double check my list. I have it below Kyle Kaneen’s That’s how Much I like? Those two?

From December eleventh, Paced Magazines the Best Comedy Albums of twenty twenty three. This one I have skimmed, and I didn’t know most of these, so it’s excited to read this one. These are listed alphabetically. Maria Bamford’s Crowd Pleaser, So that’s that same special that we just talked about that’s out on Comedy Dynamics. Next, they have Liz Barrett’s Getting by Getting with an apostrophe.

There, it didn’t drop the jeep because of my queen accent. Liz shares her secrets to living well. I’m having a great year because I’ve given up. Between her deadpan delivery and shrugging sarcastic observations, Barrett’s comedy is a perfect marriage of tone and content. Derek Brown’s a close Shave with Heaven.

Derek takes the Boston stage accompanied by a twinkling piano, and this musical choice sets the tone for an LP that clearly would be at home on the airwaves of NPR. Yet Brown keeps from being pretentious. He reminds us to stay stupid everybody. Carack Connor’s Straight for Pay past writes, there’s a lot of pressure on a stand up comedian’s debut album to properly introduce them to a sight unseen. You need to be confident in your ability to sell jokes based on your voice and your voice alone.

Luckily, for La based comedian Karack Connors, her voice is one of her strongest suits. Connor’s vocal elasticity is truly a wonder, immediately bringing to mind Adam sing Handler’s goofy impressions. Not sure that’s a good comparison there, and not sure that’s helping. It’s not helping with me John Glazer’s soothing meditations for the Solitary Dog. The album begins with spa ready ambient music and twinkling sounds in the background, as the gentle voice of Uncle John reassures lonely canines that their humans will surely be home soon.

He plans to record the perfect calming audio companion for needy dogs, although more and more issues crop up. It’s the type of escalating chaos Glazer excels at, aided by sound design expertise, sounds awesome. Pap Johnson’s Timeless Papp Johnson past writes. The first thing you notice about Pap Johnson is the timber of his voice. It’s sonorous setting depth to his unhurried, care free delivery.

He set is full of pregnant pauses, some so long they’ll think you’ve accidentally stopped the track. Love it. Sometimes Johnson’s trailing off is the punchline itself, and again this demonstrates just how comfortable he is on stage to make such a risky choice. Greg proofs Gregg’s comedy albums are pretty strong. I play them a lot on live one.

I’d like to play all of these. So many of these are not available for digital release. That’s why I’m not really familiar with them. I guess I could purchase them, but I’m trying to just stream them and they’re not available. French drug deal involves an extended tangent about bats an anecdote about the view, a bit about performing at then Prince now King Charles’s birthday, and multiple stories starting off with travel destinations.

We’ve made quite a leap in the alphabetical order. We’ve gone from p to Van Natasha vain Blatt, We’re all dads here. Natasha emigrated from Russia at the age of seven, and some of her funniest anecdotes touch on the differences between Russia and American cultures. World Dads Here is a hilarious look at vain BLAT’s family life, her marriage of ten years, and the various scrapes she’s gotten herself into. Her droll delivery of increasingly silly jokes like a call in response bit where the crowd guesses the veracity of odd workout classes is the perfect packaging pace.

Magazines Best of twenty twenty three comedy albums, and that is your comedy news for today. I hope you have a Greek Christmas, even a fantastic Christmas. There is an episode tomorrow. There’s always an episode. If you enjoy the show US Somebody about It.

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Featured: Ricky Gerzais, Gary Gulman, Jimmy Fallon, Django Gold, Heather McMahon, Josh Johnson, Brad Wenzel, John Mulaney, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Mike Birbiglia, Dina Hasaim, Mae Martin, Emma Arnold, Chris Fleming, Wanda Sykes, Hari Kondabolu, Joe Perez

What’s in This Episode

• Colorado court disqualifies Trump from ballot
• Gary Gulman special receives critical acclaim
• Ricky Gerzais Christmas special content warning
• Paste Magazine’s 20 best comedy specials of 2023
• Toronto Star’s 10 best comedy albums of 2023

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You may have seen that Colorado’s top court rule that former President Donald Trump is disqualified from returning to office, et cetera, et cetera. Jimmy Fallon joked Christmas is almost hear and people are ready returning gifts. In fact, Colorado returned Donald Trump found again.

The insurrection clauses the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in eighteen sixty eight. Right now, President Biden’s like I supported it, then I support it now. A lot of good buzz on Gary Goleman Special at the time of this recording on Friday at ten am. I haven’t seen it yet. I was at a wedding on Thursday night when it came out, but I’m hoping to watch it very shortly.

Vulture was ecstatic about it, and they said, what’s most exciting about the hour is not just the incredible precision of Goldman’s material or his perfectly dialed in persona knowing a little cocky, just a hair too self assured. It’s that Goldman has the vision and desire to push his work in this direction. He’s so clearly invested in and he’s the instinct to do it with no pulled punches and no excuses for talking about something that might make his audience feel bad. It’s thrilling to watch, and it delivers on the implicit promise Goleman makes by getting on the stage. The politics never undermines the jokes.

It only makes the jokes land harder.

Speaking of Gary, there’s a great profile of him in Esquire.

I’ve shared it in the podcast group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. If you want to read that. I’ll talk about that in the upcoming days. I’m looking forward to Ricky Gervais’s special coming out on Christmas Day, A so I can watch it, and B so I can finish off my top specials of the year list. Ricky went on Twitter and said, in this show, I talk about sex, death, pedophilia, race, religion, disability, free speech, global warming, the Holocaust, and Elton John.

If you don’t approve of jokes about any of these things, then please don’t watch. You won’t enjoy it and you’ll get upset. I’ve got a bunch of these year end review articles that I haven’t gotten to yet, which is good, believe me. I’ve been doing this for a few years now, and it’s great to have a lot of stuff at the end of the year. Let’s take a look at Paste magazine’s twenty best comedy Specials of twenty twenty three.

Number twenty, they have Mark Marin’s from Bleak to Dark nineteen, Sam Jay’s Salute Me or Shoot Me eighteen is Sasheer Zemadas The First Woman, That one I Haven’t Seen seventeen Django Gold’s Bag of Tricks. Paste writes Jango Gold spent years writing for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert before focusing on stand up, and it’s easy to tell he’s a writer when watching his self really special Bag of Tricks. All Right, that one’s on YouTube. I’m gonna add it to my list. I’m gonna make a list of things I need to watch this weekend.

Jengo Gold. His smart jokes are built on great ideas that often end with unexpected punchlines, and you can see the thought and carry put into creating many of them. He also has an ingratiating nor mcdonaldish delivery that helps sell the occasional joke that doesn’t land Cool sixteen is Heather McMahon’s son I never had haven’t seen this one either. That one is on Netflix. Netflix hasn’t surfaced that one for me.

That’s interesting how the algorithm works, isn’t it. Fifteen Josh Johnson’s up Here Killing Myself Good List, Pace Magazine. New York based comedian Josh Johnson describes growing up poor with candor and of course humor. During the first part of up Here Killing Myself. Whether accounting the seamless bag his family Cereal came from, on the questionable quality of their local pharmacy, he paints an effective picture.

That one’s on Peacock. I have added to my list. I got a lot of things to watch this weekend. That’s great. Fourteen Brad Wenzel’s Joke Joke Joke, Pace Magazine writes, joke joke, joke, It’s just that a succession of hilarious bits without any segways.

I’ve edited to my list of things to watch with several things on my list the comedy snob, I’m gonna have a quick hook, so these things better of good openers are gonna be like, I have seven other things to watch. Brad Wenzel special looks like it’s on YouTube. Thirteen. John Mulaney, Baby Jay, I’ll talk about that during the week. Kyle Knane Shocks and Struts at twelve, criminally underrated.

I have that one very high. Nate Pergatzy, Hello World. At eleven, I have that very high. Mike Berbiglia, the old Man in the Pool. As I’ve said a few times, I think you guys will like it, and I have reasons I didn’t Number nine.

I’m seeing a lot of buzz on this. I definitely want to get to this one this week. In Dina Hashem’s Dark Little Whispers, taped at the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago in late twenty twenty two, Dark Little Whispers opens it to Dina on stage as metal music blair as a song featuring her on drums and vocals. The juxtaposition is clear. Hasham may possess an understated presence on stage, but that just accentuates her electric sense of humor.

That one’s on YouTube. I like this list a lot because it’s not just the same names that we see over and over on the other lists. Very nice. Eight. Mae Morton’s sap didn’t do it for me.

Seven Emma Arnold’s myself that specials on YouTube paste rights. Arnold finds pleasure in what some people might call the little things, which are not so little after all, and certainly not to be taken for granted, namely thinking of her mentioning dental insurance. Six Chris Fleming’s Hell I love that special. That’s way up on my list. Five they have Wanda Sykes, I’m an entertainer.

That one didn’t grab me. Four Harri Condobolu’s Vacation Baby. I have that high up on my list. Three that’s Stellings. If you didn’t want me, then that one I didn’t dig.

Two John Early is now more than ever. I have that on my list, but near the bottom. And they have a number one Joe Perez Slow and Steady. That one did make my list. I’ll explain my reasons for that later in the week.

Here’s another deep dive. I really like this one from the Toronto Star. Ten comedy albums that make us laugh and think. I did skim this one. What was surprising to me is I was unfamiliar with all these people, so I appreciate this stuff.

I also like learning about these things now. The Star says these albums are available to stream. I hunted around in the places I use, and I wasn’t able to find them, which is part of the reason I’m not familiar with them. They have Nicky Pain, Nikki, p a Y and E. Nicky’s albums called Performative.

The Toronto Star says Niki deals with her aging parents, mental health issues, and her awkward sex life. Next up is Dian Smith’s Cheweeny in a Tank Top. The Star rights a couple of this album’s best jokes reference their ties here to Toronto. One surreal but uplifting one is set on a plane from Toronto, LA, while another chronicle their sarcastic inner voice at a dinner party thrown by astronaut Chris Hatfield. But the funniest track involves meeting John Hamm at a bar, which caused the comics Poison Clarity to be momentarily and hilariously put on pause.

I don’t know what order this is in. It’s not alphabetical, and I don’t know if we’re going from best to worst, worst to best, or what order they came out in. But there’s a number three next to Paul Thompson’s album called Horny. Much of the material on this album is NSF W, Yeah, no kidding. From the title, he wishes he could be on news events the same way he does sports outcomes or reverse catfish scenario.

Thompson is utterly completely himself. Four Andrew Barr baarr Pursuit of Happiness. Bar has passed the one year sober marked part of that journey’s recounted in the first half of this double album, a double comedy album. Wow. Five is Kevin Banner’s heavy Favorites, with favorite spelled in the British Canadian way.

Whether he’s weighing in on bad tattoos or anger issues, joking about being a new dad, or trying not to intimidate women on sidewalks at night, He’s got a smooth, effortless delivery that belies how carefully his jokes crafted. Six Slogan Brown’s black Man, White Privilege. Most of the songs are too raunchy to describe, but one involves h Yeah, these are too runchy described. One involves animals. Let’s move on, Melanie Dolling d ah l I n G.

Greetings from the Big City. She’s from Winnipeg and jokes about moving to Toronto and being broke. Eight is Mike Rita’s Live in Toronto. The bulk of the album draws on his Portuguese immigrant parents who attempt to follow the raptors, take edibles, and watch porn on their phones, all with amusing results. That sounds fun.

Chuck Burn b y r N. His album is called Pounding Fatties. It’s wearing a cowboy hat and making a silly face on the cover here Toronto, Starr says. They say comedy is a young person’s game, but Burn, the most mature stand up on the list, just keeps getting better relationships, fatherhood, visiting the US. Burn covers them all with a signature lead back style number ten.

Meg McKay’s clown baby mc kay, The Star writs, a couple of years ago, I reviewed McKay’s debut album and concluded she had and yet found her voice, and pleased to say she now has and it’s quirky. Glenn Sumi wrote this and I will share it in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Great stuff from the Star. There, Let’s do one more for Vulture. The Best Comedy Books of twenty twenty three.

Ten. A Guide to Midwestern Conversation by Taylor Kay Phillips. Phillips breaks down the elements of the aggressively normal friends, relatives, and acquaintances who are content to drive around, eat lots of cast roles, reluctantly entertained guests, engage in gift giving one upmanship, and never ever say what they’re thinking or feeling. Nine The Time Miaosen a Talking Cat’s hy two K Quest to Save the World by Marty Beckerman. Vulture writes, what can I tell you when the book subtitle lays everything out so bluntly and hilariously, You’re either going to read this right now or permanently rejected with disgust.

Doctor Taris Switcher lives in twenty forty in a hellish post climate change world with a robot cat. Eight Funny You Don’t Look Funny Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials by Jennifer Kaplan. Seven is Sure I’ll Join Your Cults by Maria Bamford her memoir. Six Grief Strike The Ultimate Guide to Morning by Jason Roder. The memoir in the form of a third person faux Manual wrote wrote the book as part of his own process and coming to terms with the loss of his mother.

Five Gary Goleman’s Misfit, a lot of Gary Goleman this week, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties. Four Escape from Hawaii, a tropical sequel by Jack Handy. Remember Jackie used to have stuff on SNL. He’s the Breens behind tuonsis the Driving Cat and Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

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Also Deep Thoughts is where you might know his name from.

Three Great Falls, Montana, Fast Times, post Punk, Wirdos, and a Tailiff Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts. Less of a memoir and more of a tribute to the people, places, and things that inspired his art and made him whole. Number two, Hi Honey, I’m homo sid that’s a great title. Sitcom Specials in the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baum and Vulture’s number one comedy book of the Year. Kind of a big deal.

How Anchorman stayed class and became the most iconic comedy of the twenty first century by Saul Austerlitz. I’ll share that in the Facebook group too. You got a lot of reasons to go over to Facebook today. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ve got episodes free every day.

I’m not going anywhere, So if you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. And if you’re driving a grandma’s house and you want to kill ten minutes, you can put on the podcast or come back on Tuesday and listen to the four episodes you missed. However you want to do it, but I will see you tomorrow

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Featured: Seth Meyers, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Jack Whitehall, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Carr, Tony Blair

What’s in This Episode

• Seth Meyers jokes about Biden feeling younger than his age
• Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers
• Wanda Sykes discusses Dave Chappelle visiting Lauren Boebert
• Wanda Sykes on hosting the Daily Show and whether she wants the permanent job
• Kevin James special ‘Irregardless’ coming to Prime Video January 23rd
• Jack Whitehall special ‘Settled Down’ coming to Netflix January 30th
• Trevor Noah creates documentary series ‘The World According to Football’ on Paramount Plus
• Jimmy Carr reveals Tony Blair confirmed UK government investigated UFOs

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy. He’s a quick reminder. I’ll have episodes every day through the holidays, seven days a week, not taking a break. So if you’re in the car, you just need to get away for your family for ten minutes.

I’m here for you. Seth Meyers had a couple good jokes lately. The first one, according to a new report, President Biden frequently tells aids and friends in private conversations that he feels so much younger than his age. And I’m sure he does, but it doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence when you walk around going man, I feel seventy three newt topic. A jury ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay one hundred and forty eight million dollars to two former Georgia election workers.

Seth joked well after marrying his cousin, giving a press conference at a landscape and company, and almost masturbating in the Boar movie, Rudy Giuliani has finally slipped up. Wanda Sykes is on The Daily Beast’s Last Laugh podcast. The topic Dave Chappelle visiting a representative Lauren Bobert recently Wanta said, wow, I mean if I go to Capitol Hill, I don’t think I’m going to seek her out. You know, where’s Lauren oh Man? Sounds like she’s gonna have to have it out with David at some point.

New topic. Did you expect Will Smith to be dragged out by security? You remember Wana was hosting the Oscars that night? Wanta said, Man, are you kidding? It’s the Oscars.

I don’t care who you are. I thought there were going to be some big dudes in suits and they take them walk them out, and Laped was going to be waiting for him on the other side. They followed up, what do you think that didn’t happen? Wanta said, it’s Hollywood. It’s just craziness.

I don’t know, but I do know that Chris didn’t want to press Georgia, so I guess it started there.

Also, we were going to change it up pajamas to say good night, but I stayed i…

The conversation turned to Wana’s guest hosting of the Daily Show and does she want the job. Wanna said, I have not had conversations about that. You know what, I’d say, No, I don’t think i’d want to do it, But I say that right now. Who knows down the road. Especially with kids, it might be nice to stay in one place and have a schedule in a routine, But then it feels like a job.

I’m doing comedy because I don’t want a job. Who’s her pick? Everyone brings a different take to it. I know Leslie Jones really wants it. Ronny Chieng is good.

I thought Sarah Silverman did it job. Who knows? But you know, I was sad to see what happened with Roywood Junior. Kevin James will have a special out on Prime Video on January twenty third, Kevin James Irregardless. We’ll see Kevin James deliver his unfiltered take on parenting, marriage, and getting older, covering topics from why he doesn’t trust technology to how many teetertots he can fit in his mouth.

Here’s a clip which I liked a lot. I trimmed it. He’s doing a lot of body language jokes, so he’s shaking the entire time. So as Kevin speaks here, just picture his entire body’s shaking. They’re all up to something.

Those apps, you know it. That’s their goal. They want to stay on your phone as long as possible. That’s why it’s so hard to delete an app. You do you ever try to delete an app?

You got to do that hard press on the phone. First of all, all the apps are shaking there. Well, they know somebody’s going. They know this. This is judgment day for one of them.

One of them just looking around seeing what each other did, like thinking about who’s going. That’s why they make that little X so small. It’s small in the corner because you can’t get it with your fat thumb, and you hit anywhere else on the screen and everything settles, and they’re like and then you gotta fire it up again. And they’re like, oh my gosh, this guy’s relentless now thinking about what they did. Oh, he’s definitely getting rid of me.

It’s not you, it’s me. I’m learning Spanish in thirty days. This idiot couldn’t learn Spanish if he was raised in Guatemala for thirty years. Real nice clip there, looking forward to that one. I wouldn’t have thought that I was, But hearing that clip, I’m like, all right, this is pretty good.

Jack Whitehall will have a special January thirtieth, this one coming to Netflix. It’s called settled Down. It was recorded over three sold out nights at London’s two Arena. That’s seventeen thousand fans at each showing. In the special, Jack will riff on dogs, drinking, dining alone, and finally deciding to settle down to become a father.

We got another clip for you. I like this one a lot too, but I did have to trim it some f bombs. We don’t do f bombs on the Daily Comedy News podcast, so this is a trim down. I wanted a god dog. I wanted a proper hound.

Yeah, I caught it. Dog you see tattooed onto the arm of a millwall. Fame can a dog that gets you a little bit of distance and respect when you’re walking down a street with it on the way the phones have a couple of loggers with the boys. We compromised and got a toy poodle. I wanted a hound.

This thing looks like it came out of a kinder Surprise. It’s the opposite of a guard dog. I’ve been abused because of my dog. I was in a pub in Wolfamstowe with my mates. Oh geezer at the bar looks over at me and my dog is like, am I does your dog come in?

Amends would judge a book by its cover? Buddy, you look at her the wrong way, she will rip your throgs house. You better pray she doesn’t get out of this handbag. I starting to think Trevor Noah is taking a run a Kevin Hard for the Hey, can you announce more projects? Title New Mexico United soccer team apparently has teamed up with Trevor Noah to create the World According to Football, a five port doaku series that travels around the world learning about how soccer functions as a mirror to society.

Episode two apparently focuses on the New Mexico United Academy and their efforts to buck traditional American paid a play system through a fully scholarship program. Yeah, if you’re involved in youth soccer, when I started being involved as an adult, you know, like twenty years ago, you could play town soccer, and then travel soccer came in. So instead of playing like the next town over, now you were traveling from North Jersey to South Jersey and then the Brits came over and took over and started like academy soccer, and soccer went from being four hundred dollars to four thousand dollars. So why did you pay the four thousand dollars, Johnny Mac? Because everybody else went up to the higher leagues, Like my son waited a year because Dad was like, I’m not driving at Tom’s River for game.

What are you crazy? Fast forward five years, I’m driving to Boston for games. I mean, it’s insane. But the lower leagues where you weren’t paying four thousand, the play was garbage because anybody who could play at all was given the Brits four thousand dollars. Anyway.

All five episodes are now available on Paramout Plus. Interesting note from Jimmy Carr. He says that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed to Jimmy Carr that there were UK governmental probes into UFOs and extraterrestrial life. He confirmed this during a night out together. Carr said, we were sort of quite drunk, a bit giddy and excited, and Tony Blair was in the corner of the room.

We went we should go ask him something. I was like, I don’t know what are we gonna ask him? We sort of concocted the plan. Why don’t we go and ask him if there’s aliens? Jimmie Oliver was there and chips in and goes, are there aliens?

And Tony Blair gave like a really good, sort of really good political answer, and he goes to need to know basis I would be told if I needed to know. If I don’t need to know, then they don’t tell me. Jimmy carrs of the opinion an alien invasion could make things better. He said, the state of the world, what’s going on? Maybe alien overlords are not such a bad idea.

Continuing a fun set of topics today, Emily Radikowski. You remember she dated Pete Davidson for a while. Well, this is nothing to do with Pete Davidson. I’m just telling you who she is. She has asked comedian Celeste Barber to stop making fun of her Instagram posts.

If you’ve never seen this, Emily will post, say, a photo in a bikini, and then Celeste, who has a different body type, will pose in a similar outfit in a similar way, and it makes the original post look ridiculous. Emily blocked Barber in twenty twenty one after Barbara mocked one of Emily’s swimwear campaigns, captioning it, We’re sick of you objectifying our bodies.

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Reradikowski said, this whole drama Celeste has been blown out of proportion. In general. I found her it’d be really funny, But the message I was trying to send her was I just don’t want you to do this to me anymore. I want to be able to do my thing where I’d be about writing in my terrifying experiences in an industry that doesn’t protect women and young girls and fen presenting people while also having a bathing suit line. Next month topic from BuzzFeed.

Matt Riife apparently texted Brook Schofield after she put him on blast on her podcast, and her response is low key iconic. All right, BuzzFeed, what do you got? Brooke had said, I wouldn’t say he’s my ex or anything because I wasn’t like in a serious relationship with him, but it wasn’t just hooking up with him. I really liked him. Soon more red flags began to appear.

Brook said that should fly across the country see Matt and Sportaman shows, and when they were apart, he would text her saying she was all he could think about and he couldn’t wait to see her again. Then Brooke came across a TikTok video from a woman who said that she was dating Matter earlier this year. When Brooke realized that the timeline was suspicious, she reached out to the user and immediately added her to a group chat with around seven other women who were in the same boat. I love it. It’s the Matt Rife is cheating on me group chat.

Boy. Can we get a print out of that, please? Brooke said. She reached out to Met to make sure she had a fact straight. That’s when she realized he had blocked her number.

At the end of a photo dump, Brook posted Instagram there was an I message screenshot showing a text she had received which reads Brooke, this is m r H. I wonder who Mr could be. One person wrote, There’s no way that’s real. Could you confirm that that’s real? She replied, Oh, it’s real.

Somebody else jumped in and said Matt apparently refers to himself by his initials. Brooke replied, like he’s JFK. Paul Elia picked Christmas Eve for premier day for his debut special, Detroit Player, the first ever shot at the Detroit House of Comedy. I’m getting this from Deadline, who I think just printed whatever Paul’s camp said in because the first sentence that I skipped, but I’m going to go back now for a reason. The first cent that’s the Deadline just printed was rising comedian Paul Ilia has set a Christmas Eve premier day.

Blah blah blah. Al Right, so we’ve established he’s a rising comedian according to somebody, and here’s what makes he suspicious of this whole story. Ilia came to shoot a special after spending years performing stand up in many unlikely and awkward scenarios in order to pay his rent. Here we go. He performed that at Dubai Mall, almost got arrested.

Soon after, he performed at a royal event for Saudi Royalty, again almost getting detained. With Detroit Player, he explores authenticity, censorship, and what it means to hustle while avoiding arrests abroad. If you’re wondering who this is, he’s an LA based standup comedian, actor, and content creator. Originally from Detroit, perhaps best known for appearing in over a dozen sketches on TBS’s Conan, as well as a claimed series such as Ramie and Lady Dynamite. Currently, he’s a series regular and longtime friend and former roommate Yama Yusef’s series Happy Family USA, which is expected to premiere next year.

OW, this is interesting. I didn’t read ahead here. Look. Ilia produced Matt Rife specials Natural Selection and Matthew Stephen Rife after serving as an associate producer on his debut special OnlyFans. All right, rising comedian.

Let’s see for the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla. They have their list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty three. Again, I’m waiting for Ricky Gervaise’s to come out so I can finish mine. Let’s see they have I’ll just quickly go here number fifteen. May Martin.

I’ll vote No. Fourteen. Dina Hasham Dark Little Whispers. I need to get to that one. Thirteen Kyle Kanine Shocks and Struts.

You have that criminally low. That is one of the top specials of the year. Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs. I have it at number two. Mark Norman Soup to Nuts, Good Call at eleven, ten Berbigs, The Old Man on the Pool.

My quick take on that is, you guys are all gonna like it, and I’m a comedy snob. Nine Sarah Silverman, Someone You Love. I like that one a lot. Beth Stellings. If you didn’t want me, then I didn’t grab me.

Joe Parra’s Slow and Steady. I have some thoughts about that. I’ll share in my review. Pete Holmes, I’m not for everyone. Love Beat five, So sar Zemata’s the first woman.

I haven’t seen that one for Sam Jay Salute Me or Shoot Me? Did not grab Me? Three? Gary Goldman’s Born on Third Base I didn’t see yet. Two Chris Rock’s Live One, Selective Outrage and their number one special of the year, which isn’t even on my top twenty.

John Mulaney’s Baby Jay. Why not Johnny Mac. I’ll talk about it at length next week. That’s your comedy news for today again. I’ll have episodes every day, not taking a break here.

If you like the show, tell a friend about it, and you can follow the show for free on Apple, Podcasts, Spotify, etc. See tomorrow

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Trevor Noah, Gary Gulman, Brad Williams, Conan O’Brien, Joe Biden, Kevin Hart, John Oliver, Elon Musk, Dick Van Dyke

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais Armageddon special controversy over Make-A-Wish joke
• Trevor Noah special review and ranking
• Gary Gulman Born On Third Base special release on Max
• Brad Williams new special on Veeps
• Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend episode with President Biden
• Kevin Hart cancels Manning Cast appearance last minute
• John Oliver segment on Elon Musk draws social media response
• What We Do in the Shadows ending with sixth season
• Dick Van Dyke 98th birthday special on CBS

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gervais has responded to some of the criticism about his upcoming special that’ll be out on Netflix on Christmas. In it, Ricky is joking about recording video messages for terminally ill children via the Make a Wish Foundation. Ricky’s joke, I always start the video the same way I go, why didn’t you wish to get better?

What are you fing? R? Word? As well? That didn’t go over well.

Ricky has now told BBC Radio five Live. In the actual skit, I say I’ve been doing a lot of video messages lately for terminally ill children, only if they are requested. I don’t burst into the hospitals and say wake up, baldy. I’m literally saying in the joke that I don’t do that. But people have a reaction.

They don’t analyze it. They feel something. That’s what the offense is. It’s a feeling. That’s why I’m offended.

Is quite meaningless. What do you want me to change? The host discussed a petition that has accrued thousands of signatures calling for Netflix to remove the joke. Ricky responded good luck. That’s what I say to them, good luck.

I’ll even retweet it. Ninety nine percent of it is faux offence. They’re not really offended, they just want to be heard. I’ll explain now, you’ve mistaken the subject of the joke with the actual target. Of the millions of people that watched it and loved it, only a few don’t like it.

If I give them special attention and try to placate them, I’ve annoyed the other millions of people that got the joke. They go, no, you’ve ruined it for us. So I’ve got a duty to the people that like it and get it. I wouldn’t sit down with a heckler, would I. If I’m playing to twenty thousand people, I wouldn’t stop the show and explain it to them.

I ignore them. Ricky adds, particularly with irony and satsire, I’m often playing a character. But some people get confused and think that a joke is a window into the comedian’s true soul. It’s not true. It’s a joke.

No one does this with puns, do they. Two books didn’t really walk into a pub. I deal in taboo subjects because I want to take the audience to a place that hasn’t been before, even for a split second. Most defense comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target. I think that’s what the comedy is for getting us over taboo subjects so they’re not scary anymore.

So I deal with everything, and I think we second guess the audience too much. I’m looking forward to watching that one. I’ve been holding off on publishing my Top Specials of the Year list because I want to include that one. I’d love to include Chappelle as well, but that doesn’t come out to New Year’s Eve, and I do want to include Gary Goldman, who has a special out today. I’ll get to that in a second.

I did, as promised, watch Trevor Noah’s special. I liked it a lot. It is not the funniest special, but it’s really compelling. I find Trevor to be great company. I like the way he thinks, I like the way he explains issues.

I just like listening to him speak. I love the voice work that he does. Maybe the specials ten minutes too long. I wasn’t laughing all that much again, totally entertained. Loved the special, was playing on my phone a little bit towards the end, and the spoiler thing I mentioned yesterday totally worked on me.

Trevy, you got me to watch the credits. So right now, plus or minus Ricky Gervais, I have Trevor Noah’s Special Ants number thirteen, so better than the Roast of Mister Peanut, which sounds like a dig but that was actually pretty good and not as good as Jimmy O yangs. Guess how much I’ll go over that full list sometime next week. Expect Drvas will make it, and I also expect Gary Golman’s Born on Third Base will make it. That’s out on Max Today.

In Born on Third Base, Gary Goleman offers up his insights on a range of topics from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, all with the generous helping of his inventive humor and absurdism, while chronicling his childhood experiences with free school lunch programs and questionable dentsal care. These stand up makes an incisive swiper two at billionairesm Boing Boying got a screener of it, they say. In Born on Third Base, Goldman’s playful styles at the forefront with many digressions into silliness, word plying, observational comedy. But underneath all that is a very cohesive and even profound story of what it’s like growing up poor for a special as laugh out loud, funny as this Hour is. There are many strong and important public policy points he makes, including messages about welfare reform and shockingly accelerating income disparity.

Point Boying ads if you’re going to illustrate your thesis about America’s treatment of the poor, went on do it with a long, hilarious bit about pop darts. Brad Williams also has a special out today, this one on veeps. Not sure what veeps is? What’s veeps? Veeps your past live shows, get unlimited access to live shows on demand content blah blah blah.

So it’s an on demand service. Looks like there’s a subscription where stuff is free. I randomly clicked on and imagine Dragon’s concert and you could get that for six bucks. So there’s some way to watch Brad Williams today if you want. The New Hour sees him talk about navigating relationships and everyday life as a little person.

I was up in the middle of the night with my dog, that’s what my dog’s been doing lately. And I’m like, all right, we can go out if you want.

And then I was playing with my phone and I’m like, oh wow.

Conan O’Brien as President Biden as his guest. Codin talked to Biden about Biden’s speech impediment. Conan said, my theory is if you stay connected to these things that embarrassed you when you were a kid, whatever it was, speech impediment, anxiety, feeling awkward, not being a good athlete. Like my list goes on and on, having weird hair, having a weird name. Biden jumps in and says, I wish I had your hair.

I trade you right now if you want. Conan says, you want this air it comes off, I’ll mail you this week tomorrow. Sounds like the Manning brothers are not too happy with Kevin Hart. Kevin was supposed to be on the Manning Cast on Monday Night. Kevin Hart, big Eagles fan.

Kevin had to back out due to a last minute conflict. Hmmm. On air, Peyton Manning told ESPN Scott Van Pelt Kevin Hart was supposed to be on, but it’s a tall order for him. To be on them for the second time, so Kevin’s out. Van Pelt said, shots at Kevin Hart.

Peyton and Eli Manning then proceeded a mock Houston, Texas quarterback case Keenum for being Kevin Hart’s replacement on the show. Eli said, tonight, you’re replacing Kevin Hart was supposed to be on the Manning cast, but last minute he had a conflict. I really do not have time to prepare for you, So I said, okay, if I ask you the questions I prepared for Kevin Hart, that’s really funny. Keenan said he would get into his Kevin Hart costume by lowering his chair. Told you.

John Oliver went after Elon Musk. Elon Musk not really amused by all this, What a shock. Elon went on the social media platform we’re all calling Twitter. No one’s calling it that other thing. Elon, stop with that Twitter, Twitter, Twitter Twitter.

Elon was on Twitter. A social media user had posted on Twitter a clip of Oliver’s segment and wrote, oh no, how will Elon ever recover? Elon replied with crying laughing emojis, and then wrote Oliver was great eight several years ago, but stop being funny. When he sold his soul to Wokeness, where humor is basically illegal. What we do in the shadows, you know, the Office Vampires.

It’s ending, starting its production on the sixth season in January. It will be the last season, according to FX. Tonight on CBS, celebrate Dick Van Dyke’s ninety eighth birthday two hour special Dick Vandyke ninety eight years of Magic. Guests include Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Jason Alexander, Rob Reiner, Ted Danson, William Shatner, Martin Short, Jane Seymour, Jet Appatoo, Melbrooks, and Ken Jung. For some reason, that’s weird.

Musical tributes and songs from Van Dyke’s other career triumphs, including Bye Bye Birdie and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, would be part of the celebration. Dick Van Dyke said, I started with CBS in her contract in nineteen fifty five with the CBS Morning Show, then The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis Murder. Forgot about that third one. I’ve been with the CBS family for almost seventy years and I couldn’t be prouder. I’m incredibly honored that CBS will be throwing a ninety eighth birthday special for me.

Can’t wait to be part of the show. Of Sound has named their comedian of the Year. Who do you think it is? I’ll give you a second to think about it. I like their pick a lot.

It is Nateperghansey, they write. He’d never label himself one, but Naperganzy’s a bit of a business mogul. In addition to a stand up tours and specials, he hosts a Nate Land podcast under the umbrella of his Nate Land Company. The core of Nateland is similar to the core of Bergatzy’s comedy, humor that everyone across age, demographics or media preferences can enjoy together. The thesis there is that it’s all clean.

Nate smashed the record for Amazon’s most stream original comedy in its first twenty eight days with two point nine million viewers, four hundred thousand more than the previous record holder. I remind you the other day, Chris Rock I think got thirty six million some number like that. Jim Gaffigan’s Quality Time was the previous record holder. That could just be an Amazon verus Netflix thing. Good bick there.

I like Nate a lot for comedy dot co dot UK Mark muldoone caught Eliza Selessenger’s show. Mark said she’s making worthwhile but quite familiar points. Mark uses an example of a joke about how women say don’t actually need to make an effort with makeup to arouse men or her clean from some women that they wear makeup address sexually for ourselves, not for men. Good funny social observations, but ones that have already been made fairly recently by UK comedians. It’suffice to say, if you’re interested in hearing the differences between men and women in modern society, it’s certainly a show that’s all too happy to explore them.

After initial concerns about a lack of original thought, the show doesn’t warm up. She’s inventive on other social divides, namely the one between millennials and gen z, as well as the dilemma women face about whether to get cosmetic surgery. Is the age that punchline. It’s a difficult choice women have to make. Do you want to look gold?

We’re weird? Bill Maher has a book coming out in June. It’s called What This Comedian Said? We’ll Shock you in it? Bill Maher revisits some of his on air commentary.

According to the publishers announcement, Bill Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimaginating and updating them, and adding new material to speak exactly to the moment we’re in. I’ll translate there. Hey you want a book? Yeah? Do I have to do all any work?

Well? Yeah you do. Can we just reuse stuff I already did and I get money? Yeah, I guess. From The Daily Mail, comedian Rosie Jones has hit out at comments about her performance at the Royal Variety show the other night.

Rosie has serebal palsy, and she revealed she was on the receiving end of some cruel trolling over her performance. On Twitter, which is what everybody but Elon calls it, Rosie said, thank you for all the lovely messages about the Royal Variety last night. What fun less of a thanks to the not so lovely ones. On Instagram, Rosie said, so, I was on Royal Variati last night and I just want to make something clear. If you want to write me to tell me I’m not funny, don’t because I don’t care.

If you want to say that I’m too disabled to be on television or you can’t understand me, don’t bother, because again I don’t care, and I’m going to carry on being on your screen with my disabled voice.

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And then there’s your comedy news for today.

I’ll have episodes for you all through the holidays, not taking a break here. I might pre tape one, like you know, I’m not gonna record on Christmas Eve, let’s be real, but I can tell you right now the Christmas one has a lot of Ricky Travay’s material. So if you’re in a Ricky, you’re gonna like a Christmas episode. If you’re not in a Ricky, probably won’t like it so much. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Bill Burr, Bert Kreischer, Joe Coy

What’s in This Episode

• Billboard’s top 10 highest-grossing comedy tours of 2023
• Kevin Hart earns $67.5 million on tour, leading all comedians
• Trevor Noah releases new Netflix special ‘Where Was I?’
• Trevor Noah discusses his creative process and material development
• Jerry Seinfeld visits Israel to meet families of hostages
• Ray Romano explains why ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ won’t be rebooted

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Billboard has announced the top ten highest grossing comics on tour in twenty twenty three. Let’s take a look at Number ten Joe Coy Quietly a Monster, earning thirteen point four million dollars, selling one hundred and ninety eight thousand tickets during only twenty shows. Number nine Adam Sandler, selling one hundred and forty one thousand tickets over fifteen shows.

Adam made fourteen point two million dollars with his hilarious comedy. Number eight Sebastian Maniscalco thirty nine shows, sixteen million, one hundred and thirty thousand tickets sold. Number seven Taylor Tomlinson Yeah. One hundred and thirty two shows, two hundred and ninety six thousand tickets, seventeen and a half million dollars. Number six Peter Kay huge star in the UK.

Two hundred and seventy six thousand tickets twenty one shows that included ten shows at the O two Arena. He earned twenty and a half million dollars. Number five Nate Pergatsy, who had a great year one hundred and thirteen shows, three hundred thirty thousand tickets twenty point six million dollars for Nate. Number four Bill Burr, he did thirty seven shows, twenty point six million dollars, two hundred thirty one thousand tickets. Number three Berd Kraser, who also had a big year, four hundred and sixty thousand tickets, thirty two point nine million dollars, eighty total shows.

Number two was Chappelle nineteen shows, two hundred and fifty four thousand tickets, thirty six point six million dollars, and number one touring Kevin Hart sixty seven point five million dollars. He sold six hundred and thirty one thousand tickets. He did eighty two shows. Wow, and he still bangs out all that work. How much money does Kevin Hart have?

Wow? Trevor Noah’s new special is out on Netflix. I was hoping to watch it last night. I hope they can talk about it tomorrow. Essen’s caught up with Trevor and they asked him his process for developing new material.

Trevor said, to be honest with you, my process is living life and then being on stage. I generate material by living and thinking and communicating with others. Netting on stage, and I work it out, and that’s pretty much how I generate every hour that I’ve made. Netflix shared another clip from the show Let’s Listen. Every woman in this room has a trick that works on every man.

And right now, I know a lot of the women like shut up, trip, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. It’s a beautiful subtle technique. Yeah. You’ll be out having lunch or something. Then some guy will come up to the table.

He’s buff, works out, you know, looks really good. He’s like, oh my god, Michelle, Michelle. He’s like, oh Justin, Oh my god, Wow, how are you? And you They’re like, who the hell is Justin? What’s going on?

He’s like, this is crazy. I can’t believe this. Twice in two weeks and you there like twice when was once? Who is this? I know?

Oh my god? How are you? I’m doing? Good? Man?

We got to catch up sometime, We got we gotta talk about college. I was thinking about it the other day. We were so crazy in college. You remember that, you remember that night and you like you went to college. What’s going on here?

Trevord told Essence every special I release, I think comes at the time when it’s ready to be released. Art is a strange thing in that it never feels finished for the artists, but at some point you have to let it go. For me, this special is the culmination of meat traveling around the world and meeting people from all over. I love how comedy can bring people together. This year, traveling around the world doing it was a reminder of how wonderful a shared laugh can be.

So I wanted to release a fun light special that everybody can enjoy at home, especially going to the holidays and what’s been a tough time for many people for many different reasons. Essence asked Trevor why he thinks Netflix has become the hub for stand up comedy. I’ll answer because they pay millions and millions of dollars. That’s the answer. You want to become the hub for stand up comedy, start handing out one hundred million dollar checks to Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock you’ll be the hub of comedy.

But that wasn’t Trevor’s answer. He said, well, for a few reasons. Number one, Netflix was their first platform where a comic could put their special on and it wasn’t interrupted or walled off. I know HBO did it a little bit, but they had such a limited space for comedian and you had to be on when you were on. I think we’ve moved on from that.

Well, hold on, Trevor, I mean HBO did it for a little bit. They did it for forty years, dude, and yeah, it had to be on when you were on. But there’s HBO Max. Now you can watch a special whatever you want. What are we talking about, Trevor said, you should be able to watch something whatever you want to watch it.

Yeah, it’s called Max.

Moving on, Trevor, do you think you’ll ever get back in the late night TV?

Trevor said, I never say never when it comes to anything. If you’d asked me before Late Night TV if I’d get into it, I would have said, I don’t know. I never know where life takes me, what direction it pulls me in. But for now, I’m enjoying this period of my life and I’m enjoying traveling more. I’m enjoying spending more time in South Africa.

I’m enjoying doing more stand up. But if the right timing opportunity and motivation come along. I’ll do anything. That’s what I love about being in the field that I’m in. Hmm, I could see the tonight’s show at Trevor Noah just saying at the end of today’s podcast, I will have a spoiler for Trevor Noah’s special.

I will give you major warning about it. As I mentioned, I was hoping to watch it last night. The Times Now News saw as vibe spoilers here, they say, this time Trevor Noah has had more distance away from the US satirical show that made him an international name, But the way the comedian analyzes and shapes his with a stute punchline is much like what he used to do on the Daily Show. His material for Trevor Noah, Where Was I is made of discerning observations to different countries and cultures During his travels around the world, the talented comic was an act for nailing accents and nuances of different cultures. Recounts his experiences in places like Europe in the US.

Yeah, I love his voice work. It’s so good. I meant to mention that when I played the trailer clip he’s doing those voices. They are fantastic. For example, miner spoiler here, You’ll be fine.

While in torn Berlin, he praises Germany for acknowledging its Nazi past and it’s part in it. Later, he mocks their national anthem in a way that’s not offensive. At an hour and eight minutes, Trevor Noah, where was I is far too short? Wow from a hot reporter. Jerry Seinfeld showing support for the families of Israeli hostages after arriving in Israel earlier this week.

According to multiple local Israeli news sources, Jerry landed sometime on Monday and has since visited the headquarters of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Tel Aviv, the hostage advocacy organization. Jerry told the families that he feels a deep commitment to raising awareness around the world about the issue of the hostages whose lives are in immediate danger. Jerry’s family was very moved and it was evident that they were deeply affected by the experiences they heard from the family members and they released hostages.

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Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner on Saturday, Jerry was spotted at the India Garde…

Jerry apparently on an Indian food kick. That’s twice in a week we’ve seen him out for Indian food. Ray Romano says, you’re not getting it. Everybody loves Raymond reboot. He was on Bill Maher’s podcast.

He told Bill reboots are never as good. We want to leave with our legacy, he said. The rest of the cast was happy to go on, but myself and Phil Rosenthal round the show. We wanted to end it in season eight because we felt like it was time. Yeah, it’d be kind of hard to bring back.

I mean, you could have the kids now grown up, and you could throw Ray and Debrah into the parent roles. And Ray says, you know, as far as it reboots, now the question because unfortunately the parents are gone Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts. So yeah, if Ray and Deborah were the parents and the kids were grown up, and I don’t know, Robert lived next door, you could make it work. But yeah, just don’t. Fox Nation is getting in on the comedy thing.

On January third, they’ll release two separate Commonbody specials. One is called Jimmy Fala. They’re just jokes, featuring a special filmed at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, Long Island. I Know that place Interesting by the former New York City taxi driver turned Fox News commentator The Other One that Day, Tyrus Here and Now a concert filmed in Crowley, Louisiana, with the former professional wrestler and current Gutfeld panel member offering his takes on a variety of topics. On January a, Fox Nation will release a History of the World in Six Classes, a documentary series hosted by Dan Ackroyd.

Appearing in it Jim Belushi, John Lovett’s and Kevin Neil and also George went from Cheers. They discuss beer, wine, coffee, t soda, and spirits. I’m sure Akroid’s gonna plug his stuff. He always does. And on January tenth, Fox Nation will release an episode of a series called Who Is.

In that episode, they will profile Dave Chappelle. Netflix has released a clip from the upcoming Adam Sandler sci fi drama Spaceman. Listen to this trailer. This sounds awful, just awful. As I was hitting play, I’m like, is this a parody?

No, Adam is serious here? Listen to this crap just like you. I fled my planet through galaxies through black calls through time and then I Found You. Spaceman, directed by the guy who directed Chernobyl, which is fantastic. Spaceman will be out March first.

The film is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia. We find Adam Sandler’s astronaut Jacob six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the Solar system, as he realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Adam Sandler’s character is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time, which he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. By the way, that recent cartoon Leo had thirty four point six million views for Netflix during its first week, yikes. Deadline wrote about the future of Late Night you know, hey, is anybody going to take over for any of the five white guys currently hosting shows?

And they speculated who even knows? But the interesting part to me was talking about Lorne Michaels. As the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live approaches, Deadline rights comedy sources are convinced that Tina Fay remains the odds on favorite to replace Lorne Michaels when he does step down. Well, we all stepped down eventually for one reason or another. Seth Myers said, whoever goes after the person who replaces in there, that’s the job.

They should do a favor and just go to Monster dot com and hire somebody with no background in TV. Let them replace Lorn for six months and have the entertainment press put them on a spit Tell that person coming in here, you’re just here to take off the heat and you’ll get a golden parachute. That’s like what David Lee roth File at Harwood stirred exactly, that they should get somebody who’s not on TV, because after that they’ll never work in TV again. Are you a fan of the TV show Dave starring rapper Little Dicky Well. The soundtrack for the first three seasons is coming out on January nineteenth.

It is entitled penif Little Dicky’s first album in eight years. Dave Bird said, I realize this year. I took a step back and looked at all the different music that’s made it in the first three seasons of the show. There’s enough here, great body of work in a project that could put out as a soundtrack. I think this will be a cool thing for fans who’ve watched the show, and for people who have never seen the show.

I think they’ll enjoy listening to this as a body of music.

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And now that’s spoiler for Trevor Noah’s a special again.

I’ll babble here for five seconds case you want to hit stop. It’s nothing horrible, but you know, let’s tell you something that happens in the special. You already okay, there’s a cameo. Do you want to know who the cameo is? If you don’t hit stop, you still here.

Here comes to the spoiler in the special. Trevor Noah begins to sing Sweet Caroline, which he says is pure uncut Caucasian joy. The audience joins in. Trevor points out, you were like, this is it, this is our moment. Cameras then followed Trevor Noah as he exits the theater and gets into an SUV.

Who’s in the suv? Neil Diamond. Neil asked Trevor how’d we do? Trevor says, it works every time, Neil Diamond, it works every time. Trevor said, I had to make quite what a few calls to get somebody to get to somebody to get to somebody to get to somebody who would eventually get to him.

He called the appearance of the stuff that dreams are made of. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. And if you want to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News through a couple bucks in the tip shower. Today’s Wednesday. But I can’t go to trivia because my daughter is a concert. So I guess I’ll take your money and I’ll get an iced coffee, as the website intended, see you tomorrow

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Pete Davidson, Matt Rife, Hasan Minhaj, Nikki Glaser, Whitney Cummings, John Oliver, Elon Musk

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah releases ‘Where Was I?’ Netflix special filmed in Detroit
• Pete Davidson announces second Netflix special ‘Turbo Fonzarelli’ for January 9, 2024
• Matt Rife addresses controversy over domestic violence joke and defends comedy at Off the Hook Comedy Club
• Hasan Minhaj discusses embellishment scandal and jokes about success
• Nikki Glaser records two shows in Seattle for upcoming HBO special
• Whitney Cummings announces birth of first child
• John Oliver critiques Elon Musk on Last Week Tonight

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah’s new specials aut on Netflix today. It is called Where Was I? He filmed this on his recent off the record tour, and Where Was I?

Trevor Noah shares his comical experiences from his recent travels, which rains from foreign national anthems to varying cultural norms. This one was filmed at the Fox Theater in Detroit. It is Trevor’s fourth for Netflix. He had one just last year. I’m looking forward to watching this one.

I should be able to get to it tonight. Comedy dot co dot uk reviewed Trevor’s recent three nights at London’s Millennium Dome. They’re right, it’s not unusual to encountercomedian who’s as funny and they’re off the cuff moments as they are in their prepared routines. What’s more unusual is that the comedian is funnier and they’re off the cuff moments. There comes a point where you think, hang on, if you’ve got funnier things to say, can’t you make sure they’re part of the show.

The tickets are quite expensive I’d like to hear the best you’ve got. The website writes, the main body of Trevors show is absolutely fine, passable, certainly not anything you’d actively recommend to friends, or something that justifies being staged in one of the country’s biggest comedy venues. He talks about airlines and frustrating customer service situations. It’s all roughly the same quality, absolutely fine. Towards the back of the show, he opens up the floor for a Q and A session.

It’s here that he displays a talent that starts to explain the hype. He’s great, funny, interesting company. In those moments. You wish you’d more carefully filter his touring material, though, I wonder if it’s just not appealing to people who usually consume British comedy. We’ll see.

Pete Davidson has announced his second Netflix comedy special, this one with the fun title Turbo Fonzarelli. This will be on Netflix January ninth, so that’ll immediately be the number one special of twenty twenty four. In Turbo Fonzarelli, Pete Davison reflects on what it means to grow up in Turn thirty, as well as discussing love life and living in the woods. USA Today caught up with Matt Rice’s recent show at Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, Florida, last Thursday. Matt Rife said, I did want to make sure I mentioned at the top for the show.

Though. If anybody has come here to a comedy show at a comedy club with the possibility being offended by a joke, We’ve arranged a safe space for you. It’s located right outside that exit door. Go see yourself out. No one’s gonna stop you.

He addressed his controversial joke, which was I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye. He told the Naples audience. The joke is kind of funny because you know it’s a joke. I didn’t hit anybody, My food was fine, and put hands on anybody. USA Today says.

During the set, Rife talked about the hundreds of comments he got demanding an apology. He said he decided to swallow his pride and post a statement. The only reason I did a fake apology was because in what universe would I ever apologize for a joke. It’s a joke. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to listen to it.

You have to come to my show to be offended. Some people thought I was making fun of special needs people, and obviously that’s not what I was doing. I was making fun of critics for being so stupid to think I would ever apologize for joke. I’m saying, you needed those helmets way more than they do. Then, Matt talked about his alleged beef with the six year old boy on TikTok.

He’d tell the audience, no, you’re doing the right thing if you are, and just live your life. Everybody wants to be miserable on their own. And teach your kid how many planets have rings around them. USA Today writes, with the comedians saying the awkward part of the show is now over. His set turn of the format.

That is, eighteen point two million followers on TikTok have come to know and want to be a part of. From finding Grandmother’s hot to rebranding certain negative words to be positive. Rife set burned through several topics while riffing with fans. The more lighthearted bits included buying his mother house this year, experiences with his fan base, and his goal to donate all his gifted stuffed animal bears to charity. He also addressed his alleged plastic surgery.

Riife said people were saying I had jaw surgery to have a jawline. That’s funny to me, because I’m like, use your brain. If I’m going to get transformedive surgery done to me, you think I’m starting with my face. You would never hear me tell another joke the rest of my life. Matt said he hates the accusations that he does not like his female audience.

I hated that because women are the ones who gave me the career I have right now, and I’d never be anything less than grateful for that. I don’t feel like I’ve lost any female fans. I feel like I lost people who built an image of me that I did not live up to, which is on them. And we don’t happen to have the same sense of humor. And that’s fine.

You don’t have to like everybody. Jason Zenniman in The New York Times asks was a scandal the best thing that happened to Haas on Mine. Hassan recently played the Beacon in New York. He was telling a story about a girl cheating on him in eleventh grade. Hassan then turned to the audience and said, don’t fact check me.

That got a good reaction. He then joked, I had to go head to head with one of the most dangerous organizations in the world. I’m talking about a white woman with a keyboard. He joked his controversy as a sign of success. I’ve made it.

I’ve got a real old scandal, a dorky scandal. With regret in his voice. Minhaj joked, I got caught embellishing for dramatic effect. Nikki Glaser just recorded two shows in Seattle for an upcoming HBO special. Glazer told the Seattle Times, the last time I was in Seattle, it was like something’s different.

These people get me in a way that I’ve never been gotten. That was like two years ago whatever, But I remember remarking everyone around the time, I have to shoot a special here. Glazier said. She was on stage in Portland recently, and she slipped and referenced Seattle, and the audience is like, you’re in Portland, and I’m like, what’s the difference. It’s ringing cold and everybody’s kind of cool.

Her plan for this special was to warm up the audience herself emerging on stage in a bathrobe to say, Hey, let’s just acknowledge this is a big deal, but like oho care, let’s just have a blastedeks for being here. That’s what I would need as an audience member to feel safe diving into this kind of situation. In terms of being on HBO as post to those other streaming services, she says, HBO is some gravitas in terms of tastes, not like people taking these specials just to phillip space on their platform. Wonder who. She means, their approach is pretty much the same, but I’ve got to step it up.

As I often quote Taylor Swift, I’ve never been in natural. All I do is try and try and try, which is the ironic thing because it all looks so natural, and it does come natural in a way, but there’s still so much effort behind all this trying to make it look effortless. Congratulations to Whitney Cummings, who announced the birth of her first child on Sunday in a social media post. Whitney did not reveal the baby’s gender or name, but joked three D printed a human enjoy me, never having brushed hair again. John Oliver went after Elon Musk on Sunday Nights last week.

Tonight, John Oliver went down the list of bad guys that he says Elon Musk resembles. There’s Lex Luthor posing for the cover of Metropolis Maniacs Monthly. There’s why No, mister bond I and my child broad expect you to die there just brought your media company. I’m about to strip you for parts. There’s space first, racist sheriff, and finally, the less bangable reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in Titanic.

Truly the Man has ranged. John also pointed out Musk has the distinction of being both the richest person in the world and the first person ever lose two hundred million dollars. John says, which is even hard to wrap your head around. It’s like hearing someone run a marathon after accidentally running two hundred miles in the wrong direction. As we end on the holidays, just want to let you know this show will have episodes every single day, not taking a break.

Also wanted to turn you on to some other shows that this podcast is affiliated with. Check out Murder Weekly. We’ve been doing the twelve Days of Christmas. So it’s twelve Christmas themed murder episodes. I’ve been writing for that, and I’ve been shoehorning in references to snowmen and ponies named Snowflake, just trying to Christmas it up.

But I enjoy the episode Grandma Got run Over. That’ll be out this week. So that’s Murder Weekly. On Ghost Scary Stories, we’ve been doing the twelve Ghosts of Christmas. That’s a lot of fun.

Romance Weekly.

Also doing twelve Hallmark movie type stories.

Also over on five Good News Stories, I don’t plug that enough. I host that, you know, so that’s five stories, all of them good news. If you want to check out five Good News Stories. The number five good News stories, and Taylor Swift has been in the news a lot, so let me do a cross plug for Taylor Swift today wherever you get your shows. I checked out Leo Reich’s new special on HBO, and I liked it just about as much as I thought I was going to, which was not very much.

It was quote unquote better than I thought. I just didn’t care. I wasn’t making a connection with the comedian. He did have one good joke, which was he says he’s bisexual, which means I’m ninety percent gay and ten percent absolutely committed to proving my year seven bullies wrong. That got a good chuckle out of me.

I hung in there another five or so minutes, and I was just like, eh, I feel on this one. Leo tells the Advocate that people either leave his shows feeling sorry for him or detesting him. He says, both are fine. I’m not here to sort of dictate ho people should feel. I mean, it’s really a sponsor the show which has got such a spectrum of reactions from different people, which would I rather have?

I guess pity Pitty’s always nice. I’ve always loved being pitied and very competent about getting sympathy. I didn’t come away hating him or any of that. I just was like, eh, what else is on? Somewhere?

From that great article and inside hook with the title is social media killing stand up comedy? Trey Gallion says, since the pandemic, when I’ve been on the road, either done the big clubs or hung out of the big clubs, there have been times where the headliner has been somebody that I don’t know, which has never happened in my twenty years of doing comedy, you’ve never heard of them before, and it’s because they came from the YouTube world or the TikTok world. Gallion says such performers tend to draw a lot of young kids at shows, and on stage they tell stories as though they’re that person at the party that wants attention. That’s pretty much what their act is if you want to call in and act. Numesh Patel says he’s heard of TikTok and YouTubers who on stand up comedy stages exhibit PowerPoint presentations breaking down the viral videos they posted a social media and the staff will be like that mfor is not a comedian, but he just sold thre hundred tickets.

That’s not comedy. But if that’s what the fans want, that’s what the fans want. Pinky Patel has heard the grumbles from comedians about TikTok and YouTube stars taking spots away from established stand ups. Then she pointed out one stand up comedian who she didn’t want a name, who had gained a following primarily by posting crowd work clips to social media. I suspect I know who this is and it’s the same person that I heard some comedians taking a shot out last week.

Pinky says, from what I’ve seen on social media, what I saw on stage, I was underwhelmed. I’m not as happy as I am with their social media content. Ryan Heffron is the founder of the Comedy Zone chain of stand up clubs, and he says, if you sell tickets, I don’t care how you sell them. YouTubers are coming through my system on a regular basis, seeing a lot of really happy customers, and I’m seeing a lot of really good talent. Dusty Slay, who I’m really into can’t wait for his special in January, said he’d prefer to see social media stars with undeveloped acts get their shot at stage nights on different nights of the week, like Monday and Tuesday, where comedy clubs might otherwise struggle to track crowds.

Dusty says, if they’re taking weekend spots, it’s a little different. A lot of times a comic is not really so a lot of tickets, but it’s very good in building up a following. We’ll need Friday and Saturday nights because that’s when people will come out just to see comedy, interesting stuff. There not your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Trevor Noah, Tore (The Grio)

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais ‘Armageddon’ Netflix special faces backlash over ableist slurs and Make-A-Wish joke
• Kevin Hart vs. Chris Rock: comparison of comedic levels and legacy
• Netflix Kevin Hart and Chris Rock documentary accused of establishing false equivalence
• Jeopardy ‘Seinfeld’ category placement controversy in Champions Tournament
• Trevor Noah San Francisco comedy show and observations about the city

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Daily Mail reports that Netflix is under pressure to cut ablest slurs from the upcoming Ricky Gervais show Armageddon that’ll be out one week from today. Spoilers for the special I’ll give you a second here. In the special, Ricky says spoiler coming.

He had been making videos for terminally ill children at hospitals with a Makeawish charity. He joked that the children were effing our words for not wishing to get better. The mother of a terminally ill child that set up a petition to get the skit removed by Netflix, a UK disability charity, has slammed the sketch for having able to slurs in it. In the clip that was released to the audience roared with laughter. Really really interesting editorial opinion piece in The Grio written by Tore.

The headline are Chris Rock and Kevin Hart on the same level. I share this in the Facebook which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and I commented, Yeah, I said this recently when Kevin Hart got the Mark Twain Ward. I don’t feel like he’s on the same level as the other people. He puts out a lot of work like a lot, but does any of the work like actually register How many shows have I told you about that we’re on Quibbi or random products he’s involved with. It’s like the man likes to work, but is he on the same level comedy wise as Chris Rock.

I agree with Torre, and I’m gonna say no. Torre writes, I have a creeping suspicion. There was one specific motive behind Netflix’s new fund doc Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners, Only it’s about more than taking a look behind the scenes as two of the world’s greatest comedians work their way through a historic run of shows, et cetera, et cetera. It’s about establishing Kevin Hart as being on the level of Chris Rock, which is a problematic writes Torre. He writes the doc takes us into the comedic roots of both men.

Points out that the Chris Rock was discovered by Eddie Murphy when Murphy was the biggest comic in the world. He saw young Rock and instantly believe in him and gave him a helping hand that led in time to Rock becoming the success Murphy as America’s biggest Black comedian. Tory writes, Yes, that’s a thing. In turn, when Chris Rock was ABBC, he saw a young Kevin Hart and helped him out, leading eventually to him becoming one of America’s biggest black comedians. Was he ever the sole ABBC?

No, Dave Chappelle took that mantle from Rock, Tory continues. The doc even gives us Tony Rock Chris his brother, saying Heart never missed a chance to talk to Rock about the intricacies of comedy, much like a young Kobe asking Michael Jordan questions about the intricacies of basketball. That suggests Hart is the Kobe to Rock’s Jordan. I see Rock as a comedian who’s also a philosopher and a political thinker. Many of his jokes are interesting ideas.

Rock always comes with great material. I believe there are two kinds of comics. Some have meticulously manicured material and some have a funny vibe about them, so much as they could read the phone book and it would be funny. Rock is a material guy. Heart is a phone book guy.

Wow, that is really well said. Kevin Hart is all vibe, Yeah, Tory continues, There’s nothing wrong with being a phone book guy. It’s a gift. The way Heart talks is funny. The way he moves is funny.

Heart could do anything and make people laugh. But do his funny stories lead to iconic material. I feel like any hour of Heart jokes will always be fun, but his stories and observations won’t be unforgettable. I can’t recall anyone ever saying did you hear Kevin hartch joke about dot dot Dot? As far as being able to sell tickets, they’re absolutely on the same level.

But as far as the quality and depth and complexity of their material, I don’t think they’re close. As for Rock, Tory writes, I think his approach to comedy transform the way many people view comics. He’s never a clown. He’s never the butt of the joke. He’s the smart observer of the world who’s come to help you see things the right way, or at least the Rock way.

Heart is more of a hilarious entertainer who welcomes you to laugh at his pain. He doesn’t mind you looking down on him. He’s happy being the butt of the joke. To me, the progression of the ABBC crown in my lifetime as this it was prior than Murphy, than Rock, than Chappelle. Heart’s an important part of the comedy universe, but he’s never held the crown.

Great stuff again. I share that in the Facebook group on Friday Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. I love a good non controversy. Jeopardy fans are upset with the show’s Seinfeld questions. You see, it was the champion’s wild game tournaments.

I don’t know. After the first break, Julia led with twenty eight hundred dollars, which was eight hundred dollars more than Henry Ken. Jennings revealed the categories, one of them was Seinfeld before and after apparently Gary crushed the category, pulled ahead, and Gary advanced. Someone on the Jeopardy subreddit said, speaking as a Seinfeld fan who ran that category, it really belonged in the first round. A single clue that requires knowledge of a particular sitcom in double Jeopardy is fine.

An entire category referring to one particular sitcom too much, because if a player isn’t familiar with the show, they’re out of luck. Another Jeopardy and Seinfeld fan agreed, saying, I agree on keeping those specific program categories in the first round. Last season there was a category titled Friends in the first round. It wasn’t even wordplay, just basic clues, like it’s the coffee shop where the friends hang out, which only fans of the show would know. Well, I have found the questions.

I didn’t find the answers, but I found the questions. So let’s take a look. Four hundred dollars. This George Costanda portrayer was the first US Treasury Secretary, all right, So they do this kind of thing at Trivia Night where I go on Wednesday, where you have to connect things so that this George Costanza portrayer, that’s Jason Alexander the US Treasury Secretary’s Alexander Hamilton. So who is Jason Alexander Hamilton?

Seinfeld before and after for six hundred set on controlling the Vichy Sauce supply. TV hosts Greg kinnear and John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist all right, who is or what is talk soup Nazi Seinfeld? Before and after for twelve hundred, this Wham front man continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer, who is George Michael Richards Seinfeld before and after for sixteen hundred. Avuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like the death of Ivan Ilitch. Huh, I don’t know what’s the answer there?

A vuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like the death of Ivan iliatsch oh okay, I got it. I’ll give you a second. I’ll come back and tell you Seinfeld before and after for two thousand. This Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal, the Luisa Dreyfus affair. All right back to the one I skipped.

Uncle Leo Tolstoy. Trevor Noah was recently in San Francisco. The sf Gate caught his show. Trevor said, everyone told me, O Trivor, you don’t want to go to San Francisco. If you’ve seen it right now, it’s armageddon, It’s chaos on the streets.

Trevor said he didn’t think it was all that different from many other American cities he visited. He talked about going out to Salcelito or enjoyed a meal from Sushi Wren. He did a bit about the hills the cars are holding on for dear life. He loved Chinatown and even expressed appreciation for some of the Tenderloin. Trevor said, the thing I liked about the Tenderloin is that you’re present in a world where we’re constantly distracted by our phones, thoughts running through our heads.

It was nice to be in a place where I was in the moment, my mind was nowhere else. I’m noticing its feel, its smell, its taste, its touch. I’m just there. No skipping down on the sidewalk. That led to a line of jokes complaining about San Francisco’s lack of public bathrooms.

He started talking with a woman in the front row who had cheered in response to the question. He asked her if she’d lived in San Francisco her whole life. She said she had lived around the Bay Area, so Trevor said, so, not in San Francisco, just around it. The person responded that they grew up in Fremont and Oakland, but were born in San Francisco and moved out of the city at age one. Trevor said, you lived here for a year, but you were zero to one.

You were a zero year old, you didn’t live crap, your parents lived here. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that South Park Survival is tied to its past, not the cancel culture present. Joe Rogan said, they’re the only show that Comedy Central leaves alone. There’s no way you could make South Park today if you were an unknown group of cartoonists. No chance.

They’d never let you. It’s too crazy. It’s the only good show on the network, so they kind of have to let it go. It’s a great show. It’s been there forever.

You get away with wild stuff you could never get away with otherwise. They’re a national treasure. They’re so import They’re one of the few people out there in this day and age, when you can’t even make comedy movies anymore. You’re never gonna see a traffic thunder today. South Park goes as hard, if not harder than ever before.

Without them, we wouldn’t have Veggie Comedy, not on a television show. Eddie Murphy is working on another movie, this one called to pick Up, a heist comedy.

Also in the cast Pete Davidson no details yet.

They’re gonna start filming in February. Macpacker Keegan Michael Key will host the NFL Honors Show on February eighth. Key recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and upset some Fox News types. Kimmel was making fun of the conservative media’s annual freak out over the so called war on Christmas. He got some help from Keegan, Michael Key, and Sean Hayes.

Part of what people are upset about is a queer nutcracker holding a Progress Pride flag being sold to Target. On Newsmax, Chrissy Clark moaned about the ornament and said, let’s be honest, if you’re a gay man and you have any semblets of taste, you do not have a gay Pride nutcracker in your house, Okay. Sean Hayes joked, first off, gay nutcrackers redundant. All nutcrackers are gay. A bunch of fit, older men with perfect posture wearing Padazza uniforms and knee high boots.

Open your eyes. Later in the bit, Sean Hayes’s nutcracker character was joined by his boyfriend Black Santa in a wheelchair portrayed Bykeg and Michael Key. Kim Will asked Key how he ended up in a wheelchair. The reply, I fought in the War on Christmas, Jimmy Kimmel said, I think Fox just got twelve more nights of programming out of this. I was gonna get back into that Inside Hook article, but I’ll get out on the laugh.

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Featured: Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Tiffany Hattish, Matt Rife, Steph Tolev, Sam Morrell, Mark Ford

What’s in This Episode

• Curb Your Enthusiasm ending after season 12
• Jerry Seinfeld protested by pro-Palestinian activists in Syracuse
• Tiffany Hattish charged with DUI after Beverly Hills incident
• Matt Rife’s 2018 tweets mocking Walmart Yodeling Kid resurface
• Steph Tolev reflects on early career struggles at Toronto comedy clubs
• Letter Kenny cast doing stand-up comedy tour
• San Francisco Sketch Fest 2024 lineup announced
• Instagram algorithm penalizing edgy comedy content and affecting comedians’ writing

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Curb Your Enthusiasm will end with season twelve. Season twelve from years on HBO, HBO, Max, Max whatever. We’re calling in February fourth at ten pm.

It’s a ten episode season that will conclude with a series finale on April seventh. Larry David said, as Curb comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this Larry David persona and become the person God intended me to be, the thoughtful, kind, caring, considered human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character. And so Larry David, I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.

Curb has been around for twenty four years. We’ll get twelve seasons total. By the late oughts, the show was starting to do every other year than It took a break from twenty eleven to twenty seventeen, when it returned. It was back again in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. Expected to appear Tracy Olman, Jeff Corland, Suzi Smond, Cheryl Hines, JB.

Smooth, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, and Vince Vaughan. Apparently, at the end of season eleven there was an alternate ending. In the alternate ending which did not air, Larry died, but apparently Larry David was not ready for Larry David to pass away, so we’ll get season twelve looking forward to that weird one involving Jerry Seinfeld. Fox News tells US pro Palestinian protesters marching through downtown Syracuse last week gathered outside the Landmark Theater to protest Jerry Seinfeld’s stand up show, accusing Jerry of being quote complicit in genocide. According to The Daily Orange, which is the student newspaper for Syracuse University, as people entered Landmark Theater for Seinfeld’s show, protesters stood outside.

Police placed themselves between the two groups, forming a pathway for those looking to get inside the building, while protesters chanted that Seinfeld was complicit in genocide. Apparently the lodge there is that Jerry and some others had signed an open letter to the Writer’s Guild of America condemning that union for being the quote to only major Hollywood union unquote to not provide a statement on the Hamas attacks. In happier, Jerry news he was in Springfield recently and he stopped by family owned Panjaba Tatka restaurant. They specialized in North Indian food. The restaurant tour shared a photo of staff members smiling with Jerry.

They captioned it, look who stopped by for lunch. No soup for you. Tiffany Hattish has been charged for driving under the influence. You may recall she had fallen asleep behind the wheel of her car in Beverly Hills. According to court records, LA prosecutors charged Tiffany with two misdemeanors.

Her arraignment set this week December twenty second page six says Tiffany was recently a last minute no show. She was scheduled to perform on Wednesday at the Ice House in Pasadena alongside several other comics. Those at the show say that after almost two hours of sets, the host came out and said Tiffany quote would not be performing tonight. A show attendee as he said she couldn’t make it. That was after five acts had already performed and only two comedians were left.

The eyewitness says they could feel the air leave the room when everybody gasp with anger disappointment. Everybody was looking at each other like is this part of the pit or is he serious? An insider tells page six, Tiffany likes to drink and have a good time, but her friends are noticing that she’s drinking way more around the holidays. We think she may be lonely and hiding behind a fake smile. Page six ads, however, Tiffany was recently at Paris Hilton’s holiday party, and a spy said Hattish was quote very sober and quote not drinking at all.

The unraveling of Matt Rife continues. Back in twenty eighteen, Riife decided he would pick on a kid known as the Walmart Yodeling kid. If you don’t remember who that is, I did neither, a twelve year old who had gained internet fame after singing Love Sick Blues by Hank Williams at a Walmart store. The then twenty two year old Matt Raife tweeted at the twelve year old and wrote, f’s on your forehead some gum so if you look at the phone, you can see some skin raised on the boy’s forehead, and the then twelve year old wrote back, it’s birthmark. Not all of us are perfect.

Matt Rife then backpedaled. He wrote back, you are perfect. Bro was genuinely curious. Lol, I’ve got your new single on repeat, little man, keep doing big things. Uh huh, sure, Matt, that’s what you meant.

Steph Tolev told The Toronto Star she had a hard time breaking in in the late auts and early twenty tens at the Alternative Club comedy bar. She said they treated me like dog Pooh. One comedy club owner criticized me for wearing geene shorts on stage, even though I killed. It was forty degrees out and I was biking everywhere because I didn’t have the money to take the subway. He told me, I looked like I’d been cleaning my house all day.

She looked back at her days as a middle act and said, I’d be stuck in Ottawa with these gross old male comics who’d say things like come for a drink, sweetheart, at two in the morning. It was disgusting. Then when I asked the fucking headline the club owner laughed and told me I wasn’t a headliner when she started performing at the La Comedy Store. Steph said when I started performing there in Instagram post, I wanted to thank those two Toronto comedy club owners because if they hadn’t told me I was crap, probably wouldn’t have worked so hard, am I petty? Yeah?

Did that make me work harder? Sure? The gang from Letter Kenny. They’re doing a stand up comedy tour featuring comedians from the show the final season coming up Christmas, I think, headlined by the always hilarious Mark Ford, who plays Coach. The show also feature stand up sets by Jeff mckenerny, who plays Alexander, and Letter Kenny writer Ali Pierce.

Tickets are on sale at Letterkenny dot tv, Slash Live Sketch Fast San Francisco’s added a few things. A screening of the IFC feature film Destroy All Neighbors, a twisted splatter comedy about a deranged journey of self discovery full of goofy practical effects. Jonah Ray involved with that one. There’ll be a live performance of the new D and D Adventure streaming TV show Faster or Purple Worm, Kill Kill also coming back festival favorite Upright Citizens Brigade Asscats a great show if you’ve never seen it, and you can solve a crossword puzzle live at the Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin. I spent a lot of time yesterday sharing a wonderful article in Inside Hook entitled is social Media killing stand up comedy?

Sim Morrell started talking about Instagram. He says, instance is penalizing users who post edgy jokes about sensitive topics by pushing them further down in people’s feeds. That has led to comedians bleeping out or dropping curse words from the audio and censoring their own captions. Sam said that can influence maybe the way a comedian writes because they want their jokes to be seen. It’s very tricky because we’ve been blessed to be able to circumvent the industry.

But at the same time, now these companies like Instagram, all they care about is ad sales, and they have an easier time making money if they have clean comedy clips. Yeah, that’s why I keep this show clean for that very reason. Actually, no, there’s two reasons. One the advertisers, and it’s not like the advertisers told me not to curse, but I just know from doing this for thirty years, if you work clean, you’re not gonna scare anybody off. The other thing is if a podcast is explicit, it doesn’t run on Apple podcasts in India, and India has a very large English speaking population, so that’s why I use words like stuff.

Sam says he remembers a time not long ago when a lot of comics would break on Instagram with the most provocative stuff ever. Inside Hook says the new algorithm may be perfect for comedian like Tony Dio, who might strategically inject a curse word and was set here or there, but generally works clean. One of his jokes, whoever invented the phrase slept like a baby, they didn’t have a baby. I don’t think they’ve ever seen a baby. I think that fray should be slept like an adult that doesn’t have a baby.

That video has nearly one hundred and twenty five thousand likes on Instagram, but he credits the moms on the platform for giving his following a big boost. Swarms of them lip synced and acted out his bit while cradling their own kids, hashtagging their videos with phrases like hashtag sleep deprived. Deo says he’s also learned of joke thieves who lifted his material from the Internet and incorporated it into their own sets. All right, now that he said that that whole sleep like a baby thing, I’m not sure that was the most original premise there. I feel like I’ve heard that before anyway, he said, I would still prefer not to have to do this, even though it’s helped me out.

I sort of wonder the amount of effort that I put into it the last year and a half didn’t translate into all that much extra revenue. I still feel like I’d rather just write jokes and tell jokes, and that’s all you ever want to do, and everything else is kind of getting in the way of me doing that. At a higher level, Sam said, it’s hard enough for me even to find time to approve clips. I’m so busy. Comedian Tom Ryan said that’s the new game.

The key is through content out there. You never know what’s going to connect. Max Fin said the recent release of his comedy album provided him with the opportunity to put material on Instagram. Recording all that material meant I wasn’t going to be able to use it again on stage. My whole hesitation with putting something has always been if I post a joke and then two months later I find a way to make it another minute longer, with more tax to it.

I don’t want the original joke being public because it’s already going to spoil whatever’s coming next. Graham Kay mourns the loss of industry gatekeepers who were excellent judges of talent, says of today’s stand up world, nobody cares if you’re good at live stand up. The only way we could break out is by getting noticed on social media. What that means though, This is also no more quality control as to what gets big fantastic stuff from in side Hook. I’ve shared this article in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

I’m gonna hold on to more of this and do more of this tomorrow. It’s really good stuff. If you like the show, you can support the show by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or tell a friend about it. They might like the show too. Meet you back here tomorrow.