Author: johnnymacdcn

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy. News is a big story today from Hasan Minhaj and Dave Chappelle. But a quick look at Late Night Jimmy Fallon pointed out the new speaker of the House’s name is Mike Johnson, and if that name sounds familiar, it’s because it’s on every fake ID Seth Meyers said the speaker race was so embarrassing they’re not even giving their real names anymore. Mike Johnson is the name you give when you check into your motel with your mistress.

That’s what Spirit Halloween calls there, Michael Jackson costume. And I love that joke. Jesus nice, you’re not getting the Daily show he went with. But what we do know is he wants nationwide limits on abortion, he wants to criminalize gay sex, and he even wants to band Riggitton. All right, I’m lying on the last one, but that seems like his vibe.

Hasan Minhaj put out a twenty minute statement. I tried to capture it, and every time I went to play it and add would pop up. I did get some of it. Let’s listen to the beginning, and I’ve been asked by a lot of people to give my perspective on what is happening in the region. I’ve also been asked, wait a second, aren’t you a liar?

Now? For those of you who don’t know. Back in September, The New Yorker ran a piece on me called Hussenman Hadja’s Emotional Truths, in which a reporter fact checked my stand up specials and found some factual inaccuracies that they wanted to ask me about. So I sat down with them to explain my writing process and why I make certain creative choices in my stand up. Now.

When the article came out, it got picked up by almost every single news outlet, all of them basically saying the same thing. Now. As I watched this, I didn’t feel like he was genuine. I’ll tell you what he said, But my whole vibe watching it was, oh, I don’t trust you anymore. Whether that’s fair or not, That’s how I feel.

Hasan In the video, he says, with everything that’s happening in the world, I’m aware that even talking about this now feels so trivial. But being accused of faking racism is not trivial. It’s very serious, and it demands an explanation. To everyone who read that article, I want to answer the biggest question that’s probably on your mind. Underneath all that pomp, is Hasan Minhaj just a con artist who uses fake racism and Islamophobia to advance his career.

Because after reading that article, I would also think that. He says he took a beat before responding to the story, both because of the state of the world and because he’d been processing the criticism. Minhaj says, I just want to say to anyone who felt betrayed or hurt by my stand up, I am sorry. I made artistic choices to express myself and drive home larger issues affecting me in my community, and I feel horrible that I let people down. The reason I feel horrible is because I’m not a psycho, but this New Yorker article definitely made me look like one.

It was so needlessly misleading, not just about my stand up, but also about me as a person. The truth is racism, FBI surveillance, and the threats of my family happened. And I said this on the record in response to Hassan’s video. The New Yorker issued their own statement to the Hollywood. Their statement reads, Hasan Minhaj confirms in this video that he selectively presents information and embellishes to make a point exactly what we reported.

Our piece, which includes Minhaja’s perspective at length, was carefully reported and fact checked. It is based on interviews with more than twenty people, including former Patriot Act and Daily Show staffers, members of Minhaj’s security team, and people have been the subject of his stand up work, including the former FBI informant, brother Eric, and the woman at the center of his prom rejection story. We stand by our story, so the whole prom thing. In Hasan Minhaj’s Netflix special Homecoming King, he tells the story of asking a white girl to prom. He gave her the pseudonym Bethany read that’s fine, using the pseudonym makes sense, and then being told by the mother that Bethany won’t go with them because the family doesn’t want her daughters in pictures with a brown boy.

Hassan says, Bethany’s mom really did say that. It was just a few days before prom. I created the doorstep scene to drop the audience into the feeling of that moment, which I told the reporter. He then played an audio clip of his conversation with writer Claire Alone. The video also shows emails and texts between Minhaj and Bethany, which he said he provided to the magazine, showing Bethany thanking him for protecting her and her family and at least indirectly acknowledging that her parents turned Minhaj away from being Bethany’s prom date.

Hassan says, my team and I repeatedly tried to give them the emails you just saw. We confirmed the emails were sent to the reporter and their fact checker before the article came out. They knew my rejection was due to race. I confirmed it on the record and provided corroborating evidence, and yet they misled readers by excluding all that and splicing two different quotes together to leave you thinking that I made up a racist incidence. This is a lot.

You can find the video if you’ve got twenty minutes. It’s on The Hollywood Reporter’s website. As for other stories, Minhaj admits that he embellished the stories about being harassed by law enforcement that was surveilling the mosque and his family attended, and that he took his daughter to a hospital after she exposed what turned out to be fake anthrax. He apologizes in the video for commingling fact and fiction, but says that his stand up work allows for more artistic license. I thought I had two different expectations in my work, my work as a storytelling comedian and my work as a political comedian, where facts always come first.

That’s why the fact checking on Patriot Act was extremely rigorous, the fact checking in my congressional testimony deeply rigorous. But in my work as a storytelling comedian, I assume the lines between truth and fiction were allowed to be a bit more blurry. And I get why a journalist would be interested in where that line sits. I just wish the reporter had been more interested in their own premise. Someone genuinely curious about truth and stand up wouldn’t just fact check my specials.

They would fact check a bunch of specials. They would establish a control group, a baseline to see how far outside the bounds I was in relation to others. They wouldn’t just cherry pick a few stories. Wow, this is so much Hassan Menaj concludes, the guy in the article is a proper effing psycho, but I now hope you feel like the real me is not. I’m just a guy with ibs and low sperm motility.

Again, there is much more important news happening in the world right now that needs your attention. So I appreciate you watching. I take that note, and I hope to see what the next show. Ah, I am wondering. All right, so did some but he suggests we got to do some career damage control here since supposedly he was getting the Daily Show and they supposedly rescinded that.

So is this now, Like, dude, we gotta put the fires out, and I don’t know what’s going on here a very very long video. The New York Times recapped Dave Chappelle’s show in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday. They say Chappelle’s about twenty four minutes into a set when he briefly touched on the remarks he had made at the Boston show. So I guess Dave is now admitting that he was at the Dave Chapelle concert last week, the one in Boston that led some people to walk out. Chappelle told the crowd right now, I’m in trouble because the Jewish community is upset.

But I cannot express this enough. No matter what you read about that show in Boston, you will never see quotation marks around anything I said. They don’t know what I said. It’s all hearsay. The other night, I said something about Palestine in Boston and got misquoted all over the world.

And I will not repeat what I said the time, says. A woman in the crowd responded by shouting free Palestine. Chappelle quote. Please please miss listen, don’t start it, or I’m going to be in the news cycle for another week. This thing that’s happening in the Middle East is bigger than everybody.

This is what’s happening. And believe me, I understand. What’s happening in Israel’s a nightmare. What’s happening in Palestine is a nightmare. Continuing to quote Chappelle, There’s only two kinds of people in the world, people who love other people and the people that have things that make them afraid to love other people.

Pray for everyone in Israel. Pray for everyone in Palestine, and remember that every dead person is a dead person. Later in the show. I’m going to quote Dave here. Later in the show, there was a commotion in the upper deck.

Chappelle joked, quote, I’ll read it verbatim. That still might be the Jews coming for me. He then urged someone in the crowd to call emergency medical responders, before being reminded audience members didn’t have their phones because of the Yonder pouch. This thing, Dave said he never thought about what would happen without them in an emergency. Then he joked, I’ll read it for batim from the Times.

Sorry, mister Chappelle said, stretching out the word quote, I don’t want the Jews to know what I said. The Times rights. The audience cheered him loudly, and the hour and fifteen minute set did not appear to have caused the kind of walkouts that marked the Boston show rife. We’ll have his special on Netflix on November fifteenth. I finished listening to his interview with Tom Segura that came out last week, and I guess they recorded it in September.

I’ll pull from the transcripts when I get a chance. We’ve obviously got a lot of news to cover today. Anyway. The trailer is out. The special is November fifteenth.

I’m gonna play a clip from the trailer, but this is the only clean part that I even dare play for you. I can’t stand social media, which I know is crazy because it’s why you’re all here. Good joke there, Matt Rife, Netflix, November fifteenth. Casey dot Com was interviewing Nikki Glaser about her return to Kansas City and they have a timely question which was there’s much discussion about Hassan Minaj. What are your guidelines when weighing truth versus a better punchline?

Good timing Here at casey dot com. Nikki Glaser said, exaggeration within stories and using hyperbole to get a joke across is expected. A lot of times. I’ll make up a fake premise for the sake of a joke. But those jokes are not painting me as a hero.

I’m not delivering them like it’s a ted talk about something horrible that happened to me that I want everyone to be on the verge of tears about the way he wielded his lies were not for the sake of comedy. They were for the sake of people feeling emotional and feeling sorry for him. It was an act of fiction, the way he would cry and be a motive over saying things that really pull out your heartstrings. But it was done under the guise that this happened to him. So I find it inappropriate and manipulative the way he did it.

But I do agree with him that most jokes are like thirty percent exaggerated, a lot of glazers playing the Tennessee Performing Arts Center James K. Polk Theater in Nashville two nights, she told the Tennessee and I’ll be eating your hot chicken. I’ve done it before and I was pretty good. I’ll definitely be timing it correctly with my show, so that let’s just put it this way so that my performance is not affected. What will we hear on her show being a mom, being a stoner, being a stoner mom, anxiety and depression, my identity as a jew, being a teenager in the early aughts, which was a pretty vulnerable time to be a young woman.

And we’re ragging on Florida a little bit. If everything went according to plan. There is a podcast called the pod News Weekly Review, and I’m the guest. If you want to check that out pod News Weekly review. I’ll put it in the show notes if I remember to actually do that.

If you want to join us in the Facebook group, one rule, don’t be a porn bot. If you’re not a porn bot, we did have to make it a closed group, so just knock on the door and I’ll go, Hm, is this a porn bot?

And then I’ll let you in.

But if you are a porn bot, I might get distracted for fifteen to twenty minutes and forget to do the show notes. The three to twelve Comedy Festival kicks off tonight. It is a pretty big festival. I’ll be talking about this for the next week. It runs until November fifth, big names like Michael Jay, Nate, Pergatzy, Hannibal Burris.

Nate said, I moved to Chicago in two thousand and two with a buddy, took some classes at the Second City, and then in two thousand and three I took a comedy class and did lots of show at the alt comedy hotspots lions Den and the Lincoln Lodge. I was with Hannibal Burris, TJ. Miller, and Pete Holmes before we all followed Petez to New York. What a crowd that was. Anytime I go to Chicago, it’s crazy.

It’s always been one of the first cities I would always sell the most tickets. They got on board with me a bit earlier than other cities, and having started here certainly plays a large part of that. While he’s hosting US know this week he won’t have any trouble selling tickets, not that he does. And Nates were really good. The fast is special because I saw the Chicago Theater when I was first started out, and I don’t think I even knew you could even play it.

That meant I was so new and didn’t know what was going on. So now it’s unbelievable to reach that stage. Marylynn Rice Cub remember her Chloe from twenty four, Yeah, she’s a comedian. She told The Daily Herald that her Midwest nice demeanor goes out the window when she does stand up. She said, I love that about stand up.

You get weird and silly. It’s always satisfying, especially when a show doesn’t go how you expect, which is all the time with stand up. You’re always having to rethink what you’re doing. You keep getting the rug pulled out from under you her material comes from her own life. Mary Lynn says, I don’t like to speak about things I’m not completely informed about, And the only thing I’m completely informed about is my life.

Remember I told you about the wax statue of the Rock. I mean, I guess this really isn’t a comedy story at all, other than it’s funny. Well, Francis mousse Graven, how’s my French today? I nailed it, took the Rocks, comments and social media outcry seriously. Within twenty four hours, the figure of the was updated by artists who gave it a slightly darker skin tone with meticulous strokes of oil painting, says Vulture.

However, he’s still dressed in a suburban dad outfit, speak of which I forgot why I brought up the Facebook group. I got so distracted by the porn bot joke. It’s Halloween weekend, right, My kids say, hollow weekend is a thing. Anyway, if you’ve got a costume and you’re not a porn bot, go to the group. Share a picture.

My Jimmy Buffett was really good. I shared it with you guys. It was really really good. So if you’re not a porn bot, do that if you are a porn bot, send it to me. John’s naughty today.

I’m just having fun. I’m in a good mood. Where was I the Rock? We were talking about his wax figure. Veronica Berez is the museum’s head of pr and said, we found his reaction rather friendly when addressing the fact that his figure was indeed whiter than it should have been.

Now, this next sentence is very funny because the article points out that some of the famous celebrities that Veronica Peress has worked with include Michael Jackson. And again, I’ll read her quote. We found his reaction rather friendly when addressing the fact that the figure was indeed wider than it should have been. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to meet Dwayne Johnson, so we used several photos. But as it turns out, pictures can be very tricky because the nuances of skin tones can differ depending on the lighting and the photos.

Every time the sculptor has to determine the exact face and body shapes the volumes, and it’s always a very complicated challenge if we haven’t met the person, you know, it’s a shame that Rock doesn’t have an Instagram account. Oh wait, he does, and three hundred and ninety two million people follow it. If only were there some photos of Dween the Rock Johnson, if only he had ever been on TV or in a Fasten the Furious movie, only some way to get a feel for what Tween the Rock Johnson looks like. We conducted a casting of models based on his body measurements. And that wasn’t a small undertaking because we had to find a man who had roughly the same body type as Dween Johnson, a height of six to five, with those huge muscles, and we found our model in a bodybuilding club.

Hmm. Were they whitewashing Johnson’s figure? She says, this has nothing to do with it. We just made an honest mistake based on the photos we looked at. After we saw all these reactions on different blogs and social networks, we changed it immediately.

No reaction from the Rock at this time. I’m gonna wrap it there. That reading that Hassan Minaj thing exhausted me. I know I didn’t forget to do Malani. I’m bouncing it to tomorrow, and I didn’t forget to tell you the Vulture twenty five people, I’m bouncing it to tomorrow.

That is your comedy news for today. You can follow a show on various apps. If you’re on an Android, how about overcast or pocket Casts. I love Pocketcasts. That’s actually the app I use Spotify or you know.

If you hate back catalog episodes, I guess you could go to Apple Podcasts. But you’re gonna have to download the back catalog episodes you missed yourself. It’s not like they’re gonna automatically do that for you. Thanks for nothing, Apple, See you tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jesus Nice is just not gonna get the Taily Show. One of the jokes that I saw was Martin Scorsese’s out here making movies that last longer than speaker candidates. And I was like, ah, really, so I don’t usually do this.

Let me play a clip just so you don’t think I’m piling on. Listen to this. Let’s kick things off in Congress, we’re today Republicans were once again trying to pick a new speaker after Kevin Carky was kicked out and Steve’s colise failed and Jim Jordan no, so Phil, And then today they nominated some poor bastard named Tom Emmerts. And this dude was their nominee for four hours and then he dropped out. Martins Scorsese’s out here making movies that last longer than speaker candidates.

If you saw it this afternoon, you missed this dude’s entire nomination. It’s just not good. It’s not gonna be good enough, all right. Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and others will appear at Next four Autism’s annual Night of Too Many Stars Comedy Concert, December eleventh, Beacon Theater in New York City.

Also on the bill Rachel Bloom, Stephen Colbert, Ron Funches, James Austin Joh…

The event was created by Robert Smigel, you may know him as the voice of Triumph of the Insults, Comic Dog and others. Tickets start at one hundred and thirty four dollars and fifty five cents and go on sale tomorrow at eleven am Ticketmaster. Another show announced, Pretty Cool. The National Coalition Against Censorship, in partnership with the New York Comedy Festival, has announced Stand Up for Free Speech, hosted by Judy Gold. This one thirty dollars.

In the lineup’s also pretty Good, Mark normand Adrian Applelucci, Michel Laine, Yaminika Sanders, Rich Voss and Moore Stand Up for Free Speech November sixth, nine thirty at Gotham in New York City. We have an official date for Matt Riiffe’s Natural Selection. Netflix says that will be out November fifteenth, by the way I was listening to. Matt Rife was the guest on two Bears one Cave Thomp Saguera was hosting that one. It’s really good.

Rife comes along as very likable. I haven’t finished it yet. I’m running a transcript on it. I’m going to pick away at that. I want to listen to the whole thing before I go through the transcript and pull stuff out.

But really good listen there. In a teaser, Matt Rife says he can’t stand social media. The official description says, from his problem with protection crystals to his beef with social media trolls, comedian Matt Rife holds nothing back in this rollicking stand up special Matt Riife Natural Selection, Netflix, November fifteenth. Ronny Chieng has announced a tour. It’ll start January twelfth in Indianapolis and hit Cincinnati, New York, Philly, and quotes other great cities.

Tickets on sale Friday. In the not too distant future, Mystery Science Theatre at three thousand will return. Mystery Science Theater turns thirty five this year, not counting the KTMA years. Joel Hodgson announced that financing for season fourteen has begun after the two revival seasons on Netflix. MST three K is now doing its own thing.

They have the Gizmo Plex and online viewing and community hub that hosted the crowdfunded season thirteen, which raised six point five million dollars. This year, the initial goal of four point eight million will fund six new episodes, six shorts, and eighteen quotes, surgically enhanced classic episodes that would upgrade installments Wasting Away in four EIGHTYP up to ten eighty HD. If the show hits six point one million the next season, we’ll get nine episodes, nine shorts, and twenty seven surgical operations. And if you guys want to raise seven point four million dollars, you’ll get twelve episodes, twelve shorts, and thirty six surgeries. I watched Pete Holmes new stand up special probably has a name.

What is it called? Not for everybody? I’m not doing that audience thing. I actually forgot. I am not for everyone.

I was close. I’m turning into my parents. It’s okay. The first third or so Pete is a little frantic, but then he settles in this a great bit in the middle about marriage that really had me going. I was really feeling the special and then I was sharing this in the Facebook group.

My wife did what she always does. I don’t know how she knows. I’m watching a stand up special show. Come bhy and do the whole Oh is this guy funny? Yes, that’s why I was sitting on the couch laughing out loud.

But I’ll pause it now. What should we talk about? Wife?

---

And then we talk about some stuff and then hit play and then takes me a while…

But Pete Holmes got me back in because his special is pretty good. I really enjoyed his closer as well. Pete also has some pretty good half ass impressions. He broke into a Jerry Seinfeld. He busted into another comedian and it’ll spoil the joke if I tell you who he did.

And I think there was a third. But I want to hang out with Pete Holmes and just trade off half ass impressions. I have spent some time with Pete in Miami. Very cool guy, exactly who you think he is, and I’ve seen him many times live. I am a big fan and this special will make Johnny Max Best of twenty twenty three, and I thought I would do this live with you as I record and figure out where it goes.

So right now, the number one comedy special of the year is Todd Barry’s Domestic Short Hair. You’ll find that on YouTube. Shane Gillis’s Netflix special is a strong number two, then a bit of a gap down to Tom Sagora, Kyle Kanay, Nate Brigatsey. It’s not better than any of those, Michelle Wolfe, j McBride, Jim Jeffries, Harry Condo Bolu. All Right, it’s better than Harry, but I don’t think it’s better than Jim.

All Right, that makes Pete Holmes the new number nine special. I’ll give you the updated list again. Number one, Sad Barry, then Shane Gillis, Toms Agora, Kyle Kanay, Nate Bergatsy, Michelle Wolfe, J McBride, Daddy’s Girls on YouTube, Jim Jeffries from Amazon in February that you forgot about Pete Holmes. Number nine. Harry Condo Bolu on YouTube is number ten running out the list, Chris Rock, Jimmy o’yang, The Roast of Mister Peanut, look it up, trust me, Big j Okerson, Mark normand Nimesh Patel, Sarah Silverman, Chris flemings Hell, and John Early.

So we now have a top nineteen. I guess I’ll get it to twenty and then start lopping people off the bottom. Watch out John Early specials of note Not on my top list, Jim Gahana again, Joe Lisz, Jared Freed, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Lewis Black, Hannah Gatsby, Mark Maren, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, Greg Warren, Kevin Harritt, Lunel, Beth Stelling, Joe Parra, and Zorna garg Not on my list. I have not seen Roseanne special. Pitchfork did that thing where they would talk to John Mulaney about, Hey, you were this age, what were you listening to today?

We’ll take a look at age twenty five when John Mulaney was into Jay Z’s Say Hello, Laney said, I wasn’t doing any drugs or drinking at this point. I was still smoking cigarettes all the time, but that didn’t have any effect yet. It was a nice moment in time. I didn’t really have a day job. I was doing stand up at night.

I got to open for Berbiglia on the road, I got to open for the comedians of comedy. Life was getting really fun. I got a call to audition for SNL out of the Blue. I found out two days before, and I knew I wasn’t gonna get it. They had Hayter and Forte and Fred and Seth and Jason.

They didn’t need me. They offered a hotel for anyone auditioning, so I took it, and on my walk from the hotel to thirty Rocks audition for the show, I was listening to Say Hello from an American Gangster. I saw that movie, which is only pretty good, but I heard jay Z watched it and became inspired to make a whole album. That’s a funny thing to be like, wait, start recording, but Say Hello really psuck me up. I went to a place for the twenty minutes I was walking listening on repeat when I suddenly had this fake, super confident persona.

I have decent self esteem, but this was like, you’re a killer. I work myself up into a state with that song. I only got hired as a writer, but you know I got a job out of it. I should listen to that song again. Hmm.

So originally in this section here I was going to tell you about Pete Holmes Special, but I noticed the first half was a little short, and I wanted to go a little longer before the commercial break there. And I was also going to tell you about Matt Rife on Two Beers, One Cave, but I pulled that up because there was an actual Matt Rife news story. So it’s time for awkward segue into Kitty Lang, head of Comedy at United Agents, is under investigation by the top UK talent agency after social media reposts and shares highly critical of Israel as that country fights to war with Hamas this from The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday morning. United Agents said on its ex account, we have been made aware of social media posts by one of our senior agents this morning. These are not the views of United Agents Limited.

We are conducting a full and thorough investigation into this immediately. Lang represents comedy writers and actors in sketch comedy artists. That’s why I’m mentioning this. She is United’s head of comedy. Some comedians you may have heard of, Katherine Ryan and Nick Mohammed.

You know Nick Mohammad from Ted Lasso. That’s why I’m mentioning it. Lang has taken down the posts put out a statement I would like to unreservedly apologize for my retweets on social media surrounding the horrendous attacks on Israel on October seventh. With hindsight, I realize how naive I’ve been, and that much of the information on social media surrounding the conflict is unsubstantiated and hurtful. I should have taken time to consider that beforehand.

This is Prison Banned Books Week, and the folks over at PENN, a literary and free expression organization, are trying to get attention for Prison Banned Books Week. Why I’m bringing this up. One of the books that is banned, Amy Schumer’s memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. Why it was flagged by Florida officials for graphic sexual content and for quote being a threat to the secure security order or rehabilitative objects of the correctional system, or the safety of any person. Let’s hit gossip corner.

If you were in Georgetown, South Carolina, you were having dinner at Root. You know Root down on Front Street and downtown Georgetown. You know the place. Bill Murray walked in Root Restaurant on Facebook said we were super excited to have Bill Murray stopped buy for dinner tonight. One of the funniest men on the planet is also one of the coolest.

The restaurant told WMBF News that Bill Murray stayed until the restaurant closed and took pictures with the staff and signed autographs for them. Jordan Temple is one of Vulture’s twenty five comedians you should Know and keep an eye on, or whatever that’s called. They asked Jordan what unscripted or reality series would you be good at. Jordan said Survivor. I survived the public housing projects in New York City.

I can survive anything. Roaches are my friends, rats are my cousins, and I’ve seen cats as big as lions. I’m not a lion, sorry, but my arch type is rugged loaner with a pretty face. Everyone at Survivor would say, had you learn to survive that, I would look wistfully into the mid distance and mutter the six train York City humor. All right, what about your writing process?

What have you learned? Jordan Tepple said, When I started comedy, I think I was trying to be too clever. I was just young, which I still am. But Now I think of all the ways my senses can help me develop different kinds of jokes, whether they’re clever or not. Now I try to be clever and the dumbest way possible, and also dumb in the most clever way possible.

I’m also big on self encouragement. I started writing down the middle of my stand up sets, keep going, you’re doing great, and telling the audience. There’s no notes. All it says is keep going, you’re doing great? All right?

What comedy hill will you die on? I love this one. Shorts. You can wear shorts on stage. I think shorts should be mandatory.

In fact, the longer you’re set, the shorter your shorts should be. Donald Glover was way out of his time wearing those tiny shorts. Where do you think he got all this power from? People were like, good, why is he wearing those baby shorts? Now look at him?

Normalize short shorts, Lean into your power. Love it not your comedy needs for today? Follow the show for free on let’s say Spotify, pocket cast. If you’re on an Android, you could follow it on overcast. This Apple podcast, but a minut at them with this new update that’s killing the back catalog downloads Apple.

You are killing me Johnny Mack’s Gotta Eat, See you tomorrow,

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jesus nice is sitting at the desk of the Daily Show this week, and he’s gonna need some more help for the writers. Let’s take a look at late Night the setup. Here is nine Republicans who are now trying to become the Speaker of the House.

There is one black contender. Byron Donald’s, Jesus needs help from the writers. Here’s what they gave him to work with. All right, it looks like someone put a bottle of Hershey syrup in the mayonnaise isle. Another one, yo, All these white dudes look the same.

In fact, three of them are the same guy, and you didn’t even notice. Might be all right, Jimmy Kimmel went with it’s like the reunion of a college basketball team from nineteen fifty five. Kimmel again. There are now eight candidates for speakers, seven white men and one black man, or, as Republicans call it, a very diverse slate of choices. Stephen Colbert and I like this one of the best.

This time, nine Republicans will battle for the top post. I’m Emma from Minnesota, Kevin Hearn from Oklahoma, Jack Bergman from Michigan, Byron Donald’s from Florida, Mike Johnson from Louisiana, Sam Naman from Tennessee, Dan markson Wisconsin, Ben Warner from Chicago, and Ken Sherman from Pennsylvania. And I started making up names part way through that list, and literally no one knows what I did, including me. Well done, long way to go for the joke, but well done, new topic, and Jesus nice, you need help from the writers. They are not helping you with these.

This was coming off Taylor Swift being at the football game Jesus’s joke that he was given let’s ease into everything with some sports news, and by sports news, I mean Taylor Swift, America’s sweetheart. She did some charity over the weekend by shining a spotlight on a little unknown sport called football. Dude. That is just dude, Why did you even read that? That is terrible?

One more.

Also props to Brittany Mahomes.

She leveled up. She went for being the quarterback’s wife to Taylor Swift’s bff. That’s like the highest level a white woman can get across. Jesus, off the list, you are not getting the job. Ron White has unretired.

I was on Twitter and Ron’s like, yeah, I got some shows going, so he’s not retired. December twenty ninth, He’ll play Thackerville, Oklahoma at the Windstar Casino. He’s got shows on the thirtieth at the River Wine Casino. New Year’s even Salsa, a little break there, then a bunch of Texas, Ohio, Indiana. I’m in Atlantic City Tatersala dot com if you want to check out those dates.

Nice to have Ron White back. Massachusetts Live followed up on that Dave Chappelle story told you about yesterday. They say an audience member who was at the show claims that Dave did not actually criticize Israel’s bombing of Gaza, but rather advocated for an end to the violence that has persisted for nearly three weeks. Melissa sever was at the show. She wrote in an email to mass Live, Dave’s comments about ending the violence centered around reducing the issue to a human rights issue.

He never mentioned being Muslim as a means to supporting hamas it’s centered on all lives matter. Melissa says, the audience member that we talked about yesterday repeatedly taunted Chappelle. She adds to further inside Dave, the gentleman stood up during his act and continued to yellow was ground to have him removed. The gentleman made the audience feel unsafe, she says. Chappelle asked the audience not to make any hurtful or hateful comments.

She adds, the one person through Dave so far off his performance that it took at least twenty to thirty minutes for him to get back to his planned act. The way that this was handled by that person was unfair to all of us, including Chappelle. The man who had left the show is quoted as saying, here in Boston, how is there so much hate for Jews? How could a comedy show provide such a mechanism for people to verbally shout out with their hatred for Jews? Again, no audio or video of this has leaked yet because Chappelle’s possy for having yonder pouches.

We’ll see if something comes out. From a Hollywood reporter, they asked, Hey, what’s with Bill Burr’s new movie Old Dads. It depends on whether you’re a critic or an average viewer. Old Dads has a seventeen percent score among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, yet with audiences ninety percent positive. One fan declared Old Dad’s the best movie I’ve seen in fifteen years.

Another said it was so hilarious that I literally fell off my chair while laughing. Bill Burr is like a younger version of Larry David. On the other hand, the Associated Press said that Old Dads is a meandering, unfunny assault on PC culture that would seem perfectly in place in the nineteen nineties. One critic gave the film a half star out of five and said it was like listening to the unchained rants of a man convinced that everybody’s on his side when they’ve actually left him behind years ago. I want to watch this now.

I actually have a little time this week to watch the TV, and I need to watch Pete Holmes new special on Netflix as well. Whitney Cummings will have a new special. Deadline is now confirmed. Her special is coming to OnlyFans. TV kind of mentioned this a week or so ago.

Whitney Cummings Mouthee will be released as an OFTV original exclusively on OnlyFans. November fifteen, twenty twenty three, saw Me in the Basement with the door closed on OnlyFans watching comedy like I usually do. This is Whitney’s sixth special. In a statement, she said, for my sixth special, I really wanted to experience the same creative freedom that I feel when I perform in live venues and recreate that tension for the audience. Working with FI has been the closest experience to a live show that I can remember, and they’ve been so supportive, especially as I made the special while seven months pregnant.

Only fans understands that comedy fans are smart and understand nuanced. They knew they would be the perfect partner to create a special that I would typically only be brave enough to perform at a non taped show. If you want to be a Whitney Cummings OnlyFans fan, ten bucks a month. I mentioned Pete Holmes has his special up on Netflix. Pete told Deadline I opened for Bill Burr in two thousand and four in Peoria, Illinois, and my third year of stand up.

I did very poorly. After the show, not one person bought my merch, which was a bumper sticker that read Yippi Kaye Melon farmer. I was humiliated. So you can imagine what a thrill it was nineteen years later when Bill Burr said he wanted to produce my first Netflix special. Thankfully, it seems Bill has a bad memory.

I am not for everybody’s the feeling I have coming home from most social gatherings, birthday parties, religious celebrations, and haircuts, and it’s very exciting to share the observations and stories that come from that strange place. I hope you melon farmers enjoy it. But if you don’t trust me, I get it. Dane Cook tweeted, I don’t think, and then he tagged the CEO of AMC Theaters reads his Twitter feed, but if he wants to distribute the biggest comedy special of twenty twenty four, he should find me here. The final edit is over scaled four K because I shout it for the big screen.

If not, maybe Elon Musk wants to do the first direct premiere on Twitter. On New Year’s Eve, Well, the CEO of AMC wrote back to Dane Cook and said, indeed, I do read my Twitter feed, Dane Cook send me an email, and he gave out his email address and give me both more details and contact information for you. So maybe Dean Cook will be the Taylor Swift of comedy. Who knows We’ll see.

---

Speaking of Taylor Swift, Nikki Glaser was on Kelly Clarkson’s show.

Kelly asked if it was true that Nikki Glaser spent twenty five thousand dollars on tickets to see Taylor Swift’s tour. Glazier said, I just want to say it was a conscious decision because I went to nine eras tour show this year. Like when I’m not on tour, I go to her tour just fills up my life with so much joy. I’m in my late thirties. I just feel like I don’t have kids at I did the math, and if I had kids, I’d be paying for dance camp and swim lessons.

I was going to freeze my eggs in January, and that’s about how much it costs. Then I just decided not to freeze them. I decided to burn them. I decided to take that chunk of money that was gonna use to do that, and I’m just gonna have a really fun summer. So I went buck wild.

It is Trivia Night at the Glenbrook Brewery in Morristown, New Jersey, and if you want to see me dressed up as Jimmy Buffett, come on by. That will be my costume. I will share some pictures. I haven’t put it together yet. I gotta get moving here.

But you know, do I have aviators yes? Do I have a Hawaiian shirt yes? Do I have some bright colored shorts yes? Do I flip flops? Yes?

Do I have a guitar? No, but my kid does. And I just have to put that all on. Got an email from listener Paul, and you can email me. I’d love to hear from everybody.

My email is in the show notes, and Paul wrote, Johnny Mack is a villain in the newest season of Big Brother. Is it you? It is not me, but I was curious who is this person? I went to Google. Apparently, John McGuire’s nickname is Johnny Mack.

He’s from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Previously appeared on Big Brother seventeen. John is best known for his loud and funny diary room confessionals. Despite being one of the most nominated house guests in Big Brother history, he managed to get off the block four times. I will have to check that out from the hollowad reporter.

Seven hundred to Hollywood figures have signed an open letter to President Biden called No Hostage Can Be Left Behind. Comedians who have signed it Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Bob Odenkirk, Tiffany Hattish, Jerry Seinfeld, and Mack Packer. Henry Winkler. There’s a website No Hostage Left Behind and actively involved in that. Amy Schumer Pitchfork spoke to John Mulaney about what music he was into at various ages.

Been doing this for the last few days. We’re up to age twenty, when John Mlaney was into Steely Dan’s Pretzel Logic. Mallini wrote, I had a great time in college to some degree. My first week I met Nick Kroll and he cast me in the improv group. A couple weeks later I met Mike Birbiglia not bad.

He had just graduated and came down to visit was doing stand up, doing comedy. One for being this thing that I really wanted to do. To knowing people doing it on campus, and now I knew a guy who lived in New York. He did stand out. That was huge.

It was also the first time I really had a problem with drugs where I was like, oh, I do more cocaine than everyone else, and everyone went to bed and I didn’t.

---

And now I’m going about the day.

So that wasn’t good. John talks about how his friend Kevin had gotten the CD of Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan, and I don’t know what it was about that moment in time, but we were listening to Ricky Don’t Lose that Number, and I was like, is this the finest song I’ve ever heard? So we have this townhouse, We’re doing a lot of drugs, having lots of fun, and we through lots of parties. We had a fireplace and would walk around DC picking up dried up Christmas trees. We didn’t have a sauce.

It would stomp them until they broke apart, burn them, blast Steely Dan records, do cocaine. When we wanted people to leave, we’d play Pretzel Logic loudly. We were like, if you like this a little stay. It’s like we were hiring, We’re interested, looking for recruits. Fulcher has been doing their twenty five comedians.

You should know Maggie Winter’s made the list and her worst show, she said, I did a midnight improv show where a group of men wearing football jerseys were the only people in the audience. They had spent the day at something called NFL Town and got kicked out of the strip club they went to, so they came to IO Chicago for some comedy. Halfway through a set, one of them yelled, this sucks. They all laughed and left. I wish I would have popped off on them, but I was shaking in my boots.

That is your comedy news for today. You can follow this show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or youtubeer you overcast if you’re on an Android wherever you get your shows, you somehow found today’s show. Splash the follow button and I’ll see tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Hello again, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy and hews. According to The Wall Street Journal, some people walked out of Dave Chappelle’s concert in Boston. According to chappelle spokespeople, Dave wasn’t even in Boston. I’ll get to that part.

That part’s extra weird. Chappelle was on stage and he was condemning Hamas attack on Israel. A member of the audience told Chappelle to shut up after Dave said he didn’t think people should lose their jobs for supporting Palestinians. Dave also accused Israel of killing innocent civilians and committing war crimes. According to The Wall Street Journal’s report, I have not yet seen any video or audio of this come to surface.

As you may know, if you go to a Chappelle’s show, you have to put your phone in a yonder pouch. But the Wall Street Journal reports one audience member told Chappelle to shut up. Others cheered and shouted free Palestine. That prompted some audience members to walk out. Those audience members later posted on social media saying Chappelle’s words had made them feel unsafe.

One audiober wrote the audience was cheering. Chappelle hon during his tirade. I was sick. We were sick. I turned to my friends and wife and said, I think it’s time to go.

We walked out and met up with many other Jews leaving the show. Never in my life I felt so unsafe and so fearful of what I was witnessing. Towards the end of the show, Chappelle reportedly said that two wrongs don’t make a right now. To make this story weird, A spokesperson for Chappelle told The Wall Street Journal that Dave denies being in Boston that night, which is weird because the TD Garden promoted at Dave Chappelle concert and sold tickets to it. And I imagine had Dave Chappelle not showed up at the arena, that would have been a different story.

So I don’t know why they would deny Dave’s there. Perhaps it was a joke that nobody’s getting.

Meanwhile, remember recently I did a mailbag episode and we were discussing t…

Well, somebody must have hit the panic button because they got Jerry and Jim together to talk to the San Francisco Chronicle. The shows are coming out up Thursday and Friday, November second and third, if you want to go. Tickets range from fifty dollars to seven hundred and fifty seven dollars. No, that’s crazy. Who’s opening for who?

Jim Gaffigan said, We’re opening for each other. I guess one night you get Jim first, the other night you get Jerry first. Doesn’t really help answer the question, Jim. They asked what it’s like doing comedy and arena as opposed to a small club. Jim said, the technology the sound in the video has made an arena show completely different from how I might have ever seen a basketball game twenty years ago.

I think it’s a pretty cool experience for people. The Chronicle was curious about their first experiences as comedians in San Francisco. Jerry said, I remember I was working at the Comic Strip in New York City in seventy eight. Some guy came through looking for comedians for the punchline in San Francisco and the last stop in Newport Beach. It was the first time we would get on a plane to do a show, which was a really big deal.

And I got the Punchline in San Francisco and I thought, Wow, these people really like to laugh. It was a revelation. They were much warning what the comedians were doing. They accepted comedy as a legitimate thing. In New York, it was like a Carney show, a side show.

But in San Francisco was like you were considered an actual, legitimate performer and a real artist. Jim said. By the time I came through in the early night, San Francisco was one of the great comedy cities. The Punchline was one of the best clubs in the country, and as Jerry said, the audience was exceptional in many ways. When I got to headline there, it felt like a real accomplishment.

There were some road rooms where you just couldn’t wait to get to Sunday night, but San Francisco was so amazing. The audience inspired creativity, and after the show you could go out to dinner. A lot of cities you did a comedy club in Cleveland the nineties and try to go out for a late dinner on a Sunday night, you went to a vending machine. Jerry was curious are we going out to dinner After the last San Francisco show, Jim said, yes, Nate Pergatzy will host Saturday Night Live on Saturday. He wrote on Instagram, beyond a dream come true.

Thank you. It’s insane. It’s truly insane. I cannot believe it. I can’t believe I got asked.

It’s pretty wild. Someone smarter than me pointed out, and this is not a dig at Nate Perganzy, but Hollywood actors are still on strike and thus they’re not promoting things, so that limits the pool of guest hosts available to Louren Michaels, which kind of explains Pete Davidson, Nate Perganzy, and Bad Money as a combination musical act slash host. So not saying Nate’s not worthy. I’m super happy for him, but there’s possibly another world where I don’t know. Leodocaprio is hosting this week promoting the Scorsese movie.

You know what I’m saying. Yes. Gary Goleman wore a rod carew jersey on stage on Saturday. The Minneapolis Star Tribune was at a show and said the wardrobe choice may have been a way of pandering to the Minnesota fans at the Fitzgerald Theater, but it also served as a nice setup for his opening routine on growing up in the seventies. He joked about staying up late to catch Three’s company, that you stay at nine pm, if I recall correctly, sneaking into a theater watch Jaws, dealing with the horrors of being held back in the first grade, and discovering Jesus was Jewish.

Coleman said some of these jokes might just be for nine people. I like this too. Golman teased audience members who weren’t familiar with classic novels, suggesting no one should be allowed to read Angels and Demons unless they first pass a test about the grapes of Wrath. Gary said, I’m just pandering to librarians. They buy a lot of books.

No more. Jimmy Kimmel Bowl. Yeah, the college football game in LA was sponsored by Jimmy Kimmel. The last two years he’s bailed on it. Rob gronkowsk, We’ll take over.

The bowl is now called the La Bowl, hosted by grunk. The winner of the Mountain West Conference will play the Pac Twelve’s Number five can’t wait. Happy Birthday Snoop Doggy Dog. He turned fifty two, and on Saturday, Snoop shared the stage with Will Ferrell and John c Riley. They were at the Best Night of Your Life Too, a benefit show.

Riley told the crowd at LA’s Greek Theater, yesterday was a very special day. It was mister Snoop Dogg’s birthday. We’re about to sing Happy Birthday to the greatest rapper in the world. Will Ferrell wheeled out a big three tier cake. Snoop took out a joint to light the candles.

Chauncey Riley said, that’s what I’m talking about, and then everybody’s saying Happy birthday. Stephen Colbert has famous people in his phone under code names. I do that too, Name Dropper, Humble Bragg, Stephen van Zandt is in my phone under code. But Jimmy Fallon is in my phone as Jimmy Fallon. I don’t know why I didn’t rename that one.

Uh. You get this paranoia You’re going to lose your phone and someone’s going to steal all your celebrity contacts, and I guess Colbert shares that fear. He told John Mullany. In my phone some of my famous friends I have under fake names like Conan is pale Male, John Stewart is Dufist, and you, John Mulaney, are the common Man, who was a character from the play A Man for All Seasons. Mulaney said, so when I call you, it says the common Man is calling m’laney thought that was really funny.

Recently Mlanie spoke to Pitchfork and they discussed what music Mullaney liked at various ages. Today, let’s look at age fifteen, when John Mulaney was into Fish’s Reba. Mullaney said, I was trying to figure out how to be interesting. I had friends at a decent time. Socially, I went to a fair amount of parties.

We were into drugs, but no one was out of control at the time. I was all over the place musically. At fifteen, my dad walked into my room while I was blasting his Icontina Turner album with Proud Mary on it, and he was just laughing. When Okay Computer came out, I read about it in NME and they said it might be the best British album of all time. I really hesitated telling Pitchfork this, but we were going to Phish concerts doing that whole thing too.

I got into them because of Colleen O’Brien, my best friend, John O’Brien’s older sister. She was a senior when we were freshmen. She had a poster for Fish’s a live one in her bedroom and was playing that song Reba, and I was like, Oh, are these guys trying to be funny? By that point, I was the biggest Talking Heads fan, And the biggest thing that drew me to David Byrne was that I thought he was really funny. The thing that turns some people off about Fish is their lyrics and the scene.

But I was like, Oh, these guys are duorks. They’re like the Simpsons, They’re of their time, they have a lot of influences, and they’re phenomenal musicians. Dwayne Johnson is not happy with the wax figure of him at the Mousey Graven. How’s my French doing today? Hah?

I nailed that. You don’t even tell me. I nailed that. That museum, the Grevin Museum, is in Paris. Fans have apparently reacted in horror Wright’s variety at the museum’s light skinned wax figure of Johnson, complete with a suburban dad kind of outfit that Johnson is almost never seen in.

The wax figure drew instant comparisons to mister Clean Dwayne the Rock. Johnson reshared to his Instagram a video from comedian James Andre Jefferson, who said, you know the Rock, that’s how Paris thinks he looks. They turned the Rock into a pibble. It looks like the Rock has never seen the sun and day in his life. You make the Rock look like David Beckham.

It looks like the Rock’s going to be part of the royal family. Did you all even google him? The Rock said, for the record, I’m gonna have my team reach out to our friends at Grevin Museum in Paris, France, so we can work on updating my wax figure here with some important details and improvements, starting with my skin color. The next time I’m in Paris, I’ll stop in and have a drink with myself. So, if you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, they have tweaked something.

So in the past, if you missed a day like today’s Tuesday, say you just didn’t listen yesterday, you’d open up your app and it would go, hey, here’s Tuesday’s episode, and here’s also Monday’s episode. They’ve stopped doing that, so it’s possible that you’re not hearing every episode. There’s at least seven of these every week, unless you know there’s breaking comedy news, but there should be at least seven. So if you don’t listen to seven a week, do me a favor and just go your app and go oh, I missed that one because the download numbers had taken a hit. Johnny Mack is not at all happy with Apple’s change from Variety.

Mark Marin on why he won’t stop talking about anti Semitism. Variety resurfaced this recently. This was originally from back in April. Maren himself wrote, as a Jew, you were taught early on that you were different and people will hate you for it, maybe kill you. They’ve done it since the beginning of Jews.

We watched Holocaust documentaries at Hebrews School to make sure we understood. It didn’t seem like something I really had to worry about here as an American Jew, I’ve been working professionally as a comic since nineteen eighty eight. When I was a kid, most of my favorite comics were Jews. Old Jews, Don Rickles, Buddy Hacket, Rodney Dangerfield, Woody Allan, Richard Lewis, Lenny Bruce. Comedy was basically Jewish in my mind for years.

When I started doing comedy, I didn’t embrace my Jewishness. I didn’t want to honor the stereotype. I just believed that being a Jewish comic had to be more than a stick or neurosis, or a way of talking and acting. I didn’t want to play into what was familiar to Jews and what people who weren’t Jews grew to understand through Jewish comedy. I still enjoyed it, but I didn’t want to be it.

Skipping ahead, Maren wrote, Jews are being a tech for being Jews. Jews are being killed for being Jews here in America. Now it’s random and usually attributed to a radicalized, mentally ill person. But the information that drives that radicalization is organized and focused and readily available and promote anti Semitism is becoming normalized. Skipping ahead.

After show in Salt Lake City recently, during which I had done my most recent riffs on anti Semitism, I left the club alone outside some of the audience members were lingering around. There were these two young guys who looked a bit lit up. Wy are you game for trouble? There were two young women. They didn’t seem like my fans.

Maybe they just came for a quote comedy show a date night. They were looking at me almost manic. One said, hey, what are you up to now? And I said, going back to the hotel, I guess. The other said, you want to go do some hate crimes.

It was odd, but I played along. Yeah, you have some spray paint, let’s go find a synagogue. And the first guy said, no, really, what are you doing now? It felt menacing. I thought, wait, am I the hate crime they want to do?

I may have been projecting. I may have been being paranoid. The fact is it’s not out of the realm of possibility. It’s something Jews live with now. I guess they always have.

I won’t stop talking about anti Semitism. That’s Mark Marin. You’ll find that variety. If you’re in Cleveland and you need something to do. November eight through the eleventh, why don’t you hit the sixteenth Annual Cleveland Comedy Festival.

More than fifty comedians from across the US and Canada will be there. The festival director, Kyle Hounhurst said many of them were born, raised, or have gotten their start in Cleveland and returning to celebrate our past, present and future the sixteenth Annual Cleveland Comedy Festival in November. Vulture has been doing their list of the twenty five comedians you should know. One of them is Sophie Buddle. I have been enjoying her comedy a lot lately, and they asked Sophie, what unscripted or reality show would you be good at?

Her answer, I felt strongly for years that I would excel on Survivor. Please send this link to the Survivor casting people because I’m ready. I’ve many schemes prepared. One thing that I feel has been a gross oversight and strategy in past sessions is the use of pre seasoning swallowing. I would swallow so many seeds and amount of seeds you could not fathom, and then when dropped on the island, I would poop in a hole, cover the poop with dirt water and tend to it, and then it would have delicious produce that would sustain me throughout the season.

Jeff Probes, please contact me. I’m easy to find I Johnny Mack want to go on Amazing Race, but I want to do it the lazy way. If you watch Amazing Race, only the last stage matters, because you like kill yourself in part one, and you know, everybody races to the museum and then they’re like, oh, the museum doesn’t open at ten am, or you’re on the third flight and everybody catches up anyway because of airport delays or a cab caper. So what I would do is, let’s say we land in I don’t know, Prague and the Amazing Race host what’s that guy’s name? Phil?

And Phil be like, hey, you guys, gotta get to the museum. I would just sight see and go have a beer and have a nice casualty lunch, take the four hour penalty, and then show up and be like, yeah, I know, but this isn’t an elimination stage, Phil, So I don’t care that I’m last, and then turn it on in the second half. But I would do a lot more sight seeing than most people. Sophie Buddle, what’s your proudest achievement of your comedy career so far? She said, I think the highlight was getting passed at the comedy seller in New York.

Every comic I’ve looked up to has been a seller comic. It feels like the center of stand up comedy in the world. I’m still scared every time I step in the club, which is a great, great feeling. Love to feel alive. Worst show ever I did a show in Northern British Columbia ones.

It was at a hockey sports bar and they agreed to turn off the TV screens during the show, but they didn’t turn off the buzzer thing that went off automatically when a goal was scored. So several times during my set, a scary light show and sirens would go off and everybody would check out their phone to see who’s scored. That’s a good laugh. Let’s get out on that, all right. A couple notes from today’s show, Nope number one, where I did the Hey, what’s the name of the guy that hosts the Amazing Grace?

That is an old radio DJ trick to get your audience involved, especially in talk radio. You could do things like, oh, what was the name of the guy he ran against Ronald Reagan in eighty four? What was that guy’s name? So right now, one of you is shouting at at your phone. I know the answer is Walter Mondale, but you would do that just to engage the listeners and they would call in and then somebody would help you out and it would just It’s a good way if you have dead phones to get things going.

Other note is I can’t speak today the amount of edits in today’s show. So the raw edit right now without commercials. I’m at the twenty two to forty mark, so you can look at on your phone. So subtract, say two minutes for the commercials, and then you’ll see how many edits I made today. I just cannot get through a sentence without stumbling.

But anyway, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free wherever you get your podcasts. If you’re on that pesky Apple podcast, I’m not giving you every episode. Shake your fists of rage at them and download all of them. Well, yeah, thank you, I appreciate it.

Come on, Apple, you’re killing me. There’s also Spotify if you’re on an Android app. Overcast is very nice. We’re on YouTube wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with here Daily Company News. I’m laughing at the new crowd thing. I edited in there A corrects Hasan Minhaj. Hey, Johnny Mack knows what he’s talking about.

Puck News reporting that Hasan Minhaj has been informed by the Daily Show parent Paramount Global, that he is not going to be the next host. According to Puck, Minhaj’s deal to take over the Daily Show was all but done until that piece in The New Yorker ran on September fifteenth. Matt Boloneian Puck writes, in fact, Minhaj would have been announced as the new Daily Show host this summer had the strike not intervened. Instead, both sides sat on the announcement and then disaster Wow the controversy in case you forget in his last an up special, Minhaj is now admitted to making up a lot of the stuff, and the controversy comes around that it’s not really exaggerating, like how much you had for lunch. He was making people feel bad about serious, serious topics.

He said, Mike Howmedy Arnold Palmer is seventy percent emotional truth. This happened and then thirty percent hyperbole, exaggeration fiction. Some people who owe podcasts in their basement started wondering would he be a bad fit for the Daily Show? It seems Paramount Global whatever they are agrees. Comedy Central search has been complicated by Roy Wood Junior’s decision to leave after eight years, although he has indicated if he’s offered the host gig, he would come back.

Sarah Silverman, I’ll talk about in the second half. I think she has now taken herself out of the running and I will personally be surprised if she actually does her guest hosting gig. I think that’s next week. I’ll do that in the Israel section of the podcast. And you know who would be a good choice.

John Stewart, Stay with me, He’s free now. Word came out late last week that John Stewart’s show on Apple is some people are using coming to an end. Other people using the word canceled. The New York Times reports John Stewart and Apple executives decided to part ways. Apparently Stuart and Apple had disagreements over some of the topics and guests.

On the problem with John Stewart, two people invove said that John Stewart told members of his staff last week that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern among Apple executives. So that show’s over now. It was kind of a big story. But on the other hand, until I mentioned it, did you remember that John Stewart had a show on Apple? I’ve checked it out lightly and it just doesn’t have the fun of the Daily Show.

The Times tags it with. As the twenty twenty four presidential campaign begins to heat up, one person said there was potential for further creative disagreements. All right, everybody, let’s all take a time out here, John Comedy Central, CBS. Let’s all think about this for a second. You don’t have a host for the Daily Show.

John doesn’t have a gig. There was a writer strike and a lot of shows are behind, and the presidential election is coming. You know who’s really good at that, John Stewart. Why don’t you all do this? Pay John a bagload of money to host the Daily Show for one year starting five minutes from now, and he can go through right after the election.

Right when that make a lot of sense, let me go even further. Why not air it on CBS proper. Put the Daily Show on CBS proper at like ten thirty at night, and let John do his thing for a year. I think that would do really well a year from now. Yeah, you’ll have the Daily Show problem again, but you can groom a next host along the way.

When John takes a week off, put someone in the chair. Remember the time John took the summer off and John Oliver hosted it and crushed it at whatever happened to John Oliver? Oh yeah, he’s got the similar show on HBO. So pay John, John you come back, take a victory lap, do your thing for a year, Put it on CBS at ten thirty, and when John is off or maybe on Friday nights, have somebody else host the show and groom your next host. Listen to me, everybody, That plan makes a lot of sense for everyone, including the viewers.

If you were looking forward to The Office coming back, American Office co creator Greg Daniels says, yeah, O yo, yoh, relax, I’m paraphrasing there. He said. I think it’s very speculative. The fact that it kind of blew up based on one line and a puck piece. It was kind of cool.

I guess in the sense that the fans still care a lot. But the thing I would say is when there’s something to announce, I will definitely announce it. So no Office reboot anytime soon. Critically acclaimed comedian Adam Sandler getting a lot of praise. He’s been hailed by social media users after a viewer showed the critically acclaimed Adam Sandler doing everything in his power to get aid to a fan was having a medical emergency during an Adam Sandler concert last week.

Sandler overheard an audience member yelling medical emergency. With that, Sandler stopped the show and instructed emergency responders and parademics to the distressed fan. On a clip that you can find on TikTok, Adam Sandler can be heard directing the EMTs to the person in need. Sandler asked, yo, yo, medic coming all right, Here comes the medic. Okay, okay, here we go over here, guys, right down to the left.

But apparently the responders weren’t moving fast enough for Adam Sandler, who began enticing them to hurry along. Sandler said, let’s go all right, let’s get there, y’all. Then he can sold the crowd saying everything’s going to be right. Love y’all. The crowd began to cheer the medics.

Sandler said, let’s take a few seconds. Let’s let these guys concentrate. As the attendee was taken out on a gurney, Adam Sandler said, Okay, feel better, bro. Some social media users wrote this is why Adam Sandler will always be my favorite comedian. Another added, a man of the people TMZ speculates the person who was having the medical emergency was dehydrated and they seem to be doing okay.

Now that’s good news. Pitchfork has that article. I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Pornbots. You’re not welcome, please go away. Pitchfork and John Mulaney talked about what music John Mlani was at at various ages.

At age ten, Mlani was into led Zeppelins no quarter. John talked about going to use CD shops and said, when I was ten, we acquired every led Zeppelin album in some form, mainly tapes. I couldn’t believe how good they were and how it was not like anything else. In nineteen ninety two, I thought I was a pretty savvy kid. At ten, but I remember reading the Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods and being scandalized by that book.

I have a visceral memory of standing up in a basement against the staircase, listening to Houses of the Holy, which is probably still my favorite Lied Zeppelin album, listening to No Quarter on my Walkman. It was the first time I realized, oh, it’s a dark world. There’s another side to the coin that’s a little scary. No Quarter is scary? All right?

How’s the Holy? Great album? Though Exclaim did not enjoy the Bill Burr movie Old Dads, you’ll find it on Netflix. Their headline Old Dads Yells at Cloud directed by Bill Burr. Oh No, Exclaim writs.

In the nineteen ninety six episode of The Simpsons entitled Homer Palooza, Abe Simpson tells a teenage Homer, I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was, and what’s it? Seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you, sure does, Abe Simpson. You find yourself in a basement with some sort of comedy expertise, and you look at TikTok and you go, I don’t get it, and you go back to talking about Jerry Seinfeld, I Feel You exclaim rates. The thinly constructed Netflix rrated comedy attempts to take aim at both the easily triggered liberals who think they’re a movie society forward and those who cling to the glory days of the past.

It misses both targets. The film spends so much much time letting the dads be blissfully out of touch and then just shrugs it off with a what can he do? They’re old kind of malaise. As a director, Bill Bird displays discomfort and letting any meaningful moment breathe, similar to how a person uncomfortable with silence and needs to make noise. The comedian turned filmmaker breaks up any semblance of a meaningful moment with nonsensical gags.

This is especially noticeable when the men interact with any of the poorly written female characters, who range from demanding to shriltz to nondescript. Do you hear the little frog of my voice? I didn’t record nine podcasts. This is the only podcast I’ve recorded today. Johnny Mack’s a little fuzzy.

I don’t know what’s going on. I feel fine. Sam Mourel talked to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and said, I need a break off the road at some point starting to kill me. Then again, I’ve been saying that for ten years. I need to be annoyed, like in somewhat of a state of irritation or right jokes, I mean, Jerry Seinfeld stand up is about being annoyed, and Jerry’s a billionaire and he’s still annoyed.

The Press of Atlantic City asked Brian Reagan a question and his answer is so unbelievably lame. Brian Reagan, come on, man, play along a little the question, who besides you, Brian Reagan is doing good stand up right now? A lot of comedians get asked that question, and most comedians will mention somebody who is earlier on in their career and try and spotlight them. Brian Reagan’s answer to who besides you is doing good stand up right now? Was I still like watching Jerry Seinfeld play a little bit.

Really Jerry Seinfeld as he knew, I haven’t heard of him. Gee, Brian, thanks for telling us that Jerry Seinfeld is good at stand up. Nobody in America knows that. Brian says he’s somebody who really loves doing stand up even when he’s doing his TV show. He wanted to get back to doing stand up comedy.

He’s still writing cool, funny, different, interesting stuff. It’s cool to sit in an audience and watch somebody who’s a master at it. I would put him at the top. So there you have it, listeners. If you want to check out a new comedian, check out Jerry seinfeldparently an observational comedian.

I think he’s opening for Jim Gaffigan from The Wig. Jim Jeffery’s found himself at the Kingston Health Sciences Center. Jim said, I wake up in the morning and I’m going down to my car. We’ve got to drive to Ottawa for the next gig. To our drive and I feel a sharp pain.

I basically assume my appendix had burst. I’m in the car, I’m screaming. We go to the emergency ward. Everyone in the emergency ward was at the gig the night before. They’re like, hey, Jim, that was a really great show last night.

I really enjoyed it. Kind of have a photo. Jim apparently had kidney stones. I had a terrible kidney stone once and since then I have stopped drinking tea. I’ve almost cut out chocolate.

I do have a weakness. Both those create kidney stones. And I drink so much water. If you hung out with me, you would be amazed all I do all day. I have my ic coffee in the morning.

That’s a real thing that I do. And that’s the only thing I drink all day that’s not water. I have those big plastic bottles and I just drink water, water, water, water, water, because I never want a kidney stone again. Jeffrey is described to Kingston as a smallish sort of town and the Harvard of Canada, if there is such a thing. One of the many things I do is I host a show on the Live one app.

It is called The Weekly Comedy Thing, and I had tried to start plugging it, and I’ve noticed more of you were listening to it when I plug it. Here you go to the app Live one. It’s free, and the show’s called The Weekly Comedy Thing. And what that is. It’s like this, except the stories are shorter, but I can actually play the bits.

So if I talk about Nate Bergatzy hosting SNL, I can actually play a Nate Bergatzy clip after the story right. So it’s the forerunner of this, so a lot more comedy, a lot less me. Some of you were like, that sounds pretty awesome. I agree, it’s about a month ago. It’s like, you know, I do a terrible job promoting it.

I’m going to promote it every Monday. This is the fifth Monday, and I have actually remembered today. Last week I forgot. The week before, I remembered the week before that, I forgotten Week one. Of course I remembered because that was starting.

I am the worst. But I’m gonna tell you what’s on the show today, Weekly comedy thing on the Live one app Nate Brigatsey talking about SNL Pete Holmes as a new special Robin Williams forgetting his friends, Hasan Minhaj not getting the Daily Show. So you get the vibe here, right, You listen to the podcast, You’re like, yeah, I know all those stories, but I tell those stories in like twenty seconds and then play The comedians also on the show this week gave Iglesias Berg Chrascher, Joe Koyd, John Marcos Seresi. He shares his Ravy Holy Recipe fantastic, Joan Rivers, a guy who does really well in the charts, and then there’s like no press about him. And I don’t even know how to say his name.

I’ve been pronouncing it john ozele Zelay. I don’t know j O n O new word z A la y, however you say your name. Very funny, come out on Johnny. A clip from my running a mix by the Lonely Island. They have a version of the rocky song that is very funny and I have that buried about fifty five minutes into my running mix to keep me going.

Do that in honor of Bert Young and Tim Minchin, who’s a fantastic comedian, And I found a clip where he did a song a few years back about Israel and Palestine. I know you’re like third reel, Johnny Mack. Tim nailed it. Check it out Weekly Comedy thing on the Live One app. All right, this is the post commercials Israel segment of the show.

Told you last week Oma Jaliy had to cancel a show because of some threats he tacked it with. Never thought I’d say I’m going to Northern Ireland for stand up gigs because it’s way safer. And I’ll add the headline here on this next story from the New York Post backpedal much listen to this. Sarah Silverman claimed she made a mistake okay, while stoned after she shared a post that defended Israel’s move to pressure Hamas for the release of hostages by cutting off water and electricity to Gaza. If you’ve ever heard of backpedal, here’s one the original Instagram story.

Sarah said, many are saying that it’s inhumane that Israel’s cutting off water slash electricity to Gaza. Israel made it pretty simple, release the hostages and we’ll turn it back on instead of pleading with amster release civilian hostages, which include babies and toddlers. There are politicians cough coff aoc calling Israel inhumane. If this is enough for you, Israel does not need to supply Gaza with these resources, which they do for free. If AMASA didn’t spend billions of dollars on terrorism, they would be able to build the infrastructure to support themselves.

So the reaction to that, and you know, nobody involved here is pro terrorism. But people argued that cutting off civilians access to water and electricity is a human rights violation. According to the New York post. Sarah took the post down and she gave a reason, and here’s the backpedal. According to Johnny Mack, Sarah wrote, oh f yeah, I took that down.

I put it in stories from someone realized it was a mistake to post in the stoned fury of wondering where the hostages are in all this madness. NASA gave Sally Ride one hundred tampons when user responded, I get high damn near every day and find a way to go help people. Never as it crossed my mind I should support war crimes.

And now it’s time for awkward segue.

According to a press release, Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club at the Link is home to the first permanent installation of a proto hologram unit. Yes. The press release calls it the first holographic communications platform and a hologram machine that makes hollow portation a reality. See you go to Jimmy Kimmel’s comedy club and fans can see Jimmy and Guillermo in recorded hologram form. They greet the guests and they riff on Las Vegas.

And additionally, the technology will allow Jimmy Kimmel and other celebrities to beam in live from LA to surprise fan interacting with them in real time. I’ve been showbiz adjacent in radio for thirty years. That will I don’t want to say it’ll never happen. It will happen once so they can do one more press release. But if you think, like every four days, Jimmy Kimmel’s stepping on the holidayk to interact with people this club, good luck waiting on that.

Coming up in December another installment of the It’s Always Punny in Philadelphia Comedy Tournament. Cindy Hefron has been riffing puns since she was in high school. And pay attention to this quote because I missed it the first time and I’m doing the sentence a second time. Cindy said, a lot of people think puns are like dad jokes, But just because you’ve become a dad doesn’t mean your pun skills become apparent. That’s the kind of stuff a pun is.

Groans are just as important as laughs. I’ve gotten quite a few of both. Makes you feel good that you’re sharing. Millan be Tips Junior said, puns are supposed to be bad. I’ll tell a joke and people say that’s so bad that they laugh.

Well, it was really good. Then the next event December fifth. Curious about this, check out the always Punny in Philadelphia website. I was preparing the copy for the Palace Intrigue podcast. That’s the one about the Royal family that I’m the writer on.

If you want to check out some quality Megan Marco gossip most days, check out Palace Intrigue. Where you get your shows. Rose Mata Fail revealed that she got very, very drunk after dying on her arse at the Royal Variety performance. She’s a New Zealand comic and she said her style of comedy didn’t go down so well. The show was performed in front of Prince Harry and Megan Markle.

Rose recalled meeting them in the lineup afterwards, saying, Megan kind of glided over. It was almost like she was on a hoverboard. She glided over like missus Danvers and she was like, you must be so proud, And I was like, of what of dying on my arse in front of the effing royals? Yeah, I’ll be writing home about that. Rose said she got so drunk afterwards she realized she had locked herself out of her apartment, so she called Nish Kumar, knowing that he’d still be up.

I knocked on his journey let me in pretty drunk, Actually I was drunk. Would have been great if he was drunk. Nish took a picture of me in the sort of outfit that I had on and just drinking a glass of water, feeling very embarrassed. Rounin Herschberg will tape his next special today at the Comedy Seller in New York City. The description Runnin Herschberg is a loud, neurotic jew from Louisville, Kentucky.

He has performed as high energy joke pack comedy on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Gordon Comedy Central, and his latest special, Jokes from the Underground, was included in the New York Times Best Comedy of twenty twenty two, where Jason Zenneman, who if you listen every day, you know I respect the heck out of called it the funniest YouTube special of the year. All right, if you’re in New York City, head over to the Seller tonight. That is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, review your shows and if You’re not a born bot, joined the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group See You Tomorrow,

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Thank you audience A five. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The other day, when I was talking about some of the Israel stuff, I went to google George Carlin political commentary to try and make a point.

I didn’t find the point I was trying to make, but I stumbled across an article from January nineteen eighty eight in the La Times titled at fifty, George Carlin still an angry man. La Simes wrote it way back when Carlin turned fifty last year, in age that has bound to mellow even the hardest case.

And then there were those Fujifilm commercials, the iconoclastic Carlin, who …

Or did your video tape me before? If you tape me before, you’re not watching me now. You’re watching me later. But if you’re taping me now, and you want me to be clear and sharp when you watch me later, he was a good stuff fogie videotape despite those disquieting signs there’s really no need to worry. Are we worried about George Carlin in the eighties selling out?

I don’t remember that. Carlin’s feisty show at the Celebrity Theater in Anaheim on Friday in nineteen eighty eight was evidence that his edge remains unblunted. Once the angry young man, he’s now an angry middle aged man. Carlin has always been two comedians. First, there’s the embraceable ironist who whimsically dwells almost sweetly on life’s absurdity and the trouble gets us into.

Then there’s Carlin as social critic, a talking political cartoon whose confrontational wit disembowels anything associated with the right wing. Carlin discussed Reagan’s sport of big business, quoting Corlin, the administration is against street crime, as long as it isn’t Wall Street. The Light Time said the observation wasn’t terribly funny, but it showed Carlin’s uncompromisingly liberal slant a position, and it can be more than amusing fun for leftists, but undoubtedly infuriating for an audience’s more conservative members. Even if you agree with him, it can be a bit much you yearn for little laughing gas, a dose of lightheadedness. Fortunately, Carlin Schiff’s perspective soon enough, as if he knows the political thrust can only be sustained for so long, It’s almost like he’s saying, Okay, you’re patient about the lecture, now here’s your reward.

Carln then went into a bit about people. I avoid one of the jokes dentists with blood in their hair, as he’s done for years. Carlin ended the show with a ross toccado reading of an ever growing list of words that have been banned from radio and television, like the slang and his red light littening. Carlin can be shocking, even offensive to those who want their comedy censored, But unlike these dirty words, there’s little to question of his redeeming social value. La Times January eleventh, nineteen eighty eight.

Rolling Stone did that fantastic interview with Roy Wood Junior. If you want to read the whole thing, it’s somewhere in the Facebook group now. A few days ago I posted it Daily Comedy News podcast group. They asked Roywood Junior, what’s a big lesson you learned from working with Trevor Noah Roy’s answer very interesting. Knowing when to leave, just recognizing when it’s time for you to try do something else, when it’s time to try to level up into something bigger, whether it be with Comedy Central or not.

I need to take that time to home in on exactly that is what I need to do. Trevor never really got upset. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him mad. Ever, He’s definitely diplomatic and definitely knows how to lead by example. He’s not a general like say John Stewart was Trevor’s more cool hand.

Luke rolling Stone asked Roy, Late Night is all white men. Why does keep going back to that? Roy said, I don’t know why he keeps going back to white dudes in the seat. I do think they’re going to try to use economics to justify cuts. It’s an easier way than saying something isn’t racist, when you just go, oh, we don’t have the money.

I will say that women have it worse than men. Every woman Late Night host you can even in the last five to eight years the show was created, they didn’t inherit anyone’s chair. What’s next for you? Roy? With Junior, he said, my comedy Central First Look deal died about a year and a half ago, so I’m a free Asian across the board.

I have the opportunity right now to talk to any network about any show and do some more writing as well stand up sitcoms and movies. I’m open to anything right now. I have a couple of tour dates in January with Jordan Klepper. We’re doing a silly live town hall thing and a number of towns and I’ve always enjoyed working with Kleppers, so to be fun to do that in some capacity. I don’t feel a sense of urgency with Late Night.

What’s the right idea? And what with a market per Okay, you left the Daily Show? What are the past? You go Steve Carell do TV. You can go Sam b or John Oliver do another show.

You could pull ad Jason Jones and do TV or movies. Same thing with Olivia Munn. It’s fun to have options. The Baltimore Sun was profiling Stavros Halkias and they want you to know that he’s more than Ronnie. Ronnie is a character who is a Ravens loving obscenity spinning essex residing a fellow who posts video recaps after each Baltimore Ravens games.

Who the Ravens have today the Lions one o’clock. Hey, that’s a good game, The Sun rites. When the Ravens are winning. According to Ronnie, they’re headed straight to the super Bowl. Sounds like most jests fans I meets.

We’ve been making fun of chests fans like that. The Jets go up three to nothing Week one, and the fans were like super Bowl. But when they lose, as they did against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ronnie is apoplectic. Ronnie is also the reason Halkias suspects that all six Baltimore shows of his Fat Rascal tour sold out. He said, I never to be the go to Ravens reaction comedy guy, but I’m pumped.

I think that’s a big reason we sold so many tickets. Some of those people are gonna be very disappointed when I come out and I’m not. Ronnie. The Sun asked him if Baltimore shaped his sense of humor. He said absolutely, I mean, definitely.

It’s an interesting, strange place. I think it’s an interesting mix of caring about art but at the end of the day being a very blue collar place. You know the charm city nickname could feel sarcastic halft the time, right. Not everybody’s about their manners. There’s not a lot of putting on airs in Baltimore.

They’ll let you know what they think of you. Any favorite spots in Baltimore. I’m a big diner guy. Broadway’s my home diner, and I’ll go to Sip and Bite.

---

Also, I’m curious about Sip and Bite.

Let’s say what sipping BYTE’s gun on the menu. Sip and’ byte a Baltimore legend since nineteen forty eight. I know the Maryland people a right now? Do you not know what Sippin’ Bye did? I didn’t know what Sippin’ byte is.

I’m sorry. Now I’m interested in it. I haven’t been Baltimore in a long That guy from the bed Pays Rent story yesterday though he used to go to Baltimore with me. All right, I’m on the Sip and Bite diner website. Here we can get pancakes, including a cheesy Dutch baby filled with ham and cheddar jack that seems like a much French toast waffles.

I’m not going to read you the home menu. Guy Fieri’s favorite crabcakes. Why is that on this sandwiches and submarines two different categories. Sandwiches are served with chips. Fries will cost you an extra dollar.

Onion rings will cost you two extra dollars. Apparently a cheeseburger counts as a sandwich. The Maryland people are going to be so mad at me. The submarines are where the cheese steaks go. So I guess we’re talking longer bread there, right, and some more of a hero as we would call it up in the part of the country.

John, get back to the comedy story. Okay, I’m sorry. I’m a big diner guy. Broadway’s my home diner and also go to sip and bite. I also really like salad sons on the Broadway Market.

I’m resisting all my instincts to google salad sons. I won’t do it. I’m blowing up one of my favorite spots with you here. It’s quick, it’s so good. It’s really one of my most go to restaurants for what feels like a healthy meal, little salmon, little veggies.

I also have a couple spots. I can’t tell it’s a couple. I gotta keep to myself as for Ronnie, it’s less doing comedy and more like performing a seance. It’s also a fun way for me, in a cowardly way, to sneak in some of my own dumb opinions but hide behind the character. It just started as a way to cleanse myself after a particularly bad Raven’s loss, and it’s grown in as something that people really love the only time, so to Jay Leno.

Jay advises stand ups to resist automatically turning to profanity or insults, especially when dealing with Heckler’s Jay said, not necessarily against using profanity. I almost went into a half ass, J Leno. I’ve never attempted a half ass J Leno. I don’t know if I have one yet. Should I just do it?

All right, let’s just do it. But I think using profanities more than those terrible. I think using profanities, why don’t hit it that out? Because I’m with you, I know you wanted me to do it, and I know it sucked. I could have taken that whole thing out.

We’re a team. Jay said, I’m not necessarily against using profanity, but I just think using profanities more than you need to is just being lazy. And I don’t get heckler’s often, but every comedian has dealt with them at some point. Comedians should realize that as a stand up comic, you can bring someone down in the crowd pretty easily. When you destroy a heckler, you destroy a part of the audience, and they think as a group, So it’s probably better if you can let them down easy without snapping their neck.

For example, this one time I had a big, huge, fat guy heckling me at a show, so I called him out and made fun of his tie. See now I feel like I owe you a half ass impression? Should I just do some callbacks from mistay spot? If you have bets in your home, you might be a redneck? Or if you think the bet pays rent you, who might be a redneck?

All right, Break time, Shohn. The Plano Comedy Festival kicks off tonight. It goes through the twenty ninth. It’s the fifth annual Plano Comedy Festival features over one hundred local and national comedians and sketching improv groups. Boardmember Britney Goss told the Dallas Observer, they say that we make Plano look cool.

Plano is the happiest city in America Today at five pm, it is the Kickoff show. Looks like about seven comedians, not any names that I recognize. There doesn’t mean they’re bad, just means I don’t recognize them.

---

And then at seven o’clock there’s a different show.

Fonzo Crowe plays the Plano House of Comedy Looking Ahead. Later in the week, Rachel Feinstein Friday Night, Beth Stilling on Saturday Night. Next week, Vulture did their twenty five comedy you Should Know. FuMO Abe is on the list. They asked him what unscripted or reality series do you think you’d excel at?

The answer America’s Best Dance Crew. Well, I can’t dance, but that’d be my angle. I would be representing all the Midwest Asians out there who grew up going to Van’s Warped Tour and prefer mashing over MILLI rocking. All right, what was your worst show? I did something called the Teen Tours in LA recently, which is a stand up show for high schoolers.

It’s a tough show. You can’t get through any material because ninety nine percent of them are talking during your set. Because why would a fifteen year old no stand up comedy? Etiquette. The show is a reputable club in LA where every night you could see somebody like Tiffany Hattish.

So the students were a bit disappointed at the show’s lineup consisted of nobody comedians like me. Anyway, I go on stage and as soon as I grabbed the mics and girl goes, oh, I thought Matt Rife was going to be here. Before I could say anything, another kid goes that ain’t Matt Rife, that’s Matt Rice, and the whole room exploded in the laughter. I got roasted so hard before I could even get one joke in. I had to accept there was nothing I could say that would be funnier than what that boy said.

So I got off stage.

---

All right, let’s go on Ravens line.

That’s your comedy needs for today. Follow show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube. Wherever you get your shoes slipping in a Foxworthy there Wherever you get your shoes, see you tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Thank you one to five. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Papa wrote a guest piece in Men’s Health that really is speaking to me. I have shared this indie Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, but I have college aged children and Tom Papa is more or less my age, and Tom wrote, when you have children, the first thing more Seasons parents tell you is that it all goes by really fast.

The amount of times that somebody told me that, yeah, absolutely, and I now pass that along when I do the same thing. I don’t know what it is, but you see somebody else with a four year old and you’re like, it goes quick. Pop writes. They tell you to cherish every moment because it’ll be over way before you know it. What they don’t tell you is that this incredibly fast bead is caused by your family dragging you into a black hole by your nick Time before kids is leisurely.

After dating, falling in love, and seeing a bunch of movies together, you and your partner come up with the idea of making some new people reproduction and is not all that complicated, So before you know it, a kid enters into your world, and for a brief moment, all time stops. However, as soon as that millisecond is over, this person you made pulls you into a void where space and time are twisted and mangled. You experience the entirety of life. You’re ripped out and disassembled. You were then put back together and spit out on the other end as an older, worn out simulation of yourself.

High from the basement, you are still you, but for some reason, your pants don’t quite fit. Tom nail This, he writes, My iPhone tells a detailed story of a life I’ve supposedly lived. There are pictures of visits to petting zoos, farmers’ markets and museums. We ate cotton candy, ice cream, cones, and bags of kettle corn. I recently saw a picture of us from a trip to Disney.

There I was standing next to Goofy MoU’s ears on my head and a smile on my face. I have one hand on a stroller and another holding a churo. I don’t remember any of it. There were dance recitals, choir concerts, birthday parties, and pets. My family says we owned.

We hiked up mountains eight and diners, played in ball pits. We decorated for the holidays, and an endless loop Halloween skeletons before sant up, before Easter eggs rolled out of the way to make room for the Fourth of July, and all the while these beautiful miracle peace board growing up. He’s got a few more paragraphs there, Like I said, I shared it in the Facebook group, and he ends with, so, yes, enjoy every minute and take a lot of pictures. Are we all teared up? Now?

Yes we are. It’s okay, you could admit it. Rolling Stone talked to Roywood Junior the topic Hasan Minhaj, possible next host of The Daily Show. Rolling Stone said, the thing with Hassan that struck me as different is that the jokes that stretch the truth or were outright lies were the ones that painted him as the victim or the hero because he was being targeted for his race. Roywood Junior just said, correct.

There was a follow up question and then Roy said a lot of what Hassan did put him at the center of things, which gave the appearance that he’s self centered. And so when you take a brand like The Daily Show, the question becomes with someone who views himself as that within their personal stand up, can you trust them to not do that as the host of a news program. My thing is that during the time Hassan was telling all these lies, he was hosting Patriot Act, and there was nothing in Patriot Act that pointed to that. The question of whether or not Hassan can concurrently do whatever the hell it is that he’s doing on stage and host an honest and true news program has already been answered. Wow, not pulling punches there, Roywood Junior Rolling Stone.

The New Yorker story had Hassan airing doctored hate sweets aimed at him in Patriot Act. Roywood said, oh geez, back to the self centered stuff. It’s about him, then we can question it. But if it’s about the world, I think there’s a way through that. I don’t agree with the comparisons to Jesse Smollead or Steve ran as easy and Bill Mark comparing him to Trump in the sense that it’s a lie to manipulate the opinions of others.

Here’s a bigger question. As it was originally told to me, the host of the Daily Show was supposed to be announced in June. The strike hit they can’t announce it. If the strike never happened and they named Hassan, would this be enough for Comedy Central to take the job away from him. I personally don’t think they would have.

I had missed this, Rolling Stone said.

Also buried in the New Yorker story was that Hassan had reached a workplace m…

I had missed that, Roywood Junior said. But the workplace harassment stuff with Hassan was already documented in public knowledge, and Comedy Central was still considering him for the job. So that tells you how much they thought about that part of his backstory. I don’t think they would have taken the job. But is it enough to keep them from giving him the job?

It looks like it a little lighter. They asked him about the way Trevor Noah left the Daily Show. He basically announced he was quitting and then stepped out with dua Lipa, an incredible flex, says Rolling Stone. Roy Wood Junior laughed and said, I’m gonna quit, and then I’m gonna go host the Grammys, and then I’m going to date pop stars. God bless him.

The man got to quit, his employer sent him home sooner than he planned, and he walked right into a jet to a global comedy tour. He and I talk every now and then, and he’s definitely happy. So in that regard, I’m happy for him. I think he left at the right time in hindsight. So that’s interesting too.

Right, let’s back up there. The man got to quit and his employer sent him home sooner than he had planned. Was that a situation where Trevor was like, Hey, I’m gonna leave in six months and they’re like, why don’t you leave now? Interesting? Right, there’s still a lot from this article.

I’ll do more of it tomorrow. The eight hundred pound Gerrilla was talking about Sean Patton, a fantastic comedian who should be on your radar, and they wrote for a long time, Sean Patton found himself in this exact space, emerging in the twenty tens as a thoughtful and wild comic who bridged the gap between Ian Carmel and Sam Morrell. Patton was viewed as ex between traditional and alternative comedy spheres and release three albums before landing a special number one. It might not be a perfect model, but a success is a promising blueprint of hope for every middle class comic putting money together to self tape their own hour in between sets at Little Field or Dynasty Typewriter. One of the first things viewer might take notice of is the runtime.

Matten tends to go long in his work, but it’s not due to a bulk of excess. Rather, he situates himself in context of the stories he tells and draws focus, pulling the crowd in while standing still. We’re prowling it wildly to accentuate the point of his wit. The folks at Camp Times were enjoying the Judge John Hodgman tour. Hodgman says, we have three segments in the show.

There’s the Court of Judge John Hodgman. Then we have swift Justice, where we hear three cases in quick succession with a buzzer or timer. Now we have a segment which we call mob justice, where we turn up the house lights and people in the audience can raise their hands and shout out their arguments, whether the people who brought them, where the people that they brought, or even people aren’t even there that they don’t know and they’re being accused arguments and disputes of the sort we really like. What’s the best way to rid your house of I’m curious about that. Let’s google that.

I love Google autocomplete. So far I’ve typed in best way too our I and the autocomplete is best way to ripen peaches, avocanos, tomatoes.

---

All right, let’s see best way to get rid of roaches, belly fat, house of flea…

But now I’m gonna type in bats. Today’s homeowner has how to get rid of bats in your home. Five tips. Don’t act like you you don’t caring, don’t act like you’re like good back to the comedy you’re interested. Number one close entry points that won’t get rid of the bats, that will trap the bats inside.

That’s terrible advice. Install a bat cone. Now you’re wondering what a bat cone is. Perhaps it’s what your favorite superhero gets from Carvel. No, come on, that was pretty good.

A bat cone allows bats to squeeze out of your attic, but not into the space. Essentially, it’s a one way door for bats to exit. See that’s good advice. Bat Cones are relatively affordable. I’m told typically between twenty and forty bucks.

Install bright outdoor lights. Not only will that add curb appeal to your home, it also acts as a natural bat repellent. But that’s not getting the bats out. They’re already in. This article’s terrible.

I want to get rid of the bats. Don’t tell me how to keep bats away. They’re already in the house. I want to get rid of them. Use a sound machine.

Now we’re talking. Bats prefer to be at peace when resting. That’s why using a sound machine that gives off an ultrasonic sound will disrupt their piece. How to identify bats, Okay, identifying a bat, especially in the dark at night, could be challenging. Here’s how you can help identify a bat.

Number one, webbed wings, yes, Number two often black or brown in color. Often what other colors do bats come in? Three? Face looks small, similar to a small dog. So in case you’re like, I think it’s a bird, No, it seems to have web wings at a face like a chihuahua.

It is a bat. For wings band can be anywhere between six inches to five feet long and five sporadic flying compared to birds. Where were we you’re talking about? To Judge John Hodgman tour. His co host Jesse Thorn said, I built the format of the show, and in my mind, the most important element of the comedy was the conflict.

The higher of the stakes of the conflict were, even if it was a low stakes conflict to begin with, the funnier the show would be. The more belligerent John and I were, the funnier the show would be. And I was wrong about that. In fact, what the show is about is people who care about each other finding resolution in their conflict, and that resolution isn’t about who’s right and who’s wrong. I could imagine a situation where you’ve been friends with your roommate for a couple of years and you move out and you want to leave your bed behind full day, and then your roommate’s like a jerk and says, the bed pays rent.

This is a thing that happened to some friends of mine. I’m agnostic. You guys work it out, but that would have been a good one for Judge John Hodgman. Judge does the bed pay rent? I’d be curious what you guys think.

Go on the Facebook group and just answer that question. Does the bed pay rent? So Here’s a scenario. You’ve moved out, but your bed’s still there. You’re going to get the bed in the day or two, but it’s still there.

Does the bed pay rent for the two days? Where’s your friend being annoying? Facebook group? Daily Company News podcast grew one listener right now has a big smile on his face. Co host Jesse Thorn said, people are essentially there to talk about why they care about each other.

This is all over the place today, Johnny Mack. Joan Rivers apparently secretly battled believe me for much of her adult life, according to a new biography. According to her biographer Leslie Bennett’s, who published The Life, Loves, Losses and Liberation of Joan Rivers, Leslie claimed that Joan Rivers was constantly grappling with her figure. While other famous faces said her low self esteem contributed to her becoming a characterture of herself. Leslie said Joan was always incredibly paranoid about her weight, and she was bolimic for a lot of her adult life.

Jerry Shippard said, back when Joan started stand up, you started looking your age. You didn’t get booked. Really made Joan Rivers obsessed with the way she looked, because Joan had to deal with fear, and she dealt with insecurities. When you go in and start thinking, oh my gosh, there’s something wrong with me. I’ve got too many chins, my nose is too wide, you can get addicted.

Nicky Glazer chimed in and said, that’s the dark side of comedy. There’s a chronical life self esteem in every good comedian, and it doesn’t go away no matter how successful you are. Joan Rivers had said, my motto is better a new face coming out of an old car than an old face coming out of a new car. Spend your money on you. The Improv will have a new special on Netflix in November.

It’s called Improv sixty and Still Standing. The new special will feature short sets from ten globally acclaimed comedians. They are Angela Johnson, reyis, Bert Kreischer, Craig Robinson, Deon Cole, Fortune Fimester, Jeff Dunham, Kevin Neelan, Mark Normand, Joe Coy and Whitney Cummings.

---

Also featured in archival footage are Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Sil…

There are sixty and still standing on Netflix. In November the Please Don’t Destroy Guys of a movie, Please Don’t Destroy the Treasure of Foggy Mountain. In the Treasure of Foggy Mountain, we see Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Hurley making their way through a tense conversation with Conan O’Brien, fighting ex Mayo, running away from a hawk that doesn’t fly, falling and flying suits, and possibly encountering a cult leader played by Bowen Yang. Please Don’t Destroy the Treasure of Foggy Mountain. Peacock.

November seventeenth, Chelsea grow tape her new special Unmuted Tonight Skiptown Playhouse in La Chelsea’s high energy, witty rapperts hey and no nonsense attitude will captivate your attention and leave you laughing for more. And that is your comedy news for today. You learned so much. Tom Papa made you cry. You learned how to get bats out of your house, and you decided whether or not the bed paid rent.

Not why you came today, but I thought it was fun. See tomorrow

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. In the second half of the podcast, I’m going to tell you about a benefits show. Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart, RUnni Chang, Jim Gaffig, and Jerry Seinfeld were on the list. But as I mentioned yesterday, if you missed you yesterday, I’m going to handle all the Israel stuff after the break every day.

I don’t want to ignore the topic. But this is not a political show, and I know you come for the comedy, so I’m gonna do that stuff in the second half. But you just heard me say, Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart, Ronny Chieng, Jim Gaffig, and Jerry Seinfeld some big hitters there. I’ve also got some Kevin Hart news for you in a second. But first quick look.

At late Night, they were joking about the president’s trip to Israel. Seth Meyers, I love this one. President Biden arrived in Israel, making him the first president to visit Israel during a time of war, which is pretty dangerous. But he should be okay once he makes it down the stairs. I love it.

Jimmy Kimball said, Biden and Israel go way back. You know how Moses parted the Red Sea. Joe was the guy that dared him to do it. Stephen Colbert, I hope you feel better, buddy. He’s got COVID and they’ve wiped out the shows for the week.

No late show this week. By the way, Tomorrow’s podcast is really good. It came out really well. Is today’s any good? Johnny Mack?

I think so based on the topics, but I haven’t actually recorded it yet, so I don’t know. Let’s check back in fifteen minutes. You could tell me. Chris Rock and Kevin Hart. They appear together in the new Netflix documentary Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners Only.

This will be on Netflix December twelfth. Official press release tells us this is a story about two separate journeys that somehow align and end up at the same intersection. At the top, audiences will get to follow the two comedians as they prepare for an unforgettable week of four sold out shows in New York. I kind of forgot that happened, so I’m not sure that that unforgettable is good, but I’m like I forgot along the way. Rock and Heart share first hand accounts of the struggles on triumphs they face before their respective colossal successes, placing their bond and brotherhood on full display.

Let’s listen. This is a story about two separate journeys but somehow aligne and end up at the same end. Section at the top said, why don’t we do something to get them? What do you think about doing New York? I’m excited about this week, not just because of the arena factor.

I’m so tired to hang out with you. That’s that’s, that’s it. Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners Only Netflix, December twelfth. Jada Pinkett Smith can’t get Chris Rock out of her mouth. I’m getting very bored with this, Jada, like really really bored with it.

But I’ll talk about it. It’s shiny and it’ll get me downloads. In Jada Pinkett Smith’s new book Worthy, she shares her thoughts about Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage Special. Jada writes, what do you say if someone decides to make a comedy special full of lies and unwarranted insults? You love them as God does, and you say to yourself when people hurt, that it could be that they believe they will feel better if they lash out.

Can I honestly say I’ve never been there? The answer is no, and that’s where compassion and well wishing come in. She also said that Chris Rock had quote hurt my feelings in the past, and quote although I wanted to hold on to my resentments, I’d learned that that would hurt me more than him. She has that Chris Rock deserves my concern and my consideration, despite how he may decide to drag me on stages. That’s his issue, not mine.

From spirit to spirit, he is my brother. Trevor Noah’s new podcast is called What Now with Trevor Noah. It’ll be out November ninth. Spotify is producing it, but they’re going to make it available everywhere. Thank goodness, because I really like it.

Trevor Noah, And you know I stopped listening to Rogan. I don’t use the Spotify app. Sorry, you want me to use the app? Buy some ads Spotify. This sentence right now could either be a commercial for Spotify or for a deodorant company.

I like money. The official press release tells us Trevor Noah’s a new weekly podcast, will feature Trevor Noah having in depth conversations with people from a wide array of backgrounds, including entertainers, CEOs. Do we really want to hear? CEO’s name is CEO? You want to hear?

Who? Do you want to hear? Elon Heytes? Trevor Noah, the guy that runs I don’t know Chevrolet? Do you want to hear that?

I know, actors, athletes, and thought leaders. Trevor Noah, in a statement said, we’ll also probably fix every single issue humankind has ever faced. See you definitely want to join us for every episode. Pitchfork has a really interesting article. It is called John Mulaney on the Music That Made Him.

The comedian talks about the songs and albums that have soundtracked his life five years at a time. I’m going to pick away at this for the next week, except for this weekend, because maybe perhaps I’ve already per recorded the weekend. You know what I’m saying, and I have shared it in the Facebook group. Please feel encouraged to join us in the Facebook group unless you’re a porn bot. The porn bots keep posting lately, and the people in the group have been really good about taking those down.

So if you’re a listener and you’re in the group. Thank you so much for flagging those. This morning I was out for run I got a message that somebody had flagged. Its just the pornbots are annoying, So if you’re not a porn bot Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group, and I’ve shared this article from Pitchfork about John mlleniy on the music that made him. Let’s take a look at one of the songs from five year old John Mulaney.

He was into the Pointer Sisters Neutron Dance. What exactly m’lani said. My preferences really started at five. Suddenly I was like, I have a style and I’m sticking to it. I really liked wearing ties at five.

I have my hands in my pockets and photos like I’m proudly admiring a factory floor. I remember wearing my Superman pajamas underneath a shirt and tie so that I could rip it open, love it. My parents had a Pointer Sister’s tape in our car breakout. We played it all the time. Beyond Jump, which was the hit of the car.

Neutron Dance had this driving energy to it that I really dug. My dad is a very formal, buttoned up law abiding guy, but when Neutron Dance came on, he would just drive faster and faster and faster. We were on a country road. Once he was pulled over while Neutron Dance was blasting. The guy was like, do you know how fast you were going?

My dad was like, I got a station wagon full of kids. No. The cop says, you were going ninety miles an hour, and my mom said, shoot, but that was the power of the music. Neutron Dance had some kind of spell on him. But I’m curious about this story a little bit.

The Pointer Sisters in the Age doesn’t make sense to me, So let me do some live detective work here, John Mlaney parents. I’ve discovered Charles W. Mlaney Junior is John Mulaney’s father, and I’ve googled him and added the word age. All right, mulaney Junior was born in nineteen forty nine. Neutron Dance was a hit in nineteen eighty three, so all right, let’s do some lazy math there.

Nineteen forty nine is like nineteen fifty. At thirty three was a thirty three year old dad driving around listening to the Pointer Sisters. I guess maybe I guess I was just trying to picture my own parents. I’m about one of my battle like fourteen years older than millennial old’s millennia these days, Laney’s forty one. I’m fifty four, so I’m thirteen years older.

I’m struggling a picture of my parents, who would have been approximately thirteen years older than the millenie’s parents listening to the Pointer sisters. But I totally digress. Get back to the show. Johnny Mack Okay, Ken Jung is getting his own talk show for some reason, I will editorialize. Some suits at the company said, Ken is one of a handful of people in the world who has what it takes to succeed as a talk show host, and we’re excited to be in business with him.

Audiences connect with Ken on many levels, not only because he is so talented, entertaining, and unapologetically hilarious, with their senses that he’s sincere, compassionate, fearless, friendly, just genuinely nice, all essential ingredients that make for long term success as a talk show host. The show will be syndicated premiere sometime next year. It is unclear to me if this is a daytime talk show or are they going to go in a late night I don’t see this working, but what do I know. Let’s take another look at that really good interview with Roywood Junior that Rolling Stone did. Rolling Stone said, you killed your guest hosting audition and the White House Correspondence dinner, and you’ve put your time in on the show.

Do you feel like you’ve been treated fairly in the casting process? Do you think you deserved the job? And did you do everything you could to get it? Roy would, not pulling punches, said I don’t feel like that. To quote the Wire, deserve got nothing to do with it.

They said Trevor didn’t deserve it, and he proved everybody wrong. The network’s going to do what’s best for them, and I respect that. My job is to be as good as possible so that if somebody else needs a quarterback, they know what I can do. There’s also a world where I can create my own expansion team. The thing that I’m grateful for is that I don’t ever need to question if I can do that job, because it’s a lot to sit in that chair.

It’s given me a great deal of confidence to prep my host week and prep the White House correspondents Dinner concurrently, and when I was hosting the Daily Show, I was still out to midnight at comedy clubs prepping the Correspondent’s dinner set. I’ve never looked at the chair as anything that I deserve. I got eight years of as Runny Chang calls it, the best job in comedy, as weird as it sounds, and thankful because now everybody knows I can do the thing, and there are many channels. Rolling Stone pointed out you have emerged as the people’s champ for Daily Show host. Roy said, the love online has been very kind, very dope, very genuine.

It’s weird when people are angrier than you are about something, but it’s very touching that people appreciate what I do enough to voice an opinion about it. Some people will come up and say, man, I go do your thing, and others will come up and they’re like almost in mourning, like if I posted about my dog dying or something. I’m fine, I’m thankful I had a job for eight years. That’s an excellent run. Rolling Stone said, I wanted to ask you about that New Yorker piece about Hasan Minhaj.

Roy said, I hope The lesson that Hassan learns is that for people, the line where you can embellish is seemingly a little more vague. It may have been clear to him, but for a lot of people it’s like, Nope, you did something that made me feel something. When you stretch the truth for the sake of laughter, it’s one thing. But when you do it for the sake of feeling, that’s when people start taking offense. I understand the integrity issue that people are bringing up with regard to us Son and a stand up.

Do I think that things happen within a stand up to make him incapable of being a daily show host? I think it’d still be a perfectly fine host and a perfectly fine candidate toasts the daily show. There’s a gang of people who are never going to forgive him for what he’s done, and I think that goes against the whole concept of forgiveness. Comedy centrals between a rock and a hard place. If a San was the front runner, there’s a lot of atonement that would probably have to happen with regard to him.

To a degree, this whole thing is like taking a comedian’s jokes and flipping them over to read the nutritional facts. It’s like when you find out that orange juice you were drinking is only ten percent juice and you’re infuriated, But you’ve been drinking it for years, So why is it an issue now? More from that tomorrow. Michael Costa is guest hosting The Daily Show this week, and he made a great point about Congressman McHenry, who is the acting Speaker of the House. And I like what Costa did here.

He said, Congressman McHenry is perfect for the job because he’s already there. Sometimes you just gotta go for the guy who’s already sitting in the chair. Why keep looking. He’s not messing up, He’s maybe even crushing it. Some people are saying, love that.

Next week, Jesus nice, the week after Sarah Silverman, then Leslie Jones. I will be curious to see if the Sarah Silverman week actually happens. Why do you say that, Johnny Mack. You’ll find out after the break. Yes, I left you on a Sarah Silverman teaser that is coming up in sequence.

Real quick. I saw a headline. The headline read quote. Critically acclaimed comedian Adam Sandler announced his performance in Omaha this winter, and my brain froze because I saw critically acclaimed comedian Adam Sandler. Now, Adam Sandler clearly successful, makes a lot of money, has a lot of hit movies, even though some people with podcasts in their basement think most of his movies are garbage.

Clearly he is successful, sells out arenas movie star, has more money than anybody, well not anybody, but you know what I mean, rich guy. He’s doing well. Is he critically acclaimed? I don’t think so. I see very few reviews that say Adam Sandler is brilliant, but he’s popular, He’s successful.

From The Hollowod Reporter Wednesday Night’s Very Good Plus Night of Comedy benefit for Jessica Seinfeld’s Good Plus Foundation featured sets from listen to this lineup, Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart, Ronny Chieng, Jim Gaffickin and Jerry Seinfeld that my Friends is called calling in the Favors. At the beginning of the show, Jessica Seinfeld said, I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians and Gaza and Israel. That got applause from a packed audience in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Jessica said, to quote the great Pete Davidson, sometimes comedy is an helpful way through tragedy. Amy Schumer set joked about the challenges of being a woman, her TV watching habits, and how she had once been attached to the Barbie movie. She spoke about growing up Jewish and joked that some of the inherent problems with the word used to describe her religion, including that the word has ew in it and the uncertain sounding Ish.

Halfway through his set, Amy said she was gonna work really hard on this last week, and then something happened. Deannance shared a nervous laugh. Ronny Chieng followed Amy. He joked about his experience helping his wife freeze her eggs, marveling at how he had been entrusted to administer the injections she needed. Jim Gaffigan up next.

He spoke about life as a father of five kids, whore either teenagers are about to become teenagers Kevin Hart quote who insisted he couldn’t say no to Jerry Seinfeld unquote, hmm, let’s call calling it the favors. Nothing wrong with that. I would call in some favors. I’ve called in some favors on this show. Kevin Hart recounted the accident that recently landed him in a wheelchair and how he went on a gorilla trek with his family in Rwanda.

Jerry Seinfeld closed the night. He joked about his lack of enjoyment on vacation, his marriage, and his upcoming Pops Hearts movie. George Old tells this. Anglo Iranian comedian Oma Jillilly had to cancel a gig last night because of personal threats due to the situation in Israel. The venue released a statement on social media saying the show was dropped because increased personal threats over the Israel Hamas war.

The original post was then replaced with one saying only that the show was asked quote due to circumstances beyond our control. That’s like not even trying. That’s like one of those phrases that you’ve heard since you were four years old, and just go, yeah, circumstances beyond our control. Jeli had been posting about the situation on Twitter, calling for a ceasefire and speaking out about hate crimes directed at both Jewish and Palestinian people. The local police said no threat had been reported over the Gigjlily is scheduled to tour Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland next week.

Sarah Silverman is facing some backlash for her post on Instagram supporting Israel. Sarah wrote, many are saying that it’s inhumane that Israel is cutting off water slash electricity to Gaza. Israel made it pretty simple, release the hostages and we’ll turn it back on. Instead of pleading with Hamaster released civilian hostages, which include babies and toddlers. There are politicians cough cough aoc calling Israel inhumane.

That received some comments. One person wrote, Sarah silver Men really said, well, maybe those children shouldn’t have voted for Hamas if they wanted water. Awkward Seguay Time comedian Tim Robinson brings vegan coney dogs to Los Angeles. Boy, John, you made that as smooth as heck, Yes I did. Michigan’s owned Tim Robinson teaming up with Planned Power Fast Food.

What they’re going to do is at the Hollywood location, they will sell vegan coney dogs for seven ninety five profits from the vegan dogs, and also they’re selling hats and t shirts will benefit the nonprofit group Youth Climate Save. A press release says the limited menu item, sold Saturday through November, explains that coney dogs with chili, yellow mustard, and white onions are so popular around Michigan that they’re served at weddings, parties, and even funerals in the Midwest and beyond.

And now you can get vegan coney dogs for seven ninety five in Hollywood from …

Which is a real thing. Sounds like I’m doing a bit. No, this is a real thing. Local officials will dedicate a North Carolina Highway historical marker honoring influential comedian Moms Mabley today five o’clock. That’s at Clemson Plaza in Brevard.

Don’t act like you don’t know where that is, and don’t act like you think I said it wrong. Probably did. It’s in North Carolina. Apparently at the Clemson Plaza there’s a Mayberry’s Soup and sandwiches. John.

You’re not going to click on a menu and read us some menu, are you? No? I won’t do that today, but I’m going to do it over the weekend to Hornian events. A retrospective of Moms Maybley’s life will follow at the Mary C. Jenkins Community and Cultural Center.

Born in eighteen ninety four, Jackie Moms Maybley Aiken often took inspiration from her hometown and began entertaining at local church fundraisers at the encouragement of her grandmother. She left town in her teens and joined Black Vaudeville Theater Owners Booking Association, where she took the stage name she would use to perform for black audiences across the country. Considered by many to be the first female African American standup comedian, Maybley’s career spanned six decades. Dressed in her trademark cap, mismatched house coat, oversized shoes, and toothless smile, the Mom’s Maybley character was a frumpy grandmother lee figure that appealed to a broad audience with her captivating storytelling while challenging scidal norms. In the sixties and seventies, the character became known to a wider audience, recording more than twenty comedy albums, performing at larger quote unquote white venues, and appearing in film and on TV shows like The Smothers Brothers and Ed Sullivan Show.

In addition to the highway marker. They’re working on a larger than life statue of the mom’s Maybley character that would be created for display outside the Mary C. Jenkins Center. That’s awesome, Tina Hashim. We’ll have a stand up special on Amazon Prime Video to be out November tenth.

It is called The Dark Little Whispers, Executive produced by Sam Morrell. She discusses everything from death threats to existential dilemmas to relationship problems, quiet people, and her upbringing as a first generation Arab American. Let’s listen to the trailer. My dad left when I was very young. If you see a woman holding a microphone, her dad is gone.

I might have problems too. In fact, clap if you’re a straight white man right now, please clap if you thank you? Yeah? Did it feel nice to be heard? Right?

You know, we don’t hear enough about the bigotray against quiet people. We just need more voices raised about it because we can’t do it ourselves. That is pretty good. November tenth on Amazon. Another one coming to Amazon Trevor Wallace terot Actyl.

This one now on November fourteenth. The press release tells us, you know Wallace from the relatable characters he’s unleashed across the Internet, which have been massed billions of views, and his first stand up special, he introduces you to the real life characters he’s come to face to face with as he navigates male birth control, smoking, oregano, his unique Birds and the Bees Talk experience, his first BUCkies, The Red Flags of Dating, and The Worst Thing You Could Ever Order on a Date. Wallace was voted as a finalist in the Best in Comedy twenty twenty Shorty Awards. Trevor Wallace terot Actyl, Amazon, November fourteenth, I Don’t Have a Trailer for You. Tim Mentioned is celebrating fifty years of the Sydney Opera House.

He has a new song and is called Play It’s Safe. Play It’s Safe is making fun of all the people who said that the Opera House was going to be a disaster. The song includes audio clips of commentators criticizing the iconic building as being a waste of taxpayer’s money. Lyrics include people like the rules is written, so just give them more the same and if you want to go the distance, find the path of least resistance and just take it. Vulture is doing their twenty five comedians you should know.

Nimesh Patel did not give long answers at all. They asked him what unscripted reality show would you be good at? He just said cops as an innocent criminal. All right, what have you learned about your own joke writing process? He said, I learned to keep my writing secret secret.

All right, you don’t want to play, we won’t play. Natasha Vainblatt has her new album is called We’re All Dads Here. That’s out today on a Special Things Records. It was recorded live a union hall in Brooklyn. Her set tells us about the dangers of coffee hmmm, the relationship between rats and restaurant ratings, the magic of the New York City Subway, self defense characters, and her experiences with Russian culture and curious traditions.

She’s been a staff writer on Fallon and is the co creator and star of Comedy Central’s original series Your Worst Fears Confirmed. And Bert Young, you know him as Polly from the Rocky Movies, he passed away. His actual date of death was October eighth, but his daughter confirmed it to The New York Times. Bert Young was eighty three. This is nothing to do with comedy.

But I did get to meet Bert Young. It’s probably a full twenty years ago. He was doing a demo for a radio show. Nice guy kind of like Paully in real life, had that low energy, mumbley kind of vibe. When I saw he was eighty three, I was honestly surprised because it was twenty years ago when I met him.

Like he was sixty three. When I met him, he felt eighty three. Then. I don’t mean that as a dig, but if you do the math, if he was eighty three in twenty twenty three, that means he’s like only like forty three in Rocky three, and it means he’s like in his mid thirties in the original Rocky. Born in Queens in nineteen forty, Bert Young joined the Marines before he turned sixteen.

There he began boxing. After leaving the Marines, he enjoyed a brief professional boxing career, even went up against Muhammad Ali in a charity exhibition match. Nice guy nothing to do with comedy, But why not end a comedy podcast with death, which I seem to do three times a week. Now that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify YouTube.

Oh my goodness, I just looked at the raw edit. Boy, this was a long one today, huh. I hope you enjoyed it. To see tomorrow

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Thank you audiences of five people. Hi, and my air name is Johnny Mack, and this is Daily Comedy News. President Biden headed off to Israel. Jimmy Kimmel ast wasn’t sending an eighty year old on a dangerous mission across the globe?

The plot of the last Indiana Jones movie, And I’m not sure that went great. Michael Costa, hosting The Daily Show this week, had some good ones. He pointed out, Biden is eighty years old, so he did get to the airport two days ago. And let’s be honest, Biden doing anything pretty much puts him in harm’s way. A rocket strike is dangerous, but so’s a bicycle.

Cost again, I bet he can cool things down, because if there’s one thing Biden’s good at, it’s cooling things down, whether it’s a war, heated rhetoric or voter enthusiasm. All right, now that I’ve ticked off half of you, let’s tick off the other side. A judge imposed a limited gag order on President Trump on Monday. Michael Costa again said, good luck getting Trump to stop talking. The guy’s probably still spilling national secrets just out on the golf course, like should I go with a four iron or a five iron?

That reminds me four and five those are the first two numbers of the nuclear codes. Guess what numbers come next? You’ll never guess. I’ll just tell you. Kimmell went with Trump’s lawyers said Trump had no intention of intimidating any witnesses or court staff, including the judge.

You know, the one that lives at twenty seven forty seven maple View Lane, white Nissan CenTra parked outside. Stephen Colbert has COVID again. He did the show from home on Monday. Tuesday. There was no show Wednesday.

I don’t know what happened. I don’t record this after eleven thirty at night, I go to bed. Bad Bunny will host and be the musical guest on SNL this week, but looking ahead to the twenty eighth, Natepergasy and the Foo Fighters so awesome musical guest and Nateperghansy now big enough to host SNL. Very interesting. Pete Holmes has a Netflix special next week.

I didn’t know this was coming. I was so excited when I saw it. It is called Pete Holmes. I am not for everyone. The trailer is out.

Let’s take a quick listen. I knew I was in trouble during the lockdown because I went back to eating cool ranch Doritos. That’s the right response. It’s a perfect chip told you to be a quick listen at home. I Am not for everyone.

On Netflix, October twenty fourth, a really really good interview with Roy Wood Junior and Rolling Stone. I have shared that in the Facebook group. Please feel encouraged to join the Facebook group. It is called Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. They asked Roy how the writers strike changed his view of the industry.

Very interesting. Roy said. People said content is king, but now I think audience is king, and the ones who will find an audience will be more in control of their fate. Hello from the basement. I feel you.

People used to say you’re talented, let’s find you an audience, but now you’re expected to have an audience. Ze Way is a great example from a couple of years ago. A lot of what became Zea’s show was because she built an audience for herself, and then showtime came. The Pat McAfee deal with ESPN is a very telling sign. He essentially started a podcast, found an audience, and then ESPN said, that’s a nice audience you have.

We can bring them over here. The writer strike forced a lot of people into looking at what can I do in the meantime until my job comes back, and I think a lot of people are going to discover they’re happier doing other things than their all job. Hello again from the basement. Yes, Roy continued, said, you can tell me whatever you want to tell me about late night. But if CBS has chosen to replace their twelve thirty show with something cheaper, that says something doesn’t mean that at midnight isn’t entertaining, but it means the networks are looking for cheaper ways to engage people in the same medium.

The thing that’s dangerous for late night is that the cheaper they’re gonna make their late night, the more affordable you’re making it for regular people to compete in the space. The audience numbers are already starting to approach that in terms of YouTube versus streaming. I spent some time the summer thinking what would I want to do in the space, what would actually get green lit, and of what would be green lit, what can I actually do myself? He asked him about stepping away from his job as a correspondent on The Daily Show, wherey Woo Junior said, think of it like football. The job of the correspondent is the wide receiver and the host is the quarterback.

And I don’t know that I’m going to be chosen as host than if I’m not chosen a host, I don’t know if the new host A will want me or B is running an offense that fits me as a wide receiver. There’s a world where I still get offered the show, and there’s a world where I get offered something else. But I just know to figure out what I want to do next, just as a contingency to cover my own hat. I can’t do that while I’m doing my job as correspondent with disrespect the job of correspondent. Pointed question here do they tell you that you didn’t get the Daily Show hosting chob His answer, When I saw the Hassan Minhah stuff out, I think it was pretty clear that Hassan was the front runner.

I haven’t heard that it’s sure Hassan. All I’ve heard is that they’re still deciding a really good interview. I’ll do more of it on Friday and Saturday. As for the Daily Show hosting job, Yeah, don’t. I don’t think they can give it to Hassan now right, the whole thing.

I get its comedy news, but like John Stewart did kind of create this era of authority that Trevor continued. And I think if you have a guy up there that did something similar in a stand up special that was kind of made up, I’m not sure that’s going to work for the Daily Show. Collider asked, do we even want a Seinfeld reunion? Good point, I’m gonna say no. And what’s weird is I actually had a dream last night about the Seinfeld reunion, and in my dreams version of the reunion, they had the four characters in separate plots as if they had shot it during COVID and the episode did not work in dreamland, but Colyide writes, what happens or the Seinfeld four now out of ailing back to living their sad, single lives as if nothing ever happened.

Do we want Jerry and George at the diner complaining about their love lives in their sixties? Do we give everyone a family and kids? To do so? Would almost be a betrayal of their characters. If anyone seemed destined to be alone forever.

It’s them. There’s also the question of where Seinfeld would return to the days of monstrous ratings are over. Streaming options and cable have made it impossible for tens of millions to watch the same show at the same time. Would a Seinfeld reunion end up on Peacock or Netflix, becoming something we know binge alone on our phones rather than a shared cultural moment that feels sad and small for something that was so big. Yes, that’s a good point.

Vulture caught up with the creators of the New New Fraser good interview with showrunners Joe Christali and Chris Harris. Apparently, Kelsey Grammer had been wanting to reboot Fraser since twenty eighteen. The showrunners say one of the priorities was getting David Hyde Piers back to play Niles. In that version, New New Fraser would have been about the brothers owning a black box theater. When David Hydeiers decided not to do it, they started over.

Says he’s not the bad guy in this and he was so lovely about it, and that gave them a chance to start over. They decided for Fraser for both his professional world and personal relationships. It feels like it’s a time for Fraser to be giving back. Christallie said, Kelsey told us Fraser never really had a good friend and we should find him one. On Cheers, he was the one on the outside looking in all those people on Fraser.

He had Niles, but that’s a brother. Kelsey wanted a relationship with an old friend that he could go back and forth with in a way that’s different and distinct from Niles. As soon as you see Alan interact with Fraser, he’s a completely different version of anything we’ve seen as a foil for a while. Chris Harris said, we went through many incarnations. The university was in some versions and not in other versions, and there was a theater in one of them.

It felt like, what’s giving meaning in this next stage of life? Christolli said, Yeah, it was hard for Fraser Niles to run the theater when you don’t have Niles, so we had to step back from that. Cameil nan Gianni will co star with Sam Rockwell in the upcoming dark comedy A Guy Walks into a Bar. In A Guy Walks into a Bar, A mild mannered new father played I come oil on. Gianni befriends a charismatic yet mysterious man played by Sam Rockwell at a bar and soon suspects him of concealing a troubling secret.

All right, Ryan Reynolds was remembering Robin Williams last week. Ryan accepted the Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award the other night. On Instagram, Ryan shared some photos from the event and caption did I miss Robin Williams? Pretty sure everyone does. His kids have turned his legacy into a living, breathing love letter for good.

It was a crazy honor to receive the Robin Williams Legacy Award last week at the annual Bring Change to Mind gala in New York City. More Robin Williams from Vice TV’s Dark Side of Comedy. Friends of Robin are saying close to his death that Robin wasn’t recognizing them. Comedian Stephen Pearl said, the last time I saw Robin Williams, I hadn’t seen him for a few months, and he was thin, and he didn’t recognize my wife. He hardly said a word.

It took him the second to recognized me. I go, WHOA, something’s wrong here? I didn’t know what nobody would really tell me, and then I never saw him again after that. Rick Overton said the exchanges in text were becoming more abbreviated, order sentences, all good, all lovely. It was just everything was shortening.

I knew there was a change. William’s best friend of forty two years, actor Stanley Wilson, said occasionally he would repeat things in a phone. Quality had said that was really unusual. The Zo Report caught up with otsgo at Cotsko, who’s having a moment. Otsko talked about her new look and said, I’m trying to do an Otsco three point zero and my new two earth my new look.

It is the full Grown tour. It kicked off in Honolulu on September twenty ninth. Otsco said, I’m trying to push how much more I can go for an avant garde look. Bigger shoulders, more shapes, stuff that still allows me to move around a lot. If I could, I would wear clothes that are not easy to move in because it looks so fun.

I want even bigger shapes and maybe something dragging on the floor, but I have to tone it down so I don’t fall on trip and have to stop the show because I’m going to the emergency room. And this article mentions the Deodoran Company again. Boy, they are getting their money’s worth with Otsco, except I haven’t said the name of the deodorant once. Have I know? Call me Deodoran Company.

I’ll sell the whole thing. Daily Comedy, He’s brought to you by Deodoran Company. Every third story it could be about deodor I like money. Osco practices her routine at home in her planned outfit that to develop the physical comedy, troubleshoot any hazards and stay comfortable, Osco says in my messaging with comedy and also the way I dress, it’s all spreading joy and a sense of embracing who you are, being your weird self. Love it great attitude.

This February, the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame will induct somebody, but there’s a vote. Some of the people up for your vote Jim Carrey, Eugene Levy, Martin Schwort, but also the entire cast of SCTV as well as Canadian comics Steve Smith and Avira Kurt. Who’s in the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame. You’re wondering well, I’ll tell you. Some of the people are John Candy, Norm MacDonald, Lorne Michaels, Catherine O’Hara, Phil Hartman, Leslie Nielsen, Dan Ackroyd and Michael J.

Fox. The mission statement of the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame is to celebrate, promote, and preserve Canadian achievements in comedy. Truth is our British, American and Indigenous influences combined with a mosaic of culture expression to form a worldview that career. It’s not only a unique Canadian take on the world, but a take the world can laugh at. Besides, it’s cold for six months and you have to do something keep warm.

So let me take a quick time out here. I’m recording this after I put the whole podcast together. In the next section here, I’m going to discuss Israel through a comedic lens. This is not a political show. And I saw a couple articles that were pretty interesting and I want to share them.

And I keep thinking about the different styles of comedy. Yes, you can do Steven Wright Mitch Hedberg style one liners, and then you can be George Carlin Layton’s career and make very political observations through the lens of comedy, and I think the Forum of comedy is a great place to exchange ideas. So you’re about to hear me tell you a story from a comedian, Bassim Yusef, who was on with Piers Morgan. It gets very, very pointed. I hope it doesn’t chase you away.

But my spirit here is not to ignore a major topic. And I know that the late night shows are also struggling with this, but you know, we saw this after nine to eleven as well, and there are things you just can ignore, so we’ll take a look at them through the comedy lens. Let’s jump back into the tape, but again I’ll pre warn you some of this bassm use Of stuff is quite pointed, and I’m going to deliberately read most of it verbatim and flat so that I’m not putting any kind of spin on it. I’m just trying to report on the comedy news. All right, let me take a sip of my coffee.

Here. Here it is. I have decided that this will be the point in the podcast where I will discuss Israel. We’re gonna get a little serious here for a second, but everything I share with you does have jokes around it. By the way, Amy Schumer is posting a lot on her Instagram.

I want to stay on the comedy side of things. This is not a political show. But I’m looking here. I just went on instagram dot com slash Amy Schumer. She has several long statements here.

She talked about the poor six year old who was killed in Chicago. You’d have to go back at least twelve posts before. Amy was on a different topic, clearly an important topic. So Egyptian comedian Bossem Usef was on with Peers Morgan. I saw a lot of clips on this on the internet as I was putting the show together today, Usef said his wife’s relative’s house was bombed in Gaza.

Usef remarked sarcastically, I’m going to read it verbatim, and I’m going to read it neutral. It’s very repetitive. We are used to that. It’s just like those Palestinians are very dramatic. Oh, Israel’s killing us, but they never die.

They always come back. They are very difficult to kill. I know because I’m married to one. I tried many times, couldn’t kill. I tried to get to her many times.

What she uses our kids as human shields. I can never take her out. Yousef said all that with a straight face. Earlier on Piers Morgan’s show, Ben Shapiro had said, and I’ll quote it verbatim, the only solution to the Israel Gaza conflict is that Israel should annex Gaza and kill as many people so that what’s happening does not happen. Again.

Usef’s comment on that, I’ll read it verbatim and flat quote. More than thirty five hundred people have so far been killed. How many more people do we need to kill? So that Ben Shapiro was Yousef took on the Israeli military said again, I will read it flat and verbatim. I applaud Israel for doing something no military force in the world does it warns civilians before bombing them.

That is so cute. I asked my wife’s family if Hamas forced them to stay home so they could be bombed and could be used as a human shield, and she denied. A whiler, you’re switching topics. The ten Thousand Laughs Comedy Festival was last week, and The Star Tribune took a look at some comedians that they think could be big in the future. The Star Tribune wrote, the real thrill for comedy geeks is the chance to discover talents on the verge of blowing up.

Here are five without standing potential. They picked Jordan Jensen out of New York. They enjoyed her taping of her podcast being Eaten with Jordan with Ian fid Ants, and they wrote the pair have a brother sister, Vibe, although I’m not sure how many siblings swap sex tales and such graphic to tell. Don’t be surprised if Jensen is routinely filling theaters this time next year. Dan mince on their list now supposedly Dan Mintz voices Tina Belcher on Bob’s Birth Yeah, they fell for this hoax.

Two questions if you’re a new listener. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answers no too. Have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers. I know you’ve seen promos for it.

I know you hear Kevin Burkhardt promoting it during football games. So have you ever actually seen the show? No? Fox just puts up a test pattern claiming to be Bob’s Burgers. They know we’re all watching football Dan Mintz follows on the footsteps of Steven Wright, delivering a steady stream of brilliant one liners that rely heavily on wordplay and impeccable timing.

One joke, I want to die surrounded by family, but when I’m not around family, I feel fine. They also enjoyed Salma Zaki and Jerry Hemti Zaki, a Denver based comic who mine laughs out of getting a Deui Hamedi shared clever observations about growing up Iranian in the Midwest, and Kelsey Cook made the list, and The Star Tribune says Cook has such a girl next door delivery that her filthy material can come across like children’s bedtime stories. Vulture as the twenty five Comedians You Should Know or whatever it’s called. One of them Katrina Cook, and they asked Katrina what she’s learned about her own joke writing process. Katrina said, I moved through material quickly, sometimes a little too quickly.

I get sick of hearing myself say the same thing, so I try to start with newer material and switch things up with stories that pop into my head when I hear the other comics go up. Makes it feel more natural and conversational for me to mildly tailor my set to what’s already been discussed or not discussed a show. They asked Katrina about her unpopular comedy opinions, What Hill Will You Die On? Katrina said, you can wear shorts on stage. Climate change is real and performers should be allowed to adapt.

I heard John Cena pushes for wardrobe to let him wear shorts because they’re more comfortable for his massive calves. I think comedians should be allowed similar performative freedoms. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice? Best? Are they paying you?

A comedian? I love and respect? Overheard me talking about a bigger opportunity I’ve just gotten. She suddenly leaned over and said, are they paying you? When I said yes, she said good.

Worst, you should be more like blank. It’s hard enough for me to make sure I’m being the best version of myself. I can’t be adding all kinds of other people into the mix. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and you can all follow it on Apple podcasts, Atifi or YouTube for free.

And I’ll see you tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

The Shark Deck. Hello again, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from sneaker News. You’re home for sneaker News. Dave Chappelle’s got some cool kicks, Dave Chappelle air Force Ones. This project put together by Coltrane Curtis, founder of New York City based marketing agency Team Epiphany.

His task get podcasts to talk about Dave Chappelle air Force Ones. He says the design was the easy part, white uppers, gum soles and the iconic Dave Chappelle c on the heel, but had to get the right people to wear them. Well. He went to DJ Clark Kent too, currently is the most influential sneaker had ever, says Sneaker News, and I’ll trust them They’re right. Kicks were never really Clark Kent’s primary calling card.

That’s Crazy’s secretly superman. Come on, guys, don’t you know this? He just embodied v culture that influenced a lot of marketing strategies over the last three decades. Sneaker News says they don’t know how they got it done, but they imagine all it took was a few texts and calls. Unfortunately, the Dave Chappelle Air Force ones are not for retail and we’re made just for Dave Chappelle.

Mister Cant went on social media and wrote, so I did a think for Dave. Yeah that Dave called Trane. Curtis on Instagram wrote, David the jack and needed some heat for his new Netflix special. He knew exactly what he wanted. But here’s the thing that I think we’re not paying enough attention to.

Apparently there’s a new Dave Chappelle Netflix special coming in which she he’s wearing these sneakers, right, all right, we’ll keep an eye on that. Mannie Fair interviewed one of my favorite comedians. I’m gonna skip down to a paragraph here. Otsgo is pronounced otsko, by the way, and her last name is pronounced o kotska, which is good because that’s how I’ve been seeing it. I don’t I’m not sure I always get it right, but I usually say otsko at kotska, and I’ve kind of trained myself to do it.

Vanity Fair writes, Otsko at cotska is definitely not how you were pronouncing it in your head. Don’t worry, she says, no one ever gets them right. So for simplicity’s sake, everyone just calls her Otsko, but she’s been called Costco says that’s closer than most people get. On her second date with her HU husband, he asked how well he was pronouncing her name on a scale of one to ten. She gave him a two.

His name is Ryan Harper Gray. Now, before she goes on stage, he’ll often approach the MC and tell him how to pronounce Otsko, because he’s more particular about it than she is. Yeah, there was a while that every time I did a story about her, I had to go back and check my notes. But I think I have her right now. I think I’m usually saying Otsko at Kotska correctly, even though when I look at it, I’m like huh.

Tig Nataro is a friend of Otsco and says I feel confident she’s friends with leprechauns, but she wouldn’t even realize she was talking to a leprechaun. Otsko describes herself as a ditz. Vanity Fair says it’s more like she often doesn’t seem entirely aware of her surroundings, but is also blissfully unconcerned. A friend of hers comic Di Loo says, I say this with all the love in my heart. Otsko’s living ten seconds behind everything that’s happening around her, so by the time she catches up to what’s happening, she’s like, oh okay.

Otsko does not dispute this. As for her set, she talks about divorce, mental illness, eating disorders, some light kidnapping, and says, it’s all the differ for an interest that make me who I am. Looking at me, you might not know that I can, you know, make my butt do things you’ve seen in music videos, for example, apparently she was a cheerleader in high school, or that I have rhythm, or that I listen to pretty much solely dance hall music. Let’s go at Koska is great. Where is her special?

Let me tell you the Intruder on HBO? Yeah, fantastic, You should watch that. Nimesh Patel spoke to the Albany Times Union. His previous special was called Lucky Lefty, which discussed his testicular cancer. For this tour, he says, no, no more ball talk politics.

I’ll usually decide night of if I want to if anything’s going on, then I want to talk about I’m not sure if you’re aware what’s happening in the world at the moment. It’s not exactly fun comedic material, but we’ll see what we can do. Yeah, I’ve been pondering how to handle the situation in Israel on this podcast. Obviously you come here for light hearted fluff banter, but you know, sometimes, like I did on Monday, there are stories there and I open up a little heavy. I’m just trying to figure out where in the podcast to place it, and I don’t want to ignore it, but also I get why you come here, and it’s more for like, hey, Julia, Louis Dreyfus says she doesn’t know what’s going on with the Seinfeld reading, like I get it, So I’m trying to figure that out anyway, Nameschez.

For the most part, it’s honestly whatever I feel like talking about right now. That’s like how I grew up in some thoughts on the world at large, but nothing crazy. It’s the tour I’m having the most fun so far. I gotta have a new joke or two or three, or a new minute or five minutes buried somewhere in the set. The thing I’m most excited for is where that new joke’s going to be.

That’s the initial psych up, and then once I get comfortable on stage, I’m having fun. Oddly enough, it’s the most present I get to be in any twenty four hour time period. The hour and a half that I’m on stage, I have to be present, and that’s also motivating for me, because otherwise I’m just like on my phone thinking about what I’m gonna say, and then that turns into a daydream and I’m wondering what I’m gonna eat, you know, all the random bs that goes through your head. As for this being a new hour, he says, I’d say I’m at the beginning. I’m probably not close to a third down yet, still in the beginning stages of it.

It’s weird because I do like three cities in a weekend, and when I get home on Monday, I’m like, where was I This is from September, but I only just saw it. Andrew Schultz on The Flagrant podcast was discussed Hasan Minhaj and pointed out, usually we comedians lie to make things funnier, not make things more racist, sad, or emotional. It’s not like he’s been using these exaggerations or hyperbole as punch lines. He was using them to make the audience feel worse about him. And it turns out these things didn’t actually happen.

Remember the whole adventure with Trevor Noah’s canceled show and Bengaluru. Well, according to MoneyControl dot Com, a website that I usually don’t source. I don’t know how accurate they are. They seem accurate, but from MoneyControl dot Com they sat Comedian Nishant Suri had to cancel his show in Bengaluru over non payment of dues by the event organizers. This at the same arena.

He went on Instagram to share his experience. The post went viral, with other comics backing his claim. He even tagged it at an Instagram post saying I even got a call from the driver of the cab they arranged to pick me up, saying he hadn’t been paid and could I do something about it. Suzi Ediazzard playing San Francisco. The SF Chronicle caught up with Susie and they were curious because this new tour finds Susie reworking her most famous material and reimagining it.

Well, how does that work? And Susie said the Rolling Stones are a good example. They’ve played for sixty years now, and when they do the classics, they do them in the classic style because that’s what people want to hear. They don’t want it remixed. But in comedy, if you go in and do the same beats, it doesn’t work.

That’s why I want to change them so that I can live and go what do I say next? What comes here? It’s like a chess game. That’s what really turns me on and not quite being sure of what I’m going to say next. Suzie Eddie is already is performing in multiple cities and in multiple languages.

Susie says, my special trick is to treat every audience the same. It’s a very lazy technique, but that’s the brilliant thing about history. What Henry the Eighth did and what an idiot he was. That hasn’t dated at all. It will never date.

I go all the way back to ancient Greece and that’s not dated at all. You can see a laziness in my work and hopefully in intelligence and an attention to detail. But I don’t want to change at gig to gig because it seems too much hard work. Suzie Eddie performs comedy in four languages, including English. Any plans to add more languages so as he says, yes, French and German are up and running and touring.

Spanish is up and running, but my ability to speak the language isn’t as strong. I want to learn Arabic because I was born in Yemen, but I only know a few words of that. Russian is one I want to do as well. I know there’s a war on. They say it’s good to learn languages in your senior years because it keeps the dementia wolf away from the door.

So I’ll just keep trying to learn them and do performances. I’ve been mentioning how much I loved Mark Maren’s interview with Tom Poppa. They talked about corporate shows and Papa said they’re expecting a clean, funny show. Half of them aren’t even comedy fans, and they’re not even paying attention. They’re just being brought in there because it’s their night.

And if I’m working on something new, like the new act that I’m in, it’s not gonna be as tight. So I’ll go back to the last two acts. Maren then jumps in and talks about doing old material and says, some guy keeps bothering me at the comedy store. There’s two old guys to go there every night. The guy keeps telling me do the gun thing, the bad thing.

Maren says, I don’t even remember how it opens. I have to look it up on Spotify. Papa said, I hate when I do a corp and I take out a joke that’s twenty years old, and it kills in a way that nothing currently kills. Next Avenue who spoke to Maria Bamford and asked, Maria, how do you think it differs being a female comedian versus a male comedian, And you think it’s changed a lot in the last ten to twenty years. Maria said, the bays the same thirty years later.

For openers coming up, the majority of clubs feature white males. The wonderful thing is the internet, theater and festival opportunities where comics can book themselves and avoid the clubs that don’t seem to want to develop new audiences. Since it was an interview about comedy, they had to ask her about cancel culture, and she said cancelation doesn’t seem real at all. There are plenty of alleged sex criminals still touring to huge crowds who don’t care if I get canceled or called out for something I’ve done. Thank you.

I’m grateful that anyone takes time out of the day to teach me about something. I’ve said many things that we’re ignorant. I’ve been grateful when it’s been pointed out to me. Chris Cather talked about alt comedy to The eight hundred Pound Gorilla and said the scene in New York began to feel less unified. I think club comedy has risen up.

I think the aggressive style has risen up. I’ll jump in there, yes, yes, and displaced all comedy a little bit. I also think there’s a really beautiful quasi cabaret scene that has so much joy and value to it, but it doesn’t feel as working class as the all scene used to. Not that the alt scene ever was like people in overalls and work boots doing shows after they got off their jobs working as long shoreman. I’m not saying that, but the accessibility was there.

Now there’s a new scene that feels a little bit more like young and hot. It’s an awesome scene. Don’t get me wrong, but as a forty three year old white guy whose hairline is sprinting in the wrong direction, it’s hard for me to find my place in that particular version of the alt scene. Gathered is pretty self aware. He realizes the bigger thing’s got for him, the less it felt like him.

That includes the Chris Gethard Show. Chris said, a lot of the fans would say when we went to cable, the show got a lot worse. I’d actually argue that if you go back and watch the old public access shows, some of them are really bad. They fall apart, they don’t make sense, they’re not that funny, but people love the spirit of it. For me, I realize that the spirit is sort of what fuels me to be my best.

Sometimes I have to take a deep breath and go, don’t get caught up in this idea that you need to make more money than you did a few years ago. Don’t get caught up in this idea that that’s the only determining factor. That is great advice, Chris says, Sometimes, for me, the thing that’ll make me the most happy in the middle of a given week is a show in a coffee shop. In boot in New Jersey, where there’s fifty people, and I can rant about how depressing the Chuck E Cheese and East Hanover is on a Monday night. I know that Chuck E Cheese.

I was by there the other night with my son. We didn’t go to Chuck e Cheese because he’s in his twentiness now. We went to Chili’s and they’ll get it because they’ve actually been there. It’s a very, very far away from HBO, but it makes me happy and I have to trust that, and I have to have faith in that. Curtis Cook is one of Ulture’s twenty five comedians to Watch.

Curtis, what have you learned about your own joke writing process? Curtis said, I finally accepted that joke writing looks different than I thought it would. I used to feel bad if I wasn’t sitting down and physically writing a certain number of pages a day, or putting pen to paper as I thought I should. Most of the writing I do now involves either endlessly pacing my apartment or steering blankly into space for hours on end. I’ll jump in.

I’ve talked about that all the time. If you watch mad Men, there’s a scene where the writers are throwing a tennis ball around on the British bosses, like what the hell are they doing? And Don Draper explains, I have to let the creative people be uncreative until they’re ready. I’ve explained to bosses for years. You know you can whip us and go come up with good ideas.

It doesn’t work that way. I know for me, most of my good ideas come early in the morning and often went on runs and I let my brain kind of go wild, So I hear you, Curtis Cook. Curtis added my experiences that writing stuff out does help, especially in the editing process, but when the concepts are loose, I’m a big fan of letting yourself spin out like a lunatic until you think you’re excited to try something new. And coming up on November ninth, didn’t your Comedy Festival edition of Comedy Gives Backs Laugh Aid featuring Gary Goleman, Dresica Curse and Jeff Ross, Aaron Jackson and surprise special guests. One hundred percent of the ticket sales will go to Comedy Gives Back.

Gotham is a great club in New York City. If you’ve never been there. All tables are shared. If you don’t want to sit with some strangers, you got to buy the whole table. Masks optional to beverage minimum.

All sales are final, and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts Spotify. If you’re on the Android, you’re getting rid of Google podcasts, you might want to switch over to Overcast. That’d be a good thing to do. See you tomorrow.