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Featured: Eddie Murphy, Kevin Hart, Leo Reich, Daniel Tosh, Matt Rife, Brooke Scofield

What’s in This Episode

• Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Netflix film announcement
• Kevin Hart’s Muhammad Ali robbery series Fight Night on Peacock
• Leo Reich HBO special Literally Who Cares
• Matt Rife cheating allegations and Brooke Scofield podcast appearance
• Daniel Tosh pro-cancel culture podcast comments

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy. It’s a couple of things I couldn’t get to yesterday. It was so busy with that Netflix’s Joe Comedy Festival. What a lineup?

Anyway, Netflix has been busy. They released the trailer for the terribly titled Beverly Hills Cop axel f the fourth film in the popular Beverly Hills Cop series. Why not just call it Beverly Hills Cop four, which we’re all gonna call it right anyway. It’ll be out in the summer. I would share the trailer with you, but it has lots of music in it and that’ll get me in trouble with the music people, so can’t share it with you.

I watched trailer. It looks fun. I mean, if Netflix puts that in front of me, I’ll probably watch it almost immediately. It’s been thirty years since Beverly Hills Cop three. Cay Do the Math, Yeah, nineteen ninety four.

Eddie Murphy is back as a Detroit cop solving crimes in Beverly Hills. I wonder why he never retired. It’s been minimum thirty years. I have a pretty nice pension. Judge reyin Hold and John Ashton also returned as local cops Lieutenant Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart.

Andie Murphy told people it’s really physical movie. I had to do some physical stuff. I like to be on the couch. I don’t like to be jumping over and shooting and running, and I had to do some jumping and shooting and running. And as a result, at the end of the movie, I had a knee brace and my back is messed up.

But the movie’s going to be special. Looking forward to that one, Kevin Hart went, I don’t know, sixteen hours without announcing a new thing. Well, he’s announced a new thing. Peacock and Kevin Hart, they’re stepping into the boxing ring, says the Hollywood Reporter. Peacock has ordered a limited series titled Fight Night The Million Dollar Heist.

This will tell the story of an armed robbery orchestrated around Muhammad Ali’s nineteen seventy comeback fight in Atlanta. This already sounds awesome. Kevin Hart will star in the series and serve as an executive producer, presumably not playing Muhammad Ali. I think that would be a stretch it’s a limited TV series, not a movie. The official log line series will tell the infinitus story of how an armed robbery during the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic nineteen seventy comeback fight changed not only one man’s life, but an entire city’s destiny.

Is it infamous? I’ve never heard of this story, and there’s a good chance, just how math works, that I’m older than you are. The story centers on the hustler at the center of the robbery and the detective, one of the first black and Atlanta police officers to rise to that rank. So we’ll see who Kevin is playing, and we’ll see who plays Ali. Maybe a he’s not even in the movie.

Who Knows? Leo Reich has his new special on HBO today. It is called Literally Who Cares? Leo was on the Last Laugh podcast. Leo is aware that none of us have heard of him, and he said the trailer for the show came out a couple days ago, and the top comment on the video was like, this guy doesn’t even have ten thousand Instagram followers.

Why the f does he have an HBO special? He laughed and said, I was like, yeah, absolutely, I could have written that that’s so true. The show includes several musical interludes. Bo Burnham’s Inside is one inspiration. Written during the pandemic.

Leo says that dichotomy of being stuck at home during what was supposed to be the prime of his life helped inform the themes he decided to explore. He said, totally a joke, because, of course, in almost every way, it’s one of the easiest times ever to be young, especially for me specifically, one of the easiest human lives that’s ever been in the history of civilization is my life. But at the same time, you can’t help but focus on the specific ways in which your own experiences are harder than they’ve ever been. It’s ironic in the sense that I know I can order food on my phone, on my door or whatever, but it isn’t in the sense of, like, will there even be a world in fifty years. They asked him about Matt Rife, because I don’t know they’re both under thirty.

I don’t know why they asked him about Matt Rife, but he said, I haven’t seen that special, so I can’t really comment on Matt Rife specifically, because I don’t really know his stuff, But I think in general, TikTok does prioritize different skills and a different way of writing and a different way of doing comedy. Leo is not a TikTok comedian. He says, if you want to be successful on an app like TikTok, you really have to understand the algorithm and understand what section of the extremely animized audience you’re going to try and isolate and appeal to. And that’s almost the opposite of what performing in comedy clubs is like, which is really starting from your animized little group of your friends who you may laugh and using that as a base to try and find some kind of universalism, at least right towards a more universal sense of humor on some level. I tried it out, meaning TikTok in the pandemic.

I post clips and stuff of me doing stand up and would occasionally attempt a character, but I’m so bad at it. But also the stuff that I like just didn’t get good responses, and the stuff that I thought was terrible and got amazing responses. I went, yeah, I mean I could just lean into this and ruin my own ability to join my own output. That feels like a mistake at this juncture, and so I kind of backed off from the whole thing. Now, my goal for today is to watch lots and lots of comedy.

I’m not sure if HBO is putting this out at ten PM or if it’s on now whenever now is in your life, but I want to watch lots of TV today. I’ve watched this trailer twice and it’s not grabbing me at all. But also, I have my best of the Year list that I want to do and I want to just record that now. But Ricky doesn’t come out until Christmas, and Trevor’s not out yet, so I gotta wait. So I don’t know.

Maybe i’ll check this one out. If I don’t get to it today, maybe i’ll get to it tomorrow after football.

Speaking of Matt Riife, the Hindustan Times, which is your home for comedy ne…

Brook said she saw photos of Rife with another woman taking during the time that she was dating him earlier this year. She dm the woman in the photo about the timeline of the romance and they started comparing notes. She says, there were timelines, there were venn diagrams. We were comparing notes. It was so crazy for a man who doesn’t have time, this man at the most time, She said, I go to send Matt a little message.

I wanted to get my fact straight, as if my facts aren’t straight enough, and it wasn’t even rude. I just sent him a text and I was like, how embarrassing is it that I’m literally currently getting dragged for defending you while also in a group chat with seven other girlfriends you had. She says, he blocked my number. Blocking me is crazy. Brook, who is described as an influencer, says she hopes that the stand up star blocked her number to respect his current girlfriend, Jessica Lord, but then added he should unfollow the two thousand porn stars he still follows to this day.

Effing weirdo. Daniel Tosh spoke about cancel culture on his podcast. His take, I think it’s great cancel people. I think people deserve it, and you know, obviously it’s not a real thing where like oh, your livelihood is gone. As someone who’s done things and said horrible things constantly, I’m at backlash and I deserve it.

There has to be consequences, and I also don’t think there’s a problem with evolving. I’m like, oh, I used to be able to say this and now I can’t. Okay, Well, find good. I’m okay with that. Tosh claimed he has never changed because of anything, and I guess we’re going full circle here.

He’s thankful that none of his ex girlfriends ever wrote an article criticizing him. From Inside Hook, the question is social media killing stand up comedy? Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube have been a boon of creators of comics. Their unintended consequences, however, have also been quite disruptive. Inside Hook says Billy Procida, a comedian with fifteen years in stand up, recently delivered a set in the nude at the Brooklyn Sex Club.

This the naked comedy show I told you about recently. Billy joked, I recently had an affair with a married woman. Takes a beat, and then says also got in a fistfight with a married man, but the punchlines expected last were quickly undone by a woman who yelled out no. Billy was like, well, okay, and this is not TikTok, I can hear you. That got a good laugh.

I’m right here, there’s no screen. He moved on to another bit. I slept with this woman recently. She’s an older and the woman yelled out no in the middle of a joke. Billy shared an Instagram video of the incident and with a caption that said, I was legit nervous.

I was about to yell at a disabled chick. Over the crowd’s gasps of disbelief, Billy referenced a real trend among TikTok users who may or may not have Tourette syndrome and said, with the TikTok generation, you’re all really into ticks. So that’s now.

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And then he stumbled, and he changes course and says, I’ll stop because other…

Then he said, with anyone under twenty five, I’m like, is this a disability or are you just annoying? The audience applauded. Apparently they were on his side, says Inside Hook. A number of comics say that Heckling is on the rise. Graham Kay is a veteran comedian from Ottawa who said, I’ve heard from a lot of comics that audiences are more vocal.

The things that get promoted on TikTok and Instagram are mostly CrowdWork videos, so people see people talking to the comedian and it normalizes it. The Hook reminds us sometimes comedians engage in crowd work, but that’s generally not how stand up shows work. The social contract accepted by most on either side of the mic is that the comic usually recites a string of words which may have been toiled over for months in front of other crowds who did not react positively because the bit had yet to be honed. Then eventually the audience is compelled to laugh. Kay talked about current audiences and said they’ve probably never been to a stand up show where they go once every five years, and they don’t know the culture.

So when they go for their annual stand up show now they’re talking more inside. Hook says, Developing just ten minutes worth of jokes that are sure to amuse a variety of audiences each year was a relatively high standard for comedians a few decades ago. Back then, brief annual appearances on late night TV shows was a primary goal, but nowadays many performers work on an hour of new material over the course of a year or two. They hope to score a stand up special or record an album airon streaming platforms and radio. And still posting even thirty second clips that they’re trying true jokes once or twice a day on social media is unsustainable for comedians over the long term.

That’s where crowd work has come into being. Vogue Case says, because algorithms favor short clips, many comedians will now include a controversial thesis statement in the initial stage of the setup. Comedians are starting to do comedy not for the live audience in front of them, but they’re structuring their stand up for a robot. The live audience is coming second to a digital audience. Colin Quinn discussed crowd work and said it’s like anything else in the wrong hands, it could be faked, It can be manufactured.

Yeah. I heard there is a comedian who has done a lot of comedian destroys Heckler videos, and I heard two comedians suggesting that a lot of that is staged. I’ll let them sort that out. Colin said, when it’s really spontaneous, it’s fine. But sometimes with these comedians, I’m watching and I’m like, hey, this person wasn’t doing anything, and you’re just bullying them, and you’re just trying to get them to say something so you can abuse them.

That’s the other big crowd work trick. Nimesh Ptil has a joke about taking an uber from Kansas City to Omaha. Later during the Q and A, a woman in the audience asked him how much the uber ride cost, and he said, I didn’t actually take an uber, it’s just for the joke. Come on, lady, what the f Numesh said. He rolled out old performance clips he out on YouTube starting around June twenty twenty, but it was on TikTok that took off.

The first stand up clip I put on there got like eight hundred thousand views. I never had eight hundred thousand views on anything ever before, even if you were to sum up everything I’d ever posted. Then I started feeding that machine like every day with a clip or two, and by March of twenty one, I had a mass like eighty thousand followers. I’m sorry if I’ve participated in dumbing down audiences. Sorry if I’ve participated in causing people to heckle and all that.

He was asked what part of that apology is sarcastic and which is authentic, and he said one hundred percent on both. He now addresses the hecklers by telling the crowd, some of you might be here because you think I’m going to talk to you the entire time. That’s not what this show is. I’m sorry I lead you to believe that that’s what this is. Sam Morrell talked about posting social media and it was because of COVID.

He said, YouTube was really an active desperation. It was like, I want people to see the work that I worked hard on. I’d been touring hard for an hour. You put a lot into it. If you’re a real comic who does the road, you’re honing it in a bunch of different cities and you’re sick all the time, and you’re like, how do I nail this?

I was one of the earlier comics just to put a special on YouTube, and I would definitely say I was one of the early ones who had done TV specials already. I didn’t ever do this with the expectations of getting on Netflix. The expectation was hopefully people buy tickets to see me on the road. This is good. I’m gonna pick up on more of this tomorrow.

There’s a little bit more here that I find interesting, a specific to Instagram. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and you can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Tom Brady, Shane Gillis, Seth Rogan, Matt Rife

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix Is A Joke Festival 2024 lineup announcement
• Trevor Noah hosts 2024 Grammy Awards
• Secret Service investigates Shane Gillis joke about former president
• Tom Brady roast at Netflix Is A Joke Festival
• Chris Rock table reads at Hollywood Palladium

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. A very very robust Friday with several major stories. But let’s start with the Netflix as a Joke Festival, which we’ll be back in twenty twenty four May, second to the twelfth, more than three hundred shows across thirty five plus la venues. The Hollywood Bowl will feature the biggest acts including Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney and we’ll see if this actually happens Matt Rife.

The Hollywood Bowl will also host Ladies Night with a lineup including Taylor Tomlinson, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Michelle Buteau, and an evening titled Seth Rogan Smokes the Bowl featuring music and comedy. This is insane, This is huge. Over at the Forum, Netflix will host Groat the Greatest Roast of All Time, which is a roast of Tom Bray. Jeff Ross will host that night to some of Tom Brady’s famous friends in Frenemies will gather together to light up Tom Brady. Chris Rock will host star studded table reads of his favorite films at the Hollywood Palladium.

The list of people at the festival so far. This is John reading a list, but I gotta do it. You gotta hear these names. You’re ready. This is no Joe Gali Wong.

Let’s go at Coonska. Remember when she was in the news every day for like three months? Haven’t heard her name? And a mother So Anthony, Jelsin, ekber Kreischer, Beth Stelling, Bill Burr, Brett Goldstein. If I stopped right there, you’d be like, this is a pretty cool festival.

We’re only up to the bees. Cedric d entertainer, Celeste Barber. So I’m ten names in and Celeste Barber the least no name right, Chelsea Handler, Chris Rock, Craig Robinson, Daniel Tosh, Deane Cook, Interesting, Dane Diino tends to be a comedy outsider, David Letterman, Dmitri Martin, Dean Cole, Earthquake, Fortune Fimester, Hannah Berner, Hannah Gatsby, Heather McMahon, Eliza Slessinger, Jason Menzukis, Jeff Ross, Jerry Seinfeld, Jesse Klein, Jessica Kirkon, Joel Kimbooster, John Mulaney, John Stewart, Jim Gaffick and Jim Jefferyes, Jimmy Carr. I mean, wow, Justin Willman, Katherine, Ryan, kat Williams, Kevin Hart, Country, Wayne kameil Nan, Gianni, Leanne Morgan, Leslie Jones, Lunel Mae, Martin, Mark Normand again, I know I’m reading a really long list, but you listen to these names Man, Marlon Wayans, Mitzel Lane, Matt Rife. We’ll see if that happens.

Maya, Rudolph, Michelle Butteo, Mike Berbiglia, Mike Epps, Mosha Kasher, Natasha Lazio, Nate Bergatzi, Nicole Bayer, Nick Kroll, Nikki Glaser, Patton Oswalt, Phil Rosenthal. Yes, I’m only up to the P’s What a list. I’m gonna keep going. Rachel Bloom, Ralph Barbosa, Ronny Chieng, Roywood, Junior, Ryan Hamilton, Who I Love, Sam Jay, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Maniscalco, Seth Rogan, Shan Gillis, Shang Wang, Stavros Halkias, Taylor Thompson, Tim Dillon, Who I Love, Tim Robinson, Tom Brady, Tom Poppa, Tom Segura, Trevor, Noah Vidaz, Wanda Sykes and Dodgers player Will Smith not the actor that qualify. Wow, unbelievable.

You want to go? Tickets go on sale today’s tan Am Pacific. Let me break down the individual highlights at the Hollywood Bowl eight nights. Jerry Seinfeld, Chim Gaffigan, a bergazzy spashion of Manascalco, Bill Burjohn Mulaney, Seth Rogan, Matt Riife Taylor, Sarah Nicky and Michelle, Kevin Hart, Trevor Noah Wow. At the Forum the Tom Brady Roast, also Tom Sigoora and Bert Krascher.

I believe those are separate shows, but I’ll check on that. At the Palladium, Chris Rock’s table reads very interesting. Dodgers Comedy Night, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and presented by Dodgers catcher Will Smith. Chris Rock has to come by that for the easy Joe guess. Maybe it’s a little hackey, eh, you gotta do it.

At the Greek Theater, Big Mouth Live with Nick Krolmei, Rudolph, John Mulaney, Jesse Klein, and Jason Manzukus.

Also at the Greek Theater, John Stewart and Friends.

Separately from that Shane Gillis. Separately from that, I Think you should leave with Tim Robinson, Ali Wang and Scheng Wang play the Wiltern. Ronny Chieng wan To Sykes Daniels Toss played the Dolby Letterman, Mark Norman, Eliza Sllester, Heather mcmah, Dane Cook, Rachel Bloom and Katherine Ryan All at the Montelbon At the YouTube Theater, Kat Williams The Dark Matter Tour will be recorded for Netflix. Chelsea Handler, Fortune Fimesner, It’s Hail Lane, Sam Jays and Vanessa Gonzalez host Three Gays in Mexican and a Jew Great title A Night of Comedy with Chelsea Handler and Friends. Kill Tony at the YouTube Theater.

Wow, That’s awesome. At the Orphium, I’m Brett Goldstein’s Les Barbara of verrdas Country Wayne at the Theater. At Ace Hotel, Hannah Gatsby, Ralph Barbosa, Papa Nan Gianni Patten, Burbiggs, Jimmy Carr, Marlon Wayans, Phil Rosenthal, Henneberger, Jessel Nick, Dimitri Martin at the Avalon the wonderfully titled May Martin and Brett Goldstein make love to one another on stage. Separate from that, Felippe esparsa, Wow, this is crazy. All Right, I’m gonna stop because I’m just reading you lists, but this is amazing.

Great job Netflix. Six minutes into the podcast, I’ve only done one story, all right. Other major news, Trevor Noah will host the twenty twenty four Grammy Awards. It’s his fourth time. He announced this on his podcast What Now with Trevor Noah.

Trevor said, I think it’s important to acknowledge something. I’m hosting the Grammys. I’m excited about that. Yeah, it’s a lot of fun. I enjoy the Grammys because I get to watch the show in person and then experiencing comment and on person while it’s happening.

The Grammys are February fourth. Vulture points out Trevor if he wins, he’d be the fourth Grammy host to win during a show that they hosted. On this next story, I’m gonna pull my punch here. I’m gonna do a lot of wink wink, nudge, nudge, know who I mean, because I don’t want to be investigated by the Secret Service. The Messager reports.

The Secret Service investigated comedian Shane Gillis for saying that seeing a particular person. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Secret Service involved you know who I mean, and not the current guy, the guy before the current guy. Shane Gillis apparently told a joke about the person with that big job back in twenty nineteen. I’m quite paraphrasing here again, I don’t want to be investigated, and Secret Service appreciate that you guys love the show.

I’m just reporting on a new story, Shane said, paraphrasing here of all the you know people with that big job, I’ve been alive for that guy who had it at the time, not the guy who has it now. I’m not asking for that. I don’t want that to happen, but it’d be funny to see. He’d be on stage talking crap, the shooter be coming at him and he’d be like, sit down. He’d definitely make a funny noise when he got hit.

It would be funny, Shane Gillis wrote on Twitter back then. I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss. My intention is never to hurt anyone, but I’m trying to be the best comedian I can be, and sometimes that requires risks. The messenger says a look around YouTube and TikTok shows that Shane Gillis has recycled the joke at other comedy clubs around the country.

In twenty twenty one, Gillis retold that joke during a special taped in Austin, but that time included a joke about the guy who currently has the big job. Gillis suggests that that person is the first person with that big job that someone could kill with a punch, a reference to that person’s age and perceive fragility again, Secret Service, I’m just reporting a news story here. Appreciate that you guys listen, so the messenger tells us. After Gillis’s act at the stand was picked up by news outlets, the joke caught the attention of a protective intelligence research specialist at the Secret Service. According to documents attained by the messenger, the Secret Service employee noted the joke in an email with the subject line discovery of threatening statement by comedian Shane Gillis.

Per this report, the employee wrote that they found Gillis’s joke by doing routine open source intelligence research and found that multiple news outlets had reported on the joke. In the records, the Secret Service rits that Gillis was not interviewed when he made inappropriate statements towards Guy with Big Job, and the information had not been presented to the US Attorney’s Office. To conduct their productive, intelligent assessment of Shane Gillis, the Secret Service pulled his personal information such as his social Security number, of criminal history, last known phone number, address, and vehicle information. They also checked three internal databases for reports about pass threats. A Secret Service Deputy Special Agent in charge told the Messenger, the Secret Service is aware of the comments made by mister Gillison.

As a matter practice, we do not comment on matters involving protective intelligence. We can’t say, however, that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees. The Messenger reminds us Gillis is not the first comedian to be investigated for jokes about the guy with a Big Job. In twenty twenty one, John Mulaney apparently was investigated about a joke made on SNL. M’lany further joked with Jimmy Kimmel that he’d been investigated by the agency for a joke about Roman dictator Julius Caesar.

Another big story from page six, The New York comedy scene is being shaken by allegations that an SNL cast member lifted a catchphrase from Janis Poppas. Page six is told there’s been a flurry of angry messages and finger pointing between comics cast members and other members of the SNL team after an alleged blatant ripoff. If you saw last week’s episode, Marcello Hernandez played a flamboyant Hispanic character who used the catchphrase das it many times. However, apparently Yannis Pappas has been doing a beloved Hispanic character called Marisa for years with the catchphrase das it. Papus told Page six, I’m kind of torn on the situation.

Part of me is honored, but the other part of me has to find out about the bit the next day from people tagging me and writing me about this. I’m been doing stand up comedy for two decades now, so I’m not an up and coming comedian. I’m surprised nobody in the writer’s room spoke up about this. I find it hard to believe Marcella wasn’t aware of me and the character, a source close to SNL told Page six with respects to Giannis in his comedy. This sketch, in its premise, was independently created DEAs it was a commonly used phrase in Marcella’s household in Latin community growing up in Miami.

The sketch was not written with Giannis’s character in mind. Page six reminds us that the show has been accused of plagiarism a dozen or so times in its forty eight year history. In his two thousand and four memoir Gasping for Airtime, former cast member j Moore admitted to stealing a sketch from comic Rick Shapiro. Michael McDonald, You know the singer. He’s got a new book coming out.

Why you telling me about this, Johnny Mac? Well, guess who co wrote it? Wrong? Of course, Paul Reiser is the cover writer. I was like, what, Apparently, Paul Reiser has several books, including Couplehood, Babyhood, and Familyhood.

Paul Reiser tells People Magazine. I sort of made a joke because I period asked Michael McDonald questions I didn’t understand about the doobies and about him, and I said, jokingly, you should write a book so I don’t have to bother you all the time, and he said, I’ve thought about it, but I don’t know how you start that during the pandemic. Apparently they worked on it. It is called What a Fool Believes Good title. It will cover McDonald’s long career, his interaction with other musicians, and his battles with drug and alcohol addiction.

It’ll be out in May. Kathy Griffin she’s been investigated by the FEDS. At some point, she was speaking to the pitch at Kansas City, who said, we read somewhere the your new stand up tour came together at a moment’s notice. I’d been waiting patiently for all the planets in a line like this, Kathy said, Yeah, I’ve been writing stuff this whole time. Because I’ve been doing it for so many decades.

I can’t help but look at everything through the prism of what would be funny. Honestly, it’s just pitiful. I’ve been taking my little notes the whole time, waiting for Hollywood to get over themselves and come back to me. And no joke. I just got a manager two or three months ago, and then they got me an agent a couple weeks later.

I think the people who buy tickets probably know about my cancer and how my voice is a little higher pitched now. I talk about that part because I didn’t know cancer was accidentally funny. But let me tell you something, when you have cancer, it’s the great equalizer. And if I’m called Kathy Lee Gifford one more time at the medical office, I’m on the D list even in my cancer medical appointments. But I’m cancer free now.

So I was actually injured during my surgery when they took out half my left lung. Half my left lung gone gone. It’s somewhere and it hazard been somewhere in Beverly Hills, along with my dignity. And from the Irish Star You’re Home for Comedy News, comedian Katie Boyle has explained Irish slang two Americans. She’s been living in New York for nearly a decade, but sometimes Jesus phrases that the Americans don’t understand.

I remember back in the nineties, I had several Irish friends and they would ask me if I wanted to go out for some crack. And in the nineties, when you said that to me, I’m like, no, I don’t really do cocaine derivatives. Thank you. Though apparently craxy or aic would just mean want to go out for some good fun. Wonderful word to throw out a sentence if you want to confuse somebody.

Katie Boyle has been confusing people using the phrase in bits, which I’m familiar with. She explained on stage, if we’re sick, we’ll say I’m in bits. But when I said that to Americans, they were like, sorry, what I had to explained it? I was like, it means sick because I’m in bits, I’m in little pieces, I’m not whole. I was like, oh my god, are we just all poets on Ireland?

This is so embarrassing, Katie said, every time I go home, the humor is so subtle. I have to remind myself that most people are being sarcastic all the time here. If you’re going to be sarcastic, you have to add a bit more tone. Irish people are just naturally funnier in general, and funnier with dark stuff. Irish audiences are chattier and interactive in a fun way.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. If you like to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com Slash Daily Comedy News, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow. Thanks,

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Cal Penn, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, George Santos, Steph Tolev, Bill Burr, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah releases new ‘What Now?’ special trailer for December 19
• George Santos demands $21,800 from Jimmy Kimmel over Cameo video usage
• Chris Rock Netflix special viewership analysis and ranking
• Steph Tolev opens for Bill Burr at Scotiabank Arena, appears in Netflix special
• Late night monologue jokes from Kimmel and Fallon
• Netflix comedy lineup with Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle specials
• Nate Bargatze appearance on Monday Night Manning Cast

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. HEYMN Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The second half of this podcast. The stories are quite out there, quite aggressive today, but we’ll do normal stuff in the front half. Wanted to catch up on some late night jokes that I liked, one from Jimmy Kimmel.

The setup here the indictment of Hunter. Biden accuses Hunter of spending millions on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels, rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature. In short, everything but his tax is Kimmel’s joke. Hunter Biden is like the son Donald Trump. Never had a new topic from Jimmy fallon.

President Biden hosted Ukrainian President Zelenski at the White House. When he asked for money and support, Zelenski said, sorry, Joe, I got my own problem. That’s a great joke. Cal Penn talking about the Dodgers signing at show Hey Otani to a seven hundred million dollar contract, cal Penn said, that’s one dollar for every minute it takes to watch one single baseball game. Trevor no has got a new special out December nineteenth.

I am psyched for it. Let’s listen to the trailer. When I flew to Paris, my luggage was lost. I had to find somebody to help me. It’s an older French gentleman and he was wearing a red vest and in French it read Informacion and then underneath an English said information.

I said English French English, yeah we I said, okay, could you help me? Please? My my my luggage didn’t arrive. I would like to know what do I need to do. He’s like, oh, the leg easier?

Did you come? If you could define? For that one, we maybe you’re gonna p do you because if you’re in you can be put you different want but you go to that when you can be fine for you because you did not do like them different ones for because I’m not in control with the but this different and controls to maybe you can’t see you for for that one, I was like, okay, okay, all right, let’s try French. Netflix is gonna have quite a run. Trevor on the nineteenth, Ricky Gervai’s Christmas and Dave Chappelle New Year’s Eve.

That’s awesome. I was watching Netflix and they suggested, hey, want to watch Kevin Hart and Chris Rock not an absurd suggestion Netflix, and I was like, hmm, I kind of don’t. I don’t know why, I just I’m not interested in this one. Jason Zinnemann covers comedy for The New York Times, and he only wrote two paragraphs about it. So maybe his editor cut it down.

Maybe the assignment desk was like, Jason, just give us two paragraphs, or maybe Jason’s not into it either. He wrote, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock headliner’s only as a slick self mythologizing. I don’t know how to say that word piece of Netflix conflict. I’m leaving it in That follows the two comedians on the recent arena shows they teamed up on. It’s aimed to comedy fans, even if much of it will be familiar to them.

The story of how Eddie Murphrey spotted Chris Rock at the comic strip and offered him a job on the sequel to Beverly Hills Cop has been told many times in Any stand up fan on social media or listening to this podcast knows that Kevin Hart presented a goat to Chris Rock at the end of their recent MSG show. That doesn’t mean there aren’t reasons to watch, says Jason Zinneman. Did you see Netflix released Hey, here’s what people are actually watching. They finally did that, and I was scrolling down and I wanted to see what the top comedy special was. I got one hundred and twenty five down on the list before I got bored looking.

So then I went to the SEK function and I typed in the words Chris Rock and I found Chris Rock four hundred and ninety seventh. It was the four hundred and ninety seventh most watched thing on Netflix in the first six months of the year. That said, the things that were more watched have seasons, whereas a Chris Rock special was what an hour? So if you’re comparing that to I don’t know, suits has a lot of hours and Chris Rock has one hour, that makes thirty six million, two hundred thousand hours viewed much more impressive. So that suggests a lazy math here.

If it had thirty six million and change hours viewed and the special is about an hour, that means sort of kind of thirty six million people checked out this special. That’s pretty good as a random comparison. The one thing that popped up my mind. I was like, how many people watch the Seinfeld finale? That answer seventy six million?

That thirty years ago when TV was much different. I think thirty six million for comedy special, very very impressive. From The Daily Beast, George Santos says Jimmy Kimmel short changed him by more than twenty thousand dollars when Jimmy requested cameo videos that were later aired on late night television without his permission last week, and now he wants Jimmy Kimmel to pay up. Jimmy Kimmel had a segment called will Santos Say It? He played clips of Santos addressing bizarre requests he and his staff made using pseudonyms, including one where Santos was asked to congratulate a Gary Fortuna on winning a beefeeding contest in Florida.

Santos told The Spectator World that Kimmel’s stunt may have violated Cameo’s terms of service, adding he plans to take Jimmy Kimmel to court if he doesn’t shell out for the clips much higher business rates since they weren’t requested for personal use, Santos says, His total invoice to Kimmel, not including the two thousand already paid for the four videos, is twenty one eight hundred dollars and change. That account amounts for the videos and a fifty percent business rush rate, according to the Spectator. Kimmel provided the Spectator with a statement which reads, the idea that mister Santos would claim we short changed him and used credit card purchases improperly, proves once and for all that the man’s a comedy genius. Steph Tolev told the Toronto Stars she knew when she hadn’t made it. She looked out in the crowd.

There were eight women. They were part of a bachelorette party, but instead of wearing tierras and sashes, they were dressed in rompers and supporting mulletwigs. Steph said that was crazy, as jumpsuits, rompers and curly, dark, long in the back hair are Steph Tolev’s signature look. Steph said, that was crazy, a kind of imposter syndrome. So part of me was thinking, what are you doing?

Why would you want this? But it was strange and kind of nice At times. I still think what’s going on? Last year, she opened for Bill Burr at Toronto’s twenty thousand seat Scotiabank Arena. She said Scotiabank felt like an out of body experience.

I got there and it felt like a simulation. I started doing crowd work, but it’s hard in a plays like that.

And then I looked off to the side and saw my dad and sister just glowing.

And then I saw Bill Burr watching me and laughing, and it brought me back to reality. For a second. I felt more nervous for those people than myself. Before that, she was hanging out on her couch promoting her local shows on social media, making fun of New Yorkers, and then Bill Burr shared the video. She DMed him and thanked him for sharing it, and he said thanks for being hilarious, and then he asked if I’d ever want to open on the road for him.

I seriously thought I was being pranked. About a month later, till I was manager called and said Burr had specifically asked for her to be in his new Netflix special. He had told Netflix the request was non negotiable. Wow, that special as Bill Burr presents Friends Who Kill. That changed things.

Steph says, I was already getting some headlining weekends at American clubs, but that special just took things to a whole new level. Clubs were banging on my agent’s door trying to get me spots. Nate Bergatsy was on the Manning Cast Monday Night, and people didn’t like it. Apparently I didn’t even realize those in Manning Cast because for some reason, Monday Night football had two simultaneous games. I YouTube TV and they had a channel option that let you watch both games simultaneously, so I didn’t go channel surfing at all.

I didn’t even know there was a Maning Cast Monday night, and I guess Nate brought along his father, who’s a magician. Some of the social media comments, I don’t know who magic Man is on the man In Cast, but he’s truly horrible. Another viewer said, Magic on Maning Cast is an all time flop. Kate mccoochee and now she has lung cancer. You may know Kate from The Big Bang Theory or perhaps Garfunkle and oats.

She said the diagnosis was pretty weird. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. It was a surprise, but I also guess it happens the American Cancer Society says that not everyone who’s diagnosed with lung cancer has a history of smoking. Non smokers can develop lung cancer from exposure to rate on secondhand smoke, air pollution, or other factors. That’s scary.

I’ll tell you something I hadn’t shared. So I had a little skin thing removed, and I’ve gotten the biopsy back and everything is fine. But I’ve got a big scar on my arm now. But my reaction to it was like, all right, this is not crazy talk. If you know me, I’m always at the beach.

I’m always out in the sun. So I wasn’t like what me and the example I was using. It was like, it wasn’t like they told me, oh, you might have lung cancer because I don’t smoke. I’ve never smoked, just like Kate. So it’s just interesting me that this, Wow, this actually happened to her.

Hope she’s doing okay. She shared a video and photo from her time in the hospital. You see her walking around in a medical gown holding an IV pole while admiring the pretty nice artwork on the walls. At the end of the TikTok, she poses on her hospital bed with a small box of cereal banana and a food tray. Really scary.

I hope she’s doing okay there. Vulture reviewed ma Maria Bamford’s new special if you’re like what Maria Bamford new special exactly. Comedy Dynamics released it as a thing you can buy. It’s on Apple TV for fifteen dollars. We seem to be in a little moment here where the comedy Senti has decided Maria Bamford is awesome.

Who was it last week that had was a Maren that had Maria Bamford as the number two comedian of all time? Again, Maria is wonderful? Was seeing her alive? But number two all time seems a little high. But vultures on the train, they said.

At first glance, Maria Bamford’s new special, Local Act does not look much like the artistic statement of purpose common Special lacks the kind of sweeping statements about humor and humanity that tend to come with this mode. In scope and style, it doesn’t have pretensions of grandeur, but Bamford isn’t interested in broad claims by other comedians about what art should look like. All of it is charming, and all of it is unmistakably Maria Bamford, full of odd little sound effects, swallowed premises, and startling character voices that arrive into part in seconds. Her physical performance is occasionally so broad that she literally pulls a face. At another point falls into a whole body collapse that punctuates her awareness of being a cliche.

Her jokes are so fast and full of sound it’s as if they’re being told by a one woman band holding invisible instruments. Towards the beginning of the special, she jokes, I’m a comedian as far as I’m concerned, but if I have to make a bunch of ladies at a nonprofit luncheon and NAPA Valley laugh who books this crap? She pauses, then points to herself and says, I do heard from a couple listeners. I always enjoy hearing from listeners. So several ways you can do that.

One participate in the Facebook group which is Daily Come News podcast group. You can email me directly my emails in the show notes. I heard from Susannah, who wrote a huge comedy fan and I love your podcast. It’s the first thing I listened to every morning. I’m going to circle back to that comment in a few minutes.

Please please, please give Michael McIntire some attention. His Netflix special show Man is by far and away the actual funniest like sides hurting, tears, streaming, laughing out loud that I think I’ve ever seen. I know he’s a brit but honestly so worthy of more recognition on this side of the pond. You know, if you listen to every Day, I’m a fan of British comedy on the podcast, I tend to do that stuff in the back half or more on the weekend because you know it’s primarily in an American audience. I get it.

I love British comedy, so I will check out Michael McIntyre. He is off my radar. Thank you for the tip. The Guardian wrote about Michael McIntyre and said, you want ten tight minutes on middle aged wine drinking, McIntire’s your man. Interested in a riff on yawning, Mcinsire’s here for you.

Itemizing the oddity of this universal human behavior, the comedy of failing to press it when in conversation, the incongruity of its seeming contagiousness, how do you catch tretis not for the first time you marvel at such an ostensibly but not observation can feel so fresh and deliver in McIntire’s expert hands such a substantial comic payload. Susanna, thank you for the note, thank you for listening, and that special sheet is recommending is called Showman on Netflix.

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Also heard from PS who said, Hey, Johnny, please take a moment to look at Pat…

He does a series called what makes This Song Stink? It’s all in fun He just released episode eight about Jason Aldeen and it’s insanely funny. I did that. I checked one out about Weezer’s Beverly Hills. I’m a big Weezer fan, and in that video, Pat Trinerty mentions Duncan.

I was like, all right, I could do this. Good tip there. Thank you for reaching out. Back to Susanna’s comment about it’s the first thing I listened to every morning. That pleases me, a couple thoughts about the show here as I put it together, That’s exactly what I’m going for.

You can listen any time of the day, but I’m just trying to do a ten to fifteen. Today’s going to be more like twenty casual listen in the morning, easy on the years, I keep it clean, trying to have a little fun. I was listening to another podcast and it’s hosted by comedian, and two comedians were the guests, and they were going after somebody who I regularly quote on this podcast, who reviews comedy, and they were just going after the guy, making fun of the idea of reviewing comedy. I thought it was a little unfair, and you know, maybe I got a little sensitive to it. I’m like, oh, will they think I’m stupid?

But here’s my deal. Some of you are gonna be like, yeah, yeah, we know. But for the newer listeners, I ran Serious XM Comedy for ten years. After that, I started running the comedy properties for Slacker Radio, which is now called Live one Radio. As part of that, I started hosting a weekly show called The Weekly Comedy Thing.

I still do that. I’ll talk about that on Monday if I remember, I forgot this week and off that I wound up having all these extra stories, so I turned it into this podcast that you’re listening to. Now. I’m not a comedian, I’m not a performer. I’m not trying to be funny, you know.

I’ll throw in some dry wit that your maymory and I like, you might think I’m stupid, that’s cool. I don’t mind. And my take on this. You know, when I was running the Comedy Channel, especially at the series, people were like, well, you’re not a comedian, You’re not And I’m like, well, I’m not a guitarist, but I can understand that a Rolling Stones record is good and schedule it and music master and play it on the rock station. It has nothing to do with whether or not I can play bass guitar.

So specific to comedy, I think I know more about comedy than say, I don’t know ninety eight and a half percent of the population of the United States that zaid. The people that know more than me know way more so. The comedians who are making fun of the critic, they know way more than I do. Mark Maren knows way more than I do. Jason Zinnemann knows way more than I do.

That guy Cliff that wrote the book this month knows way more than I do. I am not claiming to be any kind of expert, just a dude in the basement who likes talking about this stuff. I thank you all for listening. While I’m doing all this, let me thank them members they’ve been on buying Me a Coffee dot com. These are the recurring members.

They are Tommy and Andrew and Gary and Shannon and Mike and Kenny and Kenny’s always trying to get me to switch coffee brands. Kenny Man, I get too wired on that green cup one. I can’t do it. And some other folks have made donation, including Scott and Becky and Kara and Dan JB. And thank you all.

If you would like to support the show, you can go to buy Me a Coffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. All right, the rest of the show, and we’re a little long here today, but just some awkward stuff. Let’s start on gossip Corner. Taylor Swift. Happy birthday yesterday, Taylor, Hope, Taylor at a nice day.

If you want to keep up on Taylor, We’ve got a sister podcast called Taylor Swift Today. It’s like this, except not like this at all. It only talks about Taylor Swift. But today there’s an overlap. Taylor Swift attended a comedy show that featured comedian ram Yousef which benefited a Gaza charity.

And here’s where the controversy is going to start. This was on Friday night Taylor is with Selena Gomez. They were spotted walking into the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Voe confirmed it was a good old fashioned girls’ night out. Both Swift and Gomez opted for the mini skirt and tall booze combo for their evening out at ram Yousef’s stand up show benefiting a Nara.

Anara is the American Near East Refugee aid at charity that provides humanitarian aid to refugees and vulnerable communities in Palestine and Lebanon. Rami Yusef posted on Instagram that one percent of the proceeds for the remainder of his tour will be donated to Anara. Megan Kelly has chimed in and she’s calling for a boycott against Taylor Swift. Megan Kelly on her show said that Taylor owes Israelis and Jewish Americans in apology for attending the event. Megan says, I hope they boycott Taylor Swiss events until she issues it because attending this thing was wrong.

Do some googling see what they do in gaza to gaze see about women’s rights in gaza. Taylor otherwise do this and then motions to shut up when it comes to talking about those issues again. You clearly know nothing. This isn’t a political show, and I’m a little off The point here was Taylor went to a comedy show, and this has turned into a thing here I’m under educated on the entire issue. This next story is horrible.

Originally I left it out. Then when I went for a second pass of preparing today’s show, I see it’s the number one story in comedy. From the New York Post. A US comedian an activist was abducted and killed after trying to meet a woman he found on social media and Colombia. To Geer Jong Hope, I said your name right, an Asian American living in Minnesota, was on vacation in Colombia.

The plan was to spend the holiday season with family. He came into contact with a woman he met on social media. He planned to meet her on December tenth, but was attacked and kidnapped by a group of men around seven pm local time. The comedian called a friend in Columbia, saying that these men had demanded two thousand dollars in cash for his release. He told his friend, who filed a police report, that he was being held at gunpoint.

Hours earlier, police were at the apartment Jean had been staying at because a woman was taking items from the residents and ran off before police could arrest her. Jong’s body was found lying in a ravine with over a dozen stab wounds and multiple bruises, caused by an apparent fall from over sixty feet. Horrible. My favorite actor, Andre Brower passed away at age sixty one. I’m fifty four.

I can’t believe when he was on Homicide Life in the Street he was only seven years older than me. When he was playing Pembleton. I mean always seven years older than what I mean, but I think I was a teenager watching that show and he just absolutely great. Actor. Andre Brower passed away on Monday, age sixty one.

Terry Cruz, who co starred with him in Brooklyn ninety nine, said, can’t believe you’re gone so soon. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you, and shared eight glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent. This hurts you left us too soon. Joe la Truglio from that same show said, so many wonderful stories will be told about Andre for now, but all my love goes to his wife and his three boys. We love very much and flew back every weekend from the show to be with.

Well you probably didn’t know is that Andre could sing too, and often did at lunch, building basic vocals from his dressing room to whatever new music he found. At first, it was odd because well, it was Andre Brower crooning at full lying behind closed doors. But then very quickly it made all the sense in the world because the man was so full of song, and that’s why the world took notice. I miss him so much already. If you’re under familiar with Andre’s work, go on social media and type his name in and add the word homicide and watch some of the clips.

He was just fantastic. S your comedy needs for today see tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Taylor Swift, John Marco Ciresi, LeAnn Morgan, Shane Gillis

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s Taylor Swift fandom and concert attendance
• Nikki Glaser’s changing comedy material as she ages
• AI’s impact on comedy writing and live entertainment
• LeAnn Morgan’s storytelling approach and upcoming book
• Shane Gillis show openers coverage

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser has seen Taylor Swift nine times and spoke to the Spokesman dot com about it. Nicki said, seeing Taylor Swift it’s part of my self care. Her show’s an antidepressant for me.

I feel amazing during and after her concert, so it’s worth it to me. I’ve been judged by people close to me for going to so many shows, nine’s and not a lot. You know how many times I’ve seen Springsteen, But some people spend this amount of money on sporting events. I go to see Taylor Swift since she brings me the most joy in the world. Aside from my nieces and nephews.

Ah, they’re all hooked like I am. If you see Taylor alive, once you get it, I’ve seen Taylor once I get it. Nicki spent fourteen thousand dollars on a front road ticket, not me sixty bucks upper deck. Glazer says it sounds crazy to spend that much money on tickets. Yes, it does, but I don’t own a home, I don’t own a car.

I don’t spend money on my It was worth it. I was in the front row. I cried. I didn’t want to distract her. She’s okay, don’t worry about it.

Also, since you saw the show, you know, if you’re in the front row, she was behind you for ninety percent of the show. If you didn’t see Taylor last summer, there’s a big thing down the middle of the stadium, and Taylor most of the time is on the fifty yard line. So I’m glad you spent fourteen thousand dollars to have to turn around and watch her from forty nine yards away. Stop hating, Johnny Mac. Nicki said, I was in the front row.

I cried, but I didn’t want to distract her. I have the same phone case as her, and I didn’t want her to see it. You know, there’s Taylor, She’s singing Karma. She sees Nicki galaza they are crying, and goes, we have the same phone. And Taylor gets all distracted and messes up the concert and goes viral.

Nicki said, I fall an account to know what she owes, since it makes me feel closer to her. I studied how she plays guitar. I see how she places her pinky finger over her ring finger. When she’s doing a g cord. I’m so close to her that I could see her arm hair, which is beautiful.

Nicki isn’t sure if she wants to meet Taylor Swift. Oh, I’m pretty sure you want to meet Taylor Swift. Come on, Nicki said, I don’t want her to calm me down and say it’s okay while I’m shaking and I’m saying, you mean so much to me. What I love about Taylor is that she’s always present at her shows. During a concert in Philadelphia, Taylor noticed a fan being man handled by a security guard while singing Bad Blood.

Nicki said, of that day, I have that scene memorized from watching the video from Philadelphia. When Taylor said stop it. She didn’t do anything, let her go. She’s so cute. She’s looking out for us.

But I get it she cares about her fans. I care so much about my fans too. My fans who come out to see me and listen to my podcasts know me like my family doesn’t. Since my family doesn’t listen to my podcasts, I always appreciate my fans. I’m always present.

Sometimes you’re tired when you’re performing and you think about what you lead after the show or what you travel days next day, where somebody in this front row has the same phone case as you. But I clear my mind from these thoughts and focus on the people who support what I do. I’m like Taylor in that I want my fans who come out to my shows that of the best time possible. The article points out, if you haven’t seen Nicki in a few years, she doesn’t talk about sex like she used to. Nicki said, I’m in my latest thirty As I put it, sex just is interesting to me anymore.

I don’t know if it’s my hormones or whatever. I’m just not that titillated by it, and I’ve explored it enough. It used to be ninety percent of my act, but it’s not that way anymore. You get older, you grow, you change, and change is good. Bit News asked John Marco Ciresi, do you think AI will come for comedy.

I’ve actually interviewed John Marco Ciresi on this very podcast. I wouldn’t have gotten too that question if I had nine hours, but John Marco feeled it. Boy, I’m feisty today. John Marco feeled it and said writing jokes absolutely but live entertainment. I think part of the energy of comedy is the same reason AI won’t take over sports.

There’d be no fun in watching robots compete against each other. Oh, I don’t know about that at all. Imagine some live version of rock’em soccer robots, that’d be great. It’s about the imperfection of it all. So yeah, do I think AI will write jokes?

Do I think some comedians on stage will use material written by AIS? Sure? But ultimately, the thing that makes live entertainment exciting is thee A living, breeding human being is flawed trying to do something on stage. That’s the excitement of it. I think people were scared when all those holograms of Michael Jackson going on to where We’re going to end the entertainment industry.

Obviously not because they didn’t because you want to see a real human being up there. You want to know they were alive before the show, they’re alive after the show. You could touch them. In theory, I feel really optimistic about it. Frankly, if AI starts pumping out every TV show under the sun and creates a bunch of shlock, live entertainment will just thrive because it’ll feel that much more unique in the landscape.

LeAnn Morgan wax poetically with Forbes about being a storytellerly and said, Honey, I don’t know else to do it. My parents are both good storytellers, and my grandparents were. That’s just how I do it. You know. I grew up outside of Nashville, and I’d see a lot of country music stars Minnie Pearl, roy Acuff, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Porton, probably more than comedy.

I always love Joan Rivers, David Letterman, j Leno, Kevin Meaney. I love them all the whole art of it. I always wondered what if I was like Jerry Seinfeld and I could write a joke about a cotton ball? Does Jerry have a joke about a cotton ball? Now?

I want to see if the AI can write one. Let’s see, let’s combine the last two stories. I’m jumping on chat gpt here write a joke in the style of Jerry Seinfeld about a cotton ball? All right? Chatchipt said, why the cotton balls looks so calm because they’ve already been through the spin cycle.

That’s terrible. I asked chat gpt for five more and it actually came up with one. I could see a comedian doing. Cotton Balls are amazing, aren’t they. They’re like the only thing in your bathroom that doesn’t have a purpose.

Toothbrush, her teeth, soap for washing, but cotton balls just sitting there, sitting pretty waiting for a chance to be slightly useful. A proper comedian could nail that. Seejren Marco SORESI where worry Leon Morgan wanted to be like Jerry Seinfeld telling cotton ball jokes. She said, my set is more things that have happened to me. Leanne’s got a book coming out in twenty twenty four called What in the World, And she said, let me tell you.

I wanted to talk about all my sins in the eighties, and my literary agent says, you know what, You’re not Joan Crawford yet. So these are funny essays to introduce me to the world, funny essays about my life. It’s about me getting started selling jewelry and women’s houses and being married to Chuck Morgan and the mobile home business in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, being raised in a town of five hundred people in a farming community and telling everybody, and I’m going to be a movie star. They probably thought I was crazy. At times, I thought I was crazy.

I was so cute in the eighties. I thought this was going to happen for me when I was younger and thinner. But it’s okay. I think that’s part of God’s plan that I was supposed to go through menopause before this happened. Got to raise my children and raise them in Tennessee and there who they’re supposed to be.

And I think it might not have been that way otherwise. And Chuck Morgan is tickled that I’m adding to her retirement. The Sioux City Journal wrote about the openers for Shane Gillis. They went to a Shane Gillis show and wrote about the openers and they liked them. They said, like his openers Lemaire Lee and Mary Ridzinsky.

Shane Gillis wasn’t afraid to talk about going to mcdonald’slaying high school football and getting back on Snapchat. Radzinsky went over the crowd immediately with the joke, I don’t like girl comedians either. That’s good. She detailed a ten year relationship with her boyfriend her joke, he says, I love you, She says I love you more, and he says probably lamiir Lee leaned into the night’s demographic, addressing characters and video games cartoons in the Bible, joking it’s very boring, but if you read it in an African accent, it sounds like the Lion King Jesse. David Fox is out doing pressed about his new book.

He caught up with The Guardian, who said Fox is hopeful about the future. He’s excited about the rise of stand ups like Mitra Jahari, Brittany Carneie, Zach Zimmerman, and Jay Jorden, who discussed their complex identities and serve as a pushback against the dominant form of stand up, which minimizes a comic story in favor of a wall of jokes. Fox feels the existence of this alternative group is essential to the health of the medium, and Hell’s work like Hannah Gatsby’s in the Net, which is painfully human in earnest in contrast to what we’ve been tought mixed comedy successful. Fox says, I think comedy benefits from a continual pushback against how it’s done. I always want there to be an alternative group because the truth is, mainstream comedy tends to be a manifestation of what was happening previously.

Verdas told money control dot Com. When I started as a stand up comedian YouTube, it just started, so access to audience was limited. Right now, a new comic can put five minutes and material on Instagram and get millions of views. Earlier, he had to do a movie, so the people knew your name and come watch your show. Now there’s no middleman, no godfather, no marketing agency.

I get to directly reach my audience, and that’s the best time to be a comic. Jess Tom spoke to Autostraddel, who asked, does your family have a Google alert for you? Jess said, I don’t think my family knows what Google alert is weird because they come to see my show sometimes and my mom learns a lot about me from my comedy. When I did an earlier version of Less Lonely in San Francisco, afterwards, my mom immediately said TMI. The Boston Globe asked Alex Edelman if you could travel anywhere where.

The answer London. It’s my second home. It’s foreign in exoticall at the same time. I know other people there. I love it.

I can’t get enough. The food and the museums get the worst wrap. The museums are awesome. Don’t lecture me. I also listen to stuff the British stole, I get it, but the museums are good.

First place he went after Covid Alexid, I drove to Zion on Utah. I’m a desert guy. I love slot canyons. My girlfriend at the time and I hiked the narrows together. Was just absolutely wonderful.

Best snack for a flight or a road trip. Alex says, butterfingers can’t get enough. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

If you want to support the show, you can go to buy me at coffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News, or some money in the tip yard. Today’s Wednesday, so I’ll go to the brewery and I’ll buy a beverage with it. While I played trivia, I have finished not me my team on the team, we have finished second last two weeks in a row. It’s the worst run we’ve had. Maybe tonight we’ll turn it around.

All right, See tomorrow

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Featured: Matt Rife, Bunny, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais, Trevor Noah, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Patrick Beverly, Stavros Halkias

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife controversy with TikToker Bunny and her six-year-old son
• Golden Globe nominations for stand-up comedy and TV
• Kevin Hart’s NBA commentary debut on ESPN with awkward Josh Giddey question
• Kevin Hart and Chris Rock documentary screening on Netflix
• Jada Pinkett Smith credits Chris Rock slap for saving her marriage

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Caloroga Shark Media. Parents, if you’re listening with kids, please hit stop on the podcast. I’ll give you a second, but you’ll see why. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

Okay, parents, you’ve been warned. Hit stop on the podcast Everybody Ready. Matt Rife new controversy. This time he’s being called out for starting a fight with a six year old Bunny is apparently a famous TikToker, and Bunny posted a video slamming Matt Rife for his unnecessary and route comment towards her six year old son. In the video, Bunny says this all started when Matt Riffe’s comedy special, If that’s what we’re calling it.

You see, Bunny has a six year old son who is obsessed with space and minecraft. Bunny didn’t appreciate Rife’s comments on Jupiter and space. During the comedy special. Rife is talking about astrology and says it has nothing to do with the stars. Man.

Just because Jupiter has a ring and you don’t doesn’t mean dot dot dot. Bunny’s son then stitched a video with Rife’s comments on Jupiter, calling him out for his inaccurate statements, pointing out, Actually it’s Saturn that has the rings and your mean to girls. Riife took the comment very seriously and again parents hit stop, okay, hit stop parents. Rife responded, Jupiter also has a ring that is technically correct. They were discovered in nineteen seventy nine by the Voyager one spacecraft.

But Rife’s full comment was Jupiter also has a ring. Oh, and Santa Claus isn’t real Your mom buys you presents with the money she makes on OnlyFans Good luck. Bunny denied the claims that she is an OnlyFans model and pulled up her Instagram proving that she’s never even shown her body on Instagram. Bunny and her video said for you to assume that every single woman online makes money by showing their bodies, which like, if that’s what you do, girl, do you? But I’ve never made a single dollar from a man Bunny’s followers in the comments, one wrote Matt Rife is so soft he has to come after a child.

Another said he he just digs himself deeper. What kind of man beefs with a literal child? When Moore said we witnessed the rise and downfall of Matt Rife in less than a year. I Love It. BuzzFeed has contacted Matt Rife’s representatives for comment, and they had not heard back at the time of this recording.

The Golden Globe nominations are out the category Best Stand Up Comedian on Television. Your nominees are Ricky Gervais for Ricky Gervay’s Armageddon, Trevor Noah for Trevor Noah, Where Was I? Chris Rock for Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, Amy Schumer for Amy Schumer Emergency Contact, Sarah Silverman for Sarah Silverman Someone You Love. And Wanda Sykes for Wanda Sykes. I’m an entertainer, not sure who I’d pick there, Maybe Ricky, maybe Trevor, maybe Sarah.

The nominations for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical are Air American Fiction, Barbie, The Holdovers, May December and Poor Things. Best Television Series Comedy or Musical, Abbot Elementary, Barry the Bear, Jury Duty Only Murders, Ted Lasso. Best Performer by an Actor in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical, Bill Hayter for Barry, Steve Martin Only Murders, Jason Siegel Shrinking Martin Short Only Murders, Jason Sideikis, Ted Lasso, Jeremy Allen White the Bear. I would absolutely give it to Hayter there. Best performance by an actress in a TV series, comedy or Musical, Rachel Brosnahan for Miss Masel, Quinta Brunson for Abbotts, I you Atabari for The Bear, Ellie Fanning for the greats Selena Gomez Only Murders, Natasha Leone poker Face.

I don’t have an opinion on that category, CNN said. Chris Rock was asked to host the January seventh Ceremony. He has turned them down. CNN says at least four other A list comedic actors have turned down the Golden Globes. Today on Netflix, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock’s Headliners Only.

That’s the documentary that follows Kevin Hart and Chris Rock as they prepared for their four sold out comedy shows in twenty twenty two. There’s some news items involving both gentlemen. I’ll start with Kevin Hart. He started doing a manning cast type thing for the NBA. This actually debuted Friday with not much notice.

During Friday’s telecast, guest Philadelphia seventy six ers guard Patrick Beverly asked an awkward question. Beverly asked a question about Josh Giddy quotes the Oklahoma City thunder guard accused of having an alleged inappropriate relationship with a miner unquote. The Daily Mail recaps this and says Beverly asked Kevin Hart, I’ve got a daughter and I like to call myself a girl. Dad, what do you think about the Josh Getty situation? According to the Daily Mail, a stunned Kevin Hart didn’t know how to respond, turning to his co host to see if they had anything to say.

One of them tried to keep everybody out of trouble. Then Beverly doubled down and said, I read that too. I said, what do y’all think about it? That was my question, Heart, According to the male, sensing the need to take control of the situation, replied, Pat, I heard your question, but I’m going to tell you what I do real well deflect. I’m a brand.

Pat. I’ll text you and I’ll give you my real thoughts, But right now on NBA Unplugged, I’m going to keep it as commercial as I possibly can. Hey, at least that’s a real, honest answer, I love it. Heart tried changing the subject by asking Beverly if he liked the color of the blue and red in season tournament courts. Beverly said he liked the color of the courts, but not jail courts.

Kevin Hart then joked he was kicking you off the show, saying I haven’t sweated this entire game pad. As soon as she asked me that question, a piece of sweat dropped down my back. Kevin will do seven more episodes tied to more key NBA games on ESPN platforms, including Nick’s seventy six ers in January and MAV’s Heat in April.

Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock teamed up for a screen…

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Jada told The Daily Mail, I nearly didn’t even attend the Oscars that year, but I’m glad I did. I call it the holy slap because now so many positive things came after it. After all those years trying to figure out if I would leave Will’s side, it took that slap for me to see I’ll never leave him. As you heard in the commercial, I got tickets to go see The Play That Goes Wrong. This is not a commercial.

This is me just telling you something funny you should go see. I loved it. It was fantastic. Reminded me a lot of Monty Python at parts, especially the lead actor who plays the inspector. I could totally see John Clees in that role.

I really enjoyed it. It’s called The Play That Goes Wrong. It’s in Manhattan. And yes I did use today ticks dot com a slash a DCN as the code to get twenty dollars off. And we actually did that.

I watched Stavros Halkias as special. It was fine. I was enjoying it, and I got like twenty minutes in, I was like, eh, I just feel like watching something else. And it’s funny. It’s good.

It won’t make my best of the end of the Year list, but it’s not on like a worst list either. It’s you know, sometimes comedy is just fine. I was laughing. It just didn’t have that extra gear that made me go, so I have to see this entire hour now. I also watched it after football on Sunday, and you know, I’m good for like an hour and a half of TV.

So by the time I hit play on that, it was after all the one o’clock and four o’clock games and SNL, so you know, the TV on for like nine hours, so that could have been part of it too. But it’s pretty good. I think you guys will like it. Stavros Halkius on Netflix. I’m excited for this one because this guy deserves to be more popular.

Dusty Sleigh getting a Netflix special. It’ll be out January sixteenth. It’s called Working Man. I’m inclined to like Dusty and that earlier in the year, it’ll be the number one rank special of twenty twenty four for at least a minute. Dusty is a former pesticide salesman who started as a comedian in two thousand and eight.

In a statement, Dusty Sleigh said, at the end of the day, I hope my comedy is relatable. I talk about things I go through and what’s going on in my life. Working Man, and I’m not dropping the g because I’m from Queen’s. It’s actually called workin apostrophe man. Workingman is the culmination of a lot of those experiences, and I hope it’s a break for all the folks that work hard yet can still laugh about the things that life throws at them.

Is to start a thirty five show. The Night Shift tour kicking off and spoke Cane on January fourth. Jeff Ross’s tour is called take Banana for a Ride. He explains that’s a term that his grandfather used to say when he was starting out his comedian Jeff told CBS twelve Grandpa used to give me a banana and a few dollars for gas, and it was kind of his way of saying, I can’t go with you, but I’m there with you in spirit, and I’m going to roast some people at the end. It’s got a lot of honka themes in this show, and it’s gonna be a lot of fun.

I’m from New Jersey. Everybody kind of busted each other’s chops for a living. So my uncle Murray was the meetest one in the family. We called him Me and Murray, and he’d make fun of me my entire childhood. I grew up and I realized he was preparing me for real life, and I did get my revenge.

At his nineth birthday, we roasted him. I said, Uncle Murray’s planning a big trip soon to that vase on top of the mantle ouch. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, you could support it by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and throwing a couple of bucks in the tip jar, or tell a friend about it. They might like the podcast too.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, Bill Burr, Chevy Chase, Adam Sandler, Jackie Novak, Mae Martin, Ray Romano

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gerzais Armageddon special and Scope disability charity backlash
• Bill Burr political rant on Jimmy Kimmel about Trump and liberals
• Hollywood Reporter repeatedly confusing Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster
• Chevy Chase fall off stage at National Lampoon screening
• Jackie Novak Netflix special Get on Your Knees releasing January 23rd
• Mae Martin discusses dating habits and alternative relationship structures
• Ray Romano new Netflix dark comedy series No Good Deed

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Disability charity Scope has been forced to moderate its social media accounts after receiving hateful messages in response to Ricky Gervais’s comedy routine Is from The Independent. The charity had criticized a joke made by Ricky, who used the term baldy while referring to terminally ill children in his new special Armageddon. Ricky jokes that the children supported by the Macawish Foundation were fing our words for not wishing to get better.

In a tweet, Scope said, language like this has consequences. The stage is real, Netflix is real. The people this kind of language impacts are real. Joking about this kind of language trivializes it. It risks normalizing the abuse that many disabled people face on a day to day basis.

Two days later, they had to turn off replies on Twitter, clarifying that we aren’t here to dictate what anyone should or should not find funny. They denied attempts to police comedy or speak on behalf of all disabled people. They were asked why they drew attention to Ricky’s routine comedians using the arsler and Bolden’s others to use it. We’ve seen this firsthand this week with disabled people being abused directly in their applies to our post. Bill Berg got political on Jimmy Kimmel’s show and said, you want to see a great case on narcissism.

Liberals are so effing stupid in the way they handled Trump. Leave the narcissist neutral energy neutral. You know what I think he was. He was a one hit wonder. He wrote the Twist and that was it.

He was on the casino circuit and then you idiot liberals wrote the twist again when you indicted him, and now he’s a martyr. He’s coming back. Jimmy, I can’t believe that these are honestly going to be our two choices, because I really try with each thing to be like, figure out who I’m gonna you know, there’s got to be on somebody in their forties, somebody that’s going to live with their decisions. Burr then said, with any luck, they’ll both die of natural causes before the election, and maybe you can get somebody that still has something to live for, you know. Send your letters to Bill Burr care of Jimmy Kimmel.

Alive. This next story made me just go Really from the Cut, despite the fact that they look nothing alike, agreed, people keep confusing comedians Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster. Yeah, why, The Cut says, It’s pretty easy to tell them apart if you have at least one working eye, a modicum of critical thinking skills, and didn’t sleep through your mandated DEI training in twenty twenty. Last week, in an article, The Hollywood Reporter included a tweet of Joel Kim Boosters as an example of a notable celebrity speaking out against Juliana Marghley’s. However, they also refer to Joel Kim Booster as a quote Saturday Night Live comedian He’s not That would be Bowen Yang.

Bowen Yang, who is not Joel Kim Booster addressed it on his podcast Las Culturistas. Bowen said, Also, I don’t think so, honey. Hollywood Reporter for is still confusing me and Joelkim Booster. In an article about this whole Juliana Marghleiz thing an article that’s reporting on racism, co host Matt Rodgers said, how ironic is that? Made me so upset?

It’s an article reporting on racism, and then you do the racist bs of SNL comedian Joel Kim Booster. The first was in twenty nineteen, when Hollywood Reporter shared a photo of Booster alongside an article about Yang’s hiring atn SNL. Jeez. The cut points out what’s out about this situation. It’s not hard to tell Yang and Booster part they don’t look similar, their comedy styles are different, and one of them wears glasses.

It’s much easier to tell them apart than say, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. Chevy Chase fell off a stage and I think it was real. TMC has the video footage. I watched it. I don’t think Chevy was doing a bit.

They wheeled Chevy on stage for a Q and a conversation after a screening of nineteen eighty nine’s National Lampoon’s Christmasification. Chevy stands up, walks towards the other side of the stage to wave hello, and then seems to stumble and fall off the stage. Again. I don’t think it’s a bit. He’s helped back on the stage by his wife as well as the interviewer.

Chevy said, wait, my watch is talking to me. It says, I see I’ve taking a great fall. Then Chevy’s wife is seen tinkering with the watch and says, otherwise they might send an ambulance. Who knows. On Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler spotted by Sanna Antonian’s Adam Sailor clad in green sweatpants emblazoned with lightning bolts and a blue puffer jacket.

He makes me look like George Clooney. San Antonio local Alex managed to get a photo with Adam Sandler. In the photo, Adam Sandler is seen enjoying a cup of freshly brewed coffee from larder while seated in their outdoor patio area. Jackie Novak is getting a Netflix special. We are over using the word special, folks.

This one directed by Natasha Leone, who also executive produce it. It’s a half hour concert film, half comedy show. It is quotes both raunchy and poignant, and an unexpectedly philosophical coming of age triumph that pushes the boundaries of stand up. Jacqueline Novak Get on Your Knees, Netflix, January twenty third. That’s early in the year.

It could be number one on my list of best stand up in twenty twenty four, at least for a moment. We’ll see Culture That spoke to Mae Martin about their dating habits. May said, when I’m single, I really enjoyed dating. I’ll admit I could be two activity based. I’m a big fan of an escape room and arcade things like that.

When it comes to first dates, I feel like you know pretty quickly you don’t want to get in a situation where you’re going on a lot of third and fourth dates where you wind up having twenty mini breakups. Be honest when you have a connection and pursue it. If not, be really clear. In my early thirties, I was living in London and dating a couple. That was my first experience with alternative relationship structures.

I loved how they navigated the world. It was one of the healthiest romantic experiences of my life. They introduced me to Field feeld. I’m unfamiliar with it. I’m looking my family is going to be like what is in your search history?

John, Let’s see. Welcome to Field, the modern dating app connecting like minded individuals for fulfilling relationships. The Google machine tells me it facilitates communication between people interested in ethical non monogamy, polyamory, casual sex, kink, swinging, and other alternative relationship models. Wasn’t familiar with that one. Between that and watching Whitney Cumming specials, my family is going to be like, what are you doing down there?

Anyway, this couple that May Martin was dating introduced them to Field. Martin says, those apps, you know, they could sort of pressing, but it seemed like it had a sense of humor about itself. There’s more of a sense of fun and play on Field than any of the others. Are right, they got their plugs in there. May about those escape rooms, May said you have to gauge your date’s level of tolerance for terror and history.

And there’s some that are more puzzle based. I like the ones with live actors. There’s one that I did on date. It was very ill advised. My date was nervous and said, there are no actors in this right.

I didn’t think there were, And I asked the people who worked there. I was like other actors, and they lied. So there we were, and a man came in with a chainsaw and this poor person I was on the date with was just traumatized, but in a way we trauma bonded. It was kind of a fun story. Well, I’m stilling over that last news story there.

I’m no prude, but uh, we were out there a little bit there, Jenny Mick. Let’s rain it back in Ray Romano. He runs a little bit more on my speed. He’s got a new Netflix eight episode dark comedy series. I’m already in Ray Romano comedy I’m in.

It’s called No Good Deed. It follows three very different families vying to buy the same nineteen twenties Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems. But, as the sellers have already discovered, some times, the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare. Ray Ramond plays Paul Morgan. He doesn’t look like a Paul Morgan.

Change that character’s name. That’s not good. Ramano will play Paul Morgan, Constantly stressed and flat broke. Paul is a contractor desperate to retire, pay off his debts, and escape la. He thinks selling his beautiful luss for these home is the solution to all and his wife Lydia’s problems, but his past mistakes will continue to haunt him hmm, dead to me on Netflix no date yet.

Eddie Hazard will play twenty three characters in an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This will be at the Greenwich House Theater in New York City starting January twenty fifth. Official opening night you know Broadway and off Broadway works right February eleventh, Susi Eddie Hazzard said in a statement, I’ve always gravitated towards playing complex and challenging characters, and Hamlet is the ultimate. This is a production for everyone at Timeless Drama with an accidental hero. Izard will be portraying men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools, and poets.

If you missed out on Comedy Fantasy Camp, well good news. Comedy Fantasy Camp Volume two with Adam Curl and Jay Leno starting up in February. February twenty ninth, It’s a leap year. It’s in March third. Jay said, I like to talk to comics, and comics like to help other comics.

I have more in common with comedians than some people have known my whole life. Writing jokes is the hardest thing in the world. Where’s a power. You need to learn how to use them. The class will be led by such stars as John Lovetz, Trevor Wallace, Carolyn Ray, and Moore yet to be announced guests.

The Rap took a look at the ratings for the Daily Show guest hosts or fill in hosts. I guess they’re guest host They’re not filling in for anybody right now. Michael Costa was the most watched guest host of the new lineup, averaging five hundred and forty five thousand, five hundred total average viewers for his week. In second place til Say Sloan, Ronny Chieng, Desi Liitik, and Jordan Klepper, who hosted three days together the week of Thanksgiving. They averaged five hundred and thirty thousand, three hundred and thirty three total viewers.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Joe Manny, Jason Zinman, Taylor Tomlinson, Michelle Buteau, Sam Jay, Tim Dillon, Dulce Sloan, Nimesh Patel, Leslie Lau, Rosebud Baker, John Marcos Serresi, Sabrina Wu, Lewis Katz, Nate Bargatze, Mark Maron, David Tell, David Drake, Henry Winkler, Jay Jurden, Kathy Griffin, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s new special about addiction and intervention with dark humor
• John Mulaney discusses his fuchsia suit and why it wasn’t a joke about divorce
• Netflix Verified showcase featuring emerging and mid-level comedians
• Jason Zinman’s New York Times article on Netflix’s role in developing comedy talent
• Lewis Katz’s new special ‘Present Tense’ with established comics discussing his lack of fame
• John Marcos Serresi’s ten-minute set selection for Netflix Verified showcase
• Kathy Griffin buyback of her own material and legacy plans

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. John m’liney Toild Deadline. Once I left Detox, I started to thinking about the intervention. I called my friend Joe Manny to kind of get a handle on what had happened there, and he said it was extremely funny that I was giving notes on each person’s letter after they read it, and I told him after the intervention how I ranked the speeches.

He helped me see how the dynamic was funny right away. Mlanie said he was intrigued to see that some people consider the special to be dark. It’s digested. It’s darker than I thought, and that sounds odd, I know, because of the subject matter. But my goal was to present this as funny as possible with no dramatic pauses.

I wanted it to be a joke driven special about something that’s complex and said and a little scary, but as a ton of very specific details. That’s what I wanted to get across. People might go this is harder sat or darker disturbing. I really am flattered and happy that’s been reviewed in disgust. That’s what I like the most is that people talked about it.

They asked him about his suit. Was it fusha. M’laney said, well, let me look up fuscha because I’m not a great color person. Fusia is a vivid pinkish purplish red color, named after the color of the flower, the fuchia plant. Okay, so we have the suit, and then we have the color correct, then we have your own screen.

So I don’t know. I’m not going to say you didn’t experience fuchia. You might have. I don’t know your color settings. It’s like a light of burgundy.

I really love that suit I got in England this place called well, I won’t say where in case they don’t want me sharing this, but they make King Charles pajamas and he really likes bright colored jammys. He goes to bed looking like a big bowl of fruit. They asked him about divorce jokes, and Malini said, just wasn’t something I was going to get into. Very short answer. There, I respect that deadline followed that up with there’s another great joke.

And you’re special about how even as an addict, you look better than so many people because of your athletic build and you look great and m’liney said, well, I’ve never had anyone, let alone a journalist, say that I have an athletic build. So I can’t thank you enough for that, And congratulations of being the first person ever to say that I’m walking on air right now. It was mid pandemic when a lot of people would put on some weight and a lot of people were home and I was out, So I was just dressed up a little and had remain velt through pretty unhealthy means. Everyone when there was adorable in their own way. There was more kidding that they looked like crap.

Good stuff as always. From Jason Zinnemann in The New York Times. He was writing about Netflix’s effect on comedy and said, it’s unclear how much the streaming service, known for specials by boldface names like Milanie and Adam Sandler, cares about minting stars. That’s why Netflix is verified as important. It’s two showcases each about an hour, featuring emerging comics doing short sets.

There’s a promising precedent. Back in twenty eighteen, Netflix aired the comedy Lineup, which was relative on knowns, doing fifteen minutes. From that group, three of them were Taylor Tomlinson, Michelle but So and Sam Jay. You know those names. Tim Dillon was another one and another’s been a head writer and sidekick on late night, specifically James Cordon’s Ian Carmel comedy lineup didn’t vault these performers to fame, but it helped, and in retrospect, the selection of the entire group, which also included Jack Knight, Phil Wang and Sabrina Jayley’s What a great collection of comedians, reflected foresight and taste.

The artists in the new showcases are not exactly newcomers. There’s Dulce Sloan from The Daily Show, Nimesh Patel, Leslie Lau, Rosebud Baker, who I feel is like kind of known. Maybe I just do this podcast every day and most people don’t know rosebud Baker. I know John Marcos Siresi, who I’m a big fan of. As part of this, Let’s see Zinnamon writes, Patel takes a leisurely paced mixing crowd work on topical jokes, including some solid roasting of effec Ramaswani, Buttel makes it seem like a casual offhand another night at the club, But Dulce Sloan may adjust to the form best because she starts quickly, ends abruptly, and sticks to a couple non topical subjects, including a bit about the benefits of dating a poor man.

One of the revelations for Jason Zinneman was Sabrina Wu, who barrels into jokes with a nervous energy, then exploits it. This is making me want to watch this tonight. I haven’t gotten around to it yet. There’s so much football. I watch football on Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night, Wednesday night, I go to trivia.

It only leaves three nights and I have to play video games one night. Sabrina Wu barrels into jokes with a nervous energy, then exploits it. WUS standout bit Spoilers involves talking trash about Amanda Gorman, the former National Youth pote Laureate, at a contest early in her career, then describing the futility of a rivalry with her. John Marco SERRESI jokes spoilers. I just feel if white people would stop complaining all the time about cancel culture and actually fought for racial equality, then all of us could do the Chinese accent again.

Lewis Katz, a bald, filthy veteran comic with slingshot punchlines, opens his new release special Present Tense with better known comics, explaining why he never became famous. Nate Pergatzy says he’s too dirty, Mark Marion points to his hairline, David Tell blames personality, and David Drake begins his latest YouTube special with a pointed joke that is the ring of truth. Here’s how you make it in this business. I have a famous dad. Eight hundred pound Gerrilla wrote about John Marco and asked him how he picked the ten minutes that he used in the showcase I just discussed.

John Marco said, the biggest chunk of the set came from a never aired Don’t Tell comedy set. I did it earlier this year, never aired because it bombed. I tried doing all my Gun Show material to open the set. Not to blame LA audiences, but let’s just say once so badly. I called my girlfriend the next day at six am from the Delta Lounge.

Henry Winkler was also there, but thankfully I don’t think he noticed me. But I loved that bit and I wanted to get it out there before Gun violence in America stopped being a thing? Did you know who was going to be part of Verified before the taping? Who are you looking forward to sharing the stage with? Jen Marco said, I’m still not sure who was there, but I walked away being a bigger fan of Jay Jurden, who opened both tapings with his signature joke dense act that fully prepared the audience for stand up comedy.

He discussed filming it at Webster Hall and said, fortunately the team for this taping partially curated the audience from people who were fans of comics in the lineup. This probably meant there were a disproportional number of Nimesh Patel fans there, but luckily they and everyone else came to laugh. Kathy Griffin spoke to Variety about buying back her own material. Kathy said, it makes me very excited for my legacy. When I crook, I have a theory that when I’m dead, I’m gonna get a lot of props.

I almost can’t wait. I think once I crook, I’m gonna get one of those docu series and maybe Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will cry near z Eve can be a hole in Memoriam and anybody who screwed me over will feel guilty. Can you see what a healthy person I am. I hadn’t watched My Life on the D List since ad aired. I only rewatched episode one reason.

I am so thrilled when people mention that show or said that’d watch it with friends or their family. I’ve got a lot of guys be like I came out because of your show. My mom and I would watch it together. I’m so proud because that was a show that was really real. We overshot the stuff out of it.

It was eight episodes a year, and we would film for six months. They just followed me around and hope I did funny stuff. I think maybe people miss it because they know that good, bad, or indifferent was all genuine. What advice Kathy would you give to new comics being approached to do specials? Kathy said, I would tell them the best thing you can do is get licensing money, which is very difficult.

After doing specials at Bravo for many years, I finally got them to just give me a sum of money, and then I got to choose the production company and do the budget. That’s probably why I have so many enemies in the executive world because that’s how the guys do it. I thought I earned a place to be able to have that kind of power, But I’m sad to say it’s always tricky when you’re a chick. So I’m thrilled that I have ownership. It’s hard because a lot of the dudes assigned the checks.

If they’re not a fan, you’re kind of screwed. So if you can do your own stuff, do it, or can do it super cheap all yourself. That’s the way to do it because then you give a buyer the product and can go this is what I do. Do you want it or not? And if not?

Young people are much more enterprising than I am about social media. I’m sitting here at sixty three, still working hard trying to be a TikToker. Today, my San Francisco forty nine ers take on the Seattle Seahawks. Will Ferrell has some advice for the Seahawks. I’d say, guys, we’re gonna paunt on third down every series and we’re just gonna We’re not going to control the ball.

Let’s not worry about it. I don’t know, I don’t know what I don’t know what you do about the forty nine ers. Right Variety spoke to Marlon Wayans about cancel culture. Marlin said, I’m as much a comedian as I am a black man. I’m always gonna protect comedians.

Dave Schpelle’s a dear friend. I love him to death, and I have a trans son. I could give him my opinions, but he has every right to feel out. He wants me as a parent. When I do my special, I’ll handle it differently.

And that same article, Samsa Gore said, people in entertainment still see stand up as the lowest rung, like we’re effing’s circus jugglers. Listen, Meryl Streep would crap her pants if she had to do stand up. So Gora argue that the outrage that infest social media doesn’t reflect what he’s seeing on the road. He said, go to the clubs. You see somebody go for the joke and you can’t describe it.

It pops, audiences go nuts. They’re looking for people to make these jokes. It’s like there’s two realities. Some people believe the reality online is real, it’s not the real world. Matt Rife said, it comes down to your objective what’s your intention in saying some reckless stuff right now?

Are you trying to upset somebody? You’re trying to make light of certain subjects. He said, all this before the recent controversies. It’s a weekend. I’ve held on to the story for a couple weeks.

That way, it doesn’t take up such a negative space in someone’s mind, and they can laugh about something they may have brought them so much grief and discomfort. If audiences can tell you’re coming from a good place, he says, sensitivity isn’t an issue. Audiences can sense intent. The reason comics can get away with saying some crazy stuff is because the audience knows who you are that has aged well, hasn’t it. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Trevor Noah, Sam Altman, Chris Rock, Matt Riffe, Jesse David Fox, Mark Marin

What’s in This Episode

• David Cross’s ‘Senses Working Overtime’ podcast review with Bob Odenkirk
• Trevor Noah’s podcast interview with Sam Altman (ChatGPT creator)
• Netflix comedy specials losing prestige and cachet
• Matt Riffe’s Netflix special criticism
• Audio production and technical issues in comedy podcasts
• Jesse David Fox’s new book about comedy and audience connection

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I just got out of the car where I was listening to podcasts. I checked out David Cross’s since is working over time with guest Bob Odenkirk, and I was terribly disappointed. I like David Cross a lot so far, not the best podcast host you’ve ever heard.

I am a professional podcaster with thirty years of broadcast experience, so I’ll share some actual notes. One of the notes I would say as a program director is the show’s turned inward and I’ll compare it to something else. On the second but he starts talking to odin Kirk and they’re riffing with each other and making each other crack up. But they’re in their own room. They’re not including the audience.

You feel a little left out. They’re also using verbal shortcuts where they know what they’re talking about and you might not. Now. What’s interesting to me is Cross suggests that other people have sat in the chair before, so this is not the first recording, which makes me think they said, oh, let’s lead with the Bob Odenkirk episode. That’s worrisome as well.

The other thing is across the show doesn’t sound good. I don’t know if they recorded in a big, empty room across his mic doesn’t sound right. I add processing on this show to give my voice a little heft. If you meet me in real life, I’m a little less basy than what you’re hearing. Now.

There are things you can do, guys. I will give it another shot. But after one episode, David Cross love you, but this one, I don’t know. You could use some consultants. My contact is in the show notes.

I’m sure not making any friends here. Then I listened to Trevor Noah’s podcast. Did Trevor take my note on the new episode? He’s got Sam Altman. That’s the chat, GPT guy.

Fantastic interview. Now. I had previously mentioned that Trevor was starting the show with ten minutes of talking to random people that I didn’t know who they were, and Trevor probably even told me during the podcast to who they were, and I was like, I don’t know who you are and I don’t care. Skip skip skip skip skip skip skip On this one, Trevor took the note, got right to it right to Sam Altman. Very interesting listening about our official intelligence a subject that I’m very interested in.

I’ll take a point off in the entire interview. There is some low rumble that is something that happens. For example, I record here in the basement, my boiler often runs. There’s easy ways to get rid of things. There’s things called a noise gates where you can get rid of any noise below a certain decibel.

You can run things through a processor that will get rid of rumble. I do both of those on this program. Now, I would say I don’t know who’s running things over there, but I see who’s credited with the production of this show, and you should know better. I’ll leave that there. I’m not making any friends today.

Trevor’s show. Yeah, definitely listen to that. David Cross, Hopefully it gets better. Collider had a good premise during the week they wrote Netflix stand up specials aren’t special anymore. I agree with this.

Everybody’s putting out comedy, especially these YouTube things, and everyone’s using the word special, and I think we need to get back to calling things hours or half hours. Chris Rock is live on Netflix and he’s going to talk about the Oscars. Yeah, that’s a special. You went down on the chuckle Hut and set up two cameras and your friend through it in final cut pro and the audience isn’t mixed, right, I don’t know if that’s a special. We need to back down with that.

Clyde writes. If everyone wins a trophy, is anyone truly a winner? There used to be a time when landing a Netflix comedy special is a big deal. In the mid twenty tens, only great comedians like Bo Burnham, John m’laney to Mitri Martin and Chris Zecker were given a spotlight on Netflix. Now it’s as if no one is curating the specials that are produced for Netflix.

Half the time, these big ticket comedy events just appear on the streaming service with little to no fanfare in the form of advertising. I pointed that out all week with Stavros Halkias. There was no press about it for three days. Clyde writes, Unless it’s a generation defining comic like Norm McDonald, Ali Wang, Jerry Seinfelder, Dave Chappelle, Netflix couldn’t seem less interested in pushing new specials, should I bomp down? In Ali Wang?

Generation defining? Same note on Norm McDonald. I mean Norm’s great in all but I don’t know if he’s generation defining. Should I bog down on that? Not today?

How could you be interested when you’re busy releasing these every five minutes for every comedian on the planet. This is if they’ve run out of comedians and are granting this platform to anyone, because unfortunately for every living thing on this planet, Matt Riffe’s first Netflix special is getting extra special treatment from the folks behind the world’s biggest streamer. Collider ads A had to anyone at Netflix actually been curating their surfaces content, maybe natural selection would have done its job and killed this special piece of garbage before any of us had to endure it. It was pretty bigad. Somehow, they have debuted comedy special that manages to pull off the exact opposite intended feeling.

Rife has unlocked the ability to tell hardly any jokes in his comedy special in favor of spewing eight breened TikTok vernacular and waxing philosophical about why people shouldn’t take internetrolls seriously, while also throwing a fit over as Twitter applies. Is this what Netflix actually deemed special? I love this article, This is fantastic. They then recap rithe gate. I won’t do that today.

If you listen to me every day, you’ve heard it. Netflix. If you’re listening, please take a step back and find it’s the next great voice. You have the money, the resources, the reach, everything you possibly need to find the next grade comedian. Slow down the conveyor belt of stand up releases and give the best comic possible a special.

It feels truly special again. The thing is the guy running Netflix Comedy knows what he’s doing. He was a big wig up at Montreal Comedy Festival when I used to do stuff with Just for Laughs all the time. I’m on Robbie PRA’s LinkedIn right now. We’re actually connected.

His title Vice President’s stand Up in Comedy Formats at Netflix. Seven years at Netflix and before that twelve years two months it Just for Laughs. Is VP of Programming, so it’s not like he doesn’t know comedy. Man who knows probably comes down to the algorithm. But I agree there are too many things being called specials.

We’re just throwing stuff up there. But isn’t that what Netflix does? I mean, Netflix has a lot of content. I’m not sure how much of it is awesome. I am not making friends today Jesse David Fox, he has that new book about comedy.

Rodriebert dot com interviewed him. They’re curious, what’s it like for Jesse when he’s in an audience and not connecting with a comedian, but all around you people are in hysterics. Good answer you here from Jesse. If the comedy doesn’t connect with me for whatever reason, I don’t find it actively sinister or bad. I’m able to join in with the audience if the size and the energy you’re correct.

Most I’m happy to be around people laughing. I think, okay, cool, this is great. The audience is doing a good job supporting whatever this is. You could appreciate it like you would any art form, Like when you walk around a museum, you see different things. You go like like this a lot.

I’ll spend time with it, or I don’t like this this much, but I’ll read what the deal is and contextualize it. Good follow up here. You quote Mark Marin who said that laughter is the only thing standing between us and fascism. I don’t know. I once saw a so called right leaning comedian who told these absolutely horrible jokes about Hillary Clinton and the audience.

Rock with laughter was almost frightening. Jesse said, it’s complicated. The problem is that as much as the right can say that all comedy on the left is clapter and pandering, it’s not exactly true. If you’re going to see a comedian just because you agree with their political opinions, then they’re not operating as comedians. They’re operating as birthday party clowns who repeat the phrases people know from watching Fox News.

Donald Trump is the best version of that. Send in your letters to Jesse David Fox care of Vulture from the AAARP, You’re home for comedy News. Heyzus Trejo, he’s a caregiver. This interview spoke to me a lot. If you listen every day, you’ve caught me mentioned here and there.

It’s been a rough year for my mom. It’s been a rough few years from my mom, but the back half of the year has been quite challenging. And they asked Hejesus, what’s the top three lessons he’s learned from caregiving. He said, the bullet points are time, resting, in humor. You got to have a lot of patience, You’ve got to rest, You got to take the time to make sure you’re resting to be ready for what the day brings, and you have to take everything with some humor.

If you can master those three, I think everything else becomes easier. You have to have a good sense of humor because things tend not to go how you planned. And sometimes you just have to laugh. There’s no other emotion that you can tap into other than just a laugh and a smile. The hard thing about caregiving is that you’re juggling so many things.

You’re juggling life, you’re juggling career, you’re juggling caregiving, You’re juggling the caregivers. I’ll jump in specific to this podcast. Yeah, there have been a few weeks here where normally I record one day in advance, except for the weekend. I usually do the weekend on Thursday or Friday, but during the week I’m usually just doing the next day. There were a few times where I was working two days out, three days out, just in case I was gonna be unavailable to do the show, you know what I mean.

Luckily he didn’t come to that. I’ve recorded a few safety episodes. I’ve got some reruns ready to go in case I’m unavailable. So yeah, there’s definitely juggling to it. I’ve written episodes in emergency rooms, so I’m really feeling this article.

Azho says, being a stand up comedian being a caregiver they kind of go hand in hand. I’m also able to be a good caregiver because I do have that creative outlet, and I’m able to be a good comedian because i have this part of my life that’s very different than most of my peers. I learned a lot about myself as a person and an artist, and it’s that the only constant thing in life is change. Aging is part of life. You can’t escape it.

Everyone’s gonna deal with it. Either you’re gonna need a caregiver or somebody to take care of you, or you’re gonna care for somebody. It’s just how it goes. I will say that caregiving is a privilege. I know it’s hard to see when you’re in the midst of changing a diaper, being in a tough situation where you see your parents not feeling well.

It’s time spent with your parents and it’s as tough as it is. Sometimes you’re going to look back and laugh at those moments. It’s a privilege. Remember that I’m actually gonna wrap there. I had more, but I think that’s such a poignant note.

I’m gonna call of a day. That’s your comedies for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. If you want to support the show, buying mecoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News see tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Gary Goldman, Dan Aykroyd, Bert Kreischer, Wanda Sykes, Chris Tucker, Matt Rife

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle announces new Netflix special for New Year’s Eve (December 31)
• Gary Goldman comedy special ‘Born on Third Base’ premiering December 21 on Max
• Dan Aykroyd working on Trading Places sequel
• Bert Kreischer’s 45-pound weight loss
• Wanda Sykes discusses filming her comedy special in Paris with custom denim jacket
• Chris Tucker on 30 years of stand-up and working cleaner material
• Matt Rife addresses discomfort with being seen as a heartthrob, says he’s ‘trying so hard to be as ugly as possible’

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle has announced a new Netflix special New Year’s Eve, which is good for old folks like me that usually stay in that night and just watch TV. Perfect. Thank you Dave, who use The special is currently untitled.

It was announced via a short teaser. In the teaser, you see his C logo let up with neon lighting, and in the background you hear Chappelle thanking the crowd. The phrase Dave is back then appears, followed by the release date of December thirty. First. This is good news for me because right after a Christmas in New Year’s is usually a slow news week.

Dave often makes jokes that don’t go over well with everybody, and then everyone will debate it for two weeks. Perfect. Thank you Dave. Yesterday, when I was doing the Jason Cinnama New York Times story, in his article, he had mentioned that Gary Golman special would be out December twenty first. I wasn’t sure we had actually heard that before, and I thought maybe I just forgot, But now the official press release is out.

The Max Original comedy special Gary Goldman born on Third Base debuts December twenty first on Max. There’s a trailer and everything, and I really laughed out loud at this. Let’s listen. I grew up in an oft ignored sector of Jewish people called poor. A heart surgeon will open up your chest, replace a valve, save and extend your life.

Forty five dollars copeck a dentist, Phill’s miniature potholes, cash only today. We’ll work on a payment plan like any other strip mall retailer, but you gotta pay. I said to my dad, I really want to play hockey, said son go grab the Sports Almanac. There was zero Jewish players in the Hockey Hall of Fame. My dad said, just for a point of comparison, more Jews have been the Messiah.

Quality joke there, Gary Goleman the official description. Gary goh Ohlman offers up his hilarious insights on a range of topics, from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, all with a generous helping of his inventive humor and absurdism. Looking forward to that one, Oh, back me up to Chappelle. That’s really going to screw up the end of the year list. I guess My end of the year list will be through Ricky Terve’s December twenty fifth release, and I don’t know if Chappelle makes it all revise it.

I guess maybe I can convince Netflix hook me up with a screener. That would be kind of cool. Here’s a terrible idea from Dan Ackroyd. He’s working on a possible Trading Places sequel. Dude, it’s been forty something years.

Don’t do this, Dan said. Last year, I generated a sequel for Eddie and I that I submitted to a paramount. It’s good, man, it’s good. No one’s asking for that. Dan.

Men’s Journal noticed that Bert Krascher looks like he’s lost some weight. Krascher posted a social media before and after picks of his forty five pound weight loss, captioned me at two seventy five versus me at two thirty. Men’s Journal says, beyond dropping the pounds, it’s clear from his defined abdominals, arms, and shoulders that Bert the Conqueror Store has also been hitting the gym. The Hollywood Reporter asked Wanda Sykes, how’s it different to shoot a special as opposed to doing a regular stand up show. Wanda Sykes said, when you’re filming it, you’re definitely in your head a little bit.

I shoot two shows, so the first one was like, Okay, let me get something in the can. Let me just make sure we got it structurally and technically. In the second show, I just let loose, have fun, actually improv some stuff sometimes and I stumble on stuff because I already have the safety of knowing I have one. We always end up using the second show wander how much thought did you put know what you wear? She said.

We were in Paris for Christmas. My wife is French and we were there for the holidays, and I knew we were going to shoot special in February, so I was like, man, I had to go figure out what I want to wear. And I knew I wanted something different. I didn’t want to go in a suit. I wanted to be a little bit more casual and have a bit more fun.

Because I’m rolling around on the ground. I’m much more physical in this one. And we’re shopping and I saw this jacket. It’s red, white and blue, it’s denim, and I was like, that’s it. This is what I’m going to do in Philadelphia.

The pitch KC caught up with Chris Tucker. He’s been doing stand up for thirty years, and the pitch said, what are the audiences like these days? Tucker said, oh, man, you know what, They’re hungry. You know, people are hungry they laugh. It’s one of the reasons I want to do this because people are saying they want to laugh, they want to get out and have some fun, and they’re just hungry.

Man. I love it. They’re more intelligent, they’re smarter these days because there’s so much entertainment out there and you got to come with your game, which I love. The energy’s great these days. He’s working clean ish and said it just made me better.

I’m just better, able to expand on things more. It’s just who I am. It may it’s definitely it may be still definitely edgy, but it’s just much better when I was younger, because when I was younger, all I had to talk about was when I was younger. But now I’ve had many different experiences, grown out of a man. Now, I’ve got so much to talk about, my point of view in the world.

People are really getting a lot when they come to my show. Vogue spoke with Matt Rife and they said, a lot of your audience goes wild, specifically for you. One woman proposition to you during your set. Does it ever make you uncomfortable? Matt Riife said, every single time, because like I just want to do jokes.

I just want to go on stage, tell jokes, maybe talk to a person or too, see if anything funny happens, and that’s it. It’s uncomfortable because there’s a lot of double standards, Like I’ve had my nipple bit at a meet and greet before. Can you imagine if a female comic was getting treated like this by guys it would never fly right. But of course there’s zero empathy or sympathy for guying because I’m not in physical danger. So it’s a bit strange.

Flattering that they care that much, but it’s a bit strange. How does he feel about being a heart throb? He says, it’s got pros and cons. I suppose the pros being you get such a massively passionate fan base, But the flip side is people take you less seriously as a comic, so it’s a weird thing. I have to personally choose how you want to balance that.

If people think I’m a heart throb cool. As long as you respect my comedy and like to laugh, you can think whatever you want about me. I don’t care, but I think it creates a lot more hate that it does positive effects. Besides getting my teeth done, I’ve never done anything to enhance my looks. That and going to the gym, which I do more for than just aesthetic reason.

So if anyone has a problem with that, that’s their problem. I’m like not doing anything. He laughs and says, I’m trying so hard to be as ugly as possible. I promise you. It’s one of those things.

Though at a certain point I’m gonna stop talking about it because I know I’m more than that. And the more people only look at me for like that one aspect of myself, the less they care about my comedy and my entertainment and things I want to create. So it’s like, yeah, can we reference these things now? But eventually I’m gonna be like, can we just focus on the work. I just bought a new phone during the break.

My wife would call me lately. Every time I go to use it, I push the button and it’s like, hang on, man, I Getsina sag. It’s not like I don’t use my phone. I am a professional podcaster and I need it. That’s what I did during the break.

What did you do? By the way, phones not cheap these days. I paid for it outright, and I got myself the newest, greatest phone in my family. As we went into the break, I had the oldest phone in the family. Now I have the best one.

On Wednesday, the broadcast networks will come together to honor Norman Lear. They’ll run a title card at eight pm Eastern on ABC, NBC, Fox, the CWNCBS Nice Job. On January first, Fox will celebrate Mash, the comedy of the Change Television, in a new two hour special That’s random, right, Like why Mash? I’d Mash one of my favorite things of all time, believe me? But why that now?

The special centers around previously on aired interviews with original cast members Alan Alda, Gary Bergoff, William Christopher, Jammie Farr, Mike Farrell, Wayne Rodgers, and Loretta Switt. Wayne Rodgers dead and I believe William Christopher is dead. Interesting, I guess these have been sitting around, Fox says in these intimate, highly personal remembrances, the creation and evolution of the show’s iconic characters are revealed, alongside rare and never before seen behind the scenes footage, photos and stories. Wayne Rodgers passed away in twenty seventeen. I didn’t make that up.

William Christopher passed away in twenty sixteen. I didn’t make that up either. Now what’s weird is the press release says series stars Larry Lynnville dead, Harry Morgan dead. They’re not saying dead, I’m saying dead. Mcclaan Stevenson dead and David Ogden Stiers, who’s also dead, are remembered through a collection of clips from the series as well.

So are they Why are they separate than Wayne Rodgers and William Christopher. This thing must have been sitting in the can for a few years and nobody checked the press release. Very very strange. I’m going to ask this question on the mash Reddit. Kelsey Grammer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about new freezer.

Kelsey says, I believe we have a home at Paramount Plus for several years to come. If there’s a Paramount Plus, Kelsey and we certainly have several ideas for it, it’s just what’s flushing out. We’re not sure yet. Because the writers went on strike and the actor stayed on strike and everything just sort of stalled. At least we got the episodes in Under the Wire before we had a lockdown.

Where our future is. Of course, we’re going to explore the relationship between the father and the son, and that’s natural then involve the other characters as well. The first few episodes of any new TV show needs to be sort of dedicated to the idea of allowing the audience to fall in love with the new characters. I believe that’s finally started to take shape. Now we have the luxury of saying, well, let’s branch off into this area that area, go a little heavier on this storyline, focus a little bit more on this member of the cast.

The basis of the show is that father son relationship, but also Frazer’s new friendship. Fraser’s new life is third or fourth act. Arguably, that’s what we’re discovering. We’ve discovered that he’s probably a bit more mature, maybe still a little bit the same sort of nut, but he’s grown some. For him to have been static for us to have started right back in the same show from thirty years ago, to jump right back into the same story.

It would have been ridiculous for a man who spent thirty years of his life and not age would have been ridiculous and not grow wiser in any way. We thought it was important to give him some sort of new clothes. They asked him how he feels about the term reboot. Kelsey said, we really think of it as new Freezer. We don’t really think of it as a reboot because we haven’t rebooted anything.

It’s just a character that has not fallen from Grease. He’s still loved and beloved character and one we really love playing. I wasn’t nervous about it necessarily, just that in a new world we have a new set of viewing habits. I figured we’d promoted it pretty well. I thought there were some loyal audience members around who were really kind of hungry for revisiting the character, because we really haven’t done comedy like that in quite some time, and I think there’s a hunger for it.

Was he upset that a lot of the original cast didn’t want to return, Kelsey said, I wasn’t upset. I had tried to get everybody back because that’s what I thought was the right and faithful thing to do. I wanted to remain faithful to them, but them not wanted to do it was fine, certainly their choice. Actually it led us to some choices that we wouldn’t have done probably, and I was very happy we did them. I’m happy we ended up back in Boston.

That never would have happened had the rest of the cast comeback. BBC Radio four has launched a podcast, Jokes. Jokes will combine brand new series with highlights from the archive quote, providing comedy fans with an easy way to find the latest content from their favorite comedians. To start the feed off the full series of Nora Meadows Week of Wellness. Uh what caught my eye, They’ve uploaded the twenty nineteen comedy special Phil Wang Wang’s Plaining.

I Like Phil. A lot new album out today from Andy Awantsio. It is called Better Living Through Femistry. Andy is a transgal comedian from Seattle by way of Baltimore. With her ten years of comedy, she brings a witty, sardonic, and slightly profane style to her jokes that navigate living with disability and a marriage founded, fueled and fortified by mad lib vows.

Andy’s open for some Pretty Good People Kyle Kinade, James Adomian, Cameron Esposito. Better Living through Femistry out today on Kill rock Stars Records. Hulu has shared a trailer for Self Romance, which features mac packer Andy Samberg. The plot line when a middle aged man Jake Johnson is invited into a limo by famous actor Andy Samberg, his adult life takes a thrilling turn. Wait, so is Andy playing himself?

Interesting? Johnson has offered a chance to win a million dollars in a dark web reality TV show where assassins from all over the world attempts to kill him for thirty days. The catch he can’t be killed if he’s not entirely alone, leading him to recruit an unlikely team to help him survive. His only problem, none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Andy Samberg’s in this, so is Wayne Brady excited?

It’ll be out on January twelfth, And that’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it they might like it too. And if you’d like to support the show, one way to do that is go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedynews, Buy me a coffee dot Com Slash Daily Comedy News. There are some bucks on the tip chair, and I’ll get nice coffee.

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Weird Al Yankovic, Ricky Gervais, Stavros Halkias, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey, Eugene Levy, Martin Short

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler discusses the origins of The Chanukah Song and meeting Harrison Ford
• Weird Al Yankovic criticizes Spotify’s royalty payments
• Ricky Gervais promotes Dutch Born vodka and makes charitable donation
• Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame inductees announced including Jim Carrey and SCTV cast
• Jerry Seinfeld performing in Singapore
• Stavros Halkias’ Netflix special Fat Rascal and YouTube success story

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you watch the debate last night? It aired on News Nation Rumble in the CW seth Meyers joke. So, in other words, look for it wherever you get your computer viruses.

Switching topics, Brenda Lee has her first number one hit for Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, recorded in nineteen fifty eight. I think Jimmy Fallon said, yeah, Brenda is having a moment. Not only does she have the number one song, today she was seen holding hands with Travis Kelsey. By the way, Taylor Swift named Times Person of the Year. You can follow all the Taylor Swift news on her sister podcast, Taylor Swift Today.

Spotify put out there Spotify wrapped lists, and weird Al had some commentary on their royalty system. Here’s a statement from weird Al. Hey, how you doing hell here? Look, I’ll make this really quick. I just want to thank you all for your amazing support.

It’s my understanding that I had over eighty miss billion streams on Spotify this here, So if I’m doing the math right, that means I earned twelve dollars. So you know, I’ll not have to give myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.

Meanwhile, another statement, Ricky Gervas tweeted what he called an urgent a…

Hello Ricky Gervas here, this is a quick message to all supermarkets, off licenses, coller shops to say please stock Dutch Bom vodka. I’m the co owner of the company, so this could make me a lot of money and it’s It’s a premium quality vodka made from British apples. We’re committed to sustainability and the protection of the ecosystem. It’s one hundred percent recyclable the bottle, that’s why it’s brown. Only one like it as well, so it’s standout on the shelves.

It’s how people will remember it. I think it’ll be like if you go in out, granddad, can you get me some vodka? What’s all the posh one in the brown bottle? Dutch faarn I can’t afford that. We should have worked harder then, so Dutch farn I like what Ricky’s doing there.

He’s running right at it, not even pretending the folks at All Dogs Matter tweeted, we wanted to say a huge thank you to our patron, the one and only Ricky Gervas, who has made an incredibly generous donation to go towards the care of our dogs. We cannot be more grateful. Heart’s emoji. Your donation will keep dogs like Colin happy, healthy and warm this winter. There’s a picture of Colin.

You can find out about Ricky Gervay’s donations by listening to yesterday’s podcast Happy Honikah. Adam Sandler recounts how he wrote the Honkah song. This from the Jewish Chronicle, home for Comedy News. Sandler recently spoke to the crowd at the ninety second Street Why in New York City and said, I am so proud of that song. I love it.

He wrote the song at the NBC studios of SNL. There was no Google in nineteen ninety four, so he went by what he thought was correct. The lyrics include Harrison Ford’s a quarter Jewish. Sandlor later found out he was off by twenty five percentage points. I remember when I met Harrison Ford, he goes half.

Sandler said, all my family’s Jewish. Everybody has a kind of funny way about them. I definitely after every family get together, couldn’t believe what I saw sometimes. Sandler first got into the stand up comedy at age seventeen and said I would bomb every night. Well, good thing that’s changed.

His stand up is hilarious these days now. If you’re wondering about the other people mentioned in the song, USA Today under the headline Adam Sandler’s Honaka Song, are all those celebs in the song actually Jewish? Let’s take a look. David Lee Roth, James Kahn, Kirk Douglas Dinah Shure Yes, yes, yes Yes, Bowser from Shannanhah and Arthur Fonzarelli. John Beauman is Jewish.

Henry Winkler is Jewish, Goldie Hawn, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, as the song points out, O J. Simpson not a jew but Rod Carew Yes, Rod cru converted. If you’re in the mood to hear the Hanukkah song. When we’re done here, go to the Live One app and play the weekly comedy thing that’s the show I host. I played the Hanukkah song this week for this very reason.

Sandler recently told Variety that Roseanne Barr almost performed the song on SNL in ninety four. Sandler said they were talking about Roseanne singing it and she was nice enough to say, no, let Adam do that. That’s his He wrote it, That’s his song. During Weekend Update, Sandler explained that he wrote the song after noticing the lack of music about Hanukkah. Does Sandler still sing the Hanka song?

He says, I sing it alone. I sing it without the kids. I go on a basement, I rip it out. I do the soft shoot to it. If it comes on the radio and I hear it, I get excited.

It’s still awesome. The Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame has announced the newest round of inductees. They include Jim Carrey, Eugene Levy, Martin Short and the cast of SCTV. So are Eugene and Martin in there twice or how does that work? I don’t know.

It will be a four day festival in February to mark the beginning of a three year collaboration with Tourism Hamilton. Jerry Seinfeld is playing Singapore. Jerry gave some quotage which was I saw recently that Singapore has some of the happiest people on Earth by scientific study. So I don’t imagine my comedy will be able to improve that by too much, but I’m really going to try. So excited for my first visit, I was curious how much tickets cost, and I went to the website that was linked in the article, and you have to register for a pre sale, and I’m like, I don’t know, I’ll just look it up next week.

All right, after three days, there’s finally press about Stavros Halkias. Remember his Netflix special came out on Tuesday and there were no articles about it. Well, Deadline got around to it Dell’s Deadline. He’s noticing a difference in those attending his shows. Instead of Internet freaks alone, he says he now sees nice older couples in the crowd.

In Fat Rascal on Netflix, Stavros talks about everything from nightmare travel days to experiences at the Big and Tall Store. He talked about having a hard time breaking in. He said, I had agents and managers, but you know how it is, nobody gets an f about you when you’re not making them any money. Nobody wanted to buy a special for me. In twenty twenty two, He’s self released a self financed special on YouTube Live at the Lodge Room that’s gotten over six million views.

He invested forty thousand dollars of his own money to get word out about the special. Halkias began disseminating online clips of material didn’t make the cut. Additionally, he embraced crowd work clips. For years, had been taping every set he did, whether it was at a comedy club, a brewery, or some kind of other lower end venue. He hired a friend with quote no editing experience away from his low paying media job, and they started mining old sets for clips to post online.

Those clips took his YouTube. I don’t want to use the word special if it’s self released an hour, half hour and how long it was from twenty thousand into the hundreds of thousands, which in turn resulted in him moving tickets. Quote like never before, every single clip was going viral was insane. I was like, what the F We’re growing at such an insane rate. I felt like I just found an audience that I had no idea existed, and I was confused more than anything.

He attributes his success online a good timing, saying met in Google saw the TikTok was eating their lunch and they were like, well, anybody that does short form video contact, we’re boosting the f out of their algorithm. It just so happened that while that was happening and YouTube shorts was getting boosted and Instagram was getting booted, and TikTok was trying to boost people’ stuff, some more people would do it. I had like two to three years of the best crowd work interactions, and I think I just got really lucky. It just worked in a way I could not believe, he says, I don’t mean to get corny or anything, but achieved my bleeping goals. I have friends who are famous.

I don’t want their lives. I don’t need to be more famous than this. In fact, I don’t want to be. The virtual reality stand up series Surrounded will return for a second season December twenty ninth. The six sports series will debut via the Meta Horizon World’s VR online video game platform.

Episode start on the twenty ninth, including a holiday festival special that drops at ten am Pacific on that day. These sets were filmed at the twenty twenty three Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, hosted by Lilrel Howery the episode’s feature Jack Whitehall, Marlon Wayans, May Martin, Fortune, Fimster, Mark Norman, Chris Read, Dan Soder, Jay Farrow, Meg Statler, Felipia Sparza, Rosebud Baker, Samuel Joe, Kim Booster, Hannah Burner, Nate Jackson, Brad Williams, Preacher Lawson, Seher Zamada, Brian Simpson, Steph tolev Annie Liederman, and Shay Durina. That is no joke that list. Lourel Howary called the show crowd work and freestyling at its best. So this morning at the National Donuts Chain, Evil Bill Angvall was back, but the Donuts Chain people just did not have my order together.

I mean I had ordered online. Took twelve minutes for somebody to make a nice coffee come on Donuts Chain. But it was good to see Evil Bill back in the house. Last week Tonight with John Oliver has been renewed for three more seasons. Yep.

But it’ll still be on HBO or Max or HBO Max or whatever it is these days. John Oliver said, We’re very happy to get to keep making the show without our fantastic staff. Will continue trying to stretch the term entertainment to the breaking point, a Suit said, over the past decade, John and his exceptional team have combined deep research and intelligence with cutting humor to tackle a broad range of subjects, both widely discussed and unconventional. With an important election here on the horizon, we look forward to seeing what John has in store for audiences over the next three years, Thanks Suit. Bowsome Usef recently made some news having a little back and forth with Piers Morgan.

Yousef showed up at COP twenty eight. That’s the big environmental summit. He said to the audience, Let’s be honest. The only reason I’m here is because I’m trending, but also because I’ve been an advocate of plant based diets. Someone asked why stand up comedy and how do you find humor during these dark times?

Yusef said, simple, because the fact that we still have to meet every year to decide not to hurt our planet is a joke itself. Paste magazine spoke to ZANEB. Johnson about her special His Jobs Off, released on Amazon back in October. This one recorded in the round one cameraman holding a steady cam for the specials duration Johnson said, I think there’s something really intimate about recording in the round. I always say my stand up should feel like I’ve invited you into my living room.

You get to hang out with me for a little while, and hopefully by the end of it you leave feeling fulfilled and good. You want to come back. Much like Jim Gaffigan, She’s not considered the jokester in her family. Johnson says, they love me, but they think I’m the most serious person. I tried to plan vacations with my mom.

She’s like, you know, you’re no fun. I’m always to the person trying to keep the family business in order. I’m like, what are the troubles, Let’s look for the solutions. What are the bills, what are the things we need to improve? And everybody’s like, we’re trying to have fun.

Celebrate Norman Lear, the renowned American television writer, film producer, and activist, passed away Tuesday at age one hundred and one worn in New Haven, Connecticut. Lear celebrated for creating All in the Family, Mary hart and Mary Hartman, The Jefferson’s Maud, Good Times, Sandford and Son Fernwood, Tonight, John Stewart tweeted, good night, Norman, love you, thanks for raising me. Jimmy Kimmel gave Variety a statement which was it is obviously silly to want more time with a person who outlived a whole century, but losing Norman Leear, even at one hundred and one years old, feels unfair. His bravery, integrity, and unmatched moral compass were equaled by his kindness, empathy and wit. Even at one hundred and one, Norman cared as much about the future, our children and planet as much as anyone have ever known.

He was a great American, a hero in every way, and so funny, smart and a lovely man you almost couldn’t believe it. Privilege of working alongside Norman, and the opportunity he gave me and my wife to get to know him and his beautiful family has been among the great honors and pleasures of my life. We’re all very lucky to have him. George Clooney, in a statement, said, it’s hard to reconcile that one hundred and one years old Norman Lear has gone too soon. The entire world of reason just lost its greatest advocate, and our family lost a dear friend, a giant walked in his shoes.

Tyler Perry reflected on his experience of meeting Norman Lear and said, just before I left, I asked, at a hundred years old, are you looking forward to without any hesitant? He said tomorrow with such a simple but powerful lesson to live your life fully one day at a time. Tyler said, it that up nice there, because one of the shows Norman Lear developed was One Day at a Time. Norman Lear, one hundred and one years old. That’s your comedy news for today.