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Featured: Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Chris Farley, Tiffany Hattish, Dane Cook, Tom Dressen, Ronnie Chang, John Stewart, David Spade, Dana Carvey, Dana Ackroyd, Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon

What’s in This Episode

• Laugh Factory’s 43rd Annual Free Thanksgiving Dinner
• Travis Kelce’s Love of Comedy and Adam Sandler Movies
• Ronnie Chang on The Daily Show Host Search
• David Spade Addresses Fly on the Wall Podcast Pause
• The State Comedy Group Tour in Chicago

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Laugh Factory hosted its forty third annual free Thanksgiving fees for the community. I was hoping to tell you about this one before Thanksgiving, and I’d googled it several times because I know they do this every year, but I hadn’t seen anything. Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada said, the key thing for us is everybody getting together and helping.

We give them an opportunity to forget about their life and just laugh. Some of the people dishing out dinner, Tiffany Hattish Ding cook Tom Dressen Dane has done this a few times and said, I came down here with my wife and I said, this is an experience like no other, and we have to come by. Tiffany said she’d experienced the event from the other side. She came to the Laugh Factory for Thanksgiving in nineteen ninety one. In those early years, she was the one who needed the meal.

Tiffany said, when I first started here, I was sitting at the tables eating. I was receiving a meal full circle, and I’m glad to keep doing that. The club is inviting the public to attend or volunteer at the next evening of dinners and shows that will be on Christmas Day. The Wall Street Journal magazine profiled Travis Kelsey. You know him, football player guy that’s dating Taylor Swift.

If you live in America, you’ve probably seen his face in the last two months. Why are you talking about this, John? Because Travis Kelsey talked about his love for comedy. J R. Moringer wrote the article.

He’s also the person who co wrote Prince Harry’s Spare cross plug for Pallace Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer on. We talk about the Royal Family. We’ve definitely talked about Spare anyway, Jr. Says Kelsey hauns clubs for open mic nights, and he’s gotten friendly with several rising stand ups.

I wonder who they are. Kelsey cited Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell is some of his comedy inspirations. He loves to rewatch movies with Chris Farley, Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler and intends to share those with his girlfriend, who I’ll remind you is Taylor Swift. Poor Taylor Swift is going to have to sit through Jack and Jill isn’t she. I’m sorry, Taylor, you might want to just break up with Travis and write the song now.

Actually, don’t sit through Jack and Jill, then write the song, Moranger wrote. Kelsey has warned to Taylor Swift she’s gonna have to reckon with that part of his personality. Kelsey’s quoted as saying, I told Taylor that I have the world, and I’ve got to introduce it to her. I let her know this is my jam right here. I’m so sorry.

Taylor. Up Rocks spoke to Ronnie ching the question do you want to host the Daily Show because then you don’t have flexibility to do other things. Ronnie said, I think John Stewart set the standard for how much dedication you need for the job to do it properly. The machine of the show is so strong, meaning the sports staff and the producers, the writers, the editors, the institution of the Daily shows. Probably it’s great a strength because they know how to do that show so well.

So you can make a show of news with jokes and ain’t get by on that pretty well. You can have a good life whatever, But if you really want to make that show great, you need a point of view, and you need to be very dedicated to the show, anticipating where the culture is right now and commenting on it. I’m happy with whatever they choose. I still think working at the show’s the best job in comedy. I don’t want to speak for the other people working there, but correspondent is I think, for sure the best job in comedy.

You come on, you learn a lot. Always said it’s like the Harvard Business School of comedy. Forget the fame, even if you don’t become one follower more famous. You learn how to write comedy, you learn how to perform, you learn how to edit, how to produce, how to direct, how to do improv TV production. Every field piece is like an indie film, and you have a lot of support.

All right, But you know, if we gave you the show, you might not be able to tour so much. Ronnie said, it would have to be a choice. If they came to me and they asked me, it would be giving up that tour work. Yeah, I’m not sure. I’m lucky to be in a position where I’m not just on the show, but outside the show, I’m doing the stuff that I like.

It would have to be something i’d consider I don’t know. It’s hard to answer. The follow up there as well, you’re clearly not campaigning for the job, and Ronnie said, I’m not Americans. I don’t know how to campaign for stuff. I look up to all the other correspondents, all the correspondents I ever worked with, I think are much better than me.

It’s very un American. But if you asked me from a purest skill set point of view, all the other correspondents were way better than me. When I first joined the show, it was like, Man, if I could be ten percent of any of the correspondents who’ve ever been on the show, if I could be ten percent as good as them, I’ll be extremely happy with myself. So that was my goal. So the other correspondents in AWE.

I look at everyone in AWE, everybody currently on the show. I like to think I’m pretty hard on myself. I think all comics are all the good comics I know. I can’t remember who told me this. I think Sam Maurel said this.

He said, all the good comics think they’re a hack. All the good comics hate their own routines, are just like I made them laugh. It’s the same old stuff I’ve been doing for months. Now, where’s the new bit. It’s almost like only the bad comics will walk on and be like, I’m the freaking greatest of all time.

Obviously that’s public persona, and then how you feel internally, So publicly, if your stand up persona is the grace of all time, then that’s different. How you feel inside. Do you believe your own actor? You’re just saying it for comedic effect. So I think all comics are just trying to write better jokes.

They feel like their own material isn’t the best. I think that’s a fairly common denominator among all the good comics I know. Good interview there, David Spade opened up the Fly on the Wall podcast, that’s the one he co hosts with Dana Carvey. Spade made it clear that the interviews are recorded in advance. Dana’s sun Dex passed away recently, and therefore there will not be any new episodes on the immediate horizon.

Spade said, Dana is obviously going through something semi unimaginable right now, and I can’t even put into words. Dana is one of my best buds, and it’s hard to watch this and of course, Dana really really appreciates the outpouring from every possible angle. Everyone I think understands how difficult it’s hard even talk about. They have a few episodes in the can, including one with Dana Ackroyd, then some best ofs comedic troop. The State playing the Riviera Theater in Chicago tonight.

The Chicago Sun Times caught up with them. They’re right At New York University. In the late eighties and early nineties, Michael ian Black was on an eleven member campus comedy group that he said scheduled rehearses for every single day, always for at least a few hours. That group is now called The State and largely still intact. Thomas Lennon, another member of the group, said, I don’t know what’s wrong with us.

We obviously have some weird codependency. We’re terrified to be without the other ones. If you go see the show tonight, they’ll be handing out stickers as a callback to the nineteen ninety five EHS compilation release of The States skits and stickers that included the note stickers not included. That’s hilarious, Michael ian Black said, so much of this tour has been about just being with my friends and doing it a way that’s supportive. Because the State in its early days wasn’t always the most supportive group.

We’re very cutthroat. It’s nice to revisit this group in a kinder, gentler way. Thomas Lennon said, I don’t think anyone ever thought would get rich and famous, And if you look at the numbers from the recent State tour, there’s still a lot of us in the group, so we kind of didn’t. Man, it is a million degrees here in the basement studio today. I just took my hoodie off.

Now understand that I’m one of those old people who has thermostats said to like eighty seven. My family hates me because I’m always cold, But boy, it’s warm in here today. I’ve been meaning to tell you, as many of you know, I hit the National Donuts Chain every morning. There’s a guy there that I have nicknamed Evil bill Engvall. He’s been there every morning for like the last month or so.

Why is he Evil bill Ingvall? And this is why I’m sharing the story this morning, because I made myself laugh. I nicknamed him Evil billying Vall because he looks like bill ing Vall. But he has a goateee, which is like the evil Spock joke from Star Trek and Community did that with Evil Abed, So he’s evil bill Ingvall. But then I remembered for a while there actual bill aning Vall had a go tea, So I’m not sure if this guy’s actually evil.

Anyway, if you like Sport the show, one way you can do it. You can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw a couple bucks in the tip jar. I will take your money and I will go to the National dont chain. I’ll get you one of these.

Well, I won’t get you one. No, I’m not getting you anything. I’m getting me one. Why did I say I was getting you one? That’s a complete lie.

No, it doesn’t work the way if you send me money. I’m not like buying you a coffee and going to your house and delivering you a coffee. That’s not how it works. Was that funny or do I sound like a jerky face? Anyway?

Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Phil Wang fantastic comedian. Where’s his special? I want to say it’s Netflix. He’s really good.

He apparently is in the new Wonka film. Is that thing going to bomb hard or what? Yes, it’s gonna bomb hard. No one wants this thing. Phil was on Graham Norton Show and said, I can’t tell you much about it, but I get to sing and dance.

It’s very exciting. I can tell you that I was dancing on a table and a cracked in half and I broke my arm. Apparently Wang was in a sketch group called Daphne, and they once had a skit featuring Wonka as an evil slave driver. Hm. I have a story here that I had pushed to the Weekend.

It’s about a comedian whose name rhymes with Bat’s life. I think I get a skip it today. I’m a little bat lifed out, aren’t you. Let’s skip that story. John Variety profiled Sarah Sherman, who said, I just like outrageous things.

I come from a loud, Jewish, outrageous family. I grew up liking, you know, crazy cartoons, and I love Joan Rivers and the Nanny and Garbage, Pale Kids and red and Stimpy and stuff like that. I grew up liking crazy stuff and then I came up doing comedy in Chicago more of a performance art community. I learned from all these crazy performance artists around me. Had to blend visual art and performance style.

They asked her about her talking meatballs a sketch. Sarah said, Dan Bulla who I write with on the show regularly, I seeing my stuff outside of sn Allan said, I have an idea for you. What if you’re a girl covered in singing meatballs. Sarah’s reaction, no problem. Absolutely.

Some people were like, that’s sketches, so you and I’m like, here’s the magic of the show. It’s actually not my idea. It was a blend of special effects in physical puppetry. The meatball heads were cast members putting their heads inside of a meatball puppet made by Monkey Boys Productions, who do all the puppets for the show and had real puppet arms and legs, And then the VFX team worked around the clock blending physical puppets with special effects and putting little shadows underneath the meatball arms and legs. Sounds like a lot of work.

They talked about the Colin Jo just chopbusting segments on Weekend Update. They haven’t done that in a while I like that a lot, Sarah said, Oh my goodness. The only reason I’m able to do that is because we’re friends and he can take it. He’s so supportive. The show’s amazing, of course, but it’s hard finding something that works.

Your first season gonna be a challenge, and I was like, hey, mind, if I come on, we can update and emotionally terrorize you. He’s like, yeah, no problem. Variety also had some fun facts about Sarah sherman favorite SNL sketch, Massive Head Wound Harry in nineteen ninety one, sketch that features Dana Carvey as a partygoer with a horrific injury. Comics who make Sarah Sherman laugh are Tim Robinson, Eric Andre and Tim Heidecker. She says, those guys are masters of being freaks, and she’s happy that Fran Drescher enjoyed her impression of Fran.

Sarah said, I saw her post about it on Instagram, which felt like a chef’s kiss, Fran’s stamp of approval. Do you hear my voice getting frogg a good thing? I have this iced coffee here because I’m about to record Monday as well. I’ll be back tomorrow, assuming I actually record tomorrow’s episode, and that’s the plan for thirty seconds from now, so hopefully nothing horrific happens in the next minute. Come back tomorrow we’ll find out.

Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocket casts. See you tomorrow, I hope,

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Featured: Bo Burnham, Nate Bargatze, Mike Birbiglia, Adam Sandler, Sean Wadsworth, The Safdie Brothers

What’s in This Episode

• Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’ soundtrack breaks Billboard Comedy Album chart record with 122 weeks at number one
• Nate Bargatze’s allergic reaction at Hartman Arena after going for a run
• Mike Birbiglia discusses anxiety, journaling, and aging in comedy on ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast
• Adam Sandler reunites with the Safdie Brothers for untitled Netflix baseball film

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Congratulations. Bo Burnham making history on the Billboard Charts. The soundtrack album to his Netflix comedy special Bo Burnham Inside has spent a record breaking one hundred and twenty second non consecutive week at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album charts.

Those charts don’t move around a lot. It’s not like the music charts. You’ll see things stay a really long time. The comedy charts started in two thousand and four. The most weeks at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album’s chart Bo bernerm at one twenty two, passes Little Dicky’s Professional Rapper at one twenty one, then a gap to Dean Cook’s retaliation with forty nine, Weird Al’s Mandatory Fun at thirty four, Lonely Islands, Turtleneck and Chain at thirty four.

That was a huge album that year. Flight of the Concords at twenty three weeks, Lonely Islands and Credit Bad twenty two. Actually, I thought in Credit Bad was the more popular when the Turtleneck and Chain, hm, my memory is getting fuzzy. Dan Cook’s rough around the Edges was up there for twenty two weeks, weird Al straight out of Lynnwood for twenty two and wait, what is this? The Bob’s Burgers music album soundtrack was number one for twenty weeks.

Now, let me ask you a couple of questions here. If you’re a new listener. Right, regular listeners know the two questions can ask, But if you’re new, let me ask you a couple questions here. First question, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t.

I know you haven’t. Nobody has. This thing has supposedly been around for fifteen years, and apparently there was a soundtrack of the show. I believe the soundtrack exists. I believe merch exists.

I’ve definitely seen the merch. I’ve definitely seen the promos for the show. But have you ever actually seen this show? Like, have you been home and you’re sitting in front of a screen of some sort and Bob’s Burgers actually comes on? I don’t think you have.

Second question, and this one is the really weird one. Have you ever met anyone, anyone at all who has seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t. Now, isn’t that weird for a show that’s been on for fifteen years. The Bob’s Burgers Music out twenty weeks on the charts.

Bo Burnham has been at the top every now and then he gets kicked off. Four of those weeks he got kicked off by And this will totally show you how the comedy charts work. The Monster Mash Yeah, the one from nineteen sixty two annually that charts in October. Another thing that kicked it out of the number one spot Mouse Rats, the awesome album, the band led by Chris Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer from Parks and Reck that kicked it in November of twenty one, and Steel Panthers on the Prow kicked it in March of twenty three. The album became Bo Burnham’s fourth number one album on the Comedy Album’s chart.

The only other artists with four or more number ones. I’ll remind you this only started in what I say two thousand and four, so you’re not gonna hear George Carlin, Richard Pryor, but Larry the Cable Guy has seven. Steel Panther If you don’t know what it is, parody metal band picture Van Hallen, but comedy that seven Jim Gaffigan with six, Weird Out with five, Nephew Tommy with five, The Lonely Island with five, Dean Cook with four, Doug Stanhup with four, Flight of the con Chords with ford, and Patton Oswalt with four. I’m unfamiliar with Nephew Tommy. Apparently he co hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show where he makes prank phone calls.

Some of you were screaming your podcast right now. I don’t know. I do this every day. Never saw his name before. You’d be mad at me.

It’s okay. Naperghatsy is still talking about his October nineteenth appearance at the Hertman Arena why he shared a video. The video starts with Naperghatsy walking through Hartman Arena and mentioning he’s going to do a sound check and go for run. Then it cuts to him flopped in a chair with a hoodie on his head, not looking nearly as perky as he previously did. Nate says, well, I think the lesson we’ve learned here running is bad for Gassie describes how his hands and feet started itching and he felt his lip swelling.

Kansas allergies, most likely due to Ragweed it hit him hard. Next he starts talking to some dude who supposedly was a doctor. Nate says, we don’t know who this guy is. He talks a great game though. Well it turns out it was Sean Wadsworth, who’s a physician with Atlas MD.

Wadsworth was home getting ready to go to the show for fun and he got a call that somebody needed help. Bergatsy said he resisted taking Benajoe because would make him sleepy, but that’s what Watsworth suggested over the phone. Wadsworth said he didn’t know who was helping un till he showed up and was shocked to find out of his neate he had put some other medicine in his pockets as he walked out the door, and he had made fun of him, saying he brings all his medicine in his pocket. Doctor Sean, guess he’s legit. A lot of people watching Mike Birbigley as Old Man and the Pool on Netflix this weekend.

For Biggs was on The Last Laugh podcast. Mike said, it’s weird sometimes with these shows they get so personal. I’ll be on stage thinking am I saying this to strangers? What am I doing. It’s almost like I sometimes become the people who are criticizing me in my personal life who were like, what are you doing?

And I’m on stage and I’m thinking, Yeah, what am I doing? He talked about anxiety and journaling. Burb Big said, when I was in high school and a lot of college in my twenties, had a lot of anxiety, would have this shortness of breath. I’d talk about a little bit in the show where I feel like I can’t catch my breath. Through the years, starting my twenties, I started to see a therapist, and then at a certain point I started to write it in a journal.

And that was when I made that observation. When I started writing in a journal, I felt like, oh wow, I actually I do feel better afterwards.

And now I always recommend it to people because I’m like, it’s the least expe…

Writing in a journal. Write down what you’re the stadtest about angry, it’s about feel most strongly about, because more often than not, you start to go, oh, actually it’s not so bad. I’m furious about this. I’m angry, but this and the grand scheme of things not too bad. Mike also talked about aging, and he said, one of my favorite comics, Taylor Thomason, came on a podcast and she says, my sister and I used to watch you when we were in middle school, and she’s a fully realized, fantastic comedian.

The idea of middle school that’s a long ago, right, But in some ways I feel like I have a foot in both universes. I’m at the comedy seller quite a bit working out jokes, and I cross paths with a lot of people in their twenties I feel a kinship with, and then I cross paths with people like Chris Rock and Colin Quinn, who I feel like I have a certain kinship with. Two. I don’t feel like I’m in one camp or the other. I just feel like I’m somewhere in the middle of those two things.

Amen, ver Biggs. My breed is young, and you know, I recently did the Reese and then my body reminded me that I’m fifty four. I feel you. Adam Sandler spoke to Indye Wire some details about his reunion with the Safty Brothers. The Safty Brothers are the creative forces behind the best actually good, Adam Sadlor movie Uncut Gems.

Uncut Gems is a fantastic film. If you listen every day, you know, I’m not the biggest Adam, Saidlor fan, but Uncut Gems is solid and clearly the best of the Adam Sandler films. The Safty Brothers are working with Adam Sandler on untitled Netflix film. It has something to do with baseball, Sailor said, we’re not sure right now. We kind of missed the opportunity of baseball season because of the strike.

A lot of it was gonna be shot during live baseball, So it’s gonna take a minute. We’re figuring out right now. I’m not sure when it’s gonna happen. Saandlor has previously teased that the script was inscene and originally three hundred forty pages. They’ve been writing this movie we’re supposed to do together for a couple of years.

They just write hundreds and hundreds of pages. I’ll read them and say I like the part when this and they’ll be like, oh, that’s not in it anymore. We did a whole other thing. We’re gonna send you a new draft. They just don’t stop writing and thinking, coming at every angle they can in this movie We’re Gonna Do is pretty amazing.

John Lovettz doesn’t like all this political comedy on your late night shows. Lovetzi was talking to Fox and said, I don’t like it. They were comedy shows and now, except for Jimmy Fallon, they’ve all become very political, and for me it’s too much. I mean, Johnny Carson, would you know he would do two or three jokes about whoever was president and what was going on. That was it.

But they were entertainment shows. I know all these guys, and they’re very nice guys, very talented. I know Seth, I know Stephen Colbert, I know Jimmy Kimmel. I think they’re funny. You know.

Then they started doing political stuff like so one sided, and it’s like it’s this whole thing. It’s just like, it’s not the shows I used to go on. You know, it is The Tonight Show and David Letterman, it’s their show. They could do whatever they want. But if you’re asking me do I like it, I’m like no.

If I want the news, I’ll watch the news. I’m not watching those shows. They’re late night entertainment, but it’s all political, except for Jimmy fallon. They keep getting mad at Jimmy, why are you going to politics? Because he’s doing a silly like escapism entertainment show.

They just hammer it to death and they become here’s my political agenda. They’re very open about it, and I’m like, well, all right, I have no saying that it’s their show, you know, but I don’t particularly like that they’ve become that that’s where the comedians and the stand up of the bits, you know, like Letterman, who’s comedy. The Guardian asked Eliza Slessinger with her current show, Hard Feelings is about, and she said, up top, I use my experience going through a bizarre strip club as a lens to examine how little women actually have to do in reality to turn men on. It’s a fast paced, super energetic, poignant, at a times whimsical, social commentary on BS standards, cancel culture, freedom of speech, plastic surgery, pumpkin spice lattes, and my red hot take on gen Z versus millennials. Eliza touring while pregnant, she said, I don’t think about it much.

A body in motion stays in motions, so I get out into the city and never miss my one alloud, cup of coffee, try to target one or two cultural things, eat as many local snacks as I can before the heartburn catches up. But do workouts when available, and I always allow myself time to rest. What else would she like to try in the future, Eliza said, what people don’t see or all the projects that fail or forever in limbo. Basically takes an act of God to get a movie or a TV show made. Like any hard working artist in entertainment, I’m always writing a screenplay, a pilot, shooting something, pitching something, or meeting with someone.

I’d like to have a movie or TV show come to fruition at twenty four. It’d be great to get a series on the air, be able to create a universe and have more than a season with it. All I ever want is from my idea is to see the light of day in a meaningful way. Leanne Morgan spoke to Forbes about when she was starting out, and she said, well, Brian at Zani’s in Nashville told me, Leanne, you’ve got three babies. This is gonna be very hard for you to do.

Because I wanted to do comedy clubs. I did a few clubs every year, but I just tried to get anywhere on stage that I could but raise my children number one. So if you needed someone for a fundraiser, I was your fundraiser girl, or the Rotary Club. Then I got a tour early on with Karen Mills called the Southern Fried Chicks. I was really the opener, and that was two thousand and four.

That was really kind of like my comedy club. I really developed my first forty five minutes on that tour. We did about fifty dates a year. It was on the weekend, so I didn’t have to have a babysitter. I was always working.

It just wasn’t always the traditional path. Westward spoke to Jay Farrow, who said, it’s a blessing I have the SNL name on my resume. After you’re in an institution like that, all the other jobs are in as hard. That one is so mentally and physically demanding that everything else is a cake walk. I got to be there at what time?

Eleven am, and I’m done at five. Oh yeah, I’ll be there at SNL. The writing happens late at night. For example, on Tuesdays, I’d be there from two pm till about eleven am the next one. It’s a grind man, but grind makes diamonds.

If you can get there and make something for yourself, then your set. I mean, look at Pete. David said, He’s in like twenty commercials right now. And that is your comedy news for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Ricky Gervais, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Carr, James Caster, Hank Green

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife alienating female fan base with misogynistic comedy special
• Matt Rife’s pivot from crowd work to studio material and perceived rejection of women fans
• Matt Rife special includes domestic violence and astrology mocking jokes
• Pressure on TikTok comedians to produce content constantly affecting material quality
• Biden’s 81st birthday jokes from late night hosts
• Ricky Gervais refers to himself as middle-aged on Twitter

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Ope, you had a good Thanksgiving. I want to thank Matt Rife because this should be a slow newsweek. It’s not at all.

We’re going to talk about Matt Rife again, Johnny Mac. You never mentioned him but before that’s some leftovers from late Night. President Biden turned to eighty one recently. Seth Meyers said President Biden celebrated his eighty first birthday, but not as much as Republicans did. Jimmy Kimmel pointed out Joe Biden’s sixtieth birthday is now old enough to drink.

The Mary Sue asks a good question, why has Matt Rife turned against his female fan base? The Mary Sue writes, so you want to shout out to testosterone or something. To be fair, Matt Riife said he’s incredibly grateful for women for basically making him famous, but he wants men to be his fans too, and thinks comedy is quotes more for guys than Mary Sue says. It’s a weird energy I don’t really understand, made even weirder by his comedy special where he kicks things off with a domestic violence joke and more. It’s one thing to know that your work found a phantom online that it might not have found otherwise.

On one hand, I guess I could see oh Rife would have to pivot, But then to decide let me use women and then turn on them when I found fame really does feel like the worst possible move. Rife again only really posted his crowd work online, and women defended him in comments and online when people would criticize him for focusing on CrowdWork over jokes.

Now for you page is filled with people turning on him for his actual jokes, a…

The Mary su continues and says in a special he also goes on to try and uplift women, I guess by mocking our obsessions with the zodiac and crystals. I’m so tired of you lady’s blaming your poor decision making skills on planets that don’t even know you. Get this through your head. Astrology is in this magical life guideline that predetermines your future in the stars. No, none of that.

Your future future is dependent on your own thoughts, opinions, and actions. You’re in complete control of how your future turns out, it’s not up here, It’s in here the whole time. It’s up to you the mary who writes, is that meant to make me happy? Why do men constantly feel the need to trash those who look to astrology. There’s not a joke in there.

I don’t care what his end goal was, even if his intentions were purity, just meant to simply show his comedy was not just crowd work. That’s not what he said. He said he wasn’t just for a female base. Women helped to make him. I hope he likes his male fan base.

I hope they love his gross jokes and support his little tiktoks, because whatever the intention is behind this, it’s an absolute betrayal of the people who helped to sport his work as a comedian. In Glamour, Kathleen Walsh writes under the headline Matt Riife tried to impress the guys with his misogyny. It bankfired. Kathleen writes the idea that Riife is trying to change his brand isn’t a leap by the way, Riife has literally said he doesn’t want to make comedy for women. The week before special began streaming.

Rife told Variety one thing I wanted to tackle in the special was showing that despite we think about me online, I don’t pander my career to women. I would argue this special is way more for guys. Rife was also on the Chicks in the Office podcast. He says he attracts audiences of ninety percent women who aren’t fans for the right reasons, who quickly realize his shtick isn’t for them, so they bring their boyfriends or husbands, who are always reluctant because they probably bought the tickets they didn’t wan to be there, and then like twenty minutes into the show, they realize, my comedy is so much more for guys than it is for girls. A fellow comedian on TikTok and a video said, imagine throwing away millions of dollars and fans who like you to cater to unfunny white dudes.

Collett’s Fountain wrote for The Daily Beast under the headline Matt Riife wants men to like him, so he punches down at women. Collette wrote about a recent interview with Matt Rife where he weighs in on the age old question of where to draw the line in comedy, how dark is too dark, and what can modern audiences withstand. Matt’s take was you could say whatever you want. Now you have to prepare for the repercussions. But at the end of the day, it all comes down new how do you sleep at night?

Collett writes, and for Rife, the repercussions have been swift and harsh. Notorious nice guy Hank Green. I’m not familiar with who Hank Green is, and then I looked him up. But I still can’t tell you who Hank Green is. But he’s a notorious nice guy.

Seems cool. This Hank Green person, wrote, a comedian ruining his relationship with a large portion of his fan base because he wanted to be like all the other boring as Netflix special you can’t tell jokes any more. Crowd is actually just depressing, but Collett writes, it doesn’t have to be this way, and James Casters coldlasign he hate myself nineteen ninety nine. A Caster opens by saying, edgy comedians, no one tells them what they can and can’t say. They walk straight on stage, do ten minutes, sometimes just slagging off transgender people, people on the internet.

Get that upset about it. The comedians always like bad luck. That’s my job. I’m a stand up comedian attempting to join the lights of Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervation, Jimmy Carr. Matt Riife seems to care more about a status among other men they did us about his own career.

For him to be taking seriously as a comic is to punch down passable crowd work does not make you a great comedian. On Short All, Sam Serrano writes under the headline Matt Rife in the Trouble with being a TikTok Comedian. Serrano writes, it’s not hyperbolic to say matt Riife is the most successful comedian working today, with six point four million Instagram followers, eighteen point two million TikTok followers, and a world tour that sold six hundred thousand tickets in forty eight hours. He’s undeniably successful, but his latest special isn’t doing him many favors. Serrano says, as a comedian, I’ve recently started putting out stand up clips online to try to build a following, and there’s certainly pressure all comedians do the same.

We’ve seen circuit veterans such as Jeff Innison be able to tour for the first time relatively new acts build fan bases. They can perform too and sell out arenas. It’s been great to see comedians now have the ability to create their own audiences, even when TV in the industry isn’t backing them. However, social media does create a culture of if you’re not constantly on people’s phones, you’ll be forgotten, and I think this could become a problem creating content. How many good pieces of an art can somebody make it a year.

If a musician puts out four full albums in a year, or an author puts out four full novels, it’s going to be hard for them to keep up their quality. As creative people, we’re supposed to take time and be perfectionist about what we make. But as content creators for social media, it’s recommended to put something out every day, so the two can clash. I don’t think it’s completely out of the question to say that. Matt Ryfus also felt the spression to put content out, but on a much larger scale.

So when people say the material in the latest special is under cooked or weak, it’s because he hasn’t given himself the amount of time necessary to make it as good as it can be. I can quite safely say if he had given himself another six months to get this special ready, then he would have taken the joke out and replaced it with a better one. From how I I see it, the pressure to put content out and continue growing your audience as left Matt with a comedy special getting slated when it could have been decent if given the time to be fully formed. Ricky Gervaise has a controversy of his own, although this one pretty harmless. You see, Ricky in a recent tweet, referred to himself as middle aged.

Ricky is sixty two. People are debating whether or not sixty two is middle aged. A fan asked, Ricky, is it suitable to watch his new special with his nan and gramp on Christmas Day? Ricky joke depends. Do they enjoy watching a middle aged man swearing, joking about the Holocaust and pretending to do something nasty with a nasty person.

You don’t need to know what the rest of that joke was, trust me. And that was the controversy. Somebody said, calling yourself middle aged at sixty two is a bit of a stretch. You consider yourself middle aged? That’s funny.

But somebody else said I thought he was forty five. Sixty two is crazy. Another added he could pass for forty five. Somebody settled this with a screenshot of the Google definition of middle aged, with states it refers to a person aged between forty five and sixty five. The Guardian spoke to Eliza’s lessenger and said, I’m thinking what many women are thinking, but saying it out loud.

They asked her if she could recall a gig so bad that it’s now funny. Listen to this, She said, I was probably around twenty four. A country club outside La requested all female comics. When we got there was a room full of fifty to sixty year old men having a party where they had also hired strippers who were dancing and sitting on laps. While we told jokes awful, we were told who ever did the best one two hundred dollars.

At that time, all of my material was about La traffic and pizza. I didn’t win the money. I’m still sorry about it. All right, Eliza, where do you find your material? She said?

The most relatable juiciest stuff is what’s in all our minds. The craft of comedy comes from realizing that what I’m thinking is probably what many people, many women are thinking, and it just takes saying it out loud. I get a lot of matereer if from being honest about my own feelings, my fears, and embarrassment. I’m also constantly fascinated by the science, biology, and sociology behind why men and women act the way they do. Everything we say when we date, are in relationships, relating to each other is based on a need to feel scene, to survive, to feel heard, and I love talking about it best.

Heckle all eyes a messenger, she said, I have a joke about how ubiquitous the term bitch has become boss, bitch, bad bitch, et cetera. And I posit that women become bitches because of systematic mistreatment and discomfort. But no woman wants to be a bitch. No woman wakes up and sets her morning attention to bitch mode. So some guy once yelled out, you never woke up next to my sister, And I was like, why are you waking up next to your sister?

Any pre show rituals Eliza said, I go to the green room and any sugar around I will inhale. I start to get excited for the show and it makes me hungry, so I’ll eat a bunch of snacks and then check on merch to make sure it’s set up the way I like. We’ve been doing one of a kind signed polaroids of me, and fans love them, so I do those. Then I try to remember to drink water. I pee five or six times, and I always walk my feature act to side stage for the start of the show.

I call it walk into the school, but I like to be there when the show starts to see them take the stage. I think it sets a good energy. Salon recapped Mary Trump’s appearance with Kathy Griffin. Mary Trump is the niece and frequent critic of Uncle Donald. This took place on a video conversation available only for paid subscribers to a newsletter.

They started mocking Joe Rogan listeners for believing Joe Rogan is the news. Kathy Griffin said, I have to wonder because when I first met him back in the day, he was a freaking road comic. He had a good act. He was the best of the best. I don’t think he would even say that, but he wasn’t horrible.

And then something happened where he decided to get all like writ it up. And I haven’t seen him in many years, but the last time I saw him, I didn’t even recognize him. And he became a UFC announcer, which is just Mary Trump said. The idea that somebody like Joe Rogan, who you know, has like the IQ of a turn up, is so influential it’s kind of terrifying. I was catching up on Trevor Noah’s podcast.

A couple comments here. First of all, Trevor Noah Podcast Company, why don’t you put more commercials in? I know people sometimes tell me I have a lot of commercials. Why don’t you listen to Trevor Noah’s podcast and then come back here and tell me I have too many commercials? Okay?

I also noticed the show starts with ten minutes of Trevor’s talking to people. It’s not clear to me who the people are. He may have set the table and explained who they are. Maybe they didn’t, but it’s the host job to get that into your brain, and not only do this podcast. I’ve worked in the industry for thirty years.

I’m a professor. I’ll point out to people to this day. Howard Stern will say things like Gary, you’re the producer, and everybody who listens to Howard knows Gary’s the producer. But that’s for the one person who might not get it, or you’ll qualify like former President Barack Obama as opposed to just saying Obama that kind of stuff. So I don’t really know who Trevor’s talking to, but he talks them for like ten twelve minutes.

Skip skip skip skip skip skip skip skip skip the interviews. I know what Trivor’s going for, and he’s not looking to do a comedy show. But I’m already finding the show not fun. Might hit unfollow, We’ll see. Chelsea Handler was touring New England and told the Western Mass News, I live, eat, and breathe comedy.

That’s me. I’m an East Coasters. Every time I come to the East Coast, it feels like coming home East Coast, all the way, food, culture, all of it. She was looking forward to eating fried clams. I like fried clams.

Lots I’ll probably get after that. Her new set is based on stories from her childhood. She said, I started my own babysitting company when I was ten, and I lied and said it was fifteen. So I ended up babysitting for a fourteen year old boy for two summers who was about seventeen when I got done with him, and I was twelve. Yeah, it was an interview with a comedian, so they had to talk about cancel culture, and she said, there’s so much ugliness going on around the world.

So it kind of feels more purposeful and more important than ever to be a comedian and be able to bring people together in a sense of togetherness and joyfulness. I’m a powerful woman that’s demonstrated throughout my stand up, and this is the takeaway. I think the most effective way to impact other women is to also feel the same way about themselves. I don’t think anybody’s ever too young to watch me. But if you’re watching me when your parents were telling you not to, you were doing the right thing.

It’s important for me to get near brains and psychees early. A federal judge has dismissed most of Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against Meta This about the unauthorized use of author’s copyrighted books to train AI models US District Judge Vince Chabria offered a full throated denial of one of the author’s core theories that metas ai system is itself an infringing derivative work made possible only by information extracted from copyrighted material. In July, Sarah had also joined a class action against open Ai, accusing the company of copyright infringement. We’ll keep an eye on that one. That is your comedy news for today.

Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts. That might include Apple podcasts, Spotify, overcast, pocketcasts, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Kumail Nanjiani, Adam Sandler, Heather McMahon, Jimmy Fallon

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s 2014 Thanksgiving material about holiday weight gain
• Jerry Seinfeld’s take on Thanksgiving as both warm and horrific
• Kumail Nanjiani’s perspective on turkey and immigrant Thanksgiving traditions
• Heather McMahon’s desire to replace turkey with surf and turf
• Rolling Stone’s detailed analysis of Adam Sandler’s 1992 Thanksgiving song
• Matt Rife controversy coverage coming tomorrow

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now. Although I am recording this on Wednesday afternoon, I will admit I have my foot off the gas today.

Thanksgiving might be slightly fewer listeners than usual Tomorrow all about Matt Rife. I just recorded Friday before I did this one. There’s a ton of Matt Rife controversy. We’ll cover that tomorrow. If you’re a new listener, don’t judge me by today.

I’m about to do some awful Thanksgiving jokes. Normally the show is not this hacky, but I’ve been doing this the last few Thanksgivings and it’s just fun and makes me smile. All Right, you already hacky Thanksgiving jokes? Why did the turkey bring a microphone? He was ready to roast?

Which side of a turkey has more feathers the outside? What did the turkey say when he met the president? Pardon me? How does a turkey travel by grievy train? And what do you call it?

Turkey? The day after Thanksgiving? Lucky Jim Gaffick wrote about Thanksgiving back in twenty fourteen. Jim wrote, back then, everyone seems to gain weight during the holidays. Unfortunately, the way I eat, I often find myself gaining weight for the holidays.

This positive spin on my approach is that it makes the holiday weight gain seem less dramatic. Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Sure, the Canadians have a Thanksgiving, but I think they have theirs in October. Something weirdos I don’t think they even celebrate Fourth of July. Thanksgiving is intended to be about gratitude, a day of gratitude.

Thank God, there’s a day for us to focus on being grateful, because I’d hate the idea of having to be grateful year round. We express this gratitude by over consuming turkey and assortment of side dishes and of course pies. Jim wrote some dialogue here. Again, this was a print article, but I can imagine him voice painting this. He talked about what little effort went into the planning?

How about it? Thanksgiving we just eat a lot, but Americans do that every day. Well, what if we eat with a lot of people that are only the hell out of us? Thanksgiving is all about overeating. Even one of the main dishes is actually called stuffing.

What names did they turn down cram it in. I hope the turkeys never find out about this practice of stuffing turkey. You guys are gonna kill me human. Oh, it’s gonna get a lot worse. Back in twenty eighteen, Jerry Seinfeld was on with Jimmy Fallon and Jerry said, everyone loves Thanksgiving, but let’s remember it’s an absolute horror.

The warmth in the horror of this day like itself warm and wonderful underneath horror and tragedy. From twenty twenty two, Kamil Nanjianni doesn’t understand why Americans eat turkey. His parents recent immigrants and wanted to participate in the tradition. They came up with a solution. Kamel tells a story.

They’re like, we have to put a lot of macella on the turkey because we don’t like how it tastes. I’m like, you don’t have to eat turkey, and they’re like, it’s Thanksgiving. Kmeil said, turkey tastes like chicken having a bad day. Tweenty years ago. Let’s face it, Turkey’s not that good, and people were like, go back to your country.

Heather McMahon spoke to the Messenger and said, I’m over turkey. I want a filet. I want surf and turfer Thanksgiving, a blooming onion from out back Steakhass would be perfect. She’s hoping to turn off football and force her family to watch her special for the ten thousand times. Don’t worry, my mom will criticized me in a funny way and tell me I shouldn’t have worn that shit, that makeup wasn’t flattering or whatever.

That’s what it will be watching for the holidays. I’ll be honest with you. I think Black Friday is for sociopaths. However, I’ll probably be an old Navy down by my host because I’m an old Navy gown. I love it.

If they put those Rockstar jeans on sale, I’ll be there. I’ll try and be lazy and laight in bed all day and relax a drink while I’m cooking all day, and then my mom, who’s seventy five and sassy, You’ll be like, get in the car. It’s an extra seventy percent off. And I’ve done this a few years in a row. Rolling Stone broke down Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving song back in twenty nineteen.

It is an amazing breakdown. The Thanksgiving song debuted on November twenty first, nineteen ninety two, on Saturday Night Live, then appeared on his nineteen ninety three album They’re All Gonna Laugh At You. Rolling Stone wrote, to truly appreciate the song’s inherent brilliance, we must examine Sandler’s free associate of lyrics, one rhyme at a time. Right, you’re ready. First one love to eat turkey because it’s good.

Love to eat turkey like a good boy should. Rolling Stone wrote, one of the most important rules of songwriting is to open with the line that your listeners can immediately relate to. And who doesn’t love to eat turkey? Lesus? Of course you’re vegan, in which case you can easily substitute tofurkey without messing up the rhyme scheme.

Genius. All right, next couplet turkey for me, eat turkey for you. Let’s eat the turkey in my big brown shoe. God. I love Adam Sandler’s comedy.

I mean, right there, that is just brilliant, rolling Stone wrote, after finding common ground with his listeners. In the first verse, Saanidlor throws a curve with a non sequitor clearly influenced by the surrealism movement of the twenties and thirties. Andre Brayton sure would be proud, all right. Next couplet, love to eat the turkey at the table. I once saw a movie with Betty Graebil.

God, I love Adam Sandler’s comedy so much. Rolling Stone brilliantly wrote. One of the most popular actresses and pinups in the nineteen forties, Betty Graebel famously had a million dollar insurance policy taken out on her legs. By twentieth century Fox Sailor may be here, subtly comparing the flavor of a roast turkey leg to the deliciousness of Grabel’s gambs. Next couplet, eat that turkey all night long.

Fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong, Rolling Stone rites, it’s no coincidence that Adam Sandler’s Salutes perhaps the greatest of the King’s Greatest its compilations. Ninety fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong. Elvis’ Gold Records Volume two. Thanksgiving was a big holiday for Elvis. Not only could the man put away some serious grub, but six of his films were initially released on Thanksgiving Day, m Well played, sir, oh, there’s more turkey lurky dew and turkey lurky dap.

Eat that turkey, then I take a nap, rolling Stone says saidlor again, finding common ground with his listeners, Sandler invokes the time honored Thanksgiving tradition of sacking out after dinner and a trip to fan and carbohydrate Hayes love this next couple. Thanksgiving is a special night. Jimmy Walker used to say, Dino might Now this song is from nineteen ninety two. Here thirty years later, do you kids even know what we’re talking about? Rolling Stone reminds us Sandler humbly acknowledges the fleeting nature of fame with his touching shout out to Jimmy JJ Walker, a popular actor and comedian of the nineteen seventies.

Another dated reference turkey with gravy and cranberry. Can’t believe the Mets traded Darryl Strawberry. Well, first of all, the Mets didn’t trade Daryl Strawberry. He left as a free agent. Rolling Stone analyzed that fun fact and said, this cup but may be meant as a fly on the wall.

Snippet of a conversation evolving a father or uncle whose opinions on sports are really grounded in reality. Turkey for you and Turkey for me. Can’t believe Tyson gave that girl VD speculation that this is another fly on the wall conversation. Next up, white meat, dark meat. You just can’t lose.

I fell off my moped and I got a bruise. Rolling Stone says an important public safety message from sailor who knows firsthand the dangers of operating a vehicle. Turkey in the oven and the buns and the toaster. I’ll never take down my Cheryl Tigg’s poster. Not much analyzed there, other than Cheryl Tiggs being the first model to appear multiple times on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

Next up, Warning, couplets a little naughty. I’ll clean it up. Wrap the turkey up in aluminum foil. My brother likes to do stuff with baby oil. Rolling Stone then analyzed the baby oil reference.

You either know you don’t happy Thanksgiving Turkey and sweet potato pie. Sammy Davis Junior only had one eye straightforward reference to Sammy Davis June Yes. Next up, Turkey for the Girls. Turkey for the boys. My favorite kind of pants are corduroys.

God. I love Adam Saylor’s comedy It’s brilliant. Gobble gobblego and Gobble Gobble Giggle. I wish turkey only cost a nickel, Rolling Stone says, of course, as turkey dinner costs much more than nickel these days, there are many people living below the poverty line who can’t afford to put the Thanksgiving meal on their table. With this concluding couplet, Sailor asks us to remember the less fortunate during this and every holiday season.

From the ASU website. Comedia Christina Wong is drawing laps as a food bank influencer. She’s got a humorous show called Sex Lies and food Banks, reimagining the future of emergency food. She does parody songs one two Welcome to the Jungle, which is welcome to the food bank. We got groceries if you got no money, honey, we take ebt.

Using humor to make her point, Wang asks the audience reveal the things they’ve done to get a free meal when they were food insecure, and they answered, including attending on campus events, going on boarding dates, volunteering to pack boxes at a food bank, and exchange for a hot meal, and going to a church you don’t believe in. She says, I’m not curing food insecurity. I’m curing food going into a landfill. Will you be eating spam today? Probably not.

But The Guardian has reviewed the revival of the Spamalot Musical one of my favorite musicals. I’ve seen it. I saw the original run twice on Broadway, I’ve seen a regional presentation of it, and I’m looking forward to seeing the new one. Four stars out of five from the Guardian, and they wrote, if you saw the Broadway production the first time, of course you’re going to go back. Who would pass up a chance to relive Eric idols hilariously dark spoof of the Middle Ages.

They particularly enjoy the song that goes like this, which includes the promise I’ll sing it in your face while we both embrace. Spam Alot open November sixteenth at the Saint James Theater. You should go. And that’s your comedy news for this Thanksgiving. Hope you have a good one meets you back here tomorrow.

Plenty of men rife stuff. See the

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Featured: Matt Rife, Hans Kim, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Zendaya, Nick Cannon

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife Netflix special backlash over domestic violence joke
• Matt Rife’s fake apology linking to special needs helmets
• Matt Rife’s 2017 Wild and Out incident with Zendaya resurfaced
• Hans Kim’s Matthew Perry death joke controversy on Kill Tony
• David Letterman returns to Ed Sullivan Theater for Stephen Colbert appearance

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. My friends, Matt Rife has flewn too close to the sun and is being canceled. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. So much going on all of a sudden that I had to rip up today’s script and entirely redo it. Let’s start with the Baltimore banner.

Their headline matt Rice Netflix special takes aim at Baltimore and utterly misses. Oh, this is the least of Matt Rife’s problems, but let’s start. They wrote, Oh, look a joke about Baltimore. How groundbreaking. In the special, Rife, who is perhaps best known for appearing in sixteen episodes of Wild and Out.

We’ll get to that as well. Andrews Washington, DC’s Constitution Hall to fifty cents. Many men track. He says, this is so cool, man. I wish my grandpa could see this.

Man. I always wanted to bring him here to visit. He knew how much I love DC, and he loved Maryland. It was like his favorite state. The crowd cheers, and he says, which, no is a valid response unless you’ve been in Baltimore, because, dude, what the f is going on in Baltimore.

Dude, bro, Maryland as a state cannot pick a tone dog, just pick one. It’s so beautiful and so ratchet for no reason. Can you all just pick a tone? Man? All of Maryland, y’all will drive down to the beach with your top down and then go to Baltimore and lock all your doors.

No middle ground ever, man. Okay, so now the Maryland people are upset. But wait here we go. Matt says, I’ve only been to Baltimore one time, eight lunch there and the hostess who like seats you at the restaurant had a black guy a full black eye. And it wasn’t like one happened.

It was pretty obvious what happened. And we couldn’t get over the fact that we were like, this is the face of the company, this is who you have greeting people. And my boy who was with was like, yeah, I feel bad for a man. I feel like they should put her in the kitchen or something where nobody has to see her face, you know. And I was like, yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.

The audience groans, he gets some laughs. Rife says he was just testing the water, seeing if you’re all gonna be fun or not just wanted to see. I figured we start the show with domestic violence, the rest of the show should be pretty smooth sailing after that.

And now all the headlines that popped up Tuesday kind of midday viral comedia…

Creator Katie I’m asked over two hundred thousand views in a matter of hours after sharing that she decided to watch rife special because she’d seen clips of him online found him funny, but she had to stop watching after she heard his first joke. Katie said, if that man thinks the opening joke is funny, I’m sure I’m not the first woman he is disappointed. In less than three minutes, creator Kira called out the joke and said, is this what he means by he made this for men? You want to make fun of domestic violence with men? One woman wrote that his pretty privilege shouldn’t be enough to excuse his jokes.

I’m genuinely trying to figure out how this can be spun as funny, like he’s victim blaming. Then the men chimed in. One dude wrote, Matt Rife gets a lot of hate because his audience can’t take a joke. Another said, just a dark joke. I could see so many comics getting away with it.

Another said people need to relax and accept that this is comedy. Another praised Rife as a good comedian that just isn’t for everyone. But wait, there’s more. Matt Rife decided to apologize. You ready.

Matt posted an Instagram story and he said, if you’re offended by a joke I’ve told, here’s a link to my vish apology. If you click the link, it takes you to a place to purchase special needs helmets. I click the link and it says special needs helmets are lightweight, soft, durable, and well ventilate and offer a unique, comfortable fit plus extra protection and convenience to the client. These are real products. I’m in no way trying to make light of that, just telling you what happens when you click the link.

We’re in full on backlash mode. One of the articles says reviews have deemed Natural Selection as underwhelming thanks to the recycled use of penis jokes and other mundane attempts to incite laughter twenty one percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. One user said, of course the joke Matt Riife told about domestic violence was set in Baltimore, because it’s ratchet. A few hours later, Riife returned to Instagram Stories and wrote, we on the naughty List. He captured a new image with a Winki smile emoji.

The link was labeled this one’s real, this time with a crying laughing emoji. I’ll keep an eye on this one. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so tomorrow’s episode it’ll be somewhat generic. You can understand why I going to talk about Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving song. But as this heats up, I’ll stay on it.

If you’re relatively new listener, this show does not take a day off. I’ll be here every day. But wait, there’s more from pink Valla. They write Matt Riffe’s earlier contact with Zendeia in twenty seventeen is resurfaced online in the aftermath of the new controversy. People have dusted off a clip that has three million views on YouTube.

In it, there’s a game in which Matt Rife and Sinndea take part. Riife delivers a series of jokes designed and make Sundaya a puke out her water. Raife introduces himself as the host while kneeling down by Nick Cannon’s chair, before taking a different approach with Zendaia. He says, look, you’re mixed. I want to be black.

Let’s make a lifestyle movie. Spit that water out so I can get your number. Zendeia did not laugh at the line. Her cast mates were irritated by his decision to grip her chin. One cast member said please keep your hands off for Matt.

At that time, Raife shared a selfie with Zinday on Instagram just before the programmer that said watch me get it in Zendaa’s personal space tonight. On Wild and Out, another controversy, a comedian has left the Internet divided after his Matthew Perry joke. This from Unalad. This is Hans Kim. You either know exactly who this is or you’ve never heard of Hans Kim.

There is a podcast called kill Tony currently records at Joe Rogan’s Austin Club. On kill Tony, amateurs get up to do one minute of Comedy. Hans Kim is a regular on that show. He broke out of the audience, started getting regular gigs, and they almost always bring him up. I haven’t listened to kill Tony about a month or two, but Hans is a regular on the show.

You know, funny enough, but you know, I’d call him an amateur. Maybe he’s a pro now, but you know he’s not somebody who’s been doing this for thirty years. Hans Kim posted a clip of his set on TikTok. In the set, he says, sad to hear that the great Matthew Perry died alone in a hot tub for a guy on a show called Friends, he could have used a couple The audience laughed. A couple of groans from the audience social media users.

One said too soon, Another said hans Kim is the savage anyway. I’ll keep an eye on that one. This should have been the lead story. David Letterman returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater on Monday Night for the first time in eight year. Stephen Colbert said, my guest tonight certainly needs no introduction.

Crowd went nuts. Letterman said, I will say this is the most enthusiastic audience. I’ve been near since the night I announced I was quitting. Colbert asked Letterman if he missed anything a Letterman said everything. Mostly it’s fun.

Very few things in life provide the opportunity. And I can’t speak for you on this topic, but for me, if you muck one up twenty four hours later, you get to try again. That’s a pretty good device. They talked about their meeting in twenty fifteen. Colbert was picking Letterman’s brain on the show.

Letterman said, Colbert makes the job look easy. Colbert said, I’ll pass that on to the entire staff, but you and I both know it’s really the host. That’s a good joke. Apparently, Letterman’s one regret is that he never had the desk on the other side of the stage. But you said he wanted to try it over here because Johnny had his desk on this side of the stage.

Letterman, that’s right. Johnny’s configuration was exactly as yours is. Thinking about it, who gives a goddrn Towards the end of the conversation, Letterman said he spends a lot of time googling symptoms. They also gave a small shout out to Dana Carvey, whose son Decks passed away last week. Letterman cheered how he was key to bringing the National Onto perform during his return to the Ed Sullivan Theater, noting his request was able to get the band a step away from their tour to appear on the show with something he had only gotten one other band to do, and that band was the Foo Fighters.

Letterman said, the people who booked these acts were great producers and in touch with a wide variety of music, and it was a tremendous gift. When you don’t have that in your life, you miss it. At the end of the interview, Letterman asked if you could take a photo behind the old desk, and Colbert said sure and snapped a selfie of the two. Letterman said, by the way, in my day, I would have never let this happen. The Hollywood Reporter watched Leo, the exciting new Adam Sandler lizard movie.

They said it’s solid. The animation work in Leo is solid, and the music is more winking theatrically than memorable rhymes. It’s the narrative in Sandler’s comedic timing that’ll keep you watching the actors, joined by his daughters here, of course, because they are some of the best voice actors in the business. Sadie Sandler and Sonny Sandler. They play Jada in Summer, two girls on opposite sides of the popularity spectrum who share more than they realize.

Wayne Brady was involved in a two vehicle crash on Sunday night and allegedly involved in an all altercation after the wreck. According to the La County Sheriff’s Department, Wayne Brady one of two parties involved in the collision on the pch According to people, Wayne and the other driver allegedly had a physical confrontation after they argued. The incident allegedly occurred after the two drivers pulled over to exchange information. Authorities were unable to confirm whether a fight occurred. Fax announced a new series.

It’s called English Teacher, created by and starring Brian Jordan Alvarez. English Teacher follows a high school teacher in Austin who’s trying to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seemed to change every day. I’m bringing this up because it features comedian Sean Patton, who I like a lot. No word on a date yet, Uh, Hollywood just got back right. The Hollywood Reporters spoke to the new voices of Rick and Morty.

They are Ian Cardoni, He’s Rick, and Harry Belden is Morty. Harry Belden, who is Morty, said, it’s been super surreal waking up every day for the first month after landing the role. I genuinely kept asking my girlfriend if it had really happened, if I was indeed the new Morty. So to keep having that realization was like, Yeah, this is real. You’re playing a character we’ve watched and love for years and been a huge fan of.

It’s indescribable and brings such joy. Beldon, again he’s Morty, said, I emailed my agent and said, if you get any request for this Rick and Morty thing, I’d do a decent Rick and Morty. So I’d love to be considered and send them my stuff. Like most fans, I had done impressions of Rick and Morty for fun with my friends. Over time, I guess I was doing it enough that had turned into something I thought I could do.

Cardoni, who voices Rick, said same, I already had an impression real that I’d given my managers that included Rick and Morty voices. But as Harry mentioned, it was like, Wow, this could be a big opportunity. So the Holly reporters like, wait, they were asked about the criticism of the new voices might take the Rick is pretty good. He just doesn’t stammer as much as he used to. Rick us to stammer.

He would stammer Morty. He would go back and he repeat a sentence Morty and it’d start over. He doesn’t seem to do that anymore. The Morty is a little deeper. I guess we could say Morty has aged a little.

It’s fine. Once you stop thinking about it, it is fine. Cardoni, who plays Rick, has been avoiding or reading the criticism. He said, I avoid going down any rabbit is online. As a fan, I know the show touches people worldwide and the characters meet a lot to the fans.

I share that level of the show and care of the character. Wanting to be my best Rick is with me every time I record. Belden says he’s not allowed to look at the online comments. My girlfriend won’t let me. I completely understand people being nervous change is scary, especially with something so iconic that many people love.

But nobody’s going to be a harsher critic than yourself. They were asked the toughest aspect to get right Cardoni as Rick says, I’m sure you mean vocally, but more than the voice itself, it’s doing justice to the writing we’re given. Everything in the script is so deliberate and intentional. We’re not always privy to where the story’s going to go, but there’s a story that we’re responsible for telling, and each time I record, that’s the chief responsibility in my mind. But vocally, during an early session, I got the note that I needed to be more of an a hole than the other characters.

Having to open up that side of myself to access those parts of me that live in Rick and vice versas was my big challenge. Belden, who was Morty, said, it’s a challenge for mind myself. You might want to do it this one way, but let’s make sure we explore the other possibilities. For me, vocally, it was the F word. I had a little bit of vocal going lower on the U.

So I spent dozens of hours and dropped thousands of f bombs, drilling the F word over and over and over again. That’s your comedy news for today. If you’re looking for me, I’ll be a trivia night. Hope everybody has a happy Thanksgiving. I’ll be here tomorrow with a new episode.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Bill Burr, Matt Rife, Ralphie May, Adam Sandler, Bernie Brilstein, Robert Smigel

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais Armageddon Netflix special releasing December 25
• Bill Burr defends wife’s Trump salute at UFC event
• Matt Rife accused of stealing jokes from Ralphie May
• Adam Sandler’s Leo animated film premiering on Netflix November 21

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I am Chenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a date for Ricky Gervas Armageddon on Netflix. That date is Christmas. Ricky Gervas said, for the next two thousand years, people will remember the twenty fifth of December as the day Army Geddon was released on Netflix.

Army Geddon, recorded at the London Palladium earlier this year, features Ricky Gervas talking about the end of humanity, political correctness, family weddings, funerals, and artificial intelligence. The show won Ricky a Guinness World Record for the highest gross for a single stand up performance ever one point four one pounds. Wow. And that was just one of eighty five arena dates he did on the tour. Back in twenty twenty, Ricky signed a reported forty million dollar deal with Netflix which included the third season of Afterlife plus an unspecified number of stand up specials.

So that’ll be a good one to watch Christmas night. I don’t know. If there’s a football game then I could look. Let’s look, Oh, there are three games on Christmas Day, the Raiders and the Chiefs. That’s not bad, Giants and Eagles, Giants a little rough, but the Eagles are a good team.

And the night game the Ravens and the forty nine ers, and I’m a forty nine Ers fan. I won’t be getting to Ricky Travas. On the twenty fifth maybe. On the twenty sixth, Bill Burr commented on was it last week or the week before? Remember?

Missus Burr showed up at the UFC and Donald Trump was there and she gave Trump wore perhaps Kid Rock or perhaps Stana White at a two fingers salute. Bill Burr said, I love my wife. You know where you stand with her. The guy walked in the arena, everybody cheered, she gave the finger. Nobody got arrested.

That’s why this country’s great. Everybody expressed themselves. Can we all be adults. I don’t know about you, but I came there to go to the fights. I didn’t know I was going to the Republican National Convention.

It’s like those Trump guys are always going you snowflakes, after your feelings and all that, and then you make fun of Trump and they’re like, oh my god, they’re so disrespectful. Send your letters to Bill Burr, Johnny Mac, you never mentioned Matt Rife. Believe me, I was trying not to mention Matt Rife.

And then I saw this headline Matt Rife accused of swiping jokes from Ralphie …

I was friendly. I almost said tight. I wasn’t tight with Ralphie May, but I was quite friendly with Ralphie May quite so I was like what Twitter user at really though, posted two stolen Ralphie May bits from the Matt Rife Netflix special so far and I’m halfway in. This is nearly a direct lift, at least to use a different cadence for plausible deniability. Embarrassing, really though, posted the clips back to back.

They’re a little too long for me to share. In the first clip, Ralphie is talking about a student he went to school with. He’s using the R word that has fallen quite out of fashion. Has cracked put it. Ralphie riffs on the special needs kid from the high school, who also happens to be extremely well endowed.

Then the Matt Rife clip, same thing, Crack says. If I give Rife the benefit of the doubt here, I’d say he and Ralphie simply shared a remarkable coincidence in their lives. Both comics went to a high school with a likable special needs kid who also happened to have a large endowment. Could happen? I guess button both bits, the comedians reference the other student wearing a helmet.

In both bits, the comedians observe that when God taketh away in one area, he giveth in another, and Krack says it’s not the first time someone has accused Rife of borrowing a joke or to Oh, I did not know this. Let’s do some more googling. What came up is a TikTok titled Matt Rife Steele’s erro or Joke from the Barcode Network podcast. I went to play on it and it’s a TikTok, and I’m not logged in, and I don’t feel like letting the Chinese have all my information on this particular computer. So let’s just move on.

Today one of the great days of the year. Why, Johnny Mac, Because it’s a day where we get a new Adam Sandler film, Leo, out on Netflix today. Cancel all your plans, stay home. In Leo, Adam Sandler voices a seventy year old lizard named Leo, who for decades has served as a class pet for a rotating group of fifth graders. One day, Leo learns he only has a year to live and plans to escape to freedom, but instead, twist spoiler, he has to rescue the students from their mean substitute teacher.

Listen to this? Uh who listen to this? Can you hear it? Can you hear me? Losing it?

Can you you hear me? Right? Sandler tells the Hollywood Reporter he was inspired to do a version of Are You Ready Grease for the last year of elementary school? Tap the brakes, Adam sailor Let’s not go, comparing this to Grease. Sandler stars of the voice cast, alongside coincidentally best choices for the voice acting his daughter Sonny and Sadie no one better wife.

Jackie, also one of the best voice actors in the business, is also in the film, But Sadlor says, don’t expect family projects from now on. They want to do their own thing too. Uh huh, Yep. I’m sure they’ll get a project, and I’m sure if we look at the credits, it’ll say executive produced by Adam Sandler. This will be one of those deals where Netflix is like, hey, we throw us a special and yeah, you can have two projects that we don’t care about happens all the time, and showbiz that will happen.

Write it Down, Johnny Mac, November twenty first, twenty twenty three, Write it Down. When it came to crafting the voice of Leo, Adam Sandler revealed that he channeled late manager and producer Bernie Brilstein, who helped launch SNL and served as manager to SNL stars including Adam Sandlor, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Martin Short, and Lorn Michaels. Robert Smigel is part of this project. He himself also used to do an impression of Bernie Brilstein and remembered how he would give advice in a way that would suit the film’s wise lizard. Smigel recalled, Adam said, let me do Bernie for this one.

I thought he might do Peter Falk, but he said, I want to do Bernie for this one. Sandlor already had started to work on a movie set during the fifth grade. Sandler says it was a very different movie and it had a narrator who appeared two or three times and the last time it appeared, it was revealed at the very end of the movie that he was a snake at the back of the classroom. That sort of triggered this whole idea for me, Like, what if the class pet’s been stuck in this room for seventy years seeing every kind of fifth grader who was incredibly jaded, then finds out he has a year to live, and then he decides he’s got to go make more of his life. Then he ends up giving advice to kids.

Sounds great, Adam. By the way, I was curious and a googled lizard lifespan. Google tells me the lifespan of a lizard depends on the species of lizards. Take a guess. Well.

According to Google, geckos survive for about ten to fifteen years in a typical home, chameleons five to seven years, iguanas twenty years, and komodo dragons, the biggest of the reptiles, live for an average of forty years. So there could be some creative stretching here in Leo, but that’s okay. Adam Sandler says kids have such heightened anxiety about the smallest problems. Sometimes when they were that age, and I thought it was a really funny thing to put together. Kids with really tiny problems that are huge in their minds confided with a wise old lizard who has the lifespan of three to four times the normal lizard lifespan.

Bill Burr is in this thing as well. He plays Squirtle, who’s a turtle who shares the classroom terrarium with Leo. Burst said it was surreal to be in the booth with Sandler. He’s the greatest guy ever. Bill Burr goes song free, joking.

I’m actually disappointed they didn’t ask me. I’m one of the great bad singers of all time. Robert Smigel’s sons also coincidentally in the movie. They also are among some of the best voice actors of the business. Leo streaming on Netflix today, Hooray.

Also out on Netflix Today, The Old Man on the Pool Mike Burbiglia. The show is a take on life’s big questions, why are we here, what’s next? Exactly? How much chlorine are they putting on the YMCA Pool. The Old Man on the Pool on Netflix Today, Good SNL This weekend.

I saw Vulture didn’t like it at all. I thought it was probably the second best episode of the season because of the weirdness of Sarah Sherman and the greatness of Bow and Yang. They were both in a lot of sketches, and their sketches tend to stand out. Sarah brought the weird on Saturday Night, which was good. Now I was going to mention her anyway, and then I saw a Variety happen to profile her.

Good for me, because it’s a slow news week. We learned from Variety that Sarah has been working with colleagues for months on new technology that would make the act of pretending to throw up on stage a lot easier and more comfortable. You see, for years SNL cast members have relied on a tube tucked alongside their arm and usually inside a jacket’s sleeve, that spews out liquid approximating vomited blood. At just the right moment, The actor holds an arm close to their mouth and the vomit rig does the rest. Dan Aykroyd used this in nineteen seventy eight when playing Julia Child.

Sarah sh Sherman’s idea is an advanced vomit rig that’s hands free, kind of like Bluetooth style. She and mikey Day wrote a sketch that would have used it, but it was cut after dress rehearsal. Sarah says, just know that we have some of the most brilliant minds and special effects working around the clock to develop live gags. I’m trying every day to make great things. Talk more about Sarah later in the week.

It’s a pretty good profile. As the show wrapped up, you know at the end there where they all stand on the stage and the music plays out, Colin Jost was seen holding up a sign that read we love you Dana and Paula, a shout out to the couple whose son Dex Carvey died last week from an accidental drug overdose at thirty two. Dana posted on Instagram and Twitter over the weekend saying this is just to say thank you. He said he and wife Paula have been overwhelmed by the love, compassionate and personal stories that people have shared with them. We receive so many beautiful messages from people who knew Decks.

These touched us more than we could ever express in words. Dana added, I’ll be taking a break from work in social media, trying to figure out what life looks like now that we’re a family of three, well heal the best we can and carry on our darling Decks would have wanted it that way. Some more detail around the original announcement. Last Thursday, Carvey had posted twice about his son. Alongside a photo of Dex, he wrote, f the tabloids, this is my boy.

He also shared a snapshot of father and son teaming up on a project, saying, Dex and be working together. What a joy. Jim Gaffigan tagged it and said, what a great picture. Love the focus you’re putting on telling us about Dex. Such a lovely tribute to your boy.

Kevin Nalan commented love the picture, Dana. It tells so much. God bless you, Dex. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Marc Maron, David Cross, Paul F. Tompkins, Weird Al Yankovic, Eric Idle, Kids in the Hall

What’s in This Episode

• David Letterman returns to Ed Sullivan Theater as Stephen Colbert guest after 8 years
• SF Sketchfest 2024 lineup announcement (January 18 – February 4)
• Eric Idle performing first North American live show in 7 years at Sketchfest
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog podcast episode with Weird Al
• 200+ shows and special events announced for San Francisco Sketchfest

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. David Letterman returns to the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight. He is the guest on Stephen Colbert. It’s been eight years already since Letterman stopped hosting Late Show.

Dave’s been on a bunch of other shows, including The Drew Barrymore Show, The View, Kimmel, Late Night with Seth James Cordon, but he has not yet returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater. That’ll change tonight. Colbert himself broke the news. Some news reports say it’s not clear what Letterman is coming on to talk about, but I’m guessing Letterman is auctioning off the marquee for the Et Sullivant Theater, right, so that would be a good reason to return to the Ed Sullivant Theater. I’m guessing that’s what that’s about.

We’ll find out tonight. The big announcement that came out Friday. I had mentioned to you on Saturday that I saved it for today. Not sure why San Francisco Sketch Fest picked a Friday to announce these things, but they have announced the light up for the twenty twenty four Comedy Festival taking place in San Francisco January eighteenth through February fourth. I have done that festival in the past.

It is fantastic. You should go. We have spent a lot of time here telling you about it. More than two hundred shows. Special events this year include Eric Idol in his first live North American show in seven years, joined by his friend and collaborator Jeff B.

Davis, for a one night performance featuring music, conversation, and scenes, including the world premiere of have Never Before Seen Monty Python, Sketch That’s Interesting, Comedy Icons. The kids in the Hall will bring sketches, stories, and songs to Sketch Fest. Performing is the full cast and also in solo shows. The State Hits and Misses features the nineties favorites performing rare never before seen sketch bitches and the Giant Misfires. Theatrical parodies include The Fast and the Furious, a musical parody Love It and Exorcistic, the unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist.

Some podcasts will be there, including Triumph, the insult comic Dog with guest weird Alt. Triumph had a podcast Is That a thing. Where’s my phone? I didn’t know that was a thing. Did you know that was a thing?

I do do this show every day, and I research this stuff, and I have an ego, and I look at the podcast chart, especially under comedy. Let’s see here, let’s make a poop. It does seem to be a thing. It put out an episode in December of twenty nineteen that had Pete Davidson on it, and in June of twenty twenty it put out Quarantine Squares. So I guess the weird Al will be the third episode of this.

I guess it is a podcast with an atypical schedule that explains why it’s not on my radar. This has nothing to do with comedy, but music. Programming includes Michael Shannon and Jason or Ducci performing two separate classic RAM albums, Murmur and Reckogning over two nights, so that’s neat. Returning festival favorites back to comedy include Asian af Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, The Black Version, Joel Kim Booster, David Cross, Fake Ted Talks, Joe Firestone, Futurama, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Judge, John Hodgman, Mark Maher and Eugene Merman, Do’ll Say Sloan, paull Off, Tom Jinny Yang and the Proverbial many more. The SF Sketch Fest is a yearly spotlight of twelve top comedians, is once again stacked, featuring Emma Arnold, Greg Barris, Katrina Davis, Mike Drucker, Mohanned Alshiki, Joel, Nicole Johnson, Liz Meely, Claire Okaine, Just Tom, Moe Welch, and Paige Weldon.

Later in the release, we get more of a bullet point Format’d be a little easier for me to fly through special events and tributes. Eric Idle told you about the Kids in the Hall, Unplugged, the Kids in the Hall scenes they wouldn’t let us do? An Afternoon with Amber rufferin the State tells you about that sketching. Improv comedy includes Beverly Live, The Big Team, The Black Version, Britannic Convoy, Dinosaur Improv. That show includes Jason Manzukus and Paul Sheer, among others.

Drunk Theater, George prov with Connor Ratliffe, Gethard and Sager Girl God, The Groundlings, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Killing Myle Lobster, Spawn Tour Co with Paul F. Tompkins, Super Married, Theme Park Improv with Ian Brennan, Rachel Dratch, Oscar Nuniez and a bunch of others. Time to Kill as a sketch comedy show. There are also variety and game shows including Asian af ask a Magician, Battle of the Wizards, The Bay Area pun Off, Black Men Can’t Jump Brew ha Ha, the comedy drinking game show with Matt Bronger, A Close Shave with Heaven, A super serious night of poetry and comedy. Kurt Broneller and Eugene Merman are on that show.

Comedian Feud I Guess That’s Like Family Feud. The guests include Paul F. Tompkins, Sishu’s Mada, Let’s See Lauren Lupkiz, Tony Newsom Blair, Soci David Wayne’s World of Wonder is a Night of magic, comedy, music and other delights. Filipino af Jepper Gay, Love It with Spikey and Miner and Honeyblutes on Jepper Gay is Hilarious, Love It Knees Up with Chris Tierner, Maniac Bowl, Okay, Who Did It? With Joe Firestone?

Self Help Me with Jenny Yang South Asian af Tinder Law with Lane Moore and David Cross, The Traventure Zone A Night of Dungeons and Dragons and also comedians and Vroyotopia with Paul F. Tompkins. A bunch of podcasts and talk shows. Let’s see what you might have heard of Doug Love’s movies, The George Lucas Talk Shows, a lot of fun. Hello from the Magic Tavern, I Love My Kid Butt with Kurt Brunaller, Megan Galli and Chris Garcia.

Wow, Chris Garcia, I haven’t heard that name in a while. He was a new face at Montreal. Oh, I’m going back. I think it was twenty fifteen. From memory, I thought he was going to have a much bigger career than he has.

Mosha Casher More Paul F. Tompkins talking Simpsons. He oh, is this racist? There’s some music in comedy shows. Let me see if I could pick the comedy out of here really quickly.

Off Book the Improvised Musical. That’s a fantastic podcast. I’m a big fan of that one. Stupid Songs and Stories with Kevin McDonald’s The Benson Movie Interruption. We’ll cover fast x Futurama’s twenty fifth anniversary Spectacular with David X Cohen, John Demaggio, David Herman and others including Billy West.

Outtake O Rama is described as infabous celebrity outtakes with David X Cohen, John Demaggio, Maurice LaMarsh and Billy West, Fake Ted Talks, Matt Bronger again, Guy Brainham and some others. Portlight is a storytelling series with Christella Alonso, Chris Garcia, Bob Odenkirk and Moore. A show called So Say We All, Vamp nonfiction showcase, So Say We All as a catration Battlestar Galactica. I wonder if that is involved. I don’t know, no, and we’re up to the stand up comedy section.

Are you getting the sense yet that this thing is huge? That’s why I didn’t cram it in on Saturday? This is its own thing, all right. The comedians include Aaron Chen Bad Indian, a Native American comedy show with Joshua Emerson, Blabermouth with Phil Griffinson, Red Scott, Brett Gilman, The Comedians with Disabilities Act, David Cross and Friends. DJ Jimmers been playing him over on the Live One app.

I like DJ Lott. They’ll say Sloan, Fun Voices with ron Funches and Blair, soci Hot Sets with Ronica Kowaikowski and Sam Clark, An Hour with Josh Johnson, Jennif Friedman, Not Funny, Joe, Kimbooster and Friends, John Glazer’s Smoothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog, Mark Marin all In is the name of that show, Maria Bamford, Matt Bronger again, Eugene Merman, Resistance is Fertile with Brooke Heinechin and Luisa Isabel Todd, Barry’s Half Joking Tour, Zenabe Johnson’s Kids Shows and Moe Williams and The Story Time All Stars Live with w Came On, Bell D’ll Say Sloan, Weird, Al Yankovic and more. Skesh Fest San Francisco, January eighteenth through February fourth, at Many venues. About two months ago, I made a pledge that on Mondays I would remember to tell you guys what I’m playing over on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live one app. If you don’t know what that is.

The app is free. It’s called Live one. On the app, there’s a show. It’s called the Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s like this, except I can actually play the comedians bits there.

So if I tell you a story about Jim Gaffigan, then I play some JIMN. Gaff again. Now, since I made this promise, I have forgotten every other week to do it. Like I totally forget. I get in the car Monday, I drive to the Donuts chain.

I’m like, ah, you forgot to plug the Live one show. But this being in every other week, for some reason, every other week I remember to do it. On this week’s show, Brad Williams Bert Krascher talking about that whole thing with the Aditarad that I told you about on here. Kevin Hart, winner of the Mark Twain Prize. New podcast from Daniel Tosh and Dan Soder give an excuse to play those guys.

Thomson Gore announced his tour, so I’ll play him some Thanksgiving stuff. Jim Gaffigan talking about grievy. Andrew Santino thinks you should own your own material. Anthony Jesslink talking about getting older. Eddie Murphy’s got a Christmas movie coming out.

Jay Farrow on impressions and a clip from Spam a loot, So it’s the weekly comedy thing. On the Live one app.

Speaking of Daniel Tosh, he was describing his podcast, which is off to good …

He says, I’ll be interviewing people who I find interesting, so not celebrities and certainly not comedians. If you’re looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that’ll make you think, this isn’t the one for you. Johnny Mac, you never talk about Matt Rife. I know right well. The Des Moines Register said, hey, remember a while back there was the hottest mom in a video that went viral, part of the whole Matt Rife viral thing.

There’s this woman, she’s a hot mom. Whatever. Anyway, Matt was in ames Iowa on his tour and he asked the crowd if Christina the Hot mom was present, what do you know she was? If you’re in New York City, you remember the comedy club Danger Fields. I wound up there on the night of my prom.

After the prom, you know, you’re seventeen, you gotta find someplace who’ll let you in at one in the morning and maybe look the other way on your choices of beverage. You know what I mean yeah, anyway, Dangerfields closed in twenty twenty, but a new owner is going to open a comedy club on the same site. It will not be called Dangerfields. It’ll have a new name. We don’t know what the name is yet, but the new two hundred person club on First Avenue sixty first Street on the east side of Manhattan will remain open until two am on Fridays and Saturdays, with shows most likely wrapping up around midnight.

That’s to keep the neighbors calm and were like, well, comedy club. Look, there was a comedy club there until you moved in last year. Relax. Comedy fans will be able to supplement their laughter with or dervs and upscale cocktails. The owner said.

The club will focus on featuring a modern, inclusive comedy scene, showcasing up and comers as well as established veterans, which is every club. They’ll be open mic hours earlier in the evening. There will not be a late show during the week, and the article for some reason points out that soon directly across the street a new store will open. That new store is a cannabis shop. Rodney Dangerfield himself opened his club in nineteen sixty nine, providing the neighborhood with fifty years of laughs from stars such as Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Roseanne and Chris Rock.

If you saw the twenty nineteen movie The Joker, remember The Joker does some comedy that was filmed at Dangerfields, but Dangerfields went out in October twenty twenty. You may remember there was this big penny and we didn’t really leave the house and go to comedy clubs. Congratulations to George Costanza who has made Cooperstown. No, not Chason Alexander, and no, not the Baseball Museum Hall of Fame or whatever it’s called. This is George Costanza, the character who now appears at the Cooperstown Heroes of Baseball wax Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

They pride themselves as being the only wax museum dedicated to baseball. Makes sense, you may recall it. George Costanza worked for the New York Yankees in the nineteen nineties. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcastspotify, YouTube, overcast podcast relegator shows See tomorrow

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Roger Federer, Matt Rife, Ralph Barbosa, Leslie Jones, Jordan Klepper, Mayim Bialik, Dean Obaidalla, Faisal O

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah and Roger Federer star in Grand Train Tour of Switzerland tourism ad
• Please Don’t Destroy movie receives negative reviews from Daily Beast
• Ralph Barbosa announces 2024 Super Cool Ass Tour dates
• Matt Rife backlash begins following New York Times profile on sex appeal and image
• Leslie Jones joins Jordan Klepper on Daily Show headlines segment
• Arab American Comedy Festival celebrates 20 years in New York City
• Mayim Bialik discusses Gaza conflict impact on comedy and Biden campaign

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m hinting Mack with your Daily comedy, and he was, Let’s play a game. Can I finish recording this episode before my wife comes home? Let’s see Upworthy ask the question you were probably wondering, which is, what do you get when you combine comedian Trevor Noah, Tennis legend Roger Federer, and the world famous clockmaking, chocolate brewing, alpine skiing symbol of neutrality Switzerland? I feel like doing Karnack now Trevor Noah, Roger Feederer and Switzerland.

And then you rip open an envelope and you read, apparently aid’s a lightfully charming train ride through the Swiss countryside. What are you talking about, John Well, Trevor Noah and Roger Federer are in a tourism ad. Just last week I told you Trevor Noah was the spokesperson for South Africa tourism. This isn’t that at all. This is Switzerland.

It’s an ad for the Grand Train Tour of Switzerland. Let’s listen. I’m sorry, Roger, but this script just isn’t funny TV. How many times doff to tell you it’s a It’s not supposed to be funny. Gentlemen, we are going to start to shoot on the train in four minutes.

I cour thank you. We’ll see in five four, yes, four minutes. Both Trevor and Federer are half Swiss. As these sketch continues, they appear to hop on the wrong train while arguing about whether or not the ad they’re filming is funny, or whether it even should be. I watched it.

I thought it was a lot of fun. It’s been a bad week for reviews. Don’t blame me on this one, Blame the Daily Beast. They write SNL Comedy Team, please don’t destroy bomb their movie debut ouch The Treasure of Foggy Mountain is proof that it’s not easy extending sketch stick to feature length. The Daily Beast writes, a frustrating lack of consistency holds please don’t destroy back.

As they introduce themselves to an audience unfamiliar with their rhythms shaped by the condensed format of TikTok with an approximate fifty to fifty ratio of inspired silliness to repetitive edits as jokes, they’re caught between a measure of evident talent and the temptation to fall back on their safest tendencies the beast continue. So many of the twenty first centuries big studio comedies fit themselves into the grooves shared which we I mean old chums trying to crack each other up, a mode that only works when we’re part of the gang. Otherwise, the riffing starts to grate as idle self amusement, and the viewers get to thinking about the difference between an eight funniness and the skills required to craft the film. All of which is to say it should surprise no one to learn that this motion picture was produced by jud appatow Wow. Ralph Barbosa picked late Friday afternoon to announce a tour.

Why so much news came out on Friday, I don’t know, but he’s announced dates for the twenty twenty four Super Cool Ass Tour. Love It the Paressor Lease Umple brags that Ralph Barbosa Cowabunga, released October thirty first, spent two weeks in Netflix’s Top ten TV chart, debuting at number three. The tour kicks off January twelfth in San Diego.

Also visit Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Tampa, al Passo, Albuquerque, …

On May twenty fifth, Johnny Mac, you never talk about Matt Rife. You haven’t mentioned him at all lately. I know, right well, good news. The New York Times wrote an article about him and wrote, Matt Rife f leans into a sex appeal. You could see it the swaggering way he poses for photos or shows off his biceps like a boy band star.

He invites you to admire him. It says from the stage that his audience is mostly women. Part of his charm is that he speaks like a teen beat cover boy, saying things like homophobias a massive pet peeve of mine. His debut special was called OnlyFans, and he flirts with the audience. He posted workout clips on social media and uses a topless photo for his Instagram avatar.

Can you hear the side switching? Like? Uh? The Battlerife backlash has begun. I’m declaring it wherever you write now check your watch.

This is when the matte Rife backlash started. The Times writes, if Zoolanders started doing open mics, he would act like Matt Rife. This is touchy territory because we already live in a world where every young musical star is attractive, male politicians needs to be tall to get elected president, and the advantages for actors pleasing to look at or taken for granted. Now, Comedy two is the algorithm gonna make the out of shape nebbish stand up and endangered species. Good question.

I mentioned a few times all week about Leslie Jones and The Daily Show and there being no buzz. Huffington Post said maybe they figured it out. On Thursday, Leslie was joined by Jordan Klepper and they did the headlines together. Huff Poe writes, it’s not clear if that was a one time team up or if the two were under consideration as permanent hosts, but the duo brought enough energy to power a city. I’ll chime in, They’re not going to pay two hosts.

Why would you do that? You’re not going to today at town Hall, New York City. It’s the Arab American Comedy Festival North Jersey. Dot com rits co creators Mayson Zaid and Dean Obadalla we’re still tackling bigotry through comedy twenty years after they founded this thing. Zayid said, I think in this time where we’re being dehumanized and we’re being vilified, it’s such an incredible opportunity for us to be us until the audience laugh with us.

Today’s show will feature a roster of Arab American comics and a fireside chat with actor Tony Chaloub. Dean said, we’re hoping people outside of our community who want to come and just laugh at a really good comedy show also come out. Zayid said she campaigned for Joe Biden, but since the war in Gaza, she’s been iced out by Biden and his team. She joked, my other ex boyfriends are so jealous of Joe Biden right now because he has taken over my stand up comedy. I don’t even talk about them anymore.

Oh yeah, Joe Biden totally tricked me. We were like arm in arm in the White House looking gorgeous in May, and then October comes around and you know, he totally ghosted me and turned my family into ghosts. Wow, wait, my wife is home. I told you that was gonna happen. I guess we’re gonna take the break here, be right back where were we?

It’s twenty five minutes later in my life for you those about three minutes. It’s a lot later now, John, Why don’t you just do it edit because that’s not fun. I want you to know what actually happened. I was telling you about the Arab American Comedy Festival. Do you know what Dalla said?

My jokes really go through the spectrum of right after nine to eleven. The jokes were all about, hey, we’re just like you, don’t beat us up. I mean literally, that’s one of the jokes. Then over time they became a little bit more about pushing back against bigotry. Over the years, festival alumni have included Pete Dominic, media commentator and podcast host.

I hired Peace to be a host for me at Sirius xm Rami Usef and Mohmair also appeared at the festival. There’ll be some upcoming shows. If you’re not in New York City today, visit Arabiccomedy dot com. Feard O is tough to Instagram on Thursday to share a note and captured it for the five people who care. Someone asked me today why comedians don’t host film awards in India.

Now many comedians, myself included, have scripted every film award we have. The point of having comedians host the Oscars or Film Awards is that for a night a jester would humanize the most beautiful, chosen people in the world since they were being celebrated already. That’s when any joke is a punch up. Here. Egos won’t take a joke from anyone who’s not at their level, so you go big.

Ironically, the bigger the star who hosts the trigger it’s going to be. So a huge star hosting works for people in the room, just not always funny for the people watching, simply because the power imbalance is off. It’s only funny when the host has less power. So you’re deciding between who you want the show to be funny for the viewers or the winners. Eric Farwell writes for The Internder Pound Gorilla and caught a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival and got around a recapping them.

That’s not a dig, Eric, I’m just explaining to the audience why I didn’t mention this a week ago. Eric writes Tina Frimmel and Robin Tran headline two very different shows, crushed in two different venues, and at comics who were well on their way open or co headlined with them. Chanelle Ali has always turned the room into a bunch of astronauts, because after you see her set, a lot of other comedy doesn’t quite the same way. Stacy Kaye was a student erradite, which is to say, professionally funny in a really unique way. Notice I’m glossing over a lot, but I’m just excited to write about how good Tran and Fremo were.

Okay, when it comes to Tina Frimmel, there might not be anyone killing it as hard as her working in New York right now. There’s a unique rhythm to her sets that can crescendo and fall she wants, and by utilizing it as a tool in her jokes, there are opportunities to juice align or let things sit a bit longer. They make it feel opponent, alive and exciting. One of the best things about the way she’s used her unique accouterments of her speaking voice is to make the audience lean in to hear her. There’s such power in this and by having the audience go to her, she can take time to ratchet up anticipation and destroy Robin.

Tran blends the style of nineteen ninety and early aughts club jokes around a core part of her identity as a trans woman, getting to see her run a set that dealt with things like the particular of her experience as a queer person as well as a queer person who loves wrestling in M and M with the verve and edge of someone like Greg Giraldo, who helped me to champion her as the future of comedy. Even more, Trean is gentle but cranky, and it lends the comedy of fun prickliness. Watching her sidle up to lightly dark ideas about her dead friend with humble confidence, managing to both be the hero and a bit of a heal is funny every single time. Some other folks. Eric Farwell wrote about Mita Johari was lucky to have such an attentive and appreciative fan base in Brooklyn, But I’m still not convinced we deserve her brilliance.

She’s operating on rarefied level or it.

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In a story about seeing someone get slapped on the subway, she takes time to clarify the slap, describing it as a comic book smack with the word slap written above the victim’s head. It’s such a delightful and silly joke, but it takes a keen eye to recognize that this splash of color in the joke will help. It’s so easy to miss, but Washington knows what she’s after, and it kills just a little bit harder because she’s so thoughtful about what each line needs and from exclaim Gwyneth Paltrow’s infamous ski collision lawsuit, it’s becoming a musical. You may recall earlier this year, Paltrow was found not responsible for a twenty sixteen ski accident that left a retired optometrist with four broken ribs, a concussion, and permanent brain damage after an eight day court case. In the civil suit, the optometrist alleged that the goop guru was it fault for him crashing in a her from behind on the slopes of Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah.

Paltrow’s victory saw her awarded a symbolic one dollar plus legal fees. Well, now it’s a musical. It’s called Gwyneth Coast Skiing. It’ll premiere at the Pleasants in London’s West End on December thirteenth. The score features original music I would hope so, I mean, what are you gonna do?

Play Bohemian Rhapsody? Of course. It features original music, a synopsis of the story of love, betrayal, skiing and Christmas reads. She’s the goop founding Shakespeare Loving, consciously uncoupling Hollywood superstar. He’s a retired autometrist from Utah.

In twenty sixteen, they went skiing on the slopes of Deer Valley. The World’s collided, and so did they? Literally? Oh one more story from Stuff dot co dot NZ aka New Zealand Stuff. They ask, are Jerry Seinfeld seats the most expensive tickets ever sold to New Zealand.

I haven’t busted out half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld for a while. If you’re a new listener, most people’s Jerry Seinfeld’s impression is, Hey, do you ever noticed that mineus? The slow burning angry Jerry, and as I described the impression, it is half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld. I’m not rich little here, I’m no Frank Calliando, but here we go as half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld, New Zealand. Stuff rights, so no singer the Concert of d Tickets seam to go out in price with every passing year and fork it out the big bucks for big names, something most people are used to dog.

But would you pay at your fifty dollars, say Jerry Seinfeld. That’s a question many fans are being faced with as they rush to get tickets to the comedian’s first New Zealand show since twenty seventeen. Jerry will do two shows in June, one in Auckland and one in christ Church. An in demand ticket for Rose six would set you back seven hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety New Zealand currency since four to seventy five. Stuff says, eight hundred and forty nine ninety is a lot of money for between ninety minutes and two hours of comedy, the usual length of a Seinfeld show on this tour.

That works out to between seven and nine dollars per minute. Okay, if you’re curious, and I know you are. I did the conversion on Friday afternoon, converting the New Zealand currency dollars into US dollars. Seinfeld ticket five hundred and nine bucks. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Leslie Jones, Seth Meyers, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Bert Kreischer, Don Rickles, Jeff Ross, Sarah Silverman, John Stamos

What’s in This Episode

• TSA predicts busiest holiday travel season ever with late night jokes
• George Santos campaign spending scandal on botox and OnlyFans
• Biden and Xi Jinping re-establish military communications
• David Letterman to appear as guest on Stephen Colbert
• Trevor Noah announces fourth Netflix special premiering December 19th
• Bert Kreischer explains tackling Iditarod protestor at Las Vegas F1 event
• National Comedy Center preserves Don Rickles archival collection from estate

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Chinning Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I gotta stop grabbing a handful of peanut m and ms before I record these things. I went up clearing my throat a million times. Let’s take a look at Late Night, Jimmy Fallon said.

Ahead of Thanksgiving, the TSA has announced they’re predicting the busiest holiday travel season ever. And yeah, a classy move. Southwest cut right to the chase and canceled all their flights. Love it, kim All. More than thirty million Americans are expected to travel by playing over the holiday, and every one of them is in your boarding group, fell And apparently the airport’s going to be so busy that Liguardia might even buy a second great bin.

Hilarious new topic from Leslie Jones hosting the Daily Show and getting no help whatsoever from the writers. This is bad. Santo’s got caught spending campaign money on botox and OnlyFans. And this is on top of him stealing credit cards, wire fraud and identity theft. When he goes to jail the Alaskam, what are you in for?

And He’s gonna be like everything that’s a hack joke. It’s not good Seth Meyer’s new top President Biden, Chinese President g Jinping agreed to re establish military communications. It’s what Biden is calling the greatest US collaboration since Rush Hour. Love It. David Letterman will be the guest on Stephen Colbert on Monday Night.

This announced by Stephen Colbert on Twitter. I’ve already cleared my throat five times. We’re what A minuted in a very very robust Saturday edition of this No filler at all today. There was a lot of news and a lot came out on Friday afternoon, including an amazing lineup for San Francisco’s Sketch Fest. I can’t believe they announced that on a Friday.

I will save that for Monday’s podcast. I also found it curious that they waited till a Friday to announce Trevor Noah as a new Netflix special and it will be out next month, December nineteenth. Where Was I will be Trevor Noah’s fourth comedy special for Netflix. Official description. Trevor Noah shares his hilarious experiences from his recent travels around the world, ranging from foreign national anthems to varying cultural Norms.

The specials filmed at the Fox Theater in Detroit. I told you the other day Bert Krascher went and grabbed the woman who was protesting the I did a rod race at a Las Vegas F one race event. Craziness bird explain what was going on. He spoke to Deadline and he said, when we got done, someone at Netflix came to me and they’re like, hey, you’re going viral. And I was like, for what, and they’re like the protester.

Krayscher said, I literally, honestly didn’t even think about it. I really don’t have a recollection of it other than being in production mode and being like, hey, you can’t get the shot. It was such an interesting thing because they had all these celebrities in the pit lane, which is what they called it, and I was supposed to do interviews with everyone. When those people came running out, this is gonna sound really crazy. I kept thinking to myself when I was sitting there, Man, this is where the Las Vegas shooting was.

This is crazy. If you’re gonna do a shooting, you could kill a ton of celebrities right now. While hoping to protect those participating, Krasier hoped to minimize contact with a protester. He said, I thought it was just like I was moving one of my daughters. I was just like, here we go.

I wasn’t going to touch her body, so I was trying to grab her arms and move her away. And man, that snapshot looks totally different. It looks like I leveled her. All I remember saying was like, were they protesting me? I did a rod?

Then I was like, wow, that’s crazy. Did I really just put my foot in the political ring regarding that I did a rod? Like, I have no feelings about the I did a rod. Ever, all of a sudden, I’m like, f that did arod is a mainstay of North America. Not on my watch, baby.

The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, announced it will be preserving the archival collection from Don rickles estate. Awesome, that’s really cool. The collection spans from the fifties to the two thousands. It includes rare photographs, correspondents, creative papers, and wardrobe. The centerpiece of the collection is more than forty photo and memorabilia albums assembled by Don and his wife Barbara.

The handcrafted books chronicled Don rickles rise to fame, as a young comic, honing his craft and culminating his later years as the comedy community’s beloved elder statesman. Some more items a stage warned tuxedo and a neon characture of the comedian that appeared during his on stage decordering his live performances. There’s an interactive feature that insults museum goers with never before heard audio recorded by Don. Shortly before his passing, National Comedy Center Executive director Jerny Gunderson said, mister warmth, the Merchant of Venom, the Emperor of insults, by any name and by any measure, Don Rickles was an extraordinary artist who brought laughtered to millions over six decades. Rickles comedy was relentlessly funny.

He was a true original, beloved by his audiences and by the comedy community. Gunderson added, to be insulted by John Riggles was a badge of honor. Bob Newhart throw in some quoted Don was my best friend. He was called the Merchant of venom, but the truth was he was just the kindest man. I know that he would have been quite honored and very proud of his career.

Collection preserved and displayed at the National Comedy Center, Jimmy Kimmel in on this set. Not only was Don the funniest man alive, he is the funniest man not alive. Jeff Ross quoted. He was America’s doctor. He helped us laugh at ourselves.

He brought people together, he brought couples together, he brought races together. That’s incredibly healing. Above all was spiritual, not just the comics, but for his fans, meeting Don Rickles was like meeting the Pope, the Pope of Fumor. He’s the grand Master, the bald hat on Mount Roastmore, the black belt in busting chops, the Sultan of insultin and the release as full quote at Comedycenter dot org slash Rickles. How much more did he say?

I’m clicking on it. I clicked the page you were looking is not found. Hmmm. In fact, Comedycenter dot org slash Rickles doesn’t exist. What’s going on?

Conspiracy? I got this release from the Comedy Center. Did something happen they sent it to me? I didn’t make this up? Huh.

I’m intrigued, all right. I have now searched on the Comedy Center website for Don Rickles. And here’s the press release. Here’s the Jeff Ross thing with the same quote. I don’t know.

Sarah Silverman stated, Don Rickles act could have never worked if there wasn’t love behind it. It may have been a sarcastic nickname, but he truly was mister Warmth. And of course a quote from John Stamos, famous Beach Boys drummer Don Rickles was one of my most important, unconventional friends for life. He’s the ultimate equal opportunity insulter. He goes places where very few entertainers dare.

Being a student of comedy, especially stand up, I’ve spent many hours trying to crack the code of his particular kind of subversive genius. So I’ve mentioned the mac Pa. That’s my made up group of celebrity friends that I roll with. It’s me, Michael Chicklist, Tom Cavanaugh, Andy Samberg, Henry Winkler, Keegan, Michael Key, Jeff Goldbloom. That’s who I roll with in my fantasies.

In real life. Is the John Stamos equivalent of the Macpack. Mike Love from the Beach Boys and Don Rickles. What’s going on? There’s a lot more here, which is good because Today’s Saturday, and there’s a holiday week coming up, which means it’s gonna be two weeks of me scrambling for news.

So I could talk more about Don Rickles now, because we are having fun, are we not? And I can siphon off some news stories for next weekend. Awesome. Don Rickles honed his comedic style in Miami before nineteen fifty seven break at La Slate Brothers Club Vaultadham due national acclaim. By nineteen fifty nine, he was booking the record setting Las Vegas residencies that mainstream the art of the roast and made Rickles a fixture of American comedy.

His victims included rat Pack pal Sammy Davis Junior and Frank Sinatra, to fellow comedians Joe Nervis and Milton Burrell. Don Rickles connected with a new generation of fans as the voice of mister potato Head in the toy St franchise. Did you know that? Maybe it did? Yesterday?

I kind of said Matt Rife’s special wasn’t funny. I didn’t kind of say it. I said it owed it, Johnny Mac. Matt Rife special is not funny. Vulture caught my eye with this headline, Matt Rife, natural selection is juvenile and unremarkable.

All right, It’s not just me, they wrote. Now twenty eight years old and recording his first special for a mainstream platform, Rife scenes to have arrived here on a speed run through comedic disquietude toward his own fans. As a result, Natural Selection is half inspiring penis jokes, half screen against the injustice of online haters, and entirely underwhelming. Wow. The penis jokes are the easiest to assess in much the same way that their easiest jokes to make.

Rife has a few different versions. Some are more focused on size, some on what you might do with one when you’re by yourself trying to keep this halfway cleaned. I’m going to struggle here, and some on the challenge of making women very happy. Nudge nudge, wink wink, saying no more, which really just penis jokes where the nerve bundle is a slightly different shape. The longest of them are a section where he imagines being give it a favor by monsters who lurk he under his bed.

Then another story about finding a stepfather’s collection of porn VHS tapes, in a closet. Vulture writes the ideas Rife plays with most clearly being young and figuring out how to deal with sexuality. And at each joke there’s a looming menacing figure. It’s a monster or a stepfather whose threat is neutralized by finishing. If Riife has spent time pondering what that might suggest about the role of sex and his internal conceptions of safety and power, that self reflection doesn’t show up in the writing.

The New York Times art about the Arab American Comedy Festivals taking place tomorrow. It’s the festival’s twentieth anniversary. Because of the war, they considered postponing the festival until next year. Instead, they delayed performances at Gotham in February, but kept tomorrow’s town hall event. Dean Obadallah said, let me be honest, I need to laugh.

We all need to laugh. We need some comedy in our lives, The Times writes. Before nine to eleven, Obadala, who’s half Pallastadian and half Sicilian, wasn’t reagarly political or focused on his identity. But Dean says, on September tenth, I went to sleep a white guy on September eleventh, I woke up an Arab America changed around me. The York Post went to go see Brett Goldstein.

You know him as Roy Ken from Ted Lassa. What happens in his set, Well, Brett jokes about the America versus Great Britain comparisons. We’re told he has a hilarious breakdown of how our public bathrooms are different, and we’re warned to have some questions ready. There’s a question box that he pulls from at the end of the show, and the weirder the question, the more likely it is he’ll answer it, or at least read it out loud. Spam Alot is back.

I have a review that I saw that was pretty strong for it. I’ll save that for Thanksgiving weekend. We’ll talk about that review later. But a bit of news. The pythons are not getting along.

Eric Idle says John’s gone a bit strange, and he doesn’t mean me, means John Clees. Eric Idle says, in the new revival of Spam a Loot, last time we were on Broadway, John Clees played God. Now he’s getting on a bit, He’s getting up there, and John’s gone a bit strange. The new voice of God on Broadway is Steve Martin, and condolences to the f family of Dina Carvey. Dina son Dix died of a drug overdose at his home on Wednesday evening.

On Instagram, Deana Carvey wrote, we suffered a terrible tragedy. Our beloved Sun Dex died of an accidental drug overdose. Dex packed a lot in those thirty two years. He was extremely talented at so many things music, art, filmmaking, comedy, and pursued them all passionately. We’ll miss him forever.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Leslie Jones, Jason Alexander, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Michael Richards, Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Rife, Trevor Wallace, Jamie Kennedy, Chris Rock, Jimmy Carr

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s monologue on China’s economic struggles
• Seth Meyers on Kevin McCarthy denying elbow incident with Tim Burchett
• Jason Alexander clarifies no Seinfeld reunion in the works
• Jimmy Kimmel confirmed as 2024 Oscars host
• Matt Rife’s Netflix special ‘Natural Selection’ review and Vogue profile
• Matt Rife discusses crowd work strategy and new fanbase expectations
• Matt Rife vampire comedy film ‘Don’t Suck’ with Jamie Kennedy announced
• Trevor Wallace’s special ‘Pterodactyl’ naming and creative process

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Company. K new some good ones from Late Night. Stephen Colbert said, China has a good reason to want to talk to America, and it’s cash. For the past few years, China’s economy has been struggling with an eMac consumer spending and high youth unemployment.

It’s gotten so bad that second graders can’t get a job at the iPhone factory. Love it new topic. Seth Meyer’s former House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, denied claims that he elbowed Republican Congressman Tim Burchett in the back and added, if I hit somebody, they would know I hit him. Seth said, I assume because his fist would bruise. Colbert said, if I hit him, hit me on the ground, then I’d kick him and I’d take his bike and his Pokemon cards, and his girlfriend would be my girlfriend, and then people would like me, by the way.

Leslie Jones hosting The Daily Show this week, have you heard anything about it? And me neither. Jason Alexander discussed the Seinfeld reunion. Jason was I had a celebrity poker tournament and got asked about this, and he said, no one called me. There’s only one reason for that rumor.

Apparently, at the end of some stand up thing, Jerry went, Larry and I are thinking of doing something good for you. I don’t know anything about it. No one called me. He said that in a joking and warm spirited tune. I’m glad they added that, Otherwise I would have thought there was some beevige going on.

He continued to joke. Apparently they don’t need George and they might not need a Lane because Julie and I went, do you know anything about this? I don’t know anything about this? And I just talked to Michael Richards the other day and I don’t think he knew anything about it. We’ll see.

It’s probably not a good idea. Let things be. The Academy Awards have decided they will stick with Jimmy Kimmel as host. Good choice. You know you need a steady hand at the ship, and he gets it done.

The Oscars are March tenth. It’s the ninety sixth ceremony. We’ll see. If anybody punches anybody, just ask Chris Rock to host it. Wouldn’t that be amazing lot, a lot a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of press about Matt Rife.

This week, I watched Matt Rife Special. As I’ve said all week, I likefe I like where he’s coming from. You hear the butt? The butt’s coming? Do you want the butt?

Now? I’m gonna make you wait for the butt. There’s a butt coming. Vogue and talk to Matt Rife about Matt Riffe’s hotness, and they wrote, let’s play a game. Does the name Matt Rife ring a bell?

If not, you’re probably not gen Z time out. I teach a college class on Monday night. I referenced Matt Rife, and the young ladies in the room their faces lit up like, ooh, we know Matt Rife. And the dudes were like, who’s Matt Rife? And I told the class I was gonna share this anecdote.

The writer for Vogue said. When I asked some young colleagues if they’ve heard of the twenty eight year old comic, they erupted into swooney gaps. Yes, they chanted it it once. He’s so hot, So Vogue said to Matt Rife, how are you feeling Rife said, to be completely candid, it’s wildly overwhelming. You know, for ten years, I woke up every day with absolutely nothing to do nothing, until finally I kicked my butt into being like, Okay, you gotta create your own work if you’re gonna sustain yourself.

So all this is happening now. It’s a lot, but oftentimes I find myself not getting to enjoy the moment as much as I should. Like last night I was on Fallon. I was so tired when it was done. I was like, ah, I gotta go to bed, rather than like I’m calling my mom and all my friends.

If I could sleep like a normal human being, I think this would be a lot easier. Fallon tapes at five thirty in the afternoon, Matt, five thirty, it’s over by six thirty. You’re twenty eight, Matt ryif you’ve gone viral for your crowd work, but there’s none of that in your new special tell us about the thought process, Matt said, I’m just excited to reach a broader audience with this. At this point on YouTube and social media, I feel like I’m creating things for the people that already follow me, which is wildly important. But also social media success is not respected because everybody’s on social media.

People who get sucessful on social media is just lucky, like you happen to get chosen out of all of us. When something lands on Netflix, it’s a bit of a more verified platform, So I’m hoping they’ll watch it and be like, Okay, he does more than crowd work, and maybe I want to go see a live show now, because if you come to my show, I do an hour of material and then maybe like five to ten minutes of crowd work. Maybe did I mention that I watched Matt rivee special and you’re waiting for a butt to make you wait for the butt? Matt, will you continue to do crowd work while you’re on tour? That said?

Probably because it’s fun for me. I won’t do it when people expect it, though, I messaged people who were like, I bought tickets to Matt Write’s show. If he doesn’t do CrowdWork or roast me, I want my money back. Really, I’ll respond, then, do not come. Do not expect that.

I like that answer. I don’t even know who you’re seated. What if you’re in the balcony? I probably can’t talk to you up there. Not true.

I’ve seen Jimmy Carr do amazing crowd work with people in the upper deck study some Jimmy Carr tapes young men, and if I do it, it means you yelled out and interrupted the show, which is widely inappropriate. Matt. Why do you feel like your fans go so crazy? Matt said, I think it’s because so much of my audience is new to comedy. I’m their introduction to a comedy show, so they don’t know how to appropriately react.

They look at it more like a concert than they do like a play. All right, I’ll jump in on the butt here. Remember I told you I saw Matt Ripe Special, but it felt more like a concert. Here’s my takeaway. It’s not funny like the guy.

I want to write the guy. I’m rooting for the guy. This isn’t me on old Man Mountain hating on him. I want to root for him. I was psyched to watch it, and here I took a note.

Four minutes and thirty seconds into the special, I hit stop. I’m in a room by myself, and I caught myself saying out loud, this is true. I went that was bad. He just comes out and it’s like, Hey, it’s the crowd. Oh what’s up, bros.

We’re taping a Netflix special. Can you believe it? No jokes? Where are the jokes? Let’s go boom boom, where’s the funny?

Not feeling it? R I’ve talked about that concert analogy said, like you want the musician. I know you love what they’re doing. You love this song, and you love that hit that note right now, and they’re playing the hits, play the one I want to hear. In my case, crowd work.

I think that’s usually the instinct they have going near these shows, not realizing that’s not what it’s supposed to be. So it’s a bit of a responsibility bringing a new audience into comedy. But I’m also incredibly lucky that you have to tap into a whole fan base that a lot of comics can’t reach.

Also in matt Riife News Coming Soon debuted an exclusive trailer forort Don’t…

Don’t Suck will be out February first. In Don’t Suck, Pete, played by Jamie Kennedy, believes that he’s seen it all in his ears as a road comic until he meets his new killer opening act, a struggling comic who’s a vampire played by Matt Rife. During their time on the road, Pete fulfills his dream of becoming a comics comic. But what about the vampire? We’ll find out.

I also watched Trevor Wallace’s new special called tarot Actyl, but I was in a good mood, too crack to ask Trevor why he called it tarot Actyl, and he said, I wanted a name that was easy to stick in somebody’s head. It did absolutely work because I had prepped this article yesterday, which is what reminded me to watch Trevor wallace as special.

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And then I was like, HATTI spelled tarod Actyle.

I knew there was a pen and tea h at the top, and I couldn’t figure out the rest of it, but I found it. I wanted a one word name because I was thinking about how my friends have told me about specials. Have you seen so and So’s blank? I noticed the recurring theme like first or last name of the person, like Tom sigoris sledgehammer? Did people actually talk like that?

Are you guys going, hey, did you watch Tom Sigori’s sledgehammer? Or are you saying something along the lines of, Hey, did you watch is new special? The latter? Right? What are we talking about here?

Here? Let me ask you some questions. What was Chris rock special? The live one? What was called?

What was John Mulaney’s special called you might get that one? What’s Jim Gaffigan’s newest special called? Mark Marin’s? What was his called? How about Andrew Santino?

Remember that one was called? What was Bird Crazier’s called From the Middle of Summer? What was Tom sagore is called? I just told you it? Do you remember from thirty seconds ago?

You see where I’m going here? John? Stop beating the dead horse? We get it? Okay, I will move on.

Trevor Wallace said, it’s just a powerful, strong word. I didn’t even decide on the name of the special until after I filmed it. It was up against a few other ideas I had, like birds in the bees or carrot cake or spear fingers, all from different jokes I really liked. But Sara Actle just stuck. People won’t know how to spell it, but they’ll remember it.

I gotta agree with you there, I just told you that yep as look as they have their voice to text on their remote control. Will be good. Johnny left us hanging on the butt. Oh yes, I watched Trevor Wallace’s Special, but I lasted six and a half minutes and I wrote down it’s just a guy yelling there’s this comedy that I’m just not into and this was it. John That first half was so negative.

Do you actually like anything? I’ve been meaning him to tell you, guys. I finally got around to watching Bird Chreischer is the Machine. I loved it. That is absolutely making the end of the year top funniest things right now.

I have it between the number eight stand Up Special wisch Is Jim Jeffries and number nine Peene Holmes. I’ve put the Machine as funnier than Peene Holmes, and I like Peen Homes Special a lot, but not as good as Jim Jeffries. But the machine solid, absolutely solid. Watch. On Thursday mid morning, I was looking at the podcast charts and it caught my eye.

Trevor Noah is sitting at number three. This is the Apple podcast charts. THEO Vaughn as the number thirteen podcast in the country. Danielle Tash’s New One at thirty five, Dan soder is one that came out of Nowhere’s at forty, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee’s Bad Friends at fifty two. No rogan on the Apple charts because it’s a Spotify exclusive, so it doesn’t chart on the normal podcast charts.

If it did, it would most likely be number one overall, if not number two. On the comedy genre page SmartLess, Theovanna Daniel Tosh are one two and three. Soda is number six. I caught my eye that Trevor Noah does not appear on the comedy charts, so I dug and I see that they have labeled that as a society and culture podcast. So when you create a podcast, you do submit to a category.

You can do whatever you want. I could say this podcast is a science podcast, and no one’s gonna actually fact check that. Society and culture tends to be the category you pick when you’re like, I don’t know this podcast is about bottled water. Where does that go? I don’t know society and culture?

So they put Trevor there. I guess he didn’t want it. In comedy, then there are subgenres in comedy. There are three of them interviews, improv, and stand up, and for this particular podcast, it doesn’t really fit in any of them. It’s not an interview show, and I don’t do any improv, So I picked stand up because at least I’m talking about stand ups.

This particular podcast on This Morning is number sixteen in the stand up subgenre. The number one stand up podcast is Bad Friends with Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino. Dana White, the guy that runs UFC. He was on Theovan’s podcast, and he’s kind of mad at Peloton. Somewhat quoting Dana White here, I’m gonna have to quite clean it up, Dana said.

I posted a video for Trump on my personal social media and one of our big sponsors called said take that down. You know what I said, Go f yourself. You vote for whoever you want to vote for, and I’ll vote whoever I want to vote for. That’s how this works. I don’t even carry your voting for it’s none of my business.

But f you don’t ever call me and tell me who to vote for. Theovonn revealed he had the same thing happened to him, with former sponsor Peloton telling him to take down an episode featuring presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Dana wasn’t abby with that. He said, what do they sell efing stationary bikes?

Peloton sells stationary bikes and they got a problem with Robert fing Kennedy. F you Peloton? Who the f are they are? You? E fing kidding me?

Effing Peloton calling bitching about Robert Kennedy. I actually do have that podcast downloaded. I didn’t get to it yet, so I’m looking forward to that section. Rummy Usef has announced that all proceeds from his upcoming shows will go directly to organization helping innocent people affected by the Israel Hamas war. On Instagram, Rami Yusef said one hundred percent of the proceeds for the remainder of the Rami Yusef More Feeling stampupatorial be donated to anera providing humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza.

Usef listed twelve upcoming shows happening between the thirtieth and February second. According to its website, and nara’s mission is to provide humanitarian assistance and sustainable development to advance the well being of refugees. Another vulnerable communities in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan. Back on October thirteenth, Rami Usef posted, this past week has broken the heart of all in my life. We fully condemned the death of civilians.

We always have, and now we are witnessing the latest inhumane chapter of a story that desperately needs to end. It serves no one. The people of Gaza do not deserve to pay the price for our failings. If Gaza is erased, history will see we stood by that we failed to find our humanity. Awkward segue time, Lisa Kudrou must have noticed that everybody else from Friends had posted about Matthew Perry, so either Lisa or her publicist went, we want to do something here.

In her post, Lisa wrote, shot the pilot Friends like us got picked up. Then immediately we were at the NBC upfronts. Then you suggested we play poker and made it so much fun while we initially bonded. Thank you for that. Colin Jost wanted Sikes and some snl Alum are the voice stars of a new scripted comedy podcast series.

Audible is going to try this again. They keep trying these and I’m not sure any of them have caught on yet. In this one, Colin Jost stars as Trent Brockets, a sad sack corporate drone vying for a big promotion, But when he discovers that his boss only wants to promote family men, Trent invents a fake wife to try to land the job. Only one problem. The corporate retreat and aspens a few days away, and Trent is very, very single.

He signs up for a sugar Daddy dating app and meets Carla, a smart, beautiful woman. She’s played by one to Sikes. When they meet in real life, Trent discovers that Carla is a brash, bold, much older woman who is trying to catfish him. As the lie spirals out of control, these two strangers must pretend to be married, raise their fake family, and stay one step ahead of the cutthroat corporate competition. Audible’s got a lot of budget men.

This thing also stars Chris Parnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Jay Farrell, Michael Uri, and Rachel Dratch. Broadway Video is part of this, and if I remember correctly, Broadway video is tied to Saturday Night Live. All right, we’ll see when that one comes out. Kevin James has a new special, Are You Psyched? In the special, he delivers his unfiltered take on parenting, marriage, and getting older.

Topics include motivating children to put down their video games and why he doesn’t trust technology. No official dates yet, and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocket casts. Wherever you get your shows, you’ll find this one here. Meet you back here tomorrow