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Featured: Amy Schumer, Joan Rivers, Ellen DeGeneres, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Rosie O’Donnell, Melissa McCarthy, Taylor Tomlinson, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Peretti, Nikki Glaser, Seth Meyers, Adam Carolla

What’s in This Episode

• Amy Schumer’s claim to be the most successful female comedian of all time
• Amy Schumer’s response to Israel-Palestine conflict criticism on Instagram
• Amy Schumer joke-stealing allegations and denials
• Taylor Tomlinson named host of CBS’s After Midnight reboot
• Chelsea Peretti reviving Call Chelsea Peretti podcast
• Seth Meyers touring new stand-up hour Lobby Baby
• Adam Carolla discusses sitcom pilot Ace in the Hole and working with Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I saw this several places, but I’ll source this story from Joe dot com, who recapped this is a thing. I looked around the internet this happened. Amy Schumer has suggested that Amy Schumer is the most successful woman comedian of all time.

This came part of a back and forth where Amy was coming under fire for some comments she has made around the ongoing Israel and Palestine conflict. Late last week, Amy posted a series of text based pictures on her Insta to clarify her position on the conflict. Amy clarified she wants every hostage back, saying quote, I want safety and freedom for Hamas for Palestinians and Israelis. I want safety for Jewish people and Muslims as well everyone just like you, I want peace. You will never see me wishing harm on anyone saying I’m Islamophobic or that I like geniside is crazy.

So here you go. By popular demand comments on please keep the blow in mind, people started commenting. Schumer commented on the comments, Amy wrote, when you say I’m rich, please add in self made. I come from being dirt. Poor Senator Chuck Schumer is my dad’s second cousin, once removed.

I didn’t meet him until I was twenty five. More comments, I have never been given any money to sport a cause other than Tampon’s. She decided to defend a long standing claim that she was a joke thief, writing I’ve never stolen a joke. Let’s dive in on that. There’s a YouTube video by the Tangerine Show that has a twenty five minute compilation.

I’m just going to play two and I am scoping these downs so we don’t spend five minutes on this. The first joke from Kevin Neilan, then Amy Schumer, second joke from John Mulaney, then Amy Schumer. It dawned on me that I don’t see it in colors. I don’t. In high school, I went out with this Chinese girl for a while once.

I didn’t even know she was Chinese. I thought, I don’t know, maybe really tired. And she’s like, well, I’m offended because I’m Asian, and I was just like, well, I’m sorry, but I didn’t even notice that. I thought you were just like really tired. Blacking out is when you drink so much that your brain goes to sleep, but your body gets all Aya the Tiger and soldiers on and I black out when I drink.

Is that the worst? No, your mind goes to sleep, but your body’s like ten. That is my night. If you do a Google search for Amy Schumer joke thief, some of the articles that come up are from Variety. Amy Schumer denies stealing Oscar’s joke off Twitter.

Vox has Amy Schumer’s alleged joke stealing, explained. The Daily Beast wrote, is Amy Schumer really a joke thief anyway? Topic for a different day. Amy also in the comments, wrote, people calling me a failed comic, I’m the most successful female comedian of all time. We’ll come back to that more comments.

I’m ugly slash fad. Okay, sorry you aren’t attracted to me. I found someone who is. I hope you find someone too. Next comment, We’re all in a lot of pain.

What hurts the most is that we actually love each other. You hate Jews. You don’t know why I still love you. As for Amy describing herself as the most successful female comedian of all time, I’ll let you ponder who it might be. Joan Rivers came to mind to me.

But Joan is from a different era, So let’s pull out a little more modern. How about Ellen DeGeneres worth five hundred million dollars. How about Julia Louis Dreyfuss. How about Rosie O’Donnell worth one hundred and twenty million dollars. How about Melissa McCarthy reportedly worth ninety million?

Amy Is reportedly worth forty five million. I’m doing some Google here. How about Lucille Ball? Why wasn’t she kind of successful? Joan Rivers, Roseanne Ellen, Carol Burnett pretty successful?

Amy, Betdie White, Sarah Silverman, Lisa Lampinelli, Whitney Cummings, Tina Fay pretty successful. So I don’t know. So is she in the conversation? Sure? Absolutely?

Is she number one the most successful woman comedian of all time? Not sure the body works there? Amy plus youd better watch out for Taylor Thomson. Taylor is the new host of After Midnight. That’s the CBS reboots of At Midnight.

This will aer at twelve thirty seven AM. That’s why it’s now called After Midnight, not at Midnight. Thank you for Dan Blueblitz Junior for putting this on My Radar via the Daily Comedy News podcast group. No day yet for After Midnight with Taylor Thompson, but a really good choice for host. I think she’ll be great at that.

Sarah Silverman hosts The Daily Show this week. Sarah has also been quite outspoken about the Warsole. We’ll see what happens on The Daily Show this week. Chelsea Paretti is bringing her podcast back. The original run of Call Chelsea Peretti ran from twenty twelve to twenty fifteen, with occasional episodes from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty.

On that Chelsea Paretti fielded phone calls from bewildered fans. The new version will drop every Thursday starting this week, November ninth. The press release tells us they’ll be talking to a Tahoe bear attack survivor, a couple that transformed their long into a vibrant wild flour garden, and a shocking episode on geese attacks. KC dot Com asked Nikki Glaser if she was a good girl in college. Nikki Glaser said, Yeah, it was.

I was so focused on being a comedian. I was so obsessed with stand up. I just kind of knew that a college education wasn’t going to change my life at all. I was just doing it to appease my parents because they were paying for school, so I wasn’t really focused on school or the college lifestyle is constantly driving to case to do stand up. Seth Myers is touring a new hour.

Seth said, my stand up special, Lobby Baby, came out at the end of twenty nineteen, so this has been an hour I started writing during the pandemic. It probably almost entirely turned over since the first time I did the show. But it’s sort of a rolling hour that you’re constantly building on. And when things that happen are funny based on being a husband, or based on being a dad, or based on being a son, those don’t really fit into the body of late night. So stand up’s been a wonderful place to sort of hold on to that as well.

And it’s good to have a bunch of different avenues when you’re a comedian because then you never come up with a tier where they don’t have a place for it. Seth. How is it doing a comedy show right now when the news is so heavy? Seth said, it’s cathartic. That’s the short answer, And we want our show to be cathartic for the people who watch it, because it’s certainly cathartic for us to do it.

The news happens whether you do a comedy show or not, and getting to sit in a room full of people that you love and to make you laugh is the best way to get through it. And if I didn’t have a show, I’d just be muttering about these things to myself on the street. The spokesman caught up with Adam Carolla, who before he was an entertainer, he was a craftsman. Corolla said, I did all sorts of things in the world. One day I could be making a dollhouse and the next day hanging drywall.

I realized that if I just hung drywall, I’d make more money, but if I committed to that life, I’d get bored. It’s the same with entertainment. I like variety. He talked about his two thousand and nine sitcom pilot called Ace in the Hole, which was an all in the family type show. All right, tap the brakes there, Adam Corolla, He said, we had a good script, a good premise.

Who was a powerhouse pilot. However, it’s the process that got us with pilots. It’s like flowers at its ear broth. A bunch of middle aged women who are not funny at all, oversee the entire process, and after making a number of compromises, you end up with a sitcom like According to Jim, it was frustrating. Corolla talked about working with Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice back in twenty twelve.

Corolla said, when he became president wasn’t surreal for me. I got to know Donald Trump a bit and his kid’s a bit. I clearly remember how my mom was with it. She was a left wing nut job who embraced every bad idea California ever had. She hated Trump but really didn’t know his policies.

I remember saying that I knew the president, and she said, you really don’t know the president and I said, I do. If he sees me, he’ll say, hi, Adam, how are you. My mom said, but you don’t really know the president and I said, you mean, like what’s in his heart? My mother tried to talk me out of whether I knew the president. My mother wasn’t a fan of mine, but she hated Trump.

Did I mention I ran the marathon yesterday. It’s entirely possible. I taped this before the marathon, you know, so I’ll catch up on that tomorrow. I was watching some TV late last week. I caught up on Ralph Barbosa’s special on Netflix.

It’s perfectly watchable. I did add it to the top of the year, but in the number twenty spot. I’m not going to recap the whole list today, So Ralph Barbosa, it’s nice. I enjoyed it a couple out louds. I thought it would be based on the buzz on Ralph.

I thought it would be a lot stronger. But it’s fine, nothing wrong with it. Dusty Slay sweeted, hey, I just put out he didn’t say hey. Why did I add the hey? Dusty Slade did not say hey.

Dusty Slay wrote, I just put out a fifty minute stand up video on YouTube for those that have been following me for a while. It won’t be anything new, but I recorded this in twenty nineteen. If you have friends that don’t know me, please share it with them. I have some friends that don’t know me, but we’re all on a Facebook group together, the Daily Comedy News podcast group and I shared the link there. It’s called being Poor in the Trailer Parks.

If you’re on YouTube. The New York Comedy Festival continues today, stand Up for Heroes at Lincoln Center. Pretty good line up, John Stewart, Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, Ronny Chieng, Shean Gillis, Tracy Morgan, Well, some music by Josh Grobin and John Mellencamp and others. That’s obviously the big show tonight. A bunch of smaller shows.

A comedian I like a lot of Adrian Apple. Lucci’s at the Standard eight Britannic. Oh, that’s interesting that they came to New York eight o’clock, the Triad Theater, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog at the Murmur Theater at eight, Joe Firestone and Made Higgins at the Little Field at eight. Love this title, Gay Bye Play. That’s at the Brooklyn Arthouse at ten.

Another funny title, The Luke Ass Spectacular with Kate sisk at the Little Field at ten thirty. Ooh, some fun stuff tomorrow, but you have to tune in tomorrow to find out what that is, or you can just go on their website. It’s all there. I also caught up on Mark Marin’s podcast. I was enjoying his interview with Larry Charles, but the part that was piquing my interest was Maren’s frank discussion of getting older and sensing that someday we all die.

And it spoke to me a lot of what’s been going on this year, including running a marathon trying to beat father time. Right, that’s part of what’s going on. And I won’t bore you with what I start thinking about three in the mornings. I don’t sleep most nights. But Mark Maron with Larry Charles, the death parts were kind of enjoyable.

That’s weird recommendation, Johnny Mac. I know right. Futurama is back, baby. Hulu has ordered two more seasons. Season eleven premiered back in July.

I’ve watched two and a half of them and got distracted. It made Nielsen’s top ten original series for six weeks. Season twelvell debut next year, and then seasons thirteen and fourteen. At some point in the future, are you watching Rick and Morty. It’s just off.

I keep talking about this. The Rick voice is fine, but the Rick voice doesn’t stammer in the way it would stammer. You know, I’m stammering like Rick traditionally would go back and he’d go back and he’d say something a couple times in a row. He’d say something a couple times in the row. Morty, and he’s not doing that now.

Mike Birbigley is the old man in the pool. Will come to Netflix November twenty. First, we’re going to be busy Thanksgiving weekend. The show is to take on life’s big questions like why are we here, what’s next? And exactly how much chlorine do they put in the YMCA pool.

Steve oh will release a comedy special on November fourteenth. It’s called buget List. You’ll have to go to his website STEVEO dot com to see this one. Steve O tells Deadline, I’ve poured my heart and soul into the show and can’t wait to unleash it on the world. Securing the right distribution partner and finding a company that understood my audience and would embrace the no holds barred nature of what I do.

Steve O dot com. Will the upcoming season of Curb Your Enthusiasm be the final season? The boss over at HBO? Was asked that and he said, we generally leave that up to Larry, And I think he’s been thinking about what he wants to do. He knows it’s been an open invitation, so I think he’s going to decide if he wants to do more or whether this is going to be the final season.

A premier dad for season twelve has not been announced. And we began with Amy Schumer. Let’s end with Amy Schumer Life and Beth as a season two premiere date Friday, February sixteenth. Put it on your calendar. All ten episodes will drop at once in season two of Life and Beth, Beth and John’s relationship grows more serious.

Returning cast members include Amy Schumer, Well That’s good, Michael Sarah, Susannah Flood, and Violet Young, and recurring guest stars like Jaminika Saunders, Michael Rappaport, and rosebud Baker. That is your comedy news for today. You can follow this show many places. I use the pocket cast at myself because I like getting the back episodes. You know, if you use Apple podcasts, they might be like, hey, there’s a new one and not tell about the other ones, like say on a Monday maybe you don’t listen to podcasts on the weekend.

Well, if you were on pocketcasts, you’d get three episodes. But you took out Apple podcasts and they’re like, yeah, here’s the Monday episode that John did, and you missed the two from the weekend. That makes John sad because his back catalog numbers are down. It’s not nice Apple podcasts. So pocket casts, overcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your shows.

You pick see Tomorrow.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Tom Segura, Sam Morrell, Nikki Glaser, Chris Rock, Jim Jefferies, Louis C.K., Greg Giraldo, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife discusses his appearance and late bloomer experience with Tom Segura
• Sam Morrell talks about memorable comedy routines and fellow comedians he admires
• Sam Morrell shares touring challenges including hotel beds and early morning flights
• Nikki Glaser reflects on her time at University of Kansas and pursuing stand-up comedy
• Nate Bargatze’s connection to Chris Rock and writing for the 2016 Oscars
• 3-1-2 Comedy Festival in Chicago happening November 5th with multiple comedians performing

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, man, I hope you’re having a good day as you’re listening to this. I’m somewhere in New York City running the New York City Marathon. Let’s hope it goes well. Thank you for supporting Advance Tough.

Si Gore ad Matt Rife on recently, and Tom asked Matt about his good looks, and Rife said, for me, I want to look the best I possibly can. Who doesn’t want to look like the best version of themselves? Right? Yeah, that’s why you’re on twenty six point two miles in your mid fifties. What are you doing?

Eh? It lost a lot of weight. It was good. Raife said, if someone who grew up ugly as a kid and as a skinny kid, and I didn’t lose my virginity until I had two months left of high school? Whoa tm, I, Matt Rife.

So I was such a little late bloomer that I’m like, can I just enjoy this portion of my life. I don’t know what I’m going to look like when I get older. I might look like Domarera in five years. Hope Domrera didn’t hear that one. The Columbus Underground caught up with Sam Morrell.

They asked him about some of his fellow comedians routines that he finds memorable. Pretty cool question, that’s a different one, Sam said. Jim Jefferies had a bit on guns that I thought was pretty hilarious. I know the bit, It is really strong. I thought he ate every angle on it was incredible.

Louis C.K. Was on a tear for a while. It was like every bit you know, Yes, for a while there c K was being called the new George Carlin. People don’t do that anymore. Greg Giraldo had a lot of jokes that I like to think about.

I’d think about a Civil War letter jokes, or about a sick freed and Roy jokes. Giraldo had so many bits where we take these touchy issues and find the silliest angle. And I love jokes like that where we just go, how the hell did no one else think of this? You think it’s because it’s easy, but it’s only because he made it look easy. It’s not actually easy.

Promise. Greg is such a good comedian because he would always just add an extra thing. You think the joke is over, because it would have been good enough, and then’d add another line. You’re like, oh damn, that’s a joke. Sam says he’s more into the after show hang than the pre show hang.

Sam says, I kind of want to just chill before the show. We have a routine where we’re pretty healthy. During the day, We’ll find a rec center or something and I’ll play ball, We’ll do some sort of exercise, get a good meal from in the city. I like just good friends doing something not comedy related, basketball, watching game, watching a movie or something. I like watching old movies.

He doesn’t like if you have needy energy. Sam says, it’s people I don’t know well who are like pushy with stuff. I mean, it’s why I don’t know them. It’s like I don’t want to know you. And there are a lot of comics like that.

Look, we picked a field with a lot of mentally iel people with massive egos, which is a pretty dangerous combination. A lot of creative people of terrible add your mind wanders, that’s why you’re creative. So those people are not good listeners. And I include myself in that. Sam says.

One of the most challenging parts of touring. I hate hotel beds. Even if you’re in a nice hotel, the bed is crap for some reason. It’s weird. It’ll be like a cool aesthetic or something.

But then this pill is trash. This mattress sucks. The sheets feel like sandpaper. So yeah, there’s a lack of sleep. I had an eight am cross country flight the last two thursdays to Vancouver and Phoenix.

Just waking up at five thirty am. I’m not really a napper, so that sucks.

And then to do shows that night sucks.

Doesn’t matter what time I get to bed, I’m a night out. The combination of late nights and early mornings would be the hardest part of the road, but you know, you get used to it. You figured it out. I think a lot of my sick and then you’re like, no, I’m just run down. Is it COVID or just my life is a game?

I play a lot. Kansin dot com spoke to Nikki Glaser about playing her old college. They were curious, what was your time like at ku? Nikki Glaser said, I think my best memories are hanging out at my friend’s house and having our whole lives ahead of us. College is really the last time you were a kid, even though you feel you’re grown up.

That’s my best memory where my biggest issue in life was a paper that was due. I was checked out of college life because I wanted to go to la and have a career. I was so positive of what I wanted to do, and I felt like college was keeping me from pursuing my dreams. I wish I would have leaned into college life a little bit more and enjoyed having that time in those four years to take it easy. I was just so eager to get on with my life, and my sophomore year I kind of had a wake up call of Okay, stand up comedy is really hard, and you can’t just phone this in and do it on the weekends.

You need to do it every night. I generally drove to Kansas City to do stand up shows a lot of nights of the week. The other nights that I wasn’t doing stand up, I was trying to work to save money to move to LA’s soon as I graduated. I had really supportive teachers that always let me skip class if I had a show or a radio appearance that allowed me to take a test another time. I teachers that knew my potential and stand up, and they were teaching courses that had nothing to do with it, and they were still supporting me.

My senior year, I got on last Comic Standing. I had to go to LA and film an episode. I missed my finals. My teachers were all cool about it because they knew that I was pursuing my dream. I’ll always be grateful to those teachers who allowed me to graduate despite not really attending that many classes.

NIMESH but Tell Tell WTP. I grew up with sixteen first cousins, so that was the comedy, all of us yelling at each other as we grew up. Chris Rock was one of the first comedians I saw as a special, but we were also run of the mill Americans watching Saved by the Bell Family, matters and the Waynes Brothers and everything that ABC and w B had on at the time. In terms of movies, Adam Sandler was king at the time. As we get older, movies and TV shows gave way to music, DMX and all that.

In twenty eleven, he started the NYC Broken Comedy Show with his friends Mike Denny and Michael Chay. Have heard of Michael cha famous that helped him get discovered by Chris Rock during a Brooklyn gig twenty fifteen, but told Wtop it had become the hottest independent stand up show in New York. Once I got when the Chris Rock was coming, I was like, I’m going up. Chris saw me. I had one of those blackout sets where it did great, but I didn’t remember it at all.

Afterward, Chris told me he thought I was funny and I was just in shock. A few months later, I got an email saying he wanted me to be on the writing team for the Oscars he was hosting in twenty sixteen. That was a whirlwind experience. My finance job was in flux, and I was interviewing a bunch of other places, but I wasn’t getting anywhere. There was like no gap between my finance job ending and my writing job starting January.

My finance job ended February, I was in La writing for Chris Rock for the Oscars. It was crazy. That was the year of hashtag oscar So White. One of the top comedy experiences I’ve ever had. It is the final day of the three one to two Comedy Festival in Chicago, best known for having a terrible website where the acts are sorted by alphabetical order and not by date.

So I’m scrolling through looking for the words November and five, and I found one at Park West. You can go see that’s messed up with Eliza Trigger and Kara Klink. Steven Burgatsy is at Zany’s in Chicago? Is this who I think it is? I’m clicking on it and it’s taking me in an endless loop.

I can’t even buy tickets, so I’m looking here. There is a man who appears to be older than me, wearing a magician’s hat. And I know that Nate Bergatzy’s father was a magician. I’m guessing this is him. Stephen Burgatsey has a tour It’s called the Magic of Steven And yes, his website says, even with all his awards and accolades, he is mostly known as Nate’s dad.

All right, that’s who that is. You know, three twelve Comedyfestival dot com. You could just put this information out there. You know, he’s at Zany’s today. I can’t tell you what time because the website’s not working.

Eugh, that’s a wrap on the three one two Comedy Festival, I am deleting the bookmark that I’ve had on my browser for a few weeks.

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Meanwhile, at the much more organized New York Comedy Festival at three o’clo…

I won’t be done by three. I’m in the very last shoot. I might be running a marathon, but I never said I was running a fast marathon. So when they asked me what time, I wrote five hours, fifty nine minutes, and they put me in the last shoot. That’s where I want to be.

I’m ten years older than when I did it last time, so I’m just going out today and I’m taking it easy and I’m taking in the experience. I loved it ten years ago, I’m sure i’ll love it today, and I don’t know if I’ll do it again in ten years. So I just want to soak this one in today, so I won’t be done by three o’clock. But you know, you could go and see a comedy brunt show. Joey Behar is at the Manhattan Movement at three five o’clock at the hard Rock Jeff Ross not gonna make that one either.

I’ll almost be done, Jeff, but I won’t be able to hit your show today. Mark Gerber is recording his album at the New York Comedy Club at five. The Frat Boys with a z Or at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective is seven like this title. Ben Palmer trolls NYC. He’s at the Little Field at eight, Comedy Hangman at the Brooklyn Art House at nine, and a bunch of smaller shows throughout the day.

And why Comedy Festival dot com slash schedule if you want to see how a schedule should be done. Rachel Kayley with a K is one of the Vulture twenty five comedians you should know. So while we’re getting to Rachel today, Apparently when I was up to the Cays must add a busy podcast that day and I bumped that one, Rachel said a couple of years ago, ideas would just come to me and I’d run with them. I think it was more manic a couple of years ago, and also doing improv many nights a week, so joke writing came to me more easily when I had alt comedy and unmanaged panic disorder adrenaline coursing through my body. I’ve recently found it’s harder for me to surprise myself and I have to force myself to sit down to write.

I think I’ve also learned that my style changes and my voice constantly needs honing. There were two years where I got really into writing of certain long stories that went off the rails and always ended with me basically getting killed or having sex, and it really worked for me and I think it was unique. But more recently, especially since working my New Hour, I’ve been veering away from that. I was fighting against that instinct to try and do new stuff and maybe do more formally normal stand up, But I think I have to accept that’s where I’m at right now, and I can still be funny and surprising in the space. Worst show Ever I was ten years old.

I was doing stand up at Gotham. They had a program called Kids in Comedy. One show I did a set. It was a voice twelfth birthday. He and his friends were sitting in the front row.

They hated me and heckled me the entire time, saying it wasn’t funny and I was ugly, so I told him to please stop after every punchline and I cried. I didn’t stop doing stand up after that, and now I beg people to heckle me because it’s the most fun thing that could possibly happen to me. I challenge every man over forty five to come for me. I will destroy you, I know, oh by you and your girlfriend a drink after and then we’ll go to a WNBA game together, even if you hate women. That is your comedy news for today.

Enjoy the marathon if you’re running one if you’re not. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy, Reggie Watts, Howie Mandel, John Cleese

What’s in This Episode

• Jeff Foxworthy on his traveling and leasing planes for 12 years to fly home nightly
• Jeff Foxworthy’s current touring schedule at 50 shows per year versus 500+ in early career
• Blue Collar Comedy Tour potential reunion with Larry the Cable Guy, Ron White, and Bill Engvall
• Reggie Watts on moving to Montana and maintaining comedy/music career
• Howie Mandel discussing his OCD struggles and avoidance of shoe laces
• John Cleese on Monty Python as early targets of cancel culture

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. Somebody signed me up for the New York City mirv on tomorrow. I need some pasta. Jeff Foxworthy spoke to this CV Independent about his traveling, and Jeff explained, back in the day, I would lease a plane and I would fly home every night, no matter where my show was, unless I was on the West Coast.

I know firsthand because I worked with Jeff. That is accurate. Jeff said, I would fly home every single night and get in at one or two in the morning, and I’d get up at six and take the kids to school. I’d go pick them up from school, and then I’d go get on a plane and fly out and do another show. Did that for about twelve years.

In fact, not long ago. I said to my wife, when did I sleep? But he gave me one hundred more days a year with my kids. Once they grew up, I’m like, this is expensive. So I started flying Delta again.

So that’s what I do now most of the time. If I’m going to the West Coast, I’ll try and do two or three stops in a row and then come home. It’s more relaxed. It’s a little easier on the body and the wallet than it used to be. Really enjoying this season of life, and I still really enjoy what I do.

Some people say, when are you going to retire? And I’m like, crap. I still love doing it. I just don’t love doing it at the pace I did it twenty years ago. Now.

My joke is, you’re paying me to get on a plane and sleep in a hotel room, I’ll do the show for free. So every night, when those lights go down and the light hits the floor, I’m like, I’ve got the best job in the whole world. Hey, Jeff, you saw Ron White unretired right and you saw Bill Ingvall came out and did a charity show. I think you got to pick up the phone. I know Larry’s in.

You got to call the other two and be like, hey, guys, we could make a lot of money. One more ride. Let’s do blue collar comedy tour. One more come on, Jeff, pick up the phone. Jeff said, I maybe do fifty shows a year now.

When I first started, I think the first eight years in a row, I did at least five hundred shows a year. It was almost like the Malcolm Gladwell thing. You’ve got to do something ten thousand times to get really good at it. So that was kind of my approach. Jeff watches out for fatigue and says you can’t write when you’re exhausted, but it’s also something you can’t force.

Kenny Rogers said to me one time that the best careers in entertainment are like a lava lamp. You heat up for a little bit, then you kind of cool down, then you come back and you eat up again, and then you cool down. Yeah, Like if you came back with say the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Larry’s in, pick up the phone, convince Ron, and then Bill’s a cool guy. Bill will do it. You got to convince Ron.

What Kenny Rodgers meant by that, which is when you hit those hotspots, it’s exhausting. You can’t sustain at that level. I had that in the beginning with You Might Be Dneck stuff and then doing the Tonight Show in Vegas and stuff, and then it cooled off a little bit, and then we came back with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and it heat it back up for several years, and then it cooled off. A little bit, and then I was doing fifth grader. You know, Jeff, if you picked up the phone, Larry’ll do it.

You just got to convince Ron and then Bill will fall in line. It’s time to heat up again, Jeff said. For me, I think I’ve always remained interested in stand up because I’ve gotten to do other things that kind of satisfy, that urge your curiosity. There’s just something about standing there and making people laugh just makes you feel so good. C’lon caught up with Reggie Watts and they asked, Reggie Watts fine moving to Montana, what are the top five rules for a black guy moving to Montanagie said, rules for a black guy?

I don’t know. Growing up there, the thing is, people are genuinely pretty nice. They might be suspicious at first, but I noticed that sometimes that suspicious isn’t necessarily because you’re black. I mean, it’s definitely a part of it, but it’s not just that. It’s that you’re a stranger.

I don’t know anything about you, and I’m gonna treat you as a stranger till something clicks. When something clicks, everybody’s super sweet and they’re really nice, and you’re done that’s it. I get it. It’s like when someone comes into the village. It’s a tribal reaction, right.

It’s like you’re in your tribe, You’re in your village, and then someone comes in and you’re like, who’s the stranger. I don’t know who the stranger is. Well, the stranger help with water yesterday, and the stranger help build a fire. So stranger, okay, now, not a stranger my experience. That’s why I kind of learned to be as useful and funny as possible, and for better or for worse.

They asked Reggie Watts, how long can you stay in Great Falls before you get on the road. Ready said, yeah, I hear that. That’s a great question. I’d say in general about ten days. I think ten days is a good amount.

And then I’m just missing my friends because I have so many friends in LA and I do have friends in Great Falls, but there’s only so much you can do there. I do comedy and I do music. I kind of need to be around a place that is comedy in music. Great Falls, for as cool as it is, doesn’t have those things at abundants, so I do tend to miss it. I love this question.

All right, Reggie Watts, we’re making a movie about you. We’re not gonna ask you who plays you. We’re gonna ask you who doesn’t play you, who’s not on the list. His answer, not on the list, Bill Cosby, and they added Tyrese Geez. So I’m like, yeah, I don’t know who should play, and probably some young kid that no one knows.

I think that’s what it have to be, because otherwise I hate it when famous actors take on mundane characters. The whole time, I’m like, am I not gonna be able to tell it’s that actor? The whole time, I’m like, that’s pretty good. That almost made me feel like I don’t think it’s that actor. Just hire somebody that nobody has an association with.

It’s way easier. Healthline caught up with Howie Mandel about his OCD. How He shared that I wouldn’t learn to sign my shoes because I didn’t want to touch the laces because they had touched the ground. So everybody bullied me, and I didn’t have a friend in school because I would just rather them think I can’t tie my laces. He talked about his younger brother holding up the laundry hamper lid during fights to ward him off.

How He said, I’d melt and scream and terror and do anything he wanted. I remember I met Howie early in my run. It’s serious, he was. This was the first person I ran into that did the fist bump. Jerry Seinfeld.

I remember being the second person. The fist bump has become a lot more common, especially post COVID, but going back twenty years, that was like, Oh what I do here? I bump your fist. Okay, that’s new, that’s fun now, he said, everything bothered me. I just couldn’t move on in life unless there were things made my way, not only by me, but by everybody was in my periphery who just brushed off as the quirkiness of Howie.

Not anybody diagnosed or said, well, this is strange, this is different. Why I seem obsessed with the washing and the cleaning all the other things I needed to do. I didn’t want to tell anybody that I had a mental health problem. I thought it was a sign of weakness. It was embarrassing.

So, as you sit here and talk to you today, this is one hundred and eighty degrees from where I was in my forties. John Klees discussed Monty Python with gb News and said Python were the early targets of cancel culture. John Klees spoke to The Sunday Times and said Monty Python were the early targets of cancel culture. People don’t like to have their cherished ideas punctured a question. We all love to live in our own close systems of thought, to be surrounded by people who think a bit like us.

That’s what happens on the edge too, where you get those blasted echo chambers. It’s why comedy is even more important today as a way of pricking those bubbles, opening them up, letting in fresh air. It’s good for all of us. The problem is that cutting edge comedy becomes difficult if a joke transgresses someone’s idea of good taste, and that means a comedian has banned for life. It’s abverts the creative impulse.

All right, John, would your comedy from the seventies and eighties working today’s times? Clese said the trick with creativity is to understand that it’s not a talent, it’s a frame of mind. You have to get away from fear and doubt. You have to get into a place of playfulness and curiosity, so you can find connections and push boundaries. Cancel culture tends to make people less broaden their thinking more literal minded.

It is together to make funny or intellectually interesting associations. In cultural terms, it’s dangerous. I’m so old, I’m not bothered about getting canceled, but as a young man starting out, it might be different. Furied does to talk to Outlook India about choosing to play smaller venues. He said, I like to remove the trappings of comfort from my shows.

I could have done the comedy special at a huge stadium with numerous cameras focusing on me from different angles, but I wanted to keep it simple, and Netflix was gracious enough to agree to that. In this special, there’s no set, there’s just one stool. There’s no production as such. There’s only some sand on the floor. There’s not even any enhanced lighting.

The special rides on the words that come out of the comedian’s mouth. So I like to scare myself in that sense. Let’s see who’s at the three one to Twoter Comedy Festival in Chicago tonight where they don’t believe in posting the schedule with using calendar technology alphabetic will only really annoying. Let me scroll down and see if I see November fourth anywhere. Nate Pergatzy at the Chicago Theater eighty five South at the Winterest Arena, Russell Peters at the Rosemonts.

I’ve been in that venue. Good venue, good place to see Russell. That’s probably a good choice for tonight. Michael Chay at the Riviera, also good choice. Ari Shafir at the Vic ah Wow.

Combination of theater and performer. That might have to be the move of Ari Shafir at the vic tonight. Creig Robinson in The Nasty Delicious at Park West, Chad Daniels at the Chicago Improv In some smaller shows around town, and now let’s check out the New York At Comedy Festival, who totally understands calendar technology. Some of the show shows. Aaron Chen at Union Hall at five o’clock.

You may remember me playing some clips from Aaron when we were covering at the Sydney International Comedy Festival. Aaron’s pretty good at a five o’clock show. Doesn’t run up against anything. That’s a good choice. Aaron Chen, Union Hall, five o’clock you’re in a comedy, I recommend that one.

Jeff Ross at the hard Rock at seven, Lona Glazer at BAM at eight o’clock, Sam Morrell the Theater at MSG eight thirty, and some smaller shows around town. The festival’s just getting started here as we get into next weekend, and we’ll see some pretty heavy hitters, but not a bad night of comedy on a Saturday night. Unless you’re running a marathon tomorrow. You don’t want to be at a comedy show to midnight. Go to pet.

Sabrina Wu is one of Vulture’s twenty five comedians you should know. Vulture asked Sabrina about their writing process and they said, my answer might be more about style and joke writing. I realized that I kind of hate jokes. Puns give me a headache, and mister X make me feel hollow inside. Especially Hey, when the comedian uses a hot button issue like at trans writes or abortion as a cheap setup for some stupid take that I know they don’t actually believe in the joke anyway, because they know it can get a laugh.

An example of that they used is abortion is like pooping because and then said shut up, Shut up, Shut up. I prefer watching comedians who are giving me their honest take on things. When I was starting out, I spend a lot more time with pen and paper trying to force out set up and punchline. These days, I generate a lot of material through gossiping and ranting with my close friends. I feel like it’s stuff I care enough to talk about off stage tends to make more compelling material on stage.

And that’s your comedy needs for today. You can follow this show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, pocketcasts, overcasts, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Tom Segura, Jim Gaffigan, Maz Jobrani, Fortune Feimster, James Austin Johnson, Richard Dreyfus

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife says Comedy Central rejected him despite his success
• Maz Jobrani’s Mister International Comedy tour at Kennedy Center
• James Austin Johnson discusses Trump impressions and SNL experiences
• Fortune Feimster’s background in tennis and soccer
• Richard Dreyfus criticizes ‘The Shark is Broken’ play for inaccuracies about Jaws feud

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Caloroga Shark Media, Bloom Shinny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I like this line I saw from Jim gaffig in. I think he said it a while back, but I just wanted to share it as I’d like it so much. Jim said, dads are kind of like the backup quarterback in the NFL. You’re on the team, but you’re not the star.

On the rare occasion that you brought into a game, people are nervous. You know, you’re good for a play or two, and then people are like, when’s the starter coming back. Tom Sagora had Matt Rife on a few weeks back, a really fantastic discussion, and Tom Sigora was quite surprised as it was I that Matt Rife, says, Comedy Central wasn’t interested in hiring Matt Rife, the guy’s huge. Rife said, They’ve been very fortunate to have south Park on the Daily Show, be like to continued staples on the network, but all these other things they do, they’re kind of like come and go. It’s like I’ve always wanted to change that.

I’ve always wanted to have that conversation with Comedy Central to be like, give somebody with a young, fresh fan base to project a run that can bring your network back to what it used to be as a comedy network. So Gorra said, you could get that meeting. Raife said, I’ve had it. They don’t bat an eye. Comedy Central’s never given me the time of day, so Goora even now, Rife never the fact that they don’t want to entertain the idea is bonkers.

I’m big on creativity. Take a chance. I get to your business. I get they have to go by the numbers and risk can cost a lot of money. But it’s like, your channel’s never gonna grow, Your network’s never gonna go back up.

WTP spoke to Master Brunny, one of my favorite comedians. I like Ma’s a lot. He hopes to bring people together with his Mister International Comedy tour at the Kennedy Center two nights tonight and tomorrow. Mas said, it’s Mister International because I wanted mister Worldwide, but Pitbull has that. I’m the other bold guy.

I tore all over the world, so I was like, what are we gonna call this in my act and talk about my travels. Back in the day, stand up comedy was just national You do the comedy clubs in America, but now myself and a lot of comedians are in the Middle East, Australia, Europe, Asia. It’s really become an international art form. He spoke about the current world situation. I’m a human being, so when I see the fighting, the wars, and all the atrocities, it breaks my heart.

I understand people who say it’s not a time to laugh, when I get it. They can’t imagine going somewhere and laughing. My job is to hopefully bring laughter and escape for an hour and a half or two hours and bring people together. People from different backgrounds come together, and we laugh together and find our common humanity. With the Israeli Palestinian conflict, I saw pundit saying we have Afghan and Palestinian refugees coming, claiming they’re going to be dangerous to America.

I just like to remind America that the biggest stret to America are Americans. Statistically speaking, immigrants have contributed to America. Were the land that accepts of refugees. In his show, Maz says, I talk about being a parent, I talk about getting older. My kids are now teenagers and it’s a strange thing to go in this phase of their life, and now we have to wrap our heads around them no longer being our babies.

I have an aunt who still talks to me like I’m a baby. I’m fifty one years old, and what she talks to me, it’s like, how you doing, Mazzi Wazzy. I’m like, I’m not Mazzi Wazzy. I’m fifty one. My daughter’s twelve, my son is fifteen, and anyone who has teenagers knows their rooms are a mess.

It looks like the Tasmanian Devil went in and did circles. There was a father, mother, and their teenage daughter in the audience, and I go, how hell to you, young lady, and she says, oh, I’m seventeen. Let me ask you a question. Did their rooms get cleaner? The father fell out of his seat laughing.

Switching topics, Mass said, specials or a double edged sword for comedians because people can watch the special, but then they come to your show and they go, wait, I already heard these jokes. You got to write new jokes, And as you’re watching your own special, you’re like, oh, that’s so cool. The world can see it now.

And then you go, Oh, no, the world can see it now, so I’ve been working on ne…

Fortune Femster apparently is a soccer player who knew. She spoke to the West Virginia Gazette and said, I’m really good at sports. I played tennis in college, played all four years, and I played soccer. She even played in a soccer league in LA for fifteen years. Fortune said, once I got out of the college level, I hated all the running, so I ended up playing in a seven on seven league.

The style was more aggressive but required less running. Unfortunately, she said, then the pandemic git and destroyed the league, like it did a lot of things. Entertainment Weekly asked James Austin Johnson, what’s been different about doing the social media videos of Donald Trump versus doing Trump on Saturday Night Live. James said, Yeah, when I was just walking around making videos just goofing off and being silly with my friends. Then I got to SNL and started doing Trump sketches, and it still felt like goofing off with my friends.

It definitely has more eyes on it. But the videos that eventually led to me getting to do cool stuff like SNL, I was just making those to entertain my coworkers. When I worked in a warehouse in LA folding hoodies for rappers and rock bands, I was just doing trump to them to make them laugh, and now I just want to make everyone laugh in the office at SNL. Ew asked him, of all the SNL hosts you worked with so far, what’s been the most memorable experience. James said, well, my first episode was also Owen Wilson’s first episode, so we both learned how to read cue cards at the same time.

We basically just learned how to do SNL at the same time. We happened to be in a couple sketches together, so we chatted and we bonded over the new guy thing. James, are there any impressions you haven’t done yet that you want to do on the show? He said, I love those old text to speech voices on an old Mac computer. You know what I’m talking about.

You know how sometimes you batter’d be running low. My favorite voice was Bruce. If you pick Bruce would be like, and I don’t know what the impression is here he does. Please plug in your MacBook. I’m dying to play Bruce from the mac os from the nineties.

One day, I’ll write the perfect sketch for Bruce from mac Os and it’s gonna blow everyone’s mind. The minute the world here’s this Bruce voice. It’s over. I still haven’t gotten to see The Shark is Broken. It’s on my list and I have to use my Today Ticks code DCN to go see it.

But Richard Dreyfus, who was in Jaws, he saw The Shark is Broken. He’s criticizing it for what he says our inaccuracies and for making him look like a big jerk. He told Vanity Fair, I want to see it to see if it was really gonna hurt it did if you don’t know what this is. The Shark Is Broken is based on Robert Shaw’s diary. It depicts a long rumored feud between Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw.

During the film Jaws is Hurry Up and wait keep cod shooting. Dreyfus has played by Alex Brightman, has depicted as neurotic and insecure, while Shaw’s non stop drinking continually slows down and a ready tortures shoot. Dreyfus told Vanity Fair when we were surrounded by lots of other people, Robert would take digs at me, and I’d take a dig at him. It was only to make the hours go better, faster. We didn’t take any of that seriously.

Thirty years after the film is over, I start to hear this thing about a feud. I didn’t pay too much attention. Dreyfus has some harsh words for screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and for Steven Spielberg, for as Vanity Fair says, what he perceives as their role in spreading the story about his relationship with Shaw. When Dreyfus says, I don’t think they gave it any thought that it would hurt me, and it did. I have to say that Carl and Stephen knew better because there was no feud.

There was an ongoing kind of humor between us. If you only saw us on the set, you might think there was something the feud was going on, But it’s never real. Never, And I hold that against Carl and Stephen. Oh no, the shark is broken. Close as November nineteenth, I gotta get cracking on this.

I’ve been busy. I mentioned there’s a marathon Sunday. That’s what I’ve been doing with all my time, all right, I gotta try and see this in the next two weeks. Let’s see who is at the three one two Comedy Festival tonight. This in Chicago where they don’t have calendar technology and they just post the shows in alphabetical order, so I have to just scroll down and find one.

Come on, guys, you gotta do better with this website. Nate Bergatzy at the Chicago Theater tonight night, John christ Is at Rialzo Square, Nicole Bayer at the Riviera Theater, Dan Cummins at the vic That’s a great venue. Gals on the go at Park West, and some smaller shows. What time are these shows? I don’t know.

Get your website together, folks, like the New York Comedy Festival has theirs together. I went to ny Comedy Festival dot com, slash schedule and clicked date. That’s how you do it. The New York Comedy Festival is an interesting one. I’m a New Yorker and New York is just too big.

You go to other cities, and when I have a comedy festival, it kind of takes over the city. In New York, this thing tends to be invisible despite the really fantastic acts. And the really great job that the people organizing this festival do. And there’s some really famous venues involved. New York’s just too big.

But some of the shows tonight Daniel Sloss at Town Hall at seven o’clock, Ladies Who Ranch at seven at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. An Evening with Chicken Big at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, also at seven. I’m clicking on this. What is this? You were cordially invited to an Evening with Chicken Big, a soiree of seriously absurd, seriously classy comedy.

Chicken Big are the three dumbest, richest, most powerful guys you’ve ever seen, and together they will create an experience that has never happened before. Prior evenings have included a black tie gala at a vent Massus, a birthday clown, a giant baby, a game of Tug of War with the entire audience, and a live human pinata. Sounds like a fun, not wacky improv show. Joey bay Are at the Manhattan Movement North Center at seven. Natalie Roder Lateman Life Is Life at Union Hall at seven.

Sabrina Wood the Bellhouse at seven thirty. Jeff Ross at the hard Rock at eight, Jordan Jensen at the stand at eight, I Ateed Rodriguez, Chelsea Music Hall, eight thirty, the wonderfully titled Casual Sacks at nine thirty at Club coming an all Horn e Knight for all love It. Zack Zimmerman plays a Little Field at ten and I did not read you all the shows. Good start for the New York Comedy Festival. And speaking of the recently mentioned Zach Zimmerman, he’s one of Vulture’s twenty five comedians.

You should watch right. What reality show would you be good at? He said, the Amazing Race. I think I could easily charm locals by appearing helpless and appealing to their inner sense of pity. And I’m a good driver, but not with a stick.

Look, if you’re going on Amazing Race, you gotta learn how to drive a stick. It comes up. Do I know how to drive a stick? No? But if you tell me I’m going on Amazing Race, I will learn.

Much like if you go on Survivor learn how to make a fire, it’s gonna come up. Zach says, I couldn’t do any of the bungee jumping or skydiving, but that’s what your partners. For Yeah, my son and I watch the show together and we play along like, all right, I’ll do this one. You do this one. None of that bungee jumping heights thing.

I can’t do it. That’s all him. I’ll lead the bugs. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best Greer Barnes told me you’re welcoming the audience into your mind, which reminded me that even though I’m there to entertain, I’m in charge.

Worst advice. Life is like a box of chocolates. That’s your comedy news for today. While the show for free on various apps, including podcasts and overcasts and Spotify, and I guess Apple has one too, but not for back catalog episodes. I’ll tell you that much, all right.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Charlemagne the God, Jimmy Kimmel, Paul Reiser, Brad Garrett, Joe Gorga, Dusty Slay, Hannibal Buress, Theo Vaughn, Michael Richards

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan tour ticket sales underperforming
• Ron DeSantis boot lifts mocked by late night hosts
• Michael Richards rare public appearance 17 years after comedy club incident
• Nothing Forever AI Seinfeld show changes after transphobic joke controversy
• Paul Reiser taping new comedy special in Denver
• Brad Garrett’s name used in fake Joe Gorga Vegas comedy show scam
• 312 Comedy Festival in Chicago November 2nd lineup

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Charlemagne the God presumably has the same writers Jesus Merrow had on The Daily Show last week, but Charlemagne getting much better jokes. The topic is Ron DeSantis wearing some sort of lifts in his boots. Charlemagne said, we need a short president anyway.

People always talk about Napoleon complex is Well, that guy ruled the entire continent. Abraham Lincoln was tall and he got shot in the head. So you tell me who’s more successful. Charlemagne again. At least now I know why DeSantis is in that huge fight with Disney.

It’s not because of wopness. It’s because you got to be this tall to ride the magic teacups. That’s good, Kimmel. One of the most important qualities we consider when considering a leader is that person’s height. That’s why I’ve been pushing for a president Kareem for many, many years.

But Jimmy Kimmel for the win. It does seem that Ron de Santis may be wearing heels. I’ll tell you what, throwing a tube of lipstick and suddenly it’s illegal to teach kids in Florida schools about their own governor. I noticed Sammurial tweeted I met MSG Theater this Saturday in NYC. Not a lot of tickets left.

New Hour of Jokes see you there, And I went, huh, somebody is probably panicking about ticket sales. I mean, not a lot of tickets left. What does that mean? So I clicked on it and I shared it indie Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please join us and I’ll remind you this is the MSG Theater.

This is not the basketball arena. Plenty of seats available in the upper deck. Not sure what’s going on there because Sam is a fantastic comic.

Also not really selling a lot of tickets.

Surprisingly. Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan, Right, you think that would be a good bill. But in that same Facebook post on the Daily Comedy News podcast group, I shared their ticket sales and yeah, you can get in for fifty bucks in the upper deck pretty easily. I got suspicious about all this when I saw gaff Again and Seinfeld doing press together. They were asked the favorite part of each other’s comedy.

Jerry said, not only do I have material that we like, to talk about. But we talk about where we work and how we work and out it feels comedians are a very gabby bunch. That’s how we got another profession. All we want to do is talk when you have an approach and take the craft seriously. Those are the best comedians and that’s Jim.

Jim said, There’s so many things that Jerry has done that are impressive, but I’m most impressed with his work. Ethic comedy, more than anything in the entertainment industry, is ever changing. It’s very rare for someone to be performing at such a high caliber of quality through different decades. Jerry said, I’m speechless. Jim said, I’m reading this off the press release.

Here’s the big question. You’re performing two nights at the Chase Center. You gotta fill twenty thousand seats a night. Give us your best sales pitch For those on the fence, Jerry said, I would continue to consider it, give it a lot of thought. Don’t be impulsive.

That’s what I would advise. If you’re thinking about it, keep thinking. On gossip Corner, The Sun noticed that Seinfeld star Michael Richards was spotted at a rare public outing with his family seventeen years after the incident at the comedy club where Michael Richards fell from Greece, Michael and his family stopped by a local park and in and out Burger. No word on what they ordered. An eyewitnessed notice the family picked up their in a Porsche an eight in and out Burger in their car.

Kataku has been paying attention to Nothing Forever. Remember the Ai Seinfeld thing. It’s been running NonStop since last December. Apparently it almost broke last week, and they’ve now made some tweaks. Nothing Forever originally focused on Larry Feinberg and some side characters that were reminiscent of the Seinfeld sitcom, rendered in PlayStation one style graphics.

The apartment they walked around kind of resembled the Seinfeld apartment, and Larry Feinberg would even perform a stand up set sometimes. Then the AI generated Larry did a transphobic joke because it’s a comedian, I guess, and you have to I don’t know. That led to a temporary ban from Twitch. Fourteen days later, the series resumed, but had a new cast of characters. Larry Feinberg was gone.

In his place, Blogger Leo Borges that still kind of looks like Jerry. The stand up bits are gone and replaced with soliloquies of Leo’s thoughts, as he posed to his blog borges boredom Board. In October, a Twitter user posted that the show’s characters don’t even say anything anymore, just stand still in complete silence. That poster fought up on another tweet about a strange orange man that stocks the apartment, disappearing and reappearing at random. On October thirtieth, media reporter Jason Koebler shared a video of two characters, Leo and Nick Sterling, walking into each other in front of a close refrigerator on a loop for five days.

In the past, the show discussed eating fruit or cooking eggs frivolous stuff. Now the characters go on long tangents about the nature of existence, if a refrigerator has consciousness, how they’re trapped in a simulation, and of course aliens too bad. The original idea was kind of fun. Comedy Dynamics is producing a new comedy special from Paul Riser. He’ll tape it at the Newman Center in Denver on November seventeenth.

Paul is also returning as Detective Jeffrey Friedman in Netflix’s Beverly Hills cop Axel Foley. We could see Paul Riser back on stage. I’ve talked to him a few times. Good guy Brad Garrett shares with Deadline that he’s not happy that his name was being used to promote a comedy show starring the Real Housewives of New Jersey personality Joe Gorga. Deadline rights it turns out everything was a scam and no show is taking place.

A representative for Gorga tells Deadline it was coming from a fake Brad Garrett, Joe’s attorney was scammed, even had signed contracts in place. Gorga’s reps said that Gorga is disappointed and he was looking forward to performing in Vegas. Garrett was on Instagram and wrote, alert, this is not an actual show at my club and people are being scammed to buy tickets via a fake link. So Joey Gorga and someone else named Jack in it looks like WTF. No one knows who you folks are in the comedy world.

Now are you working at my club? Remove these ads immediately, geez and catch New Jersey has nothing to do with this as well. Let’s see if we can decipher what’s happening at the three one to two Comedy Festival in Chicago today. As I’ve mentioned most episodes recently, the three one two Comedy Festival. They might be good at comedy festivals, they’re terrible at calendar technology.

You can only search by alphabetical order. So today, being November two, I have to scroll through and see if I see the words November and two next to each other. Here’s the one at the VIC Theater, Dusty Slay. Dusty is amazing. If you have not checked out Dusty’s bit about it’s five o’clock somewhere, stop listening to this podcast to go find it on the internet.

It’s fantastic. Hannibal Burrs at the Chicago Theater also a good show. All right, I’m gonna click and see. Could we make it both? Why do you have to click?

Johnny Mac, aren’t the times on the page that’s sorted by alphabetical order? Of course? Not? All right? Dusty sleighs at seven scroll down, click.

This is really terrible this website. You’ve heard me do this festival thing before. Hannibal is at seven point thirty. Ooh, that’s a tough choice there. I would go see Dusty Sleigh right now over Hannibal, and I don’t say that lightly.

Chad Daniels at the Chicago Improv Roast Battle Chicago at Zany’s, and a couple of minor things not bad, but go see Dusty Sleigh if you’re in town. I noticed THEO Vaughn’s podcast is in the top twenty on the over all charts. THEO quietly becoming a comedy powerhouse. I was listening to an episode of his recently with a Politician. It is not a politician that I support, but I found the interview very compelling and very easy on the airs.

Theovonn’s podcast is pretty good. Heads up if you’re and Spokene and you’ve got tickets to see Colin Jose tonight, the show has been canceled and rescheduled for June twentieth. According to the Fox Theater, all previously purchased tickets for the Thursday performance will be honored at the new date. No reason given why a quick Google search for Colin Jose doesn’t turn up any news Dale Hugh Lee. You remember Matthew Berry’s generosity of spirit.

This from the New York post. They were co stars on Studio sixty on the Sunset Strip, which is a pretty good show. You should check out. That show deserved a lot better. It was kind of like what if the West Wing were Saturday Night Live.

Thirty Rock came out at the same time and kind of stole this show’s thunder. But I liked that show a lot. I believe it’s streaming on I want to say, Paramount Plus, why don’t you just tell them John look it up. No, it’s not streaming anywhere right now. I looked this up the other day and it was you can rent or purchase it on Amazon.

That’s a shame that that’s not streaming hugely said. I was on the road when Perry died, and I instantly flashed back to Studio sixty, and he tells a story from way back. It was a very late Friday night. My son had turned eighteen, so I was going to take him out and we were going to hang out all night. But we were running over in the shooting schedule and we got behind and Matthew let me leave.

It did something I would never do. He switched the order of things so I could leave early and be with my son. I didn’t ask him, but he found out about it and he did it, and he had to shoot scenes at like two and three in the morning. So when I heard he died, I flashed back to that moment. I forgot all week to talk about south Park joining the pander Verse.

Have you watched this yet? I have to add this on the top things of the year. Note it’s not a stand up special. Let me pull out my list here. Hmm.

This could be number one, which right now is Todd Barry and the number two stand up special is Shane Gillis. But between those, I have Kunk on Earth, which really gave me the giggles. I’m going to put pander Verse right below Kunk on Earth? Are you hearing me? Of all the specials that came out this year, I like into the pander Verse, South Park episode better than everything but Todd Berry Hi praise, The Hollywood Reporter explains in the forty seven minute special Joining the panda Verse, we’ll find it on Paramount Plus.

Cartman begins to fear that he’s being replaced by a diverse woman. The episode comments heavily on some of the creative decisions made by lucasfilm star Wars Marvel. The story shifts to a meeting of Disney executives where CEO Bob Iger is irate. An executive tells Bob Iger, we don’t understand it, sir. We keep making the same movie over and over and pandering to everyone, and suddenly it’s not working.

Iiger replies, then we’ve got to pander harder. Gina Carano, who starred on The Mandalorian and then got pushed out of that show after she made some controversial online statements, she chimed in and said, this is the part where Kathleen Kennedy, who runs Lucasfilm, demands any YouTubers get censored off of YouTube for sharing and laughing at this hilarious episode. She’ll have YouTube disabled the thumbs down option because of the ratio she’ll receive. Then she’ll have her publicist Gooules, make sure a variety and the Hollywood Reporter r on hit pieces about the South Park creators and their families, smearing their names through every useful idiot she has under her thumb who would sell their soul to work for Lucasfilm. She’ll activate her online mob to beat that the South Park creators are racist bigot transphobes and demand that the South Park creators publicly apologize by using only words she approves of.

And finally she’ll demand that they subject themselves to a re education course of forty five people in the LGBTQ community. Zoom call to sit there and listen of how badly they got their feelings hurt over a little boop of a South Park episode. Wow. Anyway, into the panda verse. If you have not enjoyed all the recent Star Wars and some of the more recent Marvel movies and you’re wondering what’s going on, watch into the panderverse.

It is very entertaining. John Glazer has an album out today. It’s called Soothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog, the ideal companion for those unfortunate yet unavoidable times that dog owners must leave their beloved pets at home all alone. The album has been designed to help soften those unsettling times. Checking in at a Grammy submission required minimum thirty minutes of peaceful tranquility.

John Glazer’s Smoothing Meditations for the Solitary Dogs the perfect remedy for any dog owner that cares about the mental well being of their Sweet Precious Angel. There’s an album release and party in Brooklyn tonight. Eugene Mermann, Joe Firestone and some others planning on going. It’s at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn. Sounds fun.

And if you’re at Cornell tonight, it’s the Climate Change Comedy Hour. Environmental historian Aaron sachs we use a combination of gallows humor, history and silly videos to show how we can shift our attitude about climate change. Sax says, climate activists known for spouting doomagloom have almost never tried to use humor in their messaging. At this point, it’s probably too late, but we could always try to prevent the oil companies from having the last laugh. Cornell the Lewis Auditorium in Goldwyn Smith Hall, you know the building five point fifteen.

The event is free, the public’s invited. And I think we’re almost at the end of the list of the Vulture twenty five comedians. You should know there might be one or two left out of alphabetic order where I bumped it and moved it to the end of the list, But we’re up to Sophie Zucker. So these are the comedians whose last names begin with at least zu. There shouldn’t be too many, you know, unless there’s like Steve’s a Ziva coming up.

Sophie says, I’ve learned that I like to treat the audience like I’m already kind of annoyed with them my on stage persona, which is just an exaggerated version of myself. It took me a long time to figure out, and I think this sort of antagonistic presence was one of the final pieces. Having the point of view of you guys should already know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, you’re dumb. Sophie says, I’m bored of ironic comedy.

I’m bored of comedy that’s supposed to be funny because it sounds like bad comedy. Don’t make fun of telling a joke. Tell a joke. I know it’s harder, but I think you can do it. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Nate Bargatzi, Matthew Perry, Kenan Thompson, Kal Penn, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Veer Das

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld rules out Seinfeld reunion
• Late night jokes about Kal Penn dropping out of presidential race
• Nate Bargatzi hosts SNL
• Matthew Perry death and Friends cast statement
• Good Burger 2 trailer released
• Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts Netflix movie
• Veer Das on how audience shapes modern comedy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Big news from Jerry Seinfeld after the Late Night jokes, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily commedy News Late Night. Pretty good a set of jokes here the setup. Mike penns dropped out of the presidential race. Penn said, it’s become clear to me that this is not my time.

David Colbert said Pence’s time was sixteen ninety two, his place Salem, his job man who shoves woman into river to see if she’s a witch.

Also from Colbert, Penn said he prayed over the decision, not surprising, aft…

Colbert said, God responded with his own book, new phone. Who dis he got ghosted? He got ghosted by the Holy ghost. Charlemagne, the God is hosting the Daily Show this week now. Last week I kind of piled on Jesus nice, who was not good at it.

Charlemagne way better at it. Listen, Mike Penson, now that he is ending his campaign, that’s right. Mike Pints dropped out to spend more time in a step in bedroom from his wife, I won’t say, do they really ending your campaign and your campaign never got off the ground to begin with. It’s like turning down sex when you have a wrecked out just function like the choice was made for you already, My guy, all right? Would Charlotte made want that gig full time?

He’s off to a very good start. Switching topics, Former President Trump was in Sue City, Iowa, and mistakenly referred to it as South Dakota’s Sue Falls. Jimmy fallon. Joe Biden was like, somebody helped that world man. He’s confused and disoriented and fell.

And again it makes sense that Trump was confused. It was the first time in months he’s been in a room without a jury. Great set of jokes there, all right. Jerry Seinfeld, he’s on tour and at the end of his shows he does some Q and A. On Sunday night, he was in Detroit and he got asked again about the Seinfeld reunion.

Remember there was something about the finale and people were wondering what was going on. Jerry Seinfeld made this super clear. He said, a reunion of the Seinfeld Show. That subject has come up, and it is is it not happening? We can’t do it because we would ruin it.

We already ruined it, but we could ruin it even worse, Jerry joke. There’s been conversations about it, but I don’t think it would happen until all four careers are completely in the toilet. We’re working on that as we speak. Jerry was more excited to talk about his upcoming pop Tarts movie that will be on Netflix. Jerry said, I directed the movie.

I’m in the movie. It has fifteen other stand up comedians, all names that you know, all friends of mine. So we made the movie and it’s coming out at the beginning of next year. The movie takes place in Battle Creek, Michigan. It’s a place that I’ve never visited.

M Live was at one of the shows in Detroit. This from the Saturday Night Show and they say Jerry performed for just under an hour with an opener before him. There was no big introduction. Seinfeld just kind of waltzed on stage right after the opener finished, catching the audience off guard. It took a moment for people to realize, Hey, that’s Jerry.

We should be applauding right now. Jerry went into a funny bit about cell phones and how our lives are consumed by them, but he’s not very much interested in what’s going on on other people’s cell phones, no matter how good the content might be, or no matter how much they want to show him em live, says, Seinfeld still has it and then some. Nate Bergatzi shared more about how he approached hosting SNL. He crushed it. If you didn’t see the episode, find it on demand or find the individual sketches.

It was really strong this week. Nate said, I talked to John Mulaney pretty quickly after I found out, and he talked me through it all. When you come to the SNL studio, you wrap your head around more of what it is. But everybody was super nice. Nate said he talked to Jerry Seinfeld about it, Pete Davidson, Camel nan Gianni.

Nate said, there’s a lot of people reached out. They were very nice, telling me what to do and help me with the sketches and we look for the que cards all that stuff. Again, fantastic episode if he didn’t see it. Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudro, Courtney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer put out a joint statement which reads, we are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew Perry. We were much more than just castmates.

We are a family. There’s so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss, and time we’ll say more as and when we’re able. For now, our thoughts and our lover with Mattie’s family, his friends, and everybody who loved him around the world world. Perry’s memoir Friends Lovers in the Big Terrible Thing hit number one on Amazon’s bestseller list following Matthew Perry’s death on Saturday. The book originally came out November first, twenty twenty two.

The trailer for Good Burger two is out and it looks pretty good. It looks self aware, it looks like we know what this is, just a roll with it. Good Burger Too will be out on Paramount Plus November twenty second. Give you something to do over Thanksgiving weekend. There we see Dexter and Ed reuniting as staff members at Goudburger as the pair attempt to help the struggling fast food establishment and its parent companies plans to grow the brand.

The guys learned that Megacorp is planning to expand Gudburger globally, but intends to fire the restaurant’s staff. Keenan Samson Warren’s Mega Corp wants to replace everybody with robots. We gotta do something. Hilarity ensues. Goodburger came out in nineteen ninety seven, was based on a sketch that first ran on the Nickelodeon series All That in nineteen ninety four.

Like I said, I watched the trailer and I was like, all right, it’s self aware. It’s not claiming to be Citizen Kane. And I don’t know. Maybe I just like Keenan Thompson a lot more than I like Adam Sandler. This is a dopey movie, but it looks fun.

Fear to Oz spoke to the Indian Express and his theory is the audience now makes comedians humble. Vieer said. Earlier comedians were like, here are my jokes. If you’re offended, I’m off to the next city. Now we have to be humble about the fact that the audience has a voice and we have to deal with them in the most humble manner.

I love this generation. They have destroyed stardom, and they value artistry. There’s nothing worse in the world than the silence of the audience. There’s no greater teacher than the audience. There’s no greater editor than the audience.

They’ll change the lines. Our revolution comes from the audience. Are you into celebrity golf tournaments? The third Annual Comedy Gives Back Celebrity Golf Classic in Valencia, California, November sixth. Confirmed to celebrity golfers include Ray Romano, Jim Jeffries, Andrew Santino, Matt Walsh, Jeff Gorland, Greg Fitzimmons, and the Sclar Brothers.

And those are just the comedians I told you about. It’s called the third Annual Comedy Gives Back Celebrity Golf Classic, November sixth. Let’s stop off on gossip Corner. Bob Saggett’s widow, Kelly Rizzo, was on Katie Kuork’s podcast, and this is kind of awkward. Katie Cork told Bob Saget’s widow, I had a date with him once.

As you know, I really liked him. I found him so cute and funny and amusing, and I did think we shared a pretty nice kiss in the foyer of my apartment, Kelly Rizzo said, he always thought you were lovely. He was a big fan. He adored you. Quirk joked, well, not enough to call me again, but that’s okay, because it all worked out.

He found the love of his life with you. In The Hollywood Reporter, a guest editorial by Eliza Slessinger quite lengthy. I’ll skim it here. Eliza Wright’s innocent Palestinians are enduring a pain and tragedy that I cannot fathom. They’ve been born into a deeply complex region in society, and it’s not right to treat their lives as expendable or as a solution of the problem.

I can’t say it’s right to treat them the way we, the Jews, have been treated over and over. I have to, as a Jewish person, empathize with that. I hope that others can extend the same empathy to us. I was on stage about a year ago and I mentioned Israel apropos of nothing political, and I heard people gasp. It was more a knee jerk reaction and hearing something scandalous, something we aren’t supposed to mention, like Voldemort.

Skipping ahead Eliza wrote, anti Semitism is very real and very tolerated. As a Jew, it can be nuanced and difficult to outwardly express yourself without having to compare, equivocate, and acknowledge how hard every other group has it, and in doing so, it invalidates our anger in the moment by distracting an audience from our initial rightful outrage. In order to simplify a complex issue, people often make it about color, about white versus brown. What makes it easier to rally against Jews Ignorantly, Jews are seen as quote whites unquote, or a monolith or a race, despite only thirty percent of Israeli Jews being white European Jews, people who don’t even know a Jewish person or think they don’t, will have audacious opinions on Israel or Jews in general, often using their support of Palestine to substantiate their baked in latent at times dislike of Jewish people, and their actions show it, especially in America. Skipping ahead, Eliza wrtes, it seems as if every group, especially in the last few years, has had their fifteen minutes to say, we see your bigotry and we are finally vehemently standing up for ourselves, but somehow Jews have been left off the age.

There’s a lot more to that. You’ll find that on the Hollywood Reporters website, and that brings us to awkward segue. There’s a new Looney Tunes movie coming out, this from the av Club, and they nailed it. They wrote, it’s got to be a little frustrating to be a major movie studio that also owns the Looney Tunes brand. There’s iconic characters, Bugs, Bunny, Daffy Duck.

Yet the only time the franchise has ever produced any kinds of major dividends in theaters in the modern era was by resorting to also shoving the biggest athlete on the planet into the mix. Well that’s not stopping Warner Brothers. They have confirmed that they’re working on the Day the Earth Blew Up, originally conceived as a streaming offering, but now it’s heading the theaters, so you know it’s high quality. No details on the plot yet. I assume Marvin Marshan will take place in the Day the Earth Blew Up, and he’s my favorite character, so that would be good.

Vulture watched Gavin Matt’s news special. You’ll find this on YouTube. They wrote one of the first jokes in Gavin Matt’s new YouTube stand up special Progression is about people who use the cliche all things consider. That’s pretty good to grab silver linings onto predicaments where none exist. Gavin Mattz points out, I feel like you’re not considering all things.

Sure you’re considering some things, but you’re not considering all things. You’d be crying right now. This is a dark special Rights Vulture, dense with jokes about the dying oceans, suicide, overpopulation, on the possibility that we could all have cancer right this second, and Matt’s offers no hope for deflating all that heaviness. Isn’t it nice that I put a looney tune story between everything in the back half here? What’s going on today?

Chod Well Trot’s take us fantasy about the life you would have if he could rid himself of all awareness, in one in which he trusts companies and their claims that they look out for a little guy, He says, I want to retweet my bank. I genuinely want to give my bank a retweet, like what you guys are doing on social media over at the bank. You’re killing it. Gavin Matt’s progression on YouTube this week. It’s out now.

Mike Apps has a new project. It is called Buying Back of the Block. You’ll find this on HGTV. Mike Apps is on a mission to beautify his Indiana hometown. This will hit HGTV this month.

The show will detail Epps and his wife Kira as they provide renovations and in interior design to the homes the comedians grew up around Vulture. Speaking to the twenty five comedians, you should know one of them is Zach Zucker. All right, what reality show would you be good at? Zack Sucker? He said, Survivor.

I haven’t done in a while, but as a kid, I was big into eating slugs and worms, so I’d have a huge competitive advantage. Everyone else is going to go hungry trying to get a fire started after a torrential downpour, and I’m just rolling around on the mud, putting dirt in my ears and slurping up my goopy little friends. Worst show ever. One of the first shows I ever did was called Zackzucker Real Life Human Basketball Guy Man. It was a two and a half hour improvised theater piece about a mad scientist who turns himself into a Wilson official NBA game ball.

It ruins his life, but he goes on to be the game winning dunk in Game seven of the nineteen seventy NBA Finals between the Nixon Lakers, and he gets some favors in the bathroom at Madison Square Garden. It was a one off I did at the Old Joke Beans having in La Joya. There were over one hundred people in the crowd, including my family, friends and my girlfriend at the time, who’s now a WNBA player herself. Funny enough, I like to think we all share a special bond because of that show, like the bewildered camaraderie between the onlookers of a devastating train crash. I don’t think the world was ready for it back in twenty fifteen, but basketball has been making a comeback in a big way, so it could be time for real life human basketball guy Man two, real life human hockey puck boy child at the three one two Comedy Festival that does not believe in sharing their shows on a calendar based format.

As I scrolled down, Jimmie wolf As at Zeni’s tonight. And that’s the only time I saw the words November and one next to each other. I do see a bunch of November twos. So we’ll talk about that tomorrow and that use your comedy needs for today. You can follow this show for free on various apps, including pocket casts that’s the one I use, Overcast, Spotify, and if you hate back catalog episodes Apple Podcasts, they’re not going to tell you John put out a whole bunch of episodes over the weekend.

They’re just gonna go, Yeah, here’s the new one. You probably didn’t want to hear. Those other ones that John worked hard on all weekend. Yeah, you don’t want to hear that. Here’s just the new one.

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Featured: Sam Morill, Gary Gulman, Eliza Shlesinger, Nikki Glaser, Jay Leno, Brian Regan, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Sam Morill’s interview pet peeve about lazy questions
• Gary Gulman’s Jewish summer camp rival Kampler and confidence issues
• Eliza Shlesinger planning travel show in New Zealand
• Nikki Glaser appearing in NY Times crossword puzzle
• Jay Leno on how he’d cover Trump years if still hosting
• Brian Regan’s travel preferences and tips
• John Mulaney’s favorite song at age 40

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Caloroga Shark Media, Kappie Allawi, and I’m Joanny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Sam Morrel caught up with The Columbus Underground. Seemed a little salty. They wrote, if you have an opportunity to snag Samuel for chat about his career, maybe don’t ask him if he’s always been pretty funny. Sam said, it’s like, hey, how little do you give a hoot about this?

I understand it’s a common technique to ask about your origin, but it just seems so lazy to me. Sam also doesn’t seem to understand why he’s tagged as a rising star and said, yeah, I don’t know who’s writing that, but that’s nice. I guess there are very few overnight successes, so people could say, yeah, he’s a rising star for twenty years or something. I mean, I guess it’s better than if somebody’s like, all right, this is it, So I’ll take it. As a comedian, you just hope each year is better than the last.

Right. That means you’re working. But I’m in a good place now. If this was it, I’d be okay with it. Turning to comedy, Sam likes to gauge the energy in a room before he’s introduced.

Sam said, I’ll watch the opener and I’ll say, Okay, this area’s a little drunk. This person might be a problem, but you feel it out. I mean, people surprise you and they’re gonna bathe differently for me than the opener. Sometimes you don’t want to generalize with the crowd too much. You want to go in with a positive attitude when you’re up there.

I’m gonna go in no matter what, trying to give the best show that I can. Sam is now running into an increasing number of show attendees who interrupt a show to do some of his own bits. Sam says, usually it’s the longer ones, the ones that are stories resonate with people more. I have one about the White Knight, or the one about the alligator or the student magician. Those stories are the ones that people seem to scream out like they want you to do them as an encore or something.

And I’m kind of like, no, I don’t remember any of those stories. If I remember them, I probably wouldn’t be writing new stuff. So those are kind of gone. They live online. I mean, look, that’s more of a music thing, you see Billy Joel because you want to hear a piano man or we didn’t start the fire or whatever.

You don’t go see Billy Joel because you want to hear we didn’t start the fire. What kind of Billy Joel fan are you? We didn’t shert the fire is terrible. Sam said, comedian’s supposed to have a new act, and it makes me really jealous of musicians who wrote a killer album and are just like, yeah, I’m gonna play this forever, although it’s got to be kind of boring too, right. Eliza Selessinger, who talked to the Las Vegas Sun, she is planning a travel show filmed in New Zealand.

Eliza said, I’m always working on stuff and I generally don’t like to talk about it to the ink is dride on the contract. But I’ve been wanting to do a travel show for a while. It’s a weird hole in the market. So many men get to do it to explore and travel and say whatever they want, and there aren’t as many women doing it. I’m already traveling.

My husband is a brilliant chef and writer, and we were asked to do it. I think we made something special interesting. Nikki Glaser spoke to Casey dot com and she talked about channel surfing and seeing herself. She says, it happens a lot. I just recently turned on the TV and saw me in an ad for the one hundred thousand dollars Pyramid.

I was also in the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle back in May, which was a huge deal because I play that every day. So stumbling across my own name was probably the biggest achievement in my life. And I say that with no sense of irony. That’s going down in history, whereas most of the stuff I do, people will remember. What was the clue?

Slash TV host Nicky she said it was very obviously me and I got so many messages. That’s how you find out who your smartest friends are. But yeah, I’m on TV a lot. I just read a quote from Joan Rivers who said I never turned down anything. You say yes to everything because you never know.

WPR, it was interviewing Gary Goldman about his new book, and they were fascinated by Gary’s enemy from Jewish summer camp, a boy referred to as Kampler. Gary said, yes, he was my enemy because he was no more athletic than me, or really charming or interesting than me. He was just a regular kid, but he had enormous confidence. And he made the softball team, and he started the camp play, and he won the sand castle building contest. I couldn’t understand why this kid, who really didn’t have much more going on for him than I did, was so confident.

And I was so shy and sad and felt anxious all the time, and so I felt, even though he had no idea, I was resenting him. I had built up so much resentment because I was losing all these things of this kid who I couldn’t figure out why he felt so good about himself, and I felt so lousy about myself. Gary continued, I didn’t go on the zip line because I was afraid. Kepler, of course, was the first to go on. He was so energetic, was not afraid.

He believed in himself. He went on there and zipped down and came down and returned a hero. And everybody was impressed by it. And they surrounded him and they said, what was it like? Did you have a good time?

And I’ll never forget what he said. He said, well, you learned so much about yourself. He was nine or ten. I remember thinking, whoa he copied that? Here?

That on a commercial for Outward Bound or from an astronaut or something. I said to him, capler, why do you have to be so preachy? You sound like a commercial? And he wasn’t phased by being called out by that. Eating care people looked at me like I was an ogre and a jerk.

Jay Leno was asked and how he would have approached the Trump years if he was still on Late Night. Jay said, say what you like about the Kennedys. At least they slept with real movie stars like Angie Dickinson and Marilyn Monroe. It wasn’t Stormy Daniels and strippers. Leno does watch some of the current monologues and says they’re all really good at that, but he often tunes out because of the commercials.

Right, Jay Leno, how do you know when it’s time to quit? And he says, I guess when you have your stroke? I mean I like it. Why would stop? The Boston Globe asked Brian Reagan, if you could travel anywhere right now, where would you go.

Brian Reagan’s answer, Germany. I want to drink beer out of one of those cool looking beer steins, while listening to one of those cool sounding German bands, while listening to people talking their cool sounding language. As for his travel preferences, Brian Reagan says, I like any place that has a pool with a swim up bar. There’s something relaxing about being able to swim over to your bar stool to grab a cool drink. Being home is a vacation.

I love traveling, but there’s nothing like not being in an airport. I prefer to relax on vacation. But I do like history too, so I enjoy seeing things like Mayan ruins in the coliseum. People should like to kill each other a lot in the past. Best travel Tippy said, sit in the middle seat on a long flight.

It’s a great way to get to know people. Pitchfork did that series with John Mulaney about what music he would listen to at what age. Well, John MLINI turned forty and was listening to Remember Where You Are. Malani says, that was the show we played as the show opener on the Baby Jade tour. My friend Kevin, who introduced me to Steely Dan, told me about Jesse whare Baby Jay to Me is not a dark show.

I was really happy when I was talking about those things on stage. I’m not saying I’m proud of everything, but the person standing on stage has a new life that’s really happy. That was the vibe of the music. Celebratory but interesting. Vulture is twenty five comedians you should know.

Brian bah He fantastic. I saw Brian up in Montreal. Brian said, starting out, I felt like there was pressure for every joke to be full throttle, NonStop punchlines the moment you get on stage. I started comedy in New York and go to some open mics where you got like ninety seconds because they’d be seventy people trying to get up there. I saw the people who did well those open mics were doing these set up punchline jokes.

I’d try to replicate that. Once I was able to move past those situations and I was doing eight to ten minute sets or a half hour, was less concerned about getting NonStop laughs and more concerned about what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it. I’ve been enjoying jokes that were slow build. My favorite comedians were never the ones who had the most last per minute. They’re the ones who made me see the world through their lens for a bit.

So that’s how I tried to approach joke writing. Now awesome approach. In my opinion, worst show ever, Brian said, I want to go on record that I like it doing bad shows. I think it’s funny to do stand up in a really bad environment. Whether it’s because the stage isn’t really a stage, it’s a toilet where there’s no audience, or there is an audience but they’re toxic, that’s objectively funny.

Like if you zoom out to this third person perspective and you see that situation for what it is, which is a person trying to pursue this creative endeavor and they’re failing at it for some weird reason out of their control. That’s funny. There was one time, post nine to eleven, post COVID vaccine, pre monkey pox, where I did this show in Connecticut. It was a show with an all queer lineup. I took a train of Connecticut with two other people.

Then we got picked up and driven us some bar in a quaint looking beach town. The sun was still out. It was a backed room. The crowd Feld’s retirement community. I started a joke where I referenced Michael Barbaro, the host of The Daily podcast, and the room was silent for the entire joke.

I followed up with some questions, do you know who Michael Barbaro is? Now? Do you listen to the Daily? They’d heard of it? Do they own guns?

Some of them? And I was like, great, I have eighteen more minutes of jokes to go. And I proceeded to bomb best comedy device, Worst comedy advice Best For one of my creative writing teachers in college, she said, whatever field you’re pursuing, you need to consume that art. It sounds obvious. I’ve applied that logic comedy.

When I’m at a show, I try to watch as many of the comedians as I can. Same for movies, TV, any kind of media. Worst comedy Advice. Every once in a while someone will tell me I should do more jokes about being Native American. It’s always a white person who says that.

I usually mentioned that I’m Indigenous pretty early in my sets. I have a quick joke where I say, my traditional Native American name is Chipotle bathroom code, but the tea is that All my jokes are from an indigenous perspective. My joke’s about dating my parents, getting public lives from a greyhound bus. All those jokes are about being Native American. Mittel has released the ted Lasso Barbie collection.

You can get a barbie version of Coach Lasso with a signature blue tracksuit and aviator glasses, or you can play as Rebecca Welton, the owner or influencer Keeley Jones fifty dollars each. Yikes. Wanda Sykes will start her Please and Thank You Comedy tour in twenty twenty four to twenty nine dates beginning March first in New Hampshire, going through June five, fifteenth in Kansas City. Short Old watched John Klees’s new show Dinosaur Hour that Arizon GB News. They gave it two and a half stars out of five.

Trotle wrote GB News, Lord Clees with the promise of no editorial interference and Dinosaur Hour the show he could make with all that creative freedom, Well it’s just okay. Episode one was a platform for one of John Clees’s perennial bugbears, his long running campaign against the British press. Trotle wrights Dinosaur Hours certainly does not claim to be comedic, which is a good job given Clees’s opening line as to promise the show won’t focus on trivia like quote the latest transperson’s bicycle accident. John Klees now eighty four years old, hosting Dinosaur Hour. That is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Matthew Perry, Kevin Brennan, Neil Brennan, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, Ryan Styles

What’s in This Episode

• Matthew Perry’s death and tribute
• Kevin Brennan’s controversial tweets about Matthew Perry
• Matthew Perry’s memoir and Friends audition story
• LAX 2194 sci-fi sitcom pilot
• Bill Burr’s Old Dads Netflix special review
• Saturday Night Live episode review

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 Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, quick housekeeping. This is a second episode from Monday, October thirtieth. There was an episode earlier this morning celebrating Monster Mash Monday, so that was all Halloween themed. This morning, I wanted to talk more about Matthew Perry.

That’ll be the first half of the podcast, the second half more normal items, and then starting tomorrow back to the normal schedule and format from TMZ. Kevin Brennan, qualified as a former SNL writer and comedian, decided to tweet drowned in a hot tub ha ha ha ha. TMZ says the tweet wasn’t viewed by very many people. Kevin Brennan only has about fifty nine hundred followers or so, reports TMZ. Brennan also wrote, I do love it when junkies die.

Why stop there? Brennan wrote why is drowning in a hot tub funny? Because it’s not very deep. After TMZ criticized the remark arks, Near Post reports that Kevin defended them, saying I didn’t mock it. I just thought it was funny.

But I do love it when junkies die. Brennan has also asked, am I trending yet? TMZ points out Kevin is the younger brother of Neil Brennan, a Chappelle showriter and comedian in his own right, and TMZ shares that Neil and Kevin had a falling out years ago, and they’re emphatic about that. Even in a second paragraph they wrote it bears repeating Neil is not close to Kevin, and based on interviews Neil has done of late, when he was asked about his relationship with Kevin, you can tell it’s a sensitive topic. Based on this reaction to Perry alone, you’ll see their personalities are very different.

Matthew Perry’s family said, we are heartbroken by the tragic loss of our beloved son and brother. Matthew brought so much joy to the world, both as an actor or friend. You all meant so much to him, and we appreciate the tremendous outpouring of love. CNN recounted the story of Matthew Perry auditioning for Chandler Being In his twenty twenty two memoir, Perry wrote it said that Charlie Sheen was yet again in trouble for something, but I remember thinking, why do care he’s famous? Out of nowhere, I found myself getting on my knees, closing my eyes tightly and praying.

I’d never done this before. He asked, God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous. Three weeks later I got cast in Friends, and God has certainly kept up his side of the bargain. But the Almighty, being the Almighty, had not forgotten the first part of that prayer as well. It was nineteen ninety four.

Perry said he was scrambling for work. He had no money, so I called my agent and said, you’ve got to get me any job, any job you can. This happened to be the year before Friends was shot, but I was off the market because I had taken a job on a pilot called Lax twenty one ninety four that was about baggage handlers at LA Airport in the year twenty one ninety four. I’ve never heard of this. Here’s a clip on YouTube.

Lax twenty one ninety four also stars Ryan Styles. Let’s listen two hundred years into the future. Ryan Styles and Kelly Who are US customs agents in sci fi sitcom Lax twenty one ninety four, styles is a bumbling, insensitive robot. How could you be so heartless? Oh?

Sure, call me heart So it’s just because I’m half organism, half machine and don’t actually have a heart. Okay, that was amazing LAX twenty one to ninety four. Then a script for a show called Friends Like Us came along. Perry said it was HILARIOU said, great, there was this part that was perfect for me, and it was making me crazy. I couldn’t go up for it because of the Baggage Handler’s show.

I was losing my mind. The TV executives who saw Lax twenty ninety four agree that it was horrible, which freed Matthew Perry up. In two thousand and two, Perry told The New York Times, you want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be, meaning the enabling of his although there’s the anecdote. One time Perry had an reaction to an anesthetic which stopped his heart.

A worker in a hospital in Switzerland performed CPR for five full minutes to restore rhythm. Perry wondered if I hadn’t been on friends, would he have stopped at three minutes from GQ. A few months after completing the book, Matthew Perry was scheduled to record the audiobook version. That’s when it struck him that although he had written the book, he had never actually allowed himself to read it from start to finish. As for writing the book, Perry said, I was completely honest.

It just fell out of me. It just fell out on the page. But when he read it, he said, I cried and cried and cried. I went, Oh my god, this person has the worst life imaginable.

And then I realized this is me I’m talking about.

That night, he couldn’t even be in the same room as his words, he said, because I had to go to sleep. I actually took the iPad and put it outside my room because it was too close, too painful. The New York Post reports Matthew Perry Fans flock to Manhattan’s West Village on Sunday to pay tribute to Matthew Perry. The Post tells us a couple from Staten Island laid two bouquets of yellow and gold flowers in honor of Perry. Jamie George told the Post, even when he was struggling, he was making us put a smile on.

If you would like to stream of the various Matthew Perry shows go on which was really good. There’s an episode of TV in the Basement if you want to hear Journey Joe do a recap of that. That is not streaming, you can download it. That’s the one where Matthew Perry played a sportscaster, the Newer Odd Couple. That’s streaming on Paramount Plus.

That’s the one where Matthew Perry teamed with Thomas Lan Perry plays Oscar Madison Lennon Well cast as Felix Hunger. That version was not bad at all and actually ran three seasons. And of course Friends that is streaming on the Max service. Max is honoring Matthew Perry with a tribute card at the start of each season of the sitcom on the streaming platforms. The card reads, in memory of Matthew Perry nineteen sixty nine to twenty twenty three.

I’ll take the break here, we’ll come back and we’ll do some normal items Over the weekend. I put on Bill Burr’s Old Dad’s on Netflix. Holy Cow it is terrible. It’s just it’s unwatchable. So from the get go, there’s opening credits, and I don’t think they even spent money on real music.

And I’ve been doing this for a minute. It’s kind of like library music. So in the industry you’ll have things that are just generic guitar riffs, things that sound like real music but oren’t. And I think the opening credits just somebody went and grabbed guitar rock bed number fourteen and just played it. So it’s cheap off the get go.

The acting is terrible. The acting is so bad. I can’t even judge the writing. Maybe there’s some good writing in there. Bill Burr wonderfully talented, Not sure acting is his thing.

Old Dad’s really really unwatchable. A funny story from my life. I hope it’s funny. Anyway. I was driving on Sunday and all of a sudden it started monsooning, and I saw my neighbors.

They go out for a walk and I saw them. I’m like, do you guys want to ride home? Because it was really really coming down. They were like sure, and they got in my car and I had forgotten. I had been listening back to the Weekly comedy thing.

That’s the show I host on Live one to make sure that everything was okay, and I totally forgot that’s what I was doing. So the neighbors get in the car and I start the car back up, and the radio goes back to playing Mark Norman. So all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you hear so female orgasms. Huh. I was like, Luckily, my neighbor knows what I do for a living, so he probably didn’t think it was too weird, but it was awkward.

Jim Gaffigan tweeted, does anyone else feel the need to call their Jewish friends and say, Okay, you weren’t being paranoid? I also watched Saturday Night Live, strongest episode in at least a year and a half, really really good, the George Washington sketch that makes fun of the metric system and other things really good. I like the song about Lake Beach I thought was strong, and I thought more about mikey Day as Joe Biden. Mikey Day is not good as Joe Biden, and I was like, why would they do that? And it occurred to me, here’s why James Austin Johnson is Trump and a very good Trump.

If we have a Trump versus Biden election, James can’t play both roles, so somebody else has to play Biden. So I assume Louren Michaels is trying to figure that out in front of a potential Trump versus Biden election Mikey Day and not sure he’s the right choice there.

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Speaking of James Austin Johnson, he’s going to be voicing the Grinch in a po…

Johnson said, he’s an icon. I think the Grinch is bigger than all us actors. It’s a little intimidating, but it’s also familiar. It’s something that’s winning us all. Everyone has at a day where you’ve had a couple of iced coffees and you forget to eat breakfast, and you think about one negative thing and it just becomes your entire personality.

James, you feel me, I feel Seen. Entertainment Weekly asked James what’s the secret to the perfect Grinch voice? Johnson said, it’s a mix of a lot of things. With this podcast, you’re hearing the Grinch talk a lot more than you’ve heard him talk in the past, and that’s fun to me tried it up my alley to do characters and get to live in it for a nice length of time instead of just a couple of lines here and there. Time out Rick and Morty, I think Dan Hormon nailed it a few weeks ago.

What I shared with you that it’s one thing to do a line here and there, and it’s another thing to embody the character. And I’m really picking that up on the voice of Rick Sanchez on the new season of Rick and Morty. Although the individual words sound right, the flow isn’t there yet. Back to the Grinch, how is the Grinch as a talk show host? James said, I wouldn’t say Dick Cavitt, but I feel like the Grinch is a fan of the nineteen seventies eir of talk shows.

I think he probably thinks of himself as a Charlie Rose type, and in reality he’s a raving lunatic. He’s not quite as straight lace as that. When he actually starts talking, he goes off in these little rants about all the seasonal stuff that drives him mad. James explained his approach to a Joe Biden impression. He said, with Biden, it’s quiet, and then he whispers jobs family security.

I don’t do a Biden obviously. First it’s a slow rumble, sort of like a storm is gathering, and then that storm breaks and crashes and explodes, and he just starts yelling out of nowhere. There are two speeds. He can me real low and quiet and lull you in. Then he explodes with righteousness.

So going back and forth between those two poles is something that I find fun to do with the character. I found I could bring some of that dynamism into the Grinch too. He has a low, quiet range, and when he’s feeling kind of sassy and chatty, he gets a little bit higher. I definitely felt inspired by all the Grinches. I’m finding layers to the other Grinches and using them to vultron myself into what I consider the ultimate Grinch.

Vultures twenty five comedians You should know, Asha Word, What do you know now about comedy that you didn’t know when he started? She said, I love a one liner. I used to try so hard to make my jokes longer and try to tell stories, but that’s not me. I just want the meat and potatoes of it. I love to c jokes down to the least amount of words possible, so as quick and punchy as possible.

I went to college for comedies. I was constantly being told rules about how you should do it, like joke structure, how you should act on stage, how you should hold the mic, the volume should speak into. And I’ve noticed I tend to stray away from those rules. I do pretty much everything my professor has told me not to do. It’s been working out well.

Worst show ever the back of a super cold bar. Only one guy showed up as the audience. The host of the show didn’t cancel. He made us do the show for one man. He did a fifteen minute host set and the guy didn’t laugh once.

It was surreal. I did a protest set where I told one new joke and asked the guy if you liked it. Then I said to the other comedians, you know, we don’t have to do this right. We can just all get a drink and talk to each other like humans. Nobody was in a good mood.

It was terrible. The guy stayed the whole time, though. I don’t know why comedians are like that, but we’ll do a set and no matter how bad the vibes are, I’m no stranger to a bad show. It’s all good fun. The power went out in the first show I was ever booked on.

I did my set with no mic under the flashlight of an iPhone. What comedy hill will you die on? I hate Instagram stand up. I posted some and probably will again, but I hate it when I go on Instagram. I want to see what my acquaintances are eating for lunch.

I want to see photo dumps. I want to see family guy memes. I don’t want to see stand up and maybe that’s just me. We live in the age of content now, so we have to do something to sell tickets. But I love going on a comedian’s Instagram and seeing them be normal in that issue.

Comedy News for Today for the second time. Back to a normal schedule tomorrow with all the show for free on overcast, pocket casts, Spotify, and if you hate back catalog episodes, Apple Podcast isn’t going to share them with you anyway. See, you probably didn’t even know there was four episodes this weekend because Apple didn’t share them with you. Thanks for nothing, Apple, See tomorrow

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Featured: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright, Jemaine Clement, Rhys Darby, Tim Curry, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Colin Quinn, Kevin James, Shaquille O’Neal, Donald Glover

What’s in This Episode

• Shaun of the Dead (2004) comedy zombie film
• What We Do in the Shadows film and TV series
• Rocky Horror Picture Show theatrical experience with audience participation
• Young Frankenstein (1974) directed by Mel Brooks
• Ghostbusters (1984) origin and script development
• Beetlejuice (1988) and upcoming Beetlejuice 2 sequel
• Hubie Halloween (2020) Adam Sandler Netflix film
• Community TV series Beetlejuice joke running gag

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack and today we’re celebrating Monster mash Monday. What’s that so across the parent company here, the company that I founded at Caloroga Shark Media. On the various podcasts, we’re all celebrating Monster mash Monday. Today, I’m going to talk about Halloween comedy.

If you listen to Palace Intrigue, the show about the Royal family, it’s all about royal ghosts. There’s a new series Romance Weekly. They have a ghost love story for you. We’re of course doing ghost scary Stories daily, thirty one days thirty one Ghost Stories. That’s a series.

Check that out. And on the best song Ever this week. This week’s best song ever is the Monster Mash. So let’s dive in with one of my all time favorites, Sean of the Dead from two thousand and four. Simon Peg stars as Sean, a salesman in London who’s caught in the zombie apocalypse with his best friend Ed played by Nick Frost.

Sean of the Dead was developed from ideas from Peg and Wright used for their TV series Space, particularly episode where Simon Pegg’s slacker character hallucinates a zombie invasion. In Shawn of the Dead, twenty nine year old electronic salesman Sean has no direction in his life. He’s disrespected by his colleagues. He doesn’t get along with his stepfather. He’s dumped by his girlfriend.

He’s heartbroken. He gets drunk with Ed his weed to dealing slacker best friend at their favorite pub, the Winchester. At home, Shawn and Ed’s flatmate Pete, complains of a bite wound from a mugger. By morning, a zombie apocalypse has overwhelmed London. If you’ve never seen Sean of the Dead, treat yourself another one of my favorites, What We Do in the Shadows.

As much as I like the TV series, I loved the movie. I was blown away by this film when I watched it from twenty fourteen. The plot of that movie revolves around vampires living together in a no not Staten Island, but Wellington, New Zealand. Familiar Beats if you’ve seen the TV show, The crew of a documentary follows the lives of four vampire housemates, all of them have supernatural abilities. Jermaine Clement from A Flight of the Concords plays of Vladislav the poker in eight hundred and sixty two year old vampire who’s a former tyrant with extraordinary powers.

Rhys Darby, who you recognize, appears as Anton, the leader of a local pack of were wolves, in one of the wonderful subplots in that movie. Treat yourself to the film Rocky Horror. Right, you’ve all seen Rocky Horror? Yes, maybe you have it from nineteen seventy five, a musical comedy horror film. The story centers on a young, engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near castle.

They want to use their phone for help. You know, pre cell phones, this movie wouldn’t happen now. Right there, they meet strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention. They discover the head of the house is doctor Frank N. Furder, an apparently mad scientist who’s actually an alien transvestite from the planet Transsexual in the Galaxy of Transylvania.

If you watch the film at home, you’ll be like, why did John recommend this? This is so bad? You have to see it in the theater where the crowd, and the crowd participates. That’s the whole hook. Of Rocky Horror.

Some of you are like, yeah, we know, man. But for the people who don’t, this is audience participation. You have to go see with other people. The quintessential Rocky Horror props include rubber gloves, playing cards, newspaper, toast balloons, and toilet paper. Go see it in the theater, You’ll see what I mean.

Young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four, directed by Mel Brooks, co written by Brooks and Gen Wilder. Gene Wilder stars as doctor Frederick Frankenstein. He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist. He doesn’t want to be associated with that doctor Frankenstein guy. He insists his name is pronounced Frankenstein.

Doctor Frankenstein finds out that he has inherited his family’s the state in Transylvania, the ghost To check it out. There, he meets a hunchbacked, bug eyed servant named Igor. He introduces himself as Frankenstein, and then Igor insists that his name is pronounced Igor. From nineteen eighty four ghost Busters, based on his own fascination with spirituality, Dan Ackroyd conceived Ghostbusters as the Projects, starring himself and John Belushi. In that version, they would venture through time and space, battling supernatural threats.

Following Belushi’s death in nineteen eighty two and Akroyd’s concept being deemed financially impractical, Harold Ramis was hired to help rewrite the script to set it in New York City and make it more realistic. An all time classic, several sequels of varying quality. How about Beetlejuice. After Barbara and Adam die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residents. Unable to leave the house, a family named the deets Is moves in.

They want to get rid of them. They team up with Beatle Juice, played by Michael Keaton. Really fun movie. I saw the Broadway musical probably about a year ago. It has since closed.

I saw it right before closing. It was fantastic. There is a national touring version. I highly recommend you go see Beatle Juice the musical. You accounting how many times I’ve said the B word, We’re definitely going to get to three in this episode, so don’t worry about it.

I don’t know what’s going to happen when I say it? Let’s just say it again. There was a sequel in development called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. In that film, the Deets family would have moved to You, Hawaii to develop a resort. Construction begins, and it’s quickly discovered that the hotel would be sitting on top of an ancient burial ground.

Time to call Beetlejuice again. In twenty thirteen, Winona Ryder confirmed that talk about a sequel was swirling around. She told The Daily Beast, I’m kind of sworn as secrecy, but it sounds like it might be happening. It’s twenty seven years later, and I have to say, I love Lyddy eats so much. I’d be really interested in what she’s doing.

Twenty seven years later, they abandon that, but they are currently actually for reels working on Beetlejuice too. I don’t know much about the plot, but Michael Keaton is back, Catherine o’haron, Winona Ryder are back. Jenna Ortiga will be the primary female character in the movie. And who could forget the all time classic, possibly the greatest movie ever made. No, it’s not Citizen Kane.

It’s Adam Sandler’s twenty twenty Halloween classic, Hubie Halloween. You remember this one. Adam Sandler plays Hubee, who most of the town calls Phubee in some highbrow humor of the Adam Sandler quality. Complicating things Hube’s neighbor, played by Steve Buscemi, who may or may not be a werewolf. Sandler hooks up the usual suspects.

Rob Schneider is in this thing, Colin Quinn, Kevin James. For some reason, Shaquille O’Neal makes an appearance. One review I see says, Unfortunately hub Halloween is too long at over ninety minutes, and it suffers from the same pacing issues that plague most of Sandler’s movies. The humor is in time well, and a lot of scenes run on for too long. Same review says hub Halloween is inoffensive in its level of entertainment, although it will likely be forgotten by the time Adam Sandler produces Tommy Thanksgiving.

Don’t give him any ideas on the TV side.

Let’s talk about community.

Who had a wonderful one of my It’s not one of mine. It is my favorite thing in all of community the beetlejuice joke. If you’re not hip to this, let me walk you through this. Season one’s episode Communication Studies, Slater and Jeff are in the parking lot, and rather than use Brita’s real name, Slater pretended to forget it and tried jogging her memory with other b word. It’s like bitter butter beetlejuice.

Okay, that’s one. Nine months later, season two episode called Cooperative Calligraphy, they’re trying to find Annie’s lost purple pen you know that one. To prove their innocence, everybody strips off their clothes. They go down to their underwear. During the search, Britta sees Jeff’s underwear and says that he normally wears stripeye turquoise beetlejuice numbers.

That’s two, and then the payoff season three, Horror Fiction. In seven Spooky Steps, the study group realizes that one member is a secret psychopath after taking a test administered by Britta. They then take turns telling spooky stories to test each other’s reactions. Before the pre Halloween party is ruined. Annie uses Britta’s computer to check her playlist.

She mentions that Britta only has the Beetlejuice soundtrack, and immediately following that line of dialogue, if you look in the back of the scene, someone in a Beetlejuice costume walks directly behind Annie. I caught it at at the time, and I realized what they had done, and I thought it was a maze. And when you see it’s it’s so subtle. They don’t draw any attention to it. If I hadn’t told you this, you might not notice.

But they say Beatle Juice for the third time, and a Beetlejuice walks in the back of the set. It is fantastic. There’s also a possibly darker Halloween thing to community screen. Rant writes Britta’s personal and family history remains a mystery until season three episode twenty two, introduction to Finality. In it, Brita tries to use her newfound therapy skills on Abed, who’s having a hard time dealing with Troy going to work for the air conditioning guys, but quickly evil Abed turns the conversation to Brita’s own traumas.

The episode cuts to a commercial, so we don’t actually hear the conversation, but when we come back from commercial, Britta is talking about a man in her past who is dressed as a dinosaur. The look on her face and the tremble in her voice suggests it’s the fourthest thing from a happy memory. Okay, stay with me. In season two, episode six, Epidemiology, everyone is dressed up for Halloween. Britta is dressed as a dinosaur.

The analysis here is that Britta exhibits other behaviors throughout the show that suggests that she’s not one hundred percent mentally healthy. Screen rent right, so a lot can be implied here, but either way, Britta was traumatized by the man of the dinosaur costume. Way to make this episode fun, Johnny Mac, Hey, I try and keep it varied. There were several community Halloween episodes. Season one, episode seven’s introduction to Statistics Surely goes as Harry Potter.

Britta is a squirrel. Troy as Eddie Murphy. Annie is a skeleton. Annie is hosting a Day of the Dead party. Jeff tries to find a way into a nearby faculty party so he can hook up with Professor Slater.

Season two, episode six, Epidemiology, Jeff dresses as David Beckham. Surely is dressed as a princess. This is the one where Dean Pelton buys food from an army surplus store for the event, but the supposed taco meat is actually a hazardous substance. Partygoers fall ill, exhibiting zombie like behavior, which results in the Army locking down the campus. Very fun episode, all right.

Some other TV shows you may recall The Munsters Fred Gwynn Frankenstein’s Monster Hermann Munster of Onta Carlo as his wife Lily, Grandpa al Lewis as Grandpa Pat Priest as their niece Marilyn, and Butch Patrick as their werewolf son Eddie. They had a family pet, Spot, who was a dragon capable of breathing fire. The Munsters was the satire of the American suburban lifestyle and the typically family entertainment of the era. The Monsters aired on CBS Thursdays at seven thirty pm from September twenty fourth, nineteen sixty four to May twelfth, nineteen sixty six. Seventy episodes canceled due to low ratings brought on by competition from ABC’s Batman.

Also from nineteen sixty four, The Adams Family and I could have included that in the movies, but I like the show a better the movie. The Adams Family an incredibly close family who share a passion for the macabre and possessed supernatural abilities with no given explanation in the show, Gomez and Mortisha are your parents, a wealthy couple with an endless enthusiasm for life. Their children Wednesday and Pugsley you may know Wednesday from current Netflix series. They also live with Uncle Fester and Grandmama. They all live at zero zero zero one Cemetery Lane.

The theme song mentions that their house is a museum and the interior of the house is filled with odd and unique items, many of which are collector’s items. The family has a butler named Lurch and an appendage known as Thing that appears from different objects, such as wooden boxes. Recurring family members include cousin it Ophelia, who’s Mortitia’s elder sister, and Grandma Frump, Mortsh’s mother. And a quick look at various Halloween sketches over the years from Saturday Night Live, including David s Pumpkins a spooky elevator ride. Now, before I get to that, As I was putting the show together, I had typed David S.

Pumpkins into the dock and then went and did some other stuff. And I came back and I was scrolling through the dock, and in a different story, having nothing to do with today’s episode, I saw Paul F. Tompkins, and I went Paul F. Tompkins David S. Pumpkins.

I wonder if they did that on purpose. I never had noticed that before. Is everybody out there now, are you guys? Like? Yeah?

No kidding John? Or did I just put that together? Paul F. Tompkins David S. Pumpkins Anyway.

Tom Hanks plays David S. Pumpkins. He is accompanied by two swaying skeletons played by mikey Day and Bobby moynihan. He’s clothed in pumpkins. He’s a man of few words, yet he’s extremely spirited.

How about Bill Hayter breaking out his Vincent Price impression in celebrating Halloween with Vincent Price. Along with Vincent Price a crow perched on his shoulder. He’s hanging out with his famous friends Glorious Swanson played by Kristin Wigg, James Mason by John Hamm and LIBERACEI by Fred Ormisen, but none of them have anything to contribute to the event or take any notice of Vincent’s festive activities. In season one, Richard Pryor starred in The Exorcist I two. In this version of Exorcist two, Lorraine Newman played a devilish little girl who was riding about in her bed and slabbering as she hurled personal insults at the priests and their mother’s Richard Pryor noted for his facial expressions that demonstrate his horror and confusion.

And back in nineteen seventy seven, Dan Ackroyd broke out the super bats Omadic and Ideal Blunder for all your potion requirements. This was a sequel scout a variation of the classic bass Omatic sketch from the first season, where Akroyd played the part of a salesman promoting the amazing Superbasomatic seventy six blender that allowed people to make the most of fish. You know, you throw them in a blender superbatt Omatic seventy seven and that is monster Mash Monday. Hope you enjoyed it. Go check out Palace Intrigue for some ghost stories about the Royals.

Check out Ghosts for some ghost stories about ghosts. Go check out the best song ever this week, learn all about the Monster Mash, and check out Romance Weekly. You’ll get a little ghost love story there. All right back to ormand tomorrow. Happy Halloween, say yep.

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Featured: Matthew Perry, Nate Bargatze, Jimmy Fallon, Dave Chappelle, Nicole Brown, Lisa Ann Walter, Paget Brewster, Will Ferrell, Gary Krueger

What’s in This Episode

• Matthew Perry’s death at age 54 and legacy
• Matthew Perry’s underrated NBC series Go On
• Nate Bargatze hosts Saturday Night Live
• Jimmy Fallon returning to stand-up comedy
• Matthew Perry’s 1997 SNL hosting appearance with Oasis
• Stand-up comedians as SNL hosts

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. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Matthew Perry passed away on Saturday at age fifty four. Let me do some housekeeping on the feed. This is the second episode dropping on Sunday, October twenty ninth.

There was the normal three five am Eastern episode that discussed Dave Chappelle’s recent concert. Last night, I did an oh bit episode at around eleven pm Eastern, and I also shared an episode of the TV in the Basement podcast that covered Friends through a lens of Matthew Perry’s performance there. Tomorrow morning on this feed will be Monster Mash Monday, a special episode about Halloween stuff, and I may drop in a second episode tomorrow. So that’s the house cleaning. This is kind of sort of a bonus.

I want to talk about Matthew Perry, and I also want to talk about last night’s Saturday Night Live. Matthew Perry, from his own book, wrote, I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I’m still working through it personally. But the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic ordrug comes up to me and says will you help me? I always say yes.

I know how to do that. I would do that for you, even if I can’t always do it for myself. So I do that whenever I can, in groups or one on one, and it created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me and to people who love people like me.

When I die, I know people will talk about friends, friends, friends, and I’m glad of that. Happy. I’ve done some solid work as an actor, as well as giving people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the World Wide Web. But when I die, as far as my so called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people. I know it won’t happen, but it would be nice.

In an interview last year, Matthew Perry said he could not watch Friends because it reminded him of his troubles. Perry said, I haven’t watched the show because I could go drinking opiate’s, drinking cocaine. I could tell season by season by how I looked. That’s why I don’t want to watch it, because that’s what I see. Matthew Perry’s last post on Instagram, made last Monday, was a photograph of him sitting in an outdoor jacouzie at night, with the caption oh so warm, water swirling around you makes you feel so good.

I’m mat Man. Warner Brothers, which produced Friends, shared a statement to The Hollyood Reporter which said, we are devastated by the passing of our dear friend Matthew Perry. Matthew was an incredibly gifted actor and an indelible part of the Warner Brothers TV group family. The impact of his comedic genius was felt around the world, and his legacy will live on in the hearts of so many. This is a heartbreaking day and we send our love to his family, his loved ones, and all of his devoted fans.

In a statement, NBC wrote, we are incredibly saddened by the too soon passing of Matthew Perry. He brought so much joy to hundreds of millions of people around the world with his pitch perfect comedic timing, and Rye writ his legacy will live on through countless generations. Some celebrity reactions I’ll just pick away from some comedic actors event. Nicole Brown, who co starred in the Odd Couple reboot, wrote, our Odd Couple family suffered a great loss today the entire entertainment world has. I am too sad about the news to say more than this.

Matthew Perry was a sweetheart who deserved more peace in this life. Fifty four is to young Ago, We love you, Maddy. Lisa Ann Walter was also on that version of The Odd Couple and wrote, in the Whole nine Yards, Matthew Perry runs full force into a patio door. That and the scene that followed is one of the top comedic moments I’ve witnessed. I told him so, I want to recurred on The Odd Couple.

He smiled so big that I thought he’d crack his face. It was beautiful. Paget Brewster played Kathy on season four Friends and wrote, I’m so very sad to hear about Matthew Perry. He was love leading me on Friends, and every time he saw him in the decades after. Please read his book.

It was his legacy to help. He won’t rest in peace, though he’s ready too busy making everybody laugh up there in the Hollywood Reporter Daniel Feinberg wrote the show that best understood Matthew Perry’s sensibility, and more than that, the essence of what he projected best on screen. May not have been one of his signature’s successes and may not be one of the first half dozen shows that heartbreaking fans look back on as we reflect on Perry. Go On ran for twenty two episodes on NBC between twenty twelve and twenty thirteen, was canceled after the lone season. Go On was, especially for broadcast television, a brave show, and it was definitely a brave performance for him, actor who, after the phenomenon that was Friends, clearly enjoyed testing how far he could take the build an audience whose affection he brought to each new role.

In go On, Perry played a sports talk radio host grieving the death of his wife. Eager to avoid his feelings, the character returns to work too soon, and after a meltdown, begins to find his way to a new normal with the help of his support group. With go On, Perry brought all the sublimated pain and sadness and insecurity that functioned as undercurrents in his previous roles and inverted the archetype, Feinberg writes, in many of his earlier performances, Perry gravitated towards characters who used humor as a defense mechanism, and for the most part, those characters succeeded. Sometimes they succeeded so rousingly that most viewers didn’t even recognize the sarcasm and smark were masking anything at all. Viewers could happily pretend Chandler, being on Friends, was a happy guy, except for the moments he wasn’t Chandler.

He had issues with his parents that would have required a season’s arc on in Treatments Unpacked. He had a job that nobody remembered and that gave him no satisfaction, which clearly paid too well for him to leave. He torpedoed relationships in favor of friendship in a way that was noble but not healthy. He kept going back to Janice, and that couldn’t have spoke well for his sense of self worth. When Chandler found Monica, though she recognized all his flaws and loved them, much to her surprise and much to our relief.

Perry made us believe and embrace all that was flawed about Chandler and made us laugh along with those flaws. In retrospect, it’s because of Perry that we now realized that Chandler was always just a work in progress, and that Ross was the pathologically damaged one. That’s a different column, though. Saturday Night Live featured a special tribute card for Matthew Perry, who hosted the show on October fourth, nineteen ninety seven, with musical guest Oasis. That night, in his monolog he encouraged New York City residents to help recreate the iconic Friends opening Fountain dance.

Some of the sketches that night Sarcasm one oh one, in which Perry schooled a group of students, including Will Ferrell, Cheri, O Terry, and Nor MacDonald on his signature comedic tone. The episode also featured a Friend’s parody in which Matthew Perry played the character of Joey and objected when cast member Colin Quinn played Chandler two effeminately. Take the break here, and then we’ll come back and we’ll talk about last night’s Saturday Night Live with Nate Berghatzy the Buzz on last night’s Saturday Night Live, Very Good EWD to recap, and they had for their recap former cast member Gary Krueger. Remember Gary, Yeah, Gary had some thoughts on a stand up hosting SNL, and Gary said, a stand up is the host that the writers feel most free with. There’s a feeling that there’s no reason to limit what they can do because it’s going to be funny regardless.

Stand ups now how to deliver the joke and so the comedic threat of a sketch is never lost on them. When I was on the show, the best examples were George Carlin and Eddie Murphy. Yeah well, yeah, yes, yes, both transcended easy definitions, but they knew where the joke was no matter what they were doing, and if a sketch was going south, they had the instincts to save it. Don Rickles was another example. Rickles, in one sketch just decided to go off script and the result was hysterical, even for those of us standing in front of the camera.

I proudly recall I did not break character. In the cold open. President Biden, played by mikey Day is hanging Halloween decorations around the Oval office. Biden jokes nothing puts people at ease like an eighty year old man hanging Halloween decorations on a ladder. Snl did some basic Biden is old jokes, including when I was a kid, ladders were cutting edge techno.

This was like an iPad, and then joked, a lot of my closest friends are ghosts. Christopher Walking drop By as the spirit of Halloween, the ghost of all Hallows Past. Onto the monologue, Nate Pergatsey said, I’m as shocked as you are that I’m here. Nate joked that he’s from the nineteen hundreds. I’m forty four.

My daughter’s eleven. When she’s my age, it’ll be twenty fifty seven. I don’t even believe that’s a real year. My movies didn’t go that high in fake years. How am I going to talk to somebody from twenty to fifty seven?

I have more in common with a pilgrim. Nate reveal during the week he got advice from Jerry Seinfeld. Jery’s advice, he talked about the monologue. The monologue, that’s why you’re there, that’s your job. Nate said, I just kind of follow whatever that dude says.

There’s just so much he’s talked about comedy that I do. I don’t wear short sleeves on shirts because he said not to. Nate clarified he didn’t really say not to, but Seinfeld jokes about not wearing short sleeves in the documentary Comedian, and Nate decided, all right, I won’t do it. Gary Kroeger’s analysis. I love Nate Pergatsey the first time I saw him a few years ago.

He is the non comic comic meeting. He’s just telling stories that at least seem real, and how he relates his authentic person owners to the situation as the source of the humor. He’s an every man who is not every man. How he admits his shortcomings is so relatable that you laugh at him even if his jokes aren’t told in a classic set of punchline format. He’s the upper echelon of working stand ups, even though his approach is very different.

It isn’t wildly observational. We’re acutely satirical. He is instead the funniest guy at the barbecue with a hysterical story about what just happened to him. On Weekend Update, Colin Joe said, after weeks of struggling to elect a new Speaker of the House, Republicans gave up and just generated one with Ai. There’s no way Mike Johnson is a real person.

He’s supposed to be a conservative Republican, yet he looks like every MSNBC host combined. I feel like the way Mike Johnson got elected is that after weeks of voting, Republicans got bored and all wrote in the same fake name, and they were like, wait, that’s a real guy. Michael Jay commented on the rocks wax figure Boy Johnny Max gotten three shows out of this topic. Jay said the museum has attempted to darken the statue, but unfortunately it melted in the tanning bed. Christopher walk In introduced the Foo Fighters back in two thousand and three.

I don’t want to go in a half assed walk In here, but he introduced them as Foo Fighters, but he got it right. Last night, Timothy Shallimy was announced as the next host. He will host the November eleventh episode. Musical Guest Boy Genius SNL is off next week. I wonder if Phil replay the Matthew Perry episode.

Jimmy Fallon revealed that he might go back to doing stand up comedy. He did an impromptu set at the Comedy Seller the other night on Friday Nights Tonight’s show. Fallon shared that on Thursday he was hanging out with Mike Birbigley and Chris Rock and they wound up at the Comedy Seller. Fallon share that by Bigley was trying to get Fallon star at comedy again. Fallon said, because I did start my career in stand up.

They decided to swing by the Comedy Seller and watch some comedians. After watching a set from Tina fer Me. If they started to leave, then Chris Rock showed up. Fallon said that Rock had also encouraged him in the past to go on stage of the Comedy Seller. Rock was there to make an unannounced appearance himself and told Fallon, I knew you’d come back.

You have to come back to stand up. Fallon said, I feel like the comedy gods are just telling me, you know, yeah, you should do stand up again. So Chris rockets up, surprises the audience and just he’s unbelievable. And so I went up to give him a bottle of water as a goof and everybody started clapping, and he took the microphone and he handed it to me. I was like, wow, So I did stand up for the first time last night in ten years.

It was unbelievable. I totally remembered it. It was super fun. It was great. I was like, I don’t even know what I was talking about.

He just made me feel so comfortable up there. Fallan talked about how it’s fun to be on stage when a joke lands. I do remember that the room gets hot when you tell a good joke, and then it comes down to a room temperature. I loved it anyway. I got the bug, and I wanted to thank Chris, Thanks Bike, Thank you comedy seller.

I’ll work on an act. I’m gonna work on an act, and I’ll be out there because I want to go around the country. I want to say hide everybody, all the fans, because I love meeting people. It’s gonna be fun. I’ll do it.

So it’s Halloween. Give me a couple months. I’ll work on something. A source said the crowd was in stitches. The New York Post tells us Jimmy Fallon was up to his partying ways last week at a Rolling Stones party.

They have their new album, Hackney Diamonds. By the way, if you like the Rolling Stones, the Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds is a solid Rolling Stones album. The Stones were like, we know what you want, here you go. I like it a lot. Fallon apparently broke out his mix Jagger impression.

A spy tells The New York Post Jimmy stood in front of Mick as he was sitting down and did his impression. It was hilarious. Earlier in the night, The Rolling Stones had played a secret show Fancy people there Daniel Craig, Chris rock, Mary, Kate Olsen, Christy Brinkley, Elvis Costello, Trevor Noah and rocker Tommy London. And that’s your comedy news for this morning. Again, there was the normal episode that came out of three five where I talked about Dave Chappelle and the news of the day.

And tomorrow morning at three oh five you’ll get the Monster Mash episode and I’ll see what the news cycle has if I need to do a second episode tomorrow, otherwise we’ll get back on normal schedule Tuesday morning. You can follow this show for free wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, Spotify overcast podcasts see tomorrow