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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Matt Rife, Tom Segura, Donnell Rawlings, Rick Ingram, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle almost cancels Charlotte show due to wife’s brother’s death
• Dave Chappelle’s controversial jokes about transgender people, LGBTQ community, and other groups
• Dave Chappelle’s commentary on Israel-Hamas conflict and Jewish safety
• Matt Rife discusses avoiding tour burnout on Tom Segura’s podcast
• Advice from Dave Chappelle and Raffi May about not overextending comedy careers
• Netflix free screenings for Adam Sandler’s Leo film

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I’m Choennie Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News. The Charlotte Observer says, Dave Chappelle surprises Charlotte crowd by saying he almost canceled himself. It had nothing to do with Israel or Palestine or the controversial comments he made about the Middle Eastern conflict a week ago in Boston. On Thursday night in Charlotte, Dave said, I almost canceled the show tonight.

Apparently that resulted in audible gasps and murmurs. The explanation was pretty straightforward. Dave said the brother of his wife, Elaine, had died suddenly. Dave said, we were hanging out one night and the next day just dropped dead. She was the one that told me not to cancel my tour.

A man in the audience shouted out, we love your wife. Dave chuckled and said guy in the audience screaming out, we love your wife, before adding an word, you don’t know her. Apparently that instantly lightened of the mood. Dave made some jokes about Asians having slanted eyes. The Charlotte Observer reminds us Dave’s wife is Filipino, jokes about Indians smelling like food, jokes about homeless people, jokes about the ocean gates submersible, jokes about strippers and strip clubs in general, jokes about Jamie Fox using his genitals as a weapon, and quote joke after joke after joke about members of the LGBTQ community, which he’s been at odds with for years.

Unquote, Dave said, I’m done talking about them transgender. I got a whole new angle tonight. I’m doing all handicapped jokes. He then mimicked a made up response to that by a made up person in a wheelchair who would have said, I came here to laugh at transgender people. That led to a roasting of Madison Cawthorne.

That’s the former US representative who was partially paralyzed. Apparently that got some laughs Charlotte observer rights. But for those keeping score from their seats, there were a heck of a lot more jokes about transgender people than they were about disabled persons on Thursday Night, and a whole lot more about gay people and about pronouns. Dave even got a joke about in North Carolina’s bathroom bill, tying it to a reference to a visit he made to quote some bar in Charlotte that was quote doing a whole transgender party. He claimed the lady question Mark at the door wouldn’t let him come in because of the perception that he is anti trans.

Dave said, I was like, can I use the bathroom?

And then smiled and winked at the crowd.

The observer continues and said, I will say the strongest part of his set was this analysis of the Chris Rock and Will Smith slap situation. While a long wind up for joke involving a Russian mobster had a surprisingly lame pyoff, A lot of this show will likely end up on Netflix, as suggested by the fact that the show opened with the Netflix logo displayed on video screens while this streamer’s iconic to dumb sound was piped in over the pa opener. Rick Ingram joked about the Yonder pouches and said, I already knew who the gen Zers were by the panic on their faces. They don’t have their phone right now. They’ve never had to live in the moment, and I see gen xers looking around like this is great.

Nobody can contact me right now? I know that feeling like one of my favorite feelings of the world is flying coast to coast airplane mode on. You can’t reach me for six hours. That’s amazing. Apparently Donnel Rawlings messed up.

He opened with what’s up? Roley. The show was in Charlotte, and he did this over and over. He even called them rally again as he was exiting. But the Charlotte Observer points out his routine was very good, his awareness of his surroundings not so much.

Dave did address Israel Hamas once again and said, as an American, I think we should all make our countrymen who are Jewish feel safe. We should make him feel safe so they don’t feel like they have to support the destruction of another people to be safe, he added, getting married is one of the hardest things people do, and to me, Israel and Palestine are married to one another, whether they like it or not. They’re gonna have to figure that stuff out. My mic just crashed? Is there like a ghost of Dave Chappelle?

Luckily I caught it before I sat here not recording for another fifteen minutes. But the files okay, you hear me right? Yes? Hi? I was about to say it’s a very good review from Charlotte.

They’re a good recap. I keep wondering why Dave Chappelle wants to be the transgender comedian, Like it’s going to make your obituary at this point, Dave, it’s going to be like Dave Chappelle comedian. Chappelle’s show Transgender euro Bit’s going to be Dave Chappelle Half Baked. Chappelle’s show jokes out transgender people, And I’m not sure why you want that to be your legacy. Dave matt Rife was on Tom Sigora’s podcast, actually Tom Sigorn, Berd Chrischer’s podcast right usually not on together, so hence my confusion.

But two beers one Cave. Matt Rife comes across like really thoughtful, really likable, and he’s aware of what your perception might be, like an old man on the basement would be like, oh TikTok comedian, And I really came away loving just what he had to say. One point, he tells Sigora, they started talking about how hot matt Rife is right now, not only on the eyes but his comedy, and Matt said, you can’t say at the top forever is another thing we were all talking about off air. Raffie May always said that to me all the time. He used to say, and he used to reference Dean Cook.

He used to say, you can’t live on the mountaintop forever. Eventually you have to go down. That’s why you have to be nice to everybody you meet on the way up. That’s why you have to be grateful for all the experiences you have on the way up and try to enjoy it, because, yeah, that moment’s only for a window. It’s a window forever.

I’ve been so lucky to get so much good advice, Like I was with Dave Chappelle at his summer camp. We turned them out my tour and he said, remember pigs get slaughtered. He said, you don’t have to do everything all right now, he says, if this is going to be your longevity, you have to take care of yourself and do it when you need it. If you can do twenty theater shows, you can do twenty six months from now. You can do ten now, ten six months from now.

But none of us want to hear that. I was the same way. Everybody do the same thing. Here’s how bad it was. I was saying, that to other people.

I was like, man, you pigs will get slaughtered, and then I’d sign up for the opposite. The offers come to you, they’re like, how about Thursday, Friday, Saturday, like Nashville, Charlotte Rawley. And you’re like, yeah, that sounds like a good week, and they go, you know, Wednesday. Greensboro’s got a small arena right down the streets right there. You want to do Wednesday?

And you go yeah. Netflix is offering free screenings on selected area screens for the new Adam Sandler masterpiece Leo. Screenings will be held the weekend of November eleventh through twelfth at select Cinemak Tinseltown theaters. Check out leosneakpeak dot com. In Leo, Adam Sandler plays a seven four year old lizard who’s a class pat and has been around for decades, witnessing more running noses than he can remember.

He learns he has a year left to live, and he plots to escape. Tomorrow is Monster Mash Monday. All the podcasts here at Caloroga Shark Media. That’s my big fancy company. We’re doing a little crossover events, so tomorrow will be all Halloween themed stuff, but John Tomorrow’s only the thirtieth.

Yeah, I get it. You gotta let this stuff breathe a little. You can’t just put it out Halloween morning. Then it comes and goes this week on The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app.

The app is free, The show is free. The app is called Live one. The show is called The Weekly Comedy Thing on that I do some new stories a lot of overlap with this one, but I tell them a lot more quickly and succinctly, so you get less me and more comedy because over there I can actually play the comedians. So this week on the show, Ron White Hasan Minhaj. You probably know what I’m talking about there, Pete Holmes being thankful to Bill Burr.

Some Halloween comedy from Robbie Slowick and John Pine.

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The Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. The show officially comes out on Monday, but I’ll tell you guys. I publish it at like seven am on Sunday because I’m always up, and then I hop in the car and I do my National Donuts Shane, you know what I do, and I listen to the show to see if there are any mistakes. But it officially comes out on Monday, but if you listen on a Sunday, it’s usually there. Pitchfork talked to John Mulini about what music if he was listening to at what age.

At age thirty five, m’lanie was listening to Weather Reports Birdland. Interesting. M’laney said, I did the Comeback Kid tour and filmed a special that came out in twenty fifteen. We immediately went into the off Broadway run of Oh Hello, took that on tour from September to January the next year that went from Hillary’s Gonna Win to the inauguration. As the house lights would go down on Oh Hello, Birdland by weather Report would play, Nick Carl and I would be waiting backstage.

We would listen to Birdland and make up lyrics to it and character about George and Gill, thinking of every illegal possibility to get into Shayse stadium to meet the Mets. Some of the lyrics. You can meet the Mets if you want. You just have to get a custodian uniform or I have a fake police badge to meet the Mets. That wanting to meet all the Mets was once their dream.

Some comedians we’re talking about doing comedy in Russia these days. Von gar Kushko said on the whole you can joke about any topic. The important thing is how so it’s not to hurt anyone’s feelings or create conflicts in the room because there are very polar opinions and it’s not worth touching on painful subjects. You need to self edit, not wait for editing and censorship from someone higher up. You have to feel where this line is for yourself and understand what’s allowed and what’s not.

Boris Zeliger says a politically risky joke usually doesn’t even get a laugh, but causes a reaction like whoa you? Daredevil? Olioveitchkin said, for example, you’ll be performing and there’s some guy in the audience who just returned from the war and lost his marbles, and he interferes with the performance and shouts out. You often get that from those people and you get into some kind of discussion with him, you try to make a joke from the stage and have a laughs that calms down, and this can trigger him and cause problems for you. You could get punched in the face without telling a single political joke.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If all the show on podcasts or overcast or Spotify, or if you hate back catalogs, Apple podcasts, they made a tweak and it’s got Johnny Mac a little frosted. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Matthew Perry, River Phoenix, Jon Favreau

What’s in This Episode

• Matthew Perry death at age 54
• Matthew Perry’s Friends legacy and Chandler Bing character
• Matthew Perry’s substance abuse and addiction struggles
• Matthew Perry’s 2022 autobiography Friends Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
• Matthew Perry’s post-Friends career including Studio Sixty and The Odd Couple reboot
• Matthew Perry’s 2018 colon rupture hospitalization

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Caloroga Shark Media. Media law enforcement sources reported on Saturday that Matthew Perry has passed away after being discovered in a hot tub at his residence in Los Angeles. Further report, at around four pm, officials were called to Matthew Perry’s residence where he was found to be lifeless. Those who were present on the scene requested to remain anonymous due to the ongoing inquiry and did not provide a definite cause of death. There was no indication of wrongdoing.

Perry was born in nineteen sixty nine. His parents divorced when he was a year old. He lived between Montreal and Los Angeles. Beginning his career as a child actor, he had guest appearances on shows such as Charles in Charge in Beverly Hills nine O two one zero, and co starred with River Phoenix in the movie A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. He ultimately got his big career opportunity when he’s given a role in a show called Friends Like Us, a sitcom about six unmarried adults living in New York City.

The show made its debut on NBC in ninety ninety four and was eventually renamed Friends, The good looking chandler Bing had a unique way of speaking with a witty spin that made him stand out among the rest of the cast. His turning of phrases was so popular that could he be any more chandler? Matthew Perry did have his struggles. In his twenty twenty two autobiography Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry recounted a struggles with substance abuse and addiction to alcohol and opioids. These issues resulted in multiple trips to rehabit a five month long stay in the hospital in twenty eighteen due to a colon rupture that initially gave him just a two percent chance of survival.

During the Friends Reunion special in twenty twenty one, Perry opened up about the pressure he experienced to land the joke in front of a live audience every night, and he believes that contributed to his addictions. After Friends, Perry starred in Studio sixty on the Sunset Strip, a very underrated show I should cover some time. He also starred in the reboot of The Odd Couple. Matthew Perry spoke to the Los Angeles Times in April and said he wanted his legacy to be more than just his work. When asked about how he wanted to be remembered, he responded by saying that I live life to the fullest, demonstrated love, lived well, and aided others.

I want people to feel that running into me was a good thing and not something bad. Variety wrote, Friends would have been Friends without Matthew Perry acting admits a murderer’s row of comedy performers. Perry was the cast tactician, figuring out precisely where the final beat of each scene fell. Paired with Mountain Blanc’s Joey’s roommates. In the show’s early going, Perry found new angles on the platonic bro friendship, making it clear that this was, for the time being, the most important relationship in both guys’ lives.

Friends will always be alternately funny and heartwarming to the many millions on its wavelength. The struggles that Perry went through in order to perform a character whose jockeying whit overlay’s clear sadness seems now all the more apparent. Matthew Perry was fifty four

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Featured: Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Journey Joe Mitchell

What’s in This Episode

• Matthew Perry’s death at age 54
• Friends TV series overview and cultural impact
• Matthew Perry’s role as Chandler Bing and comedic contributions
• Matthew Perry’s struggles with addiction and recovery
• Friends series finale viewership and legacy
• HBO Max Friends streaming deal

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Matthew Perry passed away on Saturday at age fifty four. The next episode in this feed, we’ll cover the Matthew Perry story. What I want to do here is share with you our sister show. It’s called TV in the Basement, and they have an episode about Friends, specifically focusing on Matthew Perry. Here’s Journey Joe Mitchell and TV in the Basement.

Today we’re going down memory lane with one of the greatest TV shows ever. Friends. We’re spotlighting Matthew Perry, and later I’ll give you the rundown of some of the best episodes, complete with recaps you’ll love. So grab your Coffee Central Perk style and let’s get into it. Friends first premiered in nineteen ninety four and quickly became a cultural phenomenon.

The show followed the lives of six friends Rachel Green played by Jennifer Aniston, Monica Geller played by Courtney Cox, Phoebe Buffet played by Lisa Kudrou, Joey Tribiani played by Matt LeBlanc Chandler Bing played by Matthew Perry, Ross Geller played by David Swimmer. The legendary Matthew Perry was born in nineteen sixty nine in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Perry moved to Los Angeles at a young age. Before Friends, he had several TV appearances, but nothing that stuck long term. Then came Friends in Chandler Bing, a sarcastic, witty, somewhat awkward, but endearing character that Matthew Perry breathed life into.

And here’s something you might not know. Perry was so in sync with Chandler that he often suggested lines and scenarios for the character. He contributed to shaping Chandler into the iconic figure we know in Love today. It’s safe to say Chandler Bing wouldn’t have been the same without Matthew Perry’s unique touch. It is impossible to imagine the series without the performance of Matthew Perry.

As the years went by, American culture would not have been the same without him. The actor known for providing the beloved show with a necessary dose of sarcasm, had made a point to spread awareness of his sobriety in recent years, and even opened a sober living house to help others with addiction. His death at fifty four came as a surprise, since it seemed like Perry had so much more to do in life. In his twenty twenty two autobiography, Friend’s Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing, Perry recounted his struggles with substance abuse and addiction to alcohol and opioids. These issues resulted in multiple trips to rehab and a five month long stay in the hospital in twenty eighteen due to a colon rupture that initially gave him a two percent chance of survival.

During the Friends Reunion special in twenty twenty one, Perry opened up about the pressure he experienced to land the joke in front of a live audience every night, which he believes contributed to his addictions. In April, Perry spoke with The Los Angeles Times regarding Big Terrible Thing. At the Festival of Books. He stated, I was determined to become famous. I was twenty five, still in the beginning of Friends, and I started to realize that the American dream was not enough to make me content.

I wanted more attention and fame, but it did not give me what I expected. The on screen romance between Ross and Rachel was the driving force of this classic show, but it was Chandler Bing played by Matthew Perry, who provided the comedic relief. He expertly maneuvered his scenes, especially when paired with Matt LeBlanc’s character Joey. Perry’s comedic chops were most evident in the nineteen ninety nine episode The One where Everybody Finds Out, which is cited to be one of the best sitcom episodes of that era. His dedication to the complex scheme of trying to prove he wasn’t in love with Monica Courtney Cox made it a memorable one.

Chandler, as he was expected to, becomes overwhelmed. He goes to great lengths to deliver the joke, and the chemistry between Perry and Cox was a comedic blessing. However, he ultimately fails to deceive. There was one thing Perry as Chandler was incapable of doing, and that is deceitfulness. His piercing wit, implemented by a talented actor, is simply an amusing observation of his companions.

If it were too severe, it would have destroyed the show, and if it was too light, it would have not been effective. No matter the quality of the script or the personal challenges he faced, Perry continuously delivered as an actor. The show’s many fans moved by its blend of comedy and emotion, will now have an even greater appreciation for the effort Perry put into playing a character who hides a deep sadness behind his humorous banter throughout his lengthy career, which included movies such as Fools, Rush In and The Whole Nine Yards, as well as TV shows such as Studio sixty on the Sunset Strip and the twenty fifteen reboot of The Odd Couple. Nothing made quite the same impact as Friends. Friends was created by David Crane and Marta Kaufman, who were looking to develop a show that would encapsulate the essence of life in your twenties, a time characterized by friendships and the search for identity and success.

The series was produced by Kevin sp Bright, Marta Kaufman, and David Crane under their production company Bright Slash, Kaufman Slash Crane Productions, in association with Warner Brothers Television. After Crane and Kaufman pitched the concept, the show was picked up and first premiered on NBC on September twenty second, nineteen ninety four. Initially The show was supposed to focus more on the four characters of Ross, Rachel, Monica, and Joey, but as the writers spent more time fleshing out the characters, they realized the ensemble nature of the cast was where the magic really happened. Thus, Chandler and Phoebe were given more significant roles, making it a true ensemble cast. Casting for the show was a meticulous process, aiming for actors who could not only perform, but also had great chemistry with each other.

Jennifer Aniston almost didn’t make it due to prior commitments to another TV show, which thankfully got canceled. Courtney Cox was originally approached to play Rachel, but felt a deeper connection with the character of Monica. Matthew Perry was almost unable to participate due to another pilot he was part of, but fate intervened and the role of Chandler became his defining career moment. David Schwimmer was the first person cast, and his role was actually written with him in mind. The show initially received mixed reviews, but quickly gained traction through word of mouth and the undeniable chemistry between its cast.

By its second season, it had climbed into the top five of the Nielsen ratings. Over its ten year run, Friends garnered numerous awards, including Emmys, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. The series finale, which aired on May sixth, two thousand and four, was watched by around fifty two point five million American viewers, making it the fifth most watched series finale in television history. Friends has since become a cultural phenomenon, living on through reruns, streaming platforms, and a plethora of merchandise. The central Perk set has been recreated for fans to visit, and quotes from the show have permeated everyday language.

We were on a break. The show not only set the bar for future sitcoms, but also influenced popular culture in significant ways. The characters became household names and the actors achieved international stardom. Hairstyles like the Rachel became a nineties sensation, and catchphrases from the show are still quoted today. Beyond that, the show broke ground by discussing previously taboo topics on primetime TV, Although it has also received criticism for a lack of diversity and some dated humor.

Even almost two decades after the series finale, the show’s influence hasn’t waned. In twenty twenty, HBO Max acquired the rights for streaming Friends, reportedly paying around four hundred twenty five million dollars for a five year deal. The streaming service also released a reunion special in twenty twenty one, which was met with widespread acclaim in nostalgia, proving that the love for Friends endoers. Here are some episodes of Friends that are not just iconic, but define what made the series so great. The one where everybody finds out.

Oh boy, This one’s a roller coaster. It starts with Phoebe discovering Monica and Chandler’s relationship through a window. The tension and the comedic timing are top notch. It’s the episode where secrecy takes center stage and the laughs are unstoppable. The last one, the tear jerker that brought a decade long show to a close.

Saying goodbye is never easy, and this episode reminds us of that. From Ross chasing after Rachel to the group leaving their keys on the counter, It’s a heartfelt farewell. The one where no one’s ready talk about stress, Ross needs everyone to get ready for an event, but it turns into a hilarious series of distractions. Chandler and Joey’s fight over a chair classic, the one with all the poker, The Gang teaching Rachel poker, and the underlying competitiveness between Ross and Rachel make this episode unforgettable. It’s also where the gang dynamics really start to shine through.

Friends isn’t just a show, It’s an emotion, a part of our collective history. And let’s give another round of applause for Matthew Perry. Chandler Bing will forever be one of the most iconic characters in television history, and that’s in large part thanks to him. Until next time, I’m Journey Joe Mitchell

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Featured: John Mulaney, Pete Davidson, Dave Chappelle, Hasan Minhaj, Nate Bergatzy, Kenan Thompson, Deion Sanders, Sam Morrell, Rob Riggle

What’s in This Episode

• Mulaney and Davidson postpone Maine shows after Lewiston mass shooting
• Dave Chappelle’s Wednesday show addresses Israel-Palestine conflict and Jewish audience
• Hasan Minhaj controversy and debate over holding comedians accountable
• Saturday Night Live with Nate Bergatzy hosts, Foo Fighters musical guest
• Kenan Thompson’s Deion Sanders impression receives Sanders’ approval
• Sam Morrell discusses Netflix special success and challenges of touring comedy
• Rob Riggle as potential candidate to host The Daily Show

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with another busy Daily Comedy News. John mullane and Pete Davidson have postponed two shows in Maine following Wednesday’s mass shooting. In a statement, mullaney said, we are devastated by the events in Lewiston. Show scheduled for this weekend on Saturday and Sunday have been postponed.

We are thinking of you all. He signed the message from himself and Pete Davidson. Jason Zinneman writes for The New York Times He’s a must follow if you’re into comedy. He was writing about Chappelle’s follow up show on Wednesday, which Jason says was much the work of a diplomat as a provocateur, telling the audience to pray for both Israelis and Palestinians and calling the situation for both a nightmare. At one point, Dave addressed American Jews, saying whatever they can do to take the violence or the danger out of a situation, they should do it, and then added, I’m not about anti Semitism, but I’m allowed to disagree with whoever I want to.

I had mentioned that there was a possible medical issue. The other night, apparently Dave joked you know what he’ll say in the paper tomorrow, Dave Chappelle makes fun of man as he dies in Raleigh. He tell the crowd he would do a dangerous joke, as quoted here in the Times, the joke to Jews walk into a bar. I’d say the punchline, but there might be a transgender person here. Dave smiled as if he knew how corny this sounded.

Love more on Chappelle tomorrow. Wbe Z writes the voice of Hasan Minhaj is still vital and not worth canceling. They write, Minhaj’s exaggerations hurt so much because we put him on a moral pedestal for non Desi people. He was one of the few places to hear candid stories of Desi pain, and for Desi people, he was one of the few on such a public stage, so he had to be perfect. But that pressure’s unfair for generations to come.

Let Minhaj be an empowering opportunity to question the ways we let white media control our narratives and where we place our blame. Let him be a chance to grapple with nuanced disappointment. How do we hold our celebrities accountable in a world where we don’t have the power to hold white celebrities of the same standard without piling into discrimination. Maybe the Daily Show has entered an area where it requires a pseudo journalist at the helm, and Minhaj has already lost America’s trust, But don’t let his career in there. If it weren’t for him, I’m not sure I would have had the guts to apply to journalism school and wear my stories on my sleeve.

And that’s the legacy that I won’t let be erased. On the international front. The Sydney Morning Harold talk to Australian Sri Lankan comedian and actor Sirin Jane Man, who said, I don’t think Minhaj was embellishing for comedic effect. I think he was embellishing to push emotional buttons. If you’re going to speak on behalf of a group of people and you want that emotional truth to connect with mainstream audiences, you’ve got to be aware of how quickly that can come undone.

If you get called out for lying, then all of a sudden, you’ve delegitimized those emotional truths for everyone else. The punchline can take the story in an absurd way for comedic effect, but the purpose of the comedy should be to highlight the underlying truth. Boy, I got to record three podcasts today and I am already dry mouth. Here is an iced coffee. You don’t what to do?

Buy me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News should be a good Saturday Night Live Tonight. Nate Berghatzy is your host. Foo Fighters the musical guest. It’s not gonna get much better than that. In a new promo, featured player Marcelo Hernandez steps in when they’re promoting the Foo Fighters, and Marcelo says, or should we say boo Fighters?

Dave Girl goes what Hernandez says, because it’s Halloween, you know, like boo Fighters? Girl says, you know what, that’s the best idea I’ve ever heard. In another promo, Hernandez starts making comments in Spanish and Nate Bergatzy cuts them off and goes, sorry, man, that was last week. The joke there when Bad Bunny hosted last week.

Speaking of SNL, last week, Keenan Thompson did a Dion Sanders impression Dio…

I love him, I love what he’s brought to comedy over it’s got to be a couple of decades, it seems so. I had the pleasure and honored to host Saturday Night Live before, and I would never forget those moments. But as for the impression, yeah, it was good. Sam Morrell talked to the Pittsburgh News and they were like, hey, your Netflix special Same Time Tomorrow has brought you to new heights of prominence in the stand up world. How has your life changed?

In answer from Sam, he said, in terms of preparation, it hasn’t really changed, except that I have less time to focus on stand up, which is really my bread and butter. That’s tough. When I was a younger comic, I could just work on jokes all day, but now it’s podcasts. It just seems like I always have a full schedule, which is kind of good. It’s nice to be busy, but stand up requires a lot of attention and you can tell when people take their foot off the gas.

The big reason I do the road so hard is it forces me to come up with new stuff. It forces me to do the material until I’m sick of it and have to throw new stuff in the road. Will force me to get stuff done because you don’t want to waste those opportunities, which is honestly how I used to approach it as a young comedian, when I used to hand out flyers in the street in exchange for stage time. So stage time I never take for granted. I try to view it as valuable as it is.

We did the Chicago Theater, which is a pretty huge venue, so that was special. Toronto’s another huge one. New York coming up is pretty huge. It’s pretty thrilling to see that many of your people come out and hopefully leave happy. The challenges are the scheduling, not sleeping in your own bed.

Sometimes the lack of sleep is very difficult. I love the road. I love doing it, but you do miss home. So you get home and you’re like, man, I miss the road. Oh.

You have a routine that keeps you healthy, but on the road, it’s just kind of hard to maintain that. You try to eat healthy, but it’s the road, right. Even if we order at a nice restaurant, we’re going to get some crap, We’re going to get some dessert or something. Alcohol’s right there. It’s a challenge to stay healthy.

So we try to exercise every day, not just for our bodies, but for our minds to reset everything. You know, Vulture may have accidentally solved The Daily Show’s problem, and I hope someone is paying attention. They talked to and here’s a good choice to take over the show. You’re ready. They talked to Rob Riggle.

They asked him how he got his correspondence gig way back when on The Daily Show, and he said, I auditioned like most people, and it was a process. I thought I blew it. To be honest with you, it was very fortunate that I got the offer, but they only did it like six months at a time, Like you got the job, but it’s only six months, and I just moved out of New York to LA I couldn’t move everybody back. I had to come out here, get a studio apartment off Craigs Listen. At the end of the six months, they said, good job, you get another six and I was like, I still can’t move my family out here.

That was the only thing that frustrated me about it. I wish they would have just said you’re here, but that’s the way it worked for everybody at that time. But I was grateful to John the writers, the producer is my fellow correspondence. I was really kind of green. That show allowed me to grow to myself a little bit and discover more about the business of comedy.

I’ve crossed paths with Wriggles several times. Very cool guy. I remember one time he showed up to be a guest on the Wrought Dog Comedy channel at Serious XM, and the host had called in sick, and we were like, do you want to just guest host? And Wriggle jumped on the air and hosted the show on the fly, and he crushed it. Wrigl says, this is the business.

All you can do is get a gig, do the best you can at it, and hope it leads to another gig. Life is a series of gigs, a series of jobs. Even if you’re on Modern Family, which runs for ten seasons and it’s one of the greatest shows great and end someday, and you don’t want your career to en so you have to find another job. You’re always going to be looking for another job. The big question, would you ever consider returning to the Daily Show?

Is the new permanent host? Rob Wriggle said in a heartbeat. Obviously it’s one of those things where I’ve no say, but it would be an honor. Yeah. I think Wriggle’d be a really good choice for that one.

Consider that Comedy Central and they asked Wriggle and he gut checks on who they might be considering. Wriggle said, I don’t know. I did enjoy watching everybody they brought in for like a week. Want of Sikes nailed it. In my opinion, they’ll choose right, and I hope they choose well.

I want the Daily Show to be another institution like SNL. Pitch four Kad talked to John Mulaney about what music he was listening to at what age and at age thirty. Malanie said he was listening to Koputz by Destroyer. I don’t even know what that is. You guys can yell old man at your phone.

I don’t know what it is. It’s okay. Mlanie explains. SNL became my complete identity, this all consuming thing that I loved, and I loved that it was all consuming I loved working thirty six hours in a row. I love going to the office on Sundays to get a head start on Monday’s pitch meeting.

I loved working late Monday night and staying up all night Tuesday. I just loved being immersed in it. I had a couple specials come out, I got a couple offers to hosts to show my own in different formats. I thought I felt full burnout, but I wish I’d stayed one more year at SNL because I think I needed a rest not to leave. I was very nervous about leaving that orbit because it’s a fun orbit to be in.

The show is in the news every week. It just feels very immediate and relevant. I know I was going to leave. And that was around the first time I heard kop Putz. I was in the back of thirty Rock near the ice Rank at night, way to go some function as a staff.

We might have been at Suxedo’s. I was listening to Kobut and I heard that line chasing cocaine through the back rooms of the world, and I remember thinking to myself, Wow, can you believe we used to do cocaine?

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I’ve always been a pretty cochy person. Netflix announced their newest stand up series. It’s called Verified stand Up at a premiere November twenty eighth, So that’s probably Thanksgiving weekend, ish right, A new series Ten of the best stand up comedians in the game? Who Are They Asifa Lee, Jill s Sloan, Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi, who I Love Check came out, Isaiah Kelly, Lisa Lao, Nimesh Patel, Robbie Hoffman, Rosebud Baker, Sabrino Wu and Vanessa and Zalez. I feel like Rosebud’s a little more known than the rest of that group, but maybe I’m wrong.

Same thing about Nimesh. November twenty eighth on Netflix. Kitty Lang is stepping down as the head of Comedy at United Agents Tell the Other Day about her comments. The agency, in a statement said, following the statements made earlier this week, it has been agreed that Kitty Lang will step away from her leadership roles as head of Comedy and as a member of the executive Committee of United Agents. She’ll stay on as an agent.

The three twelve or three one two Comedy Festival in Chicago continues, great lineup. Worst website ever. Why do you say that, Johnny Mac, Because they don’t have a calendar. They just have like random shows. I guess by alphabetical order.

That’s not a way anyone consumes anything, guys. So I have to do some math here. Right today is the twenty eighth. Let me scroll around and see if I could find a show on the twenty eighth. While I babble see what I’m saying here other comedy festivals.

I just go to the thing and I click it. You know what, there is no show tonight this thing, guys, come on. So they’ve been promoting this thing as starting from the twenty seventh through the like fifth or sixth. Yes, there was a show last night. The next show isn’t until the third.

I could edit all this out. I’m not going to varieties. Twenty five comedians you should know or watch or check it out or whatever it is. August White as a tip for comedians, which is do not suck your teeth before the punchline. When you’re just starting out, you can develop these little habits to keep the rhythm of the delivery of the joke.

And one super common one we have as Young Comics is on making a little sound before the punchline, like sucking your teeth or clicking your tongue. Whenever I can beat the instinct to do that, I always feel like the joke gets better. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best comedy advice was write your jokes by hand. It helps the brain slow down and allows you to pick up on things about the joke that you haven’t noticed.

Worst comedy advice, she says, not to pursue comedy. I’m glad I didn’t listen, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, overcast, pocket casts, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Hasan Minhaj, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Mike Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Hasan Minhaj responds to New Yorker fact-checking article with 20-minute video statement
• New Yorker magazine defends their investigation into Minhaj’s embellished stories
• Hasan Minhaj admits to artistic embellishment in stand-up specials
• Dave Chappelle addresses Boston concert controversy over Palestine remarks
• Late night hosts joke about new House Speaker Mike Johnson

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then I’ll let you in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Stephen Colbert, John Stewart, Matt Rife, Pete Holmes, Shane Gillis, Todd Barry, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Night of Too Many Stars Comedy Concert December 11 at Beacon Theater
• Stand Up for Free Speech event November 6 at Gotham comedy club
• Matt Rife’s Netflix special Natural Selection release date November 15
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 14 crowdfunding campaign
• Pete Holmes special ‘I Am Not For Everyone’ review and ranking
• Johnny Mac’s Top 19 Comedy Specials of 2023 list
• John Mulaney Pitchfork interview about Jay-Z’s ‘American Gangster’ album and SNL audition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Jesus Nice, Ron White, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Pete Holmes, Whitney Cummings, Dane Cook, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Jesus Nice fills in at The Daily Show desk with mixed results from writers
• Ron White announces un-retirement with December and January tour dates
• Audience member disputes Dave Chappelle Gaza comments story with alternative account
• Bill Burr’s Old Dads film receives 17% critics score but 90% audience approval on Rotten Tomatoes
• Whitney Cummings releases sixth special exclusively on OnlyFans on November 15th
• Pete Holmes’ Netflix special produced by Bill Burr after 19 years
• Dane Cook pitches his comedy special to AMC Theaters CEO on Twitter

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

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

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

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

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

One more.

Also props to Brittany Mahomes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And now I’m going about the day.

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Nate Bargatze, Gary Gulman, Snoop Dogg, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Stephen Colbert, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Boston concert walkout over Israel-Hamas comments
• Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan San Francisco arena shows November 2-3
• Nate Bargatze hosting Saturday Night Live
• Gary Gulman performs at Fitzgerald Theater in Minneapolis
• Jimmy Kimmel Bowl replaced with LA Bowl hosted by Rob Gronkowski
• Snoop Dogg’s 52nd birthday celebration with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly
• Stephen Colbert’s celebrity contact code names revealed to John Mulaney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Hasan Minhaj, Jon Stewart, Roy Wood Jr., Sarah Silverman, John Oliver, Greg Daniels, Adam Sandler, John Mulaney, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Hasan Minhaj OUT as Daily Show host due to New Yorker controversy
• Jon Stewart’s Apple show canceled over creative disagreements
• Johnny Mac’s proposal for Jon Stewart to return to Daily Show for one year
• The Office reboot not happening anytime soon according to Greg Daniels
• Adam Sandler praised for helping medical emergency fan at concert
• John Mulaney discusses Led Zeppelin music from childhood
• Bill Burr’s Netflix film Old Dads receives negative review from Exclaim

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And now it’s time for awkward segue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: George Carlin, Roy Wood Jr., Trevor Noah, Stavros Halkias

What’s in This Episode

• George Carlin’s 1988 career and accusations of selling out with Fujifilm commercials
• Roy Wood Jr. leaving The Daily Show and exploring new opportunities
• Late night TV diversity issues and lack of non-white male hosts
• Stavros Halkias’s Baltimore Ravens character Ronnie and sold-out Fat Rascal tour

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also, I’m curious about Sip and Bite.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So I got off stage.

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All right, let’s go on Ravens line.

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