Author: johnnymacdcn

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, Gab Iglesias, Joe Koy, Taylor Tomlinson, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Billy Connolly, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

What’s in This Episode

• Late night shows return after writers strike with opening monologue jokes
• Trevor Noah backlash over India venue comments on social media
• Gabriel Iglesias nominated for International Emmy Award for Netflix special
• Golden Globes introduces new category for best stand-up comedy performance
• Bert Kreischer suits up as goalie for Anaheim Ducks promotional video
• Chase Thompson barber builds career traveling with Tom Segura on tour
• Monty Python’s lost ‘Complete and Utter History of Britain’ episodes rediscovered in ITV archives
• Billy Connolly praises Black comedians in their fifties and sixties for honest material

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night was back, Baby, and they had some good jokes about their absence. Jimmy Kimmel said, we’ve been gone so long. The Bachelor’s now a grandfather.

That is a great joke. Fallon. The stalemate finally ended when the studios realized we’ve got to end this now, where it’s another three months of watching suits fallon again. It’s kind of weird coming back after being gone for five months. The studio was empty for so long.

NBC converted it to a spirit Halloween. Seth Meyers said he missed his writers so much. I was so happy, so happy to see them in this morning, although by lunch I was a little over it. Jimmy Fallon again. I was more excited than the guy seeing Beetlejuice with Lauren Bobert.

Think about it, Fallon Again. Yea, everybody’s excited today. My dad called up and said, finally I can watch Kimmel again. Seth Meyers thanked his family, noting it was not easy to have me around for five months. I’ll never forget the day this summer my seven year old came up to me and said, not only do I not care what Rudy Giuliani did today, I’m not going to care what he does tomorrow.

While I hear that, I do think he missing out, all right, Trevor Noah. This whole India thing is just wonderful. I mean, I love when there’s a story that comes out of nowhere and I get so much content out of it. I told you yesterday Trevor’s comments about how poorer he felt the venue was for his canceled shows. Didn’t phrase that correctly.

You know what I meant. Well. People on social media are now upset with Trevor Noah. Some on Twitter called him overrated, while another question him for insulting the city, saying, don’t laugh, you idiots. He’ll go back to where he came from.

Do the same to your city as well. Another shared some laugh at this attempt at crass humor. Noah’s overrated. Those mouth sounds are amateur. Give me Vierdas any day you tell him.

Speaking of Vierdas, he has been nominated for an International Emmy Award. I didn’t know that was the thing. The International Emmy Award any Comedy category. This for his last Netflix special Landing landing was a response to the Two India’s controversy that Vierdas was caught in. I wonder if people were upset about him.

More Awards news. I had mentioned to you that the Golden Globe Awards have introduced a category for best stand up Comedy performance. That’s good for me, more content for me. Some comedians weighed in. Gab Iglesia said we should just call it the Ricky Gervaise.

Joe Koy took this all so seriously and said he’s thrilled that the Golden Globes were acknowledging contributions of my fellow comedians in the world of stand up comedy. I have a deep passion for this beautiful art form and brings me immense joy to see them shine a spotlight on the exceptional work done by my colleagues in the industry. Taylor Thomlinson stand up is more popular than it’s ever been thanks to the Internet. It’s very cool to see it being recognized like this as an art form. Burt Kreisher, a little less quoti, said it was nice to know, for at least one meal a year, stand up comedy is finally invited to sit at the adult table.

We belong at the kids table, but it’s nice to know we can sit with the grown ups and they’ll let us drink golden globes. January six comedians will dooke it out for the title. Can’t wait to see who is nominated there.

Speaking of Bert Kreisher, he suited up with the Anaheim Ducks.

It did not go well. He shared some videos of Burt approaching the ice on skates and said, all right, get ready for me to fall. He’d took a shot from clear across the ice trying to hit the net. It almost went in, it did not cross the goal line. No goal for you.

Craisher had made a promotional video asking the Anaheim Ducks if it could come over. Let’s listen. I think my wife’s wrong. I think this looks great on me, and it would look him in better in goalie equipment, gentlemen from the Ducks. I heard the offer September thirtieth.

I’m at the Honda Center performing that day. I’m all yours. You sent the offer to my wife for me to try out for goalie. Send it to me next time. She said, no.

My answers yes, my answers always yes. I want to be a goalie for a day. Gear me up. We’re going tarps off. You guys will test for steroids due you.

Bert Kreisher were a number eleven Ducks Jersey with last name The Machine. By the way, The Machine is streaming on Netflix now. I haven’t gotten to it yet, looking forward to that. Kraishier is often partner in crime Comedy Something podcasting Change the Life of Chase Thompson. Thompson works at Wilford’s, a barber shop on South Jefferson Street in Pensacola.

He’s been a barber for five years and he has a long list of clients, about sixty eight eighty people per week. One of them Tom Segura. Thompson reached out to Segora on Twitter about two years ago. By the way, this from w ea RTV, before Segora was going to play Pensacola, and he offered to give the comedian a haircut while he was in town. Thompson said it was as simple as reaching out to him on social media.

He was here for show and asked him if he wanted to get cleaned up before show. Segura said yeah. Thompson added, I thought at that point that was cool, even if it doesn’t come into the shop. I was super happy that they wrote me back one day in Walks, Tom Segora Toompson said, the first fifteen minutes were kind of nerve wracking. What’s the nerves went away?

I was just in my zone, it my thing. It was fine. I just didn’t want to cut him. That would have been bad. I mean, we all love Tom Segura, and I don’t know what person would be in the barber chair.

They would be super intimidated cutting their hair. I’m not a haircutter. There must be somebody who’s really known for their famous hair that you wouldn’t want to mess up. But I don’t know. What’s the worst that happens.

You give Tom Segora a bad haircut and he makes fun of you on stage and gets ten minutes out of it. Segora now flies Thompson out to tour locations to get such ups. Sagora says, Chase is a magician with blades and scissors. Thompson said, I didn’t think I traveled this much in this job, going to California, Phoenix, being with him and the crew, sivil things, going to dinners and just hang out in green rooms. It’s very surreal.

Sompson says. They always have you on standby, so when the phone rings, I’ll be there. Thank you Batman, Hey, this is cool. A long last classic from British comedy from the Monty Python ors have been found. All six episodes of The Complete and Utter History of Britain have been rediscovered.

They were found in the ITV archives. They’ve been misfiled for decades. The series is a mockumentary style look at British history as if TV had existed centuries ago. Sketches include postgame interviews with participants in the Battle of Hastings and Julius Caesar’s home movies. The show was created, written by, and starred Terry Jones and Michael Palin you know them from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

After the Complete Nutter History, they moved to join forces with some other young British comedy writers. They became Anti Pythons Flying Circus. Prior to this, they thought only two episodes and a couple of clips had survived. All that was released on DVD in twenty fourteen as the new Incomplete Complete Nutter History of Britain. The show has now been fully restored and is streaming on it TV Premium, and we’ll see if it gets a physical release.

Billy Connolly spoke to nm E. He had some nice things to say about black comedians, generally in their fifties and sixties, saying they say it like it is, it’s breathtaking. That’s wonderful, and I’m glad they exist because the social workeration that has passed through comedies. Vomit inducing comedians never used to worry about what’s correct to say. You said it, and you soon found out whether it was correct or not, and then you’ve got on with it.

That was a good enough rule for me. I’m wondering who he means. I’m thinking of people that fit that general description, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock.

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Meanwhile, Katherine Ryan is catching some pushback.

She was on Desert Island discs. There’s an Island disc was recorded to September six, before the Russell Brand allegations were published. Now Previously, Ryan had said she had wrestled with the decision on working with an unnamed comedian she believed to be a perpetrator of sexual assault. On Desert Island discs recorded in early September before the brand accusations came out. Catherine Ryan said, I got a lot of why won’t you say it is?

It’s because everyone knows who it is. What they want is the women’s names, and that’s what I won’t give. And that’s why I’m reluctant. No one’s asking for his name. It’s funny how people go straight to accusing you’re the problem.

You won’t give his name. We’re not the problem. If I had a choice, I could go to work with someone who I believe to be a perpetrator of sexual assault, or I could turn down the job. Those were my options. Ryan said she believed at the time the person was or is dangerous, but felt she would have achieved nothing by turning down the show.

My compromise was, I’m going to go and let him know, under no uncertain terms, what I think of him. I’m not just gonna allow this behavior. I’m not going to let him think that I don’t know and that everybody works with it is just going to let him get away with it. So that’s the attitude. I took another show, and I do the right thing of the wrong thing.

I still don’t know, but I just felt, why should I stay home? He should stay home, But if he’s going to be there, I’m going to be there and tell him what I think. This year’s edition of the long running Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine fundraiser for the Scleroderma Research Foundation will be a tribute to Bob Saggatt, who was a longtime board member and co host of the event. This year’s event Wednesday, November eighth, at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, part of the New York Comedy Festival. Comedian Jeff Ross will host the event.

It will also feature Michael Chay and Nicky Glazer. I missed one. I didn’t tell you yesterday Beth Stelling. If you Didn’t Want Me premiered on Netflix. It’s still there.

You can watch it out tomorrow on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. Greg Warren’s The Salesman. Friday digitally, The Road Dog, a movie starring Doug Stanhope, will be out and also on Friday on YouTube. Joe Paris Slow and Steady. Thank you to Sleeves the Rabbit who left a five star review on Apple Podcasts.

Sleeves thank you for listening every day and wrote, I’m a long time listener and I’ve always appreciated Johnny’s delivery and occasional mom and Terry. Someone else wrote a comment that he’s negative to women, and I honestly don’t see that at all. I know that he’s mentioned liking several female comedians and included many in his favorite comedy specials of the year. As a queer, trans female comedian myself, I think it would be great to see more coverage of comedians of my ILK, but I know he’s largely just reporting on what he sees written in the news media, which is largely male focused, so I don’t know if there’s much that can be done on that front. Hey, thanks for listening.

Shoot me some of your stuff. I’ll share a clip. Be happy to and your analysis is correct. As I put together the show, usually I start with I go to Google and I type in the word comedy and I see what’s there. Comedian is the second thing I searched for.

I also follow a bunch of sources on Twitter. There’s a few websites I check out. If it’s a slower newsday, I will start to type in the names of actual comedians. I’ll often find gold under the names Chappelle, Malaney, Gaffigan, Davidson. They tend to turn up a lot of random things.

If there’s still nothing, I’ll go a little deeper and I’ll type in words like Segura, Krazher. As I talk, I realize I haven’t mentioned any women in that list. I think that’s just because the names I mentioned tend to talk a lot, and some of them, Pete David, Dave Chappelle tend to be involved in stories with colorful details that I get a lot of stuff out of, like this week, the Trevor Noah thing. This is a week where I’m going out of my way to look up Trevor Noah because the India stuff is just fascinating to me and hilarious. But yeah, there tends to be more material about mail comedians, and I think that’s probably if we looked at if I don’t know, we put every comedian who performs the United States in a room and we counted, there’d probably be some sort of percentage that would lean mail.

And I think that’s kind of where the news falls out. Following your sentence, as a queer, trans female comedian, I think it’d be great to see more coverage of comedians with my ILK again, I’d be happy to as long as the news is out there. If there are some sources, good websites, please put it on my nose, I’d be happy to. As for the pushback on negative two women, and I’m going to hang myself here by doing this next story, A lot of that comes back to the early days of the podcast. During the pandemic, there was a comedian I’m about to talk about who I don’t know why the industry went straight to anointing this person as the next great thing.

And I’m a Mets fan, and Mets fans do this thing where you get called up from the minor leagues and you get two hits, and suddenly Mets fans will be like, Oh, so and So’s going straight to the Hall of Fame. So and So’s the next Derek Jeter, Mickey Mantle, Tom sever you know, whoever it is. It’s straight like nobody can just be like good. They have to be the next awesome thing. So during the pandemic there was a comedian, Sarah Cooper.

Sarah has a new book out this week, which is why she’s back in the news, and she blew up on TikTok and on TikTok. She was taking the audio of Donald Trump and pantomiming to it. Okay, fine, and the mainstream media looked at that and went, oh my god, this is the future of comedy. Here’s a list of things that happened based upon Sarah Cooper pantomime to Donald Trump on social media. She got to host Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Yeah, she got offered a roll on a sitcom. Okay. She sold two TV pilots, one a project with Ricky Jervaised to Netflix and another based on a book she had written a few years before that, to CBS. Okay, fine, and she got a Netflix special directed by Natasha Leone. Again, going straight from pantomiming to Donald Trump, which isn’t hey, I’m telling jokes, it’s Donald Trump is saying words and I’m remouthing them to a Netflix special.

Seemed a little quick to me. And I used to comment them that all the time, and that rubbed some of the audience the wrong way. Sarah Cooper’s new book is called Foolish. She recounts her roller coaster journey. The La Times profiled Sarah and says, instead of feeling like she won the lottery, she woke up with echoes of you suck, You’re such a loser bouncing around in her brain.

Netflix and CBS eventually passed on her pilots, her marriage collapsed, her online numbers dropped. Cooper said the Internet was sort of like this playground for me. I went sixty Twitter followers to two million, but a year and a half later, all of a sudden, I didn’t feel playful anymore. I was scared that everything I was putting out was being judged. I was scared if I put something out and it was stupid, it didn’t do well.

I would feel that people were saying SARAH’SAAKA has been so she stopped doing Trump. She says, I’m really sick of his voice now. A lot of people write me and want me to do Trump, though, write oh my god, he’s saying the dumbest things. If you do a video, it would make it so much better. And I think if you would just stop listening to him, it would make it so much better.

Those videos are both joyful and icky. I want to be in a world where I’m putting out stuff that makes me happy and brings laugh to me and perhaps other people, and that’s it. Sarah Cooper’s book is called Foolish if you want to check that out. This has nothing to do with comedy, but I just feel like people need to know this. Today at two twenty pm Eastern, there will be a nationwide emergency alert test on cell phones, wireless devices, radios, and TV.

So at two twenty Eastern today, everything is just going to go and people are going to freak out and think World War three started. The government tells us this is a standard test that occurs at least once every three years. No action is needed, but your phone is going to buzz today at two twenty and people might freak out. The tenth annual Santa Cruz Comedy Festival kicks off today Eddie Peppotone performing at the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery. On Friday, the Big Show at the Real Theater Mosha Casher, Marcella Orguello, and Lewis Katz On Saturday, forty comics will perform across seven venues in downtown Santa Cruz.

Sounds cool.

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Meanwhile, in Chicago, it’s the second annual Latina At Comedy Festival that’…

The festival features the best Latina, stand up comedic talent from across the country, including Chicago native Gwen La Rocca, Las Christina Galston, and New York’s Sherry Diaz and the final note of today is no fun. Bill Cosby reportedly has been hit with a new sexual battery lawsuit and an eleven page shivil complaint obtained by Deadline. A plaintiff alleges that Cosby drugged and raped her in nineteen seventy two. She claims she worked at a Bay Area restaurant that Bill Cosby frequented, and they once followed her home to invite her to a performance that was part of his stand up comedy album Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby. According to the complaint, the woman felt sick after Cosby gave her a glass of wine and a limousine on the way to the event.

She recalls accepting which she believed to be an aspirin from him in a dressing room at the show venue. You can imagine the rest and I have not seen a response from the Cosby camp. If they have one, I will share it with you. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, see tomorrow

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Todd Barry, Tom Segura, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Michelle Wolf, Jay McBride, Jim Jeffries, Hari Kondabolu, Chris Rock, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Lauren Boebert

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis’s Netflix special ‘Beautiful Dogs’ ranked #2 best special of 2023
• Johnny Mac’s Top 10 Comedy Specials of 2023 list with Todd Barry at #1
• David Letterman interview on Strike Force Five podcast discussing early NBC negotiations
• John Oliver’s return addressing the writers strike and missed coverage opportunities
• Late night TV shows returning and potential NBC changes at 11:30 PM
• Vulture’s Comics to Watch list release
• Lauren Boebert incident at Beetlejuice Broadway show

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your daily comedy newho is going to flip the order around a little bit. I watched Shane Gillis’s new special on Netflix. Beautiful Dogs is the name of that one, if you haven’t seen it. I loved it.

I found Shane to be just so personable and having a good time and just up there and he knows it’s all fun and silly, and you can tell he’s enjoying that. You’re enjoying it. It feels like you’re at the tavern and you ran into a guy who’said no maybe two and a half beverages and is a little loose and telling some funny stories, and the guy’s just fun to be around. I liked it a lot. As I watched it, I was like, is this the best special of the year, And by the end I decided it’s the second best special of the year.

I’ll give you the updated top ten in a minute. I think part of that this keeps happening to me. So I go downstairs and I watch a comedy special. Now, a comedy special is an hour, no matter how long it is, but you know it’s an hour in concept, and it is a flow, right you start. I remember George Carlin’s manager, Jerry Hamza, explained to me one time the way Carlin would work is he would come out and do a bunch of ratitat tat jokes and that real quick Carlin.

Hey, you ever noticed something something punchline. He’d do a bunch of those, and then George would go into a long flowing thing, you know, one of those long especially lateness, care long rants, making a point and then come back and do a little ratitat tat and then leave with the big thought. So comedians will craft a set, but what happens is I’m watching it, I’m having a good time, and my wife comes down and then she’ll be like is he funny? And already I’m like, yes, yes, he’s funny.

And then she’ll stand there and it’ll be in the middle of something that has …

And what happened when I was watching this the other night? She starts sweeping the basement. So I’m sitting there and there’s this woman just going so I just I hit pause. I’m like, really, so, I don’t know, Shane, you might have had to run at number one, but I was interrupted. I like Shane’s a lot.

I also put on Lunel’s special. I lasted two minutes ten seconds. I could tell right away this was not going to be for me. I wanted to hit stop after I don’t know four seconds, and I hung in there and I was like, no, not feeling this at all. My opinion, Netflix clearly wants to be in the Dave Chappelle business.

Dave executive produce that one. I’m not sure how well that one’s going to do. Let’s look at the updated list of best of twenty twenty three. According to Johnny macde best special Love the Year is Todd Barry’s Domestic Short here you’ll find that on YouTube. Shane Gillis pops in at number two.

Toms Agore three, four, Kyle Canine five, Napper Gatsy that came out back in January on Amazon, six, Michelle Wolf seven, Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl that’s on YouTube, eight, Jim Jeffries from Amazon in February, Hary Condobolu at nine that was on YouTube. And Chris Rock, remember he had a big special. It was a big deal. Yeah, I’m more fascinated with my not on the list. The not on the List includes releases by Jim Gaffigan, John Mliney, Lewis, Black, Mark Marin, and I’ve been on a big Mark Marin kick lately.

Bert Craisher, I didn’t love the middle nor in the end of that special. Andrew Santino, Kevin Hartt, Lewin ELL’s so a bit of a comedy snob. Johnny Mac. Vulture put out their Comics to Watch list. I am recording this a little after eleven am on Monday, and I just saw the list.

I think it came out in the ten o’clock hour. Haven’t dived into it, and I have a lot to cover today, so I’ll get to that. But I did share the link in a Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, if you want to check out that, and I’ll talk about that in the next few days. I listened to David Letterman on the Strike Force five podcast. I love lettermans so much, and this just reminded me of the old twelve thirty Letterman because they were talking a lot about those days and his old NBC Daytime Show, the one that failed spectacularly.

A couple of tidbits that I didn’t know before. NBC had approached David Letterman to host the Monday and Tuesday episodes of The Tonight Show, and Johnny Carson would have done the other three, and Letterman asked, does Johnny know you’re talking to me about this? And the answer was no, and then Letterman said, I’m not having this conversation. That was interesting. The guys kept asking Letterman questions, and Dave doesn’t want to talk about himself, so they might ask him, I don’t know, who was your favorite guest of all time?

Yeah, you know, I know so many? Who was your favorite guests? And he kept whatever they asked him, he threw it back on them. I thought that was interesting. And if you pay a lot of attention to these episodes, especially the Letterman one, there’s this vibe that Jimmy Fallon is the little brother of the group, almost as if the others are like, I don’t know, Fallon’s up to our level here.

They keep making fun of him for the newlywed game type thing that Fallon did a couple episodes back. They talked about that a lot on the Letterman episode, and Okay, fine, that’s just some chopbusting. But they also just keep making fun of his questions. At one point, Fallon as Letterman a question, and they all made fun of the way it was freezed. And you kind of hear knock on Jimmy Fallon’s tonight show that he’s not the best interviewer in the world.

And and and maybe I’m just sensitive to this now. A lot of alcohol reverences, a lot of stories with Jimmy drinking beer. So hm. The late night shows returned last night. I’m still wondering if NBC’s considering making a change at eleven thirty.

We’ll see. We’ll talk about Late Night’s return tomorrow. John Oliver returned on Sunday Night, and during the first fifteen minutes iss of his show, he went in on the writer strike. Oliver said, I’d have loved have covered all these stories back when they originally happened. I wish so much I could have told you these jokes at the time, but I couldn’t because our writer is The people who wrote these jokes were forced to strike for a fair contract for the last five months.

And while I’m happy that they eventually got a fair deal and immensely proud of what our union accomplished. I’m also furious that it took the studios one hundred and forty eight days to achieve a deal that they could have offered on day FFing one. But hopefully this might encourage others, from autoworkers to Starbucks baristas to healthcare providers, whether they’re in unions or would like to be, to find power in each other. Some of the jokes that he had missed out on while away. On Trump’s mugshot, he said, Trump looks like he’s struggling to find Waldo in the crowd.

On the coronation of King Charles quote the world’s oldest boy, Oliver joked he was aiming for successful pimp, but ends up looking like someone wearing a set of tacky drapes over a Lakers Jersey. Oliver talked about when Reddit unveiled a policy that charged third party apps, and, as John explains it, for weeks images of me were used as a form of protest on some of the most popular subreddits. He showed a bunch of pictures himself, one looking like a muppet, another that made him look like John Wick. This one labeled John Oliver Wick, which is a pretty good way of showing you exactly what would happen if Professor Snape ever committed arm robbery and he joked about Fallout Boys cover of Billy Joels we didn’t Start the Fire, Oliver said, what it’s worth, We didn’t stop the Fire is the last song anyone should cover from Billy Joel’s discography, even if it’s original form. It’s the musical equivalent of a child telling you everything he learned to do at school that day.

Slow down. But also, I don’t care oh one more about Lauren Bobert attending Beetlejuice and some stuff happened there this next sentences PG. If you’re driving around with kids, whyn’t you get thirty second skip four times? Okay ready? Oliver said, I’m not saying it would be appropriate to engage in high school freshman era, hand stuffed or in the production of any musical, but I just wanted to be absolutely clear.

This wasn’t one of the more explicitly sexual ones like Spring Awakening or Rocky Horror or Cats. This was Beetlejuice, a song that is quite loudly about death. I’m just saying, if you’re gonna get your nipples tweaked and your pipe squeaked, you saved that for Fiddler on the Roof like an insult. Oh, Bill Maher was back as well. He said, first of all, I want to thank everybody who made as possible to be back.

You know, I’m talking about my brilliant staff writers and non writers who scrambled jet so it would beyond in two days, and the union folks who expedited the PaperWorks so we could get back quickly. So thank you. Pete Davidson reportedly swide swiped his car against a wall on Saturday night after leaving his comedy show. Page six reports there was another man on the passenger seat and three people on the back seat. Pete driving four people around.

What’s going on? According to the story, Pete’s car was apparently scraped from the middle door to the start of the back wheel. In some photos, Pete appears to be holding a cigarette and shielded his face from the paparazzi. Recall, Pete Davidson was recently charged with reckless driving in July and was supposed to complete fifty hours of community service. This Trevor Noah thing is fascinating.

I’ve been talking about his tour of India and more and more stories keep coming out again from the Indian Express. You’re home for comedy news. Trevor said, you know, sometimes you feel like something’s about to happen, and it does. That happened to us in Bengaluru. We’re driving to the venue.

After about an hour and a half of driving, I was like, where are we going? The driver and everyone in the car was like, this is the way we’re supposed to go. At some point, the driver turned onto a dirt road. Trevor said, where is this? Am I performing in the past?

Where am I going? And they drove us to this venue. Noah said when he usually goes for a show backstage, what happens is they’ll be like an entrance you walk into, you emerge in a backstage area before you come and perform. Here, we walked through an alley that was full of dogs, half of which were in cages. Some of the dogs are outside, others are in What have these dogs done?

That’s what I want to know. I have never prepared for show with a backstage area with dogs and cages. Trevor said the venue technically was building but the room he was in looked like a semi permanent tent with giant air conditioner units on the side making a loud noise. They tried to turn the sound up so you could hear what’s happening, but because the room wasn’t designed for human beings, what happens is the sound waves are bouncing around the room in every direction. That’s fantastic.

So I noticed on Sunday night, as I was doing some prep, skank Fest was over the weekend. Now, maybe you think I suck. We’re ten minutes in, so you probably don’t think I suck that bad if you’re still hearing my voice right now. But maybe you’re like, this podcast sucks and I just hate listen. I do try and prep for it.

I do look up the news, like these words I’m saying don’t just come from nowhere. God doesn’t go here is the comedy news. Like, I do some research here, and I was like, skank Fest was this weekend. There was nothing about Skankfest here. I challenge you go to Google and type in skank Fest and tell me what comes up.

Yeah, they have a website, and there’s one article from a Las Vegas paper which is the one I saw that went oh, it was this weekend. There were some big names at this thing, Robert Kelly or Spear, Dan soder, T, J Miller, Mark Norman, Joe List, Tim Dillon. That’s just some of the names that were there. Now, I know the skank guys. They’ve got all their podcasts and they go on each other’s podcasts.

And I’m sure the festival was amazing, and I’m sure they sold every ticket and I’m sure it was great. But that there’s nothing on the internet, no articles, both before or after, no coverage of this thing. Is that what you want to do? You want to have a festival, Nobody talks about it. Very very strange.

Again, I’m in your corners, gang Fest. I think your festival is a lot of fun, but I don’t. Let’s tell somebody about it. Congratulations to Eliza Slessengers. She has another baby on the way.

Eliza is forty. She’s expecting her second baby son to be born in February. On Instagram, we see Eliza Slessengers surprising a couple during their sex reveal by popping out of a box the couple expected balloons to come out of. After explaining the environmental dangers of the practice. Eliza shared her own baby news.

I have a balloon story to second. Eliza told people that filming the bit and revealing her our own news was so fun. My friends pitched in, I try to use my platform to advocate for the environment as much as I can. Sex or reals and baby celebrations can be done so irresponsibly, because I just wanted to bring awareness to that while making a point about simply having a baby is special enough. There’s no need to get the fire department involved.

Okay, balloon story. So on Sunday, the local town has the street festival. I like a lot and I’m walking around. All of a sudden, a balloon hits me chest high and I just grab it, and I’m like, this must be some child’s balloon. And I look around and there’s no children.

I don’t know where this balloon came from, and so I grab it because I just have issues. You know how, we all have issues from when we were children. So when I was a child, if I ever lost my balloon and up to the sky, I would freak out. Anytime I see a balloon, like a child lose a balloon, I get really sad. So I’m holding onto this balloon and I’m like, what am I going to do with this?

Because I can’t just let it go. I will be traumatized. I’m walking around the festival and I’m like, I don’t know, maybe I’ll see a kid and I’ll be like, hey, kid, do you want a balloon? I’m like, well, that’s kind of creepy. Why is this middle aged man handing balloons?

Kits? I just I walk around with this balloon for the whole festival, and I’m like, I guess I’ll bring it home. And I get back to the car and I put it in the car and I start driving home, playing with the radio, listening to some music. And I’m driving and all of a sudden, the balloon that I had forgotten about. I see it come from the back seat and it starts to approach the front seat, and then it suddenly goes up because Johnny Mac left the sunroof open.

I want to thank Travis who went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Company News and brought me not one, but two ice coffees. I was thinking of Travis on Monday as I was driving to the National Donuts chain. I was like, oh, yeah, Travis hooked this up, and I’m going to thank him the next time I record. And I was like, you know what, I’ll do a live thank you from the parking lot of the National Donus Chain. I took out my phone and I recorded myself walking into the National Donus chain, where three different people and I exchanged pleasantries.

Hey, you have a great day too. I saw one of my kids friends who said, Hi, mister mcdee. I had all this sun recording and I came back to put the show together, and I’d be like, Oh, Travis is gonna be so impressed that I actually put extra effort into this thing. And I never hit record, but I do have a second recording of me opening the car door and breathing heavy and closing the door and starting the car. If you want to hear that, Travis, you gotta buy me a coffee.

Dot com its Lash Daily Comedy News. Support the show, Travis, thank you for being a dedicated listener and appreciate the coffees. This one cracked me up. The headline from the a V Club Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review. A dozen years in the show hasn’t lost any of its luster.

Okay, the headline Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review got it. Okay, So I’m gonna ask you two questions if you’re a new listener. First question, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no, you actually haven’t. But what’s weirder is have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer to that is also no. Now, I understand that the show appears to be a show, and there’s articles about it, and there’s merch, and they promoted during the football games, but it’s clearly a hoax. And it cracked me up that the hosters were like, oh, no one will say Bob’s Burgers that nobody actually has ever seen. In the back, We’ll put it up against the Taylor Swift football game. Yeah, So like they knew, we were all watching Taylor Swift at a football game and not one of us was going to pop over to Fox to see if Bob’s Burgers actually ever airs, which it doesn’t.

I’m sure Fox had a test pattern up up against Taylor Swift, but they were like, yeah, Bob’s Burgers is on season fourteen, but here’s what’s weird from the AV Club headline? Again that headline Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review. The first sentence is over the course of its twelve years on the air. I thought this was season fourteen. How does that work?

Did they just not do a season thirteen because it’s unlucky? Did whoever is behind this hoax mess up? Oh? I don’t know anyway, The AV Club says, given enough time on the air, any show, no matter how beloved, is bound to lose its flavor. But somehow, even after all this time, Bob’s never as fourteen seasons in over the last twelve years.

However, that math works. The bloom isn’t off. The bloom and onion, and we hope we’ll belling up to the burger counter for many years to come. Uh huh, not falling for it. Hey, you know who has a new book today?

Sarah Cooper? Remember Sarah Cooper, a longtime listeners. She during a pandemic, was pantomiming to Donald Trump and the Netflix gave her a comedy special. Remember Sarah Cooper. He’s got a new book.

It’s called Foolish Tales of Assimilation, Determination and Humiliation. The description Sarah Cooper’s book is About You. Cooper, a recently ascended star having utilized the Internet to get famous with her pointed, withering performance based political satire, possesses a direct and fierce comic voice, and in her previous books she took down cultural dinosaurs. Here she explores, thoroughly, examines and mocks herself for past and her motivations, and shows how you two can find your voice, comic and otherwise and use it to exercise your demons. If you’re in New York City, Matt Golditch is taping his album tonight at Caveat.

He may even be joined by a very special guest. That’s an interesting tease there, if you’re like, who’s Matt Golditch. She’s a longtime writer for Late Night with Seth Myers. And Robin William’s daughter Zelda is getting annoyed about artificial intelligence. She said, I’ve witnessed for years how many people want to train these models to create and recreate actors who cannot consent, like my dad, Robin Williams.

This isn’t theoretical, it’s very very real. I’ve already heard Ai used to get his quote voice unquote to say whatever people want, and while I find personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings. Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their human effort in time, into the pursuit of performance. These recreations are, at their very best, a poor effects emily of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frank and Steiny and monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is instead of what it should stand for. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Hasan Minhaj, Trevor Noah, Sam Morrel, Kevin James, Dan Harmon, Tim Dillon, Piers Morgan, Neil Hamburger

What’s in This Episode

• Hasan Minhaj loses Daily Show hosting consideration over embellished autobiography stories
• Trevor Noah cancels India tour shows due to technical audio issues
• Kevin James launches ‘Double Hands in the Pocket Tour’ based on viral meme
• Dan Harmon discusses Community movie script completion and cast dynamics
• Tim Dillon critiques Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary
• Neil Hamburger releases second single from concept album

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Was Johnny Mac right from Variety Comedy Central going back to Square one and its efforts to find a new host for the Daily Show. You may recall there was a rumor that Hasan Minhaj was the leading candidate. The new rumor they saw the Hasan Minhaj stuff that I’ve been talking about on the pod, and they’re like, maybe he’s not right for the Daily Show.

Variety says the Paramount Global Cable Network is considering a wider array of candidates to take the reins from Trevor Noah, after having previously identified Hasan Minhaj as a leading possibility. The decision appears to come in the wake of a recent report in The New Yorker in which some of the supposed autobiography stories that minhajs told in his routines were found to be embellished. Sources say minhas remains in the mix of people being considered. What executives are also pouring over audio research tied to recent guests, but they want to have a new host in time for the start of twenty four. That’s when they’ll do in decision twenty four and yeah, I think I get moving here.

It’s October now, guys, and you’re not going to do shows the second half of December. M Wood Junior, you still interested?

Speaking of Trevor Noah kind of sort of morphem is India tour fans of interna…

The show was supposed to start at seven thirty, it started nearly thirty minutes late and then abruptly ended after many audience members couldn’t hear anything because of quote bad acoustics. Trevor Noah went on Twitter and expressed his apologies for causing inconvenience and disappointment. Trevor wrote, Dear Bengaluru, India, I was so looking forward to performing in your amazing city, but due to technical issues, we’ve been forced to cancel both shows. We tried everything, but because the audience can’t hear the comedians on stage, there’s literally no way to do a show. We’ll make sure all the ticket holders receive a full refund and again, I’m so sorry for both the inconvenience and disappointment.

This has never happened with us before I found a clip of the audio. Now, I’ll remind you this whole story is about bad audio. So the clip I’m going to play the audio is terrible. That all makes sense, right. You’ll hear Trevor talking about slap back.

Slap back is when you’re talking and then the speakers slap the audio back to you, so you say hello, and then like half a second later, you hear your own voice saying hello. If you’ve ever had that in your headphones, it’s extremely distracting. So I can see why Trevor wouldn’t be able to perform with that. But let’s listen. Sam Morrel talked about traveling.

He doesn’t drive. Sam said, you think it’d be a problem, but really I can’t get anywhere flying by training by car, especially at this point, I could bring someone a drive. I mean, the only time you feel it is when you’re in some small town and they’re like, oh, we don’t have Uber, and you’re like, you don’t have Uber. I remember I was leaving a gig in Appleton, Wisconsin, and I had to leave reasonably early for flights. I thought this is a small town.

This will be easy. I call. There’s like one uber in the whole town and he’s thirty one minutes away. He’s completing a drive, but he’s just doing it for everyone. So I was panicking.

And the guy at the front desk of the hotel saw me panicking and said, what can I do to help you? And I said, I’m panicking because I don’t want to miss my flight, and he said I’ll drive you. And I was like, you don’t have to worry about the hotel and he’s like nah. Another guy and Sam said, I thought, if this is how I get murdered, I kind of deserve it. Did you see the recent Kevin James internet meme?

If you’ve been on social media, you’ll see an old promotional headshot that Kevin did for the King of Queens back in the nineties. He’s shrugging with both hands in his pockets and he’s kind of grinning. So Kevin has renamed his tour of the double Hands in the Pocket Tour, which he says is sheepishly coming to a city near you. Variety had a long profile with Dan Harman, the creator of Community, and Rick and Morty and some other stuff they wrote. There was a time not too long ago when Dan Harmon shared absolutely everything, a life of transparency, he reasoned, was therapeutic, kealthy, even for a guy who’d routinely describe himself as self loading and self destructive.

Then the culture changed. Harman said, it stopped being punk rock to just say anything. Varidy writes it’s not hard to see that Harmon views the community movie as his chance to write some of his wrongs, both with the show’s fans, whom he acknowledges have endured more than they likely bargained for and supporting him and his drama queen Ways, and with his cast, all of whom except for Chevy Chase, are set to return. Variety says that Harmon and his writers still need to haul up for a few days and finish the script. They pitched it pre pandemic as a Greendale Community College reunion, and they’re committed to getting into a place where they could shoot as is without possible rewrites.

Harmon said, I don’t want these now superstar people like Emmy winning Donald Glover, who are bothering to gather out of loyalty this thing to come back once again. Be getting blue pages run down by an intern that totally contradict what they spent all night memorizing. I want to have a veneer of here’s your reward. I don’t want them to go like, oh, he’s learned nothing and he’s treating us like cattle. Again.

The piece also talks about Rick and Morty writing Harmon had all but killed himself making community, only to feel like he was constantly letting people down. Now he had a partner in Adult Swim that actively wanted to be in business with him. It wasn’t until season two that everything started to change. Harmon brought in more writers. He says, if anything, what I wanted was for Justin Royland and I to both be able to be increasingly lazy and not show up for work.

That was the dream would be these rich idem men. He could roll around and go like, what if a genie had a butt instead of a penis? And I could be like yeah, and plus we’re gonna make people cry about it, and that’s going to make them freak out. It’s a story about a ged butt penis.

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And then we’d win an Emmy and it would be more ironic than ever.

Harmon says, but I found out later that it was like, oh, Harmon brought it as Harmon writers, and it’s not how I saw it. Royland started to pull back during season two. As the season wrapped, Royland sat down with Harmon. It acknowledged just how miserable he’d become working at the show. The application was it was all Harmon’s fault.

Harmon says, Honestly, I wasn’t sure what he was saying, other than maybe I feel like I’m in your shadow and I wish I wasn’t. Tim Dillon was on Piers Morgan and talked about Harry and Megan. By the way, if you like people that make fun of Harry and Megan, check out Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer on. We make fun of Marry and Megan all the time.

We even did this very story on Palace Intrigue. Pallace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows. Tim Dillon told Piers Morgan, it’s very interesting to make a Threeport documentary on Netflix about how bad things are while living in a castle. I find the lack of self awareness there to be very fun. I mean they’re very funny.

Victimhood. It makes me laugh and when someone is clearly not a victim, and I think living in a castle, being part of a royal family would make you not a victim. They make me laugh. I hope they keep behaving shamefully. It’s great for the tabloids, it’s great for us from shortol cult.

Comedian Neil Hamburger has released the second single from his concept album about patrons trapped in an average chain hotel. It’s called Sleeping for Free and it features the vocals of Frank Sinatra’s granddaughter, A J. Lambert. Aj is the daughter of Nancy Sinatra. Record label Drag City says the record sounds like a Silky La production circa nineteen seventy six.

It frames the complaints about the endless parade of noisy, smelling and non paying guests. The album is called Seasonal Depression Suite. It’s a musical about characters wallowing and self pity and paranoia, reliving personal catachrophees both real and imagined, or simply trying to use the hotel ending machine. Seasonal Depression Sweet November seventeenth. Hey, I want to thank you guys.

The download numbers for September where fantastic. This thing is really starting to catch now. Really appreciate you listening every day. I’ve been listening to other podcasts. I’m on a real Mark Marin kick.

I feel like he’s just been in a groove. His interviews have been really strong lately. I particularly enjoyed one with Aparna and Shula and they had like a real conversation, and Maren started talking about how much he loves being on stage because it allows him to do what he wants to do without worrying about others. And that’s kind of how I feel about this show. Like you know, I’ve had a whole corporate career, but Daily Comedy News, whether you like it or not, or you’re like John.

That commercial ready just did was nine minutes long? What the hell’s wrong with you? Who stop? I get to do what I want. I don’t have a boss telling me, Hey, the commercial reads are too long.

You should cut the back and see I can do twenty minutes. I’m the boss. I love it. So I hear you, Mark Marin. So that’s a parton an in Trillo’s episode.

Now he did have someone else on and that guest, and it doesn’t matter who the guest is. I’m not here to bash the particular guest went in and didn’t answer anything for real. Maren would ask a question and the guest would answer with a joke trying to be funny. That’s not what Mark Marin’s podcast is. So that guest kind of blew that appearance.

It was so bad. I was out for the nineteen mile run and you know that takes several hours, and I had to stop. The phone sits in a like a Velker arm band on my arm, and it’s hard to fuss with that while running, so stop and how to just skip the episode? Couldn’t take it. Give Marin real answers.

If you’re on David Letterman is on Strike Force five and get to that episode yet but definitely in my cue. We’ll see if that podcast continues. I guess it’s over now. With Late Night back short All says David Mitchell has ruled out a reunion of peep Show. Peep Show is a fantastic, fantastic, fantastic sitcom.

I don’t think it’s streaming right now. Let me check for you. There’s a website by the way called just Watch that will tell you where things are. Peep Show had been on Hulu, which is where I was watching it. Let’s see right now, you can stream it on Fubo.

I guess you’ll have to sit through commercials. Same thing on Roku and two B and Pluto TV. All right, so it’s on all of those. You can buy it on Amazon. Freevie has four of the nine seasons.

Freevie is usually not too bad with the commercials. But anyway, Peep Show is fantastic and won’t be coming back. The first episode aired twenty years ago, but Mitchell said he will not be reuniting with Robert Webb, Olivia Coleman she was on the show as well, or Matt King to celebrate. He told Graham Norton, Nope, we are not organizing an event. I’m very proud of it, but having made it so long ago, it reminds me of my own mortality.

Previously, he and Webb had talked about the idea of revisiting the characters of Mark and Jazz and Old Age. Webb said, We’ve always said it would be funny to go back and see them as old men, living in the same flat and having the same arguments. I think probably this side of shall we say seventy, it’s nice that people still give a hoot. I don’t want to attack anything onto the end of it. It would have to be a totally separate thing.

I wouldn’t want to drag the original thing down. Mitchell was promoting his new show Unruly, which is his book about the history of English royalty. Hey, that’s gonna help me over On Palace Intrigue, Mitchell said, I love history, and I love kings and queens. I’m particularly interested in me a holes and crowns that did dreadful things that really weren’t funny at the time, but it happened so long ago we can now laugh at him. Here’s a random thing I saw on Portland Mercury dot com.

They wrote, are you looking for a hilarious live comedy show where you can walk away with a fabulous prize or two? While you’re in luck? Because Mercury geniuses of comedy Arloe Eisenhower and Kate Murphy are your host for the most diabolical, hilarious and evil live game show in town. Two evils. This pretty good copy.

It totally wrote me in. This is like a minor thing, but I’m like, all right, I’m a trigue join Orlo and Kate as they ask a series of truly evil questions, and it’s up to the special guest, contestant and the audience who all vote on their phones and decide which is the lesser of two very evil answers. The guest for the Halloween themed episode, Kyle Kinnane. Good booking there, So if you’re in Portland, hit the Siren Theater On Wednesday, October eleventh. Lake Null is taping his special at Dynasty Typewriter in La Today.

Eight hundred pound Grilla says from his early days of picking up a guitar in Chicago, Luke Null discovered his knack for blending witty humor with catchy earworms. Wait, this style caught the attention of none other than Lorne Michaels himself, leading to a life changing opportunity as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Someone named Luke Noll was on Saturday Night Live. When was this Google machine? Help us out?

All right? Here’s a Vulture article from twenty eighteen. Luke Noll looks back on his very short time at SNL. I do not recognize his face. Fulture said, when you were first hired for SNL, the online consensus was that would see your musical side.

At some point, Luke Noel said, I wish I effing new man Vulture I assumed would see you on Update playing guitar like what Sandler or Fail used to do. Noll said, I certainly tried. It’s weird. Even though they hired me and I do a lot of music, they did not hire me to do music. They made that pretty clear.

They liked a lot of the other stuff I did. I auditioned twice and they hired me for that. The music stuff, I think it was more sprinkles on top. They don’t give me any feedback. It took thirteen weeks for me trying to pitch stuff like okay, they don’t want this good follow up by Vulture.

So you never had a conversation with the Update guys. Of course they did. It’s one of those places, especially when you’re a freshman cast member, you don’t have much way to be like, why can’t I do something because it’s your first year and Kate McKinnon isn’t in the show much this week, so she’s going to do Update. So for me to get something in an Update, I had to absolutely be one of the best people to pitch that week. But a lot of other people had to had of a bad week.

Even if I do great, I’m the lowest man on the totem pole. I had a few updates that were cut for time cut at dress rehearsal, but none of them were songs. Vulture, is there anything you know now having been on SNL you which new going in? And All said, I was only ever there one year. I had one season, and you definitely have a lot of questions looking back.

Did they do something wrong? Was I not writing good enough stuff? Honestly, looking back, knowing how the show works, the mechanism and the politics and it’s energy, it’s a very tense and stressful place. No one there is having fun. I’m fascinated by this, all right.

Vulture said, fans felt like you didn’t get a chance. Do you agree? And All said, I think the show’s producer would probably agree with that. It’s probably the biggest cast and biggest writing staff they ever had. So it’s a bloated and crowded room with a lot of great people in there.

But there’s never a moment where I was like, man, I deserve more, because I look ahead and I see fifteen people who are absolutely amazing. I did find myself wondering from time to time they hired me and moving to the city to do something, and the feedback I got was I was writing good stuff. I was getting cut at dress rehearsal. No one gets to see her here about that. So it was hard to leave and not think I didn’t get much of it at BAT.

Can’t be bitter about it, though. Sorry Luke Noll, I don’t remember you at all anyway, He’s a Dynasty typewriter tonight in la oh. I didn’t expect to do any of that, and that leaves me with two leftover stories for tomorrow. All right, that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shoes See tomorrow

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Featured: David Letterman, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Sigourney Weaver, Conan O’Brien, Kara Swisher, Greg Gutfeld, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Keegan-Michael Key, Eddie Murphy, Stevie Wonder, Billy Eichner, Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, J. B. Smoove, Roy Wood Jr., Hannibal Buress, David Cross, Eliza Shlesinger, Rachel Bloom

What’s in This Episode

• David Letterman’s failed Airplane movie audition revealed in new book
• New Airplane! oral history book ‘Surely You Can’t Be Serious’ releasing October 3rd
• Conan O’Brien explains why he avoids political humor in comedy
• Conan discusses late night TV relevance and podcast listener growth
• Late night shows return from hiatus with guest hosts on The Daily Show
• Keegan-Michael Key new book on sketch comedy history featuring SNL impact story
• Sandy Hook Promise PSA features comedians discussing school shooting threats

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The Shark Deck. It’s jokes Ober. Hi, I’m Hunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Joketober something we used to do with the satellite radio place. Maybe I’ll bring it back.

I’m the one that came up with it. Not there was that hard to come up with it, Do you don’t? I don’t want to make it at like I’m Einstein or the Beatles here that it just went October. David Letterman could have been in the movie Airplane, except for the part about his audition and they didn’t pick them. But theoretically David Letterman could have been an Airplane.

There’s a new book it’s called Surely You Can’t Be Serious. The True History of Airplane by David Zucker, Jim Abraham’s and Jerry Zucker aka za Z. The comedy trio that made Airplane and some other movies of that genre. David Letterman did a screen test for the role of Ted Striker. Letterman tells the story.

I get out there and they had set up a cockpit for the aircraft with chairs. I had a chair and there was another chair where the copilo would be. We did the scene once and then they came in and gave me some notes. Then we did it maybe two more times, and I kept saying, all along, I can’t act, I can’t act.

And then one of them came to me after the audition and said, you’re right, yo…

The new books out October third, counts on my finger, so that’s Tuesday, right. The book has interviews from the cast, including Robert Hayes and Julie Haggerty, as well as more casting dirt Sigourney Weaver maybe could have been in the movie. Letterman said they were really nice to consider me for a film because I could see where people would think, Oh, we have a thing where we’re opening in Alphabeta supermarket. Can you come out and talk to the bag boys? That made sense, but a movie, and the guy who produced it was Howard Kotch, who had a legitimate movie career in big time credits.

He was somebody I was even aware of, so I thought, geez, he’s not gonna want anything to do with me. I liked those guys, and when I saw the movie, it was just delightful, and I was delighted to see it knowing that I didn’t have to look at myself, because that would have ruined it. If not the whole movie, it certainly would have ruined it for me. David Letterman eventually hosted Late Night with David Letterman before leaving to go to CBS. He was replaced as the host of Late Night with David Letterman by Conan O’Brien, and that in the business is what we call a segue.

Conan O’Brien spoke to Kara Swisher about political humor, something Conan doesn’t do, and Conan said, for me, it was always what serves the comedy and what’s funny to me. The truest, most visceral comedy, to me is always going to be Warner Brothers cartoons that were made in the forties and fifties. That’s the stuff I grew up on that was shown in reruns. I liked it that kind of comedy. I was never as comfortable with comedy where I needed to make a point about something.

And then the conversation talked to goofing on Trump. Conan said, years and years and years ago, in another lifetime, I worked on the Lampoon back in college, and what we always knew is that you can do a parody of sports Illustrated would do parody magazines. You can do a parody of Newsweek magazine. I wrote a parody of George Will where he’s defending the feudal system. It was like, you can parody things that you can parody people.

Magazine is about its superficiality and it’s put Brookshields on the cover holding a fish. You can parody those things. But you can’t parody the National Inquirer because the National Inquirer can’t be parodied if you go and buy a real National Inquirer. It says Elvis cited an UFO. He has tentacles for ORMs.

Ghost Baby turns in a vampire and attacks Michael Jackson’s ghost. There’s no way to parody that. You can’t parody something that already has that crazy, irregular shape. It’s not possible. So I thought, when Trump came along, what a lot of people after virtue is?

Doesn’t he suck? I hate that guy. Kara Swisher asked Conan to Brian about Greg Gutfeld, and Conan said, I haven’t seen it. I drove a bus for twenty eight years and I retired from the bus company. I don’t ride the bus much anymore.

I’ll walk rather than get on the bus. So I don’t watch a lot of things. I see things here and there, but I don’t really know Gutfeld. And that’s not me being a knee jerk. Fucks, I’m not gonna watch that, man.

It’s more like, I honestly am not aware of what’s happening, so I don’t know. I think the beer question is the future of late night because we all know that time itself is becoming irrelevant. I think we’re probably gonna have to part company with the term late night at a certain point. And I’m not just saying that because I’m no longer part of it. I hate when people say, well, I’ve loved football now, so no, it’s irrelevant.

No, that’s a jerk move. I don’t believe that. I just believe it was changing when I was there, and it’s going to continue to change. I believe that talented people have something, a funny style or a way of connecting with people continue to flourish. It’s just that the medium will change around them, so it might not be called late night.

For example, I have more young people come up to me, and all they want to talk to me about is the podcast I’ve run in and people of their earbuds in and they’ll tap me on the shoulder and go, I’m listening to you now. Well, late Night is back, baby. All the major shows did not waste any time, John Oliver back tonight. The Daily Show will come back on October sixteenth with guest hosts Colbert Fallon, Kimmel and Seth Myers. All back to Morrow Night.

And reminder, there’s no more twelve thirty late late show on CBS. They gave up on that. At some point at midnight will show up Macpacker Keegan Michael Key has a new book, The History of Sketch Comedy, A Journey through the Art and craft of Humor. In the book, Keegan remembers the impact that SNL had on him and on his dad. Key writes, the first time I remember hearing my father laugh was in the living room of my childhood home.

My father watched the TV screen and on in Glee, and he was chuckling. My man was chuckling. My father, who was six foot four, two seventy and an otherwise very stoic man, was losing his dim mind. What was happening. Turns out one of the greatest comedic talents of all time was on TV?

Who was it? Who was it? Who was it? Eddie Murphy? Eddie Murphy was doing the sketch with Stevie Wonder.

In the sketch, Murphy plays an executive auditioning talent to play Stevie Wonder impersonators, one of whom is the real Wonder, that ultimately leads Eddie Murphy to do his own Stevie Wonder impression. Key writes, and then get this. Eddie starts singing like he’s going to sing better than Stevie Wonder, and he does. What the heck? My little mind was blown.

There’s a new PSA out the headline Comedians Aren’t Just Joking and a chilling new PSA by Sandy Hook Promise from the press release. As the US surpasses two hundred and forty school shootings this year, Sandy Hook Promise launched just Joking, a public service announcement to underscore how important it is to take threats of gun violence seriously. Now I started to pull a clip from this and it’s just not gonna work in terms of this podcast. I’m going somewhere with this. There’s comedians involved here.

Let me just tell you the PSA features a lineup of comedians including Billy Eichner, want A Sikes, Markert, Choe, j Farrow, Roywood, Junior Keitelan Riley, David Cross, Eliza Lessenger, and Rachel Bloom. So I could pull the clip and you would hear the comedians say things like it just this is just Awgward. There is nobody to get into said this Why I didn’t pull the clips, but comedians saying things like I’m going to shoot to school right, so, like that’s not funny and without the visual I don’t think it would have worked. In the PSA, audience members assumed the comedians are performing regular stand up routines. Yets just shot it like a lot of these look like they were shot during the actual specials the comedians were doing.

Audience members assumed the comedians are performing regular stand up routines and just joking. It’s later revealed that what the audience thought were punchlines were actually all real threats made by school shooters across the country. The chilling realization of the comedians were not just joking wakes viewers up to the importance of taking all threats seriously and taking action when there were warning signs of violence. Tom Sagora I spoke to Las Vegas, a magazine, and he’s working on a new Hour and said, the fun part of building a new hour is the stage where you’re really excited about new stuff and you’ve let the old stuff go. I have erot seen where I look at a special coming out as like a finale of the material I just accepted.

Sometimes you get at about and go, oh no, I have to do a new hour, and you start to feel that before you’re working on it. But the funny thing is once you’re doing it, it switches from anxiety to excitement. New stuff is always the most exciting thing, and you can’t manufacture the pressure. Ask any comedian. There’s no feeling like new stuff and nothing like being in that creative space.

And sometimes it’s hard when you’re out there on the road and you’re doing your hour and you’re bored of it. You’re actually bored, but you at the same time struggle to cook something new up. When you’re in a situation that I’m talking about, you have no other choice, and it’s a good place to be. I’m really excited about a new project I’m working on it. It’s called Ghost Scary Stories Today.

It’s October. Now, we’re doing thirty one ghost stories in thirty one days. If you want to check that out. Ghost Scary Stories Today, wherever you get your podcasts. Pop Sugar spoke to Hennah Burner, who said comedy is a great way to talk about taboo topics such as mental health, the wage gap, or fording without making people uncomfortable.

Hearing people laugh at something I’m embarrassed by or insecure about makes me feel less alone. Pete Corielli talked about how he met Sebastian Maniscalco. He was on Brian Kilmead show on Fox. Let’s listen. Oh yeah, I met him on tour in Toronto.

We were both on tour together and we met. We met at the airport briefly, and then coming down to do the first show, you’re getting a van to go to it, and there’s a few other comics from like Australian Canada, and we didn’t know anything and she’s bashed, has a little hanger and with a shirt and I’m gonna back in the van and I go, I know it, and he goes what I told my wife on the phone. I bet he carries his shirt that he performed, and he goes, I sweat all right, whatever you canna eye in it? When we get that too, and then we hit it off. That’s how guys hit it off, Yeah, ripping each other.

Cole Hilton ells right for The New Yorker and was impressed by Michelle Butto’s show full heart, tight jeans, Hilton Right says, but sometimes rambled seeing what would stick? I thought of her, Pierre Tiffany Hannish, They’re about the same age, and how how does she stand up as a display of sensibility, how she wears her loneliness like foundation under her rouge. Watching Handish perform, you have the sense that you’re seeing a little girl has been broken by love time and again, but nose there’s some good stuff on the other side of that heartbreak. By contrast, Butt kicks life’s broken pieces to the curb and encourages folks, especially women, not to settle. At one point during her set, she asked female audience members if they were in relationships and if they were in unsatisfactory relationships.

When a woman told her she was seeing a guy who was dating without intention but so once silent, then she told the woman to get out, open your heart and legs to love. You never know what’s gonna happen. The Milwaukee Comedy Festival kicks off tonight with the official kickoff with Kelly Ryan Tomorrow, The Roast of Milwaukee on the third day, Dandy Comedy Show, the fourth cast Comedy on the fifth Todd Berry, who right now has the number one comedy special of the year according to Johnny Mac mke comedyfest dot com. If you want to check out more about that and that is your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it.

Maybe they’d like it too. And you can all follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify where every Gate shows see here tomorrow

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Featured: George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Mitch Hedberg, Sam Kinison, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Kate Smurthwaite, Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford, Tracy Morgan

What’s in This Episode

• Is TikTok-focused crowd work ruining stand-up comedy
• Crowd work debate at High Plains Comedy Festival Denver
• Kate Smurthwaite on Russell Brand allegations and broader industry misconduct
• Hazel O’Keefe on lack of female comedians on bills and sexism in comedy
• Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford discuss unpaid celebrity gig requests
• Tracy Morgan on why he won’t go to space
• Just for Laughs Toronto festival final night lineup

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Denver Post asked, is TikTok focused crowd work ruining stand up comedy? Yes, and that’s your comedy news for you. No, I’m kidding.

I have more to say about that, but the short answer. Yes. There was a discussion at the High Plains Comedy Festival. Karen Watchell is the festival’s executive producer. She told the Post crowd work is something some comedians do very well and even based entire tours slash careers on.

But as comics have felt more pressure to build their online presences, crowd work seems to be a necessary piece, sometimes evil, even for comedians who have mostly avoided CrowdWork in their natural style. I have a pet peeve for you. I’m sure if you’ve been on YouTube, you see comedian Destroys Hitler and there’s it’s just like I guess, I guess. Sam Talent said, it has ruined talking to the crowd. Now everyone thinks you’re trying to get a viral clip, and that translates to either people giving you propostress answers to any kind of interaction answers they think will help the comedian, or even worse, answers they think are funny.

Our phones are ruining our memories. Jane Burns says she’s come around the crowd work as it’s gain traction online. She said, lately, I asked for moms. Then I ask motherhood related questions that are not too broad, so I can leave that interaction and easily jump back into my set. The Dinver Post points out comedians who avoid crowd work are often afraid it will devolve into a messy back and forth and which audiences start to think they’re the ones telling the jokes.

Nathan Lund said it can derail the set, can make someone think they should continue to interact after I’ve moved on, which can be awkward. If the crowd members drunk, it can get annoying to be interrupted, and then I have to shut them down. That can destroy momentum or create tension. Now let me jump in here. I’m gonna throw out some names.

Remember George Carlin’s crowd work. Remember Richard Pryor’s crowd work, Mitch Hedberg’s crowd work, Sam Kinison’s crowd work, Jeff Foxworthy’s crowd work, Bill Burr’s crowd work. Gary Goldman’s crowd work. You get the point, yeah, Dave Chappelle’s crowd work right, yes. Comedian Destroys Hicklerer Stop Josh Blue said, my general instinct is to go right at someone heckling or causing a problem.

If you make yourself a nuisance, I’m going to come right for you and verbally eviscerate you. Each case is so different that there’s not one answer for every situation, but for the most part, seek and destroy good stuff too much with the crowd work From The Guardian. Comedian Kate Smurthweight posted a video titled brand Awareness, and she said the allegations against Russell Brand were quote nowhere near scratching the surface. Continuing to quote her, I could probably, personally from my own experience, name fifteen to twenty people who have behaved inappropriately with me, and if I then included other women in comedy and the stories that they’ve told me, we could easily get that to one hundred to one hundred and fifty. There are so many others, and I know some people will say, well, tell us the other names, but no, I’ve done it before.

I’ve described these incidents, and people don’t hear me. They don’t believe me. They say, that’s a very serious allegation. I hope you’ve taken it to the police, and ultimately I lose work and I can’t do that over and over again. Hazel O’Keefe is a comedy promoter who founded Laughing Cow’s Comedy.

Hazel says that was a response to asking comedy bookers and promoters why there was never more than one female on the bill and their response, now time out. You know, sometimes you hear while there aren’t a lot of women comedians, or women aren’t funny. None of that was this answer. This answer was I wouldn’t take that risk. Wow.

O’Keefe said. A lot has changed since then when she founded Laughing Cows in nineteen ninety eight, but we’re still nowhere near where we need to be. The nature of the live comedy industry means that comics are often working in isolation and under extremely sexist environments. Professional interactions are often sexualized, but it’s often very difficult report due to power dynamics and the risk of losing work and being further isolated from the comedy scene. Vulture spoke with Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford and a partner and Unsurela altogether.

They all put out books recently and a very interesting discussion. Bamford said, I don’t know if you guys had this when a famous person texts you and says, can you do this thing? And there’s no mention of money, and you go what. I just find it ongoingly bizarre. I find it very interesting, not only in comedy but in the world where just like people don’t pay people a living wage.

Goldman said, I do think sometimes where the celebrity invites you and never mentions pay, then I’m looking back on it and I’m like, oh, but I did get the opportunity to be snubbed by Adam Driver in the green room, and Bill Murray took a picture with my wife, So was that worth it? I don’t know. I just feel terrible about myself. You watched my show and now you’re snubbing me. Sounds pretty uncool.

Adam Driver. I’ve met Gary a few times. If he’s calling out Adam Driver specifically, I’m inclined to think that actually happened. Barnes said, I did a show recently. The famous person asked me too.

There was no mention of money, and I think. For months, I was so mad about it and was like, he has so much money, why didn’t he just pay us? Then months later I saw it was for charity, but nobody tell me Bamford. Here’s my argument. Even if it is for charity, if it’s produced by somebody who has a ton of money, pay the performers, especially if it’s not going to be combat performance, which is what benefits always are.

Where people are in a hostage situation for three hours and suddenly you find yourself trapped watching a dance on behalf of Parkinson’s Stop, let’s stop it. It’s a gig. It’s legitimate work. Bamford. When somebody says something’s a benefit, I just go.

I’d like to give money instead. Tracy Morgan told the Press Enterprise the other day someone asked him if he would go into space? Well would he? Tracy said? Why would I go to space?

Why would I want to go down to the ocean into submarine? Why would I want to go see the Titanic? Do you know how many people died on the Titanic. There are people who like go to graveyards at picnic. Why do you want to lunch with dead people?

You’re a weirdo. It is the final day of Just for Laughs, Toronto. I’m going to miss this one. I like this here Tonight show seven o’clock, River Butcher, Second City, Colin Quinn at seven, Rory Scoville, Katherine Cohen. Good, line up there.

At eight o’clock, I Love Toronto. Jess Tom’s Less Lonely Beer, Beer Comedy, Saturday Night Satire, mart There Chavez in concert, Best of Absolute Comedy, and Andrew Schultz at eight. Johnny, you’re gonna pick Andrew Schultz. You just did five minutes hating on crowd work. I know, right, hypocrite time.

We’ll see what John picks in a minute. Nine o’clock Joey On, Nicole Johnson, Robbie Hoffman, Colin Quinn. Oh good, that’s going to free up one of my decisions. At seven at Sydney Washington. Nine thirty Joanne McNally, Marlon Wayne’s ten o’clock Saturday Night Sets Hire, one of those double threats, This one with Mattie Kelly and Charles Haycock, Second City Again, ten thirty, Best of Absolute Comedy.

Off the Clock with Tamara Chavan and Bria Hibert. Eleven o’clock a late night surprise and Robbie Hoffman. All right, what should we do tonight? Seven o’clock Rory Scovell. Haven’t seen Rory.

At eight o’clock Andrew Schultz, John, you did five minutes about hating on crowd work, and now we’re going to see Andrew Schultz. Yep, can I tell you? I don’t know. I feel like Schultz is really good at working the crowd. But I feel like he’s working the crowd and not just doing it to go viral, if you know what I mean.

I don’t feel like he’s doing just commu destroy Chuckler. I feel like that’s work to his I don’t know. I know it when I see it. Andrew Schultz. Very funny.

Let’s go there at nine o’clock, Colin Quinn. At ten o’clock, when do Saturday Night sat Sire see Canada’s honest comics at Toronto’s coolest indie comedy Club. They’ll post the comedians that day. All right, Yeah, we could do that. That might be a bit of a come down after we just saw some pretty heavy hitters.

And then eleven o’clock. I’ll stay up late with this since it’s the last night let’s find out what late night surprise winds up being. And that is your comedy needs for today. Tell a friend about the show. He’d be like, Hey, there’s this guy and he went on and on about crowd work and then he told us to go to a crowd work show.

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Featured: Chris Distefano, Sam Morell, John Mulaney, Tom Segura, Tracy Morgan, Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford

What’s in This Episode

• Beacon Theater accidentally bans clothing on prohibited items list
• Sam Morell discusses looking up to John Mulaney early in his comedy career
• Sam Morell defends John Mulaney amid public controversy and divorce
• Tom Segura explains advertising ‘trying new material’ shows to audiences
• Tracy Morgan on evolving comedy perspective with age and personal growth
• Gary Gulman and Maria Bamford critique crowd work in stand-up comedy

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Chennymac with your Daily Comedy News. This one from the New York Post has cracked me up. Outside Back to comedy pretty quickly. But the Beacon Theater in New York City has put up a list of twenty items it forbids, including cowbells, hoverboards, bats, clubs, and clothes.

Christa Stephano told the Post clothing. I hope they have plastic covers for the seats. I’ve shows at Radio City in Madison Square Garden. We’re allowing clothes and cowbells. He said.

The sign looks like it should be outside Riker’s Island. I’m looking at the sign here on the New York Post website. I had his zone in if you are curious. The prohibited items are weapons, aerosol cans, fireworks, mace, cameras, audio visual recording devices, drones. You can’t bring a drone into the Beacon, tripods, poles outside, food or beverages, alcohol, illegal substances, bats and clubs, beach balls, frisbees, hoverboards or skateboards, strollers, bottles, bags, clothing.

It actually says clothing. I’m looking at it. It’s an icon of like a T shirt signs, banners and flags, horns and cowbells, no cowbell. A spokesperson for Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Beacon, thanked the Post for bringing it to their attention. A spokesperson said, Wow, that was clearly a mistake.

Clothing is definitely permitted. I love that story so much. Sam Morrell was on the Creative Control podcast. Both those words start with the letter K. As you know.

Sam was telling a story about joking with his parents. We had lunch and I said to my parents, you know, I really got in the stand up because I was kind of an f up and thought it was an easy way to drink for free, and I like jokes.

And then I realized how hard I had to work if I wanted to be a successful com…

I didn’t want to fail at this because I really love it. Sam said. A guy he looked up to was John Mulaney. He was doing the road and he would see him going up at some clubs, but he could also be an alternative room guy. He just had the chops to work anywhere.

He was so young and honed and articulate and funny. He just felt like a pro and to me that was cool. Look. I saw him at the Comedy Seller one night, right after I bombed a corporate event, and he’s like, Sam, how you been, And I said, oh, I just ate it. At this event, Mulaney said, I hate that.

Let’s get a booth. And it’s such a comic instinct. He saw that it was a little rattled and was just trying to make me laugh. Be nice, and he’s like, genuinely nice. Sam was asked about the reception of Mulaney changing you know, the substance abuse and the divorce and all that, and Morrell said, I thought, get a life, what are you doing.

I mean, they don’t realize our bond as comedians just runs deep. So my instinct is to side with a comedian. Of course, there’s cases like, look, I’m not going to have Bill Cosby drop in, But you don’t understand if this bond runs deep, it’s complicated. But also Dave Chappelle is a great comedian. I don’t understand.

He may touch on topics you don’t like, but this guy as a comedy legend, where you like it or not. Las Vegas Weekly he talked to Toom Sagora. Some of the day Segura’s a tour are called Tom Segora trying new material, and The Weekly was curious why he would advertise shows like that. Segura said, I like people to know what they’re going to People like stand up. I think it’s fun.

I’ve been doing things for last month, and it’s to say this is a stage where you’re not going to see somebody go up there and say I don’t know what to talk about. It’s a stage where the thing is taking form. And if you’re a person who likes stand up and you see it now and you see it later, you’ll be like, oh okay. In a year, it’ll be super polish where you’re trimmed the fat. But the fun thing about the shows right now is I’ll try something different.

I’ll try a different punchline Thursday, Friday and Saturday because I’m figuring out what’s the best for it, and I think for comedy fans that’s a fun thing to do. So I’m basically just informing the audience that you’re going to see experiments in addition to things that are really working really well. The Press Enterprise asked Tracy Morgan about his newest material and does he ever notice things that he found funny before he no longer finds funny. Tracy said, absolutely. You know you’re grown.

You’re not a child. You’re same things from a different perspective. If you do the same things you did when you were seventeen in your fifties, you’ve wasted thirty years. You have to grow. You see things like love, heartbreak, and all those other things that humans go through from a different perspective as you get older.

I think of things in my own way. I smell things in my own way. I hear things in my own way. Everybody has a different way of seeing and hearing things. I express myself and that’s all I’m doing.

Sense of humor is the highest form of intelligence on the planet. That’s why God gave it to me. My sense of humor helped me get through my heartbreak, pain and suffering. That helped me get through it. You’ll cry if you don’t laugh about it, and I’m done crying.

Vulture was talking to Gary Goman as part of that interview. Maria Bamford was there. They were talking about crowd work. I’ll have a lot to say about crowd work on tomorrow’s podcast, Gary Goleman said, I know. Maria Bamford said, she and miners crowd work.

It’s awful. It’s so easy. And if I was in the audience as somebody asked me what I did for work, I’d stand up and scream, what do you do for work? I gave me here to hear jokes that can be enjoyed as forms of art. Of course, there are two three people who do it well, and the rest of them are just doing a photocopy of a photocopy of the people who do it well.

Amen on that, Gary, Amen, I think they should give the audience their money back if they don’t do any of the jokes that they pre wrote.

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There’s nothing easier. Today is National Coffee Day. Great day to support the show. If you want to support the show, going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Since it’s National Coffee Day, I will take your donation.

I will go to the National Donuts Chain. I will get a large ice coffee with caramel and skim milk. Doing a lot of running. This week’s long run a nineteen miler, and sometimes if I have the regular milk, I have a little trouble breathing till it clears my system. The skim milks a little better, and what I should actually get is an almond milk.

You know what, I’m going to redo my order large ice coffee, caramel almond milk, and then I want to have the breathing problems. National Coffee Day. Support the show, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I will shut you out on the show, but not till next week because I already taped the weekend.

I’m excited about a new project I’m working on. It is called Ghosts Scary Stories Daily. We’re doing thirty one ghost stories and thirty one days. It is a podcast and you can check out ghost Scary Stories Daily wherever you get your shows. Let’s see use it just for laughs.

On a Friday night, JFL Toronto Great Festival, The Seven o’clock Shows, Colin Quinn, jess Tom Second City, Jessica Curson, Sidney Washington, Graham Kay. Eight o’clock Andrew Schultz, I Love Toronto, New Jokes, Who dis Don’t Tell Baba, Martinobrono, The Stupid Good Comedy Show, and Fan Funny Fridays. I’m gonna have to do some research on those. Eight thirty The Women of Comedy, nine o’clock, River Butcher, Katherine Cohen, Sam Morrison, Double Threat, Maddy Kelly and Charles Haycock. Best of Absolute Comedy, nine thirty, Rory Scovel, Geekly Squad Live, ten o’clock, Joel Nicole Johnson, ten thirty, Yrhood’s a Joke eleven o’clock, Low Key, eleven thirty, After Hours, eleven fifty nine, Late Bad.

What should we see tonight? Now? I’ve recorded out of sequence, so I know that in the future I’m gonna go, like, Hey, let’s go see Colin Quinn. So it’s seven o’clock you wanna do? Jessica Curson or Who’s Graham Kay?

An award winning stand up comedian, actor, and TV writer. Graham Kay has been described as sarcastic and brilliantly funny. Warden raised Innawa, Graham lives in Brooklyn. Let’s go see Graham k I like seeing something new. I feel like I have a handle on what Jessica does.

Eight o’clock. I have a feeling tomorrow I’m going to tell you, let’s go see Andrew Schultz. Let’s pick something else. Don’t tell Baba’s a monthly queer comedy charity show hosted by two Arab immigrants, featuring a mix of Toronto’s top and upcoming stand up comedians. All ticket sale profits go to local charities.

Five comedians plus the two hosts on the bill. And it’s at the Tall Boys Craft beer House. Let’s do that. That’s just different. Plus we can grab some beverages.

All right, that’s the eight o’clock show. Nine o’clock, I have a feeling in the future we’re gonna go see River Butchers. So let’s do the Double Threat and our ten o’clock show will be Joel Nicole Johnson, and then the late shows. As you’ve heard me say all week, I get tired, I’m going to bed. You can do a late show, but say Elane is at the Chicago Theater tonight.

He warned his new husband, Rodrigo about the show because it’s the first time he’s met Lane’s family since they got married in August, and it’s Rodrigo’s first visit to Chicago, Lane says. Rodrigo says he’s prepared, but I don’t think he is. I’m so excited to show him the city, my school, Downtown, hit up my old haunts. I love Chicago so much. I need to live in New York because it’s where I can do my best work.

But Chicago is a special place. Mattaye Lane says, I love comedians because they’re just brutally honest. They just tell you tor face. You would think that would be such a harsh way of hearing things, but I think it’s a queer person growing up and being made fun of in high school. It’s a very healing thing for me.

I’ve never felt more connected in any community that I’m part of, Italian gay whatever. I’m the most connected with stand up comedians. Chelsea Handler’s Little Big Bitch Store kicks off New York City tonight and tomorrow, then DC Durham, LA bunch of other places. She finishes up in Feckerville, Oklahoma on December fifteenth, And I hear my voice giving out. I recorded four episodes of five Good News Stories.

That’s a podcast I do where I tell you five stories and they’re all good news. I did five of those. I finish up the live one show for the week, and then I recorded Thursday’s podcast, Sunday’s podcast, and now Today’s podcast, back to back to back. Why did you do Friday early? CHUNNYMC nineteen miler training run that I mentioned earlier in the podcast?

That takes you know, I don’t know how fast do you think I am? That takes three plus hours, my friends, and then I’m kind of tired, so I recorded Friday a little early. Thank you for listening every day. It’s a lot of fun for me to do. Tell a friend about it, maybe they’ll like it too.

And you can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wh if you get your shows. My voice is shut. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Andy Pearson, Rob Schneider, Ralph Barbosa, Drew Carey, Bill Maher, Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers, Chevy Chase, Mark Marin

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Liquid Death recycling glory hole infomercial spoof
• Rob Schneider cancels Canada trip after Nazi veteran controversy in Parliament
• Ralph Barbosa discusses comedy, offense, and cancellation culture
• Drew Carey covers WGA member meals during writers strike
• Bill Maher’s show returns after writers strike ends
• Jimmy Fallon reveals how Lorne Michaels got him the Late Night gig
• Seth Meyers’ path to hosting Late Night with Lorne Michaels’ involvement
• Chevy Chase discusses early band experience with Steely Dan founders on WTF podcast

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigoria wants you to shove your junk into his glory hole. No no, no, no, Relax, Relax, relax. It’s for Liquid Death.

It’s an informercial spoof. It was created by the Canned Water brand to encourage you to recycle. You can now purchase a Tom Sigora recycling glory Hole. It’s a three foot tall box with a cutout where Sigora’s mouth is. It’s large enough to easily accommodate empty aluminum containers, but Sagora says don’t toss in plastic because plastic isn’t actually recyclable.

Five percent of it gets sent right to landfills. Now, if you’d like a Tom Sigora glory Hole, it costs fifty eight dollars. Andy Pearson is Liquid Death’s VP of Creative I like Andy, Andy said, we all grew up with messaging about how important it is to recycle. But there’s also something important we’re missing in that lesson, which is to waste less. Single use plastics like plastic bottles are endemic to our modern world.

What we want to do with this video and the entire brand is to get people to stop and think critically about their choices, and of course the best way to do that humor at it. Sagora react when he was pitched. We read him the title and he stopped us and said, yep, that’s it. If you are not familiar with the juxtaposition of the words whole and glory, don’t google it. Rob Schneider has canceled a trip to Canada.

I don’t know if you saw this story. Last week, a Ukrainian veteran was given a standing ovation in the House of Commons. Okay, what’s the issue? While the Ukrainian veteran fought against the Russians? Okay, what’s the issue?

He fought against the Russians during the Second World War. Who fought against the Russians in the Second World War? The Nazis, that’s who. Once everybody put that together, didn’t go over so well. How Speaker Anthony Rhoda resigned, expressing profound regret from my error.

Right, enough with that About the Rob Schneider part. Schneider posted on social media, this guy fought for Hitler, not like we call people Hitler today, the Hitler like an actual aid off Hitler. Dallas News caught up with Ralph Barbosu said, you never know how people are going to react to what you say. You might have an idea, but I think it’s a comedian. You should be allowed to at least have the attempt to say whatever is you want to say, as long as your first priority is that it’s going to be funny.

So I think a lot of time people could tell when you’re trying to be funny and when you’re just trying to be mean. Now, I think if you’re saying a joke is a comic and you’ve done it four or five times on the road, you can tell if it’s rubbing people the wrong way. Then you shouldn’t know what you’re getting into. Don’t hide behind the stage if people are getting angry. I mean, I think people have the right to come kick your ass every now and then.

I don’t think people should be canceled, But I also don’t think the comics should take advantage of the stage. My number one thing is always remember my point is to be funny. I’m not outdire to leave a message or to offend or anything. I just find something funny. In my special I make jokes about water, like people just drink water because I just find something funny in there.

So when I do talk about guns or politics, it’s not because I feel like, oh yeah, I’m gonna offend somebody or anything like that. It’s just out of like what I saw funny in it. Now I few people were offended by it, and you want to cancel me, do what you want to do. I also, if you’re funny or people like what you’re saying, you can never truly get canceled. You can only get rid of fans who now know more about you.

Will There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Now that the writer strike is over. Drew Carey had been covering the cost of meals tip included for card carrying WGA members at two restaurants. It’s May twentieth, Drew now tweeted, Yo, WGA West members, congrats. If the strike is officially over, you have until midnights.

Have one last meal at Bob’s Big Boy or Swingers. Go celebrate love y’all. Media reports suggested Drew’s bill was ten thousand dollars a week at Swingers alone. The strike is over, so Bill Moore’s show is back. It’ll be back this Friday, Mare tweeted my writers in real timer back see your Friday Night.

We’ll see what this means for the Strike Force five podcast. I assume it will come to an end. On a recent episode, Jimmy Fallon said after he left s al in two thousand and four, he wanted to pursue a career in acting in movies. Lauren Michael’s contacted Fallon ask him if he’d ever want to do Late Night. Remember there was ida where Conan was going to take over the Tonight Show in like five years and then eventually did so, there was like a five year gap where like Conan O’Brien was on deck.

Lauren said, would you ever want to do a talk show? Fallon recalled, no, I don’t know, I don’t think so, and six years asked me if I’m around, I’ll think about it. Well, Lauren Michaels did follow up. Fallen said he consulted with his wife, who said, you have to take this job. You’re one of three human beings ever to do this.

So I call Lauren and I go, I’m in. I’d love to do it, and Lauren goes, great, NBC doesn’t really want you, but I have to talk to them. I’m not even on their list. By the way, Michael steps in and went to bad for Falon, telling NBC either you do this with Jimmy or I’m not involved, or something like that. According to Jimmy Fallon Seth Myers said that Late Night wasn’t on his radar either, something that he wanted to do in his future.

He came across a New York Post story that said he was one of the rumored replacements for Jimmy Fallon. Said Lauren Michaels then called him Meyer’s joke. When you talk to Lauren, it often feels like a follow up call to a conversation that never happened. He just started saying, you know, I think you’ll do it, and it’d be good. I’ll take time, but you’ll have Jimmy as a lade in.

There was no moment when anybody ever said to me, would you like to host the show? Tomorrow is National Coffee Day, so if you’d like to support the show, A great way to support the show is go to buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News and for National Coffee Day, I will take your donation and I will go to the National Donuts chain and I will get a large ice coffee with caramel and skim milk, and I will thank you on the show, but not until next week because I prerecord the weekends. You know, that’s how it works. Buy Meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Hey, I’m excited about a new project I’m working on.

It is called ghost So in October we’re doing thirty one ghost Stories in thirty one days. It’s a podcast. I’ll just search for ghost scary Stories daily, ghost Scary Stories daily. It’s actually a sneak preview up. That’s pretty cool.

I did listen to Mark Marin with Chevy Chase all that community stuff. It was like maybe a minute. I didn’t clock it, but it was not like Chevy one on community for an hour. He clearly just didn’t want to talk about it. I feel like Marin had to edit a lot of that down.

I’m not sure. It just felt like maybe even Chevy stepped out of the room a few times. I thought, I don’t know, but it wasn’t that bad. It was definitely very very interesting. Check it out for sure.

Chevy Chase on Mark Marin’s WTF in the interview, Chevy talked about going to school with Christopher Guest, as well as musicians Walter Becker and Donald Figgan. You may know them from Steely Dan. Chase said he played drums in a band with them before they went on to co found Steely Dan. Chevy said, we started Steely Dan basically I was Fagan’s first drum and I loved it. We started at Board College.

I can’t remember the name of the little place that people would go and play guitars and sing, and we called ourselves the Very Bad Jazz Band. That was literally our name. I think I was a good jazz drummer. I love doing that kind of thing, and I didn’t many times later too. I didn’t want to be a rock and roll drummer kind of guy, you know.

As for the community stuff that Nicole Brown went on Twitter and posted, he seems nice. Chevy is coming to Rochester. He and his wife will take part in a live discussion and audience Q and A following a screening of the nineteen eighty nine Christmas classic National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation that’ll be at the Mayo Civic Center on Wednesday, December thirteenth. I wonder how much he’s getting paid for that. I can’t believe he’s doing it.

Wow. The Golden Globes have announced a new category. It is Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television. It will honor six traditional stand up comedy performances of at least thirty minutes that first aired in the United States, excluding work that’s part of a larger series or TV films. Brian Posin’s tour kicks off.

He’s in Ferndale, Michigan at the Loving Touch, then off to Grand Rapids, Chicago, San frand Burlington Appleton Cuday, Wisconsin at the X Ray Arcade on December first, and Madison on December second. Brian Possin dot com for details there. College Humor has changed their name to drop Out. Dropout is the name of the ad free subscription streaming platform they launched in twenty eighteen. College Humor has been around since nineteen ninety nine.

Dropout hoes more than seventy five quote uncensored unquote original series. Some of those include to Mension twenty, Game Change, makes some Noise, I’m Actually dirty, Laundry, Play It by Ear, and Breaking News. College Humor’s website shut down at twenty twenty, but they have a YouTube channel with fourteen point seven million subscribers. That channel is now being renamed Dropout. Okay, sure about that.

Guys. Michael Blaustein you may know him from the podcast Stiff Socks. He’s taping a special at Comedy Works in Danverds a night through the thirtieth and let’s see what’s going on at Just for Last Toronto this evening six thirty, The CBC’s Because News seven o’clock, Tom Popa, Paul Elia, Jeremy Hotts, he’s great, I know where we’re going there, Joe Nicole Johnson, Sidney Washington and Colin Quinn. Those were six different shows. That’s not one sort of amazing crazy show with six comedians of that level.

Seven thirty Antidepressant Thursdays, eight o’clock Double Threat Maddy Kelly and Charles Haycock, Second sid at eight, Laugh Therapy at eight, eight thirty Best of Absolute Comedy A thirty Tiny Grievance Comedy, a weekly showcase of some of Canada’s funniest comics. Nine o’clock Just Tom, Ian Edwards, Chris Red, Robbie Hoffman. Nine thirty Jim Norton. I didn’t know Jim Norton was at this festival. Awesome ten o’clock riverd Butcher, Asian Comedy All Stars, eleven o’clock Low Key, Katherine Cohen, Sam Morrison, Martin or Bano, eleven thirty Midnight Madness.

All right, you heard me get excited about something. Seven o’clock. We are definitely doing Jeremy Hotts. He is fantastic. Eight o’clock.

I don’t know. You want to do the Double, the Diret, You want to do Thursday laugh Therapy, You want to grab a beer because I’m just killing time? Nine thirty. I want to go see Norton. I haven’t seen Norton in a while and I love him.

And that’ll take us to the eleven o’clock shows. Nothing really grabbing me, and I’m probably gonna want to go to bed. That’s your company. These for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify orherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Polly Shore, Richard Simmons, Russell Brand, Trevor Noah, Gary Goldman, Sam Jay, Dane Cook, Rick and Morty voice actors

What’s in This Episode

• Late night TV return after writer strike
• The Office reboot speculation
• Polly Shore wants to play Richard Simmons biopic
• Russell Brand responds to accusations on social media
• Trevor Noah performs in New Delhi, India
• Gary Goldman discusses memoir and mother lawsuit concerns
• Sam Jay talks new special on Max
• Dane Cook marries Kelsey Taylor in Hawaii
• Rick and Morty season 7 new voice actors revealed

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hello, Jenny Mick with your Daily Comedy News. All right, the writer strike, he’s over. When will we get Late Night back? One late night insider told Variety, we want to come back a sap.

I think everybody’s leaning forward like they’re ready to go. I’d look for them to return on October two or October ninth. I think they’re going to be very motivated to get their crews working again. A different source said, we’ve been keeping the wheels somewhat in motion, so it’s sort of dusting off the studio and getting it back up again. It’s not exactly a light switch, but as long as you can get everybody back in, the network just has to pull repeats and start putting new broadcast shows back on.

It’s just about what goes into the shows, and that’s the bar you need a little lead time for is to figure out exactly what you’re coming back and doing. According to Insider, as some late night producers were already emailing staff about coming to work as soon as today. All Right, we’ll see what happens with that. The actor is still on strike. An interesting sidebar to this in Puck News, they claimed that Greg Daniels is looking to boot the Office.

This related to the end of the writer strike. They wrote, quote Greg Daniels is set to do a reboot of the Office, for instance, It is totally unclear. I looked at a half a dozen articles. Nobody knows what a reboot of the Office means. Does it mean it’s a completely different office and you just run the office format with a you know, crazy boss and a flirty couple on all that?

You know how the office works. You’ve seen this show, You’ve heard of it? Yes? Is it that? Are we going back to dunder Mifflin.

I’ll talk about that in a second. Is it a total reboot of the Office where what somebody else plays Michael Scott and we start over? I think that’s a terrible idea. As for an office continuation, you know, I don’t know. So what do you do?

Is Correll coming back? And even if Steve Carell said yeah, I’ll totally do it, well, how does that work? Michael’s decided to move back at his old job, and so Dwight gets demoted. Is John Krasinski going to do this show? Probably not?

So Are Jim and Pam still together? Does Pam still work there, but you know, she just talks about Jim, but he’s never around because he’s off being a sports age like. It’s not that easy to bring this show back. Sure, you can do this. There’s ways to write anything into it.

You know, Michael decides come back, Towight gets demoted Towy. It’s happier to be demoted. Jim’s just not around. You could make it work. I’m sure a lot of the secondary and tertiary characters would be happy to come back.

You could have some new people. I don’t know. But the other thing is I’ll watch, you’ll watch, so who knows. We’ll keep an eye on that one. Polly Sure would like to play Richard Simmons and a biopic.

Only Sure went on social media and said, I’ve noticed all the reactions to me playing Richard Simmons in a new biopic. I heard he’s living deep in Big Bear. We’ve been playing phone tag. Yes he still has a phone. I’m trying to make it happen for you, guys.

Be optimistic. In the meantime, hit up Hulu, Amazon, Disney, HBO and all the big producers. I definitely can morph into the guy. I’ll see you at the Academy Awards twenty twenty five. I’m not sure, Polly sure as Richard Simmons will wind up on Disney, but we’ll see.

From the Daily Mail, they covered Russell Brand and wrote in a rambling three minute clip that was posted to Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. Russell Brand thanked his fans for their support and for questioning reports that had been made. Russell went on to accuse the British government of demanding that big tech sensor is online content, and Russell took a swipe at the BBC for its Trust News initiative that tackles fake news. I agree it was a rambling clip. Let’s take a quick listen, Hollo, there you awakening wonders.

Obviously, it’s been an extraordinary and distressing week and I thank you very much for your support and for questioning the information that you’ve been presented with. By now, you’re probably aware that the British government have asked big tech platforms to censor out online content and that some online platforms have complied with that. YouTube CEO Neeil Mohan has defended the decision who strip Russell Brands YouTube channel of ads. Mohan said, if creators have off platform behavior, or there’s off platform news that could be damaging to the broader creator ecosystem, you can be suspended from our monetization program. Trevor Noah played New Delhi’s j l N Stadium and The Indian Express was there to cover it.

Let’s see what Trevor’s doing on his Indian tour. Trevor talked about visiting the taj Mahal on his first day, but the audience enjoyed Trevor’s jokes about the Delhi traffic, especially the Tuck Tuck vehicles on the road, who, according to Trevor, were the real rulers of Delhi roads. Every time Trevor said a Hindi word, the amuse spectators cheered for him. The rest of his set was about with the weather in New Delhi, Indian immigration, and international politics. Trevor was both shocked and amused to know that New Delhi has a wedding season and how dates are set keeping the store alignment and weather in mind.

He also said he’s considering an arranged marriage for himself. Jokes about China got a favorable response. He asked the audience if India was happy about British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s appointment. He got a loud yes. Trevor said, do you know how angry some people were in the UK?

I was like, this is the best day ever to talk about flipping the script, Trevor set was almost two hours long. Pretty impressive there. Gary Goldman doing a lot of press for his book. Vulture asked Gary if he was worried about him his mom suing him. Carry said, yeah, I felt bad about certain things.

There are certain people in my life who I changed their names if I said bad things, but that was because a lawyer would ask. At one point she said, now your uncle Norman the burglar, is he still alive? And I said no, and she said okay, good because there are certain people who they don’t want to sue. But then the lawyer said, do you think there’s any way your mother would sue you? And I thought, I hope not.

Also, she’s old enough for I feel we could delay the lawsuit for a while and wait her out. Variety asked Sam J if there was anything Sam was afraid to talk about in the new special. Sam said, I’m a little bit past it because people are always going to have something to say. That’s a fact. In this special I made a greater effort to show my work, to really walk you through the thought process, and to leave less holes than the joke.

I just tried to make sure the jokes were a whole. They asked Sam about covering such topics, and Sam said, it’s because what my favorite comedians did, Richard pryor Chris Rock want to psychs George Carlin. I don’t think all comedy has to have some political comment to it. Some stuff’s just fun and silly, and that’s awesome too. Salute Me or Shoot Me is on Max.

You know HBO Max. Stop calling it Max. Go back to HBO Max. Salute Me or Shoot Me is on Max. Now, I haven’t seen much buzz on it.

I forgot it was coming out, and I host this thing every day, but it was the weekend and stuff. I’m not sure Saturday night is the best night for releasing specialties. Used to be forty years ago, but times change. Congratulations to Dane Cook. He has married kelseyat Sailor.

They got married over the weekend in Hawaii. Taylor posted on Instagram first day as mister and missus. Cook couldn’t be more over the moon. Dane himself shared an image his best man took of Dane thirty minutes before the wedding. Dane wrote, last night was one for the ages.

I made more memories in one night than I have in a full year. The wedding even had a hashtag hashtag kiss the Cook. Adult Swim put out a trailer for season seven of Rick and Morty, and we get to hear the new voices of Rick and of Morty. The network is keeping the names of the new voice actor is confidential until the show season premiere. You may recall both Rick and Morty used to be voiced by Justin Royland.

He’s got some concerns he’s got to take care of and it kicked him off the show. An insider said, we want the show to speak for itself. We believe in the strength of the season and our new voices, and we want to preserve the viewing experience for fans. I pulled two short clips, and the first one of the first voice, he’ll here is Jerry, who’s talking, You’re Rick. In the second clip, it is new Morty and new Rick.

I’ll play them and I’ll tell you what I think. I was wondering if you could help me out with a bit of a rake situation. A rake situation, what do you say, Rick per Space, come upon something. Maybe I have a moral objection. Slick and Morty.

We’re back, baby. It’s not bad. The Rick is better than the Morty. The Rick is missing a little bit of the angst, little bit of the gravel, and the Morty’s okay. But again, this could have been far worse.

Remember some of the replacement bugs bunnies if some of the replacement kerbitt the frogs. So this is fine. Good job at Rick and Morty. Dan Horman, one of the creators of Rick and Morty, is also the creator of Krapopolis and Dan Feinberg with my favorite TV critic rights for The Holly Reporter, and I forgot Krypopoulos was coming out again. I host this thing every day.

I’m not sure they promoted it all that well. Dan Feinberg in The Hollywood Reporter rights Dan Harman’s brand of comedy sometimes cure Isle, sometimes every night, usually with both sensibilities engaged on a graphic on screen wrestling match. Isn’t for everybody, even the shows of is that I love most Community and Rick and Morty and the Sarah Silverman Program, The usual Stuff, Lose me here and there. Krypopolis a longjest dating Fox animated comedy notable for off screen trivia. It’s already been renewed through a third season.

It looks bland, and the stories it’s telling are bland, and most oddly of all, the thematic underpinnings of the series are bland. Krpopoulos is never boring, and I chuckled here and there. The weird thing to say is that Krpopolis is almost aware that it’s underwhelming. The first episode includes a bit about how a joke of a roast of sorts was not laugh out loud funny and it isn’t. That show’s already on Fox in case you missed it, and I did.

Let’s see who’s at JFL Toronto on this Tuesday. Seven o’clock Bad Dates with Jamila Jamil seven o clock, Julie Kim seven o’clock, Sam Morrison, Sugar Daddy seven o’clock Gavin Matts seven o’clock. Joke Signals, hosted by Dakota ray Aber, a multi comic showcase that celebrates the best of Canada’s indigenous talent. Seven thirty The Humber College Showcase eight o’clock, Second City. I realize I keep saying SETV and it’s not SETV.

It’s the Second City. I realized I said SETV on like five straight episodes. Sorry about that, It’s the Second City. Paul Elliot at eight eight thirty The Disaster featuring Alex Klanko. What’s this an ALTS comedy showcase.

Comedians do whatever they want as long as it’s not traditional stand up or traditional improv A thirty best of Absolute Comedy. This is real bust for a Tuesday Man nine o’clock, Patty Harrison, De’ll Say, Sloane Graham, k Hey, Sus Treho. Those are four different shows. Amateur Night at nine thirty, ten o’clock Martin Orbano, Double Threat, Rachel Manson and Clifton Cramo eleven o’clock, Sam Morrison eleven o’clock. Low Key Comedy Show, which is an indoor outdoor comedy show.

Born out of the pandemic’s impact on live entertainment, Low Key as emerged as one of the top independent shows in the country. Two hosts introducing four stand up comics, each doing ten minutes, followed by an improvised five minute interview.

And then eleven thirty midnight madness.

All right, what should we do tonight? Seven o’clock. I don’t think we’ve seen any of these folks. Maybe we went to see Gavin Matts last night. Let’s do well, we know Sam Morrison’s playing leader.

Let’s do Julie Kim at seven. Actually, no, let me take that back. Let’s do joke signals. That’s the one with indigenous performers. Let’s go see that for something different.

Eight o’clock. Paul Elliot will do that. Nine o’clock. If we’ve done his su Straho yet, let’s do that ten o’clock. Malton Orbano’s the only show at ten, so we’ll do that.

At eleven o’clock. Sam Morrison sugar daddy, And believe me, after five comedy shows and it’s approaching midnight, I’m gonna want to go to bed. So that’s your Tuesday night at JFL Toronto. British comedian Russell Howard is launching a podcast. His guests include the likes of John Oliver, Jimmy Carr and Taylor Thomlinson.

That’s pretty good, Wonderbox. We’ll be out on October eleventh. It happens to coincide with the East Coast leg of Howard’s latest tour. Funny how that happens.

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Also funny that Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelsey.

And what do you know? The Chiefs happened to be on Sunday Night Football this week. And what do you know? Taylor’s promoting a movie coming out in October and has a new version of nineteen eighty nine coming out. That’s weird.

I guess Taylor will be at the big game in New York City on Sunday Night on Sunday Night Football again. Wow, that’s weird. Here at the Network and here in the basement, we started another podcast. This one is called Taylor Swift Today. If you want to follow the latest on Taylor Swift.

We’re putting that one out a few times a week. Taylor Swift Today wherever you get your podcasts. And one more for cross promotion. Comedian Katherine Ryan shared her tale of meeting Prince Harry. You know that guy.

We talk about him every day on the Palace Intrigue podcast. That podcast is just about the Royal family and I’m the writer on it. Katherine Ryan was on her own podcast, which is called Telling Everyone everything. So there she is, and Prince Harry enters the room appearing quote right over at my left shoulder. First thing out of his mouth, Oh, you’re the one that tells jokes about be Katherine, Ryan said.

I was like, yeah, it was me, Sorry about that. Harry says, it’s okay. I like jokes. Catherine says, okay, Well none of them were at your expense. Harry says, no, they weren’t, so keep telling the jokes, Katherine says.

After that she sank into a pool of sweaty shame. She said, Harry was lovely meeting the other guests. His presence was so striking seeing him up close, Prince Harry in the flesh, he looks exactly but taller like the image of Prince Harry you have in your head. He’s an HD and the photos of him look like the real Hymn. All right, So, if you want to follow the Royals Palace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows, if you want to follow Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Today, wherever you get your shows, I might as well promote five good news stories.

That’s a show I host where I tell you five stories, all them good news fluff stories, kickers, as we call them in the radio industry. Just quick smile stories. Do that one twice a week, new episodes Monday and Thursday. And you already know about Daily Comedy News, which if this is your first time listening, push that all a button on your arap the rest of you. You’re going to tell a friend about this.

She’s gonna be like, Oh, Johnny Mac, I love him, he’s awesome, he drinks ice coffee and he tells me about the latest comedy news. That guy’s wonderful. That’s what you’re gonna do. Other than that, see here tomorrow.

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Featured: Hasan Minhaj, Sarah Suzuki Harvard, Pete Davidson, Bill Engvall, David Spade, Will Arnett, Tracy Morgan, Martin Hurley, John Higgins, Ben Marshall

What’s in This Episode

• Hasan Minhaj cast as The Riddler in DC/Spotify podcast
• Hasan Minhaj fabrication controversy and loss of trust
• Pete Davidson’s San Francisco show with flubbed lines
• Bill Engvall unretires for one-night benefit show for wildlife center
• David Spade hosts new Fox game show Snake Oil
• Tracy Morgan on comedy, influences, and creating his own lane
• Please Don’t Destroy cast nepotism discussion on SNL

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. Hey Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Hassan minhas you know the guy that made up some stuff in his comedy routine and everybody’s all upset. I’ve been saying that a little flippantly. I agree with the take in The New York Times last week that obviously we know comedians make stuff up, but the way that Hassan did it in his last special, and he may have blown himself up here.

We’ll talk about that in the second. But he is the lead actor in the new DC Warner Brothers Spotify collaboration, The Riddler Secrets in the Dark. It’s a scripted podcast, it’s a Batman thing, and Hassan plays the Riddler. Now, usually the Riddler tells Batman true things disguised as riddles, so who knows interesting casting there. In this version, the vigilante Batman has undergone some unknown traumatic episode and it’s up to the Riddler to try and piece together the mystery.

See, they flipped things on its head. They’re very interesting. And DC News caught up with comedian Sarah Suzuki Harvard, who’s a Muslim American and for her, Hassan was a role model She said the use of race and religion in his comedy was empowering and inspired some of her material, but she adds they trusted him. That’s why I think people are upset, and it makes sense why there’s backlash. A lot of people trusted Hasan Minhaj.

They trusted his programs because he depicted himself as a journalist, truth teller and someone who would always speak to what’s right, and he completely destroyed that. Well, said Sarah, That’s kind of what I’ve been dancing with, even though I’ve been flipping legoing Haza a lot of people. I think it’s a little different than maybe Jim Gaffigan not actually eating a hot pocket earlier in the day. I think it’s different. The San Francisco Gate was it Pete Davidson’s recent show.

Pete was flubbing lines and joked, I’m always mid the gate, says Pete mixed up a couple of his stories throughout the show and had to stop to read from his notes three times. Davidson made some jokes about San Francisco, saying it’s not that bad out here. There’s still the full house house, the Missus doubt Firehouse. It’s not that bad. He made a joke about his disdain for meeting six children through the Make a Wish Foundation.

His joke, they’re dying wishes to meet me. This kid has no hope. He joked about as well publicized love life, and he said the low point came not when he lost a lover, but when he lost a stalker. His joke, the difference between a stalker and not is whether they’re hot. Ugly girls don’t make bombs.

They eat cookies and cut themselves. Bill Engvall, remember he retired. He’s back from One Night Only. Baby. Bill Engvall will perform October seventh in Salt Lake City.

It’s a benefit for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah. Bill told Good Things Utah how a great horned owl named Ali inspired Bill Ngvall to return to the Spotlight for one show. You see Ali. The owl was living above the front door of Bill Angvall’s house for a few weeks, and one day Bill and missus Bill noticed the bird lying in the driveway with an injury. The couple put Ali in the truck and drove him to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah.

After six months of rehab, Ali was released back in the wild near Bill’s home and became a father to four baby owls. Bill said about the benefit, I didn’t even say, let me think about it. They do such a great job, and this benefit is for them to have what we call a forever home where they don’t have to move anymore. Earlier this year, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah was told it was going to have to move to make way for a new parking lot owned by the neighboring Dinosaur Park. With the benefit, Bill and the organization hope to find a permanent facility for the nonprofit to continue its rehabilitation of roughly four thousand injured animals every year.

Nice job, Bill Ingvall David Spade as a new unscripted game show on Fox. It’ll be out this week. It’s called Snake Oil. Will Arnett as your executive producer. On Snake Oil, contestants are pitched unique products by convincing entrepreneurs, but some of them are showcasing real business ventures, while others are snake oil salesmen whose products are fake.

With the help of guest celebrity advisors, contestants have to figure out which ones are real which are a sham. Be celebrity guest advisors including Adam Divine, JB. Smooth, Natasha Lazaro, and more. David Spade said, when Fox asked me to host their new show, I was flattered, but then they told me it was about a shady snake oil salesman, and I was a little less flattered to be the guy that immediately comes to mind. Alison Wallack is a suit at Fox and gave this quotey quote.

David Spade’s signature brand of Irreverend Comedy, and Will Arnette’s ingenuity, combined with the most bizarre consumer products ever devised, creates an incredibly entertaining guessing game that embodies everything snake Oil is all about. I want to throw up on that quote. I suit shouldn’t give quotes snake oil. Wednesday on Fox, The Press Enterprise caught up with Tracy Morgan, who said, you have to be able to say what you want to say, and I created a lane for myself where you can’t cancel me. That sounds like a challenge.

All you’re gonna see is funny if you go see him on Friday at the Morongo Casino resort and spa. Tracy said, it doesn’t matter what I talk about, because I’m bringing it to you. You don’t have to worry about material because God didn’t give me material. He gave me a sense of humor and materials right in front of me. All right, Tracy, when did you first realize you could be a comedian professionally?

Tracy said, when my mother’s water broke in nineteen sixty eight at five in the morning. I was born this way. You don’t realize it, you just do. It’s my personality. My father was funny and did stand up in Vietnam, so I’m gonna say it was following my dad’s footsteps, like most sons do.

I didn’t make money off it until ninety five ninety six. That’s when it really turned into a business. All right. How would you describe your comedy, Tracy Morgan? The spirit got into me when I saw Jeff Jam I got on stage.

It was just being me. I said the things I understood and was funny with I rolled the dice and took a chance, and then four months later I was on Jeff jam I don’t think I had any new with it. It was the people that recognized the funny that putting me on stage. All right, Tracy Morgan, do you have any comedian friends you hang out with? What’s that like?

Tracy said, Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy are like my family. They showed it to me, brought it out of me, and are big influences of my life. You gotta understand that I don’t just love Eddie or Martin on a comedic level. I love them on a human level. So when we’re together, we talk about human things, not funny things.

We talk about real things. Some people stay in the comedy zone all day long and that’s all they know. So I don’t have a lot of friends in show business. They don’t know how to come out of character. They think if they’re real for one minute, they’re comedy will go away.

Gonna be honest. I was all excited when I saw that the rap spoke with the guys from Please Don’t Destroy, And then I got a little sad. Why Johnny Mac Well, let me tell you that the guys from Please Don’t Destroy or Martin Hurlahy, John Higgins and Ben Marshall, and I didn’t know this. The whole Nippo baby thing came up. Yeah, you see Martin hurla He’s a father was Saturday Night Live head writer and producer Tim hurla He and John higgins father was writer and announcer producer Steve Higgins.

So I’ll jump in here. It doesn’t mean they’re not talented, but it does suggest to me that it was a little easier for their stuff to get to Lauren Michaels. That’s how the business works, Higgins told the rap. The thing is, we get it. We’re so lucky to have those connections.

He understands that the troop had a huge leg up in the industry, while also acknowledging how hard we work on stuff. So I feel really lucky. I get the conversation. We just keep going fair enough, Hurley, he said, I hope the work is good enough and what we’re doing is fresh enough that there’s a place for it. But you know, obviously we acknowledge that beyond even connections or whatever, we have crazy privilege of being three straight white guys from NYU.

Marshall chimed in and said, I can also say from firsthand experience that these dudes were crazy hard and hold themselves to a super high standard and don’t take it lightly. Being at thirty Rock and taking the elevator and looking at the floor and seeing the peacock logo, that kind of thing still feels a little magical. But honestly, once we were there working, you don’t have time to think about anything. It’s just kind of like, go, go go. So we were really thrown into the fire.

I think our second week on the show, we had a video on and then from there it was just off to the races. But it’s still crazy. I still pinched myself that we’re working there. I do like their work a lot. I have a Christmas miracle for you.

Although it’s September, it’s a Monday, which means there’s a new episode of The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. It’s called The Weekly Comedy Thing. So what I do there that’s the foreigner of this thing.

I’d tell quick versions of the stories that you hear this podcast, but then I get to actually play the comedians bits, because you know, licensing and writes and stuff. And I have been meaning to this for months and I forget. Every Monday, I’m going to tell you who’s on the show this week? All right? So we have Michelle Wolf, Russell Peters, David Spade, Chris Rock, Leslie Jones a partner and Sherla David Cross talking about his tour name.

Eugene Merman about getting in a stand up Nate Brigatsy on making it, John to Pierce, Doug Stanhope and Dice Clay are both in new movies. And Steve Morton. So that’s called the Weekly Comedy Thing. Grab it on your phone there and you can listen to it after this, Hopefully I’ll remember next Monday to do this again. Let’s see who’s at just for laughs on this Monday.

Seven o’clock Julie Kim, Pattie Harrison, the Greek Canadian comedy show, Hayeseu’s Trey Ho Those are good options. Eight o’clock I Love Toronto Double Threat Hassan Phillips and Malik Alisol. Nine o’clock Gavin Matt’s another double threat, this one with Nigel Grinstead and Jonas Charlie Will Say Sloan at nine o’clock. Ten o’clock another another double threat, Chad Anderson and Adrian Fish eleven o’clock Late Night Surprise eleven thirty Midnight Madness. Huh, let’s do all right, Let’s make it a night where we don’t see big names.

Let’s do the Greek Canadian comedy show at seven o’clock. Always good to see some local comedy.

And then let’s do the Double Threats at eight, nine and ten, and then we’ll g…

You can go out by yourself at midnight Madness at eleven thirty. Johnnymac likes his sleep. That’s a really solid Monday. At comedy festivals, Mondays are usually dark, honestly. Or maybe there’s one show that’s a robust night.

So we’ll have a good night out hypothetically in Toronto, which is a great city. Vulture speaking to Gary Goldman, a lot of press Gary Goldman’s book being received well. Gary talked about his influences and said, I read so many books about memoir and writing. I read this collection of Kurt Vaudeguet’s ideas on writing that were cobbled together from everything he’d ever said about writing, called Pity the Reader. Then I read Stephen King’s on writing.

The best thing he said was you need to be a great reader. You need to read a lot, which gave me this thing where I was just not procrastinating but also reading, which I felt good about. In terms of memoirs, Adam Resnick, the creator with Chris Elliott of Get a Life and Cabin Boy, wrote a book called Will Not Attend, which was a collection of essays. Was the funniest thing I ever read. So I just kept reading.

And then I realized, oh, I’m just putting off my writing, and I said, all right, you need to earn some reading by writing for an hour. So I was just reading and writing all day. And luckily I’m married to a reader. My wife reads all the time. And it was also during the pandemic, so everybody understood any kind of behavior.

It was really helpful. And that’s your comedy news for today. Let’s do another week of telling a friend about the show. Hey friend, do you like podcast? There’s this guy Johnny McK and he just tell this great, amazing story about Gary Goman.

You gotta hear it here. Let me get your phone out of your hand, give me your phone, take it, and then take the phone out of her hand and then open up the podcast app and type in daily Commy News and push follow. Do that they won’t think you’re read at all. You’re got to do that for me. Appreciate you.

See an tomorrow

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Featured: Rupert Murdoch, John Stewart, Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Ralph Barbosa, Nish Kumar, Russell Brand, Gary Goldman, Maria Bamford, Conan O’Brien, Kara Swisher

What’s in This Episode

• Rupert Murdoch’s retirement from Fox News
• John Stewart on the Strikeforce Five podcast discussing early TV experiences
• John Oliver’s broken nose from Civil War reenactment bit at The Daily Show
• Ralph Barbosa on viral crowdwork videos and generational differences in comedy
• Russell Brand’s reputation as open secret in British comedy since 2018
• Gary Goldman’s new book and writing process
• Conan O’Brien interview with Kara Swisher on interviewing philosophy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Man, who with your Daily Comedy News. I haven’t done Late Bot in a while, but from the Late Bot, Rupert Murdoch has decided to retire. Fox News is planning a tribute. It’s called the retirement Hoax. Is Rupert really leaving?

Where? Is this just liberal fake news? Another version of the joke that I think is better. Rupert Murdoch is stepping down. It’s the end of an era, or as Fox News would report it, breaking news.

Rupert Murdoch retires blames Hillary Clinton. John Stewart was on the Strikeforce five podcast. He said, I want to make one thing clear off the bat, not a fan, not a fan of the podcast, tried to get through the first one, not a fan. The discussion amongst the group, what was it like the first time you were on TV? John Stewart said.

His guest was Howard Stern. It must have been ten seconds in when he explained to me pretty accurately why I would be canceled in the upcoming future. Nailed it, kind of put everybody in their place for the thing, and then sat back and said, what do you have to say now? So was a suspicious beginning. We learned that John Stewart is listed as dufus in Stephen Colbert’s phone.

They consider each other best friend, but they only see each other once a year because Stewart is antisocial. John Stewart talked about hiring John Oliver at the Daily Show and said, rarely do you see a tape and go that guy, And that was one of those with John. He was so clearly great.

And then we found out that he needed a green card, and first bit in we sent h…

Oliver confirmed the story and said it was a Civil War reenactment. And I believe I was fighting for the North, and so the bit was before they said go, because I believe that’s how the Civil War began. I would run ahead of them as fast as I can at the other army, and I did that, and then I was running literally as fast as I possibly could. It was quite wet underfoot, and I was wearing dress shoes, and then I fell forward. I realized there was a musket in my hand, and so I got out of the way face planted.

There was blood all over my face, and I knew it had come to work at the right office when we got back and there was still laughter echoing around the office. That’s great. They did not discuss hippy felling gad. I don’t know if they ever will. The Dallas News caught up with Ralph Barbosa Keep an Eye on Ralph.

Ralph said, I think growing up with like half my friends being nerdy gamer type dudes that helped me stay true to who I am and not try to fake it. But it also helped when I was trying to fake it and I was hanging around with more like of the troublemakers once I started getting into actual trouble and made me realize exactly who I was. If I was hanging around the dangerous type kids to avoid fights or any kind of trouble, I usually try to make everybody laugh to kind of keep things cool. When I was hanging around the nerdy typers, I just felt more at home. It was easy to crack jokes, and they usually got my jokes a little better.

The Dallas News asked Ralph Barbosa about expressing his frustration with more seasoned comedians, saying younger comedians have it easy now, possibly George Lopez, who knows I don’t know what it was like for them coming up. I’m sure it was tough. I hear crazy stories, and I’m sure it was really tough. I know one could probably make them angry to see somebody do a video of them just doing crowd work, talking to the crowd, and it blows up, and then that persons selling tickets whatever. I’m seeing more and more stuff about comedians hating on CrowdWork videos.

It’s really interesting. There’s a thing with Gary Golman comments in that and upcoming days really interesting, Barbosa said. But I also think they shouldn’t be disregarded that a lot of comics were able to make a career from their videos or clips going viral online. Is that these comics are still forming, still writing. The Internet has been a helping hand for comics, TikTok, Instagram, all that, but it also puts me into another gear.

If I’m going to open up the gates to more views, It’s going to be easier for people to access my material. That means I have to pump out way more material. Whereas the comics from years ago, they could be doing the same jokes for years and years and years as their career grew. I could have gone that route, and I would have gone that route. I would have gone any route it would have taken to get to where I am, but this was the route that worked.

This is the route that I’ll keep working at. Nish Kumar has claimed that Russell Brand’s reputation for being a sex predator has been an open secret in British comedy since twenty eighteen. This from The Daily Mail, Kumar said it was discussed by multiple comedians in Edinburgh fringe shows the following year. In twenty eighteen, it was well known. To be completely honest with you, the story that I heard was relating to a sexual assault and it wasn’t covered in the documentary.

Those weren’t the stories that actually heard about. So it’s possible that there’s more allegations to come. I think if you look at Russell Brand’s IMDb page, you’ll see that his television work in Britain starts to dry up around twenty eighteen nineteen. That’s simply because increasingly people were just not willing to work with him. This stuff is still happening.

There are still people working in comedy who are the subject of open secrets. There are still people who work in comedy that we can’t name because again the threat of lawsuits. And there are still people work in comedy who people will say, oh, we don’t send young women into their dressing rooms. The only people that come out of this with any credibility are the victims who have been brave enough to step forward, and the journalists who have worked extremely hard to produce rigorous pieces of journalism so they could get around the threats of a very powerful man’s lawyers. And until we start asking ourselves the hard questions, we’re never ever going to get progress out of this.

Until men start asking the hard questions about how we conduct ourselves, until people in powerful positions start asking questions about why they’re indulging the whims of predators and monsters. Till any of that happens, nothing is going to change. Vulture asked Gary Goman while he wrote a book. Gary said, Revenge. When I gave my mother the book, she immediately started scanning it for her name, and mom and mother.

She’ll call me and say, well, that’s not who I am. My wife is so helpful in these things, she said, Barbara, book is full of quirky things about you that people are going to love. You’ll notice it’s not titled Surviving Barbara Goleman. It’s not really about you, and he loves you. Goldman said, that’s the joke answer.

The real answer is that I love books, and I’ve always wanted to write a book. I’ve always read these stories I wanted to tell as my life as a child, I remember so vividly. I love to tell these stories while an elevated voice, like they were so important, Like there was a late library book that takes up four or five pages and it was this traumatic experience. It’s sort of an extension of our stand up. Goldman said he listened to Maria Bamford’s book and said, I want to get this out there.

I was blown away.

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And also, I’m so grateful I didn’t come across it before I wrote my own, beca…

Maria Bamford’s book is so good, which is a high compliment from comedians to say that it made you feel bad about yourself. Still more to be mine. From Kara Swisher’s Fantastic interview with Conan O’Brien. If you haven’t heard that, that’s on Kara Swisher’s podcast. Kara was curious about the role of the interviewer.

Using the term the platonic interviewer, Conan said, people go in with different agendas when the interview. I’ve always tried to figure out, especially back when I was in the volume business game, where you’re talking to people at night, five nights a week and very few vacations. You’re talking to a lot of people, and people are coming through the might not naturally be interested in I’m a curious person, and I would try to find out what am I really curious about with this person? What drives a conversation is what are you curious about? As they moved on to the podcast, I talked to a fewer people, and they’re almost universally people that I really want to talk to.

I’m very fortunate that way, but I’m still always fascinated by all these skills people have that I don’t have, and all these things people can do that I can’t do, and I want to know about that. Conan said, I really do like to connect with people. I really want to make that connection, that drive to make that connection, and I do this. I’ll chat with people on the street or in a restaurant for a very long time, and I’ll ask them about themselves to point where it’s so ridiculous they say, look, Conan, I just wanted to get a selfie. I have to go.

Kara was curious, who is Conan’s worst guest. Conan said, well, I hate to put it on them, but it was really early on and I just didn’t have the chops yet. It was like nineteen ninety three and we had an earth a Kit on the show and I’d say, now you work with James Dean and she’d say, m, well, what do you care about that? She was very challenging and provocative, and I think if I had more seasoning, which I got quickly, but I didn’t have it, then I would have been able to turn that on its head and had fun with it. But I wasn’t able to, and it wasn’t just not good for her, and it was not good for me.

And I remember it after that interview thinking that was bad. It was really bad. At first, I was very knee jerk, thinking why was she so difficult, and then realizing no, it’s an opportunity. It was an opportunity. I just wasn’t there yet.

I just got out on the court and I tried to make a three point shot. And went into the audience and had killed a little boy. Johnny Mac, did you just laugh at killing a little boy? Codin was making up a story. No little boy was actually killed.

That’s what makes it funny. Looks like Bill marn Howard Stern aren’t going to be friends again. Bill Moore made some comments about Howard Stern’s second marriage on his podcast. Bill Moore said, how does this gushing about the second wife? How does that make the first wife feel?

Could we just not gush about the person while the other person can still hear it. Howard Stern commented on his satellite radio program and said, what a sexist thing to say, Like, what a convoluted, nutty thing to say. It’s assuming that he knows something about my first marriage. That of course the man must be leaving the woman, and the woman be devastated and me sitting around pining away for her. Famous man Kevin Hard, always out there hustling, making money doing business deals, a new one with Proximo Spirits.

They’ve been named the official luxury tequila of the Philadelphia Eagles. Kevin Hard put out a statement said, as a diehard Philadelphia Eagles fan, this partnership marries two of my biggest passions, football and tequila. Last year, I surprise fans will an Eagle to bring luck to my team. But this year I had to kick it up a notch. My tequila brand has signed a multi year partnership that brings the Eagles and Grand Cormino together.

The Eagles are stuck with me.

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Now, Let’s see what’s happening at JFL Toronto Tonight, seven o’clock, Mark F…

They’ll Say Sloan at seven, Second City again, Andrea Gin again, Ronny Chieng again, Jay Jordan again. Seven forty five, Queerly Canadian eight o’clock Double Threat, Rachel Manson and Clifton Cremo eight o’clock, Best of Absolute Comedy, eight thirty, The Nubian Show nine o’clock. I Hate People, People Hate Me. A special screening event with Bobby Summers. This offbeat, scripted comedy explores two friends lives as they navigate as underdogs in Toronto’s queer community.

Patty Harrison at nine, Double Threat, Hassan Phills and Malik Ella Salle at nine. Pretty ro A bus for a Sunday Isn’t this nine fifteen, Jink X Monsoon nine thirty Trinidad Versus Jamaica Comedy Clash. I’m intrigued for twenty years, This consistently sold up comedy clash is always a fun favorite. The Gloves are coming out with the heavy Hitters of Laughter, hosted by Jay Morton and Jean Paul. The Trinidad Verse Jamaica Comedy Clash is a clean comedy show in honor of all mothers, especially ones from Africa and the Caribbean.

I’m going to definitely put that on our list for tonight. Jay Jordan at ten, eleven o’clock, Alison Leeblee, The Alternative Show, Gavin Matt’s at eleven and Midnight Madness. All right, if you and I were there, what would we do? Seven o’clock. I think we’ve already hypothetically seen Neil Brennan.

Let’s go see Andrea Gin eight o’clock. Let’s well, let’s do Double Threat Rachel Manson and Clifton Creamo. I don’t think we’ve done that one yet. I definitely want to do Trinidadverse Jamaica at nine thirty, and do we have to do an eleven o’clock show? Can I just go to bed.

Now, you’re gonna make me hang out with you, all right, Gavin Matts will do at eleven o’clock. I’ve never seen Gavin, so that’ll be something different. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’m still on a mission. You’re gonna tell your friends, Hey, do you like podcasts?

There’s this one where this guy reads comedy schedules to us. That’s the dumb part. That’s like the last five minutes. But at the beginning of the show he tells you like the latest comedy news, and I kind of like the podcast. You’re gonna tell your friends something like that.

See tomorrow.