Author: johnnymacdcn

---

Full Transcript

Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm loves. Hope you enjoyed the George Lopez grill yesterday, because we’re back to politics. Very serious topic here for real.

Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from having on a rising democrat on The Late Show. Colbert said he was told, quote in no uncertain terms, that he could have Representative James Tallerco on The Late Show. Here’s a lengthy clip. I will let Stephen Colbert explain. You know who is not one of my guests tonight.

That’s Texas State Representative James Talerico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this. You’ve probably heard.

So you might have heard of this thing called the equal time rule. Okay, it’s an old FCC rule that applies only to radio and broadcast television, not cable or streaming. That says, if a show has a candidate on during an election, they have to have all that candidate’s opponents on as well. It’s the FCC’s most time honored rule, right after no nipples at the Super Bowl. There’s long been an exception for this rule, an exception for news interviews and talk show interviews with politicians.

Now that’s crucial. How else were voters supposed to know back in ninety two that Bill Clinton sucked at Saxophone? But on January twenty first of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and smug bowling pin Brendan Carr. In this letter, Car said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes. Well, sir, you’re chairman of the FCC, so FCCU.

Because I think. Simple, because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself. Sir, I smelt it because he had delt it. You are Dutch ovening America’s airwaves. Let’s just call this what it is Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV.

Okay, He’s like a toddler with too much screen time that’s cranky and then drops a load in his diaper. Right, so like super interesting there now. In this next section, Colbert talks about his alliance with Jimmy Kimmel and how he put the interview on his YouTube page. I have edited this for pacing. It’s no surprise that two of the people most affected by this threat or me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel.

When this letter dropped. We both talked about the letter on air, and then later car defended it like this, if Kimmel. Or Colbert want to continue to do their programming and they don’t want to have to comply with this requirement, then they can go to a cable channel or podcast or streaming service and that’s fine. Great idea man whose job is to regulate broadcast TV suggest everyone just leave broadcast TV. It’s like when Arby’s changed our slogan to Arby’s would it kill you to eat a salad?

Anyway? I decided to take Brendan Carr’s advice. I am going to interview James Tallerico tonight, but it’s not going to be on the Late Show. It’s going to be on the Late Shows YouTube page. The network says, I can’t give you URL or a QR code, but I promise you if you go to our YouTube page, you’ll find it.

And as the SEC Commissioner has pointed out, I’m not part of the equal time rules. So at the end of this podcast, I will play some of that interview. We’ll come back to that.

Meanwhile, Dave Chappelle did appear in Minneapolis.

He was at the Grand Casino Arena. Neil Justin caught the show for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Neil reports near the beginning of the show, Chappelle said, I’m sorry I couldn’t get here sooner, but you didn’t need me. Chappelle wondered if the people in Springfield, Ohio, near his hometown would be able to show the same nerve if and when federal agents conduct similar raids in Springfield, Ohio. Quoting the account from the newspaper, Chappelle apparently said, I don’t know as much faith in the whites of Springfield as I do in the whites of Minneapolis.

The recap interestingly says Chappelle largely avoided jokes about transgender people, but he was far from timid when it came to joking about other groups. We’re told Chappelle joked, I’m about to say the most racist thing I’ll say tonight, but it’s not the only racist thing I’ll say. He then launched into a bit about Chinese people being sneaky. Neil Justin writes, the truth is most of his material was wrapped in affection. The one exception was his frequent use of a derogatory term for gay people that was dated and unnecessary.

But for the most part, Chappelle was on good behavior, or what passes for good behavior for a comic who thrives on pushing buttons. There was hilarious routine on looking at Raiders of the Lost Arc with fresh eyes, and another on how we tried to get Will Smith and Chris Rock to hug it out. On Saturday Night Live, Chappelle announced that all proceeds from the show would stay in the community. I shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, a video of Dave Chappelle visiting the memorial to Alex Pretty Dave play some flowers there. There’s no audio for me to really share with you here, but it’s in the Facebook group if you want to check that out.

Now. While I was in Chappelle mode, I found some reviews of his Super Bowl weekend shows. Now, I had been looking for these and they just weren’t coming up in search. Chappelle’s and Ami tend to throw into the search engines every single day, especially like yesterday when I didn’t have much news, But all of a sudden these popped up. When from the SF Gates Dan Chinilly went to see Dave.

Dan has written about Chappelle many times in the past. Dan thinks it seems like a recording of the set might be heading to Netflix. He wasn’t sure. Chappelle walked out wearing a shirt and blazon with Colin Kaepernick on the back that got a lot of applause. Colin Kaepernick played for the San Francisco forty nine ers.

Dan writes, if you’ve seen Dave’s perform in San Francisco before, odds are you’ve heard much of the set. He returned to transgender jokes a few times and added some lines about Somalians to keep things topical, but this time most of the humor was aimed at Chinese and Jewish people. The other main theme was Dave’s famous friends, with anecdotes about Will Smith and Chris Rock’s Oscar slap. Dan found those bits dated. The standout bit of the Knight saw Chappelle recounting the plot of readers of the Lost Arc.

All right, so that seems like it’s part of the new set. Dan Wright says he has at almost every San Francisco show of the last three years. Chappelle told a story about running into a childhood friend at a Lakers game who directed him to his favorite Indian restaurant in the Tenderloine. Of course, the Cli the story includes an unhoused person pooping on the sidewalk. Dave closed the night on a somber note.

He lowered his voice and explained that he performs these days because being around audiences makes him feel better, and that was in power want to keep us from gathering. The SF Chronicle said Dave treated his latest Bay Area appearance not as escapism but a reminder to stay vigilant. They recap that Dave did some free association weaving together celebrity weekend chatter, politics, conspiracy culture, and long winding stories that ended a punchline you can see coming but still don’t quite expect. A chunk of the set was about travel. He described leaving the country after his last special and wandering through Paris, including a long riff about finally seeing the Mona Lisa and imagining how he’d react if he spotted her in the club.

Oh, he’s got a really good punch here, but I will get in trouble if I say it’s so read it in the SF Chronicle. But the punchline to the Mona Lisa joke is hilarious. The show’s rhythm, ramling story, sharp left turn, punchline, then a longer meditation also carried the themes that have defined his recent work, from the speed of online outrage to the way political identities harden into tribes, and how fame turns every breaking news update into something uncomfortably close. He then talked about Minneapolis again. This show was in San Francisco.

Dave said, zeffed up what they’re doing. Ice were snatching up so many Mexicans, they got carried away. They run out of Mexicans, so they flew to Venezuela and snatched up the president brought him back to America so they could try and send him back to Venezuela. That’s funny. Something is wrong, isn’t it.

Trump is working on something.

---

And then apparently that goes into the readers of the Lost Arc Chunk spoilers…

Dave said, you know what the box represented to me when I saw it on beet the other day. The Epstein Files. They just dumped three million pages of the e fing most salacious crap. But I’m smart, I’m not going to look. Dave continues, The Epstein Files got the whole world ft up, don’t they.

Every time I go out to the party, like all Super Bowl weekend, I keep seeing celebrities everywhere, and they’d be like, hey, Dave, let’s get a picture. I’m like, okay, But in my mind when I’m taking the picture, I’d be like, boy, I hope you don’t reap. In another section, Dave described a futurist split between quote maggot Country, which is what we’re going through now, a woke land, this one where he used the homophobic slur using one of the F words, quoting Dave, I’m going to read it flat deliberately. If I have to choose, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, I’m probably going to fight on the F word land side. I’m going to be in a foxhole, like, what’s your pronoun soldier?

I need more ammunition. Let’s lighten things up a little bit. Todd Barry will be in Syracuse tonight. He posted on social media asking celeb friendly solo dining in Syracuse. Actress Laura and Holly wrote back, No, you should probably leave the state immediately.

Musician Stephen Page from The Bare Naked Lady said try Noble Settler or the Wedge. Some other recommendations included postibilities Dinosaur Barbecue, the York lemongrass Eten, Copper Top Tavern, Daniella Steakhouse, and many others. Boy, people really got into this. Todd Barry liked to feel the suggestions, including a tip for the Wegman’s Food Court, but one social media user for the win. That person wrote, if you’re the select question, I think you’ll be okay no matter where you go.

All right, let’s see what’s happening at Just for Last Vancouver tonight. We have our special correspondent, Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast. I sent him to two shows last night. He got up super early. He texted me at like five in the morning.

He lives in the Vancouver suburbs. He lives in a place called Moose Antler is a British Columbia and apparently after commute to Vancouver like ridiculously early. So I was sending him to like seven pm shows, but you know, he’s Canadian. He didn’t want to let me down, so headed out at like five in the morning. So we’ll hear back from Mike.

But if we were at Just for Last Vancouver tonight, anyone interested in this one? Mike, You’re listening at seven o’clock at the Queen Elizabeth Theater an evening with David Letterman and special guest Zach Galifnakis. Boy, I hope Letterman has something to talk about. What would he possibly bring up? So we all know where Mike is going to be tonight.

I considered going out to this thing. It’s a Wednesday, Like if this were like closer to a weekend and I could have stretched out. I probably would have showed up at JFL Vancouver one of these years, I’m going to go to it. But it was a Wednesday. It was like, eh, so Mike will be on scene to tell us what happens with an Evening with David Letterman and special guest Zach Galifanakis.

Some other shows tonight at the Rio. Craig Connant, He’s got a show at seven, good luck. Catherine Blandford, who you don’t know yet. She’s fantastic. I’ve seen her.

She’s really good. I sent Mike to that show last night. She has a show tonight at seven. But again, Letterman’s gonna win all ties. Matty Kelly has a show at the Fox Cabaret at seven.

Dylan Adler, I’ve seen him. He’s really good. He’s got a nine o’clock show. I mean, I guess you could run from Letterman over to the Review stage and catch Dylan Adler. He’s really good.

It’s a very very solid night at Just for Last Vancouver. From Radar Online, which tends to be a gossipy sight. Amy Schumer in the news again. The headline Amy Schumer’s divorced strategy exposed, including how she’s intent on controlling the narrative of split from Chris Fisher. Read article about Amy Schumer just always makes you feel good, doesn’t it.

Radar Online writes. When speculation ramped up about the possible divorce, Schumer maintained, Chris and I are still married, fingers crossed. We make it through. He’s the best. A source tells Radar Online the divorce was already underway, with money, custody and property divided.

The source told Radar Amy wanted to get everything handled before making the news public. For her son’s sake and for Chris, She’s focused on protecting them both. Okay, fair enough. She knows she’s going to be picked apart and wants to give people as little ammunition as possible. She’s hoping that she and Fisher can be a quote consciously uncouple, similar to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin.

The source says, then it won’t all hurt so much. Ray Romano made his Broadway debut in Simon Rich’s comedy about Ambition. Ray told the Today Show, Relax, I’m not singing. You don’t ever want to hear this voice sing. Ray said, over the years, have been offered a couple of Broadway things, and I’ve never really had the courage to do a full play that runs for months.

This seemed like the perfect little introduction of Broadway. And let’s circle back to where we began. On the Late Show YouTube page, Stephen Colbert spoke with Representative James tell Rico. Let’s listen to the beginning of that interview. I’ve trimmed it a little bit for pacing and cutting down music and applause and things like that, but the words are more or less intact.

Joining me now is a representative in the Texas State House. It is currently running for the United States Senate. Please welcome to the Late Show YouTube page. Representative James taller Rico. I know, thank you.

Now. Here’s the thing. I don’t usually say this to a guest, but if people are watching this right now, it’s because they found us online on YouTube. I did an act of the show that’s on tonight, explaining why it’s not the first time you’ve caused some trauma. FCC opening probe into the view after appearance by taller Rico, do you mean to cause Trump?

I think that Donald Trump is worried that we’re about to flip Texas and Stephen this. This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture, the kind that comes from the top. They they went after the view because I went on there. They went after Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke they didn’t like.

They went after you for telling the truth about Paramount’s bribe to Donald Trump. Corporate corporate, corporate media executives are selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians. And a threat to any of our First Amendment rights is a threat to all of our First Amendment rights. So I’m just the. Fact the fact check you my network’s at are canceling.

This was a purely financial decision, got it, and I remain very grateful for the last eleven years. And you can find the rest of that interview on the YouTube page. I’ve shared the link in the episode notes. And that is your comedy news for today, Oh, Comedy Survivor. Looks like last time I checked, it was like a Kevin Hart voting block trying to get rid of Kevin Hart and the SIGNATARO people.

They’re talking a little bit too now. As a Star Trek fan, there are certain people who are just ruining Star Trek. They include Stephen Colbert, who’s putting me in a tough spot today because obviously I believe in free speech. But on the other hand, Stephen Colbert aligns himself with Alex Kurtzman and the people destroying Star Trek. So I am forced to choose.

I’m in a no win battle there. Do I choose free speech? Do I choose Star Trek. You know, Johnny Mack takes his Star Trek very seriously, but I’m not going to burn down the Republic to save Star Trek. I’ve got the DVDs up in the closet next to the Scrubs DVDs.

I can watch Star Trek TuS whenever I want. What you do is you go to the Facebook group taly Comedy News podcast group. You find a picture of me extinguishing the torch of Seth Myers who was voted off last week. Write down the name of who like voted off Comedy Island. The list of remaining comedians is in that post.

Voting continues until end of day Thursday. In METU Comedy news for today, see tomorrow

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Right there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is a sentence the ALGORITHMP barely love, so I’ll keep saying it. It was a three day weekend and apparently everybody took yesterday off and there wasn’t all that much comedy news. So as I was putting the show together, I’m like, I need one more thing, and boy, George Lopez has hooked it up.

Now. Longtime listeners remember, kind of as the pandemic was starting to ramp down, George Lopez had George Lopez tacos and I made a lot of fun of that and got through a lot of slow news days with that. So George Lopez has hooked it up once again. The headline George Lopez launches innovative stovetop, grill and smoker that fans love. I promised you yesterday.

Yesterday was very political. I said today I would try and make today fun, and I will try and make today fun. I do have one thing I need to do at the end, but do that very last From Parade Magazine, comedian George Lopez surprises fans with the invention of his own stovetop barbecue, grill and smoker, showcasing its unique design and functionality on Instagram. Parade tells us if you’ve been wondering what George Lopez has been up to, you might be surprised to learn the world famous stand up comedian has been cooking up something special behind the scenes. There’s a video.

Should we listen, Let’s listen. Well don’t know this, but I am Ben and my own grill. This is the cast iron and when you churn on, when you put this over it, and then the holes line up to the trot there and you’re done cooking. It all collects, nothing goes in the fire, so in a sense, you would be barbecuing inside your chicken ribs, whatever you want to do. We did some strips one time.

We want to paves on this too. Bacon, sausage, steaks, hot dogs. Easy to clean and the more you use it, the more it looks beat down and the better of fruit tastes. So we’re gonna be cooking on this one and the first person I guess, Hulder, I’ll stop doing it. But until then, kitchen is open.

So you guys, yes, leave me a note, gave me a message, and tell me what you want me to cook, and I’ll make it happen on this scroll right here. And Parade Magazine didn’t shill for George Lopez at all. This is an honest to goodness review. And I know that because they wrote honestly. Parade writes, honestly, this thing is beyond cool.

That’s right. It’s not just cool, it’s beyond cool, says Parade Magazine. Designed to sit like a stovetop griddle, George Lopez’s four piece stovetop and barbecue grill slash smoker has a speckled enamel on steel base with an integrated grease truff that fits perfectly over two burners on any standard range about the height and shape of a large rectangular baking dish. The bass cradles a cast iron grill insert, keeping it raised above the burners and creating a chamber of heat underneath. Now on the video he posted, there’s some chiron.

It says, should I start my own cooking show? And to that, George Lopez, I say, oh, please, do really really please do. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so she posted herself a bright red bikini on Instagram. There we see comedian Amy Schumer wearing a red bikini looking out at the clear blue water. She pauses for a few seconds before she takes a leap into the clear blue water.

She also shared some photos of herself spending some time with friends and joked, my new team is expensive, but worth it. She explains, laughing hard with your friends is so essential. Don’t forget good for your body, close your eyes and breathe, move around, jump in water whenever you have the chance, and get your face out of your screen and in front of other people. Nate Bergazzi was the Grand Marshal at the daytone of five hundred. He caught up with the Charlotte Observer.

We learned that Nate slept over at the track before the race. He said, yeah, I woke up in the racetrack. Admatur of us come down. It was just easy. You want experience, said the best way you can and your grand marshals, so you can ask for a couple of things.

I was like, can you please put me in the middle of the track. So, yeah, we woke up there. You open the door and you’re kind of in it. Nate said, I was thinking all those people that sleep out there. I’m sure a lot of them have long nights, and then you wake up to a car going two hundred miles an hour.

Nate was asked if he had any opinion on NASCAR coming back to the Nashville Fairgrounds. The Fairgrounds last hosted a Cup race in nineteen eighty four. Nate said, there were roller coasters over there. What maybe nervous about roller coasters at the Fairgrounds. I remember riding as a kid that always be working on them, even when you were riding the roller coaster, Like, why these guys working on the roller coaster as it’s going anyway.

Yeah, the speedway’s beautiful where it’s at. It’s very accessible. It’s a real big track. Obviously the Fairgrounds would be nice to have it in Nashville proper. The soccer stadium’s over there, so I don’t know, it’d be nice if you could switch it up.

It’s a smaller track at different race. They asked Nate about the power he had as his grand marshall. He said, I’m trying to learn how much power do I have? Just keep pushing the limit. NASCAR centric sketches you know it’s hard.

Talladegga Knights killed it. That’s what makes it the hardest. The stuff they did that movie where we’re like, yeah they did, it’s unbelievable. You’re always looking yours trying to find material, trying to find something to do. I’ll definitely have my eyes open and see if I see anything.

If I do, I need material. I’ve always need a material. Bird Kreischer was also down there for the weekend. He was joined by NASCAR driver Natalie Decker. They took a picture together.

In it, we see Natalie Decker and Berg Kreischer smiling with their mouths open and pointing to the sky. Decker got in a mention of her sponsor and wrote, from your nose to your tills and everything in between, there’s a sponsor name for that. Sponsor can pay me. Adam Sandler once performed music on the streets of New York City after he was fired from three jobs. Sandler last week won that award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Sandler said music is the best that’s always been there for me. When I went to NYU, I said, I kind of want to stay in New York this summer between freshman and sophomore year, and I was doing stand up and my dad said, you got to get a job. So I got three different jobs. I got fired, fired from two restaurants, in a pharmacy. They were all like, you’re not good working.

So I told my dad I keep getting fired. He was like, you got to make money. Button, So I said, yeah, I think maybe i’ll sing on the subway. So I used to sing on the subways. So wait, so like back in the day, wait, I got do some Mathew, how old is Sandler?

Sandler’s fifty nine is three years older than me. So when he was in college, I was in high school and I commuted via subway to high school. You mean to tell me When I was trying to just like get to school and there was some idiot singing in the subway. I hate those guys because they’re in the way. This is New York City move So the idiot singing the subway could have been Adam Sandlor.

Oh, now it all makes sense. I probably have some subconscious hatred of this man, going back to like me wearing a blazer and tie in nineteen eighty seven, just trying to get to school and there’s this idiot singing stupid songs in the subway. Sailor explained, you take your guitar case, opened it. This was before the assigned places. I used to randomly just go to different spots and play guitar.

Get out of the way. Now it all makes sense. Jessica Curson said she can look at an audience, pick people out, and spin it into material right on the spot. In her current set, she says, I do crowd work in the beginning because everybody wants to see that. Then I talk about my family as well in observations and do some characters.

When I started stand up comedy, I served as the host of many shows. I got a lot more stage time that way, and when you host, you talk to the crowd a lot. I always felt comfortable communicating like that. I don’t call it crowd work. I call it crowd conversations because I’m really talking to them.

It’s not forced at all. I could tell when people want me to tease them or bust on them. Most of my theater shows, the entire front sells out before the other parts of the theater. People want to be upfront and talk to me. But if I feel someone doesn’t want to talk, I’ll never pressure them.

Mike Epps is opening a boxing gym in Indianapolis. It’s the Right Jab at Boxing Gym on Sutherland Avenue near thirty eighth Street. Mike Apps said, there’s no way I could gain the success that I have and not bring it back to Indianapolis and share it. A lot of entertainers, a lot of people move out of their hometowns and go to big cities. Do you work?

But no place like bringing it back to your hometown where you grew up. Just for last Vancouver continues tonight. It’s a little bit slow. Let’s see Red Richardson is at the Review stage at seven, Catherine Blandford at that same venue at nine, a couple of local shows involving Canadian comedians. It’ll pick up more, some big names later in the week.

On Netflix Today, Some More as a new comedy special film at the Gordon Theater in Detroit. It’s Some More second for Netflix. In Chandelier Fly, she shares her takes on untimely death, celebrity scandals, and cell phone companies learning to mind their business. The Simpsons had their eight hundred episode. Show Runner Matt Selman said the show will never have a series finale.

They did a fake finale in season thirty six. Selman explains that was my way of saying, we’re never going to do a series finale. He hopes the last episode will just be a regular episode that is the family in it. Salmon says, if The Simpsons one Day does come to an end, it would just be a regular episode that is the family in it. Probably a little easter egg here and there, but no, I’m going to miss this place.

The show isn’t supposed to change. The characters reset every week. It’s like groundhog Day, but they don’t know it and they don’t die that much. And our one political thing today, the President of the United States commented on Bill Maher. The President took five hundred words on truth Social to call mister Marr a highly overrated lightweight.

It is believed that the President of the United States was inspired by Bill Mahr’s February thirteenth episode of Real Time. On It, Bill Maher mockingly read a February ninth Truth Social post from the President of the United States, in which the President of the United States discussed a potential trade deal between Canada and China, claiming that China would terminate all ice hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup. Mar was confused and asked the question why would China destroy hockey? On a February fourteenth post on truth Social the President of the United States said he was not being serious when he made a statement about hockey. The President went on to say it was a total waste of time for me to have this jerk at the White House, the jerk in question being a Bill Maher.

The President wrote, sometimes in life you waste time tvOS. Bill Maher asked me to have dinner with him through one of his friends, also a friend of mine. I agreed. He came into the famed Oval office much different than I thought he would be. He was extremely nervous, had zero all caps confidence in himself and assuthe his nerves immediately within seconds asked for a vokatnic.

He said to me, I’ve never felt like this before. I’m actually scared. In one respect, it was somewhat endearing anyway. We had a great dinner, was quick, easy, and it seemed to be a nice guy. And for his first show after our dinner.

He was very respectful of our meeting. But with everything I’ve done in bringing our country back from oblivion all Caps, why shouldn’t he be in any event, It was a total waste of time for me to have this jerk at the White House, and last night, after explaining what a disaster all Caps Canadian leaders are to deal with, how Canada has ripped off the United States for years on trade all Caps, but not anymore, I jokingly said in a truth that the first thing China will do is terminate all ice hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup. Trump wrote that mar went on and on about the hockey statement, like what kind of person would say such a foolish thing as this, as though aways being serious when I said it. Fortunately, his television ratings are so low that nobody will learn about his various fake news statements about me. He’s no different than Kim ol Follon or Colbert, but I must admit slightly more talented.

Anyway, Bill Maher is a highly overrated lightweight All Caps and Republicans should stop using him to show how the left is coming off or our way, our base the greatest of all time. Laughs at your weakness. When you do it, that sounds like the way Klingons would speak. We laugh at your weakness. Mar asked me if you could come back to the White House again with his friend.

Also asked to come to the wonderful White House Christmas Party, but he didn’t. Regardless, I’d much rather spend my time making America great again than wasting it on him. Bill continues to suffer from a severe case of Trump Derangement syndrome TDS exclamation point, and there’s nothing that will ever be done to cure him of this very serious disease. Thank you for your attention to this minor matter. President DJT.

CNN interviewed Bill Maherr. They posted the interview on Saturday. Mar was asked if Trump texts him. Mar said yes, yelling at me. This was a few hours after the Truth social post.

Ma argues that Trump is very different in person, and then everyone who’s ever met him says the same thing. Not true. Comedy needs for today. Thank you, George Lopez, See you guys tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

Callaroga, Shark Media. Outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor and I’m Johnny Mac. This is Comedy Survivor where six weeks ago, sixteen comedians were stranded on Comedy Island. Each week, the listeners vote off one comedian.

What they do is they go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group, and they write down a name. Whoever gets the most votes is voted off Comedy Island. Still in the game. Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko At Kotzka, Sebastian Manascalco Tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Kreischer. It’s time to see who goes home.

I’ll tell you the votes. Michelle votes for Sarah Silverman. I believe that is Sarah’s first vote in the game. Matt votes for Kevin Hart. I believe that’s Kevin Hart’s first vote in the game.

Interesting start here. Mike votes for Seth Myers. Scott votes for tig Nataro, Aaron votes for Seth Myers. That’s two votes for Seth Myers. Yvon votes for Osco At Cotska.

Rob votes for OSCO at Cootska. That’s two votes for OTSCO at Cootka, two votes for Seth Myers. Dylan votes for OTSCO at Cotska, three votes for OTSCO at Cootska. Richard votes for Seth Myers, three votes for Seth, three votes for Otsco, Cheryl votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, Andrea votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. That’s three votes for Otsco, three votes for Seth, and two votes for Sebastian.

And our final vote comes from Andy, who votes for Kevin Hart. Once again for the second week in a row, we have a tie. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, Spruce, the AI will cast the deciding vote. Spruce, are you there, I’m right here. No need to worry.

I’m ready whenever you need me. What’s on your mind? Next? Can you check my work make sure the votes are accurate. I already reviewed the votes from the text you share, and the final tally came out to a tie between Seth Myers and Asuquo Costco with three votes each.

Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, you get to cast the deciding vote and would like your reason why please. Well, since I’m in the hot seat, I pick based on who stirred the most passionate debate. Both Seth and Onsugo got strong reactions. Since comedy subjective, I lean forward, keeping the one who sparked that I finally watched them. Tsuko stays.

Seth goes. Now that’s a twist. Wow, make twelve thirty great again. Seth Myers has been eliminated. We’ll take the break, we’ll come back, and we’ll analyze this week’s vote.

Wow. Another fun week here on Comedy Island. Seth meyers elimination is a big vote, not a random one. It was not a pylon from a one voting block. It was a coalition.

Mike started the ball rolling with a clean direct vote that framed Seth Myers as the natural follow up to Jay Leno. Aaron reinforced it with an argument about making Late Night great again. Aaron, the President of the United States and I are all aligned on that one. Somehow. The AI tells us what matters is that the anti Seth vote was unified while the rest of the field was fragmented.

Otsgo had momentum early, then it’s stalled. Kevin Hart has a little heat, but its casual heat, not organized heat, and Sebastian’s two late votes are protest votes, not a movement, and the AI points out people openly said we can get Seth later and then didn’t. That means that once the name becomes acceptable, it becomes inevitable. According to the AI, upcoming possible targets include Kevin Hart, Sebastian, and of course Osco at Kotska little momentum. She barely survived this week, but Leslie Jones barely survived last week, and there wasn’t a single vote for her this week, So who knows what will happen on Comedy Survivor.

So here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go to the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. There you will find a cartoon image of me and Seth Myers. In that Facebook thread, you will vote. Make it super clear, I’m voting off so and So.

The last thing I need for this thing is a controversy. It’s bad enough with the ties. Seth Myers has been eliminated, joining Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Joe Cooy, Ron White, and Jay Leno. Back at the Comedy Island Resort, and Spa Hotel still in the game. Still on the island.

Jim Gaffigan. I don’t think he’s got a vote yet. Nikki Glaser quietly sailing along. Kevin Hart now on the radar, John Mulaney, Sebastian Manascalco, Tig Natar, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Bird Kreischer, and Otsco at Cosca. Still on Comedy Island.

A right comment one name. You are voting someone off the island. One vote per person. Voting ends end of day Thursday. Who will go next?

On Comedy Survivor

---

Full Transcript

Kalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence you’d think I’ve memorized by now, but I have not. But the algorithm does love it. Apparently numbers are up new listeners.

Thank you Today is political, not because it’s President’s Day. Just as I put the show together the same way I put the show together every day. Almost all the stories are political. Sold try and start with a fun one. I saw this headline.

Deal between Jimmy Fallon and Tommy Mottola falls through. Apparently they were going to work on a pasta sauce together. What could have possibly gone wrong? Seems that Tommy’s name is in the Epstein files. Page six says representatives for Jimmy Fallon did not comment, nor did Tommy spokesperson.

A source familiar with the pasta sauce plans tells page six nobody wants to be within fifty feet of anyone in the Epste files. Obviously, the Epstein Files are not funny, but the pasta aspect of this story is funny. Jimmy Fallon has escaped Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel has proposed a new nickname for the files. Kimmel has proposed rebranding the Epstein Files as the Epstein Trump Files. Kim ll explained Trump wants everything to be named after him, including the Kennedy Center, Dulles International Airport, and New York’s Pans Station.

Jimmy said, I mean, if that’s the way to keep them happy. I have another suggestion for something we could name after him, and it’s big, and I think you’ll like it because it’s something everybody’s talking about, something that he actually, unlike almost everything else he wants named after him, deserves to be a part of. And I propose that we should think about adding his name to the Epstein Files. This is hilarious and that is the point of comedy. You can find laughter and anything like.

Again, it’s serious for a second. I write for Pallace Intrigue about the British Royal Family, Epstein Files, everything. Some of the stuff that I have clicked on these images are in my head. I don’t even want to verbalize out louds some of the things have come across that are just horrific. So I don’t make fun of the files at all.

But from a comedy standpoint, what Kimmel’s doing here is hilarious. The idea that a Jimmy fallon pasta sauce deal went sideways over the files, that is kind of funny. So Kimmel said, with your cooperation and the cooperation of others, will be known as the Trump Epstein File. So now he’s flipped it there as an ice ring to it. Why not put his name on the outside of the files too.

On Thursday Night, Jimmy is Monologue noted that he has trademarked the phrase Epstein Trump Files. Kim Will explain jd Vance has been very weekly defending his boss in the fact that Trump’s name is mentioned more than a million times in what are now known as the Trump Epstein Files. We’re getting that trademark, but if you can spread it around, feel free. The Hollywood Reporter had a big piece titled why Mega Boosting comedy bros or turning on Trump? Subheading from Joe Rogan Andrew Schultz.

The bromance between bright coded comics and the president is quickly cooling off. The Hollywood Reporter reminds us, with their tens of millions of subscribers manosphere show a circle of pals that includes such Trump amenable comics as Tony Hinchcliff, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schultz. Are not a cultural footnote. That reminds me last week Theovaughn had on two guests. He had on Kevin James and the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.

Kennedy Junior. If you want to catch up on THEO. Vaughn Show, Kevin James always great, listen. I’m sure I digress. The hollowd Reporter says Hinchcliffe, Rogan, Vaughn, Andrew Schultz are not a cultural footnote.

They are an infrastructure map. You know, that’s sentence structure. There is very AI. I use a lot of AI. It’s very AI there copywriters at The hollod Reporter Sidney Demetz, a fifth year PhD student at the University of Washington who studies podcast networks and misinformation, described the medium’s advantage less as a media theory than a statement of physics.

Sidney says podcasts are incredibly persuasive because they induce the parasocial phenomenon and trigger a lot of feelings of intimacy and trust. Hopefully that is true. Hopefully people are walking around and saying the phrase great dramatic actor Adam Sandler Fell Sydney is right about this, She says. The listener does not merely consume content. The listener builds a relationship.

After enough hours, disagreement feels like betrayal. Right, so like, yeah, you’re gonna be sitting there, you’re gonna be watching Happy Gilmour three, and you’re gonna be like, this sucks. Johnny Mack is right. See, that’s how this works. Thhr writes, this is how political influence arrives disguised his personality.

Roguod show rarely sounds like ideology. It sounds like a shaggy, melancholic tenderness or fuse. It will be pinned down Schultz. A show is never doctrine, but it does sound like swagger. They don’t tell all their audiences what to believe, so much as they suggest what is acceptable to laugh at, to dismiss, to view as performative, order regard as just the media doing its predictable thing.

Skipping ahead, Vaughn’s recent rupture with the administration is instructive because it’s less ideological than existential. When DHS posts that a deportation themed video that used to clip a Vaughan without his consent. He objected publicly. Schultz’s retreat has been much louder. Talking to Charlemagne the God on January thirty first, a rattled Schultz said the fatal shooting of Alex Pretty by Ice agents in Minneapolis was his breaking point.

It’s giving ahead. Trump can survive contempt from newspapers he survived for years. What he cannot easily survives contempt from the people who made him feel to millions of listeners like a permissible choice. The hangover is spreading. Not a sudden moral awakening, but a curdling, a fatigue, a clawing sense that the joke kept going long after it stopped being funny.

Now that reminds me. Over the weekend, I was watching the movie Diehard. Bruce Willis. Have you seen this movie? It’s pretty good.

I like that line where Bruce Willis says, welcome to the party, pal. You know, Bruce is just like frustrated that the cops aren’t paying attention while he’s screaming in the window. I like that. See I digress. Let’ll get back to comedy here.

Dave Chappelle will be in Minnesota today to stand with community Dave’s at the Grand Casino Arena. Be curious to see what Dave has to say as he performs in Minnesota. From pod News, which is a fantastic newsletter written by James Kridlin, who I’m friendly with. It covers the podcasting industry. He had an interesting report on Friday about the Trump Epstein Files and how podcasts appeared in them.

Now, I haven’t searched for Daily Comedy News in them. I hope I’m not in the Trump Epstein Files, but in some of the back and some people recommended to Epstein that he listened to The Dan Bengino Show.

Also recommended episode eleven sixty nine of The Joe Rogan Experience.

The guest I think on that one was Elon Musk.

---

Also recommended Gilbert Godfrey’s Amazing Colossal podcast, specifically the…

Now we don’t know who recommended that Epstein listened to Jackie the joke Man. That came from a redacted contact, but somebody was like, hey, check out Jackie the joke Man. Now I’m worried because I’ve had Jackie the joke man on this show. I better not be in these things. Joe Rogan found out that he was mentioned in the files on last Tuesday’s Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe said he never once considered meeting Jeffrey Epstein. Rogan’s guest was Cheryl Hines. She’s married to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. You may also know her from the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Joe told Cheryl, I’m in the files for not going. Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me, and I was like, what, Like, no, thanks. Cheryl Hines asked, are you glad? Joe said, It’s not even a possibility that I’ve ever won. Especially after I googled him.

I was like, what the eff are you talking about? This was like twenty seventeen. One of my guests was trying to get me to meet him. I was like, are you high? Like, what the eff are you talking about.

Rogan added that some people get intoxicated by being in a circle of rich and powerful people, even if they don’t have any ambitions of being one of those people, they just want to be around them. Yeah, that’s called los Angeles. Rogan described Epstein’s networking is very clever, saying that Epstein was getting all these very powerful and very respected people together, and you’d figure, like, yeah, Clinton’s here, how could this be bad? You know, he’s a genius. On a different episode, Rogan talked about the Epstein files and said it’s crazy.

The whole thing is crazy because like, why have you protected people? He then got into some of the stuff I don’t want to get into on this program. This is the stuff that’s in my head that is like, yikes, yikes, yike’s skipping ahead. Referring to President Trump’s claims that the Epstein files were part of a Democrat inspired hoax, Joe Rogan said, it looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real. This is all this is not a hoax, Like did you not know?

Maybe he didn’t know, and if you want to be charitable, but this is definitely not a oax. And if you got redacted people’s names and these people aren’t victims, you’re not protecting the victims. So what are you doing? And how come all this stuff is not released? Fun show today?

John, I know Pete Davidson, he has that television show that Netflix was calling a video podcast. Well, sag After has weighed in on it, and they apparently have signed an agreement with Netflix that covers the Pete Davidson Show as a quote video podcast. After Pete’s inexpensive television show was announced, sag After I reached out to Netflix to be like, you know, hey, Well, last Thursday, the Actor’s Union announced that it had struck a podcast agreement. A rep for the union set in a statement to Variety sag After a Netflix have executed a podcast agreement covering the Pete Davidson Show. They did not say the terms.

Variety says, typically the union’s podcast agreements have less stringent requirements than TV agreements do. Whereas TV contracts require payment of residuals, podcast contracts generally do not. In addition, TV contracts have relatively strict rules regarding a production safety protocols, working hours, breaks, and travel, which are often simplified in podcast agreements. I hope Pete Davison isn’t working in an unsaved garage. Christella Alonso was scheduled to bring her Midlife Mixtape tour to the Charlene Macomb’s Empire Theater on April eleventh.

However, she has announced she is now trying to change the dates for her visit to Alamo City. Now, why does she want to change the dates? Christella explained a lovely follower mentioned that there was a show playing literally in the theater next door that’s based on a podcast that honestly, I don’t want to be around. She did not mention what that show is, but everybody else assumes she’s referring to The Killers of Kill Tony, that live comedy podcast a schedule to play San Antonio on April eleventh at the neighboring Majestic Theater. Christella said, the majority of my followers are Latino, and in the time that we’re in right now, I don’t feel comfortable having my people around a demo that includes people that support the atrocious things that are happening to my community.

So I’m looking to change dates for the San Antonio show that will ensure that my people have the best time and where I don’t have to cross paths backstage with anyone I don’t want to, Christella said. When she booked her San Antonio date to Kill Tony Folks hadn’t been confirmed, she said, Had I known it was playing there, I would have picked a different day. I know some of you might not understand my motivation, but I’ve had a really difficult couple of months and I don’t want to put myself in a space like that. I’m rescheduling asap and we’ll let y’all know. Thank you to those who understand, sorry of those who won’t.

I just refuse to be in proximity of that world if I don’t have to be. The Milbourne International Comedy Festival has launched a podcast. It is called The Callback. I have added it to my increasingly long podcast queue. There’s been so much sports.

There was a Super Bowl, now these these Olympics, so I’ve been watching more TV than usual and less podcast. It’s also been four degrees out, so I haven’t been out for runs or long walks with the dog. But eventually I’ll get to The Callback. Hosted by beloved comedian and broadcaster Claire Hooper, The Callback dives into the defining moments that shape comedy careers. Claria said, comedians are entertaining on stage, but it’s backstage where the chats get really good.

Let’s see what’s happening in JFL Vancouver Today. Now, is this the thing? I got to check in with Daily Comedy News Canadian consultant Mike Chisholm. You know how like in the United States of America the calendar week starts with Sunday. Well, on JFL Vancouver’s website it goes from Monday to Sunday.

So every time I go to do this little segment, I click on the wrong day because in my brain, Monday should be the second box, but on their website it’s the first box. I’m gonna have to ask Mike about this. Looks like there’s only one show tonight, Rashid Baduri, The Tale of the Syrian Dragon, that’s at the Review stage at seven o’clock. If we were in Vancouver, we would go do that and then probably have a nice meal on some beverages. Actually I like to go to bed.

We would have a nice meal in beverages at like four forty five, hit the show and be in bed by like nine to thirty. Oh sounds lovely. Coming up at noon Eastern today the results of Comedy Survivor. We’ll let you know who’s voted off Comedy Island. As I speak to you right now, I have no idea who was sent home.

I haven’t looked at the Facebook page in a couple of days and haven’t recorded the episode. So come back at noon Eastern today for Comedy Survivor. If you would like to take part in Comedy Survivor, check out the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. After twelve Eastern today, there’ll be a picture of me and some comedian being voted off the island and you can take part in the conversation there. Hey, remember that guy Ben Bankas.

He’s the quote unquote controversial comedian. This is the guy that made the jokes about people being killed by ice agents. He was scheduled to play some sold out shows at Kitchener’s Conrad Center for the performing arts community said no thanks. The Conrad Center is a city owned venue. Bankas’s team has said due to overwhelming fan response, both Ben Bankers’s show on March seventh and had moved to Elements Nightclub.

The City of Kitchener confirmed the news, saying the event rental has been relocated. All ticket purchasers have been notified. Bankers’s team issued statements to five seventy news radio. The statement says, to the people who are calling the venue to complain and are angry over something they haven’t seen. They don’t need to watch or support it.

The people accuse Bankus of hate speech are sorely misinformed about the satire and humor laws in Canada, which fully cover and making satirical comments about current events and other sensitive subjects. Bankas said, clearly, the people making these comments haven’t even seen me perform a set live. Maybe we should give them a free ticket they can see for themselves. The Waterloo Region Record has an opinion column titled Ben Bankas is a controversial comic. If you don’t like the jokes, don’t go to the show.

Luisa Demato writes, Bancas’s jokes are blunt, often bigoted, and deeply hostile to progressive values of the people who hold them. He has mocked land acknowledgment and said he is glad that Renee Good, a mother an activist in Minneapolis, was shot and killed by an Ice agent. Luisa Demato writes, here’s a sample from a recent performance captured on his social media. All these efforting liberal women, I say we keep the Mexicans and send the liberal women send them a Guatemala see how they like. It just drop off in a jungle and be like, yeah, try to get back borders closed.

I’m sure he told it in a much funnier way than I just did it. Luisa says, here’s some advice. If you don’t approve of bank Is coming to Kitchener, then don’t go to the show stand outside the theater without blocking the entrance with a sign explaining why don’t think his commentary is worth listening to. Even talk to people going in if they’re open to hearing from you. Otherwise leave them alone.

And we did find out what was going on with Matt Rife and the band The Red clay Strays. Remember they had hinted they were doing something with Matt Rife. Well, the Red clay Strays on Friday dropped their newest single, If I Didn’t Know You, and there’s a music video and its stars Matt Rife. Rife has praised the band, calling them music for the soul and that is a very very angsty Daily Comedy News for today. Now, I say for tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be fun. I’ll tell you in the leadoff spot right now, I haven’t written the episode yet, but right now, in the leadoff spot, the first sentence right now is Adam Sandler said he once performed music on the streets of New York City after he was fired from three jobs. So if you’re a regular listener, you know what I’m going to do. So tomorrow will be fun. I understand today was very serious.

I didn’t stack the deck today. That’s just what the news happened to be. And that is your Daily Comedy News on an angsty Monday back at noon Eastern for Comedy Survivor Meets You here. Then

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today’s guest is comedian Drew Lynch. You may know Drew from America’s God Talent, or you may know him as the stuttering comedian from America’s Got Talent. He’s got a really interesting origin story.

He explains, I was playing softball and a hard hit ball took a bad hop and struck me in the throat. I fell and smacked my head on the ground. That led to my career as a stand up Yeah. Apparently he had a traumatic brain injury from it, which created a neurogenic stutter. Kind of messed up his career.

He’s up for some roles. His agent dropped him. He explains, I got the cold shoulder and I realized that I want to control. I rehabbed and that’s what I discovered stand up. Three years after the injury, he appeared on America’s Got Talent.

He said that validated him as a comic. It was an amazing experience and I can’t tell you how great it was to get such great feedback from Howie Mandela. I have so much respect for Drew. Will be part of just for Last Vancouver, the big comedy festival up there in Vancouver. He’ll be at the Vogue Theater on the nineteenth.

The festival continues through the twenty second. Now, as I prepped for my interview, if you listen to every interview with him, if you read every article about him, it talks about his origin story, and I chose not to go there, and being candid, I think I may have thrown him by not asking him about it. And a couple other notes on what you’re going to hear today. What’s crazy to me is in the recording session, he was on what I call an open mic, like he wasn’t holding a microphone and I was. However, I was on someone else’s recording session, not my recording session, and as I got the audio back, it sounds like my microphone didn’t pick up and it may have been using my laptop microphone.

So like as you hear me now, I have some processing on my voice. That’s what you hear on a normal episode. Sometimes you’ll hear an episode where I do an interview or the conversations with Mike Chisholm on The Letterman podcast, which is using his setup. Here I’m processing and whatnot. But as I listened back to this, I’m like, Drew sounds really good, and I sound like I’m on a laptop, which is just funny to me because I had my microphone out neither here nor there.

Also, I want to be transparent. I re sequenced this interview. This first part I’m going to play is from later in the interview, but I wanted to lead with this part because it’s so good. Listen to Drew Lynch channel Mark Marin. Here he channels Mark Maron.

It’s he’s not doing an impression, but he channels his inner Mark Maren. It is fantastic. Here’s Drew Lynch. You spent some time on the Maren sitcom. I feel like weird using the word sitcom with Maren show, the television show How is Mark?

Is Mark? What we think Mark is in real life? Mark is exactly the way Mark is in real life. And and you should you should be comforted by that fact. He is And I’ve told him this.

He’s a he’s a He’s just a. He’s just a. He’s a he’s a he’s just a brouchy guy. He’s not I mean, not grouch, but he’s just a he’s a hard guy. You know, he’s just like I feel that way.

Oh yeah, okay, well that’s well that’s weird. Or you know, he’s like, you know, he kind of like, uh, just a he likes to kind of scrutinize and just kind of get in it. And I love that about. Him because he’s that’s where that’s where his comedy is. He’s but he’s begrudging all the time, and that’s hilarious, Like it’s just like that’s my Yeah, that’s my uncle who lives in my attic.

That’s who he is. You know. He’s like, yeah, he’s I guess he’s coming down for a soda. But he’s upset because because the handle on the fridge is broken and he doesn’t want to he doesn’t want to try to put his nails into the side and open it that way. He and Mark’s going to talk a lot about that.

You know. It’s frustrating. Why is the why is the bottom of the fridge? Why is why is there heat coming from the bottom of the fridge but the inside of it is cold? You know?

And these things used to be an icebox? Should I just get an icebox? Like I’m talking in the voice of Merrion right now. But that’s how well, that’s how well I know, yeah, how well I know how he goes, you know, and he’s like, you know, and then he and then he goes in for a soda, and then he’s and then he’s and then he pulls out something and he’s looking. He put he sees it.

He finds a protein bar in the drawer, and he’s like, you know, oh, what is it with these protein bars? There’s so much sugar. It’s like it’s I’m not even getting what is this you because you mashed up a date and you put some Joe Rogan pills in a thing that I need to like. This is this is the way Mark is. I could just watch him.

He’s like an angry cat. You’re just like, okay, just keep going. I guess, Bud, that was amazing. I was just trying to hang back and not step on you. Boy.

You channel him really well. Well. I think it’s just because at my heart, I’m probably just as much of a grouch, but I just I have a softer face or all American good looks if you if you read the review Journal in Las Vegas from twenty years ago. But but yeah, Maren is uh, we all have a maron inside of us. I saw you did in an AGT showcase.

Are you just part of the AGT extended family? Is there a pay it forward aspect to that? There? Definitely is. I mean that show is very rewarding and they’re also very demanding, you know, and I mean that in a professional way.

They just expect a lot because they give a lot. So you know, take that for what it is. And I don’t mind being part of the of the u of the of the the family or the alumni or or whatever. And I’m all for for advocating for other people to find their opportunities on that show. You know, like I was doing the show, I was at the showcase, and like, you know, like they want to kind of they want to kind of like say like, oh and we got we got these people here who did the show, these alums there’s there.

Look at where they are. You know. There’s a comic that was on the show just showcasing. His name’s Lachlin Patterson. You probably know him.

He’s a Canadian comic and he has been doing it for almost thirty years and he is in every sense of the word, like just a bro and he is so good and he’s so funny, and it’s like he I mean, no one’s above anyone, but just this idea that they’re gonna, you know, they’re gonna be like and look at this guy who we found and it’s like, yeah, I mean he’s been doing it for longer than television, you know. I mean, like, what are we talking about? He’s so funny and so you know, like, I don’t know, it’s just so interesting. It’s just the world is just the world of our world stand up and navigating whatever your path is is all so different and you just never know. I mean you look at like the Louise of the World or even the Bills, where like it’s like these guys were twenty eight, twenty nine years thirty or twenty five years in and then showtime was like okay, and they’re like and then what It’s like what all right?

And then like maybe the best comedians ever Okay. So I don’t know. Maybe it’s supposed to be more of that, and it’s definitely less of that because people have tiktoks and they have thumbs and then they get to decide what I guess, maybe what happens quickly is what happens is where there’s tremendous value, And for me is someone who’s a student of what it is that we do and has such appreciation in seeing it done well. Dude comics who can write down and just write for eight minutes and ten minutes and twelve minute bits on one thing. It’s just my favorite.

And I hope that that’s not going anywhere because that’s a part of this art form that I really fell in love with. Yeah, it’s changed. Pre pandemic, there were all these people that oh, so and so came out of nowhere, but like you said, they’d been doing it for fifteen years. They just finally got the light shown on them. In the age of social media, maybe some people have accelerated in a way that you just couldn’t do in nineteen eighty five.

I know, as just a guy sitting on the couch, I just look at it as I hit play on something on Netflix, and did I laugh that that’s my entire barometer. And if you’re good at social media or people think you’re handsome or whatever, we want to knock a comedian for because they didn’t do it the right way. You didn’t do ten years at the cellar did you laugh? And I think that’s the good civilian. Test, right right, And that’s part of why it’s so you know, it’s so accessible now in today’s plying that you can you can be much more in control of what gets distributed and how people maybe find you.

So it is it’s in that way, it’s it’s great, But in another way it you know, we’re not dealing with gatekeepers, but those gatekeepers were there for a reason to hopefully kind of that maybe quality and you might have to sift a little bit to find whatever it is your your interpretation or or what it is you value is quality. Growing up in Indianapolis, you’re a Colts fan. You guys had quite this season. Come on, John, we’re having such a good time. Why does it have to be this You had a good season?

We did, and then we had the rest of the season and it was it was good. Then tell this and then until the midpoint of the season. You’re heading to Vancouver for just for laughs. You’ll be at the Voga Theater on the nineteenth. Have you been to Vancouver before?

Oh? Yeah, many times. I love it. Great place. Do you find it?

Festival? Is that it’s your fans or is it Sometimes I find it festivals it’s just whoever happens to be playing when we want to go out on a night and we’ll go see whoever. Is it your crab going to see you? Or is it just festival fans comedy fans. I think it’s I think it’s a healthy balance of both.

And I think it’s it’s artists specific for sure, but the festival, I mean, what I think they do a good job of is people do just are like, yeah, they do just commit to just going out, and that’s kind of cool because you’re just going in blind and be like, yeah, I don’t know, we’ll check it out. So I think it’s a healthy mix. As you got your comedy career started, America’s Got Talent, how was it pulling out? How long were those segments? I feel like you’re doing like two minute.

Chunks, sometimes even less. I think I did ninety seconds my first first audition, and then like the second round was like two minutes, and then like the next round was like a minute forty five or two. It’s not much. And it’s weird because comics are also almost given like less time, like a song is, like you know, as long as like two and a half minutes, or sometimes a magician thing will be eight minutes, you know, like a whole thing. You know, like they get all this time to kind of like set up.

And I know that that sounds like I’ve got ill will towards towards magic. I don’t. I just mean like they need a longer, They need a much longer, Like they need more time to be able to have something kind of unravel and set it up, and it’s you know, it’s it’s a different pace. So I don’t know. My struggle was that I was already on a time budget and I stuttered.

So it’s like, you know, how do I get out jokes for a minute when I get barely a minute? You know. So it’s that was definitely a challenge trying to navigate that. It’s gotta be hard because you can’t really just storytelling. You have no time to set up a callback.

You just kind of have to come out and read. A tat tat, Yeah exactly, which is why I think comics who have like one liners, you know, Tom Cotter, you know, Taylor Williamson, you know, like you know, even my buddy, like he’s got great jokes too. He just he fills in the space with big energy too, you know. And so it’s like it’s everybody’s kind of got their own approach. But it does feel like comics who are very one minery.

You know. Erica Rhoades, she did the show and she’s she’s really really great at that as well as strong writer. All right, let me get the break in here. You’ve seen my heating bill right, Oh my goodness, Johnny Mack, I hate the commercials. I get it.

I get it. If you want them to go away, become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts five bucks a month and liw with that. We got to pay the heating bills. So we’ll take the break. I want to come back.

I’ll ask Drew Lynch about coming off America’s Got Talent and getting respect from his peers. Drew Lynch is my guest. He’ll be at JFL Vancouver at the Vogue Theater on the nineteenth. As you got deeper into it, I see that you are well respected in the comedy community. I can tell by which podcast we’ll have you on as a guest, and you’re part of the mix.

Did you run into in the early days, any pushback from the comedy snobs of oh he’s from the TV show, or did anyone accuse you of the stutter being a gimmick being a gimmick comic? Yeah, oh yeah, I got that a lot, you know, and I’m sure I still do. I think it’s uh my, my big, my big projection onto the onto. The situation also didn’t help, like me like feeling like, you know, I don’t deserve to be here, you know, because my path was different and I was I came from a family friendly show, and then I went through a period of time where based on the influence of maybe maybe maybe what other comics said or maybe what I thought other comics were saying, was that I felt like I had to be edgy, or I had to swear, or I had to go through a period where I was here to prove something. And that’s just not I mean, that’s just not really authentic to who I actually am.

So I got I kind of got away from from from a lot of that, And it does hurt when when when people are saying, like, you know, like oh, well, he only got this because of this because I work very hard, like I if anything, I probably work harder than I am like to have skill or talent, you know. I just I’m someone who I’ve always had a drive, and I think you kind of need that in order to keep up with the frequency of what the demand of comedy and content is, especially in the current climate. And I’ve always done things to try to protect myself when it comes to uh, you know, my own fragile I guess, like ego or perception. But comedy is like being willing to get rejected and reevaluate and reassess and go back in and do the work and look at and look at the weakness and expose it over and over and over and it never ends. So this this healthy balance of not taking it personally and trying to navigate who you are, your own authenticity and not leaving your center and the processes is has been something that it’s uh that it’s tawmy.

Was there a point in your career where you said, okay, I’ve made it, now I’ve dead. This is working. I don’t know that any of us ever feel that way. I mean, and you shouldn’t feel fear, but you definitely should never feel fully stable. And that’s like that.

Margin is so thin you can’t even if it was Google Maps, you’d have to do this so many times to try to find that tributary on the freakin’ on the on the on the dividing line of one place to the next. Because some comics. Feel like I meet people who there they couldn’t be less happy with everything that they have, And I’ve met other comics where everything is all bravy, like this is incredible. I just get to be here doing this. This has insane and the energy that comes from each of those is is something that I think is is maybe to be learned.

You know, you can, you can learn from both. So I don’t know. I don’t know that the answer is ever yes, because it’s an ever moving, breathing thing. As you’re traveling the country. You’re not a political comedian.

Do you feel you need to avoid it? Do you feel you need to on any particular day. There was a weekend a couple of weeks ago, and I’m not going to get into that, but you know, there were topics in the news where a lot of people are very passionate about it. Do you feel you need to address any of these things or is it more of the That’s not why we’re here. I used to feel like I can write a joke about it, so I might as well.

And I sometimes feel like that does more harm than good because people are so sensitive right now. And there’s some comics who are like, well, but for the sake of comedy and for the purposes of comedy, we should be able to say this and it is this, and people should be able to and you know what, I agree. I agree we should for in the name of what the art form is. Yeah, we should. But these are kind of unprecedented times, and they’re certainly trying times.

And if I can try to have some grace for the situation or maybe for the fact that people feel very personal or very close to some of these things for reasons that I don’t understand. I try to understand that there are things that I don’t understand, and that is very difficult to account for something that you can’t see, or that’s something that you don’t know or that isn’t tangible to you. So as it applies to trying to navigate a very hostile and volatile and maybe toxic sort of political social environment, I have always found it to be better if I can just make myself the target and try to have people try to maybe forget their lives or forget the pressures of whatever that climate feels like. And that’s hard because there are some comics who are like, well, it’s our job, and there are even people who who are like who say, like, we have a bigger responsibility as comics to get involved and stuff and maybe, but I’m just trying to do my and maybe Andy and maybe Bill Maher and maybe John Stewart or Trevor or like there’s there’s there’s you know, there are a lot of people who I think could do it really well, and I can. I feel like I can write that really well.

But does it make me feel uncomfortable knowing that I’m making people uncomfortable? Yeah, And maybe that’s because I’m I. I don’t know, I’m just I have to maybe a little too much compassion, or I’m orm or I’m sensitive or I’m weak or whatever. Next week, Chappelle’s heading to Minnesota, and I can’t wait to hear what he says. But conversely, j Leto is very adamant about I don’t do politics in my acts.

So if I go see Jay Leno, I understand what I’m going to see so I think it’s a tough road, but I think he explained that really well. You know, like Nate I think does a great job, you know, Sebastian I think does a great job. You know. Like if I go see Marin, I would expect Mark to talk about the elephant in the room, but that’s what he does. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, like he leans into that.

I mean, he he he uh, he pursues it. I’ll let you go before I get the light. But I just wanted to ask you, in spirit of paying it forward as you travel the country, who’s a comedian out there that we should know that maybe is off our radar? Who are you into with that? You’re saying, oh, oh, well, Lachlan’s a great example.

Lachlan Patterson. He’ll probably be on this season of America’s Got Talent. I hope he goes so far because he’s so freaking funny and he’s got just endless amounts of material. There’s another guy named Orian Levine. He’s so funny.

Emma Willman, she’s kind of getting her her flowers now. She’s super funny. I’m trying to think, like, who else is just like you know, Steve Fury He’s. A guy who makes me laugh. Jason Cheney, Uh yeah, Like these guys are all just like so you know, so so fresh, im ed Barucha.

There’s I mean, I could I could, you know, I could go like endlessly. Anny Liederman, Uh yeah, I don’t know. Man, Like these these I advocate for so many of my friends. They’re all they’re all so funny. I hope, I hope, I hope they all succeed.

Nate Bargatzi, if you don’t know who that is, he’s He’s kind of coming up the ladder right now. He’s doing okay for himself. He’s still a Grand Marshal at Daytona. Yeah, yeah, I’m not surprised. Drew Lynch.

He’ll be at the Vokee Theater at JFL Vancouver on the nineteenth. Thank you for your time today. This was awesome. Thanks John, appreciate it. And that’s Drew Lynch.

Catch him at JFL Vancouver. He’ll be at the Vokee Theater on the nineteenth. The JFL Vancouver Comedy Festival continues through the twenty second and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shutting back with your Daily Comedy News. This weekend is the sixty eighth annual Daytona five hundred, and who’s going to be there. It’s Bert Kreischer. He’s headlining the inaugural Full Throttle Festival Good Name, a night of comedy, music and barbecue the pre race bash at the Ocean Center Convention Center in Daytona Beach.

Leonard Skinnard will be playing and Bert Kreischer will do a performance that’s exciting. Bert Kreischer said, Race weekend in Daytona is the super Bowl of speed, and for me that means going absolutely massive. So I figured, why not build the biggest, wildest, greatest pre race party ever. We’re not just having a party. We’re bringing a rock show, a country show, a comedy show, and the kind of barbecue and beer that would make a pit crew chief proud.

We’re stuffing all that, the fun, the laughs, the meat sweats inside the Ocean Center of the night before the Daytona five hundred. It’s my ultimate dream at NASCAR Tilgate come to life, and I cannot wait to see Daytona go full throttle with us. There will also be an expansive craft beer program and signature cocktails for those at twenty one and older. Bert Kreischer told OutKick, I’m so ready for the festival. I live my life by rewards, like I inventize things, and this is my treat.

I’ve been on the road for twenty five days straight, and I end my tour and I see my wife in Daytona. I cannot wait. Bert talked about attending at DAYTONI said, Tom Sigor and I went. We brought our tour buses and so the event of parking in the infield and experiencing the three days leading up to the actual race, you know, all the races that are going on, all the trials, everything is a blast. It’s so welcoming that I feel like it’s got to be what it feels like if you go to Germany for Octoberfest and you’re like, oh, so this is Germany.

Like a German if they come over, they should go to a NASCAR race, But camp out, get an RV and camp out, get a ton of cold beers, get a bunch of barbecue, set up a grill. Because that camaraderie that happens at these events, that’s what really draws me to it. I got to go to a lot of NASCAR races when I worked for Serious and Bert is nailing it now. I’m a boy from New York City. I didn’t know anything about NASCAR the first time I went down there, and I saw everybody just walking around in head to toe Budweiser gear.

I remember seeing one guy dressed in a Kellogg’s, you know, racing suit, much like I might wear a Mets jersey. They would wear the outfit of their favorite driver, and I’m like, Kellogg’s, okay, But man, was everybody nice. I’ve got a picture of myself sitting on the track of the Daytona five hundred an hour before racetime. They let the civilians on the track, which I can’t believe because I know I could have been a jerky face and taken out a chisel and just put a hole in the track, but they just let everybody kind of hang out. And I’ve got a picture of me and this dude dressed head to toe and bud gear.

I guess he was a Dale junior fan, and we were drinking buds out of his cooler and it was just the greatest experience.

And then I had a humbleverrag flex.

I had what’s called a hot pass, so I could hang out on pit road during the race. And I’ll tell you I was standing there and I was super appreciative, but I knew I did I appreciate it, and what I mean by that it would be like, I’m from Queens. I’m not a NASCAR fan, so would be like somebody who’s not a Mets fan sitting in the Mets dugout during the World Series. It was the equivalent of that. So like, I’m like, this is an amazing experience, but I kind of felt guilty because I’m like, there’s somebody across the road there in the stands who would like kill to do this.

But it was super awesome. I did a bunch of races and nailed it. As I would walk around the infield with our host and Mark says high, people would offer us food and drink and everybody was super friendly and super cool. If you’ve never been to a NASCAR race and you have an opportunity to go, you should go and bring ear plugs because you’re going to wind up paying ten bucks for your plugs if you don’t bring them yourself. It is loud, and I know you think you know it’s loud, You have no idea it’s loud.

Whatever you think, I’m telling you, it’s louder than that. And the cars go by so fast that unless you turn your head and follow the cars along, if you just stare straight ahead, all you see is just and you don’t even your eyes don’t even lock on an actual car. So I am a NASCAR fan, and I’m a big fan of NASCAR events. Another time I went down to Talladega. Jeff Foxworthy was the Grand Marshall.

So I went down and Talladega’s kind of in the middle of nowhere. So I flew down on a Saturday night State at Atlanta, got up early, drove to Talladega, hooked up with Foxworthy, recorded some stuff, stayed for most of the race. I was parked on the infield and I was like, all, I’ve done NASCAR racist before and I’m not that big a fan. I’m going to leave twenty laps early so i can get out of here. But they had actually closed off the area and I couldn’t get to my car.

You weren’t allowed to walk under the tunnel under the track. You were allowed to drive under the tunnel, but you couldn’t walk under it. So I actually offered a local couple to a car. I’m like, we it was like the apocalypse. I offered them twenty bucks to drive me basically I don’t know thirty feet and they were like, sure, hop in.

And then the wife said to the husband, don’t take the guy’s money. So, whoever you were a couple twenty years ago, I appreciate you. Talladega was awesome and Talladega so big. You have to see it if you’ve never been in there, the tailgating area. I said, it looked like a small city had been evacuated because of nuclear scare or something, and everybody was told to go here.

It’s just this huge, tense city, but everybody’s cool. I digress, Get back to it. John all Right, Tomorrow’s grand Marshall is Nyprighatzy. Nate was on the Backstretch podcast. He said he’s been a NASCAR fan for a long time now.

Nate is from Nashville, so that makes sense that tracks. Nate said racing was an inevitable part of his childhood, but it was only in his late teens that he really got I know it and he said, then you start doing comedy, get busy, and it’s a mix of like how do you do everything with sports? But I’ve always been a NASCAR fan. I love it when someone just kind of goes out on their own and just sees if it works out or if they get crushed and go back talking about racing and pacts there. As part of my prep, I came across these five things to know about Nate Berghatzy before the Daytona five hundred.

Number one, Nate Brigazzy becomes first comedian to be Daytona five hundred Grand Marshal. We’re told there have been actors and athletes, musical artists and wrestlers, former race car drivers, even a President of the United States, but never has a comedian Marshall for the Daytona five hundred. Congratulations Nate Bergazzy. Last year’s Grand Marshall Anthony Mackie. You may know him as Captain America.

Number two thing you need to know about Nate Bergazzy. Nate Pergazzy has huge comedy career. Thanks ratcle Writer. They worked hard on that one. Number three Nypergazzy’s first feature film coming in twenty twenty six.

Oh yes, this is The Breadwinner, which hits theaters May twenty ninth. If you’ve seen the trailer, perhaps you feel the way I did. I asked, was Kevin James not available? It does not look good. Nate created, co wrote, produced, and starred in The Breadwinner, So if it sucks, we know who to blame, and if it’s good, we know who to give credit to.

It also stars Mandy Moore, Colin Jose and Kamil Nanjiani. For some reason. Fun fact Number four Nate Bergazzi roots for Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Titans. Did I mention he’s from Nashville? And number five fun fact Natepergatzy has NASCAR history.

The fun fact is he was the honorary pace car driver for the Ally four hundred at Nashville Superspeedway back in June twenty twenty three.

---

Also happening this weekend, tomorrow, Fox will air episode eight hundred of …

In episode eight hundred of The Simpsons, it is titled Irrational Treasure, and Marge Simpson takes Santa’s Little Helper to Philadelphia to enter Santas Little Helper in a dog show. Homer Simpsons stows away on the trip, and soon they are embroiled in a national treasure like conspiracy. Guest stars include Kevin Bacon. Creator Matt Greening says, one of the great things for me is we’ve done so many episodes that I can watch earlier episodes and not remember a single thing about them. Every time we do a new episode, it seems another episode because out of my brain.

The Simpsons had a party at the Fonda Theater in LA At the anniversary parties, they have the joke tagline almost halfway there, and they said that seemed funny. At the one hundred and fiftieth episode party, the two hundred to four hundred th and eve of the six hundredth, no one thought the show would go that far. But now that they’ve hit eight hundred, they want to see if they can hit episode one thousand. Fox has renewed The Simpsons through season forty. Greening says, I think that’d be an honorable thing to shoot for.

I would do it for two hundred more or more. Once in nineteen ninety five, check your guild. There’s a reporter asked me, how long can the Simpsons go on? I say, we’re probably closer to the end of the beginning, which I thought was very elegantly vague. But the headlines with that I was saying the Simpsons was canceled.

I’ve learned to say, no end in sight. Do you want to do the math? It’ll take them another ten years to get to episode one thousand. Tomorrow, on this very program, comedian Drew Lynch stops by to promote his appearance at the Vancouver Comedy Festival, And because of that, I’m going to tell you who’s at the Vancouver Comedy Festival both today and tomorrow. Let’s start with today, Valentine’s Day.

If you’re in Vancouver, grab your loved one and be like, hey, want to see some comedy shows. I listen to this guy does a podcast in the basement. He’s telling us we should go see rosebud Baker at the Review Stage at nine pm. We might see the Alternative Show hosted by Mark Little, that’s an eleven PM show at the Review Stage, and some other people that I’m not all that familiar with. Again, my general advice at a comedy festival is feel encouraged to go see some people that maybe you haven’t heard of.

All Right, Sunday Night, No Brainer at seven o’clock Ismo. Did you hear Ismo? He was the guest last Sunday, So go see Ismo at seven o’clock on Sunday. Rosebud’s got another show, James A. Caster got a show at eight.

You’re gonna go see Ismo. Mary Beth Barone, she’s really good. She’s got to show at eight. But you’re gonna go see Ismo in the Alternative shows at nine o’clock. So that would be what I would do.

I’d do Ismo and then the Alternative show at the Vancouver Comedy Festival, but I didn’t go. I’m home in New Jersey and I will leave you with this. Film director Roger Avery was on the Joe Rogan Experience. The Joe Rogan Experience is a pretty popular podcast. You may have heard of it.

And the conversation turned to Star Trek and my ears went, hmmm, star Trek, if you’ve been listening, I’d take my Star Trek very seriously, and so do Joe Rogan and Roger Avery. Let’s listen. Alex Kurtzman comes along and just like craps all over and I mean I went in and met with the guy. You know, I was like Hey, I will write Force for Scale. You know, I’ll write on your new show.

I’d like, I just want to be part of it, just as an opportunity to work on Star Treks. And he was, and I basically found out he didn’t want anybody who had any kind of fondness for the original show. He wanted to do something new and to create something new. And this latest thing that he that they’ve made, this Starfleet Academy. Now it’s still ongoing.

Maybe it rights itself at some point. His company is called Secret Hideout. I think he’s going to need a secret hideout after all these like after destroying star Trek for like this latest generation are we talking about the newest one? The one with take Nataro, that’s the new Starfleet Academy is an abomination. I could not I could not get Yes, I could not get through three episodes of Discovery, and I mean they’re just like it is just awful, awful storytelling.

Well it’s also clunky dialogue and bating. So comedians, take Nataro, Patton Oswalt, genius sheer, Stephen Colbert, I’m watching you. That is your comedy needs for today, Drew Lynch Tomorrow Normal episode and comedy Survivor on Monday. See you then,

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Meck with Today’s Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. But I better stop talking this way. Mike Birbiglia will write my name down. I am having fun with this old Burbiglia, Mulaney, John Marco, and whoever else thing.

I was hoping to stir it up some more, but it seems like they’ve stopped talking about it, so I will too. If you don’t know what I’m talking about. Listening to the February tenth episode of this podcast. But while I was seeing if I could cause some more trouble, I found a discussion about a comedian named Mason James, who I was unfamiliar with until half an hour ago. Some people think Mason James is perhaps, possibly maybe influenced by Nate Berghetzi.

Here’s Mason James from a year ago doing a show for Don’t Tell Comedy. My name is Mace. It’s great to be here. Some big news in my life. Me and my wife just had our first baby, so very very fun stuff, very very fun.

Don’t worry about clapping. Just a miracle, No big deal. It’s fine, very fun having a baby. The baby has made me realize I have to lose weight because he’s ten months old and he’s trying to breastfeed me a lot. I didn’t know what to do.

I spanked him. I spanked him, said you do not breastfeed dad. That makes dad sad. I am trying to lose weight right now. Anybody trying to lose weight here so awesome.

Sell you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. They’re in the same ballpark. But I don’t get wigged about that. Like I’ve said a million times, I think Eddie Murphy is just doing Richard Pryor.

But I was what fourteen years old in nineteen eighty three, so I loved Eddie Murphy’s comedy. But he’s clearly doing Richard Pryor, including the outfit. But I am picking up on one particular verbal tick in Mason James delivery. Let me just play the last four seconds. Listen to how he hangs the words right now.

This is very Burgetsian. Saw you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. But again, we all have influences. You may hear me sometimes on this program, say one, I’m forward promoting tomorrow on this very program.

Blah blah blah. That is a complete, utter, conscious lift from David Letterman. Stole his phrase, and it’s why I’m doing it. You want to call it an homage, I don’t know. I just like saying it that way.

If David Letterman wants to go off and say that I’m ripping him off, please do Dave. Nothing would make me happier that if David Letterman thought I was ripping him off. I wish I were one one millionth as good as David Letterman. And the other tick that I consciously do is I will do a yeah, in the middle of resetting a story, I’ll just make up something ridiculous. I’ll do something like this, A chicken was crossing the road.

Yeah, apparently it wanted to get to the other side, so that yeah, in the middle. There. That’s a Conan O’Brien tick that I deliberately do. In Yellow Springs, Ohio, today, Dave Chappelle and John’s Stewart will do a show together. It’s a benefit for radio station WYSO.

It’s part of the WYSO After Dark series. Now I’m laughing at this. The after Dark is cracking me up. Earlier today, I got a random email from Disney Plus saying that Mom’s account has been updated to what is it, mature Audiences whatever they call it m and I just texted the whole family. I’m like, apparently Mom is watching Mickey Mouse after Dark, which I don’t even know what that would be, but just I thought it was funny to get mature audiences warning from Disney Plus.

But Wyso after Dark features Dave Chappelle and John Stewart in conversation seven thirty pm to night at Dayton’s Benjamin and Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center. Taylort Solison will have a comedy special on Netflix on Tuesday, February twenty fourth, not too far away. It is her fourth for Netflix. Prodigal Daughter was filmed at the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I remember telling you about that filming last summer.

We’ve all almost lived long enough to actually see the special. I hope we all make it, but we’ve at worst made it to the trailer. There’s a trailer. It’s long, it’s good. It’s like the best trailer I’ve heard in a long time.

And being very very serious. It’s going to take a minute change here, but here’s Taylor Tomlinson’s really good trailer. I really appreciate you guys coming to this new hour of material because I know it’s a lot of God stuff and a lot of gay stuff, and my agents are nervous. I started doing stand up in churches. They called it testimony, but I was getting last.

Easter. There’s a better story than Christmas, in my opinion. It’s where all of our merch is from. You’ve seen it. Christmas is not as good a story.

It’s just a long walk to a barn. Jesus is barely in it. He comes in right at the end. He does zero magic. Jesus is basically the post credit scene in a Marvel movie.

It’s if you have depression. You have a pretty complicated relationship with death. You sort of look at death like it’s the Phantom of the Opera. You’re like, oh, that’s scary, But then sometimes you’re like, I mean, that’s side. His face is kind of hot.

Coming out as bisexual at thirty feels like saying to a waiter, by the way, it’s my birthday, and they’re like, cool, send to yourself. You’re a grown woman. So I started dating this girl who was so hot. I was like, oh my god, am I Pete Davidson. When I started dating women, it was the closest I’d come to feeling religious in a long time.

My friends would complain about their boyfriends and husbands, and I was like, have you heard the good news? You don’t have to live like this now? Some of that content bothered. You send your letters to Taylor Thomlinson. I’m just dosing a podcast in the basement.

The official description from the Netflix is Taylor Thompson returns to her roots with a tight new hour about deconstructing your faith, processing religious trauma, exploring your sexuality, and confronting your fear of death. It’s NBA All Star Weekend tonight. It’s the Celebrity Game. In the Celebrity Game, Mac Packer Keegan Michael Key will take the court. That’s on ESPN at seven pm Eastern.

Jimmy Carr was giving out some parenting advice. An audience member yelled out to Jimmy Carr, what’s your advice for parents with toddler’s Carr gave a serious answer. He said, well, practical advice. You can half asset, get an iPad and Netflix subscription, and you’re off to the races. They’ll be very happy.

The crowd laughed at that, but Carr said, you want serious advice. The woman said yeah. Carr explained hard choices now easy life. Later that got applause. I bet you love your kids, but you’ve also got to love who they could be.

So it’s kindness, isn’t it. You want to be really kind to your children, but just not kind in the moment. What a kids want. They want to watch TV and not read books. They want to eat junk food, not vegetables.

If you give in to that, if you’re kind in the moment, you’ve got fat, stupid kids. That’s no good. You’ve got to be a little bit mean in the moment. At another recent show, a woman asked Jimmy Carr how she could deal with kids who were bullying her eleven year old son. Carr did a bunch of silly jokes and then got serious and said, speaking as a parent, you can’t helicopter parent.

You cannot pave the jungle. You can just teach him to get through it. It’s a very tough thing. On the upside, your kid is being bullied. That’s terrible, I imagine heartbreaking for you.

But at least he’s not the bully. Tell him from me, you can’t have an easy life and a great character. You can’t have both. It’ll make him stronger and better and more compassionate in the future. You know the actress Kathy Bates, I think she has really, really good taste.

The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was recently at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Adam Sandler told a story about sending Kathy Bates the script for horrible Adam Sandler comedy The water Boy. As Sandler told the story, I remember we sent Kathy Bates a script for The water Boy to play My Mama. I don’t know if I have the story one hundred percent right, but apparently she kind of read the first page and threw it in the garbage. See. I love Kathy Bates, genius talent, Kathy baits.

Unfortunately, Kathy, back in those days, surrounded herself with terrible staff. Sandler said. The guy who works with Kathy picked it up and read it and said, Kathy, I think you should read that script. It’s pretty funny. So obviously the staff member has no Jason comedy.

Kathy read it and decided to give it a shot. From there, she met with Adam Sandler and enjoyed spending time with him, which I could see. I think I would enjoy spending time with Adam Sandler, Like right now, I’m wearing a purple sweatshirt and totally non matching gray sweatpants. I could see Sandler being like, hey, bro, cool outfit. Kathy Bates, who has good Taste, told a similar version of the story on the Drew Barrymore Show back in twenty twenty four.

According to Kathy’s version, she made it to page twelve before she threw it in the trash right next to my bed. On this very program, see stole that from Letterman. On this very program. On Sunday, comedian Drew Lynch joins us, Drew is appearing at Just for Laughs Vancouver. He’s going to stop by Tomorrow’s show.

Is in more or less a normal episode. We’ll look at what’s going on at the Daytona five hundred. Bird Krascher and Nate Pergetz hearing to be there at JFL Vancouver tonight at Gambles at the Rio at seven Yakov’smeir and Off seven o’clock at the York Michael Longfellow’s at the Rio at nine, Wally Barham at the York Theater. Any leader has two shows at House of Comedy. She’s doing seven thirty, nine, fifteen.

If we were at the festival tonight, if I were hanging out with Mike from the Letterman Podcast and I was like, Hey, Vancouver is a hell of a town, let’s go see some comedy shows, I would actually pick Yakov Smirnoff, just to see what’s going on there. That would be my pick. At seven at nine o’clock, I think we go see Wally Barram at the York Theater. I like what I’ve seen out of Wally so far. It is Friday.

It is time for the comedy stock market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds. Comedy stock Market. Now. So far in twenty twenty six, the comedy stock market activity has been quite limited.

But I’ve got a lot for you today. Let’s start with two cells. We’re gonna sell John Mulaney. We’re gonna sell Mike Probiglia. Do I need to tell you?

Why? Do I need to tell you what team I’m on in this little fight. We’re selling MILLENIU and we’re selling Forbiglia and in support of the twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marcos SIESI, let’s even more stock. Eventually, we’re gonna own all the stock at John Marco. I am all in on this guy who did not rip off John Mulaney in the least.

So we’ll buy some Gianmarco Soresi. Let’s also buy some Chris Fleming. With that HBO special coming out soon. I’ve been a fan of Chris for a few years. We’ll see how the rest of the country reacts to Chris Fleming.

Let’s buy Taylor Thomlinson. That trailer from earlier in the show was really, really good. There’s nothing not to like about her, very personal, very funny, looks great. Her specials on Netflix, not that other service that you do your special on when you’re on your way down. So Taylor Thompson, let’s scoop up some more Taylor Thomason, and let’s buy some Mason James again.

Half an hour ago, I didn’t know who that was, but I thought that clip was pretty funny. Throw a couple bucks on Mason james career. We’ll check back and we’ll see how we do Zel Mulaney, Selber Bigley, a Bye, John Marco, Chris Fleming, Taylor Thomason, Mason James. That’s your comedy stock market for this week. Reese Darby, you know him.

He was one of the guys on Flight of the Concords and you know him from what was it called Our Flag Means Death? Well, he’s going to be in the CBS comedy pilot Regency. Regency is a multikam comedy and it’s a historical spin on the classic multiicam family sitcom centered around the upper middle class Tilbrooks as they navigate life, love, and scandal in nineteenth century England. Okay, ree Darby will play Arthur Tilbrook, the head of the family home. Arthur is heir to a cheese empire, but prefers to think of himself as a guy’s guy.

This is kind of funny. He will go to great lengths to prove his masculinity. That was a privileged upbringing reveals itself every time. Now we talk about networks, so clearly chuckle the premise. I like Reee Darby, but it’s on CBS, so at the end of the day, it’s a CBS Sitcom.

If you told me this one was going somewhere else FX Streamer, I might be a little more into it. Not Netflix. If it was on Netflix, I’d assume it’d be six episodes and canceled. That sounds like it could be funny. OW Today All Access Comedy hosted by DJ de Meerz, It’ll be on AMTV.

All Access Comedy is a stand up special with comedians from the disability community coming together to celebrate their unique outlook on life for a packed audience of all abilities. Comedy comes from such topics like what’s the appropriate reaction when someone bet your guide dog. I’m familiar with DJ’s comedy. I play him a lot on The Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live One app every week. The show is free, The app is free Live One.

Look up the Weekly Comedy Thing. In fact, I think in this week’s show, I’ve got some DJ demers if you want to hear what he sounds like. And congratulations too. Joe Koy, Yes, Joe Koy had his hand in footprints enshrined in cement at the Hollywood Chinese Theater. Joe was supported by friends.

I assume they’re friends, or maybe they just wanted their mention in Daily Comedy News. But regardless, Tiffany Hattish, Martin, Lawrence Gabriel Iglesias and some others showed up to support Joe Koy at the event. Now you might be like John, Joe Koy, remind me who that is again. I’ll remind you one time Joe Coy hosted the Goal Globes and he just told this horrible, horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift that Taylor did not appreciate. Here, let’s listen.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. When that is your comedy news today, All right, Tomorrow Daytona Sunday, Drew Lynch stops by. Catch you here tomorrow

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, A sentence, and that the algorithms like me to say every single day for some reason. So I shall you know, doing this show is kind of like pitching a baseball game, And today it was one of those days that ten minutes ago I thought I had nothing, and then I’m like, eh, let me see if I could stir it up with this. Barbiglia, Mullaney, John Marco Siresi thing incasion missed it. Go back to the February tenth episode where I played some clips John Mulaney was on Mike Berbiglia’s podcast.

Birbiglia floated an idea that perhaps, possibly maybe there’s a comedian who was ripping off John Mulaney’s act. That I played a separate clip in which John Marco Siresi thought they were referring to him. It is unclear who they were referring to anyway. So I went on Reddit and people think it might be a guy named Mike Feenie. Now I was unfamiliar with Mike Feenie.

Half an hour ago, but some clips. I’m going to play you three clips here and I’ll let you be the jury, and I’m trying to make the clips relatively even. So. The clips from Feenie and John Marco are on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. I couldn’t find John mullany on the Tonight Show.

I did find a cone and clip that was too far back, and I didn’t want to play anything current because these days there is mullanie mania. He could just walk up on stage and say hello and he’ll get a big Did I just rip off John Mulaney? Oh, I’m big. It’s gonna be mad at me. I’ve told you this before.

The secret to a half asked John Mulaney, is you have to do the B fifty two s Fred Schneider going big as a whale, And that’s how you get into your mullany. It’s just in the sing song Noss. I mean, it’s a half assed Millenie. But maybe I’m stealing from John mllanie. I digress.

So the Feenie and the John Marco are from the Tonight Show, and I’ve pulled a clip of John Mulaney on HBO’s Night of Too many stores. This clip is John Mulaney from eight years ago, which I think is before mullanie Mania. I’ve tried to make all the clips around a minute ten. I’ve tried to include the intro so you hear the comedian getting into it, and then around minute ten we’ll get out of the clips. But first up from eight years ago, here’s John Mulaney.

I’m John Mulaney, finally a name on this show. I had a great day. I hope you’re all well. I’m flattered to be here. I was walking downtown today.

I was on West twelfth Street. I was downtown. I was walking towards this guy. He’s walking towards me. He’s on his cell phone.

We’re both downtown. We’re on West twelfth. As he walks past me, I hear him say no, no, no, I can’t. Meet right now. I’m way uptown.

And then he looked at me and he winked, and he kept walking. That guy should be declared mayor of New York City. I don’t care if he’s had a scandal automatic mayor, and he probably has, if that’s how he conducts himself on a day to day basis, If he’s lying about his whereabouts At two o’clock on a Saturday, while I high fiving random guys on the street. I was glad I noticed him. I normally don’t notice people.

I zone out conslate. Have you ever zoned out for a few minutes. I’ve been zoned out since two thy and fourteen. I just all day long. I wander into traffic, walking like Charlie Chaplin, listening to a podcast while thinking about a different podcast.

Next up, a three year old clip from The Tonight Show, storing in Jimmy Fallon. Comedian Mike Feede takes the stage wearing a suits and again John mulaniy known for wearing a suit. Right now, I’m looking at a picture of George Carlin performing in a suit in the sixties. Is John mulani stealing from George Carlin? Obviously?

He is get your own wardrobe buddy. Anyway, Mike Feoeney, here you go. Oh my gosh, thank you so much, everybody. Wow, I appreciate that I have exciting news. I just celebrated seven years of marriage with my wife.

Yeah. Yeah, we’ve been married seven years. We’ve been dating a total of seventeen years. Though I had to make sure and if i’man honest, she’s one of my favorite people right now. But when you’re in a relationship that long, a lot of times after shows from men, they’ll come up to me and they’ll be like, seventeen years.

I mean, my god, I must have gotten so stale in the bedroom by now, right, And every time I have to explain to them, I’m like, no, it hasn’t gotten stale, it’s gotten efficient. That’s how I would, yeah, like our sex life. As I go into a Billy Joel concert at this point, you know, we’re just playing the hits, no new stuff. Everybody’s happy, yea. And our third clip from four months ago, the twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marco SIASI.

He’s not wearing a suit. He’s wearing a pretty loose shirt. It’s a little wrinkled actually, so it’s a look. He didn’t accidentally go on the Tonight Show in a renkled shirt. And he is much more animated than mister Malaney and mister Feenie.

Here is John Marco Siisi, thank you. I appreciate it real quick. I’m going to talk a lot about my girlfriend tonight, and I just want to be careful, because I think what happens with a lot of male comedians is they’ll notice something about their girlfriend, and then when they’re on stage they act like that specific trait applies to the entire gender. So I just want to be clear. All the jokes tonight are about my girlfriend, and I don’t want to use her real name, so let’s just call her women.

Women. Hear me out, please please please. Women are Jewish and mine is no exception to the rule, and it’s fine. I’m also Jewish, although I was raised more culturally Jewish, which means I have all the anxiety of regular Judaism, but without the comfort of God. So I don’t know who Duberbigs and the Laney mean.

We’re gonna have to ask them. Mike Ebbs has issued an apology. Apparently Mike Epps had made some comments about rapper Nicki Minaj after Nicki Minaj recently appeared with the President of the United States in a comedy routine. Mike Ebbs had suggested that Minaj had engaged in a group sex activity with the President and others joke that perhaps Nicki had done some favors in exchange for help with her US citizenship. Fans of Nicki Minaj did not like that.

Mike Epps has posted on Instagram. Y’all know, I’m mister accountability. You know, I say stuff and do stuff, and then I go to bed, wake up the next morning, having prayed on and thought about it. I just want to apologize to you, Nicki Minaj for saying the stuff that I said. I want to apologize to your husband, your kids, all that for saying what I said.

I’m a comedian. Sometimes I get on that stage. You know, I have a little drink and I go wild. I’m nonfiltered, not explaining myself. But I am mister accountability.

I love apologizing, something a lot of people don’t know how to do. I just saw this one. As I walked into the basement. I took one last look at comedy threads, and I see from the Daily Beast, Michael Jay shut down a fan who suggested a sketch. The sketch suggested by the fan was about Epstein Island with actual children, and the fan thought that would be a hilarious idea for Saturday Night Live.

Chay apparently mocked the pitch in a series of now deleted Instagram stories, even sharing a screenshot of his DMS with the fan. The Daily Beast says the fan had written to Michael Chay, if SNL had any balls, they’d do an Epstein Island sketch like it was a joke, but just have it be reality and of Trump and Elon et cetera, et cetera, partying with actual children. Have Elon try and explain electric cars to a fifth grader over cocktails, etc. Jay wrote back, that’d be funny to you, beato reenactments with actual kids. You think the audience would be laughing at that.

I guess I just don’t understand comedy audiences anymore. I get so much criticism that starts with if you had any balls, and now we do we just stay on Channel four and this is really funny. I wonder if ice T gets messages like show penetration on SVU cowards. The Garden of Dreams Foundation and MSG Entertainment have announced Garden of Laughs, coming to Radio City Music Hall on April thirteenth. Nice line up here.

Headliners include John Oliver Andrew Schultz. Oh we the press should ask Andrew some questions if he’s taking any questions. Ronny Chieng Zarna garg Josh Johnson, Analyza Slessenger. You may recall Andrew and Zarna played there od Gomedy Festival, so their career is doing quite well. Steve Sharippa of Sopranos fame will return as the host.

I know Steve worked with him on The Wise Guy Show. It’s serious, a really good guy. Uh drove around Vegas with him one day and had a nice timeout. Steve said the Garden of Dreams Foundation has impacted the lives of one hundreds of thousands of young people and their families in the Tri state area over the last twenty years. At it’s incredible events like Garden of Laughs that helped make that possible.

That dude’s a pro and awesome to work with. Got a lot of New York City stuff. Today. If you’re on the subway and you’re like, is that Ronny Chieng, it is Ronny Chieng. He is the latest entertainer to lend his voice to public service announcements for the New York City Subway.

Now see, I’m old school, I grew up in Queen’s New York City. When I get on the train and they have these like pre recorded announcements that are crystal clear, like ooom, next up times Square. I’m like, as the kids say, g TFO. Back in the day when Johnny Mack was a young lad listening to Howard Stern on a walkman, the announcement sounded like this, and you dealt with it, and that’s how it was, and there was graff feiti everywhere. Oh sorry, I almost ripped on John Lane there.

Sorry, I’m entertaining myself. Ronnie Ching affects a frustrated voice as he reprimands writers for various subway faux pause. One message ses can he please move into the train so other people can get on? Thank you, Cursey counts. Now, I have found myself on threads.

I’m in some sort of New York City conversation about who’s a real New Yorker and newbies asking for advice from real New Yorkers. Listen to me, I’m not moving in. If you’re from New York City, you understand, and you’re like, of course, I’m not moving in. People are like, why is this jerk not moving in? Here’s why I’m not moving in because I have my own space.

Welcome to New York City. If you can’t handle it, go somewhere else. I’m getting on, and the second I get on, I’m turning sideways and I’m leaning against the metal railing. When the door is closed, I’m leaning against the door. I have space.

I’m not standing in the middle holding on a railing. If you want to give me a seat, I’ll sit down, I’ll get out of the door. But I’m not standing in the middle. I’m blocking the door. More advice from Ronny Chieng, the PA announcer.

Unless it’s old school hip hop, nobody wants to hear your music, your phone, call your headphones on. Oh boy. And the people at the airports with the TikTok videos, yeah, they got to stop too. Ronny Chieng said he was honored to record the new messages and then said, wait, does that mean I work for the MTA now New York or Pete Davidson. He’s got that TV show that the delusional people at Netflix think it’s a podcast.

It’s not a podcast, it’s a TV show. And the Union might have some questions for you people. Pete was having a conversation on his inexpensive television show with Machine Gun Kelly. We learned Pete Davidson’s happy place. He said, mine was this deli that’s near my house.

It’s not the best deli in the world. It’s just clean. It’s like really clean, and you feel really good about buying produce and like meats from there. Now you’re like, what’s it called. Well, eventually Pete Davidson revealed the place is called Bagels are Us in Great Kills.

Pete says, it’s phenomenal. While you’re in New York City taking the subway, block the doors. It’s everyone else’s problem that they’re trying to get on the train. They should have gotten on the stop before like I did. But if you’re on the train and you’re like, is that George Clooney, it’s too fat to be George Clooney.

No, it’s not George Clooney. It’s me and I’m blocking the doors and we’re on our way to Williamsburg for the sixth Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio aka the Ambies. They will be hosted by comedian Wyatt Sanak. Why It said, podcasting has become one of the most exciting places for ideas and storytelling. I’m looking forward to honoring the creators, keeping the energy up and helping make the night feel as vibe and engaging as the podcast themselves, plus as a New Yorker doing this in Brooklyn just makes it hit different.

Keenan Thompson is going to be part of a new action comedy based on the podcast Unwanted. Unwanted centers on two degenerates who attempt to claim a one million dollar reward by capturing an escaped, convicted murderer, but that plan quickly unravels as they find themselves dangerously unprepared for the chaos that follows. Golf enthusiast Kat Williams is on the new episode of the PGA Tours Studio’s Mindful series. Kat Williams opens up on how the game of golf has impacted and shaped him in an overall sense and congratulations too, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, who for some reason is in this Spress release called the comedy ike us on that must be a typo. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers you know them as ASCAP, announced that songwriter, movie star, and comedy powerhouse Adam Sandler be honored with the ASSCAP Founder’s Award, recognizing his contributions to music and songwriting across comedy, film, and popular culture.

Are we really doing that? Are you sure? Asscap? Can we give him an oscar for Ray Kelly? Don’t reward the silly songs?

What are you doing? Sandler will accept the ward at the twenty twenty six ASSCAP Experience that’ll be at the Scriball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Today. The ASSCAP Chairman of the Board and President, Paul Williams said, Adam is a giant of comedy and so many of his most hilarious on screen moments are based in music and song, from Operaman to the Hanukah song to Grow Old with You. Adam’s genius ability to seamlessly blend comedy and music helps us all appreciate the wonders and absurdities of life and love.

ASSCAP is honored to recognize Adam Sandlor for his singular contributions to the comedy music cannon. Previous recipients include Paul McCartney, Oh Boy, This press release is Gonna Kill Me from his famous SNL classics like the Thanksgiving song, Lunch Lady Land and Red Hooded Sweatshirt, Who Can Forget That One? To newer songs like as Chris Farley Jam and No Sailor skit is complete without a song to send the audience into fits. Oh it says sorry, fits of laughter. Adam Sandlor has released six albums, two went double platinum, and Sailor has earned three Grammy nominations.

We got to stop with this. Give the man an oscar. You’re rewarding the wrong part of this guy’s career. Cut it out, boy. This show’s a lot better than it was an hour ago.

I’ll tell you that this really came together from late nighter. They pulled the ratings for the late night talk shows. Let’s see, I’m reading this cold. Star Trek ruiner. Stephen Colbert in first place, but January was down five percent from December.

And now hopefully that’s because people realize that Stephen Colbert is part of the problem. He is one of the horrible, horrible people destroying Star Trek. And this is why I am aligned with the President of the United States that Stephen Colbert’s talk show must end. If you’re going to do that to Star Trek, I’m going to come at you. Stephen Colbert.

Tig nataro genius here Patton Oswalt two point six five million total viewers is down five percent from December. Johnny Mack takes Star Trek very seriously, Jimmy Kimmel in second with two point four to six, up three percent, and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon third place one point two two million viewers. Wow, so he’s got half of Kimmel’s audience. Fallon was down eleven percent. Let’s look at the young people.

Eighteen to forty nine Kimmel an average of two hundred and thirty one thousand viewers. So Kimmel had two point four to six overall. So if we subtract two thirty one, that means of the viewers two point one million of it call it or under eighteen or over fifty. Yikes, And I’m over fifty and I still say yikes. Colbert two twenty five fall one hundred and fifty six thousand viewers, down twenty two percent month over month.

Wow. At twelve thirty Late Night with SETH Myers nine hundred and sixty eight thousand viewers overall, down two percent. Guess people weren’t watching Late Night in January. Huh, eighteen to forty nine’s SETH Myers has one hundred and twenty six thousand viewers. That is within Frisbee range of this dopey podcast, and this one’s a lot cheaper to produce.

I’ll put it this way, I’m a lot closer to Seth than Seth is to Colbert Big shout out to your friend of the show, Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. He did a nice retweet for this program on his very popular threads account. Seemed he was interested in the Berbiglia Melaney John Marco discussion Jason had posted on his threads account, which is zennamon j comedy is middle school, even down to the secretive handwritten notes. Of course, so is everything else that is true, my friend. Now, right before I hit record today, I wrote back to Jason.

Some folks were saying Mike Feeney, who I was unfamiliar with. Will Noonan has chimed in and wrote feoene as a saint in this house. End of story. Just for last Vancouver kicks off, Let’s take a look at today’s lineup. I really thought about going, but it’s a little far The show I wanted to see David Letterman was on a Wednesday.

If Letterman was on a weekend, I might have gone for it, but thanks to the Just for Last Vancouver people who gave us some great guests. We’ll have Drew Lynch on this program on Sunday. And if you missed Ismao last Sunday, he was fantastic. If you’re in Vancouver, say hi to my Chisholm from the Letterman podcast. You might see him standing on a street corner.

He’s gonna be doing some field reporting for this program. Joe List is at the Rio Theater at seven, and then Joe List is at the Biltmore at nine. If you want to see Joe List back to back in different rooms, that’s different. I don’t think I’ve seen that in the Comedy Festival before. At Gamble is at the Rio at nine.

Okay, so we’re just getting started. I guess if we were at the festival tonight, I would just stay at the Rio and I would see Joe List and then I would see Ed Gamble, which would be a actually really good night of comedy. Today’s Thursday, so it’s the final day of voting for this week’s Comedy Survivor. I haven’t been on the Facebook group yet to see what was going on, but last time I checked, there were a lot of single votes. I think this week’s game is wide open if you’re new to all this.

We put sixteen comedians on Comedy Island and we’re playing Comedy Survivor, a legally distinct parody of whatever you think we’re parodying. It’s legally distinct, totally different. Did I mentioned as a parody? So what you do? You should go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

You’ll see a drawing of me and Jay Letto there, and then there’s a thread and I’ll tell you who’s still on the island and who you can vote off, and I’ll share the results on Monday. Congratulations to Adam Ernest piccard. Where is it Pickard? He doesn’t spell it like the Starfleet Captain. He spells it pic k Ard, so maybe it’s Pickard Anyway.

He is the Captain of Puns. He’s twenty two years old and he won the UK Pun Championship show with this pun. The song Greensleeves was composed by Henry the Eighth. Play some of it here, but it’s not royalty free. Congratulations Captain Pickard, and I’m gonna leave you with this one.

Sometimes the podcast just to amuse myself at google the word comedian, I see what comes up, and I learned that an ad agency has partnered with KFC Arabia to bring comedic chaos to the launch of the Korean Barbecue Twister. Apparently they gave comedian Juan Ho Chung free reign over the creative messaging recipe, antics and culturally aware storytelling. That’s right, KFC Arabia has launched the Korean Barbecue Twister, and they want to know what happens when you give a bilingual comedian full creative control over your menu launch. The answer chaos, deliciously culturally aware chaos, and I have some audio for you. Have’ve clipped it a little bit, but you know, let’s let this run.

Wondering how things between KFC and one Ho ended up like this, let us explain. We made a Korean menu with everything drenched in barbecue sauce. Then we signed the only Korean guy on the planet who speaks Arabic. I have a knew well that logic didn’t last long. From day one, one Hot started improvising, showed up wearing this wig, which by the way, isn’t even Korean.

So he tried his own thing on design and even put his touches on the recipe. At some point we completely lost him over one Kentucky Fried Chicken bother Korean right chicken. He named the podcast one ho On Barbecue Wow, just wow, and then he went on to build the toy line. Man, we aren’t the ones with toys. Suddenly we found out about this arab K pop hit.

Song, canes be not a wideo for it? Who approved this? He might ask? Nobody? Of course, Yeah, we kept going in circles and circles.

What else could we do. It’s Kentucky launching a Korean menu with an Arabic speaking Korean. It just made sense. And fun stuff from one who y young there who wants to rebrand KFC as Korean Fried Chicken. That is your comedy news for today.

All right? If you got a thought about who’s ripping who off? There’s the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. But I didn’t do a post for it, but what if you could start a post. You’re allowed to talk about things on your own, but to be curious who everyone thinks is ripping someone off?

All right? I see tomorrow

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence that the transcription algorithm seems to really like. Kat Williams has a new special on Netflix.

You know Netflix, can we not do this on Tuesday? I feel like Tuesday’s just, for some reason, the worst night to watch comedy specials. You think i’d be home, but I was watching The Knicks last night, so I didn’t get to this yet. But on Big Boy TV, he said, let me explain something to you. I’m not scared to say nothing.

I’ll say it. He was talking about his appearance in twenty twenty four in the Club Shayshe podcast. You may remember that Cat Took No Prisoners. He said that that appearance was carefully planned, designed to provoke a reaction without fully detonating careers. Kat explains the knockout punches were taken out.

Kat was asked about p Diddy parties. Kat said, people, indeed, do you ask, how do you know goes on at the PDDY party? If you weren’t at the pddy party, they would have these parties in Hollywood Hills, and they’d have a parking lot where they would shuttle people up, so everybody would meet in this parking lot. They would send shuttles down. I was never invited to the parties, but I was invited to the parking lot because I knew the people who were on the shuttle service.

I’d go to the parking lot. I’d watch them all go up there, and I would just be on the car having a grand old time, smoking and laughing, watching everybody going. I would see all these big time Hollywood men that I just watched go up there. They all came down off the shuttle, looking sad in their eyes, all of them wearing Sean John and looking oily. Their shoelaces were always untied.

Then they’re getting their car and they would drive off standing up. Okay. Then Bob Saggitt getting a documentary. The Bob Sackett Documentary explores the duality of a man known to millions as America’s Dad on TV while simultaneously being a raw and unfiltered stand up comic on stage, built from intimate access to family and fellow comics, Rare home videos and ever before seen footage The Bob Sacket documentary will reveal the complex life, devastating losses, and enduring kindness behind the laughter. No date yet.

Wow, Saggot is going on four years already. That is stunning to me. I feel like that news just happened not too long ago. I met Bob once. He was super cool.

He came up to visit us, and it’s serious, and he needed to make a phone call and I let him use my office. So I have just this wonderful memory of me, you know, killing time in the hallway talking to some coworkers about the Mets and seeing Bob Saggett sitting at my desk using my phone. Cool guy Bill Maher is upset that his relationship with Jimmy Kimmel has gone sideways. You may recall that Bill Maher slammed Missus Kimmel. Missus Kimmel had revealed that she had lost family relationships over their politics.

On the Club Random podcast, Bill Maher said, Kimmel is quote very mad at me. Mar said to his guest Adam Carolla, I know you’re close to him. I hope you tell him that you know. I’m sorry that they got bent out of shape. I don’t think I did anything wrong.

Weekend of Disagreements, Moore insisted it’s Kimmel who was in the wrong. According to mar my tribe is supposed to be the left, but these are the people who just can’t talk to you unless you’re exactly there. Jimmy, I’m sorry. I think this is one of the nice guys that did a meacopo when we exchanged emails. Not about what who’s complaining about.

We’re just saying sometimes a little brash when they compare me with the other late night guys. I’m like, I’m not like you guys. I’m not You could all exchange your monologues, all of you and no one would know the difference in tune, whereas me, I’m not there. I just don’t buy into the left wing bs. I never stopped making fun of the right wing bs at all.

If that’s not good enough for you, then I think you’re the a hole. And I don’t think Jimmy’s an a hole. I think he’s a great guy. And it bugs me that because of what the latest thing was. You know, we may never talk Chris Fleming getting an HBO Max special, so I think this is a Max special I’ve talked about this in the past, HBO, that you’ve totally confused your brand, which Netflix is going to do with these quote unquote podcasts.

By the way, you’ve totally confused your brand. So to me, Living on Old Man Mountain, Something on Saturday is an HBO special. Something on Friday is a Max special. Chris Fleming, who I love, is getting a Friday special. It is called Chris Fleming Live at the Palace.

It will premiere ten pm East and West Friday, twenty seventh. Live at the Palace was filmed where everybody say with me, the Palace Theater, That’s right, the one in Chicago. We’re sold. Chris Fleming bounds across the stage, sharing his takes on masculinity, conga lines, Trader Joe’s oreos, NPR, dog Breeds and more. Now I’m fascinated with the timing.

So is the Friday night slot when you get Chris Fleming and Sarah Sherman and the quirky stuff, which is fine because that would be a brand. I would be totally down with Friday’s at ten being the quirky stuff. Don’t go throwing Nate Perghetzi on Friday Night at ten. He’s Saturday Night at ten. You know what I’m saying.

Yeah, Chris Fleming said, I hereby decree, my first HBO special will soon be available for you to consume. Please enjoy, and feel free to dance along. Thank you and thank you HBO to exclamation points. Nina Rosenstein is HBO’s EVP programming Late Night and specials and pr people loved difficult from the executives, So Nina or someone in Nina’s name came up with this sentence. Chris brings it full force to this special.

Once you’ve seen him, nothing else quite compares. His jokes are exquisitely precise, and his physical comedy is so borderline acrobatic that you discover something new to laugh at every time, whether it’s a perfect compression of a crab walk or an intricate joke about Tillamook cheese. His work is a masterclass in and of itself. I wonder how long they worked on that quote. In The Atlantic, David Simms writes, Pete Davidson’s charm is working against him.

David Simms got into one of my favorite current topics, which is the Pete Davison Show, which say with me is clearly not a podcast, Simms writes. The first question to confront when considering The Pete Davison Show, a new Netflix series that the streamer is calling a video podcast, is what is a podcast? Sims says, I would argue that podcast should always involve a dedicated feed you can listen to on your phone. The Pete Davison Show does not have that. A cynic might wonder if branding the Pete Davidson’s Show a podcast is just a way for the streaming empire to avoid paying for the kind of unionized cruise and production staff at talk show demands.

Anyway, once we get over that, let’s review the show. David Sims says of Pete Davidson as a host, He’s casual to a fault. He’s prone to slouching in his chair, ripping a thousand of cigarettes, and reminiscing about various awkward interactions he and his guests have had at parties over the years. David’s inexperience becomes obvious when seated across someone much better versed in the medium. Episode two features Charlomagne the God, a season radio personality whose comfort and facility with the format forces Davidson to keep up.

Sims writes, maybe Davidson can grown to the gig. Very few hit podcasts emerge from the gate fully formed. But the Pete Davidson Show, which I’ll point out, is not a podcast. It’s a television show on Netflix. I’ll let the union fight their own battles, but it is not a podcast.

Sims rights, the Pete Davidson Show is a particularly rough lump of clay. The garage setting riffs on Maren’s format, but the space is devoid of any notable physical objects for guest to bounce off. Nothing like Maren’s frequently remarked upon Chachke’s or guitars, Davidson’s Chat with Kelly has no structure, no segments, and no particular gimmick. I’ve been there. That’s some executive telling Pete Davidson you could do whatever you want me.

I’ve been down this a zillion times about ah. You know, we don’t need a format, we just talk about it. You have to put a format on things or you just have a mess. I’m telling you, I’ve been doing this for thirty plus years. You have to have a format.

This show has a format. Have you noticed I do the big stuff up front, take a break, and then I do esoteric stuff. That’s a format. You just need a format. I don’t open up the show going Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

The Topeka, Kansas Comedy Festival feature seven people you’ve never heard of. I don’t do it that way. There’s an order to things. You have to have a format. Sims seems to agree.

Writing some sense of organization can help shape an otherwise unformed snippet of conversation. And I like this last sentence from David Sims, who writes, perhaps Netflix is video only podcast experiment. David, it’s not a podcast, it’s a television show. Let me clean it up for you. Let me make an edit on David Simms what the sentence should say.

Or perhaps Netflix is TV show experiment will go the way of many other such clones in this medium, which never took on board the lesson that podcasts require more than two microphones and a garage to actually be interesting. You can actually do it with one micro phone in a basement. I’m opening up the Netflix app and I’ll see if the Pete Davidson television show is trending now they keep changing the interface. Here, I’ve clicked on new and Hot. They want me to watch Gordon Ramsay and Mission Impossible and Ironclaw something about dinosaurs.

Well, that doesn’t seem to be chirts. We are shirts in Netflix. They used to just have a big top ten there, So here we go. Top ten shows in the US today. This is twelve forty five pm on Tuesday, Wrestling, Lincoln Lawyer, Bridgerton unfamiliar, Jeffrey Epsteins something his and Hers which I liked at the beginning, and they got terrible.

Is it cake? You people need to get a life alone, Free Bert doing well at number nine and The Way Home. None of that is the Pete Davidson television show. Interesting. I’m a bad host.

Yesterday I did this wonderful rant about Mulaney versus Jen Marco, and I forgot to thank a listener. No listener said, you can just say listener. But the listener sent this to me or I wouldn’t have caught it. So thank you listener for putting that. I still want to get a posse up, but I don’t hear it at all.

In case you missed it, seems mister b Bigli and mister Mullaney are not quite accusing John Marco Siresi of ripping off the act. They didn’t say who they think is ripping off Mullaney, but people seem to think they’re implying that it’s John Marco. I don’t hear it at all. Comedy Survivor join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I was checking out the voting earlier today and there’s a lot of like single votes all across the board.

I don’t know who’s going this week. Some people are hanging back until end of day Thursday to get their votes in late and see if a little late rush can eliminate someone. No idea who’s going. Late night waged in. On the super Bowl halftime show, Greg Gutfeld telled this joke.

President Trump posted that bad Bunny had one of the worst halftimes ever. I disagree. The worst ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump now now Gutfeld. Obviously I didn’t tell that one well at all, because that did you hear those words? That is a hilarious joke.

The worst halftime ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump. Hilarious? I mean Gottfeld told it properly, got a huge laugh. I just didn’t tell it well, but boy, that that is just a well crafted, not at all hacky joke from Greg Guttfeld. Eddie Murphy, we’ll team up with Evangoria in a new comedy movie being made by Amazon MGM.

It is called Attachment Parenting. We’re told attachment Parenting has a vibe that throws back to another era of studio comedies. The project tells of a psychologist couple whose parenting philosophies put to the ultimate test when they’re forced to counsel the crime boss’s dysfunctional family while being held hostage at a hotel. Okay, Kevin Hart he likes to be in business with stuff. He has invested in Burn Bootcamp.

The owners of Burn Bootcamp met Kevin Hart through mutual connections. CEO Morgan Klein said, we could just since there was a lot of shared values amongst one another. It was very clear that he didn’t want to be as person and that’s not what we were seeking. He wanted ownership. Kevin has made a financial investment in Burn boot Camp and will own a franchise in California.

Kevin in a YouTube video apparently said Burn stands for what I believe in, structure, accountability, and results. My kids don’t listen to what I say, but they watch what I do, and I want them to see discipline, commitment and strength. Tops Baseball Cards have come out with a Jerry Seinfeld Mets card. It’s Jerry Seinfeld wearing a Mets jersey and an off brand Mets hat and he’s on the phone, presumably calling the bullpen. It’s autographed.

Tops said it was the biggest signing of the off season. Collectors can buy a whole bunch of packs and hope one of the packs has an autograph card of Jerry Seinfeld. And The Traverse City Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. The festival is April sixteenth through the eighteenth. It’s their fourth annual event.

Headliners Megan Statler, Sarah Sherman, Roywood Junior, Gary Goleman, and Jodovito. Nice lineup, gang. It will be comedians representing three thirty three states and Canada, which if the President will get things done and let’s get going on this, I’ll be able to just say representing thirty four states, right, I’m skimming the names here. The headliners are pretty good. The other folks, I’m not sure any of these names you would know unless you’re really, really a comedy snob.

The festival will feature multiple improv and specialty programs. Show titles include Kamikazi Comedy, Big Fun, Murder, Planet Ant, and that thing you pull when you want it to stop. It’s also a roast Battle and a Comedy Rumble. What’s a comedy rumble, John, you’re the one who hosts the show. I know.

Let’s see. Here’s a comedy rumble that gives eight comedians the chance to battle for progressively longer stage time across three intense rounds. Wait, this is fun. It sounds like a good time. And that’s your comedy news for today and catch it tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Settle up your horse, because I’m putting together a posse. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. But I don’t have time for that because I am ticked off.

Mike Birbiglia has a podcast. His guest is John Mulaney. Listen to this crap. I’ve edited this for pacing, but listen to this. What do you think when people like rip off your voice in your style?

Dude, I’ve heard they do, but I don’t. I can’t think of anyone that does. We know who did? I don’t. Actually, you want to write it down?

I write the first letter. Oh I’m not that familiar with that person. Okay, but I I’ll check it out. I just watched it the other day. I was like, come on, interesting, Okay, what are we doing?

That’s cool though, I guess, of course it’s cool. Okay, how’d you feel about people that ripped you off? Well, there’s two or three. Do you like it? That’s fine?

Yeah, it’s fine, all right, John Mulaney and Mike Brobiglia who are we accusing of stealing John Mulaney’s act. Now they didn’t name names, but one comedian thinks it’s him. Let’s go to Friend of the Show and twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marco SERAISI. This clip has some salty language, and I’ve trimmed it a lot for pacing. But let’s let John Marco way in on this.

There is something that we need to talk about. I don’t I don’t want to name names, so I’m gonna I’m gonna write it down on a piece of paper and and uh, let’s so there’s a person I want to talk about. Oh, how about a big ass p to quote my fa favorite comedian John Mulaney. I when I when I first started a stand up, like when I really like made that decision, I saw micro Biglia did a show at the Bellhouse and it was this. It was so cool because it was him working out new material like he he hosted it and then he had comments going between who were doing like the Real Killer, like just set and then he came out and was working on new material.

In fact, I would say that was very much inspiration for my my silver lining show. So I’m stealing from you too, buddy. I I wish I could go back in time to that Bellhouse show and just whisper in my ear one day one of those comedians on stage is going to talk shit about you to another one of those comedians on stage on a podcast. So so I I was on a plane. Great, that’s a great place to get news that hurts your feelings on a play.

Just perfect. And I think it was two weeks ago, maybe Pete Holmes I went on on Working it Out for Bigli’s podcast, Working it Out I believe that’s what it’s called, which I’m subscribed to. Yeah, And and people said, hey, Jamarca got a shout out I’m working it Out and you go, oh cool, cool cool, and Pete Holmes was talking about just good JFL sets and and and mentioned Shane Gillis and and me, and it was very nice.

And then I went on the Patreon just to make sure all the episode, the new epi…

It’s someday. Once once every cast member of SNL has made an appearance. I’m so excited. And and it was it was basically they were talking about shit talking and Bigliy was like, well, people, how do you feel when people rip you off or copy you? And and he said, he said, oh, there’s one person, and he said, you know, write it down.

And so he took out a piece of paper and wrote a name of someone who’s who he says, ripping off uh milleniey and showed him.

---

And now let me just let me just say, because someone planted it in my ear, li…

If who else could it be? Who else is ripping off John Mulaney more than me? John Marco ripping off John Mulaney, as the kids say, GTFO with that. The only time I ever put in a Lane and Tron Marco together in my brain was when John Marco was on this show and slipped into a Millenie impression when he was deliberately doing mulleni Yes, he was doing Mullenie, but day to day I don’t hear it at all. Mike Provilian John Mlaney again, GTFO with that noise Speaking of John Mulaney, he was part of the Best Thing Ever Creative Platforms campaign during the Super Bowl.

Apparently this came and went. I didn’t catch win of it until I was putting the show together. John Mulaney was providing commentary on Super Bowl commercials in real time and shared on social media. Here’s John Mulaney commenting on the Polar Bear commercial. Kraft Mac and Cheese is better than commercials with Polar Bears.

We’re ready to enjoy in ten minutes. Those Polar Bears show up eight hours before rolling to get into hair and makeup. Then they have their squads, all the people that hang around them. You have to get a trailer for them, and not a half trip. You’ve got to get a full banger.

Then they’re going to go over the contract midway through the shooting bill. I didn’t agree to scarf read of sunglasses. It’s a nightmare. It’s why I left the Bins, Craft Back and Cheese. Best thing ever?

Wait, was that, John Marcos Sarasi, No, it wasn’t. You know how I know because it wasn’t funny. Get out of here for Biggs and Malini. Get out of here with that. Michael Chay, He and Colin Jost were in a commercial.

People are upset at them that they were promoting sports gambling. Michael Chay on Instagram posted, look, I got a mortgage, which I get. I also have heating bills. You guys can hate on the commercials all you want, but I got I Have you seen my heating bill? This I’m not doing a bit, Holy cow, and February is gonna be worse.

I can’t take the cold anymore. Man, It’s gonna end at heart. I’m Jimmy Buffett. All right, while we’re on our horses, while we’ve got a posse together, let’s keep riding and head on over to NBC headquarters. I saw this on the Facebook group of the Letterman podcast NBC’s turning one hundred.

They did this video montage of all the great things that ever happened on NBC. You know, things like Marcelo Hernandez, he’s in the video. Things like heroes, Yeah, heroes out of one hundred years of NBC. You’re picking heroes that made the video. You know who did not make the video?

David Letterman, are you kidding me? You put Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing one thing, well but one thing only in this video, and you don’t put David Letterman GTFO. As the kids say. On Netflix today, Kat Williams as a new special. It’s his fourth for the streamer.

It’s titled The Last Report. In The Last Report, Kat Williams delivers bold takes on conspiracy celebrities in the world at large. Looking forward to that one. Jim Gaffigan’s got a new gig. He will be in a movie called New England Toys.

New England Toys is a mysterious period thriller that has already started filming in Buffalo, New York. It is unclear what year or decade of the film takes place in.

---

Speaking of Jim Gaffigan, the folks over at Breaking Bourbon dot Com reviewed…

Now, I was like, what’s SRP? That brought me to SRP whiskey dot com. I’m sorry if the rest of you are like John, everyone knows what this is uh, for the one person who doesn’t. SRP Whiskey is a base platform where visitors to the site can review retail pricing for most whiskeys on the market. All right, so Gaffigan charging two hundred and thirty bucks for this thing?

Yeah. Breaking Bourbon tells us Nose Orange, Zest, Summer Fruits, peacht medicinal undertone, the palette, stewed fruits, kettle corn, raspberry jam, brown sugar, baking spices on the back end, the finish raspberry, honey, orange, rined, dried apricot, and lingering spice, which I almost misread as linger a spice, which would be differently interesting. Breaking Bourbon tells us for their fourth release in the series, Father Time, Precious Batch, Bourbon, Empty Nester Strength, fourth and long great title Jim is a solid release from a celebrity brand that is just getting started. Gaff again is planning five releases in this series. Wait and or up to number forty.

Think he’ll stop. I don’t think he’ll stop, with each release representing one of his five children, though they are not personally identified with each release, As Gaffkin states, while I was thrilled to know a new child was on the way, a fear of uncertainty overtook me like a football team facing fourth and long. Parenting is hard, raising three kids is exponentially harder, but much like going forward on fourth down, when you make it, there’s a feeling of invincibility. The same principles that inspire the previous versions of father Time have also guided the creation of our new release, Fourth and Long. The endeavor is still just me and stew tasting barrels and putting together a smooth and delicious bourbon.

Each bottle is personally signed by me, which was a pain in the ass, but totally worth it. Much like Fatherhood. Maybe that explains the two hundred and thirty dollars breaking bourbon tells it’s it’s refreshing to see his bourbon brand from a celebrity who not only enjoys the spirit, but is actively involved with its creation at the ground level. Based on this, I’m excited to see what Father Burban does next. The sample use for this review is provided to us at no cost courtesy its respective company.

We thank them for a longest review with no strings attached. This next story is sad. I’m going to drop a bomb in you to just be prepared, and then the story after it. I have a very fun story. Okay, so but this is about to get really sad.

Just you’ve been warned I should not do this story. This story is not fun at all. It’s not funny at all. It’s not even comedy. But it’s core to who I am.

As I tell people who know me, there’s just like a handful of things you have to know about me that explain everything about me. One of them which I’ll share with you right now. Again, nothing funny here. This is about to get really sad. Actually, when I was a young boy, like four years old, my first dog did not live very long and that has affected me my entire life.

So I am bothered by this story from the puppy Bowl. To just see this story from the puppy bowl, this is heartbreaking and I can’t shake it, and I have to talk about it to get it out of my system. One of the puppies was Teagan. Teagan I was born with neurological issues and a severely curved spine and almost died from pneumonia shortly after arriving at Connecticut Animal Sanctuary. Perfect Imperfections Rescue, And here’s all these clips and they’re on social media and you see this dog and like, you can’t look away.

And I kept looking and I was like, oh God, bless you dog. So I wake up on Monday, all right, this is I’m going to drop a bomb on you. Hit stop. I’m about to drop a bomb. I learned from the New York Post.

Tigan the puppy died three months ago before the Puppy Bowl or Tigan, whose life was hard enough anyway, became severely ill with pneumonia. The sanctuary said in a Facebook post it will be bittersweet to see her on TV. So I see this on Monday morning and I’m like, yikes. I realized this is supposedly a comedy podcast. So I don’t know what to do.

There’s a sanctuary called Perfect Imperfections Rescue. I’ll probably make a donation, and I donate to several several animal charities. Again, I was unfamiliar with any of this until like four pm on Sunday, but I have it open here and I see you can make some donations, and I’m actually going to do that. So some good comes out of Teakan’s short time on this planet. Okay, now, how do you get out of that.

John, Let me tell you about Adam Sandler. Remember last week I told you a story and as the story goes, Adam Sandler’s daughter was there trying to buy a handbag and the people were mean and all that. Well, Adam Sandler has commented on this. Adam Sandler was at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and he went out of his way to say, by the way, there’s something on the internet talking about that dumb thing. I’ve been hearing about this thing, and I saw it and it’s just insane.

It’s just this made up, weird thing that people ask me about and I’m just like, I’ve never heard of this in my life. That story was one hundred percent insane and made up, and not a word of it is true. Sandler said he was sent the TikTok video by a friend who asked him what happened. Sandler said that video’s nonsense, but other videos of him getting in and out burger late at night were true. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so to talk about her, we shall.

She was on Instagram posted some more pictures. In one of the captions, she addressed her increased social media presence and admitted that it’s due to her feelings wrong and beautiful. Finally, the success of her health and weight loss journey. Amy Schumer wrote, picks of Yourself when you’re finally feeling strong and beautiful or not a cry for help. They’re a celebration of life and health.

Love to the single moms out there. Verdaz commenting on Twitter about Bad Bunny, I thought Bad Bunny was fantastic? Did the people who were upset about Bad Bunny were crazy to begin with? Now? Do I normally drive around listening to Bad Bunny’s music.

I don’t, But in terms of a halftime show, I thought it was fantastic and I was highly entertained. Verr DAEs posted, It’s kind of weird to complain about not knowing the words to a Bad Bunny song and saying it’s soun American when most of you don’t know the words to the Second Amendment either. Ouch. Remember the comedy club from like two weeks ago, maybe it was at this point there was a comedian who had said jerky things about the two people in Minnesota who were murdered. Well, Camp Barrs Laugh Camp Comedy Club has announced the benefit show featuring local comics aimed at covering losses for the staff who didn’t make any money because of the six canceled shows.

Club owner Bill Collins tells Bring Me the News that tonight’s benefit aims to cover lost wages and tips for staff, which includes bartender’s tech and box office crew. An The extra will go towards helping the club recover from potential legal fees and approximately eighteen thousand dollars that the comedian’s management company CAA says the club needs to pay for the canceled shows. Club owner Collins says comedians quickly reached out with offers to perform the benefit show. The lineup for tonight, which promises a few surprises I’ll come back to that includes Kadisha Cooper, Pierre Douglas, Maggie Farris, Ben Katzner, Rick Logan, Pearl Rose, sent Thel Regis, Karen, Tommy Ryman, and James Stanley. Now, I was hoping one of the surprises would be Dave Chappelle, but Dave’s not scheduled to be in town until the sixteenth.

The Moontower Comedy Festival announced more people to the lineup. Newcomers to the schedule include Meg Statler, Sarah Sherman, Lucy Dorling, Jennifrieman, and Murray Hill Moontower ten plus venues in downtown Austin from April seventh through the nineteenth. Many people already announced, I’m not going to read you fifty names, so let me just roll here and see some names you might know. Bet Stelling, Blasochi, Brad Williams, Carolyn Ray, Cristella Alonso, Deborah g Giovanni, Doug Benson, milwakem Greg Warren, Guy Brenham, Ivan Decker, Jason Sklar, Which means both Sclares will be there. They don’t do solo shows.

I don’t think I’ve never heard of one of the Sclars doing a show. And we’re going alphabetical by first name, so I’m assuming we’re going to get to Randy Scalark, Jay Jorden, Katherine Blandford, remember that name, She’s fantastic. In fact, we have Mike from the Letterman Podcast on assignment at the JFL Vancouver Comedy Festival. Go see Katherine Leslie Jones, who could be in Comedy Survivor Trouble. Oh I didn’t tell about Comedy Survivor Jay Leno voted off.

Yeah, we had a tie this week, and as per the rules, the AI had to decide who was going home? Was it Leslie Jones or Jay Leno? And the AI sent Jay Leno home. Leslie Jones survived Comedy Survivor. If you’d like to take part in Comedy Survivor, go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

You’ll find a little cartoon there me and Leno and in that thread to vote someone off the island. All right, Leslie Jones is going to Austin, Mark Marin, Matt Broger, Nish Kumar, Randy Scler, Sarah Sherman talked about her already veered Asen Yakov Smirnoff. Fantastic And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.