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Featured: Gary Gulman, David Brenner, George Carlin, Gary Shandling, Carrie Fisher, Jason Zinman, Hasan Minhaj, Jerry Seinfeld, Rodney Dangerfield, Marc Maron, Nimesh Patel, Leslie Jones, Kenan Thompson, Whoopi Goldberg, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Lorne Michaels, Kate Berlant

What’s in This Episode

• Gary Gulman’s new memoir ‘Misfit’ and his message about reading the introduction
• Hasan Minhaj fact-checking controversy and Jason Zinman’s New York Times analysis
• Marc Maron discussing working small rooms and fear of failure
• Leslie Jones’ SNL sketch idea to kill Whoopi Goldberg that Lorne Michaels rejected
• Kate Berlant named most influential millennial comedian and NEPO Baby list
• Whitney Cummings recording special at Comedy Store
• Sam Jay’s HBO special ‘Salute Me or Shoot Me’

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The Shark Deck. Did I just swallow a bug? I am chunny back with your day company dudes. Right before I start recording, I go check, check, check to make sure I actually plugged in the microphone and the headset and everything’s working and it’s not distorted. And there was a bug flying in front of my face and now the back of my throat feels like I swallowed a bug.

It’s not why you’re here. Gary Goldman has a new book. It’s called Misfit Growing Up Awkward, and he wants you to read the entire book to prove it. In the introduction, he wrote, some people skip the intro. I don’t trust them.

It makes me wonder where else they cut corners, where else they’re phoning it in, and what other flim flammery they’re perpetrating some good Goldmanese language there. Gary talked about David Brenner. I got to do a few shows with Brenner and really enjoyed my time with David Brenner. Gary said, I discovered David Brenner on The Mike Douglas Show. Was magical to me because it was so eerie that it was doing this observational humor and it felt like he was spying on us.

It made me laugh, but it was also so empowering that this man and I always pictured as how I would look when I grew over, was behaving very creatively. I love George carlin silly ideas about language and his observational stuff. Later on I came across Gary Shandling. My brother had been bumped from a flight and got two free tickets, but couldn’t use them, so from my bar mitzvah. My mother took me to La and we waited in line with my cousin Della to see Johnny Carson.

Gary Shandling was his guest. I fell in love with them immediately. It was this interesting thing where a man was very neurotic and anxious but also seem to have that bugs bunny confidence. The other guest was Carrie Fisher, and he was flirting with Princess Leia. I eventually worked with Gary Schandling at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach.

He couldn’t have been much nicer. It was it really great to meet your hero’s moment awesome. Jason Zinniman writes about comedy for The New York Times, and he got into the whole Hasan Minhaj thing. You know, Hasan Minhaj made up some things first comedy act. But Zinniman, I think really got to it.

This guy’s fantastic, What a great writer. I love Jason Zinneman at the Times, and he talked about, you know, we’re gonna start fact checking everybody’s comedy, and he pointed out, for example, Roddy Daintrefield was respected. He did get risk backed right. So, yeah, that all makes sense. We don’t assume everything coming out of a comedian’s mouth is true, but there was something a little wonky about Hasan Minhaj, and Zinneman writes, watching the King’s Gesture, that’s Hassan special.

Now hits differently. In some ways, it’s more interesting than the first time I saw it, when it seemed mawkish. Some jokes, like his desperation for social media clout, seem like clues, and others come across as the work of a guilty conscience, like the moment when Minhaj faces the audience and says, everything here is built on trust. Zinniman rights, this is the truth. Every comic has an unspoken pack with the audience.

The one Seinfeld has is different from Minhaj’s, and part of the reason has nothing to do with their intentions. Whether or not critics like me think authenticity is important, it does matter to the audience, so dishonesty and comics understand that. It’s no accident that many of the political comedians working today, especially on TV, employee researchers from traditional news sources. Getting facts right matters, especially when the comedy is about grave social issues. That’s not just because the comics.

Credibility can take a hit when stories told about reese, religious profiling, or transgender identity or exposed as inventions that can lead to doubt about the experiences of real people. Jason writes, one of the most notable aspects of the minha story is the lack of nuance in his response, the complete confidence he projects. It’s striking that he seemingly has no concerns about possibly deceiving some of his audience. His special is about his wife challenging him to take responsibility for how his words can negatively affect his family. One wonders if there will be any more introspection great stuff in the New York Times.

I’ve been on a mark Marin clip catching up he had Nimish Batel on in August. I only got to listen to it the other day when I was out for a run Humble Brig and I thought a chair a quick clip. As Mark Marrin explained how he’s putting together his next hour, I’m working a small room. My fans know what I’m doing. It’s only one hundred and fifty people there, and they kind of like they’re willing to go along with it.

So I just risk failing. Yeah, and I’m not afraid to fail. You know. It’s not going to take the window in my sales, but there’s going to be awkward moments and that’s all right. From Yahoo.

Leslie jones new book, Leslie Effing Jones features a chapter called killing Whoopie Goldberg. Well, what’s that about, Johnny mcdun sounds a little scary, don’t worry. According to her story, she smoked weed and teamed up with Keenan Thompson to write a sketch for SNL. Some context here. Sometimes Leslie Jones would play Whoopi Goldberg on SNL, but for this sketch it would be actual Whoopie Goldberg.

And in the sketch, Colin Jost would say, Leslie, I know it’s you, and actual Whoopee would say no, no, no, I know Leslie plays me, but it’s really me. I’m really Whoopee. Colin says, yeah, yeah, So what would happen if I do this and pulls out a gun. Whoopee looks terrified and says, no, seriously, I’m Whoopi Goldberg. I’m not Leslie, I’m really Whoopee.

Colin looks at her and doesn’t believe her and says, oh yeah, and then shoots her. Jones writes that the sketch would have cut back and forth between panic in the studio as Jost and Michael Chay realize it’s the real Whoopi Goldberg bleeding out live on air, and a station break pre tape of Lorne Michael’s taking port in various activities like writing, a was playing golf, taking a shower, and a voiceover saying Who’ll be right back is shown in between shots of the on screen slaughter. Leslie said, Keenan and I were weeping with laughter when we wrote this. We were actually going to shoot Whoopy Goldberg. On SNL head Brighter Brian Tucker according to Jones, looked at them and said, you guys are crazy.

So they pitched it to the weekend update team. In the update office, we were acting out the sketch and laughing the whole time. When we finished, Keenan said, it’s so funny. Right, someone said, you guys are nuts. You can’t kill Whoopi Goldberg on Live TV.

Leslie said, she’s not dead, she just got shot. They ended up writing a flushed out version of the sketch to present at a table read the next day. They even got Lauren Michaels to read the voiceoverports and then he stopped and said it wasn’t going to make it to air. Lauren said, we’re not going to kill Whoopi Goldberg on National TV for a personal joke. That sentence sounds like a funny sketch to be.

Whitney Cummings is recording her next special at the Comedy Store in la two day. Sam Jay’s Salute Me or Shoot Me is on HBO today, But m says Kate Berlant is the quote most influential slash imitated comedian of a generation, a millennial Lenny Bruce. This from The Independent, Burlant insists she’s niche for life. The Independent rights, chances are you’ve seen the thirty five year old somewhere, or maybe if she jokes, you’ve just confused her for Katherine Han. Burland is amused that she was listed in New York Magazine’s NEPO Baby List.

That’s a fun list to look at, by the way, there’s a lot of people working in Hollywood with the famous parents. But The Independent says, I would argue that Burland’s dad’s career as a visual artist and the fact that her mother quote made the Stonehenge for this is spinal tap is not quite the same as being able to call too Oscar nominees mom and dad. Regardless, she said, I was thrilled to be on the list because it made me seem so much more famous than I am. She’s also worried that theater is dying. It’s a quaint form at this point.

If people are seeking comedy, they go to TikTok. They’re certainly not going to the theater. There’s almost nowhere left in culture where people are all actually together looking at something. She’s at the Soho Theater. If you’re in the UK until thirty September let’s mix up the order today and see who’s at the High Planes Comedy Festival in Denver on this Saturday night.

Chaos Theory. It’s six o’clock open mic, seven o’clock at Mutiny Information Cafe. Sky’s the Limit at seven. Mattale Lane quotes High Planes headline or show seven thirty at the Paramount. The Growlocks are there at nine, and then a couple of local shows.

So yeah, if we were there, Mattale Lane would be the move for sure, and then we could bounce around catching local shows.

Now, let’s see who’s at JFL Toronto on a Saturday.

If you listened to yesterday, I was a little underwhelmed by the Friday night lineup and I love JFL, but they got better in them than that. SETV backup at seven, Jay Jordan at seven, Michelle Wolf and Ariel Alias at seven. All right, we hypothetically saw both of them yesterday, so let’s do Leslie Jones. I’ve been talking about her a lot this week. This would make her our seven o’clock show, seven thirty New Faces of Canada eight o’clock Saturday Night set Tire eight o’clock Double Threat, Rachel Menson and Clifton Cremo.

Love the name of this one. This is gonna work on me. Eight o’clock Beer Beer Comedy. Beer Beer Comedy is thrilled to bring its brand of underground Toronto comedy to the bright lights of JFL, featuring Toronto’s top comedians. I’m sold on that we’re doing that, all right, that’s all right.

O’clock show, Beer Beer Comedy, so Leslie Jones, then Beer Beer Comedy, The nine o’clocks, Gavin Matt’s Ariel Elias, Joe to Rosa, Dan Smith nine fifteen. Reggie Watts. Have you ever seen Reggie Watts? Very very interesting in person? Nine thirty Neil Brennan nine thirty Ronny Chieng, WHOA.

I was on my way to Reggie Watts and I’m like, oh, I really want to see Neil Brennan. And I was like, I really like Ronny Chieng. Hm. Which do we see? All right?

Reggie Watts, Neil Brennan, Ronny Chieng. I’m gonna eliminate Reggie Watts, Neil Brennan, Ronny Chieng, Neil Brennan, Ronnie Chan Let’s go see Neil Brennon at nine thirty, ten o’clock Saturday Night sets Hire Alison Leebley, SETV ten thirty, Best of Absolute Comedy eleven o’clock, Andrea Gin Alternative Show, Patty Harrison, Jay Jorden An eleven thirty After Hours Let’s do Jay Jordan at eleven o’clock. There’s also the Hampton’s Comedy Festival. Some of your performers tonight, Eric Haft, Richie Byrne, Scott Baker, Vinnie Mark and if you’re in Scranton and you’ll like kittens. Animal Care Associates is a local nonprofit all volunteer foster and rescue that’s been serving the community for twenty years that they are teaming with the Scranton Comedy Club for Comedy for the Kittens.

It’s a fundraiser tonight, seven o’clock at the Scranton Comedy Club fifteen bucks. The show features Steve Marshall and Bob A. Finney as headliners. Aaron Bader is your feature. The event also features basket raffles, merch and Moore.

For details LNK Tree Slash Aca, Scranton. There will also be some kittens there. Maybe adopt one on your way home. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy what I do here, Tell a friend about it.

I’ll see you here tomorrow.

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Featured: Big Jay Oakerson, Heather McMahon, Jimmy Kimmel, Russell Brand, Catherine Ryan, Matt Walsh, Bert Kreischer, Bosko Odessa Okaska, Michelle Wolf, Patton Oswalt, Joe Rogan

What’s in This Episode

• Big Jay Oakerson releases comedy album Dog Belly
• Heather McMahon Netflix special Son I Never Had premiering October 17
• Strike Force three Las Vegas event canceled due to Jimmy Kimmel COVID diagnosis
• Russell Brand podcast content removed by Luminary following allegations
• Matt Walsh exits Dancing with the Stars over WGA strike solidarity
• Bert Kreischer spotted shopping at pawn shop before Ford Center show
• Michelle Wolf discusses three-part special format and departure from political comedy label
• Joe Rogan listening presented as red flag in dating survey for young women

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Big Jay Okerson releases his comedy album dog Belly today. That’s cool, Heather McMahon. We’ll have a special on Netflix October seventeenth.

It’s called Son I never had. Let’s listen to a piece from the trailer. I want to paint a picture of what baby Heather looked like. Okay, I’d always wear my dad hand me down golf shirts, just like tucked into the front. I’d wear a sensible bel CROs sandal in case they’d like take off after my mom at Costco.

I really solidified the look when I went to Great Clips one summer and I saw my stylish Trish and I just go, Trish. I want to get out the buzzers and hit the nape of my neck. I want to feel that sweet Georgia heat just running down my spine. Shot in Lexington, Kentucky, at the historic Lexington Opera House, McMahon tackle’s body image, drug, sex, fertility, grief, and she also let’s loose on female beauty standards, messing up her own IVF and wellness retreats. In this hilarious one hour special, Heather McMahon son, I never had October seventeenth on Netflix.

If you were heading to Las Vegas to see Strike Force three on Saturday, don’t the Strike Force three live event announced by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fown and Stephen Colbert has been canceled. Why Jimmy Kimmel has tested positive for COVID. Kimmel, on a statement said, well, Las Vegas, I got COVID and sadly, we need to cancel this weekend’s Strike Force three show. I could never live with myself if I got my hometown friends sick. Thanks to all the purchase tickets, everyone will get full refunds and we’ll try to reschedule if possible.

Seems everything around Russell Brand is collapsing. He had a podcast, and podcast News Daily says Luminaries contract with Russell Brand to produce new content. It ended more than a year ago, and we will no longer promote any of his older content. Any recent episodes were simply reposts or promoting old content, podcast news Daily points out. Luminary did, however, announce earlier this month that Under the Skin would be one of the first six podcast that would be featured as part of its new alliance with a Cast.

A Cast would serve as Luminaries exclusive monetization partner. An A Cast rap says A Cast immediately turned off ads on Russell Brand’s podcast following news of the recent allegations against him. Katherine Ryan did a comedy show and she avoided the quote elephant in the room, joking that the elephant in the room was that she had lost two stones in the past two months. And she did a set covering her sex, life, kids and ancestry. Katherine Ryan had previously had some comments about unnamed comedian, now believed to be Russell Brand.

ABC made delay Dancing with the Stars Why. Matt Walsh said in a statement that he will pause his involvement with the show until an agreement is made with the Writers Guild of America. Matt said, I was excited to join the show and did sell under the impression that it was not a WGA show and fell under a different agreement. This morning, when I was informed by my union, the WGA that it is considered struck work, I walked out of my rehearsal. I have been and will always stand with my union members of the WGA, SAG and DGA beyond our union artists.

I’m sensitive to the many people impacted by the strike, and I hope for a speedy and fair resolution and to one day work again with all the wonderful people I met at DWTS who tolerated my dancing. Quick stop on gossip Corner from fourteenews dot com, Bert Kreisher was seen shopping in Evansville just hours before doing his big show at the Ford Center. We’re told Bert Kreisher was downtown and made a stop at the River City Coffee plus Goods. According to their social media page, Burt bought some merch and left with a drink. He was then spotted at Goldman’s pawn Shop on Fourth Street.

That’s weird. PBS interviewed otsko ad Kaska and asked why it took so long for her career to kick in. I think people are afraid of things not working. People are afraid of things they’re not used to seeing. The audience has been asked for, and that’s what I mean by like social media and stand up comedians post their own clips online.

They gain their own followers and go on tour and the audience is there and they prove like look people do want to see this, and then the industry usually listens to, yes, that is funny. How that works. Michelle Wolf talked to Rolling Stone about doing her special in three ports. In case you missed it, I mentioned yesterday Michelle Wolf’s special fifth Best of the Year is how I have it so far. I liked it a lot.

It’s like fifth Best is not a dig I like the ones at the top of the list a lot. Michelle said. I wanted to see if I could change up the way we’re consuming these specials based off are decreased attention span. I think there’s a great place for an hour long special, and there are a lot of great hour long specials, but I also think there are a lot of hour long collections of jokes. This is more a collection of jokes rather than something that felt like a special.

I thought, there are fifteen minutes that work really well together, so I really need to find a segue to get into the next chunk that works well together. Or could I just break it up and then if they like it, they’ll watch another one That was exactly what I did. Michelle said. I originally made eight episodes that varied in length. I think the longest was twenty three minutes, the shortest was nine, and most are around fifteen.

Even though I didn’t end up selling those as eight episodes, I stand by what I was trying to do, and I hope they see that this is a way that comedy can be consumed and they say, in six months, I have another three episode that I could just grow up there, rather than waiting another year or two to get a full special, I can be like, you know, I have a really interesting twenty minute set and a really interesting seven minute set, and let’s add two more episodes to this. It would also give us an opportunity to be a little more timelier with it. I think everything she said there makes a ton of sense. Michelle said, I think this special is a bit more personal than my last ones, and I think I kind of mistakenly get put in the political comedian barrel. I’m not Bill Moore, and I’m not doing jokes about a Sandal shorter.

I do talk about things that I observe as being things that are affecting society right now. But I think I mistakenly got put in the political comedian category as someone who’s going to do a bunch of Trump jokes. I worked on the Daily Show, so that put me in the corner, and of course people associate me with the White House Correspondence Dinner. But I’ve always felt my stand up has been separate from that. Washington Post profiled a partner an Unschulish, she’s got her new book out, and they were like, you know, you can pay real money for an Anxiety Queen T shirt, And a partner said, it’s a bit surreal.

I think once any topic gets commodified or swallowed up by the market, it does kind of distort the meeting of it. In Unreliable Narrator, she grapples with these contradictions, says, maybe being a spokespushan for anything apparently makes you question your relationship to it. Perhaps I should have lawyered up early on and negotiated a more contractual relationship the only partial custody of my brain from Inside Radio. Joe Rogan may have one of podcastings biggest shows. I believe it’s the biggest, but he’s one of the medium’s more polarizing figures.

That is especially true among eighteen to thirty four year olds. Women were asked if they say listening to Joe Rogan as a red flag to a potential relationship. Fifty five percent said yes. The survey said more than a third of men thirty five percent, also see a red flag if their potential significant other is a Joe Rogan listener. Yeah, okay, I don’t know.

Maybe it’s just me. I’m able to listen to a conversation about comedy with say Jim Gaffigan, and I don’t know, my wife still likes me. Who knows, Maybe we’re weird. On the flip side, more men see as a plus if their potential partner listens to Joe Rogan. A quarter of eighteen to thirty four year old men say it’s a green flag if their potential partner listens to Rogan’s podcasts.

So if you’re out there in single and you see a cute guy, you might be like, hey, Joe Rogan experience, huh might get you date? Who knows. Tom Webster said, this is a show that is very easy for a lot of people to hate because it’s very good at excluding people, which means it’s kind of a velvet rope experience for the people that it appeals to. Okay, Ryan Reynolds will receive bring change to minds Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award. It’s the eleventh annual Rebels and Revelations fundraiser.

Each year, the Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award is given out at the fundraiser in honor of the late actor by his children. Previous recipients include Billy Crystal, will Be Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Dan and Eugene Levy, Melissa McCarthy, and now Ryan Reynolds. If you haven’t had a chance, you had to listen to Conan O’Brien’s interview on Kara Switcher’s podcast It Is Fun. And Kara was curious if Conan thought Late Night is on its last legs and will you ever go back to tv TV. Conan said, I grew up watching Johnny Carson, and there was one Lean Night host, and then there were two, and then there were three, and I think at a certain point the whole mechanism, the technology changed.

You know, there were so many people that used to watch me because they didn’t have much choice. It’s twelve thirty at night. They had to wake up and take a medication or baby’s crying, and they were like, no, let’s watch Conan. Now you have a choice between watching a late night host or anything that’s ever been shot or recorded in the history of mankind. You can watch the director’s cut of Lawrence of Arabia, you can watch any merchant Ivory movie.

You can watch all the Faulty Towers, I mean anything. So it’s much more difficult now. Bob Odenkirk talked about his time on Saturday Night Live. This from The Hollywood Reporter. They were listening to oden Kirk on Tignazarro’s podcast, and oden Kirk said, when he was at SNL, he was unsure of myself.

It was hard, It was existentially dangerous. I had feelings of I should erased myself. I was too young when I got hired at SNL. That was not a good thing. That could have gone wrong, that could have gone wrong.

It came disclose so many times and going so wrong. You gotta believe me. While at the show, he wrote for people like Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, and Tim Meadows. He liked Chris Farley. He said one time he played the dad in a met full sketch, and we did it seven times a week at Second City.

Every time I did. That was the most fun I had in show business. Roy Wood Junior told the Chicago Tribune what he would do if he were a commissioner of Major League Baseball. Roy Wood Junior said, to simple change. I like bat flips, I like k struts.

I like designs on sneakers, the cool bat paintings during the home run derby. That should be a normal thing. Blair wants to strat if a player wants a deer show announce of fun while playing the game, and then his voice trailed off because says, Suzuki stepped out of the batter’s box and he was apparently interested in the event. It is Friday Night at Toronto jfl. Let’s see who’s playing tonight.

Seven o’clock Tonight The Second City eighty eight Main Stage Review, That’s Cool seven o’clock, Fun and Slutty with Jonathan van Ness Andrea Jane at seven, Joe to Rose at seven, Drew Lynch at seven, Mark Forward’s Safari Time, Ron Funches at seven, seven, fifteen, eight o’clock The four twenty Show with Mike Rita f and Not Funny Fridays at Double Threat Chad Anderson and Adrian Fish eight o’clock Value Dog Presents Brendan Flaherty eight o’clock, Peter Wildman, One Funny Song eight fifteen, Adria Amran and The Experience It’s Musical Comedy. Nine o’clock, Double Threat, Nigel Grinstead and a Jonas Shirley. This is not quite the lineup we saw last night. Last night was a lot stronger than this, wasn’t it. Maybe they’re a Sam Morrell in the middle of there and that’s what propped it up.

I don’t know. I’m not feeling this lineup at all. So for sorry, jfl Toronto, Let’s see Joe to Rossa at nine. New Faces of Canada, Adrian Packer, Andrea ginn nine fifteen, Fred Armison nine thirty, Nicole Buyer, Michelle Wolf ten o’clock, Improv All Stars, Alison Leebley, Tim thirty Comedy, Melting Pot eleven o’clock, Ariel Elias, Run Funches, Dan Smith, The Alternative Show eleven thirty, After Arrows twelve thirty. Alright, I’m gonna reverse engineer this because I’m on a Michelle Wolf kicks.

I want to see Michell Wolf at nine thirty. That’s what I’m making you do. So let’s see what we can do early seven o’clock. You want to pick Jonathan Van Assad, Drew Lynch, Mark Forward, Run Funches. I don’t know, Drew Lynch, I guess I don’t know.

You pick eight o’clock, Jenny Mac That’s not how this works. I’m not feeling any of those eight o’clock Mike rita F and Funny Friday. Let’s throw deep and see what F and Funny Fridays is. Maybe we’ll see an up and comer. All right, then we’ll get a beer.

We’ll hit Michelle Wolf at nine thirty eleven o’clock. Let’s see Ariel Elias. There’s some buzz on her.

And then again there’s a show at twelve thirty called Late Bad.

But I’m going to murder you because I want to go to bed at the High Planes Comedy Festival today. That one’s in Denver. I love the name of the show, Diketopia. At seven o’clock, join Lee Robinson and Keith McLaughlin as they host a night of extremely gay comedy, drag games, and audience merriment. Strap on your burken stocks and come laugh with us.

Eight o’clock, something called Chaos blooms High Plane showcases. Let you see performers in their natural setting, no gimmicks, no themes, just a microphone and say I’m into that. Let’s do that ten o’clock Firecracker comedy Ay Day Naimi stand up supergroup consisting of a bunch of people I haven’t heard of, but that sounds fun. And at eleven o’clock, define Gentleman’s Club. Define Gentleman’s Club.

The description like those kookie Robot, Tigers and vulture on the fine gents are popping and locking themselves into formation for your stand up comedy enjoyment. I actually like this lineup a lot better than the Toronto one tonight. So let’s get on a plane. We’ll go to Denver for the night and seven o’clock Dike Topia, Chaos blooms at eight, Firecracker at nine, Fine Gentleman at ten has that sound? Or should we go to Washington, DC because Matt Rife he’s taping his new special there at Constitution Hall.

It is sold out, but maybe we know somebody at the door. You never know? Or should we go to Milwaukee because Hassan minhas you know, the guy that makes stuff up when he’s doing comedy That guy. Yeah, he’s starting a tour, which is great because now there’ll be a ton of interviews with him and he’ll be asked ten trillion times, Hey, people got mad that you made up some stuff in your comedy special, et cetera, et cetera, and he’ll have to answer it, and then I’ll have content for the podcast. And he starts in Milwaukee tonight, then Madison, Wisconsin tomorrow.

He’ll finish up December fifteenth the New York City’s Beacon Theater. Or should we go to Alexandria, Virginia and see Patton Oswalt? It’s the Effervescent Tour? Where should we wait? Until October eighteenth, when Patton will be celebrating twenty years since his debut comedy album two two two, Live and Uncut.

If you want to see Patton, he’s fantastic. If you’d like to see Patton Tonight at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Tomorrow on Richmond, Virginia at the Tin Pan will be in New York City where I kind of live. He used to live there, New York City City Winery. On the twenty ninth, up to Boston, Pittsburgh, Philly, Athens Georgia, two shows, Nashville, See Lewis, Chicago, and then Madison, Wisconsin, November ninth through the eleven, three shows at Comedy on State. Or should we go to San Francisco to Cobb’s Comedy Club, a fantastic place and a fantastic part of town because Natasha la Jaro’s kicking off her tour there.

Her tour is called Natasha on Tour. San Franz Tonight tomorrow, October nineteenth, San Diego, October twenty sixth, the Sacramento No. Number sixteenth, Denver. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it.

That’s my mission for this week, trying to get you to tell more people about the show so we can grow the show, so people go and listen to me. Read off comedy schedules. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Michelle Wolf, Bill Hader, John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Todd Barry, Tom Segura, Kyle Kinane, Dave Chappelle, Anthony DeVito, Ralph Barbosa, Russell Brand

What’s in This Episode

• Michelle Wolf special review and three-part structure
• Michelle Wolf’s move to Barcelona and comparison to New York
• Michelle Wolf’s time at Dave Chappelle’s Ohio property during pandemic
• Anthony DeVito’s Brain Noise special on YouTube
• Ralph Barbosa Kawabunga special coming to Netflix on Halloween
• Russell Brand special removed from Paramount Plus and BBC content removal
• Bill Hader’s Van Halen group text with John Mulaney and Fred Armisen
• Best Comedy Specials of 2023 rankings so far
• Adam Ray taping new special in Madison, Wisconsin
• New York Times review of Strike Force Five late night hosts podcast

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The Shark Deck. Hi, I’m Enny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And this time I pushed the red button that says record. It’s right next to the green button that hit play. Luckily I caught that three minutes in and not twenty minutes in.

Yikes. Hi, I watched Michelle Wolf special last night. I loved it. You’ve heard me talk about it. It comes in three parts.

The first third is the best. I was absolutely I’m like, oh wow, this is gonna make a run here. The next best segment is the third segment, which was a little shorter. I was like, oh, that’s it. I wanted more, to be honest, I caught myself during the second segment, especially the first half of the second segment.

I caught myself playing on my phone and I had zoned out a little bit, so, you know. Other than that though, but the second half of the middle fantastic. Liked it a lot. I’ll tell you where it is on my end of year list. That’s what I just did when I noticed, Oh, you’re not actually recording, John, You’re just talking to yourself.

Michelle recently caught up with Rolling Stone and talked about living in Barcelona. That’s mentioned in the special and how Barcelona compares to New York. Michelle said, I still have a place in New York City. It’s really nice. But even just aside from work, there’s a tension in America right now that is very palpable when you leave and you come back.

There’s a tension here. I don’t feel when of them in Europe, and they want to have a good life there. They really value their free time, their family and their community. Spain is like, you, guys can make all the money you want, but we’re gonna take two hours off in the afternoon and get a coffee, and then we’re gonna come back work like half hour more, and then we’re gonna have a glass of wine and a snack, and then we’re gonna take a month off in August to really wind down. I think that’s nice.

I loved Barcelona when I was there, even though somebody stole my credit card. You rotten scoundrel, you. But I caught that like immediately and called my banker, Jason. I was like, Jason, cancel my credit card.

And then I had to borrow money from my son for like a week.

Michelle added, I don’t know what we’re grinding for here in the States. Part of the reason people grind so hard here is because they need money to pay for all the things we have to pay for. Healthcare is due to debt’s childcare, any number of things. You don’t feel that in Europe. And that’s nice.

It’s one of the things the pandemic pointed out to me. When I wasn’t working, I was like, what do I have other than work? I wanted to have a life and a family, and my family, I mean a collection of actual family and friends whose company I can enjoy. So it was a pandemic. Moved to Barcelona, and then this is interesting, she said.

Toward the end of the pandemic, I spent most of it in Ohio with Dave Chappelle. Donal Rollings was there, Moamare was there, and then there were a lot of comedians whould come in, do shows and leave. I was there from March twenty twenty and I don’t think I got back to New York until late October. I eventually got my own place there too. I can’t say enough good things about Dave’s family in the community.

Dave is the kindest, most generous person I know, and he’s also great at comedy. So let me tell you where Michelle Wolf lands on the rankings so far. I’m not going to do the entire ranking of the top ten. The best comedy special of the year so far is Todd Barry’s Domestic Short here you’ll find that on YouTube, and Tom Sagora at two, Kyle Canine three, Naper Gatsy. Michelle Wolf comes in at number five, knocking Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl down.

The six Jim Jefferies, Harry Conabolo, Chris Rock and Jimmy O. Yang is your top ten And it was at that point I was like, Oh, you’re not actually recording, so that’s good. So for the rest of what you’re gonna hear today, I haven’t done it already. It’s amazing. I’ve been doing this four plus years.

I think that’s the first time I actually made that particular error. Not too bad.

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Speaking of Michelle Wolf, Anthony DeVito is a former writer on The Break wit…

Inside Blog tells us Anthony DeVito special Brain Noise is available for free on YouTube. Anthony DeVito knows how to shape and joke from language to pacing. DeVito is a consummate, seasoned voice working at the height of his ability. It’s a pleasure to watch him present jokes that often focus on being stuck in poorly thought out situations and a chuckling au at their absurdity. Anthony DeVito’s good.

Check it out Brain Noise on YouTube. Another comedian to keep an eye on. This guy’s going to blow up and this might be what does it? Ralph Barbosa Kawabunga coming to Netflix on a Halloween. He filmed that back in August at the Kessler Theater in Barbosa’s hometown of Dallas.

He’s real good. Keep an eye. One spellsh you can’t watch is Russell Brandon New York City because Paramount Plus took it down. They didn’t give a reason why. I don’t know.

Why do you think? I don’t know. I have no idea. Why would they take a Russell Brand special down? That’s weird At the time of this recording, though, if you’re on Netflix you can still watch Russell Brand Rebirth.

The BBC also remove some programs featuring Russell Brand. A spokesperson said the BBC doesn’t ban or remove content when it’s a matter of public record unless we have justifications we’re doing so. There’s limited content featuring Russell Brand on iPlayer and sounds. We reviewed that content and made a considered decision to remove some of it, having assess that it now falls below public expectations. The remove content includes an episode of QI and a Joe Wicks podcast that had Russell Brand as a guest.

It’s awesome Internet buzz about Bill Hayder’s Van Halen impressions. He was on the Best Show. They were doing a twenty four hour live stream and in our seventeen Bill Hayter popped on and we learned that he has a text chain with Fred Ormison and John Mulaney where they role play as the van Halen brothers. I puleds a clip. The higher pitched voice is Hayter doing Eddie van Halen.

The secondary voice that doesn’t say much is Hater doing Alex van Halen. Let’s listen this guy. He goes out there on Bobby, but we totally disrespectful to Beck. Toy disrespect was the bext moment. He totally gets it by hold Beck and so I would call those guys as dan Halen brothers and then John Mulaney and Fred Armison and I had a text chain as the van Halen brothers rear ending somebody.

I mean, all right, I don’t think they’re the best impressions. Craig Gas does a fantastic Eddie van Halen impression because he lived with Eddie for a while. I went to try and find a clip of it and I couldn’t. Billy Mira does a fantastic David Lee Roth here got a brand new album, We got a brand new tour. Still got the same old fucky attitude.

Yeah. And the reason I know that is back when I was at Serious and Jim Brewer was the afternoon host. We one time before the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame reunited Dave and Eddie on the phone. It was Bill and Gas doing the characters and it sounded so amazing. The next day somebody told Howard Stern that Brewer had Dave and Eddie on and they played the clip and Howard kind of believed it for a second.

Before Howards a sharp tool he figured it out. But we had a little buzz going there. We weren’t trying to prank the world. We were just having fun with the whole thing. But they both do great voices there.

Adam Ray, you know him from Arrested, Development and Curb and some other things. He’ll be taping his new special in Madison, Wisconsin, Comedy on State, tapings tonight through the twenty third, if you want to check that out. The New York Times read about Strike Force five. That’s the podcast with the late night hosts. They kind of nailed it, they said.

In theory, the podcast sounds like the late night equivalent of The Avengers. In practice, it’s more like comedians and cars getting coffee. You know, I got distracted mid sentence because I was like, are you actually recording? And I had to check. It’s more like comedians and cars getting coffee decaffeinated.

It’s an amiable, shapeless session of five years busting chops, trading shop talk, and occasionally reading sponsor ads like modern Day Joe Franklin’s By the way, Quality Control people, dudes, some of those commercials are recorded. Solow and I have a question about every episode. Why is John Oliver in a cave? We can’t get John Oliver a good mike. You want me to record it for you, I can eque it for you.

There are things we can do to fix bad audio. Guys, what are we doing the time’s rights. But other than it’s mission statement, which is to raise money to support the host out of work staffs, it’s only rarely about the strike. An episode three e, Colbert surprises his co host by having an AI read ads and their voices, and he says, this is why the Guild’s got to hold the line. This is why Saxey got to hold the line, because we’re all going to be replaced by robots by Christmas if we don’t.

Whoopi Goldberg has come to the defense of Hasan Minhaj. You may have heard on this very podcast Hassan embellished some stories and is being criticized for that. More about that on the weekend, Whoopy said, that’s what we do as comedians. That’s what we do. We tell stories and we embellish them.

If you’re going to hold a comic to the point where you’re gonna check on stories, you have to understand a lot of it is not the exact thing that happened, because why would we tell exactly what happened. It’s not that interesting. There’s information we’ll give you as comics that will have greens truth, but don’t take that to the bank. That’s our job, a seat of truth, sometimes truth and sometimes total be us. Yes, the formula is often a thing that actually happened, thing that actually happened, exaggerated thing that didn’t happen at all, but it sounds like it could have to give you the laugh and then later on you do the callback.

I get at whoopee, but we’ll get into hasan on the weekend. JFL Toronto kicks off today. I really considered going up there. If you’ve been listening, I’ve been sort of mentioning now and then my mom has been various degrees of ill. So I just didn’t make any plans to run up to Toronto, and I didn’t even have a minute to reach out to JFL to ask for interviews.

I love doing the things with Montreal and it was in the back of my mind, so I didn’t really have an opportunity to reach out to JFL. But I’ve done the Toronto festival. It is really good. So if you’re a relatively new listener, what I do with the bigger festivals is to take a look at the schedule and it makes some recommendations as to what you and I would do if we were at the festival on a particular night. So listen to this.

This is just night one, okay. Here are the choices for us. At seven o’clock we could see an evening with the Office ladies, Ron Funches, Dane Smith, Andrea Jinn, Mark Forward or Michelle but So. By the way, I really like how they did the counter on this one. Sometimes the schedules are a little hard to figure out, but they’ve put them together in such a nice format.

Here all at the eight o’clock shows, Wayne Jones and Friends, Thursday Laugh Therapy, Anti Depressant Thursdays, Alison Leebley and the Mainstage eighty eight Review, eight thirty Best of Absolute Comedy, nine o’clock, Ron Funches, Andrea Gin, Dan Smith, nine thirty, Sam Morrell, thirty Michelle but So, ten o’clock Laugh Sabbath, I don’t have a description. Eleven o’clock Alternative Show or Joe to Rosa, eleven thirty, Midnight Madness and Late to Bad at twelve thirty. All right, that’s just night one, okay. And this thing goes on for over a week. If you and I were there, what would I tell us to do?

Let’s say the seven o’clock shows, let’s do ron funches if we have time. At eight o’clock, let’s pomp into like something one of the smaller shows, and maybe something like Thursday laugh Therapy. Because we’ll have to leave early to hit a nine o’clock show. At nine o’clock, let’s do you know what, Let’s not do anything at nine o’clock. Let’s see Sam Morrell at nine thirty.

That’ll take us to ten thirty plus, so then at eleven o’clock let’s do the alternative show.

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And then for this mental exercise, I’ll tell you, oh, let’s hit late Bad at t…

But in reality, if you were actually traveling with me at twelve o’clock after having seen three four comedy shows, I’m going to murder you unless we go back to the hotel because I need to sleep. Just being real, Johnny Mac likes his sleep.

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Also kicking off the High Planes Comedy Festival, westward dot com tell us as…

The High Planes Comedy Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary. It began as a dream by comedian and festival founder Adam Clayton Holland. It’s grown into Denver his largest and longest running stand up comedy extravaganza. More than one hundred of the funniest comedians from across the globe will show up for the three days. Clayton Hollands as it got the idea for high planes when he was doing Bridgetown at Comedy Festival in Portland.

He describes that experience as being like a summer camp for comedians. I just checked to see it was recording. Again. I’m so paranoid now and as you know, it apparently recorded because you’re hearing this conversation. Clayton Holland said there’d be big names at Bridgetown, but they also had a really good eye for up and comers across the country.

It was just bringing the coolest comedy party to Portland, and after attending, I knew din reneeded that and I came home with a fire under my ass to start it. It’s an indie festival, so when it started, I’d reach out to my friends and wouldn’t go through the industry and all that stuff. Over the years, it’s just kind of gotten more elaborate. The beginning was just a few comedy shows that I got all my famous friends to do. Now it’s way more orchestrated.

Tonight six o’clock. It begins at the Bobcat Club, Beth Stelling and Friends at seven, all Comedy Everything at eight, Chris Getherd and Friends at nine, and the High Planes Karaoke Kickoff after party at ten. Now you don’t need me to make any decisions for you, because they’re all laid out nicely. You could hit all of them. That seems like a good festival.

A couple of tours kicking off. Ben Schwartz and friends. You may know Ben Schwartz from Parks and rec You may know him Missed the Voice of Sonic the Hedgehog his tour tonight, DC Radio City on the twenty third, Counting on my fingers, there’s a Saturday Wow, not bad, then a little gap Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Houston, and Dallas. On November twenty nine, and from talkSPORT, comedian Lionel Messi was kissed on the neck by an Argentine comedian, comedian mcgae Granados published a clip of himself kissing Missy. Talk Sports tells us Messi smirked in anticipation of the kiss and let out a smile, with the nine second clip being viewed more than a million times on Twitter.

That’s fun.

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Also, my little podcast network here, we have a podcast called The Messy Effe…

But we don’t really talk about the soccer stuff. So if you’re looking for like a soccer podcast, we’re not really doing that. We’re more into like the glitz and the glamour and the Miami and comedians kissing Messy on the neck and hamburgers named after Messi and all the like silly stuff that goes with Messy. It’s been a lot of fun doing that one. That’s called The Messy Effect.

Wherever you get your shows, and that is your comedy news for today. If you like what I do here, tell a friend about it. Trying to grow the show a little. Every little bit helps appreciate you see tomorrow.

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Featured: Louis C.K., Shane Gillis, Joe Rogan, Joe Parra, Tim Hawkins, Eddie Murphy, Seth Meyers, Kristen Bell, Sheng Wang, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Maher, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Male comedians’ reluctance to discuss Louis C.K. and comeback parameters
• Shane Gillis New York Times profile and cancel culture narrative
• Joe Parra releases ‘Slow and Steady’ special independently on YouTube
• Tim Hawkins writes song about Buc-ees gas station chain
• Eddie Murphy in talks for Pink Panther reboot with live-action CGI hybrid
• Seth Meyers performs at Salesforce Dreamforce conference in San Francisco
• Jim Gaffigan and Bill Maher discuss Prince Harry and Meghan Markle relationship rumors
• Universal Music Group launches Capitol Comedy Nashville label with Nate Bargatze

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News on The Daily Beast, Sean McCarthy asks why are male comedians so scared to talk about Louis C.K. Sean wrote a nice opinion piece about that. Some of the paragraphs, Sean writes. Actor Michael Ian Black, who received plenty of pushback online in twenty eighteen when he asked what the parameters might be for Ck or anyone else to make a professional comeback, suggested to filmmakers of Sorry Not Sorry, the Louis K documentary that perhaps people are reluctant to come forward and participate in discussions about c K or me too, because everyone has skeletons in their closet. Sean writes, is that what’s happening here are men in comedy staying silent because they’re worried about what we might find out about them.

Were they submitting to some sort of snitches? Get Stitches bro Code. The New York Times profiled Shane Gillis, Shane is red hot right now, and they write getting fired, paid off. It made Shane Gillis a martyr to some, and he was savvy enough to embrace those fans without tediously obsessing over cancel culture. He said he understood the criticism of his comments, offered a halfhearted apology, then doubled down on lumbering through the China shop of cultural sensitivities.

A comic who tells the crowd he has no female friends isn’t looking to appeal to everyone. Gillis often holds a microphone with two hands, more like a singer than a stand up. His attitude is less telling you the truth about the world and stumbling through the mess of his thought process. His appearance telegraphs rumbled, ordinary guy, not polished entertainer, and he speaks to crowds as if he were messing around with friends. Few comics do more with the word dude and beautiful dogs.

He describes himself as a bit of a history buff, which he calls a sign of early onset Republican. If you’re a white dude in your twenties and thirties and can’t stop reading about World War Two, it’s coming, brother. He compares that to the pull of a person turning into a werewolf. Shane was also recently on Andrew Schultz’s Flagrant podcast and was asked about a recent photo of him and Joe Rogan rolling around. Shane said, I tried to fight Rogan last week.

Whoops. He ripped my shoulder off and I was hammered. So I was like, you can’t tap me, dude, So I kept effing with him. He tapped me like eight times, James, Dude, he kept going. Joe Parra has a new special coming out based on his recent year and a half long tour of places like the Upper Midwest, of the Lower Midwest, Buffalo, Scotland, and Phoenix.

It’s called Joe Parra Slow and Steady. He’s independently financing, producing, and releasing it himself. Let’s let Joe Parra tell you about it. I’m gonna have to clip this down a little bit because it’s quite long. Hello, comedian Joe Perron, and I got something exciting for you.

Stop the winning low Tho Poppers. It’s better. I think it came out real nice. If you want to watch, hopefully laugh a bit and say that was dang good way to spend fifty six minutes at forty one seconds. It’ll be on my YouTube and website Friday, October six, and I hope he’ll consider watching Joe Parra Slow and Steady filmed at the Opera House in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

It’ll be on his YouTube channel October six at eight eastern. While back, BUCkies came up and I remember mentioning that I was unfamiliar with BUCkies, and quite a few audience members wrote into me to be like, oh, you’re totally missing out on BUCkies. While comedian Tim Hawkins has now written a song about Bucky’s whiskey, Riff writes, if you haven’t had a chance to grace a Bucky’s mid road trip, my thoughts are going out to you. While the gas station is mildly overwhelming, at some points, you can’t deny it’s a must stop if you pass the sign for one on the interstate, Bucky says everything you’d ever need, food, drinks, snacks, fresh baked goods, brisket, home to core, apparrel, booze, and so much more. If you told me that BUCkies began to sell fishing rods, I’d believe you.

Let’s listen to what Tim Hawkins has to say. I’ll clip this down a little bit as well. The files also be a nugget, Try a little fuck jerky, adda pulled pork, say it was just because getting lead. The Bowl of Anna, Hoodie pol the Wife pass down, Fried Pat Tapy Hadda die Yes. The Rosy Pek has shoot Bull the Dog, positive encouragement painted on a log, a lentchreprehanda pudding, the Callie Chicken wrap, people of the Journey, a Bucky beavera cab.

What’s up? Fantastic? Uh this next story? Please don’t do this. This came up.

I thought this was dead. This came up years ago, but it’s back. Eddie Murphy is in talks to star as Inspector Clusseaux and a new Ping Panther reboot. There’s just so much wrong there. I won’t even get into it.

But in this version of the Ping Panther, it’ll be a live action CGI hybrid that follows the actual Ping Panther, you know, the panther that’s pink and it’s a cartoon, the actual Ping Panther being broken out of an animated prison by his live action crew for a heist.

And then I guess Eddie Murphy’s Inspector Clusseau would chase just don’t, do…

The San Francisco Gate said that Seth Meyers closed out twenty twenty three’s dream Force conference in San Francisco. Let me tell you about this. I’m wondering how much Seth got paid for this, because he apparently did custom material a forty minutes set at the Moscone West conference Hall. I’ve been in the Mosconi four. They used to have Wonder Cohn, a comicon type event in that building.

That is a big convention center type place. Seth poked funded vaccine holdouts and wedding tropes, plus waxed about parenthood, New York City and his relationship with sports. All right, that sounds like standard material. But he said, what a crazy room this is. This is like a five year old had a birthday party and said they wanted the theme to be forest, And then he corrected himself, said a five year old billionaire.

Myers went on to pick apart corporate language. He made fun of the recurrent use of the words roadmaps and trailblazers in the conference program. You are achieving, you are amplifying, you are accelerating. Architect I saw architect used as a verb. I don’t even think architects used architect as a verb.

If you were to party and you said, what do you do? And someone said, I architect. You would think, no, you don’t. We’re gonna empower, We’re gonna experience, We’re gonna explore. How do we know we’re gonna explore the roadmaps?

This is some event. Kristen Bell introduced Sheng Wang, who guess opened for Seth Myers. What is this event? Seth said he had no fffing idea what Salesforce does, and the crowd roared. All I know is that I’m walking around a carted pond at what is likely the beginning of a pagan ritual and will end with you setting me on fire while you join hands and dance around me in a circle.

Jim Gaffigan was on Bill Moore’s podcast I’m Still picking Away at that. They were discussing relationships in general, and Jim started talking about Prince Harry and Megan Markol. You know them. We talk about them every day on the podcast Palace Intrigue. I’m the writer for that show.

If you want to follow the Royals, Palace Intrigue wherever you give your shows. Jim said, like, if Prince Harry and Megan Marco got divorced right now, people would probably vilify her and feel sorry for him, but we don’t know what’s going on. Bill said, I heard they’re on the rocks when you think that marriage is under a lot of pressure right now because they’re kind of effed up in their whole thing. You know, they kind of went way too hard on we’re victims, and they assess the mood of their generation in America correctly and that we’re lovers of victimhood. But America did finally find a way to say, you know what, we love victims, but you two just had a little too much of it.

Universal Music Group Nashville has a new comedy label, Capitol Comedy Nashville. The first release Nate Brigatsi’s Hello World Audio album now available, means that will be eligible for an Emmy. A suit at UMG said, We’ve been forever link going back to the early days of the Grand Old Opera and classic country shows like Keyhaw, where comedians shared billings with musical acts and helped us laugh at ourselves. I feel there’s no better time to relink our comedy history together with the start of our new label, Capitol Comedy Nashville. I’m all in favor of comedy audio releases on gossip Corner.

Will Pete Davidson wind up with Britney Spears. A source tells reader Online Now that Pete split from Chase Sweet wonders he’d like to make sweet music with Britney. It might not be a pipe dream, after all, she posted one of his goofy Instagram videos last year and admitted it made her laugh. An insider tells The Enquirer Pizza hopeless, romantic and loves having a woman on his arm, but he’s recently sought treatment again for his mental health issues, and Brittany’s navigating her own messy break up. Pal’s worrying neither of them is in the right head space to start a new relationship, and are convinced they’re hooking up would be a recipe for disaster.

From the San Francisco Standard. More than four dozen comedians spent Sunday at Golden Gate Parks Robin Williams Meadow. It was the forty second annual Comedy Day. Sacramento. Comic Johnny Taylor said, you know, I gotta say it’s an honor to perform in the most ideal conditions for stand up comedy outside in broad daylight with kids around, nothing quite like it.

Comedian Karen Braswell said, I can’t wait to walk around and check out the food trucks. I’m just gonna hope there’s a San Francisco micro climate going on over there, and the fish is nice and cold. Connor Lonsdale said, I love Oakland because you see stuff there that you don’t really see anywhere else. The other day, I saw a citybus run a red light. It wasn’t like he missed the yellow or there was like a terrorist making of keep it above fifty miles an hour.

He stopped at the light and he was like, screw this, I’m going I ran it too. I followed him. He didn’t stop at a single stop sign or bus stop. He did stop at the liquor store. And that’s your comedy news for today.

If you like the show, tell a friend about it. Huh. Meet you back here tomorrow. Thanks,

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Featured: Leslie Jones, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Trevor Noah, Russell Brand, Russell Peters, Amy Schumer, Nicole Kidman, Bill Maher, Drew Barrymore, Katherine Ryan

What’s in This Episode

• Leslie Jones discusses Chris Rock seeking counseling after Oscars slap
• Trevor Noah late to radio show in Johannesburg due to traffic and confusion
• Man with weapons charged after rushing stage at Russell Peters show in Vancouver
• Amy Schumer apologizes for Nicole Kidman posture joke controversy
• Bill Maher delays show production amid writers strike negotiations
• Russell Brand performs at Troubadour despite allegations, remaining UK tour dates postponed
• Russell Brand’s publishing deal suspended by Bluebird over serious allegations

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The Shark Deck. I had to rip up today’s podcast at start over. There’s a lot of Russell brand I’ll do that in a couple of minutes. Let me tell you about some other things going on. And Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with you Daily Comedy News.

Leslie Jones.

Now, let’s remember Leslie Jones has a new book out today and she is promotin…

Coincidentally, she tells the Hollywood Reporter that her friend Chris Rock sought counseling after being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars. Did you year about that? Yeah, it was really something. Leslie Jones, who has a new book out today that she’s promoting, said that stuff was humiliating. It really affected him.

People need to understand his daughters, his parents saw that he had to go to counseling with his daughters. Leslie, who has a new book out today that she’s promoting, says she was watching the Oscars from home that night and was infuriated when seeing the incident and said, you don’t know that I was going to jump in my car and roll up there. I was so effing man on so many levels.

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Speaking of jumping in cars from the BBC Trevor Noah was running late on Frid…

He was in Johannesburg and due to appear on the ninety seven radio station morning show, but bad traffic, a confused taxi driver, and angry locals made him late. There’s a bicycle fighting with a taxi driver. That’s not in your traffic report. He then announced he was gonna get in with some guy and showed up in the studio shortly thereafter. Trevor said, can I just say, whoever’s in this traffic?

I feel you. We’re in this together. Trevor talked about his morning, saying the driver with doesn’t know where he’s going, so I jump out of the car and send him gonna run. When I’m running, people are in the street listening to your show and they’re hooting and shouting Trevor, it’s the other way. You’re going the wrong way, Trevor.

Then one guy decides to stop. He doesn’t just point, he stops the car. He says, Trevor, get in. Then he took me to the wrong building. Trevor was finally spotted by his staff member, who took him to the correct studio.

Scary moment at a Russell Peters show in Vancouver on Friday night, a man was allegedly carrying two blades and heading towards the stage. Vancouver Police said no one was injured in the incident, which happened around nine thirty pm Friday, but a thirty one year old man was charged with uttering threats, assault and possessing a weapon for a dane her his purpose, Sergeant Steve Addison in a statement, security guards at the Comedy Festival in Stanley Park saw a man armed with two edge weapons breach of fence and moved toward the front of the stage. The motive is unknown and the investigation is ongoing. Friday’s incident came five days after a man stabbed three people at another downtown festival, the Light Up Chinatown Festival a week ago. Sunday.

Yikes, Amy Schumer has apologized to Nicole Kidman and fans. Remember Amy got backlash for joking that Nicole Kidman didn’t look like a human and a picture of her taking at the US Open Remember that happened. Well. Amy went on Instagram to make it clear that she felt her joke about Kidman was taken out of context. Amy wrote in a caption, okay, so the joke.

I was making the way she was posed didn’t seem like how a human sits. I was not making fun of how she looks. Nicole Kidman is beautiful and one of the most incredible actors of all time. I hope everyone is okay and takes a deep breath, including all of the think pieces written on this. You guys good.

It’s all the people commented on me. I’m so sorry. I’m not prettier. Please forgive me. I apologize.

It wasn’t even a slow news day. North Korea and Russia are getting too close for comfort. There were deadly storms sweeping our world, and a man was convicted of reap. But what got your goat was me saying that Nicole Kidman’s post was not humanlike breathe, y’all. To the people who write hateful things below, I forgive you as a mother, a woman, most importantly, as someone who likes hot gas.

Have a good weekend. Bill Maher is following the lead of Drew Barrymore. Did you follow this over the weekends? Drew Barrymore was going to bring her show back. Then Bill Maher was like, I’m coming back too, and then Drew Barrymore was like, oh wait, everybody’s really mad.

I mean no, I’m not coming back. Totally not coming back. Well now, Bill Maher totally not coming back. Bill says he’ll hold off from zooming production on his weekly show for now. The reason given because the writer’s guilt and the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV producers are working this at a time for a new round of contract negotiations.

Has totally nothing to do with the backlash Drew Barrymore was getting that Bill Maher was about to get. Nothing to do with that at all. All right, Russell Brand, you’ve probably seen some stories he heard. Yesterday’s podcast told you the News played Russell’s side of it all right. Saturday night, Russell did indeed do his comedy show.

Two thousand people went to see him at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theater. It’s part of the Bipolarization tour. The BBC tells us Russell Brand said, there are obviously some things I absolutely cannot talk about and I appreciate that you will understand. The BBC says there was an announcement that Brand was on his way to the venue but was caught in traffic and the crowd waited and everybody figured it was going to be canceled, but they waited. A woman in the crowd had a large piece of paper, the top line of which read we stand by You, and she asked security make sure it was given to Russell.

Brand. The show did happen. It started at ten pm, about an hour later than the scheduled start time. Russell walked on stage to the song you Don’t Own Me, a nineteen sixties feminist anthem, performed by Leslie Gore. He apologized for his lateness, saying I appreciate you.

I appreciate you. Blame the lateness on the traffic jam. I really appreciate your support. I love you. I want to do a fantastic show for you.

I’ve got a lot of things to talk to you about. There are obviously some things that I absolutely cannot talk about, and I appreciate that you’ll understand. I love you lot already. I’m going to give you everything I’ve got. Let’s go.

In his show, Brand told stories of trying to be a normal dad to his children, but the BBC says he appeared distracted throughout the second half of the show. He constantly referred to pieces of paper. At times at a period he had lost his place and he’d resort to talking about freedom, transcendence and authority. The show ended with a standing ovation lasting a few moments. On Monday, we found out that Russell Brand’s stand up shows in the UK have now been postponed.

The promoters of the tours said, we are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows and we don’t like doing it. We know you’ll understand. Russell was scheduled to play the Theater Royal Windsor tonight. Russell Brand’s publishing deal with Penn McMillan imprint Bluebird has been suspended. A rep for Bluebird said, these are very serious allegations and the light of them, Bluebird has taken the decision to pause all future publishing with Russell Brand from Deadline Exclusive.

Russell Brand’s last major television job in the UK ended with him being dropped after he was repeatedly accused of being a sexual predator during the recording of the show. Russell Brand was booked as a judge on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle in twenty eighteen, but only last a single season after he himself was roasted on camera over allegations he had sexually assaulted women. Deadline says sources close to the productions said Roast Battle judge Katherine Ryan turned the heat on Brand a number of times during filming. Her allegations did not make the final edit. Katherine Ryan has previously spoken about her experience on Roast Battle, but had not named Brand or the show she was working on.

She was on a BBC show last year and said she had confronted an unnamed costar quote in front of loads of people in the format of the show, said to this person’s face that they are a predator. Industry insiders, according to Deadline, said the production company grew uncomfortable with the rumors swirling around Brand and his reluctance to be roasted. A source said contract negotiations were made as tricky as possible. It’s the best way to put it. In the end, it came down to the fact that it seemed like Russell didn’t have a good sense of humor.

He didn’t feel he was fair game. In The Independent, comedian Vix Layton writes, it felt inevitable to be honest women and how many we’re all brace for it. Within minutes of the Russell brand. Allegations being made public, people swept in and criticize everyone who is aware of the rumors around him and did nothing. Responsibility was placed on us.

Those who were quietly protecting each other were deemed not to have taken enough action to prevent this kind of alleged behavior, And my god, we’re so tired. Realistically, speaking, rumors are exactly that unless you hear directly from a victim. With that in mind, it is very difficult to go quote on the record unquote with any information you’ve received. There’s a risk to you from sharing it from a legal standpoint, particularly when you know the person in question has power or money. Skipping ahead vix rights women who have spoken face intense scrutiny.

You only have to look at Catherine Ryan to see that. So we do what we can in smaller ways, through DMS and conversations and green rooms. I’ve lost count of how many messages I’ve received along the lines of hey, just a heads up about X, or about how many lift shares or promoters arranged for me involving being in a car with someone I’ve never met. When I’m checking with other comedians to check that they’re okay, it’s a horrible time to be a woman in comedy at the moment. The depressing part is that when the fewer over the specific incident has died down, we know that very little have changed.

The daily al ass in a headline is this comedy’s me two moments how Russell Brand’s alleged alute behavior was quote open secret unquote. In the industry and female stand ups set up what’s App groups to warn one another about sexual old predators in show business. The mail rights in fact, Brand’s name is chillingly just one of many on a blacklist shared by women working in comedy warning each other about possible sexual predators. Male online can disclose at least five more comedians have been named in the conversations. They did not name those comedians.

The number include famous stars who have appeared on TV, radio, and stage. Some are still performing at the top level within the industry, while others have disappeared from view in the past ten years. Allegations made against them vary from stalking up to violence against women and sexually praying upon them. Comedian Daniel Slas is getting some praise as being the only male comedian who has spoken out about this type of behavior. Slas said for many, many years, women have been warning each other about Russell.

He said comedians even spoke of him and what’s app groups which they used to warn each other which comedians to avoid. From The Daily Beast to British stand up comedian London Hughes told the story quote, I was newly signed with Russell’s agent at the height of his career. I was a huge fan of the man, so excit didn’t meet him. But my first day at the agency, I was told, unprovoked that I shouldn’t sleep with him under any circumstances, as he likes to pursue women have sex with them. But as soon as he had sex with them, that made him feel sick and he didn’t want to be around them anymore, so we’d have them fired or drop from the agency.

It had happened several times in the past. I was twenty two at the time. I did what I was told and completely avoided him. This is not some cheeky, misunderstood man. I am not shocked by the documentary at all.

I believe everything those brave women said. She was asked directly if she was aware of his alleged behavior before the revelations. Her quote, there’s not a single comedian in the UK that wasn’t aware of his behavior. We’ve all heard the rumors. I personally didn’t know it was as bad as our starstar star.

I’m not sure what that word’s supposed to be. I didn’t know as bad as our star star star, but I always had the understanding that he was, for lack of a better word, dodgy and I should avoid him. The Daily mails us at off a video of Jimmy Fallon telling off Russell Brand after Russell suggestively bounced Katherine McFee on his lap. The clip is from twenty twenty three. Russell Brand refuses to move out of the interview chair as Katherine McPhee steps up to be the next guest.

Russell jokes to Jimmy she’s welcome to sit here, meaning his lap. Jimmy tells Russell, no, Russell, don’t even say for the queen. You can’t. Jimmy put his hand to his face and looks stressed. As Russell told Katherine McFee, you’re beautiful, Falon said Russell, please stop look away.

Russell says, as you know, I’ve announced that I find Katherine very attractive, and I think when she said exchanged numbers, I thought things that liked to exchange with her numbers Jean’s genetic info data. Falon then talks about Katherine mcfee’s husband, and Russell jumps in, I didn’t know you were married. I’m gonna f off now. A very fast moving story. Will keep an eye on it as the day’s head forward.

I had mentioned that a Parnernchurler was back, and I had wondered where she’s been. And I now feel bad that I made that comment because The New York Times has anceled it. A partner’s mental health got so bad she had to stop performing. She’s got a new book out. I’ll tell you about that in a second.

The New York Times writes, with her index and middle fingers, she was tapping on the crown of her head, tapping her chin, tapping her chest, and reciting affirmations. She told herself, I’m allowed to make mistakes. Tap tap tap. I’ve done this before. I’m good at it, Tap tap tap.

She was using this technique to help settle her pre show anxiety. Her nerves were also why then Times was told by her pulpicist. They couldn’t meet a partner before the performance. Exactly an hour before showtime, she took an anti anxiety med time so it would kick in right when her set began. A parn’t it’s all the audience.

She’s been on so many different meds that at this point, I’ve basically donated my body to science. In the middle of a bout of depression, she’ll write her thoughts on a notebook. Two out of five turn into jokes, and she says, and then three of them are just like, oh, this is just me being sad and writing something down. This is not a joke at all. By twenty eighteen, her anxiety had snowballed.

She couldn’t perform. She felt uncomfortable on stage, unable to enjoy the moment. Pre show nerves would consume her mind for days. She canceled a thirty one city four month tour. In late twenty nineteen, she decided to take a break from doing stand up shows altogether.

Wow, I had no idea. I like her comedy a lot. Her new book out today is called Unreliable Narrator, Me Myself and Imposter Syndrome. Other books out today Leslie Effing Jones, a memoir described as not the kind of comedian memoir that’s an extension of the act and explicit provider of context or personal branding exercise. This is a conversational celebration of the force of nature that is Leslie Jones from the world’s foremost expert on Leslie Jones.

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Also out today, Gary Golman’s Misfit, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties.

Misfit employs two timelines to tell two stories with two different tones. The nostalgic will enjoy Goleman’s eighties flavored reminiscence of being a child who very much knows who he is, but is nevertheless uncomfortable. Empathy is engendered with a diary that goes along with interstitials of a fully grown, fully realized Gary Goleman during an especially brutal depressive episode. Hey, if you’re by Irvine and you want to catch them comedy and help some animals in need, why don’t you hit Comedy Unleashed Today? A fundraiser held at the Irvine prov features fun and funny performances from comedian Eric Schwartz and two more comedians.

Forty four Bucks includes dinner and three comedy performances. All proceeds go directly to the Irvine Animal Care Center. The Irvine improv five twenty seven Spectrum Center Drive. To find out more about the event, Irvine animals dot org. The Irvine Animal Care Center provides housing, care, and enrichment for homeless, neglected, abused, or unwanted animals.

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Featured: Hasan Minhaj, Russell Brand, Michelle Wolf, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Theo Vaughan, Whitney Cummings, Elon Musk

What’s in This Episode

• Hasan Minhaj admits to fabricating details in stand-up specials amid Daily Show consideration
• Cast Media owes multiple podcasters millions in unpaid ad revenue including Theo Vaughan and Whitney Cummings
• Russell Brand accused of sexual assault and rape by multiple women in joint investigation
• Michelle Wolf discusses Dave Chappelle’s commentary on gender and identity politics

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The Shark Deck. A lot of strike today, and I’m not just talking about the idiot who scratched up my car bumper in the park and didn’t even leave a No. Come on, man, hi, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

All right, let’s start with Hasan Minhaj.

I think he blew his shot at the Daily Show. Would be my take. Here the headline from the AV Club, Hasan Minhaj admits to fabricating alarming details in his stand up specials. His exaggerated claims included experiences of racial profiling and his daughter possibly being exposed to anthrax. I’ll tell you the story, but the AV Club correctly points out, when you see a comedian, it’s a given that everything you’re hearing may not literally be true.

There were stories that have been tweaked and embellished for laughs after being told hundreds of times. They gave an example. If you found out John Mulaney never actually encountered a man who professed I’m homeless, i’m gay, of aides, I’m new in town. In that order, it would still be an effective bit of comedy writing. But wouldn’t you be a little disappointed?

So what’s going on here. In a New Yorker article, Hasan Minhaj admits that he fabricated details of some of the stories he tells in his specials Homecoming King and The King’s Jester. Okay, comedians do that all the time, But the issue here is, as the A V. Club puts it, the fabrications weren’t purely for laughs, but were specifically relevant to his experience as a non white Muslim growing up in America. The character brother Eric, a supposed FBI informant who infiltrated his family’s mosque, was completely made up.

Similarly, Hassan made up the story of having to take his child to the hospital after she was exposed to white powder they feared was anthrax. Minhajs told the New Yorker every story in my style is built around a seed of truth. My comedy Arnold Palmer is seventy percent emotional truth this happened, and then thirty percent hyperbole, exaggeration fiction. In his view, the punchline is worth the fictionalized premise. Dav Club comments, Yet there’s not a punchline too.

My daughter was exposed to a substance that could have been anthrax in this case, the exaggeration doesn’t make the story funnier, it’s just more upsetting. In a statement to The New York Post, Hasan Minhaj says, I used tools of stand up comedy hyperbole, changing names and locations, and compressing timelines to tell entertaining stories. That’s inherent to the art form. You wouldn’t go to a haunted house and say, why are these people lying to me? The point is the ride.

Stand up is the same. You get to say whatever you want on stage and we have to live with the consequences. All my stand up stories are based on events that happened to me. Yes, I was rejected from going to prom because of my race. Yes, a letter with powder was sent to my apartment that almost harmed my daughter.

Yes, I had an interaction with law enforcement during the War on Terror. Yes, I had surgery so we could get pregnant. Yes, I roasted Jared Kushner to his face. Sources close to The Daily Show have confirmed a Rolling Stone that Hassan is currently one of three top candidates for the job, but the source says no deal has been locked in with any talent. I’m wondering if he blew it here I’ll jump ahead to a story I’m going to do later about Michelle wolf who and I’ll do this later, but her relevant quote for the longest time, especially with John Stewart, the Daily Show was factually accurate, and even though it’s a comedy show, it tends to be more factually accurate than any news show.

So I’ll come back to that. So I don’t know if they can give him the cheer here. I’m I get the Dealer shows a comedy show, but now I’m picturing like a Brian Williams scenario. He might have blown this yere and Nat Hasan Minhaj then who all right? Next strife article from The Verge told you last week that Theo Vaughan did that tirade about a podcast company.

There’s been a lot of coverage on this. The Verge rights multiple creators who have left the podcast netwhere Cast Media say the company owes them significant sums of money. Comedian Whitney Cummings told Hotpod that she believes Cast Media owes her at least three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for ad sponsorships, although the amount could be more. Cummings wrote in an email the whole thing is a nightmare. THEO Vaughan posted a ten minute video on YouTube on September sixth, the title of that this man defrauded at our podcast.

He alleged that cast Media owes him and a group of other creators over four million dollars, and an email to Hotpod, THEO Vaughan said that he personally knew of six different creators who were owed amounts that ranged between one and a half million dollars and six hundred thousand dollars. Vaughan said, castos his show on amount that’s in six figures. As I recorded on Saturday, a very very fast moving story, this from the New York Post. Russell Brand accused of ripping and sexually assaulting four women, including a sixteen year old. This according to a joint investigation by The Sunday Times of London, The Times and Channel four dispatches.

On Friday night. Brand got in front of this by releasing a statement, Let’s listen. Now, this isn’t the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption, because in this story, I am the news. I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuffs like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel. But amidst this any of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.

These allegations pertained to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I’m being transparent about it now as well. And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play? Whatever is going on?

Deadline reports Russell Brand appears to have parted ways with his UK agent. His profiles no longer on the agency’s website. Elon Musk come at dead and said, well, of course they don’t like competition. I met Russell Brand once. He was upbeat, personable.

We had to record some promos. I remember him doing them quite well in like one take, maybe two, And I want to tell you he did in one take. That’s it. That’s all I know about him. It’s been I don’t know, ten minutes with him.

Maybe seemed nice enough. The Independent reminded us of this story, which I had forgotten. Russell was a video journalist for MTV in two thousand. The gig was short lived because Brand was fired after arriving in the studios dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after September eleventh. I was kind of busy on September twelve, so maybe that’s why I don’t remember that one.

The Independent ads. His stand up shows acquired a reputation for chaos, as he would offer and perform while high quote releasing locusts, cut up pigs heads, smashing up dead mice and birds with a hammer and then throwing them into the audience. According to the Guardian, what Russell was scheduled to play Wimbley on Saturday night. All right, keep an eye on that all right. That Michelle Wolf’s story she was profiled in Rolling Stone.

I’ll pick at that. Over the next few days. She discussed Dave Chappelle and said, I think people really miss a lot of what he’s saying. He says it very clearly in his One special. Why is it easier for Caitlyn Jenner to change her gender than it was for Cassius Clay to change his name?

I think that spells it out right there. He wants everyone to be able to live the way they want to live, including black people. Time and time again, we see that as a country, we literally don’t want black people to live, and we don’t do anything about it. They try to act like Davis some sort of villain when he’s not. He’s a hero.

He’s fighting for his people. But there are black trans people. He’s not saying those people shouldn’t exist. He’s just saying that he should get to exist too. Michell Wolf discussed Louis C.K.

And said, Louis I feel, is the only one who actually admitted to anything or apologize, So we can go back and forth about how good or bad his apology was, but I don’t think you’re ever gonna have an apology that everybody’s going to be happy with. He’s the only one who did that, and it seemed like he got punished for most of it. He apologized and he wants to make things better and said people were like, now you can’t. There’s no way for you to make things better unless you do this in this but nobody said what this and this was nobody said what he could do because nobody agreed on what he could do. And she spoke about the Daily Show and kind of back to Hasan Minhaj.

Michell Wolf said, for the longest time, especially with John Stewart, the show was factually accurate, and even though it’s a comedy show, tends to be more factually accurate than any news show. I think there’s a way to do that, make it funny and give people the information they want need without coddling one side or the other. I think both sides are doing a terrible job right now and a huge disservice to the people. This is the trick of nations for as long as time, you keep the two sides fighting so they’re too busy to go after the people in power more strife. Steve Martin has responded to allegations made by Miriam Margolis, his co star from nineteen eighty six is a Little Shop of Horrors.

She has a new memoir in which she writes, I was hit all day by doors opening in my face, repeatedly, punched, slapped, and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin. Perhaps he was method acting and came home grumpy with a splitting headache. Steve Martin was undeniably brilliant, but horrid to me. Steve Martin addressed this in a statement to Deadline and said, when I first read Miriam margolis Per jerative account of our scene in Little Shop of Horrors, I was surprised. My memory is that we had a good communication as professional actors.

But when it’s implied that I harmed her in some way, was careless about doing the stunts, I have to object. I remember taking all caps extreme caution regarding the fake punch, the same caution I’d use with any similar scene. She assured me she felt fine, and we did a few successful takes and stopped. There was never any fiscal contact between her and me, accidental or otherwise, in this scene or any other we shot. Gutfeld says Conan is wrong on Trump in comedy.

I’ve been picking away that Conan O’Brien interview with Karas Swisher, who seems the mainstream media picked up on the Trump part, in which Conan said, you can’t parody something that already has that crazy, irregular shape. It’s not possible. So I always thought that when Trump came along, what a lot of people have to revert to is doesn’t he suck? I hate that guy. He’s an a hole, and those aren’t jokes.

Well, Greg Gutfeld has chimed in on Friday’s The Five. Greg said, this is the funniest time to be alive. Wokeism is like the biggest funniest thing ever. Joe Biden is perfect target. Hunter is a perfect target.

Nancy Pelosi, the city’s descented to the criminal force as a target, climate change, wacko’s gender nazis. All of this stuff is ripe for comedy. But for these guys, it’s Trump or nothing. It’s dad. You have comedi who are actually crying on air or doing propagandizing videos for vaccines.

That’s why I think Late Night isn’t chaos except here. The knives are out for fell, and they’re going after Bill Moore because I think he’s doing the right thing. He’s saying, we’re hurting all these other people, the caterers, you name it, whatever, because the writers are upset. I like killing in, but he’s a little late to this party. The Brady Bunch House has sold for three point two million dollars, but the asking price was five and a half.

The house was built in nineteen fifty nine. The exterior was used for the credits in the nineteen sixty nine Brady Bunch. In twenty eighteen, HGTV purchased the house for three and a half million and remodeled the exterior and interior to look exactly like it did in The Brady Bunch. The new owner plans to use the home for charity events. Her real estate agent says it was a nostalgic purchase.

She just had to have some downsides. Fireplaces and some appliances and fixtures are decorative only. A new book by Mike Brydenstein looks at Chicago’s heyday as an incubator for stand up ours. The Chicago Suntimes took a look at the book and they say, the list of talent from that time in the late nineties and early auts is outstanding. The town includes camal on Gianni, Pete Holmes, Hannibal Burris, Cameron Esposito, Dwayne Kennedy, t J Miller, Kyle Knaan, Matt Bronger, Brook Van Poplin, and others.

That is a killer list. I remember there were a bunch of comedy festivals in Chicago in you know, like two thousand and five or so, and yeah, I saw a lot of those people in small, small places. It was a great time. The perfect amount of wrong. We’ll be out on September twenty fifth, Mike says, I wanted to write something that was authentic to the scene and was coming from someone in the scene.

Back then, the lions Den and other local outlets imposed zero guidelines on material, which encouraged adventurous stand ups. There was Bill O’Donnell who would routinely induce vomiting on stage, and Chet Lactatious, whose signature bid ended with the comic and a full ku Klux Klan outfit. A bunch of comedy clubs had closed in late nineties, Zanies in Old Town survived the to become the only game in town. The lack of opportunities at Zeni started a ground swell of ambition at the local level. The setup for those shows was less than ideal.

The Lincoln Lodge cash register was cafinists and the servers chatted at full volume. At the Elevated, comics had to contend with the roaring of the Red and Brown Line train zipping by just outside the bar. Brydenstein says one time somebody said to me, why are Chicago comics louder on the mic? Because we were shouting over a bar for years. We turned chaos into charm.

Some of the anecdotes from the book. One night at the Lion’s, Dan nick vaderat also Great Chicago comedian hid in a storage closet through twenty performers to play a Marionette pupper and Brady Novak’s act. Camail Nanjiani went up a Chase cafe for an audience of two and killed by throwing a bouncy ball around the space. And one time power went out at the Elevated’s anniversary show, so the host lit performers with flashlights. Rether Than canceled the show.

That’s your comedy needs for today. Tomorrow should be more fun if you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. Will Yeah, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, John Roy, Conan O’Brien, Nate Bargatze, Luenell, Chris Tucker, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s Hot Pockets bit analyzed as a stand-up masterclass
• Conan O’Brien discusses retirement from late night after 28 years
• Nate Bargatze stole a chair from Bridgestone Arena to protect his attendance record
• Luenell’s Netflix comedy special debut on Chappelle’s Home Team
• Chris Tucker returns to stand-up comedy after focus on acting career

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Vulture had a really good article from John Roy. He’s a comedian and pop culture writer. The headline, Jim Gaffigan’s most popular joke is a stand up master class. John Roy writes, I first saw Jim Gaffigan perform in twenty thirteen at the UCB in LA for a hundred skinny twenty something hipsters.

He was older than anyone else on the bill by ten years, and he was wearing a bright canary yellow T shirt one might charitably describe as a little too tight. I was worried the audience might reject a mainstream dad comic known for working clean. But Gaffigan was ready. The first words out of his mouth were an impression of a skeptical audience member reacting to his entrance. Look at that shirt, he whispered.

He’s trying to look young, he added, and then went for the jugular with he’s fat, and I got applause. Not only had he won the crowd over in less than a minute, he was ready killing and he hadn’t even talked as himself. John Roy is impressed by Jim’s famous bit hot pockets it’s four minutes and thirty seconds on one time, it’s lean at under six hundred words, and it’s packed with act outs and character changes. It gets so many laughs that two thirds of the way in, Gaffigan is essentially performing over a rolling applause break. The bid is track seventeen on the two thousand and six album Beyond the Pale.

Gaffigan starts Hot Pockets by confessing that he ate one and feels awful, like a metal band choosing not to play above a certain decibel level. Gaffigan, having opted out of using taboo words, has to find something else to replace their transgressive power in his material. His first solution is to get mean. He says that Hot Pockets warning label should read hope you’re drunk or heading home to a trailer you hell billy enjoy the next NASCAR event. He dinfuses that by doing his in their voice, I like Nascar.

He’s a jerk. Two seconds later he’s at it again, having lost no. One. He gets nine laughs and his first forty seconds. Then starts to run the crowd, a technique where, instead of letting the audiences laugh, fade so they’re ready for your next joke.

Comedians starts the next set up in the middle of their laughter, giving them no time to think. Gaffigan cuts five laughs short to get to what will become the bits mantra, singing the Hot Pocket jingle and a high pitch, breathy off key warble. Then he pulls his foot off the gas and lets the audience get it all out. They reward him with nine seconds of applause at the one minute mark. Writing and performing society.

Hotpoch had succeeds because of the central observation that grounds it. Corporations, surely you know when their product is trash. Some products are clearly so trash that the most believable explanation is that it’s intentional. What if the company just came out and said it based on the enthusiasm which we as a society consume hot Pockets. Gaffigan seems to suggest that it wouldn’t make any difference at all.

Great stuff there. Conan O’Brien was on Kara Swisher’s podcast. I got to add that to my playlist. I told I downloaded it, but I didn’t actually listen to it. They were talking about Tom Shells, Remember that guy.

He was a famous TV critic, and Kara was like, hey, Conan, you may recall he wrote a devastating review of your show in ninety three, but ninety six he said he were the only good thing on late night. Conan said, yeah, that was quite a turn around. I was eternally grateful for that, and that was very nice. That was something I did not see coming. And that was a different era too in TV.

Where you think about it, Tom Shells had so much power. The media has changed so much that I’m hard pressed to think of a TV critic who could potentially end a TV show, but Tom shell certainly had that power. Conan talked about retirement. What I retired from was the volume business of late night television because I loved it. I really did love it, and I did it for twenty eight years, and I did thousands and thousands and thousands of hours and I’m told four of them were quite good, and I love that very much.

What I started to see is that there were things that I became kind of more in love with, and the podcast is one of them. Fortunately that was just a happy accident. But another was doing the travel shows, going to Cuba, going to different countries and shooting remotes with people I found and doing found comedy around the world was electrifying, and I realized not rather be doing this late night had changed because there were so many late night shows, and I started to feel, Okay, I’ve done this. We only get so much time. I’m no spring chicken like to really focus on these other things.

The Tennessee has answered the question why comedian Nate Burghatty stole a chair from the Bridgetone Arena. Nate was at the twenty twenty three Snids and Friends Pro am golf tournament. Everybody was a little nervous, so they had Nate tell a story back in a role. Nate said the Bridgetone Arena all time attendance record at nineteen three hundred sixty five, beating out the previous record holder, Morgan Wallan, who held the record at nineteen two hundred and ninety two. Wallin only had the record for a month.

Nate was determined to hold the record much longer than Wallen did and perhaps forever, so he swiped a chair from the arena on his way out, thus lowering the capacity. Nate said, I’m just trying to secure my spot in history. You don’t get a lot of chances like that as a comic because the music acts are so big. Cause I was like, maybe I’ll just take a chair, and I did. As long as they don’t throw another chair in there, I should be good.

Nate talked about his sports prowess and said, I got cut from basketball back in high school. I think I got cut from golf. To be honest, I played track my senior year. I don’t think you played track. I played track my senior year and that was the only thing I made.

He bounced back by thriving when he played church league basketball. Nate said, I was a bit of a problem for the competition when I played on that court. Actually it was a carpet that we played on. His uncle, Ronnie, was a three sports star and went on a coach basketball at Vanderbilt in a bunch of other places. It said, growing up here was all Ronnie.

I get it from all guys all the time. Are you Ronnie’s boy? We’re here because of Ronnie. Ronnie was each part of my dad’s life. When my dad came to Nashville.

We’re big Vandy fans, and the reason is because Ronnie was very involved in Vandy. Then my mom worked at the ticket office there, so we just got roped into it. Lunell will make her Netflix comedy special debut on September twenty sixth Town Business proper title Chappelle’s Home Team Dash Luinelle Town Business Netflix, September twenty six shot during her set in her hometown of Oakland. Town Business sees Lunell expose all of the absurdities of air travel, the importance of keeping the window shade up, and why she appointed herself the unofficial air Marshal of the Skies. Dave Chappelle executive produced the specialist part of his Chappelle’s Home Team series.

The first one of those was Earthquakes. Back in February of twenty twenty two, Leo Weekly caught up with Chris Tucker. Tucker back at doing stand up and said, I started out doing stand up comedy. You know, that’s a big source. So I think it’s the source of everything.

It’s like an actor going on Broadway or coming up through Broadway or off Broadway. It came up through the comedy clubs and that’s sparked me. It’s the gate that opened the avenue, the doors for acting. So it’s everything to me. It’s stand up.

You have freedom to talk about whatever you want to talk about, man, your personal life, all these things. When you act, you have to play a role, not stand up. It’s really about my life, real life and real life events. It’s a great, great art form, all right, Chris Tucker. Who are your favorite comedians?

Dave Chabelle, Chris Rock and Kevin Hart, all those guys and many others like Earthquake. Who are some of your influences of growing up? Definitely Eddie Murphy and Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor definitely growing up and Red Fox too, all right? Who are the comedic goats? His answer, I would say Richard Pryor.

He inspired even Eddie Murphy, so I would say Richard is the goat, all right. Who would join Richard on the amount rushmore of comedy? Definitely Eddie Murphy. All right, we need two more, two more, all right, Dick Gregory and Red Fox. Back on Friday, I was reading you the very very very very long biography of Derek Small’s, the bassist from Spinal Tap.

Derek has a new single called must Crush Barbie, and as part of the press release, this absurdly long bio and I’m still not going to read the whole thing, but I did want to get back to it jumping in the middle. Spinal Tap carved a reputation as one of England’s loudest bands. Its series of mishaps, breakups and reunions drummers perishing was chronicled in a nineteen eighty four film. Derek calls it a hatchet job. There were plenty of nights where we found our way to the stage, but of course they didn’t show you that.

In the late eighties, as Spinal TAP’s fortunes waned, Derek joined a Christian heavy metal band, Lamb’s Blood. Their best known song, Whole Lot of Lord made a respectable showing on the Christian shorts to cement his relationship with the band members, all of whom were Americans. Small’s got a Christian fish tattoo. Tap reunited nineteen ninety two. Concerned he’d have to cover up the tattoo, Derek hired an artist to fix it, and the piece now is a devil eating the fish.

Following that short, Spinal Tap broke up and reunited twice more, once in two thousand at a historic New York venue that Derek described on stage as Carnegie Effing Hall and in two thousand and nine and appearances at Glastonbury and Wembley. Derek appeared in TV commercials for the Belgian snack food Floop and Serve for a time as a judge on the Dutch reality composition show Rock Stars r ok Strz before the show was rebooted as Tomorrow’s Hip Hop Hero. Derek stepped forward as a composer during this time. His jingle for Floop, which is I’m in the Flop Group, was a regular earworm on European TV until the publisher of the In Crowd threatened a plagiarism lawsuit. In twenty nineteen, smallest parlatest celebrity in the Low Counties of Europe as a position as brand ambassador for brubacoin a Dutch based crypto coin Boy, that’s a lot all right?

Should we hit the First Vegan Comedy Festival, a two day orgy of comedy and music plus extensive vegan food and drink. Everyone is welcome, vegan or not two days September thirty one October. First Award winning character comedian and UK pun champion Lee Brace says people have referred to vegan comedy as an oxym. We’re on you know, a bit like humane slaughter, but vegan comedy exists and it’s plant weddingly funny. Fifteen musicians, twenty comedians.

There’ll be a bar, tea, coffee cake, mocktails, cocktails, juice bars, and some truly inspiring independent vegan traders exhibiting at the show. Everyone is welcome, Vegan flexitarian, We’re vegan curious. It’s the Vegan Comedy Festival. That’s your company news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify YouTube.

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, George Martin, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, Vaughn Mader, Jonathan Winters, Lily Tomlin, Stan Freeberg, Peter Sellers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Alan Sherman, Adam Sandler, Robert Klein, Dennis Leary, Bill Hicks, Martin Mull, David Tells, Dick Gregory, Andrew Dice Clay, Eddie Murphy, Sam Kinison, Mitch Hedberg, James Adomian, Anthony Atamanuik, Weird Al Yankovic

What’s in This Episode

• AV Club’s Top 40 Comedy Albums of All Time ranking
• Jimmy Fallon news breaking and episode rescheduling
• Bill Cosby and Woody Allen albums excluded due to scandals
• Peter Sellers collaboration with George Martin
• Alan Sherman’s ‘My Son the Nut’ charting success
• Dennis Leary’s influence from Bill Hicks
• Dick Gregory’s ‘In Living Black and White’ from Playboy Club

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. Originally this was going to run last Saturday, and then the Jimmy Fallon stuff broke, so I bumped it to this week. I’d been sitting on this for a while because normally Labor Day week is pretty quiet for news, But like I said, the Foulon thing came along and it gave me something else. So I’ve been sitting on this article from the av Club, the forty best comedy Albums of all Time ranked. If you were a long time listener, you know when I do article episodes, I don’t look at the article until I record.

I like to react in the moment because a lot of times I’m like whoa, So we’ll do that in a second. But I did put some thought into a list. Here. Let me give you a quick list. I’ll give you a top five.

At number five, some sort of Carlin album. If you’re of a certain age, Remember you’d go into record chains and they would have the nice price, and they’d be like a big barrel of cassettes and you’d go in there, and that’s how we all wound up with like Steve Miller’s Greatest hits and things like that. There would always be some Carlin Ones in there, and I had a bunch of Carlin ones that I used to listen to on a walkman commuting to high school in the eighties. I can’t tell you what albums they were, but one of those would be number five. At number four’ll give you a wildcard here, Trump versus Bernie Live for Brooklyn.

This is James Adomian as Bernie Sanders and Anthony it Samnowick as Donald Trump doing a debate. It is one of my favorite things. I play it on the Live one Slacker show as much as I can. Trump versus Bernie Live from Brooklyn. Fantastic.

Check that out. Next up, let me put Sam Kinnison’s Louder than Hell. I mean Sam when he first came along was so amazing, and some of his material about marriage is still holds up, which is fantastic. Number two I’ll put Mitch Hedberg’s Strategic Grill Locations. And number one I will put Eddie Murphy Delirious.

As I always say, some of the things haven’t aged so well, but if you were of a certain age like me, there was a time when you could probably do three quarters for this album off the top of your head. Gooney Gooho. As I’ve aged, do we understand that Eddie Murphy is just doing a Richard Pryor cover act? Yes? I do, but that’s my personal list.

Let’s look at the A V Club list. They made some good points. They said there were times when a concept one up being so strong and elevated a performer who wouldn’t otherwise be considered a candidate for the Comedy Hall of Fame. For example, The First Family. That’s Vaughn Mader’s nineteen sixty two album that made fun of the Kennedy’s, and they rate Vaughan Mader may not have had significant comedic skills, but as JFK impression was enough to fuel a landmark comedy record.

One of the best compliments I ever heard about that album is when you think in your mind of a JFK impression, you’re actually picturing Vaughn Mader and not what actual JFK actually sounded like. Davy Club ads. The passage of time inevitably alters the perception of the content. That’s the case with such a master’s of the forum as Bill Cosby and Woody Allen, comedians who recorded successful and influential albums at their prime, but those records may sound uncomfortable to a contemporary listener due to the scandals that have tarnished their legacies. We did not include those albums for that reason.

Okay, let’s take a look. It is a slide show number forty. Vaughan Mader just discussed it. Great pick. Thirty nine Jonathan Winters The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters from nineteen sixty respect but personally I never got into Jonathan Winter’s comedy.

Thirty eight Lily Tomlins. This is recording from nineteen seventy two. Stan Freeberg presents the United States of America Volume one, The Early Years from nineteen sixty one. Thirty six Peter Sellers The Best of Sellers nineteen fifty eight, whoa They Write? Not a compilation.

The Best of Sellers nevertheless does feature Peter Sellers at a peak, rushing into the studio after his version of the old music hall standard Any Old Iron became an unexpected hit. Sellers crammed his mini LP with pop, rock and roll, folk and jazz parodies. Characters he did on the BBC’s show The Goon Show. The producer George Morton, you may know him from such bands as The Beatles. Wow, good pick.

Whoever did this knows what they’re talking about. Thirty five Bob and Doug McKenzie’s Great White North. I considered mentioning this at the top. There’s a couple tracks on there. Twelve Days of Christmas, an all time classic, another one I play every year at Christmas time on the Live one Slacker Show.

Interesting pick, I like it. That’s from nineteen eighty one. Thirty four Lenny Bruce The Carnegie Hall Concert. Lenny Bruce, you know, founded modern stand up comedy. But the material to me just feels a little dated.

Recordings aren’t that strong. But like I get a good pick, good pick, We’re doing great here. Thirty three Joan Rivers from nineteen eighty three. What becomes a semi legend? Most Joan one of the greats.

I worked with Joan for five years or so. I’ve got some stories. Won’t bobogg into that today? Like Joan a lot? Thirty two Alan Sherman’s My Son the Nut from nineteen sixty three.

You know this from the Hello muta Hello Fata song. Song in the voice of a kid writing home from summer camp. It spent two weeks on the top of the Billboard shorts, and achievement that no other comedy record matched until Weird Al released Mandatory Fun in twenty fourteen thirty one. They have Adam Sandler. If you’ve listened to this podcast at all, you have picked up on I don’t find Adam Sandler the least bit funny, Not at all.

Adam Sandlers They’re all going to laugh at You from nineteen ninety three. Let’s see what they wrote. They’re all Gonna laugh at You played at crucial port in building Adam Sandler’s popularity outside of SNL. A purposefully juvenile record filled with goofy grass out of humor. They’re all Gonna laugh at You became a word of mount sensation at middle schools and colleges alike, thanks in part to Sandler’s relentless focus on adolest and angst and pranks.

He’s a cartoon character caught on Vinyl m Okay thirty. Robert Klein, Child of the Fifties from nineteen seventy three. We all respect Robert Klein. You know that’s in I’m trying to get how you explain it. It’s like when you look at a I don’t know a ball player that played in nineteen ten.

You’re like, Hm, I get it, but I don’t get it. And that’s kind of how I feel about Klein. But sure it’s twenty nine Dennis Leary’s No Cure for Cancer Dennis Leary really interesting because if you’ve studied comedy, you hear the Bill Hicks influence with a capital I capital and capital fluence on Dennis Leary. But yeah, Ivy Club says Dennis Leary brought the underground rantings of Bill Hicks into the mainstream. I’ll leave it there, saying a more good album though.

Twenty eight Martin Mull’s Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture in Your living Room nineteen seventy three. I don’t even know what this is, a relic of it’s time. Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture in Your living Room finds the former folky setting up is Hippie Hubris who wrote that and hitting such easy but worthy targets as dueling tubes. Huh interesting. I don’t know a thing about it, so I kid say that it shouldn’t be there.

Twenty seven David tells Skanks for the Memories, what a great album. I really wish we had more out of David Tell in album format. He really hasn’t recorded too much, but that’s a fantastic album. David Tell skanks for the Memories. Twenty six Dick Gregory in Living Black and White from nineteen sixty one.

I’m unfamiliar with this album, Davy Club said. Recorded to Chicago’s Playboy Club, and Living Black and White preserves Gregory’s peak, finding him weaving between pointed racial commentary and observations about the state of international affairs at the height of the Cold War. I like this list a lot. These guys did a great job with this list. Twenty five Andrew Dice Clay The Day the Laughter Died from nineteen ninety Do you know this one?

This is not the good Andrew Dice Clay album that you’re thinking about. It’s Dice was such a public menace. He and producer Rick Rubin designed his debut album as a provocation, a double disc document not of Clay’s nursery, rhyme routines, but the danger he conveyed as a comic performing at a small club filled with unprepared listeners. It’s comedy as a weapon. The audience doesn’t laugh, They squirm in a fashion that’s even audible on record.

Interesting pick that is just an awkward, awkward, awkward Listen. Are we overgrading this? I don’t want to say overrated, but are we overgrading this because Rick Rubin is involved. I know when we would play this on Sirius XM and in later days when I played it on Slacker Slash Live one. That album does not do well because it’s a comedy album and no one’s laughing.

Next up, Cheech and Chong Los Cocinos from nineteen seventy three. That’s the one with Basketball Jones on it. I mean, Cheech and Chong are fun for what they are. You know, maybe back in nineteen seventy three as an album was fun. I’m not sure that has aged all that well, but okay, I won’t fight you in the squoyard about that one.

Twenty three Lewis Black’s The White Album. Okay, I mean, I gotta see what comes. Twenty three feels a little high for that one, but let’s see what’s coming. Twenty two Monty Python’s Flying Circus another Monty Python record from nineteen seventy one. There are so many Python compilations, recompilations re re re compilations.

You could take your pick of the Python records, but sure that one’s not bad. Twenty one Don Rickles, Hello Dummy from nineteen sixty eight, recorded live at the Sahara. Dummy is very much a product of its time, which means there are more than a few jokes that couldn’t fly in the twenty twenties. Don Rickles, fantastic, good pick.

All right, let’s take the break and then we’ll do the other twenty Continuing…

I’m trying to remember if I know this album. Maybe when we have the clean Channel, it serious used to play this one a little bit, you know the fine They’re fine. Like to see some more new Hart on here. If we’re going to do with some Mother’s brothers, let’s say nineteen Mitch Hedberg’s Strategic Grill Locations. Talked about that one on the top, and I still can’t believe that’s from nineteen ninety nine.

One of my favorites. Number eighteen, National Lampoons Lemmings Lemmings was a stage show National Lampoons, staged off Broadway nineteen seventy three that spoofed Woodstock. The production was spun off into a cast recording. The LP served as an introduction to John Belushi, who performed the majority of the stage announcements and his Joe Cocker impression.

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Also Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest on that one interesting, all right?

Number seventeen Stephen Wrights, I have a pony. Yeah, what an influential album. Now the challenge I have with Stephen Wright. And I’ve seen him live and this is why I say this. Stephen Wright in five minute clips amazing.

Stephen Wright in longer form, your brain goes numb. I went to see him. He was hilarious, but like an hour into it, I felt like I was hallucinating just that non change of speed for an extended amount of time. It’s really so Yeah. Good pick for the individual tracks In terms of an album, I don’t know, not the worst pick sixteen Bill Hicks ranton E Minor Okay, we’ve done justice to the earlier Dennis Leary pick.

Okay, that’s a very good album if you’ve never heard it. From nineteen ninety seven. Fifteen What is This? Mike Nichols and Elane May’s and Evening with Mike Nichols and Elane May from nineteen sixty Educate Me one of the defining comic d he was in the nineteen sixties. Mike Nichols and Elaine May had an elegance to the rapport that still sparkles, capturing highlights from their Broadway show, not at all famarial with it.

Fourteen Patton Oswalt’s Werewolves and Lollipops. When I did the episode last weekend, I mentioned I have trouble remembering which Patton Oswalt album is which, but sure his recording material is very strong. Thirteen Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks The two thousand year Old Man from nineteen sixty one. Okay, one of those things that I’m not sure has aged all that well, but respect. Twelve Sam Kinison Louder than Hell Fantastic album number eleven.

Red Fox unsensed from nineteen eighty Ncensor is filled with the kind of raunchy humor that couldn’t be heard in public in the sixties. In nineteen eighty it one Fox a Grammy for Comedy Album of the Year. All right, Top ten, what do you think is gonna be here? I haven’t mentioned Carlin yet, I haven’t mentioned Priory yet. I’m sure they’re gonna come up.

And are we overwaiting and only picking one from each artist? Because I can make a case for several Priors and several Carlin’s on here. Let’s see number ten Albert Brooks Comedy Minus One from nineteen seventy three. I mean, if you want to have it unless but top ten. Number nine Chris Rock Bigger and Blacker from nineteen ninety nine.

Good pick good, pick good. Pick eight Steve Morton’s Let’s Get Small from nineteen seventy seven. Steve Morton has been coming up a lot lately on the podcast Again back in the day was a monster, monster, huge comedian, but such a shooting star. I’ve actually been playing this on the Slacker Live one show recently. It has aged pretty well.

Okay, let’s do it. Number eight Steve Martin shre seven Roddy Dangerfield’s No Respect nineteen eighty Good Pick six David Cross shut up you fffing baby. Wow. Wow. It’s six wow, and there’s only five left, so I’m guessing we’re not going to give multiples to Carlin Or prior.

But okay, let’s go the top five. Number five Eddie Murphy comedian, Yeah, comedian, the album Delirious, the TV special, that’s the one I was talking about before. Great. Pick four Robin Williams A Night at the met This comes up a lot. I don’t think it’s aged that well.

The Robin Williams mafia is going to start writing me letters. It’s good, but four seems really high. I’d have it on this list, but not at four. Three Bob Newhart, The button Down Mind of Bob Newhart. The New Heart stuff is very funny.

It runs at a different speed if you’ve grown up watching Fast Got Avenjuran movies, but in twenty twenty three might feel a little slow for you. But it earned New Heart the Grammy for Best New Artist in nineteen sixty. Number two George Carlin’s Class Clown. That’s the one that has seven words you can never say on television, all right, and that means they’re gonna have a prior. I’m going to guess Sunset Strip at number one.

Let me look click Richard Bryer live of the Sunset Strip from nineteen eighty two Bryer’s returned to the stage after nearly burning himself in a free base accident, remains the ideal marriage of revelation and craft, a dark knight of the soul that is riotlessly funny. Now, keep in mind a lot of artists have not released album albums in recent years, although some have. I’m surprised there’s no Gaffigan on here. I’m surprise there’s no Dane Cook on here. Those are two that come to mind.

Or how about Jeff Foxworthy who has sold more comedy albums than anybody that alone, he should be on here. But pretty good list by the Avy Club. It would be curious as your thoughts. You can always join in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Would love to hear from you.

And that’s your show for today. Follow this podcast for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Derek Smalls, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Kelsey Grammer, Byron Allen

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler ‘I Missed You Tour’ 25-city fall/winter tour starting October 12
• Derek Smalls releases ‘Must Crush Barbie’ single, first track in 5 years
• Bill Maher announces Real Time returns despite writers strike, sparks WGA backlash
• Frasier reboot premieres on Paramount+ October 12, with behind-the-scenes special
• CBS Late Late Show replacement: Comics Unleashed syndicated roundtable with Byron Allen

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. Oh man, is it Christmas already? Hi? I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Adam Sandler is back on sour Huh.

If you listen every day, you know how funny I find Adam Sandler. I cannot wait twenty five city tour, the I Missed You Tour, and we don’t have to wait long. It kicks off in Vancouver on October twelfth. Adam Sadler promises surprise guest will join him. Variety says, while Adam Sandler is a much love screen actor, and boy are his film’s fantastic?

You remember Sandler got his start as a comedian doing stamp right, Can I tell you for real? I mentioned I host the weekly comedy thing over on the Live one app and I program the comedy stations over there. The things that do the worst with the audience, and I mean the worst are Adam Sandler comedy bits. Anytime I add one of them to the rotation, I get, I run the report and it’s like people are like skipping it. They can’t even sit through it.

So it’s not just me anyway. Adam Sandler’s October twelfth Vancouver is doing a lot of back to backs. Thirteenth in Seattle, fourteenth in Portland, fifteenth in Nampa, Idaho at the Fort Idaho Center Arena. Not familiar with Nampa. Sixteenth spoke Can then a day off, then another run the eighteenth, San Jose, the nineteenth state line, Nevada, Fresno on the twentieth, Palm Desert on the twenty first, a day off, Anaheim on the twenty third.

Then he’s taking two weeks off, six straight days, or it seems like he’s doing six nights. One off Toronto, Rochester, New York at Washington, DC, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Des Moines day off November fifteenth, Indianapolis, then Memphis, little Thanksgiving breaking there, then back on the road December two, Vegas, Salt Lake, San Antonio, Thackerville, Oklahoma, not to be confused with Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he’ll be the next night, Oklahoma loving Adam Sandler apparently Wichita on the tenth, and the final show for now unless he adds more dates, Denver, Colorado on the twelfth. I cannot wait, there’s next one. I was bringing the show and I was like what from Variety. Derek Smalls, the legendary bassist with the ultimate heavy metal band Spinal Tap.

You know what that is? Right. He’s returned with a brutally contemporary new single called must Crush Barbie, described as an excoriating attack on the pink sensation. The advocate of everything pink and fluffy. Barbie, the self described embodiment of lukewater Warm, reaches boiling point with Small’s first track in five years.

The song is available now, Let’s listen, big new stink too Much Take Derek Small’s variety says, who may or may not be actor Harry Shearer, co star of nineteen eighty four, is this is spinal tappication? Not getting the joke here, Derek Small says, I been spending the last year or so as brand ambassador for brugal Coin, the Dutch cryptocurrency. Since it was cratering this pass spring, I was following the news more than usual, which is where I got bombarded by all the barbibs. I don’t know which angered me more, but it’s really hard to write a song about crypto, but the overwhelming shroud of pinkness definitely deserved a major pricking, and that’s where I came in. They also shared Derek Small’s official biography.

Derek was born one April quote, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, having to endure growing up as an April fool’s baby. His father, Donald Duff Smalls, raised Derek after his mother, Dorothy, left home to join a traveling all girls jazz band called the Hotton Toddies That’s Ready. While Derek had a quiet school career in his hometown of Milford on the River Knoll in the West Midlands, Duff carried on his work as a telephone handset sanitizer, working for the pioneering film in the trade Xantophone until it was absorbed by the former British Telecom, primarily according s reports at the time, for its robust bill collecting operation. There’s like seven more paragraphs of this. I’ll get back to this on Sunday because I have a lot to cover today.

Bill Maher getting into with Keith Filberman. Why Bill Maher has decided that Real Time with Bill Moore will return despite the ongoing writers strike. Keith Olberman tweeted, without writers, the new weekly scab all caps edition of Real Time with Bill Maher will be eighty three seconds long. As somebody who’s known you since nineteen seventy eight. F you Bill, you selfish and unfunny.

I’m trying to think of a way to clean this up, a bag that would have scum in it. He didn’t really clean it up, John, did you? No? I didn’t whatever.

All right, let’s just read it.

F you Bill, you selfish and unfunny, scumbag. That’s how Keith Hilpriman probably wants that read. TV writer Jennifer Gross posted, can’t wait to tell my son there won’t be Christmas this year because Bill Maher and a bunch of talk show hosts who couldn’t stay away from the limelight prolonged to strike that was gaining ground and are putting countless writers, actors and crew and financial peril and definitely Bill Maher and his announcement said it’s time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with and hope they’re addressed to their satisfaction. But they’re not the only people with issues, problems, and concerns.

He noted he will honor the spirit of the strike by not doing a monologue at desk piece, new rules or editorial. The Writer’s Guild called Bill Moore’s announcement disappointing and added, if he goes forward with his plan, he needs to honor more than the spirit of the strike. Bill Moore is obligated as a WGA member to follow the strike rules and not perform any writing services. It’s difficult to imagine how Real Time with Bill Mark can go forward without a violation of w GA strike rules taking place. WGA will be picketing this show.

Frasier is Back, Baby. Paramount Plus has released the official trailer for the Fraser reboot Kelsey Grammer, Please Fraser. The new series follows Frasier in the next chapter of his life. Blah blah blah, Boston blah blah blah, new challenges, new relationships, blah blah blah. I’ve told you about this several times.

Jack Cutmore Scott plays Frasier’s son, Freddie. Freddie’s Got Some Friends. Baby new Worth will be back in one episode as Lilith Frasier Paramount Plus October twelfth. In the US October thirteenth, and the rest of the world. The first two episodes will air back to back on CBS Proper on October seventeenth, beginning at nine fifteen pm.

What’s That about there’s probably seventy five minute survivor or something we see in the trailer. Apparently Fresier’s hanging around out at a bar, but no, not that one where all his old friends are. It’s unclear to me why he’s not hanging out at the old place. He’s got new friends and a new bar. Who knows, Maybe like Cliff retired and moved to Cleveland and he still loves Cliff and doesn’t get to see him.

Who knows? A special titled Fresier Inside the Series while they are on October seventh on CBS, giving fans of behind the scenes look at how the new series came together. I could do that special in four seconds money, I will shoot. I still have three seconds left. CBS is like, hey, what should we do?

In late night? They are going to run Comics Unleashed. That’s a show hosted by Byron Allen. If you’ve ever been up late at night, you may have stumbled across this thing. It’s so hey, it’s that good.

That will follow repeats of Stephen Colbert beginning September eighteenth, that’s Monday. For what the network says is a limited run, CBS will air two episodes per night at twelve thirty seven in the spot formerly occupied by the Late Late Show. Comics Unleashed has arity in syndication since two thousand and six. Byron Allen hosts a roundtable discussion with a rotating panel of comedians. Guests have included Sebastian Maniscalco, Tiffany Hattish, gab I Lecias, Cedric Howie, Mandel, Leslie Jones, Wayne Brady, roy Would, Junior Whitney Cummings, Jabe’s Move, Billy Gordell, and Margaret Show.

So that’s like twelve comedians and this thing’s been on since two thousand and six, So in seventeen years, I just listed ten comedians you’ve heard of son. You can stay up late on Monday and watch that one. Big Mouth is also back, Baby Baby, October twentieth for the premiere of the penultimate seventh season. You know big Mouth Inspired by Nick Croll’s Childhood. Big Mouth is about the glorious nightmare that is puberty.

Some of the guest stars in season seven Megan thee Stallion, Stephanie Beatrice, Zach Alafanakis, Randall Park, Chloe Feinneman, Beck Bennett, Zach Woods, Mark Dubless, Paul Sheer, John Daley, and Andy Daley. Welcome to the Yucky part of today’s podcast. Of the next two stories are kind of ikey. I’ll read them verbatim from Yahoo. Tiffany Haddish reportedly was slapped with a one million dollars lawsuit at her recent show in Los Angeles on August twenty eighth.

The lawsuit was served while hosting a comedy event at the Laugh Factory on August twenty eighth by a process server for the girl’s trip. Actress’s former friend, Treza Morris. Morris is the mother of the two children who accused Hattish and fellow comedian Iri Spears of grooming them for a twenty fourteen skit called Through a Pedophile’s Eyes for the comedy site Funnier Die. Morris is suing Hattish and Spears for defamation following the aftermath of a previous lawsuit brought by her children, who were fourteen and seven at the time the skit was filmed. The teenage girl claimed that Hannish coached her on how to simulate fallacio while eating a subway sandwich.

The skit also featured Spears rubbing oil on the young boy’s back and lusting after the child while looking at him through holes in a newspaper. The lawsuit was eventually dropped by the plaintiffs, but Morris, who has paid a fifteen thousand dollars settlement from Spears’s claiming that the two comedians labeled her as an extortionist, can read more about that story on Yahoo and from the av Club. I’ll also read this verbatim. Rick and Morty creator Justin Royland is now facing accusations of using his fame to course young women and teens into sex. NBC News Cat ten Barge published text messages and social media dms between Royland and his various accusers, and a revealing and disturbing report that includes accusations of sexual assault, grooming, and coercion.

Royland has denied the charges through his lawyers, saying the allegations were false and defamatory. You can go on the Avy Club and they’ve got some of the text messages. I choose not to go there or read any of them. Let’s do something more fun and pop on over to Gossip Corner from KOI. N will Farrell was in Portland again on September ninth.

He was catching the soccer Timbers two LAFC. Zero was one of the owners of LAFC. He probably wasn’t happy. Gossip Corner Koi N tells us after the game, Will Farrell was seen performing a mostly unscheduled stand up set at the Mcmanamans Wringlers NX in Southwest Portland. Mcmeneman’s employee may And told KOI N that Will perform about ten minutes of material.

Now, what’s a mostly unscheduled stand upset is that Will might come by sometime between midnight and midnight. I don’t know what that is. Morgan, the employee said, We’re pretty close to the stadium and Will Ferrell walked in earlier that day to grab a drink. He noticed that we had comedy that night and asked it would be able to stop in for a quick stand up set. Ah, that’s why it’s sort of scheduled, got it.

We let him know we couldn’t make any promises. Really, who was possibly performing? Hey, can Will Farrell get ten minutes now? I’m sorry, Johnny banana Is and Crash Kurigliano are performing tonight. We don’t have any time for Will Farrell.

I’m sorry, mister Chappelle, Rock and Seinfeld won’t make any time for that could actually be the lineup. You could have actually had Seinfeld, Rock and Chappelle. And if Will Ferrell shows up and goes, can I do ten, They’re all gonna go, yeah, of course, what are we talking about. We let him know we couldn’t make any promises, but we couldn’t see how our host would ever say no. You think we weren’t entirely sure he would come through.

But after about fifteen minutes or comedy started, he walked in. Tim Dillon has kicked off a tour. By the way, I’ve mentioned I really liked Tim Dillon’s podcast and someday Tim Dillon’s gonna step on a landmine. I’m gonna deny I ever said that on a recent episode he had on a politician. I’m not even going to tell you who it is, because the point isn’t the politician’s politics.

It’s just, hey, Tim Man, I love you, but you’re not Joe Rob. It just when you do your thing where you just monologue and make fun of the news, when you’re sitting down on the politician having a pretty serious interview, what are you doing? Don’t do that? Tim Dillon. The American Royalty Tour kicks off tonight Charlotte.

Then he’ll hit Lexington, Cincinnati, Devenport, Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, Comedy, hotbat Out There, Omaha, Wheatland, California, Sacramento, i Guess, Rochester, Munhall, Pennsylvania, Detroit. In December ninth, Toronto’s and Meridian Hall. Nikki Glaser continues the Good Girl Tour that started back in January, but we have some new dates. She’s in Chicago tonight as the Chicago Theater Fans Plastic Venue. Then off to Peoria, Englewood, New Jersey, over by Me, Prior Lake, Minnesota, Calgary, Nappa, Wheatland again, San Francisco, San Diego, Milwaukee, Riverside, Iowa, Lawrence, Kansas, which I always think of, remember the day after That’s what I always think of.

One night here, Lawrence, Kansas, Boston, Baltimore, Rohobeth Beach. Maybe she’ll see the President there, Atlantic City, Portland, Rama, Ontario at the Casino, Rama Love It, Munhall, Pennsylvania, Wow, Munhall, Pennsylvania, getting everybody, Detroit and Denver. On New Year’s Eve, Brittany Corney is taping a special on Sunday at King’s Comedy Club in Raleigh. She’s a writer on Audible’s upcoming podcast Networking for Introverts with a porn and unchula and controversial father Ted co creator Gran Lennhan was out performing again. He’s going to write a book about his TV career and recent notoriety as critic of the transit right movement.

Sough Crowd is the name of the book. It will chart his life since his sitcom success. He did a set the other night and was given a stay ending ovation by parts of the audience. That’s funny, but it was only his eighth gig and it showed he initially fumbled with the mic. He was doing a bit about Frankenstein and he stopped it when he realized it wasn’t going well.

A chunk of the crowd left when Lenahan finished, so it was clear where they come from. But apparently he hasn’t really put together a cohesive live set, and then headliner Andrew Lawrence had to go on that sucks. Oh sorry, Andrew, and that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Thanks to DraftKings for supporting today’s show, and I’m gonna go sit on Ticketmaster and get Adam Sandler tickets right No,

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Ben Stiller, Mark Hamill, John Cusack, Kara Swisher, Owen Benjamin, Chris Rock, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien ends late-night show after 28 years instead of 30
• Late night hosts announce Strike Force Three Vegas benefit show for out-of-work staff
• Slate writer Dan Kois criticized Martin Short’s comedy, prompting Hollywood backlash
• Jimmy Fallon workplace misconduct allegations and late-night response
• Owen Benjamin’s 2019 sketch parodying Jimmy Fallon and Stalin resurfaces
• SEC charges Stoner Cats NFT creators including Chris Rock for unregistered offering

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck may see one again today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. A bunch of the late night guys tweeted, I saw Colbert did it, and then Kimmel did it. I’m assuming Falon did it as well, but from Colbert. This just in.

I’m headed to Vegas with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel for Strike Force three Live Catch us one night only, Saturday, September twenty third. All proceeds from our live show will go directly to out of work staff from our respective shows. See you there. The Hollywood Reporter had a press release in which Seth Meyers and John Oliver addressed their absence. Oliver said, I’m not allowed back in Vegas until I’m cleared of all charges.

Seth Meyers said I will be in Vegas, but unable to attend as I got to play my slots. The Hollywood Reporter points out they have yet to discuss fallon Gate on the podcast so far. The episodes that have been published were recorded prior to fallon Gate. We’ll see if they addressed them on upcoming shows. I’ll suspect not, but you never know.

Did you see this whole Martin Short thing. A guy wrote a piece on slate dot com with the headline why we keep putting up with Martin Short? And apparently Hollywood did not react well to the taking down of Martin Short. The writer cited his reasons for questioning Martin Schwartz’s talents. He thinks Martin Short will desperately do anything for a laugh, and he finds almost all the over the top characters that he played unbelievably annoying.

Are we sure this isn’t me writing about Adam Sandler? Because no, Dan Kois Kois Hope I’m saying your name right, Dan? Anyway, Dan writes, I find Martin Short’s whole stick exhausting, sweaty, and desperately unfunny throughout his evolution from sketch comedy, standout, too uneasy, movie start at twice, failed talk show host, enthusiastic song and dance man. I’ve wrinkled my nose. I’ll let me jump in here and let me give a quote about Adam Sandler.

I find Adam Sandler’s whole stick exhausting, sweaty, and desperately unfunny throughout his evolution from sketch comedy standout to movie star, I’ve wrinkled my nose. Okay. Back to what Dan wrote about on Martin Short, Eugene Levy did not like it and wrote, just got wind of that ridiculously laughable op ed about Marty Short after five years in the world of comedy, There’s one thing I know for certain. No one is faster, smarter, or funnier than Marty Short. He is the definition of funny.

Ben Stiller wrote, Martin Short is a comedic genius. Endo story, Mark Hamill. You know him as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. He said, heart to believe people are actually debating whether or not Martin Short is funny. Newsflash, he is hilarious all caps.

John Cusack, I don’t know what people are on about Martin Short, but is mister Rogers boxing match is my fave. And in the end, Dan wrote that Martin Short is basically a nice, decent guy who would find heaters like him boring as a dinner companion. Kara Swisher has Conan O’Brien on her podcast. I haven’t listened to yet, but I did read the transcript and I’m actually gonna grab that pod right now. I got my phone right here.

Here it is. It’s called Conan O’Brien talks Today’s Accountant. Fifty nine minutes downloaded, done. I have shared the transcript if you want to read along. That’s what I did in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

But there’s a lot’s unpacked there. I’ll be picking at it for like the next five days. I want to just sit here and read an article to you for an hour. Conan self described and said I could probably come across to a lot of people as, oh, he’s so silly and he makes a lot of jokes and he takes things very lightly. And I’ve never been that person.

I take things very seriously, and I am that person. But also when I’m given an assignment, I take it very seriously, and it’s in my nature. I don’t want to let people down. I think for years and years and years, i’d wake up and I was so driven by what’s the show today, how’s it going, how did we do this week? What does the network thing?

How are things? Are we repeating ourselves too much? What’s the next challenge? And I felt that way for a boy. I started in ninety three, and I think that was my mo for twenty some odd years, and I started to get better in the latter part of the TBS show.

But now that’s my life. I feel you, Conan one of the first things I do every day as I checked the podcast download numbers on this thing, Conan continued. I think it was eventually toward the end we went to half an hour, and I remembered feeling a huge difference half an hour and an hour. It’s more than just a thirty minute difference. I don’t know how to explain it.

We feel this responsibility the whole time for a longer period of time, so I don’t know. I feel that just helped, and you have to remember it. Towards the end of my run, COVID hit and I think COVID accelerated things a bit because I was doing interviews late night interviews on Zoom and I remember if just feeling like, yeah, I know COVID’s going to depart and things are gonna go back to normal. But I think to a degree, COVID may have accelerated a bit, meaning I might have done thirty years instead of twenty eight. But then I thought, why stick around for two years?

Leave? Now? It’s been fun It’s been an amazing gift. Conan said he loves his podcast. I love the travel shows.

Let’s do this transition now. Let’s not wait around and have some cool three zero anniversary, especially as you say, the culture is changing so quickly. Comedian Owen Benjamin has been making fun of his own sketches in light of Fallon Gate. Owen Benjamin tweeted this aged well. What he was referring to is a twenty nineteen sketch that he had previously posted.

In it, Benjamin don a wig in a suit to play Jimmy Fallon. In the sketch, Jimmy Fallon is interviewing Joseph Stalin, played by conservative commentator Stephen Crowder. There’s an opening monologue where Benjamin is Fallon claims he read Stalin’s autobiography in a bubble bath with Justin Timberlake. Crowder appears in a Stalin tunic and a fake mustache. He sits down with fake Jimmy Fallon.

The audience goes wild. Crowder, playing Stalin, becomes angry and yells who was the last one to clap, and then tells Benjamin as Fallon, I don’t know why you have so many nice things when you have such weak hands. They banter for a bit Krowder as Stalin tells Benjamin’s Fallon. When he returns home, he will find his wife and children dead.

And then Jimmy Fallon goes.

When we come back, Harry Styles and I’ll be doing stuff to each other on a ferris wheel, and we’ll play beer pong with Kim Jong Young. Here’s a weird one for you, and I’m sharing it because Chris Rock appears in the story from The Hollywood Reporter. The Federal Government’s crypto crackdown is hitting Hollywood again, this time star getting an animated web three series featuring the voices of Chris Rock, Ashton Kutcher, me Lacunis, Jean Fonda, Seth McFarland, and more. The SEC on Wednesday filed Chargers against the creators of the NFT cartoons series Stoner Cats for an unregistered offering of NFTs. I don’t believe Chris Rock is involved in this at all, other than he was one of the voices.

Stoner Cats launched in twenty twenty one as an animated series funded by selling NFTs to buyers. The series is about the wacky adventures of cats who learned talk after inhaling medical marijuana. As I’m talking to you, I’m getting texts. My daughter apparently wants me to get Olivia Rodrigo tickets. Okay, I rolled a seven on the tailor Swift tickets, so she must think I’m really good at ticket Master.

I’d digress. The NFT offering, which raised more than eight million dollars, gave buyer’s access to watch the series their own stonecat avatar, and promised the creation of future animated projects. Did I erase this from my brain? I was doing the podcast then anyway. Rough week for Kunis and Kutcher.

They also have been getting backlash to letters they wrote to the court and support of former That seventy Show cast member at Danny Masterson ahead of his recent sentencing. Let’s not go there. Pete Davidson spoke about as Kenemine use at the show on Sunday at the hard Rock and Atlantic City. That’s the show he’s doing with Millennium, John Stewart. I told you could have got in for fifteen bucks, Bet Davidson.

I am fresh at a rehab everybody. I got that post rehab glow seventh times the charm. During his set, Pete revealed he took ketamine every day over a four year period before checking in a rehab In June, Pete joked, it was magical one time I got the wiggles to mesh with Schindler’s List. He revealed that he was high when attending Aretha Franklin’s funeral in twenty eighteen. Why would Pete Davidson be at Aretha Franklin’s funeral?

A quick Google reveals to me, Ah, it was in twenty eighteen, and at that time, Pete Davidson was engaged to Ariana Grande, who was asked to perform at the service. That makes sense. Forgot that happened? The Huffington Post, in the same article I’m looking at says, in case you forgot, which I did. Pete Davidson has a leg tattoo of Hillary Clinton, who he called one of the strangest people in the universe.

Pete shared the photo on social media, and the Hillary A Kamp wrote back, thanks Pete Davidson. That makes it significantly less awkward that I’ve had a Pete Davidson tattoo for years. Boy, I didn’t know we were going to go anywhere near this. I was just trying to tell you about Pete Davidson’s tea on Slurday Night. That was a fun digression.

Pete explained to the crowd, you can’t do drugs in your thirties because it’s not cute anymore. At that point, you’re just a drug addict. This next story is not new, but I hadn’t seen it before, and it came up because this week was the anniversary of nine eleven. Apparently, Jimmy Carr had tested a joke before making it about Pete Davidson’s father. Back in twenty sixteen, Jimmy Carr was on a Comedy Central roast.

One of the panelists was Pete Davidson. Jimmy Carr’s joke, I’m a Paul that people would come here and make jokes about the sacrifice pete heroic father made on nine to eleven. This is not the roast of Pete Davidson’s father that was in two thousand and one. Last year, on the Have a Word podcast, Jimmy Carr explained that he first debuted the joke at the Hollywood Improv in LA. He revealed the line got a laugh and then an ooh, and that Pete Davidson was laughing harder than everyone else from the back of the audience.

Car said, there’s a laugh from the back of the room, like a sustained maniacal laugh. It was Pete Davidson. Okay. The Daily Beast saw Michelle Wolf’s new special. I haven’t seen it yet.

You see, last night was trivia. Tonight’s football Friday. I’m gonna play Starfield. Are you’re playing Starfield? Yes?

Maybe Saturday, actually maybe tomorrow. Usually on Friday night, I’m tired, and I say I’m going to play video games, and then I just like stare at the TV. So and I also have to watch Chane Gillis. My son said, Chane Gillis is really good.

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And then Sunday’s football and Monday’s football.

By the way, Jets, sorry, bro. Michelle Wolf has a new special. The Daily Beast reviewed at Laura Bradley is the reviewer, and I read her review and I’m not so sure she liked it. She wrote. Much of Wolfe’s material pointedly points out the hypocrisy white women enacted in a society that can often encourage their sense of victimhood lest they discover and embrace their true power.

As she labels it karening, quoting wolf and Spoilers, Waiting until a couple summers ago to realize that things have been bad for black people is like needing to see that documentary to No Sea World is bad? Did you know Wale shouldn’t live in the sink? Laura Bradley continues, but on other topics, like me Too, the comedians comments start to feel less considered and more incendiary. During one joke Spoilers, she sums up me too supporters positioned by saying, doesn’t matter what you did. You could have raped somebody or accidentally whispered into a boob.

It’s all the same, and you have to die. Michelle Wolfe says she was so frustrated by me Too because I think we genuinely could have made social change. We could have made things better for women and men, but we effed it up from the very beginning. Michelle Spoilers also jokes about trans people, quoting Michelle here, I heard her about all these trans women getting murdered and assaulted, and all I could think of when I heard that was welcome jump on in the Water’s terrible and full of missing women. The audience laughs let’s out a few ohs, and Michelle says, some people say, now statistically more trans women are getting murdered, And I’m like, well, are they getting murdered because they’re trans?

Or are they getting murdered because they’re not used to presenting as women? She tells an imaginary trans woman, you used to be a lion, Now you’re a gazelle. There’s different rules. Okay. Laura Bradley said, Wolf obviously did not set out to write a thesis paper, but still this treatment feels frustratingly glib.

Sean McCarthy writes for Decider of cross baths with Seawan quite a few times over the past twenty years. He definitely knows comedy, and he said what comedy special is will Michelle will remind you of? By format, nothing per se by subject matter, Wolf stand somewhere on the spectrum between the sexually explicit feminism of Nikki Glaser and the defines of Dave Chappelle. Sean McCarthy for Decider says, stream it precisely because Wolf chose to split up her new material into multiple episodes, You’re much more likely to want to watch the first twenty minutes, so you can decide for yourself whether you want more. Where that came from?

Holy Cow. I just check the clock running along here. I’m going to talk about the commercials at the end of today’s podcast. By the way, the writer strike is getting serious now. From the Hollywood Reporter, NBC Universal’s studio group has suspended Lorne Michael’s Broadway video and Dween the Rock Johnson’s seven Bucks deals.

Wow, those are two pretty high profile people. I’ve been sharing my Jimmy fallon NBC conspiracy theory with people, and people are buying into it. If you missed it, check out Saturday’s episode that was all about fellon short version. I wonder if that story leaked, if they’re trying to push Jimmy out before a political year. And I’m mentioning that right now because normally I would think Lauren Michaels would try and protec Jimmy failing.

But Lauren’s heading for SNL’s fiftieth year, and NBC apparently isn’t afraid to mess with Lauren right now, So very very interesting. Derek Brown has a debut comedy slash poetry album out today. It’s called A Close Shave with Heaven. Let’s listen. There’s a strange thing that happens when you’re in a relationship, and when you’re deep in it for like four years, you don’t know why this seismic shift happens in a relationship where you go from like, let’s have fun, let’s go play dodgeball, into like, let’s argue all the time, and you can’t get back to that fun.

And therapy can try and do it, and sometimes you can’t do it. But I want to examine more that strange thing where you argue all the time. The only sex you’re having is makeup sex where your girlfriend puts on a bunch of makeup and then goes have sex with a bunch of other dudes. The album was recorded live in Boston intro by Eugene Merman, who’s a big fan and signed Derek to his PGF Records comedy label. That label includes Bob gat Goldthwaite, Love what He’s Doing These Days and Maybe Higgins.

A Close Shave with Heaven available streaming digitally. It’s on vinyl and quote the Total Brownie Jam Pack, which includes a Close Shave with Heaven on vinyl, a two egg carrying case, a stealthy shaving cream and canister with secret advice inside and a book of poems That’s fun Over on Gossip Corner. Matt Rife was in Vegas. He did two shows of The Cosmopolitan last Friday, then he showed up at the Jonas Brothers show. The Jonases were doing their residency at the MGM Grand and that show included a special intermission from Matt Rife.

Meanwhile, Olivia Wilde seen hugging comedian Nick Fune during a night out at the Greek Theater. This from Eats Online. Olivia Wilde was out to see nap Bergatzy she was greeted by Nick Fune. Nick Fune reportedly stepped out from a backstage area to greet Wilde, and the two shared and embrace before entry the venue. Whom James Adomian is taping his special today at the Allegian in La Love.

James Adomian one of my favorite albums from the recent years. I didn’t phrase that well, you know what I meant, Trump versus Bernie Debate. Fantastic album. The official release says on the stage, James Adomian is a living god, an incarnation of Dionysus, meaning he’s often drunk and largely available for bookings. He’s been to Armenia twice but still can’t convince anyone that he is Arntmenian.

Jad Daniels is on tour. He’s starting to really heat up. I think that’s a name we’ll be talking about more and more in the next year or so. To our kicks off in Denver tonight at the Comedy Work South three days, then onto Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake, La, Irvine, San Antonio, or Arlington, Portland, to wrapping up December fifteenth and sixteenth in Tacoma, John Marcos or Esse. You’ve heard me talk about him, one of my faves.

Keep an eye on him. He just started a tour. Tonight is not the first night, but his tour is called the Leaning ind Tour. Tonight and bloom Rington, Minnesota, then to Northford, Connecticut. I haven’t heard of Northward and I’m from New York City, Poughkeepsie, La, Liberty Township, Ohio, Dubuque, Scottsdale, Chicago, Milwaukee, Milan.

I was like, what’s it Italy, That’s what it is, Milan, you know that Milan, the famous one. I was like, what state is it? No, it’s Milan. It’s Milan, Milan. Then he’s in London, UK, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris.

If you’re in Paris, no November ninth, Apollo Theater, go see Chan Marco. Or if you don’t want to pay the airfare, just go to Bridgeport, Connecticut November sixteenth, then DC Point Blaisant Beach, Pittsburgh, Springville, Utah, Memphis, Jeansville, and then December twenty eight through to thirtieth in Philadelphia. That’s a pretty big tour there, pal. That concludes the comedy segment of today’s podcast. I’m going to talk about the commercial load because I’ve gotten a bunch of comments and I would just want to address it.

So if you don’t want to hear any of that, we’re done zee tomorrow. For those of you still here, Isaac posted a review before even comment Isaac, dude, thank you so much for listening every day. I’ve been doing Brady in some form for thirty years now, and I know you wouldn’t post something if you didn’t actually care. It’s the easiest thing in the world to go delete, it’s the easiest thing to just like ignore, But that you actually took the moment to post this. Let’s me know you actually do like the show and you actually care.

So I’d’ve gotten a couple other comments about the ads. Well, let me start with Isaac and the I’ll explain. So Isaac posted the headline so many ads has become overloaded with repetitive ad reads. I had to change my five star to a one star. Seems like it’s become fifty percent ad reads, and they are so repetitive.

It used to be great to listen when those one minute of ads and ten minutes of content, but it’s hard to listen to now. Isaac, totally fair comment. So let me explain how we get here. Cards up. I’m totally trying to make money on this thing, one hundred percent, dude, one hundred percent.

I’m not gonna pretend i’m not. So there’s two kinds of commercials. There are live reads, which is me talking about a product, like this week, talking about draft kings. And there are the commercially commercials. You may get a lot for online casinos.

I got one this morning for a famous credit card company. All right, So there’s the commercials and there’s the live reads we’ll call them. Last week there were two live reads that not really supposed to happen. It’s supposed to have one. The two advertisers were Factor and Draft Kings.

Draft Kings did a significant commitment to the show. I think it’s nine weeks in total, So thank you Draft Kings, and I want to be good to Draft Kings Factor as a new sponsor. I want them to stay in I like that category. I truly do like the food. This is not a commercial.

This is me just telling you what’s going on. What you heard was me truly enthusiastically promoting the product. Did I go long? Yeah? In retrospect, did I go too long?

Yeah? You guys made that clear. So when you put the enthusiasm for Factor back to back with a Draft Kings read that comes along with a lot of boilerplate legal stuff that you have to do. Yeah, that middle break got a little long. There, You’re right.

The feedback I’m getting this week is it’s a little better. The other part of this is when you do a podcast, the podcasts have to live somewhere. That’s called hosting. You can either pay for hosting or you can get hosting free. I work with a hosting service that as part of the deal, they sell the commercial commercials the ones you hear, and I have to run at least one before the show.

I have to run at least one after the show. In the past, I had two and two because I never had any live reads. Live reads pay a lot better than the other kind of commercial. Again, following your feedback, I’m like, oh, all right, gotcha, everybody. So I had two and two.

I’ve cut it down to one and one. So what you should hear now is a commercially commercial at the beginning. Then me I try and do all the other stuff, including the housekeeping in the middle of the show. If you want to skip it, skip it, I get it. I do the same thing and then one more at the end.

So that should be the format. I’m not being defensive. I’m just trying to explain. I hope that’ll make sense to you. Another thing, just as I’m talking, as I think, So when you upload the file, you have to put a marker and tell it how many commercials If you go backwards in time, I have the mark for two and two and things like that.

I would have to go back and change fifteen hundred episodes. That takes more than five minutes. So you know, maybe if you go back and you’re like, hey, I wonder what John talked about back in February. You’ll get two and two. If you listen tomorrow, you should get one on one and whatever pops up in the middle next week.

I don’t think there are any live reads, so you’ll just hear commercially commercials. I hope that all makes sense. Oh. The other thing too, is I immediately got the feedback on Labor Day. People were like, dude, what the hell?

So last week, after I got that feedback, I went back in and I redid Tuesday’s episode and make it longer. So I did try to make the episodes longer last week, so it wasn’t like fifty percent commercials. But Isaac Man, I hope you’re still out there. Email me on the side. Would just love to connect you.

We don’t have to do anything public. John at the sharkdeck dot com my emails on the notes would love to hear from you. I hope you’re still out there. All right, Na’s your comedy needs for today? Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube.

Thanks to Draft Kings for supporting today’s show. See tomorrow