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Featured: Matt Rife, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Simmons, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Maher, Jerry Seinfeld, Ali Wong, Trevor Noah, Sam Jay, Chris Gethard, Gary Goldman

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s Netflix special ‘Natural Selection’ taping at Constitution Hall
• Strike Force Five podcast with late night hosts discussing vasectomy and semen retention
• Jim Gaffigan on touring with Jerry Seinfeld and discussing comedy craft
• Ali Wong’s 2019 confrontation with unnamed white male comedian about pregnancy
• Sam Jay’s HBO special ‘Salute Me or Shoot Me’ premiering September 23
• Chris Gethard’s ‘New Jersey is the World’ tour hitting all 21 counties
• Gary Goldman’s memoir ‘Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the Eighties’

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The Shark Deck. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Matt Rife. I wanted to tell you about this yesterday, but there was so much strife yesterday. Matt Rife has a new special coming to Netflix titled Natural Selection. Rife will leave no topic unsouched, from crystals to social media trolls, and no audience member spared.

You’re gonna have to wait a minute because he hasn’t even taped it yet. He’ll tape it on September twenty second and twenty third at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. This all part of the Problematic Tour, which is sold out for a run of more than two hundred and sixty dates. Wow, Jimmy Kimmel on Strike Force five, that’s the podcast the five late night guys are doing. I heard Kimmel on Monday’s Bill Simmons say that the first five episodes have been recorded.

So if you’re waiting to hear Jimmy Fallon talk about Fallon Gate, you might have to wait. And I wonder if they’ll talk about fallon Gate at all. Maybe they will, maybe, I don’t know. We’ll see what that podcast doing very well. Even if they can’t get John Oliver on a proper microphone, and he sounds like he’s in a cave.

And they’re making lots of headlines. Jimmy Kimmel told the story about trying to use the time off for the writer strike to get a vasectomy. He made an employment shave. The you know, you got to shave some stuff, Kimmel said, It’s complicated, it’s a little bit scary. There’s nothing smooth in that area.

It’s like shaving chewing gum. And the day didn’t go as planned. Kimmel’s Uber driver overheard him talking about his vasectomy plans and suggested another option instead, which is semen retention. Hold on, Jimmy Kimmel’s taking an uber to a vasectomy. He doesn’t like have a car, like a driver or anything that much money.

Does Jimmy Kimmel make fifteen million dollars a year? Jimmy Kimmel takes ubers. He doesn’t have a service. Was he on? Wait?

Am I misunderstanding? You know? Maybe his wife could have driven him to the vasectomy. I don’t know. Anyway, As the story goes, Kimmel’s Uber driver, whenever he was in this uber, overheard him talking about his vasectomy plans, suggested another option see him in retention.

Colbert said, did he have a bunch of jars on the front seat? Falon said, is it like holding it a sneeze? Kim Will said, honestly, I think it’s something you learned about in one of those podcasts these young guys listened to. Then he said him meeting me and the uber is one of his desires, and it manifested somehow we had a very long ride home. Okay, so this wasn’t on the way to a sector me.

That’s why I don’t read the articles in advance. It’s no fun if I do that. Oliver joked. I think he may have inadvertently clicked the box on the Uber app that says please talk to me about semen retention. That’s either a one star ride or a five star ride, and I think it might be both.

Jim Gaffigan was on Bill Maher’s podcast last week. I finally got to listen to the whole thing, really enjoyed it to the point where I pulled a transcript for it. At one point, mar asked Jim Gaffigan why he tours with Jerry Seinfeld like they can both set out they don’t need to show there’s help, Gaffigan said, because it’s fun to hang out with other comedians. He gives us an opportunity to a show, and we do this in New York City all the time. We’ll do a show at Gotham and then we’ll hang out afterwards, usually just for half an hour forty five minutes, and I’ll be talking about comedy because some of it, you know, I think of Jerry as kind of the comedy Socrates.

He doesn’t engage in gossip. He engages in discussions of comedy, which all comedians do. But we can sit there and some of it is the craft of joke writing, you know. Mar said, I got to New York at seventy nine. I think he was a couple of years before me.

I think he started in seventy six. So he was always like this calm head of the class guide, not like arrogant about it, just like aware of what you had to do to get on TV and be successful and do this act everyone could get. It seems to be a week for dusting off old beefs. A clip of Ali Wong on Trevor Noah’s Daily Show from twenty nineteen, resurfaced on TikTok, Allie Wong had a confrontation with a white male comedian. She didn’t reveal who it was, said he was not a very successful comedian and tell Trevor Noah, I don’t even know if you’d know who he was.

She explained that the comedian approached her while she was pregnant and touched her belly with quote his fat, sweaty hand, as she described as so gross to begin with. She said, just because I’m pregnant doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to touch my belly. He referred to her pregnant. She then said the comedian said, so this is your stick now, her reply, getting pregnant is not rainbow suspenders. I’ll come back to that.

The comedian told her she was so lucky because she receives all this attention because she’s both female on minority or come back, you know, because historically there’s always been the winning combo for recognition and success. And he was like, you know what I mean, like me, I’m just another white guy. She said, back, be a better white guy, and then cited some successful white male comedians like Jimmy Kimmel, Will Ferrell, Nick Carole, John Mulaney and on and on. So that’s rotten. No one should touch her, no one should accuse pregnancy of being a gimmick.

But her line about rainbow suspenders being a gimmick, so comedian rainbow suspenders, that’s Robin Williams right, Is that a gimmick? Is John Mulaney wearing suits a gimmick? I don’t know. I think suggesting Robin Williams as a gimmick comedian is that’s a little harsh. Sam J will have a new special on HBO September twenty three that’ll be out at ten o’clock.

What can fans expect from Sam Jay’s new special, which is called Salute Me or Shoot Me? Well takes the stage at Brooklyn Steel for a hilariously frank discussion on embracing our differences, the stresses of long term relationships, and the power of empathy. Newly engaged sam J gets candid about life with her future wife, on the unknown stresses of being the man, the grim reality of trash day, and Moore. Chris Gethard is in the middle of the New Jersey is the World tour. He’s hitting all of New Jersey’s twenty one counties.

Each show will be at very intimate venues. He says the largest is fifty five seats, with hyperlocal reference, crowd work and other Jersey comedians joining him. He said, I’ve always prided myself on being able to look at the comedy scene and to see where the coolest stuff is happening. And I feel lucky to tell you right now, something effing cool is happening in Jersey. A lot of hard working, hilarious, vers little comics are doing great things around here.

I’d take no credit for it, but I’m happy to help shine a spotline on it. If you’re local to New Jersey, You’re in Montclair tonight Silver Stream Studio. Tomorrow, Union, New Jersey at Van goz Ear Cafe, Jersey City. On the fifteenth at pet Shop the sixteenth Vinyl Brewing in Hamilton, New Jersey. Been there for many A soccer tournament.

September seventeenth yearbook Records at Lenoka Harbor and then a gap to the twenty fourth, he’ll be at Panos Highland Park. The New York Daily News profiled Gary Goldman’s upcoming book, which is called Misfit Growing Up awkward in the eighties. The News calls it a clever, self effacing, and sometimes melancholy, three hundred page ish tomb that lets reader see how Gary Goldman got from ABC to ECT. The Daily News talked about how Gary’s openness and nice nature he is a really nice guy, has made him both a poster boy for mental health and the resident dry shoulder for other comedians, a role he embraces. He says, I’m happy to do it because I’m grateful that I feel better, and I feel an obligation to humanity to try and help people along.

I used to think, at the very least I could make people forget about their troubles, at least while I’m on stage, and maybe feel less alone. Young Gary was mostly kept company in the afternoons by Sesame Street. He said, it was so helpful to have Sesame Street as a rehorse. I always felt that I was a Burt in an ernie world. He cites as his favorite comedy sketch Ever Grover as a haphazard waiter to an angry bald customer.

The News rights, like Goldman Grover a furry blue monster. Thank you. Daily News is well meaning, a lot smarter than he lets on, and someone who just wants to save the world, at least from itself. The book is out on the nineteenth. Wh’ll do a book signing at Brooklyn’s Little Field on launch day.

Goleman says he’s been practicing his signature. I remember meeting Ray Bradbury and he signed my notebook and my old copy of Fahrenheit four fifty one, and he also drew a picture of a cat. The line was out the door. He was in no rush. He was so kind.

I just want to emulate him during the tour, the same way that David Sedaris is so kind for the people who wait. I think this is a very special connection between a writer and someone who takes the time to read their books. So I want to express my gratitude for that. A new special on eight hundred Pound Gorilla Jake Rush is overwhelming neutral. Eight hundred Pound Gorilla has their own blog, So this is, you know, Pravda for comedy, but you know, I’ll take it seriously.

They wrote within the first minute of a special, Jake Rush jokes that just last week I actually delivered a pizza at the university I graduated from to people that knew me He quotes someone at his graduation saying, hey, everybody, give it up if you’re an actor. I didn’t realize at the time, but that was actually the best advice I got in college. Those are two good jokes, the gorilla says. The one two punch shares some overlap with the one liners of Anthony Jessnick. A few minutes in Spoilers, Rush mentions he used to work as a college comedian.

Made slight waves after seeing a sign calling for the song Baby It’s called Outside to be canceled, clarifying how can you cancel that Christmas Carol because the woman is in danger but completely turn a blind eye to Grandma got run over by a reindeer. He then goes on to dismantle the song, going from the main premise, considering the hoof prints on her front and claw marks on her back, before shifting the joke with the line news flash, reindeer don’t have claws. The joke then pivots to how she was flipped over for possible murder, and ends with a degree of certainty that she was a cult sacrifice. That sounds like a great special. It’s called overwhelmingly neutral.

The artist is Jake Rush that should be on YouTube tonight. Jake Rush overwhelmingly neutral and at her I’m twelve years old. This story I did on my other podcast, five Good News Stories, which is just a bunch of smile stories. It was Friday, September first, the kickoff to the Labor Day weekend. The general manager at the Quality Inn in Absecon, New Jersey, went out to open the pool and noticed it was covered in blue stuff that was turning the water green.

At this point in the summer, the GM knew the drill. The staff of the motel drained the pool, washed it down, filled it back up. Three hours later, people were swimming, but when the general manager returned hours later to drop off supplies for the next morning’s breakfast, the pool turned yellow before her eyes. She checked the security camera as nobody had driven by. There were no cars in sight.

No one walked past the pool with thrown something in, so she called a detective at the Galloway Township Police Department. She told the detective it has to be a drone. The detective said, you might be onto something. Okay, you’re ready for this now. That day, the Galloway Police, in partnership with the federal Aviation Administration, The New Jersey State Police and the Abscon Police Department tracked a drone as it flew from the quality in to a nearby heating and cooling business.

There, they arrested a man who has been charged with multiple counts of criminal mischief and harassment. The accusation the man operated an unmanned aircraft via remote control and used it to drop packets of sea die into neighborhood pools. Sea dies a chemical used in water rescues. It turns water different colors, from bright yellow to fluorescent green. Apparently this went on all summer.

On August thirteenth, an Absecon homeowner called the police reported drone and hovered over their pool and dropped a substance in the water that turned the water green. The detective said similar reports soon emerged from around the area. He described the investigation as ongoing. I know this is terrible. Can you just imagine be the cop taking these calls asked about a motive.

The cops suggest all indications or the accused had been pranking people. This is how much this went on. The poolback at the hotel First Turn Green on June twenty second, the GM said it first, it happened every other week, Then it started happening more frequently. The week before the police figured it out, the pool turned green on both Thursday and Friday. The GM said he was getting too happy doing it.

She was happy to get a call from the detective who told her her nightmare or summer was finally over. The GM said, I said, thank you. I can breathe now. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Pete Davidson, John Stewart, Amy Schumer, Nicole Kidman, Louis C.K., Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, Greg Gutfeld, Tina Fey

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson racist accusation tirade at Pennsylvania comedy show
• Amy Schumer cyberbullying accusations over Nicole Kidman Instagram post
• Sorry Not Sorry documentary on Louis C.K. sexual misconduct allegations
• Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon SNL tension story resurfaces amid Fallon controversy
• Greg Gutfeld defends Jimmy Fallon over workplace drinking allegations

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The shark deck. Fuh today, he’s a fist. You want Hi, I’m chunny man with your Daily Comedy News. You know comedian’s fun right. Nope, Nope, nope, not today.

All right, let’s start with Pete Davidson. The headline from The Sun Pete Davidson lashes out at fan after he slammed as a racist during a comedy show. In a shocking moment, Pete was on stage Saturday night in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. According to a US Sun reporter, in the audience, Pete Davidson came out at the end of the show alongside John Stewart and John Laney to take some questions from fans. Okay, one woman shouted out that Pete was a racist, to which John Stewart tried to calm it down and explain it’s just part of Pete’s act.

But The Sun tells us the accusation seemed to enrage Pete Davidson, who shouted out, I gotta clean this up here, You’re a C word. Shut the f down. Stewart tried to make fun of the moment, saying clean up an aisle three. Somebody who was at the show said Pete was talking about his realtor, who’s black, and he said the realtor was him Holmes, and he called the big room the master bedroom. Pete apparently then did a quote skit about himself being the master before he was corrected by the realtor, who told him the term is now primary bedroom because master was named after slavery.

The son says it’s not clear what part of the joke the woman specifically objected to.

Meanwhile, Amy Schumer has been accused of cyber bullying Nicole Kidman.

After making fun of Nicole Kidman at the US Open, Amy Schumer took to Instagram on Monday and shared a photo of Nicole Kidman. The picture shows Nicole in a pink dress, staring wide odden and the camera with her hand held beneath her chin. Underneath the picture, Schumer wrote in the caption this how humans sits. Some people got a little annoyed. Amy went back on Instagram and said, I want to apologize to all the people I heard posting a photo of Nicole Kidman and alluding to her being an alien.

I’ll be asking the cast of that seventies show to write letters advocating for my forgiveness. Some comments on the social post, one wrote, this post seems beneath you. What point are you trying to make here? She’s most likely uncomfortable because there was a complete stranger recording her. That’s the look of annoyance and frustration leaking through the botox.

Another fan seemed disappointed in Amy, writing, Wow, so mean. I expected one of my favorite comedians to have more respect for other people’s feelings than this. All right, there’s a new documentary. It’s called Sorry Not Sorry. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night.

Producer Kathleen Lingo expressed disappointment that famous women who once criticized Louis c Ka’s behavior didn’t want to participate in Sorry Not Sorry. Lingo said that every single famous comedian the team approached to speak about Louis c Kay’s actions did not want to be interviewed for the project. I think the thing that really stands out in my mind, having been super involved with the outreach, is how many women had spoken out and around twenty seventeen, but when we reapproached them twenty twenty one declined, which is sort of a sobering reality and it just goes to show the bill the bravery of the women who are in the film. As we’re sort of looking back at the me too movement right now in the rear view mirror, and everyone’s always asking or things better, things worse. It’s really hard to have a blanket sort of assessment.

Just the fact that the women who at that moment felt the sense of promise to now not feel that anymore. I think it’s quite dark. I note at the end of the movie indicates that Louis C.K. Did not respond to the filmmaker’s request to comment on the project or to be interviewed for it. If you don’t remember what this is all about.

A November twenty seventeen New York Times report had five women accusing Louis C.K. Of sexual misconduct, detailing encounters in which he had exposed himself and did some self stuff and requested to do some self stuff in front of the ladies. Ck responds to the allegations the following day, admitting the stories are true. In twenty twenty one, he released a special slash comedy album called Sorry, which included jokes about his sexual misconduct, that won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy album The Light Times as comedian Michael Ian Black, Parks and Wreck co creator Michael Scher, and noelm. Jorman, who’s the owner of the comedy Seller, also appear in the film.

John Stewart, who declined to participate, is seen in archival footage juxtaposing the Daily Shows twenty sixteen, exchanged with college students Dan Ackerman with his Today’s Show appearance addressing his friendship with Ck a year later. Co director Kara Monis says, it’s stunning to watch. Of course, we’ll never know what John Stewart did or didn’t know, but I think being able to watch public figures speak about this over the course of years of striking, and here is real time reactions how we responded that question being posed is pretty incredible. But at the heart of sorry not Sorry are the women interviewed on screen, some of whom like artist and comedian Abby Shackner and TV writer Jen Kirkman, described sexual harassment by Ska, while comedian and rader Megan Coaster shares the antagonistic reactions she received after reporting on CK’s then rumored behavior. I’ll say private and career anxieties followed as their accounts were ridiculed and challenged in the court of public opinion.

If you miss Saturday’s episode, I caught you up on Jimmy Fallon Gate. That was an entire episode just about that, go back and listen to it. So in light of Jimmy Fallon Gate, New York Post says a tense exchange between Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon has gone viral. The heated interaction was initially covered in Tina Phase twenty thirteen autobiography Bossy Pants to Picks. Jimmy Fallon yelling at Amy Polard during a table to read for SNL.

Tina Fey wrote, back then, Amy Pohler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeen floor writer’s room waiting for the Wednesday night read through to start. Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I can’t remember what it was exactly, except was dirty and loud and unladylike. Jimmy Fallon turned to her and a faux squeamish voice said stop that it’s not cute. I don’t like it.

Amy dropped what she was doing when black in the eyes for a second and wheeled around on him. I don’t eff in care if you like it. Amy made it clear she wasn’t there to be cute, She wasn’t there to play wives and girlfriends in the boy’s scenes. She was there to do what she wanted, and she did not effing care if you like it. The New York Post has reached out to both Amy Pohler and Jimmy Fallon for comment.

They have not commented. Someone who did comment, Greg Guttfeld, who said apologizing was Jimmy Fallon’s mistake. Guttfeld said, they’re trying to ellen degenerous you and they’re sad cowards and s bags. Who uses that term really? Guttfeld continued, he’s a gentle, sweet purse and he’s great at everything but hiding his own crap, and that’s the problem here.

If the drinking story is true, that’s sad. If the drinking story isn’t true, that’s evil because he’s being targeted for fake or possibly real reasons to get him fired again. He’s being ellen nid Hmm. I wonder if gutt felt it believes in my conspiracy theory that maybe NBC’s looking at the upcoming election year, going hm, should we make a change, and should we make a change now while we don’t actually have a tonight show that would have to pay for plus or minus contracts. I haven’t read anyone’s contracts.

I don’t know. I’m just speculating. Listen to Saturday I talk about that got Feld. The most important thing is dude, doo doo doo, dude. Maybe make sure I get there at one, two, three, four, five, six dudes.

According to transcript I’m reading, the most important thing is dude, dude, doo doo doo. Dude. You’ve got to stop with the apologizing. You’re apologizing all the time, and you’re apologizing to people who will never forgive you. None of those people like you.

How dare you apologize to anonymous people who go to Rolling Stone, a sham of a scuzzy little magazine. Two words, Duke Lacrosse.

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Right when you’re that talented, talent can overshadow per painting the excesses of your social life. The people around you won’t tell you if you have a problem. My advice to start listening to the family and the people who love you and screw all those a. I assume the next words holes it’s dotted out that are around you. They’re not doing you any favors.

Hey, we’re only like ten plus minutes in and we can get to the fun stuff. Michelle Wolf has a new special out today. See normally that would be like the first thing in the daily Company News, But I told you it was a strayful day. Michelle Wolf’s All Struggles Manner plus Meet Too and News to Meet plus all beautiful makeup. It’s great to be here.

Michell Wolf’s third special. She tackles topics like dating, sexual harassment, race relations, and living in a new country. Bert Kreisher’s The Machine will hit Netflix September twenty third. That’s good. I really want to see it.

Haven’t done anything about seeing it, so if Netflix sticks it under my nose, I will watch it. The official cause of death for Paul Ruben’s akap we Herman has been released acute hypoxic respiratory failure, a condition that occurs when the lungs can’t release enough oxygen of the blood. The death certificate else said Rubens battle two types of cancer at the time of his death. A leukemia cancer of the blood and bone marrow, which will listen it as a sequential underlying cause and metastatic lung cancer. Ruben’s passed away a little over a month ago at age seventy.

Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, has written his debut screenplay. It’s called fakem Hall fa ck Ham. Make sure you pronounced it correctly, facam hall. It’s a Downton Abbey period spoof in the style of Airplane and the Naked Gun films. Jimmy said, the British film industry does two things very well, period drama and comedy.

Now we didn’t have time to write two movies, so we’ve had to mash the two genres together. I’m just slightly worried that if you don’t say fac’m hall in a posh English accent, it might be misconstrued. Hopefully that will be a problem. The story will follow a new porter who embarks on an unlikely relationship with the youngest daughter of a prominent UK family. At the same time, rivalries are spilling over in the Davenport family, led by Lord and Lady Davenport, as they also weather the epic failure of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddy cousin.

Letter Kenny presents a night of stand up comedy featuring four comedians from the popular, award winning Hulu original series Letter Kenny. Have you seen that one? That one’s fun and there’s a lot of episodes of it. So if you’re like Ai, there’s nothing to watch Letter Kenny. There’s a pre sale today at ten am.

Here the code is Puppers. Puppers is the Code Letter Kenny Tour November sixteenth, Boston, then to Ottawa, Burlington, Ontario, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Columbus, London, Ontario, and Kingston, Ontario, and December third. Letter Kenny’s now in its eleventh season. Wow. Letter Kenny revolves around the dustups Wayne and his pals get into with their small town rivals for the Hicks, Skids and hockey players of Letter Kenny, getting your butt kicked as a legitimate concern on a day to day basis.

You’ll find Letter Kenny on Hulu and that is your comedy needs for today. You can follow this show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify YouTube. Thanks to Draft Kings for supporting today’s show. See tomorrow

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Featured: George Carlin, Shane Gillis, Jimmy Carr, Ronny Chieng, Josh Groban, John Mellencamp, Tracy Morgan, John Stewart, Bill Maher, Ahmed Ahmed, Maz Jobrani, Alonzo Bodden, Gilbert Gottfried, Dina Obadia

What’s in This Episode

• Stand Up for Heroes 17th annual benefit lineup announcement
• John Mellencamp and Bill Maher tense exchange on Club Random podcast about Black Americans’ lives
• George Carlin’s Bin Laden plane joke made on 9/10/2001
• Comedians’ experiences and reactions to 9/11 attacks
• Ahmed Ahmed’s first performance after 9/11 at Comedy Store
• Gilbert Gottfried’s infamous Empire State Building joke and recovery with The Aristocrats
• Maz Jobrani and Axis of Evil tour amid death threats post-9/11

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy new who stand Up for Heroes. We’ll be back for its seventeenth year. The annual benefit is returning November six that David Geffen Hall I was like, where’s that. I’m from New York.

I don’t even know where that is? Lincoln Center. The lineup this year Jimmy Carr, Awesome, Ronny Chieng, Shane Gillis, Josh Grobin, John Mellencamp listed. John was in a little social media hot watered last week. Should we go there?

And I guess we’re there? From the New York Post, let me read verbatim. Liberal comedian Bill Maher got into a tense exchange with musician John Mellencamp on Monday last week after the Pink Houses singer songwriter claimed only one percent or two percent of black people living in America today have better lives than slaves. During an appearance on mars at Club Random podcast, Mellancamp revealed he wrote a song called From the Cotton Fields to the Playing Fields that he never recorded because he believed it was wrong. The song’s message was an attempt to show how white people love to hate black entertainers and often exploit them.

Twenty nine minutes in the interview, Moore said, I would say that the playing fields are a lot better than the cotton fields. That’s what I’d say about that. Maybe I’m crazy, John, but it seems like making no money as a slave picking cotton who was not as good as playing left field for the Yankees. The Post write says Maria attempted to continue his argument. Mellancamp interjected and said, there’s no doubt one or two percent of black people in America have a better life.

More said, oh, stop, that’s what you think one or two percent. Mellancamp said, okay, let’s say ten percent. I just pulled a number out of my ass. Mare then told Mellancamp that’s where his opinion belongs. It was a feisty week over in Bill Mooreland.

Anyway, you’re lineup Jimmy Carr, Yay, Ronny Chieng, Shane Gillis, Josh Groban, John Mellancamp, Tracy Morgan, John Stewart, the War and Treaty, Rita Wilson, and Moore. Bob Woodruff said, I’m thrilled to announce these seventeenth Anuel stand up for heroes, an amazing night of hope, healing and laughter and honor our nation’s veterans and their families. Today is September eleventh. I’ve put together a bunch of stories here related to nine to eleven in comedy. I found some really very fascinating anecdotes, including a George Carl story that I’ll share.

I just want to tell you that’s what the next big chunk of the show until the commercial break is going to be. So you know, if this is something that you just don’t want to go there today. I’m from New York City. I was in New York City on nine to eleven. Totally get it.

And I’ll tell you even as I was putting this together, a lot of the articles had pictures of the towers on fire, and yet brought me back to that place. So just want to let you know that that’s what I’m going to do here, all right. From Vulture a few years back, they had a compilation of comedians talking about how they reacted to nine to eleven. So I pulled a couple of those stories out. One from Mitzy Sure, who owned the comedy store.

Ahmed Ahmed told the story that Mitzy made him a paid regular a year prior to nine to eleven because quote, she had an epiphany that Middle Eastern comedians will be necessary in our society at some point. She’d always tell me there’s going to be a war between America and the Middle East, so get ready. I called her the morning of nine to eleven and said, he’s seeing what’s going on, and she replied, I told you so. Mitzy decided to open the comedy store the Friday after nine eleven and request for me to go on stage, open the show and talk about being Middle Eastern and Muslim, to which I replied, nope, I didn’t know what to talk about, and she said, just be yourself and you’ll know what to say. I’m Damed.

Took her advice and said his first joke was Hi everyone, my name’s I’m ed Amed, and I had nothing to do with it. Please don’t follow me out to my car after the show. He says. That got a few chuckles, and then he proceeded into more self deprecating jokes and the crowd loosened up. About a month later, he was touring with Master Brawny and the Arabian Nights.

That’s who are Evolved into the Axis of Evil tour, which was just a great name for a tour. His manager called and said, you guys are getting death threats. It’s probably not a good idea to continue with the shows. Amed called Mas and they both laughed and said, well, we’re gonna die, die laughing. So they did the shows, which were all sold out.

Mas said he flipped his act so it didn’t lead with being Iranian. Quoting Mas, at one point, I said, oh, by the way, I’m Iranian, and then said something along the lines of yeah, I know, I’m disappointed too. I remember I brought an American flag and put it on the back of my car. I don’t know if it was out of fear of having somebody shoot me or if it was just out of patriotism. It was probably of both.

I was pulling into the parking lot at the comedy Store and there was this comedian Marylyn Martinez. She was just laughing at me in a funny way. She was like, oh my god, look at Master Branni. He’s got his flag trying to blend in, and I go, hell, yeah, Marilyn, I’m blending in. Alonzo Bowden said, I remember Vegas being empty and deserted.

I think they said the normal week in occupancy was over ninety percent and we were under twenty five percent. I joked that Vegas was so empty that the hookers were handing out their own flyers. I was also joking at the time that we black people were glad was the Arabs because it took the pressure off for a while. I didn’t do jokes about the attack. I joked more about the aftermath.

The crowds loved it. They always do. We comics relieve the pressure. People weren’t angry. I won next Big Star, so that was cool.

I also remember flying about two weeks later after the airline started up. I ran into Doug Stanhope at the airport around five or six am, and we laughed about how only comics were getting on planes, which brings us to Gilbert Godfried’s infamous performance. About two weeks after nine eleven, A few minutes into a set, Gilbert cracked the joke, I have to catch a flight to California. I can’t get it direct flight. They said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.

Gilbert later recalled that he lost an audience bigger than anyone has ever lost an audience. Gilbert told Vulture, Now, if there’s something that should not be said, I like to say it, and I’m standing at the podium, and I wanted to be the first one who address the elephant in the room. So after a few jokes about Hugh Hefner, I said the joke had shared with you. Well, no one in the history of show business has ever lost an audience. Worse, there was booing and hissing.

One guy yelled out too zoon, which I thought meant I didn’t take a long enough pause between the setup and the punchline. Well, after standing there for what felt like five hundred years, I decided to go to the bottom level of hell. I told the aristocrats joke. If you know anything about that joke, it’s beyond defensive. It has to do with loads of incest and beastiality, and those are the clean parts.

To my shock, the audience went from brewing and hating me to laughing uproariously. The laughter just kept building. When I got to the punchline, people were cheering. One review said, it’s like he performed a mass tricky out of me on the crowd. What that show proved to me is that after horrible times like September eleventh, people desperately needed to laugh.

Dina oh Badalia was a young comic in two thousand and one. He’s currently out on the Arab American Comedy Festival tour. He remembers changing his name for some shows post nine eleven at the suggestion of a booker and consciously avoiding talking about the Palestinian side of his ethnicity. He’s also part Italian. Some of them material he does it.

This year’s festival deals with his personal arc post nine eleven, as he became more defiance of the bigotry thrown his way. He says, when it became political than it became of interest to me. The idea of using a vehicle a comedy tried to tell people our story and who we are has always appealed. The Arab American Comedy Festival come to New York there at Gotham November sixteenth through the eighteenth, and New York City’s town Hall November nineteenth. And I found this wonderful story from twenty sixteen from The New Yorker.

I knew some of this, but not all of this, and it’s really interesting. The New Yorker writes On the nights of September ninth and tenth, two thousand and one, George Carlin performed shows at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, working through material that he planned to use at the taping of his next HBO special that November. The special is going to be called IT kind Of Like It A Lot of People Die. After nine to eleven, Carlin abandoned much of the hour had been working on. He rewrote other parts, and that special became complaints and grievances.

However, they eventually found some recordings of those shows. Those were eventually reworked, and eventually, in twenty sixteen, I kind Of Like It When a Lot of People Die was released as an album of sorts. The track listings on that album, Boston ran from nineteen fifty seven, Rats and Squealers, Cocaine, the Fecal Differential, Tired of Songs, the first Enema, Uncle Dave, an interview with Jerry Hamza, his manager, an interview with a guy named Rocco Orbiskie I’m not familiar with, and then the track I kind Of Like It When a Lot of People Die, recorded on June twenty third of two thousand and one, but as for those shows. On September ninth and tenth, The New Yorker writes, the most striking thing about the show listen to this, this is amazing is that Carlin made a joke about Osama bin laden and an exploding airplane. They write, and fashion typical of the comedian.

It started as a fort joke quote. These planes get flying so fast that the most vicious, lethal, volatile, flammable, unstable forts get pushed toward the back of the airplane, where they begin to build up pressure. And they build, and they build, and they build until they reach critical fort density CEFD, and they continue to build throughout the flight until some kid turns on a game boy and boom, the whole back of the plane blows off, and you know who gets blamed, Osama bin laden terrorists get blamed for those explosions that are nothing more than cabbage fort detonations Again September ninth and tenth, two thousand and one. Wow. Carlin then goes into an extended riff, one that he’d repurpose on the two thousand and six special Life Is Worth Losing about a broken water made in Los Angeles, setting off a cascading series of increasingly gruesome disasters across the country.

That is a wonderful bit if you’ve never heard it, Carlin says, I know some people think these kind of thoughts are gaulish and demented and sick, but I know they’re not. I know these things are normal and quite common. Societies tell you that nice people don’t take pleasure in mass death, but you’re wrong, because I think mass death is terrific and I’m a really nice fffing guy. The only thing I care about is fun. That’s all entertainment.

By the time of his HBO special that November, he had given up most of the death obsessed bits, but he didn’t ignore nine to eleven completely. He told members of the audience that he had to bring it up to get it out of the way, because and then he did that voice he would do otherwise the terrors win switching gears and this is a lot more fun. The Australians are mad at. Shane gillis the Daily Mail, writing Wonderfully, a comedian hailing from the United States, has been called up by Australians after his bizarre claim that the country is doing nothing and as zero exports. There’s a clip that’s gone viral.

You can find it on the Daily Mail site. And this is from Shane Gillis’s new special. Shane says Australia is good. Australia might be number two. That’s a good country, dude.

It’s just a whole country doing nothing. That’s what I like about them. They’re just down there, zero exports, creating nothing, dude. The only export I’ve seen coming out of Australia is that YouTube video the guy punching that kangaroo in the face. The Daily Mail rights Australia does in fact have many exports.

They include iron ore, whole natural cast gold, agricultural products like beef and wheat, minerals such as aluminum copper. Our university system, which attracts students from around the world, is also considering an export because it brings in money from overseas. Australia is also responsible for many inventions and innovations that shape the modern world, including Wi Fi, the black box, flight recorder, hearing aids, the polymer bank note, the HBV vaccine, and the ultrasound scanner. One Aussie responded on social media, Australia might be number two. Pretty bold from someone who lives in a country without free ambulance usage, free hospital coverage, four weeks of sick leave, and of course the fact that we can send our children to school without fearing that they’ll be mass murdered.

Yikes, John, you can’t go into the commercials after that school children line? And after ten minutes about nine to eleven, do you have anything upbeat to break the ice here? Okay, let me move a story up. Trevor Noah has a new book coming out is called Into the Uncut Grass. Trevor said, few memories in my life bring me more joy than the first few books I read as a child, either with my mom or reading alone.

Those simple stories shape so much of how I saw the world. I hope this story can bring a little bit of that same joy to readers of all ages. Into the Uncut Grass is a moving modern fable about forgiveness, acceptance, and solidarity for readers of all ages. From the Hollywood Reporter Adam Sandler is most recent movie, You Are So Not Invited to My bat mitzvah. My wife liked it, by the way, I didn’t watch it, has managed to draw a higher Rotten Tomato score than any of Adam Sandler’s previous films over the last thirty four years.

You Were So Not Invited has a ninety six percent fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. News story here totally changing topics. This has nothing to do with that Adam Sandler story. I just telled you congratulations, Adam Sandler. But there’s a story going around in Vulture.

Apparently a pr company has been accused of paying off critics for Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Yeah, Vulture wrote an article called the Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes claims that a particular company manipulated the Rotten Tomato score for a movie that had nothing to do with Adam Sandler. But it seems there’s a thing going on where maybe some movies should perhaps possibly who knows, getting reviews that you know, maybe you’re a little better than the movie. Actually, yes, again, this has nothing to do with Adam Sailer. Let’s be clear, You were So Not Invited to my bot mitzvah fantastic film.

I mean, ninety six percent fresh score and Rotten Tomatoes. What else can I tell you about? Let’s see football Monday Night football. Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions did a gag that got a lot on promotion, suggesting that Peyton and Eli were going to had a third host to their Little Monday Night Football additional alternate telecast as the word I’m fishing for There, they showed thirty five people auditioning for the third seat. Some of them included comedians like Will Arnett and Sarah Silverman.

The eight hundred Pound Gorilla has released a specials called Tory Piskin Pretty Skirl. At the special school filmed at the Brooklyn Comedy Club. The set begins with Piskin on stage with family photos. Piskin is immediately animated Land’s a joke and begins to do impressions of the people who populated her world. A small impression of Frank, her boyfriend at school, leads quickly to the lines we had no idea what Frank’s disability was.

I think just from Staten Island. She then does an impression of her mother. The portrayal situates her mother as a Jewish New Yorker who’s of a certain generation that prioritize suspicion, caution, and these near imperceptible characteristics helped bring it to life in the best way possible. Piskin’s mother is able to play dumb when maybe claiming she’s slept with someone besides her husband, be critical of men her daughter dates, and be both self congratulatory and untrusting when describing the principle as a big druggie because he doesn’t tailor his pants. You’ll find that on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla website or their YouTube Tory Piskin Prettiest Girl at the Special School.

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Featured: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Theo Von, Jim Gaffigan, John Stewart, John Mulaney, Pete Davidson, Bill Maher, Leah Morgan, Shane Gillis, Todd Barry

What’s in This Episode

• David Cross on Guru Nation cancellation and AI marketing decisions at Paramount Plus
• Theo Von confronts podcast executive over alleged fraud and theft
• Jim Gaffigan discusses using his children in comedy material
• John Stewart, John Mulaney, and Pete Davidson tour struggling with ticket sales
• Hollywood studios suspending overall deals during writers strike
• Bill Maher on politics, California bureaucracy, and people moving to Texas
• David Cross on comedy specials, Netflix money declining, and joke regrets

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The Shark Deck. This is actually take two on take one, which I just did. The music ended and I couldn’t remember what I do and then I was like, oh, you’re supposed to introduce yourself, so Hi, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Cross spoke to the Guardian about the biggest disappointment of his career. Last year was announced that Cross and Bob Odenkirk had reunited to create Guru Nation, a comedy about two rival cult leaders who end up joining forces.

There was a bidding war and Paramount Plus won the bidding war. Scripts were written, a director recruited, then as they got ready to film, the whole production shut down. Apparently the marketing and analytics department couldn’t figure it out, says David Cross. According to The Guardian, that has left a Cross in despair because of the power AI wielding on the industry. A Cross said, I said to the president of Paramount, I don’t know what a computer wants.

We asked the computer what it wants, and then instead of spending a year and a half on this really cool project only for the computer to say no, maybe let’s ask the computer first what it wants, and then maybe Bob and I can go do that. He imagines the marketing department’s thought process. It’s two old sketch comedy guys. They’re both white dudes. No thanks, Cross continued, You’ve got these mega multinational corporations saying it’s cheaper for us to just dump the shows.

We’d crunch the numbers and we’d only make forty two thousand, and that’s not enough. We need to make millions. Cross is confident he’ll always be able to find an audience for his stand up career. It may not be lucrative anymore. I may not be doing Netflix specials for a lot of money, but I can always do it.

Yet it seems like the Netflix money has gone away. Everybody’s self releasing now. I told the story last week where Todd Barry said they couldn’t sell his special, which by the way, top special of the year so far, unless Shane Gillis is better. I haven’t seen Shane Gillis yet, Cross, as he’s only done one joke that he actively regrets because the victim is Native American in it. It’s not smart.

I didn’t make a point. I just wanted a cheap laugh and it’s out there, and I wish it wasn’t. He has stopped doing two other jokes, one involving the freeze the end word, not the actual end word, but the freeze. The other about Native American reparations quote because people who are upset by them eloquently and articulately explained why it was upsetting. I agreed with them.

I didn’t see it that way, and now I do. The one issue that has changed relatively dramatically over the past six or seven years is pronoun changes, which I found so annoying for no other reason than it bumps my idea of correct grammar. I wish they would have chosen a different word than them. They. However, the more I knew trans people, the more I got it, even though intellectually I’m thinking this makes no sense.

I’d rather have people be comfortable than knowing I was having anything to do with making people, especially people were so marginalized, uncomfortable and unhappy. THEO. Vaughn went all in on somebody. I’m gonna tread lightly here because I suspect somebody with a legal background. I was going to call someone else about this one, and I’m not involved, but let me just tell you what’s going on.

I saw a story in podcast News Daily and they wrote, quote this man to fraud at our podcast, claims a new video from THEO Vaughan. It’s the latest claim from former creators at particular podcast company. So I watched the video. Apparently THEO went all in for ten to eleven minutes on his podcast and then separately caught that out to be its own ten minute ish clip, which I watched. The description of the video I watched said the person’s name had defrauded podcasters of over four billion dollars and tried to strong arm them into a deal at his alleged new employer.

Beware of this man and anywhere he does business. He can steal our money, but he can’t steal our voice on God exclamation point. I watched the video. It took some quotes. THEO at one point said, you fed with the wrong rat.

Who’ll keep an eye on that story. THEO very very forceful there. Apparently this John Stewart, John Mulaney, Pete Davidson concert the John, John and Pete Tour not doing too well. If you want to go see them at the hard Rock at Atlantic City tonight. The new York Post said tickets are going for just fifteen dollars.

The Hollywood strike getting a more serious, Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter than Warner has suspended a number of overall deals for its top creatives. Some of them include Bill Lawrence you know him from Scrubs and some other stuff, Ted Lasso, and Mindy Kaling. The Holly Reporter adds it’s important to note that the deals have been suspended and not outright canceled slash dropped, as once the labor action concludes, Warners will need its top producers to ramp up writing and producing immediately as the content pipeline continues to thin. Jim Gaffigan spoke to Salon about using his kids in his comedy Age. Jim said, it’s a moving target because you never want to go full Kardashian.

We live in such a voyeuristic, exhibitionist era. If you’re not revealing some of yourself, you’re not going to develop a relationship with the audience. My general approach on parenting is that if a parent is complaining, means they’re involved, and I’m not hiding anything from my children. It’s weird because one of those things is where a ten year old’s view when having a father that’s comedian is different than a seventeen year olds. It’s interesting because we live in this day and age where some of their peers are really in a comedy or their families are in a comedy, and they might have an awareness, and then some kids are not in a comedy and would never come up.

Comedy is something that’s enjoyed by everyone, so doesn’t hit a particular type of kid. It could be an athlete, it could be somebody who excels in academics, and not that those are mutually exclusive. Jim, you almost stepped in a big controversy there. Can athletes also be smart? Can smart kids also be athletes?

Relaxed Jim, It’s okay. I’ll run into my kids friends when I’m doing shows because they’re going on stage. It’s a strange thing in New York City. Or I’ll be auditioning for something and I’ll see some kids parents. So New York City is a small world.

Bill Maher was in the news a lot this week. The Dallas News asked him how his audiences are different in general. Mars said, back in the day, people didn’t talk about politics at every moment. In fact, they rarely did. It was almost considered impolite.

We had no idea how much we hated each other, and it worked out much better.

And now everybody has to share every thought they have on Facebook.

It needs to go back to just being about cat videos and humble brag and finding out who from high school’s gay or fat or bald or dead. You just have to accept people. It’s a big country with lots of people that don’t think like you, and they’re not going anywhere. They’re not self deporting, and you’re not self deporting. You just have to get over it and understand that’s how the country is.

They were curious about people moving from California to Texas. A lot of people have done that recently. Mars said, here’s the thing. The people who moved to Texas from California are the ones who are fed up with California. And I don’t blame them.

California is a ridiculous state. Now I’m too old to go anywhere. I’m dug in here. It did take me three years just to get my solar power turned on, because the bureaucracy here is so ridiculous. It took three inspections just to change my garage door.

So I understand why people move. I’m not going to do it, but I don’t think you have to worry about people from California who moved to Texas because they moved there because they have more of what you have and less of what we have. Lean Morgan was profiled by people, she says when perrymenopause hit, she started working it into her act. Lean said, I’ve always been honest, and I’ve always talked about everything. I talked about my body and what I was going through.

Morgan is now fifty seven and says perrymnopause is one of the hardest things. It sneaks up on you and you feel crazy, so I had to talk about it. Women have come up to me after my shows, saying, now my husband gets it. These precious women that felt unseen all of a sudden have a comedian speaking to them, and we all learned from each other and love on each other. That’s been so much sweeter than Oh I got a comedy career from this.

John Marcos Orreesi talked about how his podcast The Downside started. He said, someone said to me, what are the podcasts you can do when you’re in a bad mood. When I’m in a bad mood, I love to complain. I love to talk about it. I love to ask why did something bad happen to the airport?

Why did I have a fight with my girlfriend? Why am I angry my dad?

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And then I realized, oh, I can great a podcast where I can let other people d…

I feel like with social media and with promoting ourselves, we’re constantly asked to put on this very specific version of ourselves and not to be too morbid. Then some person kills themselves and it’s like, well, that’s because we all live in a place where people are always putting on a face. Jessica Curson spoke to hartstock Co And said, it’s not always easy for people when I talk about Jews and how I’m Jewish. The more people don’t want to hear about it, the more I want to talk about it because I’m very proud of being Jewish. I feel in various ports of the United States where there isn’t a single Jew in the audience, and it happens a lot of places.

I go I laugh at them and they laugh. I tease them, and that makes them like me, and that’s how I teach them about Judaism. There’s a way to do this so that ultimately they’ll like me. The more really you are on stage we seem to have a theme today, the more the audience will appreciate you. If it’s not going well, well, you can ignore it and just keep on telling jokes.

You have to acknowledge what’s really happening in the room and tell the truth. I’ve taught comedy for many years in the last decade, mostly to women, and I always say that the aim is to be the most really you can possibly be. You want people to leave your show saying I wish you were my best friend. The Daily Mirror went inside the real Ted Lasso Pub in Richmond. Tourists show up there.

Landlord Reese Kent says his pub makes you feel just as good as the Ted Lasso TV show. Kent is just twenty eight. He took over management of the Prince’s Head Pub in April of twenty two. During filming, the pub is temporarily changed. They dress it up as the Crown and Anchor.

That’s where Ted Lasso hangs out, or at least used to hang out. The show’s over, Johnny meck Rees says, now it’s a tourist hotspot for Lasso lovers, and it’s not a big deal. There’s only been a handful of filming days. Re says, overall, though it’s been great for business. I didn’t realize just how many tourists would attract.

People were taking holidays and making sure it was part of their trip. It’s not just about the pub though, it’s about Richmond as a whole. The pub is just at the heart of the community here. He’s a fan of ted Lasso the show. He says, it makes you feel good inside, just like the Prince’s Head.

A lady does a hold Ted Lasso tour around Richmond. They end on the bench on the green. Tourist always want to come in and have a chat. You can even tell when the tour is finished because they all have on AFC Richmond shirts. The crew would only film outside the bar because any scenes filmed quote unquote inside are a separate set.

The set does match the actual pub’s interior, and Re says customers come first. I don’t cancel bookings. People take time out of their holidays to come and often only have one day to visit. It’s exciting to be on ted Lasso, but I have regulars who been drinking here for fifty years. The New York Times took a look at the battle between bots and comedians, and they say AI is winning the war.

Matt Moran lost the crowd with a joke that riffed on the idea that women aren’t funny. His opponent was a chat cheap et powered version of Sarah Silverman. Sarah Silverman Bott said why did the humans stare at the glass of orange juice? They were trying to concentrate? Then it proclaimed roasted.

Neither side was getting big laughs as the Times, with the AI was more unflappable, moving from quipped to quip with the pace of a metronome. Some of its jokes were simple, like your as edgy as a butter knife, and at least one didn’t make sense. But the bot drew blood with a punchline that used details from Maren’s jokes. Silverman bo said, you’re from Long Island and you lost your virginity to a prostitute. Talk about starting from the bottom and staying there.

That’s funny Maran looked defeated, and then the image of Silverman Bat was replaced by one of himself. Then he got roasted by a digital version of himself. The time says humanity lost every round. Happy fake Internet birthday to langsd in Kerman and that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jim Brewer, Michael Shoemaker

What’s in This Episode

• Rolling Stone investigation into toxic workplace at The Tonight Show
• Allegations of Jimmy Fallon’s erratic and dismissive behavior toward staff
• Reports of alcohol use concerns and inebriation at work
• High turnover of showrunners (9 in 9 years) at Tonight Show
• Staff mental health crisis and suicidal ideation tied to work environment
• Shift in workplace culture after transition from Late Night to Tonight Show

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The Shark Deck. Oh, I got quite the one for you today. I almost did a bonus episode on Friday about this one. From Rolling Stone, the headline Hi, Oh by the way, Hi, I’m tryn to mack with your Daily Comedy News from Rolling Stone. The headline Chaos, comedy and crying Rooms.

Inside Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. Sixteen current and former staffers say Jimmy Fallon’s a ratic behavior spoiled their dream of working on the Tonight Show. Oh My, Rolling Stone rights who was a particularly tense day on the set of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The host, known for his warm and congenial presence on screen, was acting especially dismissive and irritable during production meetings that according to a former longtime employee who told that to Rolling Stone. As the story goes, Jimmy then stumbled through rehearsal in front of a studio audience.

Employees who spoke to Rolling Stone about their experiences on the Tonight Show say it’s common knowledge behind the scenes that there were good Jimmy days and bad Jimmy days, and that was a bad day. They say Fallon seemed to be confused during rehearsal that day in twenty seventeen, when he crossed out jokes on the piece of paper he was holding, rifted will the audience for the bit, and then look back down at the same sheet of paper. The employee says he couldn’t remember what he had just crossed out himself. I was like, Oh my god, he seems drunk. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

This could be awful. This could be another show right here. According to two current and fourteen former employees rights Rolling Stone, the Tonight Show has been a toxic workplace for years. They say the ugly environment behind the scenes starts at the top with Fallon’s erratic behavior and has trickled down to its ever changing leadership teams nine showrunners in the past nine years. Staffords say it was commonplace to hear people joking about wanting to kill themselves, and they would refer to guest dressing rooms as crying rooms because that’s where they would go to let out their emotions when they were upset with their alleged mistreatment.

One former employee tells Rolling Stone, it’s a bummer because it was my dream job. Writing for Late Night is a lot of people’s dream jobs, and they’re coming into this and it becomes a nightmare very quickly. It’s sad that it’s like that, especially knowing that it doesn’t have to be that way. Rolling Stone contacted more than fifty Tonight’s Show employees, passed and present. While many of them praised Fallon’s immense talent and comedic gifts, not a single one agreed to speak on the record or had positive things to say about working on The Tonight Show.

Wow. Nor would any of the program’s nine show runners since twenty fourteen comment about the program’s namesake on the record. They wouldn’t even give statements of support, as is common in the entertainment industry. Wow Wow Wow. All right, let me take a time out from the article.

I have met Jimmy Fallon. I want to say twice. It might be three times, and it might be one time. I definitely was with him when he was on Jim Brewer’s Show, and that was a decade ago. I want to say it was twice.

The Jimmy Fallon I met was the Jimmy Fallon public persona, the nice, easy going guy. So I don’t know about any of these other things. I have never run into that part of Jimmy Fallon. After Rolling Stone published their report, Fallon apologized to staffers and an all hands zoom call, saying it’s embarrassing and I feel so bad. Dis According to two people who are on the call, Jimmy said sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends.

I feel so bad. I can’t even tell you. This next thing is interesting and a statement. A spokesperson for NBC defended the program, but notably did not mention Fellon himself. The statement, We’re incredibly proud of the Tonight Show and providing a respectful working environment is a top priority.

As in any workplace, We’ve had employees raise issues, those who have been investigated, and action has been taken where appropriate. As is always the case, we encourage employees who feel they’ve experienced or observed behavior inconsistent with our policies to report their concerns so that we may address them accordingly. Huh. All right. In the second half of the podcast, I’m going to share with you my conspiracy theory because I like conspiracy theories.

But let me stay with this Rolling Stone article. They talk about when Jimmy left the Late Night Show the twelve thirty show and then went to the tonight show and said behind the scenes, there was a surprising, dramatic and ugly shift in the working environment, according to three employees who original worked on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. These employees say they felt a change because Michael Shoemaker, who was at the helm of Late Night, didn’t move over to the tonight show and stuck around to produce Late Night with Seth Myers. A former employee, He says, the producers felt this pressure and that translated down to all their employees. People that worked under them felt this pressure that if you made one mistake, you were gone and’d be easily replaced.

You have all these NBC pages in the building who are ready willing and able to take your job. Another former employee, he said, nobody told Jimmy no. Everybody walked on eggshells, especially showrunners. You never knew which Jimmy we were going to get and when he was going to throw a hissy fit. Look how many showrunners once so quickly We know they didn’t last long.

Another former employee Mentally, I was at the lowest place of my life. I didn’t want to live anymore. I thought about taking my own life all the time. I knew deep down i’d never actually do it, but in my head, I’m like, why do I think about this all the time? One employee says they lost nearly twenty pounds.

I know other people who were in my department who were also unhappy with mistreatment, but it was never a thing where any of us were empowered enough to say anything. It just always felt like you should be grateful that you have a job, and you should be grateful that you have this position at this show, at this network. Everybody wants to be in the spot you’ve worked hard to get here. Shouldn’t be a thing where you’re being ungrateful, Rolling Stone Rights. According to most employees who spoke to Rolling Stone, it’s common knowledge behind the scenes that Fallon’s temperament, mooton treatment of staffers is erratic.

Wow, I had never heard that. A friend of mine told me the other day he had heard. I’ll call it the friend who said, let me find it. That friend said, on the other hand, there’s always been talks about drunk Jimmy. I had never personally heard that, but apparently people in this article have.

Rolling Stone wrote over the years there’ve been rumors and gossip items about Fallon’s relationship with alcohol. In twenty sixteen, The New York Post around a story alleging that NBC executives were concerned about Fallon’s drinking. Falon denied this in a New York Times profile published in twenty seventeen, saying I could never do a day to day job if I shrinking every night. That’s just kicking you when you’re down. But two employees say they saw Falon seemingly inebriated at work in twenty seventeen.

Another two employees say, on separate occasions in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, they thought they smelled alcohol on Falan’s breath when they entered an elevator with him during the workday. When former employee said, it was like, if Jimmy’s in a bad mood, everybody’s day is aft. People wouldn’t joke around on the office, and they wouldn’t stand around and talk to each other. It was very much like, focus on whatever it days you have to do because Jimmy’s in a bad mood, and if he sees that, he might fly off. A commonly used phrase around the office, we’re up against it.

When former staffer says, when something was wrong, we all knew how to behave afterward, which was just sort of avoid eye contact and don’t make another mistake. It happened over the smallest thing, would have to shut the whole thing down. The sketch isn’t happening. When things like that would happen, you just beat yourself up. A former employee says sometimes would get nice Jimmy, but that was sometimes not a lot.

It was just really, really sad to me that this talented man created such a horrible environment for the people there. To employees remember witnessing Falon scolding the que Card guy in the middle of a taping with Jerry Seinfeld. They say it was an uncomfortable moment. Seinfeld told Falon to apologize to the que Card production member, which then he allegedly did. A former employee said it was very awkward, and Jerry was like, you should apologize to him, almost trying to make it a joke.

Was one of the strangest moments ever, and so many people were there, so it’s kind of hard to forget. I’ll talk about Jerry’s reaction to all this in a minute. Some spin control went out, including the NBC statement I read earlier.

Also a current employee the show spoke with people and described Jimmy Fallon…

He makes a point of commitding you when you do a great job and when he’s happy. Any feedback I’ve always received, it’s like, hey, we don’t need to do that again. It’s been very constructive and helpful for me and continuing to put together show he’s happy with. I’ve never been belittled, yelled at, nothing like that. It’s all exactly how a boss should give feedback to an employee.

Jerry Seinfeld spoke to people about the moment and said, I remember this moment quite well. I teach Jimmy about a flub and we all had a fun laugh about how rarely Jimmy’s thrown off. It was not uncomfortable at all. Jimmy and I still occasionally recall it and laugh. Idiotic twisting of events.

All right, let’s take the break here, and then I’ll tell you about my conspiracy theory. Let’s start with the New York Times from twenty seventeen, who wrote Jimmy Fallon was on top of the world. Then came Trump. Once the undisputed juggernaut of the late night category, mister Fallon’s Tonight Show, a celebrity friendly cavalcade of games and gags, has seen its ratings decline in recent months.

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Meanwhile, his politically pointed competitor, Stephen Colbert has closed wha…

So I was curious about the late night ratings. I found an article here just picking a random week week of January sixteen, twenty twenty three, from the Futon critic, Jimmy Kimmel Live ranked as the number one late night talk show among adults eighteen to forty nine, beating This Night Show with Jimmy Fallon by twenty one percent and Colbert by twenty seven percent. Kimmel three hundred and seven thousand viewers, Fallon two fifty three, Colbert two forty one. A Google search suggests Jimmy Fallen makes sixteen million dollars hosting the Tonight Show. A different Google search shows Seth Meyers makes five million dollars hosting late night.

He was my conspiracy theory and this is just me in the basement daydreaming. You know how I pointed out last year that it was weird that the Daily Show didn’t name a replacement host and they were doing the guest host thing, and then I finally figured out, oh, there’s a writer strike coming. So if they had announced the Daily Show with super new host, that that host would have gotten about two three months and then disappeared and they would have had to relaunch it. So it made sense in retrospect to do the guest host.

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Now, let’s look at it Tonight’s show next year, there is a presidential election. That’s not Jimmy’s stronghouse. That’s Colbert’s wheelhouse, and Kimmel’s good at it. So were we looking at the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon finishing third in twenty twenty four? And if so, why are we paying him sixteen million dollars?

Meanwhile, CBS, when James Gordon stepped down from the Late Light Show, they decided they’re not going to do a twelve thirty show anymore. Maybe NBC’s looking at that and going, Huh, why are we doing a twelve thirty show here in the twenty twenties. Maybe that doesn’t make sense. So what if this is some sort of way to exit Jimmy Fouln from the Tonight Show when the Tonight Show’s not even on save that salary, and then when you come back, you come back to an all new Tonight Show with Seth Myers. Seth currently making five, which is less than Jimmy sixteen.

Pick a number between five and sixteen. Seth would be happy. Seth would host the Tonight Show. Everybody wants to host the Tonight Show, right, and Jimmy’s gone, and Set’s probably better at the political stuff. Pretty wacky conspiracy theory there, Johnny Mac, Yes, I agree, all right, what about Lauren Michaels.

He’d be pretty upset if you got rid of Jimmy found, wouldn’t he? Yes, But Lauren wants to stick around to do the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Lauren is going to take that victory lap. So no matter how mad Lauren gets, he’s not going to storm out of NBC in year forty nine of SNL, and it’s going to be a shortened to year of SNL. Lauren’s gonna want the victory lap.

So Lauren’s going to stick around. So even if you push out his buddy Jimmy Fallon, I think he’ll find way to get over it. So why did this article suddenly come out? Were people just bored? Does this have something to do with the writer strike?

Or am I in the something with this conspiracy theory? Again, I’m just daydreaming. Probably everything I said is absolutely wrong. You let me know what you think in the Facebook comments Daily Company News podcast group, And that’s your company news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Bill Maher, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jim Belushi, Bet Stelling, Michelle Wolf

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Maher criticizes late-night TV formula and hosts’ political takes
• Writers strike impact on late-night television
• Timothée Chalamet puppet controversy between Jimmy Fallon and puppet creator Chris Allen
• Stephen Colbert recalls aggressive slap incident with Jim Belushi during Second City improv
• Bet Stelling Netflix Is a Joke special premiering October 3
• Michelle Wolf discusses impact of comedians uploading videos online

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck feisty one today. No, not me. I’m in a great mood. But what do you hear these stories? I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, Bill Maher, mixing it up.

He had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast. This has been in my queue. I just didn’t get to it yet, but the New York Post got to it. The subject turned to late Night. Jim Gaffigan said, I love all those guys, I do, but the formula of real time obviously it’s less of a celebrity interview turn and burnt thing.

But it hasn’t felt like any effects of that, Like, I think the strike is going to kill the late night show that we grew up with. More said, why is the strike killing it? I don’t get it, Jim, Well, because it’s off the air. Mar again, no knock on the guys who do it. But I don’t know how this art form is survived up until now.

I mean, I understand why I’m on because I’m on HBO. It’s an hour without commercials, and I mean, sorry, it’s a lot more entertaining, it’s a lot more edgy, it’s a lot more unpredictable and it’s true talk. I get that. What I don’t get is this error of watching what sponsors are sponsoring a show that’s on after most people go to bed. In an arrow where you can do anything at any time.

You know, you can watch anything you get into bed. You can watch Netflix, you can watch HBO, you can watch YouTube, you can watch anything that was ever made or do video games. Even if you wanted to watch this late night stuff, wouldn’t you watch it sometime when you could zip through the commercials and just see the stuff you like. It just seems so anachronistic. I don’t know how it survives until now.

I’ll jump in there. I’m shocked that one of the streamers isn’t airing a quote unquote late night show. It’s say eight o’clock, like Jimmy Kimmel taps at five thirty Pacific, and he used to do a show live. I wonder why he doesn’t choose to say air that on I don’t know ABC doesn’t have a streamer Netflix. Pair up with Netflix and throw that on day eight thirty.

That might do well, Or maybe I’m just from the twentieth century as well. Gaffigans told More that people develop a relationship with the late night hosts, and I want to hear Colbert’s take about the day. I don’t know about that, Jim, I really don’t know about that. I mean, it’s just a couple of jokes. I’ve even done late Bot here, No try agreed, Jim mar said, it’s not a take.

Those guys don’t have takes. I have takes. I have a take on things. What they do is say exactly what a liberal audience wants them to say about that. That’s not a take.

I mean, I’m not saying it’s not Sincere, I guess it is on their part, but even if it wasn’t, that’s what they would do. There’s never a moment where you don’t know exactly. Oh, this is the correct point of view on that. They talked about the writer strike. More said, I feel from my writers.

I love my writers. I’m one of my writers. But there’s a big other side to it. A lot of people are being hurt beside them, a lot of people who don’t make as much money as them. In this bipartisan world we have where you’re just in one camp or the other.

You’re either for the strike like they’re effing Shaguvar out there, or you know, like this is Caesar Chavez’s lettuce picking strike, or you’re with Trump. There’s no difference. There’s only two camps, and it’s much more complicated than that. More continued. They strike at the wrong time, they have no leverage.

Has anyone who’s watching TV really noticed a difference? Has it affected the person down the pipeline? I don’t think so. I have a notice a difference at some point. A guess that’ll happen.

What day is that when Netflix runs out of what they have in the warehouse? Yeah? Pretty interesting. Before the strike, I would do Late Night jokes up at the top, and I had actually cut down on that a little bit because a lot of them weren’t that good, and I had kind of stripped it down as just doing two or three and it left a hole in my script. But here a couple of months in, I don’t even think about it anymore.

I just jump into the story. When Late Night comes back, don’t forget. We’ll have a new host of the Daily Show, possibly Hasan Minhaj. But I agree with mar on the points of you know, are you gonna stay up to eleven thirty, twelve thirty and watch these things. Just watch the clips later.

You know, it’s not like you’re gonna go to work. Oh my god, did you see Jimmy Fallon last night? Like those days are over? But as I said earlier, you know, maybe somebody could do a version of this on a streamer, Netflix probably being the best chance at such a thing working. But you know, do it live at I don’t know EPM Eastern Chelsea.

Handler did have a show that didn’t work. Hassan had a show that didn’t work. Who knows, Maybe it’s just a RELICI of last century.

Speaking of Jimmy Fallon, TMZ was paying attention to the Strike Force five p…

Fallon told a story about the Timothy shallow May puppet. I’ll catch you up. The story did ring my ears when I’m glad TMZ recapped it. Apparently somebody had made a Timothy shallow May puppet. Fallon said Timothy wasn’t a fan of the lookalike doll, and the plan was to have the actor destroy the puppet during a Tonight Show appearance, but then the creator of the puppet chimed in and said he was offended.

According to Fellon, the whole bit was Scrapped Puppet creator Chris Allen tells TMZ he was shocked when he heard Fellon on the podcast because of Gordon. To him, it’s one hundred percent false. He said, no one reached out to him about killing the puppet, and if they had, he wouldn’t care because it’s a night show had bought it from him. Chris says he feels like Jimmy’s podcast Tale is painting him as a villain. M More a controversy from that same podcast, Stephen Colbert told a story.

As the story goes, Colbert’s its second city and he would play an improv game called Freeze Tag. The game requires two performers to begin a scene that a third actor calls freeze he’d probably seen this on whose line tags out one performer and starts a new scene. Colbert says that Jim Belushi would regularly slap people on stage to get a shock reaction from the audience. Colbert said, he has these big old meat hook hands, so it’d picked someone who felt like that guy’s not gonna be back, and he would jack them. Colbert said he one thousand percent got the joke of slapping people on stage, but he recalled a time when things went a little too far.

During the game, Belushi did the slap Colbert called freeze. However, instead of tagging someone out, he told the slap performer hit him back. This is never gonna stop unless you hit him back. Belushi’s victim apparently refused. Colbert says, so I turned to Blushi and I said, like this, and I gave him the swiftest crack I could give him from a short distance.

That didn’t go over well. There was chaos in the house and the two men had to be separated as the house lights turned on to the theater. Colbert said, we were backstage yelling at each other. Was fantastic. He was a little upset.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Jim Belushi a couple of times. I found him to be a cool guy, but I wasn’t playing freeze tag. Bet Stelling was on Instagram and wrote, my Netflix is a joke at Comedy Special. If you didn’t want me, then premier’s on Netflix October three. I was just a little shy, so I got Whitney Cummings and her son to record the promo.

They know how to get views. Coincidentally, Bet Stelling’s tour kicks off tonight and Atlanta at the City Winery. She’s coming to Utah, Colorado, California, Chicago, Minneapolis, Louisville, Austin, Portland, the One in Oregon and wraps up December seven through the ninth, and Burlington, Vermont. Betslling dot com. Michelle Wolf has a special out on Tuesday.

Nashville Scene said, Hey, Michelle Wolf, your team does a good job of uploading videos. Do you think comics uploading videos helps or hurts comedy? Good question. Michelle Wolf said, it’s good to give people a snippet of what you do. What’s hurting is a lot of those CrowdWork videos with almost no jokes in them.

M Yes, people go to a show and expect I’m gonna get called on and get a moment from me, and it takes away the art of writing a joke. Yes, Michelle said, I’m not a fan of social media, but I’m working on a bit about that in my set. We need to respect ourselves more by watching good and interesting things by talented people. Yes, we all doomscroll on Instagram. There are things out there that are more interesting than what you’re seeing on your phone.

Should I do it a fourth time? Yes, we need to value talent and more than who we are well, said Michelle Wolf Amen standing Oh. Eugene Merman spoke to The woostermag Eugene claims to work on something called Bob’s Burgers. Now, if you’re a new listener, let me let you know. On the Conspiracy, long time listeners are like, oh my god, he’s gonna do this again.

Yes, I am new listener. I know you’ve seen artwork for Bob’s Burgers. I get it. There’s clearly merge. There’s T shirts and stuff like.

I get it. I get that. You’ve even heard Joe Buck telling you to watch and all knew Bob’s Burgers after football. Hey, John Buck hasn’t been on Fox and over a year. Kevin Burkhardt does the games.

Now. Yeah, I know inside voice rip off from jimcaffickin, but that’s not the bit. I know you’ve heard Joe Buck promote Bob’s Burgers. But let me ask you two questions. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer is no, I won’t wait for your answer. Follow up question and I’m not gonna wait for your answer. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers. The answers, No, isn’t that weird? This thing is supposed to being on a Fox for fifteen years and nobody has ever seen it.

Have you ever met anyone? You haven’t, it’s weird. Eugene Merman said, it’s really fun doing Bob’s Burgers and working with friends I’ve known for decades. And it’s also really fun to do stand up and perform live. It’s very immediate and I often get to see friends and travel with friends.

I love the variety of it. I think I’d missed not having a variety of all these different things, which is what often makes up anyone’s career in entertainment. The thing that’s really fun about voice acting is that sometimes you’re recording a loan, but often you’re with your co actors. It’s usually in different cities, but you’re live together. So with voice acting, you could try different stuff.

You can do different jokes, you can have different intonations, you can do all sorts of things. Then they edit into an episode, so you can really take chances and if they work out, great, they’re in the show. If they don’t, they just cut and it’s not a problem, so you can try a lot of different jokes while trying to make each other laugh. Congratulations to Robin Shawl. The Guinness Book of World Records has recognized her as the person who holds the record for making the tallest stack of donuts in one minutes.

Robin Shawl said, in the beginning of twenty twenty three, we made a list of goals for the year. One of the kids suggested breaking a Guinness World’s record title. I love the ideas. I went on the list, which is still on the inside of my closet door. She looked up records involving donuts.

She found the record for stacking donuts stood at twelve in one minute. That doesn’t seem that hard. That seems very breakable. Twelve because like donuts are sticky to begin with, and twelve wouldn’t be that time. I might have to go for this record myself.

I’ve been known to go to the National Donuts Chain. Shall said two weeks before tempting the challenge on live TV, I decided it was time to go in a full blown training. She said. She had to learn how to make donuts because it was difficult to find the ones that were the size required by the Guinness Book. What I kept the donuts in regulation, but some on the smaller end and some on the larger.

Once I mastered that, it was just practicing with the speed. She successfully stacked thirteen donuts. Let’s say it. On over to Gossip Corner, TK Kirkland was talking about some of the rumors about Steve Harvey’s marriage. Kirkland’s hold comedy hype.

But first I was like, Wow, all right, they just made her out to be a hoe. She kicking it with both of them mfers in the camp. Steve Harvey has denied such rumors. He said, I don’t know what y’all doing, but find something else to do because we’re fine. Sometimes you just want to respond, but I don’t have time for rumor and gossip man.

He rehash their love story and a video shared on Twitter. The New Yorker announced their lineup for the New Yorker Festival that’s October sixth through the eighteenth. They used very pretentious language. I will read it to you verbatim. Some of the interviews the actor Julia Louis Dreyfuss in conversation with the New Yorkers David Remnick.

The actor and comedian Eric Idol in conversation with The New Yorkers. Michael Schulman. The comedian Zway and a partner Achurla in conversation with the New Yorkers Emma Allen. All of a sudden, a partner’s back. She had disappeared for like two years, and this is like the third story this week.

I’ve seen her in. I wonder why she’s back. Ah See, there’s always an answer. I’ve been doing this a while. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

She’s got a book coming out September nineteenth, called Unreliable Narrator Me Myself an Imposter Syndrome. We’ll talk about that in an upcoming episode. But all right, that explains that she’s fantastic. I’d rather put out a new album than a book, candidly anyway. The comedian and musician Weird Al Yankovic in conversation with the New Yorkers Andy Borrowitz.

The New York Festival October six through the eighth. If you’re in Dallas, why don’t you hit The Women’s Comedy Festival, which was created in response to the limited and unequal stage time women comedians receive in comparison to their male counterparts. The festival will be at the Stumping Ground Comedy Theater. One of the founders, Anna Barton, said, this year we’re showcasing more different styles than just stand up. We had those last year, but stand up really ended up being the main attraction.

So we’re really excited to incorporate more improv and more alt comedy, and the Stomping Ground community has a good basis for that. Kate great House is helping to produce the thing for tonight show. Great House wants to encourage the weird and the new to try at alternative comedy acts. She recalls being the only woman on a comedy line up more times than she can count, and she says that does not fairly reflect the number of funny women on the scene. The festival continues tomorrow with Goddess, a Celebration of Women, which is a parody of the Goddess party trend.

That portion of the festival will be interactive with improvised music and other experimental elements. We’re told that it’s genuinely uplifting and fun and they get the whole audience involved. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Thanks to Factor and draft Kings for supporting today’s episode.

See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Kyle Canaan, Pete Davidson, Shane Gillis, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Fallon, Sidney Sweeney, Eddie Murphy, Maria Bamford, Eliza Shlesinger

What’s in This Episode

• Kyle Canaan records special at ACME Comedy Club Minneapolis
• PETA releases Pete Davidson Halloween costume inspired by voicemail rant
• Pete Davidson cancels second Kalamazoo tour date citing scheduling conflict
• Shane Gillis Netflix special reviewed by Decider
• Rolling Stones release new album with Jimmy Fallon appearance
• Eddie Murphy Candy Cane Lane movie coming to Amazon Prime December
• Trevor Noah signs four million dollar Spotify podcast deal
• Maria Bamford publishes memoir Sure I’ll Join Your Cult with advance details
• How I Met Your Father canceled on Hulu

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy who has a lot of quick hits Today, Kyle Canaan records his next special at the ACME Comedy Club in Minneapolis. Starts tonight. I’ll also record tomorrow and Saturday. Canaan has one of the best specials of the year Right now. I have him as the number three special of the year, behind number two Toms Agora and I Told Yesterday Todd Berry’s domestic short here hilarious and funniest by a mile weird one here from TMZ, Peta selling Pete Davidson Halloween costume inspired by unhinged voicemail the story.

A source close to Pete says it’s disgusting to capitalize on someone’s mental health and not to mention illegal use of his likeness. According to TMZ, PETA’s limited edition costume comes with a paper mask of Pete’s face and I should have adopted hoodie and a hat with a censored curse word plastered on it. All this refers to Pete Davidson’s profanity lays telephone rant after Pete called out Pete Davidson for buying a pet store puppy instead of one from a shelter. It also comes with a plush dog wearing a shelter’s dog rule bandana. The whole thing goes for ninety nine.

Ninety nine proceeds go toward spay and neuter surgeries to help combat the overpopulation of homeless dogs. According to PETA, over seventy million dogs and cats are homeless in the United States. Wow, that’s a crazy number, seventy million.

Meanwhile, another weird one involving Pete Davidson from m Live.

They write, despite ending a second show earlier in the week, Pete Davidson has canceled the second show that he just added the original story due to overwhelming demand. During in August twenty nine pre sale, Pete Davidson added a second Kalamazoo stop onto his tour, and it was for the same night as the first. The second show was added for ten o’clock. Pete was going to play at seven. The ten o’clock show has now been canceled.

Officials did not elaborate on why Pete canceled the second show, citing a scheduling conflict. I’m wondering how much overwhelming demand there actually was. Maybe they sold, you know, four tickets and we’re like, maybe not. Pete is still doing the seven o’clock Show on Saturday, October twenty first at the Kalamazoo State Theater. That is currently scheduled to be the final show of the Pete Davidson Live Tour.

Collider watched Shane Gillis’s new special on Netflix. It is going to take me a minute to get to it. Tonight. There’s football tomorrow night. There’s a new video game called Starfield.

I want to play this weekend. I’m a celebrating Langston Kerman’s fake birthday. It’s a little call back there for those of either pay attention. Sunday more football Monday, I teach, So it’s Tuesday before I get to watch this thing. But they liked it.

Deciders said, it’ll remind you of a kinder, softer Bill Burr, wanting to tease and test his audience, but always striving to maintain his likability whenever he makes jokes about race, such as his suggestion that white Americans stopped being cool when they first saw Jackie Robinson play for the Dodgers, or when Shane calls anything quoting from the article here a gay or restarted unquote He’s quick with a smile and an acknowledgment that he knows he’s transgressing. He has the self awareness to play both sides of the aisle. At one point, he mocks his love of history is a sign of early on set. Republican decider says, stream it and then wonders what SNL would have been like had they actually kept Shane Gillis. Remember he was announced to be on the cast and then somebody deep dived on the internet and then Lauren was like, nah, that all happen.

Shingills is doing okay. Jimmy Fallon did indeed do his thing with the Rolling Stones.

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And now they taught us in radio school never assume people know things.

So I’m going to tell you who Mick Jagger is. Mick Jagger is the lead singer of a rock band called the Rolling Stones. You know who I’m talking about. You’ve heard of Mick Jagger. Yes, yes, Mick Jagger said, we got to make a record that we really love ourselves.

We’re pleased with it, and I hope you are all two. The new record has twelve tracks, two of them written by Charlie Watts, who passed away a while back. They released a single called Angry. Angry came with a video that stars actress at Sydney Sweeney, which brings us back to Jimmy Fallon, who asked Sidney Sweeney while crossed her mind when she got the call to star in the video. Sidney Sweeney said, oh gosh, I mean I freaked out and called my family and brought my mom.

Fallon and Jagger also shared an Instagram post we see them reading newspapers at the Old Ship Inn in Hackney, London. Eddie Murphy has a new movie. It’s called Candy Kane Lane that’ll come to Amazon Prime Video December first. Candy Kane Lane follows Eddie Murphius Chris, a man who’s determined to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest. This sounds like an Adam Saidler type thing, doesn’t it.

After unintentionally striking a deal with an elf to improve his odds of winning, she cast a spell bringing to life the twelve Days of Christmas and chaos and sues for the old Town Christmas. Then worked to save Christmas for his family and community, and endeavor that entails battling magical creatures. Adam Sandler added Ja Pass on this one. This one also stars Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, and Chris read Vania Land caught up with Eliza’s Lessenger, who said Boston is one tough mffer of a city because it’s the East Coast that it’s cold. People are tough, but they’re warm and loving.

When fans give me Boston gifts and tell me Boston loves you in that familiar accent, I feel like I’m home, even if I never paid taxes there. It’s definitely not something I’d take for granted to be able to feel at home. And only a few cities across the country, and Boston is definitely one of them. If I were talking to my younger self, I would say try to enjoy cities more. I started doing stand up before uber was a thing, so taking a cab wasn’t always the easiest thing.

But when you can really get it’s a place, when you’re not too hungover or tired to explore a city, from farmers markets and upcoming suburbs to eating the food that’s from that city, it really makes you a better traveler for when you get a real feel for a place. The Wall Street Journal did an article about Spotify’s podcasting efforts. In that we learned that they’re paying Trevor Noah four million dollars. Now it’s unclear if that’s four million dollars a year or four million dollars for the next hundred years, but it’s four million dollars. The Journal calls it a deal that allows the company to collect revenue from the podcast to cover its investment.

After that, both sides share the take. That’s pretty standard. Maria Bamford’s book Sure I’ll Join Your Cult is out, and Maria is pretty open about sharing things, including how much she got paid by Gallery Brooks, which is an imprint of Simon and Schuster. She got fifty thousand dollars up front, another fifty thousand dollars once the book was published, so kitching that’s in the bank now, and then another fifty thousand if it gets a paperback edition. Maria spoke about her earlier career and said, I was at Nickelodeon for a year and I was voted employee of the Month the same month I got fired.

Being fired, I want a voice over role on Nickelodeon’s series Cat Dog. They gave me a severance of two months with pay, and after that I was able to move to a nicer neighborhood, get a dog, and begin earning more from stand up than from temping. But I’d still do anything for cash. I’ve answered phones for comedy development executives right after having pitch meetings with them. I worked eight hours at NBC four reception after doing the Tonight show the night before.

The weatherman walked by and said, you were on Leno last night and kept walking. The gradual change in being a full time performer took about as long as it took me to pay off my medical debt eight years. Bad news. If you’re enjoying How I Met Your Father, it is canceled. The Hulu series ended its second season in July.

We never found out how Hilary Duff’s character met your father if you never watched it. It’s set in the same version of New York as the original series. Some of the characters live in the apartment formerly occupied by Ted and Marshall in the original. By the way, Jason Seagull is fantastic in the Lakers show that I was talking about yesterday. That show is called Winning Time.

Jason Segull awesome. Adrian Brodie as pat Riley.

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Also Awesome I Digress How I Met Your Father also featured guest appearances …

I’ve been on Gossip Corner in a while. The Hollywood Reporter says that Chris Rock was at Beyonce’s show on Monday night in La. Some other famous folks there, Adele Lizzo, Katie Perry, Kate Hudson, and Chloe Kardashian.

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Meanwhile, Pete Davidson on Gossip Corner.

He apparently has broken up with Chase. Suite Wonders and Insider told people that Pete’s single again and he’s out and about doing really well. Over the weekend, Pete attended his friend’s wedding in Virginia. He was spotted in several photos. Pete was spotted wearing a dashing black and white suxedo while also dressing down in a white T shirt, black pants and matching shoes.

I have one of those links I haven’t clicked on yet. It’s from Jord Barker. It’s the twenty five greatest stand up comedians of all time. They say, presented in no particular order, Okay, I’m going to click on this. I’m very very afraid what they came up with.

Okay, in no particular order. Robin William’s fine, Bill Hicks, Okay, you know what you’re talking about. Gary Shandling in saying Phillis Diller is showing some respect. Tig nataro Top twenty five of all time. No Patrise O’Neil nos about about Patris over the weekend.

I won’t do it again. Dick Gregory’s an interesting pick. Don Rickles, Okay, you know what you’re talking about. Bob Newhart, Red Fox. David Tell a Tell is really really good if you’ve ever seen him live and he’s just doing crowd work.

Stephen Right definitely influential. Mort’s Saul. Do you guys know? Mort is a legendary political comedian and satirist known for literally taking comedy right from the headlines, as they often had a newspaper with him on stage to mind material. Bill Cosby makes the list.

Very complicated history there with mister Cosby. But you know, until recently he was always at the very top of every list. Let’s move on. Jerry Seinfeld, sure, Mitch Hedberg, Steve Martin, m According to Jord Barker. Steve Marton claims that he did stand up for eighteen years and only four of them were a wild success.

I don’t know about putting Steve Martin on this list. I’d have to think about it some more. Joan Rivers, Yes, Dave Chappelle, yep, he’s been top of the game for decade now. Chris Rock for sure, Mom’s mably respect Lenny Bruce, who started modern stand up, Eddie Murphy, Wellfettie’s on here, Prior better be on here. George Carlin next, and yep, Richard Pryor now looking at their phrasing, the twenty five greatest stand up Comedians.

Bomb Hope was really good at stand up, so I would definitely have him on the list without looking. I’m trying to think if anyone jumps to mine that belongs on here. Kennison is a favorite of mine, but he was a shooting star, but then again was so It was Headberg, Jeff Foxworthy, Jay Leno was really good Okay, not the worst, less but Patriso, Neil Tignataro no. Jake Rush has a special out today on the eight hundred Pound Gerrilla YouTube page. It’s called overwhelmingly negative.

If you’re near Anaheim, you might want to check out tonight Laughing Together, an evening of humor and compassion where comedy takes center stage in support of student mental health. Hosted by Chris Gether and features Nicole Buyer, au Parner, Nontrilla, Christy Cello, and more. That’s a good lineup. Laughing Together as a new initiative by Chris Gethard and Wellness Together aimed at bringing artists to the forefront of student mental health programming. It’s at the Anaheim Convention Center tonight, seven thirty to nine thirty Pacific, Doors open at six thirty.

The Bad Moms with a Ze Bad Moms of Comedy or in Chicago Tonight. Lindsay Porter started doing stand up late in life. She was fifty two when she took her first comedy class NBC Chicago profile The Bad Moms with a Z of Comedy and all female comedy troupe and already has eighty members ranging an age twenty to seventy. They’ve sold out female community events, and tonight they’re at Zeni’s founder Lindsay Porter said, I had no expectations. I set my sights at very small goals, So the fact that I’m performing at Zeni is on a somewhat regular basis as well, beyond anything I expected.

Janice Rodriguez found her comedic voice when she was thirty seven. She says she’s not a mom, and it’s actually not a requirement to join the group. She says, I kept saying I have a kid. He’s just fifty three years old and likes heavy metal. That’s my husband.

We’re all moms in some way. Another one of the founders, orly Kg, said, if you’ve woken up any day of the week and said do I have to do everything? Then you’re a mom. I think something happens in your forties as a woman. You’re just like, hey, if kind of raised my kids already and the job thinks pretty good?

So what about me? What do I want to do? Zanies Tonight, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle caught up with Last Best Comedy founder Levin O’Connor, who said Bozeman is happening for comedy. They’re kicking off tonight the Last Best Comedy festival of featuring eighty performers three evenings of improv and stand up shows. Levin’s wife, Annie said there’s a whole scene here.

Levin O’Connor jumped in and said, they’ve been working really hard and they’ve always had to survive in nooks and crannies and corners that would allow of them to cram into a coffee shop or bar or whatever. But this is a really hard setting for you to thrive. Unlike many other comedy venues, Last Best Comedy features and fosters the growth of performers in two different comedy card forms, stand up in improv. Levin said, our venue celebrates both. In a normal week, we alternate nights and we’re always about bringing people together.

It’s a lot to learn from how stand ups approach what they do. There’s a lot to learn from how improvisers approach what they do. Checking out the lineup today four thirty Improv and stand up. Seven o’clock a stand up show with Leslie Mitchell at a zoom in a couple of times, these fonts are pretty small here. Last Best Comedy Festival.

Eight o’clock Improv with Flow, Rotto and the Boys of Autumn. Nine o’clock a stand up show Olivia Witt and some others. Ten o’clock back to improv.

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Featured: Todd Barry, Tom Segura, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Ricky Gervais, Mark Normand, David Cross, Eugene Mirman, Tom Farley

What’s in This Episode

• Todd Barry’s ‘Domestic Short Hair’ named funniest special of 2023
• Strike Force Five late night hosts podcast episode two featuring first show stories
• Toronto Comedy Festival free street festival September 22-24
• David Cross interview about new tour title ‘The Worst Daddy in the World’
• Ricky Gervais breaks Guinness World Record for highest-grossing single stand-up performance
• Nate Bargatze maintains clean persona both on and off stage
• Tom Farley discusses Chris Farley Foundation and family alcoholism

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We have a new best funniest special of the year. It is Todd Berry’s Domestic Short Hair. You’ll find it on YouTube.

If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard me talk in the past about what I call the Emperor of rome syndrome in my career of listen, whos so much stand up comedy? I do what the professional comedians do. I rarely actually laugh. I tend to just analyze comedy. Go oh that was really good, Oh, great, callback, hilarious.

Todd Barry had me laughing out loud. I know I’m a psycho and I don’t do that when I watch comedy specials. I laughed out loud many, many, many many times. I’m not talking about like four like a lot. Todd Barry Domestic Short Hair on YouTube is the best special of the year by a lot.

Like there’s a big gap. So here’s the list right now, funniest thing of the year Todd Berry Domestic Short Hair on YouTube. Then there’s a gap of I don’t know, three arters of a mile to Punk on Earth, which was on Netflix the best special of the year prior to Todd Berry, Tom Sagora, then Kyle Knin, Naprigatzy Cocaine Bear, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Hardy Conabolo, Chris Rock, Jimmy O Yang, The Rose of Mister Peanut. Trust me look it up on YouTube. I know you think I’m crazy, Big Jokerson, Mark normand Nimesh Patel, Sarah Silverman, Chris Fleming, John Early.

But again, all of those are three quarters of a mile away from Todd Barry domestic short here. I absolutely loved it. You can also hear Barry on Mark Marrin’s episode that dropped on Monday. I went out for a run and was enjoying this, and I felt bad. Todd Barry said that the specials produced through All Things Comedy, which is Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s company, and they tried to sell it and they couldn’t, and that the specials about a year old, which is why there are some COVID jokes, but they are funny COVID jokes that held up.

And Tod doesn’t really seem that into the special and seems to have moved on because in his life it’s a year ago. But it’s really really good Todd Berry Domestic Short here YouTube Funniest special the Year by a lot.

Also for your podcast listening, Strike Force five.

That’s the five late night show hosts doing a podcast together. On episode two, they started talking about their first shows, which I thought was pretty interesting. I like that late night industry talk. I gotta tell you though, I’m listening to the Fab five and I feel like there’s a group of four and Seth Myers Late Night with Seth Meyers is like extra invisible, isn’t it. Looking ahead to the Toronto Comedy Festival Just for LAFT Toronto, they have announced a free street festival September twenty second through the twenty fourth at Burze Park.

Ber c z y if you’re in Toronto, telling me how to pronounce that properly. Reggie wattson Fred Armison are your headliners. They are also a bunch of new faces of comedy colin Canada will be at that apparently a local brewery. We’ll have some beverages for you and if you want some food, that Jamaican patty Shack and poutine Supreme. The Guardians spoke to David Cross.

David enjoyed the moment when his daughter told him he was quot the worst daddy in the world. He had been struggling to come up with the title for his latest show. Then his daughter said that, and according to David Cross, I was like, Oh, there you go. A name for the tour. Very good.

The Guardian talked about the increasingly poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which aired on Channel four in the UK. On that show, David Cross stars as a hapless American energy drinks salesman sent to Britain to flog his wares, and it’s now impossible to watch in the UK. David Cross says, legally, no, you’re not allowed. That was in my contract. I said, I’m gonna work really hard for very little money for years on this project, but you have to promise me you won’t show it.

CBS News profiled Nate Burgatzy and they asked him if he keeps his clean persona throughout his life, like when you’re sitting at home watching the news with your family. He’s a little different, and Nate said, no, stays clean, just feels weird. I know, you know, I’m not perfect. There gonna be a difference between hanging out with comics and when I’m at home where you’re like, oh, I’m with normal people now, so you go, I gotta comment down. But overall it’s just yeah, who I am.

Nate Brolson asked Nate Burgatzi why he never comments on the news. Burgatzy said, a lot of people do it. They do it very well, So you can sometimes be tempted to think you want to let people know how you feel. I want to say something up there, blah blah blah, but then everybody’s saying something. There’s enough people smarter than me.

You don’t need me to be talking about things. I just want to be a break from all that. Congratulations, Ricky Gervaiz. The Guinness Book of World Records has declared at Ricky’s Tour Armageddon as having their record for the highest gross for a single stand up performance ever. Ricky racked up a one million, seven hundred ninety thousand, two hundred and six dollars and fifty cents on May sixth at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

That tour is still going. Three shows at London’s OVA Wimbley Arena October six, twentieth and thirteen December is the Brits Say, and eleven nights at the London Palladium Wow September thirteenth through the sixteenth, twenty eight through the thirtieth end October eleventh through the fourteenth Wow. Netflix has already bought the rights to Armageddon and a Layer at the end of the tour. Mark Norman was recently in Springfield, Missouri, and said, you have to have material for everywhere you go. It’s good to mix it up.

In Los Angeles, you know what jokes offend them. In Springfield, they’re offended by different things. Small towns are usually more fun. The audience has more salts of the earth. They put in a hard day’s work and want to laugh.

In Los Angeles they got their TikTok. Mark Norman told the News Leader Springfield is cool, but getting there’s a real pain. Eugene Merman spoke to the Wooster magazine. Eugene said, I took a variety of classes back in college. Then I sort of put that together in a major that was comedy.

I took acting classes, writing classes, history classes, I did independent studies as well. For science, I did the sociology of laughter, and for social science I did a paper on Lenny Bruce and now he started the modern era of stand up. It was variety of things. But else I had a radio show and I did a lot of different stuff that I put towards a comedy concentration. The thing that was sort of interesting about that in the end is it was almost as if it had the elements of a comedy trade school.

I had to figure out how to get people to show up to a comedy show. I then had to try new material, all putting together an hour’s worth of it and very much mimic what you actually have to do to become a comedian. At the time, it seemed like this odd, not necessarily practical idea, but it actually happened to be an incredibly practice education for I wound up wanting to do with my life. Tom Farley, brother of Chris Farley, spoke to the journal store. He said the Farley boys, Tommy, Kevin, John, and Chris were destined to be drinkers.

If you’re a Farley, you drink. If you’re Irish, you drank. If you lived in Wisconsin, you definitely drink. So it was very normative. We thought this is what everyone did.

When you have somebody that has a real problem, like Chris, it’s easy to point your figure at that person and say, well, I’m not that bad, so I guess we’re okay. So none of the brother has got any help for their alcoholism until later. Tom Foley added, and we also couldn’t help Chris because we were afraid that deep down would have to bring out our issues and behaviors and we didn’t want to do that. Tom runs the Chris Farley Foundation and was asked if Chris was funny from the Tommy was a kid. Tom said, I didn’t think so because I had to share a bed with him, go to high school with him.

That was my trauma. The whole family used humor. We had so much fun. He asked any of our individual friends that say, oh, Tommy’s the funniest, or Kevin’s funny. But Chris definitely, He’d go a little farther and he was always like that.

As for watching his brother become famous, that’s the weird thing for us. Chris was always just being Chris. So when the rest of the world saw him, we were happy for success. We didn’t see it like Chris, this is a big star now, because he was always just doing the same stuff. We just saw Chris.

Chris welcome in our world. Everybody else gets to see what we had to go through all those years. Aish dot Com caught up with Jean Marcos Sirressi, one of my current faves. SORREESSI was recapping a story when he was on James Corden. In the story, Jean Marco is getting drinks at a bar from a German bartender.

Sirresci’s jewishness came up. Jean Marco said. The bartender told me I’m so sorry for the Holocaust, and Jean Marco said, well, how am I supposed to respond to that as a Jew? No worries, don’t let it happen again. I didn’t know, so I just said could I get a free beer?

And he said I would, but my boss would get mad, and I said, I get it. You’re just following orders. Wow, it’s a great joke. He says. When he posts about being Jewish online to his social media followings, I’ll get ten comments about free Palestine.

It’s irrelevant to the thing I’m saying in the video. I’m an American Jew. One time, he got messages from an audience member that said, I hope Hitler sends you back to a concentration camp so he can write some new material Sir ESSI joked, I think he had a misunderstanding of what a concentration camp is. It’s not an artist retreat. But I could take this in stride.

I don’t feel threatened. This person was obviously going through something. Jean Marco enjoys making people laugh and said someone messaged me and said, I’m going through chem up therapy and your clips brought me joy. I get so much joy. That made Joran Marco feel I’d keep doing stand up even if somebody messaged me and said I hate your comedy, but I’m glad that people enjoy it.

Shout out to Crosby who went to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News and claim the ten dollar donation. That’s one of the ways you can give. There’s the two dollars club, the ten dollar donation, and the standard five dollars. Anyway, this morning, I’d took Crosby’s money and I went to the National Donuts chain.

I got a large iced coffee with caramel and milk, and I’ve got enough money for another one tomorrow. Crosby, thank you so much for supporting the show. Via Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. The Wall Street Journal caught up with Eliza Slessenger, who said I could always make my mother laugh, even when I was in a jam. In middle school, I struggled with math.

One day, Mom tried to get me to focus on homework and I wouldn’t stop joking around. She said, you’re acting ridiculous. I’m gonna record you so you can see how you’re acting. She wants to get the video camera. When she returned, I was wearing my glasses and a shirt buttoned up to the top and with the British accent.

I said, why, mother, whatever do you mean? She lost it and cracked up. And at that moment I realized being funny was more important than fractions. H Is being funny more important than fractions? Probably right, Eliza says.

During my junior year, I signed up for semester at c College. Kids from all over sailed around the world on a giant ship, taking classes and stopping at ports along the way. I performed a stand up monologue and added observations about the guys and girls on board. They loved it, and I realized I don’t need a troop. I can do this on my own.

ORDEOU reports some comedy shows were canceled. Why the concrete crisis. They put a big picture of Jimmy Car and I was like, Oh, what did Jimmy Car do? Now nothing the story. Northampton’s Royal and Drine Gate Venue has announced that is closed its store for the rest of the month after finding reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete r AAC for you concrete aficionados and its building.

The venue said in a statement, due to the unfortunate discovery of r a A concrete in our buildings, Royland during Gate is temporarily closed. They canceled a bunch of shows, including you know, most of the audience here on Daily Company News as American. But you’ve heard me talk about some of these people. Jordan Grays, is it a Bird? Is canceled, s Faced Shakespeare canceled, Jimmy Carr canceled, Phil Wang canceled.

And those are just the four I Radio. It’s a total one, two, three, eight nine. I’ve been eleven or twelve. I scrolled out. It’s eleven or twelve, doesn’t matter.

It’s that many. Friend of the pod, Scott Beckett sent this one in about the Queen City Comedy Experience Tonight through the tenth. It features Chris Tucker, Shaun Wayne’s Colin Mockery doing his improv under hypnosis thing he calls hip prov the Capital Fools, Small Town Murder, and Therapy Get Go. It’s Charlotte’s largest comedy event fifty events spread across multiple venues, including dozens of show featuring regional talents like Tara Brown, Cartlett Dingle improv group, Now Are the Foxes, and many more. And that it’s your comedy needs for today.

I follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. One more shout out to Jimmy Buffett. If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane. I’m not going to start doing that every day, but the Jimmy buffettdn’t really bothered me. Seen Tomorrow

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matt Rife, Chris Rock, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, Jimmy Buffett, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis Netflix special ‘Beautiful Dogs’ debuts today
• Matt Rife Men’s Health controversy over comments about pretty people and body shaming
• Matt Rife’s workout routine and fitness regimen
• Joe Rogan and Bill Maher debate Biden vs Trump on JRE
• Rolling Stones announce new album ‘Hackney Diamonds’ with Fallon interview
• Death of Jimmy Buffett
• Chris Rock cancels Burning Man appearance

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck. Hey Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Today is the worst day of the year because we’re on the other side of labor Day and if you have a nine to five office job, today is always the day where the boss is like, okay, good good book to work and everybody’s like, way too serious. I hate today in the office, but luckily for me, this is my real gig. So I’m just in the basement telling you that Jane Gillis will make his Netflix debut today.

His special is called Beautiful Dogs. This was filmed earlier this year in Virginia. Looking forward to that little Matt Rife controversy. See, I had put away the story about Matt Rife being profiled by Men’s Health and Matt Rife telling you about the matt Rife workout. We’ll get to that.

But I saw a story on What’s Trending which said comedian Matt Rife, extremely popular in social media, is no stranger to controversy. In a recent interview with Men’s Health, the comedians stated that quote, no one wants to laugh at pretty people unquote. Well, those comments were not well received and spawned numerous satirical impressions. And commentary on women in comedy. Now, briefly after the initial interview clip was released, several TikTok creators are revisiting more of Rife’s comments.

In his video interview with the magazine, Rife has advised new Jim goers to focus on building chess muscle, saying that building a chest is so important. You want to have the chest of a man, not a twelve year old girl. While many fitness officionados understood Rife’s point on a technical level, many felt that insulting twelve year old girls in the process was uncalled for. Digital creator Big brow Bear accused Matt Rife of casual misogyny towards young women and body shaming other men. At the time of this recording, Rife has yet to comment on Men’s Health Gate.

All Right, onto the original story I had parked away for today from Men’s Health, comedian Matt Rife shares the workout that keeps him sharp. On stage, Rife tolds Men’s Health I’d love to box Harry Styles high stakes loser gets kissed on the mouth straight up, bring your a game or don’t whatever. I’m taking a dive in the second round regardless. More seriously, Rife said, I realized how much of a release working out is for your mental health, more than even your physical So it quickly becomes addicting. Then after you see the physical results, it becomes even more addicting, and you go, Okay, how hard can I really push this thing?

I hear you on that I mentioned I’ve been training for the marathon. I ran an awful thirteen yesterday. Just awful was a step back week, and I should have been much stronger. But hey, sometimes you bunk, but like the weight’s coming off, and like, I kind of want to run today. I shouldn’t because I’m stiff in my running.

Guru Hal Higden preaches about the importance of rest days. I’m going to rest my legs. I could be stronger tomorrow, but yeah, I want to run today. Rife says he tries to work out every day while he’s on the road, a few hours before he hit the stage before the first of his two shows. Recently, he underwent a taxing leg day that had him thinking, it’s so stupid to do that before two shows.

I’m busy twenty three hours a day. I sleep terribly, so that one hour a day at the gym is my hour to stay focused on my body and make myself happier. All right, Matt Rife’s favorite workout moves. You got a pen and pencil and a paper or whatever you write on these days, you got a notepad on your phone. Matt Rice does alternating incline press, three sets of twelve per arm pull ups, three sets of eight to ten reps.

Zotman to reverse Zotman curl. I don’t know what that is, but he do three sets of eight to ten reps. A Russian twist with a midball, three sets of ten per side loaded plank, three by ten plank, mountain climbers, three by ten Bulgarian split squats, three sets of eight to ten per leg. Billmore got into it with Joe Rogan appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan told Bill Moore that he believes Joe Biden appears frail, that he’s quote skeletal thin.

Billmore agreed that Trump looks more healthy and robust, calling him a city roach. The worst things he eats, the stronger he gets. Rogan said he’s also the only president who didn’t noticeably age. Billmore said, no, we did, but he’s a criminal, and he’s crazy, and he’s stupid and crazy and stupid or two different things. Stupid is Frederick Douglas is alive, where the stealth bomber is literally invisible, or healthcare is hard to solve.

Crazy is It’s important that the crowd of my inauguration is the biggest ever, and I’m going to make an issue of this for the first two weeks of my presidency despite photographic evidence of the controversy. Or another example from Bill Moore, I’m going to steal these documents and I’m gonna put them next to the toilet at Mara Largo, and I’m gonna fight you to take them back. We’re not conceding the election. Those things are crazy or thinking I can charm at Kim Jong hun and Korea, although that might be stupid sometimes across the line between both. But he’s both stupid and crazy, and he’s also a criminal.

Rogan then reeled off some of the charges Trump is facing, and Mare noted Trump still hasn’t conceded the election. Bill Moore said he tried every possible way of stealing the election. He tried to do it through the courts, he tried to do it through the legislators. He tried to do it through intimidating Mike Pence. He tried to do it through the Justice appointment.

They talked about seizing voting machines, They talked about using the army. You can’t really believe this guy’s not worse than Joe Biden. I agree, Joe Biden is not a great president, and the Hunter Biden stuff is a stinky scandal that stinks to the high heaven. But if you think that compares to what Trump tried to do, then you just cannot tell. Unlike things support, Rogan asked, Bill, do you think he really believes they stole the election?

Bill Moore said, who gives an aff It doesn’t matter. All the people around him told him he lost on one of his quotes they have on record. I don’t want people to know I lost this election. Rogan said, that’s kind of crazy. More said, he’s a clinical case of malignant narcissism.

It’s not a quirk. It’s actually in the big book of crazy. It affects everything he thinks and does. It’s why authoritarian leaders were able to curry favor from him. They kiss his ass and got whatever they wanted.

I think Putin had him as soon as he said I think Trump is a brilliant man. Again, by it’s not my first choice, not my hunter’s choice, but the other guy is a crazy, stupid criminal. Send your letters to Bill Moore courtesy of the Joe Rogan Experience. Hey, let’s change the topic completely. You know that half the audience is throwing rocks at their iPhones.

Well, soon on your iPhone you’ll be able to listen to a new Rolling Stones album. Hackney Diamonds is The Stone’s first studio album since two thousand and five. They’ll give us all the details tomorrow. You’re gonna want to get up early at nine thirty Eastern. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood will be interviewed by Jimmy Fallon.

The launch event will be hosted and streamed on YouTube. Over the weekend, we lost Jimmy Buffett. I was like, for real, like super sad Saturday morning, like totally bottomed out. My friend Dave broke the news to me via in an email, and I was on my way to the beach and I thought to myself, Jimmy would want me to go to the beach today, So I drove the two hours down the Jersey Shore listening to Jimmy music, and I totally bottomed out. I almost did a bonus episode from my phone.

But I’ve been trying to tie Jimmy Buffett into comedy. There’s really nothing other than the Dusty Sligh It’s five o’clock somewhere. Bit. If you haven’t heard that one, it is fantastic. Here’s a quick taste.

I do like that song. It’s five o’clock somewhere. Though there’s a line in the chorus where he says this. He goes, it’s only half past twelve past twelve thirty. Just to be clear, he said, it’s only half past twelve, but I don’t care.

It’s five o’clock somewhere, all right, Well that’s not true, you know what I mean. It may be five thirty somewhere. Rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett. Thank you for a lot of great concerts over the years. And in the words of jimm Buffett, if we couldn’t laugh, would all go and see Chris Rock and d a dip blow.

I’ve busted that out of burning man. Have you heard about the floods there? According to Chris Rock via the San Francisco gate. Rock said no one can clean or empty the portable toilets, quoting Rock from what I understand. Because of the flooding, the porta potties reportedly can’t be emptied.

Because the gates are closed, people can’t get into field generators or deliver supplies. KATVUTV said Chris Rock didn’t say why he was leaving, other than he just wanted a quote effing coldbrew. Rock was seen in a blue New York jacket, the wind whipping in his hair. According to KTVU, Sam Maill tweeted, being trapped at burning Man seems almost as bad as being trapped in a conversation with someone who went to Burning Man. Did you watch Office Race on Comedy Central last night?

No? I forgot as well, but good news it’s streaming on Paramount Plus. The New York Times reminds us that Beck Bennett starts as Patty Lacy quasiofic sales rep at an investment apps startup. Pat decides to train for a marathon. You know those weirdos high The New York Times says Beck Bennett makes for an adequate shlub, and his journey from the couch to twenty six point two miles is satisfying, if a bit too familier.

We get the usual sports movie beats, from training montages to motivational speeches. The Times adds the sporting cast is uniformly great. JB. Smooth is a champion race walker who advises Pat to partake in dipping tobacco to fortify his lungs. Kelsey Grammer as a small part as a former coach turned owner of a sports store at the time, says The Office.

Race MVP is Joel mchal as Pat’s maniacal, pun loving boss and race rival Spencer. Spencer chugs energy drinks as sex with Pat’s girlfriend and goes insane in an obsessive pursuit of marathon glory. Good cast Joe Mchael, Beck, Bennett, Kelsey Grammer, Alison Hannigan, JB. Smoove try paramount plus for that. One of my favorite shows is I just call it The Laker Show.

It is promptly called Winning Time on HBO Max, which isn’t even a thing anymore. Sorry Max, you guys blew that with that name. Anyway, The Laker Show. Are you watching it? It’s really good.

One of the characters on the Laker Show Genie Buss, Well, in real life, Genie Buss just got married over the weekend to Jay Moore. TMZ says a small intimate ceremony and Alibu. Twenty close friends and family members were in attendance. Variety asked Paul F. Tompkins, how do you create a character when you’re doing podcasts.

You’ve kind of moved away from impressions. Paul F. Said, I started doing comedy Bang Bang in two thousand and nine, and I think my first few appearances were over the phone. I think impressions I knew I could do that already came out of doing Best Week Ever, and impressions is very loose because it was characatures essentially of famous people. Then I started looking for more voices that I could do when I started my own podcast and then I don’t know it twenty fifteen, twenty thirteen, something like that.

I think the first one I did was maybe JW. Stillwater, the idea of like, I’m tired of doing these people who were tied to the real world. That felt like a limited thing to me. If I make a person out of whole cloth, then I’m not confined to that. There’s no anchor to the real world.

It could just be whatever it wants. It was also my way of learning improv without going and take classes. The biggest lesson for me was being okay with failure because I’ve always had a perfectionist streak control problem, and it would bump me out when things that I want to do, things I’d put on stage on the show, didn’t work when there are a lot of moving parts. If the thing didn’t get pulled off properly, it made me mad. It made me mad.

I have to lie on other people that way and made me mad I wasn’t able to communicate the thing I wanted to communicate adequately enough. Made me mad that I only had one shot at it and I couldn’t do it again. It didn’t work the way I wanted it to work. So doing characters and doing improv, that’s the whole thing that’s built into it. Sometimes it’s not gonna work and you have to be okay with it and move on.

John to Peers, Scott asked about cancel culture. Why, because she’s a comedian and all comedians get asked in every interview about cancel culture. Shahnda’s answer, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. In twenty five years, there’ll be no reality of what was going on in twenty twenty three. First of all, this free speech.

Second of all, you’re missing some great laughs. The world today’s so crazy. I’d love to be canceled to be so cool and great publicity. I’m not politically correct. I’ve been crafting a long letter to Dave Chappelle because I want to tell him welcome to the family.

The bottom line is, comedy’s a beautiful way to speak truth. It’s a palatable way for your audience to accept truth. And that’s all. He did speak truth in his opinion, and he gets beat up over it. Washton Post profiled earthquake and they said, hey, you had the Netflix special.

You’re popping up on TV shows. What’s the goal here? Quite said, to have my own TV show and do more movies. I’m going to write a book, and i want to do select dates of comedy but on the road for thirty two years. I’m really trying to do like Dave Chappelle does.

He works a lot, but he chooses where he wants to work and when he wants to work and how he wants to work. All right, quick what’s the TV show going to be about? Earthquake? Said? I can’t say too much about it, but it’ll be based in Washington, DC, about a government agency in DC, and it’ll be filmed in DC.

Did you ever think about quitting? Only one time? When I lost Beet’s comic View, Cedric the entertainer talk me out of it. He was like, what else you gonna do? You’re a great comedian.

The last about twenty four hours. I got back to it the next day. You can still have a meaningful career even if you don’t get commercial success. That doesn’t mean you’re not an artist. I learned when you do comedy’s subjective.

You might be funny to one person, but you’re not funny to another. Doug Stanhope is going to store in the movie The Road Dog. The Road Dog tells the story of an aging alcoholic comedian good casting. Doug plays Jimmy Quinn, a veteran of stand up Comedy’s Glory Days. Now I’m wondering, having seen the movie or the trailer winner stand Up Comedies Glory Days?

Is that the seventies? Is it the nineties? Is it five minutes ago? I don’t know. But in the Road Dog.

When Jimmy’s longest strange son, David, also an aspiring comedian, seeks him out, Jimmy offers to take him on the road and show them the ropes. They begin to grow close, but tension to rise due to Jimmy’s self destructive behavior. Ultimately, Jimmy must decide what he values most.

Also in the cast, Tim Kazarinski and Greg Fitzsimmons, Do you hear my voice s…

I did a lot of shows into Labor Day weekend. I was also going to record next weekend, but now I’m not because I can’t speak anymore. The film will be released digitally on October sixth. All right, let me tell you what really happened. I took a sip of my ice coffee, and I recorded the rest of the podcast.

And then I looked and the file had stopped recording right when I took the sip. I don’t know why it did that. It’s not like I don’t take breaks and take SIPs of coffee. I usually don’t tell you about it. So now I have to do the final two stories again.

But that’s okay. A couple of books are out today. Maria Bamford’s called Sure I’ll Join Your Cult memoir of Mental Illness and the questa Belong Anywhere. These are the stories of the actual, hilarious and howing scenarios that inspired her best known material. It’s less about the psychology of a comedian than it is a mental health memoir of a sensitive answer is craving gen Xer London Hughes as a book out today as well, called Living My Best Life Hunt Following Your Dreams is no joke.

It’s a contemporary stab at the dickensiean formula depicting how an outsider rose through the heavily structured British pop culture complex to make her dreams come true. And coming up in a week or so, It’s the twenty twenty three Milwaukee Roast Championships, a four round tournament where comic slam one another back and forth. The semifinals are September fourteenth, the finals are in October. The organizers hope to forge connections with neighboring roast scenes like Madison and Chicago that could lay the groundwork for a potential roast circuit. I say go all in thirty team Roast League Today New York City takes on Madison you’d watch.

All right. My voice is shot now, so I’m not recording any more episodes. I’m going to go do something else. Support my sponsors factor, the food’s good. I’m telling you, DraftKings, Go, Niners, say no More.

Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. All right, boss, let’s have a meeting and talk about the Fall initiative. Summer’s over. I’m so sad. Bye,

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Featured: Michelle Wolf, Eliza Shlesinger, Jimmy Kimmel, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Stephen Colbert, Mark Normand, Nicole Byer, John Crist, Andrew Dice Clay, Adam Carolla

What’s in This Episode

• Michelle Wolf’s HBO special ‘Nice Lady’ and 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner experience
• Eliza Shlesinger’s arena comedy tour and energetic performance style
• Jimmy Kimmel considered retiring when writers strike began
• Ben Affleck and Matt Damon offered to pay Kimmel’s staff during strike
• Mark Normand opens new special with crowd interaction for topical material
• Andrew Dice Clay cast as high school basketball coach in ‘Warrior Strong’ movie
• John Crist’s ‘Every Christian Music Video’ parody

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. We are running at a simmer My friends. Hi’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Westworld profiled Michelle Wolf. She’ll have a new special out next week.

Back in twenty sixteen, Michelle had to juggle Daily Show duties while going on tour. That tour eventually became her twenty seventeen HBO special Nice Lady. Michelle said, I wanted to do that hour one hundred times before I taped it, so I spent part of twenty sixteen and most of twenty seventeen touring it. I worked at the Daily Show Monday through Thursday. Then on Thursday I’d leave to go to whatever club I was performing at that weekend.

I do shows Thursday, Friday and Saturday, fly home Sunday, and go back to work at the Daily Show on Monday. It was definitely a grind, but it was also my first comedy special, and I was doing it for HBO, which was such an honor. So I really wanted to do with Justice, and I’m glad I did because I’m really happy with the final product. Michelle Wolf then talked about doing the twenty eighteen White House Correspondence Dinner that put her in the National Spotlight. Sure did, and she said, when they first asked me to do it, I was a little hesitant because I didn’t know what kind of jokes that could write for these people.

I took a couple days to see what I could come up with, and after those first couple of days, I was like, all right, I think I got the hang of what I want to do. I’ll be able to do something interesting and fun. I had a great time. I think it’s easy to tell jokes about people that aren’t in the room. It’s hard, but ultimately very fun to tell jokes about people who are in the room, especially when they deserve to be joked about.

She maintains that the Correspondence dinner was misrepresented in the media. Michelle said, they said I only went after the right, which I clearly didn’t. I went after the right and the left, but most importantly, I went after the media itself, because the media is just doing a disservice to us all and not actually providing us with good news. I don’t mean good as in happy news, I mean accurate news. I feel like journalism doesn’t really exist in the news media environment, and everybody’s just listening to what they want to hear and not what’s actually happening.

Everyone has a big bias, and I really think all the media, every major outlet, is doing a huge disservice to us as a society. Vanya Land spoke to Eliza Selessenger, who said, I always want women to leave my shows feeling good, but it’s never the expensive men. This is a show for young women, couples and everybody on every spectrum, because at the end of the day, stand up is about being human and I have a really energetic act, so I feel like it’ll lend itself perfectly to a space like an arena. There’s a lot of physicality in it. It’s still fun that people like about my act.

There’s voices, body movement, things take a weird direction. I pride myself on the fact that a fan once told me that my brand is consistently off brand, and I like that. I like setting up a joke and take into a different place. This is one of those hours where you strap in for it and before you know it, it’s over. I liked the idea of people leaving the arena and trying to figure out why they’re face hurts in a good way.

Of course. The Late Night Guys have their new Strike Force five podcast. In the premiere, Jimmy Kimmel revealed that he was considering retiring when the strike began. Kimmel said, I was very intent on retiring right around the time when the strike started. Now I realize, oh yeah, it’s kind of nice to work.

You know, when you’re working, you think about networking. Kimmel also revealed that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon contacted him and offered to pay the staff for two weeks a week each. They wanted to pay them out of their own pocket. Kimmel declined. He said, I felt that was not their responsibility.

Stephen Colbert said, couldn’t you say yes and then give your money to us. Mark Norman enjoys interacting with the fans. At the end of his hour, he’ll ask the fans to give him some news topics. Mark Norman said, I only did it because I needed content for the Internet. I didn’t want to burn material.

It’s a perfect way to get a Hunter Biden riff out there, or Trump riff, or a submarine sinking riff. I’ll ever put that in my act because it’s a submarine it’s topical, it comes and goes. It’s a perfect way to get material for the Internet, and hopefully it’s still funny and you don’t have to burn your act. I’ve been doing it for years and I got pretty good at it. I thought, let’s open the special with that, because I don’t think I’ve seen anyone do that yet.

Opening a special talking with the crowd it worked pulls you in. Las Vegas Weekly asked Nicole Buyer, what’s the most surprising place you’ve ever been hit on before? Nicole said, this is hard because sometimes I don’t know when I’m being hit on. I was just hit on the airport by like a sixty year old man in a neck brace. The whole situation was weird.

I thought I fell in love in Denver because this guy was flirting with me at the sandwich shop. Then I invited him to my show and then he brought his girlfriends. I was like, Oh, maybe he was just trying to sell me a sandwich real quick. At the beginning of the month. I’d like to thank those who are the members on buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, So thank you, Tommy Amy, Gary Shannon, Mike and Kenny for your monthly contributions.

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You can even join the two dollar Club just two dollars a month. It adds up over time. Much appreciated everybody. CBN spoke to John Christ who said everybody in the King’s Court would say, you look good, you’re doing the best, You’re incredible, everything’s great, and then the jester was the guy would come in and kind of make fun of everything. It was done in a way that was therapeutic and helpful, not to tear anybody down.

Every video I’ve ever made, obviously we ruffle some feathers every now and then, but my hope would be that the person we’re making the joke about would laugh at it and still that it’s funny. And ninety nine percent of the time that’s what happens. His latest video is called Every Christian Music Video, and it points to elements found in almost every Christian music video. John said, there’s always some kind of disagreement or argument. That guy leaves the house.

The guy is some kind of transformation process, and then he comes back home and everyone’s forgiven and yield and restored. In like two minutes and thirty seconds. No really, he gets into what’s going on. He just kind of sees across in the clouds or something like that and comes home. Andrewdyce Clay will be in a new movie.

He will play a high school basketball coach. Yeah, uh huh. It’s called Warrior Strong, which follows a suspended pro basketball player who must work alongside his old coach played by Andrew dyce Clay, in order to restore his image and bring a ragtag team of high school basketball players back together on the court. Does that not sound like a movie that should start Adam Sandler? Did Sandler pass on that one?

What’s going on there? Adam Carolla spoke to the La Downtown News and said, as my fans know, my parents were too lazy to give me a middle name, so when it came time to get my license, I just threw Lakers in there on a whim. I’m an LA guy, so it made sense. Still waiting for those season tickets, though, maybe I’ll change it to Clippers next time. After anew podcastings in my blood.

My father was a podcaster, My grandfather was a podcaster. My great grandfather was podcasting on a steamer from Italy on its way to Ellis Island. So of course I grew up wanting to be a podcaster. From DC ist, a DC comedian is bringing funny arabs to the Kennedy Center. Rola Zaroor is known professionally as Rola Zi.

Born in Lebanon, she was forced to leave her home during its Civil war and grew up in Greece. Years later, she experienced a revolution in Kutasa when she was living in Egypt, and she moved to DC and her marriage failed and she was laid off from her job, so she became a comedian. Rola Zi said, I was like, there’s nothing left to do but getting a comedy, because no one goes to comedy when they’re happy. Right. She was doing a show during Veterans Appreciation Week and pay attention here.

I just said, any veterans, Oh, thank you for everything you do for us. Without you, guys, I wouldn’t be here today. There’d be no wars in the Middle East. She just kept going. Last week, a guy took me on a unique dining experience.

It’s called Dinner in the Dark. I walk in, I get nostalgic. This is like my childhood during the war. There’s no electricity, but surprise, we found bread. So she’s now producing Funny Arabs.

I wanted to see Arab American comedians and showcase their talent, but also tell our diverse story. It was really important to me to showcase the diversity of what it means to be an Arab and what our stories are. The Kennedy Center will host Funny Arabs at the Millennium Stage on Saturday, September nine, six pm. Based on those couple of jokes there, it sounds like it’d be pretty good, right. And that’s your Daily Comedy News for today.

Thank you to Factor and DraftKings for supporting today’s show. Follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Summer’s over,