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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Sebastian Maniscalco, Mark Hamill, Robert De Niro, Ellie Collins

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s ‘The Machine’ movie release and lack of early reviews
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s ‘About My Father’ movie opens with positive reviews
• Bert Kreischer on transitioning from stand-up to film acting
• Sebastian Maniscalco discusses challenges of acting and line memorization
• Late night writers strike updates and Late Bot comedy
• Jimmy Kimmel hosting ALS research benefit comedy show

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Late night writers still on strike now, the late Bot, one of you Wisenheimer’s must be feeding it material about my actual off air personality because these are way too close. So in real life, I’ve got Taylor Swift tickets tonight. That’s right, I know you’re jealous. I sat online for four hours and got them.

Late Bot says, tonight, Taylor Swift’s concert, it’s about to get a dose of cranky cool as Johnny Mac races the audience with his presence. Brace yourselves for some serious eye rolls and disapproving nods. Late Bot says, I could already see Johnny Mac in the crowd, awkwardly attempting to dance like no one’s watching. Spoilert we’re all watching. Taylor Swift’s concert is known for its energetic atmosphere, but I have a feeling Johnny Mac will be the one guy in the crowd muttering can we just get to the encore ready?

I just want to go to bed, pretty much true. Bert Craisher’s movie The Machine opens today. I’ve been excited about this one, but as I’m recording one thirty pm on Thursday. There are no reviews available yet. Now Sebastian Maniscalco’s movie, which also opens today, plenty of reviews and those reviews are pretty good, so I’m wondering why the movie company is hiding The Machine usually not a good sign.

The trailer look pretty good, the cast is pretty good. We’ll see rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, drug use, and some sexual references. The Machine is one hour and fifty two minutes long. If you are not familiar with the Machine, It’s based on Bert Kreisher’s comedy Routine from twenty sixteen, where he recounted his real life college experience in Russia with some Russian gangsters. The movie features a plot spoilers light spoilers where Bert and his father, who’s played by Mark Hamill, are kidnapped by the mob.

They want revenge on Burt for how we wrong them all those years ago, Bert Krescher’s old movie web Working on the movie was refreshing. It’s really fun to watch someone as talented as our writers do their work. The coolest thing and the thing I took the most away from the movie is letting people do their job and not trying to micromanage as a stand up you micromanage everything. You’re the writer, producer, actor to you do everything. I get my own beer from the fridge, like I do everything.

And so getting on that movie set and watching Assassin’s Kill it was awesome and inspiring. He told Paul Star. The big inspiration for the movie was Romancing the Stone. That was such a great movie that it didn’t need to be funny because it was a great movie. Bert says, I think going into this, we thought, let’s make a great movie that also happens to be funny, and I think we accomplished it.

In case you’re worried if Bert Kreischer is going to go big time Hollywood now he’s a film star, he says, nah, he likes performing in front of thousands of fans. You don’t get it in acting. You don’t even get it. In podcasting and podcasting you’re kind of doing it on an island, not even realizing anybody hears it. Reforming live is very immediate.

I’m a junkie for immediacy. I want things delivered yesterday. I don’t think I have success. I think I just worked really hard and it looks like I’m successful. But I bust my ass on the road.

A lot of comedians like to take time off. I just don’t understand that, what are you gonna do with your time? Why wouldn’t you want to work? So we will see what the reviews are. Sebastian Maniscalco’s About My Father also opens today.

RATEA PG thirteen one hour, twenty nine minutes, perfect, Sebastian, perfect, enough with the two hour forty minute movies Everybody an hour twenty nine Yes, reviews for this one pretty good. Sebastian was a preview in Chicago the other day and look back on growing up in Chicago and said, growing up here and getting ripped to shreds. Chicago likes to bust chops, and that gives you a thick skin. I know a couple of friends in Chicago were funnier than I am. They should have been comedians, and I just grew up with a fun group of people, a fun family.

When people come to my house, my parents would always make them laugh. Sebastian discussed the acting process and said, I’ve noticed it’s very hard to act say lines and do something else at the same time. For example, driving a car and pulling the car over while talking to someone else is something that I have a hard time doing in real life, let alone when we’re doing it in a film. They actually gave me an activity to do in the script, and I found myself becoming more concentrated on the activity than I was on the film, so it was definitely a learning experience. I also have a problem with memorizing my lines.

I have to continually say them. I know some people can read their lines once and boom, they’re off to the races. I actually found rehearsal it’ll be really helpful. We would burn through the lines few times. It was all a lesson in filmmaking for me.

Sebastian said, if somebody’s saying lines that are funnier, better than what’s in the script you wrote, let’s have at it. The reason you hire actors in the first places for them to bring their own spin of the characters, and if they want to improvise, we’re totally game for it, just as long as it’s done script the storyline. It’s a sort of collaborative process where we’ve got a director, a cinematographer and other actors involved. You just have to be open and letting people play in the sandbox and build their own castle. I definitely had a great time just playing in this movie.

There’s no stand up. In Sebastian Maniscalco’s about my father, he said, I never really even thought about it. Stand up didn’t really have a story here. The story was a relationship between my wife and I and me being a hotel general managers. What I would have done if I wasn’t a stand up, So that’s where that came from.

But I didn’t see stand up being an integral part of the movie. But I did for a living. Really didn’t matter. It was more about the relationship with dad and go to meet my wife’s family. As for the movie itself, Variety says Sebastian plays quote himself, the successful Chicago based manager of a batique hotel who falls for a painter and artist, Ellie Collins.

Sebastian, the character is the son of widowed Italian immigrant hairdresser Salvo played by Robert de Niro. Sebastian is slightly uneasy with the affluence of his love interest family, which owns an international chain of resorts and hotels. Light spoilers here. When Ellie invites him demeanor parents over fourth of July. He decides it’s a perfect opportunity to propose.

The only hiccup is the family ring Sebastian and hope to use for his proposal is held tightly by Salvo played by Robert de Niro, who insists on vetting the Collins is himself before agreeing to hand it off. Right, you can kind of see where this is going, right to meet the parents. Yes, there’s an inevitable culture clash between Ellie’s family and blue collar Salvo. Sebastian navigates each social opportunity with clenched unease. The Hollywood reporter not as positive.

They say the film feels like the pilot for a network sitcom, pointing out it’s not dirty enough for streaming that you wonder why the cast isn’t smiling In a montage scorts where perky theme song during the opening credits, little spoiler here coming up to quickly bring the audience up to speed about his persona, Mattascalco narrates a short lecture about his family history and Sicilian roots, complete with images of Italian men wearing tight speedos. At last piece of information should immediately clue you into which comedic route the film is going to pursue two words for you, lure clash. You can pretty much figure out the rest. Holly Reporter summary is about my father. Isn’t nearly as funny as it aspires to be, but it’s saving grace as its lack of mean spirits.

Most of the characters are characteratures to some degree, but they’re never viciously mocked. Jimmy Kimmel is hosting a comedy show tonight to support ALS research as his godson Joey’s currently battling the disease. Perella was diagnosed with the disease about a year ago. He spoke to Katsie Envy and said, my life is perfect in every way. I feel tremendously fortunate.

He says his biggest obstacle in living with ALS is losing my voice, my inability to interact with other people and to be able to express my personality. Jimmy Kimmel said, you can’t imagine that something like this would happen to anybody but somebody who’s so alive, and we need to do something about it. The benefit tonight six thirty at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on the Las Vegas Strip with the holiday weekend coming up. Just want to point out I will have normal episodes at the normal times all weekend long. Drew Carey has announced on Twitter he’ll pick up the tab for all striking writers at two restaurants in LA that includes the tip.

Drew said, show your WGA card at Bob’s Big Boy and burd Bank were Swingers Diner on Beverly near Fairfax, and your meal is free for the duration of the strike. Dine in only tip included. The Paley Center for Media announced on Thursday that the screening of the season three finale and possible series finale of Ted Lasso and a panel with the cast that would have included Jason Sidekis and Brendan Hunt, who place Coach Beard that’s been scrapped due to quotes unforeseen circumstances. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the quotes unforeseen circumstances are the strike, as Jason Sadekas co created the series and along with Brendan Hunt, serves as a writer. The Writer’s Guild as asked members not to participate in press events that were organized by studios, So yeah, unforeseen circumstances.

Ivan Decker was planning on filming two specials last night. I will assume they actually happened, heats all the times colonist. We live in a content crazy society now. That time in which you have to release something is getting shorter and shorter. Comedians are now having to release a new hour of material every year.

Let’s just enough time. There were three years between Chris Rocks Bring the Pain and Bigger and Blacker, and those were two of the best specials of all time. He says of his special his goal is not to make a lot of money. His main goal is exposure, getting my name out there and finding people who like the kind of comedy I do. I just want to perform live and getting do that in larger and larger venues for more and more people.

That’s the main idea. He’s been working on the set for three months, tinkered with the routine over twenty performances, and said, I wanted to make sure the material is something that will work across all different environments, and very thankful for all the prep and rehearsals I’ve had. It’s like a baseball player working on their swing. You want to make sure you get a hit as often as possible. The new Zealand Comedy Festival winds down this weekend.

If you can make it there by Saturday, go see Sreen Nairs, Sree shows called upside Down Uber and Uber Eats sometimes have the same drivers. How do I know this because last week I got delivered to a white couple and the curry day ordered Venture Town and had a blast. It was great. Could you imagine one curry in the middle of the dance floor. Everyone’s like that looks hot.

Little hecky, little hack. Maybe not worth the flight to New Zealand. Why don’t you go to Idaho instead? This weekend Idaho’s Best, Worst, and Weirdest Comedians. Local comedian Beth Norton told The Idaho Statesman that last year’s competition, which featured a one thousand dollars award for the best comedian, wasn’t the best for the comedian’s mental health.

So this time each night will award the best, worst, and weirdest comedians. Norton said, there’s a competition element, but it’s a spoof. It’s kind of like making fun of competitions. She wasn’t quite sure what the categories would be, but some of the possibilities Idaho’s Best Lesbian, Idaho’s Worst Christian and Idaho’s weirdest take on Pearl Harbor. And The Guardian went to see Phil Lang, one of my favorite comics.

He was at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The Guardian gave him four stars out of five and they said, in a quietly confident show with gangs from the sophisticated to the stupid, Phil is consistently enjoyable. Yeah. Finally his special, I think it’s on Netflix. There’s one of those out there.

You get a little bit of everything he’s good at is. Phil kicks off with cross cultural British Chinese material of the type that made his name. He’s got riff on the British fear of reheating rice and one about requiring nipples to be covered even when the quote unquote boob blob is exposed. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify.

Ut Hey, if you’re a tailor tonight at the stadium, come say hi. I’ll be the old guy who’s like, why why is that guy here? See you tomorrow. So you’re at McDonald’s and you get your bag and you open your bag. You want to grab a couple of fries or something, and there’s five thousand dollars in it.

Yeah, this happened at one guy. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of Five Good News Stories. He gave the money back. Don’t worry. If you want to start your day with a smile.

Twice a week, I’ve got five good news stories for you. For example, there’s an airline for dogs. Or what about the woman in her eighties who just released her debut album. How about the dude who found one hundred and fifty corn on the cobbs under his floorboards? Is corn on the cobs even the way you say that?

Who cares? And yes, that was a pony at the supermarket. Five Good News Stories the number five good news Stories. Five good News Stories, the number five Good News Stories. Wherever you get your podcasts

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Featured: Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Whitney Cummings, Ron Funches, Jackie Martling, Paul Douglass

What’s in This Episode

• Wanda Sykes Netflix special with trans-related jokes
• Wanda Sykes addresses Dave Chappelle controversy and hasn’t spoken to him
• Just for Laughs Montreal 2023 lineup announcement
• Whitney Cummings on modern comedy challenges post-Chris Rock slap
• Ron Funches on LeBron James’ longevity in NBA
• Jackie Martling rents house for TV/film productions
• New Zealand International Comedy Festival updates
• Rhode Island Comedy Festival returns with Krista Stephens as headliner

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, Late Night Writers on Strike, The Late Bought said you see. Ronda Santis announced he’s running for president on Twitter. Finally a candidate who’s messed with the order of making big decisions in two hundred and eighty characters are less. Ronda Santas running for president. His entire campaign will be conducted through DMS.

I bet his campaign slogan will be something like retweet if you agree, ignore if you don’t. Just for laps Montreal just two months away, sneaking up on me. They’ve announced some more names. There’s a pre sale today at ten am. If you want to go on there, use the code at jfl MTL Leslie Jones, Eddie Hazard, Made Martin, Mike Ward, Running Chang, Neil Brennan, Rommy Yusef Darcy and Jeer Brad Williams.

Please don’t destroy Jessica Curson, Felipia Sparza, Gina You Sheer, Kyle Kinane, He’s awesome, and a bunch of names I did not read. Leslie Jones will do a gala on July twenty ninth, so well, May Martin One night only for Ronny Chieng At Neil Brennan and Rommy Yusef Russell Well MC four shows, JFL previously announced Donelle Rolling, Stephtola and adrian I Polucci. She’s fantastic. The Just for the Culture Show at Club Soda will have Alonzo Bowden, John Marcos Serresi who killed last year, Nicole Johnson, and Malik Elasal. I’m planning on deep diving on Montreal tomorrow Today.

Candidly, I have to get the podcast down. I actually have to go to a meeting for once. Can you believe it? I know, even Johnny Mac has to work sometimes. Variety caught up with Wanda Sykes.

In her new special, she does a run of jokes related to the trans community, and Wanda said, I knew it’s such a delicate issue to talk about. I’m not trans, but they have my support one hundred percent. I wanted to find something where it can shine some light on what they’re going through, to show how stupid and hateful it really is. I was in a woman’s bathroom one time and I was like, who would want to come in here? Anyway?

It was like I kind of want to go check out the men’s room sometimes it’s even cleaner. That’s how that whole bit started. I’ve always been grossed out by bathrooms. Variety asked, do you feel that because you’re a SPECIALS and Netflix special that you have to do the topic because Chappelle et cetera, et cetera, And she said, I don’t know about balancing it out because I think what he said was so hurtful and damaging to the trans community. So yeah, the scale is still tipped.

But I know I wanted to say something because so much have been said on that platform. Meeting Netflix, I definitely wanted to say something on the other side of it. They asked if she knows Dave, and she said, m we started doing stand up together in DC. Yeah, go way back. As she’s spoken to Dave Chapelle about this no long pause.

I mean it’s not intentional, you know. I still love the guy, but I haven’t a chance to talk to him. If our pats did cross, I totally would say something. Variety said, there’s been a real backlash among some comedians about so called comedy want to Syke said, it’s pretty funny. If you want to give me the label of a woke comic, that’s fine.

That’s great. What makes me laugh is that they say it’s like an insult. Oh they’re woke, thank you. Yeah, I read some stuff from time time. Yeah, I know a few thinks it’s not an insult at all.

I mean George Carlin he was woke, which prior woke, Bill Hicks woke. It’s almost like they’re anger that we’re evolving. It’s sad, really. Whitney Cummings told Okay magazine it’s always been hard to be a comedian. In some ways, it’s easier than ever because you can build up and engage in an audience on social media and don’t have to wait for Johnny Carson Er Jay Leno with David Letter going to make you famous.

Comedians have always been physically attacked, including Ronny Dangerfield and Jim Jeffreys, but after the Chris Rock nightmare and this nonsense narrative the comedians are bullies, it seems to have escalated. She said, the great part of being a comedian today is you don’t have to wait for Hollywood to pick you and then censor you. Most comics of podcasts, I can do what they want without all the gatekeepers. I think of anything, it’s hard to be a human in this day and age and any job, and it seems we have a low chance of being replaced by robots. And this is coming from a comedian who made a twin robot of herself.

Some rumors that Lebron James Mayor sired, Ron Funches said, well, that’s just because of how great he is. We judge him basically on his passing when he’s done before. But to see a player this old still playing his whole entire draft class has retired, moved on selling cars that use car lots, Twayne Wade’s hosting a TV show, and Lebron’s still out there bawling, putting up twenty points, getting rebounds, affecting the game. At that age, it’s crazy. He should be like Robert Parrish, just sitting on the bench, hanging out, knitting a sweater.

But he’s not. He’s crushing it. He and Son Brady are anomalies. We’ve never seen things like that before. Now, if you were watching Blue Bloods and watch these season thirteen finale and you’re like, I know that house Jackie the joke man lives there, you were correct.

Apparently Jackie rents out his house all the time. And says I was till the neighbors relaxed. The circus is coming to town and they give money to everybody in gift cards. There everybody wins. Anything they do to the house or rerange is put back precisely.

His house has also been used in the Affair and Instinct. Jackie the joke Man lists his house with the Nassau County Film Commission. Anyone can, and Jackie said, everybody mentioned it to my favorite show, my uncle’s favorite show, that’s my mother’s favorite show. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited gonna have my popcorn. Jackie wouldn’t say exactly how much he was paid, but indicated it’s tens of thousands of dollars.

Only a few days left of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and it’s been an amazing run of Southern Hemisphere comedy. Right we had Melbourne and then Sydney and Sydney overlap with New Zealand. But after this weekend, Johnny Mexicanna have to focus on North American comedy once again. But New Zealand’s not over yet. If you can make it down there tomorrow, go see Paul Douglass.

His shows called The Thirst for the Worst figured out the hard way. The worst place you can go to with a hangover is a retirement village. Yeah, worst place. They’re way too sprightly, you know. At least the fall was visiting a rest home.

They’re kind of confined to their rooms, and you can just do that thing we all do when you go to the hospital and you just be lying down the hallway but you can’t help but like get a little looking at the other rooms. You’re like, oh my god, you know. But retirement villagers they wait, they moved too much. They’re too mobile old people to retire villages. They’re all like free range geriatrics.

And that’s what I was worried about. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, I thought that they would see these and be like, oh, fresh airs. I’m gonna tell him a yahn, you know. Sure enough, I reckon. I got two steps out of the car.

One of them is like, my grandson’s got a hat like that, and I was like, there he does. He was fun, very charismatic. If you’re looking at the video, The Rue Island Comedy Festival returns to Nate. Festival organizer Doug Key said, or kickoff tonight in Portsmouth at the Regged Island Brewery. Saturday and Sunday we’re at Jean Pickens and Monday at the Top of Pelham.

Who were the acts? We have comics from Canada, from La a bunch of New York City and some from random towns. They put in their submission and we watch hundreds of tapes. We select thirty comics out of around three hundred. Wow.

As far as the headliners, I look for who’s getting the most heat in the industry right now that I can afford. I see who’s gonna pop soon. I try to get them in the festival before they become unattainable. This year, the headliner Krista Stephano. He sold out over a month ago.

He also sold out Radio City Right organizer Doug Key, who are you looking forward to seeing? And he said, Napoleon Emal. He’s been on the scene for a while and he’s starting to get a little more notoriety. He just added, don’t tell comedy special that came out. These are like secret shows and all of them are going viral.

He’s playing tonight and then Mike Cannon. I’m super excited to see on Saturday at Jean Pickens. He’s a festival favorite and he’s our very first festival in twenty fifteen. Nice Eric Idol says the spamm Alot movie not gonna happen. It had been announced a few years back.

But here’s the catch within the pith everybody needs to agree on a project. Eric Idle wants to make the film, but apparently it’s been vetoed by John Clees, Michael Palin and oratory. Gilliam Idol simply said on Twitter, in regards of the film net the pythons killed it. He later added the deal from a few years ago has expired. He did not elaborate and why it was killed.

It seems like there might be a little strife amongst the pythons. John Clees is supposedly working on a stage adaptation of Life of Brian. Maybe Eric Idle should beto that you guys can trade. Wouldn’t that work out nicely? Yeah?

Do that? Eric? Courting to Eric Idle, he has nothing to do with Life of Brian, he said, I have nothing at all to do with this production or adaptation. Apparently Clees has cut the song. Of course, the song meeting always look on the bright side of life.

There will also not be a crucifixion on stage, so that all suggests different ending than the movie. We’ll see what happens Bad news for Azaz and Sorry Vultuates, Bad Fortune befell the set of Good Fortune as the production is shut down and definitely, as of May eighteenth, picketers showed up at the location, shutting down a night shoot. It’s not clear wind production will resume. And from the Wall Street Journal, You’re home for comedy news. Chinese dissidents new weapon against Beijing selling out New York comedy shows.

One of the hottest tickets in New York is a monthly open mic show conducted entirely in Mandarin by performers whose identities are sometimes hidden. This was organized by a group of exiled women’s rights activists from China. It’s we’re running for about a year, usually sells out. Recently, the website crashed because every seat was snatched up inside sixty seconds. The performers are amateurs, a mix of students, young professionals, and activists.

On a recent show, a blackclad young Chinese women riffed on the idea of one of her friends telling her to go back to China to return home as a citizen of a powerful country rather than remain a second class citizen in the US. The comedian joked, Yeah, I’m a minority here, but if I go back to China, I’m still female. Right. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify on YouTube.

You’re gonna smash the light button and subscribe and ring the bell and all the stuff the kids do. Right, yeah, sure, why not see tomorrow? Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat? No? All right?

Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of Five Good News Stories. It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue, Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles? Or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license. Oh, by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly.

It’s five Good News Stories. Nice easy way to start your morning. Five Good News Stories the number five Good News Stories. Wherever you get your podcasts

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Featured: Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Bruce Springsteen, Colin Mochrie, Donnel Rawlings, Ed Norton

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura announces new Netflix special ‘Sledgehammer’ releasing July 4th
• Tom Segura discusses cutting material and editing process for new special
• Tom Segura removes Ted Cruz bit from special due to length constraints
• Bert Kreischer works out with Arnold Schwarzenegger, compliments his calves
• Late night writers still on strike, Late Show makes Biden bedtime joke
• Donnel Rawlings hosting Donnell Land Weekend Festival in Ohio with canoeing trip
• Colin Mochrie Scared Script List tour featuring improvisation games without Wayne Brady and Ryan Styles
• Adam Sandler unflattering ESPN photo comparison sparks social media reaction
• Chris Rock attends Bruce Springsteen concert in Rome at Circus Maximus

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, The Late Night Writers still on strike. The Late Bought was talking about President Biden trying to get this budget deal done and pointed out the President Biden’s early bedtime is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it’s starting to negotiate when he’s in bed by seven. On the other hand, at least he won’t accidentally tweet his real thoughts at two AM and going to bed.

That’s a good thing because it prevents him from sending late night text to Republicans that start with hey you up. Tom Segura, he’ll have a new special on Netflix. Tom Sagora Sledgehammer coming out July fourth. Interesting choice of date there. Sagora filmed this before he sold out crowd at Phoenix’s celebrity theater, I Matchine.

He filmed it in front of like a half empty theater. Wouldn’t it be weird? This one we’ll talk about Tom Sagora’s comedian wife. They’re two young sons, his now widowed mom whoever’s been sharing his gummies and Brad Pitts. Tom just wrapped up his tour and he misses his two young kids.

He said, I got home two nights ago. By the time you’re hearing this, it’s probably more like four nights ago. I did my last show in Iceland, flew back, and yet at that age the kids, you miss a month and you’re like, whoa, you’re a different person. Tom looked back on the pandemic and said, you know, it’s hard to put yourself in that headspace again because now, honestly, anybody talks about pandemic stuff, you’re like, are they still talking about that? But you’d talk to your agent at the beginning there and they’d be like, yeah, I don’t know, I don’t know what’s coming back.

And when you go to a club in Oklahoma City, they’ll let you do a show and you’d agree to it. It was just a whole different world. An important part of this set for Tom Segura was talking about his father’s death. He said, obviously he didn’t play like, hey, this is a real serious thing I’m going to talk about, but it was definitely something that sat with me. I’ll say I’m really pleased with the special.

I made some really grown up decisions. I wanted this to be a tighter special. When I look back at my old specials. I always regret not cutting out more so I’ve made this grown up decision to cut big chunks that had really killed. There was one about being abroad that killed live, but it didn’t need to be in the special.

There was one that felt dated, and there was one we really contemplate because actually one of the Netflix executives was like, I love that bit, but it was four minutes, and we’ve now got it at sixty one minutes. So we’ll probably end up releasing the bits that were cut out online so people will still get to see them. But you realize it when you’re touring. If you do sixty minutes tight and it’s back with laughs, it’s more powerful than eighty minutes. It’s kind of loose.

The Oliood reporter said, your comedy isn’t overly political, but you do a bit in this special about Ted Cruise being particularly disgusting, and Sigore said, oh, that means you saw an older cut because that’s out of the special. Wait, why’d you cut it? Of course, I said, we were at sixty five minutes and it was four minutes. That was the one that the Netflix executive loved. Maybe I should put it back in, but Also, I look back on specials and feel like we got somebody’s name in your offense a song or TV show, It quickly feels aged.

So I tried to put myself in the mentality of somebody putting on the special in a few years and you know, he’s very well known now, but eventually people will be like, who’s Ted Cruise. Hollywood reporter very fascinated with the Ted Cruise bit. They said you were touring with it, Did you give any thoughts to it or have any concern about how a joke like that lance in certain parts of the country. Saigore said, what I figured out from doing it is the man is universally loathed. I mean I did that bit like you said, and red markets and blue markets.

It did in Canada, Australia, and sometimes when you travel you’re like, ah, how’s that gonna go tonight? But it crushed basically everywhere, or even in Canada. I know he was born there, but I remember the first time I visited Canada, I was like, as it is going to go here? At mid I got an even crazy response there. Bert Kreischer talked too Rich Eisen about working out with Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Kreisher said he as Schwartzenegger about the exercise that Arnold missus but can’t do because of his age. Apparently the answer Arnold Missus doing deadlifts. Creisher said, I just thinking out with Arnold Schwartzenegger. I got a movie coming out, and then I see Ed Norton. He said he could barely contain his excitement after seeing Ed Norton.

Norton walked by with nothing but a knot of acknowledgment, and that gave Bert Kreisher clarity. He said, Ed Norton’s amazing, But I don’t want to be that guy. I want to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently Schwarzenegger likes Bert Kreischer’s calves and said, holy cow, this guy has good calves. Some bodybuilders would be jealous of this guy’s calves.

This weekend, Donnel Rawlings hosting the donnell Land Weekend Festival May twenty sixth through the twenty ninth in southwest Ohio. The donnell Land Weekend Festival features a live stand up comedy performance by Donnel Rawlings and Friends. But wait, there’s also a canoeing trip on the mad River on Monday Donal rollings dot Com for the info. Donal says, I don’t bank on TV or film. I bank on what I’ve been doing for thirty years, stand up comedy.

That’s the one thing I can control. He joked about moving to Yellow Springs after visiting in twenty twenty to take part in Dave Chappelle’s summer camp shows in the village. He said, I went from the streets to the creeks, from the hoods to the woods on the river. N Engeneu, we haven’t visited gossip Corner in a while. Poor Adam Sandler.

He was at a basketball game and ESPN threw up a picture of a clean cut Sadler back in two thousand and eight, followed by a bearded Saidler with a neutral facial expression. Apparently the latter picture was not very flattering social media fans. One of them said, for no discernible reason, ABC just went, Hey, look how old Adam Sandler’s got in the last fifteen years. Another said ESPN made it look like Adam Sandler’s been held in captivity for fifteen years, and one more said the price you pay for dragging the corpse of Rob Schneider’s career well passed its expiration date.

Also on Gossip Corner, Chris Rock went to see Bruce Springsteen in Rome.

Ruce was playing the Circus Maximus to a sold out crowd on Saturday. Chris Rock must add a good time. He posted a couple of things on Insta, one with Springsteen and Stephen van z Ant mugging it up during Glory Days. Another was a band shot during Dancing in the Dark. Rock met some of the band after the show.

Jake Clemens play sacks these Daisies Clarence Clements’s nephew. By the way. He posted a selfie with himself and Chris Rock and said, by the end of the set we left no one alive except for Chris Rock. This mofo don’t get knocked down by nobody. Someday we’ll look back on this and it’ll all seem funny.

Colin Mockery was asked who would play him in a movie about his life, and he said George Clooney would probably be my first choice, but then he added Bill Murray the observation there. Bill Murray, like Colin Mockray, has devoted his career to deadpan comedy with a side order of droll I could see Bill Murray as Colin Mockery not ridiculous. Colin’s out on the Scared Script List tour and said, we’d like to have sort of a live version of Who’s Line without the dead weight, and I’m talking about Wayne Brady and Ryan Styles. So it’s games for us that’ll be familiar to fans of Whose Line. Then there’s games we’ve added with Dad.

Because it’s just two of us and we don’t have a host, it’s even more interactive than TV show. We have audience members on stage with us doing things. Just a couple hours of goofy fun. Let’s see what’s happening in New Zealand at the New Zealand Comedy Festival. Jamine Rossis show is called Vaguely Familiar.

He’s wearing a judger hat here, but he seems to be from New Zealand. As you’re about to hear, I just recently got back from Australia. I was visiting my little brother there in Sydney, and my little brother’s quite funny because he’s only been there for about a year, so he’s still got his Keywi accent, except he’ll say the odd random word and an Australian accent, so he’ll be like, oh, heybrew, do you want to go get a feed? There’s our men as Fish and Chip shop done by the Booch, which is awesome. I’ve never heard that the other way around though, like I’ve never heard an Australian and New Zealand mostly Ozzie accent, but the odd random word any Keywi accent I’ve never heard.

Hey, mate, listen, I want to tell me, ah, if you want to make an online you gotta break a few expert all right, a little local and humor. Hopefully you found it amusing. I did, maybe not as much as if I had grown up in christ Church. But okay. The rest of the podcast today will be spoilers once again for Fast X.

If you listen to the end yesterday, you know why. If you don’t want to be split on fast X, see tomorrow, I’ll give you a couple of seconds here to get stop on the podcast. Are you’re gone? Okay? I guess you’re gone.

So interesting twist about Pete Davidson appearing in Fast X. Did you watch Bupkiss? There’s a scene in Bupkiss where’s Pete’s agents played by Chris O’Donnell says, Hey, Pete, they’re pulling the offer on Fast and they’re furious. The reason in the show was because Pete Davidson’s character Pete Davidson was photographed doing whippets at the White House Correspondence dinner. Pete said, but it was with the Avengers, like two of them cool ones from the first movie.

The only way to fix the problem on the show is to perform at Vin Diesel’s daughter’s birthday party in Miami. Apparently it worked out for the character Pete Davidson because it worked out for real Pete davids And I hope Pete’s in Fast eleven, and I hope they keep making these for thirty years. I’ll watch Pete Davidson driving a car. Why isn’t he driving a car?

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Meanwhile, James Gunn talked about Pete’s cameo and Guardians of the Galaxy V…

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Featured: John Mulaney, Lorne Michaels, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Greg Gutfeld, Colin Jost, Uncle Roger, Charlamagne tha God

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney roasts Lorne Michaels at Pen America gala
• Russia bans Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert but allows Jimmy Fallon
• Writers strike continues with late night shows off air
• Striking WGA writers launch YouTube show Pickett Tonight
• Uncle Roger’s comedy special suspended from Chinese social media
• Charlamagne tha God’s Hell of a Week cancelled by Comedy Central
• AI-generated jokes compared to late night writer monologues

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your daily come news. Really a different set of news stories today, like very atypical for the kind of things I usually do. I didn’t stack it that way, but it’s not the usual. A somebody’s got a special kind of thing.

We’ll see that. I only got three hour sleep. I had to do an airport pickup that went from twelve thirty to two am, so I was out till almost three am, and it’s been a minute since I’ve done that. Late Night’s still on strike with a late Bot like my lack of sleep as an idea for a bit and said, I’m sure Johnny Max’s three hour sleep routine is a fool proof recipe for success, if by success you mean snappy comebacks in a general disdain for human interaction. They say grumpy is the new forty three hours of sleep, and Johnny Mac is ready to conquer the world with his signature blend of sleep deprived charm.

It’s like he’s running on fumes and a smidge of bitterness. Jeez, late Bot, layoff. Greg Gutfeld. He’s still doing his show, and he referenced the writers strike recently and said, I have the number one late night show, so I have the only late night show going on right now, So you don’t have a choice. The Late Bot said, yeah, congratulations, You’re the only thing on TV.

It’s like being the last person at a party. You can dance like no one’s watching, because wow, no one is. From the Hollywood Reporter, Russia is cracking down on American late night TV host Listen to this. Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Myers permanently banned from Russia, according to a new list of names released by the Russian government. The Russian Foreign Ministry released a list of five hundred Americans that are now banned from entering Russia.

Boy, I wish there wasn’t a strike. Those guys would probably have some good jokes. Did you try the late Bot, John, Yes, The lag Bot did not nail this as a topic. Some of the other is Barack Obama not allowed. Aaron Burnett from CNN not allowed, Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough not allowed, Brian Williams not allowed, Jimmy Fallon allowed, Congrats Jimmy Fallon.

Last year Russia band Ben Stiller and Morgan Freeman and Sean Penn. That sounds like a carnac joke from Deadline. Colin Jost was at the Pen America gala. It was held in the Museum of National History. If you’ve been there, you know the blue whale.

And Colin called himself a writer and a friend of writers, and extremely fortunate to be there that night, surrounded by two things that might not be around much longer, writers at Ocean Life. This is the first time that a whale is not the most endangered thing in a room. DV writers, as you know, are on strike right now. I have to say it’s very disorienting to spend the afternoon on the picket line and then show up for a museum cocktail hour in a suxedo. I don’t think that happens at a lot of other labor movements.

He was there for a dinner to honor Lauren Michaels and some other folks. John Mulaney was there also. Mulaney was a writer on SNL for five years. He introduced Lauren Michaels and thank Lauren for protecting generations of writers and presenting all viewpoints from the far left to the moderate left. He gave so many writers the chance to have a national network TV audience to speak to the entire country.

But every writer to come through SNL is totally ungrateful, so resentful. I contacted multiple writers for their favorite stories, and the conversations would descend into bitching about a sketch that Lauren cut forty three years a go.

And then Lauren Michaels talked about the infinite monkey theorem.

You know, if you locked a bunch of monkeys in a room with typewriters, sooner or later they would write hamlet. Lauren said, Americans have a soft spot for monkeys. They’re funny and you don’t really know what they’re gonna do, and sometimes they throw feces, and added even Shakespeare knew you needed laughs to keep them room.

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Meanwhile, from Deadline, some of these striking late night comedy writers ha…

I checked one of these out, and you know, as good as me telling jokes written by the AI, you know, and I’m not saying that that’s that good. They’re putting together a weekly YouTube channel show. Sometimes it’s called picket Tonights and sometimes it’s called The Jokes you Love from the Picket Signs. But we’re saying them out loud. GREGA.

Winsky is a former writer for Colbert and John Oliver. He co hosted the first episode alongside Sasha Stewart. She’s a former writer for The Nightly Show on Larry Wilmore. Neither of them struck me as natural performers, and Greg said, whatever it’s called. This is where two striking WGA writers sit at a desk and tell you jokes.

He said, As you may know, writers are on strike. What you might not know is that, according to nine out of ten doctors, if a late night writer doesn’t do monologue jokes for too many consecutive days, they die. All right, I’m going to do a test here on the fly. I am opening up chat GPT, which is what I use for the late Bot, and I’m going to ask it to spit out variants on that joke. Okay, let’s see what happens here.

All right. I think the AI did better, which is a reason the writer should be concerned. Late Bot said. What you might not know is that, according to nine out of ten doctors, if a late night writer doesn’t do monologue jokes for two many consecutive days, they develop a condition known as punchline withdrawal syndromes. Symptoms include excessive pun usage, spontaneous outbursts of laughter at awkward moments, and a strong erst to roast random strangers on the street.

That’s a better joke if told by a proper comedian, which I am not. That’s a better joke. Another one from the late bot. Here’s a fun fact. According nine out of ten doctors, if a late night writer doesn’t do monologu jokes for too many consecutive days, their funny bone starts to disintegrate.

See I could see Kimmel nailing that joke. Anyway. Back to the YouTube thing, which is called Pickett Tonight, Greg Winsky said, we’ll bring you jokes and sketches whenever we can, and you’ll get to hear from writers inside the strike what we’re fighting for and why the studios need to talk to us. Stewart said, we’re two of the many writers who’ll be reading these strike propaganda jokes. If you’re like I want to watch someone more attractive, just wait a week.

That’s funny. Some more jokes from the writers. It’s ten foot gator is found in a Florida couple’s backyard, not found the couple very good, very very good joke. More late night stuff. Charlomagne the Gods show on Comedy Central called Hell of a Week.

Comedy Central not continuing production. They say, we thank Charlomagne and the amazing team behind the show for its impactful conversations and the incredible collaboration as we look ahead to our future partnership with Charlemagne. Switching topics here, I told you on Sunday about the comedian who got in trouble for making a joke about the Chinese army. There are a lot of articles right now about comedians being censored in China. Here’s another one.

Nigel Aang. He uses the stage name Uncle Roger. I think I’ve mentioned him in the past. He posted a video clip last Thursday for an upcoming comedy special in which he pokes fun at Chinese surveillance. He’s interacting with someone in the audience.

The audience member says they’re from a city in the south of China, and Uncle Roger says, good country, good country. We have to say that now, correct, all the phones are listening. His Chinese social media account has now been suspended. Interesting. I remember the comedian last week Chrissy Mayor.

She made some jokes about Dylan Mulvaaney. I feel like Chrissy isn’t a bit of hey, look at me mode. I saw another story about her something something an airline giving her trouble, and I saw that story and I’m like, hm, I feel like you’re on an attention campaign. I also notice her hanging around a lot of the bigger YouTubers that talk about like science fiction shows. I’m a fan of several of those, and she’s been making the rounds there.

So not quite sure what Chrissy’s up to right now, but The Daily Mail checked out an interview that Chrissy did with Fox News. Chrissy said, you should be laughing at things comedy club that might get you in trouble at work. You should be making snide comments to your buddies at a comedy club that could get you in trouble at work. It’s one of the last few places of freedom where you can be yourself and let loose, she said, trans or like the protected class azure. If people feel very entitled, you can just say your non binary and whoop.

You have just as much entitlement as a full blown trans person. She says. One of the reasons her clip went viral is because it lampoon’s the idea that anyone can join this victim group. Chrissy says, then you can’t criticize anything they ever said. Not only can you not criticize them, you can’t even joke about them.

At a comedy club, she was asked what her next course of action will be, and she said, there’s nothing to update here. All human beings should be constantly learning, growing, and trying to see somebody else’s opinion. Hey, one way you can support the show is go to buy me acoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News and Boy, thank you listeners. I’m on my second large ice coffee with caramel and milk of the day. Nope, sorry, I just did at Brian Williams thing there and I conflated things.

I’m on my second large ice coffee. The first one was butter, per can and milk. This one is camel and milk. See the brain can tricky sometimes. Anyway, Kara, would you know Kara, She’s got the book The Power of the Streak, and she’s got the sub stack.

Not get off. Let’s see what she’s up to today. The new one is called why I chose to pressure wash on Mother’s Day? You know what? I also recently pressure wash not on Mother’s Day, but near Mother’s Day.

Why So I’m trying to stay in good greases. Anyway, I had aggress. Kara bought me several coffees, thank you so much. So did Becky. Becky bought me four and recommended a breakfast place in Chicago because she knew I snuck out there over the weekend.

Becky, thank you very much. If you’d like to support the show, go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and don’t forget everybody. If in one of these months we hit the one hundred dollar mark, then I will do an insentire episode where I only say good things about Adam Sandler. Can you imagine?

Maybe we’ll get there one of these months, laugh Button says. Gas Digital is going to record and release six new half hour comedy specials. These will go up on YouTube. The comedians Rich Voss, Kurt Metzker, Louie Gomez, Day Smith, Colum Tyrell, and Jordan Jansen. You want to go to a taping?

Okay, you can do that. Actually you can’t. I just went to the website to confirm the name of the theater, which is the cutting room. But I see here they’re all sold out. Oh well, I tried.

I mean, I recorded the story as soon as I saw it. A taping is July tenth through the twelfth. But you’re not going. They’re doing to a night. Kurt Metzker and Jordan Jensen on the tenth, Dave and Louis on the eleventh column, and Rich Voss on the twelfth.

Cameron Esposito, She’s Fantastic, has a new podcast on this one, Survive or Die Trying. Cameron will provide real advice on how to survive anything and everything life can throw at you, from giant Barrett tacks at the zombie Apocalypse to being stranded on a deserted island or meeting your in laws. She says, Survive or Die Trying as podcast for anyone who has mentally walked through life’s scariest situations like the zombie apocalypse, or actually survived the more mundane but equally bananas, like that one break up in high school where you almost got her name tattooed on your forehead. After the fact, my guests and I are not survival experts, but we’ll learn together how to pare for the absolute worst case scenarios. I miss her old podcast, which she used to record at a comedy club.

It was a great way for me selfishly to keep an eye on some quote unquote up and comers, especially they were usually LA based comedians. I’m trying to google it for you now because I can’t remember what was called. Is it gone? I know it’s been over for several years, but I can’t find. Let me try on the Apple podcast app ah.

Here it is Put your Hands Together. It was called Very very Funny show. Last episode was back in twenty nineteen. But when the show used to be fresh, you’d get sets and backstage interviews from comedians in front of a live UCB audience. It’s definitely worth going back through the archives.

A lot of great comedians on there. Put your Hands Together. That one is called and I’m going to leave you with a spoiler for Fast X Fast in the Furious ten. If you don’t want that movie to be spoiled, I want it to check out here. I’ll babble for a second so you can pull your phone out of your pocket and hit stop.

This will be the final story for the day. Okay, are they gone? The people that didn’t see Fast X yet, Hey, did you see the cameo and Fast X Pete Davidson played Bowie. I didn’t know that was going to happen. I was pleasantly surprised by that and all the other cameos.

I had done a pretty good job of avoiding spoilers for Fast As. I loved Fast As. By the way, I am the biggest fan of the Fast and Furious franchise, all the way back to number one, back when we used to have Blockbuster Video. I rented that one night and I was just like, oh my goodness, this movie is so much fun, and it looks cool and the soundtrack is great. So I’ve been a fan all along.

You know when a lot of people jumped on when the rock jumped on, But me, o Gee, Fast and the Furious fan Fast ten fantastic fun. Turn your brain off. Don’t worry about physics. There’s a lot of questionable physics in there. I’m not sure you can just jump from a car to car without falling behind getting run over, or don Seretto will jump a car into a crane and smash two hundred feet and his airbags don’t even deploy.

But don’t worry about the physics. It’s just a fun, fun movie. Jason Momoa killed it anyway. Pete Davidson is a comedian, which is why I’m talking about Fast X. He played a character referred to as Bowie, and the Internet points out Pete Davidson’s character not killed off, which means we could have Pete and Fast eleven.

Why not? And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify. If you’re on YouTube, smash that subscribe button, as the kids say, like a subscribe or whatever you’re supposed to do. Smash you’re supposed to hit the bell.

I don’t know the kids know what to do. You’re on YouTube? Your doing it? Do it? See you tomorrow?

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Bert Kreischer, Aaron Rodgers, Hasan Minhaj, Joe Rogan, Richard Jenny, Billy Joel

What’s in This Episode

• Perceval Seinfeld-themed clothing line with expensive pieces
• Bert Kreischer’s ‘Uptown Aaron’ nickname for Jets QB Aaron Rodgers
• Waze adds Hasan Minhaj as custom voice guide with Suburban Dad mode
• Late night writers strike impact on summer movie promotion
• Joe Rogan reflects on Richard Jenny’s influence on his comedy career
• Ted Lasso Season 3 criticism for resolving plots too neatly in episodes

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Fashion brand Perceval has announced to celebrate twenty five years since the final episode of Seinfeld aired, and in celebration of one hundred years of Warner Brothers. Sure, why not we bring you Seinfeld ex Perceval, a limited edition Seinfeld collection featuring your favorite moments in true Perceval style. Okay, so the late bot chimed in and said, Hey, did you guys hear about the new Seinfeld clothing line. It’s like a stand up routine for your wardrobe.

It’s called What’s the deal with Fashions? Yeah, the Seinfeld clothing line. Apparently, the clothes are so comfortable they make sitting in a diner booth for hours on end feel like a breeze. Let me tell you, it’s all about the puffy shirt aesthetic. You’ll look like a pirate on a yacht ready to deliver some punch lines.

The Seinfeld clothing line is perfect for those who want to look sophisticated while complaining about the most mundane things. It’s like wearing a suck sedo while discussing the proper way to eat cereal. The clothing line is all about the pilot episode. Look, you’ll find lots of blazers, I wasted pants and hairstyles that say I’m still trying to figure out my character, but I’m confident it’s going to work. Here’s the actual story from Cracked Perceval, who’s in East London clothe air that combines a quintessentially British sense of understated style and rare internationally sourced fabric and materials.

So Seinfeld, what okay, there’s a Seinfeld inspired plain brown jacket. You know how much it costs? Three hundred and eighty five dollars. You are right, you guessed exactly correct. Crack points out, if you really want to dress like Jerry Seinfeld, you can get a very similar jacket at the Gap for seventy five dollars.

All right, Maybe something a little cheaper. How about a plain black T shirt that says Hello Newman sixty seven dollars. It doesn’t eve out a picture of Newman on it, it just says Hello Newman. The pop in shirt has the show’s logo hiding in a checkerboard design that runs you one hundred ninety five dollars two hundred and ten dollars Seinfeld themed trousers two hundred and ten dollars George and Jerry boss sweaters. No, do you like using ways when you’re in traffic?

I’m a ways advocate use ways all the time. If Ways teld me to go from my house to your house through Antarctica, I’d be like, I don’t know, it doesn’t sound right, but I’m gonna do it because anytime you ignore ways, you get there and you find that the tree has smashed into a train and there’s a forest fire, and you’re gonna be there for nine hours and you’re like, why didn’t I make the left on Main Street? Like it sold me too well. The Ways Voice, if you really like to customize things, can be Hasan Minhaj. He’ll be entertaining users with relatable commentary on traffic.

Now, I love ways, I hate the gimmick wayses. I just want traffic. I don’t need stale jokes from any comedian. It’s not why I’m there. Just tell me which way to go.

Also, you know what Ways needs to add. It needs to add the yes, I know how to get out of my own neighborhood. Then start telling me voice directions. It needs that feature like because usually I have to get sound off because I know this stop signed the end of my block. I know, and then I get on a highway and then I turned it on like it needs like an in between mode.

What I’m saying. Ways, you can also change your icons. There’s now a Suburban Dad minivan icon, which represents Minhaj’s status as a father little stretch there. There’s also a Hasan Minhaj inspired mood icon, which is how drivers appear on the map. Once enabled, users can navigate the road in Suburban Dad energy.

If you’d like to do this, go to customize your drive and the menu select Hasan Minhaj. Aaron Rodgers is coming to the New York Jets. He’s friends with Bert Kreisher. Bert Kreisher was talking about nicknames because Joe Nam was Broadway Joe, and Bert said, it’s got to be something cool, like Midtown Aeron, Downtown Airon, Uptown Aeron, and he said Uptown Aeron, that’s a good one. Then he broke out into a song based on Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl.

I’m not gonna sing, but the lyrics go Uptown Eron. You’ve been living in green Een Bay I’m kind of talksing like tavidly Roth. But but now you’re all the way in Flushing, Queens, Bert, what kind of Jets fairing are you? The Jets haven’t played in Flushing since nineteen eighty five. The rest of the lyrics and now you’re going to get a falafel there or comb your hair and your uptown errand sing along with the late night shows on strike publicist seemed a little stretch, one insider, so the Hollywood Reporter, these shows are hugely important.

Even if viewership is down across the board, You’ve got the YouTube and social media reach of all those talk shows and talk show personalities. We have these huge summer movies opening and had very big late night plans which had to be scrapped. We’re looking at what audiences were losing and where else we can find that audience. Joe Rogan talked about getting into comedy back in nineteen eighty eight and said I started after the wave. Yeah, there was that whole wave of stand up in the eighties kind of fizzled out.

Rogan said they were all those evening at the improv shows and stand up specials like the MTV Half Hour Comedy hour. There’s a lot of mediocre comedy out there. There were a lot of people who are doing what sounded like an impression of what a comedian should sound like, Joe says, but there was one comedian who stood out. It was Richard Jenny. Richard was great.

I’ll tell every Jenny story. On the other side of this, Rogan said, watching stand up on TV, I used to love watching Richard Jenny on the Tonight Show. He’s incredible. Rogan told a story about driving home and his phone just started randomly playing a Richard Jenny bit. He said, I was laughing so hard and driving home, he downloaded all of Richard’s performances from that category.

It made him realize how good Richard was as a comedian. So I saw Richard a few times. He called me directly one time when I was running Serious XM Comedy and he asked me why we were playing one of his bits that he had never released. And I was quite confused, and I said, Richard, it’s on your album and he said, no, it’s not. No.

I’m totally confused because Richard would kind of know what’s on his album. But I’m looking at it going like, well, I didn’t invent a Richard Jenny bit. And I said, hold on, let me get back to it. And I went on the computer. So when he would load a CD into the computer.

Back in the day, an album would have a root number, let’s say one, two, three, four five, and then each individual track would have a sub number. So track one on the CD is one two three four five, dash zero zero one, next one zero zero two, and so on. You know how numbers work, And the bit he was questioning was like one two, three, four five zero twelve, sitting nicely between eleven and thirteen. So I called him back and I’m like, I’m totally confused here, not trying to steal your material, don’t know what’s going on, but here’s the track listing I have, you know, ABC D D D D And he said it’s not on the album, and I tug a little deeper. We had gotten an advanced copy of the CD from the record label, so on the advanced copy it was there.

On the officially released album it was taken off, so it must have changed his mind. Somewhere along the wayside pulled the clip no harm, no foul. Guy was cool enough, wasn’t jerk about it. Totally appreciate your Richard. You were a great comedian.

Have you been watching ted Lasso? No spoilers at all here, zero spoilers. But this season the A V Club has the headline ted Lasso Recap. This show cannot seem to get out of its own way. Again, no spoilers this season.

The series has yet to meet a thorny plot. It can’t neatly solve within an episode’s time. They add they can’t stress enough how much episode lengthy episodes are longer now almost an hour has hurt what was once of the sunniest, funniest comedies around. This used to be one of the shows my wife and I would watch together and I’ve just lost interest. I’m going to finish it, but the show has become like a drag to watch.

When it came out during the pandemic, it was just happy and bright and it was about soccer, and this season it’s just about all these other things. And I’m like, I don’t know, can we just go out there and just I think, just run the playbook? Right? So season one, hey we got relegated. Season two, hey we made it back to the Premier League.

So this year, whatever, get relegated. Just do like soccer kind of stuff. All this other drama. I don’t want that. I just want like lights and happy and Brett Goldstein hating on things, and I don’t know they overthought season three of ted Lasso.

I’m not the only one feeling this way, nor is the Avy Club. You will find tons of articles about ted Lasso season three very disappointing. John Cleese has more information about the reboot of Faulty Towers. Shortle reports John Clees is killing off Basil Faulty’s wife Sybil for the reboot. It had been previously announced that the new version will take place in the Caribbean.

It’s being run by Basil Faulty’s daughter, likely to be played by John Cleese’s real life daughter, Camilla. John has now explained the new character was an illegitimate child born from Basil’s illicit affair with a hotel guest. He told the son Sybil dies and Basil goes to see his daughter because it was all part of a naughty affair that he once had with a guest at the hotel. Clees explained that the new series would start with a mistype type message. John said the new one starts with Sybil’s death and Basil’s daughter getting a text message from her father saying, Sibil did.

She texts back, Sibil did. What Basil’s about to deliver the eulogy and says what an absolutely wonderful woman Sibyl was.

And then the camera pans around and you see that behind his back he has his f…

Prinella Scale has played Sibil in the original Sheet is ninety and has Alzheimer’s. Klees previously said of the setting the show in the Caribbean this time, if you put it in the Caribbean, it becomes very multiracial. People in the hotel business come from everywhere, so you can bring lots of different people together. The characteristic of fault Towers was the pressure cooker atmosphere created in the hotel. John said, I must apologize.

I had no idea that the idea of writing a new sitcom with my daughter would cause so much anger distress. I truly meant no harm. Naively, I thought it might be fun. But I feel terrible about having released this tide of negative emotion. Please forgive me.

Faulty Towers co creator and former wife Connie Booth said she had no idea about the reboot until she read about it on the papers. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, you two, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Brian Redband, Scott Aukerman, Hannah Gadsby, Chris Rock, Michael Ian Black

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan on AI-generated comedy threatening the future of entertainment
• Scott Aukerman discusses expanding Comedy Bang! Bang! and showcasing new talent
• Scott Aukerman addresses whether he plans to end Comedy Bang! Bang!
• Late night writers strike impact on comedy
• Hannah Gadsby on supporting LGBTQ+ rights and using platform for good
• Chris Rock on Richard Pryor’s influence on his comedy career
• Great American Comedy Festival lineup announcement

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Late Night Writers on Strike. Late Bond says, you know a lot of college graduations in May, and congratulations, you’ve officially completed the highly effective system of memorizing information just long enough to regurgitate it onto a test. It’s like winning a golden ticket to a lifetime of student loan payments. As you’re telling your cap and gown, Remember, college graduation is just the beginning of a thrilling adventure called job rejections and soul crushing interviews.

This is the time when you trade in late night parties for late night job applications. Who needs a social life when you can have a perfectly formatted resume. Get ready to apply all that knowledge you accumulated, because in the real world, employers are just dying to know the intriccease of seventeenth century French poetry. And don’t worry if you haven’t figured out your life’s purpose yet. Remember you can always get a master’s degree to postpone the existential crisis for another two years.

Hi, I did that. Back in ninety one, Joe Rogan was talking about apparently some people are using AI to generate comedy and then has Joe Rogan bothered. He told Brian Redband, we are the last of the Mohicans because we’re the people that grew up without the Internet and then had the Internet when we were adults, and now we’re seeing kids grow up with the Internet.

And then there’s gonna be the next thing, and then we’re gonna be the people …

Where everybody from the future is just gonna be some weird cyborg. That’s where comedy’s gonna die. Ask where fund’s gonna die. No more entertainment. Everyone’s just locked into the matrix based magazine.

As Scott Ackerman when he felt like he had enough audience to spotlight new talent, Scott said, I started in two thousand nines. I’ve been doing comedy Death Ray for seven years at that point. The first two years we were just using those people because there were so many that I could sell a variety. Nick Crole do it every three weeks or something, and the new people just naturally came in, Like Harris Whittles moved to town. I saw very early and I was like, I love this dude, so let me put him on People would say, Hey, if you like me, there’s this other person you’d really like.

So someone recommended Lauren Lambcus To me, it was really interesting in the early days he put a new person on, the fans would get really upset that, like, this person sucks, why are they on? Her voice is annoying, And I’d get that for any woman I’d put on the situation go with that, which is a retreat. I better get the fans what they want. And I was like, you know what, I’m gonna put them on even more because that’s always been mymo at the live show, like if you don’t like something and I love it, it’s your problem and I’m gonna show you. That to me is a better way of doing it, because maybe you shed some fans or whatever, but you gain more.

And I’m not saying those people aren’t real fans, because anybody cannot like something. The first time I saw Reggie Watts, I was like, what is this? I don’t really get it. Second time I was like, oh, I see. It takes time sometimes for people to acclimate themselves to someone’s point of view.

People seem to keep asking Scott Ackerman if he’s going to end comedy Bang Bang do the rest of you know something Scott doesn’t. Scott said, when the show’s good, I don’t ever want to quit. It’s when the show is hard to do that gets to be a little mentally challenging. The time that happened coincided with the fifth season of the Bang Bang TV show that was a period away had one day off for a year, was filming five days a week while also writing the show, while also writing the oscars, also writing for The Bob and David Show, while also being on Bob and David’s show, and also going on tour, and also edit bajillion dollar properties. I also have to record these shows one day a week because I became like really good at schedule at this point, that was really hard.

The pandemic is the most serious that I got about it. One thing I hate more than anything is listening to my own voice. And I feel sorry for you right now. But that was a process where we would record the show and then would be generally awkward, and then I have to take about twelve hours a week to edit the show down. It was really bad the first six months where I wasn’t enjoying it.

I could just have put up a show as a piece of crap and said like, wow, that’s the best thing we could do, but I wanted it to retain the flavor of what people liked about the show. Is a very difficult period where I felt like I was letting everyone down and also having to work way too hard and something that’s meant to be fun. At this point, I don’t have any desire to stop and against be what’s your take on the Writer’s Guild of America strike, Hannah told people, I believe writers should be supported better. Storytelling is the bedrock of this industry. It’s a no brainer to me that we should look after the people who set the tone.

People asked Hannah, as a member of the LGBTQ community and during a time when trans writes remained under attack in many states, do you feel the pressure to use your special and platform for good? And Hannah said, Look, I don’t necessarily feel the pressure, but I certainly take it as a responsibility. It feels like the more power you have, the more responsibility you should wield. Accountability is very important. Of course, I’m a messy human like the next one, so mistakes will be made, but I think it’s actually important to step up.

Particularly if you experienced success, then you’re getting accommodations that other people aren’t getting. So it feels only the right thing to do is to be better than you are terrible. Chris Red told Casey RW one of the things that inspired me the most throughout my entire life is Richard Pryor. I started with his tapes when I was maybe five or six. My dad had a bunch of Richard Pryor in the house and we weren’t allowed to listen to it.

We were a churchgoing family, but I had a lot of insecurities. I had a lot of social anxiety, so I had to figure out how I was going to talk in front of people and with a stutter. On side of that, comedy seemed like a way to engage with people, engage with girls just seem like in a way because I was terrified it talk to people at that age. At that time, I want to sleep with Richard’s specials because I had read somewhere that whatever you’re listening to when you sleep, it will affect you when you wake up. So I was like, Oh, if I listen to a funny man when I go to bed, I’m going to wake up a funny man.

So I just listen to every one of his albums, and the way he had to use all his personal life and the way he was so vulnerable about the dark thing has made me feel better about the things I’m going through. Richard didn’t hold bunches, even when he was getting roasted for being on crack and roasted for all this other stuff. He did a joke about himself where he’s talking about Richard Pryor on the street with his head with the match on fire, and it was like, men, nothing’s off limits. I used to think about all things I used to do in the streets and how that was wasted time. But now making art off the experiences I’ve been through, it’s all because I looked up to people who did better than me.

The Sydney Comedy Festival is over and New Zealand is dark on Monday, but has another week left the Great American Comedy Festival that’s coming up in mid June. They’ve announced their lineup Michael Ian Black, Marcella Aguelo, Sean Grant, Daniel Perez and Tyler Rothrock. Michael Ian Black is a multiimmediate talent who started numerous films and TV series written and or directed two films? I’m gonna parse that sentence at a second and as a prolific author and commentator, Okay, what does written and or directed two films? You could have said, and I don’t know particulars here.

Maybe he wrote two films and directed one. You could have said that. Or maybe he wrote one film and directed two films. Why would you say written and or directed two films? Anyway?

Information at the Great American Comedy Festival dot com. And how about this poor Chinese stand up comedian he was forced to apologize Lee? How she? I hope I’m saying that correctly. He caught the attention of authorities after using a frieze associated with the People’s Liberation Army.

Lee was telling a story about two straight dogs in his recent comedy routine. According to state affiliated GMO News, Lee has now expressed his deep remorse and regret in a social media post, saying he had used quote an extremely unsuitable analogy to bring bad feeling and association to the audience. Boy, I wonder what happened with this guy? I will take all the responsibility and call off all my performances to deeply reflect and re educate myself. Yikes.

Lee’s joke got laughter at the show, but also apparently prompted unease from one member of the audience, who went on Chinese social media to complain to the joke was inappropriate. During the week, Beijing authorities launched investigation. They then find the production company around two million dollars. The production company’s activities have also been indefinitely suspended. The Beijing arm of China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism said, we will never allow any company or individual to use the Chinese capital as a stage to wantonly slander the glorious image of the People’s Liberation Army.

The company accepted the penalty and terminated mister Lee’s contract. That’s your company is for today. Follow the show for free an Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever we get your shows. You tomorrow

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Jim Gaffigan, Harry Kanebolu, Harland Williams, Lewis Black, Brett Goldstein

What’s in This Episode

• Japan’s smile coaches helping people after COVID
• Late night writers strike updates
• Bert Kreischer on Tom Segura’s dangerous driving
• Jim Gaffigan on collaborating with his wife for comedy specials
• Harry Kanebolu on seeing Margaret Cho inspire him to do stand-up
• Half Baked sequel without Jim Brewer and Dave Chappelle
• Harland Williams’ experience on Something About Mary with Ben Stiller
• Lewis Black on getting back stage rhythm after pandemic break

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Maquin your Daily Comedy News. The writer strike continues, Late Night is Off. The Late Bot looked at Japan’s smile coaches. Yeah, you see, after three years of COVID, some Japanese people feel that like their smile is rusty. Keiko Kawano is a smile instructor, and the Late Bot says, talk about going in great legs to keep a stiff upper lip.

Japan’s smile coach is like a personal trainer for your face. They’ll make your work those smile muscles until you’re so exhausted you’ll need botox. They say. The smile coach in Japan can even make Brett Goldstein crack a smile. Who needs botox?

And you just snap on a smile face mask and call it a day. Bert Kraisher, it’s old. Pardon my take. I do not want to die in a car accident with Tom Sagora, and that’s how that guy’s going to die. Yeah, why, well, he drives like an effing a hole, like a sixteen year old a hole.

But he knows the petals. You know, the petals you can never use. Yeah, he uses them, So pardon my take. Said all right. If you do die in a car with Tom Sagora, if you’re in the same car, who could stopped billing?

Bert said, Oh, that’s a good question. Ah, I mean if our plane crash goes down. Tom sam Morrell says, what’s weird is the comics would kill all the time, have these huge egos. But I’m like, you’re not writing. You should eat yourself.

It’s just part of the game. If you’re gonna keep trying to turn over a new material, you’re going to fail constantly and it’s gonna make you very humble. I get why certain comics play the hits. Maybe they’re just trying to float and stay alive. But it’s very competitive out there.

It’s off business. You’re not getting these road gigs because you have a fan base, but because you’re reliable. But it’s very hard to grow out of that. Yeah, you’re gonna bomb, but that’s part of the process and it’s fun. My friend is in this mode where he’s closing in on a specially.

He says to me, I’m so jealous of you. I’m just honing for the next few months and you’re creating. It’s like much more fun to write than edit and I was like, yeah, it really is. Then I said, but you get to kill and he said that’s true, but he’s a real comics so he wants to write. I wonder who he was talking about.

Yahoo asked Harry Kanebolu, what made you want to do comedy? Harry said, I knew I want to do comedy when I saw Margaret show on TV. Seeing an Asian American person do stand up, even though she was an Indian, it was incredible to me. She had command of an audience. She was sharing her stories, people were laughing.

I didn’t even think that was possible. There was no reason to assume that we were allowed to exist that way. This country very much speaks in a binary of black and white, so if you’re not one of those things, especially in the late eighties and nineties, to see her be so confident and share her stories like that made me want to do it, and I’ve been hooked every since. The first time I did stand up was at a comedy night that started at my high school. I just wanted to scratch the itch and so I got to perfore in front of my class.

The material was terribly unoriginal, but I got to do it and that was the important part. I figured that was that, and then I went to college up in Maine. I didn’t necessarily love them. My decision there was, well, if anyone’s gonna look at me anyway, at least I’m going to control how they view me. Wasn’t until after I graduated and moved to Seattle to work as an Immigrants Right organizer when I decided to make stand up my full time job.

I was working with people whose family members were being detained and deported, victims of hate crimes. It was a lot. So I did comedy at night, and it was this incredible stress reliever, And somehow I got discovered doing that while I was doing something that’s far more important than what I’m doing now. CKT Tampa spoke to Jim gaff again and they were like, I know you and your wife collaborate on writing a lot of material. I don’t know if they said it as accusatory as I just did it.

Do you guys do that while you’re on the road, And Jim said, well, working towards the special you’re finding it, it’s kind of like you’re harvesting the crops, right. You want all the jokes to be as ripe as they can be. But you know, the writing process, and I definitely did a lot of writing with my wife, but with five kids in a cas of life, every special has been a unique challenge. So even coming out of the pandemic, there is collectively a little bit of cynicism that’s evolved in the audience and just our country, you know what I mean, Like people want a little more sarcasm, But I don’t know, hopefully if that answers your question. All right, Jim, what’s the biggest challenge about being a comedian these days?

Jim said, well, I think the pandemic did have an impact on people, and I think they were in this politically charged era, whether it’s political correctness or even political divisiveness. So like for me, I think my biggest problem is self assignment and also doing new stuff in a more challenging way. My currency is not shock. Stand up is very much constructive around surprise. So I would say that I still take and the fact that my audience is filled with people of diverse backgrounds and also different opinions politically and stuff like that.

But yeah, I think it’s all kind of self assignment. I think with creative people and you’re a writer, you know this. You have to push yourself. So I’m not really affected by what’s happening. I’m aware of it, but I don’t have to worry.

I mean, I also have an eighteen year old daughter, so if I was getting to anything that’d be considered soxic, she’d probably give me a heads up. The spokesman caught up with Harland Williams Fantastic Comic. He was talking about being in nineteen ninety eight. There’s something about Mary. Harland said, I can’t say enough about Ben Stiller, who was so gracious to let me do what I needed to do when I was in the car with him during their scene.

Some actors compete for attention, but Ben knew he had to be the straight man. That was an amazing experience as the Farrely brothers let me improvise, and I just had so much fun in my scene. Harland said, there’s a sequel to Half Baked coming up. I’ve talked about this before. Neither Jim Brewer or Dave Chappelle are in it.

Harlan said, I’m looking forward to being in it. Unfortunately Jim and Dave aren’t in it. I wonder why Brewer’s not doing it. I get why Chappelle’s not. I guess Jim has moved away from his stoner image, right, And I know Jim fairly well.

He’s never really cared about money, So yeah, all right, I get why Jim’s not doing it. Marlan said, I’m really looking forward to being in it. Unfortunately Jim and Dave aren’t in it. It’s been incredibly cool to make an impact in these movies in smaller roles, but I’ve also had some larger roles as well. It’s an interview with the comedians, so I had to ask him about cancel culture, and he said, I had to alter my material when I arrived in America.

I was killing in Canada with certain jokes, but they fell flat in America. People here are like more abrasive humor. It’s funny to them to watch John Belushi crush a beer can on his head. Canadians like more cerebral humor. They have more in common with the British, who enjoy the more thoughtful, quirkier jokes.

So do I. But Americans want to throw and right at him. So that’s what I’ve been doing for years. Since there’s a big difference between Canada and America. Laugh Button asked Lewis Black when he takes a break, how long does it take him to get back in the rhythm on stage.

Lewis says, well, if you’re off for two weeks, it’s crazy. Takes you a while to get back to where you wanted. The pandemic was five hundred days between shows, and then I went on to give you an ideas two. But I was I went back and chose to work at a club to first work on myself. I got to work at Hilarities in Cleveland, which is a great, great comedy club.

It’s always been good to me, so I was looking forward to it, and I hadn’t worked in five hundred days. I now I have six shows in four days, and I’m going this won’t be tough because they’re only forty five minutes long. Night one, I go there and do the first show, and I go two long, sixty five minutes because I’m so excited. I’m like a nine year old. Then afterwards, the New York Giants football team we’re playing.

I’m not even a fan. It was a great game, so I yelled through it and I stayed up all night and the next morning I woke up completely exhausted and then struggled through the weekend because I’m doing two shows at night. I finished the first show the first night, the second night day to the first show, and I have to come back for another show the same night, and I’m like, I gotta go home. What was I thinking? So that was tough.

Today. At the Boston Comedy Festival, Aquitine Hunger Forces. They have an aired new episode since twenty fifteen, but Adult Swim has ordered five new episodes. All right, so why are they doing Boston well? Back in two thousand and seven, a marketing campaign for the show was mistaken for a bomb threat.

Several glowing character contraptions were placed around the city. The show creator will premier a new Boston centric episode and take questions. That’s at eight o’clock at the Berkeley Performance Center.

Also Robert Kelly and Friends at the Emerson Color Majestic Theater.

That should be a good show. I wonder who the friends are Robert Kelly. Sunday’s a late day at New Zealand. You have the Comedy Fest, all Stars, Covert Juniors, and Jester. That’s it for the lineup.

Let’s Sea, who’s playing Sydney Diana New Wins show is called Going all In. Let’s listen, Hello, I’ve done a new win. But you can call me d d if. It’s a nick nickname for dancing Diana, dirty Diana. Oh, my mother likes to call me disappointed Diana.

And every reason why I’m disappointing is because you look at me. You think I speak Asian, right, so you know I have betame, but vitamins is actually my third language. My second language is English, and my first language is body language. That’s it’s my cardio. All right.

That was a lot of fun, right, Yes, that was so much fun. I’m gonna hunt for one more clip. Jacques Barrett’s show was called The Special Let’s listen. When men are homophobic, it makes no sense, Like, jeez, mate, I don’t like gay blokes, Mate, I don’t like him. Oh what you wish they were straight?

Yep? You want to compete with these Greek gods? Look at them, look at their bone structure and style, and you in your tarot cash shirt and your weak chin. Are you kidding? It’s a gift from God that these particular guys are gay.

It’s like being a white sprinter in a world where Jamaican men don’t like running. That was good. I had to take out a couple of bombs when I enjoyed that a lot. He’s Jacques Barrett and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify like a subscribe on YouTube.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Eddie Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Amy Schumer, Stephen Wright, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright, Daniel Sloss, Tom Papa, Joe Rogan, Emo Phillips, Patrick Golamco

What’s in This Episode

• Eddie Murphy rebooting The Pink Panther as hybrid live-action/animated film
• Conan O’Brien announces new HBO Max travel show ‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’
• Amy Schumer’s third Netflix special ‘Emergency Contact’ premiering June 13
• Stephen Wright interview with New York Times on comedy philosophy and lack of specials
• Montreal Comedy Festival featuring Daniel Sloss and Tom Papa
• Tom Papa cut from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon film ‘Air’
• Joe Rogan questions legitimacy of white supremacist march in Washington DC
• Boston and Sydney Comedy Festivals coverage and performances

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News late night on strike. Apparently the late Bot saw the new Fast and the Furious movie and said, if I learned anything from the Fast and Furious franchise, it’s apparently that the laws of gravity don’t apply to cars. I bet Vin Diesel could drive a car through a tornado and come out the other side with a perfect hair. Do wait, never mind. Vin Diesel is like the energizer Bunny of the Fast and the Furious movies.

He keeps going and going and defining the laws of physics. Vin Diesel’s iconic line, the faster the car, the more nonsensical the plot.

Speaking of bad movie ideas, actually I love Fast Furious.

That was just a segue there, folks. Eddie Murphy is rebooting The Pink Panther. This idea is terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Let’s just start there. Eddie Murphys The Pink Panther terrible.

If nothing else, He’s way too old for the role. You know, if you had told me this idea and I don’t know, nineteen ninety three, sure, But now Eddie Murphy, he’s sixty two My issue with Steve Morton was the same thing. He was too old for the role. But wait, the idea gets even worse. So you know how in the Pink Panther movies, the pink panther is the diamond and the characters Inspector Clusseau.

But separately from that, there’s a cartoon panther who’s pink. Well, in this new idea, it would be a hybrid, kind of like Roger Rabbit. Both Inspector Clouseau and the panther who is pink would appear in the movie. Terrible idea, don’t make this. The premise has a buddy cop movie tune the inspector and the panther team up for the first time ever on the big screen.

Sorta kinda not true, because they teamed up in some of the animated credits in the original Peter Seller’s films. I love those films, by the way, and I’m fascinated by the last one, the one they made after Peter Sellers died, that they made out of outtakes. Watch that. That’s amazing. Then there’s the one after that with the American guy looking for Peter Seller’s character.

They just kept milking this thing and then there’s the Roberto Banini, son of the Pink Panther that gets called Yeah. I love those films. Those last three are just fascinating. It’s like the Doors album without Jim Morrison. There’s actually two Doors albums without you Morrison.

You ever checked those out? One is called Other Voices. What’s the other one called? Let me look it up? Full Circle?

That’s what it is, full Circle. I have those two. I love things like that. I digress. Conan O’Brien put out a trailer.

He’s finally doing something for HBO Max or Max or HBO or whatever calling it now. Side note to the MAX people, you’re making a mistake. You’re making a mistake. HBO is the brand, folks. Anyway, Conan put out a trailer and I guess I negative today.

I couldn’t make it through the trailer. And I love Conan, but I saw this thing on YouTube. I was just watching nonsense on YouTube, as I tend to do right before bed, and this Conan trailer popped up and I was like, oh, I’m excited about this, and I could not make it to the end of the trailer. Conan O’Brien must go finds Conan meeting fans on his podcast, then going overseas to visit them in their respective countries. Conan said, my fans around the globe never asked me to visit them, so I did so.

Basically, you see some clips of Conan doing the post, then you see him in a foreign land meeting the people in person, and the clips just didn’t grab me. I’ll give the show a try, because I like Conan a lot, but not failing it. Amy Schumer will have another Netflix special. It’s her third. This one is called Emergency Contact.

It was shot at the Orpheum Theater in la earlier this year. It’ll be out June thirteenth. That’s all the details I have right now. The New York Times spoke to Steve and Wright, and they wrote right not only had a gift for old fashioned Joe construction, but also a weirdest planet’s taste that he remained stubbornly faithful to. For example, he told The Times, I’ve always hated puns.

It’d be funnier if he dropped a dish. Early on, he set up rules for his comedy that might have hurt him in the short term, but it allowed his work to age well, he avoided anything topical. He also did not curse. He said, I didn’t want to get a bigger laugh because of that. I wanted it to be pure.

Bobcat Goldthwaite said, the biggest difference between Mitch Hedberg and Stephen Wright is when you saw an hour of Mitch, you got an idea of who we voted for, what he was about. You watched Steve for an hour and you have more questions about him than before you saw him. That’s a really astute observation. And yes, I said astute. Why does Steven Wright have so few specials?

He says, I can only think of so much stuff. You try to think of ideas, but your mind is running on its own, or at least my mind. It’s mostly chaos. But you’re organizing a lot of it. The Montreal Comedy Festival.

I’m hoping I can make it up there. I’m thinking about what that week is like in my life here in the basement, and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get there, but I will try. They’ve had a Daniel Slass. His show is called Can’t and they write. With thirteen solo shows under his belt, Daniel has become one of the biggest names in stand up, selling out venues in fifty four countries, also coming to Montreal.

He plays every year Tom Papa. His tour is called twenty twenty three Comedy Tour. I Love It, Tom Papa. You may have noticed is listed in the credits of the movie Air. You’ll find that on Amazon these days.

He’s listed online in the cast. But does he appear in the movie? Papa said, I got cut out of that movie by my good friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. My scene ultimately didn’t make sense and it got cut out. Look at appens all the time.

But I’m definitely gonna use it to my advantage and get them to put me in a bigger movie with a bigger part. From Newsweek, Joe Rogan questioned the legitimacy of a march that took place over last weekend, suggesting that participants looked too suspicious to be white supremacists. Okay, Joe, what are you think in here? You see last weekend some people from a white supremacist group. I won’t even say the name of the group.

We’re marching through Washington, DC, wearing masks and holding upside down American flags. Rogan commented on his podcast and said, look at these guys. Where’s the fat people? How come they’re all wearing the same clothes. Have you ever seen anything that looks more like Feds?

How do they all have like uniform outfits on? They have the same colored pants for the most part, very little variation. They’re tanner brown pants, dark blue shirts with an effing stupid flag on it. Send your letters and emails to Joe Rogan. The Boston Comedy Festival continues today.

The Boston Comedy Festival All Stars with Emo Phillips Emo still around. Huh. Sydney Comedy Festival almost over. Let’s see who’s playing on Saturday. Patrick Golamco.

His show’s called Pork a Joe Boat. You’re gonna hear him tell a joke about being three quarters Chinese. When he tells the punchline, he’s holding his hand above his head to indicate his height. I’m an introvert. I prefer Netflix to parties because at least Netflix cares if I’m still there.

I’m actually three quarters Chinese and one quarter nothing, and my life is getting boring. Even my dreams. The other night, they dreamt I was driving and I parked in these two hour parking zones and then that was it. That was the whole dream, and I was scared. I was like, I need to go back to sleep so I can move that car.

Oh man, he was great. Patrick Galamco my new favorite. That was a really good fifty so seconds. Loved it. Dad, And I know you guys are like, yeah, but Jon, who’s playing in New Zealand?

Well, nothing with clips that it’s available, but some of the shows, and we’ve talked about some of these before. No Homo Queer Comedy, the Chuckle Monsters, which is family friendly improv and Spanglish Comedy Comedy Festival Edition. However, I’m clicking on it. It says the show’s fully in Spanish, which is fine, but that’s not what Spanglish is. You weren’t going anyway, heity hear the frog in White Throat.

Isn’t that great? When I have to record two more podcasts before I leave the basement today? No, that’s not good. And follow the show referee on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube, and you listen to the next few days and you figure out which ones I recorded on Thursday. Zee, there

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Elon Musk, Tom Hanks, Jenna Fischer, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Please Don’t Destroy, Sebastian Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Jimmy Fallon, John Cleese, Roy Wood Jr.

What’s in This Episode

• Elon Musk backs Dave Chappelle’s criticism of San Francisco downtown
• The Office series finale anniversary – 10 years ago
• Sarah Silverman HBO special releasing May 27
• Nikki Glaser performing in Israel, discusses Jewish comedy influence
• Please Don’t Destroy SNL sketch group touring 25 cities
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s ‘About My Father’ movie with Robert De Niro releasing May 26
• Jimmy Fallon’s non-writing staff placed on unpaid leave during writer strike
• Roy Wood Jr. discusses White House Correspondents Dinner controversial joke

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night is off for the writer strike. Late bots said, Hey, did you see Tom Hanks says he could keep acting after death because of AI and deep fakes. Late Bot said, I can’t wait to see the casting call for Forrest Gump The Ghostly Chronicles.

But hey, if Tom Hanks can act from beyond the grave, who’s to say other celebrities won’t follow suit. Get ready for weekend at Bernie’s three the Zombie Editions starring Tom Hanks, Elvis Presley and the Lochness Monster. And I love the twist of the late bot put on this one. Hey, until that day comes, let’s cherish the living Tom Hanks and his amazing performances. After all, there’s no AI that can replace the real deal.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to work on my own AI generated late night jokes. The late bot wrote that itself it’s becoming self aware. Elon Musk has backed up his buddy Dave Chapelle. You may recall from yesterday Dave Chappelle that San Francisco has taken on the characteristics of a zombie movie. On Twitter, Elon Musk said the disaster that is downtown San Francisco, once beautiful and thriving, is now a derelic zombie apocalypse.

I was surprised there is nothing new about the Chris Delia story I told you about yesterday. I’ll keep an eye on that one. But a surprise, there was nothing new. The Office ended ten years ago. I actually feel like it’s been longer.

On Tuesday, Jenna Fisher, she played Pam. If you watch The Office, you’re familiar with the character Pam. I would hope yes. She tweeted The Office series finale are ten years ago. There’s a lot of beauty and ordinary things.

Isn’t that kind of the point? Final Pam talking head and shared a photo In the comments, Angela chimed in with a string of emoji’s smiley face and heart specifically Jennifer Gorner chimed in and said finale’s really get to me, but this one just about did me. In emoji of someone crying, Angela posted a photo of herself being carried by Phillis. Ten years ago, Phillis carried Angela down the aisle to marry her love Dwights. Sarah Silverman will have an upcoming HBO special will be out May twenty seven.

She has released a trailer. Trailer has one joke. Let’s listen. I would never buy a German car because you know, we don’t want to give our money to Nazis. But I just bought a German car because they feel like all the original Nazis are dead.

There are new Nazis, but you know they don’t know how to make a car. Someone you love. On HBO May twenty seven, Nikki Glaser caught up with a Jerusalem Post. You’re home for comedy news and someone’s publicist will be happy. Listen to the spin Nikki put on this.

The Jerusalem Post writes, Although she’s not Jewish, Nicky Glazer identifies with the long American tradition of Jewish comedy. NICKI said, and this is why the publicist is going to be happy, because also was fielded so well. Jewish comedy is my brand of comedy. She’ll be performing in Israel on May twenty seven, so she’s gonna miss Sarah Silverman special unless she watches HBO in the motel room. I guess she could do that hotel room, I said, motel leave it in dear John, Do you really think she’s staying in a motel?

She’s probably not. May twenty seven, she’s playing tell of Vive’s Charles Brought and Auditorium. She says her brand of comedy, I think I just tell the truth. She grew up Catholic and said, there’s lots of guilt and shame tide in there, However, there isn’t a ton of honesty wrapped in it. There’s a ton of the guilt aspect in Judaism too, but Jews are honest and blunt about it.

I can’t hold back from telling a joke because it might have set one person. If I make a joke about something traumatic happening and someone my audience has a hard time with that, I can be empathetic, but I feel like I’ve done a decent job at figuring out where that line is. Sometimes you’ll learn the hard way, though, there were times when the best way to figure where the line was was simply by crossing it. She said, I’ll always leave room to apologize when necessary I screw up. I’ll hold myself accountable.

At least I could live with my parents again if that happens. The guys are them, Please Don’t Destroy. Those are the sketch guys, the writers, the young guys that kind of carried the Saturday Night Live season. You know who I’m talking about. There.

They’re touring pretty cool. The article here says the tour kicks off in Philadelphia. I thought I saw a New York date, but maybe I’m making that up. Kicking off in philadelp on June twenty third. Twenty five cities Nashville, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, DC or some of them.

Wraps up August twenty seven. Of the Dallas tickets go on sale Friday, ten AM does a pre sale right now. Use the access code a live if you want to go see Please Don’t Destroy. Sebastian Maniscalco’s movie about My Father will be out May twenty six. Then it’s just about a week away, right, so we’ll be seeing lots and lots of articles about Sebastian, and in every article they talk about how Robert de Niro plays his father.

Yes, that’s very cool, but I feel like we’ve been talking about this for six months. But here’s a new quote from Sebastian. It’s not every day that you send off your father to sit down with Robert DeNiro and talk about a script, especially when my father doesn’t really know anything about movie making and script analysis and what have you. But from what he was telling me, he really helped DeNiro with the Italian. He never taught me Sicilian, but he taught Robert de Niro.

A few weeks ago before the writer strike, Jimmy Fallon pledged support for his staff and said I wouldn’t have a show if it wasn’t for my writers. I support them all the way I support my whole staff. However, the Huffington Post as reported that Fallon’s non writing staff has been placed on unpaid leave of absence. An anonymous source set it felt like a classic layoff. Monday Night staffers received emails from HHR the next day they were told this would be their last paid week.

The source set our final paychecks will come in next week. Sarah Cobos is a photo coordinator at the Tonight Show. She’s been tweeting about it, saying she heard folks at Late Night with Seth Meyers in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will continue to be paid. Cobos emailed with the av Club and said she stands fully in solidarity with the WGA. I think we all just had hopes that NBC, an incredibly rich company do in large part to the talented employees, would do write by us.

Instead, they’re putting us on what they call unpaid leave and expecting everyone to just hold sight. It’s well known this industry already underpaid folks. It was a bummer to hear that other late night shows, even at NBC or continue to pay their staff thanks to the generosity of their hopes. While I’m happy for their workers, it certainly isn’t helping morale that the same isn’t happening here. We’ll see how Jimmy Fallon chooses to react.

John Cleese, he’s eighty three years old and says, I don’t get canceled because I do stage shows. People take to themselves. I like him, so I’ll buy a ticket. The audience sets is basically pre selected to like me, so when I come out, they like me. They like the sort of humor I do.

Roy Wood Junior was reflecting on his White House Correspondence dinner set. One of the bridge jokes that he did was dread queens are not at the school to groom your kids, and even if they were, most of those kids are gonna get shot at school, so it’s not a problem. Groans filled the air, But then he poked at the lawmakers in the room to pass legislation if they can’t take the joke. He said, there are always people who are going to use any opportunity to misconstrue a joke for political points, which some people are doing with that joke online. He said that particular event.

It’s not like a rap concert, or if you’d talk trash about a rapper, his crew’s gonna be waiting backstage to beat you up. No one was walking around looking for me like Chris Brown after an usher event. It was politics. Maybe I’ll get audited at least. Kelly and Conway thought it was funny.

Bunch of shows in Sydney on Friday. I try to find something with a clip from somebody we haven’t heard from before, but I couldn’t come up with the one. So Brian Lewis, we’ve heard from her when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is going on. She’s at Sydney on Friday, so let’s listen to a different part of her set. My partner and I aren’t married.

We decided against it. We figured we had already been together for ages, we have kids, and neither of us like our extended family enough to buy him a meal. So we skipped it. We skipped it, and that’s great, you know, that’s fine with us. The only thing I don’t like about not being married is I hate the word de facto.

It sounds like something’s broken, like satling’s gone wrong along the way, and it has pretty good And right before that, she told some very funny jokes that had F words in them, and if I took the F word out, it wouldn’t have worked as a bit. So good stuff from bron Lewis. Let’s keep an eye on her.

Meanwhile, New Zealand on Friday.

No clips available, but some of the shows include the improv bandits epic comedy battle, stand Up versus Improviser That’s Fun. Danny O’Brien’s show is called The God of All Things Bad and Instant Broadway, where every night is opening Night. The cast improvises an entire musical, all songs, music, characters and stories are made up on the spot. If you like that sort of thing, there’s an American podcast called off Book that does that, and off Book is fantastic and that is your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, Like and subscribe on YouTube.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Chris D’Elia, Martha Stewart, Matt Friend, Alana Glazer, Howard Stern

What’s in This Episode

• AI chatbot generates comedy material about Martha Stewart and beer commercials
• Dave Chappelle performs in San Francisco, criticizes city’s homelessness crisis
• Rolling Stone reports 10 women accuse Chris D’Elia of predatory behavior and grooming
• FBI investigates Chris D’Elia allegations
• Matt Friend’s Howard Stern impression goes viral
• Late night shows remain off due to writers strike

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night continues to be off because of the writers strike. I’ll tell you chatbot is getting pretty good. Listen to this set. Did you see Martha Stewart?

She’s gonna be on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Finally, a swimsuit model that knows how to make a killer apple pie and full of fitted sheet. Martha Stewart on the cover of SI Swimsuit Edition. That’s like mixing kale smoothies with Margarita’s move over Supermodels. Martha Stewart is here to show off her secret recipe for a beach ready body.

Spoiler alert. It involves a lot of gardening dy crafts and perfectly arranged fruit platters. She’ll also show you how to make a bikini out of recycled tetawels and turn heads at your next beach outing. Did you see the beer ad everyone’s mad about? No, not that one, the other one.

Alana Glazer is a comedian. That’s why I’m talking about this beer commercial. It’s for Miller Light, and the whole gist of the commercial is to create fertilizer from old sexist beer advertise, meaning those with scantily clad women. The Internet is losing their minds about this commercial. Late Bot said, beer commercials often future women in bikinis.

Frology on the beach, ick guests the marketing strategies to make us associate the product with two things. We love a beautiful women and be sunbirds. But seriously, if beer automatically attracted women in bikinis, wouldn’t the local bar be a Victoria’s secret runway beer commercial? Shuenet how to objectify women and pander to men? Maybe next time, They concluded disclaimers saying warning, drinking our beer will not grant you a personal hairm of bikini glad models.

Results may vary. So then late Bot combined the two topics and got a little edgy listen to this. Can you imagine Martha Stewart starring in a beer commercial. Yeah, product that pairs well with her impeccable taste and criminal record. Wow, late Bot, forget wine bearing.

She could teach us about the art of beer influence to flaze and ipa marinated steaks? Who needs a fret borro? Would you have Martha telling you how to chill, grill, and perfectly full of beer Cozy. Those are really good for the AI. Dave Chappelle played San Francisco, the crowd started yelling.

They yelled at they loved him. They yelled, Hey, can you repeat some lines for your Comedy Central show? You know they’re from twenty years ago. Audience, what is wrong with you? They yelled because they wanted to know what he thought of the homeless person who got sprayed with a hose in San Francisco earlier this year.

Dave talk back to the audience, and he says he’s played hundreds of shows in San Francisco, using the city like at ATM whenever he needed a paycheck. He told a story about eating at an Indian restaurant in the Tenderloin district a few nights earlier, only and have someone defecate in front of the restaurant as he was walking in. He said, San Francisco has become half Glee have zombie movie, y’all need a batman. Dave said he was not aware of the incident of a business owner hosing down a homeless person and how to have the crowd explain it. He pivoted quickly saying, ah, yeah, he remembered it.

And watched it on YouTube one hundred times, and then he did what the San Francisco Gate called a cruel snicker and his trademarks snap of the mic against his thigh. All right, this next story is horrible. I don’t want to do it, but we gotta do it. The headline from Rolling Stone Do Everything I say. Ten women claimed comedian Chris Dallia preyed on them.

Ten women tell Rolling Stone the forty two year old comedian and podcaster left them traumatized. The FBI is looking into it. Delia denies the allegations. Ten women have shared new abuse allegations against Christallia, accusing the comedian of predatory behavior that included controlling the diets and pressuring them to get tattoos of his initials. And an investigation by Rolling Stone, the women came forward with allegations that Delia went so far as to monitor the locations, how they dressed, and when they slept.

He also allegedly demanded explicit photos from the women at a moment’s notice. The allegations are the latest in a long list against Aliah, who has also been accused of sexual assault and grooming underage girls. Daliah has refuted all the allegations, and now the FBI is investigating his behavior. Rolling Stone reported whing to read verbatim from Rolling Stone they write. For this piece.

Rolling Stone has spoken with an additional nine women who detailed experiences with Delia that have left them shaken, including four women who recall having unsettling encounters and communications with Delia when they were teenagers parentheses. Some women, including those who have previously spoken out against Delia, declined to participate in this story, citing fear of Delia and legal reasons closed parentheses. Several of the women alleged deliad took advantage of the godlike status he had with his fans for his personal sexual gratification, dangling tickets to a show to at least one woman, who claims Dliah outright asked if she would perform a sexual favor in exchange for the free seat. One fan alleged she was twenty eight when Delia pressured her into giving him oral sex before one of his shows. When she began to cry, she says, Delia allegedly told her, if you just do everything I say, It’ll all be okay.

Another verbatim paragraph. An addition, Rolling Stone has learned. The FBI has interviewed several of Delia’s accusers and protect witnesses, and a statement to Rolling Stone, an FBI spokesperson said the agency neither confirms nor denies investigations to protect both the integrity of an investigation and the reputation to those potentially involved in it. Delia did not respond to this allegation. Just wow, awful, No easy way to follow that up.

Have you been paying attention to Matt Friend. He’s a comedian with a lot of buzz on him right now. He does impressions. Among his impressions, one of Howard’s Stern. The clip of Matt Friend doing his Howard Stern impression on the Howard Stern Show is making the rounds on the Internet.

I won’t share it because Howard notoriously waxed down clips. Especially if you want to try and find any clips of the old Howard, say, the Howard that was wearing blackface, you can’t find any of that. So I’m sure if I share with you the Matt Friend, I’ll get a take down here, and I don’t want to do that. So just google Matt Friend Howard Stern. It’s very funny you’ll enjoy it.

Adma Rossi, writes comedy articles for the Philadelphia Weekly, does a great job with those. He recently spoke to Matt Friend and asked, Matt, was there a first voice that you heard that rang a true note in your ear that made it curious to reproduce? And do you have perfect pitch? Matt said it was Mike Myers as Austin Powers for Me, Hank Azarius, Sir Lancelot and Spam a Loot and Seth McFarland’s Family Guide characters. He did not answer the perfect pitch question all right, What do you look for listening for in a voice?

Matt said, I often look at who people are talking about, who’s the political figure that’s gaining popularity, who’s the actor having viral moments or in a TV show? When I was talking about in terms of building an impression, it’s an obsessive thing. I’m constantly doing it at devour late night interviews, read a lot lessen to tons of tape. Then I talk and it develops a little like practicing an instrument, though I don’t think of it as practice. It feels more like my personality.

ADM Morosi says, doing me impressions one thing, making it funny beyond a character catchphrase quite another. When I first went on stage, it was just voices I do. Some impressions get last because there was some real talent. Now it’s completely different. There’s regular stand up stories, crowd work, it’s set or other.

Writing is just as important to me as the quality of the voices slash impressions. In terms of building, it’s about getting on stage as much as possible. I also developed lots of stories centered around my two hundred and fifty plus impressions, some of which are centered around me actually meeting these celebrities. What’s been the hardest impression to develop? Matt said?

Howard Stern has taken time. It’s such a particular rhythm and his voice is so recognizable to millions. It evolved, but now I have it down and thankfully Howard himself enjoys it too. I feel like the rhythms off on today’s podcast. Found that Delia story no easy way to make this any fun right.

Jamie Fox thing is catching my eye, so the latest Karin Fox, Jamie’s daughter, posted on Instagram sad to see how the media runs wild. My dad has been out of the hospital for weeks recuperating. In fact, he was playing pickle ball. Deadline reports that Jamie and Karin will be co hosting a game show together it’s called We Are Family, at a premiere in twenty twenty four. Concurrent to that, Jamie was supposed to host a game show called Beat Zam that’s moving forward with a replacement host.

No pictures of Jamie have surfaced, but a text statement on Instagram said, appreciate all the love. Feeling blessed. Spidy sense is tingling here in the basement. We’ll see. I hope he’s doing okay.

He was always super cool to me. Jay Leno’s game show You Bet Your Life has paused production because of the writer strike. Jay is a WGA member and announced via statement as a remember the writers killed for almost forty years. I truly understand and stand in solidarity with my fellow union members. For that reason, we are suspending production of our game show, You Bet Your Life until such time when agreement can be reached.

I really feel off on the other side of that. Delia’s story I read see I did share the Facebook group Daily Companies podcast group. If you want to read the entire thing, you’ll find the entire thing on Rolling Stone. But wow, all right, John Earle has released a trailer for John Early Now More Than Ever. That’ll be on HBO Max.

Sorry, they’re getting rid of the HBO Max part. Just Max. By the way, that’s a mistake. Guys. Like when I tune in to watch Succession or Barry and I just see the Max logo without the hbox to it, I just feel like I’m at the discount store.

You’re making a mistake on Max. John Early Now More Than Ever. Saturday, June seventeenth, John Early brings his unique blend of cunning commentary, pop star swagger and all around lovable hilarities of Brooklyn, New York and the style of a gritty nineteen seventies rockumentary. Early performs stand up, an explosive song covers from Britney Spears did Neil Young intercut with spinal tap esque backstage sketches. I tried to pull some clips from it and they just weren’t going to work in podcast form.

But you’ll find that out there. The Boston Comedy Festival continues. Zach Sherwin hosts the Crossword Show tonight at seven thirty. It’s a combination game slash music slash comedy show that plays up wordplay and Sherwin’s neck for connecting seemingly desperate bits of trivia. That sounds a good time.

If you’re in Dubai, go see Jim Jeffries and boy, I just feel so. I’m going to skip the Sydney in New Zealand stuff today. I gotta regroup. That story really bothered me. I’m going to leave you today with a massive, massive spoiler for Barry.

If you haven’t watched this week’s Barry yet, whyn’t you leave? And I’ll see you here tomorrow For everybody who’s still around Barry spoiler and three two one Did you notice Bill Burr’s voice in Barry Yeah on the most recent episode. Again, massive spoiler coming up in the next sentence. While Barry spoiler travels back to la with the intention of killing Jean cou he’s listening to podcasts by preachers who discussed the subject of murder. Bill Burr plays Pastor Nick Saint Angelo.

It’s that master who ends up validating Barry’s desire to kill Kusano. You hear Bill Burr’s voice as the pastor delivering his theological justification of murder with supreme confidence. If you’re not watching Barry season four, it has been than fantastic. All Right, I’m gonna go regroup. I’m really off.

That really bothered me. That story. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube See tomorrow