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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Bobby Lee, Leslie Jones, Donald Glover, Kathleen Madigan, Ron White, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle to MC Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa July 28-30
• Bobby Lee addresses backlash over Tijuana prostitute story
• Leslie Jones expresses interest in hosting The Daily Show
• Donald Glover reveals Amy Poehler said his SNL rejection was due to lack of point of view
• Donald Glover claims Tina Fey confirmed he was hired for 30 Rock due to diversity initiative
• Kathleen Madigan discusses her 35-year never-ending tour philosophy
• Jay Leno performs despite broken collarbone and ribs from motorcycle crash

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hey, you remember last year when Dave Chappelle got curfewed at NAPPA and said it never returned. Hig, I’m trying to make with your daily comany news. Well, I guess money tucks because Dave is on the slate to MC. The festival’s triumphant return to nappis Silverado Resort July twenty eight through the thirtieth.

It’s the Blue Note Jazz Festival, Dave Chappelle. Your MC headliners include Mary J. Blige, Nas, and Chance the Rapper. Three day passes for the Blue Note Jazz Festival start at five hundred and fifty dollars from USA Today. Bobby Lee has responded to backlash over resurface videos of the comedian reportedly telling a story.

It’s talking about this yesterday. It’s a little icky and you. Most recently teld the story on a twenty twenty podcast episode about an encounter with a prostitute in Tijuana. The story that Leads told I’ll condense it here has him going to Tijuana scutting for prostitute and hooker alley. He found a girl that seemed scared.

Bobby Lee has addressed the criticism on his Tiger Belly podcast. He said, the last couple of weeks have been so bad. I just need to say something. It’s easily explainable, he said. In twenty thirteen, he was forced to do press after not selling tickets to a second show at Caroline’s on Broadway.

When Lee saw Opie and Anthony on his schedule, he recalled telling his team, I don’t want to do that show. It’s just not my brand. It’s edgy shock Radio. The following year, he was scheduled to go on Opie and Anthony again, and he said he decided to do self deprecation and crazy jokes to avoid being skewered by o Na. He said he combined two unsuccessful jokes from his tour to form the Tijuana story.

The first bit was about going on a date with a young girl who looked like twelve year old Natalie Portman from Leon the Professional, and the second joke was about speeding up the process of sex with his girlfriend, who started crying about her recently deceased Grahama during the act. Li said, I was encouraged to say crazy stuff without thinking about it. When I listened back to it now, it puts a chill down my spine. I changed with society and I look at that story and feel guilt over it. It’s terrible.

It was stupid to say it as many times as I said it, including a currently as late as twenty twenty on theo Van’s podcasts. So we’re throwing Ona under the twenty thirteen bus. That’s all fair, but it’s sold it. In twenty twenty, Bobby Lee said, I understand the uproar and why people are upset about it. I’m upset about it, and I punish myself over at every second of every day.

At the end of the day, it’s not real and I didn’t do anything well that is good. Leslie Jones tells people she would like to be the host of The Daily Show. She said it was one of those in the pocket fits, you know, how you get fitted for suit and you’re like, yeah, this suit looks nice on me. I don’t mind wearing this style on me. The Daily Show was that, I would say.

My writer Lenny Marcus said to me that we’ve been trying to find a place that’s actually going to be fun and in fishing place to work at. Everybody calls themselves world renown, and they’ve done this and done that. But we haven’t ever had totally good experiences on productions. A lot of times people are crep that’s floating, or just not as good as what they think. They are messy.

But on The Daily Show, everybody there was good at their job, and everybody there was staying in their lane and did their job. Even when we were editing jokes and bits and stuff. They were so respectful and then they were very good at what they did. There were lines that I was like, Okay, how am I trying to say this? And I’m telling you the writers would say, and I’d be like, gush, darn are you in my head?

They were good. I remember asking Chris Rock. I was like, is there any advice? And he was like, first of all, I’m never worried about you, and second, don’t try to be John Stewart, don’t try to be Trevor. Be you be who you are.

I already kind of knew that, but you know how you just need maybe a little permission to do that. So that’s really what it was. Donald Glover is profiled and GQ and he said Amy Poehler told him that he didn’t get on SNL because his stand up lacked a point of view. Glover said, me being on SNL would have killed me. I got friends who made it on SNL, and at the time I was like, damn, But if I got on SNL, my career wouldn’t have happened.

Glover has claimed that Tina Fey confirmed to him that he was only hired as a writer on thirty Rock because of NBC’s diversity initiative Wow at twenty three years old. Donald Glover got a job on thirty Rock in two thousand and six. He told g Q it was a diversity thing. There’s no animosity between us or anything like that, but Tina Fey said it herself. The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris.

I didn’t know was between me and him until later. Glover said. Kenya hit me one day and he was like, I hated you for years. Glover said, it definitely didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there. I used to have stress dreams every night where he’s doing cartwheels on the top of a New York skyscraper with the other writers watching me.

The Good One podcast had on Kathleen Man again and they said, you know you’re Sometimes he’ll announce a new tour, but it seems like you’re actually on the same never ending tour. Kathleen said, it is never ending. People are like, oh, how long has this tour been, And I’m like, thirty five years. I’m not Black Sabbath. I don’t get to take two years off and think of an album.

It starts when you’re in theaters. Let’s say I do the Chicago Theater once every eighteen months. They don’t want to put the same poster up. They don’t want the same ad. That’s what’s driving all that, And that makes sense, but usually it’s new jokes by the time I get back there.

But tour names for comics, I’m just grasping anything. Call it boxwine and a Tanny Banjo. I don’t want it to be a title where a press could be mean, what’s it like on the never Ending Tour? The first few times I went around, I did all the touristy things, and then you start making friends in those towns. It’s a chance to see my friends again.

If I’m going to Columbus, Ohio, I’m not going to the zoo. I’ve been there a bunch. I’m going to see my friends. She said about working, She and Ron White have the same theory. You’re either working or you’re not.

It’s like going to the gym. Oh really, you haven’t been in three months. I don’t know all these stand up comedians, so I haven’t heard their name in two years. All of a sudden they have a special Really, where did you do that? It’s incomprehensible to me.

I’m not saying it’s wrong. I’m not saying they’re not necessarily funny. I just don’t understand. I have to be in a rhythm. Even if I’d take a week off that first show, I’m going to forget a few things.

It’s just rust. And Ron White is such a pot monster that his memory shot. He’s like, I can’t remember anything about ten minutes in my whole life. And I was like, well that’s enough. You could be my opener.

Why not just go out there and do ten minutes. It doesn’t even matter how good it is. McCall caught up with a Jay Leno. He’s at the State Theater tonight. Are you doing, Jay?

Well, let’s see, I’ve got a broken collar bone, two broken ribs, and two crack kneecaps ore than that, I’m okay. It’s actually not too bad. When I’m on stage, it’s fine. It would be far worse if I had slipped in my pet boone walking bathtub. But when you’re seventy two and crash your eighty three year old motorcycle, it’s kind of cool.

As for the show, I guess it’s what you’d call classic stand up comedy. I decided to take the politics out of the act because it’s so divisive. I’ve found that when you’re on stage and you mentioned either candidate, people always wait till they hear the joke before they react. If the joke was for their candidate, they laugh. It was against their candidate, they boo.

It’s funny how you can have a wonderful cross section of America a regular audience. You’re doing fine, and then twenty five minutes and you start talking politics and they start booing and yelling. I understand, Jay, I get podcast comments. I just read late night jokes. I don’t write them.

Jay said, when you’re a comedian, you’ll always lose half your audience if you give your opinion. That’s why I make fun of both sides equally. One of my favorite guys was Roddey Dangerfield. I knew him for forty years, and all that time I had no idea if he was a Democrat Republican because we never discussed politics. Was the hardest part about being a comedian, Jay Leno.

He said, there’s nothing harder than writing a joke. You always need to come up with material, and that’s why I like being a road comic and having that interaction and one on one with the live audience. I don’t want to do a Netflix or HBO special. With those you make a ton of money, but it’s only that one show. I’d rather do one hundred shows and learn something.

I honestly thought I’d do this until I had to get a real job. I grew up in a little town in New England. Had an English teacher who pulled to the side once and said, I saw you in the hall making jokes. How about instead of writing a paper for my class, you get up and give a talk. For the first time in my life, I actually enjoyed doing a homework because I had to think about what I was going to say.

It wasn’t hilarious, but I got a few laughs. My teacher gave me an a My mom was stunned. She said, have you ever getten thought to being a comedy writer comedian? I said, no, not really. He told this wonderful story.

I remember when I was in fifth grade and mister Simon’s class, I had to write a paper about John Glenn circling in the earth. So I wrote the paper and I got a C minus on it. Forty eight years later, I had John Glenn on the Tonight show. So I called mister Simon, who was still lived in the area, and I said, do you remember the paper I wrote where he gave me C minus? Well, I have the second part of my report we’ll be talking about on the tonight shows.

To be sure to watch. I had told John Glenn about it beforehand. He thought it was funny. The next day, mister Simon called me up and told me he’d upgraded from a C two an A. Oh man, listen to this.

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The headliners for Norfolks fourteenth annual Great American Comedy Festival have been announced. Vicky Lawrence will headline the closing night gala. She would perform as both herself and her famous character Mama. That’s Saturday, June seventeenth. Michael ian Black headlines the night before, and the festival kicks off on Thursday, June fifteenth with the traditional family comedy magic show.

This is in Nebraska. Check out Great American Comedy Festival dot com. The Sydney Morning Herald shared a season to performers Guide to the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Ally McGregor suggests, by early evening tickets to a big name you’re familiar with, then take a flyer on one of the fresh faces doing this set at town Hall. She says, the show’s only an hour long, so if you’re going to go into the city and make a full night of it, see someone you know, then get a bite to eat or drink, then go to town Hall to grab tickets as someone you never heard of. I agree that is a great plan.

You’ve heard me say several times now. Melbourne is a fantastic city. McGregor says. The festival takes over the whole city and it feels like everyone’s totally vibing. I would suggest going to bars that look over the city so you can have a drink and look down and see people walking around.

She likes Madame Brussels. It’s a bit of an institution for me. You catch a lift to a roof garden that’s decked out like an English tea garden to play croquet in, and all these bartenders are wearing tennis whites. It’s hilarious. The age took a look at a bunch of shows at the festival, one of them Sashi Pereira.

She started in twenty eighteen at the Raw Comedy competition and said, raw comedy, it’s such a great weight experience stand up for the first time. If you get up in an open mic, there might only be one or two three people in an audience, whereas this was packed with people’s friends and family and everyone’s on your side. She made it to the state finals that year. Eventually he got approached by producers to peer in group shows at the festival. She says, when I started, I didn’t want to talk about being a woman.

I didn’t want to talk about being brown. I was just like, I’ll talk about doors and automated voices, things everyone can relate to. But I found the more of myself i’d put in, the more personalized I made it, the more I was connecting with the audiences. Her show endings is at the Chinese Museum through April ninth. Dan Rosario found out when he first tried stand up he didn’t suck.

He said, some of my best mates did comedy every day for two years before they got a laugh. But I was the only boy of eight cousins and I used to wake up in the morning at age six and think, how will I make the girls laugh? He didn’t want to rush into his first full length solo show. He said, I got a lot of advice from comedians who’ve been in the game longer. They were like, when you want to do an hour show, wait a year.

His fans a lot otherwise, people kept saying, when can we see you? We’re sick of seeing give you five or ten minutes. Well, now you could see him do an hour. White people needs her relax, as the name of the show said, trades Hall Through April twenty third, The Age also took a look at Braun Lewis. Her previous career was as a high school English teacher.

She decided to try stand up and said, there’s a bit of a midlife crisis stench about someone in their thirties starting comedy. My friends were like, we think you’re funny, but that sounds terrifying. So she moved to Brisbane. In Brisbane, I didn’t know anyone. It’s nice to perform for people who aren’t worried about you.

There she figured out how to get good at comedy. Her take on hour long shows you don’t have time to do a story in a five minute spot. You don’t have the time to work with Cadence. It’s bang bang bang. But now she’s got an hour.

Broun Lewis, it’s called Probably. It’s at the Weston four through April twenty third. And let’s open up the schedule. How long do you think it’ll take to load today? It took about a minute.

All right, Let’s see what I can tell you about today. A lot of children’s shows in the morning, tomorrow being Saturday. I guess that makes sense. Let’s listen to Ivan Arista Gietta. He was the winner of the Best Comedy award from the twenty twenty three Adelaide Fringe, also the winner of the Best Comedy in the twenty twenty two Adelaide Fringe.

He must be pretty good, say Olah. So Australia’s newest Aussie is happy immigrant has just come one of us, craigy amigo.

All right, let’s listen.

I’m from Venezuela. I’ve been living here for four years. Four years. I already feel I’m becoming Australian because I’m relating to food in a more Australian way. Last month, I went to Bunnings on a Saturday morning.

As soon as I smellow sausage Szel I was like, oh my god, Sausagezel was like, oh my goal, what’s happening to me? That wasn’t me four years ago. The first time I smellow sausage thisele, I was like, oh my god, there’s someone burning inside a car and it’s a hairy man. It’s a fat hairyman and his dog. They’re burning inside of cars.

Not anymore. I love a sausage thisl. I love them. You pay coins for it, just coins? How good is to pay with coins?

I love pairing with coins. When I pay with coins, I don’t feel I’m giving away money. I’m just getting rid of coins, all right. I found that really funny. I had the Mico, but I was holding back laughter to not step by the jokes.

That was pretty good. Now I want to play another clip, but the website froze, so let me just get out on tops. That was actually funny. That’s your comedy is for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

We’ll try again tomorrow. Maybe the website of work. 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 you 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, a 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: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Roy Wood Jr., Bobcat Goldthwaite, Graham Norton, Trevor Noah

What’s in This Episode

• Late night hosts joke about Trump’s indictment in Manhattan
• Roy Wood Jr. guest hosts The Daily Show with John Stewart cameo
• Bobcat Goldthwaite announces first album in decades called Soldier for Christ
• Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery 2 becomes second biggest comedy film opening on Netflix
• Graham Norton to host Irish version of Amazon’s Last Laughing
• Bobby Lee controversy over story told on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon said, Trump made history. The only good news for Trump in Florida. All their history books been thrown out, so it’s all right.

Seth Meyer said, that’s right. Former President Trump wasn’t rained in Manhattan, and like everybody else, Trump has presumed innocent until the outright confesses on truth. Social Colbert at that point, of course, he was ready as Miranda rights. Then he claimed Miranda wasn’t even his typeaster to sign an nda and got indicted again. The late night host thought Trump looks sad.

Roy Wood Junior, finally getting a chance to host The Daily Show, said, look at how sad Trump looks. My man looks like somebody told him his dog died, or that Mike Pence is still alive. Fallon, he looks like he’s watching another table at Applebee’s get their food first. Looks like he had to sit through unskippable ads on YouTube. He looks like Ben Affleck at the Grammys.

Hey, great news. Bobcat Goldthwaite is coming out with his first album in decades, says the press release. Now that confuses me because in twenty twelve, Bobcat golthweight released a compilation of jokes called you Don’t Look the Same Either, and it came out on album because I know I’ve been playing it on Slacker turned Live one for a long time twenty twelve. Hey, I was still at Serious Sexam playing it there. So I’m wondering, is this an actual album album?

You know, like, if Taylor Swift puts out Folklore, that’s an album, not a Netflix special. Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, that’s an album, not a Netflix special. The stuff Dave Chappelle does, the stuff that Jim Gaffigan does, those are Netflix specials. You can put them on vinyl if you want. But I know a comedy album when I see one.

So I’m guessing Bobcat Golthwaite’s new thing it’s just an album, which means I’ve got your back to be the Grammy of the Year for Comedy Album because I’m a snob and I think it should be an album, not a Netflix special anyway. It is called Soldier for Christ. The album is a mix of personal stories never told along with observations and reflections, revealing the warm hearted, punk rock human behind the wild nineteen eighties persona, a self described VHS comic, and a TikTok world Bobcat share stories about everything from childhood, family and old friendships, to touring with Nirvana and aging. The album will be out on April twenty six. You can pre order it now.

He’s also going to celebrate the release at Lincoln Lodge at Chicago, that’s where Soldier for Christ was recorded. Tickets are on sale. Tickets will benefit the Trevor Project.

Also appearing at that show Eugene Merman.

That’s pretty neat. I like these guys. They even sent over a track listing. Are you curious? Of course you are.

Track one is called Hello, When do you think Hello is about? What kind of jokes do you think? Hello? Track two old Bob Behavior. The next it says, my name is Robert Goldthwaite, balloon on a grave, Cigars, nuns and Viagra, cowboy colin oscopy.

Now we’re up to track seven. F these guys, then UFOs opening for Nirvana. Don’t repeat this story, fu AARP check your oil. Nickelback’s manager is a Penis. I met Grover, my big brother Robert, and I do the voice in all caps swimming Towards the Shark track nineteen bonus, Intro track twenty bonus, I’m in Love with a Duck track twenty one bonus, The Vigilante Nun They even sent over a bio or You’re curious, I’m excited about this album in case you can’t tell.

Since Bobcat Goldthwaite’s first appearance on The David Letterman Show at the age of twenty, now it says The David Letterman Show. Does that mean Bobcat was on the daytime one? That’s pretty awesome. Bobcat has gone on and maintain a thriving career as a writer, director, actor, voice actor, and stand up comedian. As a comedian, Bobcat has starred numerous hbos slash Showtime specials, performed in venues all over the world, and even went on tours and I’m gonna read this next sentence verbatim, and even went on tour as an opening act for the Nirvana, Yes, it says the Nirvana all Right.

Well known for his roles and scrooged with Bill Murray and Z and the Police Academy franchise, Goldthwaite has gone on to become a well respected award winning director, then a bunch of stuff about his directorial credits. After fleeing Los Angeles, he now lives somewhere in the woods in Illinois with his girlfriend Nora and their five cats. Anderson Coop Her Love It, Alice Cooper Love It, Tina Sparkle, Bruce Wayne, and Robert Smith. John Stewart was on The Daily Show. Is he coming back to host?

No? No No? He was dressed in full Obi wan Kenobi outfit, and he appeared to help guest host Roy would Junior go viral? Vulture observes feels sort of Kingmakery. No.

John explained that he used to host The Daily Show. Roy Wood said, wait, the Daily Show had a white host. Look, Johnny Mac. You can hate on Adam sandler comedies as much as you want. You could sit there in your stoop basement recording your dumb podcast saying Adam Sandler’s movies are terrible, but Netflix says Murder Mysteries Too.

Debut was the second biggest opening weekend for a comedy film on Netflix. It was watched by forty two million households in the first three days post release. That’s slightly more people than listen to this podcast. I will give you that, Adam. According to Netflix, Murder Mystery two accumulated sixty four point four million hours streamed over it’s debut weekend, a figure that catapulted it into the top ten of the streamers movie section in ninety one countries.

So there you are. You’re in Luxembourg and you’re locking in Netflix and you watch Murder Misty two. It was also the most watched English language Netflix movie on the service for the week running March twenty seven to April second.

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Now, let’s parse that sentence, the most watched English language Netflix mov…

So something in another language beat Murder Mystery two. There still is hope internationally for us. All good job people who speak different language. Remember last week I told you Trevor Noah is going to host one of those Amazon l L last one laughing things. Well, Graham Norton is going to host one.

He’s doing the Irish one. Ten comedians locked in a flat together and I have to try to make each other laugh. Anyone who laughs, you’re expelled. The Irish version will shoot and Dublin this spring and it will air next year in all two hundred and forty countries where Prime Video is available. So say you’re in Luxembourg and you’re like, I didn’t really like Murder Mystery two?

What else is on? You’ll be able to watch this, Graham Norton said. And don’t think I didn’t almost say, Jim Norton, I almost did. Graham Norton said, I’m thrilled to be working on home ground for the first time in many, many years. I’m so proud of our comedy culture and it’s wonderful to have a platform to showcase Irish talent to a global audience.

I can’t wait to see what our comedy masterminds do to get the laughter going. This press release did not mention any sort of prize. I don’t know if the Graham Norton Show is giving fifty five thousand dollars to Irish comedians or what they’re doing. Who knows. If you like what I do here, you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

He could there was some money in the tip jar. You know who did that, Kara? Would you know? Kara with the whole power of the street woman, that’s gilding me into running. Hey, Kara, I just got back from a three point three mile run.

That’s five days in a row in case you’re counting, but you’re not counting, because that’s what we do on Mondays. We’re not doing that today. Today we’re talking about how Kara would bought me three large ized coffees, but she added to be misappropriated on beer only. That’s because she listened to yesterday’s podcast and knew my plan for Wednesday night was, of course, to go to trivia night at the brewery and three largeised coffe phase. That’s fifteen bucks.

That’s two beers at the brewery. Perfect because as anyone who knows me, I am on my soapbox about two beers, not eight. Two beers during a three and a half hour trivia game. Perfect eight beers. What are you doing?

Karrowood? Thank you for going to buy me a coffee? Dot com slash a daily comingy news Kevin Hart said, I’m forty three, so I hope I got a little bit at SIME left. I definitely want to go out while I’m on top. But I’m finding new fun, like in the space of interviewing and podcasts, that’s something that’s evergreen.

Like I’ve actually interviewed a lot of people I’m also artist friendly. I don’t believe in the space of sabotaging talent. I amplify talent. So coming on any platform of mine is about celebrating you and what you’ve done in your world of success. And I don’t do any prep, no prep, no pre interviews.

Now here’s what we’re talking about. Here’s the marketing premo. I don’t do any of that stuff. Come on my show and we’re just gonna talk. One talent that he says he amplified is Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

That’s right. He said, Well, his career was over, he needed help, So what did he do? Called the old Khart came on board and changed that man’s life. By the way, you’re welcome. You’re welcome because we know the truth before me.

Yet that stupid movie tooth Fairy. We all know what was happening after then then boom, Central Intelligence shoots to the moon. There’s a comedy festival in Montreal. But no, it is not the just for laughs, I mean that still exists, of course, hoping to go, got to check my calendar, hoping to get up there. Are you’re going to join me?

We can hang out. We could have a beverage. Starting tonight through the ninth, Montreal’s inaugural giggle Fest will host over thirty shows and feature more than eighty local and international performers at the Montreal Art Center and Museum. Now, why are they doing this? Gigle Fest says it seeks to spotlight and elevate local English comedy producers and artists with a business model that allows producers and comedians to see real profits for their art.

Local comedian Michelle Forrester said, what’s crazy is that we’re a city known for the behemoth that is JFL, and yet when people come up here they have a hard time accessing English stand up comedy. There are so many amazing independent shows that uplift overlooked talent. Giggle Fest gives people centralized access to all those shows and artists in four day. Is pretty cool. Giggle FESTMTL dot com if you want to check that out.

Steph Curry, Yes that’s Curry. He is coming to television. He’s going to costar with actor Adam Paley. It’s called Mister Throwback, a mockumentary comedy on NBC. Mister Throwback will focus on a down on his luck memorabilia dealer.

Looking for redemption, he reunites with Steph Curry, who is his sixth grade teammate. Here’s Today’s Horrible story from USA Today. Bobby Lee under fire for resurface videos of the comedian telling a story three years ago. In that story, he talks about an encounter with a prostitute in Tijuana. It’s a clip from THEO Vaughan’s This Past Weekend from January twenty twenty.

Bobby Lee tells the O Van that he frequented a brothel and Tijuana with go workers while working in the food service industry. For this report, Bobby Lee said, this is going to be a hard story to tell. I don’t know if I can get around it. Honestly, if you think this is going to ruin me, we had cut it out. I was walking down Hooker Alley and there was a girl.

It was a girl that seemed scared. That was the one I wanted. Bobby Lee then clarifies the woman’s age, having early referred to her as a girl and said, this is not a kid. This is an adult, fully grown woman. He then the story and says, while having sex with the woman that she’s this is horrible, crying snot bubbles the whole thing.

He goes on to describes speeding up the process to get over with it. Another clip from the podcast Tiger Billy Clips has also surfaced. He tells the same story of desiring a quote girl facing the wall, the one that doesn’t want to be there. USA Today writes it’s unclear if the story is factual or a comedic bit. USA Today reached out to Lee’s reps for comment.

At the time of this recording eleven twenty five am Wednesday, April fifth, I’m not aware of any comments from Bobby Lee. Let’s take a look at the Milburn International Comedy Festival. A review of Lara recotes GRL slash latnx slash d EF that shows playing until April twenty third. So Girl, a teen x deaf dage said, once you started getting noticed in Britain’s comedy scene, interviewers would ask for certain things, then ask if I could talk about my hearing aids, and I realized that being a minority is very in This is horrible, but I’m a good combination of the things. I’m disabled, but I’m not too disabled.

I’m Latin American, but I speak English. So I’m in this terrible but perfect place between all these minorities where people say, I went and listen to this deaf girl, but I can understand her. In Girl Latine’s Death, she uses storytelling to explore intersectional identity and what it’s like to pass as a hearing person and as white. It’s also about how cynical we are in terms of what’s allowed, what isn’t, what’s in, and how it feels to be brought in, but also in some incidences, taken out when people find out. With both her disability and heritage not immediately obvious to others, she says, she often feels like she’s being sneaky.

I feel like an undercover person of color. She used deaf in the title of the show because Heart of Hearing is not a snappy but I’m hyper aware that I shouldn’t be saying deaf. I don’t belong to the deaf community. I will eventually, but not yet. Let’s open up the schedule for today and see who’s playing.

Let’s see how long the website takes to load today. Boy, I did do an edit there that took over a minute. All right, I’m kind of into talking about the things where I can play a clip that’s a little more fun. So I’m taking a look at Friday’s line up at the International Comedy Festival, because again, if you’re in Melbourne, by the time you’re hearing this, it’s already Friday, even though in New York City it’s Thursday. Yeah, a lot of time zones in between there, all right, how about Carmen Ghetta in Carmenacha a Corona infused disco barbecue, but it’s Carman Ghetta.

The Cougar has left the Hubby and Brighton Bay mansion on a mission to achieve social media celebrity, serving up so much more than fish and chips in Corona better. Corman fuses high energy clown routines, impeccable opera serenades, and a diva menu you had no idea you needed. Is it cabarets and a catwalk? Is it a cooking show? Is a game show?

Is it everything anyone could ever want it? Soylet block one oh seven? Yes, it is, my friends, that sounds really fun. This cougar escate starling. I’ve got the jewelry.

I don’t worry about the house. You’ll take care of itself. I’m out of here, Rada, I’m gone it, I’m gone. I’m not your property. I’m not your property.

This is not your ring, these are not your bottles, this is not your house. Already that was a little different. About the racist immigrants, Oh my, what’s this? An hour of unabashed comedy. They’ll leave you crying with laughter and questioning everything you knew about immigrants and cultures as it attempts to break all stereotypes.

A review from a Chinese proverb says he will come out feeling a lot less racist than when you went in at five stars. Let’s do a clip, right, Yes, picking up women for men of my kind is really hard, right, like it? It’s really hard because apparently women only like this accent when I’m offering them cheap deals from waterforn. That sounds fun. A lot of the audio was a little subpar so that’s why the short clip there.

One more. Let’s see Claire Hooper Sweet Charity Australia. Sweetheart takes a break from emotionally scoring her children with graphic descriptions of the Heinlich maneuver to tell you all about the kind and worthy things she’s done lately and hope they’ll outweigh all the times that she’s wished people dead. Let’s listen. Are we hugging no?

We’re not? No? Ye know, that’s one of those questions where if you’re not sure the answer, just don’t ask, you know, those questions like are you going to ate that? What will you marry me? And are we hugging?

No? In the last couple of years, it’s been possible to be friends with someone for months and still not have seen the inside of their house, friends with someone for months and not know who’s better. All right, I mean a bit of a slow start there. For the clip that you chose to spotlight no from Onward States internet sensation Trevor Wallace sing a Little buzz On. Trevor Wallace this week performed a self deprecating and largely improvised comedy set as part of a free comedy show hosted by Penn State’s Student Programming Association.

Wallace began his set by waltzing on stage wearing a miniature foam finger on his hand, which he quickly removed and revealed his outstretched middle finger. He said, always gre to come back to schools. He didn’t get into I had a two point six GETPA, so their loss after a Jerry Sandusky joke didn’t land, he wondered if he was still going to get paid. Wallace then talked about his impressions of Penn State’s campus, saying there are cars all over the place and students just don’t seem to care. They’re walking around like I’ve priority here.

I played lacrosse for one season, so f off. He joked about a childhood and said, one time my dad actually pulled the door of my bedroom off. That son of a bee turned my room into a jeep wrangler. And from the department of Please, don’t you know what’s on today? On Paramount Plus Greece, Rise of the Pink Ladies.

Yeah, boy, have you seen the trailers for this thing? Sat in nineteen fifty four, four years before the nineteen seventy eight film You Know Greece with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Hope you’ve heard of that one. Pink Ladies explores out a group of four ridel outcast forged a friendship then became the title Girl Gang fourbears to Rizzo, Frenchie and the other beloved pink Ladies from the movie I can’t wait to see the reactions to this thing. I think it’s going to be velma level. That is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Birbiglia, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Roy Wood Jr., Nick Carraway, Jackie Novak, Big Jay Oakerson, Whitney Cummings, Bert Kreischer, Dan Levy, Tony Rock, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Trump arrested in New York, late night comedy coverage
• John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Birbiglia benefit concert at Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Roast of Bert Kreischer now streaming free on OnlyFans TV
• Whitney Cummings discusses comedy industry pressure and OnlyFans controversy
• Tony Rock clarifies Will Smith never called Chris Rock after Oscars incident
• Netflix and Just for Laughs sign three-year comedy special deal
• Mae Martin receives limited series order for ‘Tall Pines’ mystery thriller
• Murder Mystery 2 receives harsh review from The Daily Beast

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny back with your Daily Comedy News. The topic Trump, Stephen Colbert said, what if he goes to jail, he could end up the head of a violent white supremacist gang, but in prison. This time, Colbert tagged it with the head of the arrangement. Foreign President Trump flew from Florida to New York and landed at LaGuardia Airport.

Yeah, he was smart. Nothing helps easy into prison like spending time at LaGuardia. Jimmy fallon same topic, Trump flew from Florida to New York, then he was arrested. He’s basically doing a reverse spring Break roy Wood Junior. I finally got a chance to host the daily show Ticket Guys long enough the upside with Trump’s DNA Now the NYPD can probably solve a bunch of cold cases from the eighties.

It’s a robust day again here at Daily Comedy News. So much news. I’ve kicked a bunch of stories to tomorrow. Tomorrow’s podcast is already really good, including information about a new Bombcat Goldthwaite album. But how can I not lead with Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney and Mike Berbiglia doing a concert together.

Yeah, it’s not bad when Mike berbig is the third biggest act on a show. Gaffigan, Malany, and ber Biggs will team up for a benefit show at the Georgetown Scholars Program. This will happen May first at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Nick Carole will appear virtually. Jackie Novak will also perform, not virtually.

Jim Gaffigan says, really looking forward to the show. Insanely talented lineup for the great cause of the first generation college students. Yeah, that’s fantastic. On YouTube today the Big Jay Okerson Special. By the way, there have been over one hundred and fifty comedy specials already this year.

I’m going to get into that on the weekend. Whitney Cummings tweeted tweeted, what is twisted? Why don’t you edit that out, John, because I want you to hear that I said the word twisted. Whitney Cummings tweeted the roast of Burt Kreisher now streaming for free. It only fans TV slash Burt dot roast.

That’s not actually the url, it’s o f dot TV slash b e rt dash roast, don’t act like you didn’t have a bookmarked. Whitney says it’s bad crazy if I say so myself. Fave joke a question mark so streaming for free now, I haven’t seen it yet. I think it was ten dollars over the weekend. If it’s already free, it promptly didn’t do that well and she wants to get people to watch the next one would be my guest.

I’m not sure it wasn’t always free. Really not sure. I had ten dollars in my head for some reason. Who knows. Anyway, I’ve yet to see any reviews of it, so I don’t think that was widely watched other than the Reddit stuff I told you about yesterday.

Winning Cummings spoke to Yahoo and said, remember the last couple of years, it turned in like comedians had to be on moral high ground all of a sudden. It’s like we went from idolizing Richard Pryor, who on stage went into hitting his wife and doing crack, and now we’re like, this comedian didn’t post a black square at the right time. It should be canceled. It’s like, wait a second, hold on, So I think comedians right now We’re having so much pressure put on us to be perfect, and I think we just kind of want our mind. Everyone like we’re kind of scumbags.

Don’t put us on pedestals. We’re just here for entertainment. Why only fans? Whitney said, I went on there and it’s like teachers making money for school supplies and women wearing a bikini to pay for their mom’s surgery. And I’m like, that is so sad, and I’m like, that is awesome.

You know. I see girls on Instagram doing way more degrading things for free, and I’m hearing about these success stories and I’m like, oh hey, I’m totally in. Whitney added, there’s really no network at the moment where comedians feel like they can go for it and take risks, even on Netflix. That’s sort of the place we were all going.

And then with what happened with Chappelle, even though they didn’t necessari…

Seems like she didn’t like the Comedy Central roasts, so she put in some rules. She said, So I was like, what if we did the roast where no one ever got hurt? It never felt mean, I’m going to make all these changes that when I was writing the Roast, things that I wish would have happened, Like when someone is being insulted or roasted, I made a split screen so you could see them when the joke is hitting, so you could see that they didn’t get their feelings hurt. There’ll be no jokes about comedians being pedophiles or rapists if they’re not, because that’s not funny. I just made sure everyone was protected and nothing was going to feel cringey and sadistic.

I think it was Bob the drag Queen who went Whitney’s drag name would be Botox horse Face. Dan Levy gets up and says, here we are taking unprovoked shots at a talented woman. I feel like Alec Baldwin. That’s a great joke, coming said, we’re just long over to to go. Oh my god, the painful thing that happened.

All we can do is laugh and the things you’re not allowed to say.

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And then you hear it, You kind of laugh, you scream, you look around, holy mo…

It’s a form of healing. Tony Rock, brother of Chris Rock, said that Will Smith did not call Chris Rock A few days after the famous incidents. Will Smith had said that he did. Tony Rock says that wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.

I think like two nights later I reached out to Chris and he didn’t want to talk. That wasn’t true. Will Smith cast Tony Rock in the two thousand and five or Man at Comedy Hitch. Tony said he’s surprised that Will Smith never reached out to him either. He doesn’t owe me anything.

I just thought we were better than that. My phone number has never changed. I just thought i’d get a phone call one day, like, hey, let’s just you and I talk. It hasn’t happened. It’s I guess it’s not gonna happen just for laughs.

And Netflix have signed a three year comedy deal for three French stand up comedy specials. That’s neat. Netflix also did a deal with May Martin. I guess May’s special did pretty well for them. May has received a limited series order for it.

Tall Pines, a mystery thriller in which May Martin will star and show run. Tall Pines is set in a bucolic yet sinister town that sounds original that explores the inciduous underbelly of the troubled teen industry and the eternal struggle between one generation and the next. I feel like what I do here? Once’t you buy me a coffee? Oh?

No, it’s Wednesday? Why don’t you buy me a beer? Yeah, it’s brewery night trivia. Actually it’s the last trivia night because in the summer we’ve become a volleyball team, so this is our last appearance at trivia. So that’s a good night.

To buy me a beer. Go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, click to buy me a coffee button, and then I will miss appropriate your funds and I will put it towards a beer at the brewery tonight. Thank you in advanced buy mecoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. My kind of headline from The Daily Beast? Are you ready?

The headline murder Mystery Too? Is Adam sandler crap comedy at its worst? Subheadline in all caps? Where are the laughs? Are people finally coming around at Johnny Max way of thinking?

The Daily Beast writes Sandler’s Netflix comedy output had a bad reputation even before this dreadful, jokeless sequel hit the streamer. Still, who would have thought the movie could really be this bad? Me Anyway? Murder Mystery too. They follow up that, as with so many Saidler efforts, feels like a ritzy vacation for its stars masquerading as a legitimate movie.

Written once again by James Vanderbilt, it dispenses about as many good jokes as its predecessor, which is to say none. I love this review. Sailor was wise in twenty fourteen to hitch his wagon and Netflix, considering that his increasingly slapdash happy medicine productions are far more appealing as living room distractions than as night out entertainments. Nonetheless, the fact that he’s soon reteeming with the Safty brothers that’s welcome news because of their prior collaboration Uncut Gems, which, as you know, no sarcasm, is the greatest the Adam Sandler films, legitimately great movie. Adam, please do more of that, please.

But the Beast writes it’s great that he’s working with the Safties because it means the star will temporary be prevented from making more drek like this. I can’t get enough of it. Drew Carey annoyed some people at the big famous satellite radio company. Well not the bosses, the listeners. Drew apparently hosts something called Friday Night freak Out, except last Friday, he used an artificially generated version of his voice to handle most of his DJ work, reading a script written by chat Gept.

At first, I was thinking, did Drew get really lazy and get caught? But apparently it was a bit. I heard the clip, and the clip clearly admits that it’s an AI reading an AI script, so he didn’t try to pull one over on everybody. Drew Carey said, I violated a rule from Radio one oh one. The reason FM stations and treasured radio stations still make moneys because people like the personality of the DJs.

You don’t have to be like a big boss radio guy and be phony. You can just talk. That’s what the listeners like Carry said. He got the message don’t do it again from sports Kedia. American comedian Randy Rainbow one over the internet after he released a parody song aimed at Donald Trump’s indictment.

Rainbow has uploaded a four minute video which begins with a fake interview between Trump and Randy Rainbow for a fake news channel. The video then cuts to a song put to the melody of Boogie Woogie Beautiful Boy of Company B some of the lyrics and I won’t even attempt he was a sleazy showbiz phony born in NYC who somehow won the White House over Hillary. I’m sure Randy Rainbow did it much better. I’m not even to attempt. The song also jokes about Trump looking like a butternut squash.

Let’s take a look at the Emailburne International Comedy Festival.

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And now today’s problem with the website.

I started to load it on Chrome because that worked better yesterday, and I clicked on Thursday and it loaded the Wednesday schedule. So I went back to Safari and I clicked on Thursday and it loaded the Wednesday schedule. So I clicked on Friday, and it is now telling me that this is Thursday’s schedule. And I’m looking at the long version of the UURL and I’ve manually tweaked it so in the URL it is saying six April, So I think this is Thursday night’s lineup. But you’re either in Melbourne or you weren’t going anyway, and it’s just fun to talk about these comedy shows.

Let’s see what’s going on tonight. It’s Alice Fraser’s twist. The Edinburgh Guide calls it breathtakingly funny, relatable, meaningful and hilarious. Let’s take a listen. Hello.

I want to take a brief moment to pay homage to all of the real victims of the pandemic, which were the people who had just had their lips done and botox, had to hide their beautiful mouths behind a mask while struggling to express anything. Any parents in the audience, Yes, anyone given birth. It’s an incredible thing. You made a person inside yourself, out of yourself. Who’s going to be sad when you die or at the very least ambivalent.

Come on, that’s an amazing thing. If you if you’ve got the boobs and you’re doing the boob thing, then you get to be food again. Incredible. You’re not giving this enough credit, like when Jesus does it’s a big deal. And Christy Weebeck’s show is called a bit of fun, not much of a description.

It says, take a break from the doom scrolling, drag yourself away from Netflix and join your investie for a bit of fun. The Age called it a perfect choice. Let’s listen. Hello. I was in a supermarket recently and a small child yelled out at me, Hey, you look like a man, and I said, can you please such to my boss?

So it’s reflected in my pay Just boom, just just got him. I don’t even have a boss, you know, like in your face. In all four you’ll find the tea, coffee and some sas about the gender pay gap. I was in an uber recently in the driver said to me, I thought your name was Kirsty and I said it is and I thought this is going to be good and he said, ah, yeah, you’re right. I was just I thought Kirsty was a girl’s name, and there was not enough time to explained that gender is a social construct.

So I said it is a girl’s name and he said that sucks. Bro. And that is your comedy news for today. Father show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Bautista, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Chris Rock, Mae Martin, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K., Big Jay Oakerson, Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Jim Norton, Tony Hinchcliffe, Colin Jost, Michael Che

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Bautista announces Netflix comedy special (April Fool’s joke)
• Kyle Kinane’s YouTube special ranked #1 of the year
• Updated comedy special rankings for 2023
• Mae Martin addresses Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais on trans issues
• Big Jay Oakerson special release on YouTube
• Roast of Bert Kreischer receives negative Reddit reviews
• Louis C.K. releases ‘At the Dolby’ special with 14 new minutes
• SNL Colin Jost April Fool’s prank with Michael Che and audience

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy. He was very, very robust episode today and the last thing I’m gonna going to do and I’m trying to figure out how to do it. It’s a massive spoiler for a television show. But as soon as I tell you what show it is, you’re gonna be like, oh, I know what they did there.

I’ll warn you. But if you don’t want to be spoiled for any TV shows at all, how about I’ll do that. I’ll tell you all right, jump out now, we’ll do that. On Saturday, Dave Bautista, you know him as a UFC fighter, you know him from Guardians of the Galaxy. He announced a new Netflix comedy special.

It’s called I’ve never done this before. Let’s listen. Never done stand up comedy before, but Netflix paid me ten million dollars shown no interrupting cal move so at the end, but Stick gets heckled and he drags the heckler on stage and beats the guy up. What kind of comedy special is this? It was an April Fool’s joke, well done, especially with the production values on the Instagram joke.

Love it. Dave batistat Now let me ask you, could you actually make it?

Meanwhile, for reels, we have a new number one special.

I have watched Kyle Canaane’s new special on YouTube. Yes, I complained about the fifteen commercial breaks, and they did get annoying after a while, but I kept the remote in my hand. Kyle Canaane’s new special top special of the year. Let’s do a quick listen because a lot of it’s naughty and I can’t play too much of it. Said thank you for your service to a lift driver, more than I’ve ever said to anybody an actual military unifle.

As you could tell, I enjoyed the entire hour and a very strong closer. Kyle Canaine, well done. Currently number one. Do you want the updated rankings? Sure?

Why not? I haven’t even updated my document here. You can hear me type okay l E space ki n A n E. That moves Nate Bergatsi’s Hello World down to number two. Jay McBride now number three, Jim Jeffries number four.

Embargoed special that I’ve already seen is number five. What’s that? Johnny Mac Oh? Yeah, I got a screener, but it ain’t out yet, and I’ve seen it. It’s number five.

It’s not quite as good as Jim Jeffrees and it’s a little better than Chris Rocket. Number six, who is it? You’ll find out as soon as I can tell you. And number seven the roast of mister Peanut. I know you think I’m insane when I say that.

Why don’t you go on YouTube and look at the roast of mister Peanut and you will see it is quite funny. I also watched May Martin special. It wasn’t feeling it. I tried. I got into it and I’m like, this is going nowhere for me.

If you like it awesome wasn’t for me, and then I skipped ahead because they knew they had addressed Dave’s Chappelle by name, and I’m like, all right, let me see what that part is. And it didn’t land for me. I was like, all right, you mentioned Dave and Ricky Gervais my name and not feeling it. The Last Laugh podcast caught up with May Martin and asked May about name checking Chappelle and Jervaise. May said, and I think this is better done than what’s in the special.

May said, I find it really mind boggling that these people that I grew up being such a fan of and who seem like these cool left wing warriors and counterculture people. I can’t really wrap my head around why they’re so fixated on, particularly trans women. But also I mean, when Chapelle got attacked on stage and the first thing he said was that was a trans man, I was like, what is happening? I find it really confusing, and it’s so personal to me and so much of my fan base as young queer people. So I’m always quite starkly confronted with these statistics.

At how at risk that community is. I don’t understand it. It’s such an at risk minority group. I don’t really know why there isn’t more uproar about publicly targeting them when the consequences are so obvious.

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And then of course the comedians themselves complain about the consequences t…

Didn’t Louis C.K. Win a Grammy a couple of years ago. It’s crazy, but maybe it’ll swing back the other day. I don’t think Louis C.K. Did trans jokes.

He got in trouble for something else. But I digress. It’s crazy, but maybe to swing back the other way. And I would love it if those people were just a little more informed or open to learning, because some of the things they’re saying are demonstrably untrue. They’re scientifically not true.

Of course, freedom of speech is so crucial, but I don’t think you’ll be able to say things that are not true that are drumming up hate and violence. Big Jay Okerson Special Now. I thought it was coming out April fifth. The trailer says April fifth. The left button says out today.

Maybe they mean midnight tonight. I don’t know, but either today or tomorrow you’ll have a Big Jay Okerson on YouTube. I have not been able to find any reviews of the Roast of Bert Kreisher, and despite my jokes about sitting in the basement, I did not watch the Roast of Bert Kreisher. The trailer looks honestly to me, unwashable, like just trashy. The only discussion I’m finding of it is on Reddit, so from the subreddit your Mom’s House Podcast.

Some of the comments one the ending was so odd. It ends with everyone dancing on stage. But Keshin I Carly are also there. Somebody said, yeah, I got oddly awkward and uncomfortable. I’m surprised Whitney kept that in.

Another person wrote Whitney shoehorning in her gen Z friends, to which someone retorted, neither of those two I mentioned or gen Z. Yeah, Kesh’s close it to forty and Miranda’s in or her early thirties. All right, whatever. Next thread, the editing is so choppy. Yeah, it was terrible.

By watching Burt’s glass, you could tell they definitely edited out a lot. Next thread. I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would. Everyone had something I chuckled out, but that last fifteen minutes was effing rough and the editing was awful. A different thread was found in the stand up sub credits.

Some of the comments I tried watching. I like hearing good comics trash talk, but after the first five minutes I couldn’t stand Burt with his screeching fully miked totally ruined Jim Norton set, which was good. I just couldn’t stand listening to that squeal. Another comments about the editing. The editing was effing awful, to the point that it was distracting.

Norton and Tony did well. The rest were nothing special. When more, this was a disappointing fifty minutes of comedic content. All right, Burt Kreisher, backlash has absolutely started seeing a lot of it. Luis c K emailed his fan base over the weekend and Louis C.K.

At the Dolby, which you could purchase now for streaming and download at Louis C.K. Dot com for ten dollars. Although I said streaming, it actually says steaming. Perhaps a joke, perhaps a typo. Louis C.K.

Writes, Luis c K at the Dolbey includes a lot of material that I performed for the live stream from MSG back to the Garden, But it also includes fourteen minutes of new jokes that I didn’t do on that show, including a totally different closing piece of stuff. At the end, he pull like some other things, and then he writes, go here to buy Louis C.K. At the Dolbey now for ten bucks. Go to the Salt Lick in Austin, Texas. If you want good barbecue, go to France.

If you like French things from France, go to church. I feel like Jesus. Go to the basement if you need to feed Geralds, go to something else. If you want a thing. Thank you.

You’re a comedian, Louis c. K And did you watch Saturday Night Live reasonably funny episode? I laughed a couple of times, But did you see the news? So I was watching the news and I’m like, oh my god, Colin is bombing.

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And then Jay got a couple of laughs.

They went back to Colin, and I’m thinking to myself, this audience is awful, not laughing at anything. Then somebody from the audience yelled out, you stink. At that point, Michael Jay revealed it was an April fool’s joke. Michael Jay had sold the audience not to laugh at any of College Jost jokes. The audience they played along, they did not laugh.

Jost was wondering if his mic wasn’t working. After the reveal, Shade sawd Jost, don’t worry, they’ll probably laugh at the next joke. Jost was visibly not shaken, but like he had the giggles and had trouble getting through the jokes, and then turned to Jay and said, that’s the meanest thing you’ve ever done. I’m covered in sweat. The laugh button found on another subrett it’s subreate a day here in Daily Comedy News.

This subrett it live from New York. User l sat Prepper two was at the taping and said, can confirm it was all legit. So we’re waiting in a room that his beers and soft drinks and water, and there’s a DJ playing sick music. Before we’re called for seating, Jay comes up to us sing he wants to play an April Fool’s joke, something that’s he had to be done on SNL.

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And then he says, when Jost is on, we can’t laugh.

There was one small section at laugh and the rest of us were dead silent. The crowd erupted and laughter Jay and Jose was like, huh, it was really funny. When he cut on the U stink sounded like it came from the audience as far as I’m aware. When we cheered for him, he told us to not even dare, and that made people crack up hard. Everyone couldn’t stop laughing for a while.

I feel quite fortunate to have been part of this audience at ten out of ten amazing experience. I feel like what I do here, go to buy meacoffee dot com. Slash Daily Comedy News. And what are you gonna do there? You’re gonna buy me a coffee?

How do you do that? You can do a one time donation five bucks. You can join the two dollar club. That’s a two dollar monthly recurring thing. There are other priced heres.

I’ll shout you out. I’ll get a coffee from myself. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Hey and Adam Sailor controversy.

Yes, CNN and Kennedy Centers show stripped of Trump jokes. Comics miffed from The New York Post, they say, we hear there was chatter backstage on March nineteenth that the Kennedy Center that CNN plans to be quote all over everyone’s unquote political gags. They heard that Chris Rock joked that it was romantic that Donald Trump allegedly paid porn star Stormy Daniels hush money so that his wife Mali Annia wouldn’t find out about their fling. That joke apparently taken out of the special. Chris Rock not pleased with the omission.

Deana Carvey impersonated Donald Trump and made jokes about Nancy Pelosi. Those jokes two disappeared. CNN says the jokes were cut out for time. You know, so the live show could be slashed by an hour to fit into its broadcast lot. Uh huh, yump m right.

Meanwhile, some reviews of Adam Sandler’s new movie, Murder Mystery two. Longtime listeners of the podcast know how much I enjoy a good Adam Sandler movie. Well, The Guardian gave Murder Mystery two one star. It’s not one star out of one. I don’t know how many it’s out of.

I think it’s out of five. But even if it’s out of two, that wouldn’t be a good review. I’ll spare you the details, but they say this crime caper has a certain frenzied energy, but it’s sloppily plotted, crass and so dumb you wouldn’t trust it to use cutlery unsupervised. Wow. The Hollywood Reporters headline was Murder Mystery two review Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston in Netflix sequel that lea there’s no room for laughs.

This film brings back the goofy dufus Adam Sandler that audiences can’t seem to get enough of. In the sort of harmlessly mindless comic vehicle that goes very well with takeout Chinese or pizza on a Saturday night. It’s also user friendly enough to clock in at a breezy hour and a half. Adam Sandler’s net worth estimated at four and twenty million dollars. I’m in the basement recording a podcast.

Artist Hub caught the Best of Comedy Zone Asia at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and they wrote, using the superlative best to describe any art form as problematic and this includes the inexact science of trying to make people laugh. Best of Comedy z Own Asia offers up five comedians. The quality of the delivery and the content of this mixed platter is mixed, with some jokes landing solidly while others not so definly. My mind froze on mixed platter? Is that some sort of food related Asian joke?

It’s not thought out or is that just a phrase they use in Australia Move On. Because of the pandemic causing disruption and postpone of touring, many performers were denied an audience and this makes blain why some of the material in the show feels a bit untested. That’s not good. Nonetheless, there are some good chuckles to be had from each comic because they range widely in topics, from the responsibilities of and detours from being a good Muslim and being raised in conservative Indonesia to the generation gaps between mother and daughter, the joys of new fatherhood, greati of centsorship in India, and the rivalry between Singapore and Malaysia. If you don’t want to commit to one unknown comedian for an hour, it’s prudent to see a collective show such as this one.

I agree. I’m pulling up the schedule on the world’s slowest loading website. That is, of course, the website for the Milburn International Comedy Festival. It’s still loading as I killed time here. Why don’t you edit this out, Johnny Mac, because that’s not fun?

Still loading, still loading Eventually, I will tell you who’s playing on Wednesday.

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Now here’s an interesting fun fact.

Remember last week I couldn’t get one of the days to load. That happened again on the Safari browser, so I switched to Chrome and the Milburn International Comedy Festival website loads more quickly on Chrome. Do they not have Apple devices in Australia. I digress. Let’s see who’s playing on Wednesday night the class Clowns at National Grand Final.

Big Haughty title there. The search is on for Australia’s Funniest Teens, Australia’s National Secondary School Comedy competition and Kurch’s Talented Teenagers to unleash their comic voice through stand up, sketch, musical or physical comedy ninety minutes show at one in the afternoon. I wonder what the audience is like for these daytime shows. I mean, this thing starts so early. Ri l Jarn’s Return of the icelandic Oh, and it says play clip.

Maybe I should just do the play clip ones. You want to hear a clip? I want to hear a clip. We all have names that means something in my country. My brother’s name is Ulvus, it means wolf.

My girlfriend’s name is Linda, it means internet. We all have names that means something. For those of you who don’t know much about Iceland, I’ll tell you some facts. There’s three hundred and forty thousand people who live in Iceland. That’s it.

That’s the population. You know a country is small when you ask about the population and you get a number that include it’s tens of thousands of people, like you can’t even do like a rough estimate, well, three hundred thousand. No, no, don’t forget those forty thousand. That’s that’s one eleventh of the population. The society would collapse without those forty thousand people in.

Our main exports are fish and disappointment. We are pretty small economy, but we don’t have strength in numbers, but we do have it in statistics. We say we’re the best in the world per capita. Iceland’s biggest comedy star and first ever Netflix star returns to the festival. Expect Nordic observations on drumbeats, sleep, Parented, and much more.

Here’s another play clip one. Dean Simpson always was, always will be funny. Dean comes from a long line of funny buggers, a wise cracking deat, a cleverly cutting mum, hilarious grandparents, and generations of jokers, pranksters and yarn spinners. I’m Aboriginal, by the way. I know that I’d say that I’m not Indian, stop like I say it all the time.

But yet there’s still people in this crowd looking at me like I think he’d drive us heat. I didn’t come. I LARROI that’s my mom, that’s mom, that’s my people. I remember as a kid, my dad would take me out and would just do black fellow stuff. Right.

We would go ahead into the bush. We’d eat fruit, we’d eat berries, we’d eat nuts, we’d eat spam. Dad wasn’t a good hunter. The Adelaide Advertiser gave it four stars and said, Simpson is hilarious. You can elaborate a little.

All right, I’m going to spoil the hell out of a TV show. I can’t even say what show it is first because once I say the show, you’re gonna be like, oh, I know what it is. Okay. So anybody who doesn’t want to be spoiled for any TV show at all, get out. Now see you tomorrow.

Three two one all right, you’re still here. Now, I’m gonna tell you the name of the show. You have been warned. Are you ready? I’m about to spoil Party Down?

Three two one? Right, you’re still here. I’m gonna tell you what happened. Now. Once I said Party Down, you’re like, ah, I got that figured out.

Yeah, no surprise, Lizzie Kaplan did appear in the season finale. Yes, there wasn’t no way they were bringing Party Down Back without Lizziekaplan showing up. That just wasn’t gonna happen. I get she was busy, but of course she was going to show up. So her character Casey is doing a Pruss jucket for her show, The Stabilizer.

She goes in the back to grab a beverage. She sees Henry, that’s her love interest from the series from ten years ago. We see they’re still attracted to each other. The pr guy comes to get Casey to go do stuff on stage or whatever. As Casey starts to leave, she gives Henry a warm hug with a secret on the side.

She’s planning on quitting her show. Yes, is she going to leave a hit TV show to become a caterer In the upcoming season, we’ll see if they bring Party Down Back. It seemed like it a good buzz. Although being on the Starters is a channel, I don’t know if anybody actually watched it other than people who review things. I haven’t seen it yet.

One day I was going to sign in for free try and then cancel and I’m like, why don’t you wait until all eight episodes are up and then do it? So maybe I’ll do that this week. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow, Travel is Back.

Let’s put the pandemic behind us. Let’s get back out there. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac and on my podcast, which is called Travel Is Back, I tell you about some places I’ve been and what I’d like to do when I get there. This show, Travel Is Back is travel for regular people.

We’re not flying first class. We’re not going from Michelin Stars thirty bags in the back of the car, and maybe we’ll fly coach. We’ll grab some food on the fly. We’ll check out places like Chicago, Montreal, La Seattle, Vancouver, and occasionally somewhere more exotic like Iceland, which is awesome, Barcelona, Paris, Australia also all awesome. Travel is Back is the name of the show.

Followed for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your shows. Travel is Back.

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Featured: Kyle Kinane, Big Jay Oakerson, Rob Schneider, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Donell Rawlings

What’s in This Episode

• Kyle Kinane releases ‘Shocks and Struts’ special on YouTube with 15 commercial breaks
• Big Jay Oakerson drops ‘Dog Belly’ special April 5th on YouTube, executive produced by Ari Shaffir
• Rob Schneider announces comedy special coming to Fox Nation
• Trump indictment for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels sparks comedy reactions
• Ricky Gervais announces North America tour dates
• Jimmy Carr announces US tour dates starting October 11th
• Donell Rawlings interview discusses path to comedy and Helium Comedy Club performances

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel said, for the first time in the history of this country, an American president has been indicted for his role in paying hush money to a porn star. Although in fairness, that’s a pretty narrow window. Like when Grover Cleveland was president, porn stars were very hard to come by.

Still, it’s historic, and it’s funny. It’s very very funny. Jimmy Fallon cracked me up with this. When she heard Stormy Daniels was like, Oh, so this is what it feels like to be satisfied. Mark Norman tweeted, wife, are you watching porn?

Me? Ah? No, I’m doing research on the woman who brought down Trump. Kyle Kneen has released his special Shocks and Struts on YouTube. I’ll tell you about it in a second.

But I looked at the MBD and Kyle, I get that you gotta make money. I get it. I want to make money off my podcast. I’m with you, bro, But guess how many commercial breaks there are in a fifty nine minute and fifty six second special. Guess how many breaks?

Fifteen come on? That’s every four minutes. Bro, I just brow twice. What’s with the broad today? Suddenly I’m Pete Koreeli Bro Bro.

Fifteen commercials come on the laugh Button, writes, Shocks and Struts is a manifestation of the comedian returning to stand up comedian after the pandemic, where he bought a van and hit the road. To quote Jehovah’s witness his bits around the country. He stopped on a stage in Salt Lake City to report about his recent travels around the nation. He takes to the sky reporting about pilots not being intimidated by these switches in the cockpit, hits the hotel buffet’s, lands on a cruise ship, compares Joshua Treat to the Kardashians, and addresses the burnout he’s feeling as a fan of science. Shocks and Struts with fifteen commercial breaks, directed by fellow comedian Jonah Ray, available on YouTube now.

Big Jay Okerson has a special about to drop. This one will be out on his YouTube page April fifth, his executive produced by Ari Shaffer. Nicely comedians helping other comedians out. He released a trailer and I’m going to share some of it with you right now. And I have to be very careful.

This true earlier was really really naughty. I wanted to share more of it, but you know a lot of like naughty words and swear words and stuff. So here’s the part I can play. I’ve been called racist a lot. I’ve been called a Nazi a lot too, probably not the most, but maybe the most of any other Jewish person in history.

You think that means you can’t be a Nazi. I’m like, yeah, it’s like the whole thing. Man. It’s Big Jay Ookerson’s dog Belly on YouTube. April fifth, Jay spent the weekend and spoke Ken and The Spokesman did an interview with him, writing it’s not surprising that blue is Big Jay Okerson’s favorite color.

The veteran comic is a blue collar as fellow humorous Jeff Foxworthy and Ron White, Big Jay said, That’s just how it was for me ever since I can remember. It was all blue collar. Spoken is a blue collar city, and I grew up blue collar. He’s from Rochester, New York. They understand what I’m talking about.

I get them, the guys in flannel and the truckers who show up from my shows. They get where I’m coming from, which is a gritty environment which you work hard. I’d take pride being a blue collar comic. He’s not only blue collar, he’s blue like Jeff Foxworthy. Big Jay says it all starts with Andrew Dice Clay.

My stepfather showed me Dice is special. The Dice Man cometh when I was twelve years old, and then opened my eyes and mind. I bet it, Sure did. Jay was planning to talk about outrageous things, but added, I have to watch what I talk about. Is he worried about being canceled.

No, he said he wanted everyone who came out to the show to be able to watch his special, so he was going with new material over the weekend. Apparently the special talks about the trouble Big Jay got into what’s that Well? Back in twenty twenty one at a show in suburban Philadelphia, a disorderly fan was verbally crushed by Big Jay. However, the heckler’s brother crept up on stage and pulled out the stool which Big Jay was sitting on, and chaos ensued. Big Jay said, a drunk lunatic started all this trouble after I destroyed his sister.

It was unreal. I got on top of him, but my fans pulled me away and said, don’t get in trouble for this. We got this. The guy was arrested that night. Made for a crazy story.

That’s good for the special. Big Jay, known for his crowd work, said, what’s so much sting is the most seemingly boring couple is more interesting than you would think. If the most straight laced couple allows me to ask a few questions, I promise you I’ll get to the weird that no one knows about. I get people in the audience to reveal strange things since I’m open about what’s not about me my self. Deprecation leads to some interesting revelations from fans.

A quick note from Fox News, Rob Schneider is teasing an upcoming comedy special with Fox Nation that’ll follow up the Rosanne Bar special. It seems like Fox Nation is into the stand up comedy. There no other details about that available at the time of this recording. Ricky Gervai is touring North America. That’s pretty cool.

He added a show in New York City May first. That’s intriguing. I haven’t seen Ricky in person. I might want to do that La on May sixth, New York on June thirtieth, New York on July first, but that one was already sold out, so you’ll have to scalp or whatever you do. Toronto and Laval, Quebec.

Jimmy Carr also announced some US dates. Was pretty busy for Friday. All this news I’m telling you about, I hadn’t parked or saved. This all was fresh news on Friday. Jimmy is one of my favorites.

I haven’t seen him in a while. The closest he’s getting to me is Philadelphia, which isn’t too bad of a drive. But let’s say US dates looks like it starts October eleventh, Cleveland, Ohio. If you’re in Cleveland, go see Jimmy Carr. He’s at the Mimi Ohio Theater.

Cleveland. Listeners would be at the Philmore in Detroit on the twelfth, Chicago on the thirteenth, Minneapolis on the fourteenth. Wow, back to back to back to back. A lot of time on the bus there. Jimmy November eighth, Boston November eleventh, Philadelphia November twelfth, DC, Then Atlanta, Hollywood, Florida, San Diego, La Mesa, Arizona, Denver, Portland, one in Oregon, Seattle and finishing up December sixteenth, and San Francisco.

I highly recommend you see Jimmy car if he comes to your town, or perhaps a nearby city like Philadelphia.

Speaking of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Weekly spoke to don El Rawlings.

Boy, that was a great segue there, John, Did you plan that? Not at all? Donell said, I was never very good in math and the kind of subjects it takes to make a good architect, so I figured I had to try something else, meaning comedy. Said I was able to make my mom laugh all the time. In fact, she once told me not to make her laugh anymore unless I was getting paid for it.

Rawlings is at the Helium Comedy Club April fourth through the sixth. He said, I was never the class clown. Instead, I would consider myself the class entertainer. Hey, you know this woman, Kara would She sponsors the show from time to time, perhaps even right now. She’s got that book The Power of the Streak.

She was gilting me out. So I was emailing with her on the side about some commercial copy, and I’m like, you know, I’m on a negative streak. She’s like why, and I’m like, well, I had the colin oscopy. So like, colin oscopy prep is not good for working out. You definitely don’t want to take that stuff and go on a long run.

Believe me, you want to stay close to home, move on John. Then day of colin oscopy you’ve got the anesthesia. You’re not getting work out. Then then the next day you actually have to do some work and record some podcasts. I mean, you can only record so many of these in advance.

So I got on this negative streak and she’s like, you better run on Friday.

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And then I woke up on Friday.

I was like Karen would and the power of the streaks is gonna annoy me and be like, you’re not running. So I didn’t run, Carrowood. I did do forty minutes spin class while catching up on podcast because my phone is always blowing up. Anyway, Now I’m on a streak of one day or maybe where you are on Monday. Maybe I’m up to four days.

Now. The key here is you want to get on a street because once you get on a streak, you don’t want to break the streak. So Carrollwood wrote this book The Power of the Streak. It answers the question how to stay consistent with exercise and keep you motivated over time. If you want, I can shame you on the podcast.

I could do that. If you struggle the working out rarely Power of the Streak. Grab the book, will you? Let’s available on all formats. You get an Amazon, Barnes and Noble Online.

There’s an audio book. If you don’t feel like using your eyeballs, you get the audiobook on iTunes audible. If you’re even lazier than that, well, if you’re even lazier than that, I’m sure the Power of the Streaks gonna work for you. But hey, give it a shot. Instagram at the Power of the Streak.

Twitter Power of the Streak. Oh but wait, carros up to other things too. She’s got a substack. You’re like, what’s a substack. It’s like a website new letter thing.

So hers is called knock it Off. It’s a free blog slash newsletter on substack. It’s about life, motherhood and all things in between. Why don’t you go to site? Sign up for free?

You like free, don’t you? Yeah? Knock it off dot substack dot com and knock it off one word substack dot com. Thank you Karawood for guilding me in a doing forty minutes of spin. User one dollar hit me up on Twitter.

One dollar came in peace and I’m like, you’re right, I will clean this up. Thank you for listening, one dollar, one dollar wrote, Mark Meron didn’t say he doesn’t like Tool. He said it’s not the soundtrack of his life because you have to find it as a teed. Excellent point, Mark, if you want to come on and rate me for an hour, feel free. I’m also willing to fight Mark Meron in the octagon.

So far, Joe Rogan has not taken me up on this, but Mark Marin also has a very popular podcast. I’ll fight you too. Let me know. Maybe you’re mad that I said you didn’t like Tool, and you want to toss me around, I’ll do it here. Remember that like TV channel decades, the one I don’t know.

Maybe your parents watch one of those channels that shows old shows. Well, they’ve rebranded. It’s now called catchy Comedy. It’s probably like Channel ninety seven in on your UHF till they still have UHF. There was never Channel ninety seven anyway, you know what I’m saying, anyway, I wanted to look at the lineup.

You’re ready, Here’s what’s on catchy comedy. Six am, Full House, six thirty Full House, seven Full House, seven thirty Full House. So if you like full House, get up early. Eight o’clock Brady Bunch, eight thirty Brady Bunch, nine o’clock, Family Affair, nine thirty, The Donna Reed Show, ten o’clock Carol Burnett, then two episodes of The Lucy Show, then two episodes of I Love Lucy one o’clock. You only get one Mary Tyler Moore Show, but you get Rhoda right after.

Then two Livernard Shirley’s, Two Mama’s Families, won the Love Boat, two odd Couples, Good Times at six, Sanford and Son at seven, on the Family at eight, Night Court at nine, Dick Vandyke at ten o’clock coming out at night Court. Yeah, And then at eleven o’clock cheers should you put a night Court? And cheers back to back Wood. Oh, I know I’m in the basement. Midnight Taxi, twelve thirty am, The Bob Newhart Show one o’clock New Heart.

The Age has been recommending shows you go see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival one of them, Jordan Gray. Jordan says one advantage in being a transgender comedian is there are loads of tired old subjects he can give a new twist, like leaving the toilet seat up to most wives would be annoying, but to a transgender woman almost a thoughtful gesture. That’s a great joke. Jordan says being a trans woman isn’t her big topic, but she thinks audiences are more comfortable if she addresses it. Jordan says, I always say if I had a nose in the middle of my forehead and didn’t mention it, people would be sitting there the whole time going just mention the nose.

At a recent show, she picked on a heterosexual couple in the audience and asked them if they had considered a threesome with a trans person, because I’ve got something for everyone. Jordan Gray’s show is called Is It a Bird? At Melbourne Town Hall through April twenty third. Let’s take a quick look at a couple shows at the Melbourne Festival. On Tuesday, Alas Phillips pretends to be on tropical holiday for fifty minut It’s a nice picture of a lease holding a drink being served in a coconut I haven’t had a coconut drink, and it’s probably maybe the eighties nineties, and spent a minute last Phillips is going on tropical holiday and you’re invited because oh boy, we could all use a nice tropical holiday right now.

It’s her treat and it’s also so fine. Really, it’s a humid clump of sketch, comedy, clowning and general chaos. They’re snorkeling, speed dating and even a fabulous investment opportunity. That’s one, not a scam. That sounds like a good time.

I love the titles of these shows. Freddy McManus’ show is called Freddy McManus is Stoppable. Freddy McManus was a standout performer from a young age, singing country music as the frontman and a boymand. He’s since scaled similar heights in comedy, from touring the country to receiving a ha ha ha from someone who usually only messages ha ha. That’s a great copy.

Following a personal setback, he’s been stopped in his tracks. So in this show, a man with no equestrian experience, we’ll try to get back on the horse. Theater Travels called the show a punchy set packed full of laughter. I love the discri All right, let’s do one more. Daniel’connell’s show is called I’m Always Sore.

Not much description here other than it’s a brand new show, although the Adelaide Advertiser said this is definitely the show you’ll need after a long day, a place where you can sit back, relax and giggle away into the night. The Age said fifty five minutes of exquisitively judged middlebrow Australian humor. Not sure this show is being marketed the best. I want to thank you guys. A couple of things.

One on the Facebook group, I’ve been doing some very very light research. I was listening to another podcast and they did this thing with five questions you should ask your audience, and I’m like, that makes sense to me. So I’ve just been pulling the listeners and seeing what you’re saying questions about was the show too long and too sure or whatever. It seems like most of you are happy with it. I mean, I imagine if you’re in the Facebook group you don’t hate the show.

That would be crazy.

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And also the numbers for March were very strong.

It’s hard to compare of different months, so year to year, March to March was way up. But along the way things will happen like the slap which actually spiked last marches and numbers, or you know, Dave Chappelle something something, but March up over February and March over March of last year. So thank you very much for listening every day. Tell a friend, and I do want to acknowledge that political satirist Mark Russell passed away Thursday last week. He was ninety years old.

You know this guy. He had like a Stephen Colbert kind of look and would play the piano and sing political songs. If you’re kind of my age, you remember him. He was best known for his PBS specials. He was a member of the National Comedy Center Advisory Board.

Fellow member John Stewart said Mark Russell was a DC institution who did the hardest thing a comic can do, relentlessly and righteously mock his neighbors. In nineteen ninety four, Russell supported Two Live Crew. You didn’t think I was going to say that. When the hip hop group was sued for copyright infringement for their parody of Roy Orberson’s song Oh Pretty Woman. Russell and two Live Crews frontman Luther Campbell successfully argued before the US Supreme Court that song parodies were protected under fair use.

As Recently, his last October, Mark Russell took on issues including the January sixth insurrection Byron Allen, who worked with Russell on Real People, which ran on NBC from seventy eighty four. Remember that show If you’re my age, that’s where you know Mark Russell from Bryan and Allen called him a brilliant man and an American treasure. Mark Russell passed away age ninety. That’s your comedy news for today. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, the podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British royal family.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Andrew Schultz, Paul Smith, Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Silverman, Gnomes Warman, Chris Gethard

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan’s Comedy Mothership club focusing on comedian earnings over profit
• Comedian Paul Smith training for MMA fight to benefit Liverpool charity Weapons Down Gloves Up
• Jim Gaffigan on working clean comedy for CBS Sunday morning commentaries
• Sarah Silverman guest hosting The Daily Show on Comedy Central
• Former dangerous McDonald’s at Sixth and Third in NYC becoming new Comedy Cellar location
• Chris Gethard developing off-Broadway show about fatherhood at Minetta Lane Theater

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac, Is it true that you do a lot of Joe Rogan stories because putting Joe Rogan in the episode titles helps the numbers. Yes, it is true. Joe Rogan said about his new club, the whole idea is to make it the best possible place for stand ups to perform. He was talking about the club with his guest Andrew Schultz. Schultz said, what Joe’s trying to say is the whole idea is for him to make no money.

It’s for comedians to make all the money. Rogan said, Look, my only goal is at the club break even. I don’t care if him makes money. I make a lot of month. I don’t worry about money.

Comedian Paul Smith is into the mental health benefits of MMA training Ahead of his Octagon fight with a reality TV star Jeeke Quickenden. Paul Smith says it’s been really good for my head. Smith and Quickenden will square off in Manchester in a fight promoted by Octagon. Smith was motivated to swap telling jokes for taking punches when he realized it could benefit Liverpool based charity Weapons Down loves Up. Smith told Talk Sport, I’m a big fan of MMA and I’ve kind of dabbled in a little bit and more of a spectator.

I’ve loved it for years. I get asked to do fights all the time. I don’t know why. The charity I’m doing it for is Weapons Down, Gloves Up. The promotion offered me good money and I said no to it.

Then a few events happened in Liverpool where some kids were killed senselessly. I was reading about the charity and I thought, if I can do it for a good cause, sure, why not? He said. I’m about two months into the journey now and it’s done wonders for my mental health, which was just a lovely side effect to it all. It’s been really good for my head, especially getting deep into the tour.

I’m on the road all the time, and I’ve been able to maintain training and stay disciplined with the diet and stuff. I’d recommend to anyone if you’re struggling with mental health, get into an MMA gym. Do you think they’re gonna be these scary places full of dead, aggressive people, but they’re full of lovely people. It’s really support if you get in here and you end up chatting to them like therapists. It’s just mad.

This is a one off. I’m never doing it again. I love my job. I don’t need to do this. I’ve got massive respect for people to do this for a living.

It’s something you’ve got to be fully in. It’s taken that much of my life. I’ll do it once, but I wouldn’t make it my whole life because I’m having to sacrifice a lot to do this. I really want to change my Instagram profile to undefeated professional MMA fighter. That reminds me.

I recently challenged Joe Rogan to fight in the ring anytime, anywhere. Joe, My challenge stays out there. Are you afraid? Jim Gaffigan talked about his Sunday commentaries on CBS, and Jim said, my son, who’s seventeen, when I do these CBS Sunday commentaries, he’s like, you’ve got to come at it more hard, and I’m like, it’s a Sunday morning show, and he goes, yeah, coming it harder. You got to shock people.

And I’m like, no, it’s not necessary. People are drinking coffee and I’m talking about an observation about receipts. I don’t need to shock them. Jim talked about working clean, said, the great irony is that, of course I curse in everyday life when I’m dealing with my children, but I don’t on stage. Anyone who’s a parent knows that when you’re at work, you’re not sitting there cursing.

But if you’re trying to deal with the twelve year old Will refuses to wear her winter coat, you get frustrated. My journey to being or I think understanding that I’m a clean comedian, it was a journey. I tried a lot of different types of comedy. Some of my favorite comedy is filthy or reverend or shock based, but it has to be authentic. I’m from a small town in Indiana where I’m from.

If you stubbed your toe, you could curse people. It would understand that. But you’re talking about Burger king, Why are you cursing? Nashville see And asked Sarah Silverman about her time hosting The Daily Show. She said, I had experienced things like that before.

I’ve hosted shows and stuff, but the immediacy of it being daily was an incredible experience. Just how jokes can’t be precious. She can’t spend too much time. The producer Jen Flanz is there when you’re working on the content for the show, and if we spend too much time on a joke, she’s like, keep it, leave it, move on. And it was so cool.

I love the feeling of immediacy. You know, it’s a completely different approach to than material because you want it to be as good as it can be, but you also have to just move on, keep going. All right, Sarah, who would you like to see guest hoe? She said, Oh, my gosh, I don’t know so many people. I think Tignet Sara would be hilarious.

Yeah, I could see that working. I’d like to see what Zach Galafanakis does with it. I mean, there’s so many people, so many comics that’d be fun. Chelsea Handler did a phenomenal job the week before me. She can do that in her sleep.

It’s just so fun to watch the headline in the New York Post. New York City loses one of its greatest three am fight venues. Yeah, the McDonald’s on the corner of sixth Avenue and West Third closed last year, but it’s got a new owner. Gnoms Warman. He’s the owner of the Comedy Seller.

He purchased the building for seven point three million dollars. Apparently the Comedy Seller’s doing okay, he tell The New York Post he plans to open a third comedy club. He owns the Comedy Seller and the Village Underground around the corner. He says the new place will have a similar vibe to the Comedy Seller, although it’ll be a little more theatrical because we’re gonna have a mezzanine there. He’s at the comedy industry is alive more than ever, and he needed to find a way to solve the overflow problem.

He likes the location. It’s right across the street from the subway. It’s freestanding. There’s not an issue with tenants who are inconvenienced by the club or by the lines, things like that. So I bought it with an eye and a half towards my children’s future, not just mine.

As an aside, that particular McDonald’s was quote once known as the injury at your own risk emporium, a fast food with a history of fast moving fists and not a sober person in sight. Former McDonald’s was considered one of the most violent in the city, suggesting that there were even more violent in McDonald’s in New York City. Z you in port to its location surrounded by bars and their belligerent patrons. First of all, when you’re in the village, you hit the grace. Papaya is the grace Papaya long gone.

I haven’t hung out in the villa since the nineteen nineties. It’s possible that it closed. I think it did close. And like most things on this podcast, it all comes back to Adam Sandler. Why in the movie Big Daddy, one of the Adam Saidler great films, Adam Sandler yells out his iconic line, will somebody get this kid?

A happy meal? Took place in that McDonald’s. How about that? Huh. Chris Gethard is doing an off Broadway show at the Minetta Lane Theater this weekend.

It’s called A Father and the Son Sun till Broadway World is inspiration was well, like any comedian, it was a kid. There’s gonna be jokes that show up in the joke notebook about it, and I had a few of those along the way. I was doing them on stage and workshopping stuff. I was driving to a show with another great New York comedian, Martin Nobrono. He was with me in the car.

We were driving to a show together. We were having conversation, not about jokes, not about our aco, talking about getting bullied as a kid, and I was telling him, how am I going to wrap my head around that? If it shows up my kid’s life, am I gonna flip out? And he started asking me about it, and I told him a story about this thing my dad did one night and he was like, dude, you have to tell that on stage. And I was like, no way, that story’s really dark, and he was like, you gotta try it, man, it’s pretty incredible.

So he tried it out in an outdoor show in Massachusetts at a place called Ralph’s Rock Diner. Chris said, if there’s any place where I can see if I can get away with it, let me try and hear in this parking lot in Massachusetts, The Hollered Reporter caught up with Bill Lawrence. He’s the brains behind ted Lasso and Scrubs and a bunch of other things you probably like, and they asked him about ted Lasso spinoffs. His answer, if you hear anybody hedging it’s just because everybody’s super comfortable with the fact that Jason gave up a lot to move his family in his life to London. It’s really rough.

The truth is he’ll come out of the smoke of cutting this show and doing all this stuff, and if he feels like doing more, he’ll do more, and if he doesn’t, he won’t. I’ll tell you I’ve never met a dude less motivated by dollar signs. I mean, I’m a producer. I’d be doing ted Lasso cartoons already. If you’d like to support the show, there are two things could do.

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This is a medium Jenny Mack. You always get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. What’s going on? I clicked the wrong box. I was so sad.

When I went to the national Donus chain. They were like, here’s your medium, and I was like, what buy meacoffee? Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. The Milburn Comedy Festival is dark on Monday, so we won’t do that. Segment today from Yahoo.

Comedian Al Murray has revealed he gets targeted on social media by companies selling hair loss cures. You see, Al Murray has this comedy persona, the pub Landlord, and the pub landlord is bald. However, Al Murray not bald. He said, I have a full out of here. They always say have you lost weight?

I get sent things on Instagram baldest peers and stuff, but I don’t need it. He was asked of his alter ego. Do you ever feel like you’ve created a monster you can’t escape? Murray said, I do want to look in the mirror and I’ve cut my hair off. Yeah.

The host was incredulous, you actually cut your hair off. You don’t wear a bald thing. Apparently not. How did the pub landlord come to be? It happened one night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Murray said, I did a show with Harry Hill and it came on put all the bits together and it didn’t work. So the night we got to the Edinburgh Fringe, we were in a bar and I said, why don’t we just say that the MC didn’t turn up and the barman has offered a fill in and he went whatever, And I went on and did the Pub Landlord and it worked, so the next day I cut my hair off. The Pub Landlord went on to become soap popular that he hosted three series of Saturday night entertainment shows Al Murray’s Happy Hour on ITV. Murray said fans are always surprised when they see him with the air. That is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Trevor Wallace, Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donald Rawlings, Tony Hinchcliffe, Jim Norton, Carrot Top, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz, Cameron Haynes, He Huang, Nick Mason, Joshua Jack, Ray O’Leary

What’s in This Episode

• The Roast of Bert Kreischer with Whitney Cummings as producer
• Carrot Top supports Florida Atlantic in NCAA tournament
• Joe Rogan teaches Andrew Schulz bowhunting and archery
• Baltimore Banner profiles local stand-up comedians (Vante, Stavros Hawkias, Smurf)
• He Huang performs at Milburn International Comedy Festival with new show ‘Bad Bitch’
• Dice Paper Roll D&D comedy podcast live shows at Milburn festival
• Joshua Jack’s murder mystery comedy panel game show at Comedy Republic

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Meg hanging out in the basement with the door closed, watching only fans. What are you doing today? Is the rose of Bert Gracier. Your producer is Whitney Cummings.

Your panelists include Trevor Wallace, Rachel Finstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donald Rawlings, Tony Hinchcliffe, At Jim Norton, Som Sagora, Miranda Cosgrove and Kesh I’m looking at a trailer for it. Here you can find the trailer on the laugh button. And my it looks trashy. Maybe you should just watch the final four instead. You know who is cheering for Florida Atlantic carrots Op, Yes, carrots Hop Scott Thompson, a nineteen eighty nine graduate of the College of Business.

He majored in marketing. Wait, so carrots Hop and I have the same degrees, carrots Op said. All these young kids, all these even younger kids that might want to aspire to play basketball or baseball or football or any sport or anything they dream of getting involved in, they can see what happens right in front of their eyes. So you have no idea. What an inspiration not only for the city of Boca Rats own and the coledge of FAU.

But for the country, because the country he watches this tournament, the world watches this tournament. He also had nice things to say about coach Dusty May, which don’t worry my brain translated into Dusty slay, which would be a good bit. But of Dusty May, the coach, he’s the motivator. He’s the one who keeps all the kids together, keeps them focused, keeps them believing and what they do believe. Johnny Mac, You’re not gonna keyword stuff Joe Rogan into the title again, are you man?

Cut it out from sports Kitia. Joe Rogan’s friendship with world famous bow hunter Cameron Haynes was the inspiration behind Joe Rogan starting archery himself. Andrew Schultz was on Joe Rogan’s podcast and decided he would try archery. Schultz initially struggled to keep the bow stable before miraculously firing off a perfect shot at the first time of asking. He attributed his success to Joe Rogan’s instructions.

He said, get yourself a good mentor if you want to learn how to shoot elk. Rogan said, you got it right in the fingals that’s an amazing thing. You should probably quit now. The Baltimore Banner wrote for this week’s column, I’m highlighting a few Baltimore area comics that have mostly gained followings from giving people consistent at belly aching glass through social media, and I was like, all right, I’d like to learn about Baltimore comedians. First up, Von t v o Ntee West Baltimore native Vante has been a constant source of locally informed laughter for close to a decade.

Most of Vanti’s funniest moments come from jokes about the workplace, such as trying to stay focused while in the middle of a breakup or being rewarded pizza parties for backbreaking work relationships, including men being overwhelmed by spending significant time with their children while mom’s at with friends, and the dynamics of the Baltimore DC relationship. Stavros hawkias seeing a lot of buzz on him. He grew up in Baltimore’s Greek Town. His superpower is his ability to make fun of people in the audience, taking simple prompts and turning them into many routines. He lures people in with simple questions like what do you do for a living, and if the answer seems to be a little too high brow to be real, he hilariously interrogates them until the truth comes out.

Smurf SMI RF Smurf’s Instagram comedies for the hyperlocal, more specifically black millennial slash older gen Z Baltimore natives. He makes fun of the Harvest Fair market in Hamilton, the local Amazon warehouse, and many more local references. In one video, he lamb based the Wendy’s on Harford Road, saying, what is the pointing I having a drive through? When I can’t get my food? When I drive through it, I gotta come in.

The author adds the renting hits home for anyone that has gone there, it’s almost guaranteed you’ll have to pull over and wait for your food. They really do take forever. I hope you enjoy the deep dive stuff that I mix in, especially on the weekends. I don’t want everything to just be Joe Rogan, Jim Gaffkin every day. I like diving in on stuff.

The Age has been recommending people you go see at the Milburn International Comedy Festival. One of them is Chinese born comedian He Huang. I’ve talked about her before, remember her routine about being an unmarried, dead Chinese woman of a certain age. That one it went viral, she became the target of nasty online comments. Wang is thirty two now based in Sydney, and said those jokes have been tested again and again in different crowds of different countries, so I know the joke was working, but I know it’s going to be such a blow up.

It’s insane how heavily censored and sensative people are in China. Anything about China just makes them so triggered. People left some pretty extreme comments, but I think some of them were hired by the government. There’s a job for that, at attacking people of a different view from the mainstream propaganda. Her new show Bad Bitch is about my life as an international student, a little bit about language differences, cultural differences in family.

I’ll talk about how I figure out sexual liberation. I’m not sure people talk about that, but for Asians it’s a typical topic we talk about, she says. In China, they don’t talk about sex. There’s no sex ad in Chinese schools. We just have biology class.

The only penis I’ve ever seen before I went outside of China was a cross section penis and a biology textbook. Thanks for that information, he Huang, Bad bitch at the Victoria Hotel, a Casia room through April twenty third.

All right, let’s see what’s at the festival on Sunday.

As discuss yesterday, a lot of these shows will repeat, so I will scroll down and see what catches my eye. Dice Paper Roll, D and D live Dice paper roll and friends at the Chinese Museum’s Silk Room. There’s some FAQs. What is it? Thank you?

Dungeons and Dragons is a role playing game where players are going we know that what is a dice paper roll? Dice paper role has grown into a snarling, spitting, swearing behemoth of the D and D podcast scene, one hundred fifty plus episodes, thousands of downloads, and selld out live shows. Each show will be joined by a special guest comedian. Oh wait I see on Saturday, April eighthy guest comedian is Nick Mason. That’s probably the guy from a podcast called The Weekly Planet, which is one of my favorites.

If you like pop culture and like Marvel movies and Star Wars and that stuff. Weekly Planet is a high recommend one of my go to podcasts, So maybe we won’t go see that on Sunday. We’ll see it on Saturday, April eighth, when Nick Mason is there. Joshua Jack show is called the Big Spooky Murder Mystery. That’s at Comedy Republic.

Josh Jack has been murdered. Terrible news. He was so good at comedy and getting murdered sounds awful. But on the upside, four of his funniest friends are gathering to try and solve the murderer live on stage. It’s a brand new type of panel game show.

Three comedians are innocent, one is not. Strap on your detective hats and join them as they investigate and terrogate and todight each other and their efforts to catch the killer. That sounds like a good time. Tickets are twenty five bucks. Divide that by two thirds for American dollars, some being lazy math eighteen bucks or so.

Ray O’Leary’s show is called Everything Funny, all the Time, Always. That’s at the Chinese Museum. There’s even a little banner here with a picture of a flame and the words selling fast, and it says here I can play clip would you like to hear the clip? Let’s play the clip. My friend asked me if I wanted to wake up early and go see the sunrise of that was something that would interest me, And I see that sounds like something that would interest a moth because it’s just so early in the morning.

You know, there’s a reason that the only people awake to see the sunrise. A Instagram influences and myth edicts and as I’ve been mentioning, there’s like one hundred shows a night the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. And I share this on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group the other day. It’s an article from Esquire magazine back in two thousand and two. It is titled Johnny Carson, the man who retired.

The author Bill Zimmy passed away recently, and I learned about the article from the press Box podcast who was talking about Bill’s passing, and I’m a big Carson fan. Back in two thousand and two, Bill wrote, there are nights Johnny will tell you that he finds himself back where he was, back where we had him before we could not have him anymore. Johnny will say I still believe it or not have dreams in which I am late for the tonight show. It’s a performer’s nightmare. Apparently I’ve checked in with other people and occurs to them frequently, and it’s fright because I’m not prepared.

It showed time and I’m going on. I’ve got nothing to say. Jesus. I wake up in a sweat. It’s now been ten years since I’ve been done with the job, but I’ll be back there.

It was two thirds of my adult life, remember, and people at the show will be as real and fresh and current as ever in the dream, And all of a sudden, I’m having to go on. I’m not prepared. You revisit the whole thing. You think you’re on the air, and you’re not ready. You hit the wall.

I’ll jump. In my recurring dream is the show that I used to produce at w R Radio in the nineteen nineties. I will have the recurring dream that I’m screening the phone calls for the show, and I’m back at Studio three and adamir Hile sitting on my right and doctor Joey Brown’s across the glass, and no matter how hard I try, I cannot come up with a caller that’s good enough to put on the air, and I will have this dream every three months or so. I haven’t worked on that show in twenty five plus years. It still pops out, so I feel you, Johnny Carson.

The article then talks about all the Leno Letterman drama, and Johnny said, can you believe all that awful stuff? It’s just ridiculous. He laughed and was amused by the shambles left in his wake. The author kitted him about the movie The Late Shift, in which Rich Little played Johnny Carson. Johnny rolled his eyes as only he can, thus implying volumes as only he could.

Carson said, I think I left at the right time. You’ve got to know when they get the hell off the stage, and the timing was right for me. The reason I really don’t go back or do interviews is because I just let the work speak for itself. On his four thousand, five hundred and thirtieth night, his last one, he left the air and he climbed into the clouds for his instruction. Hey helicopter picked him up just minutes after he had tendered his on camera resignation.

This allowed him to avoid the media. Ed McMahon said when Johnny finished off, he went, he grabbed his wife, Alex walked right by me without a look. He was so intent. I’m getting the hell out of there now. One of the things about Johnny is you have no memory of old feeble Johnny Carson.

He walked off and you never saw him again. He did two quick appearances on Letterman Show, where I don’t think he even spoke, and he did a thing to honor Bob Hope, which was his last monologue. But other than that, you didn’t see Johnny. So you don’t remember old feeble Johnny. The man went out on top.

And that’s your comedy news fort to day. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Tom Brady, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Jim Gaffigan, Bert Kreischer, Leah Thomas, Mark Strong, Ricky Gervais, Sarah Schaeffer

What’s in This Episode

• AI-generated Tom Brady stand-up special by DUDECI
• Joe Rogan comments on transgender athlete Leah Thomas
• Roast of Bert Kreischer on Only Fans
• Murder Mystery 2 Netflix release with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston
• Jim Gaffigan touring Asia and the Philippines
• Baroness Claire Fox university talk canceled over Ricky Gervais trans joke
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival coverage

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. An AI podcast called DUDECI got a lot of attention. They created an hour long Tom Brady stand up special using whatever technology they used, and it’s not good. It’s really terrible.

It’s unlistenable. Again, I get what the technology is. It’s not like actual Tom Brady did stand up and you’re sourcing it. And I use AI voices sometimes here on this podcast. If I make a mistake, and I’ll tell you you can replace a word, you’ll never notice.

A phrase you probably won’t notice, but if I go any longer than that, you will definitely notice. For example, I can illustrate here in the next sentence, I never said the word purple. Ready, this color is purple. Now Here is the AI voicing that entire sentence his color is purple, so you can hear the difference there. So let’s listen to a brief snippet of this Tom Brady because I’m telling you I was gonna play more of it, but it’s so terrible you’re all going to tune out.

Dudze and thank you everyone for coming out tonight. Wow, it feels great to be back in front of a crowd. But I gotta say, even though this is a much much, much, much much much smaller crowd than I’m used to, this is far more nerve racking. On the football field, I got to wear shoulder pads, a helmet. Hell, I had five three hundred and fifty pound men that were paid millions of dollars to protect me.

But up here on this stage, I only got one thing. You know what, it is a midlife crisis. Actual Tom Brady has no intention of doing stand up at the Roast of Tom Brady. Oh well, that reminds me the roast of Bert Kreisher tomorrow on Only Fans April first. Yes, the Roast of Burt Kreisher features Trevor Wallace, Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donal Rollingstony Hinchcliff, Jim Norton, Tom Segura, Miranda Cosgrove, and Kesha Johnny mckew.

You forcing Joe Rogan into the podcast again so you can use him in the headlines to goose your download numbers. Maybe. Joe Rogan on his podcast this week said this trans athlete thing effing blows my mind. How many people go along with this? The topic at a hand was Leat Thomas the swimmer, Rogan said, swimming.

I’m I mean that Leah Thomas is still the number one swimmer in the world. And it’s a biological male quoting rogue in their period. End of discussion. It’s madness. And not only that hasn’t even gotten penis removed and has sex with women.

Apparently the whole thing is so crazy that you can call yourself a woman and then you’re a woman and like this has nothing to do with trans rights. It just has to do with humans. It’s just what they’ve done all those other girls that are competing against her is just an effing crime. It’s horrible. Imagine if you’re a biological woman, You’re working your ass off, You’re fully dedicated to being the best of the best.

You’re dotting all your eyes, crossing all your teas, you’re watching your diet, you’re watching your recovery, you are effing trying. And this person who just decides they’re a woman with testosterone flowing through their body their entire life just dominates you. It’s effing maddening.

Meanwhile, the debating society at Royal Holloway University of London have c…

Why the Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley retweeted a trans joke by Ricky Gervais. The Gervas joke reference the old fashioned woman, you know, the one with wombs, the new ones we’ve been seeing lately with beards and mail parts claiming up a little bit. Well, let’s turn to brighter things. It’s a great day to be alive. Why, Johnny Mac, there’s a new Adam Saidler movie on Netflix.

Murder Mystery two on Netflix today? Clear your calendars. I mean, what else you’re gonna do? So? What’s Murder Mystery too?

On Netflix? Starring Adam Sadler about well. The film is set four years after the first film and follows Nick played by Adam Sandler, and Audrey played by Jennifer Aniston, who are now full time detectives struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground when they’re invited to celebrate the wedding of their friend, the Maharajah on his private island. I mean, how could that not be great? Just listen to that plot.

That sounds amazing. Jennifer Anniston sold Jimmy fallon when you meet back up with us, We’re not doing that great. So we get invited to a wonderful wedding of someone wonderful. We say we need a break, we need a vacation, and that’s where our mistakes happen. Jennifer Anniston described a quote nice dinner with Adam Sandler and Missus Sandler, Jackie Sadler.

This happened in Italy when shooting the first Murder Mystery film. Jennifer said. He shows up in basketball shorts, sat in basketball shorts with white piping and Nike hid hops and a turquoise valore. Izod. Sandler says, Vogue says, I look amazing like this.

Anniston says, thanks Vogue, But what are you wearing? Johnny Mac Well, I am wearing my blue Mets sweatshirt. I’m recording this on Thursday, opening day for Baseball. Gotta represent and some jeans and my Brooks running sneakers. I’m not George Clooney, but I’m also not Adam Sandler.

You know what I’m saying, Yeah, Jennifer Aniston said. Adam Saidler sometimes chimes in on her love life. If I get anything from him, it’s what are you doing? Usually based on someone I’m dating. You see, Adam is so concerned with taking care of everybody else, which she really does, and he doesn’t take care of himself.

Jen said she made Adam smoothies and provided Chinese herbs on the set to direct Adam Sandler to a healthier path. Jackie Saidler said the effort lasted about a minute. Spoiler from Mirroder Mystery Too. I know this could ruin the film for you. You’ve been warned, all right, ready?

Three two one? Well, Adam Sandler, what’s it like getting punched in the face by Mark Strong? Apparently during the film, there’s a moment where Jennifer Aniston and Mark Strong are at top the Eiffel Tower’s roombly because Adam Sandler wanted to film this in Paris, Anniston said, Adam does a lot of his own stunts, and he gets pretty beat up. I mean he actually got hit. Did he ever tell you this?

Mark Strong actually hit him in the face. You know who else is living the good life? Jim Gaffigan. Listen to this from the South China Morning Post to your home for Comedy News. They spoke to Jim Gaffigan via zoom.

Jim was on Borak. Maybe it’s Barakey anyway you know it. The resort island and the Philippines known for white sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, and pretty good hotel breakfast buffets. Yes, Gavigan told the South China Morning Post, I truly love experiencing different cultures. He likes to research the culture in the history of the place I’m performing in.

It might translate to just a minute of jokes, but the audience appreciates the effort. It’s also interesting to understand the expat communities in these countries because they’re just weirdos. One way to support the show is go to Apple Podcasts. They’ll offer you the option to become a premium subscriber, so for five bucks a month. Then you can test drive this for a month for free.

You get the episodes ad free and early by early usually on the weekdays. You’ll get it the afternoon before the official release, and I tend to put the weekend episodes up on Friday morning because I almost always do those in advance. So go to Apple podcast Premium subscribe for five bucks a month. Thank you. The Age had a nice article suggesting some artists you might want to see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

One of those comedians Sarah Schaeffer. She’s from la but when she visited Melbourne in twenty seventeen, she said, I was introduced the entire world of the solo show and the festival system. American comedy does not have that. She compared it to a domestic festival. You’ve got two days to get in a network and party and get drunk off your ass and oh my god, the stakes are high, but with the longer ones, it’s more about living somewhere for a while and being part of that city.

She first experienced Melbourne when she was invited to appear as part of the annual Headliners showcase, in which experienced international stand ups do twenty minute sets. She was incidantly enamored with Melbourne, describing it as a clean New York. Melbourne is fantastic, she said, all the different types of cuisine and art, being very walkable, amen, and the public transportation. Yeah, in downtown Melbourne, in like the Central Business district, they have hop on, hop off trolleys if you stay within the central districts. So I compare that if it were New York City, and you might not be that familiar with New York City.

Would be like if between Third Avenue and eighth Avenue and say thirty fourth Street and fifty ninth Street, Like if everything in that rectangle was free public transportation. That’s how downtown Melbourne is. You just hop on the trolley and you hop off. Great way to get around. In her new show going Up, it’s Sarah Schaeffer conducting a fake seminar and how to make it in comedy, Dah says, if Hannah Gatsby’s in the Net deconstructed comedy’s in art form, this show does something similar to comedy as a business.

Sarah Schaeffer, going up at Melbourne Town Hall, April first through the twenty third. I’m taking a look at the Saturday schedule at Melbourne. Let me just scroll down and see what titles catch from my eye. Again, most of these shows run most days, so we’re going to start to see repeats here as I do this feature every day. Michael Chamberlain’s completely Incomplete History of Australia here right.

So let’s roll back to eighteen fifty eight. Tom Wills decided to get a bunch of people to kick a ball around in what is now the car park of the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. It was intended to be a game that kept cricketers fit during the winter. What Tom didn’t realize was that his name would have been lost to history if instead of inventing Australian football he’d invented indoor cricket. The Adelaide Advertiser says, entertaining and intelligent.

This guy is funny. All right, This next one has caught my attention. Nick White’s grow up. It’s at the Theory bar. And what’s catching my attention Theory bar parentheses previously known as loop project space.

All right, let’s see what Nick White’s up to. A self described late bloomer, Nick White moved to New York City in his mid twenties to figure out who he was and where he fit in the world. Unfortunately he still doesn’t know, but his eager report his findings thus far. Nick White is a Brisbane born comedian who was met the past few years in New York City. All right, that could be interesting to me seeing Ozzie’s opinion of my home city.

Who I like this one? Brendan Wan yummy yummy chan chaw. That’s at the I see Swanston in the Nicholas building. That’s some pictures of Brendan eating some food. Here, let’s see performed by Australia’s only Chinese Australian comedian.

There’s an asterisk next to that. Yummy Yummy Cha Cha is an hour of solo sketch comedy designed to be very fun but very dumb. If you’re looking for political satsire cathartic comedy about the Chinese Australian experience or observations on modern life, this is not the show. Milk Bar magazine says, the comedic timing is undeniable. I love these little quotes they have.

All right, let’s do one more. Grace Jarvis’s show is called This is the Last Goldfish that I’m going to eat. Oh no, that’s a trades hall in the meeting room. Let’s see what Grace is up to. It’s a picture of Grace holding a poor goldfish in a bag.

Hopefully that was just you know, for the photo, and she gave the goldfish and nice home. The goldfish lived a decade or so, she said. I have collected for you my audience and anthology of all the weird things I’ve done in my life to try and make friends. Do not attempt these methods for yourself. The Age says it’s rare to see a comic making a festival debut land as many punch lines as effortlessly as Grace Jarvis.

All right, Joe Lysat has a new show on Channel four in the UK today or if you know how to use VPN technology, you know what I’m saying. Nudge nudge, say no more, ten pm Friday, UK Time, Joe hosts Late Night Lysat. He’s giving away his Lexus Hybrid as a prize. He’s also giving away other real life possessions, including all of his cutlery, his socks, and even one of his comedy awards. He said Channel four wouldn’t give us any money for prizes, and the production team have overreached and are trying to ruin me by giving away my possessions.

Genuinely, one of the things they tried to get me to give away it was my house, my actual house. I said no, but I appease them with the Alexis Hybrid. The production team are out of control. I’m essentially a hostage to this program and I want nothing to do with it. Please do not watch it, it will encourage them.

Lysat knows what it’s like to get a free car. Early in his career, Sarah Milliken gave Joe her old Nissan. She had this car and was like, do you want to have this car? And I was like yeah. But not only did she give me the car, she got its serviced and cleaned.

It was pristine. It was a real lifesaver. But then she went on the show I Lie to You and confessed she had Pete in the passenger seat. She hadn’t told Joe about that. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Mae Martin, Dave Chappelle, Dan Soder, Trevor Noah, Chris McCarthy, Jon Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• MLB Opening Day ad campaign with Sebastian Maniscalco
• Mae Martin Netflix special addressing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and calling out Dave Chappelle
• The Daily Show guest host rotation ratings up 13% year-over-year
• Daily Show search for permanent host with Jon Stewart consultation
• Trevor Noah hosting Amazon Prime’s LOL: Last One Laughing South African version
• Great Outdoors Comedy Festival coming to Vancouver in September

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Aren’t you Dead? Hello, I’m Jenny McK with your Daily Comedy News. It is opening day for Major League Baseball. They’ve got some new rules, and they did an ad campaign featuring Sebastian Maniscalco joking about the new rules.

Come on, enough with the peanuts. Half the infield’s allergic and what is the shortstop doing in the outfield? See? This is the problem with the shift. Nobody’s in their positions anymore.

That’s why I’m excited about Major League Baseball. They’re putting limits on the ship. It’s gonna create more athleticism, more action. Dame’s gonna be amazing this year. Let’s go Mets.

There’s a lot of press about May Martin’s Netflix special. I have not seen it yet, and I’m unlikely to see it this weekend because a baseball season started b MLB the show came out, and Day one when that game and came out, I played it for six hours. So between those two, I don’t know how much Netflix comedy I’ll be watching. Maybe Sunday night. They tend to watch a lot of TV on Sunday Night.

May Specials called May Martin SAP. They talked about the rise of anti LGBTQ plus rhetoric within the comedy sphere. Martin explained, it’s always bitter sweet. I wish I didn’t have to talk about gender and identity and stuff, because it’s not the biggest or most interesting thing about me. But I did feel a responsibility because it’s super important.

Giving everything that’s going on and all the legislation. It’s mind boggling to me that people can look at what’s going on and go, oh, this is really a dangerous time. They have specifically called out Dave Chappelle. Rolling Stone said, you name drop comedians like Dave Chappelle in your special, May said, when you’re someone who’s part of the trans community, it can feel like a lose lose because as soon as I started talking about it, people are like, oh, those people are constantly whining. But it’s also a very crucial time to present a counter argument to the very loud people with huge platforms who are weighing in in bad faith about things that have real life consequences.

It’s a very difficult tone of hit because I do care about it so deeply and could so easily ran for hours about how annoying I am so if it’s in any way helpful for people to see someone speaking about their lived experience and cutting through the endless debate about whether trans people deserve to be happy, then hopefully it’s worth it. But also it’s not the most interesting thing about me, and I don’t want to feel like it because I’m being forced to constantly defend my identity. Rolling Stone asked, were you ever nervous that taking up time doing a special to name the comedians Dave Schappelle would paint a target on your back? Make said, When I was shoring the show, I tried not naming them. It just felt like I was trying to be coy.

I feel confident about what I’m saying, so I might as well just name them. The main thing is I wish the straight allies with bigger platforms would be brave enough to weigh in as well, because it’s easy to dismiss queer people as being constantly up in arms about something. But with the legislation, we’re seeing such terrifying real life consequences, and there are things that affect everybody. There’s such a parallel between trans rights and bodily autonomy for women and all kinds of things I think it’s time we all got involved with this a little bit. Everything will sound corny in print, but truly, comedy is meant to make people feel less alone.

It’s such unifying experience, makes you feel human and less isolated. So I hope people feel that. Dave Chappelle, I’ll continue to ask you why you choose to have the second paragrapher of your future obituary to be Dave Chappelle. Transgender jokes. Do something else, Dave, You’ve got a platform, use it for good.

The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival will come to Vancouver. Vancouver’s Park Board has approved a plan to bring a three day outdoor comedy festival to Stanley Park. I mentioned recently I’ve been to Stanley Park. I’ve been a Vancouver. I love it.

You can hear me talk about Vancouver on my travel podcast, Travel is Back. The Green Outdoors Comedy Festival September fifteenth to the seventeenth. No lineup has been yet released. Ticket prices sixty nine to three hundred ninety nine dollars, presumably Canadian dollars. Would keep an eye on that one.

Boy, If I could find a way to get to Vancouver in September. Boy, that would be pretty good. Dan Soder has kind of let it out that Billions is coming to its last season. Soder was on NBC Sports Chicago’s Football Nights in Chicago. That’s a complicated name.

Soder, who plays Mafi on the show, said season seven, the final season of Billion, is on its way. Then he paused and said, you know, I’m not supposed to say that. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that. I think so, so it’s fine. The host said, doesn’t matter, you just said it, and Soder said, it’s the final season.

Chris McCarthy is one of the senior executives over at Paramount Television. He got a nice fluff job from the Hollywood Reporter. The part that interested me most was about The Daily Show. McCarthy says he’s been stunned by the linear tune in for the Daily Show. So linear is the term the industry uses for what you just consider TV.

Like if you put on Comedy Central on TV and whatever happens to me on now is on right now, that’s linear, right, so not on demand to get it old school TV’s linear. McCarthy’s been stunned by both the linear tune in up thirteen percent year over year. Wow, with all the guest hosts versus Trevor Noah, that’s interesting to me. And by the social excitement around the rotation of guest hosts, McCarthy says, it’s killing it, noting that on many weeks the social media footprint has been ten times bigger than the show a scene in years. Well, yeah, the nature of the guest host, he definitely going to get more of a splash.

And if the ratings are up thirteen percent, hey, what do I know? I think the plan is crazy, but I’m sitting in the basement and Chris McCarthy’s getting a fluff job from the hollerd reporter, So what do I know. McCarthy says he intends to wait until late spring to name a new host. He’s even consulted John Stewart about this. He’ll rely heavily on the input of showrunner Jen Flanz.

He has his own running shortlist, which features three guest hosts. He didn’t name names, but said two people came in and exceeded my expectations. But I had high expectations and then somebody else just blew me away. Very interesting. As for Trevor Noah himself.

He’s got a new gig. He’ll be hosting Amazon Primes l O L Last One Laughing. In this version of l OL, the six part half hour series will see Trevor Noah Pitt ten famous South African comedians and entertainers against each other in a competition and make each other laugh. Those who break get eliminated one by one until only one comedians left. The winner wins one million rand.

How much is one million rand? Fifty five thousand dollars? Amazon? Come on, really, fifty five thousand dollars prize? Seriously, come on, that’s pretty cheap.

One million rand that will go directly to the charity of their choice. So again, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Prime is donating fifty five thousand dollars to charity. Just want to make sure we get that out there. Thank you, Amazon, what a great contribution to the charity your fifty five thousand dollars donation. I’m sure everyone appreciates it.

I wonder how much Trevor is being paid for this, probably fifty four thousand dollars. Am I asking difficult questions? I’m sorry, Trevor Noah said, I’m excited to be back home to host Prime videos first South African original llol last one laughing. Let’s have a chance to connect with my home audience. I’m equally delighted for the opportunity to be working alongside my fellow homegrown comedy stars on a show that not only yantines, but gives back to the South African production and charity communities.

And I’ll add to the tune of fifty five thousand dollars. Hey, if you like what I do here, one of the ways to support the shows can go to Apple Podcasts and they’re gonna put the option under you to become a premium subscriber. So for five bucks a month, you’ve got the episodes ad free, and you got them early, usually the afternoon before official release. And here I will match Jeff Bezos and Amazon Prime. If eleven thousand of you sign up to become premium subscribers today for five dollars, that would be fifty five thousand dollars.

If that happens by Saturday morning midnight Eastern daylight time, I will donate the fifty five thousand dollars to charity. How about that? That’s an absurdly low number, guys, so you’ll hear me from time to time openly say that I talk about Joe Rogan to goose the numbers. Now, the last two days my lead stories were about oscu At Katsa and Adam Sandler, and the numbers were, you know, a little bit down. So today we’re going to talk about Joe Rogan.

So Joe Rogan could be in the episode title Yes. Joe Rogan on his podcast this week, said the media has lost its hold over the narrative. Now the media conveniently leads out anything it doesn’t want to be at the front and center in terms of things that people concentrate and talk about. Like one of the greatest examples that’s happening right now is this massive protest in France, nine million people on the street, literally up in arms. Mccron and France takes his effing eighty thousand dollars watch off under the table while he’s talking to people about tightening up and how you know this has to be done.

I guess Joe is saying there’s no media coverage of that. Maybe I follow different media, Joe. I’ve seen plenty of coverage. Joe also referenced the protests in Israel after citizens became unhappy with Benjamin Nett and yah Who’s plans for political reform? Rogan said, And you’re not hearing a peep about it.

You know again, I must follow different news sources than Joe Rogan. I saw plenty plenty about that one. Rogan said, all it is it’s like January sixth, January six, Did you see what they did? Trump’s coming back? But January six looms large.

How about the fact that the guy who’s president right now can’t form a bleeping sentence. He makes up words and stumbles their things, and no one says a bleeping thing about it. From The Courier, Rheese Nicholson describes the Milburn International Comedy Festival as hundreds of people having a very public mental breakdown with prizes at the end. With more than six hundred acts on the bill for twenty twenty three adding up to more than seven thousand side splitting performances, the winner of last year’s award for Most Outstanding Show is probably not wrong. The Courier covered the launch event for the Melbourne Comedy Festival and said UK comedian Jordan Gray got some big last with her song about internet misinformation, a tune that managed to also cover mister potato Heads, gender, lost dog posts, veer into a queen’s song.

Ends include an Elvis impression that came out as an impression of share Mel Budtle took on physical education teachers, revealing they’re actually angry people who like shorts and are unable to get into the police force, while up and coming performers Alexander Hudson and he Huang spoke about the impact of the festival’s Raw Comedy competition. Last year’s champion. Hudson, who has a disability, said her win had taken her from an audience of ten people at an open mic to one thousand at the town hall, a growing crowd she likes to make fun of.

All Right, let’s see who’s at the festival on Friday again.

I’m looking at Friday because burn is several time zones ahead of me and probably you. So if I do Thursday night, by the time that people in Melbourne here, the podcast might already beat Thursday night. So let’s take a look at Friday. And as I’ve been mentioning, there’s like one hundred shows every night, so I’m not going to read them all off. But let me just see what catches my eye here.

Just going by titles, the Fun Tone Show is at the Rubber Chicken joined Lisa, Shirley and Mark for lots of singing, dancing, laughs, and heaps of fun in the Fun Tone Show, featuring some comic skits, original and well known hit songs you and your children want to sing and dance along to, things like the Hokey Pokey. All right, we might be a little old for that one. Plus it’s eighteen to fifty dollars and it’s at twelve thirty in the afternoon. Bad click, Johnny Mac, keep going, Okay, how about basketball Man can Fly? That’s at kicks at three forty five.

I’m clicking on the very slow loading Melbourne International Comedy Festival website and we’ll see what basketball Man can fly if the page ever loads. It has finally loaded. Why didn’t you just do an edit there, John, Because I wanted you to know how long it takes the page to load. That’s why. For years basketball Man has been a world renowned basketball freestyler.

But now he’s out to prove he’s a real superhero. Witness the best basketball tricks you’ve never seen as basketball man spins, dribbles, juggles and performs stunts in this crime fighting, family friendly circus show suitable for all ages. That sounds strangely fun. Let’s keep scrolling. I like the title of Ann Edmunds show, which is why is my bag allwat?

Ann Edmunds floods her bag at least twice a week and becoming a mother hasn’t helped this. Where once there was water, now there’s milk. The Harold’s son gave it four stars, saying rolling with the confidence and energy of a prize fighter, Edmonds is touchingly engaging the age said still laughing the next day, simply a fantastic performer. Four stars. That shows ages fifteen plus random number there about at five o’clock crazy funny Asians.

Each show features an all star rotating lineup of three comedians. These are some of the fastest rising Asian comedy stars. All right, that sounds like a good time and we can see the show at five, six or seven. It’s a fifty minute show. Fifteen dollars and fifty cents to twenty five fifty.

Let’s do the Australian currency exchange right now. All right, one Australian dollar is sixty six cents in US dollars. So whatever number I read to you, you’re going to divide by two thirds in your own head. Okay, do you need a pen? There’s a Best of International Comedy show at five to thirty, Best of Melbourne at six Daniel Kitson.

I’ve only heard great things about Daniel Kitson. That show is called I Shall Have a Good Think. When Everybody’s gone home. Twenty one years after his first visit in four years since his last, Daniel Kitson waddles back into town with something less like work in progress and more like a person looking for ingredients without knowing what they want to cook or whether they’re even hungry. Twenty bucks again.

Divide that by two thirds. Shows at six pm and noon a ninety minute show. It is absolutely crazy, the amount of shows every single day. As I’m scrolling down the page here, I mean, if you can’t find something to do, I don’t even know how they’re even holding all these shows. Like how many rooms are there in Melbourne.

Here’s one called Comedy Pub Crawl. Trust the Scots to come up with the ultimate night of comedy and booze. Four bars five award winning comics always sells out fifty bucks again divide by two thirds shows at seven, seven oh five and six pm. The West Australian gave it five stars. The Sunday Times UK said left my face in pain from laughing so much throughout.

It’s a guaranteed night of belly aching laughter that sounds fun. I really only up to seven o’clock. I’ve been scrolling down this page for an hour.

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Now here’s one called s Faced Shakespeare.

Three shows six forty five, seven forty five, nine thirty. The hilarious sellout award winning smash It show has already sold half a million tickets worldwide. S Faced Shakespeare is the hilarious blend of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely faced actor. What could go wrong? College Adelaide gave it five stars, saying the most fun I’ve ever had at the festival.

I left with tears streaming down my face and a sore belly from laughing far, far, too hysterically hard. And let me find one more. There’s so much here. I mean, I could hand in a four hour podcast just reading these two.

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All right, let’s click on this and as a logo of the Statue of Liberty and say…

Let’s see who’s on this. The Lucas Brothers, Pattie Harrison, Shilouish Sharp, Shang Wang. You know I do like Shang Wang. Now I’m not sure these are the four biggest acts in American comedy. Maybe the Australians don’t know better.

Seventy minutes show twenty eight to thirty seven dollars again, divide by two thirds to convert into US currency. All right, enough of that, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Hopefully smile. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac. Most of five good news stories that you get the premise. There’s five stories and they’re all good news. So the number five good news stories.

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Bonnie McFarlane, Sam Morril, David Letterman, Mark Marin, Bill Maher, Dana Dane, Mo’Nique, Alfie Brown

What’s in This Episode

• Murder Mystery 2 Netflix release and Adam Sandler film quality
• Jennifer Aniston pitches three-way movie with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler
• Bonnie McFarlane scripted series based on memoir You’re Better Than Me
• Sam Morril discusses David Letterman interview and New York comedy scene
• Mark Marin on discovering Tool music too late and Bill Hicks influence
• Bill Maher criticizes Hollywood nepotism and nepo babies
• Dana Dane jokes about intermittent fasting trends
• Mo’Nique Netflix special My Name Is Monique trailer
• Alfie Brown apology for historic stand-up routine

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Friends, it’s a great time to be alive. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Jenny Mack. Why is it a great time to be alive? Well, great question, here’s the answer.

Friday we get a new Adam Sandler movie. Isn’t that exciting? Yes? Now, as you know, there are only four good Adam Sandler movies. They are uncut Gems, Hustle, and the two with Drew Barrymore.

But luckily for everyone, Murder Mystery two is out on Netflix on Friday. Now. Jennifer Anniston wants to next level this thing. She plays Sadler’s wife and Murder Mystery and Murder Mystery too. But she recognizes that it’s Drew Barrymore that can make Adam Sandler films good, so she suggests the three of them do a film together.

Can you imagine? Anniston said, we thought it’d be funny because it was a Twitter thing a couple of years ago, and they’re always sort of comparing us. Yes, I’ll do that right now. Is Drew Barrymore in the movie, Yes, then it’s good. Is Drew Barrymore not in the Adam Sandler movie, It’s likely not good, unless it’s of course hustle or uncut gems.

Anyway, Annison said, they’re always sort of comparing us, who’s the better movie wife or movie love barrymore So, we just thought we’d do a little bit on that. Mark Twain Prize winner Adam Sandler said, Jennifer is going to write it. There’s no competition, just two great ladies that would be amazing doing a movie all together. She says Aniston made playing a married couple comfortable. She doesn’t miss she’s funny, We lock in together, we do love each other, and calls Anniston one of the funniest people I know.

Some of the other funny people that Adam Sandler knows her Rob Schneider and Kevin James and Maya Rudolph. Yeah. Bonnie McFarlane has a scripted series based on her memoir You’re Better Than Me. The project is inspired by McFarland’s times on high school or in Cold Lake, Alberta in the mid nineteen eighties. She was served as the creator and writer for the half hour series, which takes place on a farm two hundred ninety four kilometers outside the nearest pizza delivery zone.

There a sixteen year old Bonnie flexes her smart mouth, hangs out whether her bff bovine, and recognizes that she’s not the easiest person in the world to get along with, neither she nor her cow or part of the in crowd. Bonnie is desperate to escape her farm and see the world. There’s just one thing stopping her herself and a bunch of other stuff. She says, the project is a testament to the first person that believed in it. If not for Anthony Bourdaine, I would not have been forced to write about my past.

What a joy it’s been working with the amazing team at Cineplex, revisiting the most embarrassing period of my life. Very interesting. Sam Murel talked to Yahoo about being interviewed on David Letterman’s that that’s my time, and he said, somebody I’ve always looked up to. There are a few people that can do what he’s done in history. He’s an icon.

I feel fortunate to be able to be interviewed by him at this time in his career. It’s cool that he’s really uninteresting and that curious. A lot of interviewers aren’t like that. It was surreal to beyond Dave Letterman Show with him asking me about my rooftop parties. Sam says, it’s good to start coming to young because you’re too young to know how hard it is.

It’s different when you take your act beyond friends. It takes a minute. You have to learn how to be funny to strangers. But they’re advantages to doing it new York. You don’t know what you’re up against with other comedians.

You hope other comedians will give you the benefit of the doubt to get better, and it did get better. There’s a bluntness. New Yorkers have an energy that New York has have. New Yorkers are always ticked off. And I love this next part.

I was watching The Taking of Pelham one, two three. I assume he means the original recently, and I think I love that movie so much because everybody’s in a bad mood, all the blue collar workers, the mayor, everyone’s ticked off, and there’s something really innited about that feeling. But he also says, I love Boston. It’s a beautiful city. There are a lot of similarities between York and Boston.

The people in Boston are funny people. They’re funny. There’s a cynicism to Boston people. I really like they could be mean and warm at the same time. Mark Marrin made some headlines on music websites because he referenced the band Tool last week and said their music has to be planted, young dude.

If it wasn’t planted in my weird, angry adolescent head, that’s where it happens. But I missed all that, So there I was like in my forties listening to Tool. But they were comedy fans. They were Bill Hicks fans. There’s a painting of Hicks and one of their records.

But apparently he doesn’t like Tool because he got into them too late. Bill Maherr went in on the Hollywood Napo babies. These are the children of famous people that somehow get gigs in Hollywood. Oh there are a lot of them, Moore said, doesn’t make them bad people who are untalented. But let’s also admit they weren’t the only ones who could have done it.

So enjoy the good life, Nippos. Just don’t say you didn’t have a big advantage. This is show business, getting your foot in the doors eighty percent of it, he said. Yeah, there are difficult roles but since children, Vin Diesel, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Steven Seagal and even Bill Mark can act, it’s not nuclear physics. He says sports is different.

In sports, there are no Nepple babies. Leila Lee did and knock out twenty one opponents by smacking them with a birth certificate. Dana Dute said intermittent fasting is here to stay. It’s making me lose friends at a fast clip. I can’t stand the out food windows they give themselves.

Say Dan, let’s meet for lunch at three forty eight pm. I’m going to order on the drive over so the food is ready when we get there. Because I haven’t eaten since six thirty six pm last night. I have twelve minutes deep breakfast, lunch, of dinner. They show up all jintary from fifteen cups of uncut black coffee.

Could see it now. Don’t make any consent with me. Is I dislocate my jaw so I can shove a stack of pancakes or Ribby and twelfth Canolian and my gullet. If three minutes to talk to me before I go into a deep sleep for fourteen hours so my body can digest the ten thousand calories. I just savage, this is the key to living a longer life.

Who was a live like that? The trailer for My Name Is Monique is the special appear on Netflix April fourth. Some of the things in her trailer and I’m going to have to really really paraphrase and clean this up here. Use your own imagination, and what isn’t your imagination? I’ll leave that between you and your dirty brain friends.

And my name is Monique. We’ll get a greater understanding of her as a person. Okay, a story about being put in a straight jacket. Okay, the advice you received from her grandmother about hm hm doing things. Yeah, I’m making you wait, I’m drawing this out doing things with a mouth.

Oh, you dirty brain, Look look at what you’re thinking. Well, you’re right. That is the topic, her disdain for beliefs and a clear definition of what it means to be a white white person. She says, this is going to be some special If you like what I do here. One way to support the show is go to Apple Podcast and they’re gonna put this option in front of you to become a premium subscriber.

Watch a test drive it for free for a month, and then if you like it, you can sign up and for five dollars a month you got the episodes ad free and early most days. By early, I mean the afternoon before the official release, although if I’m working in advance, sometimes you’ll wake up like you’ll wake up yesterday and of today’s episode. I had a pretape today. I was having a little routine medical procedure yesterday. So either A, I’m fine and I’ll see tomorrow or B this is the last episode ever.

Tune in tomorrow to find out. From comedy dot co dot UK, Alfie Brown has apologized for a historic stand up routine in which he used racist language. Video of the routine from twenty fifteen, in which he says the N word has been circulating on social media, so he readdressed this and the two in eclip. Brown reflects upon the origin and use of the N word, the creation of racial slurs, in the nature of offense. In a statement on Twitter, he wrote, I agree with all the criticism of the video being circulated and apologized unreservedly for the abhorrent racial language I used.

It was recorded in twenty fifteen and years ago I realized my mistake made every attempt to remove it, not because I was scared of it being found, but because it was wrong and hurtful. I was ignorant. It was a young comedian’s arrogant to be transgressive, as the routine’s intention was to be anti racist, but it was stupid. I regret it, and have regretted it for a long time. It became clear to me that using the language wasn’t ever justified, even trying to undermine it.

I’ve never suffered racism, and now years later, this material is causing pain to the people who have I apologize deeply for it. Comedian Nabil Abdul Rashid appeared alongside Brown at the Forge Comedy Festival last week and tweeted, not gonna lie, It’s very fortunate for you that you weren’t doing this material when we gig together on Saturday. WTF. I genuinely am sick and tired of these guys thinking, because they can dress this stuff up in foe intellectualism, it’s okay to say this stuff. He knows very well he couldn’t do this in front of an audience when even a handful of black people orasions were present.

Brown had addressed the bit before saying I wanted to do a bit about modern slavery, and slavery is more offensive than the word. The fact that he were shocked by the use of the word. Everybody should be more shocked and more shocked by modern slavery, the myriad ways in which modern slavery takes place, but the fact that we all react to a word, and I have no about the individual pain that it caused. But I essentially, in terms of modern slavery, I just chose to offend people with the words too highlight the horror of something I felt was more important than just a reactional language. This week on the CW, it’s The Great American Joke Off.

They’ll say Sloane is your host. The panelists include Ed Gamble, Tom Allen, Milton Jones, Glenmore, and Rees Jeames on The Great American Joke Off, comics trade wise, cracks and one liners in a series of fast paced rounds. Some American comics in The Great American Joke Off include Mosha Kasher and Natasha La Jerro, Joe List and Mark Norman. That’s pretty good. Producers say the teams are tested on their skill and everything from crafting joke setups, creating punchlines and providing photo captions to performing solo spots, dropping risk ay innuendos, and ranting about life’s petty irritations.

All right, don’t I have to check that one out? Shmikadoon is coming back for season two. Season one often parody the golden age of musical theater. Season two is heading forward in time, and they wind up parodying things like Chicago, Sweeney Todd Cabaret, Sweet Charity, and Hair that Should be Fun. Your stars Cecily Strong and Mac Packer Keegan Michael Key.

The Milburne Comedy Festival continues. Steve Hill is bringing The Sexy Environmentalist to the festival. The Sexy Environmentalist is a high octane mix of environmentalism and sexiness. Will that makes sense at a last ditch effort to unite humanity and save the planet with a thing that’s kept humans in existence. Sex times running out.

But according to Steve, the green movement has its tactics all wrong. We’re not going to change the world by making people feel guilty about their life choices. Instead, we need to make it sexy now. Normally, at this point I would take a look at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and suggests some shows that we might see if we were there. But I’ve tried loading the Thursday’s schedule five times and no matter how many times that load it, it pops up one day’s schedule.

I even went in and manually changed the URL to put the right date, and it still took me to the wrong date. So I don’t know who’s playing tonight. So let’s not go. That’s your comedies for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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