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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Tom Segura, Kate Brolant, Brian Posehn

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser on balancing comedy with relationships and watching The Last of Us
• Kate Brolant’s path to stand-up comedy and Lizzie McGuire audition
• Brian Posehn on nerd and metal culture comedy and up-and-coming comedians
• Tom Segura on how Sober October started and its benefits for comedians
• Clean comedy definition and discussion

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hey, Nikki Glaser, what do you do on your day off? She’d selldethca dot com. I watch The Last of Us with my boyfriend.

I go to dinner, and I try to spend quality time with my boyfriend, which is new for me because even though we’ve been together for ten years off and on. For any comic, I think it’s a struggle to have a relationship with someone who’s not a comedian because the hours are strange, and socializing is such a part of it, and it’s a compulsion. And I go to three clubs a night and I’m just driving around. It’s hard to take someone with you to that because I’m just in and out, just run into a set. But there’s no part of it that’s like invite friends, let’s all hang out.

It’s like a marathon. It would be like someone coming to watch me work out. I don’t want company. I just want to get it done and go home. She says she was obsessed with comedy from the start.

This feels so good and it’s just so much fun, and I have a whole new batch of friends. And in the beginning, you don’t have that many opportunities to go on stage. It’s like once a week there’s an open mic or maybe then it gets to be you find more of them, and then there’s three or four times a week. You’re doing three minutes on stage, and now I’m doing fifteen. It’s three sets a night, so you end up talking for forty five minutes every night.

You’re running around town. It’s a lot more intense. But I always tell comics that are starting out there was like, what hell, what should I do? And the advice every comic always gives is get on stage as much as possible. And I always say, if you have to give that advice to someone, they’re not cut out for it, because it shouldn’t be hard to do this every night.

It’s the best feeling in the world to get laughs, and it becomes addictive feeling for sure. It’s like the biggest hit of dopamine you could possibly have. I think Heroin might trumpet. She adds. I liked acting as well, and I still do, but it always feels like there’s some part of it where you can go, well, it’s not completely me.

The comedy is like you like me. You write it at your performing. It’s a control freaks dream doing stand up. The New Yorker asked Kate Brolant, did you ever beg your parents to go on any Hollywood auditions? I mean, you’re already nearby, and Kate said, what happened was one of my best friends growing up, Sammy Birch, who’s a really brilliant screenwriter, had a mother who was a casting director, and her mother’s friend was casting Lizzie McGuire.

And it’s kind of a fun gag. A lot of us girls went into audition. I was thirteen and I got it, which truly has never happened again. The only other job I’ve ever received from a straight audition was for Tarantino, So yeah, I had a leg up at Lizzie McGuire. They asked her, did you go to cross Roads, the private school in Santa Monica where all the celebrity children went.

Her answer was interesting. She said, I went to Archard School for Girls. I was supposed to go to cross Roads, and it broke my parents heart when I decided not to. I think I was really scared about being around boys. They asked her about the bott misfisseine in La and she said, I dropped out of Hebrew school because it conflicted with the Steel Magnolia’s play rehearsal scheduled at school.

All right, how’d you get into stand up? She said? I always had a very romantic obsession with New York City, and therefore Woody Allen up redacted. Now I’m like, was there a world which seventeen year old me was gafaying at Woody Allen stand Up? I didn’t understand half the references.

Then I started overcome really knew what else was coming out of New York what was then referred to as the alternative comedy scene. My senior year of high school, the SNL Oral History book came out, and I remember clutching it and crying to my English teacher, being like, I have to go to New York. By the way, I love school and I still do. The pitch KC caught up with Brian Possain. Hey, Brian Posey, when you first started out with so rare to see someone exclusively talking about nerd culture and metal culture after decades of being a comedian, what’s left for you to explore?

Brian said, I don’t know you hear your crusty old nerds gatekeepers, you know, complaining about things. But at some point you just have to let go of a lot of the stuff and not be too attached to it. I mean, I feel like I grew as a person through my connection with Star Wars and eventually just letting it go cracks me up as a crusty old dude now to watch other people when they get upset about things, and especially some of the petty things that nerds get mad about, which is kind of surprising because I always felt like as nerds we should be welcoming everybody. It wasn’t something that I consciously said, Hey, I’m going to be the nerd comic. I just started talking about it at different shows.

I found myself mentioning that I was mad about Star Wars, and then it connected. That encouraged me to keep doing it, to let people in, you know, about what I cared about. Good question here, Who are some up and coming comedians that most people don’t know that you, Brian Persane are really into. He said, my friend Blair, So she’s hilarious. She’s starting to blow up.

My guy that I’m bringing with me, Johnny Taylor. He’s one of the funniest dudes out there. He’s not young, he’s quite my age, but he’s been doing it a long time and deserves recognition because he’s super, super funny, smart writer that fits really well with my act. It’s really important to me that the show’s consistent and solid. I don’t want to follow somebody week just so it makes it easy for me.

I love following somebody who crushed. I’ve been sitting on this next item for a bit here, and you’ll be able to tell why in a second. But hey, it’s the weekend I do that. I sleep stories. And the question was Atom Sagora, you did sober October.

Check your colin dud Johnny Mac had that go. Sagora said, I’m not a big party guy, so it’s not like eliminating that stuff as a challenge. Really, I would have a casual drink maybe after show or something that I don’t do now, But I enjoyed doing it for the month. The fun part of me is I’m doing with three other friends. That’s what I would encourage other people to do.

Get a group of people together, especially friends, because then there’s camaraderie and crap talking, and that’s the way that makes it fun. The funny thing is the first time we ever did it. It was completely just for Bert Graisher. We were like, we need to do something for this guy. He’s like got a catrolly, drinks too much, parties too hard, and that was the first time.

Then this year that was the motivation again. The rest of us were like, we gotta try something. It’s crazy because he’s literally this anomaly most people. Once I get into thirties and forties, he’ll be fifty soon, they really have to dial back. I like party and drink it stuff.

We were like, oh, we gotta do this again. So Burt was really the motivation. Of course, we all go this is for Bert, but the benefit goes to all of us. I mean, you have Joe Rogan, who’s always been in great physical shape, but he even celebrates that it’s making him more discipline and he’s already a discipline athletic person. Then Ari Shafier does no fitness stuff.

He’s more in a psychedelics and edibles and weed and he hates that he has to stop for the month. Than me. I’ve been on a bit of a health kick on this tours. I’ve been working out quite a bit. I bring a trainer on the road.

I’ve been eating pretty healthy, but this makes me take it to another level. The truth is we all get a great benefit from the month, and we get messages from people every day that are like, hey, you guys inspired me and I’m doing it too. From the Desert News the case for clean comedy. They rate for clarity. Let’s define what clean comedy is and isn’t before I read ahead, I’ll give you my answer because when I was at serious XM programming the clean Comedy channel was always such a challenge because there’s not that much material out there to begin with.

And one of the big stars of clean comedy was this guy Bill Cosby. He would be like the artist you would play a lot, and he’s not so cool anymore, you know what I mean. Then the other issue is I started out as I had to find it match game naughty, you know, so you might make a joke about boobs, say, or a light’s drug reference, you know, on the sly something like that that would fly over the head of your average eight year old and we’d get the letters. Hey, I thought, this is the clean family channel. So we had to keep just reeling and really get in and you’d basically wind up with Jim Gaffigan making hot pockets jokes desert news rights.

For clarity, let’s define what clean comedy is and isn’t. Comics who avoid profanity and refrain from overtly sexual and vocal material or blue comedy, are generally labeled as clean, but it’s not kid comedy. Leanne Morgan says she works on the PG thirteen range. Yeah, that’s where I tried to start out as a programmer and couldn’t keep it there because at the complaints. She’ll talk about menopause, marriage and underwear, but not in a nasty way.

I do use some innuendo, she said, and I talk about real things, but I don’t use language, and I’m not graphic. Jesty Slay says he tries to do an act thing can be enjoyed without anyone being embarrassed, but it’s all grounded in adult experiences. He says, I definitely have some PG stuff, I have some g rated stuff, but if you come see me in the club, I’m for more of a mature audience and try to find a way to talk about adult experiences that can be relatable without being gross. Why the comics work clean. Nate Brigatsi said, just how I grew up.

It’s basically it. Lee and Morgan said, it’s really just who I am. Brian Reagan said, I’m just doing what I do. Josh Johnson spoke with Movie Web about cancel culture, and he said, I think while they are definitely bad actors, there are also people who get off on overblowing a situation. Databelle, I think that being canceled is like a murky and interesting thing because when you look at people who have been canceled, they’re doing great.

I think for the most part, when you think about being canceled stuff like that and not saying doesn’t happen. I’m just saying that people who you really need to worry about when it comes to cancel culture are regular people. Regular people are the people that don’t recover, right. Celebrities, especially celebrities we love, always try to find their way back. Remember the dentist who shots Cease of the Lion.

Yeah, that guy’s probably not doing great. I wonder what happened to that guy. I don’t imagine his business is doing better than it was before. So it’s like you have to look at it the way things actually end up despite how we feel about them. Now I’m curious, Let’s see what happened to that guy, oh No from the Near Post.

In twenty twenty, Cecil the Lions Killers back slaughtering endangered rams and Mongolia The enormous sheep are considered a national treasure and only nineteen thousand left in the world. The Humane Society said for trophy hunters to travel to Mongolia to kill a beautiful and endangered rams and absolute outrage. From twenty twenty two, Cecil the Lion Killer dentist inundated with one starr yelp reviews or at least we can find a little humor here one review. Instead of featuring animals in your office to Corey, you can get some hunting theme wallpaper and really show what you’re about stalking and killing animals in their natural Habitat another review, terrible Dentists do not recommend unless you want bloody gums at the hands of a sociopath. What I love here is most of the people who are leaving straight reviews and it says their locations, so they’re from all over the world, but they’re like, oh, I happen to be and down stopped by there because of an emergency, and the dentist was terrible.

Moving on, remember we’re talking about Josh Johnson, who was talking about Cancel Culture before that little sidebar. Yeah, I had forgotten where we were too. Josh said, I really haven’t encountered those things, and if I ever encountered them, meaning cancel culture, not hunting exotic animals, then I’ll deal with them accordingly when the time comes. But I always trying to show people that I have good intentions and it’s not really worth trying to add people on. I’m not trying to troll anybody.

I’m just trying to make everybody laugh. And I want to share this next story for you. I recorded it earlier today for my podcast Five Good News Stories. I’m sure you’ve heard the promo. That’s where I tell you five stories and they’re all upbeat.

And I had such a good time with this story. I just thought a charity. It’s not really comedy, but you’ll laugh here. Here we go. The headline, My colleague charge guests for food at her wedding.

I got McDonald’s instead. See a woman wants her wedding and she was kind of annoyed to find out the guests had to pay for their meals, so she left and grabbed McDonald’s. Yeah, apparently one bride was trying to offset costs for her wedding and made her guest pay for the food. They were gonna have to pay about fifty dollars for a steak. The guest and question explained that the bride was a co worker and she’d be told before the wedding she needed to have to pay anything to tend, but that turned out not to be the case, and she was like, no, I’m not having any of this and went over to McDonald’s.

She asked the bride if it was cool, if you know, in mind if I step out and grab some Mickey D’s. The bride was fuming at that suggestion and even branded her colleague cheap for refusing to eat at the wedding. So how do we sort this out as friends? We take this to Reddit, of course, and they McDonald’s fan said, reasoning, my colleague invited me to her wedding, which happened yesterday. I was super excited and happy for her.

Just in case, I asked her if there were any guest fees, and she said, nah, you don’t need to pay me anything. On the day itself. Everything went well until the reception and my shock, I was presented with a wedding menu that had prices on it. For example, steak fifty dollars. Everything was ridiculously expensive, including the vegetarian options.

First, I wanted to question her because she lied to me. They don’t have to pay for anything, dude, it was her wedding day. But it was her wedding and I didn’t want to spoil her day by embarrassing her in front of everyone. Good choice, however, The only other option was to simply not eat, as I didn’t bring enough money for both the meal and to ride back. But that was completely unfavorable.

To get my lunch to safe space for the wedding meal, and was pretty hungry. Suddenly, I remember that I saw McDonald’s about five minutes away from the hotel. As tactically as it could, I asked the bride if I could make a quick stop at McDonald’s as I didn’t bring enough money for the reception meal. I said i’d be back in time for the gift ceremony and cake. I thought she’d agree, but to my horror, she got really upset.

She said she had put so much effort to get this michelan Star restaurants service, yet I still wasn’t at that. I was trying to bring her down by saying that I’d rather eat McDonald’s. Bride said it was the woman’s fault for not bringing enough money, and she claimed that when she said the women have to pay, she only met there was no attendance fee. Are their usual cover fees at weddings? What furious?

The bride sold the guests to leave the wedding, and she did grabbing McDonald’s on her way home. Oh wait, there’s more. Back at home, I told my boyfriend everything. He thought it was a funny story. You’re right, boyfriend, but said I was an a hole finding of the money.

I can always pay your back later, and his exact words is it chose the wrong time to be stingy. My other friends agree as well, saying it was not tactically of me for doing that at the wedding, and although she lied, I should have just brushed it off instead of dampering her happy spirits. After hearing their opinions, I feel quite guilty and embarrassed. That was fun and that’s your comedy news for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

You can also subscribe to five Good News Stories and all those places as well. See tomorrow.

All right, here’s the pitch.

Five stories. They’re all good news. It’s called five Good News Stories. No negative news, just kid news. Nice easy way to start your day, hopefully smile.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of Five Good News Stories. So you get the premise. There’s five stories and they’re all good news. So the number five good News Stories. Five Good News Stories.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Joe Rogan, Ron White, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Jim Jefferies, Nate Bargatze, Artie Lange, Jay McBride, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Jimmy Palumbo

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer on Joe Rogan Experience discussing comedy club cheats and techniques
• Bert Kreischer Razzle Dazzle special review – Johnny Mac’s honest critique
• Best stand-up specials of 2023 so far including Johnny Mac’s top picks
• Artie Lange update – sober and working on getting healthy
• Jay McBride debut special Daddy’s Girl on The Laugh Button
• Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Apple TV+ comedy series announcement
• Stars of Tomorrow Festival in North Hollywood April 5-9
• Dubai Comedy Festival May 12-21 with Jimmy Carr, Dara Ó Briain, and Zakir Khan

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Last night. I watched Bert Kreisher’s new special. This morning, as I was doing an Apple spin class Humble Bragg, I listened to Bert Kreisher with Joe Rogan.

Let’s start with that fantastic go listen to it if you’re really in the comedy. They were talking, you know, inside baseball as we call it, and I thought it was really interesting. Bert apparently played Rogan’s club this week and he said to the audience He’s not going to do the machine bit unless Ron White gets up and does his tater salad bit, and both happened. Imagine seeing that in the club. But that must have been awesome.

There’s about ten minutes or so where they started talking about sexual things and dominatrix is and I just, I don’t know, getting older, prudish. I was just like, I don’t know, I just don’t want to hear this right now. I really don’t want to hear it. You hear me stammering, And I’m not going to edit that out. I didn’t even tell you the story what Kreisher was doing with Cigar.

I just I’m like, I don’t need to hear this, I get it. So the comedy self was fantastic. Then they got back to talking about comedy, and Burton Joe were talking about comedy cheats in the club, the things you can get away with in a small setting to carry a set that don’t work in a theater, and I thought that was really interesting. So if you’re interested in the art of comedy, high recommend on. Joe Rogan and Bert Kreisher.

On the same podcast, Joe We’re going To discussed Will Smith, and Rogan said the stuff Chris Rock said about Will Smith was ruthless, and then speaking of Will imagine the thought like, I’m just gonna slap Chris Rock, one of the greatest stand up comedians of all time. After I slap him, he’s gonna have some of the best comedy anybody’s ever written, and he’s gonna hone it for over a year before he releases it. Like, what a terrible, unprovoked attack. What a dumb thing to do to be that person who’s publicly loved. Until that moment, nobody had a bad thing to say about Will Smith.

Everybody loved that guy. So you can find all that on the Joe Rogan experience right. Bert Kreisher’s a new special. So originally this episode was going to lead off with a review of the special, and I don’t want to come across as negative. And I feel like the last few major specials that come out, I’ve been like, So let me just tell you my emotional worlder Coaster sat down.

Bert Kreischer really excited about it. Hit play. Bert comes out. It’s high energy. I’m really digging the first ten minutes or so.

And then I was sitting in the comfy chair. Please understand, one hundred percent of the time I sit in the comfy chair, I fall asleep. One hundred percent. If I play video games fall asleep, watch TV, I fall asleep. So I’m watching Bert show and I start to get a little comfortable, and I’m enjoying it, and you know, maybe i’ll rest my eyes here, and I actually dozed off for I don’t know how long, not that long, but I definitely fell asleep during Bert Kreisher’s special.

I don’t say that to hate. I don’t even share that to say the special was bad. I forgot to tell you earlier in the day, I had ran a pretty aggressive treadmill race using this whiffed app. I was running this virtual race and I had a lot of times, so I was a little tired from that. But I came to and I got back into the special, and I just wasn’t feeling the stories.

And by the time it headed for the end, I couldn’t wait for to end. I actually hit pass to see how much was left, and there was five and a half minutes left, which meant he was into or heading for his closer and the closure was weak, and I don’t know about this one was really excited. And again I’m sure some of you were out there going, this guy hates every single special. I know it’s but it’s tough first quarter. So John, will it make your best of twenty twenty three list?

No? And some specials not on the list include Mark Marin, Andrew Santino, and now Burt Kreisher. What is on the list? John, excluding the things that aren’t stand up specials, just stand up specials? Number one?

Nate Briganci, Hello World, Jim Jeffreys at number two, Chris Rocket number three, and I have the roast of mister Peanut. I know you’re like, what is this guy talking about? The Roast of Mister Peanut. Why don’t you go on YouTube and actually watch the Roast of mister Peanut. That’s the fourth best stand up special of the year so far.

Not on the list Maren Santino or Kreisher. I’m sorry, Burt. I really really enjoy you. I really liked you on Rogan. I like most things you do.

But apparently I wasn’t feeling this latest special. I’m sorry, and I actually feel bad. Stat Nyland Live caught up with Artie Lang’s friend Jimmy Palumbo. Jimmy Palumbo says, Already’s doing okay. He’s sober.

He’s just trying to put it all together right now, get himself healthy and have a clear mind. And he’s just not really doing anything any public appearances. But did you talk to him. I talked to his mother and his sister, and you know, he’s just kind of put it all together. So I’m hopeful that soon you’re going to see Already Lang again.

He’s still got that fastball left. I pray for him. I wish him well, me too, worked with Already in a handful of times. He’s exactly who you think he is in the good way, really great guy to work with. The Laugh Button has announced a new special from Jay McBride, who is fantastic and below the radar.

Why don’t you check out this one. It’s called Daddy’s Girl. It’s Jay McBride’s debut release and it’ll be on The Laugh Button’s YouTube page today. They write, Jay McBride is no joke, proudly transgender and crushing it on a national level, working as a writer on Inside Amy Schumer as well as handling feature duties that’s taken her all the way to performances at the illustrious and Madison Square Garden. This special was recorded July twenty twenty two at Union Hall in Brooklyn.

Daddy’s Girls showcases Jay McBride slaying the enamored crowd with her rapid fire, wit, Martini, dry delivery and genuine graciousness. Yeah like jail a lot. Check that out. I’m going to avoid saying all rights three times in a row as I tell you about Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s new project. They’re teaming up for a new Apple TV Plus comedy.

They will play versions of themselves in untitled ten episode, half hour comedy McConaughey and Harrelson, along with her families, attempt to live together on McConaughey’s Texas ranch. M Can I pretend this is a Yellowstone spinoff? And of course those close confines put the storied friendship to the test. Apple TV says the show is a heartfelt, odd couple love story revolving around the strange and beautiful bond between Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. From The La Times.

A new local comedy festival spotlighting up and coming talent coming to North Hollywood next month. Comedy Dynamics cool guys who do good work in comedy. They will debut the inaugural Stars of Tomorrow Festival at the El Portal Theater April fifth through the ninth, eighteen comedians on the lineup. They’ll have their sets filmed with the Intentional License and distribute them in late twenty twenty three. Comedy Dynamics is a great company to partner up with.

Brian Volkweiss. I’ve worked with him in the past. He’s one of the suits over there. He’s like v suits over there, and he’s not a suit at all, Like you know what, I mean, he’s a boss, but he’s not a suit you know what I’m saying. He’s cool, That’s what I’m saying.

Bryan said, We’re thrilled to be putting on our first ever festival, and we’re thankful to the City of North Hollywood and the El Portal Theater for providing a great venue for the celebration.

Meanwhile, the Dubai Comedy Festivals coming back May twelfth to the twenty f…

They’ve announced their first four things. One of them is podcast. The others Jimmy Carr, Irish comedian Damra O’Brien, and Zakir Khan. I’m not familiar with Zakir. I’m told Zakir Khan is one of the leading stars of India’s new generation of stand up comedians and YouTube is very nice.

The Aspen Times had a headline that cracked me up. The headline quote, Bob Goldthwaite’s brand of comedy will make an appearance. What does that mean, Bob Goldthwaite’s brand of comedy. Isn’t Bob Goldthwaite making an appearance. It’s not like I’m going there and doing some lame, half ass version of bobcat Goldthwaite’s brand is Bobcat himself.

Anyway, The Aspen Times asked him, you have a successful career as a screenwriter director. Why I returned to stand up in small venues. The Cat said, I started doing comedy clubs when I was fifteen. I got Letterman when I was twenty. Now I’m sixty.

It was forty years ago, and for a long time I didn’t think I liked it anymore. After taking a few years off, and especially because of the pandemic, I realized I missed it. Even though I’m working on other stuff, I guess I’m a comedian before or anything else, and I’m enjoining connecting with an audience again. I go out every weekend and I do different gigs from alabamaa anchorage, and I’m just thinking, let’s see how this goes. My favorite thing is when you actually come up with an idea that you’ve never had before while you’re on stage, and at lands, it’s certainly it.

I can’t imagine another kind of performer that has that. Well, maybe a j as artist might know the feeling, but nothing else can be compared to it. It’s twenty twenty three, so they had to ask him about cancel culture, and he said, I’ve been canceled. Says the guy on the podcast with his Twitter feed on his Instagram, I have no freedom of speech. But he can see their pay per view special.

Real censorship is the comedian in South America who’s talking about his dad who was a radio guy with a sense of humor, and then just one day he goes to jail for cracking jokes. That’s censorship that’s been canceled. These guys are all playing arenas and they’re doubling down on toxic views today. Chapelle, the thing is homophobi and transphobia are insidious going after those communities they know not not going to be met with as much resistance, but it’s just everything’s getting chipped away. Is crazy from banning books, and it goes on and on.

Then when you do comedy, you don’t reinforce those viewpoints. Sometimes people get mad, But the other night, I gotta be able to hit the pillow and feel like I’ve done an okay job. Because no matter how this all plays out, five grandchildren some day and they say, hey, what did Grandpa do when this was going down, I want them to say, well, he was a pretty vocal anti fascist. If you like what I do here, they’re two eight Sport show one Go to Buy Meat Coffee dot Com Slash Daily Comedy News. There’s some money in the tip show.

I’ll take your money. I’ll go to the National Donuts chain unless it’s Wednesday, which case I’ll go to the brewery and I’ll buy a large ice coffee with caramel and milk. Unless I’m at the brewery they don’t have any coffee. I’m into the Irish red Ale this week. In case you’re curious, which you weren’t.

The other thing you can do is go to Apple Podcast become a premium subscriber. You got the episodes ad free and somewhat early, usually the afternoon before. That’s five bucks a month. You could try it out from a month for free. See if you like it.

Maybe you hate it, who knows. There were more podcast awards. These are the iHeart Podcast Awards. The Podcast of the Year went to last Culturalistas. That’s Bow and Yang and Matt Rogers podcast on paper, I should love it in reality, can’t get into it best overall, En Sabo, one of the SmartLess Guys.

Best Comedy Podcast. This is not a repeat story from the other day. These are different awards. Why won’t you date me with Nicole Bayer? So she’s won Best Comedy Podcast twice this week.

Are you guys listening to that best Overall host Nicole Bayer? Yeah? Happy seeing Pat day. By the way, do you need some real Irish comedy? Well, why don’t you go see real Irish comedy with comedian Dave Nihill tonight and tomorrow at the Comedy Store in La Joya.

As an Irish American, I want to throw up when I read this description. Joined comedian Dave nil for a night of real Irish comedy accent included. Want to try that with somebody from another country and see how that goes. Accent included. Anyway, leaving Dublin, Ireland, where he was born and raised until the age of twenty two, Dave got drunk on travel.

I want to try that with another nation of origin and see how this copy goes. Dave got drunk on travel and never quite hit sobriety of it. He has lived and worked in twelve countries and visited over seventy You see the Irish or drunks and we have weird accents. Sorry, it’s one of my bet thieves. We had his show’s drawn, his wide travels, cultural observations, attempts at language study, occasional international drinking sessions, and being a mildly confused immigrant.

Johnny Mac, you’ve twice in your own podcast said you go to the brewery. Yes, I go to the brewery once a week. I played trivia and I have maybe two beers. You’re off on tangents, Johnny Mac. Dave is the winner of the Did Just Annual San Francisco Comedy Competition.

Previous finalists include Robin Williams, Ellen Degenerous and Dana Carvey. Not bad anyway, if you’re in La Joia Cosi Daves. Tonight, Anti Donna has a new show. Remember during the pandemic, Netflix through on Anti Donna’s Big Oal House of Fun. It was a sketch comedy show that was a little weird and was very funny, and it made me a fan.

And now I follow their podcast, which I enjoy a lot. Do you have any idea what I’m talking about Anti Donna on Netflix? Trust me, Anti Donna podcast. I don’t know if you’ll be into the international humor n depends on your taste. Give it a shot, I men.

Do you check out the episodes of their podcast where they’re doing it from a car, the joke being it’s the first podcast ever done from a car and they form a government while in the car. Very funny episodes. Two episodes where they do that. Anyway. Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe is the new show.

It’s a six episodes sitcom debuting in April on the Australian ABC. You’ll have to figure out a way to watch it in the States. Nudge, nudge, say no more, you know what I mean. Filmed in Melbourne, Great City follows three friends as they try to get a trendy inner city Melbourne cafe called Morning Brown off the ground and one of the cities lesser known for scunderer lane ways and from the Media Gazette. Kevin Boseman loved sports, specifically basketball, and he was asked which NBA players on court talents are equivalent to your current standing in the comedy world, Kevin Bozeman.

Fascinating question. Kevin Boseman said, I’m a starter who likes to shoot a lot. So I’m like Kylie Irving, like I’m gonna get your buckets. Just don’t expect me to lead you anywhere, all right. I’d like that well played.

I’d like to get buckets, and I like not to be required to play defense. And after the game, I’d like to lay back and have a couple of cocktails. He also had some advice if you’re in the Cleveland area, which you might be. If you find yourself in Cleveland, you’re like, what should I do? I don’t know what to do this weekend.

Kevin Bowman says, listen, my man. Sliman’s is my favorite joint. I’ll definitely have a corn beef sandwich. I’ll also have their corn beef hash. I love that place.

John, did you sleep this story until Saint Patrick’s Day? Because the corn beef reference. Yes, I’m on slimans dot com now. If you’re in Cleveland, be advised the dining room is closed today. Carry out only the corn beef sandwich eighteen dollars.

You want to add some Swiss, cost you another buck. And I was on the Spotify marketing page and trying to get more downloads on Spotify. I’m trying to get more downloads everywhere, but specific to Spotify. They recommend I read you the following copy. Thank you so much for listening to show name.

Make sure to rate and follow us everywhere you listen to podcasts, including Spotify Tap the bell if you want to know when new episodes are available. You can also set your Spotify to automatically download new episodes for easy offline listening. All right, so you’re gonna do that. You’re gonna go to Spotify, you gonna find Daily Comedy News, You’re gonna rate the show. You’re gonna tap the bell.

I gonna set auto downloads. Well, how do I do that? John? You just tap the gear icon and enable the auto download setting auto downloaded episodes. Will that appear in your episodes?

Follow the show for free on say Spotify, tap the bell and ring the gear and all that, or Apple podcasts or youtubeever you get your shows. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. So you’re at McDonald’s and you get your bag and you open your bag. You want to grab a couple of fries or something, and there’s five thousand dollars in it. Yeah, this happened at one guy.

Hi, I’m Johnny mag host of five Good News Stories. He gave the money back. Don’t worry if you want to start your day with a smile. Twice a week. I’ve got five good news stories for you.

For example, there’s an airline for dogs. Or what about the woman in her eighties who just released her debut album. How about the dude who found one hundred and fifty corn on the cobs under his floorboards? Is corn on the cobs even the way you say that? Who cares?

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Donald Trump, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld, Eliza Shlesinger, Pete Davidson, Will Ferrell

What’s in This Episode

• Bank crisis jokes from late night hosts
• AI-generated Seinfeld revival with new cast replacing original actors
• Kevin Hart becoming a viral meme with stock photo-style images
• What Jerry Seinfeld is like to meet in person – conflicting fan accounts
• Eliza Shlesinger’s 40th birthday warehouse rave celebration
• Pete Davidson moves out of Brooklyn penthouse to Staten Island
• Will Ferrell attempts 72-ounce steak challenge at Big Texan restaurant

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Did you hear about the bank crisis? Stephen Gobert said, it’s pretty bad when the very first time you ever hear from bank is when they’re going out of business. Jimmy Fallon said, Biden try to put everyone at ease.

He said, don’t worry. I got through the first great depression. I’ll get through this one. Fallon again. In response, Trump said it’s times like these where we need a president with experience of multiple bankruptcies.

Johnny Mac, is it a slow newsday? Why? Yes? Why do you ask? Let’s check in with chat chept Mitch Hedberg.

I asked the computer write some jokes in the style of Mitch Hedberg about a slow newsday. I’d turned on the news this morning. The top stories about guy I found a potato looked like Elvis. That’s not news, that’s a side dish. I was watching the news and they had a story about guy who set world record for you the most pancakes in one minute.

I mean, I’m am pressed. I think he’s fine. New Hobby heard out the News Day that had to do a segment on squirrel who learned how to water ski. I mean happy for the squirrel at all, But I don’t think that’s going to make the history books. Sorry, that’s ridiculous.

Firm Rolling Stone, is it a slow newsday, Johnny Mac? Yes, why do you ask? Apparently Kevin Hart has become a meme a Rolling Stone rights. My name is Kevin Hart and I work hard, reads the Twitter bio of comedian Kevin Hart. You can’t tony the hustle Hard consistently ranks among the highest paid comedians, collaborates with big names on high profile movie projects, and, through his two separate production companies, maintains a dizzying number of partnerships envelopment deals.

Oh and last year he launched a tequila brand. By now, there are almost as many tweets from people expressing confusion at the Kevin Hart reactions as there are as images of the man himself. One Twitter user said, no way Kevin Hart got this many pictures. Another tweeted these are like the new age stock photos. The third said there’s a picture of him doing everything.

Anyone who complains that the concept isn’t funny can expect to be embarded with hard picks and their replies, truly, there’s no escape. Even Kevin Hart is confused. He asked on Instagram, can somebody tell me why I’m trending? I got listen memes being sent to my damn phone from a bunch of my dumbass friends. This seems to have started back in December.

A picture of Heart raising his hands to the camera went viral. It’s as if the picture says, don’t blame me or take it easy. Rolling Stone quotes body language an emotional intelligent expert doctor Jack Brown, who says a comedian will use melodramatic, hyperbolic body language as a way to prime their fans tendency to default in the laughter. So that’s why you laugh at the Kevin Hart meme? Is it a slow newsday?

Why do you ask? From Kataku? Ai Seinfeld is back on Switch Baby, but without Seinfeld parentheses, and fans are upset clothes parentheses? All right, what’s going on here? Remember the Ai Seinfeld touch you about?

I think it was like three weeks ago. Well they brought it back, but no more. Larry Feinberg, Larry Feinberg was the fake Jerry and what they are now calling season one. Larry Feinberg is gone. The new lead is Leo Borgius, a glasses wearing guy who still kind of sort of looks like Seinfeld, but instead of being a stand up comedian, Leo is a block who starts every episode by writing a post on his website about a totally random subject.

One time he blogged about the philosophical meeting of the early Bird gets the Worm. Another time he posted about his desire for crispy bacon more bad news. It’s not just Larry who’s different. The first season’s creamer, who was named Zoltan, is now Nick Sterling Boy Vanilla, and Elaine has become Kelly Coffee. George is now Manfred Freeman, but has not yet made an appearance in season two.

As a record this the laugh tracks are still present. The characters still hang around the apartment, but now the characters seem to mostly talk about a pizza place they never actually visit. One Twitter user said, I don’t know, man, it feels like the soul has been sucked out and this is some cheap knockoff. Jenny Mack is a slow news day, Yeah, why do you ask the things? Dot com or wrote, what is Jerry Seinfeld like?

In person. Fans have conflicting views. I’ll go first. I met Jerry Seinfeld exactly once he came up to do Jim Brewer’s show. Wait, did I meet Jerry twice?

I might have met Jerry a second time when he did Tompo the show. But the one I’m thinking of is meeting Jerry in the lobby of serious XM. Jerry is fine. He’s not looking to be your friend. He’s not looking to hang out with you.

He’s not rude. He’s aloof in the way that you probably would think he’s aloof. You know, he shows up and go, hey, mister Seinfeld, are doing all right? You know it. Doesn’t want to be bothered, doesn’t want to hang out, doesn’t want to be a friend.

But he’s not a jerk. One civilian who met Jerry Seinfeld said, I met Jerry this year. He was a guest at my hotel. He’s got a very dead on attractive confidence that makes some people think he’s too arrogant. He’s not.

He’s just confident. Another civilian said, I have never met a soul more entrenched with the idea of spreading fun. He loves smiling and making others laugh. It’s as if though he’s always on stage. I became his fan after meeting him.

That was not my experience, but I’m glad you had a good time with Jerry. A third civilian said, Jerry came at a stand up New York comedy club to perform right after the last episode of Seinfeld. All right, check your calendars. That’s thirty years ago. He’s a great guy, talked to other comedians, not a diva, and pretty much the same person he played on Seinfeld.

All right, that’s a little dated. My wife worked in the hospitality industry. Again. I met Jerry fifteen years ago, maybe more. At this point, my wife worked in the hospitality industry, and he was one of those guys who would demand that no one looked at him directly.

If you spoke to him, you had to look at the wall. He actually used the phrase do you know who I am? Not my experience at all. I’m not going to call anyone a liar an exaggerator, but that was not, not, not, not the vibe I got from Jerry at all. This person said, I get it.

Everywhere you go, people staring that gets to you. You also have a half billion dollars to He’s the pain wasn’t my experience at all with Jerry Let’s check in and gossip Corner. Is it a slow newsday, Johnny Mac Eliza Sleshinger turned forty. How did she celebrate? We had kind of a rave at a warehouse with like eighty people.

It was awesome. But the raves when you’re forty are a little more curated than when you’re twenty. We had nice cocktails and professional face painters, not just people drooling in the corners sweating beat. Davidson has moved out of his bachelor pad in Brooklyn. Yeah, Pete Davidson in Brooklyn, That’s not a thing.

He just belongs on Staten Island. He’s the mayor of Staaten Islands, where he belongs. The Killer Pantal says. The Neuropost sits on top of a nondescript four story building at forty six Old Fulton Street. The penthouse comes with four bedrooms and three and a half baths, along with a massive fifteen hundred square foot roof deck and private garden with an outdoor kitchen.

It’s also private garage and a keyed elevator. And Will Farrell stopped at the Big Texan on his quote road trip documentary. He was in Amario last weekend. He stopped by the Big Texan restaurant. They live stream him apparently.

Why Texans hit me in the comments. What don’t I understand about the Big Texan. I’m a dumb New Yorker. I don’t get at wiser restaurant live streaming. You can yell at me, can call me stupid yankee.

I don’t care. I want to know about this. My contact information is in the show notes. I want to know about this anyway. The restaurant’s live streams showed Will Ferrell dressed as Sherlock Holmes and he was there for the famous seventy two ound steak challenge.

A Big Texan employee announced, we have Sherlock Holmes all the way from London, England. He is one hour to eat a seventy two ounces steak. Now, the story didn’t reveal if Sherlock Holmes Will Farrell completed or not. It seems like a big part of the story. Huh.

I’m googling to find out. I don’t see it, but I did learn the current record for the seventy two ounces steak challenges. Molly Schuyler did it in four minutes twenty two seconds. Look, fa q, the Big Texan Steak rams. Let’s do this.

Does the Big Texan take reservations? No? Is there truck parking? Yes? Can I order to go?

Yes? How much is the steak if I don’t finish it in time? Seventy two dollars including tax. Can I order the seventy two out steak and not to the challenge? Yes, However the price is higher than the challenge price.

Do I have to eat all the sides as well as the seventy two out steak? Yes? To complete the challenge? All sides must be finished in the hour as well. Can I bring my dog?

Service? Dogs are welcome? The Big Texan asked that all other furry friends sit outside at the beer garden. M here’s an fa q. I really haven’t clicked on it yet.

The question how big is a seventy two out steak? The answer four and a half pounds of top Sirloine. I would have gone with seventy. Oh. Look, here’s the live stream.

I’m going to click on it now. Alrighty, I see a grill and a table and no one seemed to be sitting there. But it’s in the morning. As I record this, see somebody grilling up some steaks. This is kind of fun if it’s a slow newsday where you are Big Texan dot Com.

They also have a YouTube live channel. Anyway, a guy named de’angelo and his wife Erica were at Starbucks and a friend messaged them and said, hey, Will Farrell’s at the Big Text and so they had a straight to the restaurant, hoping to catch a glimpse of Will Farrell. De’angelo posted on Facebook, Will Farrell’s into Amario. After Farrell left the restaurant and an suv de’angelo haunt Will Farrell waved at him. D’Angelo said, I was the first one in line of traffic and he waved right heavy.

Earlier in the day, Will ferret will spot it at the Clothes Exchange Clothes with a Z, A spokesman from the Clothes with his Z Exchange said, Will Farrell decided he wanted to shop at a thrift store, so he googled thrift stores and we were the first to come up. He bought some jewelry, socks and a T shirt. Will also ate lunch at Mexican Lindo. These spokespeople at Mexican. Lindo’s said will Farrell ordered a Guadalajara plate, which is a chicken enchilada plate with rinchera sauce top with sa cream and guacamoli and rice and beans.

The production crew ordered enchiladas and taco salad fajitas. The restaurant spokesperson said will Farrell was very humble and down to earth, sweets all the staff as well as his crew. Is it a slow news stag? John Podcasters? This is where you earn your money.

Can you pull out a fifteen minute episode when you got nothing? Which reminds me there’s a great story about Mets Hall of Famer at Tom sever Laton Sever’s career. I think he was with the White Sox when the story takes place. So he’s like forty forty one years old when this happens, and he’s out there and he’s pitching and he’s Tom Sever, but he doesn’t have his best stuff that day, and the pitching coach comes out and it’s like, Tom, you got garbage today? And Sever goes yeah, but they don’t know that.

That’s how I feel about today’s podcast, except I’ve told you nine times I got today. Hey, shout out to Fat Guy who loves cake. He shot me an email and as a listener. Thanks Fat Guy, and also to Richard who shot me a note over the weekend. And Richard is a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast.

So I have finally found out the name of one of the Apple Premium subscribers, and that reminds me to plug how you could support the show. There two ways. One go to Apple Podcast. They’ll put the option on under your nose. You’ve become a premium subscriber like Richard did for five bucks a month.

Or there’s an annual thing you can do fifty bucks and give you the whole year. You get the episodes early and commercial free. So say there was no news at all and you’re like, I can’t wait till tomorrow to find out there’s no news at all. I need to know that today. You would get the episode early, right, So thank you Richard for doing that.

You can also go to buy meacoffee dot com. Oh, I have my prop today, buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Either a couple of bucks on the Tip show, or I will take your money. I go to the National Donuts chain and I pick up my large ice coffee with caramel and almond milk. Waits, did I actual only switch back?

No? I didn’t. Okay, sometimes I have to like restart on the app and I mess up and I go back to regular milk, and then I’m like, I feel kind of today. And that’s why Friend of the Show Dan Bublitz Junior was on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and he said, I hope History of the World Part two makes the top ten list because it’s hilarious. Dan reminded me, I forgot to watch it.

I meant to watch it over the weekend. I got distracted. I went on another Yellowstone tier. I have completed Yellowstones, so if you want to talk about Yellowstone, you can email me. I’ll talk to you about Yellowstone, big fan.

I also have not yet, but it’s a plan for tonight. Watched Bert Kreisher’s new special. The folks at Martin cid dot com did see it. Minor spoiler here. It won’t kill you.

It’s just the first three seconds literally, and they write Bert Kreisher spoilers introduces himself to the audience with a point in hand and with a shirt on that barely last three seconds. Bert Kreisher has the audience eating out of his hand from the get go with his jokes about underwear that snags on things and his jokes about bumpkins. Kracked has a longer review against spoilers coming up here, and they write Bert Kreisher is full of cocktails and helling at the moon, often at school activities while the other parents look on slack. Jawn Kreisher opens the show by taking the stage in a conservative button down shirt and ribs it open to reveal his superpowered party belly CGI buttons, flying a camera as if he’s saying, if I’m gonna grow up, it won’t be tonight. Mother Effer’s Krak says it’s not to say the volume on Kreischer’s life hasn’t been turned down a notch or two.

His stories now take glaze and decidedly more domestic locations instead of Russian trains. He’s now causing havoc and family restaurants and escape rooms. He has his own version of domestic bliss, but it involves handing his wife a pocket knife and asking her to trim the matted hair from between his but cheeks. Yeah, you’re welcome for that visual image. You’re thinking about it right now.

I’m going to keep making you think of it. I can’t believe you’re thinking about that. Yuck. Oh you’re still thinking about it, Aren’t you? Move on?

Johnny Mac. If anything, Bert Kreischer’s new special seems to say he’s invited his wife and kids to the party, but honestly the sworts material is straight out of Jim Gaffigan, which is more f bombs and alcohol. Wow. Interesting. At last week’s Power of Comedy event, Mike Lawrence was one of the hosts along with Nick Thune, and he joked he had to show more id when registering to get his south By Southwest conference badge than he would have to buy a gun.

The joke in Texas, it’s harder to get a festival badge than to get a gun. Go to a gun store and tell him I hate Jews. You get a gun, Go to the registration and say I’m an artist. They’ll question you. Eric Andre was there and he picked up the cult’s favorite award and said, I’ve been trapped on adult Swim for over a decade.

You guys got to get me out of there. I need to start making more than three hundred bucks a week. The sponsor of the evening was Inspired Brands, which is the parent company of Arby’s Sonic Duncan, Buffalo Wild Wings, Jimmy John’s at Baskin Robbins. I’d tell you that to set up this joke from Patton Oswalt, who said, I’ll keep this brief because I have to go accept the People Magazine, Chips, Ahoy, Flame and Hot Cheeto’s Comedy Vanguard Award over at the Velveta Room. That’s your comedy news for today.

I’m gonna do the CGI thing from Vulture that I started and haven’t gotten back to. But look, look at the clock. Look how much I made out of nothing today. That’s like forty one year old tom sever going six and a third with two it’s and having nothing. I’m proud of myself.

I’m getting out on top. See you tomorrow. Hello. I am Mark France’s host of a daily podcast about the British royal family called Palace Intrigue. Did you see what Megan Michael did in her latest documentary or what Prince Harry said in his new book While the Kings and Queens and Princes and princesses are ready to explode, Andrew is ready to implode.

Royal sources are jumping at the bit. The inlaws just can’t stop. The UK tabloids are about to burst. Americans can’t get enough, the kids can’t get any cut, the press can’t get any uglier. And Wills and Kate, well, they’re just wonderful.

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Featured: Ted Lasso, Chris Rock, Theo Von, Joe Rogan, Seth Meyers, Michael Che, Megan Markle, King Charles

What’s in This Episode

• TikTok ban discussion
• Chris Rock special edit and flubbed joke
• Theo Von on childhood storytelling and evolution
• Joe Rogan Spotify contract renewal speculation
• Michael Che’s Megan Markle joke backlash
• SNL post-production workers strike planning
• Ted Lasso season preview

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The Shark Deck. Ted Lasso is back. Baby. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Alright, the second half of the podcast is going to be all Ted Lasso.

I will warn you before we get to it. Side. I want to spoil it for anybody. You see they’re talking about banning TikTok. Seth Meyer said, of course, Joe Biden couldn’t TikTok at anytime simply by making an account Falon, don’t worry to make it up.

Biden promised us he’d give everybody one hundred free hours on aol flon again. Yeah offishals think China is using TikTok to spy on us, and China was like, yeah, well we had a backup idea, but you shot it down. Big headline. Chris Rock has edited his special. It’s fine.

Relax, everybody, remember the flub joke. They cleaned it up for the replay. No issue there makes sense. By the way, there was a listener on YouTube who got really, really really frosty with me for saying that Chris Rock flubbed a joke. Let me read exactly what Chris Rock himself said, Well, not exactly.

I have to bleep out a word here. But Chris Rock himself said years ago his wife said I should quit the Oscars. I shouldn’t host because their man didn’t get nominated for emancipation, the biggest piece of crap ever. No, not emancipation. I fffed up the joke, Chris Rock said on the special, which is what I told you YouTube commenter.

He messed up, he said it. He flubbed the joke. I didn’t make that up. Boy, you’re pretty sensitive, Johnny Mac. If you watch the replay now, that portion of the special has been edited out again, Fine, why shouldn’t the primitive version be better having the flub joke didn’t add anything.

He just flubbed it. It’s not like that turned into another five minutes of spontaneous material. A source close to the production tells The Hollywood Reporter that Chris Rock was aware of the edit, and Rock and Netflix worked together on the final cut. Awesome, Hey, Theo Vaughan, why do you tell so many stories about your childhood? THEO said, I didn’t have a really good childhood.

I didn’t feel good in my childhood, so it’s important to me to make it have some value. It adds a lot of levity to a childhood that didn’t have much levity. It’s almost like the kidney is now riding in a safe adult vessel gets to tell these things and use his imagination and have the freedom to share and feel and not be limited by somebody not wanting to hear him, or the circumstances around him that don’t allow him to become comfortable to share what he wants. On our podcast, we’d talk a lot about growing up, childhood trauma and that kind of stuff. I think a lot of people will relate to certain things, and so they’ll bring pieces of their childhood that they share with you.

So it’s kind of interesting sometimes because you don’t really know how to receive that. They say it’s for you, but really, in some ways it’s for them, and that’s okay. I hold on almost everything I’ve ever gotten. THEO spoke about his upcoming short and said, I’m just now starting to evolve into a new place where i want to talk more about things I actually think about instead of just telling stories. It’s bittersweet kind of because part of me loves some of the old stuff and I don’t want to see it go, but part of me wants to see what else is inside of me.

I’ve always been a late bloomer. I had trouble evolving him my thoughts and feelings, and I think finally it started to happen. This will affect other spaces in my life, especially my work, and the new stuff is good. It’s stuff people haven’t heard. Some have been wondering if Joe Rogan will leave Spotify at the end of the year.

The head of Spotify I spoke with CBS said, what I can’t say is the contract I believe has some more time to go beyond that, meaning the end of the year. Well, they renewed Joe. All he said was, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Interesting. Fans of Megan Markol are upset at Saturday Night Live, and specifically Michael Chay.

During Weekend Update, Michael Chay joke that Megan Markle has been authored nineteen dollars an hour to attend the coronation of King Charles. As Chay told, the joke behind him was a photoshopped image of Megan Markole dressed as a maid one Megan east Roots. Notice how Michael Chay is not funny and he’s never been especially tonight with his trashy, cheap shot Megan joke. Not funny, it’s unforgivable, it’s not even funny, just rude. Well, that person is not going to enjoy palace intrigue against the podcast I’m the writer on.

We talk about the British royal family, and more often than not we’re talking about Harry and Megan. I don’t think you’re gonna like that one. Keep an eye on this next story. We’ll see how it develops. I’m out of my depth here, but let me try and share my best understanding of it from the hollyod Reporter.

Post production workers at Saturday Night Live are preparing for a strike. Their union fired off a bunch of tweets late last week. In the tweets, they wrote, NBCU has refused fair compensation, refused to commit to maintaining existing health benefits, and refused to show SNL’s postcrew the respect they deserve. NBCU wants to shut us up, so we will yell louder plan to join us on the picket line April first. One source says NBC hopes to have disrectified in the month.

All right, we’ll keep an eye on that. And see how it can affect SNL And we still have separately from that, the writer’s strike coming. Perhaps possibly this summer could be an interesting time for television. Thanks again for supporting the show by going to buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. Some of the folks who have recently thrown a couple of bucks in the pot, Cheryl and Tommy and Aaron, Andrea, Gary, Shannon, Mike, Thank you all.

There are different things you can do. What a lot of people are doing lately is becoming a member for five bucks a month. Again, just once a month, I’ll get a coffee from you. Thank you so much everybody. Oh, and it’s Wednesday.

You don’t have to just buy me a coffee. You can buy me a beer because on Wednesday evenings, at least until volleyball starts back up, you will find me at the brewery playing trivia with the trivia guys, officially known as best Men Trivia, but I always refer to them as trivia guys. I’m worried for the trivia guys because the Bob’s Burgers hoax people got to the trivia guys one of the questions last week, which they shared on their social media was about Bob’s Burgers, again clearly as artwork. Clearly people have drawn what Bob’s Burgers would look like for were actually on TV. The trivia question was what is the family name of the Bob’s Burgers people?

The questions the trivia guys should have asked would have been twofold one, has anyone in this room ever seen Bob’s Burgers? We would have all written down no and gotten the point.

And then maybe as a bonus question they could have asked, has anyone in this …

Again, the answer clearly no. Another way you can support the show, and I’m seeing a lot of it lately, is signing up to become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. I would shout you out, but Apple podcast doesn’t tell me who you are. I just see that some money hit the account again, thank you. So what do you get for that?

If you open up the Apple podcast app, they’ll put it under your nose and then for five bucks a month you can get the episodes ad free and a little bit early. By a little bit early, I mean like late afternoon the day before So this episode you’re hearing right now on Wednesday was probably available sometime on Tuesday, plus or minus my schedule the latest it usually goes up as four o’clock. Sometimes you have it as soon as the sunrises. And if you just want to test drive that, you can do the first month free see if you like it. It’s not worth your five bucks.

I’m not offended at all, just trying to make a couple of coins here. The rest of today’s podcast is all about Ted Lasso. I won’t do plot spoilers, but there will be what I call vibe spoilers. So the series is kine about this, but I won’t tell you specific plot points, but I may mention themes. Nothing else in the rest of the podcast is about anything other than Ted Lasso.

So if you don’t want to be spoiled at all, want to check out now, and I’ll give you a beat here to click off. Are you gone, Well, you can’t answer if you’re gone, because hey, that’s not how podcasts work, and be if you’re gone, you’re not hearing me ask you if you’re gone. From Deadline, Jason Sidekis says, this is the end of the story that we wanted to tell time out. Yeah, there’s a lot of discussion here. Is this the final season or not.

The vibe seems to be that we might get ted lasso less for a season four, if you know what I mean. It seems like Sidekis is done and everyone else, including the viewers, is like, keep going. But Jason seems kind of checked out, and that’ll be one of the themes here in the second half. Jason said, this is the end of the story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell. That we’d love to tell the fact that folks will want more and are curious beyond more than what they don’t even know yet.

Meeting season three, it’s flattering. Maybe by May thirty first, once all twelve episodes of the season have been released, they’re like, man, you know what, we get it. We’re fine, we don’t need anymore. We get it. But until that time comes, I’ll appreciate the curiosity behind what we’ve come up with so far.

I’ll jump in there unless this series like loses its mind and like Roy Kent is killed in a horrible accident in the series finale. I want more of the show, don’t you? Yes, all right. Jason sadekis, could there be a ted Lassoll spinoff based on one of the other stars of the show, for example, Roy Kent. Jason said, yeah, I think we’ve set the table up for all sorts of folks to get to watch the further telling of these stories.

Again, I can’t help but take the question as flattery for what of all of us that we’re working on the show’s tried to do. It’s really kind of folks to even consider it, because you never know what’s going to happen when you make things. The fact that people want more, even if it’s a different avenue is lovely. Daniel Feinberg writes for The Hollywood Order he is my favorite TV critic. He has seen the first four episodes, spoilers based on the first four episodes, and to critics, Ted Lasso absolutely feels like a show that’s treating this run as an end.

As an end, if not the end, it’s backward looking more than forward looking, and the shape of an overall series narrative is becoming increasingly clear. At the same time, the show continues what could either complimentarily be called its expansion or critically deemed its bloat. These four are all between forty four and fifty minutes without adapting their tone or rhythms from back when the show is thirty minutes long. The result is unwieldly, like a solid eight episode season squished together with a little regard for flow or repetition ad dragging moments. Aside, though I have so much affection for so many of these characters, too many, if we’re being honest, that the comfort from their return is tremendous and the enjoyment frequent.

All right, where are we when we start the season? Spoilers? We pick up the start of the new season as pundits are picking Richmond to finished last and thus face relegation. This upsets Rebecca, mostly because west Ham, now owned by her ex husband, is expected to finish in the top five. What’ll happen?

There’s some new players, et cetera, et cetera, Daniel Finberg Wrights, lots of other stuff is happening, too much stuff. Roy and Keeley’s relationship remains strained, but at least her new pr Shingle is up and running. We get to check in on Jamie. Sam owns a restaurant for some reason. Fineberg says it’s not that ted Lasso spread itself too thin, exactly the oppos it spread too thick.

Apple TV should have three or four interconnected spinoffs at this point. Serious creator Bill Lawrence spoke to Forbes. He credits Mash as his introduction of this type of show is one of his all time favorites, along with The Wonder Years, Cheers and Veep. Bill Lawrence said, each a giant emotional undercurrents. I love mixing comedy with stories that have emotional depth and heart.

With Scrubs at the time, everybody wanted shows where the doctors were very serious. We thought they could still be funny. One of the best coping mechanisms is laughing at tough situations. One thing I’ve learned is if you chase what you think is popular, it feels inauthentic. With ted Lasso, we started with something hopeful and optimistic because we needed that and we’re lucky the show worked.

And you want a contrarian point of view, Let’s go to the Sydney Morning Herald, your home for comedy news. Luke Ryan writes, don’t begrudge the world nice things, but ted Lasso is to comedy what being slapped in the face where a wet newspaper is to boxing. Yet the show grip people. Everyone I knew was recommending it to me, as if all my friends and family have been inducted into a blood cult whose sole purpose would spread the word of Ted. That’s say, it’s just so nice.

I mean, not like haha funny, but nice. I’m going to jump in again. People were doing that with Yellowstone. I just blew off Yellowstone for like five six years, and I started watching Yellowstone. I don’t shut up about Yellowstone?

Now? Are you watching Yellowstone? Watch Yellowstone? Luke Rind continues, Nice, it might be, but the only thing about Ted Lasso that could be described as comedy is the premise itself. He then describes the premise.

You know the premise. This is a great pitch and worked really well during the thirty second ads in which the character Ted Lasso was born. Then Ted starts speaking and you realize that you, the viewer, are trapped in a self help seminar being run by a guy who sleeps in his car. Non threatening, ted Lasso certainly is. I’ve felt more violated during a routine hug with my mother watching pungelnes being served up as though they were a scoop of vanilla soft serve.

Unless things get too frivolous, the show’s always ready to neutralize the mood with a classic og lassoism, such as, if you care about someone, you got a little love in your heart. There ain’t nothing you can’t get through together a line of such limitless vacuity, it feels like it’s breaking physics. Getting the vibe here that Luke Ryan ted Lasso the way I enjoy Adam Sandler’s comedy, the truly infuriating thing about ted Lasso’s much applauded attempts to make a point. So we find ourselves in a golden age of meaningful comedy. Shows like Reservation Dogs, Fleabag This Way Up, I May Destroy You, Barry Atlanta, we are Lady Parts and bad Sisters, all offer emotionally nuanced, finally balanced betrayals of flawed characters grappling with some of our eras of most profound issues.

Fair Enough, I liked ted Lasso, I’m gonna watch, although the problem is my wife also likes ted Lasso, and the odds of us being free at the same time, It’s gonna be weeks before we find half an hour to watch this thing. And tonight I’m at trivia with the trivia guys, so I’m not even gonna watch Ted Lasso or Mandalorian. Maybe Thursday night. Thursday Night’s like power night for me. I watch star Trek Mandalorian.

I guess I get at Ted Lasso that mix if she’s around. That’s your comedy news for today. Am I still on jury duty? Who knows? Did I record this early?

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Jim Gaffigan, Shane Gillis, Jim Norton, Andrew Santino, Big Jay Oakerson, Dan Soder, Louie Anderson, John Cleese, Todd Barry, Doug Benson

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer announces Fully Loaded Comedy Festival lineup for summer 2023 tour
• Bert Kreischer’s new Netflix special ‘Razzle Dazzle’ and movie ‘The Machine’ release
• Jim Gaffigan discusses Lent and Catholic faith influencing his comedy material
• Louie Anderson lawsuit: friend Abraham Geiseness responds to elder abuse accusations from sister Lisa Anderson
• BBC comedy director discusses potential Faulty Towers revival talks with John Cleese
• Writer’s strike implications for late night comedy and television production
• South by Southwest comedy festival schedule and events in Austin

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The Shark Deck. Hi, it’s America’s favorite juror, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I asked the chat GBT to write some jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy explaining a situation similar to mine. They go like this, If you’ve ever had to cancel your podcast recording because you were stuck in a courtroom all day, you might have jury duty. If you’ve ever tried to convince the judge that you should be exempt from jury duty because you have a podcast record, you might need a reality check, your honor, Who’s gonna tell people about Bert Kreisher’s new tour if I don’t.

That’s right, Bert Kreisher going back out on tour with the Fully Loaded Comedy Festival. This starts June fourteenth. That’ll hit sixteen ballparks and arenas across the country. Listen to the lineup. Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, Tiffany Hattish, Savoril’s Hawkys, Fortune Feamster, David L Lewis, Black, Jim Norton, Andrew Santino, Big, Jay Ogerson, Jay Farrow, Dan Soder, Chad Daniels, Ralph Barbo, Rosebud Baker, and Tammy paskets Helly.

Wow, that is some lineup. Bert Kreisher says Fully Loaded as the best ticket you can buy an entertainment this summer. Indoors, outdoors, baseball stadiums, arenas, and The Gorge. The Gorge I didn’t know either, as apparently an outdoor concert venue in Grant County, Washington. The concept for the Fully Loaded Comedy Festival was to create a traveling comedy festival, inspired by the original Lallapaluza touring festival and encompass everything he loves comedy, the outdoors, good times, drinking with friends.

The goal to give fans and experience they’ll be talking about for years to come. This sounds amazing. This year, the festival partners with Comedy Gives Back, an organization founded as a safety net for comics by providing them with financial crisis relief, mental health support and moore.

Also out today brit Graisher’s new Netflix special It’s called Razzle Dazzle,…

The Fully Loaded Comedy Festival kicks off in Forest Hills. I could have walked there from where I grew up. That’s the June fourteenth show. Baltimore Music Pennsylvania, Guildford, New Hampshire, Traverse City, Fort Wayne, Saint Louis, Lincoln, Nebraska, Huntsville, Alabama, New Orleans, Memphis, Oklahoma City, the one in Oklahoma, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, and Idaho. Maybe Ryan Hamilton will come by, you never know.

And the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington wraps it up on July fifteenth. Hey, Jim Gaffigan, what’d you give up for lent? Dude? Jim said, I’m not giving anything up, but as a true Catholic would say, it’s not about giving something up. It’s about sacrificing.

That’s not to say I haven’t done that. This Catholic thing is so interesting, says Jim. This morning I was writing material. As a writer, You’re like, all right, this could be something. My parents will lapsed Catholics.

My wife’s pretty devout. But even as a laps Catholic, there’s so much information that you absorbed but influences your life. These topics keep coming up in my comedy. I think their Christian ideas are Christian stories. It’s just so interesting how I’m sitting there at six in the morning, trying to write something about how Abraham almost sacrificing his son is the cornerstone of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Then it becomes fascinating because, all right, I’m gonna get credit for tying them all in, but I’m really only talking about child murder. Jim said, I’ve messed around with that on stage a little bit. It’s one of those things I think people that are Christians or people that grew up a Chritian household would appreciate. But it’s also near the line, you know, don’t even touch that, So I don’t know. You’re like, am I wasting my time developing this?

I don’t know. And I just want to point out that’s two straight days I’ve done Jim Gaffgan stories and he didn’t mention that he kind of looks like Philip Symarroffman. I’m impressed. This next story is Ikey from Radar Online. Louie Anderson’s longtime friend has trashed his sister for accusing the friend of manipulating Louie Anderson in his final days.

The friend has accused the sister of never being there for Louis during his life. Radar Online has some court documents that say louis friend Abraham Geiseness has fired back at Lisa Anderson’s lawsuit over alleged elder abuse. Last year, Lisa filed a lawsuit accusing the Comedians Associates of forcing the comedian to amend his trust on his deathbed. In her petition, Lisa said Louis started to become suspicious that people were stealing from him in his final years. She detailed a call she received where he told her not to come visit him.

She said Louis spoke with long hesitations between his words, and it appeared like he was being coached to say the words he was uttering. This was strange because earlier Louis had wanted Lesa to come out and line next to him. A new Betty wanted to purchase anyway. I’ll let the court settle that one out, but it is definitely messy. From Deadline, BBC comedy director John Petrie said his team would be happy to talk with John Klees about the upcoming Faulty Towers revival.

He called the original a legendary show and said we found out about the revival when everyone else did. I don’t know if it would work for US, and we haven’t spoken to John Klees, but it’s obviously a legendary show. Would be happy to talk to John if he wanted to talk about it. Looking ahead, he is prioritizing British talent given the possibility of US writers seeking work in the UK in the coming months due to the looming writer’s strike. The writer strike will be pretty interesting to see what happens over here.

I remember in the past some of the late night shows stopped doing monologues, and I think Letterman was writing his own things if I remember correctly. It’s been a minute, but it looks like the writer strike’s coming, and we’ll say how it affects comedy. If you like what I do. Here are two ways to support the show. One go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News and buy me a coffee. The other is go on Apple Podcast become a premium subscriber. They’ll put the option under your nose. For five bucks a month. You’ll get the episodes ad free and early.

By early, I mean around four o’clock unless I’m on jury duty and pre taped, in which case you had them yesterday morning. You know what I mean? Yes, Let’s see who’s at south By Southwest tonight. Five o’clock. Swan Leak a Silent clown ballet.

Don’t think I’m not clicking on that, because I am ah La Clown’s. Natalie Palomedes and Christina Katherine Martinez pay homage to the Tenderess of the Body through a soggy interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. Natalie Palimedes is amazing. We are absolutely doing that at five o’clock. We will miss a taping of Doug Loves Movies.

At six seven o’clock. I never promised you a Rose Garden a new hour of hopeless comedy by Joe to Rosa. You didn’t think I was gonna say Joe to Rosa? There? Did you know?

You didn’t? Eight o’clock Comedy Club Stand Up Showcase. Why stay in New York City, John, when you go all the way to Austin and see the same comics? Tone Bell, Anthony DeVito, Jackie Fabulous, Caitlin Pelufo, Greg Proops. Nine o’clock, closing at the Creek, Comedians take the stage for the last stand up show of the festival.

Todd Barry, Katherine Blandford, Ismil Lufti, Eddie peppettone Nick Thune, and at ten o’clock it’s called the Last Show, isn’t that sad? Doug Benson, Adrian I Pollucci, Pete Lee, Sam Talents and Godfrey? Is there really nothing tomorrow? I’m gonna pekahead. Oh yeah, comedy events.

No events found. Thursday, no events found. That’s sad. I thought there was more to this festival. What do I know?

I only host this thing. All right, five o’clock, let’s go see Swan Leak. That’ll take us to six fifteen. I want to see Joe to Rosa at seven, or you want to go to Gotham at eight. We can go to Gotham when we’re back home in New York.

So let’s see Joda Rosa’s from seven to eight fifteen. I guess it’s another one of those nights where we get a slice of pizza and a soda and then closing at the Creek at nine, and we’ll sneak in Esther follies and see if we can catch the end of the last show. And that’s it. And I guess we have a flight in the morning and we gotta go home. I thought we had more time in Austin.

Should we head on over to Rogan’s Club? So he was playing Rogan’s Club this week we’re here. Joe doesn’t see enough a website probably doesn’t need one. I’m on a secondary ticket website and all it says is Joe Rogan event. All right, forget it, Let’s just get on the plane tomorrow.

Hassan Minhahs is starring as the Riddler in The Riddler Secrets in the Dark. It’s a scripted Batman spinoff series that follows an unexpected to do Oh the Riddler and the Batman so they bring down another villain tormenting the streets of Gotham City. This is on Spotify. Hasan Minhah said, audiences are going to travel back to Gotham City with me and a story that leaves clues, puzzles, and shines a spotlight on my personal favorite character, the Riddler. And remember the blizzard of nineteen ninety three down in Alabama mean either, but there was a tragic fire.

A fire started in the kitchen of the comedy club on Sheeed’s Crest in Green Springs. The snow made it hard for crews to get there to fight the blaze. The Comedy Club burned to the ground. Among the losses were the props of then unknown prop comedian Carrot Top. Carrot Top was booked the following week on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Carrot Top had to cancel. Leno explained to the audience the Carrots Top can’t be on the show because all this stuff got burnt up in a fire. At some rinking in comedy club. The club owner said, well, all the comics that I knew called Jay Leno and said that club was so good. The next day, I come home and there’s a message, Hey, Bruce, this is Jay Leno.

I want to apologize about what I said. I heard he had a great club. If you ever opened the club again, I’ll do a commercial for you and help get it started. Jay eventually paid off, saying, hey, this is Jay Leno. I want you to know that Bruce Ayres is going to open up the Comedy Club again, and he promises not to burn it down this time.

Carrot Top said, every big comic wanted to play that club, and the fact that I was this stupid little prop comic and I got booked was amazing. The night of the blizzard, Carrots Hop said he got a call at his hotel saying the show had been canceled due to the storm. After a night of drinking at the hotel bar, carrot Top was awakened the next morning by his say assistant he had an assistant back in the nineties Wow, and was told the club burned down with all his props inside. After a few days stuck at the hotel in Alabama because of the storm, they were running out of food. So it’s day four and I’m supposed to do the Tonight Show.

It’s that he’s watching TV and letos saying Carrottops Act burned down in the club and they found gallaghers matches. Garretsops said, it was the lowest of my life. I had this big, huge week with the Tonight Show and everything was going right we’re supposed to be and nothing in the aftermath. Comics from around the nation helped him rebuild his propertine before his next gig. Literally we built it in two days in my garage.

He was booked on the Tonight Show a few days later, and Carrotsop’s career turned out just fine. He has a burned Carrottop T shirt that survived the fire. I know I keep teasing that I’m going to do the Vulture AI comedian stuff, but I recorded Monday and Tuesday back to back, and my voice is giving out, So I’m not going to do that right now. I’m going to go back and focus on whatever these lawyers are talking about. I’ve been sitting here recording a podcast, and I think I’m supposed to pay attention.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glaser, Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, Sam Brinton

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel’s 2023 Oscars monologue review
• Jim Gaffigan discusses his signature inside voice technique and comedy development
• Nicky Glaser on how COVID-19 impacted her stand-up career
• ChatGPT-generated Mitch Hedberg-style jury duty jokes
• Joe Rogan criticizes Biden’s cabinet as ‘diversity hire sideshow’

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny mcam Jury Duty. Great. I’m recording this section around eight twenty pm Eastern on Sunday night. Just watched Jimmy Kimmel do the monologue.

It was wasn’t heck, vanilla might be the word like. He just went down the middle, didn’t try too hard, really wasn’t trying to knock it out of the park. Just told some nice, safe jokes and nobody will getting mad. The Hollywood Reporter recaps some of them.

Let’s get to what everybody wants.

Slap jokes. The best joke of the night. If anyone in the theater commits an act of violence, you will be awarded an Oscar for Best Actor and permitted a nineteen minute speech. He added, there’s a crisis team in place. If anything unpredictable or violent happens, just do what you did last year.

Nothing. Some other jokes that landed James Cameron is not here. You know it shows too long when even James Cameron can’t sit through it. How does the Academy not nominate a guy who made Avatar? What are they think?

He is? A woman? Tom Cruise and James Cameron didn’t show up that two guys who insisted we go to the theater didn’t go to the theater. Batgirl became the first superhero, became defeated by the accounting department, and a joke that was this one might be hacked. I’m happy to see Nicole Kidman has been finally released by that abandoned AMC.

Thank you for encouraging people who already at the movie theater to go to the theater. Yes, I think everyone has made that joke for the last two years. Krat spoke to Jim Gaffigan about Jim’s inner voice. You know when Jim does the oh, I think we probably should have called those nice guys back. It’s serious when they helped us early in her career.

You know when he does that. Yeah, Jim said, I don’t know the exact origin of it, but there’s different examples of when I used it. It was a good way to disarm people if you were late, you speak for them. So it wasn’t used for humor there. It was used for articulating that you understand how they feel.

But in terms of stand up, I’m a nineteen nineties New York City comedian which was combative, not physical combat, but verbal combat the audience. There wasn’t an assumption that you make it through the set without someone saying something, and so there was this need to keep moving. There was also this needs of communicate a toughness which really doesn’t resonate for me. I guess the facilitation of the inside voice was necessary so that instead of being heckled, I was heckling myself. But it served a purpose as a nineteen nineties New York City comedian and not leaving air in the set.

I think it went to a completely different level when I started performing longer sets, usually middle sets at the DC Improv. That’s when it became this creative tool of presenting different options in the audience and attaching a different point of view on the topic. Point of view is so important. If your point of view is I love Bacon. If you have this other voice, you can embody and vocalize a completely different option.

Working at the DC Improv, that’s where it became part of the element of a larger show. Hey, Jim, we ever stopped doing the voice. Jim said, it’s a little bit of an element of who my stand up point of view is. With Dark Pail, which is this most recent Hour. What usually happens is when I’m creating the hour and I’m fumbling around their material, I use the inside voice to comments on the material.

With every hour, you’re trying to push and challenge the premise of what you’re talking about and challenge your audience. In other words, you can’t just talk about food. Like any good conversation with good friends, you can’t have the exact same conversation. It has to evolve, and so in the development of new sterial, the inside voice is very important for saving me when things aren’t working, and then it disappears a little bit in the processes I’m fine tuning and I’m changing orders and stuff like that, and in the end, when i’m polishing the material, it’s woven throughout as an additional layer. This is really interesting, isn’t it.

Yes, it’s weird because there’s been times when there’s no inside voice, but it usually is part of the process of creating the materials. Any writer knows there’s times when things come out whole, and there’s times when you have to work really hard, and then when you get to a final draft. That’s what the inside voice adds to. It’s a playful additional point of view that I think helps. Ethica dot Com caught up with Nicky Glazer.

Hey, Nikki Glaser, how did COVID affect your business? Interesting choice of words, business. Nicky said, it affected it a lot. I’m gonna guess yeah, I’m pretty sure being a comedian not being able to play anywhere would affect your business. Yes, Nicky said, Like stand up went away for probably four or five months until people started doing outdoor shows.

This is something I’ve done every single night of my life, practically at least four times a week at the very minimum, since I was eighteen. So it was quite an awakening of Oh. I always thought this thing would be there for me, this form of expression, and I realized when it was taken away, it was quite a crutch. And it was almost like an addiction going up every day. I compared to going to the gym for people who are addicted at working out, Like if the gym’s closed, you would go, what am I gonna do?

You do homeworkouts? And I was doing zoom shows, which are not fun, and I felt really rattled and really depressed and anxious. That’s when I kind of realized that stand up wasn’t just me doing it to get better or meet doing it because I have to for work. It was me being able to express myself and get feelings out every day practically. So I just died making my podcast daily at the time, and I got a karaoke machine so I could just sing every day and perform my living room.

So I asked the AI to write some jury duty jokes in the style of Mitch Headburger. I hit the base. I was hoping to get picked for a case about a stolen a hot dog car. That way, if they found it got guilty, I get to sell out. Justice has been served with mustard and relish.

That’s pretty good, chat chypt mitch Headburg. Next one. I don’t mind doing my civic duty, but jury duties like being in a really boring play. We’re not allowed to leave the theater. They say that everyone’s in title to a fair trop.

If you asked me, everyone is a title to a fair trial, except the guy who stole my bike. A surey duty. It’s like playing Russian Roulette, except instead of a bullet, your dodgic boredom and bad coffee. Alright, Joe Rogan says President Biden is mentally gone and slams quotes effing sideshow of diversity cabinets. Yes, This from The New York Post.

Joe Rogan explained he will not be voting for President Biden. He said this to his guest comedian Russell Brand. Joe said, I would vote for President Trump before i’d vote for Biden, just because I think with Biden, like he’s gone, like you know, he’s gone, He’s going to be relying on his cabinet, and he his cabinet would be this effing sideshow of diversity, which is exactly what it is. Rogan seemed focused on Sam Brinton, a former Biden Department of Energy official who faces multiple felony charges for allegedly stealing luggage from other passengers at airports. This from the New York Post.

They add Brinton, who identifies as non binary, was a top nuclear waste official at the Department of Energy until December, when the agency confirmed Britain had been fired. Rogans, that’s one person who stole all the women’s clothes, that’s Sam Britton. That’s a diversity hire. You just said. I’ll look at this a man who dresses like a woman and has a beard and a mustache, but also wears lipstick.

This is perfect for us. I don’t give an f with the guy’s a good at or bad ad. I don’t give an f what their credentials are. This makes us look like we’re inclusive. This makes us look like we’re on the right side.

So let’s hire that person. You can’t have those kind of people running a Ben and Jerry’s. You certainly can’t have those kind of people running the effingwellst powerful government the world’s ever known nuts. It’s nonsense. Russell Brand chimed in and said he’s like the perfect metaphor of what it is.

The system’s over and for all the talk of diversity, what have you got. You’ve got a career politician white mail that’s falling apart before your very eyes. Joe Rogan added, I think Rhonda Santis would work as a good president. I mean, what he’s done for Florida has been admirable. Stay tuned.

Let’s see who’s at south By Southwest tonight. This is the part of the show where you and I pretend were at south By Southwest together and not sitting at jury duty board out of our mind, reading a book with tiny print that we can’t see anymore because we’re in our mid fifties. Six o’clock Joe to Rosa’s Sandwich Summit. Joe Rosa comedian and owner of New York sandwich shop Joey Roses, is joined by the chefs and creators behind some of Austin’s best eats to talk about all things sandwich. Mo Pittle credited as Jewboy Burgers, Callie Spear credited as Holy Roller, and Sarah Martin Bidgie credited as Nicksta Tuckeria throughout a meaty I see we did there.

Throughout a meaty round table discussion, they’ll share their thoughts and unique spins on this classic culinary concoction, from the art of creation to the bread it brings in. Joe and Guess will be joined by a few festival comedians to add in a bit of cheese to the conversation. Website here also lists Eddie peppatone there. Let’s bounce on over to the Joey Roses website and see what we could order. Menu.

You’re gonna click on menu here, I’ll say we’ll pick it up. We could get the East for eight bucks per scudo Salami Otiago Peppado’s olive oil that sounds really good. An eight bucks that’s not bad, especially for New York City. And eight bucks sandwich that’s got to be like the size of your finger. Sandwich is in New York City are quite expensive, my friends.

The Rosie also wait Bucks Mortdella white American Tomato, hot cherries mayo, or regguaedo. No, I’m not going to read you the whole menu, but there are eight different sandwiches you can get. Then there are specialty sandwiches. These are twelve and fourteen dollars. For example, the cuz is homemade chicken cutlet, marinated cherry tomatoes, Racota provolone, and parmesan sean.

I’d probably get that. And there are extras. Are they fries or chips? Nope, crispy Brussels sprouts? Six bucks, that’s random, four and a half stars, eighty four reviews on yelp here.

The top three review stopped in here to try a sandwich after hearing so much about it on Joe to Rosa’s podcast. Next guy said, my current fave is the East e see it told he was good, and the third review says all of them were fantastic, but for me, the Horse Radish Mayo on the Beefy just took it to the next level. All right, now I’m curious about the beefy, then I’ll get on with things. Are you throwing your phone against the wall yet You’re like, why is he talking about food? I hate when hosts do that too.

The beefy, roast, beef provolone, sweet Peppers, Horse Radish, Mayo, salt pepper or Reggao eight bucks. Oh, these will sound delicious. Back to the festival. Seven o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. We Used to Be Funny is stand up comedy.

Let’s see Come celebrate the world premiere of I Used to Be Funny with a night of laughs. Join the film star Rachel Senott. She’s like the It’s comedian right now as she hosts We Used to Be Funny, a comedy showcase featuring stand up performances from Sabrina, Jayley’s and Caleb here On. They co star in the film, also appearing Beth Stelling and Moore. Gonna have to make some tough choices.

Let’s see what else we can do. Eight o’clock Stand Up Downtown Josh Johnson, Joel Johnson, Pete Lee, Eddie Peppittone Godfrey nine o’clock. Up next is some of the strongest emerging and established comics, Catherine Blandford, adrian Ia Pollucci, Ismil Lufti, Sam Talent, Nick Thune. At ten o’clock, I’ve been looking forward to this one. Johnny Cash Junior and the Neppo Babies Hooting.

Nanny Johnny Cash Junior, played by Menfessor, hosts an evening of the most famous Neppo babies performing in their biggest hits or maybe their parents’ biggest hit. Performers may include such Neppo babies as Walt and Peppa, Dank Sinatra, Meryl Streep, twelve Savage pre Post Malone, Robert Downey Junior Junior, Frederick the Entertainer like his dad. Oh, that’s awesome, Asterisk Musk Puke Combs, Itsy Bitsy Bowell Too Longoria and Takishi, sixty nine Day Lewis Comedians performing James Domi and Anthony A. Samnwick, Matt Besser, John Gamberling, Natalie Palamedes, Greg Proops. I would absolutely make you go to that show, and that one’s not until ten o’clock, which means, though we’re gonna miss the roast, Battle Funnel round at eleven.

All right, let’s play this out. Let’s do the Sandwich Summit at five. That goes to six fifteen. We’re gonna end at Tonight’s one of those nights we’re gonna have to grab like a slice of pizza and a Canna soda. Then let’s do we Used to be Funny.

That was the Rachel Senat show. I went on and on about. That’s at seven. That goes to eight fifteen. Then let’s hit up next at nine, but leave early, so we hit Johnny Cash Junior at han o’clock.

That’ll take us to eleven fifteen, and then let’s see if we can sneak into the end of the final round of the roast battle, which starts at eleven, goes to twelve fifteen. So we’re gonna be busy tonight. Have a big lunch. Good stuff from Dustin Siebert. In the Huffington Post, he wrote, I longviewed stand up comedy as a medium of largely unchecked freedom, one of the only ways in which someone can take a battle acts to social property and get away with it in the name of laughter.

For years, I was the owner and operator of the Lighten Up it’s only jokes manwagon, but I’ve been constantly challenged on that idea over the last decade. Chris Rock encountered and paraphrasing here this in his most recent special Jokes that no longer hit in a society with evolve sensibilities, he played with certain sensitive topics, including abortion of trans people, with the caveat that he has no problem with them, but he seems to be catching the most talents Twitter for bits criticizing two black women, Megan Markl and Jada Pinkett Smith, the latter of whom he outright called a bitch. Many older comedians, especially those who’ve been performing since the eighties, when we collectively bustled a gut of demeaning jokes, and social media wasn’t around openly struck with adapting the new standards of funny. We’ve had time to analyze how unkind black entertainment has been towards black women historically, so lobbing the B words towards it, generally beloved black celebrity was never gonna land well. Some of the legends have embraced the evolution of funny.

Cat Williams Got Love a couple of years ago when he suggested, the comedians who don’t get with the times aren’t really funny. To begin with, Eddie Murphy, one of the progenitors of the last several decades of touchy humor, publicly apologize for his nearly forty year old, wildly homophobic routines that are tougher to hear these days. But most older comedians are in transient in their unwillingness to evolve, choosing it’s dead to bitch and moan about how they don’t recognize comedy anymore and can’t tell the jokes they used to do. It would seem only a small percent of comedians can remain wildly popular as stubborn anachronism, including Rock and Dave Chappelle. Only recently have Chappelle’s jokes come under horseh scrutiny, especially regarding his focus on trans people and his recent Netflix specials.

A very vocal minority has sought to expose the potential danger and power in the comedy statesman’s words. Yet that minority has emboldened him and seemingly made him more popular than ever. The thing is, Chappelle’s funny wouldn’t be nearly as funny to the masses if he were an up and comer, his offensive humor is accepted largely based on the trust he’s established over a three plus decade career. Same with a Rock. Even if his routine isn’t as fresh as it was twenty years ago, he is more than enough cache to convince sizeable audiences to pay money to see him.

Twitter outrage over outrage will likely help contribute to crazy viewership numbers that Netflix will never reveal. Very good piece there, and it pairs up nicely with this one. Sarah Silverman was on CBC Radio one and they asked her about some of her bits in the past, including one that goes along the lines of I hope the Jews did kill Christ I’d do it again, and about her wearing black face. Sarah Silverman said, gee, comedy is not evergreen. If you’re not looking back at what you did ten years ago and cringching, you’re probably doing something wrong.

She spoke about her two thousand and five stand up special Jesus Magic and said, there’s like N word hard R. The R word is that enough to say M word for little person. I’m not saying this out of fear, but just that of being mindful, because once you learned something, you can’t unring that bell unless you decide you’re gonna just you know, something cuts people say it. Anyway. That’s your comedy news for today.

I had intended to do another one of the pieces from Vulture about AI comedy, but that’s going to be a bounce for today. Maybe we’ll get that tomorrow. A little along here, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Jim Gaffigan, Nick Kroll, Will Ferrell, Jim Jefferies, Rihanna

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel hosting the 2023 Oscars and preparing for potential slap incidents
• Kimmel’s monologue strategy and advice from Billy Crystal
• Oscars ceremony length expectations and added categories
• Jim Gaffigan’s repeated Philip Seymour Hoffman comparison
• Nick Kroll working on jokes at Comedy Cellar for Oscars
• Jim Jefferies’ lifestyle overhaul after pandemic
• Will Ferrell spotted in Indianapolis

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel hosts the Oscars tonight. Now, normally I record money in advance, but you know what last year’s Oscars taught me. Anything can happen now.

Do I think somebody’s going to slap Jimmy Kimmel, perhaps as a bit, even though I don’t think they would go there that right, That would be awkward. Do I think somebody’s going to get so upset at a Jimmy Kimmel bit that they run up on the stage and slap him. I doubt it. But the Hollywood Reporter today lengthy interview with Jimmy Kimmel, who said he’s prepared for another Oscar night slap. Himmel joked, if I’m bigger than they are, I beat the crap out of them on television.

They asked Jimmy hosting the Oscars one of the most thankless jobs in Hollywood. It’s only gotten worse in recent years. Why do it again? Kimmel said, I think it’s probably I was surprised because I didn’t necessarily think I’d ever do it again or be asked to do it again, and it wasn’t one of those situations where they couldn’t get anybody and they asked me at the last minute. I definitely would have said no if that was the case.

I don’t know. Kind of came out the blue and they clearly got me the right moment. I did wait a week to tell my wife. I thought she might react negatively, but she was very positive, so I said, all right, I’ll do it. Edgy question here from the Holly Reporter.

They said, Bill Kremer recently discussed your appeal to the Academy, noting that your edges aren’t too sharp, but people in the audience feel very safe. Kimmel, Well, first of all, when Bill said my edges aren’t too sharp, I think it was saying is I’m fat. I’d take that as fascinating, and I’ve told him I’m trying to lose weight. I did not fit in. It sucks Heedo, I warned twenty eighteen.

It was disturbing, but I know what he means. Somebody unique position that my job is to make fun of people in Hollywood and then have them sit next to me on the stage. And I’ve had twenty years of practice as far as balancing that stuff out. When I first started doing Jimmy Kimmel Live, I had no practice and there was no balance. I just mowed through the guests and then we wouldn’t have another A list guest for another eight months.

I’m also very conscious of what this is. The Oscars is something and that’s very meaningful to people in the movie industry, and for many of them, this will be the biggest professional night of their lives. The last thing I want to do is ruin it for everyone. They asked Kimmel about the crisis committee that is supposedly in place, noting that they’ve run any scenarios. Kimmel was asked what it’s about, and he said, I wish I knew.

I’ve not been involved in that. I guess I’m the last thing they’re worried about. Holland Reporter. Up until the slap, you were part of the biggest Oscar knight sag in recent memory, hosting the year when they messed up the Best Picture envelope. Remember that happened?

Yeah, Kimmel said, yeah, we got knocked down the list. It’s disappointing in a lot of ways. If you’re going to be part of an f up, it might as well be the biggest fff up. Ever, being part of the second biggest ff up doesn’t carry as much Casher all right, what about the monologue, Kimbell said, it’ll be similar to what I’ve done in the past. I don’t have a lot of talents, so it’s not a huge number of areas for me to draw outside of telling jokes.

I mean, I’m pretty good at drawing cartoons. I guess I could sit down and do character turs at the stars, but I particularly enjoy writing jokes for a specific audience, whether that’d be at the upfronts or a bunch of TV or movie stars. It enables you to be very specific. The best advice I got about hosting the Oscars was from Billy Christie, who told me played to the room. Interesting.

You always have to be conscious of the audience at home and make sure they understand what’s going on, but you also want to get laughs in the room, and if you don’t get that, it’s not going to play well for the people watching on TV. So that’s my focus, not just the actors, but all the various production people in show business. Luminaries. We are sitting there listening to you tell your jokes, and unlike most jokes situations, they’re on camera, so they’re very careful about how they react and that makes it a harder bar to clear. Very very interesting.

Will you joke about the slap? Well, whatever I say about it, it’s gonna have to be great, right because so much has been said, there’s so much focus on it. I obviously don’t want to make the whole monologue about that, but it’d be ridiculous not to mention it. Will they get the show one under three hours? He said, Oh, that’s preposterous.

This show is gonna be a lot longer than three hours. I’ll tell you that right now. Alert the affiliates. We’re going along. I mean, we’ve added all the categories back, so by the virtue of that, it’s gonna be long.

Hopefully it’ll be fun too. I think we have some great performance moments. We’ve got Rihanna. I think it’s gonna be a fun show. But yeah, everybody’s gonna complaint it’s long.

I mean, you don’t have to watch the whole thing. Nobody’s holding a gun in your head. Watch the first fifteen minutes. He can go to sleep. As far as I’m concerned, I love this next answer, what’s it more realistic?

Show length? Kimbell said, Oh, I want to run the show right up to Good Morning America. I want George Stephanopolo stuff to wait eight minutes to come out of his dressing room. Nick Curl caught up with CBS News. I you know, last week was History of the World Part two, and I liked the first movie when I was I don’t know, ten twelve nine.

I don’t know when that came out, but I liked it then, and I just haven’t been able to get myself excited to watch this new one. I don’t know if it’s good or bad. My cousin told me I could wait on it. He gave a kind of a mixed review, so we’ll see anyway. Nick Krole said, I’m never going to be the guy who just rides a motorcycle.

If I were, I’d be the guy at the back of the pack who’s like, oh no, I’m gonna miss the lights. CBS News found Nickkrole working on some jokes at the comedy kitchen. He said, I’m so excited for tonight’s show, even insane lineup. You guys, Kanye West is here tonight. He was asked about working out the jokes and will some of these show up in his next special, and Karl said, yeah, at least it’ll be the base of operations that’ll be tent poles that I’m like, Okay, that joke works well enough to put here quick stop at Gossip Corner.

Will Ferrell was in Indianapolis earlier in the week. He was spotted in the parking a lot of the Beach Grove Walmart last Sunday night, and then another viewer saw him at a Southside waffle house. He also to a Pacers game. He asked Pacers forward Aaron Nesmith, who wasn’t playing in the game because of a sward left hip, if Nesmith wanted a beer. Nesmith said with a chuckle, I’m good.

I appreciate the offer. Though. Jim Gaffigan told Cinnamon Blend, I’ve always loved acting. I remember, you know Phil Hoffman. He was kind of like my Doubelganger.

We know, Jim, you mentioned it in like every single interview. We know you kind of look like Philip Seymour Hoffman a little bit. Maybe perhaps we know enough. He was kind of like my doubelganger, who was this huge Academy Award winning actor. When people are like, are you related to him?

And I’m like, no, I’m not. I just look like him. Just tell people you are Philip Seymour Hoffman. They’ll forget that he died and you can get all his gigs. Philadelphia Weekly they caught up with Jim Jeffries.

Philadelphia Weekly called Jim Jeffries the cocaine bear of comedy. All right, I’ll bite Weekly rites. That is until the time of the pandemic, when Jim Jeffries overhauled his entire life, including giving up booze and drugs, getting married and having a kid, and taking you a vegan diet to live longer rather than his live fast, Die young usual demeanor. Weekly said, I’m always leery of stand up comedians touring on the back of a new TV special or album, something Jeffrey’s debated at the very start of his show at Parks by denying any connection between the two and calling anyone in the audience who believe that sea words. Quite frankly, the c word described almost everybody that Jeffreys put down in Bensalem all of Hollywood, especially Austin Butler for continuing to use a Southern accent from his time in the Elvis movie.

Doing interviews Bill Cosby for wanting to continue to stand up act once out of prison, and anyone questioning some of the more controversial brand names of Australia’s favorite foods, such as cheese and ice cream. Fact is Jeffries uses the C word like most of us use contractions. Let me check out my south By Southwest bookmark and see what’s going on today. Four o’clock Adult Swims The Eric Andre Show. Join Eric and his friends for an evening of live comedy.

All right, Rogie Watts, Sanny Hoenig, Philippias Sparza, DJ Dug Pound and Eric Andre. Not bad? All right? For Clock in the afternoon, we could do that. Six o’clock improv for Humans with Matt Besser.

It’s a podcast taping, but that should be good. Seven o’clock The Sunday Show. Parentheses a stand up comedy Todd Berry, Katherine Blandford, Afia Eisenberg, Stewart Goldsmith, Caitlyn Pallufo. Eight o’clock Live from New York Parentheses stand up comedy. Glad I hypothetically went all the way from New York to Austin to see neior comedians.

Adrian Ia Pollucci Donne, She’s like one of my current favorites. Are you on board with Adrian? You should be Josh Johnson, guess My Al Luftie, Emma Willman, Godfrey. I’m glad I hypothetically came all the way from New York to Austin to see neior comedians. We’re doing that show nine o’clock for twenty show with Matt Besser, ten o’clock Riffs and riff raff with Nick Thune and friends.

Pretty strong for a Sunday, right. This jam session brings Nick Thune together with a variety of musically inclined to comics and an eleven o’clock The Hateful eight Rose battles Torment of Champions Round two. All right, Lance hit Eric Andre at four. That’ll take us to five fifteen. Matt Besser’s show starts at six.

That’ll take us to seven fifteen, and then we can go to Live from New York. I really like that lineup, and I want you to see Adrian Iapolucci. That’s at eight o’clock. That takes us to nine fifteen. Then we’ve got an hour and forty five minutes until eleven o’clock and we’ll go see the hatefully eight roast battle.

Sounds like we’re gonna eat like a slice of pizza and drink a soda. I don’t think we’re getting much dinner tonight unless we blow off Eric Andre and we don’t go out until eight o’clock. We could do that. Should we do that? I do want to eat and I like beers.

Yeah, yeah, I gotta pick away at this next thing. And during the week from Vulture six stand ups analyze chat GPT’s attempts to steal their jobs. So this is the artificial intelligence thing. They had it write some jokes. I’ve done this bit myself on a couple of podcasts.

So what they’ve done is they’ve asked the chat GPT to write jokes in the style of particular comedians and then asked the comedians about it. Today’s comedian Gary Goldman chat GPT as Gary Goldman and said, have you ever noticed that ash you get older, you become more of a collector. When I was young, I’d throw everything away, but now I can’t bring myself to farm with anything. I have a drawer full of old cell phones. Probably paused there for a laugh right, Why, I don’t know.

Maybe some day I’ll need to call someone in the past. Right, you probably paused there for a laughing it. Don’t even get me started on supperware. I have so much supperware I could even open up my own supperware store. But here’s a thing.

I can never find the matching lid. I’m convinced that supperware is playing some sort of cool joke on me. Not awful, Goldman said. The first thing I thought was, I can’t imagine the computer would have an understanding of what in the style of Gary Goldman means. I don’t know what it’s drawing from, because I would have a hard time describing my style.

Next thing, looking at joke number one, the line have you ever noticed? Is this horrific eighties phrase that gave birth to a million comedians. As soon as I hear have you ever noticed? I stopped listening because I know it’s just gonna be another really lazy observation. I have to say, though, there’s one really good line.

Maybe someday I’ll need to call someone in the past. That’s a really good sentence. But then almost to undo it’s good will with me, it says, don’t even get me started on. Gary adds the I can never find the matching lid at punchline. He’s like, ay, you always lose a sock in the dryer joke.

Here’s another one from the chatbot. You know, it’s great about getting older. You don’t care as much about what other people think. It was in my twenties, I was so self conscious. I wouldn’t even go to the beach without a shirt on.

Now I’ll walk around on a speedo and not think twice about it. Of course, now that I’m older, nobody wants to see me in a speedo. But that’s beside the point. Gary said, the speedo thing was a big thing for comedians to talk about in the eighties. But it is kind of impressive that it isn’t mishmash and gibberish.

The computer actually tried to give this joke a tag. Nobody wants to see me in a speedo, but that’s beside the point. You don’t need the but that’s beside the point. But I see what the computer is going for by trying to end it with another laugh. One more from the chatbot.

As you get older, you start to notice things don’t work the way they used to. Like, I used to be able to eat anything I wanted, not gain a pound. Now if I even look at a piece of cake, I gained five pounds. My memories shot. I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast this morning.

It’s like my brain is an elite button and it’s getting a workout. But the worst part about getting older the aches and pains. I wake up every morning feeling and I got hit by a truck. I don’t even do anything the day before. I feel like my body’s punishing me for all the things they did when I was younger.

Now, let me be fair to me. I’m reading a podcast and I have no crowd. I’m not a comedian, never done stand up, but if you tell me to go up and perform this, I would have taken some pauses there and kind of like use some body language and tried to at least coax a laugh. So please be kind to me. Plus, it’s the chatbot.

Gary said, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of comedian talk about having a delete button in the brain. That’s the kind of absurdity I figure would be beyond the computer. Gary said, it’s Siri, but there are comedians who are worse than this. The computer may be able to be a bad comedian, but it won’t be able to convenue. It’s a competent comedian, at least not yet.

It’ll probably be able to write four jokes or kids and things like that before it’s able to write something along the lines of Mitch Hedberger Maria Bamford. A computer cannot replicate Maria Bamford. I’m going to take that challenge. I’m more familiar with Hedberg’s style than Maria’s. Not that I don’t know Maria, but I can channel Mitch.

I’m gonna ask the computer write some Mitch Hedberg jokes about the Oscars. All right, I’ve skimmed these. These are not horrible. Let’s go ready. I’ll watched the Oscars the other nice like watching a bunch of millionaires give each other go with statues without any excitement of a pirate treasure hunt.

The Oscars are like the super Bowl for actors, except instead of touchdowns, they score points for being really good and pretending to be other people. The Oscars are like a fancy Prime for grown ups, except instead of having King and Queen, the best actor and actress instead of punch of an open bar. All right, the oscar is like a fashion show. People can’t afford the clothes. They sit at home and judge other people’s outfits or work sweatpants needing Cheetos.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show Vorfrey on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Those word bad See you tomorrow. Hello, I am Mark France. This host of Palace Intrigue, the podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British royal family.

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Featured: Dane Cook, Taylor Tomlinson, George Lopez, Bill Maher, Eric Andre, Reggie Watts, Sam Jay

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook on ambition and social media’s role in comedy
• Dane Cook’s audition for Captain America in Marvel movies
• Taylor Tomlinson on evolution of her act from Quarter Life Crisis to new hour
• George Lopez Tacos restaurant closure
• Bill Maher on Real Time survival and comedy in the cancel culture era
• Barry season 4 final season announcement
• South by Southwest comedy festival schedule highlights

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dean Cook caught up with Philly Weekly. Philadelphia Weekly has a tremendous comedy column. It’s really great.

Ad Am Arosi is the guy who rates it, and he asked Dean, considering all the success you’ve ADDIE’s still hungry. Dane said, I still have the same sense of ambition. It’s more about an inward journey at this point and what I could share with fans and those who continue to check in with me. Ad had a nice segue talking about sharing. You were one of the first comedians use social media.

We all know that story. Dane said, that’s my wheelhouse. I love talking comedy and creativity. What gets me kicking is the house and wis of promotion, getting publicity in a world that is very corporate, the question becomes, how can you independently find your fans and an avenue in which to share arts. When I was coming up, the lord was of Mesa in California, and going through this new window work, I could talk with the guy in Delaware or grown Tampa and share ideas that were funny, quirky.

I was a tip of the spirit At the moment today, it’s different. You’re up against backlash, naysayers, rubber nickers who just want to cause trouble. So now you’re referee doing a lot of defending beyond the art. Still, there’s one thread that remains. You want to be in people’s pockets with ideas and content for people to engage in.

Mission critical on this tour was as I was putting together new ideas, was what were people responding to. Look, the moment is heavily politicized, regardless of what side Red state, blue state. I found that people still wanted to escape. What can I say that someone on a daily nightly news comedy show were during its talk show Monogue hasn’t said brilliantly and poignantly, that’s not my lane. So as this tour started, I’m still about things that are happening observationally.

I’m just not pushing any kind of agenda down anyone’s throats. Then they got into and I didn’t realize this. Maybe everybody else knows this, and I forgot Dean Cook auditioned to be Captain America in the Marvel movies. Dan said what I didn’t realize. Then I wanted to bring a lot of the humor that I recognize from the comics to my performance.

I love Michael Keaton, one time stand up comedian as Batman. I’d seen comics play these darker cartoon characters and still bring levity the part. That’s what I was hoping to do. Taylor Tomlinson told Forbes. I was a really shy, scared kid.

I was really really anxious to go on stage for the first five years I was doing this, But once I was up there, I felt like myself. I felt like, Oh, this is who I actually am, this is who I want to be. Over the years, I got closer and closer that and now I feel like I’m the same person off stage that I am on stage. At first, I just couldn’t be that person every day, but I could be that person for ten to fifteen minutes on stage. Taylor Thomason spoke about her previous specials and said, I wanted Quarter Life Crisis to be about being in your twenties and not knowing who you were.

I wanted it to feel consistent throughout the whole thing. Look at you was me being able to do all that, and that was great and really rewarding. That being said, it was also really sort of emotionally exhausting by the end of that tour. It was just a lot every night to sort of stick to that landing and presenting the material in a way that wasn’t going to make people uncomfortable while also making it clear that I was fine and I was okay. Just took a lot to do it and then meet people after shows and talk about it more.

I wanted this new Current Hour to be lighter and sillier and probably just a little more fun for myself and for the audience right now, I like where the Hour is. Quarter Life was kind of about not knowing who you were, and I think this hour is kind of about knowing who you are, but not knowing where your life isn’t where you thought it’d be. Everyone has a different age in their head of this is what I’m gonna have X, Y and Z, and this is what I’m going to have everything figured out, But life doesn’t work that way at all. Everybody in my life in their twenties and thirties, they may have their dream job and they’re not married. They might be married, but they don’t know if they want kids or they have kids, and they don’t have the dream job, or they got divorced.

So that’s kind of the overarching theme of have it all. Hey, bad news for long time listeners. I was hungry and I’m like, hmm, you know what hit the spot George Lopez Tacos. You remember that during the pandemic George Lopez made a huge deal about George Lopez Tacos. Well, I went to look and website no longer exists.

If you go to Lopez Tacos dot com and doesn’t respond. They went on Grubhub and try to order some George Lopez tacos and it said not available on grub pub anymore. If you are new to this. George Lopez Tacos was created by George Lopez and Next Bite. George Lopez Tacos was a delivery only restaurant with locations across the US.

The menu included latching Gona and Alas Moss Cabrona with various meat choices, chips, sauce and guacamali, and turro bites. George gave quite many interviews about it, and looks like it didn’t work out. Sorry to hear that Bill Maher is in Taho tonight. He says, I don’t like careful, I like bold, I like honest, I like surprising. He asked me what I’m most proud of.

That would be its survival every week as a chest. Sometimes people say to me, how the show go? If I have been canceled by tomorrow, then it went great. I could be canceled very easily. Anybody could.

But you don’t stay on TV for thirty years unless somebody likes you. There’s definitely an audience for what I do. It’s not like anything else. If you want to hear real honest talk, not tribalism, different points of view, people who talk with each other, listen to each other. They’re not a place is to do that.

It’s certainly a more dangerous place to be out there now. When I was starting, there were no cell phones, so you could be as politically incorrect as you wanted to be and nobody would know about it. We always hear the notion of crossing the line. Comedians would say, how do we know where the line is unless we cross it. The comedy club was a place where everybody understood you were experimenting.

Now I hear a lot about comics. You say something and somebody tweets it out and that’s it. Kind of glad I came up when I did bad News. If you’re a fan of Barry, the fourth season will be It’s a final season. The eight episode season will debut on HBO Max April sixteenth.

One of my favorite things to do on the podcast is play the game that we’re about to play, which is, Hey, pretend we were at a comedy festival. What shows would we go see today? Today we’re pretending to be at south By Southwest. Let’s take a look at the schedule. Four o’clock Funny Thing About Breaking Up.

The Boys Club joined Comic Relief US for special events on the intersection of gender, comedy and social impact. Through a stand up performance by comedian, writer and actress Joel Nicole Johnson and a panel discussion featuring Abby Jacobson and Sam Jay, the event will address the role of comedy and entertainment as a catalyst for change and how, when done well, can combat not cause polarity. Seven o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. This Saturday show Parentheses stand Up Comedy a killer lineup of comedians to make your Saturday night special. They include Aristotle, Athari Sam j Mike Lawrence, Yamanika Saunders, mL Willman.

Eight o’clock The ucb’s Asscats, Anthony and Samniwick, Matt Besser, John Gemberling, Sandy Honig at Jessica McKenna. You’re gonna have our time talking me out of that, but let’s see what our options are. San o’clock, A Good Trip Live, A Night of Comedy and Psychedelic Stories. Steve ag Eric Andre, DJ dog Bound, Sandy Honig, Hamilton Morris, Reggie Watts joined the producers of the hit Netflix doc Have a Good Trip for Night of Comedy and Psychedelic storytelling. Eleven o’clock.

The Hateful Eights Roast Battles Tournaments of Champions Round one. You’re gonna have a hard time talking to me out of this as well. In round one, the top eight roast battlers from around the country will compete to see who advances to round two the next night Tonight, competing Morgan Anderson, Keith Carry, Holly Johnston, Mike Lawrence, Greg Leishman, Lucas McCrary, Bryan Moses, Yamanika Saunders, Ohmed Singh, Stephtleev Dan Wicks. So unlike other comedy festivals. Not too much overlap here.

So here’s what we’re gonna do tonight. Friend four o’clock will do funny thing about breaking up the boys club. That’ll take us to five fifteen. HM. Let’s skip the seven o’clock stand up comedy show and go to Ask Cat at eight o’clock so we’d get some dinner and some bruskies in between their ascat ends at nine fifteen, Oh, I missed one.

They creak in the cave stand up showcases at nine James and Omian’s tone Bill, Joel Johnson, Beth’s stelling Steff’s hole of HM. That’s pretty good. Maybe they’ll let us in late. Let’s go to Ask Cat. We’ll try to sneak into the back of the creek in the cave, we’ll see if we get in.

If not, more beers, and then we’ll make sure. At eleven o’clock where at the hateful eight roast battle. That should be a good night of comedy. As I sometimes mentioned, I’m the writer on a podcast called Palace Intrigue. On Palace Intrigue, we cover the royal family, and by cover the Royal family, I mean most days we make fun of Megan Markol.

I’m all about the downloads. I can write a story Kate Middleton looked nice giving money to a charity and hugging kids, and nobody clicks on it. If I put in the headline Chris Rock destroys Megan Markole, y’all click on it. So I play the game from Variety King Charles Coronation to get royal parody on the Harry Enfield comedy The Windsors. Have you seen this?

It’s basically a sitcom about the royal family. It’s kind of cute. While The Windsors is coming back for a Coronation special, the logline Charles’s whole life has been building up to this moment. He wants the UK’s first coronation in seventy years to be a spectacular fair with all the pomp and circumstance he deserves, as does his queen consort Camilla, who can’t wait to drape herself in diamonds and fur. Sadly, the UK is in the middle of a cost of living crisis and wills that’s Prince William to you.

Non royal efficient. Noels thinks the coronation should reflect these more straightened times. The special Assi promises cameos from Harry and Megan. Yes not the actual Harry and Megan, of course, A suit said any channel where it Salton has a landmark show with the word coronation in the title. For the BBC, it was the world’s first televised coronation in nineteen fifty three.

For it TV, it’s the world’s longest running soap Coronation Street. We at Channel four delighted to announce that we now have our own record breaking coronation jewel as the heart of our broadcasting crown. The funniest show on Telly to a momentously historic week for Britain and from The Daily Mail. Comedian Monty Franklin has defended an Australian term after realizing other countries don’t use it, the controversial term the Mexican wave. Calm down, let him explain.

Monte Franklin, capturing a video things in Australia that sound racist but are not. In his video said, you know the wave at sporting events that goes around and everybody does and they have a wonderful time. In Australia, we call that the Mexican Wave. I don’t know why, there’s no need to put Mexican in front of it. He said he realized it wasn’t that common when he was watching TV in Australia with his American wife.

They said the Mexican Wave on TV during cricket, and missus Franklin said, why do you call it that? She thought it sound funny, But I realized I have no idea why we call it that, and I’ve never questioned it. It’s always just been that. They also call it the Mexican Wave in New Zealand. Now stay with me, Franklin said it could be from the origins of the wave itself.

The first time commentators saw the wave was at the Soccer World Cup in Mexico in nineteen eighty six, so they started calling it the Mexican Wave and it kind of stuck. However, a comment in his video disputed that research claiming the wave started in nineteen seventy nine and was created by Crazy with a K George Henderson. In October nineteen eighty one, at a televised A’s Yankees playoff game in Oakland. Another thing he discovered Americans have everything called Aussey cheese fries, French fries covered in cheese, and he said I’ve never heard of this back home. I’m going to speak on behalf of all of America.

I’ve never heard the term ausy cheese fries, not once never, And I’ve been in Australia not there. Other than my time in Australia, I’ve spent the rest of my life in America, not entirely. Trip in the Europe A couple of places would go with a bit. And while I’ve lived in America, I’ve never heard aucy cheese fries? Have you?

Franklin said, as an Australian living in America, I say a lot of things that sound odd and Ray’s eyebrows. Flat white is another one. I have a flat white story. So when I was in Australia, I wanted a coffee and I don’t know, and hey, service like, what would you like. I’m like, I’ll let me get a coffee with milk.

And she goes flat white and I’m like, huh, She’s like flat white. I know what a flat white was. This is before Starbucks introduced flat white, by the way, I’m not that dumb, and I was like sure, and then it came when it was what I wanted. This was one of my takeaways from Australia. I feel like if I spent two weeks there out of just because the next day I went for coffee and I just went flat white.

I feel like if I hung out a little bit, I’d reset my vows again. My favorite T shirt I saw which was bananas or for Peranas. That always reminds me to flatten out my a’s. I feel like I could fit in anyway. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliff, Ron White, Tim Dillon, Roseanne Barr, Jimmy Kimmel, Ryan Hamilton

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan opens Comedy Mothership in Austin
• Kill Tony moves to Comedy Mothership
• Comedy Mothership venue design and policies
• Jimmy Kimmel hosts 2023 Oscars
• Ryan Hamilton performs at BYU Idaho
• Bert Kreischer new special announcement

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The Shark deck. Yo, what’s up. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Carrie Lake. Remember she ran for Arizona governor and lost.

Well, she’s leading the polls as to who could be Trump’s VP candidate. Stephen Colbert said she must have been so honored to have Magavotas choose her as the next vice president. They try to hang wow Valon. Of course, since it’s Trump, he’ll make the decision after holding a Miss Vice President pageant. Joe Rogan has opened his comedy club in Austin.

It is called The Comedy Mothership. Rogan took to the stage and said, you can’t fire me from my own club. The Holler Reporter has the story. I’ll read their sentence verbatim because it’s perfect. Unvaxed sperm reads the poster held aloft by a woman standing outside the theater, and you know you’re in the right place.

Joe Rogan’s new comedy club, Mecca. Tickets for the opening week of shows went for forty dollars per person, which the Holler Reporter points out is surprisingly reasonable. They sold out without minutes, and we’re being resold online for five hundred bucks. Rogan on stage wearing quote a rather odd obi Wan like sweater. I’m not sure what that means, and unfortunately I couldn’t find a picture.

Rogan said, I’m drunk and on mushrooms at my new club. This is as high as I’ve ever been on stage. I need to connect with this moment. You can’t fire me from my own club, bitch. The Hollywood borter ads the venus theme is Aliens meets Art Deco, the latter a respectful nod to the remodeled theater’s century long history.

There’s a UFO above the door in the lobby warnings that hecklers will be alienated, and a stargate like arch over the main stage. The theater is at washing black and Purple by Austin comedy standards, it’s easily the coolest looking venue in town that’s neat. The opening stretch of shows is billed as Joe Rogan and Friends. The first night included friends Ron White’s who retired from comedy, or maybe just retired from touring comedy, so he’s back. Babe, Tim Dillon, who I love, Roseanne Barr, and Tony Hinchcliff, who’s bringing the Killed Tony Show to Joe’s Theater, Tony Hinchcliff led the audience in a game called Kanye or the Jews.

The Holly Reporter says the audience and attendance was pretty standard for Rogan shows, which means they over index on the Three Bees, Bros, beards, and ball caps. I’m getting the feeling the person who wrote this isn’t the biggest Joe Rogan fan. Aren’t you getting that kind of vibe? Within seconds the first comic taking the stage, a gay slur was thrown out, followed by jokes about trans people. The audience hooted for the anti cancel culture crowd, this is their new safe space.

Rogan did a Q and A. He was asked how it felt having his club open. He said, it doesn’t feel real. I know it’s real, but it doesn’t feel real. I was super nervous today.

Joe, what’s your next milestone? I’m done with milestones. I think I just like risks. I’m like, oh yeah, let’s buy building on a street filled with crack addicts, Like I want someone to say no to me. They’re all like, okay, go ahead.

Who is your dream podcast guest at Joe Rogan? He said Hunter Biden. I could turn this around for you. If my dad had Alzheimer’s and I was doing coke, I would have done the exact same stuff you did. I really want to get him on.

Wow. Okay. The venue has two rooms, a headliner room called Fat Man and a smaller stage called little Boy. Little Boy and fat Man where the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War Two. By the way, there’s a bar named after Comedy Store co founder Mitzy Shore.

That’s cool, Rogan said He’s hired the best people from the comedy Store in LA to run the club. They’re doing the yonder pouch thing. Ah, that’s annoying. No phones, Come on, Joe, it’s Wednesday night. I just want to go out for drink, and you’re gonna make me lock up my phone.

Stop man, and all this stuff’s gonna get out anyway. Holli reporter adds security is a bit intense, as you have to get your face scanned, like you’re going through airport security at Heathrow. No thanks, Joe, don’t want to go. I’ll stay home. It’s fine.

The staff is numerous and friendly. The floor seating feels rather cramped, however, and in a move that feels outdated, the venue has the old school comedy club to drink minimum. Roseanne Barr said, I want to thank Joe for building this wonderful mothership for comedians. It’s so great in the green room with everybody up there being drunk and smoking pot, just like at the Comedy Store when Mitzy Shore was still alive and comedy was eff and king.

And then she went here.

After thirty years of fighting ABC to black writers and black characters on my show and then having the same effing lipsards turn around and called me a racist. It really effing pissed me off. I’m not sure what that had to do with the opening of the club, but okay, if nothing else, it’ll sure be interesting. Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars on Sunday. People did an interview with him and asked him about the second most infamous thing that happened on the Oscars.

Remember when the wrong Best Picture winner was announced on live TV. Kimmel said, in some ways, it feels like an episode of a TV show I watched and then put out of my head. It was a very intense and confusing end to what it was otherwise pretty great night. He then talked about Slapgates, saying it’s still shocking that happened. To see something like that happened outside of the Maury Povid show is shocking.

Dated reference there, and then for it to happen on the oscar Is magnifies it by about a million times. I think it’s something that everybody regrets and we’ll move past. One day. It’ll be looked at in the same way as that guy running on stage naked has looked at a weird moment that we all talked about and hopefully we learned from. He commends Chris Rock.

I mean to be slapped in the face and stay that cool. Something Chris should be proud of. Chris’s grandchildren I hope will still be proud of that when he he’s dead and gone. Huge news out of Eastern Idaho. Guess who’s playing BYU Idaho tonight.

That’s right, Idaho’s own Ryan Hamilton, everybody’s favorite comedian. Now this from the East Idaho News, your home for comedy news. The forty six year old Ashton man Ryan Hamilton, who as you know, is from Idaho. We’ll be performing at BYU Idaho this Friday, his second stop in eastern Idaho since November. They had wait pre read the articles.

Johnny Mac, this next sentence is horrific. I didn’t read this in advance. Oh my god. Hamilton’s suffered ten broken ribs, a broken arm, and a punctured lung following an accident in January twenty twenty two. More than a year later.

He still has some scars. This just took an awkward turn. Leave it in. Hamilton’s sold the East Idho News. I’m able to do everything I used to do.

I’m still working on physical derby stuff, but I’m able to travel to the shows and made a lot of progress. It was quite serious, but I’m doing okay. I’ve learned a lot. Oh my god, John pre read these things. I thought we were just going to have some fun with the Idaho bit, and now I’ve just got this ikey feeling of what did you step in here?

John Hamilton hinted there could be another special coming in the near future. He said, I’d like to sell something sometime soon. We’ll see. It’s been a while. I feel like I’m ready to put something out.

Well, We’ll keep you posted, but hopefully soon. If you haven’t watched his first special, which I think is on Netflix. You really should. It’s really fantastic, And I don’t know if it’s his first special his most recent special. Let me put it that way before I start getting emails from the Ryan Hamilton mafia being like, dude, you said it was his first special, it’s obviously his third special.

Should I just google it and find out? Let’s do that and get this out of the way. I’m on Ryan Hamilton’s IMDb. I’ve learned here he’s Ryan Hamilton, the Third. He is known for The Oscars twenty twenty two, The Comedian twenty sixteen, and Inside Amy Schumer at twenty thirteen.

He appeared in one episode of Life and Beth in twenty sixteens The Comedians starring Roberton Nero. Ryan Hamilton played Ryan Hamilton from Wikipedia. His first one hour special, Happy Face, became available on Netflix on August twenty nine, twenty seventeen. Wow, it’s that long ago. That one’s really good?

Oh wow. Personal life. Hamilton resides in New York City. In January twenty twenty two, Ryan was hit by a shuttle bus as a pedestrian at Lax Airport and That’s where he suffered the ten broken ribs he recovered at his family home in Idaho. You ever feel like you started out to do a bit and you got trapped.

In sports, we call time out. So I think I’m going to step out of the huddle, look at the ref and make a tea with my hands being right back. Boy, that was awkward, wasn’t it. Kyle Kanane has a new special coming out March fifteenth for ten bucks, or if you’re cheap like me, wait till March thirtieth and he’ll stream it for free. Here’s the logline, Kyle Kanane, who is fantastic.

By the way, Kyle Knane is a wild man poet. He’s been laughing at anti vaxers for some time to their baseless claim that vaccines cause autism, he responds, effing good, we probably need more autistic kids. They’re the ones that keep beating robots at chess. It’s this type of serious thinking about our collective future that makes his new stand up special Shocks and Strets perfect for a moment. To him, dinosaurs were God’s little tricksters, and a foreskin is the devil’s calamari.

Using his unique parlance, the beloved comedian transforms our dull world into an emporium of the weird and wonderful. Kyle recently bought a van, a car that fits his look of someone who should be at home plotting to kidnap a democratic governor. Wow, and hit the road to Jehovah’s witnessed his bits around the country with his gruff voice, jeszlhart and ill fated confidence about hotel buffets, Kyle delivers an hour of keen commentary and messy adventure. He wonders how his pillows turn that color. He claims the way to make everyone in a cruise ship hots up immediately uncomfortable, and he marvels at pilots who aren’t intimidated by the hundreds of buttons and airplane cockpits, all of which should be labeled don’t die.

That’s a pretty funny copy. He’s fantastic and now I feel like I got it. I’m glad I called that time out right. Now we’re rocking first down, Johnny mc. Let’s keep going all right on three.

Kyle Knane is himself a skilled pilot of comedy. In fact, he’s like a comedy blue angel, darting and diving, taking risks and pulling off tricks. Bert Kreischer’s special will be out next week as well. This one called Bert Kreischer Razzle Dazzle. It is his third special.

In his special, Bert Kreisher spills in a riots, a set on bodily emissions, being bullied by his kids, and the explosive end to his family’s escape room outing. Bert Kreisher Razzle Dazzle streaming March fourteenth, south by Southwest kicks off tonight. Let’s take a look at the shows pretty Light Night. One variety Power of Comedy is at eight o’clock, three hours long. And this is more of an awards thing now.

Some of the people getting awards Chelsea Handler, Bob Oden, Kirkpatt and Oswald. So it’s kind of cool, but like, I don’t know, it doesn’t sound fun, if that makes sense. The comedy keynote has just this weird title, Zizek versus ZXZW My God, What is this poly crisis? A comedy keynote in twelve volumes. The bit is a celebrity philosophers slap off zzech unpacks to sex and then interrogates the collapse of collapse as a social Construct.

Boy, this isn’t deep, but it’s James Adomian, Anthon Yates, Hamniwick, Matt Besser, Christina, Katherine Martinez and Steph Tolev. That goes from eight to nine fifteen. I would much rather go see that, and then that would allow us at ten o’clock to catch the only other thing on the bill, which is the Super Good Show. Parentheses and stand up comedy Close Parentheses, expect super sets from some of your favorite stand ups and maybe a few new discoveries. Todd Barry, I’m Arnian, Katherine Blandford, Sam j Bettstelling, Emma Willman.

All right, let’s keep this simple tonight meet yet like five o’clock. We’ll love a couple of beers. We’ll make our way over to Esther’s Folly for the weird thing that’s the keynote with the improv. Guys. Will do that till nine fifteen, and then we’ll walk over to the Super Good Show ten to eleven fifteen.

And that’s a nice full night. Boy, that Ryan Hamilton thing really threw me for a loop. I didn’t know we were going there where you read the stories? John, all right, what can I tell you about some of the stuff’s gonna wait till Monday. Let me just clear this out.

The Podcast Academy gave out their podcast a war. It’s best comedy podcast went to I’ll sit here for five hours and let you guess. Okay, all right, it’s now five hours later. I edited that to make it easier for you. But I just sat here in silence for five hours and you still did not guess what one best comedy podcast.

So I’m going to tell you the winner is Why Won’t You Date Me? With Nicole Buyer m Best comedy podcast. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Donald Trump, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Marlon Wayans, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, Joe Rogan, Tim Dillon, Krista Soden, Pete Holmes

What’s in This Episode

• Trump’s CPAC speech and late night comedy reactions
• Marlon Wayans special ‘Heavy Pass’ review
• Chris Rock’s alleged obsession with Jada Pinkett Smith over 30 years
• John Mulaney announces new Netflix special from Boston
• Joe Rogan claims Tim Dillon’s sexuality is a scam
• Olivia Munn and John Mulaney spotted together on vacation
• Pete Holmes discusses failed CBS sitcom and stand-up comedy philosophy

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Donald Trump gave a speech at Spack. In his speech, he said, in twenty sixteen, I declared I am your voice. Today I add I am your warrior.

I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution. Jimmy Fallon said, he’s like, I’m the captain. Now I am the one who knocks.

I am the walrus cuckoo, Ko chew. That was exactly what I was thinking, Well, not in so many words, but what I read the original Trump quote. Jimmy Fallon added, he’s either running for president or auditioning to be the next John Wick Seth Meyers. He was such a terrible president, and now he’s auditioning to be Batman. Problem is, he would never respond to the bad signal, because there’s no way he’s ever just looking pensively out the window.

You’d have to text it to him, or just shine it on Sean Hannity’s forehead, or you know what you could do. You could reject it on a solar eclipse. He looks at those great jokes. I watched the Marlin Wayne Special, Heavy Pass, Heavy Pass? Heavy Pass?

Did you like it? Johnny Mac? I found it unwatchable. I was so excited about it. I had read the articles to you.

I was like, Oh, this sounds like really cool. It sounds of the moment, and I hite play and I was like, wow, I am not feeling this at all. Let me skip ahead and see if another part. I am still not feeling this at all. I’m aware that I disagree with everyone who has reviewed this thing, but for me, Heavy Pass.

Let’s start today on gossip corner. People magazine has a source that said Jada has had no part in this other than being heckled. Chris Rock is obsessed with her, and that’s been going on for almost thirty years. Look where he chose to film his Netflix special, her hometown of Baltimore. Obsessed.

Back in twenty sixteen, she helped start a movement with the Academy Awards by questioning why there are so few black members, and Chris took it to this. You may recall in twenty sixteen, Jada showed her support for black actors as part of the hashtag Oscars So White movement. Will Smith that year was shut out of the Best Actor race for his performance in Concussion. One of the jokes and Chris Rock special years ago, as wife said I should quit the Oscars. I shouldn’t host because their man didn’t get nominated for concussion.

Then he gives me an F and concussion. The source continues she never asked Chris to not host the Oscars. Ever, she publicly said in a Facebook post at the time, Chris would be a great Oscars host and it’s perfect for the job. In his special, Chris Rock said quotes I did some jokes about her. Who gives an F.

That’s how it is. She starts it, I finish. That’s what the f happened. Nobody’s picking on this bitch. She started this stuff.

Nobody was picking on her. The source tells people they were shocked at how many times Chris used the word bitch in referring to Jada. I think that was the point of the routine to say it like twenty three times. No. Yes, we are getting a new John Moliney special on Netflix.

He recently recorded at Symphony Hall in Boston. It is from his From Scratch tour. Spoilers ahead, as seems like it’ll be a lot of what we’ve heard, John has been touring for the last year and a half, two years. Maybe much of it centered around Milany’s intervention and stay in rehab. I feel like this is coming out too late, right, We’ve been talking about John Mlaney’s rehab stint forever and for to come out now, like even on the other side of Chris Rock and the Oscars.

I feel like this is two year old material now, John Mullanny. But we’ll see when it comes to Netflix. As for a date coming soon, not soon enough, my friend. Plenty of comedy news today, but while we’re talking about Molany a quick stop on Gossip Corner from the Daily Mail. Decaption Predator actress showed off her impressive figure on a boat in a bikini.

The story Olivia Munn shared a heartwarming picture of an adorable baby boy trying to drink from a glass bottle. So what do we do? We focus on the bikini. I just love the writing by the Daily Mail. The Oklahoma native was pictured laughing with her head back as her baby daddy, two time Emmy winner John Mulaney held a bottle close to him.

The Daily Show alum showed off her impressive post baby beach body and a string bikini top with her one year old son on her lap. Wearing her red and white striped onesie. The beauty styled her long brunette tresses straight the side part. She wore black RayBan sunglasses and accessorized her look with multiple bracelets. Had a diamond necklace.

The forty two year old actress, who boast two point eight million Instagram followers, capture on the post Sandy. Interesting comment by Joe Rogan on his podcast last week, he floated the conspiracy theory that Tim Dillon is not gay. Rogan said, it’s funny because a lot of people think Tim is not gay. They think it’s a scam. Krista Stephano kept warning about it, and Joe Rogan said it’s a scam.

Rogan added that it’s like a free pass that some people have to get out of jail for joking about topics most people can’t even touch. Rogan said, well, so it’s like he gives them to get out of jail free pass. Oh my god, there’s so many things he can make fun of that we can’t even touch. Fascinating from the review, West Michigan Beat Holmes welcome the pandemic relax some logic behind what Pete was saying. Pete told Review West Michigan there was a Daniel’s Toss joke where he was like, I don’t want to die.

I want all of us to die when he’s talking about the end of the world. And what I took from that joke is I didn’t want to take a break from stand up. I wanted all of us to take a break from stand up, and that’s what I got. He discussed his failed at CBS sitcom How We Roll. Pete said it was one of my favorite show basiness experiences, just because when I was a kid, being a success, like dreaming about being comedian, meant you would have a multicam sitcom.

And what I learned from the process is I always thought I want to do something that was hip, and I did crashing was hip, But it turns out I just love being with people creating something and it doesn’t have to be super cool to be super fun. His current tour is called Where We Were. Pete says, I’m forty three. I remember what stand up was like before the Internet, but now because it’s possible to find your very specific stamp, it’s easier. You know, there’s podcasting, there’s clips online, there’s specials.

You don’t have to catch them on HBO at eight o’clock on some specific Friday. You can watch them whenever you want. By virtually the information being so accessible now, comedians can get more and more specific whatever their interests are. When I find spiritual or unitive about doing stand up is that a bunch of individuals show up and they become an audience. So they merge in on one thing, and then a good performer.

And this is what I try to do, is merge with that merger, and then there’s a second merging of the performer and the audience. And I think it’s a spiritual thing. We all came in separate, then we sort of spend time together. And I sometimes joke, it’s so interesting how quickly we’ve become an us. He’d added, I always get super depressed when I see something in like a world market, like a wooden sign that says laugh once a day or something like that, and I’m like, that’s way too low.

So it’s a good reminder, but I think it’s just a good place to start with the low times in my life. I’ve been carried through by friends, and what that means is by people that have come around and come into my life and reminded me to laugh. Heed Holmes is at the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids tonight, seven o’clock tickets thirty five bucks. I feel like what I do here. There are two ways support the show.

One go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Common News. You can throw some money in the tip jar. I’ll take your money. I’ll go to the National Donors chain and I’ll get myself a large eyed coffee with caramel and milk. The other thing you can do if you load the show on Apple Podcasts, they will put this option under your nose.

You can become a premium subscriber and for five bucks a month you get the episodes ad free and a little bit early, usually around four pm Eastern the night before if you know what I mean, and the weekend episodes are usually there for you. On Friday morning, Eric shot me a no to low Eric Eric wrote, Hey, Jennymick, love what you do. Haven’t earning mentioned of this? One? Pretty solid lineup for Idaho Home of Ryan Hamilton.

I used to do a comedy showing community radio here in Salt Lake City and now cover comedy for our local affairs program. Wait, he wrote SLC, I just translated that to Salt Lake City. Is there like SLC Idaho? I don’t want to get in trouble with Ryan Hamilton’s and his posse. I’m googling SLC Idaho.

Maybe I don’t know something. Nope, you know what happens. If you google SLC Idaho flights. You just get the price of flights from Salt Lake City airport code SLC two Idaho Falls, Ida expedius as one hundred and sixty nine bucks. That feels like a lot.

Should we just drive it? You know, I’m from the East coast, so I think everything’s two hours away. Let’s see Salt Lake City to Idaho Falls three hours two minutes. Yeah, why would we pay one hundred and sixty nine bucks? Let’s hop on the I fifteen anyway.

I digress. Eric said, I weeze little press pass for tree Fort and plan on seeing Wade too much comedy. Really excited for Shane tourists. Thanks for what you do, and he sent me a link. So let’s talk about the tree Fort Music Fest.

March twenty third, to the twenty sixth Are you telling me I get to do one, two, three, four more days of Idaho jokes later this month? Dude, I’m in considerate bookmarked WHOA I’m looking at the bottom here, it says, line up tignasar A waitlist, news and schedule. Let’s click on tignatar A waylist. What’s going on here? M air table says the private share link you tried to reach is not available.

The owner of this base may have unshared or deleted it. Please contact them. WHOA? Is there like a secret TIGNATARO show that we can’t get into? So I’ve clicked over to schedule, it says tignazorow late show added back to mac show is added by popular demand.

Get ready to laugh twice as hard as Tigna Sorrow’s added a second comedy fort show. Among the comedians Tigna Sorrow, I think we discussed that already Matt Besser, Shane Torrez, Jessica Keenan, Johnny Taylor, Todd Basil, Maureen Ferguson, Brian Bixby, Jake Silberman, and Sophia Javet. Now, if we’re having a comedy festival in Idaho, I think we’re missing a pretty big idahoan. Where’s Ryan Hamilton’s what’s he doing? Why isn’t he going?

Ryan Hamilton’s not even touring in late March. He’s in Rexburg, Idaho on Friday. I actually have a story about that. Then April seventh and the eighth, he’s opening for Jerry sitheld Oft the Beacon in New York. So he’s got a little gap there some of those other dates.

Case you’re curious about the Ryan Hamilton because he is the hottest comedian on Daily Comedy News. He’s us playing Irvine, Reading, Fort Lauderdale, Key West, Durham, Wilmington, Oklahoma City, the one in Oklahoma, Hattiesburg, and Minneapolis. I guess he feels like he just played Rexburg, Idaho this week. He doesn’t need to play Idaho twice. Who knows.

Sounds like a great festival. Eric, thank you for the note, and I’m gonna put that in the calendar to talk about when it rolls around later this month.

Speaking of recurring bits, if you’re a long time listener, you are well fami…

Now, if you’re a new listener, let me ask you two questions here one, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers. I’m not asking you if you’ve seen Bob’s Burger’s drawings. You clearly have. I’m not asking you if you’ve seen Bob’s Burger’s drawings on a T shirt or something merch, I have no doubt. But if you’ve ever actually seen the show, have you just heard Joe Buck talk about it during football games saying something like, coming up after the game, it’s an all new Simpsons, and then Bob’s Burgers.

And then by the time eight o’clock rolls around, you’re over watching al Michaels on Sunday Night football. And I know both Joe and al Michaels have moved on. But that’s not the bit. The bit is the way I just phrased it. That’s how the classic bit goes.

So I don’t think there is actually a Bob’s Burger show. I’ve never seen it.

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Now here’s my second question to you, a new listener.

Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers? Like in your life? Has anybody ever gone, hey, you see Bob’s Burgers last night? They have it? So here’s my theory.

Fox promotes it, but they don’t actually make it. They just kind of sign off and run the national anthem or something because they know you’re watching football over there without michaels I get that he’s moved on to go with the joke, so they just have a test pattern up or the national anthem or an American flaglowing in the wind. They don’t bother making Bob’s Burgers, but they sell merch because you think it’s cool. But I don’t think the show exists. Well, supposedly this weekend they’re doing a crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy, which definitely both exist, and Bob’s Burgers.

They even shared a clip. In the clip, Peter Griffin is avoiding his annoying wife Lois all the way to their leading show, finding Homer waiting for him. Notice none of that mentioned bombs Burgers. Speaking to e W, Family Guy co showrunner Richapelle said, even folks as jaded as Hollywood sitcom writers get a thrill seeing them together in the same scene. It’s the same sort of excitement you feel when a Chicago policeman and a Chicago fireman, or in the same scene on a Chicago themed program.

We’ll see speaking of Animation, Dan Horman, you know the guy that created Community and Rick and Morty’s. We’re going to pay attention to him, right. He’s got an animated comedy coming to Fox, this one called Kropopolis. It has not yet aired, and it’s already been renewed for two more seasons. Is this another one of those Fox animation scams?

Yeah, we’re crushing it. We’ve got Bob’s Burgers, We’ve got three seasons of Populus, just asked Dan Harmon. The cast is pretty good. Richard Ayoade you know him from the IT crowd, Hannah Wattingham, you know her from Ted Last And Matt Berry from the Toast of London. Oh my, that’s a killer cast.

The show set in ancient Grease. I’m tempted to go in a half ass Matt Berry here despite the old world get up, turns out as ancient Greece has a lot of similarities to present day. They asked the Fox Suit, Hey, why three seasons? You haven’t even aired it yet. Fox Suit said, I think the third season pickup really speaks to our commitment to the show and frankly, the quality of the series.

It’s hilarious, and Dan Harmon is such a unique voice and so talented. Doing a comedy set in ancient Greece has been a passion of his for a long time. Yeah, animation is a huge priority for us. We have a fantastic legacy and we’re taking on the exciting challenge of continuing that legacy. And it really starts with a voice like Dan Hormon.

All right, fox Suit, how much have you seen of season one? Fox Suit said, We’ve seen several colors and many animatics, and we have a jump start on the scripts ready for season three. In other words, it doesn’t actually exist, kind of like say with me, everybody on three two one Bob’s Burgers, things were playing along. There’s something unique about the series in a way that when we get it in the colors around the office, there’s an excitement to see the next episode. That’s contagious.

So in the other seats and I we’re thinking about are we bear to jump out of season three? It was really a no brainer. All right, fox Suit, is this adults animation? Fox Suit gave a very corporate answer. We’re a broadcast network with a wide reach, and I think Carpopoulos is a series that has a type of humor that can be enjoyed on many levels, no matter where you’re from or what your background or your sense of humor.

It really is unique.

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And then I think a wide audience is going to be really able to connect with it.

My snark aside, I’m guessing they’re holding this back for the fall. There’s a writer strike coming into Hollywood, so I think networks are like, hmm, do we need to run this in April or should we hold on to it in case we don’t have anything else? So I’m guessing that’s why they’re holding this Back’s Dan Harmon, I’m all over it, can’t wait. I can’t wait, but I’ll still watch it. That’s your comedy news for today.

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