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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m on Billboard dot com. They put out a list the twenty five best stand up comedians of the twenty first century so far numbers twenty five to sixteen. I have not looked at this yet.

When I do these lists, I like to react to them cold. This one was published in early December. I’m scrolling down now and the first picture I’m seeing is of Sarah Silverman. Is she number twenty five this list? There’s no way I’m going to look at this list and be like, oh, that was a good list.

Right, Well, let’s say they right. As the first quarter of the twenty first century comes to an end, Billboard set out to determine the best of the A list the top twenty five stand up comics of the last twenty five years. To come up with these rankings, we pulled experts, all right? Who were the experts? The panel consists of William Burdette Coots, who heads the Assembly venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Okay, seems reasonable. Michael Cox, who books a stand up for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon that seems reasonable. Adam Eget a booker at the Comedy Mothership in Austin, Texas, all right, that seems reasonable too. That means we’re not going to ignore the bro dudes because you could get really up aty on this. Bruce Hill’s a friend of mine.

He for thirty six years ran Montreal’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. That’s good. Caroline Hirsch, founder of Caroline’s Comedy Club, and she runs in New York Comedy Festival. The Mazilly Brothers, I know Chris Massilly. They own the Gotham in Manhattan.

These are good people, all right. So before I even look at this list, these are people that know what they’re talking about. Like I always say, you know, I know more about comedy than say, ninety eight ninety nine percent of the general population, just because of what I have done for a living in these past twenty five years. But everyone I just named knows more about it than I do. So I am not at all claiming to be like the expert.

The way I phrase it is, if we’re in a bar, I’m probably the expert. But if Chris Massili’s there, Caroline Hirsch is there. A booker from the Tonight Show. Bruce Hills. Oh yeah, they blow me away, absolute one hundred percent.

This is great. Let’s see who else. Patrick Milligan, who is the booker for the Stand in New York City, Susan Provin, the director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and Samantha Schlez, director of the south By Southwest Festival. Okay, I really like who they asked here. So before I even look at this list, and I haven’t looked at at all, I respect these people, so hopefully this is a fantastic list.

Billboard explains the process began with the panel helping put together a ballot of more than one hundred and fifty nominees. The talent pool was limited to comedians with active stand up careers over the last twenty five years, as opposed to sketch, sitcom, film or improp performers such as the cast of SNL or Second City or UCB Overseas. Comedians with the presidents in the US were also considered. From there, judges ranked their top twenty five. Voting was anonymous.

There was a weighted system to determine the top twenty five. Today we will take a look at numbers twenty five through sixteen, they have at number twenty five John Stewart. Okay, interesting, he’s not. He’s just not. Is he one of the top four comedic TV personalities of the century.

Absolutely, if we start some sort of hall of fame, should John Stewart be inn in Absolutely first ballot? But stand up? That seems insane. Bill Board explains Stuart began as a stand up Yeah. Sure.

His muscular sets, like his anchor job, often deal with the political and cultural state of the country, and they still kill. This year, he toured with Pete Davidson and John Mulaney. See which is again? And I host this thing every day. I forgot that that’s even a thing.

Maybe John Stewart is out there quietly killing again. I respect the hell out of this panel. I’m not here to dump on this list. But John Stewart at twenty five, Yeah, okay, twenty four Billy Connolly. Now some of you are gonna be like, what is this list whatever?

But I appreciate that this list has a worldview. I personally really don’t connect with Billy’s material, but you know, I wouldn’t throw you off the bus for saying that. One number twenty three Trevor Noah. Okay, so John’s gonna struggle here because Trevor Noah also best known for hosting The Daily Show. But I was into Trevor Noah before he hosted The Daily Show because he was a really good stand up.

I personally like Trevor a lot. He’s got a lot to say. So yeah, all right, really interesting lists so far? Okay, twenty two Jim Gaffigan. That seems low to me, Like who else is going to be on this list?

That Gaffigan is only coming in at twenty two. You know, I give him a lot of guff on the show for the bourbon stuff, and you know, maybe he didn’t call people back who helped him early in their career, But twenty two seems really low for Jim Gaffigan. Twenty one Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias. Now so here, let me scroll back up to the top. So this is the twenty five best stand up comedians.

Now, Gabe really nice guy. I’ve worked with him. He will call you back, sells out stadiums huge. But is he a better stand up than Jim gaff Again, I don’t know, No, no, you know, let’s say the bad guys are gonna you know hurt you and you got to pick a stand up comedian to save your life, and they got to make them laugh. You’re gonna go with Gabe or Jim.

Actually maybe with the bad guys. Maybe Gabe’s style of humber would work better with the bad guys. I guess it depends on who the bad guys are, but that just seems seems out of sync to me. Now I’m thinking ahead when we get to the top, who’s gonna be at the time. It’s gotta be Chappelle and despite his travail, c K that’s gonna be the one too, And Burr’s gonna ring pretty high.

I bet those three. And I’m getting ahead of myself on number twenty Sarah Silverman very underrated Sarah Silverman. I don’t know it’s because of her style or her other appearances, but I’ll tell you every time I put a Sarah Silverman special on the television there it goes way out my list. So, yeah, a lot of respect for twenty Sarah Silverman. Nineteen Alle Wong, Yeah, really again, respect the panel, but yeah, let’s just I mean, I don’t even know if Folly Wong should be on the list, But ahead of Sarah just No eighteen.

Patrise O’Neil. I’m biased here. I never enjoyed this man’s company. I found him to be kind of a just a jerk. He would just come at people for no reason, just like he was one of those guys that would mess with people just to see how people would react.

Never, never enjoyed being around Patrise O’Neil. He has been forgotten, but I will tell you when he was around. All the comedians love Patrise O’Neil. His material is pretty good. So I’m really biased here, and I just don’t like the guy.

Billboard rides. O’Neil’s candor extended to his own mortality. He carried some three hundred pounds on his six’ four frame and suffered from type two. Diabetes he, Joked i’m the leader of the fat. People I’m MALCOLM, Xxl and then he joked on A Comedy central, SPECIAL i got to lose some weight now to stay, alive and that’s not enough motivation for.

Me In october of twenty, eleven his diabetes brought on a. STROKE a month, later he had passed away at age forty. One Bill Burr produces an annual comedy benefit in memory Of. Patrese some of the people At patrese’s, Funeral Chris, Rock Kevin, hart Want Of, sykes And Jim. Norton Colin quinn at the wake said IF i somehow could be looking at him in heaven right now and watched him Meet, GOD i Know i’d be thinking the same thing everybody else will be, Thinking, uh, Oh, god shouldn’t have said.

That now he’s going to get hammered By. Patrese that is How patrise was and WHY i didn’t really enjoy. HIM a, RIGHT i gotta get a break in, here and we’ll come back and we’ll look at more of the. List this is Bill board’s twenty five best stand Up comedians of the twenty first century so, far number twenty five through. Sixteen at number, Seventeen Wanda.

Sykes that’s. Interesting do you think Of Wanda sykes as a great stand Up but, Again i’ll say for the ninety fifth time this episode The Respect House, Panel But Wanda sikes. Really Wanda sykes was one of the co hosts on The oscars the night that you think That Chris rock was, Hosting Remember Will, Smith Chris. Rock Wanda sykes is one of the hosts that night along With Amy. Schumer Is Amy Schumer gonna be on this list ahead of some of the people we’ve mentioned she, is isn’t?

She that’s gonna be insane when we get. THERE i don’t. Know i’m struggling with, this Like i’m just thinking of random, people like Is Craig ferguson going to be on this? List BECAUSE i Take Craig ferguson over one Of sykes any day of the, week and twice On sunday as they, say, SO i don’t. Know Sixteen Ricky.

Gervais that seems low to. Me his specials are actually really. Funny billboard. Writes jervase has released eight comedy specials and created The office, franchise but the best example of his comedic brilliance is his opening monologue at the twenty Twenty Golden GLOBES Yep Legendary hall Of. Fame so what do you?

Think come in The facebook Group Daily Comedy News podcast, group and as they post the rest of the, LIST i will do a sequel episode to this. One i’m really. Curious i’m just trying to think off the top of my. Head let me just type the word comedian Into. Google it’s twenty first.

Century google is putting in front of. Me chappelle’s gotta be. Up Burr, Ck they’ll all make the. List, Mulaney, Jessel nick A. Tell hopefully it tells on this, list especially with the people who were.

Quoted It tell’s going to be a sleeper. Pick hopefully it tells a really HIGH A tell is. Great Nate, PERGATZI i, mean Is nate? Great Amy, Batton, Oswalt Jimmy. CARR i would Put jimmy way up in the.

List hannibal Burr is kind of had a moment, There Sam, Morrel Will sam make? It sibashian man Of? Scalco would they do? That Jim jeffries could be an interesting. Pick all, Right so those are just some names to think about and we’ll see who they put.

Up but just to fly through this again so you can. React twenty, Five John, Stewart, yeah okay twenty, Four Billy connolly twenty, Three Trevor Noah twenty, Two Jim Gaffigan two low in my opinion twenty, One Gabe iglesias, Twenty Sarah Silverman, Nineteen Ally wong, Eighteen patrese, O’Neal which is a good pick despite me not liking him, Seventeen want Of sykes Sixteen Ricky. Gervais all, right that is your comedy news for. Today see you. Tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News today honestly weekend filler. Look, man, it was Christmas and I’ve had a couple of lists that I’ve just been holding on to for you. Now, this first list has been completely blocked by an ad for Brad Pitt’s f One the movie. Now I could just edit this out, but that’s not fun.

Hey guys, I’m trying to read the list here. How do you clear this ad? Oh? There it goes from Deadline Comics who Won twenty twenty five? The ad is back again.

I could edit this out, but wouldn’t you rather just hear me slowly lose my mind as I tried to do this? Where was I? Comics who won twenty twenty five? A look at fourteen? Who leveled up with explosive professional Growth?

Why fourteen? What a weird number? This is by Matt Grobar in Deadline, as I like to do with most of these lists. I haven’t looked at it yet, but I am going to hit command plus plus to make the font bigger. Somebody’s scatt and old.

You can’t see anymore Deadline rights. We’ve honed in on fourteen comedic performers who achieved explosive professional growth in twenty twenty five, whether by substantially boosting their ticket sales or social media following, landing a coveted roll or development opportunity, or elevating to a new tier of venue as a headliner. It should be noticed this list isn’t all encompassing. You won’t find Jim Gaffigan listed here, even if he did the unthinkable by putting together nearly forty five great minutes just on the topic of bourbon. I’ll push back on the word great.

There, I’m gonna use both hands to push back on the word great. You won’t find Nikki Glaser, who’s elevated to the A list with an array of starring vehicles lined up Nord Tom Sagora, who landed his first Emmy nominee for Bad Thoughts, and I’ll point out play at the reON Comedy Festival. Deadline says, we generally try to avoid arena tier comedians, though a couple’s not through. Let’s look number one, Max Amini. Now I’m already fascinated by this list.

Max Amini. You know how many times I’ve mentioned Maxsimini. This year prior to today’s episode, none, and I can see I suck at this. I’m the worst. I don’t know anything about comedy, and I’m terrible at hosting a podcast.

But I can tell you almost every day I google the word comedy, and I also google the word comedian, and I also read several entertainment websites, including Deadline and I’m sitting here right now going Maximini, who Deadline tells us this year he has performed one hundred and fifty sold out shows in nineteen countries, selling over two hundred thousand tickets. In March, Amani released his latest special, Randomly Selected, seeing it pull out a whopping sixteen million views on YouTube Deadline rights. Remarkably, this special is not only the top performing special of the year across all platforms per Nielsen numbers, it’s also the ninth and most viewed on YouTube of all time. Now again, I’m terrible with this. I suck, But I did read other people’s lists.

No one mentioned this. The La Times didn’t mention this. Vulture didn’t mention this. The YouTube algorithm hasn’t put this in in front of me. What is going on here?

Did I move to like a parallel universe where this guy’s the top comedian, described by Jerry Seinfeld as one of the hottest comedians to watch in the next generation of comedy. As of this month, he’s Instagram’s number two creator period, behind only mister beast a Meani, generating two point seven seven billion views on the platform this year and has now surpassed six billion all time. I know somebody out there is screaming, okay boomer at me right now. I get it. I totally get it.

I see these numbers and I’m like wow. And I’m not saying anything negative about him. I’m just saying, wow, how is all this happening without hitting the mainstream media at all? Like zero? I listen to podcasts about comedy.

Haven’t heard the name. I read Deadline, I read Vulture, I read Variety, I read the Hollywood Reporter. I haven’t seen the name. Am I insane? Am I losing my mind?

All right? I guess we got to pay attention to Max Amini. Respect and fine, I’m an old man. Call me whatever you want. I’m just I’m stunned right now, which is why I don’t read these articles in advance.

I’m just done, Okay, Number two Leanne Morgan, Leanne, I’ve heard of She’s in the news all the time. Number three Josh Johnson again makes sense. Is Josh in the mainstream press every day? No? But is he in the comedy press a lot?

Yes? Do the people I interact with regularly mentioned Josh Johnson, Yes, Maximini not so much. Again, I’m just confused, London writes. This year, Josh Johnson elevated into the rotating host schedule on The Daily Show. His tours kicked off in January and continues through February with three hundred shows and one hundred and eleven markets.

Is all more impressive that he’s done it with zero promoter marketing money. He’s gonna play four sold out shows at the Palladium in London at the end of January, and we’ll play five shows of the Beacon in New York City, then five sold out shows at the Chicago Theater on Valentine’s Day weekend. Yep. Massive. He’s known for taking the YouTube with his new long form topical stand up set on a weekly basis.

Forty nine of his last fifty videos have reached over a million views. Absolutely breakout Yearnumber four Ali Sidik again, a name that has come up a lot per Nielsen numbers reviewed by Deadline. My Two Sons was the third most viewed special on any platform in the last year. Sadiq is also on the twenty stand ups to keep an eye on in twenty twenty six. I’m saving that list for January first.

Haven’t looked at it yet, but now I just got spoiled by one of the names. Number five Jimmy O Yang. Johnny Mac loves Jimmy O Yang. Deadline deep dives here into Jimmy O Yang’s international success. Good call there.

Number six Nurse John. Now, Nurse John is someone who’s been on my radar, but not someone who I talk about on the show. A nurse turned viral creator and comedian who blew up online with relatable portrayals of life working in healthcare. Number seven Morgan Jay again, a name that has come up a couple times, which is why I’m just totally just bewildered by Maximini And again, maybe you’re all listening to the podcast hitting delete, going what is wrong with this Johnny Mack guy? But I’m just bewildered because the name did not come up this year.

Morgan Jay now has a full live band a company him at some of his larger shows. This year, Jay boosted his profile and film and TV with appearances on Apple TV’s Stick Opposite Owen Wilson and Mark Marin, and on NBC’s Saint Dennis Medical eight Osco at Cotska. You’ve heard me talk about her for the past few years. Good call there. Number nine Moe Ammer.

I’m a big fan. I’ve liked all of his specials and as I always say, he’s got something to say. I like him a lot. Ten three time guests. John Marco Soiresi still comes on the show, hasn’t.

Jim Gaffigan me cool guy. I’ve been a follower since I saw him at New Faces and he’s hilarious, and you watched his YouTube special, and I think we all love John Marco Siresi. Number eleven on Deadlines list. Robbie Hoffman, yep, like I said, once I saw Mulaney was producing her special, I was like, all right, I got a beef up on Robbie Hoffman and I became a big time believer, and I think a lot of you became big time believers when you watch that special. Robbie Hoffman is fantastic.

I mean the trivia guys have conversations with me about Robbie Hoffman at the Brewery. Umber twelve Caleb Hearn not my cup of tea, but sure. His top episode of his podcast reached over five million viewers on YouTube. That’s not how podcasts work, don’t get Johnny Max started on podcasts versus YouTube shows. You listen to a podcast, read my substack if you want to hear me rand about that.

On number thirteen, jeff Ercurrie.

All right, let’s see what they say here.

The other comic who won twenty twenty five, who was part of our twenty twenty four Comics to Watch the list is jeff Er Currie, who recently completed a nine sold out show residency at the Wilburn Boston with nine thousand tickets sold. Curry rescheduled a good chunk of this year’s tour to be by his wife’s side during her treatment, and pledged to donate one dollar for every ticket sold on the tour to breast cancer research. Recently, he taped a Netflix special during five shows at the Celebrity Theater. Number fourteen. Zakir Khan, India’s Zakir Khan leveled up from theaters to arenas, going from playing the theater at MSG to Madison Square Garden itself.

He did CON this year, became the first comedian performing in Hindi to play Madison Square Garden, New York, as well as Scotiabank Arena Toronto twice and the Coca Cola Arena in Dubai. He’s also the first Asian comedian in a headline and sold out Royal Albert Hall in London. Really really fantastic list by Deadline here, great job, and I think it’s just illustrative of just how much comedy is out there. I meane, a couple of those names, I imagine we’re off your radar, clearly, some of them off my radar. Really, really great job by Deadline.

All right, let’s take the break and then I’ve got a different list for you. I’ve been sitting on this one, and this list came out well well before the murder of Rob Reiner. This from the Boston Globe. They were ranking the top ten network sitcoms of all time, and their headline was All the Family Seinfeld ranking the top ten networks it comes of all time. So I’m just pointing out the timeline there to show it.

Whatever is to come here was not influenced by the Reiner Murders’s see what the Boston Globe says. Here are the criteria rules. Network only thirty minutes strictly comedy. I love Freaks and Geeks, but it was one show. I also love kerb but it was part of HBO, which, as the old catchphrase told us, wasn’t even TV.

All right. The Globe says they’ve tried to avoid recently bias, and here is their list. Number ten Good Time CBS nineteen seventy four to seventy nine. It’s easy and not unfair to dismiss Jimmy Walker’s dyno mites antics as a modern da appendage to minstrelsy. But consider how radical it was to put on a show about life in the Chicago projects, created by two black men on a primetime network in nineteen seventy four, and that gospel funk theme song.

Hard to front any of that, all right. Number nine The Office NBC twenty five to twenty thirteen. I imagine if you listen to this podcast every day, you are familiar with the Office, so I won’t bog down on that. But it’s crazy to have the office behind Abbot Elementary ABC, twenty twenty one to the present. The Globe Rights, but Abbot moves towards the top of the class, largely through the easeful, good humored way.

It addresses the perils facing public education. So were you saying the office walk so Abbot could run? On? Number seven The Honeymoons, CBS nineteen fifty five to fifty six, So they’re including the classic Honeymooners. There there’s a if you deep dive on the Honeymooners.

There’s a lot of later episodes and like TV movies and weird stuff. Number six Cheers, NBC, nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety three. The Globe Rights. Yes, I’d get run out of Boston if I didn’t include Sam Alone and his beloved bar. Number five The Simpsons.

Is The Simpsons a sitcom? Interesting? I guess we could argue that I don’t feel like The Simpsons is a sitcom. I feel like it’s a cartoon. I feel like that’s its own thing.

Number four All in the Family, CBS from nineteen seventy one to seventy nine. Debates raged over where the series was lampooning a bigot or celebrating him all in the family matter and known a way that few, if any other sitcoms have. Number three The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Now, if you ever go back and watch that, that has aged really well. They point out that Ted Knights Ted Baxter was Ron Burgundy before Ron Burgundy really really well said, I’m gonna steal that line next time.

I’m about my love of Will Ferrell movies. Boy, that that is a great, great, great, great great point about Will Ferrell. Wow, Yes, okay, love it. Number two Seinfeld NBC from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety eight. And I was going to sit here and wonder and speculate what they would have at number one, and then my eyes went down and I accidentally spoiled myself.

So I know the answer. But how about you? What do you think? What haven’t we mentioned yet? I’m just trying to rack my brain here, Happy Days mash.

What else do people like? People like Parks and rec people like thirty Rock Raymond, people like that one. Nope, they have as number one. I Love Lucy from CBS from nineteen fifty one to nineteen fifty seven. Again can’t argue with the pick.

But on the other hand, we’ve been doing TV now for another seventy years and no one’s been able to do better than I Love Lucy. That in itself says something they write. It’s the fountain head of the sho genre. Not the first sitcom, but the one that showed how it’s done. It still helps that it’s still very, very funny.

Okay. I won’t lose my mind about that list. That list is not awful. I’m sure if I sat here and thought about it and made a list out of a different list, but not crazy. Okay, And as weekend filler goes, I enjoyed today’s episode.

I hope you did too. Tomorrow a look at the top twenty five stand up comedians of the twenty first century so far. I’ve got some thoughts. Meet you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media should Stephen Colbert run for president. I’ve suggested that before High I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy, and he was a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry, which is a phrase you would say, and it might take your Spotify numbers from eleven percent to fourteen percent. But I don’t have time for that right now. Stephen Colbert was at slat’s political gamb Fest. He was asked if he would run for president in twenty twenty eight.

Colbert replied absolutely. I should not run for president, and I understand why you want me to. I have to discuss with my faith leader and my family to see if once in my service on the Late Show ens in May, I could be of some greater service to this nation that I love so much. But it sounds like he’s not gonna run, which is a shame. I think he would be a good candidate.

Here’s why. He speaks well, he can debate well, and he looks nice. Those are three important things. And he seems calm. We could use a little calm right now.

On crack dot Com, Keegan Kelley writes Dave Chappelle and the Saudi Royal Family deserve each other. In response to some of mister Chappelle’s jokes keating, Kelly writes, in Saudi Arabia, trans people can be beaten in prison, tortured, and murdered for their identities. Homosexuality is illegal in the country, as his gender reassignment surgery addressing in ways that don’t reflect one’s assigned sex at birth. Critics of the Riad Comedy Festival know that in order to secure his no doubt exorbitant appearance fee at the Read Comedy Festival, Chappelle had assign a censorship contract guaranteeing that he would not joke about Saudi Arabian culture, religion, or politics, and he would not utter a single word about the Saudi Royal family. But ultimately Chappelle doesn’t care about any of that because none of it prohibits him from performing comedy his way.

Plus, as an obscenely wealthy and decorated artist who considers criticism of his comedy to be a civil rights issue, Chappelle clearly empathizes with the Saudi Royal family’s draconian treatment of dissent. Kelly suggests Dave Chappelle should switch to a Saudi Arabian streaming service for his next nine figure distribution deal. Johnny mcdin’ realize his voice is a little thin today until he got behind the microphone. Shane Gillis is set to make his BKFC debut in twenty twenty six. Now you’re like Johnny Mack, what’s BKFC.

Is that like a Chicken place in Brooklyn? No, BKFC is bear knuckle Boxing. Shane Gillis is attending Knucklemania six and we’ll walk out heavyweight Patrick Brady at the event on February seventh in Philadelphia. Shane Gillis gave in after Brady posted a series of comedic videos requesting Shane Gillis join his corner to convince Shane Gillis to walk him out. Brady posted multiple videos of himself taking body shots from other professional fighters until Shane gave in.

Gillis commented, I’m in after watching one of the videos of Brady getting punched in the stomach. Amy Schumer in the news again. Various reports, including one of the Daily Mail, quoting all sorts of insiders. One insider alleges that Amy Schumer realized she couldn’t have it all at once. It was challenging juggling her marriage with the pressures of show business.

Her career slowed down after becoming a mom, and she didn’t prioritize her professional goals with the same zeal she once did. The Insider says that Amy’s confidence skyrocketed with her weight loss, and she ultimately chose to focus on her career. The Blast said Schumer not only obtained a toned physique, but gained a more chiseled face. The Blast spoke to some beauty experts. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Doctor Kahn offered his professional opinion.

According to doctor Kahn, he agrees that Amy is using filters to achieve her flawless appearance. He believes she either got botox or is editing her instagrams. Ricky Gervais was on the jack Mates Happy Hour podcast and doesn’t think he’ll do another TV show. Dervease said, I don’t know. I’m really loving stand up at the moment when I first started, I thought on myself as a writer, director and actor, and stuff had written and directed, and you do the odd film project.

And then I tried stand up and I did stand up tours between series. In the last few years, maybe the last six seven, eight years, it switched around. I feel that stand up is my job. I feel that I’ve always got to be doing stand up. And I finished a project, I think of doing something else that it’ll take three years.

Ali Katz will be I think three or four years after Afterlife ended. But I’ve just finished the tour and I’ve put a new material Nights in January. So once I finished that, I put that on Netflix and I’m starting again. I feel now that I’m a touring Netflix stand up and I wonder what I’ll do in the daytime. Ricky talked about getting older, saying, if I do three gigs in a row now at my age, I wake up and I think, was I run over last night?

I got to do another gig tonight. It gets sort of harder. And I don’t know if there’s an adrenaline dump that I don’t notice at the time, or it might just be that I’m sixty four. When I was a kid, the thought of being sixty four was do you live that long? I know it’s different now.

I mean, I should be retiring anyway soon, and I don’t think about retiring, but I just think it takes a little bit more.

Also, it’s for the ten thousand pounds for the chickens.

I think I don’t need to do it. I don’t need to have ten thousand dollars to have a chicken. So something’s got to be amazing for me to do it. Ricky has donated two and a half million pounds to animal charities from the proceeds of the Mortality World Tour. Ricky announced on Twitter to celebrate my Mortality Tour, my Netflix special, my Golden Globes nomination, and the Spirit of Christmas, donating two point four to three million two animals.

These are the lovely charities have chosen Merry Christmas critters. The list includes the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, the International Animal Rescue, the Celia Hemmond Animal Trust, and Animals Asia. They’ll all receive one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Now Zad, which provides animal welfare services in Afghanistan and Ukraine, will be given one hundred and thirty two thousand pounds, and there were seventeen other charities which will all receive one hundred thousand pounds Rickysrvased Mortality is on Netflix December thirtieth Tomorrow. On this program, we’ve got a couple list articles for you.

Then on Sunday and Monday, I will take a look at remember that list of the top comedians of the twenty first century. I have some thoughts. Those will be Sunday and Monday’s episodes, and then on Tuesday we’ll jump back in with a normal episode. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News so it shows up in your feet every morning. I hear that’s the kind of thing that’ll jump your Spotify numbers from eleven to fourteen percent in a hurry.

Oh, we don’t have time for that right now, because it is time before the comedy stock market hit it. Burt Reynolds Comedy stock Market. Yes, it is the final comedy stock market of twenty twenty five. And a reminder, this is not saying somebody’s good or bad. It is finding the value so we can make some money on our comedy stocks.

My cell recommendation, let’s sell Bowen Yang. I know everybody’s fawning over Bowen Yang and bon Voyage and he’s great and all that, and that’s when you sell, you get out now. As I said earlier in the week, I’m not sure what Bowen Yang’s future is. My comparison is Kate McKinnon. Yeah, he’s great on SNL, but are you going to see a bone Yang movie?

Do you want a Boon Yang sitcom? I’m not sure you do. Let’s sell. Kamil nan Gianni was this special funny sure, but he’s not gonna stick with this. He wants to be an actor.

Everything about him tells he wants to be an actor. So, yeah, he popped into the comedy stage for a day and he’s he’s gone again. So he’s overvalued. Let’s sell. And remember this is all about value.

Also overvalued right now is Jimmy Kimmel. Sure, everybody loves Jimmy Kimmel right now, but remember this is about value. Let’s get out on Jimmy Kimmel. Let’s buy some Stephen Colbert because he said he wasn’t gonna run for president, but he didn’t totally say no way I would run for president. And maybe he was just floating as an idea.

So let’s scoop up a little Colbert because he had never know what happens and let’s sell some Dave Chappelle. I’ve never seen a special flame out like that. That went from like, oh my god, Dave spell is a special to two days later nobody was even talking about it. Was it good? Sure?

But Chappelle might be overvalued these days. So we’re gonna sell Bow and Yang. We’re gonna sell come out on Geohnny. We’re gonna sell some Kimmel, but I can see us buying back in. We’re gonna buy Colbert, and we’re gonna sell Dave Chappelle.

I feel bad that that’s kind of a negative comedy stock market, but we’re here to make money off these things, and that’s where the value is. James Cameron not too happy with Amy Poehler. Back in twenty three ten, Amy Poehler was hosting the Golden Globeskathern Bigelow was the Best Director nominee thanks to Zero Dark thirty. Amy Poehler joked, when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron. Cameron is not happy with that, he told The New York Times.

Amy Poehler’s remark was an ignorant dig at an event that’s supposed to be a celebration of cinema and filmmakers. I’m bretty, thick skinned and happy to be the butt of a good natured joke. But that went too far. The fact that people found it funny shows exactly what they think of me, even though they have no idea who I am or how I work. Now, look note Tinniggy Glazer, who’s hosting the Golden Globes this year.

You have to be very, very careful because you know, some people say they’re willing to be the butt of a good natured joke, and then some people will just stoneface you and practically wreck your career, like, for example, one time Joe Coy told it is a horrible, just awful joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen, a big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. Vin Spacey is back, baby. You may recall Kevin Spacey was the star of House of Cards.

Now if you put on Netflix, they act like Kevin Spacey’s not even in any of the episodes. There’s always somebody else on the title card Kevin Spacey never heard of them Well. Kevin Spacey is now staring in the Italian comedy series Mini Market for Italy’s state broadcaster RAI. We’re told it’s a low budget show at which the two time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey plays Kevin Spacey, the imaginary mentor of a young man who works at a Rome convenience store and dreams of becoming a TV star like Kevin Spacey. In a promo, Kevin Spacey sings Randy Newman’s You’ve Got a Friend in Me and Frank Sinatras I’ve Got you under my Skin.

I know you want to watch this. What’s Mini Market about? Well? Kevin Spacey plays Manilo’s artistic conscience and unpredictable mentor. Their relationship is grounded in bickering, misunderstandings and mutual teasing.

The show captures both the experience of a man who’s been on the world’s most important movie in TV sets and recklessness of someone who does not realize that they have an Oscar winner by their side. Mini Market is ten episodes. It’s out today on the RII Play streaming service, and bad news for the paper you know the office sort of spin off. Well, they’ve been airing it on NBC and apparently isn’t doing too well because NBC originally was going to run it through January twenty six and now they’re like, yeah, we’re just gonna run three episodes on January third, which is a Saturday, which screams they want out of the paper business. I believe it was renewed for Peacock, but apparently not doing well on over the air television.

And that is your comedy news for today. Again. Tomorrow, I’ve got some lists for you, and then Monday and Tuesday I’ll take a look at the top comedians of the twenty first century so far. See you there,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnnie Mack, and today is part two of my look at Variety’s top one hundred best comedy movies of all Time. I guess they didn’t say top, they said the the one hundred best comedy movies of all time. Yesterday I did one hundred through fifty, and I guess I probably should have stopped at fifty one. Right, So today we’re taking a look at the final forty nine.

I guess I messed that up. Oh well, number forty nine Shampoo from nineteen seventy five. I remember there being such a movie. I was a young lad then. I couldn’t tell you a thing about it.

Roddy tells us. It’s one of the great demonstrations of how a seventies movie could tackle so many things, including the sexual revolution, the entertainment industry, and Nixon, and still emerge as a perfect spitting in the air diversion. George is a Beverly Hills hairdresser who’s such a born seducer that he always makes it look like the women are coming after him. George played by Warren Batty Okay number forty eight, bringing up Baby from nineteen thirty eight carry Grant and Catherine Hepburn right there. You know it’s gonna be good because of the cast.

Forty seven from twenty fourteen. The Grand Budapest Hotel number forty six Coming to America from nineteen eighty eight. People really like that film, even though I’m from Queen’s I never really loved it. Forty five Kind Hearts and Coronets from nineteen forty nine, One of the most scathing black comedies ever made, says Variety, tells the story of Lewis, whose mother was disowned by her aristocratic clan after she eloped. Lewis, born poor, is eighth in line to inherit the family royal title on the fortune that goes with it, the situation he decides to rectify by murdering each of the seven relatives who stand in his way.

Each one of those seven relatives is played by Alec Guinness, who knew Kine. Hearts and Coronets number forty four, Missus Doubtfire from nineteen ninety Okay again, nice fun movie. Who doesn’t like Robin Williams? Is it funnier than Airplane? You’re Insane?

Forty three Team America World Police forty two four Weddings and a Funeral from nineteen ninety four. Forty one, The Beatles in a Hard Day’s Night. Yeah, okay, forty I’m gonna throw my laptop across the room. Zoolander from two thousand and one. Just no, just no, I’d actually watch Adam Sandler movies before I’d watch Zoolander.

Ben Stiller’s zeny send up of the fashion industry, Just No. Thirty nine, Clueless from nineteen ninety five, Fine thirty eight, Jerry Lewis and The Nutty Professor from nineteen sixty three, Fine thirty seven, The Princess Bride from nineteen eighty seven, Okay, Cool thirty six, nineteen ninety four’s ed Wood, All right, we’re on a little roll here. School of Rock from two thousand and three. At thirty five again, Airplane was like sixty something. Riddy writes, Jack Black is great at what he does, but he’s not commonly thought of as a great actor.

I guess you can pick up the kind of comedy I don’t like. Number thirty four with Nail and I from nineteen eighty seven. Variety writes no one had heard of Richard Grant when he played with Nail A failed counterculture actor with a lust for adventure, best expressed by his willingness to drink anything in a bottle, including furniture polish. Apparently it’s very footy. Thirty three nineteen eighty Five’s Lost in America.

I don’t even know what to do with this list anymore. Sullivan’s Travels from nineteen forty one. Popular director John L. Sullivan played by Joel McCrae, is hit with an existential crisis, which he believes he can fix by making a star commentary on the problems that confront the average man. The trouble is he’s known mostly for disposable studio comedies.

Is this like an Adam Sandler prequel? I might have to check that out. Number thirty one from nineteen seventy two, Pink Flamingos celebrating John Waters thirty Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Okay, my kind of movie, but heads ahead against Airplane No. No Oh twenty nine When Harry met Sally.

I saw that in theaters back in nineteen eighty nine and liked it a lot. Nice little film. Sure. Number twenty eight Richard Pryor Live in Concert Now that was out in theaters because we were a little early for an HBO comedy special, and we definitely had Netflix yet, So in modern times we would consider this a quote unquote comedy special, but it was a movie. Briddy writes, there’s no debating that Richard Pryor is the greatest stand up comedian who ever lived.

Time out. You can debate it. I mean, if I went up to you and I said, no, I disagree. I think Richard Pryor is the second greatest and George Carlin is the greatest. I mean, that’s a debate.

You can disagree. You might even win the argument, but you wouldn’t be like, that’s crazy, Johnny Mack. How dare you suggest George Carlin is the greatest comedian of all time? I mean, it’s debatable, Guys. Brody writes, Richard Pryor’s best performance became a landmark concert film in which Prior turned everything he touched into a scaldingly funny theater of truth.

The Philadelphia Story from nineteen forty. This is not the one with the aircraft carrier that goes back in time during World War two, And just when the movie gets interesting, they’re like, oh yeah, then the time warp is back and we’re back into the present. No, that’s the Philadelphia experiment. This is Katherine Hepburn and Carry Grant, totally different movie twenty six Borat And they even use the full title here Borat Cultural Leanings of America for make benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. You know, that’s a great pick.

That’s one of those films that I don’t think I laughed more and I’m a comedy snob watching it. Wow, this probably is ranked criminally low at twenty six. Good pick with that, We’ll take the break here and come back in the top. Twenty five is probably all the Adam Sandler filmography, right, continuing our look at Variety’s best at comedy movies of all time now stunning ley and we’ve gone through seventy five of them and only mentioned one Adam Sandler movie, which means one of two things, either a variety or really tasteful people or b is insane. And I’m about to list like fifteen to the next twenty five being Adam sailor movies, in which case this may be the last episode of Daily Comedy News.

We’re about to find out number twenty five one of my favorite films of All Time from nineteen seventy Mash fantastic film. If you’ve only seen the TV show, it may throw you a little bit. This version of Hawkeye and Trapper are a little darker than the Alan Alda Wayne Rodgers version. Great great film. Nice pick there.

Twenty four Bridesmaids from twenty eleven twenty three from nineteen thirty two Trouble in Paradise. Bridey explains to the extent that any romantic relationship is based on trust, the two party’s fear of betrayals compounded when both are thieves twenty two. Caddy Shack from nineteen eighty I’d probably have that way up there with like, I’m hoping I get to say words to you like stripes and Animal House. I hope these are words that are going to be said soon, Caddy Shack. And I’m looking at a picture of Bill Murray and the Gopher and I’m smiling.

Absolutely fantastic. But now I’m worried, because Variety writes. In the late seventies movie comedy that changed Hollywood and change the culture, not necessarily for the better, was National Lampoon’s Animal House. But even as that showy retro Fratthouse Bash became a classic, it was never as funny as the casually delirious Snobs Versus Slob’s Golf comedy that arrived two years later. Does that mean Animal House is not on this list?

Because that’s gonna make Johnny Mack very sad? Twenty one, The Bank Dick from nineteen forty W. C. Fields all Right, fair enough? Super Bad from two thousand and seven.

Nice movie, a lot of fun? Is it? Forty something? Movies? Better than Airplane?

Of course not nineteen It Happened One Night from nineteen thirty four. Rody says it’s the movie that invented the form of the screwball romantic comedies. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert eighteen This is Spinal Tap again, really love This is spinal Tap, but eighteen that seems insane to me? I mean, and I really like it seventeen nineteen seventy two is The Heartbreak Kid. Charles Groden plays Lenny, a nice Jewish boy who gets married on impulse and then, while still on his honeymoon, ditches his bread for a more attractive candidate played by Sybil Shephard.

Not familiar with that one from nineteen forty his girl Friday carry Grant again, apparently Cary Grant the greatest comedic actor of the last one hundred and twenty five years. From nineteen sixty seven, It’s playtime, and you’re like, Johnny Mack, what’s playtime? And that is a good question. Here we file Mosieur Hulou, a gauky, mute, pipe smoking overcoat wearing middle aged French geek update of Charlie Chaplin in this movie, Hulo travels through Paris. Okay, are we getting any Pink Panther movies on this list?

Are we getting any Peter Sellers Number fourteen from two thousand and four Sideways. I’m now convinced variety or just film snobs. I mean sideways. I would put Adam Sailor movies. We’ve had one Adam Sailor movie.

Even Johnny Mack, known Adam Sailor comedy hater, is like, really sideways? Stars Paul Giamatti, Fine, okay, thirteen, all right, good pick here? Thank you? Did you hear? They must have heard me yelling into the sky?

Why know Peters Ellers movies? Because number thirteen is Doctor Strangelove. They use the full title Doctor strange love or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb? Yes, thank you who I was worried there for a second? Twelve Tutsi from nineteen eighty two.

One of those movies that if you had HBO in the eighties, if you saw fifty thousand times, haven’t seen it in the twenty first century. I have fond memories of it. I guess it’s good. Stustin Hoffman, How bad could it be? Number eleven from nineteen twenty four Sherlock Junior, Buster Keaton.

I didn’t know this existed. I’m glad we’ve got Buster Keaton on the list. Number ten from nineteen ninety three Groundhog Day. Nice movie? Are there funnier movies?

Sure? But okay? Number nine Young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four, good pick. I still think Blazing Saddle should have been a lot higher, but get to get more Millbrooks on here. Number eight from nineteen ninety six, Fargo film snobs love the Coen Brothers.

Is Fargo fifty plus better than Airplane? Of course? Not? Seven Duck Soup from nineteen thirty three. Can’t argue with the Marx Brothers.

Sure six Monty Python on the Holy Grail. Now we’re talking. That’s my kind of movie, Variety writes, instead of feeling like disjointed sketches, the jokes assumed epic form. The closer Arthur’s Knights get to the Grail, the more absurd their obstacles become. There’s the Black Knight, the insufferable French, and the bloodthirsty rabbit that awaits them.

Yes, Number five, Waiting for Guffman from nineteen sixty six. The movie snobs at Variety are making optimal use of his mockumentary format that he’d help pioneer on. This is spinal Tap. Christopher Guest makes the top ten for the second time, assembled a dream team of improv comedy talent to poke fun at small town theatrical production. Waiting for Guffman.

Number five on Variety’s list. Okay, Number four The Great Dictator from nineteen forty good film in which to honor Charlie Chaplin, Great Fantastic Three Annie Hall from nineteen seventy seven. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the nineteen seventy eight Academy Awards. It beat out The Turning Point, Julia, The Goodbye Girl, and Star Wars Annie Hall. Best Picture.

By the way, we used to have movies back in the day. As I was pulling that up, I pulled up the wrong year. But let me just tell you the nominations for Best Picture in nineteen seventy seven were listen to this set, This is great, Bound for Glory whatever, Okay, All the President’s Men, Rocky Network, and Taxi Driver. The award went to Rocky Network is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is prophetic.

You should watch it. It’s basically somebody invented the Turn of the century. Fox Networks in nineteen seventy seven is basically what it is. And of course All the President’s Men is great, and Taxi Drivers great, and Bound for Glory I’m not really familiar with. But that’s not what we’re talking about.

We’re talking about how Annie Hall is Variety’s number three comedy of all time. Have I still only said the word Sam once or twice? Once? Right? Once?

Number two Some Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine, which means Adam Sandler’s Jack Jill is going to be number one, okay, but number two Some Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine. Tony Curtis Jack Lemon. Sure that makes me want to put Operation Petticoat on this list somewhere. How about mister Roberts, Is that a comedy? It’s kind of a comedy.

Why isn’t that on this list? And according to Variety, the number one comedy of all time The Naked Gun from the files of Police Squad. How are you putting that up there? And you have Airplane sixty later, let’s hear a Variety out. They say, there’s a god given right that anyone making a big screen comedy should have, and that is the right to make fun of In The Naked Gun, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abraham’s and Jerry Zucker took that right to a pitch of high hilarity that remains unequaled.

The glory of The Naked Gun is that it’s shamelessly unhimited, a comedy that will make fun of anything. Global Autocrats, Stagy, Film Noir, Dialogue, Safe Sex, a professional baseball game, food left in the refrigerator too long? Somehow they have that at number one an airplanes somewhere in the sixties. They also have put OJ Simpson at number one. O J.

Simpson one of the great comedic actors of all time in clearly the greatest comedy of all time. So we have in the top three there both Woody Allen and OJ Simpson. So that’s Variety’s list. I guess the good thing is that they barely mentioned Adam Sandler. For that, I think it’s a great list.

I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack, and today we’re taking a look at the one hundred best comedy movies of all time, according to Variety, I was saving this one for the holidays. I really haven’t looked at it. I kind of spoiled at what number one is, and but I’ve half erased from my brain. I think I know what number one is.

But if you’re new to the program, anytime I do one of these list episodes, I like to do it cold, without previously having formed opinions, so you can hear me react to the moment when I’m like, oh, good, pick word. That’s crazy. Variety says, in compiling our list of the all time greatest screen comedies, we thought long and hard about what makes a classic, but mostly we heeded the call of our funny bones. We hope these movies tickle yours as much as they do ours. One hundred Bridget Jones Diary, ninety nine Wayne’s World.

That seems absurdly low. What else are there really ninety eight fun films than Wayne’s World? Okay they’re rite ah. The Saturday Night Live spin off movie was a form that regularly popped up in multiplexes he had almost inevitably was not very good. It took characters like Stuart Smalley and the Coneheads and the Roxbury Guys and plopped them into feature length comedies that just wound up making you realize how perfectly suited they were to late night sketches.

All that’s fair, But Wayne’s world is different. Yes, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey created characters that exerted a residence far beyond how funny they were. In some weird way, they were just like us. Good Pick feels Low ninety eight, Pretty Woman ninety seven born yesterday from nineteen fifty. You may not be familiar with this one.

I’m not either. Belligerent small time criminal Harry Brock played by Broder Crawford, brings his galp Billy Dawn played by Judy Holliday to Washington, d C. But worries she’ll embarrass him, so he hires a reporter played by William Holden to two to her. Only the more education Billy gets, the less she appreciates being ordered around by a thug. Ninety six I’m Gonna get You, Sucker Brazil.

So far, I kind of hate this list. Ninety four, Clerks ninety three, Hairspray ninety two, The Jerk, If you weren’t around, the Jerk was like huge, and Steve Martin as a comedian was huge that year. I haven’t heard anybody mention the Jerk in a zillion years, I don’t think. Actually, I’m positive I’ve not seen it in the twenty first century. Ninety one, She’d Done Him Wrong from nineteen thirty three, starring May West, ninety Bob and Carolyn, Ted and Alice from nineteen sixty nine.

Eighty nine Fast Times at Ridgemond High. Okay, this is the gen xer in me. I know what you’re thinking of right now, me too. Two words, Phoebe Kates. We don’t even care if the movie is funny.

Have you seen that scene? Is that not etched in your brain? Fellow gen xer? It is, let’s all be honest. But even beside that, get that out of your brain for a second.

Jeff’spacoli, right. I feel like this should be way up there. Eighty eight Anchorman, The Legend of ron Burgundy. The more I see Will Ferrell movies, the less I like them. I know everybody loves this one.

Okay, fie. I won’t fight you on it. I mean, it’s definitely a funny movie. Eighty eight sure seems well ranked. Why not?

Eighty seven Everything Everywhere, All at once? Famous comedy? Eighty six Idiocracy is Idiocrasy a comedy? Or is it actually a documentary about America in twenty twenty six? I think it’s a movie from the future that was sent back to warn us, and we are ignoring all the warnings.

If you haven’t seen Idiocracy, watch it and you’ll be like, yeah, it’s okay. But twenty years ago it was like this is ridiculous, and now it’s just like a Tuesday Fiety rights. If you think what’s going on in America right now happened from the top down, check yourself. The truth is it just happened just as much from the bottom up. And Mike Judge foresaw that when he made his cracksatsire of the dumbing down of America eighty five to be or Not to Be?

From nineteen forty two.

All right, here’s a deep throw.

And I don’t know anything about movies. By the way, if you come to trivia night and they ask movie questions, I never ever know the answer. I know the random stuff, But movies is like this weird weak spot for me that I know nothing, and we all look at John Van. We’re like, John Van, do you know the answer to this one? But sometimes Fan doesn’t come and everybody looks at me, and I’m like, I don’t know.

Nothing worse at trivia than leaving it blank except in the fifth round if you write incorrect answer in the fifth round, they take off two points. But in the other rounds, a blank is just a blank, So you might as well guess I digress to be or not to be. From nineteen forty two, Brady tells us Adolf Hitler was at his heights and World War II was well underway when German expatriot and master satirist Ernst Lubitch took direct aim at the Third Reich. Using signature aspects of his comedic style. The Berlin born Helmer skewer the Gestapo and use comedy to support the Allies, cause plot twists and mistaken identity spoilers.

You had fifty seventy, now you had seventy years. No, you had eighty years. You had eighty years. Okay, don’t get mad at me. I’m spoiling a movie from nineteen forty two, You had time, plot twists and mistaken identities build on one another in the del lightfully concluded story of a theatrical troop who used their acting skills to fool the Nazis.

Never heard of that film. I also never heard of this film Number eighty four from nineteen eighty eight, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown pedro Outmodovar’s first films were looser and funnier than the serious oscar latted work that followed. This melodrama unspoils almost entirely in one place, the apartment of Pepa, a heartbroken woman who plans to enter her life with a batch of spice Caspacho, only to watch guests pass out as they consume it instead. I guess that could be funny. Eighty three Wet Hot American Summer eighty two.

Nineteen thirty seven’s The Awful Truth, director Leo Mcarrey encouraged his actors Carrie Grant and Irene Dunn to improvise as they played a married couple who were both convinced the others being unfaithful. Eighty one The Devil Wears Prada eighty Bamboozled from two thousand seventy nine, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. All Right, that’s a fun pick. I like that one seventy eight Night at the Opera, seventy seven Blazing Saddles from nineteen seventy four seems absurdly low. No, what’s going to be the top twenty five like all the Adam Sandler movies.

Seventy six something called Me and You and Everyone We Know from two thousand and five. The movie is about his search for connection in the early aughts, when chat rooms let people feel a virtual sense of intimacy with total strangers. And number seventy five A movie I love. Sean of the Dead. Have you ever seen Sean of the Dead?

You should watch Sean of the Dead. Simon Pegg plays a sad sack London salesman named Sean. He of the dead, but he’s not dead. He and his best friend Ed takes shelter from the zombie apocalypse in a pub very very funny movie. And seventy five seems a nice round number on which to take the break.

Continuing varieties. One hundred Best Comedies, Number seventy four Private Benjamin from nineteen eighty That’s another one of those films that, like the Jerk, that was around and around and around and has disappeared, and I haven’t heard of it in a million years. Did they even make a TV show out of this? Did? I imagine that Goldie Hawn is a spoiled rich girl whose husband died on their wedding night and she’s accidentally enlisted into the US Army.

I have not seen that in this century, but I remember that being funny. A Napoleon Dynamite from two thousand and four is number seventy three, seventy two, The Big Lebowski from nineteen ninety eight. I know people really love that film. Seventy one is Miracle at Morgan’s Creek from nineteen forty four. For Preston Sturgis, nothing was sacred, at least of all the institution of marriage.

A screwball screenwriting genius and the first to direct his own material, Sturgis takes aim at the way many American gals gave enlisted men the warmest of sendoffs, only to be saddled with souvenirs of their hospitality some nine months later. I see what you did there? Okay? Seventy legally Blonde from two thousand and one. Sixty nine ace Ventura Pet Detective Jim Carrey making a movie that is worthy of Adam Sandler.

Variety writes there’s a certain kind of infantile hypomania comedian and the site examples Jerry Lewis and Adam Sandler, who wants his cherish but who critics inevitably dismiss as silly, mind numbing, lowest common denominator. In other words, name your synonym for dumb. I want to give that sentence standing Ovation sixty eight from two thousand and nine In the Loop, a whiplash version of how Western democracy operates. Never heard of it, not saying it’s a dumb pick. I’ll just telling you I’ve never heard of it.

I’ve also never heard of Hell’s a Poppin from nineteen forty one. One word hell’ za with a Z poppin with an apostrophe at the end. Hell’s a Poppin. That’s not me having the queen’s accent. It’s Hell’s a Poppin.

While less remembered than Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, the comedy duo of Olsen and Johnson had a huge stage hit with Helsa poppin The Sticky Show that was never the same experience twice as the pair injected topical jokes and fresh improv every night for three years. The Broadway hit was blisteringly fast paced and self aware, with the two stars frequently breaking the fourth wall. All right, that sounds fun. Sixty six Eddie Murphy raw, Isn’t that just a comedy special? Is that a comedy movie?

We’re counting that now? We just opened up a whole can of worms with this pic. I mean, yes, I love it. And Variety kind of sort of aligns with me here, who says that Eddie Murphy, as great as he is and was was just doing a Richard Pryor cover act. They point out his delirious Prior Esque fantasy of marrying an African princess.

Murphy, like Prior, rarely found a Hollywood vehicle that could channel his comic inspiration the way a stand up stage could. From twenty twenty three, there was a movie called Poor Things that comes in at number sixty five. Variety says, from Mabbitt and Costello meet Frankenstein to weird science, Mary Shelley’s classic Monster often works better as comedy than horror. Emma Stone is a reanimated corpse with the brain of a baby. Apparently that’s a movie that happened.

It’s quite funny. A fish called Wanda from nineteen eighty eight. People like me were like, I wish we had more Monty Python things, and they were like, how about people from Monty Python plus Jamie Lee Curtis, And I was like, all right, I generally am of the opinion that Jamie Lee Curtis makes things better. Michael Palin also in this one, and Kevin Klein was quite good in it. Sixty three from nineteen seventy four, Going Places a French film.

Okay, sixty two an outrage? Right now? How is this possibly sixty two? You’re going to tell me there are sixty one better comedy movies than Airplane? Are you insane?

There’s no way. How is the Airplane only number sixty two? It probably should be one outrage at least I’ve yet to say an Adam Sandlor film. But on the other hand, maybe the entire top twenty is the Adam Sandler filmography. I’m worried now on number sixty one.

The Bird Cage from nineteen ninety six, sixty, Tom Hanks in Big from nineteen eighty eight, fifty nine Pillow Talk from nineteen fifty nine, Rock Hudson and Doris Day filmmakers being a little fifties era Naughty Riddy says a good example is the split screen scene in which the two stars appear in separate tubs, arranged side by side, as if to suggest they’re bathing together. Number fifty eight, nineteen nineties House Party starring Kid and Play ranked higher than Airplane number fifty seven. My Best Friend’s Wedding from nineteen ninety seven is ranked higher than Airplane number fifty six. The Odd Couple, the Walter Matthew Jack Lemmon version from nineteen sixty eight, or I’d see there. I won’t throw my laptop across the room.

Great Film fifty five from nineteen twenty three, Safety Last. You have seen at least clips of this Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock high above the city scape. You’ve seen this this back when they used to do really cool special effects, before special effects went digital. You’ve seen this clip number fifty four. I may throw my laptop across the room.

Will Ferrell and Elf higher than Airplane number fifty three Broadcast News on your list of top comedy movies. Fifty two The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe from nineteen seventy two. What right he tells us? A French spy comedy. It’s funnier than all the Pink Panther movies put together.

This one, too, involves a fair amount of clueless bumbling. You see, Francois, a frizzy haired concert violinist, is chosen at random by a member of the counter espionage department. They pretend that Francois as a master spy. That sounds like it could be funny. Fifty one being John Malcovich from nineteen ninety nine and number fifty ah A, what a perfect time to wrap up today’s episode.

Our first Adam Sandler movie, The water Boy from nineteen ninety eight. Variety smoked some crack and wrote The water Boy is the most uproarious and indelible of Sadler’s early funny films. That’s because he basically took those two warring aspects of a persona the harmless arrested child side the one that was like Jerry Lewis on goofball steroids, they write, and then the violent walking in side. By the time Sandler released this unhinged grid Iron comedy, he had already begun his journey towards becoming a supple actor the wedding singer, His key transition film, came out nine months before. Right Will come back tomorrow with the rest of the list.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News it daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Which is the sort of sentence you might say if you were finding success goosing the Spotify transcription algorithm. But we don’t have time for that right now. Hey, uh is the Chappelle buzzle already gone?

Remember? Like this weekend was like, oh my god, Chappelle dropped a specially we gotta watch specially we gottach special Botus episode. Hey, everybody Botus episode look at Me?

And now like, uh, I feel like nobody cares already that one quick.

There is a shocking amount of real news for this close to the Christmas holiday. Jimmy Kimmel will deliver a Christmas message to the United Kingdom on Christmas. Now, if you listen to the Palace Intrigue podcast, which I write every single day, you know that King Charles delivers a Christmas message every day to the people on Christmas. Well over on the other channel, Channel four, they always have a counter message, being a little rascally. They don’t want to hear from the King.

They want to hear from someone else, and this year that someone else’s Jimmy Kimmel. Who will say, and this isn’t me doing a joke. Apparently this is from the script, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Kimmel is also expected to warn that press freedoms can be snuffed out quickly, and to urge UK viewers to resist attacks on free speech. Kimme is expected to pay tribute to those who criticized his suspension from ABC.

A Channel four insider said Kimmel says the reason he’s back on airs because people spoke out and people protested. Kimmel’s alternative Christmas message will be broadcast on Christmas Day at five forty five pm Local time, less than two hours after the King’s message. The New York Post spoke to a source about Bowen Yang leaving SNL. The source said, it’s his choice. People have no idea what’s really going on.

This has come out of the blue, but it’s no surprise. Back in September, a source told the Post Bowen was telling friends that it was his time. He wanted to move on, and was even planning to spend time in Japan. People on the show told him to take the summer to think it over, but it looked like he was leaving and everybody was just waiting for the announcement. He talked to Laurne and then NBC threw a ton of money at him.

Interesting Also from The York Post, a big profile of Amy Schumer under the headline Amy Schumer proudly lights Hanukkah candles, noting she learned who her real friends were after October seventh. Amy shared a video online on Sunday. In it, Amy says, I stood up and spoke my mind after October seventh. I didn’t know I would be such a minority. There were like three of us who opened our mouths.

The copywriting in the Post article is very strange. I quote of verbatim. The funny Lady said she was grateful that the Hamas Israel war sparked by the October seventh, twenty twenty three mascer launched against Israel by the Palestinian terror group, provided her clarity as she found out who my real friends are now. I’m in no way disparaging the back end of that sentence, but just saying the funny Lady, like, did we write this in nineteen fifty six. What is this?

The funny Lady? I digress? Amy said it provided her clarity. She found out who my real friends are. Knowing the few people who feel that everyone should be equal.

It shouldn’t be except Jews. It felt like everybody is fighting for everybody’s rights except for Jewish people. So every time we gather, we take a moment with our family, every time we light the candle, I feel like we’ve won. Enjoying and being proud of being Jews. I think my ancestors would be proud.

Amy showed off pictures of her grandparents catching a show for some laughs and the Catskills when it was known as the Jewish Porsch Belt of comedy. Again that the catching a show for some laughs and the funny Lady. It’s very nineteen fifty six this copy. And I don’t want to take away from Amy being serious here. She said, that’s how we survive.

That’s not unique to me. That’s Jewish character. Nice job by gab Iglesias. He’s announced a benefit show on Christmas Night. Gabe will be at the Heb Performance Hall at the Tobin Center Christmas Night, a one night only holiday comedy show featuring surprise acts.

Donate ten can foods per person to receive a wristband for general admission. Donations will be accepted at the San Antonio Food Bank between noon and three on Christmas Day. Guests can line up at the Tobin Center once they received their wristband, seating his first Come, First Serve doors open six thirty show at seven to thirty. Patreon teamed up with Stavros Halkias. Stavros plays a mob boss style Santa who resents Patreon’s subscription model, disrupting traditional gift giving.

The campaign is called Santa Hates Patreon. We see Stavros as Santa, as an unhinged mob boss, frustrated the consumers are choosing creator memberships over physical gifts. One of the chief marketers over there said, when you’re giving the gift of Patreon, it’s saying I know you have a deep fandom for this creator, and I’m going to give you the gift of the opportunity to get to know them deeper by becoming part of their Patreon community. Media watchdog NewsBusters says that jokes targeting conservatives rose ten percent in twenty twenty five from the year before. I wonder what changed hmmm, I feel like maybe in late January something changed.

Do you think ninety two percent of jokes from late night target the right. Liberal guests outnumber conservative guests almost one hundred to one. Jimmy Kimmel was the quote mo most radical late night host, railing against the right three thousand and forty six times last year, representing ninety seven percent of his jokes. The New York Post tells us some of his jokes were crude, like referring to members of Trump’s cabinet as AI generated human vomits. Kimmel made fun of Trump one thousand, six hundred and sixty eight times over the course of his one hundred and fifty five episodes, or eleven jokes a show kim Ill only does one hundred and fifty.

Oh yeah, he’s off all summer. That’s why it’s one fifty five. Yeah. Okay, good work if you can get it. Trump was overwhelmingly the butt of jokes across Late Night, with host targeting Trump at a staggering seven thousand, forty five times.

Last year, the number was fifty nine eighty. Media Research Center President David Bozell says the numbers don’t lie. So called late night comedians are part of the entire elitist media complex that has fueled hatred of conservatives for years.

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Meanwhile, you may have heard they renamed the Kennedy Center, so maybe you’d…

You know, something like that. Comedian Toby Morton said, as soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center boarder earlier this year, I thought, yep, that name’s going on the building. So what did Toby Morton do? He got the domains? He said.

He has not heard from anyone in the Trump administration yet, but he has received inquiries from a quote few random lawyers, confidently explaining that satsire is illegal. Now, if you’re ever try to goose the algorithm, you could say a sentence like, if you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, will shows up in your feet every morning. I hear that’s useful. It is Festivus in time for the airing of the comedy grievances. Now, despite my normally cranky persona, I don’t have all that much for you.

But the big one would be the comedians that played the Rio Comedy Festival. Let’s list them, write these down, don’t forget these names. Kevin Hart, Sebastian Manascalgo, Bill Burr, gab Iglesias, Joe Coy, Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson whose father was killed on nine to eleven as he’sin’ sorry, Tom Sagora, Whitney Cummings, Andrew Schultz, Russell Peters, Jessica Kerson, Zorna, Greg Chris Tucker. Don’t want to hear that they have an Applebee’s. Don’t want want to hear that you gave the money back, don’t want to hear that they paid.

Well, oh this is interesting. So I googled what comedians played the riodd Comedy Festival, and those were the key comedians. Now you know whose name is not there, Dave Chappelle. Now why is AI eliminating Dave Chappelle? Did somebody do something to manipulate the AI?

Or am I just looking for conspiracy? Now? Now what’s not fair here is the AI interview has some images of comedians, including two who definitely didn’t play there. I don’t even want to say their names so that I don’t goof up the AI. But one rhymes with Bark barn and the other rhymes with Bain Billis.

Why are their pictures of Baine Billis and Bark Barron there? They didn’t play the Riodd Comedy Festival like Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hard, Sebastian Manascauco, Bill Burr, gave Glacias, Joe Cooyd, Jimmy Carpete, Davidson Is he’sin sorry, Tom Sigora, Whitney, Commlexander Schultz, Russell Peters, Jessica Kursten, zornegarg Or, Chris Tucker. Don’t care if there’s an Applebee’s don’t care if you gave the money back. Welcome to Comedy Festivus. So more people on the list.

Dave Chappelle for the second time for ruining my weekend and making me put out a bonus episode on Sunday. Stop releasing specials on Christmas weekend? What are you doing? Same note to Tom Sagora for releasing a special Tomorrow night and Christmas Eve podcasters want to take a night off man, Stop with this. More agreements is Sebastian Manuscalco for the stupid comedy faces that triggered me.

I like Sebastian Manuscalco until that trailer came out, and now I’ve been totally radicalized, and now I’m like, you’re just doing old man Dice Clay with a stupid face. Stop stop, stop, stop stop as we continue comedy festivus. Jay Leno, this guy’s the worst. How dare he have opinions about late night comedy? What do you know?

Jay Leno? You hosted the Tonight Show for what twenty two years? Big deal? You act like you’ve hosted more episodes of the Tonight Show than anybody ever did, including Johnny Corson. As if you know anything about doing comedy at eleven thirty and have the just the gall to even comment about it, That guy’s the worst.

My final grievance of the year goes to the Hulu publicist. Hey, Hulu publicist, right back to me, go, your show sucks and no one listens to it. We’re never ever going to credential you. That’s fine, then I’ll stop trying, but get back to me on LinkedIn or email or the website where I filled out the form. It’s not that absurd that you would hook up this show with a screener.

Come on now, you might be like Johnny Mack, how come Adam Sailor’s not on the list. Here, here’s the deal. I respect Adam Sandler’s game. Right now, I’m wearing a bright orange sweatshirt and sweatpants right there, I get Sandler. Sandler’s family guy.

I’m a family guy too. Sandlor made a fantastic movie Jay Kelly, and despite making horrible comedies. I understand why he makes the horrible comedies because you people watch Happy Gilmore too, and that encourages Netflix to give Adam Sandlor fifty million dollars. Why wouldn’t he make horrible comedies. You don’t reward the good stuff he does, you reward the crap.

So Adam Saylor is not getting a grievance from me. I support the man rapper turncomedian. TI dropped a trailer. He’s got a special hitting the internets tomorrow. It’s called Cheaper Than Therapy.

We’re told that we can expect one story at a time, centered on the chaos of fame to the healing power of laughter. There is a trailer. I went to pull it and it was very amateurish. It just not well made and had no jokes in it. So I decided that would not be worth your time, so I’m not sharing it with you.

For New York Theater dot Me, Jonathan Mandel reviewed All Out, which Jonathan says, much like last year’s All In as generated accusations of cynical cash grab, All Outs on Broadway is a comedy about ambition by Simon Rich. Jonathan Mandel says some people are outraged by ticket prices as high as three hundred and twenty dollars for a quote lazy, eighty minute show during which four celebrities read some dozen short stories by Simon Rich, interspersed with songs by the band. Mendel writes, richest humorous stories, which are clever even when they’re not laugh out loud funny, have been ablished in seven collections over the past eighteen years, several of which are in audiobook editions. So why are we paying attention to this? Well?

Some of the people performing the initial cast, which Jonathan saws, Eric andre Iike Barnholtz, Abby Jacobson, and John Stewart. Jim Gaffigan took over this thing last night. He’ll be there till January eleventh.

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Also appearing as we go along here, Wayne Brady starts on the twenty ninth Ce…

Craig Robinson on the twentieth. Oh wait, can I do forgot? I forgot a major grievance. We gotta go back, gotta go back. Craig Robinson.

Remember when he quit comedy and we were all like, oh wow, Craig Robinson quit comedy and he was just promoting something. He gets the Festivus grievance too. Yeah, Craig Robinson, you are here by grievanced? Is that a word? Sarah Suverman January twentieth, and then in February, Ray Romano and Jenny Slate joined the cast three hundred twenty dollars.

You know, Kevin Hardy’s afraid to work. He’ll go to Riod. If you’ve got a comedy festival, he’ll take your money. Well, Poker Go has announced the return of High Stakes Poker, which they say is the most iconic show in poker. Kevin hard back for the Redd Comedy Festivalill headline.

A stacked Season fifteen cast, viewers can expect more of the eye watering pots, an insane action that has made high Stakes Poker so universally beloved. Season fifteen out today, all right, looking ahead tomorrow and on Christmas Day. I pre taped. Those are what we call low rent days. HAVE got an episode for you.

But if you’re gonna skip, I get it. It’s chrispas Eve Christmas Day, no problem. Those episodes will still be there on Friday or over the weekend if you want to catch up, but there won’t be news. I’m covering varieties. Top one hundred comedy movies of all time will do the bottom fifty on Christmas, even the top fifty on Christmas Day.

Along the way, I lose my mind as I don’t like the list all that much. Out tomorrow, Tom Sagora, he’s back for the Redd Comedy Festival. He gets a Netflix special, Were a Teacher, Filmed at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. It’s Tom Sagore’s fifth stand up special for Netflix. Tom discusses parenting, fails, blackout bar stories, and career regrets.

Hmm, I wonder if he regrets playing Rio. Probably not. Doesn’t seem to have affected anyone at all. Tom’s explores the darkly funny side of life’s most unpredictable lessons, and ebar dot com answers the question what are Jews supposed to do for Christmas? Well, once again they’re doing Kung Pow Kosher Comedy, offering up a menu of Chinese food and Jewish comedy for the Christmas season.

That sounds wonderful. Actually, I could go for Chinese food. I asked my wife if we could do the Japanese thing. Apparently in Japan they get into Kentucky Fried Chicken. I’m like, can we just get KFC?

That got shut down hard, But if you told me Chinese food, I’d be in. This year’s Kung Poo Kosher Comedy takes place December twenty fourth through the twenty six at the Imperial Palace Restaurant on Washington Street in Chinatown, San Francisco. Two shows a day at dinner show at five and a cocktail show at age thirty. All shows will also be live streamed. So Kosher comedy kind of came about nineteen ninety three.

Lisa Gettldig is the host of this thing, and she had traveled in Massachusetts to perform at a woman’s comedy night at a venue called Pee King Gordon Club. She assumed it was a comedy club, what is actually a Chinese restaurant. That gave her the idea of doing a Jewish comedy show at Christmas in a Chinese restaurant, which is a great idea. When she returned to San Francisco, she couldn’t get the idea out of her mind, so she hired some comedians, reserved a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, and set out press releases. The press thought it was fun.

The next year she got a New York Times Future article, and the rest is history. Lisa explains the secret is providing quality humor, amazing comedians, and always a household name headliner. This year’s headliner, Elaine Boosler, who has been dubbed the first Lady of stand up by Rolling Stone Magazine, really did not know that. Boozler said, America’s going through a hard time. You say I hadn’t noticed.

I don’t pay much attention to anything bad or negative. I live my life. I turned on the TV to where PBS used to be. I go to the market once a week, it’d spend my four hundred dollars on eggs and lettuce. I revel in my memories, like when there was a Department of Education or healthcare or housing for veterans.

When I see someone wearing a swastika T shirt, to squint my eyes and while ah, it’s a flower, and I don’t say while out loud, because you know, America first, America is nothing but humor. Right now, I’m desperately trying to find someone in government to take this situation seriously, she added frankly, I’d rather have good government and talk about my weight. And that’s your comedy news for today. Enjoy the Chinese food. Enjoy Christmas if you’re celebrating, enjoy two pre recorded episodes about the funniest movies of all time.

Say we’ll hear my voice tomorrow if you choose, and then Friday, the December twenty sixth will be a normal episode, So we could either meet back tomorrow or meet back then. Up to you. My voice will be here either way,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians of the comedy industry. The kind of phrase that someone like Jay Leno would say if they were trying to goose these Spotify transcription algorithm to goose their podcast and the Spotify rankings. But of course jay Leno doesn’t have a podcast, so he would never say a phrase like that. Bill Board has released the Top ten comedy tours of twenty twenty five.

By the way, this is a real episode today. This is not a filler episode. This just happens to be the new story. Top ten comedy Tours of twenty twenty five. Only two names made their debut in the top ten.

Half of them or on twenty twenty fours. Round up those two names, weird Al and Nikki Glaser. Glazer also made the top one hundred acts of all genres. Only two comedy acts played one hundred shows or more this year are Gabriel Iglesias and Nikki Glaser. Billboard says Glazer is the only woman in comedy’s top ten.

It’s not necessarily a breakthrough for representation, but it improves on last year’s all male list. It’s been nine years since a woman led the comedy list. That year, Amy Schumer grossed nineteen point five million dollars from thirty six shows, and twenty sixteen, let’s take a look at the list. Number ten Jim Gaffigan The Barely Alive Tour fifteen point seven million dollars, seventy four shows, one hundred ninety two thousand tickets. Number nine Nikki Glaser at you compare with Amy Well?

Nicki grossed nineteen point five million, compared to Amy making eighteen million ten years ago, and Nicky did one hundred and twenty shows, two hundred and ninety four thousand tickets. Number eight Joe Cooy. He one time hosted the Golden Globes, but I don’t have time for that today. He did eighty three shows and grossed twenty point nine million dollars. So who’s laughing now, Well, actually, Taylor Swift is still laughing.

Taylor can sell three hundred three thousand tickets at about four seconds. Number seven you won’t guess this name. Jeff Dunham. He’s still out there with the puppets. Yeah, ninety shows, four hundred three thousand tickets twenty six point one million dollars.

Number six, You love to hate him? No, he’s not Jay Leno. He’s Matt Rife. Sorry, he’s funny. Get over it.

Forty six shows, twenty seven point nine million dollars, three hundred and thirty thousand tickets. Somebody likes him, and I’m one of those people. But I like this next person a lot more than I like Matt Riife. He’s weird. Al Yankovic.

Number five The Bigger and Weirder Tour seventy two shows, four hundred, twenty two thousand tickets, twenty eight point six million dollars grossed. Weird, hel you go. Number four Gabe Iglesias. He’s quietly going about his business. One hundred shows, gross thirty five point three million and sold four hundred ninety five thousand tickets.

Dude, do one more show gets a half a million? Number three? Oh my god. Even the image they’re using on billboard, he’s making a stupid face. I can’t take it.

Sebastian Maniscalco’s what if Dice Clay was an old Man Tour? Oh no, that’s not the name of it. It’s it’s the eight a right tour, same thing, forty one shows, four hundred and twenty five thousand tickets, forty two point nine million dollars grossed. Ough, guys, come on, Kevin Hart never a free to work. He did eighty two concerts aside from his eighty two jobs, three hundred and thirty four thousand tickets and gross to forty three point one million dollars, and the top touring comedian of the year.

Although I’m wondering if this is gonna hold? Have we reached peak of this name? Is this movie going to help? Is the theme park ever gonna happen? But so far things are good for Nate Berghetzi six hundred and seventy seven thousand tickets, seventy six shows, fifty six point seven million dollars for the Big Dumb Eyes World Tour.

Now I have another list, but then you guys are gonna think this is fillers, so it’s not. So I’m gonna skip the list and tomorrow I’ll do this Deadline Comics who won twenty twenty five list.

Also tomorrow Comedy Festivus.

So jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Try and get there before noon, which is when I usually record will air some comedy grievances on tomorrow show. Mark Maren was profiled by Esquire, and I loved this first thing, Mark Maren said, because it really I can connect with this. Maren said. I used to say that I never really felt like life was going by quickly.

When you’re in it, you’re like it’s plotting by. Here’s the part that resonates. Then all of a sudden, it’s like, oh my god, how am I the oldest guy in the room. I didn’t really have a sense of age of those younger comics like John Mulaney or Nateperghatzy. I always saw them as my peers.

Then you hit sixty and you’re like, you guys are forty? What when did that happen? It’s so true, Like I think of this podcast and I’m like, you know, even if this thing blew up tomorrow, what is it got fifteen years left? Then I handed off to someone who knows. We’ll worry about that some other time.

But Mark Maron, I feel you some ratitats hat from Maren. What if I learned from being divorced twice? Just give them the money, Mark, what happens to us after we die? Not much. But is that so bad?

Don’t we all need a nap? For a while, Maren said, I thought comedy was a noble undertaking. The only rule of comedy is you should be funny outside of that, and you could do whatever you want on stage. If you can make it funny, you could be who you are. There was this idea on the anti war, don’t censor yourself at all, and it’s like, no, that’s how civilization works.

That’s the way democracy works. You learn tolerance and you behave properly in certain situations. Now that’s gone. I don’t know how democracy works without tolerance and compassion. Maren says.

If you can change one of two people to either think differently or help them out, that’s not nothing. I don’t know what else I can do. I’m not going to run for office. As I was putting the show together, I threw some comedian names into Google. One of the names Bert Krescher, and what came up was a headline Bert Krescher parking, and my mind just ran with that note.

It was just about what one would do with their car while attending Bert Kreischer’s concert over the weekend. But I was like Bert Kreischer parking. Imagine if he got into that, like, imagine if that was Bert’s version of Jim Gaffick and Bourbon and Burt got like super serious about parking. Can we make that happen to be amazing. Robbie Hoffman and John m’laney were talking about when they first met, apparently with somebody to do with a WGA Writers Guild meeting.

Hoffman said, it was my worst night. We had a union meeting that we were forced to go to or there’d be some kind of fee or a doctor merit points. I don’t even know how it works yet. I wasn’t even on the healthcare. John Mulaney said, we are members of a great union, the Writer’s Guild of America, with whom we have some complaints, as does every member.

M’lini continued, So there are meetings of the WGA that did kick off various actions, normally strikes. We mainly strike. We don’t do that much else. And there are these meetings at the Writer’s Guild of America West or East, and I think there are a little bit less meetings and more like pep rallies. And Robbie went to what was more of a PEP rally.

They were taking questions and an event like this, they’re more taking comments about how it’s great that were striking. Robbie raised her hand and asked why the guild owned so many buildings of the goals to get money to the writers, and you had a list of properties they owned. That’s hilarious offits that I did. Here’s the thing. I’d be remissed as a former accountant.

Before I did this job. I thought my ticket out was I was going to go to school and get a good job. What a novelty, I get a good job. Shout out to KPMG to the day I die, just like I would say, shout out to John Mulaney until the day I die. A good job.

Nothing like it. I remember it forever. I love it. Skipping a hit, she says. Then they tell us were striking.

First of all, we just had COVID. We have to strike because the studios are about to do what studios do and be a hole, surprise and prize. So they say there’s a mandatory Q and A. It’s a day before the strike, and I realized my timing was off. My timing couldn’t be worse, but any event I go, and I decided, well, I got to be informed.

I just joined this union. I’ve never been in this type of union. Side, I decided to go to the website and look through their financial statements, which is what I would do with anything, just to have a nice read. They’re not for profit, supposedly, and I just looked at it. I hadn’t been got in for years.

This is hilarious. I barely even know how to look at this stuff. But there’s certain things I could look at a balance sheet, I could look at an income statement. I could look at it, you know, just cash flow and these three basic statements. I don’t need everything else.

But a couple of line items jumped out at me, particularly the real estate. And it’s like we work from home in our apartments with roommates. Who’s at the building. So I said, why do we have to strike this yet and hold our wages? And when we have assets to offload, why don’t we sell all the buildings and divide it up among the members?

Give checks out. V Magazine caught up with Chloe Fineman. Chloe Fineman makes Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon business look casual. V Magazine tells us the ultra hilarious algorithm shattering SNL comedian teamed up with the beloved Moxie Hotels to write and record a series of exclusive holiday bedtime stories. All these Holiday Bedtime Stories are accessible from in room rotary phones at every Moxie across the US and Canada.

Fineman delivers impression packed tales from the Guilt Trip, Mary Peach Miss and more. Copywriting Rule of three, Chloe explains, I pulled a lot for personal experience, which helped keep the stories grounded even as we leaned into the comedy. The holidays can feel chaotic and overwhelming, so it was fun to contrast that energy with the soothing shift that happens when you escape to a hotel and slip into a different persona.

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And then here’s the part that I think even Jim Gaffigan would throw up at, be…

But Chloe Fineman said this supposedly with a straight face, as if she actually believes this. Sometimes you’re just taking a check and it’s okay to admit it. Like that’s the one thing about Pete Davidson, who played the reON Comedy Festival. Pete’s father was killed on nine to eleven. He was a New York City firefighter.

But Pete just said they paid well. At least you can kind of respect the honesty. Chloe Feyneman said, living in New York has really shaped the kinds of partnerships I gravitate toward, because I always want to collaborate with brands that feel genuinely authentic to my life. Moxie has had a strong presence in my New York experience, whether it’s going to events there or having friends stay at the hotels when they’re in town because they’re so convenient. This partnership felt like a naturally great fit.

I gotta go throw up, be right back. They don’t forget if you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, so it shows up in your feet every morning. That’s the kind of thing Jay Leno would do to try and like beat out the other podcast. That Guy’s the worst. Remember that Raymond Reunion on CBS like a month ago.

It rated well, so they made another one with the leftovers. So I don’t know how good Tonight’s special is gonna be, But on CBS Tonight, it’s the Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth Anniversary Reunion Part two, ray Romano said, some of the compilations we had to cut down. The gag reel had to be cut down. My wife Anna did a half hour interview and they showed her for three seconds. Yeah, I know everybody wants to tune in and be like, I wonder what Ana Romano has to say about this.

My father and Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal’s father did guest spots together a few times, and they weren’t actors, but they were always hysterical. We showed that during the live taping. We got to cut that down.

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Also, you don’t want to go too long.

We could have used another ten minutes, and since Rady needed another ten minutes tonight, they gave him an hour. I hope you really enjoy anam Romano. I’m sure she’s lovely. Tonight’s one hour special will include more clips and outtakes from the series and unaired interviews with writers, producers, and guest stars. I’ll be watching the forty nine ers on Monday Night football.

Jimmy Carr he will never retire from comedy. He hopes to quote die with his boots on Jimmy was on the Chris Moyles radio show and Chris said, we were talking yesterday and Dominic said, do you think Jimmy Carr will get to a certain point, like a certain age, and I’ll just go I’m done now? And I went absolutely not. I think he’ll be forever. I think you’ll be one of the living legends of comedy.

Jimmy Carr said. I aspired her that, Yeah, dying with your boots on sounds pretty good. My problem is work is more fun than fun. I’m very aware of how grateful I am to do a job at jam the Love, But then you get a night off and sit around and go, oh, I get to watch something now. I do two shows a night most nights.

Not at the moment I’m doing the big rooms the arenas, but normally I do two shows, one at seven to one at nine thirty. And comedian Connor Wood has shared his travel must haves with USA Today. When connor Wood’s out there on a comedy tour, he always finds in his backpack chomps and liquid IV, but he doesn’t know who puts them there. His mom an elf. He says, I never want to check because it ruins the magic.

As for Liquid IV, his favorite flavor is standard lemonade. He carries a book. He says, I’ve carried around Moby Dick for years. I’m on page eight. Sounds like me and the audio books in my phone.

He’s also developed a love for knickknacks. He explains, I walk past the window of a miscellaneous item shop like I don’t need maraccas in Phoenix, but they’re there. I’ll always remember my trip to Phoenix because of the moraccas. I don’t even need to remember the trip because it wasn’t important. The trip is temporary, but the moroccas or forever.

And that is your Comedy News for today. Normal episodes row including the story I Bumped and Comedy Fest of Us. So you’ve got a couple hours left to jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Looking Ahead On the twenty fourth and twenty fifth, I have already recorded my take on the top one hundred comedy films of all time, and in the middle of it, I get pretty upset. That’s for Christmas, even Christmas Day, or you can catch up next weekend. I totally understand.

That’s why I schedule them for those days I get it, so Tomorrow be normal, and Friday I anticipate doing a normal episode just to cover whatever comedy news happens during the twenty third, fourth, and fifth. Regardless, you left something in your feed every single day, and I’ll see you here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Air, I’m back. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Which is a sentence you would say if you were trying to train the Spotify transcription algorithm. But we don’t have time for that right now, because Dave Chappelle has released a surprise special.

Yeah. The other night, it’s a Mill of the Night. I wake up with the Mill of the night, go to the bathroom like us old guys do. Then I gotta settle myself. I pull out my phone and I’m like, Dave Chappelle released a special.

Yeah, there was this boxing thing on Netflix, and then in the middle of that, they’re like, oh yeah, after the show stick around, there’s a Dave Chappelle special. What stop doing that. We’ll talk about that in a minute. Some people are saying this is the greatest Dave Chappelle special of all time. I don’t agree.

Now. I put this thing on and I was psyched for it because Chappelle’s always great and this is a very good special, but it’s not number one. But i’d seen some early reviews of it and people were raving about it. I’m like, oh, okay for this thing, and I hit play on it, and it just looks great. It looks like a big time comedy special should look like, like if you compare it to the hilarious Kamil Nanjiohanni, it’s a guy on a stage that that just kind of shot.

This looks specials, This looks big time. This looks like one of the old HBO comedy specials. And Dave comes out and he’s throwing heat, and to me, it felt like one of those nights when you’re watching a baseball game and the starting pitchers out there and you’re like, this guy’s gonna throw a no hitter tonight. No one’s gonna touch him. He’s gonna strike out fifteen guys.

This is one of those nights. This guy’s untouchable. And that’s how I felt about Chappelle for probably the first half of this special, and then by the end, I feel like it’s one of those nights where that same picture eventually gives up a hit and why is it throwing seven innings and giving up two runs, which is a really good start, but not what you had in mind an hour ago. Does that make sense. I feel like the special just didn’t land at the end, but the front half pretty strong.

I don’t understand the timing of the release. Don’t understand the strategy at all to announce something in the middle of a fight that hey, this thing’s coming out in a couple hours, So you wind up getting press on the Saturday before Christmas, which I think if you tried to time it, you couldn’t do worse. How they even shot this thing without word getting out is kind of surprising. Maybe they shoot every Chappelle show, and the cameras did seem like they were a little far away and zoomed in and not the usual handhelds in the middle of someone’s face, and maybe they were able to hide it that way. But I just don’t understand even the Netflix strategy of hey, here’s a surprise drop, like why not tease it the Saturday before Christmas is weird.

Like even if you host a comedy podcast, it’s like, dude, it’s the Saturday before Christmas. I have to spend time with my family. I’ll try and watch this thing tonight, which is what I did. I found time around five o’clock on Saturday to watch it so none of that makes sense to me. So yeah, in the middle of the night, Dave Chappelle jumps on Instagram posts.

I wanted to shout out to my hometown Washington, DC and think everybody that came out in October to support me at the show. Just want you to know the show will be streaming on Netflix tonight. After the fight, my new special drops and I hope you love it. Thank you very much. Okay.

The special is one hour fifteen minutes. The description Facing a World Gone Sideway is comedy Icon. Dave Chappelle delivers bold truths and potent punchlines and this no holds barred special it is Dave’s eighth special with Netflix. I’ll give you a couple vibe spoilers here, then I’m going to get into specific spoilers. So if you haven’t watched the special yet, I’ll warn you one more time before I do it, but you might want to bail.

In the second half of today’s episode, i’ll talk about bon Yang. Did Dave joke about transgender people? He did in one segment, and I think it’s the best joke of the night. I don’t want to spoil it, but he didn’t ignore it, nor did he dwell on it. Dave puts some facts into evidence along the way that I’m not sure I agree with his premises.

I do appreciate that Dave always has something to say. Now I’ll get into specific spoilers. So again, if you haven’t seen the special and you would like to watch the special without Johnny Max spoiling it, why don’t you hit stop on the podcast right now. I don’t want to ruin it for you, but I am about to spoil it. In three two and one spoilers ahead.

Dave Chappelle did discuss his appearance at the ri Odd Comedy Festival. That’s set up some pretty strong materials, some of the strongest material of the night. But here’s Dave Chappelle himself talking about it. I did edit an effer at the very top of this clip. The rest is intact.

These mothers act like because I did a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, I somehow betrayed my principles. Well, no, no, I know, I didn’t. I know, no, no, no, no, no. Let me come on, everybody, let me do this, and I’m sure i know I’m all right. Now, everybody calmed down, now, I’m sure I’m right.

First of all, what did they say they sent they said, well, they said well, they said, well, Saudi Arabia killed a journalist and rest in peace, Jamal Kashogi. I’m sorry that he got murdered in such a heinous fashion, but and that, but like you know, period.

Also, I mean, look, bro, Israel’s killed two hundred and forty journalists in…

Dave continues to joke about Riod and says, you know what my new job is, I sit by the phone and wait for the Arabs to call me a great joke. At one point, Chappelle calls out Bill Maher and says, you know Bill Maher, the famous comedian unknown Bill since I was like eighteen nineteen years old, and I never said this publicly, but f that guy, so effing tired of his little smug cracker ass commentary. Chappelle was upset with Bill Maher commenting on Dave playing Riod. Now, Dave makes some points. He says, two years ago, I almost got canceled right here in the United States for transgender jokes.

But I got to tell you something transgender jokes went over very well in Saudi Arabia. Chappelle also does a chunk about Charlie Kirk being compared to doctor Martin Luther King Junior. Some good laughs out of there. Chappelle breaks into an MLK impression, saying, and I won’t do it, but smash that like button and subscribe follow me for more content like this. I believe all black people should be free change my mind.

Very good segment there. Chappelle then moves on to Jimmy Kimmel’s cancelation free speech, government control Puffy Combs, and then Dave kind of stops down and says he’s going to do the longest closer in the history of his career. He asked the audience to stay quiet and focused and says he’ll do two closers, one for the d C crowd and another that he had performed in Saudi Arabia. GQ explains no spoilers, but what follows as a wild odyssey spanning nineteen ten to twenty twenty four that manages to fold in American history, legendary zeitgeist moments, and his own lore well described watch a special let Chappelle tell it Chappelle closes the show by telling the crowd, no matter how much of this government or anyone else puts pressure on you, keep your wits about you. I’m here just to remind you that we’re a community and we will stay sane together.

We’ll take care of each other, and we will wait. Now. As for the title of the special, you’ll see it slugged in the Netflix key art as the Unstoppable. You’ll see it referred to as the Unstoppable. Johnny Max is going to refer to it as the Unstoppable.

The full name of the special is actually the unstoppable N word act. I think this special is evidence of Dave Chappelle being the best comedian in the game right now. Again, I don’t think it’s the best special of the year. I have it at fifth. My current list is Mark Maren, Kevin Hart, Robbie Hoffman, Matt Rife, and Dave Chappelle at five.

Those are the top tier, and then a drop down at Jin Jefferies and the rest of my previously discussed list. Again, very strong, Chappelle has something to say. Chappelle as the top of the class. But I just felt like the second half of the special my thumb started grabbing my phone, and that’s always one of my tails. Whereas Kevin Hart Special, I think is end to end laughs.

Kevin Hart’s not going for art, Dave Chappelle’s going for art, and I think Mark Maren Special nailed the combination of laughs and having something to say. Bowen Yang has finished up his tenure on Saturday Night Live. Prior to the episode, he released a statement in which he said, I loved working at SNL, and most of all, I love the people. Was there at a time when things in this world started to seem futile, but working at thirty Rock taught me the value and showing up anyway when people make it worthwhile. I’m grateful for every minute of my time there.

I learned about myself bad with wigs. I learned about others generous, vulnerable, hot. I learned that human error could be nothing but correct. I learned that comedy is mostly logistics, and that it will usually fail until it doesn’t, which is the best. With Fors’s, thank you to every single person who shut up their friends and co workers and audiences and hosts.

Thank you to Lorne for the job, for the standard, and for bringing everyone at work together. They all care deeply about the people in the room, any room, enjoying themselves. I can’t believe I was ever included in that the show doesn’t go on because it’s ready, But shoot, I hope I am. During the final sketch on Saturday, Bowen Yang got teary eyed. In the sketch, various cast members came up to him posing as holiday travelers, and it soon became clear that the skit was a vehicle to send bowen Yang off.

He told fellow cast members, this is my last shift. It’s sad. I’m going to miss everything about this place. At one point, Bowyang broke down while expressing gratitude, saying, it just feel so lucky that I ever got to work here, and I just wanted to enjoy it for a little bit longer, especially the people I’ve loved. Every single person who works here.

Snl off for the holidays. We’ll return on January seventeenth. Other than that, bowen was lightly in the episode. It was also the holiday joke swap between the Jay and chose to maybe we’ll get into that on Tuesday. Monday’s episodes already in the can.

I normally don’t record Sunday, same day for Sunday. But you know, someone woke up in the middle of the night and dropped a comedy special on me. So here’s my question for Bowen Yang. Is this the Kate McKinnon trap? Like Bowen Yang is great, but bow and Yang without SNL is the anchor.

Let me ask you some difficult questions. Are you going to go see the bow and Yang movie? Is that something that excites you, especially in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, where even going to the theaters isn’t a thing anymore? Like is a Bowen Yang movie exciting? Is a bow and Yang sitcom exciting?

Or are you kind of making the critical face that I am. Now We’re like, oh, Bowen Yang’s doing a sitcom? So then what some sort of Netflix show, a variety show, some sort of James Cordon esque type show. Yes, I know he has lost Culturistas. Yes, I know this is the last Culturalista’s Awards.

Am I a fan? Yes? Does he tells? Yes? But like in twenty like, what do you do now?

Like, what’s Kate McKinnon doing? She was fantastic? I’ll make her the comp here? What’s Kate McKinnon even doing so. I don’t know.

I wish Bowen well while we’re here recording an extra episode, let me get the lilt out of my voice, because this is all kinds of horrible. The media is reporting that Conan O’Brien stopped a friend from calling nine to one one during the fight between Rob and Nick Reiner at Conan O’Brien’s holiday party last week. You may recall multiple attendees I’ve reported witnessing Rob and Nick having an argument. One source tells The Daily Mail that the fight was so intense that at least one guest suggested calling the cops to intervene. The insider says they gotten an argument the father and son.

I got so bad and loud. Someone want to call the police report it, but Conan stepped in and said, it’s my house, my party, I’m not calling the police, and talk them out of calling the police. That’s all kinds of horrible. A source close to the LAPD said there were no nine to one to one calls from Brian’s house on last Saturday night, and added only the murderer is responsible. But it must be gunt wrenching for Conan to learn that this is how things turned out.

I’m sure that night is replaying for him over and over. It’s just so awful and sad. I mean, what do you even say? They’re all kinds of horrible, and I feel like this is going to be a big story that continues. And while we’re here, I did watch Kamil Nanjiohanni’s special.

It’s pretty funny. I’ve always liked his stand up. It’s good to see him back on stage. I right now have it at number eleven, with Dusty Slay’s special being better and Bert Kreischer’s special being slightly worse. So right now I have Maren Hart, Robie Hoffman, Rife Chappelle, Jim Jefferies, Justin Willman’s Magic Lover, John Marco, Moe Ammer, Dusty Slay, and Kamil Nanjiohanny.

So I like the special lot, but it just had me saying that these people that had that at number one, like, oh my god, this is the most incredible special of the year in a year where we had Maren never mind Chappelle, because that just came out, But the people who had that at number one, I really was wondering, is Hulu paying people to review specials? Because there’s just no way, Like, there’s no way that’s number one. It’s a perfectly fine, funny hour, but like, just compared to Maren Special, how could you possibly have Camail at number one? It just boggles the mind. And I saw several sits just raving about this special.

Is it funny, yes, is it good? Yes? But is it, like, you know, the greatest thing of the year. Not a chance, So I don’t know there anyway, pretty busy for an extra episode on a Sunday or earlier today. I thought today it was gonna be a holiday weekend thriller kind of day, so I dropped Daily Comedy.

Who’s unwrapped? These stories I talked about the most during the year, And if you go back and you listen, you’ll even hear me say, hey, we didn’t really talk about Dave Chappelle this year, and I feel like we’ll talk about Chappelle a lot for the remainder of the year. In a normal episode in the morning that I had recorded on Friday, I don’t even remember what I talked about. Okay, I’m gonna go enjoy my weekend, Appreciate you, thank you for listening. Go watch Chappelle’s special.

Watch Camil too. It’s really good. It’s just it’s not number one. Hularius. Relax see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Which is a free someone would say if they were trying to train these Spotify transcription algorithm to rank their show higher, and don’t forget follow the show on Spotify. Welcome to Daily Comedy News twenty twenty five, unwrapped, Johnny Mack. Did you need an extra episode?

Is the news a little light heading into Christmas holidays? No? What are you kidding? I worked for hours on this. You’re acting like I exported an XML file and threw it in a chat EPT and it spit out a script.

You’re crazy because if it spit out a script, I would be saying words like what’s up? Comedy fans, Welcome to a very special episode of Daily Comedy News. I’m Johnny Mack, and today we’re doing something different. See now, that’s that’s what would happen if I did such a thing. I worked for days, maybe months on this.

All right, here’s what happened. I went through three hundred and eighty eight episodes between January first and the December eighteenth, episodes and pulled the data to see what I talked about the most. I’m not sure I agree with all this data, but it makes for a good conversation starter, and you, the listener, can weigh in or not. Here are the comedians that were mentioned the most in twenty twenty five. Now, if you put an iced coffee on my head and we’re like, I’m gonna pour this on you if you don’t answer quickly, I don’t know.

I would have guessed Sandler somebody like that. But according to the AI, the most mentioned comedian of the year was Bill Burr with one hundred and thirty five mentions, Malaney with one hundred and twenty one, Shane Gillis with one twelve, Sandler only ninety nine times seems low, Nikki Glaser at ninety six, Conan at ninety five, Marin at ninety two, Kimmel at ninety one, Jim Kaffigan it only eighty two seems low, and the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno with eighty one mentions. So let’s analyze of the list Bill Burr. I guess Riodd came up a lot, and Bill did have a special that I didn’t think was good and then Bill did a couple late night appearances that weren’t that great, and I mentioned I think Bill had the worst year in comedy, so maybe that does make sense. Mulaney, I’m sure I mentioned Malanie a lost, especially in the first half of the year when he had the Netflix show.

Shane Gillis third. That seems absurdly high, doesn’t it. I don’t feel like I mentioned Shane that much, but maybe I do because he tests well for Seo Sadlor. I feel like I mentioned Saylor five times an episode, so that seems low. Nikki Glaser, that feels right.

Conan, that feels right. Marin, Yeah, because I probably didn’t talk about Marin a lot except around the time when he was hanging it up, and then he probably came up a lot. But on the two sides of that, not so much. Jimmy Kimmel at ninety one mentions, well, for like two weeks, I was doing a bonus Jimmy Kimel episode every day, so yeah, that makes sense. Jim Gaffigan at only eighty two, I feel like I’m making fun of his bourbon twice a show.

And the worst person who ever lived. Jay Leno at eighty one mentions. I’m sorry. I apologize to the audience that I would mentioned such a person. I mean this guy, he’s got opinions on late night comedy as if he knows anything about hosting a late night talk show.

Plus he helps his wife with their dementia. What a horrible person, Jay leto Yeah, I can’t even believe I mentioned him. Some more people mentioned a lot. Pete Davidson, Okay, I mentioned Pete yesterday. Seventy nine mentions seems low.

Dave Chappelle with seventy two, and it wasn’t a big Chappelle year. That’s probably right. Joe Rogan with seventy two. One of the tricks of the show is every now and then I need another story and I google the words Joe and Rogan so I can throw Joe Rogan experience in the episode title. So that tracks.

Nate Pergatzi with sixty eight seems a little low, but maybe not. What shows got mentioned according to Daily Comedy, Who’s Unwrapped as generated by AI number one show Saturday Night Live with two hundred and twenty seven mentions. I guess because SNL fifty fell in the first half of the year. So yeah, maybe nat FILEX at number two with one seventy one. A generic mention of just late night as a thing with seventy four came in third.

Now I looked at that and I went no way. But as we’ll get to in a minute or two, I have the breakouts of people who hosted late night shows, and of course I talked about late night a lot. HBO came in fourth with thirty four, beating out Hulu with thirty one. Now, Hulu publicist, I would mention your platform there a little bit more if you sent me some information or let me log into your press screener website, or connected with me on LinkedIn, or maybe even sent me a screener kameil and Anjianni special. Is it good?

Is it bad? I don’t know. I watched The Knicks on Friday night, and last night I watched movies on Netflix. Didn’t even touch the Hulu button. Plus I had that whole you know, three months there where I wasn’t watching Hulu at all because I didn’t support fascism.

But now that you guys made it clearly you don’t support fascism, I have the opportunity to push the green button on the Roku and watch Scrubs without going all the way upstairs to get the DVDs. But I didn’t watch Kamil and Ajianni send me a screener, guys, and The Daily Show with twenty two mentions, that seems slow. Maybe not most covered topics. So this is the AI skimming through the words. The number one most mentioned word was podcast twenty seventeen times a I says that’s more than five times per episode on average, and hear from the script that I’m supposed to read why because podcasts are comedy.

Now every comedian has won. Every piece of comedy news seems to happen on a podcast first Joe Rogan’s podcast, Mark Marin’s podcast, theo Van’s podcast, podcasts or where comedians break news, where they have their beefs, where they do their long form interviews podcasts or the new hour Special and Special was the number two mentioned, with three hundred and forty eight That makes sense Tour thirty one hundred and six Trump at ninety five, Move on John, Move on Okay controversy at number sixty one, Move on John, Cancel with fifty seven, Move on John, Stop cut it out? Are you gotta get people uset, They’re not gonna listen to your show. Emmys with thirty one mentions, Golden Globes with twenty seven, which reminds me one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and he wasn’t even doing a holiday filler episode. He was being straight.

He was hosted the Golden Globes and he made this terrible, horrible Joe about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.

Oscars with twenty seven mentions and Roast with twenty seven mentions. Continuing Daily Comedy, Who Was twenty twenty five unwrapped late night host coverage. According to the AI break down of the show, Conan O’Brien mentioned ninety five times Jimmy Kimmel ninety one, the worst person who ever lived? Jay leno eighty one mentions, Boy, what was it? What did he have like an opinion about late night television?

Like he knows anything about it? What he host the tonight show? What twenty two years. Big deal, I’m supposed to be impressed. Then he’s helping his wife nerve of that guy.

Jimmy Fallon mentioned fifty seven times, which was more than Stephen Colbert with fifty four mentions. David Letterman mentioned forty seven times, probably mostly since September. Seth Myers mentioned forty four times, and John Stewart, Boy, I’m doing a terrible job if I’m mentioning Seth Meyers more than John Stewart. I think the President needs to get on my case to make twelve thirty great again. Now the AI is telling me I’m supposed to read this.

So what does all this tell us about comedy? In twenty twenty five Key Takeaways, SNL still dominates after fifty years podcasts of the new format. Bill Burr had a monster hear, Shane Gillis completed his Redemption arc. Trump still drives comedy, The Rose format is back. Controversy still drives conversation.

So there you have it. Daily Comedy News twenty twenty five unwrapped three hundred and eighty eight episodes covering the business, culture, and chaos of comedy. Thank you for listening this year. Thank you for making the show part of your morning routine. We’ll be back tomorrow with regular comedy news.

You enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend, and join our Facebook group. This has been Daily Comedy News. I’m Johnny Mack. Keep laughing, stay informed. We’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. That’s exactly the kind of phrase someone trying to train the Spotify transcription algorithm would say. Now, despite how I wrapped yesterday’s episode, there actually is news today. I woke up and I was like, oh, there’s plenty to talk about.

We’ll start on a down note to the Rob Reiner situation, which I’ve been trying to only talk about through the lens of comedy. This is a story that is comedy adjacent and attention once again on Conan O’Brien’s holiday party, page six and some of the British tabloids reporting that one of the A listers in attendance at Rob Reiner’s memorial service on Monday left people in tears. They revealed the final words that Rob allegedly spoke at the party. According to The Daily Mail, all Reiner said, I’m petrified of Nick. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I’m afraid of my son.

I think my own son can hurt me. It is unclear what celebrity said that Multiple reports say Nick was acting erratically with guests at the party. One insider told people Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy and kept asking people if they were famous. Another source told US Weekly that Nick behaved creepily at the party, switching gears. You live by the press, you die by the press, Amy Schumer, and anytime I talk about Amy, I’m like she likes us to look at her, and now everyone’s looking at you, Amy from the list.

Many people believe there were signs that Amy Schumer’s marriage was headed for divorce all along, but that isn’t making it any easier on her soon to be ex Chris Fisher. A source told The Daily Mail, Chris is lost right now, but is comforted by the fact that Amy will always be in his life because of their six year old son, Jean. He said that it’s come to this. Being her friend and co parenting is great, but being in love and with her in marriage was better. Of course, everyone eventually moves on from heartache, and Chris will too, but it’s going to take him some time and Amy is such an important part of his life.

If a source told Page six, Schumer expects that they’ll co parent full time together and that Fisher will see Gene almost as much as he does now, if not more. They’re still largely under the same roof for the kid’s sake. According to the source, it’s important for Amy Schumer that Fisher’s still there for Gene and even hopes that all three of them could travel together if she goes on tour. But the insider says she just never wants to be romantically involved with him again, So so weird. Another insider in The Daily Mail said they didn’t try to fix their marriage.

They didn’t put focus on their relationship. It was all about themselves and their kid, but never about them and never about trying to get back to where they first found love. Now it’s too late. Congratulations to Pete Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt. They welcomed a baby girl, Scottie Rose Hewitt.

Davidson was born on December twelfth. Hewitt shared several images of the family on social media, the caption or perfect Angel Girl arrived twelve twelve, twenty twenty five, My best work yet and I’m absolutely overflowing with love and gratitude and disbelief. It is believed that scott Rose Hewett Davidson is named after Pete Davidson’s father, Scott Davidson. Scott Davidson was a New York City firefighter killed on September eleventh, two thousand and one. His son, Pete Davidson.

Earlier this year played the Rion Comedy Festival. So there you are. It’s Friday afternoon. You’ve recorded the entire weekend plus Monday. You’re gonna go play some video games.

And you pick up your phone and you see Bowen Yang is leaving SNL immediately. Tonight is his last episode. Yang joined SNL as a writer in twenty eighteen. He joined the cast as a featured player the next year, became part of the main group for season forty seven. He was a part after tonight’s episode, the episode being hosted by his Wicked At co star Ariana Grande.

Bowen has some other things on the works, Tangles, a story about Alzheimer’s My Mother and Me. He has a voice acting role in a new Cat and a Hat, and of course, hosts the popular Lost culturista’s podcast, The Holiday. Porter says it’s unusual for a cast member to exit mid season, but not without precedent. Cecily Strong did it, so did Molly Shannon, Eddie Murphy, Dana Carvey, and Janine Garoffalo. So much for not having any news.

On a Saturday, Tom Cruise unveiled the first teaser for a comedy Digger, will be in theaters in October. Little is known about the movie. We see Tom Cruise dancing with a shovel in his hands and standing on top of a fence on what appears to be an ocean side boardwalk. On Instagram. Tom Cruise captioned it in Digger, We Trust Digger, a comedy of catastrophic proportions, only in theaters October twenty twenty six.

Warner Brothers on Twitter wrote that Cruz plays a man named Digger Rockwell in the movie. Earlier this year, the director till the Hollywood Reporter It’s scary and funny and beautiful. Nate Brigetzi has a movie coming out, The bread Winner, that’ll be out March thirteenth. I shared the trailer in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. As I wrote in my post, yikes, maybe Adam Saylor is good at comedy movies because Nate Brigetzy isn’t.

This trailer looks really bad, Dylan commented, maybe he wants to get his Jack and Jill out of the way early. I did start to pull the audio, and it’s not worth your time. Nate and Mandy Moore leave the film as a married cup whose lives get turned outside down after super Mom Katie lands a once in a lifetime deal following an appearance on Shark Tank. The catch it requires her to set out on an extended business trip and leave her husband in charge. That’s right, the wacky husband who doesn’t know how to cook, or do laundry or even locks himself out of the house.

Shuckle, what is this? Nineteen eighty two, Nate Pergetzi assumes the role of a stay at home dad for the very first time the official log line. With three young daughters and little experience handling their day to day needs, Nate finds out quickly that running the household is the toughest gig he’s ever had. I guess, Sandler said no, I guess. Kevin James said no.

Don’t forget. Nate’s gonna open a theme park, so you’ll go on the Breadwinner roller coaster in about ten years. In the trailer, we see the Nate’s character a former car salesman, tripping over laundry struggling to cook eggs. He locks the family out of the house and he gets lost on the way to school drop off. Oh man, they worked really hard on that script, and Nate character says, she makes it look so easy, but it’s so hard.

Wow. Wow, we’re in Jack and Jill territory. I guess I have an early pick for next week’s comedy stock Market. Jimmy Kimmel did his final show of twenty twenty five on Thursday. He said, this has been a strange year.

It’s been a hard year. We’ve had some lows, We’ve had some highs. For me, maybe more than any year of my life. On behalf of all of us at the show, I just want to say that we appreciate your support, your enthusiasm, and not just for watching this year. You literally pulled us out of a hole, and we cannot thank you enough.

See that’s not true. None of us literally pulled the Jimmy Kimmel Show out of a hole. It was a figurative hole. Otherwise, I guess Jimmy Kimmel, the staff would have been, you know, we would have been at ground level and somebody would have used a shovel and dug something, and we would have been looking down at Jimmy Kimmel, who would have been looking up at us and going, help me. I am stuck in a hole, and then we literally could have helped him out of a hole, regardless of semantics.

Jimmy Kimmel thanks us and says, I know there are a lot of harder jobs, but this is not an easy job to do. And sometimes it feels like we’re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, all this damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose, and it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong. Not a bad show. Considering what I went to bed last night, I thought I had nothing for today.

I’m in a good mood. My daughter, who knows, she’s back from college, and she stopped off at the new coffee house in town and she got me a pistachio cold brew. It is delicious, and I was like, how much was that? And she’s like six fifty and I went, oh my, So even if I nag you guys to go to buy me coffee dot Com slash Daily Comedy News and throw money in the tip jar. They suggested amount is five bucks.

That won’t even cover one of these pistachio ice brews, but it is delicious. I need your help crowdsourcing for Tuesday’s episode. One of the segments will be Comedy Festive Us. Much like the Seinfeld episode. I will take part in the airing of the grievances.

Please remind me what I’m forgetting to be grieved about. I’ve got riad comedy Festival on there. Don’t worry Daily Comedy News podcast Facebook group. Please feel encouraged to join the group. You’ll get asked a couple questions about Bob’s Burgers, what about what you Seek?

The what you Seek one trips up a lot of the robots no porn bots in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. In The New York Times friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann asked what does the potential sale of Warner Brothers Discovery mean for stand up comedy. Jason points out HBO has one of the great comedy legacies in pop culture, helping launch the modern stand up special half a century ago with an evening with Robert Klein. Jason adds to be sure, the landscape is more crowded today and the HBO special does not dominate the field as it once did, but it has carved out a niche as an alternative to the megastore aesthetic of Netflix, providing a home for artier, more high concept work by comedians like Gerard Carmichael or Hannah Einbinder. He points out the Sarah Sherman and Adam Halley specials as things that could be lost if things get netflixed a little.

I’ve talked about on this program, and I’ve talked about it with Jason, that the whole HBO Max Max, HBO HBO Max Max, HBO Max Max HBO confusion. They’ve really goofed up the brand US. Old people used to understand, Oh, it’s HBO, it’s Saturday night, it’s ten pm. There’s a comedy special. This is major.

An example of that this year was Mark Marin was Saturday Night at ten pm. Then some things are Max shows and some things are Max specials. So top of mine, Sarah Sherman’s recent thing came out on a Friday. Is that a quote unquote HBO special or is that an HBO Max special? And is an HBO Max special somehow lesser or to only old people who study the media like me care about such things.

Probably the latter, But there really is something to be said for brand. When you put Game of Thrones next to Doctor Pimple Popper, you goof up your brand. Right now, Apple TV Plus is being seen as prestige. Maybe you don’t like all the shows, but they’re getting by on goodwill because oh, all right, app the Apple shows are pretty good. I should check this out the way HBO Sunday Night used to be with everything they put in that nine to eleven PM block, and they’ve kind of messed up the brand a little bit.

What a Netflix owned HBO would mean for comedy who knows, But no matter what it is, it’ll probably be better than Hularius. And that is your comedy news for today Tomorrow, Daily Comedy News Unwrapped. Johnny Mack, did you need to come up with an idea to burn off a weekend show a couple of days before? Chriss? How dare you?

How dare you suggest that? See you tomorrow