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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Yes, that is a sentence you say when trying to train these Spotify transcription algorithm. Burt Kreischer will host a New Year’s Eve Live, Nashville’s Big Bash on CBS New Year’s Eve, which is coming up quickly. Bert will co star with country music star Hardy.

Social media star Halle Bailey will correspond from New York City and count down the East Coast at midnight Eastern. Then it’ll be up to Burton Hardy to keep the party going through midnight Central doing the music Note Drop, which is Nashville’s version of the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop from the Bisentennial Stage. Burt Kreischer said, you hear people say I’m honored and privileged to be working with a certain group of people, But in this case, I’m blown away that I’m allowed to work with these people. This lineup is insane. You lineup includes people like Dirk s Bentley Brooks and Dunn rass Flats, Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, and a special appearance by Dusty Slay.

All Right. Bert said, this event, which I was a very small part of last year, is so much fun to be working with my buddy Hardy. Feels like I should be paying CBS to do this. Don’t say that out loud. Your agent will kill you.

I can’t wait. I hope I keep my shirt on. I promise not to drink until the stroke of midnight, unless you want me to drink earlier. Bert’s often collaborator Tom Sigora, will have a Netflix special on Christmas Eve. Tom Sigora Teacher has released a trailer.

I’ve made a few edits here, so some of the edits are in the trailer. They actually chopped the jokes down. I have taken out a few snippets here and there where Sigura used a naughty word, but I think I’m keeping the integrity of the joke here, and this is my intention. Here is an edited version of Tom Sigora’s Teacher trailer. I got to fly with the Blue Angels and I met one of the pilots.

This dude looked like he was designed in a lab. I think about this guy every day, Okay, so I walk up to him I go, hey, I’m Tom, and he goes, I’m whatever you say, daddy. But we went up for forty five minutes. We flew vertically, we did barrel rolls. It was the most thrilling forty five minutes of my entire life.

But when I got back, I realized that we are the only country on Earth where when you see a fleet of fighter jets approaching, you know something cool is going to happen. We send them to the Daytona five hundred. But if you’re in the Hindu Kush province of Afghanistan and you see seven f twenty twos, you’re not like, oh, yeah, today’s the race. And recently I told you Tom Sagor was getting into the bakery business, and on his Instagram he told us about it. As you may know, I love croissants, and so I tapped my absolute favorite baker in the world to open a place here in Austin, Texas.

We have a Papa. It’s at the fair Grounds in downtown Austin. Has all kinds of food options, but I want you to see what we got here, playing raisin, blueberry ricotta, hair ricotta. Of course, the famous fun Fresh bake focaca with onions, tomatoes, olive base one. We have pizza with prejudo, and of course you can get a coffee and espresso, savory sweet, whatever you want.

We have it here at Chicho Bamba, which means a little fat ass in Italian, so you can practice your Italian. Come get full, check us out. We’re at the fair grounds and we are open right now. I’ll see you there.

And then yesterday his plan was to drop by the bakery and he shared even more…

I will be going for lunch. Yeah, come on, buy have pizza, have a sandwich, banina with homemade focaca, all different types of sandwiches. Or you’re an adult and no we can tell you what to eat for lunch. Have a pastry, have a blueberry pastry for lunch, or have a chocolate croissant. Why not the best the whole damn world.

So why don’t you have one there, a cup of coffee, whatever you want? Out today on Hulu Kamail on Jihanni’s Night Thoughts. Some people say it’s the best special of the year. I wish I could give you an opinion on it, but no one at Hulu will get back to be one way or another. They don’t even say you’re stupid.

No one listen to your podcast, which would be a fine answer. But I go through the front door, the back door, the email door, the LinkedIn door. Nothing. So is it good? I don’t know.

I’m gonna watch it the knickt Tonight, Vulture had it as the best special Year, which, based on the trailer, sounds like maybe somebody had some crack. I’m not accusing anyone at Vulture of being on crack. I’m saying it sounds like someone may have had some crack. But again, I haven’t seen it. Wish I could tell you less facetiously I was.

I was thinking about it too. I think kameil Angianni has goofed up as comedic persona because he always did that beta thing in his old comedy album is called Beta Mail, and he always did that delivery.

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And then he came out as the you know, the buff guy in whatever that Marvel mo…

Is that what it’s called. I want to say it the Incredibles. It’s not The Incredibles, the Eternal you know, the one where he buffed up and he kind of got away from the beta persona. But then in his comedy act, he drops back into the beta persona, which I understand and I’ve explained Larry the cable guy does an affected voice, and Bastian does an affected voice. I’m doing an affected voice right now.

If you listen to the episodes I dropped this week about Rob Reiner, you may have noticed I deliberately used a different, more serious delivery as opposed to this sing song thing I do for Daily Comedy News. But when I watched Camille Now doing comedy, I’m like, Eh, but aren’t you the eternals guy. It’s very confusing. Survivor of fifty is coming out now. I missed the early days of Survivor, specifically the first two seasons.

In the first season spoilers you had twenty five years, they would actually eat rats, and then in season two they were like not eating enough and the guy fell face first into the fire.

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And then after that anytime a Survivor now it’s like, oh, Jeff’s here with so…

But those early days were fantastic. Anyway, Survivor fifty is coming out. My friend Pat was like, do you want to be in the Survivor pool again? I used to be in the Survivor pool. I’m like, all right, for Survivor fifty, I’ll be in the pool and Jimmy Fallon will have something to do with Survivor fifty.

Back in February, Jimmy Fallon had Jeff Probes on The Tonight Show to tease a season that was quote putting things in the hands of fans. Fallon surveyed the audience most people wanted Jeff to appear as a contestant in season fifty. Propes to ask the audience if I would appear on Survivan sub fashion should Jimmy host? Of course, the Tonight Show audience liked that idea. Jeff struck out his hand and they shook any agreement.

Fallon said, I don’t know what it means and my Survivor what happened? Well, in the new trailer, one of the contestants says something along the lines of perhaps Jimmy Fallon is deciding my fate here, So who even knows? Jeff Probes has previously revealed it was Jimmy Fallon who first pitched the idea of season thirty one Survivor Second Chance, and in season thirty nine, Jimmy Fallon came up with the idea to bring back two former contestants as coaches. So who knows, maybe Jeff briefly enters the contest and Jimmy Fallon hosts for a couple minutes. Anyway, I’ll be watching Survivor season fifty.

And don’t forget Comedy Survivor, A legally distinct parody comes to Daily Comedy News January fifth. We’ll be playing that in the Facebook group. Feel encouraged to join us Daily Come News podcast group, and I will do Comedy Survivor, probably as bonus episodes on Monday, starting on January fifth. More Amy Schumer gossip. Hey Amy, you live in the press.

You get roasted by the press. From Jezebel, they noticed that Amy Schumer has deleted her nonchalant Instagram, you know the one where she was like blah blah blah, we’re getting divorced. That one. She’s taking it down. Hm hm.

On Tuesday night, Amy posted a sketch from inside Amy Schumer. The sketches goofing on Hallmark movies, where a big city career girls coming home and falling in love with the hometown guy. Jezebel adds all her famous friends celebrated her divorce announcements. Maybe somebody sent her a note from Jezebel on Monday, in which Nora biet Timmins wrote, I disagree with Schumer’s famous friends. I think this is one of the most annoying breakup announcements since consciously uncoupling.

But whatever, Jezebell continues that. Page six reported this week that the former couple’s main priority is cope parenting their six year old son Jean. Amy wants Chris to stick around for Gene if she contemplates another comedy tour at any point in the future. She wants Chris to be the one looking after Gene and ideally be willing to travel with her. She just never wants to be romantically involved with him again.

Don’t know what’s going on there. It’s all kinds of curious. The Hollow Reporter. I spoke to Robbie Hoffman about Cancel culture. I was talking to one of the trivia guys about Robbie Hoffman just the other night.

By the way, my team finished third, got some plastic sunglasses, had a good time.

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Also, try the Christmas stout.

Very tasty, Robbie Hoffan told The Hollywood Reporter. First of all, anyone could do anything. I hate when comedians say you’re not allowed to talk about nothing. Hey, you’re allowed to talk about whatever you want, so can anybody else. You could talk about what you want, but somebody might have a response to that.

The subject at hand is an AIDS joke in Robbie Hoffman’s new special. Robbie said, I think AIDS became funny again, would it became chronic? The Holocaust? During the Holocaust is not funny. AIDS in the eighties is not funny.

AIDS and now was Zoopsie, You know what I mean. The education is out there. It’s like smoking at this point. And by the way, I still like a cigarette. The Holler reporter said they were surprised to see a warning in the special that it contained smoking when it’s just a throwaway moment of you tossing a cigarette or something.

Robbie said, yeah, I think it was my vape. I can’t believe there’s a warning. But you also got a rough cat, so I don’t know what warnings they slept on it. I hope they remove all that. It’s for kids, guys, it’s for the whole family.

The Holly reporter talked about her profile going up when she did hacks, Robbie said, not, it’s a name drop. Sarah Silverman said I was a telephone star or something like that. I asked her what it meant, and she said it was something like when all the agents are talking about you, they’re picking up the phone. So it’s been that kind of experience. I’ve been slow and steady wins the race.

I’m thrilled to be here. People are like, you have an Netflix special? Can you believe it? And I kind of can. I thought there was something here.

We also learned that Robbie Hoffman is on Steve Carell’s new show. She said, the whole time I’m on set, my brother’s going did you tell him about the Office? What would I tell him about the office? He knows about the office? He’s the guy.

And by the way, I did by the end of it, I said, hey, my brother and I we thought you did a great job on the Office. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow up Daily Comedy News so it shows up in your feet every morning. That’s the kind of thing you would say if you were trying to goose the algorithm. But it is Friday, it is time for comedy. Stock Market hit It, Burt Reynolds Comedy stock Marketine.

I don’t want to force this segment. I don’t have a lot for you this week, so I don’t want to just like make a long list because I invented this segment and I have to do something. And as I point out every week, this is not a statement of somebody’s good or bad. It’s where their value is right now. If we were making money off all this, where’s the value?

I think we should keep accumulating Robbie Hoffman Stock. I mean, if you’re talking to a trivia guy about it, then you know Robbie Hoffman is in the mainstream now, so let’s accumulate some more Robbie Hoffman Stock. And I kept thinking about yesterday’s gossip story about Amy Schumer and Nikki Glaser, and let me put it to you this way, whose career do you like more right now? If you had a bet on the future, you’re taking Amy Schumer’s future right now or Nikki Glaser’s future. And I think that’s pretty clear you’re taking Nicky Glazer right So let’s sell Amy buy Nicki.

Also out of today’s news, Tom Sigora, that’s special. That’ll probably do well. The trailer is pretty good. Tom Sigora had a good year. Let’s buy a little Tom Sigora.

And here’s one. And you don’t even know why yet because you didn’t hear the next story. But I have the script and you don’t. Let’s buy some Pete Corey, Ellie Corey. Elly’s been opening for Sebastian Maniscalco.

That has had to have upped his visibility. That means he’s around the right agents. And I’ve known Pete for twenty years. He was the co host on Jim Brewer’s show, The Gator. He hates being called that, but it was the best nickname ever.

Why because he has big teeth and he’s gonna bite you, meaning if you’re in a room with him, he’s gonna slam you with a good joke and just kill you like an alligator would. So Pete Corelly the Gator. Let’s buy some Gator, buy some Sgora, buy some Robbie Hoffin will sell Amy Schumer, will buy some Nicky Glazer. She’s hosting The Go and Globes, which one time was hosted by Joe Coy. But I don’t have time for that today.

That’s your comedy stock Market on this Friday.

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Speaking of Pete Corielly, he will be one of the headliners at the twenty twe…

Say I tell you I had information you didn’t have, because I have the scripts the Aspen Laugh Festival March eleventh through the fifteenth at the Wheeler Opera House. I’ve seen comedy shows in that very building, very good. I want to tell you I saw Mulaney there a zillion years ago. Maybe I’m making that up, because if you’ve listened to it, you always hear me say, Okay, we’ll grab dinner at a couple of beers and then go to the show. So who even knows who I saw?

I can’t tell you I saw Dave Chappelle at one of the Aspen Comedy Festivals back when it was just for laughs Aspen or whatever they called it back in the day. I digress. This year’s Aspen Laugh Festival, Pete Corielly, Angela Johnson, rays Ali Sadik, Josh Johnson, Eliza Slessinger, and Daniel Tosh. That’s a pretty good lineup. And when I saw Sasha’s name, I’m like, have I even mentioned Tosh once?

In twenty twenty five. Where’s he been? Maybe he took a year off, but I don’t recall talking about him, you know, maybe once or twice, but not a lot. Where’s Daniel Toshpin met him once? Not the most warm and fuzzy guy.

I’ll put it there. Mike Harrington is the Wheeler Opera House executive director, and he says, this is just the first announcement of programming for the twenty six festival. In January, we’ll be announcing more performers. Very interesting, Okay, nice job by Nashville comedian John Christ. They stopped by the Academy Sports Store and they purchased nearly every bike in the store.

They loaded them up and brought them over to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office Why for the Last Minute Toy Store, which is hosted by the Sheriff’s office. Chris said, We’ve been so blessed by this community and the people of Nashville. I wonder what we could do to make sure every kid in Nashville has the opportunity to get a bike. So we loaded up the trucks and we came down here to the Academy Sports Place and we said, give us all your bikes, as many bikes as you’ve got. The Last Minute Toy Store is open today and tomorrow from ten to four.

You can find out more about those folks at Last Minute Toy Store dot com. And that is your comedy news for today. I just bounced to Jimmy Carr story because I’m like, I gotta save some stuff tomorrow in this program. I don’t know, do you. I’m hoping there’s some news that I could do, otherwise I’ll dust off.

I’ve got a couple of lists that I haven’t gotten to, so I’m not really sure what’s happening tomorrow. Perhaps a leftover Jimmy Corr story, who knows. I mean, we’re within a week of Christmas. I’m surprised that the news has been this strong, but as always, I will have episodes Saturday and Sunday. I’ve got a Zinnamon article that I’ve been sitting on to get to, So come back tomorrow and find out what I handed in as the homework.

See you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry, which is an awkward sentence one might say if they were trying to retrain the Spotify transcription algorithm to rank their show higher. Thanks for quieting down as we get closer to the Christmas holiday. On Late Night, Jimmy Fallon said, I read that Donald Trump Junior just got engaged. Yeah.

President Trump was like, congrats. The third engagement is always the best. Jimmy Kimmels said, Don Junior was previously engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle. But one of the many perks of your dad being president is you can just make your ex the ambassador to grease and cent her far far away. The host also joked about the Trump Gold Card.

Did you see this? It’s an expedited visa for foreigners who pay one million dollars or more. Jimmy Kimble said. The White House is also planning to offer a Trump Platinum Card, which is above the Gold card, and a storm the Capitol one card, which is a great joke. Johnny Mack is very immature and likes when comedians fight.

The US Sun reports Amy Schumer and her one time best friend Nikki Glaser are having a secret feud. Well, I have news for them. Now that it’s mentioned on this podcast, dozens of people will know about it. Sources say that Nikki Glaser has quietly distanced herself from Amy Schumer and that the you are no longer speaking. Oh no, what happened?

A source tells The US Sun Amy and Nikki used to be attached at the hip, but you don’t really see them together anymore. All of a sudden, Amy became very woke, in the sense that you can’t say anything in front of her without her getting offended. The insider added that the women no longer respect each other’s style of comedy. Quote, they just don’t like each other stuff anymore. What is Amy doing comedy wise now?

That is so far afield of what Nikki Glaser does? That’s weird. Another source said they stopped being close because Amy got weird. The second source also claimed that Amy’s other former to your Friend, Rachel Feinstein, has also cut Amy out of her life. Wow, It’s getting more and more interesting website.

The list has the headline Amy Schumer’s jokes about her Chris Fischer prenup have backfired miserably, the list says. Back in November twenty twenty one, Amy Schumer made no secret of the fact that having a famous chef for a husband really came in handy. During the Thanksgiving season, Schumer was joking about why she married him. The list quotes Amy’s telling Entertainment Tonight at the time, I can’t lie, but he knows what’s going on, joking that Fisher’s cooking skills were the reason that they got married. We have a prenup, but we don’t need it.

He’s a chef. Yeah, that’s it. No one’s going anywhere. The list writes, jokes asiet. Amy Schumer has made it perfectly clear in the past that there was genuine love at the center of her marriage to Chris Fisher.

Quote. Once he was diagnosed with autism, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all the characteristics that made it clear that he’s on the spectrum are all the reasons that I fell madly in love with him. The list points out, joking about your prenup is one thing, but doing so seven years in on your anniversary is bound to prompt a raised eyebrower, and that’s what Amy did. In February of twenty twenty five, when she celebrated seven years since she and Fisher tied the knot, she posted a photo from her wedding on Instagram Stories, adding the caption, seven years ago we signed a prenup and haven’t had to utilize it. Love you babe.

Ten months later, they have announced their divorce. Anthony Jesinek talked more about the Anthony Jessinic Book Club. He wants it to be interactive and said, I don’t know what kind of questions we’re going to get because I’ve removed myself from the podcast scene and I’m still doing stand up and going back on tour. But I think I might just be getting emails about the Rion Comedy Festival. That’s okay, as long as people are reading the book, I might get no emails.

I’m ready for no emails and just getting sadder and sadder as I go through. But I think people will want to hear what I have to say. And this is the only avenue unless you buy a ticket to come see a show. I don’t know. This could just last a year.

But I’m giving it a shot. Vulture was curious as Anthony miss podcasting. He said, I miss it a little bit. I still talk to Greg all the time. We’ve talked about bringing it back once the Super bowls over it.

But the idea of having that job, I mean, You’ve listened to the podcast, and by the end of the podcast, I was angry to be doing the podcast and show up and catch up while can totally fine hang out with the producer, and then the cameras would start rolling and I’d be ticked. And I haven’t followed the podcast world since I pulled the plug of tried to stay away from it. The subject turned two politics. Jessel Nix said, I was disgusted as most people were with embracing the election. Those people were at the inauguration and they now have to backtrack and say this isn’t what I voted for.

It’s just embarrassing, and I’m glad I don’t have podcaster in my bio. Now. That’s very important to me. These guys, even the most successful ones. Seeing theo Vaughn tell people he’s actively trying not to take his own life.

At the end of a comedy special, it’s just gutting to me, and he’s the most successful guy there is. What’s the point of it if it leads you to that. That was a horrible moment to watch, and again he’s the most successful guy. Why are you doing this to yourselves? Why are you eating your own tail?

I’m glad to be out of it. More from Robbie Hoffman being interviewed by John Mulaney in GQ. Robbie one of ten kids. They are all close in age. Mlaney said, so it wasn’t like when people have ten kids and ones fifty and one’s two.

You guys were densely grouped. Hoffman said, yeah, I think we’re in twelve and a half years if we did the math. M’lany was curious who Robbie shared room with. Hoffman said, I shared a room with multiple people when I was younger. I shared with my older two sisters.

I loved that. I thought they were six so cool they thought differently.

And then one day I got home from school.

My whole bed was outside the room. I little pink bed, a little metal pink bed that I loved. I loved having my own bed, not part of a bunk bed. Because most people were in a bunk bed, and then one day my little bed was outside with all my stuff on it, and they were like, you’re moving to the baby room. Because I had sisters who were also a few years younger than me, and I was like, why do I have to move?

And they’re like, we’re sick of you, as they were older girls at that point. So they got together and they kicked me out. When I went to my mother about it, she said, well, that’s it, they kicked you out. My lady was curious, Okay, so you were the oldest in the other room. How’d that go?

Robbie said, I was too bossy. The power went to my head pretty early. I was always taking tape and making my own space and setting the tone of the room. Jerry Seinfeld jumped on Instagram to share his thoughts on the tragedy in Australia. Jerry wrote, I’m devastated for the Jewish community in Sydney.

A massacre at a Hanka celebration in Australia is unfortunately not a case of isolated anti Semitism. It’s inspired by others of violence against Jewish people and designed to inspire more. Let’s instead be inspired by the hero who refused to be a witness a model for us all. He was referring to Ahmed el Ahmed, a forty three ye old man of Syrian descent. That is the guide if you’ve seen the video that jumped on one of the gunmen.

Jerry also posted an image of a Star of David on a black background, along with the screenshot of an article from The Times Viseral with the headline a genuine hero unarmed Muslim bystander film disarming Sydney terrorist Sasha. Baron Cohen also went on Instagram. He shared a photo of a mother holding her child among first responders. Aaron Cohen wrote, Hanukkah twenty twenty five, Bandai Beach. It could be your family, your child.

No one should die because of their faith. May their memory be a blessing and a light toward tolerance and peace. Hashtag stop the hate. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News so it shows up in your feet every morning. That’s the kind of scent that somebody trying to goose the algorithm would say, uh raffie may new special of sorts.

I’ll read this verbatim. Content Monetization company, The Comedy Genius launched a dedicated website allowing comedians to sell content directly to fans so they could best control their material and its delivery. At least, we’re not trying to hide it here. We’re just blatantly going we’re a content monetization company, the chief operations officer said. We’re excited to be able to offer a new level of transparency to content creators, giving them true visibility into their performance and earnings in an industry that historically lacked accountability.

Anyway, for the Ralphie May part, and I miss Ralfie. Ralfie was a great guy. I miss Ralfie. I think of him this time of year when I was at Serious XM. He would send me a Christmas gift every year.

Just a really classy guy. Got to hang out with him a few times every one time in La we got his car detailed, We went for Mexican food. What a blast, What a cool person. Anyway, Comedy Genius continues to re edit and relaunch archive footage through weekly rollouts. They’ve used clips to honor Ralphie May through the special Love You Ralphie.

The clips from the year before his passing. Comedian Diane Morgan. You Americans might know her as Filamina Kunk from the Various Kunk special on Netflix. She’s become a patron for a Welsh cat rescue charity. Diane contacted Maggie’s Cat Rescue after her friend rescued a cat from them earlier this year.

The rescue was founded twelve years ago by Eileen and Doreen. After they had retired last year, became a registered charity. They hope, through the help of their volunteers and now their new patron, Diane, they’ll be able to raise awareness of the work that the charity does to rehome cats in southern Wales. The New Yorker caught up with Kamel on Gianni. Now he’s got a special out on Hulu tomorrow and a lot of good press about it.

The people that have seen the special who I guess the Hulu publicists will get back to and hook up with screeners. They all seem to like it. I can’t tell you if it’s good or not. Who who doesn’t want me to let you know? So we’ll all watch it together this weekend.

Anyway. Camil recently lost his cat three months ago. Her name was big Ol. She was seventeen, non Gianni said, that’s the saddest I’ve ever been in my whole life. They were having this conversation at a Lower east Side cat cafe called Meal Porler keeping non Jahanni company was a tortoiseshell kitten named Honeybee a golden stripe sloped down nose.

Camal said, Oh my god, look how pretty that is. Don Giohanny and his wife Emily have recently adopted a kid and named Biscuit. He says, Bagel was always his dignified cat, and this cat has no dignity. It’s a bit of a dumbass. Jimmy Kryn the Louis Throux podcast shared a take that Dave Chappelle had on Cancel Culture that goes something like this.

The joke that makes you roll around laughing and you can’t wait to tell your friends, and the joke that offends you and you think is disgusting come from the same place. We’re trying to make you laugh, trying to lighten the load of life. We’re paid for the attempt, like evil can eevil, We’re paid for the attempt. We’re not paid for the joke. Sometimes swinging a miss.

Sometimes it offends, and I’ll leave you with this today. This has nothing to do with comedy, but Gil Gerard, you may know him as Buck Roger, has passed away. He left us a posthumous message which says, my life has been an amazing journey. The opportunities I’ve had, the people I’ve met, and the love I’ve given and received have made my eighty two years on the planet deeply satisfying. Don’t waste your time, and anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love, see you out somewhere in the cosmos.

That’s your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny mac. I’ll continue to cover this Rob Reiner’s story through the lens of comedy. The Hollywood Reporter wrote a piece titled ConA O’Brien through a Holiday Party to Forget a bad year. Then Nick Reiner arrived.

As they tell the story, a group of powerful Hollywood creatives and executives were at ConA and O’Brien’s house on Saturday night for a holiday party. They tell us. The estate is nestled in a section of the Pacific Palisades that was spared by the fires earlier in the year, although Conan did have to evacuate, As The Hollywood Reporter tells the story, it was a chance to shake off the bad mojo of twenty twenty five and look toward a happier and more hopeful new year. But as the night progressed, a different kind of dark energy filled the room. Thhr writes, an erratic male figure wandered around the party and interrupted conversations, demanding to know who attendees were and if they were quote unquote famous.

Many like Jane Fonda and Bill Hayter, in fact were. Whispers began to ripple the imposing man six foot three approximately two hundred thirty pounds had not wandered in off the street, though many wondered if he had. The man was the son of Rob and Michelle Reiner. Dhr ads. Nick’s name was not on the invitation, but his parents asked Conan O’Brien if he could tag along.

His behavior, which had often been extreme and stressful, had grown degrees even more concerning in recent weeks. They were reluctant to leave him home alone. In the guest house of the Brentwood Home, Bill Hayter calmly responded to Nick that he was engaged in private conversation. According to someone with knowledge of the situation, says Thhr, in this version of the story, Nick glared at hater for what felt like an uncomfortable amount of time. Later in the party, shouts echoed.

All conversations stopped and turned toward the racket. It was two men arguing, Rob and his son. Minutes later, the Reiners, mortified, apologized to Conan O’Brien and left the party. Who was not determined if Nick left with them at that time, Thhr says the conversation did return to the room, but the mood of the evening was altered. The Daily Mail reported Bill Hayter appeared strained as he was pictured for the first time since that conversation.

A source told The Daily Mail that Hater is horrified and extremely sad over the murders of Rob and Michelle, and that Hater doesn’t want to be connected to the story. Bill doesn’t want this tragedy to be made about him and any disagreement that he may have had with Nick. Bill’s refusing to talk about it. I was chatting here at the podcasting company with my co founder, and we have a podcast called Celebrity Trials, and I said, there’s a good chance Hater and maybe even Conan and whoever else was at this party gets dragged into an eventual court case. I imagine that the shouting match happening in such close proximity would be of interest to the prosecution.

I have no legal expertise. That’s just a guy in a basement with an opinion. But I’m not sure Hater is successfully not going to be connected to the story on Rob’s shooter. Substack and I’ll just observe. I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast, and that is a source that tends to come up.

It tends to be a little more gossipy than other sources. I’m say saying it’s incorrect. It’s just a little more gossipy. Rob Shooter writes. Conan O’Briens devastated and consumed with guilt following the shocking murders.

Sources say the Late Night icon can’t stop replaying the last moments he saw the family together, haunted by what he perceives as mister warning signs Shooter. Rights insiders tell me that Conan is blaming himself after witnessing a heated argument. He keeps thinking what if I had stepped in, What if I’d pulled Rob aside or shut it down. He feels like maybe he could have changed the course of what happened. Friends described Conan as heartbroken.

Another insider says Conan is replaying every detail in his mind. He’s wrecked with guilt and keeps wondering if anything he did or didn’t do could have made a difference. It remains to be seen if Conan will talk about this on his podcast. Now today being December seventeenth, there’s a very very likely chance that they have wrap production for the year. Several prominent figures and close friends of Rob Reiner has released a joint statement.

They include Billy Crystal, Larry David, and Martin Short. In the statement, friends of Rob Reiner said, going to the movies in a dark theater filled with strangers having a common experience, laughing, crying, screaming in fear, or watching an attense drama unfold is still an unforgettable thrill. Tell us the story audiences demanded of us. Absorbing all he had learned from his father Karl and his mentor Norman Lear, Rob Reiner not only was a great comic actor, he became a master storyteller. There is no other director with his range from comedy to drama to documentary.

He was always at the top of his game. He charmed audiences. They trusted him, they lined up to see his films. His comedic touch was beyond compare his love of getting the music of the dialogue just right, and his sharpening of the edge of drama was simply elegant. For the actors he loved them, for the writers who made them better.

His greatest gift freedom. If he had an idea, he listened. He brought you into the process. They always felt like they were working as a team. To be in his hands as a filmmaker was a privilege.

That’s only part of his legacy. Rob was also a passionate, brave citizen who not only cared for the country he loved, he did everything he could to make it better. And with his loving wife, Michelle, he had the perfect partner. Strong and determined. Michelle and Rob Reiner devoted a great deal of their life lives for the betterment of our fellow citizens.

They were special force together, dynamic, on selfish and inspiring. We were their friends and we will miss them forever. There’s a line from one of Rob’s favorite films, It’s a wonderful life. Each man’s life touches so many other lives, and when he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he? You have no idea.

Indie rock band Jola Tengo paid tribute to Rob Reiner by doing a spinal Tap cover during their annual Hankkah show at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night. Frontman Ira Kamplan said, we’re going to salute a Jewish songwriter. We were not expecting to be saluting this Sonica and We certainly weren’t expecting to be memorializing him, so we’re going to try and do a song and see how this goes. They then played give Me Some Money from nineteen eighty four’s This Is Spinal Tap. The release of Rob Reiner’s final film, a concert film called Spinal Tap at Stonehenge the Final Finale, has been delayed.

Variety reports that the distributor’s Bleaker Street, said a projected release in twenty twenty six will be delayed until quote the best path forward is decided with those closest to Rob and his family. The film is live concert for footage featuring Spinal Tap performing near Stonehenge. The filmmakers were spotted there in August. English Heritage confirmed at the time that the site had been hired, but did not reveal further details. A statement in October said that Eric Clapton, Shania Twain, and Josh Groben were guest musicians at the concert.

None of that footage was used in the recently released Spinal Tap two, which I had noticed. Now was it Saturday night? I guess. I went on HBO and they were highlighting both Spinal Tap and Spinal Tap two as big ads. When I was on there the other night.

They had probably wisely kind of dialed that down a little bit. Otherwise it might be misconstrued that they were like, oh, Rob runderdot, let’s promote his movies, and they had been promoting it anyway. Coincidentally, on Instagram, Harry Shearer, who you may know as Bassis Derek Small’s from spinal Tap wrote Rob was a friend and collaborator through much of my life. He was funny, he was smart, He was a mensch. When he came to see the comedy act I was in and later the musical comedy had co written, his laugh was uproarious and audible around the block.

He was a great collaborator, and when the four of us proposed ideas for the films, he was the one who wrote them on three by five cards and organized them into a movie. And Michelle was a very good friend of my wife, Judith. This is unspeakable, the stuff of Greek tragedy. Rob Schneider weighed in on the President of the United States comments about Rob Reiner. Schneider said, America has such a unique experiment in freedom.

We were allowed to have these conversations. We’re allowed to disagree with the president and even say there where he just thinks he said. I don’t want to repeat them, but I think that the president, I think he must rise above it. I think he seems incapable of rising above the situation and being the president of US all and just saying what it was. Schneider suggested Trump move away from the rhetoric of anger and proposed, you know phrasing.

Maybe he wasn’t a fan of mine, but I was a fan of his. He made great films, he was a great artist. To leave it at that, I think we must move away from the rhetoric of anger and hostility and not take everything personally. It was a regular episode in the feed earlier today and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnnie Mack and this is Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians and the comedy industry. Which is a sentence you might say if you were trying to retrain the Spotify algorithm to ranker show higher. Jerry Seinfeld was on We Might be Drunk with Mark Norman and Sam Morrel pulled a couple clips. I feel like all this is forced, Like Mark Norman is trying way too hard to impress Jerry who you can impress?

I’ve met the man, you just can’t. And Sam has nothing to add.

Also, looking at the show and in today’s substack, I will have a clip of what…

And it doesn’t look good, says the guy in his basement wearing a yellow hoodie and his headphones on crooked. But it just doesn’t look good anyway. Mark shared some of his pet peeves with Jerry Seinfeld. Well, now they turn the tip tip thing around. You’re seeing this.

I’m sure you got twenty minutes on the tip flow. You know that a Starbucks. So they flip the screen and it says eighteen five percent. I saw in recently. That was.

It was I think twenty five, fifty seventy five. Come on, seventy five, seventy, Yeah, it was. It was insane where in Dubai. Come on, Yeah, everything’s tipped now, everything’s listener. Or anything anything where they get in you cannot get them out.

Yeah, right, they they got away with it and that’s it, and they’re taking the money. I was just reading on the way down. You watch Red Zone on Sunday, right sometimes, so they put commercials on it. Yeah, it’s like two hundred and eighty dollars for this channel to watch football with no commercials. And they say, well, you won’t notice it.

But now they’re all but that’s it. They’re not going back. Nobody goes back. They also discussed whether or not comedians should be married. It is one of the great marriage savers because you’re like, oh, I gotta go, I gotta do a set, and you’re like, oh, I’m out of that.

Can you believe what this guy’s got going on? He his wife comes home. From work, she works at home. She works at home. Oh, she works at home.

Yeah, he comes home from doing this or whatever he’s doing, and then he goes out to the clubs during the week and he goes out on the weekends. They have a baby. We had a canceled flight Gary Veter and I this weekend and Mark texts him, oh, man, so extra time away from the kids. I’m like, yeah, no, no, that we’re not happy about it. Said so much about you.

Well, I think it’s a marriage saver, that road time. It is because you’re not really designed to be married. No, comedian is not. Jim Gaffigan used to say, whenever you would hear about a comedian getting married, he would go why.

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Speaking of whether or not comedians should be married, Amy Schumer announced…

As I’ve said on this show before, I think that’s truly sad. I don’t want to see any marriage end. I don’t come here to dunk on Amy, but Amy continues to make decisions that just bewilder me. Amy wrote this on Instagram. I’m going to read it verbatim, and the first three words she wrote are blah blah blah.

It’s not me being flippant. That’s what she actually wrote to announce her divorce. Amy Schumer on Instagram posted a picture of herself Chris and their son on the New York City Subway. The caption quote, blah blah blah. Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after seven years.

We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son. We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time. Once again, Amy writes, blah blah blah. Not because misspelled, I dropped some pounds and thought I could bag s basket, and not because he’s a hot James Beard Award winning chef who can still pull some hot tail. Amicable and all love and respect family forever.

I imagine Amy has a publicister, access to a publicist, and could have just released a statement and said, you know, respect her privacy, and I think we all would. It’s just weird. A source close to the pair tells people there’s nothing ugly. It’s a split. They’ve just been finalizing a few things.

The New York Post reported that Amy sold her Brooklyn Heights town host for less than she paid. City records show that Amy sold the four story residents at nineteen Cranberry Street for eleven million dollars, roughly one point twenty five million below the price she and her husband paid in twenty twenty two. The five bedroom property, built in eighteen twenty nine and appears in the film Moonstruck, spans roughly fifty five hundred square feet and includes a private garden and gated parking, a restored roof, original fireplace mantles, and a custom kitchen outfitted with antique cabinry and a wine cellar. According to a prior listing, did you watch Robbie Hoffman special? It’s pretty fantastic.

I still can’t decide if it’s the number two, three, or four special of the year. At worst it’s number four. You should watch it. John Mulaney, producer of the special, interviewed Robbie Hoffman for GQ. This interview, as you can imagine, with m’lanie and Robbie’s all over the place, I’ll pick away at it over the next couple days.

Mlanie’s opener, if you open a water bottle and you don’t hear a crack, do you still drink it? Robbie Hoffman said, mm MMMM’LINI said I found that if I note that it doesn’t crack, but I still drink it. M’linie was curious, did you ever have a time where you pulled back her if you’ve been full blast your whole life, Robbie said, well, here’s the thing around you. I’m still full blast because I’m nervous. For instance, somebody I really respect, I would treat back to talking a lot, to sharing a lot, I go full blast.

I think I had a big period in life of calming down, but then I burst again. What happened was it was very embarrassing to be this boisterous and loud, especially as a girl, and opinionated and kind of you know, if we had a pop quiz, I’d be like, this is an injustice, and then I’d get embarrassed and I would say to myself, for you, shut the f up. But I really tried not to do anything for a long time, and then I kind of came back to it. Now it pops up when I’m really excited. It’s not just you, just anyone, but you, especially because I love being in your presence.

I noticed that a lot more, not that I’m dancing for my keeper or anything like that. It just comes out naturally. Jimmy Carr was on the Louis Thorough podcast, and I don’t know if I said the man’s name right. I don’t mean disrespect. There’s like five thousand articles about how to pronounce his name correctly, and I have to keep moving here.

Jimmy Carr was defending his decision to perform at the Riod Comedy Festival. Jimmy Carr said, I played it. I loved it. I think we need to give up on the idea that the Middle East becomes Western Europe. The Middle East is a very different place, and the same people that will tell you diversity is our strength will tell you don’t go there.

They’re not like us. The thing I like about Saudi Arabia is the direction of travel. Look at where it was forty years ago, look at where it is now. The direction of travel’s pretty good. How much were you paid, Jimmy Carry said, I was paid.

I would say a commensurate amount with selling out an eight thousand seater room. So it’s a big room, and I got paid. I earned it. Cars spoke about freedom of speech interestingly enough and said you have to deal with the consequences. If you’re going to say that, you got to be willing to say it and go, Yeah, I don’t regret telling that joke.

That’s fine. Some people were really upset by it. That’s okay. I’ve got the people that come and see me and they really like that stuff, and I’ve got to serve them, not someone else. Felix Jakins is Amnesty International’s UK head of Campaigns.

Felix said this is entertainment washing in action, using big name comedians and glossy festivals to project reform while repression continues off stage. No amount of laughter, it can disguise the reality of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. Last year alone, a record three hundred and forty five people were executed, many after deeply flawed trials. Comedians performing there should ask whether challenging repressions or helping to legitimize it. Performing free speech in a country speaking freely can cost you your life isn’t brave, It’s hypocrisy.

Jimmy Carr said, I got paid. I earned it. Oh, I think I said that already. Sorry, I repeated a quote. I’ll remember to edit that out later.

Anthony has a book club, he told Vulture. Yes, I’m going to start a book club next year. Jessel nick book club and the goals to try to get guys to read literature. I feel like people say I do like to read, but I read serious books and that drives me crazy. I think that literature is serious, if not more serious than nonfiction.

You learn just as much. I think the world is lacking in empathy, and the guys can benefit from literature. I’ve got a list of twelve books of the month, but that might change something new comes out. I’d like to get into that book influencer space, where on the first of the month it’s here’s what we’re reading, and then you can ask questions at the end of the month and I’ll answer your questions, talk about why I love this book, and just try to give a reading list for guys. And it’s okay to put a book down and say I don’t like this, pick up something else.

Just keep trying. My first book in January is going to be The Getaway by Jim Thompson. It’s an action book that’s been made into a movie several times. The end of it is almost supernatural. It almost turns into a horror novel.

And if you’re a fan of mine, I think you can get into this book. It’s two hundred fifty pages. It’s easy to read. My second book is a Vonnagut that I think says more about podcasting today than it does about World War two. TV is getting worse, movies are getting worse, and I think books become a more viable entertainment option for people as things have become more corporate and bland.

I don’t know if the book club will be successful. It might get five hundred views and no one cares and they make fun of me. But that’s okay. I’m picking timeless novels that I think a guy can get through without being embarrassed. A book that you can read on the subway.

No one’s making fun of you for it. They talked about John Mulaney’s book Club jes Unix sent my publisher. I saw the Milleni post and was like, uh oh, it’s fine. His first one was the first book I picked up in January. Playworld that I’ve forgotten every single thing.

It’s been on some lists and I couldn’t tell you a single thing about the book. It’s okay to forget everything you’ve just read. It’s hard to remember things. I could barely give descriptions of a lot of the books in my top ten. I don’t know how seriously Milanie is taking in.

It seems like it was just a post put up on Instagram and a social media person was like, you should try this. Great. I hope there’s a million comedian book clubs, but I’d like to go a bit deeper than just holding a book and saying this month, we’re reading this and then never mentioning it again. Sarah Sherman, doing a lot of press, spoke to Variety and said that she bombed when opening for Adam Sandler as You’re My Best Friend tour, but says the thing about saidlor Is is comedy is really surreal and bizarre and dirty, so it’s actually a good fit with her own style. But apparently she said she’s stunk.

Here’s why, because she relies on being in smaller venues for interactive comedy. She explained, so much of my material is very audience interactive, so it’s weird to be so far away from people, and my voice is very shrill, and when it’s ricocheting off the walls of aa Gine Arena, it can be painful for some people. If you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, so it shows up on your feet every morning. That’s the kind of sentence. Somebody trying to go the Spotify algorithm would say on several podcasts in a row, pay attention to that kind of thing out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla today Christopher MacArthur Boyd’s Scary Times.

No shocker here. Howard Stern is not suddenly ending his career tomorrow. Nope, what do you know? Howard Stern has renewed. After all that press about Howard’s being canceled, Howard did into many bit bah bah blah blah.

I told you all along, the whole thing was nonsense, and right before the winter break, Howard would announce renewal. Howard announced a three year deal. He gets a more flexible schedule. He’s already only doing three days a week and has July and August off. Boy, nice money if you can get it.

Howard is what I call a once in two generations Hall of famer, the best who ever did it, but also little past his prime. People are upset with Saturday Night Live? Are they using AI images during weekend update jokes? The image in question was a woman on Oxygen playing the nickel slots. The image did look very AI ish.

SNL has not commented on this in the past, they’ve used photoshops. Leslie Jones has slammed President Trump. Jones was on ms Now with Nicole Wallace ms now, the former MSNBC with the new name. Wallace said, the President is calling female reporters piggy and stupid and dumb and insubordinate. Leslie Jones said, wait a minute, let me explain something to you.

I don’t understand how these people let that in. Then, according to The Daily Beast, Leslie Jones hurled expletives a president and how she would respond in the scenario of Trump calling Leslie Jones piggy, if he would have said shut up, piggy to me, I would have been like you fat mfer. Jones added, we should be embarrassed. As citizens, we should be embarrassed. Wanda Sykes was honored at Variety’s Power of Women La event.

Now. I’m not sure the HR Department would be too happy with Wanda Sykes. Pay attention to this quote here from Wanda Sykes. Wanda said, my joy is when I’m able to hire somebody, and you know who I like to hire women. I’ll be upfront with you when it comes to a position and I look on the paper Variety said Psykes was holding out her arms with the hand representing the man slightly elevated above the woman one.

So back to the quote. When it comes to a position, I look on the paper. She might be right here and he’s up there. I’m hiring the woman. That’s just how I operate.

And I’ll be honest with you. If she’s a black woman, girl, you got the job. Psykes drew applause from the crowd. Ssykes added, when women thrive, the community thrives. We make everyone around us better.

When we win, everybody wins. When men win, sometimes they get a younger wife. Again, I get what she’s trying to say, but I’m not sure that would get past the HR departments that I’ve worked with. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.

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Kaleroga Shock Media. And I’m Johnny Magan. We’re continuing to follow the death of Rob Reiner. I will continue to do these as standalone episodes and focus it through the lens of stand up comedy. Jerry Seinfeld called Rob Reiner the biggest influence on my career.

Seinfeld explained the show Seinfeld would never have happened without Rob Reiner. He saw something no one else could when nobody at the network. Like the early episodes, he saved us from cancelation. That I was working with Carl Reiner’s son, who happened to be one of the kindest people in show business seemed unreal. I was naive at the time to how much his passion for us meant.

Seinfeld praised Rob’s marriage to Michelle Singer, calling it an imprint for me of how it’s supposed to work, each one broadening the other. Their death together is impossibly sad. Rob Reiner was on The Howard Stern Show in twenty sixteen and explained how Castle Rock recognized the potential of the Seinfeld series. Rob defended it to NBC. As Rob told the story to Howard, NBC said, we can’t have the show.

What is the show, just people sitting around talking. As Rob told it, I said, please, I promise you there’ll be stories. You can’t take the show off the air. It’s going to be one of the great shows you’ve ever had. I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s Bonus episode at the President of the United States just made some terrible, horrible comments.

I’m not gonna pull any punches here, just awful. Jimmy Kimmel spoke about those comments at length. I’m going to play a very long clip here from Jimmy Kimmel, but I don’t think it could be said better. Here in Los Angeles, the murder of one of our greatest directors and patriots, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Reiner. And what we need in a time like this, besides common sense when it comes to guns and mental health care, is compassion and leadership.

We did not get that from our president because he has none of it to give. Instead, we got a full rambling about nonsense. We got a brief moment of respect for our friends in Australia. We got a brief moment of condolence followed by a thing’s happened for the students at Brown and for Robin Michelle Reiner. We got this posts.

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable reflection. With a mind. Crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J.

Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us perhaps like never before. May Robin Michelle rest in peace. Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he somehow finds. A way to do that. His description of what happened, of course, is not at all what happened, And this is exactly what I’ve spoken about before, this rush to pin the tale on the donkey in pursuit of the Trump friendly narrative, not to mention blaming his death on the fact that he is an outspoken liberal, insulting someone who’s just been murdered, who leaves children behind without having any idea of what actually happened.

It’s so hateful and vile. When I first saw it, I thought it was fake. My wife showed to me this morning, was like, well lad even for him, that seemed like too much, but nothing. Is ever too much for him. Of course, he won’t see the Fox newsgang screaming about this one, but a couple of Republicans did, to their credit, two of them, I think, And so a few hours later a White House reporter gave Trump the chance to take another shot, to act like a human being.

Amber of Republicans have announced your statement hundred social murder and. Rob Ryer. Well. I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.

He said he likely knew it was false. Is the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia, you know, the Russia hopes he was one of the people behind it. I think he heard himself in career wise, he became like a deranged person Trump derangement syndrome. So I was not a fan of Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.

Guy that corroded brain is in charge of our lives. If you voted for that, it’s okay to reconsider. It’s perfectly fine. And I’m to say I know ver my personal interacts with Rob Reiner, that he would want us to keep pointing out the loathso atrocities that continue to ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man’s mouths. And so we’re going to do that over and over again until the rest of us wake up.

On that episode, guest Michelle Obama, this is really interesting. Listen to this. Michelle said, We’ve known them for years, many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them that night. Wow. I don’t want to speculate.

I don’t know where the meeting would have taken place, but boy, very easy to let your mind run wild with that one. Stephen Colbert did a cold open. Hi, everybody. Normally we start the show with a short cold open about a major news story of the day, but after the terrible news this past weekend, the horrifying Honokah massacre at Bondi Beach, the tragic shootings at Brown University, and the heartbreaking deaths of Rob and Michelle Reiner. All the major stories are.

Too dark for that. Other people’s tragedy is sacred ground, and we try very hard not to walk there. But we are going to do a comedy show tonight in light of and in spite of the darkness. Seth Meyer has got very serious. He did seven minutes about the Reiners, but I’ll play just a chunk here for you.

We all got the news that Rob and Michelle Reiner had been murdered in their homes. I did not know Rob Michelle very well, but I’d been lucky enough to spend time with them, and they were delightful people to be in a room with. I had Rob here on this show for the first time a couple months ago, and I could have talked to him for hours about his work, about his career. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to get invited to a hundredth birthday party for Norman Lear. Norman Lear was an incredible creator of television.

He was the mind and the heart behind some of the greatest shows ever made. One of them was All in the Family. Rob had been in that show. Rob was also at that one hundredth birthday party, and Norman was one hundred years old and he was still very with it. I was sitting next to him, and he could hold a conversation.

He was incredible to behold. At the end of the night, remember about forty or fifty people there, the host of the party said, does anybody here have anything? Thatsk Norman? And somebody said, Norman, how did your career start? How did you know you wanted to do what you did?

And you know, he was a sharp one. Hundred year old man, but he was still one hundred year old man. He was sort of struggling to come up with a way to answer that question. And we were all patiently waiting, and then Rob just yelled out from the back of the room. He said, Norman, tell them the story about how you once hit in a birthday present.

And then Norman launched into the story that he clearly told a hundred times, if not more, and it was just the most wonderful story and everyone was delighted in it. And as soon as one story ended, Rob, who’d know Norman for so long, would just yell out another greatest hit story, and Norman would tell another incredible tale and I know this sounds like a story about Norman, but it’s also a really great story about Rob. Because Rob was known. Rob had this reputation for getting the best out of people, and if you watch his films, you know that is something he had the skill with. But to see him in person and know that’s what it was like in his real life as well, it was just so truly special to see.

Late Nighter reported that Jimmy Fallon did regular monologue jokes about Trump, but stayed away from the Reiner story. In time, Late Night Ers says that Jimmy addressed it in a straightforward post monologue expression of sadness without any mention of Trump’s accompanying comments. Johnny Mack will add the opinion that is a poor decision by Jimmy Fallon. Jim Norton tweeted, just a heads up, it’s okay to be sad about Rob Reiner’s death without letting everyone know that you didn’t agree with the politics. No one gives a whot.

Continuing to focus this story through a stand up comedy lens and not getting into the gory details of it, but Conan O’Brien’s name, making the story Rob Reiner and son, Nick Reiner, were involved in a heated argument on Saturday night at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party. Sources told people Nick was quote freaking everyone out, acting crazy, kept asking people if they were famous. TMZ reported that after the arguments, Robin Michelle left the party. It is unclear if Nick left the party at that time. At the National Comedy Center in j Jamestown, New York, executive director Journey Gunderson says Rob Reiner visited in twenty twenty with his family to cut the ribbon on the Karl Reiner Keep Laughing exhibit.

Journey said it was incredible because it wasn’t a moment about him, even though his career certainly stands on its own, both within comedy and outside of it. It was about honoring his father’s legacy, and he had reverenced in humility, in this kind of steadfast intellect about anything comedic or when it came to the humanity of the art that his father had created, she recalls. In twenty twenty one, Rob Reiner appeared on The Today Show to announce the Comedy Center’s acquisition of Karl Reiner’s archive. Journey said, my first meeting with Rob was to brief him on what he would then later find in Jamestown and our work at the National Comedy Center, and he really went to bat for us as a cultural institution because he believed in the mission and he believed in the cause. Gunderson said, not a day goes by at the Center where someone isn’t laughing about Rob’s own contributions, including This is Spinal Tap.

She says it was a film that was largely improvised and collaborative, which is kind of rare. So many things are really scripted to a t. So in nineteen eighty four he comes out with his directorial debut of This Spinal Tap. Over the more than ten years since we started building the National Comedy Center, people come up to me all the time with their favorites, so their quote of all time, and it’s many times that people tell me the original Spinal Tap is their favorite comedy. Gunnerson says, it feels like they’ve lost a leader of the entertainment community.

Someone online said it best. They said, we’ve lost one of the few good men, and I thought that was well said. There was a regular episode in the feed earlier today. Back in the morning with a normal episode

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Hey, John, this is what we call a new top, where you take something and you put a new opening on it. I had already recorded today’s episode to accommodate my teaching schedule yesterday, but just there’s a few things out there that I didn’t want to let go another day. Krackt wrote a really nice piece about Rob Reiner and his influence on comedy. Excerpting from the Cracked piece, they wrote, it couldn’t have been easy to be the son of Carl Reiner, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, comedy partner to Mel Brooks, and frequent director of the early movies of Steve Martin. But somehow Rob Reiner not only met his father’s legacy, but arguably surpassed it.

It started with young Reiner being cast as Hollywood’s resident hippie in several nineteen sixty sitcoms like The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman, and The Long Haired Peace Lover Who Turns Gomer Pyle onto the Counterculture. Those roles led to Reiner beating out Richard Dreyfus and Harrison Ford for the part of Archie Bunker’s meadhead son in law Mike Stivick on all in the family. I didn’t realize those guys were up for it. Wow. Rob won two Emmy Awards for delivering liberal counterpunches to Archie’s bigoted diet tribes.

I’m shocked that that hasn’t come back in modern times. It just seems kind of perfect to have an Archie Bunker like character and somebody in the mike’stivic role. Maybe it’s too much of a shadow to cast, but we’ve brought everything else back. I was really surprised before the Biden administration, I’ll put it that way, that it didn’t come back, and I’m kind of surprised it’s not back now crack rights. For comedy fans, Reiner’s lasting contribution will be This Is Spinal Tap, the mockumentary that cut so close to the satirical bone that many early audiences thought the band was the genuine article.

The director’s underrated, deadpan performance as Marty Devergie made him the perfect straight man Foyle. Reiner’s movie wasn’t the first mock documentary, but was the most influential, inspiring the Christopher Guest films as well as a generation of street to camera sitcoms like The Office. On his website. Ricky Gervay says it was a big thing for me. When I first saw this as spinal Tap in about nineteen eighty three, I immediately watched it again.

I can’t remember a film I’ve done that with before or since. To get so deep into the genre that they were spoofing the details of human behavior, and then to do it all and someone else’s native accent just blew me away. There’s just a few things that go to comedy Heaven. While I’ve got you a few other things in the news. Amy Schumer did announce her divorce over the weekend.

Really weird statement. I’ll dive into that tomorrow. I’ve got some thoughts about it. Watch two comedy specials and Boy if you like the comedy stock Market segment on Friday, it was on point. I had warned you all that I didn’t think America was ready for Sarah Sherman’s Sarah Squirm persona and Boy.

According to the conversation in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, people were not feeling Sarah’s Squirm. I put it on and I was like, this is pretty good. What’s the problem with everybody? And twenty minutes in it just fatigued me. It’s just a lot.

It’s not bad, it’s not horrific like George Lopez’s Amazon special. It’s just a lot, like a lot coming at you and your brain has to work really hard to watch it.

And then she went into a routine that just dragged for me and I have comedy a…

The new season’s pretty good. Then on Sunday night it was footballed out and I watched Robbie Hoffman Special on Netflix. Okay, that one is fantastic. I’m not sure it ranks, but it’s in the conversation in that top tier. So my top tier if you listen to Saturday’s episode was Maren and then Kevin Hart and Matt Rife.

Robbie Special is in the conversation with Kevin Hart and Matt Rife. Now those two are probably pound funnier, but Robbie, same thing I said about Kevin Hart Versarah Silverman. Robbie is doing higher art. It might be the second best special year. At worst, it’s fourth.

If you haven’t watched Robbie Hoffman on Netflix, do it all right, So those are new thoughts, and now let’s join the originally recorded Tuesday episode Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Anthony Jill spoke with Vulture about his book club that he’s starting. Now we’ll get into that tomorrow because I like when comedians mix it up. The question here for jessel Nick was what do you think about Bill Burr’s year?

Now, that’s interesting, phrazing, because I said on Sunday’s podcast, right, I think Bill Burr had the worst year in comedy. So it’s interesting that that’s out there beyond just me saying it. Vulture said, I think he’s taking the biggest hit out of the Rion Comedy Festival thing. Jessl Nick said, Oh, I’ve been really surprised by how much he kept talking about it. I was shocked to see his name on it.

I got offered this thing way in the beginning, and I just saw the name of the rules and was like, Nope, absolutely not. I was not thinking this would be a real thing. I was thinking, this isn’t gonna happen. Why would you say yes to this?

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And then I saw the announcement realized everyone said yes to this.

Everyone seems embarrassed. But Burr is doubling and tripling down, whereas Pete Davidson was just like I said, I’d go and I saw the money and then people leave him alone. But with Burr, it’s insane to me that he would be so dumb. It’s just shocking that he didn’t know what would come for him, and then to be fighting with everyone screaming at Mark Marrin publicly, it’s just wild to me. I haven’t talked with him at all, but I just been stunned.

He’s the one name that stuns me. No one’s like, oh, Kevin Hart Wow. And it wasn’t just defensive. He came out and was like, they’re just like us. They’ve got the chimberlaind and the Applebee’s.

He was doing as much pr for them after the fact as he possibly could, which was like, what did you think the money was for? It wasn’t just for the event. Esa Neck revealed how much he was offered to do it, and it seems like this is a real number because it’s the same number Tim Dillon gave Justin Nick said it was a lot of money. I want to say it was around three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and listen, I bought a house. I could have used it.

But it doesn’t matter. If it was three hundred and fifty million dollars, I couldn’t have done it. Comedy is so capitalistic, and I think the people that have podcast just didn’t want to miss out on that money on the table, and then they didn’t realize how big a thing it was going to be. And it’s a lot of money, but not that much money, you know, not enough that you couldn’t make it up in two shows. For Burr, it seems like he’s trying to set up going back like an annuale once a year.

I performed there part of his tour. That’s repulsive, jess On, I continued. I thought that two weeks later no one would care, but when I mentioned the Rion Comedy Festival on stage, people go nuts. They love it as a punchline. They want your opinion.

I don’t I think that’s going away anytime soon. People who have no idea about the journalist killed just want to hear about this stupid cash grab. I wonder how long it lasts, and I’ll be surprised if Burr’s Neck Special isn’t addressing most of it awesome. I hope Burr Fire’s back. Johnny Mack likes when the comedians mix it up.

Sketch Fast coming up January fifteenth through February first. They’ve announced some new editions. Bob Odenkirk, We’ll join the cast of Kids in the Hall for the Brain Candy thirtieth Anniversary Live Read, a special stage performance featuring live music that celebrates the cult classic and the humor fans of love for decades. Norah Dunn and Melanie Hutzel will join Ellen Cleghorn, Rachel Dratch, Robin Duke and a guest Iyar, Lorraine Newman, Cherry O Terry and Julius Sweeney in the Women of SNL Tribute, a special program honoring the groundbreaking performers who shape the show’s comedy legacy. Some of the folks previously announced include Joel Kim Booster, Jennine Ruffalo, The Groundlings, John Hodgman, Eugene Merman, Adam Pally, Chelsea Peretti, Kristin Shawl, Jenny Slate, Robert Smigel, Paul F.

Tompkins, the UCB, and many others. Michelle Wolf was on The Good One podcast. She talked about putting clips on Instagram and said, yeah, I used to get paid thousands of dollars to do these shows. Now more people watch them and I get zero. But I understand I do it in the hopes that I gained people who are like I like her comedy.

If you like this joke, then hopefully you buy a tickety, watch a special whatever else I might be doing next. And I’d be quite honest how at this point, I’m just trying to a massive following, and sometimes I put up jokes and people like, ugh, unfollow and I’m like, good, get out, it’s not for you. I want my audience to be people that like my comedy. They don’t have to love every joke I do, but I don’t want to have to edit myself for my followers. She talked about the time she hosted the White House Correspondence Dinner and said, I think if I could do it all over again, I would have been meaner.

I would have gone harder. The jokes I said about Sarah Sanders weren’t actually mean. Everyone said I made fun of her appearance. I definitely did not. I complimented her makeup and said she told lies, which she does.

I knew the points I was making, and I was very happy to make those points. But I also feel like I was fairly restrained. Had I known what the reaction was going to be and how strongly people would have reacted, I would have gone harder. If you’re gonna get mad at me for joke, then let them actually be mean jokes. As far as roast goes, what I said about Sarah Sanders was very team well.

If continued in a normal correspondence dinner, the community makes fun of the president, and the president gets up and makes fun of everybody, including the comedian. But that didn’t happen, which is me up there making fun of Sarah Sanders, who was there in place of the president. I’d much rather tell jokes to someone’s face than behind their back. John Oliver poked fun at President Trump’s three hundred million dollar ballroom. Oliver was an event that highlights the twelve million children in the United States that grew up in poverty each year.

Oliver said at the Comic Relief Live event in New York City, it’s wild to get a news alert saying that President Donald Trump just demolished the East wing of the White House thirty years ago. Every element of that sentence would have sounded completely insane. Nobody gives a hoot about ballrooms, apart from people who like ballrooms, who were all chirke holes. He some alternate language there, Sarah Sherman. Boy, she’s out there promoting things like she’s almost like a Kevin Hart levels of like, Okay, tap the brakes, your special come out to talk to everybody.

Relax. She spoke to grub Street and said, I wake up at ten am and I forced my boyfriend to make coffee at gunpoint, and then she wrote, yeah boyfriend. Sorry, ladies, I have two cups before realizing I haven’t had any water, so I fill up a Stanley cup and drink the entire thing in one sitting. I don’t love Stanley cups, but bow and Yang gave me a wicked one he got for being in the movie. And if Bowen gives me something, it becomes one of my most prized possessions.

On this particular day, she was off from Snell and not touring, which made her happy. She explains, at work, I eat approximately eighty five pounds of chips, and die coke every five seconds. By noon, I drink approximately one hundred more cups of coffee and only realize I’ve had too much once I start feeling a crazy panic attack coming on. Not a capital P capital a panic attack, just a small, low gray Jewish one. I usually have about three to four small Jewish panic attacks a day.

I’m starving, so I eat some weird overnight oats thing. I found out a fancy supermarket called Mush that ran only has fifteen grams of protein in it. Why are all the girl he’s addicted to protein all of a sudden? Did everyone become a bodybuilder overnight? What am I missing here?

Her? Jimmy Carr revealed that his mother’s death left him with an unhealthy relationship with food and how the fear of dying young drives his obsession with dieting and weight. Jimmy Carr, who is fifty three, was very close to his mother, Nora. She passed away at age fifty seven after a battle with pancreatitis. Jimmy explained, my mother didn’t look after herself, was maybe a little bit overweight.

She was unhealthy, and then she got sick and then she died and That’s not lost on me in terms of I’m very particular about trying to keep myself trim. I don’t think I have an eating disorder, but I certainly have a strange relationship with food. Jimmy says he does not exercise as much as I could. I’d like to do more, but it’s finding the time. Jimmy’s playing an arena show in Manchester tonight.

He says he’s looking forward to spending Christmas with his family. He explains, I’ve got little kids and stuff, so it’s kind of joyful. It’s a great time of year. I’m worry that people are a bit isolated, but Christmas brings those little interactions. You go to the carol service, you go to the midnight Mass.

Doesn’t matter whether you believe or not, just nice to sing a song. A partner on Trilla till the Cut, I’m someone who wants to fix my life in five easy steps. But I also have a very loud existential voice that says there are no five steps. None of us knows what we’re doing. We’re all floundering.

Those are two opposing forces for me. A partner who’s fantastic has a new special ad on dropout. It is called Hopeful Potato. Hannibal burs he’s just back from the Riad Comedy Festival, and the city of Miami apparently has agreed to settle a lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged that one of the Miami police officers falsely arrested Hannibal Burst in twenty seventeen on a bogus disorderly intoxication charge.

Reports are the Hannibal and the city’s attorneys decided to settle the case. Back in twenty seventeen, Hannibal was walking to his hotel from a bar after a night of drinking with some friends. As the story goes, Hannibal asked the police officer if he could give the officer twenty dollars to call him an uber ride to his hotel because his phone battery was dead. The officer declined. Then something happens and the police officer orders Hannibal off the street.

Hannibal went into a bar looking for a charger. The officer followed in told him to leave for being quote too drunk, as the story goes, outside, the police officer activated his body camera, capturing the encounter that led to Hannibal’s arrest. Hannibal apparently said to the body worn camera, Hey, what’s up. It’s me, Hannibal Burris. This cop is stupid as f The police officer cautioned Buris to leave.

Camera. Footage released by the police department as Hannibal saying into the camera, hey, what’s up. YouTube the police officer says, all right, put your hands behind your back. Hannibal arrested for misdemeanor disorderly intoxication. That charge was later dropped.

Three years later, Hannibal filed a federal lawsuit against the city, the police department, and two police officers, alleging wrongful arrest. Some appeals and stuff, and now it seems that they have settled it. That’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, it’s Johnny Mack. As you’ve probably heard by now, Rob and Michelle Reiner were found dead inside their home in Brentwood, California, on Sunday afternoon around three forty pm, and had reportedly been stabbed to death. I just want to jump on the mic and talk about this. It’s a little before two pm on Monday.

I had to teach this morning, so I couldn’t put this out any earlier. But I think, like all of us except one guy that we’ll get to at the end of the podcast today, you know, everybody just stunned and really sad about the passing of Rob and Michelle Reiner. I don’t want to get too much into the details, as it is an evolving story and none of us really know what happened on Sunday. The LAPD said the deaths were being investigated as a homicide. A family spokesperson at a statement set is with profound sorrow that we announced the tragic passing of Michelle and Rob Reiner.

We are heartbroken by the sudden loss, and we asked for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time. At this hour, there are reports that Nick Reiner, the thirty two year old son of Robin Michelle Reiner, is being held on suspicion of murdering his parents. The La County Sheriff’s Department online records say Nick Reiner was arrested Sunday night at nine fifteen pm and booked on a felony charge at Monday at five four am. At a press conference on Monday, LAPD Chief Jim McDonell confirmed Nick Reiner had been booked for murder, bailt at four million dollars. McDonald added a very very tragic incident.

Charges have yet to be filed at this time. Reiner, the son of Carl Reiner, was known for his role in All of the Family, which is where people my age first knew him as Mike Stivick on that classic sitcom. Rob Reiner then went on to become one of the great directors of our time. His films include Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men. Rob Reiner’s father, Carl Reiner, created The Dick Van Dyke Show, and they moved the family out to Los Angeles in the nineteen fifties.

Rob Reiner worked in small theater and started his own improv group before landing the role on All On the Family. He was on that series for eight seasons from nineteen seventy one to nineteen seventy eight. In nineteen eighty four, he made his directorial debut with This Is Spinal Tap. From there, he directed The Sure Thing at Romantic Comedy, starring John Cusack. Then he adapted a fantasy adventure novel that he had loved, The Princess Bride.

Reiner told The New York Times in nineteen eighty seven, people take a look at Princess Bride and exclaimed, God, this is such an odd conglomeration. How could he balance all those things? But it didn’t seem strange to me because those are all parts of my personality. I’ve definitely got the satirical side to me, and there’s romantic side and this more realistic way of looking at things. In nineteen seventy one, Reiner married Penny Marshall, you may know her as Laverne from Laverne and Shirley.

After the divorce, Reiner re entered the dating world and had the idea for romantic comedy about whether men and women could Truly be Friends without sex getting in the way that eventually morphed into When Harry Met Sally, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. While making that movie, Rob Reiner was introduced to the movie’s director of photography, Michelle Singer. They were married seven months later in nineteen eighty nine. Rob Reiner said the romance led to him changing the ending of When Harry Met Sally. An earlier version ended with Harry and Sally walking away from each other.

In the nineties, Reiner directed Misery, A Few Good Men, and the American President. Rob Reiner was also politically active, a longtime activist and outspoken supporter of candidates and political causes in California. He led a nineteen ninety eight ballot initiative that increased taxes on tobacco to pay four early childhood programs and worked with unions on labor issues. He backed a legal campaign aimed at persuading the Supreme Court to establish a constitutional right of same sex marriage. In more recent years, he was a vocal critic of the Trump administration.

Reiner did continue to lightly act. He appeared in the Wolf of Wall Street, episodes of New Girl and made a cameo in the fourth season of The Bear and even more recently in Spinal tamp iiO. During the lead up to Spinal Tap two, he spoke to The New York Times about some of the things that were most important to him. The first things he mentioned were my wife and kids. That’s the most important to me.

There’s the joke. Nobody on their deathbed ever said I should have spent more time on the office. Nobody says that we’ll take a break here and we’ll come back with some celebrity reactions in no particular order. This is just how I cut and pasted them. Ben Stiller wrote on Twitter, what a huge loss.

Rob Reiner was one of my favorite directors. He made some of the most formative movies for my generation. He came out from behind a comedic shadow of the great Carl Reiner and being a TV actor to being a great director who made an incredible run of movies. Spinal Tap is one of the best comedies ever made, and the list goes on. He was a kind, caring person who was really really funny.

I don’t know him well, but was always a fan, and I feel real sadness for those who did and his family Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest put out a joint statements of variety. It’s phrased from the perspective of Jamie Lee, Christopher and I are numb and sad and shocked about the violent, tragic debts of our dear friends Robin Michelle Singer Reiner, and our only focus and care right now is for their children and immediately families, and we will offer all support possible to help them. There’ll be plenty of time later to discuss the creative lives we shared in the great political and social impact they both had on the entertainment industry, early childhood development, the fight for gay marriage, and their global care for a world in crisis. We have lost great friends. Please give us time to grieve.

Stephen King on social media, I’m horrified and saddened by the death of Robert Michell, wonderful friend, political and brilliant filmmaker, including two of mine. Rest in peace, Rob. You always stood by me. Jerry O’Connell on social media, Love you, Rob, sincerely. Jerry shared a photo of himself and Rob on the set of Stand By Me.

Norman Lear created All in the Family. A statement from the Norman Lear family says the Lear family is devastated by the deaths of Robin Michelle Reiner. Norman often referred to Rob as a son, and their close relationship was extraordinary to us in the world. Norman would have wanted to remind us that Robin Michell spent every breath trying to make this country a better place, and they pursued that through their art, their activism, their philanthropy, and their love for family and friends. Lynn Lear had remained very close with them and said the world is unmistakably darker tonight, and we are left.

Barack Obama said, Michelle and I are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Rob Reiner and his beloved wife Michelle. Rob’s achievements in film and television gave us some of our most cherished stories on screen, but beneath all the stories he produced was a deep belief in the goodness of people and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action. Together, he and his wife live lives defined by purpose. They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired. We send our deepest condolences to all who love them.

Ron Howard said he proved to be a superlative filmmaker, a supportive colleague, and at all times a dedicated citizen. Rob will be missed on so many levels. My heart goes out to his family and his many close friends. Eric Idol on social media said he had just spoken to Rob the night before. For over an hour he was telling me about filming at Stone Edge and his thoughts for the future.

This is so awful. I shall miss him. A clever, talented, and very thoughtful man. Rob Schneider said, I am deeply saddened. Every life is sacred and given by God, our creator.

One of the most accomplished American directors who ever lived. His movies have been adored by generations. But I will remember him most for making me laugh my guts out with my dad watching the greatest American TV show of all time, All in the family. I’ll be praying for his friends and family that they may find solace in peace. Josh Gad said he was one of the greatest directors of our time.

He was a friend, He was simply a beautiful person. Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were two of the most kind and caring souls you could ever imagine he cares so much for those who had no voices. This loss is devastating. I cannot express to you how much this hurts. Love you, Robin, Michelle, thank you for all you gave us.

Roseanne Barr tweeted, I’m absolutely shocked and horrified to hear about Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. This is a travesty. Praying for swift justice, sympathies to their family and children. I’m going to loss for words, and President Trump completely unwilling to be sympathetic or show any class posted on truth social and I’m going to deliberately read this flat and not put any emphasis on any of the words. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mine crippling disease known as Trump Derangement syndrome.

Those three words in all caps sometimes referred to as TDS. That is, the President of the United States responding to two people who had their throats slashed. Michelle Reiner was sixty eight. Rob Reiner was seventy eight

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed it over the weekend, I dropped two episodes taking a look bit this year’s top twenty five stand up specials. Go back and check that out, please. Jordan Clepper will have a special tonight on Comedy Central.

Daily Show presents that Jordan Clepper fingers the pulse. This time he went to Mississippi, Oregon, and Norway in search of an answer to the question does Donald Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Now? The answer was no. The Nobel Prize came out last week and did not go to Donald Trump.

Klepper told the Hollywood Reporter. As we were putting the special together, two conversations were taking place in the country. There were troops being sent to Portland and to Chicago. There were ice rays and protests. At the same time, Trump was campaigning openly for the Nobel Peace Prize.

We saw a special in that conversation said we went to Mississippi and talked to Trump supporters about why Donald Trump was the most peaceful president. They talked about the wars he solved, They talked about him bringing strength to cities then we went to Oslo to talk to the people who give out the Peace Prize about what qualities a Peace Prize winner would have. He even found a group of Nordic mega types. The Hollywood Reporter was curious about doing four or five minutes on the Daily Show versus something like this, Jordan said, you get to go deeper. What I feel really lucky about is I get to work in three separate modes at the Daily Show.

I get to host. When you’re doing that, you’re dealing with a day of stories, You’re responding to the news of the moment. Then I get to do field pieces, which are reflective of what’s happening. A lot of those, to me feel like I’m stressed testing propaganda. With these specials, you get to have a larger argument and really dive deeper into these conversations.

Theol Vaughan has revealed that he goes to Bible studies with Morgan Wallen. This happened during Theo’s conversation with Leanne Morgan. Morgan Wallen’s name came up and fil Vonn said, I’m going to see him tomorrow Bible study. Actually, Leanne was curious, what are you studying? Was that.

I mean, I think we’re watching a movie, but it is Bible study. Yeah, I’m not sure what chapter we’re on at the moment. In Austin, there’s a new Italian bakery, Chichio Bamba. One of the co owners Tom Sagora. We’ve learned that Italian chef John Ba Vinzoni is a restaurant tour who wiled Tom Sagora with his signature croissants at Vinzoni’s restaurant in California.

Sigora started sharing the croissants far and wide and has collaborated with Vinzoni to bring them to Austin. Foreign menus include Cornetti, which is a horned Italian croissants, Fcaccia Italian sandwich is brunch specialties, and coffee. The bakery is open from seven thirty to four, and there’s a menu we can check out. And if you’re a longtime listener, you know I’m clicking on the menu. Now I have some bad news for Tom Sagora.

I wanted to click on the menus and make a bit out of this, but you see, when a click on the dine in menu, it fails and tells me I’m not online, but I am online. I have fifty nine point seven megabytes of download speed right now. I ran speed test, and when I try to order takeout, several menus come up, including the Austin Retisseri and Taco Pagaso. But I’m not seeing Sigor’s place, which is a shame because it ruins the bit. So let’s just move on.

Patton Oswalt says, right now, the greatest living comedian is definitely Maria Bamford. Now, Patton Oswalt also thinks Doug the Vulcan is a good idea, so we might have to say, h Patton Oswalt’s not right about everything. People who like Maria Bamford love Maria Bamford. Patton Oswalt said, she’s in her own category. She’s a comedian.

But there’s certain people with a profession where you’re like, you don’t put them anywhere. He told the Good One podcast. You go now there’s a separate chapter about this person. She’s her own chapter, both in form, content delivery and how she pursues her career. It’s all original, it’s all brand new and unprecedented, and it’s amazing.

No one comes close. Jesse David Fox, who hosts The Good One podcast, that I was hoping you’d say her, it’s just Richard Pryor than her. To me is the conversation in terms of what can be done with stand up as a form. That’s all crazy talk. I mean, just absolutely insane.

Richard Pryor, Maria Bamford, Stop you sound crazy. Sebastian Manaskalgo went on Drew Barrymore Show and had some food advice. He said, if you go to someone’s house, bring something, a small gift, it’s kind of a right thing to do. Jew said, I get really stress and people ask me what can I bring. I don’t know.

Sebastians suggested a small candle, something small, something nice, just to gift for the house. Thanks. Sebastian. Variety asked Jim Gaffigan if he’s a silly person off stage, Having spent time with Jim Gaffigan twenty years ago. The answer was no, maybe these days he’s super silly.

He wasn’t. Then Jim said, I’d say I’m a silly person with my comedian friends. What I love about stand up is that element of play give when someone the guff that sarcastic banter. I wouldn’t describe it as roasting. It’s just play.

Some comedians are always in play and doing bits, like Todd Glass. That’s why comics gravitate towards each other. It’s a plain environment. But when I’m with my kids, no, I’m very focused. I’m also someone asked to work hard.

I don’t know what kind of learning disabilities I have, but even studying lines for an acting role, it takes me longer than it would take my wife. Twenty years ago, I would often discuss bits with my wife. Now I might be discussing them with my opening comedian Ted Alexandro. The writing and rewriting is very valuable. That’s something I do when I tour.

I don’t have that tree at home because kids are too much work. If you think of having children, don’t. The luxury of doing shows out of town is that I can spend those days listening to a set and dissecting how I could expand it. For me, It’s not that I have to walk away from a writing session with a joke. I just feel good if I made the effort.

They asked Jim if the story was true where he woke up at his office to be fired from his day job. He was a comedian in New York in the nineties he was an ad salesman during the day. Jim said, absolutely. And the cruelty is that a friend of mine, David Tel, already had a joke about being woken up to be fired. Whenever this comes up out of respect, I have to mention the fact that David Tel had this joke.

But yes, I worked in advertising and I’m really grateful that experience as a copywriter, the editing process furing out the shortest way to say something is incredibly valuable, and that carries over into stand up. I was definitely delusional. After six months of doing stand up. I remember thinking I can’t believe I haven’t been on Letterman, and then I didn’t get on for seven years. So I did a lot of work on myself, therapy and stuff like that, but there was no expectation of I’m going to stop doing this.

All comedians are delusional. You have to be. If insanity is repeating something and expecting a different result. Even the quickest careers involve five a failure, that’s insanity. Right.

The La Times put out their list of the thirty three best comedy specials of twenty twenty five. I’ll go quickly here because I spent the weekend doing lists, but I was curious and the Ala Times has a very very good comedy section. I don’t think these are ranked, and I can’t tell what kind of order they are. They’re not chronological, I don’t think. But here’s what they have.

Frankie ken Yunius, Damn, That’s Crazy from Hulu, Andrew Schultz Life from Netflix, at bashed In, Manuscalcos and Ain’t Right from Hulu. Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Years from Hulu. Nah Jordan Jensen’s Take Me With You on Netflix, otsco At Kotska’s Father on Hulu, gab Iglesias Legend of Fluffy on Netflix, Mark Maren’s Panic on HBO. Nate Jackson’s Super Funny on Neateflex on Netflix. You know what, I’m leaving the Neateflix.

You heard me clean it up at But I’m leaving it in because it’s funny on Nateflex. Nate Jackson Super Funny. Are They’re right? There’s a reason. Nate Jackson’s debut Netflix special arrives during barbecue season on a stool under the spotlight.

Out of shows, the comedian spends most of his evening delivering hospital worthy third degree burns to crowd members who want the smoke right, that’s probably worth checking out. Lean Morgan Unspeakable Things Netflix, Eliza Slessinger Is a Different Animal Prime Video, Ralph Barbosa’s Planet Bosa on Hulu. Gaffigan’s Bourbon Set on YouTube, Steph Tolev’s filth Queen Netflix, Christella Alonso’s Upper Classy. I feel like that was on Netflix. They didn’t list to a platform here.

Ali Sadiq’s Rugged on YouTube. Yeah, a lot of people commented on him throughout the year. Jim Norton’s Unconceivable on YouTube. I should probably put eyes on that. I like Jim a lot, Jay Jordens, Yes Ma’am on Hulu.

Rosebud Baker’s The Mother Load Netflix, Ken Flores Lol Live with Ken Flores. That’s Hulu. Burt Kreischer Lucky Netflix, comedian cp on veep’s Sunday After Six. Tree Crowder’s Liberal Redneck on YouTube. I haven’t seen that one.

Phoebe Robinson’s I Don’t Want to Work Anymore on YouTube. Tim Dillon’s I’m Your Mother on Netflix, Kathleen Madigan’s The Family Threat on Amazon Prime. I’m Mike Veccioni’s Low Income White on YouTube. Ian Edward’s untitled on YouTube. Interesting that keeps popping up on lists.

Ryan Sickler’s Live and Alive on YouTube. They say Ryan Sickler turn thick blood into sweet wine. His trademark candor and giggle drives the hours he plays tour guide through a traumatic hospital state that nearly became his last Chinity Wunaka is lo Alive on Hulu. I have that on my list. Cameron Esposito’s four Pills on Dropout.

Samantha Hale’s Horror Nerd on Apple TV. That’s a thing. Where’s that not out yet? Or what that’s on Apple TV? Only Samantha Hale could make hair raising terror this funny.

Her long running show harr Nerd jumps from the Hollywood improv stage to the screen. She nostalgically riffs on serial killers, the healing power of stabby movies, and turns genre obsessions called classic fantom an online feedback into an unbroken chain of laugh out loud brilliance. Okay, totally missed that one. And Jayang Summers What Specie Are You? Is on Hulu.

There’s the La Times thirty three picks. They have a very very strong comedy section Kathleen Madigan until the La times. I love beer, and all my uncles worked at the brewery forever and ever. They were pipe fitters full time at Anheuser Bush Downtown. The Midwest is kind of like that.

That’s our thing. Saint Louis is a beertown period. Anheuser Busch Brewery is still there. People still have jobs there, They sponsor everything. Milwaukee is kind of like a beer town too.

It’s all about the middle of light now, but back in the day they had a thousand breweries before prohibition. It’s very beer centric. With the Paths Theater, I had taped a special already there, and they’re just the nicest people, the crew and everybody works there. They’re excited to you there. And I don’t need to be flattered.

I really don’t not even need you to be there. But if you’re gonna be there, if you cannot be cranky, that’d be great. The comedians will also tell you this, there’s certain spots where you walk off stage and go. People should film specials here. This theater is one of the three that I feel that way about.

Why are these certain places so special? I don’t know. There’s a little magic in there, I guess. Madigan talked about being on TikTok and said it’s a lot different from dancing in your bedroom to Madonna in nineteen eighty four. I’m not particularly good at TikTok as a human or as a comedian, but I love being on TikTok as a voyeur.

I post jokes and do work stuff. But I was really good at Twitter because I’m good with words. Instagram, I’m there, But TikTok, I’m watching seven thousand cab videos. If you have any kind of addictive personality, you love it because it’s endless. It never stops, and there’s hardly every repetition.

Seems to be people way younger than me, But I like it. I wouldn’t want to think I made a career out of it, though I think some of the young ones are biting off more than I could ever chew with this experience. Does it last? I’m curious to see if all these acts will work. Will your fans keep coming five years from now?

That’s why I’m glad I started when I started. When young comics ask what should I do, I’m like, dude, I don’t have any idea. Just make sure you get on stage a lot. She is so funny. I love her.

The Trevor’s City Economy Festival will return in April April sixteenth to the eighteenth, seven venues across Traverse City. Roywood Junior and Gary Golman will be the headliners for this one. Lewis Black spoke to Esquire about you know, he keeps talking about retiring. I thought he retired at the end of last year. Now he’s doing fewer shows.

I don’t know what’s going on. As for one of his final shows, he said, it was a concentration of all the performances I ever gave, including a heckler at the end. It was kind of like everything that could happen along the way happened that night in a bad way. It was good. The thing you can’t explain to people, including Johnny Mack, is there was touring and then there’s doing some shows.

I might do ten shows a year as opposed to one hundred to one hundred and fifty to two hundred. I’m not sad about not doing one hundred shows. I had a tour bus I was leasing, so I’d fly in a place on a Thursday or Wednesday, then drive somewhere Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then fly home. So I was in four days and back three and it wasn’t bad, he said. If not for the pandemic, I would have retired probably by this time, it was seventy four to seventy five.

I would have done it anyway, because there were other things I wanted to do it. Basically, wanted to retire to be able to write again. That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Yesterday I revealed my top twenty five stand up specials of the year so far. Today we’ll take a look at things that didn’t make the list. But first I want to list things that were funny but not stand up specials, because, point blank, the best comedy event of the year on your television was Conan O’Brien the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that was on Netflix, far and away the best, even better than Mark Maron special, which I have at number one.

Big names coming out to celebrate Conan O’Brien, including John Mulaney, Will Farrow, Bill Burs, Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, even Adam Sailor, Yes he was there, Triumph the Masturbating Bear. What could you not want? A celebration of why Conan matters? Absolutely fantastic, all right. Another thing that was really great Shane Gillis’s SB monologue on ESPN.

Not a special, but it was fifteen minutes or so of Shane doing what Shane does best, not pulling any punches or really gotta laugh out of me that Chuckley you just heard, was me flashing back to some of the jokes he told that night fantastic. I really liked Tom Sagora’s Bad Thoughts on Netflix, specifically the stuff that’s totally not making fun of Garth Brooks. It’s not Garth Brooks at all. He’s not making fun of Garth Brooks. Why would you make fun of Garth Brooks.

It’s not like Garth Brooks is a serial killer, which he’s not. What a wonderful show Tom Sagora’s Bad Thoughts. Did you watch Last One Laughing UK? That’s on Amazon Prime Video. They lock some funny people in a room for six hours with one rule.

Do not laugh. If you laugh, you get a warning. If you laugh a second time, you’re out. Jimmy Carr is your host. One of my favorites, Richard Ayuada was on there.

Rob Beckett did a great job. Bob Mortoner doing magic is hilarious. It’s fun to play along at home. You sit on the couch and see if you can not laugh yourself. I recommend on Last One Laughing.

They’re actually working on a second season which will feature, among other people, Diane Moore ran from the Kunk series. She’s great and David Mitchell from Mitchell and Webb. I’m looking forward to that. Maybe my favorite thing all year was Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Bourdain impression on Instagram just injected into my veins. He could put out one of these every single day and I would watch it.

If you haven’t seen it, find it. It’s incredible. Kite as Bordain visits places like in and out Burger, can’t get enough of it, and Shane Gillis twice making less Tires on Netflix. It’s like blue collar The Office but in an auto repair shop. Fantastic show.

Can’t get enough of Tires on Netflix. Yesterday I did the top twenty five. Here are the specials that did not make the list. I just want to acknowledge they existed in no particular order. Bill Maher, is anyone else seeing this?

Nominated for a Golden Globe that was on HBO? All right? Whatever, I know it’s a hack line, but the titles. Is anyone else seeing this? And apparently the answer is no.

I didn’t see anybody talking about that, but it’s nominated for a globe. Okay. Andrew Schultz’s Life was on Netflix. It just didn’t work for me. For me, the storytelling felt off.

I couldn’t get into his journey. I know a lot of people really like that one. I just didn’t connect with it. Rosebud Baker is the mother Load. This was the one where she took two shows, one in which she’s pregnant and one after she had the baby, and split them together.

It just didn’t work. It was more distracting. Christa Stefano had one of the Hulu specials this year. I was not a fan of the Hilarious brand for the most part. His special, It’s just unfortunate.

Here’s my entire review hack. While we’re being negative. George Lopez is special on Amazon. I wrote the word horrific. I can’t believe Georgia actually released it.

Lisa Trigger had a special on Netflix called night Owl. She has tremendous energy. I didn’t love the material, didn’t connect with it. On Amazon, Eliza Selessenger’s a different animal. Now watch this one and pay attention to her performance.

She is reciting her act as if she’s in an empty room, no regard whatsoever to how the crowd is reacting. She’s not surfing the energy. She’s just got words in her brain, and the brain is connected to the mouth and she’s going to deliver them. It’s really, really weird. Another disappointment from Hulu Bill Burr’s dropped dead years.

I know we’re supposed to come away impressed by how enlightened Bill has become. Those were the talking points. The press spit back, Yeah, Bill, you’re so enlightened now. I think it’s the example of how hilarious is the brand you go to when you’re on your way down. I think Bill Burr might be past peak now.

He did not have a great year in general, his late night appearances, everything around birth this year was bad. I think Bill Burr might have had the worst year in comedy. Let’s think about that and we’ll come back and talk. Some more specials. Some more specials from twenty twenty five that did not make my list.

Steph Tolev’s Filth Queen on Netflix. I know people really like that one. Filth Isn’t my thing, so I was like, Eh, I just don’t want to do this. It’s probably a very funny special, It’s not my thing. Devon Walker is loll Live special on Hulu has one good Chris Rock joke.

Also on Hulu, Ralph Barbosa’s Planet bos uh. This has my typical notes. Civilians will like it, but I’m a comedy snob. I never connected with this one, and I like Barbosa a lot. I hope I’m wrong when it comes to my Hulu theory and Barbosa.

I hope he’s still on the way up and hasn’t peaked, because I do like him. Joe lists small Ball on YouTube, I did not believe a single word coming out of Joe’s mouth was true. I understand comedy. I understand repetition and exaggeration. I get it.

I know how it works. I also understand that anyone up on a stage is doing a performance, just like I’m doing a performance right now for this podcast. I get it, but I need stuff grounded in reality, like I’ll break character for a second. Do I like Adam Sandler movies? No?

Do I walk around kicking my dog all day because Adam Sandler put out Happy Gilmore too. No. I don’t think about Adam Sandler at all unless I’m sitting here in the studio with a microphone in my hand and slipping into the Johnny Mack character. So this is a performance, just like Joe lis Smallball as a performance, But I didn’t believe a word of it is true. Opinions on Sailor are true.

I’m just repeating them and exaggerating them for effect. But the small ball material, Nope. David Spade’s Dandelion on Amazons started out really slow and I lost interest. And maybe the back forty minutes is awesome, but you know, dude, you got to get things going here. We’ve heard comedians talk about Netflix specials that they’re moving their closers up to the first act because of people like me.

Maybe Spade needed to do that. Maybe his closer is amazing. I’ll never know. This next special actually upset me from Hulu yet again. Sebastian maniscalcos he ain’t right.

The trailer radicalized me. It’s the editing and this and Sebastian making the stupid faces. Enough with the stupid faces, and then I put on the actual special and I have come to the conclusion that Sebastian is doing a character that I have called old man Dice Clay at sixty years old. It’s like if the Dice character just got gray hair and decided he was going to work clean and talk about food. That’s what Sebastian doing.

I don’t know what’s going on there. And Jim Gaffigan’s Bourbon Set on YouTube clearly not his best work, but over three and a half million people have watched on YouTube, which all suggest I am a loser doing a podcast in the basement whose opinions are just terrible. And Jim Gaffigan is right. I cannot argue with any of that. So those are the other specials that are quote not on the list.

Before we go, let’s take a look at the Golden Globes nominations for Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television. They are Bill Mahers, Is anyone else seeing this? Brett Goldstein’s The Second Best Night of Your Life? That’s in my top twenty five, Kevin Hart’s Acting My Age that was my number two, Camille nan Gianni’s Night Thoughts not out yet, Ricky Gervais’s Mortality not out yet, and Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem also in my top twenty five. And I don’t get to pick the Golden Globe.

I don’t know how I would give the award to you here among the ones that I’ve seen, so definitely not mar and I like Goldstein a lot, but for me, I keep staring at Kevin Hart and Sarah Silverman and where I’m strung buggling is I have Kevin Hard as the number two special of the year because it’s funny but it’s not art, and what Sarah Silverman did, I would consider it to be art. Now, the correct answer here would be Mark Marin special, which was both funny and art. So I don’t know. Could I give a golden globe to Sarah Silverman and be like, this is an award winning piece of work, whereas Kevin Hard is just a good time in a theater for night. Or is that unfair to Kevin Hart because John, you got it at number two so it’s funny and mission accomplished.

I don’t know. I think if I had to vote, I think i’d vote for Sarah Silverman. Does that make any sense? Maybe it doesn’t. I’m not even sure it makes sense to me anyway.

That is the look at this year’s stand up comedy specials. Again, as I mentioned yesterday, there are a few that I haven’t been able to watch yet because I tape this on Tuesdays to who accommodate my publicist, and some aren’t out yet. Friday Night, Sarah Sherman released Live plus in the Flesh Tonight on Netflix, Robbie Hoffman’s Wake Up. I could see both of those making a revised version of this list. December nineteenth, com Ounanjianni’s Night Thoughts.

Vulture has that as their best special of the year. I’ll believe it when I see it. Tom Sigora’s Teachers on Netflix Christmas, even Ricky Gervai’s Mortality on Netflix December thirtieth. So I will do a revised, updated, quick flyover version of these lists at the end of the year, but for now, because I had a hand on the homework, those are my top twenty five stand up specials of the year. I listened to yesterday’s episode.

I’ll combine with today, and those are my thoughts on the year. I would like to hear your thoughts. And we have a Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I’ll remind everybody it’s just a list. I’m just a dude in the basement hosting a podcast.

Your list will be different. Your list is valid. My list is valid. Vultures list is valid, Golden Globes list is valid. It’s all valid.

It’s comedy, it’s art, it’s subjective, whatever, it’s just a list I’ll see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today. It is the twenty five best stand up specials of the year, and let’s just dive in. Why are you doing this now, John?

The year is not over. Well. You see, I hired a publicist and she needs to get the lists out to everybody else who’s doing their year end recap. So I can’t wait until New Year’s Eve to put this out, so I have to jump in now. So with that said, there are at least five notable specials not part of this list because as I recorded this on Tuesday, they were not available yet.

They include Sarah Sherman Live and In the Flesh, which was on HBO last night tomorrow, Robbie Hoffman’s wake Up is on Netflix coming up on the nineteenth, Kamil nan Gianni’s Night Thoughts, which Vulture says is the best special of the year based on the trailer. I can’t believe that, but okay. Tom Sigora has a Netflix special on Christmas Eve, and Ricky Gervais has Mortality on Netflix on December thirtieth. So there’s a good chance all five of those or at least four of the five of those make my revised end of the year list, which I’ll put out around New Year’s Day. But for right now, these are the top twenty five stand up specials of the year.

I’m gonna jump right in, not mess around, not tease you, just tell you what it is. The answer is the top stand up special love twenty five is Mark Maren’s Panicked from HBO Max. This is Maren at his absolute best. He found a way to channel all the anxiety of the current movement into something both deeply personal and universally relatable. This was the year Mark Maron walked away from his podcast sadly, but he handed it in his best work.

Mark Maren’s Panicked easily the best stand up special of the year. Number two Kevin Hart’s Acting My Age on Netflix. Sorry haters, this one’s just funny. It’s Kevin Hart doing material about getting a little bit older. Laugh or laugh.

It’s there. I’m a guy sitting on the couch. Kevin Hart made me laugh. That’s the mission. Mission accomplished.

Same note from my number three special of the year, Matt Rife Unwrapped, a Christmas crowd work special. I know you like to hate on Matt Rife. I’m sorry, he’s funny. I posed it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group that Matt Rife Special’s funny and people are like, really, Johnny mag you might be, as they say in Queens, are you on crack? And no, I’m not on crack.

I’m on the couch watching Matt Rife and laughing. And most of the people who took my word for it clicked on it and went, oh wow, that was really funny. Bit of a drop to the rest of the top tier here. So those three, I think stand alone a bit of a gap here down to number four. Jim Jeffries to Limb Policy on Netflix.

Jim Jeffries being Jefferies. Edis goes for it, always funny, always delivers. Number five Justin Willman’s Magic Lover on Netflix. Did you watch this one? It’s a comedy show plus magic.

Yeah, I know you’re like, what, trust me? Watch it? Justin Wilman Magic Lover, blending magic in comedy. It works. Number six and one of these years this guy’s going to top the list.

This is someone in ascendency. Longtime listeners of this program know what a fan I am. We are still at the point where I can somewhat easily get him to come as a guest on this show. We’ll see how long that laughs, or if he’s the new Jim Gaffigan. I think he’ll still come on.

He’s John Marcos Sareisi Thief of Joy on YouTube. Fantastic. People are noticing how good he is. I saw he as a million three followers on Facebook. Now, like I said, one of these years, he’s going to be number one on the list.

Number seven kind of under the radar came and went, but I watched it and it was really good, and it was someone who had something to say. Moe Amer’s Wild World on Netflix even did a bit of a Carlin esque thing at the end there. Really like that one a lot. On number eight. One of my favorite working comedians these days, Dusty Slay’s Wet Heats, also from Netflix, quote unquote Southern comedy, working, clean, shucking jokes, love Dusty Number nine Netflix again.

Bert Kreischer is lucky, Bert being Bert. Take your shirt off, tell a couple fun stories, be chartismatic. My note on this was just funny. Sometimes you don’t have to overthink the comedy, specially you come right down the middle. Burt Kreischer knows what his fans want, he delivers.

That’s a good one. Number ten Brett Goldstein for the second best night of your life. That’s nominated for a Golden Globe. You might be like the guy from ted Lasso. He’s good at stand up.

Yeah, he’s good at stand up. Number eleven Michelle Wolf’s The Well Netflix Again. I have in my notes here not hilarious, but, as I’m always say, for this next bunch of specials, good company. Enjoyed just staring at it and having my brain tickled. I wasn’t like ah for an hour, but I thought that was really good.

That’s my number eleven special Michelle Wolf At twelve Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, also on Netflix. Netflix had a hell of a year here, very thoughtful comedy, which is a weird thing to say. I really enjoyed spending an hour on the couch with Era, so to speak, very very enjoyable. All right. One night when I was diving around Netflix, I came across Matt McCusker’s Humble Offering and I wrote, poor Man Sheen gillis.

Yeah, maybe, but the special works. The audio could be better. This is a little bit homebrew, but the material lands. Number fourteen, our first Hulu special, Mateo Lane’s Al Dente, same note as I’m a one trick pony, I wrote, maybe not hilarious, but Mateolane is a nice company for an hour and sometimes that’s enough. And number fifteen the last of the top tier specials, Tim Dillon’s I’m Your Mother.

If you like this podcast, you’ll like this special. If you don’t like Tim Dillon’s podcast, you won’t. Simple as that, take a break here and I’ll tell you about the middle tiers. We take a look at Johnny Max’s top twenty five comedy specials of the year, not including the five that didn’t come out yet. Earlier I said there was that top three of Marin Hart and Rife, and then a bit of a gap.

Then I had the rest of my top tier. This is the middle tier. This is still the top twenty five, but these aren’t quite on par with everything that came before. The commercial break. Number sixteen special of the year, Mike Kaplan’s Reenie.

You’ll find that on YouTube. Clever writing, clever execution, definitely worth your time. Seventeen Hulu again, Chinado Unaka’s LOL Live that’s a part of the Kevin Hart Brand. Nice debut special, Very funny eighteen Drad Carmichaels Don’t Be Gay on HBO and here’s the thing. For twenty minutes, it’s brilliant Carmichael at his best.

Then it kind of gets tired. This is a talented storyteller with something to say, but it just doesn’t land. And after like twenty minutes, I’m like, oh, okay, nineteen Roywood Juniors at your age on Hulu. I know a lot of people really like this one. It’s a solid pro doing solid pro work.

Twenty yachtsco at Kotska’s father. I think maybe I was a little disappointed in it because I loved her previous special so much. I was like, oh, this is gonna be amazing, and it was solid, not amazing, but definitely put eyes on that. Twenty one Ian Edwards untitled. Now.

I didn’t even know this existed. You’ll fund it on YouTube until Vulture put it in their top ten. It’s a nice club set. It’s nothing special, there’s nothing wrong with it. There are a few individual chunks that are quite memorable, a few individual jokes that are even more memorable, But you know to compare this to some of the things higher up on the list.

No way. It’s a nice, solid club set, but it’s the sort of thing that you’d expect to see at the Chuckle Hut on Thursday night at the Late Show, not if you went to the arena and if he and Edwards handed that in, if that makes sense. Arii Shafeer America’s Sweetheart on Netflix. A lot of people really like that one. I just couldn’t connect with it.

Wasn’t digging it. It was okay. And I’m starting to pull teeth a little bit here. This was not the strongest year for comedy specials. Twenty three Gabriel Iglesias Legend of Fluffy from Netflix back in January.

Here’s the problem. It’s an hour forty one. I can’t I have comedy add I can’t watch one guy for an hour and forty one minutes. No way, Gabe is funny, but this needed editing. Hey Gabe, maybe this was two really good fifty minute specials.

I don’t know why they went an hour forty one. He too much. Number twenty four Mike Birbiglia is The Good Life on Netflix. My note, civilians will like it Bverbiglia does his storytelling thing well, it’s well crafted, it’s a good version of what it sets out to be. Just not my cup of tea, but I understand the civilians like it.

Twenty four is Mike Burbigulia running out the top twenty five. Jessica cursons, I’m the man, hilarious, same note, civilians are gonna like this. It’s fine. I’m a comedy snob. It’s fine.

Some others that were on par with that, but I had a hand in a top twenty five, not a top twenty eight for the Publicist. So you can rank these twenty six, seven, and eight however you want, but these are among the better specials of the year. Larry the Cable Guys It’s a Gift on Amazon. Cable guy knows what you want and cable Guy gets here done. Kathleen Madigan The Family Threat on Amazon.

Kathleen is a pro, always hilarious, always puts a smile on your face. And Leanne Morgan’s Unspeakable Things on Netflix, totally fine comedy stobbing me went, yep, this is good, but it’s just not my cup of tea. So you know I got it. Her audience loves her. I’m not her audience.

That’s all fine. So those are Johnny max twenty five best stand up specials of twenty twenty five so far, not including the ones that aren’t rut yet. Tomorrow we’ll take a look at six of the funniest things of the year there weren’t stand up specials, and I’ll fly down what didn’t make the list, and i will comment on the Golden Globes and nominations and meet you back here tomorrow