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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, John Marcos Areisi, Jackie Fabulous, Chris Spencer, Some More, Kat Williams, Kevin Hart, David Letterman, Paul Shaffer

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze named Grand Marshal of Daytona 500
• Nate Bargatze wins Grammy Award for stand-up special
• Nate Bargatze film ‘The Bread Winner’ releasing May 2026
• Dave Chappelle performing in Minnesota on February 16th
• Bill Maher responds to Dave Chappelle’s Saudi Arabia free speech comments
• Jackie Fabulous special ‘You Can Leave’ debuts on Hulu
• Chris Spencer special ‘Goat Adjacent’ debuts on Hulu
• Some More announces Netflix special ‘Chandelier Fly’ for February 17th
• David Letterman to executive produce Paul Shaffer documentary

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Very busy one today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Daytona Beach. The new Grand Marshal of the sixty eighth running of the Daytona five hundred on Sunday, February fifteenth will be Nate Brighetzi. Nate’s publicist stayed on top of Daytona with this fancy press release.

The Grammy Award winning number one touring comedian in the world in two times Saturday Night Live host is now making the jump to the silver screen this spring with his first feature film. He created, Corote, produced and stars in the family friendly comedy The bread Winner for Tri Star Pictures, schedule to be released theatrically on May twenty nine, twenty twenty six. None of that mentions date Zona. The press release also gets in Widely known as the Nicest Man in stand up, Burghetti has become one of America’s most beloved comedic voices. Blah blah blah.

Is he widely known as the nicest man in stand up? I mean he seems nice. I’m sure he’s lovely, but see widely known as that. It is through the phrase into Google. The Atlantic in twenty twenty one had the headline Nate Pergetzi’s the nicest man in stand up.

Now. I’ve never met Nate, but again, I think that Jeff Foxworthy is very, very nice. It seems everything’s going back to that article and they are running with it. Anyway. We are told that his clever and wildly relatable storytelling has made him a favorite among fans of all ages, qualities that align perfectly with the excitement, tradition, and national spotlight of the Daytona five hundred.

Frank Kelleher is president of the Daytona International Speedway and he said Nate Pergetzi’s nationwide popularity, family friendly, humor, and authenticity and body the same spirit with a style that resonates with all. He’ll bring a memorable spark to the command, amplifying the emotion and excitement of one of the biggest moments in motor sports. All the public’s got it done. They want us to know. His most recent Netflix Specially Your Friend Nate Pergetzi is currently the most watched dan up special on Netflix in the past fifty two weeks.

His Big Dumb Eyes World Tours set a record for biggest one year gross by a comedy perform in history and has broken over forty total arena attendance records. In addition to giving the command to fire up the engines, Nate will also participate in a fanned Q and a session in the fan zone that morning. I did Daytona a few times. I had a hot pass from serious xam. I’ll wait till Daytona day to tell those stories because we have a lot to get to.

Nate did win the Grammy and as part of the story they’re selling us this week. During the pre show premiere ceremony, Nate was lounging on the couch under a blanket when he heard that he won his first Grammy. A video happened to be rolling as this announcement happened. Nate is covering his hands in disbelief. He seems so shocked that he doesn’t even say anything during the video.

After the ceremony, Nate posted the video that shows him reacting. Good thing somebody was rolling at camera. Nate said, I am honestly blown away and as surprised as the video shows. Thank you to all that I’ve ever been to a show or watch A special thank you to every comedian that’s been part of my life. I love stand up comedy so much and so excited to see how stand up is exploding.

Thank you to my family who’s been so supportive of me, especially my beautiful wife Laura and our wonderful daughter Harper. God has truly blessed me with so much love and support around me. Now, I don’t want you guys to think that I don’t like Naperghazzi. I just overreact to press release e press releases, and boy, the publicists to earn their money on that one. What a yarn they are selling there.

I’ll give you an early hint for this week’s comedy stock Market Dave Chappelle. Dave’s going to return to Minnesota to quote, stand with a community. He’ll be doing a performance at the Grand Casino Arena on February sixteenth. The announcement describes Dave’s decision as an act of solidarity with a community. Quote at the center of events that you denied all Americans in defense of civil rights, human dignity, and the principles we claim the hold sacred, Amen, Dave.

The press release says Dave’s appearance reflects a quote decades long commitment to showing up for communities and crisis and using comedy as a force for connection and solidarity. I like this move a lot now. Interestingly, in July of twenty twenty two, Dave was scheduled to perform at First Avenue in Minneapolis. That’s the place Bruce Springsteen showed up at last week. That show was moved to the Varsity Theater in an apparent reaction to Dave’s transfer material.

You may also recall that in twenty twenties, that long ago, Netflix released a special titled eight forty six, which featured Dave Chappelle talking about race in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Eight forty six refers to the length of time George Floyd was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer. Daves announced a couple other shows to tell you about those later in the week, one with John Stewart and a second one in San Francisco this weekend. But we’ll get to that. Bill Maher shot back at Dave Chappelle on Friday’s Real Time.

Bill Maher asserted that he was right to mock Dave Chappelle for suggesting Saudi Arabia has freer speech of the United States. Mar said Dave Chappelle lashed out at me last month because I called him out for saying there was more free speech in Saudi Arabia than here. Well, I was right. What he said was stupid. Maer argued that the United States is a far different place than Saudi Arabia regarding free speech, quoting Bill Maher.

If you don’t believe me, try opening a lesbian art gallery there, or wearing a T shirt that says Jesus is the one True God. Ricky’s right meeting Ricky Gervais. Celebrities don’t know about the real world. I feel terrible. I’m a terrible, terrible host.

I forgot to tell you guys for two days. I meant to tell you this when I recorded the Sunday Grammy segment. Anyway, John Marcos Areisi released a short fourteen minute set. It is on YouTube. It is called Shelf Life Volume two.

I feel awful the publicists sent that over. I knew in advance and I just forgot to actually voice the story. Sorry, publicist. You know I love you. You know I love John Marco.

John Marco has been named a Deadline comic set to break out into twenty twenty five. I think that happened, and he’s been named by me twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year. I wrote that back to the publicist and she was like, wait, who said that. I’m like, oh, I did. She encouraged me to keep doing it.

All right, let’s hook that up with some views Shelf Life volume two. Jackie Fabulous has a new special on Hulu Today. In the special, titled You Can Leave, Jackie Fabulous tackles topics ranging from ex husband and diet pills, to menta pause and what people do. The Drive You Nuts.

Also out on Hulu Today, Chris Spencer’s new special, Goat Adjacent, presented…

Spencer touches on everything from marriage and family, aging, race, and his Jamaican roots. Some More has announced a Netflix special that one called Chandelier Fly that’ll be out February seventeenth. So it looks like Netflix is starting to roll specials out again because Kat Williams is out on the tenth Tuesday specials are back. Baby. Some More is a special Chandelier Fly, filmed at the Gordon Theater in Detroit.

She shares her takes on untimely death, celebrity scandals, and cell phone companies learning to mind their business. David Letterman will executive produce a Paul Schaeffer documentary. It is titled appropriately Say Hello to Our good Friend, Paul Schaeffer. David Letterman, in a statement, said, Paul Shaffer is a show business friend who became a real friend. A comedic partner who’s quickness in timing saved me night after night.

A composer, arranger and performer with endless range. His vast knowledge and list of collaborators in music make him a living rock and roll Hall of Fame. There’s no one more worthy of an examination of his life and work. You may recall, Paul Schaeffer was the sidekick on Late Night with David Letterman, which launched in nineteen eighty two. We just missed the anniversary.

I forgot to mention it. Paul was the leader of the World’s Most Dangerous Band. Then in nineteen ninety three, after those meetings at NBC gave the Tonight Show to the Worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno, Dave headed over to CBS to host the Late Show. Paul went with him, and Paul was the leader of the CBS Orchestra. Paul Schaeffer said, any contribution I’ve been lucky enough to make to the world of music and comedy has only been possible thanks to my working alongside David Letterman.

That’s why worldwide pans joining to help tell my story as a dream I cannot wait to share with all of you. Conan O’Brien returns to host the Oscars on Sunday, March fifteenth, seven East four West. It’ll be live on ABC and Hulu. Last year’s Oscars were very well received and the reason for today’s new story is the producers want us to know one hundred percent of the writers and producers are back. Full writing team is back, and plus they added former Conan writer Todd Levin.

Pandora has settled with comedians in a legal dispute over spoken word content licensing. Nine comedians and their heirs, including George Lopez, Lewis Black, and the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin, had been fighting since twenty twenty two to increase the royalties paid when their comedy is streamed on Pandora. There has been a confidential settlement. The comedian’s lawyer said we settled amicably. Mystery Science Theater three thousand being revived again.

I stumbled across this on my own as a civilian. I wasn’t even doing show prep. I was just watching YouTube and I saw the announcement for the kickstarter. They want to produce four new episodes. The kickstarter in the first twenty four hours generated one point one to seven million dollars.

The original goal of the kickstarter was to raise twenty grand. In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of riff Tracks, Shout Studios now owns the rights to MST three K. Shout has teamed up with Rifftracks to produce new episodes of the show that will see Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett return, both in front end behind the screen. The four movies that will be featured will be revealed over the course of the campaign.

Nelson, Corbett and Murphy have been performing under the riff Tracks banner since two thousand and six. They often do Rifftracks live screenings, so it’s nice to see that they’re back involved in the MST three K verse. There was that weird Netflix season out there. Forget that ever, happened. Let’s get back to the main continuity.

MST three K launched on a Minneapolis the UHF station in nineteen eighty eight. Joel Hodgson previously revived the show via Kickstarter campaign in twenty fifteen. Was it that long ago season’s eleven and twelve yeared on Netflix? It’s ten years since the Netflix version? No way, I would have guessed like three wow, and then it was a thirteenth season on the online streaming platform.

The gizmo Plex totally missed that Eddie Murphy’s son and Martin Lawrence’s daughter are having a baby. Eric Murphy and Jasmine Lawrence announced the news. They posted thank you Jesus for the greatest gift. One person commented having Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as your godparents is life. Another comment said that maybe gonna be talented and funny as hell?

All right? An item on Gossip Corner. I’m not playing the song because I do want to be serious here. I’m seeing this on a lot of social media. There is an alleged Jelayne Maxwell email asking famous sitcom star and comedian.

So think of a famous comedian who had a sitcom? So, whoever you’re imagining now. Well, apparently Julne invited famous sitcom star and comedian to the island. The email was shared as a screenshot in a Reddit community and has gone viral. In this post email, Jelayne Maxwell writes to Jeffrey Epstein, also, famous sitcom star and wife are going to be sailing around Saint t twenty six slash twenty seven.

Can I organize for them to come to the island for lemonade? Jeffrey Epstein writes back, Yes, there is no proof that the famous comedian accepted the lemonade invitation or dinner, or had ever been to the island. That’s just out there. John Stewart’s name does appear in the Epstein files. On Monday’s Daily Show, John said, of course, to get out of the story.

I’m also in the files. We all searched our names, right, you. Guys in search your name? All right? Well, I yeah, no, I know whatever I am in the files.

All right, this is actually true. I take you to the scene. It is midnight, August twenty ninth, twenty fifteen. Jeffrey Epstein lies wide awake, his mind turning with ideas. He juts a quick note to a producer named Barry Josephson, saying, I suggested to Woody.

Y’all know which Woody. Right see Epstein Files. It ain’t Harrelson, all right or the Cowboy Toy story, you know Rich Moonty returning quote, I suggested to Woody that he do an exclusive new stand up routine for either Apple TV or Amazon. Oh, Jeffrey Epstein always had his finger on the pulse of what America was clamoring for in twenty fifteen. But Barry Josephson, thinking like the out of the box television professional that he was, pitched this idea, this is true quote, make a true biographical experience with his stand up being the kapper.

Somebody like John Stewart could host, slash narrate the biographical part. Excuse me, I am offended. Somebody like John Stewart, Poor John Stewart. My point is, do I have the offer or is this an audition. With the big document dumb?

All the late night hosts have weigh in. John Stewart said, there have been consequences for none of these dudes. They’ve been on the plane, they’ve been on the island, they’ve been to his house, they’ve given creepy cards with pubic care. They’ve been accused by a multitude of women of multitude of wrongdoings and nothing has happened to any of them. I gotta be honest, I’m just not sure anyone’s going to be held accountable for any of this.

Oh except Prince Andrew. Oh, Prince Andrew stripped of the title Prince. W Ooh, such a penalty. I guess here I’ll plug. Uh.

Yeah, We’ve been talking about that a lot on Palace Intrigue. Palace Intrigue and the writer for that, and we talk about the royal family every day, and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and keeping me quite busy. Back to comedy, Stewart said, Look, man, we always knew that the people at DJ releasing these documents weren’t on a fact finding mission. They were running interference. And the guy that the running interference for seems very satisfied with these results.

Jimmy Kimmel, I think we’ve done like eight or nine hundred Monday shows. I don’t know that we’ve ever had more madness to go through. There’s so much. I’ll start with what we know on Friday morning, the ironically titled Department of Justice release about half of the Epstein files. They’re supposed to release all of them on December nineteenth of last year.

That obviously didn’t happen. They claimed they needed time to redact the names of the victims, but whether intentionally or as a result of incompetence, or a combination of both, they released thousands of files that did not have the names or photos of many of the victims redacted. But they did do a pretty decent job of redacting the names of the victimizers. There are many disturbing accounts of questionable activity and emails, notes, text messages, et cetera, and about a lot of famous people, including Bill Gates, Steve Bennon, Richard Branson, and of course Donald Trump. It would seem that some other famous people, including Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, may not have been telling the whole truth about their actions with Jeffrey Epstein.

It is clear that Prince Andrew is royally, which is you know, it’s a term you hear a lot, but rarely when it is literally true. And most of all, it is so. Bananas that the guy who’s in charge of releasing all these files and redacting all this evidence is Donald Trump’s own personal defense attorney. You know, when Trump was convicted of thirty four felony council fraud, Todd Blanche was his lawyer. Now Todd Blanche is the gatekeeper to the Epstein files and the woman who could give us clarity on who did what.

Julane Maxwell is now doing yoga in a country club detention center because Todd Blanche moved her to one for reasons that he still hasn’t explained to anyone.

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And then there’s all this other stuff going on, busting into the election hea…

My head is spinning. I guess that’s the point, But my gud, remember when Trump was threatening to invade Greenland. That was not even two weeks ago. We’re living in dog ears now and it’s only going to get nuttier.

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And now that this new batch of Epstein files is out, the Distracto Mattock is…

Up Stein Vilbert did a lengthy monologue. Here are excerpts from it. I have made some edits to this four pacing. Because on Friday morning, the Justice Department released its largest batch of Epstein documents, which totals over three million pages. Three million.

Is a lot of pages, and it’s three million pages of just terrible stuff. Folks out there are still slogging through all the files, but they implicate a who’s who of powerful men, including everyone from tech titans to Wall Street power brokers. Yes, there’s one prominent guy who is in there, prominently because President Donald Trump is mentioned more than one thousand times, and the New York Times found fifty three hundred files with references to Trump and more than thirty eight thousand references to Trump, his wife and Mara a Lago thirty eight thousand references. That seems low, Frank, Obviously, this is the biggest story imaginable. But for some reason it isn’t what is detailed in those three million pages or allegations of some of the cruelest, most depraved crimes against women and kids involving some of the most powerful men on planet Earth.

Seth Myers said, we’re living in magas warped world where everything is upside down and nothing matters except who has power and who does not. They hail violent January sixth rioters as heroes and call peaceful protesters domestic terrorists. The government rounds up children and families and citizens and claims they’re going after the worst of the worst, while at the same time they cover up for wealthy and powerful elites named in the emails of a guy who was actually the worst of the worst. Late Nighter points out that even Saturday Night Live was mentioned in the Epstein files some quick hits there in twenty sixteen, the day after SNL aired a cold open in which Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump was visited by John Goodman’s Rex Tillerson and Beck Bennett’s Vladimir Putin. Epstein appears to have emailed a Variety article about the sketch to billionaire Tom Pritzker.

Twenty eighteen, Fred Armison portrayed Michael Wolf. Epstein filed off an email to the real Wolf with his review SNL was great. Late Nighter recaped several other SNL mentions in the files and from the Washington Post. Donald Trump told some jokes the Washington Post tells us Trump was addressing the Afalfa Club. Some members of the club are known to be in opposition to the president.

The president’s jokes included and of course he told them better than I will. So many people in the room I hate most of you. I like, who in the hell thought this was going to happen. The President joked he might have to cut the speech short because he needed to watch the invasion of Greenland, joking, We’re not gonna invade Greenland, We’re gonna buy it. It’s never been my intention to make Greenland the fifty first state.

I want to make Canada the fifty first state. Greenland will be the fifty second state. Venezuela can be the fifty third. Currently, the President pointed to Kevin Worsh, nominee to be the next FED chairman. The president joked, if he does a lower interest rates, I’m suing his ass off.

Trump took a beat for timing and jagged it with I’m kidding. Later in the day, the President was asked by reporters about the comments. The President explained, it’s a roast, it’s a comedy night. Apparently, the president joked that he thought Conda Leeza Rice would be the first female president, and his joke never in a million years when I’ve thought Joe Biden would beat her to it. The President also told reporters I had the nastiest, most vicious joke about John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

If you think I’m going to tell that joke, you can forget it. I’m going to kiss his ass for a long time. That’s your comedy, is for it today? Oh boy? All right, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Donald Trump, Nicki Minaj, Joe Coy, Bad Bunny, Ricky Gervais, Nate Bargatze, Bill Maher, Pete Davidson, MGK, Kat Williams, Ron White

What’s in This Episode

• Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over Grammys joke
• Nicki Minaj responds to Trevor Noah Grammy joke
• Grammy Awards 2026 hosting criticism and review
• Pete Davidson Show Netflix debut
• Kat Williams new Netflix special announcement
• Comedy Survivor voting results

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hy There, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The President of the United States has threatened to sue quote unquote talentless Grammy Awards host Trevor Noah for quote unquote plenty dollar signs. Apparently the President of the United States did not like one of the jokes. The President took time out of his very very busy schedule running the country to post on Truth’s social the Grammy Awards are the worst, virtually unwatchable.

CBS is lucky not to have this garbage litter their airwaves any longer. Next year, the Grammys will air on ABC. The President reacted after this joke from Trevor Noah. That is a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense. I mean, because Epstein’s Island is gone.

He needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton. So, oh, I told you it’s my last year. What are you gonna do about it? Oh? The President had more to say.

The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he may be, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low Ratings Academy Awards. Noah said incorrectly about me that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. Wrong. I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false, intfamatory statement, have never been accused of being there, not even by the fake news media. I don’t even know what to say to that one.

Never been accused of being there, The President continued, Noah a total loser. Better get his fact straight and get them straight fast. It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless dope of an MC and sue him for a plenty dollars sign Ask Little George Slapadopolis and others how that all worked out.

Also ask CBS get ready, Noah, I’m gonna have some fun with you.

Someone else who did not enjoy Trevor Noah is Nicki Minaj. You may recall this joke. We got John Letgend in. The house, Oh man, Every single person John Legend, Finnis Phineas Nicki. Minaj is not here.

She is not here, Um. She is. She is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues. Actually Nikki, I have the biggest ass. I haven’t.

Everybody’s saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it’s me. Wop wop wop. Look at it. Look at it, baby.

Nicki minaj on X posted Trevor refuses to come out of the closet when everyone in the industry knows his boyfriend dot dot dot allegedly. In another post, she wrote, as they do their ritual tonight, God Almighty will reveal themselves to them. The ritual will backfire on them. God will not be mocked. Blessed is the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Every tongue that rises up against me in judgment shall be condemned and put to shame. Watch You may know Nicki Minaje from such songs as Super Freaky Girl. In the Hollywood reporter Daniel Feinberg, who’s one of my favorites, wrote, Nobody’s going to come away from the Grammy’s telecap remembering any of Noah’s monologue speech because there was no monologue speech. There were barely any jokes. It was really just Trevor Noah running around the floor gushing about the talent.

In a very small portion of the audience. Really, Noah got to like three tables, enough time to shake a few famous people’s hands and say are you kidding me? Seemingly a few dozen times. It was an enthusiastic chummy thoroughly vapid. But if the point was for absolutely nobody in the audience to feel even slightly offended or amused, he achieved that goal.

Yeah, you gotta be careful because one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Yeah, I mean, so, Trevor’s smart to play it safe. You don’t want to make a Taylor Swift level joke and have the Ice Queen make a face and basically wreck your career.

You don’t want that to happen, Daniel Finberg writes. And the truth, of course, is that for many viewers, Trevor delivered exactly what they craved, a hollow, cheery escape from everything happening on the news, an insulated celebration of super officiality that was then punctured by the awards and the recipients. Finberg writes, sure, I want things to be political if you don’t bully for you, But in lieu of political, I would have settled for funny or purposeful or not bothering waste ten minutes just starting the show. This was none of these. It was just enthusiastic.

Daniel then goes on to speak about how the artists were not as blanned as trivor specifically Bad Bunny. I’ll call out because Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl halftime show this upcoming weekend, and I suspect he will be in the news. Bad Bunny, during his speech, said ice out. We’re not savages, We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.

Got some more politics for you later, or we’ll do that in the second half. I do try to keep it light. Ricky Gervais waited in during the awards, as he has done in the past. Ricky shared an excerpt from his infamous twenty twenty Golden Globes monologue in which he told the actors of the room not to turn their acceptance speeches into political calls to action. This time, Jervas used a crying emoji and wrote, they’re still not listening.

You may recall in twenty twenty. He said, if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Nate Berghatzy went on Bill Mahers show.

Bill Maher said, you and I we could not be more different. You met your wife at an Applebee’s. Nate Pergatzy was curious and asked Bill Moore, when was the last time you were at an Applebee’s. Morris said never. I don’t think it existed when I was poor and now I’m effing rich.

Pete Davidson debuted is not at all a podcast? The Pete Davidson Show on Netflix. Did you watch it? I don’t think too many people did. I was checking all weekend to see if it made the top ten.

It did not. Bert Kreischer’s Thing is in the top ten, but Pete did not. I lasted about two seconds with it. It was not for me. Pete Davidson sat down with MGK.

They discussed the importance of bidazz. Yes, I don’t know what you were watching all weekend. Maybe the Grammys, but you could have been watching Pete Davidson and MGK discussing bidezs. Pete Davidson refuses to use the bidet he has on the Japanese toilet in his home because quote, I’m afraid I’ll love it, and I don’t be able to, you know, go anywhere else because I can’t shoot water up my place. Let you shoot water up.

They got a little more serious. Pete said, I think we both thought we were going to die pretty young. I’m equally impressed by both of us and been able to keep it going, which it’s now past that point where it’s like, yeah, we’ve had troubles while sober, and you’re like, yeah, it’s fine. MGK said their bipolar has synced up. Every time I’m having a manic episode, you’re good.

Every time you’re having one, I’m good. It goes back and forth. Pete said, thank god, because we’d be dead for sure. Then they shared some stories about various drugs and I’m just not interested in any of that. Cant Williams will have a special on Netflix.

It’s his fourth. It will premiere February tenth, one week from today. It is called The Last Report. In it, Kat Williams delivers his take on conspiracies, celebrities, and the world at large. I went to pull the trailer for you, but he’s Kat Williams and I like to keep this podcast clean, so it didn’t work.

But I’ll tell you he joked about buying a farm and he bought all the animals that were delicious, like cows, pigs, and chickens, and that he hasn’t killed a single animal yet. I’ll save the joke part for a week from today when Kat Williams new specials out on Netflix. Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. Ron White voted out week four. A pretty shocking result there.

We’ll see who goes out this week. So what do you do? You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You’ll find a cartoon image of me and Ron White in that thread. Vote someone off the island.

Just make a crystal clear vote. I’m voting off. So and so. It’s been a lot of fun and the group is having fun. Alliances are starting to form.

I think that’s good. If you’re at the comedy store in La tonight, really good. Lineup. They had a Jim Norton to a lineup that was already David Spade, Andrews Santino, Whitney Cummings plus more. That’s pretty good.

Gossip Connor spoons in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, Gossip Conna were with Johnny magg It’s as. A tree and welcome to Gossip Corner. Now, this first one is completely unconfirmed, but I’ve seen a lot of chatter about this as the story goes, assuming when this even happened. Sadie Sandler, the daughter of Adam Sandler, was in a Chanelle store in Beverly Hills. As the story goes, one of the workers supposedly, perhaps maybe judged Sadie Sandler for her casual outfit while Sadie Sandler was perhaps possibly maybe looking at a classic flat bag, which goes for twenty eight six hundred dollars.

There is a widely shared TikTok video in which Sadie Sandler supposedly enters the Chanelle boutique. She stressed in an oversized hoodie, basketball shorts and trainers boy. She is her father’s daughter. As the story goes, a sales associate dismissed her interest and suggested the item was intended only for serious buyers. If the story is true, in this version, Adam Sandler himself shows up question the staff about judging customers by appearance, and then buys something himself.

It’s unclear what Adam Sandler has bought. If this story is true, The story is being reposted across multiple social plotfs. There are no photographs, surveillance footage, or eyewitness accounts from inside the store so far. The TikTok video also does not specify an exact date or time of the encounter. Did it even happen?

Who knows? Fun story sure.

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Also on gossip Corner, Radar Online says Amy Schumer is being bothered by onl…

If even this gets mocked, it shows you can’t win no matter what she does. Bill Board put out the top touring comedians for December. John Mulaney leads the pack six point one million dollars fifty one thousand tickets sold over fifteen shows. Must be nice your top five. Number five.

Dave Chappelle grows two and a half million, sold eighteen thousand, three hundred tickets. Fourth, Jimmy Carr grows two point six million and sold forty one thousand tickets In third place, Matt Rife grows four to four and so old fifty nine thousand, six hundred tickets. Nate Brigetzi, who’s off in number one he was number two, grows to four point nine million, sold one hundred and seventeen thousand, and again John Mulaney fifteen shows, six point one million dollars fifty one one hundred tickets. Page six says that Tim Dillon hopes to film his next special on skid Row. A source says that’s what he wants to do.

I think he just thinks it’s a funny thing to do. On his podcast, he joked, LA should think of skid Row as an asset. Let’s be proud of it. Let’s say we are the top homeless destination in the world. I take friends now when they visit to skid Row, and I’m proud of it.

I’m like, there’s ten thousand people here right now. Jokes aside. I listened to the newest episode of Tim Dillon’s podcast. He was pretty serious for the entire episode. I think I can tell when he’s joking and not joking, and I think he was serious this week.

I did pull a clip. Here’s Tim Dillon. They’re censoring your post on TikTok. Anyone who’s not criticizing this, anyone who’s not calling this out, I cannot trust that. I don’t know why they’re not calling it out.

I don’t know if there’s a fine ancial benefit to them not calling it out, or if they feel that one side’s already one and they want to be on that side. I don’t know if they are fearful of something or other. But if you’re not calling this out, if you don’t think this is wrong, if you make a living speaking, if you’re a comedian, podcaster, journalist, whatever you are, doesn’t really matter. If you are a YouTuber, if you’re a social media personality, if you make a living using your fat mouth, and you don’t think this is a problem, You don’t think getting a group of billionaires that are ideologically aligned to go buy an app and then start censoring the content on the app. It was a problem when it was being done during COVID, and it’s a problem when it’s being done now.

And if you don’t care about that, and if you think that’s not going to affect you for whatever reason, I can’t trust you, and I can’t listen to what you say. You don’t have any credibility. And we started with politics, will end with politics. I wonder if we’re losing the country. The FCC chairman says fake news won’t qualify for the equal time rule exemption.

In case you missed it, two weeks ago, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued new guidance on the Equal Time rule, which requires that broadcasters who feature qualified political candidates on the airwaves provide time to rivals if requested. News had been exempted from the rule, and in recent decades it was assumed the rule also applied to daytime and late night talk shows like Say Jimmy, Kimme Alive, or Colbert. However, new FCC guidance has signaled to those talk shows that they should no longer believe they would be exempt. At the FCC meeting a Commissioner. Carr said that a determination on whether a show is exempt would come down to a number of factors, including whether there was a partisan motivation in featuring a political candidate as a guest.

He said that congressional lawmakers were worried that TV programmers would brought take advantage of trying to claim they were bona fide news when they weren’t. But if you’re fake news, you’re not going to qualify for the bonafide news exemption. Back in two thousand and six, the FCC determined that the Tonight Show with Jay Leno was exempt from the equal time rule. Carr said that assumption in light of the ruling was that every single late night, every single daytime show must be bonafide news, and he says that assumption is not right. So we’ll see how that affects bookings as we head into the midterm elections.

You know, sometimes the late night talk show is just a late night talk show, and that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ron White, Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Joe Koy, Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Tig Nataro, Leslie Jones

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor Week 4 elimination results
• Ron White voted off the island in shocking upset
• Organized voting blocks influencing elimination outcomes
• Legacy comedians vulnerability in the competition
• Tig Nataro emerging as recurring target with save campaign
• Week 5 voting predictions and analysis

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Caloroga Shark Media outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mac and this is the Week four elimination show for Comedy Survivor. We placed sixteen comedians on an island. Every week, the Facebook group at Daily Comedy News podcast group votes one comedian off comedy Island.

So far, Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, and Joe Koy have been eliminated. Still in the game, Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko At Kotzka, Sebastian Maniscalco, tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Kreischer. The listeners have gone to the Facebook group and they’ve voted. I’m now tally the votes. Mike votes for Ron White.

That is Ron White’s first vote of the season. A Vaughn votes for Ron White. That’s two votes for Ron White. Scott votes for tig Nataro, Mike votes for Seth Myers, Dylan votes for Tignataro. That’s two votes Tignataro, two votes Ron White.

Barb votes for Ron White. That’s three votes for Ron White. Michelle votes for John Mulaney. That’s John Mulaney’s first vote of the season. Matt votes for Jay Leno, Andrea the votes for Tignataro.

That’s three votes tag Nataro, three votes for Ron White. Marty votes for Jim Gaffigan. That’s Jim Gaffigan’s first vote of the season. Andy votes for Leslie Jones with the hashtag save tig Raffy votes for Leslie Jones. That’s three votes for Ron White, three votes for Tignataro, two votes for Leslie Jones.

Richard votes for Ron White. That’s four votes for Ron White. Lindsay he votes for Otsko Atkotska, Lee votes for Tignataro. That’s four votes for Tignataro, four votes for Ron White. Aaron votes for Ron White, and Cheryl votes for Ron White.

In a shocking out of nowhere vote, the Facebook group has a line to vote off Ron White. Ron White went from zero votes to being voted off Comedy Island. No one is safe. We’ll take the break and we’ll come back and look at the analysis. Wow, what a stunning result.

The votes are in. Ron White eliminated. He had no votes coming into this week, and then you guys are like, he’s out of here. I’m also fascinated by the save Tignaitaro contingent. Well, they’ve become a voting block and a lot with whoever the trendy pick is to save.

Very fascinating. I’ve seen some people hanging back until later in the week to use their vote strategically. So much fun. Ron White six votes four, Leslie Jones two, A bunch of others got one. The AI says Tignataro is now officially the recurring alternative and that the backup target often becomes the main target the following week.

However, will people sacrifice Leslie Jones to save tig Nataro? Very very fascinating. Legacy comics are vulnerable so far. Who’s gone out? Or Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Ron White and Joe Coy one time, most of the Golden globes, So I don’t have time for that, The AI says, once the name of pears, it keeps appearing.

So that’s interesting because we had a few first time votes today. Organized blocks win. You don’t need the room, you need your people, According to the AI, who looks safe right now Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Manaskalco. But I’m looking back to last week’s AI analysis and the AI said Ron White was safe and thought the front runner for being in trouble this week was Tignataro. Not too far off the mark.

The AI’s guessed at who is in trouble this upcoming week Tignataro, Leslie Jones, Jay Leno. If the group finally decides it’s time to pull the trigger on Jay and we keep seeing Strevos for Osco at Conska, here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go to the Facebook group. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’re going to find a cartoon image of me extinguishing the torch of Ron White in that thread.

Vote someone off. Please make it super clear that you’re voting someone off. All the side commentary is fine, but a nice clear sentence, like my vote is makes it super easy for me and the AI to check my work. The last thing I want to do is have a voting controversy off a silly once a week bit where we’re just having fun on Facebook. So let’s try and avoid that.

Do Crystal clear votes Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. This is so much fun to do. I love putting it together. I don’t like look at it and kind of trend it. You know, I likely look at it during the week just to be like, oh, look a couple of Ron White votes.

But I’m not keeping an unofficial tally until I actually record the show in real time as you hear it. If you’re new to all this, I’ll give you the names real quick so you can play along at home. Out Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Jokoy, Ron White. Still in the game, you will vote someone off from the pool of I’m gonna read it in the opposite order today, Bert Kreischer, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, Tig Nataro Zebastian Maniscalco, otsko At Kotzka, John Mulaney, Kevin Hart, Seth Myers, Nikki Glaser, Jim Gaffigan, or Jay Leno. That is your comedy Survivor for week five.

Back in the morning with a normal episode. Stay warm,

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Nate Bargatze, Catherine O’Hara, Macaulay Culkin, Seth Rogen, Pedro Pascal, Michael Keaton, Mike Myers

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah Grammy Awards hosting monologue recap
• Nate Bargatze wins Best Comedy Album Grammy
• Ben Bankers’ canceled shows in Minnesota and CAA dispute
• Catherine O’Hara death and tributes from comedy world
• Rob Schneider and Patricia divorce announcement

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, I psych. Hi, I’m Johnny Mag with your daily coming news. Why you psych, Johnny Mag? Because Trevor Noah got it done.

I was texting with my son. I’m like, I hope Trevnoa does a tight monologue and it’s done and I can record the show during halftime. And Trevor wrapped it up with twelve seconds in the first half as the Knicks played the Lakers. So high from halftime, as I’m recording, Trevor Noah just took the stage at the Grammys. I love Trevor.

I just think he’s a really good host, very comfortable. You can trust him with a show. Nothing amazing out of his monologue, but it was fun and upbeat, and you know he’s setting the stage for a party. He did go a long way for this first joke. Uppatah is actually inspired by a Korean drinking game right where you stack your hands on top of each other.

Someone shouts a number, you count up, and then if your hand hits that number, you drink. Yeah. That’s way more complicated than the drinking game we have in America. In America, every time you turn on the news, you drink ah pta ah pata. See you may be wondering, all right, is Trevor going to get pointed at all?

A little bit of here with this one? Oh and the one and only Miss Lauren Hill will be performing on that stage tonight, which is insane when you think about it, because the last time Lauren Hill performed at the Grammys was in nineteen ninety nine. I understand that you understand how long ago that was. Back in nineteen ninety nine, the president had had a sex scandal, people thought computers were about to destroy the world, and Diddy was arrested. Boy, how times have changed.

And then, really the closest thing to a political joke in the monologue was this one. We got John Legend in the house. Oh man, every single personally here, John Legend, Philly Alis, Phineas, Nicki Minaj is not here. She is not here, she is she is still at the White House. With Donald Trump discussing very important issues.

Actually, Nikki, I have the biggest ass. I haven’t. Everybody’s saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it’s me. Wop wop wop.

Look at it. Look at it baby. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Nateperghetzi for your Friend Nateperghetzy. I didn’t think that was Nate’s best special at all, but okay, fine. He beat out Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Year, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, Ali Wong’s Single Lady, and Jamie fox Is.

What had happened was Jamie, who, as longtime listeners know, I used to work with. He’s sitting pretty close upstage wearing a very big hat, like a hat that’s saying hey, look at me, and sunglasses, and I wonder if that particular look is perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow related to the stroke. I just found it an odd fashioned decision. Anyway. I hope he’s doing well.

Now. For today’s show, I’m flipping the order a little bit because I recorded the second half earlier. So usually I do the Newsy News in the first half and some of the more esoteric stuff in the second half. So that’s kind of flipped today just to accommodate the production. Remember I told you I think it was in yesterday’s show by the comedian Ben Bankers, the guy who had made jerky jokes about Renee Good.

Bankers addressed the cancel shows in a video he’s shared on his Instagram on the twenty ninth, and the clip he tells an audience, I just found out my shows were canceled in Minnesota FM. He said he was working on a new venue and dates for the fine people of Minnesota. The owner of the club who had canceled the shows told The Tribune that CAA, who represents Ben Bankers, is insisting that the club fully compensate Bankers for the canceled shows due to the fact that he was willing to perform fair enough. The owner also says that CIA will not allow any of its other clients to perform at the club until the matter is fully resolved. That would surprise me if CAA is ice club, And I did want to talk about the passing of Catherine O’Hara, who died Friday in Los Angeles at age seventy one.

The Toronto native began at the Second City as an understudy to Gilda Radner from Second City, the famous Canadian sketch show SCTV, where she did fantastic work and if you’re of a certain age like me, that’s where she got on your radar. Later playing the mom in the Home Alone Movies, McAuley Culkin posted, Mama, I thought we had time. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you, but I had so much more to say. I love you.

I’ll see you later. In the Home Alone films, the family rushes through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. The Airport posted thank you Catherine O’Hara, Forever our legendary missus McAllister. More recently, O’Hara was on Apple TV’s The Studio. Seth Rogan wrote on Instagram, We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her.

She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous. She made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. Pedro Pascal, who shared the screen with her in the Last of Us, wrote, the is less light in my world. This lucky world that had you will keep you always. Brooke Shields wrote what an honor it was to be spoofed by Catherine O’Hara on the old SETV series.

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, wrote, Canada has lost a legend. Over five decades of work, Catherine earned her place in the Canada of Canadian comedy. From SETV to Shit’s creek. She was an ambassador for Canada and the truest sense, brilliant, fearless, deeply original. It’s so full of humanity.

She made the world laugh, but she also made people feel seen. Mike Myers wrote, it was a very sad day for comedy and for Canada. She was one of the greatest comedy artists in history and inspiration for millions and above all, very elegant lady. Setting much love and condolences to her family. Michael Keaton wrote, we go back before the first beadle jew.

She’s been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis, and my real life true friend. This one hurts, man. I’m going to miss her thinking about bo as well. Jernny Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center, in a statement, wrote, Katherine O’Hara was one of the rare performers who could disappear completely into character and somehow make that character unforgettable shape what comedy acting could be, blending precision, humanity, and originality in a way that felt effortless. Her work will continue to inspire generations of performers and audiences.

So, like I said, to flipping the order around a little bit today, we’ll take the break here and we’ll come back and do more of a normal second half. Coming up at noon Eastern today the results of Comedy Survivor Week four. Looking forward to seeing who was voted off Comedy Island. Remember back on I think it was Friday show, maybe it was Thursday’s show. I had reached out to Deacon Mike.

I was curious about Stephen Colbert’s use of Faith leader. Stephen Colbert is a Catholic. I’m a Catholic and growing up Catholic, I never really heard that term. Deacon Mike said, his guest is, that’s a personal term from Colbert that would be all encompassing to be more inclusive to all people of faith. And you know, getting a vibe for how Stephen Colbert rolls when he’s not ruining Star Trek.

That makes sense. So appreciate Deacon Mike for getting back to me. He did to get back to me. I know in your world it’s like four days later. He got back to me about ten minutes after I finished recording the episode.

But thank you. Deacon Mike. Got some items from Gossip Corner. I’m not gonna play the song because the spirit of the show is not quote unquote dancing on people’s graves. I don’t want people to be miserable.

But in the news, Rob Schneider and his wife have announced that their marriage is coming to an end. Thirty seven year old Patricia has filed for divorce from her sixty two year old husband, Robert Schneider. The divorce summary is requesting the court to keep the documents confidential. The couple has two daughters, age thirteen and ten. They first met in two thousand and seven on a TV project.

Rob Schneider was forty four, Patricia was nineteen. They got married four years later. Staying on gossip corner, Raider Online has the headline Amy Schumer goes goopy over divorce love Lauren comic, using Gwyneth Paltrow as an inspiration for her conscious uncoupling. A source told Rader Online Amy is obsessed with controlling the narrative, really with controlling everything. She seems convinced that if she and Chris can have this perfect divorce, I don’t want her so much.

That’s why she wanted to get everything totally handled before making the news public. All the houses are getting sold, the money’s divided up and they’ve agreed on custody. There won’t be any fights or drama, which is very important to Amy for her son’s sake and for Chris. She’s very focused on protecting them both. These source ads no doubt Amy’s image is part of this too.

She knows it’s going to be picked apart, and she wants to give people as little ammunition as possible. As much as she claims not to care what people think, she actually does care a lot. Amy’s telling people she wants to stay friends with Chris, and they were even going to get each other’s advice on who to date, which strikes a lot of people as bizarre. I’m glad the source said that, because I was about to editorialize there, like and just say that’s weird. The source continued.

She’s also adamant that this has nothing to do with her suddenly getting skinny, but the timing of her weight loss does have a lot of people questioning if she’s being fully transparent about that. Now, while I was prepping the show, actually let me check this again. Hold on, okay, I was going to tell you there was a dead link for a day. There was a dead link under the headline Amy Schumer thought she’d be flooded with interest to mid divorce news, but it hasn’t happened. This on the National Inquirer dot com as a recording this on Friday.

The link it seems to have come back to life. An insider says Amy really thought she’d be flooded with interest, more dates, more tension, but it hasn’t happened. Another source says she’s not chasing anything. If a date happens, great, If not, she’s totally fine being on her own. Maybe she could date Rob Schneider.

I thought this was weird, a weird decision by The Daily Show. They used Whitney Cummings as a correspondent last week and Whitney Cummings in the Daily Show just don’t go together in my mind. If you spent a lot of time, especially on comedy threads, Whitney is not all that popular on social media, and without doing any research, I would guess Whitney Cummings is not that popular with many fans of the Daily Show. I just thought it was weird Whitney Cummings took over the shows in my opinion desk for commentary aimed at liberal voters and their tendency to demand perfection from Democratic presidential candidates. Whitney said, I’m here to talk to you as a liberal and acknowledge sometimes her politics have been misread.

Some people think got right wing just because I look and sound exactly like Kimberly Gilfoyle. But I’m a liberal. She went on for seven minutes, and the point of her thesis is if you keep holding out for mister Wright, we’re gonna end up with mister alt right. Pete Davidson was on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. He talked about being a dad.

He said, the reality has set in. We had a moment last week we were like, oh, she’s here, She’s like staying. Now it’s real. He also said about babies, they crap so much. They crap while they’re crapping.

The best advice I got and I hate it’s so name dropping, but Eddie Murphy gave you great advice. The best advice is no advice. You can’t tell another man how to raise his child. Jason Kelsey and ESPN will not pursue a second city of they call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey. Remember Jason Kelsey had a Late Night show that really nobody watched.

When I saw the phrasing, Jason Kelsey will not pursue a second season if they call it late night. My line on Threads was, I’ve decided not to continue pursuing dating Sydney Sweeney. I have the same chance. Here’s the spin. The decision came from Kelsey, who wanted to explore there are other opportunities during the off season rather than commit to another run of the show.

Dude, they did five episodes last year. Five. ESPN is supportive of continuing the program. Uh huh. Last year, Jason Kelsey hosted five episodes.

The show aired on late Friday nights. The debut episode got two hundred and ninety thousand viewers. Even Seth Myers is like, really, dude, more people watch my show. At the time, the ESPN president told The New York Times that the network wasn’t focused on ratings for the five episode experiment and said that the decision about the show’s future would be a little bit more art than science. But again, we’re being told that Jason Kelcey wants to explore other opportunities.

Isn’t that usually what you say when you get fired from a job. They like so and so has left the job to pursue other opportunities. Is and that we usually say, I’m calling hogwash there, Jason Kelce, and that is your comedy news for today, right at noon Eastern Comedy Survivor and Normal Episode in the morning. I’ll see you then

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Featured: Andrew Schulz, Joe Rogan, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, Ali Wong, Jamie Foxx, Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Late night hosts joke about Melania Trump documentary premiere
• Andrew Schulz criticizes Trump administration’s response to Minneapolis ICE incident
• Joe Rogan explains why he didn’t submit for Golden Globe nomination
• 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony hosted by Trevor Noah
• Trevor Noah Best Comedy Album nomination history and final CBS hosting year

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am so cold. I’ve had it. Hi, I am Johnny Mac with your daily coming your news. I’ve got the space here on in the studio.

Today we’ll test out the noise reduction. I thought I was gonna do a Grammy’s preview today. Surprisingly surever Noah, I don’t see that he did any press for this. Very very interesting because I’ve got a normal episode for you today and there’s plenty to talk about. Let’s start with late night, they were making fun of the Milania movie.

Jimmy Kimmel made fun of the red carpet and who was there. It included former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who did not have the best of deportres, doctor Oz Todd, and Julie chris Lee rfcage Kimbil said it was either a movie premiere or season thirty five of Dancing with the Stars. Colbert said the premiere was attended by members of the administration like Peek egg Seth Christy, Noah, Marfkay Junior, and Cash Mattel, as well as several former NFL players and UFC fighters, which means a bunch of people with brain damage sat next to NFL players and UFC fighters. I like that a lot, But the best jokes actually came from Fallon. He was excited.

It was a big weekend for the movies. Yeah, you got the Milania documentary and you have the new Rachel McAdams film Send Help, which fun fact, was actually the original title of the Millennia movie Fallin Again. Right now, Trump is encouraging everyone to see it in imax so his hands look regular size. But critics are saying the film isn’t great. I’m not saying it’s bad, but after the movie, Trump took his name off the Kennedy Center.

That’s fantastic. Andrew Schultz is quote continuing to distance himself from President Donald Trump. On The Flagrant podcast, Andrew Schultz said, let’s talk about what happened in Minneapolis. Ice murdered an American citizen in cold blood, and then the Trump administration called him a domestic terrorist. That’s it, like plan and simple.

I see the administration trying to spin it, and it’s effing disgusting. The editorial points out Schultz made a mistake confusing the Customs and Border Protection agents who killed pretty with immigration and customs with Ice. Schultz continued, they didn’t even have a moment where the like, we’re reviewing the footage, we’re trying to see what’s really happening. All of them, Trump and all the cronies put out collective statements that immediately blamed an American citizen that was exercising his First and Second Amendment rights right. He has the right to protest, he’s the right to carry a firearm.

There’s no question about this whatsoever. And the administration immediately comes out and they try to gaslight the public, which you can’t do when we have fifteen different videos of what happened. Andrew Schultz, you may recall two things are true. One, before Biden was the president, you know, it was president of the United States. This is a fun fact.

President Donald Trump was president for four years.

And then last year during the election cycle, Andrew Schultz had former Presi…

Mister Schultz seems surprised and how this administration has turned out. Schultz said, there’s no question about this whatsoever. And the administration immediately comes out there and they try to gas light the public, which you can’t do when we have fifteen different videos of what happened. Schaltz acknowledged that he had Trump on the podcast, adding I don’t think any of us are having this conversation to like curry any goodwill or get people to like us or something like that. This is something that is undeniably abhorrent and should be called out, simple as that.

It’s disgusting, as Detective John McLean said, and die Hard Welcome to the party. Pal Joe Rogan, he’s not wigged that he didn’t win a Golden Globe. He explained, I didn’t submit. They asked me to submit to be nominated for the Golden Globes, and he had to pay five hundred dollars, and the five hundred dollars just for paperwork or whatever, and I said no, like, I don’t care. I already won.

You can’t tell me I didn’t win. I’ve been number one for six years in a row. All of a sudden, you’re gonna have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedos, and you’re gonna say, now, I’m not number one, f off. I don’t care that I’m number one, but I am, in fact number one. So all of a sudden you have a contest to decide who’s really number one amongst us?

Like that’s amongst you. You’re allowed of your opinion. You like Amy Pohler better than me, that’s great. Rogan said he’s never seen Amy Poehler’s podcast. He gave it to a famous person.

Would you know in that world, that’s what they do. You give it a Amy Poehler amongst their circles, it’s not gonna have any criticism. I don’t know if amongst her group, if I listen to all of them, I would decide that hers is number one. But I just know I didn’t submit. I don’t want to be part of that.

I don’t care. You just a group of people that just decide all of a sudden’re gonna give in a war out. You gotta you get a trophy. F off.

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Speaking of award shows, the Grammys are on tonight on CBS eight pm Eastern T…

Again, Johnny Mac fought Trevor Noah would do some press and would be talking about that today, but he really didn’t do too much press. This is the third year in a row that Trevor Noah is both the host of the telecast and a nominee. Trevor Noah is nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording four Into the Uncut Grass. In twenty twenty four, he was nominated for Best Comedy Album four I Wish You Would, and in twenty twenty five for Where Was I. Six years ago, his album Son of Patricia was a finalist for Best Comedy Album.

Trevor Noah lost to Dave Chappelle all three times he was nominated for Best Comedy Album. This year’s nominees for Best Comedy Album are Dropped Dead Years by Bill Burr, post Mortem by Sarah Silverman, Single Lady by Ali Wong, What Had Happened Was by Jamie Fox, and your Friend Napergatsy by Nateprig to me, you got to give it to Sarah Silverman there, but we’ll see what they do. Recording Academy President Harvey Mason said he had a hard time convincing Trevor to come back. Mason said, it was the longest I’ve ever waited for text to come back in my life. But Trevor’s been so instrumental in the success or the recent growth of our show.

He set the tone for us who we are and what we do on this night. So smart so thoughtful, so funny, and he’s just a music guy. Trevor not expected to return next year when the telecast moves to ABC, Executive producer Ben Winston told reporters last week. After last year’s show, Trevor said, look, I’ve done a great five years. It’s time to hand the microphone off to somebody else and move on.

It got to December and we hadn’t found anybody that we absolutely loved. You guys should have asked Joe coy. Winston said, I sent Trevor a video and I was literally I was on my knees in the video and I said, please look at this incredible lineup that we’ve got on the show, and the only thing missing is you come back and do one final year. It’s the last year on CBS. Let’s make it your last year too.

Trevor texted back, Sure, let’s do it. See you there, can’t wait. Mason added, He’s been a big part of the evolution of our show, of our organization, to be honest, because he presents so well the gravitas, the sensibility, the emotional intelligence that he has and his interactions with the artist really has changed the tone and the tenor of our show, so we’re extremely thankful for his five now going on six shows. I’m looking forward to seeing what Trevor does tonight. In terms of commentary, last year, Trevor commented about Donald Trump returning to the presidency.

He made the joke there’s been a few changes in Washington. So I’m going to enjoy tonight because it might be my last time I got to host anything in this country. It’s a tough spot tonight, but you really can’t ignore the elephant in the room, unless, of course, you’re Saturday Night Live or Jimmy Fall and then you can. But to be fair, it’s also not why people are at the Grammys, So like you got to address it, but you can’t dwell on it. Tough spot.

I think Trevor’s up to the task. Bert Kreischer was on the Club Shay Shay podcast. He said he did receive an offer to perform at the Riodd and Comedy Festival for a lot of money. Bert’s explanation, they wouldn’t let me perform shirtless, so I passed. He was asked if he would ever return to Russia after his famous experience as the Machine.

Kreischer said never, here’s the deal. After the whole Rion Comedy Festival debacle. If Putin hits me up and he wants me to do a private show, I think pr wise it’s not a bad look. I’d be terrified, but it’s another story. But come on in.

It’s a special right shirtless on a horse with Putin, I’d watch that. From the Guardian, they want to see Louis C.K. Quotes a comic who leaves a sour taste. It was the first of Louis’s three nights in the Apollo Theater, they write. He’s named the show ridiculous.

But with all this talk of friends dying or growing apart, or moving his eighty nine year old dad to a care home where the peripheral role his two adult daughters playing his life mortality might have suited it better. Seam Ricky Gervais got there first. The Guardian writes. He remains such a master craftsman that every complaint is always a clear component of a joke. He starts his hour on stage with a flourish, a mock confession about an AIDS test that flirts with the obvious, then pulls the rug out from under you.

He does the same as he applies philosophical routines about the fruitlessness of hope and the way God never ran is our prayers laughing Yet actually a lot of this goes down really well well a sold out crowd three stars out of five. One way you could support this program is you go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There are a couple bucks in the tip jar. I’ll tell you this morning at the National Donus chain, it was really warm and I was like, I wish I had brought my laptop.

I would have just worked out of here, Like it was really really warm. I’ve been so cold. I can’t take this gold anymore. Another thing you can do a different way to support the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. You click that banner it says uninterrupted listening, and then for five bucks a month you get this show and a bunch of others on the channel without commercial interruption.

There is a thirty day free try with that if you want to see what that’s like behind the scenes. I can auto publish the normal episode at three five am Eastern, which is what I usually do. I can’t auto publish the commercial free version, which drives me nuts, and I can’t do it until the regular version is up. So in reality, the commercial free version goes up usually around seven fifteen am in the morning. Believe me, I wish I could go up four hours earlier.

Drives me nuts. A comedian is facing a backlash and had some shows canceled after making a series of jokes about Renee Good during a set in Poughkeepsie. You may recall Renee Good was fatally shot in Minneapolis by Ice. Ben Bankis made some comments at the Laughing Up Comedy club inside Mahoney’s Irish Pub on the Poughkeepsie Waterfront. He did this on January tenth, just three days after Renee Good was fatally shot by Ice.

The quote from bankas, I’m going to read it without inflection. Her last name was Good. That’s what I said after they shot her in the face. He then went on to say he believed she should have been shot earlier and made a derogatory reference to her sexual orientation.

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And then from the recap, I’m seeing used a word that’s considered a slur agai…

A venue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, canceled six sold out performances by the comic after the comments. Bill Collins is the comedy club owner that said the cancelation were about ensuring the safety of the performer and the audience. He told the Saint Paul Pioneer Press that people threatened to boycott his venue and pick it outside the show. He told the newspaper, I’ve never had anything that happened like this before. It’s not the first time Bankus has had shows canceled over a controversial material.

This is the guy you may recall this story that had performances canceled in Canada after he joked about indigenous people and residential schools. Not my cup of tea, sir.

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Meanwhile, in Greenland, the capital of NUK has condemned as stunt by a Germa…

The German comedian attempted to raise an American flag in the capital city of Greenland. The mayor said Greenland is currently under intense international attention during a time of genuine anxiety and uncertainty for our population. In this situation, your choices, your jokes, and your methods are not harmless. They have consequences, real consequences for real people. The comedian Maxie Schaffroth had been filming in Nuok for his satirical program on a German public broadcaster.

He attempted to raise the US flag outside a cultural center, but was stopped by an employee. A spokesperson for nd R told Politico the editorial team is already apologized to several of those affected, as well as to local media, and has also sought to make contact with the mayor. Mister Shaffroth apologized to staff at the cultural center as well as to local media. Stephen Colbert was on Seth Myers. He told Seth’s seven viewers who would like the final guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to be the Pope?

The American Pope. And on Gossip Corner, Keenan Thompson’s former landlord says that Keenan Thompson may have broken the lease on an LA property. Keenan is being sued by the landlord for more than thirty four thousand dollars after allegedly terminating a year long lease on a rental property in LA. The Daily Mail says the documents suggests Thompson would still be responsible for rent until a tenant filled the vacancy. The lawsuit says that clause is consistent with California law.

The landlord claims he refused Thompson’s request to end the lease early, meaning Thompson would stuff to pay the rent. Monthly rent was ten h thousand, two hundred fifty dollars. A replacement tenant was found to reside at the place for the remaining nine months at eighty five hundred dollars a month, and some back and forth on money, including a late fee, a broke fee without legal fees. That is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow normal episode of three five am Eastern, and then at noon Eastern the results of Comedy Survivor, which, in my world I’m about to record.

I haven’t looked at it yet, don’t know who was voted off. I’m looking forward to finding out. So catch up with you guys tomorrow. Stay warm,

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Featured: Lewis Black, Conan O’Brien, Mark Marin, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Jason Bateman, Neil Brennan

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy podcast audience analysis using Reponic data
• Engagement patterns in comedy content – conflict vs announcements
• Daily Comedy News positioning within comedy podcast ecosystem
• Listener preference for established comedian personalities over formats
• Podcast analytics showing shared audiences between talk-based comedy shows

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack, and today I gotta talk about some other stuff as I’ve been talking about for the weekends of January. I just wanna just do some other things, experiment with the format a little bit. I was running the stats from twenty twenty five to see what was resonating or not. I’m always trying to grow the show and get more listeners in.

I ran this through AI, and the AI tells me based on episode performance. Conflict driven stories outperform announcements. Comedy intersecting with politics, money or elite institutions drives engagement. Comedy intersecting with politics goes to both Colbert and Kimmel. Intersecting with money is the Rio Comedy Festival, and elite institutions is things around the White House or perhaps the Kennedy Center.

The secondary episodes are comedians responding to comedians. So if I can find a story where you know, comedian calls out comedian, why those do really well and actually outperform the original event, that’s interesting and what underperforms is neutral coverage. So you guys like me like a good fight, which brings me to today’s topic of comedy neighborhoods. I use this website called refonic r E P h O N. I see.

It’s a podcast analytics platform that aggregates and models listener behavior. They pull it from the Apple podcast data. But what they try to do is visualize relationships between shows. They create this like really cool graphic where you’ll see, like if I type in daily Coming News, they’ll be lines connecting to other shows. So they kind of map it out the way they map out a star chart on your favorite science fiction show.

So here in the middle, I see Daily Comedy News, and then there are lines to different shows, so I see like a direct line. One of the closest things is the Last Laugh podcast that makes sense. Lewis Black’s Rant cast to the Netflix is a joke podcast. Then some longer line things like Conan O’Brien and Club Random and the Weekly Show even to Late Night with Seth Myers. There’s an overlap between people who like the Seth Meyers podcast and me.

Now that’s funny. If we zoom out, we go deeper into the universe. Out past the Seth Myers orbit is the Cobert orbit. If you go out far enough, you’ll go to pot Save America. That’s interesting.

But then even within these if you zoom in here, now here is what they call a neighborhood. And I have tenuous connections to some of these shows, but all living in what they call the same comedy neighborhood are Two Bears, One Cave and Bad Friends and Whiskey Ginger, Bill Burr, Tosh Are You Garbage? So like you could see all those shows kind of sharing an audience, and I only somewhat share an audience with them. So as we break this down, and again, I was looking at this because I’m always trying to grow the show, and I wanted to figure out, all right, people who like this show also like what show? Maybe I should talk about that stuff a little bit more.

And you can go to this thing. It’s rafonic dot com. Just look up comedy neighborhoods and it explains that each line represents shared subscribers. Distance matters. Shows that appear close together share a higher percentage of the same listeners.

Clusters form when many shows share overlapping audiences. So that list I just gave you of like Whiskey, Junior and Bill, They’re all sharing an audience together. And I’m a little further away from them. So what did Johnny Mac learn AI and tells me? The first clear observation is that Daily Comedy News does not cluster with stand up comedy feeds, Joe compilations, improv podcasts, or TikTok driven comedy properties.

Instead, it sits inside a dense cluster of talk based, personality led legacy comedian podcasts. The closest and most consistently linked shows include Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. The show emphasizes extended conversation, recurring co hosts, and minimal topical urgency. WTF with Mark Maren, known for introspective interviews, long run times, and a focus on creative process SmartLess I should probably talk about those guys a little bit more. While lighter in tone, it is structural, similar long conversations, familiar hosts and minimal emphasis on topical comedy.

And Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade, which interesting enough talk about rhads not taken. I was with Cadence thirteen when they did that deal. I still don’t know why they didn’t ask me to produce that. It’s fine, I’m not upset, and my mom was pretty sick at that time, so that might have been the choice that maybe my head wasn’t totally in the game. That could be the reason.

And I don’t mean that as a dick. My boss was very very very very very I can’t say very enough times, very very very kind. It gave me a lot of rope and a lot of space to just do what I needed to do at that time. So it could have been that that they didn’t want to burden me with having to produce another show. Because I do play hard, so if you give me work, I will do it so as I do out loud therapy here.

That might have been an act of kindness. But on paper, I’m the person you know, age wise or resume wise, I’m the person you probably would ask to produce such a show regardless. We share an audience to Daily Comedy News and Fly on the Wall, a nostalgia driven interview show. Now it’s interesting here is Maren’s older than me, Carvey’s older than me. How old Spade he’s older than me?

Right? Yeah, Spade’s sixty one. I’m fifty six. In case you’re curious, I think Jason Bateman is my age. Bateman is fifty six might be fifty seven by the time you hear this, depending on what I deployed it.

January fourteenth, nineteen sixty nine is his birthday. Happy Birthday, Jason Bateman. So yeah, all right, So it makes sense that people who like dudes in their fifties and sixties like other dudes in their fifties. Does that all makes sense to me? Like, I don’t expect the TikTok comedian fans to dig what I’m doing here.

As I was talking with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast recently, I was like, you know, we’re sitting here talking about a show that came out forty years ago. AI tells me, also appearing within the cluster or shows like Rob Low, Good Hang, and other personality led conversation podcast that prioritize familiarity and low conflict listening. The data indicates that listeners who subscribe to DCN are the same listeners who’s subscribe to those shows. That implies a set of preferences to this is you guys. You guys subscribe to hosts, not formats.

Thank you. I take that as high compliment. They value continuity over novelty. They tolerate long run times in conversational pacing. They’re comfortable with analysis, reflection, and repetition, which reminds me one time, Joe Quoitnaw, I’m not going to do that today.

Oh this is interesting. This cluster skews heavily towards comedian and entertainers whose primary career breakthroughs occurred before the rise of social media comedy discovery. These are not emerging voices. These are established figures using podcasts retain and monetize existing audiences. Very interesting.

I’ve got more analysis after this break. Continuing our look at the Daily Comedy News comedy neighborhood where I find myself, AYI tells me. The map shows adjacency to a second, smaller cluster focused on comedy as process rather than performance. Shows like Block That’s Neil Brennan’s Pod and Good One appear as secondary neighbors. These podcasts explicitly analyze how jokes are written, how bits evolve, and how comedians think about craft.

They’re not built for casual listening. Their presence in the Daily Comedy News neighborhood suggests that a meaningful portion of the audience is interested in how comedy works, not just consuming it. That makes sense to me. I would imagine that is one of the reasons you pick this particular program. A third nearby grouping consists of comfort oriented conversational podcasts.

Again, I will take that as a compliment. I’m just trying to keep you company here. I’m not a comedian. I’ve never performed comedy. I don’t claim to be a comedian.

I don’t claim to be funny. Hopefully I’m amusing at times. There seem to be some recurring bits that people like, but I’m obviously not here shucking jokes. The AI says these are low stake shows designed for passive listening. Their connection to DCN reinforces the idea that this audience values predictability and routine.

Finally, at the outer edges of the cluster, remnants of legacy late night television ecosystems appear. Podcasts tied to the daily show, late night hosts, and political comedy are connected, but with weaker overlap. Equally important is what does not appear near Daily Comedy News. This is interesting. There’s little to no proximity to stand up album feeds, short form comedy podcasts, or personality driven, shock or argument based shows.

Those live in separate neighborhoods with different listener behavior. The data suggests that Daily Comedy News serves an audience that uses comedy podcasts as contextual media, not entertainment first content. These listeners are tracking an industry, not chasing laughs. Some good analysis here by the AI. This data indicates that podcast subscriptions, unlike social media follows, are conservative.

Listeners are reluctant to commit time to unfamiliar voices unless trust has already been established elsewhere. In effect, discovery has moved out of podcasts. Short form video platforms now handle discovery, podcasts handle retention. That division explains why comedians who break on TikTok or Instagram often struggle to translate that audience into podcast subscriptions, while legacy comedian maintain strong audio audiences even as their television relevance declines. Another conclusion from the cluster structure is tone tolerance.

Listeners in this neighborhood tolerate introspection, repetition, and even periods of low energy Hi I’m Johnny Mac. What they do not tolerate is chaos. Podcasts built on confrontation, outrage, or aggressive performance styles are structurally absent from this cluster that makes sense. I’m not a yeller and screamer. The dominant cluster around Daily Comedy News reflects listeners who likely aged out of appointment television and high energy stand up consumption.

These listeners still on comedy, but in a format that integrates into daily life rather than demanding attention. Interesting stuff there, and that’s today’s episode of Daily Comedy News. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Frank Calando, Hank Azaria, Matt Friend, Jay Leno, Nikki Glaser, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Catherine Ryan, Jason Sudeikis, Royce Young

What’s in This Episode

• Frank Calando’s John Madden impression and impressionist techniques
• Hank Azaria discusses Simpsons voice work and AI concerns
• The Simpsons 800th episode featuring Quinta Brunson and Kevin Bacon
• Jay Leno performs at In the Spirit of the Game charity event
• Ted Lasso season four renewal with full cast returning
• Stephen Colbert discusses possibility of running for public office
• Royce Young to host 78th Writers Guild Awards

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media are there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Frank Calando, there’s a name you don’t hear as much as you did, say twenty years ago. He was red hot for a while there when I was back at Sirious. He’s in Naples, Florida’s to Night doing a couple shows if you want to go see him.

Kalando said he heard that John Madden never liked Frank Callando’s John Madden impression. John Madden might be the only person who didn’t like it. Calando said, I finally met him at a Super Bowl in Dallas. They were at a four Seasons hotel, and Kalando said it made Madden’s grandchildren laugh, but Madden got it somewhat. Kaliando says it helps to have a deep voice to do impressions, adding that some voices take years to perfect.

Some voices are similar, like Leonardo DiCaprio and John Malkovich, or Kermit the Frog and Fozzy Bear. Calando explains, it’s just kind of manipulation of those muscles or whatever it is. In your throat and having the muscle memory to go back to it. He also studies the eyes of celebrities because the eyes tell you the way the person thinks. For example, Jeff Goldbloom has eyes to dart back and forth like a painting in a haunted house.

Callando promises clean comedy and impressions of famous people from Madden to al Pacino to Morgan Freeman. Says, I’m PG at the dirt Calliando says, I’m PG at dirtiest. There’s no f words. I’m real team. If you’re in Naples, Florides at the Off the Hook Comedy Club tonight and tomorrow speaking with impressionists, I just moved the story up.

I originally didn’t have these two period, and I’m like, oh, these go together. Hanka’saria says he is contracted to voice characters on the Simpsons for three more years. He told USA Today about the Simpsons, I’m not announcing the end of it. We might go beyond that. That’ll make season forty.

Every year, I think a new crop of tweens discover the show, and that keeps us relevant. Back in February of twenty five, Frank Azaria till the New York Times. I imagine that soon enough artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than one hundred voices I created for the characters on The Simpsons over almost four decades. It makes me sad to think about it. Oh hey, I no doubt could do that.

The conversation turned to impressionist Matt Friend, who does Howard Stern, Stanley Tucci, and Michael Boublay. Matt Friend first did an impression for Hank Azaria when Matt was fifteen. Turns out Hank Azaria was college roommates with Matt Friend’s father, Bill. That’s wild. As for that first meeting, Azaria said, I had never heard anyone at any age be more brilliant vocally than this kid.

And he asked me for advice, and I give him a lot of advice. He really did take it. And I think Matthew’s so talented he would have made it no matter what. But I think I probably said to him a lot of time in telling him what to do and what not to do. You need to have plastic vocal cords, you know how some people like cilantro and for some people taste like soap It’s kind of like that, you can either do it or you can.

With Matthew, some he got right away and some he’s developed over the years. Same for me. The Simpsons is coming up on its eight hundredth episode next weekend. They’ve announced the guest stars for that episode. They include Quinta Brunson, Kevin Bacon, and Questla, also stars of The pitt Noah Wiley, Catherine Lanassa, and Taylor Dearden will play medical personnel in the episode music by Boys Two Men, Sure Why Not?

In Irrational Treasure, the Simpsons travel to Pennsylvania, hence all the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh icons lending their voices to the episode. Boys to Men will sing a new version of the Simpsons opening theme. They’ll also provide a new version of the end to title music. Here’s the plot. Marge’s crusade to get the family dog in better shape leads to her entering Santa’s Little Helper in canine agility competitions and a trip to the National Dog Show in Philadelphia.

There, Homer suddenly find themselves and the dog mixed up in a historical conspiracy adventure worthy of a National Treasure movie. Episode eight hundred Sunday, February fifteenth. Now that’s also the day of the Daytona five hundred, which is also on Fox, and the daytone of five hundred has a tendency to get it either rain delayed or otherwise delayed. So set your DVRs carefully. I gotta scroll back up here.

I did the stories out of order that I originally planned. Hey, you know that guy, Jay Leno, Yeah, he’s the worst. I know, dostn’t know what he’s doing. Now he’s taking part in an all star comedy lineup for the In the Spirit of the Game charity Awards dinner and auction that takes place tomorrow at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. It will benefit youth baseball players.

The event is co hosted by Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis and MLB Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman. Now you’re like, Jay Leno, that guy’s the worst. Well, you know who else is doing this event? Quote unquote breakout superstar Nikki Glaser. Oh yeah, now it’s cool right now Nikki Glaser is doing it.

Now you’re like, oh, that sounds like a really important thing. It was dumb five minutes ago. In the Spirit of the Game, Awards, dinner, and auction benefits the Perfect Game Believe In Baseball Foundation, which provides financial assistance to deserving young players, helping them with costs associated with travel baseball, which could include coaching, training, or educational opportunities. There’s cocktails on a silent auction at five thirty, dinner awards, and comedy performances at seven. It’s at the Laugh Factory tomorrow.

So just another example of Jay Leno being the worst person who ever lived. Hey, Ted Lasso coming back for season four. The Gang’s all back. They convinced Jason Sadagas to do it. Hannah Waddingham is back, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift.

They’re all back. In season four, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet, coaching a second division women’s football team. The log line is throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learned to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would. Roywood Junior will host these seventy eighth Annual Writers Guild Awards at Manhattan’s Edison Ballroom on March eighth. Royce Done all right, for himself, betting on himself leaving the Daily Show, Royce said, it’s an honor to again be trusted with leading a night of celebration, as we honor one of the most important components in creating the content that gives us either an opportunity to escape or to learn more about the world we all share.

Seth Meyers asked Stephen Colbert about running for public office. In the past, I would have supported a Stephen Colbert candidacy, but now that he’s gone out of his way to ruin Star Trek as the voice of the announcements at Starfleet Academy, I do not support anyone who destroys Star Trek, Colbert said. I mean, that’s something I have discussed with my faith leader and my family. Colbert is Catholic, right, I find it atypical I’m Catholic that he keeps saying faith leader. I went to Catholic grammar school.

I went to a Jesuit high school. I never really heard the term faith leader. I just find that interesting either here nor there. I’ll ask Deacon Mike about it. Let me text him.

Hold on, all right, I have texted Deacon Mike. We’ll see if he gets back to me before we’re done recording. Today, Catherine Ryan did a one off show in Los Angeles. While she was out there, I hooked up with the La Times. They asked her about this whole Beckham thing.

You saw this The Beckham family is all fighting. We talked about this the other day. Catherine Ryan said, it’s a wonderful reprieve from fascism. Ice in Greenland. Finally just some light family draw that everyone can kick back and enjoy.

I feel like Victoria Beckham is such a treasure in the UK, and I’m quite good friends with several Spice girls. I went to Mailb’s wedding earlier last year. I’m not close with Victoria Spice, but obviously I’m a woman of that generation where I learned to shake my booty to the Spice Girls in nineteen ninety six, so I have undying loyalties to her. There’s this very interesting NEPO conversation to be had, and her son, Brooklyn, was one of the original ones. He was born at a time when in the UK we were obsessed with celebrity.

I was a posed to now when we really hadn’t figured out yet how damaging it might be. To take an infant and follow his entire life and commodify it as though he was our own. But I’m definitely enjoying all the memes and jokes. A lot of fans, myself included, have been downloading Victoria’s single on iTunes. We decided it was a national travesty that she never had a number one hit because all the other Spice girls have independently had number one singles, and just yesterday victoria single Innocent Girl got to number one on iTunes.

The Eliot Simes said. So as the controversy made Posh Spice feel more relatable, Catherine Ryan said, I think it actually has been an incredible vehicle for her. This is the most relatable she’s ever been. Vicky b drunk on the veno, being inappropriate at the wedding. We love it.

I think that the Beckhams have been almost like royalty and quite untouchable. This has made her really relatable. Having her son lash out at her like this so publicly. I know in LA you really validate everyone’s mental health. I hope this is the end of mental health.

I don’t want to talk about it anymore. And this very privileged little boy claims to have mental health problems and anxiety over his mom dancing with him at a wedding. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look at the comedy stock market where I make some recommendations about which comedian stock we should buy, which comedian stock we should sell. No sells this week, but I’ve got to buy recommendations for you.

The first one, Buy some Ron Funches. I think that Trader’s appearance did really well for him, and he picked up a lot of new fans. He’s fantastic and I see nothing but praise for him on social media. So buy some Ron Funches stock. And let’s buy some Trevor Noah stock.

Ahead of the Grammys. You know, there’s been some things in the news this week, and Trevor, I think is the right guy to say it. He commented last year about deportations, and I don’t think Trevor will pull his punch now. It’s a tough spot because it’s the Grammys and it’s not why anyone’s there. But I think Trevor is savvy enough to nail the middle there.

So let’s buy some Trevor Noah and let’s buy some Ron funches and we might have to sell stock in Deacon Mike, who has yet to text me back yet. I mean, if we were watching football, he would have gotten back to me seven times already. TV Insider asked Bert Kraser, what does the Kraser family think of how their characters are portrayed on Free Bert where it said, listen, it’s weird when someone uses your name and uses your likeness and misrepresents you to the point where it never really happened. Then you’re like, wait, I’m sure that has to be a sensitive area. At the same time, these are fictitious takes on nonfiction parts of my life.

I’m hoping everyone’s going to be on the same page and see the art for what it is. At the same time, it’s their names, likeness. If they’re not happy, I’ll deal with it. Then he discussed the opening scene minor spoiler where Rob Low appears. It’s a little set up for the show.

Rob Low asks him to just take a shirt off again. Bert addressed it’s saying, I think we wanted to show that some people only see me as the guy who takes off his shirt. We tried desperately to make sure there was a fair representation of how people see me outside looking in, and that’s why I feel the way I do on the series. That was drawn specifically from a period in time in my life where I did a corporate gig for Hedge Fund. They said, yo, put the shirt back on, take it off, and tell the machine, and I was like, Wow, this is what I am to people.

Then I think the question Rob posts is the internal question for me, which is would they show up if you didn’t take your shirt off. Once you get to that question, then what’s my worth? Was it easy to get Rob Low to do it? Oh? It was awesome.

Rob is so easy. I sent him a text and he asked if we could shoot in Santa Barbara and I was like, yep, he was in and he gave us so much extra time. He didn’t need to give us. He was just the man. TV Insider asked Bird Krascher, how was it doing scripted as opposed to what you do on stage?

But it said it’d helped that I kind of wrote the script, so I’d put it the way I’d say it anyway. There were certain scenes where it was hard. I’m obviously not an actor, but at one of the podcast companies, I work. Sometimes they would ask me to do some lights voice acting would be very generous, but they had some script and he needed somebody to voice a cop and I like struggled trying to stick to the actual printed words because I was like, I don’t speak this way, and I would always ask if I could do an alter to take and phrase things the way I phrase them. I don’t know what they actually wound up using, so respect for Bert here who said there were certain scenes where it was hard.

There was a scene where I was apologizing to the Vanderthal family. I’d just say the same sentence four different ways. That was a tough one because you can’t repeat an improv because you’re saying the same thing but differently. That was a tough one. Then some of the more emotional scenes were tough for me.

I think it was good as long as we’re moving fast. The listening was tough. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, Deacon Mike did not get back to me, So maybe sometime next week I’ll backsell this story. He’ll eventually text, come on, Deacon Mike, what are you doing all right tomorrow?

On this program? I had recorded some January weekend fillers, So if you’re a new listener, especially this time of year, the news is little lights, so sometimes I do weekend filler that is tomorrow. What I did was there’s a website where you can take a look at a particular podcast and see the audience share between that podcast and other podcasts. I ran Daily Comedy News through it, and it shows what you guys are also listening to, and I just thought it was interesting. So that’s tomorrow’s episode.

Tomorrow’s a little light.

And then on Sunday, Trevor Noah hosts a Grammys, so I’ll do a Grammys episode…

But Monday will be a normal episode with Grammy stuff up top.

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And then Monday at noon, Easter and the results of Comedy Survivor Week four.

Hopefully the sun will come out at some point it’ll be warm again. But then eat the forecast right now. Stay warm, folks, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Nate Bagatelle, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Whitney Cummings, Guy Bregman

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser Hulu Special Announcement
• Nate Bagatelle’s New ABC Game Show ‘Greatest Average American’
• Trevor Noah Hosting YouTube World Cup Watch Party
• Emmy Awards Category Merger for Talk and Variety Series
• Stephen Colbert Discusses End of Late Show

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence that the transcription algorithms love. I saw a savage social media post from guy Brain on this on threads. I don’t know what you call it is.

It’s just called a thread. I like what you just called things a tweet, but whatever it is, it’s threads, and Guy Brainer posted the only thing sincere about Whitney Cummings is at her envy of Nikki Glaser’s career. Ouch.

Speaking of Nikki Glaser, Hulu has announced a date for Nikki Glaser’s upcomi…

It is titled Nikki Glaser Good Girl. It’s Nikki Glaser’s first hour long, hilarious special shot in front of a sold out crowd at the fabulous Fox Theater in Glazer’s hometown of Saint Louis. Now the hesitation you hear in my voice. I’ve pointed this out in the past. I don’t think anyone’s Peak special has been there Hulu special yet.

I think Hulu might be where you go when you’ve just crossed the top of the mountain and now you see the downside, has Nikki Glaser peaked, Will the hilarious special be the first step on the downside of the career? I hope to be wrong, Nikki Glaser said, I couldn’t be prouder of my fifth hour special, Good Girl. I put everything I had into this hour of material. Luckily for me, so did everyone who worked on it with me. I truly saved the best four to fifth.

Nicki explains, Good Girl was developed at home for two years on the road at over two hundred and fifty shows, and it was one of the best nights of my life to get to perform this show for the very last time in my hometown of Saint Louis in front of family, friends and fans. I already missed these jokes, so I can’t wait for them to have a second life again. In April, for some reason, we had to hear from one of the suits, David Jimmy. He’s from dun and Dusted, the production company behind the special, and he made sure he was in the press release because he gave a statement said we’re thrilled to be teaming up with the incomparable Nikki Glaser again. Nicki is the funniest, kindest, warmest, smartest comedian in the business, and we’ve put together an incredible team to create the platform she deserves to allow her genius to shine.

Every frame is gorgeous, every minute is hilarious. Now, David Jammy, I’ve done and dusted. I’m sure Nikki is wonderful, but I would be shocked if she is the kindest, warmest comedian in the business, because to do that, she’d have to pass Cable Guy, and then once she passes Cable Guy, she would have to pass Jeff Foxworthy. That’s no shade at Nicky Glazer. I would just be really shocked if we hung out with Nikki Glaser and we were like, Wow, she’s even nicer than Foxworthy.

Just saying Aperghatzy has something he would like to tell us. Hi, I’m nigh Burgatsy tonight. I’m on the road, but soon I’ll be in your living rooms with my new game show. Greatest Average American premieres February twenty fifth. Watch it on ABC, stream it on Hulu.

I can’t wait. ABC’s press release calls it a hilarious new game show that celebrates the pa of being perfectly average. Each round is packed with laugh out loud challenges and trivia as contestants try to guess how everyday Americans think and live. In the end, one lucky player will be crowned the Greatest average American and get the chance to win the ultimate grand prize, the average American salary of sixty seven twenty dollars. Several comments there are the prize of just short of sixty eight thousand dollars.

ABC is gonna make money hand over fist because they’re not paying the winners anything and it’s the chance to win sixty eight gram This is just print money and have commercials. My other thought here is, you know, I love Nate’s comedy and all, but is he going to be a good game show host? Like did you just listen to that piece of audio play and you’d be like, oh wow, that sounds really compelling. Nate clearly wants to stretch his wings. I’m not sure which show wards he hosted the Emmys?

Was it the Emmys? I’m not sure he was great at that. I don’t know. I don’t know about this one. Rooting for you, buddy.

Somebody I have total confidence in is Trevor Noah. He hosts the Grammys this Sunday. I’ll do a Grammys episode on Sunday. But looking ahead, Trevor Noah is here to answer the question, what if you could not only watch the twenty twenty six World Cup this summer, but also watch other people watch the World Cup. Trevor Noah will be hosting a YouTube show.

It’s a live World Cup watch Party during some twenty five matches in the tournament. Does that mean he’s doing twenty five of these? Trevor Noah will share a couch with friends, elite footballers, and top digital creators. I love the first two, and then the top digital creators makes me go oh no, no, no, no, not for Jotti back while watching and providing commentary and conversation on the games. I guess we have to multi screen there.

But what about the delay? Who knows? We’ll find out. Trevor Noah said. The only thing that’s more exciting than watching every World Cup match is watching it with my best friends and new friends.

Spidey says, tingling on even my enemies who choose to support the wrong teams, no suits, no stiff analysis, just full on fans watching the greatest show on Earth. Ola. Hmmm, So this sounds like you’re gonna sit down and be like, Okay, Trevor Noah and a famous soccer player and then there’s gonna be like a quote unquote YouTuber or a quote unquote influence and uh yeah, I’ll just live here on Old Man Mountain. Maybe skip that. And I love Trevor Noah.

Speaking of the EMMS, which I think Nate Brigassi hosted, I don’t even remember which oney host there is the EMMS, right, They are merging two categories starting this year the TV Academy Board of Governors. Boy, they sound important. They have merged the Outstanding Talk Series category with the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category due to quote a reduced number of submissions unquote. Now, these two categories previously were one big category until twenty fifteen, when Outstanding Variety Series was turned into Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Talk Series. Now this sounds very complicated.

Nominees are judged individually on their own merits. Instead of Emmy voters selecting one nominee to win. Voters must answer for each nominee. Does this nominee merit an Emmy? Yes?

No? That’s like passing a note in fifth grade? Do you like me? Yes? No.

Any nominee who reaches a ninety percent yes receives an emmying the opportunity for multiple winners in the category. If no nominee reaches the ninety percent threshold, the nominee with the highest yes percentage receives an Emmy. That’s dumb. That’s really dumb. What are you doing?

That’s stupid. We don’t want multiple winners. That’s not how this works. I hate this. So, for example, hypothetically, the nominations are Last Week Tonight, which always wins, SNL, The Daily Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

Are You’re not just going to give a yes to all of those so they’re all gonna win? What are we even doing? This is dumb? Hate it? Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it.

Star trek Ruiner. Stephen Colbert was on with Seth Myers There’s a Combination. Colbert talked about his feelings about the upcoming end of The Late Show. He told Seth Meyers seven viewers it feels real now. It did not feel I mean, I know it was real, but now there’s four months left.

What I really love is the people I do it with, and we’ve been putting together. I mean, these are people I’ve been working with. My shoemaker Tom Purcell, I’ve known since nineteen eighty eight and so we’ve all been together forever. Cobert said, sols and you could do comedy a lot of different places. There’s no place like the Edzulivan Theater.

No offense, but it’s really the people and that’s really what I’m going to miss more than anything. And we’ll do something else together. But it feels real now. I’m not thrilled with it. People who can really answer Ron Funches.

He was on the new season of The Traders, which I had a bail on. I couldn’t deal with Michael Rappaport at all. But people seem to discover Ron Funches and really liked him. I’ve seen a lot of good things on social media about Ron Funches. People were curious about his hair.

Ron Funch is posted he learned the lesson of not going on a big show during the shedding phase of a hair transplant, Otherwise you’ll get DMS calling attention to it. We are told the hair transplant shedding phase, also known as shock loss, is a normal and temporary part of the healing procedure. When transplanted, hairs fall out as a follicle’s reset for new growth. But in the next post, showing himself with a full head of hair, he wrote, but the comeback is strong. He added the soundtrack to Willis Smith’s Whip My Hair to that post.

He also shared an overhead back view of his current head of hair, which he captioned in case you thought I was hiding the back word about sixty percent of the time frame. But then he posted a throwback shot of himself and said, but found out bald me is beautiful, So who knows? Let me bounce on over to the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group and see how the voting is going. You have until the end of the day today to vote somebody off. Seeing some new names here.

There’s some ron white votes, there’s a blany vote, seth Meyers vote. That’s a good choice. Oh wait, I’m not supposed to steer anything. Sorry, take that back edit that out. Somebody John does the editing.

Taking the Taro could be in trouble. So what do you do? You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group You’re write down a name. Sometime on Friday, I will tally up the votes, and then on Monday, I will reveal who was voted out. I’ve been thinking of you guys every morning.

Longtime listeners know that I go to the National Donut Chain and I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. It has been so cold that I’ve been doubling up every day and getting a second coffee. I’ve been getting a hot coffee, and I’m normally not a hot coffee drinker unless I’m being all fancy and I’m in Italy sitting on the square somewhere after dinner. But normally when I hit the chain, it’s iced, but it’s been so cold I can’t take the cold anymore. Anyway.

That reminded me to thank the folks who have gone to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash DAILI Comedy News and bought me a coffee. That includes deb and Andrea and Gary and Shannon and Mike and Kenny Travis and everybody who’s gone to buy me a coffee dot Com slashed Ali Comedy News and throwing some money in the tip char because lately it’s been double coffee for Johnny Mac. Another way to support the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. Open up the app.

You’ll see a banner there it says uninterrupted listening, and click that and then for five bucks a month, you’ll get this show without all the ads, and you get other shows on the channel as well, like five Good News Stories which I host, and you’ll get those ad free as well. John bon Jovi has thanked Uncle Floyd for what Uncle Floyd did for John bon Jovi many years ago. On Facebook, John bon Jovi wrote, Uncle Floyd gave me a shot on his show first before anyone. Thank you, Floyd. Rest easy, my friend.

And apparently there are some folks who are popular on the interwebs called the Callogeris Sisters. I was unfamiliar with them, so I did at Google. They say we’re a sibling trio making fun challenge videos, adventure vlogs, pranks and social experiments. Okay, well, apparently they attended an open mic at the Hollywood Comedy Club. They were intending to perform stand up sets and film content for their YouTube channel.

The sisters are apparently openly displeased with the event. They chastised the audience for not laughing at their jokes. They argued with other comedians mid set, and criticized the organizers of the show in a video that has since amassed more than two million views. Now since then, things have gotten nasty. That wasn’t the nasty part.

It’s gotten nastier. The Hollywood Comedy Club posted an official statement on their website. The club reiterated its claims that the sisters misrepresented their experience with the club, filmed comedians without their consent, and demanded special treatment during the show, all while behaving disruptively and ruining the experience for other participants. Club owner Jang Summers, who’s a comedian, called out the behavior of the Callo Garris Sisters fans, claiming quote. Their followers responded by negative review bombing our small Asian women owned comedy club, resulting in near thousands of racist and sexist one star reviews and credible death threats.

After the event, they posted a YouTube video making false claims that they were forced to wait three hours that one male open my comedian who called their behavior out was our host, and that they were sexually harassed by our male comics. All untrue, right Summers. The comedian of color they misidentified has since been subjected to racial slurs and death threats, including being called the in word and told to slit his throat. This is all horrible, Summers said. This is not a place for entitled influencers to read cringing material off their phones.

Film comedians without consent, disrespect the art of stand up then falsely claimed sexual harassment for clout and greed because no one laughed. The situation has caused real fear for our staff and their families. We’re deeply grateful to the comedy community and patrons who understand how open MIC’s work and why respect and consent matter. Out on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla today. Josh Edelman’s The Jew Rogain Experience also out today on streaming platform Nebula.

It’s Chandler Dean’s season two of the comedy debate series Abolish Everything That’s also out today. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Shawn White, Chris O’Connor, John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, Bert Kreischer, Chris Spencer, Jim Brewer, Pete Davidson, Jimmy Carr, Brooklyn Beckham, Jay Leno, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis snowboarding with Shawn White in Central Park
• John Mulaney supporting Olivia Munn’s Vietnamese family financially
• Bert Kreischer taking break from drinking due to blood clots and lung issues
• Free Bert Netflix special trending in 39 countries
• Chris Spencer getting Hulu special Goat Adjacent
• Pete Davidson Sonic Super Bowl ad
• Jimmy Carr criticizes Brooklyn Beckham as entitled neppo baby
• Jay Leno praises Nikki Glaser’s comedic work ethic

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. I’ll do the political stuff in the second half Today many things can be true at once. That stuff is both super important, but I also understand what this podcast is and isn’t, and it’s not a political podcast. I always trying to do the politics through the lens of comedy.

So let’s do the fun stuff. In the first half, Shane Gillis was out snowboarding over the weekend. Like a lot of the country, we had that winter storm at Central Park in New York City got eleven inches of snow. Which I grew up in New York. I went from kindergarten through college and had one snow day my entire career in New York City.

There was one snow day. There was a blizzard I think in like nineteen eighty one or so, and I had one two hour delay in high school and that was it. So eleven inches of snow New York City is a lot. So Shane Gillis hit Central Park and was joined by snowboarding icon Shawn White, now luckily a bunch of people with cameras just happened to be there. I mean, it is New York City, but oh, total tangent.

But to the point, I’m a Youtubo fan. Do you remember at one point Bono was supposedly in a bike accident in Central Park and then he missed some shows And there was even like an Apple event that Bruce Springsteen had a fill in as the singer for you too. This is all things that happened. You could look it up, but I want to digress too long. You mean to tell me Bono had a bike accident in New York City and nobody filmed it.

Nobody saw the ambulances coming, Nobody was like, hey, that’s Bono. Zero chance that that story’s true. I don’t believe it, because even if you’re Shane Gillis and you’re snowboarding with Sewn White, people film it. As the story goes, at one point in the day, Shawn White decided to perform a daredevil stunt and involves Shane Gillis and tires co star Chris O’Connor. Shane and Chris sat in front of a freshly constructed jump Shawn White caught some are and jumped over their heads.

Now Yahoo has to calm down with this headline Olympic legend fine Shawn White jumps over too Famous comedians in Central Park, one of which was Shane Gillis, who’s kind of famous. Chris O’Connor, I don’t know about that famous. John Mulaney was on Mike Berbiglia’s podcast and got some headlines sharing that he is supporting a lot of Olivia Munn’s family members. Oliney told b Biggs she’s Vietnamese and she has a large Vietnamese family in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, of which I am one of the significant financial contributors. For the first thirty nine years of my life, I supported zero Vietnamese people, probably none, and now I have ten on the books.

With parents of some success, you don’t really do anything for them, and it brings me great joy to help out, to help and do fun things for Olivia’s family. Joked, are you thinking when you’re having a nice relationship with them that in the back of their mind they’re thinking, I wonder if he’ll send me a thousand dollars. That’s hilarious. Olney said, there’s no wonder in the back of the mind. You mean, the front of the voice, the front of the voice.

The words coming out of their mouth for bigs was like Olivia’s family says, how much money do you have? I actually like that. M’laney said, yeah, I tell them. They love it. They couldn’t like it more.

Bert Kreischer revealed that he’s taking a break from drinking, and it sounds like it’s a little serious here. He is on we might be drunk with Mark Norman and Sam Morrel. We need a drink, let’s have it, can’t I can’t drink. We’ll drink medication. Yeah, blood clots?

What Oh my legs? Yeah, all right, so we won’t drink it. No, no, no, drink you know I never cared about that. Yeah, bad, you are right? And my lungs?

Yeah yeah, blood clots guys, guys, I’m saving it for Rogan. So is that from drinking or no, it’s from passing out. On a plane. Seems people really liked Free Bert. Flicks patrols that it was the sixth most watched TV show on Netflix worldwide.

Free Bert is trending in thirty nine countries. It’s not the most watched show in any of the countries, but it ranked as high as number two in Australia, In Canada, South Africa, and the United States, it ranked number three. TV Insider asked Bert, now the show’s out, has it feel? Bert said, nerve wracking. It gets sex from higher ups at Netflix and they’re so excited.

They said it was such a great show and they’re excited for people to see it. I just wrote back, it’s very different from a stand up special. You know, with a stand up special, little form well, because you’ve done the material, you know the material works and you’ll be proud of the material forever. With a TV show, you get a four wing swing at it and then you’re in the edit bay and you hope people like it. I’m just hoping new fans find it and identify with it.

I’ve gotten a really good response from the show so far that I didn’t really expect. Gil King loved it, which I did not see coming. Drew Barrymore loved it, which I did not see coming. Do you hear Bert Kreischer going mainstream doing Drew and Gil King? It is cash in time because the edge is off.

Bert says, that’s the type of fans of trying to reach out to all right, We’re a line there Bert fans who are unfamiliar with my fans, maybe you know me as the guy who takes a shirt off. Then they say this and they can see themselves in me. Chris Spencer is getting a special on Hulu. It’s called Goat Adjacent. It’ll be on Hulu February fourth.

Tape that the Cicada in Downtown La Chris Spencer touches on everything from marriage and family to aging, race and his Jamaican roots. Jim Brewer is one of the panelists on Kill Tony this week. I saw a lot of people saying it was a pretty good episode and they were impressed by Brewer rolling with it, So I’ll be curious to check that one out. Pete Davidson is apparently filmed an ad for Sonic. It is assumed that will appear during the Super Bowl, but there are pictures of Pete clearly in front of a Sonic holding a Sonic burger or something.

Jimmy Carr has blasted Brooklyn Beckham. Have you seen this? The Beckham family is all fighting. Jimmy Carr called Brooklyn Beckham an entitled Neppo baby in case you missed it, on January nineteenth, Brooklyn Beckham posted a lengthy statement on Instagram where he announced he has no wish to reconcile with his family, including David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, and he’s standing up for himself for the first time in his life. Jimmy Carr said, he claims he’s not just a nepo baby, He’s a chef.

I think he’s so entitled. He’s mixed up being a chef with making his own dinner. He probably brushes his teeth and thinks I’m actually an e fing brilliant dentist. And guess who’s back in the news. That guy Jay Leno.

He’s the worst. Remember last year he waited on late night comedy and the guy’s always taken care of his ill wife. This guy, I can’t believe this guy. He spoke to the Springfield News son and he said, Nikki Glaser’s great because here’s the thing. Your stage act is so fil healthy, but it’s funny in comedy.

The one exception is that everything’s okay as long as it’s funny. When you see her do the Golden Globe, she really works on her set. She’ll go to five night clubs a night just to try the five minutes and keep taking words out to make it tighter and tighter. She’s a real pro, and I really admire her. She’s a professional comedian and she gages from materials to the audience.

And that’s what I try to do. Yeah, I bet you do. Jay the worst person who ever lived, went on to say, I mean, your job as a comedians tell a joke. It’s nice to be socially aware and be conscious and do all that kind of stuff. I tried to do that in my private life, but to bring it to an audience, it’s not what they’re there for.

You went to Roddy Daves Sheffield because he had jokes. He just made you laugh, just stupid, silly, you know. And that’s what we try to do here. Jay says he tries to have a joke every six to nine seconds because the audience must be engaged. And that’s the old Bob Hope rule.

If you tell six jokes a minute, one of them might land. Jay said, I don’t use obscenities in my act now because I’m offended by it. I’m just bored by it. I find it really lazy, you know.

And then when I say that, I’m the old guy complaining about the new comic.

Plus, for the comedy to really work, there’s to be a certain structure. I thought this was interesting. Jay said he rarely writes any of his jokes down because he’s dyslexic. He tries to keep all of jokes in his head, but he says he’s got to notch in his brain for things that are funny, and he tends to forget things that aren’t funny. Really interesting here, Jay Leno said, it makes a footnote in your brain and you just remember to try and say it again somewhere.

It doesn’t always work, but for the most part it does. When bad things happen to me, I seem to forget him. I know my parents passed away. I love my parents very much, but I still can’t tell you what day they did because I don’t want to remember that. With other things that get to laugh of stories that get a reaction, I remember them like they happened yesterday.

Did you vote yet for Comedy Survivor Week four? I was checking out the Facebook group. Everybody was super active, lot of votes going on. There’s some early momentum against Tignataro, but then some people are hanging back to see which way the wind is blowing and how they want to weigh in on that. I thought that was interesting to hang back until later in the week’s strategy.

Very interesting. And there’s also some people like Ron White, and I think there was a Jim Gaffigan vote. Some people who hadn’t gotten votes before are now getting votes. So Comedy Survivor is heating up. So what do you do?

You go to the face book group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. You write down the name of the person you want off. Voting ends end of day on Thursday. A couple quick notes on Late Night Colbert during his taping with Seth Myers, revealed that the series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air Thursday, May twenty. First, I know somebody who wants to travel that week.

That’s going to be a little annoying. We’ll figure it out. The rest of today’s program will be quite serious, and I personally believe if you do have a forum, even if it’s this one, you should use it as expected. Late Night did comment on the killing of Alex Pretty Jimmy Kimmel, I find very powerful here in this clip. I’m about to play.

It’s a long clip, but I think Jimmy Kimmel did a great job here. Now. I spent the weekend, like probably a lot of you did, looking at my phone and just feeling shocked and sick about what is happening in Minneapolis. These one video after another, screaming people being torn from their families, Americans, people who were born in the United States being pulled out of their cars for the crime of having an accent or whatever. Children, small children, babies being tear gassed, taken into custody, separated from their parents, just one atrocity after another being committed by this gang of poorly trained, shamefully led, mask wearing goons.

And that is what they are. They’re goons committing vile, heartless and even criminal acts. And it’s sickening to watch, and it’s frustrating to watch. It’s like we’re all being forced to play a game that has no rules. They just make up the rules as they go along.

We see these videos in which we clearly see one of our fellow Americans executed by ice, and they won’t even admit that it was a mistake. They I mean, they say that the Honda SUV Renee Good was driving, was weaponized. They say the gun Alex Pretty had a license to carry in an open carry state or right. Many of these same people screamed very loudly about when it was Kyle Rittenhouse carrying the gun, a gun that Alex Pretty did not even draw, did not touch, a gun that was taken from him by one of the agents before was shot dead by the other ones. They fired ten times on an ICU nurse.

They’re telling us, well, I was justified. You know, is that the law and order that you voted for, if you voted for this. Every day is a nightmare now. My wife and I have family in Minneapolis are afraid to take their kids to school, They’re afraid to go to work, and I can only imagine how people aren’t white feel about this. How does this end?

What’s the plan? Here? Is the plan to just keep doing this in every city that didn’t vote for Donald Trump? Does anyone on any. Side believe this is good leadership?

We keep saying we need to find subjects that we can agree on. Can we agree that peaceful protesters, including moms driving SUVs on their way back after dropping their six year old off at school, and a nurse who stepped in to protect a woman from harm don’t deserve to be shot dead in the street by the people we are paying to protect us. Can we agree on that? A really great job by Jimmy Kimmel. I was touched emotionally watching it, but Jimmy was nowhere near done.

Can we agree that. When we see a person murdered in cold blood that there should at least be an investigation of that, and that head of ironically titled Head of Homeland Security has the responsibility to get facts before telling us that what we saw we did not see. I mean, if we can’t agree on that, forget it. Then this one seems pretty open and shut to me. I think we can agree on this one.

It’s on video. Look at it, do your own research, and. Then once you do, once you form your own opinion without being told what you saw, say something. Where are the reasonable voices on the right. I mean, we don’t have to agree on everything, but come on.

I also have a long clip from Stephen Colbert, also strong. I like Kimmel’s a little better, but here’s Stephen Colbert. Only seventeen days after Renee Good was shot and killed by an Ice agent, another American citizen was shot and killed by Customs and Border Protection agents, and again Trump administration officials immediately blamed the victim, calling him a domestic terrorist, but videos appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. That analysis was from the New York Times, and they weren’t alone. They were joined by NBC News, PBS News, Reuter’s, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as your own Eyes and Ears magazine and I know that’s p on my leg weekly.

The man who was shot. And killed by CPP was named Alex Pretty, and the administration is making a big deal out of the fact that Preddi was legally carrying a handgun, but as you can see in all the videos, he never pulled out or brandished that gun. Now, I’m not going to play you that video. You’ve all seen it, and if you haven’t seen it, it’s because you didn’t want to own I don’t blame you. But here’s what the video shows.

At first, mister Pretty appears to be filming the scene with his phone and directing traffic. An agent begins shoving the demonstrators and squirts pepper spray at their faces. Preddy moves to help one of the protesters who was sprayed, as other agents approach and pull him from behind. Several agents tussled mister Pretty before bringing him to his knees. He appears to resist as the agents grab his legs, pushed down on his back, and strike him repeatedly.

An agent crouches down, reaches toward Preddy, and lifts a gun from Preddy’s back near his waistband. Another agent unholsters his gun at virtually the same moment and points it at Pretty’s back at close range. Two other agents open fire, shooting him in the back as he lays on the ground. At least ten. Shots were fired, killing him.

Masks government agents disarmed an American citizen and then executed him in the streets. That’s what it looks like, John Stewart Wade in. I went to pull the audio, and you know, John does something different in he was diving in and out of making serious points around jokes, and I just I feel like the audio would actually undercut his argument. So when John was serious, said they’re lying. We saw it, and that’s up Braisen.

They lie when they know we’ve seen the truth. Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them, and that, more than anything, explains why Alex Pretty was really a threat, because he was brandishing a weapon, a handt held aluminum ten ADP sixty fps weapon of mass illumination. Because there’s nothing more dangerous to regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth.

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And then there’s Jimmy Fallon.

Jimmy I often defend Jimmy Fallon on this show, but this, Jimmy, come on, man, all right, So I’m gonna play you a clip from Jimmy. When you start to hear the crazy applause, that’s when New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani made a walk on. I trimmed the audience reaction. It was quite lengthy. And again I try to defend Jimmy Fallon, but sometimes, dude, you gotta read the room.

I get what the Tonight show is, but this just is like, what are we doing. Here’s Jimmy Fallon’s show. Yeah, it’s freezing out there. It’s so called JD. Van shrunk to the size of Mark Rubio.

It’s it is so cold. I watched the. Millennia movie just to warm my heart. You know, it’s so cold. President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine.

I just hey, Jimmy, let me try at it’s it’s so cold in New York City. The rent froze itself. Good Night everybody, mommy, everyone, but seriously, stay inside, stay warmed, stay safe. Thanks Now, despite my commentary on what Jimmy chose to do, let me play that last piece again, because it’s a little lettermany the way they wrapped it up after the good night everybody, and the music staying just here. Listen to this little part again.

The rent froze itself. Good Night, everybody, mommy. Everyone reminds me a little of twelve thirty David Letterman. Maybe it’s just me and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.

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Featured: James Austin Johnson, Michael Che, Patton Oswalt, Bo Burnham, Andrew Schultz, Tim Dillon, Joe Rogan, Asan Ahmad, Rand Paul, Whitney Cummings

What’s in This Episode

• SNL’s response to Alex Pretti killing in Minnesota
• James Austin Johnson Trump impression criticism on SNL
• Comedian reactions to ICE shooting deaths
• Joe Rogan podcast discussion on ICE enforcement
• Andrew Schultz comments on ICE violence
• Tim Dillon criticism of ICE training and competence

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Well, here you see, Bolts said, We’ve got a bit of a rough one. I’m coming up. I want to talk about the killing of Alex Pretty in Minnesota, and as with all news stories, I’ll apply it through a comedy lens.

I’m recording this slightly before noon on Monday. Not really seeing a lot of comedian reactions yet. I’m sure we’ll see some in late night on Monday night, but we did see Saturday Night Lives pretty much lack of reaction. The cold open was James Austin Johnson’s increasingly drifting President Trump. They need to just stop with it.

It’s not working. I’m seeing a lot of backlash on social that people are just like, can you stop with the James Austin Johnson Trump. It was the Trump Awards, and during the monologue, James Austin Johnson as Trump slightly dressed this situation with ice and no pay really close attention to this clip. This is unedited, obviously, other than the heads and tails that I clipped, but listen to the absolute silence this joke gets like, this was noticeably silent. Listen to this carefully, I thought, I.

Need more awards, and after where all my little freaks and psychos and Ice have been doing, I need more distractions. Look, everything’s gold and shiny, and what a crown we have tonight? I mean, wow, not even a laugh The reaction, and I agree, is that SNL missed the mark. On Saturday Night, Michael Jay got in one joke obviously told better by Chay, But that joke. I get that ICE agents or people allegedly, and I have a job to do, But at some point, when you’re Pepper spraying old ladies and shooting at a nurse, do you ever stop and ask yourself?

Are we dis which okay, but again kind of missed the top story. I did do a sweet to see if any comedians were really tweeting about it. I did see something from Patton Oswalt and something from Bo Johnson. Let me just jump in here. If today’s the first day you’re hearing this program, it’s usually not this serious.

Patton Oswalt on threads discussing the killing of Alex Pretty. Patton had posted he was protecting a woman they shoved to the ground. They pepper sprayed him, beat him, removed his legally permitted gun all caps from its holster, and then a nervous ice goon fumble fired a shot into his back, and the rest of them panicked and also started shooting. Then they all scurried away, one of them clapping and bouncing up and down, all on video multiple angles. Bo Johnson posted generally input politics into my jokes on here threads, but there isn’t much I feel like joking about tie.

The evil being committed by ice. Tearing families apart is evil. Murdering two innocent people is evil. If you like my comedy and your reality is dissorted, there is time for deep introspection. Well more likely if you’re just finding out a hate government sanctioned murder and don’t like that.

I hope the venue doesn’t give you a refund of my show, and you know I’ll be paying my bills with your money. The podcasters had not weighed in yet as of Monday, but as I was putting together the show, I did find a few things, and I want to be fair that And I can’t believe I’m saying this sentence out loud. These are comments after the first Ice shooting, that the shooting of Renee Nicole Good. Earlier this month, Andrew Schultz addressed that shooting on the Flagrant podcast. The article I’m cribbing from is from the twenty third.

Alex Pretty was killed on the twenty fourth, So again, I just want to put the timeline here, and again, this is a comedy show, Schultz said. I think because we don’t see it in New York like we’re somewhat detached from it. New Yorkers will not be going with this stuff at all. One of the co hosts said, oh it did it happened on Canal. Schultz said, I assume this is a joke.

No, no, no, on canal because on Canal we got to clean some stuff up as part of my research for today’s episode. An article from June twenty third, twenty twenty five from the New York Times. The New York Times actually posted an article titled Andrew Schultz podcast bro might be America’s foremost political journalist. Boy that aged well. That article, just to be clear, not by friend of the show, Jason Zennemann, New York Times.

Yikes. Dudes, Tim Dillon on episode four seventy eight, which came out two weeks ago, addressed Ice. Tim on that episode, and again everything Tim says is half sarcastic. But Tim said, these are not well trained law enforcement people in Ice right now. We’re talking people that did backyard wrestling.

The people that are in Ice right now. I mean, this is like your cousin who was in backyard wrestling. This is not the cream of the crop. You know, the guys that kidnapped Maduro, the Delta Force Navy Seals. This is not them.

This is not the Delta Force Navy Seal people. This is people on their third grade report card the teacher wrote has violent tendencies. It just is what it is. Tim did release an episode over the weekend. I listened to it Sunday morning.

I don’t believe he addressed the shooting at all, and I believe I have no facts of this, but I believe he had recorded it before any of this went down. Just as someone who listens to Tim every week, I can’t imagine that he didn’t lead off with it. Episode four p eighty was titled Jared Kushner Trump’s Obsession and Healing through Hate. The description on an Apple podcast, as Tim discusses the recent Beckham family drama and the no contact phenomenon, trump Sport of Peace, Jared Kushner’s creepy PowerPoint presentation on the New Gaza, how the world heals through hate, and a food delivery robot that was run over by train in Florida. So again I have to assume team tape that maybe Friday Night from Media Height, Media eight took a look at Joe Rogan’s podcast, which came out on Thursday, again before the killing of Alex Pride in Minnesota.

Trying to be fair here with the timeline to these comedians. Rogan’s guest comedian Asan Ahmad. Rogan was discussing the shooting and killing of Renee Good. Rogan said, imagine one of these people, like do they’re asking me to come like this awesome? Now I’m in America, I’m gonna get a good job, I’m going to be able to support my family, and then all of a sudden, you have these effing dudes in bulletproof vests looking for you on the streets.

Like I thought you said it was okay. I thought the Red Cross gave me a map. I was like, you gave me the fing cell phone and now you’re hunting me. But now imagine the ICE agent’s okay. Rogan said it was like a recent clip of mine that got highlighted when his criticizing Ice.

One of the things you don’t think about when you’re into this is just like regular police interactions. The one that you see online are the horrible ones. You think all cops are horrible. What you miss is the millions of interactions of people with cops like you doing today. Sir, can I see paperwork?

Sure? Here it is? You in a hurry, I’m late for work. You know, all right? Man to slow down.

Rogan said that happens too. Like there’s nice interactions with cops. There are people that save people from bad guys. It happens all the time. There’s people that are thankful that they call the police and they stopped the burglar who was breaking into their fings mom’s house or whatever it is.

There’s so many more of those. But you’re not seeing those videos with the Ice thing. What you’re only seeing and what you’re hearing about American citizens that have been arrested, the lady that got shot. You’re seeing all these negatives. What you’re not hearing about is a number of violent criminals that they’ve caught, and it’s a lot.

It’s in the thousands. On a previous episode with Rand Paul, Joe Rogan said, you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching up people, many of which turn out to be US citizens that just don’t have their papers on them. We’re really going to be the Gestapo. Where’s your papers? Is that what we’ve come to.

Whitney Cummings was hitting my social media feed a lot over the weekend. People are upset with Whitney, who made some comments about Miss Rachel. Miss Rachel, who creates educational videos for toddlers and infants, had apologized for liking an anti Semitic Instagram comment last week. Screenshots had circulated online showing Miss Rachel’s Instagram account liking a comment that read free America from the Jews. The comment appeared under a now deleted post that read free Palestine, Free Sidan, free Congo, free Iran.

Miss Rachel posted a screenshot of a follower alerting her that yo he had liked an anti Semitic comment. Miss Rachel replied, deleted, how horrible oh wait, let me check I did delete one like that. Yeah, I believe I deleted that earlier when I saw it. I hate anti Semitism. She said she had meant to delete the comment, but instead tap the light button and explain people are allowed to make mistakes.

I’m super sorry for any confusing it caused. I delete anti semitism anytime I see it. I’m against all forms of hate, including anti Semitism against the Jewish people. Back to Whitney Cummings, Whitney had posted miss Rachel was always off base, dude, Why does she talk to kids like their deaf morons? And if you need to dress like a toddler to trick them into liking you, that’s information to give a mental health professional.

I believe Whitney eventually deleted that comment as she got dragged in the comments reading directly from Whitney cummings threads account. I did not know Miss Rachel was specifically for neuro divergent children. Some people say it’s actually not slash. People are even fighting about that. The show overwhelms my child maybe when he’s older.

A lot of adults talk super intensely to kids and it stresses them out. I thought it was just that intense baby talk thing. I know how important a kid’s hero is to a parent, and I’m a new mom and should have been more careful. Whitney, in a separate thread at Post wrote, I’m new to being a mom and a comedian. I’ll probably make more mistakes.

I’m not surprised when Reddit bros attack me anymore. But the mom’s face is a curveball. I’ll be more careful and get thicker skin because i know how exhausted moms are and how precious your kid’s heroes are. If someone made fun of Thomas the Train, I’m sure i’d be protective. Maybe when he’s older, Miss Rachel will be our thing, but right now it’s overwhelming thanks to those who aren’t looking to intentionally understand.

Someone gave Whitney a hard time about deleting her comment. Whitney wrote, not sure why it’s dirty to delete it again. If this is your first time listening, the show’s not normally this series, regular listeners will notice I’m not even using my regular delivery today. Stephen Colbert is scheduled to You’re on seth Myers tonight. I’m sure they’ll find something to talk about During Thursday Nights Jimmy Kimmel monologue, someone yelled out Jimmy for President.

Jimmy Kimmel crossed himself and said, let’s pray we can do better than that. Netflix has released the first images from the Fifth Wheel. This is a female Deriven comedy directed by Eva Longoria. It stars Kim Kardashian and Nikki Glaser. I’m wondering if this is going to be Nikki Glaser’s flew too close to the Sun moment, like if I just tell you off the bat.

It stars Kim Kardashian and Nikki Glaser. Do you think that’s gonna be good? Are you thinking, like, oh, Netflix, Yeah, no, right, I know you got a floor while it’s hot, but I’m not sure this is the right move for Nikki Glaser. The Fifth Wheel follows a group of high school best friends as they attempt to reconnect during a weekend haunt to Las Vegas. But when a hot outsider, the Fifth Wheel played by Kim Kardashian, crashes their weekend, they’re forced to face their messy lives, bad decisions, and unraveling friendships.

I know about that. Are you excited for the Super Bowl I’m really not. I really like football, but just this matchup, I’m like, you know, Okay, I mean it’s a super Bowl. I’ll make some wings and I’ll watch it, but I’m not like, yeah, I can’t wait for the super Bowl. One of the events a Super Bowl Weekend Dave Chappelle headlining and already sold out show at the Chase Center.

Circling back to SNL, Colin Jost will return to host the second season of Pop Culture Jeopardy. The show has moved from Amazon to Netflix, Colin Jost staying on board. Interesting note from Late Night about SNL. The other night, Marcelo Hernandez appeared on Weekend Update. He had some commentary about the evolution of Generation Z slang in the aired version.

Marcelo explained, basically, black people start saying something, young people think it’s cool, so they start saying it. Then white people say it. Then once Elon Musk says it, it’s over. According to people in dress rehearsal, the tag was not Elon Musk. The tag was once Jimmy Fallon says it it’s over.

That got laughs on the room. It’s unclear why that was changed before air. Voting is now open for Comedy Survivor Week four. What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You will find a cartoon of me extinguishing the torch of Joe Coy In there host a name of who you want voted off this week Comedy Survivor Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

A couple of people hit me on the side saying the mel Brooks documentary is really good. I started to watch it Friday night, and part of it I was like four hours. Sometimes I just don’t like homework. You know what I did most of the weekend when I wasn’t watching football. James Bond movies on Netflix, and again I have most of them on either DVD or digital, but I’d have to go all the way upstairs to where the Scrubs DVDs live that get us through fascism.

So next to the Scrubs DVDs are the James Bond DVDs, but again you have to go up and get them. There’s just something really nice about hitting play and they’re right there on Netflix, and they’ve been on very streaming services. There’s just something about them being on Netflix, and I’m like, oh, I’m gonna watch these. So I’m all the way through Goldfinger now, so that’s the first three. But anyway, the mel Brooks documentary people are saying it’s really really good, but I didn’t want to commit to four hours of homework.

And when they were showing the talking heads that were gonna appear, they showed Amy Schumer and it was like Amy Schumer and it just didn’t interest me. I say, I don’t want to hear Amy Schumer talking about Molbrooks at all. But maybe I’ll circle back to that when I get some time. I got like twenty three more James Bond movies to watch. You know what I do with the Bond movies.

I treat them like TV shows. I hit play because I’ve seen them all and I can probably recite half of them. I hit play, and when I don’t feel like watching it anymore, I just hit stop, so I don’t go like, Okay, I’m watching two hours and ten minutes of James Bond nowt I just watched James Bond till I’ve had my Phillip James Bond.

And then I hit stop and I go back in and if the movie ends, I just start the …

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And it comes with the thirty day free trials if you just want to test drive that, or you’re just like, all right, no commercials for thirty days that I’m not giving John five bucks, so that’s cool. I understand I’m cheap, but why not do the thirty day free triut Now, if you were to do that and get all the other shows, and you were like, oh, I’ll check out this palace intrigue about the Royal family. You know, what do they talk about there? You would get stories like this. A viral TikTok rumor claiming that Megan Markle reacted awkwardly to an introduction by Jimmy Kimmel is drawing attention online.

However, there’s no evidence that it even happened. Oh, I love a good Megan Markle story. Somebody posted on TikTok alleging that Megan was on Kimmel and bristled at what she felt was an underwhelming introduction by Jimmy Kimmel. The moment is described as tense, with nervous laughter from the audience. However, there’s no video from the broadcast, no transcript, no recording to support the claim.

There’s no public ren if Megan Markle ever appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live. I’ve been writing the Royals podcast for several years, including before they moved to California, and believe me, if she were on Kimmel, I would have covered it. Episode listings, promotional schedules, archived interviews do not show a segment with Jimmy Kimmel on Megan Markle, so it seems like it might be a hoax. On Netflix Today, Mike Apps his new special Delusional. It’s his fifth foreign Netflix.

In it, he discusses how a little delusion and a lot of hustle has made him a star. And that is your comedy news for Today again if you’re a new listener, I promise tomorrow would be more. Actually I don’t know because Late night’s going to weigh on on this Minnesota thing, so maybe not. But welcome aboard, see all tomorrow.