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Caalarogas shock media. Hi there, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. We try not to get political on this program, especially because the President and I don’t agree on all the issues, but on one issue that we are aligned on, it’s this whole make twelve thirty great again issue. I’m very passionate about this.

We need to get twelve thirty back to the great days of Letterman and Conan. Are changing networks, Craig Ferguson and now we have Seth Meyers. The President said Seth’s show is a ratings disaster aside from everything else, Myers says no talent and NBC should fire him immediately. Seth Myers responded to this on his twelve thirty program, which is closer in consumption to this program than it is to Joe Rogan’s program. Those are facts.

They’re amazing facts, but they’re facts. Seth said, you guys, they said my name on TV. It’s not often you hear the name Seth Myers on TV before midnight. Seth then got somewhat serious and said, as I’ve said before, I prefer to handle these situation is the way you handle an angry driver. Who hawks and flips you off on the highway.

You just ignore them, you know, unless you’re in New Jersey then technically that’s a marriage proposal. Conan O’Brien, who helped make twelve thirty Greats, was in India. On social media, he was sharing some of the fun he was having. He’s shooting season three of his travel series Conan O’Brien Must Go. One photo shows Conan with a cricket bat and says, my first day playing street cricket and I scored eleven hundred points question mark, I have no idea what happened.

In another post, Conan is seen posing with background dancers. Conan was dressed in a traditional outfit. Decaption. Just filmed a Bollywood extravaganza with these gifted dancers and incredible crew. I can’t wait for you to watch it on your phone.

One more, he was interacting with the public. They captured lots of laughs in Mumbai with my new friend Rusty and this woman was thrilled to meet Ryan Seacrest. Search hashtag Conan O’Brien must go on your social media’s if you want to see those. Bill Maher was on his podcast. The guest was Patton Oswaltz.

Bill Maher explains to Patton oswalt While Bill Moore no longer tours doing up comedy, he said, I felt like it was a great choice because I don’t want to be out there in this country, in this political atmosphere. I could get shot by the left or right. I mean, it’s just not a good time to be out there. Marris pointed out that he released his thirteenth HBO special earlier this year, was called Bill Maher as anyone else seeing this, and he said, I feel like that’s a good body of work. I felt like they basically got better as they went along, and I feel like the last one was the best one, which is a good way to get off.

Some other factors that Bill said contributed to his decision was getting tired of the travel, obviously, and getting tired of being twice as funny as people who were selling twice as many tickets as me. He said, part of that is because I’m on TV every week, not that I didn’t sell a lot of tickets. You know, do great theaters, but I didn’t sell arenas and some people did, and frankly they aren’t that great. But you know, when the audience is thirty five to forty five. They don’t want to see somebody seventy.

Pat Oswalt released an audio special last week on Audible, this one called Black Coffee and Ice Water. It opens up with Patten reading a fake disclaimer about how he’s gone full Mega in an attempt to avoid the hand of Donald Trump. The Last Lafe Vulture says it’s a funny bit that also underscores Patton Oswalt’s fears about being outspokenly anti fascist in twenty twenty five America. It’s very simple, Patton, just don’t watch Hulu. Go upstairs and get the scrubs DVDs.

Very simple. You didn’t need to watch the bashion of Manascalco’s special. You didn’t think it was going to be funny, did you? No? Come on?

Patten told The Last Laugh about doing an audio special. I love the idea of getting to go old school again. Then I loved it even more when I was ten minutes in recording the set and realized, oh, I’m not on camera right now. This is just me talking and the audience responding. It’s very real, and it’s immediate, and it was so immediately freeing.

I felt fantastic. As for the new cycles, Patton said, whatever horrible thing happens usually will happened for a week, and then they’ll move on to whatever the next horrible thing is that they want to do. Our only advantage is hopefully we can outcreate them and outpivot them, because they seem to have no object permanence. Weird Al announced that his tour, Bigger and Weirder will continue into twenty twenty six and additional ninety stops through North America, including cities such as Chicago, Boston, Vegas, Austin, KC, Milwaukee, and more. Jim Brewer announced his tour, It’s the Fine, the Funny Tour.

The tour launches February nineteenth at the Sunrise Theater at Fort Pierce, Sick Jim’s current resume. According to this piece, a Long Island native. Strong Island, Brewer honed his craft on New York’s comedy circuit before breaking out as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. See I said all the syllables that time? Did I mention?

I think I mentioned this in the Facebook group. One of my favorite things about the Eddie Murphy documentary was hearing Eddie Murphy say the first word of SNL the same way I do and the same way that Jim Brewer does. It must be a Queen’s Long Island thing, because if you pay attention to Eddie saying Sad Night Live the way I do, Saatenite Live or sometimes Saturday Night Live, definitely not Saturday Night Live, Saturday Live. I loved it. After SNL, Jim Brewer went out to star in the Colt Stoner comedy Half Baked, which also features Dave Schapelle and appears in films including Zookeeper, Beer League, titan Ae, among others.

Brewer most recently released the YouTube special country Boy Will Survive as Other specials include Hardcore, Let’s Clear the Air, and Laughter for All I’m Behind on my Jim Brewer YouTube specials. Apparently, bill Board asked comedian Josh Johnson if he’s ever been confused with NFL player Josh Johnson. Have you guys ever met or talked? Comedian Josh Johnson said no, We’ve never run into each other. Then they asked Josh Johnson, have you ever had a politician supporter coming you for something you said on your show or in your act?

Comedian Josh Johnson said no, I try to be fair in my assessments of people. Even if there are people I don’t really like, I can still acknowledge when they did a thing for the collective good or made a smart political play, even when it’s something that I considered to be terrible propaganda. I do my best to give kudos when they’re deserved. You have a better political understanding if you can be as close to objective as your political leanings will allow. I’d talk about everything, and if I see something that doesn’t hold water, I’ll say so even if I like that person.

Josh got a little philosophical and said, if you stay in the big arc of history and how politics works, you can see that there’s precedent. We already had a guilded age. So there’s already a playbook on how people combatd the robber baron era. But there’s also a playbook for the robber barons to get and consolidate power. So many of these things are bigger than any one political figure, and the last much longer than any one person’s political career.

Josh Johnson, comedian, Are you optimistic about where a country’s headed? Comedian Josh Johnson said, I always leaned toward optimism because that’s the best way for me to live. But I’m not ever going to poop poo the idea that things get worse than you can imagine. I do think with optimism and hard work, they’ll turn out better than someone could have projected. Pure Wow asked Nikki Glaser about her upcoming Golden Globes monologue.

They were curious, when you’re writing such a thing, are you rewriting right up until showtime? Nickki said yes, I rewrite until the very last minute. For my monologue last year, I decided to do my closing joke in the moment on live TV. It wasn’t even in the teleprompter. The closer I had in the teleprompter didn’t get the pop I wanted, so I just winged it and reached for a joke that I had previously memorized as a possible closer.

Thank god, I had rehearsed it enough that I hadn’t memorized. It was a wordy joke too. Kevin Nelan was on Ted Danson’s podcast. Neilan talked about the preparation it took to get a fake chin applied for his imitation of the worst person who Ever lived Jay Leno, you know that guy with the charity work in the opinions about L Night TV. Yeah, the worst.

According to Neilan, the makeup artist had to cover him in thick plaster that left him unable to breathe through anything other than two straws that was stuck into his nostrils. He called it a life mask or a death mask. Nelon said, I never thought it’d be a problem. Then it starts to get warm and it’s hardening, and you’re thinking, oh my god, all that’s open is my nostrils. If those close up, I’ll suffocate.

Can you imagine the headline SNL comedian dies of suffocation impersonating Jay Leno. Nelan said he started to get panicky and I remember being about to pass out. Next thing he knew he was being administered smelling salts. Tracy Morgan spoke to people about his new Paramount plus titcom Crutch. Tracy plays Francois Frank Kretchfield.

Tracy said, it’s one hundred percent of me because I’m just mimicking my dad. My older brother moved back in with my father, and that was sort of a battle, but a teachable moment. Maagine Simba moving back in with Mufassa. Who’s the lion king. My father had to go about it in a graceful way.

He let my brother know that he was the lion king, and I’m just mimicking that and from Business Insider. Before I do the story, I’ll remind you George Carlin once said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it. Business Insider was at Baron Capitol’s thirty second annual Investor Conference, an event known for blending of financial presentations with high profile entertainment. Attendance is exclusive. Shareholders must have at least forty thousand dollars invested with the firm to get a seat.

Past conferences of featured people like the great traumatic actor Adam Sandler well this year. Doors open at six thirty, panels started at nine. Attendees were told to go to one of three lunch venues, each hosting a different midday performance. Those assigned to one particular theater received box lunches offering salads or ham turkey or roast beef sandwiches. Who comes out Sebastian Maniscalco, who opened by asking you ever performed with the smell of ham sandwiches?

Sebastian Maniscalco is hilarious or should I say hilarious. That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny mat with your Bailey Comedy News. The Wall Street Journal asked Louis C.K. About when he started selling stand up specials and tickets to fans directly, which came in handy when the entertainment world cut ties with Ck. They were curious.

Was that the business equivalent of being a doomsday prepper? Louis C. K said, It’s not the way I looked at it. I got to be a top guy all of a sudden. If I put a show on sale, it sold out, didn’t matter where.

That’s an incredible thing to experience, and I’m really curious about the way things work. So I thought, I’m gonna perch here. How could I benefit the fans and get with them more directly? With the special I released, which was live at the Beacon Theuter back in twenty eleven, Ck said, I just wanted them to be able to click and watch with a tiny bump of commerce five bucks, and it was like a million dollars in a week. I never had a million dollars before.

It was just crazy.

And then all of a sudden, I also had that email list.

These are the premium leads. The entertainment industry has gotten really confusing and bye. There’s a lot of fear based prohibition now and weird rules. But I don’t have to live by any of those. I’m in a little bit of a close circuit.

There’s a lot of people that don’t know I’m working. I sold out Madison Square Garden and about one hundred thousand people bought the live stream. Was a huge night, but it was like a secret something kind of amazing about being a secret superstar. The Journal asked if he wishes the TV show Louis were easier for people to rewatch or discover. Ck said, it’s on my website and people buy it steadily.

Would I like it to be on a platform or something, sure, but that ain’t up to me. Is Ck anywhere close to his twenty seventeen earning level. Louis said no, no, no. I was making stupid money and the things people were saying about me were bigger than reality, and I didn’t know how to handle it. Nobody does.

Then that evaporated, and now I’m just more connected to just getting paid for what I do. If I can keep writing novels, I don’t think I’ll tour at this level. I really love my life now I didn’t used to, and going on the road takes me away from that life. So I think I’ll take a long break after this tour, and if I come back to it, I’ll come back to it in a smaller way. GQ asked Stephen Colbert prior to The Late Show.

You played a character for a long time. How has it been spending the last ten years as yourself? Colbert explained, Yeah, it’s pretty close. I mean, it’s performance persona. There are times when it’s very close to me, especially if there’s something that cannot receive a joke.

There are things that will not receive the matrix of our desire to do comedy. And I choose not to talk about tragedy on my show because I think that’s sacred. But there are things that are unavoidable that are happening in our country, and because I talk about what’s happening in America today. I don’t generally say or do things I don’t mean on the show unless I’m in character, like in a sketch. Whereas that the Colbert arepoort was almost nothing.

Basically it was Catholic and Lord of the Rings were the only two things that we had in common. I get that I was talking with one of the trivia guys recently about this, and also I talk about this with my college class a lot. The Johnny Mick persona that you’re listening to right now, for one, has a certain delivery. I don’t speak like this and normal I’m not like at trivia night, like hey, Glenn, should we get a beer? Like this isn’t the way of talking.

It’d be like you want another? One would be how I would normally speak. Professor McDermott is also a bit of her performance. I have to try and keep college students entertained for two plus hours. So I got what Colbert is there.

It’s, you know, an exaggerated version of your real self. He was asked how he looks back on the Stephen Colbert character from The Colbert Report. He said, finally, I mean, it was enjoyable to do. A lot of people thought you couldn’t sustain it, and I always thought I could because a mask is such a gift for me, at least as a performer, because really all my training in my entire career until I did that show was as an actor. And we had a bible for the character.

We kept a running bible. What does he believe? What does he not believe, what’s his back history, what’s the relationship with other people. We were writing it as this ongoing narrative where nothing we did should be contradicted by other things we did for that character. I’m gonna jump in there too.

So when I ran the Raw Dog comedy channel at Sirius, the station voice was Satan. It was my production guy, Saldo Leo, using a voice processor, so it dropped his voice down and it was like serious, what O four? He had used the Satan character at a promo and I liked it, and I’m like, let’s make that the station voice. But here we also had a writer’s guide or a bible about it. The way I wrote the character was there was nothing satanic about it.

As we wrote the character, Satan was a guy with a deep voice who sure he’s the devil, but the only reason he’s working with us on rowd dogg is because we pay well. And he thought everything we did was stupid. So sometimes the bosses would make us promote things. I remember one time we had to promote Oprah Winfrey Radio, which I didn’t think there was much of a crossover with the raw Dog audience. Like if rowd Dog was a person, raw Dog would have been classic Bill Burr, not the current version, the young angry version that would have been rawd dogg It had come to life, so the satan character, for example, promoting Oprah Winfrey Radio would get about two thirds of the way down to the mandated copy and just be like oh and throw out a piece of paper, and sal would record the piece of paper hitting the waste basket and then just leave dead air.

And that was the way we handled things. GQ said, I had forgotten so recently. There was a moment when people thought you, Stephen Colbier and John Stewart were going to save the republic somehow, Colbert said, I promise you we did not share that feeling, especially when reflecting back on the Rally to Restore Sanity slash March to Keep Fear Alive. He was doing the rally to restore sanity. I was doing the March to keep Fear alive, and I liked to remind him that I won.

We kept fear alive. Switching topics, what comedians is Colbert into? I celebrate all of them because I love comedy. I’m a huge fan of Dave Chappelle. I love Kat Williams.

I guess I should have started a podcast now. The other day I told you Stephen Colbert said he would not do a podcast. In this interview, Who’s asked would he consider doing another podcast? He said, I would, and I’d love to do one with my daughters. I’ve got funny kids.

My baby’s twenty years old. She doesn’t want to be in stand up but if she comes out on stage, people throw their purse in the air. She’s got something and people beg to see her in videos and all that. She likes money, so she might do a podcast with me if it meant money. So yesterday, was it yesterday or the day before where I told you write this down?

Steven Colbert will to another podcast. You wrote it down right, Thank you, You’re welcome. Friday waxed Jim Gaffigan’s car. Jim, you’ve done eleven stand up specials. How has the press too evolved over time?

Jim said, there’s still the power of the late night shows. Some of that is prestige, but a lot of is that the clips that come out out in those appearances, whether you’re on the Tonight Show or Kimmel. Notice he’s not doing NBC twelve thirty. Make NBC twelve thirty great again. But obviously the power of podcasts is significant, and you end up getting very strategic about how you place these things.

Even the outlet for comedy specials always moving. I had two specials on Comedy Central, then I did one on my website. Then I did a couple on Netflix, a couple on Amazon, and one on Hulu, which, as listeners to the show know, is where you go when you’re on your way down. Sorry, Jim, sorry to break it to you. It’s always moving.

Is Apple going to get into the business, Is Ellison going to buy Hbo?

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And then they’re going to compete with Netflix.

It’s constantly changing, so you have to guess ahead. But in some ways the powerhouse now might be YouTube. That doesn’t take anything away from how important Netflix is or their paychecks, but comedians have become so successful by posting their specials on YouTube that it can actually allow them to go to Netflix. Jim was asked, besides eyeballs and money, what are the metrics you weigh when choosing which distributed partner? With time out?

Here’s who he chooses money. I guarantee you money, Jim says, I see a special as harvesting crops. Money. You always want to be expanding your audience money. If I’m going to Baltimore, Denver every two years, I don’t expect that the people who enjoy my stand up are coming every two years.

That’s not realistic. Some of them are busy, some don’t have disposable income. You always want to be expanding the audience that enjoice your comedy. So when I first went to Amazon Money, I knew they had to reach that at that time. Netflix didn’t.

With Hulu Money. I knew there were viewers who consumed a ton of stuff there, So why not spread the wealth money. It’s easier for me to do that than someone like Dave Chapelle, who’s getting a huge check he doesn’t have to factor in. Maybe I can get more people. Stop, Jim, stop stop stop stop stop stop.

You mean to tell me that if I don no Amazon Prime goes Hey, Jim New Special twenty bucks and Netflix goes thirty bucks, You’re picking Amazon Prime get lost. Jim. What excite you about the future, he said, It’s an exciting time for creative people. I know things are scary, but I think that translates to a certain independence. Creative.

People who are self starters are gonna be fine. Most incredibly, Jude didn’t promote his bourbon in any of that. I remember that Jeff Dye guy, he was on Joe Rogan’s show. Jeff Dye said, I’m sympathetic to the things female comics have to go through through. Then Dian Rogan started talking about de Ei style mandates when in the field.

Joe Rogan said, they’ve literally said we have too many white male comics. Jeff Didye said, I’ve heard it my whole career. Yeah, I mean, I don’t book comedy shows. What are people really saying? No, no, no, we have too many white male comics.

Because I don’t know. I pay attention to the comedy scene, and there seemed to be a lot of white male comics. No. Jeff Dye said, someone comes out and goes, listen, if you’re a straight white guy, you better be real different. It’s Boston, we’re all straight white guys.

That kind of hurt my feelings a little bit. What does that imply about my circumstances. Apparently an agent told Jeff Die The agent was praising one of the agent’s other clients. Apparently, the agent told Jeff die he has all these great things that make him interesting in the industry. I think you’re gonna have to reinvent yourself.

Rogan said, that’s just Hollywood. We don’t do that in Texas. In the Mothership, it’s a meritocracy. And because it’s a meritocracy, it’s very diverse. You got a lot of women in the lineup.

You got all kinds of people. Rogan said. The vast majority of comics at my club are left wing. They are artists. I’ll tell you who’s got a great agent or pr team.

Leanne Morgan, her whole team gets it done now. She was on the Today Show the topic how her show Leanne was renewed for second season. Leanne said, Jerry Seinfeld called me the day came out. He said, you have a sitcom with your name on it, which is unheard of. You were in there with Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball.

All right, tap the breaks, I mean, yes, congratulations, very successful. What eight episode season one? Can we tap the breaks before we start comparing you to Lucille Ball. I mean, for example, Richard Lewis had a show called Anything but Love that got more than a year. We don’t talk about that one much.

So before we put you on the Pantheon with New Heart, Mary Tyler Moore and Lucille Ball Tap the Breaks, Jerry rude As told Forbes, I would never call myself veggie. I think any comedian that refers to themselves as edgy or uncancellable putting these things on themselves you see a lot in America. I think they’re in trouble as an artist anyway, And those guys are usually the first to fold. In my experience, comics just keep writing jokes, and you call us what you feel the freedom to call us. We’re just thinking about the next show.

So no, I wouldn’t call myself any of those things. It’s not my privilege, it’s yours. I don’t think controversy is adding any currency in art. I don’t. I think it’s a trap.

Then you’re constantly going to be chasing that. But I also don’t think you can predict what’ll get you into controversy. It’s the thing you never thought of. Fred Armison will be honored with the Ernie Kovacs Award at Dallas Video Fest today at the Texas Theater in Dallas. The Ernie Kovacs Awards, introduced in nineteen ninety seven, honors television’s greatest visionaries.

Past recipients include Joel Hodgson, Al Franken, and Terry Gilliam. Fred Armison said, I’m absolutely honored to be part of Ernie Kovac’s world in any way, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News out today on Hilarious. Now, don’t forget the Hilarious Comedy brand is where you go when you’re on your way down. We’ve got a lot of proof here. Sebastian maniscalgoes, it ain’t right.

This is the trailer that radicalized me against Sebastian maniscalgo. Please stop making stupid faces. You can’t see the faces on an audio podcast, but you can almost hear them. Let’s listen some edits here. I have a mild case of sleep appning.

This is where I’m at. I’m gonna dum tap my mouth shut so I don’t pass away in my sleep. If someone came to rob my house, they would look at me and go, someone was already here. Let’s go. I went to a drug store today.

I took out cash, by the way you take out cash nowadays, like kryptonite. This kid was in his early twenties. He’s like, what is that. I said, it’s money. It’s used for goods and services.

Some people do venmo. Maybe you went out to dinner, somebody paid and then the rest of the group said no, Well, Venmo you later, No, you paid me, no deadline, ass Abashian Maniscalco. Are you able to enjoy your success? He said, And I’m not, mister positivity. It’s very fashionable nowadays on Instagram to be like, oh, I get up and I do my affirmations and I have a vision board.

It’s not really my style. My fear is failing. When I succeed, I feel like it’s gonna go away. It’s hard to sustain success. There’s an expectation like you’re putting out a Hulu special.

This better be equal or better than the last one. It’s a lot of pressure. Now. What we’ve learned from the Hulu specials is it’s not going to be better than the last one. Name one Hulu special that was better than the artist’s previous special.

I’ll wait, Actually I can’t wait, because then they’ll be dead air. You can email me on the side, or you can hit the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ll push all my chips into the middle of the table here. In June of this year, BuzzFeed made a list of the hilarious specials Jim gaff against the Skinny No Way that’s his best, Bill Burrs dropped dead years as his worst and now Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian were born funny or is it something you learned, he told Deadline.

This is an innate ability. I don’t think you can learn to be funny. I was funny around my family and friends, and I was funny when I had to give a book report in front of the class. I was an extremely shy kid. People think comedians are going to be the center of attention, or they think, oh, you must be great at parties and really not.

I’m miching to get out because I don’t want to do the chit chat. I was at a kid’s museum over the weekend. I find myself uncomfortable talking to the parents there because I’m just not a chitchat guy. Sebastian, do you regret making any past jokes? He said, I don’t listen.

You’re gonna offend people. You can’t control it. I do a joke about my father putting andy freeze on bolognay and killing raccoons in the garden. The people labeled him as some guy who’s killing animals. He never did that.

I actually heard the story from somebody else. I find it strange people take the stuff so seriously. About eighty five percent of it is stories that have happened in my life. But there are stories that I’ve heard and taken bits and pieces from, or I’ve over exaggerated things that might not have happened but are rooted in truth. What was I watching?

I was watching some comedy special the other night and I felt like none of it was real and I just couldn’t last with it. I can’t remember what it was, but yeah, I need my jokes grounded in something. Yeah. I understand that the stories are comedy. I understand they’re exaggerated for effect, but you gotta have some semblance of reality in there.

This is gonna bother me. Now. Who was I watching? I actually had paused. I went in my Netflix app.

It wasn’t Netflix, so I think it was something on Amazon Prime. I think I switched while watching The Knicks recently and switched over there. So whatever they put in front of you on Amazon anyway, it wasn’t good. Sebastian doing the full Court Press this week. He got an US Weekly cover story where he’s making a stupid face.

Why why do you have to make a stupid face? You’re nice looking man. Just smile. You don’t have to make a stupid face. Sebastian says, at the end of the day, I just want to make people laugh.

He stays away from current events and politics because I’ve always thought whatever my father’s doing is a hell of a lot funnier than what the president is doing. You’re getting in over the head with bad news and politics. When people go out for a night of entertainment, they want to escape. I’d rather talk about my experiences than what’s happening with the current administration. Just doesn’t sound fun.

Hey, look, man, President Trump is just trying to make NBC twelve thirty grade again. Is that not what we want? We had Letterman and Conan and I don’t know what Jimmy did there for five minutes, But this seth myers. This is not the Letterman show we grew up with. What are you doing?

Let’s make NBC twelve thirty grade again? I think the President’s doing a great job on this issue. Sebastian tells us I just wanted to do stand up for a living. That was the goal. I never expected to be doing these big shows.

I concentrated on being the best comedian I could possibly be. And everything after that was kind of gravy interesting premise from Cracked dot com. They floated out there that there’s no number one comedian right now. I think it’s interesting. Is Dave Chappelle not the number one comedian right now?

Let me know what you think. Daily Comedy News podcast group. By the way, some of you are getting the questions wrong. Are There are a couple questions there to make sure that you’re not a pornbot. Most people get the one right about what do you seek, but you’re getting the other ones wrong.

I’ll give you a hint. Ever seen Bob Spurgers. No one has. It’s a hoax, okay. Crack points out there are touring comics like Matt Rife and Nate Pergetzi of a tight grip bond ticket sales and TikTok followers, but haven’t yet crossed over into TV and film.

There are the folks like stavros Helkis and Caleb Heron who balanced comedy podcasts with continued pushes into Hollywood. Plenty of comedians right now or finding success without being the number one anything. Crack says that’s not a bad thing, as we’ve seen. Once a comedian becomes ultra wealthy, they tend to make some pretty disappointing choices. Yeah, like a lot of them went to the Riod Comedy Festival and played there.

Fortunately, YouTube videos can subvert the need to perform at the Riod Comedy Festival. The Wall Street Journal asked Louis C.K. About performing at the Riod Comedy Festival. Their question, though, did you do the same material that the reporter had recently saw? C K said, same set.

I didn’t really change anything. I had a really profound experience there. The night before in my show, I went to a local comedy club called the Comedy Pod. This guy who runs it said there was no stand up four years ago. Now they do like twelve shows a week and it’s never not packed.

They went from zero comedians to like three hundred dedicating their lives to it. The journal was curious what the material is. C K said. Most of the comics were in Arabic and a few in English. They were doing jokes about being married and how life is hard, like any other comedians, but without the swagger.

There’s a raspiness to American comedy. It’s kind of defensive and f everybody I’ve traded in that, but they didn’t have that. They were with their audience and the crowds were excited. It felt like comedy in the eighties. Here.

I saw a guy at the club who reminded me of a young Richard Pryor doing pantomime and stuff that was really funny. When I did the Big eight thousand Seed arena, I asked if he could do five minutes in Arabic so the audience could see their own comedians. But word came back from the powers above the festival, absolutely not. He could work in English, but not in Arabic. Apparently the interview just glossed over that, because the rest of the quote is then I asked for some Arabic pop as my walk on song, and they said absolutely not.

They picked back in Black by ACDC instead, and apparently we glossed over that too. The journal’s next printed question is people will assume a big paycheck was the real reason he went there. C K said, I can make the same money anywhere I made over there, just might take two nights instead of one and go into the Saudi Arabian desert for one gig. Is it pain? In the next way, to make money.

I had to be in Montreal the next night. I literally went from the stage to a plane to Montreal to the stage. I’m not going through that for a paycheck. Variety waxed Jim Gaffigan’s car pretty well, we’ll pick it at this show over the next few days. The top here politics, Jim.

Generally you’re not a political comedian, but last year you played Tim Walls on SNL, etcetera, etcetera. Jim said, I’ve always liked the fact that at my shows a lesbian couple could sit down to a Mormon family and enjoy the stand up I’m doing. But I do find politics fascinating. We live in an age where you can’t really articulate anything without being misconstrued. My best friend from childhood was furious I did the Al Smith dinner.

He said, I can’t believe you didn’t destroy Trump, and I’m like, I know it’s not going to change anything. And the task was to attack both sides in a setting where you’re surrounded by billionaires. The Tim Walls thing I was within the environment of SNL, and there’s a cultural interpretation of every sketch. I intellectually know this. No one’s going to listen to me.

At the same time, I want to be able to look my children in the eyes and say I didn’t allow some horrible thing to happen. I also feel comfortable that people know my views, but I don’t know if me being an advocate helps. Like with the Mamdani thing that ended up being very divisive. I remember seeing Stave and all those guys supporting Mundanami, and I’m like, I don’t know if that’s helping him. Maybe I’m being naive.

Varieady said, you have guys like Andrew Schultz and Theo Vaughan interviewing politicians on their podcast. You say, no one’s listening to you, but maybe people are. Jim said, people are coming to a show off a break from some of this drama. That’s not to say there aren’t great comedians to talk about social commentary. The spirit of George Carlin is very important.

I remember when Trump was first elected. My opening act had some political jokes. During twenty sixteen and seventeen, the audience would kind of look at the ceiling. The jokes were well constructed and they weren’t on one side or the other, but it was just too much. People are looking at a break from that.

They’re not ignoring the serious issues, but they’re going at least I can go see Jim Gaffigan and hear him complain about being a parent. That’s not to say he doesn’t care about someone being tackled on the streets. It just means maybe people want to break from that.

And now what’s interesting is Jim said all that without promoting a burbon.

So that’s something. Josh Johnson was on Trevor Noah’s podcast. Trevor said, when I look at you, this is the perfect example, Like if you tell me if I’m wrong, but I feel like this version of Josh Johnson, like the person we know you as today, it wouldn’t exist the same if the Internet wasn’t what it was now. Josh said, I know exactly what you mean. And I think about that a lot because I had found some mainstream and like legacy media success, but not enough to live the way that I’m living or make the choices that I make.

The pair talked about how the benchmarks in the industry have changed. Josh said, the ways in an industry could elevate a person along the way, add a lot of that stuff, and then there was a gap in between does he have his own shows, you’re writing a show, is he’s selling shows? Is he a touring headline comedian? And so there was a gap there. The Internet closed that gap.

The people close that gap. Comedy stock Markets, Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Now, I feel like Comedy stock Market can get kind of negative, and that’s not the spirit of the show. I’m here to be positive. So you know, I’m not going to tell you to sell your Sebastian Maniscalco because he makes stupid faces.

Don’t do that. Let positive. This week, Let’s buy just Johnson. We just talked about him. A lot of good buzz on him, a bright career ahead.

Let’s load up on him. Let’s buy Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor. There’s still nothing but good buzz on this Jake Kelly movie. Let’s get in front of it and buy a little more Sandler. And last week I told you to buy Keenan Thompson, right, that was just a good vibes and then he announced that sports thing with Kevin Hard I told you about earlier in the week.

So if you have bought some Thompson, you made a couple hypothetical bucks on the comedy stock market. Why don’t we buy some more Keenan Thompson, and let’s buy some comedy stock in President Trump, he’s had a bit of a rough period with some of the things in the news, but when it comes to comedy, he’s trying to make NBC twelve thirty great again. And I think we need to support the president as we try and get back to the good old days of Letterman and Conan style comedy at twelve thirty and not what’s going on now. So those are the recommendations by Sandler, by Josh, buy Keenan, by Trump. That’s your comedy stock market for this week.

Stewart did a panel at the ninety two y. He was talking about management at Paramount Global and said, I don’t know that you can feel the other humans in the room. Former Viacom chief executive Tom Freston agreed with John. Stewart said we’re droughting in data. You put up a show, and executives of all this data saying you shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that.

Stuart said to Fresden, you seem to have a connection to the artist and artistry. The Silicon Valley ethos is more steeped inefficiency. They walk in and go how many people work here? Eight thousand? Good make it too.

It’s not really tied to the value. Freston said. They didn’t come to their jobs with a desire to do storytelling. Freston said, it looks like Warner Brothers is going to disappear and get gobbled up by paramount. Stewart cut in and said, which is a fantastic company.

I can’t speak more highly of them. I think they should gobble up all them and hand them directly to the president. Stuart choked him. I being fired talk show host is a very tenuous business right now. I don’t know if there was a tweet that went out from the FCC right now.

Freston said, data brings in a cast of different kinds of characters to run the show, and the soulfulness that we felt and enjoyed has melted away a little bit. Last weekend during FU I was emailing back and forth with Paul the listener, Hello, Paul, thank you for listening. Paul was giving me the business a little going basically paraphrasing here, Hey, bout the time you talk about skank Fest, And I was very defensive, and I was like, look, man, I’ve talked about skank Fest every year.

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And then I took a screenshot of my phone where I have Lewis J.

Gomez’s phone number. I’m like, I know this guy a little bit. Not saying we’re tight, but I know him. But apparently I dropped a Louis Gomez at some point last week and he reminded me it’s Lewis j. Okay, we got that straightened up.

Michael Ian Black has a substack. Michael wrote under the headline the a Hole who Said Yes. Mister Black apparently really enjoyed skank Fest. He wrote, I find myself being skanky. I’d never heard of the festival before being invited to participate, and I was initially a little concerned about affiliating myself with skankingess, but fit I know how to get gross.

I think my response to the initial email was something like I’d be an a hole to say no, and so here I am the a hole who said yes. Michae Lean Black writes from a comedian’s one of the lovely things about comedy festivals is that many comics, such as myself don’t get much of an opportunity to hang out with other comedians. So when these things pop up, I like to go for no other reason to see folks haven’t hung out with in a while. Last night, for example, I got to catch up with fellow Kid in the Hall Scott Thompson. Michael writes, Yes, I’m joking when I say fellow kid in the Hall.

I make the joke because of some of you know the project for which I most often recognize as for being a member of the Kids in the Hall, a show I was never on. I also got to catch up with a great Doug Stanhope, so I had a load of Rich Voss and Bonnie MacFarlane. I met Shane Gillis, who’s much taller than that I would have thought. I always thought he had some strong five nine energies, so I was surprised to see him clocking in around six to three. Black Rights with a name like skang Fest, the vibe is unsurprisingly somewhere between a comedy club midnight show and an insane clown posse concert.

It’s giving you ahead, Michael Ian Black Rights. There are so few shows he get off the stage and feel like you did what you envisioned in your head years ago. I remember Chris Rock was talking about this. He said that a comic might have two shows a year which they felt like they nailed it two. Chris is a much better comic than Olliver be so for me that number is more like one, maybe one half.

Sounds like it was a good time at the skang Fest. Paul. Thank you for listening normal episodes all weekend. Meet you back here in the morning.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Can you come fix my boiler? High? I’m Chinny mag with your daily coming news. If you’re like Johnny Mack, is that a that sounds like a heater?

Do I hear a heater on the floor there? Yeah, you do. I’ll try and make it go away in the noise reduction. Sebastian Manuscalco he liked Marcello Hernanda’s impression on Saturday Night Live. So did I.

First of all, I am just impressed Marcelo Hernandez. I’ve given a lot of crap saying he does one thing, and he does one thing. Well, apparently he does two things well. He busted out an impression of Sebastian Maniscalco. Let’s listen, You’re not gonna believe.

I’m I’m driving my car and I got the stick shift going and then the traffic was on another level, okay, and then this genius cuts me off, and I’m like, oh, why would you. Du Sebastian went on social media and wrote, nailed it. Sebastian shared the sketch say that three times fast? I did you’re hearing Take three? He shared it on his Instagram stories and added you gotta be kidding me.

Now, hopefully I mentioned the trailer radicalized me. I’ll play the trailer for you again tomorrow. The trailer radicalized me that Sebastian needs to stop with the stupid faces. And you know what, I was thinking about this more. I’d like to hear him tell more jokes in his natural voice.

He’s always doing that affectation, which, again my personal friend Dan Whitney portrays a character called Larry the Cable Guy, and people lose their mind that Larry’s doing this character. Sebastian’s doing a character that is not how he normally speaks. You can hear him in interviews that is not his normal delivery, but apparently everybody’s okay with it. A lot of press about Sebastian this week, not much of it says the word riodd. So if you were a comedian and you took the paycheck and you were worried about your career being damaged, don’t worry.

Enjoy the money. Sebastian has teamed up this month with the Prostate Cancer Foundation for a November to Remember. The collaboration unites comedy and cause to combat prostate cancer, spread awareness for early detection, and destigmatize the conversation surrounding men’s health issues. One of the things they do here is no Shave November. I’m not sure if Sebastian is taking part in No Shave November, as he’s doing a lot of press this week and we are in the middle of November.

I’m going to guest no. David Letterman announced his next guest. His next guest is the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Now what do I do? This is like one of those parables, like, so, if it’s your number one comedic influence in David Letterman and your least favorite comedic influence in Adam Sandler, and they meet up, do you watch it?

I guess you do? You stay for the dramatic actor conversation. This will be on Letterman’s Netflix show on December first. There is a trailer, little lengthy here a couple of minutes because Adam Sandler said some naughty words. Adam, We’re clean, dude, what are you doing?

Let’s listen. I remember my dad, Oh my god. I did this one show in Boston and my dad and brother came to see it, and I ate it so hard in front of my dad, and I hated that, and the MC I don’t know who it was, I don’t remember, came on after and I walked off into the humiliation of eating it. And I was halfway out and he says, Adam, Adam, and I’m like, Adam. Is that me?

And I turned around. The MC goes and I was seventeen. He says, we’re the class clown in school and I go yeah, and he goes stick with that, and the place goes oh, and I was like, not hurt in front of pop. There’s no more period of vulnerability, yes, than those few moments either you’ve killed or you’ve not killed, but you are just raw. Yeah.

Yeah, man, it’s a toughee. You don’t even know. Like I do this, David. I’ll drive in my car and I’ll be feeling good, listening to a good song as I’m driving. Maybe it’s six o’clock, the show’s at eight o’clock that night.

I go, try to keep this feeling well, you’re feeling right, can you do that?

And then literally seven o’clock comes on.

I’m like you, I just I can’t keep it up. Listeners to this program know that the President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one issue in which were united is make NBC twelve thirty great again. I backed the president here. He’s trying to get Seth Myers replaced. The president was on truth Social and wrote NBC Seth Myers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement syndrome TDS.

He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his show quote unquote is a ratings disaster in all caps. Aside from everything else, Myers has no talent and NBC should fire him immediately. That would open the door to making NBC twelve thirty grade again. Maybe Josh Johnson would enjoy a late night show. Not the worst idea now, is Seth Myers a ratings disaster?

Well, I’ll let the lawyers argue about what disaster means or not. The Cambridge Dictionary he calls a disaster an event that results in great harm, damage, death, or serious difficulty. Now I don’t think Seth Myers is causing any of those. Latenighter dot Com said in Q three in the Live plus seven ratings, all viewers to and up Late Night with Seth Myers average nine hundred and twenty three thousand viewers. Now, I’m just gonna point out, if we compare that number to the amount of people who listen to this podcast, I’m a lot closer to Seth Myers than Seth Myers is to Joe Rogan, just saying make NBC twelve thirty grade again.

Kevin James is up to something. Have you caught onto this? He’s been posting videos on TikTok as an art teacher named Matt Taylor. Now, the first one I saw, I was like, maybe it’s just a guy that looks like Kevin James. But Kevin has gone to the well many many times now, and people are like, Okay, what’s this about.

Art teacher Matt Taylor has been posting uplifting painting instructional videos. At the time of this recording, there has been at least fifteen of the videos. Matt Taylor teaches fourth grade art. Some think this is a promotional effort for Kevin james upcoming romantic comedy solo Meo coming to theaters February sixth. I don’t know, if you know anything about the movie industry.

February is not when you put out your Oscar winners let’s just put it that way. Entertainment Weekly looked at the clues you see in the film. Kevin James character is named Matt. All right, that’s a good clue. Another clue.

The filmmakers behind Solomeo follow the Matt Taylor account on Instagram. Hmmm. Two of the actors in the Solomeo cast also follow the Matt Taylor account. The pressure Lease tells us of the film, Matt a man whose dreams of a picturesque Italian wedding are shattered when his fiance leaves him at the Altar. Madam barks on his plan honeymoon across Italy alone, immersing himself in the country’s vibrant culture, food, and beauty.

Hew points out nothing about that suggests the protagonist is a fourth grade art teacher. However, there are some clues in the videos This is Fun. In video number nine, Matt Taylor answers several questions, including one that asks why he’s always including couples in his landscape paintings. Matt Taylor’s sad. When you’re painting, you’re painting an idea, I guess, and for me to see a couple is completion, and in my life right now, we’re working there.

In video number eleven, Matt talks about how the natural world serves as an inspiration for his art. Matt Taylor says, this is created by the uncreated. God creates it for us out there. This is the stuff we try to recreate. In video number fifteen, Matt speaks to the camera in his classroom.

He’s suddenly interrupted by a woman walking by, causing to lose his train of thought for a moment. He seems pretty distracted by the woman’s presence. People are wondering what’s going on with Stephen Colbert on the cover of GQ? Is Stephen Colbert smoking a joint on the cover? And if so, what kind?

Colbert said, you can’t prove that was a joint. Get a warrant. Will Stephen Colbert be hosting a podcast in his basement anytime soon? He was quite clear. He said, I’m not going to do a podcast.

You cannot make me do a podcast. There’s nothing in the constitution that says when you lose your TV show you have to get a podcast. I don’t have a sub stack. I don’t have a podcast. He says that Now wait until serious ExM calls with the money.

Write this down. Stephen Colbert will host a podcast. Write that down? Write it down? Did you write it down?

Get it Ben? I’ll wait. Write down. Stephen Colbert will host a podcast. Okay, good, we wrote that down.

And this next story I thought I would tie to the ongoing Late Nights Wars, just to point out what could happen in a different situation. This from Iran International, not a source I normally use on this podcast, and not one that I’m familiar with, but I did see a few international sources talk about this. One Apparently an Iranian female comedian got a six month prison term and mandatory homework. Now, my apologies if I don’t have this all correct as I understand it. As comedian Zainab Mossavi had joked about the author of the National epic Book of Kings in a comedy segment.

Massavi is known for her online satirical persona Empress Kusku, which is a parody character of an elderly villager who’s tightly worn hijab exposes only her nose. Mussavi was convicted over the controversial segments posted on her social media in August. The sketch recited verses from the Book of Kings with a reverend commentary. Iran International reports that, according to a copy of the ruling published by her husband on social media, Mussavi must prepare a compulsory thesis under the supervision of the for Dowsy Foundation and an instructor approved by the Institution. The thesis must address topics such as for Dowsy’s place in Iran’s national identity and culture, and the importance of the Book of Kings in Persian literature.

The court also ordered her to conduct at least one hundred and twenty hours of storytelling sessions for children and teenagers and underprivileged areas. Friend of the show Jason Zenneman, He’s Zennoman Jay. On Threads, he posted I saw Chris Fleming kill in a Brooklyn basement on Thursday and at Carnegie Hall on Saturday. He’s the rare comedian where I can’t say for sure which I preferred. Is he a small or big room act?

Kind of both? I had mentioned love Chris Fleming. Was kind of shocked that Chris Fleming was playing Cornegie Hall. Sounds like it was a good show. I finished the Eddie Murphy documentary.

I really liked it at first, and as it went on, I just felt like it wasn’t deep enough. I felt like it went too fast and it’s like two hours long. But there’s a lots of Eddie’s career and they definitely skipped some things. I’m not here to bury Eddie Murphy, but you know, going Wikipedia, I think for me, I’m primarily interested in the first part of Eddie’s career and less so about the Doctor Doolittle period. If somebody wants to make a documentary about Eddie Murphy that ends in I don’t know, nineteen eighty nine, I’ll watch.

On Gossip Corner, Pete Davidson celebrated his thirty second birthday. His girlfriend Elise Hewitt posted on social media, calling Pete Davidson her personal toe cracker who gets unnaturally excited about VHS, slash old TVs and loves to throw on my hair and is my best friend in the whole wide world. We heart you, Pete. I’m trying to ignore this one, but it won’t go away. Jeff Dye was on the Joe Rogan Experience.

People are all upset about this. Jeff apparently did not make friends on social media after launching a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to sponsor his move to Texas from California. Jeff d had been on the Joe Rogan Experience and talked about being scared of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies. Die then created a go fundme page to receive donations for his move. One person on social media said, can’t be a very good comedian if you need a GoFundMe for like, what, two thousand dollars, I’ll give you the whole two thousand dollars if you get on camera and admit you’re a little baby who believes in nothing.

The GoFundMe initially listed twenty six thousand dollars as its target amount. Jeff Dye had said LA has become such a liberal cesspool that is no longer worth being part of. I don’t want to continue to give my tax dollars to a state of lost open Jordan Peterson once said, if people aren’t listening, stop talking to them. I want to talk to my people. Jeff d explained regarding my GoFundMe post, I thought it’d be funny and rich guys would make big donations and would all be like ha, Gavin new some sucks.

Welcome to Texas. I was wrong. Instead a bunch of loonies online when APE had lost their minds. Since it seemed overwhelmingly negative, I took the l and removed the GoFundMe refunded everyone For the record, this made me more conservative after seeing the groups it triggered. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Sketch Fast back for its twenty third year. It is a great festival. I had the occasion two attended, I think twice.

This year they’ll celebrate the Kids in the Hall, thirtieth anniversary, Breen Candy Live read, and also include a tribute to the women of SNL. All star appearances include I won’t read everyone’s name, but some of you might know, Maria Bamford, Joel Kim Booster, Jedin Garoffalo, the Groundlings, John Hodgman, Eugene Merman, Chelsea Peretti, Kristin Shawl, Jenny Slate, Robert Smigel, Paul F. Tompkins, the UCB, David Wayne Mell Williams, and many more. The twenty third annual Sketchhest Festival starts January fifteenth, runs through February. First two hundred shows, five hundred performers.

Let’s break down some of the shows. The Women of SNL brings together Ellen Kleighorn and Rachel Dratch, Robin Juke, wow, Anna Guest Steer, Lorraine Newman, Julius Sweeney and Moore for a night celebrating over a fifty years of groundbreaking sketch comedy. Puppets Up Uncensored returns to Sketch Fest. Created by and featuring Brian Henson and Patrick Bristau and performed by members of the Jim Henson Company, The show turns audience suggestions into hilarious, unpredictable, and sometimes risque moments brought to life by master puppeteers. Milestones and reunions include The Kids in the Hall, Brain Candy thirtieth Anniversary Live Read in the Middle, Aged Dead jam Band celebrating twenty five years of Wet Hot American Summer with songs and scenes from the film with Ken Marino, David Wayne, Janine Graffalo and Moore.

You Want Stand Up Maria Bamford, Jedine Graffalo, Joe Kimbooster, Dulce Sloane, Eugene Mermann, Todd Barry, Andy Daly. I haven’t heard Andy’s name in a while. He’s fantastic, Brent Wineback, Eddie Peppettone, Alice Wetherland, Ed Gamble, Jennie Friedman, and others. Alternative Comedy Chaos featuring Natasha Laziro, Chelsea Peretti and Sabrina Jayley’s other highlights include Smoke Show with Jody Sweeten, Kristen Shaw’s The Legend of Crystal Shell is See What You Did There? Scott Thompson is Buddy Cole Asian af and The George Lucas Talk Show, which is a good bit.

You can also check out Dana Gould’s Hanging with Doctor Zevie, Planet of the Apes themed talk show. I’m sure I legally distinct at this point. I’m intrigued by Tight and Nerdy, which is described as a weird al burlesque that’s a lot of fun. Forty eight Hills was excited about it. They highlighted a couple shows.

They’re intrigued by the women of SNL, Joel Kim Booster’s Bad Dates plus Joel Kim Booster and Friends. I guess they’re big Joel Kim Booster fans. They’re also intrigued by the twenty fifth anniversary of Wet Hot American Summer, and they spotlighted Mark mothers Baw, who apparently is from Devo. The performance centers around Mark’s huge body of work making music and film and television, and Alex Bennett, not only friend of the show friend in real life, previous guest on this very podcast, Alex be who’s now eighty five. He’ll be at Cobbs on January thirty.

First, all right, Alex Bennett, you go, people caught up with John Mulaney. John mlanie’s out there hawking his non alcoholic beer years. Mulaney wearing dark sunglasses. Interesting, must have been sunny out said authenticity. It takes years year’s beer fake beer for recovering alcoholics and regular people.

I trigger a lot of these, and you know you don’t get messed up from it. Malini told people it’s very personal. The look of the can, the sweatshirts, the ads, it’s all designed by a tight knit group who really believe in this boy, John m’laney. If Jim Gaffigan said that sentence, I’d probably do ten minutes on him. We’re once again told the talking point that for jungk it’s less about swapping out alcohol and more about safering familiar moments from backyard hangs to rigally Field summer nights with something that feels authentic.

Now, I’m just gonna point out something that feels authentic, isn’t It just feels authentic? So support John Mulaney’s non alcoholic beer with something that feels authentic but isn’t m’lani said, as someone who used to drink non alcoholic beer, isn’t a substitute. What’s awesome about Years is this familiar Midwestern vibe being in a fishing boat with your grandpa or in someone’s backyard. It almost hits like nostalgia. Maline told people, this is all happening like a twenty five minute walk from the house I grew up in.

So this is a Chicago company coming out of a great brewing company here, and yeah, it feels like the kind of beer I enjoyed as a teenager, now able to enjoy it as a sober adult. People was totally on board with the shilling. Here they tell us whether it’s a pilsner, a pale l where the new Belgian whit beer. Mullaney calls Years beer energy without the beer the perfect fit for gatherings from friendsgiving to the driveway hang. You know, if they did have non alcoholic beer a trivia night, I would have some.

Last week, By the way we won trivia, I was as stunned as anybody. We were doing well and the trivia guys in the announced the winners. They go third, second, first, and they said they had to use the tiebreaker and I was like, ah, we probably finished fourth because we knew we got the tiebreaker wrong. And I’m like, ah, we probably just missed. Oh well.

And then they flashed third and then they flashed second, leaving only one team, which was us, and I was like, we won. We somehow won by four points. I was shocked. My team was shocked. I think the trivia guys were shocked.

They were happy for us because we go every week and never win. As much as I’ll humble break about my football pool skills, trivia, we always finish like tenth. I mean, am I going to say that the guys in the back corner table one, we’re in table two. Am I going to say the people that sit in table one have their phones out? I’m not going to say that trivia guys.

I’m not team that won two weeks in a row recently. I’m not gonna say they had their phones out. Why would somebody cheat at trivia? That would be insane. That would be like Jim Gaffigan not calling back someone who helped his career.

Why wouldn’t anyone behave like that, so I’m not gonna accuse anyone to have their phones out anyway, if they had a non alcoholic beer at the brewery, which would kind of defeat the purpose of having a brewery, I would have one. So I feel you John Mulaney who said it’s not fancy, it’s a grown up drink for people who just want to enjoy themselves and still remember it the next day. Amen, I feel you on that. So I had one beer last week and we won trivia.

Speaking of Jim Gaffigan, he was catching up with The Today Show and said rai…

And then, of course, because he’s Jim Gaffigan, and nothing Jim Gaffigan does is just straight up go. In his social media he only postedly is trying to sell you something, So of course, Jim Gaffigan said, each batch of father Time Bourbon is a tribute to the pains associated with each child. You’re trying too hard, Jim, like, that’s as much as I’ll buster chops. That’s too much to slip that in on the Today Show. It’s actually lame.

Jim said, I have five children that I’ve been able to raise because of stand up, and from what I’ve observed, they’re not gonna make any money. And it makes me realize, I don’t know if there are any other parents out there that my final task of parenting is to leave them with nothing. Maybe it’s a romantic notion, but I want them to pay for my casket. Kevin Hart, never afraid to work, he has teamed up with Keenan Thompson for a new sports talk show on Prime Video. It’s called Good Sports with Kevin Hart and Keenan Thompson.

Twelve episodes, premiering Tuesday, November twenty fifth. No. I told you last week on the Comedy stock Market by Keenan Thompson. I didn’t know this was coming. That was just like good vibes and being like, you know what, Keenan is an MVP.

Did you buy stock in Keenan Thompson, because now your stock is up? See Comedy stock Markets where it’s at each week. Good Sports promises to bring together sports super fans and comedy superstars such as Kevin Hart and Keenan Thompson, who will put a new spin on sports commentsary. Somebody was forced to write a press release, and wasn’t that good at it just handing in basic copies, saying the duo will bring their signature, unfiltered opinions and electrifying energy to the series, including their hilarious takes on everything from the NFL and NBA to neighborhood pickup games and little league drama. Kevin Hart said, Keenan and I are bringing our own playbook for good Sports, and that’s a guaranteed win.

The show gives us a chance to celebrate sports culture in a way that’s fresh, unfielded, and full of laughs. With our partners at Prime Video, We’re bringing the energy and a whole lot of love for the game, Keenan said, doing the Olympics with Kevin while but this, this is next level good Sports. Is just us being ourselves, cracking jokes and probably pulling muscles we didn’t know we had. It’s gonna be a good time. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, gossip con, probably bout Pete gossip conn Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Macott’s always a tree.

Gossip Connor whispers this tree, gossip con probably gossip gone. Where the rooms meet with Johnny Magsola’s a tree. That is one hack of a catchy song made by Ai. By the way, that is just amazing. All right, on gossip Corner, we’re not talking about Pete today, We’re talking about Amy Schumer.

I hope everything is okay here. People magazine reporting Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fisher are working through normal issues in their marriage, according to a source. The source told People they’re probably working through normal issues the couples in long term marriages have. They’re both committed to the relationship. Amy and husband Chris got married in twenty eighteen.

Schumer appeared to respond to speculation about her marriage and an Instagram story on November sixth. She had shared a picture of New York City and praised Hulu’s new series All’s Fair and captured it and Chris and I are still married now. After that, Amy deleted all her Instagram posts. So maybe that’s a clue as to why Amy deleted all the posts. Who knows, again, I do I know this a little on my voice.

I hope everything’s okay. Like I’m a knucklehead, I’m rascally, but I’m not an a hole. I don’t want anyone’s marriage to break up. If Amy starts selling a bourbon or a non alcoholic beer. I will make fun of her, but not for this.

I hope your marriage is okay. YouTube had a big hey look at us performance there. They announced a late night show. We’ll talk about that in a second. Trevor Noah was at this thing.

Trevor sung the praises of YouTube, touting its global reach that it was massive even when I joined The Daily Show. For instance, I put The Daily Show on YouTube, which a lot of people were confused by. They were like, but you’re on a channel, and it was like, yes, but that’s not where the eyeballs are. To my detriment, because people were like, I love your show on YouTube, and I was like, that doesn’t help the ratings, but it helped the show funny enough, and I think that’s something I’ve always loved Over time. I cannot see any other possibility than a creator run economy and a creator run world where the audience, the brands, and the creators themselves operate in beautiful verticals that aren’t like they once were.

It’s not a slam against anyone else. It’s just that things evolve over time. You know, at some point we all used to listen to music that was just on the radio. Now you can stream your song, your album, your music, And I think music has been better for it many ways. It means you get to enjoy what you enjoy and then discover things in and around it, and I’m really excited for all that.

He talked about YouTube’s advantages, saying the person can meet the content when they need to meet the content, the content can meet them when they need to where someone We’ve just seen this in legacy media. Great TV shows have died just because they were put in the wrong time slot. Coincidentally, Trevor Noah announced a new special which will be on the Trevor Noah official YouTube channel. It’ll be out in December. This special, called Trevor Noah the Lost SA Special, filmed in South Africa, will debut December twenty twenty five.

The never before released nine minutes stand up comedies special captures Trevor Noah performing entirely local material on the biggest stage of his career back home. As for that late night talk show, YouTube announced, it’s called Outside Tonight, hosted by Julian Shapiro Bornum, a new live, weekly late night talk show. I’m told Julian Shapiro Bornum is known for his popular online shows Reese’s Therapy and Celebrity Substitute. This is a different kind of late night show, built for the digital age. Set in public parks and on street corners.

The live shows will be packed with star studied interviews, audience driven games, live music, and NonStop comedy. Okay, discill premiere in the spring. Outside Tonight will plant its flag in parks, plazas, and street corners, leading into the spontaneity that define Shapiro Bornum’s online presence. And you’re out in a park, can’t that like really be disrupted? Like I could drive by with a megaphone and just start yelling daily comedy, news or whatever political cause I’m into or not.

Have you guys thought this one through? This is the same note to give them a any people, there’s a reason these shows are done this way. I’m all for breaking them all, I’m all for stretching the boundaries. But if you’re in a park in New York City, I mean, maybe you’ll find it exciting that ten thousand protesters walk by, but maybe some knucklehead kids will throw eggs at you. I don’t know what do I know podcasters basement.

Congrats to Joe Kim Booster mentioned earlier in this podcast. He is getting married Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers will serve as the groomsman. Matt Rodgers said, I’ll tell you what we’re not excited about is that we’re supposed to give a joint toast. That’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man. I love doing this show. Hi. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Our leadof story today involves a fight, and I enjoy a good fight. This from pract dot com. Apparently a former Saturday Night Live intern caught Michael Chay’s attension. The former intern posted an Instagram reel exposing the shows behind the scenes culture of manipulation. Now, I just want to point out I don’t want to beat up on this person, who I think is younger than I am.

But the person does share a surname with me. So if you look up the story and yourself, I do not know this person. I am not related to this person. I have never met a person who does share a surname with me who has this particular first name. So I have no association with this person.

But I don’t want to say their name because I just want to do the story and not like really beat up on this person, who I disagree with a lot of the opinions here. As you’re about to hear, the former Saturday Night Live intern spilled the tea, repeating damning accusations against the show that made by plenty of others. Okay, well, wonder what happens? What is the tea? She says, Hey, you want to know why SNL has so much turnover?

She blames Lorne Michaels. No way, the showrunner of Saturday Night Live is responsible for cast turnovers. Holy cow wow, she says. Loren Michaels loves power, and he loves creating emotional crises. Sees in the lives of people who are younger than him.

Lauren’s eighty. Everybody’s younger than him. The former intern says, Ooh, it’s creepy when you think about it. She says that it’s nuts that accomplished comedian should sit on the floor of Lorne Michael’s office to pitch ideas, with Lorne deciding which sketches make the cut. Really, what’s crazy about that?

Have you never worked in a bullpen? I’ve worked at radio stations. I ran a comedy radio station. We had a bullpen. We called it the bullpen.

You go in, if there’s a cherry, you grab one. Maybe you’ll lean up against a desk, Maybe you sit on a floor. That’s what you do. You weren’t Saturday Night Live? What did you want him to have?

How are we supposed to pitch sketches. Should we stand? Should we bring folding chairs with us? Like? What is the proper method to pitch sketches?

To the showrunner of the show, this is crazy cracked, quotes the former in turn and saying, guess what he built the process in the seventies. It’s an insane workflow that requires lots of caffeine at least to survive. Your mind and your body are going to break down. People go off on the deep end of the place all the time. You don’t sleep for literally years of your life, which is a torture tactic.

Now, now that’s not true. I’m not a medical expert, but I’m pretty sure I’m confident here. If you did not sleep for literally years, Like if right now you said, Johnny Mackham, calling your bluff, it’s twenty twenty five. I’m not going to sleep for years as plural, so we’ll make that too. I’m not going to sleep until November of twenty twenty seven.

I would say, oh, yeah, you’re going to die. Please don’t do that. I don’t want you to die. Appreciate listening to the podcast. Please at some point in the next two years, literally sleep, The former intern says, you can’t have sustainable friendships outside of that place for years at a time, for the duration of your time there.

It’s kind of like a cult. Crack, says. The former intern says she has a degree in comedy from NYU’s Film School. The intern claims SNL asked her to interview after her senior year, but she turned them down and said you would know my name by now. Cracked editorializes note to former intern, nobody knows the name of SNL’s writers.

All this was noticed by Michael Chay, who jumped in on the comments. Michael Ja posted you learned all that getting coffee? Oh. The intern responded, it’s incredible what people reveal in front of you when they treat you like you’re invisible. Chase shot back, doesn’t sound bitter at all.

The intern, rather than folding, goes back in and says, I’m genuinely not. Chay responded yep, yep, yep, and apparently they kept going back and forth. Fans on Reddit believed that Michael Jay was truly one user. He’s doing it for fun. His entire Instagram persona is being an edge lord.

Another editor said, honestly, you learned all that by getting coffee is such a great line that I don’t see how Jay could resist.

Speaking of Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy, he’s been in the press lately.

Did you see the documentary in it? Eddie Murphy explained it was Lorne Michael’s idea to ask Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Tracy Morgan to join in Eddie Murphy’s monologue. Boy, this Lauren Michael’s person just sounds horrible. Chris Rock said the Eddie Murphy return episode went so well that he told Lauren Michaels it was one of the greatest SNLS ever. And I walked over to Lauren Michaels when it was over and I said, you should quit right now.

It’s not getting any better than this. I think Chris Rock has been right. Has there been a better episode since that episode? Now? There’s been some good ones.

Firstly, I think the time to get out was SNL fifty and eighty years old. I think everybody would have been like, good job. Josh Johnson tells Billboard Every Tuesday I post a new set. Sometimes it’s extremely topical or political, and sometimes it’s more cultural pop. I really love doing it.

We premiere live every Tuesday at nine pm and hop in the chat, meet other people and have good conversation with everybody. Then the sets are available for free and YouTube for the rest of time. Billboard was curious, you’ve been to a writer since twenty seventeen. At what point did you think I want to be on camera? Josh said, it wasn’t something I was gunning for years and years.

It started to set in as I got more comfortable with the show. I was having great time writing for everyone on the show that’s been years past, and I felt, all right, this could be a cool move and I could write material for myself when I’m hosting. Do you feel like you’re performing a public service? Josh said, I can only speak for myself. I very much appreciate that people love and enjoy what I do, but I think the people doing public service are doing real public service.

I don’t want to conflate making TV with making change. At the end of the day, it’s a comedy show. There are plenty of people out there doing their best to change things, whether it’s in their local community, their state, their world. The best I could do is raise awareness of who they are and what they’re doing. The Wall Street Journal asked Louis C.K.

Hey, Louis C.K. When you got in trouble, some people wrote you off for good. That’s exactly how the guy at the Wall Street Journal phrased it when they talked to c K, exactly in the tone I just did it. That was a perfect impression. You should have been in the room for the fans.

It’s stuck around ‘s Some were disappointed that you didn’t dig deeper into the roots of your behavior. Did you consider doing a special devoted to that, Louis C.K. Louis said, well, that’s suches on some really tender stuff for me, and it’s hard to talk about. One of the fundamental aspects of an experience like that is that your life departs other people’s ability to understand it. There’s a gap there, a gap of how much people can understand what I’m going through.

There’s some things that people will probably wish I wouldn’t have done or said, maybe I just wasn’t good enough, maybe I just wasn’t strong enough. Maybe they want to hear more about it, but not everybody does.

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Also, maybe it’s none of your effing business why I can’t.

These are the things that go through your head. I don’t want to displease anybody. It’s hard to know that there’s people who feel disappointed, but you know the feeling’s mutual. I could see the strain in someone’s face who wishes for more, and I can understand it. There’s only so much I can do about it and take good care of myself and my family and people who love me.

By the way, for a special I did coming back, had a huge joke about it. C K said, I’m not like a guy who breaks down on stage. I got to do my job up there. When I return to work, it was like, how many people are willing to just watch me a crap ton? That’s more important to me.

There may be a day when I talk about things more. I did an interview with THEO and said a lot more than I expected to, and it felt really good. I listened to that episode. I actually didn’t make it to the end. I just the part of the street they were hanging out on.

I just didn’t want to hang out on. But I’m glad they enjoyed it. SEEK said, but I don’t read what people say anymore. I don’t read the internet. My phone is extremely restricted.

I threw the keys Away out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. It is the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. Premiere of Josh Wolfe’s Four Stories. Kathy Griffin was on The Good Guys podcast and said she had her third facelift. Now it’s really easy to just be like, oh yeah, Kathy had her third face lift.

Let’s just step the break for a second. Kathy Griffin had a third facelift. So she had a facelift, then had another face lift, and then had another facelift. Kathy Griffin told the hosts, I’m no beauty, but he did a good job. I went to Chris Jenner’s Last Guy, but it was not cheap.

They asked her how much facelift number three was. Do you want to guess? I’ll give you second here, you guess how much was facelift number three. Facelift number three was two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Kathy Griffin described getting stitches in my eyelids with a cat eye stitch to lift the corners.

She also had a stitch in her chin. Kathy explained, I actually think when you’re a chick comedian, they just go for your looks. I think that’s probably why Joe Nervis did so much, because she was really pretty. I’m from a generation where agents thought nothing back of the day of saying stuff like, yeah, they loved your audition, but they’re going to go attractive sorry, or with a nose job, you might have a chance. So I went and got a nose job.

Hey, let me in on this one. I’ve wanted to get to this one. I’ve got a little room today. This from AOL dot com Johnny Mack, did you prep the show in nineteen ninety six? No, ap Pearly there’s still AOL dot com.

And this came up in the course of my travels. Fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to two thousands. Okay, let’s count that out. The sixties, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, and the zeros, so fifty years of comedians. And these are the fifteen comedians.

Remember I said the word comedians. Here the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to the two thousands. Ready, here we go. Here’s what AOL dot com says. I’m not sure how these are ordered, but they did have a Number one here, Robin Williams.

I was a boy when Mork and Mindy came out. I don’t remember people having a crush on Robin Williams. But you know, he’s not the worst looking person I’ve ever seen, so okay, fine. Number two Lucille Ball. Now this is the sixties to the two thousands.

Did people have a crush on Lucy especially like in the eighties old Lucy with the cigarette voice. Now the very young Lucille Ball. Nice looking lady, but I love Lucy’s from the fifties and the aol dot com article are the fifteen comedians. Everyone, not just some people. Everyone had a crush on in nineteen sixties to the two thousands.

I’m not slagging on Lucille Ball born in nineteen eleven, so in nineteen sixty which is part of the aol dot com article here, Lucy Ball was post I Love Lucy and forty nine years old at a time when people aged a little older than they do now. If you want proof of that, watch the movie Diamonds Are Forever. I say this quite seriously. If you gave me six months, I would get myself in shape, get myself a suit, and I would look as good as Sean Connery does in Diamonds or Forever. Seawan does not look great in that movie.

He’s only thirty nine years old, and at fifty six, I can get myself in Diamonds for Forever Shape. Can I get myself into Doctor Noe Sean Connery? Shape? Absolutely not. With Sean Connery the sexiest man alive in the eighties, he sure was.

That’s the thing that happened nineteen eighty nine, Sean Connery was fifty nine years old. But I’m not talking about fifty nine year old Shan Connery. I’m talking about thirty nine year old Diamonds Forever Sean Connery. Watch the film or just google it. He looks fifty six years old anyway.

Number two on the AOL list Lucy ol Ball forty nine years old or perhaps older again, nuts slagging on her, just saying this is a This is a list, and we’re not done with the list yet. Continuing the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to the two thousand, so for we have Robin Williams and Lucille Ball, Eddie Murphy I was around in the eighties. Eddie Murphy hilarious. I don’t remember people having a crush on Eddie Murphy, but again, maybe I just misremember. Number four Bill Murray.

I think people did have a crush on Bill Murray. So yeah, Tina Fay, people did have crushes on Tina Fey, so I think that’s fair. Number six Steve Martin, I don’t remember that. I remember Steve being like a really big comedy star for a while there before he picked up the banjo and became an actor. But again, I was young.

I want to argue with you. Number seven Jim Carrey. Okay, you know I’m a straight dude, but I could see it. He was in a nice picture of young Jim Carrey. Sure.

Number eight Goldie Hawn. Absolutely, who didn’t love Goldie Hawn? I’m not sure. I think of her as a comedian, comedic actress, Sure, fantastic. Who doesn’t like Goldie Hawn?

So that’s a little out there to me. Chevy Chase, Now, I know, as Chevy Chase aged, he got a bit of a reputation, But I could see in the seventies people being into Chevy Chase. I don’t think that’s ridiculous. Continuing the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties two to the two thousands. Number ten, Carol Burnett, they say, a heartwarming icon whose kindness and goofiness made everyone feel at home.

She didn’t just make people laugh, she made them feel loved. Carol Burnett, number ten, Number eleven on the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on John Candy. Sure, absolutely, who didn’t have a crush on John Candy? Number twelve, the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler thirteen, Gilda Radner fourteen, Ellen DeGeneres. And we’ve gone a long way for a joke here, but number fifteen Jerry Seinfeld.

I don’t remember anyone having a crush on Jerry Seinfeld, except maybe perhaps a seventeen year old girl. And that’s your comedy news for today by

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know, last week in the real world there was a lot of like real news. There were the airplane delays I suffered from that. There was the government shut down which I’ve misspelled in my notes using an eye think about it.

That came to an end. And of course the Epstein files. So Newsweek they cover the news, they were all over it. They had the big story, which was, of course Joe Rogan word pronunciation. Great son fans, Yeah, everybody who’s talking about this.

Last week, it seems Joe Rogan on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, was discussing ethanol. The guest was Jeff Dye. They started talking about alternative fuels. The subject turned to ethanol, which Joe Rogan pronounced ethanol. WHOA Joe relaxed with that pronunciation.

Bro Newsweek tells us the segment quickly drew attention, spawning a series of view comments expressing amusement, confusion, sometimes frustration at his word choice. Oh yeah, Newsweek wrote an entire article about this because Joe Rogan mispronounced ethanol as ethanol, which maybe it’s me is not crazy. Here are some of the comments that Newsweek published. One every time Rogan says ethanol instead of ethanol, I recoil in crunch w TWF bruh. Another really important comment that made Newsweek said the way Joe says ethanol’s bothering me so much for some reason.

Lol. Another very important comment Joe saying ethanol has me messed up. Another person even included a time stamp at two hours, nine minutes, twenty seven seconds. Jets wrote, ethanol is like bethanol without the B, not ethanol. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so we will.

She made a change to her social media presence last week. People are claiming conspiracy. On Instagram. Amy Schumer had a new post and she captioned it, deleted my old picks for no reason. Amy Schumer deleted every previous photo and added the one new post showing off her new weight loss look.

Amy wrote, I actually left my house tonight. Who’s proud. I’m feeling good and happy. Deleted my old picks for no reason. Hours before that announcement, she posted a picture of her very first Instagram post to her instant stories, captioning that my first ever insta post.

I’m gonna race them all because why not. Some people are wondering perhaps there are some things in her past that she doesn’t want us to stumble across scrolling through her Instagram or not. Who knows. Others are like no Amy, a loss of weight and feels like she’s looking real good and just wants to live in the now. I don’t know.

The Wall Street Journal spoke with Louis C.K. He’s out hawking his new novel. The journal said, in the acknowledgements, you think THEO Vaughn and Chris Rock? How did they help? C K said, I gave it to a bunch of my friends.

Those are like the two that read it. I think THEO is a modern day Mark Twain. Tap the brakes on that? I mean? Should I do half an hour?

On that comment? Ce K said, I fiel Van, He’s an incredible storyteller, and meeting him before I wrote this is not a coincidence. The journal was curious what were Chris Rock’s notes. See K told the journal, Chris said, you wrote an ef fing novel? Do we have to write novels now?

The version he read was longer and had more weird stuff. About place and time. I was timid about that, but he said, you need some weird Louis Crapp in there. That was his thing, but he loved it. C K also in the acknowledgments, mentions fiver, you know the freelance service you pay somebody five bucks to like design a website logo?

You know that place. The journal was curious, did you pay strangers to read the book? See K said yeah, they didn’t know who I was. I just made a user name. The first draft I sent out, I got a lot of this is garbage.

One woman said, this is just a wall of words. She was really tough. I had to breathe, like, well, that’s not easy to read, but really good. Shane Gillis told the story about meeting NFL star Micah Parsons. Shane was on Monday Night Football last week.

Now, I didn’t see Monday Night Football last week for several reasons. One the YouTube TV versus Disney dispute. Even if I wanted to watch Monday Night Football, couldn’t because on that particular night, YouTube TV was not showing ABC nor ESPN. So I hopped on my boat and went out to international waters. As you know, sometimes you have to do and I still couldn’t come up with it.

And at that point I was like, eh, I already wrapped up the football pol And I went on with my life and I watched the YouTube. So that’s one reason I didn’t watch a game. The other reason I didn’t watch the game is I, of course don’t support fascism. Remember the fascist they kicked off Jimmy Kimmel’s show. Jimmy was off the air for like six hours one time, and we all lost our minds and canceled Disney Plus.

That’s right. So I was even talking to one of the trivia guys about this. He’s with me, we don’t do that. He’s like me. He goes all the way upstairs, goes to the DVD closet, finds the Scrubs DVD, walks all the way back down two flights of stairs, puts the DVD in the PlayStation five, and watches Scrubs on DVD.

You think the trivia guy is just gonna hit the Hulu button on his Roku. No, he doesn’t support fascism. By the way, my team won trivia, but we’ll talk about that. On Wednesday, Jane Gillis was on Monday Night Football last week? What’s the game tonight?

Raiders Cowboys? That’s skippable Anywayane is there on the Manning Cast. Peyton Manning brings up the time Shane Gillis met Michael Parkins during a party at Saquon Barkley’s house, and name dropper Peyton Manning said, Shane, I heard a story that you met Michael Parsons at a Super Bowl party. Boy, Peyton, you really really prep for the show there, huh. In case you’re not totally hip to show business, a producer probably talked to either Shane or someone in his camp and said, hey, what can you talk about?

And Shane or someone in his camp went, oh, Shane’s got a Michael Parson’s story, and then they wrote that on the piece of paper.

And then Peyton’s like, Shane, I heard a story that you met Michah Parsons at…

Not for nothing. I understand. Peyton Manning is an NFL quarterback who’s been doing the Manning Cast for what four years now five or something like that. I understand that he’s not Johnny Carson, but you have been doing this for a minute. You gotta be better than Shane, I heard a story that that’s just like, you’re not even trying.

I’d aggress again, Shane. I heard a story that you met Michael Parsons at a Super Bowl party. Did y’all hit it off? For y’all, buddies, what’s the deal? Eagles fan Shane Gillis did attend Barkley super Bowl party when Barkley was with the Giants.

Michael Parsons was at the party, and since Shane Gillis and Parsons are both from the same area of Philly, Shane approached him. Shane explained, look, he did nothing wrong. Was completely normal reaction from him. We were at a super Bowl party. I’m in Eagles gear, so I look like a fan.

Everyone else that’s there was like, cool, it’s at Saquan’s house. He was still with the Giants. I’m there wearing all Eagles gear. I’m walking around. I’m one of the three white guys in the room and I walk up to Michaeh.

Parsons and I was like, Mike, guy, I went to Trinity High School in Camp Pale, Pennsylvania. I hear you’re from Harrisburg. He was like, who’s this guy?

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Also, I’m like fifteen years older than him.

So he was like, dude, you should leave, And I did leave immediately. As soon as he said, Oh, what’s up, I was like, it’s time to go. Josh Johnson got a very very nice, thorough article in Billboard. Josh was on Zoom for the interview and said, I feel very bad about how this call is lit. I did my best, but I’m in a hotel room in Jacksonville, and there are only so many lights to work with.

There’s some shadow being cast. It’s not wholly flattering, So you’ve caught me. Bill Board was impressed by Josh Johnson’s statistics his first night anchoring the Daily Show in July. Through five hundred and ninety thousand total viewers in the eighteen to forty nines, which I’ve graduated from. I’m in eighteen of forty nine alumni.

There were two hundred and twenty six eighteen to forty ninths more than John Stewart’s top rated episodes, And now that is all kinds of interesting. Then Stewart took the record back when Stewart hosted on a Thursday after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. That night, John Stewart got four hundred and forty three thousand viewers in the eighteen to forty nine So you know, I’m looking at Josh Johnson’s skyrock gating career. I kind of want to stop off at could he be the permanent host of the Daily Show? But I don’t even think they could hold on him.

I think he’s going to just skip right over that step. Josh said, I’ve been having a lot of fun. Everybody’s been super supportive. It’s been really special. I have a whole lot to learn, so I’m excited at every opportunity I get.

Everyone with the role’s been in it long enough to feel really comfortable with it and inspired by John Stewart. For the most part, whatever I’m hosting, I look at it as an opportunity to learn more about what everyone else is doing. When I started as a writer, I was so focused on writing and Ziland voice and the writer’s wing in general that sometimes I didn’t understand how a piece I had written affected props or costume. For example, say that’s smart. Now, being on the correspondent slash hosting side, I see what it takes to make something happen.

From that perspective, understanding how everything comes together. It makes me feel like a better writer because now I’m speaking more of a shared language. The show’s a great culture for that. Everybody can learn from everybody else, even if it’s not their department. All right, when you’re host, do you write your own material?

He says. It’s a group effort from cron dot com. They wanted us to know that William Montgomery, you may know William Montgomery from Kill Tony, bombed during a set at the Still Standing Comedy Festival at the far Out Lounge in Austin. Cron dot com reports William Montgomery was supposed to do a half hour set, but he lasted fifteen minutes. Quotes after his excruciating, unfunny jokes about celebrity debts and doing drugs landed in the same way a roach of cat kills does your lap.

They tell us. One of the jokes had a quote unbelievably racist punchline, which this is a racism free podcast, so I’m not going to repeat it. The joke involved a plane crash from two thousand on, Coron dot Com asked did Montgomery arrive in Austin via a time machine? There weren’t any more recent celebrities, who’se graeves he could dance on. Montgomery also had a joke about Paul Walker.

You know Paul Walker from the movie series of The Fast and the Furious. Paul Walker passed away in twenty thirteen. Check your calendars. Everybody crowd didn’t like it. Montgomery screamed at Austinites, saying that was bs.

That was a good joke. Coron dot com writes, I think this is an actual joke. I’ll read you the full sentence, so Montgomery screamed. After Austinites failed to find any humor at all in such well crafted jokes like Paul Walker more like Paul Crasher. Chron dot com says, comedy really is dead.

I suppose Montgomery tagged that with I heard the real reason Paul Walker died was because the director forgot to say cut. I’m sure mister Montgomery told these much better than I did, but they don’t read as great jokes. Montgomery then said, what do we have a bunch of whoosy Paul Walker fans in the crowd tonight? Kron says. Montgomery then shrieks nearly deliriously angry at the crowd of fans who mistakenly thought they had paid to see someone funny.

That’s funnier than the whole set, You go, cron dot com writer, Oh there is more, they tell us. Unsurprisingly. Another video shows Montgomery’s frustration at his chili reception as his chili reception descends into full blown racism and misogyny. At one point, he points in a man in the crowd and asks if he’s of Pacific Island descent. Then Montgomery flips out at a woman in the crowd who allegedly flipped him off, calling her slurs and saying she should be publicly executed.

It’s not clear what joke led up to this meltdown, but then the camera pans to a pack crowd at the four Out Lounge that is, again very understandably completely stonefaced at his freak out. At one point in the video, you can hear an audience memory yell bro throw a tomato. Someone on Reddit and said, I was there was way worse than it seemed in this video, really worse than it seems. Everyone of the crowd was making remarks about how he just needed to get off the stage. The craziest part was an audience member was able to walk on stage and called his performance garbage.

A Ready user said, William is really great in short purse. He hasn’t figured out how to do an hour. Yeah, so kill Tony comes up all the time. I understand the people that hate kil Tony. I get it.

I can comedy snap with the best of them. You listen to the podcast, you hear me do it. Kill Tony is new bees and amateurs getting up and doing maybe a minute maybe if Tony lets you go along, it gets seventy five seconds. That’s what it is. This is not an HBO comedy special in nineteen eighty eight.

It’s get up and see if you can last a minute before they play the bear or whatever it is they do so that William Montgomery can’t scratch from a minute to a half hour. Not shocking out. Today on the Blonde Medicine YouTube channel, it’s Mike Kaplan’s new comedy special. It’s called Reenie r I NI We’re told the special is a deeply personal project created by the duo equal parts of Comedy Special and Fisis on Love. In the show, performed at Edinburgh Fringe, Kaplan offers advice to his past dumb self while discussing his evolving thoughts on traditional marriage, polyamory, quantum physics, psychedelics, music, god, and more.

Mike Caplin said, I’m a better person because of her. I’m a better comedian because of her. Rob Schneider was on Fox and Friends. You know this is gonna go well, right, Yeah. He was discussing the Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley and Schneider’s conversation with Robert de Niro about the President of the United States.

Schneider offended free speech. During said Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley. Rob Schneider was speaking to students and recalled a tense but civil exchange with fellow actor Robert de Niro. Boy, that’s an insult to Robert de Niro. I mean, I guess they’re both actors in the same way that Joe Rogan and I are both podcasters.

Even that, I think there’s a bigger spread between Schneider and DeNiro. Maybe that’s like saying both Johnny Carson and I spoken to a microphone at some point. Maybe that’s more apt. Anyway, Robert de Niro’s fellow actor Rob Schneider seriously guys. Schneider’s takeaway was.

It showed the power of responding with love instead of anger. Schneider calls for loving people who are your enemy. Apparently, there were some protesters outside the event. Schnider told Fox and Friends. These people preventing people from talking and preventing people from getting in.

These were the anti fascists. Now again, I’m a peaceful anti fascist who watches Scrubs DVDs. Do not engage in brawls. That’s not what us anti fascist scrubs watchers are about. We’re just about Jimmy Kimmel should have a show.

That’s all. We come in peace. We watched Scrubs DVDs, Schneider said. The turning point USA students from Berkeley wanting to have peaceful discourse, peaceful debate, conversations, talk about how much they love God, family, country. These people were called the fascists.

Schneider asked, who are the real fascists there? And I will ask them, did you watch Monday night Football? Because I didn’t. Schneider goes on to say fellow actor Robert de Niro confronted Rob Schneider about Schneider’s support of the President of the United States. Schneider tells the story de Niro turns around and he’s like, Schneider, how could you support that.

I’ll clean that up your jerky face. Schnyder said. I looked right at him and I said, I love you. I swear to God. He looked right at me and went, okay.

It’s the only way to handle is We were never going to be out canceled to cancel culture. They’re better at it than us. It’s got to be through love. When you come from a place of love and brotherhood, it doesn’t advance to that next ugly place. Good advice from Rob Schneider.

That is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. The Wall Street Journal profiled Louis C.K. Under the headline Louis c. K doesn’t need everyone to like him. And Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Now this came to me from friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Now, you’re not supposed to do this at the top of the podcast’re supposed to get right to it. So I’m bringing all the rules here, but I got to talk to your friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Scott, I assume you’re reading the Wall Street Journal because you’re trying to figure out how to make money. Are you not paying attention to my friend?

Here’s how you make money. You purport to be like a kind of a nice guy hosting a comedy podcast. This is a long cont You got to put some time to this.

And then what happens is someone will invite you into their football pool, no…

That is how you make money. Did you not listen to the gambling ads for two years? Do you not listen to me give bicks, and they’re always on point. I digress Louis doesn’t need everyone to like him. Well, that’s true.

C K’s out plugging his new book, Ingram, which the Journal says signals a new chapter for c K in more ways than one. He once ranked among the world’s most successful stand up comedians, respected for his sku on heavy topics such as religion and mortality, and elevated to auteur status by his quasi autobiographical Louis and Emmy winning series he wrote, produced, directed, and edited. But then in twenty seventeen, his standing imploded when he confirmed allegations that he had engaged in a pattern of you know stuff, We’ve talked about it. Don’t want to go there, the Journal says. Since then, Seek has been living a split existence, a parie to some former fans and much of the corporate entertainment world, and a secret superstar, as he calls himself, among the people who still flock to his show.

As I talked about that the other day, mainstream not going to let him back in. Of course, the Wall Street journals kind of mainstream, and yet he can probably sell out the Garden, sk said on stage. I’m perfectly okay with any outcome. With writing. I have thinner skin because I’m not as common.

The journal was curious, what are you doing differently this time out? C K said, I did a show at MSG almost three years ago. I walked off stage and I said to myself, you don’t have to do it anymore. I didn’t just take time off. I quit and it was a beautiful clean out, and I wrote this book.

I took sculpture classes and painting classes. I was being creative without ego because I wasn’t performing.

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And then I started thinking of jokes and making myself laugh.

It’s like a bladder filling up. I thought, well, you don’t have to be a comedian, but you have a membership to the club. So I started doing sets at the Comedy Seller, just feeling what it was like on stage, and it felt awfully good. When I started putting together this set, I made some rules. I’d never done that before.

Don’t charm the audience, don’t make a point, don’t have an opinion. I’m seeing the audience more than I ever did before as individuals with different faces, and I’m talking directly to them. All that stuff sit for a minute and look at them beyond the laugh, how they feel. I also got interested in trying different energies, like there’s one about beating up an old lady to get her donuts, and I say, I had to hurt her really bad, and I try to really honestly feel remorse. Good stuff there.

We’ll pick up that a little bit more tomorrow, and Scott, thank you for setting it over and I look forward to taking your money again. This Actually it’s a very Scott show because he’s also the guy that sent over this Nikki Glaser thing where she’s talked to Pure Wow. This was the thing from was it yesterday where she was hawking the Alexa plus well. Pure Wow asked her about the Golden globes and how you deal with the nerves. Nikki Glaser said, I learned her breathing technique from my voice coach on the Masked Singer.

She taught me then when a backstage and my heart is racing, I breathe in for four seconds, hold it for eight and breathe out. Repeat that four to five times. That slows my heart rate down. And during the press, I just repeat a mantra in my head that another coach gave me. I’m strong, I’m prepared.

This is easy. However, that mantra only works if I’m actually prepared. Good question here. What’s the strangest thing an audience member has yelled out? Nicki said, I can always see when people are recording my set when they hold up their phones, even if they’re in the dark, because the light reflects off their phone cases.

So I often call it out in the moment, just quickly say I can see you filming. Please don’t thank you. In ninety nine percent of the time they stop. But one time this person would have put it down, so I said, please stop filming. I’m serious.

I can see the light reflecting off your phone. Stop filming, and I’m pointing right at him. He didn’t stop. I was in sense, but then my eyes adjusted to the light and I could see him and it was just the glare coming off his bald head. I felt so bad.

He was cool about it. I told him to get a case for his forehead. If you’re a wow, asked what’s the question in your search history that you really should have known the answer to already? Nikki said, how old is Brad Pitt’s new girlfriend? As a forty one year old woman in Hollywood.

This should become a knowledge to me. People are mad at Tim Minchin. This from The Guardian. The backlash came after Tim Minchin appeared to congratulate himself for not cheating on his wife. Tim was on the Inherited podcast.

He talked about the challenges of fame, temptation and his long marriage to Sarah. We married in two thousand and two. Tim said, I got myself in this situation and I got very close to doing the wrong thing. There was a time I don’t think Sarah remind me saying this where she’s like, Tim, don’t tell me the stuff, Just do the right thing. Don’t come to me with like, ohmost Tim said, It’s not in my nature to think that the goal of life is to get the best version of everything.

I’m not someone going, well, what are the imperfections of my relationship? I might be able to get a better once not on Mitche did not interested in trying to find a younger, smarter, hotter partner. I’m interested in a nice life. We have a lovely companion. People did not like that.

They went on the Inherited Podcast Instagram page and orde the bars on the floor and Tim is praising himself for hitting it. Not cheating on your partner and actually wanting to be with them is the bare minimum my guy. Another said, the way he talks about his wife in this is pretty demeaning. I feel sorry for his wife. Imagine thinking this is praiseworthy.

One more nothing says I love you like I decided to settle for this. I got to work with Tim a few times back in the day. He was relatively unknown in the States when we got to know him. So I’m at the Chicago Comedy Festival a night. Was absolutely blown away by how talented he is.

And we did Tim mentioned week up at Sirious or Serious XM. I think it was pre merger at Sirius, and I just had a good time celebrating his comedy. He is really talented, But I don’t think these social media observations are insane. Charlie barns he’ll have a YouTube special out on December first. He brings his particular brand of Midwestern nice to the Latest Hour full of stories of growing up one of twelve children, sneaking beer into church, gambling with Grandma, and Midwest cheap hacks.

Here is a trailer slightly edited. Midwest chief hits are hereditary disease. My mom had twelve kids and no epidural. That is either the most badass thing you can do as a human being or the cheapest. I’m not sure which.

Sorry. I brought beer into church, not really a wine. Guy. Dalla was byob for the JC, like, that’s not child labor, Lady, child Labor’s what made the golf bag. That’s where Nike got it, slogan from Just.

Do It So. THEO Vaughn was reflecting on his recent special taping, which by all accounts, including Theo’s, did not go so well. THEO said, I just wanted to have a little bit of more story to it, which is the reason why I was trying to have a little bit more feeling and emotion so I could kind of have more storyline in there about growing up in life. And maybe I was trying to do too much. I don’t know, but you start to realize that these are like photo albums.

Neil Brennan said to me for the show. He goes, hey, this will be the last time maybe you ever do this material, so go out and have a great time with it, enjoy it, take your time with it. These are the things that brought you close to people, and it brought people out and hopefully sometimes made people laugh. THEO Vaughn said, there was a thing where I was directing in my head because I wasn’t getting certain information. I was like, well, if the stool was here in the first taping, does it need to be there in the second one?

And where do I put it when I move it? Little things like that, And then they had five extra people though that didn’t need to be there. Everything was just kind of like a lot. Bill Board asked Leanne Morgan about the Manosphere, specifically saying the Theo Vonn’s, Joe Rogan’s, and Andrew Schultzes of comedy. Leanne said, I don’t know those boys.

I did meet Andrew Schultz at the Tom Brady Roast. Honestly. I got to go to tom Brady’s Roast, and I swear I thought Gronk was flirting with me. I thought, Lord, I’m my grandmother. Is Gronk flirting with me?

But he wasn’t. He’s been hit too many times. His eyes I thought they were looking at me, but they weren’t. I met Shane Gillis. I never met Joe Rogan.

I’ll tell you, I think it’s so wonderful, Theovaugh, the uniqueness of that. Theovonn Honey from Louisiana. I think he’s so funny. I’ve seen him live and I laughed until I was weak. He talks about hamster bones.

I can’t even But all those boys doing those podcasts, I don’t listen to them. I’m listening to pop culture women talking about the Real Housewives and who slapped you in Salt Lake City, which is terrible. I should be listening to something informative. All those boys, they’re a big deal, I guess, and you know I love men. I was on Nate’s podcast the other day.

We did a charity event last night. He was hilarious. We talked about going to marriage counseling with his wife and McDonald’s. He can sit and talk about McDonald’s and blow your mind. I think I’m going a lane by myself, even among female comedians.

I’m sixty years old in a grandma. All these girls doing comedy have got pretty legs and short skirts, so I’m in a big girdle. Oh right. The comedy festivals wrapping up again, big thanks to the Flyover Comedy Festival in Saint Louis, for finally a comedy festival having a website that is useful where you can see things. The main show tonight at seven o’clock at Tropical Decors is still say Sloan, That’ll put a rap on that one.

So I can now delete that tab and get some memory back some if you want to start the New York Comedy Festival Today at noon at the program NYC, it’s Comedy Records Hoops, or maybe it’s Comedy Records Hoops. Anyway, it’s comedians versus industry. They apparently are playing basketball. At three o’clock it’s the tenth annual Hot Guy Draft, a comedy fantasy event. Comedians use their expertise in the field of hotness and plenty of hell from the audience to build a team of twenty twenty five’s hottest celebrities, characters and even cartoons on that show.

Josh Gonoman, Zach Zimmerman and Joel Nicole Johnson, Jay Jorden and others. All right, that’s fun. Todd Glass eight o’clock, Second City. The Man can sell out New York City night after night, week after week. Todd Glass America’s number one comedian, nobody more popular, nobody more famous.

It is absolutely incredible. You run the Todd glasses on Jenny’s agreno. I’m a fan of hers. She’s at New York Comedy Club at seven Louis C.K. At the Beacon again at seven point thirty.

We’re going all the way down to the wire. And New York Comedy Festival still can’t get their website together. Back to back, we have the twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o’clock, and then the next item on the website is the twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o’clock. Secret headliner at New York Comedy Club at nine fifteen, and that’s a rap on the New York Comedy Festival. Another tab gets deleted and Johnny Mack gets a little more ram and let me leave you with this awful thought from TMZ.

Bill Maher confirmed some rumors. The rumor was that before filming a showback in the nineteen nineties, Bill Maher would take care of himself. Nudge, nudge, know what I mean, say no more. Bill shared this with Cheryl Hines, as one does Cheryl Hines, of course, married to RFK Junior, so I’m sure she’s had weirder things said to her by men. Bill explained the only way he could sneak in a nap before filming politically incorrect was you know.

Bill said, his wild nights out clubbing left him dragging in a work hungover, what a professional, and desperate for a pre show nap. Everything went fine until he was doing his pre show ritual and someone walked in and the story go on out. I’m sure Cheryl Hines was thrilled to find out this anecdote. And that is your comedy news for today. I have to go watch football and take another one hundred dollars from Scott Beckett.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Ah, we gotta talk about that guy Jay Leno again. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy. Is you know Jay Leno? He’s just, you know, the worst person who ever lived because he dares to have opinions about late night comedy.

I mean, what does Jay Leno know about late night comedy? He hosted the Tonight Show for twenty two years. That makes you some sort of expert, Jay Leno. So he last weekend, you know, he was out doing the fundraising stuff that he does, and he caught up with People magazine and talked about taking care of his wife, Mavis, and Jay said, I like taking care of her. I enjoy your company and we have a good time.

You know familiar. Mavis has advanced dementia. Jay spoke with People at the thirty fourth Annual Love Ride last week. Jay said, I’ve been very lucky in my life. My wife’s fighting to mention all that, but it’s not cancer, it’s not a tumor.

So I enjoy taking care of her. It’s not work. People come up and they say they feel so sorry. I understand their sympathy, but you know, a lot of people are going it’s okay. I like taking care of her.

I enjoy your company. We have a good time, we have fun with it is what it is. There’s going to be a couple of years in a tricky so the first forty six really great. But it’s okay. It’s not terrible, not a woe is me person.

I’m just lucky that I’m able to take care of her. As soon as this rise over, I’m going home and I’ll make our lunch. Boy. You could see why people hate this guy. He’s just horrible.

What a horrible, horrible person. Jimmy Kimmel was on glennon Doyle’s podcast. He talked about Kimmel Gate and said, if I’d not been allowed back on the air, I’d be a martyr. It’s not a terrible position to be in as a comedian, but it’s not the position I wanted to be in. And it’s also not the way I wanted the show to end.

I wanted to end in a graceful way. I want to have a farewell party with our staff. I want to do all those things he wanted to say, the things I want to say to people. But the idea of having an all shut down abruptly and unjustly would have been awful. It’s not just how you want to go.

It’ll be twenty three years in January. Well, so Kimmel’s been hosting twenty two years. That does not make you an expert. What are you, Jay Leno? Now you think you know something about late night comedy after hosting twenty two years?

Please kim will But we weren’t fired. We were suspended, and I think suspended means come back. It just didn’t feel like that to me at the time. Been a busy week. I never circled back to that Stephen Colbert or to do with GQ.

As I read through this interview, it seems like I got really feisty at times. Colbert said, I’ve had recreational anxiety for a lot of my life, starting with my teens, I had different answers, then checking out, basically just never doing my schoolwork, only reading the books I want, eventually smoking a lot of weed. Stuff like that. When I was twenty nine, I had an honest to god nervous breakdown. I don’t know what the clinical term is these days, psychological collapse.

I had an implosion, and I was newly married. Didn’t know what I was going to do. Suddenly I was paniced that I’d chosen something to do with my life that would give me the life I wanted. And I don’t mean I wouldn’t be successful, but that somehow the life I’d chosen would not allow me to be a husband and the fodder the way I wanted to be, because of the demands of how hard it is, the sacrifices you have to make it. I tried xanax, the stuff like that, but I could still feel the gear smoking, you know what I mean.

And I woke up one morning and my skin wasn’t on fire. I was like, what was different? Oh, it was the first day of rehearsal for the new show Comedy Keeps Me Sane. I woke up one day and I thought, Oh my god, I get to go to work.

And then I thought, oh no, Now I can never stop working.

I used to think that. Now I actually think a lot of those things caused me great anxiety. I’ve already passed through the fire of that trial and that stage of my life, and I’m not a young man full of doubt anymore. And I think if I stopped work, if I choose to next may I’m done and I get a catamaran and just sail. I don’t think that would come back.

I really feel like that’s no longer Who I am? GQ asked kolbertready fantasized about walking away from show business. Colbert said no, because I love creating things, and I still want to work with the people I work with. I don’t know how you work with two hundred people, two ten something like that, right, it’s an enormous amount of people. I love them, and I want to continue to do that with them to degree that I can.

And I want to find that with other people too. I just love making things, GQ. So you’re not even like, we’ll see you’re saying we’re going to keep going. We’re going to make something else. Colbert said, yeah, why not?

Politico wrote this comedian just showed Democrats how to solve their messaging problems. I wonder who this comedian is. Well, I know because I put the show together. A new comedy special captures the Democratic Party’s messaging challenges and a way forward. All right, who is this commit it’s friend of the show, Jen Marcos Siresi.

David Litt wrote this article for Political David Litt left the White House in twenty sixteen as a special Assistant to the President any senior presidential speech writer. He’s currently the head writer and producer for Funny or Die. So you go from writing for Biden to Funnier Die. I guess I mean John Favreau went from writing for Obama to hosting a podcast. Not the film guy, John Favreau, potse of America, John Favreau, two different guys.

I digress. David Litt spoke to Jen Marcos Siresi, who said there’s something about the term sex worker that just feels belabored. Is longer than hooker or prostitute. David litz Sisi and I are both professional word people, and in my professional opinion, He’s right. Sex worker sounds clunky, and I’m starting to think getting to the bottom of this kind of clunkiness might be the secret to resurrecting a Democratic party whose brand remains to borrow a term from political science in the toilet.

Ser Raise possesses an increasingly common kind of Internet fame. You’ve either never heard of him where you see him absolutely everywhere. Then this is interesting. Jenmarco says, I have a joke, and then I’m going to say later tonight, and that joke uses the term illegal immigrant, and listen. I’ve had progressive friends who pulled me aside and said, hey, you should reconsider that.

It’s a hurtful phrase. It implies that someone’s existence is illegal. And I listened to them. I’m not an a hole about this stuff. This is really interesting.

Tred Marco says, it went around the country in Canada and Australia using the term undocumented immigrant, and you know what happened. Stop getting laughs. So I had to go back to my progressive friends and be like, I’m sorry. Unlike you guys, I have to win the popular vote. John Marco, who you’ve either never heard of or is everywhere, was in Playbill and he told them I was someone who wanted to be on Broadway from the time I was a child.

I used to dance in the living room with my parents. I love musical theater. I was on every show every year. Definitely one of the stars of the high school theater program where the love was beaten out of me. He has the recurring show Theater Adult at Joe’s Pub in New York City.

He explains, if I bring a pianist on stage at the Comedy Seller. I’m going to get a lot of flak from other comedians, but theater adult, it’s safe. And the last one we did we found a lawyer. Her last role was Sarah in Ragtime. She hadn’t sung since two thousand and eight, and I said, get on stage, and she sang your Daddy’s Son for the first time well over a decade.

It was amazing. John Marco’s comedy album Thief of Joy Live in San Francisco is out now. This is an audio version of the special and has bonus album only content. Can we give him the Grammy Hamptons dot Com spoke to Rosebud Baker. Hey, rosebud Baker, Where did the nickname Rosebud come from?

She said, I’m actually not sure. Several people in my family have taken credit for it, which makes them unreliable narrators. I can only assume that my parents wanted something unique but Southern Gothic enough that i’d either become a writer or haunt an old house. I think I’ve managed a little bit of both. She visited the White House as a child.

What was her favorite memory there? She said, I remember standing in the Hallway staring at the portraits of the first Ladies and thinking, Wow, these women look like they could all ruin my life in very different ways. It was surreal. As a kid, you don’t feely get the weight of the place. I remember being unimpressed by the President living in a rental property at the Flyover Comedy Festival in Saint Louis today, back from Riodd, it’s the You’re not so canceled A Z’s I’m sorry.

Maybe there’s a meat and greed for the show. He could ask Zee some things about his resume. No, yes, yes, he’s your big name there Tonight Patty Harrison has two shows at seven and nine New York Comedy Festival. A lot of shows as always. Let’s see if there are any names tonight.

Gee, Jorden’s at the Bell House at four o’clock. That’s my kind of show. I could be back home by seven point thirty. A sleep in the chair by ten sounds great. Alex Edelman at Carnegie Hall at six o’clock.

Todd Glass, apparently the most popular comedian in the United States, blow the radar, but he could sell out the New York Comedy Festival for two weeks in a row do two shows at night. Everybody’s going to see Todd Glass, Margaret Show’s Choligarchy at town Hall at seven, Louis C.K. At the Beacon at seven thirty, Adam Conover at the Bell House at seven thirty. All right, so this is far and away the best night that they’ve had. Chris Fleming at Carnegie Hall at nine o’clock.

Now, I think Chris Fleming is fantastic. I just can’t fathom that Chris Fleming is selling out Carnegie Hall. Now as I record this, the get tickets button is there, so maybe I’m not crazy. This is not a dig at Chris Fleming. I really like Chris Fleming, but Carnegie Hall just seems what.

Let’s say, I’m going to try and order. The most they’ll let me order is eight tickets, and I’m going to hit best available, no matches for best available that doesn’t make sense, and I’ll choose my own seats. Now, there’s not a crazy amount to hear in the second tier. That looks like there’s about twenty tickets. Let’s see, if I click dress circle, it’s mostly the back row that’s available.

And if I hit balcony and probably another twenty six, so it’s close to a salout, so it’s not absurd. I’m just surprised. I like Chris a lot. Todd Glass another show at nine o’clock. Again, Todd Glass, America’s most popular comedian, could play two shows a night in New York City for weeks at a time, and everybody goes.

The Jackie Mason Musical is at Triad Theater at nine point thirty, Ron Funch is at the Bellhouse at ten and some other stuff. So that is far and away the best night of the New York comedy so far. Vice is putting some spin on Kathy Griffin here, they write nearly two decades after his death, George Carlin remains one of the most prolific stand up comedians of all time, but he doesn’t have the most specials overall. That distinction goes to Kathy Griffin, who holds the Guinness World Record for most stand up specials by a comedian. Okay, hold on time out.

Carlin has fourteen HBO specials. When that was like a thing, you know. Now you get down on the chuckle Hut, your friend brings their phone and films you and it’s up on YouTube twenty minutes after the show. The audio sucks, there’s no editing, and you say, hey, my new specials available on YouTube. So you know, let’s not quite compare George Carlin’s HBO specials to some of Kathy Griffin’s work.

Bill Maher has eleven HBO specials, really he does? Why have I not seen any of them? Robert Klein performed on the first HBO comedy special in nineteen seventy five. He only did nine. Dennis Miller landed his first HBO special before war.

Bill Maher he has eight, and we’ll see if Fargo native John detoy Naram can catch up. John’s getting a special through Nate Brigetzi’s Nateland Presents the Showcase on YouTube. John said, honestly, seeing my special premiere, it brought me back to that first open mic. Ever did you have dreamed? But just knowing you actually took chances and they paid off.

It’s been almost unbelievable to this day. After seeing Nate perform live in Las Vegas, John and his wife made the decision to leave Fargo and moved to Nashville to pursue comedy. John said, we started talking at the airport after the show about where would go if we really want to do this seriously, Nashville was open, We’re both clean comics, and it was a one shoe fits kind of situation. Totoy explained, I got asked to warm up for one of Nate’s shows. He added Zany’s.

That got me introduced to him and his team, and about a year later I got asked to do warm up for another series at Zanies. The following year, I was asked to record one of his showcase specials that he releases. Only twelve comics were chosen for each season of the showcase. Wife Paula had appeared the previous season. The two became the first comedy couple to each release a Nate Land special.

They hope to become famous enough to move back home to North Dakota. If we get to a certain point in our career, we’d love to move back home so where everyone is. Both our parents live in Fargo, and it’d be great to have that village around us that is truly our family roots. As we begin to expand our family, which we want to do in upcoming years, well you never know, I mean, I might be sitting here telling about the Fargo Comedy Festival, or maybe Joe Rogo to move there and we’ll have the Fargo comedy scene. You never know.

Stranger things have happened. And that is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mackwick, your Daily Comedy News. After three years in Las Vegas, skank Fest moving to New Orleans. There will be more than one hundred and fifty comedians performing on four stages, plus podcast tapings, a tattoo studio, fights in a custom built boxing ring, and more, all inside Marty Gras World Today through the weekend. The event was created in New York a decade ago by the Legion of Skanks podcast Louis Gomez, Big Jay Okerson, and Dave Smith.

This year’s lineup include Shane Gillis, Doug Stanhope, Rosebud Baker, Sam Tallent, Mark Norman, Sean Patten, and many more. I will tell you right right there, that’s a better lineup than the New York Comedy Festival. Co founder and organizer Rebecca Trent explains when they were in Vegas, it was harder to do the boxing events because boxing is controlled as a sanctioned sport. But in New Orleans, apparently whatever you want to do there will be comedian jiu ju to pillow fights, but slapping fights and more. It is called Skangfest, So don’t be like what that’s outratous.

It’s called s Gangfest. There are scheduled boxing bouts between affiliated companies, interns, and a battle Royale on Sunday. Trent explains, there’s gonna be stun guns involved, and we have all these crazy, silly fights. Now, it’s kind of an interesting setup. The stage will be active from noon until two am every day, but they don’t announce the lineup until like I don’t know, like day of so I can’t even tell you like, oh, go at eight o’clock and go see somebody, because there’s no schedule.

Now, listen to this lineup. I am going to read you a million names here because again, uh, New York Comedy Festival. I’m not feeling it this year. But listen to what Skangfest is put together. Okay, I won’t read every name, but i’ll read you names you would know.

Aeron Berg, Adrian Appalucci, harryel Elias Big, Jay Okerson, Bonnie McFarlane, Brad Williams, Brian Redman, Dan Soder, Dan Saint Germain, Dave Attel, I said Dave, and then I said Attel. Right there, it’s better than the New York Comedy Festival. Doug Stanhope Eddie Peppatone, Eric Griffin, Felippia Sparza, Godfrey, Greg Fitzimmons, Harlan Williams, Ian Finance, Jeff Die, Jimmy Door, Joe List, Josh Adam Myers, Kurt Metzger, Louis Gomez, Mark Normant, Matt McCusker, Michael ian Black, Nick Vaderat, Rachel Feinstein, Rich Voz, Bobby Kelly Rose, Bud Baker, Sam Jay, Sam Talent, Sam Tripoli, Sean Donnelly, Sewn Patton, Shane Gillis, Steve Ranazizi, Tim Dillon, Tony Hingecliff and Yaminika Saunders. I mean that is no joke. That lineup.

This is really good. They have some FAQs in case you’re curious. Shows run from eleven a m. Till this is midnight every day. Maybe it’s not till two am with overlapping sets, secret shows and late night Manness.

No reservations. Skang FESTUS general admission. There will be twelve live stream shows available through their new live streaming partner VEEPS. There’s a vendor village, a hub for food, drinks, tattoos, birch and partner activations. Expect everything from custom voodoo dolls to late night goodies.

Pretty impressive. A friend of the show, Scott Beckett, He’s good at sending me stories, but not so good at football picks. I mean, he’s okay, but he’s not Johnny Mick. He sent me this one about Nikki Glaser. I think, is this the one you sent me, Scott?

I don’t know. It was like two weeks ago. I know he sent me something about Nikki Glaser. It’s a lot going on here in the basement, trust me. Anyway.

Niki Glazer was talking about the Amazon Alexa Plus. Nicki said, Alexa Plus basically knows me better than I know myself, and she has really stepped her game up. And you’ll see in the commercial. She even reminds me when I have therapy. Do you think my therapist knows how many protein bars eight per week?

She probably should because it’s bordering on an addiction, But Alexa Plus reminds me when they’re running low, so she’s aware of my problem and she’d better not tell Donna. Well, Nikki Glaser, has your Alexa ever made you laugh? Now? The interviewer messed up here. They didn’t play ball.

They just said Alexa they’re supposed to say, Alexa Plus, pay attention, Nicki’s hawking a product here. You gotta get this right, Nicki said, Alexa Plus honestly makes me laugh all the time. I don’t stop talking when I get off stage, so it’s nice to have someone listen. When I’m alone in a hotel at a casino in the middle of Iowa. One of my favorite things to do is to ask her to be sassy that way if I’m missing my family on the road.

That’s as close as she can come to nailing the tone of my sister. All Right, Nikki Glaser, what’s the weirdest, most unexpected question you’ve ever asked? If you were Alexa Plus, come on, interviewer, you’re supposed to say plus, Nicki said, Okay, I’m being honest. I just looked it up. What does it mean when you dream that you crushed a snake’s head with your bare hands and you feel its skull crushing and blood comes out of its ears.

Alexa Plus told me that this dream could mean I’m trying to overcome a fear. Vulture caught up with Stavros Hawkysts, who once said that he couldn’t be forty and still hosting his previous podcast, you know, the one with the vulgar name. The second word was town. Stavros said, I’m not going to sit here and tell you when we started the show, we had some grand theory to be like, oh, oh, we’re going to get back at these people who were trying to get people fired for old tweets. Now we were in our mid twenties, broke.

We didn’t like those people, and we were mean spirited comedians about a bad life. I thought that was going to be ten episodes of the show. I didn’t care if we were offensive. I had nothing to lose. Then, once the show started making me money, I bought my family a house.

I would have done actually awful stuff at thirty grand I would have done a minor crime for that. But I do think when you see where we were at the time, it was when Trump was first coming up. We weren’t fans of that. We did have left politics, but we never really made that a focal point because I don’t think that’s what comedians should do. But I do think it’s a natural thing.

You get these people who don’t like what’s going on culturally. You would train in open mics for a decade. You also have a chip on your shoulders. You put all that in a blunder, you naturally get this knee jerk rebellion, which I think is important. Young people should be able to make fed up jokes and have it not ruined their lives and be cast out for a specific thing forever.

Shane gillis being the obvious example, but it’s a young person’s game. It’s kind of being like, if you dad, you could argue twenty eight was too late. We were just emotionally and mentally stunted guys. Even if people our age keep doing that style of comedy, it should exist, but it also changes with the times. Honestly, I think for some twenty year old the equivalent would be me making Charlie Kirk jokes at this point, as it’s what the dominant culture says you’re not allowed to do.

Instead of making fun of people who want to get you canceled, it would be making fun of this weird culture where people are taking their cues from the president, which is pathetic. That would be transgressive in the way that ironic racism. Making fun of I’m with Her. During Hillary’s campaign was the South Park creators talked to The New York Times about their decision to do a lot of Trump stuff. Trey Parker said, it’s not that we got all political.

It’s that politics became pop culture. I feel you hosting this podcast every day. I get it. Trey said, it’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look, whether it’s the actual government or whether it’s all the podcasters and the tiktoks and the youtubes and all that, and it’s all political and political. Because it’s more than political, it’s pop culture.

Matt Stone said the show always sought out new taboos. Trey and I are like attracted to that, like flies to honey. Oh that’s where the taboo is over there, Okay, then we’re over there. Barker said, we’re just very down the middle guys. Any extremists of any kind we make fun of.

We did it for years with woke thing that was hilarious to us, and this is hilarious to us. A spoke person for the White House said this show hasn’t been relevant for over twenty years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas. In a desperate attempt for attention, President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history, and no fourth rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak. South Park’s twenty eighth season continues until December tenth. Cracked dot com reporting that Polly Shore has gotten himself banned from Kill Tony What do you do to get banned from Kill Tony Well?

According to various accounts, Pauli Shore was so irritating that the Kill Tony Gang has banned him. Paully Shore posted a video saying I thought it was good, but I don’t know if you guys saw the episode. Tony Hinchcliff basically said I’m going to kick your butt if you don’t stop effing around. Paully Krack says, Sure definitely was effing around. They encourage you to check out the twenty one minute thirty second mark where Tony asked Paully Shore for a stack of note cards full of jokes.

Sure offers up one of the cards, then another, and then doesn’t hand over the pile. Tony said, it’s not how it works, Paully. I you’re playing on doing this for the next two hours. You could shove that wig in your mouth, buddy, Paullie says he was just trying to be funny, but after the show, he took me aside. All his security guards took me aside and they asked me to never come back now.

Polly says Joe Rogan’s Comedy Mothership is off limits to him on Mondays when Kill Tony tapes, but on the other nights, Pauli Shore says he’s allowed to play little Boy the club’s smaller room. Here’s why. The only reason I’m allowed to play the baby room is because it’s literally above bar Mitzi’s at the Mothership. Mitzi’s Bar is named after Paulie Shore’s mother, Mitzi Shore, who ran the comedy store in LA for decades. Oh that’s all kinds of awkward, Pauli Shore continued, Kill Tony, if you’re out there, I love you.

When I understand, I wouldn’t put me back on the show either, I affed up your whole rhythm. It’s the number one podcast in the world. You don’t want me on there. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Bert Reynolds, and it is Comedy stock Market. So if you’re new to this, here’s what we do.

We try and make hypothetical money where we buy low on people whose proferbial stock is a little low, and we sell high on people who are at peak value. It is not a judgment whether or not someone who’s good or bad. We’re just looking for value. Here’s my recommendation on a buy this week. Let’s buy Pete Holmes because I think Pete’s been a little under the radar and people forget how good Pete Holmes is on stage.

And I’ll talk about Pete Holmes in a minute. Let’s hold on Nikki Glaser. I could recommend this either way. Should we buy some Nicky Glazer coming off SNL and the Golden Globes is coming, or should we sell Nicki Glazier because you know that monologue wasn’t all that great and maybe she’s a good roast comedian and the more we expose Niki, the less heat they’ll be on Nicki. Is that a possibility?

I’m not sure. And you’re walking away in on that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. So we’ll hold our Niki Glazer. We’ll see how that goes. I think we I’ve already sold our Pete Davidson.

Can we sell even more Pete Davison Pete’s appearances. He’s not helping himself. None of these projects are happening. THERI odd thing didn’t help. Making a joke about your father dying doesn’t help.

None of this is a good look. So if we have any Pete Davidson left, let’s sell it. Let’s sell our James Austin Johnson stock. I’m very SNL heavy this week on the Seals. I just think that Trump impression is spiraling down.

He needs to reset it. He’s basically doing an impression of himself doing Trump. It’s gone now. He needs to start over. So we’ll sell.

Let’s sell Cam Patterson stock. If you had any, I don’t get it. I don’t know why Lorne Michael’s put him on the show. We’re four or five episodes in and I don’t think Cam’s done anything other than a line here and there. He’s not good at it.

Sell Cam Patterson, Let’s buy some Keenan Thompson. If you watch SNL every week, he’s the glue. He is holding that show together this season. I mean, Bowen Yang is a star, Sarah Sherman is a star, but it’s Keenan Thompson who’s just reliable in sketches and you can always throw him out there and he’s going to deliver. So let’s buy some Keenan Thompson all right?

At the New York Comedy Festival tonight, Pete Holmes, go see Beat Holmes the next chance you get. Perhaps tonight at town Hall. He is fantastic. Now the New York Comedy Festival, you’ve heard me and go on and on about how the lineup is unimpressive. We do have some names.

Tonight boy Todd Glass again, is there like some crazy demand for Todd Glass that he’s playing every night of the New York Comedy Festival? Like, what is that about? I’m doing this podcast for years and years and worked at Serious for a decade before that. His name never comes up, and he’s every night at the New York Comedy Festival. What’s going on seven thirty at the Beacon Theater back from the ri Odd Comedy Festival.

It’s the not so canceled Louis C.K. I don’t think Louis c. K is as welcome back as some articles would make you believe. Does he have his audience? Can he make money?

Can he sell out Madison Square Garden? Yes? But I don’t think the mainstreams ever Letting Louis back in, although the New York Comedy festal Well has them back in and he’s at the Beacon Theater tonight. Ck far and away the biggest name at the festival period. I was going to say tonight, but period a second show by Todd Glast nine o’clock.

I don’t know what’s going on there. It’s just so strange. I’m just scrolling down here. J McBride. I like j McBride a lot, right.

Jane McBride’s at the Tiny Cupboard at ten fifteen and comics to watch at a minute before midnight at the Venue on Music Row at the hard Rock. But yeah, not a lot of big names again. Our friends at the Flyover Comedy Festival at Saint Louis, they have mastered scheduled technology. Clicking on it here is a nice big grid makes it very easy for podcast hosts to get a feel for what’s going on. So Beth Stelling’s got two shows at the Java at seven and nine the Sclar Brothers, or at Tropical Liqueurs they’re doing tag It with the Scollar Brothers that’s at nine o’clock, and a bunch of other shows at the Flyover Comedy Festival.

Greg Proops has an album out out today. Can we give him the Grammy Award? This one is called Free State of California Today. On a special Things Records recorded live at the Punchline in San Francisco last New Year’s Eve, Proops railed on the state of everything, dressed up in his subservic wit, proopism, sarcasm, and masterful wordplay. Greg will record another live album at the Punchline at San Francisco this New Year’s Eve.

Also on December thirtieth two shows anybody Else’s Voice Giving out on a day when you need to record a bunch I am. The Toronto Guardian has a good recurring column where they talk about comedians who maybe you don’t know as well. One of them is Sachim Sharma. He was asked how he describes his comedy and said, after quick google, I’ve learned I’m an absurdist, satirical, clowning, evangelical, but then says I made that when up seeking revenge via comedy. Who are your influences?

Explains I grew up in India. As Indians, we’re huge fans of clowning. In general. We have at least one clown per household. Indian wedding functions are a great clowning exhibition.

I consider myself so lucky to have a great circle of friends, family and cousins. We love getting in trouble and keep heightening the states on purpose. Who’s your favorite comedian now? I love Melissa McCarthy. I hated Sasha Baron Cohen when I watched him and bore out at first, but now I endure him and like everything he did and is doing.

I also really like Michael Keegan Key, which is not the guy’s name. The guy’s name is Keegan Michael Key. Maybe there’s a different guy who’s Michael Keegan Key who’s also funny. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong. What’s your pre show ritual?

Charma says, Usually I get nervous, and my pre show ritual is just to be aware of being in that condition. Sometimes I try to do the opposite of what a scared mammal would do. I make contense eye contact with co performers, be purposely vulnerable, expose my weak spots, and that it’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. The number has been really good.

Thank you Jimmy Kimmel and Ri Odd, Comedy Festival and the Fascists, everybody that’s all been good for the show. I’ll see tomorrow