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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Ricky Gervais, Taylor Swift, Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, Dax Shepard, Amy Poehler

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser hosting the 2026 Golden Globes on CBS
• Nikki Glaser’s SNL hosting experience and lessons learned
• Golden Globes monologue preparation and balancing roasts with appreciation
• Erosion of monoculture and making jokes about lesser-known celebrities
• New podcast category at the Golden Globes
• Golden Globes comedy special nominees including Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, and Sarah Silverman

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, The Golden Globes, Arizon, CBS, Sunday night at eight pm. Your host is Nikki Glaser. Nicki got a flowing a cover piece from The Hollywood Reporter. They asked, Nikki, what’s the most interesting or surprising feedback you’ve gotten in the year since you first hosted.

Nicki said that it was all positive. It kind of tripped me up. Usually you do something, there’s a couple of people who don’t like what you did, or a couple flaws they could find, and it was universally appreciated and well reviewed. I’m not used to that. I don’t like that.

It only sets me up for failure. She’s gonna have a great weekend, huge weekend. And I avoid watching it again because I lived it. But I just went back and watched it two days ago to remind myself of what I liked, what I didn’t like. Well, damn, I kind of nailed it.

It scares me because that was kind of lightning in a bottle. I got really lucky with some of the nominees. Everything worked out, so it’s a high barm kind of screwed. Now she was almost immediately renewed. The Hollywood Reporter was curious when did she first write down an idea of something she might include this year.

Nikki said, honestly, I didn’t allow myself until December first. I take my special at the end of October. Then I went right into SNL after I needed to take the month off and just breathe. December first, right after Thanksgiving, we got right into it. The nominees don’t come out until December eighth, so that’s when you really get cooking.

She talked about her SNL hosting gig and said, what was remarkable to me is that they treat each show like as the fiftieth anniversary. I felt like everybody was excited as I am. And when I learned from how I usually do things is that I had to let go a lot. I had to realize I don’t know better than any these people, and I can suggest things, but in the end, just let go and don’t be scared to be foolish. So much of stand up is looking cool and being yourself.

I don’t get too much into characters and making myself look silly, and I felt like that was a really great opportunity to try stuff I hadn’t done before and admit that I’m kind of a novice in this world and that’s okay, and I can’t wait to do it again. I don’t know she’s getting get invited back. We talked about in The Good Nights. It seemed like the cast none of them walked up to her, and that led to me and some of the listeners analyzing The Good Nights every week and some of the other guest hosts got a lot of hugs and it just seemed like they iced Nicky wasn’t in the room. Don’t know what’s going on, but someone had picked up on that and put it in my brain.

And then I went back and looked at the clip and I was like, Yeah, NICKI talked about imposter syndrome being embedded in her soul. I think more people should have it. Though we’ve all been so lucky, anyone who’s made a career in this has made an extreme amount of luck. Just knowing the right people, let’s say that fifty times. Just knowing the right people For anybody trying to get into this, just knowing the right people, that’s what matters.

Get the right agent impressing the right people, making good impression in a moment where they didn’t know it mattered. So instead of thinking I don’t deserve this, I’m trying to turn my imposter syndrome into I’m so grateful this is my life. I just watched this clip by Ricky Gervais. He wanted to remind himself he’s like the court jester. The court jester is allowed to make fun of the King and Queen because he’s so clearly not the King and Queen, and they know he’s not.

He’s one of the plebs. It’s good to know I’m not one of these A listers and I don’t feel like I’m one of them. That gives me license to me fun of them a little bit more. The Holly reporter said, didn’t they execute court jesters? Nicky said, I look forward to that.

Die young, as long as I look good with my head rolling down to whatever. The Holly reporter asked her about her homework. Have you watched everything? Nicky said, you can’t watch everything, and you certainly can’t listen to all the podcasts. It’s like six podcasts.

You can listen to six podcasts. Then the Hollywood Reporter spoiled one of the movies that I haven’t seen yet. Why would you do that. I’m not gonna spoil it, fee you’re safe. But they just blatantly threw a spoiler in the middle of this article.

What are you doing? The article is not about the movie, so it’s not like I clicked on an article about the movie. They’re talking about the Golden Globes in one of the nominated movies, and they threw out a major spoiler. What are you doing? Come on, stupid Hollywood reporter jerks.

They talked about the erosion of the monoculture. Nicky said, people don’t know what the hell Jake Kelly is. They know George Clooney, so you wind up making a lot of jokes about the advertisements and the endorsements these people do. People might not know Kevin Hart’s special, but they know he’s talking about DraftKings. You have to find what everybody knows.

Honestly, there isn’t anything that everyone watches. There was Wicked last year, Wicked for Good, not as many people saw, so there’s not as much to say about it. I did a Venezuela reference at a show last night, and half the crowds like, what does that mean? It’s not showing up. People aren’t even getting news man, it’s depressing.

Parade asked Nikki Glaser. When you’re doing your monologue, how do you toe the line between roasting and toasting? I see what you did there. Nicki said. The most delicate balance to strike is giving the audience at home what they want, which is seeing celebrities get taken down a couple notches.

But people sign up for roasts and they’re asking for it. This is not a roast. I want these stars to feel safe and appreciated. A lot of the jokes I want to do will be on the cutting room floor. Parade asked her, what’s up with a new podcast category?

Nicki said, I love podcasts. I owe all lots of podcasts, but it’s a shock that you know we’re honoring podcasts before documentaries. I’m excited for next year’s YouTube nominees being best. Muckbang. Now, I had to look up muckbang.

Maybe I’m the last one I know about this, but I googled and I’m told muckbang is a popular online trend originating in South Korea, where host eats large quantities of food on camera, often interacting with a live audience, combining eating with entertainment, social connection, and sometimes these video broadcasts feature hosts consuming everything from spicy noodles and pizza to seafood boils, either prerecorded or live on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. Any parting words, Nikki, she said, watch the Golden Globes. I’m gonna need the audience at home to laugh because the audience of the room might not get some of the jokes. Yeah, I mean, if Taylor Swift’s there, stay away. That’s all I’m gonna say.

The woman cannot take a joke. The Golden Globes. There on CBS from eight to eleven pm Eastern, Johnny Mac will be double screening because there’s a football playoff game. Then, uh, probably around halftime, I’ll come here into the studio and record Monday’s podcast for you. Monday morning will be a recap of the Golden Globes.

Monday at noon will be the kickoff of Week two of Comedy survivor some comedy related nominees for the Golden Globes Best Special, Ricky Gervai’s Mortality, Bill Maher, Is anyone else seeing this? Britt Goldstein the Second Best Night of Your Life, Kevin Hart’s Acting, My Age, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, and Cameil Nanjianni’s Thoughts Now Adam Those I have Kevin Hard as my number two Special of twenty twenty five, but I want to give the award to Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem. I think from an award standpoint, that is the best one. The nominees for Best Podcast Armchair Expert with Dak Shepard, Call Her Daddy Good, Hang with Amy Poehler Slam Dunk Amy, you might as well start walking up to the stage now, the Mel Robbins podcast SmartLess and Up First. Celebrity presenters this year include George Clooney, He’s in that Jay Kelly movie with Adam Sandler, The Great Germanic Actor Ope, Adam cleans Up, Jennifer Gorner, Jod Appatow, Julia Roberts, Catherine han Keegan, Michael Key from the Macpack, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Hart, He’s just back from the Red Comedy Festival, Miley Cyrus, I’m not reading everybody, Snoop Dogg, Want of Sykes, Will Arnett, Zoe Kravitz.

If you are a winner or a presenter, at the Golden Globes, you get a swag bag. The rob Report curates these and calls them the Ultimate Gift Bag. Last year, people got things like a five day yacht charter through the Coral Triangle in Indiany, Asia, as well as a Nordic Trac treadmill worth fifteen thousand dollars. Does anybody have the clip from George Carlin saying it’s a big club and you ain’t in it. So while all these celebrities are up there acting like they’re just normal folks like you and I, yeah, let me know.

When you went a five day yacht charter through the Coral Triangle, One participant received a wine tasting and dinner experience in Bordeaux, France, valued at two hundred and seventy two thousand dollars. This year, your bag is an Atlas Bespoke signature Duffel Bag. The bag comes with the Ultimate Gift Book, which helps recipients review and select offerings tailored to their personal interest. Jeez, this is a whole other world, all right. Some of the things you can get a Bow Domain skincare set that runs you two hundred and seventy three dollars.

Well, It doesn’t run you anything. You just get to click of box and you get this. The cell Cosmet skincare set valued at four forty five. Current body skin led hair Growth Helmet valued at eight sixty Which celebrity is gonna go? Yeah, can use some help with my hair.

The Elysium Health one year basis supplement subscription valued a five one cent of choice from Perfume Head valued at six point fifteen a southeast by Bernadeaux Porcelain La crem I’m sure I pronounced that right, valued at six forty The Trunk Luxury spa box leave it in four sixty five. The Signet twenty two and seventy seven bottle set with Martini and Rocks glasses five hundred dollars. So far, the only things I’m interested in are the yacht and the treadmill. I don’t want any of those other things. Oh here’s another yacht.

I spoke too soon, The Celestia Fincy five day luxury yacht charter through Indonesia, valued at sixty grand. I’ll take that please. Now this next list are offered to some winners and presenters. Now I wonder how that works? Are they?

Like? All right? Who won? George Clooney. Okay, so offered George Clooney the Casa Belamore Beach Fund via Stay at San Jose del Caabo, Mexico.

That’s valued at twenty five grand. That’ll go to five recipients. Okay, who won best podcast? Oh it’s the guys from Up First. Yeah, let’s non invite them to hang out with George Clooney at Cosa Bella Moore.

Give them some of the perfume, like, does that had this works? That has to be how this works? Right? Three recipients will get the conradt Co Samui royal Va Stay. Hey, should we invite the up First guys and want to invite Justin Bateman?

Oh okay, how about the Conrad Maldive’s Rangali Island Ocean Pavilion Stay. Five recipients will get that. That’s valued seventy thousand. I was thinking to give you that to the guys from up First. Should we invite No?

No, I want you invite Sandler to that one. Okay? The Conrad Singapore Orchard Premium Sweet Stay, valued at twelve grand. Three recipients get that. How about we hook up the up First guys with that?

Swegetive nan and what do you see if ab Polar wants to do that? Oh okay, the flock Hill Rokai Minarets at New Zealand Luxury Lodge Stay goes to one recipient thirty one, three hundred and seven dollars. I like how they runted that off? Should we get that to the up first guys? Nah, because you know we only have one and they are a whole team, so let’s not offend them.

Oh there’s more. The Fully Entertainment Group New Zealand Estate Stay and Private Winemaker Dinner twenty recipients. That’s valued a fourteen four fifty. Now how does this work? Do We all go to the after party and it’s like, hey, what did you get in your bag?

And you’re like, oh, I got the uh Mandappa Ritz Carlton Reserve in Bali. I heard three of us got that. It’s probably a fifty eight hundred. How about you? Oh yeah, I got the Natural Hotel in Austria.

Five of us got that for eleven thousand and five hundred. How about you, Johnny Mac? I got a rock? Like? Is that how this works?

Hey? Up first guys? Oh yeah, I got some perfume. Oh yeah, I got that too, but I also got the Roberport twenty twenty seven vehicle test drive at the Concourse Club. One recipient got that and that was me.

That’s probably to thirty one thousand, four hundred. I mean, listen to this. Do you hear how out of touch any of this is? So when you’re watching the Gold and Globe Sunday Night anything, any of these people are normal. They’re not.

This is what they’re doing. They’re getting a bag, and one recipient’s bag will have the Roundhill Rotel and VS stay in Jamaica, valued at thirty grand, and six other people will have the reserve at Grace Bay Beachfront v in Turks and Caicos, valued at fifty grand. How long have I been reading this list? This is insane? Oh my god, I’m scrolling that.

I can’t even continue this bit. There’s so many here, I’m gonna fly through it. Bali Panoramic view, Waldorf Astoria, Bangkok, Waldorf Astoria, Maldives, Behind the scenes, WEC race access and private jet incentive, A dog Pound, private gym rental experience seventy five hundred g thanks for the bag, the Wellness Spelled Time Together Massage experience, twenty five recipients four hundred and eighty bucks. Hey guys from up first, enjoy your massage. The Massan Devereux Golden Circle Annual Membership in Herecare Set twenty one thousand for three recipients.

The robber Port re Well Wellness Retreat passes go to two people for twenty grand six seventy two NAPA Valley Wine Club membership three hundred. Hey up first guys, here you go, Thanks for coming. Sorry you lost, Amy Pohler. The Isle of Harris Distillery. Six bottle whiskey case, Jim Gaffigan, Here you go.

It’s worth ten eighty thirty five people getting that. One liber Potter nine ultra rear bottles of French wine. One recipient. It’s valued at two hundred and ten thousand. Here you go, mister Clooney, another Bordeaux.

There’s more outlcohol. Jeez okay boy, Now, if you’re feeling left out, No Boo is giving fans a chance to feel like one of these elitist Hollywood people with their Golden Globes inspired menu for a limited time, you regular folk who listen to a podcast by a guy wearing sweatpants in the basement you. Why am I picking on you? You’re nice? You listen to me.

You could get a golden Yuzu lobster dish at Matusisha, Nobu Los Angeles, and Nobu Malibu. The dish was great in conjunction with the Golden Globes Awards show and is designed to give guests a taste of what it’s alike to attend the Golden Globes. Can you throw in a six day yacht cruz so I could really know what it’s like? Now? The Golden Yuzoo Lobster will run you eighty three dollars.

The saute lobster and asparagus is top with a Uzu sauce and golden flakes to give it that Hollywood glam look. If you’re a lobster fan, you’ll devour this dish. The review I’m skimming off says it was light and refreshing, being just the right amount of filling and flavorful. Sure it’s it’s pricey, but it’s a treat yourself kind of meal that’s worth the splurge. If you love getting into the hype of awards season, I’ll take the six day cruise now.

If you want to eat the same meal as these Hollywood fancy people. There’s a limited time to go menu at Nobuu fifty seven at No Boo Downtown in New York, as well as Noboo Malibu and Nobuo La. Now the offering is only available this weekend, so get moving now. Notice it’s to go. We don’t need rear forraff like you sitting at Noboo with George Clodia Adam Sandler.

You get out, you can get yours to go, and your to go plate includes everything that’s on the actual plate that served to real celebrities. That includes Noboo’s signature yellow tail with jalapeno, a caviar cup, and lost Or salad with spicy lemon dressing. The Golden Globes to go menu is priced at one hundred and twenty five dollars. It’s a menu you’d expect the White Lotus cast to be eating the Golden Globes Tomorrow night on CBS. Tomorrow, on this very program, Mike Chisholm and I will discuss some comedy topics.

Is a rather a long episode, more like in the forty five minute range, But we’ll be doing that on the weekends in January. All right, Enjoy the Gold Globes. I do think Nikki Glaser is gonna have a big night. But when you’re watching the show, think about those bags, all right, Just think about it, think about what’s really going on. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Taylor Swift, Joe Coy, Jeremy Strong, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Joan Rivers, Kamail Nanjiani, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser preparing to host Golden Globes for second year
• Nikki Glaser considering targeting unnamed celebrity in Golden Globes monologue
• Nikki Glaser avoiding Ozempic and plastic surgery jokes at Golden Globes
• Golden Globes host preparation and writer’s room process
• Joe Coy’s controversial Taylor Swift joke at previous Golden Globes
• Nikki Glaser’s path to becoming three-time awards show host

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A phrase you say to train the Spotify algorithm, But we don’t have time for that. I have so much I want to get to today. This Chris Gethard interview is just I wanted to lead off with that, but I know how SEO works.

So I have to tell you about Nikki Glaser, which I’m equally excited about. She is going to have a huge weekend. But listen to this. She was on Kelly Ripke’s podcast Pay a Lot of Attention here, Okay. Glazer said that she’s considering targeting a specific celebrity during the Golden Globe’s hosting gig, but she anticipates the star in question might not take too kindly to her jabs.

You don’t suppose it’s you know who? Do you? Nicky said there’s someone that might come this year, and I was thinking about what their reaction would be because I don’t think they have a good sense of humor. I don’t want to review who said Nikki Glaser, And I’m sorry to talk in vague terms, but picturing this person looking angry about the joke I’m making. I never want to make anyone uncomfortable.

Now, try and imagine a situation where someone is hosting the Golden Globes and tells a joke and the person the joke is about makes an ice face, basically murders the person career, except the person sells out arenas right. Remember that one time jokoy till that horrible mean joke about Taylor Swift and she made the face? Could NICKI be talking about that? Now? I see no reason Taylor would come to the Golden Globes.

I don’t believe she’s nominated. She’s not listed on the presenters, so why would she go? NICKI did not reveal who the person is, but says this person I feel I can kind of take it and not deserves it. But I’m almost annoyed. They wouldn’t have a sense of humor about it, as opposed to like, oh, that was mean and I shouldn’t have said that.

This person maybe takes themselves too seriously. Who do you think it is? She can’t eat Taylor? Can’t she Why would Taylor go to the Golden Globes? Who knows Nicki did a lot of press.

She spoke to USA Today about jokes she won’t do. She says there’s no appetite for jokes about weight loss drugs this year. In twenty twenty five, as she called it, Ozempic’s biggest night this year, she says Ozempic’s been done some jokes, is just not a unique way to do them anymore. She also want to do plastic surgery jokes, explaining, going back to the fifties and sixties, you could make fun of people getting faceless. Now it’s so normalized, it just seems like I’m coming for everyone.

It almost feels like body shaming. I’m not sure I agree with that. I mean, I was recently watching what was I watching what’s it called Fallout? Fall Out on Amazon, and I couldn’t stop staring at Kamil Anjiohni’s chin, And then that made me google Kameil Nanjiohni’s chin interesting reading if you’re ever on Ready, and that made me google John Mlini chin. So I don’t know, everybody looks fake to me.

I think you could make fun of it. It’s okay, Nikki here, this is fine. I just asked Latebot. Can you make a joke about Kamail and Anjiohni’s chin looking different. Here’s what the late Bot writing staff came up with.

This is really good. Kamil Nanjiohnny showed up looking great, and right now you pause and you let everybody clap, and the camera switches to Kamail and then you tag it with but his chin looks like you got a separate agents. That’s great. Here’s another one. This is good.

Camel Angianni’s chin now has the confidence of someone who’s been through three Marvel movies and a lighting upgrade. That’s great. Let’s see what it could do to Mlaney. These are okay. John Mulaney’s chin now has the confidence of a man who’s been through Rehabit still insists on wearing a suit.

I don’t know what Mlanie did during his time away, but his chin definitely did some emotional work. That’s not bad. As told better by Nikki Glaser, that would work. Mulaney returned with a new outlook on life, a new chapter, and a chin that says I’ve seen things. Those are good jokes.

I digress USA today, says Nikki Glaser worked through the Christmas Holidays with a team of comedy writers who knocked down her attempts at facelift joke. Lazier said, I’m like, but I’m gonna get a face lift. I’m on the right side of this. Is there way to spin it that? I asked for advice and she said it’s too convoluted.

I just can’t make fun of face to work anymore now again, she worked through the Christmas Holidays. I’ll remind you Joe Coy he once told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. But I do have time for that. He only got the job nine days before hosting the Golden Globes because no one wanted to do it, and then he told that horrible meme joke and then Taylor made a face. I recently rewatched Joe’s monologue.

It’s pretty good. One of these weekends, I’m gonna break it down and do a whole episode about Joe Boy’s monologue. It’s way better than anybody gives a credit for. Glazer and her team watch the red carpet cameras to see the stars arrive, and they write or cut jokes on the fly. As she told USA Today, she explained last year, Jeremy Strong was dressed like a turtle who deals cocaine, but we didn’t want to make fun of him.

We pulled back because we were like, Jeremy Strong takes himself very seriously, as he should, and this isn’t the night to mock him. Nikki is back for her second year. She’s hoping to come back for a third year. Three time hosts include Ricky Gervais and the team of Tina fe and Amy Poehler. Nicki says to be in the pantheon of award show hosts, you got to do at least three.

I feel like I’m getting started. It’s a great gig. I love it. It’s perfectly suited for my talents or Lacverev. I think she’s gonna have a really big night.

The mainstream press is just loving her, nothing but glowing reviews, and this one is a total wax job from Parade magazine. Glazer was on Zoom and said, I’m feeling really good about everything. I’m really calm and feel like this is going to be really fun. I’m confident in the jokes and the material, and like George Clooney and Julia Roberts may be familiar with me now, and this is the wax Job, And this is not a dig at Nicki. This is just me analyzing the media, going Wow, they really like her.

Okay, so Nicki said, Clooney and Roberts may be familiar with me now and parade rites as well. They should be. Since arriving on the comedy scene more than a decade ago, the lanky, forty one year old blond has become one of the most provocative and prominent voices in either by doing it all podcasts obviously, reality shows, Sure and Whereminded. She’s appeared on Last Comic Standing, Masked Singer, Dancing with the Stars, Selling Sunset, and hosted f Boy Island and Blind Date. The wax Job continues off the mic.

Glazer is surprisingly wholesome. Raised in Saint Louis, she still lives in the area to be close to her parents and far from the NYC LA grind. Nicky says, I forget that I’m even into business when I’m walking around. She jokes that before she hosted SNL, I told people and they were like, oh, that’s fun, Like I was going to a wedding parade, asked Nikki, what don’t people understand about the life of a versioning stand up comedian Nikki said, everyone’s always like, oh, it’s so tough, and you’re on the road, you’re a different club every night, and you’re staying at crappy hotels and you’re dealing with gross guys. But I loved it.

I guess the most difficult thing for someone to understand about stand up is that it’s fun and cathartic. The hardest part is nobody wants your greatest hits. You’re constantly writing new material. NICKI, when did you feel like everything was clicking. I had a podcast that was getting a lot of attention that led to an MTV show, and we did that for two seasons.

Then I had a Comedy Central show and then a Comedy Central special, and I started doing specials on Netflix. But then I saw the Jone Rivers documentary and she said that she says yes to everything, so I followed her rule for a while, Like I didn’t think I was too cool for anything. I got asked to do Dancing with the Stars in twenty eighteen, and that was terrifying to me. I never danced in my life. I did the mass singer and game shows too.

As for being voted off Dancing with the Stars, it was a rejection like I’ve never faced in my life, and it was public and it was on live TV. I really wanted to stay on the show and really cared about it. To get rejected not because you’re a bad dancer, but because the public doesn’t even care to you continue. I was humiliated, But now people don’t remember I was on it, So it taught me the lesson of like these big moments that I think are catastrophic or just blips, you can recover. The worst that can happen is that you’re embarrassed for a few days.

Well, it does look like Nikki will be safe on Comedy Survivor again. A Monday morning’s episode will be a Globes recap Monday at noon a bonus episode with the results of Comedy Survivor at week one. Voting is now closed so that Johnny Mac can count and produce the episodes. Tomorrow on this program a Golden Globes preview, and then Sunday, Mike Chisholm and I talk comedy for a while. Here’s a fun story that’s not fun if you’re the people involved, but it’s a fun story.

Tom Sigora and Christina Pizitski are stuck in the Caribbean. Why John, remember when we invaded Venezuela last weekend and they shut down all the flights and people got stuck places. Two of those people apparently are Tom Sagora and Christina Pazinski. Sigora, in a social media video said, we’re stuck in the Caribbean. Do you remember how the US went in and captured Maduro in Venezuela and he was brought to justice in New York.

They’ve shut down a lot of airspace, so we spent days here. We can’t go home. We’ve been stuck for extra days. Airspace becomes open and then closed. It’s fun, I’ll tell you.

The fun part is that you go to the airport and they tell you you’re gonna leave now, and they go, just kidding, you’re not. Every day’s just a mystery. Will we get home? Christina p added But we’re still doing our thing and stuff like that and trying not to get a duy. We’re doing it all anyway.

Happy New Year, We love you and we’ll see you next week. Sigora’s comedic partner, Bert Krasier revealed that he started monzorro and is down twenty pounds in two weeks. He told the Dumb Blonde podcast that his sparkle is gone in his life because he can’t eat any more. Bert says the side effects are aggressive. I got into a huge blowout with his nineteen year old daughter and Leanne, his wife, like a three way fight.

They were in the car. She’s just a talking head for Leanne. Whatever Leanne says. She goes, you gotta listen to mom. She has all the answers Dad, and I’m like, she does not have all the answers.

Bert also said that Manzarro incited a physical illness in him. I couldn’t tell if I was making myself ill or if was the medicine making myself ill. I’ve always had a weird thing about my throat closing. I threw violently in LX. I don’t think it was a moncero.

I don’t know what it was. I’ll tell you, I’m looking at all these Hollywood people on this stuff. You know, they go through a phase. We’re like, oh, yeah, so and so looks pretty good. They lost weight, and then they stay on it and they all look like skeletons.

It looks unhealthy. I wonder what the long term effects of this stuff would be. I’m just a guy in a basement. I have no scientific knowledge. You do you, but I’m looking at pictures of people and I’m like, you think that looks good?

Now. I wanted to lead off with this one. Chris Gethard went on The Good One podcast. Hit stop on my podcast at about thirty seconds and I’ll tell you why, and go listen to The Good One with Chris Gethard. It’s going to be one of the best podcast episodes of the year.

I couldn’t get enough of this one. What a great conversation. The episode title is the Death of the middle Class Comedian, and Chris Catherard, who’s had decent success, is very transparent about how he had to get a day job. He has a day job in his struggles getting insurance. In this first clip I pulled, he talks about whether or not Netflix translate into money.

I have edited this for pacing, but take a listen to this. You can be on some of the biggest platforms in the world and you’re not actually making money because all the production costs come out of your end. Hey, you got a special on Netflix. This is a big shot. You want to hang back and save some money for yourself.

Well, what if it doesn’t sound right, what if it doesn’t look right, What if you didn’t rent the right venue? So all those costs come out of your end. Some of these platforms, you will find people who have actually lost money putting a special up. On platforms that the public regards as the biggest platforms in the world. You get hand an artist hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the actual cost of making the special is pretty close to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Chris Gethard also talked to The Good One podcast about social media clips not translating into ticket sales. So everybody, and I’ve been screaming about this in the podcast industry, everybody’s making all these videos, all these videos, and I’m like, yeah, but you gotta have a video team. And like, meanwhile, Andrew Schultz is talking to Trump, and there’s a couch and a fig plant, and everybody’s lit this thing and they’re spending all this money and you know, a guy in a basement, I don’t have those resources. If you want to have a good hour long thing, maybe it is not actually true that what you need to be doing is training your audience to go one minute at a time. So it sounds like everybody’s making all these social media clips but not selling tickets off them.

What are we doing everybody? Now? Elsewhere in the interview, I thought I had flagged a time stamp, and I went back and tried to find it, and even in the Apple transcript, I could find the text, but I couldn’t match it up to the audio. So I just moved on with my day. So I’ll just read you what he said.

This is very interesting, throwing some shade there. Chris Gethart said, you and I know the stories told in the comedy world of some comics who are very very wealthy right now with their ten million faceless followers, who the story goes, and this is conjecture, this is hearsay that they have actually said. I’ll say a bunch of stuff I don’t believe. I know it’s going to pop off, but you’re hurting the world. You’re platforming stuff you don’t believe in, saying it out loud and telling people watch this work, and then it does.

No wonder. I’m so wary of the system. No wonder. I hate it if it’s a game you can play to the detriment of your own values exchange for money. Get the f out of here with that stuff.

We’ve all heard stories, and I’ll let people guess. Some of them will guess correctly. I’m sure some of them incorrectly, but you’ve heard those stories. Now. He didn’t say who it is, and I was thinking about it.

I’m like, hm, who might be saying things they don’t believe and just taking the money. Do you have any guesses? I try to think about it. The closest I could come up with was a guy named Andrew Boltz, who is not a famous comedian. I don’t know if you know Andrew Bolts, but that would be my guess.

Chris Gethard said it was someone famous, and Andandrew Boltz is not a famous comedian. He’s a guy that plays a comedy club in Woodside that I go check out sometimes. So I don’t think he meant Andrew Bolts, But you tell me who you’re thinking. I’m not sure. Two comments about Late Night from Johnny Mac.

Now, Originally I was just prepping the show and I saw Jimmy Fallon jokes about Greenland, and I’m like, these are like pretty toothless. Jimmy Fallon, who told it better, said yeah, Trump’s buying properties and seizing boats. He’s pretty much playing monopoly in battleship, okay, and the other one was at this point, the only way to get Trump away from Greenland is convincing him that’s where vegetables come from. I almost dropped to JC there. I mean, Jimmy, come on, man, come on.

Now. I had that originally as a standalone story, but then as I prepped the show, I saw what Stephen Colbert did to open the Late Show, and I’ll do that second because the Colbert story led me to Jimmy Kimmel addressing the Ice incidents. I imagine by now you’ve seen the video, Kimmel said, Now I saw this video. It didn’t look like anybody got run over. To me, it looked to me like a woman got scared, try to drive away and they shot her.

That’ll be for the court to decide. Kimmel then played a clip of the mayor telling Ice to get the f out of Minneapolis. After that clip, Kimmel came back and held up a T shirt with the phrase get the f out of Minneapolis. I pulled the audio but didn’t make sense. It was just easier for me to tell you.

And then Stephen Colbert opened the late show with a cold open. I’ll play the Stephen part, and then he threw it to Governor Walls, but I’ll play the Colbert part. Hi, everybody, we have a comedy show for you tonight, And normally we start these shows with a cold open, but sometimes we don’t do that, especially if there’s been a shocking tragedy, and there’s been another. This morning in Minneapolis, a thirty seven year old woman was shot and killed by an ICE agent in front of her neighbors. Homeland’s Security Secretary Gnome claimed the slain woman committed an active domestic terrorism and says the agent act in self defense.

The Mayor of Minneapolis watched the videotape of the killing and said that claim is and I quote both. So once I pulled those two clips, I was like, all right, let me see what Jimmy Fallon did. I want to be fair to Jimmy Fallon. Maybe he did some jokes. Now I’m recording this on Thursday, so maybe he did the jokes Thursday night.

But as I record this at one fifty nine pm Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, January eighth. A Google of the phrase fallon ice turns up a Rolling Stone article with the headline Kimmel Colbert hit out at ice killing in Minneapolis, and the other result for fallon ice. Google ai says fallon ice most commonly refers to fallon on Ice, a seasonal outdoor ice skating rink in downtown Fallon, Nevada that operates from November to February. It also might refer to Ben and Jerry’s The Tonight, though, a flavor associated with TV host Jimmy Fallon Deep Sigh from Johnny. Mack Comedy stock Markets, Thank you.

Bert Reynolds in. One of the tenants of the Comedy stock Market is we try to find value in the comedians. I think this week pretty simple. One buy one cell. You can probably guess both of them.

Our bye this week. I don’t think right now, this second, this moment in time into this weekend, I don’t think we can acquire enough Nicky Glazer stock. She’s going to have a huge weekend. So while it’s still Friday, buy some new Glazer before the civilians go. Who’s hosting nic Goolden gloves this year.

Oh who is she? She’s really funny. Get in on the Nikki Glaser stock while you still can. We might sell it at peak value a week from now, but right now, buy Nikki Glaser stock the cell. I think it’s pretty easy.

You can’t say Marcelo without saying sell. Boy, that’s hacky. Leave it in, sell Marcelo Hernandez. Nobody seems to like the special. I haven’t seen it yet.

There doesn’t seem to be any press on it, so I don’t know how interested Marcelo Hernandez is in his own special. But I think we’re finding out that Marcelo does one thing, one thing well, and one thing only. Marcelo Hernandez is your seal. Nikki Glaser strong By, that’s your comedy stock market. Johnny Max is getting up on his soapbox.

People who are in control of star Trek right now, please stop, please please stop. There’s this new series, Starfleet Academy. Don’t get me started on it, but since that’s not comedy, I won’t go there. But I’m very upset that it exists. The comedy Starfleet Academy writer and co producer Tawny Newsom, who, by the way, if you see the trailer for Starfleet Academy, the new cruise there and there’s big board behind them, and it has all the heroes of Starfleet over the years.

If you look at the board, you see Ambassador Spock and Admiral Leonard McCoy. And if you look on the right side, Towny Newsom put her own name up there. It says Admiral Tawny Newsom, and it’s like, go hose yourself. How dare you Johnny Max serious about a start Trek? Okay?

So, co producer Tawny Newsom has updated the world on her idea for a live action Star Trek comedy. Please don’t, please don’t, please don’t. The concept is Federation outsiders serving on a resort planet set in the twenty fifth century after Star Trek. Picard. Newsom says she has turned the scripts in and is waiting for someone to decide.

Hopefully they decide. No, Tony said, the conversations I’ve had is, yeah, we finished writing it and everyone said, yep, we love it, and then we turn it in and that was Christmas. This business is an interesting place right now, so who knows. Please don’t just please let star Trek Die. Discovery was awful the first two seasons, but Card were awful.

Starfleet Academy makes me just wanna makes me want to watch Discovery. That’s how bad Starfleet Academy is. I digress. Back to comedy John Okay, director Akiva Schaeffer says he’s not planning another Naked Gun movie, despite the Liam Neeson version being well received now. Schaeffer explained that the merger of Paramount with Skydance Media may have derailed plans.

He said, I don’t know if you heard about Paramount kind of changed donors. It was about seven days after the movie came out. You know, we’re waiting to hear from them to see if they would want it. Sounds like he’s moved on. And if you want to go on, America’s got talent and you’re a comedian.

Any comic looking to audition for AGT Season twenty one can sign up to take part in Howie Mandel’s comedy showcase at the Laugh Factory. It’s a rare opportunity to perform on the same stage as Howie Manzel. Comics can submit their name, email, and phone number, as well as a five minute max stand up performance. Comics chosen for the showcase will be notified by email prior to the event. Agt’s Comedy Showcase at the Laugh Factory Wednesday, January twenty eighth at nine forty five pm.

The event is open to the public, so if you’re a fan of the show, you can go. And that is your comedy news for today tomorrow on this very program, a Golden Globe’s Preview, and then Sunday, Mike Chisholm and I talk about stuff. If you lock Mike and I in a room, we go on and on. If you don’t know who this Mike chishom guy is, he’s the host of the Letterman podcast. We both love Letterman, and you can hear me explain to Mike my vision for the Church of Letterman Orthodox and we reject the later works of David Letterman.

But we get into that at some point on one of these upcoming shows. All Right, I gotta stop talking. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Conan O’Brien, Marcelo Hernandez, Bowen Yang

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser hosting Golden Globes monologue prep and Julia Roberts joke struggle
• Conan O’Brien on political comedy and why anti-Trump comics shouldn’t rely solely on anger
• Marcelo Hernandez Netflix special ‘American Boy’ release and critical reception
• Bowen Yang’s SNL departure and defense against range criticism

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is something you would say to train the Spotify algorithm. But we don’t have time for that because Nikki Glaser is hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday. And I’ll tell you right this, the industry has decided they love Nikki Glaser. As I was going through the press, all the like mainstream sites have decided we love Nikki Glaser.

She’s getting nothing but rave reviews. Nikki Glaser said she’s struggling to find a joke about Julia Roberts for the telecast. Glazer was on a conference call and said she’s been the toughest not to crack, but I’m going to crack it. I want to do the perfect joke, but it’s like people don’t have a sense of humor about Julia Roberts. She’ll be fine, other people are not fine on her.

Behalf. Like the most innocent joke about her that they made a couple of times trying it out, they booed, they were like jeering. So I have some advice for Nikki Glaser, she doesn’t need my help. But when you’re hosting the gl Globes, here’s what you don’t want to do. You don’t want to see Julia Roberts in the audience.

Go as you know, we came on after an NFL doubleheader. The big difference between the NFL and the Golden Globes is we have fewer pictures of Julia Roberts. He don’t want to do that, that won’t go over well, don’t do that. Nicki’s been running her set at various California comedy clubs. She said, I’ve been running the jokes constantly.

I live and die by those crowds. They really tell me what to keep and what not to. Things that I think will kill will be nothing, and things I think are a throwaway or they’re like the best joke. I was gonna make a joke about Plurbus, where I said, have you seen it plurably Not? But we couldn’t find a place for plurably Not, so that one’s probably in the graveyard.

Would she talk about things like Venezuela? Nicki says, you can’t even anticipate things a week away as being relevant enough. You’d be surprised that half the room had no clue why I was saying Venezuela. People aren’t getting the news like we all are. Nicki also said during the week I could do the monologue tonight and feel like I have a solid monologue, but I still have five days to write more so if you count.

She said that on Tuesday. So I’m looking forward to what it becomes. There’s a lot that can happen, and in the final moments, when the writing team and I are all kind of drained of any creativity, that’s when it starts to get loopy and weird. I’m exciting for what comes out of that. Nicky also got the the nice Hollywood reporter, big splashy piece that famous people get from time to time.

She got the good version of that. I’ll save that for Saturday. Looking ahead to the weekend, Saturday will be a Golden Globe’s preview, and Sunday I’ve got some stuff I recorded with Mike Chisholm that’ll be this weekend. Conan O’Brien was interviewed by The Oxford I’m leaving that in why did I say Oxford Oxford Union say it with a normal accent. John Oxford Union.

Anyway. He was interviewed for an hour by the Oxford Union. You’ll find it on YouTube. He was asked about political comedy. Conan O’Brien said, some comics go the route of I’m just gonna say F Trump all the time, or that’s their comedy.

And I think, well, now you’re being co opted because you’re so angry. You’ve been lulled. It’s like a siren leading you into the rocks. You’ve been lolled into just saying F Trump, F Trump, F Trump, Screw this guy. And I think now you’ve put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you’ve exchanged for anger.

And that person or any person like that would say, well, things are too serious now, I don’t need to be funny, and I think, well, if you’re a comedian, you always need to be funny. You just have to find a way. You just have to find a way to channel that anger into a way because good art will always be a great weapon, will always be a perfect weapon against power. But if you’re just screaming and you’re just angry, you’ve lost your best tool in the toolbox. Good advice from Codin O’Brien.

There Conan also talked about tearing down the East wing of the White House to construct a ballroom. Conan said, I’m really going on a limb here saying that’s his greatest crime. I think he’s hurt political comedy by being so outlantish himself. I think the January sixth thing is a blip compared to how much he’s heard comedy. Marcelo Hernandez has a new special on Netflix.

Did you watch it? It’s called American Boy, which reminds me. I prepped this whole show for like over an hour, and not one Marcelo article came up without me googling him. I did find this review I was about to roll into, and that reminded me, Oh yeah, let’s see if there’s any interviews with this guy. No, he did no press.

Isn’t that weird? Very strange?

Also strange that Netflix released a special on a Wednesday.

On a Tuesday, the Daily Beast they watched Marcelo Hernandez is American Boy. Let me lead with their last sentence before I read the review. They say, if you’re one of the many SNL fans who believe that Hernandez lacks comedic range, you know the type his debut next Felix special probably won’t change your mind. Oh that excites me to watch this. If you’re a new listener, I might have mentioned once or twice that Marcelo Hernandez does one thing.

He does one thing well, but he does one thing. That thing is Domingo, and I guess lately we’re giving him credit for a half ass Sebastian man Scalho impression. If you like half ass impressions, you’ve come to the right podcast. I’ll tell you that much. All right, So I’m scrolling down this review here, and all they’re doing is quoting his jokes.

I mean, what would be worse than me secondhand telling Marcelo hernandez jokes. There’s no way that’s going to be interesting. So you watched a special and we’ll let Marcelo Hernandez tell his own jokes. The Daily Beast writ’s most notable in American Boy are the connections to Hernandez’s recurring protective mom sketch, which joked about Latina not sympathizing with her believing their kids’ mental health problems. Ultimately, American Boy makes for a fun introduction to Hernandez’s comedy for those who don’t regularly watch SNL, sounds like it has one thing and does one thing well.

Bowen Yang was on his own podcast, Los Culturistas and explained his decision to leave SNL. Bowen said, the current entertainment ecosystem is so turbulent that people have completely valid reasons for staying longer. In a lot of cases, don’t have the privilege of staying as long as they would have liked to. I have this very beautiful thing where I got to say that I stayed on exactly as long as I wanted to. I was maybe unsure about going back in the summer, and I’m so glad I did now.

Yang had talked about criticisms that he has no range. I’ve never seen such criticism, and I’m like, what are you talking about? Who says Bowen Yang doesn’t have range? Yang said, I feel like I was really bogged down the entire time I was there about the idea that there was no range in anything I did. I knew I was never going to play the dad.

I was never going to play the generic thing. In sketches. It’s a sketch show. Each thing is like four minutes long. It’s short and collapsed by necessity.

So therefore it plays on archetypes. Is really interesting, he explains it. These archetypes are also in a relationship with generic things, and there’s a genericism in whiteness and in being a canvas to build upon. I came in pre stretched, pre died. People had their overdeterminations on which I was.

Oh, that’s the gay Asian guy in SNL, So anytime I woul try and work outside of that, it got completely ignored, or it got collapsed to, oh, he’s being gay and Asian as always. Now he’s Boon Yang. So his feelings about how bone Yang is perceived totally valid. As a guy sitting home, I never felt that way about his characters. I was loved when he was on, and if he had played the data in a sketch, I don’t think I would have thought twice about it.

He was a good jd vance, wasn’t he. I mean, you know, it’s called acting. Chris Red has released a six minute and Instagram video addressing the rumors about his departure from SNL. Late Night I recapped it and Chris Read said he was dealing with pill problems and claims that he sometimes supplied pills to others at Saturday Night Live, but he sure at his former colleagues. I’m not gonna snitch on you all, mf ers.

Chris Red also addresses his relationship with Keenan Thompson’s ex wife. He called that situation an emotional double edged sword. Red says he and Thompson discussed the situation privately and continued working together for more than a year. Red says he’s not trying to settle scores, but he’s trying to be more transparent about mistakes he said he made while spiraling out emotionally in the video. He says, this wasn’t meant for laughs.

I find myself lately getting really annoyed at comedians. Here’s another one of those stories that just made me go really dude, okay. From greenpointers dot com. Greenpointers dot com is reporting that Isola Brooklyn, a Williamsburg comedy club operated by Hannibal Burris, has shut down and according to a city marshall’s notice left on the door, it’s been a long time coming, greenpointers dot Com writes, quote a King’s County Civil Court judge offered a warrant of eviction in September twenty twenty five, legal filings revealed that Isola Sessions, LLC currently owes listen to this number three hundred and twenty one thousand, three hundred and eighty six dollars in eighty seven cents. So just put the number three twenty in your mind for a second.

We’ll come back to it. Green Pointer says. The monthly rent was thirty one thousand dollars. The warrant was stayed upon partial payment, but was executed as of December fifth, twenty twenty five, green Pointer says. In an affid David Hannibal Burris cited the effects of the current climate for small businesses currently.

A quote from Hannibal says, Unfortunately, like so many other small businesses, the current rental climate in New York City nearly destroyed our business, forced extended closures, and caused us to fall behind in rent. We did everything we could to survive and catch up. We made it a priority to always try to work with a petitioner and their agents. Okay, now remember that three twenty number. Let me remind you of this story from December twenty twenty five, one month ago, the Miami New Times reported the City of Miami will pay two hundred thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit legend one of its police officers falsely arrested comedian Hannibal Burst in twenty seventeen on a bogus disorderly intoxication charge.

Okay, so there’s two hundred thousand. Now. You may recall earlier in the year, Hannibal Verus played the reodd To Comedy Festival. Now, I have no idea how much Hannibal was paid to play the Reodd Comedy Festival. Five seconds of research didn’t turn anything up.

A Time magazine in September. Performers have reportedly been paid between three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and one point six million. We’ve also heard that three to fifty number. Out of Tim Dillon’s mouth. Let’s say three fifties the low end.

You got a manager and an agent in the three fifties off by twice. So let’s say one hundred and seventy five. So if you got two hundred from Miami and one seventy five from Riodd, that adds up to three seventy five. Now, if you subtract three hundred and twenty one thousand dollars I don’t know. I don’t have access to real figures.

I’m just a guy in a basement who knows. I’ve never operated a comedy club. I’m not an account to don’ta know how any of this works. Interesting language here. Stephen Merchant has revealed he is leading a separate life from Ricky Gervais.

Makes him sound like Amy Schumer is something. Merchant explained that he and Ricky realized they couldn’t compete with the office, so that they should work a part. Steven Merchant told The Times, We’re not in such a great deal these days, but even at our closest we were living quite separate lives. Ricky used to joke that he was thirteen or fourteen years older than me, and so I was just discovering my favorite nightclub and he was discovering his favorite comfortable chair. I feel you, Ricky.

An update in the Nick Reiner case. I will talk about the case from time to time as we head forward, because it is comedy adjacent and I suspect, as I’ve discussed on the podcast before, that I think Conan will get dragged into this because of the shouting match at Conan’s party. Nick Reiner’s defense attorney Alan Jackson until the court on Wednesday that he’s withdrawing from the double murder case. A public defender, kimber Lee Green, has taken over Reiner’s defense. Reiner only spoke once he was asked if he wanted to postpone his arraignment to February twenty third.

He said, yeah, I agree. Outside of court, the now stepped down defense attorney that he wouldn’t be able to explain his reasons, but attributed it to circumstances beyond our control and more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick’s control. My team and I remain deeply, deeply committed to Nick Reiner and to his best interests. Jackson said, what we’ve learned, and you can take this to the bank, is that pursue it to the laws of this state. Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder.

We wish him the very best moving forward. The LA District Attorney Nathan Hockman spoke to the press outside court and said, we are fully confident that a jury will convict Nick Reiner beyond a reasonable doubt of the brutal murders of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer. Reiner and will do so unanimously. We’ll keep an eye on that one. All right, awkward segue here to the last item before the break.

This has nothing to do with the previous story, but just actually Real Time with Bill Maher has been renewed for two additional seasons. That’ll keep Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO through twenty twenty eight, and depending on how the Landscape goes, that’s kind of around when seth Meyer’s contract expires and Colbert will be gone, And there’s rumors that Kimmel’s done in twenty twenty seven. So is the late night race going to come down to Jimmy Fallon versus Bill Moore go Fallon. Today is the last day to vote for Week one of Comedy Survivor. What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

You find the cartoon image of a Comedy Survivor in the threads they are the comments. You write down the name if you want voted off. You’re voting people off. You’re not telling us who your favorite is. You’re voting people off.

It’s Comedy Survivor. You know how this works. Today’s the last day to vote on Monday, I’ll do a bonus episode at noon Eastern that’ll be a separate episode from the main episode. Monday morning won’t be Golden Globes recap, and then Monday at noon. Survivor Week one results in some analysis as we head into Week two, Comedy Survivor.

Here’s some letterman ask humor for you. SF Sketch Fest on the Rail, presented by BORT that’s the train people, in partnership with the Citywide Comedy Festival, is bringing the region’s first ever stand up show on a moving train. That’s right, this is January twenty fourth. That’ll run you twenty bucks. SF Sketch Fast on the Rails two to four thirty pm.

Brent Weinbach, Britney Carney, Natasha Vinnick, and Hunaud Shakur are all slated to perform via a setup like a silent disco, with audience members given headphones to listen to each of the fifteen minute sets. The event starts and ends at the twelfth Street Oakland City Center Station. Fifty cent is making fun of TI’s attempts to be a comedian. In a since deleted Instagram post, fifty shared a clip of Ti bombing on stage. Fifty caps the clip, which some suggested was remixed to drown out the crowd’s laughter, but the caption read damn it man, it looks easy, but it’s not easy at all.

Lol. Fifty then posted a second clip of Ti getting booed back in twenty twenty two at Brooklyn’s Parkley Center and from the Hong Kong Standard, You’re home for comedy news. A Hong Kong stand up comedian has sparked an online debate after attempting a zero dollar meal. The comedian goes by the name sixty nine Ranch, started a new social media account. He announced a challenge in which he would spend one Hong Kong dollar at a Japanese sushi chain for every new follower he gained.

As it was a new account, he had no followers, so the challenge meant he would spend no Hong Kong dollars. At his first visit, comedian sixty nine Ranch was seen ordering only complimentary items including pickled ginger, pepper to pour, a dipping sauce, children’s tableware, a straw, and a beer glass, all of which cost zero Hong Kong dollars. He mixed the commiments together calling it a zero Hong Kong dollar called ginger salad, before pouring hot water into the beer glass and drinking it through the straw. After finishing, he asked the staff for the bill. The staff was like, well, no food had been ordered, so there’s no bill.

Some viewers criticized the stunt as embarrassing and warned to could encourage copycat behavior, where leaded restaurants to introduce minimum spending requirements. I think the brewery I hang out with needs to do that. On trivia night, there’s a lot of people just drinking water. You got to support the business, like at some point, this is a business guys. You know they’re bringing you the trivia guys.

So you come in, you drink some beer. That’s how this works. I don’t know if some of you Morristown people understand how this works. You’re sitting there drinking your water, and if you come by Johnny Max’s table, you’ll see I bring a water because I like to stay hydrated. But next to that water, you’ll see a beer.

And please remember tip your boar tenders, not your company us for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Donald Trump, Nikki Glaser, Joe Rogan, Marcelo Hernandez, Bert Kreischer, Rachel Feinstein, David Spade, Martin Short, Tim Robinson, Chris Fleming, Jim Norton

What’s in This Episode

• Late night comedians mock Trump’s Venezuela intervention operation
• Trump hosted lowest-rated Kennedy Center Honors telecast
• Jimmy Kimmel Live reducing musical guests to twice weekly
• Joe Rogan’s Austin comedy club protested on New Year’s Eve
• Nikki Glaser hosting Golden Globes second time
• Nikki Glaser announces Stunning Tour across North America and Europe
• Bert Kreischer discusses sex life and intimacy on Dumb Blonde podcast

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Caloroga Shark Media. Johnny Mac is Grouchie Today and Hello, I am Johnny Mac with your daily Comedy Newsy Daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the company industry, which is a freeze. You might say, if you were retraining the Spotify algorithm, but we don’t have time for that right now. I don’t know if you’re aware. As we head to twenty twenty six, there are new rules for podcasters, and podcasters must broadcast all statements from the President of the United States.

So let’s get that out of the way, ladies, a gentleman, the President of the United States. All amigos, Joe sois sinolo precidento and Senor Donaldo. Jay Trumpell, your Expresidental Signor Maduro is no longer your Presidental. Anyway, we’re gonna make Venezuela grande again, Muca grandell, bigger, yell, better than ever before. Late Night had a lot to say about that, Jimmy Kimmel said, after months of escalation, Trump decided Maduro how to go, And yeah, he’s a criminal and a dictator who’s driven his entry into financial ruin while he and his family of line their own pockets.

But Madorio’s no saint either. Great joke. Colbert said, Oh, Venezuela, evidently when he says in America first, he means alphabetically Jimmy Kimmel again, he can’t even run the country he runs. This is like if J. C.

Penny decided to buy Sears. Kimmel, if you’re wondering how bad the Epstein files are and turns out there invade Venezuela bad. Great joke. Fallon said, Yeah, the news took everybody by surprise. When I heard there was an operation to extract a president.

I just assumed Trump got stuck at his tanning bed. Fallin again, yep. Trump ordered the operation without getting congressional approval, and he watched it from a Mara a Lago situation room, which means there’s a chance Vanilla Ice knew about the mission before Congress did. The President and I don’t agree on all the issues. One of the issues we do agree on is make Late Night great again.

And here’s some more Kimmel versus Trump stuff, But on this one, I’m going to side with the President, and I’ll tell you why. Kimmel was talking about the ratings for Trump hosting the Kennedy Center Honors, Kimmel said, after boasting what a great host he is and how much better he is than I am, and how huge his ratings would be. Trump hosted the lowest rated Kennedy Center Honors telecast of all time. Let me tell you something. I’d hate to be the White House intern who had to tear that headline out of all the papers and eat him.

You know, as I recall, he would step down if this happened. He said, if I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel, then I don’t think I should be president. Well, hey, deal’s a deal. Back to MORLOCKO you go.

Now here’s where I sided with the president.

Jimmy Kimmel has never hosted the Kennedy Center Honors, so, as far as we know, Trump is indeed better at hosting the Kennedy Center Honors than Jimmy Kimmel is. Jimmy, You’re gonna have to host the thing and see if you can beat him. Team Trump on that one. We’ll get out of Late Night in a second. But Late Nighter did report that Jimmy Kimmel Live will only host the musical guests twice a week.

I’m not a regular watcher of that show. Were they doing bands every night? That’s crazy? Why would you do that even twice a week? Seems crazy.

Back in the days of Late Night with David Letterman, I didn’t like what he had bands on. Kimmel backstage at the Critics’ Choice Awards said there will always be late nights shows, but discuss the evolution. There are some shows that are called late night talk shows that aren’t late night talk shows, that still have the same format, and maybe we need a different term for them. But it seems to me it’s one of the cheapest forms of broadcasting. CBS might disagree, and it would be very surprising to me if it went away entirely.

CBS might disagree. Maybe it won’t be as big, Maybe there won’t be a big band welcoming the host of the stage, maybe there won’t be fifteen writers. But I think there’ll be some version of late night talk show, and in a way, maybe it’ll be better because maybe there’ll be more opportunities for more people of various backgrounds and ages and niche programming that I think it’d be a lot of fun to watch. New topic from my San Antonio Dot com They got my attention with this headline. A unicorn, a cow, and an Eric Cartman impersonator walk into a bar or protest outside a comedy club.

It seems people down in Austin, Texas are not enjoying Joe Rogan operating a comedy club, and they’re all wigged about it, and this is how they spent their New Year’s Eve protesting the existence of Joe Rogan’s comedy club. Reddit user apologize to the Bees posted a video of a crowd of peace people gathered outside Joe Rogan’s comedy club, decked out in costumes with anti Rogan signs. The protesters were joined by people wearing a South park At Cartman costume, a Unicorn costume, and also an inflatable cow at Connor Cage twelve wrote funnier than anything inside the building. Another redtour wrote, I hated these a holes from out of state. Rogan moved in and claimed the entirety of the Austin comedy scene.

The dude owns one comedy venue, not all of them. A different user encourages us to suport venues like Cold to Town and Camp City, adding keep Austin funny without Diet Alex Jones out today on Netflix. Marcelo Hernandez American Boy. At this point in the script, I would tell you some stuff about Marcelo Hernandez, but there didn’t seem to be any advance press about it, and I did. Look, we’ll see if Marcelo did anything today.

There was a profile late December in the New York Times that was kind of boring. I’ve looked at it three times and can’t find any interesting to pull out of it. Anyway, Marcelo Hernandez on Netflix today, I’m sure you’re looking for that. This weekend, Nikki Glaser hosts The Golden Globes, her second time hosting the program. Last year, she did not make any terrible horrible jokes about Taylor Swift.

Who’s NICKI finding funny these days? She told Upworthy, as of late Rachel Feinstein, David Spade, Martin short Is, Jimmy Glick, Tim Robinson, and Chris Fleming could pick on Chris Fleming there, I also love Jim Norton’s latest special on YouTube, Unconceivable, Upworthy asked Nikki Glaser, no matter how popular you get, is there one thing about you that will never change? Nicki said, I don’t think people really ever change. I try. I’m always holding out hope that I’ll somehow conquer my imposter syndrome and overall low self esteem.

I know some artists and comedians argue that it serves their work to be depressed or anxious, but I feel like I’ve already mind all my insecurities for material in the first two decades of my career. I like to change it as someone who’s more confident. But don’t we all. I don’t want to ever think that I’m better than anyone else, but I’d like to lose the core belief that I’m worse than others. I think Nicky’s going to have a good weekend with the Golden Globes In this week’s Comedy stock Market.

She has announcedate tour. The Stunning Tour will take Nikki Glaser around North America as well as Paris, London, and Dublin. Kicks off the sixteenth at the Coliseum Theater at Caesar’s Palace, then off to Paris, London, Dublin and Atlantic City. Imagine going through Paris, London, Dublin and then Atlantic City. That’s a bit of a letdown, I’m telling you.

The tour wraps up in December. On the second at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. I’m getting old. I don’t know what we’re doing anymore. There’s too much media out there.

Bert Kreischer was on the Dumb Blonde podcast speaking to Bunny Xo. Chryser’s fifty three, so he’s not that much younger than I am. Bert just started talking about his sex life. He said, Leanne’s gonna kill me, but I told her. I was like, Yeo, porn wasn’t doing it for me.

I think it’s because she’s so authentically her and the things that she has turned me on. I said, hey, I need close up pictures of your body parts for me. So I’ve a hidden folder and they’re just pictures. You can’t see Lean’s face, but they’re pictures of her body parts. You know.

Amy Schumer might disagree, but some things in a marriage are just between the people in the marria. You don’t have to go into podcasts and tell us that. Bert said, I didn’t think I was going to be attracted to someone like Leanne. When I got naked with her for the first time, I’d never experienced that feeling. I don’t know if it makes total sense, but it felt like she was sharing a cecar with me.

I felt like she didn’t get naked with a lot of people. That energy I liked. I think we’re past peak Chriser now. I just have that sense. As we all know, Kevin Hart likes to work, isn’t afraid of finding a way to make money.

Well, listen to this one. Kevin Hart announced a deal with Authentic Brands, giving Authentic Brands the rights to license Kevin Hart’s name. Heart and ABG will co manage the quote Kevin Hart unquote brand, bringing it to new verticals and business areas, including consumer products, digital platforms, and live experiences. Kevin Hart, in a statement, said, this partnership is about acceleration, growth and diversification. I’ve spent years building businesses and creating opportunities, and joining Authentic gives me the platform in global infrastructure to take my brand to the next level.

Becoming a shareholder allows me to co own some of the most recognizable IP of all time while building my own brand legacy. Kevin Kevin, Kevin, listen to yourself. You’re talking about IP and brand legacy. Listen to yourself, dude, all the cool just went out of the room. It’s gone.

You have enough money. This might actually be worse than playing Riodd. At least Riodd. You’re doing a comedy show and you’re getting paid. What are you doing here?

Kevin said, I want the Heart name to live on for generations to come and be something that my grandkids and their grandkids will be able to be proud of. Then there’s some quotes here from the city. I can’t even with this. Ugh. Actually I was gonna bounce this next one, but it fits very nicely here.

This was an opinion piece on Vulture. They wrote, remember the Riodd Comedy Festival back in September, It was all anyone interested in comedy talked about. There was David Cross’s blog post calling out Riodd performers like Dave Chappelle, Luis c K, Bill Burr, and Jim Jeffries Cross asking how can any of us take any of you seriously? Again? Andrew Schultz firing back at David Cross by referencing an instance of David Cross using the N word.

Bill Burr’s rant on Conan o’brine needs a friend, where we refer to people criticizing festival performers as sanctimonious sea words who don’t give a hoot. This piece then gets into other beefs, Mark Maren calling out the Rogan verse while promoting his new special, Andrew Schultz going after Andrew Santino on Rogan for simply saying he didn’t like the Austin comedy scene. A video called Mark Norman’s Problem with Eric Andre has four hundred and thirty thousand views. Schultz labeling Maren an ahole on Rogan by telling a story about Maren being mean to John Stewart in the nineties, a story Maren himself has been sharing freely and openly since twenty thirteen. Vault Writ’s.

One of the most memorial reactions to the re Odd Comedy Festival came from twenty twenty six as Comedian of the Year John Marcos Serresi, who posted a stand upset which he said, I hope the one who gets in trouble is Gabriel Iglesias. He’d be like, you can’t be head me my next two Fluffy. I think Chappelle’s performing there tonight. I think it’d be funny if he got in trouble because he wouldn’t stop talking about trans people.

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I was going to bounce this one too, but it fits the theme, Mark Maron, talking to Consequence of Sound, he asked if Joe Rogan still a comic or is he some sort of lifestyle show that deals with information. Maren said, I’m not some radical progressive out in the world ranting about political impropriety. I’m a comedian. So when I said what I said about what was happening in Austin around the sphere of comics in that audience, was to make a point, because they’ve created this audience of what was primarily not comedy fans and created this new breed of, you know, pseudo radicalized comedy fans around anti woke comedy. What’s interesting about comedy and what’s great about it is there’s an expansive bunch of voices, both vulnerable and angry.

And there was this thing that was happening where they were assuming the last word about what comedy was, and it was a fairly unnuanced and very hackneyed repetition of two or three ideas that were primarily right wing talking points. So that’s why I did that. It was for comedy, not for me, not for the left. It was for comedy. Okay, maren Ah, here’s one I bounced a couple times last week, but it fits the theme of where we’ve landed in this particular episode.

So there’s Robert de Niro and he’s sitting near Rob Schneider during the fiftieth anniversary special. Schneider told The Epoch Times that he did see DeNiro two rows of Adam, and he didn’t want to ruin de Niro’s evening because Schneider supports President Trump. However, they did run into each other. Schneider said, I bump into him and he turns around. He has that particular expression that I think everybody knows, and he says, Agony supports that guy.

I’ve cleaned that up a little. Schneider said, you could choose not to have conflict and instead of getting into a political debate, he said to Robert de Niro, I love you. I’m still grouchy, not over yet. On the Facebook group, you can vote for Comedy survivor a lot of people voting. I’ll talk about the voting in a second.

But Mike posted this thing. Mike’s all into this. He posted an analysis. He said he asked Jim and I AI to help build a narrative to help him vote off a comic weekly. It broke them into tribes, which Mike says he can’t argue against.

You will find this all of the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. But here’s what the AI came up with. Tribe number one The Titans Too Big to Fail, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Jim Gaff Again. As for Gaff, again, the AI analyzed everybody likes him. He’s unproblematic, reliable, and has a new Bourbon special.

He will float to the final three. If you aren’t careful that that’s good analysis there. Try two The Roasters, High Risk, High Reward. The Roasters include Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Sarah Silverman, Ron White, and I like this line. Ron White is threatening to retire and quit the game every week, but he never leaves.

Try three The wild Cards. The chaos agents include Bert Kraser, Joe Coy, Leslie Jones, and Amy Schumer. Tribe four the Storytellers, John Mulaney, Otsco, At Kotzka, Tig Nataro, and Jay Leno. As for Otsco, the AI says she’s the sweet player who will stab you in the back of the final tribal council. Very good analysis there, Mike, Thank you for posting that again.

It’s in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. Andrea was wondering why Nate Pergatzy wasn’t on the list when we did the nominations. Nobody nominated Nate. See how the voting is going so far? Sandler Sandler, set Sebastian Sandler, Leslie.

All right, I don’t want to tip the scales. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Scroll down. There’s a cartoon image of Comedy Survivor in there. Vote someone off the Island.

Voting continues until end of day Thursday. I’ll record an episode on Friday, which you won’t hear until Monday. That’s how that’s going to work. Production wise, I want to do these things on Friday. Publication wise, they’ll come out Monday’s at noon as their own separate episodes.

Amy Schumer does like when we talk about her. The New York Post has obtained property records that show that Amy Schumer quietly purchased a corner condominium on Central Park West for six point two five million dollars a year ago, buying the three bedroom, three and a half bath apartment under a trust. The deal closed roughly three months before she listed her Brooklyn Heights townhouse property. The post sess she would ultimately sell out a loss amid her divorce. Last One Laughing UK has announced the cast for season two.

Great, great cast. If you haven’t seen Last One Laughing season one, you should watch it. It’s really funny and it’s a fun game. You could play along at home because you sit there on the couch and you try not to laugh yourself and I couldn’t do it. It’s very funny.

I don’t know all these names, but I know many of them. They are David Mitchell, all right, right there, it’s already great. Diane Morgan, you know, Kunk Awesome, Romesh Ranga, Nathan Amy, Gledhill, Mazy Adam Mel Gidroy Hope. I said your name right, Mel. I haven’t seen Mel’s name in print before.

Alan Carr, Gabema, Sola Ikamello, Sam Campbell, who’s fantastic, and Bob Mortener last One Laughing, in which a brand new set of comedians uses any means necessary to try and break their opponents, but well, they do it all with a straight face. Jimmy Carr returns as your host. Over the course of the season, the comedians will use every answer their comedic talents to try and break their opponents without cracking up. The show is packed with comedy cameos, format twists, and surprises design to elicit laughs from both players and viewers alike. No date yet, but that should be really good.

I keep trying to imagine whether US version of it would be, and maybe my brain is really small. I keep picturing like it would be like the Chrysier Segura type guys like I could see like Andrew Santino and Mark Norman there. I think it would be more of like that kind of scene. But still Jimmy Carr hosting. Hopefully they’ll make it someday.

The twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marco s Areisi, is in Japan. It’s doing a cool tour after Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and India, he told at Japan Time. Social media has destroyed the fabric of society in so many ways, but it’s helped me a lot personally. There was a time when as an American comedian you have to be Chris Rock or at that level to come to Asia. John Marco says he tries not to overload on information and instead gets a feel for a place once he arrives.

I often find there’s a lot of humor in just sincerely learning about something, whether it’s government or a custom or some strange food that you tried. For crowd work to be good, you have to sincerely be curious, and I’ve always found the further away I am from home more curious. I am, so I don’t need to put it on for Japan. It’ll be a lot of fun, he said. He was talking about the trip with Otsko at Kotzka, who will be in Japan while Tremarco is there.

He said, we plan to go to karaoke. That’d be amazing. He asked at Japan Times is there anything I’m not allowed to say in Japan and explained he was advised to curse lesson Singapore and his poster was deemed to be too homo erotic for India. He said, I love being a little edgy. I love having some teeth, but those teeth vary depending on the country.

What I might think is teeth might not even be funny. It could be hacky. That is your comedy news for today. All right, I’m still kind of grutchy. Sorry, it’s Wednesday.

It’s trivia night. I gotta go see the trivia guys. Hopefully he has more questions about comedy this week. There won’t be if they did that last week. This week’s gonna be about Ariana Grande and like the stuff.

I don’t know. My team’s just gonna fish twelve. They’m not even gonna try. I’m gonna have the next game on my phone. All right, See tomorrow.

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Featured: Rosie Jones, Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Leonardo DiCaprio, Seth Rogen, Gene Smart, Mike Barrenholtz, Janelle James, Jimmy Kimmel, Sebastian Maniscalco, Marcelo Hernandez

What’s in This Episode

• Rosie Jones criticizes Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr on trans comedy
• Critics’ Choice Awards comedy coverage
• Nikki Glaser hosting Golden Globes 2026 and avoiding Leo DiCaprio jokes
• Best Comedy and Talk Show winners at Critics’ Choice Awards
• Sebastian Maniscalco and Marcelo Hernandez present at Critics’ Choice Awards

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Which is a phrase you would say if you were training the Spotify algorithm and have successfully gone from eleven percent to fifteen percent of downloads from Spotify. But we don’t have time for that right now, because comedian Rosie Jones has told Ricky Gervase and Jimmy Carr to shut the f up? All right, Oh, what do you know?

Rosie Jones has a new show. It’s called out of Order. It’s on the UK Comedy Central, and she was up promoting it. Funny how that works. Rosie said, it’s your Ricky Gervase’s Jimmy carrs.

It’s just your privileged CIS white straight men who open their newspaper and go, oh, people are talking about trans people. I can know a bit about that without experiencing it. All to those boys that say, with respect, shut the f up. And she actually said the F word. I assume she’s annoyed at Ricky because of his comedy specials.

For Jimmy Carr. The speculation is that on October tenth, Jimmy Carr praised transphobic father Ted creator Graham Lenihan, saying that he admired Graham’s bravery. Jones offered some advice. Rosie says, before you tell a joke, you need to analyze it, and that comes down to three things. First, who are you?

Do you have a lived experience or experience close to you. Second, who is your joke about? What is your intention? Is it positive or negative? Are you punching up or punching down?

And third, why are you telling the joke? Are you asking a question to open up a conversation and make people think differently, or are you saying it simply to be controversial? See, I think she’s leaving something out. One thing that could be funny is repetition. For example, I’m not trying to make a point at all when I point out that one time Joe Coy told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

Here, let’s listen on. The Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I’m not punching up or down. Maybe I’m punching up a Taylor there, but it’s just funny. The Critics’ Choice Awards are a thing, and Chelsea Handler was your host.

She mocked Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, by the way, over the weekend, I watched that one battle after another movie. Kind of fun. Chelsea mocked Leo for spending New Year’s Eve aboard a quote half billion dollars super yacht with one of the richest men in the world. Chelsea joked, Leo almost didn’t make it tonight because he was trapped on a boat in Saint Bart’s.

It was just like the Titanic, but worse because Jeff Bezos was there. DiCaprio was shown laughing at the jokes, which is something you could do. You know, somebody’s hosting an award show and somebody makes a joke. You could just laugh at the joke. Tailor It’s okay, reminds me, I forgot to google Nikki Glaser as part of the show prep.

Here. Here here’s how the show works. I go to Google and I type in Nikki Glaser, and I type in this news tab and I find this story. On the fly. Nikki Glaser reveals which joke she’s avoiding while hosting the twenty twenty six Golden globes and exclusive from people.

Okay, I’m doing this on the fly. Nicki says, there’s lots of joke about this year, and the star power in the room is going to be bigger than ever. I mean, it’s bigger than last year. I kind of have to keep wrapping my head around the kind of people that are going to be in the room. I mean, Leo’s Vappen is going to be there.

So excited to see that. There’s going to be some big, big gaters in the room. And there’s podcast this year, which is also going to be a hilarious thing to joke about. Nicky says, Leo is at the top of her list of what to avoid. I don’t think I’m gonna go with the Leo jokes he for twenty five times.

I think we’ve heard all that and that’s been done enough. My goal is always to not do what’s expected, only to try to challenge myself to not say things that people are gonna expect and try something else. She said. Hosting twenty twenty five was, without a doubt, the most fun I’ve ever had in my career. I can’t wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from the White Lotus, who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian plate’s instructor with a shadowy past golden globes.

This Sunday at eight pm Eastern, which means Johnny Mac has to work late on a Sunday night life is rough. I’ll have to watch football with a laptop out and pull clips on the fly, and then during halftime record the first four minutes of the Daily Comedy News podcast for Monday, and then add in what I had already pre taped. Who Podcasting is a tough business, my friends. Anyway, Nikki, whatever you do, don’t make a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. I digress.

We were talking about the Critics Choice Awards. Remember that Chelsea Handler was hosting it. Remember that like three minutes ago. Yeah, Lets focus on the comedy parts. Best Comedy, The Naked Gun, Best Comedy Series, Hollywood loves to pat themselves on the back, the incredibly Overrated the Studio.

Best Actor in an incredibly overrated comedy series, Seth Rogan, Best Actress Comedy Series, Gene Smart Hacks good Pick, Best Supporting Actor in an Incredibly Overrated Comedy Series, Mike Barenholts for the Studio Best Supporting Actress Comedy Series, Janelle James for ABBD Elementary Best Animated Series, South Park Best Talk Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Best Variety Series, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Best Comedy Special, SNL fifty The Anniversary Special. As for Jimmy Kimmel, he had this to say. I want to thank our President, Donald Jennifer Trump, without whom we would be going home empty handed tonight. So thank you, mister President, for all the many ridiculous things you do each and every day. It’s been a banner couple of weeks.

We can’t get way to get back on the air tomorrow night to talk about them. Thank you everyone. Two of the presenters, Sebastian Maniscalco, teamed up with Marcelo Hernandez quote putting on a comedy clinic unquote are you kidding me? Listen to me, You’re very seriously here for a second. We have a drug problem in America and people are taking crack and then they’re reviewing things.

This is the thing. I know. This is shocking, and hopefully the President of the United States will focus on the crack problem, which is just increasingly affecting the comedy review community. Now I have a clip for you in terms of star power, name power. There was a universe where I would have let off with the Sebastian Maniscalco or Solo Hernandez clip.

However, it’s so bad I knew that I would lose listeners. So I had to bury it here seven minutes into the podcast because if I put this at the top, any casual listener who came by would be like, this podcast is awful. Now we all know the podcast is awful, but it’s not this all here. Let’s listen. Hello, Hello, everyone, This is very exciting, right.

The fashion on the red carpet was on another level tonight. A lot of fashion tonight. A lot of fashion, a lot of filler. Matter of fact, we just got word backstage Los Angeles is completely out of filler. And I’m like, don’t change your face.

I like your face. You got a good face. Why would you do that? You know myself. It’s a beautiful evening to.

Be here with everybody. Great actors here tonight, fantastic all right, A. Few of you have won, a lot of you have lost, and everybody’s got a winning speech, but nobody’s got a ready to lose face. All right now, Marcello, do you have a ready to lose face? Yeah?

I think if I was nominated and I lost, I would think I would probably do something like I don’t even care about this. I don’t care. About I mean, that’s brutal. Some people are smoking cracking going on social media. One person said, I love them together.

Please make this a regular thing? Off that clip? What do you love there? Another, possibly perhaps maybe smoking crack jumping on TikTok, wrote, they need to host the Oscars. You want Sebastian Manuscalco and Marcelo Hernandez to host the Oscars?

Are you kidding me? What happened to Conan O’Brien. Was he hit by a meteor? Was Jimmy Kimmel deported? Is Nikki Glaser unavailable?

Is Joe Quoy not around? Marcelo Hernandez the what are you insane? Marcelo does have a comedy special coming out this week. It’ll be on Netflix tomorrow. Usually Netflix puts out specials on Tuesday.

I don’t know why they waited to Wednesday on this one. Maybe they wanted everybody to settle back into work so they could do the press. I’m not sure, but twenty four years from now we’ll be able to see if Marcelo Hernanez could do anything other than Domingo and variants on Domingo and possibly sort of doing Sebastian Menscalko impressions. Marcelo was on the Red Carpet. He was asked about Saturday Night Live.

He said, I’m having front. Bro. It’s a crazy job and you get to meet so many crazy people and I love it. As for Bowen Yang’s departure, I look at it like sports. You know, there’s a guy that put up numbers.

He had a distinct voice and everybody loves them, and it’s for a reason. He’s a hard worker. I saw him behind the scenes grinding every week. That’s a guy to learn fro him, for sure. Bowen Yang has yet another gig.

He and Matt Rodgers will host a fifteen episode Winter Games edition of Las Culturistas as part of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage. WWE plans to maintain its relationship with Tony h Cliff. According to fight Full Select your Home for Comedy News. This despite the cancelation of the Summer Slam late night show that was scheduled last year. You may recall Tony Hinchcliff was set to host the late night show during Summer Slam weekend August second.

However, the event was canceled about a week before it was supposed to take place. He did host the controversial roast of WrestleMania in April, which I don’t think they aired right. Sources within the WWE say they plan to collaborate with Tony Hinchcliff again at some point, although the specifics of the collaboration are currently unknown. Hannah Burner will get a hilarious special in twenty twenty six. No title or synopsis yet, but I’m sure the Hulu publosist will get that information out there.

Hula’s really really good about promoting their specials, so I’m sure I’ll have something in my inbox any second. Twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marcos SIRESI Should I just start calling him that and see if I’m right? Should I just do that? Like all year, like wired to wire? Just always say the full phrase?

Twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marco Sirezi should I do it well. The twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marcos AIRESI is heading to Tokyo. Oh No, I forgot how time zones work. He’s in Jokyo. He’s probably actually performed by the time you hear this because of the way time zone works.

Timeout dot Com asked twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marcos AIRESI, what can people expect from this tour, and the Comedian of the Year said everything from Thief of Joy’s retired, so it’s gonna be some material that have been fine tuning for the last couple of years. Eighty percent of the show will be really polished material, but there’s gonna be some CrowdWork as some new topical stuff too. Since I’m traveling to a continent I’ve never been to. That’s why I’m going to Tokyo for two weeks before the show, so I’ll have time to soak on the culture and take in new jokes. John Marco’s hoping to film a special this year.

If you’re in Tokyo, He’s at the British pub Good Havens on January seventh. The Comedian of the Year till Timeout dot com, I know a couple comedians have been in Japan, and from what I’ve been told, I’m sure it’s gonna be a different experience in terms of the way audiences respond or how they do CrowdWork. I watch the subtitle versions of other countries local stand up, and I know in some ways that stand up is new there. I think the key to good crowd work is to have legitimate curiosity. I think I’m going to really have that when I’m talking to locals there, and it usually creates fun comedic moments.

He talked about scaling up, explaining touring internationally is not easy. When I went to Europe for the first time, it was like, can we do this? How are ticket sales going to be? I think what’s different now is that he built a company and I finally have an infrastructure. So I could have waited a little longer.

But I think you grow so much as an artist experiencing a different culture and seeing how you jokes play out, and I want to have an international reach. That’s why the tour is ambitious. Comedy Survivor Week one is underway. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Find the Little Cartoon of comedy survivor.

In that thread, give the name of the person who want to vote off. I don’t want to steer the conversation, but last time I looked to Amy Schumer, Jay Leno and Joe Koy had received some votes. Voting continues until end of day Thursday. Here’s a new movie. It’s called Doctor Jekyl and Mister Shark.

Yes, an indie horror comedy. The story centers on Doctor Jekyl, a broken and isolated man shattered by the loss of his wife, verments with an untested drug called shark open I love this already. You see, Sharkopene is an untested drug that warps his body into a bloodthirsty man shark. Now driven by madness and love from beyond the grave, Jekyl prowls the streets, says Marcelo Hernandez as funny and hunts anyone who threatens his twisted relationship with his long dead bride. Doctor Jekyl and Mister Shark out January twenty if looking forward to that.

Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, and she went on Instagram and shared a collection of makeup free photos taken before and during a recent getaway and included many images of Amy Schumer modeling bikinis and other swimwear from a particular brand. Schumer captured the post my mom took these photos of me while I was packing for a trip. In the last photo, I’m on the trip. This year is about self care and self love. Let’s all appreciate our health, our families, our friends and have the best year of our lives, moving forward with no regrets, just love and The Toronto Guardian wrote about comedian Blair Williams.

Blair’s influenced by folks like Don Rickles, Robin Williams and Richard Pryor. Blair going a little old school his style Blend’s personal stories with resilience. Larry uses a wheelchair and says I like to challenge perceptions using humor to disarm and educate the audience while keeping things light and funny. My comedy influences go way back to when I was a kid watching Rickles, Carson, Pryor Carl and Tim Conway, Robin Williams, Red Skelton and Eddie Murphy. In my teenage years, I gravitated towards Mike Myers, Chris Farley and Adam Sandler.

I like this guy like a second ago. Now I have fine inspiration of the styles of Bill Burr. You know Bill Burr played the Comedy Festival, And if you remember that Joey Diaz, who some people say is the worst person on the planet. Yeah, I’ve heard people say that if you ever run it to Joey Diaz in real life, he’s the biggest a hole you’ll ever meet and just a horrible, horrible person. I’ve heard people say that about Joey Diaz.

I digressed Shane Gillis, Tony Hinchcliff Mark Norman, and Adam Ray Blair. Williams says, I also have to give a big shout out to Josh Blue and Jared Nathan, who continue to shape my comedy journey today. Rickles had sharp wit, Curlin’s boundary pushing insights, and Robin Williams’s incredible energy and improvisation all had a huge impact on me. I’ve gravitated towards Josh Blue for years because I believe his philosophy of using self deprecation leads to strength. As for Jared Nathan, I discovered him while stuck in bed with COVID during the pandemic.

I came across his appearance on Kill Tony and was immediately stuck by how much fun he was having on stage. It reignited my passion for comedy and I started writing again right away. They asked him his favorite bit bit of a spoiler here. My favorite bit has to be the one where I talk about how I got hurt and what that caused. I use a mix of misdirection and shock with a dark punch line at the end.

What I love most about is the versatility. I’ve got multiple endings for the same setup, so I can keep the audience on their toes and surprise them every time. It’s rewarding because it always gets a big laugh, and I love watching people’s reactions when they realize where the joke is headed. All right, Blair Williams, Where do you find new comedy these days? Blair says, I wait every Monday to watch Kill Tony.

It’s a blast watching new comics get their shot and seeing what they bring to the table. Beyond that podcast, Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and Shane podcasts are a great way to find new voices and get to know comics on a personal level. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, go to the Facebook group vote for Comedy survivor you’re voting someone off the island. The group is a Daily Comedy News podcast group.

See Tomorrow.

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Osco at Cotska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tig Nasaro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor interactive voting game launch
• Nicky Glazer hosting Golden Globes
• AI analysis of 16 comedians’ survival odds
• Voting mechanics and contestant vulnerabilities
• Early week elimination predictions and risk assessment

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Welcome to episode one of Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mac. You’ve seen the logo, you’ve heard the promos.

Now it is time to vote. Here’s how this works. There are sixteen comedians on Comedy Island. This week, one gets voted off by you. A reminder, this is not about who’s the funniest, It’s about who survives the vote.

How the voting works. You vote for one comedian that you want to eliminate. That’s it. You write their name down. If you want to say why you’re voting them off, that’s fine.

You’re voting someone off the island. One vote per person. Voting will run every week from Monday through Thursday. That way I can produce these episodes on Friday. Then every Monday at noon Eastern you’ll get a new episode of Comedy Survivor telling you who was voted off the island and who remains.

And then we’ll do this again and we’ll find out who is the Comedy Survivor. If there is a tie, I will use chat GPT to break the tie or reminder the contestants on Comedy Survivor are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Mickey Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Osco at Coska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tignets, Harrow, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Kreischer. It is now time to vote. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and you write down a name. Now, remember we’re not debating who’s the funniest.

We’re trying to figure out who people feel strongly enough to protect them and make them the Comedy Survivor. I worked with chi chat chpt to analyze everyone’s game. Let’s take a look. Adam Sandler enters with goodwill, multi generation appeal, cultural nostalgia, a reputation for loyalty. His challenge will be whether or not voters think he’s funny.

Next up, Jay Leno. Leno’s case is longevity and discipline. His risk some people think he’s the worst person who ever lived. We’ll see how long Jay Leno lasts on Comedy Island. Joe Cooy one time, he hosted the Golden Globes but I don’t have time for that right now.

Will the Swifties jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group and vote off Joe Cooy because he one time he told that horrible mean joke. We will find out Jim Gaffigan. Jim could go deep yere one of the safest early contestants according to AI, clean, prolific and widely respected. Almost no one actively dislikes him. I like how chat gpt wrote almost no one h who do you mean?

Could be a major advantage for Jim Gaffkin in the early rounds. Nicky Glazer, she’s hosting the Golden Globes pretty soon, so she’ll probably go a few weeks here. I don’t think she has any chance of being voted off unless somehow the Golden Globes go sideways, which it’s been known to do. Seth Myers is on the Island, respected by many, apparently has a show at twelve thirty. Will President Trump jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group and vote Seth Myers off?

I mean, that would not be the most shocking thing the President has ever done, so it’s possible. Kevin Hart likes to work. His risk is backlash. Will people be like enough with Kevin Hart already? We’ll find out Amy Schumer.

She likes us to talk about her. We should keep her on the island. We could talk about her for four months here. Or are people looking for Amy Schumer to go away? Or some people like Amy stay the hell off the internet?

There are people like that. Maybe they want Amy Schumer out of this. John Mulaney who doesn’t love John Mulaney? Could he take this whole thing? Hmm, OT’s go at ktska.

Now. I don’t think anyone’s gonna go out of their way to vote dots go off this week, right. I think she’s going to go deep and just kind of hang around until we get to the nitty gritty and there’s like three or four names left and we’re like, hey, she’s still here. Sebastian manascalgo the Ai wrote, some voters see performance over writing. Will people like the performance or will people like the writing?

Time will tell? Tig Nasaro. Her risk is niche a peel quiet. Comedians sometimes struggle in popularity votes despite admiration, Soara Silverman. Her strength is longevity and influence across eras of comedy.

Her danger is that She’s been part of multiple cycles, and not all voters state with her through each comedy cycle. Hmm, good analysis there, AI. Leslie Jones brings visibility, energy, and cultural presence. Her vulnerability, says the AI, is that her recent identity is more ensemble and acting based than stand up focus. Ron White.

Ron’s advantage is consistency in a very loyal fan base. His risk is the demo what if you guys are younger? I think Ron White’s going to go deep in this thing and Bert Krascher his fans are loud and active. His risk is backlash from voters. Voting is open in the Daily Comedy News podcast group, one vote per person.

Why don’t you go vote. I’m gonna take a break here and I’m going to tell you the AI’s Week one analytics who they think is likely to be voted off and why very interesting be right back Comedy Survivor. The AI said their analysis is based on how the Facebook group actually behaves, So this is on you, guys. They say the group tends to be emotional and fast, and that overexposure and unfamiliarity are punished early. So here’s who the AI thinks is the highest risk.

This week. Again, I’m not sure I agree here, because you have to actively vote someone off, so you’re gonna have to go to a Facebook group and be like I want this person off, So that takes some effort there. Now, the AI thinks otsco at Cotska might go. They say, from an analytics standpoint, this is the most vulnerable position. But see, I disagree.

I don’t think anyone’s gonna write her name down. I think she’s gonna be here twelve weeks from now. Leslie Jones, I could see people voting Leslie Jones off, just going, Oh, this sounds like fun. I’m gonna jump in. Let’s say, out of these sixteen Leslie Jones, eh, yeah, who cares?

And Amy Schumer, I could see people getting rid of Amy Schumer. Amy tends to be polarizing. I’m going to observe that the AI, not John. The AI picked three women. Don’t know what that means, but that’s what the AI said.

They have for medium risk, Bert Kraser, Joe Coy and Seth Myers. For Seth, they write not disliked but not protected instinctively could be collateral if the vote spreads out. AI puts in the lower risk tier that these people are very unlikely to get voted out this week Sandler, Gaffig and Mulaney, Sebastian, Ron White, Leno, Sarah Tig, Kevin, and Nicky. I think that makes sense. I don’t think it’ll be any of those the AI says most likely to go this week ots go at Cotska, which I totally disagree with.

It won’t be her. I won’t tell you who I think it will because I don’t want to put my thumb on the scale, But it won’t be her. Campaigning is allowed, Arguing is expected, Explaining your vote is optional, and remember not voting doesn’t help your candidate, because we’re voting people off. And that is Week one of Comedy Survivor. Heads to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group looking forward to this and we’ll be back in the morning with a normal episode.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Laney Wilson, Gretchen Wilson

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s New Year’s Eve special technical disaster on CBS
• 12-minute broadcast outage during CBS New Year’s Eve Live Nashville
• CBS airing Matlock during technical difficulties
• Stephen Colbert appearing drunk on Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen’s New Year’s Eve show
• Top grossing comedy tour of 2025 trivia question

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, it’s one of the worst days of the year. It’s back to workday. I’m so glad I worked for myself. And hello, I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is a sense that you would say if you are successfully seeing increases in your Spotify downloads as you’re trying to goose the Spotify algorithm, that’s just a pro tip there.

Hopefully the comedians get back to work. It’s getting a little thin out there. I’ve got enough for you today, especially as we catch up on New Year’s Eve. Bert Kreischer’s New Year’s Eve special. Not sure it went too well.

I’ve been looking for recaps, haven’t seen any that were good. People on social media did not like it, and CBS had a technical snaff who they lost the broadcast of New Year’s EV Live Nashville’s Big Bash for twelve minutes. Again, I’ve been working in radio since nineteen ninety two. Twelve minutes is an eternity. If there weren’t some emergency conference calls on New Year’s Day, there’s a meeting today I used to work with a guy named Frank.

Frank would be holding a meeting this morning, going how did this happen? And how does this never happen again? So to all the Franks out there, enjoy your meeting. A twelve minute gap. So what did they do, Johnny Mac?

They started running Mattlock. Can you imagine You’ve got this big New Year’s Eve show, You’re trying to take on Ryan Seacrest and it drops to the point where like you don’t know what to do, so you throw on matt Lock. That is a technical disaster, and that’s just you know, it’s New Year’s Eve, you’re having a party. You’re not gonna leave matt Lock on. Everyone’s going to turn that off.

The interruption came about fifty minutes into the five and a half hour special. I had no idea that special was that long. That’s crazy. So what happened was at about eleven to fifty pm Eastern, which is exactly what you don’t want this to happen. Laney Wilson was in the middle of a song when suddenly was interrupted.

Shortly thereafter, a voice mentioned technical difficult. Does a network still have the live announcer in the booth, sitting there all day. They probably do just for this. So CBS cut to a string of commercials. Been there, done that.

That’s what you do when something goes sideways, you just clear out all the spots. Then they threw on Mattlock that appeared to start in progress. So they were probably dead rolling as the term dead rolling Mattlock in case such a thing happens. So during a live show you might run something in the background. Another reason you would do that is to keep your automation systems on time.

That’s my guest there. So somebody who was dead rolling Mattlock ran out of commercials or hit the panic button, was like, hey, I don’t know how to get this back up. Well it’s like midnight. So are you calling the CBS boss? Whoever’s making this call me like, hey boss, we don’t know how to get Chrysler back up.

What should we do? Should we run the Mattlock tape? So somebody had to make that decision. Oh, the meeting today is going to be amazing. Can I sit in on it?

Can you guys invite me to the meeting? I just want to sit in on it cause these are much more fun when You’re not the one explaining what happened. You don’t understand. This is a whole stress point. You know what I did on my tenth anniversary, Well, my tenth anniversary was in the middle of my week’s vacation, and my boss told me I had to come into New York City to sit at my desk to monitor just in case the broadcast of Jamie Fox’s show from the Democratic National Convention went down.

The DNC was not was not New York City, so I had to come in to an office, sit there, blow off my wife on our tenth anniversary, and just sit there miserable till like eleven thirty at night, just in case the thing dropped. It did not drop. So I can’t imagine the meeting they’re having today. I want to sit in on it. After about twelve and a half minutes, Bert Krasier and Country Singer Party came back on and apologized for the interruption.

Gretchen Wilson and to this stage, oh that sounds wonderfully horrible.

Also on New Year’s Eve, Stephen Colbert was on Anderson Cooper and Andy Code …

Apparently their whole hey Let’s get drunk on the air thing got a little little out there. This was weird. Is that really the best idea? Guys, Hey, let’s get our host drunk on the Is that really the best look for CNN? Anyway?

Stephen Colbert told Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen don’t trust billionaires. They don’t get rich by finding that money on the side of the road. Brother, These last five months of Stephen Colbert’s TV show might get a little interesting. So there I was. It was New Year’s Eve.

I was watching the Knicks. So while watching the Knicks, I was also playing on my phone. And let me get serious here, it is nice to have friends in this world. And this has I’ve been thinking about this for days and it made me happy, and it made me a little sad. So normally on Wednesday nights, more often than not, you’ll find me at trivia over at the brewery, unless it’s volleyball season.

See, my guys, We’re of Beach Volleyball team, a bunch of guys. I’m like the young one and I’m fifty six. And I’ll tell you the name of our team. Name of our team is We’re Old, so relaxed.

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And now the reason it’s called We’re Old so relaxed.

Is so when you twenty somethings show up with the spike in your facers, you go, who we playing? Oh, we’re playing and we’re old, so relaxed. That’s weird.

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And then we show up when we’re all in our late fifties plus and you go, oh, I…

We’re just there to have fun. It’s suburban Morristown, New Jersey, volleyball relax. So that’s what I do in the summer, but in the winter I go play trivia. You gonta understand Morristown, New Jersey on New Year’s Eve is a zoo. And my dog better stop barking.

You can hear the dog. Hopefully the noise reduction got the dog. Dog. I’m trying to be serious here for a second, stop barking. You know what the dog’s barking in.

I’ll tell you what it’s barking at. As I record this, it’s three oh one pm. The robovac goes out at three o’clock. Three times a week. The robovac goes around the living room to clean up the dog.

Here. We do this every other day, and the dog just like girl, where was I? Normally I go to trivia, but I didn’t want it to go with Morristown, so I stayed home. So I’m playing on my phone and watching the things and Jeff. Jeff is one of the quote unquote trivia guys.

There’s Bob and there’s Jeff. They’re both really cool and sometimes Johnny Max had one beer too many and argues the points on the questions and they go all right. Normally he’s not a total a hole. We’ll let him go on this one. I’ve learned over the years.

Just stop arguing. You’re gonna win a sticker. Calm down. Actually there was a gift certificate if you finished first. Pretty good one too.

Anyway, there I am. I’m playing on my phone and I go on Facebook and I see from Jeff, who’s one of the trivia guys. And Jeff, seriously, dude, bro, this meant so much to me, and this made me just made me feel loved and also guilty that I stated, boy, I wish I had been there for this. I really wish i’d been there. I’ll ask the audience the question that Jeff posted, question five the topic.

Shout out Johnny Mac the question and I’ll answer it after the break. The Daily Comedy News podcast reported that Billboard reported that this comedian’s Big Dummies World Tour was the top grossing comedy tour of twenty twenty five, grossing fifty six point seven million dollars on six hundred and seventy seven thousand tickets sold. That was a trivia question. I would have gotten that one right, although for laughs, I would have dumped that on Glenn and made him stress, and Glenn would have went, I don’t know, so Jeff, Thank you so much. Jeff, one of the trivia guys.

They’re best men Trivia if you were. I don’t know how far these guys go. They come to Morristown, New Jersey, and I know they do a bunch of things. If you draw, I don’t know, I’m making this number up a twenty mile circle round that. Jeff might be throwing his phone across the room going, we’re not going twenty miles.

Or maybe it’s like I’ll go two hundred miles. I don’t know. Ask them best men Trivia. They were on a really nice show to super Pro. I’m usually home by nine point thirty.

Again, I’m fifty six years old. That’s a bonus, Jeff. Thank you so much for that. I’ll reveal the answer after the break. Amy Schumer likes somebody talk about her, so she went on Instagram on New Year’s Eve.

She posted Happy New Year hashtag sensual photo. People magazine describes a picture as featuring the newly single Shumer sitting alone on a sofa in a dimly room. She wore a loose fitting T shirt underneath the black hoodie and was makeup free, with her hair and a bonytail. She also crossed her eyes and made a funny face while holding on to a container of spaghetti. Amy, why don’t you take a time out from social media?

That’s just some free advice. Just want you chill out for I don’t know a month, figure out what’s going on with your divorce, get your life together, and then come out with a new special. Okay, just stay off Instagram. Just trying to help. Now, you know what today is?

Today’s the kickoff for Comedy Survivor. So at noon Eastern today there’ll be a bonus episode explaining Comedy Survivor. The short version. Here sixteen comedians on a hypothetical island. You guys are going to vote someone off.

You’ll go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ll tell you the contestants and all that in the bonus episode out at noon today. If you’re listening between seven am Eastern and noon Eastern, voting is already live. You go to the Facebook group and you could vote someone off. If you voted off Amy Schumer.

Hey, that’s up to you. I’m not saying as host, it wouldn’t be cool for me to suggest who you vote off. That’s not cool at all. I’m the omniscient toast. You know, Jeff on the Survivor shows, not trivia Jeff Jeff Probs.

Jeff Probes doesn’t show up and be like, you know, if you wanted to vote Boston rob off, I wouldn’t be the wepsete about that, like he wouldn’t do. I love Boston Roup. Can I tell you how much I love Boston Roup. I love Busting Rup. Anyway, bonus episode coming out at noon today.

Now over at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. You know what they did. They sent me publicity. You know how I complained about the Hulu publicist, that the Hulu publicist will not engage with me. The eight hundred pound Gorilla people are the opposite.

They’re like, hey, new special and I was like, oh, what’s this new special. It’s a new CrowdWork special from Jen Marco Siasi. Three time guest and Friend of the Show John Marco hasn’t gone all Jim Gaffigan Honus No Friend of the Show comes on his best CrowdWork moments from twenty twenty five, from messed up family stories to theater kid confessions and unhinged overshares, Jen Marco successfully turns chaos into punchlines. I shared a link to that in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group and don’t forget Comedy Survivors there And if you voted off Amy Schumer, I mean that’s on you. You pick who you want to vote off.

The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival announced its lineup for its sixth year as one of North America’s premier destinations for live comedy. That’s code for Canada. Matt Rife will headline across all six GOCF weekends Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, Spokane and Vancouver, bringing his magnetic stage presence, razor sharp crowd work and viral appeal to outdoor venues. Throughout the summer. Comedian, actor, TV hosts and host of The Golden Globes, Nikki Glaser will headline in Halifax, closing out the weekend alongside Fortune Fimester and Steph Tolev with more twenty twenty six lineup reveals to come.

So here’s what we know so far. Edmonton Friday, July seventeenth, TBA, Saturday, Rife Sunday TBA. Then in Winnipeg that same weekend Friday, TBA, Saturday, TBA, Sunday Matt Rife and Friends. Okay, interesting how they’re having simultaneous ones in Edmonton and Winnipeg. Halifax.

You guys got to wait till August sixth, Thursday Night, Matt Rife, Friday, More Matt Rife, Saturday, TBA, Sunday, Nikki Glaser, Fortune Feaster, Steph Tolev. Then at the end of August in Calgary Friday night, August twenty eighth, Matt Rife, Saturday and Sunday TBA. Then, because that’s in North America, they come all the way down south to Spokane, Washington for Friday, August twentieth, TBA, Saturday the twenty ninth, Matt Rife and Friends and on the thirtieth, TBA, Boy, TBA might be Comedian of the Year. And if you’re in Vancouver or the suburbs, I don’t know where you live. In Stanley Park, which is an awesome park across from Stanley Park.

When I was there, it’s fifteen years ago. Now there was a bike rental shop. It has to still be there. I wanted to just give up my life, move to Vancouver, buy that bike shop and just rent bikes to tourists. I don’t know anything about BIC schools, or how to operate a shop, or how you move to Canada and own a business.

I don’t know how that works. But boy, I loved Stanley Park. And if I’m there on Sunday, August thirtieth, I’ll see Matt Rife and maybe I’ll rent a bike and ride past him. All right, chucking a driving today, getting a pretty decent show. Actually bounced a couple stories, which is a luxury if you’re me again.

Comedy Survivor begins today. They’ll be a bonus episode at noon Eastern Vote one person off now through end of day Thursday. Voting will be over when I wake up on Friday. Why John, Because John wants to record these on Friday. That’s why.

Oh and I forgot to tell you the trivia answer when I was on a proper microphone. I’m dropping this in as part of the edit. The answer to the trivia question was, of course, Nate Burghetzi. Jim Brewer spoke to The Christian Post. I found this really interesting.

I worked with Jim Brewer when he had the radio show at Series. We were there together for ten years, traveled with Jim. I’m very fond of Jim. We had a lot of real conversations, and everything I read here really is in line with what Jim is all about. So Jim tells them a story that it ran into a young woman at a camera store who had recognized Jim from Saturday Night Live and told Jim about her intention to move to la to make it big in the entertainment business.

When Jim realized how excited she was just to see Jim Brewer, he began to feel a paternal instinct to protect her from the industry. That is very very Jim. As Jim told The Christian Post, all you think about is like, if this kid goes to California and she’s this excited for me, I’m a nobody. I’m not a producer. If you go out to LA and you’re putting yourself out that hard, these demonic monsters they see you coming.

Jim said he had a forty five minute conversation with the girl and explained how predators in the entertainment business will chew her up and discard her. That is very Jim, and Jim’s not wrong. I got honest with her. I talked about people I know, I got sucked up by this industry drugs. I got so honest and real with her.

By the time it was over, she was like, wow, I never thought of that stuff. I went, No, nobody, does you need to know these things? So I’m telling you right now, I can tell you willing to listen to anyone, and they will take advantage of you and they will target you. Trust me, and that’s exactly I Again, I know Jim pretty well. He would have slowed down and he would have said, trust me, you know what, let’s get out on that one today.

That’s your comedy news for today. Comedy Survivor coming up at noon Eastern, and a normal episode tomorrow. See you then,

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Nikki Glaser, Mark Marin, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Sandler, Robbie Hoffman, Roy Wood Jr., John Marcos Sarriesi, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Winners and losers of comedy in 2025
• Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize and Oscar hosting
• Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes hosting success
• Mark Marin’s HBO special and podcast departure
• Jimmy Kimmel’s contract extension and potential retirement plans
• Reiner family tragedy and Conan O’Brien party incident
• Bill Burr’s loss of narrative in 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Today we’ll take a look at who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. I decided for the weekends in January. I want to try out some different things.

January tends to be quiet. I’ve done this in the past, especially during the pandemic. I kind of spread my wings on the weekends a little bit, and I’ve got some things i want to talk about.

Also, one of the things I did the other day I recorded two and a half hours w…

And we’re hoping to do a lot of that this year as it goes along, just trying to mix it up a little bit and keep it interesting. But today, let’s take a look at who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. The big winner in twenty twenty five. If I had recorded this a month ago, this would have been slam dunk, hands down, no doubt, nothing to talk about. Only great.

One hundred out of one hundred five stars. Conan O’Brien had a fantastic year. Butt and let’s start with the butt the horrible murder of the Reiner family taking place after the Hiners were at Conan O’Brien’s party.

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Now here’s what I’m worried about.

I assume there’ll be a trial. I assume the defense attorney will try to keep the accused out of jail. And I’m not a lawyer. I’m a guy in a basement recording a podcast. My fear is that said lawyer will want to ask questions about what went down at the party, because we’ve heard there was some shouting.

There have also been some anecdotes that, as the story goes, some people wanted to call nine to one one and Conan said, no, please, don’t do you know, we’re having a party here. It’s okay. And I could just see Conan getting dragged into a trial. And I’m not sure Conan’s going to have an awesome twenty twenty six. He was having a pretty good twenty twenty five, so let’s focus on that.

His year capped with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, putting him in some really really good company there. And boy, it was just like the industry going, Conan, we love you. A listers coming out doing funny stuff. Conan just looking great. Multiple generations of comedians and writers, it was just saluting Conan.

Nobody was like Conan O’Brien, that’s crazy. It just consolidated his legacy and the respect everyone has for him. And he also crushed hosting the Oscars and immediately got invited back to do next year. So the back to back of the Oscars and the Mark Twain Prize. Just Conan O’Brien just was the winner of comedy.

I fear rough seas ahead, but he was the winner of comedy in twenty twenty five until one awful night in December. Nikki Glaser had a great year. The year before she was part of the Tom Brady Roast and people went, oh, who’s that?

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And then she hosted the Golden Globes and crushed it.

Got invited back to host the Golden Globes coming up, you know, about a week, not about a week, John in a week. I better write that down before I pre tape a weekend and be like, oh, yeah, he probably should have mentioned the Golden Globes. A right. I just added that to my list here, so we’ll see. I mean, she had a great twenty twenty five.

Now are we at peak Nikki Glaser? Or is there more to come? And I think we’ll find out a lot more a week from tonight when she hosts the Golden Globes. But congratulations to Nikki Glaser in a year where he transitioned from successful stand up to trusted industry utility. Interesting words.

There another big winner this year, Mark Maren. Congratulations to Mark Maren, take that victory lap. He walked away from his podcast on his own terms and had the special of the year. If you listened to yesterday, Mark Maren’s special Panicked You’ll fund It on HBO was the best comedy special of the year. It just put Maren into this statesman role.

He was one of the critics of the Riod Comedy Festival. Other comedians took shots at Maren, which put him in the comedy zeitgeist. He took all the slings and arrows, kept his honor shifted from a commentator to a reference point inside comedy. That puts him at the top of the game. So Mark Marin one of the winners of comedy in twenty twenty five.

Another winner, despite some rough seas, was Jimmy Kimmel. You May recalled Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air for a little bit, but then he came back and just seems to have the win into sales right now. The show extended another year. There’s talk that Kimmell wants to walk away in May of twenty twenty seven. I’ll believe it when I see it, because I think when Colbert’s show ends, that audience is going to go somewhere.

Some of the audience will just go away. Some of the audience will just stare at whatever CBS puts on anyway, whether it’s a new show or the Byron Allen thing. But some of the late night people, I think we’ll pick Kimmel over fallon. So Kimmel’s numbers are going to go up. And I had a conversation with Mike Chisholm about this, and I’ll share it on one of the weekend episodes coming up this month.

You know, Kimmel’s my age, and if you’re not doing that, what are you doing? The oscars are heading to YouTube. He’s not going to be the YouTube post of the Oscars. So, Jimmy Kimmel, you’re in your mid to late fifties, you could work another twenty years, like a you know, it’s nice to have money and sit on the beach, but you need something to do. What would you do?

Tour? Stand up? A Netflix show? So I don’t see why he would walk away. Now might he arrange his schedule?

He already doesn’t work summers? Could you cut down to three days? Do the late period Johnny Carson thing? Someone else host Monday and Kimmel shows up Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and does I don’t know, thirty four weeks a year and takes the summer off and a long break at Christmas. Why not do that Jimmy Kimmel.

So I’m not sure Jimmy kim was gonna walk away, but he had a great year. Other winners of twenty twenty five Adam Sandler, despite my personal opinion, happy Gilmore too. People seem to like it. Cast a big check, also helping my argument. People have come around and realized, oh, Adam Sandler a great dramatic actor.

He was great and Jay Kelly, what a great film. You should watch it. Let’s all reward Adam Sandler with an Academy Awards. He goes, hey, I’m an Academy Award winning actor. I should do more of that and less stupid songs.

So Adam Sandler had a great year. Robbie Hoffman went from who to everybody’s talking about Robbie Hoffman. If you haven’t watched that Netflix special, it’s fantastic. Another winner of twenty twenty five. As I sat down and really thought about this, Roy Wood Junior.

So just about everybody, including me, liked his comedy special a lot. Now it’s a year ago now, so it’s not as fresh in your mind to say Chappelle, but people really like that special, and people seem to really like the CNN show. I’m not sure Have I Got News for you? US version has a massive cultural zeitgeist, but it seems a reliable show, and it’s regularly picked up in the press. And most importantly, Roywood Junior bet on himself when he didn’t get the Daily Show Cheer.

He went, Okay, I gotta go do something else and figure something out. And he went and did something else and he figured out. So good on you, Roywood Junior. You’re one of the winners of twenty twenty five and another winner this year. Now I’m not sure he won the year, but he might win twenty twenty six is Friend of the Show John Marcos SARRESI three time guest, his special really resonated.

Critics are noticing, mainstream press is noticing, and I think John Marco’s going to have a really big twenty twenty six and good for him because he’s fantastic. Those are your winners. Will come back and we’ll talk about the losers of twenty twenty five. All right, Johnny Max who lost comedy in twenty twenty five? I feel very strongly about this.

The big loser in comedy in twenty twenty five. The comedian who lost the year is Bill Burr. Bill Burr, you lost the narrative. Let me remind everybody a year ago. Early in the year, he was doing a lot of media appearances and he was getting criticized for his tone.

He was defensive and a lot of interviews it just wasn’t a good look. Some people are down on Monday Morning podcast that it’s low energy and he’s just talking about sports. Maybe that was always true.

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And then he played the Reodd Comedy Festival, and his defense of playing the …

Pete Davidson, for all my problems with Pete david said, at least I can respect Pete Davidson going they paid me a lot of money. I can at least respect that because it’s honest. But Burke came away like, yeah, you know, they’ve got an Applebee’s over there, and we’re all like, can you just admit that they paid you? Well? Like stop.

Burr kind of changed his persona this year. You know, he’s letting go of the young, angry Bill Burr. We’ve now got the try and avoid a loaded word here, but we’ve got the more thoughtful Bill Burr.

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And then if you point that out, he gets very defensive about it, and it just …

Maybe Bill Burr and his audience are heading in two different directions, and that’s fine. But I’m not sure Bill Burr had a good twenty twenty five. In fact, he’s the big loser of twenty twenty five when it comes to comedy. Now, after I made my list, I saw this on crack dot com their headline this comedian had humor’s worst heel turn in twenty twenty five. Now again, I saw this after I made my list, And if you listen back to previous episodes.

I’ve been kind of dropping not even hints, but breadcrumbs about how I felt about Burr’s here Cracked Rights. Back in February, Bill Burr went on Monday Morning podcast and declared that the billionaire class who’s so division and exploit suffering among the masses are rabbit dogs that need to be put down. But that was before he talked to their booker. Wow. Wow, if this was a boxing match, We’re fourteen seconds in and Keegankelly and Crack dot Com just hit Bill Burr in the chin, unblocked.

What a shot at a good one? Cracked Rights. In twenty twenty five, Old Billy Blood Money went from the top voice of anti billionaire anger in America to the court gesture for literal slavers. Considering how Burr reveled in the aftermath of the violent death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shouting his support for the accused shooter Luigi on every talk show and podcasts that would have him, Burr’s fan base was by far the most inflamed of any re odd comic upon returning to the US, and of course, Burr’s imprudent handling out of criticism didn’t help his relationship with his listeners. Even now, months later, the Monday Morning podcast fandom is still an open revolt against the host.

Every new episode immediately faces a barrage of dislikes and negative comments. Just under one video that they shared, one of the top comments reads, You’re just not funny anymore. Selling out to murderers just seems to interfere with my laughter. Bill Burr, the big loser of twenty twenty five. Some other losers, Pete Davidson, not just for Riot.

I think Pete had a bad year, did a couple movies, not sure anybody cared about them. He’s out there sort of touring, takes breaks, seems like he’s okay. Then he seems like he’s not okay, seems like he’s all over the place. So the net of that, and again he’s open about his mental health challenges, and I hope he finds himself in a good place. But from an industry standpoint, when you’re making a project, you look back at him walking away from Bupkis, So you’re not gonna hand him a show because you’ll be afraid that he’s going to just walk away from it.

You hire Kevin Hart, because you know, Kevin Hart likes to work and is going to show up for work. Kevin Hart has made it clear he’s going to show up for work. But with Pete, you know, you walk away once and all the other stuff that surrounds you. It’s just if you’re making a project, let’s just pick somebody else. I think Pete Davidson’s one of the losers of twenty twenty five.

The other big loser of twenty twenty five. Now, the man’s not a loser, but he is one of the comedy losers of twenty twenty five. Stephen Colbert, And I mean it’s crazy, right, Hey, my job is to host Late Night and I have the number one show, and I’ve kept the Late Show franchise going for a decade and everything’s great. Well, CBS disagrees, so we can all love Stephen Colbert and he does a great job and he’s a good guy, and I think he’s short for president. But you lost the show maybe through no fault of your own.

Hey, I’ve been fired for no fault of my own. But that makes for a lousy year. And Stephen Colbert one of the losers in comedy in twenty twenty five. He might be one of the winners in twenty twenty six. So much like we saw all the love for Conan in twenty five, we probably will as Colbert takes this not victory lap, but final lap.

I think we’ll see a lot of outpouring of love for Stephen Colbert. So he’s probably prime for a great year, but just as I analyze twenty twenty five, he’s one of the losers. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow’s Monday three, a normal episode than at noon episode one of Comedy Survivor. I think I scheduled the Facebook post for seven am Eastern as when voting opens, So look for the Comedy Survivor logo and then go in there and vote on Comedy Survivor and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Mark Maron, Kevin Hart, Robbie Hoffman, Matt Rife, Dave Chappelle, Jim Jefferies, Justin Willman, Jen Marco Sareisi, Mo Amer, Dusty Slay, Ricky Gervais, Kamel Nonijianni, Bert Kreischer, Brett Goldstein, Michelle Wolf, Sarah Silverman, Matt McCusker

What’s in This Episode

• Best Standup Comedy Specials of 2025 Final Rankings
• Mark Maron’s Panicked named number one special
• Kevin Hart Acting My Age ranked number two
• Mark Maron walking away from podcast
• Dave Chappelle Netflix special analysis
• Robbie Hoffman Netflix special buzz
• Matt Rife Christmas Crowd Work Special ranked number four
• Ricky Gervais Mortality special review

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Today, a final look at the best stand up specials of twenty twenty five. There were a lot of big time releases in December. As I mentioned previously, I had to put out my list December thirteenth to hook up the publicist, which left off a few specials that didn’t exist yet. But now that they exist, we can finally rank them again.

As I talk about any of these lists in my list, your list, someone else’s list, they’re all valid. It’s all just opinion, it’s just something to talk about. But for me, number one was easily Mark Maren’s Panicked. Maren had a great year. Now tomorrow on this very program, I’m going to talk about who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five.

One of the winners, for sure, Mark Maron walking away from his podcast in a stunning move on his own terms. But Maren had his best stand up special the last one I didn’t love. The one before that was pretty good, But Panicked was just Maren doing Maren and doing Maren very well, and his joke about nagging people into fascism just captured the Zeitgeist Mark Meren the best stand up special of the year number two, and I could see people disagreeing with me, and that’s fine, it’s just a list. But I thought Kevin Hart’s acting my age was funny. He’s just shocking jokes.

But boy, I was laughing, and I’m a comedy snob, and if you get me to laugh, I’m gonna give you a high ranking. I just thought Kevin Hart’s special was fun and funny, and I’m a guy sitting on a couch and he made me laugh, so that’s good enough for me. Robbie Hoffman’s Netflix special at number three, that was one of them that wasn’t on the original list just because of timing. But boy, a lot of buzz on Robbie. Like I said, the trivia guys talk to me about Robbie when I’m over there with the brewery people talking about Robbie Hoffman in the Facebook group.

What a fantastic special. I considered bumping it up to number two, but I think I laughed a little bit more at Kevin Hart’s special. But Robbie Hoffman fantastic and also one of the winners of twenty twenty five at number four, again. Some people will be irate and throw their phone across the room. But Matt Riif’s Christmas crowd Work Special again.

You’re sitting on a couch. Are you entertained? Are you laughing? Is it funny? Yes?

Is it crowd work? Is it fake CrowdWork? Is it controlled crowd work? Is it heavily edited CrowdWork? Don’t know, don’t care, don’t care, don’t care, don’t know, don’t care.

I’m laughing. It’s funny. Dave Chappelle’s a Netflilix special that dropped out of nowhere to complicate everything. As I’ve said before, I compare it to a baseball pitcher. When Dave first takes the stage, it is shot well, it looks well, it feels big time.

I’m looking at this thing and Dave is just on fire. He’s like Dwight Gooden. It is prime, throwing strikes, mewing down people with the curveball, and I’m like, this guy’s gonna throw a perfect game tonight. And that’s how it felt for the first four innings. An hour later, I was like, ah, that was pretty good.

I didn’t think Chappelle’s closer was as good as Chappelle thinks it is. And I mentioned on Friday’s podcast how some of the details of Chappelle’s monologue there fall apart, but did I laugh. Sure, some of the riodd stuff was very, very funny. Dave Chappelle comes in at number five. Jim Jeffries Two Limbs.

I know I crutch a lot, and I’ll just say comedian doing comedian named things. But that’s how I feel about Jim Jefferies. You kind of know what you’re gonna get. He’s very good at it, and two Limbs is a good Jim Jeffery special. Laughed at a lot.

This next one I didn’t see on anyone’s list but mine, But I really liked Justin Willman’s Magic Lover that was on Netflix in June. Now, if you go into the reddits, some people will be like that was fake. This is fake. Just turn your brain off and just go for the ride and let Justin Wilman entertain you. However we get there, much like I said about Matt Riith, however we get there, are you not entertained?

And I was very entertained by that one. I think I just threw that on one night because I was bored. What’s this number? Eight. Jen Marcos Sareisi’s Thief of Joy.

Longtime listeners to this program, I’ve heard me talking about Jen Marco for several years. He is a three time guest on this program. But with this special, people noticed, if you’re into comedy, he’s no longer a who’s that never heard of him? Now most people on the street, if we walk down the street, will probably go maybe ninety nine out of one hundred. I don’t know who that is.

Maybe if we go you know the guy that did this, maybe we’ll pick up a couple more people. He’s not a name yet, but boy, keep an eye on him. For twenty twenty six, Mo Amer’s Wild World Netflix special. Boy, Netflix had a lot of great specials this year, didn’t they. He had something to say.

He was making political points in a very funny way. I loved his special. Lot one of the top ten of the year, Moe Ammer’s Wild World and rounding out the top ten, Dusty Sleigh. I just like what Dusty does. He gets in a vibe.

He keeps you there. It’s his catchphrase, we’re having a good time. That nails it. Love Dusty Sleigh. The last new entry on the list, Ricky Gervai’s Mortality just came out this week.

I liked it. I didn’t play on my phone. He kept me engaged. Whatever part of your brain that lights up when you watch comedy was lit up. Made me laugh out loud a couple times.

So I’m a psychopath and I just analyzed comedy and rarely laugh. But he got a couple chuckles out of me. When I woke up the next day, I was like, that feels like empty calories, where it’s like Robbie Hoffman Special stuck with me, Chappelle’s Special, stuck with me, Maren Special, stuck with me, Ricky entertaining funny but empty calories. So I don’t know. I didn’t like it as much as I liked the other ten, but I liked it.

It’s also not Ricky’s a best special. Oh No, one more late comer to the year, Kamel Non Jihanni’s Hulu special. It was fine. The people who were saying this is the greatest special of the year are of course crazy people, and I’d be curious to see if they ever got any checks from anybody involved with Hulu. I’m just saying that there’s no way.

Come on, Gianni special is the best of the year. It’s good, it’s fun. I think I have a bias that I know he’s just popping into stand up comedy because he was bored or something. But he’s not coming back to stand up comedy, so I don’t know why the special even exists. He’s going right back to acting.

But you know it’s fine. Best of the year. Yah, that’s crazy talk.

Also in my top tier, number thirteen, Bert Krascher is Lucky from Netflix.

Brett Goldstein. Brett Goldstein I have at number fourteen. Now, as I’m doing this list for the seven millionth time, I’m looking at that and I’m wondering, hmm, you may have Brett’s special way too low, Johnny Mac. Now, I have it at fourteen, So that’s the official I had it in the homework. I have it at fourteen.

But as I’m looking at this, I probably like Brett better than Bert and better than Kamel, better than Ricky, maybe not more than Dusty. So maybe Brett should be number ten and a half, but I have him at number fourteen. That’s a really good special. On HBO fifteen and sixteen, Michelle Wolf and Sarah Silverman kind of pair up because I have the same note on both of them. Nice hour, not all that funny, but a nice hour and nice company.

And I liked both specials a lot. I particularly something about Sarah’s special really stuck with me, even though I have heard sixteen of Michelle at fifteen, but Michelle’s is slightly funnier. Again, as I said, these are just listen. How do you rank anything? Who knows both are nice company?

At seventeen, I have Matt McCusker. The audio is not recorded all that well, but it was way funnier than I thought. That was one of those nights when I was like, Oh, I’m watching comedy specials tonight. What else could I watch? And I clicked on that.

My note continues to be poor Man’s Shane Gillis, which makes sense because they do the podcast together. But yeah, good special. Number eighteen. I have Mateo Lane’s Al Dente that was on Hulu back in May. I have that same note I had with Michelle and Sarah that maybe it’s not hilarious, but it was real nice company for an hour.

And then at nineteen Tim Dillon I’m your mother. If you like Tim Dillon, you’ll like I’m your mother. If you don’t like Tim Dillon, you’re not gonna like I’m your mother. The other things that absolutely must be mentioned, they’re not stand up specials, but they are the funny things from the year I have. Number one by a mile was the Mark Twain Prize given to Conan O’Brien.

That’s even better than Maren Special. That is the comedy event of the year. That’s this year’s Tom Brady Roast. If you haven’t watched the Mark Twain Prize, I mean just a who’s who on this Appearances include John m’laney who absolutely crushed it. This thing well, Pharaoh, Nikki Glaser, Bill Burr, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert was great, Adam Sandler was pretty good for Adam Sandler, David Letterman and Triumph thesl comic dog.

I mean, how could he go wrong there. I’ll have a lot to say about Conan tomorrow, but the Mark Twain Prize was the event of the year.

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Also really strong, not a full special, but Shane Gillis’s sb’s monologue whe…

I’m not sure the audience liked it. As much as John on the Couch did, But John on the Couch I loved it. Shane Gillis’s SBI monologue Number three, Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts. I didn’t love his special. I should probably mention because that came out and I didn’t want to redo my entire list again again again.

But I have Sigura and Sarah Sherman, I should mention, all right, So here I kind of fell into it. So in the first half I did the top specials of the year. Then I have the middle tier, which includes Mike Kaplin, Tina du aaka Gerrod Carmichael, roy Wood, otsco At costka Ian Edwards. Then I have Sarah Sherman and Tom Sigora. So for keeping track there, that would put them at let’s say, Sherman at the twenty sixth spot and Sigur at the twenty seventh spot.

Again, I didn’t want to go that deep. Sigora Special’s fine. It’s just fine. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate It’s just fine. But bad thoughts.

Oh, I love that. Please bring that back in a hurry. I love it so much. It’s naughty. My son is a young adult and he would find it funny, but I’m not going to be like, hey son, you should watch this because it’s quite naughty.

He can discover that on his own and we shall never discuss it. Did you watch last one Laughing UK? So they locked a bunch of comedians in a room and the comedians had to make each other laugh and if you after you got voted out of the room. Jimmy Carr was the host on that thing. It is hilarious and it’s one of those shows you can play along at home because you sit on the couch and you see if you cannot laugh.

And I got voted out of the room a couple times myself. That was really good, my jam. The thing that I can’t get enough of is Jonathan Kite’s Anthony boardeen. And you’ll find Jonathan Kite doing Anthony Bourdain on social media. I follow him on threads, he’s on Instagram, and he doesn’t increasingly great Anthony Bourdain.

So a year ago he was just doing the voice, but now he’s got the hair, and he’s got the walk down, and he’s got the wardrobe. And Jonathan Kites Anthony Bourdain takes us to such exotic places as cracker Barrel, and Costco. I can’t get enough of it. Highly recommend Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Bourdain and Shane Gillis’s sitcom Tires. It really reminds me of the Office at its peak times.

It’s really great. I’m remembering I have a couple episodes I didn’t watch because I thought the season was like six episodes, and then there were more. I was like, oh, But then I get busy and I start playing video games. I’m all into the NBA two K video game right now because I’m a Nick’s front runner. My son got mena the Knicks, and I’m a big time Knicks front runner, which reminds me I have a commercial to record for next week.

I better do that next before I forget. But Shane Gillis’s Tires, I love it. So there you go. Best Special of the Year, Mark Maron Best Thing of the Year the Mark Twain Prize starring Conan O’Brien. Tomorrow on this very program, we’ll talk about who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five.

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Featured: Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels, Terry Sweeney, Dan Harmon, Yvonne Nicole Brown, John Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Cleto Escovedo, Dave Chappelle, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Chevy Chase CNN documentary controversy and Community cast fallout
• Chevy Chase blackface scene incident with Yvonne Nicole Brown
• Terry Sweeney refutes Chevy Chase’s AIDS joke apology claim from SNL
• John Stewart criticized for mocking mask-wearers on The Weekly Show
• Jimmy Kimmel reportedly struggling after death of bandleader Cleto Escovedo
• Dave Chappelle special criticism about stand-up comedy and aging comedians

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media hither. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve been trying to stay away from the Chevy Chase documentary. I just I don’t know why. I’m just not interested in it.

But there’s controversy involved, and Johnny Mac likes to talk about controversy. One of the things that is notable is that nobody from the cast of community talked to the documentary that screams volumes and now we are hearing from a vet Nicole Brown, or rather not hearing from a vet Nicole Brown. She posted on Instagram. There are things I’ve never spoken of publicly and perhaps never will. Anyone currently speaking four or about me, and she put four and about in caps four or about me with perceived authority is speaking without ever speaking to me about the things they claim to know about.

They actually don’t know me at all. They actually don’t really know me at all. They also have no knowledge of my relationship with anyone I’ve worked with, and can not credibly speak on any current or previous issues. I hate that all this had to be said in East Cleveland speak. Keep my name out of your mouth.

Wow, I mean, that’s the kind of phrase that somebody says when they’re about to slap Chris Rock. So she seems pretty upset. So, according to this new CNN documentary, which is called I’m Chevy, Chase and He’re Not, nobody from the community cast wanted to speak, and according to the doc Chase felt ostracized by the tight knit cast. Chevy also clashed with Dan Harmon, the creator of the series. Apparently, Chevy arrived with his family to a rap party and found Dan Harmon leading the room in a chant of Fu Chevy Wow.

We are sold the incident that led to Chevy’s firing from the show involved a scene in which Chase’s character Peers, performs a puppet show in which the hand puppet character performs a blackface. As the story goes, there was a discussion about the appropriateness of the scene between Chevy and event Nicole Brown. Some say during that discussion Chevy used the and Brown stormed off the set that wouldn’t come back unless Chevy apologize. As the story goes, we are told Chase did return to the set but didn’t apologize. The episode director says, Chevy goes, you know me and Richard Pryor I used to call Richard pryor the N word, and he used to call me the honky and we loved each other.

And I’m like, I know, man, I love that bit. And I said, you know, can we just have a little apology? And he goes for what that reference is to a pretty famous Saturday Night Live bit that I’m not going to share with you for obvious reasons. After this incident was recapped on The Hollywood Reporter, apparently Chevy had a full meltdown and worried that his career was ruined. Now concurrent to that controversy, Saturday Night Lives, Terry Sweeney has weighed in.

Terry Sweeney was SNL’s first out cast member during the nineteen eighty five eighty six season. I saw Terry’s name come up in the news, and I didn’t remember him being a cast member. That’s neither here nor there. It’s just my own personal lack of recollection. I was like, who.

But apparently, way back when Chase and Sweeney didn’t get along. In the CNN doc, director Marina Zenovich reminds Chevy Chase of the joke that offended Sweeney, quoting her, you said something to Sweeney like, oh, you’re the gay guy. Why don’t we ask if you have AIDS? And every week we weigh you burn. Michaels says, I think Chevy was just being chevy.

He would say things that were funny, would assume you were comedy people. He could speak that way. You know, we would say terrible things because that’s what would make us laugh. In the documentary, Chevy says Terry Sweeney, he was very funny. This guy.

I don’t think he’s alive anymore. Well, Terry Sweeney disproved that by both being alive and speaking to the Hollow reporter. He told the reporter, don’t you think he’s saying this and making himself look more like they ass he is. In the SNL oral history book Live from New York, The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Sweeney recounts Chevy entering his dressing room and apologizing for the AIDS group, but was furious that he apologize. Chase responds, my memory is that he’s lying, and that’s my memory.

He’s not telling the truth. This is it’s not who I am. And if I am that way, my life has changed because I have to live with that now. For the rest of my effing life. Sweeney says, if Chase’s comments to the dock, it all reflects rightly horribly on him.

Boy, you know, at some point, Chevy, it’s you like the rest of the world is like this guy’s a jerk. It’s up pointed to you. Dude, are there coming for John Stewart? Did you get your talking points about why you’re supposed to be mad at John Stewart? Here?

Write this down so you’re on the right side of righteousness. You’re supposed to be furious at John Stewart. Currently on The Weekly Show with John Stewart. On the December eleventh episode, John Stewart made fun of people who still wear masks. John’s comments did not go down well with people who still are cautious and wear masks.

I wear masks on airplanes. I’ve been a germophobe way before COVID. Ask people who work with me and serious. If you had a cold and you were on my staff, I wouldn’t let you in my office. On social media, one person wrote, Hey, John Stewart, were you under the impression that people who are still taking COVID seriously and wearing masks need your bs on top of everyone else’s, isn’t part of your brand being a decent guy who thinks Another said, Hey, John Stewart, joke about wearing masks aren’t funny.

Would you ask someone why they wear corrective eyeglasses? Well, masks are no different. I mean, can we talk about a non controversy here again? I wear masks. My wife’s a physician.

She often wears masks when things are spiking a little bit, like this week where there’s a lot of flu going around in New Jersey, so she’s masking up. If John Stewart wants to goof on us and go, hey, look at the fat guy on the plane hosting a podcast as basement, What a loser wearing a mask? I don’t care. Just get the name of the show, right, Daily Comedy News. Just John, do twenty minutes on me?

Please do? Someone else wrote, John Stewart has some absolute effing nerve to be making fun of long COVID survivors and people still masking. He’s seen up close to the government to ie healthcare and resources for nine to eleven survivors who breathe in toxic air and suffering decades later. Anyway, that’s why we’re canceling John Stewart A little more serious here. Jimmy Kimmel is said to be quote unquote spiraling and feeling quote beaten down after the death of his best friend Clido Escovedo, who is the bandleader on The Jimmy Kimmel Live, a source told Raider Online, which again tends to be a little more gossipy but doesn’t mean they’re incorrect.

But the source told Rader Online, Jimmy is spiraling. He’s known Cleto since he was just a kid, and he never expected him to be gone this soon. It’s got Jimmy facing his own mortality and questioning everything. He’s in a very dark place. The same source says Jimmy’s not really over the brief cancelation there.

The source says, Jimmy got back on the air, so a lot of people assume that he’s moved past this and he’s feeling like a champ. But that’s not the case. The too Much TV substack wrote about Dave Chappelle’s special, they right, for the most part, stand up coming. He’s a young man’s game. Sure, you can keep telling stale jokes until you dropped dead while at the mic at some random casino and then they get this dig in, which is likely the way jay Leno’s life will end.

Should I just go there again? Like, I understand that you’re upset that Jay Leno took to tonight show back. Okay, he’s the worst guy ever, But other than that, why they hate for Jay Letto? He just it’s fine. It’s fine.

Mike Chisholm, who hosts The Letterman Podcast, which I’m the guest on today, by the way, so when you’re done here, go listen to the Letterman Podcast. We got onto the we got into this a little bit, the whole jay Lenell hate. I’ll share that clip in an upcoming weekend episode of Daily Comedy News if you don’t want to listen to Letterman Podcast. But just I don’t understand they hate for jay Letto anyway too much TV or about Chappelle rights. But like songwriting, great stan up requires a focus and unhealthy competitive compulsion that is much easier to pull off a twenty two than it is at fifty two.

However, staying relevant comedically also requires reinventing yourself to reflect both the change in your life and the changes the society. Comedians can go from super hot too unwatchable and a heartbeat. Dave Chappelle is fifty two and from what I can tell, over the past few years, has reinvented himself as a bit of a comedy troll. He consistently says things he knows will upset some people and channels their anger into a self righteous mocking that has become his preferred style of comedy. It’s a reflection of that new persona that when I tell people Chappelle had a new Netflix special, their first question was always did he do any trans jokes?

I think that’s true of Ricky Gervais. So I did watch Ricky’s new special. Ricky is clearly doing the thing where he’ll say things that he knows will upset people and then is like the well, why are you getting upset? I mean, that’s Ricky’s entire act. Chappelle, I feel, is trying to make bigger points, and like, if you look at the recent special where there are quote unquote trans jokes, you know part of it is like, hey, I no, you don’t want me to do this, but I’m doing it anyway.

But I don’t think he was trolling on this one too much. TV rights I have no idea what Dave Chappelle really thinks of trans people. I know what he says about them and how much he revels in his ability to tell jokes that would damage someone else’s career while writing the controversy to bigger successes. I half suspect it’s all just a giant troll. They then recap the special, skipping ahead, he begins that forty minute comedic Touri Force, which opens with a thoughtful take on how he’s feeling and how he thinks the audience is feeling in twenty twenty five.

But the part of Chappelle’s closer that is getting the most attention is also filled with the most historical inaccuracies, Although it makes for a solid bit those in act. Yes, Saretha Franklin’s funeral and McCain’s lying in state did happen on the same day, But McCain was not the only vote against the MLK holiday in the Senate. The final vote was seventy eight to twenty two, and McCain wasn’t even a senator. In Chappelle’s version, it’s ninety nine to one with a Senator McCain voting against it. So again, inaccurate and inaccurate.

McCain did vote against the bill as a congressman. Too much. TV asks the very good question why tell this complex web of lies at all? They suspected Chappelle’s way of entertaining himself and showing just how easily people will believe stories that sound real, even if they don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny. In fact, social media is filled with clips with the McCain story, with people taking the entire story at face value.

The problem with this approach is that it becomes hard to take anything he says seriously. I think that’s very, very fair.

Speaking of Ricky Gervai’s there were, of course the reaction articles.

I feel like they were pre written. I feel like the newspapers were like, eh, it’s Christmas week, nobody feels like working Ricky. He’s going to do a special and people are getting upset, so let’s just write the reaction piece in advance. The Mirror wrote one such piece, they did the quote people on social media thing. One person wrote, Ricky Gervay’s claiming victory over the elites while cashed out on a massive Netflix check is the ultimate safe space rebellion.

He spent a decade whining about being canceled from the center of the world’s biggest stage. It’s not edgy to mock things everyone already hates, it’s just profitable. Ricky shot back and said, I’ve never moaned about being canceled because I’ve never been canceled. I’ve moaned about nurses and teachers and office workers being canceled for stating honest opinions under certain authoritarian trends. Though luckily we’re coming out of that face though.

Thanks for watching. So, as I mentioned, I did watch it. I liked it. It’s good company. I woke up the next day thinking it was empty calories, so I watched it, watched it.

I wasn’t playing on my phone. My brain was tickled. I laughed a few times, and I’ve discussed in the past about how a psychopath with Emperor of Rome syndrome and don’t really laugh more analyzed comedy special. So you know, two three times I laugh laughed, which is a good sign. But when I woke up the next day, I was like, oh, yeah, that happened, and it made no impact on me.

On tomorrow’s show, I’m going to do the final Best of twenty twenty five list, and I’ll tell you where Ricky comes up on that. But it’s a good special. It is by no means his best though. All Right, I’ve got more controversy for you. I’ve been trying to stay away from this one as well.

I don’t know if you’ve been following the Russell Brand saga more charges against Russell. Comedian Katherine Ryan spoke out about her experience of working with Russell Brand on the UK version of Roast Battle. Katherine Ryan has a new stand up special on Sky called Katherine Ryan Firstborn Daughter. She didn’t name Brand during the special, but dropped several unsubtle clues. During the special, Ryan says, I was invited on a panel show and I was so excited to do it, but then I found out if I went on, I would be sat next to a man who I firmly believe but can’t prove to be a C word.

And that’s the lawyer’s choice of words, not mine. Initially I turned the job down. Then I thought, well, he’ll be there and is unnecessarily tight jeans, won’t he He’ll be there doing naughty things to Tucker Carlson, or doing differently naughty things to a Tibetan monk for views. Whatever he does now, I thought I’ll go on the show, and I made a moral decision. Her decision was that she would confront Brand, but in a fun way.

Ryan said. Brand was fine with it for a while, until he eventually had a hissy fit and threatened to quit the show. The channel got upset. They didn’t want him to leave, and they issued him a new contract, which he waltzed into my dressing room and threw under my nose. The next day he said, look, you’re not allowed to be meaning me anymore because I don’t consent.

Earlier in the week, UK police confirmed that there are two new charges against Russell Brand. The new charges include one count of rape and one count of sexual assault. The UK Metropolitan Police, in a statement said the women who have made reports, including those connected to the two new charges, continued to receive support from specially trained officers. The METS investigation remains ongoing and detectives urge anyone affected by this case, or anyone with information to come forward and speak with the police. Russell Brand is already facing five charges announced back in April, which involved four women, including two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and two counts of sexual assault.

Russell Brand is a scheduled to appear in court on January twentieth in connection with the new charges. Russell Brand has previously said to statement, I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an imbecile, but what I never was was a rapist. I’ve never engaged in non consensual activity. Some quick housekeeping, Monday Comedy Survivor begins. I’m going to do the Comedy Survivors as bonus episodes on Mondays at noon.

So on Mondays at three am, you’ll get the normal episode. Then at noon I’ll drop the Comedy Survivor episodes. Part of that is so I can produce them in advance. So how is this going to work? In the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you will vote someone off the island so telling me, hey I really like so and so that doesn’t matter.

You’re voting someone off. Whoever gets the most votes off will be voted off. If there is a tie, I will ask chat cheap et to break the tie. So you’re going to go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’re going to see a big cartoon image of Comedy Survivor, and in that thread you write down a name.

We’ll vote from Monday through Thursday, so that on Fridays I can record the Comedy Survivor episodes, which we’ll publish Monday at noon. Looking forward to that one. As we’re hitting January here, I’m going to use January weekends to play around a little bit. So this weekend tomorrow I’ll do the final list of the top specials of the year, and then on Sunday, I’m going to do who won and Lost Comedy in twenty twenty five. As we get deeper into the month, Mike Chisholm and I spent two and a half hours chatting the other day, and I’m going to chop that up into a bunch of things.

And I think Mike and I are going to do some conversation episodes where we just kind of talk about stuff and I’ll put raps on them. So I’m going to drop those in and then I’ve got some other things i want to do about comedy. So as you listen on the weekends in January, because January tend to be late, I’m going to play and try some different ideas and hopefully you’ll dig them. As I was doing some research for that, I ran the stats on twenty twenty five and I was like, oh, what do people like and what don’t people like? You know what episodes do well?

What do people like? And I guess I know this deep down in my soul. But it’s the negative things, the controversies, the fights, the cancelations. So that partly informed how I approached today’s show. If you go back and litle the first half, it’s negative, negative, negative, negative, negative.

I don’t really want to do a negative show, but that’s where the clicks and the downloads are, so hopefully I could tackle the controversial subjects but stay upbeat myself.

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Also, while I were a housekeeping remember Sarah Cooper.

If you’re a longtime listener who’ve been with me since the pandemic, there was this woman, Sarah Cooper, who got pandemic famous. She was pantomiming on TikTok to Donald Trump. So she would play Donald Trump video and then she would just mouth the words to Donald Trump. She didn’t do makeup or anything, and for some reason this caught on and it fried my brain because it was just stupid. But people were like, this is the greatest thing ever.

Okay, fine, so you’re popular on TikTok. Then there were articles that like, Sarah Cooper was the next greatest thing in comedy. Here she is doing some research here. Here she is in Vulture’s twenty twenty Comedians. You should know, she got a development deal, she had a Netflix special, and like people are like, oh my god, Sarah Cooper, and I’m sitting here in the basement going what she’s panamiming to Donald Trump?

Anyway, she got bored pantomiming to Donald Trump, and then we didn’t hear from her anymore. And the reason I’m bringing her up is I noticed the other day it’s popped up on social media. You know, a couple of years ago, buying the career is not so hot. Guess he was pantomiming to Donald Trump again. That’s right, Sarah Cooper.

Sarah Cooper, welcome back. I mean, boy, talk about hype.

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All right, let’s hit the comedy stock Market.

Comedy stock Market. It was a slow week, it was a holiday week, and I don’t have a lot for you here, So rather than force the segment, let’s just get in and out. I’ve got to sell recommendations for you. Let’s sell our Tom Segora stock. Tom had a good first half of the year.

I thought his sketch comedy show was hilarious. The new Specials is kind of like, eh, so let’s get out on Tom Sigora. Maybe we’re getting out high and we can make the little money we might buy back in. And the other person we’re gonna sell is Bert Kraser. I feel like this upcoming Netflix show is just r rated Kevin James, and my problem with it is I don’t think it’s gonna be cool enough for the bro dude so like Bert, and I think it’s gonna be too naughty for the sitcom audience.

So I don’t know who this show is for. So that’s it. Just two recommendations this week. Will sell Tom Sagora and we will sell Bert Kraser. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her because otherwise she would stay the hell off the Internet and just figure out what’s going on with you and take care of your kid and find have a career.

But Amy wants us to look at her, so she went on Instagram and showed off her new slim figure, rocking a body hugging bodysuit from Kim Kardashian’s Skim’s brand. Amy appeared makeup free and had her hair pulled back into a ponytail. So there you go, Amy, We talked about you like you want and if you’re looking for something to do tonight in Las Vegas, it’s roastal Mania, a wrestling themed verbal battle that ignores the idea that comedy should be polite, quiet, or even seated. Roastal Mania is a live roast format comics face off and curated pairings. Sean Reddy is the co producer and said, if you’re in the wrestling world, you have the baby face and then you have the heel.

I’m the heel judge, so I kind of dig into them. His persona is called the trash Man and comes complete with a prop trash can and a crowd that chants on cue. Audience participation is not just encouraged, it’s necessary. Mike Krasner or the other producer, says, you go to comedy shows and they tell you not to heckle. Here, it’s like wrestling.

When you tell a joke, if it doesn’t land, they’ll boo you. They yell trash Grassner jokes If you can’t be the best, you gotta be the worst. It’s Rostalmania nine tonight at the Wise Guy’s Comedy Club, a nine thirty show that sounds like a lot of fun. And that is your comedy news for today. Boy, I don’t know what the edited down on this is, but it’s raw.

It was thirty two minutes long episode for a holiday week. A lot to talk about, but that’s always good. All right, tomorrow at the final top specials of twenty twenty five, and then on Sunday, who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. We’ll see you then,