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Featured: Kamil Yanjanii, Mark Maron, Bill Burr, Steph Tolev, Jordan Jensen, Earthquakes, Ian Edwards, Otsko Kotska, Cameron Esposito, Mike Birbiglia

What’s in This Episode

• Vulture’s Best Comedy Specials of 2025 list analysis
• Mark Maron’s ‘Panicked’ special review
• Bill Burr’s ‘Drop Dead Years’ critique
• Kamil Yanjanii’s ‘Night Thoughts’ on Hulu
• Mike Birbiglia’s ‘The Good Life’ assessment

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Calorokashock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Is gonna lead off today taking a look at Vulture’s best comedy specials of twenty twenty five. I usually don’t agree with them. It doesn’t mean that I’m right and there wrong, or they’re right and I’m wrong.

It’s just a list. My list is just a list. I will have my list for you on Saturday if you’re new to the show. When I do these list episodes, when I’m commenting on other people’s lists, I don’t look at them in advance. I like to react in the moment to things so twofold from my own list.

I want to make sure I didn’t forget anything. And a good way to make sure you don’t forget anything is to look at someone else’s list. So we’ll jump in the pool here. There are so many comedy specials I clearly, and if you listen to your list, I don’t see them all. If you include the YouTube quote unquote specials recorded to the chuckle hut, forget it, you’d never get through it all.

I do try to watch the majors on the bigger streamers. So let’s see what Vulture likes here, and they probably got some screeners that I haven’t been able to get access to. I tried to reach out to the HBO people to get a couple things and just couldn’t get anywhere. It’s so hard to even get through to a human. There was one website I was on.

It was like, who’s recommending you to even log into this press website? I was like, all right, relax, relax. Vulture writes many of this year’s best comedy special share a reflective sense of mid career reconsideration. The most striking of these is from Kamil Nanjianni, whose special Night Thoughts allows him to reassess his career and relationship with comedy after more than a decade away from regular stand up. Okay, here’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about.

It’s on Hulu and it’s not out till December nineteenth, and as we all know, the Hulu publicists will not get back to me. So that’s a good example of something that’s on a list that I haven’t seen. Apparently it’s pretty good, according to Vulture, they write for other comedians. The retrospective meditation is about grappling with existential dread rather than non Gianni’s focus on the trap of his external public persona. They name check specials by Berbiglia, Maren Cameron, Esposito, Bill Burr.

Then they write Otsko at Kotska’s Father on Earthquakes, joke telling Business are also reflections on their comedic identities, but they operate without the same wistful existentialism.

Meanwhile, Steph Tolev’s filth Queen and Jordan Jensen’s Take Me with You, or…

Let’s jump in all right, they have at number ten Jordan Jensen’s Take Me with You from Netflix. They write, no other comedy special this year accomplishes quite the same mixture of emotion that Jordan Jensen’s does. Jordan’s appeal is how transparent she can make the glass while peering into her own brain, and there’s no question that what’s going on in there is darker than most other comedians work right now, up to and including Bill Burr’s lengthy thoughts on death. Now I’m checking my notes. I feel like I had hit play on this and bailed on it.

But I also have in my best of list. Personally, I have a section called not on list, and I don’t see that I wrote this down. I do think I hit play on it and wasn’t feeling it again, these are just list so vultures. Number ten as Jordan Jensen’s Take Me with You. I’ve added it to my list of things to put eyes on.

At number nine, they have earthquakes joke telling Business. I did not hit play on that. You’ll find that on Netflix. Just earthquakes not really my thing. They write catchphrases or a high wire act.

They deliberately swim upstream against the current fashion for naturalism and stand up sets. But the catchphrase in Earthquakes Joke Telling Business is really canny. As he talks about his family, black fatherhood, marriage and immigration politics, he keeps inserting the same pivot line between each section. These ain’t jokes. Number eight Ian Edwards untitled on YouTube.

Okay, see, I’m glad I’m doing this list. This was not on my radar at all. Great and I love this description. Ian Edwards reinvents no comedy wheels in untitled. This is a YouTube special shot at the comedy store where a guy stands next to a stool tells jokes about relationships hotel check in lines and gender reveal parties.

I will add that to my checkout list. Good job so far. Vulture. Number seven, they have Bill Burr’s Drop Dead Years. Absolutely no, it’s Bill Burr’s worst special.

I’m not even going to couch. It is not his best, it’s his worst. This is a bad pick. This is one of the specials that makes me say, Hulu is where you go to do your comedy special when you’re on the way down. So that could be a warning for Kamil Nan Johnny as well.

I can’t agree with you here on Bill Burr Vulture Road. Is there anything better, sharper, more ticklish, or more thrilling than Bill Burr doing comedy about he’s slowly realizing that he and everyone else will eventually die. Yeah, I can name twenty five other specials this year that’s better than that. Sorry, I normally like Bill Burr specials. When that one.

Number six, they have Otsko at Kotska’s Father on Hulu. I think I have that one in my middle tier. I mean check, yes, I have that as number two in my middle tier. And again I’ll do my list next weekend. It’s on Hulu.

I liked Otsco’s previous special better than this one. That seems to be the theme that I find with Hulari’s specials. They did pull out the best joke in the set, which always seems to get pulled out. Otsco tells it better, but she says, I asked my husband how to turn on the washing machine, and that’s how he realized that he’d been doing the laundry all these years, which is a great joke. And I got to take a break at some point, so halfway seems to make sense.

Be right back. Taking a look at Vulture’s Best comedy Specials of twenty twenty five, at number five, they have Mark Maren’s Panicked, which I’m I’m gonna have at number one. I don’t see what’s going to pass this. This is peak Mark Marin was an HBO special. Vulture Rights.

It’s not exactly Mark Maron’s fault that he’s become such a great comedian for this moment in history. At another time, a perpetually anxious comedian who can’t keep from ranting about his paranoid worries about the end of the world probably would not feel like such a helpful guide to life. Maren’s new special speaks to a national mood better than anyone else this year. I wonder why they have this so low. Number four, Cameron Esposito has Four Pills.

I do like Cameron a lot, but this one is on dropout and I don’t have dropout, so I haven’t seen it. Vulture says, calling Four Pills a special about the pandemic is unfair. Cameron’s New Hours about marriage, divorce to Spare ag retrieval’s mental health, and what it’s like to discover things about yourself after the age of forty. Number three, they have Mike Birbigli as the Good Life. I don’t really dig what Birbiglia does.

I do have it in my middle tier at number five, and I wrote civilians will like it. I’m a comedy snob and I don’t really like these shows that Birbigley does. It’s just not my style of thing. I get that people like it. These are just lists, but this will not make my top ten, Vulture says, given Birbiglia’s track record, it’s not exactly a surprise to turn a New Hour and discover a painstakingly crafted meditation on the meaning of life.

But it’s still a magic trick every time it happens, and by embracing a more casual mundanity, the good life sneaks its way into the top tier of Verbiglia’s work. See I think that magic trick line. They’re saying it as a compliment. That’s my problem. I just feel like it’s a performance.

And I understand all these things are a performance. But like when she and Gillis gets up there and I understand these are written jokes and he’s performing them, well, I just feel like he checking and driving these of the room. I always feel like Berbiglia is performing a stage played. It’s very, very crafted. It’s just not my thing, but fine.

On number two they have stef Toolev’s Filth Queen. You’ll find that on Netflix. I have that in my personal not on list section. The title gives it away. It’s just not my thing.

Vulture rights. Filth Queen does exactly what it says on the tin. It is proudly and thoroughly gross. Steff Toolev catalogs the many horrible qualities of the human body with the care and consideration of an obsessive collector. Each fort is treasured for its own uniqualities.

Et cetera, et cetera. Not my thing, not interested in that. And they have number one Kamil Nanjianni’s Night Thoughts again on Hulu December nineteenth. Haven’t seen it, Who’s not going to get back to me? Who knows Vulture rights?

He probably could have rolled up to an hour long standup special taping, delivered a half hearted life update, and walked away mostly on scathe. Instead. Night Thoughts slices deep into his last decade, carefully excavating how fame in the public eye have changed how he sees himself. Vulture has some other how many highlights from the year. They have listed Brent Weinbach’s Popular Culture on YouTube, Rosebud Baker’s The Mother Load on Netflix, and Roywood Junior’s Lonely Flowers are the other three they spotlighted.

Now, if you’re relatively new to the show, I could totally fairly imagine you right now going, John, do you even watch comedy specials? Because I mentioned I didn’t see a lot of the ones that Vulture liked, I’ll fly down my list really quickly. Right now. I have it as Marin, Kevin Hart, Riife, Jim Jeffries, Justin Willman’s Magic Lover, John Marco, Moe Ammer, Dusty Slay, Kreischer, Brett Goldstein, remember that one was real good. Michelle Wolf, Sarah Silverman, Matt McCusker, Mattelane, and Tim Dillon would be my fifteen top right now, and then I’ve got nine more in my middle tier and a whole bunch on my no thank you list.

But again, I will do that next week. It’ll be out on my substack, and it’ll be an episode or two in this feed. And that is your comedy news on a Sunday. Have a great day.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Gary Gulman, Josh Johnson, Morgan Jay, Bo Burnham, Conan O’Brien, Matt Rife

What’s in This Episode

• Billboard Top 25 Comedians of the 21st Century list
• Kevin Hart on Diary of a CEO discussing legacy and purpose
• Gary Gulman analyzes illogical state abbreviations and Chicago comedy scene
• Josh Johnson discusses challenges of transitioning from correspondent to anchor
• Morgan Jay featured in Variety profile on TikTok-era comedy with crowd work and autotune

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media from the basement where it’s literally fifty degrees. My boilers are not working. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I am all discombobulated. It is freezing in the house like cauld as.

I have this space heater and can kind of heat up one room. It’s just it’s awful. There’s supposedly coming on Sunday. Yikes, So I’m a little messed up here. Billboard did release the top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century, if you want to check that out on Billboard dot com.

I was hoping that today I would be able to record my thoughts on it and put it out as a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, and it would be in the regular feet at the end of December. But not going to get to that today. Johnny Mac is running late. And you know I mentioned I had the wedding last night, so as I record this, it’s before the wedding. But I have to shower, shave, and put on real clothes.

It’s one thing to sit here dressed like Adam Sandler recording a podcast. It’s another to look like an adult and then people like, hey, is that George Clooney, And I’m like, no, no, no, no, I get that all the time. I did record the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that’ll come out as a bonus feed in the middle of the day Monday. So Monday, I’ll give you a regular episode which I haven’t recorded yet. And the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that came out really well and put a lot of work into that.

One had fun with that, all right. Today’s news, Kevin Hart was on Diary of a CEO, and Kevin said, if life ended today, I could cross my legs comfortably and be okay. I made sure I applied myself to the best of my ability. I tried my best to put those I loved in a better position so that they could see more and do more. My last name and my family name is much stronger today than it was yesterday.

The idea of the world is that something I was able to live and understand better because I was blessed and fortunate enough to travel in meat. I was an energy and source of good to bring people closer together through all the things I’ve done, so it all connects and I’m okay. I’m okay. If it stopped, it stopped. What I’m not okay with is w well.

I have the bandwidth of good health, great mind. I can go, I can do it. I can get there. I’m not okay with wasting that time. Those are good smart words by card If you haven’t watched his special, it’ll probably unless something surprises me this week wind up as my number two special of the year, Very very funny.

Gary Golman was asked what’s the worst and most illogical state abbreviation and why is it MO for Missouri. Gary said they must have gone in alphabetical order and got to Michigan and Mississippi before Missouri. Then they got to Missouri and the next non s letter was Oh, that must be how they did it. It’s not intuitive at all. They should have based it on population.

Gary was asked to talk about the Chicago comedy scene. He says, I’ve been really impressed over the years. There were a lot of good comedians in the eighties, white guys from Chicago who reminded me of Boston comedians, but with a different accent. The thing I noticed in Chicago’s on the top five for this The closer city is to university. I couldn’t have gotten into the better my act does.

It never fails the further I go from a good college the harder I bomb Chicago has a Northwestern University of Chicago and others. It’s not about me being smart. It’s about how I try to sound smart, and it’s appreciated there. I found there were more comedians trying to sound dumb. You spend five minutes watching them and you think that person’s not dumb.

Those jokes that you clever, you’re insulting my intelligence. Billboard asked Josh Johnson if there were any challenges making the transition from writer to correspondent to anchor. Josh shedd it’s probably hitting refresh after each show. It’s not a bad thing, but you could be on cloud nine after you do a show. Right after the rap, there’s an element of okay, but do we have to come back tomorrow and start again.

At the end of a week, you get to enjoy everything that you did and be like, wow, that’s a great experience. Day to day, hitting refresh is sometimes a challenge, although I’m used to it from doing so much stand up on the road. You’re in West Palm Beach one day, Jacksonville the next day, and maybe Tallahassee the next I feel the same way about my YouTube channel, where I post every Tuesday. Variety was focused on Morgan Jay, and they wrote, Morgan Jay is not your typical stand up comedian. Variety rights.

Armed with an acoustic guitar and autotune drench microphone, Morgan Jay sprints down the ass of the theaters in which he performs, bantering with his fans and leading them in song. He pours tequila shots into women’s mouth straight from the bottle, convinces his couples on first dates to give each other a smooch, and push his wheelchair bound audience members across the venues, recruiting bad ease to sit on their laps. All the while he stairs directly into the lens of a roaming camera that follows him around and projects his face onto a JumboTron. He’s got a health and fitness regiment equipped for a pop star. That regiment running every other day, jim every other day, yoga, twenty minutes of stretching a day, vocal exercises every day while I’m touring.

No alcohol, no weed, no smoking whatsoever, and no meals after eight PM. Now. I love that because right when I was reading vocal exercises every day, my voice cracked and I’m leaving it in. And I worked out five days in a row, and then I had to teach Thursday morning, and then Friday I had to record this and go to a wedding and not watch Adam Sailor Jay Kelly and Today’s Saturday. I’m not going to get to work out either, because I didn’t do the weekend shows yet.

Uh, this is how you wind up fat well that in the seven thirty Am cheeseburgers I ate when I was twenty four years old producing morning radio in New York City. That’s a story for another day. Morgan Jay says, it’s an investment for people come to the show. I’d hate not to be able to give my fans the best show I can give them. Variety did some math.

Ticket plus parking plus merch plus two drinks plus hotel can easily tell them more than five hundred dollars, so you don’t need a hotel go home. Jay sett of minds two things that comedy purist might scoff at, music and crowd work. People get so upset about the crowd work. Did you watch Matt Raife special? It’s funny Variety really waxed his car, They wrote, Just as Bo Burnham might be the quintessential comic to rise from YouTube, Morgan Jay embodies comedy’s TikTok era.

He posts about one crowd work clip per day to his nine point four million followers, asking people where they’re from, who they’re with, and whether they will sleep together after the show, all while talk Singing into a pitch corrected mic, he says, crowd work, It’s only the first twenty minutes of his set. The rest of his show follows a more rigid structure, with pre written songs and interludes, a traditional stand up comedy, and no, the autotune is not always on. Interestingly, after college, Morgan Jay was an intern on NBC’s Tonight Show when it was hosted by Conan O’Brien. He explained Conan would have three or four pages of jokes for the opening monologue, and the interns were asked to come down and watching rehearse so he could get a live reaction. He’d read the jokes immediately go no, no, no, yes no.

He wasn’t precious with the material. After the Tonight show Mortgage Jay was a bike to our guide plugging his own show to tourist cycling around Central Park. Then he got a job hawking iPhones. He said ninety percent of working at the Apple stores resetting passwords. That’s funny.

He started doing the autotude crowd work during the pandemic, but says they did do a grind. When I started going viral on TikTok, I had ten years of experience and a backlog of material. Or people will blow up on TikTok who don’t have twenty minutes of material. People see me as this TikTok comedian. There are a lot of other sizes of myself.

I’d like to show. These. Glar brothers talked about being twins and said being twins, even from an early age, was an attention getter. Back when we were born in the seventies, it was rare to see twins. You rarely saw a double wide stroller.

I think as we got older, there was a lot of attention on us. We love getting laughs and being connected to people. When we started out, it was hard to live in Saint Louis and give yourself a lot of opportunities in the Comedy World. We went to the University of Michigan for college and really started to develop our comedy chops. Then we had a choice either go to New York or la if you really wanted to try and make a run at this business.

So we chose New York because we love New York and the energy there. I worked with those guys a little bit. They are cool guys. Gave them a show on serious as most of the stories I tell you. I couldn’t get anyone to give me any budget for it, and it was not a lot of money, but you know, you got to give people some money.

So many missed opportunities. We tried to give Amy Schumer a show before she super popped, but no money. Chang Wang caught up with Cincinnati dot Com sincey dot Com wrote, that’s understandable in a club where there’s fifty one hundred people, but if a thousand people are in the line, you’d be in the lobby twice. As long as you’re on stage, Shang said, I try to keep it moving. It’s quick, photo quick.

Hello. Charging feels weird to me to just say hello to people. It feels so nice that people will express how excited and happy they are for the show, the topic they are charging for meet and greets. A lot of comics do that. Shang said, I love seeing generations of a family have a reason to spend time together.

Someone in Milwaukee thank me because they get to spend an hour and a half with their mom and they rarely get to laugh and spend time together like that. I might not hang after shows forever, but right now it’s touching and sweet to me. Fun interview here Cincinnati dot Com doing their research said I ran across a wedding page that said you’re marrying Rachel Rowlands next summer in Oh Yeah. I don’t know how many Sheng Wang’s are out there, but it seems like a singular name. Comedian Shengwan said, you know, I saw that recently.

I don’t know what that is, but it feels like a scam. There’s no photos of who they are. Since he said, it says please send presents to Rachel Shen Wing said, exactly, that’s such a good scam. At the University of Southern California, you can minor in comedy. You can take classes in stand up improv, magic, and medical clowning.

About fifteen to twenty undergrads complete the minor each academic year. The La Times took a look at this program. I found this interesting. Launched in the fall of twenty fifteen by the School of Dramatic Arts. Some of the students are seeking careers as actors.

Others are just in careers in medicine, science and engineering. For them, comedy offers a chance to develop skills that could be useful in their hope for professions and their daily lives. There’s an intro to stand up class that’s also the medical clowning one, in that students learn how to interact with hospital patients. Along the way, they’re taught how to juggle and perform magic tricks. The professor of the said, some of the students have gone on and graduate from medical school.

That’s fun. One of the students, Malaya, who wants to be a doctor, said, at first, my dad was like, why am I paying tuition for this? I have a college aged daughter. I encourage her to take fun elective. She actually took a sailing class, which was really great.

Paris Sachet is on Vulture’s list of comedians You should Know and Will Know and ask two questions Best comed advice worst comedy advice. I always enjoy these answers. Worst women aren’t normally funny, so be grateful. Every time you get booked on a show, make sure you stand out because they didn’t have to book a woman. Best comedy advice was if you’re nervous, and no matter how big the room is, if you look straight to the back, it’ll look like you’re looking at the entire room.

It’ll give off that you’re making eye contact with the entire crowd. That is a great tip.

Also, be funny on stage, but’d be likable off stage.

Roy Wood Junior advised her don’t leave any meat on the bone when it comes to a topic. He said, rather than talking about ten different topics, you can literally talk about one topic until you get everything out of that one topic that you can also on that list. Ismail Lufti Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best when I was starting out in Florida and older comics on me performing one night and said, you give a hoot, Keep giving a hoot. Worst.

I once wrote for CBS’s After Midnight. Other than writing games and stuff, one of the duties of the writers was to serve as a Shirpa for the different comedian. Guess who’d come on One day, I was working with a pretty huge comic. He came in Stone out of his mind and refused to wear shoes. Eventually we sort of bonded away, look me dead in the eye and said, if I can give you any advice, Islam not my name, it’s this be undeniable.

Then he stared at me completely serious, as if he just blew my mind. Then he won on TV and took off his shirt. It was the stupidest moment of my life. I’m talking to a barely sentient, half naked blob who’s parroting something Jim Gaffigan famously said earlier, as if he came up with it himself. Who do you think that is?

So? Who would show up at after midnight? So it can’t be a huge comedian if they during after midnight and the person took off their shirts. So we’re all thinking Burt Krescher, But it’s not gonna be Burt Krescher here. So who showed up Stone and did a poor man’s Jim Gaffick?

And that is a good question. Let me know what you think about that. In the Facebook group Daily Company news podcast group Ishmael, do you have any advice to others? None of us deserve success selling out tours, writing jobs, pilots, Netflix specials. I’ve held insurance through the writer skills.

Am I so good at writing that I deserve to go to the doctor while other comics don’t? Of course not. It’s a brutal, unfair, unsustainable scam. If you’re experiencing success, you’d better be humble. If you’re struggling, take solace in the fact the rich shall not enter the Kingdom of God.

That is your comedy news on a Saturday. Have a great day.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Matt Rife, Kevin Hart, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Edmonton show heckled by crowd
• Matt Rife Christmas special Santa spoiler controversy
• Matt Rife Netflix autoplay preview complaints
• Matt Rife discusses crowdwork and upcoming material special
• Bert Kreischer scripted series ‘Free Bert’ announcement
• Billboard top 25 comedians of 21st century rankings

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. If you’re a parent and you’re listening with children for some reason, why don’t you hit stop? There’s some news in the second story. I don’t want to ruin Christmas for everybody, Okay, so hit stop.

You know what I’m saying. Yeah, okay. Dave Chappelle’s Edmonton show was interrupted by hecklers There’s Davies on stage at Rogers Place Wednesday night. The Edmonton Journal reports many and attendants took to social media after the show to complain about the behavior of others in the crowd. Some posts on social media.

One said Edmonton needs to learn how to watch a comedy show. The hecklers and yellers just wrecked everybody’s night out. Another wrote, Edmonton outright embarrassed themselves tonight in front of Comedy Royalty. Feels so bad for Dave Chappelle’s sound quality was terrible and it had to have been pushing thirty degrees in there by showtime. I believe they are talking Celsius there and it was hot in the arena.

Do wrote comedy the rest was the worst show experience of my life. Troy wrote, the first three acts of Dave Chappelle and Edmonton were loud and boisterous, but I didn’t even know wtf happened halfway through Dave set But even sitting in row one in section one eighteen, it was hard to hear him, and the crowd behind me let him know it. Ture sounded like a tech issue because it went loud to quiet. One more. Dave comes here and the crowd couldn’t keep quiet, constant yelling, garbage comments and loudmounts who ruined the show for everyone.

Chappelle deserved better. Sorry, Dave Chappelle. Matt Rife is catching some grief. All right, parents, you turn this off. Last warning here.

Okay, Matt Rife often in controversies. I think this one is not matt Riffe’s fault. Folks are complaining that when they open up the Netflix app, it starts playing an auto preview of Matt Riffe’s Christmas Special. Okay, you know, maybe you don’t like Matt Rife and that annoys you. Oh No, The issue is he makes a joke about Santa Claus possibly perhaps not being real, which, of course we all know Santa israel I did tell you to hit stop.

Matt made a joke that changes everything when you find out your parents are Santa, which of course they are not. Social media is flush with comments, says TMZ from upset parents who are ripping Matt’s and Netflix for ruining Christmas over their kids. I seriously doubt Matt Rife has any say whatsoever on what auto plays when you open up the Netflix app that is on Netflix. One parent wrote, thanks for ruining his childhood ouch. Anyway, the Matt Rife Special.

I know people love to hate on Matt Rife. I’ll tell you what. It’s the third best special of the year. Kevin Herts is slightly funnier, but Matt Rife’s special, and I may flip my order here. Matt Rife’s special is really really funny.

Now, if you’re uptight and you can’t joke amongst friends about we all come from different backgrounds. If that sort of material upsets you, you’re going to cancel me. But as a guy sitting on the couch, I found it funny. The people in the audience found it funny. I recommend on Matt Rife’s Netflix special.

And Matt got the wax job from the Hollywood reporter, Matt said, crowd work is always so much fun. It’s why I continue to do it personally. The onny stigma about me is I just do crowd work. I took a tour around the world and do twenty thousand seed arenas. It would be impossible for me to do that night after night.

If I’m on stage for an hour and fifteen minutes, maybe ten of those minutes or CrowdWork, because it’s fun and spontaneous to try and navigate. It’s a new experience for every single show, and that’s what makes the night exciting. He does open up. I clocked it. He does six minutes of non crowd work at the start of this CrowdWork special, and that six minutes is tight.

It’s funny. Matt explained. I was supposed to film my newest material special about two or three months ago. I don’t know why, but the thought of Christmas got stuck in my head. Maybe it was a yearning for my favorite holiday, and I just thought, you know what I mean, it would be really fun to do a seasonal or holiday based theme for my next CrowdWork special.

It’s a skill set that I’m blessed to have. I can kind of do it anywhere at any time, so why not hone in on this specific topic. I didn’t feel a rush to put out a new material special because I’m in the middle of a tour right now and the show’s only going to get better the longer I work on it, so we went for a seasonal special for my favorite holiday. As for that next special, I’m aiming to shoot it early summer next year. I’m still trying to pick where I want to do it exactly, and that’ll help determine when.

But I would like the material special to be out by next August or sometime around then. I don’t want to wait too long. Almost every comedian will tell you as soon as you film a special, if you continue to do that material for a couple weeks, you’ll always find extra things that make you go rats. If I had only waited a little bit longer a lot of Netflix. Today, Netflix put out a first look at Free Bert, the upcoming six episode scripted comedy series starring Bert Krescher finds himself in uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite Beverly Hills private school.

When Bert Krascher’s unbridled antics turn his family into outcasts. He decides to put on a shirt and stifle his true nature to better fit in. I don’t know. I want to say it doesn’t sound bad, but that might actually sound bad. I like Burt a lot, but I could see this being really hacky, cheesy and almost being like something Kevin James should start in.

But we’ll see. I’m expecting today for Billboard to release the rest of their top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century so far. Now. The reason I’m not sure or is they said they would release it on Friday, December sixth. There is no such date this year, but I’m guessing it would be weird to put it out on a Saturday, so probably out today.

They have released twenty five through sixteen. I have commented on that, so if you’d like to hear my comments now, I have released it as a bonus episode for the paid subscribers. For everyone else, I have recorded it and scheduled it for the December twenty eighth issue. Let’s be Frank. Johnny Mac wants to hang out on Christmas, so it was a real easy thing for me to record, and as soon as they release fifteen through one.

I will record the December twenty ninth episode and also release that early as a bonus episode. So, Johnny Mac, how do I get these bonus episodes? Okay, here’s what you do. You become a premium subscriber to the show. How do I do that?

I open up the Apple Podcasts app. There’s a banner it says uninterrupted listening. You click that, and then for five bucks a month, you get this show without commercials, and you can access the bonus episodes, and you get other things on the network ad free, including five Good News Stories, which I host in five daily Trivia Questions is pretty popular. So you can access all that. And if you’re like, hey, Shohnny Mack, you’re just try and ate us up for five bucks, take the free trial.

It’s a thirty day free trial. It’s on you to remember to cancel it otherwise I’m going to get five bucks. But if you want to hear that episode, now sign up, listen to it, wait for me to drop the other one, and then cancel it. No problem, I can’t speak today. You guys are not going to hear all the edits that I’m going to wind up making but boy, I can’t speak.

I think my brain is broken. I was at trivia the other night. I think it was personally just for me, not my team, just me, my worst trivia outing. I sat there one round. I didn’t know the answer to one of the eight questions and there were multiple choice questions and I was like, I have no idea and that doesn’t happen.

Also, I wasn’t drinking. I’m not a big drinker. If you hang around me, you’ll hear me say two beers, not eight. So usually a trivia I’ll have one beer, sometimes two. But this week Johnny Mac needs to lose weight, and as I’ve been joking with a family, I need to lose.

By the time you’re hearing this, I have about three hours left before my physical to lose twenty five pounds. So I was like, eh, I’m not going to drink and I’m not going to get Wednesday Night Chief Steak with the guys. So I just sat there and drank my water. Is my brain superpowered by brewery beer? Because I knew nothing and I can’t speak today, and the boiler’s not working again today.

It’s no joke. Fifty eight degrees in my house I may have to actually use the fireplace as a fireplace. It’s that cold. Maybe that’s why my brain’s not working. I quite digress.

Where were we? Roywood Junior is getting a holiday special. It is titled a CNN Special Event colon Roywood Junior is very very very merry Holiday Special. This will be on CNN Sunday, December fourteenth at eight pm. I’ll be watching football.

You’ll be claiming that Bob’s Burgers is on, which it’s not not going there today. The special, hosted by Roy Wood Junior, will be from Washington, d C. He’ll be joined by surprise guests from across comedy and music, as well as the US Air Force Band. Now I’ve been doing this for a while. If they’re saying surprise, guess it means this show’s not booked yet.

They think they know who’s coming, but they’re not confident enough to put it in a press release. It’s very interesting. Can’t get a kidder? Been doing this a minute, see, and you don’t have anyone booked. Roy Wood Junior said, I was hoping the White House ball Room would be done by then for us to shoot the special, but I’m understanding constructions A little behind.

Nonetheless, I’m excited to celebrate the holidays while honoring our troops and our government workers, and also having an opportunity to rewar my nice green jacket from the Peabody Awards, but this time with a little red in it. David Letterman. He’ll be on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday, December ninth. It’ll be Letterman’s seventh appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, is first since March twenty twenty three. Eight.

Boy, I hope they find something to talk about. I’ve been texting on the side with Mike from the still titled Letterman Podcast. We may jump in the studio. I have to watch the Sandler Letterman thing, and then this Kimmel thing will give us a lot of Letterman to talk about, so that could happen next week. Johnny Macleck’s a good fight now?

Is this one real? Is this a put on slash film? Says Tim Hideker hates Kyle Mooney a least that’s the impression you would get if you watch any of the pair’s recent interactions, which have been so awkward and tense that many fans are warnering just what Mooney has done to stoke the ire of Tim Highdecker. They wonder are we witnessing one of the best long running bits of the last few decades, or perhaps not. On November twenty first, Kyle Mooney posted a video for his new song Missus Claus is Getting Down.

Tim Highdecker commented corny as hell. Back in twenty twenty three, Kyle Mooney was on the Office Hours Live podcast and Tim high Decker mocked him for two hours. Afterward, Tim spoke about people contacting him to ask what was going on. Apparently Michael Showalter reached out and was like, is everything cool here? Then on Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett’s podcast, he terribly named what’s our podcast?

Tim again belittled Kyle Mooney, suggesting that he and Beck Bennett create a new podcast, interrogating why they haven’t become huge stars. In the wake of SNL, fans said they were bummed out by Tim’s appearance, thinking it was too real. Is this real or is it calf manesque? Who knows? I have to go to a wedding tonight otherwise and I’m not doing a bit.

I really do have to go to wedding tonight, and for real, otherwise I would be watching Netflix tonight. It is the debut of j Kelly. Now this isn’t really a comedy item, so you forgive me for straying into drama. But the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, who we talk about a lot on this program, he is in this and apparently really good. How could he not be?

He is a great dramatic actor, and he’s not doing comedy here, which is what Adam Sandler should be doing with his time on the planet, acting and never doing comedy. Sandlor and George Clooney, who I’m often confused for, especially now that I’m dieting. People all the time are like, are you George Clooney? Why do you have Adam Sandler in your movie? And I’m like, hey, he’s a great dramatic actor, and b no, I’m not George Clooney, the real George Clooney.

Adam Sandler did a round table with The New York Times. Colooney asked Adam, how many auditions did you go on before you got a gig? Sandler said, over and over. Never got hired. It never got in my way.

Cloney said, it did not deter you, Sandlor, because I was young. I was like, all right, I keep going go until it happens. Clooney explained, for most people that first know is devastating. The difference in what we do for a living is that the goods that you’re selling is you. So when they say no, thank you, it’s personal.

You have to be tough skinned enough to say I’m going back in there. And he was curious when did people start to know Adam Sandler by name. He said, probably the third season of SNL. When you start, you just one of the guys on the show, then all of a sudden they say your name and you get excited. Sandler talked about being recognized in the public and said, sometimes you feel like you’re supposed to react a certain way in public because of who you’re perceived as being.

So if I have a moment of not handling something right, it’s an extra long look of what the hell happened. I didn’t think Adam would behave that way, right, Like, if I met him and he was funny, I’d be like, whoa, Adam Sandler’s funny? No way that would throw me. Got a lot of news today. Let’s just check the clock.

We’re going along here. But I want to tell you about Kat Williams. He was on Michelle Obama’s podcast, Yeah Kat. Told a story about stepping into parenthood when his son’s mother, who lived in another state, faced an addiction crisis, her children landed in an orphanage. Cat Williams thought he had no connection to the kids, but he said, they’re the siblings of my son.

I did all the research, and I knew that it takes a million dollars to raise a child. He adopted chen children, and he said, am I gonna have ten million dollars to take care of ten kids? Fine, let’s do it. I’m in, Let’s go. Sounds like that was pretty interesting.

Leanne Morgan was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Leanne Morgan talked about meeting Morgan Wallen, the country superstar, early in his career. They did some sort of local charity event. Leanne Morgan told THEO Morgan Wallen and I did a show together when he got kicked off the voice. He had mowing equipment.

We both got asked to do a charity thing. I think they paid us two hundred dollars. If they paid us anything, I can’t remember. And he sang and we were in the back, and I promised him a cast role because I thought he was so sweet and darling, and he goes, I’m gonna try and make it in country music, and I thought, how’s that gonna go? Not that I didn’t think he was talented.

We also learned that Morgan Wallen had taken Leanne Morgan’s daughter, Maggie So Maggie Morgan on a date several years ago, but Maggie Morgan realized she wasn’t Morgan Wallen’s type. A lot of Morgan’s in this is very confusing. Leanne Morgan says he was into wild girls that liked to keep cars and fight in the yard. Now, he did take Maggie on a couple of dates, but she said, I think he likes wild girls like to keep cars. And you see, my children went to a Christian school and we’re told not to.

But she said she thought he was darling. And she said, this a long time ago, before you had a big He liked girls that like to fight in the yard, and that’s okay. There’s pretty girls in Powell. They were all from Powell, Tennessee, and he was a baseball player and mode I get it. Comedy Stock Market.

Thank you, Bert Reynolds. I’ve only got three picks for you this week on the Comedy stock Market. Let’s buy some Matt Rife. I’m a couple of things here. This new special is very, very funny, and I remembered I really liked his previous special.

I went back and looked and I had that on my best of I think it was twenty twenty three list. And as I’m putting together the top comedians of the twenty first century my version, I might put Matt Rife on it. I know right now some of you are throwing your sneaker at the wall, going Matt Right. He’s not funny, but he’s funny and people like him. Maybe he makes the list.

I haven’t worked on the list yet, but he’s in consideration. Actually, a trivia the night, a friend of mine said, have you heard of Ralphie May? And I took out my phone because I love doing this, and I showed him Ralphie May’s a contact from back when Ralphie was alive, and I’m like sure, And that made me realize, oh, Ralphie should be on this list as well. He was fantastic, right, So let’s buy some Matt rife. Let’s sell some David Letterman.

Dave, you gotta start throwing watermelons off towers. You’ve lost your way. Let’s make twelve thirty great again. So we’ll sell David Letterman, and a little more seriously, let’s sell our Amy schumerstock if we even have any. I’m just looking at what was going on this week on Gossip Corner and I just don’t have a good feeling about any of it, starting with the Instagram, Like, I’m happy that you’re feeling healthy and you’re feeling good about yourself, of course, but there just seems to be I don’t know, why are you doing this in the press, Why are you doing this on social media?

What is going on? I just have a really, really icky feeling every time time Amy Schumer comes up in the news. Right now, So we’re gonna buy Rife, sell Letterman. I can’t believe I’m saying that phrase, and we will sell Amy Schumer on the Comedy stock Market. Prince Harry was on Stephen Colbert’s Late show on Wednesday night.

Harry mocked the President of the United States, claiming America had elected a king that got some friendly booze from the audience. They were apparently booing President Trump and not booing Prince Harry. By the way, if you want some real comedy, here’s what you do. Go to Google, click the NEWSTAB and google the phrase Megan Markle Holiday Special and read the British tabloid coverage of it. Oh my goodness, hilarious.

We’ve been covering that on Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the royal family that I’m the writer on. They destroyed her and it was the funniest stuff I read all week. During some jokes described as awkward, Prince Harry criticized CBS for settling a baseless lawsuit and claims that we’re obsessed with royalty. I actually had forgot I had pulled the audio here.

Let’s listen to some of it. You’re America, are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you’re surely obsessed with royalty, so why not hold on, hold on? Look, Look, I wouldn’t say we’re obsessed with royalty, really, I hud you elected a king. That’s a fair point. Now he’s got a point.

Rolling Stone reporter that last weekend Thanksgiving weekend, John Stewart was on the drums again. John is in a band called Church and State. Apparently, Stuart was on the drums at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. A great place if you’ve never been. If you ever make it that way, absolutely walk in.

Tracy Morgan presented his annual Nursing Excellence Award to Gilbert Recto, an assistant nurse manager at the Breen Trauma Unit at Hackensack Meridian JFK. Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. Sure it’s a great place. I think we could shorten that name a little bit. Tracy Morgan said, this is for you, my friend, continued to do the work you do.

You may recall several years back, Tracy Morgan spent several weeks recovering at that same facility after a pretty bad car crash. Well, I was back in twenty fourteen. That is a long time ago, Tracy said. The truck was doing seventy five miles an hour when it hit me. I thank the Lord for people in my life that helped me.

I could stay with them all day. And congratulations to Vlad Ilich vladd Is, the British Comedian of the Year. Originally from Macedonia, Vlad became a British Citizen earlier this year and won the live final night at the Comedy Store in London. The British Comedian of the Year contest is open to comedians of all levels. It has one of the biggest prizes in comedy ten thousand and one British pounds.

That is one British pound more than the Edinburgh Comedy Awards main prize. Congratulations to vlad Ilich. All Right, the plan for the weekend tomorrow normal episode Sunday. I’m going to start off looking at Vulture’s top twenty five comedy specials of the Year. I haven’t looked at it yet, but I want to look at it to see if I have forgotten any to put on my life.

My list will be published in the Feed on Saturday, December thirteenth, going a little early this year because my publicist wants to get the list out there and help publicize the show. So I have to look at the greater good and it makes more sense to put that out a little early, so maybe we can get some press pick up rather than putting that out December thirtieth or so. But once we get on the other side of Christmas, I’ve got some list episodes. The twenty eighth and the twenty ninth will be Johnny Mac commenting on Billboards list of the top twenty five of the century so far, and then I’m going to rip that off and share my own with you. So we got plenty to talk about.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: David Letterman, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Michael B. Jordan, MrBeast, Jason Bateman, Eddie Murphy, Daniel Craig, Cookie Monster, Ryan Johnson, Bert Kreischer, Jeff Foxworthy, Leonard Skynard, Diplo, Paul F. Tompkins

What’s in This Episode

• David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction season announcement with Michael B. Jordan and Jason Bateman
• Sesame Street’s Netflix move and Knives Out parody with Daniel Craig
• Ryan Johnson on possibility of Muppets in Knives Out films
• Bert Kreischer announces Full Throttle Festival at Daytona 500 weekend
• Paul F. Tompkins weighs in on cake versus pie debate

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media make twelve thirty great again. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News David Letterman, who’s on the wrong side of all the issues these days. You know, he’s supporting Seth Myers, whereas the President and I are aligned that NBC twelve thirty could be a lot funnier. Letterman also out there letting Adam Sandler believe he’s the least bit funny. You know, I don’t know what to do with this.

I’m actually getting increasingly mad with Mike from The Letterman Podcast, and I’m in his ear that he needs to rebrand his show as The Conan Podcast and celebrate the true greatness of twelve thirty comedy now that Dave has just lost his way. And you know, I don’t know what Jimmy Fallon did on that show and Seth forget about it. So Mike the Conan Podcast think about it. I think you need to consider it. David Letterman is still out there putting out work.

Dave has announced another season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, season December sixteenth. Michael B. Jordan is the guest and my wife has the haunts for Michael B. Jordan, so I’m not gonna tell her that episode even exists. Then I find this interesting mister Beast, and then they tell us mister Beast’s real name is Jimmy Donaldson.

I thought your guest needs no introduction. Hmmm, which is it? David Letterman and Jason Bateman will be the final guest of the wopping three episode season. For some reason, the Saandler episode not part of the official season. I don’t know how many of this works.

I don’t care. Dave, come back home, Dave, you want to press me. I don’t care about the return of Eddie Murphy. Here’s what I want Dave to do. David Letterman, I’m calling you out.

I want you to find a tower somewhere and throw a watermelon off it. Just one watermelon. That’s all I need out of you, Just to know that my David Letterman is still in there somewhere now. The original five story tower has been torn down, but I’m sure we can find another five story tower if you want. If you want to come over to my house and throw a watermelon off the house at me, I’ll let you do that as long as I can record the audio.

You know, in these trying times where some things are getting worse, some things are getting better, Sesame Street has found its fastball. I’m really excited about this. You know, Sesame Street is on Netflix right now. Yeah, no more PBS. It’s on Netflix and they’re doing a cross promotion to promote this knives Out movie that I think it’s out today.

If you’ve ever seen a knives Out movie. Daniel Craig plays ben Wan Blanc. Well, he plays Benyet Blanc on a knives Out parody on Sesame Street. Let’s listen, someone e’t me tripleberry pie? Ha ah, No one touched my sardine pie.

This a mystery only the world’s greatest detective console. What have arrived to this street of Sesame on a sunner day? Turn cloudy? We have a culinary culprit in our mites, and to solve this confectionery conundrum, we must look right in front of our googly eyes at cookie Monster. Oh we’re not doing that whole gasp thing.

It makes sense. Cookie Master does love silm chills. Yeah, yes, now that was pretty good, and like most things on modern Sesame Street, it got ruined Byomo. I mean that is just the story of him. Well, President Trump, why don’t you do something about Sesame Street?

You know, I don’t know what you’re doing all day. Appreciate you helping to make twelve thirty great again, and I applaud your efforts there. You and I are not aligned on all the issues, but you’ve done nothing about Patton Oswalt and Star Trek so far, and I think you need to do something about Sesame Street. Sesame Street in the seventies was wonderful, and then Elmo came along, and you should do something about that, mister President. I digress.

Some people want Knives Out filmmaker Ryan Johnson to make an official Muppets version, which would be epic. This probably as close as we’ll ever get. Johnson had the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast that respects both the Muppet movies and Knives Out to mix them. He says that now come back in twenty years when he needs a paycheck. He says, the reality is, if you put Muppets in a Ben wa Blanc movie, it would feel totally wrong because they would be getting murdered.

The alternative is just to stick Ben Wy into a Muppet movie, which admittedly would be very fun, but will kind of break the reality of what Blanc is, which is to say, I’d love to just do a regular awesome Muppet movie. No no, no, no, no, no no. Look, it’s a movie. We can all handle it. We can all understand that there’s no reality to this thing.

We can handle it. Make this President Trump, get on that. Burt Kreischer. I like what Burke Kreischer is doing here. He will headline the first Full Throttle Festival during the Daytona five hundred weekend.

Have you ever been to Daytona. I got to go twice. I got what’s called a hot pass. What a hot pass is is you can be on pit road during the actual race. So I would be standing at NASCAR races.

The series had the rights to a NASCAR and I got to go to a bunch of races as part of the cross promotional Blue Collar Radio. I found myself in Talladego one day with Jeff Foxworthy. But you’re standing there, and because you have a past that says the word hot on it, you have all access. It’s like sitting in the dugout in the World Series. So I was there and I was like, I appreciate this.

But I know I’m not appreciative because I was looking at all these people in the stands and I’m like, oh, boy, if those people who like truly appreciate you know, I’m from Queens. I didn’t grow up a NASCAR. Those people, boy, if they could be in my spot, they would lose their mind. Again, I thought it was really cool, and I was thankful, but I was just like, boy, this is the equivalent of me sitting in the Mets dugout in the World Series, Not that the Mets would ever be in the World Series, but you know, I could fantasize. I had a great time I met this dude.

I’ve got a great picture. He was dressed head to toe in Budweiser gear. I guess he was a Dale Earnhardt junior fan, and he had a cooler. And the other thing about Daytona an hour before the race, you’re allowed to sit on the track. I’ve got a picture of me sitting on the track drinking a Budweiser an hour before or the race of Daytona five hundred.

So I love the Daytona five hundred. I have digressed again. Bert Kreischer will headline the first Full Throttle Festival during Daytona five hundred weekend, held February fourteenth, Happy Valentine’s Day, Honey at the Ocean Center. The festival will include barbecue, beer, and NASCAR themed attractions. This sounds awesome.

Tickets start at seventy five bucks. Full Throttle Festival dot com touted as an all night party that brings together live music, stand up comedy, beer and barbecue under one massive roof. Kraser will be joined by Leonard Skinnard and renowned DJ producer and former Daytona Beach area resident Diplow seven pm to one. Am Bert Kreisher said, Race Weekend in Daytona is the super Bowl of speed, and for me that means going absolutely massive. So I figured, why not partner with Nascord build the biggest, wildest, greatest pre race party ever.

We’re bringing a rock show, country show, comedy show, and the kind of barbecue and beer that would make a pit crew chief proud. Love it so much fun and to wash all this down, as if this wasn’t fun enough, the Great American Beer Hall will feature an expanse of craft beer program and domestic favorites with signature cocktails, available at bars in the venue. Tickets to the Daytona five hundred are not required to attend the festival. Sounds really cool. Paul F.

Tompkins has weight in on cake versus pie and says cake will always be superior to pie. Yeah, the truth hurts pie people. Cake will always be superior to pie for one very simple reason, frosting. You all forgot about the frosting. Every once in a while I get some pathetic little pie person say something like, well, you could put whipped cream on a pie.

Whipped cream. Don’t make me laugh. You’ve embarrassed that both of us with that answer. You put whipped cream up against frosting. Love it.

Here’s how good frosting is when you eat it directly out of can you feel shame must be. It’s pretty good because you’re not supposed to eat it that way. What are you gonna put pie filling up against frosting? Patton Oswalt, who is helping to ruin Star Trek with his awful dug the Vulcan character, President Trump, please get on this. Forbes asked Patent why the title of his special Black Coffee and Ice Water does not appear in the special and Patten said that he never puts them in the special, and I was like, Yeah, who does that?

Nobody does that? Do people do that? I hope not? Batton explain, And it’s kind of the overall mood at the title is more of the mood, but you never hear anything with the title in it. Batton explain.

I usually generate about an hour and a half of material every year, and I’d just done a ton of films and TV shows, including Ruining Star Trek, and a lot of traveling, and my life wasn’t focused on stand up for a while, maybe a little less Dug the Vulcan and a little more stand up, just saying and along with that was how hallucinatory and logical the world has been coming around us. And as a comedian, how do you take a step aside away from that and go, I’m gonna go make fun of this thing that’s already kind of comedy proof in a weird way because it’s already so messed up. So there’s a lot of that feeling in this. And on top of that, this was not a visual special, that’s right, this is an audio special on Audible. I was so much freer to perform and just have it being the material.

We’re doing a special. All you think of the camera angles, the wardrobe lighting, how does it look? You have all that in mind. It’s everything but the material. But this is just me.

People are gonna hear my voice and hear the audience and how we’re both relating. Being that stripped down and that simple for me, it was just fantastic. Get your nominations in for Comedy Survivor. What we’re going to do in January is every week we’re going to vote one comedian off the Island. So I need your nominations for who should be on Comedy Survivor.

And again, remember the point isn’t who wins, it’s the journey. So give me good names so I have material to work with. Go to Facebook Daily Comedy News podcast group and three names in. I’ll reveal on Monday who’s going to be on the Island. Comedy Gives Back as a nonprofit that acts as the safety net of the comedy world, they’ve announced a new annual fundraising effort, the Very Good Person Year End Giving Campaign.

Donations will address the challenges faced by comedians, including mental health struggles, physical health, and financial instability through various initiatives, including therapy grants, financial assistance programs, recovery meetings, and educational workshops. The org aims to ensure that stand ups at all stages of the career receive the support they need. Zoe Friedman is the organization’s executive director and co founder. As Zoe said, people know the Kevin Harts and the bird crisis of the world, But for every household name, there are hundreds of working comedians you’ve never heard of who are grinding it out to bring laughter the world. Those are the comedians Comedy Gives Back exists to support.

Zoe was a guest on episode one hundred and eighty five of the still titled Letterman Podcast Again. I’m hoping Mike will rename this the Conan Podcast and accept the greatness of twelve thirty. And you know, sometimes I got to leave people behind. There was a time when Rudy Giuliani was America’s mayor and everybody in New York City loved him. A couple of years went by, things change.

Giuliani started supporting Adam Sandler comedies and saying Seth Myers was funny, and you know some other stuff.

And now people don’t like Juliani as much as they did, say, you know, in the …

I mean times change. So Mike, please rename your podcast to the Conan Podcast, and you know, give you some other stuff to talk about. Comedy Gives Back has granted one million dollars to over one thousand working comedians experiencing hardship since twenty nineteen. Nice job there, folks.

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Also a nice job by Tracy Morgan, who said he has fed over nineteen thousand f…

Tracy told people he has donated more than two hundred thousand dollars to support vulnerable households through his work with the Hacketsack Meridian Health Foundation. Tracy says, it’s fun to get the love and support, but it’s better when you give it back. That’s what I want to teach my children more than just a great education. I want Maven and her brothers to be empathic. Tercy has a great point of view.

He says, at this point in my life, spending time with my children, that’s it. I don’t care about nothing else in the world. Listeners to this program know that Marcelo Hernandez does two things. Well, those two things are the character he does on SNL. Every single sketch he appears, it’s I mean, you can call it Domingo, but it’s all the same character.

And his Sebastian Manascalco impression. Well, now we’ll see if Marcello has a third thing he can do. He’s going to be in the cast of Shrek five. He’s going to play Shrek and Fiona’s son, Fergus. Now, Fergus is a Scottish name, so I assume Marcelo Hernandez is going to break out some sort of Scottish accent, right, that would make sense.

Shrek five out June thirtieth, twenty twenty seven. The cast includes Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz reprising their roles a Shrek, Donkey and Fiona. And that is your comedy news for today. Make twelve thirty great again. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Louis C.K., Jim Gaffigan

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien appearing on Rest Is History podcast for Beatles two-part special
• Beatles Anthology remaster on Disney Plus
• Kevin Hart’s Mount Rushmore of comedians
• Jim Gaffigan bourbon video engagement metrics
• Billboard’s top stand-up comedians of the 21st century list
• Louis C.K. novel Ingram on New York Times Bestseller List
• Late night TV history and Jay Leno vs David Letterman debate

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I will talk about this David Letterman guy, he had Adam Sandler Runner show. We’ll talk about it on the second half. I’m starting to wonder now have I been on the wrong team for the last thirty something years?

Should I have been Team Jay the whole time? As Dave lost his way? We’ll get into that. The true King of twelve thirty. Conan O’Brien, he’s going to be on the Rest Is History podcast.

That is a fantastic podcast. Have you ever listened to that one? They’re doing an episode about the Beatles. Have you been watching the new version of Anthology on Disney Plus? Well, I haven’t, because you know, that would be supporting fascism.

But I heard some other people are watching it and they’re saying it’s really good in that they’ve upscaled the video. But of course I don’t do such things. I go upstairs and I watch the nineteen ninety five DVDs of Anthology. The Rest Is History is doing a two part special. Conan O’Brien said they were singer songwriters who wrote their own music and in so many ways broke the mold.

Most groups at the time had a clear frontman Deanna and the Bell Mouns, for example, and there was a real pressure on them to follow that model. For a moment they were even Johnny and the Moondogs, but they always knew they were a group. Now, as I’m rewatching the nineteen ninety five anthology DVDs up until like sixty five, it really is John Lennon and the guys.

And then I actually believe in the Paul is Dead theory.

I think Billy Shears, who are you familiar with? This Paul is dead replaced by a look alike. Some people refer to him as Billy Shears, some refer to him as William Campbell. But whoever the replacement Paul McCartney is, that guy is a Hall of Famer because if you accept the theory is true, which of course it is William Campbell, Billy Shears has had a Hall of Fame career if you just look at the late Beatles stuff after John kind of checked out, and then all the stuff from Wings in the solo years, fake Paul McCartney has put out a body of work that the real Paul McCartney couldn’t touch. I mean, it really was John Lennon and the Beatles up until basically the replacement.

Think about it, Get your DVDs out, watch the original anthology. Don’t support fascism and you’ll see what I mean. I digress. Conan said, the Beatles single handedly brought us from black and white to color. The volume of work they have is incredible.

They remain as relevant today as they were in nineteen sixty four, and I’m proud of you, guys. I thought I was going to have to get on here today and lecture everyone this Jim Gaffigan Bourbon video. It has now leveled off. It is steady at three and a half million views. That means either the algorithm has slowed it down or you guys came to your senses to stop watching this thing, and I thank you for that.

I did notice it has three and a half million views, but only twenty seven thousand likes. I was curious, is that a lot of likes? It doesn’t seem like a lot of likes, But I asked chat cheapt who said, short answer, yes, that’s solid, not spectacular, but definitely not bad. Here’s how it breaks down. According to chat cheapt.

A typical YouTube like a rate is a round point five percent to two percent. Jim Gaffigan’s video is at point seven seven percent. That’s comfortably within the normal band. Chat says, for a video with three and a half million views, the platform average would put you somewhere between seventeen thousand, five hundred likes and seventy thousand likes. Again, the burb video as twenty seven thousand.

Chat says twenty seven thousand sits in the lower middle range respectable engagement, especially if the content is something that naturally drives people to smash the light button. What it usually means is people watch the video but didn’t feel a strong emotional push to interact. The reach is high views, but the engagement intent might be mild. Still totally healthy, nothing to worry about. Kevin Hart has put out his mount Rushmore of comedians.

Now, any mount Rushmore of comedians is so complicated, because you know where do you start? I usually start somewhere around Lenny Bruce, George Carlin in the sixties, because how do you really compare modern stand up to what people did and say vaudeville? It doesn’t work. So I will tell you who Kevin Hart picked and then you can lose your mind about it and whatever. It’s just a guy saying here’s four comedians I like.

On that note, Billboard has put out a their list of the top stand up comedians of the twenty first century. I have not looked at it at all. I shared it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast. I want to save that because that is candidly perfect holiday weekend filler, like Christmas weekend. I believe Christmas is a Thursday.

So I dropped this in for the Sunday, but I am curious about it. I might actually record that day’s show right after this, just so I know who they did. And if I do that, I’ll drop it early for the paid subscribers, so you know we have this whole plus thing. If you would like this show without commercial interruption any occasional early episode, what you do is you open up Apple Podcast. There’s a banner there it says uninterrupted listening.

You click that five bucks a month. You get this show and most everything else here on the CALLI urga Shark Network, including five Good News Stories, which I host as well. You get all that commercial free five bucks a month. Great way to support the show, and again, if I have my act together, I’ll drop that second episode for the paid people shortly. I’m having some microphone problems today.

I had to go into the shoe box here in the studio and find an old adapter. I have a USB C to USB A adapter so I can use the microphone on my MacBook and the one I’ve been using. Oh, you’re kind of crapped out, but I found an old one. It seems like we’re steady. I digress.

You don’t care about any of that. Kevin Hart his mount Rushmore of comedy. Kevin Hart said prior always is on there first, and his other three picks Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. Again, I almost went on a diet tribe about how Eddie Murphy is just a Richard Pryor cover act, even though I love him. But I’m not taking the bait.

We can debate this all day, so sure, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Dave Schapelle, Chris Rock, why not build a mountain put their face up on it. I don’t care. Hart explained, Chris Rock is someone who became a multi hyphen it in the business of entertainment but still stayed true to the craft. Dave Chappelle is just the voice of comedy today. Eddie Murphy showed what a star looked like, and he did not elaborate, Nor does anyone need to on the greatness of Richard Pryor.

On most lists of Richard Pryor and George Carlin to finish one or two, depending on who made the list. There was a time when Louis C.K. Was being compared to George Carlin as the modern day George Carlin. You don’t hear that so much anymore. Louis who is you know?

So canceled and he did the naughty stuff and then he went to Riodd and everyone’s just mad at him. Well, he’s on the New York Times Bestseller’s list for hardcover fiction titles. Who’s buying this book? Someone is ck went on Instagram and wrote, Hello, I want to share the happy news that my debut novel, Ingram is at the New York Times bestseller List, number fourteen. It’s been a very rich experience having it out in the world and hearing how much people like it.

You can order Ingram hardcover ebook or audiobook at the link in my bio. Now I’m curious. Let’s see what else is on the list. What am I looking for here? New York Times Bestseller List.

But it’s a subdivision, right, bestseller hardcover fiction titles. All right, New York Times Bestseller Hardcover Fiction. Here is the list. Oh look, as I record this a little after three on Tuesday, no longer on the list. Oh no, no, no, I’m looking at They have the top fifteen here, and I’m not seeing Louis C.K.

On here. So I guess it was a little little bit of a shooting star there. And for the second time today, sanity is resuming here in the world of comedy watching gaff again, you stop buying Louis C.K. Books. Next thing, you’ll come around on Adam Sandler being a great dramatic actor and a terrible comedian.

You’ll come around. I’m having a good day here. This is much better than the week’s been going up until now. If you’re curious. Louis said he’s going to be at the Barnes and Ople bookstore at the Grove in Los Angeles for a book signing on December sixth.

Dustin Nickerson was quite happy that the Carolina Panthers beat the Los Angeles Rams. That’s right, Panthers thirty one, Rams twenty eight. But you see, Dustin Nickerson is a fan of the Seahawks. Now, all these teams are in the forty nine ers way, Well, not the Panthers, but Nickerson, the Seahawks fan posted Dear Carolina Panthers, thank you sincerely, Seahawks fans. Jim gaff again stuck at three and a half million views.

He was on Jimmy Kimmel’s show and said he doesn’t think of himself as dumb. I do dumb things. Let me talk hypothetically. Here’s how dumb men are. I’m gonna think of a hypothetical man.

Let’s say a football coach. Let’s say an NFL coach. Let’s say this football coach has won five Super Bowls. This is quite funny. Let’s say he had this legacy, and let’s say this brilliant mastermind had his legacy destroyed by a twenty four year old social media manager.

Kimmel cuts in, he goes, this is all hypothetical. Old Gaffigan says, yeah, hypothetically speaking, Now, maybe they’re in love. He’s seventy three, she’s twenty four. I know some people have an issue with that, and those people are called women. But you know, guys, hear that agent like, you know, hey, love is love, right.

My point is she’s not evil, he’s dumb.

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And now my dogs are working.

Guys, I just fixed the microphone. I’m just trying to get the show today. Maria Bamford caught up with New yot ned. She was talking about Late Night and said, in nineteen ninety nine, and I think I was on Conan, I didn’t feel good at all. I felt so scared.

I was surprised by that because I thought, isn’t this supposed to feel great when your dreams come true? But I felt very bad and super scared. It wasn’t fine. It was three and a half or four minutes of time. I didn’t grow up with entertainment my family, so I think I associated this weird magic with it, like, oh, if it’s on TV, then it’s a bigger deal in real life.

And it turns out real life is almost exactly like TV. Nw YO asked her about Colbert Gate and Kimmelgate. Bamford said, well, the sad thing is people don’t notice the lack of free speech until it starts affecting white males. It seems like our country is just not itself anymore because there’s fear of retribution. I mean, people get death threats now for saying what they believe.

I’ve had that myself. I did this goofy thing where I fought a restraining order against Trump so he couldn’t come within one hundred feet of my house. I put that on social media because I thought it was funny, and he is an unregistered sex offender, so there’s no reason to be afraid of him. But then as soon as I boasted that, I had death threats and people saying I know where you live. That’s just so sad.

So I think it’s gotten where you go. Oh, even the privilege to being effective. And she laughed and said, which, I don’t think anybody who’s black, brown, or as any other minority experience, is going to be surprised by how quickly your freedoms are taken away. Let’s head on over to gossip corner. Amy Schumer does like us to talk about her, so we shall.

You got it. Amy. Amy went on Instagram to update everybody about the rumors of you know, as she’s splitting up with her husband Chris. She wrote, fingers crossed, we make it through. Whatever ends up happening with me and Chris has nothing to do with weight loss or autism.

Fingers crossed, we make it through. He’s the best. Schumer jumped in on the comments and rode sorry for whatever a feeling it’s giving you that I’ve lost weight of hat plastic surgery over the years. In a easmonjurro sorry to anyone that let’s down. I’m pain free.

Sixteen Comedians, one Island, and in the end, only one thing matters, your vote. Alliances will form, bits will evolve, Johnny Mac will beat recurring jokes to their breaking point. Sixteen Comedians, one recurring bit one Survivor this January on Daily Comedy News, outbit Outlaugh Outlast, This is Comedy Survivor. That’s right. Jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and give me your nominees for who should be on the island.

As we do this in January, I’m gonna close the nomination sometime. Let’s call it a midnight as Thursday turns into Friday, so I can record Monday’s episode and tell you who will be on the Island. I welcome your nominations. Mike chimed in. He argued for Pete Davidson and says because his name always comes up, that’s true.

Also a good nomination from Mike for Kevin Hart, Mike points out because if there ever was a comedy survivor, Kevin won’t be too busy for it. That’s right. He likes to work. He also suggested Colin jokes because the furry thing isn’t going away interesting. Plus we could make vote jokes.

Mary Hinda gets the joke and wrote where Seth Myers that it wrote back? Is that a nomination? So I think she understands the whole thing out Today, Tom Allen’s Absolutely Live is on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla site and let’s get to the meet of things. I didn’t want to put a big roadblock at the top of the show. I think pretty much everyone is now on board realizing that Adam Sandler is one of the great dramatic actors of our time.

In this movie Ja Kelly, which is on Netflix Friday night, I’m actually disappointed. I have a wedding Friday night, so I can’t watch Adam Sandler’s movie Friday night. Hopefully Saturday night I’ll get to it. But this weekend is December seventh, as you know, is the anniversary of Star Trek the motion picture, which I watch every single year on or about December seventh, So I don’t know what I’m gonna get to Despite the greatness of Adam Sandler, but I think we all agree Adam Sandler one of the great dramatic actors of our time, one of the worst comedians who ever was. And this brings me to David Letterman.

So David Letterman is already on the wrong side of making twelve thirty great again. So I think we just have to just look at Dave and realize he got old and has lost his way, and now he’s out interviewing Adam Sandler about comedy rather than acting, And what are you doing, Dave? I mean, Dave has lost his way. So this reminds me. I’m a Jimmy Buffett fan, And at one point there was a group that called themselves the Church of Buffett Orthodox.

They began to distance themselves from Jimmy Buffett because Jimmy Buffett was about Margeritaville restaurants and selling product and knockoff Corona Beers, and everything was just sell, sell, sell, sell, sell, and they thought that Jimmy Buffett the Man had gotten away from Jimmy Buffett the message, which was I’m just sitting in the sand having a good time. And they like the monetization of everything. So they started the Church of Buffett Orthodox.

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And now I’m wondering if we have to start the Church of Letterman Orthodox.

Those of us, the true believers who understand that twelve thirty David Letterman was great, eleven thirty David Letterman was okay.

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And now I don’t know what’s happening.

He does not want to make twelve thirty great again. Supporting Seth Myers and now interviewing Adam Sandler about comedy. Now I didn’t watch this yet. The real thing that happened is I was sitting in the comfy chair and I fell asleep, and I woke up and it was one thirty in the morning, So I haven’t actually watched My Next Guest needs no Introduction or whatever that show’s called on the Netflix. Decider saw it and they gave it a review and said, the interview itself starts chronologically enough.

We find out about Adam Sandler’s time at NYU, where people told them he was funny. Sandler appearing in an early episode of The Cosby Show with that Bill Cosby guy, Yeah, what’s that about him? Should we look into this? Sandler played Theo’s friend Smitty, and then, of course, then Lorne Michael’s. In one of the really bad decisions in Lorne Michael’s Great career, he puts Adam Sandler on SNL.

Now, finally there’s a chunk where Letterman wakes the hell up and focuses on Sandler’s dramatic turns and punch, drunk love and uncut gems. Hopefully I haven’t seen it yet. Letterman asks him about the Basketball movie. In the Space Movie, Decider tells us the structure of the episode isn’t linear in the conversation sometimes overlap, with Sandler repeating stories in slightly different ways more awkward, though Letterman veering off course multiple times in their conversation. A spotlight work Sandler has done for Netflix this year, including Happy Gilmore IWO, ugh Awful.

The folks over at Parade Magazine watched it and they focused on a story Sandler told about his grandmother. There’s a big story in my house. I was in Florida visiting, and I took a shower in the morning and I did my day, and that night I was taking another shower and my grandmother said, you take a lot of showers, and I said yeah, and she said, I think you’re entertaining yourself up there. Sandler says he did not use that anecdote in his very first stand upset, but also says I was devastatingly bad and nobody laughed. I mean, yeah, that’s not hard to believe at all.

We’ve also learned, and Sandler says, I say so many things about my wife and kids that aren’t true. I make stuff up and make a goofy. At the end of the show, I like to remind my audience that none of it is true. And I love my wife. I think during the show when I’m saying things about her, she must go.

Let’s move on. And we also learned from Sandler’s appearance on the Drew Barrymore Show that wife Jackie and Drew Barrymore, who is the co star in some of the very few watchable Adam Sandler movies, they’re trying to get Adam Who’s weight, Which is funny because I’m actually dieting this week, and I’m not doing a bit down four pounds already. Why are you dining John? Because John found out oh my physicals at the end of this week, and as I’ve been joking to my family, I have to lose twenty five pounds in five days. Hey, I lost four.

Drew Barrymore asked the great actor Adam Sandler. I heard that Jennifer Aniston is part of Jackie, Sonny and Sadie’s crusade for you to eat healthy. What is this? I’ve seen your pantry. It’s pretty healthy.

Sandler joked. His wife bought grocery, so every milk has some sort of nut involved, and he switched to Healthy Cereal. Jake Kelly, a dramatic role by Adam Sandler, out on Netflix on Friday. David Letterman, Get it together, pal, and that is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Featured: J.D. Vance, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Kat Williams, Mike Epps, South Park

What’s in This Episode

• J.D. Vance’s failed turkey comedy routine at Fort Campbell
• Jim Gaffigan’s hypothetical take on Vance’s material
• Amy Schumer wedding ring speculation and divorce rumors
• Louis C.K.’s New Yorker profile and cancelation limbo status
• Kevin Hart’s second-best Netflix special of the year
• Kevin Hart, Kat Williams, and Mike Epps potential collaboration talks
• Jim Gaffigan’s Old Forester bourbon special and Wall Street Journal profile

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. We’ll start a little political today. A couple things that caught my eye and made me chuckle. South park was back, and you see, the people of South Parker were having trouble finding funding for their annual turkey trot race, and they decided to turn to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for help.

One resident noted the Saudis were giving money to just about everybody lately. Cartman and Token got into a little bit. Token told Cartman he doesn’t feel right. He doesn’t want them to pay America for sports rather than hacking up reporters or paying Pete Davidson to do comedy.

Meanwhile, the Vice President visited the troops and he got ripped for a come…

Now I’ll play some of the material from Vice President Vance, and then I have some thoughts about this. Who really likes be honest with yourself? Who really like turkey? Nobody does it because turkey doesn’t actually taste that good. But on Thanksgiving, on the most American holiday, I got a fan over here, on the most American holiday, we are gonna cook a turkey, by God, because that’s what Americans do.

We cook this gigantic American bird, and we do all kinds of crazy things to make it taste good. And look, here’s the thing. If you’ve got to deep dry something to make it taste good, it probably isn’t that good. So that was the vice president at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, last Wednesday. Now the material, he doesn’t know how to do it.

But as I looked at the material, I kept imagining Jim Gaffigan doing this exact same material and getting laughs. It’s all in the timing and the pacing. And I’m not a stand up comedian. I’ve never performed stand up comedy. I’m a dude in a basement recording a podcast.

But if you can do this and in your head Gaffigan voice, and slow it down and go think about turkey, be honest with yourselves. Who really likes turkey? Right? You take a pause there, nobody does because turkey doesn’t actually taste good.

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And then Gaffigan, we would get a laugh for that.

And then this is a very gaff again. Ask tag, if you’ve got to deep fry something to make it taste good, it probably isn’t that good? Do that in your Jim Head voice? All right, Amy Schumer. I’m struggling with this story because, as I mentioned last time this came up, I’m here to have fun.

I’m here to be rascally. I’m here to make fun of things that deserve to be made fun of. Say you have a bourbon business and you’ve lost your mind and you’re going all in on that, or you think you’re gonna open a successful theme park in Nashville. That’s why I’m here. So I don’t come to make fun of whatever is going on with Amy Schumer, but it is increasingly in the news.

The Daily Mail shared some Instagram photos of Amy Schumer, and they said Schumer looked leggy in a Cleveland boasting beige Valentino mini dress featuring a strip of ruffles and bows with black slingback pumps. But they noticed Amy Schumer was not wearing her wedding band in the post, and that her husband Chris isn’t always seen with is on as well. So that has a fuel the speculation onto what’s going on in their marriage. Now I’m going to tell you I was not wearing a wedding ring for quite a while At one point. You know why, because I played beach volleyball and it was really hurting my hand when the ball would hit my ring on my finger, and my hands were swelling.

So I took my ring off for a little bit. My wife knows we’re married. I don’t leave the house. Maybe once a week I go see the trivia guys. That’s it.

I’m not doing anything. I’m in the basement of recording a podcast, so I want to just like not have everybody freak out because you take a ring off. Sometimes your finger is a little fat or maybe and I’m not being a jerky here Amy lost weight. Maybe the ring is too big on her finger. Now I’m not being jerky there, I’m being dead serious.

The Daily Mail quotes a close friend is telling them on November thirteenth, Amy is one hundred percent getting divorced. She got skinny, She’s over it. Chris is mostly out of the house at this point. They’ve listed two homes down Brooklyn and New Orleans. She deleted Chris from Instagram, then deleted everything else.

She’s gonna file soon, but it’s over done, the Daily Mail ell says, shortly before wiping her Instagram account. Amy had instant story that Chris and I are still married, while also praising Hulu’s new show about divorce attorneys, called All’s fair. Louis C.K. I know we think he’s canceled. He’s not canceled.

He got a nice profile on The New Yorker because you know, he wrote a book, and you know some stuff happened a couple years ago, and I’m sure he played the Rio Comedy Festal don’t worry about any of that, because Louis C.K. Plays nice with the media, and we’ll give you an interview. The New Yorker writes, these days, c K occupies a strange place in the culture. He’s in a cancelation limbo, joined by the likes of Chris Brown and Andrew cuomo. Ck isn’t too canceled to perform several sold out shows at the Beacon, but he’s canceled enough that if you managed to snag a ticket, you might not want to brag about it to your co workers.

He’s canceled enough that if the show’s one of his strongest stand up routines in year, you might write about it, but not without mentioning that he’s disgraced. They quote some of c K’s material, including I’ve lived too long to give an f about a sunny day, and shares the experience of putting his father in a nursing home, quoting ck, you know what this place does. You know what they do? You give them money and they take your father. See Kay enjoys dating women his age that it’s interesting to talk to them about their lives.

The line, apparently is nobody gets to fifty eighth single without a horrible leffing life, and you get to hear about it every day. It’s the best. Kevin Hart’s got the second best special of the year. That’s on Netflix. You should watch it.

It’s very funny. Kevin is lightly talking about collaborating with Kat Williams and Mike Epps. They were in early talks about a possible ensemble comedy project with echoes of Harlem Nights. Kevin told the seven PM in Brooklyn podcast, we all got older, and I think our conversation has gotten better. You know me, Mike Cat there’s always a little ruffle in the water for quite some time, but picking up the phone does a lot.

As for the roots of their frustrations, it was about the idea of what we felt. It possibly felt that we should be doing together and that we weren’t because we weren’t. Assumptions were made and feelings developed, and animosity comes in. So amending whatever the problems were in our days of old allows this generation to see like we’re not afraid to do that, and it alleviates the future world of conflict for them. I feel like we’re much better today than we were yesterday.

When I checked around noon on Monday, the Jim Gaffigan video was up to three point four million views. In case you skipped the weekend episodes, Jim posted live from Old Forester the Bourbon Set on YouTube. Jim got a big profile on The Wall Street Journal thanks to Scott Beckett for sending that over. We learned that during the pandemic, Jim collected a bourbon from every state. The Journal met up with Jim at the Great Jones Distillery in New York City.

Jim says, we should probably eat. I have to go to my son’s basketball game after this. I don’t want to recreate the scene from Hoosier’s. They were enjoying a flight of four whiskies. As for the Old Forester set, we learned that the company became a title sponsor of the special.

The company covered production costs. Jim asked the team to throw in a case of whiskey into the bargain. Jim asked for a King of Kentucky, the company’s oldest and rarest bourbon, which sells and stores for over two thousand dollars a bottle. Jim said, that was the moment where I had this realization, Oh, I’m being paid with a case of bourbon. Out today on the eight hundred Boundarilla YouTube channel, Matt McCusker is the speed of light.

If you missed yesterday’s show, we now are in the opening nominations phase of Comedy Survivor. Go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. There’s a little cartoon there of a Comedy Survivor. Thurger names in there. What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna put sixteen comedians on a hypothetical island.

Every week the Facebook group will vote one person off. Hopefully we’ll get some jokes and bits along the way. The boys in the group are debating the artwork. Hey man, that’s what Ai Drew? Does Joe Coy look like?

Jimmy Kimmel. He kind of does. A lot of people could be nominated, So jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and get your nominations in. We’ll start taking a look at that later in the week. Just for last Vancouver celebrating its tenth anniversary.

I guess that’s the JFL portion of Vancouver because there was a Vancouver Comedy Festival, and I don’t know is ten right because I feel like I was at serious when it was JFL Vancouver and I haven’t been at serious in over ten years. It’s back February twelfth to the twenty second names announced so far. James A. Caster, Otsko at Kotska, Laura Romoso, Phil Rosenthal, Rene Vaka, Michelle Botteou, Namesh Patel, Brent Buttz, Connor wood, Ismo, Drew Lynch Ruffi, Bastos Cristella, al Mary Beth Baron, Ed Gamble, Lucy Darling. I’m tempted to go, and I’m tempted to hook up with Mike from the Letterman podcast.

He lives out that way, and I’m like, yuh, we get supportable recorders, we could probably do some podcasting damage there. So I don’t know. I’ll see how My schedule is I do teach at colleges. I have to see you know, it can’t always run out of town. But comedy festivals tend to be on the weekend.

But also, Vancouver’s a bit of a hike from here, so I’ll take a look at it. I kind of want to go. I like Vancouver a lot. Billy Gardell spoke with Parade Magazine. Billy said, during my second show, Bob Hart’s Abashchola, I thought maybe I’m done with stand up.

Then he got a weird twitch and he said his wife knew immediately you’re going back to stand up. Billy says he’s not here to bash the youngins. They’re dealing with stuff we never dealt with. Look, I’m from gen X. We were feral cats and we were over compensated and raised a generation of housecats.

Now we can’t be upset that they’re not great dealing with stuff. No politics, and he says, when you give an opinion, you’re just lecturing somebody, But when you share experience, now you’re including somebody. If Jay Leno said that you guys would do bad, Hey, Leanne Morgan, are you superstitious at all? Before you get on stage. Do you have any rituals, she telled the Hollywood Reporter, I kind of am.

It sounds crazy, but if I don’t have on a heel, I don’t feel like I’m gonna put on as good as a show I’ve tried, because they hurt. You’re standing up there for an hour and a half. My psciatica starts barking at me. Some my styles will get me a cute tennis shoe, but I feel like I’m not gonna have a good show. She’s trying to put me in suits, which would probably be more modern and hip and cute.

But I don’t feel right. I don’t feel like myself, which is looney. And I say a prayer before every show and I take deep breaths in What are you nervous about, Leanne Morgan? It’s not the material. The nerves do go away.

I think what I get nervous about now is when I jump to arenas. Arenas are a whole different thing, and every arena is different. Some of them feel like you’re in a cavern. People can’t even see you. I hope I got to do more of those things, but I’m not used to it.

If somebody like Oprah’s coming, It’s on my team. Don’t tell me if I know Oprah’s coming or someone like that. I’m sitting there thinking, because Oprah think I’m dumb? Am I using the correct grammar? And the Scolar Brothers caught up with stlp R.

They were talking about their podcast, Dumb People Town. We take three stories, usually from the state of Florida. Some guy rabs a house with his cat. I’m gonna break on an entire story. If some woman decides to drive around town with her kids and a baby pool on top of her car.

She’s trying to be mother of the year. It’s an exploration of dumb behavior, and we’re trying to fight back against the wave of dumb in this world. With comedy and Vulture did their list of comedians you should and will know. One of them is CP. All right, CP, what’s the best and worst comedy advice you ever received?

Best? Just enjoy the moments where you’re getting to be what you always wanted to be. I think when you let money, status, fame and all those different things play a part, and how much you validate your progress loses a bit of the magic. Worst advice hold on a material the more you hold on a material, the more you stifle your creativity. Your brain needs to be flowing like a freeway.

I’m always working on new material because my job is to be a comedian. My job is not to say one set for the rest of my life. I want to have as much fun as I can and I want to enjoy my days on this earth, living in my purpose of bringing laughter to the world and leaving my mark. Those are good words there, and that is your comedy news for today. Right hit the Facebook group, nominate some people, and I’ll see it tomorrow.

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Featured: David Letterman, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Jim Gaffigan, Shane Gillis, Louis C.K., Mimi O’Donnell, Josh Johnson, Tig Notaro

What’s in This Episode

• Make 12:30 Great Again movement and David Letterman’s defense of Seth Meyers
• David Letterman’s Netflix talk show episode with Adam Sandler
• Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon special success on YouTube
• Jim Gaffigan interview on comedic boundaries and punching down
• Shane Gillis sells out Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in 30 minutes
• Louis C.K. spotted with Mimi O’Donnell, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s former partner
• Josh Johnson’s comedy about NYC Mayor-elect Zoran Mimdani’s White House visit
• Tig Notaro rapid-fire interview

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. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. If you skip the holiday weekend, I get it, but I’ll tell you there were real episodes Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. No holiday filler, Plenty of fun news in there, some fun moments. Check that out in today at the halfway mark, I’ll have a major announcement.

But before that, just a really, really shocking development in the make twelve thirty great Again movement. If you’re a regular listener, you know that the President and I are not aligned on all the issues, but one of the issues we are aligned on is the twelve thirty NBC franchise Late Night. We need to make it great again. The President, like me, not impressed by what Seth Myers is handing in. The President on social media posted, why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this?

Which is a good question. We need to get back to the good old days of throwing things off a five story tower, or masturbating bears or whatever Jimmy Fallon did while he hosted the Thing Friends. This is very tough for me. David Letterman has weighed in on the situation. Now you’re probably like John, Yeah, Letterman.

I mean, he’s got to know, like, what is Seth doing? He should be throwing stuff off a tower. He should be having Chris Elliott on doing fun bits. That’s what I would hope David Letterman would say. But friends, no, David Letterman on the wrong side of the make twelve thirty Great Again movement.

Let’s listen, the President of the United States now wants to fire Seth Myers. Hell yeah, and I thought this is just delightful me. How do you think that’s gonna go? So anyway, I’ve never been more proud of Seth Myers. That’s our old show.

As a matter of yees, yeah, we used to do that show and he does a magical job. But just remember Seth. Things happen. I think Dave may have lost it. It could just be he got really old and he just forgot what twelve thirty is supposed to be, Like make twelve thirty great again?

The President doing a great job on this issue. More masturbating bears, more throwing things off a tower, more Chris Eliot. David Letterman continues to cause me personal pain. He’s on Netflix today as a new episode. He has a new episode of his talk show My Next Guest Is or whatever it’s called, Today’s guest Adam Sandler.

Now, hopefully David Letterman is asking Adam Sandler questions about how Adam Sandler is a great dramatic actor and not in any way making Adam Sandler think that Adam Sandler’s funny. Dave, I hope you did not let me down twice in one day. That would pain me terribly. But yes, add on Netflix today David Letterman with the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Things not going Johnny max Way lately, I sold yesterday.

Jim Gaffickin’s Bourbon special doing really well on YouTube. I don’t get it. You’re only going to encourage him to do more. Everybody go watch Kevin Hart special for something actually funny. A variety watched Jim Gaffigin’s car.

They were curious, Jim, when did you find success? You were on Letterman and then quickly given a TV show called Welcome to New York, which was canceled after one season. What was it like to reach that peak and have a ticket away? Jim Gaffikins said, I feel like my career is this balance between creative fulfillment and getting caught up in other people’s expectations. And when you get caught up in other people’s expectations, that’s when you become frustrated.

I know, I would expect somebody who you helped earlier in their career would call you back, and then when they don’t, that’s very frustrating. So I understand what you’re saying, Jim Gaffigan. Jim said, it’s weird because comedians are very much self servers, but they also have to be cooperative and compliant. They go in a club environment and they have to be deferential to the person who books it, the person who oversees it. So they have to be audacious to get there, but they also have to be deferential.

They need some schmoozing skills. But in the entertainment industry, particularly when creating and executing a show, you have to be protective of your ideas. I’m not saying you have to be Rosanne, but you have to be protective. The skills that work in stand up, not just the writing, but the businesses stand up are completely different from the sitcom or TV world. Acting is something I love, but it’s insane.

I used to say auditioning is like stripping, but you don’t get a dollar. There’s an amount of humiliation and rejection every creative person has to embrace. Jim Gaffigan, are their boundaries you would not cross? Good question? Jim said it sounds corny, but being a comedy nerd and having studied stand up, I do think there’s an aftertaste to stand up that people don’t realize.

I don’t want my stand up to leave people with that ichy feeling. I don’t want to punch down. We all have friends who are super bitchy and gossipy, and they’re great to hang out with, but in an hour after that, you’re like, I feel kind of bad. We were making fun of Melissa forever, not saying I’m not guilty of this, but there is a lot of anger and I have a very dark heart. But it’s better to bring insight and make a joke as a commentary on all humans.

Good follow up here. In a recent special, Jim had a joke about pat retiring from Wheel of Fortune, the punchline being long lines. So if you can’t retire from playing hangman, isn’t that punching down Jim said, no, Honestly, that’s a good example, because I wouldn’t want Pats a Jack to be like, why is he picking on me? That’s where it’s imperfect. I tried to set up the joke where he seems like a loving guy, but the point of the joke was he was making seventeen million dollars a year for playing Hangman.

The meat of the joke is more commentary on how our priorities in society are all over the place. Pat Sajack was compensated because people had an affinity for him. He was efficient, he was likable, he was charming. But maybe a teacher should make more than him. Shane Gillis is going to play Lincoln Financial Field, home of the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, over sixty thousand seats.

He sold it out in half an hour. That shows July seventeenth. The Daily Mail was very excited about this one. Canceled comedian Louis C.K. Devours Hollywood legend’s widow on streets of NYC as steamy romance is revealed.

Okay, what’s this? Well, you see Louis C.K. Just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, spotted passionately kissing Philip seymour Hoffman’s longtime partner Mimi O’Donnell. That’s right, Mimi was seen with Louis C.K. Eleven years after Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away.

Now The Daily Mail says that Mimi O’Donnell is now Spotify’s head of scripted fiction. Hmm, mister ck just wrote a book, didn’t he. That’s interesting, We’re told in the PDA Louis C.K. Passionately put his hand on the back of her head. Josh Johnson got some attention for joking about New York City Mayor elect Zora and Mumdani.

Johnson was joking about mum Donnie’s visit to the White House where the Mayor elect and the president got along. Maybe they were talking about twelve thirty. Josh started by defining a communist, saying that it refers to those individuals who want everyone to eat or want some kind of grocery store for themselves.

And then he said, for his part, you know, Zoren only really brought up Trump …

He wasn’t one of those people that was companning on like opposing Trump specifically. You know what I mean, and it’s wild that those two were in the same place. Johnson tagged that with I would have been like, Nah, sounds like a setup. I know a setup when I see one hand’s papers. Dot Com had some questions for tig Nataro Rapid Fire tig Nataro questions.

Favorite book The Five Am Club by Robin Sharma. The last thing to chock your breath away tick Nataro. Five deer lying close together off a wooded trail. Interesting, last thing I made you cry getting tough news about a dear friend. What would be your last meal?

My morning’s smoothie? Something worth fighting for planet Earth? If that goes, we go, something worth giving up expectations. Spend an afternoon with anyone alive or dad. Who would it be, she said, my mother.

I’d love to introduce her to my family. Any interesting objects in your home or studio? Her answer A beautiful crystal on our mantle from singer Edie Burkel. Last film you watched? Friendship?

What’s the movie? Everyone should watch the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light on Apple TV plus this. Fall Sixteen Comedians, One Island And in the end, only one thing matters. Your vote alliances will form, bits will evolve, Johnny Mac will beat recurring jokes to their breaking point. Sixteen comedians, one recurring bit, one Survivor.

This January on Daily Comedy News, Outbit Outlaugh Outlast, this is Comedy Survivor. That’s right, Comedy Survivor will be the new bit. Here’s how this is going to work. This week, in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you’re gonna find a cartoon image for Comedy Survivor. In that thread, I want you to make nominations for who should be part of this contest.

Then we’ll let the holidays go by, and then in January, every week in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you will vote one person off the comedy island and we will see who wins. Now, I want to remind you it doesn’t really matter this. The whole thing is a bit. There’s no actual island, there’s no prize. This is a bit.

So let’s all tee each other up so that we can hopefully make for an entertaining podcast. And with that in mind, I have pre selected four people who would be part of Comedy Survivor. You guys get to pick the other twelve, but the four that I am putting on the island for reasons that you should understand if you listen to this podcast. They are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, and Jim Gaffigan, creator of Bourbon It’s Comedy Survivor. Coming to Daily Comedy News.

Jump in the Facebook group Now make your nominations. Sixteen comedians one comedy Survivor should be fun. Billboard released the Biggest touring Comedians of October twenty twenty five. Your top touring comedian Nate bergatzy fifteen million dollars in October. Wow, some other people making some money.

Louis C.K. If you thinn’t going to Riatt’ll hurt your bottom line? Well no, he grossed to one point seven million dollars. Louis C.K. Did eleven shows domestically twenty seven thousand, six hundred tickets, grossed one point seven million dollars.

Matt Ryf also sold twenty seven thousand tickets. He did two shows, also grossed one point seven million. John Mulaney seven shows, twenty three thy nine hundred tickets two point six million dollars, and Nate of course up top fifteen point eight mil two hundred and sixteen thousand tickets fourteen shows. What’s fifteen point eight million divided by two hundred and sixteen thousand. Serie tells me seventy three point one four so on average, seventy three bucks to go see Nate Pergatzy must be Nice CNN.

On Year’s Day, they’ll have a documentary called I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not. A trailer suggests a deep dive into both the myth and the men, featuring interviews with the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Lorne Michaels, Kevin Kneelan, and Martin short Notice. Nobody from community listed there out to day. On YouTube, Charlie Barns has his second special. It’s called Neighborly.

Charlie brings his particular brand of Midwest nice to his latest hour full of stories about growing up one of twelve children, sneaking a beer in a church, gambling with his grandmother, and Midwest cheap hacks. And that is your comedy news for to day or a I’ll see you to Morrow.

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Featured: Eddie Murphy, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, Mark Marin, Adam Sandler, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Justin, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker

What’s in This Episode

• Eddie Murphy’s potential return to stand-up comedy and whether it can live up to expectations
• Eddie Murphy receiving the AFI Life Achievement Award on April 18th
• Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon obsession and viral YouTube success
• Kevin Hart’s Netflix special ranked second best of the year
• Adam Sandler winning the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• Colin Jost, Michael Che, and Justin on the Manning Cast discussing dream SNL hosts
• Paramount Pictures greenlighting Rush Hour 4 with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, and boy, things are not going my way way? Do you hear the leadoff story on Monday’s episode? It involves David Letterman and boy who this one hurt today? I’m swimming upstream against this whole Jim Gaffigan bourbon thing.

The last time I checked his bourbon set on YouTube had over one point five million views. It’s probably a two or three million by the time you’re hearing this, And uh, boy, I lasted five and a half minutes, and I’m like, I think Jim Gaffigan is just getting by in reputation. But people are clicking on this thing. It’s got, you know, a million and a half plus views, so it’s obviously successful. And the legend of Jim Gaffick and continues.

And okay, everybody, he was on the Today Show and spoke about his bourbon obsession father time. It’s very important. I’m out there support fathers the liquid that every father needs because I believe fathers are underappreciated. I do. What is it about bourbon?

Bourbon is It’s probably the most important invention of Jesus’s and it is. There’s something I love about bourbon, all the elements. I love the bourbon community. I love how it be a community. There’s you know, Alan I we’ve bonded over this.

It allows men to get together, and men need that. Men are kind of socially inept and they need. Some bourbon that brings men together. I mean, I think some of it is it’s alcohol. I’ll tell you well, you should watch is Kevin Hort special on Netflix that is the second best special of the year, behind only Mark Marin Special and to end just funny.

You should watch it. I did have it in my nose for the holiday weekend, and there has been a lot of news. I did want to talk about the Eddie Murphy documentary a little bit, just about the idea of the return of Eddie Murphy to end up. And I can’t see a scenario where it goes well because younger people will be like, what’s the big deal about this guy? Us?

Old people like me. His delirious in particular delirious and raw, but Delirious in particular is built up so much in our minds. And I could probably do half of Delirious off the top of my head right now. If I had to that, my brain would be looking for, like so much of an endorphin hit that as soon as I saw Eddie Murphy doing stand up, I don’t think he could possibly live up to what my mind would need it to be. If he does his old style act, you know the taglines to the setup, mister Murphy, you have aids.

If he does that, he gets canceled. If he doesn’t do that, well, Eddie Murphy’s woke and he’s gone soft. I don’t think he can win. There’s such a thin line there. I don’t think he should return to his stand up comedy at this point.

It’s been way too long. Eddie Murphy will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award, America’s highest honor for a career in film. This announced by the American Film Institute’s Board of Trustees. Murphy will be honored at a gala on April eighteenth. That should make for some good content two weeks after turning sixty five, which seems impossible.

Kathleen Kennedy, you know her from Star Wars, She said. Eddie Murphy is an American iconic, a trailblazing force in the arts of film, television, and stand up comedy. His versatility knows no bounds cross five decades, is enduring impact on our culture as inspired artists and audience is alike, and AFI is brought to honor him with the fifty first AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Previous winners I won’t read all fifty, but some big names here, john Ford, Jimmy Cagney, Orson Wells, Betty Davis, Henry Fonda, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire, Frank Capra. In more modern times and by modern n I mean nineteen ninety four, Jack Nicholson, Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Scorsese, Robert Wise, who, of course directed Star Trek, the motion picture, which December seventh is the anniversary.

Are you going to watch the film on December seventh like you do every year? Like I do? Yes, of course you are. You’re not crazy. Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, to Nero, Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Connery, Paccino, Clooney, Denzel and last year Francis Ford Coppla A nice company for Eddie Murphy The New York Times, and Christina Sikova wrote, Adam Sandler is the light we need yes, Adam Sandler.

Uh, oh, what’s this gonna be? Christina says, when I bought tickets for my dad and I to see Adam Sandler live at the United Senate of Chicago, I worried it was a gamble. My dad’s a saidlor guy, but not a live events guy. You may think of mister Sandler most readily as that goof who sang the Honkkah song, or the one who played in during Manchild characters like Happy Gilmore Billy Madison even in middle age. After a successful forty year career, Sandler inexplicably got the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

How’s that possible? That’s the thing that happened. I’ve got a bulletin board up here in the studio where it says Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars once. I’m gonna write below that Adam Sandler won the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. Both those facts seem impossible to me.

I’m just gonna stare at them as I record the podcast. Christina writes. The Sandman appears now kind of a schlob icon, known for wearing Bloomer sweats, basketball sneakers and a scruffy beard he once described as black and gray cornflakes stuck to his face. Christina writes, at his best, he’s slantedly, chrimming and delightfully fabulous. Yes, he leans into elude pose occasionally, but dirty jokes had never been a whole story with him, and that’s why I believe he’s such a salve at his core.

It’s so clear that he has heart. Christina writs, before we found our seats, my dad asked if there was much profanity in mister Sandler’s stand up. Yeah, I’d said, but not much sex. After mister Sandler reeled off one of his cruder jokes near the beginning of the show, I cringed. Then in my peripheral vision, I saw my dad belly laughing.

As I scanned the enormous crowd, No one among us seemed uncomfortable. In fact, what I saw was relief. Maybe they were relieved that the show was almost over. Who knows. I’d have to check.

By the way, big announcement on this podcast tomorrow. If you’ve been in the Facebook group, you know what it is. But big, big, big, huge, tremendous announcement tomorrow. Colin jo Justin Michael Chay were on the Manning Cast on Monday Night Football as the San Francisco forty nine ers crushed the Carolina Panthers as they always do. Peyton Manning asked each of them to name their dream pick for a future SNL host.

Michael Jay said Denzel Washington. I think Denzel, of all the great movies he’s done, we so rarely got to see him just be funny and silly. I would love to see Denzel hosted fun fact, when I graduated Fordham University, our celebrity speaker was some random actor that nobody cared about, this guy Denzel Washington, and we all like, we didn’t play on our phones. We didn’t have phones yet, but we all kind of zoned out. Oops.

Colin Jost went with Tiger Woods Huge. I would love it. That’s a terrible pick, Colin Jost. Jost added, I’d also love if Michael Jordan ever came back now that he’s doing some broadcast stuff for the NBA, and that would be such a cool one For his third pick. Joe said Steph Curry.

I think Steph’s never done it. Maybe it’s the right timing for him to do it. It’s the hardest with the NBA because I always have to be the first show of the year. They can’t do it. You can’t say President Trump isn’t getting things done.

Now. He and I don’t agree on all the issues, and we’ll talk about one of those issues tomorrow on which we do agree, But you can’t say the man doesn’t get things done. I told you the other day he wanted them to make Rush Hour four. Well, Paramount Pictures has agreed they’re gonna work on Rush Hour four. Both Deadline and Variety reporting Paramount Pictures will distribute the Brett Radner directed sequel on behalf of Warner Brothers.

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker expected to return for Rush Hour four. By the way, pay no attention that Paramount is trying to buy Warner Brothers and they need the government to approve it. Pay no attention to any of that. The President just wants to see Rush Hour four, and the guys at Paramount are like, that’s a great idea, sir. If the President wants to impress me, let’s do something about Star Trek and Paton Oswald helping to ruin it.

Okay, and of course make twelve thirty great again. We’ll get into that tomorrow. Jay Leno says ticket sales for his stand up shows went up almost thirty percent when he made this one change, says the clickbait headline. Jay was on The Today Show and said, I’d take politics out of it. I noticed ticket sales are up twenty thirty per cent, just because nobody wants to be lectured.

When you’re on a TV and you can play directly in your audience and there’s a laugh track. When you go to Indiana or Kentucky or any of the place the country, you’re always gonna have a third of the people don’t agree with you politically, So why even go there. I don’t know, Jay, Maybe you believe in something. I don’t know. I’m not a stand up comedian.

I’m a guy in a basement doing a podcast. Hoda asked Jay Leno if the current political landscape made comedy more of a challenge. Jay Leno said, I don’t think it’s sending tricker. We always said tough times. Stuff that used to be the lost now against the law, and that’s great.

Ultimately, it’s a bit like a donkey. Sometimes you got him in the head with a two by four to get its attention, but eventually it’ll listen. The folks at Billboard recommended some comedy specials for you too, stream if you’ve got some time left on this weekend. A lot of football again today, I mean so much football this weekend. In in olden times, Thanksgiving weekend would be like when I would catch up on movies, or my family would binge like The Fast and the Furious movies.

Now there’s just like constant football. There’s no time to watch anything but football. They really liked Michelle Wolfe’s The Well and add While Frankie Kenyunias, Damn That’s Crazy isn’t exactly his debut special, it might as well be, since twenty twenty one’s HBO half hour Super Homies had its flow broken up by sketches. They liked. Adam Palace is an intimate evening with Adam Palley the idea behind the scenes for an evening of cover songs strung together with stories and jokes, Except most of the songs don’t clear licensing, and the stories may or may not be true.

You’ll find that on HBO. Frankie Conunius on Hulu again. You you have to decide is Frankie Conunius Worth supporting fascism. Maybe he’ll eventually release a special on DVD and you can watch it that way. Leslie Jones Life Part Two is on Peacock.

Michelle Wolf’s The Well is on Netflix. The New York Times profiled Verer DAEs. They caught him boxing. Ver Das said, this is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done. He clarified, working out in front of The New York Times.

Mister Dawes explained, it’s nice to be out of breath at a little bruised. It’s good prep for adversity. The Time says each line follows more or less the same format and example. I come from in India that has the largest working population under thirty on the planet, but still listens to seventy five year old leaders with one hundred and fifty year old ideas. Another example, I come from in India, where we take pride in being vegetarians and yet run over the farmers who grow vegetables.

They then quoted the joke that got him in some trouble. I’m not going to quote it here because it’s just not what I do. But they point out that Vieri didn’t think much of posting the joke at the time. He posted the video on YouTube and then headed to New York with his wife to attend the International Emmy Awards. By the time he got back to Mumbai, there was a chance he could be arrested.

Vier explains, my v’s like, yeah, we’ll see what happens. So she’s on standby, and then I have the conversation with my wife, you know, like if I get arrested, this is where all the money is. Just have this much leftover for legal fees. Here’s all my cards, use everything, all the logins. Yikes, He says.

India has embraced me. I have a massive audience. They just don’t own news channels. You know what I mean. That is your comedy news for today on a holiday Sunday, enjoy the football games and December tomorrow.

Wow, see you then

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Featured: John Mulaney, Patton Oswalt, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Larry Ellison, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s San Francisco comedy show and material about tech bros and Jeff Bezos
• President Trump discussing Rush Hour franchise revival with Larry Ellison and Paramount
• Patton Oswalt playing Doug the Vulcan on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Bill Maher’s criticism of Jimmy Kimmel’s wife for her pre-election activism against Trump
• Jimmy Kimmel and his wife’s family political divide

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Damn Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed a couple episodes because the holidays, I get it. I had real episodes both Thanksgiving and yesterday, and yesterday was particularly fun. I was a little loosey yesterday.

Go back and check that out. The SF Gate went to see John Mulaney. They’re right. Comedian John m’alini returned to San Francisco, which he once dubbed a city that isn’t nice. Mlini opened the show by reminiscing on his history with San Francisco and talked about one of his recent sets in the city.

I came here briefly to do a concerted dream Force, and then he told the tech bros that they’re imminently replaceable. Malleini added, I got paid before the show. You can’t do that. He did some local humor the seal of San Francisco should be a guy going back to get a jacket. Melini then admitted, I’ve been doing that joke here since two thousand and seven.

That’s hilarious. I guess he won’t have an Amazon special anytime soon. He did some material about Jeff Bezos saying, no matter how much money you have, there’s no fixing a late. He also commented on Missus Bezos Laurence Sanchez. Yeah, definitely no Amazon special coming.

John Mulaney said, it’s beautiful. How beautiful he thinks she is. M’laney not a fan of AI, saying not complicated, all bad. Don’t let the robots take over? How many times did we practice?

He did some jokes about Robert F. Kennedy, saying his wife was in Curb your enthusiasm and he cheats on her like a dog. That joke got booed. Mulaney said, that’s the line for you. He poisons children, but his infidelity is too far.

The Gate says John may dip his toes into dangerous topics, but mulaney is skilled enough to make even the most vanilla content hilarious. And apparently the closer is very strong. No spoilers here. Now. The President of the United States and I we don’t agree on all the issues.

Some of the issues we do agree upon, For example, make twelve thirty greed again this next issue. Not sure I’m aligned with the president. You see the president, he’s trying to revive the rush hour franchise. That’s right. The President of the United States would like there to be rush Our.

President Trump has been speaking with Larry Ellison, that’s the guy who owns Paramount about bringing back Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Now, interestingly enough, Chris Tucker was recently seen at a Kamala Harris campaign rally. At the time of this recording, there are no plans for a new Rush Hour film, but you never know. My question is why is the President not doing anything about Star Trek. Make Star Trek agreed again?

Stop with the rush Hour, focus on people like Patton Oswalt who speak out against you, mister President, and then play character’s name Doug the Vulcan on Star Trek. I don’t think the President is attacking Patton Oswalt on this issue, this Star Trek, this Dug the Vulcan issue. Quite enough. Patton Oswalt was on Stephen Colbert’s soon to end show, and if Stephen Colbert is going to promote garbage like this, perhaps it is time for the show to come to an end. Let’s listen.

Star Trek Strange, New World’s guest star Patton Oswalt breaks down playing a sexy vulcan Yes, let’s get the sex and that’s going here on. Yeah, hid, Wow, that is what’s uh? What’s what’s his name? His name is Doug. His name is Doug.

It’s his name is Doug is dark. His parents were fascinated with earth culture, so they gave him an earthling name, Doug. Doug. He is a he is an uh, he’s an artist, and he studies vulcan contras and and he is a sensualist. Wow.

Yeah. What is most you know sexy about being a vulcan is the ears or the emotional inavailability. The emotional inavailability. There’s a whole come here, go away vibe coming off of Doug and also that you he is. It is a come here, go away, here go away, come here, go away attack by retreating.

Now, among the issues that the President and I don’t agree on is this whole Jimmy Kimmel thing. Bill Maher called out Jimmy Kimmel’s wife, this is going to go well. I’m sure Kimmel will be like, oh yeah, I’m totally cool with that and not fire back at all. You may recall Missus Kimmel was on a podcast. She revealed that before the election, she reached out to some of her conservative family members to convince them not to vote for President Trump.

She told the podcaster she’s lost some relationships with some family members over their support for the current president. Bill maher addressed the comments. Now these comments were like a month ago. Did Bill Maher pre tape? No shame there.

Sometimes you gotta tape ahead. I understand, Bill Maher, Mar said Jimmy Kimmel’s wife and head writer when public on this topic recently, so I feel it’s fair to comment respectfully in public. She says she’s lost relationships with relatives because she wrote them an email before the election with ten reasons why they shouldn’t vote for Trump. Now, that would have been a great Letterman top ten list. I’m gonna hit pause here.

I’m tempted. I’m gonna ask chat shept to write a harmless top ten list in the Letterman style. Be right back, Okay, I’m back, and this is pretty good. All right, I come in peace. I’ll tell you what I typed in.

Here are the instructions make a harmless nineteen eighty five style slash era Letterman top ten list of the reasons not to vote for Donald Trump. Keep it silly, and then I asked it to get in one particular joke, which you’ll see, Chatchpt playing it safe, chat Chept to hold me. I could do a purely silly, fictional nineteen eighty five Letterman era comedy bit as entertainment only in italics, not real political advice, not actual reasons to vote or not vote. Okay, relax, Chatchapt, it’s a bit. Think of this kind of as the absurdist list.

Dave would read, with Paul chuckling in the background. Yes, that is what we’re doing. Deliverate jokes that have nothing to do with real policies, a real voting guidance. Thanks Ai from the Home Office in Washington, DC. The top ten completely fictional, totally ridiculous, clearly non political reasons not to vote for Donald Trump.

Number ten claims his official presidential votor cade will be upgraded to twelve stretch limos connected like a giant human centipede of catillacts. Number nine wants the national bird replaced, will the really hand pigeon? Number eight keeps calling the nuclear football the nuclear fanny pack. Number seven says he won’t take the oath unless there’s a fog machine at at least one ball the eagle on a skateboard. Number six his proposed cabinet me a mirror, a second mirror, and a guy named Rick who sells stakes out of a van.

Number five wants to rename Mount Rushmore Mount Brushmore and place all the faces with different versions of his hair. Number four says he will accept no briefing materials unless they come in the form of Garfield Comics. Number three thinks NATO is that thing with the singing sharks on Sunday Mornings. Number two keep says, says thing he’s going to make twelve thirty great again, and frankly the network is getting nervous in the number one reason not to vote for Donald Trump his official campaign theme song, You’re the Inspiration, performed entirely on kazoo. I think we might have a new bit coming up.

Yeah, the bit is called completely Revolve Table Levan. I don’t know if that’s a bit seon. Oh I enjoyed doing that anyway, I digress. Where were we? Oh?

Yeah, Bill Maher taking a shot at missus Kimmel, who had her own list of ten reasons not to vote for Trump. That’s how we got into that, Okay, Bill Moore said ten reasons. I could think of one hundred, but I would never present it to someone as an ultimatum. Ultimatums don’t make people rethink their politics. They make them rethink.

You right a top ten list to yourself. We had to try and imagine ten reasons why seventy seven million Americans didn’t want to trust you with taking power. And I say that as someone who votes Democratic, and as I liked to remind my very pure friends, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she lost. Jim Gaffigan got a wax job from Variety.

They asked Jim, Hey, Jim, that’s your sense if humor change over time. Jim said, oh, yeah, it’s definitely evolved. That’s what’s really interesting about having children. The value of a reverence, whether you’re nineteen or twenty one, the excitement around reverence is so much more appealing than nuance. You appreciate nuance later on, when I was in college, I worked as a doorman at a comedy club, and I remember thinking, Oh, these boring comedians.

I like the edgy guy. I would have disliked my own comedy back then. They asked Jim about working relatively clean. Was he always clean? Jim said, Now, I tried on a lot of different hats.

I tried being edgy. There’s footage of me smoking on stage. Whoa, WHOA relaxed there Jim Dice Gaffigan smoking on stage. Who unbelievable? So edgy?

A lot of it’s just trial and error. Eventually you end up being the person who actually are on stage. That’s kind of unavoidable and stand up if you want to embrace authenticity. Some of it is the ten thousand hours and transferring what makes you funny with your friends onto the stage. But the trial and error is being educated on how the audience perceives you.

It’s similar to being a character actor, which I also am, which is code for ugly. You need self awareness. When I’d go on stage at PIPS in nineteen ninety three, the crowded just seeing Andrew Dice Clay and that see me and think I’m John Tesh. I wanted to not be John Tesh, but I eventually had to face the reality that this is what I look like. It’s unfortunate, Jim added.

Comedians get a lot of credit or criticism for the comedy they do, but the reality is they do exactly what they’re kind of allowed to do. I’m a big, lumbering white guy. If I was angry, I don’t think that would be appealing. Lewis Black can be angry, even Bill Burr can be angry. But if I’m angry, it just makes the audience uncomfortable.

If I’m silly and self effacing, that’s palatable to the audience. Ah, We’ll be right back. The Lil Roady Comedy Festival announced their lineup. Pretty good lineup. It shows are in March more, twenty sixth to the twenty ninth, Providence, Rhode Island.

John Mulaney, Chelsea Handler, Jay Farrow, Mark Maren, Andrew Schultz, Bob the Drag Queen and others. That’s a pretty pretty impressive list. Timothy Shalomy said Adam Sandler should have won an Oscar for his performance in the two thousand and two film Punch Drunk Love. I think I tell the story already at my class. Yeah, I did ten days ago.

In my class I mentioned how for repetition and for humor, I always say the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, and one of my students went him like a seven minute speech. About Adam Sandler. It was like he was doing my bit, except he was like super serious. I mean, I’m serious about it. I do think Adam sandler comedies are terrible, and he’s a pretty good dramatic actor.

But you know, I lean into it for the bit. But this student went on for like seven minutes, and this student was all about punch drunk love. So my student agrees with Timathy s Shella May, who says it’s one of the most important performances. It’s impactful, deeply moving. As a young actor, knowing you for your comedic work Adam Sandler, seeing that thrown against the context of your other work, I’m like, Wow, this is an incredible actor.

I hope I can give a performance like this. I know it’s not about awards, but you should have a golden man in your hand. Man. You’re one of the best actors of all time, exactly, one of the best actors of all time, one of the worst comedians. Actually, possibly the worst comedian.

Now that’s probably somebody worse than him. I’m sure if I sat here and thought about it for a minute, no one immediately comes to mind. But in terms of comedy movies, probably the worst of all time. Hopefully the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler will heed the words of Timothy Shllamey, who knows something about acting and has a very successful career without doing moronic attempts at comedy. And that is your comedy news for today.

I once again bounced a lot of stories. I got plenty for tomorrow and Monday. And you know, usually this is a dead time of year, but I’ve got a lot heading out of Thanksgiving. This is like the easiest it’s been since I started doing the show Plenty to talk about. I’m having a good time.

Appreciate you listening. Seems like you’re having a good time, especially if you’re still here this deep in. Have an awesome day.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Sebastian Maniscalco, Mo Amer, Matt McCusker

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney voices new Kraft Mac and Cheese ‘Best Thing Ever’ campaign
• Kraft Mac and Cheese ‘Mac Friday’ promotion with 65-box bundle at Walmart
• Jim Gaffigan releases ‘The Bourbon Set’ special on YouTube for Old Forrester bourbon brand
• Jim Gaffigan launches own small batch bourbon called Father Time
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s Hilarious special criticized as derivative of Dice Clay
• Mo Amer Netflix special ‘Wild World’ reviewed positively
• Matt McCusker Netflix special ‘A Humble Offering’ reviewed

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac. If your Daily Comedy News, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. And if you skipped yesterday’s episode, I get it. But it was a real episode and this weekend and today are all real episodes, no holiday filler.

So if you want to go back and catch that one, friends, I think John Mulaney’s at the cash in stage. The headline Kraft Mac and Cheese proves it’s the best thing ever in bold new creative platform that’s right, voiced by John Mulaney, Best Thing Ever, reinforces that the brand’s deliciousness, ease, and affordability make it the greatest thing on earth. The press release, which tags two cities, Pittsburgh and Chicago. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a two city press release, but from Pittsburgh and Chicago the news Kraft Mac and Cheese has unveiled a new creative platform, best thing Ever, proving that nothing compares to a bowl of Kraft Mac and Cheese selling one million blue boxes each, proving that Americans eat healthy. If you’re looking at all of us, including the guy recording a podcast’s basement, going why are you people?

Overweight gee, I don’t know. Selling one million blue boxes each day, Kraft Mac and Cheese has uniquely shaped American history and waste sizes present through every healthy stage of life, from an afternoon school snack to an empowering rite of passage on the path through adulthood. The brand’s fan base transcends generations, Anchored by one of the brand’s most significant media investments and voiced by comedian and actor John Mulaney. Tap the brakes, Why because he’s in The Bear? Actor John Mulaney, Hold on, I’m going to IMDb, known for documentary Now as a writer, Spider Man into the Spider Verse voice actor as Spider Ham Chippendale Rescue Rangers.

Previous roles by actor John m’lane include The Bear, Big Mouth, Poker Face, Bupkiss, the voice of Jack Horner in Puss and Boots, Last Wish. He played Henry David Thurreau in two episodes of Dickinson, appeared in two episodes of Crashing where I think he played John Mulaney but I digress, and he appeared as John Mulaney on The Jim Gaffigan Show. Okay Fine. Comedian and actor John Mulaney Now this press release didn’t give us a quote from the comedian and actor John Mulaney, but we are told Kraft Mac and Cheese is turning Black Friday into wait for it, Mac Friday. That’s right.

You can go to Walmart dot com and for just nineteen dollars and thirty seven cents. This is not a commercial. This is me making fun of something. Go to Walmart dot com and you get the mac Friday Box. It’s a flat screen TV sized box filled with sixty five boxes of Kraftmac and Cheese.

So here’s what I think you do. I think you buy one of these and you wrap it and you have it shipped to like one of your friends. You’re like, hey, Scott Beckett, Merry Christmas. Your pal Johnny Mac. It sits there under his tree for a month.

He’s like, wow, Johnny Mac, he used the football pool money and he bought me a big screen TV. He’s really awesome.

And then on Christmas, Scott Peckett gets up early and he waits and he saves …

Merry Christmas. Scott. He’s not just selling alcohol free beer, He’s selling mac and cheese. You know who else likes to sell your product is the really cool guy Jim Gaffigan. He shared his bourbon set on YouTube and shared a minute of it on social media.

Let’s listen. I love the esthetic inside of a liquor store. It’s almost if some interior designer was like. What if the whole store looked like the back room. We want people to feel like they’re in an episode of Hoarders.

There’s a silence you only find in liquor stores. You ever notice that people walk around all serious, like they’re in an art gallery. Interesting, Maybe this will make the pain go away. Liquor stores have their own vibe, right, There’s a tidly divorce dad energy. A stack of boxes suddenly becomes a shelf.

It’s not dirty, but it’s certainly not clean. Things are handwritten, crossed out. You feel like you’ve stumbled upon a garage sale and a bus station. Now. I didn’t comment in advance because I didn’t want to poison your braid.

But here’s what I want you to do. I want you to listen to what I have to say and then hit thirty second, not skip, but whatever, back thirty second, back twice, maybe three times. At this point, I want you to listen to again. Here’s my question too, is Jim Gaffigan just getting by on goodwill? He is?

Listen to it again. It’s not that funny, says the guy recording a podcast in his basement. But at least I would call you back if you helped my career jump. On YouTube, you can watch live from Old Forrester the Bourbon Set. Jim shot the special at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky.

Curious how many of your tax dollars went to this? With oak barrels lining the stage? Now, I timed ins at Google the phrase the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Ky. Funding. The AI overview, which could be incorrect, says the Kentucky Performing Arts Center is funded by a mix of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Kentucky, private foundations, corporate partnerships, and individual donors.

Meg of that what you will, but that is where Jim Gaffigan shot the bourbon themed Bourbon set, which you can find on YouTube and just listen to The Bourbon Set was inspired by Jim’s deep dive into the bourbon world the launch of his own small batch bourbon called father Time, which is now being promoted by a comedy set, which was recorded at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, which AI says is funded by a mix of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Jim said, with line from Old Forrester or the Bourbon Set, I let my love of bourbon lead the way at this point. I’m not sure if bourbon is a passion or a midlife crisis, but I love it. I can answer for you if you want. Since this was such a niche endeavor, I didn’t even go to a big streamer.

I just wanted to get this material out there for the other bourbon geeks. Wow. I just checked the clock. We’re pretty deep in. I’m still on story number two, all right.

I watched some specials. I know Johnny Mac, who hosts a podcast called Daily Compedy. Doos actually watch comedy specials? Gee? Thanks, host, I know I’m the worst.

You know how much sports there’s been Monday night football. There is a night football Saturday Night college football, Sunday Football, Sunday Night football. I try to go to Trivia Night on Wednesday. That leaves Tuesday and Friday to watch stuff. So last Friday I watched stuff.

I put on Sebastian Maniscalco’s Hularius Special. At one minute and fifty four, I muttered to myself, it wasn’t doing a bit. It was just me home alone, and I’m watching it and it gets to the one minute fifty four mark and I catch myself saying out loud, Holy f word. It was that bad. I made it until five minutes and twelve seconds in.

And here’s my question. This is not a bit, this is a real question. Is Sebastian Maniscalco at this point just doing a character that he internally calls old man Clay. Watch it again and tell me he’s not just doing old man Dice because he’s doing old Man Dice. I don’t know if he realizes he’s doing old Man Dice, but he’s doing old man Dice.

Pass on that one. Here’s the one you should watch, mo Ammer Netflix. It’s called Wild World. I like when a comedian has something to say. MO has something to say, won’t spoil it.

Very funny, very on point, even that a poor man’s Carlan heading towards the closer there, which I thought was really interesting. And I assume he knows he was doing poor Man’s Carlan. If I ever get to interview him, I will ask him about that. But I recommend on Mo Ammer’s Wild World on Netflix. Another one that I liked as I was just pilencing around the streamers, Matt McCusker’s Netflix special, A humble offering.

I went into it with low expectations. I don’t know why, and I was like, oh, this is pretty funny. Now. The sound is a little homebrew. I think we need to up the production values a little bit, but humor wise, pretty good.

Gonna make my end of the year list. He’s a bit of a poor man’s Shane Gillis, which makes sense because of the podcast. But like that one a lot. I checked out Kathleen Madigan Special on Amazon. It’s fine.

It’s Kathleen Madigan doing Kathleen Madigan things. Same note on Leanne Morgan Special, which is on Netflix. It’s fine. It’s not for me, but it’s fine. I remember I told you last week.

On Amazon, there was one that I was like, this is terrible. I don’t believe a word that the comedian is saying. I remember what it was because Amazon put it in front of me again. It was Joe List small ball. I just didn’t believe a word out of his mouth is true.

And I understand what stand up comedy is. I get it. But I loved Most Special because he has something to say and it’s based in truth, and I just felt like Joe was shocking jokes. Again, I get what comedy is not for me. I did not yet get to Kevin Hart’s acting My Age, which came out on Netflix on a week where Hey, guys, football football Friday, NFL Today, college football, more football Wednesday night, was one of the big go out nights of the year.

What do you think I’m watching these things? I mean, I guess they think people are off of four days. Maybe they have time. Anyway, Johnny Mac didn’t get to it yet. The folks at Steady Cut watched it.

They said, Kevin Hart delivers vintage material, toning down theatrics and settling back into his comfort zone with the benefit of maturity. That sounds refreshing because if you watch the football games. Every I was gonna say, every other commercial. I’m pretty sure it’s every commercial. Is Kevin Hart trying to get you to bet on sports, to have the brakes?

Okay, we got it. Kevin heard you the first seven underd times. Ready steady cut, Johnny Mac is feisty today, Ready steady cut said. Any comedian who was a sufficiently lengthy career and a certain amount of success is going to go through ups and downs. Here’s how you know you’re on a down.

Your specials on Hulu. That’s how you know. Just just everybody write that down. Kevin Hart has had them in real time. You can generally chart each stage in his career through his specials.

Has he had a Hula special? He has not yet. Any comedian it was a sufficially a lengthy career and a certain amount of success, et cetera, et cetera. You can generally chart each stage in Kevin’s career through his specials. The Hollywood theatrically of his arena shows the ill fitting Chappelle light diet tribe of his COVID special.

Heart has always had a well defined comedy persona full of exaggerated physical details, expressions, and voices, but he’s been susceptible to chasing the moment a little instead of defining it himself. Wow, good criticism there ready. Steady Cuts says, this is not true of acting my age, which is about you guessed it, getting older and becoming more comfortable than ever with his reality. They say it’s not a complete reinvention for heart, but it’s a returned to vintage form. All right, I’m looking forward to that one.

Boy. We are long here and I’m enough to cut things. I’m telling you, I got a plenty for the weekend. Let me get this one in. Donald Glover, do you see this?

He said he had a stroke. He was experiencing symptoms before his New Orleans show in September twenty twenty four. Donald Glover said, I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and he did the show anyway. I couldn’t see someone. He went to Houston.

I went to the hospital. The doctor was like, you had a stroke. Donald Glover said. The first thought upon hearing that was, oh, here, I am still copying Jamie. Fox comedy stock Markets.

Thank you, Bert Reynolds. In the comedy stock market, much like the real stock market, is a half day today. All right, my recommendations, Let’s buy some Robbie Hoffman. Why Johnny Mac, Because when I saw Malany was producing her special, I dusted off my knowledge of for Robbie Hoffman. I was like, Oh, Robbie Hoffman’s really good.

So let’s buy low on Robbie and we are gonna make out like Bannetts. The opposite here, I think is let’s sell some Sarah Sherman. No, Johnny Mac loves Sarah Sherman, but the premise of comedy stock market is not who’s good who’s bad, It’s where is the value? And I think regular America who knows Sarah from SNL is going to watch this Sarah Sherman Sarah Squirm special on HBO next weekend. We’re two weeks from now, and be like, what is even happening?

So let’s sell Sarah. Let’s sell all our patent. Oswald, he’s out destroying Star Trek, he’s getting very political. Let’s go to upset people. You know you can’t do that, Patton Oswalt.

I appreciate it, but you’re gonna lose wils. We’ll sell patent on a value standpoint. We’re also gonna sell Eddie Murphy at Peak. I think that documentary. Initially people like, oh this is great, And now I’m starting to see the reviews of like, hey, yeah, kind of glossed over some stuff there, Eddie.

So let’s sell Eddie Murphy at peak. Let’s buy Moe Emmer. America is not paying enough attention to this guy. Let’s buy some Shane Gillis. Here’s why I feel like he’s right there.

I don’t know what the thing is going to be, but he’s right there. He’s next to Last week we were talking about who’s the top comedian? Right now, Shane is right there. There’s gonna be something. He’s gonna drop, a special or something.

Let’s just start accumulating some Shane Gillis, And you know, we want to get out high before the values crash. Let’s sell John Mulaney. He’s cashing in, I’m cashing out. Good line and Jim Gaffigan, same thing every time Jim speaks. Now, I just feel the coolness rushing out of the room, as if like you opened a door on an airplane and everything’s going wow out.

It’s just it’s all leaving, all right. So pretty busy for a half day on the comedy stock Market by Robbie Hoffman, by Shane and Gillis. Buy, Moe Ammer, sell, Sarah Sherman sell, Patton Oswalt sell, Eddie Murphy sell, John Malaney sell Jim Gaffigan. That’s your comedy stock Market on a Black Friday. I’ve bounced like ten stories, so come back tomorrow.

I’ve got plenty. I’ll leave you with this one. Adam Sandler says he feels guilty doing stand up comedy in front of his daughters. Yeah, dude, why would anyone have their children watch Adam Sandler comedy. I’ve made it a point.

You’ve heard me tell the stories. I forbid my family from watching Adam Sandler comedy. It’s that bad. I can’t believe Adam Sandler would do that to his own daughters. He seems like he loves his daughters.

Why would you make these poor teenage girls watch Adam Sandler comedy? Adam Adam told Jimmy Kimmel, I’m very filthy. You know. I curse a lot be doing that my whole life. I feel guilty because I shouldn’t have done it, but I do, and I continue to do it.

The Great dramatic actor said, it was my daughter’s birthday. They came to Vegas to see me right away. I said, see, I’m even gonna clean it up. Gosh during it. They’re in Vegas, can we bring our friends it will celebrate at one of your shows.

And he thought, I can’t be myself a curse in front of them. Sandler says he has previously noticed the shame in their eyes after they witnessed him cursing on stage. Are you sure? I mean, I’m sure they like the millionaire lifestyle, but maybe they’re like, oh, that’s how dad makes money. I wonder if they’ve seen your movie.

Well, they’ve seen your movies because they’re in your movies, so they’ve seen them. So they’re guilty too. I no longer feel bad for the daughters. You’re part of the problem. Daughters.

Sandler said, that’s a fake guy. That’s a stand up comedian guy. You get the real daddy at home. Sandlor told Kimmel, I’m on stage knowing my daughters and their friends are in the crowd. I’m changing everything up.

It’s Vegas. Everyone’s expecting filth, and I’m not giving them filth. For like an hour and forty five minutes he gets off stage. Sandlor says his wife told him, Oh, they left five minutes into it. They wanted the fun with their friends.

I think they went and had desert or something. That’s comedy news for today, See tomorrow.