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Featured: Jonathan Kite, Sebastian Maniscalco, Fortune Feamster, Jim Gaffigan, Kathleen Madigan

What’s in This Episode

• Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Bourdain impressions on Threads
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s Food Network cooking show and comedy parallels
• Fortune Feamster’s ‘Taking Care of Biscuits’ tour and green room surprises
• Jim Gaffigan discusses family privacy in his comedy
• Kathleen Madigan on Midwestern family traditions and Thanksgiving

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media heavy Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jonathan Kite has been doing these impressions of Anthony Bourdaine. He posted them on threads at Jonathan Kite. He goes to actual locations, he dresses up like Boardane.

He does a great Boordaine impression. He’s got the body type to pull it off too. I was watching this one that I’m about to play for you, and I was like, even if I did a great Boardine, I don’t have the right body type at all. I could never pull off toll and Lean. But Jonathan Kite has this thing down.

I’m gonna go a little longer with this one than I normally do because it is Thanksgiving themed, and you know Kite’s putting He’s up on social media, so I don’t think he’s really trying to monetize them. I come in peace, really like your work. But here’s Jonathan Kite as Anthony Bourdain. Welcome to America’s Endless Harvest and the Feast of all you can eat Golden Corral, where Pilgrim’s progress meets the Age of consumption. Because here Thanksgiving isn’t a holiday.

It’s a lifestyle, a face style. So buckle up, throw on your stretchy pants. This is manifest destiny. It’s the United Plates of America, and at sixteen ninety nine ahead you get liberal portions at conservative prices. As is tradition, we begin with the bird, our annual sacrifice.

The golden butter soap turkey glistens under heat lamps that could tan a corpse, and like Travis Kelcey’s dating history, you can enjoy both white and dark meat. The first Thanksgiving was a fragile truce between worlds to survive the Hunger Games of sixteen twenty one. Today we gather with loved ones just trying to survive each other. Left wing, right wing. It’s all the same bird.

Absolutely fantastic. Jonathan Kite is his name, Give him a follow. Sebastian Manuscalco, he spoke with us weekly. He had a cooking show, remember that it was called Well Done with Sebastian manusuks Alco on Food Network.

And now in hindsight, I’m realizing I didn’t make nearly as much fun of that …

I should almost go back. If we ever have another pandemic and I need a bit like George Lopez Tacos. Maybe I’ll just critique well done with Sebastian Manascalco on Food Network. But hopefully we won’t have another pandemic and I won’t have to do that. But as you know, it’s this is a food story and it’s Thanksgiving.

I do put these shows together. A Sebastian said, I became passionate about cooking around the time I met my wife. I like cooking because it’s similar to comedy and that you’re doing it alone and making stupid faces for no reason. If it sucks, it’s your fault. If it’s great, it’s your fault.

Same thing with stand up. It’s very therapeutic for me to go into the kitchen and get lost in the sauce. I do a beautiful French toast. The next thing I want to master is pizza. Switching to comedy.

You have to live in everyday life to extract humor, and that’s why I’m an active parent. I drop my kids off at school, I go to the soccer games. I’m taking my kid to gymnastics. You find a lot of humor in those things. You do have to be cautious about talking about some of the fancy things you do.

I went to the Oscars, but my Oscar story is not one of fame and fortune. It’s me sitting up at the third balcony while everybody from Greenbrook is accepting the Oscar. When I was announced on the red carpet, it was a bathroom break for the photographers. They were cleaning their lenses. Ryan Seacrest was there with his camera guy in lights on a pedestal, and they take me all the way down to the guy who’s a one man shop with his iPhone and is from the Ecuador Times.

So four dot com spoke to Fortune Femmester about taking care of Biscuits. That’s the name of her tour. She said it came to me as something that lets people know they’re in for a good, silly time. She said, Now, at all the cities I go to, people are dropping biscuits off, and I’m grateful, but I’m like, oh, I’m gonna have to name my next tour taking care of Salads, because it’s a lot of biscuits right now. One Instagram video showed Fortune in her green room.

The room was filled with biscuits from heart Ease Biscuit shaped pillows custom merch. She said that was all a surprise. My writer is so boring. I literally asked for water, ice and a cup. I used to have big, extravagant green rooms, but then I was never hungry, and I felt like I was being super wasteful because normally I either eat before or after.

The show asked for her biscuit preferences. Her favorites are a loaded, savory, yummy biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese, and a little honey, or just the opposite, just a jelly biscuit. I’m trash, so I love grape jelly. If Fortune Feamster could only eat one thing twenty four seven three sixty five, it would be pad thaie. She says, I went to Thailand and ate pad tie for a week and a half straight and did not get tired of it.

I love it so much, I think I could do it. I could just eating it forever. I usually get it with chicken, but if I were gonna eat it every day, I’d try to switch it up, try some shrimp or tofu or bounce back and forth. All right, Fortune was the first thing you learned how to cook grilled cheese. But I learned by doing it wrong.

I was babysitting and the kid won a grilled cheese to turn the oven on. And he was like, why are you turning the oven on? And I said, I don’t know baking it. He told me just throw in a pan or the toaster oven. It was too much for me.

You don’t need to go throw that for a grilled cheese. But he was right. I was pretty old to learn that. Like sixteen more food stories from Fortune. It’s Thanksgiving, you know, she said.

Grilling is brand new for me. I never had a grill until I got this house, and it came with a grill, and I was determined to learn how to use it. Getting beef to the right temperature is the trickiest part. You don’t want it to be too rare or red or too cooked and dry. I’m learning the happy medium there.

And there’s an editor’s note pun intended. Fortune told Savor I’m a dessert gal. I have such a sweet tooth. I’m near a cheesecake factory. I will hit up that Adam’s peanut buttercup fudge rippled cheesecake.

That’s a real treat. Any foods from your childhood that you liked Grandma’s chicken and dumplings, so comforting and classic. Biggest flex to impress guests. Fortune said, I love some good scented candles. They’re inviting warm then all you eat is good food.

I don’t have a signature scent yet, but I love holiday candles all the time, so we’re getting closed to the holidays. I’m pumped because the ones that I love smell like Christmas trees. Jim Gaffigan spoke to The Today Show. They were curious how Jim’s wife and kids feel about being in his comedy. Jim joked, I don’t care.

Then he got a little more serious and said, the good news is that my children all the things I say, I don’t have to feel guilty because they have no interest in my comedy. I’m more concerned about accidentally posting a photo where they appear in it on Instagram than me saying something in my stand up. Obviously, I try to be respectful, and I think anyone who’s apparent is aware. We’ve all made mistakes. But parenting is you try your best and then as a parent, become their septacle for all the blame.

Kathleen Madigan spoke to the La Times about her family and the stuff they bring over. She’s proud of the chicken salad or stuff they bring over like tunicast roles, and they’re very into hardy grandma type food, meaning fattening, which I’m all in on. She talked about a Midwestern sensibility and said everybody’s got their little things, like I would have a big fight about their corn being better than anyone else’s stupid stuff. But to us, it’s what’s happening. It’s what we’re talking about sports.

Everybody’s got their thing with the packers and that kind of stuff, but it’s not anything we were given, like the ocean, the mounts of Colorado. Don’t know, we don’t have that either. That’s why when people say, oh, do you like where you’re from, or always like, yeah, it’s fine. We know it’s not great, but it’s not horrible. It’s fine.

I love when people say Saint Louis is that kind of by Chicago, well kind of four and a half hours down the road to find kind of pie. That’s what I say about my coastal friends. It’s what they’ve been given. I mean, someone made it all the way out there, so I give those people credit, but the Midwest is like, you’re gonna get bored driving around Kansas, Nebraska. At least in Missouri.

When you get south of Saint Louis, we start to get big ills. We called them out, and it’s a hill. We have good lakes. Coastal people don’t like lakes because so like, yeah, that water is a little still. I’m like, yeah, and there’s snakes in it too.

She is hilarious, all right. No amount of food stories. Uh. Stephen Colbiert had spoken to GQ. This one is a bit of a leftover in the spirit of Thanksgiving.

They were curious, does he think the late night format makes sense anymore? Do you think the times for these shows has passed? Have you ever felt that while doing your show, Stephen Colbert, He said, no, not doing the show. I do the show with gratitude. We have a really great time.

We love doing the show with each other. We love all pulling on the same rope. I love being there with those four hundred fifty people and the Ed Sullivan Theater, in a Broadway theater. We’ve done our best to deliver something that the network can monetize in some way. I thought we were successful at that, so all things must pass.

I think if there’s a business reason for this. I know there’s been a change in ad rates since the strike, and I know that’s really never recovered for that, so all that makes sense to me. And I also know that these late night shows are kind of like symphony orchestras. They need a certain amount of personnel to do them. You can’t relate to a show and the Ed Sullivan Theatre eleven thirty five on CBS with a band and sketches and field shooths and stuff like that for the cost of a podcast.

And if you look and say, oh, well look, this is what a podcast makes, and this is what these shows make, then you’re keeping these shows on because you’ll love the form. Why would shows like mine continue and exist or Kimmel or Jimmy or whatever. Well, we’re like your friend who at the end of the day paid attention to what happened today more than you did, and we curate that back to you at the end of the day. But it’s really more about how we feel about or I as the person who’s the vehicle for that, how we felt about it today. Boy, that speaks to me as someone who does this show, Like, presumably at some level you just kind of enjoy my voice and vibe, right, Like, I don’t think you’re like this is the only place I can get comedy news.

But you know, we have this relationship, you and I. You listener, me host, and yeah, I feel what’s Stephen selling here? He says. I share those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they don’t laugh, and there’s a sense of community there. Quick time out, it’s a holiday, We’ve got time.

I was teaching my class one week ago today, and I was teaching the college class about the concept of tribes and building community around shows. And I started to explain to the class how I almost always refer to one comedian as dramatic actor Adam Sandler. You’re in on the bit, I’m in on the bit, and always saying dramatic actor Adam Sandler reinforces the thought there with me as the leader lowercase L of this tribe of comedy fans who have gathered around this podcast and in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, please join us anyway. One of the students starts agreeing with me and goes on for like seven minutes about Adam Sandler is good in punch, drunk Glove and in uncut gems. And I just stood there mugging for the camera, making eye contact with students, and just gesturing over at the student who just kept going on and on proving my point of the power of the tribe and of the community.

And I high five the student. I was like, you just proved my point. So I get what Colbert is selling here. He says, there’s a sense of community and there are fewer, fewer. I don’t know who coined this term, but there are fewer and few of what you would call third spaces in our life.

Have you heard this term three spaces? This is John talking. My daughter taught me about the sea off home, work, and then somewhere else you go. For me, it’s the brewery on trivia night, where I see my friends every now and then. I’m tired.

A couple weeks ago, the night we want Actually, I was kind of tired and I said to my wife, I go, I have to show up or I won’t have friends anymore. I need to be with the guys. So that’s my third space. Colbert says, we need third spaces in our life, not your home, not your work, but some other place we get together, and these late night shows are for millions of Americans a third space to come together and think about the day. Switching to politics, Colbert said, people perceive me as the sort of lefty figure.

I think I’m more conservative than people think. I just happened to be talking about a government and extremists. What I’m giving to you is my reaction video to the day, and my reaction video is like the scream. So that makes me perceived as more left necessarily than I am, because I’m not sure what other reaction would be a an honest one. I was having a side text with a friend of the show who appreciated that he’s not entirely sure which side of the aisle I’m on.

Again, this is not a political show. I’m not sure what you think. I’m not even sure what I’m telegraphing might actually be accurate. Again, and I’m not playing a role. But like I like to say, the President and I don’t agree on all the issues we agree on twelve thirty, we don’t agree on other things.

With previous presidents. I agreed on some things, didn’t agree on other things with the next president. I’ll agree on some things, I won’t agree on some things. I think that’s how most people are, right, Colbert said, we broadcast to a general audience. There’s no entrance fee, there’s no subscription.

You don’t have to look for us except on Channel five or wherever you are. And we have a variety of different guests. It’s a variety show. It is Thanksgiving, and I hope you’re all having a nice Thanksgiving. I do want to give a shout out to one particular member of the audience.

That’s Mike Chisholm. He hosts The Letterman Podcast, and I don’t know if you know this. He’s Canadian. So hey, Mike, hope you enjoyed October twelfth, or whenever Canadian Thanksgiving was. I assume you have to work today.

Sucks to be you. The rest of us Turkey and football enjoy my friend. Love you. A new episode of The Letterman Podcast tomorrow, probably, I don’t know. I don’t know if Mike’s skipping week.

He usually puts out an episode on Friday. If not, you haven’t listened to them all. Listen to on an old one. He’s got this guy Johnny that goes on there every now and then anyway, Mike good Joy work today, I’ll be getting even fatter. Lauren Michaels has donated his five hundred box archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

The exhibit is called Live from New York, The Lurne Michael’s Collection. It is stuff going all the way back to nineteen seventy five, boasters, newspaper clippings, photos, Lauren’s work with Lily Tomlin, Phyllis Diller and Rowan, and Martin’s laugh in his other stuff Three Amigos, Mean Girls, thirty Rock Portlandia, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Late Night with Seth Myers. You can walk past that exhibit and be like, Kah, this isn’t interesting at all, and just keep going. There are posters, annotated scripts, Make twelve thirty Great Again, costumes, production materials, and newspaper clippings from these projects. Guest curator Steve Wilson’s exhibit labels provide excellent in depth guides the entire exhibit.

Various network memos on display reveal the inevitable behind the scenes battles of musical tastes. Network execs like the classic rock. The youngsters like some different kinds of music.

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Also, apparently some memos discussing the departures of Norm MacDonald and t…

Before email, the show regularly got mail, fan letters, complaints, sketching job pitches, scribbling on everything from scratchbats to toilet papers. There’s a nineteen seventy eight letter from one of the writers describing the frustration of having to respond to the relentless barrage of unsolicited comedy materials. She wrote, no matter how funny you think it is, we cannot read, evaluate, or use any of your stuff. We never use outside material, and we’re not looking for any new writers at this time. Really cross my heart and hope to die, which I may do soon if I have to write any more letters like this one.

And that is your Thanksgiving comedy news for the day, normal episodes all weekend. I got plenty even from this show. I bumped four stories. It’s not one of those weeks where I’m like, oh, what am I going to talk about? I got plenty.

Enjoy your Turkey, Mike, enjoy work. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker, Louis C.K., Jason Zinman, Sebastian Maniscalco, Cam Patterson, Kevin Hart, Robbie Hoffman, John Mulaney, Patton Oswalt, Daryl Hammond

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis discusses Trump’s cognitive decline on podcast
• Louis C.K. performs meditative set focused on aging and faith
• Sebastian Maniscalco turned down SNL Marcelo Hernandez sketch due to Palm Springs show
• Cam Patterson schedules 44-date comedy tour around SNL commitments
• Kevin Hart releases Netflix special and discusses personal philosophy
• Robbie Hoffman Netflix special ‘Wake Up’ directed by John Mulaney premiering December 14
• Patton Oswalt on comedy’s role in resisting authoritarianism

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. Normal episodes through the holiday, including tomorrow. I have got a great piece from Jonathan Kite for you tomorrow. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Maga comedian Shane Gillis.

I don’t know why the headlines call him maga comedian, but Mega comedian Shane Gillis thinks President Donald Trump is approaching quote Biden brain territory. There was a conversation on Matt and Shane’s Secret podcast. Matt asked, Shane, you think he’s getting dementia. Shane responded, I mean, I don’t know. He just seems a little slower than usual.

McCusker said their speculation that tea dog might be rocking Biden brains. Gillis said he’s definitely not at Biden brains yet, but he’s circling the dream. Shane also felt the quiet Piggy line was effing crazy. It’s pretty wild. I just can’t think of how embarrassed that lady must have been.

Friend of the show, Jason Zeniman, he writes for The New York Times, he went to see Louis c. K under the headline a meditative Louis c. K take the stage. Don’t call it a comeback. Louis C.K.

Plays concerts all over the world, from the Riod Comedy Festival to the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. We’re told c K said you can live a great life, but you’re still alive after that part. Apparently a big chunk of this set is about aging getting older. Jason writes, what’s faded in the memory is that Louis was once treated like a secular saint. The word genius was frequently thrown around.

Critics bent over backward to interpret his sick jokes as the work of a progressive philosopher King This was always a stretch. Louis C.K. Has always been far more committed to exploring discomforting thoughts and forbidden territory than in advocating any position he still is. The anxiety and fluster that powered so much of his work has been replaced by a disarming equanimity when he evokes the darkest subjects. The biggest twist might be that he rarely approaches any with anger.

Jason adds what has most diminished as Louis ci K’s social commenter, his new hour is almost aggressively anti topical what has replaced it is a bit surprising. C K is now fixated on faith, mentioning religion in every special post cancelation, even breaking out a Bible in one bit. It might seem like an odd shift since he remains a committed non believer. Jason end’s with here Louis C.K. Showed us the upside of living a long time.

It meant that he could not only develop his craft, but also the confidence of taking a risk and pulling it off. Lengthy piece in the New York Times, and you should always read Jason’s inman pieces. Sebastian Maniscalco told Good Morning America that SNL asked him to be part of the Marcelo Hernandez sketch. Sebastian explained, I couldn’t because I was doing a show in Palm Springs. I’d love to host SNL.

If people out there are listening, I’d like to do SNL. If Lauren’s watching, I could see him hosting SNL. That seems pretty close to a no brainer. Maybe you have Marsello bust that impression out one more time.

And then he asked Sebastian a host in the spring sometime.

That’s not crazy talk. Maniscalco likes the impression. Listen, it’s very flattering that he did that. I thought he did a great job. Obviously, you know it was really over the top.

Was it. I’m not sure you’ve seen your own trailer. Obviously, you know was really over the top, which made it funnier. Cam Batterson, who’s going to wind up doing one year of SNL SIS Johnny Mac has wisely scheduled a comedy to our forty four dates around the country January through June, during weeks off from SNL, and then after June he’ll probably have lots and lots of weeks off from SNL, just saying do you watch the show? I do?

What? Has? He had? Four lines? Cam Patterson will visit sixteen cities, offering three night stints in most cities.

Kevin Hart dropped a special on Netflix. He also went on the Diary of a CEO podcast, a lengthy interview. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I did read the transcript. Kevin Hart said, I’m a very driven individual, and I’m driven off ideation. I like the fact that they can have thoughts and if you’re in love with the thoughts that you’re having, you can be energized to bring those thoughts into a bigger reality.

That’s the real fuel to the brain for me. I mean, there’s no success without failure. They go hand in hand, and with the failure comes amazing lessons, adjustments, and he gets sharper because of the stuff you’ve done wrong or you didn’t know it to approach a certain way that now you know how to approach. So I embrace the concept of failure just as much as I embrace the win of success. I feel like I’m doing a service of good.

If I can make people feel better, if I can brighten up your day, it’s a service of good. It means I’m like a shepherd of some sort. I’m responsible for making people feel better. Robbie Hoffman has a premier date for her Netflix special. It’s called Wake Up.

It is notably directed by John Mulaney. Mail a lot of attention to Robbie Hoffman when this got announced and I was putting together the show I host on Live One, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s like this except a lot less me. But I can also play stand up clips. So if I were telling you the story, I would play a clip by Robbie Hoffman here on this show.

I really can’t do that, but I dusted off my own knowledge of Robbie Hoffman. I was like, oh yeah, all right, okay, so that’s a hint for this week’s comedy stock Market, get on the Robbie Hoffman trade, I’m telling you. John Mulaney apparently agrees. He’s directing Wake Up, which will be on Netflix December fourteenth. Now a sidebar here.

Everybody’s putting out the specials too late. I’m working with a publicist who’s gonna share my list of the top specials, and my homework’s due December thirteenth, So there’s like this one. It’s a Gora Gervais. They’re all coming out too late. Come on, people, Johnny Maxx Top twenty five of the first eleven and a half months.

Robbie Hoffman taped the special at the Masonic Lodge back in October. In a statement, John mlaney said, Robie Hoffman makes me laugh until I’m delirious. No one has owned a stage like her since James Brown. I’m extremely proud to be part of her Netflix debut, but moreover, extremely lucky that I got to spend so much time with this brilliant lunatic. Patton Oswalds had some opinions on the intersection of politics and comedy, and you know that notable politician dude, I’ll let bat and explain it.

Johnny mackbot here, john forgot to credit CNN. I think that’s I mean, you know, not to get too inflated, but comedy is clearly crucial because there’s so much attention being put on it. It clearly means something to people, and it clearly can help. I don’t think comedy can topple a dictator, but it can definitely kind of make things safer for the people that are trying to topple the dictator and kind of help focus public opinions. So yeah, it is.

I mean, it really says something. When the when the Nazis annexed Vienna, the first people they went after were the cabaret performers, you know, the all of the all the all the cafe, the simplicitous performers. They wanted those guys quiet first, because they don’t. Want them They they don’t like being made fun of. Because also when you when you embrace authoritarians, authoritarianism, part of that is I’m I reject the chaos and the uncertainty of the world, which a comedian can actually embrace and go, Yeah, things are nuts and I can help us do it.

And they want no. I don’t want any surprises. I don’t want to wrong. I want everything to be fine. So when they that’s the first thing they got to get rid of, you know, because it is very to quote the show and or an authoritarian authoritarian regime is very, very fragile.

Daryl Hammond spoke to e W about his portrayal of the Lads. Dick Cheney. Arrel said, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Vice President’s mansion a couple of times to meet the family. I think I had six occasions that I spent a few minutes with him. On one occasion, I went to the Greenbrier Hotel in the basement.

You know, that’s the place they were going to ride out World War three, that bunker. You ever watched those documentaries, Look up Greenbrier. It’s pretty interesting. He had all his Republican colleagues there and I dressed up as Bill Clinton and insulted them all. That was his idea.

So there’s Darryl Hammond who’s dressed up as Bill Clinton, and he says, I’m attempting to shake Cheney’s hand and he’s shrinking in revulsion. Like I said, the guy had a sense of humor. And while we’re being somewhat political, Tignazarro has opened up about the end of her friendship with Cheryl Hines over the politics of Cheryl’s husband, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. On tig Nataro’s Handsome podcast, she told her co hosts, I didn’t sever the friendship, but I did notice that once he was running for president.

Once I stepped away from her old podcast, I never heard from her again. Out on the eight hundred Bound Gorilla Today or Styla’s Green.

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Meanwhile, on The Great British Bake Off, the cast of Peep Show will reunite …

I wasn’t prepping the comedy show. I was prepping The Palace Intrigue, which I’m the writer for, where we talk about the royal family palace in wherever you get your podcasts, Yeah, Sophie Winkelman, or to you, Lady Frederick windsor or to me big Sus from peep Show. I’m not a British subject. I don’t care anyway. All of those folks will take part in this year’s festive episode of The Great British Bakeoff.

It’s their first on screen appearance since the sitcom ended in twenty fifteen, notably absent Robert Webb, who co starred the series with David Mitchell. No air day yet. Peep Show, if you’ve never watched it. My daughter actually stumbled across it and hit me up on the side, was like, have you ever seen peep Show? And I was like, are you kidding me?

I think it’s on Hulu right now, she said, And let me get out my just watch tea now about just watch? Just watch app is great? Hold on? Oh wait, I almost accidentally supported fascism. I mean, yes, it’s on Hulu, but you know, don’t do that.

Buy some DVDs and watch it that way. Don’t just push that green Hulu button on your Rokuo remote and be like it’s Thanksgiving weekend, Johnny Max s d this show’s good. I’m gonna watch Peep Show on Hulu. No no, no, no no, you get yourself some DVDs. Hey, look I just clicked on something.

Amazon will sell you episode in standard death for ninety nine cents. That’s how you prove you’re not a fascist. You spend a dollar for one episode of standard definition instead of just pushing that green button on your Roku remote. And I’m gonna leave you with this. I can’t even do the bit today about jay Leno because look, he’s so genuine with this.

I know you all hate him because he has an opinion about late night television. What does he know? I really can’t do the bit today. He was on the Today Show. He was talking about Mavis, his wife hes dementia.

Jaye talked about making Mavis laugh and he told a joke. Obviously jay Leno would tell a joke better than I would, but the joke reads last night. I said to her. A guy goes to the doctor. The doctor says, what’s the matter?

Guy says, when I press here, it hurts. When I press on my shoulder, it hurts. When I press my knee cap, it hurts. When I press my ripcage, it hurts. The doc goes, you’ve got a broken finger.

That got a laugh out of Mavis, and Jay said, if I was a doctor, I’d say the patient’s doing well. Put it that way. Jay says he always brings up old and fond memories to Mavis. He says, when I’m carrying her to the bathroom, I call her Jay and Mavis to the prom in high school rocker back and forth, and she thinks that’s funny. Hod of the host was curious how Mavis shows Jay that she loves him.

Jay said, well, by saying it, I could see it in the smile. I could tell when she’s happy. So that’s really it. And as someone who is doing show business, I go home and I get an audience reaction every night. I please the person I’m entertaining when she looks at me and smiles and says she loves me, I melt.

Jay shared that Mavis used to love traveling and he figured out a way to explore with her. Jay said, you reach this point in your life where she loves to travel, and I’m so sad she can’t do those things. But there’s so much stuff on YouTube, the travel stuff, and we watch those things and the animal shows real big with the flash cards. Not flash cards, but see this picture. See this picture.

She says, who’s that? That’s President Obama And she says, no, I never met him. Yeah, honey, you did. We had dinner with him at his house, the White House, and then we laugh. Jay said, is he takes his vows seriously?

Clearly does quoting Jay. Now she really needs me and I like that, and I could tell she appreciates it. The idea that you get married, you take these vows. Nobody ever thinks you’d be called upon them to act on them. That part for better or worse, but even the worst isn’t bad.

Enjoy her company. If I’m working on a car, she’d sit over there with a book and read. It was just very well, still is very comfortable. Before she had this, I’d go home after the tonight’s show, cooked dinner and watch TV. The only difference is now you can’t really talk about a lot of those things.

That guy’s the worst. Right, normal episode tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving. I’ll see there

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Featured: Sarah Sherman, Darryl Hammond, Alec Baldwin, Kathleen Madigan, Chelsea Handler, Joe Coy, Patton Oswalt

What’s in This Episode

• Sarah Sherman HBO special ‘Sarah Squirm Live Plus in the Flesh’ premiering December 12
• Darryl Hammond reflects on losing Trump impression role to Alec Baldwin on SNL
• Darryl Hammond performing Bill Clinton impression for Dick Cheney at Republican retreat
• Kathleen Madigan drops surprise special ‘The Family Thread’ on Amazon Prime
• Chelsea Handler to host Critics Choice Awards January 4, new categories added
• Joe Coy taping Netflix special January 16-17 in Stockton
• Patton Oswalt discusses effectiveness of satire in current political climate

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. The reminder normal episodes all the way through and including Thanksgiving. I’ve got plenty Hey, awesome news, Sarah Sherman. We’ve got a date for her upcoming special. It will be on HBO.

It is called Sarah Squirm Live Plus in the Flesh. It will be on HBO Friday, December twelfth at nine East and West. Now, that’s interesting to me that it’s a Friday one. In the past, the big specials went on Saturday and other specials went on Friday. Not sure why she doesn’t get the Saturday spot.

Doesn’t really matter. In Live Plus in the Flesh, Sarah Sherman rips off the straight jacket after four seasons counting on snl unleashing a festering and hilarious hour of bodily fluids, open wound confessionals and jokes that will leave scares on your soul. There is a trailer, but I just can’t play it. It’s either a lot of music, a lot of faces, or a lot of naughtiness. Ol Hammond reacted to the President of the United States praising Darryl Hammond on social media.

Darryl Hammond told e W that was tough. No, no, no, he wasn’t upset that the President liked his impression. He was saying it was tough. When Alec Baldwin took over as Donald Trump on SNL, Daryl said he didn’t like the transition at the time. I know Lauren Michaels is a tough guy, but he’s not cruel.

Darryl told the EW that at the time he accepted Lauren’s creative business decision to end Daryl’s run as Trump on the show. Hammond explains, I don’t think he would have done that unless he felt like he had to. At the time, social media was emerging, YouTube was happening. There was a need to go viral every week. He made that creative decision.

Had it paid off? No, I didn’t like it, but it’s the NFL man Saturday Night Live. For all this frivolity and hilarity. It’s not the March of Dimes. It’s a business.

But every effort was made to explain things to me that it wasn’t done haphazardly or cruelly. Darryl exited the show in twenty nineteen. He took over as the announcer in twenty fourteen. There were times in the past when you thought you were listening to Don Pardo and it was actually Daryl Hammond doing an impression of Pardo. I think Fallon did it a couple of times too, as Don Parter.

As Don Parter got older and sometimes missed a show. I’m not sure if they’ve publicly admitted to that, but that’s the thing. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Show were one of you late night guys. Let me know if I have my fax right on that, John, why don’t you google it? Because that’s not fun?

Michael texts me, Hi, Mike anyway. E w asked Daryl Hammond about a twenty eighteen social media message from Trump in which the president called for Hammond to be reinstated as the Trump Guy because he’s funnier and far greater talent than Alec Baldwin. Daryl said, I think if a president tweets about you and suddenly Vladimir Putin knows your name, you’ve stepped in history somewhere. My mouth was on the floor. I couldn’t believe that.

The first thing I thought was now the Kremlin’s going, who’s this guy looking me up? That’s a long way from the Little League fields I grew up on. I graduated college with a two to one, and there were five presidents calling me by my first name when I was on SNL. Feel like it did pretty good. Apparently Dick Cheney liked Daryl Hammond’s impersonation so much that he once invited Daryl Hammond to perform at a Republican retreat as Bill Clinton.

Hammond says Cheney had a sense of humor. I still remember his pounding on the table when I said this joke as Bill Clinton. I hadn’t done Clinton in a while, but the joke was. Boy, that Dick Cheney, with his hard condition and that electronic pacemaker. Every time he sneezes the garage door opens.

I remember him pounding on the table and I thought, wow, he’s generous with his time. Kathleen Madigan quietly dropped a special last week Amazon Prime keeping these things quiet. If you go on Prime Video, you’ll find a special. It’s called The Family Thread, and it stars Kathleen Madigan. We’re told she’s laid back, smart, unfiltered, and brutally funny.

That’s a very good description of Kathleen. I know her in real life, hung out, with her several times. Definitely laid back, definitely smart, definitely unfiltered, definitely brutally funny as she takes on everything from chaotic family text in Midwest quirks to aging parents, savage cats, and the fine art of having zero pride. The La Times, which has a great comedy section, caught up with Kathleen. They thought the family threat is so great because it really makes you think of yourself and our own families, all while you’re pretty much roasting yours.

Madigan said, thank you. I’m conscious of the fact that trying to include everyone, but I could do hours on my parents and just never stopped. It’s endless, and anybody forty and up is gonna end up dealing with some version of just crazy old people. Once my sister goes, I don’t remember our great aunts and uncle’s being as crazy as mom and dad can be. And I was like, because they died of whatever.

The first thing was Dad should have been dead two heart attacks ago.

And then we’re in stroke land.

My mom had lung cancer and she’s fine. It’s good, we’re buying them time, but how much time are we buying and is their quality left? It’s like this will all my friends at this age too, to mention here and there, stroked out over there. Even for my younger siblings were forty nine because my parents had them late. Of course, back then thirty seven was late to have a kid, And now people are really pushing it la times.

Well, now if you’re thirty five and over, they call it a geriatric pregnancy. Mattigan said, that’s hilarious. I know a bunch of friends of mine who got pregnant and they don’t have to do that special testing because they were over thirty eight. They didn’t care about that. With my mom, nobody cared what she was smoking or drinking either.

So there’s that. My old family’s always been the type where everything’s kind of a joke. At the end of the day. Grandpa used to say, one hundred years from now, will anyone know the difference? Not a bad way, but in a light spirited way, like this life is kind of nonsense, so have fun, live it up.

Chelsea Handler will host the Critics Choice Awards. The awards will be announced Friday, December fifth, the award show Sunday, January fourth. By the way, the Critics Choice Awards has added four new categories this Year Best Variety Series, Stunt Design, Casting, Ensemble and Sound. Chelsea Handler said, kicking off the year with the Critics’ Choice Awards feels right. Nothing says new beginnings like a room full of critics ready to tell you how you did last year.

We’ll we’ve been to watch these things live on television on E and USA from seven to ten pm on Sunday, January fourth. You know she used to date Joe Coy. Joe Coy, I don’t know if you remember he hosted the Golden Globes once until this horrible, horrible, mean joke about Salor Swift. Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

I love that bit. It never gets old. Joe Coy, why are you mentioning of John other than the fourth to bit? Well, no, no, there’s actual news. I’m not that horrible.

Joe Coy is taping a new special. He’s recording at Friday, January sixteenth, and the next day, which is did you figure it out? That’s right, Saturday, January seventeenth. He’s taping at Stockton’s Adventist Health Arena. Organizers say it will be a Netflix special.

Get an early jump on my twenty twenty sixth list. Patton Oswalt was on the Last Laugh podcast. They asked, Patten, do you think satsire like South Park or the late night shows is effective in changing people’s perceptions of the Trump administration or people in power? Patton, who’s getting as serious as Harry Conobolo lately, he said, that’s hard to say, only because the only effective satsire right now is satire that’s as insane as the time we’re living in. We are living such hallucinatory times.

In order to capture it, you need to create something that feels less hallucinatory, and thus it doesn’t quite land on you the way it should, because it’s so crazy you can almost discount it a little bit. Send your letters to Patton Oswalt, who said, you also have to remember when people say that Trump followers and Maggot people are lost, they’re not lost. This is the only time in their lives they’ve ever felt found and seen and understood, and people will hang on to that until the bitter end. They will never ever let go of that, even if you show them on a chart, how this guy’s robbing you. They’re like, he was nice to me, and no one has ever been nice to me, no one’s ever accepted my horribleness.

I’ve found people that are like me and I’ve never had this and I’m never letting this go. They’ll die with him if they have to. That’s why the Democrats drive me up at wall with this whole reaching across the aisle thing. Yes, he should try to reach across and work with them, but you also need technowledge. There are some people on both sides, and I think way more on their side that are just permanently unreachable.

And by the way, that’s another thing that makes this country great, that you can have a chunk of people that are unreachable and the country still functions. Sendor letters to Paton Oswald pattn New Word Oswalt. Now, if you’ve been listening to the show, you know that the President and I are not aligned on all the issues. Some issues we are aligned on. For example, make twelve thirty great Again?

Is the late night franchise in the best hands it’s ever been in? Absolutely not, And I think the President is right to be addressing this that we should make twelve thirty great again. Josh Johnson.

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Meanwhile, I do differ with the President of the United States on this whole …

Again. I don’t support fascism. I don’t want the fascists taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air. I don’t just say that green Hulu button that’s bottom right on my Roku remote, and I know where it’s there because I look at it every day, and I go, I’m not pressing you. I’m gonna walk up three flights of stairs and get the Scrubs DVDs.

I’m not watching fascist support of television Disney ABC taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Anyway. The President was very upset with this Jimmy Kimmel person and posted on Truth’s Social Why does ABC fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with no talent and very poor television ratings, on the air. Why do the TV syndicates put up with it?

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Also totally biased coverage?

Get the bomb off the air? Three exclamation points. Well, mister President, appreciate you listening to Daily Comedy News. Your initial question, why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel on the air is the gist of your question. It’s not the news department that’s keeping Jimmy Kimmel on the air.

He’s actually part of the entertainment group. So the correct question would be why does the ABC Entertainment Group keep Jimmy Kimmel on the air. The answer is that the show does pretty well, presumably make some money, and Jimmy’s the face of the network. The second part of the President’s question, why do the TV syndic kates put up with it? Well, you see, mister President, to be part of the network, you do have to carry almost all of their programming.

So if you wanted, say Monday Night Football or Dancing with the Stars or whatever else is on the ABC network. Again, I don’t watch the thing. I’m not going to support people that took Ji Mkimmel off the air. So whatever it is they’re showing, these stations have to air these things or they’ll be removed from the network. So that is the answer to your question, mister President.

Appreciate you listening. As you know, there are five good Adam Sandler movies, two of them co star Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore has been pushing an idea where she would co star with the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler in a remake of the nineteen ninety two comedy Death Becomes Her Now. If you don’t recall that film, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn are both in love with Bruce Willis, so much so that they ingest a magic elixir that promises eternal youth with disastrous effects. One would assume Adam Sandler would play the Bruce Willis role, with Drew Barrymore playing one of the women.

This, of course, is a terrible idea because it would force Adam Sandler to try and be funny again. Sandler’s gonna go in a stick Sandlor, and we don’t want to push him there. We want to keep him as the great, serious dramatic actor that he is, So that is a terrible idea. Drew Barrymore. Sorry.

Another idea is a reimagining of the classic ABC sitcom Three’s Company. You may recall. In Three’s Company, John Ritter plays a man who pretends to be gay so he can share an apartment with two single women. In this idea, Adam Sandler who would play the Jack Tripper role as for the female roommates. They would be played by Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Aniston.

Okay, putting aside that this would be Adam Sandler doing shticky comedy. All three actors name there are too old. We can’t remake Three’s Company with everybody in their sixties. What are we doing? That’s the terrible idea.

Who I think would have been a great Jack Tripper ten to fifteen years ago is Pete Holmes. I think he would have been perfect. He looks the part, He’s got the sensibility for the part. I thought he would have been great. But I think Three’s Company and the original Man about the House are things of their time, and I’m not sure how we would bring that back today.

So let’s just not. Amazon’s MGM Studios has landed Compulsive Liar, which would star Emily Gordon and Kamale Nanjianni. Details are being kept under wraps, however, Deadline has figured out the project is based on the Canadian comedy Mentur. In Mentur, we follow Simon, who’s a big liar. His family and colleagues organized an intervention which turns into a confrontation, and Simon denies everything.

The next day he wakes up in a world where all his lives have come true. I guess Adam Sandler was not available for that one. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel, Big Jay Okerson’s Them They And that’s your comedy news for today. And I kicked five stories so again, real episodes on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, all weekend. I got plenty, not doing any of those top ten sitcoms of All time kind of stuff.

I got plenty for you and tomorrow a normal episode. See you then,

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Tom Segura, Nate Bargatze, John Mulaney, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais Netflix special ‘Mortality’ releasing December 30th
• Tom Segura Netflix special ‘Teacher’ releasing December 24th
• Nate Bargatze announces Nateland theme park project in Nashville
• Nate Bargatze Nateland themed cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line
• John Mulaney discusses Supreme Court appearance and Texas cities
• Everybody Loves Raymond 30th anniversary special on CBS

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 there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Just looking ahead all week including Thanksgiving on the holiday weekend, normal episodes. There’s just so much news going on. I didn’t have to do like Holidy Filler, Adam Sandler’s fifteen Worst Movies and anything like that, all normal regular media episodes.

Among the things I haven’t been able to tell you about Ricky Gervays. His next stand up special will be on Netflix December thirtieth. Now, Johnny Mac’s not happy with that release date because I like to do the top twenty five specials of the yearless and if you wait till December thirtieth, it’s not gonna be on it. I got a hand in the homework to the I gotta make the shows. I gotta hand the stuff in for my substack and for the publicist.

I can’t wait till December thirtieth. Anyway. It’s called Mortality. It’s the hour. Ricky Gervase has been touring since twenty twenty four.

Filmed earlier this year at the London Palladium. It’s his fourth stand up special. The Lazy Netflix copywriter promises no topic is off limits on as Ricky closes out the year with his best show yet. The official log line is a little bitter written. It says Gervaise takes on his own mortality in a brutally honest and darkly funny stand up special about his life, death, and the state of the world.

Ricky said, I think Mortality is my most honest and confessional show so far, and also my favorite tour. I still can’t believe what a privilege it is to fly around the world making people laugh. Now that news made me realize. At some point, I had this Tom Sagora story in my little notebook here that I work with for the show, and it got dropped and I don’t know what happened to it, because I don’t think I’ve told you that Tom Sigora Teacher will be out on Netflix December twenty fourth. Yeah, Tom Sagora has got a new special and it’s called Teacher, and as I told you, it’ll be out December twenty fourth.

Also not good for year endlists or publicists or homework or substacks. Deadline says no word yet on what Sigora covers in the hour. It’s his fifth special for Netflix. Nate BRIGATSI. I still think he’s out of his mind.

He was at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Industry conference, the IAAPAXPO. Nate showed up at this thing and announced that his company is partnering with Storyland Studios, a SoCal based themed entertainment, architecture and design firm. Together, they will explore the concept and feasibility of a Napurghetsy theme park in Nashville. I’m telling you, if I’m still doing this podcast in ten years, I’m going to one day for holiday filler. Be like remember the time Naperghetzi was going to open a theme park.

Whatever happened to that. I mean, just do a bourbon or something. This is crazy. The feasibility study is set to be completed in the first quarter of twenty twenty six. Fall goes well, they’ll have a shovel on the ground in five to six years.

Hmmm. I don’t know anything about musement parks, but the word boondoggle just went into my brain. I don’t know what to do with the word boon doggle. I don’t know what kind of sentence to use the word boondoggle in. Maybe It has nothing to do with this story at all, but the word boondoggle did pop into my brain.

Here’s the plan. They want build a one hundred plus acre amusement park. Now I’m from New York City. I have no idea how big an acre is. Sounds pretty big, and one hundred of them sound huge, but I don’t know.

I’m a city boy. The amusement park will include amenities like retail, dining, and even a hotel. At Nateland. The project is being handled by the Experiences Division, which is also responsible for such things as a Nateland themed cruise setting sale via Norwegian Cruise Line early next year. Hey, you want to go on the themed cruise?

Dusty Slave’s going to be there. I don’t know for a fact Dusty’s going to be there. I’m doing a bit. I don’t even know that Nate’s going to be there. I’m finding this out as you do.

You think i’d pre read these stories? Are you crazy? Anyway? You want to go on the Nateland cruise? That sounds fun.

Other divisions at Nateland are focused on stand up movies, TV, merch, and an incubation lab for new talent. I look forward to the opening of Nateland many years from now, John Mulaney was in Texas. While in town, mullaney did a one on one with Austin based filmmaker Noah Hawley. You may know him from such things as Fargo, Legion and Alien in Earth. Mullaney said, the satisfaction of being on stage in Austin The audience can see me, but I’m not blown up on the screen, and I’m getting a laugh with the slightest shrug.

That’s a really powerful feeling. The festival mainly focuses on politics. One attendee ask John Mulaney, why are you here? Now? I’m picturing the attendee as KHN and the attendee going now, tell me why are you here?

Did you watch Star Trek two? Great film? Malleni said, went in a city. I like to see as many sides of it and take part and as much of it as I can. I was very lucky that this was happening at the same time the half assed Millennie’s coming along.

I’m working on it again. The key to it is you have to do the French Schneider. It’s as big as a whale, and that’s how you get into your half assed Millennium’m slightly zoning in on it, so you got the SCHNEIDERSM and then I realized mulleny over enunciates working on it again. Not an impression, it’s a half ass impression. The discussion went to Mulanie’s recent appearance at the Supreme Court hearing zone Revember fifth.

Mulleny recalled that Justice Alito seemed to get poor of his own hypotheticals and Justice Thomas looks like he struggles to stay awake. M’laney said they seem to get along with each other in a way you might not think there was a lot of collegiality. If you and nine co workers had to sit out a panel, you’d eventually lean over and do jokes to each other. Talked about the Austin comedy scene, saying a lot of comedians were moving to Austin, Texas and made it seem like this big move. I was like, Austin’s a huge city.

Go to Gavelston. I like my houses, like I like my chimpanzees on stilts. Then mulanie was asked, well, AI ever be funnier than a comedian? Millenney said, AI will never shrug and the shrug is the highest form of intelligence. Mlaney also spoke with The Texas Standard.

They were curious, what’s your takeaway of Texas. Milleniy said, I think of Texas as his father with like a bunch of different sons that are his cities. And you know, Dallas is trying to do everything right and run the family business and is responsible with money. In Houston does a good job, but it’s just boring as hell. Austin is more like the more emo kid at the end of the table.

It’s like, what did you do today, Austin. He’s like, I colored a sort of artistic libertarian son at the end of the table that does whatever he wants. As for Sayatonio, I love san Antonio. San Antonio is like the kid that just always fine but doesn’t visit a lot. On your TV tonights.

It is the thirtieth anniversary celebration of Everybody Loves Raymond. Are you feeling old yet? Yeah? CBS eight o’clock. Now you might be like, CBS, aren’t those the guys that eliminate the Late Show?

If I watch this thing, am I supporting fascism? That’s a great question. I’m gonna say no, because as you know, Colbert was canceled over budget reasons. It had nothing to do with fascism or anti fascism or pseudo fascism. It was all about budget.

So I’m gonna tell you you’re okay if you want to watch this thing tonight. Okay, just if you’re watching Scrubs, go get the DVDs. Don’t push that Hulu button on the rokop. You gotta stand strong support Jimmy Kimmel. But Colbert, that was all budget.

You can watch the Raymond special. It will feature appearances from Ray Romano, I would hope, so you know, you don’t want to do this thing without Ray, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, and the others. It will include a tribute to late cast members Dors, Robert It’s and Peter Boyle, who played the Parents. Series creator Phil Rosenthal and Ray Romano sat down with tv Line. Phil said, I’ve been trying to get this done for ten years.

Ray said, he told me about it, and I said, I’m game. Then he took it to CBS and Phil says, I’d see other show’s doing reunions that think we have funny stories and we have nice remembrance. We want to do it. Ray said, people were asking about reboots. We agreed we would never do a reboot, so we’ll do a reunion.

We like reunions, but ten years ago CBS wasn’t into it. Five years ago they weren’t into it. This year knew people are there and they were into it, So here we go. TV Line points out, Hey, this is being built as the thirtieth anniversary. The show premiered in nineteen ninety six.

Technically this is your twenty ninth anniversary. What’s the story there? Phil was like, it’s technically the thirtieth anniversary since the show got going. We filmed the pilot in the spring of ninety six. We were on the air and fall in ninety six.

But Ray and I met in ninety five right for the special. They recreated the living room set hottson Field. Being on that set again, Ray said, first of all, the work they did to rebuild it was amazing. The only thing that was original was the couch, which I took home with me in two thousand and five and gave it back to them for the special. I love that Ray Romano had the couch for twenty years.

That’s amazing. You couldn’t tell the difference. If you told me this was the exact set, I’d believe it. It was emotional. I’ll say that.

Ray recently rewatched all nine seasons. He told TV Line. Which struck me the most was the acting. I mean, I knew it was good back then, but now I wasn’t as critical. I’m not saying I didn’t remember every show I did, but I remember what was going to happen next, and I saw little things that I appreciated more, the nuances of each actor, how good they were.

I think I just appreciated them, the cast, and the writing more. Back then, it was hard for me not to be critical of myself. What’s funny is I’d see myself without a shirt on in an episode then and be like, what the hell am I doing? What am I doing showing this to the world. When I watch it now, I was like, no, I was in shape back then.

Good question from TV lines, sitcoms, Off and Juggle, AB and C storylines, Raymond was always focused on one. Was that a rule? Phil said yes. I thought if a story’s worth telling, it’s worth telling for the twenty one minutes we have. Ray said yeah, But we didn’t perfectly say we can’t do that, because that’s a bet story.

It wasn’t the dynamic of the world we were in. Pat Oswalt was on the last last podcast. They start talking about Kimmelgate and the video Patten had sheared from the airport. I had played that in one of the bonus episodes. You know what was the deal with that?

Batton Oswald, who said, well, it was one of those moments when what was being done was so blatant and so petty, and it was just such an absolute misuse of power, and I wanted to get something out there. Not that I have any kind of massive platform or swam culture, but I could already fast forward to the way the pro Trump people were going to start to try and rationalize this. There’s now a scary legion of people out there whose job is to make the abnormal seem normal and reasonable. This from the guy who played Dug the Vulcan. All right, Patton, you want to talk about making something abnormal seem normal?

You played Dug the Vulcan as a trekkie. I’m still furious about this. You can hear the rage coming out during this podcast. Patton said, all of you people to keep saying Trump is bringing America back. Whatever he’s bringing back, it’s not America.

He’s bringing back twelve thirty. Patton Oswalt. The President and I are aligned. Make twelve thirty great again. Let’s get back to the golden age of Letterman and Conan and even Craig Ferguson.

We need better twelve th shows, Patton Oswalt said. But I think from the beginning of time there’s this overall mediocrity that wants a foothold in life. And it hates excellence. Oh, you’re teeing yourself up here, Paton. And it hates people that actually craft their job and care about their job.

They just want loud, sloppy spectacle. For example, the musical episode of Strange New Worlds, the Star Trek series on which you played Dug the Vulcan. Like that kind of nonsense, not going for greatness. Yeah, that Patton said, And it’ll even flow, and it’ll flare up and it’ll die down. Right now, we’re looking at a massive flare up.

We’ve got to be better about calling that stuff out when it’s happening. Yes, say somebody plays a crappy character on Star Trek Strange New Worlds, call that actor out and tell him, no, you are destroying Star Trek. Patton said, it’s very tempting to think there’s this big, loud, frightening guy. If you’re just nice to him and do what he says, I’ll make your life comfortable. Now, Luckily for us in this case, Trump doesn’t even know how to make his worshippers lives comfortable.

This does feel like a bad virus, bad flu, some kind of bacterial infection that we just have to write out. Then I used some language that I think doesn’t translate. Well, I’m not going to read it. I don’t want to a visit from men in sunglasses. I’m a line with the president.

Make twelve thirty great again. Okay, you calm down, Dug. The Vulcan Daniel Tosh was on his podcast announcing Tour d Eights for next year. He got to Toledo and said Toledo is a gem and then compared it to Tacoma, Washington by saying, why do you guys live here when there’s other great cities nearby? That’s how I feel about Toledo.

The other great cities are just slightly less crappy. Tosh continued, Toledo’s bad. You know it’s bad Toledo. And I’m not gonna sit here and act like it’s a great city and I want you to come out and support me. Okay, but the city’s bad.

Tosh clarified, the people could be fine. I’m talking about the city itself bad. Jim Gaffigan told people that he has lost fifty pounds now with the help of Munjaro, a drug used to treat type two diabetes. Jim told people, I feel good. I’m just grateful because it’s a better life.

Gaffigan said he had gotten up to two hundred and seventy pounds. Jim said, I had very low expectations because I didn’t know someone that had tried it and they were like, oh, I was nauseous for a week, and I thought my true joy of eating would overpower anything. That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Seth Meyers, Conan O’Brien, Bill Maher, Patton Oswalt, Weird Al Yankovic, Jim Brewer, Josh Johnson, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Seth Meyers responds to presidential criticism about Late Night ratings
• Conan O’Brien filming season three of travel series in India
• Bill Maher explains decision to stop touring and focus on HBO specials
• Patton Oswalt releases audio special ‘Black Coffee and Ice Water’ on Audible
• Weird Al announces 90 additional tour stops for ‘Bigger and Weirder’ into 2026
• Jim Brewer launches ‘It’s the Fine, the Funny Tour’ in February
• Josh Johnson discusses political objectivity in comedy and optimism about America’s future
• Nikki Glaser rewrites Golden Globes monologue until last minute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Jim Gaffigan, Dave Chappelle, Kat Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. on direct-to-fan sales model and post-2017 earnings recovery
• Louis C.K. Madison Square Garden sold-out show and livestream success
• Stephen Colbert on performing as himself versus character work on The Late Show
• Stephen Colbert reflecting on The Colbert Report character and character development
• Stephen Colbert considering podcast with his daughters
• Jim Gaffigan on evolution of stand-up promotion across platforms and specials

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

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

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

It was just crazy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And then they’re going to compete with Netflix.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Matt Rife, Nate Bargatze, Stavros Halkias, Caleb Herron, Louis C.K.

What’s in This Episode

• Sebastian Maniscalco’s Hulu special and comedy approach
• Maniscalco’s US Weekly cover story and facial expressions in comedy
• BuzzFeed ranking of Hulu specials by comedians
• Debate over who is the number one comedian currently
• Louis C.K. performing at the Riod Comedy Festival in the Middle East
• Rise of touring comics like Matt Rife and Nate Bargatze without major TV/film crossover
• Comedy’s shift from swagger-based American style to audience connection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Marcelo Hernandez, Adam Sandler, David Letterman, Seth Meyers, Kevin James, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• Marcelo Hernandez impresses with Sebastian Maniscalco impression on SNL
• Sebastian Maniscalco partners with Prostate Cancer Foundation for November to Remember
• David Letterman to interview Adam Sandler on Netflix December 1st
• Trump calls for Seth Meyers to be replaced at NBC
• Kevin James posts TikTok videos as art teacher Matt Taylor, likely promotion for Solomeo film
• Stephen Colbert appears on GQ cover with suspected joint

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then literally seven o’clock comes on.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, Kenan Thompson, Maria Bamford, Joel Kim Booster, Janeane Garofalo, Alex Bennett

What’s in This Episode

• SketchFest 2025 23rd annual festival overview and lineup
• Women of SNL tribute featuring Ellen Kleenex and Rachel Dratch
• Kids in the Hall Brain Candy 30th anniversary live read
• John Mulaney promoting Years non-alcoholic beer
• Jim Gaffigan Father Time Bourbon promotion and parenting comments
• Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson sports talk show on Prime Video

Questions Answered in This Episode

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Michael Che, Lorne Michaels, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Tracy Morgan, Josh Johnson, Louis C.K.

What’s in This Episode

• Former SNL intern criticizes show’s culture and Lorne Michaels on Instagram
• Michael Che responds to intern’s accusations in comments
• Eddie Murphy’s SNL return episode and Chris Rock’s involvement
• Josh Johnson transitions from SNL writer to on-camera performer
• Louis C.K. discusses comeback and personal growth after misconduct allegations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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