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Featured: Joe Rogan, Jeff Dye, Amy Schumer, Louis C.K., Theo Vaughn, Chris Rock, Shane Gillis, Micah Parsons, Peyton Manning, Saquon Barkley, Josh Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan mispronounces ethanol on podcast, Newsweek covers it
• Amy Schumer deletes all Instagram posts, keeps one new weight loss photo
• Louis C.K. discusses new novel acknowledgments in Wall Street Journal interview
• Shane Gillis tells story of meeting Micah Parsons at Saquon Barkley Super Bowl party
• Peyton Manning’s Manning Cast interview preparation criticized by Johnny Mac
• Josh Johnson anchors The Daily Show, Billboard publishes interview

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Louis C.K., Scott Beckett, Nikki Glaser, Tim Minchin, Charlie Barnes

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. Wall Street Journal profile and return to stand-up with new approach
• Louis C.K. quit stand-up after MSG show, took time off for art and writing
• Nikki Glaser Golden Globes preparation and breathing techniques
• Nikki Glaser mistook bald audience member’s head for phone light while filming
• Tim Minchin backlash for comments about not cheating on wife
• Charlie Barnes YouTube special December 1st release with Midwest comedy stories

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See you tomorrow

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Featured: Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jen Marcos Siresi

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno discusses caring for wife Mavis with advanced dementia at Love Ride charity event
• Jimmy Kimmel reflects on suspension and 23-year tenure on late night in Glennon Doyle podcast interview
• Stephen Colbert opens up about recreational anxiety and nervous breakdown in GQ interview
• Jen Marcos Siresi’s comedy special addresses Democratic Party messaging challenges
• Jen Marcos Siresi discusses language choices in comedy for audience engagement
• Jen Marcos Siresi’s Theater Adult recurring show at Joe’s Pub in New York City

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Doug Stanhope, Rosebud Baker, Sam Tallent, Dave Attel, Tim Dillon, Nikki Glaser, Stavros Halkias, Trey Parker, Matt Stone

What’s in This Episode

• Skankfest moves to New Orleans with 150+ comedians and boxing events
• Nikki Glaser Amazon Alexa Plus commercial partnership
• Stavros Halkias discusses podcast longevity and evolving comedy taboos
• South Park creators on Trump and politics becoming pop culture

Questions Answered in This Episode

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: John Stewart, Taylor Tomlinson, Matt Rife, Bret Goldstein, Mike Tyson, Mary Beth Baron, Mindy Kaling, Rachel Bloom, Rory Scovel, David Cross

What’s in This Episode

• John Stewart at New York Comedy Festival discussing Mayor-elect Zorn Mamdani
• Taylor Tomlinson filming fourth comedy special at Fountain Street Church in Michigan
• Matt Rife Netflix crowdwork special ‘Matt Rife Unwrapped’ releasing December 2
• Bret Goldstein starring in Amazon Prime romantic comedy ‘Escorted’
• Mike Tyson filming Netflix comedy special ‘Return of the Mike’ December 14
• Mary Beth Baron getting Netflix special
• Mindy Kaling’s Hulu series ‘Not Suitable for Work’ adds 12 cast members
• Rory Scovel and Rachel Bloom in ABC pilot ‘Do You Want Kids?’

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Caloroga Shark Media. Are they armed? Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News John Stewart at the New York Comedy Festival started talking about Mayor elect Zorn Mamdani. John asked the crowd, are you excited about Mamdani? You’re the ones moving out.

Everybody’s nervous. He’s going to turn the city into a crap hole. That’s why I moved here. Didn’t we move here because New York’s of crap hole? We didn’t come here because it’s nice.

If you can’t make it here, you can’t make it anywhere. John said, I’m excited to see what the guy does. People say, are you worried about anti semitism? John’s tag. I’ll be honest with you, I’m not worried about anti semitism.

I mean I think anti semitism will be fine. Taylor Tomison heading back to television. Nope, she’s not getting a late night talk show. Those are over. Apparently, she has filmed a new special at Michigan’s Fountain Street Church, a one year old church in Grand Rapids.

She do two warm up shows on the thirtieth and thirty first taped to perform is on the first She also directed this special, her fourth. Netflix has not yet announced a release date for the new special. Matt Rife will have a special, this one called Matt Rife Unwrapped, a Christmas CrowdWork Special. This one will be out on Netflix on December two. On the marysu dot com, Rachel Leischmann wrote, Matt Rife is now doing a CrowdWork special since his jokes didn’t work.

Rachel apparently not a fan, right. Matt Rife is a quote unquote comedian who often uses his CrowdWork to make people think he’s good at stand up. So when his stand up specials inevitably failed, people realize quickly that he isn’t as funny as his TikTok page. Let people believe now, the quote unquote comedian is releasing a special built entirely around crowd work. Why is that?

Oh, because that’s what Rife was quote unquote good at. Rachel Leishman writes, I don’t like Rife’s style of comedy. It’s not really stand up. He just basically has a conversation with people and says things that people might deem funny. But he’s not going into comedy shows with jokes prepared I’ll comedy snow belong with you here, sure, but I have to understand the casuals sitting on the couch they hit play on Netflix.

Did they laugh? Did they not laugh? Did they have a good time? Did they not have a good time? And they’re going to have a good time watching Matt Rife do crowd work.

Now, if you want to stand in the back at a comedy seller and smoke cigarettes and be a snob about it, I’ll hang out with you. I get it. I do it all the time. On this podcast, Rachel writes, when did he prepare his jokes for his previous stand up specials? They were sexist and not at all funny.

So what does it say about him as a comedian. He can talk to people, but ask him to write something and it’s going to be offensive and rude. Chance with So, if you want to spend your holidays with Matt Rife, I guess your Christmas wish came true. I don’t want to spend my holidays with Matt Rife. I mean, he’s welcome, come over.

I’ll hang out with him. But the specials out December seconds, which you know isn’t really the holidays, is it? Bret Goldstein, who has one of the best comedy specials of the year. He’s going to star as an accidental male escort in a new series for Amazon Prime. It’s called Escorted.

Bret Goldstein will play a divorced father in Manhattan who accidentally becomes a male escort in this romantic comedy about second chances, the mayhem of cope, parenting, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought copyrighting rule of three. You want more things to watch on TV? Okay, how about Mike Tyson’s Return of the Mike Tour. Mike is going to film a comedy special December fourteenth at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood. Mike, who did not appear at the Riod Comedy Festival, has done some worse things in his life.

You could look up his resume, but I guess we’re all cool. Sure comedy special Why Not? Hard Rock and Netflix announced that Mike Tyson’s highly anticipated live show Return of the Mike will be filmed for an upcoming global Netflix special, giving fans worldwide the chance to experience the boxing icon’s most honest and hilarious performance yet. Mary Beth Baron. She’s getting a Netflix special that’s right known on the stand up side for her self aware, darkly postmodern material.

Mary Beth Baron is also a writer and actor. No date yet on that special. Dany Kaaling is working on a new comedy called Not Suitable for Work that’ll be on Hulu. So you’re gonna have to decide do you support fascism in the ABC Disney Company? Where do you walk all the way upstairs and get the scrubs DVDs like those of us who are four freedom are doing up to you whatever you want.

I like this bit. Not Suitable for Work has added twelve new cast members. That’s a lot, mindy twelve. This does not include the one, two, three, four, five already announced leads. There’s twelve additional people.

What are we doing? Victor Garber will play West Dryden, the host of a prestigious investigative journalism ship. Greg German is David Teitelbaum, Josh’s father and the powerful chairman of a major media conglomerate. Judy Gold will play paula longtime producer at the West Dryden show. Eggelnwotam will play Kate Woodson, the assistant head of School, an exclusive all girls private school in Manhattan.

This sounds horrible. Harry Richardson has been cast as movie star internet boyfriend Austin Blanchette. Constance Wu has been cast as Vanessa Sue, an intense and demanding celebrity stylist. Laura Bell Bundy has been cast as AJ’s mom. Amy Stella Everett will play Vivian, who’s Josh’s girlfriend who takes pride in her work as a social worker.

May Hang plays Jocelyn, an associate at the New York Investment Bank Fisher Stassin. What are we doing? Bavesh Patel has been cast as Deleep, a VP at the New York Investment Bank Fisher Stassin. Oh, there’s more, and I’m not going to stop. This is what Mindy Kayling wants you to watch.

Amelia Suarez has been cast as Elena, a smart and capable intern at the West Dryden Show. Michael Benjamin Washington has been cast as a landlord and aspiring dancer Antuan. There’s no premier date yet for Not Suitable for Work. It’ll be on Hulu again. If you want to support fascism, you can get Hulu and remember we as we’ve learned this week.

Hilarious is where your career starts to go on the downside. Hi, mindy, how you doing? You want more TV? I have more TV. Rory scovel has been tapp is the co lead opposite Rachel Bloom in an ABC half hour pilot Do You Want Kids?

Now? ABC? At Disney. Those are those guys that kick Jimmy Kimmel off the air. So you got to decide do you like Rory scapable or is more fascism?

You gotta pick? Here? Did I watch them Monday Night Football this week? I didn’t. I have you two TV where there is no Disney, There’s no conflict there, and I still won the football pool Scott Beckett.

I don’t need to watch the games, not just pick. I even told Scott Beckett what the system is. I’ll tell all of you. If the spreads more than three and a half, take the points, that’s it. That’s the entire system.

Anyway. On the fascist show Do You Want Kids, Rory plays Alex, Rachel Bloom plays Rosie, and the show delves into how their lives are dramatically altered in a sliding doors style exploration of one universe where they have a child and another where they don’t. That is way too complicated for an ABC sitcom. Even in the time of freedom. ABC viewers can’t handle that, guys.

Vanity Fair asked David Kross about all those people that were going to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected. Cross said, back then, I thought it was a little hysterical and hyperbolic and dramatic, and I certainly didn’t engage in that. But the difference is all the things we’ve discussed Ice as a bunch of proud boys, people enjoy beating people up and enjoying the kind of power and are now being given badges and guns and told go get them boys. And if that person points their camera at you and they’re filming, you can go and curb stomp them.

That’s fine. And that old sixty five year old priest is trying to say, please, don’t shove them in the street. They don’t care about anybody but white nationalists. That’s who’s in the streets now. So that’s different.

You know, there’s no law anymore, so yeah, things are a bit different. Cat Williams has defeated a lawsuit over a midtown brawl. This news out of Atlanta. Cat had been accused of assaulting four women outside Inn Atlanta club in twenty sixteen. The reports say, with a legal technicality, Cat Williams says dodged the lawsuit.

The case was thrown out last week by a federal judge who said the women missed their deadline to serve Williams with their complaint despite receiving authority to use the US Marshal Service. That’s all I know about it. I would like to tell you more, but that’s all I half. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, gossip corn, probably about Pete. Gossip con Aware are the rumors meeting with Johnny Mac.

It’s always a tree. We are on gossip corner and it is about Pete from the Sun, which is not only the star at the center of the solar system in which you live, which gives you light and heat. It’s also a UK tabloid and they say Pete Davidson and Colin, Joe Staten Island Ferry Retavoc. I’ve made myself laugh at my dumb jokes. Sorry, Retavoc on the New York City Marathon and caused major delays for runners.

Now, I, as you know, am a two time New York City Marathon finisher. So I am on team Marathon here. What did these horrible faery people do? The faery guys they got some money from Nike. The faerry was painted red with Nike branding and the text NYC won’t carry you, it pushes you run.

The ferry was tugged into the waters near the Verizontal Bridge. A source tells the son again the newspaper not these are at the center of the solar system. Beaton Collins ferry caused a delay for runners taking the ferry to Staaten Island for the start of the marathon. Some people thought it was a joke, but it wasn’t. You see, the runners ferries were leaving about twenty minutes later than they should have, and they were told there were issues with Staten Island helping the guys with the ferry was causing him back up on the river.

Everybody was already anxious, so it was a bit frustrating. Now I can see that being stressful. As you know, I’m a two time year City Marathon finisher and I when I do the race, I take the ferry there because it’s nice. You know, you get to like chill out on the boat a little bit and look out and you see the Statue of Liberty and you get good views of the New York Harbor. But then you have to get on a shuttle boss and then you have to get to the village, and you want to time that because if it’s a little cold, and it was a little cold this year, you don’t want to get to the village too early because then you’re just standing around freezing, And then you have to decide, am I going to run in the sweatshirt that’s keeping me warm?

Or do you throw it away? I did it one year the first The second time I did it was warm. I just ran in what I brought. The first year, they had a system where a lot of people just throw their running gear away and just I don’t know. I’m a bartender son, I just don’t think that way.

So you could pay to have your extra sweatshirt shipped back to you, which is what I did on my first marathon twelve years ago. I digress, So anyway, I could see how that would be stressful if you’re like, hey, I just want to get to Staten Island. Why is Pete Davidson’s ferry in my way from cron dot com. John Mulaney spotted at a museum. Yeah, he was at the Manial Collection in Montrose.

The museum posted John Mulaney dropped by the Manial Collection this morning, following his tour stop in Houston this over the weekend. Thank you for visiting out today. On the eight hundred pound Gorilla, Angela Johnson races, say I won’t the Spanish dubbed release. That’s interesting. The near Ak Comedy Festival continues with almost no buzz.

Told you it’s a big city. The lineup is just not there this year. Love the people, but they’ve had bigger in the past.

All right, let’s check out the schedule.

Oh look, they listened to me. They added a new button. We can start with the date you actually want to look at. Wow, imagine that. Okay, I’m not reading you everything.

I’m just going to tell you if I see any big names. No, no, Morgan Jay at seven. Let’s say no Morgan Jay show at seven listed for a second time. I’ve told you this is not the best website. Let’s say no, no, no, no, no.

Oh boy, they are extra sloppy today. Connor Wood presents Fibbs and Friends listed twice. He’s at the Gramercy Theater at seven o’clock twice. No, No, the ever so serious Harry Condobolo. Yeah, he’s at Union Hall at seven thirty.

Good comedian there, serious man, but very good comedian Anthony DeVito and friends. Is Anthony DeVito? A name? Eight o’clock at grow thirty four. Emil jakem Is he a name?

I guess he was on SNL eight o’clock at the Artlow Williamsburg. Boy, his show’s listed twice too. Come on, New York Comedy Festival, get this together? What are you doing? Natalie Cuomo?

Is Natalie Cuomo a name? At the Bell House at ten o’clock and uh like five more nos. That’s the New York Comedy Festival. Tonight the Flyover Comedy Festival kicks off in Saint Louis. Their headliners in clue as he’sin.

Sorry, he’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. So his tours included Saint Louis and Kyle Kanine, who’s a Greek comic who was not at the real comedy festival. Patti Harrison and Dulce Sloan to receive their website’s any good we should all right, I’m clicking on schedule here. All I want to know is who’s playing? Oh they have grid technology.

Wait, maybe it’s time for me to just end the podcast. I may have completed my life’s mission to have a comedy festival put out a schedule that is actually usable. Good job, flyover comedy festival. See here. It’s really easy for me to tell you Kyle Canad at eight o’clock.

We would absolutely go see Kyle if we were there. This is great. Bookmark this one for tomorrow. Tracy Morgan spoke to CBS about his time on Saturday Night Live. He said, when I first got there, I felt socially pushed away because it is like the whitest show in the world, and I don’t want no one to portray me in a way that wasn’t true.

It was like I had the whole black community on my back. Lauren, let me know, Tracy, we didn’t hire you because you’re black. We hired you because you’re funny. That changed at all. That’s where I let go and I let god.

Jim Brewer was on the cast at that same time, and he was friends with Tracy. Jim, what were your SNL days like Jim said, overall, I have great memories. Had come from a very blue collar family. We never went on vacations. We lived near JFK Airport.

My dad worked in sanitation, sometimes with Barten during the week after work. My mom worked too, for Pan American Airlines. So being this kid from Long Island, I couldn’t believe I was getting to meet all these bands stars came on the show. I really enjoyed that part, but it was really extremely competitive and there were a lot of egos and some backstabbing. That was tough.

I also wrestled with some things I witnessed or learned about certain celebrities. My eyes opened. I couldn’t believe how they could get away with particular things. The mature me today could handle that. However, back then I really struggled emotionally with some of what I saw.

All Right, Jim, did you have a favorite memory from SNL? Jim says, one has to be meeting Joe Peshey. I did in imitation of him, and he went out of his way to do a sketch with me. To sit and have a conversation with him was just incredible. I also enjoyed meeting Jack Nicholson.

At the time, those guys were my idols, but my all time favorite memory he’s making Lorne Michael’s man. I have seen everything and everyone lose himself After the first time I imitated Joe Peshi and did goat Boy to watch him not be able to control his laughter. That’s a moment I will never ever forget and that issue comedy needs for today. I’ll catch you tomorrow.

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Featured: Eddie Murphy, Sebastian Maniscalco, Nikki Glaser, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, Sabrina Carpenter, Miles Teller

What’s in This Episode

• Eddie Murphy Netflix documentary and funeral preferences
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s controversial Hilarious trailer
• Nikki Glaser SNL hosting appearance and cast reception
• Eddie Murphy paying for funerals of Redd Foxx and Rick James
• SNL cast body language analysis during Good Nights segment

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. This is one of those days where I couldn’t wait to get the mic. I’m telling you, I taped this right after I recorded a Tuesday show because I couldn’t wait. So, if you’re like Johnny Mac, Dave Chappelle and Jerry Seinfeld had a street brawl, how can we not talking about it? If that happened, I’ll do it as a bonus episode.

The Sebastian Manuscaco thing has me out of my mind. But there’s even one more thing before that that I want to go first. And I say, Hi, Hi, I’m Johnny mcdaily Comedy News. You figured all that outl ready. Let’s do this a little cornack Red Fox, Rick James and Buckwheat, Red Fox, Rick James and Buckwheat.

You see, there’s this new Eddie Murphy documentary that I don’t even think I mentioned. Yesterday was so packed. That’s out on Netflix. We’re gonna have a ton of Eddie Murphy press this week. He’ll be out making the rounds and I’m sure I’ll do a lot of Eddie stories this the week goes on.

But this headline was too good. Red Fox, Rick James and Buckwheat. Eddie Murphy told USA Today, I paid for a lot of funerals, but I don’t go to funerals Eddie, who’s sixty four now, which is just terrifying because he used to be nineteen back when I was fourteen thirteen. Eddie revealed that he has paid for the funerals of Red Fox Rick James, purchased tombstones for William Buckwheat, Thomas Junior, who you may know from The Little Rascal Slash Our Gang Slash Eddie playing a version of that character on SNL, and Tim Moore, who played Kingfish on Amos and Andy. Eddie shared he’d only attended two funerals in his life.

The first was for his biological father, Charles Edward Murphy, and for his stepfather Vernon Lynch. Eddie said they shouldn’t even have funerals. I’m like, this funeral is morbid. The whole people in attendant sing your loved one out there emotionally. The whole ritual is too much.

So no JUDGMENTI I’m just observing that implies. Eddie did not attend the funeral of his brother, Charlie Murphy. Eddie said he plans to be cremated when his time comes. I’m on that same boat, Eddie says. When I kick out, I’m not having no funeral and being laying up there and people coming and look at me, luring me on the ground, and there’s no funeral and there’s no memorial, none of that stuff.

Just keep it rolling, none of that trauma. It’s way too much a funeral. I agree. Eddie doesn’t care what happens with his ashes. He says, I don’t give an f what they do with them.

Just as long as you don’t have people standing around in my ashes and not trying to be in the urn while everybody’s crying. I don’t want to have that moment, Okay. Sebastian Maniscalco’s trailer Johnny Mac, you’ve been screaming about it for two days. How bad could it be? Well, I’m going to play it for you, but I need you to understand.

Why don’t you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group where I posted this trailer, Because what you’re not going to see here on this audio podcast is just the stupid faces Sebastian is making to sell these jokes. I mean, like hacks are like, oh my God, are you a hack? This is just unbelievable. Now, I’ll play you the material. The material is not great, but when you add on the stupid faces, this is just atrocious.

So this has me wondering. Is hilarious where comedy acts go to? Like Bill Burr went on hilarious and handing in his worst special, Gaffigan Special was not his best? Is hilarious not the place for good comedy. It’s hilarious where you go when you’re on your way down?

Is that what hilarious is? I’m out of my mind at this trailer, So I’ve made a couple of its here because there’s a lot of music and you don’t need to hear the music. I’ll leave the comedy parts alone, but please understand you’re not seeing the horrific faces. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News. Did I say YouTube earlier?

It’s a Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group on Facebook. Daily Comedy News Podcast Group on Facebook. I have posted this trailer. You have to see how bad it is. But let’s listen.

I have a mild case of sleep app ding. This is where I’m at. I’m gonna take 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. It took out can 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 pay me.

No you ever look at Jeff Bezos thirty years ago. I was a complete nerd. You take a look at Bezos now ripped the shreds on his super yacht in the Medidaranian and the. Boxes keeping coming. What’s the doctor comes in.

She’s like, we’re gonna need some urine. Gotta tell you people something. My sample for you. I wouldn’t mind next to a guys that look like Scotch. I’m not handing in root beer as a sample.

I mean, she Louise Sebastian, what is going on with that? Not good? Not good?

All right, let’s stop off on gossip corner.

One of the Facebook group members sent me this one on the side. This was on Instagram. Somebody on Instagram goes by the handle McCoy jen Fan. Now, I don’t know if this is true or not, but this is according to McCoy jen Fans, so this may not be true at all. This is not news.

This is gossip Corner. McCoy Jenfans said of Nicky Glazer’s controversial SNL appearance. And I assume this is during Good Nights. I’ll have to go look at this. The musical guest standing next to her, but she had to turn around and approach and impose herself on the cast.

I saw Chloe Feinneman roll her eyes to another cast, remember when she looked at Nicky’s direction. Historically, if the SNL cast ostracizes the host after the episode, that means it bombed and they didn’t like them. Nicky proved history right. All right, now, I have this on the DVR. I’m going to pause my recording and look at this myself.

Be right back well to you. I’ll be back in half a second. Okay, it is a half second later. I have here on my phone the Utube TV app where we don’t get the Disney channels, No ABC, we don’t support fascism on the YouTube app. I’m gonna hit play here, so you’ll kind of here.

It should sound like a guy playing Saturday Night Live on his phone. That is what it should sound to you. This is not the usual audio rips I do. And I’ll do a little play by play here. Let’s see.

Okay, I have it paused. There’s a still card of Nikki Glaser. I’m one hour, thirty two minutes and fifty four seconds into a file that is one thirty five oh five. I’m gonna hit play here. Let’s see what happens.

All right, there’s Nicky in the middle. Michael, this amazing cast, and this was one of the best weeks of my entire life. Thank you so much for all right, and we’re zooming out, and no one is approaching Nicki. All right, she hugged Uh she hugged Somber, I guess and uh yeah, No one wants to talk to Nicky Glazer at all. Oh wow, this is awkward.

Wow. All right, you got to actually see this for yourself, if you’ve a way to see it. No one approaching her at all, and that’s it. Wow. Yeah, wow.

Okay, Now I’m going to go to the previous week and see what happened. Be back in half a second. Okay, I’m back. I tried to look at the Miles Teller episode, which is also one thirty five oh five, but it seems to get cut off before the good night. So here I have queued up here Sabrina Carpenter’s episode from three weeks ago, and we are one thirty two twenty into a file that’s one thirty three forty six.

As a hit play here, she’s center stage with the cast standing in a very similar formation to the Nikky episode. The Sabrina was her own musical guest, so there’s not a musical guest with her, and let me hit play here. Let’s see what happens. I’m sure. Thank you everybody.

Thank you so much to Lauren, Thank you to the amazing past and crew. This has been one of my biggest dreams and I’m so so grateful. Thank you guys for having me, thank you for laughing, and thank you create such an amazing audience. And he very nice. Okay, no one approaching her yet.

Let’s see, she’s just in the middle. She’s walking back now she is being hugged by cast members and it got cut off for an NBA promo. So I’m not sure I have enough evidence there, but the nicky Glazer does seem a little awkward. The San Francisco Gate went with this headline, fired SNL comic jokes about the Warriors and Nancy Pelosi at San Francisco set. You know who the fired SNL comic is?

Shane Gillis? Is that what his resume is? Just forever? Just that he was invited to the cast, disinvited, and he’s now been on the show twice, so it seems like we’re all over it. And it’s not like he played the Riodd Comedy Festival.

We’re really just gonna call Shane Gillis fired SNL comic forever. I guess we are. The SF Gate right says tens of thousands descended on the Chase Center, blowing vape smoke and chugging last minute bud lights. It’s easy to forget what an odd route headliner Shane Gillis is taken to the top of the comedy industry. They are minus.

In twenty nineteen, Gillis was hired and probably fired by SNL. If you listen to me every day, you’re probably familiar with that. I will skip ahead. Early into his hour long set, Shane Gillis said this will all end soon, The Gate tells us. Gillis referenced his friendship with Joe Rogan and made jokes about pedophilia, Black Lives Matter, and people with Down syndrome, but no one at the Chase Center walked out, We’re so much as booed their displeasure.

Gillis apparently was approving of the crowd’s stomach for his more controversial material and said, Okay, you guys can f around a little. The Gates says, for what it’s worth, the only I’ve heard at a Bay Area comedy show where when Dave Chappelle brought out Elon Musk, Gillis told a joke about going to a Pride parade. It did not go over, and he said that one might have been more transphobic than funny, which is a great way to recover. We’re told Gillis was a welcome relief after his two openers, James McCann and Tommy Pope, slogged their way through tire jokes about the WNBA in San Francisco’s gay population. They add, it’s hard to get an exact read on Gillis’s politics.

He freely admits he looks like the kind of person who’d resegregate schools, but he’s taken as many shots at the right as he does the left. Jim Gaffigan got a major watch job by Variety while Johnny Mac was on a plane the other day. By the way, I forgot to mention yesterday show, if you are traveling, be ready, Just be ready. My flight home took off at two twenty am. That was not the plan.

It’s a mess out there. When we landed at Newark, I counted there were two runways. I counted on the closer runway twenty five planes waiting to take off. The other runway had more than twenty five. I would guess forty or so just waiting.

Because you know, you leave your gate, so your flight is technically on time. The departures on time. The arrival that’s the arrival airports problem. But we took off from gate B seventy three. We’re good here.

What a mess, stay home. Watch job for Jim Gaffigan from Variety. They write, if Tom Hanks is known as the ever man of movies, you know the ordinary guy so approachable and unpretentious that just about anybody can relate to him in one way or another. Then Jim Gaffigan is the every man of comedy. Are they saying that Tom Hanks wouldn’t call you back if you helped him early in his career?

Is that what they’re saying about Tom Hanks? That’s not cool, Tom Hanks. If somebody had you on the radio show when you weren’t that well known, and you would come up, and then suddenly you were too good to come up, people would say you were a jerk Tom Hanks. I hope that’s not true. That would be awful if that were true of Tom Hanks.

I can’t believe Tom Hanks would behave that way. Pauseka’s hostess making himself laugh. Jim Gaffigan focuses his humor on everyday observations about universal experiences. Jim said of the current climate, not the actual climate, the political climate. Jim said, I think this will go down in history, and it may be ending as we speak, but this is the best time that stand up comedy has ever had.

When I started Versus, even in the time of Lenny Bruce or George Cartland, comedy was a much more middle class, lower middle class occupation, meaning there wasn’t an expectation of upper middle class existence. Now, if you’re a functional comedian, you can make a great living. So from a monetary standpoint, like having a kind of financial security, it would never exist, but it exists now. Jim talked about not putting politics in the act, but used the pandemic as an example, and he said, there were expectations that you can address it. But people, we’ve gone through the pandemic, we don’t hear too much about it.

Meetians that will have very strong views. You know, I have a formula bringing up this hot button issue. Their audience will stay with them. They’ll have some brilliant insights surrounding it. But I’m kind of the opinion, you know, people they want to live in denial, but they also want to break from it.

I think that might be majorly informed by the one time Jim did get political on Twitter and got a lot of comments in his general direction. The article then gets a lot of run from Caroline Hirst, who seems to be pretty tight with the variety folks. Caroline’s getting a lot of press during this festival anyway, Jim Gaffigan wax job in Variety, and Bill Burr still getting a lot of work despite playing the reodd Comedy Festival doesn’t seem to have messed him up at all. He’s even nominated for a Grammy Award. Well.

Bill Burr is joining the cast of Bender, a coming of age comedy which is going to film in Ireland next spring. It’s described as super bad meets dairy Girls. Doesn’t that sound fantastic? Yeah? Bender is based on the late seventies punk Dublin coming of age experiences of Adrian Cunningham, who wrote the script.

The story unfolds around the frenzy surrounding the impending visit by the Pope. Bill Burr plays a gruff American record store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that they’re best and possibly only chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Is at a massive open air mass for visiting the Pope. Are you just imagine this? Hey?

You want to get laid, you gotta go see the Pope? Okay, like that is that what Bill Burr’s doing? Now? Okay, Johnny Mac, you are feisty today. I told you The Sebastian trailer really wound me up.

I had to record back to back all right. New York Comedy Festival continues. See if the website’s working today, Johnny said, you taped it back to back episodes. You know that the website’s working. You just used it ten minutes ago.

Look go with the bit, will you. I’m not reading fifty things like I did on yesterday’s podcast. Let’s look for big names. You don’t make this easy. No no no no no no no no no no.

That’s ten no no. Todd Glass, no no no, no, no no no. Alex Borstein at seventh thirty at the Bell House. Mike Kaplan at q ed Astoria at seventh thirty. I mean, Mike’s pretty solid and probably the best comic I’ve mentioned in a couple of days.

And he’s doing Queens and I’m from Queen’s. I’m allowed to insult Queen’s. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, boy, this is just it’s just off this year. Matty Smith at nine fifteen. No no no no no.

Chris Gethard at ten o’clock at UCB Comics to watch Unrepped at ten. Leonard Hoods at ten thirty. I mean, he’s really good, but nobody knows how it is and not your Wednesday at the New York Comedy Festival. Well let’s do this one because Wednesday is trivia night. Now, I know the trivia guys listen, and no, I haven’t been there, not that it really matters.

With the trivia guys, They’ve got this whole business going on. The place is so outed. We’re at the point of the Yogi bar line of nobody goes there. It’s two crowded. The trivia guys got it rocky.

I mean, I have to leave my house like an hour and a half before trivia to make sure I get my table in the corner. So trivia guys, I know you listen. I appreciate you listening. I feel bad I have to be there. It’s just been such a busy, crazy months.

My plan is to be there this evening. But I saw this story and I was thinking, maybe we should combine forces from La Magazine, Comedy Club, The Crow, and Santa Monica. I should have hit it when I was out there over the weekend. I had a very busy weekend. They have Trivial comedy, an intense, hilarious news show for stand up lovers, fun fact enthusiasts, and everyone in between.

Right, how does this work? Each show welcomes five comedians each do a ten minute set around a classic pub trivia category like or it’s an entertainment or sports. Between the comedian sets, the host asked the audience trivia questions. Trivia guys, we gotta combine. We’ll talk to other brewery folks, set up shop on a Saturday night.

There’s a thing here. First place wins fifty bucks. Best team name gets a free beer. I don’t know how we’ll decide who has the best team name, and it won’t be me, because I’m just gonna use the team name I use every week. Audience members can play in teams up to four one of the host set.

I’ve seen people who don’t know each other but join teams together just because they want maximum power. As a trivia expert who often finishes in tenth place, here’s what you gotta do. You can’t just have a bunch of guys in their late fifties early sixties. That doesn’t work. You gotta have one of the guys bring their twenty something year old daughter and then she gets like five extra points because the trivia guys they’ll ask what I call the Ariana Grande questions that we just don’t know.

But when daughter comes then you get those points. And those are the weeks that you do okay, and you get a T shirt or a hat. You’re a growler. And I’ll leave you with this. Comedian Catherine Ryan gotten in some trouble.

She was on the original UK version of Have I Got News for You, and she called Sir David Beckham the C word. Yeah, she was hosting the show. The conversation turned to Sir Beckham being knighted by King Charles. I’m sure you listen to the Palace Intrigue podcast that are right four and you know all about that story. If you don’t Palace Intrigue wherever you get your shows.

Apparently in the past, Sir Beckham was upset that he hadn’t been knighted and had called the Honors committee unappreciative sea words and said it was a disgrace they had been snubbed from the New Year’s Honors list. However, now that he’s a knight Comedian Mazie Adam was on the panel and said it would have been nice and maybe poetic if Charles had gotten his own back, nighting him and going a rise, You sea word. Katherin Ryan tagged with, I don’t know if we’re allowed to broadcast the sea word, but you did reference Victoria Beckham earlier, and we’ll allow that ouch. And that’s your comedy news for today by

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Pete Davidson, James Louiston Johnson, Sarah Sherman, Lorne Michaels, Bill Burr, Ali Wong, Nate Bargatze, Jamie Foxx

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser SNL hosting debut and monologue controversy
• SNL sketches featuring Nikki Glaser and Sarah Sherman
• Pete Davidson’s news segment with Trump cold open
• New York City mayoral election and voting results
• Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album 2025
• Sebastian Maniscalco trailer announcement

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 man. I went to LA for the weekend, and so much happened while I was away. I have so much today that I’m bouncing major stuff tomorrow. The Sebastian maniscatcoal trailer has me out of my mind. But that’s gonna be tomorrow’s leadoff story.

I’ll probably tape Tuesday and Wednesday back to back because I’m so fired up. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. But we got to talk about Nikki Glaser on Saturday Night Live. I don’t want to lead you with my opinion, so I’ll do a story or two and then i’ll tell you what I thought. But I headlined from USA today.

I believe this was comedian Nikki Glaser calls SNL debut a dream a mid monologue backlash. That’s right, there is monologue backlash. Nicki posted on social media posts to come when I fully wake up. But oh my god, I can’t believe how amazing this cast and crew was. As a fan of the show, I just have to tell all the other fans that everyone at SNL is just as talented, elite, cool and kind as you’d hope it’d be literally everyone.

It was a dream, all caps. I’ll never get over it. Now I’ll start to play my cards. I’ll flip one card. So I watched the monologue.

I didn’t have a problem with the monologue’s content. I had the problem with the monologue being by wrote. I was texting on the side with the host of the Letterman podcast, Mike Chisholm, and I said, it just felt like she was doing jokes like, for example, Mike, who you may remain? And I was Canadian. Mike went to the store.

He was so polite, take a beat because he’s Canadian, and it just felt like that type of joke where you tell a story and then you do the beat and then you do the headfake, and I felt like she was just doing that. Her sketches, I thought were fantastic. I’ll come back to that. But as part of this monologue controversy, as I started to read this USA Today article, they were saying the things the monologue was about, and I was like, oh, I don’t think I want to say that, because they’re the type of things that get flagged by content services. So maybe some do have a point here.

Nicki opened up and of course told much better by Nicki. She opened up by saying, here I am in New York City, Epstein’s original island. And I may have actually told that better, because when I watched it on the DVR after the four PM games on Sunday, I think she kind of swallowed the word Epstein, and I missed the joke. I had to go back. So later in the monologue she started talking about people being trafficked and the signs, quoting Nikki Glaser.

Here, they’re in every stall, They’re in every language. I mean, English is really tiny. It’s like you wish men’s restrooms don’t have these signs. I don’t know what signs you have. Do you have signs that are like want to sleeve?

She then did make a joke about violent assault on women that I don’t want to repeat, so you can factor that into your evaluation if you didn’t see it, that it’s a joke John’s not comfortable repeating. She then went on to joke about how she’s certain her boyfriend will murder me someday, and then did some material that was about showering with a younger person, which I probably shouldn’t get into here either. So again, there may be some validity to the controversy. But when I watched the show, I wasn’t like, oh, outratous. So my take, you know, whether or not there’s a controversy about the content.

I just didn’t think it was a monologue. I just didn’t find it funny. But she was great at the sketches. Yahoo recapped the entire episode for me, Thank you. The opener with President Trump in the Oval office as somebody passes out James Louston Johnson boy, I loved him when he first started doing Trump on SNL.

I’m now all the way to the point maybe Lorne Michaels needs to consider someone else doing Trump. I know what a major move that would be. But James’s Trump is just he didn’t have it this week. It’s it’s off Mark and I don’t know if they had a bad crowd or what, but the crowd seemed to be with me that that opening segment didn’t fly all right. Then the monologue already discussed a pre record with NICKI doing a commercial for a medication that makes you sick enough to credibly cancel your appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show.

NICKI was very good in that. Then a sketch about family karaoke, Sarah Sherman crushing as always, NICKI showing she’s got some acting chops in that one. Beauty and Mister Beast. I thought that was pretty funny. American Girl Doll XL was solid.

I’ll circle back to the News for reasons which will become clear in a minute.

And then on the News, Pete Davidson showed up.

Pete Davidson said, in case you’re wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia, we’re losing millions on this ferry. I assume that’s what the article says. I can’t spend five dollars on a pay wall when I got a kid on the way. I’m just excited to be a dad and to give it all the energy enthusiasm I never had for this show. Pete also got off a good line about Lorne Michaels, saying, if Louren Michaels has taught us anything, it’s that you never ever give up, even if everyone says the time has come and Tina Fey is ready to take over.

Pete talked about the new mayor of New York City. If you’re not from the New York City area. You might want to get yourself familiar with this. Mom, Donnie Fellow, I think he’s going to be a national figure for a few months here. Pete said, I have a message for everyone who did not vote for our new mayor, Hey statn Islanders, which is an on point joke.

If you look at the mayoral electoral if you look at the voting results, let me pull it up for you. As you may know, New York City has five boroughs. Manhattan is what most to outsiders would think New York City is in Manhattan zoorun Mum. Donnie got fifty two point seven percent of the vote. Queen’s where I’m from, but I did not vote because I’m now a New Jersey resident.

He got forty seven point three, the Bronx fifty one and a half, Brooklyn fifty six point eight, Staten Island twenty two point seven, losing to Andrew Combo, who ran as an independent and got fifty five point four. So hence Pete Davison’s joke. Pete said, did you promise to move out of New York if Ma’m Donnie one? But if too many warrants in New Jersey and not enough guns for Florida, Welcome to New Staten Island, and showed a picture of the ferry. We can’t call it the Titanic anymore since the people on this ship will actually love running into ice.

Good material there, I don’t think he delivered it that well. I think the writing was better than Pete’s performance. Pete told people I had a great time hosting last time, and anytime you get that call, it’s an honor and a privilege to return to SNL. It’s always relevant, it’s a hot show. People look forward to it, and the cast is great.

He said of Lorne Michaels. I owe that guy in my life. He jump started everything. So I do anything for Lorn and he knows that. So I went to Los Angeles for five minutes.

They decided to announce the Grammy nominees Best Comedy Album Quick Time out Here. If you are a longtime listener, you’ve heard this before. If you are relatively new, you may not have. Johnny Mac gets annoyed that things that Johnny Mac considers to be quote unquote Netflix specials get nominated for Grammys. I personally feel that a comedy album should be, you know, an album, Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA.

That’s an album, It’s not a Netflix special. Some of these things, I’m not sure they’re albums, But the Academy clearly disagrees with me. These nominations are horrible. This is just really bad. Okay.

The nominees for Best Comedy Album, Bill Burr for his worst special drop Dead Years, and you could see that going to re odd really affected Bill Burr’s career. Ali Wong’s single Lady not her best special. Nate Bergetzi’s Your Friend, Nate Berghetzi not his best special. But okay, my former coworker Jamie Fox, what had happened was I felt like Jamie just doing a performance. And I understand that all of these are a performance, but I really felt like Jamie was pulling out his Academy Award winning chops to pull your emotional strings.

It just didn’t feel like a genuine performance to me. I felt like he was acting it out to get the crowd going. So no doubt out of these five to me, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, which I think i’ve pretty high up on my list. Yeah, I right now have Sarah at seven my list. Really quickly, if you want to count it a stand up or not.

The Conan O’Brien, Mark Twain ward. It is far and away the best thing of the year, if you want to throw that out. Mark Marin’s special now that should have been nominated for a Grammy. It’s Mark’s best special. He’s at peak Marin.

I don’t know how that’s not nominated. Going down my list from there, Jim Jeffrey’s, Justin Willman, Dusty Slay Krasier, Brett Goldstein’s HBO special from April is really underrated, Michelle Wolf, Sarah Silverman, matte Ola, and Tim Dillon. I don’t get a vote, but I would vote for Sarah Silverman over It’s a no brainer. While I left down for five minutes, Variety and the New York Comedy Festival announced that Jim Gaffigan will receive Variety’s inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award that was going to be presented on Sunday night. I’ve not seen any post mortem on Jim winning the award.

There is leading into that, a big shiny fluff piece wax job in Variety, but too busy today to get to that. Maybe tomorrow. The inaugural Vanguard Award recognizes Jim Gaffigan’s trailblazing contributions to comedy and his remarkable career milestones. Time out, trailblazing? Is Jim Gaffigan one of the top comedians?

Absolutely? Is he funny more often than not? Trailblazing? Why? Based on what what has Jim done that nobody has done before?

Anyway, The award recognizes Jim Gaffigan’s trailblazing contributions to comedy and his remarkable career milestones. Caroline Hirsch said, Jim Gaffigan has been making us laugh since the very beginning of his career, and I’ve had the pleasure of watching him grow into one of the most expected and beloved voices and comedy today. His originality, consistency, and sheer brilliance on stage make him the perfect recipient of this inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award. You know that John Stewart is at your event, Caroline right, No one is more deserving, and Jim truly represents the spirit of innovation and excellence that this honor celebrates. There was a mystery with Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Show did not air Thursday. Well, a rerun air, but there was supposed to be a new episode. It was unexpectedly pulled just hours before airing, reportedly over quotes a personal matter, So I don’t want to make light of it. I don’t know what the personal matter is. I hope everything’s okay in the Kimmel household and friends and family and all that’s good, But of course a Jimmy Kimmel episode not airing is going to be major news.

These scheduled guests included David Ducovney, Joe Keery from Stranger Things, and singer Madison Beer. It was Madison Beer who broke the news on social media at six thirty three pm Eastern Time on Thursday, as Johnny Mac was on a plane. Madison Beer tweeted, due to unforeseen circumstances, Jimmy Kimmel Alive needed to reschedule my performance that was originally scheduled to air tonight to a later date. There’s also a story going around that Jimmy Kimmel’s wife, Molly, admitted she fired off many emails to Trump supporting family members begging them not to vote for Trump in last year’s election, and has since cut ties with her right wing relatives. This is not hearsay.

She said this on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast. Molly said, I’ve spent many emails to my family, like right before the election, saying I’m begging you, here’s the ten reasons not to vote for this guy, Please don’t and either got ignored by ninety percent of them or got truly insane responses from a few. It hurts me so much because of the personal relationships I now have where my husband is out there fighting this man and me. Them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family, and I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people and my family because of it. Molly said she was angry all the time at certain aunt’s, uncles and cousins for helpings to elect Trump, yet says she feels sympathy for them, calling them deliberately misinformed.

On a related note, Oscar Isaac, you may know him from Star Wars movies. He did an interview with g Q. Would he return to Star Wars because you know, Star Wars is owned by ABC and Disney and the you know, the support is a fascism. You know those guys well, Oscar Isaac said, I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not open to working with Disney, but if they can kind of figure it out, you know, not to succumb to fascism, that would be great. If that happens, then yeah, I’d be open having a conversation about a galaxy far away or any number of other things.

You see. Oscar Isaac is not one of those guys who’d be like, you know, this chair is really comfortable. I’ve got a Roku in my hand. All I have to do is push the Hulu button and I can watch Scrubs. No, Oscar Isaac is not one of those people.

He goes upstairs to the main level and then one more level to the DVD closet, and he pulls out the Scrubs DVDs, walks all the way back downstairs, fires up the PlayStation five, puts in a disc, and then hits play. He doesn’t just watch Hulu. No, he’s not one of those people. Now, Johnny Mac, I have YouTube TV right now. Now we don’t even get Disney channels.

So even if I wanted to support fascism, I can’t watch you their products, nor can I support you my camble By watching, and that’s a whole other thing. We don’t get ESPN, we don’t get ABC. But I’ll tell you one thing, and listener Scott Beckett knows this. I don’t need to watch Monday Night football. You know why my picks were so good this week.

I wrapped up the whole week before Monday night football. Oh.

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Speaking of football, the Carolina Panthers they still are not sure about a p…

Yeah, Keag and Michael Key was at a Panthers team meeting on Saturday to give the final determination on whether or not the questionable touchdown celebration should have resulted in a penalty. The Panthers head coach said, let’s get an expert. Can we get Keag and Michael Key to explain this to us? Via video? Keegan Michael Key appeared.

He said, I just want to say that I’m very honored that you would choose a key and Peel sketch for your celebrations. That’s the whole thing here. The reason I’m here is I wanted to share with you guys, jecially with you, Rico, is that I’ve done my recent research and apparently I guess the rules that are made up in a comedy sketch do not necessarily reflect the rules of the NFL. Daddell’s agent said they would appeal the fine, and ESPN reports to find his fourteen four hundred and ninety one dollars. Keag and Michael Key did some math regarding the fine and said, fourteen thousand dollars for two pumps.

That’s seven grand a pump. That means if you do zero pumps then it would cost you zero thousand dollars and a fine. Keek and Michael Key originally responded to the penalty. Last Monday. He had posted a video saying, Rico, you got robbed.

You only did two pumps. I’m sorry, man, I’m gonna have to write a new sketch. We are long today and I didn’t even rant about Sebastian Maniscalco’s new trailer. That’s tomorrow New York Comedy Festival. Have they fixed the website?

Let’s find out. Well, it’s scrolling well today. I mean, I wish I could just click on Tuesday and not have to scroll through shows that are in the past. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that information, but okay, I’ll scroll. Still haven’t seen any like massive headliners.

Later in the week is skang Fest in New Orleans. I’ll talk about that on Friday. Wait, do you see the lineup for skang Fest and you’ll see what I’m talking about. How New York, despite Jim Gaffigan winning the Vanguard Award, doesn’t have the star power this year. Tell you what today, I’m gonna read you everything.

I won’t get into spesticifity, but you’ll see what I’m talking about here right Seven o’clock Kennon Fodder seven o’clock Hilarious, Habibi’s seven o’clock Longtime, No See Comedy, seven o’clock Hour Findings, seven o’clock, Todd Glass Again seven o’clock, Pete Lee seven o’clock The Woke Woke West seven o’clock Donnell Rawlings. So so far, that’s the biggest name today. Vanessa Gonzales at seven, The Infinite Wrench hits the main stage at seven, Tamua headlining at seven, Gag and Squirt seven thirty, Pretty Major, seven thirty Teacher Reverse Teacher with Sam Salem and Aaron Monte at seven thirty. Good Show Visit seven thirty, Hersterical seven thirty, Morgan Jay at eight Is Morgan Jay the biggest name today? Or Donnell see what I’m saying?

Celebrity drop in at eight. Mama’s Boy Comedy at eight, No Not Like Other Girls at eight, Stamptown at eight, Stata Cat Comedy at eight, Cheek As You Should Know at eight, Bianca Cristavo at eight thirty, Wildcard Comedy at eight thirty. M A. Willman at nine. Love in the Time of Fifth Grade at nine, kel Crepe Does Stand Up nine to fifteen, No Ceilings Comedy nine thirty, Science Tonight nine thirty, E TEENA Frimmel nine thirty, Baby at nine thirty, The Yard Sale Girls at nine thirty, Sauna Comedy nine thirty, We Fix You nine thirty, Jackie Fabulous nine forty five.

Live from the Algorithm with Julie Dissisi at ten o’clock, Stata Cat Comedy, ten o’clock Comics to Watch ten o’clock, Shane Smith at ten thirty. So I just trit to, I mean critical mass absolutely, but understand this is New York City. So even though you do forty shows, they can be quite under visible. I’ll call it right. The New York Comedy Festival presents Comics to watch the annual live stand up showcase featuring the very best new comedians from around the country.

One day you’ll say you saw them here. First REP Showcases November eleventh and fourteenth. I’m not familiar with these names, but they are Gray West, Nate Meeker, Tachiana Frank Thash Mose, Rachel Williams, Ellen, Harold Matt Ross, Turner Sparks, David Drake, Jamal Russell, Leah Samson, Josh Ocean Thomas. Good luck to the comics to watch REPPT And let’s get out there, because I’m gonna hit save and immediately record Wednesday’s show because I got to get the Sebastian Man of Scheco thing out of my system here. And how long do you want the show to be?

I mean it’s long. You got a nice, healthy show today. Don’t write me a letter. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, David Remnick, Joe Rogan, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser SNL hosting appearance and Late Night interview
• John Mulaney’s travel tips for Los Angeles and New York City
• John Mulaney’s non-alcoholic beer partnership
• John Stewart on Joe Rogan Experience at New Yorker Conference
• Stephen Colbert’s Late Show cancellation and series finale plans
• Adam Sandler’s dramatic role in Uncut Gems

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. Nikki Glaser was your SNL host. I’ll do a recap of that tomorrow. Prior to her appearance, she went on Late Night with Seth Myers.

I guess she figured passing out flyers that the car wash would reach just about as many people. But you know you might get wet, so you might as well go on Seth Meyers show. She told Seth and the sixteen people that watch that show for the monologue, it’s like rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, running around town at different clubs. That’s the one I can have control over, Seth Meyers said. And they’re so happy that you’re coming and you have your own monologue.

It’s the hardest thing to write for a host. So when you have somebody who’s like, I know my voice and I’m really good at it, and here I am, I’m gonna crush, they’re thrilled. Glazier’s Jad told her, don’t read the cue cards. Nicki said, he doesn’t understand. You kind of have to.

John Mulaney tell Travel in Leisure. I’ve always admired that Chicago’s happiest at five on a Friday. It’s like we did enough days that we can build up to this moment to do it again. He was kind of half out promoting years his partnership with the non alcoholic beer. Mulaney says, it feels like what you have at a cooler in Michigan in July that isn’t fancy, but he’s a great pilsner.

I’m so happy there’s something in the non alcoholic world that you can drink a bunch of crumble up and throw all right, I get it. I play trivia on Wednesday nights at the brewery, and I honestly there are times that like I’m just drinking socially that I wish they had another option. If they sold me a non alcoholic beer, they could actually sell me water with food coloring in it, and I would order it and pay the seven bucks. I just want to hang and sometimes I don’t want to come home and feel like U. I remember, Johnny Mac does tell you two beers, not eight, But Johnny Mac also tells you two beers plus a cheese steak and some fries.

That’s when you come home feeling like ugh. John m’laney’s advice to first time visitors of Los Angeles don’t give up. It can’t possibly make sense at first. I would get a map of Los Angeles, not to get lost, but just to have a sense of it, or else you will be constantly wondering if you’re leaving LA. When you’re not.

He explains, LA is left landmarks and more neighborhoods. There’s never going to be a Times Square or Washington Square Park. Just drive around listening to the Chinatown soundtrack. There’s a reason it’s a quintessential LA movie. It really sinks up.

As for New York City, John says I can’t imagine visiting New York and not liking it. His tip is to take the subway. He says, I’m not saying it’s nice, but you don’t want to sit in Manhattan traffic. That is true, He explained. New York is like spending a week with a great, fascinating, exciting person and then he moved in with that person and they punch you in the stomach right away.

Suddenly the steps that you jumped up so effortlessly or higher, and it feels unfriendlier, but then it clicks. Landey says, I did all of New York, from the grimiest to the Ritzias, Like I went to a black tie party in the Rainbow Room for the SNL fortieth, and I bought drugs on the worst riverside spots in Williamsburg, up and down. It’s great for all of it. At the New Yorker Conference, David Remnick asked John Stewart about being on Joe Rogan. You did Joe Rogan a couple of times.

John said, yes, Well, what do you think of that experience? John Stewart Duett said, I enjoyed being on Rogan. I think he’s an interesting interviewer. You know, there are right wing weaponized commentators who’s sole purposes to pnipulate things to the benefit of the Steve Bannon project or Project twenty twenty five. Rogan’s not that guy.

Rogan is a curious comic who fell in this thing that got enormous. His opinions all over the political spectrum, but his tendencies that for the people on the left do not fit the esthetic. Stewart said, go on the show like it’s not acceptable. Just say well I don’t like what he does, then do it better. Beat them at their own game.

We have to be relentless, tenacious. It’s not enough to complain to the guy as a platform and say, don’t platform that guy. There’s no one in the world right now that isn’t platformed. Stephen Colbert talked about his old Colbert Rapport character and said, we like the idea that the character didn’t know he was on a comedy channel because he took himself very seriously and he really was changing the course of human history with the tractor beam of his own justice. As for the Late Show coming to an end, GQ asked if Colbert has wrapped his head around that.

He said, not at all. No. I mean I’ve accepted it. I’ve wrapped my head around that, But in terms of how I feel about it, no, I don’t know. Because the shows go on, I don’t necessarily know how I’ll feel about it until I’m not doing it anymore, because it’s all consuming.

Listen, every show’s got ended some time, and I’ve been on a bunch of shows that have been I did sometimes by our lights and sometimes by the decisions of other people, and that’s the nature of show business. You can’t worry about that. You got to be a big boy about that, but I think we were the first number one show to ever get canceled. I called a friend of mine who’s also in Late Night Interesting. I was trying to work out my feelings and I said, you got any thoughts on this?

And he goes, no, no one’s ever gonna have thoughts on this. No one’s ever been the number one show for nine years in a row and then been canceled. When I signed my twenty twelve contract for The Cobert Report, I went to my assistant and I said, Hey, what’s our last show of twenty fourteen. She goes, it looks like December eighteenth, and I said, oh, good to know. And I started writing that last show myself.

Basically, the entirety of that last show was something that I thought of really in the next month, and then I thought I was going to leave that and go I’ve been an actor of my entire career. I had a whole show that I’d planned out what I was going to do, and it was actually going to involve that old character in a new job, and he’d be like a central figure, but he wouldn’t be the only character in it, and I might still do it someday but that was my plan, and then taking over for Letterman fell in my lap. But I had a plan how to end it. I knew the songs we were going to sing, I knew the jokes we were going to do. I knew how I wanted to shot everything.

This is not my choice, so I don’t know how we’re gonna land this plane. But people have asked me, well, what do you think you’re gonna do next? And the cleanest and really fullest answer I can give you not that I don’t have thoughts, but the honest answer is I just want to land this plane gracefully in a way that I find satisfying given how much effort we’ve put into it for the last ten years. I appreciate the people at far Out Magazine because they understand the great actor Adam Sandler. Far Out wrote when I first watched Uncut Gems, which as listeners to this program know, is the best Adam Sandler movie by a mile, I left the theater with more questions than answers.

Why did I feel so dizzy? What’s the strongest sedative I can buy? And was that really Adam Sandler? I just watched As I watched the mirrored shot of Sandler’s character lying on the floor with a gunshot wound in his head. I waited, for baited breath for either David Spade or Kevin James to bust in that shot and pull the rug from under the whole thing.

To say, the whole film was one elaborate ruse, a satsire of high browse cinema that would swiftly be undercut by an ending that involved those three members of the Sandler alumni. But that never happened, and the film concluded. I left the cinema like many others that year, both baffled and encouraged by this return to drama. For Sandler, this was a renaissance that eclipsed McConaughey’s from just under a decade earlier, simply for how awful were the run of films that Sandler released before Uncut Gems, My Boy, Grown Ups, Blended, Jack and Jill all came out in the chapter before Uncut Jims. While the latter film Jack and Jill represented the true bottom of the barrel.

Amen, brother, you’ve heard me talk about that. I forbade my children from renting it and told them I would rather light the five dollars on fire. Far Out said to us it hinted towards a state of career complacency from Sandler that the today’s of his own scrappy ideas being developed on a shoestring budget were long gone and instead replaced by half baked comitta crap served on a silver platter of big studio distribution. Sandler was fully aware of that. However, he knew the movies he was creating in the Spell of Mediocrity were there to serve one purpose, and one purpose only finance.

And this is the point of the article Sandler’s take on what the worst Sandler movie is. To Sandler admit that it’s Jack and Jill know. He thinks it’s the remake of The Longest, which on paper should have worked, but the Burt Reynolds version is much better. Sandler said, they were doing it and it was cool, and I was like, if they’re doing it as well, be in it. Compared to the first one, not even close.

It ended up doing all right, paid for some things in our house. It made no sense on NBC proper today. It’s the paper, you know, the office spin off of sorts. I got through like six or seven of them. Fight your way through the first one or two.

Then it gets better. It’s at no point funny, but it’s nice company while you just the TV’s on and you’re playing on your phone. It’s that kind of show. I don’t know if I’ve laughed at all. But the characters an’t nice enough.

The main two were nice enough. I don’t know about the ensemble. Part of the ensemble is Alex Edelman, who told Variety why he was attracted to it. He said, seemed really fun. He used the word fun a lot because it’s an important value in entertainment.

It seems silly, but it’s a good metric for whether a show was all right. He was asked to audition for the series, then labeled untitled Greg Daniels and Michael Corman Project. He received dummy sides of fake scenes that never showed up in the show. It explains the paper in the Office or totally different shows. His take is our shows in a little more parks and wreck than The Office, in my opinion.

Angela from the Original Office spoke with grub Street and she said her call time for the nine years film in the Office was five thirty am. Was barely daylight when I’d arrive for hair and makeup, some of the casts would bring their own breakfast into the hair and makeup room and eat while they were quote in the works, which means holding your food in your lap and trying to sneak in a bite of eggs while you’re getting your hair curled or your eye makeup done. Angela said, I would inevitably spill something on myself, so my first real meal would be hot snack. To this day, I still dream about hot snack every day. At exactly ten thirty, our assistant director would announce hot snack.

You never knew what was gonna be, but it’s always a feast. Ramen, dumplings, tacos, hot dogs, chili, fried rice, shrimp, skewers, you name it. I once had the nickname snacks Kinzie. She says, I’m a big believer in packing snacks. Today in my back back I have a mixed berry granola bar, fruit wraps, a cheese and salami snack tray from the airport’s store, and a ziplock of peanuts.

The Moontower Comedy Festival has announced their lineup now. The festival is not till April eighth through the nineteenth. Pretty impressive lineup and it’s at least right there with this New York Comedy Festival, if not bigger names. They announced the first seventy five performers. A press release tells us there’ll be stand up sets, unhinged podcast recordings, musical comedy, and sketch badness.

There’s a club series you purchase the Badge, and then there’s four days of shows with more than one hundred comics within walking distance downtown that you can see. So far announced. Do you want me to read seventy five names? I don’t think I want to. Let’s see names that you would recognize.

How about I’ll do that? An evening with Albert Brooks, Beth Stelling, Brad Williams, Cristella Alonso, Doug Benson, Emo Wakeem, Ivan Decker, The Sclar Brothers, Jay Jorden, Jeremiah Watkins, John Goblet, con Boy, his name’s all over the place. John Rudnitsky, he was on SNL for a year and I saw him a new faces. He was great up there. Kathy Griffin, Leslie Jones, Mark Marin, Matt Bronger, Nish Kumar, viwerd Oz and others.

Okay, so you get a Bestie Badge promo that offers twenty five dollars off each badge and a group of two or more already too complicated. The big show tonight at the New York Comedy Festival is Stand Up for Heroes. John Stewart, Mike Berbiglia, Jim mcgaffigan and Moore. It’s the nineteenth edition of Stand Up for Heroes. It raises awareness and funding for the Bob woodra Foundation, whose mission is to ensure that our nation’s veterans, service members, and their families have stable and successful futures and interesting back to back at the Grammarcy Theater, Mark Norman is there with Matt Ruby’s Stick or Treat.

Comedians dress up and impersonate other comics that are alive, performing stand up sets completely in character. That’s fun. I remember twenty years ago Jim Brewer hosting Comedy Covers nights and people getting up and doing Mitch Hebburg. Now. What’s interesting about the scheduling to me is Mark Norman is one half of Tuesdays with Stories, and right after Mark Norman show, also at the Grammacy Theater, Joe Lift the other host of Tuesdays with Stories his show is Joe List and Friends.

Probably a safe bet that Mark Norman hangs around, considering he’s already in the building. Let me see who else is playing there. My goal before I wrap up this show thirty years from now is that somebody will create a comedy festival website where it’s easy to see who’s playing on a particular day. Someone will eventually crack that code. Scientists are working on it as I speak and scroll this minuscule little toolbar to get to the Monday shows.

Tod Glass again, is he playing every night? I don’t know, John, you’re the one hosting the show. Now, this is an interesting one in here, Nickstown. It’s Paul’s Best Podcast with Nick’s legend John Starks at the Gotham Comedy Club at seven o’clock. Okay, at Union Hall at seven thirty, the interestingly titled Peton Dix Horny, A night of comedy, smut and crushes, Interesting, and a bunch of smaller shows throughout the day.

Jimmy Kimmel and crew decided to help people out who were suffering with the snap benefit cuts. Kim Will and the show have opened a food donation center in la with the title The Jimmy Kimmel Live, Big Beautiful Food Bank. The press release, Kimmel Show said, cutting snap benefits creates uncertainty for American children, seniors, and families. To support our community members in need, We’re starting a donation center in our Hollywood back lot. Donations taken two Kimmel’s Big Beautiful Food Bank go to two different area nonprofits, the LA Regional Food Bank and Saint Joseph Center.

They’re asking for low sodium soups, chili stews, low sugar cereals, tuna, chicken, salmon, protein bars, pasta, and rice. They could also use personal care items like wipes, diapers, deodorant, soap, oral hygiene and feminine products. Food Bank’s open from nine to five sixty nine oh one Hawthorn Avenue, LA. A nice job by Charlie Brenz. He showed up at a holiday food drive event in Milwaukee that was supporting Feeding America.

Eastern Wisconsin. Students from Brookfield Central and Wisconsin Hills Middle School filled hundreds of boxes inside a warehouse, joined by Charlie Morenz. He’s known for his standup comedy that makes fun of things in Wisconsin. Charlie said, reach a little deeper into the pocket. You know, sometimes like the paper falls at the bottom, actually the change falls at the bottom, So don’t go straight to the bottom.

Float up a little bit to like where the big bills are. Baron said, it’s Thanksgiving. It feels good to give. They’ve done studies on it feels good to give. I’m not sure who did the studies.

I’m not sure they’re real studies, but we’re gonna go with it feels good to give. Some just give. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Neil Katyal, Nikki Glaser, Ashley Padilla, James Austin Johnson, Cam Patterson, Jim Gaffigan, David Cross, Stav Halkias, Gary Gulman

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney attends Trump Supreme Court tariff hearing
• Nikki Glaser hosts SNL with roasting promo
• Jim Gaffigan announces 2026 tour dates
• David Cross discusses cancel culture and Dave Chappelle
• Stav Halkias discusses relationships and friendship
• Gary Gulman talks vulnerability in stand-up comedy

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with his Daily Comedy News. Now. You know who was that Donald Trump’s Supreme Court hearing the other day about the tariff war. You know who was there in the audience, John Mulaney.

All right, Why, well, we’re gonna find out. But what a random John Mulaney’s sighting, The Daily Beast reports. Fans speculated Mullaney was invited by lawyer Neil Cattel, who was arguing on behalf of small businesses affected by the tariffs. Mullaney had been on his podcast court Side, where we learned Mullaney as a constitutional lawn nerd. Neil said, Mullaney texts him all sorts of questions about random Supreme Court cases all the time, And I guess Mullaney is really into this if he was there.

Nikki Glaser was your SNL host last night. I’ll probably review that on Tuesday, just to accommodate my production schedule. They did release this promo leading up to it. Nicky ROAs, Ashley Padilla, James Austin Johnson, and Cam Patterson. A couple of notes here.

I’ve trimmed the bleeps because the the setup is that Nicky is roasting the three of them, and apparently her roasts are quite vulgar, so that the bleeps go on forever. So I trimmed those just for pacing. I understand the pacing upsets the joke, but you don’t want to sit through a beap for ten seconds. There are also two visual jokes. I’m gonna leave them in.

In one, Ashley Padia throws up and the other James Austin Johnson dumps gas on his head. You’ll get it. And I think this clip also proves that camp Patterson not good at Saturday Night Live. I don’t get why Lauren added him to the cast. And again, Louren Michaels is Lorne Michaels and I’m a guy in a basement, what do I know?

But I still think Camp Patterson’s going to be one and done. Anyway, Here was the teaser for Nikki Glaser. So come out. So great to be here, Hey, Nicki, guy, you’re so excited you’re hosting. It is going to be so fun.

So excited? Was there something else you needed or would you roast? No? Please? I just I don’t think that’s a good idea.

You don’t want that. I promise you won’t hurt our feeling. Now I started on care tony some completely numb and side. Okay, me verse me verse, right. Ashley, you look like you actually look like.

Your dog’s period blood. Okay, this is fun. You’re right, James, you nerdy little not there in Tennessee going out there by the outdoor masthtub, get her nune okay and cav nice sweater. Hell yeah, no, that’s why you’re the queen. That’s fine, it’s good.

I like this is fun. Jim Gaffigan was on social media again, and as I’ve pointed out to you, Jim Gaffigan really only comes on social media when he wants to sell you something. He wants to sell you some concert tickets. I have made edits to this clip. It’s Jim gaffer and very exciting that twenty twenty six shows are on sale.

I’m going to New York, I’m going to Saint Louis, I’m going to Denver, I’m going all these places out west. I know I need a haircut, and you know, I think it’s cruel that like bald men or men that are bald and need to get a haircut, like we should get free haircuts right anyway, comment below, like, follow, share, perform surgery, whatever you want to do anyway. Vanity Fair ask David Cross what he thinks about cancel culture. The question was really about Dave Chappelle. Cross said, I know I’m not stating any obvious that hasn’t been stated before, and it’s stating the obvious, but you, Dave Chappelle, have no credibility.

We can’t take anybody seriously who complains about cancel culture while performing in a sold out arena and getting tens of millions of dollars for a special that’s going to air all over the world. It’s batently absurd. So that kind of stuff’s just a waste of time to argue. It’s like two plus two equals five or black is white. It’s not true.

It’s not a thing you have been canceled. Vanity Fair ass Cross, they were all the comedy had gone woke, but then Elon Musk bought Twitter and declared comedy legally again, what do you think of that? David Cross said, I mean, it’s worth the discussion, but my feeling about it is there are words you can use in jokes that offend people and where does the individual stand up feel comfortable with editing themselves. I want to keep saying the R word. There are more directly violent words that I’ve stopped using, So it’s up to the individual.

There are some words I won’t say now just because no, I know, I’ve had enough discussions, or I don’t think it’s hurting my bits to swap out one word for another. But there are other words like the R word, and he is saying the R word in this interview that I’m like, I’m going to keep using it because it’s an easier, better word to use in my stand ups. Again, it’s up to the individual. All right, David Cross, who do you think is funny these days? Cross it, there’s a lot of great comics out there, probably a bunch I’m not even aware of.

As for subject matter that’s funny, Everything is still funny. He did not name a single name. It’s not that hard here. I’ll go h. I find Chain Gills funny.

Thought about that for one second. That was the name that popped to mind. I find him funny. Cross said everything could be certainly funny in the right viewpoint and application. I have a joke about a rape kit.

I know there’ll be some people won’t like it. I’ve already done it, and I know there’s some people that don’t like it. But it’s a really funny, clever joke that I’m gonna keep doing. So look, anything can be funny, it’s just the application. You’re probably wondering what does Stavros halky Has look for in a relationship, Well, he told g Q, A sense of humor.

For me, that’s really what my whole life is based around. You actually want a little more push back from your girlfriend. You want her to be like, shut up, you’re an idiot. You also have to be able to make her laugh, and you have to make her laugh despite her not wanting to. That’s a big one.

My favorite audience member is a reluctant girlfriend at the start of the show becomes a fan by the end of it. All right, Stavros, what do you look for in a guy? Friend? Starvros said, My best friends I’ve known since I was in Kindergarton, my producer on the podcast, and my best friend he’s my tour manager. But every five years I tend to pick up another best friend.

I know they’re a good person, and then I can make these incredibly messed up jokes with them. I don’t want somebody who’s racist or somebody who actually doesn’t think gay people should get married. I thinks it’s a good time to limit the right to choose. We do have to line on the big stuff and may be able to trust you and then do the funniest jokes in the world, which are really messed up things. Third Coast Reviews spoke to Gary Goldman, who said I was fortunate when I did The Great to Pray to have an audience that was patient and trusted me and knew I was professional and thoughtful, so they would see something for me that wasn’t my usual show, which was mainly just observations and some absurdity and some stories.

Grand Delinquent is probably the same amount as personal as The Great Depress, But with a Great Depress I was able to get a lot of the deeper stuff out that wasn’t as funny, and a documentary portion of the show, so essentially I didn’t have to be there when the people weren’t laughing. I think as a performer, you’re most vulnerable just being yourself doesn’t have to be deep, secret or private moment. It’s very vulnerable to get up there and say I think this is funny, and I think you should think this is funny. You don’t know whether they’re gonna laugh. But eventually you figure out whether it’s funny and it gets less vulnerable.

But with every new audience, there’s always that bit of anticipation and a little bit of anxiety over that, and it makes it fun. It’s like when I play basketball. If it made every shot, I think I’d be happy, but in reality and probably get boring. When you get into a video game or some set of skill and it gets to the point where this isn’t very challenging, you lose interest. I think that’s the part of the trick to staying interested in comedy because they’re doing it thirty two years now and it remains challenging.

It can be humbling at times, and I think that’s part of the equation. And I think we all know comedians have been doing the same act for decades. They burn out or get bored or just throwing the tannel or whatever that makes sense to me. I know when I do this pod, I try and mix up the subjects. You know, there were times when all right, we’re gonna talk about Kimmel for a week or whatever.

But I do try and you know, change the tone, bring recurring bits back, rest recurring bits. I try not to talk about the same comedians every day, but when somebody’s out there doing a lot of press, you know, I’ll talk about somebody for five days in a row. But did you try to mix it up? That makes sense to me. Roywood Junior just spoke to Rolling Stone.

He talked about touring the country, performing in the South. Being a road comedian gives you a different perspective on the voters of the country because you don’t see a Republican party. To see a person and they voted Republican. There’s a difference when you’re viewing Republicans through grafts and pie charts and gallopoles versus you being in a comedy club on a Thursday in a red state and telling jokes to voters who would never vote for your interests and there being some degree of synergy and understanding. It puts in a perspective that most people in this country are voting to preserve themselves, and that’s what politicians tap to do.

That’s what Trump did. Trump went into Middle America and looked under the rocks, found a couple of votes over here, found a couple of votes over there, and here we are. So Junior talked about his time at The Daily Show, and he said, one of the main things I learned is that there’s always a third side or another angle to the issue that’s not being considered. I’m grateful my first comedy special didn’t come out until after I started working there. I think also watching Trevor Noah and how he did interviews with adversarial guests.

You seek to understand, don’t necessarily seek to be right. Sometimes you can talk to people into not agreeing with themselves if you’ve got enough time to take a long enough walk. He talked about hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner in twenty twenty three and said it was the most stressed I’ve been as a performer. Next to the Apollo Theater, Amateur Night of the Apollo, that’s the peak of anxiety. Roy said, I’d take one thousand correspondents dinners before amateur Night at the Apollo.

That’s not to be played with with the Correspondent’s dinner. No matter what after, room’s gonna love the joke. You just don’t know when you don’t know which joke the apollo. There’s a chance everyone will hate your guts and unison and there’s no recovery. All right, Jay Leno, do you know who this is?

He hosted The Tonight Show for like twenty two years. Thinks you know stuff about late night comedy. That guy, he’s the worst. You know what he’s doing today? He’s the Grand Marshall at the Harley Davidson Love Yeah Things starts off in Glendale, finishes northwest of la at Castaic Lake.

It’s a charity ride in support of the Wounded Warrior Project and Adopt the Arts. Founded in nineteen eighty four, it’s raised more than twenty five million dollars and Jay Leno is going to be the Grand Marshal today. Jay said, I’ve written her alongside thousand. It’s a love ride for years. I’m looking forward to doing it again.

Cheers to making Love Ride thirty four a memorable one. Now. I wanted to tell you about the New York Comedy Festival, but their website doesn’t want to load, so they’re gonna go second. Today I’ll tell you about the three one to two Comedy Festival seven o’clock today at Zany’s Downtown. Heather Shaw at Zany’s and Rosemont.

I think I’ve been to that one. I think the Rosemont one. I’m pretty sure that was a rainy like Wednesday night and it was Hannibal Burris and Gaff again and Mad again. It was a great show. John Deloni will be there at seven, Kevin Bridges at the Riviera Theater at seven thirty, and Earthquake at the vic Theater, a great venue at eight o’clock.

And that’s a wrap on the very cool three to one to two Comedy Festival. Nice job, guys.

And now let’s see if the other website has loaded yet.

It has not. I might actually have to pause, but that’s not fun. Oh yeah, we’re gonna have to do a different story. It completely broke my browser. Come on near Comedy Festival.

All right, let’s see what happens. Tell you about something else. In the meantime. Sultan Kasas he’s gonna debut his hour long comedy special London Fog on his YouTube channel today. In London Fog causes wrestles with anxiety, explores the many modern pass apparently, and reflects on growing up with a single immigrant mother, all while trying not to let success change him.

He filmed it at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. He says, this is my first special in the theater, which was very scary but exciting at the same time. I’m really happy with how it all came out. Let’s try Chrome. Maybe the New York Comedy Festival website will load.

Oh yeah, much more responsive on Chrome. Interesting not Safari fans at the New York Comedy Festival. I won’t read everything, but some fun shows. I love the title of this one. At three o’clock at Littlefield, y’all gay with Ali Clayton and Ever Maynard.

That’s just a fun title. Ucb’s The Business Casual Show at the UCB at four thirty. Gotta love the early shows on the weekend, right, Josh Sharp’s an hour of crowd working the Round at the Billhouse at four thirty. Dan pool Zello is recording a live album. He’s doing two shows, but they’re both at five o’clock.

You know, New York Comedy Festival. I don’t think you guys really scrubbed this website too well. So if you want to see Dan, you can see him at the five o’clock show or at the instantaneously simultaneous five o’clock show. It also the website doesn’t tell us where that show is. All right, then late afternoon there’s a bunch of people you probably haven’t heard of.

Six o’clock. Todd Glass is at Second City Ismo at town Hall at seven. Seven o’clock. Genius and Poison presents the Magicians of Magic. That sounds fun.

That’s at the hard Rock in Finance is in Brooklyn at seven. But I’m scrolling down here looking for like headliner headliners, and the New York Comedy Festival doesn’t seem to have that this year. Eight o’clock at New York Comedy Club on four Street. Chris red like he’s nice and all, but is that a comedy show headliner? I’m looking for, like a name.

I’m scrolling down here for names you would know. I guess you know Veronica Slowakoska now because she’s on SNL. She’s a grammar sya. At nine thirty, Chris Fleming spoke to the Stranger. Chris said, so much of comedy survival it’s like putting anything in the cannon.

Was it World War One when they had to turn tires and a bolt or something. That’s how I view it. We’re only given so many tools, and whatever gets us through on stage, we got to use and hope for the best. Chris, what’s it like when you perform for people that you know kind of don’t know the act? Chris said, Oh, it could be such a bloodbath.

I mean, you wouldn’t believe the extremes. It can literally be like burn the Witch. I had to recently perform for big crowds that weren’t quite my own, and they wanted to kill me. They absolutely wanted to kill me. It’s being seen by crowds that do see you so much better.

I mean, trust me, you can be held to completely eat it’s up there, but then it clarifies what you want to do. Tourist audiences, whatever can navigate a lot of performances to the middle to survive. I think it’s better to gamble on what you truly want to do and occasionally completely bomb than it’s to self correct to a piece people you would just see at the airport. Follow up question, did it take a long time to develop a thick skin? Answer?

Oh, I don’t have a thick skin, and that’s your how many news for today, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Jerry Seinfeld, Kenan Thompson

What’s in This Episode

• Sebastian Maniscalco Forbes interview about Italian family wine traditions
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s comedy based on nostalgia and parenting
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s travel experiences to Italy, France, and Amalfi Coast
• Jerry Seinfeld dinner with Sebastian Maniscalco and bill-paying method
• Kenan Thompson travel tips and packing advice from Thrillist interview
• Kenan Thompson family travel experiences and adventurous eating

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hello, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News man. You can see just how much damage performing at the Riog Comedy Festival did to people’s careers. Like take, for example, Sebastian Maniscalco. He was interviewed by Forbes down in Atlantic City at the Ocean Casino Resort. Forbes I met out with Sebastian at the Italian restaurant at the Ocean Casino Resort with the classic name Linguini by the Sea.

Forbes tells us they shared some Manhattans, some homemade meatballs, eggplant rolatini, and chicken Marsella. And in this purbing interview, they asked, hey, when you play the riod come. No, they didn’t ask him that at all. They said, hey, was wine a regular part of dinner growing up in an Italian family? Because this is the hacky Sebastian Maniscalgo interview, you do, Oh yeah, you’re Italian?

Right, yeah, Okay, let me ask you about food. Sebastian said, it’s not like I was knocking back your glass of wine when his ten years old, but it was here’s the knife, here’s the glass. I have a little sip, so it wasn’t taboo growing up. I remember my grandfather having a large jug of wine, not Opu’s Winter or anything like that. I think it was Ernest and Julio Gallo.

But yeah, food and wine were pretty much a staple growing up these days. Sebastian says, I really enjoy red wine. My wife and I got married in Napa. My father in law introduced me to the world of wine. When I met my wife fifteen years ago.

I met. Up to that point, I was drinking wine, but I didn’t really know anything. I’m not a wine connoisseur where I could taste anything and say, oh, that’s a cinnamon whatever. It’s more of an appreciation for a nice bottle of wine as opposed to just grabbing whatever at the store. Sebastian, Do you remember your first drink?

He said, Amaretto stone sour. This was back in the early nineties. Growing up in Chicago. The Amearetto stone sour was the drink along with doers. My father used to drink Doers on the rocks.

I was a Scotts drinker for a little bit, all right, Sebastian, what’s your favorite cocktail now? He says, I’m recently falling in love with the Manhattan. I dabbled with the Manhattan about twenty years ago and then kind of forgot about it. I became strictly tequila. I I was gonna do cocktail, but the Manhattan now seems to be the one.

If I’m out at a bar, I’ll just get a Maker’s Mark Manhattan. They talked to me about comedy, and theysked Sebastian, Hey, when you were performing at the Saudi Comedy festal did you? Oh? No. They didn’t ask him that at all.

They asked him if he bases his comedy in real life, and Sebastian said, a lot of my comedy is based in nostalgia. That’s how it used to be, this is how it is now. I often look back at how I grew up Now, being a father, I want to take those kind of core values and traditions and implement them into my kids. I’m not saying I had the perfect parents, but I like the way they taught me manners, they taught me respect, and you know, I see the parents of today not parenting their kids. It’s a little disheartening to see how things have changed over the years.

Well, Sebastian do you like to cook? Do you like movies about gladi eaters? Sebastian said, first and foremost, I love meat. I love steak. I’m not a astronomist by any means.

No one’s saying, oh my god, he came up with this beautiful, puret. Mainly I cook for my kids and try to introduce them to food I was introduced to. I mean, I was eating fish at nine and my grandfather was sucking the eyeballs out of its head. So I’m not doing that. But if somebody eats something that I cook and they enjoyed, it’s almost like telling a joke.

You get enjoyment from other people’s enjoyment. Sebastian, do you enjoy travel? Do you ever go to warm blazes in the middle of the desert or anything like that? He said. We went to Italy this summer, took the kids.

I have an eight year old and a six year old. We went to France first. Then we met mother and took her to the Amalfi Coast for her eightieth birthday, where she’s always wanted to go. I took my dad to Sicily, where he was born and raised about twelve years ago. He hadn’t been back since he had left for fifty years, so we made the pilgrimage and now he’s been back every year since.

Then. Of course, Sebastian played THERIODD Comedy Festival. Now I’ve been quoting George Carlin a lot that there’s a big club and you ain’t in it. Sebastian said, I went out to dinner with Jerry Seinfel. That was a moment for me.

Had seen me do comedy at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. Then the next night his wife came to see me and then subsequently invited me on comedians and cars getting coffee, Then we went out to dinner. I followed his career since I was a young kid, and then breaking bread with him at dinner. You just don’t think any of those things are going to happen. Well, do you talk to Jerry about comedy or what else?

When we get together, it’s normally about comedy. There was one thing he did at the restaurant I found fascinating. I’ve never seen it before prior to going out with him. At the end of the meal, there was no bill, there’s nothing. As we got up, I go where’s the bill?

He goes, huh, just take care of later. I asked him, Jerry, what’s your method of taking care of a bill? He says, well, I make a reservation. I just give the credit card events down to put a thirty percent tip on it. I don’t want to see the bill.

It eliminates the no, I’m gonna get it. It’s just all done. I just love getting up. Nothing’s on the table and we’re done. It’s a good pro tip from Jerry Seinfeld.

Keenan Thompson spoke to Thrillist about travel. Keenan said, we do a lot of flying, especially coming from Atlanta, Big Delta kids, so I’ve traveled a lot. My favorite memories are usually with my family. I think any time we take our kids to Europe is a good journey. We’re exposing our kids to so much history, so many scenes, eateies, all that kind of stuff.

Those are really really fun memories. For sure. He’s so positive. You gotta like Keenan Thompson right. One thing I always do when every place is eat for sure, I try to get his free and open to trying whatever kinds of things are possible.

I’ve been pretty adventurous yeah. Boy. My kids they would get so mad at dad growing up because I remember we were in Australia and they wanted to go to McDonald’s and I was like, please, can you not go to McDonald’s. Can you just eat something else? And one of my favorite food travel stories, I remember where we were in Iceland and food in Iceland is expensive.

So we found like a pub, you know. I had a beverage and a cheeseburger and my son was kind of full and he looks at me and he goes, do I have to finish the cheeseburger? And I looked him in the eye and I said, do you have to finish the thirty dollars cheeseburger? He finished it. I digress.

Keenan says, one thing I try to do every place is eat For sure. I can try to be free and open to trying whatever kind of things is possible. Have been pretty venturous, but there’s certain places that I won’t necessarily do that insects and stuff like that. That one’s tougher for me. See, I want to go on amazing race with probably either my son or my daughter.

Now I am afraid of heights, bungee jumps, all that I’m not doing any of that. They can do that. But when they show up with a plate of grasshoppers and they want me to eat them, no problem, I’ll eat it. Keenan, do you pack light or overpack now? Johnny Max Pro tip, pack light unless you’re like on a business trip or something.

Pack light. You can rerun a pair of socks, dude, you’re fine and stuff them in your shoes and stuff you’re underwear in your other It saves a lot of room, and if you get cold, you buy a soup in your sweatshirt. Keene says, I overpack every time I come back. I’m like, why I wore the same shoes the whole time? Yep.

I used to have this fear that my shoes are gonna get wet. What am I gonna do if that happens? You buy a pair of sneakers. Keenan says, I always leave something behind that I need, even if I prep the night before. It’s always one little thing and it irks me so much when I forget something.

So yeah, I tend to overpack. They have stores unless you go to Antarctica. I went to Antarctica for Antarctica three suitcases I did overpack for Antardica, because you know, it’s not like Kean run out to the wah wah. Keenan, what are your must haves? He said, I need my clippers, I got a shave, I need fresh undies.

Then my toiletry is Bond number Nine’s my favorite Colonne old Spice hair brush, curl jail. How does he pass time on a plane sleeping? I sleep well. I watch a lot of TV when I’m at home anyway, so on plane rides, I sleep window or aisle. Keenan said, I like window seats.

I like being able to control the window number one. Yeah, oh boy, These you people that close the shades. Do you not understand the views you’re having? All the billions of people who lived on Earth, and here you are flying over the United States, all these gorgeous views, especially when you get out west, you’re thirty thousand feet you can look at all the stuff, and you guys have the shades down. What are you doing?

Keenan says he’s considered it, and I grew with this. He says, there are some inconsiderate window people that will ignore the fact that everybody’s got their windows closed. You know, night flight or early morning something, and I’ll open theirs for the whole flight and it keeps everybody wake. So I’m not that person. You want me on the window, you do.

Kathy Griffin kicks off her tour today. It’s called New Face. She’s in Las Vegas. Her tour starts today runs through May twenty twenty six. She tells People magazine the gloves are off.

It’s an evening with Kathy Griffin. I’ve been touring so long, I think if you buy a ticket on my show, you can’t. Actually, you don’t know that. I’m going to curse like crazy. I’m going to say inappropriate things.

I’m gonna go off on celebrities and talk about whatever’s on the pop culture zeitgeist. I would say that folks coming in my show they know what they’re in for. I could tell my audience they’re very unshockable because they’ve heard me say it all. I’ll be saying even worse things this time. She promises it’ll be a different act every night of the tour.

I start with local material. If I’m in Tampa, talk about what celebrities are from Tampa. One time I had a run out of theater after my show because I thought it’d be funny to read aloud the names and addresses of the sex offender list in that town. Wow. She said, I got a facelift, which people seem to be fascinating to buy.

And I just want to say, I don’t know why, but it cracks me up. I’m laughing because I’ve done some political interviews that I did all this research for and then they’re like, Kathy Griffin gets a facelift. So I know it’s part of the story, and I’m fine with it. I thought naming it New Face New Tour was funny enough. I got to tell you, I’m still in shock that was able to do my last tour and do seventy five cities, including Carnegie Hall in Boston, Symphony Hall.

And look, I’m not going to sell it every show. I wish I were Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock, and I wish I could say I’m going to sell it every show, but I’m kind of flabbergasted that these offers are coming in. My answer was, are you sure it means so much to me? Because prior to the Trump Halloween mask with ketchup on it photo, you know that one? Yeah, I played the Deep South all the time.

To be welcome back to these markets is a pleasant surprise. I feel a real responsibility to just give one hundred ten percent every time. It is Saturday night in the Big Apple and the New York Comedy Festival is underway. Won’t read every show, but let me scroll down here see what catches my eye. Four o’clock Facebook Marketplace Live, the game show New York City’s Funniest improvisers battle each other for the title of King of Stuff.

Think Who’s line is it? Anyway? Meets Stooping NYC. Audience members play to win free prizes, like really good prizes. Pass prizes include a mannequin head, a VHS of FANTATIONA two thousand, and a rice cooker.

Good to see they’re mixing in some different names. Near Comedy Club at five as Richard Villa. Five o’clock Vittorio Angeloni. He’s the Irish Italian guy. I saw him up in Montreal.

He’s really good. You could do a lot worse than going to Union Hall today at five o’clock, five thirty Bragging Rights with Joey Bragg, six o’clock at the Stand West and evening with Bassam Shawl high Line Comedy Club eight o’clock, Eric Walshin, Max fine Co Headline getting a little more famous here six thirty Todd Glass is its second city, the one in New York Brooklyn. The Big Shiny Show at seven o’clock, a celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the cancelation of Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert, Paul Denillo, and Amy Sedaris. Trevor Wallace is at the Beacon at seven, ascat New York, at the UCB at seven, Richard Kind plays Circo at seven, Hannah Berner Carnegie Hall, Fancy at eight o’clock, Wow, and a bunch of other smaller names. Now the festival goes for another week.

But this, to me does not have the star power that it’s had in the past. And I don’t know why. It could be just everybody’s content to just play Netflix, because, as John Mulaney says, everybody’s in La Well, let’s pick away at varieties and comics. You should and will nail list Joe Sunday, they say, is like a forest nymph plucked out of an idyllic wood and thrown onto iguana stage. Joe says, I come out as this feminine, adorable character to disarm the audience with my charm and my wit, and then I’ll surprise them with the darkness that lies within.

In one bit, Joe says, I like to walk home alone because I like to cause drum and strife to my friend group. People hear that they see how I dress, They tell me get home safe. Well, it’s not up to me necessarily. When someone says get home safe, what I hear is tonight might be your last. A good luck out there, slut.

They asked Joe, what’s your worst show ever? They said, I bombed at an open mic and Hannibal Burs’s new comedy club. I wonder if hannibals using the money he got paid by the Saldi’s at the Riadd Comedy Festival to fund that new comedy club. I digress, Joe said, I wasn’t planning Lieutenant night. I passed by on the street and thought, let me show these people a thing or two.

I just opened for Hannibal and Boston, so I felt some swagger. During the bombing, I said, I’m not too worried about this because I have other stuff. Afterwards, someone asked me what other stuff and I had to leave. That’s all funny and let’s get out there. That is your comedy news for today on a Saturday.

You have an awesome day.