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Featured: Nicky Glazer, John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Leslie Jones, Tony Hinchcliffe, David Cross

What’s in This Episode

• Nicky Glazer hosting SNL and appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers
• John Mulaney’s travel hacks and tips from Travel and Leisure interview
• LaGuardia Airport renovation and improvements
• Jim Gaffigan announces 2026 tour dates
• Leslie Jones criticizes Tony Hinchcliffe’s shock humor on Good One podcast
• Tony Hinchcliffe Puerto Rico joke controversy
• David Cross discusses optimism and pessimism about America’s future with Vanity Fair

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man. I hope like today could be less feisty than yesterday. Hello, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Nicky Glazer stop by Late Night with Seth Myers, and I know you’re like, why didn’t she just yell out the window if she would have reached more people, I’ll explain to you why.

But while she was there, she told the story of her gen Z assistant calling Jenna bush Hager the most famous person George W. Bush is related to a Guess that makes sense now, As for why she popped on Late Night with Seth Myers, you know, did she think David Letterman was still hosting? Now, NICKI smarter than that. Did she think Conan was still there? No?

No, No, she’s smarter than that. You see she’s hosting Saturday Night Live tomorrow, so it’s part of an NBC tour. She probably was forced to be on Late Night with Seth Myers Make Late Night great again. President Trump, get on that travel and leisure caught up with John Mulaney. Now I stole this from somebody on threads.

The way you get into a John mullani half ass impression is you do Fred Schneider from the B fifty two’s you know the song love Shack. So if you’re like, I don’t know how to do with John m’llaney half ass impression, Johnny Mac, what do you do? You channel Fred Schneider and you go hop in my chryslileriates as big as a whale. See and now you have that big as a whale at the end, and then you go, oh, now I know how to do half asked. John Mulaney was asked by Travel and Leisure, you gotta go to hack for jet lag?

Laney said, never adapt to any time zone. Stay in the time zone you’re used to. John Mulani’s go to airline snack. He’s big into adding ritter Sport chocolate into trail mix. Millennie is impressed by New York’s LaGuardia Airport, which used to be a disaster and now has been renovated and is apparently fantabulous.

Millenie said, I went there a few weeks ago. It’s so nice you couldn’t period it. I was actually mad at it. This is an airport where were getting on fifteen minute plated rides to Boston and flights to JFK, which would be like a thirty second flight. This isn’t like a hanging out Forever airport.

We’re not arriving for four hours early for international flights to make us use the food court. It’s like having a parking lot hanging up beautiful artwork. Expert traveler John Laney says it’s not that he’s gotten packing down with science. I’ve gotten not caring down to science. There’s going to be a target.

So enough with the I don’t have soap, don’t have a charger. This is a great tip. Go to the hotel front desk and say I lost my charger. Can I look through the Lost and found and you’ll get five chargers. That’s great advice.

Jim Gaffigan. I’ve noticed about Jim gaffikin he only appears on social media when he wants to sell you something. There was that one night where he commented about the president and people got very mad about him. Since then, I only see Jim Gaffigan on social media when he wants to sell you something, usually a bourbon. But Jim wants you to know about his new tour, and I’m like, sure, I’ll let people know about Jim Gaffigan’s new tour.

Here’s Jim Gaffigan. Who really exciting is is My new shows are going on sale for twenty twenty six. Can you believe it? It’s so exciting tickets to my shows. I’m going to Chicago, santu As, DC Dead for a bunch of places out West.

I’m gonna be on our thoughts and I’m gonna enjoy it for the first couple of days. Now I’m gonna complain. Leslie Jones was on the Good One podcast. She is not a big fan of Tony Hinchcliff. People get very upset about this Tony Hinchcliffe fellow kill.

Tony just bothers people. It’s funny. I like it. I like it better as an audio podcast than actually staring at it. But I think part of that is because I listen at two point three x and if somebody’s boring, I go skip skip skippapipapips tip.

Leslie Jones said, I hate shock humor. It’s just dumb, like the Tony Hinchcliff And I’ll say it because f that. Now, this is a start out B dash A B star store, so I assume the B dot A is something along the lines of which butt. But what’s the B star star? I don’t know what she called Tony Hinchcliff.

Now this next part is interesting. I’m going to read it verbatim from Vulture. Now, remember Hinchcliff told a joke about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally at Madison Square. Guard. Remember that’s the thing that happened.

And here Leslie Jones is telling us she doesn’t like Tony Hinchcliff. So here’s what Vulture wrote from there. Jones didn’t hold back. She took aim at his trademark mustache, comparing it to a Puerto Rican porn store, before firing off a few more unprintable jabs. So Johnny Mac will ask the question, is it okay to make jokes about Puerto Rico or not?

Because you just made one. Leslie said about the shock style, it’s not comedy. It’s mean. It’s mean stuff. Comedy’s not supposed to be mean.

Comedy’s supposed to be relieving. Even when Don Rickles was at his hardest, he was still funny. Every time I see those comics befom, I’m like, go to therapy, you need some help. There’s a difference between take my wife, please, and f my wife please. Vanity Fair asked David Cross if he’s pessimistic or optimistic about the future.

I haven’t read this yet. Let’s guess nope, Cross said, Oh man, it changes hourly. I feel optimistic in the sense that I know that this is minority rule and if the full force of the people who are angry or concerned, if somebody was able to focus that, I feel optimistic. Yeah, Chuck Schumer’s going to figure that out any day now. He’s doing a great job.

There’s a lot of crazy damage that’s been done and it’ll take some time to heal that. I’m also optimistic in a personal sense and that I have money, all my concerns about my daughter. I live in Brooklyn, so I live in a very strong sense of community. People are accepting of everybody, and it’s very family oriented and that’s good. I would be curious what part of Brooklyn David Cross lives in.

You can have many different experiences in Brooklyn. I’m going to guess he’s close to the water and by the water, I mean the part where you can see Manhattan across that. I’ve had a bit of a head start because when the stuff goes down. It’s probably not going to be really really bad in New York for quite some time. So I’ve got my go backpacked passport’s ready to go, and I can leave.

I have dual citizenship. I can go to the UK and go to Canada. It’s all about my daughter. I’d be fine, i’d write it out, but I want to give her the best life she could possibly have. So I’m optimistic in that sense, but I’m pessimistic every time I read something that Joe Rogan said.

Can everybody relax with Joe Rogan? Do you not understand what Joe Rogan is. Joe Rogan is a guy that was an okay comedian who’s into the UFC. He likes to work out, he likes to shoot things. He does seem curious, might not be the most educated person in the world.

He’s not Mike Wallace. It’s just a show where he has conversations with people for three hours. I listen to it all the time. I like it. I know what it is.

I don’t come away going, yeah, I got to go shoot something and the aliens are real. It’s just a show. Everyone needs to calm down. I’m pessimistic every time I read something that Joe Rogan said, and the amount of gullible, anti intellectual people we’re getting all this misinformation from these people who just read something online. It’s crazy to me.

And that’s the third of America. All these bros who really want a trad wife, and if it takes a white nationalist, Christian nation to do that, then that’s what they want. They think women have too much power, that we’ve let women become too masculine, and vaccines cause autism and all that kind of stuff that gives me a reason to be hopeful. Then Cross continued, if I need to go, I can go. I can leave before it gets to that really, really bad place, and I don’t think it’ll get there again.

This guy’s not popular. Mike Johnson is not popular. Trump is not jd Vance is not popular. It’s classic authoritarianism versus the people’s stuff, David Cross. Everybody.

Actress Madeline Brewer has been doing press for the movie anniversary. To prepare for the role, Brewer studied a number of comics and read up on the reaction to Dave Chappelle’s jokes about the LGBTQ community. Brewer commented on Chappelle saying Chappelle would call that free speech in comedy. When you’re attacking community like the trans community, you’re not just being a comedian. You’re being an a hole in my opinion.

Rolling Stone asked Roy Wood Junior if he feels like CNN and have I got news for you? Is striking the balance he was looking for. Roy said, to a degree, CNN gives me a platform to present everything that happened that week. We get to exist in the silly stuff as well. It’s not just uh, the administration is going to take away at metagaid this week.

It’s also guess who this person was before Botox Comedy stock Market. Thank you, Bert Reynolds. You know I’m gonna add a name here on the fly. I’m just thinking about that David Cross story I just did. And you know, David is talking about how, you know, Joe Rogan might be a little unhinge.

My word’s not his cross. Where you’re going, you’re leaving the country. Why so let’s sell some David Cross just to you know. We’ll enter our bets there. Okay, how about our buys.

Let’s buy some Eddie Murphy ahead of this Netflix documentary anybody my age knows how great Eddie Murphy was, and hopefully this will get the young’ins to understand how amazing Eddie was at his peak. Although Johnny Mac will point out Eddie Murphy’s act as awesome as it was circa nineteen eighty three is a cover band version of Richard Pryor down to the Red Outfit. Watch Live on the Sunset Strip by Richard Pryor and then watch Eddie Specials and tell me it’s not a cover band. But regardless, we will buy Eddie Murphy again. As I explained last week, comedy stock market isn’t whether or not I think somebody’s good or bad.

It’s we’re trying to find value in the market, who’s on their way up, who’s on their way down, and make some hypothetical money. So let’s buy Eddie Murphy. Let’s also buy John Stewart because he now has the safety net. He’s been re signed. They’re not gonna kick him out the door.

He’s good, so that gives him a year to basically say whatever he wants. He’s been even more outspoken recently, and I imagine that will continue, so we’ll have a very confident John Stewart that’s always good for entertainment. So let’s buy some John Stewart, let’s sell Pete Davidson if we even have any left. The projects he’s picking just never look good. You never are like, Oh, Pete Davidson’s in that that looks like it’s gonna be awesome.

I think he may have blown his career when he walked away from Bupkis. Honestly, he looks lost to that movie I told you about the other day. That would be a good Adam Sandler movie. And I’m not kidding. I don’t think that’s gonna be good for Pete Davison.

Well, let’s sell Pete Davidson, and let’s sell Louis c. Care. I’m about to talk about CK. He’ll be at the New York Comedy Festival. I’m not sure he’s as welcome as some of the spin on the New York Comedy Festival is presenting Louis C.K.

I think people are still kind of done with CK. I might be wrong, but on the comedy stock market here, let’s sell some CK. Right, So we’re gonna sell David Cross by Eddie Murphy, by John Stewart, Sell Pete Davidson, sell Louis C.K. That is your comedy stock market for this week. The New York Comedy Festival does kick off tonight.

I have said this in the past, the people at the New York Comedy Festival have never been anything but great to me. However, New York City is so big, this disappears in the scheme of things. If you’re not It’s not like in other cities, You’ll go somewhere and like festivals will dominate, and this one, like Montreal, is a good example of that. This one just kind of disappears in the big apple of it all. And I do feel this year the names are not as huge as they were in the past.

Some of the names at the festival this year Louis C.K. Stephen Colbert, Okay, Amy sid Down, Chris Pete Holmes, but he was just at three point two what last night? Hannah Berner, Michael Blaxon, Margaret Show, Alex Adlman, Chris Fleming, Morgan, Jay Issmo, Ryan Long, Trevor Wallace. You like, is any of that like that exciting? I don’t think it is, Like where’s the Riod Crew, Where’s Chappelle, Sigora, Bill Burr?

Where are those guys Bert Kreischer, who did not go to the RIOC Comedy Fols, Where’s he? We’res Santino, like, why aren’t these guys at this? This just feels a little off to me. Founded by Caroline Hirsh in two thousand and four, the New York Comedy Festival features two hundred plus top comedians from around the globe across more than one hundred shows and all five boroughs. Venues include Carnegie Hall, The Beacon Theater, Madison Square Garden and Town Hall.

Caroline Hirsch, who owned the late Great Carolines Comedy Club and the organizer behind this thing, set any constantly shifting landscape. We stay committed to spotlighting new voices, championing fresh perspectives, breaking form, and shaping a festival that sets the standard both creatively and commercially. Some of the shows tonight, like I’m looking for the big names here to tell you about six point thirty at Second City Todd Glass, Ryan Long at seven at the Venue on Music Row, John Goble con He was also just at three to one to two at seven thirty at the Bell House Todd Glass again at nine o’clock. I know it’s just the first night. But anything I mentioned there are you like, oh wow, I gotta go see that.

Like then you know they’re all okay. Dan’s Papers dot Com caught up with Caroline, who said, for the first time, we’re headlining Alex Edelman and Chris Fleming at Carnegie Hall, and Louis C.K. Is back.

Now, let’s break that apart.

The idea that Chris Fleming, who I love, is at Carnegie Hall. That’s just amazing to me. Congratulations Chris Fleming, But really, can Chris Fleming sell out Carnegie Hall? That shocks me? And I like Chris Flemming a lot.

Dan’s Papers writes of c K he’s forgiven, public wants him back at Caroline Hirsch said it’s one hundred shows this year, two in her comics. Whenever we count them up, it’s always more than we think. It’s New York’s funniest Again. According to this piece, Hirsch didn’t mention c K all that much and seemed excited about Pete Holmes is at town Hall and we have a celebration of the twenty fifth aniversary of the cancelation of Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris. A town Hall, looking forward to that, especially with what’s going on with Steven at this time.

So, as I said in the Comedy stock Market, I’m not sure that c K and I’m not sure he’s back, and I could be wrong. In Chicago at the three one to two Festival, Derek Streep at seven. Other shows at seven, Joe MATCHI, Justin Willman, Ralph Barbosa like this show at nine to fifteen at Zany’s Rosemond Stand Up throw Down Millennials versus Generation X. We’re gonna crush you guys, Barbosa again at ten at the Chicago Theater and Amber Autry at Zaney’s Downtown at eleven fifteen. Tomorrow at the three one to two Festival, Dusty Slay at the vic Theater at seven.

If I were in Chicago, I would absolutely go see him. Fortune Fieamsters at the Chicago Theater at eight. A lot going on this weekend. Tomorrow in Boston it’s Dennis Leary’s annual Comics Come Home. Some of the comics coming Home include Conan O’Brien and Sarah Silverman.

So right, there is more star power than New York has this year. This is the twenty DA ninth edition of the annual fundraising event. It supports the Cam Neely Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the Bruins president and former hockey star Cam Neely. The foundation helps cancer patients and their families as they undergo treatment. And that is your comedy news for today.

All right, I’ll see you tomorrow

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk, Erica Kirk, Jesse Waters, Donald Trump, John Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Hunter Schaffer, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel suspension and Charlie Kirk murder joke controversy
• Sinclair Broadcasting’s attempt to mediate Kimmel apology
• John Stewart renewed as Daily Show host for another year
• Trump criticizes Seth Meyers on True Social
• Jimmy Fallon’s interview with Hunter Schaffer criticized for word choice
• Stephen Colbert on comedy and audience energy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. I gotta tell you, I’m exhausted just from writing today’s script. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from the Hollywood Reporter. In a previously unreported element of Jimmy Kimmel’s brief suspension from ABC, apparently representatives from the Sinclair Broadcasting Group reached out to Erica Kirk, who’s the widow of Charlie Kirk, to see if the Sinclair’s could help secure an apology from Jimmy Kimmel. Erica Kirk told this on Fox News.

She was speaking to Jesse Waters. Waters asked Kirk, Now, I’m going to editorialize here. I think this is a very loaded question. I do not like the way this question is phrased. Waters asked Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel lied about your husband’s murder and didn’t really apologize.

What would you say to Jimmy Kimmel. Let me jump in again. No one should be murdered, but Jimmy Kimmel lied about your husband’s murder. Listen once again to what Jimmy Kimmel actually said. This is a Trump joke, Listen to it.

We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the President is taking this. I think don’t down a lot of your friend. Charlie Kirk asked sir personally, how are you holding up for the last day and a half, Sir, I think very good.

And by the way, right there you see all the Trumps. They’ve just started construction of the new ball room for the White House, which is something they’ve been trying to get, as you know, for about one hundred and fifty years, and it’s going to be a beauty. Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief. Construction, there’s demolition. This Stuck said.

This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody called a friend. This is how a four year old mourns a goldfish. Okay, back to Jesse Waters again, his phrasing Jimmy Kimmel lied about your husband’s murder and didn’t really apologize. What would you say to Jimmy Kimmel, Erica Kirk said, same thing I told Sinclair. They asked, I haven’t really told anybody this, So they asked, do you want you to give you an apology?

Do you want to be on a show? How can we make it right through our team? I responded, I said, tell them, thank you. We receive their note. This is not our issue, not our mess.

If you want to say I’m sorry to someone who’s grieving, go right ahead. But if that’s not in your heart, don’t do it. I don’t want it, I don’t need it, you may recall. Kimmel addressed this when he returned to air, saying, I do want to make something clear because it’s important to me as a human that you understand it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.

Johnny Mac will comment again, it’s clearly a Trump joke. Listen to the President’s reaction to someone being murdered. He starts bragging about the ballroom. My ask sir, personally, now are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir. I think good.

And by the way, right there, you see all the Trumps. They’ve just started construction of the new borrel for the White House. On Monday, John Stewart’s spycam went oh, Johnny Mac recorded Tuesday and Wednesday to accommodate his schedule, this would be a great time to announce that I’m coming back to host the Daily Show for another year. Thanks John Stewart. You couldn’t have announced that ten minutes earlier.

It was like, as soon as I hit schedule, I was like, oh, really, dude, come on. John Stewart will continue to host the Daily Show on Monday. He will remain as executive producer. Ari Pierce is head of Comedy Central and said John Stewart continues to elevate the game he created. His return is an ongoing commitment to the incisive comedy and sharp commentary that define the Daily Show.

The renewals will win for audiences, for Comedy Central and for all our programming partners. We’re proud to support John and the extraordinary news team. Very cool. I mentioned this the other day. If you listen to the show even today, you might be like Johnny Mac.

It sounds like you’re not totally on board with President Trump. But sometimes I am totally on board with President Trump. I mentioned this the other day when Trump wrote on True Social Seth Myers of NBC may be the least talented person to perform live in the history of television. In fact, he may be the worst to perform live or otherwise. Now.

I don’t know about that, but I think the President and I are a line that we want to make the late night franchise the twelve thirty NBC thing previously hosted by Letterman. I think the President just wants to make NBC’s Late Night great again. And I agree with the President on this fact. Seth Myers, who hosts the show, for some reason, had a problem with the president. He said on the show previously hosted by David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, you wrote, I watched this show the other night for the first time in years.

But just ten months ago you wrote, I got stuck watching marble mouth Myers stuck. I find it hard to believe you let the other people decide what to put on. Everything about your vibe screams I call the clicker which is it, you watched me for the first time in years this week or you watch for the first time in months in January? Do you not remember? Apparently mister Myers and the President have been not getting along since in twenty eleven.

Seth Myers there at the White House Correspondents dinner and joked Donald Trump has been saying that he’ll run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I assumed he was running as a choke and so what we’ve learned here. But whether it’s Seth Myers or former President Obama, you don’t want to make fun of Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents dinner. He will remember it. Jimmy Fallon catching grief now. I’ve seen a couple reports of this.

On Friday’s Tonight Show, Fallon’s guest was Hunter Schaeffer, Hunter, who was trans was there to discuss her role as Tigers Snow in The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. During the segment, Jimmy Fallon showed an old photograph of Schaeffer as a child, taken before her transition, in which she wore a costume inspired by the Hunger Games. Fallon then showed a clip of Schaffer in the new film and commented, congratulations, Bud. People on the internet are curious about Jimmy’s choice of the word bud in that context. I started to poke away yesterday at that long, feisty GQ article Stephen Colbert, and it’ll probably took me a few days to get through this.

Colbert said, the great thing about comedy, not to take anything away from drama, but the great thing about comedy is you know when it works. The audience makes this noise with their mouth, and that really can’t be faked, and you get instantly a sense of we’re here together, and you’ve hooked up your jumper cables to them. I jumped a car on Sunday. By the way, it took me a couple tries. I had my portable jumpers and that wasn’t taking the courts gooning click cick, click, click click, and then I dug out my old school.

You know the long cables where you have a car that’s working and you jump a car. You know what jumping a car is. I did at old school with the long wires, not the portable jumpers. I usually can get away with it on the portable jumpers. I did it old school and I got it to run.

Bought a new battery two hundred and eighty bucks. But kudos to the nice people at the AutoZone. They put it in for me, easy peasy. I was done in ten minutes. I digress.

Colbert was doing that jumper cables analogy and said, there’s an energy that goes to you, to them and them to you. When it’s working really well, you walk off stage with more energy than when you walked on stage. I’ve never been sick on stage. I’ve been very sick. I did a show where I had a burst appendix and I did a double show.

I didn’t know my appendix was burst. Wow. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. But I was sweating and thought I might pass out, and I was in so much While you’re laughing, John, I don’t know, but I thought I might pass out and was in so much pain that I was crying in commercial breaks. But during the show I could just get through it, and I did two shows.

I did a double show that night. Then afterwards my wife made sure that my driver took me straight to the hospital. I got there and they said, oh, you have a burst appendix. We have to take this out right now a lot more to get to there. We have time.

I do the show three hundred and sixty five days a year, plusant bonus episode, so I’ll get to it, trust me. Bill Mooher ripped Jimmy Kimmel for thanking everybody but Bill Maher. Mar said, Look, Jimmy Parry doesn’t like me too much anymore because he thanked everybody but me. And I was adamant about supporting him that week and the next week. I can’t lie and say I think what he said was accurate, but I was adamant he shouldn’t be thrown off the air.

He did a great show. I went on and on, Bill, do you need me to play the clip again? I don’t want to play the clip again. Why you just hit rewind like twelve times and go back where I just played it. It’s a Trump joke.

It’s not a Charlie Kirk joke. It’s a Trump joke. The president was asked about somebody he’s supposedly really tight with being murdered, and the guy went, oh, yeah, how about the beautiful construction behind me. It’s a Trump joke. Mar called Kimmel’s format and the other late night shows very predictable.

Him and host like that. Quite frankly, they’re all quite similar in this regard is that they’re ideologically captured by one side. It’s not just what I do, what I’m doing. And so there’s a reason why half the country feels insulted by those hosts and has turned off to them because it’s just one very predictable point of view. And this proves that it’s often not completely accurate, because that was not a smart thing to say that this guy who shot Charlie Kirk was on the Mega team.

That is not what Kimmel was seeing. Kimmel was pointing out. The Republicans were very quick to say, Hey, he’s not one of us, that’s not he gonna listen to the joke, Bill, do you need me? I’m gonna play it again, Bill. Here it is again, Bill, Listen.

We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them. Mark said, because that’s just something the Blue Sky crowd told themselves. And if you’re that far in the bubble. We don’t really see both sides, and you don’t. You’re gonna believe that blue sky point of view.

Nobody’s on blue sky. Dude, what are you talking about? John Will talk about something else. Okay. Vulture had a cool headline caught my eye.

It’s called Leanne Morgan versus Leanne Morgan. They were talking about her new special. Some spoilers here. I saw Dylan in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Please feel encouraged to join us.

We’ve had some new members who are participating, which is great. Like when you guys start the conversations, that’s awesome. To join. You’ll have to answer a few questions to make sure you’re not a pornbot. Some light spoilers for Leanne’s special coming up here.

Vulture writes she’s blown up. She’s on Amy Poehler’s podcast and a movie playing Reese Witherspoon’s sister and starring as a version of herself in the new Chucklory sitcom called Leanne. She’s no longer just Leanne Morgan. She’s Leanne Morgan gone Hollywood. It’s all happened very quickly as a result unspeakable thing the new special is an incomplete, underdeveloped look at whoever Morgan is now becoming someone famous Vulture Rights.

Morgan’s great gift as a comedian is in drawing vivid imagery. Unspeakable Things opens with a recap of her life over the last few years, et cetera, et cetera. Morgan positions herself throughout the specials opening sections. She may find herself hanging out with Will Ferrell on the hair and makeup crew of a straight to streaming rom com, but they’re celebrities. She’s the one with big old mama breasts.

She’s the one still grounded, still trapped by all the rules of the human bodies and moral standards that keep people from losing themselves to fame, and unlike everyone else in Hollywood, She’s got enough of a footback in the real world that she can still see how wild the world really is. Skipping ahead Vulture Rights. If all of Unspeable Things was built around that premise, or at least willing to go deeper into Morgan’s ambivalence about Hollywood culture, it would be a stronger hour. But after the first twenty minutes of Morgan grappling with her current life Unspeakable Things pivots backward into a family album of Morgan’s past. Hey listener checked in with me and ask me, am I actually mad about the Riodd Comedy Festival or am I doing a bit?

And I said I would address it on today’s show. So I will address this now. I did some soul searching. If I had been reached out by the Reodd Comedy Festival, say in the spring, and they said, hey, we’re doing this festival. We’d like to sponsor your podcast.

Here’s some money, I would have said yes. I’m not going to sit here and be like no, no, no, I would have said yes. If they had invited me to the Reodd Comedy Festival, I would have said, yes, stay with me. One of the things I believe in is life is a journey. You change, you get more informed, you get more information.

I’m a big believer in there’s a philosophy that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time around. Those people do influence your opinions on things. So as I believe life is a journey, you revisit positions, you reconsider things. For example, in the past, I used language I would not use now I’ve told the story before, but I will tell it again. When Jim Brewer had the show on Sirious, he had an opening where he used a word that rhymed with me, and in the opening to the show he would say, Hey, don’t be a maggot, come hang out.

Jim, who I believe is two years older than me and from Long Island and I’m from Queen’s, explained this on the air that there was nothing sexual about how he meant it. He described it as the kid who couldn’t kick the kickball, And with my Queen’s mentality of in my mid thirties, I understood what Jim meant. One day, a friend from the radio station called out que the friend is gay. Came by my office and was like, what are you doing? What is your problem?

And I’m like, huh what? And the friend explained to me that the term is offensive. And I still, twenty years later, fe’re terrible. He educated me. We took it off the air that day.

I still feel bad about it. Life is a journey. You change your opinions if you listen to the episode with Jason Zinnemann, if you listen to the beginning. I asked him about Riod and I say something along the lines of, Jason, can you help me sort out my feelings here? As I dove more in to it, and as the listener reached out to me, and as I thought about it this morning, here’s where I’ve landed.

I think what bugs me about it is that the comedians who went their vibe just seems to be, Hey, you know what, I got paid, so f off. You’ll even hear a lot of the comedians using the term bag, like yeah, I got my bag, as if there’s no other nuance to the conversation, as if there’s nothing to talk about human rights, freedom of speech, kushogi. Now along the way, if I had been running ads for the comedy Festival and I started getting notes from listeners or people whose opinions I take seriously, Hypothetically, let’s just say, a guy from the New York Times who I’m friendly with, shoots me a note on the side. This did not happen, but hypothetically, if I got a note from this person who I respect and had been like, dude, what are you doing, then I might have thought about it and I might have changed. Now these are all hypotheticals.

I don’t know. I think I would have been like, oh, yeah, I shouldn’t take that money, you’re right, Or I shouldn’t go cover this comedy festival because of the things I became educated on. So that’s where I’ve kind of landed. But I think the real thing that’s coming out on the air when I say this is just from the artists who went. They’re acting like, yeah, dude, they got a Kentucky Fried chicken.

Oh okay, they got a Kentucky Fried chicken, So I guess everything’s good. A guy didn’t get chopped up and put in a suitcase anyway, did you get your bag? That’s where I’ve landed now, Is it a bit to say Comedian X, who’s just back for the Redd Comedy Festival announced a new tour. Is that a bit? Yeah, it’s a bit.

Hopefully the podcast is entertaining. Hope it doesn’t come across as defensive. I hear some defensiveness in my voice right now, and that’s not how I mean it at all. I’m just trying to explain and hope that makes sense to you, and hope that makes sense to you all the listeners, not just the one person who emailed me on the side, So that’s where kind of at with it. I got my bag, so few who cares out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel today Chat Daniels for reels.

I like chat a lot. That should be good to check out. The three to one to two Comedy Festival continues seven o’clock at the Theater. People are gonna get upset by this show existing it’s The Killers of Kill Tony.

Speaking of which, did you watch Saturday night Live Cam Patterson appeared.

I don’t think they know what to do with him. I still think he’s one and out. Now. Unclear to me who’s on the bill tonight. If you look at the nineteenth the Killers of Kill Tony are Ari Monte Hans, Kim, Martin Phillips and David Jolly.

Not sure who the killers are this evening.

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Meanwhile, at the vic Theater, Justin Willman at seven the show I would go to.

If you’re in Chicago, you should absolutely go see Pete Holmes. I’ve never been disappointed by Pete Holmes. He’s fantastic live. He’s at the Riviera Theater and John Goblkin is at seven at Zany’s Downtown and at nine point fifteen a roast battle at Zany’s Downtown. So that’s a good night at the festival.

And congratulations to Whitney Cummings who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. She can use that money to have a fabulous wedding, Whitney Cummings, and now she’s engaged to professional skateboarder Chris Cole. On her podcast, Whitney Cummings said, I got engaged last week. I don’t have to tell everybody. I’m embarrassed to even talk about it and just trying to get it out of the way.

TMZ says Cole proposed to Whitney during their daily hike in Tipanga Canyon, back behind her house. TMZ shared a photo of the moment. Is a good thing there happened to be a photographer there, showing Cole down on one knee and Whitney Cummings kneeling in front of him with her hand covering her face, seemingly overwhelmed with emotion. Definitely not a stage photo. Just I guess TMZ has stalkers in the woods who happen to casture a proposal.

I don’t know it wasn’t there, don’t know what happened. Whitney said it was so awkward. I was like, Okay, cool, now what and I was like, should we go to dinner or something? Cole had no plan for afterwards. As soon as he got the ring on, he was like, I never have to try to impress you again.

That’s funny. Cole then suggested dinner at Pizza Hut. Cummings joked he’s never pitched Pizza Hut before. I haven’t spoken to him since Pizza Hut’s not our thing, Like it’s not an inside joke. We’ve never talked about Pizza Hut before.

Well, congratulations to Whitney and mister Cole and that he’s a pretty feisty l Comedy News on a Thursday. It’s been a weird month and a half here at the show, but numbers are up, so somebody’s enjoying it, and somebody is you, and I thank you for listening. To see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Taylor Tomlinson, Theo Vaughn, Andrew Santino, Leslie Jones, Paul Rudd, George Cheeks

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert Late Show cancellation and GQ interview
• CBS late night profitability and Taylor Tomlinson renewal
• Paramount’s $16 million settlement lawsuit decision
• Theo Vaughn’s DHS deportation video controversy
• Theo Vaughn’s Netflix special taping experience
• Leslie Jones SNL 50th anniversary director confrontation

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Hither. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Stephen Colbert was interviewed by GQ, who really wanted us to know that Colbert was poolside when this took place. The topic the cancelation, Stephen said, Listen, every show’s got ended sometime, and I’ve been on a bunch of shows that have ended, sometimes by our lights and sometimes by the decision of other people. It’s just the nature of show business.

You can’t worry about it. You got to be a big boy about that. But I think we’re the first number one show to ever get canceled. Colbert said he was told by CBS they were getting out of Late Night because it’s no longer profitable. He called it surprising.

I’ll editorialize here I have brought us up in the past. Well, then why did they renew Taylor Tomlinson at twelve thirty That was announced as a renewal and then Taylor said she didn’t want to do it. That was the story we were told. So A, is that story not true? B If it is true that they renewed it, and then Taylor said no, thanks, Well why would you renew twelve thirty.

Were you going to have a twelve thirty show with a no. Eleven thirty show, or were you going to move after midnight to be before midnight? None of that makes sense. Steven Colbert said, I can understand why people would have that reaction because CBS or the parent corporation. I’m not going to say who made that decision, because I don’t know.

No one’s ever going to tell us decided to cut a check for sixteen million dollars to the President of the United States over a lawsuit that their own lawyers, Paramount’s own lawyers said is completely without merit, and it’s self evident that this is damaging to the reputation of the network, the corporation, and the news division. So it’s unclear to me why anyone would do that other than the Curry favor with a single individual. Wow, he is not pulling his punches here, Colbert said, if people have theories that associate me with that, it’s a reasonable thing to think because CBS or the corporation clearly did it once. But my side of the street is clean, and I have no interest in picking up a broom or adding to refuse on the other side of the street, not my problem. Colbert says he has a great relationship with CBS.

It’s one of the reasons why this was so surprising and so shocking that there was no preamble to this, budgets and everything like that. We’ve done cuts and stuff like that, so that’s why it was surprising to me, as I said, But I meant what I said on air the next night after I found out, because I couldn’t sit on it. They’ve been great partners, they really have. They’ve been very supportive. It took us six to nine months to find our legs before people watched the show.

We didn’t quite figure out what we wanted to do. It didn’t come fully assembled out of the box the way the Colbert Report did. And they stood by us and they were very supportive, and they gave us what we needed and we found it and we delivered for them what we wanted. I want to do a good job, he said. There is a sense of relief that he might not have to put the snorkel on and get into the sewer every day.

He doesn’t know how they’re going to land the plane, but he wants to do it gracefully. GQ’s opener, house work super normal, Colbert said, strangely, everything is normal because the show is never normal. I’ve got nine months of shows to do. I can’t be thinking about it ending in May. I’ve got to think about the show on Monday.

So when you say has the show perfectly normal? Well, yeah, it wasn’t that normal. And I had to tell everybody at the show was ending. But the next Monday I had to do a show. Steven, does nine months feel like a long time or a short time?

Colbert said? The end has a discernible shape, but it still seems a long way away. Seems like I got feisty here. As for that discernible shape, GQ, can you describe that shape? Colbert said?

The image I have as a man walking towards me in the dusk, and he’s got something in his hand. I don’t know whether it’s a knife or an ice cream cone, but he is asking me if I’d like a lick. Now, this is a transcript. I don’t know exactly what Colbert’s tone was here, but this is interesting, GQ said, I can’t tell if this is a bit or if this is real. Colbert, what are you talking about?

Why would this be a bit. By the way, it’s hard to tell whether things are real or a bit. Sometimes to me, every day you have to come up with a bit about something that was real. So after a while it’s hard to tell what’s a bit and what’s real because you see other people engaging in performative behavior all the time, and it’s hard to know if they’re sincere about it. And at a certain point it doesn’t matter if they’re sincere about it because their behavior has an effect.

Interesting again, the interview. I know I’m going along here, but the interview continues to seemingly go sideways. GQ. You’ve been attaching your mouth to the exhaust pipe of news for I don’t know.

And then there’s a dash and Colbert’s answer is that sounds vaguely suicidal.

You’ve been running your car in the closed garage of media for twenty years. Or you’re getting a little woozy. Yeah, I’m getting a little woozy. Listen, It’s possible that George Cheeks, who was at the time the co CEO of Paramount, saved my life. I’ll get a little oxygen back into my brain.

I love what we do and I love the grind. You can only do one of these shows, do the jokes every night, year after the year, for twenty years if you give a damn at all about what you’re talking about. And I do, but there’s a sense of relief that I might not have put on the storkel. All right, let me pick up more on that tomorrow. A heck of a lot more there.

Via TMZ. THEO Vaughn once against addressed the Department of Homeland Security using a video of him to promote deportations. THEO told guest Andrew Santino, it was scary seeing how much hate THEO god After the promo video made its rounds. THEO points out the government chair of the clip not long after Charlie Kirk was murdered, and he was therefore paranoid. Sindju Post has a transcript.

They have it as Santino saying, talk about pulling that out of context. They’re so good at that, dude. They just took something that had nothing to do with something else. You’re making a joke and they’re like, he’s our spokesperson. You’re like, what, I didn’t sign up for that, bro.

THEO then talked about being paranoid following the Charlie Kirk murder. THEO, you know, I started getting real paranoid at home. I was paranoid about the show. If there could be somebody in the audience, you know. The conversation then talks to THEO Vaughan’s Netflix special taping, which sources who are there say didn’t go so well.

THEO said, yeah, so that was happening.

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And then there were just too many cooks in the kitchen on the set, and then d…

In the upcoming day’s full hour interview there and they talked about a whole bunch of things. The New York Post had a feisty story involving Leslie Jones. This took place at the SNL fiftieth anniversary celebration. Apparently there was some director that she doesn’t like, Leslie told Vulture’s Good One podcast. First of all, I don’t like him.

He comes over to me, and you know, I don’t like him, she says. The director said that he wanted a photo with Leslie and that Paul Rudd was going to take the picture. She says, Paul Rudd sees that I don’t like him, so Paul’s like, oh, I’m enjoying this, and the guy goes, I want to take a picture with you. I’m not taking a picture with you. You’re a piece of crap.

I’m not going to take a picture with you. Rud snapped the photo. Jones said, I wanted to kill him. Get your hand off me. Jones revealed that her hatred of the man, who she has described as a narcissistic penis head, that her hatred peaked after he wouldn’t leave her following a long day on set back in February.

On the Tore podcast, Leslie said, the guy who would direct to some SNL pieces was an fing a hole And I don’t give an f If you see this, you still are probably an fing d head, an e fing narcissistic d head. He was just one of the white boys that thought he was doing Shakespeare. No, this is an effing sketch and you’re not funny and you’re not creating anything beautiful. You’re just being an a hole with this tedious fing s. Leslie talked about being on the cast.

He said, there’s going to be good times, there’s going to be bad times, there’s going to be stressful times. It’s any job now. SNL is a big stress Yes, it’s mentally and physically hard. That’s why you gotta be ready when you go in there, because it’s a foundation, it’s a machine, it’s an institution. The thing I had to realize is like, oh, I’m not going to be able to change SNL.

Matt Wright is upset with the airlines. He posted on social media to Air Canada, F you. I hate your guts. So your website crashes and won’t allow me to check in, So upon arrival to the airport, I’m told, yeah, you weren’t checked in on time. We can’t give you a boarding pass because of your website.

Absolutely nothing stopping me from making it onto the plane, Plenty of time to make it to the gate, not even an issue. You just won’t let the person who bought a ticket get their ticket because of your system. Go f yourself, never flying with y’all again, and I hope nobody does. Around three hours later, the airline replied, Hey, Matt, sorry about your experience. The issue you’ve encountered was not caused by our website.

Please dm us and be happy to have a conversation about the issue. Apparently Matt Rife has gotten into it with the airlines before. One report says in twenty twenty three, Matt Rife posted on X how long is too long? A rose flight attendants in my new show now. During Matt’s Netflix comedy special Natural Selection, there was a lengthy segment on flight attendants who insist on enforcing the rules?

Is that a bad thing? You realize we’re in a middle tube five miles high? That segment was not reviewed well. A review in Cracked magazine said the most off putting segment of the specials is less bit a long time tried about a flight attendant who assisted Rife Stowe’s bag under the seat. It’s a long story that starts out defensive and then gets more defensive.

Yeah, dude, Stull, your bag, relax, dude. Rolling Stone said Rife is a garden variety strain of American contempt, cheap, lazy, and sure to fine broad agreement. Vulture called the flight of attendant rants unfunny, saying it notably lacks the kind of humorous reframing or conscious construction that would make any of it into material if it’d given more thought to it. The realization that he comes off as an enormous a hole might have been an exciting opportunity to twist the story in new directions. At the thirty one to two Comedy Festival in Chicago today seven o’clock stand up on the Spot at Downtown and John goblecon he’s at Zani’s Downtown at nine point fifteen.

Prince Harry I talk about him all the time on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I don’t know if you heard about form MILLI. Prince Andrew boy, we’ve been doing bonus episods and everything. That’s been keeping me busy while watching football Sunday. I think I spent about six hours writing Prince Andrew’s scripts while also watching football and absolutely crushing listener Scott Beckett in the football pool.

I warned him when he invited me. I was like, I’m really good at this. You understand what you’re bringing into your little playhouse there, and he was like, no, no, no, you’re not the good I’m like, oh no, I’m very good at football picks.

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And now Scott Beckett has seen the light I’m happy to take his money.

I digress. Hassan Minaj has a podcast. Yeah, I totally forgot this was a thing. First of all, I totally forgot that Hasan Minhaj was out there, you know, doing stuff. Apparently he’s got a podcast.

Boy, he would have been the host of the Daily Show. Think about that. I mean, it was no brainer to hire that guy to host the Daily Show. He was next anyway. Now he’s got a podcast, which I have a podcast.

I mean, it’s not that impressive. And I bet you if we add up Hassan’s listeners and my listeners, we have more people paying attention to us than say, Late Night with Seth Myers, which is a thing that exists for some reason. I digress again. Prince Harry was on Hasan Minhaj’s podcast. Hassan asked Prince Harry about a supposed feud between Taylor Swift and Charlie xc X, because when you have Prince Harry there, that’s what you would ask him about, right, people say.

Harry looked visibly confused and said he had no idea what Minhaj was talking about, which would have been my reaction as well. Columnist Roba Shutter said Harry’s team didn’t vet Hasan Minhaj before agreeing to the appearance. A Hollywood publicist told Shutter’s website, Harry walked into this blind. His team didn’t vet the host at all. Prince Harry also attempted an American accent, joking about ordering breadsticks with ranch at Applebee’s, which actually sounds pretty tasty.

Last week, the hockey players on the Seattle Crack End dressed up as Adam Sandler characters. They went to go see Adam Sandler’s stand up comedy tour. One of the Fords and the goalkeeper when as characters from You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. One of the defensemen and two Fords were the iconic white cutoff cable knit sweaters from Billy Madison. Sandler came by the crack and locker room.

They presented him with a sign Jersey. Sandler posted on his Instagram account and called the outfits by the hockey players hilarious. Netflix will have that documentary about Eddie Murphy next week November twelve. The trailer’s out. The whole thing is called Being Eddie.

In Being Eddie, Eddie Murphy himself opens up his home and heart, reflects on a career that captivated multiple generations, and reveals the inner life that has long driven his unique ambition and charisma. I use a lot of AI. I think AI wrote that sentence. Captivate is a word that AI loves to use anyway. Featuring a star studded lineup of fellow comedians and industry peers, including Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, Jerry Seinfeld, and Kevin Hart who also performed at the Riod Comedy Festival.

Not sure if they talk about that in this documentary, Probably not, would be my guess. Being Eddie explores how Eddie Murphy navigated fame, stayed grounded, and remained at the top of his game for over four decades. The documentary is expected to explore Eddie’s deep relationship with his late brother Charlie, who passed away in twenty seventeen. It’s been that long. I remember doing an episode about that.

Wow. The doc also features footage from Murphy’s days on SNL, which were great. I was having a conversation with one of my students the other day, who’s a big fan of SNL. Now the Eddie Murphy years or well before his time. I mean I was a teenager then, So hopefully he’ll watch this and appreciate them.

Now here’s a premise. This thing promoting the Eddie Murphy documentary says there would be no Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, or Adam Sandler without Eddie Murphy. So do we have Eddie Murphy to blame for all these horrible, horrible movies? That’s terrible. I used to like Eddie Murphy being Eddie.

Netflix, November twelve. Pete Davidson and Ella Pernell have signed on to star in That Time We Met. The Time We Met follows a new couple that discovers their unborn child is destined to save the future of humanity. The only problem is they’ve just had their first date and now they hate each other, which sounds like it would actually be I’m not being a jokey here. That would be a good Adam Sandler role.

He’d be really good at that. Pete Davidson in that role, I’ll tell you right now, that’s gonna be terrible. Write that down. That’s gonna be one of the comedy stock Market picks on Friday. Pete’s not going to be good in that role.

Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, he could nail that. And you may recall yesterday I was like, Eh, I’m not gonna say about Amy Schumer’s weight loss, and you’ve been sitting around for twenty four hours now waiting for me to talk about it. Well, I will talk about it now. Amy Schumer posted on Instagram she was wearing a black and white Valentino dress. Amy posted, I’m feeling strong and like myself.

I’m enjoying how I look, But man, it’s all about how you feel. So grateful to be pain free, thanks to my trainer who has helped strengthen me since my back surgery, and some sort of company that she was promoting or thinking for lifting all the endometriosis out of my body. In the photos, Amy Schumer poses around the house in a split black and white neat length dress with a plunging neckline and black pointed to pumps. In one of the photos, she also wears a silky, pale pink dress and posed in a lounge chair. You’ve heard me say this before.

Every now and then, Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so okay, we will. Glad you’re looking great and feeling great, and that’s your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Harry Condobolu, Zoram Mundani, Miles Taylor, Romy Yusef, Kenan Thompson, James Austin Johnson, Colin Jost, Michael Jay

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis returns to SNL as Curtis Sliwa
• SNL election day special with NYC mayoral debate sketch
• Harry Condobolu endorses Zoram Mundani for NYC mayor
• James Austin Johnson discusses evolution of Trump impression
• Michael Jay speaks out on SNAP benefits and poverty
• Property Brothers sketch with Miles Taylor on SNL

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media busy one today and there is a pretty large Stephen Colbert interview in GQ. I will cover that tomorrow because it’s election day. And hello, I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Please vote today. I don’t care who you vote for.

You gotta vote or I’m gonna yell at you tomorrow if you didn’t vote, So go vote. Hit stop on them. Why are you even listening to me unless you’re on your way to vote? Go vote. As a big New York City mayoral election today, Harry Condobolu told nola dot com he doesn’t think there’s much of a Condobolu bump, but Harry Condobolu has made an endorsement in the New York City mayor’s race.

He is supporting Zoran Mumdanni. You may be familiar with Mumdanni from such things as Rama Yusef playing him on Saturday Night Live. We’ll get into that. He’s a young dude, a progressive, making a lot of noise, and will probably be in New York City’s next mayor. Now, if you don’t like mister Mumdanni, go vote and vote for one of the other candidates see how this works, and then if you don’t vote, you don’t get to be mad about it.

Harry Condobolo said, I’ve known Zoran since he was like eighteen years old. He went to my alma mater vote in college in Maine, and his mom asked me if i’d tell him what the school was like before he went. During his four years, we kept in touch, and we kept in touch after that. I did a fundraiser for him when he was running for assemblymen. I’ve known for a while this kid was special, but I’ll be honest, I didn’t think he’d be mayor now.

Harry’s gotten involved with New York area politics before. He has told a story about AOC reaching out to him. In twenty seventeen, she sent the ever so serious Harry condoboulu who a direct message on Twitter. This was before she was famous. She shared that she was running a grassroots progressive campaign to represent Ports of Queens and the Bronx and would Harry collaborate with her.

He wrote back, I’m pretty busy right now. When he get back to me next year. He also called her Alexis in the message. Oops, she won, and he said on the night she won. He direct messaged her back, you did it.

I knew you’d win. Harry says, when candidates reach out now, I’m likely to say yes when they’re asking me to do it. Did you watch SNL? It was a pretty good episode, by far the best of the season. It opened up with a mock New York City mayoral debate.

Miles Taylor played former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Romy Yusef was Zoe ram Mandani. He joked, happy to be here, and I’m ready to spend the next hour hearing my opponents pronounce my name in ways you couldn’t begin to imagine. I’m probably getting it wrong.

And then, shockingly to me, and people don’t seem to be making a big deal of …

Shane Gillis played Curtis Sliwa. You know, the Guardian Angel guy with the red beret. If you’re from New York City, you’re like, yeah, John, we know. But maybe if you’re in an other part of the country, you don’t know this guy. Back in the eighties, when New York City was basically hell, the Guardian Angels were like guys that would ride the subway wearing red berets and would stick up for you if bad guys were trying to do things.

So Curtis, like to New Yorkers, has been known forever. I met him once when Bob Grant’s time WOR Radio ended, Curtis came by to help Bob Grant move boxes. This is the only time I met Curtis Leiba on that particular day. He was cool, But I digress. Shane Gillis on SNL like it’s nothing.

You may recall he was on the cast and then not on the cast. That’s the thing that happened. So I don’t understand why the world was like, oh yeah, Shane Gillis was on SNL, like that’s a big deal.

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Also a big deal.

Now here’s the opening sketch. We’ve got Keenan Thompson as the moderator, and just Keenan proves Saturday Night he is the glue. I know, we all know this, but he’s so good at everything, steady, reliable, keeps the trains on time. So he’s the moderator.

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And then we have in the three shiny spots the guest toast okay, that’s fine, …

It’s not like Shane Gillis nailed the Curtis Sliwa impression, So the whole thing is weird to me. Laurene Michaels, do you not trust your cast because you’re not using them? Towards the end of the sketch, j Sames Austin Johnson came out doing his increasingly drifting Donald Trump impression. He actually addressed his Trump impression with The Hollywood Reporter recently and said the Sands shift he used to be not as terrifying when he had moderate people around him who were trying to stop him. Now they’re all gone, and his enemies are powerless and paralyzed to stop any of it, which all comes across as super dark.

How do you find what’s funny within that? James said, I’m just trying to find new things happening with his speech and his brain and definitely the darkness, which is not easy with a guy who’s been dominating every single day for almost ten years. He says, the subtlety is where the secret to his impression lies. He explains Hamlet is not saying I’m gonna kill myself because I suck. He says he’s thinking about rivers and bones and ghosts.

Amid all the soliloquies, you pick up on an undercurrent of really complex moral struggle. I don’t want to call what I’m doing Shakespeare, but I’m trying to find the deeper forms of Trump, Who’s a rich text. People were upset with Colin Jost once again. Colin told a joke about the President and wife Milania walking out to the White House’s Halloween festivities playing the song Thriller. Joe said, my favorite part is when Trump and Millennia made a grand entrance to the song Michael Jackson’s Thriller just the perfect soundtrack to lore kids to a famous mansion.

Some wonder if that’s a joke joke. Others wonder if that’s some sort of Epstein commentary. I didn’t write the joke, ask SNL Like I said. Good episode. Miles Teller was really good.

The Property Brothers sketch was really good, and James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump was really good. In case you missed it, Miles Teller played both Jonathan and Drew Scott. The Property Brothers stars of the HGTV show Property Brothers. In the sketch, they were helping Donald Trump build his new White House ballroom. There was also a very funny NHL sketch based upon that there are three teams in the NHL.

One is the Rangers, one is the Kings, and the other is Predators, and a lot of the humor came from Predators. I don’t want to spoil it too much, but that’s the setup and you should watch the sketch. They’re all online. I set them out to my family on Sunday night when I finally caught up with the episode between Football and More Football, and I thought it was a pretty good episode. ALRP said, up, Michael Jay.

Now this wasn’t on SNL. This was on Instagram and Chay was commenting on snap benefits, which you may know as food stamps. Chay wrote, this, Snap Freeze is really fed up and I keep seeing a lot of racist videos celebrating mostly black families not being able to buy groceries. There’s this weird idea that’s in some people have taken advantage of welfare benefits in the hood. Nobody should receive help at all.

Jay continued this country’s built on greedy mf ors, taking shortcuts and gaming of the system to their benefit. But for some reason, when poor people find a way to turn nickel into a dime, they’re judged more severely, especially blacks. I know the whole hustle is to hate each other here, so we can fight in the comments and upburn engagements, but let’s draw the line to feeding the poor. I grew up on free cheese and powdered milk and waiting for your friends to leave the store so they won’t see me pay with stamps. That’s not as glamorous as it sounds, I promise.

Yes, we are very political today it is election day, and I put all the politics things in today’s show, and then tomorrow no politics. So that’s why I moved the Colbert thing to tomorrow. Now, as you listen to the show, May, I could understand if you were, like, you know, John, sometimes I don’t think you’re down with President Trump. Well, I have newsview. Sometimes President Trump and I are quite aligned.

For example, President Trump posted on social media about Late Night with Seth Myers. Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this? I agree? Why does that show exist. Who’s it for?

Who’s watching it? It has about seven more viewers than I have listeners. I don’t know what this is for. So if you’re like Johnya never backed Trump on anything, I’m backing him up on this. Trump declared that Seth Myers may be the worst to perform live or otherwise.

Again, sometimes the President and I are aligned, sometimes we’re not, the President continued, I watched the show the other night for the first time in years. In it, he talked endlessly about electric catabults on aircraft carriers, which I complained about is not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults on an Anyway, it truly deranged, lunatic. I don’t think Seth Myers is deranged, and I’m not an expert on aircraft carrier catapults, so I’m not able to comment on that. The President continued, Why does NBC waste its time money? And I like this no talent, no ratings, one hundred percent anti Trump, which is probably illegal.

I’m not a lawyer. I’m just a guy in the basement with a podcast. I don’t think it is illegal at all to be anti Trump. Radar online sourcing Rob Shutter, who has a sub stack. They’re suggesting friends of Jimmy Kimmel would like Jimmy Kimmel to run for president.

That would be all sorts of interesting politics aside, just as somebody who hosts a podcast in their basement about comedians please do now. I am familiar with Radar Online because when I’m not doing this, I write for the Palace Intrigue podcast, and I find that Radar Online tends to be more gossipy than some other websites Anyway. Supposedly, insiders say that Hollywood elites see Jimmy Kimmel as a fearless contender for the twenty twenty eight presidency. A source says they’re pitching him as smart, funny, fearless, but it’s a tiny bubble casting this role, not thinking about real voters. Another insider said of Jimmy Kimmel, he’s starting to believe maybe they’re right, But to real Americans, Jimmy Kimmel and the White House sounds more like a late night punchline than a serious plan.

It is election day. Did I mention that why are you still listening to me when you should be voting?

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Do not sit home today. I will scold you. Recently, John Stewart did that live conference with David Remnick from The New Yorker. They shared a full transcript. Remnick asked John Stewart, why do you think Trump won?

Stewart said, because of the dissatisfaction of an analog system. In a digital world, the distance between how you feel about the world and the actual world has never been larger. We’re victims of the circadium rhythms of social media, and social media is incentivized to what not to connect us. I’ve seen the Facebook commercial, and yes, it’s true, if you do like a certain kind of cat, there’ll be other people who like that certain kind of cat, and you will connect with one another. But the purpose of social media to keep you on his platform.

That’s it. That’s all these companies care about. They want you on that platform. They want you there as long as they can possibly have you. And the way they’ve rigged our brains to figure out is that outrage and anger and hate and hostility are much stronger drivers of engagement than anything else.

On the flip side of that, won’t answer here. By jud Stewart, we have a political system designed as an analog. What is the Senate? It’s the cooling saucer of democracy. And what’s Twitter?

That’s the thing that makes you want to rip people’s eyes out. You put those together and it’s not a good mix. And so Trump was able to harness the anger and catastrophizing of that as a way of taking over the other things that we have. Remnick asked, and he didn’t find Biden and Harris a good remedy for that. John laughed and said, I thought they were great.

Stuart said, Look what’s going on with Zorain Maundani. You finally got a guy in New York City who’s getting people to vote in the affirmative for his positions, which is inspiring people and giving a certain amount of leadership. And what is the general status call the Democratic Party do with that? That guy’s a communist like the party goes along with the characterture of this man. Look, we’re in a bad situation.

It’s not just the crappiness of Trump. It’s the passivity of the Democratic Party to stick with a status quo that most people felt were not working. It was a Legenday, did you vote yet? We are political today, Yes, we are. Stavros Halkias with Vulture.

They were recapping the episode of Stave’s World with guest Caleb Hearin. That was the one where Stavey said he was shocked and disappointed that Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump. Alkias said, what surprised me about Joe in particular is I do think we align on a lot. I don’t think he’s a far right guy. It was just shocking because he’s an avatar for a regular dude.

A lot of people do swing wildly. He liked Bernie like Trump. There’s a lot more people in America that are like that. To me, it was like, WHOA, what the f How did Democrats allow this kind of thing to happen? Because listen, I get being like, I hate both these candidates.

That was my position. I got not liking Kamala Harris, but I did not, in any way, shape or form understand being a free speech guy and then being like Trump’s my guy. That was really the crux of it, and it was worse than even thought obviously with these he said something quite unfavorable about Ice. Ice people with mass and no due process in America, and that’s your freedom of speech. Guy.

He was suing journalists he didn’t like before this. I just thought it was a simplistic view of freedom of speech. That’s like, essentially, we shouldn’t be able to say any slurs. They’re not worthy of it. Take him back.

I would like du process and bleeping out a couple effing words. Stavro says also endorsed this Zooran Mamdani guy in the Mayor oal race. Vulture was curious why Starvar said, I got not liking either candidate in the twenty four presidential election because I do think the Democratic Party does not offer anything right now. Mamdani represents something that is exciting to a lot of young people. Democratic leadership is like, how do we get people excited after running the most bs consultant driven campaigns possible, Whereas Mamdani is a guy who’s effing thirty three and who has just excited people.

But the Democrats don’t want that because they’re also bought and paid for. Starvo said, I don’t think they needed me. His campaigns really well run. But that’s where I’ll be like, hey, if I can make a difference in any way. Even if this helps this much, I’ll help candidates I believe in, or causes I believe in, or fundraise for things I believe in.

But I’m not going to have the politics hour every week on my podcast. That must be nice. I’m trying not to, and I’m doing it twice a week now at least. To go vote Please out Today On Netflix, Leanne Morgan’s Unspeakable Things. LeAnn Morgan takes on topics including motherhood, trying CBD for the first and last time, navigating fame, and the less glamorous side of family vacations.

Jimmy Fallon has a new Tuesday Night segment as part of the NBA on NBC. This debut last week, but today’s Tuesday, and there’s basketball on NBC tonight. The segment is called the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot. I was thinking about Jimmy over the weekend. He’s a survivor.

You know, that Cobert rating story came out and I was like, you know, Fallon doesn’t have the ratings and he also doesn’t have the respect. You’ve heard me. I stick up for Jimmy more often than not, but he definitely doesn’t have the respect at all. It’s just a weird spot to have the Tonight Show in third place. And it’s not like people are like, yeah, the host of the Tonight Show.

But I guess Jay Leno didn’t have that either, right, but Jay Leno was in first anyway. The Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot combines live game energy with the NBC Late Night Show’s classic audience participation vibe. Each week, as Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave, one audience member will get the chance to make a half court basketball shot for ten thousand dollars. The jackpot rolls over if no one sinks it. Last week, Maggie from Long Beach was the contestant.

She told Jimmy Fallon she does not play basketball. She took a shot, the crowd cheers, she missed. She got a consolation prize, a Tonight Show sweatshirt signed by Jimmy Fallon and Atlanta Hawk star Trey Young, who is there as part of this. Fallon said more money will be added to the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot for next week. Next week is now, so somebody’s gonna take their shot out today.

On the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel, it is Michael Yo’s Snack Daddy, and I never thought it’s a double feature by Michael Yo. The three to one to two Festival has kicked off. Patrick war Button, that’s Puddy. He’s at Zani’s Rosemont tonight at seven a preview of three one two. The Chicago Theater will have some of the bigger shows including Fortune Fiemster there on the eighth, Ralph Barbosa there on the seventh.

Dusty Slay, one of my current favorites, also part of the festival, So we’ll start breaking that out every day and then later in the week. It’s the New York Comedy Festival. Three one two was launched in twenty twenty three. I thought it was around longer than that. I guess I am wrong.

It was launched by Outback Presents and Outback’s president Andrew Farewell said Chicago is a great market for comedy. Yes it is. He said, comedy is hotter than it’s ever been. There are so many great acts, such diversity, and we’re really proud to bring so many types of comedy across all the different sized venues, from larger theaters to smaller clubs and everything in between. There’s a lot of great places to see comedy in Chicago.

One of the performers will be Pete Holmes, which is interesting because he’s also playing in New York. Pete will be at the Riviera Theater at the Chicago Fest on November eighth. Pete said, I’m very excited consider myself to start in Chicago and hope I’m still in the fold of Chicago comedy. It’s always great to come back and perform there and to be in this venue for the first time at a city I love so much. Chicago has always been a great comedy city because it’s just filled with smart people with sensitive of humor.

You can’t ask for better than that. Oh, I’ll ask for better than that. You know what’s better than that? The Chicago Bears Miracle cover. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett got me in this football pool and I had the Bears and the Bears blew it lately and I was like, ah, I’m not getting that one right.

And then the Bears pulled out a miracle victory. And more importantly the cover, did Dallas win last night? Because if they did, I won the week. If they didn’t, I didn’t. And that’s it.

I’m going to tell you about Amy Schumer’s weight loss. Tomorrow has that for a really exciting tease. You’re just gonna sit around for twenty four hours and be like, oh man, I can’t believe it didn’t tell us about Amy Schumer’s weight loss. I’m just gonna sit here by my phone hitting refresh until he drops another episode. No, yes, all right, see Tomorrow.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Sydney Sweeney, Scooter Braun, Jackson McQueen, Eric Griffin, Wanda Sykes, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Carr, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Greg Gutfeld, Jon Stewart, Selena Gomez

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s Laugh Factory show with Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun in attendance
• Wanda Sykes on cancel culture and the Reod Comedy Festival controversy
• Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes about recent controversies at Selena Gomez benefit event
• Late night ratings: Stephen Colbert beats Kimmel and Fallon combined
• Jimmy Fallon to announce People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive
• Jon Stewart discusses White House construction project

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now you know who went to the Laugh Factory to see a comedy show? People are really excited about this. Right, Sidney Sweeney went to see Matt Rife at the Laugh Factory last week, and boy did this make news.

The Hollywood Reporter says, Matt Riife got up there and said, anyone who gets offended by a joke in a comedy club is an effing R word. The Holly reporter says, even the choice of language seemed intentional to let the audience know what to expect. But that’s not actually the big story. The big story was who came to the show? Sidney Sweeney and Scooter Braun.

They showed up with a group of friends and they sat in the upstairs VIP section. The Hollywood Reporter tells us Matt Rife had two openers, Jackson McQueen and Eric Griffin. They covered subjects like broken engagements, new couples, h gap relationship, remember that part, the war in Gaza, and the ample amount of nudity on euphoria, specifically Sidney Sweeney’s topless scenes. McQueen started the show just after ten pm. He called the VIP section the groupon section.

He covered a broken engagement and entering the dating pool as a newly single guy. The Hollow Reporter says Sweeney and Braun held hands under the table and sipped on bottles of water. McQueen then brought Griffin up. Gryffin did a set about being a new parent. He joked about the unpredictability of toddlers and their wild nature, then shared a not safer work story about helping his wife out with a tampon.

Use your imagination. Then he joked about euphoria. You know the show with Sidney Sweeney. It is unclear to the Hollywood Reporter if Eric Griffin knew that Sidney Sweeney was upstairs, but he mentioned her name several times and joked about how her breasts are always out. He used alternate language.

Eyewitnesses say Sidney Sweeney doubled over with laughter at the bit. Then up comes Manife. He says he’s not going to do any politics, although he did a few light politics ish things. Holler Porter says Riife covered a range of subjects in his sexually charged sets, including impotence, self love, and a story about visiting Amsterdam’s Red Light District, where he and his best friend took in a show Use your imagination. Riife made several jokes at the expense of trans women and their vocal range.

He started doing a little crowd work with Matthew and Lily, who were in the front row. We’re told he got mileage out of the age gap. You see, she is forty three years old, he is in the mid thirties. This also is relevant because Scooter Braun is forty four. Sidney Sweeney is twenty eight, also an age gap there, remember earlier?

Don’t you to remember that fun fact? Now it’s back. The show went to midnight. Matt Riife ended his show with a standing ovation. By that point, Sidney Sweeney and Scooter Braun and their friends had rushed through the door to beat the masses.

One eyewitness said, she’s so gorgeous in person. He asked Wanda Sykes about Kimmelgge. Remember kim Olgate. Yeah, that was a big thing. We’re gonna talk about late night for a little bit here.

Variety asked Wanda Sykes that situation recirculated conversations about cancel culture. What do you think? Sykes said, before it was just a bunch of people who are upset that they couldn’t say stuff they wanted to say. Well, what do you want to say? Because you can say anything you want, but you got to deal with the fall out when people say, hey, we don’t like what you said and stop buying your tickets.

But what happened to Jimmy. That’s real. People online are losing their jobs for stuff they post. It’s not about what a comic says. Now the guy who works at the post office as something on Facebook and people jump all over him and what that person fired.

So now it applies to everybody. You can say whatever you want, but I want to know what is it you want to say? What is it? What’s the problem you want to say it? Just say it.

I don’t get it. They then asked Wanda Sykes about the re Odd Comedy Festival, which I haven’t brought up in this show. In what two three minutes? Wanta said, I’m sure it was a nice paycheck, and hey, these comics feel comfortable going there. I wouldn’t.

I’m a black gay woman. I have no business there. I wouldn’t feel comfortable with the treatment of the LGBT. But then again, I think Jessica Curson and she said she was going to talk about being a lesbian. I guess that worked for her, but I wouldn’t.

Wanda was reminded that Jessica gave her money away. Want to say to me, that’s anti comedy if you complain about cancel culture, but then you go and take the money to not say things I mean, and then it trails off. As for Jimmy Kimmel, who was at the center of Kimmel Gate, he was at Selena Gomez’s third annual Rare Impact Fund benefit. Kimmell did a joke that in theory is hacky, but probably worked here. He said, I’m excited to be here, Honestly, after the month I’ve had, I’m excited to be anywhere.

I was this close to starting and OnlyFans. Kim Ole discussed the President of the United States, saying, we have a very special event tonight filled with amazing stories from amazing organizations that the President wants to defund. Kimmel praised Selena Gomez’s Foundation for the progress the organization has made in the mental health sphere. The work the Rare Impact Fund does is needed now more than ever. It’s very painful to see what’s happening in this country right now, and we’re not even allowed to take Tailin off for it.

If you’re up late tonight, you can watch the tonight shows. During Jimmy Fallon, he will announce People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. Now I have some inside information about this. I don’t want to tell you how, but I know some people on the list. But on the tonight show to night, Jimmy will crown the sexiest man Alive.

The other guest, Jimmy Carr, who you never know, could be the winner. Maybe there’s only one guest. I’m curious about the conversation Jimmy Fallon is going to have with Jimmy Carr about the Reodd Comedy Festival. I’m sure that’s gonna be Fallon’s opener. Ladies, gentlemen, Jimmy Carr, everybody claps, Car walks out, he sits down, and Jimmy Fallon starts quizzing.

Jimmy carry he goes. Jimmy, you were recently at the Riodd Comedy Festival. A lot of people say that the government there is oppressive, and you took the money. That’s gonna be Jimmy Fallon’s opener, right, because but in the Late Night Wars, you know who’s winning. Stephen Colbert Late Night are saying that during the week of October nineteenth through the twenty fifth, Colbert average two point four to eight million viewers, beating Kimmel and Fallon combine.

Now, Kimmel was off that week doing reruns. Kimmel’s number down to one point one seven million viewers. That’s down seventy nine percent adults eighteen to forty nine, only one hundred and sixty seven thousand people. That is not a lot of people in the scheme of things, That’s really not that many more people than listen to this podcast. But that still was enough for second place.

Jimmy Fallon in third place, one point zero three million total viewers in adults eighteen to forty nine. One hundred and fifty eight thousand people. That is not a lot of people. Seth Meyers has a show for some reason, he averaged eight hundred and twenty five thousand total viewers, but in the eighteen to forty nine he had one hundred and nineteen thousand adults Starting to catch to Seth and on Fox Gutfeld three point one four million viewers and in the eighteen to forty nine two hundred and thirty nine thousand. Now, please remember the other show’s air at eleven thirty five East and west.

Gutfeld airs at ten East and more importantly seven West, so it’s a lot easier to catch that show without staying up. John Stewart is a little suspicious about this construction project at the White House. On The Weekly Show, John Stewart said, here’s what I think ultimately will happen. When his term is done, He’ll just stand up living there, and more than likely the Trump organization will rent down more a lago for whatever the new president is and they’ll have to stay down there. Nobody puts in a ninety thousand square football room for the next guy.

There are many ways to support the show. One way you can do it is you can go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I try once a month to remember to think all the supporters, including Travis and Levaughan and Devin Allen and Becky Andrea, Gary Shannon, Mike Kenny Kenny, I think of you every time I’m in Los Angeles. At that one particular coffee store. I always associate you with that.

I’ve never met Kenny, but we talk coffee on the side, and there’s one over in the downtown LA that I always think of Kenny. So I appreciate you supporting the show. It’s funny how I won’t mention a comedian for a while, and then all of a sudden they’re in the news a lot. Billy Gardell in the news Trip Live said Billy is recovered after pneumonia. Billy was in town for the Pittsburgh Steelers game a week ago.

He’d been feeling run down for a couple of days. He figured he had a cold. Then he woke up and he could barely walk. His wife convinced him to check out medical treatment. Instead of going to the airport.

Doctors ran Tess, Billy, you have pneumonia. On top of that, he was dehydrated and had atrial fiblaration. His heart was not pumping correctly. Billy Gardell, fifty six years old, said, the way they treated me, this young, beautiful staff, and when I say beautiful, I mean the way they do their job and the way they were so proficient in caring. I’ve got to give up so much love to the people of UPMC.

I think I’ve told the story on this show. You know why I started running. Every now and then I’ll humblebreg that I’ve ran a marathon or two. One day, I was at flag football my son was playing, and I had chest pain the entire morning and I felt like crap, to the point where I told my wife I wanted to go to the hospital because I don’t want to be stupid. And I went there.

And when you’re sitting there with your chest shaved and you have electrodes on, it makes you go, hey, want you try and get your act together. So that’s how I started running. I was thirty nine years old. Here’s the part they didn’t tell you. The day before, I was in Philadelphia and had two cheese steaks, because why would you have one cheese steak when you can have two giant, twelve inch cheese steaks.

So that was the nature of my chest pain. It was a cheese steak indigestion. But it was the wake up call to Johnny Mac to want don’t you start running a little bit? CBS caught up with Tracy Morgan. They were promoting Tracy’s new show, which happens to air on CBS.

It’s a spin off of the Neighborhood. Tracy Morgan plays Frank Crutchfield, a widowed father of two adult kids. They moved back into the family home in New York City’s Harlem. Tracy said, prepping my whole life, man, I got kids. My real wife Sabina, she passed away eight years ago.

I knew this role. I know this guy. I was with her in the hospital of the day. She closed her eyes and I said, I love you, I miss you, and please forgive me for any hurd have cost you, and I will see you again. Tracy says for him, it’s important not just to be funny, but he wants his work to have a message.

He says, if it doesn’t have a heart, I don’t want to do it. I need to be motivated. I got to say something. You gotta tell life how I see it. And Naples, illustrated, caught up with my former co worker and Tracy Morgan’s former co worker, Jim Brewer.

They were in the cast together. Jim looked pretty good. Whoever did this photo shoot? Brewer? If you’re listening and Jim’s gotta be I think Jim’s two years older than me.

He’s probably fifty eight. He’s approaching sixty. Jim, you look great in the Naples illustrated photos by Nick Sergio. Well, Nick Sergio did a great job. So when I worked with Jim, I really could do Jim pretty well, like not one of my usual half ass impressions.

I could actually do Jim because I would listen to him for several hours every day, and I would write the copy before him, and I would try and write in his voice, so I would have headfoys Jim Brewer. And the way I always get into my Jim is I remember the first time I met him. We were sitting at some high top tables at series. He was pitching the show, and he goes, you always have to get into the Jim Brewer thing by doing his all right. It shows me Pete Pete was Pete Coreley.

I tell stories all right, so I can tell now I’ve got my good Jim Brewer Today. Sinnaples Today asked Jim who and what do you find funny? Jim Brewer said, Shane Gillis cracks me up. He’s a guy makes me laugh. I like almost all comedy.

It’s funny. I’m dirty on stage. I don’t even curse, but I don’t care if it’s raw, pushing the edge or crossing the line. Well of different senses of humor, right, But I do believe some topics are off limits to me. These are the very dark, sadistic things of our society.

There are certain things, especially that happened to women and children, that are completely off limits. I don’t care who you are, no one is going to make that funny. Brewer was asked what are your thoughts about politics and comedy. Jim said, I’m not affiliated with any political party. In fact, I don’t like politics.

I think we should be able to laugh at what’s in front of our faces, especially when it comes to exploiting common sense and calling out the absurd. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerilla website early access Rufot Guyev’s the Bad Rufot and that is your comedy news for today, now tomorrow. Okay, let me lecture you before we go tomorrow. You are going to vote. I don’t care who you vote for, but go vote.

I don’t want to hear about the weather. I don’t want to hear it’s raining. I don’t want to hear that you had to get up for work ten minutes to Really, you gotta go vote, vote for somebody. Whoever you vote for, that’s on you. If you don’t vote, that’s really on you.

But please go vote tomorrow. See you then,

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Featured: Bill Burr, Mark Maron, David Cross, Bill Simmons

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr responds to Riyadh Comedy Festival criticism on his podcast
• Mark Maron discusses morning radio experience and work schedule challenges
• Netflix adds Spotify podcast shows from The Ringer, excludes comedy titles
• Kill Tony Netflix special viewership compared to late-night TV ratings
• Spotify changes transparency policy to display episode play metrics

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac Take two Today’s Daily Comedy News. So the first story is Bill Burr talking about the Reodd Comedy Festival on his podcast. And I got like two minutes into it and I realized my half ass Burr I wasn’t enunciating enough of the way Burr does when he’s doing his angry slow burn. Again, if you’re new to the program, I’m not an impressionist.

No really, John, we can’t tell my half assed impressions are just I’m trying to capture someone’s cadence, not the voice, but just the cadence. Bill said, I’m still thinking about that BS from a few weeks ago. It’s a bunch of crap. That was one of the hardest things I ever to keep my mouth shut not trash every one of those.

And then there’s asterisks there.

I’m guessing he said a holes would be my guess. You may recall people like Mark Maron, David Cross, Johnny Mac and others criticized Bill Burr. Burr said, I’m looking forward to running a few people. Hey, what’s the latest you cared about? It’s weird all of a sudden, you don’t care anymore.

What happened? You’re waving your arms up and down. What happened? What should cause this month? To help sell whatever project you’re on.

Let’s talk some Bretta Canty and a circus that I don’t go to because of the way they treat the animals. And I have a special coming out. I’m gonna find the right thing to get sanctimonious about it, to mock all of them. Yeah, everything must have cleared up, because there’s no more chatter. Must have fixed everything.

Oh, it’s gonna be passive, it’s gonna be aggressive. So if you ever get sick of Hollywood bs and people trying to cancel your stand up back. That was the funniest thing too. Trumper’s acting like they give a hoot about human rights. Half assed.

Burs A little off today because the voice is thin, because I already did an episode. It’s the weekend, going back to back here voice wears out. Mark Maron was on the Bullseye podcast. I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet, but I did pull the transcript and I pulled some clips here. Now, what I found interesting was Mark Maron talked about his time doing morning radio now earlier in my career in the nineties, I produced morning radio in New York City.

The hours are horrible. Let’s listen to Mark Maron talk about it. I always like doing morning radio. If it’s a good crew, it’s great and it’s fun. And I knew that going into America that there are certain morning crews that I would do, you know, every year, where I mean, it was hard to get up, but if they were in it and they were kind of like not trying to undermine me, getting into the groove with a good morning crew is a blast because and what I learned from doing it is that there’s so much writing on it.

You don’t you don’t want someone to come in there and kind of like crap out your show and comedians buying large. You don’t have a great reputation for doing morning radio because they’ve been up all night, or they’re exhausted, or they don’t care. So a lot of these hosts are a little kind of tenuous about how it’s going to go. But I can talk, so if they’re jiving on something and we get going, I thought it was completely engaging and a lot of fun. So I know, for me, that’s when I’ve always been heavy.

That’s when I really put on weight because you’re so miserable. You’re just up and you’re fueling yourself on crap. And he used to work with this guy Bobby. And Bobby would look over at me at seven thirty in the morning and go cheeseburger, and I would say yes, because I’d been up since three thirty three am was the absolute minimum time I could set the alarm, jump in a shower, get dressed, hop in my car at a press pass so I could actually park on the street. In New York City, it would take me thirteen minutes to get from Queens to basically Times Square, the city that never sleeps.

It does sleep between four and five am. I mean thirteen minutes from Queens to Times Square. You can’t do that except at four am. Park in front of the building. Then I had to go find newspapers.

No internet in the nineteen nineties, kids and anyway, So oh, you know, you’d be always tired, always miserable, and Bobby would go cheeseburger and I would say yes and get a cheeseburger and fries. Now you’re like, that’s not a healthy breakfast, John, And I’m not saying it is a healthy breakfast, because breakfast was the bagels that the rest of the crew would get around eight thirty eight forty five no, no, no, no. Cheeseburger and fries was fourth meal, and that’s how you put twenty pounds on. You do kind to adjust to the schedule, but never really adjust to it. And I really had to blast my brain, you know, with sugar and caffeine, and that went on every day.

I don’t know what kind of damage I did to myself, but it was really just M and m is and Dunkin Donuts coffee. So I mentioned I would have to find the newspapers. Now, ostensibly we had the newspapers delivered, but if they didn’t come, I had to go out on the streets of Times Square, New York City in the nineties, which wasn’t quite a fun zone that it is now, and find a newspaper because otherwise how would we know what was happening. I mean, we had wire services in all, but if you wanted to really have the vibe for New York City, you needed a newspaper.

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And then sometime between four and five am, I’d have to quickly read the news…

All this happening before five am. So it was just just a miserable time. Here’s Maren. We were getting up much earlier than like just average morning crews because we had to, you know, kind of correalate the news. So we were getting up at two thirty track, you know, getting there by three sometimes, and you know, and I was overwhelmed because I’m not a wonk, I’m a little out of the loop.

I learned a lot there. I literally showed up at Air America with a Democracy for Dummies book because I felt like I was at a disadvantage. And that’s true. I did want to talk about this one. This came up during the week, but you know, the week gets busy with the news and there’s a little more breathing room on the weekends.

Deadline wrote about Netflix adding some podcasts. They’re writing a bunch of shows from the Ringer. The ringer is Bill Simmons Company. They’re adding the Bill Simmons Podcast, which is owned by Spotify, so this is a deal with Spotify, and Deadline noticed that the announcement doesn’t include a single comedy title, given Netflix’s long established affinity for comedy, Deadline Rights. Kill Tony, the self proclaimed number one live podcast in the world, lended on Netflix earlier this year as part of a three special deal.

The first special, Kill Tony, Killer Be Killed outperformed nearly every other standup special released on Netflix in the first half of twenty twenty five. According to data pulled from Netflix’s recent and What We Watched report, eight point eight million views in the first three months of the platform. Deadline compared the eight point eight to a number like Jimmy Kimmel, who averages one point eight five million viewers, or Jimmy Fallon one point two to three. Deadline Rights data we pulled on the last ten episodes of YouTube’s Killed Tony shows two point seventy four million viewers an episode. Deadline points out that is also far greater viewership than achieved by Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.

Interesting, now, staying with me for this next part Deadline Rights. Historically, Spotify has offered no transparency to the public on viewership, but we were able to look at the Ringers podcast reach because the company just recently changed its polse, starting to display plays on episodes, reaching an audience of fifty thousand or more for their website. Spotify’s play metric reflects the total number of times people have actively listened to or watched an episode. Deadline Rights, it’s unclear what actively means. The writer says that bring this up because half of the first late of podcasts coming to Netflix not have a publicly available Spotify play clount, indicating they reach fewer than fifty thousand plays on each of their ten most recent episodes.

They also point out that the deal does not include a good hang with Amy Poehler, despite that routinely cracking a million plays on Spotify and well over five hundred thousand views on YouTube. Interesting. We’ll see what happens there. Vulture is a good one. Caught up with Stavros Halkias, who’s everywhere lately.

Vulture said, when someone starts getting heat, their team starts thinking of all the other directions they can take them. Yep, that does happen. Stavros, Do you have any interest in some of the following question Number one major brand partnership? Stavro said, it depends. I won’t do gambling.

I want to do crypto. There are things that I was advertising and I was like, why am I doing this? I hate this stuff, but if it aligns, I’m open to it. All right. How about a book?

Stavra said, before even started doing stand up, I actually really wanted to be a writer. I like the personal essay a lot. I’d want to do it if it’s not a pure cynical cash grab. I want to sit in a cabin with a typewriter and a card. Again, I want to do the whole thing, but it’s not at the top of my list.

How about hosting SNL. Yeah, for sure, without question. It’s still for some how many people? Your first entry to comedy. How about a Marvel movie?

Nah, I don’t think so. How about an Award show. I’ve actually had that thought, and the stress again my chest means I should do it. The reason I’m scared of it is because I’d be so good at it, and I’m like, I don’t want to learn a new thing. I don’t want to do all that work.

But yes, I’m definitely interested in doing that. And how about a reboot of my big fat Greek wedding? He said, Hell effing yeah, get me the rights. I’m ready to shoot five right now. I got the idea in my head.

I don’t even want to reboot. This would be the next one in the franchise. Graham Norton has been named Alumni Ambassador to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe thirty five years ago he launched his career there. In nineteen ninety one he performed Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s Grand Farewell Tour at the Pleasants Attic. He is now an Ambassador, joining the French Society’s Honorary President Phoebe waller Bridge to act as an advocate for the Festival.

Gabe Gibbs will have his debut musical comedy special Pick a Lane on Veeps November twelfth. That’s six West nine East, filmed a Dynasty Typewriter in La the special sies, Gibbs sing with two pianos, one for comedy and the other four dramatic little boys. He goes back and forth between the two and explores topics like Fort’s Wieners and the downfall of Jared Letto. There is a trailer. I pulled the audio and it’s too dirty.

It’s about eating body parts in not the first two or three body parts you thought of the other one that’s not gonna fly on this show. How do we dust that off? Let’s talk to Jay Leno. You know that guy, you remember, Jay Leno? He used to host the Tonight Show for like what was it like one two twenty two years and the guy like thinks you know something about late night.

This guy, he’s the worst. He was talking about why his collection of two hundred cars doesn’t even include a Ferrari. I mean, come on, Jay, what are you doing. I host a podcast in my basement and I own two Ferraris. Jay Leno said, I just never liked dealing with the dealers.

I don’t want to give a guy twenty five grand in an envelope. Now what does that mean? Apparently there are a lot of hoops for customers to jump through. Some people say Ferrari limits who can buy special models, and allegedly blacklist people who speak publicly against the brand. So sounds like no Ferrari for Jay Leno.

But you can borrow one of mine. And that is your comedy news for today. My voice is giving out. I gotta wrap up. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ray Romano, Mindy Kaling, Kate Hudson, Robert Townsend, Stavros Halkias, Joe Rogan, Marcelo Hernandez, Billy Gardell, Pete Davidson, Brad Garrett

What’s in This Episode

• Ray Romano joins Netflix’s Running Point season two as Coach Norm Stinson
• Stavros Halkias discusses being positioned as ‘Joe Rogan of the Left’ in Vulture interview
• Marcelo Hernandez performs at University of Maryland homecoming week
• Billy Gardell returns to stand-up comedy touring after decade away from stand-up

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media remembers Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s ease into it. Today, Ray Romano has a new gig. He will join Netflix’s Running Point for season two. Now, you’re like, Johnny Mac, What the heck is Running Point?

I don’t remember anything called Running Point? How does it have a season two? Oh? Yeah, you’ll remember this. This is that Mindy Kahling basketball show about a team in LA.

Remember that one that was the thing that happened. Yeah. Ray Ramano will play coach Norm Stinson in season two. Now. Robert Townsend was originally announced for the part in September, but the creative team decided to go in a different direction.

They’ve recast the role with Ray Romano. They’re doing some reshoots. Norm Stinson is described as a basketball savant turned social recluse who will team up with the team owner Kan Hudson to rediscover his love for the game and life. Now, if you’re not familiar with Running Point, the Mindy Kaling basketball comedy. When his scandal forces her brother to resign, Kate Hudson’s character is appointed president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied professional basketball franchises and her family business.

I feel like Ray Ramano is slumming here. He can’t need the work, right, He’s gotta have crazy money from everybody loves Raymond. If he needed a payday, he could just call up Brad Garrett and be like, hey, Brad, we need a payday. You in And Brad Garrett is going to be at Ray Ramono’s house before that sentence even ends. So it can’t be that is this creatively fulfilling?

Like, I don’t understand why Ray Ramono is doing this at all. Previously, Ray Ramono starred in Netflix’s No Good Deed, Remember that One Me Neither. He was also on Made for Love, appeared in Bookie and in Bupkuz, the Pete Davison show that went sideways. Maybe Pete should have not walked away from that show. He wouldn’t have had to play the Rion Comedy Festival make some money to pay for his ferry.

Who knows. I’m just a guy in the basement recording podcast. I don’t know anything anyway. I’m not sure why Ray said yes to that one. Vulcher talk to Stavros Halkias, who’s being pushed in our direction?

This week again. Nothing against stop Ros. I’m just noticing the pushing. Vulture asked Stavros about the concept of the Joe Rogan of the Left. I’ll remind everyone the Joe Rogan of the Left used to be Joe Rogan.

He’d have on people like Bernie Sanders, who I think was actually on again recently. I’m really backed up on my Rogan listening because, hey, Spotify, are you listening. I’m sure you are. They have the commercials on Rogan set to automatic, so in the middle of a sentence suddenly we go abruptly to a Rogan voiced read and it’s really annoying. So I don’t listen to Rogan anymore unless I’m in the car where I can actively hit thirty second skip.

If I can’t hit thirty second skip easily by flicking my left thumb, I don’t listen to Rogan right now. Spotify take my note. I know the Joe Rogan podcast is really struggling without me listening anyway. Stavros, Joe Rogan the Left, what do you think? Stavros said.

What it means to me, man, is we’re eft if they’re coming to me, if they’re even sniffing around over here means we need some more cultural figure years on the left, or what it really means is journalism is broken down in a way in this country that’s pathetic. Everything’s for profit. There’s now more and more powerful people buying our newspapers, like Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post. But I also think part of it is because comedians have boosted some right wing voices. It’s unimaginative thinking to be like, well, we need our own comedians to do that.

Look, do I feel a little pressure to be a little more clear about where I stand on things I do, But philosophically I just can’t lead with that. I can’t say. And he has a quote here that is quite vulgar. Let me see if I can clean it up to get the gist here. So basically what he’s saying is stop doing whatever the ruling class says and admit it’s not immigrants and trans people that are the reason your life’s bad.

It’s because there’s tax cuts going to the point zero zero one percent. It’s because of inequality. Starvars said, I did go to school for public policy, but when I was twenty, I decided I was going to stop learning about that, and I was going to learn to talk about my little penis for a living. I do think at some point in my life I’ll sort of return to that. I assume he means public policy, maybe not.

I want to do it on a community level. First. I grew up in Baltimore. We didn’t have I do want to help kids in Baltimore. I was in some art programs that really helped me growing up.

So I’ve been thinking about that. Yes, I think he wants to go back to public policy and not showing up and be like, hey, check out my stuff here. That would be very That would not be appropriate. Stara said, I look at the arc of my life. I had some beliefs.

I got educated. I realized what I want to do had nothing to do with my education. But it’s still kind of clarified when I think about the world, when I want to happen, and how I want people to be treated on a base level.

And now that I’m in the period of my life where I have a career and my goals …

Bultra stayed on the politics thing, and Starvra said, I think it’d be really good for my career if I brushed up on a little policy, if I got a couple of statistics together and went on some new show and debated people, I would be nervous on CNN, right. I’m more entertaining and funnier than those people, and they’re not that smart. If I studied for a month, I could do this thing and to be really good for my career. But I despise that careerist climbing bs from DBK News, your home for comedy news. They went to see Marcello Hernanez.

You know Marcelo. He’s the guy on Saturday Night Live that does that one thing really great, and he does one thing K News tells us. Laughter filled the Exfinity Center as comedian Marcelo Hernandez took to the stage to kick off the University of Maryland’s homecoming week. Marcelo covered a variety of personal topics, from childhood shenanigans to the many differences between white and Latino people. Even touched on pressing issues like gender, mental health, and friendship.

Some of the students recognized Marcelo Hernandez from NBC’s Saturday Night Live. See I actually pronounce at that time. I’m aware that I often say Sanite live. I don’t even sometimes you’ll get a Saturday Night Live out of me. But sometimes I just go sanite live, and I’m aware of it.

Queen’s accent there. A freshman chemistry major said, I just knew he was from SNL and I watched the clips online, so I was like, that sounds pretty fun. A freshman English major said, I was really excited because my household we watch SNL, so we love Marcelo. Many recognized Marcelo Hernandez from one sketch in particular. Guess which one it is.

That’s right Domingo, because even if it wasn’t a Domingo sketch, you probably were like, he’s just doing Domingo because he does one thing well, and he does one thing. The freshman chemistry major said, I always see the Domingo clips and it’s probably my favorite sketch right now. Billy Gardell after a decade or so doing sitcoms and probably made some good cash. There’s probably still money in CBS sitcoms when he did it. He’s going back to doing stand up comedy.

He’s going to tour theaters to his first tour of any kind in nearly a decade. It’ll kick off in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, January thirtieth. Billy Gardell will discuss his recent weight loss of one hundred and seventy three pounds because I have to acknowledge the non elephant in the room well played there, as well as his relationship with his father, who he calls his hero. He talks about being an empty nester and being in a sweet spot in his marriage twenty five years in, using a latter subject as a way to talk about the delusion of what people think love is today and what they’re telling our kids love is today, and how our relationship should be. You’ll also talk about younger generations.

Billy said, I think it’s low hanging fruit to rip on that generation and punch down on them, meeting people in their twenties and thirties, when that’s the generation that needs a little wisdom from the older generation more than anybody else has before these kids go through the same things we all go through. Who am I gonna be? Where am I gonna live? Is anyone gonna love me?

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And then you had social media on top of that and the stay of the world, I thi…

As for the weight loss, he was on ozempic, underwent bariatric surgery and transformed his lifestyle. Billy says, I’m not on any medication. I’m healthier than I’ve ever been. Could do some things with my wife and kids I wouldn’t been able to do before I caught the unicorn that every heavy person dreams of. I flew in a middle seat.

Really, what Billy Guardill was in a middle seat? I hope you were with your wife and son and you chose the middle seat, because if you don’t have sitcom money after two CBS sitcoms, your account’s up to something. Something’s going wrong there. The other big one was buying something right off the rack that had never happened to me in my entire life. So it’s those little victories that you think about that kind of keep the wind in your sails.

The Toronto Guardian will sometimes profile comedians, and I like to find out about new people they caught up with. Everado Ramirez, best known for Late Mic Too, a chaotic weekly late night talk show slash open mic hybrid that blends sharp, riffing, experimental, risk taking and absurd invention, drawing inspiration from icons like David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and others. Hey, Mike Chisholm from the Letterman podcast, who’s been doing stand up lately? Why are you not ripping off this idea for Vancouver? Bro?

Come on Mike talk show Slash Open Mike Hybrid inspired by Letterman, Canada, Vancouver, this thing I digress Everado. How would you describe your comedy style? He said, laid back with quick in the moment, riffing. I like that kind of style, just saying I try to maintain a cool presence while everything around me is CHAOTICX. Someone’s told me my show is the most interesting thing that happens at comedy bar.

Not necessarily the funniest, but certainly the most interesting. It’s a little backheaded there for a comedian like, Hey, you’re pretty interesting, all right? Who are some of your influences? Late Night with both David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. I love how Letterman would interview weirdos like RVPCRR or Crispin Glover.

Oh yeah, those are early Letterman. Guess word have some yeah, hit I have some quirky people on Dave wasn’t afraid to sit in the weirdness, leaving audience is wondering if it was a stage bit or if something was wrong. Conan’s absurd bits and segments were a perfect amount of stupid and his self deprecation and tightly wand control freak persona must have imprinted on me early because now I host a late night talk shows that I’m quite particular about it. Wear a suit, I bring a big inflatable couch, I use a kitchen time instead of lighting comedians, not writing my own monologue jokes, but instead leaving a stack of cute cards at the bar for strangers and other comedians to write jokes, and I read it for the first time on stage at the top of the show. I don’t book my real comedian friends because I think it’s more interesting to talk to the freaks and the scoundrels in the open mic world.

All that’s more work for me and have an element of risk to it, But I think that’s what makes the show more interesting. Favorite comedian growing up, Norm McDonald, Louis Anderson, Conan O’Brien, favorite comedian now, he said, Nick Nemerov, who’s fantastic, but Nick did pass away a few years ago. I’m familiar with Nick from playing him on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the program I host on the Live One service. The service is free, the show is free. So how it works.

It’s like this, except I talk way less, but I can also play comedian bits like Nick Nemerov, who Everado Ramirez is into. Everado suggests everybody check out Nick’s album The Pursuit of comedy has ruined my life. I’m loving this interview. All right, what’s your pre show ritual? He says.

On the way to the venue, I listened to the unreleased eighteen admitted version of Short and Bread by the Beach Boys. Now I’m a big Beach Boys fan. Like for Reels, Everado says, he goes into a kind of transcendental meditative state where my brain shuts off for a few minutes. My wife does not like this song and is worried that listening to it is making me go insane. But to that, I say, mommy’s little baby loves shirt and Bread.

Oh my god, I dig this guy. And did you watch Jeopardy During the week? On Monday, there was a person on. Mister Levine’s first name is Aaron. But when you know, you write your name in the box so we can see what your name is.

He stylized his name aa run, a callback to the famous hilarious key and peel sketch substitute Tu. You’re probably familiar with it. It’s one of their iconic sketches. Analysis of the sketch says the scene is cherished for its hilarious take on a phenomenon that ethnic students normally experience in a classroom setting in which teachers tend to pronounce more culturally specific names to sound eurocentric. Aarn won the episode on Monday Night, twenty thousand, six hundred dollars.

Congratulations Airn, and that is your comedy news on a Saturday. You have a great day.

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Featured: Wanda Sykes, Mark Marin, Nikki Glaser, Eliza Shlesinger, Terry Crews, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Jim Kimmel

What’s in This Episode

• Wanda Sykes Variety profile and NSA background
• Wanda Sykes pulled from Kim Kimmel ABC appearance
• Nikki Glaser in Call of Duty Black Ops 7 commercial with Terry Crews
• Eliza Shlesinger Variety interview on female comedy and artistry
• Scrubs revival returning February 25 on ABC
• George Clooney praises Adam Sandler’s dramatic work in Punch-Drunk Love and The Meyerowitz Stories

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Halloween. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. A couple of things going on. I’m gonna say for the weekend.

Bilber still talking about the Riod Comedy Festival. He’s annoyed Withsten comedians. I’ll probably do that Sunday.

Also, Mark Marin is the guest on the Bullseye podcast.

I’m pulling some audio in the background from that. I’m running a transcript on it as I record this episode, so that’s not ready to bake yet. I’ll probably do that on Sunday as well. Wanda Sykes had a big profile piece in Variety. Did we know this?

One of Sykes worked a day job at the National Security Agency after college. Yeah, daytime at the NSA nights and weekends telling jokes. She eventually opened for Chris Rock. She was on Chris Rocks Bring the Pain Tour for one weekend in the nineties. She remembers Chris Rock saying you’re funny, I’m gonna look for you.

Soon after that, she got a career changing call, Wanda Set. Everything started for me with the Chris Rock Show. That led to the Wanda Sykes Show, which Fox canceled in twenty ten after one season. I don’t remember that existing, as she said, I don’t miss that. I had too much on my plate.

But she’s proud of it, saying I can’t think of anything that’s like, why did I do that? Maybe Pooty Tank, but people love Pooty Tank. In two thousand and nine, she headlined the White House Correspondence dinner and says, when I got the call, the first thing I said in my publicist was they know him gay, right, because they were doing a horrible job of vetting people in the Obama administration. I was like, he knows. She was like, yeah, everybody knows.

Writy writes. In a moment where several of Wanda’s contemporaries like Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Burr spot off hot takes about the industry and what can and cannot be done, Syke says, I’ve never been one to pontificate about comedy. When I hang around comedians and all they are really into talking about is comedy, I’m like, just go tell your jokes. I’m not a yapper. Wanda Sykes.

Do you interact much with Trump supporters? She says, I have friends who are I mean they’re Republican, but yeah, they voted for him, so I guess they’re Trump supporters. But it’s best not to talk. We don’t bring it up. Interestingly, Wanda was supposed to be on Kim All the night ABC pulled it.

What happened there, Wanda? She said, I was doing some last minute makeup. My publicist called and said he’d been preempted and they didn’t know when he’d be coming back. I was like, well, what did he say? I was texting with him.

Jim was like, I have a lot of people protect it was real. I don’t want to say a real wake up call, because we were aware of how bad things were, but this is crazy now. I still don’t see how what he said was outlandish or hurtful. Wanda? Does that make you think twice about things you say on stage about Trump?

Wanta Syke said, you can’t really censor yourself like that and give people a good show. I can’t, so I don’t now if you’re watching sports like me, and you’re sitting there half asleep in the comfy chair, I think this was me during Sunday night football. Maybe it was the baseball game. I think it was Sunday Night Football and a commercial came on for Call of Duty Black Ops seven and I’m like, isn’t that Nikki Glaser? And you know you’re like half a sleeping Like, why would Nikki Glaser be in a video game commercial?

Is that Nikki Glaser? Just a woman who kind of looks like what you think Nikki Glaser looks like? Nope, it’s Nikki Glaser. She is in the commercial with Terry Cruz. Niki Glazer plays one of the replacers who step into play the game when the original replacer gets into trouble, in this case during a celebrity filled space flight mission that goes awry.

Nicki’s agent getting it done, Eliza Slessinger had her proverbial car waxed by Variety. She got a big story, and Eliza said, you have to truly believe that what you have to say is so important that it warns a microphone that makes you louder than everyone else. And you have to believe that the way you look at things is so funny that people are going to want to stop and listen. It’s about feeling seen, especially as a woman. I think that that’s paramount, feeling seen and feeling heard and that’s the guiding light of my career.

Knowing that what I have to say is just as valid, if not more valid, than the male comic next to me, and deciding that I’m allowed to talk and it’s going to be pretty good. And twenty years in survey says what I have to say is pretty good. Eliza said, as you age in comedy, it’s okay to just tell superficial jokes. There’s nothing wrong with that. But I feel things very deeply as an artist.

I think comics in comedy get brushed off as ah, You’re just a comic at the end of the day. I’m not just some road dogs there to tell Penis jokes. I’m an artist, and I feel very deeply. I see that there’s a certain way, and I feel it’s my job to hold up a mirror to society and to call out things when I see them, especially for women, because we’re told that we’re crazy. I know a lot of other women who don’t have the voice to say to things that they want to say, So I just try to say the way I’m feeling, and I hope that other people feel the same way.

You talked about touring overseas and people having a hard time dealing with things that, by the grace of God, you or I don’t have to deal with the fact that people take the time out of their stresses and their lives to watch my stand up or buy a ticket. The fact that people give me their time is something that has never been lost on me. I’ve never taken it for granted. And they get to be part of people’s lives when they’re going through something horrible is actually energetically a very special thing. I think about that a lot.

Do not bother me. On Wednesday, February twenty fifth, why John Scrubs is back two episodes eight o’clock now. To watch this, you’re going to have to support fascism because this air on ABC, which is owned by Disney, and they’re the people that you know were mean to Jimmy Kimmel and we all canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. And that’s why I’ve been watching the Scrubs DVDs instead of just hitting click on my Roku remote where it says Hulu now I go upstairs and get the DVDs. I do not support fascism, but we all come to a point where we sell out.

Some people take money from the Rion Comedy Festival. Johnny Mac watches Monday Night football in Scrubs, say, February twenty fifth, I should probably edit that out because I’m trying to ask the ABC publicists for some Scrubs people. This is not going to help me. It’s a comedy show publicist, don’t you see in the notes where it says parody and commentary. George Clooney has been talking about the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler.

Now. The folks at far outmagazine dot co dot UK neil this entirely. They write, Sandler is an incredibly divisive figure. Once an untouchable superstar with a roster off it’s to his name, He’s now the archetypal Hollywood, has been an annoying hangover of a previous age, still coasting on his past glories. However, George Clooney doesn’t think so.

Clooney said, I thought Punch Drunk Love was amazing. Now perhaps George Clooney is insane. I don’t know. I’ve never met the man, and I’m often confused by him. People like, you look like George Clooney, but you dress like Adam Sandler, what’s with that combo?

I don’t know either, but the possibly insane George Clooney said of Punch Drug Love, that was the first time we’d seen Sandler do something where it wasn’t just a straight up comedy. I also have to say you were beautiful in the Myerwitz stories. I really love that. I thought you and Ben Stillar were great together. I felt like that movie got short shrift.

Somehow, it didn’t get the. Attention comedy stock markets. Every Friday I make some hypothetical stock picks for you in the comedy stock market. Now, remember the premise here. We’re not really saying that somebody is good or bad.

It’s not that it’s we’re trying to sell high or buy low. Like you know how you make money on the stock market. You’re familiar with this concept. Yes, So just because I say, hey, let’s sell our stock in somebody, doesn’t mean that I’m like, god, person’s the worst. That’s not what this is.

This is about making hypothetical money. So here’s my picks for this week. Let’s buy John Stewart. He’s at the height of his powers, but a little below the radar, possibly by now by between me recording this and you listening to it. He has renewed his deal with Comedy Central, and if not, that’ll put him on the free agent market.

So let’s buy some John Stewart right now. I think that’s a good buy. Let’s also ride along with the powers that be in Hollywood who have decided that Stavros hockeyist is going to be a superstar. Let’s go for that ride. Because if you walk down the street and you go to one hundred people, hey have you heard of this guy?

Unlet’s run into I don’t know one person, you might go zero for one hundred. And I’m not kidding, and that’s not a diss this is just comedy stock markets. Let’s load up on starv Ros for that same reason. Let’s buy Rachel Sinnott. A lot of you were like, I don’t know who that is.

You keep talking about her? John, who is that? I’ve never heard of her? Give it a month, two months. She’s about to have a show on HBO.

She’s about to be in your face. You’re about to see his zillion articles about her. Let’s load up on Rachel Sinnott. We’re buying low there and we are going to sell high in a couple of weeks. I want to sell if we have any left.

I do think we might have sold it all Nate Berghatzy stock, we might have sold after the Emmys. If we have any left, let’s sell it. This game show thing that I told you about in Thursday’s podcast just sounds like I don’t know. I can’t imagine Nate Pergatzy being a good game show host. I don’t think he has the skill set for that.

He’s too dry, He’s not an animated comic. I just I don’t see that working at all. So let’s sell our Nate, and let’s sell Andrew Schultz, who increasingly just seems tone deaf and doesn’t get it. And I get that he’s popular, but I just feel like everybody is looking at Andrew’s direction right now, going yeah, bro no, And I feel like there’s a Schultz backlash coming. All right?

Bye John by Stavros, Bye, Rachel Sell, Nate, sell Schultz. It is Halloween, and Entertainment Weekly caught up with Bobby moynihan. They talked about the famous SNL sketch. David S Pumpkins Boy said it was Halloween that week and Tom Hanks was there and we said, what can we right that’ll get in the Halloween special every year? And we started joking around and we’re like, I always play Santa.

Spent nine years playing Santa. I was the heaviest one on the show. And I was like, there’s no Santa for Halloween. Started joking around and saying, what if it was just a guy named David Pumpkins?

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And then Mikey and I had another idea about these dancing things and we kind …

It was a fever dream and we were like, I don’t know, man, what are we doing. I guess we’re just writing this to be weird. Tom Hanks hated it and asked us to give it to somebody else and we said no.

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And then in between dress rehearsal and air, Tom Hanks went like, I’m just go…

We got lucky South Park. It didn’t put out an episode Wednesday, they’re planning on releasing one today, a special Halloween episode titled The Woman in the Hat. We’re told the White House deals with a disruptive spirit from the East Wing, which in real life was destroyed as you do. While Stan worries that South Park has become too political, we’ll do some stories about Jim Gaffkin Berbon if you’re worried about that. Metal Insider caught up with John GOBLECN.

They explained to Embondie, John Goblican on stage is one thing. It’s cosplay with consequences, But to be John GOBLECN, the meme fueled talk show hosting ANTSI hero is something else entirely. David Spolly is both a human named Davis Spoley and John GOBLICN. Metal Insider asked Davis Spoley, do you ever feel like humans are jealous of goblins? Dave said, Oh, I know they are.

John’s life is pretty incredible, touring, interviewing celebrities, eating skin, living in a way mow, what a dream, Dave. You’re a comedian. How has comedy changed? Dave said, It’s constantly evolving. That’s what makes it enticing while also being the most frustrating art form of all.

When I first started, there was a very linear path. You did open mics that he had spots around town. You got into clubs, as a host and a feature than a headliner. Now, to be a comedian, you not only need a craft and act, you need to be a I gotta take a breath here so I can get this sentence in. You need to be a deep breath actor, podcaster, editor, social media manager, influencer, promoter who never stops making content because if you don’t feed the algorithm, you will cease to exist.

I wish I could stop. In fact, I need to take a break from writing this answer to make some more content. I am content, and content is life. What was the question they asked Dave? If you could replace every US senator with goblins, how would legislation improve or collapse?

Dave said, make America goblin again. Pretty sure someone stole that ACRONYMCMAGA sand network and that is almost all your comedy US For today, I’m gonna say goodbye and I’m gonna end on a clip. So this is the official goodbye part and I’ll be back tomorrow. You know, we do the seven days a week, but it is Halloween. Jonathan Kite has this amazing Anthony Boardaine impression that I can’t get enough of.

He’s been putting these clips on Instagram. He’s increasingly dressing up to look more and more like Anthony Boardine. Though he’s got the voice down, he’s got the style down. He’s just doing it dry. You either get it or you don’t.

I cannot get enough of this, ingest this into my veins, so I will leave you with Jonathan Kite. I’m not even gonna set up the clip. Kite will take it from here. See tomorrow. Spirit Halloween every September, a seasonal demon clause out of Hell possesses the concrete corpse of a failed store, then ghosts I November first, it’s gentrifurication.

What was once a bed bath and beyond is now bed bath and beyond the grave headboards are now headstones. Spirit Halloween a scarebnb for dead retail, So beware for when a lease grows cold, the bannered Boogeyman will soon be there. They almost got Jimmy Kimmel Studios. And after the latest government shutdown, don’t be shocked when a spirit penant covers the White House, the second most terrifying orange thing to ever haunt it until next time. Watch out for the tricks and enjoy the treats.

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Featured: Andrew Schulz, Anthony Jeselnik, David Cross, Bert Kreischer, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Tim Allen, Glenn Powell, A-Rod, Florence + The Machine, Nate Bargatze, Nikki Glaser, Stavros Halkias, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer

What’s in This Episode

• Andrew Schulz calls out Anthony Jeselnik for complaining about comedy instead of doing comedy
• Bert Kreischer spotted at 18-inning Dodgers game wearing team gear
• Jimmy Kimmel appears in unexpected ESPN Monday Night Football commercial interrupting Patrick Mahomes segment
• Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show draws 1.8 million viewers in post-NFL Sunday broadcast
• Nate Bargatze announced as host of new game show about average Americans
• Entertainment Weekly article about Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer hosting the 2022 Oscars

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. This first story is cracking me up right. Pay attention. Andrew Schultz has called out Anthony Jelinek.

Why well, Cracked dot com tells us Andrew Schultz calls out Anthony Jelinek for whining about comedy. Cracked writes Schultz as a theory about comedians. If you’re primarily known for your hot takes about comedy versus your actual comedy, you’re not doing it right. So what did Schultz do? He gave a hot take about comedy.

Schultz said, none of these mfers that talk about comedy are funny. If people know you for your opinions about comedy and not your jokes, you’re probably not funny. As simple as that, you talked about Anthony Jelinek, saying now, it’s like the only time you ever seen anything about Jelinek. He’s whining about comics, said Schultz, who was whining about comics While he said that a gosh sing The co host on that program said, I’ve never heard him say a positive thing about another comic that’s not himself. Schultz said, that’s the only thing he can get attention for.

It’s got to break his heart like he used to be a big comic. People would like his jokes singing, then took a shot at David Cross, saying, Hey, we got a lot of comedy fans in this room. What’s your favorite David Cross bit? Oh? There we go.

He’s a great actor, he’s hilarious, sketches, acting, great stand up. I can’t think of a single bit. Bert Kraser was at the eighteen inning Dodgers game the other night in the middle of it. This is from a video. It’s hilarious.

A guy from CNN was doing it hits from like the isles because I guess they didn’t have rights to the game, so they were in the stadium but not showing the game. And who walks by with a beer? Bert Kraser, Let’s listen. Hey, my god, Bert, this is why you show up to a baseball game. This is why you pay money to come to a baseball game.

We’re what fifteen innings in almost six hours, and they stopped shut But I got a cold. Who’s gonna win? Dodgers eventually gonna do this? Yeah, Dodgers, baby, Dorogers. This is America now.

Krazier was decked out in Dodgers’ gear, which interests me. He’s fifty two years old from Saint Petersburg, Florida, so I can understand if he didn’t grow up a race fan because there were no Rays, and I guess he had to adopt a team. Now, a lot of people in that area would have adopted the Yankees because they had spring training down that way. But whatever, I’m a forty nine Ers fan, didn’t grow up at San Francisco, just like Joe Montana, so I won’t hate Burg Crazier Dodgers fan. Jimmy Kimmel nearly canceled again.

Why was it canceled this time? Well, people were watching Monday Night Football and there’s Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Monday Night Football starts teasing a special announcement. People like, hm, is this gonna be something about Taylor Swift? What could this be?

Scott Van Pelt told the audience coming up next a special announcement about an upcoming Monday night football game. People were very excited, and the broadcast cuts to Jimmy Kimmel, who appeared on screen promoting that his show later that evening had guest Tim Allen. Oops, wow, boy, that’s exciting. Tim Allen had your book him. On social media, somebody wrote, loll ESPN forcing commercials with Jimmy Kimmel.

Another said I was just enjoying some MNF until they decided to roll out Jimmy Kimmel bye bye. But that actually wasn’t the announcement. The announcement was Monsters Funday Football and animated Monsters, Inc. Themed alternate broadcast of the December eighth Eagles versus Charters game. But by then people already met at Tim Allen and Kimmel.

One fan asked, Tim Allen, did you lose a bet? You’re one of my favorites, But I’ve never watched Kimble in my life, and I won’t start now. Staying on that same corner, the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon scored one of its biggest audiences of the year. That’s right, Jimmy did a Sunday night episode. It followed the Packers and the Steelers.

That was a good game. Fallon’s Tonight Show began at twelve thirty one am after the local news. Now, remember we tried to ask Conan O’Brien to start at twelve oh five, and the group thing at the time was like, no, no, no, If the Tonight Show starts after midnight, it’s not the Tonight Show anymore, which makes a lot of sense. Unless you know Jimmy foun does it, then it’s cool whatever. Twelve thirty one, one thirty in the morning after a basketball double airhead or whenever the Tonight Show airs it airs?

Who cares anymore? Anyway? Don’t any of you have jobs? Don’t any of you go to sleep? Even when I’m unemployed.

I like to go to bed on Sunday night kind of early to reset my week. Sunday Night, Tonight Show or sorry, Monday morning, Tonight Show. Let’s be accurate. Twelve thirty one am Monday morning at Tonight Show drew one point eight million total viewers. That is the Tonight Show’s third highest rated broadcast of the year.

In the eighteen to forty nine demo which I’ve graduated from you youngsters, there were five hundred and seventy three thousand of you, making it the second best performance of the year in the advertiser coveted demographics and me they don’t care about. The guests were Glenn Powell, a Rod and Florence on the Machine Now. Sunday’s post football episode was up sixty six percent among total viewers compared to you Know, A regular episode, and two hundred and forty seven percent among adults eighteen to forty nine. Jimmy Fallon is a survivor, right, Nate BRIGETSI. He’s on the list.

What’s the list? John? I’ve been talking about this in the Facebook group. Hollywood just decides here’s who we’re pushing right now, and we’re pushing them. Nate’s on the list.

Nikki Glaser’s been on the list for about a year. You’re about to see a lot of Rachel Sennott. Just you’re like, who’s that? Trust me, we’ll come back in six weeks and you’ll be like, oh my god, with the Rachel Sennat will you stop? And they seem to be pushing Stavros Haukias right now.

How this works, I don’t know. I’m not part of the Stonecutters. I don’t get invited to the secret meetings. I’m just telling you someone has decided these people are the ones we’re pushing. Nateerghatzy has another gig game show host which he will be terrible at write that down.

John said, Nate Berghetzi will be terrible at hosting a game show. Let me actually remind myself to put that in tomorrow’s Comedy stock Market. His skill set’s not going to be good at that. He’s too dry. How does the show work well?

The show is Nate Berghetzi as host, with three contestants battling to prove that there are anything but average. The winner takes home the average American salary of sixty seven nine and twenty dollars, which, if you win, is a lot of money, like, hey, here’s sixty seven grand, which is like forty after taxes. But in terms of we’re making a TV show, that is nothing. They’re filming us at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. You have to be twelve plus to a ten.

If you’re under eighteen, you have to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. The Municipal Auditorium said. This family friendly show is full of laugh out loud moments as contestants try to guess how everyday Americans answered outrageous questions. Tickets are completely free, but space is limited or I will keep an eye on that one. Good article in Entertainment Weekly, who said, if you forgot that Wanda Sykes hosted the Oscars in twenty twenty two, well you wouldn’t be the only one you see on the twenty twenty two Oscars.

Remember that Wanda Sykes was one of the co hosts. And Amy Schumer, who at some point right this, Remember what I was just saying about, we decide someone’s it. Remember where they decided Amy Schumer was it, and now they’ve decided Amy Schumer was not it. Remember Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. Let’s take a pregnant pause here so you could just think about that for you know, two three seconds.

I wanted you to sit and think Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. Are you making the same face? I am, like, what, You’re crazy? There’s no way Amy Schumer hosted. Oh no, no, no, Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars.

I know that makes no sense, but this is a thing that factually happened. Now, on that same night, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, Which is why you think Chris Rock hosted the Oscars in twenty twenty two. He did not. For some reason, Amy Schumer was up there alongside Wanda Sykes, She was asked, did Will Smith ever apologize? She said he did.

He called I had COVID or a bad cold. I just texted to say hey, I got your message. Thank you. I can’t talk, but he did call. Want has said.

I mean, I love working with Rodrina Hall and Amy Schumer, but like you said, it got overshadowed. People talk to me about that night without even mentioning, oh, yeah, you hosted right, like I was in the audience or at home watching TV. But I was there. It was National first Responder’s Day and the first responders got together in New York City and they were joined by John Stuart. The ceremony celebrated first responders from across the country, including firefighters, EMS, Provider’s eleven dispatchers, law enforcement officers, and volunteers.

John Stewart said, it’s an honor to stand side by side with the very heroes who keep us safe every day. First Responders answer chaos with courage and compassion. If lending my voice helps amplify that, I’m in. I want to thank the First Responders Children’s Foundation for giving these heroes a stage worthy of the work they do, and I’m excited to recognize their achievements. Whatever you think of John Stuart, he just try to lead from the front.

I really appreciate this man and he tries to make the world a better place. You may not share his vision, but he clearly is trying. His heart is in the right place. He’s trying to make the world a better place. He’s done great stuff with the veterans, so high five out of mean.

There’s no backhanded compliment in there. I don’t want you to come away thinking like, oh, is John like shading John Stewart. Not at all. I’m shining the sun on John Stewart. Great job, John Stewart.

Stuart was making fun of the President of the United States on Monday Night’s Daily Show and said, our current president Donald Josephine Trump, I don’t think at the Jay’s four Josephine but whatever is currently on a tour of Asia where he will be meeting with allies such as the new Japanese Prime Minister and rivals such as Xi Jinping. It’s a crucial moment with huge ramifications for the current terraf regime in this country and for the peace and security of the entire region itself. He then cut to a clip of Trump dancing awkwardly fist pumping as Trump dance with Malaysian Nationals. John Stewart said, he loves the red carpet, he loves the hats. They’re playing the theme song in Hawaii five.

Oh, none of it made any sense, But he loves the pomp and he loves the circumstance, and that’s why he loves going overseas. I have this in my notes as random comment. So I was doing some show prep and I saw Tom Poppa’s tour is called Breaking Bread two, and it’s got like a grateful dead kind of vibe to the logo of it. But it’s the Breaking Bread tour. Casuals have any idea what tompap is talking about?

Like, if you’re a tompop a fan, you know that he likes to make bread and you know about his podcast. But if you’re just like somebody who likes comedy, do you have any idea? Even if you know who Tompop is, maybe you don’t follow his podcast. Like for the casuals, does anybody have any idea what you’re talking about when you call your tour breaking Brett? I don’t know.

It just seems a little weird to me. What do I know. I’m recording a podcast in the basement. So I remember there was that whole re Odd Comedy Festival, and there were a lot of free speech warriors who were like, no, it’s really, really, really important that we go perform at the Odd Comedy Festival to bring laughter to people. You know, guys like Bill Burr and Andrew Schultz, who was mentioned earlier in this podcast.

People like that went over there. Well, I am wondering if they’re going to attend the Tel Aviv Comedy Festival. It’ll take place at Zionist House December eleventh through the thirteenth. The festival feature homegrown comedians, a special Russian language stand up night, and the Harry Potter stand Up Show for the whole family. You know, this could use a headline or too.

Bill Burr, Andrew Schultz, is he’sin? Sorry, Jessica Curson, Mark Norman, Jimmy Carr want me to keep going, guys, because you guys are clearly aligned with the Deputy Mayor of the Tel Aviv Yaffo Municipality, chen Areli. The municipality is producing the festival, and chen said stand up isn’t just entertainment, it’s a cultural genre. The bodies, freedom of thought, artistic courage, and the ability to look in the eye without filters. Bill Burr, Andrew Schultz as he’s in, Sorry, Mark Norman, Jessica Curson, Tom Sigora.

Isn’t this what you guys are about? Dave Chappelle? This is your thing? Are you going? Chen tells us The Punch Festivals, what it’s called, is part of our wider effort to strengthen the city’s cultural infrastructure and open new spaces for independent, original and bold creation.

I look forward to seeing which of you join the Punch Festival aka the Tel Aviv Comedy Festival. Or maybe the bag isn’t big enough. Huh, that’s all honest, guys. Ajar Usman, a pioneer of Muslim stand up comedy dubbed America’s Funniest Muslim by CNN, is that to release his first solo stand up project that’s called The Islamic States of America. It’ll be on his YouTube channel eight Eastern Monday, November twenty fourth.

Usman is best known for touring with Dave Chappelle, who I believe is Muslim And I don’t know how funny Usman is, but isn’t Chappelle pretty funny? Wouldn’t Dave Chappelle be America’s funnies Muslim? If we were going to give out the title, but I digress. Ajar Usman has also worked with Rami Yusef and mo Amaher on their various TV shows in the Islamic States of America. He turns his wit to themes of faith, fatherhood, politics, and repentance, all while interrogating the contradictions of modern America through a distinctly global Muslim lens.

It was shot both in Zany, Chicago on a Hollywood sound stage. It’s an experimental, forty seven minute black and white comedy, blending live performance footage with scripted vignettes. Usman told Deadline the project’s been a long time coming. I performed a one man show just before Trump became president in twenty sixteen. The world has changed drastically since then, and so have I.

I finally feel ready to share the hilarious and sometimes uncomfortable truth. There’s going to be a mass conversion to Islam and the United States. Don’t take my ward for it. Ask cards against humanity, and that is your comedy. Use for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker, David Cross, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Stav Halkias, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schultz, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis’s two-year comedy break plans
• David Cross’s critique of Riyadh Comedy Festival
• Stav Halkias on combating incel culture through his podcast
• Joe Rogan’s Michael Jackson songwriting theory fact-checked
• Andrew Schultz performing at Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival
• Andrew Santino on independent creator growth and Bad Friends podcast

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. Is Sane Gillis going to walk away from comedy? Of course not. Don’t be silly, but Crack was listening to a recent edition of Matt and Sheen’s Secret podcast.

Sheen Gillis said, I’ve been stricken down with a melancholy dude. I went for a walk the other day. I was going through it. I don’t have anyone even talk about this stuff. Mccuster said, I see everyone saying I stink.

I got a message the other day from a lady going, hey, just so you know, me and my boyfriend watch a special. Sucks so bad. I hate it. I don’t have the same feeling of excitement every day. It’s just kind of weird anxiety.

Shane said, I see how Chappelle left for a while. There’s a daydream all the time where I’m like, I could leave. I coud leave for a few years. I probably will give me two more years, and I’m going to walk away for a while. A lot of people have a tough time leaving.

You got to get off the stage for them to want you back on the stage. McCusker pointed out when you come back you have to have a new look, using examples like Letterman coming back with a beard and Chappelle coming back in shape. What will Shane do? Shane said, I’ve got it. I’m going to change the pigmentation of my skin away for six years and come back black as hell, his five year plan in place.

Don’t talk to anyone, just disappear, go to Madrid, all right. David Cross was asked by Vanity Fair what made David Cross decide to write about that re Odd Comedy Festival. Cross said, there were like three or four different requests to get my take on it. I knew it was only going to continue us. I thought I’ll just put it out there.

Then anybody who wants can pull whatever quote they want. But ironically that resulted in lots and lots and lots and more people going hey, so what are your thoughts? Vanedtty Fair said the response from Bill Burr he not so canceled a HEAs, I’m sorry, and a few others I mounted to a shrug about getting paid. What do you think of that? David Cross, who said, I disagree that that was their response.

The response came, but that was in attendance with this kind of after the fact justification. The one I’ve seen most is well, it’s a good thing to engage in dialogue. We’re opening it up and we’re showing them what stand up comedy can be, and this is a good thing. One of the things that keep coming back to you, said David Cross is a comment someone made about Bill Burr’s response. You know, I went and they didn’t behead anybody, and it was clean, and women were walking around.

They’ve got a Popeyes out of Chili’s and whatever. But somebody else wrote, you saw what they wanted you to see, and you said what they wanted you to say. So it has nothing to do with performing for the people because they weren’t performing the people. It was a very dangerous, upsetting thing that they participated in. And of course it’s for the money.

If they really thought it was all about these other justifications that they’ve come up with, they’d go and do it for free. They’d go to a town square and perform for the actual people there, not the royal family, and not with a four page list of things that can’t talk about. I would have more, not a lot more, but I’d have more respect for people who are just like I’m doing it for the money. When you start equivocating and making all this what about your pants that are made by slave labor and all this bs, I’ll continue to talk about those bad things either hero or a broad us have done my whole career, and that’s the beauty of what I get to do. You can’t do that in Saudi Arabia.

So they’re grasping at straws. All those arguments collapse under just a moticum of reality. Vanity Fair brought up the Devil’s Advocate argument that you know, things in the States aren’t always perfect. I’m paraphrasing their question there to get to David Cross’s response, which is when I’m perform in the I don’t perform for the government paid for by the government. I’ve heard Trem Marcos Razi also make that argument.

I don’t condone what my government does, and I talk about that amongst other things. So those are two very big differences. I’m not performing for the people who are torturing people. Dave Chappelle made that statement about it’s easier to talk there than they just talk about Charlie Kirk in the United States. Cross said they executed somebody for some tweets.

I don’t even know how gregious they were. They were just negative towards the royal family, which to say the government. So that’s a BS argument. It doesn’t stand up from Vulture. I think this was the good one podcast.

They Askedavro’s Halkias about describing his podcast Stove His World as an anti Inceel podcast. What do you mean? Stavro said, there’s a weird mean spiritedness amongst young male losers that is harming them. I only say that because I was a young male loser. Took me until pretty late in life, well in a college I even have a little confidence and start dating.

I think about what have happened to me at seventeen. If there’s somebody being like, if you’re me and a girl’s and a racist, they’ll have to paraphrasing have sex with you, I would have been like, nice, I guess I’m racist. Now that seems so much easier than believing in myself and becoming a good person. Now everyone’s like there’s a young masculinity crisis. I know what a fifteen year old boy cares about, and I just want to say, here’s the actional path to getting girls to like you.

You don’t have to go down that road. This is poisonous. This is not good for you. I promise you. You just feel better by being a good hang.

The bar is actually really low for straight dudes. Now, just don’t go to the dark side, brother, and you’ll be fine. I mentioned a few episodes ago that I saw a crazy theory from Joe Rogan. Joe said this on The Joe Rogan Experience. I got a theory.

I think one of the reasons why Michael Jackson’s songs were so romantic. There was a romance to his songs when he was talking about love that was like it was so attractive because he never had it before. It was a fantasy. It was like being a normal person like that was the fantasy that was coming out in the songs. Onto the theory, did Michael Jackson write his own songs, Rogan said, I don’t know.

It’s a good question, but even the way he expressed those songs, I Betty wrote some of those songs. Now, unlike Joe Rogan, I have the Internet. I solved this pretty quickly. I looked it up. Billy Jean, Michael Jackson beat it so Michael Jackson.

Thriller was written by the English songwriter Rob Temperton, who also wrote Rock with You and Off the Wall from the nineteen seventy nine album Off the Wall, which is a fantastic album. So there’s your answers, Joe Rogan, did Michael Jackson write his own songs? Sometimes? From Arab News your home for Comedy News, they caught some of Andrew Schultz’s act at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival. Now that’s not the Read Comedy Festival, this is the one in Dubai.

In that said, Andrew Schultz poked fun at Dubai’s traffic and riffed on the city’s obsession with Emar buildings. I was unfamiliar with the term Emaar. It appears to be a property company in Dubai that sells luxury homes. Wikipedia says emer Properties Dubai is one of the largest real estate developers in the UAE. Schultz closed with a lighthearted Q and A segment.

Before Andrew Santino headed off to the Read Comedy Festival, he had spoken with Variety about how more and more people are independent creators. Santino said, working with my friend’s interests me. I work with my best friend Bobby Lee every week doing Bad Friends. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had without restriction and without everyone trying to grab at us and make money office. I don’t know what my future is in television and film.

It doesn’t feel like I’ll have anything in that world anytime soon. Now this article, which was before Riod, why doing it today? John? I needed one more story, and I’ve been sitting on this one and it just slotted nicely. That’s why I’m dragging this out today.

But it kind of fits the narrative here. Santino said. A lot of people say the comedians say, you can’t say anything, but I don’t know anybody that says that. I feel like this is a narrative that gets put out by the media, where they’re like, what can comedians even say anymore? We don’t say that.

We don’t give a hoot. We go out every night and say whatever we want. I’m gonna add asterisk and less performing in Riod. You can go at any club except what in Reod, and you’ll hear an array of different levels of stuff that is questionable on savory touchy RESI. That’s every night, at every club in the country.

The country here means the United States of America, so I don’t buy in to that narrative. But I do think as a society we’re becoming more comfortable with the idea that a comedian can about anything as long as it’s funny and done with love and not in riatte. I added that last part, it shouldn’t come from this awful place pregnant pause. America now more than ever, wants to have fun. They’re tired of being sad or scared.

And as the world continues change rapidly and people look confused about what’s happening, we are supposed to be the ones that joke about what’s happening. Interesting take on comedy there by Andrew Santino. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was at the AFIFS premiere of the upcoming j Kelly movie. George Clooney told the Hollywood Reporter, you get treated the way you treat yourself. This was a different kind of role for Adam, and I wanted to make sure that he wasn’t making fun of his incredible talent.

He just likes to deflect, and I was like, you know what, dude, you’re really good in this film, and you’re really good actor. Let’s not make jokes clooney forbade people from calling Adam Sandler the Sandman. Sandler is that in response, I still call myself the sand Man. He can’t stop me. He’s just very protective over me.

He’s a really nice guy. We do all these scenes together, and we get deep together, and it’s I just want people to recognize that. And I’d say I’m okay, I like just working hard, and he’d say, no, he’s very nice. He’s trying to look out for me. Mark Maron was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last week.

Now, I’m going to play a short version of the clip and then a long version of the clip. For the short version, I want you to pay attention right at the top. Now, I defend Jimmy Fallon frequently, but I want you to pay attention at the top, really, really pay attention to the way Jimmy Fallon reacts as if Mark Maren is surprising him with a Bruce Springsteen anecdote, as if Fallen has no notes, and as if Fallon doesn’t know why Maren is booked on the show to promote the Springsteen movie. This is really lame. Here, pay attention.

It’s going to come up really quickly. Listen. And I did the. Movie The Bruce Springsteen Movie. Oh my gosh, how is that?

I mean, what is that? Jimmy, Come on, man, you know why he’s there? Oh gosh, really, oh gosh, I can’t believe Springsteen. Really, why do you think he’s on your couch? Why do you think he’s there?

Anyway, here’s the full clip. And I did the movie, The Bruce Springsteen Movie. Oh my god, how is that? The funny thing is I interviewed Bruce. So I go out to his house in Jersey and it was like during Christmas time, and I’m waiting in this like he’s got this little separate house for just his guitar as a motorcycle and some other stuff.

So I’m sitting out there waiting for him, and I see him walking down from the house and I’m like, all right, here he comes. He doesn’t really know me, he’s not real sure what the show is. So I’m trying to break the ice and I go, so what’s going on with the house? A lot of Christmas craziness, cooking, wrapping, President stuff, and he goes correct, and I’m like, can I talk to that Bruce at the entire hour. And years later a friend of mine, Tall wilginheld the bass player, was talking to Bruce about doing press, you know, for her album, and she goes, I don’t know how to handle interviewers, and Bruce goes, you just say what you want, doesn’t matter what they ask you.

You tell them what you want to tell them.

And then she says, my friend Mark Marin interviewed you and he said he pushed.

In New York City today at town Hall. It is the town Hall Presents Series and the town Hall Present Series presents Rummy yusef at workout for some new material, seven thirty at town Hall. That’s a good venue if you’re in the Big Apple Out On the Comedy Exports YouTube channel today, Sam Taunton’s how to Tie a Tie? And that guy Jay Leno, you know, the guy Jay Leno ust knows the Tonight Show. He’s the worst person who ever lived, because he comments about late night television every now and then as if he knows anything about it after hosting The Tonight Show for twenty two years.

Yeah, that guy, he’s the worst. He was hanging out with James May. You know, one of the drivers from top Gear slashed the Grand Tour, the driving show, you know, the three guys on the cars. So he got Jay Leno and James May hanging out. James was checking out a red Lamborghini count toch LP five thousand quattro valvave.

I’m sure I pronounced all that correctly. He got behind the wheel of the car and he said, it’s awful to drive. It’s uncomfortable, noisy, it’s not actually that fast by modern standards. Well, guess who owned it, Jay Leno? Yeah, Jay Leno said it was my daily driver.

Once Leno drove seventy thousand miles in that car. Because Jay Leno know, I was letting cars sit in the garage. We’ll kill them slowly. And jay Leno points out it’s not even fuel efficient. He said, it runs on gas and when you get on the highway it runs on even more gas.

The nerve of that guy, and that’s your comedy news for today. See you