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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. NETFLX is announced we’re getting season two of Kevin Hart’s Funny AF with Kevin Hart. I personally think that’s good news as comedy competitions go. That was a good version of one.

Kevin Hart will return as host, which is good because it’s called Funny AF with Kevin Hart.

Also good news for the crew.

The show is up for Outstanding Reality Competition Program in the Emmys. Hart is also up for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program. You won’t get season two until twenty twenty seven. Chris Tucker wants us to know that he’s been celibate. I know you were like wondering.

You woke up this morning. You’re like, I wonder if Chris Tucker’s celibate. Well, the answer is yes. During a recent stand up performance in Las Vegas, Chris Tucker chose to tell the audience he’s been celibate from more than three years as he focuses on finding lasting love and marriage. Tucker said, well, I’m celibate.

I’ve been celibate for three years, but I’m really trying to get married. I give it to the love this time. That got a big laugh. Tucker then said, I’m serious. No one believes me.

According to Tucker, even members of his family didn’t believe him. He said of his niece, she believes in aliens, but she don’t believe I did that. Mark Marin said that Panic is the best special I’ve ever done. The last three specials are really culmination of the work that have done over the last forty years in terms of craft, ideas and things I like to talk about. There was a holistic approach to the material that integrated nicely with me moving through things and kind of repairing myself.

The whole production was kind of built around that idea, which is very poetic and I think elevated the special a lot. We live in a time when a lot of comedy specials aren’t that special because there are so many of them, but we were able to bring it all together with this. There’s definitely an arc in there. Look, it took me two years to really get that set up and together because I do like to devi it through line and right up to a day or two before recording. I decided to change the tone of the opening bit because I didn’t want to come out with the vibe of being stride and herself righteous.

I wanted to bring everybody in, not alienate them by posturing when I’m doing is special. I’m usually working with ninety minutes material and I try to get it down like seventy three minutes. That’s my number, you know. So I had two weeks to get panicked down to seventy three minutes, and all of a sudden, I’m pulling pieces out and fitting things together differently. You always shoot two versions, and both shows I landed right at seventy three minutes with no clock.

Mark was asked by golderby dot com if young comics ask him for advice. Mark said, I don’t feel like I’m being sought out for advice. I think a lot of younger comics may have gleaned a lot from the podcast. I know it did help people because we talked about it. They’re also up against a different business than what I was up against.

I don’t want to talk about how I feel about what’s necessary required to be a great comic, or trace how you’re on stage and build on that, but I really can’t speak to the business side of things. I think the platform business is lowering the bar. It’s about creating viral moments for popularity, and that doesn’t necessarily mean the quality of what you’re doing is great or that you’re fundamentally talented or charismatic.

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Also think it makes comedy less special because it seems like everybody’s goi…

If you’re an old timer, you believe it’s a special type of art that starts a to diminish in quality in that kind of environment. I mean, the thought that I put into a special like Panicked wouldn’t be required anymore. And in that case, what do we really have? Everything becomes disposable in an hour or two, and I like doing specials at last with a certain degree. Deadline caught up with Jeff Ross.

They were curious how roast culture has changed since Comedy Central got into the roast game. Deadline said, ros have become a global phenomenon now that Netflix has become the de facto home for them. Ross said, I like that you say that they’re the home of roasting. That’ll make them feel good because that’s something they’ve tried to make happen and have now made happen. I like the size and scope of the roast.

Yeah, there’s certain things from the old days that I missed, but mostly that’s nostalgia. It’s sort of this niche thing on Comedy Central. Deadline jumped in and said the Comedy Central Rose certainly had a different feeling. Ross said, yeah, I got that, but it was also pretty body and a times controversial. I think it’s a spectacle now because we don’t have the White House Correspondence Dinner anymore, where comedians are roasting the presidents speaking truth to power, free speech.

The late night shows are getting dinged. I think the Roast it’s like the Purge once every year or two. Anything goes that. If you don’t like a joke, there’s another one coming in twenty seconds. The jokes permitted at the roast is like no other ship.

Oh and the fact that it’s up there now. Last year we got nominated at the Emmys, with the Oscars, the Tony’s, the Grammys, and the Super Bowl halftime show. So the Roast now, you can’t argue about the cultural relevance. Tens of millions people watched it, so it’s providing a service. Deadline said that the roasts are becoming an engine for minting comedy stores.

They mentioned specifically Nicky Glazer. Has that been cool to see? Jeff Ros said, it’s the best. It just delights me to no end. To note that the roast is like this launching pad.

Everybody who did this Kevin Hart roast is selling out now wherever they go. Everyone’s doing each other’s podcasts, and seeing how Nicky is soaring. It just fills me with joy. It really does. And this is an interesting note.

Deadline is a fan of bumping mics with David tell could we get more episodes? Jeff Ross said, it’s funny you said that. I have to be careful because Dave is so grumpy. But last night we stopped by the comedy seller and went up together for twenty minutes and he had me laughing so hard I was falling on the floor. So I want to do it.

It’s up to Dave. Robbie Hoffman tells people that Robbie Hoffman has not always been known as Robbie Hoffman. Someone in show biziness changed their name, says Johnny Mac, whose real name is John McDermott, but it’s easier to say Johnny Meck. No way. Apparently, Robbie was on the god Works podcast and explained, I’m born the name Rifka Sarah, so obviously when I got into comedy, Rifk is a very difficult name for comedians and people to bring me up, is it?

I mean, it’s not my name, but I don’t know. But uh, all right, we’re having a great show here. Let’s keep things moving. Give it up for Rifka Sarah. I mean, no, you can’t just do that.

I mean, I don’t care. Robbie Hoffman said, I’m just trying to do open mic. So when I look for a stage name, I wanted something familial. I just didn’t want to change my r initial and I went with Robbie. It just felt like a family name.

But my mother was horrified. My mother called me and she goes, it’s a beautiful Jewish name, Rifka. I’m not calling you, Robbie. Rifke is such a beautiful name. What are you ashamed?

I said, Ma, you think with three seconds of me being on stage, they’re gonna be like, I wonder if she’s Catholic. That is hilarious. Janelle James is developing a new comedy series at Hulu. It’s titled Rock City. In Rock City, we would follow a woman, presumably Janelle James, who returns to her hometown in the Virgin Islands after she inherits a local tourist trap from her estranged father.

According to the log line, she quickly realizes that she’s been left much more than a simple beachfront bar and grill. Isn’t that kind of the first act of the Margueritaville Musical? Alrighty? Remember in the finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by the way, do you miss the show? Do you do?

You? No? Really do you? You don’t? You moved on?

But anyway, I remember when he played the Linus and Lucy composition and made a joke that CBS was going to have to pay for it. Well, apparently CBS is going to pay for it, but the Lee Mendelssohn Film Productions Company said they will donate the proceeds to Chef jose Andre’s World Central Kitchen, which is a nonprofit organization that provides meals throughout the globe during various crisses. In the case of the Late Show incident, Lee Mendelssohn Film’s production chairman, Jason Mendelssohn noted LMFP found the music’s use on the Late Show funny and entertaining, and is proud to support World Central Kitchen’s mission. A principal goal of our enforcement actions is to educate individuals, businesses, and government entities about the needs to obtain written license agreements to use music in a commercial setting. And from The Toronto Guardian, they caught up with comedian Beta Judaki Bita.

How would you describe your comedy style? She said, people have told me my style is playful, silly, surprising, dark and maybe too honest. Favorite shows growing up Seinfeld, The Simpson and Friends. Did I say friends? I did?

Didn’t I now I could edit that out, but I said friends? What’s friends? Friends? Is? That’s not even a queen’s accent?

Friends? I don’t know. Her favorite shows were Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Friends. Beta says, I think I based a lot of my personality slash early comedic choices on Lisa Kudro. Favorite comedian now she listed Tignisaro, Devergi, Giovanni, Robin Tran and Kate Burlant.

Pre show ritual nervously drink too much water at pea a lot. I’ll try to watch the comics before me, so I understand the inside jokes that have already been made with the audience. That’s smart. That is your comedy news on a summer Sunday. You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so you never miss an episode.

You can also comment there, on Spotify or in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. And I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Burt Kreischer, Nikki Glaser, Ron White, Tom Segura, Jeff Ross, Theo Vaughn, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Kill Tony’s rise to become America’s biggest comedy show
• Tony Hinchcliffe’s career as a roast writer and host
• Kill Tony’s move from LA to Austin and connection to Joe Rogan
• The format and structure that makes Kill Tony successful
• Austin comedy scene impact on Kill Tony’s guest roster

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Magan. On Saturdays this summer, I’m doing some deep dives on single topics. Today, let’s take a look at kill Tony, which premiered When Everybody June third, twenty thirteen. This is not an overnight success.

I find it ironic when fat people wear t shirts promoting fitness. The other day I saw a guy wearing a Nike shirt that said there is no finish line, and so I just came to the assumption he wears that to the Golden crowd. If you were trying to explain kill Tony to somebody who’d never heard it or seen it, the easiest shortcuts to say it’s a comedy competition show, and that shortcut is wrong in almost every way that matters. Technically, Yes, people come up, they do a minute Tonyhinchcliff in the band, and whoever the guest is that week react to it. Sometimes people get brought back.

There’s a structure. But calling Kiltny a competition show is like calling the comedy store a building where comedians perform. It’s accurate, but it misses the point. The thing that Kiltny actually is the reason it feels arenas now. The reason comedians fly themselves out to Austin to sit in the audience on the chance they might might might get pulled.

The reason that has become one of the more genuinely interesting things happening in comedy right now is because kil Tony is actually a live document of what stand up comedy looks like at every level, simultaneously from the open micer who’s been doing it for four months and who’s terrified and is going to get mocked to whoever the guest might be that week, could be Shane Gillis, could be Ron White, could be Joe Rogan, all that in real time, no editing, no polish. Without the safety net that TV puts under, everything sounds simple, not simple. Most attempts to capture comedy and its raw state end up either feeling too curated to feel real. Kevin Hart’s recent show out a little bit of that, we’re too chaotic to be watchable. Kil Tony’s neither of those things, and the reason it isn’t is because of Tony Hinchcliff now thing about Tony.

Tony’s an interesting person to have become the center of the biggest comedy show in America because his public probe file outside of kill Tony is unusual. He’s known as a roast rider, one of the best in the business, arguably the best working right now. Burt Kreischer is a king. He looks like at the Tiger King and the Liver King, only a Burger King and had a liver that looked like Martin Luther King got beat up by Rodney King. Roast writers usually are behind the camera.

They’re the people that write the joke that destroys someone at the Friars Club or on Comedy Central or on the Netflix roast Now, and then they sit in the back while the celebrity gets the credit and the clip goes viral. Tony has broken out of that Nicky glazer. What a performance tonight? Am I right? Absolutely?

Tellar Nikki who wrote that where was that? Your entire career? Nicky has such a bad eating disorder. The industry keeps shoving her down our throat. You might recognize of her podcast appearances, specials and winning the Triple Crown at Churchill Downs.

It’s his sensibility as a roast rider, or the precision, the willingness to go somewhere that makes the room uncomfortable, the understanding of exactly how far you could push something before it stops being funny. All that makes him good at hosting kill Tony. He knows how to read a room. He knows how to find the thing about a person that’s the most interesting to poke at. Underrated skill.

He knows how to be mean in a way that’s entertaining rather than just cruel.

Also a very specific skill that most people who think they have don’t have.

You got to appreciate kill Tony as a host. Hosting that show is one of the harder jobs in comedy. You’re dealing with open micers who might completely fall apart. You’re dealing with big guests who have their own energy, their own agenda. You’re managing the live band you’re keeping, whether it’s four hundred or four thousand people or MSG engaged throughout an episode that might run three hours no script.

The comp is in some ways Howard Stern. Howard credited with being the greatest radio host who ever lived, because if his ability to make four hours of live radio feel like it’s moving along, Tony does something similar in a comedy show. He doesn’t get enough credit for how hard that is to do.

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Now, let’s not underestimate the Rogan connection.

The Rogan connection is real. Yes, Rogan is a friend of Tony’s. Yes, Rogan has appeared on Kill Tony. Yes, Kill Tony’s based in Austin, and Kill Tony moving from LA to Austin is not unrelated to the fact that Rogan moved to Austin and took a big chunk of the comedy ecosystem with him. But again, Kill Tony started in twenty thirteen as a small live show.

The premise simple, one minute, a button gets pushed times up, and what Tony has figured out over years of doing it is that the format is infinitely generative. No two minutes are the same because the range of people show up do their minute is so wide you never know what you’re gonna get. The combination of a strict format and completely unpredictable content creates tension that keeps the show moving even when individual parts aren’t that great, and there’s a lot of individual moments that are not great. That’s part of the show. I know what you’re thinking.

Why is my GTA drug dealer on stage right now? Um? Ooh that cough was rough at the plane crashes are rough. Right. Can we agree that they’re bad, But I actually think they’re the perfect opportunity to get something off your bucket list, because in that one minute before touchdown, you get away with anything.

You are a video game character. You know what I do in that opportunity. When I Wilita and Nana they’re praying for salvation for a miracle, I’m going to get out of my seat and I’m going to punch a kid right there. Okay, wow, hi over here, buddy, how are you going on? I’m your worst nightmare?

Look over here, keep looking at me. Don’t get distracted. Your add is uh oh, there you go. You just said something else, look at you. One of the absolute worst performances imaginable, doing everything backwards, coming out, calling the crowd ugly, getting sidetracked by a very light, normal cough by someone in the second row that nobody in the back of the room could hear.

You had to describe it as rough. Cough was rough. Yeah, you got sidetracked there, And then you talked about plane crashes, a punchlineless bit about how you would punch someone else’s kid because you were punched by your parents, but you’re punching another person’s kids. Yeah, the cycle abuse needs to keep going. You know I’m perpetuating.

Well, you just abused three hundred and thirty people here tonight. The years of grinding that show in La building, the audience slowly figuring out what worked what didn’t. That’s the part of the kill Tony story that get skipped when people just go yeah, Rogan. What the move to Austin did do was concentrate a massive comedy talent in one place that made kill Tony’s guest rosters suddenly and dramatically better on a consistent basis. When your friend is Joe Rogan and everybody’s in the same city and Joe’s got the club that helps.

Let’s also looked at the comedy scene that coalesced in Austin, the people who either live there or pop in there a lot. In the Rogan verse Rogan, of course, Shane gillis THEO Vaughn for Krascher, someone in the orbit Ron White. All that created conditions were kill Tony could pull a remarkable guest almost any week it wanted to. As I’m recording this, let me just scroll down some recent episodes. Tom Sagora, Shane Gillis or a Shafir, Jelly Roll, Theo Vaughn, Jeff Ross.

I mean, those are some great guests, especially for this particular format. When you have Bill Burr sitting next to Tony Hinchcliff watching an open mic or do their minute, and then Bill Burr gives his reaction, you’re getting an education in how a working professional at the highest level of the craft thinks about comedy. You’re hearing a Bill Burr type explain why something worked or didn’t work, what he would have done differently with the bid is actually about underneath what the person thought it was about. You can’t get that in a class, you can’t write that down anywhere. It’s the oral tradition of stand up happening in public, and it’s one of the valuable things that kill Tony does that nobody really planned for it to do.

Uh yeah, I would just say just slow down a little bit. Okay, slow down a little bit, and just the more you do your jokes, the more they’ll come off natural and you won’t be like, I don’t know if you were in your head we’re trying to remember him. I remember like I was in my notebook for the first year and a half. You know, and I would just be like having a teleprompt ghost just I would just slow down a little bit. Okay, that’s it.

It’s not a threat. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Madison Square Garden. This is a show based in Austin, Texas. So while I have a lot of great New Yorkers scattered throughout the show, my two guests live with us in Austin, Texas. Ladies and Gentlemen introducing first, make some noise for one of the best comedians in the world.

This is Shane Gillis. Oh my god, Shane is back. And why don’t we keep that energy going to the Great and Powerple showro again. Now there were the arena shows. That’s where things get pretty interesting for kill Tony Arenas.

You know, Madison Square Garden, a show that is a live podcast about open micers filled the garden. The arena shows are built around a kind of spectacle production value, lighting the sense of event. What Tony figured out is that scale doesn’t actually break the format and amplifies it because the open micer doing their minute in front of ten thousand people is a fundamentally different kind of moment than doing it in front of four hundred, The stakes are higher, The silence when something doesn’t land is deeper, the explosion when something works is bigger. The format designed to create tension and pressure and reaction actually benefits from scale in a way most formats don’t. There are comedians working today who can trace a significant portion of the current audience directly to a kill Tony appearance, not a guest appearance, the one minute appearance.

One minute Atlanta got clipped, got shared, showed up in the algorithm, I got watched by people who already Kill Tony fans. The historical analogies actually the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, but kill Tony does it faster and more organically, and without the fielder of a booker deciding that you’re ready or not. The comedians who are taking kill Tony seriously as a career move, who are flying to Austin, who were working on their minute the way work on a late night set, understand that one great moment in front of Tony’s audience is worth more than one hundred great minutes in front of a club audience that doesn’t have a streaming component.

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And then there’s Tony himself, a comedian who’s primarily known for the show …

If you ask most people what Tony Hinchcliff’s stand up is like, they’ll say dark, precise, roasty. But the stand up isn’t what they think of they think about Kill Tony. It’s a trade off he seems to have made consciously. They’re comedians who would no pun killed to have what Tony has platform with that reach, big audience, weekly presence Netflix.

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And then there are comedians who would never trade the freedom of a state of …

Now. Did any plan all this? That probably gives him too much credit. More likely, he found a format he liked, did it for a few years, got logging in some of the timing and the geography, and built something that happened to be exactly what the comedy audience was looking for without necessarily knowing they were looking for it. It’s usually how the things at last get built.

Kill Tony is good enough, the audience found it, and now it feels a renus. You can comment on this episode in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, where on Spotify comments are open, and follow the show on Spotify turn on notifications so you never miss an episode. I’ll be back at tomorrow with a normal episode. I’ll see you then

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, Joe Rogan, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Spike Lee, Ben Stiller, Amy Schumer

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze UFC event controversy and photos with political figures
• Late-night ratings: Jimmy Kimmel vs. Jimmy Fallon during NBA Finals coverage
• New York Knicks championship parade and fan reactions
• Will Ferrell as World Cup LA ambassador on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Late-night World Cup and Boston beer shortage jokes
• Ben Stiller directing Knicks championship documentary for HBO
• Kevin Hart’s Hulu deal for LOL Live Showcase specials

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m not sure that anyone actually cares that Nate Brighetti went to a UFC fight, but I do kind of like Burghetzi gait. It’s kind of a to me, a non controversy controversy. I mean, Shane Gillis went and you didn’t lose your minds.

But this is a good reminder to Nate and his investors. You know, you’re one photo with Cheryl Hines away from spending millions and millions of dollars on a theme park and having your business go sideways. Just keep that in mind. You might want to just keep touring and selling out arenas. Anyway, in case you missed it, people were upset that Nate attended the UFC event.

We found out he was there because he took a picture with RFK Junior and Cheryl Hines. Well, now, the wife of Donald Trump Junior has shared some more photos and guess who’s in the photo with Petina Trump. That’s right, it’s Nate Brighetzi. Nate still is not posted any photos or videos of himself at the birthday bash, and his people want us to know he was there because UFC is his favorite sport. But apparently Nate took some other photos.

There’s a photo of Nate and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. You may recall one of her previous gigs while she was the Press secretary under the President Trump. Nate Berghessi also took a photo with House speaker Mike Johnson and famous podcaster comedian Joe Rogan. In a May twenty twenty five profile for Esquire, Nate Berghetti said, if I want to give you my opinion on who I voted for, who’s that for? It’s for me really, because I want you to know I’m smart.

I don’t think it’s really helping an audience. You don’t think they know who to vote for their living life. On the Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan said he convinced several people to go to the fight. He doesn’t mention Nate Berghetzi specifically, but he did mention Shane Gillis. I’ve made some edits for language.

I talked to a bunch of people into going that didn’t want. Shane Gillis was thinking about not going. I’m like, bro, you gotta go. It’s gonna be epic. It’s gonna be a once a thing, not on once in a lifetime, once in anybody’s lifetime.

It’s never happened before, it’s probably never gonna happen again. Probably not. No, that’s something you have to see and experience. Yeah, and so many people are trying to make it a partisan thing, like they’re mad at people for being there, like, oh, you’re support wrong. It’s a fight at the White House, doesn’t mean you endorse foreign policy, like shut up, just please, just please stop.

And again it’s this thing, the ego thing, where people are just they just want so badly. And on both sides, for sure, you know, the right celebrates this as a win for masculinity and patriotism and all these different things like okay, settle down, everybody, settled. Down, Johnny Mac. Enough with the politics stuff, stick to sports, okay. I Will Will Ferrell said it’s awful being an LA ambassador for the World Cup.

Will tell Jimmy Kimmel Live, I’m having to watch the uniforms. It’s awful. I thought it was gonna be great. I got to mow of the field. I didn’t even get a writing, mowhere.

I have a manual push mower, and it’s like pain the Golden gate Bridge. Once I started one side, I got to start on the other. I’m just there all the time. He also says there’s a lot of paperwork I’m processing, like HR complaints, all this passport stuff that’s on me. Late Night had some good jokes about the World’s Cup.

You may have heard the Scots visited Boston. Jimmy Fallon explains, apparently bars in Boston are running out of beer because all the Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup. It’s a bit of a wake up call when people from Boston are like and you drink too much. Jordan Klepper said, Boston ran out of beer, But how will they get the children to sleep? Did you spend yesterday watching the New York Knicks parade?

I did? The Knicks have been good for the ratings. Jimmy Fallon did well when the Knicks were on the other night. It gave the Tonight Show its biggest audience without a sports lead of the year. But yet even that could not defeat number one Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Late Nighter tells US. According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Fallon’s June fifteenth episode built around the NBA champion New York Knicks average one point four million total viewers and two hundred and twenty thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. That’s up twenty percent weeks a week. You should have the Knicks on all the time. But meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel still led the hour with two point two one five million viewers and two hundred and seventy three thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

Of course, Jimmy Kimmel, not being smart, in my opinion, is taking the summer off now. So Jimmy Fallon, this is your time to make the move. You may recall one time that Jay Leno ou hustle, David Letterman take the crown back, Jimmy Fallon, if Kimmel wants the summer off advantage you. Ratings are up for Byron Allen Garbage on CBS that is now averaging six hundred and ninety three thousand viewers and in eighteen of forty nine seventy two thousand. Kevin Hart says New Yick Knicks super fan Spike Lee deserves a ring.

On social media, Kevin Hart said, shout out to Spike Lee. Gives Spike a ring. Spike deserves a bleeping championship ring. And I’m saying it here. Give Spike in New York Knicks a championship ring.

I don’t believe he got one, having just watched the parade before I recorded this. That’s right. That was Amy Schumer leading Knicks fans in Go New York, Go chance. That was not at the main parade. That was at Wednesday’s parade for children.

But look, I’ve been warning you guys. It’s JUNI. You’re supposed to share the show. Now. The phone’s in your hand right, hit share right now, or I’m going to start unwielding weapons.

You think my threat of Nikki Glaser singing was bad, well, if you don’t start sharing the show, I’m going to start playing Amy Schumer singing. And if you think I’m kidding, I am not. Okay, you start sharing the show or we do that every single day.

Speaking of the Knicks and Spike Lee, I think this is a It’s not an awful cal…

They are making a documentary about the New York Knicks and the historic championship. It’s Ben Stiller that’s making it now. Ben Stiller very successful filmmaker and a New York Knicks fan. But wouldn’t Spike Lee be a better choice for this one? A lot of people on social media said, why aren’t we asking Spike Lee?

And I agree with those folks. Stiller posted on Twitter, couldn’t be more excited to make this doc with a twenty four and HBO about the NY Nicks. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. He added a hashtag one word Let’s go Knicks period. Ben Stiller was also on the Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart Roommates podcast on Wednesday.

That’ll always help, ben Stiller told the Knicks. I’ve obviously been shooting some stuff on my phone, but it’s going to be about all errors of the Knicks and this team. Obviously, there’s accumulation here of something that’s been going on for a long time. It’s super exciting. It’s great to have had all the success to your team.

We’re gonna be shooting a little bit more during new season, and I’m gonna hit you guys up for some interviews. It’s gonna be over the next year. That’ll be working on it. A lot of people have wanted to make it for a long time. Still a wild direct.

Why not, Spike Lee? I don’t know. Circling back to Kevin Hart, Heartbeat has a deal with Hulu for twelve new half hour specials from the l Live showcase series. L OL Live is not easy to say, but was first released in twenty twenty five as a way of championing emerging talent. The lineup for the new series actually starts tonight.

Chaunte Wayans tonight, Then in July we’ll get Matt Richards, and then one a month from Britsha Webb, Alfred Robless, Just Nash, Comedian CP Takarl Williams, Jason Chenney, till Say Sloan, Sydney Castillo, Paris Toche and he all have to wait until May to see Lance Woods. Let’s hope Nick Swartzson is feeling well. He shared a health update from his hospital bed. He was about to have his appendix out. He said, Hey, everybody, it’s Nick Swartson with more life advice.

Hey, if you have a sharp pain you’re abdomen, don’t assume that it’s a super fart. Going to take a minute here to indulge myself watching that Nicks parade yesterday, and I published this on my substack. The producer in me came out so back in the nineties when I was just starting out in radio, I produced a lot of special events. I remember doing the two thousand election, I remember doing the OJ trial, And when I was watching that parade coverage yesterday, I was like, Oh, I wish I were at a studio right now. There’s just something magical, especially before the event started, the vamping, the killing time.

The parade hasn’t started yet, the parade is running late. Okay, let’s go once more around the horn to all our people. Let’s check in with so and so, who’s on the corner of whatever street. Let’s go down to them. Hey, what can you tell us moving commercials off the log like quote unquote, clearing out spots, and then when there’s a break in the action, catching up on spots.

Hey, this guest is really good and is a good talker. Let’s keep them as long as we can. Oh no, the mayor just gave us thirty seconds, so we have to dump the good guest. And go to the mayor. All that live radio stuff.

I missed doing asyesterday, and it’s interesting. That’s not a feeling I have day to day. I love doing the show, I love podcasting, I love my current life. But boy, yesterday the producer in me came out. It is Friday.

Let’s hit the comedy stock market. Comedy stock market? All right? I got a name for you. Write this down, Ryan Hamilton.

You’re like, who Ryan Hamilton? He’s got a Netflix special ad on Tuesday. His last one was great. Ryan Hamilton is a buye. You are buying low.

I’m gonna make you some comedy coin right now. Buy Ryan Hamilton. Who are we gonna sell Johnny Mac? I think we gotta keep selling our NAPERGHETSI just things not trending well for Nate, this whole UFC thing. You know, Do you want to invest in a theme park right now?

I don’t. And Nicky Glazer told you yesterday try hard is the word, and that is just the word. Try hard. Nicky is a tryhard and it’s just not looking cool at all. Let’s keep selling Nikki Glaser will sell Nate Pergatzy and we will load up on Ryan Hamilton, That is your comedy stock market for this week.

For the first time, the New York Comedy Festival will present Varieties ten Comics to Watch That’s always a fantastic list. The presentation and showcase will take place on November twelfth during the New York Comedy Festival, which this year runs from Friday, November sixth through Sunday, November fifteenth. This year’s honorees will also be featured in Variety’s November fourth issue ahead of the live presentation. Since two thousand, Variety has been selecting standout comedians for their ten Comics to Watch franchise. Past honorees include star Trek Ruiner, paton Oswalt, and UFC fan Nate Berghatzy That’s right Dancing with the Stars.

As a new competitor, It’s Guillermo from Jimmy Kimmel Live. Why I don’t know either? And speaking of why I don’t know either, Survivor is getting an animated comedy, Yes, imated Survivor movie set in the Animal Kingdom. As Jeff Probes goesf it Man, I am cashing in, Jeff says, I’m so excited to be teaming up with Paramount animation to bring you Survivor like you’ve never seen it before in the Animal Kingdom. This will be an all out comedy with animals competing for the chance to be crowned the sole survivor.

Let’s go Jeff Probes, who’s like ef it, let’s cash in? Said. The movie will have everything we love about Survivor, big personalities, funny characters, surprising alliances, competition, chaos, and of course a lot of heart. But this time the players aren’t humans. If I don’t get animated Boston Rob, I have no interest in this thing.

The official synopsis reads. Set on a remote and mystical island, animals from all around the globe compete for a once in a lifetime chance to be crowned the sole survivor Jeff Probes, who’s like efit, Let’s just cash in. We’ll serve as executive producer on the film. And that is your comedy news for today, right share the show where we start listening to Amy Schumer say every day. That’s even worse than listening to Niki Glazer.

Arguably, the Nikki Glaser song is almost catchy. Do you really want to hear Amy Schumer sing? Because I can do that. No, you’re not gonna do that. You’re gonna share the show.

Share it on Spotify, where people can turn notifications on so they never miss an episode. Comments are open there, and the comments are open in the Facebook group Dailly Comedy News Podcast Group. Right tomorrow, I’m doing one of those episodes I explained last week that’s gonna help the search engines, help grow the show, that whole thing. Sunday’s an normal episode, and then Monday, oh Monday, thank you jay Leno. See, I wanted to pre tape Monday’s show so that I could hit the beach today Friday, and Jay Leno hooked it up and did a big, big thing about late night television, so that’d be Monday’s lead off story.

And I can guarantee you that fact because I’m gonna record it right now. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Shane Gillis, John Mulaney, Mikki Glaser, Mike Myers, Trevor Noah, James Corden, Mark Maron, Eric Andre, Ali Wong, Bette Midler

What’s in This Episode

• Man mistaken for Shane Gillis arrested for road rage incident with BB gun
• John Mulaney sells out Wrigley Field, compared to McCartney and Springsteen
• Mikki Glaser voices villain Priscilla in Netflix’s Cinderella reimagining
• Mike Myers confirms Austin Powers 4 in development
• James Corden’s post-World Cup late night show underperforms in ratings
• Mark Maron discusses stepping back from twice-weekly podcast schedule
• Eric Andre incident at WWE RAW ringside

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Caloroga Shark Media be on the lookout for fake Shane Gillis. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News out of Watertown, New York. The police are saying that a man named Ian was driving on Clinton Street when Ian had an exchange with a man on a scooter. Please say. Ian shouted at the man and called him fat.

The man responded by making an obscene gesture. Ian allegedly pointed a pistol at the man and said do we have a problem and drove off, while the scooter operator called police and described the corps and the driver. He told dispatchers that the suspect looked like Shane Gillis. Apparently that description was enough, police found Ian. The pistol turned out to be a BB gun.

Shane Gillis was not involved. John Mulaney’s PR People getting it done from Deadline exclusive last fall, John Mulaney called his shot he’d become the first comedian a headline Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs, blah blah blah, and now he’s become the first to sell out the forty thousand plus seed Ballpark. Here’s where the PR people really got it done. Listen to the company they’re putting. Mullany and Mulaney, a proud Chicago native, joins a shortlist of the world’s most prominent artists who have made the stage their own, which includes the likes of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Pearl jam Melanie will be at Wrigley Saturday, July eleventh.

In his statement, Mullaney told Deadline, I’m honored to stand on the same field where I saw Mark Grace rip cigarettes during games and yell all my jokes. That sound you here is all the cool being sucked out of Nikki Glaser. There’s no cool left. NICKI wanted to be famous, is famous, and now it’s the cash in. Nikki Glaser is joining the cast of Steps.

Nikki Glaser will play Priscilla, a villainous schemer who will stop at nothing to control everyone around her. Hmm, that’s it. I’m just saying. This is a reimagining of Cinderella. Bette Midler plays the fairy godmother in this thing.

Nikki Glaser, in the announcement, said it was a cathartic joy to voice the character of Priscilla, the jealous, try hard, want to be princess. Let’s just stop there. I’m not even gonna con Let’s just stop there. Okay, you’re thinking it. I didn’t say anything.

I just told you what. Nikki Glaser said. She’s playing Priscilla, the jealous, tryhard, want to be princess who’s fueled by deep seated insecurities of unlovability and inadequacy. Let’s just take another break and you know, take the podcast in today. We’ll go slow today.

Want me to read the whole quote again. Nicki said, the role wasn’t quite a stretch for me because those are all the characteristics that I do not at all relate to as a woman who has spent two decades clowing my way through show business. Here’s the synopsis. Think you know Cinderella’s evil stepsisters think again. Sick of living in Cinderella’s shadow, Lilith played by Ali Wong, steals the fairy Godmother’s magic wand and hijacks the Royal Ball with her sister Margo, breaking the Cinderella stories we know it and dooming the kingdom to the tyrannical rule of Priscilla, played by Nikki Glaser, a villainous schemer who swoops in and snatches the throne.

Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella to fight biker trolls, outrun evil Henchman, and escape the Screaming Woods on an epic quest to save the kingdom, but most importantly their relationship. I would say, let’s send this straight to the streamers, but this is from Netflix’s animation studios. That reminds me today’s garbage day. I gotta put the garbage out. Could we get Austin Powers four?

Mike Myers was on Trevor Noah’s World Cup watch party. Trevor asked if we will see Austin Powers four. Myers replied yes, that was it. No more information. Myers has been mentioning Austin Powers for since twenty eighteen, when he told Entertainment Tonight he wanted to make the movie from Doctor Evil’s perspective.

Myers at the time said, so it would be Doctor Evil one Austin Powers four. Mike Myers is also appearing as Doctor Evil in a commercial these days now. I was curious about this Trevor Noah’s World Cup WI party because I remember I had told you about it months ago, and I actually looked up last week when the World Cup started, Hey is he even doing this? And there’s no press on it. There’s still not any press on it other than this Austin Powers thing.

So I actually went on YouTube. Apparently it’s Trevor Noah and people sitting around couches and they’re watching the game. You don’t see the game or hear the game, but it’s kind of like you’re in Trevor Noah’s living room. I guess, so, I guess you put it on while watching the game. If that’s the thing you want to do, go nuts.

James Corden is hosting a show after Soccer on Fox. It has a different title, but I’m not going to use it. Late Night Er writes, James Gordon’s return to late night did not exactly arrive with World Cup sized ratings, but it wasn’t a face plan either. Late Night it tells us. According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Thursday’s premiere of FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon aka Show on After Soccer averaged four hundred and eighteen thousand total viewers and one hundred and ten thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

Boy Just Run Byron ellen Man you think CBS is dumb, maybe they’re not. Late Nighter compared Midnight to one a m ABC’s hours split between Kimmel and Nightline, NBC split between Fallon and the inexplicable Late Night with Seth Myers, and CBS between Byron Allen Garbage. Late Nighter says on that basis, Fox trailed ABC, who had one point five sixty four million viewers, NBC nine hundred and thirty thousand, and Byron Allen Garbage five hundred and thirty three thousand. However, in the eighteen to forty nine demo show after Soccer, one hundred and ten thousand adults, CBS said sixty four thousand, NBC one hundred and nineteen thousand. ABC led the hour three hundred and twenty thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

Mark Maren spoke to gold Derby. Maren said people got very used to hearing me talking to them directly. Twice a week. I’m getting dms on social media, with some of them saying ope you’re enjoying retirement. I’m not retired and just having a life allow me to have a life.

I’m situated in my life in a way I haven’t been able to in a long time, which means I have a lot more time to worry about stuff and wonder if I’m doing enough. But I’m trying to ease up on that. I don’t need to be operating in that space all the time. But I’m doing a lot of comedy work and trying to put together movie that I wanted to director early next year, which is coming along. But I also have time to try and do stuff around the house, spend time with friends, go do things.

There’s a lot of stuff I didn’t used to do because I was so consumed by work, but I do still fun work to do. Does Mark Maron miss the direct connection to his audience, Yeah, sometimes thinks what would happen? I’d be talking about the podcast to stream a conscious away and I’d think, oh, maybe I should work that into a bit. So I’ve lost that outlet, a kind of improvisation in terms of developing material. There’s also discipline to do in the show twice a week, and I would send out a weekly update and forced myself to play music at the end of each episode.

Lately, I found I’ve had to put myself in a position where I make sure the I’m doing all that stuff creatively. But the other side is what I want to do to stand up now, especially in longer sets, is there’s an urgency to it there wasn’t there before, and I like the audience doesn’t know everything already because of the podcast. Currently, Eric Andre had a tough night on WWE RAW. We’re told Andre was ringside during a Bloodline segment featuring Roman Reens and Jacob Fattu. Apparently Roman Rains formerly welcomed Fatu into the Bloodline.

As the group made their way back up the ramp, eric Andre reached out and touched Fatu’s ceremonial something. Fatu reacted, pulling Eric Andre over the barricade and into the ring. Oh no, Luckily, Roman Rains climbed into the ring and called him off. But then after a pause, Roman Rains changed his mind and allowed Fatuo to continue. Fatsu then hit Eric Andre with a splash from the top rope.

We’ll let you know if Eric Andre is okay. Yesterday in New York City there was a New York Knicks parade for kids outside the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. You know who hosted it, Amy Schumer. Why, I don’t know we’re told she is a kid champion. Amy Schumer was joined by Jessica Seinfeld.

Meanwhile, the real parade is today, the Ticker Tay Parade in New York City. This morning, Jimmy Fallon had some thoughts. Everyone’s getting ready for the big victory parade this Thursday for the world champion New York. It could be the largest parade in New York City history, with over one million people expected to attend. And it’s New York, so they’re all roommates.

We’ll get this. The city is distributing two five hundred pounds of shredded paper to office buildings along the route for workers to toss out their windows right now. The santation departments like, why do we even bother cleaning up from Saturday? This is a design. It’s a big deal.

I even had a Zoom meeting scheduled and I canceled it because I want to watch the parade. I missed a good Jimmy Fallon joke the other night when he had the Nixon He said, of course it’s the Knicks, so they won’t really show up until the second half. Are you paying attention to what’s going on in DC with the reflecting pool. It’s a little green. Jimmy Kimmel said he wanted a painted American flag blue.

Not even a week later, it’s already completely green. It’s a Mexican flag green. Experts are saying that when Trump had it paid it dark blue, he made the problem worse because the darker color retains more heat, and analogy thrives in warmer water. You know, he’d promise he’d trained the swamp. Instead he spent fourteen million of our dollars building a new one.

Des Bishop, who was a great guest on this program, He’s got a new special coming out on Hulu Friday, June twenty sixth. In the new Hour, filmed at the Comedy Seller New York City, Des Bishop embraces his inner bridge and tunnel, diving into the joys of not having kids, surviving gen X dating, growing up irish with the New York’s attitude, and finding humor in the chaos of modern adulthood. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla has a deal to become the official audio distributor for Comedy Central Records. The deal brings together catalogs from comedians including a UFC, fann Aperghetzi, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, who likes the when we talk about her, the not so canceled disease, I’m sorry, Star trek Ruiner, Patton Oswalt, Big Jay Oakerson, Kyle Kanay and Mark Norman, Sam Marilla and many more. It’s like they’re collecting all the comics I have nicknames for.

You might as well have signed. Dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Comedian Willie Mac has announced his first full Lin special, Good Dad, Bad Father, will extreme exclusively on Gorilla Comedy Plus beginning June twenty second. That’s Monday. It’ll be on YouTube July twenty first, which is not Monday.

Mac show is about becoming a dad before fully becoming an adult. He said, my dad raised me with scripture, I raised my son with vibes. Comedian Kate and Sizowski will release her debut comedy album, Garbage Plate. That’s out Friday, June twenty sixth, via a Special Thing Records. As a comedy writer, much of Kate’s work centers on the LGBTQ community, flawed but lovable female characters, and mental illness, all of which shine on her first comedy album, recorded live in La And That is Your comedy news for today.

Enjoy the parade. Don’t forget you’re sharing the show where I’m gona play Nikki Glaser songs. You don’t want me to do that again. It took me a day to get it out of my head. I could torture you.

So tell a friend about the show. You’ve got your phone in your hand right now, Just hit the share button. Text them be like, hey, check this out. That’s all you got to do. Take five seconds.

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Featured: Louis C.K., Nate Bargatze, Stephen Bargatze, Robert F. Kennedy, Cheryl Hines, John Stewart, Rob Schneider, Ahmed Ahmed

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. Netflix special ‘Ridiculous’ trailer release
• Nate Bargatze UFC event photo with RFK backlash
• Stephen Bargatze magic special on Nateland YouTube
• John Stewart criticism of White House UFC event
• San Francisco Giants Pride Night Bible verse controversy
• Ahmed Ahmed lawsuit against San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department

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Caloroga Shark Media. It air Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Netflix has released a trailer from Louisk’s upcoming stand up special. The special is titled Ridiculous, which I feel like he’s used at five times already, but I guess not. It’ll be out on Netflix on June thirtieth.

It’s louis first special on Netflix in nine years. You may recall that scandal. Louise last Netflix special was in twenty seventeen. Since then, he has released several albums and specials through his own website. He also won Best Comedy Album at the Grammys in twenty twenty two.

That was his third The other two were before the scandals, in twenty twelve and twenty sixteen. In May, Louis k headlined a show at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the Netflix As a Joke Comedy Festival, and the streaming special was announced. Well now it is here. During that show, CK’s all the audience. That was my last show on the tour, last time tell those jokes, and I’m really happy I got to tell them to you.

Thank you very much for coming. Thank you to Netflix. I really appreciate the gig. And there is a trailer. Let’s listen to it.

I have edited out one F bomb. Yeah, my dad’s eighty nine and he’s in a home. Now, he’s in a home. You know what that means. Right, there’s a pink plastic water pitcher in the room, you know what I mean.

Yeah, he’s in a home. My sisters and I put him in a home because he was too old to stop us from putting him in there. He was just two weeks to resist being forced. So we went looking for a home to put our dad in and we went on a tour and not with him. But you don’t you don’t bring him on the tour now, his first time there is the day that if the last place he’ll ever go.

You know what this place does? You know what they do? You give them money and they take your father. They go this one. You go, yeah, and they they take him.

They just push him in a chair away from you. Just say. You don’t even have to wave, you just watch. And your father’s like. I didn’t love that clip, And that’s the clip you’re choosing to put in the trailer.

Maybe I’m sensitive because I had to put my mother and assisted living towards the end of her life and I don’t know, but maybe it’s not funny. You tell me. Comments are open on Spotify and in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group the Folks on the av Club wrote, based on the material presented in the first clip, the actual content of the special is unlikely to garner the kind of controversy that has deservedly followed work from Dave Chappelle or Kevin Hard. It’s roast a first glance, c K doesn’t address any controversy. It looks like an attempt to return to business as usual in what Netflix’s press material describes as a quintessential set that shows he’s still a legend of the stand up world.

Louis C.K. Ridiculous out on June thirtieth. As I said the other day, he’s probably the second best comedian of the twenty first century. So it’s a complicated situation. Now, the story that is amusing me this week is this Nate Brighatzy thing.

Incasion missed it. Nate went to the UFC fight the other night. He got photographed with Robert F. Kennedy and Cheryl Hines. I believe the Vice president is in the background of that and people are like, hmm, is Nate Brighatzy a supporter of the President of the United States.

Now, Nate himself did not post a thing about the attendance. A source says Nate discussed his attendance with his team, knowing that his appearance would be interpreted as a political statement, but decided to attend anyway. We are told that Nate went because he’s a big UFC fan and the appearance was quote not political. I guess that’s why. Well, at this point, I think the cover up is worse than the crime.

As they say, that’s just a phrase I’m using. Don’t read anything into that, but Nate Gates getting a lot of pick up. Yahoo wrote about it. They quoted some Twitter users, one called the comedian Maganate. That person said, I used to enjoy Naperghetzy, but then I learned that he thinks fascism is funny.

Another person wrote, now I love that guy, and I generally don’t do boycotts, but I’m done with him. I saw a lot of conversation on threads that people were done with Nate Brighetzy. One person wrote, we have tickets to see Nate in July. Sultan them back at half price this morning. I think, just own it now.

If you listen to the show every day, I try not to get too political. If you pay close attention to the spin I put on words, you can probably figure it out. But as I have said in the past, the President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues. For example, this week, I don’t want to send Iran three hundred billion dollars. But on the other hand, the President and I are a line that NBC twelve thirty could be way better.

Make twelve thirty great again. So you know, just own it now. Interesting timing here. Nate’s father, steven sian comedian. He’s got a special coming out Thursday.

Maybe Nate is a master of promotion. Stephen Burgetzi’s debut magic special will be on Nateland’s entertainment YouTube page at two pm Pacific on Thursday. Weird time to put that out. It’s called Out in a Minute taped at the Franklin Theater in Tennessee. Out in a Minute blends old school illusions, quick witted crowd work, and deeply personal stories from a lifetime in show business from classic tricks he performed during a Z Opryland days to one final stunt his family, which is hid retire.

Stephen Burgetzi turns the evening into a celebration of comedy, magic and the wonderfully unique journey that helped shape the Bergazzie family on their way to attending the UFC event on the White House Lawn. John Stewart commented on the UFC fight and said Sunday night gave the President and his acolytes an opportunity to rebut the joyous communion of teamwork that embodied the New York Knickerbockers for a joyless Vegas style trudge through the People’s House and now transformed into a gold plated pummeling center. Stuart said, what a gone awful mockery of an event that somehow managed to find a way to do value both combat sports and our national dignity. Who even aired this embarrassing stuff? The answer there is Paramount Plus.

Who’s his boss? Stewart said, once again, the leaders of Paramount Plus providing us all with incredible content at reasonable prices. I am proud to stand with the Paramount family and whatever shows they decide to either cancel or put on. Did you see this thing? With the San Francisco Giants.

They had Pride Night the other night, and some players wrote some Biblical messages on their Pride hats. Rob Schneider has entered the discussion because of course he did. Rob posted on Twitter, I will pay the fines for any MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform. MLB is anti Christian. The San Francisco Giants said they are proud to support Pride Night and the LGBTQ plus community.

We also respect that individuals may make personal choices about participating in team activations. We understand the choices by individual players has caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ plus community, and we are sorry for that.

Also out of San Francisco, comedian Ahmed Ahmed was arrested last year at San…

He says he was assaulted by deputies at San Mateo County Jail. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court, Ahmed Ahmed issuing the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department for assault, battery, negligence, and other allegations. As the story goes after missing a flight connection. When returning to the US from a work trip in Thailand, Ahmed and other frustrated passengers got into an argument with the United Airlines representative in the early morning hours at SFO. He was sent to a hotel with no available rooms.

He returned to the service desk around one am, exhausted, frustrated, and in need of help. The complaint said the agent was dismissive. From there, Ahmed apparently demanded assistance. The employee called San Francisco Airport Police, saying Ahmed was being disorderly. Police arrested him and transported him to the jail.

Ahmed said he sustained a broken wrist, elbow, and rib, as well as bruises and lacerations from being punched, kicked, and beaten by deputies. According to the complaint, He was then strapped to a chair in an isolation room with a hood over his head. The complaint also suggests that deputies tried to remove his pants. I’m at in the statements that I’ve spent my life trying to bring people together through laughter. But what those officers did broke something in me.

I was scared for my life. They tortured, humiliated, beat and injured me. The trauma has scarred me physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. I was released without being charged with any crime because I didn’t do anything wrong. Wow, just serious all the way around there.

We’ll keep an eye on that story, and awkwardly go to a commercial break. All right. The rest of the show was pretty much a victory lap for the world champion New York Knicks. If that doesn’t interest you, especially through the lens of Jimmy Fallon, you are excused and I’ll see you tomorrow. But for everybody else, Tracy Morgan says he doesn’t have a favorite New York Knicks player, but has crowned MVP Jalen Brunson the king of New York.

Tracy Morgan told The Post, I can’t pick anyone out because everyone had a part in it, the coaching staff, everyone had a part in it. So I won’t do that. I won’t single anyone out. But Brunson is the king of New York right now. People have spoken.

The New York Knicks were the guests on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Now, normally I defend Jimmy fallon. But this first thing I’m gonna play for you is so lame. It just it’s not funny. It’s not entertaining.

Jimmy, who is this? For Game one in Texas, New York brought it, y’all. Brunson put up thirty points, then shouted yeehaw. For Game two, much closer, Gay fans a heart attack. Thank god, Wemby passed the ball into his teammates’ backs.

Game three in New York MSG was packed. New York City took an l while one guy took a nap sweat. Game four historic down by twenty nine. It’s the reason I now have an Annoby Shrine s. Game five the Spurs.

We’re leading at the starts, but we believed because we all have hearts and bridges and kat They all played really great, so now we’ll all get turn it. That’s forage New York Knicks run starting five so much fun. Here’s to you time this year. How about at the same time next year. I mean, that was so bad that makes me want to listen to Nikki Glaser sing.

But by the way, by the way, by the way, I did myself in I woke up in the middle of the night the other night last night actually with the Nicky Glazer song stuck in my head. So as much as I’m trying to torture you, I wound up torturing myself. Just share the show anyway. Fortunately the actual Nicks came out. Here’s their introduction.

I have scoped this down for piecing. Wow, MVP right here, Come on, my gosh, thank you for being here, and thank you, thank you for being here, and thank you for bringing a championship to New York. On the coush with Jimmy Fallon, it’s coach Mike Brown, Karl Anthony Towns, you know him as Cat, and the captain Jalen Brunson. Jimmy felln loses control of his own show for a little bit before asking Jalen Brunson about his pre music routine. Jell and you scored a forty five points in a championship winning game.

Right but Michael, same time? All right, right, I can’t talk. Michael Jordan is. The only other player in history to do that. What does it feel like when you go down the street or you see this billboard in New York City of Clyde Fraser passing the ball.

That’s the John. That’s cool. That’s crazy, that’s it’s pretty cool. That’s really cool. I mean getting getting being able to know him and talked to him over the last couple of years.

You just see the joy he has watching us, and I’m just ready to thank for the relationship that we have. He means a lot to this community, the next community in US and just uh, he’s a pleasure to be around. Yeah, he’s always there for you guys. And we talked before when you’re on the show before the game, you told me listening to Justin Bieber, and I was wondering if that’s still the case. And during the playoffs, do you switch out the playlist or is it still Bieber?

Before the games? I switched it up every now and then, but right before after Mike does his pregame talk has to be Beber, right before I run out. I love you loyal. I can verify this, Yeah, right, y, Yeah, I can verify it.

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Speaking of music, you may have noticed coach Mike Brown singing who Let the …

During the ceremonies after the Knicks won the championship. Mike Brown tells the story who let the Dogs Out? By the Baha Man. What is that song. We got to put that to bed.

Yeah, where did that come from? Was that something you. Listen? Story? So I got too, He.

Said, know what, we need the story as well. We won’t need this. I was an assistant San Antonio many moons ago. The reporter that asked me the question, he said, what did you learn during your time here when you coach the seven year old dog’s flag football team? And so I said, I said, I learned to cheer because we used to have all the parents come into the huddle, all the kids come in the huddle before every game.

We put everybody put their hands in, right, all right, we’re gonna practice, and everybody to do this. Put your hands in, put your hands in.

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And then I’d go one, two, three, I go loot the dogs.

Not to walk out, to walk out, stop doing it. No, I won’t do it anymore. So not to walk after that. After that day, I’m going back to the hotel thinking everything is good, right okay, And the players walk off the bus first, every one of them that walked by me, tap me on my shoulder and killed He was the toughest on me. He was to they killed me.

And I will say one player, one player, on our team. Yes, he tap my back, rubbed my shoulder. He looked down at me, gave me the just just a sorry, just a sorry felt look, and he said, don’t worry about a coach. It was Mikail Bridges. Mikil mckis.

He got your baddies. Yes, he got kill Bridges. Can we talk about how he just compared me at thirty to a seven year old? Yeah? Yeah.

By the way, on that that last boys, you’re hearing there, that’s cat. You can just tell he’s got a quote unquote it. Jalen Brnson’s a little tight still with the media, but Cat’s in natural paying attention to that. On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel called it the best five game NBA Final Series ever. He then rattled off all the post game five stabbings, injuries and arrests in the aftermath and the Knicks win.

Yes, some idiots in New York don’t know how to behave. Kim joked that people worried that mayor Mum Donnie was going to destroy New York. No one would have guessed it would be fans of the Knicks. Kimmel then showed some clips of Knicks fans getting routy, including destroying school buses and putting Elmo’s head on a spike. I’ll come back to that, Kimo said, you know you’re in a festive mood when you set fire to a school bus and nobody has a problem at all.

So the Elmo thing was pretty funny. The Elmo social media account posted something like let’s have a good game, rooting for both sides, and people pointed out that Sesame Street takes place in New York City and called Elmo a treader. It was very, very funny reading the reactions to Elmo trying to both sides the NBA Finals. No, you’re from New York, you’re a Knicks fan. Elmo seth Meyer still has a show at twelve thirty.

For some reason, he dedicated his Closer Look segment to the Knicks. He said, I don’t know where you’re watching tonight, but wherever you are, I guarantee it’s not as much fun as New York City is right now. That is true. New York City is a lot of fun right now, no offense. But New York City is currently a cross between Mardy grac Corichella and the Ray from the matrix.

We got Nixon five World Cup, Fever, the Portteryay Parade, we got block parties, watch parties. We even got guys balancing trash cans on their heads. It all feels bigger than sports. If you’re in New York City right now, whether you live here or you’re just visiting, you could jump on the f train and at any moment be surrounded by people in Nick’s gear, or Brazil gear, or Morocco gear, or even Mets gear. And if you’re from abroad and you don’t know what the Mets logo is, it’s the one on the hats of the sad people.

Well, Seth Meyers actually made me laugh. I should just wrap up the show now, but I have to tell you about New York Laughs is happening in New York City tonight, and it’s pretty cool. New York Laughs is a comedy arts nonprofit that does world class stand up in public spaces. Tonight. James Austin Johnson is your headliner, joined by Jordan Fisher, Charlene Kay and Olivia Carter.

Lineups are subject to change, but you’ll find this at Lincoln Center tonight. Free limit advanced tickets are free seating is first come, first served. So what you want to google there is ny laughs one word and that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget follow a show on Spotify or I’ll play Nikki Laser saying turn notifications on so you never miss a show. You can also comment in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Rogan, Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, Jay Leno, Joe Biden, James Corden, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jimmy Fallon, Marc Maron

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze at Trump White House UFC event
• Jimmy Kimmel’s birthday card parody for Trump
• UFC event on White House lawn with Joe Rogan
• Jay Leno interviews Joe Biden on his garage show
• James Corden soccer show with Sebastian Maniscalco helicopter bit
• New York Knicks appearance on Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caalarogashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Over the weekend, the presidents of the United States turned eighty years old, and Jimmy Kimmel wished the president a happy birthday. Over Instagram, Kimmell posted a birthday card that resembled a note that Trump had allegedly addressed to Jeffrey Epstein. Kimmel’s card reads, Happy eightieth Donald A.

Palla is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret. The President spent part of his birthday at the UFC event on the White House lawn. That’s a thing that happened in the United States of America. There was a UFC event on the White House lawn.

You might not have seen it because it was on paramount. Plus it was a big celebration and we had to put it on a streaming service. So if you didn’t see it, you may have missed Joe Rogan’s tie. Whatever you think of Joe Rogan, he’s terrible at ties. This tie came about three inches high of his belly button.

Unlus, Joe Rogan thought he was at UFC nineteen seventy four. I don’t know why his tie was so short. Now, some celebrities were there. The Daily Beast had the headline Emmy nominated comedian exposed as Maga at Trump’s UFC fight. They tell us Nate Brighetzi, who has hosted Saturday Night Life twice, had largely escaped the limelight at the Dizzying spectacle at the White House on Sunday until Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services Secretary at Robert F.

Kennedy Junior, uploaded a snap of the trio together on Instagram, with Vice President J. D. Vance in the background. That’s right, there’s a photo you see Nate Brighetzi, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and wife Cheryl Hines. Nate did not share this on his own Instagram, where he has three point one million followers.

He also didn’t mention it on Twitter. Didn’t mention it at all. Nate, did you not have fun at the UFC event on the lawn of the White House celebrating the president’s eighty five birthday? Seems like something you’d promote. Shane Gillis was at the event.

Now. During the event, one of the UFC fighters made a horrible comments about Michelle Obama. I’m not going to share the comment with you. Shane Gillis said he didn’t like it. Let’s listen to the audio of Shane.

I believe this is after the event. He’s being bothered by the paparazzi. And as you can hear, Shane travels with with people. Now he’s got people running interference for him. So if you think Shane Gillis is just like, you know, a goofy guy in a baseball hat showing up at an event, no no, no, no no, he’s got people.

Listen you think, guys come on Shane Trump’s job before. You what do you think of the cancel poultry? Guys got me on a couple But yeah, I didn’t like that. Okay, why do you both sides of this thing? Johnny Mac?

Okay, I will the worst person who ever lived. Jay Leno, he’s a guest on his little television show. There the guest former President Joe Biden. That’s right, Joe Biden and Joe Biden’s nineteen sixty seven Corvette Stingray are on a very special edition of Jay Leno’s garage. You’ll find this on Jay Leno’s YouTube channel.

In it, we see Jay Leno, who stole the Tonight Show back from Conan O’Brien, driving around Los Angeles with the former president. Former President Biden told Deadline, Jay’s been asking for years to drive my corvette, so I said, why the hell not. Jay and his team are the best, and we had a great time catching up while driving through the Angelus National Forest and the vet drove like a charm. The duo did talk about the current job holder. Biden reflected on his own tenure in the job and took a few swipes at the former host of The Apprentice, Joe.

Biden said, he’s cutting back on all the programs that have apprenticeships and create jobs. I see what you did there. Were told they were followed by Secret Service SUVs and police. Biden and Leno also ran fond the value of NATO natural parks, bo Biden’s life and Death, being Designated Drivers, horsepower, Ronald Reagan’s motorcycle, and ice cream. Yes.

Former President Biden and former Tonight Show host Leno stopped by handles. Leno said, all right, so we went for ice cream. You know. We got there and a bunch of little kids waiting for ice cream, you know, And I said, anybody ever meet a president of the United States? No, well, this guy’s president.

I mean, it’s just very funny. Yeah, eight nine year old kids, you know, so it’s very funny watching him interact with the kids. They loved him. Jay Leno also had an in and out cookout truck on site at his Burbank garage to serve Joe Biden lunch during the visit. We are told Joe did pay for the kids ice creams as well as Jay Leno’s ice cream.

Leno said he was the old Joe, you know, every Handshakespere two hundred and fifty votes, that kind of thing, Shrere hands with everybody. Just congenial, just the nice guy. Now they got into the topic of how sharp and how old a president might be. You know, sometimes people would accuse a sitting president of falling asleep during meetings. That has happened on both sides.

I remember one point, some people refer to Biden as sleepy Joe. Others are on Instagram every day catching the president blinking and saying he’s falling asleep in meetings. Jay Leno said it’s interesting because Joe was very very sharp. I thought maybe I’d have to talk in a slower voice, you know what I mean. But no, we just talked and he was funny and just making jokes and things like that.

I think a year of relaxation and taking it easy, just being a normal guy was great for him. Really, it was the old Joe again. It was great to see him. Are you watching World Cup Soccer? Well, James Corden’s got that show.

What’s it called again? A show after Soccer with James Cordon Pretty sure that’s the name of the show. And on Friday night he had on Sebastian Maniscalco. And I’m going to play a clip for you, but let me set it up. Okay, So the bit here is Sebastian is making his way from the World Cup soccer game to James Corden’s studio.

We see Sebastian on his phone, but then we cut away to a helicopter shot and the helicopter is tracking Sebastian Maniscalco in a car that has the proper name of the show on top of the car. Now, I watched this and I’m like, that was really and I’m gonna play it for you in a second. But then I thought, if David Letterman, especially in the eighties, did this exact bit top to bottom. Hey, Sebastian, Maniscalco is there. Let’s cut to the helicopter.

Sebastian, can you wave out the window, we would have thought this was the greatest thing ever. There’s something about David Letterman that would have made this exact word for word, letter for letter, second for second bit really cool. But the James Corden version is kind of limb. How you doing, Sebastian. I’m good.

I think I’m gonna make it. I don’t know what this la traffic, although I think we hit a We’re on an open road here, so yeah, I’m common. So save the seat for a dream some soccer we will. Hey, Sebastian, see if you can, if you can still hear me, lean out of the car window and give the helicopter a wave. Can you do that for me?

Seevie, there’s a helicopter above you right now. See hang gout, I’m outside. Hang on, we’ve got some trains. Come on his right. He’s on his right.

Let’s say sit in sebus. Now. This next story came together pretty quickly, or I would have told you about it. The world champion New York Knicks we’re scheduled to be the guests on last night’s tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon. Fallen was seen at a couple games.

Fallon said a booking fifty three years in the making. The episode was scheduled to feature head coach Mike Brown, NBA Finals MVP, Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns you know him as Cat, Josh Hart og Ananobi, Michael Bridges, and the entire Knicks team, including my favorite Jordan Clarkson. The plan was for Fallon’s entire audience at thirty Rock to be comprised of diehard Knicks fans, so this will give us something to talk about tomorrow. Mark Marin was on Kara Swisher’s podcast He’s Not I’m a big fan of the Netflix thing. Now Netflix thinks that Netflix is airing podcast but they’re not.

Netflix is airing cheaply produced television shows, and Mark Maron had some thoughts about that. Heag’e John editing the show. I forgot to mention I made many edits to Mark Maron here for language. When I saw, you know, podcasts on the menu of Netflix I’m like, it’s over, you know, you know, with the bar has been lowered to such a degree that people will sit at home and watch people on Zoom with half their face covered up by a sure sm seven. It’s like, what is wrong with people?

Like? Do they not have any friends? Do they are they not curious about anything? Do they not use their brain anymore? They can’t think they got to have three idiots to entertain them.

I mean, it’s like a world of drive time radio. It’s the worst, right, So why do you think it’s popular? Huh? Why do you think it’s popular? Because people are lazy and they’ll adapt to anything, and they’re lonely, and they want to have parasocial relationships with people they feel that they’re like, which means usually amateurs.

Mark Maron started to talk about the Manisphere podcasters. He said, I knew them before there was a Manisphere. I knew them as comics. I knew Rogan when he started in Boston. I’ve known these guys were somewhat of a weird tribe in community.

So it gets a point where in politics are what they are. I’m team Left. I’m not going to make all the games right, but I’m team left going down to fight that. So, like with the THEO vonn thing, that’s a joke, and it’s a good joke to do. THEO interviewing Hitler’s hilarious, and I got to a place where that joke wheer, I’m like, how could THEO get mad at me for this?

It’s funny. Cara Swisher was curious, did they get mad at him? Maren said, well, Joe said he got mad at me. I don’t know, all right, guys, So I’ve been warning you. You think I’m messing around here.

I went to share Alytics, and I know that some of you didn’t share the show. Now, if you shared the show, why don’t you hit thirty seconds skip like three times? But the rest of you, you’re gonna be punished because it’s June and we’re sharing the show with a friend. We’re growing the show. So unless I see double the numbers, I know that some of you haven’t done it.

So your phone in your hand right now, push the share button, then send it to somebody and be like, hey, there’s this weird guy and he keeps starting to play Nikki Glaser music. If I don’t do this, I mean the next step is I’m going to escalate. I’m going to come to your house and sit across the street in a transam with a boombox, and I’m gonna play Nikki Glaser song over and over until you share the show. So here is your daily punishment for not sharing the show on Netflix, Ladies and gentlemen, Nikki Glaser singing. Ah read comment.

A little strange man poison my day. It’s not in common. It’s garning old look in my age. Okay, none of us want that, right, you don’t want that, so share the show.

Also, also follow the show on Spotify and turn on notifications if you need s…

Deadline Means Business had this pretty good interview with Ari Shafir. Ari got into his breakup with Comedy Central. Now that episode is from April. I only got to it on Monday when it was beautiful out and I went for a run, And I am now learning on the fly that I didn’t actually put anything in my script for the second half of the podcast, which means we’re going to talk about Vulture’s review of Tony Hinchcliff’s show, which I thought I was gonna bump to tomorrow but apparently not Vulture Rights. Just to get this out of the way, anyone inclined to dislike Tony Hinchcliff’s new Netflix special Man of the People, on principle, is not going to change their mind based on its material.

While the comedian has amassed a huge fan base owing to his popular quasi open mic podcast Killed Tony and work at Comedy Roast, he’s accumulated an equally larger amount of haters because of controversial jokes he told It to Donald Trump rally in twenty twenty four and the Roast of Kevin Hart last month, and predictably, this new hour is full of similar button pushing provocations. To the extent that Man of the People has an organizing idea, it’s that Hinchcliff has the right to be an equal opportunity offender because he is, as the specials title implies, a comedy version of the People’s Champion. Mostly he dips in and out of CrowdWork to create the impression of the audience’s perspective matters and that they’re all enthusiastic participants in this performance. Unfortunately, this is not how his forays into the crowd play out. On four separate occasions, Hingecliff turns to an audience member of a particular demographic to reinforce a stereotype about them, and the audience member’s response introduces nuance that undermines his premise.

Even on a basic technical level, Hinchcliffe’s crowd working directions fail to create the communal vibes after because the audience, despite playing such a prominent role in the special or not miked no I disagree with his next part. Midway through the special, Hinchcliffe calls on a Chinese member of the audience to help him reinforce a hack joke he’s just told about Asian people being bad drivers. Tony asks her what kind of car she drives? The answer Honda Civic, what car she drove previously. That was a setup to imply a joke.

Guy won’t spoiler where we were heading. We find out it’s her first how long she’s had the Civic the answer since twenty seventeen, And whether she’s ever been in a car accident. The answer is no. See Tony was a hope for a yes, and then he would have done a joke about Asian drivers. Vulture right stun that she’s never total the car and doesn’t fit into the box.

His bit revolves around Hingecliff cuts his losses and says, you just stuffed up my joke and concedes it wasted two and a half minutes. That’s what was funny about it. That the joke went nowhere. That’s what was funny. Come on, Vulture.

Vulture adds it a special so poorly executed from top to bottom, it’s far from the most notable misfire. Guys, let me explain something to you. You hit play on a Tony Hingecliff thing on Netflix. What did you think you were getting? No?

Seriously, seriously, I’m asking you, Vulture, what did you think was gonna happen? It’s Tony Hingecliff, You hit play. What did you think was gonna happen? When you hit play on the next Sebastian Manascalco special? Do you think he’s gonna like break down Israel verse Palestine in a meaningful way and hit Carlin level heights.

Do you think he’s going to do that? Or is he just gonna mug for the camera and do Italian restaurant jokes. What do you think Sebastian’s gonna do the next time you hit play on a George Lopez special. What do you think George Lopez is gonna do? You think maybe perhaps he’ll tell some jokes from a Mexican American perspective, jokes about family, maybe take some shots at some non Mexican descent Americans.

You think Lopez is gonna do that? So don’t be surprised when you hit play on a comedy special and you get what the person does. Maybe you don’t like Tony Inchcliff, but to sit there and be stunned that this is what Tony Inchcliff does. I don’t get it. That’s your comedy news for today.

Comments are open on Spotify. Comments are open to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Look Tony. Not the greatest thing I’ve ever watched. It’s also not the worst thing I’ve watched this year.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, David Cross, Louis C.K., Dane Cook, Bill Burr, Norm MacDonald, Colin Quinn, Bo Burnham, John Mulaney, Mitch Hedberg

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Shane Gillis impromptu Comedy Cellar sets after Knicks game
• Top 25 standups of the 21st century list analysis and ranking debate
• David Cross interview: morning person transformation, chili recipe, celebrity encounters with Charlton Heston and Chipper Jones
• Bill Burr’s brand perception decline and public image issues

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Found this one on the internet. This guy said that the other night after the knixt game, he went by the comedy seller user vodka. Mike three said, well, I must have hit the lottery.

He caught the eleven to thirty comedy seller show. Honestly not even sold out. Place was kind of dead due that in the Knicks game, well, about four comedians in the host calls up Chris Rock the place goes wild in all out of state. Chris said, the place electrified with just his presence. He then proceeded to bomb recovered the last five.

Then Dave Chappelle emerged from the stairwell. Place goes wild, the lights of Smoke, grabs a drink, hits us with just shy of two hours of comedy, just kind of riffing and talking crap. He brings up a drunk but funny Shane Gillis for the last twenty they totally slayd together. Basically, the three were at the next game and just swung in and dropped an impromptu set. I still can’t believe this happened.

That is the only mention I have seen of that, but if that did happen, that’s pretty cool. In the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, Dylan shared a thread some dude who’s not Dylan made a video the top twenty five standups of the two thousands. Now. Luckily Dylan summarized the list for me, so I don’t have to watch the video. I’m going to react before I even look at the list.

I would say here in June of twenty twenty six, off the top of my head on research, just reacting, I’d have to say number one Dave Chappelle, number two Louis C.K. Despite all the controversy, and three Dane Cook, who has become underrated and everybody forgets what Dane Cook did during the aughts. Then there’s another tier with like Mulaney and Gaffigan’s probably in there. But let’s see what this list is and I will react to it cold. Dylan’s recap in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group tells us twenty five Dane cooker right, seems low.

Twenty four Jim Jeffries, I’d have to see who else is on the list before I react. Twenty three Gary Goldman twenty two, Jim Norton twenty one, Rory Skolvell twenty, Jesselnick nineteen, Kat Williams eighteen, Shane seventeen, Tosh sixteen, Bamford fifteen to eight fourteen Mitch Hedberg. If you listen to the show, you know how much I love Mitch. The problem is there’s just not the body of work. Thirteen gaffagain twelve Bo Burnham, that’s crazy talk.

Eleven Doug Stanhope. Love Doug, but that seems too high. I’m gonna have to go back and react. Ten Greg Giraldo nine Patrese O’Neill. As I’ve said before, I never enjoyed the man’s company.

I’m biased. I get that people like he’s funny. Never liked being in a room with that dude. Eight John Mulaney seven Brian Reagan. That seems high.

Six It Tel, Oh yeah, a Tel, yeah, a good call. Five Colin Quinn that is absurd. For Bill Burr, Oh yeah, you know. I’ll be thinking about Bill Burr lately. Boy, he out of everybody who did Riodd, I think Bill Burr totally goofed up his brand.

Like you don’t hear about burn now, and when you do everybody kind of eye rolls him. I really think he screwed up. Three. Chappelle two, Norm MacDonald no number one, Louis C.K. So what did I say?

I said, Chappelle c K and Dane. All right, let me look at this. Let’s go in the other direction. C K. You know you could argue it, but I’ll put Chappelle there.

Norm that’s way too high. Colin Quinn is insanity at five. Brian Reagan is too high at seven. Laney’s probably about right. Greg Giraldo at ten is crazy talk.

Twelve, Bo Burnham is crazy talk. Nate bergatsy at fifteen. You know, if we’re gonna put Nate on the list, are we gonna put Sebastian Manascalco on the list? Because they’re kind of like doing the same thing tour wise, and I don’t think either one of them is particularly groundbreaking anyway, if my memory suits me, I did some version of this list around the end of the year, so you can go back in the feed and look at that. Jenny Mack, are you serving us leftovers today?

No? Why do you ask? Yeah, if you’ve been listening, it’s been slow lately. Here’s some fun facts from David Cross. David Cross fun Facts US Weekly.

David Cross says, I used to be a night owl up until about nine years ago. Now I’m a morning person. My nine year old daughter is happy to explain why. Yes, I in my friend group, I had children a little bit earlier than the others, and you know you have a baby. If you’ve raised children, you understand you need to sleep.

And my friends would be like, why can’t you come out on Friday night? Are you whipped? And I’m like, no, no, no, no, no, you don’t understand. I can go out. What I can’t do is go out and then the next morning be like, oh, sorry, I know you had the baby all night because I went out, and you still have the baby because I’m hungover.

You can’t do that, So I understand David Cross. We also learned that his go to dish that is universally recognized as superior in every way is his chili. His family requested at least once every couple weeks, and he has to make extra for all the neighbors. Interesting, his secret, completely useless talent is that David Cross can tell you the temperature within one degree. Like if we were outside and you said how hot do you think it is?

I’d go, I’m about seventy one degrees, and I’d be right. There are a lot of famous people in my phone list, but the most famous is probably Bill Odenkirk, It says, I assume he’s kidding or the transcription messed up. I would have to guess in my phone it’s Jimmy Fallon would probably be it. Stephen van Zant. Fallon’s more well known than Van’s Ant, right, humble brag.

I’d have to go through every now and then I’ll like, so my business partner’s name is Mark, and I’ll be scrolling down and I’ll type in Mark, and I almost accidentally text Mark Maren things like that. David Cross says, I don’t get starstruck a whole lot, but I do get sports stars struck. I got to hang out with for like an hour and a half and drink with Chipper Jones. That’s the old Breeves player that US Mets fans don’t like. And I was unforgettable, an absolute legend.

We were just chilling and shooting the stuff, and I will never forget it for me. Now this goes back way way. I may have told the story It’s one of my favorite stories tell so I’m gonna tell it again. It’s like seven point thirty in the morning. I’m working at wr Radio.

It’s the early nineties. I’m walking down the hallway on my way to produce the show at eight o’clock and I look up and there’s a man and the man can see the look on my face that I’m like what, And the man sticks out his hand. He goes, Hi, Charlton Heston. I will never forget that moment, just because I was like, oh wait, that’s Tarlton. Doesn’t hi Charlton Heston.

That was my time I met Trelton Heston. I enjoy his movies, enjoy his work, and I enjoyed the one time I met him. I thought you, I’ve been keeping this list of celebrities have met over the years. At some point I’ll read it to you. I did not to flexious to I don’t know filler one day, but not today.

Cross says his celebrity crush growing up was an Aastasia Kinsky that poster have heard with the snake. I mean, come on, what’s left on David Cross’s bucket list? He says, Let’s see I hike the Inca Trail and dove to the blue Hole and Belieze a couple years ago. So I’m gonna say space. Maybe I’ve been struggling with that since I went to Antarctica a year and a half ago.

Like I don’t know what to do now because I’ve I’ve been very, very fortunate. Please understand as I go to this rap, I’m very thankful for all the things I’ve had, and I’m aware that I’ve been able to do something. But I’ve been to Iceland in Alaska and Australia, and like, I don’t know, Maybe I kind of want to go to Japan. Seems to be my new kick. We’ll see.

I also, and I’m not doing a bit. Was thinking about there’s a way you can climb Kilimanjaro, but it’s not like a mountain climb. It’s like the long way up you walk, and like it’s not just like a stroll. You got to put some effort into it and train. But I kind of have that on my list too.

I feel like some fifty six, I feel like I need another big thing, Like I was driving Tantarctica for years and I don’t know I need a thing. If you’re new This isn’t now the show normally goes. I don’t normally do all these sidebars, but you know, it’s a quiet Monday. Leftover is from Variety. Mark Maron talked about his pilot for Mark Maren Project back at nineteen ninety five.

It was a talk show pilot for Comedy Central. That space eventually was taken by The Daily Show. Maren said, at that time, HBO at a piece on Comedy Central and HBO Downtown produced a show that used to do for them short attention span theater. They want to do a talk show pilot because I was sort of there and I want to try. We did a pilot.

I felt like we did two episodes of The Mark Project. My guess was Dave Chappelle on one of them. It must have been a kid. Then what does Maren think about the current talk show format? I assume they’re hinting at Colbert here.

He says, I’m sad that the format can’t live in this world we live in, But I don’t think they’re at fault. I think ultimately, as individuals, you better hold onto that party of brain that can take in long form content, or else you’re just gonna have a complete mind mode with the tech forces that are guiding your brain in life, and you won’t really have much of an identity or method of choice anymore. I don’t feel bad that the business is changing, but I don’t know what you do about it. Maren On was also on Kara Swisher’s podcast, and he got a little political. Maren said, when comics get duped into this idea that because they can’t say tranny or worse words, and somehow or another, that’s the Left infringing on their freedom of speech, it’s so shalt and stupid.

Because they fought for it, they just become part of the party line of dismantling liberal democracy. It was never a freedom of speech issue. It was it never constitutional issue. You could say whatever you want, You’re just gonna have to should in the burden of the consequences. Ultimately, what happened because they were used to dismantle the entire infrastructure of DEI and everything else, and now they don’t have to shoulder anything because now they can say those words with impunity, and the Left is no traction to counter it.

Because we’re living in two separate worlds. Karon said, I hold them responsible for being the front line to usher in Trump’s second era. Send your letters to Mark mare And via Karra Switcher. Taylor Toomlinson has an announcement. Would listen to this.

Hi, guys, I have something really exciting to share with you. I wrote a book. I wrote a whole book. Can you believe it? I can’t.

It’s called Actually never Mind. It comes out September twenty second. It’s a collection of essays about everything I’ve changed my mind about over the years, which is literally everything, marriage, sex, mental health coming out. God, it’s my thoughts and feelings on all of it. I definitely overshared.

Uh, try not to think about that too hard or I’ll panic. I read the audiobook if you’re into that, and yeah, you can pre order it now at the link in my bio, So please go do that. Boy, are you excited? I can’t wait. Actually never Mind will come out September twenty s second of this year, the Taylor Tomlinson book.

Yeah. You know what else I’m really excited about? Listen to this. I had a check to make sure this is real. Here’s the twenty twenty six Emmy ballot for Best Original Music and Lyrics.

I said Best Original music and Lyrics. I didn’t say anything about comedy, did I know? I said best Original Music and Lyrics. One of the people on the ballot for best Original Music and Lyrics is Nicky Glazer. Yeah, it’s Nikki Glaser’s song good Girl from her Hulu Stan Up special.

And boy, we know she likes Taylor Swift, but boy she did a bad tailor Swift impression. Here. I’m going to torture you and make you listen to it. Did you share the show? You didn’t share the show?

Richard? Share the show? Richard? Thank you for sharing the show. I saw you share the show.

Richard hit thirty second skip like four times. Okay, because I don’t want to subject to you to this, but everybody else you didn’t share the show, and I’m gonna punish you. You now have to listen to Nikki Glaser sing good Girl, comment. A little strange man poison my day. It’s not a common it’s garn old look in my age.

They’ll praise you for your youthful clue and tiny aways line. She’s such a natural role, but he was a filter, and they’ll call you a lie. Oh be a. Oh my goodness, we’re gonna play some commercials, souse, I have to go beat my head against a brick wall to give myself brain damage, so I don’t remember that the song even exists. Here’s a shocker.

The guy that hosts Daily Comedy News actually watched some comedy specials the other night between Nick’s games. It was Thursday night, and I was like, oh, yeah, I should probably watch some of these. This was not the order I watched them in, but I put on Josh Johnson’s Symphony on HBO, and I know I’m supposed to like it, and I like Josh Johnson. He comes out and the first couple jokes are great, and he looks great, and the whole thing is great, and then a couple I don’t know, fifteen minutes in, I’m like, not really enjoying this. I’m just kind of bored, so I bailed on it.

That was actually the third special I watched. The second special I watched was Patton Oswalt, And aside from the Star Trek thing, which is not a bit I really feel that way, but generally I like Patton Oswalt’s comedy a lot like that George Lucas bit that I played the other day. That’s a great bit. I love it. Patten’s comedy just really is in my wheelhouse.

But this one, I don’t know. I was sitting there and I’m like, this isn’t registering at all, and I bailed the other thing I didn’t like. It’s one of those specials. This is the new thing that I talked to Pete Holmes about a while back, where we’re just suddenly in the middle of a set. There’s no more like, hey, welcome to the stage.

Patten als, well, hey, hey, how’s everybody in Cleveland doing? Yeah, yeah, and then you go into it. This was one of those new fangled things. We’re just boom pattens on stage mid joke. I don’t like that.

I live on old Man Mountain, my neighbor’s Pete Holmes Apparently the best of the three best with a lowercase B was Tony Hinchcliff on Netflix, which is nothing but empty calories. There’s barely any jokes. The crowd looks like they want to murder him. If you’ve seen this special, there’s this one guy that he’s trying to engage with. The guy looks like he might just suddenly.

I didn’t want to say. The guy does not look like a happy person. Now a couple days later, I’m wondering, is the guy a plant to set up the whole thing? Maybe, because the guy just doesn’t look like he’s having a good time at Tony Hinchcliffe’s show. Tony’s just doing like, okay crowd work, and the crowd work’s not scoring and there’s not too many jokes.

And I’ve got to comment from another comedian that’ll share with you in a minute. So it’s weird. I don’t even know why it exists, I guess other than they really wanted to kill Tony and as part of that package, they were like, yeah, we’ll do a Tony Hinchcliff comedy special, and Tony doesn’t have any material. Is that what’s happening here? The people on Threads are I rate at this special lowercasees And it’s not an hour either.

What should we call it? Show? Hinchcliff recording? This Tony Hinchcliff recording. The people in Threads are I rate that it even exists?

And I get it. That said, of the things I watched, this was the one that kept my attention. And you know, I was playing on my phone, wasn’t studying it, but I enjoyed it. Is it okay that I enjoyed it? Apparently not?

According to comedian Ryan Davis, who posted on social media, Tony Hinchcliff is so important to comedy in America. Twenty years from now, people will swear that our country wasn’t the way it is today and will try to change history. They’re going to try to burn the evidence, but Tony’s recorded sets and sold out arena shows will stand as proof of things that millions of Americans were cheering for the type of bigotry disguised as comedy that had people cheering and clapping instead of laughing. If you need a special to watch today, Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership out on the eight hundred pound Gorilla late Nighter. Looked at the late night ratings.

Now Stephen Colbert is gone and Jimmy Kimmel’s lead in was the New York Knicks twice last week. Wednesday’s postgame broadcast got three point nine to eight million total viewers for Kimmel, making it the show second high rated episode of the season. Friday’s post game two, after that big comeback, drew three point three eight million viewers. The eighteen to forty nine numbers are just shocking for all these things. Friday got eight hundred and forty six thousand in that demo Wednesday seven or fifty one thousand in the demo.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Fallon, who had no basketball, lead and fell back to one point three seven million total viewers, and in the eighteen of forty nine’s one hundred and sixty four thousand adults, which in the scheme of things, is not that much more than this podcast. That’s terrifying. How about Byron Allen? John, is everybody watching Byron Allen? Look, everybody needs to calm down with the Byron Allen.

Byron knows the deal, CBS knows the deal. Nobody thinks anyone’s going to watch this. All anyone is saying is that Byron Allen has figured out a way to buy the time from CBS and sell enough commercials that Byron Allen makes money on it. CBS gets a guaranteed dollar amount they don’t have to stress, and Byron’s making money on it. Whether or not you watch, nobody cares.

Five half hour averaged seven hundred and eighty six thousand total viewers and eighty thousand adults. Eighteen to forty nine. Twelve O five got five hundred twenty thousand viewers and fifty seven thousand adults. Did John, did you just say the number fifty seven thousand? I did, which is why I tripped over it.

Fifty seven thousand. Yikes, that is a small number. But again, as I just said, nobody cares, because let’s think about it. Whatever Jimmy Fallon’s being paid is getting one point three seven million total viewers, and then CBS not spending any money getting paid to air Byron Allen’s thing is getting seven hundred and eighty six thousand total little viewers, which is what about half little more than half. Now Fallon brings other things to the network and it’s the Tonight Show, and you know, I think there’s value to having something like the Tonight Show and a Jimmy Fallon hosting it.

But at some point the accountants are going to look at these things to be like, yes, EBS, isn’t that crazy? That’s twelve thirty five CBS is funny, you should ask. That’s Byron Allen’s other other show that average four hundred and forty thousand total viewers and fifty three thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. That compares to Seth Myers, who has eight hundred and ninety seven thousand total viewers and one hundred and three adults. So again, you can we can have Seth Myers and try really hard, or we cannot try at all and do half the number.

You gotta look at that at some point.

Speaking of Late Night, the folks at Late Nighter stayed up to watch James Co…

He’s hosting whatever that’s called, uh show on After Soccer with James Cordon. I think that’s what it’s called. Yeah, that’s you got it, John. They watched episode one. Late Nighter said for a first effort, the new Cordon effort had good energy and shaggy charm, which is a fair characterization of its host.

The show made its strongest case as a loose live hang. It was laid back enough that the beers consumed by the show’s roundtable during the hour looked more natural than affected. Cordon did no monologue. The show was not joke centric, but some jokes seeped in. Cordon played a clip from the opening game that showed the Mexican goalkeeper caressing and kissing a soccer ball Cordon joke to my wife.

Hasn’t helped me like that in twelve years. FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon. That’s the title, not what I said. What did I say? It was a show on after Soccer with James Corden, which might actually be a better title.

Well, I have to look back at this Friday night. The guest was Sebastian Maniscalco after the Team USA game. Do you think Sebastian came on and made a stupid face? Of course he did. And that’s your comedy news for today.

You know, for having nothing, this was pretty good and way longer than it had any business being anyway. So you’re gonna share the show or I’m gonna keep playing Nikki Glaser singing. You don’t want that, right, Okay, you understand we’re at the point where I’m threatening you. Now you’re gonna share the show, Richard, You’re excused. U saw you did it?

Thank you? Richard? Everybody else share the show or I’m gonna play Nikki Glaser singing. Don’t think I won’t. You know I played the Joe Koi bit for like three years, right, you know I will play Nikki Glaser singing, So share the show or else you’ve been warned follow the show, Spotify turn comments on.

I know, chun, you turned the comments on. You guys are gonna turn notifications on so you never miss a show. That’s what you’re doing there on Spotify. All right, see you tomorrow. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to here

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Featured: Guy Fieri, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, Bobby Lee, Tony Hawk, Adam Ray, John Oliver, Mark Maron, Patton Oswalt, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Foxworthy

What’s in This Episode

• Guy Fieri’s new Food Network show ‘Guy’s Feast Club’ featuring comedians
• Adam Ray’s ‘Dr. Phil Live’ cheaply produced show debuting on Netflix June 19
• John Oliver joining ‘Days of Our Lives’ soap opera with custom-written role
• Mark Maron interview: childhood nicknames, cereal obsessions, karaoke choices
• Patton Oswalt on balancing topical vs observational comedy and America’s direction
• Nate Bargatze Netflix special taping with delayed start and theater-in-the-round setup
• Jeff Foxworthy explains comedy math: one new minute per week takes a year to develop

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Guy Fieri has a new show. It’s called Guy’s Feast Club. Why are we talking about this John because he’s got some comedians on it, including Andrew Santino and Bert Krascher.

Before episode series Guys Feast Club will include guests feasting on dishes like Tomahawk Ribbi sandwiches while chatting with the Food Network chef. There’s a trailer he introduces his guests, whom he calls the most talented people on the planet, including Bert Kreischer. Guy asks the guests what they would like to eat. Andrew Santino says Italian food would be nice. Bobby Lee says Korean.

Guy explains the show, I find out what they’re craving, I go get it. We sit down and what happens next is anybody’s guests. So in the four episodes, there’s an Italian least with Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino, a Tomahawk Ribbi sandwich with Bert Krascher, and then the other guests are Tony Hawk and somebody else. Sounds very exciting, doesn’t it. Adam Ray is getting a cheap television show on Netflix.

Now, the people at Netflix are mistaken. They think this is a podcast because they don’t understand what a podcast is. It’s actually an inexpensively produced television show that they’re airing on Netflix under the column that says podcast. But this is in no way a podcast. But what is it?

John? It is called Adam Ray Doctor Phil Live. The cheaply produced television show will debut on Netflix June nineteenth. That’s coming up with four episodes. Michael Boobley the first guest, then Dave Matthews, Niki Lazer, Oh Boy, and Andrew Santino.

Future guests include Hasan Minhaj, Jelly Roll, Marshaun Lynch, John Schneider, and Mike McDonald. Know not John Schneider from The Dukes of Hazzard, I don’t think it’s the general manager and head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Joel mchel Mark Normand Ray’s mother, the Google Dolls, and more. Adam Ray will engage in quote deep dive converse with the guests, but not always as himself. He’ll drift into improvised characters, including Doctor Phil.

Meanwhile, Days of Our Lives has taken John Oliver up on his offer.

According to The Daily Mail, John Oliver has started taping a role on Days of Our Lives, with the part reportedly written specifically for him. The Daily Mail calls the role whacky now. Back in March, John Oliver closed an episode of Last Week Tonight with a tribute to the pleasures of daytime soaps. During that segment, he said, I’m officially offering myself to you. Write me your role, and I’ll be on your set so fast that it’ll make your head spin.

He did have conditions. He does not want to play himself. He wanted the character to have a ridiculous name, and he wanted something quote unquote juicy, preferably involving murder or slapping or being slapped or being someone’s long lost something. He also requested a dramatic close up. Variety had ten questions from Mark Maren.

Mark childhood nickname, Mark said drink p In fifth grade at stickball, my coach used to call me Hank Maren, which was pretty good because I hit a couple homers. I wouldn’t say I was doing it all the time, but I don’t remember too many nicknames other than just my last name. All right, Mark, something you loved as a kid, but can’t believe you were into it now. Mark said I was pretty involved with cocoa pebbles. You didn’t expect him to say that.

I don’t feel ashamed about it, but I try to eat them recently. It’s not the same. His go to karaoke song is Bob Dylan’s Going Going Gone. He also does Taylor Swift’s Bigger Than the Whole Sky, which is in his recent special. Some of the other questions, they’re not all interesting.

Secret talent. I can cook and I can play. Harmonica favorite ice cream flavor Ben and Jerry still makes pretty good vegan ice cream, the chocolate fudge brown he’s good. The vegan Jerry cherry garcilla is good. Vegan fish food is good.

I like things with caramel and them too. One thing Mark Maren couldn’t live with out his glasses what TV showed as he wished he could have been on the cast Mary Tyler Moore to work with Ed Asner at that point. How funny wuld that had been the whole crew? Oh my god, it’s so funny. Favorite piece of advice, Mark Maren.

I remember one time when I was talking to an editor about a book, and I was kind of panicking, so I go, but it’s going to be okay, right, and he said, yeah, we’re not. I think it’s as honest as you could be. No, Oswalt, what aspirations do you have now as an actor, now that you’ve ruined Star Trek and you can ruin other things? Patten said, I want to keep acting in movies, obviously, and then I want to write and direct. I’ve always been kind of fascinated by the kind of low stakes, low life crime world.

That’s something that’s always drawn me in New topic. Hey, Pat and Oswalt and your specials, what’s the balance between topical and observational comedy? Does that change over time? Patten said, it fluctuates each special. I just do a snapshot of me reacting to the world at that time.

I’m not trying to do anything beyond that. I’m trying to capture that moment, how it feels. He talked about the week when we went to the Moon and started a war. Pat said, it’s weird how we’re at the extremes of our highs and lows right now. It’s insane.

Humans have been the furthest they’ve ever been away from this planet, and they’re poets. They’re sending down these beautiful transmissions, and then we have a guy on the ground is saying, I’m going to wipe out a civilization. I don’t know our minds are going to keep both of those together, but we’ll see. He talked about he is feeling of the current direction of America, and he said, I think it’s gonna take a generation. I don’t think we’ve got to throw a switch and go back.

We’re so far down this road. There are many people like if I can’t have this level of cruelty and pet I’d rather the world burn down. That’s a level of nihilism that we’re going to have to work through. Send your letters to Paton Oswalt, Star trek Ruiner. Folks at fort Worth dot com went to see Nate Burghetzi.

They say the electric atmosphere was evident at the three o’clock performance Three o’clock Wow. Due to heavy traffic and late arriving patrons, the show began about thirty minutes late. Julian McCullough served as both MC and opening acts, warming up the crowd. Fellow comedians Mike Vickione and Greg Warren followed with sets Greg Warren mind humor from dating, missaps, and social awkwardness. All three comics frequently engaged audience members, et cetera, et cetera.

This was a Netflix taping in the afternoon that started thirty minutes late, which told crane mounted cameras glided across the arena floor to capture Burghetzi’s Theater in the Round presentation, while a rotating overhead camera recorded audience reactions minor joke spoilers, whether wondering how many chickens could fit inside a horse or admitting that he blindly accepts every website’s cookie policy because he has no idea what any of it means. He consistently found humor in ordinary situations. Jeff Foxworthy explained comedy math to NPR sixty minutes of Comedy for Special Equals a year on stage, Jeff Foxworthy said, I guess was nineteen eighty four and Jay Leno was probably the King of the Road comics, and he said, your goal should be to write one new minute a week, and I remember sitting there going to eat crazy. A week, I can write twenty new minutes, and I found out over time. He was exactly right.

It’s hard. It’s trying to find a thing that’s going to make a room full of strangers laugh every time you say it. Jeff talked about working political or not. I had a lot of friends that did political stuff, and half the room hates you. My goal was to make as many people laugh as I could.

And because a I really believe if you took people from different sides of the political spectrum, they could peg one side or the other, and you sat down with them and you said, what do you want out of life? Would probably agree on eighty five percent of things, But instead of celebrating that eighty five percent, what we chose to do was scream and throw things at each other for the fifteen percent that were different. One of the coolest things about Stand Up for me was before I did it, I hadn’t been anywhere. I’ve never been out of the South.

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That’s the part I choose to go after with comedy. Jeff, will this be your last special? I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure I’m more content and more at peace, and now at this point in my life, I’m like, you know what, if I got a spare Wednesday evening, I don’t want to be in a club with no cards in my hands. I’d rather be laying on the bed reading to my grandkids. It’s not because I didn’t love this thing.

It’s because I love other things too. You may recall Bill Engvall retired and then unretired, so we will see. Jeff Foxworthy is sixty seven. Guy Brainham Toldnuvau dot Nett. When I started, stand up comedy was something that was done eighty five percent by heterosexual men.

When people showed up at a comedy show at a random comedy venue, they assumed a really specific perspective, and if they weren’t getting that, they were shocked and surprised. The change that happened in stand up comedy in America is not a change to that because of the raw, amazing talent of a greater diversity of stand up comedians. It’s a change that happened because audience has changed, because women showed up to shows not wanting to be humiliated and insulted. Because queer people realized it was a space they could show up to and not always be the butt of the joke. You can’t deny that gay comedy was unusual when I started, No successful gay male stand up comics, even recently as six or seven years ago.

Now you have Matteo Lane, Caleb heern An. Its higher generation of people have been able to build that. What Matteo has is in so many ways because of YouTube and Instagram stuff he did on his own terms. What Caleb achieved is because of TikTok and his podcast. I think we’re at this really interesting moment entertainment where a consolidation of the gatekeepers has given a small number of corporations what they believe is a whole lot of power, but because they’re not using it in ways that are reflect other times, they could very easily lose that power to other institutions that aren’t gatekeeping as Hard and Toronto has the series Tragedy Plus Time.

They caught up with Ashwan Singh, a Toronto comedian, seeing discusses topics like immigration, religion, and social hypocrisy, and splits his time between Toronto and Deli influences. Good List here George Carlin, Patris o’ neil, Doug Stanhope, Dave Chappelle, Taylor Thompson, Michelle Wolfe, and some others. Favorite comedian growing up, Carlin. Always love that answer. Favorite comedian now depends on the day, but probably still Carlin.

And that is your comedy news for today. It is June. So you’re sharing the show, right. I forgot to bother you about that on Friday. You’re sharing the show.

You’re telling people, right, You’re like, Hey, there’s this guy and he talks about stuff. I don’t know what the show’s really about, but I kind of like it. I listen every day. So what are you gonna do is you’re gonna hit You have a phone in your hand right now, right, push the share button and send it to somebody would go, hey, listen to this. It’s a random Sunday episode in the summer, and they’ll be like, wow, that was a pretty good episode.

Thank you, John. I don’t know why I put myself down. If you like the show, share the show and I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker, Lorne Michaels, Joe Rogan, John McKeever

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis SNL firing and controversy (September 2019)
• Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast origins and audience building
• Joe Rogan’s long-form podcast format and cultural impact
• Shane Gillis podcast clips resurfacing and offensive language
• Lorne Michaels defending Shane Gillis after NBC forced firing
• Gilly and Keeves YouTube sketches and character work

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac In this summer on Saturday, is gonna start doing some deep dives on some topics. Today, we’ll take a look at Shane Gillis. And here’s the thing about the Shane Gillis story that nobody tells. Right.

Everybody starts with SNL. Everybody starts with September twenty nineteen, the firing, the controversy, the tweets, the whole thing, And it’s understandable because it’s a clean narrative. Guy gets the biggest job in comedy, loses it three days later, and somehow ends up bigger than he ever would have been had he kept SNL. Good story, writes itself. The more interesting story, the one that actually tells you something useful about where comedy is right now, starts a few years earlier, in a much less glamorous place.

It starts with two guys from Pennsylvania doing a podcast that almost nobody was listening to, talking about comedy in a way that felt less like a product and more like a conversation that needed to be recorded. Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, two guys genuinely entertaining each other, and occasionally remembering there might be people listening. There were a lot of comedy podcasts in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, even more so now. Most have a recognizable formula comedian. You’ve heard of a guest, you’ve heard of some stories about the road, maybe some bits that didn’t make the special.

Thing about Matt and Chane was neither of them were famous enough yet to have that kind of show. Plus the show had a specific sensibility that was weird and funny in its own right. It wasn’t using the podcast as a promotional vehicle, it was using the podcast as the actual thing. Joe Rogan gets credited with proving that the long form podcast could be a legitimate media format, but what Rogan also did was create a permission structure for comedians to build audiences outside the traditional pipeline. Before Rogan, the consensus was that the path when something like this, you do clubs, you go on late night, you get a Comedy Central special, maybe you get a sitcom.

Somewhere in that process, the industry validates you and the public finds you. Rogan didn’t quite follow that path. He did TV Fear Factor UFC. But Rogan experience operated completely outside that validation system. By the end of the twenty tens, Rogan had more reach than basically any TV show, and it built it by just talking to people for three hours.

Now, what he pointed out now, what Rogan accomplished was that the gigkeepers were optional. Shane Gillis was building something real on top of his podcast. The podcast was getting passed around by people who cared about stand up and Shane got a reputation in the clubs as someone whose material was genuinely different in olden times. There’s a version of the next few years. We would have grinded through the normal progression, maybe it gainst a Comedy Central half hour, but instead he got the call to SNL.

No, you remember that. That was a big deal. Shane was funny, original, and the fact that SNL was adding him felt like confirmation of what his audience had been saying.

And then three days later, old podcast clips surfaced some bits with some rac…

It was kind of surreal because I went from I was one of the first people to get like canceled or however you want to say it. Consequences however, Yeah, however you want to say it. It doesn’t matter what we call it. It is what it is, right, But uh, I was one of the first people to go from I was doing. I was poor.

I was not famous at all. I was poor, and then I got canceled immediately, like that was my thing, Like right, it was a very famous and then yeah, most people that get canceled or yeah, you got canceled on the way. I got canceled immediately. Yeah. They literally were like how about this guy?

And everyone was like no. The official statement was polite and final. Lorden Michaels does not do messy public disputes. Shane was out USA Today September twelfth, twenty nineteen. Shane gillis one of three new featured players on SNL is apologizing.

Shane posted to Twitter, I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes missed some happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said. Note the actually in there, the clip that was pulled, Shane said, I’ll quote it directly from USA Today here Chinatown’s expletive nuts. Let the expletive live there, using a racial slur for the second expletive. Shane’s apology continues, if you go through my ten years of comedy, most of it is bad, You’re going to find a lot of bad misses.

My intention is never to hurt anyone, but I’m trying to be the best comedian I can, and sometimes that requires risks. From The Independent, October twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. Lorne Michaels, the creator of SNL, has said that he didn’t want to fire Shane Gillis from the show, but was ordered to by executives at NBC. Lauren told the Whorl Street Journal that was very strong from the people in charge, and obviously I was not on that side, but I understood it. Lauren said he kept in touch with Shane after the firing.

Michael said he said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world. I was angry. I thought, you haven’t even seen what we’re gonna do and what I’m trying to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing. After the firing, an SNL spokesperson in Or issued a statement which reads, after talking with Shane Gillis. We have decided he will not be joining SNL.

We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as a committe and his impressive audition for SNL. We were not aware of his prior marks that have surfaced over the past few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier and that our vetting process was not up to our standard. Shane responded to the news of his firing on Twitter, saying, I’m a comedian.

It was funny enough to get SNL that can’t get taken away. Of course, I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction. I respect the decision they made, honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a mad TV guy anyway, After all that. The discourse that followed depended on which side you were on.

Was it a reckoning with the kind of comedy that gets platformed, or an example of outrage culture eating someone who was clearly not a bad person. Or some complicated thing in between those two positions. Now, Shane’s statement is interesting. He didn’t grovel in the way that crisis PR people usually suggest one does. But he also didn’t go on offense, and he went back to work.

He did the podcast, he kept doing clubs. He didn’t disappear. And here’s what the TV executives missed. A huge number of people already felt like they knew Shane Gilly. They’ve been listening to the podcast and watching the clips.

They had a relationship with him that preceded SNL. When SNL fired him, those people didn’t update their opinion of Shane based on SNL’s decision. If anything, his fans dug in harder. Then there’s the Gillian Keeves stuff. Shane and John McKeever started doing character videos that lived on YouTube and existed outside the podcast ecosystem and outside the stand up ecosystem, just doing their own thing.

Gilly is a character Shane does, kind of a dumb, sweet, vaguely threatening guy from Pennsylvania, and the sketches have a handmade quality that it feels unpolished. Their production value is intentionally low. The pacing is often ways that feel deliberate they’re funny in a way that’s generally hard to explain if you haven’t seen them. Hello, I’m Bob Isis of Isis Toyota, and we have a great collection of pre owned, certified Toyotas. But there’s one thing I want to make very clear, and it’s that we have nothing to do with the terrorists over there in the Middle East right now, and that’s why we are the good Isis all right, listen, yeah, lean into the Isist thing.

It’s a good marketing tool, the great marketing tool. I agree with Barbie. I think you should be like here at Iss Toyota will behead the competition. Yes, no, we’re not doing this. What are you guys talking about.

We’re not wishing death to any of our enemies. We are wishing death to low the high prices. Me and Barbie. We can hold AK forty seven. Yeah no, no, that would be so cool.

So I’m holding an AK forty seven. She’s holding AK forty seven. You’re like, we gotta go both toyotas and I I can be doing that like terrorist turkey gobble thing, you know what I mean. We’re like good. Enough at Ices Toyota.

We have nothing to do with Aboo Bakar albak Dottie and his vicious gang of thugs. All we’re trying to do is put you into an affordable tree owned, certified Toyota. What’s notable about it, it’s it’s proof of something that not every stand up can pull off, which is being funny in multiple formats. It also helped Shane reach more people because you might not be ready to listen to two hours of him and Matt, but you’ll watch a four minute sketch on YouTube where something weird and funny happens. Different entry points, different audience relationships, all building towards the same thing.

By the time Shane’s Netflix special That’s My Time came out, Shane was operating with an audience that had been built over years through channels that Netflix had nothing to do with. The special was good, confidently good, the kind of stand up special where you can tell the comedians knows exactly what they’re doing and it’s comfortable taking their time. A lot of guys would knock on the front door. Not these guys, not our guys, not our guys. Our guys went through the wall.

They blew up his roll, and they used dogs beautiful dogs. Beautiful dogs is the funniest detail. It’s true. They actually did use It was the Army Rangers, and they used dogs because they were afraid howback daddy was gonna be wearing a suicide vest, so they killed him with dogs in a robot and then made fun of him for crying. Let that guy cry.

That’s the scariest death I’ve ever heard of. That dude was laying in his bed in the middle of night. His wall exploded ten dogs in a robot. Netflix wasn’t breaking Shane Gillis to the world. They were confirming what people already knew.

Historically, the platform, whether it be HBO or in later days, Comedy Central and then Netflix was the thing that made you the special was how people found you. Netflix wanted this special because they’d watched enough comedians to understand that an audience that was earned through years of direct relationship is more durable and more engaged than an audience that came through a platform recommendation algorithm. Then in twenty twenty four, Shane hosted Saturday Night Live Ladies and Gentlemen. Shane Giless. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.

It’s yeah, I’m here. They Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was, actually I was fired from this show while ago. But if you know, don’t look that up. Please.

If you don’t know who I am, please don’t google that. It’s fine, don’t even worry about it. I don’t know this is I probably shouldn’t be up here. Honestly, Lord Michaels does not do things accidentally. Inviting Shane Gillis back to host was not a neutral decision.

It was a signal that this person is large enough that the firing now looks like a mistake. I thought Shane was very funny that night. Some people did not. I thought it was great. He did a monologue that acknowledged the history without making the whole episode about the history that brings us to today.

The comics coming up right now are watching all this. They’re watching the way Shane navigated the firing, watching the way the podcast became a real thing, watching the YouTube stuff find its own audience, watching the Netflix deal, watching the SNL hosting. They’re learning that you don’t have to go through the old paths. Doesn’t mean SNL doesn’t matter, doesn’t mean Netflix doesn’t matter. It means they’re different now.

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Featured: Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Adam Sandler, Tracy Morgan, Mark Maron, Tony Hinchcliffe

What’s in This Episode

• Comedians at Knicks game courtside sightings
• Jerry Seinfeld Palestine streamer confrontation
• Tracy Morgan on teachers and education
• Mark Maron ends WTF podcast after 16 years
• Mark Maron Panic special and creative process
• Tony Hinchcliffe Man of the People Netflix special review

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, how about those New York Knicks. Hello, I’m Johnny Man with your tailely comedy news. I’m still buzzing about that game. We’re gonna talk about that game.

Let me just try and focus on about comedy a little bit. Adam Sandler was at the game in front of the show Scott Beckett, who was texting with me after midnight. First of all, that I was even up after midnight watching the post game show. After that next game the other night, Wow, Sandler was at the game, and the Athletics review said, I feel like I just watched uncut gems again after the game. As the legend of the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler continues to take rude, people are understanding what Adam Sandler is good at and what he’s terrible at, and what he’s terrible at is, of course, comedy.

So many comedians were at the game Sandler. Of course, Jerry Seinfeld was on camera a lot, Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan, of course. I saw a different list that said Amy Schumer was there someplace, Rain Wilson, Chris Rock, Oh yeah, Chris Rock was on camera, and Taylor Swift was there being all kinds of annoying. Somebody said, Taylor Swift looks like she googles four seconds before game. How do sports fans act?

And then she tries to act like a sports fan. She’s not good at it. Now I see circulating on the internet pictures of Taylor from like twenty fourteen, proving that she’s actually a Knicks fan, but she just seems fake. Jerry Seinfeld was at the game. As he walked out of the game, a pro Palestinian streamer tried to get Jerry to say something about Palestine.

Jerry told the streamer it doesn’t exist. I’m not going to get into all that, but the video of the incident did go viral on social media. You may have seen it. Nicks fan Tracy Morgan in trouble, having nothing to do with the Knicks. Tracy was hanging around with that guy Marcelo Hernandez who does one thing well and one thing only.

They were on CNN and Variety’s Actors on Actors. Marcelo Hernandez revealed that he got scolded by teachers for making mischief in school. Tracy Morgan said, you know who gave you that voice? No they didn’t understand you. You had a sense of humor and they couldn’t control that.

God gave that to you. Marcello said, Now look at it, I’m getting paid for mischief, Tracy said. And they’re still making a minimum wage. You know how much them teachers are probably making right now? Hernandez said, Man, not enough.

Tracy Morgan said, I can’t stand teachers. You know why, because they have a ceiling, a limit. That’s all they ever going to be. I teach my kids, sky is the limit. You can tell Tracy did well in school because he said that’s all they ever gonna be.

Then again, Tracy Morgan was court side at the next game. Now, if you listen to yesterday’s show, you know I was kind of vamping. I had my good fastball, and then my wife came home.

And then it’s not that I don’t love my wife, it’s that my wife starts making …

She’s allowed to live here and make noise, but it throws me off. Normally, I have the ouse to myself, phone a record, and I get kind of loose the way I am now when other people around, and you know, it’s distracting. But what I’m learning today is it’s good that she came home because I would have used this Mark Marin story yesterday, And as I prepped the show today, I realized, oh, there’s barely anything happening. Good thing I have the Maren the story for length. Variety caught up with Mark the topic ending his podcast Does he miss It?

Mark Maron said, I don’t find myself freaking out as much. I mean, it was a big haul. We did a lot of episodes. We did two new episodes a week. I was banking interviews.

It was all consuming, and anytime you stop something that’s all consuming, any kind of relationship after sixteen years, there’s a freedom there. I thought there would be more of a panic or more of a sadness, but that really didn’t happen. Maren says he has resisted pitches to get back behind the mic. Maren says there were people that wanted to set me up somewhere, or do a deal with the old catalog and do new stuff. I don’t know.

I don’t see if there’s anything really special about the format anymore. You know what’s special about the format? Mark, Netflix, Bunny take it and I don’t see if there’s any reason to compete in the format anymore. We did a thing, the more you keep doing it, when it just becomes a job just kind of fades away. You’d rather not be the guy that people are going, oh, is he still doing that?

Mark walked away four months too early, in my opinion. The kind of feel bad for him. He talked about his special Paniced, in which he joked that liberals annoyed the average American into fascism. Mark said, it’s a line that came to me probably a week before the special. It came out of nowhere.

It was quite a gift from whatever muse I’m working with. But that was a line that kind of dropped in pretty close to showtime. There were a couple other lines seems to have resonated that particular line. He said, it took two years to build Panic, but he made some tonal changes a few weeks before the show. I was constantly shaping it.

It’s sort of the way I do it. I kind of keep it fluid and let new things happen right up to showtime. If you really look at Panic, there’s a full special. There’s some heavy stuff in there. Man, there’s stuff in there about death.

There’s stuff in there about having to deal with childhood trauma, there’s stuff about processing grief. But I do notice the stuff that sticks with people is lighter. How are the cats, Mark Marin. I have this problem with Charlie and Buster. Charlie wants to kill Buster.

Buster’s the old guy, Sam’s middle guy, and it was a lot. It was causing me a lot of problems. But I put Charlie on a new medicine and the advice I was given was to keep them separate, but rotate them during the day so they each get an equal time in the bigger part of the house, and you know, put one in the bedroom one of the main house and switch them out. It’s a bit much, but now I just let the meach have a floor. I think Charlie is a lot happier.

I don’t know if it’s the medicine or the space, but he’s happier, and that’s good, good news for me. There’s a lot more to that interview, which is good. Here I’ll flip the cards over and tell you because right now I have nothing for Monday. I don’t have a single story for Monday right now, So you might hear me talking about Mark merrin website. DM Talkies watched Tony Hinchcliff special.

I haven’t gotten to it yet. I’ve got a list I have to watch that Josh Johnson, Hannah Berner, and Dylan in the Facebook group will remind me what else I haven’t watched yet. I’ve been watching The Knicks. Did I mention that? So spoilers here, I’m gonna spoil you.

I’m gonna spoil me. Let’s see what DM Talkies thought of Tony Hinchcliff’s Man of the People on Netflix. Well, their subheader is does disqualify as comedy now and they gave it one star out of five. Though I think we know where this is going. But let me see what DM Talkies does, and I don’t know, let me do it in some sort of I rate character.

Tony Hinchcliff Man of the People barely qualifies as a stand up comedy special. Technically, sure, it’s a stand up comedy special because it was a guy standing on that stage. See, this is the kind of stuff I can’t do in my wife’s home. If she’s home, she’s just sitting on the couch on our iPad. I can’t get into this character.

I just can’t do it. He is trying to make people laugh, and it’s being presented to us in the form of a Netflix special. But the man in question is so spineless and the jokes are so unfunny that it’s hard to see what makes this event so special? Is this this bad? I thought I saw Dylan in the group say that it was pretty good or okay, let me check.

I don’t want to put words in Dylan’s mouth. Hold on, oh no, oh no, no, not oh no, oh good. I just see here. An hour ago, as I record this, Dylan posted a list of somebody’s top comedians of the twenty first century. That’s some good filler if I have nothing for Monday.

All right, here’s Dylan’s scorecard. I’m in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Yeah, Tony Hinchcliffe is that at number sixteen at an AUS? So who knows? Do we trust Dylan or do we trust DM Talkies who wrote?

But the man in question is so spineless and the jokes are so unfunny that it’s hard to see what makes this event so special. I don’t even know what to say about man other people because the whole thing was bad from start to finish. Even killed Tony had its moments. Tony, in his own stand up special, started off proceedings with a joke about him not being gay, seeing his gun as his second fallas, and wanting to put it in his mouth, not in an homosexual way, but in a suicideal way. I didn’t laugh at that, but in hindsight, I think I should have filled up my quote of laughter at that point, because it was all downhill after that.

Well, based on that, the way that joke was described to this reviewer might be correct. I’m gonna watch this thing. He followed that up with a crowd interaction bit where he assumed the guy’s sexual orientation, objectified the woman sitting beside that guy, and then compared to another guy sitting next to that woman with a mass shooter. And Tony kept coming back to those three and every time he did it, the vibes got worse. Being honest, here actually fell sorry for all the people who were sitting in the front rows.

I know they paid for that experience, and yet I think they deserved better. Let’s see, they also tell us a Man of the People featured racist jokes, praise for Trump, abortion jokes. By the time Tony began praising Donald Trump for being the most amazing president of all time, I think I probably dozed off, writes the reviewer. The review ends with what I’m saying is your jokes need to be good enough to justify the lack of theatrics. Really, you can’t just go out on stage tell jokes.

I think you can. Recently, the only comic that has successfully done that while also using the stage in an intelligent fashion is Taylor tunluit’son her latest comedy specials available on Netflix. Maybe Tony Hinchcliff and is quote unquote fans should watch that as soon as possible to understand what a good stand up comedy special looks like. Dave Schpelle’s I’m Playing in a Park later this summer. By the way, all right, we are making lemonade here today.

Quick programming note. I shared a little bit about this the other day. So I’m gonna try something on Saturdays for the summer. I’m gonna deal it straight, tell you why I’m doing it. If you hate it, let me know in the Facebook group or on Spotify Daly Comedy News podcast group.

But the way search engines are working has changed, and you used to do a certain thing called SEO to get your stuff found, and now it’s kind of moving to the AI. So I have recorded a few explainer episodes. They are deep dives on a single topic. Tomorrow’s is about Shane Gillis. Then the next week kill Tony, and the week after that Joe Rogan, and we’ll get into some other stuff and I’ll talk about a longer plan I have there.

So the idea is that these episodes will do better in search engines, which will help people discover the show and the other six days and plus completely transparently in the summer especially. You know, I like to do stuff on the weekend, so I like to pre tape and then you have a week like this. If I didn’t do an explainer episode tomorrow, tomorrow would be the leftovers from Mark Maren and the David cross story. I just bumped and I don’t know, probably some stuff about Toronto comedians that I have in a folder labeled leftovers. So it kind of works on two levels there.

It’ll give the show a longer tail.

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And then off the cold beer thing.

I had this other thing I wanted to do, which I was gonna do as a sister series. So I probably will do it as a sister series and also use them as Saturday episodes. But I wanted to do one episode each about late night hosts like Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, the Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno o’conen, maybe some Ferguson. So I think that will go into this model as well. If you’re a longtime listener during the pandemic, as the pandemic got longer, you may recall, especially in January, I was doing things like that.

I did a four episode thing about Letterman at one point and started doing deep dives on just like Sam Kinnison stories, things like that. So this is kind of that, but a little more focused to get the search engines to like the show better. So that’s what’s going on. That’ll be tomorrow, and with that, it is time for the comedy stock market. Comedy stock markets, all right, I’ve got three buy recommendations for you.

First, buy the US men’s national team. It’s the World Cup and they play Paraguay tonight, and people think the US men’s national team might not be all that good. But the premise here of comedy stock market is we buy low, we sell high. So get on board, have fun, be a bandwagon fan. It’s Team USA.

You like USA? Right, You’re not living in Vancouver or the suburbs up there or something. Right, No, you’re an American Team USA. Sorry I got distracted. My son just texted me that he met Michael Bloomberg.

Guy will have to text him back. I’m believing all that in That’s why I stopped talking there Where was I always making fun of my chishim up in Vancouver rooting? He’s probably rooting for Team Canada. That seems like something he would do. Anyway, Buy Team USA and watch the game tonight.

Also buy stock in the New York Knicks. Now, John, they’re all time high value coming off that amazing win the other night. I know, and it doesn’t go with the premise of comedy stock market. Plus, the Knicks aren’t comedians, but we’re buying New York Knicks stock.

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And then one actual comedian, Steph Tolev.

I really liked that deal she did with thoms I Gore’s Yamah Studios, and I think that will help her career. So we’ll buy Steph Tolev, We’ll buy the Knicks and We’ll buy the US men’s national team. Edie Motica will have a comedy special. It’s called I’m Just Like You and It Sucks. It’ll be on Veeps June twenty sixth, and then a wider YouTube release in September.

You may know her from Jury Duty. On I’m Just Like You and It Sucks, Edie discusses her longing for human connection and all the way she’s contorted herself in search of it, whether it be talking to stains on her aunt’s carpet, making out with a pair of brothers on a cruise. In two thousand and seven, we’re talking to a stranger about his late girlfriend who died in a car accident. Edie will stop it nothing to feel and spread the love to the world around her. Edie guides the audience through her life as an angry, poor kid, a sexually deviant teen, all the way to where she is now, a poor yet slightly famous, sexual devian’s adult with a passion for a human connection.

Born and raised in New Yorker, from Nyak to Bay Ridge to Ridgewood, I bet I know what basketball team she roots for. Edie is best known for her role in the Emmy nominated comedy Jury Duty out today. Jamel Johnson’s album mid Range, Jammel’s third album, shot live in one take at Sports Drink in New Orleans. On mid Range, Jamal brings levity to serious topics like the racial biases of artificial intelligence, the way men encourage toxic masculinity, and the pros and cons of being a fat boyfriend. That’s mid range available through blonde medicine.

And that is your comedy news for today. Pretty good one, considering I kind of had nothing. Thank you, NIX, Go Team USA, Go NIX tomorrow night, back tomorrow with the Shane Gillis episode, and then back on Sunday with a normal one and hopefully an NBA championship. See you then,