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Featured: Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, David Cross, Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Pete Davidson

What’s in This Episode

• Jon Stewart on Riyadh Comedy Festival and comics performing there
• Jon Stewart’s stance on comedians’ integrity and gatekeeping
• Kimmelgate and Colbertgate suspensions
• Jon Stewart’s Daily Show contract negotiations through December
• Trump’s government and populace disconnect
• No Kings rallies and democratic leadership
• John Oliver’s critique of Trump’s White House demolition and military strikes
• David Cross on systemic corruption and the No Kings movement

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Download numbers continue to be really strong. So I’d like to thank the FCC chairperson and of course the re Odd Comedy Festival for making it all possible. John Stewart was at the New Yorker Festival.

Several topics came up, including the Reodd Comedy Festival. Hey, I talked about bourbon all weekend. There’s only so much I could do here. These are the news stories. John was discussing comics like Bill Burr and Louis C.K.

Who both performed at the Reod Comedy Festival. John Stewart said, so like, it’s hard for me to watch that sort of thing. It was like, I don’t such other people’s money. It’s hard, man. I thought the only person who should have done it was Pete Davidson because they owe money.

I want to fix my house. I want to operate with integrity, but I don’t want to gate keep. I think a lot of comics who came out and really crapped on those guys. I know a couple of them, and I know they actually like to be like garbage humans. So it’s hard for me to watch that sort of thing.

I would prefer if they would have just come out and said it’s money and not like a way to start conversation, Like would you have started the conversation for twenty five hundred dollars? That’s the difference. Am I disappointed that Pete Davison did it, Yes, but at least he was honest about the reason. John continued, Look, I worked for Apple. There are a lot of people who believe that Apple is exploitative in a way that’s horrific.

Not me. I love my friends at Apple Podcasts, especially the editorial team that promotes podcasts great humanitarians, just want to say that. John Stewart, however, said, you know, we all have our lines that we’re willing to cross. None of us are diogeties. We get into a problem where we’re unforgiving in any way.

We offer no grace. And that doesn’t mean I don’t have lines that I draw, but that if people cross them, I won’t do. But I do try to not be so rigid in the way that I think society has become. The topic moved to Kimmelgate and Colbert Gate. John Stewart said the comedians are not the victims of this administration.

We are a visible manifestation of certain things. But the victims are the people that are struggling to have any voice and are being forcibly removed from streets by hooded agents. Those are the victims of this administration. Will John continue to host the Daily Show one day a week. His contract is up in December, he told the New Yorker Festival, We’re working on staying.

Stuart said he plans to keep fighting urges others to do the same. He says, you don’t compromise in what you do, and you do it until they tell you to leave. As for the Kimmel suspension, I think it rattled everyone to some extent, but it also presented great opportunity, and so I don’t know that we’ve had as much fun as we did that Thursday morning, coming up with all the super little stuff that you see, including gold pictures and red ties. You know, it gave us some purpose. As for Donald Trump, John Stewart said, there’s a reason Donald Trump came to power, and that is in the general populace’s mind, government no longer serves the interests of the people it purports to represent.

That’s a broad Bays deep feeling, and that helps when someone comes along goes the system is rigged, and people go, yeah it is. John struggled to name a national leader for the Democrats right now. Audience members suggested that leader could be John Stewart himself. John said, if we really got to that point, it’s also a function of frustration, a cry of disperation, other I’m none of the above. The Democratic parties right for what happened to the Republican Party in twenty sixteen.

But hopefully it’ll be somebody who uses that power for good and not for self a grant, and not for their own gentrification. He discussed the No King’s rallies. When seven million people show up in America on a weekend for anything, I mean, honestly anything. We’re not Russia and their history of autocracy or dictatorship. It’s an alien culture to us, and it’s uncomfortable, and that discomfort may be our saving grace.

I don’t think we’re gonna wear that well. And that doesn’t mean we’re not going to be in some kind of soft autocracy where news is controlled. But we have a lot of different avenues and suppression creates opportunity, and a populace that is thirsty for inspiration and leadership and morality and its egerity that’s fertile ground for that opportunity. John Oliver opened his show Sunday night showing images of the White House demolition project. John said those images are distressing, especially when you know it’s all to build a giant ballroom in a style best described as medspa ver Sai, and yet the demolition of the White House a metaphor that if anything is too on the news was just the tip of Trump’s iceberg this week.

Oliver then showed a news report where Trump was trying to get two hundred and thirty million dollars from the Justice Department. Oliver said, I should say Trump has said he’d donate any settlement to in his words, cheery or something. But incredibly we’re still not done because Trump also posted an AI video of himself dumping a crap on No. King’s protesters abandoned trade negotiations with Canada after seeing a TV ad he didn’t like, and authorized a twenty billion dollar bailout to Argentina to insure that their experiment with libertarianism works out. Oliver said the most shocking move last week was the military strikes against the fishing boats.

Oliver said, I’ve watched enough Jagg to know that the typical approach to drug boats is to intercept them and arrest the suspects, not murder them with no due process. And all of this is bad enough before you learn that Trump is planning strikes on cartels by land as well. He apparently plans to launch strikes on suspected drug traffickers in Venezuela without congressional approval, saying We’re just gonna kill people. They’re gonna be like dead. You know, the kind of chilling statement you expect to hear from a serial killer or the mastermind behind Panera Bridge charge limonades, but not ideally the president of the United States.

I’d be happy to talk about Berbon again. I just said there’s no more Bourbon stories, Jim, do some press. David Cross was asked by Vanity Face there’s a big David Cross article. I originally wasn’t going to do any of it today, but it kind of themes up here with what we’ve been talking about, so I’ll pull this part. David Cross, what do you think about Kimmel Gate?

And cold bear gate. Cross said, it’s awful, and it’s because there are a handful of people that want to make billions and billions of dollars and the president is so powerful that he can make life difficult, much like a mob boss might make life difficult for these people. And we’ve seen this time and time again. If you want to do this thing, then you better give me a piece quick pro quot stuff. Trump is the logical endpoint.

But something like this has been in place for a long time. It’s just people out morals or ethics, or I should say they have morals and ethics. They’re just very crappy. It’s about money, you know. It’s unfortunately a part of the country we set up for ourselves.

Again, the steps have been taken towards this, not just Trump. Trump’s just the right guy at the right time. David Cross was asked what can comedians, artists, every day people, what can you do? Cross said, you know what, I’ve been really emboldened by this No King’s movement. All the other stuff goes in one ear.

We don’t have the bandwidth process at all. It’s concentrame of outragious garbage and lies. No Kings cuts through all that. My hope is that people will start to wake up to the idea that all this crap on Fox News and Newsmax and America First or whatever saying these things that protesters or anti America and their terrorists. I mean, these are your neighbors and there’s no violence.

Its people from all walks of life going no, we don’t want this, We’re not going to accept this. It deflates the Trump administration in a real way. I had this whole podcast gate thing. I want to do, all right, I guess today’s going to be a long episode. I bounced this a few times already because there’s so much going on.

Me let me talk about this. So remember the Golden Globes podcast awards. So the newsletter Like and Subscribe looked into this. They say they emailed the Shots podcast Network CEO, who has worked with Theovon’s podcast and has been reported as his manager in reputable outlets. So that person was asked about this, and the newsletter said that person responded, I’m honored Theovon is mentioned by the Golden Globes, but I have no interest in engaging with them or commenting.

The newsletter says, several hours after the story was published, I heard from Vaughn’s publicist who said his client is still educating himself about the globes and its process, adding theovon does not have a manager and the person quoted is not authorized to speak on theo’s behalf, nor is involved with anything related to THEO submission. That’s interesting, the newsletter says. I also hear multiple podcasters are still willing to bother with the five hundred dollars fee to submit themselves for consideration before the October three first deadline. Then there’s the whole thing I mentioned last week where you know you might want to advertise. You know, it’s good to advertise podcast, the newsletter rights.

According to the sales deck slides I reviewed, an eligible podcast can pay twenty five thousand dollars to become a podcasting FYC Fest supporting partner, which gets the pod a spot on a variety moderated panel the Full Kit and Kabootle, a variety coverage, and social posts on a folk page color ad on the Variety f YC Fest Preview out November eleventh. Thirty five grand apparently gets you a custom fifteen minute variety moderated conversation and seventy five grand you’ll be awarded the Variety Creative Impact Award in Podcasting. Wait so if I just spend seventy five thousand dollars, I’m going to be a Variety and be like, Hey, Johnnie Mack, the Guy in the Basement wins the Impact Award Podcasting. Oh okay, fun paragraph here, the newsletter writes, the Variety playbook here echoes what my colleague Richard Rushfield the Ankler reported last year when the publication tried to sell a new program around the Golden Globes quote throwing an intimate little dinner for your candidate to which you can invite thirty to forty guests who happened to be Globes voters. Apparently that program was stopped.

Continuing, they write they can report, based on conversation with multiple sources, that this was in fact the second top twenty five podcast list after the first list inadvertently omitted several wildly popular podcasts. I believe Conan is still not on the list. Nicky Glazer will host this year’s Golden Globes Gossip Connor Whispers in the Street Gossip con probably Bopie Gossip conn Away. Are the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree gossip Connor Whisp business tree gossip, con probably bup gossip Cone Macto. Pete Davidson just back for the Riod Comedy Festival.

He went to see some New York Giants football. Right, He’s from Staten Island. Obviously he’d be a New York Giants fan. A guy his age should be a Giant. No, no, no, nope.

He was there to root for the Eagles. Yes. Pete Davidson, seen wearing a green Eagles winter hat, not only dressed Eagles, he made fun of the Giants by holding up a fake gravestone that had the words rip g men written on it. Pete did this during the fourth quarter of the game. Heete was seen on the field before the game taking in the warm ups.

Eagles thirty eight, Giants twenty. It was the second Eagles game Pete Davidson has been seen at this season. I guess a couple of recent Super Bowls helped Pete Davidson become an Eagles fan, But who knows, maybe he grew up an Eagles fan. A guy that age you think would like Eli Manning Era Giants and the two Super Bowls there. Why do I know?

Uh? Nate Berghatzy on Gossip Corner he was spotted in Chicago. He apparently stopped by Jake Melnick’s corner chap, which sounds like an awesome place. Apparently Nate was a server at Jake Melnick’s corner tap twenty years ago. On social media, they said, welcome back to Chicago, Nate and the Big Dumbies tour.

Got that hashtag in there. Good job, thanks for celebrating two jam Pack shows at the at United Center with US at year old stomping grounds. They tagged enough people that it made my radar so good job. Social media person at Jake Milnick’s corner tap did tell you that Nate was going to be on the College Football Show with ESPN on Saturday morning. He made his pick.

The undefeated Cougars were number eleven coming into the game against the Iowa State Cyclones. Nate picked BYU. He said, this is a business decision right here. I’ve got four shows in Salt Lake City BYU, Baby BYU forty one. Cyclones twenty seven out today on Netflix.

Mo A Maare his new special Wild World, his third for Netflix. I’ve liked his other specials. The New Hour includes a celebration of his Palestinian heritage, reflections on the birth of his son, and a critical look at the TSA. In Chicago, the night manager of the Laugh Factory was detained by federal agents on Friday. According to NBC Chicago, this happened outside the Laugh Factory of Chicago around nine to twenty am.

Chicago police responded to a call of a battery in progress. NBC News reports upon arrival, they observed federal agents engaged in a physical altercation with two individuals. There’s a video that shows a crowd gathering as masked agents in camouflage uniforms marked police russell with two people as Chicago Police officers stand nearby. The CPD said their officers did not make any arrests and left the scene once the area was cleared. An eyewitness said federal agents jumped out of the car and grabbed the manager while he was with his mother.

Border patrol said the individual was detained and turned over to the FBI for investigation. Another eyewitness said they didn’t do anything, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Roy Wood Jr., Joe Rogan, Leslie Jones, Tiffany Haddish, Bert Kreischer, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Gaffigan

What’s in This Episode

• Roy Wood Jr. on making political comedy truthful and finding humor in hypocrisy
• Joe Rogan suggests Trump replace Gavin Newsom as California governor
• Leslie Jones discusses blue comedy for women and lack of diversity in Late Night TV
• SNL casting: Leslie Jones notes absence of Black women on current roster
• Tiffany Haddish’s new Peacock docuseries ‘Tiffany Haddish Goes Off’ premiering November 13
• Bert Kreischer interviews Sebastian Maniscalco on Two Bears One Cave podcast
• Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon obsession and Midwest basement bar material in Garden and Gun interview

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. The Daily Comedy News podcast is like real life. If you didn’t listen to the Weekend. It was a lot of fun. The Weekend was silly and there was some alcohol involved.

But now it’s Monday morning, and Monday mornings are kind of like, uh, I hate Monday morning. So we’re gonna talk about politics. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Roywood Junior to Rolling Stone. They were curious, politics in America can feel pretty bleak right now.

How do you even begin to make it funny? Roywood Junior said, I think you make it truthful first, and from there fuddy will follow. There are a lot of things happening right now that you can’t necessarily go, well, what’s the funny part of all the deportations? But if you go, what’s the funny part about the policies or the hypocrisy of it, or National Guard troops sleeping in public because you sent them there without hotel accommodations, you can find the moments of truth in the midst of all this calamity, and through that you’re able to find the humor. Roy said, there’s always some injustice.

There’s always somebody dead that shouldn’t have dined. I’ve been doing comedy for twenty seven to twenty eight years now, so there isn’t some sort of oh, what they’re doing, what now? Well, let me really dial in and make it funny. I don’t think any comedian that tacks issues in this world is doing anything different than they were ten or fifteen years ago. John Oliver, John Stewart, Bill Mard, take your pick.

They’re doing what they’ve always done, but feels different, affects you differently. Water tastes different when you’re thirsty. I don’t think any comedian sits down to write the joke that’s going to heal you. I see you’re in pain, Try this joke. We’re here to provide escape the solutions.

That’s not our responsibility. Joe Rogan, who might not be the sharpest tool in the shed. I’ve got a story that I haven’t been able to get to. Maybe tomorrow. Joe Rogan suggested President Trump should replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California and fix California after Trump finishes his second term as US President.

Rogan said, just take over California and fix it. It’d be hilarious. If he did, it would be one of the funniest things of all time if an eighty two year old man steps into the office of governor of California. Brogan said he recently spoke with a friend who he’s leaving Los Angeles because that friend can’t stand the state’s politics anymore. Rogan said, it’s like everybody went crazy.

It’s like there’s something that happened because of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests and the riots and all the chaos. Whatever the temperature of the society was, it hit societal global warming where it’s like it’s time to investigate greenland, It’s time to move north, Like this is a bad climate. Now, this sucks. Now as why is this? Joe Rogan may or may not be.

There is a flaw in his logic. You see, the next California gubernatorial election is in twenty twenty six, so Trump wouldn’t be able to run until the twenty thirty election, at which point President Donald Trump would be eighty four years old. News we caught up with Leslie Jones. They covered a whole bunch of topics. One thing I thought was interesting, She says, I don’t think it is now.

But I think when I first came out, it was harder for women to have blue comedic material. I think now it’s more open for us just to be as dirty as the men. New topic, Leslie feels there has to be a change in Late Night. When you look at Late Night, all you see is white men in blue suits. And I’m not saying that they’re not bomb.

I love Jimmy, I love Seth, I love Stephen Colbert, but it’s all we’ve ever seen. Wait, which Jimmy’s you love? She said, I love Jimmy, I love Seth, I love Stephen Colbert. Now in that order, Seth is on? In was her brain thinking NBC?

Does she love Jimmy Kimmel but not love Jimmy Fallon? Should I start a controversy? Leslie’s view is that the Late Night’s shake up includes better writing and a woman host, ideally a black woman like herself, and more love coming through the TV. She’s asked about the new season of SNL and said, when you leave SNL, you don’t pay attention to what’s going on. I do know they don’t have a black woman on there.

That’s one thing I have paid attention to. Peacock announced the official premiere for Tiffany Hattish Goes Off, a new docu series out November thirteenth. The new series follows Tiffany Hannish and her childhood friends as they explore the continent of Africa. Six episodes. The women travel to places including Cape Town, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, and Zanzibar.

We’re told throughout the trip they take on new adventures, deep in their lifelong friendship and explore personal connections to the continent. The raw, vulnerable, and unpredictable version of Tiffany Handish will leave the viewer crying with laughter and sobbing from heartfelt, relatable and real time self healing. Bert Kreischer had Sebastian manascalgo on. Sebastian recently played the Rhea I Comedy Festival. This was on the Two Bears One Cave podcast.

Now, I haven’t had a chance to listen to this yet, but I was curious. Did Bert Kreischer ask Sebastian about the reod comedy Festival? But I did a search on the transcript. Now, how I do this? As I open up on my desktop computer, and I phrased it that way because I’m from nineteen eighty On my desktop computer, I opened up the Apple podcast app and I did a search for find.

I searched for the word Riod. Nothing came up. I searched for the word Saudi. Nothing came up, and I was like, hmm, perhaps search isn’t working. I should test this.

So I searched for the word pasta, and pasta did come up in context in the transcript. I don’t know who’s saying this, but the words are they go out to dinner and you’re like, hey, can we get the pasta with it? Oh, we don’t do that anymore. You don’t do that anymore. It’s like you get upset that you can’t share that experience with somebody else.

So that’s what they talked about on the podcast. Bert Kreischer was very very excited about this interview with Sebastian Maniscalco just back from the comedy Festival that he shared this hilarious clip. It was phenomenal. I love where you shot it so good. It’s expensive.

You’re such an ability to make me giggle that I can’t figure out You and Ny Pargott to the two people who can make me laugh, and I can’t figure out how to replicate what you do. That’s it. You’re done. Do you need to do anything else? What are we doing?

What else do you have to do on top of the stand up comedy? I mean, you’re you’re a guy who’s dabbling in a lot of facets of entertainment. How long is this going to go on? I’m sure you guys are all asking you, like, how long we have to come to this house? I s’s probably finished the Jim Gaffigan Bourbon article right otherwise it’ll be like December thirtieth, and I’ll want to have pre taped the day and you’d be like, John, you did three quarters of that article four months ago.

Why is this coming up today? Did you pre tape today? And the answer will be yes. But instead I’ll just clear it out right now in case you missed the weekend, and you should go back and listen. Because Johnny Mac was entertaining himself.

Jim Gaffigan sat down with Garden and Gun and I’m still confused why the website is called Garden and Gun and the topic is Jim Gaffigan’s love of bourbon. We also learned yesterday Jim Gaffigan is afraid to offend anyone. Lest he lose even one person in the audience, he’ll couch everything safely. Jim said, what I’ve learned through my stand up is that when I come up with material while I make fun of something, I’ll then go do that thing. I made fun of hiking, I enjoy hiking.

I made fun of grapefruit juice. I love grapefruit juice. Now maybe he should start making fun of not calling people back who helped his career early in the serious days. Sorry, I digress, Jim said, I’m from the Midwest, and one of those was making fun of all those Midwestern dads with basement bars.

And now I have a bar I constructed, but share a drink with my brothers and th…

It’s one of my favorite moments. Now. Tom Wilms, who for Garden Gun, asked Jim gaffigin all these questions, they did a lightning round. Question number one, what’s the best time of a bourbon? Jim, I’m not a day drinker, and usually like two and done.

Oh, he’s a lightweight. But if I’m here in Louisville and we’re sampling, and it’s a whole different thing. Question number two, neat rocks or cocktail Jim. I’m a big rock guy, but I like it neat and has to be of a certain quality to be neat. I do like things cold.

I mean I look like a snowman. I should like ice. Hilarious Jim. Question number three, what’s your best worst dad joke? Jim Gaffikin said, Here’s the thing about dad jokes.

The enjoyment that a father feels and doing a dad joke is the discomfort inflicks on the child. It’s not about it being funny. Like eight year olds, they think it’s funny, they’re figuring it out, they’re dumb. But it’s about the annoyance it provides to a teenager. It’s the punishment of it.

Spinal Tap is back yet again. No, this isn’t a rerun, this isn’t a three month old episode. This is new news about spinal Tap. They’ve announced a concert movie, Spinal Tap at Stonehenge, the final finale. Good title you see.

Spinal Tap at Stonehenge the Final Finale captures a secretly staged concert at the famed megalithic structure in England. It features appearances from Shania Twain, Eric Clapton and Josh Grobin. It’ll be on IMA twenty twenty six. It is described as the first ever rock concert at the historic English Heritage site. Some fact trekkers pointed out, dude, the Thompson Twins played there.

Bleeker Street CEO Kent Sanderson said in a statement, I’m sold. This is it. They’re really serious this time. Well, this is ostensibly the end. How fitting it is that the actual probab will send off a shot historically at Stonehenge, the mysterious landmark that we now know must have been erected thousands of years ago purely to serve as the setting for the last act of spinal tap.

Congratulations to bj Novak, you know him from the office. Well, Fox has taken an equity stake in his chain food service. Do you know this chain started as a West Hollywood parking lot pop up in which a Michelin star chef crafted homages to nostalgic chain restaurant classics. Yeah, they did collabs with Taco Bell. You know, I could go for some Taco Bell today.

Maybe I’ll take a ride. Sometimes Taco Bell hits the spot like I teach on Monday nights and for some reason at like eight forty five five pm on a Monday night driving home. No, I’m gonna watch Monday night football, the like super basic, Taco Bell, Beef, Taco Soft, nothing on. It just hits the spot. I know some of you think it’s like meat like product wrapped in paper, but it hits the spot sometimes.

Anyway, with collabs with Taco Bell and Beizza Hut Jack in the box, we need some jack in the boxes on the East coast. Oh, I was just out in la In and out Burger is the jam, you guys. We got to get that. In New Jersey Pepsi, Duncan and Banda Express on the menu. Chain pop Ups became one of the hottest tickets in town.

Now, what is this development deal? I don’t understand it either. Apparently Chain Media gets a first loop development deal at Fox with the potential for original content placement on Gordon Ramsey’s food content platform Bite and in vertical videos on Holywater. What’s holy Water? Apparently it’s an AI microdramas producer and platform bj Novak said, food continues to define culture.

It’s how we celebrate, it’s how we remember, it’s how we connect. No one understands how to turn culinary storytelling into cultural obsession. Like Fox Entertainment and studio Ramsey Global, we’re excited to work together to bring chain experiences to more people. Jud Appetel joked that Adam Sandler, the great traumatic actor, blew him off after booking SNL. Jud used to room with Adam Sandler.

Yeah, they were living together when Adam Sandler auditioned for SNL. Judd said, it was a fun time because all we were doing every day was trying to write jokes and get up on stage of the improfit night and tell those jokes. We were very focused. We didn’t have much more to our lives. We had no responsibility whatsoever, and we were just hustling.

We all knew Adam was going to make it. He was just remarkably funny to be around, really and had so much charisma, so we all thought it was going to happen. We were just interested to see how it was going to happen, and then it did. One day Adam Sandler said I’m going to go audition for Saturday Night Live, and the next day he said, I got it. Then he left me alone in the apartment.

Jud has a new book, Adam Sandler wrote a blurb before the book, saying, jud Appatols put together an amazing scrap book of his life and career. The best part there’s a lot of pictures, and the stuff that isn’t pictures you don’t even have to look at now. If you do read the words, you’ll be delighted. But again, personally, I didn’t. And Amy Schumer posted a selfie on Instagram while wearing a sports bra.

Yeah. She captioned it no filter, no filler, no clean mirror. She was showing off her weight loss.

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And then it’s your comedy news for today.

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Well, those first thirty or those are on me. Then you give me money, so I get the five bucks. Then Apple takes a third of it. I should actually do the math on this. I think they take thirty percent.

Alright, so point seven times five, John, you’re terrible at math, and it’s actually four ninety nine. Should we do Let’s just make it totally accurate while we do this. Sorry, points seven times four ninety nine, three dollars forty nine and three thousandths of a cent. Now my business partner gets half of that. So there’s a dollar seventy five.

We’ll call it one seventy four sixty five. So that’s how much there is there.

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And then the government’s gonna like take tax out of that, right, what do the…

I’m only gonna see what, uh, seventy two percent of the dollars seventy four to sixty five. So I get a buck twenty five if you click that better and forget to cancel it. But seriously, it’s a great way to support the show. You get this one, five good news stories and a bunch of other things on the network, all commercial free, and believe me, a lot of you do it, and it adds up. I look at the big number and I’m like, ah, this is great.

I just forget to do the you know, Apple takes a cut, Mark gets half and uh inc. Of tax. Anyway, thanks for the buck twenty five. It’s see tomorrow.

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Featured: Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, John Stewart, Gene Simmons, Robert Patrick, Mike Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno Grand Marshal at Harley Davidson Love Ride charity event
• John Stewart comments on AI deepfake video of President with diarrhea plane
• Jim Gaffigan Father Time bourbon brand profile and bourbon tour
• Jim Gaffigan Bourbon Whiskey Run tour with family in Kentucky and Tennessee
• Jim Gaffigan bourbon material development and diverse audience appeal

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna joke forgot to Swallow. Why don’t you do the open a second time? John, because that’s not fun.

That’s what actually happened there. I was so excited. I think you’re feeling where my mood has been lately. I just want to do silly things after a month of angst. So let’s start with that guy, Jay Leonard.

Remember Jay Leno, He used to host the Tonight Show for like twenty two years, and then he’ll pop off as if he knows anything about late night comedy. That guy, he is the worst. Listen to what he’s doing. Now. Now, this guy Jay Leno, he’s gonna serve as the Grand Marshal at the Harley Davidson Love Ride.

Yeah, the November ninth, Southern California. They’re trying to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project and adopt the Arts. It’s gonna feature music from Gene Simmons from Kiss Robert Patrick, remember the guy from Terminator too, the bad guy in Terminator two. Yeah, he’s gonna be there, and Jay Leno is going to be the Grand Marshal. For the Love Ride, which has raised more than twenty five million dollars benefiting more than a dozen charitable organizations.

Let’s know what Jay Leno had to say. I’ve written alongside thousands a Love Ride for years. I’m looking forward to doing it again. Cheers to making Love Ride thirty four A memorable one. This guy the nerve of this guy.

All right, I gotta choose now to Jim gaff again again or Joey did is John Stewart’s story. But the John Stuart story is political. But I like to move the stories around. We did a lot of gafficing yesterday, so let’s do. Let’s do John Stewart, Okay, John Stewart, I was talking about did you see the video last weekend?

It was an AI video of the President of the United States wearing a crown jumping diarrhea on people. Did you see this one? Mike Chishen, did you hear me going to the letterman delivery right there? That was totally letterment when I did that. Did you see this one?

Total Dave flift? John Stewart said, I think my favorite part of it was Republicans who were asked about said diarrhea plane having to say things like, well, you know, the American people know that Donald Trump speaks his mine and they really appreciate his honest reaction of the diarrhea plane. Stuart continued, Mike Johnson was the best speaker of the House. Mike Johnson, what do you make of the president showing a video of him dropping diarrhea from a plane onto American people who were expressing their dissatisfaction Stuart, as Johnson said, well, the President, you know, he’s very satirical. Stuart said, you know, I appreciate the satire and I’m not offended, not as American but as a comedian.

What is this? What exactly is this? What is the satire? I’m just curious. Oh, it’s diarrhea from a plane.

I get it now, good one, sir. Stuart joked that perhaps the diarrhea plane is a classified thing that Trump shouldn’t have talked about. Stuart said, I know they have a diarrhea plane. I don’t even know if that was classified. That could have been classified information that somehow got out.

Someone’s going to pay the price for that. That’s way worse than the signal chat all right. Jim gaffickan Bourbon Time case you missed yesterday, I was entertaining myself. Jim Gaffigan was profiled by Garden and Gunn, which continues to just confuse me. Why is it called that I went on their website and like thought I could go to like an about page or they would explain, like oh, in eighteen thirty four, James Madison something something.

I have no idea why it’s called Gardening gun Tom Wilms spoke with Jim Gaffigan, bourbon entrepreneur. Jim explains why the brand is called father Time One word, Jim says. The joke is that it’s not father time as in the time you spend with your kids. It’s the time that a father earns that the joy is earned. On the label is my grandfather, who made dentures.

He was the first in our family to break the cycle of like working in coal mines. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Jim, making sure he doesn’t offend the coal minor comedy fan. Jim says, but his work made it possible for my father to go to college. I like to say that my father sacrifice made it possible for me to tell diarrhea jokes. Wow, I didn’t even plan this back to back diarrhea stories.

Welcome to Daily Comedy News. How’s your Sunday going, Garden and Gunn said, Bourbon is associated with the South, but of course it can be made anywhere in the US. Jim, do you have thoughts on Bourbon’s sense of place? Jim said, Because I get to tour around doing stand up, I’ve been able to acquire a bourbon from all fifty states. The thing I’ve come to understand is that, particularly in the Southeast, there’s a shorthand knowledge on bourbon.

If you go to a bar in Charleston or even Charlotte and asks for the whiskey list, it’s going to be much more extensive. Obviously, they are great whiskey bars throughout the country. Yeah, Jim, you don’t want to offend people not from the Southeast. There could be like some Southwest bourbon fans who are also coal miners. Be very very careful, Jim Gaffigan, You don’t offend anybody.

Ever, It’s very careful to point out here there are great whiskey bars throughout the country. Okay, you got it. Jim’s not saying only the Southeast has good whiskey bars and He’s fine if you’re a coal miner, all right. Jim is not here to offend you. But Jim says, what people think is an extensive whiskey list in some northern cities would be laughable in the southeast.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I’m from New York City. How dare you insult our whiskey list? Jim Gaffigan, Wait until I tell him my uncle was a coal miner. The nervous is this guy’s worse than Jay Leno Guardian and guns.

Jim, you towards some bourbon material in Kentucky. I can go back to talking about the Rio Comedy Festival if you wired. I just I just want to do this. Jim. You had toured some bourbon material in Kentucky and Tennessee earlier this year.

Jim said. The tour was called the Bourbon Whiskey Run, and it was prompted by a few things. My three brothers wanted to do another trip, so we hit places like Chattanooga and Owensboro that we hadn’t visited yet, and we did it by bus. Wait are you trying to tell me Jim Gaffigan was on a bus. He’s gotta have mine.

He’s gotta fly private, right, Jim Gaffigan private plane. Let’s see what comes up. Seems like he doesn’t. Jim tweeted twelve years ago, anyone have a private jet in Columbus, Ohio. I’m trying to get to Chicago from my show tonight.

I wish I was joking. All right, So Jim flies commercial, and apparently sometimes Jim Gaffigan takes the bus with his brothers. Yeah, sure, that’s how the story goes. Jim said, the bus trip coincided with my son’s spring break, and he opened for me a few times. I understood it would not have as broad appeal as my other stand up.

I’ve always prided myself on having stand up that appeals to diverse ages and mentalities. But this is more of a twenty one and up material. It helps if you’re over thirty and out of shape, guardian and gun or whatever that’s called. Ask Jim, is there anything different about developing a bourbon joke? Does bourbon help?

I’m sure bourbon helps. Jim once again does not want to offend anybody. He’s very careful with this answer. He says, obviously, both men and women drink bourbon. You don’t want to exclude anyone, Jim, be very careful.

You could lose, you know, zero zero one percent of your fan base. Obviously, both men and women drink bourbon, but I think the male relationship with bourbon being bourbon geeks, if you want to call that, is unique. Whoa you misogynist bourbon drinking? This guy’s worse than Jay Leno? Jay said, I’ve Jay leave it in.

Jim said, I’ve joked about this with other guys who were into bourbon because my wife considers it kind of a midlife crisis, and I’m like, this is better than having an affair. It sure is. That would be terrible if he broke up his marriage. Obsessing over bourbon and wanting to complete your collection is I’m not gonna say it. It’s healthy, but it’s more productive than doing something reckless and more accessible than collecting cars.

Is that a shot at Jay Leno? I could understand taking a shot at Jay Leno who collects a lot of cars, because that guy, he’s the worst. Did you hear him comment on late night television as if he knows anything? Gaffigan said, some people collect action figures, and I joked that bourbon bottles are like action figures filled with liquor. Oh there is more to this article, but I will move on because I can spidy.

Since you guys going, will you cut it out? Okay, I’ll cut it out. I can talk about Therio on Comedy FESTIL if you want. Michelle Wolf said. Someday, I’d really like to play Red Rocks out in Colorado.

I think that’d be really cool, especially because some great people have performed there. She told TV Insider. I’m also a very outdoorsy person, so combines all the things I love. I want to get into some writing. I want to do some scripted things.

I don’t have any desire to host any award shows just because I don’t think i’m the favorite person. Look if they asked me to do it, I’d be like, these are the kind of jokes you’re gonna get. I played her Saudi material on Thursday’s podcast. If you missed that and want a taste of that. But today we’re silly, Michelle Wolf said.

The last time I hosted something with the Correspondent’s dinner and they were like, we weren’t expecting that. I just like to let you know what you’re getting because that’s what I’m going to give you. I’m not necessarily going to give you a song or dance, but I’ll tell you what I think about it. There’s some shows I want to write, and hopefully I’ll get to do those in the near future. Eliza Slessinger, she’s out there hawking the Jeep grand Wagoneer.

Bunch of articles about Eliza, who’s clearly trying to sell you a jeep. We’re told the Jeep grand Wagoneer, this is not a commercial, this is me having fun. Is just sixty five thousand dollars, rugged, refined and has enough room for growing families. We’re told. Slussnger, one of the world’s premiere female comedians I guess that’s true, is known for her sharp wit and stand up comedy.

It includes insightful commentary on relationships, motherhood, and society comedy Rule of three. Eliza Slessinger said, I’m excited to work with the Jeep brand on this unconventional Jeep Grand Wagoneer ad campaign. I love that they went for something different and we’re open to paroting traditional vehicle reveals. The Jeep grand Wagoneer is beautiful, spacious and hopefully after seeing this film, there are more babies in the world ready to fill out those three rows. You think she said that, or you think somebody over at Jeep sent that over and go?

Can you prove this quote? So I’ve been doing this a long time. People approved quotes. Ol of our friends saw is the global chief marketing officer and said developed to run across only the Jeep brands social media channels. The family SUV featuring comedian Elizas Leusger does follow our underlying Jeep brand ethos, and that is to be memorable and put a smile on their faces.

Speaking of putting a smile on people’s faces, this put a smile on my face. I was working on some behind the scenes stuff here and running some data. Somebody asked me, hey, can you pull some stats? And pulled some stats and ran them through the chatchept there, and here’s what we learned about you, not me. You.

Here’s who’s listening to daily community is, according to artificial intelligence, the audience scus mid career to early jen X professionals and dads who grew up on Letterman, John Stewart and talk radio. Well from the host chair being oh eighty to eighty five percent of you or in the US. Then there’s Mike Chisholm, who listens in Canada. He’s the entire Canadian fan base. Thank you, Mike.

Some other listeners in the UK and Australia would love to hear from you guys. Facebook group, jump in Daily Companies podcast group. But I especially liked the psychographic we are told you, dear listener, listen daily for consistency, humor, and perspective. You prefer wits over outrage, and this is what made me laugh. You respond to clever grumpiness.

Love it boy. I have so much leftover stuff I might have to do just like an extra episode just to catch up.

Let’s talk about Bob odenkirk Men’s journal ast Bob Odenkirk, could you have …

The genre has so many cornerstone tropes that it’s always fun to make fun of any trope and any genre thing. You can make fun of anything in a stylistically tropy way. You can make fun of Wes Anderson tropes or anything people know. I did a film festival David Cross once, and we were there for something, but also to make fun of one of Steven Seagal’s films. We just sat in the back and did the riff tracks thing.

Is that where we’re calling it now the rifftracks thing? Because I would have just called it the Mystery Science Theater three thousand thing. I get that those two things are related, but do people know what you’re talking about if you say riff tracks? Odin Kirk said, because I’ve done so much comedy, one of the conscious thoughts that I had in this action areas that you can’t really make fun of the tropes if you make an action movie. I realized, if I want to make a real action movie and I want to be judged and tested in this arena, I have to commit to those things and not make fun of them, because if I make fun of them, everyone who has even an inkling of what I’ve done is going to go, ah, hey, didn’t mean it.

But there are jokes in the films, he says. Most of the jokes have to do with the kind of fun that you can have when the violence is really intense and really scary and kind of painful. Then a small comment to like comment becomes very funny in that context. An all subject comment becomes really hilarious in the context of dead, cold, earnest, seriousness and pain. And I will leave you with this.

Aerosmith and young Blood have shared a new version of My Only Angel, featuring comment he legend Steve Martin. Yeah, why well, I’ll tell you you see. Inspired by the original track’s emotional core, Aerosmith and young Blood returned to the studio to explore its more vulnerable side. During the session, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, I met him once, tiny guy, I mean, not all that tall, not all that heavy. Nice guy.

Though met’m backstage. Jones Beach was back there with Vinnie pass Story. You know, the guy from this Pranos. Yeah, I’ve got stories. I did some stuff.

I wasn’t always in the basement anyway. During the session, Aerosmith singer Stephen Tyler, a longtime admirer of Steve Martin. Imagine the distinctive sound of a banjo bringing the songs so close. He reached out to Steve Martin, who accepted the invitation and recorded his part remotely. The addition of the Steve Martin banjo gives the new version its defining final moment, a soulful ending that trades the drive of the original for grounded, textured feel, with Steve Martin standout bancho solo carrying the song to a finish.

Steve revealed on Instagram, I’m playing banjo on a Stephen Tyler’s song. Here’s our text exchange. For no particular reason, and that is your comedy needs to say, Hey, all right, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Seth Meyers, Theo Von, Nate Bargatze, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan launches Father Time Bourbon with November release ‘Fourth and Long’
• Seth Meyers jokes about White House East Wing demolition and Trump glass bridge
• Celebrity spirits brands: quality concerns and industry landscape
• Jim Gaffigan bourbon education journey and tasting process
• Nate Bargatze appearing as guest picker on ESPN College GameDay at Vanderbilt

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mac with your daily comedy. I’m really excited about this Jim Gaffigan bourbon article. I haven’t even pre read it. A couple of late night jokes before we begin, from Seth Myers.

These are pretty good. A White House Press secretary, Caroline Levitt pushed back this week against criticism of the East Wing demolition and said that Democrats are just jealous. Seth said, what the only person jealous of that gaping hole is the kool aid man. That’s a solid joke. And one more.

During a meeting, Trump said he has plans to build a glass bridge between the White House and his new ballroom. While he got handed to him, even at his age, he’s still looking for new and innovative ways to look up ladies dresses, solid work. Seth Myers writers, as tas yesterday, you know, I don’t really want to do politics. I just want to do silly stories like this one from Garden and gunn. Now, first of all, there’s a publication called Garden and Gun that sounds like a Jim Gaffigan joke.

Like, Oh, I don’t think those two things go together. Tom Wilms writes under the headline Sipping Bourbon with Jim Gaffigan, the comedian and co founder of Father Time Bourbon, on his whiskey education and bourbon’s funny side. Okay, Gaffigin says, bourbon combines this rich heritage and booze, I mean two perfect things. I was never a hard alcohol guy, but as I got older beer was too filling. During the pandemic, he would grab some quiet time with his wife, Jeanie.

Jim said, that’s when I really embraced whiskey, specifically bourbon. We’re told with Father Time, Jim Gaffgin isn’t just lending his name. No, no, no no. He’s hands on in selecting and blending barrels for each release. Each batch is bottled in both a lower proof version and a higher proof empty nester strength and his name for some facet of his perspective as a dad.

Now are we learning something here? This says the upcoming November release fourth and long nonst to the challenges of raising a big family. Did we know we were getting a Jim Gaffigan release. I know. I’m the host of the show.

I’m the one with the Daily Comedy News. John, Why are you asking us you’re the guy who has the news. Did I erase this from my brain? Did we know we were getting a gaff again release in November? Anyway, Apparently it’s called fourth and Long.

You learned it right here. Daily Comedy News write it down. Fourth and Long The challenges of raising a big family, Jim said, when you have multiple kids, that fourth child is when you’re really getting into a no man’s land of parenting. The comparison of when a football team is facing fourth and long. The odds are against it, but if you can pull it off, you feel invincible.

Oh that’s just the preamble.

Let’s get to the article.

Jim Gaffigan, What made you want to start a bourbon brand? Jim said, being in the entertainment industry, you’ll occasionally be approached with opportunities. I was usually approached for food things, but I was always reluctant. Then I was approached to do a bourbon but my experience with celebrity spirits is that the quality isn’t always there.

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It’s Dylan said, Adam Carolla has Manngria, Bert Kreischer and Tom Sagora know he’s just back from the Riot Comedy Festival. That Tom’s gore guy. They have poor Osos vodka. Dylan says he’s actually seen that in stores. Rob points out Dan Ackroyd has some sort of liquor brand.

Yeah, he’s got a vodka. If I remember correctly, I worked with Dan one time in Chicago. Did I tell you this story. It’s Saturday, let’s go all over the place. So we were doing at serious It’s called a town hall, so you get famous celebrities there.

So we had Ackroyd and Jim Belushi flut Chicago there there, everybody recorded this whole thing, and something went sideways, and somebody forgot, not me. Somebody forgot to get the talent to sign the talent release, and they never signed the talent release. So this whole thing got recorded and I don’t think it ever aired. I also felt bad. One day I was calling Jim Belushi’s cell phone and it was on the West coast, so I called mister Belushi rather early.

He played it off and was really cool about it, but this jerk woke up Jim Belushi and still feels bad about it. Jim, if you’re listening, I’m sorry and thank you for being cool about it. Anyway, Akroyd and Belushi were really cool that day, and Dan Akroyd did have some sort of like skeleton liquor brand. John, do you have the internet? Why don’t you look it up?

Crystal Head vodka. That’s what it is. Rob also points out Guy Fiery and Sammy Hagar have tequila. Did you see fake Sammy Hagar got arrested the other day? Google that long story short.

Some guy got arrested. He was claiming to be Sammy Hagar. How did he prove he’s Sammy Hagar. He’s saying I can’t drive fifty five now. He looks like if Sammy Hagar had two hundred donuts for lunch.

I digress. Von pointed out Cheech Marin has tris Papa Lotte Mescal and I shared as I on Friday went on my coffee run. I always listened back to the show to see if I made any mistakes, and I was served an ad for David Ortez. Rum you Dave Ortez big Poppy the baseball player. Anyway, we are far afield.

Where were we? We were in the middle of this Jim Gaffigan article. He was explaining what made him want to start a bourbon brand. Now, of course the answer is money, but let’s pretend and that that’s not the answer. Jim said, I was supposed to do a bourbon, but my experience with celebrity spirits is that the quality isn’t always there.

You think. That prompted me to reach out to a college friend from who’s here in Louisville. And he was like, it’s a gamble. You might end up with some unsold bourbon. And I said, well, at least it would be bourbon i’d enjoy.

Jim said, I’m the youngest of four brothers, and the brothers would all come down to Kentucky and we’d sample. When you’re sampling bourbon, it’s a labor of love. Oh yes, it sure is a labor of love. That’s not to say there aren’t moments when you’re like, I don’t know how I can discern between the ten of these. Yeah, that must be really hard, and I’m not his experienced.

It’s spitting out as I should be Ooh, that’s gross. But it was through that that the seeds of my fascination grew. The great irony of my Bourbon journey is in that some ways, it’s almost the opposite of college. Yeah, that is ironic. You go to college to learn, but you end up drinking more.

And in Bourbon you think you’re just going to drink, but you end up learning. Jesus, Jim, listen to yourself. Oh my god, stop, dude, you sound insane. Tom Wilms in Garden and Gunn, the oddly named publication, asked Jim Gaffigan, what’s the most bourbon geek thing you’ve caught yourself saying. Jim said, I’ve had to stop myself from saying juice.

I have a joke where I address that people are so helpful in the bourbon industry, and they’ve been patient with me because I’m like a puppy who’s excited. I’m glad there’s no footage for me going, hey, so what’s a bunghole? Oh that sounds pretty dirty, boy, check the claw how much? Oh, there’s a lot of this left. I have other things I need to do.

Should we go back to this tomorrow? Yes, let’s go back to this tomorrow because we do have other stuff to talk about. For example, Nate Prighetzi will be the celebrity guest picker on ESPN’s College Game Day Today College Game Day, which starts at seven a m. Eastern. I hope you got up early and listen to the podcast.

They’ll be at Vanderbilt’s Wyatt’s Lawn. Nate is a noted a Vanderbilt Commodore’s supporter. He’ll be making his second appearance on the pregame show two years ago November fourth, twenty twenty three. You remember that day, Yeah, that was the day LSU played Alabama. Nate Brigatzy picked Alabama crimson side forty two LSU twenty eight.

Meanwhile, Sports Illustrated wrote about super Vanderbilt football fan theovon as I writes, he walked through the grass across the concrete with his nearly patented Detroit Tiger’s hat, glasses, a Teal shirt, and an Alabama belt hanging on his shoulder. That stunt was one that some within Vanderbilt’s fan base will forever hold against Theovan if he tries to validate his Vanderbilt’s football fandom. But theo did not want to be disrespectful as he walked onto the stage in front of Alabama’s Lloyd Hall. Alabama’s fan base had already brought the College Game Day crew under fire for choosing Theovon to be a guest picker. THEO said, I feel blessed to be here, but Vanderbilt is my ride home.

They’re my ride home. I’m not joking, he said. I picked Vandy. But it’s also like everybody can’t pick Alabama. That’s no fun.

Some people didn’t like it, but whatever, man, everyone can’t pick the same team. That’s ridiculous. As I tells us. Theovan has been at all but one of Vanderbilt’s games this season. He missed the win over Utah State.

He was in New York for a stand up shit deal. Said, I feel like it just showed up when they were winning. Bro, It’s pretty fascinating to me. I’m an underdog man. I’ve been an underdog my whole life, and the only thing I know is love.

That’s what this program has been. It’s a gift for me to be around young guys that have a lot of energy and stuff. Number ten Vanderbilt takes on Number fifteen Missouri today and three point thirty. If you’re in Lexington, Kentucky today, Brad Williams is bringing the Growth Spurt Tour there and they’ll be filming back to back shows. At six and nine, Brad Williams will record a comedy special at the Lexington Opera House.

He was asked why Lexington. He said, Dusty Sligh sent Brad Williams pictures from a show Dusty did at the historic nine hundred and sixty four seat Lexington Opera House when he performed in twenty twenty four. That convinced Williams. Plus, he says, it happens to be on Short Street, and I thought that was a sign I’m having fun today. I hope you’re enjoying the program.

It’s October in my house, which means the house is either ninety four degrees or forty four degrees now. Right now, I’m freezing, so I’m in full sailor mode. Oversized, bright yellow sweatshirt, traditional podcasting sweatpants. And I wanted to change up my shoes. I’m a bit of a runner and I like to change my shoes around.

I went under the bed and I found these sneakers that I retired mostly after the twenty twenty three New York City Marathon. Humble Brag and boy the rubber on these are worn out. Just walking around the house is pretty slippery, but I’ll wear these four the day. Did you ever get an ocular migraine? I came down here to record all these shows.

It’s more or less cleared up now, But about a half hour ago, I was like, I’m going to record an ocular migraine. If you’ve never had one, it looks like lines and like fluorescent neon squiggly lines. So it was right in the center of my left eye, and I’m like, I can’t even read the scripts. This is annoying. So I went and did some other stuff.

But it seems to have cleared up now. I mentioned yesterday that we’ll see little pushes behind artists, and I suspected that New York Times article about Stavros hal Guess I’m like, they’re pushing stav Ros well. He’s also on the Good One podcast this week. Haven’t listened to it yet, and Vulture Ascid posted a recap yet, but that’s something we’ll look out for. So it seems like we’re pushing Stavros a little bit.

Johnerald Zale releasing his third album, Beat Life to Death. That’ll be out November seventeenth on Blonde Medicine. We’re told the stakes were extremely high for this one. Johno recorded several days before his dad had quintumple bypass surgery. Johno closed his set with ten minutes about Dad.

Sadly, his father passed away later from complications, but JOHNA was able to play him the recording and they laughed together in the hospital room. Wow. John holds a doctorate in neurosirens. He’s now a full time comedian. Blonde Medicine Beat Life to Death out November seventeenth.

From the BBC, comedian John Bishop said seeing a film based on his life changing first stand up gig has been bizarre but brilliant. That’s the new Bradley Cooper movie. Is this Thing on? Loosely inspired by John Bishop’s gig at Manchester’s Frog and Bucket Comedy Club twenty five years ago. The movie version is set in New York and tells the story of Alex, played by Will Arnett.

Bishop said there was an awkward moment when he and his wife Melanie met Bradley Cooper. Bradley gave Melanie a hug, and then Melanie she had a minute with him, talking to him, but she was whispering in his ear. We came back to the hotel and saying, this has been a mad few days. And I said, what are you gonna remember the most about it? And she said, whispering in Bradley Cooper’s ear.

Bishop says, that kind of doesn’t make me feel great, and let’s get out there on a good line. That is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow, I guess we’ll talk more about Jim Gaffigan, bourbon, I got some other stuff, and we’ll see you then.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney, John Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Ted Danson, Bob Iger, Stephen Colbert, Nikki Glaser, Rachel Sennott, Judd Apatow, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Christopher Burrelli

What’s in This Episode

• White House East Wing demolition jokes from late-night hosts
• Jimmy Kimmel discusses how he won ABC 11:30 slot over John Stewart
• Colbert Gates contract details and financial questions
• Nikki Glaser hosting Golden Globes and new Apatow film
• Adam Sandler’s Turandot comedy vs. drama categorization debate for Golden Globes
• Adam Sandler’s stand-up tour ‘You’re My Best Friend’ and current career resurgence

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. I am psyched and feeling good today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Why you’re so happy, Johnny Mac. If you’ve been around me lately, you’ve heard me say things like I don’t want to talk about politics all day.

I just want to make fun of like Jim Gaffigan. Well, good news. Jim Gaffigan did a lengthy interview about his Bourbon project on tomorrow’s show. I’ll lead off with that so I can put my feet up, take it easy, and goof on, Jim Gaffigan. That’s what I want to do.

But today there’s some actual news that we do need to cover. But let’s start with late night jokes. Did you see someone’s knocking down the East wing of the White House. Now hold on, now, if you’re like John you just said you want to do politics, This isn’t politics, This is just silly jokes. Jimmy Fallon said, Guys, a lot of people are angry at President Trump because it was just announced he’s demolishing the entire East wing of the White House to build his new ballroom.

Yeah, the entire wing is gone. Normally, if you hear that you’re flying front to your airlines. See that’s not a political joke, that’s a clean joke. Seth Meyer said, this is the first thing aliens do in movies to announce their evil. They blow up the White House.

Trump is just cutting out the middle man of invading aliens. Love it. And if you’re a long time listener, remember during the pandemic, I had to create and rely on the late Bot. Well, late Bot is back, Baby late Bot says the east wing used to be where the first Lady’s office was. Mulaney is reportedly thrilled she’s finally getting her wish.

She doesn’t have to be in the White House. Officials say the ballroom will fit a thousand guests, which is great because that’s just enough room for Trump’s lawyers. As I’m sitting here recording just in. John Stewart as commented on the ballroom on his weekly show podcast. John said, just make mar Alago the new White House and Palm Beach the new capital.

That’s fiscally responsible. That’s somebody looking out for the debt.

Speaking of John Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel gave an interview and said that ABC sh…

John and I have the same manager, James baby Doll Dixon, and James was about to close this deal for John to host the show. The ABC chairperson watching my tape and he was like, I think this might be the guy. And he brought the tape to Bob Iger and Iger said, yeah, this might be the guy. It was a very strange thing because James was in the difficult position of having to tell John Stewart, You’re not going ABC, but Jimmy’s going ABC. That was a mistake.

By the way, they definitely should hire John. If I’m in that position, There’s no question I hired John one hundred times out of one hundred. Kim Mill said he was confused over winning the gig. He remembers saying, I was like, why, this is quite a leap you guys made. I was on The Man Show.

I was doing football picks on Fox NFL Sunday and Iiger goes, well, you were cheaper, and everybody laughed, but I knew he wasn’t kidding. Kim O’ll recalled the early days of the show were rough. I think my vision of hell is being forced to watch my first year of shows, because it’s just as painful as anything could get for me. It took us a long time to figure it out, and we’re very fortunate to get a long time to figure it out. Somehow we wound up getting good ratings.

I still don’t know how that was, but they were good enough to keep us on the air, even though I was causing trouble. Every like two and a half months, some major thing was happening. Something came out of my mouth, you know, and caused a whole thing. It was tumultuous. Kim Will has asked about Colbert Gates.

You know, it was a little quid pro quo make the famous politician go away. What the merger through, Kimmel said, we don’t know for sure. What I do know for sure is that some of the information that’s been released by the people who let him go can’t possibly be true. There’s no way he’s losing forty million dollars a year. There’s no way it’s even close to that.

I know how finances of late night television shows work, and it’s just ridiculous. It doesn’t make any sense at all. So when you hear things that are obviously lies, you have to assume that there are more lies behind it. And that’s what I think. John, How you do and not being political today, It’s going great, guys.

Nikki Glaser, she’s got the right agent. Hollywood has decided we’re gonna put Nikki Glaser in front of everybody. That is not a backhanded comment about Niki. They do that with people every so often. The next person you’re going to see everywhere is Rachel Sennott.

Write that down. We’ll come back in two months. You’ll see what I’m saying. Nikki Glaser is going to starve and produce a new film that Judd Apatow will produce for Universal Pictures. It is described as a modern, edgy romantic comedy.

That’s all we know about that. Nikki Glaser will host the Golden Globes this year, which brings me to the next story, which has me very upset. Netflix. You know they made that movie Jay Kelly with George Clooney and Adam Sandler, the great gramatic actor, Adam Sandler. Yeah, they’re putting it in the comedy categories.

For the Golden Globes. Now, why does this bother you, Johnny Mac? Because everyone is saying, Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, is fantastic in it, and why wouldn’t he be. He’s a great dramatic actor. Now, if you nominate this as a comedy and he wins, he’s gonna think he’s a good comedian, which he’s not.

Guys, put this in as a drama. They’re planning on nominating Adam Sandler for a Best Supporting Actor. But don’t call this thing a comedy? What are you doing? Obsessimately whole plan.

I thought I had this figured out, that we were gonna convince Adam Sandler, you know what, rest of your life you do drama. Jake Kelly in theaters November fourteenth. It’ll be on Netflix December fifth. The Golden Globe nominations are out to say eighth. In the Chicago Tribune, Christopher Burrelli writes, we are currently entering a new Sandler season, one of those brief, occasional windows of time where we are reminded that, hey, you know what, life’s too short.

Everyone likes Adam Sandler these days. He makes some bad movies. Yes, and he makes some smart movies. We might even root for him to win an oscar for j Kelly. That’s right, we would.

Would he wear a hoodie and jogra State Academy Awards, we would hope. So let’s see what am I wearing right now on the Sandler thing. I’ve got a pretty nice looking gray sweat zip jacket. That’s pretty good. But I am wearing my traditional podcast in gray sweatpants.

So if I jump on a zoom call, you’ll think I’m dressed nicely, But then waist down, I’m all Sandler today. Barelli talks about walking into the United Center to see Sandler’s stand up tourney. Writes, says, I waited across the street. I listened to a pair of traffic cops get into a confusing but somehow relatable argument about what’s actually endearing about Adam Sandler. One cop said he’s a good actor.

The other cop said, I think all these people here because he’s funny. Yeah, Adam Sandler the comedian, Well he’s a good actor, but I don’t know what’s funny about him. Am I a cop in Chicago? Is this like an HBO series where I’m leading a dual life and like, in the daytime, I’m a podcaster in the basement and at night I’m a traffic cop in Chicago. Because that sounds like this guy overheard a conversation with me.

And by the way, this is what I want the show to be. I don’t want to talk about Therion Comedy Festival. This is more fun this piece right. Sandler’s new shows are titled You’re My Best Friend, and as Alan quarters that sounds, it’s a pretty spot on way of describing a show so driven by the audience’s warmth and goodwill, it transcends what we typically expect of a performer. To put it bluntly, Sandler is not a particularly funny stand up and he has never been.

Thank you, Christopher Borelli. Oh my god, I might have to reach out to this guy and have this guy on. Where was I he was telling us to put it bluntly, Sandler’s not a particularly funny stand up and he has never been. Yeah, you can’t say that enough. I know, I repeated it.

He paces and arrives at jokes that sound half from membered and talks in a speedy mumble. I would say about half the people seated around me. Never laughed out loud. Once you preach, Christopher Brelli preach, but they were smiling. Saandlor is almost nothing new to say about the topics he’s been talking about at fifty nine and growing old, surviving teenage daughters, stumbling through married sex, and somehow it still kind of works.

The New York Times that a big, big profile of Stavros Hockey as the premise Stavros Hockey has wants a career, well, his fans let him have one. This thing is really long. The person who wrote it really knows Stavus’s career. They wrote, If you think he recognize Halkias, you probably do. At five seven and three hundred pounds, he has a ninety five percentile body type that he does not try to hide.

His wardrobe centers on loudly powdered shirts and European tracksuits. All right, so so far today, I’m definitely dressed better than Stavros, and I’m probably tied with Sandler unless we’re on a zoom, in which case I’m in first place because of my nice gray is Zip hoodie. I digress. They talk about Stavros’s last which people often accuse him of faking, but which burst forth so often that if it was ever an affectation, it seems to have become natural long ago. A high percentage of the people who approached him and Madison turned around after hearing this laugh.

Then the next section is a long recap of his career. Starvos says, I don’t really like being famous. I don’t really like seeing people like stopping me on the street. He said he might have to adopt a more discreet look. The question of Halkius’s performance on Tires and he’s really good in that.

That’s a great show. You know, I think I haven’t watched like the last four. It got distracted. Thank you for New York Times reminding me have to go back and watch that on Tires. Is any indication he’s not disappearing into his roles like many comedians who transition acting.

He seems to have been hired to play himself on a TV show, a thrill for fans who previously knew him as himself on a podcast or himself on a stage. Every comedian is to some degree trap by what their audience has come to expect, asked Jim Carrey. But the podcast comedian who’s invited into listeners’ homes, cars, and ear canals for multiple hours each week is especially likely to evoke a sensation of familiarity as people he has not met. These people may not want their imaginary French to change. Good stuff.

Leslie Jones her new specials out today on Peacock. It is called Leslie Jones Life Part Two. Leslie Jones tackles aging relationships, fame, and life’s unexpected to us with a kind of honesty and fire. Only Leslie Jones can. Bring comedy stock marketine.

Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look at some comedians and we talk about buying proverbial stock in their careers. We try and sell high, we try and buy low. To the point, I’m tempted to buy some of the comedians who appeared at the Riod Comedy Festival, but on principle I will not. All right, some recommendations this week, let’s buy Stavrel’s hockey has I mean, you got to see the length of this profile in the New York Times.

This is a major, major thing and that doesn’t just to happen, Which makes me think, as I said earlier in the show, Hollywood decides somebody’s going to have a moment, Nikki Glaser, Rachel Sinnott. Somebody’s pushing Stavros, so let’s keep an eye on that. I bet we see a lot of Stavros press now. Will buy Stavros Hockey as before his stock is expensive. Let’s sell Joe Rogan.

Not that the Joe Rogan articles have been pretty positive this year, but they’re increasingly negative, and Joe is getting increasingly dragged into the political rabbit hole, and I don’t think that’s a place he wants to stay. Let’s sell our word Joe Rogan stock, and let’s start to accumulate some more Sandler. The buzz on this Ja Kelly thing is really good, and he is, of course a great dramatic actor. Why would you not want to support that. Let’s buy some Adam Sandler.

That’s your comedy stock market for this week. Out today an audio album. I always like that. It’s Luke Haiggees have that also Outsiday on audio mal Halls. What are we doing today?

Becky Robinson will self release her debut stand up special. It is called Becky Robinson entitled It’ll be on her website today in this hour Becky Robinson dives into the chaos of coming out as a lesbian during the pandemic, the pitfalls of being way too friendly as an adult in her unapologetic love for Taco Bill. But that night wouldn’t be complete without an appearance from her character, the entitled Housewife. There’s not just a Special. Becky Robinson will release a thirty minute documentary offering a behind the scenes look at its creation.

From The Japanese Times, your home for comedy news, the headline a Japanese comedian walks into an Australian bar and stays there. Takashi Waka Wakasugi stop by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in the Shibui Award. Waka had just gotten back from Edinburgh performing his show Comedy Samurai. He opened his set at the Tokyo Comedy Bar saying I live in Australia, so that’s why my English is a little craiky. This was Waka’s first time back in Japan’s it’s moving to Australia in twenty eighteen.

He says, toilets are always a reliable bet for laughs. I also like to make fun of Ozzie people. From a Japanese viewpoint, and they love that. They love Japan, he said. Australian audience says know a lot about Japan.

Edinburgh was more of a challenge. I told them Japanese people make things better. Toylet’s we fix that whiskey. We fixed that for you. They hated that joke.

He says. His writing approach is planting a seed and digging for oil. Both take time, but they’ll pay off if you’re patient. He says, I love doing four minutes one joke, adding the longer approach works better with live crowds than on the internet. Yes, he’ll do language jokes and one bit.

A misheard word sends him spiraling into a series of imagined meanings. For example, the slang term yolo for you only live once. He spun that into a joke about Buddhism’s belief in multiple lives. That sounds like a great premise. What he loves about Western stand up is how personal it is, unlike in Japan, where comedians often play exaggerated characters.

Takashi wagga waga suki. And that is your comedy news for today. Fun show. We’ll see tomorrow. We’ll talk about Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon can’t wait.

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Featured: Ben Stiller, Andrew Schultz, Joe Rogan, Michelle Wolf, Jollyang Summers, Margaret Cho, J.K. Rowling, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel

What’s in This Episode

• Ben Stiller on comedy and free speech
• Andrew Schultz and Joe Rogan interview backlash
• Indigenous land acknowledgments controversy
• Kamala Harris interview with Kara Swisher
• Disney Plus and Hulu subscription cancellations
• Jollyang Summers first hour special announcement
• Margaret Cho J.K. Rowling menopause joke
• Michelle Wolf on late night cancellations and government censorship

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Caalarogashock media, buckle the bleep up. Yesterday I gave you a show with no politics. Today politics my friends, and Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Ben Stiller said, we live in a world we’re taking chances with comedy is more challenging. You’re seeing that front and center in our country.

But I think it’s important that comedians keep doing what they’re doing, speaking truth to power and being free to say what they want. That’s the most important thing. Steeler said. I’ve had people reach out to me and say you should edit Donald Trump out of Zoolander. But at the end of the day, that was a time that existed, and that happened Andrew Schultz was on Joe Rogan’s show.

Now the media is just catching up to this. This has been out for a while. I haven’t listened to it yet because when I listened to Schultz’s own podcast last week, I was like this, I can’t with this show. So I was not any mood at all to listen to Schultz and Rogan. Let me see when that one came out October eighteenth.

Yeah, so it’s been out for a while. But anyway, the media started to pick up on it, correct wrote, There’s no way I can in good faith recommend to you. The sprawling three and a half hour long conversation between Andrew Schultz and Joe Rogan, it was by and large not very enlightening, as most conversations that run that long tend to be, But at nearly the three hour mark, the duo finally got to talking about something significant, their decision to both interview Donald Trump. Schultz told Rogan, I do think in general, like us just having politicians on and even going to the rally, what’s happened is that we’ve politicized ourselves and brought ourselves into the game of politics, which is the ugliest game. Schultz said.

It’s the ugliest game because it’s that zero sum stuff that we were saying earlier. It’s just like people really believe it’s life or death. It’s really life or death. I don’t know if you follow the headlines, Chultz continued, Dude, I was pushing my daughter in a stroller, right, and the lady goes, hey, didn’t you have Trump on your podcast? And I was like, I already know what’s going on.

I’m like, yeah, yeah, he was on the podcast, and She’s like, well, I hope your daughter has a good life, and Scheltz was like, I’m like, b word, you live in Tribeca, you know what I mean? Like, what do you think is happening over here? The Canadians are upset. So Schultz told Joe Rogan that he found the concept of indigenous land acknowledgments funny. I don’t know if you’ve run into that, and you will find that at many theaters these days, especially if you’re at a college.

Scheltz said, I find it funny when governments do these things like enforced care, and anytime I’m performing in Canada and I’m in an indigenous area, they make me do a land acknowledgement. I remember the first time they told me. I was like, you want me to do? What? I remember telling it to the chief of the tribe, like brother.

That kind of seems like I’m bragging. I’m going up there and being like this used to be yours, but the boys came in and you all got the f out of here. You want me to remind everybody what happened before the comedy show. Brogan tagged it and said, yeah, we stole it, but it’s ours now. Sorry.

The thing is the people that go along with that are the same people that want no borders and think no one is illegal being anywhere, Like Christopher Columbus is the only immigrant they hate. There’s no borders, no illegal and yet these people shouldn’t have been here. Fox News picked up on the part of the conversation about Kamala Harris. Joe Rogan said she was on stage with Kara Swisher and Kara Swisher was kind of like ragging on her a little bit. She was like, you know, some people said that I was the most qualified person ever run for president.

Like who said that? And like who said that? Rogan points out, you’re literally running against a guy who was already president, So if you’re going based on your resume, you’re not more qualified than Biden. Biden was the vice president of the United States for eight years. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily taken off the air.

Well, people did not support fascism. I know you don’t. I know, when you’re watching Scrubs, you go upstairs and get the DVDs. You are definitely not just watching them on Hulu plus every night because you do not support fascism. You are one of the roughly three million Americans that canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions.

Yeah, a new report from the research firm Antenna says roughly three million Americans canceled Disney Plus in September. The previous three month average was one point two million people canceling. The Times points out another way to look at the data is four percent of the subscribers canceled in July, eight percent in September for Disney Plus. Over on the Hulu side, five percent in July and ten percent in September. None of this bothers Jullying Summers.

She will premiere her first hour comedy special What Specie Are You? That’ll be on Hulu November eight. Now, you won’t be able to see it because you’ve canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. You are one of the three million strong who do not support fascism. The Hulu publicists out there promoting fascism all across the country anyway.

Joll Yang Summers was named one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch, and this special sees her dissect what makes us different, what brings us together, drawing from her life as a Chinese American first generation immigrant. She tackles topics like cultural clashes, immigrant identity, and motherhood. I didn’t know this about her. She is an Asian Hall of Fame inductee who recently became the first Chinese comedian in headline in the Apollo Theater. Former Miss China also owns and operates the Hollywood Comedy and the Pasadena Comedy Clubs.

Margaret Show through a Rock in the direction of JK. Ralling over the weekend on TikTok, Margaret Show said, I hope that when you face metopause you have to take a lot of gender affirming care, as I do. And when you’re taking these hormones, they make your pubes go out so thick and hard. It’s like steel wool. And if anyone does something that a woman might enjoy, they get a face full of scars.

Feisty show today. All right, you think that’s ficy, Let’s get to Michelle Wolf. We’ll start with the easy part of the Michelle Wolf News. TV Insider asked her what was her reaction when she found out Stephen Colbert was getting canceled and then Jimmy Kimmel yanked off the air. Does Michelle Wolf support fascism.

Michelle said Late Night has been a tough landscape for a while now because nobody is watching TV like that anymore. A part of me is not surprised if the purse strings are a bit tighter or ratings aren’t as high as they used to be. I do think you can’t cancel someone because the government wants you to. It’s one thing to cancel show because the ratings aren’t good and the budget isn’t there. If someone from the government specifically says they don’t want them on TV anymore, I think that’s the time everybody, regardless of if you agree with them politically or not, should be like that’s unacceptable.

It’s a really scary place to be. That was one of the things I thought if Trump got elected, he’s not gonna let people make fun of him. At some point a presidency, he’s going to say you’re not allowed to make fun of me anymore. There’s a real quick downhill from there. They were curious if she got to do the White House Correspondence dinner again, what would happen.

She said, I would go even harder than I went. I thought my jokes were actually pretty team. I would definitely go harder at both the government and the media. I think a lot of it was talking about whatever articles I feel like. Now it’s at a point where could get really threatened by the government.

You hire a comedian to tell some roast jokes, you do exactly that, and I could put you in some political trouble Right now, it’s a pretty precarious position we find ourselves in. Now. She had done some sets. I’ve gotta play a bunch of clips here the premise, and you’ll hear these are from four different dates. I’m trying to figure out what this room is.

It’s clearly somewhere where she’s working out. The crowd is low energy, she’s low energy, and in the video she’s clearly working off a laptop. So this is a workout room. And what I’m about to play are some clips from four different weeks. These are jokes.

I’ll let her set it up. She was talking about the Riodd Comedy Festival and jokes she might have done there. I have done some editing for piacing, but I want to let you hear her thoughts as she’s going through these, and I’ll leave the pacing of the actual jokes intact. But some of the setup, I may have trimmed down a little bit.

All right, here’s week one.

So there’s this gonna be this comedy festival in Saudi Arabia. They asked me to do it, and I would to debate it over doing it, but I had to say no because it’s supposed to be like five days after I’m having a baby. So I had to say no. But now I keep thinking of all these jokes I would have told. If I had gone, I mean, I definitely would have been kushow beat and by that I mean murdered by the government.

Okay, so this is I would have started with, sorry, I’m late. I drove here. It’s nice to be in a place where women still have a leg up on gay men or I don’t know, whatever body part they’re cutting off. We have this phrase in America, you’re only a stones throw away, which means you’re close. I don’t think it means the same thing here.

I think it’s more like you’re only a stones throw away from learning that lesson.

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And then a week later, I only thought of one Saudi.

Joke this week, but I think it’s pretty good. So this is the joke I would have used in the festival this week. This one, really I think I would have had to get airlifted out immediately. This festival is sponsored by the Saudi government, so of my set doesn’t go well, if I crash and burn, you could just call me flight ninety three. That’s really good.

Why are you groaning? Are you groaning because a bunch of people died? That’s fair. I gotta tell you. Twenty four years later, that flight ninety three joke, I’m still like, too soon.

As fun and as easy it is to poke at Saudi. Let’s not pretend America is perfect. Yeah, so maybe Saudi financed nine to eleven. What did America do in response attack a different country that has less oil and even less weapons of mass destruction? If Saudi was acting as the bank for nine to eleven?

We all know America thinks banks are too big to fail, but the Iraqi people are just the right size. My other joke for Saudi this week is they offered me a good amount of money to do the festival, but when I heard what they offered. Men, it was way more. And if you had seen my face when I found out, you would have wished we still had to cover our entire heads it’s a pretty good one. I think actually both of those I would have stayed alive before.

I think I think maybe not the funding of nine to eleven. That might have been a bit. Yeah, you’re right, and one week after that. I do have one final Saudi joke for this week as we’re you know, in the festival in the moment, I’m sure they will never ask me to go. Now, in a time where free speech is being tested everywhere, it’s nice to be here in Saudi, where neither a comedian nor a journalist has been killed since oh June anyway, so nice to be here.

I love all your hats. Kober still has a way to go at eleven thirty, but something’s going to air at eleven thirty Byron Allen. He’s the guy that has his comics on lease show that’s on CBS at twelve thirty. Now, he says he’d like eleven thirty. Said, let me be clear, if they’re looking for a show, my hands already up fifty years.

I’ve been waiting for this moment, and definitely I’m going for it. I said, mathematically, you’ll never beat this show. Why would you spend thirty five million dollars on a television show at that hour. I will happily produce the show and you can save that thirty five million, forty million and spend it elsewhere. Day one, I said, this show is to be evergreen.

No topical humor, no political humor. I don’t want anything that is racist, homophobic, anti Semitic. I don’t want any of that. The thing I said to the comics wasn’t TV you don’t have to be the funniest, you have to be the most likable. Leslie Jones and Hannibal Burse who’s just back for the Riog Comedy Festival, would be part of the ten Thousand Laughs Comedy Festival now and it’s thirteenth year back tonight through the weekend.

Wendy Wigger overseas laugh at and says it’s gotten a lot harder. The reality is the comedic talent that it’s available to us is not at the same price point it was fifteen years ago when we started, so we’ve adjusted. They’ve cut down from what was originally ten days of programming. When if the organizer says, since he launched ten thousand lasts and twenty eleven, he’s only personally pocketed five thousand dollars. You can make more money than that talking about comedy in your basement.

Out today on the eight hundred Proun Guerrilla YouTube channel, Jacob Samuel’s Big Talk and let’s leave with something fun. Right Today was all angst and politics and gerr Conan O’Brien was talking to the Seattle Times about his affinity for Seattle, and he said a secret about me. I don’t think people realize. My dad was working in Seattle and living in West Seattle with my mom, and I’ve done the math. They were living there when my mom realized that she was pregnant with me, so I was created in Seattle.

It’s also strange that all these years later, I meet and fall in love with this woman who’s from Seattle, and I end up going there and I’m immediately comfortable the second I get off the plane. I like everything about the place, and it took me a bit to realize, wait a minute, this is where I’m from. Not your comedy news for today. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. The news has been a little bit slow, but everybody seems to be hiding out and not announcing things right now.

It has been a quiet week, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings, and I’ll see you there

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Featured: Colin Jost, Pete Davidson, Dane Cook, Kat Williams, Ben Stiller, George Carlin

What’s in This Episode

• Golden Globes Penske Media ownership controversy and ad package sales
• Dane Cook interview on comedy limits and offensive material
• Kat Williams Golden Age Tour announcement
• National Comedy Center acquires Stiller and Meara archive
• Ben Stiller documentary about parents debuts on Apple TV

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Caloroga Shark Media very angsty today. It’s been a warning of distractions and aggravations of Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy new So I’ve decided no politics today. We all need a break from the politics. Now. I can tell you tomorrow.

There’s already three stories with politics, but those can wait. Ben’s Diller comments. I saw him talk about that tomorrow. Let’s do happy things today, but first a controversy, and Johnny Mac does like a controversy. There seems to be some kurf fluffle with the Golden Globes.

I read several stories about it, and I didn’t really understand the story. So I asked AI to summarize this and explain it to me so I could explain it to you. So hopefully this information is correct. So the AI wrote, here’s where it gets messy. The Golden Globes are owned by Penske Media.

Penske Media owns Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline. Penske also owns Lumini eight, which is the analytics company that supposedly created the list of the twenty five eligible podcasts for Golden Globes. Okay, so we’re going to give an award Illuminate made the list. They’re owned by Penske, And then there are the three main trades, Variety, Hollywood, Port, and Deadline, also all owned by Penske, which is a fun fact that most people don’t know. The AI wrote, the Globes had said an outside company would determine the list, and technically they weren’t lying.

It’s just that their outside company is another company they also own. But then came the real bombshell. Penske Media is reportedly selling marketing packages for up to seventy five grand, basically for your consideration, ads to help podcasts promote themselves to Globe voters. So if I’m understanding this right, you’re being encouraged by an ad in one of the three trades to promote yourself to Globe voters for an award controlled by the people who are selling you the ads, right, the AI wrote, So to recap, Penske owns the awards, owns the data company choosing Who’s eligible, owns the media outlets covering the wars, and is now allegedly selling ad packages to the very people who want to win those awards. As George Carlin said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

One industry insider said, the Penske thing is out of control. They said an outside company would handle it. It’s all a racket. All right, We’ll keep an eye on that one. Let’s check it in with Dane Cook, who’s fifty three years old now.

He spoke to Cincinnati Magazine. I happen to reference Dane Cook in my college class on Monday night. None of them knew who Dane Cook was. It goes fast. I was doing it in context.

I was teaching them about how I program radio stations and what something in the A category would be. And there was a time when Dane Cook was it. He was the superstar in comedy and he was an a in your music programming library. Twenty something years later, the kids don’t know who he is, but he was a superstar for a while. Dane said, I think that anything goes in stand up comedy.

Part of stand up is the pinprick and the release of how everyone is feeling. Sometimes what they’re feeling might be uncouth, but the reality is everyone’s laughing at this one thing because we’re sort of feeling the same thing. That doesn’t mean it’s right. Sometimes we’re laughing at the most wrong thing possible. He says, there are limits if you don’t fel malice from a comedian all topics are in play.

You don’t get laughs when audience starts sensing the meanness. Dane said early in his career he learned how he could let the ship leave the shore even if his jokes went pretty far. I’d still have old ladies pinching my cheek after the show, and I’d say some pretty wild stuff, especially in my New York years, where I was like, let me see how far I can really go. I had this epiphany early on that I liked comics and performers who were brash. I don’t know what’s gonna make you laugh until we’re all laughings.

I love this idea of going on stage and expressing myself in fooliship, certain irreverent ways. He realized he’s a storyteller and not a set up punch comic. It’s not my strong suit because I have this physical element. I just happen to say something on stage a few months ago that you might say is a vintage set up with a punchline. I didn’t write it ahead of time just happened on stage.

It was like click, click, boom, set up punchline. I loved it. Maybe there’s more of that to come, he said. Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show taught him a comedian didn’t have to be one kind of funny. Johnny would have a terrible moment his monologue and you’d be talking about that the next day, and not one of the great jokes he landed, like when the Q cards fell on the floor and he didn’t know what to do.

Whenever something like that occurs and real I met Dane once in my travels, A cool guy. I remember going to the place we would get sandwiches to go get him some sun chips. I forget the particulars. I think that was just one of the requests that he had coming in and sure, I’ll go get you sunships. I probably expensed them.

Cat Williams going on tour. It’s the Golden Age Tour to kick off in January. January twenty third, Ontario, California. They’ll swing through the South Philadelphia in April, wrapping up in Chicago on May TEWI now I caught my eye on the press release was the about cant Williams boiler played paragraph Let’s check it Out. With a career spanning over twenty years, cant Williams has earned a worldwide reputation as one of today’s top entertainers, et cetera, et cetera.

In two thousand and two, Williams made his on screen debut as a guest star on NYPD Blue. Did we know this? I didn’t know that? Did you know? My dream?

As I wanted to be an extra on NYPD Blue. I wanted to be guy on other shift. Now when that show was on, I was in my early thirties, and you know, Irish American kid from New York City. I looked the part. I didn’t do anything about this.

This was just my dream. But you know, just imagine if I was in enough episodes, eventually they would let me say hey, Andy as I walked down the stairs while Sippowitz walked up the stairs. Didn’t happen. Didn’t do anything about it. I could have been in the episode in two thousand and two with Kat Williams, who subsequently landed his first feature film role as Muddy Mike Friday after next.

His extensive filmography includes notable roles. Here are some notable roles. Are you ready write this down? Notable roles, Kat Williams. Here are the notable roles, father Figures, Norbit, Scary Movie Five, Epic Movie, Bastards, The House next Door, Meet the Blacks, Cats and Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Oh yes, very notable, The Boondocks, Wilden Out, and a guest role on Atlanta, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. All right, that’s a good credit. The National Comedy Center announced that the National Comedy Center is now the home of the career archive of Stellar and Mira Ben’s parents. That’s cool. The archives bands more than five decades of creative collaboration, documenting the evolution and impact of one America’s most enduring comic partnerships.

What a coincidence. Ben Steeler’s new documentary about his parents’ lives and legacies debuts October twenty fourth on Apple TV. Throughout the film, materials from the archive or features he can check that out. Ben said, Knowing my parents’ body of work is preserved at the National Comedy Center means a great deal, because the material they left behind was not just to give for my family, but for anyone who wants to understand comedy’s creative process. That’s great.

The center’s doing really great work. I got to get up there. I like long drives. I got to get up to Jamestown. At some point.

Ben’s had some other things to say, but they involve politics, and we’re not doing that today. We’re just chilling out today. You hear in my tone today, I’m not ranting, and Raven were going easy. That’s what we’re doing today. Not tomorrow, totally different, but today taking it easy.

Friends. Tim Heidecker is going to store as a late night talk show host in the Comedy Hour. The Comedy Hour follows a beleaguered late night host forced to produce a show through femin and fire and play. The network saddles him with a robot co host. An audience start to like the sidekick more than the host.

The Comedy Hours written by Colby Day. Now Colby Day scripted Adam Sandler’s Spaceman movie, which, as you know, is one of the five good Adam Sandler films. So that’s some good pedigree there. Heidecker’s character is named Jimmy, which is fun. This next story gets from Jacobin dot com or Jacobin dot com not Trey pronounce that.

But Benjamin Fong asked the question, what is Tim Dlon doing? I agree, I am starting to lose interest in Dylan’s show. I prefer when he’s just solo and vamping on the news, Benjamin Fong writes, wavering between irony, outrage, and hallucination, the Tim Dillon Show presents the same question that any viewer of Mulholland Drive must ask, what am I watching? It’s right wing, but not straightforwardly so it’s ironic, but also strangely, sincere Dylan doesn’t leave much daylight between performance and intention, it’s easy to lump him in with most right media, either because he’s just that guy, or because he he’s irony poison himself into functionally participating in that sphere. I think that’s what happened.

The whole point of Dylan’s persona on the show is to be vile without remainder so self serving, cynical, and bleak that no rational nugget can be on Earth. After the La fires, he explained that he was lying about losing his home to get sympathy and money. Near the end of a recent episode, He claimed he would do a set at the Riodd Comedy Festival and the blood of someone who just got beheaded. Jamarco Siresi spoke to Current Affairs dot Org. He talked about performing overseas.

He said, honestly, being an American comedian and American comedians can’t complain to any other comedian in the world because our media is so shoved down everyone’s throat that I was able to make jokes about RFK and Milan. No Italian could come to a normal American audience and talk about Georgia Maloney. I went to Istanbul and I was like, what can I say in the booker said, you can say anything you want. And he said there’s going to be a Muslim call to prayer in the middle of your second show. And I said, can I joke about it?

And he said, yeah, joke about whatever you want. I was like, you’re saying I can say whatever I want and he said yes, and I did and it was great. Then I told him I was going to post a video and he was like, do not post a video. If you ever want to come back to Istanbul again. Jermarcus said, okay, I’m learning.

Basically, it’s okay in instant ball, it’s not okay outside. My girlfriend is always telling me please don’t go to jail for a joke. How we doing today? Kind of chill. I don’t even have my good voice today or my creative fastball, just very angsty day, and I don’t want to get angst into the show.

Chattanooga’s Lookout Comedy Festival is back at baby thirty plus comedians. Starts tonight, goes through the twenty fifth, officials said, with notable headlining performers from all over the country like Tricks with Two Exes Joe Zimmerman, Nick Murphy, and Casey Balsham. This year’s four day festival’s proof the Chattanoogas comedy scene is filled not only with fun, but burgeoning opportunities for comics and audiences alike. Out today on Comedy Exports YouTube channel. Sean Walsh back from the bed.

Celebrity Jeopardy is switching services. It’s moving from Amazon to Netflix. Colin Joe’s toasted the first season. It’s unclear if he will return. That reminds me I lost I had in the notes, say Colin Jost Ferry story.

Let me pull that up to be in the script The New York Times, so the major story the headline Colin Jose, Pete Davidson and the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco. Nearly four years after they bought an out of service ferry boat for two hundred and eighty one hundred dollars, their plans for a floating event space maybe running aground the Times Rights. When they looked at the twenty one hundred ton hunk of metal, they envisioned a floating event space with two restaurants, six bars, a concert venue and hotel rooms with private sun decks on a former Staten Island ferry. Josetas called the acquisition the dumbest and least thought through purchase I have ever made my life. Pete Davidson, who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, described it as a lifelong problem for me and Colin.

No wonder Pete’s playing riot. He needs money. Launched in nineteen sixty five, the John F. Kennedy was the oldest vessel in the Staten Island Ferry fleet at the Times Rights and the auction listing the agency did nothing to sugarcoate at seaworthiness. The boat was in quote poor condition without a working engine, it had to be towed.

There were thirty zug boat companies in New York Harver which we’ll transport your ship for around seventeen hundred dollars an hour. Then they had to find a place to tow it too. That’s the best. April eleventh, twenty twenty two, the JFK was towed three miles. All right, so that’s five grand skimming down this very lengthy article.

Then we found there’s asbestos in the ship. The Times quotes a ship expert who says, the thing about as bestos is it’s not an issue until you go to take it out. It has to be done, and it has matt gear. You’re looking at salty numbers to do asbestos remediation. All right, Once they solve that, where do you put it?

The Times points out, you know a good place would be saying up here on the East River. Problem is those aren’t cheap. Another expert points out large boats block sunlight, which can damage marine ecosystems and kill aquatic life over time. All right, maybe we should scrap the thing. Tommy O’Toole is a partner at Compass Maritime that handles ship sales.

He did some math. If you wanted to scrap it, he said, let’s say something weigh two thousand tons. If it’s worth one hundred and fifty dollars a ton of scrap, that’s three hundred grand. If the tow cost you three hundred fifty thousand dollars, you’d have to pay someone fifty grands. Kevin Hennessy is the former captain of the JFK.

He told The Daily News in twenty twenty two that the boat had a serious cockroach problem. He said, this was an impulse buy with two guys with a lot of money who don’t know anything about maritime vessels. And that is your politics. Free comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Rogan, Gavin Newsom, Brian Callen, Kat Williams, Colin Jost, Bowen Yang, Marcelo Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Jamarcos Arazi

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld’s creative unhappiness and Netflix struggles
• Joe Rogan criticizes Trump’s rhetoric toward adversaries
• Gavin Newsom’s failed attempts to get on Joe Rogan’s podcast
• Brian Callen performs for Vice President J.D. Vance at Marine Corps anniversary
• Kat Williams receives honorary doctorate from Miles College
• Colin Jost’s controversial Argentina-Nazi joke on SNL
• SNL criticism including Marcelo Hernandez’s recurring Domingo character
• James Austin Johnson’s Trump impression criticism

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. So I really am trying not to turn this into a political podcast at all. The reality is all the news continues to be political. I actually deep dove today to try and find some other things.

Didn’t find much, but I did find this one from the National Enquirer, remember them. They spoke with an insider from the Seinfeld camp. The insider says Jerry turned his annoyances into a gold mine with his comedy performances and TV show, but the complaining used to be a secret weapon, and now it just gets on people’s nerves. This is one of the most successful people in the history of show business financially and artistically, but he’s almost allergic to counting his blessings. It’s not a good look for a man at retirement age with more money than he could spend in ten lifetimes.

I mentioned in the Facebook group recently Daily Comedy News podcast group. I teach a college class. None of my students had any idea who Hary Seinfeld is and weren’t familiar with the sitcom Seinfeld. Then I teached you college is that? At the other class, I told them about the first class and the second class was like, that’s insane.

They all knew Jerry was, so who knows. The insider says he’s very upset about the Israel situation and his twenty twenty four Netflix movie Unfrosted was a struggle to get made and then terribly received. I thought it was pretty good. The thing that could snap Jerry out of his rut would be a fun new project or challenge that he could really sink his teeth into, like the way his old friend Larry David is launching a new TV show with Baraka Michelle Obama’s production company. The problem is, Jerry’s not really on the hunt for anything like that right now.

As far as he’s concerned, He’s done at all, and people still don’t appreciate him enough. Interesting. Theovaughn went to see the Vanderbilt Commodorees take on the LSU Tigers. While he was there, he ran into the folks from OutKick the Show and they asked him about baseball. Theovaughn had this to say, Shia Tani, like, will we ever see another?

We’re not going to get as many shows anymore because of the tariffs to take down the tariffs and get us more slight edits there for language, all right, I tried as long as I could. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that he disagrees with President Trump’s approach to talking about his adversaries. Rogan commented when at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, the President said I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them, Rogan said, I don’t agree with any of that. He’s a nuts.

Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom is trying really really hard to get Joe Rogan to book…

He keeps poking at Rogan on social media. Rogan said if he interviewed Newsom, he would cook himself. In response to that, Gavin Newsoen tweeted a chicken emoji alongside the words buck buck at Joe Rogan. Last week, Newsom’s press office went on social media in the President Trump all caps style and wrote, Joe Rogan is a snack sized podcaster who can’t stop talking about me. Obsessed crush, no thank you, but he’s too scared to have me on.

Brian Callen was at Camp Pendleton on Saturday. It was the celebration of the US Marine Corps. There is a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Brian Callen warmed up for Vice President J. D.

Vance. Callen praised President Trump for bringing peace to the Mideast for the first time since Moses had a parting of the ways with Pharaoh. Unfortunately, there was some news on Sunday that the peace might not be lasting. Johnny Mac is pro peace. Kat Williams got an honorary doctorate from Miles College.

President Bobby Knight said, it’s not every day that people get an honorary doctorate. It’s because of you and what you’ve done, and we just want to show you how much we appreciate you and recognize you for all the work you’ve done. Kat accepted his doctorate in Human Letters and said, in a very short period of time, no one could deserve this more than me. It was going to take a mighty fine institution to recognize that I serve a god that insists that my cup runneth over and those smiles that I sell for a living, those have Miles right in the middle of it. So you get it.

It was Miles College. Yeah, I had to go back and check. I had forgotten already too. Kat Williams is building a studio in the local area. He recently told GQ, it’s not just fair to put all that pressure on Tyler Perry.

He can only do so much. Did you watch Saturday Night Live? People on the internet were not happy about it. The episode generated several topics. Let’s start with this one, since everything is political now.

During the news, Colin Jost told a joke. The setup involved the US sending more than forty billion dollars to Argentina to help bail out their economy. Joe said, if history’s any guide, a lot of Trump officials will end up fleeing to Argentina. People in the audience didn’t seem to get the joke. In case you are not familiar, many Nazi war criminals fled to Argentina after World War Two.

The joke got barely any laughter. Joe said, hey, one clap. People on social media were not amused. One person tweeted Colin Jose needs to be fired effective immediately for his sickening comments last night. Another said Colin Jost is a sellout hack and doesn’t deserve to be married to Scarlet Johanson.

Wow, we’re not only canceling him, We’re going to get him divorced. Bowen Yang was not on the live show, although he appeared I believe in some recorded things. He was in Los Angeles to receive the Vantage Award. The show opened with a Domingo sketch. A lot of people were surprised they didn’t do something political.

Others were surprised at how unfunny the sketch was. Johnny Mac will continue to say, Marcelo Hernandez does one thing well, and he does one thing repeatedly. Then during the news Marcello showed up again and did a totally different character, the movie guy who’s not like Domingo at all. It’s a totally different character, just awful. One person on Threads, who user named three x one minus one wrote, convinced that Lauren is in the Epstein Files, and Marcelo knows, and Lorn knows he knows.

It’s the only thing that explains the weekly recurring Domingo nightmare. Sierra Cascadia wrote, if SNL were an NFL team right now, it’d be the Jets shows off for a couple weeks. Miles Taylor will host on November one. Musical guest Brandy Carlysle November eighth, Nicky Glazer is the host. Her agent’s getting it done.

She will have a Hulu special in twenty twenty six because she supports fascism. Did she not break up with them after the Jimmy Kimmel thing. You’re not supposed to do business with Hulu or Disney? Remember musical guest Somber November fifteenth, Clint Powell is your host. Olivia Dean musical guest.

I also saw some comments about James Austin Johnson’s Trump continuing to not hit the mark. I’ve been commenting that since last year it is drifting. People are pointing out that James is still doing the twenty sixteen Trump and not the current slightly older Trump that you might want to do. But what do I know. I don’t do impressions.

I do half assed impressions, and as a listener, you know how good those are. Jamarcos Arazi talked to Current Affairs dot org about crowd work and said, you never know a lot of times it goes sideways. The person’s trying to be funny and it messes up, or they lie or someone interrupts, So you’re only seeing the times that it works. Sometimes people write he never misses and I’m like, well, well, I don’t caption the misses. I don’t send those to my editor and say let’s get these up on YouTube asap.

It’s always a risk, there was some days I’m feeling riskier than others. In other days I’m like, whether the audience is too far away or it’s too dark ago, it’s not going to work. And the other times the story just falls in your lap. And even though I’ve never served, I equated to what that must feel like. You’re on a flow, you’re on a balance beam, and you’re like, I can’t believe I’m still up here.

I’m still walking, and you decide when do I need to jump off. Every once in a while, when you’re up there, you’re like, oh my god, I’ve been up here for twelve minutes. It’s cool, it’s exciting. It makes me feel alive. Some people are curious about South Park, so all of a sudden last week South Park was like, yeah, season twenty seven’s over.

This is season twenty eight, and people are like huh. Some wondered is this some way to fulfill some sort of contractual obligation? That was my guess. Others thought maybe the talent of season twenty seven was going to do more with the Charlie Kirk stuff that appeared earlier in the season, and then they were like, eh, we shouldn’t do that. But a representative for the show said season twenty seven was never meant to be ten episodes.

The showrunners planned all along for seasons twenty seven and twenty eight to be five episodes each. Comedy Central told The Hollywood Reporter. No announcement was made regarding how many episodes would be in season twenty seven. Anyway, season twenty seven is five episodes long. Then they took a three week break, and now the season twenty eight premiere.

Meanwhile, some people are upset with the Simpsons. They’ve sort of reset the timeline again, and now Homer and Marge are millennials. The season thirty two episode Do Pizza Bot stream of Electric Guitars featured a flashback of Homer as a nineteen nineties routine. The season thirty seven premiere had Lisa cashing in on nineties nostalgia by wearing the old clothes of Marche, who was a nineties kid. Show Runner Matt Sillman told Entertainment Weekly, the options are we don’t do flashback shows ever, and we don’t mention the past ever, which creatively handcuffs us.

Or we’re playful and silly, which is the DNA of the show, and we have fun with whatever generation the show’s airing in. If the show only took place in the present with a kind of vague nineteen seventies high school homer and backstory, it seems increasingly impossible. That would be much worse for telling good stories. Simpson’s scholar The Real Gyms, pointed out that the show had already been subtly changing the characters’ birth years throughout the classic era. Then in the middle run and there’s a million seasons here, so I don’t know, throw a dart and say, like season seventeen or so, the show avoided flashback episodes.

Then in two thousand and eight an episode called That Nineties Show, which had a whole new backstory for Homewer and Marge. Selman argues, part of telling stories is people are remembering things from their youth, their childhood. Everyone’s childhood is directly responsible for how they behave as an adult. You can’t ignore childhood if you’re going to be a storyteller. So We’re not ignoring childhood.

It would have been interesting as an experiment to just lock into the seventies and have them be like, well, Lisa, when I was a kid the seventies and just have it all be about the seventies, even though we live in the post apocalyptic future now. Someone says, I would also like to point out that no way we’re saying that the beloved other flashbacks didn’t happen. We’re not saying that it’s just a silly little show. Everything happened with the same level of historical veracity. I’m not worried about messi with the timeline.

I feel like story and characters should come first, and the cinematic universe rules of a show that has none should come in a distant second. Sound like it’d be a good show Inner for modern Star Trek. Gossip Connor Whispers in the Street. Gossip conn probably about Pete Gossip conn Away, the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. I’ll be singing that all day and today.

Gossip Corner is about Pete Davidson, who recently performed at the Odd Comedy Festival, and Pete Davidson’s father was killed on nine to eleven. Pete surprise is pregnant girlfriend Elsie Hewitt with a private jet date to go see Paul McCartney in concert. On Friday. Elsie posts that on Instagram, Pete is taking me on a surprise date. Pete Davidson sat across from her on the private plane.

So if you’re like, hey, why would you play the Reo Odd Comedy Festival, because then you have money to take a private plane to go see Paul McCartney. They took the plane to Minnesota to attend Paul McCartney’s show at us Bank Stadium. Now it’d be fair to Pete Davidson. McCartney does not have any current tour daate scheduled anywhere near Staten Island. I know this because I would go see Paul McCartney and I just checked on the website.

He would said that was like a really special little bucket list moment for me. Paul is pretty much the one person I’ve always wanted to meet. Do I have the sweetest, most thoughtful boyfriend or what?

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Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian was on a podcast and talked about her romance with …

She recalled how her ex husband Kanye West taunted Pete during a music video in twenty twenty two. Kim said, that made me feel really sad. That really wasn’t fair for him. The NBA is back tonight. Now.

I had noticed this and I can’t forgetting to mention it, and I finally remember to put it in the notes. NBC is going to air basketball games at eleven PM. Now, why that’s interesting is because, well, you can’t play basketball in thirty five minutes, which means the Tonight show either gets preempted or delayed. And I checked the schedule this week. The Tonight Show is scheduled for one am, so they’re going to produce new episodes, which guests on the West coast will still air at eleven thirty, but on the East Coast, the Tonight Show is going to be airing at one am on Tuesdays.

I haven’t seen this reported anywhere, but that’s interesting, isn’t it? And that probably won’t be good for Jimmy’s ratings. Jimmy was in Scotland and some Scottish soldiers hosted him for a special dinner. Jimmy had been touring the grounds of Balmoral Castle. I know about that place from writing the Palace Intrigue podcast, which cross promotion.

I don’t know if you heard the whole Prince Andrew thing. It’s actually let me get the littles out of us. It’s really, really horrible. Earlier today I sent Mark Francis, who’s the host of Pallace intric I wrote the scripts and I sent it to him and I was like, dude, this is nothing but horrible and my stomach is going to turn. I don’t even want to talk about it on this show.

Just horrible, horrible, horrible. Anyway, Pallace Intrigue, where you get your shows. Jimmy Fallon was at Balmoral. One of the soldiers recognized him and invited him to the barracks. He was greeted with kilts and bagpipes by soldiers from fifth Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Jimmy signed the visitors Book. I had Victoria Barracks in the village. He then saw a small ceremonial guard of soldiers rehearsing for the King’s departure. Major Thomas Blair said what started as a chance meeting near Bellmoral turned into a brilliant evening It’s not every day you get to meet a Hollywood A lister, and we were delighted to welcome him to Scotland in true Scott’s style. That made me ponder for a second.

Is Jimmy Fallon an a lister? I guess he is. He does host the Tonight Show, but is like Seth Myers an A lister? I don’t know if Seth Myers is an A lister. Mel Hall will premiere his debut special what Are We Doing Today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel.

Filmed in San Diego, Mel Hall delivers his take on the chaos of millennial parenthood and the wild ride of raising kids in a world where gen Z is judging your every move, from choosing the right words to parent with to surviving Costco on a Saturday. He finds humor in the everyday madness. Yeah. I’ve got a college age child and I regularly get canceled just for speaking the way someone my age does. I come in peace.

I get canceled all the time here in my house, No Hall said, this special represents not just where I am today, but the fifteen plus years of shows that got me here. The great outdoors Comedy Festival announced to some of the lineup for next year. Matt Rife will headline six weekends at Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calorie, Spokane and Vancouver. Nikki Glaser will headline in Halifax.

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Also on that show, Fortune Fimes, Stern, Steph Tolev more lineup reveals to c…

And that is your comedy news on a Tuesday. Hope you have an awesome day and I’ll see you here tomorrow

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Mark Marin, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Sebastian Maniscalco, Kathy Griffin, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan’s criticism of Trump administration ICE enforcement actions
• Anxiety Club documentary featuring Mark Marin and other comedians
• Chris Rock praises Ben Stiller as greatest comic actor, comments on Stiller’s reconciliation
• Sebastian Maniscalco discusses marriage to Southerner and cultural differences between New York and LA
• Kathy Griffin removed from Paris Hilton party, discusses overcoming personal struggles in comedy
• Conan O’Brien’s TBS late night run through Shout Studios deal

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media Haby Monday. I am Johnny Mac with your nearly comedy news. So as I put the show together, if you notice, then there’s like two thousand episodes you can check my work. I put the big name comedians up to the front, and then as we get further along, it gets a little more esoteric. And I’m aware of the tone of the show lately, and I’m trying to be conscious of it.

Believe me. I would like to sit here right now and do two minutes making fun of Jim Gaffigan, Hawking Bourbon. I would like to make fun of Adam Sandler, but that’s just not what the news is. And as I pull the cards out of the deck, I only have political options for you. That is where comedy is right now.

Joe Rogan last week on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, shared some frustration about some of the President’s recent moves. He was discussing some of the actions by Ice. Rogan said, I didn’t never anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular basis, ripping parents out of their communities. I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals. Rogan’s segment was that voters had felt there was a crazy thing happening where the border was wide open.

But does that mean you support everything that they’re doing now where they’re kicking people out. No, they’re storming into the home depot and arresting people. Rogan added the militaries in the street. I think that’s a dangerous precedent. You know, in some ways, beginning to lose Joe Rogan is comparable to LBJ losing Crunk Kite in a modern way.

When it comes to the media. John Marco Serraisi tild Curt Affairs dot Org. I think edgie comedy sometimes gets conflated with having hateful views. I think people have passed off hateful views as edgie comedy for a while, And in my mind, edge comedy is just talking about things that make you uncomfortable.

And then within that, I want to make a joke.

I think that joke comes from my own point of view. If it comes from my point of view, which is generally a leftist one, the joke will reflect that without even being preachy. Someone will go, oh, you did a trans joke, and it’s like, no, I didn’t do a trans joke. I did either a joke about a specific transperson I know, or I did joke about how I deal with, for example, something people have made a million jokes about pronouns. For me, I would like my pronouns joke to be when I put he him.

It feels limiting to who I am sometimes and I wish I could add a little asterisk to it, and then I lay out what that asterisk is. So it is a pronoun joke, but it’s different from the hacky normal one because I’m talking about something very specific to my own feelings about me using it as opposed to some grand statement. There’s a new documentary Anxiety Club. Mark Marin says his relationship with anxiety has changed throughout the years, but has never gone away. Maren said, there’s a lot of things I don’t give a hoot about that I used to.

There were big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort of null and void, and its relief. Then you start getting into deeper issues like why am I still not enjoying myself? Why am I still feeling less than or uncomfortable in certain situations? What is this about?

Also appearing in Anxiety Club, are Tiphony Jenkins, a partner, Inchurla, Mark Norman who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, Jill List, Eva Victor, and Baron Vaughan. The synopsis of Anxiety Club is what a mix of stand up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life experiences, they candidly share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition. Chris Rock was talking to The New York Times about Ben Stiller. Chris Rock, Who’s sixty Now, you know I do that, and then I remember how old I am. Now, Oh boy, the numbers just get scary so quickly.

Chris Rock, sixty years old. He’s not like nineteen. Chris Rock, sixty years old, called Ben Stiller one of the greatest comic actors to ever live. I’m trying to get wherever he’s at. It’s so farhad, I can’t even see it.

He also committed Ben Stiller and his wife for managing to reconcile after their separation. Chris Rock’s had a marriage. Getting back together is harder to do than a six hundred million dollar movie. Sebastian Maniscalco, He’s back from the ridd Comedy Festival. Johnny Max a hypocrite and will tell you a story about Sebastian that was in Southern Living, where Sebastian Maniscalco shared what marrying a Southerner taught him.

Sebastian said, the hospitality and how nice people are is extremely foreign to me, just because I don’t necessarily see that in Los Angeles. You know, when I’m stunned about in the South, there’s a lack of urgency to do anything. You get a bagel in New York, they’ll rip through thirteen people in no problem. In the South, it’s like, you know, they’re talking to you with a register and they’re really getting to know you. But it takes an hour and fifteen minutes to get a cream cheese bagel.

See. It’s funny because I grew up in New York. When I go to LA, I feel like there’s nowhere to see out there. In New York, if you’re not going one hundred miles an hour by seven thirty one am, you’ve blown the day. In LA, it’s like, oh, let’s have a meeting, all right.

You want to meet at the Coffee Bean at eleven You can send me letters from La. I like it out there, believe me. I think you guys have it right New York. We’re crazy, Sebastian says of his wife. She’s turned me on a barbecue, which I never really used to eat prior to meeting Lana.

So anytime I go to the South, whether it be Tennessee or Austin, I got to get good Southern barbecue. I definitely try to get a rib or a brisket or what have you. You can see how the Rion Comedy Festival has effected Sebastian’s career. Doing fluff interviews like this one. Sebastian has toyed with the idea of going to culinary school told Southern Living, I just want to know the basics the sauces had to cut or how to chop all that stuff.

So I don’t know, maybe a future in the culinary arts moving forward if this stand up thing doesn’t work out. And there are some comedians who there’s just always angst around them. There are some comedians who every time their name comes up, it’s never ever ever, Like comedian X had a nice day and it was sunny out, there were flowers, and the comedian Petted a puppy and Sunshine and Rainbows. One of those comedians that every story is just angst is Kathy Griffin, who was recently escorted out of a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. So, first of all, let’s talk about relatable Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton.

I’m in my basement recording my podcast, dressed like Adam Sandler. I don’t know what it would take to get me to a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. I think if I got an invite later today, Hey, do you want to come to Paris Hilton’s house, I’d probably be like, no, right, why would I go? Kathy tells a story Chris Jenner. See this is already insane.

Chris Jenner had gone in a room behind some curtains, and I went on the other side of the curtains and started tapping on the glass. Think it would be funny to act like it was a zombie. Then security physically removed me. Kathy talked to People magazine and how her recent life has affected her set. In the past eight years, she had a pill addiction, a suicide attempt, a lung cancer diagnosis, and a divorce from her husband.

Kathy said, I talk about some heavy stuff, but I got so much feedback from my audience as saying I’m glad you went there. I have had a bit of difficulty since the Trump photo, but one thing after another taught me, Okay, you may not see the comedy when you’re living in it, but at some point it would be funny. There’s comedy in everything. Shout Studios has signed a pact for Conan O’Brien’s fifteen hundred episode TBS run, which they had the NBC run. But okay, Conan did fifteen hundred TBS shows over eleven years.

You know, I have the controversial stance. Talked about this with Malcoff recently. I know everybody loves Sat Conan. I get it, I get it, I get it, but nobody cares about that TBS run. I’m sorry, Saint Conan is based on the NBC run.

Nobody cares about the TBS. I’m sorry. Hope Shout Studios isn’t mad at me. Jeff Pische, SVP of Programming and New Business Development at Radio, said, Conan O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original and enduring figures in American comedy. His influence as shaped modern comedy, and his work continues to resonate with audiences across generations.

We’re excited to continue his extraordinary late night legacy by allowing fans to watch his decade long series on streaming platforms. I kind of want to push back on that. Is Conan one of the most original figures in American comedy? Where is Conan walking in the steps paved by David Letterman? You can send me a letter.

I like Conan. The lawyers can get in go. Most originals say yes, he’s one of the most seven million original people. And I’m not here to dump on Conan O’Brien. I just think mister Pische may have overstated a little bit the quote.

Again. Conon O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original len enduring figures in American comedy. His influence has shaped modern comedy. Is that true if we take Smigel out of the Conan years? Is that true?

Or has Smigel shaped modern comedy? And believe me, love, Conan didn’t wake up today going what are you besh? Conan? It’s not why I’m here. I’m just reacting in the moment to this quote.

Anyway, if you want to watch the TBS run, you’re gonna be able to watch it. Conan O’Brien briefly hosted The Tonight Show, which was hosted for a few years by Johnny Carson. Johnny used to walk out from this iconic rainbow curtain. A section of said curtain is up for auction via Heritage Auctions. This particular curtain was on Carson’s finale May twenty second, nineteen ninety two.

The listening says the auction lot includes two pairs of curtains that made up the backdrop, the shimmery polyester rainbow curtains with bands of blue, orange, gold, lavender, and peach, as well as the set’s blue and gray curtains with crosshatched diamond patterns with alternating panels of inset bejeweled adornments and horizontal silver stripes. The listening knows that the curtain show signs of production use, handling, an age, including stains, toning, thread, and other expected indications of stage use. So if you’re hoping to hang these in your living room thinking hey, these will be nice curtains, I don’t think you understand why you would be buying these. There’s a similar set of curtains at the National Comedy Center’s Johnny the Immersive Experience Exhibit in Jamestown, New York. Last check, the curtain bidding was at fifty five hundred dollars.

The auction closes Friday, October twenty fourth. This week would have been Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday and ten at TV and Doc Severnthson the adjoining forces to honor the King of Late Night to mark Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday. On October twenty third, TV will present Johnny Carson’s one hundred Birthday Party, a week long celebration airing tonight through the twenty fifth at eleven East eight West. Each evening will include fresh reflections from Doc Seventhson, and Doc is up there at this point, hold this, Doc, I’m gonna just wildly guess I have no idea. I’m gonna guess as I google this that he’s eighty eight.

Ooh. Doc Severnson is ninety eight anyway, And there’ll be recollections from Doc who said that Johnny was a master creator, the basis of his personality and His style was class. He was class personified. The week long tribute will feature some memorable moments. Guests include Burt Reynolds, who is the voice of Comedy stock Market, or at least as AI is, Robin Williams, Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and Olivia Newton John.

Now normally a sentence, now I will throw Robin out. But normally when you’re going like Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and you’re not expecting, like Olivia Newton John in that sentence, are you? I don’t expect something I don’t know. Sammy Davis Junior maybe would have completed that sentence all right. Tonight’s episode Burt Reynolds, Richard Lewis from February nineteen eighty two, then Tuesday, Michael Landon, Carowayne, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Freddy Prinz from nineteen seventy four, Wednesday, Jackie Gleason and Jim Stafford from October eighty five.

I’ve have Thursday, Buddy Hackett, Burt Reynolds again, Don Rickles again, Dean Martin, Carol Wayne. That’s from nineteen seventy three, and that’s a ninety minute episode Friday, Robin Williams and Gene Marsh from nineteen eighty one, Saturday, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Olivia Newton, John David Jansen from nineteen seventy six a ninety minute episode, and Jimmy Fallon, who currently hosts The Tonight Show, said Mike Trico told him to stop talking during the twenty twenty four Olympics coverage. Guest Jason Bateman on The Tonight Show said to Fellon, talk show hosts are the greatest guests ever, because you know what you need. You need people to talk. Fallon said, the opposite is I got to be a commentator at the Olympics last year in Paris.

Mike Tarico got me on there and said I talked way too much and sounded like an idiot. Fallon explained he was trying to fill the airtime. I was like, uh, Mike, they’re in the swimming pool and they’re swimming in the pool and he’s looking at me, going stop. He actually grabbed my hand at one point He’s like, stop talking, chill out. Dude.

Said sorry, Mike Rico. He’s a good dude. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Jon Stewart, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schultz, Kamala Harris, Alana Glazer, David Spade, David Letterman, Steven Colbert, Jay Leno, Adam Sandler, Jodah Ray, C.P.

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron discusses jealousy of Jon Stewart’s early career success
• Joe Rogan calls No Kings Day protesters ‘losers’ and federal agents
• Kamala Harris and Alana Glazer withdraw from Salesforce Dreamforce conference
• David Letterman reflects on CBS canceling Colbert’s Late Show
• Adam Sandler visits University of Kentucky basketball teams

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, you’re only hearing my calm on air Persoda, You’re not hearing all the F bombs un dropping as my equipment is giving me problems today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac. With their Daily Comedy News. Mark Merron opened up to Esquire about the whole John Stewart thing.

Maren said, when I was coming up, he was a smart, cute, Jewish guy. He said, Stuart fit into a category of people who have foresight and are disciplined careers, and they know how to understand their talent, harness it, and then figure out how to capitalize on it with their skill set on their terms. Maren said he himself never had any control over my talent as a younger person in the industry. That led him to resent John Stewart’s success. John Stewart hosted the Comedy Central show Short Attention Span Theater.

When Stuart left that gig, Mark Maron took it over. That show was canceled shortly thereafter. Maren said, I was just all in and like demanding a place in this world. Of so throughout my early career, John he was roughly my age. She was just everywhere.

It never stopped. You know, I remember when he did the MTV show and then he had the talk show and he had me on. But my envy of him was always I would just crap on him to his face, be like, who do you think you are? Now that’s interesting, right, because I played on Friday’s show. Both Mark Maren and Andrew Schultz said that about Mark Maren.

So that’s interesting now Mark Maron is saying that about Mark Maren. Maren continued, it was just consuming because I couldn’t get through out a week without him being on the cover of magazine. And for some reason I saw it as like, if I could only have my crap together, I could be more like that guy. Maren says, back then he was constantly comparing himself to John Stewart. I think I was definitely gunning for something else.

I don’t think I got in a comedy to be an entertainer, of have a job as a talk show host or anything. He was asked, all right, why did you get into it? Then Maren said, told my space and speak my mind. But I loved comedy and I thought I could do that in comedy. I saw it as a sort of noble undertaking the only rules of comedy.

The only text is you should be funny. But outside of that, you can do whatever you really want on the stage and you get the range. I was annoying him. Eventually he was like, I don’t need to take this from you and Screwmaron, but I get it. Ahead of the No Kings rallies, Joe Rogan claimed that protesters across the country were either losers, actors paid by liberal billionaire George Soros, or undercover federal agents.

Joe Rogan said this on Wednesdays, Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan said, all those people that are protesting on the streets, ninety nine percent of them are losers. The other ones work for the Fed. It’s FBI agents and losers. That’s all it is.

So if you were out yesterday, you’re a loser or an FBI agent or being paid by George Soros. Brogan continued, this is a guy with a van who’s paid by George Soros, and he’s got stacks of signs that were made of Kinkos. They’re not homemade at all. You can just pass those bad boys out In San Francisco, Camille on Gianni and Alana Glazer roptly withdrew from their scheduled performances at Dreamforce. Dream Force is the annual tech conference held by Salesforce.

Salesforce announced on Thursday that, due to unforeseen circumstances, Kamil Nanchi and Alana Glazer are no longer able to perform. They did not elaborate. They had been scheduled to headline the closing day festivities of the three day event, which drew forty five thousand attendees to the Moscone Center in San fran A source close to Salesforce told the San Francisco Chronicle that Nancianni became ill and couldn’t perform, prompting Glazer his scheduled opener to cancel as well. Interesting why didn’t she just perform? Well, some people think it’s because hours earlier, venture capitalist Ron Conway had resigned from the sales Force Foundation board.

Why did he resign? He said that the values of the CEO were no longer aligned. The CEO had expressed support for a notable politician who wanted the National Guard to be deployed to San Francisco. You know that guy. I’m trying not to be political here.

They keep making me do it so the board guys upset with the CEO guy, and Kamal Gianni happened to get sick, and Ali Glazer happened to decide she wouldn’t perform because the headliner wasn’t coming. Neither non Jihanni nor Glazer has addressed the reasons for their cancelations. Salesforce replaced both of them with David Spade the San Francisco Standard. While neither performer has publicly criticized the CEO or Salesforce, they’ve both been outspoken about unfair labor practices in the entertainment industry, anti immigration rhetoric, and the Israel Palestine conflict. The Standard ads that Origin Public Relations, which represents both non Jihanni and Glazier, did not respond to requests for comments.

Metallica did perform on Wednesday, and you may recall last year at this same conference, John Mulaney was your headliner. Here’s a story that I’ve bounced about thirty times in these last three weeks. I don’t know if you heard. There was Kimmelgate and then the Rion Comedy Festival. I never got to talk to you about David Letterman reacting to Cobert Gate Vulture Ascid Letterman how he felt about CBS essentially flushing away something you created, and Dave said, well, before we discuss something we started and created.

I’m not sure that’s accurate in my case. Remember Jack Rollins, who was my manager forever, one day saying to me, David, it’s like a paper cup. You have a drink of water, then you crumple it up and throw it away. And everything Jack provided for me in my life, that’s the silly thing that’s stuck with me. Try to hang on to that.

Everything changes, There’s a time and place for everything. So it didn’t even dawn on me when Steven announced that he was being taken off the air, that the whole franchise was gone. The more I thought of it, clearly was mishandled. It clearly was not always bleeding money. There are ways to make money, there are ways to hide money.

I mean, I spent most of my life hiding my money in Panama. You know, we all know that CBS could have figured that out and to unload him after they made a deal with the administration for sixty minutes it smelled bad. Let’s just take them at their word. It now, it didn’t smell bad. We’re losing money, okay, but find a way to make it not smell bad.

It just looked ridiculous, but it’s no surprise. I remember Jay Leno used to say to me when we were going ahead to add Nah, this plenty of room, this room for both of us, and I kept thinking, well, no, there’s not room for both of us. Then suddenly there were three shows and maybe more. But as we’re seeing now, there really isn’t much room left for anybody. The format will always exist, just for not a network TV any longer because it’s dirt cheap to produce compared to Brian Time programmings and half hour comedies and such.

Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel, It’s the best of Hit in America with Jodah Ray. Adam Sandler was seen at the University of Kentucky. He stopped by basketball practice, as he tends to do. Both the men’s and women’s team posted pictures of Adam Sandler talking to the players and coaches for both teams. Sandler was given a jersey by the men’s team.

He must have a ton of jerseys at this point. Sandler hooked up both teams with tickets to his show, So that means there must have been how many people on our basketball team fifteen twenty, Let’s say fifteen. Some coaches say there’s three coaches, so there must have been like forty unsold tickets to Adam Sandler’s show. The La Times both to comedian CP, who said, your jokes are like your wardrobe. Won’t you buy a shirt that’s your shirt?

You own that shirt until you basically get rid of it. Sometimes you might be a little big for that shirt. It doesn’t fit right. You need to work out. That’s how jokes are.

He was referring to a joke he first started to write twelve years ago. He works with Kevin Hart and said, when you first meet Kevi and he knows you’re already familiar with your work and understands your potential because he’s been there as someone with potential before it was realized. It’s actually easier to talk to someone like that and relate to them than most people would think. He doesn’t need to hate on anybody. It’s really like a proud of people like you in your position.

Here’s what I can do to help. CEP says, I want to be the comedian who takes it to the next level when Kevin Hart is ready to pass the torch too. Ma. Any comedians are free to say that or let that be the goal. We have to be honest about what we’re trying to do.

If you just want to be a comedian to get a couple dollars and get some attention, that’s one thing. But I see it as a thing where the sky is the limit. Style Wise, he says, I do the same show whether it’s two people or two thousand people. I need the reps. I need to know that I can do this no matter what.

Similar to someone who’s freestyle wrapping. If you don’t use that muscle, you’re gonna lose it. And today is Sunday, which means theoretically Bob’s Burgers is on TV. If you’re a longtime listener, you know where this is going to go. But a lot of new listeners have started listening.

Now, new listeners, I’m gonna ask you two questions. You’re gonna think these questions are crazy, but I want you to think them. Okay. Question number one, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t, No one has.

And here’s the really weird one question number two, have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? You have it now? Isn’t that weird? Because the show apparently has three hundred episodes now, and yet you’ve never seen it. You’ve never met anyone whos seen it.

Let me ask you a question. What time is it on? I know we all think it’s on Fox, but what time is it on? See? Here’s the thing.

The show does not exist. I’m a longtime comedy watcher. I’ve never seen it. I’ve never met anyone who’s seen it. Now, you’re like John, there’s clearly artwork, we’ve seen it.

Oh, there’s artwork, there’s merch, there’s a whole industry around the hoax. I get it, But there’s no such show as Bob’s Burgers. Does Fox promote it? Sure, they say it’s coming on after the Simpsons, but they know we’ve all stopped watching the Simpsons twenty five years ago. Now at this point, they probably make like four minutes of a new Simpsons episode, knowing we’re all switching over to NBC to watch football.

No one is watching Fox on Sunday night, So they just promote stuff, and then who even knows what’s on. If you remember tonight, switch over to Fox and let me know if Bob’s Burgers is there. It’s not, I dareia. Anyway, the Bob’s Burgers folks were celebrating three hundred episodes. Really three hundred Bob’s Burgers supposedly premiered in twenty eleven.

Now some of you, I got it. You’re like John, you sound crazy? Okay? Why don’t you google Eugene Merman hoax? Eugene Mermann supposedly a voice on Bob’s Burgers.

Eugene Merman hoax. The first thing that comes up the Eugene Merman Fake Comedy Festival. Then I get an AI overview saying the Eugene Merman hoax likely refers to a series of social media posts where Eugene Merman playfully discusses various hoaxes or conspiracies. So he’s a prankster. Why don’t you google Kristin Shall, who I got to know a little bit during my serious XM days.

You know how I first met Kristin Shall. She won the Andy Kaufman Award. And what is Andy Kaufman known for? Hoaxes? Put ons things that seem real that aren’t say, for example, perhaps possibly maybe Bob’s Burgers.

You see where I’m going here again? Have you ever seen the show? Have you ever met anyone who’s seen the show? Anyway, congratulations to Bob’s Burgers on three hundred episodes. M M.

This was actually episode one million of this podcast, so thank you for listening and I will see you tomorrow