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Featured: Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Pete Davidson, Chris Stephano, Tommy Buns, Louis C.K., Jimmy Carr, Andrew Maxwell, Tig Notaro, Cheryl Hines, Kathy Griffin, Tim Dillon, John Marco Sirraisi

What’s in This Episode

• Crack Amiko parody song targeting comedians at Riyadh festival
• Helen Lewis Atlantic article on Riyadh Comedy Festival experience
• Louis C.K. and Jimmy Carr performances in Saudi Arabia
• Tig Notaro discusses podcast friendship with Cheryl Hines and Bobby Kennedy Jr.
• Kathy Griffin election denial controversy and Trump TDS criticism
• Tim Dillon podcast quality decline discussion
• Comedians as Saudi government propaganda tool criticism

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Jess. When I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. No, this is a different episode. This isn’t Friday again. Hello, it’s Saturday and I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

So here’s what happened in real life. I recorded Friday’s episode and then you have to do what’s called the bounce where it takes all the individual tracks and it shrinks it down, and then later I edited. So during the bounce it takes like a minute. I pulled out my phone and I had a message from Well it was a DM you know who you are. Somebody from the Facebook group sent me a video by an artist called crack Amco.

The title is re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr. I had no intention five minutes ago of putting this in the script, but here in the video, I’m going to play clips now. Most of these words said in this video I want no part of. But as part of this ongoing topic of where are we with all these people, crack Amiko went after these folks hard. There’s a lot of photo shopping here.

I’m staring at an image of Bill Burr wearing something that I’m not sure Bill actually wears. It’s a sort of garb you might wear in a desert climate. The lyrics in crack Amiko’s video very very edgy, at times inappropriate. So I’m going to do many many a machete edits here Esse you can get a feel of what’s going on in the comedy community. You’ll find this on YouTube if you want to watch it.

Crack Amco’s re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr heavily edited by John Yo. It’s Billy Burke. Yeah, we get read money, baby? Whoa christ Stephano, Chris. I had to let you know this festival might rest your Sola Conan and the Eskimos.

To have the soldier drop must not be making no sense. Just the roastmaster general demoted to lieutenant. I’m the lord of this landa. I’m evicting these chot tenants who didn’t expect Tommy Buns to take the Saudi funds. Probably fall Rolex.

He don’t give the kids a Mommy nun Assez needs this. I’m ruined for him in the yen because how could you get canceled for being a horny Indian. I can’t believe what I’m seeing is Pete David c made a lot of money, but I guess he ain’t for saving none. Never forget well, I guess he forgot now he performing for the animals that took out his pot. Helen Lewis in The Atlanta wrote about going to actually see a show at the Riodd Comedy Festival.

Helen writes the Louis c. K gig was held in Riond’s Entertainment district. The Boulevard, a glorified parking lot that’s also home to a WWE Experience in e sports arena, a numerous stores selling comic book figurines. Last year, the district hosted a pop up Harry Potter World, allowing Saudi Arabians to imagine they were playing qudditture drinking non alcoholic butter beer. It’s giving ahead to promote the comedy festival.

The entire place was decked out with an expansive pho neon, signs of ungrammatical menace, you weren’t laugh from this way and ha ha ha, and statues of the festival’s mascot, a giant smiling microphone with arms and legs I walked past made for Instagram, street furniture and a professional photographer taking a picture of a smiling family dad, two kids, and a mom in a full face veil, skipping ahead. I had worried about attracting attention by taking notes during the show, and so instead of a reporter’s pad, I had brought a pastel pink gratitude journal, which I’ll expense. The crowd was mostly male, just like it is at American comedy nights, and the much shorter female security line was staffed by brisk women’s covered and I believe the pronunciation is nie cobbs. I was unfamiliar with the term. I’m looking it up here a face veil covering the lower part of the face up to the eyes.

She talked about the lineup. The opener Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell. Maxwell, followed by Ibraheim al keh Ralla, a Saudi comedian who this article in The Atlantic tells us is big on Arabic language YouTube. Then Jimmy Carr bounded on stage. Helen Lewis writes about three quarters of cars usual materials based on the premise that he’s a sex offender, this event was no exception.

He made a joke about how his rape fantasy is someone goes to jail for rape. He riffed about euthanasia, saying we wouldn’t let a dog live like this, and yet people are allowed to go on living. In what can only be described as pause for timing, Yemen were told the audience gasped. Jimmy carry asked any lesbians here tonight. We’re told they were silence.

Jimmy paused for effect and then said, of course not. It’s a comedy show headliner, and Louis C.K. Came out, got a lot of cheers. But interestingly, I don’t have any information about what CK’s set was about, so I’d love to tell you I don’t know. Tig Nataro in the News, she was on Breaking Bread with Tom Poppa and said Cheryl Hines was one of my favorite friends to be ridiculous with, and we made each other laugh so hard, and I love documentaries, and it was fun to watch a documentary every week.

They used to do a podcast together, Tig and Cheryl True Story. So Tig said, it was fun to watch a documentary every week, but we also took the pressure off because we’d talk about other things, like who are attracted to in this documentary? But Cheryl’s married to Bobby Kennedy Junior. When he was announcing his run, I felt like I needed to step away because there were beliefs that were like a nant on the arm years ago that were getting further into the spotlight. Kathy Griffin catching some attention she made a claim that Donald Trump did not win a free and fair election last year.

She said this on her own YouTube show. I’m going to point out that Donald Trump did win a free and fair election. I’m also going to point out that four years earlier, Joe Biden won a free and fair election, despite what some other people might think, and four years before that, Donald Trump won a free and fair election. Texas Representative Troy Nils was one of the one hundred and twenty seven GOP lawmakers who objected to Arizona’s electors during the Electoral College certification process in twenty twenty one. That was the election that Joe Biden fairly won.

He was critical of Kathy Griffin’s election denialism. He wrote on Twitter that Kathy Griffin is the face of Trump de arrangement syndrome. Right wing account of TikTok posted Kathy Griffin is now denying the results of the twenty twenty four election. I was told that denying election results is a threat to our democracy. Literally shaking right now.

And that’s just where we are in comedy right now. I know I’ve been super out of character political lately, but you know, hey, that’s where we are. Current Affairs dot Org are going to talk to John Marco, Sirraisi, commenting on Tim Dillon, Dylan is starting to lose me as well. His episodes lately I find are less and less compelling. John Marco said, I think Tim Dillon, who half the time I get ticked off by what he does.

There are other times he’s the one who’s willing to say something so critical allbeit and aroundabout way, that it gets him disinvited. I think there’s a real honor in a comedian getting disinvited from the political thing, and to go to the political thing and be so subversive or so critical that they do what Michelle Wolf did at the White House Correspondence dinner, where they canceled it the next year. I say, put her in the legends of comedy, because that’s what you do. Now, maybe I’ll be mistaken. Maybe one of these comedians will go to the Reotcom festival.

It’d be so punchy that they put him in jail and it becomes the whole thing. And you know what, if that happens, I’ll go okay to Shay No, that did not happen. Furthermore, if they are subversive, if they do even one koshogi joker, one nine to eleven joke, ultimately they’re being used to present the government there as kind of chilling fun and engage with us, and there’s nothing weird going on here. It’s one thing to perform in a country, and it’s another thing to be hired by the government as part of an explicit propaganda project. John Marco points out comedians were never meant to have this much money to begin with.

The Court Jester was never supposed to have a cheer next to the king. That’s kind of where we’re at. Listen, I want money. I live in a capitalist world. I want comforts.

There’s something beautiful about the way I make the majority of my money. There are a number of people who want to see me. There’s a middle man, of course, but they’re kind of paying directly to see me. There’s an exchange of goods for money in this particular realm. The government is using money so they can use your face for their own purposes.

The show doesn’t matter to them. You can bomb You still aren’t making a statement. They’re using your face and they’ve been using it for the past month to be like, hey, we’re cool, don’t worry about those things we did. And speaking of money, here’s how Johnny Mac makes a living. Broadway’s funniest writers, actors and composers are coming together to share how they keep audiences laughing.

It is punchline and power ballads. Broadways Funniest Artists the first ever Broadway panel to be part of the programming at this year’s New York Comedy Festival that’s just like three weeks away now, the country’s biggest and longest running annual comedy festival. Wow, yeah, I guess that is true. It hasn’t been going on that long. Rachel Dratch, We’ll chat with a lineup of writers and actors from Tony Olivier and Emmy Award winning and nominated hit comedies Broadway Comedy Club Sunday, November sixteenth, six thirty pm.

Adam Gilbert was asked the best comedy advice and the worst comedy advice he ever got, he said, best advice probably the time Tim Northern said let a joke take you places. I’ve thought about that phrase so much over the past decade. It’s a great piece of advice. You aren’t forcing a joke somewhere, You’re trying to find it and use the audience as a metronome. Worst advice, dude, you gotta go on kill Tony.

Oh that’s harsh. Ah. The Monty Pythons are fighting again. John Cleese said, very upset to see that Rick Idol is once again attacking Holly Gilliam. I want to make it clear that Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, and I are totally satisfied with Holly’s work.

Holly, I guess has been managing the company. Eric Idol commented, I don’t think the company has been as well looked after as it might have been. I always want an older manager, someone who’s wise and not related to Terry Gilliam. Wow idle set of John Clees. We don’t disagree about comedy.

This is only about money. I mean, a fool and his money are easily parted six of us much more quickly. Clees has endorsed Holly’s management, calling her very efficient, clear minded, hard working and pleasant to have dealings with. And that is your comedy news on a Saturday. All right, meet you back here tomorrow.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Brian Callon, Mark Maron, Andrew Schultz, Mitch Hedberg, Louis C.K., Bill Burr, Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, John Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan criticizes Mark Maron’s jealousy and pattern of turning on successful comedians
• Mark Maron’s complicated friendships with Mitch Hedberg and Louis C.K.
• Tension between Joe Rogan and Mark Maron over podcast success and Spotify deal
• Andrew Schultz discusses Bill Burr’s backlash for performing at Red Comedy Festival
• Bill Burr criticized for hypocrisy on Beyoncé and oil state performances
• Andrew Schultz and co-host criticize Mark Maron’s podcast guest choices
• Mark Maron and John Stewart’s decades-old conflict over MTV show opportunity

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Jess. When I thought I was out, hey, pull me backing. Hello. Oh I’m Johnny Mac and I know that’s a hackey clip to play, but that’s how I feel.

Oh and welcome to today’s Daily Comedy News. You know, Thursday had a nice, normal show. Got to talk about some other stuff. But nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, We’ve got to talk about the Rion Comedy Festival and all the spill back and all of it. Let’s start with Joe Rogan.

His guest is Brian Callon. The discussion goes to Mark Maren because you remember Maren called some people out, and as we’re going to learn today, some comedians seem to have problems with Mark Maren. Alrighty, this first clip I have made edits for language and for pacing. I have left some s words in or the clip just won’t work. It’s just the way Joe Rogan speaks.

So if you’re offended by the S word, go do something else. But you’re probably a okay with it. Here’s Joe Rogan, Mark Marron, don’t say it. I mean, I don’t get it. You know, I’m like I don’t know.

I get it. He’s sad. He’s sad. He wants other people to hurt. That’s what it is.

It’s just not well. It’s also he’s patho logically jealous, like he’s been path he’s like literally mentally ill. Like do you understand Mark when he first started, when he was just first coming up, was friends with Mitch Hepburg, and then Mitch Hedberg hit and he couldn’t be friends with him anymore. Really, yep, stop being his friend. Same thing with Louis C.K.

Louis C.K. And him were tight. Louis blew up, Mark didn’t. He he had to hate him, and he turned on him, talked shit about him, talked about him openly, and then he became successful. And the years where Mark was successful were the best years of Mark because Mark was fun.

Like I’ve had ups and downs with Mark. I’ve gone through this with him, like three or four different times where we he gets upset at me and then we talk and then are we good. We’re good. Like he likes to do that. He likes to talk shit about you and then you confront him and he says, you’re right.

Joe, and then talked about when his own podcast began to take off. And with me, Mike, my relationship with him was really complicated because when I was an open micer, I was twenty one years old and I was just starting out. Mark gave me a compliment once that really helped me. He came up to me in gainsay, Man, you’re really funny. He just keep doing what you’re doing.

Don’t listen to anybody else, just keep doing what you’re doing. I was like, Wow, thank you. That’s his best side. That’s a good side, and. He’s not all bad.

And he was a young guy back then, right, so he was just being cool.

And then over time, obviously I became more famous than him and more successf…

He hates that. And the only time we were cool was Mark was number one. So Mark the podcast took off, and you got to realize it took off when he was deep into his forties, right, and it was the number one podcast in the country, and he was on Rolling Stone magazine, and you know, he had his own show on IFC, The Marin Show. And he was great. He was cool to hang with.

He was fun because he didn’t have to compare himself to anybody anymore because he was a success, like he could look at his own success. He was doing a television show, he had his podcast. Everything was great and we were cool, like we’re friends. And and Rogan got into the trump of it all. I started getting more successful, and then my podcast passed his.

Then my podcast became number one, and then the Spotify deal, and that’s when he started talking about me. So he started talking about me long before all this Trump stuff. This Trump stuff is just the most recent iteration of this bizarre thing that he does with people. And the first thing was he had decided that I was an asshole, like just because the podcast took off, but it was not a big deal. It was like I’d heard people say that he was saying things.

But then after the Spotify deal, the Spotify deal was a real problem, and that’s when he started coming after me. And it was about vaccines, Like so he was talking about me on stage about vaccines. Shout out to Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us. He let me know that.

Andrew Schultz talked about the Red Comedy Festival on The Flagrant podcast for about forty minutes. Now, I went to pull clips and boy, Dylan, I don’t know how you do it. I get that this show is popular, but I find these guys really really annoying to listen to.

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And also, uh, Andrew and co host guy, could you please get through one senten…

You’re adults, learn how to speak. They discussed Bill Berg catching grief for playing the Reod Comedy Festival. Lots of edits here, all caps, lots of edits. So if Schultz and Frantz think this is an edited clip and I’m throwing them under the bus, I’m not throwing you under the bus. But yes, I made many edits to this clip because you guys can’t get through a sentence without an F bomb.

Well, that’s the reason why we don’t have any pushbag, barely any pushbag, is because we’ve never been the virtue signaling type. We’ve never been the ones out here like there are people that are getting pushed back and like based on some shit that they had said in the past. I kind of get it, Like I’ll be honest, you know, like Berger’s getting all his pushback and he’s like the first time I’ve seen his career, him not like aware of why it’s happening, like as I’m on Cone and again it’s a clip, so I don’t want to take clips out of contest. But he’s like, all these people are like sanctimonies. Bro, you did say that Beyonce sold out for blood money for going to like an oil state.

Yeah, and then you went to an old state. So like, now the criticism for that comes from other things. They’re just using this as as a as a tool of leverage against him because they’re upset at him for other things. But they’re not wrong. That is hypocritical to call Beyonce one thing and then you go do the same thing.

So at the end of that clip, though, he goes, but if I got the offer, maybe I’d do the same thing exactly. So that’s if they cut it out, Like oh really, yeah, I’m almost positive that’s the clip I heard. At the very end, he’s like, yeah, but who knows. If they gave me that, we’ll see. Then they too talked about Mark Marin.

Apparently they are not fans. Mark maren come on this pod, let me chop you up. You asked, you asked him, wud come on? But he would never come on, no. I asked him nicely.

Now come on, I’ll chop you up like you Jamalka. Come on, come to the embassy. Yeah. Yeah, if you’re intimidated by don’t worry. I got you.

That is. I know you’re probably not used to talking to people of color at your shows, but. Just come talk to one.

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And then we’ll handle Mark Marin acting like he didn’t also have a president …

Oh but I’m sure he asked him about the y I’m sure he asked him about drawn strikes. All the con do fact check this. But I’ve heard Mark Maren hasn’t had a single trans person on this podcast. Oh my god, those people. He cares so deep.

But you’ve been doing this pod. Maren don’t care about nobody but himself, and anybody inside comedy knows this. It’s the people outside of comedy. They are like unaware of it. Yeah, but like the whole ship with John Stewart, oh yeah, they had.

Now let’s have fun, so it looks fun while we’re talking shit, because he’s been going on every pod talking shit. John Stuart to Mark Maron in New York decades ago were like comedy purists hated all kinds of shit, like they were like, we love stand up, we love this. Johnsward gets a job with MTV hosting a show. Mark Maron is like, fuck you like to his face, makes John feel so bad about it affects their relationship. John ends up leaving the show for whatever reason.

I don’t remember if it was a moral thing or he had not. You get the opportunity to do like I got a better opportunity to guess who takes over that show. No, Mark Maren not Mark the principles Oh, Mark the principled guy.

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And then he tried to act like nothing happened with John.

John was like no, no, no, you don’t get to be my friend after that. Then decades later, they try to chop it up, or they try to patch it up, and John is like Marcus like, hey, I would love for you to come on the podcast and talk about this. John is like, look, if you want to mend the friendship, I’m moving to it, but I’m not doing it to give you podcast stuff like let’s just talk person and we’ll have it out. Mark Maron never contacts him again. Exactly, but it’s like, and I understand why outsiders wouldn’t know this about him, but like anybody on inside.

Knows, Amy Pohlar catching some grief, she had a z’s I’m sorry on her podcast. She apparently did not ask disease anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival. As I mentioned the other day, I have not listened to the episode. I have no plans to listen to it. But I searched the transcript for the word Riod, the word Saudi, and the word festival.

Only the word festival came up, but in context of a film festival. But that makes me think that my search was fair, and that Apple podcast transcript search was working, and that Amy did not ask Asease, I’m sorry about the Odd Comedy Festival. Amy shares her podcast on YouTube. One comment I wrote, man, you think a comedian would know a thing of two about signing. Many people said they would be skipping the unsorry episode.

If you google the words polar and a z’s as a combination, you’ll find all kinds of things. The Daily Mail called it Amy’s tone deaf. One comment I wrote, I’m going to assume this was recorded months ago for neither of you to have mentioned Saudi Arabia, but you should have at least done a quick insert at the start of the pod stating how you feel about it because you all should have known every one of the comments we’re going to be speaking about it. I understand that he’s your friend, but friends should be held accountable for their fops. Another wrote, love you, Amy, but having guests willing to take money from that saudy butcher is incredibly tone deaf.

Not watching this garbage. Cracked dot Com asks the question does Amy Poehler deserve blaam for not grilling Aseasin’m sorry? Subheader good hang will never be the place for tough questions? The not so canceled ase’s and sorry now he’s not so canceled twice now, just so we’re keeping track. And some people think he’s a douchebag.

You’ve heard me mention that on the podcast. Some people think of he’sin’ sorry’s a complete douchebag. He was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast again. I used Apple Podcasts transcript search. I searched for the words riod, Saudi, and festival.

Those turned up nothing. I searched for the word comedian to make sure search was working. That did show up. I did not listen to THEO yet and kind of burnt out on THEO. As I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, this is Hollywood doing what they do.

It’s a big club. Like George Carlin said, it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. The celebrities, they all take care of each other, go along to get along. If you take shots, you’re Mark Maron and you’re out there on Mark Maron Island, and he seems fine on Mark Maron Island, but you go along to get along. But these were all Hollywood people with the right agents.

Theovant slightly an outsider, but he’s in the club now. I did listen to Bill Burr’s appearance on Conan O’Brien once it went out from Beyond the pay Wall. Well discussed go back and listen to some previous episodes. But Bill Burr does sound very defensive and not very likable in the episode. I also have some production notes for Team Coco there one.

The audio was terrible for the first twenty minutes, I mean just unacceptable, Conan sounding hollow. There are ways to fix the audio. Send me a note if you need tips on that. I can tell you how to fix the audio. I don’t know how you guys put that out and to some producer needs to tell ConA next time you do a live event, you can’t have Sona on Mike.

She cackles during the entire bill segment. And it’s too much. It’s too much Sona and the other guy you know, in small doses during a live read. Sure, ConA needs to talk to somebody at the beginning of the end of an episode. Sure, but when you’ve got Bilburr there for half an hour and she says, cackling, that was misproduced.

Coming to Broadway All Out Comedy about Ambition by Simon Rich. It’ll be at the Neederlander Theater in New York City starting December twelfth. Much like they did last year, this will have rotating groups of comedians and others in groups of four over a twelve week limited run. The groups will read Simon Rich’s laugh out Loud stories, this time tackling ambition, ego, envy, greed, and, as the official press release jokes, basically just New York is in general.

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All right, here’s who’s going to be doing this, Get out of pen.

You’re gonna know these names. First group Eric Andre, Abby Jacobson, John Stewart and Jim Gaffigan. They all start December twelfth. They exit at various times, so there’ll be some overlaps in different groups, but that’s the initial group Stewart, Abby Jacobson, Gaffigan and Eric Andre. Then some of the people that will sub in Ben Schwartz on December twenty second, Wayne Brady and Cecily Strong.

On the twenty ninth, boy Cecily and Wayne on stage together. That’s a great combo for Bigley on the thirteenth, Then on the twentieth, it looks like we got a full swap Heidi Gardner, Jason Manzukas, Craig Robinson, and Sarah Silverman. I kind of lost respect for Craig Robinson after that, I’m quitting comedy stunt.

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And then February seventeenth, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park and Ray Romano wil…

And it looks like this wraps up on March eighth, Comedy stock markens. Does it ever reveal to you who that voice is? Okay, I will tell you now. It is a fit licensed Ai Burt Reynolds. Yes, yes, so one of the services I use made Burt Reynolds available, I’m like, okay, I’ll use Burt Renolds.

That’s fun. On the comedy stock market. If you’re a new listener, what we do is we try and make some hypothetical money by selling high on comedians at their peak and buying low on comedians on their way up. And you know, we get some seals and some buys in the mix. Here this week, pay attention, we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.

Have you watched The Chair Company on HBO? Why don’t you hit pause right now on this podcast and go watch The Chair Company and then come back. I have a feeling that is going to be a very buzzy show. The first episode is fantastic. So we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.

We’re also going to make a long term buy here. We’re gonna start scooping up stock in the Sprubs reboot. I have been watching Scrubs, of course on DVDs. I don’t support fascism. I do not watch Disney Plus or Hulu.

I support Jimmy Kimmel. I’m against fascism. I go upstairs and I get the DVD and I put them in the PlayStation, and that’s how I consume my Scrubs anyway, they’re working on the reboot. It’s definitely happening. I’ve seen pictures of the cast at a table read, and I’ll tell you, for a comedy snob like me who has the Emperor of Rome syndrome where I don’t laugh, I’ve been laughing out loud at Scrubs.

It has aged fantastically. I cannot get enough of John c McGinley as Doctor Cox. Let’s buy some scrub stock, only one cell this week. We’re going to sell Whitney Cummings for her just tasteless, terrible. How dare you comment saying that some comedians would be happy if a Fox journalist were murdered?

Just how dare you, Whitney. I’m I’m truly I’m not doing a bit. I’m truly truly offended by her comment. Let’s sell all our Whitney Cummings stock and that is your comedy stock market for this week. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was in Columbus.

He stopped by the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Why to shoot some hoops, It’s what he does. He was there visiting Ohio State. He spent some time with the Buckeyes and their home Arena, took some photos with coach Diebler. He did a brief inter you with the local paper after his show, and he said, tell everybody I love them.

I love Columbus. Eric Idol has dropped one of Monty Python’s most controversial songs from his upcoming farewell tour. Idol said, sometimes I’ll ask my daughter or a goddaughter. I’ll say can I say these things? And they’ll say, yeah, that’s okay or not.

But I don’t worry about being canceled. I’m not saying terribly controversial things. I’m just trying to make them laugh. They don’t laugh, and that’s a failure. Eric Idol says, you can’t sing some of my songs now.

He points out particularly you can’t sing I Like Chinese. You can’t do that anymore. So there’s one or two songs. But I write new ones, which is quite a nice challenge. Now what do I do here?

Do I tell you what the offensive lyric is and get myself canceled? Or can I do this under the guise of news. I Like Chinese is from nineteen eighty and it contains a lyric pair I Like Chinese. They only come up to your knees. Eric Idol is no longer performing that song out today.

Audio version of Craig Ferguson’s I’m So Happy out today. Audio version of Luke Hegge’s Have That also out today. Audio version of Ki Humphrey’s Mischief also also out today. The hour long special, Downey wrote that on Peacock, Downey wrote that dives into the sketches, contributions, and enduring influence of one of the most impactful comedy writers in the history of Saturday Night Live, Jim Downey, described as the show’s behind the scenes comedic architect for over three decades. He was actually in the cast in nineteen eighty.

That’s the season Nobody talks about. Some folks in this special include Fred Ormison, Dana Carvey, Daryl Hammond, David Letterman, Lovett’s Seth Myers, Garrett Morris, John m’laney, Loraine Newman, Conan Odin, Kirk, Laurence O’Donnell. For some reason, Maya Rudolph Molly, Shannon Martin, Short, Smigel Spade, Ben Stiller, Keenan Thompson, and Lauren Michaels. He didn’t think this thing was happening without Lauren Michaels plussing, did you are you in Cincinnati? Why don’t you go hit?

Fun Filled the twenty four Hour Comedy Revival. It starts tonight at nine o’clock. It goes until tomorrow night at nine o’clock at the Hofner Pub. Fun Filled will showcase nearly two dozen local improv and entertainment acts like comedy, sports, smoke and queers, burlesque, and the members of Holy Canoli. They are hosting this and they were also the twenty twenty four winners of the Cincinnati Improv Competition.

So in last year’s competition, the group’s final surprise challenge was to perform until five thousand dollars was raised for charity, or for twenty four hours straight. Craig said, when we first did it, we had no time to plan with something. We were told like, last minute, this is what you’re doing. And we’ve been planning at this point, planning for like two months and we still have it months ago. So we were like, all right, what if we could do the twenty four hour challenge again, but at three months to actually really really make it something special.

Proceeds for the event will go to the Esperanza Latino Center. Sounds like a fun event. Tiffany Hatish announced a show at the Orpheum Theater in La Saturday, December sixth. We’re told it is the first program of its kind fusing live entertainment and impact. Echo Entertainment is proud to stand at the intersection of culture and climate action.

See that’s that’s interesting. I’m a big climatista, and that is your comedy news on a feisty Friday. Tomorrow is going to be a little political, some political stories and put them all together back to back to back. And I don’t know what Sunday is yet, but let’s meet back here in about twenty four hours after you listen to me, right now, come back around then and there’ll be an episode. See then,

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, John Mulaney, Marc Maron, Ricky Gervais, John Marcos, Phoebe Robinson, Gary Goldman

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s disappointing Fiji trip despite water activities
• John Mulaney’s partnership with Years non-alcoholic beer brand
• Marc Maron on influential white guy podcasters and tribalism
• Ricky Gervais questions why he’s still overweight despite daily workouts
• John Marcos on finding joy and queer audiences in American comedy tours
• Phoebe Robinson criticizes Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn for platforming Trump
• Gary Goldman discusses using antiquated vocabulary in comedy bits from extensive reading

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreiser compared Fiji to Arizona. He said Fiji was drier than he expected. I guess I wouldn’t expect Fiji to be dry.

Bert told the Drop a Pin podcast that although he enjoyed being on a boat, scuba diving, surfing and catching fish, it felt dry. It didn’t live up to expectations. He said, when you hear Fiji, you think of jungles, forests and a more lush place. No, I actually think of being on a boat, scuba diving, surfing and catching fish.

Speaking of being dry, Variety tells us if you see John Malani having a beer,…

They were talking about his new partnership with Years. That’s the alcohol free beer I told you about a week ago, maybe two weeks ago. At this point, there’s a commercial we see John m’laney lounging pool side while recalling a time when his wife, Livia Munn thought he may have been drinking again when she spotted him downing several cans of non alcoholic years. However, ma’laney said that never actually happened. She’s well aware of my enjoyment of years non alcoholic beer.

But I have best friends who’ve been like I didn’t want to say anything, but Ma’lanie tells us it’s sold a Wrigley Field. It’s that exact Midwestern pilsner that I like. Other people make a light non alcoholic, but most of them taste like a drink trying to taste like one versus just being a pilsner or a pale ale that just isn’t fermented. Now he’s joking. He wants to take on Tom Holland to see who is the king of non alcoholic beers.

You see the Spider Man star has his own non alcoholic beer brand. Biro Molaney says, it’s a cage fight, like a physical fight like UFC, because you know, I fought three fourteen year olds on Everybody’s Live? Will he fight Tom Holland? I’d fight three fourteen year old friends of his. What does John Mulaney love most about being sober?

He says, when I go to the doctor and I have problems, we don’t have to kind of tiptoe around the minefield. It’s like I say, I’m urinating a lot at night. I have some numbness in my left hand. We then don’t have to discuss whether it’s all the cocaine, adderall opioids or alcohol. They’ll take you much more seriously at the doctor.

Blainey says he would like to see Anthony Hopkins in a commercial. I know Anthony Hopkins is something like sixty five years of sobriety. I think it’d be a natural. He could play an acting student mine. He goes, you’re such a good actor.

You were on the Bear, not many other things. And I go, that’s true.

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And then I say to him, you’re getting better, sir, and then I hand him one fr…

Ricky Turvay’s shared on social media. I’m working out every day now, tennis waits running, et cetera. My resting heart rate is really good, and I train at quite a high rate too. So my question is why am I still effing fat and exhausted? All the sea word time, Well, I’ve never heard the sea word used in that way.

He used it the way someone like me might use a e fing time. He said, seaword time. Interesting. Well, luckily, The Indian Times caught up with doctor Syriac Abby Phillips, who, as you know, is popularly known as the Liver Doc. The Liver Doc said, it’s the alcohol, Ricky, It’s the alcohol, not the food.

Like people blaming the responses, enjoy your food. Good advice from the liver Doc. The New York Times asked Mark Maron about white guy comics with podcasts becoming influential, name checking Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and Andrew Schultz, who was just at the re Odd Comedy Festival. Maren said, these guys have proven that their fan bases can be tribalized in something that I think is fundamentally dangerous. Still in their parameters free speech, you can do whatever you want.

And if you want to be used by the dominating propaganda arm of a fascistic momentum against democracy, well, I hope you’re happy with your show. Some Times asked Maren if he thought his success came too late in life. He started his podcast in his late forties. Been there done that? Maren said, Now, if you’re honest with yourself, I think a lot of time success didn’t come because you weren’t ready for it.

When I auditioned for a Saturday Night Live. I wasn’t ready for that. By the time the podcast started, I’d let go of the other dreams. When they started it happen, I felt like, Okay, I’m ready for it. Now I could show up and do the work in a way that I wouldn’t have been able to do previously.

I’m not mad that my success came when it did. I’m just glad that it came, because it would have been a much sadder life if it hadn’t. Current Affairs dot Org guest John Marcos arasi, what’s it like out there in America now? John Marco said it could be really tough, because my shows have a joy that I don’t think is in America right now. Especially when I’m in the South.

I find that’s one of the audiences. How would I say it even more visibly queerer than in the city. I just did a show in Hattiesburg, and I think in Hanniesburg I was probably the gay hang of the night. Sometimes people say they come alone of the show, and I hope they come alone and leave with someone. It’s meet and greet.

When I go to my shows, I always tell them, if only the people in this room voted Jill Stein would have had a shot. That’s a great joke. There’s a joy there. America itself just feel as bleak as f and I’m starting to accept and understand my role. That’s even if I talk about current affairs.

There’s a degree of escapism. I’m saying, hey, let’s go in here for an hour and a half and just laugh at how fed up it is. It is so nice to see people discovering him. He’s having a moment right now. He’s kind of the it comic right now, which is really great.

Jamarco, how do you take the political temperature of your audience? He said, Honestly, one of the benefits, and I think one of the detriments of modern day comedies. Our fan bases are so curated via social media, so in a way, I probably feel a safety at my own shows that will someday bite me in the ass when I forget I’m at someone else’s show or just a comedy club, and I’ll have to be ready. I just feel like the harder shows were the early years. That’s when i’d be in Florida and I’d look at the men in the audience and esthetically they had copied Trump.

They had orange faked tans. They looked like they were on the waitlist for Mara a Lago. That was more nervous racking than it is now. But that’ll be the challenge. I think as you get comfortable in your own space, you expand, you push yourself to be sharper and follow your views to even more biting punchlines.

And then do you have the hood spot to do it when it’s on a TV show? Or I guess if you’re gonna do the re On Comedy Festival which I wasn’t invited to. Phoebe Robinson was on The Last Laugh podcast and took a shot at Rogan Theo and others who she says helped humanize a monster for millions of young male listeners. Phoebe said, the same guys who build platforms on mocking women and minorities are suddenly shocked Trump is doing what he always said he would. You have to live with what you did.

You know who you voted for, own it. Third Coast Review asked Gary Golman, ay, you have so many bits that you spice up with strategically placed antiquated freezes like ne’er do well? Where do you pull those from? Gary said, it’s from reading so much. I read more than just about every other comedian.

I think I’ve read sixty books already this year, and I’ll probably finish close to one hundred. And that’s been every year that I haven’t been sick. I also listened to a lot of books. I had a friend who sadly passed away, but he was very literate. He was an English teacher and a comedian, a high school English teacher, which is really hard.

He was so well read. He said something to put words to what I knew. Intuitively, people love to hear words that they forgot they knew. That’s when I realized I had been doing and I try to continue to do it. But there’s a sweet spot.

It comes from trial and error. Try this word, to try that word. Sometimes you get to the stage you’re about to say a word and you think, oh, they’re going to groan because this because it’s way too written. See dial it back, smart smart smart. But if you spend as much time as any writing out the sentences and switching the words so many times, you remember which word was the second least obnoxious, you go to that it’s a trial and error, but after thirty years he build up instincts as to what will land and what won’t, what will sound too written.

I don’t want to be the comedian who the audience is silent for. That’s painful, but I don’t mind if every once in a while a word doesn’t land with the audience, because when I do it on TV, it finds people who think I got to see this live because he gets me. I forget who said it. I think it was a British comedian who said, if you could find a thousand people who go to every show when you’re near them and buy every album you put out, you can have a nice career. So if you were one of the newer listeners who jumped on board during Kimmel Gate and Riod Gate, again, thank you welcome on board.

I think today is pretty representative of like a normal episode. You know, there’s not always a major controversy, and believe me, I love a major controversy. I welcome the next one. But you know, this is kind of like, this is how the show goes on a normal day. So hopefully you’re enjoying today.

You must be if you’re still here ten plus minutes. But this is a normal episode. Doctor Demento has wrapped up his radio career. Real name Barrett Hanson. See, I didn’t know that would be good Trivia.

The Trivia guys listening now, no one will get that one. You’d have to phrase it like Barrett Hanson, known for his wacky radio show parody songs, is better known by this name. You’d have to go at it that way. I’m telling the Trivia guys how to do their show. Hi, Trivia guys.

Johnny Mac hasn’t been at Trivia a very very busy October, hoping to get there soon. Anyway, I digress. Doctor Demento wrapped up fifty five years on the air. Eighty four years old. He started on KPPC Pasadena in nineteen seventy.

The Doctor Demento Show was nationally syndicated from seventy four to twenty ten. I have a vague memory of stumbling across that, probably around the same time Weird Al caught on. Couldn’t tell you what radio station, couldn’t tell you when it was actually on, or how you’d find it, but I feel like I heard it every now and then. Doctor Demento’s final show aired for three and a half hours was a countdown of the most requested show during the fifty five year run. Countdown included longtime favorites like fish Heads, the famous They’re coming to take Me away haha.

Shaving Cream a nineteen forty six recording credited to Benny Bill with Paul Wynn on vocals. I’m familiar with Uncle Floyd used to do that one. That’s a fun song. If you don’t know that one, let me put the lyrics of that one. It’s a wonderful example of a naughty song that’s not naughty at all.

I won’t say for you. I know you’re disappointed, but I’ll read it in Cadence lyrics to Shaving Cream, I have a sad story to tell you. It may hurt your feelings a bit. Last night, when I walked into my bathroom, I stepped on a big pile of shaving cream. Be nice and clean, shave every day.

You’ll always look keen. You see. You get how it gets. So you basically you set up the rhyme of a word that ends an it, and you get to the shaving cream and you go into the coorse. It’s a fun, naughty song.

Comedians Joe Wilkinson and David Earl are reuniting for a new show called Joe and David’s Magical Sitcom Tour. The aforementioned Ricky Gervais has been confirmed as a guest star. It’s a three part series airing on You and Gold, blending travelog, buddy comedy and retrospective elements. Each excursion is themed around a beloved British sitcom. Expect episodes dedicated to shows like The Office, Porridge and Faulty Towers.

Ricky Gervais will reflect on the Office. The personal treasures of comedy icon Richard Lewis being auctioned today the Abball Auction Company. They will present from the personal collection of Richard Lewis. Some of the things you can bid on include a twenty eleven photograph of Richard Lewis taken on the set of the Snickers Super Bowl logging commercial. We’re told that’s a rare treasure.

The VP over there at the Apple Auction Company said, Richard Lewis not only changed the face of comedy, but also curated a deeply personal collection that reflected his passions and influences. Bidding starts at ten am Pacific time, Live online bidding if you want to jump on there. Adam Sandler, a great dramatic actor, does he have any advice to the star of Happy Gilmore to Travis Kelcey. Travis Kelcey recently got engaged to a famous singer. Sandler said, he’s all good.

He loves her more than anything, just like I love my wife more than anything. That’s where they’re at, and that’s where me and my girl are at. Adam recently told Travis Kelcey that anytime Taylor Swift is laughing with you, my whole family is high fiving different Adam Adam Durretz from Counting Crows is going to receive the Bob Saggett Legacy Award at this year’s Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine Benefit and Wednesday, Novem twelfth in New York City. Jeff Ross He’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. He’s gonna host the event, which will also feature Reod Comedy Festival performer Hannibal Burris and some comedians who were not in Riodd, including Kelsey Cook, Jim Gaffigan He’ll probably try and sell you a bourbon, and Nikki Glaser also appearing.

Broadcaster Katie Couric, I don’t know why either, And David Letterman talked about that guy, Jay Leno. You know, Jay Leno is always popping off about late night comedy like he knows anything about it. Vulture asked David Letterman, do you speak to Jay Leno? In all these days? A lot of time has passed into competing against each others for the ratings.

Dave said, the last time I spoke to Jay, or maybe we just texted, he said his face had caught fire or something, and it sounded hideous. I mean, of all things that might catch fire, perhaps the last thing he’d want to be is your face. So it was alarming. I think we’ve changed sentiments about good luck and be careful something like that, but I haven’t spoken to him in a long time. We rubbed each other the wrong way.

I don’t know. I don’t know any regrets about our relationship, and I don’t think he has any regrets about me either. But God, just really, even at this point in his career, probably still the best. Just tremendous, just hilarious, just NonStop, as funny as you ever gonna get. So that’s a good thing about Jay.

We rubbed each other the wrong way. I don’t know. I don’t have any regrets about our relationship, and I don’t think he has any regrets about me either, But God, he just really, even at this point in his career, probably still the best. Dave also commented on how the current late night guys get along. How did that happen?

Because when it was me and Jay was the Late Night Wars, there was bloodshed, we hated each other. But now every day they have lunch together. I don’t get it. Love David Letterman, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, Robbie Hoffman, Gary Gulman, D.L. Hughley

What’s in This Episode

• Sebastian Maniscalco’s new special ‘It Ain’t Right Boy’ premiering on Hulu November 21
• Riyadh Comedy Festival attendance and career impact on comedians
• Eddie Murphy documentary ‘Being Eddie’ coming to Netflix November 12
• John Mulaney directing Robbie Hoffman’s Netflix special debut
• Gary Gulman interview on comedy writing and material development
• D.L. Hughley on crowd work and why Kings of Comedy never got a sequel

Questions Answered in This Episode

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Things starting to settle back into normal. Hey, do you support fascism? Or did you cancel Disney Plus and Hulu like you were supposed to when they took Jimmy Kimmel off the air?

You canceled, right, you don’t have Hulu, Well, then you’re not going to be able to see Sebastian Maniscalco’s upcoming special. Now. Sebastian’s career apparently has not been too damaged by his choice to play the Riod Comedy Festival, because Hulu has announced that Sebastian Maniscalco’s it Ain’t Right Boy he works hard on those titles. His new special is going to premiere Friday, November twenty first on Hulu. The special takes its name from Maniscalco’s recent tour spanning twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.

He played places like Chicago and Riod, but this hour was filmed at the United Center Arena in Chicago, and we’re told the commite goes all in on family chaos, aging, killing journalists, and the little things that drive us all nuts. Oh sorry, mister that family, chaos, aging, and the little things that drive us all nuts. I should edit that, shouldn’t I? Yeah, the humble brag here tells us a Sebastian Menascalco ranked among the top twenty five global tours overall, was named one of Billboard’s top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty twenty four, and was the only comedian to appear in Pollstar’s top twenty global concert tours of twenty twenty five. So you can see his career terribly damaged by appearing at the Riod Comedy Festival.

Another comedian who appeared at the Reod Comedy Festival is Bill Burr. I just now saw that he did put out a Monday podcast late on Monday. I just skimmed the transcript. I don’t think he talked about Riod at all. He talked mostly about football, going to see the USC game, and a little bit about New York City.

But I didn’t see anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival, so I think he’s moved on from that. I’m sure his career was terribly hurt. I did see, as as recording that Amy Poehler’s podcast The Guest Is azi’son’ Sorry, which I think last week a lot more people realized azi’son Sorry he’s a douchebag. I mean, I’ve been hinting at that since I started this podcast, but I think last week everybody went, oh, that guy’s a douchebag. Well, Amy Polar apparently doesn’t feel that way.

They were co stars on Parks and rec of course, and she had him on the podcast. I just did a search on Apple podcast transcripts. I searched for the word re Odd. It does not appear in the transcript. I search for the word Saudi.

It does not appear in the transcript. But I did search for the word festival to make sure the search function was working. And there is a mention of a Z’s at a film festival during the podcast, so it appears Apple podcast transcript search is working, and they did not discuss Razi’s going to the Riodd Comedy Festival. But I haven’t actually listened to Aidmy Poehler’s episode, and the chances of me listening to an hour of Amy Polar with A Z’s I’m sorry or zero, they’re actually zero, so you’ll have to tell me. On Netflix announced that there Eddie Murphy documentary called Being Eddie Well airon Netflix Wednesday, November twelfth.

The log line tells us it goes without saying, that there is only one Eddie Murphy. No other teen comedian shared a stage with Jerry Seinfeld at seventeen and joined the cast of Saturday Night Live right out of high school. No actor has ever played a cop, a doctor, and a donkey. Oh right. I was like, Eh, somebody must have played a cop and a doctor, but a donkey.

You might have me there and dominated every facet of Hollywood. He’s touched fewer. Still have been an a less celebrity for over four decades and never succumbed to its darker side. I don’t know about that latter part. You could google Eddie Murphy and all sorts of things will come up.

Maybe just because I’ve been entertainment adjacent for three decades that I know stuff. For example, I typed in a phrase I will tell you what I typed in, but surfaced a story from Yahoo from twenty seventeen when Eddie Murphy was stopped by police with dot dot dot, And you can do your own Google search for that phrase and see what comes up. So let’s not make it sound like Eddie’s been at church for forty years anyway. Being Eddie explores the unusual combination of explosive chrisma, folks to ambition, raw talent, and deep set circumscision that put Murphy in a league of his own. Appearing in the documentary or Senni O Hall, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, who was just at the Reod Comedy Festival, Jamie Fox, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Michael J.

Pete Davidson, whose father was killed a nine to eleven. Pete was recently at the Riod Comedy Festival, and Tracy Morgan and a bunch of others. John m’laney is going to direct Robbie Hoffman’s debut Netflix special. They first met when Robbie Hoffman guessed that on Everybody’s Live this will be filmed next week at the Masonic Lodge. I was just in front of that building.

Why didn’t you film that while I was there? I could have gone. It will mark Hoffman’s first comedy special in nearly seven years and her debut for Netflix. Mlanie announced this on stage during his tour he was in San Diego. Brought Robbie Hoffman on stage and said she’s one of my absolute favorite comedians and friends alive.

The next day on Instagram, Malini confirmed it, writing I’m very excited to announce I’ll be directing Robbie Hoffman’s new Netflix special. Malini told a story about Hoffman’s outdoor set on Sunday night, was interrupted by her own car alarm. Gary Goleman until the Third Coast Review was hard to build material for the first twenty years. The main reason was how difficult it was to get on stage from more than five or ten minutes. Whenever I did, I didn’t want to try something brand new, so I’d add something that had already worked.

Sometimes the story’s true parts had been explained, and then you had to start hitting it from different angles to make the joke longer. He explains how his Trader Joe’s joke is about a woman cutting me in line, but then it becomes about imagining her life outside Trader Joe’s. The story itself was basic. There were some older women around me, and I made an ass of myself. But it’s interesting how your compass can be.

This story is different than other comedians. I don’t hear anyone else talking about abbreviating the states. It’s fun to tell that should be the compass. No one else is doing it, and it’s fun, then you won’t give up on it. It’s like when you think of a sentence and it’s already on a website or in a play.

Thinking of something original that you can’t find online that no one else is doing. That’s a really good aim. It provides pride. You see dozens of comedians doing versions of Patrise O’Neil or David Tell or prior or Carlin. I forget who said it, but imitation is like suicide.

You’re killing yourself in a sense. But it comes back to not getting a lot of stage time and needing to use it efficiently. That’s where my low self esteem being attached to how the joke went actually helped. I was afraid a new joke would bomb, so I didn’t want to take the chance deal. Hughlee spoke to The Daily News online about crowd work and said, I used to be really famous for that.

I love CrowdWork, but after a while you want to show people you’re tapped in what’s going on. I don’t do it as much as I used to the older you get, the more you’ve been around, he rely on other things. He explained why they never did a sequel to the original Kings of Comedy. Some of the reasons include Bernie Mack passing away in two thousand and eight and Steve Harvey a hosting family feud and retiring from stand up. Deale said, we didn’t do a sequel.

We let it rest. Nothing approximates your first kiss. Nothing is quite as dynamic as that one. Thinking of the chores, like flipping through your wedding album. It’s a fond memory, but not something top of mind.

I’m still very proud of what we did. Then cool article on Vulture It is the twenty twenty five TikTok survival guide for comics who want to get paid. They shared some stats. The average video length on Matt Rife’s one hundred and ninety three tiktoks posted in twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. The average video length of rice one hundred ninety three tiktoks was two minutes twenty seconds, which is over double the supposed industry best practice of quick hitting clips.

That’s interesting, right. The average length of his ten most viewed TikTok’s three nineteen, his ten most liked three point thirty six, his ten most shared four forty two. Emily Watson posted her entire special fixed on TikTok, where it received three times as many views as it did on YouTube. Viewers save the full video returned to it, and she still carved out a dozen additional videos to clip up and monetize separately. That guy, Jay Leno, he’s the worst.

He was talking about why he got a watch nerve of that guy. Yeah, he was at Los Angeles’ premier watch collectors gathering, the Neighborhood Watch Club. Haha, very plenty title there Watch Officionados, and Jay Leno was there. He was wearing a Buruguette Classique sobscription twenty twenty five And I probably didn’t even pronounce that right, jay Leno snob. We’re told that watch reduces the timetelling process to a single blued steel hand set against a white enamel background with bruge numerals.

Wow, fancy schmancy. It’s a stunning tribute to both the company founder and as well as the brand’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries. So if you want to walk around while you’re popping off thinking you know anything about hosting a late night television show and you want to look sharp. Yeah, you get one of these watches. That guy.

Jay Leno said, It’s amazing that something designed two undred fifty years ago still looks the same. It’s basically the same watch. It sounds like something he would say, right, especially because it’s a direct quote. Does sound like something he was You’re losing the bitch on Bridge was more of an artist as well as a mechanical genius, said j Leno. Luckily they asked him what draws you to a watch?

Jay said, I know when I see it, something stands out. I like classical design using modern techniques. There’s a lot of science and a lot of technology, but it still looks classical. I know I have to go home and wind my watch. I enjoy that.

It’s the same with cars. They require a certain amount of me and it’s it’s an emotional connection. You either get it or you don’t. Geleb Beard spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about narrowing down what stories made it into his special Caleb said, there’s a lot of things that got left on the cutting room floor. Every part of it calls for a different thing, Like when you’re moving from something political, sometimes want to get a little more political right after that, and sometimes you want to veer into something that’s a palate cleanser.

You’re thinking of it in fifteen to thirty and sixty minute chunks. You want to think of the holistic piece, but also the experience from five minutes to five minutes. That’s really smart and really it’s not just looking the whole body at the first hour. It’s like, Okay, every joke I’ve ever told is technically on the table for this, except maybe what I’ve done on Comedy Central, And you go, okay, what fits? What makes a full compelling picture here?

What feels like a piece and not just some guy rambling, although I think parts of it is just some guy rambling, which I’m okay with. But part of making those selections is just going, what is the piece asking for? What does it need right here? See? This is really smart, really well thought out.

And I saw this one. I thought the spin on this one was a little ridiculous. Press release, I guess for Data Vault, they announced the development of its joke token technology, designed to safeguard comedic content and establish copyright protection for comedians. Okay, They showcased this at a live event over the weekend. The system uses blockchain and AI to me unique digital tokens for original jokes, while recording audience laughter metrics as proof of authenticity.

So I guess you’re up on stage and you’re doing your set and Robin Williams is there, but luckily you recorded your set and the technology goes, oh, no, john just did an original joke. Robin Williams can’t steal it, and we’ll add blockchain and digital voodoo to it so that when Robin Williams does my joke at the laugh Factory, we can be like, hey, that’s Johnny Max joke. Something like that. The technology addresses copyright infringement issues common in the comedy industry by creating immutable records of jokes and enabling monetization through smart contracts. So they got professional comedian Karen Fihn who were told Isa Beard on Netflix in Comedy Central.

Karen Fihann said, the technology gives me an automated means by which I can make an immutable record of the jokes I create. I love that she parodied back the legalies of I could make an immutable record of the jokes I create and the copyright protection to which I’m entitled. Is that a real quote professional could You didn’t care and fee and sounds like somebody had a decent words and said, hey, do you mind saying you said this? But what do I know? I wasn’t there, And that if your Caddy Comedy News on a Wednesday, AH see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Bill Burr, Tig Notaro, Patton Oswalt, Omid Jee Lily, Dave Chappelle, Tim Dillon, Whitney Cummings, John Marcos Serresi

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert joins Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as digital Dean
• Bill Burr cancels live Monday Morning Podcast taping in Los Angeles
• Omid Jee Lily performs at Saudi Arabia comedy festival after 15 years
• Whitney Cummings defends Saudi Arabia performances and Live Nation connections
• Whitney Cummings makes controversial comment about Fox journalist

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily Come News. Can I tell you President Trump is right? Stephen Colbert should be taking off television and never allowed on television again. Now what is making you say this, Johnny Mac?

Is this some sort of political stance? No, Stephen Colbert has signed up with the new Star Trek series Starfleet Academy. Have you seen this trailer? Complete garbage? Why do comedians insist on destroying Star Trek?

I’m looking at you, Tig Nataro, I’m looking at you. Patton Oswalt has dug the Vulcan and now Stephen Colbert has sold out to Alex Kurtzman and this horrible, horrible, horrible crap that they call Star Trek. I love my Star Trek. You’ve heard me rant about this, Steven, What are you doing to me? Why did you do this?

Stephen Colbert will voice Starfleet Academy’s digital Dean of students. According to the press release, He’ll begin having daily announcements to the students and alerting them of anything that needs their immediate attention. President Trump, get this guy off TV now, thank you for your attention. Let me just before I tell you this next story. Let me do a quick google of Bill Burr.

We got to talk about Bill Burr again. Okay, it is twelve fifty on Monday. I’ve been looking for updates on this story. But before I took the weekend off there I saw fans had said that Bill Burr had canceled a plan to tape an episode of the Monday Morning Podcast that would have been taped in front of a live audience on Saturday. Burr was supposed to tape a live episode of Monday Morning Podcast at the Gordina Cinema in Los Angeles.

I was in Los Angeles this week and I could have gone. So the venue had posted the cancelation for about forty five minutes. Then, as I understand things, they took it down. The speculation is that they caught some negative comments about mister Burr, so they were just like, ah, let’s have it. But fans and the Bill Burr subreddit noticed it.

One fin asked why postpone the show? Bill? Another said, but I thought Billy blood Money said it was bots. How can they come to a show if they’re bots? Now, I just looked when I said, let me google Bill Burr at twelve fifty on Monday, there was no episode of the Monday Podcast.

So first of all, I hope Bill is okay and everything’s okay with his family and he’s healthy. We can disagree on ideas. We don’t wish anything negative on anyone except Stephen Colbert, who should be taken off television immediately for signing up with the Star Trek people. So hopefully all is okay with the Burrs, but just interesting that he canceled the taping and there’s no episode on Monday. Omid Jee Lily wrote a piece for The Guardian.

Omid writes, after fifteen years of turning down offers to perform stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia do to the country’s human rights record, this time it took the gig. Why there’s a push for change in Saudi and signs are discernible, yet many from the outside world would rather comedians in the West state away skipping ahead. I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was canceled after nine to eleven simply for being Middle Eastern, as Arab terrorists were behind the attack on the Twin Towers. This is despite the fact that I am not Arab nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist.

In certain circles there have been caused to boycott my UK tword Manamastay, a show in which I try to explore their nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. After explaining the restrictions on performing in Saudi were exactly the same as in Dubai, basically no jokes about the royal family, no disrespecting Islam and no humiliation of the government, a concern friend texted me, I think you’re at risk of invalidting You’re right to make jokes about anything important. My show in Riod had a lot of material about the Saudis themselves. The perception that we as comedians were all being paid to be silent was as laughable as the idea that Dave Chappelle, a hugely successful comic with an estimated worth of seventy million dollars, was doing his show and Riod for the money skimming ahead julily writes the comedy guide Shortal erroneously reported that the pay was between three seventy five and one point six million for those doing solo shows. One thing East and West can agree on is you don’t talk about your fee publicly because it is likely to cause consternation among the other performers, most of whom rereceived a significantly smaller amount than the American podcaster was purportedly set to receive.

I assume that means Tim Dillon, which is where the three seventy five number comes from. Again, skipping ahead here, Julily writes, if I had an inkling that changes similar to those emerging in Saudi Arabia right now where are happening inside Iran? And a comedy festival were taking place in Tehran and pigs were flying. He adds, I can assure you I would be on the first pig over long piece here in the Guardian. Let me just wrap up here where he rates.

And the gigs were great, packed houses, young crowds, popcorn, standing, ovations, even heckling. About eighty percent of the audiences were locals, many of whom had never seen a live comedy gig. Whitney Cummings on her podcast said, by the way, any comic that has ever worked with live nation, which is all of them, has taken Saudi money. But keep up with your little rants when you get a second Google Saudi Arabia Live Nations, so you can be informed on the fact that anyone who has worked with Live Nation, every stand up comic has taken Saudi money or bought a ticket through Live Nation, went to a Live Nation event. All the actors who were represented by William Morris Agency, which is all of them if you want to send them notes too.

All right, let’s google Saudi Arabia Live Nation. I had this. I’m doing this real in real time. I haven’t done this before. The first thing that comes up is from Music Business Worldwide, which as Saudi Wealth Fund exits Live Nation steak.

The second story, also from twenty twenty four, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund sells Live Nation steak, and scrolling down from April twenty twenty, Forbes reported Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund buys five hundred million dollars steak. Her point may be valid between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, but it doesn’t seem to be presently valid or a valid prior to it. And I’ll remind you there was a pandemic in twenty twenty, so I don’t know how many comedy tickets you bought in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You may not be as guilty as Whitney Cummings says. She said, though I’m trying to help you sound less racist.

She then discussed napple babies. People whose dads have points on huge television shows are like, I have a backup plan, a huge trust fund. You’re a sellout for making money, And then I have a major, major problem with this next thing. She said. The same people who were like, if they found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.

That is not cool, Whitney, that is not true that you’re a jerk hole for saying that. I really don’t think any comedian would be like, oh cool, a Fox journalist was murdered. That’s just terrible.

Also, the same people who are like, if they found out a Fox journalist was mu…

How dare you? John Marcos Serresi spoke to Current Affairs dot org and said, the numbers that I’ve heard floid at the top were like one point six million, and I would imagine easily that if not more. I don’t think George Carlin would have ever performed at the REDD Comedy Festival, but he was also never asked. These comedians used to not enter the sphere of influence, and now because of podcasting, the fact that comedians were kind of on the front end of that and social media has allowed our voices to expand their new questions. What are we?

What is our role in America, let alone globally. It’s complicated. I performed in places whose governments I did in align with. However, I do think you can make distinctions, and the distinction should be made at the gouvern is funding this a government that you know has this history of human rights abuses. It’s easy for me to stand hi because I wasn’t invited to Riod Trump didn’t ask to go on my podcast, neither did Kamalaw.

But I think we need to re establish what our expectation is. If a comedian like Theo Vaughn is going to go on his podcast and cried tears over Palestinian suffering and then two weeks later have JD vance on and joke about how he’s going to go hang out at his poolhouse. I hope that we cultivate an audience that goes, Hey, THEO, what the F that’s bs, I don’t buy this. I hope that the stinkedestri Odd Comedy Festival is great enough that some comedians are forced to confront where they stand and what the responsibility is to themselves and to their audiences. Hopefully we can move on from this subject.

I didn’t want to talk about it today, but there were all those stories I just told you about what should have been the lead is. Mark Maron wrapped up his podcast his final guest on Monday, former President Obama. Maren was asked why Obama for the final guest. Mark Maren said, the first time was an important turning point, certainly for me personally. For sitting president to come to my little garage at my house was a big deal, and I think it was a big game changing episode for podcasting in general in terms of the attention it brought to the medium.

I was happy to see him again and talk about the current administration and the world we’re living in now, but also, you know, to honor my show. The Times was curious any conditions for the interview. No, neither time. There were no conditions, no vetting of questions, and no request for a pre edit. Mark anythink it went last time?

There was a morticaid, a secret service in many staff involved, and he was still disarming and grounded and present. This time it was more casual, just me and him in his office, so I know it would be even better, and that turned out to be true. He was very aware that he was our last guest and the last episode meant something to me, and culturally, I guess at some point in September and October, this podcast or reached a point where I just can’t avoid the politics of it all. So jump in the pool here. Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that’s a consequence.

Let me start right there. Please vote whoever you vote for. Whoever you vote for, that’s up to you. But please vote. Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that’s a consequence.

If you’re a Hispanic man and you’re frustrated inflation, and so he decided, you know what, all that rhetoric about Trump doesn’t matter. I’m just mad about inflation.

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And now your sons are being stopped in LA because they look at Latino and may…

Well, that’s a test. It’d be great if we weren’t tested. This way, but you know what, we probably need to be shaken out of our complacency. Maren used the line he used in a special We’ve annoyed the average American into fascism. Obama responded, you just can’t be a scold all the time.

You can’t constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you’ve got some blind spots too. And life’s messy. I listened to about a third of it this morning. I was founded very compelling. I just had to get to work and didn’t have time and to listen to more of it.

But that’s it. That’s a rap. And at the end of the program, he thanked a few people and said that his Thursday show was actually the goodbye episode. But that’s a wrap on Mark Maren for now. Anyway.

I have not yet seen Saturday Night Live, but the Department of Homeland Security did any cold open. Amy Poehler reunited with Tina Fay to play Attorney General Pam Bom and Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Noam. Tina Faye’s character said, I’m here to tell you this Democrat government shutdown needs to end now. By the way, you know what, I don’t care I’m telling you this because this blew my mind. So I was out in California on the weekend and there was a National forest and I wanted to check it out, and I wanted to know, like, do I have to pay it and get in the forest.

This is for real. You can look at this right now. This is on the US Forest Service web page. This is the phrasing. Again, what if your politics your politics, But here’s the phrasing on a government website, the radical left Democrats shut down the government.

This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse from mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed fuel and clothed the American people. I mean, just at a government website has the phrase the radical left Democrats.

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And now maybe you think the Democrats are the radical left.

Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. It’s not why we’re here. My point is, I can’t believe we’re using language like that. I digress. In a statement shared with Edgyentertainment Weekly, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, SNL’s absolutely right, the Democrats shutdown does need to end gossip.

Conna Spoons in the Street, Gossip Connor, Bobby Bobby Gossip Conna, where the meeting with Johnny mag It’s only the Trees. On Gossip Corner. Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skeens and girlfriend Libby Dunn were at LSU attending the football game. They were seen hanging out with famous comedian Theo Vaughn Levy. Dunn posted a picture of the three of them on her Instagram story.

Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel, It’s Jessica Curson’s No Material crowd Work special. Jessica has been in the news lately. I don’t know if you heard about this. She was recently at the ri Odd Comedy Festival. Jessica said, I hope that this festival could help LGBTQ plus people in Saudi Arabia feel seen and valued.

I’m grateful that I was able to do precisely that, to my knowledge, on the first openly gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia. Received messages from attendees sharing how much event to them. To participate in the gayffirming event. At the same time, I deeply regret participating under the auspices of the Saudi government. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with two sources that the Human Rights Coalition has received the entirety of Jessica’s fee.

Anyway, if you enjoy Jessica’s comedy, the No Material CrowdWork Special is out on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. Today, Jimmy Kimmel won the September ratings, the first time he’s actually won the time slot. Apparently, according to Late Night or if I read the story correctly, Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel is teaming up with Jimmy Fallon. It’s that TV show on Brand with Jimmy Fallon. It apparently is some sort of football season marketing challenge involving Captain Morgan.

On on Brand, we see Fallon and Kimmel introducing contestants to the episode’s task, developing an ad campaign built around bringing crews together on and off the field. Are you familiar with the British teen comedies sitcom The in Betweeners? A fantastic show that, oh, it’s probably fifteen twenty years ago. I found this thing on cable whatever. It’s fantastic.

There was an American remake that was okay, but the British version is fantastic. The show’s creators have a deal to bring it back. Is unclear how it will come back or where are you going to be able to watch it? Is it a reboot? Is it a retake?

It is believed it revolves around the original characters, who’ve got to be at least in their forties now, I would guess. The in Betweeners originally was broadcast on E four in the UK between twenty eight and twenty nineteen. It followed the misadventures of suburban teenager Will McKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland and Jay Cartwright as they navigated school life, friendship, mail bonding, lad culture and failed sexual encounters. Two hit movies followed in twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. I Welcome That Back, I Will Watch That and The Jone Rivers Estate has auctioned off over three hundred pieces of memorabilia once owned by Joan Rivers.

They included some of her wigs, X rays of her dogs, Spikes, Thorax, and some royal family related keepsakes. Melissa Rivers, Jones’s daughter said the timing felt right. I’m finally emotionally ready to let go Joan passed away. In twenty fourteen, two X rays of Spikes Thorax went for five hundred and seventy six dollars. They came with a manila envelope from Spike’s VET.

A copy of the May twenty six, nineteen eighty six issue of People with John Rivers and Spike on the cover sold for nineteen hundred and twenty dollars. Two of the wigs sold for fifty seven sixty and twenty eight eighty two Voodoo dollars went for for forty eight And that is your comedy use for today, right listen? It was fun at the end. I know I got a little feisty in the middle. And Stephen Colbert must be removed from television immediately.

President Trump, what are you doing? If you can create piece in the Middle East? Certainly you could save Star Trek? Can you do that? Can we make Star Trek right again?

You want to impress me? Do that? See tomorrow

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Dusty Slay, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Andy Kindler, David Letterman, Johnny Carson

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s partying lifestyle and tour bus fitness setup
• Dusty Slay’s sobriety journey and comedy career
• George Clooney getting Adam Sandler to dress better
• Adam Sandler’s filmography and dramatic acting roles
• Andy Kindler’s criticism of Adam Sandler’s movie choices
• David Letterman discusses first episodes of Late Night and Johnny Carson’s involvement

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. He was back in nineteen ninety seven, Rolling Stone called Bert Krescher, a sixty year undergraduate, the top partier at the number one party school in the country, which was Florida State University. Now Bert Kraser, three decades later, tells USA Today he’s still partying hard. Bert says, I’d argue it’s probably even worse.

My game hasn’t changed much, but I take bigger stints of sobriety now and I’m healthier now. I work out every day, I get hydrating ivs probably twice a week, I drink water, and I’m more cognizant of my sleep and my recovery. Now. What makes the Bert Krescher tour bus, He says, A ton of vodka, which is his own brand, because all comedians have to have some sort of sidehouso these days for some reason, water, snacks, and a full gym which is stowed in the bus bay. During his twenty twenty three tour, Bert Krescher packed three semi trucks with even more workout equipment.

Boy, you’ve got some budget, dude. Bert said, we had five electric bikes, a cold plunge of sauna, a full gymnasium with rowers and assault bikes, compression boots with recliners. How much money is this dude making? He lost forty five pounds on the tour and said, I’m so much healthier when I’m on the road, without a doubt. Dusty Sleigh has been sober for over a decade.

He told Fox. I like to party. I like to get into it, and so every night comedy became a party, and it’s not sustainable. I just wasn’t feeling good. I wouldn’t remember my jokes.

Getting sober changed my whole life. More than just comedy, but changed my life. He wondered, will I still be funny without the booze? When I quit drinking? I thought I might quit comedy because all my jokes are about drinking.

I’m much better at comedy now now I have all these ideas. My brain’s not constantly clogging flooded with poison. You know, Dusty said, I don’t care if people drink, but for me, it changed my life and made everything better for me. I’d be a total wreck. I wouldn’t be sitting here, and if I was, I’d be sweating, even though it’s heavily air conditioned.

I’d sweat and you’d think, have you been drinking? And I probably would have been I’ve had a beer before I’d go. You guys got any beers around here, and you guys would be like, this is a news station buddy who tells us George Clooney has achieved the impossible. He got Adam Sandlor to dress better. Nice job, George Clooney, although I kind of liked knowing that Adam Sandler is the one person in the world who dresses worse than I do.

If you think I’m wearing some sort of ratty sweatshirt and some sweatpants and a baseball cap right now, you’re right. But even that is probably better than the baggy basketball shorts look Sandler normally goes for. But now he’s all George Clooney fancy pants. Colooney told people, I’ve actually been making Adam wear suits. Don’t you think he looks nicer instead of those big, baggy shorts, Pony said, Adam Sandler, a great dramatic actor, is the sweetest man in the world.

I love him. He’s a dear friend. And the fact I got to work with him again is great. Sandler says he doesn’t really think about his traditional baggy look. He says, it’s as funny as hell.

Whatever one of my kids or their friends talk to me about it. My wife’s like, what are we talking about right now? How did that happen? Even when we were younger, others would say, would you put on something better than that? Your wife’s dressed so beautifully.

My wife would say, he’s comfortable like that. Let him do that. Leave him alone. Yeah, She’s like, dude’s making five hundred million dollars a year. Leave him alone.

He can wear Peggy Shortz. Shut up. Jay Kelly opens in Select theater is November fourteenth, will stream on Netflix December fifth, People saying it’s an Oscar worthy performance by the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, So I’m looking forward to that one. Hopefully it’s in the pantheon of Sandler movies, the great movies like uncut Gems, Space Movie, Basketball one and the two with Drew Barrymore, everything else complete garbage, but hopefully this one is up in that top tier. I saw this as part of my Adam Sandler googling.

Far Out Magazine writes even though an alarming percentage of his filmography is made up of awful, awful comedies. Adam Sandler seems like a nice guy. I agree with everything in that sentence. It is made up of awful, awful comedies, and he does seem like a nice guy. And most of the people who know are of work with him think the same thing too.

The most annoying thing about Sandler, apart from some of the characters he played, is that he knows he’s been coasting for years, if not decades. Every now and then he’ll show up in something like Punch Love, Uncut Gems or Hustled or Mine everyone he’s actually a great actor. Then it’s back to mugging for the camera and happy goomore sequels. Did I write this? Maybe I wrote this and I forgot I wrote this.

Anyway, the point of this article is to spotlight Andy Kindler, who has added himself to the list of people who believe that Sandler squandered his potential by becoming inordinately wealthy. Kindler, it’s old last I’ve been making fun of him for years just for the fact that his movies are never reviewed. He doesn’t even put them out to be reviewed, and just consider the Pixels movie. It doesn’t sound like you listen to the whole pitch. Kindler then talked about The Ridiculous Six, saying, basically, I said that Native Americans who walked off the set of the movie said they’d prefer another genocide.

They’d prefer once again to be slaughtered by the white man in the stay on this movie. I don’t know if it’s that bad. It’s close. What bugs Andy Kindler is? He used to be a huge Adam Sandler fan until Adam became a movie star, which left him feeling that Adam Sandler could be doing better, but for some reason decided to go with the money.

I wonder why he decided to go with the money. Is it? Let me think? Is it the money? Look?

He puts out terrible comedies, But was Adam Sandler the re Odd Comedy Festival? He was not. At least he’s like putting in the work to make happy gilmore too, So I’ll give him that. He hooks up his friends. His daughters are some of the best actresses in Hollywood, so he’s lucky enough that he knows them that he can cast them in the film.

Is it terrible? Of course, it’s terrible, but it’s not the reodd comedy Festival. Am I becoming an Adam Sandler fan? Hmmm. Valcher spoke with David Letterman.

Hey, Dave, any specific memories of the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman. Dave said, well, we had several first shows, the first show on the daytime show, the first show on the NBC show, on the first show on the CBS show, and it’s always like you’re getting ready for the Rose Parade. You have the Rose Parade, and then it’s so, geez, what are we doing tomorrow? I think that was typical of the daytime show, the late night show, and then the late show. After all of the effort, all the energy goes on that first show, now what do we do.

It’s not until about a month and a half to establish a rhythm and production that will hold you, that’ll prop you up for the rest of the run. But until you’re comfortable with that, and it’s going to be a struggle. Vulture asked about Johnny Carson’s involvements, and Johnny was a producer of a Late Night with David Letterman at the beginning there, so that made the man you idolized your boss, or at least your partner. Was he a silent partner or did he chime in? Dave said, to my memory, Johnny couldn’t have cared less except whatever the cut of the budget he got.

We’re of no threat to him. He was still the king of the heap. To him, we were just all right, call me when they’re canceled. He was always very nice. He’d have me on from time to time we would promote the show.

I think he found it amusing, and who knows. I never really asked him what he thought of the show, but always felt like, if you’re not as good as Johnny, really, is there any point in leaving Indiana. But if you look at Johnny’s work, now, my god, it was just solid. Pick one night of the week the first year of the eighth year, of the twentieth year. He’s just rock solid.

He’s like the very best home healthcare person you could afford. He’s constant, doesn’t miss a beat, doesn’t get you worried. I mean that, let me jump in there. Dave’s so right about Carson. Doesn’t get you worried again.

It’s another mark of a great host of just steady in the chair driving the train, not going to go off the rails, not going to get the network canceled. Dave said, I always felt like I felt short of that. I feel like everybody else feels short of doing it. The only person I think didn’t fall short of that was Regis Philbin. Regis was, you know, get on him when we hit your stop, because I’m gonna keep going.

He was fantastic, and Johnny the best since Regis came up. I’ll tell a quick readis story. I’ve told it before. So I worked with Regis a few years. He would come into Serious and host bing Crosby Christmas Radio.

He’s a big fan of being Crosby and we wanted to have a cool celebrity host it. So Regis would come in and one year somebody on the serious end forgot to order a car for mister Philbin, and he was standing in front of the building waiting for a car that didn’t come. He eventually got a car himself. He comes in and he’s all Regis Philbin and he’s churning it on. He’s doing ninety percent the act ten percent letting me know that he’s annoyed, and he’s right, we’re we’re totally in the wrong here.

We didn’t order m car. He’s out in the cold. We’re wrong, we’re wrong, wrong, wrong, We’re wrong. Johnny Max’s wrong. Staff is wrong.

We’re wrong. But so it’s like ninety percent the fun ten percent give me the business. And he’s like yeah, and you know, and I had to pay for my own car to get here. Now I don’t know what made me do this, but I took out one hundred dollar bill for some reason. I had one hundred dollars bill and I put it on the counter and I looked him the eye and I smiled, Ago, we good, and he laughed and he goes, okay, he didn’t take my money, of course, but he’s just just like all right.

I think we had an irish thing going on. Anyway. I loved working with Regis Philbin, a pros pro. One of the things I love working with people who are professional and understand, hey, we’re here to do a job. Let’s knock this out professionally.

People that can hit their marks, people that can read a script, people that can do things in one or two takes. I love it. Now, Jay Leno, you know this guy, he’s the kind of guy that like, weighs in on late night television as if he has any expertise on the subject, and you know, when he’s not out doing charity work, he’s just the worst. I saw this story here from Late Night Er. I guess.

According to Bill Carter’s book The War for Late Night, jay Leno could spend five hours straight choosing material for each evening’s program, pouring over jokes until someone dragged him to a rehearsal. Jay Leno hated vacations and really went to parties. Listen to this guy working on the show. Between seasons, he spent his time off working the comedy club circuit, Bill Carter wrote, some might call him a robot with no apparent inner life, for all didn’t care in or did it even seem to disagree all that much. Guy seems like the worst OT’s called Costco, who did not play the Rioda Comedy Festival.

In fact, went out of her way to make sure we knew she didn’t. She’s figured out another way to make money. She’s teamed up with PF Changs. She’s using her social media to introduce items from PF Chang’s revamped menus, such as the return of the chain’s popular grolic noodles. She’s promoting their new eight to ninety nine cocktail options like the Laichi Martini, which she says gives elegance and mystery sounds like me not me not Johnny Mac sounds like Otsgo Go tells us the Jade Margarita is rich with flavor and vacation vibes, and aunces that the grolic noodles have flavor boulder than my wardrobe and my personality.

Again, nothing bold about my walterrobe or my personality. She’s speaking about herself. The new menu include sushi roles like Spicy Tuna, Kung Pow Dragon roll, and chimped Ti, and entres like Kung Poun chicken. Customers can now either select medium or traditional entrees sizes. The eight ninety nine cocktail collection also includes seasonal specials like the Blood Orange Margarita and the par Teeny And On The Guardian, George Francis Lee wants The Simpsons to end.

Lee wrights the Simpsons hasn’t been good since nineteen ninety seven, which means the show has been in decline for as long as I’ve been alive. Now we’re beset with season after season of awful awful episodes. Ironically, the show is already lampooting the growing difficulty in keeping itself fresh all the way back in ninety five. As Troy McClure said in The Simpsons one hundred and thirty eighth episode Spectacular, who knows what adventures they’ll hat between now in the time the show becomes unprofitable. Boy that was a good episode, and boy that episode was thirty years ago.

The yikes that went fast. Lee writes, it’s impossible to explain succinctly why modern Simpsons doesn’t work. It’s not funny, sure, but Springfield the ends are now oversimplified characteratures of themselves, something so in ned Flanders transition from a well meeting and church attending neighbor to a relentless Christian fundamentalist that it’s spawned the term flanderization. Recently, the Simpsons has suffered more by the loss of some of its iconic voice talent. The voice of Miss Croboppol passed away in twenty thirteen, the voice of Martin the Bully passed away, and the voice of Millhouse retired last year.

Then there’s the declining voice quality of actor Julie Kavner, whose voice for Marge now sounds as pleasant of polyp surgery. That’s harsh, and Harry Shearer when he voices characters like mister Burns and Ned Flanders, he comes off like he’s doing a bad impression. How long until Ai is used to skirt the limitations of actor mortality. Hank Azaria, the voice behind Bartender Moe and the ax Up, who has already written an op ed predicting that very outcome. Now they’re making another Simpsons movie, I’m paraphrasing here.

Not only that, but Fox has commissioned four more seasons, meaning that when it hit season forty and twenty twenty eight, the Simpsons will be the same age as Homer is in the show. When the doughnuts start to go stale, you don’t keep them around for another twenty seven years. You chuck them out. That is your comedy news on a Monday. Have a great day.

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Featured: Mark Normand, Shane Gillis, Brian Regan, Bob Odenkirk, Stavros Halkias

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Normand on cancel culture and its misuse for personal gain
• Shane Gillis career trajectory after cancellation and his accidental long hair journey
• Shane Gillis on free printing perks of office jobs
• Brian Regan on performing clean comedy as a personal challenge
• Bob Odenkirk on the Midwest’s influence on comedy and Second City
• Stavros Halkias on wellness journey and redefining masculinity in comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media, Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Company News. Mark Norman talked about cancel culture with al dot com and said, obviously, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby and Jeffrey Epstein and or Kelly and list goes on, these are people that should have been taken down years ago, and these are criminals. He should be in jail. So I get all that, But some people, no one ever brings us up. Some people were using cancel culture like get their way.

It wasn’t about justice or doing what was right. Was about, oh, I can use this and call this person a racist, then they’ll get fired and I could take their job or whatever. People started using it for their own benefit and it wasn’t about doing what was morally. Just was about, hey, let me spind this, I get what I want. That’s really when it got ugly.

And I know a lot of examples of that, But to me, I think we’re kind of pasted it, we’re kind of over it, and you just ignored. Tends to kind of be okay, But yeah, that was a dark time. I mean then we did that weird thing we were like, look at Shane Gillis, he got canceled. Now he’s huge. I’m like, yeah, but he’s also talented.

Let’s not act like him getting canceled was the best thing that ever happened to him. That’s like saying, hey, your mom got stabs and now you’re all over the news. So yeah, I don’t worry about it. I think just as long as you tell jokes, you’re fine. If you’re going up there to saying the N word and yeah, maybe that’s a problem, but maybe you don’t have an act.

You’re just trying to be edgy. Yeah, but I talk about everything. I have dicey topics and quote unquote edgy stuff, you know, but it’s all jokes, and it’s all in jest. Mark Norman’s best to come back to a heckler. Mark said, one of my best counterpunches was a big fat lady who for some reason hated me, and she just yelled out boo, and I said, are you saying boo or moo?

And the place went nuts and she hated me more than she left, So that was a real wind. Shang Wang with Cleveland Scene. They were curious about his hair. What made you grow out your hair? Shang said, it wasn’t really a choice.

I canceled my haircut appointment on More to thirteenth, twenty twenty. Was the pandemic. At one point my currey I tried to grow it out. When it was between short and long, I cut it and never gave it a chance. People started complimenting me on my hair.

I thought it might not make sense of cut it now it matches the vibe of the comedy and writing. For now it really works. It’s all an accident. Remember that, did you cut your own hair? Or the pandemic?

At one point I had to take out the I let this hop grow out, but the sides just my hair gets really wide. I had to take out the razor and just be like, all right, let’s hope for the best. Here. It was okay, you know, it was like pandemic. Okay.

I wasn’t leaving the house anyway. Shane jokes the best part of an office job is being able to print for free. Did he ever actually have an office job? Oh yeah, I still have to have different jobs. I had some temp jobs and was always so blown away by how much printing and trash comes out, going from printing at home to printing out an office.

I remember the warmth of fresh printed paper that’s stuck with me. It’s based on real life office experience as a comedian. You going to an office with fresh eyes, and everything feels so alienating and interesting next to I have asked Brian Reagan about performing clean. That seems to be like, if you ever meet Brian Reagan, you have to be like, hello, you’re Brian Reagan. Yes I am.

You were clean? I mean it’s every interview, but okay, it’s the weekend. Brian said, Well, I was always mostly clean even when I started, just because that’s how my brain works, at least comedically. When I’m with my friends hanging out, I could be as filthy as anyone else on stage. Hey, just the kind of stuff I like to do is conceptual and doesn’t normally go in that four letter word direction.

But it wasn’t completely clean when I first started. Maybe about five percent was dirty. When I first went out on the road, AD a handful of jokes that were attention getters. When you’re playing a rough room like a bar that does a comedy, it’s aequila night out of jokes that would hopefully get their attention, and I try to slide to stuff that I like, but then I got to the point where it’s more about being meticulous than wholesome. You know, people got the wrong idea of why I like to work clean.

I like to work clean just because I like the idea of seeing if I could be one hundred percent of something. I see this a personal challenge. How well can I do how hard can I get people laughing without hitting certain buzzwords or topics that can disproportionately work in front of audiences. I started going one hundred percent clean just for the challenge of it, and along the way I found there’s a following for that. I didn’t do it for that reason.

I did it for my own reasons. IPM Newsroom asked Bob Odenkirk about the role of the Midwest in his comedy. Bob said, the Second City is the name for a theater, and it’s a name that was borrowed from a name for Chicago. The Second City. It’s like you’re the underdog, and as a result, you have a suspicious chip on your shoulder towards all that whatever’s happening, whatever’s hype and happening.

That’s good for comedy because that’s what comedy does. Comedy undermines. Growing up here lends itself to that perspective on the world that wants to poke with the world and doesn’t take things seriously. As long as there are irritating things in the world, there’s comedy, So please keep irritating us. You know, nobody quits show business.

Stavros Halki has spoke with GQ about his current views on wellness and said, early on in my career was like, oh, this is fun. Let me get as messed up as possible. Let me get good at something so I get attention from women, and let me get drunk and have sex with any girl that will let me, and eat like garbage to reward myself. Clean that up a little. There’s also a little bit of nihilism, like living like nothing matters around the path to a coward suicide, where it’s like, I don’t want to take care of myself.

Who cares? I’m not going to be around forever.

And then my life’s gone pretty good.

I got a nephew, My best friends have been kids, and I’m like, oh, I’ve gotten successful. There’s people that care about I guess I want to live. So I’ve been trying over these last five years to lose a little weight. I did really well during the pandemic, and then I started working got fat as f again. I just do whatever takes the stick around with the ultimate goal of being I never want to get skinny, but I want to be strong.

On the road, especially on tour, I just start walking. I like to call myself the twenty thousand step bastard. Every day on the road, i’d walk like eight miles. I’d walk into my feet hurt, and then over time my feet stopped hurting. I could walk.

The thing that’s helped me is to be completely honest with yourself and slowly build from there. The theme of this interview is masculinity. I think this is an interesting answer. I definitely see myself in a lineage of those fat guys that are really up to even as a kid. We’re talking Farley, John Candy, Jack Black.

I don’t think anybody would look at me and say that guy’s feminine. I don’t think I’m getting that, but I guess I’m just trying to say for people who feel like they’re not masculine, there’s a version of them that is. You could be a mix of masculine and feminine. If you want to be masculine, you don’t feel it, there’s a path for you to project that. I think for me it was when I unlocked, Oh, women don’t actually care that much if they like you as a person, if you can show what’s good about you.

A lot of my body in security kind of stem from just general insecurity about relationships and getting attention from girls. But I think for me it was when I unlocked Ouh, women actually don’t care that much if they like you as a person, if you could show what’s good about you. When I was confident myself in all these other ways, when I felt like I’m doing what I need to do. I have a nice life plan, I feel confident in my abilities. That inner confidence sort of projected.

I’ve been enjoying these He’s really in touch with himself. This is good stuff. What does he look for in a relationship, he said, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I think it’s cool to be a provider or whatever. But I’m also very attracted to ambition.

I like somebody who’s doing their own thing. I like talking to somebody about their long term goals. I have to think strategically about my career. I like having those long discussions with somebody. As much as I love stand up, essentially I’m running my own business.

I’ve been overdoing it because once you get a shot in entertainment, you kind of have to take it. I remember thinking, oh, I’m so tired to be cool. If I got home and the place was clean and maybe there was food, I don’t want to order food. I was like, what if I was dating somebody would just be here. It’d be cool if she lived here and then took care of stuff.

I’m doing so well, she wouldn’t even need a job. I backwards invented the concept of a traditional housewife. A little more from that Gutfeld thing I told you about yesterday, he talked about the whole King of Late Night thing and explained, I think I’m trying to think where the King came from, and I think after credit Dave Rubin. I think Rubin was on dur in the first week of the show and said something like, you’re gonna be the King of Late Night. You’re gonna be number one.

I don’t like saying stuff like that because then it’ll just be thrown back in your face, but he was right. Then, of course I had to put it on my book cover. I don’t even have that I happened, but putting it on the cover of my book was like this audacious and ridiculous thing. He was asked what late night even means anymore? Like whatever you watch, you’re choosing a side.

Greg Guttfeld said, yeah, it kind of became defined as maybe a person who wanted to go to bed angry with somebody who wanted to go to bed happy. One thing I always want to do is not send people to bed and reached. Sure, maybe you’re sad that Biden lost, but we’re gonna have so much fun. This is gonna be great.

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And then Trump wins, this is gonna be so much fun.

It’s gonna be great. So we’re gonna have fun and things are gonna be great no matter who wins or loses. I’m not gonna let that impact the time that we have. I think doing a late night show that makes everyone feel bad is a disservice. I don’t understand that.

That’s when you have people switching the channel to come to us. They didn’t even know he existed until then again, we’re comparing red apples and yellow apples. Gutfeld is on at ten Eastern, but he’s on at seven Pacific and eleven thirty five pm Pacific, or not at all the same thing. Greg said, there was literally free money on the table, and so I took it, and I showed mainstream media that they don’t own the culture. I think it’s not just about late night, it’s about all of culture.

It’s about the ability to tell people you aren’t the cool kids at the table anymore. You’d took people for granted, you insulted everybody else. We’re the ones now we’re having fun for your OZ told Variety. I don’t think comedians speak truth to power, you know. I think journalists speak to power ideally, but I think comedians speak to a tiny voice in the back of your head, and perhaps over time we’ve forgotten how powerful that voice is.

I also don’t think you can predict whatever is going to get you into trouble. It’s the thing you really thought of, this thing. You never imagine that it’s going to be the complaint that gets filed, and it’s a thing you thought that, oh, this is going to hurt people. It never hurts people at all. So your best bet is just to say it and deal with it.

When the time comes, and that is your company news for today, see tomorrow.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Gary Gulman, Stavros Halkias, Mark Normand, Leah Calusco

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s ‘Permission to Party’ tour and spontaneous partying philosophy
• Gary Gulman’s experience on Last Comic Standing and career breakthrough via Conan
• Gary Gulman’s theatrical show ‘Grand Delinquent’ mixing comedy with serious storytelling
• Stavros Halkias on masculinity, body image, and regrets about abandoning theater
• Mark Normand’s joke about Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun in Huntsville
• Mark Normand’s tour material on Ozempic, AI, and new fatherhood
• Leah Calusco writing her third special with focus on story-first approach

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Krascher told USA Today, my wife never parties. But if we’re out to breakfast in Hawaii and she goes, what’s this kolua coffee thing? This sounds good.

It might be eight am and I have no plans for drinking, and now I’m like, all right, we’re getting wasted today. It’s the energy that I love about partying, the spontaneousness of it. And every friend group has that one teetotaler who never wants to go out or have fun. And the second you break their spirit, you have permission to party, which happens to be the name of his tour. Funny how that worked out.

It’s the permission to Party tour, and Sure says he will continue to make fun of his wife, Leanne. I love my wife, but if I have a good joke where I can trash her, I do it happily. We have a rule in our relationship. If it’s funny, it plays. Gary Goleman talked to you Third Coast Review about the old NBC series Last Comic Standing.

I used to hate that show because I was running comedy. It’s serious and people would watch it and be like, Hey, how come you never play anything by the guy that has eight seconds of material that I saw on TV last night? And the answer would be, because he has eight seconds of material, Golman, Who’s got more than eight seconds? And I just remember I was feeling pretty good at the time, and I really had nothing going on in terms of my career. I couldn’t get any roadwork.

And this sounds like an exaggeration, but I don’t think I had three hundred dollars on the bank when it started. I just remember I went into more credit card debt to buy clothes so that I could look good on TV.

And then I just kept getting passed further along and it was really exciting.

It was interesting because it gave me a touring career for about a year and a half, and then it was back to where it was. I felt like it was going back to the beginning. It was a little frustrating. I mean, most people never get to have that kind of exposure, so I was grateful for it, but it was also like, oh, it didn’t set you up for the rest of the life in terms of touring. Whereas it turns out, it was an appearance on Conan that kind of set me up for that.

Specifically, Paton Oswald shared my appearance on Conan where I talked about abbreviating the fifty States, and that gave me a foundation that I feel like has grown. But it was strong enough just on that that I could tour the country and pay my rent every month, which is really as you know, all we want is a comedian to be able to give it our all, not have to split our energy and brain power the day job all the time, so that was really helpful. Gary talked about his current sure Grand Delinquent, saying it’s a little bit of a prequel to the Great Depression, but it’s a little more theatrical, and that it’s not all hilarious stand up. This is some stories that are real bummers, so it’s more of a challenge to perform it because our oxygen as comedians is laughter. And there’s a part where it’s hard to say where the audience is enjoying themselves because it’s not a very funny story.

It’s sad and it’s just straight information rather than a joke or would you comment. So it was challenging, but not so challenging that it was overwhelmed. I felt over my head when we were rehearsing it, and that’s a really good place to be as an artist, or an athlete, or really anything. You should give yourself enough of a challenge where you wonder whether you’re equipped or whether you’ll be able to rise to the occasion. So I think the show’s really fulfilling.

I mean, it was critically acclaim but I think more importantly, it was a little bit out of my comfort zone. My comfort zone is saying funny things, and this involved me not being funny for part of it. It’s still a comedy show, but there’s a lengthy story about a half an hour where people gasp about and really take it away with them. I think it’s sort of a gradual evolution as a performer and writer. Just start doing these observational jokes and then do something very personal with the great depression.

Then do this, which is personal. I’m also out of my comfort zone in terms of acting and performing. Starvaros Halgi has caught up with GQ about masculinity and Starvarro said, I definitely have a glaring difference from the traditional idea of what a masculine man is I’ve been fat my whole life. I received the scorn of traditional masculinity. I definitely felt that growing up.

I’m pretty lucky that the funny fat guy’s an archetype. Every crew of bullies is a fat, wise cracking guy. That’s there. I played football, I was athletic, whatever, but that was also me trying to fit in a way that sometimes probably wasn’t that good for me. I was in school plays my whole life, and then something shifted in seventh grade.

I remember getting an offered a part, and I think it was you’re a good man, Charlie Brown or something, but I wasn’t Charlie. I got offered some other part, and I was like, theater is gay, dude. I was like, our theater teacher’s gay. I don’t want to be around that guy. It was afft up.

It was pure sour grapes, the fact that I wanted to be Charlie Brown. Then I was like, I’m thirteen, it’s time to get strong, it’s time to be a football player. I certainly would have been better off in the long run for my life i’d stuck with theater. I would have still played sports. Don’t get me wrong, but I just admitted I wasn’t good enough to get the part, and I should have worked her bounce my life out that way instead of pretending like that’s stuff’s not for me when I got my feelings hurt and lashing out in a very traditionally negative way.

That is a fantastic answer. That’s somebody who understands themselves. I like that answer a lot, he continued. I think about with myself. When I was fourteen fifteen, I was a loser.

I was nervous to talk to girls. I didn’t feel comfortable in my body, was getting attacked for being fat. Luckily, I was going to make fun of people. But if there’s some ripped dude who’s good at beating people up, was like, and I had to get chicks. All you have to do is control women and treat them poorly.

If they shot me with that, Andrew Tait ray when I was fourteen, stuff might have been bad for me. All we had was Dane COOKSDS Mark Norman caught up with al dot com. They were curious about one of Mark’s jokes and how Mark Norman found out how Werner von Brown and other rocket scientists who helped the US reach the moon were Nazis. Mark said, for me, he was just driving around Huntsville and seeing all the von Braun signs everywhere. Then I googled it.

I was like, who the hell’s von Braun? How do I not know this guy?

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And then the rest is his.

I was blown away. And plus, when you do a gig somewhere, you need some local stuff to riff on. So that’s all it was. And I said, this is perfect. It killed.

You can’t go wrong with Nazis. I was cooking with gas Chamber and everybody liked it. Wow.

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And then you know, Huntsville is such an anomaly because like, I’m from Louis…

And you’ve got the smartest people on the planet as well, so it’s a nice economy. Mark self spoiled about his current tour and said, I’ve got a whole chunk on a zimpic. I’ve got a whole chunk on AI new advances to technology and chat GPT and all this stuff. And I’m also trying to go more personal. I just had a baby, so I’m doing a bunch of baby stuff.

But then you also don’t want to be the baby guy, so I’m always tweaking and tinkering. Let’s go at Cosca cut up with Philippines Vogue. She’s writing her third stand up special and it is taking a different approach. She explains, for the first two stand up specials, I always chase the joke, but now I’m trying to do this thing where maybe I service the whole story first. She finds that writing jokes first can be limiting.

She explains, sometimes she’ll go, oh wait, that joke about dogs doesn’t fit into this hour of themes. You have to take that out and you do with that joke. You have to live in the drama first for it to become funny. Eventually, Greg Guttfeld got up at the LA Times. He was gloating about being number one.

Of course, his show was on at ten pm Eastern, not eleven thirty five pm Eastern, a fact that the Gutfeld camp loves to ignore, and also on the West Coast, Fallon and Colbert and Kimmel air at eleven thirty five and Gutfeld airs at seven pm. Anyway, Gutfeld is number one in the ten pm time slot and says, I get ratings every single day, so I was able to watch us win. I guess it wasn’t that surprised by it. I just knew there was going to take time. I thought, yeah, maybe in a couple of years, but it was like in a matter of months.

He talked about the difference between Red Eye and the current show. Red Eye was operating on the assumption that you really had a select group of people awake at two or three in the morning. It wasn’t trying to be a cult like pleasure. It just happened to be that way. We did want it to be for everyone.

Though now we have ten times the viewers and we’re number one, So on my mind, I’m going I want the same sensibility, but I don’t want to completely confuse the viewers. I realized that my humor on Red Eye was deliberate, up tuse in some ways, and not really deliberately. It was just surreal and bizarre, and maybe that one fly in primetime or late night. But like Red Eye, our shows now is interesting and unpredictable as that show was. And that’s ninety percent of the fight.

Now, this next section here, I’ve sat on this story for weeks. I don’t know if you noticed. It was busy. But all this happened before the Kimmel gait, but I think it happened after Colbert Gate. Gottfeldt said, I think the key is that nothing you should say should warrant an apology, Meaning if I were to insult you, you’re not going to demand an apology for me.

When somebody wants an apology for comment, I always ask them, how would that apology sound? I’m sorry that the jokes I made hurt your feelings? How insulting is that to the person you’re apologizing to. I’m sorry I hurt your feelings with this insult. It’s like the people that are demanding an apology don’t even see how absolutely insulting it is that they’re asking for it.

Santem Johnson is one of vulturous comedians You should and will know or whatever that thing is called. Anyway, I like it a lot, even though I can never remember what they call it. That’s funny. I mean, she’s been around for a minutes. She was on last Comic Standing in twenty fourteen was a just for laughs new face.

That same year, Welter asked, what was your worst show ever? The answer. Probably the first time I did a main spot at the Comedy Store. It was year one and I was ambitious. I’ve been doing five minute spots to warm up the show, and I thought, now that I’m doing a main spot, which is fifteen minutes, I needed all new material.

I went up after Gerrod Carmichael, and I watched him turn a bomb in a win, so I thought I’d have the same luck. Nope, they didn’t boo, but the silence was deafening. The friends in the audience who came out to support me were confused and embarrassed. I was literally because I clearly didn’t have the confidence or experience to get through the bombs. I think the audience had said good night.

When I tried leaving the stage, the host was nowhere to be found, so I had to stand there an awkward failure. Ooh, that’s brutal. What’s your biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since becoming a comedian? Interesting answer here. I was under the impression that if you tell me you’re gonna pay me, you’ll just do it.

But I learned very early that if you don’t speak up, people won’t offer it to you. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Toronto comedian Brady Coyle. Brady’s favorite comedian growing up George Carlin. I listened to his albums, particularly Complaints and Grievances and Jamming in New York saw I’m Live when I was fourteen. I was the only one in the crowd under fifty.

I love Carlin’s ability and willingness to analyze politics, dissect the English language, comment on human behavior, extrapolate where societal trans will lead us, and then also make sure to spend five minutes on for jokes. Ah, who are your favorite comedians right now? Brady Coyle, I’m a big fan of John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle, Pete Holmes, Apergetzi, Luis k Dean Cole, and Tom Poppa. Mike Birbigley is probably my favorite. He’s a hilarious and captivating storyteller.

To find new comics, Brady says, nothing beats seeing comedy live at the venue in person. Alternatively, I like watching full specials because it allows the viewer to get a sense of who comedian is and you get to see jokes they crafted over a long period of time, and that it’s your comedy news for today, see you tomorrow,

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Charlie Kirk, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Jimmy Kimmel, Jessica Kerson

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah’s commentary on performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival
• Trevor Noah’s Charlie Kirk assassination joke and free speech debate
• Saudi Arabia’s human rights record and comedy festival whitewashing
• Comedians’ responsibility regarding human rights organizations
• Bill Burr’s defensive stance on Riyadh Comedy Festival controversy
• Comparison of authoritarian regimes and comedy restrictions

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Busy One again Helone Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah has weighed in on the Riod Comedy Festival. There’s a long pause at the top here. I thought about taking it out, but I want to leave it in to respect Trevor’s pacing, as he was performing this as part of a comedy set, and pacing, of course helps inform the intent here, So I’m going to leave the long pause in.

This is a lengthy clip and there is I think one use of salty language here, but here’s Trevor Noah. I don’t know. It’s it’s it’s an interesting one. I’ll start with this like when you know what what Saudi Arabia is all about. It’s weird to go to a comedy festival that is paid for by Saudi Arabia.

You know what I mean? And this is what I mean. There’s a there’s a difference. I’m all for going anywhere to perform for anyone, because there are people who live in countries that don’t agree with what their countries are doing. So I don’t assume that everybody who lives in a country is the same as the people running the country, Right, that’s the first thing.

But but when the government is paying you to come, that’s like a direct relationship. That’s different. Does that make sense? Like it changes up and I don’t know, man, like Saudi Arabia, You’re like, damn, just you just do a cursory search. You don’t even have to like dig do you don’t have to go do your research or it just the things that Saudi Arabia does, you know what I mean, Like you see all the comedians who have it’s like Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Louis C.K.

Like it was like a whole as He’s I’m sorry, you know, I mean, I’m friends with all of these guys. Like I’m just like, but they went to Saudi, and I’m like, if you search Saudi, you see the things that happened there. Right. Government is on some like almost dictator level shit. Right, Like you you say the wrong thing, you get disappeared in a moment.

Like it just like one minute your family knows where you are, and then they don’t. Women like don’t have control over their own bodies. Oh, free speech is limited. Violence is the order of the day. I don’t know, man, at like, I don’t think I’d ever perform in Saudi Arabia.

I would only perform in the United States because that would never happen here. Will that would never happen here? Could you imagine what would happen if America announced that they were just like like scooping people up and just like disappearing their kids. Sow out of that, he transitioned into a routine and paraphrasing here, And you know, at some point I can’t just play the guy’s entire act, but he transitioned into a bit that was some commentary about ICE. If you would like to hear the routine, I did share it in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and you’ll find it there.

But I do want to flag that Trevor was both commenting on RIAD and also making a larger point. He also made some headlines for a Charlie Kirk joke. Trevor Noah was tying his commentary about riodd to America’s crackdown on free speech and the bad taste jokes after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Trevor said, this is the same country where hundreds of people have been fired for saying anything about Charlie Kirk. This is the same country where people make jokes about Ibraham Lincoln being shot, which I think like ranks higher.

Trevor pushed back on the insistence that nothing funny can ever be said about things. He said, there’s nothing funny about most things in our lives. Nothing funny about death, nothing funny about life, nothing funny about struggling. The whole point of it is to find a moment of solace. Comedians don’t have the latitude that leaders have.

I’ve seen these comedians will tell a joke and people are like, don’t you dare And then the President of the United States literally said maybe I’ll go for a third term. Then people said Trump was joking, and Trevor said, oh, so he can president jokes. Yeah, comedian, No. I would hope that we just learned to focus on not the thing that everyone’s showing us, but the thing that’s actually happening. Comedians are not going to make or break Saudi Arabian what’s happening there, but the thing that’s making or breaking what comedians can or cannot say in America, that’s a real thing that’s happening At a different point, Trevor Noah talked about growing up in South Africa and said, you can’t just say whatever you wanted.

There was no stand up comedy in South Africa because you’d go to jail. One of the first things you lose, funny enough, in an Athloratorian regime is comedy. This crazy trend that you can follow throughout time. Go to Russia, South Africa. Know it’s told the crowd in a weird way.

I almost feel like Saudi Arabia is moving in the right direction by allowing comedy shows. Now, I want to be fair to Trevor here again, I can’t just endlessly play his clips. And I want you to understand this is the difference between John reading what Trevor Noah said and Trevor Noah actually performed in the material as part of a complete set. Okay, so just remember here everything Trevor said was in context in a flowing set with the rhythm and the body language and the into nation. But I do want to from a new standpoint, sure that he did address Charlie Kirk.

Trevor said, now you tested me. I mean, there’s nothing funny about it. Don’t say that because then I’ll be like, I’m sure there’s something funny about it, quoting Trevor Noah. Here, the guy was shot while the funding guns. Do you understand I’m not even writing that as a joke.

As a human, you have to admit that’s an incongruous, funny thing that happened. That would be like if the captain of the Titanic was given an impassionate speech about icebergs right before it happened. Trevor was clear, I don’t think there’s anything funny about Kirk’s death, but that’s literally what comedians do. That’s the whole point of it. There’s nothing funny about most things in our lives.

Nothing funny about death, nothing funny about life, nothing funny about struggling. Nope, the whole point of it is to find a moment of solace. It’s pretty crazy that America’s response to the guy getting shot was to limit speech instead of limiting the thing that ended his life. What happened to Charlie Kirk? He got shot?

All right, tell people to shut up. We got to get some word control out in these streets. Let me tell you something, jokes will never kill you, never again. The entire set is shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. My apologies to Trevor Noah for me buther suuring his material and my intention was not to take any of it out of context.

Hopefully I did that story correctly. The Human Rights Watch has posted they wrote during and October sixth appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live as He’s I’m Sorry, said that part of the fee from the festival should go to support causes that support free press and human rights, and that he shares the concerns that people have brought up. He named Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch. Jessica Kerson, another comedian who performed at the festival, said she was donating her entire performance fees to a human rights organization. Human Rights Watch is unable to accept the donation.

They add the ri Odd Comedy Festival as part of the Saudi government strategy to whitewash its poor human rights record, and participating comedians have responsibility to avoid laundering the government’s reputation. On September nineteenth, Human Rights Watch wrote to the representatives and management of a group of announced participating comedians to request a meeting about Saudi Arabia’s human rights crisis. The representatives and management did not reply. Captip to Jason Zinnemann for sharing that in his threads feed, which is how I sought. Bill Burr continues to get a lot of negative reaction to his defensive stance or defiant stance, however you want to look at that, but Burr not having a good week.

Jason Zenniman in The New York Times wrote, if the comics used their sets or even their interviews back home to look squarely at the critique of the Saudi government, that would be one thing. But I see zero evidence that they’re defending or even showing respect for actual dissent. It’s giving ahead. Zinneman rights Burr, Luis c K and I’m sorry are arguing for the impact of comedians and the power of jokes. But that’s precisely the opposite.

Lesson to take away from the comedian Tim Dillon’s experience with the festival, when he criticized the Saudi government weeks before the event, he was disinvited. The comics were made on the bill, were paid not just to perform, but also to shut up about certain topics, and they complied Jason Zinneman in The New York Times points out, imagine if similar conditions were put on comics in this country. What if a stand up was told they couldn’t mock the president at the White House Correspondence Association dinner, they wouldn’t perform. What if Andrew Schultz, who performed in Saudi Arabia, was told by an American producer that he couldn’t insult the government, he would surely exploit this, ending himself as the victim of cancel culture. In The Guardian again, Jonathan lu this time writes how much of this laughter truly escapes the walls of the theater, beyond the brightly elit plazas of Boulevard City, into the degradation and exploitation behind.

What kind of social transformation is possible when only a proviage few were in on the joke. The American comedian Sinbad once famly observed that comedians are funnier when they’re riding the bus, and perhaps Saudi Arabian it’s hired entertainers are laboring under a kind of convenient delusion, the naivete of the Saudi government imagining that comedy can whitewash its many crimes, is matched only by the naivete of the comedians, some of whom genuinely believe their presence is kind of a cultural bridge, a force for a positive change. Of course, art can change minds, change worlds, but only if the will to do so truly exists, or as a world renowned stand up comic almost put it, I stand up for your right to do stand up comedy in a medieval autocracy. But please know that you’re wrong. You’re living in a fantasy land.

After you leave, nothing happens, So you know, stop being an effing child. So I’ll ask you has anyone else actually hurt their career doing the Riod Comedy Festival. Forbes published this on October eighth, Drinking Manhattan’s with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco. Here’s the top aerographs on stage. The comedian will make fun of your table manners, wardrobe with the way you’re raising your kids, But meeting him in person, he just wants you to be yourself.

The judgment comes later between his successful comedy specials has sold out five night run at Madison Square Garden and having Robert de Niro as his co star in his first major film, Sebastian Maniscalco has become one of today’s biggest comedians. He recently completed an eighth show residency at the Ocean City Resort in Atlantic City, where he brought his observations about growing up in an Italian family, people’s manners and life is a father’s to Evation hall I met with Madiscalco at the hotel’s Italian restaurant, Linguini by the Sea. We’re over some great Manhattans, as well as homemade meatballs, eggplant rollatini and chicken Marsella from Chief Ye and Wilson. We discussed his favorite drink, why he’s much more social than he seems on stage, and how Jerry snide Felt taught him the best way to end a meal where we are That came out on October eighth, today’s October tenth. So it doesn’t seem like Forbes is too upset with Sebastian Maniscalco.

I’m sure he’ll continue to sell plenty of tickets. And to be fair, I’m going to cover that article that I just skimmed. I’m going to do it next week. I’m just as bad. I took a second to think about this.

What am I to do. Am I to take a moral stand and say, you know what, Sebastian Maniscalco, he’s dead to this program. I’m never going to mention him again. And am I never going to mention Burr and Chappelle and so like? I don’t know, I’m just as bad?

Or do I pick my spots and I only do negative Sebastian Maniscalco, negative Ck, negative Bill Burr, And I don’t tell you if they do anything fun or interesting or non controversial. So I might just be as bad as the Forbes article. I don’t know. But back to my question, has this actually hurt anyone’s career? The San Francisco Chronicle reports Louis C.K.

Has sold out his show December ninth at the Masonic Theater. It’s part of his Ridiculous World tour. In a recent email to fans, K described the or is a gargantoin amount of shows, with more than seventy five dates. I bet they’ll mostly sell out, if not completely sell out. Did c K hurt his career going to riodd?

I don’t think so. Perhaps related, perhaps not, Probably not, because Kevin Hart often cancels gigs for various reasons. He’ll pick up other work, but Saturday nights Kevin Hart show at the Santa Nez Chumash Casino Resort Somala Showroom has been canceled, with no further details provided. Arts team released an official statement simply stating that tickets would be refunded from point of purchase, so usually those get rescheduled. This is a cancel again.

It might just be somebody offered him a movie, or he’s got a cold. I don’t know, just sharing because it’s interesting. Let me catch my breath here for a second. This show has been going hard. I want to make this about me.

The show’s been going hard. Right if we go back to Kimilgate and all the bonus episodes and all this red stuff, the show’s been going hard. I’m having more fun doing this the last three weeks than I’ve had the entire run. The shows have been strong, The numbers are up by a full third. People are sticking around, new listeners.

Appreciate you. Hope you continue to stick around. The reason I’m sharing all this, especially for the new people. I pre tape this weekend, So if you listen Saturday, Sunday or Monday and you’re like, how come he’s not talking about. Sometimes I tape the weekend.

I’m spending some time with my family this weekend, so to accommodate my schedule, I tape the weekend. I had all these extra stories. That’s what happens. You know. You think you’re going to do one thing every day.

I bounce stuff, and I’ll often pre tape the weekends. I have not pre taped the weekends the last few weeks. In fact, I’ve been doing them almost in real time, which is not normally how I produce the show. But I’m just sharing this. So the people have been around for seven years, you get it.

You know how the weekend shows go. But in case you’re relatively new and you’re like, huh, I thought this show was really good. Today seems a little lesser. Are the shows a little lesser? Yeah?

They probably are. They’re not bad, but they’re not like, like today’s show, I’m throwing nothing but fastballs. Right. The weekend shows are just more like, hey, this comedian is doing this, this comedans doing that, and then I’ll jump back in Tuesday will go hard. So I just want to tell you all that because I did pre tape the weekend earlier in the week when I had a minute, let’s do the late night jokes today the government shut down the topic.

Jimmy Fallon said, We’re almost a week into the government shutdown, and airports across the country are already starting to report a shortage of air traffic controllers. Now pilots are chased with the choice of waiting in a long line or using the self checkout tarmac. I like that joke, Jimmy Kimmel. Soon when we fly, we’ll have the same number of air traffic controllers the Wright brothers had back to Fellon And if you want to know how long eight days of a shutdown is, just think eight days ago. We had no idea what kind of tree.

Travis Kelsey was like. Kimmel was at a screen time event. He said the night he returned, he did not script his monologue. It was something that really had to come from inside me and had to be truthful, and I had to lay it all out there and to be honest with what I was feeling. He said he would not invite FCC chairperson car on the show, but he would ask Donald Trump to be a guest.

Kimmel said, low ratings for the shows that air before his have cut into his viewership. The availability of clips on YouTube has also hurt. He does not believe the shows like his and Colbert’s are losing tens of millions of dollars. He says those numbers don’t include other revenues the shows generate, such as fees from local stations. David Letterman now originally today, So this is an example of meat bumping stuff.

Today is ten to ten, and I’ve been sitting on this story that Vulture did, the oral history of the Top ten list. Top ten has a ten in it. I’m like, oh, I’ll do that on ten ten. We’re almost nearly twenty minutes in today’s show. I don’t have time to do the top ten list.

So that’s an example of something that someday will become weekend filler. So for the new people, that’s what weekend filler is like. So if I were to come on tomorrow, it’s not in tomorrow show, but some weekend and you’re like, oh, David Letterman, top ten list, this is fun. That’s what you get on the weekend timely. David Letterman news he will induct Warren Zevon into the Rock Hall of Fame.

Zevon, passed away in two thousand and two, was a recurring guest on The Late show. Mark Maron on his Thursday podcast said that was the last one recorded in the garage. That Monday’s show, which is the final episode, is not recorded in the garage, so at some point we’re going to hear there was a big shiny guest on Monday’s show. Robin Williams daughter Zelda has asked fans to chill out with the AI stuff. She asked people to stop sending me AI videos of Dad Robin Williams, stop believing I want to see it, or that I’ll understand.

I don’t and I won’t if you’re just trying to troll me. I’ve seen way worse. I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and made and everyone, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s not what he’d want.

Zelda Williams continued to watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to this vaguely looks and sounds like them. So that’s enough, just so other people can turn out horrible TikTok slop is maddening. You’re not making art, You’re making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings. I actually saw a clip one of Martin Luther King Junior’s descendants, it might have been one of his kids that may have been the next generation, tagged onto the Zelda Williams conversations like can you just stop? And in that there was an image shared of what sort of kind of look like MLK Junior at a UFC event, So yeah, just stop.

A Zelda said, you’re not making art. You’re making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. Comedy Stock marketsine every Friday. We take a look at the comedians.

We buy some stock, and we sell some stock, and I make some recommendations. And honestly, I almost didn’t do the segment this week because it’s been such an angsty period and I wish I had some buy recommendations for you, but I just don’t this week. So here are my cells as he’s and sorry, let’s get the hell out. Did you watch the Camel piece. I’m not buying a disease and if you listen to the show, I don’t like disease to begin with.

I just. I have my issues with disease. Sell asease and sorry, Bill Burr, he’s just digging himself a hole and the hole is getting bigger and bigger. So let’s sell our Bill Burr. And I think we got to sell a little on Conan O’Brien.

I know set Conan has had a great year, but I feel like once the Conan O’Brien needs a friend, episode gets out from behind the paywall and more people hear it. I’m seeing some conversation on Reddit that Conan has sort of let Burr off the hook there, and I think Conan gets some slap back. So let’s sell a little Conan stock, not all of it, but a little. Let’s also sell Cam Patterson. Now this is probably unfair, but based on the one appearance on SNL, I’m like, hm, I feel like he’s going to be one and done, So let’s sell Cam Patterson stock.

And we are trying conceptually to make money here. Let’s sell high on Maren. We’re at peak Maren, and you always sell high and buy low. This is as high as Maren’s going to get into this Monday episode. So let’s cash out on Mark Maren.

Good luck to you, sir, Thank you for all your service, thank you for what you do, thank you for your podcast. But we’re going to make hypothetical money. Let’s sell high on Mark Maren, Sell Bill Burr, sell Little Conan, sell Cam Patterson, and sell the hell out of disease and sorry, and that’s your comedy stock market. I’m exhausted. I don’t know about you.

All right, let’s do gossip corner. Caitlyn Clark hanging out with Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, was in town. Adam Sailor posted on what is this? This is Twitter? Sandler posted Indiana, Holy cow.

Great Monday, Hank can’t wait for the next one scene there with Caitlyn Clark. Taylor Swift was spotted out for dinner on Tuesday night. She was there with her longtime friend, comedian Gerrod Carmichael. Jord Carmichael and Taylor Swift are longtime friends. Did everyone else know this?

I didn’t know this anyway, that’s who she went to dinner with. Okay, Tonight’s Jimmy Fallon is airing the extended cut of Taylor swift Tonight Show appearance from earlier in the week. It is called The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon colon Taylor Swift parentheses extended cut now. Taylor also went on Seth Meyer’s show for some reason. And for those of you that think I’m unfair to Seth my my premises nobody cares.

Here’s the degree to which nobody cares. Okay, Seth Myers had on Taylor Swift, and I went on Latenighter dot com. Dy did it even cover it? Seth Myers had Taylor Swift and Late Nighter didn’t even bother to mention it on Thursday when I looked here, I’m gonna look again. It’s four twenty two pm Eastern up typing in Latenighter dot Com.

And I love the site. I source it almost every single day. It’s fantastic. I’m on The main page features SNL’s fifty greatest episodes, as voted by fans. One hour ago.

Suddenly, Jimp downies everywhere news, kim Old turns Trump’s warzone talking to a viral challenge. News Watch Jimmy Kimmel Talk, Disney News, Taylor Swift’s Tonight Show visit expands with extended cut airing Friday News or Samuel hall Ready’s new memoir, News David Letterman to induct Warren Zevon News. Amy Poler, Oh, Yeah, Amy Polers hosting SNL look at That eventually on Tuesday features SNL screen Time Report Use and Tene TV plans Tonight Show party for Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday. None of that is Seth Myers who had Taylor Swift. Why did she do Late Night with Seth Myers?

Why? I don’t understand. Luckily, people who apparently stayed up later taped it or whatever they did. Seth said to Taylor Swift, congratulations on your engagement. There are two things I’m worried about in your behalf.

Taylor Swift said, only two. Seth said, I think you’ve got everything else under control. I’m worried about the invitations, just the invitations alone, because I feel like everybody you know has an expectation that you’re gonna put a lot of thought into it, and I feel like I just give you permission to send an evite. I’m exhausted. Check the run time on this episode.

What can I not bump? I cannot bump that this week? And it’s the Because They’re Funny DC Comedy Festival. It’s back for its third year at the Wharf. This year’s lineup features some More and Jay Farrow.

They’ll also be the Breakout Comedian of the Year competition, hosted by Jay Farrow. National finalists compete for a ten thousand dollars grand prize and a shot at Hollywood representation. That it’s your comedy news today, all right, Johnny Max, take it a couple of days off. There’ll be shows in your feed and we’ll jump back in live on Tuesday. Thank you to everyone.

Thank you Clifford. Clifford became a new supporter of the show. Appreciate you Clifford who wrote, You’re doing great job. Your listeners love your content. Keep it going.

Thank you, and thanks for everybody who buys me a coffee or is in the two dollars club. You can check all that stuff out on buying mycoffee dot com. My voice is shot, I’m out of energy. It’s the weekend. Have a good one.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Bill Burr, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Bes Perucci, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Tom Segura, Jessica Curson, Sebastian Maniscalco

What’s in This Episode

• WTF with Marc Maron ending after final episode Monday
• Bill Burr defends Saudi Arabia Riyadh Comedy Festival appearance on Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
• Conan O’Brien criticized for not pushing back on Burr during podcast
• Bes Perucci discusses Saudi Arabia comedy festival controversy on Jimmy Kimmel
• Reactions to comedians performing at Saudi Arabia event despite regime concerns

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, massive Bill Burr story again today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. But I do want to lead off with Mark Maron because this one kind of gut punched me. This from Mark Maren’s blog on Markmeron dot com, and we knew this was coming, but this, like I said, this was a gut punch.

Maren wrote, almost done, folks. I’m excited, but I’m also sorry to leave you people. I’ll save the week, be goodbye for next week, and stay strong this week. Well, actually, this Thursday show is all me talking about how I feel, and then Monday we are the final episode, so I’ll leave it at that. You can listen.

I don’t want to spoil it by writing everything I say, So Today’s show on WTF with Mark Maron is Mark solo, and then Monday is whatever the final episode is. Okay, Bill Bird did Conan O’Brien’s podcast. It’s not publicly available yet, but the private feed for subscribers is out, and both GIBA and The Hollywood Reporter have covered this. Now. If you’re a relatively new listener, I will sometimes do what I call a half ass impression I’m not trying to do an impression of someone, but I’ll sometimes change my normal speech pattern to try and mimic ish the way somebody else speaks.

I’m going to do that with Burr here because I don’t have the audio for you anyway, Conan was taping Conan O’Brien needs a friend, Bill Burr showed up. Pajeeba wrote of those who attended and reported on a Reddit thread, all were disappointed in Bill Burr’s self righteous rant. Based on their accounts, Burr repeated many of the talking points he’s already delivered on his own podcast Freedom, and you can hear those comments on Wednesday’s version of this very podcast. But Pajiba says the real disappointment from those who chimed in was Conan O’Brien himself, who didn’t push back. At least Jimmy Kimmel reminded his ease.

I’m sorry that the Saudi Royals are very bad people. We will get to that after the bur stuff, And at one point, Conan even compared what Burr did in Saudi Arabia to his own travel show. Conan O’Brien must go right, so the Hollywood Reporter pulled something that looks at least transcript esh from the Hard Reporter review, Bill Burr said, and I’ll clean it up that Burr doesn’t give an F what all these phony f and people are saying. I don’t really giving f Conan, and it affects my career. I’ve been lax enough of my life.

I’ll have f it sit home for a little bit. I’ll actually tell you lax is slightly Saturday in Saudi Arabia. I’ve been going through this BS the whole week. My agent never even call me. He’s been under his f and desk hearing me on the podcast saying what I said here that a good time and it was a positive thing.

So he thought that was the mindset that I was in through the week. One of my favorite things is the scumbag club owner texting my tour manager because he heard I was over there. He goes, bring back a burke in a sweatshirt and size oppression. That was his jokes. I wrote back to him, why don’t you concentrate in not ripping off comedians?

You f and piece of s And he never wrote back. Bird tells Conan that events like the Riodd Comedy festival have to happen in order to push progress forward. It was necessary. It felt right afterward a vibe with them and f they were funny, f and people. I don’t know what to tell you.

I had a good time. I love to do with the podcast. Man, I appreciate having me on, especially during all this BF. Your real friend, dude, Pagieba said. What was most disappointing was Conan acting as a yes man the whole time.

After realizing no one on that stage was going to try and have an honest conversation with Bill, we were hoping it would move on, but after a while didn’t seem like Bill want to talk about anything else, so we just left Pageeba says. Another part of the conversation, Bill Burst said that it wouldn’t be very different if he took money from the English or the London government since they have such a bloody past, or our own American government. So the episode’s out now. If you want to be a paid subscriber, it will be available for free on October fifteenth. Before we get to the easeas and sorry thing, I’ve been thinking about this.

Here’s what’s going to happen here, Everyone including me we’re all outraged this week, and you know what, Bill Burr’s going to announce, He’s playing the Garden. He’s going to sell out in two seconds. And Dave Chappelle’s going to sell out the Garden two seconds, and Louis C.K. Is going to sell out the Garden two seconds, and Tom Sigore is going to sell out the Garden in two seconds. These guys may have added one sentence to their obituary, depending on how long that obituary is.

Some comedians like Jessica Curson I think are going to get the forever eye roll. I don’t think Bill Burr is helping himself here, but I think somebody like Tom Sagora, somebody like Sebastian Maniscalco, I think they’re just gonna say, at long, just fine, and no one’s gonna care be not so canceled disease and sorry. You may recall he was canceled a few years ago. Well he’s back and he was on with Jimmy Kimmel who asked him about the Riod Comedy Festival. I watched these clips.

Zesu’s body language is very nervous. He’s looking down in a way a lot. I’m not sure his body believes the words that his mind is saying. I want to ask you about this comedy festival over in Saudi Arabia that you were part of. Was that this weekend of that went on?

It’s going on now and oh it’s still going on, right, I think so. I’m not sure, but this. Is obviously this is something that’s become a big part of the news because people, a lot of comedians especially, are very upset because this is the people who paid the comedians to come to the This are not good people. They are It’s a pretty brutal regime. They’ve done a lot of horrible, horrible things, and so people are questioning why you would go over there and take their money to perform in front of these people.

And I’m just curious because you were there, you made this decision. I’m curious as to why you decided to do that. Yeah. No, I’m glad you asked, because you know, it’s something I put a lot of thought into. And you know, I have an aunt that lived there for a while and I talked to her about this, and she said, you know, there’s people over there that don’t agree with the stuff the government’s doing, and to ascribe like the worst behavior of the government onto those people.

It’s not fair, just like there’s people in America that don’t agree with the things that government right. Yeah, Kima wasn’t buying any of that. And follow it up, the government over there is arresting people for peaceful protes I mean, I know, yeah, we’re doing horrible things over here, but they murdered a journalist. I mean it’s like, you know, it’s these are not good people over there, so are the You did you deal with those people specifically? No, I was just there to do a show for the people.

And you know, I talked to my wife about this, you know, before I went, and she said, you know, whenever there’s repressive societies like this, they try to keep things out, whether it’s rock and roll music or you know, blue jeans, because it makes people curious about outside ideas, outside values. And this is a very young country. Half the countries under the age of twenty five, and things can really change. And to me, like a comedy festival felt like something that’s pushing things to be more open and to push a dialogue. And you kind of have to make a choice of whether you’re going to isolate or engage.

And for me, especially being me and looking the way I do and being from a Muslim background, it felt like something I should be a part of and I hope it pushes things in a posta direction. Kimmeill was a very good follow up here. Did you have these concerns when you performed in India many years ago? Yeah, I mean there’s stuff there that you know, I don’t feel great about, and and I did it, and you know, I’m Indian and it was an important experience for me. And you know, comedy in India is really thriving, and people are are talking about things that are happening there and some of them are even you know, go to jail and things.

But for this re odd thing, you know, it was something I really thought about, and even before I went, I said, you know, I’m going to do this and and I hope it’s positive. And you know, if I’m going to do this, I share the concerns that people have brought up and it’s all valid. And I said to myself and my team, I said, if we do this, part of the fee should go to support causes that support uh, you know, free press and human rights and. Which causes specifically, or you think I think I read about Reporters without Borders, which I think, and and Human Rights Watch as well, and you know it’s a complicated issue, but you know, I felt like it was it was something that’s pushing things in the right I hope.

And then one more clip from the Not So Cancel Disease.

Sorry again, his body language is very defensive in this segment. You felt that it was that in the long term, this will be a positive people seeing comedy and American comedy and Freeze. Yeah. I mean, so many people were there talking about stuff, and I hope people see that and they go, wow, this was really great and I want more of this, not just in comedy but in everything, to push things to be more open and to have the ability to say what we want and to have dissent and all this stuff, and hopefully it’s a step in that direction. Nice job, Jimmy Kimmel.

Tom Sagora posted last night we went to the only comedy club in Riot and had an amazing time. The comics were so warm and welcoming and the crowd was incredible. We did the exact same sets we were doing the States, and they were acted just like a crowd at home would well minus the bit on pickleball. So glad we went, and tonight we’ll do the arena. Lots of love to all the comics we met and to the crowd that came out.

The comments on Segora’s a social media post did not go so well, but again, he’ll sell out the garden to seconds at the Redd Comedy Festival tonight. Andrew Schultz. We’re told Andrew Schultz always comes close to the line with his jokes. He’s quick witted, fearless, and has made a name for himself on social media. Let’s find out how fearless you are, Andrew, go for it.

A Daria go for It. British magician Ben Hort brings sleek showmanship and mind bending allusions to the Reod Comedy Festival. You may know him from Britain’s Got Talent. Hannibal Buris brings his dry wit and deceptively laid back delivery to the Read Comedy Festival, promising a set that blends sharp observational beats with off kilter asides. I love the copy here, like whoever wrote this the choices of words.

I don’t know if this is accidental A subconscious somebody screaming for help. I’ve been getting these from factmagazines, dot com, and I don’t know where they pulled them from. Here’s what I’m zerving in on. In the Hannibal Buris description, we’re told he slides from observed life hacks to pop culture de tours with effortless timing. And I’ve noticed all these description will have words like hacks or sharpened.

I don’t know there’s some subtle commentary there. Sebastian Manascalco, we’re told he’s influenced by greats like George Carlin and Jerry Seinfeld. That’s it. No description of his comedy. I love it all.

This Ria talk is distracting us from what should be the major comedy topic this week, which is, of course, Jim Gaffigan’s Bourbon set. Tonight is the super cool after party. I think tickets are still available if you want to go. You can’t just go to the after party. You must have attended Jim’s bourbon comedy show.

They remind us, don’t forget to show your ticket, and they hope to see you there. Hashtag Louisville, hashtag Bourbon, hashtag Kentucky hashtag father Time hashtag October and there’s big bourbon news. Jim Gaffigan has partnered with Buzzard’s Roost Distillery on a one of a kind, single barrel bourbon selection. That’s right, a special release six year old whiskey featuring a mash bill of seventy five percent corn, twenty one percent rye and four percent malted barley. Buzzards Rus will be pouring samples at the Really Cool after party tonight, which is at the Last Refuge six hunderd East Market Street, you know the place, and bottles will be available exclusively at Buzzard’s Roost Distillery and Tasting Room on six twenty four West Main.

The retail price per bottle, which features a commemorative Jim Gaffigan label, is one hundred and twenty five dollars. Late Nighter says if you’ve seen headlines about Jimmy Kimmel losing half its audience, it hasn’t. Are the numbers down from when he came right back, of course they are, but Late Nighter says if you compare Kimmel’s numbers last week to two weeks earlier, he was actually up forty five percent in total viewers and fifty two percent among younger adults. He won the eleven thirty five slot for the second consecutive week. We’ll see if he wins this week.

Jimmy Fallon had on Taylor Swift. Late Nighter says, yes, Greg Guttfeld still drew more total viewers, but they remind us at airs at ten eastern seven Pacific, and maybe, perhaps possibly you could convince me ten o’clock is a late night show, even though it’s clearly not seven o’clock Pacific definitely is not. But Late Nighter says Kim Will got the most eighteen to forty nine’s, even including Gutfield. All right, Jimmy Fallon, he’s a survivor. He’s working on a game show adaptation of Wordle for NBC.

Savannah Guthrie would host the show. Fallon would get some producer credit for some reason. Who knows. I don’t know how this all works. Somebody’s got a good agent, Taylor Tomlinson, who may have accidentally killed off the Late Show.

I’ve explained this before. I’ll go quick here. So Taylor Thompson had been renewed to twelve thirty and then she decides to walk away, so they decide to get rid of twelve thirty. Then later on they decided to get rid of eleven thirty, saying, oh that was always the plan.

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Now here’s my question.

Why did your new twelve thirty were You’re not gonna have an eleven thirty show? Were you going to move Taylor up to eleven thirty? Perhaps? Possibly? Maybe?

My theory is that once Taylor went you know what, nah, that made people go do we even need twelve thirty? And the answer was no?

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And then somebody went do we even need eleven thirty?

And apparently the answer was no. I’m not blaming Taylor Thomlinson. I just think she’s accidentally created a bitterfly effect. She told the Cap Times. I’m sure anyone who looks at my schedule right now must be a little concerned for me.

She’s in Madison tonight and tomorrow and says I’ve been on the road every single weekend. That’s what you got to do to get an hour ready. Cap Sadie was curious if she has any rituals on the road. Taylor Tomlinson said, I don’t know if you’d even called a routine. I have stuff I do in every city.

I need to find a good Macha latte somewhere, and then I feel strongly about breakfast. Then I need to go find a bookstore, a victed shop, we’re both preferably, and I need to walk a lot during the day.

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And now we’re doing crowd confessions at the end of show, so we’re going thro…

I think that’s also helped get my head in it and get me in a very I’m connected to this audience space. They asked her comedians have been in the news lately, Kimmel’s suspension, Colbert’s show. What do you think is missing from those conversations? Taylors said, I think probably the biggest issue is people tuning out because they’re so overwhelmed with horrific news every day, which I completely understand. I think it’s all pretty clear and blatant at this point.

I get it, but I’m much more scared of checking out, putting my head in the sand, and being overwhelmed. What does she miss about after midnight? She says, I miss the people working with comedians every day and miss watching people be so funny many different ways. The thing I won’t miss is the schedule. I was so disappointed they didn’t replace me as the host because I was like, man, somebody just wanted to stay in LA and not be on the road do local spots.

A comedy could still do that, but if it was your whole job. It was a dream schedule. But I was flying out every Thursday after doing two shows Wednesday, and my voice was always gone. I kept going to an E and C was like, you need to do vocal rest, and I was like, I literally can’t. And that is your comedy news for today.

Hopefully things will calm down with Riod, although my spidey sense is that Conan’s gonna get some blow back now. We will see and we’ll catch up again tomorrow. Thank you for listening. Bye,