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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It must be nice to be Sebastian Maniscalco. He caught up with Billboard, who points out that in the first six months of the year he grossed thirty five and a half million, sold three hundred and sixty one thousand tickets over thirty shows. None of that includes five nights at Madison Square Garden.

Last September, Sebastian was number twenty five among all genres of live performers, just below Dua Lipa. Sebastian told Billboard that’s nice to hear. It’s a lot of competition out there, so I didn’t think I would have been the number one guy, but I’m not gonna lie. It’s nice to be on top. Why does he think his comedy appeals to such a wide range of people.

Sebastian said, well, the observation material I do hits a lot of different notes for people. I’m not talking about one specific thing. Although I’m Italian American, I think a lot of my comedy resonated with the Italian American community. At first, that was never really my intention. I’ve always done material like hey, I went to Chipotle or ever notice when your doorbell rings.

Those are very broad topics that anybody can enjoy. Then I honed in on my Italian upbringing and my Italian father, which resonated not only with people with Italian immigrant backgrounds, but Spanish, Greek, wherever you come from. You know what, I feel like, there’s more when I look into the audience. I feel like I haven’t tapped into a mainstream vibe. I like to look into the audience and see more Chinese people, more Black people, more any people, because I feel like the comedy speaks to a lot of different people and I haven’t felt like I’ve tapped into it yet.

I just feel like there’s more out there for me. Here’s my thought. And again, the guy is super popular doesn’t need my help. I think the reason there would be because of he does do a stylized delivery that I think if he backed it down a little, it may open it up a little. But again, clearly does not need my help as I record a podcast into the basement.

But yes, the question that would be my one. Cent Leslie Jones was wearing a full length gold lumm a ball gown, said it makes her look skinny. I’m six feet tall. I can’t cut my feet off. I can’t being a scary mf or.

This is who I am. Let me work with who I am. I’m the type of person who if I’m happy, everybody in the room’s going to be happy, and if I’m sad, it’s going to be very quiet and tense. I’m a temperature guider in the room. She discussed current events and said we’re repeating the worst part of history right now, but maybe it’s for the lesson that we didn’t learn the last time.

She talked about a dark period of her comedy in the aughts after her brother died. She said, I was evil, not evil, just angry, performing and angry. My routine was raw. Started getting where I thought, I don’t give an f whethy you all laugh. I was destroying it.

That’s when I started wearing a mohawk. People thought I did it for fashion. Nah, I just didn’t want to comb my hair. I was bare minimum getting out of bed. She was taking drugs and says she doesn’t mean weed, I mean drugs.

Drugs. She got SNL in twenty thirteen, at age forty seven. She was the oldest new Hire the show had ever made. People don’t understand that first year, maybe the first two seasons, I was really in love with Colin Jost. I didn’t know how it was going to happen, whether we just work late together and make out in his office and drink whiskey.

I had all the visions. He was so cute and funny, and he was just so white, such a white nerd for app boy that I was like, I want him. Every time I’d see him in the corridor, I’d shout, I love you, Colin, you beautiful white stud. Leslie will be touring the US from September nineteenth through November. Yeahoo, Canada talks to you.

Friend of the show, John Marco Saraisi. He says social media has made his material accessible to those around the world, saying, I think there was a time when I wouldn’t be able to do what I do internationally until I was like a megastar, until it was big theaters. But it’s definitely at a scale where I can go to a comedy club in Europe and enough people know me from the Internet they’re excited to see me. But in another way, it allows me to feed into my ADHD where if there’s something I really want to talk about right now, or something super topical, it’s going to go way tomorrow. I can make that joke and put it out there in my own capacity in a way that if I were recurring guests on the Daily Show I could have.

That’s when I could have made my jokes about Rock and Elon Musk. But especially these days, the new cycle moves so quickly. So does comedy have to do in building a platform? Lets me get all those thoughts out, and in a business sense, it gives me more product to sell Christ to Stefano talked to Yahoo about making fun of his father, saying, I love poking fun at him because I know he can take it. My whole life, he showed me what love means through comedy.

It always meant make fun of me, but that was basically him and his brother or uncle saying I love you. That’s why I make fun of him so much, because I feel like it’s really me saying to my dad, hey, I love you. His fiancee is cool about the jokes. She says. I think she’s like, go be as funnies you need to be.

We got to pay off this mortgage. He praised Hulu and said Netflix is great. All these places are great, but Hulu they don’t have that many comedy specials. So I had an opportunity to really stand out and not get lost in the shuffle, and to be part of the inaugural Hulu Comedy Specials class with Jim Gaffickin and Bill Burr Comedy Greats. It was really cool.

He discussed the tiktokization of comedy and said, initially I’d get recognized in the street and someone would be like, oh, you’re the comedian from TikTok. I’d almost get offended by it. I’m not TikToker. I have comedy specials.

And then all that went away, where I was like, Hey, whatever medium people se…

It’s not about getting recognized, that’s all ego. It’s about my work and it was memorable enough for them to be like, oh I remember you. Especially with the mindless scrolling wheel do every day, we’re taking in thousands of videos and images every day. If I could stick out to a person, I feel really blessed by that. Cinema Bland talk to Pete Davidson.

He’s going to be separate from the Amazon movie with Eddie Murphy, a horror movie called The Home. Pete will play a broken man who takes a job at a retirement home, only to discover the sinister plot of the film. Pete says, acting is just so embarrassing because I’m a stand up, so you know, it’s very ridiculous. So in order for me to get there and be like, oh, I can only do that two or three times before we start laughing, you know what I mean. SGA Magazine caught up with Monty Python or Michael Paymin.

His wife Helen passed away two years ago, and Michael says, we spend so much time together in this place, just the two of us, that she’s always here. Her pictures are everywhere, the chairs we used to sit in, the book she used to read, that sort of thing. They’ve become reassuring. I’m pleased to be able to say this now, because at one time I thought those traces of her would be a source of continuing grief. It’s much better than that.

I feel we coexist as well. I can see why people say it takes two years or so before we response gradually changes. It becomes less about loss and more about the spirit of that person being around. So that’s nice. I feel less grief now and more than I got to keep doing things, looking after the children we made together.

I’ll talk to her as if she’s still there. I’ll show some spectacular bit of incompetence that I know she would have found funny. Then I’ll hear myself saying something in the way she would have said it and laugh. Even though I’m the only one there, Imagining her being there makes me laugh. You have to adapt.

I didn’t want to be dependent on the family to come around every day. I don’t cook. Unfortunately, there were various areas where I thought I might be vulnerable, but it turns out quite good at being on my own. Michael has a new book, or There and Back Diaries nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and nine. It’s out in paperback.

His Python cast mate Eric Idol spoke to The Guardian. He used to get annoyed when people would try and take pictures this back in the day before Selfie’s, he said, I used to be really unpleasant. Then Robin Williams taught me that that sort of encounter is very important to people, So be nice, not brusque, because they’ll never forget it. But you don’t want to spend twenty minutes with them. So when they come up, I’ll say I’m Eric, what’s your name.

Then they become a person and see you as a person too. There’s a human connection, not some stupid story thing. It becomes more normal and easier to leave. Now that’s interesting. When I met the captain of the Yankees, he walked up to me and I was at his place of business.

I was in his office, so it’s not like I ran into him at the mall. I was there to see him. But he walked in, look me in the eye, stuck out his hand and go, hi, I am Derek. And I’m like thinking, like, yeah, I know, but you know, okay, I got it. Eric Idol talked about how George Harrison agreed to fund the Life of Brian film because George wanted to see it.

Eric said, he changed my life. We were very close. I was there at his deathbed. He wasn’t frightened of death. He thought he’d escape rebirth.

I said, I’d give anything to be reborn. Only thing we ever disagreed on he still laughed when I said it. At George’s funeral, I said I’d like to thank Marlborough, without whom he wouldn’t be here this morning. Got a huge laugh. It’s not really the right thing to say, but also, let’s name the names of people responsible.

With season eight of Rick and Morty wrapping up, Dan Hormon, the creator, spoke to The Holly Reporter and said he’s already written season ten episodes. He gets confused when everything’s airing. I understand that I often record a head on this podcast. Then I’ll be like, wait, did I share that with the audience ent or the future that happens? Arma says, I’m really bad at keeping track these days, because we’re so on schedule that we’re ahead of schedule.

I was told last night at ComicCon will be doing a table read of the two Bets episode, which was season eight to sixth episode. My response was, maybe I should punch that script up, and my producer said it already aired on television. He’s not used to being ahead of schedule. I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat, going how do I destroy everything? How do I slow it down?

The answer is I can’t wyant’t you go work on the community movie? Buddy? Show runner Scott Marterer has already started doing voice work for season nine. The writing team has started working on season ten. Harmon said, there’s episodes of season ten that I’m already so excited about.

That’s the frustrating thing of being on schedule animation. Can we fast forward times so people can get a look at the bad Boy? I don’t know if it’s sad for the listeners to hear they’re like, why are three minutes ahead? That means you’re not going to have an amazing Jeffrey Epstein episode.

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All right, let’s take a look at the fringe from voicemag dot e UK.

They caught up with Thomas Kntor. He gave some naughty answers. I don’t even know if I can clean this up. The question was what are you most excited to share with an audience. Tom Lost said, no spoilers, but maybe when he does something with a cello that I can’t clean up, or when I lap dance in the first row or make out with an inflatable doll.

I think you get the idea. What kind of show this is? To maas says, I think what’s so fab about fringe is that it’s a massive equalizer. No one knows me, but that’s scary but thrilling. I have to win people over every night before my best leave it all on stage.

Make my mark. Who’s asked about his fringe survival kit? What are the three most essential non eyevious items in yours? His answer? Headphones, lubricant, and hutzba.

Who has shaped your artistic influence? The answer, Lady Gaga, She’s my temple. It’s the closest thing I have to religion. Theater meets pop meets camp meets passion meets therapy meets mayhem meets nostalgia meets Italy, he meets poetry meets culture. It’s genius.

She’s genius. She’s the blueprint. Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before. I’mafraid to reference, not reference. Putting a blender, grap on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.

Social media Instagram at Tom cantor Tom Show Sugar with the assembly checkpoint at four twenty pm through August twenty fourth. That sounds like fun. That is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack and it’s a summer Saturday, so let’s have some fun and talk a little Sandler and some food and just kind of relaxed. Today. We’ll start on Gossip Corner. Adam Sandler stopped by a pizza joint in Hoboken.

The Sandman was at Benny Tadino’s, which is in business for over fifty years, says New Jersey one oh one point five dot com. They apparently are known for having the biggest slices of pizza around. They posted on Instagram, the great comic and actor Adam Sandler stop buy for a slice of Benny Todino’s pizza. See they phrased that wrong. They wrote, the great comic and actor Adam Sandler.

That’s wrong, the comic and great actor Adam Sandler because he’s not a great comic, he’s a great actor. Uncut gems Space movie. More of that please, we’ll discussed this week now if you’d like a giant slice of pizza Apparently at Benny Tatino’s, which is at six twenty two Washington Street in Hoboken, is open today from eleven am to one am. I’ll quickly look at the menu because we have a lot to get to today. A fresh garlic bread with cheese is ten bucks.

Ten jumbo buffalo wings eighteen bucks. This place is not cheap. You want a chicken palm dinner twenty four dollars.

Let’s get to the pizza menu.

Johnny Mack, Okay, boy, these slices better be really big. A thirty two inch house pie, which is a really big pie, is forty two bucks. A large pie, eighteen inch pie is twenty one to fifty. Why wouldn’t I just get two eighteen inch pizzas at twenty one to fifty twice? So that’s forty three dollars.

And I would have thirty six inches of pizza as opposed to the house pie of thirty two inches for forty two dollars. So for the extra dollar, I have another four inches. Do I do the math? Right there? A topping on a house pie will r any an additional twelve If you’d like a Sicilian pizza’s forty bucks.

Sure, it’s delicious, little out of my price range. I digress. Actually, I don’t die. That’s what today’s show is because we are talking about Adam Sandler. He has good advice, which is be nice to everybody again.

Adam Sandler good guy, everyone loves working with him. Great dramatic actor. A lot of good things you can say about Adam Sandler. Comedy movies not on that list, but he says, be nice to everybody. Co star Julie Bowen said, be nice to everybody.

Don’t just be nice of the fancy people. Sanlor edit. The crew is all you got. They work their butts off. Maxwell Jacob Friedman.

If you’re a fan of aw wrestling, you know him as MJF. He talked about being in the disaster that is Happy Gilmore too. He said, I felt my character is very much in the genome and genetic sphere and aura of Happy. I’m Happy Son, so I wanted to take on Happy essentially, and I feel like all the brothers did in different ways. I also took little pieces of me, which I do in wrestling too.

You take pieces of yourself and you put it in there, so everything you do feels real because it is real. I’ve watched the original movie so many times I didn’t have to go back and watch it. I can quote the whole thing. It’s actually pretty terrifying. I agree, and Adam and kay Ill had a vision.

They knew what they wanted to do with this thing, and they made it even easier. I swear it was such a chill experience. Was it weird playing Happy Gilmore’s son when Adam Sandler’s real daughter, famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler, was cast as Happy Medisine’s daughter in the same scenes. M Jeff said, Yeah, it made me feel like I was really in the family. And by the way, I’ll tell you, I do feel like I am a famous Hollywood actress, Sonny Sandler’s sister and Adam Sandler’s my dad.

They both rule and I love them both. I don’t have enough nice things to say. They absolutely rule, and I had so much fun wearing with them. And it’s so cool to see how much Adam loves his family and how down to earth he is. He’s just a dude, a normal guy.

I talk with him about sports and TV shows and movies. Yeah, everybody loves Adam Sandler. No one doubts that he is a great guy and a family guy. There’s just that one problem, and let’s get to it. From Rolling Stone, Adam Sandler’s movies ranked worst to best.

I have not looked at this during the pandemic. I’ve done Simil Lewis, but there have been new Adam Sandler movies. Let’s react to this list on this summer Saturday, Number forty six. I love the list. Aready The worst Adam Sandler film of them all is, of course Jack and Jill.

Listeners to this program know that I forbade my children from renting the film and said I would rather light the five dollars on fire rolling Stone Rights. It takes a special kind of crappy movie to sweep the Golden Raspberry Awards by winning all ten categories, a feat no other film has matched to date. It also won Worst Movie of the Year at the Golden Schmos. It was mocked on two separate episodes of South Park. Love this list so far?

All right? Number forty five going overboard from nineteen eighty nine. I don’t even remember this one. Sandler was twenty one on the verge of breaking big on SNL. He made his big screen debut in this no budget indie.

It’s about a waiter on a cruise ship who yearns to be a stand up in between Sandler mugging for the camera and acting like Jerry Lewis’s Braddy nephew. After sugar binge, the movie cuts away to testimonials from beauty patching contestants and shots of models and mikinis. I can’t blame Adam Sandler for that one. He was young and somebody asked him to make a movie. You know, these days he’s going going out of his way to make terrible movies, all right.

Number forty four, The Ridiculous six forty three just go with it from twenty ten. After years of seducing women by wearing a fake wedding ring, a plastic surgeon finally meets his soulmate in Brooklyn Decker. I have no memory of that at all, but I have no doubt it’s Terrible forty two Grown Ups two and Chris Rock, you’re in this movie. When we judge your career, Chris Rock, we’re going to remind you you’re in that film. Number forty one is The Cobbler.

Once upon a Time, a cobbler on the Lower East Side comes into the possession of a magic stitching machine. Yikes. Forty Spaceman. No Spaceman is like the third or fourth best Adam Sandler movie. That’s the one I always refer to as the space movie.

No, no, no, no, Whirlingstone. You’re so wrong there, What are you doing? No? Thirty nine Murder Murstery two, that’s a Netflix cash in Hub Halloween Netflix cash in thirty seven Blended. That’s the movie that proved that even true Barrymore can’t save all out.

I’m Sandler movie. She’s saved two of them, but she couldn’t save three thirty six men, women and children. I don’t remember this existing, and I’ve probably talked about it on this very podcast, Rolling Stone Rights. Sandlor’s actually one of the few bright spots. He’s an unhappy husband looking for human connection via online escorts.

Oh that’s just no. One wants to see that thirty five rain Over Me from two thousand and seven. I’m not doing a bit here. I have clearly erased most of these movies from my brain. Like maybe I went to the total recall place and they were like, do you want to go to Mars?

Do you want to pretend you’re like a secret agent? I went no, just erase Adam Sandler comedies from my brain. And apparently that’s what happened, because I don’t remember this at All Rain Over Me is a Sandler melodrama that finds a psychiatrist noting his character’s incompatibility to function in anything resembling a normal adult manner. Boy. I was about to comment, but Rolling Stone wrote the sentence for me that describes ninety percent of sandler thirty four Bedtime Stories from two thousand and eight.

I don’t remember these things. Sandler is a down on his luck hotel handyman forced to watch his sister’s kids while she’s out of town. His luck turns around when he discovers the bedtime stories he tells the kids every night come true the following day. You know, to be honest, that doesn’t sound like the worst premise A thirty three twenty twelves. That’s my boy.

Another film I don’t remember. Oh No, I do remember this one. Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg did a father’s Son buddy comedy. Boy. That’s tough because Andy Samberg’s in the Macpack and Adam Sandler is Adam Sandler.

Thirty two, Murder Mystery, thirty one, Little Nikky three Bulletproof from nineteen ninety six. He and Damon Wayans play southern California crooks, except Wayans is actually working undercover for the LPD. Twenty nine Anger Management, co starring Jack Nicholson. Jack, when we review your career, we’re going to judge you and remind you you did this. Adam Sandler movie twenty eight Mixed Nuts from nineteen ninety four.

It’s about people working at a suicide prevention hotline on Christmas Eve. The cast includes Steve Martin, Adeline Kahn, Juliet Lewis, Leaf Schreiber, Parker Posey, John Stewart, Rita Wilson, Anthony Alpelia, Robert Klein, and Gary Shanling. But rolling Stone says, with that cast, you’d be surprised how few laughs it delivers number twenty seven pixels from twenty fifteen. Yes, yes, yes, yes, twenty six. I now pronounce you Chuck a Larry.

I think we should remind everyone every single day that Adam Sandler made this movie, in which a widowed firefighter asks his best friend Adam Sandler to enter into a domestic partnership to circumvent the red tape of his pension. Rolling Stone says the movie is both homophobic and begrudgingly open minded and extremely awkward. Twenty five spanglish. Sandler plays a la chef who’s married to a high strung exercise aholic, but falls for his Mexican immigrant housekeeper floor all right, I need a break here. I gotta have some of my iced coffee.

My brain needs a break. We’ll be right back more Adam Sandler, all Right. Continuing Rolling Stone’s list of the Adam Sandler movies ranked worse to best at number twenty four, The completely unnecessary remake of The Longest Yard from two thousand and five, The original and awesome film. I guess on paper this isn’t the worst idea, but on film it is. Twenty three Click you know, Adam Sandler with remote control mac packer.

Henry Winkler’s in it, Christopher Walkins in it, and it’s still a terrible Adam Sandler movie. Twenty two The Do Over? What’s this one? I don’t remember this? Twenty sixteen.

Sandler and his buddy David Spade fake their own deaths, and they have new identities, access to untold riches, and possession of a dream house in Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, they’ve taken on the names of some men wanted buy some very bad people. Doesn’t sound like the Worst Idea twenty one Grown Ups Boy Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock. We are going to judge you by taking part in this film twenty Shakes, the clown from nineteen ninety one director bobcat Goldthwaite, the marketing slogan the citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies. I’ve erased this from my memory.

Also in this film Somehow, Robin Williams nineteen, You are so not invited to my bot mitzvah. This stars famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler, who Rollingstone says nails the portrayal of perfectly charming, hormonal teen.

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Also in the film famous Hollywood actress Jackie Sandler.

Jackie married to Adam Sandler.

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Also in the film, famous Hollywood actress Sadie Sandler.

Also in the movie, as is Sarah Sherman eighteen. Sandy Wexler. This just makes me want to throw up. Sandy Wexler maybe a Hollywood agent whose clients range from ventriloquist to the world’s most accident prone daredevil, but also the type of Tinseltown legend love by everybody from Lauren Michael’s to Vanilla Ice. Tons of cameos in that one.

Number seventeen Airheads from nineteen ninety four, sixteen the Week of from twenty eighteen. What’s this one? Rollingstone calls it what a father of the I’d start Adam Sandlor instead of Steve Martin. That’s all I need to know. Fifteen eight Crazy Nights, Okay, fine, fourteen mister Deeds.

Sandlor plays longfellow Deeds, a small town, a New Hampshire pizza guy who inherits a billion bucks. We own a writer in this thing. Big Daddy from nineteen ninety nine comes in at number thirteen. Listen to this description. This is the thirteenth best Adam Sandler movie.

Okay, so we’re not going best to worse, We’re going worse to best, and we’re at number thirteen. Rolling Stone has to describe Big Daddy as taking a philosophy established in Billy Madison quote if peeing in your pants is cool, considered me Mile Davis unquote, and essentially extrapolates it to an entire movie. Twelve Funny People from two thousand and nine eleven Happy Gilmore two. Happy Gilmore two is the eleventh best Adam Sandler movie. Have you heard the reviews I’ve shared all week?

And this is the eleventh best one? Yikes? All right, your top ten Adam Sandler movies. Hustle, that’s the one I call the Basketball Movie. That’s actually probably the second to best Adam Sandler movie.

Nine You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, eight the Myrowitz Stories. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this. As a fin of Adam Sandler dramagtic actor, I may have to actually watch that one. Seven fifty First Dates. That’s probably third.

I’ll give my ranking at the end. Six The water Boy, five, The Wedding Singer, four Punch Drunk Love Interesting, three Uncut Gems, two Happy Gilmore and one Billy Madison. Now that is obviously wrong my rankings number one Uncut Gems, two Hustle, The Basketball Movie. Three whatever the Space one is that I talked about ten minutes ago. Four I’ll say fifty First Dates, five The Wedding Singer, and all the others are garbage.

And that is a Saturday Summer Sandler fun episode for fun’s sake, normal episode tomorrow. I didn’t even need to do this as filler. I just felt like doing it. See tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I had posted on threads people are just giving Jay Letto so much crap about his comments about Late Night the other day, and I posted Jay should just come out because Jay was a really good comic. He understood what the Tonight Show is and isn’t. Jimmy Fallon understands what the Tonight Show is and isn’t.

You can’t have Dice Clay hosting the Tonight Show. It’s not what the gig is. So I encourage Jay, you know what, come out and just show everybody what you can do. Come out and just go all right, your sons of guns. Do ten minutes about Conan O’Brien, then do ten minutes about Letterman, then do twenty minutes of political and then change gears and just do your whole Hey, you ever noticed did you see this thing?

And just do that and just drop the mic and let everybody know you can do it. What brought that to mind is this first joke from Late Night during the week from Jimmy Fallon wanted to set it up by saying, did you see the thing where Trump was cheating at golf because that’s the setup and the did you see the thing made me think of Jay anyway. Jimmy Fallon joked, it’s just refreshing to see someone cheating without being at a Coldplay concert. Great joke. New topic.

Fell and Russia just started direct flights between Moscow and North Korea. It’s one of those rare trips with a fun part. Really is the journey and not the destination. Seth Meyer is getting political, he said. The Justice Department has reportedly granted limited immunity to Jeffrey Epstein associate Julane Maxwell in exchange for information on one hundred people linked to Epstein, as well as full immunity if he gives them zero information on one person.

Seth Again, an inmate at a New Orleans jail, was mistakenly released after authorities confused him with another prisoner with a similar name. So congratulations to Maxwell’s Jolaine. Colbert had on Las Culturistas, Bowen Yang, and Matt Rogers on his show the other day. Colbert said, I’m gonna need a gig soon, sell me on podcasting Is it fun? Rogers advice to Stephen cop keep it real.

Seth Myers was on a podcast, specifically Armchair Expert, and he was asked by Dax Shephard, do you have the fear that this is going to end tomorrow? Meaning Late Night? Seth said, yeah, I do. I mean only because it’s such a time we’re living in as far as the entertainment industry. I shifted from fearing that it wouldn’t be good enough, and now my fear is weirdly more outside of my control, which is just at some point the ecosystem might not support it.

I guess that’s better than thinking it’s your fault, but it’s weird not to feel any control over it. His strategy is just show up and do the work. That’s the only part they’re paying you to do. It’s the only part you’re good at. All the other problems we have people that are good at that don’t mess around with it.

I sometimes take stock of, oh, this isn’t the best time to be doing what I’m doing, but at least I got in. Myers recalled Late Night being on shaky ground during its early years. Whatever time we’re living in now, I’ve had lower points in the body of the show. Early on in the show, we had some NBC executives actually say to us like, we’re very worried about how the show’s going to go with no real instruction has how to get out of it. Seth just surpassed David Letterman as Late Night’s second longest serving host.

Conan would be number one. That means Fallin is number four, and he’s got a deal through twenty twenty eight. My guess maybe it’ll end then. I mean, I feel like that show has zero cultural impact and I don’t know who’s watching it. Seems nice enough, but I don’t know why that show exists in its current form.

Out today HBO Max Mark Maren’s new special Paniced. Interesting to me that it’s on Friday night, Saturday. Interesting to me that it’s at eight pm Eastern, not ten pm on a Saturday night like they usually do. I am planning on watching a bunch of comedy specials tonight. I know I host a podcast called Daily Comedy News.

Maybe I should actually watch a special because I do this for a living. By the time nighttime rolls around, I don’t want to do comedy. Does that make sense? I was the same way when as it’s serious, I’d come home and watch the Universe and just stare at Neildograsse Tyson telling me about Saturday, you know, things like that. As there’s just some nights, I’m like, I don’t feel like thinking about stand up anymore.

But my plan right now is to watch Maren, Dusty Slave, Veered, Zedi Pepatone. If I’m still rolling, we’ll see. Mark Maren’s Panicked is his second special for HBO, is sixth stand up special overall. Mark says, I feel this is the best work I’ve done. Everything came together, the direction, the production design, the shirt, the bits HBO gets me, and I’m thrilled to be presented by them.

A lot of the Mark Maren news cycle was getting sucked up by Taylor Swift. This week, Maren was on the Good One podcast That was actually a pretty good listen. I’m not that hot on that particular podcast, but that was a good listen. Maren shared that he licensed Taylor’s song Bigger than the Whole Sky, which is a bonus track on the three AM edition of her twenty twenty two album Midnights. The cost a license Bigger than the Whole Sky, Maren said about fifty thousand dollars.

Maren explained, I know Jack Ansid Off enough to text him, and he’s the co writer on that song. I said, I don’t know what’s proper how to do this, but we’re running out of money on this thing. It’s probably gonna come out of my pocket. Is there anything you can do about the song or talk to Taylor? Antonoff told him go through official music licensing channels.

Maren said it was doable, but fifty grand only covered use of one minute. He said, I would have gone over the minute, but it would have been more money. Wow, I thought this was an interesting press release. The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival announced it will present a special screening of Dave Chappelle’s unreleased documentary Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life. That’s a documentary that exists.

Well, it’s unreleased, which might be why I don’t know about it. Why is it unreleased? Dave Chappelle. Well, I’ll go up to Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, August eighth at two point thirty pm. Hit the Performing Arts Center and Martha’s Vineyard.

The exclusive screening serves as a fundraising event. So between that and the travel, and you’ll probably need a place to sleep. This isn’t going to be cheap if you want to see this thing. The documentary captures Dave Chappelle’s Pandemic era comedy series back in summer twenty twenty in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life follows Dave Chappelle as he provides the community he calls home with two things desperately needed in difficult times, economic and comic relief.

Kathleen Madigan is going to be at the Venetie in Las Vegas tomorrow. She was asked about her favorite places to play. She didn’t say the Venetian. She barely lights up talking about New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah, Georgia. This from Las Vegas magazine, and Kathleen said, I must have had a pass life as a swamp person.

She’s grown weary of the homogenization plaguing many cities, explaining every city’s got it. Here’s a strip mall, here’s DJ Max, here’s Applebee’s. But then she did say good things about Vegas. I can leave Vegas alone for six months and come back and something new will be built. You guys move faster than anyone as far as change goes.

Zero respect for history, which I do find kind of funny. If she weren’t a comedian, she would want to own a bar called Madigan’s, combining her love of bartending, social interaction, and sports. Kathleen at the Venetian tomorrow night, thirty nine bucks, you should go ten pm. Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson are out promoting The Pick Up, a heist movie that sees them sparring as a pair of incompatible armored truck drivers. Inspector Acluseau.

Eddie Murphy, who’s sixty four, said it was a bucketless thing for Pete Davidston he was thirty one now. Eddie explained, Pete comes from SNL. He’s a stand up comic. We’re both from the East Coast. I love to get in a scene with somebody else that’s funny, improvised with them and start playing.

I love it. He Davidson said. We do take as written, and then the director was like, everyone just go nuts and would end up just trying to one up each other. We’re just trying to make each other laugh. Keeky Palmer, who stars in the film, said they were improvising constantly.

It was really sweet to see. It’s so cool because you see two different generations from the hub dot Ca, a Canadian website, I used to live in Canada. Last week, and Steven Stalely writes, the Late Show at Stephen Colbert is a perfect distillation of everything that went wrong with mainstream comedy over the past decade. Jokes replaced by talking points, laugh substituted with applause lines, and comedians more eager to affirm than amuse. It wasn’t always this way.

For decades, late night television had an irreverend edge. David Letterman poked holes in celebrity self importance. Jay Leno made Middle America wise cracks that actually landed, but over time the nightclub stage became a pulpit. The night before Colbert delivered the news the show is being canceled, Shane Gillis re might of the world that people still want to laugh. He then discusses Gillis’s performance and how Gillis did the Norm McDonald joke, and Gillis didn’t just deliver the line, he delivered a message comedy is back.

The article then praises Norm MacDonald and then says Gillis is cut from the same cloth he was fired from SNL before his debut, and offensive comments on old podcasts triggered a pile on from the cultural enforcers, and like norm, he was eventually invited back to OS the show, not because he changed, but because the world did. Oh man, it’s August. Now. August depresses me because August is like September, which is like summer’s over, and I can’t enjoy anything. I’m already counting down on the weekend.

So so we got what tomorrow’s aug at second, So got the second, the ninth, sixteenth, the twenty third. I probably have to teach a class a week of the twenty third, so summer’s probably already over than the thirtieth. Oh at least it’s a five weekend August. But on the other hand, Labor Day September first, so all of a sudden, summer’s over and it’s only September second. You’re like, ah, I’ve had a good summer though with that, I mean it’s been hot, Pol’s been working nice, got to the beach a lot.

It’s been good. Anyway. August is fringe time in Edinburgh. Voicemag dot UK has been previewing a lot of the shows they caught up with Alex Stringer. Alex says, my show is about what it’s like getting sober twenty three and realizing that you’re still a d head, basically jerky faces.

How I usually paraphized that Alex is excited about Fringe and says, I’m told the minimum I’ll get is being a better comic, which feels like a really good minimum. I’m just gonna enjoy the milestone of it all. I’m sure I’ll learn lots from it. I look forward to it. Best advice you got about the Fringe go home, as in when you’re staying in Edinburgh and not Liverpool.

But yeah, Rachel Fairburn said, go home and watch television. Networking is great, but you need to rest and recoup. I’m planning on seeing another show a day, maybe no more than that. Initially, I think I’m going to leave watching any other debuts just so I don’t compare, etc. And try to rast do some compilation shows, catch up with friends, as this is my debut.

I initially did just forty five minutes of material with no through line or narrative or arc. Then I looked at my material well, I thought about what I wanted to say in the show I wanted to make. I then focused more on writing material. I didn’t have to tell the story, I wanted to tell artistic influences Joan Rivers. I think her ability to bring lightness when joking about the darkest parts of her life is really inspiring to me.

I also strive to be Rys Nicholson because they’re excellent. Happy hour at the Pleasants Courtyard, Bunker three at six pm for the entire Fringe. Few Times of London caught up with Leo Reich. Leo says the Fringe is incredible. The thing that infuriates me is that it makes so much money, but it makes money at the expense of the people actually doing it.

It’d be appalling if people allowed it to die. But if we split ourselves into a series of individuals looking after our own interests and trying to get on television, then it will dissolve. I will go up to the Fringe in five years and see one hundred people who got famous on TikTok perform the worst comedy you’ve ever seen in your life. He recently posted an ironic quote statement against the cancelation of Jimmy Carr on Instagram, reacting to outrage that Jimmy Carr had attended an event to celebrate Israel’s seventy seventh Independence Day at the British Music The ironic statement said, if this spate of anti Semitic cancelations continues, soon we may find ourselves in a society where well meaning people are penalized simply for being willing supporters of a horrifying ethno state. He said he wanted to say something both as a comedian and as a Jewish person.

I’m satirist fundamentally, and so it makes sense for me to do so. The idea that you should be able to implicitly or explicitly support, or make excuses for, or be indifferent to genocide. I don’t want that person in my community. It’s so spineless not to speak out. What do you think is going to happen?

Oh, I’m not on eight out of ten cats? Does countdown? Thank God? I’d rather chew off my own arm and let’s send on a lighter note. Fun one oh seven was curious what if we could make comedy even better?

A New Orleans comedian is looking to change comedy with a brand new show. Alex Carrow has brought in super fights. Here’s how it works. Six players performed in front of three judges and a crowd. They are given random attributes or superpowers.

Each player is given their superpowers and a random character. For example, one comic had to be Justin Bieber with telekinesis, but his hands were taped to his hips. Caro said, it’s something different. I want to do something that’s fun for both the comics on the audience, a chance for comics to cut loose. It’s a fun hang and you get to be funny in a room full of people.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you like the program without commercial interruption, go to Caliaruga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re on Apple podcasts, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. You’ll get this show and like twenty five plus others a commercial free. One of those shows is five Good News Stories, which I host. Another one is the new show that’s out Sunday, Paranormal Aliens.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dusty Slay specials out on Netflix this week? Did you watch it yet? I haven’t seen it yet.

I think my plan is going to be Friday night just to get in a comedy head and watch Dusty and Maren’s Out on HBO tomorrow. I want to watch Eddie pepatoone after seeing a friend of the show, Jason Zenmann from The New York Times saying how good that one was? Verr does I have to catch up on? So Friday night might just be comedy night at my house. But Dusty Slay spoke about his origin story.

He said, around two thousand and three, I moved it with a friend and we had some problems. So I moved out and got my own place, and I didn’t have any friends. So I took an improv class, and that’s how I got in the stand up. I took improv and I did improv for a long time. He didn’t think about doing stand up professionally until twenty eleven.

I want to stand up comedy competition. I thought maybe I could do something with this, So I started to take things a little more serious than in early twenty twelve. I quit drinking, and things became very clear to me, and I got very good at comedy. Well, I got good at comedy much faster. I wouldn’t say I got very good right away, but I got much faster.

Quitting drinking changed my whole life in a positive way. I never think of myself as an alcoholic, but I was most certainly a binge drinker that once I started drinking, it usually ended in some sort of disaster. Not a tragedy, but I would black out and lose my friends and things like that. So much of my jokes were all about drinking. I’d label myself an alcoholic, and I thought it was funny.

I thought it was funny to drink too much and make bad decisions. But I was really living that lifestyle. So while I was making jokes about it, and I was also falling apart a lot of ways while still having fun, it just changed my life. And once I quit drinking, I no longer could make drinking jokes. NFL quarterback Matthew Stafford’s wife, Kelly Stafford, went on Instagram on Monday and defended Shane Gillis.

Kelly Stafford shared a few clips from her Night at the SP’s hosted by Shane Gillis. She captured it every few years. We decided to dress up. Glad we did because Shane Gillis made me almost pee myself multiple times. Turns out laughing is fun.

More people should try it. Signed fat ugly dog wife. I don’t know if you’ve seen any pictures of Missus Stafford. I would not use the words fat, ugly or dogwife to describe her. I think she’s being a little hard on herself.

We’re gonna be talking about Pete Davidson a lot because he’s promoting not one, but two movies. He’s in the Pickup with Eddie Murphy and he’s in the Home, which is a horror film. Apparently, Pete Davidson was on Hot Ones. Host Shawn Evans asked Pete which of his tattoos were the most painful to take on and off. Pete had two hundred tattoos and said before even removing them, he had already covered up one of his most embarrassing with an image from Jaws.

That embarrassing tattoo. Listen to this, Pete said, I’ve never admitted this because it’s so humiliating. When I was like twenty at a comedy club. It might have been the Knitting Factory when Hannibal Burris used to run it, and I did like a set. I was like nineteen or twenty and Dave Chappelle was in the corner and this was before he was back, so seeing him was crazy, you know, like what the f I got off the stage and it was like, I watched your whole set.

It was really good, and I was like, you know, how do you keep coming up with new stuff? I’m working on new It’s like difficult, and he goes jokes come and go, but swaggers forever. Bete said, guess who got that tattooed on his chest? At the ninety second Street Why in New York City? Interesting lineup tonight they are screening Mark Marin’s new HBO special which is out tomorrow.

And then there’s a conversation between Mark Marin and Jim gaff Again that is a that’s a killer show. Seven o’clock at the ninety second Street. Why there was a delay in Nate Brigatsey’s show Over the weekend, twelve thousand people waited almost an hour to see Nate as over two and a half inches of rain fell in Saint Paul. What did they do to kill time? They started doing the Wave and the skull clap.

The power briefly went out at the Excel Energy Center. The generators kicked in the house lights came on in the middle of a set by Aaron Weber, who is the fifth and final opener. That’s a lot of openers, Nate, what are we doing? The crowd then did the Wave and the Skull for fifty minutes. Eddie Murphy announced he’s going to take on the role of Inspector Clusseau in a new Ping Panther movie.

Now I would think I would hate that, but then I thought about and I go, you know what, that’s not bad because it’s right in Eddie Murphy’s skill set. I hated the idea of Steve Martin playing Inspector Clusau, but I think Eddie is right for it. He shared this news with Al Roker, who reacted surprised. Roker was curious if the character would remain French. Eddie said, well, he has to be French, but he also could be Haitian.

I’ll tell you what, he’s black. He’s black for sure. I think it’d be good at doing a half assed French voice, doing the physical comedy. I think Eddie would be great in that role. Peter Sellers originated the role of Inspector James Clusseau.

Is that right? I thought it was Jacques Cluseau. Yeah, it’s Jacques Lussau. Where you getting James from Deadline? I love those films, The Pink Panther from sixty three, as Shot in the Dark from sixty four.

Then there’s the weird movie from nineteen sixty eight entitled Inspector Clouseau. The role is played by Alan Arkin. Peter Seller’s declined to return, but he did return in nineteen seventy five for the Return of the Ping Panther, which is probably the best one. The Pink Panther strikes again in nineteen seventy six. This is when they’re really rolling here.

Then they made another movie, Revenge of the Ping Panther. In nineteen seventy eight, they were working on a movie that would have been titled Romance of the Ping Panther, but Peter Sellers passed away. So did they stop making Pink Panther movies? Of course not. In nineteen eighty two, remember the Trail of the Ping Panther.

That one used outtakes from Peter Sellers as Clouseaux in a new story that investigates the disappearance of Inspector Clouseau. Now, if you’ve never seen this, the first half kind of sort of feels like a Ping Panther movie, And if I didn’t tell you it was outakes, you would just probably accept it. Once you know it’s outtakes, you can’t unsee it. As Cluseau’s age kind of bounces up and down a little bit. But if he didn’t know, you might get away with it.

But then halfway through the movie, Clusau disappears, and then the rest of the movie is trying to find him. We stop making Ping Panther movies, No, let’s make another one. Just a year later in nineteen eighty three Curse of the Ping Panther, which reveals that, of course, Inspector Clusau underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance. The character makes a brief cameo spoilers he had forty years. Roger Moore plays Inspector Clusoe, billed as turk Thrust the second.

This movie’s about an American trying to track down Inspector Clusoe. Then they let it go for ten years, and they made Son of the Ping Panther, in which it’s revealed that Cluseau had illegitimate children, and we follow Roberto Benini as Jacques Clusau junior. That didn’t work. Then, for some reason, in two thousand and six, someone said, you know who would be good, Steve Martin. And as Wikipedia points out, Steve Martin’s Clusou is considerably older than Peter Seller’s.

And yet even that got a sequel two thousand and nine, The Ping Panther two, and now Eddie Murphy will Starr as Inspector Cluso. Eddie’s in his sixties. I’m being a bit of a hypocrite and being a little hard on Steve Martin, but I just don’t think he’s right for that role, and I think I do a good job. Now that the mainstream media is listening to me about Adam Sandler comedies, maybe everyone will admit to one of the great hoaxes of our time, which is, of course Bob’s Burgers. Longtime listeners to this program know what the hoax is.

If you are new, let me just ask you two questions really quickly, and then I’ll elaborate in a minute, But the two questions I want you to ponder are have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? And of course the answer is no. Uh, but even more curiously because like, I’ve never seen Dalton Abby, but it clearly exists. The second question I would have for you is have you ever met anyone, anyone at all, who has seen Bob’s Burgers? And the answer, strangely is no.

Like I’ve met people that have watched Love Island even though I’ve never seen it, I’ve met people who have seen Dowt Nabby, but I’ve never met a single person who has watched Bob’s Burgers. Well, Fox has announced Bob’s Burgers will return on Sunday, September twenty eighth, alongside the season thirty seven premiere of The Simpsons.

And then see here’s the hoax.

Okay, September twenty eighth, a Sunday night. You know what else is on that night? Packers? Cowboys? You know what kind of number a Cowboys game does?

Yeah, so everyone’s gonna turn over. So Fox knows what they’re doing. They do air the Simpsons. The Simpsons clearly exists, but then the lineup is supposedly Universal Basic Guys. Nobody has ever watched that, and Kropopolis, nobody has ever watched that.

And then after two things that maybe even if those exist, clearly people are going to tune out, And then season sixteen of Bob’s Burgers. Yeah right, I know Kevin Burkhart will be like, hey, stay tuned tonight after the Chiefs game, and that’s what the four to thirty game is on Fox that day after the Chiefs coming up, it’s a season premiere of The Simpsons. Then stick around for an all new Universal Basic Guys, Kropopolis, and the sixty eight season premiere of Bob’s Burgers. There’s no way anybody’s still sticking around for that. Around nine to twenty pm, we’re all watching Packers Cowboys come on Fox.

Briany is in on the hoax. They say Bob Burger’s is hitting its three hundredth episode. Really three hundred, there’s three hundred episodes of these things. No one has ever seen it, You’ve never met anyone’s ever seen it. For the landmark three hundredth episode, Bob’s Burgers will flash back to the very beginning of the Belcher’s Restaurant exec got a producer and master hoaxer Lauren Bouchard said, a comicon in the present day, Bob is really sweating whether or not to raise prices, and it’s killing him.

It sends us on this kind of series of flashbacks to what was going on when Bob and Linda started the restaurant. We’re also told there’s going to be a Halloween episode, uh huh, in which Teddy takes a job in the store next door, and a Christmas episode that takes place at a Christmas village. All right. Now, on September twenty third, the hoax gets even more elaborate. They’re putting out a book, the Art of Bob’s Burgers.

Now, I’ve discussed on this program in the past. The artwork clearly exists. There’s clearly Bob’s Burger’s merch. There are clearly drawings. I’ve obviously seen them.

They’re in all these articles. But as for the show, have you ever seen it? No? Have you ever met anyone? No?

There will be a book the Art of Bob’s Burgers. September twenty third, Hoaks master Bichard said, this is a very important book to us. We love the artist work on the show. We love the drawings that have gone on and the millions of miles of pencil let on paper, and we wanted to celebrate. There’s also going to be more Bob’s Burger’s merch, which is what I suspect the hoax is all about.

It’s a fake show. We’ll sell some merch, we’ll put out a book. We don’t have to actually make the show. I get it totally switching gears and let me get the lilt out of my voices. This is a more serious story.

At the Edinburgh Fringe, some Jewish comedians shows have been canceled quote over staff safety concerns. The Independent reports to Jewish comedians have claimed their shows have been canceled at the Fringe. Rachel Krieger was set to perform her show Ultimate Jewish Mother, Philip Simon was due to host jew O Rama. Both acts have claimed that they were told their gigs would be canceled because bar staff at the venue express fears of being quote unsafe. Organizers of the Fringe so they were working to find alternative venues.

But politicians and comedians have raised concerns about the movie at a time when anti Semitism is on the rise. In the UK. Krieger told Times Radio this would have been a thirty year in a row of that specific show at that venue. When it comes to safety, they said they felt the extra safety precautions that many Jewish performers were subject to at the moment due to rising anti Semitism made them feel ironically more unsafe. I’ll be talking a lot about the Fringe all through August.

Two stories about British comedian Karis Nilms. I’ll start with the better story from Voicemag and they did a lot of previews of the Fringe. They asked Caris about her show. She said, it’s called Queer Takes for Autistic Folk, a very silly, semi improvised, super interactive, choose your own storytelling adventure. She was asked about the cost of performing and staying at Fringe.

That is a topic. There’s going to be a trillion articles about that over the next month. Carris said, I’m very lucky to stay with friends who live in Edinburgh so they can carry on their lives during the Fringe. It’s nice to watch TV with them and catch up a little bit and pretend like the Fringe isn’t happening. When I’m not performing.

I’m a math teacher and my student so’ll be getting their A level results in the middle. So I’m going to dash back to London to be there for it and then come straight back up. We’ll see. As you’re about to hear, that’s a little tease. What advice would you have for an artist considering going to the fringe?

Caarris said, watch a lot as much as you can, watch people you’ve never heard of, not just your friends, and watch it in a way that celebrates the people you’re watching. There’s enough space for everyone to get excited about each other’s work. That is great advice. But Caris is also in the news as she could be facing up to three years in Turkish prison. That sounds like a joke from the Naked Gun reboot, but it is not.

Apparently Caris left a Zara store without paying for her items. She went back as soon as she realized her mistake. She was shopping in Istanbul on July twenty second. She accidentally left the store without paying for her purchases. She went back in offered to pay.

She was detained locked in a room for several hours, arrested for shoplifting, transferred to a police station. As the story goes, quote pressured to sign Turkish documents she didn’t understand. She was held for twenty four hours. A judge released her but told her she couldn’t leave Turkey. Currently, she’s trying to figure out how to afford a place to stay and how to get back to the UK.

On social media, she wrote, I’m lucky I have good friends in Turkey who are currently looking after me and trying to translate the paperwork. I have no money, no earnings coming in from home, and I’m running out of important medication. I’ll lose my home, which I share with my son, and livelihood. I’m not looking for sympathy. I made a mistake which I tried to immediately rectify.

I’m embarrassed with my friends, my family, and I’ve made my mom unwell. I’ll never forgive myself for what I’ve done. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercial interruption, there’s a link at the show notes, so it’ll take you to callirogut dot com slash plus. Once you get there.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The news goes in waves. We’re gonna get a lot of Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy as they have an Amazon movie coming up. Now, we’re getting a lot of Mark Maren because he’s got his special out on HBO on the first plus the documentary, plus his podcast is coming to an end, and he has revealed who he would like to be the final guest.

Maren said, if we could get President Obama back, that would be good to give us a little hope or some sense of reflection, ground us a little bit. I could see Obama absolutely doing that. That first Obama appearance. I actually use it in my college classes if you listen to it as a podcaster. When Obama first shows up, he’s in President Obama mode, but Maren gets him so comfortable.

At one point, it’s just Barack hang out in a garage and they’re just having a real conversation. Then Obama gets back into presidential mode and I got to get these points in but in the middle there, it’s beautiful how he just gets him out of president politician mode and just a guy. Whatever your politics are. It’s a really interesting study of the art of podcasting. Judy last week that there’s a bad blood between Maren and John Stewart, and Maren has said he won’t ask John again out of pride.

Maren weighed in on Colbert Gate, saying the timing was bad. It seems there was a political element, at least an appearance to a certain degree. The messages that if corporations are going to buckle to the whims of an autocrat and authoritarian, then all the art and what we know is freedom of expression is compromised. The writing’s on the wall for late night in general because people don’t watch TV like that. I felt like a make sure both.

I don’t think it’s a complete fabrication that it was a business decision, but the other part of it, in terms of trying to piece of this monster president that should not be done. Show business is shrinking. People are entrepreneurial and building their own show businesses that eventually get appropriated and used by what’s left of mainstream show business and streamers. Hopefully enough interest and focus will be put on original productions film and television. You have to hope for the best.

Where everything just turns to garbage. Bobby Lee was making some news a few days back. Again with Colbert Gate and everything else going on, this got a little bit buried, but he told Entertainment Weekly he thinks the reason he wasn’t asked back to the new season of And Just Like That was due to the removal of quote woke elements. His quote. They tried to put minorities in, and I don’t know, I never saw the show.

He had played Jackie Knee, the podcast co host of Carrie Bradshaw I played of course by Sarah Jessica Parker on the first two seasons of the Sex and the City follow up series, but he wasn’t asked back for season three. Bobby Lee told EWO Comicon, some of the woke elements of the show they got rid of it, and I think that was part of that. I think Sarah Ramirez didn’t come back in some other people. They tried to put minorities in, and I don’t know, I never saw the show. A few points out that the subplot about Carrie’s podcast had concluded at the end of season two as she refocused on her new novel.

Bobby said he was surprised he was even on the show to begin with, he said number one. I don’t even know why they asked, and I was super scared to do it because it wasn’t my brand, really, you know what I mean. But I did it. I walked through the fear. I remember going there being so high and drunk, and when I was reading the script, I couldn’t even under what the f it was saying.

I remember saying to myself, this is never going to happen again. I had to get sober. This is insane. Pete Davidson spoke to Jimmy Fallon about Pete Davidson’s favorite SNL backstage moment. Pete told Jimmy, you know, when you go under the paint cans, there’s that little sign that says watch your head Farley.

They explained that to me in my first season. I thought it was really cool. Pete explained, Chris Farley used to bump his head when it would run the sketch, so there’s a little plaque that says watch your head Furley. A little more information about the re Odd Comedy Festival September twenty sixth through October ninth. The lineup will include local and international comedians, including some names you know Andrew Schultz, who was shocked to find out President Trump didn’t go through with everything that President Trump had promised.

Bill Burr, Gabriel Iglesias, Jessica Curson, Jim Jefferies, Jimmy Carr, Joe Coy who once told a horrible joke about Taylor Swift. Should we listen to it? Yeah, let’s listen to it. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the gold Gloves in the NFL.

On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor. Swift, Kevin Hart, Monster Brownie, Russell Peters, Sebastian Maniscalco, Whitney Cummings’ Zarna Gark. That’s no joke. Margaret Cho is touring her new show is called Choligarchy and explains my new show, Chologarchy is bringing me back to my roots as a political comedian. I’m so frustrated with the all caps state of the Union, and I know the only weapon I have is humor.

I want to fight fascism with everything I have. This will be my most blistering and brutally on a show. Yet, let’s tear down racism, homophobia, and sexism with all that we have, Liza Trigger spoke to Interview magazine. They were curious if she’s always been into gossip. Lisa said, it’s like an immigrant thing.

Once you’re an outsider, you do more observing. I didn’t know what carry out was or delivery. We don’t do that, And then I’m at my friend’s house and we’re getting hot dogs delivered to the house, and I’m like, what is going on? But I was also raised on Access Hollywood Entertainment Tonight and that’s weekly. My high school group was crazy.

It was just a bunch of really thin people calling each other.

And then I was in the corner being like, Okay, I guess I’ll jump off the brid…

Then I’ll tell someone everyone’s mad at you and they don’t like you. Then they get kicked out of the group for being a bitch. She talked about her previous specials The Half Hour in Comedy Central on a half Hour on Netflix as part of The Degenerates and said, and with those, you’re kind of playing the game. There’s a teleprompter. I had my jokes in order, I had my set list.

It felt like a pageant. That’s not like I would like to perform. So for the new special, I was very specific, no set list. I knew how I was starting and how it was ending. I wanted it to be a night out in New York watching me do stand up in a basement.

People were eating mazzarella sticks, people were drinking. That’s how I love doing comedy. I don’t perform in theaters. You know, life does just keep getting worse and worse. First Mark Marin announced he was ending his podcast, and Stephen Colbert got fired, and now Adam Sandler is talking about making even more sequels.

Oh no, there’s talk of growing ups three, Sandler says. When it happens, I’ve got to let you know. I just don’t know what we’re doing right now, but we’re trying to figure out stuff. It would be fun. We’re always thinking of some stuff and trying to get us all together.

I’ve heard chatter. Oh no, oh, I mean, do I have to remind everyone? Do I have to bust out yet another Adam Sandler Happy Gilmore I review because I’ve got them. Here’s one from salon their headline. The sequel to the beloved nineteen ninety six hit is a tip of tide reminder that it’s okay to move on.

Salon writes, of all the dirty, rotten, down low things Netflix has done, providing a gaping pit of gold coins for Adam Sandler to cannonball into like Scrooge McDuck, might be the worst so far. Left to his own devices, Sandler’s style of comedy isn’t exactly pleasant to ingest in massive quantities. The comedian actor made a name for himself yelling, doing voices, and playing instruments on Saturday Night Live. Juvenile humor was rampant in the nineties, popular with kids and kids at heart, for whom growing up was a Peter Pan level nightmare. Saidlor’s nineteen ninety five comedy Billy Madison is the most flagrant example of this childish style, soapack with immature gags that it threatens to burst, sending Nickelodeon green slime everywhere.

I like this, This is a good review. But as I said yesterday, people have seen the light. I’ve been out here by myself saying this, and people are coming around now. Salon writes the one two punch of twenty seventeen’s The Myerwoitz Stories. In twenty nineteen’s Uncut gems Leffy was thinking that Sailor might be turning over a new leaf, ready to flex his skills as a dramatic performer.

That’s right, he’s a great dramatic actor. More of that, Adam, please, I’ll go see your movies. But Salon writes Button twenty twenty, Netflix and Happy Madison Inc. Another four film deal, meaning that Sanilor would be tied to the streamer and it’s increasingly dour cinematic output just what Sailor was finally settled into a more mature era. So people were giving Kathy Griffin the business about how she looked she had posted on Instagram.

Just when he thought I was done, I came back better than ever. In classic Griffin fashion, I’m happy to announce two new upcoming shows this November find me in the Glamorous Las Vegas November eighth and Anaheim November twenty second. In the photo, she was smiling, showing off a red, wavy hair of full bangs and a glammed up look. This event titled New Face, New Tour. In this scene to be response to a photo that paparazzi took last month, Cathy was just out living her life.

Seen without her full bangs, sporting long natural hair. She was dressed casually in a white T shirt. People on social media commented and said, she definitely looks different. You know, sometimes people just want to go to the store. As someone who recently lived in Canada for was it five days that I moved to Canada?

I support Canadian comedy. The producers of Letter Kenny. They are new Metric Media. They are self funding, producing and distributing a slate of stand up comedy albums specials known as the A List. You know, like the Canadian stereotype of the go A.

So the A List will feature Kenny Robinson’s of Brena, Douglas, Ron Jossel, Rebecca Kohler, Jared Nathan, Kelly Taylor. The guy behind this is Ben Minor. Now I know Ben because he used to run Serious XM Comedy Canada or Serious Comedy Canada maybe before the merger. I forget how that all shook out. Anyway, I know Ben worked with Ben.

Like Ben, congratulations Ben. We used to like working with the Canadian as we call them down in New York City. Anytime we went up to Canada, they would let us use their facilities and they were pretty cool guys. Ben Miner says New Metric is a world class one stop shop for Canadian comedians and our new stand up and podcast division lives up to the successes we’ve had on the scripted side with Letter, Kenny Shorsey and some other stuff. These six comedians are absolute humdingers and room rocking stand ups.

Let’s continue to support Canadian comedy. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Devon Henderson. Devin describes her comedy style as very cerebral until I decided to start screaming. Her influence is the cast of early two thousands SSNL. Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Mya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, etc.

Probably did the most to shape my sense of humor. If Tina Fey never existed, I would not be doing this right now. It’s impossible to overstate how influential she was for me. Her favorite way to find out about new comedians. I love this answer, she said, Do I sound like Father Time?

If I say live shows, I don’t have TikTok. I love to stand at the back of the comedy boarn and be surprised by a comedian I’ve never seen before. Amen, Devin nice Jo by the La Comedy Club at the Strat Hotel, Casino and Tower. They’re trying to get you to adopt local shelter pets. You should.

I have two dogs right now and they are both shelter pets. I’ve got nothing but shelter pets since nineteen eighty one. Before that, I didn’t have any pets. From now until the end of the summer, individuals who adopt a pet from the Animal Foundation, we’ll receive a complimentary pair of tickets to an upcoming LA Comedy Club show. LA Comedy Club dot com information there.

This is going on through August twenty eighth, and from Cruisehive dot com, you’re home for comedy news. Apparently a recent guest on the Carnival cruise line there didn’t like the comedy show. They complained to John Heeld. Apparently mister Heald’s job is to listen to your complaints. The complaints said the entertainment was great, with the exception of the eighteen plus comedy.

We couldn’t believe what both comedian entertainers brought up incredibly inappropriate for any age. You did hear the part where I just said that the guest said it was an eighteen plus comedy. Clearly an eighteen plus comedy and the guest clearly understand that, but incredibly inappropriate for any age. The first comedian opened up with the F word and within the next five minutes dropped it at least three times. It was racist and it was cruel.

I cannot believe that everyone stayed and listened to this filth. Mister Healda did not identify the performer, but said it’s one of Carnival’s star performers. The guest said, in my opinion, he should be fired. Politics, sexual connotations, and the use of the F bomb has no place on a so called family cruise line. All right, so it’s a comedy show.

You don’t want us to do politics or sex or use the language. I’ll meet you halfway on the language. But what do you want? Knock not jokes? Mister heald explained being a comedian twenty twenty five is one heck of a difficult profession in comedy, most jokes or at someone’s expense, whether it’s Hardy bullying.

Laurel might want a more updated reference there, I mean, what did Laurel and Hardy last put something? Out. I’m looking that up. Can we please update our references a little. Wikipedia tells me they were active from nineteen twenty seven to nineteen fifty five.

Can we find something that’s a little more current than seventy years ago? Now, Whether it’s Hardy bullying Laurel Jerry dropping a bowling ball on Tom’s head so Tom and Jerry cartoon’s been a minute there, or me making a job about something in the news, or indeed my weight and my ugliness, the laugh comes at a cost to a victim. The nitty gritty of this is simple, though. Our adult comedy shows are uncensored. If you’re in any doubt, please simply don’t go now.

Apparently, the Punchlineer Comedy Club makes announcements before each R rated show that the content may not appeal to all guests. There was also a sign saying the show is adults only. The guest admits that they did leave the show. Mister healed said that was probably the best decision. If you don’t like a joke, comedian says on one of our stages, please don’t demand, don’t write on the boards telling them that mister and missus funny Bone be fired.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Pinner. Welcome to year seven of Daily Comedy News. I’m Johnny Mackis. Thing started in twenty nineteen, and somehow I did it all the way through the pandemic with nothing to talk about, plenty to talk about today, and lately it’s been super busy.

Hey. Remember Tony Hinchcliff, He’s hosting WWE Late Night on August second in Anglewood, New Jersey. Well not anymore. The event has been removed from the WWE Events page. Refunds are being offered.

The event was going to be hosted by Tony Hinchcliff and WWE star Cody Rhodes had been officially advertised for the show, although the only WWE star. I guess we’re using particular language there. We can’t just say wrestler anyway, Cody Rose was the only one who was announced. According to wrestle Tics, less than nine hundred tickets had been sold as of early July. Less than nine hundred.

Yikes, So if you’re planning on seeing Tony Hitchcliffe on the second, you’re not. David Letterman has officially weighed in on Colbert Gate on Letterman’s YouTube channel, David Letterman was the guest on the Barbar Gaines Show. David Letterman, who’s seventy eight now. Yikes, Then again, I guess he was forty when I was a kid, right. David said, it’s all very strange, it’s very complicated.

But it was a bit of a surprise, wasn’t it. Letterman speculated the Paramount is capitulating to new owner Ellison, who might not want any trouble from that guy. Dave did an impression of Paramount executives going, not only we’re gonna get rid of that guy, We’re gonna get rid of the whole franchise. You don’t have to worry about another guy. It’s gone, buddy.

Dave said, I think it’s sad, But what this indicates is Ellison doesn’t want any trouble along the lines of freedom of the press or free speech or freedom of expression. They don’t want to get their hands dirty. They don’t want the government going after them. I don’t think it was money. I think it was to make sure that Ellison was stolid spending Dad Larry Ellison’s money.

You’re telling me losing this kind of money happened yesterday. I bet they were losing this kind of money a month ago. I bet they were using this kind of money six weeks ago, or they’ve never been losing money. Take a look at the CBS News. It’s still in business and I’m not certain that’s a profit center.

They did not handle Stephen Colbert, the face of that network, and the way he deserves to have been handled one day of not today. The people at CBS who have manipulated and handled this are going to be embarrassed because this is gutless. Dave joke that Colbert has become a martyr and said, now we’ve all got to kiss Stephen Colbert’s ring. You may be seeing a lot of headlines about Jay Leno weighing in on all this. Now, Jay did comment about Late Night, but he had made the comments before the Colbert announcement was made.

Just over the weekend, somebody noticed it and it kind of bubbled up on YouTube and then everybody wrote articles about it. I don’t think it lessens what Jay said, but he did say it before Colbert Gate. Jay Leno, who’s seventy five now, was interviewed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. David Trulio, the president and CEO of the Foundation had noted that Leno’s jokes were equally bounced between mocking Democrats and Republicans. Again, this before Colbert Gate.

Leno says, I got hate letter saying you and your Republican friends, and another saying I hope you and your Democratic buddies are happy. That’s how you get a whole audience. Now you have to be content with half the audience because you have to give your opinion. Ronnie Dangerfield and I were friends. I knew Rodney forty years and I have no idea if he was a Democrat Republican.

We never discuss politics. We just discussed jokes. I like to think that people came to a comedy show to get away from the pressures of life. I love political humor, don’t get me wrong, But people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other. I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture.

Why shoot for just half an audience? Why not try to get the whole. I like to bring people into the big picture. I don’t understand why you’d alienate one particular group where just don’t do it all. I’m not saying after three support on one side, but just do what’s funny.

The Hollywood Reporter has a little more about that Chris Rock mystery set that I told you about on yesterday’s show, Currently Rock, when an hour joked about quote everything from abandoning Love Island and divorce by promoting his ex wife’s attorney to wonderful halle Berry and the infamous Oscar slap. Regarding this slap, a source told The Hollywood Reporter that Chris Rock broached the subject only after an audio member lobbed a question about the incident. Rock answered with several hilarious responses. The source said it was a night everyone who attended will long remember and call the set remarkably brilliant. It remains unclear what Chris Rock is up to.

Very interesting out on Netflix today Dusty Slay’s new special Wet Heat. Dusty hasn’t done any press yet that I’ve seen, but he said the specials says Hot is a July in Alabama. I do think it’s my best work yet, and I’m very excited for people to see it. We’re having a good time, that’s his catchphrase. Craig Robinson was a comic con over the weekend.

He addressed the stunt last month where he said he was quitting comedy. He was asked if he had fooled anybody he knows, He said one thousand percent everybody. My father was like, what’s going on. I was like, I’ll call you back because I didn’t want to taill him. Robinson said, I’m not quitting, gone back.

You’re welcome, Yes, dad, dad, I’m still in comedy at just for laughs. Ryan Reynolds presented Rob Mack with the Generation Award right after the Lifetime Achievement Trophy had been given to George Wallace. Ryan Reynolds said Rob second place to the Lifetime Achievement Award amazing. Reynolds praised Rob Max, saying Hollywood could be an insipid craphouse of around the clock shamelessness. You have to willing to be excited to grind and push a dream up a hill and have the wherewithal to do it on your own.

Nobody does seventeen seasons of a TV show with the same cast and crew and also happens to be a D word jerk fase. And without Rob, there would be no Donkey series called Welcome to Wrexham. Max said him here because of Ryan Reynolds who not only took my career into the stratosphere, but also flew here to give this to me. Fortune Fimester and May Martin were there receiving the podcast award. May Martin said, this means a lot to me because I’m comedian.

Fortune added for our community. Representation is still very much needed, wanted, and it’s cool to be talking about these different topics. George Wallace of the Lifetime Achievement Awards said that means you’ve been around for a while, know a few things, and I know a few things. At the May Martin and Friends show, the folks from Exclaimed Canada and Caught it Out. May did a set of about thirty minutes discussing living in la buying a house on soil that’s actively trying to slide into the ocean, and befriending a possum.

Exclaimed says Martin was trying out new jokes and they were all hitting. Next up, Nick muhammed you knew him from Ted Lasso. He rolled on the stage wearing a pair of vintage roller skates and almost tripped a few times, did some material about the absurdity of the twelve Days of Christmas, and then wondered what if the song is cumulative, that’s a lot of gifts, even displayed a bar graph of the gifts as a visual backdrop. Nina Khanti got up described as the UK’s Queen of ventriloquism, armed with a foul mouthed monkey puppet and some terrifyingly realistic lip masks. It was very bizarre and absolutely hilarious.

Sabrina Jaylee’s out next jokes about parenthood, abortion and the semantics of Urdu and closing out the night, Fortune Feimster also trying out new material at the festival that is aggressive. Sounds like it was a good show. Friends. For years, I spoke the truth about Adam sandler comedies. I was out here all alone, taking on everyone, taking on the mainstream media, shouting from the mountaintop Adam Sandler comedies are terrible.

Now, Adam Sandler is a good guy. Everybody who works with them loves him. Never heard a bad word about him. He’s a family man. He’s a man who dresses so casual that he makes me look like James Bond.

And I say that right now. I am wearing four reel, a yellow baseball cap, a slightly too small shrunk in the wash purple volleyball shirt because it’s one of the shirts I don’t mind getting chlorine on when I clean the pool, and gray sweatpants and Adam Sandler makes me look like a savvy dresser. Adam Sandler solid dramatic actor, but he makes terrible comedies. Now, I don’t begrudge the man. If Netflix wrote you that check, you would say yes.

If Netflix asked me, hey, do you want to be in Happy Gilmore three? You play Adam Sandler’s best friend. I’ll be there right now. Or are we filming in Montclair? I’ll hop in the car.

I’ll be there in twenty five minutes. Hey, Adam, great to see it. Nice outfit. But all that said, Happy Gilmore two is so bad that it is given others the courage to speak truth to the reality of Adam Sandler comedies. The Daily Beast has a wonderful review.

It may be the greatest movie review of all time. It’s titled Happy Gilmore Too may be the worst sequel of all time. Now, I read it and I shared it in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, And this review is so epic. I don’t have the gravitas to read it to you. My voice cannot bring to life the majesty of these words.

From the Daily Beasts review, Happy Gilmore two may be the worst sequel of all time. So I have used an ai voice to read it to you because I want you to hear it in all its majesty. Arguably the least inspired film in the actor’s canon, if not all, of movie history, director Kyle Nuachek’s follow up is a cinematic abomination, devoid of imagination, skill, or purpose, floundering about for a criminally long one hundred and fourteen minute in search of a single laugh. Even for a star who’s made his fair share of duds. This is Sandler’s nay Deer, a cash grabbed nostalgia fest that pairs terrible new jokes with stale old ones, as well as piles on cameos from family members and famous friends who were ostensibly tricked by their love of the original into participating in this Hindenburg grade fiasco.

There isn’t a person alive who’s ever wondered what became of Sandler’s early manchild heroes, and yet Happy Gilmore too, nonetheless opts to answer that question regarding its title character. Happy Gilmore’s humor stemmed from Sandler’s rage Aholick Bruin’s loving protagonist trying to fit into the prim and proper golf world. But nearly three decades later, the headliner doesn’t radiate anger so much as slovenly inertia has proven by every aspect of his recent output. The leaden direction, the half hearted writing his trademark baggy Jim Attire laziness is now Sandler’s cinematic brand that clashes poorly with the spirit of Happy, who here feels like a sleepy approximation of his former self, going through the motions out of begrudging obligation rather than impulse. Virtually every notable bit from Happy Gilmore is redone, and almost always without a novel twist.

Apparently, Sandler and company believe fans have only been waiting for the same thing, except in sloppier form. Happy Gilmore too has no courage to be its own thing, and its story involving Happy squaring off against Safti’s energy drinky ringers who’ve had hip surgery to enhance their swings, its story is so dreary and tossed off that it feels as if it’s actively trying to make viewers tune out between its wooden non actors, squandered comedians, and flat relatives. It’s a mix of the bad, the bad and the bad. As Sandler has grown into a more accomplished actor see the Meyrowitz stories, hustle and uncut gems, he’s lost any trace of his hilarious fastball. His goofiness has grown stale and dispirited with age, and to date he’s failed to compensate by finding a different register in which to be funny.

With all due respect to grown ups two The Ridiculous Six and Sandy Wexler. Happy Gilmore Too is the bottom of the Sandler barrel, a grim disaster that not only sullies the good name of its ancestor, but so badly flails on its own limited terms that it suggests the a Lister should concentrate on dramatic parts and leave the immature comedy to. Others now As the King of Fairness. Not every review is that epic. Some are just mistaken.

They’re well meeting, but they are mistaken. For example, in Esquire, Brady Langman writes, and there are spoilers here, but you’ve had four days to watch Happy Gilmore Too spoilers. Brady writes, I gave in sometime after Happy Gilmore Too killed Julie Bowen with a golf ball and dropped Tuesday’s Gone for the first yes, first time, but definitely before the Master’s Champion, respected mental health advocate and generally sweet irishman Rory McElroy was on the receiving end of I’ll Clean Up a Purple Nurple. Actually, you know it was when Bad Bunny looped up Travis Kelcey with honey and invited a cgi bear to eat him alive. That’s when I silently told Adam Sandler that he had won and that, no matter how many times he’d drink booze from a cucumber across Netflix’s sequel to nineteen ninety six is Happy Gilmore.

I would shut up and enjoy it because I live in a world where President Big Mac is about to throw hands with Eric Cartman, which means that I’m entirely allowed to enjoy one uncomplicated screening of Happy Gilmore Too. We need Heppy Gilmore Too, No, we absolutely did not. I’m I happy that it exists. Absolutely while coming nowhere near the heights and ingenuity of its predecessor. Happy Gilmore two is still a blast, with every cameo tuned directly into Sailor’s comedic frequency.

Now you’ll probably see quite a few reviews dunking on Happy Gilmore too, and as shameless Nossagia plays this weekend. To that, I say two things, one fair and two. At this point in Sandler’s career, where we know we can bust out an Oscar worthy performance at any minute, yet chooses to make them possible to hate escape his comedy where great his work not only on a curve, but by wholly different benchmarks. My advice, let it wash over you. Enjoy the sight of John Daily watching Love Island Australia basking the vision of Ben Steelers’s face super imposed on a golf ball.

Let Sandman do as only Sandman can do, whiskey away from this doom planet for two hours to laugh at M and M’s fake beard. I have gotten more feedback on my Adam Sandlor commentary over the last few days than I think anything that I’ve ever done. I heard from Justin Justin appreciate you listening. Justin said I liked it a break from reality. With a healthy dose of nostalgia.

Happy gilmore I delivers It was made for the audience he wanted to see it made period. Heard from Paul, he wrote, Johnny Mack, I know you’re really against Happy Gilmore Io enjoy being fancy French, but it’s actually pretty good and Happy was a hockey player pointed out he was making fun of my recent move to Canada. I moved back to get away from the monkey box, but boy, as a Canadian citizen there for four days it was great and I do have to leave you on a sad note. Tom Lair, the political satirist and mathematician, died age ninety seven over the weekend. Tom recorded and performed his own music, including his first solo album, Songs by Tom Lair in nineteen fifty three.

He served in the Army for two years, then released his second album More of Tom Lair and a live recording and Evening Wasted with Tom Lair, both of those in nineteen fifty nine. The next year he was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Performance Parentheses Musical. Then he decided to quit touring and focus on teaching math. However, he kept working on me usic on the side. He did a weekly satire song for the NBC show That Was the Week That Was.

He later released a compilation of those on That Was the Year That Was That peaked at number eighteen on the nineteen sixty six Billboard chart. He also wrote songs for The Electric Company. A beloved song of my youth. If you’re of my age, you know the Electric Company. We should talk about that show one time.

I mean it had Morgan Freeman and Spider Man guys. Tom Lair in two thousand said I enjoined it up to a point, but to me, going out and performing the concert every night when it was all available on record would be like a novelist going out and reading his novel every night. In twenty twenty two, he announced on his website that he relinquished ownership of his music to the public domain. He said, help yourself, don’t send me any money. Rest in peace, Tom that your company used for today see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny back back in a good old USA where I realize there is something worse than an Adam Sandler comedy and it’s monkey Box. So I’m not gonna live in Montreal. That stuff’s going around. Chris Rock was at the Laugh Factory last week.

It did a set. The performance was unannounced, word spread fast. The energy in the room turned to kinetic. People on site said Chris Rock’s delivery was sharp, his timing impeccable. Rock got a standing Oh.

People kept their phones down. It wasn’t even a yonder situation. People are wondering what Chris is tuning up for. At Netflix special Oscar host Chris Rock didn’t say, but apparently he was pretty tight. That’s cool.

Bobby Lee talked about filming the film The Wrong Missy. He had a single line of dialogue, which is welcome mister and missus Morris, but delivering those words words proved challenging due to a conflict with one of the film’s producer, comedic movie expert Adam Sandler. Bobby Lee said, I’m on set feeling good. It’s outside Hawaii. Everyone that set is a friend of mine.

Action and then somebody else. Stop. It’s Sandler who never comes to set. He comes down, he goes, hey, what are you doing? And I go, oh, hey Adam, and he goes, what are you doing?

Sandler didn’t feel Bobby Lee’s performance was organic enough. I mean, Adam Sandler cares about the quality of his films. As you know. Sandlor says, do it more natural? Bobby Lee says, okay, I do it again.

Stop he comes back. Lee explain what happens when you’re doing one line is the whole time when you’re watching the scene, all you’re thinking about is the one line, and you’re running through it in your mind ten thousand times. People are paying attention to a recent episode of the Tim Dillon podcast. Tim was suggesting that somebody had shared information about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Now, Tim, you never know what’s real, what’s serious, what’s a joke.

But the media is starting to pick up up. Dylan suggested he had dinner with JD. Vance, and as the story goes, Vance told him that the Epstein video files were just commercial pornography and didn’t show any powerful people in bad situations. Dylan pushed back, asking, then, why did Pam BONDI call it evidence. Keep an eye on that developing story from Yahoo Canada.

They raved about John Marcos Siresi, who told Yahoo Canada sometimes people say, oh, he never misses, and I’m like, I don’t caption the misses. Sometimes I feel like I get lucky. I just know how to continue a conversation and come with a point of view. The discussion here is about crowd work. I try to think of asking the questions that are impolite, to ask the ones that you want to.

But it’s like, well that’s insane. I think with comedy you’re in a safe space of like I could say that why does this suck? Or how did they die? And just going to the weeds. I’ve a bit that talks about the registered sex Offender registry and turns out a lot of countries don’t have one, and if you start asking about that, you can just go from there.

I try to push myself to ask beyond the regular questions of Montreal. He said, it’s advantageous to be an American comedian. I have a joke that’s a riff about RFK Junior and does he get the same exact response as in America. No, But the fact that it can work in Barcelona is insane because I can’t tell you anything about Spain. I just found out they still have a king.

I have a lot of negative feelings start my country right now, and Canada is more than happy to hear them. He talked about his parents. He said, I think one of the benefits I have is my father doesn’t really watch my stand up and certainly doesn’t fully comprehend it if he does. My mom doesn’t mind me being mean, and none of my siblings care and my former stepfather so I’ve never been told not to say something. I do get to talk about, especially my father, in a way that anyone who has a more functional relationship will go.

I couldn’t possibly express that feeling or articulate that, and I consider that one of the elements that I have as a stand up that’s very beneficial to writing material. I’m lucky to have autonomy. Great to see him. I’ll use the phrase stepping up in class, getting more and more known. And he’s a cool guy.

I’ve we’ve been a guest on this show twice. Great to see Pete. Davidson admits he was concerned about not being a very good comedian after getting sober, he was on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon said, I was nervous about it because maybe I’m not very good, or maybe I was so high. I thought I was good. I’m weirdly sharper and more aware, so it’s more fun, Jimmy found said, enjoying it more, Pete said, yeah, when people laugh, you feel it, as opposed to just sitting there so high, sitting there.

Michael Costa weigh in on Colbert Gate from Late Night Or. Costa said, of CBS, if it’s important to you, you would keep it. You’d figure it out. Do you know how much BS, CBS, ABCNBC, Fox puts out that loses money. It all loses money every once in a while, something doesn’t.

I think they’re cow telling to Trump. I think everybody is, which is what authoritarian leaders want. They silence their critics. Costa speculated why the Daily Show hasn’t drawn he yet. He said, maybe it’s a good thing that there’s twenty five Daily show hosts because it’s really easy to point the figure out one person in Colbert.

They can’t just say. Costa said this, it’s like Colbert, Colbert, Colbert, you know we rotate the ball around. I don’t know. Maybe that’s helpful for us. Maybe the Daily Show has flown under the radar because we’re on cable, because we’re not broadcast, because when you check into a hotel and you turn the TV on, it doesn’t just turn to CBSABC or NBC.

You have to find us. Maybe the Daily Show’s in a good position because we’re on cable and cable’s dying and they could sell us to Hulu or Netflix. Why couldn’t you go to Netflix or Amazon Prime and the Daily Show’s right there. Christa Stefano talked about filling in for Jimmy Kimmel. I guess that’s two weeks ago now.

He told Yahoo. Was one of those things where in the moment, I was like I got this, and then right when the curtains open, they were like, please, welcome to your guess, so was christ Stefano. I thought I was going to pass out while the anxiety was pushing down, just rushed right to my head. His mother was in the front row. Normally I don’t like having my family in the front row because comedy is a very vulnerable thing, but I almost felt like a child again.

My mom was in the front row, and that calmed me down. When I saw her, I was like, oh, mom’s right there, You’re safe. It was a very bizarre feeling. He too, was in Montreal. I hope you don’t get the impox.

He said. The Montreal Just for Last Comedy Festival is my favorite comedy festival in the world. I just love how it takes over the city. Yeah, it felt kind of normal. Maybe a few less big stars than in the past, but in terms of taking over the city, that whole downtown area, you knew the festival was there like usual.

Chris had one of the best parts for me. Not only do I get to do my show, then you can jump on other comedian shows that maybe they live in another part of the country or world and you haven’t seen them in a while. He says. Toronto audiences feel like New York, more blue collar, will laugh at that edge. In Montreal, you definitely have to work a little harder.

They’re a little bit more like impress me, which I don’t mind that.

And then Vancouver is more like La They’re chill.

But then I really like cities like Winnipeg and Edmonton because people are just getting hammered and laughing and everything that routiness where it’s almost like, oh, Wow, there’s going to be a fistfight at my show tonight. So we still don’t know what CBS will do with eleven thirty, But at twelve thirty, Byron Allen is gearing up for its new twelve thirty time slot. His company is recording one hundred and thirty two new episodes of Comics Unleashed. That series started in two thousand and six, has only sporadically produced new episodes until twenty fourteen. The show had episodes that had been produced between two thousand and six and seven.

Then it ran between the end of the Late Late Show and the beginning of Taylor Thomlinson on CBS. They had filmed some new episodes in twenty twenty three. Comics Unleashed gets the twelve thirty slot September twenty second. Fred Armisen has a new album coming out. It’s called one hundred sound Effects.

It’ll be out September twenty sixth. The album consists of one hundred and one sound Effects, not one hundred, ranging in length from two seconds to two minutes. Track names include Needle on Record Band, sound Check, sound Guy, and band agreeing for too long? Why this good question? Ormison said, I was thinking about Haunted House sound effects albums and how fun those seem to record.

Ralph Barbosa will have a hilarious special August eighth. The trailer is out. Got the audio for you here. I think the material is pretty good, but as a trailer, I’m not sure it’s really that good. As a trailer.

Hulu really scope down his jokes, so most of the editing you’re about to hear is from Hulu, not for me, especially going from line to line. I didn’t make the cuts there at all. I did tremble a little music. But let’s listen to Ralph Barbosa into the break. What’s up everybody?

I’m almost five seven. Yeah, I’m not five seven. I wish I was. I would not be doing comedy. Why would I need to impress people.

I’d be grown, you know. But I see a five sixth dude, I’ll beat his little ass. Yeah coming hama ha. I know what I like and what I don’t like. I like girls who don’t wear way too much makeup.

And you can always tell because when y’all take it off, which is like, hey, you’re an artists and the liar. Girls are really big on traveling nowadays, but that can be tough on your pockets. That’s why I only go out with girls who are here illegally. Y’all have reached your final destination. Let’s go under the covers where they can’t find you.

I also want to say. Another thing, man, don’t ever leave my show thinking you learned something that. As I prepped the show, I saw this headline from WBOC TV. Now WBOC TV, listen to me. You gotta come down with this.

Their headline, Ocean City is welcoming legendary comedian. Okay, I’m gonna stop there, dear listener, They’re welcoming legendary comedian. Blank. Who do you think I’m about to say? Wrong?

Whatever you said, you’re wrong. The full headline Ocean City is welcoming legendary comedian Tom Poppa. Tom Papa doesn’t think Tom Papa is legendary. What are you doing? You sound insane?

Stop with that. Ocean City is welcoming hilarious comedian Tom Papa. Great Ocean City is welcoming. Really cool, dude, Tom Papa. Great Ocean City is welcoming.

Radio host and podcaster Tom Papa Great Ocean City is welcoming, really really really really funny comedian and TV host Tom Papa great legendary. Not everyone’s a legend. Stop you sound insane A follo up to a story last week, remember the comedian in Germany was facing jail time for making an assassination joke about a really famous politician. Again, I don’t want visits from guys at Susan Sunglasses, so I’ll let you figure out who the politician is. The judge said his joke was clear satire.

Judge Andrea Wilms handed down the verdict and said the posts were clearly recognizable as satire, adding she could not discern any intention to disrupt public order. She did describe the post as being in bad taste, but didn’t believe that anyone would feel incited to commit a crime after reading such obviously satirical statements. She added, in a liberal democracy like Germany, it’s desirable for people to be able to argue about good and bad opinions. I bet they don’t cancel late night shows.

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Meanwhile, a comedian has canceled her show at the Fringe Festival due to bai…

Susan Riddell was going to debut her new show How Do You Sleep at Night at the Edinburgh Fringe. However, she appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court via video link and made no plea to a charge of malicious mischief aggravated by having a quote terrorist connection unquote after a van was allegedly driven into the fence of a factory on July fifteenth, She said on Instagram thanks to everybody was shared my fringe show, but unfortunately, due to bail conditions, I’m barred from Edinburgh for the foreseeable so I won’t be doing much show. If you contact the venue you can get a refund. Maybe go see the brilliant Amanda Dwyer instead. She also shared a link to a charity raising money for water tanks in Gaza.

Friend of the show, Jason Zennemann in The New York Times wrote about alt comedy this got a little lost both between Colbert Gate and the Montreal Comedy Festival. Jason wrote, if Nathan Fielder performed stand up comedy, you might look something like Brent Weinbach. It’s not only that Weinbach maintains an impenetrable deadpan, or seeks out awkward silence, or builds jokes around overly elaborate setups. Whose new special Popular Culture on YouTube also exploits the central conceit of fielders of the rehearsal, including several bits where Windbock prepares for a future event with a practice run to get ready for fatherhood. He acts out responses to discovering his daughter smoking marijuana.

Things get weird. Winebox Hour, a very funny collection of eccentric impressions, oddball advice, and flights of fancy, would once have been quickly classified as alternative comedy. Sounds like that’s pretty good, Zenneman writes, sticking with that premise, so with the new special from Eddie Peppatone. But the term alternative comedy has fallen out of fashion, in part because it’s become too vague, and yet I increasingly find myself missing it. Pepotone projects the chaotic energy of a thunderstorm.

Jason writes, Pepatone’s hour made me laugh louder than anything all year, and his cheerfully unhinged, mad as hell working class persona meets our current chaotk moment perfectly. He should be just right For those reading the news today and looking for a comedian to express their exasperation with the world, that’s some high. I will have to catch up on my comedy. I mean, I haven’t been home at all in between a road trip and Colbert Gate. Been super super busy, But I feel like this program has been pretty strong lately.

So again, I thank you for listening every day. I appreciate you, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News GQS. Mark maron if he’s sad about WTF ending, Is it like reading his own obituary? Maren said, no, I haven’t gotten the sense of obituary dying or reconsidering. That hasn’t happened, but not unlike the way to do comedy, the way to the podcast is I’m all in and pretty wide open and trying to sort through my own feelings about everything, and also very aware of the weight of expectation and people’s need for my companionship at point of view in their lives.

And after sixteen years of that, I’m a little depleted, and I do think there’s some things about me that have changed. There’s also the climate of where media’s at now. And he did this before colber Gate where it becomes I don’t know if it’s diminishing returns or just sort of a psychological and emotional exhaustion. But no, Look, I don’t know what my public profile, my brand, or whatever words people apply to a public person is going to be after the podcast ends, in terms of not being out there twice a week, you know, bleeding but Brendan and I have done a very specific thing for a long time that’s never diminished in quality and has never been other than what we want it to be. And it’s created a space not just for us, but for many podcasters, or created a template and put the medium on the map, and we see it as a finished thing in a lot of ways.

He’s a very specific type of audio producer and engineer, and I do what I do. The partnership has been equal. We’re workers, and we’ve done a great thing, and there’s no reason to keep dumping it out there if it just becomes something we feel like we have to do because we don’t know anything else. Right, Mark, what should we do without you? He said, yeah, I mean have the conversation with your friends.

You know, these conversations have been important to me personally. I really really am totally aware of the fact that we’re on Mike’s, my guests aren’t, and the conversations we ever thorough and intimate. I really really am totally aware of the fact that we’re on Mikes, my guests aren’t, and the conversations we ever thorough and intimate. And I think that’s something that human beings should do more in their lives because it’s important. We’re all on zoom, We’re all locked in our phones in different states of panic or minor relation at times, and I think that disconnects from humans.

It’s a big problem. There’s no flesh and blood community undertaking in most people’s lives other than work, whatever the day to day is. And one of things that drove me to the podcast in journals, I’ve always been that person when I was a young comic wondering around New York, frustrated I couldn’t get on stage, kind of sweating it out with mynok and having days and nights open because I didn’t see any other thing for me to do. I really used to make the rounds. I used to go to a couple guitar shows.

They used to go to a couple guitar stores, and go to bookstores and go to record stores. And’d go there and talk to the guys who are working there and talk about the things that interested me. If people could teach me something over like minded. It was always part of my life, and it was important part of my life. I mean, if I have one fear about the podcast being over, it said, I’m gonna have to put more effort and expanding my personal social circles.

I can continue having these conversations that are enlightening and also get me out of myself and into somebody else’s life. So I’d say that people who listen to try to make that an important part of their life, as it’s what makes us human. Good stuff there, Happy Gilmore to Director Kyle Knuachek spoke to CBR dot com about what other Adam Sandler films could benefit from having a sequel. Ah. I mean, I wish we could get a sequel to Uncut Gems, but if you’ve seen Uncut Gems, so that would be hard to do.

Maybe we could get a prequel to Uncut Gems. Knew a check said, here’s one thing I think would be interesting now because Sandler was always doing the little nikky voice on set, so just hearing it, I was like, I bet that would be excellent now too. No, it wouldn’t. I bet we could do something really crazy with Little Nicky, please, don’t. I think there’s something like, you know, Happy Gilmour is grounded and he’s able to comment on the world in this movie and kind of send its themes out.

But I feel like Little Nicky in the Fantastic Realm would really be able to call attention to some crazy stuff going on in the world right now, Please don’t you may remember The two thousand film starred Adam Sandler as the son of Satan. CBR points out the film was not met with strong reviews, and it scored a twenty two percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It bombed in theaters. It was even nominated for Razzies, including Worst Actor for Adam Sandler, shocking Michael Paylan from Monty Python’s Boke to SGA mag Could the Pythons get back together? Michael Payland said, occasionally their ideas for getting together, but now there’s only four of us left, and people do their own things.

Eric Idol’s very much taken up the American way of life. John Clees is doing well with Faulty Towers in the West End, so he’s fine. Terry Gilliam I’m seeing tomorrow. He lives up the road. He’s always got a major film on the go, which he says has been messed up by some so and so that’s how I know he’s happy.

Graham Chapman and Terry Jones have passed away. There have been rumors of a new stage version of Life of Brian. Michael says, yeah, that is potential, but I don’t know where that’s got to. I think what Python produced is what we produced when we were all together, and when Graham was around. He was brilliant as the central character in Life of Brian.

Said to do something else without that aspect of it doesn’t seem to me quite right. It’s like a table with four legs, one of which is missing. It’s still just about usable, but it’s not very stable. Taylor Thomlinson spoke to the Times of London. Taylor’s on the road until January, and then she says, this is honestly the first time in a while, and I think it’s because I’m a bit burnt out that I don’t really know where to go from here.

I think I need to live a little bit of life and there’s something to talk about. She has a book coming out late next year about things she’s changed her mind about, including marriage. Taylor says, I really wanted to be married when I was younger. If I’d met someone who said I don’t want to get married, I would have stopped dating them. I think I still wanted to hold onto this image of an ideal woman with a church upbringing.

Now I’m not sure if I ever want to get married. I don’t really care what people are saying about me, and I forgive myself more than I used to. It was really hard on myself for every little mistake and knowing that a certain job or level of success or relationship isn’t going to fix you. You’re your own responsibility. That’s where I’ve got to.

Most of my goals are personal and not professional, which is a nice change. I could do a whole hour and how I used to want to be a comedian and now I want to be a human being. John Goodman told The Daily Beast he hasn’t spoken to former co star Roseanne Barr in a few years, and she probably doesn’t want to hear from him. Apparently, Roseanne is not easy to work with. Goodman said she was a force of nature when it came to getting what she wanted.

We were work friends. The Guardian had a fun anecdote from Robin Williams. They write for a year from nineteen eighty to nineteen eighty one. The comic strip was the hippest and hottest comedy night in town. The bouncers had a rule.

If you reaked of after shave, you were sent to the strip show. If you spelled of beer, they went to the comedy show. Robin Williams came in and de managed to perform to impress his guest David Bowie. He was offered fifteen minutes. Robin said, I told David Bowie d do an hour.

The guy running the place said you can’t. Robin Williams said, I’ll buy the club. Robin was told we don’t own it. It belongs to a bouffont haired pornographer. De Montreal Comedy Festival wraps up today six o’clock.

Jerry D tapes a Netflix special seven o’clock, Danny Boy, Leslie Lao at seven, drop Out, Improv at seven thirty. Sunday Night Improv at eight, Jerry D again, another Netflix taping at eight thirty. Matthew Brossard, who’s been a guest of the show and a former Great New Face at nine. So if we were up there tonight, I don’t know, Leslie Loud seven and Brizard at nine because we could see Jerry D when he’s on Netflix on Gossip Corner. Daniel Tosh was in Kansas City somewhat recently.

He apparently enjoyed eating at barbecue restaurant Q thirty nine. He said it was great, but lamented the fact that they were out of sausage ashett. He stated the Crossroads Hotel for one night and gave props to x R, one of the restaurants inside the hotel. He said the pizzas were delicious, but the charred cucumber salad stole the show. Dave Thomas recent returned from a ten day trip to Ukraine to raise awareness for the Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a charity this applies non lethal equipment and training to Ukrainians.

Dave Thomas from SCTV is seventy six now. He told the Globe and Mail, you can’t fly to Ukraine. I took a Turkish Airlines flight from la to Istanbul, which took fourteen hours. Then I took a connecting flight to Moldova, south of Ukraine. From there was an eight hour ride with an Army security official through Ukraine.

It was a pretty hairy ride. We were dodging automobile debris on the road from previous drone strikes. We had to travel at night because the strikes were during the day. I later met a communications officer who said his personal car was attacked when he was off duty. They were stalking him because he was a valuable piece in the military command chain.

The Russians used social media and all sorts of tracking methods. It’s a different kind of war going on, Dave Thomas says Kiev. We got there in the morning, it looked like a normal European city, business as usual. People sat in cafes drinking lattes. Students were lyned up outside of the university.

During the day, it was difficult for me to imagine there was a war going on. But at night, that’s when you know. Explosions rock my hotel. I’m seventy six years old. I feel like I have to do something with my life before I died.

O has some value. I’ve made some people laugh. I guess that’s great, but I felt I should do something more. I learned a lot about people. Maybe they’ll be increase in donations in Canada, which would be great.

They’re giving medical supplies and teaching field triage. They have evacuation teams that go behind enemy lines to rescue Ukrainian people were trapped there, including women and children. He accompanied those teams and said the Russians were shooting at us. Drones are the weapons of choice now. Ukrainian soldiers told me how difficult they are to shoot down.

They’re almost like model airplanes. I saw one Russian drone hanging in a bar. It doesn’t look threatening at all, and yet they carry ordinance. Did he visit any comedy clubs in context? That’s not an absurd question, I’m exerting from the article.

Dave said, yeah, I spoke with stand ups. I wanted to know what Ukrainians were laughing at. What I found was that it wasn’t Trump or Putin or political jokes. It’s dating, lifestyle jokes. They want to laugh at normal things.

The war is off topic. Nobody thinks the war is funny. There’s nothing funny about it. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’re on Apple podcast click the banner that says uninter did listening.

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Hey guys, real quick, I just wanted to share. I recorded the first half here on a street corner. My energy’s a little low, and I took the break a little early. But stick around because the second half is very robust. Here we go Caloroga Shark Media from Montreal on the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival.

I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I will do the late night stuff today. Jimmy Falluander in the Week said the Justice Apartment said that they planned me with Epstein associate Julane Maxwell. When asked about it, Trump said it sounds like an appropriate thing to do. He was like, hell, I met her hundreds of times.

Seth Myers said, that’s right. President Trump reportedly sent Jeffrey Epstein a letter to celebrate his fiftieth birthday that ends with a happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.

And then somebody else signed the letter exhibit A.

That’s great. May every day be a wonderful secret to me. That sounds kind of like he asked, remind me to venmo you for the sex by the way, tomorrow night at the Beak in Theaters Sunday night. I keep an eye on John Oliver and Seth Meyers doing a show. I’m sure they’ll talk about Colbert.

Jennif Friedman waded in on Colbert at Gate. She was on the Last Laugh podcast and said, like a lot of things right now, there’s no definitive proof, but we don’t know exactly why the show was canceled. Was it for ratings? Was it because political reasons? I think the larger issues for me is that I personally look to comedians I admire, particularly outspoken political comedian in times of uncertainty, and just the fact that Colbert’s show was canceled so swiftly in such a scary moment really made me sad.

She talked about her appearance on the show in twenty sixteen and said she took comfort in knowing that things are going to be okay for us as long as people like Steven Colbert are on the air able to say what they’re saying. That at least is one sign of a democracy that is not totally in pallidi of care. So this news is just another notch and I’m not sure what the right analogy is the two belt towards fascism. Freedman talked about trying to re enter the US from Canada. Oh, I better pay attention here.

She told the border guard. She was performing comedy and quote for some dumb reason side a flirt with him, and I was like, I joke about everything other than airport security. The border guard asked he do you make fun of politicians? She said no, and says the guy wasn’t trying to troll me or tease me. He literally was just following orders.

It was such a benign but insidious question. It felt shocking. Matt Riife was very excited that he saw out Madison Square Garden two shows last weekend. He posted on Insta, Wow, we really did it. I hope I get to do it for the rest of my life.

Jesse McCartney posted epic night, brother, so happy for you. I skimmed down here and I said the word McCartney. I was like, Paul McCartney likes Matt Rife, but no, it’s Jesse McCartney that makes more sense. Variety’s Comedy Impact Honory Nicky Glazer on how stand up saved her life. She said, we all thought I was going to die.

Her friend Lisa Lampinelli, who was also my friend, says Nicky is a kind person. She didn’t want to use the word nice because I think nice as wishy washy. You look at comics who’d get away with the stuff they say, Howard Stern, Don Rickles, Jeff Ross. It’s because they have an underlying kindness and a good goal. She leads with her heart and her vulnerability.

Laser admits, I want to be liked desperately, but not for any reason that isn’t really me. Nicki doesn’t stick around for standing ovation. In fact, I’m always kind of sprinting off the stage because I feel bad that I’m wasting any more of people’s time. One time, she even refunded the price of someone’s ticket. Nicki says, if someone messages me about how I made them feel bad, where they felt like I ruined their night, I’ll venmo them back their money because I want people out of a good time my show.

I’m in awe that people pay so much to see me. They get a babysitter, they get all dressed up, they get dinner. The worst thing I could do is make them feel bad for themselves. You’d be late to the show, disrespect them in some way. That’s my deepest fear She then talked about growing up.

I could never ask my parents about what sex was about, because they would have given me euphemisms about literally birds and bees. I didn’t appreciate being lied to as I grew up. I really suffered being lied to for too long. I believed in Santa Claus way too late. Nicki says she grew up clamoring for the truth.

I think that’s why I gravitated towards stand up, because she gets to tell the truth. The things I say in a microphone feel like the ultimate rebellion for having been shamed for the things I said as a kid. Plenty more there. You’ll find that variety. I’ll pick at that in the next couple days.

Right now, I gotta go catch another show here at the Montreal Comedy Festival, so we’ll take the break and then we’ll come right back. From the Hollywood Reporter Happy Gilmore to review Adam Sandler’s Netflix sequel is terrible and fans will love it. The reporter rights, there are so many clips from its predecessor that even those who never saw the original film, and they are lucky people, we’ll have no trouble catching up. Add that to the many original performers reprising their roles, the constant callbacks, and the NonStop nostalgia, and the result is less a continuation than an exercise in fans service. If you’re watching Happy Gilmore two at home, don’t be surprised if some of the cast members show up at your door offering autograph pictures for a fee.

Every minute of the film features a reference to the original in one form or another. It all feels extremely lazy and self indulgent, especially Sandler’s tendency to cast nearly everyone who’s ever worked with or ever met. The cameos here are so voluminous that you need to cheat, cheat to keep up, although most of them barely make an impression Sandler, it easily walks through the film looking, as one character describes him, like someone who got divorced four seconds ago. I mean, I am just shocked. I mean the thought that an Adam Sandler comedy movie is not hilarious.

I mean, who knew? Why didn’t anyone ever bring this up? I like this one star review TJ Moto posted, it was horrible. The movie was so bad. I actually like Jack and Jill better.

Wow. I mean that just speaks volumes. I’ve shared this before in my household. When that movie came out on pay perview, my kids wanted to rent it, and I said I would rather set the five dollars on fire and would not let them rent. Jack and Jill DJ motorwrites, there was way too many cameos and Happy Gilmore was not the Happy Gilmore character we all love.

Well speak for yourself slash Film’s review Happy Gilmore Too, the comedy sequel, takes a big swing but completely whiffs it. Happy Gilmore two is an absolute slog of a comedy that takes everything that made the original movie great and regurgitates it into something resembling a Dodgeball sequel crashed into professional golf outing. When there are jokes that aren’t callbacks, they’re either so dumb or it makes such a little sense that you’re wondering how they ever made it onto the page. I’m not surprised they made out of the page at all. Have you guys not been paying attention for thirty years.

While there may be a stray chuckle here and there thanks to a genuinely clever line or surprising cameo, those moments are a few and far between. Happy Gilmour two is a poor excuse for nostalgia comedy, and you’d have more fun getting a colonoscopy with a rake. They gave it a two out of ten. Got a bunch of movie news. I’ll do it all back to back to back to back a Spinal Tap two.

The trailer is out and I watched it this morning, and I was all excited for it, and uh worried about this one not looking too good in this trailer trailer not looking too funny. I went to buwl the audio and it just wouldn’t make sense for this audio podcast. In the trailer, we see filmmaker Marty de Bergie catching up with the Spinal Tap crew. They all look quite old. I think they have been made up to look even older than they do in real life.

The trailer then shows us efforts by the band to reunite for one last hurrah, including their efforts to recruit a drummer suicidal enough to play the gig, their merchandising efforts. There is a pretty decent joke about that and whether one or two of them dying on stave would help boost publicity for the gig and cement their legacy. Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell are attached to Tough Guys. Now, I’ll point out it’s been a minute for Will here I recently walked you through as IMDb It’s been a minute. Tough Guys follows two henchmen who are tired of being disposable and break free from the criminal underworld, rewriting the rules as they build a new life on their own terms.

In Better Comedy movie News, supposedly the upcoming Naked Gun reboot is good. I’ve seen nothing but good reviews of it. Now you noticed they didn’t release anything about Happy Gilmour too until Friday morning. That’s always a tell with Naked Gun. They’re going the other way and they’re getting the word out.

Leslie Nielsen plays Frank Drebe Green Rant says first reactions are praising the reboot as hilariously nostalgic, smartly silly and laugh out loud funny. Eric Davis writes, I can finally talk about how obsessed I am with the Naked Gun reboot director Akiva Schaeffer. You know him from Lonely Island and his work is usually quite strong, so I’ll believe it a Kiva Schaffer delivers a hilarious film stuff with hundreds of gags that very much honors the original series. Haven’t laughed that much in a while, walked out feeling amazing. Highly recommend.

Wow. Joe Blow dot com wrote my thoughts, Holy Hell, the Naked Gun is the funniest flick I’ve seen for a while. Liam Neeson is so freaking perfect as Frank Drepen Junior in the comedy chemistry he shares with Pamela Anderson is absolutely wonderful. One sequence had me in tears laughing so hard. It’s eighty five minutes.

It’s an enjoyable watch from start to finish. August First, did you see the South Park episode about Donald Trump that made quite the news on Thursday and Friday. The White House reacted to the episode, Trey Parker said, We’re terribly sorry in case you missed it. Unlike other characters on South Park, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of Trump on an animated body. The body has a rather small penis.

There’s also a very realistic looking at deep fake video of Trump completely naked walking in a desert, also with a very small penis. The White House did not find this funny. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said a statement, this show hasn’t been relevant for over twenty years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas and a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history, and no fourth rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak. At Comic Con, Parker said they did get a note from the producers.

The note apparently said, okay, but we’re going to blur the penis, and I said, no, you’re not going to blur these penis. Matt Stone said the team decided to put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character, explaining, if we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. There was a whole conversation with grown up people for four effing days. What will happen next week? Parker said, I don’t know what next week’s episode is going to be.

Even just three days ago, we were like, I don’t know if people are gonna like this. Sone explained how he and Trey Mehdi said we met ouver Monty Python in this day when PBS is getting their funding cut. That’s how I found Monty Python.

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Also from Comic Con.

Comedy Central announced Beavis and butt Heead is coming back September third. Beavis and butt Head look a little older than they used to and everything that’s old is new again.

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All right, Let’s see what’s happening here in Montreal at the Festival one BM…

Business Casuals Presents Cowboys at ten thirty. Business Casuals, a sketch comedy trio from Los Angeles. The show Spoilers tells the story of a gun slinging cowboys seeking revenge on three men who killed his family. He must assemble a posse and sat out on the journey of a lifetime. Along the way, the group encounter gold miners, snake oil salesman, and just about every Western trope you could think of.

It sounds fun tough slot, though on Saturday. I feel like that might have played better on, you know, Wednesday night, Thursday night. It’s a lot going on tonight, Midnight Surprise eleven fifty nine, Roywood Junior eleven fifty nine, Comedy Confidential eleven fifty nine. Nick Muhammet’s Show Again nine thirty He did one day other night, got a really good review. This from the Montreal Gazette, which unrelated says Montreal reports rise in monkey pock’s cases.

Oh good, that’s great news if you’ve been in theaters in Montreal all week. If the show disappears for a couple of days, that might be why the Gazette when not reporting about monkey pox, says Nick. Attired in a glittering gold lemet jacket, he speaks phonetically in a high pitched tone, and displays the sort of high end energy that sounds like way too much helium intake. His act is mentalism, magic, music, drama, oh and yes, a comedy. He explains, mister Swallow is a character truly based on a teacher of mine that I’ve been doing since I was fifteen in my school playground and professionally for the last twenty years.

It’s been with me so so long. I’ve always loved magic and mentalism, but that sort of crept out of my career once other comedy took over. I used to gig as a working magician, table hopping at weddings and hotels, and I’ve tried to refine it a little. He talked about playing Nate on ted Lasso, and so the role actually got quite challenging towards the end. But I’ve always loved the idea of being quite malleable in terms of the way you inhabit a different character.

For me, that’s the real joy of being an actor. It’s weird because for the first season we were all quite shelter from the success of it. We weren’t traveling because of COVID. But now we can’t get away from it, and we’re all so grateful for it doesn’t sound like Nate is part of season four. He said, who knows.

We’ll have to see, and then gave out a big laugh. I know they’re in Kansas. They’re filming in Kansas City. I know they’re in Kansas at the moment, so we’ll see what happens. I’m being very coy, but he says it with no trace of bitterness.

So the Montreal Gazette thinks Nate will be back. He says those are all good theories, and don’t forget they filmed those shows over a long time. Michelle Bottill says, once you get the Gallas spot at JFL, it feels like you’ve won Formula one. They’re a handful of things. Especially in New York.

Comedians always talk about getting an SNL audition, a late night spot, and JFL was right up there. So this is very exciting. I mean, it’s been a long time, very happy to be doing it. She likes connecting with people around the world. She said, there’s a non binary teenager in Kenya that’s reaching out to me, a sixty two year old lesbian in Bulgaria.

Then there’s cities in Brazil using my cashphrase you know, if there’s gonna be monkey pocks up here, I may have to return back to New Jersey. And there is a comedy festival in Montclair, New Jersey. Instead of moving to Canada, I could have just driven twenty five minutes to the Montclair Comedy Festival. Colin Armstrong was one of the performers there this weekend. Colin likes the energy from doing comedy in Jersey that you can’t get anywhere else.

He says people are more open to laughing about darker stuff than we’re willing to admit. And you know, as long as you know where the morsels of funny are, people are going to be receptive to it. He praised Chris Gethard as a great guy and the godfather of Jersey comedy. I got to do a few shows with him, which was really special. In ice, it’s just good fun times.

Jersey is more open to darker subject matter than if I were doing shows and say San Francisco, San Francisco legendary, uptight city. Question mark, question mark, question mark. If it’s funny, it’s funny. But it’s a very interesting dynamic of what out of state audiences will and won’t laugh at. For some reason, He says Jersey audiences tend to have more hecklers.

Being from New Jersey is a uniquely brutal experience. I grew up with everybody making fun of everyone, and nobody’s not a target. If you got picked on, you learn how to take that stank off you by making fun of someone else. And that is your comedy news for today. I’m gonna go get my monkey pox vaccine and hope for the best.

See you tomorrow, I guess.

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Caloroga Shark Media from the Latin Quarter of Montreal. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I just left New Faces two. It was awesome, way way stronger than New Faces one. Wally Burm was your host for New Faces two, not as strong as John Marco, and I was wondering how that would set up the room.

Would it be strong enough to lead into the comedians. Don’t worry about that, because boy Max Eddie came out number one, Max out of San Francisco. At that point in the evening, I wrote in my notebook Best so Far a couple notes he does have a hack joke in the middle of his set that he needs to totally drop. And he did do the same exact joke as somebody did in New Faces One that said absolutely crushed. Put an arrow.

If I put an arrow in my notebook, that’s a good sign. Only one person got an arrow out of New Faces One. Next up was Catherine Blandfield out of Saint Louis. I love her. I think she might have been my favorite of the twenty comedians I saw on Wednesday evening.

Really really really liked her. She got an up arrow at a star She was followed by Vittorio Angeloni. That’s the guy out of Northern Ireland. He had a great opener about the room and how well lit. It was very, very funny, and he crushed.

So you had a strong open number one with Max Eddie and then Catherine Blandfield and Vittorio Angelone crushing back to back. So could it keep going? Could Sam Bero out of Chicago. Keep it going? Sam also got an up arrow out of me.

He had a tough draw after two crushers, but really really funny, maybe just a hair not as good as the two previous, but super solid. In the five spot, Randy Numayer gets a tough straw after everybody crushing before her. She was really good too. She’s out of Vancouver. Liked her a lot.

Then Tom Murphy from Montreal hometown crowd behind him. I stepped down from the previous group, but by no means not funny, meaning funny. Chloe Radcliffe in the seventh spots out of Minneapolis, super entertaining, really strong performer, more entertaining than funny, but strong. Ory Styla out of London in the eight spot. I liked him a lot, really nice performer.

Dean Stanfield out of Texas, came out dressed as a cowboy in the nine hole. More of a storyteller. I’m not sure New Faces is the right room for that type of act. You know, if your storyteller, you got to build these things and it takes a minute. That said really enjoyed him as well.

Dylan Adler closed the night and it was approaching eleven o’clock. Johnny Max gets a little tired, starting to struggle a little bit, but high entered. I performer a great closer, great way to close the night. So you know, ten solid comedians there. They did do the thing again where they had his tatan fake laughter.

I forgot to mention yesterday they had the room ice cold to keep us awake. I guess that’s a good thing. In between new phases one and two, I saw Alistair Ogden hanging out in the hallway and I was really tempted to be like, hey, what to do my podcast? But I resisted.

Also so Bruce Gray hanging around, I probably could have grabbed him, and I w…

Hi, let’s do a quick news story here from the corner. Nish Kumar talked about why Trump isn’t actually good for comedy. He says he’s not one of your cracksmoking mayors. He enjoys the festivals. He says, these shows are always really good fun.

There’s an international circuit of comedians to do these things that do Montreal, Edinburgh and Melbourne, and it’s a really great opportunity to catch up with some friends and also get to see some good stuff as well. He told Yahoo Canada. I watch a lot when I’m in town, and I’ve seen some unbelievable shows. He was doing a show in Toronto in February when Trump got into it with the tariffs. Kumar said, that was a particularly febrile time.

I think I was hoping that things might have calmed down a little bit, but obviously they were never gonna calm down. It’s a fascinating experiment what happens when a country for seemingly no reason, out of nowhere, for versus centuries of diplomatic relations with its neighbor with whom it shares a land border. Well, you know here as a Canadian. You Americans keep putting out Adam Sandler movies, I mean, Happy Gilmore too out on Netflix today. Don’t do that.

Why would you do that? Anyway? Let me take the break a little early here. I got to go back to the hotel room to upload these shows so that you’re actually hearing this now, and I’ve got a pretty robust second half. So early break, you’re right back here in Montreal.

He just for laughs, Montreal Comedy Festival. It is the second Friday, so it’s a big day. At one o’clock today the New Faces Writers four o’clock, Smash Reads, Reddit Stories Live. They a lot of industry type stuff. At five o’clock breaking down the pilot structure.

Six thirty Early show just for laughs. Gallow with Roy Wood Junior. Seven o’clock Nick Muhammad is mister Swallow Show Bony seven o’clock. Robbie Hoffman headlines JFL. That’s a good title for a show.

Well done there, The Nasty Show at seven, Nathan McIntosh at seven, Wally Burram at seven, Gina Yes Sheer. Gina’s show at seven is called twenty twenty five One hell of a Decade. Seven o’clock Just for laughs, Shorts, New Faces, Stand Up Encore at seven, Best of the Fast seven thirty, Nate Jackson A Lot of Buzz on Nate at eight o’clock, Will Anderson’s Will Legitimate eight thirty, Nish Kumar Nish, Don’t Kill My Vibe eight thirty. Bilingual show Bonjour High at nine o’clock. I always love the title because one of my I mean, I’m not the most original person, but if I’m in Montreal or France, I always do the bonjour hello, and then you speak to me in English.

But I find that works a lot better than walking and going yeah, let me get a Venti iced coffee, like just at least attempt. My brain is able to read French pretty quickly, especially if I’m in a French speaking country for thirty six hours. The vocabulary comes and goes depending on how much prep I’ve done. When I did Paris a couple of years ago, I was five years ago. No, it was right before the pandemic.

I had, you know, done the duelingo and listen to a bunch of French podcasts and I was okay. Ish pronunciation otuocious. But you know, I find if you try, people are pretty cool about It, Rachel Scanlon at nine o’clock Just for Laughs, Pilots at nine o’clock, Michelle Batill’s Gala at nine thirty, Danny Boy at nine thirty, May Martin at nine thirty, Variety’s ten Comics to Watch at nine thirty That’s a heck of a show.

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Also at nine thirty, New Faces, Stand Up, Encore, Best of the Fast nine forty…

At the Festival tonight at nine thirty, May Martin said, I usually get people to write questions and put them in a bucket. Then I do a little section where I improvise and answer questions from the audience. I like to create a kind of atmosphere where it feels like we’re seeing something that won’t happen again. May says, Canada has been very good to me. Yeah, it’s great up here.

No Adams Sanlor movies. I like it. I’ve been coming to Montreal since I was a kid. It’s it’s nice to check back in. You see the same people every summer.

It’s special and I’m glad it’s the Festival still thriving also tonight in Denver, the Rise Comedy Festival, running tonight through August second to the fourth annual Rise Comedy Festival more than one hundred and fifty performers from around the United States. Organizer Nick Armstrong says, the comedy scene in Denver’s huge. We’re happy to be hosting so many people here. We have an all access pass which allows you to get into all of the shows, and it’s actually very inexpensive ninety nine bucks. That’s great.

I mean, if you’re around and you want to hit shows for a week, that’s awesome. We try to make it as inexpensive as we can so people can watch as many as they want. There are some comedy junkies in Denver this weekend. The focus is on stand up. There’s a Stand Up Colorado.

It’s a local showcase Saturday night. These stand up competition finals. Comics compete for five hundred dollars, two hundred and fifty dollars, and one hundred and fifty dollars, but the big prize is to get to perform in front of influential judges. Armstrong said. Each year we bring in different judges who work in the industry, book festivals and help comics get real exposure.

Last year, some guys gave out their emails and told comics to send them tapes. That kind of connection can open real doors. Next weekend is dedicated to improv. There’s also Festival Intensive, a four day educational programming featuring four instructors and twenty four hours of training. The festival got three hundred and fifty submissions for this year’s festival.

Nick says that was actually down. I think people are travel adverse because of budget, or at least that’s what we’ve been told today. I’ll still take it. I mean, that’s still a really healthy response. Sure is.

Nick doesn’t want the festival to get too big. We don’t want it to become this huge thing because we don’t want it to become so diluted that people can’t connect. Sounds like a good festival. San Diego Comic Con kicks off. The south Park guys will be there with their one point five billion dollars that would pay for thirty seven and a half years of Stephen Colbert shows.

There’s an immersive south Park experience at court Yard. While you’re there, you can take part in an interactive photo opportunity, some trivia, karaoke giveaways, and more. There’s also a costume contest, including categories for best Kenny, Best Kyle, Best Stand, Best Butters. The event is free and open to the public. You can also check out the Comedy Central panel at six forty five and Hall Eah featuring Trey Parker, Matt Stone and there are a billion and a half dollars down in the United States.

I feel bad for you people because you are being stuck with the release today on Netflix of Happy Gilmour Too. I mean, it’s just awful. Luckily, here in Canada, we don’t have to deal with such things. Adam Sandler says fans stopped him in the streets for twenty eight years asking for this sequel. Well, everybody, you got white yass Or, Sailor said, for almost three decades, he rejected the idea, and then one day changed his mind to maybe I’m wondering how much money Netflix offered him that changed his money spoilers.

I mean, I don’t want to ruin an Adam Sandler comedy for you spoilers when Happy gil Woar two begins. His life isn’t perfect right now, says Adam Sandler at least at the beginning of the movie, and he’s a family man. He’s getting back into the golf game. The cast includes Ben Stiller, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Travis Kelcey, Bad Bunny, and a bunch of pro golfer. As Adam Sandler said, we wrote him stuff and everybody was kind enough to come and everybody and it did a great job.

Every day on set, someone cool would show up and would hang out. Christopher McDonald, who’s seventy years old now and as one of the best guest starring roles on Star Trek The Next Generation as Lieutenant Castillo. Remember that, Yeah, Yesterday’s Enterprise. One of the best episodes. He said.

What I love about Adam Sandler is his heart. He’s got so much love for people, and he’s done some amazing work in the last few years. I’m very happy for him. Let’s break that apart. Adam Sandlor does have heart, and that is admirable.

I’m there with that. He’s got love for people. That’s fantastic And as McDonald says, he’s done some amazing work in the last few years. Yes, he uncuts you in the Basketball Movie and the Alien one. Those are all really good.

Just stop making comedies. McDonald would not talk about the plot. He said, I signed an NDA, this is kind of a big deal. At the Happy Gilmore premiere, Sandler was asked by Entertainment Tonight what it would take for him to make a movie featuring all three of his famous co star actresses together. They are Julie Bowen, Jennifer Aniston, and of course Drew Barrymore, who has the unique ability to make an Adam Sandler comedy watchable.

Sandler said it would require a great set and happiness. He joked all the ladies, which suggests different diets to me during filming that say, Adam, you got to stop beating this because they’re all like best friends. Drew Barrymore, of course, co starred in the two of the watchable Adam Sandler comedies, The Wedding Singer and Fifty First Dates. But even Drew Barrymore can’t solve everything. She was also in Blended, which is not a great Adam Sandler movie.

Sandler said he had to rewrite Happy Gilmore two following the death of Carl Weathers, who appears as Chubbs in the original. Sandler said, we had a painful change. Carl Weathers had a massive part. I would talk to Karl and we were excited, and then Carl passed away. We had to rewrite a lot of the stuff and even what the story was.

We made a lot of nice references to how great Chubbs was in the movie. That was the biggest change in the first version that we came up with. He had a son. He was coming back to me a lot in my dreams, and he had a son who was mad and happy for causing the death of Daddy. This had been announced to before Colbert Gate.

I assume it is still going on. It is a fundraiser to help pets come enjoy a night of stand up and tail wags at Boris and Horton, a dog friendly cafe in Manhattan’s Lower east Side. The lineup features six stand up comics who doubles daily show writers Ashton Womack, Joe Opio, Kat Radley, Nicole Conlin, Matt Koff and randall Otis. The benefit is being co organized by Must Love Dogs and Comedy, a group known for curating inclusive, pet friendly comedy events. The Sport Animal Welfare Out Today, James Fritz, New Comedy album Old Man Yells at Crowd, I Feel You and I Love the title out on a Special Thing Records.

Dames recorded it in Chicago, where he was once named best stand Up by the Chicago Reader. Taking the stage at the Lincoln Lodge, You shared his thoughts about dating a witch, de’s at getting of aasectomy, working as a TA, his dead mom, and his dad’s questionable behavior at the funeral. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and I feel like the last two weeks been pretty strong, please tell a friend about it, help grow this thing, and if you would like the program without commercial interruption link in the show notes. If you’re on Apple podcast It, click that batter that says uninterrupted listening.

I’ll see tomorrow.