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Featured: Ben Marshall, Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Colheen, Cam Patterson, Veronica Slowakowska, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Mark Maron, Fran Gillespie, Tim Baltz, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalk, Fred Armisen, Jay Leno, Taylor Swift, Stephen Colbert, Josh Jones, Graham Linehan

What’s in This Episode

• SNL Season 51 cast announcement with five new members
• John Higgins leaving SNL and Please Don’t Destroy
• Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney podcast guest lineup
• Scrubs reboot with Judy Reyes returning as Carla
• The Office spin-off Paper renewed for season two
• Jay Leno’s 2012 relationship advice to young Taylor Swift
• Columbus Comedy Festival with 100+ comedians
• Josh Jones UK and Ireland tour announcement

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, alongside my dog who apparently is co hosting today, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I don’t know why the dog’s hanging out in the studio, but you are very welcome. Saturday Night Live has announced five new cast members for season fifty one. They are Ben Marshall, Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Colheen, Cam Patterson, and Veronica Slow a count some interesting names there are Cam Patterson you may know him from Kill Tony.

People are gonna get very upset about that. Veronica slowa Kowska you may not know the name, but you know the face if you watched Shane Gillis tires at season two. And Ben Marshall you know him as one of the Please Don’t Destroy guys. He has been up to a feature player. Marshall’s been with SNL as a writer since twenty twenty one.

He was part of the Please Don’t Destroy. How folks will come around to that Martin hurlehe from Please Don’t Destroy will continue. Writer John Higgins has announced he is leaving SNL again. We’ll circle back to that. Newcast member Tommy Brennan, a stand up comic and named a Just for Laughs New Face of Comedy in twenty twenty three.

Camp Patterson best known for Kill Tony. He’s also in Kevin Hart’s upcoming film seventy two Hours Slowakowska from Tires, Poker Face, What We Do in the Shadows. Jeremy Colhayne from Upright Citizens Brigade SNL is back on October fourth. That is no surprisingly a Saturday. The show will air at eleven thirty p m.

John Higgins posted on Instagram, and my dog was not interested at all on what Higgins had to say because she just left the room. But Higgins said, I can’t believe how lucky it was to be part of the show. It was my dream and I got to live it, and to do it with my two best friends and my dad was an unbelievable experience. Thank you to everyone who made my time there so special, made this decision that much harder. But for now, I’m excited to pursue acting opportunities that I’ll announce soon, But today I’m just grateful for everything we got to do.

It is unclear if Please Don’t Destroyer will continue to perform together when they’re not on Saturday Night Live. They are currently on tour and of dates scheduled over the next two weeks. If you listen to yesterday’s podcast, I shared my creative concerns about the Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney podcast. The first guest is Mark Maren and then I noticed the second guest is Fran Gillespie. Yeah, I don’t know either exactly.

That’s what I’m worried about. Did they drop a third episode yet? I don’t think so. Let me check they did drop a third episode. The guest on the newest episode is Tim Baltz.

Tim Baltz is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He appeared as a citizen journalist on the Comedy Central series The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, also in The Righteous Gemstones. Okay, that’s guest three. Guest two the famous Fran Gillespie. I know you’re throwing your phone against the wall right now, going How does he not know who Fran Gillespie is?

Well, obviously, she’s a writer and performer originally from Chicago, and her credits include SNL, Big Mouth, Killing It and John Mulaney presents Everybody’s in La Writer on SNL. Okay, Well and Mark Barrett. Those are your guests, says the guy recording podcasts in his basement. It’s the other charting today. I also can’t remember what this thing is called.

This has a bad title. What is this thing called? Again? What’s our podcast? Question Mark with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney down seventeen spots today, it is the one hundred and twenty seventh biggest podcast on Apple Podcast Charts, and it is number seventeen in the comedy category.

Again, not too bad at all. Good news for Scrubs. Corla is coming back. Judy Reyis will appear as a special recurring guest star as Corla. Scrubs has a series order.

Zach Braf, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalk All back as j D. Turk and Elliott New Scrubs will follow j D and Turk, who scrubbed together for the first time in a long time. Medicine has changed in terms of change, but their bromance as stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way. Again, I’m curious what they’ll do for a set.

Will they use the sets from scrub Season nine? When it was the different hospital because the other hospital doesn’t exist anymore. Or they could recreate the old sets and just pretend season nine didn’t happen. We’ll see The Paper, which debuts tonight. Binge.

Did you watch all ten episodes yet? Why not? The Internet’s gonna spoil them for you. Why didn’t you get up at three in the morning and watch ten episodes of a sitcoms before the av club tells you, Hey, here’s what happens, Here’s why that character dies in episode eight. I made that up.

Johnny Max’s from the twentieth century. Johnny Mac doesn’t like the binge. You get no water cooler when you do the binge. Anyway, The Paper has been renewed for a second season. All ten episodes out today.

I’ll be watching football minor ish a spoiler for the show. It won’t ruin it for you. But in case you’re curious, how did the in show documentarians wind up in Toledo? We learned that dunder Mifflin was bought by an Ohio based company called Innervate. Innervate sells products made up out of paper, and because of that they came to own newspaper The Truth Teller.

Innervate also sells toilet tissue. Anyway, I’ll watch and I will tell you tomorrow on Comedy stock Marker. Remember last week we loaded up on the paper stock. I will tell you tomorrow. Are we gonna buy more?

Are we gonna sell? That’s tomorrow’s episode. Fred Armizan was asked by The Observer, Hey, Fred Ormison, what did you make of Stephen Colbert’s show being canceled by CBS. Fred said, it’s very sad. All I know is that Stephen Colbert is beloved and brilliant.

He’ll do something else great. And I don’t worry about the future of satire on TV because comedy always wins. That’s the magic of it.

Speaking of Late Night, the worst person who ever lived possibly Jay Leno.

Yeah that guy, listen to this. Thirteen years ago, Taylor Swift credited Jay Leno, of all people, with offering her some of the most memorable relationship advice of her life. Yeah, if you go back and you read. A twenty twelve episode of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Taylor Swift, then twenty three years old, took the Cosmo Quiz. She was asked, what’s the best relationship advice you ever got?

Taylor Swift said, jay Leno told me it’s easy. Just marry your conscience. Marry the one who makes you want to be a better person. Boy, jay Leno is just He’s the worst. Big day for Ohio.

Not only the paper, but the Columbus Comedy Festival is back. One hundred plus comedians, four days of events. Artists include I Won’t Read Them All, Jeremiah Watkins, Second City, Sam Tallent, James Doomian, Chad the Bird, and many many more. Some of the shows Female af an all woman lineup of stand up comedians from New York City, LA and Columbus Live Wreck is locals doing their best ten minute sets. Those are published on YouTube and social media afterwards, and also in Columbus, Ohio The Chicago Showcase hosted by Chad the Bird.

In the UK, Josh Jones kicks off a toury he’ll be touring the UK and Ireland. His new show is called I Haven’t Won the Lottery, So here’s another tour show. Josh says, I’ve done award shows for plumbers, and I’ve gigged in a barn for farmers. I’ve had times when older straight blokes looked disappointed that a camp. Gay has just walked on stage and then by the end they’re crying laughing.

Also in the UK, Graham linehim you may know him as the writer of Father Ted, a great series. If you’ve never seen it, seek that out on the internet. I don’t know where you can watch it these days. Let me open up just watch maybe I can tell you. Do you know about Just watch?

Just watch is great. It’ll tell you where things are streaming or not. Father Ted not streaming right now? That stinks anyway. Graham also created the id Crowd.

He said he was intercepted by five armed officers after flying into the UK from Arizona and told he was under arrest on substack. Graham said he was taken to a cell and question over some posts he published on Twitter back in April. The post related to him challenging a quote trans identified male unquote in a quote female only space unquote. He was released on bail. The Metropolitan Police did not identify him, a spokesperson said.

On Monday one September, at one pm, officers arrested a man at Hethrow Airport after he arrived on an inbound American Airlines flight. The man in his fifties was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in relations to posts on x SO, my fellow Americans enjoy your free speech. Yikes, and did you see this? One?

Comedian Drewski has upset some people. He did a NASCAR skit. Drewski showed up at the Southern five hundred NASCAR race in whiteface and played a character dubbed white drew Ski. The character has what appears to be full body makeup really well done, a mullet and a beard, dressed in overalls and a cowboy hat. Some fans said the skit is harmless and hilarious.

Others say it was a satire of a specific subculture. Others said it was punching up at a stereotype. Others yet condemned the use of whiteface as insensitive and hypocritical, drawing parallels to the historical use of black face. Those people argue that, regardless of intent, the act of whiteface promotes harmful stereotypes. I watched a clip.

I was not offended. I also didn’t find it particularly funny. In a similar vein forty something years ago, Eddie Murphy did a sketch where he dressed up as a white guy and went to the bank and had some laughs about how they didn’t have to check his credit or whatever the joke was. I found that very funny, but also I was thirteen. I think it’s still funny.

Haven’t watched it in a minute, so for what it’s worth, I’m not offended by Drewski’s sketch. I am impressed by his makeup. And that is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Mark Maron, Tim Heidecker, Joe Rogan, Howard Stern, Steve Grillo, Cam Patterson, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Maron and Tim Heidecker criticize Joe Rogan’s podcast
• Howard Stern no-shows on return from vacation
• SNL considering Cam Patterson from Kill Tony as cast member
• Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney launch new podcast
• Howard Stern contract speculation and farewell tour prediction

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Maren continues to be super interesting on his podcast On Monday, he had Tim Highdecker on I coincidentally had listened to it on Monday, enjoyed it very much, and the media is picking up on the discussion of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Tim Hideker told Mark Maron there’s something annoying about his show Rogan that you can’t put your finger on. A few years back, he did a wonderful parody of Rogan’s show.

I actually just downloaded it again to re listen to it. Let me find it for you. It’s episode one eighty four of Tim Hideker’s Office Hours Live. If you’ve never heard it, check it out. It’s unbelievable.

It’s so on point, and Hideker said we put our finger on it, you know, and said, this is what’s annoying about it. It wasn’t even political. It’s just like how boring it is and how going in circles you end up going. Arren said that Rogan and friends spend the show skirting around an issue that you don’t understand with information that you don’t understand. Either, Maren continued, the authoritarian hardware, to say, administration and the fascist cultural apparatus through the Christians.

They’re making policy built on the back of this anti woke thing. All these comics who were like it was really about language and their own victimization that they saw, which wasn’t real. They’re tethered to political policies. They’re really killing people and damaging lives and infringing on the freedom of people and the rights. I’m working on my half, asked Maren a little bit.

I know I don’t have it at all, not that I have any of the half ass impressions, but Maren seems to speak in five word chunks, and the last word of a downbeat he tends to stretch out. For example, I’ll just do that last phrase again, the freedom of people and their rights anyway, Mark Maron said, Joe’s kind of changing as too now. But the thing is he did what he did. How convenient. Howard Stern wants us to talk about him, so we will.

He was supposed to come back from vacation on Tuesday and tell everybody what was going on, and he didn’t show up for work. Who knows now, To be fair, I’m recording this at nine in the morning on Tuesday. I never record at nine in the morning, but I had to take care of some stuff on Tuesday afternoons. I recorded way early in the day, So who knows. Howard may have said something later in the day or as I’m recording this.

I don’t know what the President announced or not. At two pm. You might be like John, you’re not talking about the thing. That’s why. Anyway, Howard was supposed to be back on Tuesday morning.

They had even ran promos during the summer promising the big reveal today. Well, Howard didn’t come. Howard’s social media accounts posted on early Tuesday that Howard Stern will now speak Monday, September eighth, encouraging listeners to stay tuned. I could all kinds of speculate here, but I suspect the news cycle will change quickly, So I’m just going to tell you that’s what happened. The Daily Mail caught up with former Stern intern Steve Grillo, who had predicted for the announcement that didn’t happen yesterday.

Comes September second. I think it’s just going to be everybody tuning in and then I think they’re going to get disappointed and tuned right back out, unless he decides to put on a leather jacket and a pair of black jeans and then come back and was like I’m back baby, which I highly doubt he’s going to do because it’s two for and in between. All of a sudden, he’s going to come back and be that awesome rock star that everybody listened to every day. Instead, Grillo calls the promo’s lame and says it’s such a sad, pathetic version of what happened to this man. I think if old Howard Stern could go and jump in the time machine, he would punch him right in the face.

Now I don’t know about the violence part of that, but I have said that in the past that nineteen eighty five Howard Stern would destroy twenty twenty five Howard Stern and hate everything that old man Howard Stern became, Grillo told the Daily Mail. Now he’s trying to develop an audience again through this entire awful hoax campaign of did he get fired? Did he not get fired? He’s going to come on announce that there’s five more years of creative BS that is going to be able to do. But that’s already been in place.

His contract is up. I guess probably January from my reliable source. That’s been part of his contract since day one or the last time. They’reknew to his contract that when he came to this point, he had an option of five years of freedom to do what he wants and still have his name on the door. It’s serious interesting.

My prediction continues to be a end of December announcement of a two year farewell tour. We’ll see some more SNL rumors. And again, I recorded early in the day, so by the time you’re hearing this, maybe there’s been eighteen more cast departures. Who knows well you do, or maybe you don’t. Maybe that’s why you listen to me.

I don’t like recording this early, but I had to. TMZ reporting SNL is looking at Cam Patterson, who you may know as a regular on Kill Tony. Cam Patterson possible new cast member. Boy, there’s a whole bunch of comedy snobs on comedy threads that already hate SNL and hate Kill Tony. If we combine those two things, those people are going to lose their minds.

TMZ points out. Cam Patterson has nearly six hundred thousand followers on Instagram. He’s part of the recent Netflix version of Killed Tony and was okay.

Speaking of SNL, beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney have a new podcast.

They’re out there trying to make some noise. Vulture caught up with them and Beck Benn said, we shared addressing room for seven years, in an office for eight years, so just hanging out in the office and doing bits and making each other laugh was a very creative, natural process, and we missed that now as a podcast executive, I see some red flags here. Kyle Mooney said. I think we were psyched about the premise that we don’t know what we’re doing and we’re going to explore how to become better podcasters. Beck Bennett said, were talssing around ideas and we didn’t really have anything.

We were like, we could start a podcast, but why would we be starting a podcast. Kyle had the idea where we start a podcast trying to figure out what our podcast was, and I guess would come on and give us an idea. Okay, major red flag. You know what this is telling me? This to me is screaming that they don’t have much going on, and they saw that Carve and Spade have an SNL podcast.

They are like twenty years younger. So we’ll do our own version of that. And podcasting is easy and we’ll make a ton of money and we’ll book our friends. And anytime hosts come in and be like, I don’t know what we want to do, that never works out, never well. Tray asked what podcast you listen to?

Kyle said, I listened to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Prints. Beck Bennett said I listened to SmartLess, Hollywood Handbook, dough Boys, WTF, Las Culturistas, and Office Hours Vulture. In your second episode, Mark Marin said he had a hard time telling when you are or aren’t doing a bit Kyle. It’s something we’ve encountered pretty consistently with every guest. No one has heard the podcast, and nobody knows what to expect when they come in the room, Kyle.

We pitched the podcast to a handful of places, and Headgum was incredibly receptive in an awesome way. One of the cool things about the concept of developing it with them is we don’t know the best way to present all these things, So there was a development process of how do we break this down. What portion of the show is a podcast within a podcast with guest pitches? What portion is the interview? Do you want to do an interview?

How much of it has just beckon me? So there’s this constant conservation of what this thing is, and they were really essential in the process of making it an actual podcast that seemingly is ready to be consumed. Yikes. Well, to be fair, they’re off to a good start. What’s Our Podcast with Beck Bennett Kyle Mooney is number one ten on the All Podcast charts and number fourteen on Comedy overall.

That’s pretty good. Bill Burra said he plans to attend the ninetieth edition of The Bowl when Alabama visits Auburn on November twenty ninth. Burst said, I’ve picked out the college football game that I’m going to go to this year. I got the green light from my wife because this was the hard one. It’s Auburn, Alabama and Auburn.

It’s a Saturday after Thanksgiving. Oh but it’s gonna be a good game, just for laughs. Announced their dates for twenty twenty six. I’m not sure in the past they’ve announced it this early. Now it was always really consistent in the last two weeks of July, but kind of nice to see it.

So as they’ve announced it, the festival will be held in both Quebec City and Montreal simultaneously from July fifteenth through the twenty sixth in Montreal and Quebec City July twenty second to August second. That’s interesting. Just guessing more of the French stuff will be in Quebec City would be my guest there. John Mulaney’s got a book club, remember that. Yeah, he in the middle of the holiday weekend dropped on threads.

I saw it. Weird time to make an announcement, but anyway, this month’s pick, according to John Mlanieu’s pan by Michael klune Alani said, this book is wild as a panic attack. Veteran reading this novel was a funny, surreal b so totally familiar experience. Panic has a spiritual experience. Panic has a gift from the gods.

I had never read anything by Cloon before, and I intend to dive into it all now. Some reviews describe the setting of this book as a dreary suburb, but Libertyville, Illinois is a fascinating place home to several of my cousins, as well as Tom Morello. All right, that’s John Mulaney’s a pick. Add John Clees to the list of people that when I mention them on the show, I’m never like John Klee said, it was a beautiful day and I pet a puppy and isn’t everything great in the world. He’s always fighting.

Klees is mad at the BBC and said, if you put a script in now it has to go through a bleeping committee. You have no idea what they’re doing. There’s been nothing funny since the office. It’s sad, and it’s because the people in charge of no idea how to make comedy happen. The whole process has been replaced by a bureaucratic process which does not begin to work.

He said of British comedy, we used to be really good at it and now we’re not, and that’s very sad. There weren’t committees when we started. Comedy now has to be clean. You must not play for lass. So I’m going to write a book about writing comedy and make people are aware how difficult it is.

The people organizing comedy have never been very good, but at the moment of particularly the BBC. They are clueless. I don’t think it’s a lack of talent except among the executive classes. Those classes have no idea what they’re doing. Cleaes is working on a sequel to the twenty sixteen adaptation of Faulty Towers.

Faulty Towers, Too, will be inspired by three episodes from the TV version, which include The Psychiatrist, where Basil Faulty accidentally groups a hotel guests appressed while reaching for a light switch, and also from the Kipper and the Corpse, where the hotel staff tried to hide a dead body. No word on what happened with the TV sequel of Faulty Towers. I haven’t heard anything about that.

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Now, let’s check in on the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno.

Listen to the nerve of this guy. He was trying to get the California Assembly Appropriations Committee to prove something called Leno’s Law. Leno’s Law would have given classic car owners like Jay Leno a pass from smog requirements. However, on Friday into the holiday weekend, the Assembly Appropriations Committee blot ba Field Republican Senator Shannon Grove Senate Bill seven point two from advancing for a full vote. Jay Leno, the nerve of that guy, had testified the support of the measure in Sacramento earlier in the year.

Assembly Member Buffy Wicks did not a great name. Buffy, I’m sorry it did not provide a reason for killing the bill. During Friday’s hearing, which quickly announced the fate of two hundred and sixty other bills that have been placed on the committee so called suspense file, Buffy Wicks was asked by reporters, why did you kill Jay Leno’s law? Buffy Wicks told the reporters, I’ll have to go back and look. I can’t remember what what what do you mean?

You can’t remember now? When Jay Leno testified the nerve of this guy, he said, with a modern cards, plug and get your money, boom, get out. It’s very quick to get a smock check with a modern car. It’s not impossible in an older car, but it’s tricky, takes time, and often causes charges four or five six times more than a regular car. Leno said, classic car owners struggled to even find a shop with the equipment needed to test them.

The nerve of that guy, that’s your comedy News for two. I actually wrote a substack mcktpod dot substack dot com link in the show notes about how I’ve become obsessed with jay Leto. I will tell you right now. I’ve got a jay Leto story in the scripts. I think all the way through Sunday already, I am obsessed with possibly the worst person who ever lived?

Is he you tomorrow?

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Featured: Adam Sandler, George Clooney, Noah Baumbach, Matt Rife, Billy Idol, Weird Al Yankovic, Nate Bargatze, Peter Kay, Patton Oswalt, Kal Penn, Jimmy Kimmel

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler dramatic role in George Clooney film ‘J Kelly’
• Matt Rife Billy Idol tour poster and tattoo collaboration
• Weird Al Yankovic dominates July 2025 touring revenue
• Patton Oswalt fails on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ phone-a-friend
• Patton Oswalt criticized for Star Trek performance

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, it’s the worst day of the year. Johnny Mac hates today. It is the Tuesday after Labor Day. Summer’s over, no more beach, no more sunshine.

And back when I had a real job, this was always the day where the bosses were like, Okay, now that summer’s over, let’s do our fall initiatives and get And it was like, dude, I just want to think about the beach. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hey. I’ve been telling you all summer long.

Adam Sandler a great dramatic actor, terrible comedic actor. You guys ignored me and you watched Happy Gilmour, and I keep telling you, no, no, no no. His best films are Uncut Gems and The Spaceman One and The Basketball One. We want dramatic actor Adam Sandler, and the buzz on his performance in this upcoming George Clooney film Jay Kelly is tremendous. In J Kelly, Adam Sandler plays against type as a serious, straight shooting manager to movie star J Kelly, played by George Clooney, who I’m often confused for, Like what if George Clooney wasn’t as good looking and had a lot of donuts for breakfast.

That be the comparison there, But uh Anyway, Adam Sandlor spoke to Variety and said, being in this movie and not just trying to find jokes and laugh moments, that’s what’s amazing. What’s amazing to me is that Adam Sandler has been trying to find jokes and laugh moments in his other movies because he has failed terribly at that. Sandlor says, all our characters give you a moment to laugh and feel pain. As an actor, when you re a script like this, you say, holy s I can’t believe I’m getting this gift. Director Noah Bomback said Adam does have such grace and loyalty and generosity and hard around the people he works with in his family.

He really does find a way to involve everyone. It’s the opposite of Jay Kelly. He’s found a way to navigate this whole thing and do it successfully. Sandlor said, I’ve always tried to bring the family when we go to film a movie, and it can’t happen every time. But FaceTime is nice too.

I’ve seen the cast list of your films, Adam, don’t act like the family’s not with you. They’re in the darn things, Sli. I’ve always appreciated my manager, my agent, my publicists. I know how hard they work and how difficult it is to hear my ups and downs and to back me up. Even when I could get loud at times.

I was excited to play a man who was devoted. I admire everyone who does that. Hey, you want to feel old? Matt Rife caught up with Billboard and now. Matt Riffe’s current tour poster is an homage to Billy Idol.

That’s great. I mean, who doesn’t like Billy Idol. The Rebel Yell album is fantastic. White Wedding is always a banger, as the kids say at weddings. Well, how did Matt Riffe get into Billy Idol?

His grandfather introduced him. So that’s not my kids getting into Billy Idol, that’s Matt Rife’s grandfather or I said, yeah, my grandpa put me on a classic rock as far back as I can remember. It’s still my favorite genre of music. But my last tours have been inspired by classic musicians. I did the doors for my problematic tour poster and this one I did Billy Idol and I actually dyed my hair blonde for it.

I’ve never done anything like that before. Funny how the world works out. I actually got to work with Billy Idol on the promo he did for his current tour. I had him sign my arm and I went straight to the tattoo shop. So now I have Billy Idol tattooed on my arm.

That’s a bad decision, matt Riyfe, What are you thinking? Rafe said, Billy Idol is the nicest, coolest guy. How he speaks, what he speaks about, the stories he had to tell. I’d love to play him in a biopic someday, you know what, not the worst casting. I would go see that.

What are we gonna call it? You have to call it Rebel Yell, right, and any other title would be dumb. I have called up on Google Billy Idol’s songs. I probably could do this for memory, but it’s easier this way, all right, I vote we call the movie Rebel Yell. Other candidates would be dancing with myself not awful, hot in the city, worse but not as good catch my fall don’t need a gun to be a Lover, Eyes without a Face, White Wedding Stand in the Shadows, that’s you know, that’s kind of too clever for school.

That’s a great song on the Rebel Yell album from nineteen eighty three. If you haven’t been paying attention to Billy. First of all, there’s some full concerts of him on YouTube. He did one at the Hoover Dam. He said, sounds great, and he put out a few songs in the last couple of years.

I have my phone, let me tell you what they’re called. From his twenty twenty five album Dream Into It. There’s a song called Still Dancing that I liked a lot. And in twenty two we put out an EP called The Cage that was fantastic. The song Running from the Ghost is pretty good, and the song Rebel Like You peak Billy Idol, I mean fantastic.

Billy Otto went I Know what you want? Here you go love it. We’ll stick with bill Board. Four second into the holiday weekend, they put out the July box Score Report Who’s got the biggest tours? We’ll focus on the comedians here.

Who do you think was the biggest touring comedian for July twenty twenty five wrong. The answer is weird Al Yankovic eight million dollars over one hundred and forty thousand tickets sold. Yeah, I remember he played the Garden That surpassed the monthly gross and attendance of the previous three leaders. All did twenty shows. That’s a lot in thirty one days.

It was the most shows that anyone played across all genres that month. People that were close were Kesha, who did nineteen fish and Tyler the Creator did seventeen each. At the Garden, weird Ow brought in more than one million dollars from a sold out crowd of twelve four hundred and sixty one. Weird Out beat Out Nate Brigetzi Wow Nate did six shows in July and grossed only five point one million dollars on sixty four thousand, seven hundred tickets. Number three Peter Kay did four shows three point four million.

Number four Future Billy id On Matt Rife two shows two point six million, twenty five thousand, four undred tickets. Two point six million on two shows is not bad money if you can get it. And Number five The Dude Perfect Guys. They did four shows gross two point four million, thirty seven thousand, seven hundred tickets. Pat Oswald, who appeared in possibly perhaps maybe the worst episode of Star Trek Exchange New Worlds that ever existed.

He played Doug the Vulcan. Did you hear me throw a brick through my television? No? I didn’t actually destroy my television, but I wanted to. Patton Oswalt needs to stick to game shows.

He was the phone a Friend Lifeline on who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jimmy Kimmel, your host, Cal Penn phone to friend Patton Oswalt. He described Patton Oswalt as both hilarious and incredibly intelligent, and also terrible at Star Trek. I will point out Cal Penn probably should have mentioned that kim Ol called Patton Oswalt one of the smartest guys I know, but terrible at Star Trek. Patton Oswalt shouted out the answer Shakespeare, as though that was the answer to an unspecified question.

Penn fired off the question with the remaining answers, and even though there were only two options to choose from, Patton Oswalt seemed uncertain of his choice. The question had to do with the commonly no name of Gua Shah a wellness technique practiced in China for centuries. The fifty to fifty lifeline was already gone. The two remaining answers, do you know the answer? Is it nerve numbing or skin scraping?

I will tell you after the break. When we last left, there were two answers on the Who Wants to be a Millionaire board. Your friend Patton Oswalt is on the phone. He’s going to tell you if Gwa Shaw is nerve numbing or skin scraping. Patton Oswalt, terrible at Star Trek, says the answer is nerve numbing.

Do you want to go with him? Kal Penn did? Turns out wrong, The answer is skin scraping. So Patton Oswalt is terrible at Who Wants to be a Millionaire? And of course Star Trek a lot of game show news.

Jimmy Fallon not afraid to work. He’s like the Kevin Hard of Late Night. He’s got yet another gig right last week he’s doing some sort of ad agency thing. He’s going to do some Sunday night Tonight shows. Well.

Password has been renewed for season three on NBC. In case you’ve never seen Password, with a series of one clues teams race to guess the secret password for a chance to win cash prizes. Here you want to play password with me? Here, I’ll feed you word ready, unfunny, that’s right, the password is saidler. See, you would have won a lot of money if you and I were on password with Jimmy Fallon.

The Guardian asked Eric Idol, which comedian living or did do you admire the most. Eric Idol said Peter Cook, Billy Connolly, Robin Williams, Eddie Zard Erica, who’s probably a fan of the podcast Palace Intrigue, where we talk about the royal family every day. He talked about the royal family with The Guardian and he said, I feel really sorry for the royals. Sometimes they’re very nice and human and other times they’ve become monsters, because if you’re called sir at five, you’re putting trouble into people. King Charles was very funny.

He was at Cambridge, he did comedy and he loves Spike Milligan and would always come to Billy Connolly’s shows. But it’s not a society I’d be happy to live in. The thing I like about America is it created itself. It’s the only place that wrote a script for itself, but it needs a rewrite to bring it up to date. The Second Amendment says at sixteen, you’re allowed a major weapon of war.

I really think they’re serious about wanting to get rid of liberals and lefties. They’re very crazy. Send your letters to Eric Idol new topic, looking back on your career from Python to spam a lot. Do you think satshire can still achieve in today’s world the power it had during the Python days? Eric Idel said, Python’s not satsire, it’s the opposite SATs Our ends it’s dead.

You don’t watch early episodes of Snell and think, oh, gerald Ford fell downstairs. Python was always generic comedy and it survives longer. Great point. That’s your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruptions, open up Apple Podcasts.

There’s a banner there it says uninterrupted listening. You click that and for five bucks a month you’ll get this show and five good news stories, which I also host Palace Intrigue. In case you’re like Eric Idle and you want to hear stuff about the royal family. Taylor Swift today, you can imagine what that’s about. Five daily trivia questions really catching on.

That one works particularly well. Commercial free you got to admit. So you click that banner it says uninterrupted listening, and you get a thirty day free trial, and then here’s what happens. Then on day thirty one, Apple sent you note they’re like, hey, you were billed four ninety nine. You’re like what, and you’re like, ah, Johnny Mac tricked me with his thirty day free trial.

But then you realize, oh, it was just seventeen cents a day. I’ve got seventeen cents, and then we’re all happy. The seventeen cents comes in. Apple takes their thirty percent, so there’s like twelve cents left. My business partner Mark, he takes six cents and I get like six cents and you don’t have any commercials.

I mean, it’s a good deal. I want to drept the listening Apple podcasts here tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Adam Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Devin Walker, Michael Longfellow, Emil Wakem, Ben Marshall, Eric Idle

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser honored with bobblehead at St. Louis Cardinals game
• SNL cast exodus: Heidi Gardner and three others departing
• Please Don’t Destroy cast shake-up and potential promotion for Ben Marshall
• Adam Sandler’s iconic sandwich from Spanglish movie
• Sailor Sandler’s fashion at Venice Film Festival

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Caloroga Shark Media Happy Nikki Glaser Day. I’ll get to that. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you’re in Saint Louis, if you’re at the Cardinals game, if you’re at Bush Stadium, today is Nikki Glaser Day. She’s being honored with her very own bobblehead.

Nikki Glaser told Saint Louis on the air. I was kind of embarrassed at first. There’s gonna be a bobblehead and kids are going to be confused, like who is this lady. With the purchase of a theme ticket, fans well receiving Nikki Glaser bobblehead today at Bush Stadium. Nicki said this was something that was offered to me from the Cardinals as a our hometown girl.

We love you, and I’m just trying to accept it and not fight it. She’s from Saint Louis, loves Saint Louis and says, when I’m on both of the coasts, it’s like constantly comparing yourself and everyone’s just chasing their status. That is true, Nicky Glazer. Here, it just feels a little bit more relaxed than I get back to what’s important, having a good time and going out to to eat. Living here is just wanting to focus on my family while they’re still around and healthy and want to hang out with me.

It’s also just being in a town where what podcast you have, what spots you’re doing that night, what parties are going to, what red carpet’s you’re attending, doesn’t matter. That’s not here and that’s not what people value here, and it just recalibrates me. Nicki says, if she spends too much time on the coast will start to question herself. Being in Saint Louis allows her to let go of all that. It’s not because no one cares about nice things here.

They do. It’s just that it comes to my nervous system being here. If you go see Nikki Glaser live, she says, whatever you know people in the room, whether it’s somebod you might run into at the grocery store, your mom’s best friend, or your dad’s tennis partners, whatever it is, there’s an added pressure of, oh, there’s a lot riding on this. My dad has to go to tennis next week and have conversations with these people, and I don’t want to embarrass him. I just want everyone have a good time.

You know, when I’m performing in Baltimore, I leave the next day. And if they didn’t like it, okay, I don’t really have to face them, but here I have to. Boylatenighter dot Com took a terrible time to take a week off last week. Heidi Gardner has exited Saturday Night Live. She was on for eight seasons.

Seems like Lauren wasn’t kidding about the cast shake up. I continue to be of the opinion that getting out after SNL fifty was the time, including for you, Lauren. You should have gotten out as well. It’s all gonna be downhill from here. Heidi Garner is the fourth cast member to leave the show, following Devin Walker, Emil Wakeem and Michael Longfellow and between me recording this on Friday and enjoying the holiday weekend on the beach.

Who knows how many people have left us and L by the time you’re hearing this. On Thursday, a Twitter user had tagged Walker and Longfellow in a post. The fan said, wish you nothing but the best. Walker jumped in and said, y’all acting like we died. Lol.

We just getting different jobs. Walker had posted on Instagram earlier in the week, just to be clear, this is good news. It was just time for me to do something different. Please don’t be hitting me with all the I’m so sorry. We’re not on that at all.

Sometimes mom and dad just don’t see things eye to eye. Interesting. Michael Longfellow had posted on Instagram that he wouldn’t be returning for his fourth season. He wrote, wish I was, but so it goes. It was the best three years of my life so far.

So it sounds like he was pushed. Emo Wachem said being informed he wouldn’t return was a gut punch of a call the get But I’m so grateful for my time there, So obviously he was pushed on Friday, or maybe they posted it this Thursday night. Late Nighter had a rumor and they wrote, take this for what it is right now. A rumor, and Johnny Mac will say take this for what it is right now on Friday, as he records before a holiday weekend. A rumor.

But they’re hearing that one member of Please Don’t Destroy might be moved into the main cast. As for the other two members of Please Don’t Destroy. The rumor says one will stay on the show’s writing staff and the other will leave the show. Interesting, the speculation is that Ben Marshall will get the cast promotion. Now that’s interesting because the other two were Neippo babies, and I saw somebody on thread’s comment about the number of Nepo babies working on SNL.

Martin Hurley’s father is former SNL writer Tim Hurley. John Higgins father is SNL prit er writer and Jimmy Fallon sidekick Steve Higgins. A lot of ties to Lauren there. So the speculation is Ben Marshall, we’ll get the cast promotion. Adding fuels of that speculation, The Police Don’t Destroys are currently touring the US.

However, last week Ben Marshall missed several of the shows. His spot was filled by Emily Wilson, who happens to be married to John Higgins. Marshall rejoined the group later in the week. Very interesting, I shared in the Facebook group and we’ll get to it later in the week. Adam Sandler, the buzz on this J Kelly movie tremendous for Sailor’s performance, some people even saying Oscar, but I’ll save that for later in the week, but Sailor was at the Venice Film Festival.

GQ said, Sailor showed up and exactly what you think it’d wear. A freaky polo shirt completely covered in cheetahs, big baggy Nike basketball shorts, and a pair of bright pink under armor Curry elevens. However, I also saw photos of Adam Sandler in a classic tuckceedo. Yeah, like dressed properly. Oh, I’m often confused for George Clooney dress wise, I am often confused for Adam Sandler.

But right now, let’s say I’ve got a new balance thin fleece it’s a little cool, my nice black sweatpants and some Neon colored what brand of these? These are Hocus Hocus sneakers and of course my sun faded Villanova hat. So if we had a rank dressers Clooney, Johnny Mac Sandler, I do clean up nice though, everyone who knows me when I do dress parplate, people go, you clean up nice? So why don’t you clean up nice? Because I record a podcast in the basement.

Speaking of Sandler, I’d saved this for the holidays. We all know he’s terrible at comedy movies. But what about sandwiches. Allrecipes dot Com wrote about Adam Sandler’s World’s Greatest sandwich, and they say it’s the only one you’ll need this tomato season. You see in the two thousand and four horrible movie Spanglish, Adam Sandler played a chef in the movie.

He makes an epic restaurant worthy sandwich toasted bread layered with bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, cheese, and a fried egg. It was simple, but perfect, and it looked delicious. Allrecipes dot Com says, for now, I’d like to begin by letting you know that this sandwich wouldn’t have earned world’s best status without the man behind the creation, Chef Thomas Keller of French laundry fame. He was on set during filming to help Adam Sandler create the simple, yet artfully crafted sandwich. All Recipees tells us if you want to make the World’s Greatest sandwich at home, good news you can.

All of the ingredients are readily available at your local grocery store. We learned the sandwich begins with toasted bread. It should be country style or another hearty bread that could be thickly sliced. Once toasted. One slice gets topped with mayonnaise, then tomato slices and a sprinkling of salt.

This is followed by a layer of crispy bacon. So far this sounds great, which is top with a fried egg cooked in butter, of course, and a layer of butter leaf lettuce. The other slice of toasted bread is top with cheese and broiled until melted it’s a lot of work, and then added as the final perfect layer. The Guardian caught up with eric Idol. They said, I love your songs and I sing them frequently, including the now unacceptable eye like Chinese, which increasingly just sounds like pragmatic foreign policy.

How did it feel in the early days of Python being the only one who wasn’t in a writing team. The other teams were Chapman, Clee’s and Jones Palin. Eric Idle said, I don’t like being part of a writing team because I don’t like talking before lunch. I wake up at five point thirty and love discovering what’s in your mind. You don’t judge it, you just find it, write it and create it and then do a lot of rewriting.

What was hard was the other Pythons had two votes to one. This is interesting about the Beatles. When I first met George Harrison, we bonded immediately and talked all night, and I realized we played the same roles in our groups. There were these two heavy, powerful blocks, and we were in the middle. We didn’t have as much power, but we learned a lot from it.

Eric said, I’m still a friend of Ringos, and Paul’s always very nice and friendly, but we’re not close. Late Night TV maybe not so Dead NBC will air four special Sunday night editions of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Those will follow Sunday night football and local newscast. Stay tuned after your local news for a brand new episode of The Tonight Show Jimmy Fallon the first, September twenty first, following Chiefs Giants Chiefs, Taylor Swift all that that’s a good lead in. Matthew McConaughey and Eric Church are the guests.

Other Sunday night editions will air one on October twenty sixth, after Packers Steelers. That’s a dog of a game, Lions Eagles on November sixteenth. That’s a banger, as the kids say, and then more Chiefs textans on to SEVERER seventh. A’re right, Jimmy, you got three out of four good lead ins. You can’t complain there.

Plus your show wasn’t canceled, asked even Colbert.

Also this Thursday, Fallon will host a special episode of The Tonight Show st…

A great game. I mean, the Cowboys are gonna suck, but that’s a great game. It’s always a good matchup. We’re all excited. Peacock.

Thanks, we’re gonna watch ten episodes of the Paper. We’re not. We’re all gonna watch Eagles Cowboys. And that’s a long enough episode for holiday. What are you doing?

Why are you listening to podcasts? Go to the beach See tomorrow.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Adam Sandler, Barack Obama, Robin Williams, Louis C.K., Norm MacDonald, Mike Judge, David Spade, Stephen Colbert, Seth Rogen, Quentin Tarantino, Zarna Garg

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron on political comedy and the fragmented left
• WTF Podcast’s best episodes of all time list
• Marc Maron’s Obama episode as pinnacle of podcast journalism
• Gallagher walking out of WTF interview
• Zarna Garg on her comedy career and American opportunity
• Adam Sandler on writing SNL 50th anniversary song

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Caloroga Shark Media. Last day of August, Joni Mack. Summer has got about eighteen seconds and one time out left on the clock and hello, I am Johnny Mac. I like my Summers. I’m running out of time.

Mark Meron talked to Newsweek. They asked Maren, what is it about progressives and liberals that make them a good source for comedy. Maren said, I guess stated pretty clearly of the problem is there’s no real unified left. There’s centrist Democrats, some lefty Democrats, you know, they want things to be okay, but this idea that the left has an agenda, it’s a very fragmented business and there’s no unifying principle where everybody’s all on the same page in terms of how we do this. People locking into their causes and they get rightious about it, but does do anything in the big picture.

I don’t know. The problem with the left is all the infighting and everybody’s arguing about what should be platforms, what’s more important? And I dealt with that years ago at Air American stuff. I wasn’t gonna build mohrett and accuse them and do it in a lighthearder way, but an anti woke person. They do think there’s some fun poking to be had at people that are overly committed to very small things, and that’s what justifies their political existence.

I thought that was right for comedy. And I think that line, which I came up with like two days before I shot the special, that we annoyed the average American into fascism. I’m so happy I got that line. I think that says it all. And I think the way I ride the line with that stuff is the progressives and liberals can see themselves in what I’m saying and take themselves down a notch website.

Find that pod dot com put out an article called best Episodes of WTF with Mark Marron. Now this is from March, so they had done this anyway. Outside of Mark announcing the podcast was ending. They flag episode sixty seven with Robin Williams the Louis C.K. From twenty ten, both of those stuck behind a paywall Episode six thirteen with President Barack Obama.

I personally consider that the best podcast episode of all time and use it in my college class as an example of how podcasts can be great. Now, what do you mean by that? John? If you listen to the episode. When Obama shows up, he’s the President, allough Mark, good to see you, and he’s all on his talking points.

But somewhere about twenty minutes in from Memory, President Obama becomes Barack and they just start having a normal conversation for a while. Now towards the tail end, the President comes back, gets his talking points in. But if you’ve never listened to Obama, Maren, it is fantastic. The conversation covers college identity, race relations, gun violence, challenging the status quo, letting down supporters, comedy, fatherhood, and facing fear. I always thought Obama should have gone hard on the gun violence in his last term, but he did not.

I bring that up because I first made that opinion when listening to that episode also spotlights Norm MacDonald from twenty eleven episode one ninety Todd Hansen, who’s that I don’t know either, one of the original writers for the Onion. That’s interesting. They also like five sixty eight with Mike Judge, six sixty nine with David Spade, ten thirty with Stephen Colbert, fourteen five ft three with Murphy, eleven forty three with Seth Rogan, twelve thirty nine with Quentin Tarantino, twelve seventy one with Jane Goodall, eight to one with Anne hathawayne Amy Mann, the Gallagher episode, which apparently doesn’t have a number, but that’s from twenty eleven. Their discussion on comedy, language and cultural tolerance eventually led to Gallagher walking out, making that the first and only time that has ever happened on WTF. I might have to go grab that one.

That’s a good tip here. I also like episodes with Josh Brolin, Andrew Garfield, Larry King, John Oliver Mayevis Staples. This is a long list, guys. I know this one thousand episodes, but you got to narrow this down a little. Bradley Whitford, Bill Hayter, Lin, Manuel Miranda, David Herber, Shatner at age ninety two, Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio, Hugh Grant, Sebastian stan This is too many.

Find that pod dot com, Melbrooks, Conan Gaffigan his fifth Visit episode five seven three, Peter Dinklice. And that’s the end of the list. That was too long, guys, but I’ll grab some of those I’ve actually been putting a bunch of Marens on my phone in case they decide to start paywalling everything where the episodes disappear. Zarna Garg’s old Fox News Digital this is a country that looks at a person like me and says we want to hear what you have to say. That must have been interesting for Zorna Garg to say to Fox News that this is a country that looks at a person like her and says we want to hear what you have to say.

Fascinating. Zorta said, my whole life I did in India what is called talking back to your parents were like, oh, you’re a Weisenheimer. So that was my life. I remember my dad when I was very little, before I’d ever stepped foot in America, he used to be like, who do you think you are an American woman? Because all bad ideas back then came from America.

I remember getting off the stage and thinking, is it possible this is my thing? When she got into stand up, I couldn’t believe people found my observations funny. I couldn’t believe that anybody wanted to hear what I had to say about anything. My whole life. People have been trying to shut me up.

So that was a real revelation that up on stage I could be saying all these random, really minute observations that have made my whole life, and that people would be excited to hear what I had to say. Again, she told Fox News, what I’d be doing would be possible back home, as it makes America America. I’m like a middle age Momo three with a weird outfit and an accent, and here I am being asked what I have to say on Fox News. This is a country that looks at a person like me and says we want to hear what you have to say on Fox News. Fascinating.

Adam Sandler spoke to Vulture about writing the song on SNL fifty. Sandler said, I think we were talking about it for a few months. We knew the fiftieth was coming and Lauren said to do something, and we were trying to come up on an idea. We were chipping away at it. We weren’t excited enough.

We’d remind the other writer who was going to be there, and we’re like, oh, we better kick some butt for everybody. The audence is pretty amazing, so we’re like, let’s rethink it for a second. We went into a little office and jammed on it. It was the best. It was fun.

We were both coming up with good stuff. When we were on stage was the most surreal feeling to look out and see who was there and feeling that energy. I had the thing where you sometimes do when you do stand up, where you do a talk show, whatever your mind is kind of talking yourself while you’re performing, your brain saying is your mouth dry? You better get this out. This is a live event, you better cruise through this.

Then it kind of clicked in Vulture talked about Adam Sandler’s SNL song. They seem to like them. They may be insane. Their opinion is they’re funny. They land on the side of being sweet and earnest rather than cynical.

Sandler said, I definitely like when that happens. I can’t guarantee every time we write a song that’s gonna have a sweetness, but we feel good when we come up with something like that, and it is a different style of connection. I don’t sit down and say let’s do one like that. I remember being at the show and going I haven’t done a song in a month and a half or so. Maybe it’s time to write one.

I’d sit and jam with a couple of the writers come up with whatever we came up with. I’ll never forget that I did that red Hooded Sweatshirt tune and Paul and Linna McCartney were part of it. Imagine getting to do that and call home and tell your family just sang with those two. That was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. The Guardian caught up with the guys from Anti Donna, the Australian sketch comedy guys.

They had a thing on Netflix during the pandemic that I liked a lot and I listened to their podcast, which is fun. Broden Kelly is one of the Anti Donna’s and said comedy is like an orchid, it needs the perfect conditions to grow. Therefore, Anti Donna established Grouse House, a YouTube platform to support up and coming comedians. That way the up and comers can leverage Anti Donna’s existing fan base rather than getting stuck in the weeds of promotion and distribution. That’s pretty awesome, Broden Kelly said.

We could feel the writing was on the wall with network comedy in Australia. There are two that do it, Channel ten and ABC two, but it’s the Lord of the Rings style Odyssey stuff to get commissioned. Our experience is that when we were given the green lights, either go make a pilot or proof of concept that needed to be everything to everyone and would receive heavy rounds of notes. In twenty twenty three, the Australian ABC screened the six part series Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe, but the viewing numbers were eclipsed by one sketch shot over a few hours for five hundred dollars, which Anti Donna uploaded to YouTube. Broden Kelly said, you got to forget what fourteen year old you would want for your career, because all we wanted was an ABC two show.

By the time we got one, we put it on a platform that was an EPT and did a bad job of promoting it. So what kind of things might you see on Grouse House? There’s a show called So You Want to Win a Penis Pump. It is described as what happens if you leave Taskmaster and game Changer too close to the and they melt. Guests include Paul F.

Tompkins that actually sounds pretty funny and the Toronto Guardian profiled comedian Owen Farewell. Owen says, I like to be real, direct, not animated, just telling stories. A lot of people say comics are the people who say what everyone is thinking, but that’s not the point. I like to say what no one is thinking. Favorite comedian growing up Patrese O’Neill and Louis c.

K. Who’s your favorite comedian now? Shane gillis pre show ritual. I get a crappy hot dog, truck hot dog, listen to two thousands rap and take the subway man. Those hot dogs are good, though, no matter how crappy.

What’s your favorite bit? My favorite bit is about bedbugs on the subway. I’ve seen some crazy stuff on the subway, but if you have to see a bed, how are these guys getting there? I think we should go easy on them. It’s too be months to learn how to ride the subway.

Let’s lay off the creatures that live in literal beds. This is my favorite bit because it never fails to make me chuckle on stage, and my own humor is my only real way of judging these That’s Owen Farewell, and that is your comedy news for today. August is over, See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Weird Al Yankovic, Colin Quinn, Lorne Michaels

What’s in This Episode

• Weird Al’s best parodies and career-defining songs
• Weird Al on his nervousness pitching ‘The Saga Begins’ to Don McLean
• Weird Al’s impact on Chamillionaire’s Grammy win with ‘ Chamillionaire’
• Colin Quinn benefit concert for Tunnel to Towers Foundation in Saratoga
• Colin Quinn on politics and social media’s impact on comedy
• UT Austin’s ‘Live from New York: The Lorne Michaels Connection’ exhibit

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy Deus holiday weekend. Here been sitting on this article from Vulture, Weird Al on the best and most obsessive music of his career. I haven’t actually looked at this song that legitimized Al’s career. Al says, eat It.

Al says, my first album did well enough to merit the record company rolling the dice on album number two. At a couple of minor hits like Ricky I Own That on forty five and I Love Rocky Road. They appeal to I suppose hardcore comedy nerds, but when you add Michael Jackson to the equation, all of a sudden becomes a much bigger fan base. Eat It was an international hit and completely change my life overnight. Now, as we dive in on Weird Al, here and I have other things today, this isn’t a Weird Al episode.

I’ve appreciated the evolution of Al’s musicality over the years, so I’ll just point out right now, when he sings eat It, he does it’s very stylized eat It kind of delivery on the chorus, Whereas if you listen to the more modern stuff he’s using. I assume his natural voice, and Al’s a pretty good singer. Song parody, Al was most nervous to pitch. The saga begins his parody of American Pie about Star Wars. Al, it’s old vulture.

Everybody was telling me there’s no way Don McLean’s gonna prove that he gets approached all the time. He turns everybody down. I’ll figure it. It never hurts to ask weird at song, even for you weird, Al, Al says Jackson Park Express, which is one of my favorites. That’s at one of Al’s favorites, not one of my favorites.

Was the last song on the Mandatory Fun album. It’s about a bus ride, which I thought was a fitting bookend because one of my very first songs was another one rides the bus. Here’s the last song on what was probably my last album, and it’s like the dark side of James Blunts You’re Beautiful. It’s this whole conversation a guy has in his head after sing a woman on the bus gets into some really weird and dark areas. Yeah, I’m sad Al doesn’t make albums anymore.

He puts out the occasional single, but he just kind of stopped and that last album was fantastic. Most surprising response to a parody, Al says, White and Nerdy, which arguably is Al’s masterpiece. I have a weird Al playlist I just made in my phone. Let me pull that up and I kept this tight on purpose. My playlist, weird Al twenty five has Jurassic Park, which is just amazing.

And I’ve been watching the Jurassic Park movie, so it’s been in my head. But that is a great parody of a song called MacArthur Park that I think has gotten largely forgotten. Smells like Nirvana, awesome, great video I lost on Jeopardy on point fat, Amish Paradise, White and Nerdy and Dog Eat Dog. Those are highly puts up.

And now you know, I was also listening to Van Halen.

Got a little clip of run around there from what is that? From Unlawful Carnal Knowledge album. I hate the title of that album. Anyway, back to weird Al, can you tell it’s on holiday weekend? Weird Al said my favorite was Camillionaire, who aided my parody of a song Ride and Dirty.

He came up to me on the Red carpet the Grammys shortly after winning Best Rap Song. He said I was partly responsible for him winning the Grammy because my parody made it undeniable that his was the Rap Song of the Year. Song with the highest stakes, Al says, smells like Nirvana. It was my first comeback, as it were, because my movie UAHF came out in nineteen eighty nine and bombed. I almost did another Michael Jackson parody because I was reaching that point of desperation, and then Nirvana came along.

I was back on MTV and touring again. That was the point when I realized a good, long career has peaks and valleys, and you can’t get too depressed when you’re in a valley or too full of yourself when you’re at the peak. Music video that elevated the medium. Weird Else says Amish Paradise. I’m very proud of the backwards sequence at the end.

I’m certainly not the first person to think of recording something backward for music video, but it was something that took a lot of work and effort to get the logistics figured out. Weird Al’s pitched to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to do the right thing and induct him. I agree, he says. I think if they’re ever going to pick a comedic entry, I’d like to think i’d be considered for that. If they pick another accordion playing parody writer ahead of me, I’d be upset.

Colin Quinn is up in Saratoga, New York. Today. He’ll be doing a benefit for or the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a nonprofit that helps nine to eleven families, first responders, and military veterans with housing.

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Speaking of nine to eleven, I was, so, I’m a New Yorker, and I was in New Yor…

And I was on Fortieth Street. So if you’re a hip to New York City, I don’t want to make it sound like Fortieth Street was across the street from the Twin Towers. And I tried to explain to my kids, you know, you’ll see stuff on the news where like they’ll describe things as like near Times Square, and it might be half a mile from Times Square, which technically is near Times Square, but distances in New York City or Great like if you’re like seven blocks from Times Square, not very far if you’re a bird, But in terms of like New York City ness, that’s a long way away anyway. So I was in New York. I was looking at the towers tell the story for another day.

I was a little not taken aback. But I was just like, oh, okay, watching kill. It’s only the other night when they just dropped some nine to eleven jokes, like it was nothing at Madison Square Garden. But again, there are people who are now. I mean, you know, if you were born in twenty and one, you’re twenty four years old, so you might be thirty and really not have any memory of nine to eleven or a little less than thirty, I guess.

But you know what I’m saying. Just time moves on, Like I don’t cringe when you hear a Pearl Harbor joke or a Kennedy joke. So I get it. But it was just like, oh, all right, it’s twenty twenty five now. Anyway.

Colin Quinn is doing a benefit for the families, he told Saratoga Living. I’ve done tennels of towers, things a lot. It’s a great cause. Everybody from the city knew a few people that died on nine to eleven. That is true.

It’s amazing everybody knew somebody, and also everybody seemed to know someone with a story like, Oh, I was on my way to work, but you know, I stopped at CVS or I normally would have been on that train, but my kid had a back to school thing at eight thirty in the morning. You heard a lot of stories like that. Colin. Do you get in a politic and a set like this? Colin Quinn said, I do.

Everything is politics now. There’s no area that politics doesn’t enter the national conversation because the national conversation is everybody running their mouth online at all times. So whatever you say there is people having an opinion on a lot of my stuff is how we think now because of social media and how insane we all really are. A lot of it is about the space program and AI and stuff like that. Where we’re going as people.

Most people come to see me know I’m not doing a lot of sex jokes or stuff like that. They don’t expect to be in a party atmosphere. I’m not the kind of guy that’s fun for people that are drunk. I’ve never been, and I’m less and less that guy, the older I get. If you want to sit in a very uncomfortable chair with a hardback, laughing intermittently based on your hearing, then I’m one to see.

Do you like Saturday Night Live? We’ll get this one on your radar. For the middle of September, u T Austin’s Harry Ransom Center is hosting live from New York, The Lorne Michaels Connection, a deep dive into fifty years of comedy, satire, and pop culture shaped by Lorne Michaels based on Gary Krueger’s comments the other day, more like forty five years. We’ll see if there’s a Gary Krueger exhibit. This collection is from Lauren Michael’s Stuff and it features annotated scripts, production notes, rare photos, famous props like the cow bell, the Five Timers Club jacket, Sinead O’Connor’s Ripped Pope photo, and costumes from Matt Foley and The Church Lady.

It’s free. It runs through March twentieth of next year. It kicks off with a student faculty preview on September nineteenth. Coffee and snacks included for those guys not for you. You can’t get in till September twentieth.

Well, unless you’re a student you’re listening to me, in which case Hi. Conan O’Brien was on the back to the Best podcast. I’m not familiar with that one. He was asked about the first major celebrity party he attended. Conan said it was the SNL fifteenth anniversary, which happened when Conan was in his twenties.

We are all getting old, he said, that was my first time seeing an insane number of celebrities in one small space. Prince was there and he’d just done the Batman soundtrack. I remember being in a crowded hallway and he was standing right next to me, the most perfect looking person he’d ever seen in your life. Conan also remembered John bon Jovi came to an SNL party when he was the biggest thing in the world. It was like nineteen eighty eight and he came and I remember he’s wearing like a Buckskin cool outfit, just so cool.

Brad Williams is going to be working on a special He wants people to come out and help him try out his new material. As for inspiration for bits, he said, I never know what’s going to strike me. My years are always open, he said. Each show is different. If you saw me a year ago, it’s a different show.

But he won’t talk politics. I don’t like half the audience to hate me based on who I voted for. So I want to make sure everyone, no matter who you voted for it can come out and have a good time and kind of escape that after trying out material. He said, that’s the beautiful part of stand up crowds. You don’t know if it works until you try it out.

Mighty bomb, it definitely happens. I have friends who are like, what if you bomb, You’re going to bomb. I’ve been doing it long enough. I look at as a math problem two plus two to equal fortnite. I don’t get mad.

I just kind of go back to the lab and figure it out. Sabashion Maniscalco is gonna get off of the road, and what’s he gonna do? He said, I’m gonna get back into golf. He told bill Board. I went golfing.

I did it in Las Vegas and I was performing there. I want to do some golfing, and then I’m taking my mother to Italy for her eightieth birthday. She always wanted to go to the Amalfi Coast, so we’re taking you there. Then. I definitely want I start cooking again because it’s very relaxing for me.

I’ve got so many recipes that I’ve saved on Instagram that I want to try out. Everybody likes. When I make steak, people go, well, how hard is it to make steak? You just cook it? But I put it in the oven for write this down everybody, forty five minutes.

At two seventy five, I let it rest for fifteen minutes. I do a see er two minutes on each side, just a good helping of pepper and salt on it. No sauce, no nothing. I just started making mashed potatoes, which turned out fantastic when I had a little garlic, which wasn’t on the recipe. Nothing where it’d be like, oh I do this thing where it takes the eight hours to prepare.

I’ll do a pasta dish with oil and some garlic and a little parsley on top, cheese, maybe a little Bronzino salt, pepper stick in the oven, squeeze little lemon or oil on it. Simple. That’s your comedy news for Today, normal episode tomorrow. You know, the foot’s not all the way on the gas on a holiday weekend, you know what I’m saying, And especially it’s a slow news week type of year. But this was fun.

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Featured: Larry the Cable Guy, Andrew Santino, Leanne Morgan, Jo Koy, Ozzy Osbourne, MrBeast, Caleb Hearn, Paulie Shore, Keegan Michael Key

What’s in This Episode

• Larry the Cable Guy announces ‘It’s a Gift’ special on Amazon Prime Video September 12
• Andrew Santino releases ‘White Noise’ special on Hulu September 12
• Leanne Morgan announces ‘Unspeakable Things’ special on Netflix November 4
• Details emerge on death of comedian Reggie Carroll, roommate shooting incident
• Michael Longfellow leaves Saturday Night Live after three years
• Jo Koy attends Ozzy Osbourne’s final show, backstage experience with rock musicians
• MrBeast backtracks on criticism of Caleb Hearn after Rolling Stone influential creators list
• Paulie Shore reveals pancreatic tumor removal from preventative body scan

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Calorokashark Media. Kind of busy into a holiday weekend. I’m kind of stunned, to be honest, I I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Three specials announced on Thursday. First up, my friend Larry the Cable Guy.

He’s gonna have It’s a gift on Amazon Prime Video Friday, September twelfth, and the hour long special filmed in Clearwater, Florida, Cable Guy takes on everything from family life and aging to the everyday absurdities of modern living. I’m excited about this one. There’s a short trailer and it’s pretty strong. Let’s listen my show. By the Ways, Pet thirteen.

Uh, pretty good for thirteen minutes. But if you’re offended at some of the good news is I got a money back guarantee, so I guarantee it. He ain’t gonna get your money back, all right, That’s how it’s gonna be. Larry’s a good dude. I know some people just like to hate on It’s an act.

He’s just having fun with the character. Please can we just laugh at stuff?

Also coming out on that same day on Hulu.

Despite the hilarious publicist trying to hide this from Me My Spy Network has found out Andrew Santino will have a special called White Noise. They did share a trailer. I went to pull the audio and I’m not going to play it for two reasons. One the punchline for the first joke is dirty, and two there’s a joke about guns in there, and coming off the school shooting this week, I just didn’t want to play it. In the forty five second trailer, Santino jokes about taking his dad to a Monday night football game and his dad drinking copious amounts of alcohol.

There’s a punchline that’s a little naughty. I did a version of this with me trying to clean it up, and I just totally ruined the joke. So just wait till the twelfth and watch Andrew Santino yourself rather than butcher his material. White Noise on Ulu also announced Leanne Morgan Unspeakable Things Netflix November fourth. Apparently they like Leanne Morgan just had her sitcom and come out on Netflix in late July.

No details yet on what Unspeakable Things is about. From WRG District Attorney Matthew Barton has shared some details on the shooting death of comedian Reggie Carroll. District Attorney Barton said police were called to the house on Burton Lane around six point thirty last Wednesday. First responders performed life saving measures on Carrol, who was taking in the hospital. The suspect was at the scene.

We learned both the victim and suspect were roommates in the house. Both had worked on tour with Kat Williams. The DA said Kat Williams did not own the house. It is owned by a rental company. The DEA said this was an incident between two roommates that knew each other.

One of them is from California and one of them is from Maryland. This is not an indication that there’s a problem in the community. This is not indicative of a violent crime issue in our city. And he made clear there was no indication Cat Williams was there or had any knowledge or involvement. This next story just caught me seriously.

I had finished recording the episode, and the term in the industry is you bounce the files, so that you take the raw recording and then you bounce it to edit it. I was at the bounce stage and I checked my email and this just in as I speak to you. Michael Longfellow is leaving Saturday Night Live, so I guess he’s not taking over the news desk. Entertainment Weekly has learned Longfellow, who’s been with SNL for three years, will not be back. That’s fascinating because he was rumored to be getting the desk.

Who even knows what’s happening. But I’m glad I caught that before the holiday, because I already have Saturday and Sunday recorded. I haven’t done Monday yet, so I would have gotten this in on Monday. Anyway, if you work at Late Later dot com and you thought you were taking this week off, how did that go for you? I teased this yesterday.

Joe Coy went to see Ozzy Osbourne’s last show. He said, we were backstage, bro. It was incredible. Turns out a lot of people in the Osbourne camp are huge fans of Joe Koy. Coy, his son, his manager, and Missus Koy were given three rooms backstage to just chill out in.

Coy said it was rock and roll heaven with members of Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Alison Chains and others just hanging out. He stayed for the entire event. He showed up at eleven am and stayed until the early hours of the morning. Joe said, I know what it’s like about selling out arenas. I’ve been there before, but this was a different night.

These musicians all have their own egos, but that night they were all there to see their God for them. It was like, this is the reason we do this, this is the reason why we’re here. That was the attitude backstage. Nobody was plause, nobody was being cool. I looked to my right and there’s Metallica right there watching.

I saw Kelly Osbourne being proposed to, which was so crazy. It was an amazing moment, and that’s what my son took home from it. You couldn’t have scripted it better. You couldn’t have scripted this better. That’s the way I think any artist, or anyone in entertainment would love to go out.

But I’ve said it before when someone asks I’m not going to retire, I love to die on stage, man. I love it so much. I don’t see myself ever going. If I can get up, I want to be on stage, mister beast. Catching grief from fans of comedian Caleb Heron, You see Rolling Stone put out a list of the twenty five most influential creators of twenty twenty five.

Mister Beast finished seventh, Caleb Hearn ranked sixth. Mister Beast tweeted, according to this list, guy of a million followers is more influential than me. What did I do to tick off the Rolling Stones? Well, that didn’t go over well on the social media’s one Twitter user at Diabolical Spuds posted to his thirty thousand followers, mister Beast, I cannot respond directly because you blocked me, but I wanted you to know that Caleb is a comedian who makes many laugh at you or some sort of Willy Wonka marionette being puppeted by the algorithm. Mister Beast has now backpedaled.

He tweeted, not gonna lie after this. I watched some of here on stuff and it’s actually good. I deleted the tweet and I don’t want the smoke from the shooters. Spare me, please. Paullie Sure posted on Instagram and revealed he had a tumor removed from his Pancreas Polly explained, about three months ago, I went in for a preventative scan in Los Angeles where they scan your body from head to toe.

They checked for tumors, cancer, aneurysms, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, you name it. Being my fifties, I thought it was the right thing to do. A week later they called me with the results. They noticed something in my abdominal area was a tumor inside my pancreas luckily was noncancerous. It might have been there for fifteen or twenty years.

Doctor said, get it out. PAULI said, mentally, it really messed with me. Knowing there was a tumor inside me could grow, burst, turn into something worse. You just don’t know. I’ve always been on top of my health, going to the gym, using saunas, massages, having my tea check, doing blood work, colonoscopes, chiropractor, et cetera.

But I’ve never done a full body scan. I had no symptoms. This was me just following my instincts. Mac packer Keegan Michael Key has some travel tips in case you’re traveling this holiday weekend. Keegan told people, if you think you’re overpacking, you’re not.

You’re gonna feel so good when you’re in the hotel and go oh, I forgot the h wait a minute, No, I didn’t. It’s in the second bag. Everybody says you only need one bag, but the second bag full of miscellaneous stuff, you always end up needing something from it. He has one simple rule. Always bring extra socks, an extra underwear.

There’s going to be a day where you’re like, oh, I didn’t know where we’re going on that hike. Then you come to the hotel all sweaty and think, I’m so glad I packed that extra underwear. I totally disagree with this. I went to Australia with a carry on pack light. If you know what you’re doing your stuff, you’re underwearing your socks and your shoes.

You roll your t shirts. Hey, you know what, if you’re cold, you buy a sweatshirt when you’re there. That’s all. You’re not gonna go through all your socks. You’ll be okay.

Keegan says, pack the night before. Yeah, no kidding. This is something I’ve changed about myself. I used to try to get more sleep and pack in the morning, but now we do everything at night. Literally, the last thing we do is take out the garbage and zip up the bags.

Variety caught up with Oscar Nuniaz you know him as Oscar Martinez from the Office and now from the spin off, The Paper, which is out in less than a week. We learned that a year ago, Oscar and Nuniez went to lunch with Greg Daniels, the guy that developed the American version of the Office. Daniels told him, I’m working on a new show. How wold you feel about coming back his Oscar Nunia said, I’m game, of course. Eventually, Daniel took Nuniaz to meet the writers.

Nunya’s remembers thinking, oh no, this is really happening. On Thursday, Peacock will drop for some reason. All ten episodes of The Paper, It follows the staff of a struggling local newspaper in Ohio and an eager new editor in chief hoping to breathe life into a medium. I saw a scene last night. I want to like this thing, and I’m sure I’m gonna watch this thing.

I saw a scene they released on Threads and I didn’t make it to the end of the scene. I don’t know if I’m just a cranky pants or whatever. Spoilers for the first episode, Oscar, the character is dismayed to find the same documentary crew that stalked him in Scranton, prowling around his new workplace. In the first episode, he tells a camera man, you can’t use my voice by likeness my face nothing. A title card says, yes we can.

There’s no end date on the release. Oscar signed in two thousand and five. That’s funny comedy stock markets all right. Originally I was gonna suggest that we sell will short sell our stock in the paper, but I’ve changed my mind because as I’m thinking about it, you know what’s gonna happen. They’re gonna drop ten episodes all at once, which means it’s going to do better in the way they compute streaming metrics, because it’ll run up a lot of minutes.

But I think this thing is gonna out. So let’s buy the paper, but plan on selling it pretty quickly. I have no confidence in this show. Let’s make a quick buck on the paper. Let’s sell stock in Kat Williams.

I know Kat Williams had nothing to do with the story from the first half, but his name’s in the news, and not in a good way. He didn’t do anything wrong, but people get emotional about such things. Let’s sell our Cat Williams stock. Let’s buy Larry the Cable Guy. I believe in Cable Guy.

I know the Cable Guy, and I’m hoping we’ll get a Larry renaissance here and people be like, Oh, yeah, cable Guy’s really funny because he is. Let’s also buy some Andrew Santino stock. The casuals will be like, oh, that guy’s good. And I love Andrew Santino’s stand up. I think he’s really good.

I think he’s very charismatic. I think the camera likes him. So let’s load up on some Andrew Santino and one more for you. We bought some Jonathan Kite stock last week. Let’s buy some more Jonathan Kite stock.

Because this impression of Anthony Bourdain in the latest episode, Jonathan kitees Anthony boardin visit. It’s the Cracker Barrel. Let’s listen. Cracker Barrel a house divided not by Johnny rab and Yankee Candle, but rather heritage and home goods, where the front porch is the front line, and the only thing bipartisan is breakfast served all day. And at the heart of the backlash, a Sanitize rebrand with a new logo that looks like it was designed during a free trial of Canva.

The last time America was this upset over cracker barrels was Sidney Sweeney’s American Eagle Jeans campaign. Look how long we are into a holiday weekend? This is amazing? Are you in Philadelphia? It’s the Eoadrian Improv Festival.

Three days of showcases from some of the top local and national comedy talent starts tonight through the thirty first two stages spread across the Adrian Theater. Headlining acts include Smooty, a top independent team in Philadelphia, and also Man Versus Movie in acclaimed one man show featuring Paul Valancourt. Paul will also be leading workshops covering a variety of subjects, including his book on improv comedy. Yo Adrianimprov Festival dot com. If you are curious are you listening to me?

In Asia? Well go hit The thirteenth Busson International Comedy Festival runs for ten days starting tonight through September seventh. The way time zones work, you’re just about to miss tonight shows You ready to get moving? I hope you downloaded the show at three h five am Eastern When I dropped it. Festival organizing Committee chairman and comedian Kim John, who said, Quak Bayum and Chang Ho, those guys used to perform pretty much as unknowns, but after gaining popularity through YouTube as a platform and building a bit of fandom for their team, they started doing live shows and they were incredibly popular, with tickets selling out in about five minutes.

That’s right, people cannot get enough of Quakbaym and Chang Ho. It’s the Busan International Comedy Festival kicking off tonight and from the South China Morning Post, You’re home for comedy news. American comedian Sammy Obeid has accused Singaporean authorities of trying to censor his stand up show after his performance scheduled for Sunday was canceled. Officials say the permit was rejected because the application was too late. Sammy’s material often criticizes Israel’s actions in Gaza.

He claimed in a social media post that Singapore’s infocom Media Development Authority, or the IMDA as most people would refer to it, as asked for multiple edits to a script before approving an arts entertainment license. The agency denied requesting any changes and said the application was submitted too close to the show to be processed. Obiide, who is Lebanese Palestinian American, set on social media that putting on a stand up comedy show in Singapore was quote extremely difficult and that he submit a script for approval was happy to follow the process for his more than one thousand fans in the city state in Singapore says the SCMP an Arts Entertainment License is required for public performances including feeder dance, art exhibitions, literary readings and stand up comedy. O. Biid said he was well aware of script was unlikely to get approval and he was willing to tone down the material.

In his social media post, Sammy said, so I aired on the side of caution and submitted a heavily censored script that only referenced to Palestine a few times and mentioned Israel once during a math joke. I thought this was very generous considering reality, and to be honest, didn’t feel great about it. Why are you bothering? You have one thousand fans in Singapore. Are they all going to the show?

Or ten percent of your fans going? So one hundred people were gonna go to the show. Why do you even bother why are you even trying to do a show in Singapore. That’s your comedy news for today, little opinion there at the end, normal shows all weekend and on Monday as well. I’ve got plenty, which is awesome.

I hope you enjoy the holiday weekend. You know, Johnny Mac likes this summer Labor Day weekend. I start to freak out my local town. They do a thing on Memorial Day, July fourth and Labor Day. And at the Memorial Day one, I’m like, huh so much summer left.

The July fourth one, I start to freak out because I’m just that’s how I am. The Labor Day one, I’m like, oh, Summer’s over see tomorrow

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Featured: Jim Norton, Patton Oswalt, Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, Mark Maron, Jimmy Fallon, Gary Krueger

What’s in This Episode

• Kill Tony on Netflix – pacing and format issues
• Patton Oswalt in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Bradley Cooper’s film ‘Is This Thing On?’ about John Bishop
• Green Day comedy road trip film ‘New Year’s Rev’
• Mark Maron documentary ‘Anxiety Club’ and 16 years of his podcast
• Jimmy Fallon’s new advertising competition show ‘On Brand’
• SNL toxic environment history and Devin Walker departure

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Norton tweets Cracker Barrel is going to keep their original logo, The old Man is staying on the logo. Holyes, what a victory. Take a moment to give yourselves a round of applause.

No joke there, but it was good to hear from Jim Norton. I just watched Kill Tony on Netflix. I have some notes, but I’ll start with the Jim Norton part. I thought Jim was pretty funny. I thought the material was better than what the audience gave him back.

I did have a visceral reaction. Now, I’ve worked with Jim both at Sirius Exam and then on the UFC podcast, and as I looked at Jim and went out, Jim looks like ten years older, and I realized I probably looked ten years older too. But I haven’t actually seen or been in a room with Jim Norton in quite a few years. At this point, I have come to the conclusion I like to Kill Tony podcast a lot, because when I listened to the Kill Tony podcast, I’m listening at two point three speed and I have thirty second skip at my disposal. As for Kill Tony on Netflix, I don’t think it’s working.

If they’re going to do it as a Netflix special, they can’t just do the normal thing. Even if they’re at Madison Square Garden. It needs a producer. Here’s my note. So I watched the most recent episode on Netflix and it was seven and a half minutes before a comedian took the stage.

That’s an eternity. We don’t need all the intros and all that.

And then the first comedian that they picked out of the hat was terrible, So …

Kill Tony doesn’t need my notes. They’re doing just fine. They were selling out Madison Square Garden. But in terms of a Netflix show, it needs a little help there. That sound you heard last night was me screaming at the TV.

In the new episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Patton Oswalt too normally. I really like Patton Oswalt played a vulcan. The Vulcan’s name is Doug. If you understand Star Trek, you a don’t write for Strange New Worlds, and B understand why I’m annoyed. If you don’t understand Star Trek, just trust me, it’s really really annoying.

Maybe I’ll dive into Star Trek next week on the DCN eight Bonus Episodes. Bradley Cooper has a movie coming out. It is the story of how John Bishop got into comedy. It is called Is This Thing On? I will be curious as it gets closer to see how real life comedians nitpick the movie’s depiction of stand up comedy.

They usually have a problem with that. The film is directed by Bradley Cooper. It is based on John Bishop’s story of getting in a stand up after his marriage broke up. Will Arnett plays Alex, who seeks a new life in the New York comedy scene. Laura Dern plays the wife.

Comedian Chloe Radcliffe, who plays a stand up comedian in the movie, said, I think Will and John sat next to each other at a dinner ten years ago and Will heard a story and was like, that rules I want to do that someday. So anyway, that’s the movie. Cooper’s in the film himself, playing Will Arnett’s character’s best friend.

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Also appearing in the movie Peyton Manning Why I don’t know Green Day or putt…

They’re working on a wild road trip comedy titled New Year’s rev Green Day Promises. The movie is packed with your favorite Green Day songs as well as quote loaded with mischief unquote. Some of the stars of the film include Fred Armisen second mentioned in Two Days, Jenna Fisher from The Office, Angela Kinsey from the Office, comedian Bobby Lee. The film will make its world premiere September twelfth at the Toronto International Film Festival. The description is a garage rock trio gets the opportunity of a lifetime to open up for Green Day and hit the road across America and make the gig.

The only problem is they didn’t realize it was a prank. Johnny Mac, you never mentioned Mark Maron. I know rights he caught up with people. Maren is a beginning to do promotion for the documentary Anxiety Club. Maren said, there’s a lot of things I don’t give a hoot about that I used to do.

There were big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort of Nolan Void and it’s a relief. In the documentary spoiler, Maren reveals that his anxiety stopped him from having children. Maren said, I’m not sad about it. My panic and worry level operates in just such a way that it just seems like a nightmare to me.

He has accepted his anxiety, saying, what do you think we’re gonna do? Like, if you’re incapacitated and your life is unmanageable for whatever reason, yeah, you should fix that. If you’re uncomfortable, but you’re okay, that might just be you. The podcast turns sixteen years old on Monday. Sixteen years It’s a long time.

It’s a long time doing anything, And certainly I’ve said recently while I’m living it and I don’t feel like time is passing by quickly, But all of a sudden you’re old and you realize you’ve been doing something for a long time. Jimmy Fallon has yet another gig, and I think as lame as this idea is, this gets into Fallon does a lot more things for NBC than Colbert did for CBS. I don’t know if Colbert was unwilling, perhaps CBS never asked, but factually Fallon does a lot of these things. A new show on Brand with Jimmy Fallon places Jimmy Fallon at the head of his own advertising agency. He’s joined by Chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John, who I’m supposed to know who that is.

Apparently she’s someone on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hill. On brand, she’ll act as mentor and judge, guiding contestants, so I’m wondering what Jimmy Fallon does on the show. The competitors will pitch to companies, including a famous rum company with a pirate on it, at National Donuts chain that I sometimes go to, and some others. The show’s winner will receive one hundred thousand dollars, which sounds like a lot of money, except I looked up from website Simul Media. They say NBC gets two hundred thousand dollars for a thirty So if we show one ad, we’ve paid off the grand prize.

I know we did this production company costs and write ups, and Jimmy Fallon salary and the nice lady from Real Housewives of whatever I said. They all got to get paid. But two hundred thousand AD is the low rate for NBC if you want to advertise on Sunday Night Football, Simul Media says that will cost eight hundred and eighty two thousand dollars for a thirty Anyway, when you win this show with Jimmy Fallon, you’ll receive one hundred grand minus taxes, a feature and adweek, a VIP trip to the can Line’s International Festival of Creativity, and the title Innovator of the Year. I’ve got a must read for you, Gary Krueger. If you’re of a certain age, remember Gary Krueger from Saturday Night Live.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of you were like, who, well, he’s got a substack, so do I. My link is in the show. No, it’s Gary Krueger and have tipped a late nighter for putting this on my radar. Gary Krueger was reacting to the Devin Walker departure notice, and Krueger said, when I was at SNL from eighty two to eighty five, women struggled unfairly to get material in the show. The show, by nature is competitive and egos are equal parts fragile and inflated.

Every week and feel like your career was just made or just sank to a depth no rescue vehicle can reach that can create a toxic ripe environment. Now I’m going to point out that was during the Dick Ebersol years, not the Lorne Michael’s year. So apparently it’s been a toxic environment at least more than once, according to people on the show. Gary Krueger writes, I have few regrets, but I’d be lying if I say I’m okay with the fact that producer creator Lorn Mikel treats the Dick Eversoll years when I was with the show as if they didn’t exist. I agree with Gary there, they do act like those years mostly didn’t exist, and he makes some great points here coming up.

I believe that Cold Shoulder is rooted in the same toxicity Walker refers to. It’s an imbalance of perception that starts at the top, not because of any public or industry reverence for the Eversol years, but because of a shortcoming in Lorne Michaels, who ignores the fact that others have contributed to a show. I have no relationship with Lorne Michaels, and I’ve never met him. I’ve passed him in the hall at SNL reunions, and then Gary drops the bomb and he goes, No one, not even Michaels, can overlook the fact that Eddie Murphy emerged from a show called Saturday Night Live when Lauren was not at the helm. I’ve never heard that point made before that Gary Krueger is a great bleeping point.

Gary goes on to say who else was on the show? Julia, Louis Dreyfus. Gary writes, Lauren doesn’t even include five years, one hundred shows as part of his SNL package. Very rarely does anything from that aeroshow up in a reunion retrospective, but the stars are asked participate in the live portions. I’m always a little surprised in fact that I get a ticket to the gallery unions every five or ten years, But I do, I think because other people involved with the show and NBC do care.

The staff always treats me another second or are we third? To your cast members? Very well, fans of SNL and podcast revolving around the show regard the eversol years is simply that particular era, but not a different show. They love and this is a good list, and that was the SNL I got into I was a little young for the original cast, and even that Gene de Mounion what is her name? That season, the really awful season, but go I was watching the Gary Krueger years and Gary says, people like me love Joe Piscopo, who I think has just been totally overlooked and deserves better.

Joe Piscopo, Tim Kazerinski, Robin Duke, Mary Gross, Brad Hall, Christine Ebersoll, and even Gary Krueger. And he asks why no respect from Loren Michaels. Just In as I’m recording the show, Emil Jakeim has announced he’s leaving SNL. I don’t even have this in my script. I’m reading it off my phone.

On it Instagram, he posted I won’t be returning to SNL next year. He was a gut punch of a call to get but I’m so grateful for my time there. He did one season one and none for him, and I feel bad for the folks at Late Nighter dot com who thought they were taking this week off. No, you’re not getting a little long here. I wanted to tell you about Joe Coy.

He’s probably really excited about Taylor Swift getting engaged he may recall one time Taylor Swift was too cool for school and couldn’t possibly smile at a Joe Cooy joke. I won’t play it for you right now because we’re getting along. You probably know the story if you’ve listened to this podcast before. But I feel bad for Joe Coy. He’s up in Canada and he said, I’m a coffee guy.

I love it. I can’t function without coffee. I love the adventure of finding like a real coffee shop. But I don’t want to go to a chain. I don’t want to go to Starbucks.

I want local. And he’s got a story about going to see Ozzy Osbourne’s last show, but I will bounce that to tomorrow because I want to tell you what the worst person in the world, Jay Leno, is up to. You know that guy, I mean the nerve of that guy’d have an opinion about late night comedy. What does he know about doing comedy or or hosting a late night show?

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And then he chimes in on the whole subject.

And that’s why everybody he’s mad at Jay Leno, who is the worst person who ever lived. Apparently, Jay, if you’re listening, it’s not how I feel it’s a bit On the most recent episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, which you can find on YouTube, he was at with Jeff Dunham, you know, the Puppets guy. They took a tank for a test drive on southern California streets. Jeff Dunham, who’s sixty three now, jumped in the driver’s seat of the tank to learn how to handle the tank. It’s apparently steered by using two levers and a foot operated transmission.

Jay Leno, who’s seventy five, highlighted some of the features of the tank, including the seventy six millimeter main gun, the smoke grenade launchers, and the periscope used for driving when the hatch is closed. It is a nineteen seventy two Alvis Scorpion, a light duty tank capable of reaching fifty one miles an hour. One social media comment or said about the worst person in the world. I knew Jay just loves about everything with a motor and wheels as much as anyone, But this is a dude is living his best life in retirement. The President of the United States took to social media two in the morning and wrote, there’s a sick rumor going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented late night television hosts out there, Seth Myers.

He has no ratings, talent, or intelligence, and the personality of an insecure child. So why would fake News NBC extend this dope’s contract. I don’t know, but I’ll definitely be finding out. And is what the president is up to these days? Beck Bennett told a story about the President to The Last Laugh podcast.

He was talking about the time the president hosted SNL and said, at the table read, Trump was having a little bit of trouble reading. At one point, Trump apparently interrupted the table read to take a phone call that seemed to be bad news. Trump hung up the phone. Leslie Jones said, how much money did you make on that phone call? Beck Bennett said, everybody laughed, but Trump, who said he just found out his book went to number one on the bestseller list.

Everybody clapsed. But it was like, really, it didn’t sound like you were dealing with the news that your booked went to number one, But okay, Bennett says. Trump didn’t like getting notes or getting corrected. Quoting back Bennett, he’d be like, no, that’s what I said, But he’s just kind of loafing around and was just a lot to have him there. But he wasn’t particularly awful Beyond that, I don’t think as far as having billionaire personalities come on the show, Elon Musk was a lot more offensive.

That was harder to deal with. He had very odd ideas and he was very rude and less predictable to perform with in a way. Trump was a little bit more like, you’d tell me where to go and what to say, and I’ll tell you if I’m okay with it? Are you? In Indianapolis, the Let’s Fest kicks off tonight.

The group Let’s Comedy is producing the fifth annual comedy and music festival. Appearing at Let’s Fest, Ron Funches, Robbie Hoffman, Carmen Christopher, and Joe Para is there. Nouveau caught up with Joe Parra. They asked, Joe, a lot of your work seems to come back to the topic of sleep. How’s your sleeprou teem Joe Parra said, it’s fine.

It wish it was better everybody does. I feel like the older I get, the harder it is, especially as your life gets busier. Touring is an ideal for sleep. But I’ve also learned that when you’re up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, it’s best to not worry about it. Just really go in the kitchen, eat a banana with some peanut butter.

Don’t waste your time trying to fall back asleep, and be okay with being up in the middle of the night. That’s what Johnny Mac does. I listen to a lot of podcasts around two AM until I drift back off. Joe Parraw what comes to your mind when you think about Indianapolis as a city. Joe said, truly, I was shot by how big the pork sandwiches were last time.

That is your comedy news for today See tomorrow.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Reginald Carol, Katt Williams, Devin Walker, Rosebud Baker, Beck Bennett, Colin Jost, Michael Longfellow, Casey Schernima, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher

What’s in This Episode

• Reginald Carol shot dead, connection to Katt Williams Heaven on Earth tour
• Onyx Owl Clothing Line evicted following shooting incident
• Devin Walker leaves SNL after three years
• Rosebud Baker exits SNL writing staff after four years
• Michael Longfellow and Casey Schernima screen test for Update desk
• Colin Jost hosting T Mobile Breakfast at Bethpage for Ryder Cup
• Beck Bennett discusses nervousness about Putin parody on SNL
• Marc Maron criticizes Netflix and Dave Chappelle, calls business relationship fascism

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Caloroga Shark Media. Should I even bother? Jahar? Taylor Swift got engaged to Travis Kelsey. I mean, is anybody gonna care about anything else for the next year and a half?

Hi, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Got kind of a big story brewing here. At the end of yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned that comedian Reginald Carol had been shot dead at age fifty two. This seems to be bubbling up now. I saw several stories about it that caught my eye.

The first one from Fox thirteen. They’re reporting that a company that bills itself as the official site for Cat Williams merchandise was evicted following the death of Reginald Carol. As I understand things, Fox thirteen went over to visit Burton Lane. The location they found a letter titled fourteen day notice to quit for criminal activity. The letter states, according to the report, you are being given this notice due to criminal activity that occurred on or about the premises and violation of your lease agreement, specifically on August twentieth, twenty twenty five, the following criminal activity occurred.

It then cites a shooting where an arrest was made by South Haven police officers. The online store for the location sells Cat Williams merch and displays a picture of Cat Williams on its website. The website reads, the Onyx Owl Clothing Line was designed for and by the urban street, celebrities and famous creatives who appreciate fashion that reflects their lifestyle. With a focus on style and quality, The Onyx Clothing Line provides trendy, celebrity approved clothing for men and women of all races. From stylist t shirts to hats and accessories, The Onyx Owl Clothing Line is sure to have something for everyone.

As next piece of the puzzle, I found on a website Delta News, and the Internet tells me Delta News is a broadcasting platform that provides local news coverage and updates for the Greenville, Mississippi area. According to that report, Carol was traveling on Cat Williams Current Heaven on Earth comedy tour. Three independent sources tell Fox thirteen that the man accused of killing Carroll was on the tour as security, and then from Vibe dot Com, comedian Billy Currells has called out Cat Williams and is asking Cat Williams to speak out. Cirell’s apparently said, and I may have to paraphrase a little bit here for language. We’re not gonna act like cat.

You ain’t know who Reggie Carroll was. Kat Williams, you’re the truth teller. You’re the master of being able to tell everybody else this stuff. You got of war, You ready for anything? Right?

You the guy you said, my team versus whoever else. I did try and find the audio for this, and I didn’t find anything that I was convinced is the accurate audio. I’ve seen several reports of this transcript that I’m reading you, apparently, mister Currell’s continued, Well, I know you love Reggie. We all did. Reggie was a solid fella.

He didn’t pick sides. So Cat Williams, tell me why Reggie Carroll died outside your house. Tell us what happened to Richie Carroll. Cat. Again, I tried to find the audio.

Anything. I’m finding as people talking over stills and commenting on it. So let’s keep an eye on that story. It looks like that one’s going to bubble up what I thought would be the lead. Today, Devin Walker has announced he’s no longer with SNL He shared the news on Instagram.

He apparently has mixed feelings. On one slide of the post, a screenshot of a note wrote, me and the show did three years together and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell, but we made the most of what it was. Even amidst all the dysfunction, we made an fed up little family. It is unclear whose choice it was for him to leave the show.

At the top of the computer, a note says weight did he quit or did he get fired? So Walker’s having a little fun with that. Walker also shared a screenshot of him texting someone with the words I’m out, paired with an emoji of a face wearing a party hat and a photo of Joe Biden appearing to trip on a staircase. Walker captured the photos me and Baby broke up. His full statement to me, jobs in the industry feel like a bunch of little marriages.

Some of them last a long time if we’re lucky, but most of them are fleeting, permanent until they’re not. That’s the deal. You know what it is when you sign up. Me and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell.

But made the most of what it was and missed all the dysfunction. We made an fed up little family. More than anything, just really happy I got to do it with Gary and Alex Fellows. Really went from running a bar show to working together at thirty Rock. It’s a beautiful thing.

And I look caked up in that picture, and I feel like it’s important for people to know what I got going on. Anyway, I am about to go to Japan. When I get back, I’m going to try and be in a prestige drama, ideally something with Julianne Moore. Hope y’all staying hydrated and getting some money today. That’s pretty interesting if I had to guess, if you made me guess, sounds like he was disinvited.

Rosebud Baker, who’s been a writer on the program, she is leaving the writing staff after four years Latenighter dot Com. They were trying to take the week off and it’s not working for them. I’m going to guess, between me recording this and you hearing this, that there are going to be a bunch more departm It sounds like the folks or abandoning ship. And my take after SNL fifty that is the time to get out, so Late Nighter, says an insider told them that cast member Michael Longfellow and SNL writer Casey Schernima taped a screen test at the Update desk last May. At that time, Jos and Chay were widely presumed to be leaving SNL.

Many thought they would announce it on the season finale. They did not announce such a thing. Lauren Michaels recently has said that SNL fifty one would be bringing a lot of changes and a reinvention. Casey Schernima has been writing on Weekend Update for three years. Prior to that, she was a new face at Just for Laps In twenty twenty two.

She also wrote for Stephen Colbert’s Tuning Out The news is Colin Jos coming back? Well, he does have a gig this also from Late Nighter. He will be hosting the T Mobile Breakfast at Bethpage, a live pregame show from the first Tea at the Wryter Cup September two, twenty sixth, and through the twenty eighth. It is built as an alternative pregame show. Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions is behind this thing.

It will stream on Peacock More SNL News. Beck Bennett said he was nervous to parody Vladimir Putin on SNL. Beck was on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s podcast. Spade asked him where you’re scared they’d be after you. Bennett said, oh yeah, and he said a clip of his Putin impression was on Russian TV at one point, and I was like, he knows about it.

At the same time, I’m like, it’s silly that I get nervous. It never come for me. That’d be stupid even if he wanted to. There was definitely a couple of months like should I be doing this? Is this weird?

He’s known for poisoning. Beck pointed out that he did a deep voice for the character and that the man’s real voice is higher. Bennett enjoyed doing Putin as a macho characterature and explained that you don’t have to do an exact impression, just capture the essence and have fun with it. Oh yeah, we’re this far end of the show. I didn’t even get some Mark Marrin.

He was on pot Save America. It was really good. I saw a thread someone posted their favorite podcast. Right now is Mark Maron going on everyone Else’s podcast and asked if we could have that in one big feed. I think that’s a great idea.

I talked yesterday about how Maren had called out Bill Maher. Maren also took a shot at Netflix. They’re in business with Dave Chappelle. Maren said, fascism is good for business Netflix. You know, they’ll co opt anybody that could take that algorithm.

I used to do a joke about it. Netflix can become right Flix very quickly. When they had pushed back from the trans community about Chappelle, they realized after several days that community wasn’t going to affect their bottom line at all, and they cut them loose. That’s how fascism works in business. John love It pointed out that Netflix has lots of LGBTQ plus content.

Maren said, but ultimately, who’s getting the big deals which shows stay on the air. You know what do they keep repeating? That’s them saying we got this other stuff. We know this a few of you, but we’re throwing you a bone. So shut up, boy.

We are at peak Maren right now. His special was great. I love outspoken Maren’s He’s landed on the New Continent and he’s burning the bridges and he’s leaving the podcast behind. And he just burned the bridge with Netflix. This is a very, very entertaining.

We got to talk about that guy, Jay Leno, you know, the worst guy that ever lived. That guy. Apparently he’s helping Harrison Ford build a toilet seat. I know that sounds like something I just made up to be funny, but no. Harrison Ford was on NPR and said, jay Leno has three D printers and I had this toilet seed from a toilet that’s not in production anymore, and the toilet set had discolored in a way that’s really unattractive.

There’s an image. I can’t find the toilet seat anywhere. I tried for years, and I’m sitting around one day saying, can I three D print this? Ah? Jay Leno.

Harrison Ford said he first learned about three D printing from Jay Leno showing him around his garage. Harrison Ford says, of the worst person who ever lived, he embraced the project in a way that I never could have imagined. Good news for fans of dramatic actor Adam Sandler, as you know, he’s a fantastic dramatic actor or will he’s got that upcoming movie Jay Kelly, where he co stars with George Clooney. It’s coming out even earlier than expected, Isn’t that exciting? Jay Kelly has been confirmed as the Cunard Gala of this year’s BFI London Film Festival that runs from October eighth through the nineteenth in London and festival venues across the UK.

Jay Kelly will premiere Friday, October tenth. The movie follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly played by George Coooney, and his devoted manager Ron played by dramatic actor Adam Sandler, as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the choices they’ve made, their relationships with their loved ones, the legacies they leave behind. That’s exciting. Deli Boys renewed for season two at Hulu.

That is a fun show. If you haven’t seen that. Fred Ormison joining the cast, I’m not sure I feel about that. Fred Ormison’s character is described as a legendary gambling savant with an uncanny ability to read people like cards. His casino Empire’s global, but his crown jewels in Philly.

He’s uniquely brilliant and deeply unhinged, a deadly combo if you cross him. My struggle with fred Ormison is fred Ormison always comes across as Fred Ormison enroll. Hopefully he can surprise me. Sharon Stone has a dream role. She says she wants to play Phyllis Diller, very very badly.

She and I were close friends. Phyllis made little paintings for all my kids. She cooked me there and a lot of times the woman could cook. I told her I wanted a play her, and she sat down and taught me her laugh. She made me practice her laugh.

I would watch that. And from The Independent, David Mitchell for Mitchell and Webb says the term mansplaining is unfair. He told the Sunday Times, I’ll come back to the Independent to stay with me. But Mitchell told the Sunday Times, I feel like there’s an unfairness to the term man’splaining, which is taken to be men explaining things and a boring way to women because they do it to each other and then they take turns. That’s what men call a conversation.

Then the article in The Independent ends with man’s plaining is a phrase use to describe men explaining something to a woman. Is The Independent being deliberately hilarious there? Or are they completely clueless? That is my question for you, and then us your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Bill Maher, Jim Jefferies, Theo Von, Matt Rife, Jay Leno, Pete Davidson

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron criticizes Bill Maher’s tone and desperation on Pod Save America
• Jim Jefferies alleges Australian military cover-up in nephew’s helicopter crash death
• Bill Maher discusses militarization of US cities on Real Time
• Matt Rife defends Sydney Sweeney against internet backlash over jean ad
• Jay Leno explains how he secured Tonight Show hosting gig on Mark Maron’s podcast
• Pete Davidson struggles to sell Miami condo, reportedly short on money

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Caloroga Shark Media. Thank you Mark Maren for killing off what is traditionally a slow newsweek. Helloo, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Maron went on Pod Save America and he took some shots at Bill Maher. Maren said, I can’t do it.

I always had a problem with his tone, like I feel with Bill, and there’s this, and it happens with some other boomers. There’s this desperate chasing irrelevance that changes somebody’s mind in terms of how they approach what they do, and it also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate outside of his ideas, primarily I think wokeness. I don’t know, it’s just not for me. Maren said. Moore has good joke writers who know how to write for his tone.

I can’t see past the desperation of what he’s willing to do to stay in the conversation on Real Time on Friday, Bill Mooher was concerned about the militarization of US cities. Bill Maher said of the President, He’s creating an army in the nation’s capital. I just think the presence now of this army in Washington is going to have its toll taken when the next election comes around. Jim Jefferies was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast and as accused the Australian government of a cover up involving the death of Jim’s nephew during a defense training exercise in July of twenty twenty three. Lieutenant Max Nugent and three fellow soldiers died when a helicopter crashed into the water.

Jeffrey said, within a manner of a couple of weeks after the crash, Australia decommissioned the helicopters, took them apart and buried them in the desert. Ukraine said we’ll take them in. The Australians but no, no, no, no, don’t worry about that. There was an inquiry. Jim said.

The test pilots stood up and said the helmets they were wearing were defective and would end in industrial manslaughter. It’s like watching a few good men like talking about the military and the government trying to cover its ass. Other countries didn’t go out on patrol that day. They said the weather was too bad, the soldiers were too tired. One of the soldiers said they were so tired they couldn’t fly the aircraft, and then my nephew stepped in.

Commonwealth prosecutors had said charges wouldn’t be laid against the Defense Department over the deaths. The ruling that the Defense Force couldn’t be prosecuted came just five days before a two year statute of limitations to fill a civil suit was due to expire. Jeffrey said, who was fivefing days to get a lawyer? They dragged it out on purpose. This was a war game.

There were things that weren’t followed. There’s literally helicopters that have been buried. If you want to find an Australian taipan effing helicopter, you need a treasure map. An aviation safety investigation found human error to blame. That investigation said the cause of the crash was spatial disorientation, described as when a pilot is unaware of their actual orientation and relation to the Earth’s surface and the surrounding environment.

Jeffrey said of his nephew, we were proud of him. When Australia goes to war, that’s the first bloke we sent in. We sent in the planes and the helicopters. That’s the first bit of assistance. Jim also said Australia doesn’t get enough credit for being one of the few Allied nations that has stood by the US for many years.

Jeffrey said it’s like Trump slapping tariffs on Australia. I’m a bit like, what the efre you’re doing there? Man, We’re one of you guys. We buy three times more stuff from you than you buy from us. The big example they gave was, you guys buy twenty six billion dollars worth of Australian beef and we buy no from you.

And it’s like, why would we What do you really buy from us? You buy sheepskin, red wine, beef and gold. It’s not like we’re manufacturing happy meal toys in Australian factories and like those jobs could go to Americans. You can hear Jim Jeffries on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Matt Rife has commented on this whole Sydney Sweeney thing.

You may recall Sidney Sweeney appeared in an ad for Jean’s. Rife said, I keeps seeing people mad at Sidney Sweeney for nothing. He dragged out the nothing in his tweet. She’s learning that the internet is full of absolute garbage losers who will twist anything you say into a misinterpretation. People are awful.

You know who’s awful is the worst person who ever lived, That guy Jay Leno. Boy, people hate that guy. He was on Mark Summer’s Unwraps and explained, I got the tonight show because there was another manager that handled everybody that guest hosted. I think it was Bernie Brilstein. I think he had David Brenner and all the guys gar shaling everybody.

And he calls me and he says, we’re gonna go in as a team because each of us was guest hosting. We’re gonna get twenty five thousand dollars a night to host. Jay he opted not to take part in it. Jay recalled the stewart. I said, you know, Bernie, I’m doing it for five hundred twelve dollars a night, which a scale.

I mean, I appreciate it, but I’m happy doing it for five twelve. Leto explained his logic. I knew Johnny on the show, and at the end of the month, he’d say, what did we spend on guest host? Two hundred and eighty grand? And when Leno hosted twenty five hundred.

Why don’t we go with Leno? They’re all getting the same ratings. I mean, it seemed like common sense to me. Jay first guest hosted in nineteen eighty six. A year later was named a permanent guest host, So I guess his gambit worked.

Jay took over for Corson in nineteen ninety two, which feels like yesterday to me. Jay said he enjoyed guest hosting for Carson. I enjoyed doing it. Any job I would do for free. I don’t argue about money.

The sad reality is the worst comedian in America makes more than the best teacher. Don’t worry about it. If you’re any good, you’ll do okay. Boy. That Jay Leno was something.

He was up in Elmira on Friday night and he was playing at the Clemens Center. And listen to the listen to the gall on this guy. This is what he said about the Clement Center. It’s fun. It’s a great old theater.

I love these nineteen twenty five old vaudevilleaus’s. So many of them got torn down, but so many are preserved like this one. It’s really terrific. It’s really fun. It makes it kind of interesting and adds a subtle antiquity to it.

Boy, the nerve of that guy. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, Gossip Conn, probably about Pete. Gossip Conn. Where are the rumors meeting with? Johnny Mackett’s always a tree?

Gossip Connor whisp business tree. Gossip Corn Probably gossip Cone with room with me? Johnny Maczol’s a tree. Yes, Gossip Corner is indeed about Pete. Pete apparently having trouble selling his condo.

According to s I Live, the condo, purchased by Pete Davidson in twenty twenty one, originally for one point two million dollars, was last on the market for one point zero seven million. According to The US Sun, The US Sun or the folks that were starting the Howard Stern rumors recently, the condo fifteen and ninety two square feet. Pete was selling it because he wanted to move to Brooklyn. A source with ties to Pete Davidson tells The Sun he’s blown through a ton of money and it isn’t coming like it used to. Pete has spent a lot of money on this place, renovating it over the years and making it perfect, and it’s been a big dream.

We’re told Pete has the condo he bought his mother, a place he also rents a Brooklyn Brownstone, owns a house in upstate New York.

And then there’s the whole Ferry thing.

A real estate listing tells us the condo has a sleek, modern open concept featuring enormous windows which provide natural lighting from dawn till dusk. Two bedrooms, three bath, a break custom kitchen that opens to a spacious family room optimal for entertaining. It also has panoramic views of near a harbor and the Manhattan skyline. The master bedroom suite has a private bathroom with a custom shower and a highly coveted, glamorous walk in closet. Massive glass doors lead to an exclusive terrace on the seventh floor, which provides those views of the city skyline.

Pete Davidson’s condo is also pet friendly, has twenty four hour security, a clubhouse, a health club, a tennis club, an indoor playroom, and an outdoor playground. If you’re in the market for a place on Staten Island, contact Pete Davidson in the feed. You’ll find a new episode of DCN eight. So what is that? I wanted to do something extra for the paid subscribers, but I also didn’t want to siphon off comedy stories because I didn’t think that would be cool.

So DCN eight is Johnny Mac talks about other stuff, and this week I’m going to tell you how much I like the show All the Lazarus Project on Netflix and how the latest Mission Impossible movie is unwatchable DCN eight So what do you do? If you’re on Apple Podcasts? Click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. You click that, you become a premium subscriber to the feed. You’ll get Daily Comedy News without commercials, and you’ll get access to the other shows of the network, including five Good News Stories, which I host, also without commercials, and that’s just five bucks a month.

All the shows come with the same five bucks, and you’ll get that new episode of DCN eight. Rain Wilson was at Fan Expo in Chicago over the weekend. I thought this was funny, he said. He’s it’s not very much like Dwight, although there’s some mannerisms. Because I played them for over two hundred episodes over nine years.

But one thing that’s great, and maybe notice this, is that Dwight has a little bit of a jerky face, and rain is a little bit of a jerky face. Having played Dwight allows me to be a jerky face to people and people laugh. I can be kind of an a hole and people are like, isn’t that charming? So it’s one of the benefits of playing like Dwight. Rain Will says.

I talk to Jenna Fisher, who plays Pam. She can’t tell any really edgy jokes because people are like, Pam would never say that, So Jenna has to kind of keep her dark, raunchy sits of humor and check because people really recoil from deadline amid monster viewership Gilmore Too, that’s on you people. I did everything I could to stop that, and you guys just blew the stop sign and didn’t care and watched that thing. Happy Gilmore Too had Netflix’s biggest US opening weekend ever. Well now, because if people like you, Adam Sandler’s Happy Medicine Productions are making even more movies.

They’re developing the novel Dad Cam. In the novel Dad Camp, we follow John a devoted father. Hey, I could play that who finds his once cloned spond with his daughter Avery unraveling as she enters her preteen years. I wouldn’t be good at that. Desperate to reconnect before she starts middle school, he signs them up for a week long father daughter retreat at a Rundown summer camp, where he’s forced to confront both his fears of losing her and the evolving nature of their relationship.

Here’s my prediction. Adam Sandler will play John and whichever Sandler daughter is the younger one will play the aged up version of the daughter that’s a preteen in the novel. That’s my prediction there, But that would probably be more dramatics. Maybe we would get good Adam Sandler, who knows. In other development news, also from Deadline, Paramount has acquired The Island, described as an R rated comedy based on an idea from Trevor Noah.

The Island tells the story of two polar opposites, one a successful alpha businesswoman and the other a hopelessly dedicated male high school teacher. They’re the sole survivors of a play crash on a deserted island, and after rely on each other to stay alive. Sources say Trevor Noah was inspired by COVID for this idea. Congratulations to Sam Nicoresti. Sam is the winner of the Edinburgh’s Best Show at the Fringe.

Sam Show Baby Boomer is based around a humiliating experience in a department store changing room out Today to hear Moore’s special Aging Out, It’ll be on album form wherever you listen to comedy things. In this self roasting, brutally honest hour to Hear More takes his audience on a wild ride through topics like the zombie apocalypse, fancy toilets, naps and aging out Today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, Chelsea Lynn’s Trailer Trash Tammys Pontoon Party. That is a wonderful title. And we’ll wrap up today on a very sad note. Comedian Reggie Carrol was shot dead in Mississippi.

Police say they got a call about a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Reggie suffering from gunshot wounds. Police and first responders started performing life saving techniques. Reggie did not survive the injuries. South Haven Police have his suspect and custody, who has been charged with murder in Reggie’s shooting death, one of Reggie’s colleagues, Monique, said she had nothing but good times with Reggie, especially when they were on comedy tours together.

Reggie Carroll was fifty two. Not your comedy news for Today,